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Jodhi Meares runs into ex Nicholas Tsindos in Sydney She's rumoured to have called time on her 14-month marriage to beau Nicholas Tsindos, 29. And Jodhi Meares, 46, appeared to have an awkward run-in with her second husband and his blonde friend, in Sydney's Paddington on Tuesday. The former model was spotted patting their dog Kova before heading back to the former couple's Sydney home, without Nicholas' mystery companion. Scroll down for video Jodhi cut an effortlessly stylish figure during the encounter. A pair of skinny leg black jeans clung to her trim pins, teamed with a slim-fitting black T-shirt and leather sandals. Noticeably missing was the star's wedding ring. Jodhi's long brunette locks fell loosely around her face and shoulders in relaxed waves. Upon meeting former beau Nicholas on the streets of Sydney's Paddington, the designer was seen patting the couple's beloved dog Kova. Nicholas, a photographer, cut a casual figure in a black jumper with the text 'obey' emblazoned on the front, cuffed jeans and lace-up sneakers. The personality's blonde locks were styled into a sleek bun. A mystery blonde and her dog accompanied Nicholas, and was dressed casually in a loose-fitting white shirt, distressed denim shorts and taupe Birkenstocks. Despite the blonde's sighting, Jodhi headed back to the couple's Sydney home with Nick for reportedly around 10 minutes. The blonde was not in sight at that time. The sighting comes just two weeks after Jodhi appeared to hint at her relationship breakdown with Nicholas. The brunette dropped her husband's surname from her Instagram bio in March, now going by 'Jodhi Meares'. In January last year, she appeared to confirm their marriage at the time, by changing her name to 'Jodhi Tsindos'. It comes after an insider reportedly told The Daily Telegraph that The Upside fashion designer couldn't make her long distance relationship work with Nicholas, who is nearly two decades her junior. 'The designer and her Australian-born photographer husband agreed to separate earlier this month,' the source was quoted as saying. Meanwhile, Jodhi's ex-husband James Packer is said to be 'desperate for a second chance' following reports she split with Nicholas. Woman's Day claims the billionaire is actively courting Jodhi, sending her $500,000 Cartier diamond earrings for Christmas right before her wedding to Nicholas. Jodhi was married to James for three years between 1999 and 2002. Prior to her marriage to Nicholas, Jodhi was engaged to musician John Stevens.
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In Atoka, US-75 splits off to join U.S. Highway 69. ===Antlers to Arkansas===
Two miles west of Antlers, the highway has an interchange with the Indian Nation Turnpike, and in Antlers it intersects U.S. Highway 271. After reaching the town of Broken Bow, Oklahoma, it turns southward and overlaps US-259 and US-70. Near Idabel, the highway splits off after being with US-259 for 13 mi (21 km). Twenty-eight miles later, it becomes Highway 32 as it crosses the state line into Arkansas. ==History==
The current SH-3 was designated on 15 May 1939. The original highway included all of current SH-3 up to Antlers, where it terminated at US-271. It was extended to the Arkansas state line on 4 August 1952. SH-3 ended there concurrent with US-70 and SH-7, near DeQueen, Arkansas. On 7 January 1963, the highway was given its own alignment from near Idabel to Arkansas, taking over that of SH-21, which was eliminated at that time. From the highway's commissioning to 1976, there was only one fork of SH-3 between Shawnee and Ada, which was the path of current SH-3E. SH-3W and SH-3E were created on 4 October 1976; the new SH-3W took over all of SH-13. Other than minor realignments, the highway remains essentially the same today. In the early 1980s, Governor George Nigh was able to obtain $97.1 million to upgrade the highway between Oklahoma City and Colorado, despite opponents labeling the project "the highway to nowhere". House Concurrent Resolution 1067 labeled the highway as "Governor George Nigh's Northwest Passage." ODOT officially named the highway on 2 February 1981. ==Notes==
SH-3's concurrency with Interstate 44 in Oklahoma City is an example of a wrong-way concurrency – I-44 West is SH-3 East and vice versa. SH-3's concurrency with US-70 is also a wrong-way concurrency, as US-70 is signed as going west and SH-3 as going east. The SH-3 bypass around Atoka is named the Cecil B. "Bud" Greathouse Bypass. It was designated by ODOT on 4 October 1982. ==SH-3A==
SH-3 had one lettered spur, SH-3A, which continued the alignment of the Northwest Expressway for two more miles before ending at Interstate 44 near Penn Square Mall. It was originally known as SH-66A, a spur off U.S. Highway 66, which once ran through the area. The combined effect of US-66 being decommissioned and "3A" being a more logical name for an extension of Highway 3 led to the name change. State Highway 3A was decommissioned in 2009. ==Junction list==
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An undocumented immigrant widow and her son trying to get by, while fleeing the drug war, sounds more like art house cinema than a sexy cable action-drama. Brenda is also - by far - the show's most interesting, sympathetic character. In a sea of drug war cliches, she is the only thing that sticks out. At some point, the writers and producers must have noticed that Machado was acting circles around the rest of the cast, including the star Braga. Brenda survives, even as her story becomes more and more tangential. Her fight to save her life feels like a struggle with narrative conventions and genre constraints, as much as with the cartel. But Teresa is most compelling when she's plotting with Brenda, and the protagonist refuses to ditch her companion even when the script makes it seem like she probably should. For brief moments over the course of its first season, Queen of the South was a show about two friends showing up for each other. Even though it takes place on and around the border, the show doesn't bother with the immigration debate. On Queen of the South, the border is realistically porous: People and drugs flow through, but so does power. The cartel is connected with the Mexican government and the Mexican government is connected with the American government. The so-called national interests that a border wall is supposed to protect don't exist; here there are only competing business interests, and they live on both sides. This approach removes a lot of ripped-from-the-headlines baggage from a show that is still centrally about Mexican drug traffickers operating in Texas. That Brenda and Teresa are undocumented is just another challenge that they have to face; we never consider whether or not it's ethical for them to cross the border. That would be ridiculous. A show about Brenda might be able to leave most of the drug war cliches on the table. The bosses and their chess-like games, the worried wife at home, the sadist hitman and his contrastingly principled partner: It's all dull and tiresome. Brenda's story - an immigrant single-mom Better Call Saul - is a different proposition entirely, and a better one. When she bosses her dufus drug underlings into cooking meth it's funny, unlike the rest of the show. With a little time, the viewer begins to understand what Brenda's doing, why she dresses and acts the way she does. The motel goons weren't going to fall in line for just anyone. Her performance comes into focus. But Brenda won't be starring in a spin-off. Spoiler alert: In the first season's final episode, Teresa and Brenda find a way out of another trap and use some information as leverage to snooker a couple of cartel lieutenants. As they walk away, Brenda's whole character collapses and instead of her normal wiles she turns into a pile of melodramatic maternal instincts. Panicking, she gives the game away, and once she tells the bad guys that she has a son, her leverage evaporates. Teresa can't save her, and Brenda is killed. It took them all season, but the rules of television finally got to her. Queen of the South was renewed for a second season, but without Brenda (and Machado), I don't know what's left that's worth watching. She was a good character, killed by a bad show and an unimaginative industry.
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Asian Champions League group E results and standings By Reuters
April 26 (Gracenote) - Results and standings from the Asian Champions League Group E matches on Wednesday Wednesday, April 26 Ulsan (Korea) 0 Kashima Antlers (Japan) 4 Standings P W D L F A Pts 1 Kashima Antlers 5 3 0 2 11 4 9 2 Muang Thong United 4 2 2 0 3 1 8 ------------------------- 3 Ulsan 5 1 1 3 6 7 4 4 Brisbane Roar 4 1 1 2 2 10 4 1-2: Next round Next Fixtures (GMT): Wednesday, April 26 Muang Thong United (Thailand) v Brisbane Roar (Australia) (1230) Share or comment on this article Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article.
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== DYK stat adjustments ==
I replied to your comment where you mentioned that you removed some background noise from the Anthony Davis (basketball) hook about some other hooks on that list that seem to have news- or anniversary-related noise. It might be buried in that massive and contentious discussion, though. Would you agree that adjustments should be performed on Paul the Octopus, 2010 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Saxbe fix, Todd Palin, and Disappearance of Rebecca Coriam? I might have missed a few, I took a very quick and non-exhaustive look. – Muboshgu (talk)
Thanks for your comments, I've responded at DYK. —Bruce1ee
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== Third opinion needed ==
Hello there! I am currently reviewing a DYK nomination located here. The nomination has stalled due to a disagreement over the reliability of this source. I would appreciate it if you could provide a third opinion on the matter. I contacted you because I saw that you are a regular at DYK, and because I have not worked with you before (to the best of my knowledge). It is not my intention to recruit allies to bolster my argument, but merely to find a neutral third party to evaluate the situation. Cheers! Nevermind, the article was promoted using a different hook. Problem solved!
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I don't know that is your testing version about template until sended your message. I just think it was a vandal edit. I neglected to give a proper edit summary. My mistake. After the upgrade has been denied/accepted, I will correct the article to remove the reference to the user space demo template. Thanks. -J JMesserly (talk)
== The number of Korean forced laborers ==
Do you think that the number of Korean forced laborers is 5,400,000? Oh, I just said that its a possibility of action, However, According to Historical atlas of Korea, which was a book about Historical maps, chart and explanation of Korean history, the number of Korean forced laborers were described approximately 450,000 persons. Soon, I should editing with this book. Do you think that the number of dead Korean forced laborers is 450,000? No, 450,000 persons are total number of them, not number of dead. However, Many of them are dead. It's a clearly true. Many of them? How much their death rate do you think? For example, R.J. Rummel say "a possible range in the Korean death rate of 5 to 15 percent"(
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Oh, and Hi, by the way, I'm Allstar86 and I've been creating and editing airport pages for a few weeks now. Allstar86
Apologies - when I dropped the terminal list, I wasn't aware that this was a standard inclusion in airport articles - it just struck me as being a particularly long section disturbing the flow of an article which was already too long. With this included at the end, with reduced to information, I think it's a fairy reasonable article now. TheMadBaron
The terminal section would be fine without the long list of destinations, which I feel is more suited to the individual airlines and airport websites. People who wish to know the desitations of specific carriers can already find this information in other places. dok
This is standard information on every airport page. If you really feel it should be removed, I'd like to see some discussion on WikiProject_Airports, rather than just making the changes here. Rdore
OK. The problem with McCarran is that it has flights to a lot of destinations and with many airlines. That results in several airlines flying to the same location with small planes, the only widebodies I'm aware of are a few 747 on the overseas flights. McCarran does not want to be a hub and it's layout does not support hib operations very well. McCarran and LAX are the two main airports with this problem. McCarran also is a major sightseeing flight hub and it may be the only airport in the top 20 busiest with this type of traffic. Throw in unique traffic like multiple flights a day to Area 51 and it makes for a lot of interesting information. If someone is going to cleanup the article then rewriting the bad areas is more appropiate then deleting everything. If you want to cleanup something in this article give the transportation section a shot. It needs real work. Vegaswikian
== Busy airports ==
I rolled back the change made by an anon for several reasons. 1, the offical numbers are not out. McCarran could be 9th or 10th based on the numbers for Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. 2, changing the date makes it look like the cargo numbers are from 2005 and they are not. 3, the figure in the article at the time of the change was an estimate and not the offical number. I'll add the one from their website shortly. Vegaswikian
I did a similar revert today. Does anyone have access to the final 2005 data yet? Vegaswikian
==Runway length==
There is a mix between the length in feet and meters. The length in meters should be under feet and vice versa. Did someone knows how to fix it? Chagai
good point, ill fix it
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== SkyValue ==
I reverted the SkyValue change since it is cleanly in the wrong place. I had moved it to a better place in the terminal listing, but someone apparently decided that it did not belong. Likewise it has already been documented what the source, which was a concern, is so we don't need that to be included in the list. If someone wants this added back in, see where I had moved it and created a correctly formated (I belive) entry. Put it back there or in a better place, like if you know what terninal they will actually be using. Vegaswikian
== US Airways' Secondary Hub??? ==
LAS is NOT a secondary hub for US Airways. The airline's current route map considers LAS as a US Airways' hub. Bucs2004
== WiFi Zone ==
The paragraph about WiFi under history read like a press release. Which it was, McCarran is not a WiFi Zone, first your equipment has to be WiFi Alliance certified (which it is) but the airport has to list with the WiFi Alliance which it has not I work at the airport, and know that none of the hallways have WiFi, or some do, it is very weak.
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"It is a fascinating story we have to tell," said Judith Wellman, the director of New York Research, the project's principal investigator and a professor emeritus at the State University of New York Oswego. "It will incorporate a whole view of people who lived there." Dr. Wellman has completed about 15 similar projects across the state that focus on the role of African-Americans, the underground railroad and women's rights. Should the project meet Dr. Wellman's ambitious timeline, inclusion of Setauket sites on the National Register could be approved by year's end. Continue reading the main story
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Everton vs Wolves result: Leander Dendoncker seals emphatic away win for Nuno Espirito Santo's side The problems continue to mount for Marco Silva and Everton after they were emphatically beaten by a Wolves side for whom European qualification now looks a realistic target. Nuno Espirito Santo's side scored three or more top-flight goals for a third successive game - the first time they have done so in 39 years - to underline the strides being made under his stewardship although the forecast for his opposite number is far less healthy. If there is no formal "pressure" mounting on Silva from within the Everton hierarchy, then it is fair to say that the rank and file Everton fan is beginning to question the club's direction under the highly-regarded Portuguese coach. Join Independent Minds For exclusive articles, events and an advertising-free read for just £5.99 €6.99 $9.99 a month Start your free trial Get the best of The Independent With an Independent Minds subscription for just £5.99 €6.99 $9.99 a month Start your free trial Get the best of The Independent Without the ads - for just £5.99 €6.99 $9.99 a month Start your free trial Defeat at Millwall in last weekend's FA Cup tie is hardly the sort of result acceptable to the long-suffering Blue half of Merseyside and the boos that greeted the half-time whistle - and a 2-1 deficit - summed up the growing air of disquiet in the Goodison ranks. Nor did the manner of the goals improve the mood of supporters who had seen their team win just three of their previous 11 league games. left Created with Sketch. right Created with Sketch. 1/12 Premier League team of the weekend Who stood out in this weekend's Premier League games? Action Images via Reuters 2/12 Ben Foster (Watford) The Watford stopper made a string of saves to deny Brighton
3/12 Matt Doherty (Wolves) The Wolves defender continued his fine season Action Images via Reuters 4/12 Fabian Schar (Newcastle) The Magpies defender did well even in a losing cause
5/12 Craig Cathcart (Watford) Cathcart was strong at the back throughout
6/12 Marcos Alonso (Chelsea) Good in both attack and defence as the Blues ran riot
7/12 Son Heung min (Tottenham) Scored the all-important goal for Spurs (Credit too long, see caption) 8/12 Ngolo Kante (Chelsea) Kante was outstanding as Chelsea cruised to a win
9/12 Leander Dendoncker (Wolves) The Belgian scored as Wolves dominated at Goodison Park
10/12 Eden Hazard (Chelsea) Hazard was a terror once more for the Blues Getty Images 11/12 Gonzalo Higuain (Chelsea) Higuain grabbed his first goals in English football including a beauty
12/12 Raul Jimenez (Wolves) Jimenez continued his fine season for the newly-promoted side Getty Images 1/12 Premier League team of the weekend Who stood out in this weekend's Premier League games? Action Images via Reuters 2/12 Ben Foster (Watford) The Watford stopper made a string of saves to deny Brighton
3/12 Matt Doherty (Wolves) The Wolves defender continued his fine season Action Images via Reuters 4/12 Fabian Schar (Newcastle) The Magpies defender did well even in a losing cause
5/12 Craig Cathcart (Watford) Cathcart was strong at the back throughout
6/12 Marcos Alonso (Chelsea) Good in both attack and defence as the Blues ran riot
7/12 Son Heung min (Tottenham) Scored the all-important goal for Spurs (Credit too long, see caption) 8/12 Ngolo Kante (Chelsea) Kante was outstanding as Chelsea cruised to a win
9/12 Leander Dendoncker (Wolves) The Belgian scored as Wolves dominated at Goodison Park
10/12 Eden Hazard (Chelsea) Hazard was a terror once more for the Blues Getty Images 11/12 Gonzalo Higuain (Chelsea) Higuain grabbed his first goals in English football including a beauty
12/12 Raul Jimenez (Wolves) Jimenez continued his fine season for the newly-promoted side Getty Images
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Lady Gaga to perform Super Bowl 2017's halftime show Grammy-Award winning pop singer Lady Gaga will play the halftime show at the 2017 Super Bowl, the musician and National Football League said on Thursday. "The rumors are true. This year the SUPER BOWL goes GAGA!" the musician said on Twitter. The NFL retweeted the message, adding "Can't wait. Let's do this!" Super Bowl LI is slated to be held in Houston, Texas on Feb. 5. The NFL said this would be the second appearance for Lady Gaga on the Super Bowl stage, opening last February's game with a performance of the national anthem. The Super Bowl is the most-watched event on U.S. television drawing more than 100 million viewers and the most expensive TV program for advertisers, who pay millions to secure 30-second commercial spots. Last year's half time show featured Beyonce, Coldplay and Bruno Mars who performed a mélange of some of the artists' greatest hits. Other past performers included Michael Jackson, Madonna and The Black Eyed Peas. Lady Gaga, known for frequent creative self-reinventions, is a six-time Grammy Award winner and has also won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Academy Award. (Corrects to show that she was a nominee for an Academy Award) (Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by Bernard Orr)
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Senate passes human trafficking bill, clears way for Lynch vote WASHINGTON, April 22 (UPI) -- The Senate on Wednesday finally passed long-stalled legislation designed to end human sex and drug trafficking in the United States -- which now clears the way for a vote on Loretta Lynch. Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander on Wednesday condemned modern practices of trafficking as "shocking" and "evil," and said he fully endorses the bill. The Justice for Victims of Human Trafficking Act, drafted by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, is designed to better permit law enforcement agencies to prosecute and punish human traffickers. The bill also would add a $5,000 penalty to convicted sex offenders, traffickers and smugglers. "It shocks the conscience that even in these modern times, millions of people in the United States and around the world remain victims of the evil practices of human trafficking and slavery," Sen. Alexander said in a statement on his website. "That's why this bipartisan legislation is important." The Senate passed the legislation Wednesday by a vote of 99-0, which now allows them to proceed with a confirmation vote for U.S. Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch. Republican senators previously said they wouldn't take up the Lynch vote until the trafficking legislation was resolved. Lynch's vote, scheduled for Thursday, could make her the nation's first black female attorney general. It has not been fully explained why the trafficking bill had to be addressed before Lynch's confirmation, but Alexander's comments indicate that it may have been sought by the party to achieve a GOP political victory. "This legislation is also yet another bipartisan example of how our Republican majority is working to get a result for the American people," he said. The bipartisan anti-trafficking bill was delayed in the Senate for six weeks over contention over some anti-abortion language that resided in the legislation's language. Republicans added the language, which stipulated that money earmarked for trafficking victims cannot be used to perform abortions. When the language was changed, the bill was passed, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported Wednesday. The act also provides training for healthcare professionals intended to help them recognize signs of human trafficking, and help victim advocacy organizations better assist those who succumb to the crimes. Millions continue to be exploited in human trafficking in the United States and abroad. Many are swept into the illicit business when they are young and work as pawns in the sex and drug trafficking trades for little pay. "If our nurses and doctors can better identify victims of human trafficking, they can help bring relief to those suffering in ways that those of us who have never been there cannot imagine," Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., said. "There is still work to be done to stop human trafficking, but this will help." The Senate's trafficking bill now must be reconciled with similar legislation that has been passed by the House of Representatives. Related UPI Stories © 2015 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.
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It was another governor who wrested control of the subways from the city: Nelson A. Rockefeller, in the 1960s. In the process, he displaced Robert Moses, who had shaped the physical and political landscape in New York for generations and whose many titles had included chairman of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority. The authority had a large amount of surplus cash on hand. Rockefeller and William J. Ronan, whom Rockefeller named to run the new Metropolitan Transportation Authority, wanted to use money from the bridge-toll surplus to avoid a subway fare increase. "The city was pleased to shed the responsibility for operating and financing the transit system," Mr. Moses said. Peter W. Herman, who later became chairman of the Regional Plan Association, wrote in an article in 1970 for a law review journal that the creation of the transportation agency was "certainly a high-water mark in outside control over what was once a municipally owned and operated transit system." Mr. Herman, who stepped down as chairman of the planning group in 2010, was asked recently if the city's transportation system was at the mercy of upstate lawmakers, Mr. Herman said, "It absolutely is, and always has been." "I don't know why a Republican legislature is so ignorant or selfish,"" he added. "Maybe, that they don't understand the economy of the entire state will be harmed if New York City's own economy is harmed." Continue reading the main story
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'Vase of Flowers': Germany returns painting stolen by the Nazis to the Uffizi Gallery 'Vase of Flowers' by the Dutch master Jan van Huysum was returned to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence on Friday after the painting had been stolen over 75 years ago by German soldiers. The painting was originally hung in the gallery in 1824 before it was taken by Nazi soldiers while they retreated north during World War Two. The work remained lost for several decades until 1991 where it resurfaced following German reunification. The Italian minister of foreign affairs, Enzo Moavero Milanesi, celebrated the team effort it took to return the painting. "This story is a beautiful story because it involved a truly coordinated effort allowing us to bring home an important picture that was originally part of these collections," he said. "Now it can live in these collections alongside other important paintings. It is a story with a happy ending, a very European story." The family in possession of the 'Vase of Flowers' demanded up to two million euros from German authorities in exchange for the painting. German law puts limitations on crimes of more than 30 years old which prevented the government from claiming the painting as stolen. A legal battle ensued between the government and the family. The authorities stressed the painting had been stolen, meaning the soldier who took it could not be seen as the owner and did not have the right to bequeath it to anyone. The lawyers of the family argued the soldier had bought the work at a market.
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Austria shuts seven mosques and plans to expel imams in 'political Islam' crackdown The Austrian government is to order the closure of seven mosques and expel up to 60 imams in a crackdown on political Islam and Turkish nationalism, it has announced. "Parallel societies, political Islam and radicalisation have no place in our country," Sebastian Kurz, the Austrian chancellor, said. Six of the seven mosques are being closed on suspicion of links to Islamic extremism. They are run by an organisation called the Arab Religious Community, which the government has also ordered to be shut down. The seventh mosque affected is a separate case. It is to be closed on suspicion of links to the Grey Wolves, a far-Right Turkish nationalist group. The move comes after images emerged earlier this year of children as young as four being made to wear Turkish army uniforms and salute the Turkish flag inside the mosque in Vienna's Favoriten district. Two imams have received deportation orders, and another 60 are under investigation and could face expulsion along with their family members, Herbert Kickl, the Austrian interior minister, said. They include 40 members of the Union of Turkish-Islamic Cultural Associations in Europe (ATIB), a group close to the Turkish government which is also suspected of links with the Grey Wolves.
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Emile Vandervelde (25 January 1866 – 27 December 1938) was a Belgian socialist politician. Nicknamed "the boss" (le patron), Vandervelde was a leading figure in the Belgian Labour Party (POB–BWP) and in international socialism. ==Career==
Emile Auguste Vandervelde was born into a middle-class family in Ixelles, a suburb of Brussels, in Belgium on 25 January 1866. Initially attracted by Liberal politics, Vandervelde entered the Free University of Brussels as a law student in 1881. However, he soon became interested in emerging socialist ideas and, in 1885, joined the small Workers' League of Ixelles (Ligue Ouvrière d'Ixelles). In 1886, he joined the newly formed Belgian Labour Party (POB–BWP). He worked as an academic at the Free University. Following the extension of universal male suffrage in 1893, Vandervelde proposed a manifesto for the POB, known as the Charter of Quaregnon which would form the basis for Belgian socialist politics until the 1970s. In the 1894 elections, Vandervelde was elected to the Chamber of Representatives for the industrial city of Charleroi. He held the seat until 1890, when he transferred to Brussels which he held from 1900 to 1938. From 1900 to 1918, he held the position of president of the Second International. Vandervelde was named Minister of State in 1914 and supported the policy of resistance to the German invasion of Belgium in World War I. In 1916, he entered the de Broqueville government. He was a delegate for Belgium at the Treaty of Versailles and subsequently involved in the League of Nations. In 1923, he helped to found the Labour and Socialist International of which he held the presidency until 1938. Vandervelde's principle political aims concerned the extension of universal suffrage and social democracy. As a theoretician, he wrote extensively on the role of the state in socialism. In 1913, he was named a corresponding member of the Classe des Lettres et des Sciences morales et politiques at the Royal Academy of Belgium, later becoming a titular member in 1929 and director of the Classe in 1933. He was an opponent of King Leopold II's attempts to expand his constitutional powers through the creation of the Congo Free State in the period leading up to the Free State's annexation by Belgium in 1908. Vandervelde held the portfolio of Minister of Justice between 1918 and 1921 in which role he supported prison reform, measures against alcoholism, trade union rights and women's rights. In 1922, Vandervelde joined a group of socialist lawyers including Arthur Wauter, member of the Belgian Labour Party, Kurt Rosenfeld and Theodor Liebknecht, members of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany. They travelled to Russia as a group of socialist lawyers where they defended members of the Socialist Revolutionary Party in the 1922 Moscow Trial of Socialist Revolutionaries. This resulted in his inclusion into a satirical poem "Mayakovsky Gallery" by the Soviet poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. From 1925 to 1927, he held the role of Minister of Foreign Affairs where he contributed to the Locarno Pact. He subsequently held a position on the Council of Ministers (1935–36) and Minister of Public Health (1936–37) in the government of Paul Van Zeeland. In 1933, Vandervelde became the POB's first president but increasingly found his internationalism and reformism challenged by a new generation of Belgian socialists. During the Spanish Civil War, Vandervelde's desire to intervene was challenged by Henri de Man and Paul-Henri Spaak. He was a freemason, and a member of the lodge Les Amis Philanthropes of the Grand Orient of Belgium in Brussels. His personal papers are held by the Institut Émile Vandervelde in Brussels.
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It is very much a case of back to the future, with the group returning to what it knows best: stamps and coins, where it has major global brands in Stanley Gibbons and Baldwin's. 'These businesses both operate in large markets with a global presence where integrity, expertise and heritage are at a premium,' Wilson noted. 'Our strategy is to improve the efficiency of our businesses while maintaining disciplined capital allocation and growing brand recognition in broader markets internationally. We believe this will enable us to establish a sustainable and profitable business model for the group and deliver long term value to shareholders in the process,' Wilson said. Let's hope he's right, otherwise we could be seeing a commemorative stamp, marked: Stanley Gibbons, 1856 -2017.
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North Korea relations second to unemployment for South Korea's youth When Moon Jae-in became South Korea's president in 2017, he promised to tackle income inequality and help smaller companies compete with domestic conglomerates like Samsung. He also pursued intra-Korean diplomacy that paved the way for direct U.S.-North Korean nuclear talks. But trade tensions between the U.S. and China, combined with slackening global demand for electronics, has hobbled Mr. Moon's economic agenda, particularly among young job seekers. Some of those job seekers are looking beyond South Korea for opportunities. A government program that since 2013 has placed thousands of young workers in overseas jobs also raises concerns about a brain drain if domestic job creation doesn't pick up. "We have a huge number of educated youth," says Jae-soo Yoo, a government official in Busan. "If they can't find work here, they will take their dreams abroad." Mr. Moon's allies hope that detente on the Korean peninsula could eventually boost trade and investment. That may be some way off, though, and Mr. Moon's ruling party faces a tough fight in legislative elections next April. He also faces a petition calling for impeachment. An improved economy might lessen the pressure and give young workers more reason to stay in South Korea. Seoul, South Korea Two broad topics tend to dominate the news in this capital city of almost 10 million people. One involves the ongoing diplomatic talks between South Korea and North Korea and related coverage of the potential for another U.S.-North Korea summit. The other concerns President Moon Jae-in's efforts to invigorate the South Korean economy. For Ye-jin Choi, a second-year chemistry and nanoscience student at Ewha Womans University, the reports about North Korea and its leader, Kim Jong Un, amount to background noise. She wants Mr. Moon to spend less time courting his counterpart to the north and more time striving to create jobs for her generation. "The president and his administration need to take one step away from foreign affairs and focus a little more on the country's economy," Ms. Choi says. An unemployment rate of nearly 11% for South Koreans ages 15 to 29 - more than twice the overall rate - has her worried about the job market she will enter after graduating in 2021. "My first priority will be trying to work here," she says. "But if after a year or so I'm still unemployed due to serious economic issues, I believe there would be better opportunities for me outside Korea." Her perspective reflects a gathering frustration with Mr. Moon among young South Koreans as Asia's fourth-largest economy sputters. Sluggish job growth and a decline in exports of semiconductors and other Korean goods - a casualty of trade tensions between the United States and China - has intensified pressure on Mr. Moon to deliver on his economic agenda. Mr. Moon pledged to enact reforms and redress income inequality when he won an election two years ago after the ouster of then-President Park Geun-hye amid a corporate corruption scandal. He called for improved wages and working conditions and a reduced reliance on Samsung, Hyundai, and other conglomerates known as chaebols to propel growth. Since taking office, he has sought to spur hiring and production at small and midsize companies by offering tax subsidies, raised South Korea's minimum wage by more than 25%, and cut the maximum working week from 68 to 52 hours. The moves have failed to avert mounting job losses in manufacturing, construction, retail, and other sectors. The country of 51 million people added less than 100,000 new jobs last year, and the increased minimum wage has caused some small companies to freeze hiring for low-level and part-time positions. Others have closed. The career forecast appears darkest for young adults in a country where more than three-quarters of high school graduates enroll in college. A recent survey by a South Korean recruiting firm found that only 1 in 10 graduating university students had lined up a full-time job, stoking concerns among public officials of a nationwide brain drain. "We have a huge number of educated youth," says Jae-soo Yoo, vice mayor of economic affairs in Busan, the country's second-largest city. "If they can't find work here, they will take their dreams abroad." Nuclear diplomacy Mr. Moon will meet with President Donald Trump in Seoul this weekend after the U.S. leader departs the G-20 summit in Japan. The two leaders plan to discuss possibilities for reviving negotiations with Mr. Kim about ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program. The talks stalled after Mr. Kim and Mr. Trump held a second summit in Vietnam in February, following their initial meeting last year. Shin Beomchul, a senior fellow at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul, argues that Mr. Moon has devoted his attention to nuclear diplomacy at the economy's expense.
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UN Envoy Sets January 25 as Target Date for Beginning Peace Talks in Syria The United Nations (UN) Special Envoy for Syria has set January 25 as the target date to begin talks between the parties on ending the ongoing conflict in Syria. The announcement of the target date comes just over a week after the Security Council adopted unanimously resolution 2254. The resolution provides the UN with an enhanced role in guiding the process of political transition, outlining a timetable for a ceasefire, drafting a new constitution and holding of free and fair elections within 18 months. The document also identified the close linkage between a ceasefire and a parallel political process, with the former to come into effect as soon as the sides have begun initial steps towards a political transition. The intention of Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura is to complete his consultations in early January and counts on full cooperation from all the relevant parties to the conflict. He was firm that continuing developments on the ground should not be allowed to derail the process of political transition.
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Nixa High School is a public in Nixa, Missouri, United States. Nixa High School received the National Blue Ribbon in 2013
==Background==
The first Nixa High School was established in 1908 and was a one room school house. In 2000, the high school moved from the present day Nixa Junior High, (on Main Street), the new high school (on Nicholas Road). == Extracurricular activities ==
=== Athletics ===
====== Football ======
The Nixa football team consists of three teams: Freshman, JV, and Varsity. The Varsity team received much recognition in 2014 when the team went to State, to compete in the Class 5 State Championship, competing against Battle HS. ====== Marching Band ======
The 220+ Crimson Corps Marching Band is one of the largest high school bands in the state of Missouri, with several awards of recognition. Including being a Bands of America Regional Finalist in Cedar Falls, Iowa in 2019, winning the Kansas City Championships in Blue Springs in 2019, Missouri; and winning Missouri State University's Ozarko Marching Festival in 2009, 2015, and 2019. As well, Summer trips to Oahu, Washington D.C., Boston, San Francisco and more. The marching shows are as follows: R.E.M. (? ), A Brand New World (2009), ESCAPE (2010) Juxtapose (2011) Wolf (2012), Room 218: Night at the Cresent Hotel: (2013), SUPER (2014), CONNECT (2015), Goodnight Moon (2016), JOY (2017), Birds of a Feather (2018), Thorns Remain (2019)
The band also marches in local parades, including the Nixa Christmas Parade, and Nixa Sucker Days Festival. ====== Concert Bands ======
During the spring semester, the 220+ Nixa High School band divides into three concert large ensembles including Concert Band, Symphonic Band, and Wind Ensemble, and several smaller ensembles, including Percussion, and Jazz ensembles. While preparing for concert performances, community events, and MSHSAA large ensemble contests, students in these groups explore collaborative musicianship, while being encouraged to pursue solo literature and small chamber ensembles. ==Notable alumni==
Courtney Frerichs
Jim Kreider
Mickey Owen
==References==
==External links==
School district website
Public high schools in Missouri
Educational institutions established in 1889
Christian County, Missouri
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Which isn't right/wrong in itself, but doesn't tend to promote a dictionary/encyclopedia type entry. As 90% of the section you rightly removed demonstrates. Not least
::* It is important to remember that Matthew along with Mary, James the brother of Jesus and other close followers of Jesus were Jewish
::How on earth does a line like that stay in a mainstream article for so long? It's important to remember that Rembrandt was Dutch...? The above of course relates to just part of your Q1. ::Also the concern remains about duplication - for example the expansion of the redirect to Gospel of redirect Gospel#Canonical gospels to this new article. and half a dozen, or a full dozen, ictu oculi (talk)
= - Comprehensive Reply =
Having studied your concerns the issues that divide us are as follows:
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If I understand your position correctly, since Matthew, the Hebrew gospel and the Oral tradition are mentioned in other articles it represents "duplication" and therefore all the above scholarship must be deleted from this article. My position is that this is a false reading. This scholarship is essential to understanding the topic and therefore is allowed. I further believe that Ictu is using this as a cover for POV pushing. If Ictu prevails on this issue, then the above mentioned scholarship should remain in this article but removed from other articles. See Matthaei authenticum
If I understand your position correctly all material from the Church Fathers, as well as all the scholarship of Lillie, Nicholson, Parker, Cassels, Edwards, Tabor, Schoemaker and Butz, should be deleted and the article should be written from the narrow point of view of Vielhauer and Schneemelcher. My position is that is serious POV pushing, particularly since these works are not even about Matthew or the Gospel of Matthew (see below)
See Aramaic original
If I understand your position, because some scholars have argued that Matthew did not write the Gospel of Matthew, Matthew should be deleted from the article. Also since Matthew is mentioned in other parts of Wikipedia it is duplication to mention him in this article. Here I most strongly disagree. Can a "ham sandwich" be a "ham sandwich" without the ham? Removing Matthew from the Gospel of Matthew seems a little counterintuitive. I did a quick Google search and found almost all articles on the Gospel of Matthew had a section on Matthew. Even those sources that believe Matthew did not write "his" gospel had a section on Matthew. Google Link
We must work out these three issues. If we cannot, then we must seek outside help. We, as editors, must work together to blend all the sources into a NPOV article. (See Reflections of an Old Geezer at )
====List of Secondary Sources====
^ Gospel text
====List of SECONDARY Sources====
^ Justin, Dialogue,
^ Irenaeus, Against Heresies
^ Tertullian, On Prayer 26
^ Clement of Alexandria, Stromateis
^ Origen,
^ Eusebius, Theophany on Matthew
^ Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History
^ Didymus, Commentary on Psalm
^ Epiphanius, Panarion
^ Jerome, On Psalm 135
^ Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah
^ Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel
^ Jerome, Commentary on Micah
^ Jerome, Commentary on Matthew
^ Jerome’s Letter to Damascus 20 on Matthew 21.9
^ Jerome, Letter 120 to Hedibia
^ Jerome, Commentary on Ephesians
^ Jerome, Against Pelagius
^ Jerome, On Illustrious Men,
There is remarkable agreement among the secondary sources. The following are representative of the early secondary source material. Among the secondary sources to the time of Jerome, by both Christians and Non-Christians, no writer ever asserts either directly or indirectly that the Hebrew Gospel (aka the Gospel of the Hebrews) was ever composed in Greek. Jerome clarifies this on several different occasions. Finally, it must be stated that among the sources to the time of Jerome there is no mention of a Gospel of the Ebionites or a Gospel of the Nazarenes nor is there any mention of either the Ebionites or the Nazarenes ever composing their own Gospel. The sources are in agreement that these Jewish groups used Matthew's Hebrew Gospel. ===Other sources===
This is where we run into trouble. Modern scholars do not have the Hebrew text, as it has been lost. There are also substantial differences of opinion. Also an enormous quantity has been written on the topic over the years.
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Roberts emphasizes high court's restraint, independence Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. last week showed he has no intention of inserting himself into the current political controversy over filling the seat on the Supreme Court left vacant by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. But in a 10-minute answer to a question in an Embassy Suites ballroom in northwest Arkansas, Roberts made clear what he does consider his job to be as the nation's 17th chief justice: a fierce defender of the judiciary's independence and a firm believer in judicial restraint - albeit a kind that at times is apparent only to him. [Roberts refuses to be drawn into controversy over Scalia's replacement] Roberts, 61 and now more than 10 years into his tenure, spoke to judges and lawyers from the St. Louis-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, which stretches from Arkansas to North Dakota. In what were his most extended public remarks since Scalia's death in February, Roberts was determined not to take sides in the fight between Republicans and Democrats over whether to make the court whole again by confirming President Obama's nominee, Judge Merrick Garland. The Fix's Amber Phillips breaks down three ways the Merrick Garland nomination could play out. Which do you think is most likely? (Peter Stevenson/The Washington Post) Roberts batted away a question about how the ideologically divided eight-member Supreme Court is functioning and refused to talk even about his own earlier observations that the court's reputation is suffering collateral damage from Washington's partisan political gridlock. [Roberts says political wars damage Supreme Court's reputation] But Roberts was far more revealing when 8th Circuit Chief Judge William Jay Riley asked what the chief justice had learned from the 16 men who proceeded him. Roberts did not need to remind the audience that his official title is chief justice of the United States. "You realize, first and foremost, your responsibility to protect the separation of powers, which is of vital importance, even in little things," Roberts said. "I know that I represent you judges, here, in Washington." Roberts has made clear that he is not a fan of the president's State of the Union address. But he has gone every year he has been in his office, and he says his place of prominence in the front row is only proper. "If the president is going to be here and the speaker of the House is going to be here, I'm going to be here, or I'm not going," he said. "Because I represent the judicial branch and that has to be shown [respect], even as a matter of protocol." Roberts's actions on the bench back that up. The only time he teamed up with the court's liberal justices to save a campaign finance restriction was upholding Florida's ban on judges asking directly for campaign contributions. [States may ban judicial candidates from personal fundraising] "Judges are not politicians, even when they come to the bench by way of the ballot," Roberts wrote. Last month, he disagreed with his colleagues who held that a statute passed by Congress to help terrorism victims win their lawsuit against Iran's national bank did not intrude on the judiciary's powers. Roberts wrote a lofty dissent that detailed and praised the framers" decisions to safeguard the judiciary in the Constitution. "The authority of the political branches is sufficient; they have no need to seize ours," Roberts wrote. That separation, Roberts said, is also the lesson to be learned from former chief justices John Marshall - "the greatest hero of our profession" - and Roger B. Taney - "the greatest failure." Marshall's 1803 opinion in Marbury v. Madison established that it is the judiciary's exclusive province to "say what the law is." But the genius of Marshall's opinion, Roberts said, was its finding that the court lacked the power to grant William Marbury's commission as a justice of the peace. The decision "was the epitome of restraint," Roberts said. Marshall said "this is up to Congress to resolve." He diffused the conflict "by staying out of it." Roberts said Taney did the opposite in his landmark 1857 ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which said that slaves and their descendents could not be American citizens and thus could not sue in federal courts. Taney's view of the slavery question that was tearing the country apart was "the president is not doing anything about this, Congress cannot solve this, it's up to me." "He says, "Congress, you do not have the power to enact the Missouri Compromise because African Americans aren't people under the Constitution," Roberts continued. "It's not just the shamefulness of the legal opinion, it's the fact that it was an exercise of judicial activism.... He inserted the judiciary into most divisive political controversy in our history." Roberts paused. "So you learn that."
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Events from the year 1949 in the United States. == Incumbents ==
=== Federal Government ===
President: Harry S. Truman (D-Missouri)
Vice President: vacant (until January 20), Alben W. Barkley (D-Kentucky) (starting January 20)
Chief Justice: Fred M. Vinson (Kentucky)
Speaker of the House of Representatives: Joseph William Martin, Jr. (R-Massachusetts) (until January 3), Sam Rayburn (D-Texas) (starting January 3)
Senate Majority Leader: Wallace H. White, Jr. (R-Maine) (until January 3), Scott W. Lucas (D-Illinois) (starting January 3)
Congress: 80th (until January 3), 81st (starting January 3)
==Events==
===January–March===
January 2 – Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico. January 4 – RMS Caronia (1947) of the Cunard Line departs Southampton for New York City on her maiden voyage. January 4–February 22 – Series of winter storms in Nebraska, Wyoming, South Dakota, Utah, Colorado and Nevada – winds of up to 72 mph – tens of thousands of cattle and sheep perish. January 5 – President Harry S. Truman unveils his Fair Deal program. January 11 – Los Angeles, California receives its first recorded snowfall. January 17 – The first Volkswagen Beetle to arrive in the United States, a 1948 model, is brought to New York City by Dutch businessman Ben Pon. Unable to interest dealers or importers in the Volkswagen, Pon sells the sample car to pay his travel expenses. Only two 1949 models will be sold in America that year, convincing Volkswagen chairman Heinrich Nordhoff that the car has no future in the U.S. (The VW Beetle goes on to become the greatest automobile phenomenon in American history.) January 19 – The Poe Toaster first appears at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe. January 20 – President Harry S. Truman begins his full term. January 25 – The first Emmy Awards are presented at the Hollywood Athletic Club. February 10 – Arthur Miller's tragedy Death of a Salesman opens at the Morosco Theatre on Broadway in New York City with Lee J. Cobb in the title rôle of Willy Loman and runs for 742 performances. February 19 – Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University. February 22 – Grady the Cow, a 1,200-pound cow, gets stuck inside a silo on a farm in Yukon, Oklahoma and garners national media attention. March 2 – The B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II under Captain James Gallagher lands in Fort Worth, Texas, after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight (it was refueled in flight 4 times). March 17 – The Shamrock Hotel in Houston, Texas, owned by oil tycoon Glenn McCarthy, has its grand opening. March 20 – The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Denver & Rio Grande Western and Western Pacific railroads inaugurate the California Zephyr passenger train between Chicago and Oakland, California, as the first long distance train to feature Vista Dome cars as regular equipment. March 26 – The first half of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida, conducted by legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini, and performed in concert (i.e. no scenery or costumes), is telecast by NBC, live from Studio 8H at Rockefeller Center. The second half is telecast a week later. This is the only complete opera that Toscanini ever conducts on television. March 28 – United States Secretary of Defense James Forrestal resigns suddenly. March 29 – The 21st Academy Awards ceremony is held. ===April–June===
April 4 – The North Atlantic Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., creating the NATO defense alliance. April 7 – Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, starring Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza, opens on Broadway and goes on to become R&H's second longest-running musical. It becomes an instant classic of the musical theatre. The score's biggest hit is the song Some Enchanted Evening. April 13 – The 6.7 Olympia earthquake affected the Puget Sound region of western Washington with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), causing eight deaths and $25 million in damage.
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in WW2. Cobblet (talk)
Oppose Per Cobblet. See List of World War II puppet states for how many puppet states could potentially be added. Gizza (t)(c)
Oppose per above. Jucchan (talk)
Oppose Too short-lived to be "vital". Chris Troutman (talk)
Oppose Part of the overall Nazi occupation of Europe; biggest takedown, but covered adequately elsewhere. Montanabw(talk)
Discussion
I don't mind historic regions but it does seem much less vital than Nazi Germany, I couldn't get Roman Britain to come aboard for example, that lasted 360+ years and is kind of an era in British history, Vichy France only lasted 5 years at most. Carlwev
My take is that this was a puppet state that is adequately covered within general articles on France and on WWII. Montanabw(talk)
=== Add Assyrian genocide, Greek genocide and Cambodian genocide ===
As title, since they are all crucial, especially Cambodian genocide since at least 1 million (maybe around 2 million) people died in the event, and linguist Noam Chomsky even denied its existence! Support
Support as nom. Support PointsofNoReturn (talk)
Support I would prefer the addition in the Anthropology/Ethnology section. Support. When hundreds of thousands are systematically killed, it's important for readers to know about it. That makes these articles vital. As Maunus noted, there are other related articles that should be added as well. Oppose
Oppose. If Khmer rouge are not on the list I would support adding them, and I might support adding the Cambodian genocide on its own. We should be very careful with beginning to add genocide articles, since there are many, they are always controversial (and tend to be poor articles) and it is difficult to argue that any single one is more notable than :Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw·
Oppose I don't think genocides are per se vital. Depredations of all sorts are horrific and many are historically important but not vital in human history. Chris Troutman (talk)
Oppose Only the most notable of genocides are vital on their own, which are the Holocaust and Armenian Genocide. Many other genocides are redundant to broader topics (Cambodian genocide and Rwandan genocide will be covered in Khmer Rouge and Rwandan Civil War respectively). Otherwise we will be adding at least another 20 articles to the list. If we broaden genocide to include ethnic cleansing and forced population movement we will be adding another dozen articles. Gizza (t)(c)
Discussion
Note that if these are added we will likely have to add also Herero and Namaqua genocide, Genocide of indigenous peoples, Porajmos and Srebrenica genocide. And probably a lot more once the ball gets rolling. User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw·
=== Add Zionism ===
Support
Support as nom. Support Carlwev
Support and would prefer this in politics. Support Agree that this would fit better under politics, possibly as a subtopic of nationalism. Malerisch (talk)
Support Agree with Malerisch. Neljack (talk)
Support PointsofNoReturn (talk)
Support User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw·
Support Gizza (t)(c)
Oppose
Discussion
===Add Saitama and Sendai===
Saitama is the the capital and most populous city of Saitama Prefecture, as well as being the 9th most populous city in Japan. It is a key transportation hub near Tokyo. Sendai is the capital city and most populous city of Miyagi Prefecture, and is also the most populous city in the Tōhoku region and 11th most populous in Japan. It serves as the center for the region's economy. There are no cities in the Tōhoku region currently on the list. Jucchan (talk)
Support
Support as nom. Jucchan (talk)
Support swap of Sendai for Kitakyushu. Sendai is historically more important and has a strong regional identity. Do not support add of Saitama.
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Jordan Spieth cruises to TOC win Jordan Spieth won the first PGA Tour event of the new year going away. The 22-year-old, two-time major champion closed the Hyundai Tournament of Championship with a 6-under-par 67 on Sunday and won by eight strokes over Patrick Reed in Kapalua, Hawaii. Spieth finished four rounds at 30-under 262 with an 8-foot birdie putt on his final hole. The world's top-ranked player became just the second play in PGA Tour history to complete a 72-hole event at 30 under or lower. Ernie Els set the record at 31 under at Kapalua in 2003. The win was Spieth's seventh on the PGA Tour, with Spieth matching Tiger Woods as the only players since 1970 with that many victories by age 22. "All parts were firing," Spieth said. Reed closed within three shots after a birdie on the par-5 ninth hole for a 32 on the front side, but Spieth kept him at bay with birdies at Nos. 6, 9 and 10. Reed, the defending champion, had his only bogey of the tournament at No. 15 and finished with a 69 for a 22-under 270 on the par-73, 7,411-yard Plantation Course at Kapalua. "I knew I had to make birdies early to put pressure on (Spieth)," Reed said. "I got it to within three. The next time I saw a board, it was back to five. He's not going to shoot over par, especially the way he's playing now." Brooks Koepka concluded with a 71 and wound up at 21 under and in a tie for third with Brandt Snedeker, who posted a closing 67. Rickie Fowler took fifth at 20 under after a 67. Ireland's Padraig Harrington (final-round 67), Argentina's Fabian Gomez (71) and Peter Malnati (69) tied for sixth at 275. Kevin Kisner (71) came in ninth at 276. Bubba Watson, Dustin Johnson, Jimmy Walker and Australia's Steven Bowditch and Jason Day shared 10th place at 277.
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Unfortunately, when the parts of the colony were reunited, the Aquidneck towns refused to accept the law and it became a dead letter. The economic and political center of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was Newport for the next 100 years, and they disregarded the anti-slavery law. Indeed, Newport entered the African slave trade in 1700 and became the leading American slave traders from then until the American Revolution. ==Relations with the Baptists==
nalities did not bode well for the colony. Coddington, who never liked Williams nor liked being subordinated to the new charter government, sailed to England and returned in 1651 with his own patent making him "Governor for Life" over "Rhode Island" and Conanicut. == Second return trip to England ==
As a result, Providence and Warwick dispatched Roger Williams, and Coddington's opponents on Rhode Island sent John Clarke to England to get Coddington's commission canceled. To pay for the trip, Williams sold his trading post at Cocumscussec, near present-day Wickford, Rhode Island. This trading post was his main source of income. Williams and Clarke were successful in getting Coddington's patent rescinded, but Clarke remained in England until 1664 to secure a new charter for the colony. Williams returned to America in 1654 and was immediately elected the President of the colony. He would subsequently serve in many offices in the town and colonial governments, and in his 70s he was elected captain of the militia in Providence during King Philip's War in 1676. One notable effort by "Providence Plantations" (Providence and Warwick) during the time when Coddington had separated "Rhode Island" (Newport and Portsmouth) from the mainland came on May 18, 1652, when they passed a law that attempted to prevent slavery from taking root in the colony. In 1641 Massachusetts Bay had passed the first laws to make slavery legal in the English colonies, and these laws spread to Plymouth and Connecticut with the creation of the United Colonies in 1643. Roger Williams and Samuel Gorton both opposed slavery, and the law passed in 1652 was the attempt to stop slavery from coming to Rhode Island. Unfortunately, when the parts of the colony were reunited, the Aquidneck towns refused to accept the law and it became a dead letter. The economic and political center of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was Newport for the next 100 years, and they disregarded the anti-slavery law. Indeed, Newport entered the African slave trade in 1700 and became the leading American slave traders from then until the American Revolution. ==Relations with the Baptists==
alities did not bode well for the colony. Coddington, who never liked Williams nor liked being subordinated to the new charter government, sailed to England and returned in 1651 with his own patent making him "Governor for Life" over "Rhode Island" and Conanicut. == Second return trip to England ==
As a result, Providence and Warwick dispatched Roger Williams, and Coddington's opponents on Rhode Island sent John Clarke to England to get Coddington's commission canceled. To pay for the trip, Williams sold his trading post at Cocumscussec, near present-day Wickford, Rhode Island. This trading post was his main source of income. Williams and Clarke were successful in getting Coddington's patent rescinded, but Clarke remained in England until 1664 to secure a new charter for the colony. Williams returned to America in 1654 and was immediately elected the President of the colony. He would subsequently serve in many offices in the town and colonial governments, and in his 70s he was elected captain of the militia in Providence during King Philip's War in 1676. One notable effort by "Providence Plantations" (Providence and Warwick) during the time when Coddington had separated "Rhode Island" (Newport and Portsmouth) from the mainland came on May 18, 1652, when they passed a law that attempted to prevent slavery from taking root in the colony. In 1641 Massachusetts Bay had passed the first laws to make slavery legal in the English colonies, and these laws spread to Plymouth and Connecticut with the creation of the United Colonies in 1643. Roger Williams and Samuel Gorton both opposed slavery, and the law passed in 1652 was the attempt to stop slavery from coming to Rhode Island. Unfortunately, when the parts of the colony were reunited, the Aquidneck towns refused to accept the law and it became a dead letter. The economic and political center of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was Newport for the next 100 years, and they disregarded the anti-slavery law. Indeed, Newport entered the African slave trade in 1700 and became the leading American slave traders from then until the American Revolution.
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Brink's Truck Spills Cash on Highway, and Drivers Scoop It Up There was hardly a cloud in the sky over Indianapolis on Wednesday morning when it started raining money. In a moment that instantly tested the core of human morality, the definition of right and wrong, and the limits of acceptable risk, the back door of a Brink's armored truck swung open during rush hour on Interstate 70, blowing bags of cash onto the highway. There was money - $600,000, troopers estimated - everywhere. Some bags tumbled onto the road and stayed intact - thousands of dollars, sorted and organized, just sitting there for the taking. Others ripped open, showering cash over four lanes of the interstate. On the shoulder, $20 bills gathered like leaves and formed piles in the grass off the highway. Suddenly, the timeless hypothetical question became reality: What would you do? A school bus driver knew what he would do, the police said. He pulled over on the highway, jumped out from the driver's seat and grabbed some cash before driving away. So did four men in a white pickup truck who snatched an entire bag and then sped off. Jazmyne Danae stopped her car and started streaming live video on Facebook. "One of those little bank trucks just dropped all this money and people just came out here," Ms. Danae said as she walked along the highway shoulder, which was covered in $20 bills. At some point during the mayhem, word must have spread to people living in the residential area off the interstate in West Indianapolis. They started jumping fences and frantically stuffing their pockets with cash. "Sort of something out of a movie scene, where you have bills, loose bills flying all over the interstate, vehicles stopping, people getting out of their cars," Cpl. Brock McCooe of the Indiana State Police told WXIN-TV, the Fox affiliate in Indianapolis. "Bags of money were falling out of the back onto the interstate." Within minutes, the cash grab was over. State troopers blocked traffic on the highway, helped Brink's employees collect what remained of the money and warned people that they would be arrested if they pocketed any of it. The officers didn't find it amusing. "You got money?" a trooper asked Ms. Danae in her video. No, she replied. Ms. Danae, 25, said in an interview on Thursday that she was driving her grandmother to the airport when traffic came to a standstill on Interstate 70. At first, she thought the people running out of their cars were trying to rescue people in a bad accident. But then her grandmother's friend, a passenger in the car, spotted the real reason. "There's money!" the woman screamed, prompting all of them to hop out. Ms. Danae said it was tempting to grab a handful of cash, but she knew she would have not been able to sleep at night. "I have three kids, and I didn't want to put myself in that situation," she said. Troopers at the scene told local news media that the Brink's truck had unloaded about $600,000. A company spokesman said the episode was under investigation and declined to offer additional information. The Indiana State Police said later that the exact figure would not be released but that it was a "substantial amount." And they issued a warning. "People know right from wrong and anyone we track down who kept a dollar of this money will be arrested for theft," First Sgt. Bill Dalton said in a statement. "The time to do the right thing and call us to turn in the money is now, because once we knock on your door, you won't be able to avoid being arrested."
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Becker and McEnroe bemoan utter domination of Federer, Nadal and Djokovic Nadal won a 12th French Open title on Sunday (Picture: Corbis via Getty Images) Ten Grand Slam titles in a row. Forty-nine of 57 Slams won since the French Open in 2005. A major win rate of 83% since Wimbledon 2003. The "Big Three" have dominated tennis in a fashion never seen before but two of the game's legendary stars, Boris Becker and John McEnroe have hit out at the younger generation's failure to break through. Dominic Thiem is the only player under the age of 30 to have picked up a set in the Grand Slam final. Despite a spirited performance on Sunday afternoon, he was humbled by Rafael Nadal in four sets. Nadal, 33, has picked up four of the last 10 Grand Slams in a run where Roger Federer, 37, and Novak Djokovic, 32, have claimed three apiece, extending one of the most dominant periods in sporting history. But Becker - Djokovic's former coach - is hoping to see it come to an end soon. "I was just reading a stat from a colleague that no active player under 28 apart from Thiem has been in a Grand Slam final. That is not good," he moaned at an event celebrating Eurosport's 30th anniversary. Novak Djokovic won the Australian Open at the start of the year (Picture: AFP/Getty) "That is not a compliment for anybody under 28. And don't give me that the others are too good. We should question the quality and the attitude of everybody under 28. It just doesn't make sense. "As much as I respect Roger, Rafa, Novak - who else? Show up. Give me something I want to talk about. Eventually they will be too old. But you want to see passing of the torch while they are still in their prime. You want to see Stefanos [Tsitsipas] and Dominic beating them when they are still very very good. That's what I'd like to see." Though others from the same generation, namely Stan Wawrinka, Andy Murray, Marin Cilic and Juan Martin del Potro have enjoyed Slam wins, the younger crop of players continue to disappoint. McEnroe added: "You know, I have been waiting a long time for it to happen, like a lot of people, to see who that is. I think it's as close as its ever been. I would think at Wimbledon it would be more likely, yeah. "But that doesn't mean some of these guys, whether it's [Denis] Shapovalov, who has struggled on the clay. Will that hurt his confidence at Wimbledon where it would seem to work better for him? Tsitsipas, he would seem to be a likely candidate that would make that transition immediately. "[Karen] Khachanov was someone I thought would make more inroads by now. But I don't know what has happened to him. A guy like [Daniil] Medvedev, maybe all of a sudden the pressure is on. Roger Federer won his last Slam aged 36 (Picture: Kyodo News via Getty Images) "It's hard to say without being around the person a lot. These guys set such a high bar and I think they feel they are overwhelmed by the obstacles of going all the way. It's tough. These guys, we are in an amazing time for the three guys." So what is missing from the younger crop of players? What has stopped them making that next step? Becker said: "Mindset. There's a certain mentality that they don't have, that the three men just have. It's not the forehands. It's not the fitness. It's a certain mentality, mindset, attitude that makes the difference between winning and losing. "Already the 20-year-old Novak was very very good. Rafa won here at 19. Yes in order to stay at the very top you have to improve. Every year, every other year. But they were always good. Djokovicwas coached by Becker (Picture: Getty Images for Laureus) "Novak at 20, you could see it was a question of time. And then he did win his major at 20 - is that right? That's my point. Winning a major at 20, you're already good. Don't give me you're too young for that. You're either good or not good." Of the Next Gen stars, McEnroe believes Felix Auger-Aliassime and Tsitsipas are the two mentally strongest players who can potentially dominate the sport but he has been concerened by Zverev's inability to kick on.
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Although it's well after the fact now, I think your possibilities would have been to engage on someone's talk page, or the article talk page, which could have been accompanied by an initial reversion of the talk page's GAN edit (in which case the engagement would say something like "I just reverted this because the sorts of changes I'll be doing will cause it to quickfail, which I'm sure you didn't want to have happen". Major cleanups not only can run afoul of the stability requirement, but tend to annoy the reviewer, who has to deal with a moving target. BlueMoonset (talk)
Thanks for the advice. TRLIJC19 (talk • contribs)
== Stanisław August Poniatowski/GA1 ==
I have simply missed the fact that the review started; I was not notified of it until you did so. I'll get right on it today. It's always struck me as a bit odd that the GA subpages weren't added to your watchlist by the software when the review begins. I've sometimes missed when my reviews get started. I know there's an involved way to fake out your own watchlist before the review page is created, but I never remember to attempt it. BlueMoonset (talk)
In the end, we should just encourage reviewers to go and notify the nominators when they open the review. I always do it when I review the article, and I assume from then onwards that the nominator will add it to their watchlist. Since the original reviewer has not edited since August 19, perhaps you could help finish the review and take it over? No, sorry. I'm busy with other things. You might want to post at GAN to see if you can find someone to take over. I see on the GAN page that this was Halibutt's first review—which is probably why you weren't notified—so having more experienced eyes is probably a good idea anyway. BlueMoonset (talk)
== DYK Nomination of Philippine resistance against Japan ==
I have an another alternative to the hook in its nomination entry:
Such was the effectiveness of Philippine resistance against Japan that by the end of World War II, the Japanese controlled only 12 of the 48 provinces. Arius1998 (talk)
Thank you for responding at Did you know nominations/Philippine Resistance against Japan. While this is a better hook, there is a significant issue with it, which I have noted there. BlueMoonset (talk)
== DYK nomination ==
Any idea what's happening with this? I replied 10 days ago and have heard nothing since. The nom has been sitting in limbo for a month now and is the third oldest on there. Valenciano (talk)
Have you asked Nikkimaria whether the changes satisfy her concerns? As far as I can see, that's what has been holding this up since your reply. Asking her to review the close paraphrasing issues needs to be done, since she doesn't seem to have seen your changes (as you hadn't seen her comments). She's good about giving things another look when prompted. Hope this time does it! BlueMoonset (talk)
== A barnstar for you! ==
I got the "new message" banner for this just after deciding on a quirky hook for prep 1, and LOLed at the timing when I saw the barnstar turning, turning, turning.... Thank you so much! BlueMoonset (talk)
== Hanajira ==
Hi, you left a message on my Talk page requesting that I complete my review of the Hanajira dyk; however, in the meantime you've gone & promoted the nomination without waiting for me to do that. The rules indicate that nominations need to pass the review process prior to their being moved on to the prep stages, which in this case has not happened. There is an earnest dialog in progress on the Discussion page that still needs to be settled, & there are issues raised by Orlady's comments that also need to be addressed involving the sourcing of at least two passages. Note that Orlady reviewed only the hooks - the article itself was never ticked as the rules clearly demand. I ask that you exercise greater patience & restore the nomination to its pre-prep state so that the review process can proceed & reach its proper conclusion.—Biosketch (talk)
You had said "a couple of days" on August 28, I pointed out that ALT1 would need an independent review since you had proposed it, and Orlady reviewed it and the article as a whole on September 3.
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Cleveland Browns-Baltimore Ravens preview: Keys to the game and who will win Cleveland Browns (1-3) at Baltimore Ravens (1-3) Sunday, 1:00 p.m. ET, at M&T Bank Stadium, Baltimore - TV: CBS *TV announcers: Kevin Harlan, Rich Gannon *Keys to the game: Former Bears head coach Marc Trestman can help dissect Browns QB Josh McCown, who has played well for the Browns but has no wins to show for it. Cleveland might have something in playmaking rookie RB Duke Johnson, who had nine receptions and 116 yards from scrimmage last week. Unheralded receivers are helping McCown settle in behind a solid offensive line, including TE Gary Barnidge, who has TD receptions in consecutive games. Johnson and RB Isaiah Crowell are the key pieces in a conservative offense, and the Browns are best in a grinding game that doesn't ask a lot of McCown. Joe Flacco's gritty play has been a job requirement with a leaky line that is letting defenders put the Ravens' quarterback on his back. The Browns will likely sit tight to the line of scrimmage and make Flacco's receivers come up with something considering how thinned the ranks are with Steve Smith (back), TE Crockett Gillmore (calf) and Michael Campanaro (back, IR) hurt. That could push WR Chris Givens, acquired from the Rams last week, into a starting spot and bring unexpected aid to the Browns' 31st-ranked run defense (141.5 yards per game). *Matchup to watch - Ravens OLB Elvis Dumervil vs. Browns LT Joe Thomas: Dumervil is going to be pivotal for the Ravens to get to McCown. Thomas is widely regarded as one the best tackles in the NFL but Dumervil has 10 sacks in eight career meetings. *Player spotlight - Browns NT Danny Shelton: Mobile and massive all at the same time, Shelton was thought to be an answer to Cleveland's sagging run defense. The Browns drafted Shelton with the 12th overall pick to contain the run but he hasn't been the answer. Forsett had 119 yards on 17 carries in his last game against Cleveland on Dec. 28, 2014. *Fast facts: The Ravens have won 13 of the past 14 meetings, all started by Flacco.... McCown has two 300-yard games this season but is 2-9 as a starter when he passes for at least 300 yards.
There is little the Ravens don't know about Josh McCown and with the ability to clog running lanes and spin the veteran into panicked decisions, Baltimore gets a second win in a row despite playing with a "Hello, My Name Is" wide receiver corps. *Our pick: Ravens 30-16. Related UPI Stories
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page. The result of the debate was delete. – Robert T | @ | C
===AdvanceShipping===
Speculation about a pairing in the Pokémon anime. Thoroughly unencyclopedic. I'd suggest transwiking it to Bulbapedia (a Pokémon fan wiki that does cover speculation about the anime), but the licenses are incompatible. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops)
However I Gaiash, the guy who MADE the page feel a page about the shipping should be online. Perhaps people should make pages of other shippings to make things fair? Please, no. There are many, many fan pairings in many fandoms, and the vast majority of them cannot be covered in an encyclopedic way. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops)
delete Pokémoncruft. Look I just wanted to make an article. Is that too much to ask? Also thats the most encyclopedic way I could type ANYTHING, I happen to have Autism you know. - Gaiash
Who cares? Delete Danny Lilithborne
Delete gamecruft, per AMIB. Just zis Guy, you know? / (W) AfD? Delete per A Man in Black
Please don't delete it, please. - Gaiash
Delete Gamecruft. Jasmol
Delete Gamecruft? This is about an anime! Oh, and Bulbapedia already has an AdvanceShiping article. Sonic Mew | [[User_talk:Sonic Mew|talk to me]]
DON'T DELETE
Delete Izehar
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
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The magistrates were taking no chances, and had signed up 400 special constables armed with long wooden truncheons. They also deployed 60 yeomanry troops from Manchester (with another 420 from Cheshire in reserve), called in 340 regular cavalry from the 15th Hussars, plus 400 infantry and two six-pounder cannon from the artillery. There were more than 1,500 soldiers and constables in all. The rescheduled meeting had been widely publicised. Its modest purpose was to consider "the propriety of adopting the most LEGAL and EFFECTUAL means of obtaining a REFORM." Nevertheless, Hunt issued a statement urging "steady, firm and temperate deportment" in those attending: "Our enemies will seek every opportunity by means of their sanguinary agents to incite a riot, that they may have a pretence for spilling our blood, reckless of the awful and certain retaliation that would ultimately fall on their heads." They should bring "no other weapon but that of a self-approving conscience." It was set to be a national event, and newspapers from London and other cities sent reporters to cover it - a considerable innovation for the time; few events in British history had been reported in such detail. More than 300 people would later give accounts of what they had seen, and there were 10 press reports in the days following the meeting. John Tyas, a reporter from the Times, was on the hustings and was arrested, so a report was filed to London for him by Taylor, who would go on to found the Guardian. Jeremiah Garnett, the Guardian's second editor, was also at Peterloo, working for the loyalist Manchester Courier, but it refused to print his report and he left the paper. In the months ahead, the authorities" side would depend heavily on the testimony of a few troops and loyalists to contradict the weight of evidence against them. The clash of evidence from many disinterested observers, including respectable businessmen and clergy on the one side, versus many fewer troopers and magistrates" trusted supporters on the other, would fuel the national debate in the months to come, both about what happened and who was responsible for the violence. As the vast crowd gathered, the magistrates watched anxiously from the upper floor of a neighbouring private building. Hunt eventually arrived in an open-topped barouche carriage, to great cheers, at 1.15pm. Beside the coachman sat Mary Fildes, organiser of the Manchester committee of female reformers, dressed in white and waving a flag: "She was a remarkably good figure and well dressed, it was very justly considered that she added much to the beauty of the scene," Hunt wrote lubriciously in his memoirs. "The moment that I entered the field, 10 or 12 bands struck up the same tune, "See the conquering hero comes"... and from the multitude burst forth such a shout of welcome as never before hailed the ears of an individual," he went on. A way was cleared for him to get to the hustings platform. Two lines of special constables - loyalist civilians signed up specially for the occasion - had formed, making an aisle from the magistrates" house to the hustings, where the carts were then repositioned slightly so that Hunt did not have to bellow into the wind, and the constables became submerged in the crowd. It was at this point that the magistrates either panicked, or put into operation a prearranged plan. Hay, one of the volunteer magistrates, wrote to Sidmouth later that day, as a justification, that the magistrates had "felt a decided conviction that the whole bore the appearance of insurrection; that the array was such as to terrify all the king's subjects and was such as no legitimate purpose could justify." A group of loyalists were asked to sign an affidavit that they believed the town was in danger, and a warrant for the arrest of Hunt and several other organisers was drawn up. Nadin was told by the magistrates to serve it, and asked for military help from the yeomanry to enable him to get to the hustings. The Massacre of Peterloo! or a Specimen of English Liberty by JL Marks. Photograph: The Art Archive/Rex/Shutterstock
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Woman fined and deported for checking husband's phone A woman has been fined and ordered to be deported from the United Arab Emirates for "breaching her husband's privacy" by checking his mobile phone to see if he was cheating on her. The husband complained to police sparking the prosecution under the country's cyber laws, Gulf News reported. A man complained about his wife invading his privacy by checking his phone - she was fined and deported from the UAE. Photo: Bloomberg The English-language newspaper quoted the wife's lawyer saying she admitted accessing his phone without permission and transferring photos to her device. The unnamed Arab expatriate in her 30s was fined 150,000 dirhams ($40,843) by the criminal court in the emirate of Ajman, the English-language newspaper said. Dubai in United Arab Emirates where checking on a husband's phone will land you in trouble with the law. Photo: Bloomberg It said she was prosecuted under a criminal penal code which stipulates that a person "shall be punished... [for using] a computer network and/or electronic information system or any information technology means for the invasion of privacy of another person." Reuters, Fairfax Media
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What Tituss Burgess Can't Travel Without The actor and singer Tituss Burgess has appeared in many Broadway productions over his 14-year career, but he may be most famous as the scene-stealing Titus Andromedon in the television show "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt." The final episodes of the show, for which Mr. Burgess has received four Emmy nominations, began streaming last month on Netflix. Because he travels frequently for work, Mr. Burgess's ideal vacation is a staycation. "I truly don't like to go anywhere," he says. "But sometimes I'll seek out the newest hotel in New York, and my partner and I will have a staycation. You know, we just choose a new area, whether it's downtown, South Street Seaport, the East Side, something like that. I suppose that counts as traveling because in New York getting anywhere takes a half an hour." While he calls New York City his home, it's only on these staycations that Mr. Burgess takes time to check out new restaurants and theater productions. "New York has everything to offer but when you live here and you're dealing with the everyday -isms and eccentricities of the city, you may or may not have energy to take advantage of all the wonderful things that tourists take advantage of. Or you want to but are too exhausted by the time you're done doing your day." Mr. Burgess has a list of things that make a staycation perfect. "We'll have the champagne already in the room before we check in so that we don't have to do that when we get there," he says. "We'll probably run a bath, then our masseuse will be ready. It's just quite literally less is more on our vacations: fancy bubbly, a massage, a Broadway show, food and lots of sleep." When he flies for work, he packs light, with a focus on comfort to help assuage the stress of travel which, he says, brings out the worst in people. "I'm a very sensitive person so I absorb people's energy very easily, and being in crowded spaces where the energy is so heightened and everything's at fever pitch, it's terribly overwhelming. So by the time I go to set to film, to then try and absorb another character's energy, you can imagine I'm quite spent." Here's what he packs on every trip. Electric fan "This is a small desktop fan I got from Walgreens, would you believe. I'm always hot and even in the winter, we have the air-conditioner on. So when I go to hotels I have to request a fan be in the room, or else I can't go to sleep. I have to have that white noise in the background, and that feeling of air blowing on my face. I will leave things that are perhaps more essential out of my carry-on just for the sake of bringing that fan." Comfy clothes "I bring a pair of sweatpants that look classy enough to maybe go have a cocktail in, and are comfortable enough to sleep on the plane in. I'm a very light packer." Eye mask "I freeze it overnight and I live 10 minutes from LaGuardia, so it's still cold. It's so I'm not puffy when I get to set." Pond's face cream "It's my favorite facial cream. It accompanies my face mask, and it makes you look nice and moist and awake, after the puffiness has been held at bay because of that glorious cold eye mask."
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Party leaders at Westminster may say it is a priority these days, but the politics of housing is as multi-layered as a residential tower-block, and the solutions often hard to reach. For decades, politicians rarely talked about housing. Now, it seems, they rarely talk about anything else. Interactive: Where can I afford to live? In video: What the average price will buy you Q&A: Why are starter homes controversial?
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Vietnamese migrants forever grateful for Colombo Plan Lennie and Kim Nguyen, originally from Vietnam, are forever grateful that Australia gave them a university education, a career and a new life through a government scholarship program as they farewell their Sydney home after 35 years. The couple so love their adopted country they gave their sons anglicized names, John and Robert, only speak English to them and encouraged their boys to assimilate into the country that gave them a future. MORE: Revealed: Sydney's most affordable suburbs Beaches property market on a whole new level Open for inspection etiquette for buyers They even bought a classic Aussie house with a swimming pool in the backyard. Lennie and Kim are sure they they were the first Vietnamese family to move into the northern beaches suburb of Frenchs Forest in 1983 and have loved the leafy suburb and their friendly neighbours. Lennie and one of his sons are keen Sea Eagles fans and regularly attend games at Lottoland. And the couple are also members of Dee Why RSL Club. "I love Australia and always put Australia first," Mr Nguyen said. "I never regret staying here even though we had the chance to go to the US," he said.
Lennie and Kim were among 33 bright young students in 1969 chosen from SE Asian countries to gain a university education in Australia. Under the Colombo Plan, scholarship, promising students were invited to Australia to be educated with the view of returning to their homeland strengthening ties between nations. However by the time the two students, who met and married in Australia, were due to return to South Vietnam their country had lost the Vietnam War. The young couple were allowed to settle in Australia with Mr Nguyen building and supporting accounting systems for major banks and Mrs Nguyen working in IT. The Nguyens have two grandchildren, Abigail and Lachlan, and are selling their Frenchs Forest home to move closer to them. "We taught our sons the importance of integrating into a new culture and not just mixing with people of the same culture," he said. Their home, at 2 Busby Pl has five bedrooms, three bathrooms, double garaging and a cul-de-sac position. It is on a block of 713sqm close to Garigal National Park. There is also pedestrian access to Kawana St and Glenrose shopping centre, Davidson High School and Mimosa Primary School. Inside there are several living areas, an open-plan CaesarStone kitchen with a servery to the deck.. The covered entertaining deck has a Vergola system fitted with automatic rain sensors and it overlooks a child-friendly back garden and the saltwater swimming pool. Upstairs is a large parents" retreat with bedroom, dressing room, renovated ensuite and balcony. Agent Michael Buckley, of First National The Forest, said the demand for houses in the Frenchs Forest area is high and he is expecting sales right up to December 21. The Nyugens home is booked for auction on Saturday December 7 and has a guide of $1.8 million.
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There's also plenty of effeminate straight men (and butch straight women). Your mannerisms and personality do not determine your sexuality. Furthermore, there's no "pretense" if you aren't committing the banned act, who is to know? They can't know you are homosexual, really, if you don't tell them. You can be caught engaging in a sexual act, but the act is not itself proof of homosexual identity (see, for example, Down-low (sexual slang)), NOR does being homosexual mean you are sexually active. :Are you two posting from the 1950s? :Being forced (for fear of persecution) to keep your sexuality a secret is absolutely a pretense. I don't think you'll find any gay person who says otherwise. It's not about "mannerisms". It's about having to lie any time the conversation comes around to women. It's about not putting a pin-up you're interested in on your locker. It's about the million other sex-related things in our society that us straight people never think of. :In this age of sharing everything about yourself on social media, being closseted gay, now more than ever, is about pretense. (And it was never not.) :ApLundell (talk)
::I fail to see how taking an oppositional tone is useful when every single word you just said agreed with every single thing both Medeis and I said. I can't disagree with anything you just said because I have already pre-agreed with it with everything I already said, and if that wasn't clear, I apologize for my lack of clarity. You are correct, and nothing you said right there I have any disagreement with, nor did I intend anything I said before to imply that I would have disagreed with it. :::Yes, what Jayron said. I have been out since my early teens, during the Reagan administration. I have never felt oppressed. I even used to wear a pink triangle to the shopping mall (with my girlfriend and two flamboyant male friends) to enjoy the looks I got (since I am not otherwise obviously bisexual). μηδείς (talk)
::::Well you're from the Northeast. If y'all did that in a very un-liberal area like rural Wyoming or Alabama I suspect it would be different. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk)
You might need to check the article Sexual orientation and military service, which deals with military regulations concerning gay, lesbian and bisexual people in various countries. It is incomplete, but deals with a rather diverse set a standards. Of interest is the ambiguous position of South Korea. Practically all male citizens are conscripted into the country's military forces, since service is mandatory. Homosexuality is not officially persecuted. Article 92 of the Military Penal Code categorizes all sexual relations between members of the same sex as "sexual harassment", and does not recognize the possibility of consensual relations. Those found guilty of such relations may face rape charges and serve time in a military prison. Dimadick (talk)
== Employees on large capital programmes ==
Large capital programmes, which employ people specifically for her project, all employ thousands of people but they all eventually come to an end. So what happens to the staff when it ends. I suppose the most notable example, applicable to any country are the summer Olympic Games. This normally involves a multi billion dollar infrastructure programme which comes to an end. 193.240.153.130 (talk)
Large capital programmes subcontract most work out to many different firms, who bid on contracts for and work on multiple contracts all the time, so often they shift personnel to other projects. For example, a construction company who is contracted to build a stadium for a particular Olympic games may then shift personnel to work on a project to build a housing complex or a shopping mall. The organizing body of such a large, multi-level project probably only directly employs a miniscule proportion of the labor itself. == Old age: 55-58 years ==
Would people die of old age at the age of 55-58? 31.53.86.149 (talk)
Medically, no one can die of old age. They can die of either natural or unnatural causes. Socially, old age death depends on what is considered "old". A man with white hair and wrinkles who has lived on Earth for generations may be said to die of old age. But medically he may die of some kind of organ failure or chronic disease. 140.254.70.33 (talk)
No, you die of being old.
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For more information about me, please visit my my website. FRidh (talk)
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==Cleanup==
Several IP and single edit users have done very big text dumps into this article, including some claimed to be public domain from 1927. The tone and readability of this article is strange and is in desperate need of cleanup. SchmuckyTheCat
- I agree. If nobody objects, I'll change "quaint and fanciful" to "peculiar". The first to adjectives don't really belong into an encyclopedia and are judgemental at best. ==the Book of Adam and Eve==
the Book of Adam and Eve referred to here is not one listed on the linked page, or if it is, the title should be altered here to match the titles there The Lesser Merlin (talk)
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Baron Camelford, of Boconnoc, in the County of Cornwall, was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1784 for Thomas Pitt, who had previously represented Old Sarum and Okehampton in Parliament. A member of the famous Pitt family, he was the eldest son of Thomas Pitt of Boconnoc; a great-grandson of Thomas Pitt, President of Madras, who purchased Boconnoc House; a great-nephew of Thomas Pitt, 1st Earl of Londonderry; a nephew of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham and first cousin of William Pitt the Younger. Lord Camelford was also the father-in-law of William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville. The title became extinct on the death of his only son, the 2nd Baron, who was killed in a duel in 1804. ==Barons Camelford (1784)==
Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford (1737–1793)
Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford (1775–1804)
==See also==
Earl of Londonderry (1726 creation)
Earl of Chatham
==References==
Baronies in the Peerage of Great Britain
Extinct baronies in the Peerage of Great Britain
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Cornish nobility
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Why are Eritreans in exile being silenced? Eritrea is often described as one of the most repressive countries in Africa. People's rights are severely restricted; military service is compulsory and often indefinite, and; opponents of President Isaias Afwerki are locked up in jail. Even Eritreans in exile are apparently not safe. Amnesty International is accusing the government of harassing and threatening activists living in Europe and elsewhere in Africa. It is highlighting the issue as Eritrea is a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council that is meeting this week in Geneva. So who is responsible for the campaign of intimidation? Presenter: Divya Gopalan Guests: Selam Kidane - director of Release Eritrea, a human rights organisation Awol Allo - Africa analyst and senior lecturer at Keele University Martin Plaut - senior research fellow at University of London and author of Understanding Eritrea: Inside Africa's Most Repressive State Source: Al Jazeera
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10 Years After Schiavo's Death, 'End of Life' Debate Rages
Ten years after the death of Terri Schiavo, the debate over when to end the life of someone catastrophically ill rages on. Terri Schindler Schiavo collapsed at home in the early morning hours of Feb. 25, 1990, according to the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Foundation started by her parents, Robert and Mary Schindler. She was ultimately diagnosed with hypoxic encephalopathy, a brain injury resulting from oxygen starvation. Her husband Michael Schiavo asked for her feeding tube to be removed once doctors declared her in a persistent vegetative state, touching off a decade-long legal battle with her parents that went all the way to the Supreme Court. The court eventually sided with Schiavo???s husband and the young woman???s feeding tube was removed. She died about two weeks after the tube was removed on March 31, 2005. Many of the issues stirred up by the Schiavo case still resonate today, said Arthur Caplan, director of the division of medical ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center.???Schiavo was huge landmark in maintaining the rights of spouses to stop any and all medical interventions,??? Caplan said.???But it raised all sorts of uncomfortable questions about when it becomes acceptable to remove someone from life support, even when the law makes it clear.??? The line then is the line now, Caplan said. When someone is diagnosed as permanently unconscious, life- saving measures may cease. But all the legal and ethical battles have not made the personal decisions any easier, Caplan said.???And now we even more technology and experimental drugs to decide about,??? he said. Jahi McMath Caplan referenced 13-year-old Jahi McMath, who was declared brain dead by doctors after going into cardiac arrest during tonsil surgery at Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland in California. The family sued to keep the child on life support. She was eventually moved to New Jersey where state law allows religious objection to brain death. Jahi's mother, Nailah Winkfield, spoke to ABC News exclusively last year, saying her daughter continues to respond to verbal commands. The family filed suit against the hospital earlier this month for negligence. Brittany Maynard Maynard was a 29-year-old newlywed from California who was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in early 2014. She moved to Oregon for the legal right to end her own life. Oregon is one of five states that give patients the right to obtain a prescription to die in their sleep. In her legislative testimony, she said some people suggested that she do palliative sedation where a person is placed in a drug-induced coma and deprived of nutrients and water until death comes on its own. Caplan said this is similar to what Terri Schiavo went through. Maynard ended her own life last November. Earlier this month her family released a video of her testimony for a right-to-die bill in California that she recorded shortly before her death. Marlise Munoz Munoz was 14 weeks pregnant when she collapsed with a suspected embolism in November 2013. As a result of her pregnancy, John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth said state law barred it from removing her from life support until Munoz miscarried or a baby was born. In this case, the family took the opposite tact from Schiavo???s parents, Caplan said, by asking that Munoz be removed from life support so that she could die. After months of legal wrangling the family won the case. She was removed from life support last January and ceased all cardiac function a few minutes later.
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Celebrities Pay Their Respects to the Late Zsa Zsa Gabor
Hollywood darling Zsa Zsa Gabor has passed away Sunday. The Hungarian actress and socialite's death was confirmed to ABC News by her former publicist, Edward Lozzi. She was 99. When news of Gabor's death began to spread Sunday, many took to social media to remember the glamorous actress, even sharing her most colorful quotes about diamonds and men. Along with her career, Gabor was famous for having been married nine times. She wed her last husband, Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt, in 1986. The two were married until her death. Here are a few celebrities who remembered Gabor on social media:
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Photo filters coming to WhatsApp to make pictures look better Photo filters are coming to the Android version of WhatsApp. The messaging app has started testing a range of editing options, which are expected to roll out in the near future. However, it still isn't clear why WhatsApp, which was recently named as one of the worst apps for draining battery life, feels that the addition of filters is necessary. 11 useful WhatsApp features you didn't know existed 11 useful WhatsApp features you didn't know existed 1/11 Dodge the blue ticks WhatsApp's blue ticks show when sent messages have been read, but you can disable them buy going to Settings > Account > Privacy > Read Receipts. However, bear in mind that, by doing so, you'll lose the ability to see when your own sent messages have been read. Another, more fiddly way of reading your messages without triggering the blue ticks, is enabling Aeroplane Mode before opening your messages - just remember to close the app before switching Aeroplane Mode off again. 2/11 Hide your 'last seen' time Prevent your friends from finding out when you were last online by hiding your last seen time. Go to Settings > Account > Privacy > Last Seen. As is the case with disabling read receipts, hiding your "last seen" time will also stop you from seeing anybody else's. 3/11 Limit data usage You can control how much data you munch through on WhatsApp by limiting the types of media you automatically download on a mobile connection. Go to Settings > Data Usage and choose the best option for you. 4/11 Customise notifications If you're expecting an important WhatsApp message from someone, set a custom notification for them by opening the chat, tapping their name at the top and hitting Custom Notifications. 5/11 Format your messages To jazz up any of your messages, simply highlight it by tapping and holding it, hit the More Options key on the pop-up menu and tap the formatting option you want - bold, italic, strikethrough or monospace. 6/11 Type hands-free You can get Siri or Google Assistant to type your WhatsApp messages out for you by saying either "Hey Siri" or "Okay Google," followed by the name of the person you want to message and the actual contents of the message. 7/11 Mark chats as unread When you've read a message but can't reply to it straight away, you can set a visual reminder by marking it as unread. On Android, long-press the conversation, and on iOS, swipe from left to right on a chat. 8/11 Email entire conversations You almost certainly won't do this on a regular basis, but it's a handy option to have. You can export entire conversations - complete with emoji and media attachments - by hitting More inside a chat a selecting Email Chat. 9/11 Mass-message contacts You can send the same message to lots of your contacts without lumping them all into one group, much like the BCC option on email, by hitting the New Broadcast option on the app's main menu. 10/11 Pin conversations You pin up to three contacts and groups to the top of your WhatsApp conversation list by tapping and holding a chat, then hitting the pin icon. 11/11 Make things easier to find You can easily mark key messages with a star, allowing you to find them easily when you need to. Just tap and hold a message and hit the star icon to save it, and return to it later by selecting Starred Messages in WhatsApp's main menu. When they go live, WhatsApp will offer Pop, B&W, Cool, Chrome and Film filters, reports Android Police. Comprehensive photo editing tools are available elsewhere, and most people who transfer pictures through WhatsApp do so because it's fast and straightforward. Using filters to make your pictures as pretty as possible makes sense for platforms where you can pick up Likes, such as Instagram and Facebook, but not so much for WhatsApp. However, there's no harm in having the option. Facebook appears to be trying to convert the messaging app into a social network of sorts. Over recent months, it's added Snapchat Stories-style functionality to WhatsApp, and even colourful text statuses. Filters landed on the iOS version of WhatsApp back in June, and you can use them to edit photos, videos and GIFs. The app has also started organising pictures a lot more neatly for iPhone users, placing them in a compact grid, rather than stacking them on top of each other. Reuse content
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Adibhatla is a village in Ranga Reddy district in Telangana, India. It derives its name from the erstwhile ruler of Bijapur, Yusuf Adil Shah. The TATA Aerospace SEZ is located here. Tata Advance System Ltd., a unit of the Tata Group, has sought and obtained 50 acres of land in the 250-acre Aerospace and Precision Engineering Special Economic Zone (SEZ) that is coming up at Adibhatla in Ibrahimpatnam mandal in Ranga Reddy district not far from Hyderabad. "It will be the first aerospace SEZ in the country. The formal approval for the SEZ was accorded by the centre in March 2008 and the notification is expected shortly," state government sources told 'TOI'. In all, the state has identified 351 acres at Adibhatla village. While the SEZ would come up on 250 acres, the remaining 100 acres has been earmarked for other ancillary units. Apart from the Tata unit, land is to be allotted to MTAR and other local manufacturers both within and outside the SEZ. ==References==
Villages in Ranga Reddy district
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Alex Rodriguez has heated chat with female pal in NYC He has rarely been seen without a smile on his face, ever since he began dating songstress Jennifer Lopez. But Alex Rodriguez cut a far more angered figure on Wednesday, as he was spotted in a heated discussion with a female companion on the streets of New York. The baseball player, better known as A-Rod, was seen frowning and flailing his arms in annoyance as he embarked on the tense altercation with the female, who appeared sheepish in response. The former New York Yankees star, 41, appeared to be in a rage as he endured a bitter discussion with his companion. Share this article Share 179 shares While he was dressed in a casual polo shirt and jeans combo, the sportsman looked far from relaxed as he seemingly argued with the brunette - holding his hands out on numerous occasions in a gesture of frustration. Meanwhile his friend was timid in response as she listened to his complaints, pulling her arms uncomfortably across her frame. MailOnline has contacted representatives of A-Rod for comment. While he seemed somewhat disgruntled on Wednesday, the incident was a rare occasion for Alex - who is more often seen beaming ear to ear with his new girlfriend Jennifer Lopez. He has been dating the singer, 47, since the beginning of this year - and it has since been said the nature of their romance is already getting more serious. An insider told E! News last month: 'J.Lo and A-Rod are getting very serious and talking marriage. J.Lo would marry A-Rod if he asked, she is head over heels for him.' The Maid In Manhattan actress, however, has kept more coy over their relationship, telling the channel in May: 'I think we are very happy and just having a good time and don't put as much pressure as everybody else puts on it.' The pair recently enjoyed a romantic trip to France, and are often seen out and about in LA with her two children - twins Emme and Max, nine - who she shares with ex-husband Marc Anthony. Meanwhile Alex was previously married to psychology graduate Cynthia Smart, and they went on to welcome daughters Natasha and Ella, before divorcing in 2008.
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Flex and Ffion Lewis: The powerhouse siblings of Wales Flex and Ffion Lewis - powerhouse siblings Women's Six Nations: France v Wales Venue: GGL Stadium, Montpellier Date: Saturday, 2 February Kick-off: 20:00 GMT Coverage: Live on S4C, updates on BBC Sport website. James 'Flex' Lewis, the winner of seven consecutive Mr Olympia titles, is a motivational character. The global superstar bodybuilder drives his 1.4 million Instagram followers to work hard and achieve their goals. The 35-year-old, lives and trains in Florida, but at home in Llanelli his youngest sibling, rugby-playing sister Ffion is using Flex's journey to the very top of his sport as inspiration. The 22-year-old scrum-half made her Wales debut in 2018 and is looking forward to playing in the 2019 Six Nations with big brother Flex tracking her progress 4,000 miles away. "I was watching the autumn games on the road from my phone often from a shaky camera," Flex told BBC Sport Wales. "From afar, doing what I've been doing in the States, I've seen Ffion tremendously change her attitude and her mindset to get to where she is. "It makes me so proud to see her wear that Welsh jersey and it also drives me. Ffion Lewis in action for Wales against Hong Kong during the 2018 autumn internationals "As the big brother I feel like I have to be the driving force, but now I think she's catching up with me so I have to up my game." Rugby always played a big part in the Lewis household with brother Luke a promising player before following Flex to the US to work as a strength and conditioning coach with some of UFC's top athletes. Flex, who was given his nickname due to his flexibility on the rugby field as a fleet footed winger, was a member of the Llanelli RFC Academy before a serious shoulder injury resulted in him discovering a love for bodybuilding. "It was my dream to play rugby for Wales, but now I can live that dream vicariously through my sister," he said. "There's nothing better for me than to see her running out. "I was on pins watching from afar when she got her first cap and hoping she'd get her chance off the bench. "She's earned that cap because she's getting up early every morning to do her cardio and that hard work behind closed doors is paying off." The 35-year-old is a huge name in the United States, but hasn't forgotten his Welsh roots, naming his elite gym in Florida, Dragons Lair, and returning to his parents home in Llanelli every Christmas. Since being told he'd never make it as a bodybuilder, Lewis has become world famous and in winning his seventh Mr Olympia title last year in Las Vegas surpassed a record set by the most recognisable bodybuilder of all time, Arnold Schwarzenegger. "My motto is to believe to achieve because I was always told I'd never make it, but every time I've fallen I've got up and said I'm not going anywhere. "Because we're Welsh, there's a certain mentality which we were born with. We were never given a silver spoon and we grew up around hardworking people. Flex Lewis has won seven consecutive titles at Mr Olympia "A lot of people give up when they fail, but fortunately for us, we know the route to success which comes from failure. I'm so so glad she's never given up and that why I'm most proud of her." Flex will not compete for an eighth 212 class Mr Olympia title and hopes to have more time on his hands to follow his sister's progress. "Now I've retired from the 212 class and taking next year off there will definitely be opportunities to visit and watch some of her games," Lewis added. "And that'll be emotional and I'm man enough to admit that there will be a few tears shed. "I'd love her to go to the World Cup in New Zealand in 2021 and I'd definitely tell my promoter to set up a show there. "She's got that first cap now so I'll tell her to be herself and set her goals higher. Never give up and then set the bar higher and go for bigger goals and dreams. "You can achieve anything in life if you set your mind to it."
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Draft WA workplace safety laws 'don't go far enough' "Industrial manslaughter is no doubt a critical element in industrial reform and part of how reportable deaths are treated," she said. "But it really needs to be part of a broader, holistic strategy which addresses the cultural drivers of poor safety performance." Ms Ballantine's son Wesley was 17 years old when he fell to his death while installing a glass ceiling at the Old Post Office building in Perth's CBD. The company he had been contracted by, Valmont, pleaded guilty to failing to ensure subcontractors were not exposed to hazards on site and was fined $38,000. Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union WA state secretary Mick Buchan said he believed the industry regulator had been deliberately under-resourced, which resulted in almost no proactive monitoring and enforcement of safety standards. "WorkSafe were relegated to simply investigating issues once someone was already dead or injured, while self-interested developers and builders thrived under the lie of "self-regulation,"" he said. Mr Buchan said the CFMEU had worked for a long time to reach the "desperately overdue" reforms that realigned WA's health and safety laws with the rest of the country. Loading "The lives of construction workers are put at risk every day by the greedy and the corrupt, who put profits before people, cut corners to meet unrealistic deadlines, and gouge money from workers" safety and conditions to line their own pockets," he said. "The current laws have been shown, over and over again, to be completely inadequate in protecting workers, or holding those who kill a worker accountable for that death." The reforms came a day before a memorial action and protest over the failure to hold anyone to account for the death of German backpacker Marianka Heumann, who fell 13 floors on a project run by Perth building company Hanssen. International safety delegates joined CFMEU members and officials on Thursday at the site of her death to lay wreaths and pay their respects to a young woman whose life was "stolen." But Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA chief executive Chris Rodwell raised concerns the government had not followed the proper consultation process with the introduction of the new provisions, and worried they would "introduce a culture of blame." "We share the state government's objective of continuing to reduce the occurrence of workplace tragedies, but industrial manslaughter provisions will not achieve that," he said. "Despite the introduction of industrial manslaughter provisions in the Australian Capital Territory in 2004, their rate of serious workplace injuries has been worse than Western Australia's rate for the last 12 years. "The government's provisions introduce a culture of blame, undermine progress and cooperation, and distract from the ongoing need for practical steps to continue making workplaces safer." Mr Rodwell called on the opposition and members of the crossbench to oppose the provisions and take a "common-sense" approach. Loading "This should include providing resources to support a joint WorkCover and WorkSafe strategy to prevent work-related musculoskeletal disorders, the most common cause of workplace tragedies," he said. Industrial Relations Minister Bill Johnston said the health and safety of workers was a priority for the government. "The current legislation is spread across multiple Acts and regulations - this update will bring the resources sector and general industries under the same Act, but with separate regulations," he said. "The community has high expectations that every worker has the right to come home safely after each shift, having a strong deterrence in this legislation completely accords with these expectations."
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Father charged in infant's death after allegedly jumping off Connecticut bridge Story highlights Body of Aaden Moreno has been found in the Connecticut River Mother of baby alleged in restraining order application that Tony Moreno threatened her, baby Witnesses said they saw him holding a baby before he jumped; search continues for baby, who is believed dead Police recovered the body of Aaden Moreno on Tuesday evening in the Connecticut River near the town of East Haddam, miles downstream from where his father leaped Sunday from the Arrigoni Bridge in Middletown, police said. Moreno, 21, who had recently been accused of threatening the child and the child's mother, faces an additional count of murder with special circumstances -- given the child's age -- and two counts of criminal violation of a restraining order. Middletown Police Lt. Heather Desmond said officers had applied for an arrest warrant for Moreno stemming from contact he with the child's mother on June 25 -- in violation of a restraining order -- but the warrant application was sent back to them for revisions. By the time the warrant was signed this week, Aaden Moreno was dead, Desmond said. The June 25 contact involved Moreno talking to child's mother, but no threats were made, Desmond said. "If this [contact] was a violent case and we thought there was imminent danger, then we would have walked the warrant over and said to the prosecutor, 'Here, sign this,'" Desmond said. "But this was a case where the two of them just talked. There was no threat." Moreno is at Hartford Hospital, where he was alert and stable, authorities said. He was arraigned at the hospital and ordered held on $2 million bond. "We suffered a great tragedy, one that we will never be really able to make sense of," Middletown Mayor Daniel Drew told reporters Wednesday. "We extend our deepest condolences to Adrianne Oyola, Aaden's mother, her family, and the Moreno family as they deal with this indescribable loss... This has been extraordinarily difficult for our community." Officers were called to the bridge after 911 calls about a man who was threatening to jump, Desmond said. When officers arrived, Moreno jumped over a railing before they could reach him, Desmond said. He was not holding Aaden at the time. An empty stroller was located in the immediate vicinity. At the hospital later, Moreno told officers he hurled the baby over the railing before they arrived, according to Desmond. The clothing on the body of the infant found in the Connecticut River matched what Aaden was last seen wearing, police said. Aaden's family positively identified his body. Mother threatened Moreno was recently accused of threatening the child and the child's mother, according to court papers CNN obtained. Oyola alleged in a June restraining order application that the 22-year-old struck her and told her that he could make the 7-month-old "disappear." Oyola's handwritten complaint says that she lived with Moreno for two years and they were happy until she became pregnant. "Everything changed," she wrote. He called her "ugly" and "stupid" and shoved, pushed and "forcefully poked" Oyola's chest, she alleged. She told him to stop hitting her, she said. "He told me, 'If you want me to show you hitting I could show you,'" she wrote. "He has told me I cannot take my son without his approval. I can't bring him around my family without his approval but he could do anything he wants without letting me know. I fear for mine and my child's safety. He could hurt my child." On Sunday, firefighters pulled Moreno from the Connecticut River. A search began to find the child. Mom: 'I'm afraid he's going to do something to my son' Documents show that a temporary restraining order was applied for on June 17. A document dated that same day and signed by Connecticut State Marshal for Middlesex County Hiram Fuchs states that Fuchs went to Moreno's address after Oyola's sister posted messages on Facebook saying that her sister wrote that Moreno had taken the baby without Oyola's permission. Fuchs talked with Moreno's mother, who said she didn't know where he was. "Respondent has no car and no job, and had smashed his own phone earlier that day," the document reads. "I left the order of protection with the respondent's mother who said she was trying to locate him and the child," it says. The mother said she would bring the child to Middletown Police Department. Several hours later, Oyola called to say that she was at the police department and had the child, the document says. On June 29, a judge denied a restraining order application, according to a court form obtained by CNN. No specific reason for the denial was included.
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The world's worst stock market is showing signs of life Hope of more interest rate cuts and earnings surprises at companies including Telekom Malaysia Bhd. and Tenaga Nasional Bhd. have also aided investor sentiment. Loading So has the US-China trade war to some extent, with the nation's equities seen as a safety trade by some investors seeking to escape global volatility. Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng said last week Malaysia has benefited from the spat via trade diversion and business relocation. Recent trade data signals "robust" economic growth for the second quarter, he said. External headwinds Not everyone is optimistic. Alan Richardson, a regional fund manager at Samsung Asset Management in Hong Kong, said he's underweight on Malaysia stocks on concern over the government's lack of fiscal flexibility to tackle a slowdown amid the external challenges. He still holds some Malaysian shares that have low correlation to the macro issues. Malaysia's sharemarket has started to rebound, but not everyone is convinced it will be a sustained recovery. Credit:AP Other investors seem to be looking past the well-known economic concerns. The stock gauge has rebounded 3.5 per cent since slumping to a 2015 low on May 24. The index is valued at 16.2 times projected 12-month earnings, down from this year's peak of 16.5 in March, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Reforms at state-linked companies, more political clarity and stimulus could see the benchmark gauge surge to 1,800 in the base scenario, or even reach 1,900 in the bullish case, Macquarie Group Ltd.'s analysts wrote in a note on April 26. The gauge closed at 1,655.47 on Monday, the highest since March 22. There is a "bottom getting formed" and we are buying stocks, which are showing signs of an earnings recovery, Areca's Wong said.
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Lord Advocate says hate crime will be met by the "full force of the law" Scotland's top prosecutor has said disability hate crime is "significantly under-reported." Issuing a warning to those who attack others based on their race, religion or sexuality, Lord Advocate James Wolffe said hate crime was an "affront to basic values of tolerance and respect." The Crown Office, said Mr Wolffe, was sending a "strong message" to help mark UK Hate Crime Awareness Week. It came after Chief Constable Phil Gormley said tackling hate crime was an "absolute priority" for Police Scotland. Mr Wolffe said he would attend an event at the police college at Tulliallan, Fife, on Friday to raise awareness of disability hate crime. He said: "All people in Scotland are entitled to live their lives free from violence, intimidation and prejudice. Crime motivated by hatred is an affront to the basic values of tolerance and respect which characterise modern Scotland. It is liable to create division and fear within and between communities. He added: "The prosecution service, along with Police Scotland, plays an essential role in creating an environment in which all people who live in Scotland, regardless of their personal or social circumstances, can have confidence that they live in a just society and that they will be protected from crime - and in particular from hate crime."
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Man In Custody After Standoff At Dick's Sporting Goods In Connecticut A man who allegedly fired shots in a Connecticut shopping plaza is now in custody after a standoff with local police and SWAT teams. Plainville Police Chief Matthew Catania said a SWAT team contained the armed man near the loading dock behind Dick's Sporting Goods at the Connecticut Commons Shopping Center before they eventually apprehended him by using beanbag rounds to disable him.. According to the New Britain Herald, customers at stores in the shopping center began a mandatory evacuation about 2:30 p.m., and another report states the Plainville police first got reports of gunfire at 3 p.m. Police Sgt. Mark Connoy said the reported call came from a man who sounded Hispanic, saying shots were being fired into Lowe's. Police said they checked and couldn't find any bullet strikes at the giant hardware retailer. Connoy said the first responders identified a man who looked to be between 25- to 35-years-old and matched the suspect's description, and that he was toting a semi-automatic handgun. Connoy said the man seemed to ignore all police demands. Police had the man contained by 3:30 p.m., according to the Hartford Courant, and the New Britain Herald reported he was in custody. Catania said negotiators tried making contact with the man in English, Spanish and Polish but initially had no luck. "We just don't know what his issue is," Catania said. "He's not communicating with us." Store visitors and employees were escorted away, and access into the shopping center had been restricted. Police Sgt. Mark Connoy said the public is not in danger. Dick's is next to PetSmart in the shopping center, which also is home to an AMC Movie theater, Old Navy, Lowe's, Home Improvement and DSW. Other police units reported on the scene were from Southington, West Hartford, Bristol and New Britain, along with the SWAT teams. SWAT teams and standoffs aren't unusual, especially during the holiday season. On Christmas night in Pennsylvania, a man barricaded himself inside his house and fired at police 11 times. He was finally lured from the house nine hours later and surrendered when a SWAT negotiator sang a Christmas song, per the gunman's request.
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ACT Brumbies set to start stars in trial before Super Rugby season Ready to rock: David Pocock at Brumbies training. Photo: Jamila Toderas They have had their break, now the Brumbies' big-name Wallabies will be put to the test in the club's final trial before the start of the Super Rugby season. Australian skipper Stephen Moore and David Pocock headline a list of returning stars set to play their first game since last year's World Cup, against the Queensland Reds on Friday. Coach Stephen Larkham has named a full-strength 26-man squad for the clash in Brisbane, a fortnight out from their round one fixture against the Hurricanes. Moore and co-captain Christian Lealiifano, both rested from last week's 21-17 trial loss to the NSW Waratahs, will start, as will Wallabies flankers Scott Fardy and Pocock. Fardy's inclusion comes a few days after he was reportedly sent to hospital following a car accident in Canberra's CBD. Advertisement "This is our last trial so we're trying to get as many minutes out of these guys as possible," Larkham said on Thursday. Lealiifano has been named at No.10, with Matt Toomua shifted back to inside-centre - Larkham's preferred combination. Wallaby Sam Carter, new Argentinian halfback Tomas Cubelli, Rory Arnold and Aidan Toua have all kept their starting spots from the Waratahs game. So too has try-scorer Allan Alaalatoa, with Scott Sio, who has been recovering from knee and elbow injuries suffered in the World Cup, on the bench. Larkham admits the return to the 15-a-side game will be tough for Henry Speight following an intense six-game Sydney Sevens campaign last weekend. Speight, who will start on the wing, only rejoined the team on Wednesday and has had one day to pick up the Brumbies' new moves and patterns. "So it's been quite difficult," Larkham said. "He's a little bit fatigued... his legs are still very heavy, so we'll see how he goes." Speight expects to be OK to play at least 40 minutes on Friday to get his mind back in the game after training with the Sevens squad the past month. "It's very important to just get that feeling back," he said, adding that he had shed a few kilos in his transition. "I'm trying to come back and adapt as quickly as I can, I don't have long." Brumbies: Aidan Toua, Henry Speight, Tevita Kuridrani, Matt Toomua, Joe Tomane, Tomas Cubelli, Christian Lealiifano (c), Ita Vaea, David Pocock, Scott Fardy, Sam Carter, Rory Arnold, Ben Alexander, Stephen Moore (c), Allan Alaalatoa. Reserves: Robbie Abel, Scott Sio, Leslie Leuluaialii-Makin, Blake Enever, Jarrad Butler, Michael Dowsett, Nick Jooste, Andrew Smith, Tom Staniforth, Jordan Smiler, Nigel Ah Wong.
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Cranberry pistachio baked oatmeal - CSMonitor.com I'll admit that I was skeptical about this flavor combo, and skeptical about putting whole cranberries in my oatmeal. I thought they might be sour bombs of terror, despite the fact that I love them 100%. They turned out to be SO GOOD! Like, little bombs of HEAVEN in each bite of oatmeal! I like that they introduce quite a bit more moisture, which is sometimes my complaint with oatmeal - monotonous dense oatmeal texture. These not only have little cranberry bursts, but crunch pistachios, too. Cranberry pistachio baked oatmeal
Serves 6 to 8 1 teaspoon butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
pinch of salt
1-3/4 cups milk
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1-1/2 cups rolled oats
1/2 cups pistachios, coarsely chopped
1-1/2 cups cranberries 1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Use the butter to grease an 8x8" baking dish or 9" loaf pan. 2. Combine the brown sugar, salt, milk, egg, and vanilla. Use a whisk to mix until the egg is totally combined and the mixture is smooth. 3. Add the oats, then most of the pistachios and cranberries (save a little bit for sprinkling on the top). 4. Bake for 45-50 minutes. The mixture should be set and beginning to turn golden on top. 5. Serve with half & half, yogurt, or any other topping you want! Related post on The Kitchen Paper: Cranberry scones
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You moved it, but there is no online information about it. Can you tell me where it is located? because I only find CT's. © Tbhotch™ (en-2.5). There are actually a few, which I noted on the recently-created disambiguation page. Kevin Rutherford (talk)
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Fully understand your actions in removing my edits on Innospec. I have posted some additions - which serve to add to the factual information, but which do not remove any of the existing content. I hope you will find this acceptable. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wattclan999 (talk • contribs)
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Kiev and Tashkent - they are not in Russia, so that's why I changed to USSR, so my change was ok! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.65.22.222 (talk)
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Carrie Underwood, Dolly Parton, Reba McEntire to host CMA Awards The Country Music Assn. has a big reveal planned for this year's CMA Awards show in Nashville, Tenn.: Women make country music too. An exaggeration? Perhaps, but not a big one for anyone whose exposure to country music in 2019 comes chiefly from radio. Singer Maren Morris recently became the first female country artist to score a No. 1 hit on Billboard's country airplay chart in 17 months, while a new study concluded that just 21% of all recordings in the Top 20 of that chart between January 2018 and July 2019 were made by women or male-female groups. In the midst of this, the Nashville-based CMA announced Monday that in place of its emcee team in recent years of Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley, hosting duties for this year's awards ceremony, scheduled for Nov. 19, will be handed over to Underwood, who will be joined by guest hosts Reba McEntire and Dolly Parton. Show organizers also plan to spotlight female country artists throughout the evening. "In addition to awarding the year's best and brightest in the genre, the 53rd annual CMA Awards will celebrate the legacy of women within country music, and we couldn't think of a more dynamic group of women to host the show," Sarah Trahern, chief executive of the country music trade association, said in a statement. "For 2019"s show," the CMA added in a separate statement, "it is the right time to celebrate the rich musical history that women have had on this format, and we are thrilled we have two of the biggest female icons of all time as guest hosts." Dolly Parton, left, and Carrie Underwood in 2009. (Rick Diamond/Getty Images) The move also comes as country is experiencing its latest identity crisis, courtesy of rapper Lil Nas X's runaway hit single "Old Town Road." Initially, Billboard magazine ruled the hip-hop-laden single ineligible to appear on its country charts because of "insufficient country content," despite its banjo accents and lyric references to horseback riding, tractors, cowboy hats and bull riding. The song's success has prompted a summer-long debate over what constitutes country music and what doesn't. The gender imbalance in country radio has drawn considerable attention in recent years. Radio consultant Keith Hill ignited a firestorm in 2015 when he said in an interview, "If you want to make ratings in country radio, take females out." Digging himself in deeper, he added, "Trust me, I play great female records, and we've got some right now; they're just not the lettuce in our salad. The lettuce is Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton, Keith Urban and artists like that. The tomatoes of our salad are the females." Despite an avalanche of criticism, from musicians, managers and record executives, there is evidence that many radio programmers have taken Hill's words to heart. In December, Billboard reported that no female artists had records in the top 20 of the magazine's Country Airplay chart, for the first time since the chart was instituted in 1990. The new study, conducted by SongData and WOMAN (Women of Action Network) Nashville, digs further into the topic, finding that male artists held the No. 1 spot on the Billboard chart for 77 of 81 weeks during that 18-month period. It gets worse: Three of those four weeks belonged to solo females: Morris" "I Could Use a Love Song" and "Girl" and Kelsea Ballerini's "Legends." The fourth No. 1 was "Meant to Be," a hit collaboration between singer Bebe Rexha and male duo Florida Georgia Line. Because of the overwhelming influence mainstream country radio has on artists" careers, few are willing to openly criticize the programmers, who have historically argued that the genre's predominantly female audience prefers to hear male artists on the radio. "It seems a group of 10 guys who all sound the same have no issue getting on the radio," country-pop maverick Kacey Musgraves told the Huffington Post last year, "but women who vary vastly from each other have a very hard time breaking through, even in the smallest way on the country radio chart." Last year at the Stagecoach Country Music Festival in Indio, singer Trisha Yearwood told The Times, "There's definitely not as many women on country radio as there should be. There's a massive audience for female songs and female artists, not just because I am one. I'm also a fan and I miss it." It's not a recent development. Another recent study from USC's Annenberg Inclusion Initiative looked at 500 songs that appeared on Billboard's year-end Hot Country charts from 2014 to 2018 and found that only 17% were credited to solo female musicians, compared to 30% on the Billboard pop chart.
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Channel 4 News IS biased against the Tories, say its own journalists Channel 4 News IS biased against the Tories, say its own journalists: Revelation comes after it replaced Boris Johnson with a melting ice sculpture and falsely claimed he called immigrants 'people of colour' The revelation comes amid a series of rows about Channel 4's Election coverage The BBC has also infuriated the Tories with its coverage of upcoming election Channel 4's approach to the climate debate triggered a formal complaint By Glen Owen and Chris Hastings for The Mail on Sunday
Channel 4 News has received complaints from its own journalists about the programme's 'anti-Tory bias', The Mail on Sunday understands. The revelation comes amid a series of rows about Channel 4's Election coverage after the channel replaced Boris Johnson with a melting ice sculpture when he declined to appear on its climate debate programme and falsely claimed he called immigrants 'people of colour' in a speech rather than 'people of talent'. The BBC has also infuriated the Tories with its coverage - including last week's on-air monologue from presenter Andrew Neil in which he attacked the Prime Minister for refusing to agree to an interview. Insiders say that the anti-Brexit, anti-Trump stance of Channel 4 News has caused such concern among some of its 26 journalists that representations have been made to the board of ITN, which produces the programme. A source said: 'Representations from senior journalists have been made to ITN's top brass because Channel 4 News has stopped pretending to be balanced when it comes to anything to do with Brexit or Donald Trump or the Conservatives in general. Why does ITN allow it?' Channel 4's approach to the climate debate triggered a formal complaint from Mr Johnson's head of communications, Lee Cain, who said it was part of a 'wider pattern of bias' - coming as it did after Channel 4's head of news and current affairs, Dorothy Byrne, used a speech in the summer to claim the Prime Minister was a 'known liar'. Channel 4 News has had a troubled history with the Tory Party. In 2017, the main Channel 4 News anchor, Jon Snow, 72, allegedly shouted 'F*** the Tories' while at the Glastonbury Festival. The presenter said he had 'no recollection' of the incident. Another programme source added: 'I'm aware of only one member of the on-air Channel 4 News team who votes Tory. You speak to any of the prominent journalists and they are clearly anti-Tory. I also know of only one Channel 4 News journalist who voted for Brexit. The programme has a very clear political agenda now.' The row took a further twist last night after a senior BBC presenter, who asked to remain anonymous, said Channel 4 News had been hijacked by a'sanctimonious' Left-wing cabal that had declared war on the Conservative Party. The presenter said: 'The BBC is used to being in conflict with government and there have been terrible blow-ups over the years. But both sides have always pulled back from the brink out of a sense of proportion. 'But that sense of proportion doesn't exist with Channel 4. Most rows between broadcasters and governments come and go, but Channel 4 picked this row with the Government when Dorothy Byrne called Johnson a liar and made it clear were going after him. 'To make matters worse, they also attacked the BBC for not being part of this. They lost a lot of friends then. The striking thing about Channel 4 is just how friendless they are. 'They are so sanctimonious and now they have been caught literally making something up in order to try to damage the Prime Minister. I don't think anyone in the BBC has any sympathy for them. 'The feeling is that they are a bunch of sanctimonious idiots who have brought it upon themselves.' The source said they were aware of concerns within Channel 4 itself, adding: 'I know some non-sanctimonious people there who are really frightened. They feel they have been taken over by a Left-wing cabal.' A BBC spokesman said its Election coverage had been 'extensive, in-depth and has held all parties to account' and the Corporation was 'committed to reporting the Election campaign fairly, impartially and without fear or favour'. A senior Tory source said: 'Viewers will have learned more from Boris's 12 minutes with Holly and Phil on This Morning than half an hour of Andrew Neil's shouting. The BBC needs to freshen up its political coverage and abandon these tired old formats if it wants to hang on to viewers.' A Channel 4 News spokesman said it was regulated by Ofcom and 'has repeatedly been given a clean bill of health on matters of due impartiality. We go to great lengths to ensure we fairly represent every viewpoint and opinion across all political aspects. 'After yesterday's error, we apologised immediately on social media and later during our programme. A personal letter of apology was also sent to the Prime Minister from the editor'.
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Bastian and Co, 1927. Reprinted, 1953, 1995. Kamma, Calcutta : Maha-Bodhi Society of India, 1950. Already mentioned in The Mahabodhi, Vol. 47, p.130, 1939. Buddhist View of Religion, Bauddha Sahitya Sabha, Colombo, 1946. Right understanding, Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society, Sri Lanka, 1968, 1979. Reprinted from the Maha Bodhi, Oct.-Nov. 1967. An Actual Religion, Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society, Sri Lanka, 1971
Buddhism for the Beginner, Calcutta : Mahabodhi Society of India, 1952. Reprinted in The Path of Buddhism, Colombo 1955. ==Notes==
==Sources==
Anonymous, A Biography, in Bhikkhu Silacara, A Young People's Life of the Buddha, Colombo 1953. Bhikkhu Nyanatusita and Hellmuth Hecker, The Life of Nyanatiloka: The Biography of a Western Buddhist Pioneer Kandy, 2009. ==External links==
Buddhist writers
Theravada Buddhism writers
1871 births
1952 deaths
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I'm not proud of Labour behaviour, Dugdale admits Kezia Dugdale has admitted she is not proud of the way Labour has behaved during the UK leadership contest but believes she can unite her Scottish party whatever the outcome. The Scottish Labour leader has backed Owen Smith in the leadership race, putting her at odds with Scottish Jeremy Corbyn supporters like her deputy Alex Rowley and the prominent left-winger Neil Findlay. Speaking to Scotland on Sunday, Dugdale said that she did not accept that a Corbyn victory would make her life difficult as Scottish leader. Dugdale said MSPs were mature enough to set aside their differences over the UK leadership and dismissed suggestions that the reinstatement of Corbyn would make it difficult for her to stay on as Scottish leader. "We are a healthy democratic movement here in Scotland," Dugdale said. "We are a more autonomous party. We are all grown ups. We can have different views on some issues and unite to do the job we were elected to do." Next weekend will see the winner of a bad-tempered contest unveiled at the UK Labour Party conference in Liverpool, with Corbyn the favourite to win. The support of the left wing activists who have flocked to the party is expected to seal victory for Corbyn despite him losing the support of his MPs at Westminster. This summer Dugdale called for Corbyn's resignation after he lost a no confidence motion voted on by his MPs. Dugdale has also suggested that she would not be able to survive as Scottish leader, if she had lost the support of her parliamentary colleagues in the way that Corbyn has. Yesterday Dugdale was unable to hide her dismay over the way the UK leadership contest has descended into acrimony. "I'm not proud how the party has conducted itself, because for every day Labour is in the position it is in, the Tories continue to govern and cause havoc for the working people and the types of communities I seek to represent," Dugdale said. The deep divisions exposed within Labour during the leadership race have led to suggestions that the moderates should split from the Corbynistas. Corbyn's critics claim the left winger is incapable of attracting the middle ground support required to take Labour back into government. Dugdale, however, indicated that she did not think a split was a serious proposition. "I don't take the threat of that (split) very seriously - because if you are a member of the Labour Party, like I have been for a long time now, you carry a card in your wallet which says very clearly on the back of it that our strength of our common endeavour can change more than we can on our own." On the eve of today's second anniversary of the independence referendum, Dugdale hardened her stance against a second vote. She said it was "ludicrous" for Nicola Sturgeon to suggest that independence could protect Scotland's place in the EU.
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This becomes a problem in today's society because people are seeing only bits and pieces and not the whole issues making it much harder to solve the issues or talk about it worldwide. ===On the Internet===
==== The roots of fake news ====
5, 2016|work=BBC News}}
One fake news writer, Paul Horner, was behind the widespread hoax that he was the graffiti artist Banksy and had been arrested; that a man stopped a robbery in a diner by quoting Pulp Fiction; and that he had an "enormous impact" on the 2016 U.S. presidential election, according to CBS News. These stories consistently appeared in Google's top news search results, were shared widely on Facebook, were taken seriously and shared by third parties such as Trump presidential campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, Eric Trump, ABC News and the Fox News Channel. Horner later claimed that his work during this period was intended "to make Trump's supporters look like idiots for sharing my stories". In a November 2016 interview with The Washington Post, Horner expressed regret for the role his fake news stories played in the election and surprise at how gullible people were in treating his stories as news. In February 2017 Horner said, "I truly regret my comment about saying that I think Donald Trump is in the White House because of me. I know all I did was attack him and his supporters and got people not to vote for him. When I said that comment it was because I was confused how this evil got elected President and I thought maybe instead of hurting his campaign, maybe I had helped it. My intention was to get his supporters NOT to vote for him and I know for a fact that I accomplished that goal. The far right, a lot of the Bible thumpers and alt-right were going to vote him regardless, but I know I swayed so many that were on the fence." In December 2016, while speaking on Anderson Cooper 360, Horner said that all news is fake news and said CNN "spread misinformation", which was one month before Trump leveled the same criticism at that network. Horner spoke at the European Parliament in March, speaking about fake news and the importance of fact checking. According to a 2017 BuzzFeed article, Horner stated that a story of his about a rape festival in India helped generate over $250,000 in donations to GiveIndia, a site that helps rape victims in India. Horner said he dislikes being grouped with people who write fake news solely to be misleading. "They just write it just to write fake news, like there's no purpose, there's no satire, there's nothing clever. All the stories I wrote were to make Trump's supporters look like idiots for sharing my stories." The Huffington Post called Horner a "Performance Artist". Horner has been referred to as a "hoax artist" by outlets such as the Associated Press and the Chicago Tribune. Kim LaCapria of the fact checking website has stated that, in America, fake news is a bipartisan phenomenon, saying that "here has always been a sincerely held yet erroneous belief misinformation is more red than blue in America, and that has never been true." Jeff Green of Trade Desk agrees the phenomenon affects both sides. Green's company found that affluent and well-educated persons in their 40s and 50s are the primary consumers of fake news. He told Scott Pelley of 60 Minutes that this audience tends to live in an "echo chamber" and that these are the people who vote. In 2014, the Russian Government used disinformation via networks such as RT to create a counter-narrative after Russian-backed Ukrainian rebels shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. In 2016, NATO claimed it had seen a significant rise in Russian propaganda and fake news stories since the invasion of Crimea in 2014. Fake news stories originating from Russian government officials were also circulated internationally by Reuters news agency and published in the most popular news websites in the United States. A 2018 study at Oxford University found that Trump's supporters consumed the "largest volume of 'junk news' on Facebook and Twitter":
In 2018, researchers from Princeton University, Dartmouth College and the University of Exeter examined the consumption of fake news during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. Their findings showed that Trump supporters and older Americans (over 60) were far more likely to consume fake news than Clinton supporters. Those most likely to visit fake news websites were the 10% of Americans who consumed the most conservative information. There was a very large difference (800%) in the consumption of fake news stories as related to total news consumption between Trump supporters (6.2%) and Clinton supporters (0.8%). The study also showed that fake pro-Trump and fake pro-Clinton news stories were read by their supporters, but with a significant difference: Trump supporters consumed far more (40%) than Clinton supporters (15%).
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==Impact vs volcanic craters==
The great majority of craters on the Earth are volcanic craters, rather than impact craters, even if impact craters tend to arouse the most interest. I added a disambig about volcanic craters at the top of this page, but I'm not sure that's enough. Maybe there should be a general crater page, with links to separate impact crater and and volcanic crater (or caldera) pages. After all, there is something to be said about craters in general, if anything because its often not easy to tell the origin of a specific crater. Hm... You're right, the current split is somewhat unsatisfactory. Calderas are a specific type of volcanic crater, so I don't think there's an article that addresses volcanic craters in general. I'm going to do some conservative tinkering to start with; I'm going to start a volcanic crater article and see what fits in there. Bryan
== Discussions that have been previously separated, (perhaps from 2005, and
... which thus may or not have been intended to respond to that now distinct section; I'm retrofitting a title per contribution below, in what was the not-necessarily-adequately delimited section. (BTW, among possible but unannounced intentions may have been
starting a new section, without choosing its section title
creating a subsection for something perceived as a subordinate topic, without understanding the designed in feature addressing such situations,
not to mention scenarios that that may occur to me within le esprit d'scalier. === (Barringer) ===
Since Meteor crater redirects here, should the disambig statement at the top of the article mention the Barringer crater, as its most common name is simply "The Meteor Crater"? — Asbestos | Talk
=== Rename from "Crater" to "Impact crater"? & Dab'ate the former accordingly? ===
Surely the correct title here is Impact crater and Crater should be a disambiguation, including Caldera, and also Krater, BTW. Just logic. Krater? As in the Greek vases? — Asbestos | Talk
I think this Crater should be moved to Impact crater, then Meteor crater could be a disambiguation that includes Barringer Crater and Impact crater. Also this article currently includes Ramon crater which is formed from karst erosion and
not impact nor other explosive event. Could Crater (disambiguation) be a dab for all possible kinds of craters (Impact crater, Caldera, electrical discharge, explosion, erosional)? -Wikibob | Talk 00:58, 2005 Mar 14 (UTC)
==== Commiment, and appropriately related followup ====
I have just done these moves and changes:
moved Crater to Impact crater
added this disambig to Meteor crater:
Meteor crater can refer to Impact crater, a pit-like landform created by a body impacting the topography, or Meteor Crater can refer to the common name for the Barringer Crater in Arizona. added this disambig to Crater:
A crater is a landform resembling a pit or depression in the topography, and can be formed in several ways. For the constellation, see Crater (constellation). A meteorite impact with another body can cause an impact crater, an electrical discharge such as lightning may form a crater-like pit, volcanic activity may form a Volcanic crater or caldera, erosion may form depressions such as the karstic Ramon Crater, and a mine explosion or a bomb may form a crater. disambiguated some redirects to Impact crater
-Wikibob | Talk 14:33, 2005 Mar 20 (UTC)
Tweaked formatting of the disambiguation pages. Gosh, lots of pages that link to meteor crater should point to impact crater. Anyone with a 'bot wish to clean this up? It's too daunting for me. Meteor Crater (with capitalized C) is a specific name and redirects to Barringer Crater, which is appropriate. "Meteor crater" (with lower-case c) is generic, so I've made it a redirect to Impact crater. I have added Ring dike to the See also section, but this article could do to mention ring dikes, in the context of disambiguating impact and volcanic craters. Also Caldera, which has just been removed from the See also section.
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== See also ==
Liberia
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'El Chapo' decided 'who lives and who dies' as drug boss, U.S. jury told NEW YORK (Reuters) - Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was someone who decided "who lives and who dies," a prosecutor said in closing arguments in the accused Mexican drug kingpin's trial in the United States. Accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman sits in court in this courtroom sketch during Guzman's trial in Brooklyn federal court in New York City, U.S., January 30, 2019. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg "The government does not have to prove that he was the boss, or the only boss, or even one of the top bosses," Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrea Goldbarg told jurors, though she hastened to add that Guzman was "one of the top bosses, without a doubt." Guzman's lawyers have claimed the cartel's real leader is Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, who remains at large, and that their client was framed by Zambada. Standing in front of a table piled with trial evidence including assault rifles and bricks of cocaine, Goldbarg took a calm, no-nonsense approach as she walked the jury in federal court in Brooklyn through the charges against Guzman one by one. Guzman, 61, was extradited to the United States in January 2017. The 10 criminal counts include engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy, and a life sentence if he is found guilty. Goldbarg's summation capped an exhaustive government case that spanned 10 weeks of testimony from more than 50 witnesses, including law enforcement officials and former associates of Guzman who are cooperating with the U.S. government after striking plea deals. Guzman's lawyers have aggressively sought to undermine the cooperators" credibility in their cross-examinations, something Goldbarg addressed head on. "These witnesses were criminals," she said. "The government is not asking you to like them." However, she said, their testimony was corroborated by intercepted phone calls, text messages and letters from Guzman, as well as accounting ledgers seized in a raid on one of his safe houses. "You know these cooperating witnesses are telling the truth because you heard the same thing from the defendant's own mouth," she said. The intercepted communications showed Guzman plotting drug shipments, dealing with corrupt government officials and, sometimes, ordering his adversaries killed. "He's the one who decides who lives and who dies," Goldbarg said. Goldbarg then moved methodically through the evidence linking Guzman to each of a series of drug seizures by authorities in the 1990s and 2000s. Her argument is expected to last the rest of the day. Guzman called only one witness in his defense on Tuesday. One of his lawyers is expected to deliver his closing argument on Thursday. Reporting By Brendan Pierson in New York; Editing by Anthony Lin and Grant McCool
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The puram poetry is more direct, uses names and places, states Takanobu Takahashi. ==Style and prosody==
The early Sangam poetry diligently follows two meters, while the later Sangam poetry is a bit more diverse. The two meters found in the early poetry are akaval and vanci. The fundamental metrical unit in these is the acai (metreme), itself of two types – ner and nirai. The ner is the stressed/long syllable in European prosody tradition, while the nirai is the unstressed/short syllable combination (pyrrhic (dibrach) and iambic) metrical feet, with similar equivalents in the Sanskrit prosody tradition. The acai in the Sangam poems are combined to form a cir (foot), while the cir are connected to form a talai, while the line is referred to as the ati. The sutras of the Tolkappiyam – particularly after sutra 315 – state the prosody rules, enumerating the 34 component parts of ancient Tamil poetry. The prosody of an example early Sangam poem is illustrated by Kuruntokai:
The prosodic pattern in this poem follows the 4-4-3-4 feet per line, according to akaval, also called aciriyam, Sangam meter rule:
A literal translation of Kuruntokai 119:
English interpretation and translation of Kuruntokai 119:
This metrical pattern, states Zvelebil, gives the Sangam poetry a "wonderful conciseness, terseness, pithiness", then an inner tension that is resolved at the end of the stanza. The metrical patterns within the akaval meter in early Sangam poetry has minor variations. The later Sangam era poems follow the same general meter rules, but sometimes feature 5 lines (4-4-4-3-4). The later Sangam age texts employ other meters as well, such as the Kali meter in Kalittokai and the mixed Paripatal meter in Paripatal. == Preservation and rediscovery ==
nd dramatic Tamil poems. In their values and stances, they represent a mature classical poetry: passion is balanced by courtesy, transparency by ironies and nuances of design, impersonality by vivid detail, austerity of line by richness of implication. These poems are not just the earliest evidence of the Tamil genius. The Tamils, in all their 2,000 years of literary effort, wrote nothing better." == Nomenclature and tradition ==
Sangam literally means "gathering, meeting, fraternity, academy". According to David Shulman – a scholar of Tamil language and literature, the Tamil tradition believes that the Sangam literature arose in distant antiquity over three periods, each stretching over many millennia. The first has roots in the Hindu deity Shiva, his son Murugan, Kubera as well as 545 sages including the famed Rigvedic poet Agastya. The first academy, states the legend, extended over 4 millennia and was located far to the south of modern city of Madurai, a location later "swallowed up by the sea", states Shulman. The second academy, also chaired by a very long-lived Agastya, was near the eastern seaside Kapāṭapuram and lasted three millennia. This was swallowed by floods. From the second Sangam, states the legend, the Akattiyam and the Tolkāppiyam survived and guided the third Sangam scholars. A prose commentary by Nakkiranar – likely about the 8th-century CE – describes this legend. The earliest known mention of the Sangam legend, however, appears in Tirupputtur Tantakam by Appar in about the 7th-century CE, while an extended version appears in the 12th-century Tiruvilaiyatal puranam by Perumparrap Nampi. The legend states that the third Sangam of 449 poet scholars worked over 1,850 years in northern Madurai (Pandyan kingdom). He lists six anthologies of Tamil poems (later a part of Ettuttokai):
Netuntokai nanuru (400 long poems)
Kuruntokai anuru (400 short poems)
Narrinai (400 Tinai landscape poems)
Purananuru (400 Outer poems)
Ainkurunuru (500 very short poems)
Patirruppattu (Ten Tens)
These claims of the Sangams and the description of sunken land masses Kumari Kandam have been dismissed as frivolous by historiographers.
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I tend to keep my word. In other words: Do whatever the fuck you want, OK? I'm 40 years old and I'm again politely requesting that you don't post on my page anymore. If you'd like to continue the discussion with Pete, please take it to his page. Good day to you sir. Katr67 (talk)
== Oregon GA COTW ==
Howdy to WikiProject Oregon members, time for another edition of the Collaboration of the Week. As you may have already noticed, our flagship article Oregon is up for the third time as we make a push to get GA status before going for FA. Since this will take some time to get where it needs to be, this will be the COTW for more than just a week. Also, so we hopefully don’t trip over ourselves, try to coordinate on the article’s talk page. Once again, to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts, click here. On another note, just a general good job/pat on the back to the project for a great 2007, the first full year of the project. We had 83 DYKs about Oregon, improved one article to FA, and went from around 4 GAs to 17 GAs. Plus numerous new articles, improvements to existing, the introduction of the COTW, and the introduction of article assessment at the project. Again, great job and here’s to a new year. Aboutmovies (talk)
== Sacred Heart Heliport ==
Good day Katr, I noticed that you moved the moved Sacred Heart General Hospital Heliport to Sacred Heart Medical Center Heliport. Out of curiosity, do you have anything referencing that move? I understand that the hospital may be that name but the name on the FAA Form 5010 Airport Master Record reflects the "General Hospital" name. Please be aware that the name of the FAA approved landing facility may not perfectly match the name of the facility it serves. If you don't have any references for the name change I will have to insist that the name reflect what is on the official documentation for the site. Thanks,
Did you read my edit summary? It's per USGS. Like I've said before, I'm afraid as far as geographic names, sometimes the FAA is whack. But move it back if you "have to insist". Katr67 (talk)
Here's the link I cited: Katr67 (talk)
Oh trust me, I understand. You won't believe the numbers of errors I found in their database. The big challenge is that we are talking about a private landing facility here, the public airports are inspected every three years so everything gets updated at that time (name changes, new runway lighting, hey where did that cell phone tower at the end of the runway come from?). But the private spots are only reviewed at the time they are opened or if the property changes hands. I actually contacted the ODA to tell them they need to update the ownership block of the Columbia Aviation Heliport. It still shows ODOT on there (ODA used to be a division under ODOT). It's a similar situation and I went ahead to reflect the change on the Columbia Aviation Heliport to reflect that. So I have no problem leaving the Sacred Heart article. I'll update the list to reflect the name. Thanks for the input and the catch. ==AfD nomination of Eugene Backwoods==
An article that you have been involved in editing, Eugene Backwoods, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Articles for deletion/. Thank you. Aboutmovies (talk)
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I put that reference to Kerby, Oregon into the RfC thread on my talk page because it illustrated the difference in my approach between Kerby and Michael Parenti. MP is a biography of a living person, so the rules of truth apply - a false or even a simply misleading statement is potentially libellous, so great care needs to be taken
Kerby is just about an unincorporated place - not a legal entity - so it can't be libelled and the rule for removing the wikipedia statement that it is a ghost town has to be that the statement isn't properly sourced. So far as I could tell, at the time, the statement was properly sourced - it was written in and was a reliable source. (Therefore, even though the statement is manifestly untrue it should remain in wikipedia - removing it would be OR.) In the end (yesterday) I did remove it, but my basis for doing that is that is not a good source.
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He notices the groundhog’s sap has “gone out” and its “bony sodden hulk” remains. However, his emotions and perceptions towards death have changed since June. As the weather in Autumn is benign, he does not despise nature for being “ferocious” towards death. Everything the speaker has felt in June “had lost its meaning.” The speaker says the groundhog’s sap has “gone out” because the speaker’s anguish and despair have also “gone out.” Thus, the speaker loses his “loathing” for death as he has become “Mured up in the wall of wisdom.” The speaker is beginning to mature emotionally. During the next summer, the speaker returns to the groundhog. He sees “only a little hair” and “bones bleaching in the sunlight.” By now he has changed completely since his first visit. He does not experience anguish, melancholy, or despair at the sight of the groundhog. Watching the groundhog’s bones as if it was “architecture” or a “geometer,” the speaker finally begins to see the beauty in nature and decay. The speaker visits the groundhog the following summer. He sees “no sign of the groundhog” in the “whirling summer.” As he is indifferent to the annihilation of the groundhog‘s existence, nature is not merciless or cruel to suffering, but it is just indifferent. Then he feels his “withered heart” and think of Ancient China, Ancient Greece, Alexander the Great, Michel de Montaigne, and Saint Theresa. He realizes that no amount of money, power, faith, or fame can stop one’s fate to die and decay. The speaker in “The Groundhog” is a man who experience extraordinary change. His “senses shook” and could only think about his mortality as he first saw the decaying groundhog. But as time passes by, he matures emotionally and his views on decay changes dramatically. He is fully able to understand the inevitability of decay. He realizes that everything one lives for will eventually die and decay. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Canadiancofee (talk • contribs). ==Disputed fair use rationale for Image:==
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== o the point of invisibility,” yet his hibernation is “overdone” (439). He blames “being invisible and without substance, a disembodied voice” (439) for his apathy and lack of action. In sharp contrast, Todd has hope that his race will prevail. At the end of the Flying Home, Jefferson and Teddy carries away Todd. At one time, Todd was ashamed of men like Jefferson and Teddy because they are poor and black. But through his enlightenment, he embraces and appreciates men like Jefferson. Todd is “lifted out of his isolation” (369) with Jefferson’s help. The true “world of men” (369) are ruled by blacks true to their race. When Todd used to imitate whites to be accepted, he lived in a illusion. The white world offered him false hope, advancement, and liberty. When his eyes become open, Todd sees a buzzard “glide into the sun and glow like a bird of flaming gold” (369). In the story, “dark” buzzards symbolizes African-Americans and Jim Crow society. Todd understands that his people will eventually glow and shine in America. Blacks will defeat oppression in America if they join and communicate with each other. Along with men like Jefferson, Todd is ready to fight for his black liberties. He understands that horrors of oppression will never “seize him again” (369) as he holds an optimistic view of the future.
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Sławniowice (Kunzendorf) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Głuchołazy, within Nysa County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, on the Czech border. It lies approximately west of Głuchołazy, south of Nysa, and south-west of the regional capital Opole. The village has a population of 550 and is famous for its marble quarry. Marble work (both quarrying and refining) is currently the village's main industry. ==History==
The present-day Polish village Sławniowice and the present-day Czech village Velké Kunětice, directly across the Czech side of the border, were once a single village. After the Silesian Wars, the newly-drawn border divided the village in two. The division continued through the Communist era of 1945-1990, and the border was not easily crossed until the two countries joined the Schengen Area in 2007. ==References==
Villages in Nysa County
Czech Republic–Poland border crossings
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Over the past 15 years I have tried many statins but ended up with bad joints and muscle aches; they also interfered with my liver function. I've been told that my high cholesterol was probably hereditary. Do you think I should give PCSK9 a try? Yvonne Steele, Bournemouth. Answer: You have had quite a dramatic time: a heart attack, a blood clot and familial hyper-cholesterolaemia, a heriditary form of high cholesterol. Studies have confirmed that "bad" or low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol plays a key role in the furring up of the arteries not only in the heart but also in the brain and in the legs. So reducing your elevated cholesterol level must be a priority. A number of LDL-lowering drugs, including statins, ezetimibe, and PCSK9 inhibitors have been proven to reduce future cardiovascular events such as heart attacks. Too quick to blame As a doctor, all too often I have had to be the bearer of bad news to people who led an entirely blameless life. Yet this week, researchers in the U.S. advised us that simply not smoking, eating well, exercising regularly and not drinking too much can cut the risk of major diseases. Yes, these will minimise risk but won't eradicate it. For illness is often the result of a genetic quirk or a random hand of bad luck. So while encouraging people to minimise their risk of disease is laudable, we must remember that when people are ill they need help, not to be told it's their fault. The injection you have been offered - which contains the drug alirocumab - works by inhibiting an enzyme called PCSK9 (proprotein convertase subtilisin kexin 9), found in the liver, which raises LDL cholesterol levels. Alirocumab has been found to reduce LDL by over 50 per cent. The drug is well-tolerated: trials have evaluated it for some years and serious adverse effects are uncommon. In particular, the muscle problems you experienced with statins do not occur. Nor (in contrast to the statins) is there a threat to your liver. Finally, I have not detected any conflict between this and the warfarin that you need for the prevention of any future blood clots. Given your risk factors, I think a PCSK9 inhibitor gives you the best chance of reducing your risk or further illness, so I'd go ahead and take it. In my view: Vitamin pills can be harmful People often ask me what vitamins they should take, almost as if they expect a healthy regimen should include taking at least one. But not only is it unnecessary for the vast majority of people, but taking supplements can be potentially dangerous. The truth is that just because something is "good" for you does not mean that a lot will be even better. And research is uncovering just how pertinent this message is to most, if not all, nutrients. Vitamins, in particular antioxidants, are a case in point. For many years, antioxidants (which include the vitamins A, C and E) have been promoted as the way not just to insure against ill-health but also to hold back the effects of ageing.That's because of the effect they have on free radicals - damaging molecules formed in the body as a natural part of metabolism. Free radicals are highly unstable and can be damaging to cells, injuring cell membranes and DNA. High levels have been implicated in diseases such as cancer, as well as in ageing. Antioxidants combine with free radicals, making them less unstable and less likely to do damage. Indeed, it is thought that the reason people who eat lots of fruit and veg have lower rates of cancer is because of the plentiful antioxidants in their diets. So the more antioxidants the better, you might think. But it's not that simple: research has found, for example, that smokers who take vitamin A supplements have a significantly higher incidence of lung cancer. For those who exercise heavily, the advice is even more explicit, with evidence that large doses of vitamins C and E may curb any increase in fitness, and more recently, researchers have found that antioxidants interfere with repair mechanisms. So what can we conclude from this? Once again, that a nutritious and varied diet is the key to boosting health and longevity - and the benefits cannot be replicated simply by taking a tablet.
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"Die wichtigste Frage ist, ob die gesamte Palette der Bestandteile der supraleitenden Elektronik auf diesem Prinzip aufgebaut werden kann. Gearbeitet wird dabei mit einem elektrischen Messgerät, das die Ladung auf der Insel des Supraleiters ermittelt. Die Fehlertoleranz ist dabei tausendmal kleiner als bei einer Elektronenladung. Wir können dies mit höchster Präzision steuern, da diese Ladung nicht quantisiert, sondern induziert wird. Meine Forschungsgruppe in Karlsruhe untersucht derzeit Qubits nach dem Prinzip des Phasenschlupfes. Die Kohärenzzeiten, die wir dafür erhalten, sind überraschend hoch. Bisher sind sie nicht größer als bei herkömmlichen Qubits, aber wir haben gerade erst mit der Arbeit an [dem Projekt] begonnen, und die Chancen stehen gut, dass sie größer werden. Ein weiteres wichtiges Problem sind beispielsweise Defekte in Qubits, für das wir kürzlich einen Zuschuss von Google erhalten haben. Diese Defekte treten in der dielektrischen Tunnelbarriere des Josephson-Übergangs auf. Defekte entstehen dadurch, dass in diesem Bereich große elektrische Felder vorhanden sind und die gesamte Spannung auf einer Skala von nur 2 nm liegt. Stellen wir uns nun vor, dass der gleiche Fall in einem homogenen Draht auftritt, und wir nicht genau wissen, wo in der homogenen "Unschärfe" im gesamten Supraleiter [er auftritt]. Die Felder, die hier entstehen, wären dann viel kleiner. Dies bedeutet, dass die Defekte in Qubit-Materialien höchstwahrscheinlich nicht auftreten werden und dass wir in der Lage sein werden, Qubits mit einer höheren Kohärenzzeit zu erhalten. Dies wird dazu beitragen, eines der Hauptprobleme von Qubits zu bewältigen - ihre kurze Quanten-"Lebenszeit," erklärt Professor Ustinov. Quelle: http://en.misis.ru/university/news/science/2018-04/5318/ SOURCE The National University of Science and Technology MISiS
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Syrian Kurdish fighters 'pulling back' from Turkey border Image copyright US Central Command Image caption The US military posted photographs it said showed SDF forces destroying fortifications The Kurdish-led authorities in north-eastern Syria say a US-backed Kurdish militia has begun withdrawing from territory along the border with Turkey. The "first practical steps" came on the weekend, when the People's Protection Units (YPG) pulled out some fighters and weaponry from two areas. The move is part of a deal with Turkey and the US, which has forces there. Turkey has threatened to launch an assault unless the YPG pulls back from the border and a "safe zone" is set up. It considers the YPG a terrorist group, saying that it is an extension of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has fought for Kurdish autonomy in Turkey for three decades. The YPG played a leading role in the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance that was the US military's main partner on the ground in Syria in the battle against the jihadist group Islamic State (IS). Image copyright AFP Image caption Kurdish forces will hand over control to military councils formed by local fighters On 7 August, US and Turkish military delegations agreed on "the rapid implementation of initial implementation of initial measures to address Turkey's security concerns" along its border with Syria, according to a statement from the US embassy in Ankara. The delegations also said they would "stand up a joint operations centre in Turkey as soon as possible in order to co-ordinate and manage the establishment of the safe zone together." "The safe zone shall become a peace corridor, and every effort shall be made so that displaced Syrians can return to their country," the embassy added. Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionA young face destroyed by war: The impact of an airstrike one year on On Saturday, Turkey's defence minister said the joint operations centre was operating at "full capacity," and that "the destruction of terrorist emplacements and fortifications" had begun. The Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria confirmed on Tuesday that the YPG had "removed some military fortifications" and "begun withdrawing a unit and heavy weapons" in the Ras al-Ain area over the weekend, and that similar steps were taken in Tal Abyad on Monday. "These procedures were done to ensure our commitment to these understandings [with Turkey and the US] and to show how we are interested in a reaching a solution by way of a peaceful dialogue with neighbouring countries," it added. Image copyright AFP Image caption Turkey wants a "safe zone" along its border with Syria that is 30-40km deep The US military published photographs last week that it said showed SDF forces destroying fortifications. "This demonstrates SDF's commitment to support implementation of the security mechanism framework," it added. The US has not specified the size of the "safe zone," but Turkey wants it to be 30-40km (19-25 miles) deep. SDF spokesman Mustafa Bali told Reuters news agency on Tuesday that it would be only 5-14km (3-9 miles) deep and would include rural areas and military positions, not cities or towns. Image copyright AFP Image caption Kurds in northern Syria have protested against Turkey's threat to launch an offensive The YPG and SDF would hand over control to military councils formed by local fighters in the area, which would be patrolled by Turkish and US forces based inside Turkey, Mr Bali said. The Turkish military has twice sent troops into northern Syria to push YPG fighters away from its border since the Syrian civil war began. The last operation was in the western Afrin region in 2018.
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A decade or so ago, I read some articles about humans acquiring this disease by inadvertent close association with pigeons. The story was that several people had contracted the disease because their living spaces or office spaces were open to air currents that carried infective material from the nesting areas of the birds. I do not know the frequency of such disease transmission but judging by the required circumstnces it must have been low. The moral of the stories seemed to have been that if you had pigeons nesting on your window ledge it might be hazardous to your health unless the window was well sealed. Generally speaking, it is rare for humans to inhale dust arising from pigeon nests. I wonder what other sources of information on disease transmission there may be. If the rate of transmission is indeed low then it may well be that only people who want to sell their extermination services will write articles on the subject. P0M
Coccidia is something most pigeons seem to have; some veterinary medicine folks think that a low level is actually prophylactic — keeps the immune system functioning. One article somewhere in MedLine asserts that tests indicate 30 percent of people in frequent contact with pigeons show coccidia antibodies — against something like one-tenth that in people with no such frequent contact. Seems generally to be controlled, then, by normal immune systems. People with compromised immune systems, of course, have problems; they would have them anyway. My memory must be bad, or else some people use medical terms without due care. There are three diseases associated with pigeons that humans may get, and all transmissions are rare. Generally they are related to activities such as major clean-ups of pigeon roosts in buildings. See
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The key element is the rarity. The number of cases described is vanishingly small. The clean-up thing is also interesting. Here, the issue is not pigeons propter se, but pigeon detritus — lots of old poop and lots of other stuff, allowed to accumulate, sometimes for decades. This is more stuff than one normally sees, even if one deals with a dove-cote; outdoors, a mild rain usually washes the stuff away; indoors or under shelter, a 15 minute hose-down cleans up pretty well what one might see in, say, a week. The "industrial quantity" situation is more dramatic: The stuff is dry and dusty; a NIOSH approved negative-pressure mask is recommended and washable clothing (not hazmat suits, or anything dramatic, though); wet down the poop (control the dust), shovel it into sacks, and put it out with the garbage (unless the landlord has been really remiss, in which case you may need a serious dumpster!). The point here: Pigeon detritus is not hazardous waste, proximally and for the most part. "Though feral pigeons are often associated with the threat of disease, this is actually a fairly recent idea. Pigeons have been associated with a variety of diseases, including histoplasmosis and cryptococcis." This is a rather ambivalent line, seems to me. Whatever. A great deal of research on pigeons has been done by a chap at Basel, name of Haag-Wackernagel. Seems to have a sort of cognitive-dissonance problem with the wee birdies; on the one hand, seems fairly admiring, on the other, seems to be getting a good living from telling Basel how to knobble its pigeon-population. Reading through his papers (some available online) one has the sense he really wants to make a case that playing with pigeons can make you sick; his summary survey and analysis of the relevant literature suggests that some allergic reactions (as with other animal contacts) and immune-system difficulties can render one more prone to problems — but not a great deal more than that rather modest level of susceptibility. His complaints anent pigeon doodoo-damange reflect on public-servant/building-staff laziness (a bit of water under pressure applied every couple days seems to flush pigeon droppings away pretty effectively), at least as much as on the problems of pigeon-shit. I changed the wording of the risks involved in spreading avian flu. The originally cited source was a secondary source that made its own further conclusions without further studies. The primary source, which I have added in the reference section, more clearly supports the present wording. :Edited even more in the disease-section. Somebody was referring some bird-breeding society as a source for the H5N1 susceptibility of pigeons. I found the original scientific article and used that instead. It seems however that there was two contradicting works. A definite conclusion here will have to wait untill more is published.
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The Biggest Stories in American Politics This Week From Michael Cohen's released recording to a pause in the trade war with Europe, it's been a busy week in American politics. Here are five of the top stories you might have missed (and some links if you want to read further). Michael Cohen released a recording of President Trump. A tape of a 2016 conversation between Donald J. Trump and his former lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, sheds new light on hush money payments to a former Playboy model - but questions remain.Published OnJuly 25, 2018CreditImage by Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters Michael D. Cohen, President Trump's former lawyer, released a secret recording on Tuesday of a conversation between Mr. Cohen and Mr. Trump in which Mr. Trump appears to have knowledge of payments to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with him. The recording provides details on payments to the former model, Karen McDougal, but it does not definitively answer the question of whether Mr. Trump directed Mr. Cohen to make the payments in cash or by check. The recording's release contradicts repeated statements from Mr. Trump and his aides, and it shows how those in Mr. Trump's orbit have used falsehoods to try to protect themselves from unflattering coverage and tough questions. Additional Reading The European Union agreed to a trade truce with the United States. President Trump announced on Wednesday a number of trade initiatives with the European Union, including plans to "resolve" retaliatory tariffs.Published OnJuly 25, 2018CreditImage by Doug Mills/The New York Times The United States and the European Union paused the budding trade war on Wednesday after Mr. Trump said the Europeans agreed to work toward lower trade barriers and to buy billions of dollars of American soybeans and natural gas. A day earlier, the Trump administration announced that it would provide up to $12 billion in emergency relief for farmers negatively affected by the trade war. Though Mr. Trump is declaring victory in the solution between the two sides, the general outlines of his plan were reminiscent of earlier negotiations started under President Barack Obama. Mr. Trump also took credit on Friday for the acceleration of economic growth in the second quarter, despite economists" skepticism that the growth cannot sustain itself. Additional Reading The special counsel is examining President Trump's tweets about James Comey and Jeff Sessions. Investigators for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, have told President Trump's lawyers that they want to question him about his tweets.CreditDoug Mills/The New York Times The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, is examining Mr. Trump's tweets and negative statements about James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions as part of his inquiry into whether the president tried to obstruct the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. New documents also detail a financial arrangement between Rick Gates, who is cooperating with Mr. Mueller's team after pleading guilty to financial fraud and lying to investigators, and Elliott Broidy, a top fund-raiser for Mr. Trump. The relationship between the two men is indicative of how some of the president's associates marketed their administration access and sheds light on Mr. Gates, a key figure in the special counsel investigation. Additional Reading In presidential diplomacy, an all-caps threat, sanctions and a postponed meeting. President Hassan Rouhani of Iran at a meeting with a group of Foreign Ministry officials on Sunday in Tehran.CreditOffice of the Iranian Presidency, via Associated Press Mr. Trump threatened Iran late Sunday via Twitter post, warning that the country would face "CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED" if it continued to threaten the United States. The tweet only intensified questions about the long-term direction of Mr. Trump's approach to Iran policy. The White House announced Wednesday that the administration would postpone an invitation for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to visit Washington until after the conclusion of the Russia investigation, which John R. Bolton, Mr. Trump's national security adviser, predicted would be "after the first of the year." And though he declined to provide specifics, Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state, repeatedly defended the president that same day against senators skeptical of Mr. Trump's approach to Russian diplomacy. (Mr. Putin, for his part, said on Friday that he had invited Mr. Trump to visit Moscow, an idea the White House responded favorably to.) And on Thursday, Mr. Trump abruptly announced that his administration would impose "large sanctions" on Turkey, a NATO ally, for detaining an American pastor accused of aiding a failed coup attempt there. Additional Reading In midterm primaries, a Trump favorite won - and the presidential endorsements continued. Brian Kemp celebrated his win in the Republican runoff in the Georgia governor's race on Tuesday.CreditMelissa Golden for The New York Times
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The Radical Transformations of a Battered Women's Shelter In the winter of 1975, a week after a ten-inch snowfall, Chris Womendez and Cherie Jimenez decided to turn Cherie's apartment into a shelter for women who were getting beaten up at home. Cherie lived downstairs from Chris in a building on Pearl Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Neither knew what running such a shelter involved, but nobody did; there was only one in the country, which had opened in St. Paul the year before. They were both on welfare, and each had a little kid, but rent was cheap, and their apartments were bigger than they needed. They put up signs with Cherie's phone number in laundromats, and the bathrooms of broken-bone units in hospitals, and the waiting rooms of maternity wards. Cherie painted a picture on her wall of a woman brandishing a rifle. They met a few times with a lawyer they knew, to ask questions like: What if a guy found a woman in their apartment and killed her - would they be responsible? They got some women together to make plans, but the meetings were long and kind of boring, so they decided to just do it. Chris grew up in the projects in South Boston. One night in 1966, when she was seventeen, she went to the Waldorf, a twenty-four-hour restaurant on Tremont Street where gay people used to go after the bars closed. She met a deaf Puerto Rican guy there, got pregnant, and married him. Soon after she gave birth, he started beating her up. He tried to strangle her and drown her in the bathtub. She fought back, but he was stronger. They had terrible arguments, all in sign language. She left him when she was eighteen and moved back in with her parents; her mother watched the baby while Chris went downtown and turned tricks. The money was good, and she moved to a nice apartment in Back Bay with a woman she'd been seeing who worked as a prostitute, too. She changed her last name from her husband's name, Mendez, to Womendez. Later, around 1973, Chris had a minor nervous breakdown, became religious, moved to Cambridge, and found work moving furniture and delivering the Gay Community News in her van. Then, one night, she met Cherie at a Daughters of Bilitis meeting, and they went out afterward to a lesbian bar in Boston called the Saints. They became friends, and then a couple, and talked every night about how they wanted to do something to really turn things upside down. They thought, There are so many women getting beat up who need a place to stay - we should just open our place up, make it a shelter. They would call it Transition House. Cherie, like Chris, had fled a violent early marriage. When she was a teen-ager, she went to Puerto Rico with some friends and met her future husband, a rich man from San Juan, in a hotel lobby. They had a daughter together, but he hit her, and then he became violent with their daughter, too. She left him and travelled around for a while, supporting herself and her daughter by working as a high-end escort. She spent some time in Mexico City, then stayed for a summer with friends who had an organic farm in Michigan. Finally, she fetched up in Cambridge and met Chris. Word about the shelter spread fast. It was Cambridge in 1975, and there was a lot going on. Women were meeting for consciousness-raising sessions at the Sergeant Pepper Coffee House, and helping rape victims at the Women's Center, and starting up the Combahee River Collective. There were biker feminists in leather, and Cambridge feminists in bandannas, and Dorchester feminists in dresses. There were socialist feminists who believed that all victimized groups should struggle together against capitalism, and radical feminists who believed that misogyny was the fundamental oppression - that if the patriarchy could be broken then all other oppressions would follow.
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Jim Wright, former House Speaker who resigned amid ethics controversy, dies at 92 Former Rep. Jim Wright of Texas, who served two years as House speaker, died Wednesday at a nursing facility in Fort Worth, according to a local funeral home. He was 92. Wright, a Democrat, served more than three decades in the House, where he represented a district in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The end of his tenure was shrouded in controversy over an ethics investigation surrounding his investments and a decision to accept royalties from a book deal. At the time, Republican Rep. Newt Gingrich of Georgia, who would later become House speaker, helped lead the ethics investigation against Wright. Wright vehemently defended himself, calling the accusations against him baseless, but once it was clear he had lost support from members of his own caucus, he gave up his leadership post. He resigned from Congress in June 1989, shortly after stepping down as speaker. Wright, speaking to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in 2014, expressed regrets about resigning from office. "I think I probably would not have retired," Wright told the Star-Telegram. "I think I would have seen it through and gone through the ignominy of having it [the charges against him] heard and addressed." That wasn't Wright's first taste of controversy. Earlier that year, John Mack, a senior aide, was accused of beating a woman decades earlier. Mack eventually resigned. A former mayor in Texas and member of the state's legislature, Wright was elected to Congress in 1954. Over the next several decades he earned a reputation as a pork-barrel politician, going to great lengths to cater to his district's needs, often steering defense contracts to Texas. In 1999, one local labor leader told the Los Angeles Times that he had called Wright half a dozen times over three decades and asked him to "do something for someone" from Texas. Yet it was Wright's attentiveness to his home district that sometimes drew the ire of fellow legislators. In 1986, Wright took up the causes of Don Dixon and Tom Gaubert, the heads of local loan companies that had come under federal investigation. Gaubert was later revealed to be a political supporter of Wright. Wright also, at one point, pleaded with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat on behalf of the owner of a Texas oil firm that wanted to operate in Egypt. The company operated a well that Wright had invested in. Wright's decision to publish a 117-page book, "Reflections of a Public Man," ultimately led to the ethics investigation that ended his career. Wright, who reportedly had money troubles after a divorce in the 1970s, cut a publishing deal with the former political director of the Teamsters Union in 1984. Wright was given 55% royalties on each copy sold, an unusually high figure in the publishing world, and critics quickly blasted the arrangement as a kickback scheme. Wright previously had given the publisher, William Carlos Moore, more than $600,000 in campaign funds. Despite the controversial ending to his time in Congress, Wright also was remembered for a signature foreign policy achievement. He helped arrange a bipartisan Central American peace plan with President George H.W. Bush, ending a decade of turbulence in Nicaragua and El Salvador. Wright was born in Fort Worth and attended the University of Texas at Austin. He left school early to volunteer for military service after the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. During World War II, he was a bombardier in the U.S. Army and earned a Distinguished Flying Cross while serving in the South Pacific. Times staff writer James Queally contributed to this report. Follow @kurtisalee on Twitter Copyright © 2015, Los Angeles Times 12:25 p.m. This post was updated with additional information on Wright. 10:03 a.m. This post was updated with additional information on Wright. This post was orginally published at 9:03 a.m.
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Cyclone is a 1987 science fiction action film about a woman who must keep the ultimate motorcycle from falling into the wrong hands. The film was directed by Fred Olen Ray, and stars Heather Thomas, Jeffrey Combs, Martine Beswick and Martin Landau. ==Plot==
Teri (Heather Thomas) leaves the gym and stops by a motorcycle repair shop to pick up parts for her inventor boyfirend Rick (Jeffery Combs). Rick has developed the ultimate motorcycle, the Cyclone. It is a $5 million bike equipped with rocket launchers and laser guns, which only needs oxygen to operate. After arriving home. Teri and Rick head out to a local hotspot. When Rick is murdered by those who wish to gain control of the prototype, it is up to his girlfriend Teri to keep the Cyclone from falling into the wrong hands. Teri can trust no one but herself. ==Cast==
Heather Thomas as Teri Marshall
Jeffrey Combs as Rick Davenport
Dar Robinson as Rolf
Martine Beswick as Waters
Martin Landau as Basarian
Huntz Hall as Long John
Troy Donahue as Bob Jenkins
==Reception==
TV Guide gave the movie 2 out of 5 stars, finding the B movie cast to be of more interest than the movie itself. According to the review site DVDtalk, the movie is fun, comparing it to an episode of Knight Rider or maybe Streethawk, although many of the effects are lacking by modern standards. Moria like the premise of the film, and enjoyed Olen's genre in-jokes and sometimes an appealingly cynical sense of humor, but found that little was done with the premise. ==DVD release==
Platinum Disc released a budget DVD of the film in 2002. Shout! Factory announced they would release Cyclone as part of a four-film "Action-Packed Movie Marathon" DVD set on March 19, 2013. ==References==
==External links==
Films directed by Fred Olen Ray
1987 films
1980s science fiction action films
1980s spy films
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ION Investment Group and Strategic Treasurer team up to help corporate treasurers measure and Openlink, now an ION Investment Group company, and Strategic Treasurer, a leading treasury management consultancy, will co-host with Treasury Today a webinar, "Future-proof Your Treasury - a Better Way to Measure TRMS Impact," on Thursday, April 5, from 10:00 -11:00 a.m. EST. A corresponding e-book, "Acquiring Treasury Technology - Understanding ROI & the Overall Business Case," is available for download. Based on feedback from group treasurers at commodity-intensive corporations, Openlink and Strategic Treasurer jointly developed a return-on-investment (ROI) calculator tool for treasury and risk management. The ROI calculator reflects the heightened sophistication, integration, accuracy and speed required to modernize treasuries, supporting any level of treasury investment decision-making - for clients moving beyond spreadsheets or seeking an enterprise solution. Many treasurers depend on fundamental TRMS capabilities, such as cash and credit management, payments, forecasting and hedging. But even the most experienced professionals can be unsure of how to scale or change systems for the future and make compelling business cases for technology investments. For example, modelling "what if" scenarios can require data from disparate systems and intensive manual efforts - especially as companies accelerate merger and acquisition activity, expand into new markets, and procure a wider variety of goods and services. Corporate treasurers could greatly benefit from new workflows and systems that provide deeper insights into a larger slice of their enterprises. "Leading treasurers understand the need for systematized processes and comprehensive visibility to their exposures across the entire business. A diminished view is equivalent to a dangerous blind spot," said Craig Jeffery, Managing Partner of Strategic Treasurer. "That's why treasurers seek automation and centralization of treasury operations, along with a real-time, cross-enterprise view of physical and financial commodity risks - while optimizing their own TRMS investments." "In a complex economy, treasurers must have a full view of risk exposure - from commodity, counterparty, forex and rates to finance, IT, audit and accounting," said Anthony Lopresti, Vice President of Sales and Client Management at Openlink. "With the ROI calculator we can help clients make a quantitative TRMS business case using empirical data - especially necessary as treasurers take ownership of strategic business decisions." Phil Pettinato, CEO of ION Treasury, added, "ION Treasury's portfolio is further strengthened by the addition of Openlink, and we share a passion and vision for helping clients unlock long-term value from treasury investments. From a domestic company seeking an entry-level, SaaS-based cash management solution to a multinational enterprise that needs a fully integrated and customizable TRMS platform, ION serves as a trusted partner on their treasury journey." To register for the webinar, visit https://www.openlink.com/en/insights/events/future-proof-your-treasury/. To download the e-book, visit https://www.openlink.com/en/insights/e-books/acquiring-treasury-technology-understanding-ROI/. About Strategic Treasurer
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Amaracarpus is a genus of shrubs, treelets or trees in the family Rubiaceae. It was described by Carl Ludwig Blume in 1826. Most of the species are endemic to New Guinea but a few have wider ranges in Southeast Asia from Myanmar (Burma) and the Andaman Islands across Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Melanesia, Christmas Island, Queensland and Vanuatu. One species also occurs in the Seychelles. Several species were published years ago but are today not represented by any type specimens or other known existing material. ==Species==
Amaracarpus acuminatus - New Guinea
Amaracarpus anomalus Wernham - New Guinea
Amaracarpus attenuatus Merr. & - New Guinea
Amaracarpus belensis Merr. & - Seram, New Guinea
Amaracarpus brassii Merr. & - New Guinea
Amaracarpus braunianus (Warb. ex Boerl.) Valeton - New Guinea
Amaracarpus calcicola Merr. & - New Guinea
Amaracarpus compactus Merr. & - New Guinea
Amaracarpus cuneifolius Valeton - New Guinea
Amaracarpus doormanniensis Valeton - New Guinea
Amaracarpus floribundus Valeton - New Guinea
Amaracarpus grandiflorus - Maluku
Amaracarpus grandifolius Valeton - Maluku, New Guinea, Solomons, Bismarcks
Amaracarpus idenburgensis Merr. & - New Guinea
Amaracarpus kochii Valeton - New Guinea
Amaracarpus ledermannii Valeton - New Guinea
Amaracarpus major (Valeton) - New Guinea
Amaracarpus montanus Valeton - New Guinea
Amaracarpus nematopodus (). - New Guinea, Queensland, Vanuatu
Amaracarpus nouhuizii (Valeton) Valeton - New Guinea
Amaracarpus novoguineensis (Warb. ex Boerl.) Valeton - New Guinea
Amaracarpus nymanii Valeton - Papua New Guinea
Amaracarpus papuanus Valeton - New Guinea
Amaracarpus pubescens Blume - Seychelles, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia (Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Maluku, Lesser Sunda Islands, Sulawesi), Philippines, Christmas Island, Irian Jaya
Amaracarpus rhombifolius Valeton - New Guinea
Amaracarpus schlechteri Valeton - New Guinea
Amaracarpus syzygifolius Valeton - New Guinea
Amaracarpus trichocalyx Valeton - New Guinea
Amaracarpus wichmannii Valeton - New Guinea
Amaracarpus xanthocarpus Merr. & - New Guinea
== References ==
== External links ==
Amaracarpus in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae
Flora of Asia
Rubiaceae genera
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Carltons Of London owner'made £1.5m running escort agency linked to Maria Fowler' Janine Adeleke, 42, found guilty of seven counts of cheating the revenue, fraud and money laundering She claimed more than £28,000 in Income Support while running agency Investigators found documents linking Maria Fowler to Adeleke's agency She was paid £8,000 for an interview about the former TOWIE star By Lucy Crossley for MailOnline
Mother-of-five Janine Adeleke (pictured) made £1.5million running a high-class escort agency while claiming £117,000 in benefits and tax credits A mother-of-five made £1.5million running a high-class escort agency with former TOWIE star Maria Fowler on its books while claiming £117,000 in benefits and tax credits, a court heard. Janine Adeleke, 42, claimed state handouts while running agency Carltons Of London from her seaside home Bexhill-On-Sea, East Sussex. One of her children was sent to the exclusive Roedean boarding school for girls, while her family had private medical insurance and membership to the David Lloyd gym. She is now facing jail after being found guilty of seven counts of cheating the revenue, fraud and money laundering at Canterbury Crown Court yesterday. At the start of the trial, Allastair Walker, prosecuting, told the jury that for eight years between November 2006 and October last year Adeleke had failed to disclose significant income - much of which came from the escort business. 'During this period she claimed state benefits including Income Support, Council Tax benefit and carer's allowance,' he said. The jury heard that in July 2011, when she suspected that Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) investigators were on her trail,she laundered receipts through accounts in the name of her elderly and frail mother. 'Over the years, the defendant received nearly £1.5m of undeclared income,' said Mr Walker. 'At least £650,000 should have been declared to revenue and customs.' Mr Walker said that Adeleke should have paid £25,000 in revenue - but she was claiming benefits of £37,000 and tax credits of £80,000. He added: 'Overall losses to the state are in excess of £350,000.' The prosecutor told how Adeleke, who had denied the charges against her, had been married but separated from her husband in 2006. Adeleke avoided nearly £250,000 of income tax and national insurance payments by not declaring her income from escort agency Carltons of London He said: 'There followed a traumatic and bitter divorce and there can be little doubt that as a consequence the defendant was left much less comfortably off. 'It is the Crown's case that while claiming benefits she came to run a successful and expensive escort agency which boasted: "VIP Models of poise, sophistication and stunning good looks for elite gentlemen." 'The profits she made from this she never declared', he added. The court was told that former TOWIE star Maria Fowler (pictured) had been linked to the agency in documents seized by investigators He revealed that while living in Bexhill-On-Sea, Adeleke had opened a business bank account in Chelmsford, Essex, for the agency profits. The court heard that the total loss to taxpayers as a result of Adeleke's fraud was £367,000. She had claimed benefits of £37,000, including Income Support for herself and her five children, from 2006 to 2011 - totalling £28,468.22, Council Tax Benefit, from 2007 to 2011, of £6,151.87 and Carer's Allowance, for looking after her elderly mother from October 2010, of £3,280.20. She also claimed a total of £80,372 in tax credits from November 2006 to April 2014. Adeleke also avoided nearly £250,000 of income tax and national insurance payments by not declaring her income from the escort agency. The trial heard how former TOWIE star Maria Fowler's name had been linked to the agency in documents seized by investigators. Mr Walker told the court a contract between Adeleke and a Sunday tabloid newspaper proved she was running the agency at the time she was illegally claiming benefits. He said: 'Significantly a copy of a contract between the defendant and the Sunday Mirror was discovered [at her home]. 'The agreement showed that for the sum of £8,000 Ms Adeleke would give the paper a full interview and provide photographs of a television star called Maria Fowler. 'Maria Fowler was said to be a former escort with Carltons, who achieved fame appearing in the series The Only Way Is Essex.
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Abe Vigoda, best known for The Godfather and Barney Miller, dead at age 94 Abe Vigoda dead at 94 Character actor famous for his role as Tessio in The Godfather has passed away aged 94. Vision: Today Show, Channel Nine. PT0M22S http://www.smh.com.au/action/externalEmbeddedPlayer?id=d-49lf5 620 349 January 27, 2016 - 9:07AM Abe Vigoda, an American actor best known for roles in The Godfather and the 1970s sitcom Barney Miller, died on Tuesday at the age of 94, after spending three decades jokingly refuting rumours of his demise. Vigoda's daughter, Carol Vigoda Fuchs, said her father died at her home in New Jersey. "He died in his sleep, of natural causes. He was not sick," she told Reuters. Vigoda, who was adept at drama and comedy with a hang-dog face, slouched posture and slow delivery, played mobster traitor Salvatore Tessio in The Godfather in 1972, his first credited movie role. His character was doomed for betraying the Corleone family in the film but had a cameo role in the flashback scenes of The Godfather Part II two years later. Abe Vigoda played mobster traitor Salvatore Tessio in The Godfather. His most famous role was as the grumpy and deadpan Detective Sergeant Phil Fish in the Barney Miller police comedy series. He picked up three supporting-actor Emmy nominations for the part. Advertisement Vigoda spent years amiably proving he was still alive after People magazine mistakenly declared him "the late Abe Vigoda" in 1982, when he was 62. The question of his mortality became a running gag that he learned to live with. To disprove the People report, he posed for a photo sitting in a coffin. His alive-or-dead status became an often-revisited joke in his appearances on Conan O'Brien's late-night show and in a skit on David Letterman's show, he curtly advised the host, "I'm not dead yet, you pinhead!" Abe Vigoda won three Emmys for his role in the comedy Barney Miller. Vigoda also had roles in films where his longevity was the joke and appeared with the equally well-seasoned actress Betty White in a commercial during the Super Bowl in February 2010. The website www.abevigoda.com was set up simply to give his status - "Abe Vigoda is alive" - above a photo of the actor and a date/time stamp. On Tuesday, that was changed to "Abe Vigoda is dead." Born in New York City on February 24, 1921, Abraham Charles Vigodah was the son of Jewish immigrants from Russia. His father was a tailor. A website was set up to monitor Abe Vigoda's status after People declared him dead in 1982. He had his first role on stage at age 17 and, dropping the "H" from his last name along the way, had modest success in theater and on television through the 1960s. Vigoda was already past 50 when he got his break in The Godfather. In an interview with CNN, Vigoda recalled being summoned to the office of director Francis Ford Coppola in an open casting call. "It seems he'd seen me in a play or plays," Vigoda said, adding that one of the reasons Coppola "was interested in me was that nobody knew my face." Vigoda said the role opposite stars like Marlon Brando, Al Pacino and James Caan in one of Hollywood's greatest movies changed his life. From there, Vigoda moved to the Barney Miller series. "I got the role because the producer thought I looked tired," Vigoda said. "But I looked tired because I had been jogging earlier that day." In a typical line from Barney Miller, Fish bemoaned the effects of age: "Do you know what it feels like to be running down 43rd Street and your partner is cornering a guy on 52nd? Do you know how I found out what happened? I asked a reporter. Four radio stations beat me to the scene of the crime." Unlike the creaky, lethargic Fish, Vigoda was a vigorous man who played handball regularly and was still jogging into his 80s. Vigoda worked in TV and movies well into his 80s. His other work included the films Good Burger, Joe Versus the Volcano, Look Who's Talking and Cannonball Run. He also appeared on television series such as Soap, The Rockford Files, Wings and the vampire soap opera Dark Shadows. Reuters
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China urges New Zealand to extradite man accused of murder Loading In response to the court ruling, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said Beijing put "great importance to the protection and promotion of human rights" and "effectively guarantees various legal rights of the criminal suspects." "We hope New Zealand can handle it in a fair manner and extradite Kim back to China as soon as possible," he said. The New Zealand court ruled that while diplomatic assurances had been given, there were lingering concerns that needed to be probed. "New Zealand has obligations under international law to refuse to return a person to a jurisdiction in which they will be at substantial risk of torture or where they will not receive a fair trial," Justice Helen Winkelmann said. New Zealand Justice Minister Andrew Little has yet to comment on the case. Kim is accused of the murder of 20-year-old Pei Yun Chen after her beaten body was found wrapped in black cloth in a Shanghai wasteland. He has been on bail since 2016. The case comes as China tries to gain international support for extraditions. It has been met with resistance from Western countries, which have cited concerns about its human rights record. In Hong Kong, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets over the weekend to protest against a legislative proposal that would allow criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland China.
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FCA drops investigation into Mitie profit warning The Financial Conduct Authority has dropped its investigation into the timing of a September 2016 profit warning from outsourcing group Mitie. The financial watchdog had announced last August that it was to look into the "timeliness" of the profit warning, as well as the preparation of the company's financial information for the previous year. At the time, the company was being run by Ruby McGregor-Smith, who has since stepped down. But on Wednesday the FCA said it was "discontinuing its investigation" into the company. Mitie has been stung by a string of profit warnings in recent years as rising costs and shrinking margins squeezed its income. The company, which provides services from cleaning...
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Critics argue that, since the program provides non-taxable income without any employment requirements, recipients receive free money without incentives for work, which hinders the economic output and development of the island, especially when Puerto Rico's employment participation and unemployment rates have been consistently inferior to U.S. national levels, while the average aid provided in Puerto Rico has exceeded the U.S. national average ($94 versus $74.79, respectively; 2001 estimate). Because of this, Puerto Rico has been called the "welfare island". People from the Dominican Republic do many of the jobs in Puerto Rico that pay too little to attract the locals. However, proponents of the program argue that Puerto Rico's social condition is in far worse shape than any of the 50 U.S. states. Approximately half of the island's population lives below the U.S. Federal poverty guidelines, and many have difficulties in meeting their nutritional needs due to increasing inflation and economic stagnation in the island. Furthermore, the relation between the NAP program's benefits and the low employment participation and high unemployment rates has not been studied, and there is no consensus on their actual causes. == Program administration ==
The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), a component of the USDA, provides the funds to the Puerto Rican government's Department of the Family to operate the program through an annual block grant, which covers the full cost of the benefits to participants, as well as fifty percent (50%) of the costs required to administer the program (the remaining 50% must be provided by the Puerto Rican government). Although federal regulations require Puerto Rico to pay the benefits during the year for which the annual block grant was awarded, since 2002 the federal government has allowed Puerto Rico to use 2% of an annual surplus for benefits in future years. As a condition of receiving the grant, the P.R. Department of the Family must submit an annual plan of operation to the FNS, which describes how it will distribute the funds assigned as nutrition assistance to qualifying persons. This includes identifying the island population which is eligible for the NAP benefits (i.e., family income limits, family status limits, etc. ), establishing the process in which individual participants are selected, and the process of determining the benefit amount for each participant. The plan of operation is reviewed and approved by the FNS before funds are disbursed. The Puerto Rico Department of the Family currently provides the benefits to each participating family through a debit card, which replaced the physical cheques in the early 2000s. The monthly benefit is deposited through an electronic benefit transfer (EBT) system into a government-designated personal bank account, which can be accessed at any time with the debit card to withdraw cash or to make food purchases from authorized retailers. Since September 2001, 75% of each family's monthly benefit has been designated exclusively for making direct food and grocery purchases, while the remaining 25% can be withdrawn as a cash benefit. The EBT debit card system has improved the program's payment accuracy rate to 96.4% in 2003, 4 years ahead of its 2007 goal of 95% accuracy. The FNS also requires the Puerto Rican government to submit financial and performance reports on a regular basis, including quarterly Federal Cash Transactions Reports, quarterly and annual Financial Status Reports, and monthly Program Participation and Benefits Reports. These reports provide details on the program's obligations and actual expenditures, and help the FNS monitor the use of program funds and reconcile the program's budget with actual expenditures. === Management assessment ===
In a collaborative effort by the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and various other Federal agencies, the NAP program was recently assessed and given a 44% and 40% score (out of a possible 100%) in its Program Management and Program Results/Accountability performance indicators, respectively, stating that "the program's financial management practices need improvement." The assessment revealed that the Puerto Rican government has not established short-term goals, objectives, and targets to evaluate the program's performance and results, that the program's oversight has been lax in previous years, and that the program's impact and results in Puerto Rico's society have not been evaluated in recent years. The financial management and oversight concerns were later emphasized when, on March 15, 2007, a U.S. investigative task force uncovered a $30 million fraud scheme involving 31 participants, including retailers and beneficiaries, who were withdrawing the funds as cash from the benefits designated exclusively for food purchases, and charging the customers a 20% to 25% fee for the transaction. The Puerto Rican government's Departments of Family, Education, and Health have since combined efforts to create a 5-year strategic plan to improve the program's long-term performance and financial management. The Family Department has recently implemented a quality control-like program titled Measure of Efforts and Results System, which evaluates the quality and promptitude of services while reviewing various eligibility elements, to improve customer services and program management.
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Woman harassed by internet date for 13 YEARS set to get payout Marketing consultant gets payout after date harassed her online for 13 YEARS after she turned him down Woman met man through dating website but later said she didn't want to see him He set up Twitter accounts and websites in her name during 13-year campaign She was forced to mount a civil legal case after police failed to intervene The woman is now set to get compensation following unprecedented legal case By Richard Spillett for MailOnline
A woman who was harassed online for 13 years by a man she met through a dating website is set to be given compensation today. Former marketing consultant Lindsey Goldrick Dean was the victim of a vile campaign by Paul Curran, who created websites with false and private information about her. When the police failed to intervene, she was forced to take the case to court herself, leading to a long-running legal battle due to come to conclusion at London's High Court today. Ms Goldrick Dean, from Somerset, met Mr Curran through a dating website in 2004, but her nightmare began after she said she did not want to see him again, The Times reported today. He went on to create fake Twitter accounts and took out Google advertising in her name to direct anyone searching for her to offensive material. She eventually got a court injunction against him and, following an unprecedented legal case, is today expected to be given compensation. Ms Goldrick Dean's lawyer Yair Cohen, of Cohen Davis Solicitors, told The Times: 'For nearly 13 years Ms Goldrick Dean could not get meaningful help from the police despite the evidence. 'It is not right that victims of internet harassment are left to fend for themselves. I would like to see the police do more in this area.' Advertisement Share or comment on this article:
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A "supercrititcal" core, yes, but it didn't take 2 hours to generate that many fissions. Things that slowly get hot tend to overheat and blow themselves apart. The Oak Ridge event was a criticality excursion, meaning it did its thing very fast. You have to realize that nothing bad happened at Oak Ridge because there was not a container which pressurized itself until it blew itself apart. SL-1 "jumped" 9 feet into the air due to Newton's laws of motion and it only had 5 times more fissions than Oak Ridge. If Oak Ridge had been anything else but a prompt critical core, it would have just heated up, set off some detectors, melted some things, etc. But people received nearly deadly levels of gamma/neutron doses in a split second. And you are right about the other incidents reported at the reference cited... lots to choose from. Those other excursions, like the others at Oak Ridge, were certainly prompt critical, or otherwise 15 grams of uranium would not have emitted 1.1 * 10^{16}. See List of criticality excursions I like to saw logs! (talk)
:The Oak Ridge accident wasn't a prompt critical core; the description is "a 55-gallon stainless steel drum" filled with contaminated water. Unshielded nuclear reactions are dangerous, and don't have to be prompt critical to give off lethal levels of radiation. Harry Daghlian received a lethal dose of radiation from a core that was cold enough to disassemble by hand. The Richland, Wash., Apr. 7, 1962 excursion (same document) took 37 hours to self-terminate. Criticality excursions can be slow. There's no reason to think this one was fast, and the report gives no times. If we generously assume one second, then let's compare the real orders of magnitude of the 2 situations. One was 5.3 * 10^18 fissions in 4 milliseconds, or 10 ^ 20 fissions per second. The other was 1.3 * 10^18 fissions in one second, which is two orders of magnitude less. :There are three events described as prompt critical in that document; one is hardly described, one is under controlled circumstances, and the third Oak Ridge, Tenn., Feb. 1, 1956: "considerable fuel was displaced from the reactor". If anything is meant by prompt critical as opposed to supercritical, it's to be measured by the speed and explosiveness of the reaction, not the number of fissions. Let's look at energy rather than power for a moment. From Radiochemistry and nuclear chemistry By Gregory R. Choppin, Jan-Olov Liljenzin, Jan Rydberg, page 519, found at Google Books, we see that prompt neutrons and gammas per fission amount to 12 MeV. Those would typically flee the scene of a barrel or a vat filled with water. The fission products, on the other hand, amounting to 165 MeV per fission, remain in the vat. So a cursory examination of the amount of heat generated in these accidents would reveal that SL-1 produced about 140 MJ if we use the 5.3 E18 figure I concocted above (using 165 MeV/fiss and 1.6 E-13 J/MeV). Let's say I have a frozen pizza that takes 140 seconds to cook in a 1000 W microwave, or 140 kJ per pizza. so SL-1 could have cooked 1,000 frozen pizzas with the energy of its fission products. Now, if we scale that down to some of the other "accidents" reported earlier, we can see that we quickly stop being able to cook so many pizzas. The 1.3 E18 fissions? Only 245 pizzas. This amount of heat is not all that big of a deal, even if it emits deadly neutron and gamma radiation. We also would note that the proximity to such an excursion would be the most significant criteria as far as exposure, so obviously people nearby wouldn't always die... there would be little danger from the radiation at 5 meters, and essentially no danger from the heat. Let's look at the 245 pizza excursion. What I call 245 pizzas is 34 MJ of energy. If we took 50 gallons (call it 189 liters or 189 kg) of pure water at 25 °C, added 34 MJ, what would be the final temperature? The answer is a 43 °C temperature rise... no big deal. It doesn't even boil the water... 68 °C. And the water shields a lot of the radiation. It's not a major industrial accident.
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The Center for Urban History of East Central Europe (Ukrainian: Центр міської історії центрально-східної Європи) is an independent research center, that was founded by the Austrian historian Harald Binder in 2004 as a private non-profit organization. It is one of the principal academic establishments looking at the urban history of East Central Europe, the region between the German-speaking countries and Russia. The academic principal of the center is Sofia Dyak. ==Location==
The Center for Urban History is located on Akademika Bohomoltsia Street off of Ivana Franka Street. The Center is not far from Soborna Square and the Danylo Halytsky Monument and about a ten-minute walk from Rynok Square. The building was developed by the renowned Ukrainian architect Ivan Levynskyi and is considered to be one of Lviv's best preserved clusters of Art Nouveau architecture. Secessionist latticework consisting of leaves and flowers dominates in its facade over its Neo-Renaissance layout which follows Classical order principles. ==The Center==
The Center promotes the development of extensive research in the field of East Central Europe’s history and cooperates with related scientific institutions in Ukraine and abroad. It offers young Ukrainian researchers opportunities to do advanced, internationally recognized work in their own country, seeking to reduce the “brain-drain” emigration of qualified scholars. Through organization of numerous exhibitions and academic conferences it focuses especially on the cultural heritage of the city of Lviv, and promotes scholarly and cultural exchange. One of the largest projects is “Lviv Interactive” – a platform that is based on a modern map of the city that allows users to explore the city in all its various historical aspects. Some other projects are about the history of different areas of the city (like Sykhiv, Kastelivka, etc.). In order to maintain and develop its various activities in the academic and cultural sphere, the Center has been cooperating with various other institutions, such as the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) in Edmonton, or the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna. It periodically hosts various international and local historical and art exhibitions, often about controversial subjects. Major exhibits are usually connected with the Center’s own academic activities and include innovative content that combines texts, image, films and objects. The Center publishes scientific articles from the urban history of East Central Europe in the series “ece-urban”, which is available online. It also conducts competitions in its January scholarship program, providing scholarships for researchers. The database project «Урбаністичні образи» (“Urban Images”) aims at collecting and processing the urban image of East and Central Europe through engravings, photos and postcards and openly accessible. ==Conferences==
The Center has hosted a number of conferences:
In June 2009 the centre co-hosted a conference on "Sex in the Cities: Prostitution, White Slaving, and Sexual Minorities in Europe" which was organised in conjunction with the Centre for Austrian Studies University of Minnesota and the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies. In November 2010 the "Futurological Congress", an international project with the aim to address the problems of understanding, planning and creating the future as depicted by the Lviv born writer Stanislav Lem, took place in the Center. In co-operation with the International Railway History Association the Center hosted "The Great Longing for Railways" in 2011, a conference covering the revolution in transport by the railway system in the 19th century. In November 2012 the center hosted international conference "The Ukrainian and Jewish Artistic and Architectural Milieus of Lwów/Lemberg/Lviv: From Ausgleich to the Holocaust", which was co-organized with the Center for Jewish Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, amongst others. In 2013, the Center conducted a workshop on multi-ethnic Ukraine in conjunction with the summer school "Jewish History and the Multiethnic Past of East Central Europe: Societies, Cultures, and Heritage", with the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. Together with the Pedagogical University of Krakow, the Center launched a series called "“Lviv: City – Society – Culture". The twelfth conference in the series was "Urban Spaces of Lviv/Lwów/Lemberg: Conceptions, Experiences, Practices” of 2014.
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