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Paschal joy! The Americas: We are delighted to announce the reception of four missions in Mexico into the Province of the Americas & Pacific Rim together with their pastors Padre Abelardo Ochoa Perez and Padre Manuel Abrego Gutierrez. Desiring to be in communion with the historic and authentically Orthodox continuation of the Old Roman Catholic Church, the pastors and faithful of Mexico are pleased to gain first-hand experience of the pastoral and canonical solicitude our Communion practices. Under the benevolent aegis of Metropolitan David and the prudence of the Provincial Chancellor, Dr Thomas Oliver, the Missions look forward to an impending episcopal visitation and to fellowship with fellow Orthodox Catholics in a truly international communion. Responding to news of the reception, the Primus said, Metropolitan Jerome, Primus “It is with anticipatorythis." Bhagwat was speaking at a RSS-held programme where teachers from 11 west Uttar Pradesh districts participated. He made the statement after a participant there asked him to speak on the alleged decline in Hindu population. The audience at the RSS event included university teachers, academics, and a large number teachers from schools in Agra and neighbouring districts. SHIV SENA NOT AMUSED Earlier today, BJP ally Shiv Sena also termed Bhagwat's comments on declining Hindu population as "outdated" and asked the Centre to implement uniform civil code to maintain "social and cultural balance". "Mohan Bhagwat has tried to present outdated thoughts in a modern way. His remarks will not be accepted by progressive Hindu community. Also, PM Modi would not agree that increasing Hindu population is the right way to counter growing Muslim

population," an editorial in Sena mouthpiece 'Saamana' said. "The government is spending a lot of money on family planning. A rise in Muslim population will undoubtedly affect the social and cultural balance of the country, but asking Hindus to have more children is no solution to the problem. The only solution is to implement the uniform civil code to cap the population of all communities. If Hindus give birth to more children, problems like hunger, unemployment and inflation will only increase," the Sena said. Sena also sought to know if Bhagwat was discreetly trying to back the idea of Hindus having more than one spouse to boost the population of the community. CONGRESS ATTACKS BHAGWAT The Congress has also attacked Bhagwat, saying "what else could be expected from him." "Woh Dharm ki hiPages Thursday, March 12, 2015 2.3.5.3. Agnes Forsyth (1887-1965) Agnes Forsyth was born on 17 August 1884 at her parents home on 19 London Road in the Camlachie district of Glasgow. Her parents were Robert and Elizabeth (Riddell) Forsyth and her father was a carter. In 1891 the family lived on 165 Brook Street in Glasgow, and in 1901 they lived on 14 Margaret Street. On 23 December 1910 Agnes married David Hunter at her parents home on 230 Holm Street according to the forms of the United Free Church. She was 23 years old, lived at home with her parents, and worked with two of her sisters polishing picture frames. When the census was enumerated in April 1911 David and Agnes lived at 50 Cramond Street in the Govan ward of Glasgow.

The couple had no children at that time, but did have at least one known daughter. Books about Allied Families The story of the James Wilson family of Topsham, Maine, who came to the United States in 1719 and over 20,000 of his descendants, living and dead, including Martha Brodie, great granddaughter of Robert Muir.warning that doing so would lead to a major uproar given that the governor's corruption scandal left the state reeling for years. "I would stress to the administration in the strongest possible terms that pardoning or commuting the sentence of Rod Blagojevich would be a mistake," said Rep. Darin LaHood, a Republican who represents the area around the Illinois capital of Springfield, where Blagojevich was governor for six years. "It would send the absolute wrong message that the behavior that was engaged in by Rod Blagojevich somehow is acceptable or forgivable." Blagojevich was arrested in 2008 for engaging in a pay-to-play scheme that included an effort to sell an appointment to the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama when he became president. Federal prosecutors, who had recordings of Blagojevich discussing

favors in exchange for the appointment, also laid out what they said was a wide-ranging corruption scheme where the governor sought to award political handouts in exchange for campaign cash. He was convicted on 17 charges and sentenced to 14 years in prison in 2011. In January 2009, the Democratic-controlled state Senate voted 59-0 to remove Blagojevich just weeks after the state House overwhelmingly impeached him, with just one lawmaker voting in support of the then-governor. In another damning rebuke, the state senate voted, again 59-0, to ban Blagojevich from ever holding office again in Illinois. If Trump were to help Blagojevich now, Republicans say it would reopen old wounds. "Let me tell you the conversations going around Springfield are that there were probably not enough charges to bring," said Rep.China launches SJ-10 retrievable space science probe by Staff Writers Jiuquan, China (XNA) Apr 07, 2016 SJ-10 is the second of four scientific satellites under a CAS space program. Unlike the other three, SJ-10 is returnable. It is the 25th such retrievable satellite launched by China in the past decades. China put into space a retrievable scientific research satellite in the early hours of Wednesday in a fresh bid to aid scientists back on Earth in studying microgravity and space life science. In a cloud of brown smoke, the satellite, SJ-10, roared into the air on the back of a Long March 2-D rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China's gobi desert. While in space, the bullet-shaped probe will house 19 experiments involving microgravity fluid physics, microgravity combustion, space material,

conducted on SJ-10 are completely new ones that have never been done before either at home or abroad," said Hu Wenrui, chief scientist of the SJ-10 mission. "They could lead to key breakthroughs in our academic research," Hu said SJ-10 is the second of four scientific satellites under a CAS space program. Unlike the other three, SJ-10 is returnable. It is the 25th such retrievable satellite launched by China in the past decades. Overall, eight of the experiments on fluid physics and microgravity combustion will be carried out in the orbital module and the others in the re-entry capsule which is expected to land at Siziwang Banner in Inner Mongolia, the designated landing spot for China's Shenzhou manned space missions and a 2014 test lunar orbiter. Source: Xinhua News Agencyofficer with the Bay Area Narcotics Team, McMahan participated in the investigation of Jones, Meacham, and Botello. For more than ten months, McMahan posed as a customer in order to ingratiate himself with the defendants. In this role, he purchased sizeable amounts of cocaine and marijuana from the defendants, regularly spoke with them regarding the acquisition of drugs, and once traveled with Botello to Detroit to buy cocaine. McMahan also kept the defendants' residence under surveillance on a periodic basis. From nearby vantage points, McMahan and other officers observed an intermittent stream of suspected drug customers flow into the apartment. Although the officers never apprehended any of these individuals, McMahan theorized that forty percent of the customers purchased cocaine in one-eighth to one-quarter

Annals of Family Medicine found that primary care doctors received very little pay for quality, whether they were in ACOs or not: A quarter got all their compensation based on the services they billed ("productivity"). A quarter got all their compensation from straight salary (no word how it was set) The rest had a mix. ACO doctors' compensation averaged 49% from salary, 46% based on billable services, 3% based on "quality", and 1.5% other, almost the same as non-ACO doctors. The study had a 50% response, and excluded solo practices. ​There is a revolving door between ACOs and the federal Department of Health and Human Services. The so-called "most influential" physician executive in the country moved from senior manager at Geisinger (part of Keystone ACO), to director of Medicare's Innovation Center, to CEO ofCHE Trinity Health, which is part of 5 ACOs and is forming 11 more, and is carefully navigating anti-trust rules in Michigan. Another executive moved from manager of a NY program using commercial electronic health records, to federal coordinator of health records, to a company setting up and managing ACOs. He took a key executive with him from the federal government. (Under his leadership as federal coordinator, electronic records expanded rapidly in hospitals and doctors' offices, without adequate security.) ​HOSPITAL POWER AND COST A January 2012 discussion reported in the Wall Street Journal included a former Medicare administrator, Scully, saying ACOs would not work and would be dominated by locally powerful hospitals forming ACOs. "The biggest flaw with ACOs is that they are driving more power to hospitals—not to doctors. Very

terms... A full 40 percent of all hospital stays now occur in health care markets where a single entity controls all hospitals... not a single highly competitive hospital market remains in any region of the United States." Hospitals are rapidly buying doctor practices, so the doctors become employees and refer patients to the hospitals, not necessarily saving money, but strengthening the hospital. A November 2012 article in the New York Times, supported by hundreds of comments from doctors and nurses, reported on hospitals buying doctor groups, raising prices, pressuring doctors to maximize billings, then paying doctors bonuses if they discharge quickly, after the hospital earns its flat payment for the diagnosis. Only 53% of employed doctors think patient care is better from employed doctors than self-employed doctors. Over half get pay basedon their productivity or profits, rather than straight salary, and 39% of these are dissatisfied with their productivity targets. 90% of hospitals hired temporary doctors in 2013, up from 74% in 2012, to fill in for doctors who quit or went on vacation. Some doctors leave hospitals when the employment contract becomes unsatisfactory. C. Bonus to ACO for Cutting Costs An ACO gets a bonus payment of up to 50% of the cost savings from Medicare Parts A and B for its patients. By 2015, half the ACOs have raised Medicare's costs, an average of 3%. The other half of ACOs have cut costs, an average of 4%. Among all 392 ACOs, 30% cut costs enough to earn a bonus. The bonus received by these ACOs averages 3% of their costs. During

Tuesday, August 7, 2012 Watkins Glen Storylines: Jeff Gordon Back in the Mix Gordon's 86th career win came with perfect timing (Getty) No counting out Jeff Gordon. The four-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion appeared destined to miss this year’s Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup™ as recently as June when he ranked outside the top-20 "wild card" eligibility list. No longer. Gordon posted career victory No. 86 at Pocono Raceway on Sunday, climbed to 13th in points and ousted Kyle Busch from the second provisional "wild card" spot. He joins Hendrick Motorsports teammate Kasey Kahne, a two-time winner, in the "wild card" derby that ends Sept. 8 at Richmond International Raceway, the final stop before the Chase field is set. Chase seeding remains crowded at the top. Gordon’s teammate Johnson missed agolden opportunity – a 91st lap spin while leading – to add three more bonus points to the nine he shares with Tony Stewart and Brad Keselowski. All are three-time season winners. Stewart might be the favorite to take over the provisional No. 1 seeding on Sunday at Watkins Glen International where the reigning NASCAR Sprint Cup champion has won five times – most at the 2.45-mile road course. Keselowski, however, finished second at The Glen a year ago and bids to become the track’s third consecutive first-time winner. Bitterly disappointed the week before in Indianapolis, NASCAR Nationwide Series points leader Elliott Sadler bounced back in the best possible way at Iowa Speedway. Sadler won for the fourth time in 2012 and extended his championship lead over Richard Childress Racing

teammate Austin Dillon to 18 points. Saturday’s event at Watkins Glen International is the second of three road course events for the series this season. Sadler has the edge in experience over the current top four championship contenders and was 10th at The Glen last year. Fourth-place Sam Hornish Jr. was the top finisher (fifth) when the series visited Road America in June. The series completes its road racing menu on Aug. 18 at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal, Canada. Joey Coulter became the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series’ fourth first-time winner last Saturday at Pocono Raceway. The 22-year-old from Miami Springs, Fla. notched the sixth victory of the season by an under-30 competitor. Timothy Peters continues to lead the championship standings heading for the series’ next event Aug. 18 at MichiganInternational Speedway. Eighteen points spans positions one through four as the season enters its second half. NASCAR SPRINT CUP SERIES Gordon On Cusp Of Making Chase After All Never count out a four-time champion and 85-race winner until the last lap has been run. Jeff Gordon has come all the way back from a 35th-place ranking following the Daytona 500 to lay claim – for the moment anyway – to the second of two "wild card" qualifying berths for the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup™. He was outside the top 20 and ineligible for a "wild card" as recently as June’s Pocono stop. He now stands 13th. Being in the right place at the right time to break a 31-race drought and score his 86th NASCAR Sprint Cup victory, Gordon

three races a season since 2008, Busch has been uncharacteristically missing from Victory Lane in 2012. His single win came in May at Richmond International Raceway – the final pre-Chase stop. Good news for Busch: 12 of his 24 career victories have been scored at the five remaining Race to the Chase tracks. Johnson’s Late-Race Stumble Leaves No. 1 Seed Up For Grabs Five-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson was well on his way to the provisional No. 1 Chase seed at Pocono until spinning from the lead on a 91st lap restart. Johnson, Tony Stewart and Brad Keselowski remain deadlocked at three wins apiece – each driver counting nine bonus points to be added to a Chase base of 2,000 points should they remain among the top 10in the standings. This week could be Stewart’s time to shine. The three-time and reigning champion is the leading winner at The Glen (five) most recently in 2009. Johnson, a road course winner at Sonoma, has yet to score at Watkins Glen while Keselowski finished second there a year ago. Gordon’s Win Puts All Four Hendrick Drivers In Victory Lane Hendrick Motorsports’ stock has shot to the top of the board since Johnson gave the organization its 200th victory in May at Darlington Raceway. Gordon’s Pocono victory was HMS’ seventh of the season (in the past 11 races) and third in a row. It also marked the first time that all four Hendrick drivers – currently Johnson, Gordon, Kahne and Dale Earnhardt Jr. – have won in same season since

The Glen where the last two winners – Marcos Ambrose and Juan Pablo Montoya – failed to make the Chase. Kevin Harvick, one of two drivers among the top 10 without a victory this season, could end The Glen’s short string of non-Chase winners. Harvick won at The Glen in 2006 and finished sixth a year ago. Remaining Race To Chase Venues Test Many Skills Variety may be the spice of life and it’s certainly the definition of tracks comprising the final five stops in the Race to the Chase. The next month’s schedule visits a road course (Watkins Glen International), a pair of superspeedways (Michigan International and Atlanta Motor Speedways) and two short tracks (Bristol Motor Speedway and Richmond International Raceway). Three of the five tracks have run eventsSpring has come to Manson and the thoughts of men turn to love, but Rachel doesn't know who to trust until she finds the man who murdered her and left her in a shallow grave. Unfortunately, in a town like Manson, she finds more suspects than allies. This issue begins a new story arc in Terry Moore's critically acclaimed series.

regular deliveries, and ordered at least one beatdown over a botched delivery on a shipment of synthetic marijuana. And the beatings increased as correctional officers grew suspicious of an investigation against them. Inmates—the officers didn’t know which—began leaking information on the drug trade that ruled their prison. When officers became suspicious of an inmate, they would allegedly command other inmates to attack the information. The indictment describes two incidents—one linked to a dispute within the bloods gang—in which correctional officers ordered inmates to stab enemies with contraband knives. (The prison is currently facing an unrelated lawsuit by an inmate who says he was stabbed multiple times while an officer failed to act. The officer is not named in the indictment.) By February 2016, the scheme built on volatile gang alliancesSchool officials say one child was killed and three others were injured after their school bus crashed in North Texas. The Mesquite Independent School District says a bus carrying 41 students from Terry Middle School crashed Wednesday afternoon. Aerial video showed the bus lying on its side in a ditch with its rear half showing scorch marks. It wasn't immediately clear what caused the wreck. The district confirmed on its Facebook page Wednesday evening that one student had died. The child was not identified. The 37 uninjured students were later returned to the school where counselors were on hand to meet them and their families. Mesquite is a suburb just east of Dallas.

The scoobies are back! Well, most of them are. The cast of Buffy the Vampire Slayer had a mini-reunion at Wizard World Portland on Sunday and it brought back fond memories of their days at Sunnydale High School and the Hellmouth. The titular slayer was not on hand, unfortunately, but her fellow supernatural-hunting friends were. Her BFF Willow, Alyson Hannigan, was on hand as well as her partner Amber Benson, who played her girlfriend Tara. James Marsters, who played Spike, the vampire we love to hate, also was there as well as Charisma Carpenter, who played the resident diva Cordelia, and Nicholas Brendon, who portrayed Xander. Also in attendance were actors Julie Benz, Iyari Limon, Amy Acker, James Leary, Clare Kramer, and Alexis Denisof. Many took to Instagram to postResearchers long ago established a link between inflammation, cancer and the compound nitric oxide, which may be produced when the immune system responds to bacterial infections, including those of the colon. However, the exact nature of the relationship was unknown --Â until now. Scientists from MIT's Division of Comparative Medicine and Department of Biological Engineering have found that nitric oxide produced by inflammatory cells during bacterial infection can cause colon cells to become cancerous. The finding suggests that blocking the compound may help prevent or treat colon cancer, the third most common form of cancer in the United States. The researchers, led by James Fox, director of the Division of Comparative Medicine (DCM), report their findings in the Jan. 19 online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of

said LAPD Capt. Jeff Bert, who oversaw the on-the-ground response. Bert said he delivered dispersal orders but acknowledged that the chaotic circumstances posed challenges, particularly during the first night of demonstrations. On Nov. 26, protesters initially gathered outside the federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles but moved to 7th and Figueroa streets, where police said they ordered the crowd to disperse. But many protesters and others say they never heard such an order. The lawsuit alleges that the crowd was allowed to move to 6th and Hope streets where they and other demonstrators were detained. Charmaine Chua, a plaintiff in the lawsuit, said she asked to leave and police refused. About 130 arrests were made, including people there who were not protesting, the suit alleges. Two nights later, protesters marched to 8thChelsea Park Village Apartments Welcome to Chelsea Park Village Apartments. Chelsea Park is located in the heart of Aurora, just off East Alameda and Peoria St. Chelsea Park Village is the perfect place in Aurora for relaxed living in style. Are you looking for a place with big city amenities in a rural setting? Then look no further than Chelsea Park Village Apartments. Our buildings are part of a 52 acre secluded neighborhood with large sprawling oak trees and beautiful green grass that make you feel as if you live in a small town instead of a city. Our community offers state of the art fitness center, internet access, playground areas, splash water park, basketball and tennis courts, sand volleyball area, ample parking space, and a terrific and helpful staff

One week before the Brussels terrorist attacks, a Saudi-led coalition bombed a market in Mastaba, Yemen. Although more people died in Mastaba than in Brussels — 106 versus 34 — the media and the international community in general ignored that earlier atrocity, as they’ve ignored most of the 150 indiscriminate aerial attacks reported by the United Nations and Human Rights Watch in the last year. The problem, however, is worse than inattention; the West is actually supporting — by way of arms and military assistance — this all-but-invisible war. Join the conversation on Facebook>> Saudi Arabia has stated that its goal in Yemen is to restore to power President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi, who fled the capital, Sana, in the wake of a coup by Houthi militia forces, and to preemptA Blog of the Irish way of life,news,politics,people,singers,writers,dancers, poets,multimedia,#JFTC2, and Ireland,featuring YouTube,brionOcleirigh, Saturday, 23 November 2013 JOHN KENNEDY The Kennedy Assassination : 50 Years Later By Paul Craig Roberts November 22, 2013 "Information Clearing House - November 22, 2013, is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The true story of JFK’s murder has never been officially admitted, although the conclusion that JFK was murdered by a plot involving the Secret Service, the CIA, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff has been well established by years of research, such as that provided by James W. Douglass in his book, JFK And The Unspeakable, published by Simon & Schuster in 2008. Ignore Douglass’ interest in the Trappist monk Thomas Merton and Merton’s prediction and focus on the heavily documented research that

the facts are conclusive that JFK was on terrible terms with the CIA and the Joint Chiefs. He had refused to support the CIA organized Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. He had rejected the Joint Chiefs’ “Operation Northwoods,” a plan to commit real and faked acts of violence against Americans, blame Castro and use the false flag events to bring regime change to Cuba. He had rejected the Joint Chiefs case that the Soviet Union should be attacked while the US held the advantage and before the Soviets could develop delivery systems for nuclear weapons. He had indicated that after his reelection he was going to pull US troops out of Vietnam and that he was going to break the CIA into a thousand pieces. He hadKennedy knew what had happened. He was on his way to being elected president and to holding the plotters accountable for the murder of his brother when the CIA assassinated him. A distinguished journalist, who was standing behind Robert Kennedy at the time of his assassination, told me that the killing shots came from behind past his ear. He submitted his report to the FBI and was never contacted. Acoustic experts have conclusively demonstrated that more shots were fired than can be accounted for by Sirhan Sirhan’s pistol and that the sounds indicate two different calibers of firearms. I never cease to be amazed by the gullibility of Americans, who know nothing about either event, but who confidently dismiss the factual evidence provided by experts and historians on the basis

gave it to David." "And his garments, even his sword and his bow and his belt." "Now, we'll have a few words from Edward's son, Daniel." "Hi, everyone." "Thanks for so many of you coming." "I never realised Dad was so popular." "In fact, it seems he has more friends now that he's dead, than when he was alive." "My father was an exceptional man." "He was born in 1938 just a year before the war." "I'll never forget the time when Dad took us to the place where he grew up." "Near a town called Crowley at Sassex." "It's changed a lot over the years with the expansion of Gatwick airport." "Actually, it's something of a commuter town now partly because of it's proximity to London." "Whenmore fragile clients with multiple addictions, mental illness, housing and unemployment issues, and more. The regulatory problems didn't stop there. Influenced by tales of unscrupulous methadone clinics taking on huge case-loads for the reimbursement cash, Congress barred doctors from maintaining more than 30 bupe patients at a time. And in a monumental blunder, the law classified giant HMOs like Kaiser Permanente, as well as hospitals, as single providers, with the same 30-patient cap that Kolodny has in the solo practice he maintains on evenings and weekends. Four years later, the law remains unchanged. One clear sign of the law's unintended consequences: The world-renowned Addiction Institute of New York (better recognized by its old name, Smithers) doesn't mention bupe in its advertising because with a 30-patient limit, it fears it

Russia’s military intelligence agency, known as the GRU , is getting blamed for all sorts of things these days. Robert Mueller indicted 12 GRU officers for hacking into computers of the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. The GRU allegedly was behind the recent poisonings of four people in Britain, including former GRU officer Sergei Skripal, who survived, and a woman accidentally exposed to the powerful nerve agent used, who died. The 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine has been laid at the door of the GRU. And recently there were reports that GRU hackers are directing their efforts at the U.S. power grid. Russian mercenaries serving in Syria and in Africa are largely drawn from GRU ranks. Three Russian journalists investigating their activities weremurdered last month. Igor Korobov, the head of the GRU, was singled out personally for U.S. Treasury sanctions in March, along with his organization, even though he had already been sanctioned by the Obama administration in late 2016 for interference in our elections. Maybe Trump’s people felt they had to make the point after Korobov was invited, along with chiefs of other Russian secret services, to Washington, D.C., in late January—just weeks before the new sanctions were announced. The visit was supposed to be a secret, but the Russians leaked it. The others in attendance were Sergei Naryshkin, the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), and Aleksandr Bortnikov, director of the Federal Security Service (FSB). “ It was necessary to look each other in the eye and talk about issues

take: “Given the political conditions in the United States now, it’s flabbergasting, to be honest. I can’t imagine who would have signed off on that.” At home in Russia meanwhile, Korobov is riding high. In 2017, conceivably for his work helping to get Trump elected, Korobov was promoted to colonel-general, and Putin bestowed on him the highest state honor—Hero of the Russian Federation. It is hard to believe that just a few years ago there was widespread talk in the Russian media about the GRU being on its last legs, perhaps even about to be disbanded. In November 2010, at a celebration of the anniversary of the founding of the GRU in 1918, GRU officers one after another toasted mournfully “to the bright memory” of their agency. The new 70,000-square-meterboth the FSB and the SVR sit on Putin’s National Security Council, but not the GRU head, who reports only to the armed forces general staff. Miraculously, however, the GRU bounced back after Igor Sergun became chief of the agency in 2011. According to security expert Mark Galeotti, writing in War on the Rocks, Sergun was “an able, articulate, and effective champion of his agency’s interests… He was particularly good at managing relations with Putin and those to whom the president listens.” Sergun managed to have several Spetsnaz units transferred back to the GRU. These troops are roughly comparable to U.S. special operations forces. They perform reconnaissance, diversion, and combat operations in various hot spots where there is ethnic strife, such as Chechnya, where they were widely deployed. Then came the

Crimean invasion and the Ukrainian conflict. As Galeotti pointed out: “The chaos in Ukraine was a boon for the GRU, which was one of the lead agencies both in the seizure of the Crimea in 2014 and the subsequent destabilization of the Donbas [Eastern Ukraine]. If the future means more ‘hybrid war’ operations, more interactions with warlords, gangsters, and insurgents, then this is much more the forte of the GRU than the SVR.” Some members of GRU units became mercenaries in private military companies like the Wagner Group, under the command of reserve GRU Lt. Col. Dmitry Utkin. In 2014-15 Wagner was one of the main forces in battles fought on the territories of Donetsk and Lugansk in eastern Ukraine. Subsequently Wagner moved to Syria, where it has played avital role as the Kremlin’s proxy force supporting Syrian government military offensives. When some of its operatives were involved in an attack on oil installations controlled by U.S. allies on the ground, the Americans counterattacked from the air, allegedly killing several Wagner personnel. In April, a Russian reporter writing about Wagner operations and casualties died under mysterious circumstances, supposedly falling accidentally from the balcony of his fifth floor apartment. “ The order to fire the missile was approved by GRU Gen. Oleg Vladimirovich Ivannikov. ” Wagner also runs significant operations as far afield as the Central African Republic, where it bolsters government forces, negotiates with rebels, and guards valuable diamond, gold, and other mineral deposits—activities being investigated by the Russian journalists murdered there. These ad hoc GRU operations have had some negative

repercussions for Moscow. A joint Australian and Dutch investigation determined that the missile used to down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in July 2014 originated from the 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile brigade, a unit of the Russian army from Kursk in the Russian Federation. The respected Bellingcat group has now found that the order to fire the missile was approved by GRU Gen. Oleg Vladimirovich Ivannikov, who supervised several divisions of fighters in Donetsk, including those of Ukrainian separatists and the Wagner Group. Korobov got off to a rocky start when he assumed the post of GRU chief in early 2016. For starters, there were questions raised about the sudden death in January that year of his predecessor, Sergun. Officially, Sergun died of natural causes in Moscow, but there were reports thathe perished in Lebanon. The decision to appoint Korobov took an entire month, reportedly because of a conflict within the Kremlin elite over who should get the job from a choice of four candidates. A group that was allied with the FSB and the SVR, led by Sergei Ivanov (then head of the presidential administration and an old KGB colleague of Putin), wanted one of their own to head the GRU, while those representing Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu were pushing for Korobov. The army clan, proponents of an aggressive, confrontational approach toward the West in Ukraine and elsewhere, won out, and within several months Ivanov would lose his Kremlin job. It is said that Korobov, who specialized in strategic military intelligence, is a pragmatist who is not interested in

Kremlin politics and just wants to get the job done, whatever that might be. So it must be unsettling for Korobov to be the only high-level Russian official with staff members under indictment in the United States. In fact, back in 2006, at the opening of the new GRU headquarters, a journalist asked a GRU general whether U.S. elections were a topic that was followed by their intelligence analysts. The general responded, “That is primarily a task for the SVR. We follow [the elections] but to a much lesser extent than the SVR."” So how to explain that 12 years later the GRU is in the forefront of election meddling in the U.S.? According to Vadim Birstein, an authority on the Russian security services, “In the past, the ‘active measures’ deployederupt after World War II, igniting the Cold War, occurred in 1945 when a GRU cipher clerk from the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa defected, taking with him reams of secret documents that showed the Soviets had an atomic spy ring in North America. Then there was the infamous GRU Gen. Oleg Penkovsky, who tipped off Britain that the Soviets had missiles in Cuba—and was executed for treason in 1963. Much later, Sergei Skripal, who for several years cooperated with MI6, provided hundreds of names of his fellow GRU agents before he was caught in 2006 and charged with treason. In 2010 he was handed over to Britain as part of a spy swap, and earlier this year he was poisoned. British authorities are now saying that the GRU carried out

everything she thought she knew about her extraordinary gift. Inspired to learn more about autism and also the family history of her new plumber, Abby begins to dig deep on both topics and will discover a shocking connection that makes it clear that deeds from the past are reverberating still in the present . . .Civilization Revolution 2 Plus, the version of the strategy game coming to PlayStation Vita, was supposed to launch in December 2015, but was pushed to January 26, 2016 just a day before it was scheduled to launch. Now, the portable game has been delayed again, moving out to sometime "later this year," according to a post on the official Civilization Facebook page. "Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution 2 Plus for PlayStation Vita is now launching in North America and Europe later this year," reads a line from the statement (via NeoGAF). "The team is hard at work making sure the title lives up to fans' expectations, and we appreciate your continued patience as we take the time needed to prepare the title for global release in 2016." Unlike the first Civilization

Revolution, which was released for consoles, PC, and mobile, the sequel was initially only available for mobile devices. The game is developed by Firaxis Games, creator of the Civilization series. Civilization Revolution 2 Plus launched as scheduled on December 3, 2015 in Asia.In this Wednesday, March 6, 2019 photo a wood carving entitled "La Sad Girl" by artist Andrew Montoya sits at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, N.M. before the opening of a exhibit on the chola, a working-class, Mexican-American female often associated with urban gangs. The "Que Chola Exhibition" opens on Friday, March 8 with pieces by artists from New Mexico, Arizona, California, Texas, and Colorado. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras) In this Wednesday, March 6, 2019 photo a wood carving entitled "La Sad Girl" by artist Andrew Montoya sits at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, N.M. before the opening of a exhibit on the chola, a working-class, Mexican-American female often associated with urban gangs. The "Que Chola Exhibition" opens on Friday, March 8 with pieces by artists

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Everything bloomed so early and so quickly here. When it first started, we were experiencing crazy storms and lots of rain. First I ventured out with my old Canon Rebel GII and expired film, but when the rain cleared and the morning was filled with fog, I pulled out the Hasselblad. Both yielded joyful results. Most of the yellows pinks and purples are gone now, but I'm just getting the film back now and getting to relive the whole thing! Ah, the beauty of photographs. St. Patrick's Day in Lawrence falls during March Madness, when the city is already at it's height of festivity. You can see in one of the shots below, there was bluegrass, basketball, pups and kids, and in another, a pirate ship rode down Mass. Street,by Chris Billowsin Think (Hockey)1 commentstags: Jets Draft, Jets Improvement, Minor League Stats The 2016 NHL Entry Draft is underway and the Winnipeg Jets are adding to their cupboard of future hockey players. This is the sixth draft for the franchise since moving to Winnipeg. When it moved from Atlanta in 2011, the Winnipeg Jets inherited an empty cupboard of players and prospects. We just need to see the Winnipeg Jets records of marginal competitiveness for proof. The Winnipeg Jets essentially had to start restocking their prospects cupboard. Drafting and developing is the single best way for a sports franchise to build success yet you will see in the year-by-year breakdown below that the Thrashers did a very poor job of drafting good players and then did a poor

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WASHINGTON — The Senate Intelligence Committee has asked a number of high-profile Trump campaign associates to hand over emails and other records of dealings with Russians as part of its investigation into Russian meddling in the presidential election and is prepared to subpoena those who refuse to cooperate, officials said. The requests for the materials were made in letters sent by the committee in the past 10 days, said two officials with knowledge of the contents of the letters. The move is designed to accelerate the committee’s investigation, and represents a new bipartisan challenge to the Trump administration, which has sought to use Republican allies in Congress to blunt the inquiries. Among those who said they had received the requests were Roger J. Stone Jr., an informal adviser to PresidentTrump, and Carter Page, a businessman and former foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign. Paul Manafort, the former campaign chairman, and Michael T. Flynn, the former national security adviser, were also sent letters, the officials with knowledge of the investigation said. Representatives for those two men declined to comment.

Q: Were muggles aware of the 2nd Wizarding War? At its height the Wizarding War was quite destructive and overt. Harry, Ron and Hermione were ambushed in a London cafe in the precense of a muggle. They also unleashed a dragon from a bank which again took off over London. Now at this point Voldemort had taken over the Ministry for Magic, and had instituted some rather large changes regarding Wizard-supremacy. Also, give the big division in the Wizarding world, its likely the Ministry was understaffed, meaning that its unlikely they would have had the number of Wizards going around and memory charming half of London. So, with all that going on, were Muggles aware of the events of the 2nd Wizard War, and if so, did knowledge of Wizards ingeneral become common in the Muggle World? A: The Prime Minister of Magic always had communication with the Muggle Prime Minister and informed him the necessary to warn him about the security of Muggles, as when Sirius escaped in PoA. A: Were Muggles aware of the events of the 2nd Wizard War There is no canon information that they were aware that there was a conflict between Wizards. However, they were definitely aware of some of the events or their consequences that were part of the conflict (as was seen in Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 1: The Other Minister): 'A grim mood has gripped the country,' the opponent had concluded, barely concealing his own broad grin. And unfortunately, this was perfectly true. The Prime Minister felt it himself; people really did seem more miserable than usual.

Even the weather was dismal; all this chilly mist in the middle of July... it wasn't right, it wasn't normal... ... 'Yes, of course,' said Fudge, rubbing his eyes wearily and looking morosely at the Prime Minister. 'I've been having the same week you have, Prime Minister. The Brockdale Bridge... the Bones and Vance murders... not to mention the ruckus in the West Country...' 'You – er – your – I mean to say, some of your people were – were involved in those – those things, were they?' Fudge fixed the Prime Minister with a rather stern look. 'Of course they were,' he said, 'Surely you've realized what's going on?' ... 'At war?' repeated the Prime Minister nervously. 'Surely that's a little bit of an overstatement?' 'He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named has now been joined by those of hisfollowers who broke out of Azkaban in January,' said Fudge, speaking more and more rapidly and twirling his bowler so fast that it was a lime-green blur. 'Since they have moved into the open, they have been wreaking havoc. The Brockdale Bridge – he did it, Prime Minister, he threatened a mass Muggle killing unless I stood aside for him and –' Direct Wizarding involvement was suppressed while Scrimgeour was MoM, but the results were seen by Muggles nevertheless. The full quote goes on for several pages so I will refrain from including it in this answer, but they discussed things that were reflected in Muggle world and known to PM: The Brockdale Bridge collapse (caused by Death Eaters) Hurricane in the West Country (that was really giants) Amelia Bones' murder Emmeline Vance's murder Dementors

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Story highlights She writes about "ordinary Canadian people" and "turns it into magic," publisher says Canada's prime minister congratulates Munro A story from one of her collections is the basis of a film Munro, who lives in southwestern Ontario, is compared to Anton Chekhov Canada's Alice Munro -- called the "master of the contemporary short story" -- won the 2013 Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences announced Thursday. The prize committee compared the 82-year-old author to Anton Chekhov, the 19th century Russian who is considered one of the greatest short story writers in history. She's the first Canadian-based writer to win the literature award. Saul Bellow, who won it in 1976, was born in Quebec but moved to the United States as a child and is regarded as a U.S.author. Munro is the 13th woman to receive the literature prize. "On behalf of all Canadians," Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in a tweet, "congratulations to Alice Munro." JUST WATCHED Alice Munro wins literature Nobel Prize Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Alice Munro wins literature Nobel Prize 05:05 After the prestigious award was announced, the Nobel committee said on Twitter that it hadn't been able to contact Munro and left a phone message to tell her the good news. But The Canadian Press contacted her, and she was quoted as saying the award was "quite wonderful" and she was "terribly surprised." "I knew I was in the running, yes, but I never thought I would win," she said, according to a Toronto Star story quoting The Canadian Press. Doug Gibson, Munro's publisher,

and colliding life ambitions. "Her texts often feature depictions of everyday but decisive events, epiphanies of a kind, that illuminate the surrounding story and let existential questions appear in a flash of lightning," the committee said. The author has won many honors over the years, including the 2009 Man Booker International Prize. "Alice Munro is mostly known as a short story writer and yet she brings as much depth, wisdom and precision to every story as most novelists bring to a lifetime of novels. To read Alice Munro is to learn something every time that you never thought of before," the Man Booker judging panel said at the time. Lives near her childhood home Munro, who lives in the southwestern Ontario town of Clinton, was born near there in Wingham, where her fatherwas a fox farmer and her mother was a teacher. She started writing stories in her teen years and studied journalism and English at the University of Western Ontario. Munro took a breather from her studies when she got married in 1951. She and her husband moved to Victoria, British Columbia, and opened a bookstore. She published in various magazines starting in the 1950s. In 1968, she published "Dance of the Happy Shades," a book-length collection of short stories. "In 1971 she published a collection of stories entitled Lives of Girls and Women, which critics have described as a Bildungsroman," or a coming-of-age work, the Royal Academy of Sciences said. Other well-known works include: "Who Do You Think You Are?" (1978), "The Moons of Jupiter" (1982), "Runaway" (2004), "The View from Castle Rock"

(2006) and "Too Much Happiness" (2009). A story in the 2001 collection "Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage" was the basis of the 2006 film "Away from Her," directed by Sarah Polley. Munro gained world renown for writing about everyday people. "Here we have a world prize being won by someone who writes about housewives in Vancouver, booksellers in Victoria, bean farmers in Huron County and accountants and teachers and librarians -- ordinary Canadian people, and she turns it into magic," Gibson said. 'Dear Life' Munro's most recent short story collection is titled "Dear Life." The New Yorker magazine, in an interview with her last year, said it includes "several narratives in which women in some way shake off the weight of their upbringing and do something unconventional." She was asked whether it was "normalfor girls from rural Ontario to go to university" when she did, noting that in her stories, there "is often a stigma attached to any girl who attracts attention to herself. ... " "I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was 'call attention to yourself' or 'think you were smart.' My mother was an exception to this rule and was punished by the early onset of Parkinson's disease. (The rule was for country people, like us, not so much for towners.) I tried to lead an acceptable life and a private life and got by most of the time OK," she said. Munro was asked how she came to focus on short stories. "For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till

by intertwining fantasy and gritty everyday life. Mo plies his trade in a country where running afoul of party lines could lead to censorship. His work packs a punch, but he walks a fine line. He is considered a writer within the system and even has embraced official restrictions on writing. And he's a Communist Party member who holds a vice-chairman spot in the state-sanctioned China Writers Association. Prize history The Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded 106 times since 1901. In recent years, Munro has been mentioned as a contender, along with Japanese author Haruki Murakami and U.S. writer Philip Roth. It is almost always awarded to one author and has only been shared four times, which stands in stark contrast to the science Nobels, which two or three scientists oftenshare. The youngest recipient was Rudyard Kipling, who is known for his work "The Jungle Book." He was 42 when he received the prize in 1907. The oldest was Doris Lessing, who received it at the age of 88. Incidentally, many think Winston Churchill received the Nobel Peace Prize, but he did not. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1953. Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel created the prizes in 1895 to honor work in physics, chemistry, literature and peace. The first economics prize was awarded in 1969. Nobels this week Two Americans and a German shared this year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine Monday. Americans James E. Rothman and Randy W. Schekman, and German Thomas C. Sudhof were honored for discoveries of how the body's cells decide when and where to

deliver the molecules they produce. And on Tuesday, two men who predicted the existence of the Higgs boson particle 50 years before its discovery took the prize for physics -- Francois Englert of Belgium and Peter Higgs of the United Kingdom. Higgs and Englert's theories of the elusive particle explained what gives matter its mass and played a key role in completing scientists' understanding of the nature of all matter. On Wednesday, the Nobel Prize in chemistry rewarded three scientists for work leading to the computer programs used today to precisely calculate how very complex molecules and huge chemical reactions work. The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced Friday, followed by the final prize, the award for achievements in economics, on Monday.the referendum in 2016, he forged a unique position by subsequently saying that he would vote leave if he had the chance again. A tenacious character, Mr Hunt survived as health secretary, a position with curious resonance in the UK, for almost six years despite widespread opposition within the National Health Service. Mr Hunt is rumoured to be preparing a bid with Michael Gove as his number two, with the environment secretary providing Brexit ballast for his colleague. Their cabinet colleague Liz Truss was overheard this week saying that she thought Mr Hunt or Mr Javid would get the job, but was scathing about Mr Gove, saying that “everybody hates” him. Penny Mordaunt, the international development secretary, is also seen to be on manoeuvres. Earlier this week it was noted

minister could be forced out of office within weeks. This explains the feverish nature of plotting taking place in Westminster. However, the Conservative party will be well aware of the risks of engaging in another leadership election. Mrs May was elevated to her position by default in 2016, after David Cameron resigned following the Brexit vote. There was no campaign as all her rivals wilted away in the face of her overwhelming popularity. Barring an extension of Article 50, the date for leaving the European Union is just over three months away, meaning there is no time for the party to engage in a proper leadership contest. The likelihood is that a fumbled election for a figure incapable of unifying the Conservatives will just lead to more pain for theXmen! Why should the consumer be some kind of beta-tester, but spend a lot of money on a new TV. When you buy a new car with special features you also expect that they all work proper... Best regards I'd like some navigation improvements for the "on screen keyboard" and the "home menu". Eg. : no more stop at the left-right (or top-bottom) of the margins. It should be possible to switch from the end to the beginning of the on screen keyboard simply by continuing in the same direction. The same for the "home menu". I'd like some navigation improvements for the "on screen keyboard" and the "home menu". Eg. : no more stop at the left-right (or top-bottom) of the margins. It should be possible to switch from the end to the beginning of

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election he was reelected. References Category:1971 births Category:Living people Category:People from Bytom Category:Mayors of places in PolandWhy Arsenal Will Reignite the Manchester United Rivalry When Arsenal welcome newly crowned Premier League champions Manchester United with a guard of honour Sunday, many in the crowd will struggle to contain their sense of bitterness. It is small consolation to reflect that in terms of most recent competitive rivalries, Man United might derive more satisfaction from inflicting this humiliation on Manchester City or Chelsea. Indeed, that only deepens the discontent. How has the principle competitive rivalry of the Premier League era dissipated so abruptly? The key word is obviously "competitive." Man United and Arsenal fans may still feel vestiges of the seething rivalry that has defined much of their Premier League experience, but there remains little or none of it on the pitch—or on the sidelines. As Arsenal's power in the league

has waned while United have held strong, the acrimonious relationship between managers Arsene Wenger and Alex Ferguson has mellowed considerably. The days of captains Patrick Vieira and Roy Keane starting hostilities in the tunnel even before kickoff seem distant. As Man United collect their 20th top-flight championship—with an amazing 13 coming under Ferguson's reign—their dominance looks virtually unassailable. Those numbers make any sort of competitive rivalry seem far-fetched. Yet all sports fans know that dominance is cyclical. Even the strongest dynasties can fall as circumstances change. The balance of power in the Premier League is undergoing a major change in circumstance. Arsenal's fall from league contention has precisely coincided with challenges mounted by rich patron-driven Chelsea and Manchester City. There are three major reasons United have managed to avoid falling by thewayside in a similar manner. First, United still retain the top revenues in the Premier League, as shown by the league's financial reports summarised this April in the Guardian. This has enabled them to keep wages relatively high and hold on to key players just as Arsenal have seen theirs whittled away. That largely contributes to their second strength in this period: a core continuity in the team, also helped by the remarkable longevity of one-club veterans like Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes—players essentially of an earlier era. Third, that continuity extends of course to the manager, who has maintained a distinct winning culture through a combination of keeping key players, the awe-inspiring success of his tenure and to some extent, sheer force of personality. Apart from the massive revenues driven by

Old Trafford's size and the club's global commercial popularity, all those factors are perishable. In famously hale financial health themselves, Arsenal are one of the few Premier League clubs in good position to thrive under Financial Fair Play, which, if strictly enforced, could give them the competitive edge in wages they have recently been on the wrong end of. So the competitive gap looks likely to narrow. At the same time, this season has seen a real shift in the character of the Arsenal side, one that hints at a grittier, more determined team—exactly the type of team that used to revel in the United rivalry. Players like Aaron Ramsey and Jack Wilshere leave no doubt about their loyalties. Wenger appears to be recreating an Arsenal culture of pride that seemedProsecutors in Las Vegas have given up their "ridiculous" case against a street preacher who was accused of blocking a sidewalk, even though he wasn't even on it. The end of the case against Ron Cardiel, a Washington state man who periodically travels to Las Vegas to preach on the sidewalks of the Las Vegas Strip, was announced by the Pacific Justice Institute after it defended him on the charge. Pacific Justice explained that "Brother Ron," as Cardiel is known, was cited by authorities and faced up to six months in jail and/or a fine of up to $1,000, for speaking to passersby on the Strip. When presented with the facts, however, the local court dismissed the case entirely. TRENDING: Undercover journalist turns the tables, sues Planned Parenthood for defamation Cardiel had been

charged in April for violating a Clark County law that forbids obstructing sidewals. "Police State USA: How Orwell's Nightmare is Becoming Our Reality," marshals the terrifying evidence to show the world of Big Brother is much closer than we want to admit. Pacific Justice explained Cardiel was not actually standing on the sidewalk, but near it. "Pedestrians freely moved past him with ease, rarely if ever needing to sidestep around him." Nevertheless, a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officer decided that because Cardiel was standing in one place instead of moving around, he was obstructing. "The officer and three of his fellow officers ganged up on Cardiel and demanded that he move along," PJI said. The officers cited Cardiel for a misdemeanor when he asserted that the sidewalk, as a public forum, was alocation where he could practice his First Amendment freedoms of religion and free speech, PJI staff attorney Ray Hacke and affiliate attorney Day Williams flew down to Las Vegas to defend Cardiel at his recent criminal trial. "What happened to Brother Ron was beyond ridiculous," PJI president Brad Dacus said. "The last time I checked, the First Amendment still protects the freedom of individuals to share their faith in public. PJI exists in part to defend that right, and I'm glad the Clark County D.A. had the good sense to dismiss Brother Ron's case because he never should have been charged in the first place." The legal team explained the law used against Cardeil was "unconstitutionally vague and overbroad" and didn't even define what makes up an "obstruction." "The ordinance was also overbroad

Havana(CNN) Cuba is offering to send doctors to more countries struggling with the coronavirus. But don't accept their help, the US State Department says. As health care systems around the world are strained to the point of collapse, Cuban health care "brigades" have been invited to assist medical workers in Italy, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Suriname, Jamaica and Grenada. On Tuesday, Cuban officials released video of a field hospital its health care workers had built in Lombardy, Italy, one of the regions hit hardest by the coronavirus. But the State Department wants countries to reconsider asking Cuba for help in fighting the coronavirus pandemic. "Cuba offers its international medical missions to those afflicted with #COVIDー19 only to make up the money it lost when countries stopped participating in the abusive program," tweetedan account for the US State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor on Wednesday. "Host countries seeking Cuba's help for #COVIDー19 should scrutinize agreements and end labor abuses," the message said. Recent requests for help by other countries have marked an abrupt turnaround. Cuba saw hundreds of doctors sent home from medical missions in Brazil, Ecuador and Bolivia in recent years, after the US criticized Cuba's medical assistance programs, accusing them of exploiting health care workers and spreading propaganda. The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Cuba offers some countries free medical assistance out of solidarity, while other countries pay for the services. The workers who deploy typically receive only about 20% of the salaries the host countries pay for their assistance -- a

reduced wage, but much more than Cuban doctors earn in hospitals back home, where a top salary is about $60 a month. The Cuban government has said it keeps the majority of the overseas salaries to finance the island's free health care system. Extremely effective at disaster relief Like many institutions in Cuba, the local health care system has seen better days. But the hyper centralization of the Cuban government, which has been so disastrous for the island's economy, makes Cuba extremely effective at disaster relief. And while health professionals on the island operate on a shoestring, the system is geared to preventing disease rather than waiting to treat it. After the first cases of coronavirus were discovered in Cuba on March 11 in three Italian tourists visiting the colonial city ofTrinidad, thousands of Cuban health workers, including medical students, were sent by the government to go door to door across the island to search of people suffering from respiratory illness that could be the coronavirus. Soon all the government resources were focused on the pandemic. Currently, Cuba has 57 confirmed cases with 1,479 other people who are hospitalized and being monitored for symptoms of the coronavirus. Earlier this month, the government also took the unusual step of offering help to a British cruise liner with at least five confirmed coronavirus cases aboard and dozens more people suffering from flu-like symptoms. Several other islands including the Bahamas and Barbados, had already turned down the cruise ship. The MS Braemar docked in the Port of Mariel, site of the boatlift of refugees fleeing

the island to the US in 1980, and Cuban health workers carried out the risky, daylong operation of transporting more than 600 cruise ship passengers from the port to the runaway at Havana's airport, where four charter planes to England were waiting. "I am very grateful to the Cuban government for allowing this operation to move forward," said Antony Stokes, the UK's ambassador to Cuba, on the day the Braemar arrived. Now, as other countries' health care systems falter, more Cuban doctors are likely to be on the front lines of the pandemic. Those efforts should make the US government reconsider the nearly 60-year-old trade embargo on Cuba, said Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, which recently called on the Trump administration to lift economicsanctions on Cuba, Iran and Venezuela as part of the fight against coronavirus. "The sanctions have a more generalized and deadly direct effect by contributing to a more generalized scarcity of life-saving medicine and equipment because they exacerbate an economic downturn," Weisbrot wrote to CNN in an email. "This means more scarcities of vital medical needs and supplies, and more deaths." If Trump did offer Cuba any sanctions relief, it would fly in the face of his policy of dismantling the Obama administration's opening to Cuba. Trump has also made clear he believes a tough on Cuba posture wins votes with Florida's conservative Cuban American community. Last week, Trump offered an olive branch to a communist adversary, saying he would be willing to send aid to help North Korea fight the

Lescott, a 2009 signing from Everton, was a regular in City’s title-winning team in 2012 but has only started seven league games this season and may need first-team football to press his case for a place in England’s World Cup squad. Tottenham, Newcastle and Monaco are reportedly interested in Lescott, who is out of contract in the summer, but asked whether City have received a bid, Pellegrini replied: “No.” Although he has not ruled out letting Lescott leave this month, the City manager said he is keen to keep his squad together. Asked whether he would be allowed to leave now, Pellegrini said: “Not for the moment. Joleon Lescott is a very important player for us. He finishes his contract in June. We will see what happens in the future butPakistani students turning away from Islam September 6, 2010 One of the great ironies of the creation of Pakistan, a state whose very existence is defined by religion, Islam, is that the man considered the Father of the Nation, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, was an atheist. Before being forced into his role as defender of Muslim interests in 1930s still British India, Jinnah was a British trained lawyer, given to wearing Savile Row double-breasted suits, and who loved his whiskey, and is even said to have eaten pork. At any rate, Jinnah favored a secular constitution as was evident from the very last major speech that he gave just before his death in 1948. My father and his generation of Pakistanis were agnostics, or at least secular. The British political commentator, socialist, journalist and novelist of Pakistani origin, Tariq Ali, who was born in

Márquez’s story is too good to ignore. LB – Ehsan Haji Safi Iran may not have qualified for the round of 16 but they came very close. Much of this was down to their solid defence, which managed to limit Spain and Portugal to just one goal each. Haji Safi has been a key part of that, making three tackles and three interceptions across the two games. CM – Marcelo Brozović The Inter Milan midfielder is not one of Croatia’s star names, but he was a crucial part of their victory against Argentina. He anchored the midfield and made eight ball recoveries, even registering an assist by passing the ball off to Luka Modrić before his goal. CM – Héctor Herrera Others in the Mexico side may have caught the eye more than Herrera, but histenacious performances in central midfield haven’t gone unnoticed by the wider football world. He’s made 11 tackles – the third-most in the tournament as of writing – and has reportedly been made a Real Madrid transfer target. Julen Lopetegui, the new boss of Los Blancos, gave Herrera a key role when he was the Mexican’s manager at Porto… RW – Ahmed Musa Musa had a disappointing time while at Leicester City, which made it all the more surprising when he started to set the pitch alight for Nigeria. He scored two goals against Iceland, and as he’s still on the books with the Foxes will this persuade them to keep him around? AM – Xherdan Shaqiri The first player whose name begins with X to score at the World Cup – a major accolade

if ever there was one – Shaqiri’s last-minute goal against Serbia completed the first comeback of the tournament. His time at Stoke City didn’t seem to suit him, but with these performances putting him in the shop window, where will he end up next? LW – Hirving Lozano Football Whispers tipped him as One to Watch for the tournament and he duly delivered with his goal against Germany. The talented youngster had a good season for PSV in 2017/18, but nobody expected him to make the impact that he has at the World Cup. ST – Romelu Lukaku Lukaku might be the biggest name on this list, but that doesn’t mean that his performances haven’t been a surprise. Thierry Henry’s tutelage has clearly had an impact, with the Belgian scoring four goals in two games. UnlikeTrump and the Anti-Establishment Fantasy The Balance of Power in the New Trump Administration After running as a political outsider, Donald Trump now finds himself having to navigate between two uneasily aligned factions. On one side is an emboldened right-populist base, personified by incoming White House chief strategist and Senior Counselor Stephen Bannon, that wants to see a fundamental turnover among the people in charge. On the other is a more mainstream Republican wing represented by figures like Chief of Staff Reince Priebus that is preoccupied with standard conservative issues. These include reducing taxes on the wealthy, marketizing social services, and bolstering defense spending. As the Trump White House takes shape, this jostling for influence within the new administration will not only affect the balance of power among state institutions and

the apparatus of state power, which was created by the ruling class.” This destruction of the state entailed a protracted and militant struggle. It would culminate in the seizure of the repressive and administrative institutions in which state power was concentrated, and their radical reorganization into the dictatorship of the proletariat. Bannon’s claim of destroying the establishment — primarily meaning the political class made up of both Democratic and GOP elites, and their global financial networks — expresses hostility at an insular network of power and influence. In Bannon’s case this view has been supplemented with a familiar variety of far right conspiracy theories that see global and national politics in terms of a simplistic relationship of direct cause (hidden interests) and effect (policy). In his past remarks, Bannonthe following decade, the book made an immediate impact. Miliband argued that the political systems of capitalist liberal democracies were not especially pluralistic, nor had the advent of the modern corporate model successfully transcended its class character. In other words, Western liberal democracies were still decidedly class societies — ones where the power and resources of the economically dominant classes translated into their political power. And as the economic role of the state grew under contemporary capitalism, one could also observe that much of the top echelon of state institutions were populated by economic and social elites. As Miliband wrote, “In terms of social origin, education and class situation, the men who have manned all command positions in the state system have largely, and in many cases overwhelmingly,

Democratic and Republican administrations since the New Deal, to a more direct exercise of class rule on behalf of particular fractions involved in Trump’s coalition. Although it is too early to say for sure, this turn toward their more “hands on” involvement in governance may be symptomatic of a structural shift in which the interests of landed, infrastructural, and resource-based enterprises move to the forefront of the new Republican coalition while banking and finance is integrated into a supporting role (the jubilance on Wall Street notwithstanding). Bannon’s war against the establishment is thus likely to fail due to the fact that other influential members of Trump’s cabinet are poised to reap the rewards of their new positions, and to reinforce a politics of inequality. But the damage he leavestricky, but wind-energy proponents like to point out that Denmark currently gets about a fifth of its electrical energy from the wind. Joseph F. DeCarolis, of the Atmospheric Protection Branch of the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Research and Development, takes issue with this picture of the situation. DeCarolis studied the problem in depth for his Ph.D. in engineering and public policy. He says that when he began his research at the turn of the millennium, most people were relying on nothing more than "back-of-the-envelope calculations." He points out that some analysts had concluded that the intermittency of the wind didn't much matter if the turbines were distributed over a sufficiently wide geographic area. But that notion "didn't really sit right" with DeCarolis and his thesis advisor,

input voltage is at a negative half cycle, the current flows through the input filtering device 201 and the bridge rectifier 202 to charge the filtering capacitor 203, and then flows back to the power source from the filtering capacitor 203. This circuit operates stably according to the rule. On the other hand, the size of the switching power supply is usually very small in the high-frequency trend, and the sandwich winding method is usually adopted due to the consideration of the coupling effect between the windings of the transformer, so the parasitic capacitor of the transformer is usually larger. In addition, in order to satisfy the electromagnetic compatibility and electromagnetic interference, a bridging capacitor 204 has to be added between the primary side and the secondary side ofinstallment is out April 18). Her whip-like frame, which is bared for much of the film, was sheathed in black cigarette pants and a black shirt buttoned to the neck. She held her hands folded in her lap as she spoke. The whole effect might have come across as chic primness were it not for the impish way words seemed to fall haphazardly from her mouth. “I tend to babble, which is quite bad,” Martin said. “But my character in the film, Joe, is very quiet.” Joe, an older version of whom is played by Charlotte Gainsbourg, defines herself from a very early age by her bold pursuit of anonymous sex, and her allergy to romantic love. At one point, she has collected so many sexual partners—six, seven callers

'The world is watching': North Korea reportedly would consider abandoning nukes program Show Caption Hide Caption Trump sees 'possible progress' in North Korea talks North Korea is finally ready to talk denuclearization, a reported claim many once thought to be a far-flung dream, and one President Trump says "may be a false hope." Nathan Rousseau Smith reports. North Korea said it is willing to talk to the United States about abandoning its nuclear weapons program if its security can be guaranteed, South Korea's government said Tuesday. If confirmed, the move would mark a significant departure from North Korea's previous stance on its nuclear program and give momentum to South Korea's efforts to bring the United States and North Korea together for talks. The North said it would stop testing nuclear weapons andSouth Korea officials have been in regular communications about the delegation's trip to North Korea. Possible progress being made in talks with North Korea. For the first time in many years, a serious effort is being made by all parties concerned. The World is watching and waiting! May be false hope, but the U.S. is ready to go hard in either direction! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 6, 2018 The announcement in the South's capital came as the two Koreas also said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has agreed to meet South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the end of April for a summit to discuss denuclearization. The meeting, only the third ever between the leaders of the two countries, will be held in the demilitarized zone, a border

area that has divided the two nations since 1953. The countries also agreed to set up a telephone hotline between their leaders. More: South Korean officials meet with Kim Jong Un for 1st time, but it's unlikely to solve issues More: There are nearly 16,000 nuclear weapons in the world — and Russia, U.S. hold more than 90% More: War vs. diplomacy: Did Olympics help resolve the North Korea nuclear standoff? Sort of. The apparent diplomatic breakthrough came after the first ever high-level meeting between Kim and a South Korean delegation Monday in the North's capital, Pyongyang. South Korea’s presidential national security director, Chung Eui-yong, who attended the meeting, said Kim's regime signaled it would not need to keep its nuclear weapons if military threats against the country are resolved and it receivesin conventional energy sources. Among these sources, liquefied petroleum gas will certainly continue to play a key role for years to come. Its special characteristics, such as production flexibility and ease of transport and storage, make it a necessary and un-renounceable part of the energy matrix and a strong player in the world energy market. LP gas, commonly sold in the popular form of butane tanks, has traditionally held pride of place in Spanish homes, and in the country's energy matrix as a whole, becoming a symbol of an energy that was able to satisfy new and different consumer demands. Despite the steady introduction of natural gas into the Spanish energy structure in recent years, LP gas has continued to play a major role, which in the future should expand

pin roll, and one end of the torsion spring leans against the swing rod and the other end leans against the guide block or the regulating seat; a sliding bush of the guide block is positioned in the regulating seat and the end part of the connecting piece is connected with the other end of the swing rod. The sliding bush of the guide block is positioned in a location bracket, and the rear part of the guide block is connected with one end of a first spring and the other end of the first spring leans against the location bracket. When the drawer in the structure is high relatively, the panel of the drawer is easy to be waggled to make the customer not very satisfied; furthermore,Even though Bitmain managed to expand its China-based ASIC chip manufacturing to Switzerland and Canada, it is currently looking to add more facilities to the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Bitmain Technologies Limited is a Chinese –based company founded in 2013, which specializes in research, development and distribution of custom mining chips and mining gear. Bitmain also owns mining pool AntPool and bitcoin web wallet, BTC.com. Jihan Wu, the co-founder of Bitmain, is the only person administering Ant Creek LLC, a company in the Port of Walla Walla, Washington, which was registered in June 2017, according to companies-numbers.com. In a news article published by the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin on March 8, 2018, the city was thinking of signing a land-use agreement with Ant Creek, which would allow the company

Underground petroleum leaks can trigger "potentially significant and overlooked arsenic groundwater contamination," says new research from the U.S. Geological Survey, adding a layer of complexity to dealing with pipeline spills like the one that occurred just last month near the Yellowstone River in Montana. Research highlights "the need for long–term monitoring of arsenic and other chemicals that pose a water quality concern in areas associated with petroleum leaks and spills." The long-term field study conducted by USGS and Virginia Tech scientists found that changes in geochemistry from the natural breakdown of petroleum hydrocarbons underground can prompt the release of naturally occurring arsenic, a toxic heavy metal, into groundwater. The mobile arsenic can flow with the underground water to new locations away from the original spill site. The supporting data was collectedover 32 years by a group of researchers at the site of a 1979 petroleum spill in a shallow, glacial aquifer near Bemidji, Minnesota. "While arsenic is naturally present in most soils and sediments at various concentrations, it is not commonly a health concern until it is mobilized by a chemical reaction and dissolves into groundwater," reads a USGS press release. "Elevated arsenic levels in groundwater used for drinking water is a significant public health concern since arsenic, a toxin and carcinogen, is linked to numerous forms of skin, bladder, and lung cancer." SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Never Miss a Beat. Get our best delivered to your inbox. The research article, published in the National Ground Water Association's bimonthly journal, highlights "the need for long–term monitoring of arsenic and other

(CNN) NBC's "Saturday Night Live" has added comedians Chloe Fineman, Shane Gillis and Bowen Yang as featured players for the upcoming 45th season. Yang joined the sketch show's writing staff last season and appeared as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un when "Killing Eve" star Sandra Oh hosted in March. The NYU graduate's casting is also noteworthy as he's the only Asian American series regular in this cast. Fineman is known for her work with improv company The Groundlings, a noted "SNL" training ground, and for the ace celebrity (and other) impressions that she posts on her social channels. Gillis, like Fineman, has been a New Face at Montreal's Just for Laughs Festival. The casting news comes a few weeks after it was reported that Emmy-nominated "SNL" favorite Leslie Jones was leavingUnder a hot sun, boys herd goats in search of green grass. In a nearby plot a couple weed a crop of maize. The ceremony and fanfare that surrounded the visit of Madonna in 2009 now seems very distant. It was here in the village of Chinkhota in southern Malawi that the pop superstar broke ground for the construction of a prestigious academy for underprivileged girls. Billed as a "gift" to the African country from which she has adopted two children, the $15m (£9.37m) institution was to take in 500 girls and prepare them to be "future women leaders". Now local elders have accused Madonna of letting them down, and the Malawi government has been forced to admit it does not know what her plans are, after she announced that

people were removed from Chinkhota village, on the outskirts of the capital, Lilongwe, to make way for the Raising Malawi Girls Academy. Most of the villagers were born here and thought the land belonged to their ancestors. They threatened to block the project until Madonna dipped into her pockets to compensate them with $500,000 (£312,800). The Malawian government, which has often defended Madonna's charitable work, helped evict the villagers, claiming it was state land meant for development projects. Chinkhota became a building site – but without a building. Construction of the academy was delayed over a dispute between the Raising Malawi charity and villagers who claimed they were not adequately compensated for land. The building was due to be completed in December this year. However, the earth-moving machines that had beenlandscaping the area have disappeared. Villagers feel betrayed and accuse Madonna of breaking her promise. Maxwell Matewere, Malawi's leading children's rights activist, said Madonna should not "dump" the project. Matewere, director of Eye of the Child, led two unsuccessful attempts to prevent Madonna adopting two children – David, five, and four-year-old Mercy – from Malawi after their mothers died. He said the pop star was trying to "run away from long-term obligations" and she should go ahead with the academy because "you educate a few to educate others. She must borrow a leaf from others like Oprah [Winfrey] who have done it in South Africa." Madonna is funding several charities in Malawi, including homes for children with Aids. She has built a multi-purpose community centre 30 miles from Lilongwe which looks

after more than 8,000 orphans. "In a country where only 33% of Malawian girls attend secondary school, I realise that the plans we had in place for the Raising Malawi Academy for Girls simply would not serve enough children. My original vision is now on a much bigger scale." She said she was in the process of implementing several changes and additions to the management of Raising Malawi in the US and Malawi. Madonna said she had teamed up with Trevor Neilson and his team at Global Philanthropy Group to "shift the strategies so that we can accomplish our goals with more efficiency as we continue to consult our government partners in Malawi". She said Raising Malawi was focused on an approach which includes building schools within communities across the country.People's science movement The people's science movement (PSM) aims to popularise science and scientific outlook among common people. Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad, Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti, Assam Science Society, Bigyan Prachar Samithy (Orissa), We the Sapiens and the All India Peoples Science Network are some popular people's science movements in India. People's science movements in India Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad Pondicherry Science Forum Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti Tamil Nadu Science Forum Jan Vignana Vedika Delhi Science Forum Assam Science Society Tripura Science Forum Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti Uttar Pradesh Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti Haryana Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti Odisha Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti Utharkhand We, the Sapiens All India Peoples Science Network References "Secularism and People's Science Movement in India" and "Towards a People's Science Movement" from Economic and Political Weekly "People's Science Movement" from Science, technology, imperialism, and war "The People's Science Movements" from Knowing Nature "Science

Volcanic eruption caught on webcam [Video] Not only did a webcam film the June 17 eruption of Mexico's Popocatépetl volcano in time-lapse, but it even caught the shockwave racing down its slopes. Mexico's Popocatépetl volcano has erupted some two dozen times in the last 500 years, including several outbursts in the 1990s and 2000s. With such an active volcano looming just 40 miles away from Mexico City — the world's third-largest metropolitan area — scientists have long kept a close eye on the 17,800-foot Popocatépetl, aka "Popo." That volcanic vigil includes webcams, one of which was dutifully filming June 17 when Popocatépetl erupted again. The result is this stunning 30-second time-lapse clip: That ripple through the air at 0:04 is a shockwave triggered by the initial explosion, followed by a torrent ofboulders and other debris cascading down the slopes. The ash cloud then quickly billows into the sky, reportedly reaching a height of 28,000 feet. It's not quite as dramatic, but the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's GOES-East satellite also spotted the eruption from 22,000 miles overhead.

× Expand AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Last week's news cycle began and ended with Ted Cruz. On Monday, a video of Cruz came out, in which he called his fellow Republicans "a bunch of squishes" on gun control. The talk, given at the Tea Party group FreedomWorks' summit in Texas, prompted The Washington Post's conservative blogger Jennifer Rubin to write a piece called "Don't be a jerk Sen. Cruz," calling on Texas' junior senator to apologize. If that was supposed to chasten him, it didn't seem to work: By the end of the week, National Review was reporting Ted Cruz might be running for president. He was one of main points of discussion on Sunday talk shows, and James Carville raved that he was "the most talented and fearlessRepublican politician" in the last 30 years. That, in a nutshell, is Ted Cruz's political career: through some combination of luck, bravado, and talent, the man always seems to wind up getting what he wants. Let's not forget, that just a year ago, the Tea Party darling was a long-shot candidate for senate. He'd never run for office before, and he was going up against the Texas GOP establishment, headed by Rick Perry-not an easy group to outflank on the right. Yet he garnered national approval from Tea Party groups and built an impressive campaign message that he was the "real" conservative in the race. He also got lucky when the primary date was moved back thanks to legal battles, giving his campaign time to build name recognition throughout

who beat a more moderate GOP incumbent in the 2010 Tea Party wave. Perry approved of Cruz's tactics and echoed the same ambivalence to the GOP that the Tea Party survey revealed. "The Republican Party platform represents values I grew up under," he told me. "If the party begins to ignore or change or treat those as if they're optional, then I can't be a part of that." Plenty of Republican governors have alienated the conservative base with compromise. There were GOP governors like Florida's Rick Scott, Ohio's John Kasich, and New Mexico's Susana Martinez who all supported expanding Medicaid under Obamacare. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie publicly worked with Obama during Hurricane Sandy, while Louisiana's Bobby Jindal cautioned against some of the extremism that the Tea Party supports,Cruz actually runs for president in three years, he's getting enormous attention and doing exactly what he promised-shifting the conversation to the right. While those in Washington may write him off for not playing by the rules, in Texas, he's seen as shaping the debate. Liberals and conservatives alike attribute enormous power to him. "He's running everything up there!" one prominent Texas Democrat told me recently. His victories may be missed initially in Washington, but in other parts of the country, he's building a reputation as a powerbroker. It can be easy to initially miss his victories. Some liberals were gleeful when, after Cruz offered something close to a constitutional lecture about the nature of the first and second amendments, Feinstein fired back. "I am not a sixth-grader," she told

her junior colleague. "Slapped down!" thought plenty of pundits and left-leaners tired of listening to Cruz's hardball approach. But what few realized was that Cruz won the exchange just as much as Feinstein. His supporters used the clip to show how their man was taking down the liberal Democrats running Washington. The National Rifle Association even played a clip of the back-and-forth at the group's conference, just before Cruz himself took the stage. When he appeared moments later, Cruz roused the crowd with a talk that seemed one-part-college-lecture, one part-church sermon. "I am looking at an army," he told the audience. Presidential candidate or not, Cruz is certainly vying to be a general.CT Furniture, part of the Community Transport charity, supports local communities by selling donated high quality, second-hand furniture and electrical equipment at affordable prices, to individuals & families across the West Midlands and in the North East. Since 2017, CT have been using Tengo Software’s specialist Charity Deliveries and Collections software to effortlessly manage the booking of deliveries of items purchased in store, along with the collection of items from donors for later sale in store, and Gift Aid claims. A couple of months ago, GEMS Charity approached Tengo to not only design a new website for them, but to completely overhaul their brand and online presence. In double-quick time, Tengo re-branded, produced new logos for all on-line and print media, and produced a brand-new website, including content re-written by

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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Passenger Hardeek Desai filmed inside the plane and on the runway A Virgin Atlantic passenger plane has landed safely at London's Gatwick Airport after discovering a problem with part of its main landing gear. Virgin flight VS43 with 447 passengers and 15 crew was travelling from Gatwick to Las Vegas when it had to return. The Boeing 747 circled over southern England for several hours dumping fuel before making a bumpy but safe landing just before 16:00 GMT. Gatwick's runway reopened at 19:03 GMT after being closed by the emergency. Budget airline Easyjet said 12 of its flights due to land at Gatwick on Monday had been diverted and 32 due to depart from the airport had been cancelled. In a statement, Gatwick Airport said:"The airport is now facilitating inbound and outbound flights but it will take some time for normal service to resume. "We advise passengers to check with their airlines on the status of their flight. Updates will also be posted on the Gatwick website and on Twitter." The statement said the airport was working with its airline partners to provide food, drink and welfare facilities to those affected by the delays and cancellations and volunteers were helping provide advice. Arriving flights had been diverted to other London airports, while departing aircraft were severely delayed while the Virgin jet was being assessed on the runway. Circled airport The 13-year-old aircraft had left Gatwick for the US at 11:30 GMT on Monday. After detecting the problem, the aircraft needed to fly holding patterns over Devon and then

aircraft circling over East and West Sussex showed part of the main landing gear had not fully extended. Eyewitnesses reported the jet was flying at relatively low altitude and the pilot appeared to be trying to "shake" the landing gear down. Nick Hughes, who was on board, said the crew made several attempts to try to free the landing gear. "They put the thrust on quite heavily and then dipped down, I think, to try and loosen the gears but obviously nothing kind of worked. 'Some crying' "They gave it every opportunity before they tried the emergency landing. All credit due to the crew and the staff and of course the pilots because the landing was probably one of the softest landings I've ever had." Another passenger, Hardeek Desai, said: "The staff were tryingto keep everyone calm but a few passengers were a bit panicky. One of the crew came out to the seating area to reassure everyone everything was going to be OK. "The staff were giving out thing like drinks and water to everyone to make sure everyone's OK. Generally, the mood was pretty good at this point until we hit the brace position." Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Watch the moment the aircraft landed safely Describing the mood on the plane as it was circling, passenger Dan Crane, 24, from Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, said it was "anxious, a lot were worried, some crying. The mood was quiet, just waiting for the captain's next announcement." Mr Crane, who is with family and friends, said the crew kept everyone informed, adding:

"They said it was an emergency landing and we had to brace on impact." Sunjay Patel told the BBC: "It's been a rollercoaster. Yesterday I found out that I was going to Vegas for my 30th birthday, and not going to Vegas today it's been quite a crazy 24 hours. I can't wait to get to Vegas to enjoy it now." He said the passengers had been taken to a hotel but they did not know when there would be a replacement flight. 'Upsetting situation' Another passenger, Mike Kaufman, said: "This was one of the greatest emergency landings in history. It was very smooth." He praised the pilots and the cabin crew, saying the landing had been "textbook". Virgin Atlantic chief executive Craig Kreeger said: "I am very pleased to confirm that all customersSeries schedule, she will become the first woman to finish among the Top 10 in a national oval-track touring series as a rookie. NASCAR: Ryan Newman Wins Pole for UAW-GM 500 CONCORD, N.C. — Ryan Newman was a little surprised by breaking the track record Thursday night at the Lowe's Motor Speedway — not because he had the fastest stock car in speedway history but that his Alltel Dodge didn't go faster. Prep Football Picks for Oct. 10-11 Each week the Savannah Morning News sports staff will pick the winner of area high school football games. Last week's record: 16-5 (.762); season record: 83-40-2 (.664).

IIMK?s White Knight contest now open to professionals The national-level entrepreneurship competition ?White Knight? which will be held as part of the annual international management festival ?Backwaters? organised by Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK), has been thrown open to professionals besides students. "The competition aims to put into action the institute?s vision of shifting the B-School from the path of exclusive elitism to inclusive excellence. This event will provide a platform to enterprising and ambitious people with ideas for profitable and scalable businesses to make their dreams a reality?, said Professor Debashis Chatterjee, Director, IIMK, during the launch of the event on Wednesday. This year, White Knight has been launched on a bigger scale, the event?s organisers said on Wednesday. India Innovation Network is acting as the Advisor and MentorRaebareli, several dead, rescue operations underway RAEBARELI: At least seven persons were killed and more than 35 others injured, nine seriously, when nine coaches of the New Farakka Express derailed near Harchandpur railway station in UP on Wednesday morning."Two more dead bodies have been taken out from the derailed coaches taking the death toll to seven. Nine passengers are grievously injured. Drone cameras, long range cameras are being used," UP ADG law and order Anand Kumar said.Two passengers trapped inside derailed coaches were safely rescued.The accident took place on early Wednesday morning at 6.05 am, nearly 50 m from Harchandpur railway station, Northern Railway Divisional Railway Manager Satish Kumar said. The train was headed from Malda Town in West Bengal to New Delhi."Hydraulic cutters have been rushed to the

Abbotsford, BC….The University of the Fraser Valley Cascades men’s soccer team kicked off their 2013 preseason exhibition schedule with a trip to Kamloops and Kelowna to face two of the future three Canada West soccer programs that will enter the conference in September, 2014. The Cascades defeated the Thompson Rivers Wolfpack, 7-0, on Saturday and fell to the UBC-O Heat, 3-2, on Sunday. The Cascades received goals from four different players as Justin Sekhon, Abbotsford, BC, Connor MacMillan, New Westminster, BC and Daniel Davidson, Abbotsford, BC each scored twice in the victory over TRU. Connor O’Neill, Abbotsford, BC added a single goal to round out the scoring. Arturo Ortiz, Veracruz, Mexico earned the shutout victory in the Cascade net facing his old school in Kamloops. He recorded four savesknowledge of the team’s thinking. Protests, which have been widespread in Hong Kong since June, were initially related to a law that would allow extradition to mainland China with demonstrations since in support of a wide range of pro-democracy issues in the semi-autonomous territory. Jonathan Feigen has been the Rockets beat writer since 1998 and a basketball nut since before Willis Reed limped out for Game 7. He became a sports writer because the reporter that was supposed to cover the University of Delaware basketball team decided to instead play one more season of college lacrosse and has never looked back. Feigen, who has won APSE, APME and United States Basketball Writers Association awards from El Campo to Houston, came to Texas in 1981 to cover the Rice Birds, was Sports

Editor in Garland before moving to Dallas to cover everything from the final hurrah of the Southwest Conference to SMU after the death penalty. After joining the Houston Chronicle in 1990, Feigen has covered the demise of the SWC, the rise of the Big 12 and the Rockets at their championship best.year. "At the end of the day you've got to get out there and do it, and I'm sure both teams will be trying to do it. "It's really setting up to be a good series and that first game at Suncorp's going to be a lot of hype around it." The fresh bruise under Slipper's right eye, living proof of the brutality of their Sunshine Coast training camp, as he spoke to reporters at the Wallabies fan day event in Brisbane underscored his words. "Caloundra was a tough week," he said. "We trained really hard and the boys got stuck into each other. "It was a good week of preparation and I think the boys are ready to play." Loosehead Slipper, who was sidelined due to off-season shoulder surgery in the early part of

the year, is likely to come off the bench in the first Test, with Scott Sio and the rest of the World Cup front row to be retained by Cheika. "Scotty's had a good year," Slipper said. "(Mine) obviously hasn't been great, it's been a tough year for myself, but I'm just happy to be back into the picture.JANUARY POSTAL MARK HITS RECORD Postal receipts in January made a new record for the month, according to figures filled with Postmaster T. J. Smith yesterday. The total for the month was $101,357. It was the first time in history that the January postoffice income has exceeded $1000,000. Click tabs to swap between content that is broken into logical sections. JANUARY POSTAL MARK HITS RECORD Postal receipts in January made a new record for the month, according to figures filled with Postmaster T. J. Smith yesterday. The total for the month was $101,357. It was the first time in history that the January postoffice income has exceeded $1000,000.

Travelling from Chennai to Mysore via Bengaluru may take just 2 hours and 25 minutes in the coming years! The German government has recently submitted a feasibility study to the Railway Board on a new bullet train project on the Chennai-Arakkonam-Bangalore-Mysore route. If the proposal gets approved by the Railway Board, the travel time between Chennai and Mysore will be cut down by more than five hours by 2030, PTI reported. The feasibility study was submitted to Railway Board Chairman Ashwani Lohani for the 435-km long stretch by German Ambassador Martin Ney. The report states that the 435-km distance can be covered in under three hours with a maximum speed of around 320 kmph. The new bullet train will cut down travel time drastically from the present durationunless one lives near to the airport, he added. Meanwhile, according to sources quoted in the report, a journey between Chennai to Mysore will be comparable to airfares. The other routes across the country on which feasibility studies are being conducted include New Delhi-Mumbai, Delhi-Kolkata, Delhi-Nagpur, Mumbai-Chennai, Mumbai-Nagpur.

defects. In cases where graphite particles are used for testing, small amounts of graphite particles remain inside the honeycomb structure after testing, which can interfere with the downstream processing of the honeycomb structure, such as catalyst coating process. Further, additional steps are required to clean and remove the solid particulates used for testing from the filter. Another prior-art method for identifying defective cells in a plugged honeycomb filter involves securing a heat sensitive film (liquid crystal) to one end of a honeycomb filter. The heat sensitive film is initially heated. Cold air is blown from the opposite end of the filter to the film. The air that passes uninhibited through the voids and cracks within the walls of the filter cools the films at the location of the defectivecommunity leaders in the first session to which they invited the students from high schools, junior colleges, and tertiary level institutions as well as young people already out-of-school, and agencies working with youth. University of the West Indies (UWI) Dean of the Faculty of Law, Professor Rose Marie Belle Antoine The input of religious leaders and representatives of non-governmental organizations were invited to the second focus group later in the morning. The National Evangelical Association of Belize (NEAB) had already made their disapproval of decriminalization well known at a media briefing a month ago, and NEAB President Lance Lewis and Pastor Scott Stirm reiterated their position. Proponents of legalization like Clinton “Pulu” Lightburn and news personality YaYa Marin Coleman also aired their views. They also heard contributions in a third

Monday, May 11, 2015 Tom Brady was suspended for four games. The New England Patriots lost a first-round draft pick next season and a fourth-round pick in 2017 and also have to cough up a million dollars. And the NFL handed out on Monday what will not only be a popular punishment for the legions of Patriot haters, but also a deserved one. Simply, Brady seemed shady. He wasn't totally forthcoming during the investigation into the footballs deflated before the AFC championship game, and a reasonable man would assume that is because he had something to hide. Basically, the Patriots cheated and got caught -- that's how I and millions of others read it. (The Patriots don't believe they did anything wrong, though). Remember -- and a retired judge pointed thisThis invention relates generally to an electrical control apparatus, and more specifically to an electrical control apparatus for controlling both the amperage and polarity of electric current as may be used, for example, in welding apparatus, and more particularly in connection with multi-operator welding systems. Dual polarity welding control systems are known in the prior art. One such system, sold under the trademark SUPER GOLIATH by Neoweld Corporation, includes a handle extending out through the front panel to permit reversal of polarity, as needed or desired. Unfortunately, while a welding operation is being performed by a welding specialist his or her fellow employees may either playfully, or inadvertently switch the voltage polarity. In addition to upsetting the operator, this switching of polarity can burn out circuit components of the control

that the policy action by central banks was inadequate defence against the continued political and financial chaos in the eurozone. The Daily Telegraph: Britain's banks do not have enough capital to withstand an escalation in the eurozone crisis, the Bank of England has warned. The Independent: The Government has chosen Ian McCafferty, the chief economic adviser of the CBI, the employers' body, to replace Adam Posen on the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee. The Guardian: Former Conservative party treasurer Michael Spencer could become the next target of the shareholder spring next week after a leading investor body issued a warning about the pay policies of the Icap broking business he founded and runs. Business and economics The Daily Telegraph: One of the world's biggest tobacco companies, JTI, has hit out at governmentplans to ban branded cigarette packaging, claiming a consultation on the proposals is "fundamentally flawed". Financial Times: SkyePharma was among the week’s top small-cap performers after the group’s asthma treatment Flutiform received a long-awaited green light from the European Commission. Financial Times: Peugeot’s shares dropped nearly 8% on Friday after the company said that it had sold 1.62 million new vehicles in the first half, 13% fewer than a year ago. The Daily Telegraph: The Serious Fraud Office has formally opened an investigation on the Libor scandal that will probe individuals and banks for evidence of criminal activity. Financial Times: Yahoo has settled the patent battle with Facebook that its ousted chief executive Scott Thompson began in March, but without any of the direct financial reward he had hoped for. The Daily Telegraph:

Centrica has criticised conflicting Government policies after ministers blocked plans for a wind farm to power 400,000 homes because of concerns about seabirds. Daily Mail: Building societies could see funding rules relaxed in order to boost their appeal as an alternative to High Street banks, under proposals revealed by the Government today. The Guardian: Future of Barclays Capital in doubt as Libor-setting scandal could force bank to become more risk-averse, say analysts. The Daily Telegraph: Thomas Cook investors were dealt a blow after Standard & Poor's downgraded the holiday company's credit rating and warned that it could have to push through a debt restructuring given its "unsustainable" capital position. Daily Express: Booming sales of its Galaxy smartphone have dialled up record profits for Samsung Electronics and put enormous pressure on rival Apple. DailyMail: Sterling rose by nearly half a cent to €1.2606 after a lacklustre U.S. jobs report stoked worries of a global slowdown. Financial Times: Aga Rangemaster, the maker of the iconic cast-iron cookers, has delivered a profit warning ahead of its interim results. Financial Times: Banks and building societies including Nationwide, the Co-operative Group and Metro said current account openings or inquiries had risen at least 30% this week compared to last week. Financial Times: US natural gas prices hit a six-month high, boosted by demand from the heatwave that has hit North America. Share tips, comment and bids The Guardian: Global miner Anglo American has secured the final regulatory approval for its $5.1 billion acquisition of the Oppenheimer family's stake in diamond producer De Beers, paving the way for the deal to

close within the coming months. The Independent: AAR, the consortium of Russian billionaires that owns half the TNK-BP oil joint venture, said it was preparing to bid for a further 25% stake after BP put its 50% holding up for sale last month. Financial Times: Gerard Lopez and Eric Lux, the owners of the Lotus F1 racing team, are branching into the hazardous financial world of football by setting up an investment vehicle to spend as much as €500 million on “the beautiful game”. The Daily Telegraph: Theo Paphitis, the owner of the stationery retailer Ryman and star of Dragons' Den, is on the brink of buying the ironmonger Robert Dyas for about £10 million. Financial Times: Publicis took full control of Bartle Bogle Hegarty, a 30 year-old agency responsible for memorablecampaigns for Levi’s, Audi, Johnnie Walker and others. Daily Express: Aviva is kicking off a major disposal programme by off-loading part of its stake in financial services group Delta Lloyd for £318 million. The Guardian: News International has paid £30 million to terminate its printing contract with Johnston Press. The Independent: Lloyds bank has bowed to pressure from the judiciary and politicians and made an £8 million payment to the distress fund set up after more than 116,000 Christmas savers lost their money when Farepak collapsed in 2006. Financial Times: Moleskine, the Italian maker of the eponymous notebooks, will test a volatile market as it seeks to turn rapid growth and high profit margins into an initial public offering in the fourth quarter. The Guardian (Comment): The private sector wants a smaller state,

to govern pay and bonuses, although that's unlikely to work when the majority of shares tend to be held by institutions, which is rather like turkeys voting for Christmas! Other consideration are keeping up with the Joneses on executive pay. My CEO is better than yours because he is higher paid. But in reality is he, or occasionally she ? The musical chairs department in which politicians walk into top jobs, and in which people in top jobs finance the Conservative Party funds, who in turn on winning the election allow/support increases in top pay and returns. Talk about an inflationary spiral. Nothing to do with greed is good for you.La. 88, 52 So. 227 (1910), the Supreme Court of Louisiana considered a dispute very similar to ours. A railroad contractor, in order to obtain operating capital, assigned to a bank all money which would become due from the railroad under his construction contract until his indebtedness to the bank was satisfied. Under the agreement, the railroad paid the money directly to the bank to secure loans then due or thereafter to be advanced by the bank. When the contractor went bankrupt, the trustee sued to recover as an unfair preferential transfer a sum paid by the railroad to the bank within four months of bankruptcy. The court pointed out that the assignment of future earnings was made eight months prior to bankruptcy.

'conditional sale'-- of credit against the railroad for future earnings in exchange for future advances. The court, therefore, held that the trustee was entitled to funds received by the bank from the railroad only to the extent that they exceeded the advances made by the bank to the contractor under the agreement. 19 Cox representing the Louisiana law, we hold that the Trustee, standing as he does in the bankrupt's shoes, has no right to the renewal commissions until Keeling's indebtedness to the company is satisfied.3 20 Reversed. 1 11 U.S.C. 110(a) provides in revelant part: The trustee of the estate of a bankrupt . . . shall in turn be vested by operation of law with the title of the bankrupt as of the date of the filing of the petition initiatingemployees." The path laid out by Murphy, a former Goldman Sachs executive and U.S. ambassador to Germany, marks a break from Gov. Chris Christie, who underfunded schools and pensions and ignored the state’s formula for distributing money to schools, describing it as unfair. Since 2010, New Jersey under the Christie administration has shorted schools under the state funding formula by more than $9 billion, according to the Education Law Center, an education advocacy organization. State school aid also was not adjusted to reflect enrollment changes until Christie’s last year in office. Murphy says he will follow the formula established by the School Funding Reform Act of 2008, which also requires that the state shift more money to schools based on their number of high-needs students. The state would need to spend

about $1 billion more each year to fully fund schools, according to the state Department of Education. Murphy has said he will fully fund schools “immediately.” Promises bring hope, worry During the Christie administration, state aid to districts stayed mostly flat even as some districts saw significant enrollment growth and others grew smaller. In Clifton, a district where enrollment grew, officials have long complained about rising costs and flat aid. The district, which has an annual budget of around $170 million, has taken on more high-needs students, including English language learners and low-income students, in recent years. It typically receives only about a third of the $75 million in state funding to which it is entitled, according to data from the state Department of Education. District officials, who say they have beenthat number. Work includes direct addiction counseling, staff training, and outreach to parents. Opiate addiction is a public health crisis, plain and simple. In many states, opiate overdose deaths now surpass traffic fatalities. Grim statistics show the crisis striking hard in our grantmaking regions in Western New York and Eastern Massachusetts. In 2014, Essex County (Massachusetts) had 146 fatalities; Erie County (New York) had 116. Incredibly, 13 people died of opiate overdoses in Erie County in one week this March. In the first three months of 2015, the Cape Cod region recorded 12 fatalities.

Last updated on .From the section Leicester Footage uploaded to Twitter shows the moment Leicester players watching the match at home celebrated winning the title Leicester City have won the Premier League title in one of the greatest sporting stories of all time. Tottenham's 2-2 draw at Chelsea on Monday confirmed a stunning achievement for Claudio Ranieri's side. Leicester started the campaign as 5,000-1 outsiders for the title after almost being relegated last season. But they have lost just three league games in what has been described as a "fairytale" and the "most unlikely triumph in the history of team sport". Closest challengers Spurs, Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United and last year's champions Chelsea, have all failed to match the Foxes' consistency across the season. How Lineker lived Leicester fairytale Former Leicester, Everton and England strikerGary Lineker described his hometown team's achievement as "the biggest sporting shock of my lifetime". The Match of the Day presenter had suggested the Leicester players were on the "edge of sporting immortality" last month. He told BBC Sport: "I can't think of anything that surpasses it in sporting history. It is difficult to put over in words. "I got emotional. It was hard to breathe. I was a season ticket holder from the age of seven. This is actually impossible." Football Daily: Leicester fairytale comes true After Leicester drew 1-1 at Manchester United on Sunday, Tottenham needed to win all three of their remaining league games to catch the Foxes. But their title hopes were ended when they squandered a 2-0 lead to only draw at London rivals Chelsea. Match of the Day pundit

and former Newcastle United, Blackburn Rovers and England striker Alan Shearer said Leicester's achievement was "the biggest thing ever in football". Shearer, who won the Premier League in 1995 with underdogs Blackburn, told BBC Sport: "For a team like Leicester to come and take the giants on with their wealth and experience - not only take them on but to beat them - I think it's the biggest thing to happen in football." BBC Football Daily: Leicester win Premier League - How football reacted Gianni Infantino, president of football's world governing body Fifa, said Leicester's "beautiful story" was a "fairytale". The East Midlands club was also quick to hail the achievement external-link of Ranieri and his players, saying they "have captured the imaginations of football fans around the world with one ofthe most brilliant and unlikely sporting triumphs ever seen". Sports data analysts say Leicester are set for a potential £150m boost for winning the title, coming from Premier League prize money, Champions League participation cash and increased match-day revenues from ticket and hospitality sales. Pub-goers react to the title-winning goal from Chelsea's Eden Hazard 'A sporting miracle' "In terms of domestic football, Leicester City winning the Premier League is the greatest achievement ever and I think it will never be surpassed," former Leicester midfielder Robbie Savage told BBC Sport. "It is incredible. This is a turning point in Premier League history." Lineker was sceptical at the start of the season - and even in December promised to present Match of the Day in his underwear if Leicester did win the league Leicester East MP Keith

Vaz said: "This is the greatest day in the history of this city. It's the top, absolutely the top to win the English Premier League, the best league in the world. It's a miracle and what Claudio Ranieri has done with this amazing team." Former Foxes manager Martin O'Neill, who led the club to their previous highest Premier League finish of eighth in 2000, said: "Not only is it a brilliant story, but it gives everyone that little bit of hope again that romance has not left football. "It's been the talk of Europe, there's no question about that. Everything about this season has been remarkable." Snooker player Mark Selby, a Leicester fan, clinched his second World Championship title a little over 10 minutes after his hometown team won the PremierLeague crown. "To be Premier League champions is a fantastic achievement and I want to say well done to Claudio and the boys," he said. Even Prime Minister David Cameron passed on his congratulations, saying it was "an extraordinary, thoroughly deserved, Premier League title". Mark Selby had double reason to celebrate his World Snooker Championship win How have they made history? Welcome back to the Premier League, Ranieri It is Leicester's first top-flight title and the club, owned by Thai billionaire businessman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, have also qualified for next season's Champions League group stages for the first time. The Foxes started the season among the favourites for relegation and only the three promoted sides - Watford, Norwich and Bournemouth - were longer odds for the league title. Ranieri, who took over from the sacked Nigel

Pearson in the summer, was seen as an uninspired choice by some fans and pundits after his predecessor had overseen a run of seven wins in nine games as Leicester escaped relegation in 2014-15. Leicester City champions: Claudio Ranieri's reaction to Premier League title win The Italian's previous job ended abruptly when his Greece side lost to European minnows Faroe Islands during Euro 2016 qualifying. Yet the charismatic 64-year-old's team - assembled for less than £30m and playing pacy, direct, counter-attacking football - has confounded the experts. Savage added: "I'm speechless, it is unbelievable. I've seen England win the Ashes and get OBEs and MBEs. This Leicester team's achievement is greater than any of that. They should be recognised in the honours list." Comparison with other sporting shocks Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest side werepromoted to the top flight, won the league and then won two European Cups in consecutive seasons between 1976 and 1980. Baseball's Boston Red Sox finally triumphed in the 2004 World Series - 86 years after their last win. Unseeded 17-year-old German Boris Becker became the youngest player to win the Wimbledon tennis tournament with victory in 1985. Chain-smoking rookie reserve John Daly won the 1991 US PGA golf championship after being drafted in as a late replacement. Undisputed, undefeated boxing heavyweight champion of the world Mike Tyson was knocked out by flu-ridden 'stooge' Buster Douglas in Tokyo, 1990. Six unlikely top-flight titles Putting Leicester on the map Phra Prommangkalachan is one of half a dozen Thai Buddhist monks who have been making regular trips to England to bless Leicester's pitch over the past three

years Leicester's title triumph is expected to generate millions of pounds in additional income for the local economy with tourism boosted by the club's higher global profile. Kasabian, the Leicester-born platinum-selling, stadium-filling rock band, will play two gigs at the Foxes' King Power Stadium on 28 and 29 May, saying external-link it will be "the biggest party the city has ever seen". Guitarist Serge Pizzorno said: "It feels like we're almost centre of the universe." Mayor of Leicester Peter Soulsby has kept celebration plans secret, but said: "Twelve months ago we were re-interring the remains of the last king of England to die in battle [Richard III] and we were worried about our football team. "We had the eyes of the world upon us and frankly we thought that it could notget any better, or bigger. Well, it has. "I don't believe in miracles but this is as near as it gets. "We've had media interest from across the world. We were on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, I've spoken to two German television crews in the last few days, Chilean television and Italian television twice. It really has attracted worldwide attention beyond anything that we fully understood." Chairman Srivaddhanaprabha bought the club in 2010 for £39m and, after Leicester were promoted from the Championship in 2014, said he would spend £180m to get them into European competition in three years. According to BBC South Asia correspondent Jonathan Head, the Thai businessman's travel retail group King Power has "hit the jackpot" and can now start to "tap into a bottomless

well of passion in this football-mad nation of 68 million people". A team of bargain buys and cast-offs Leicester's Jamie Vardy - I've done it the hard way Leicester's story is epitomised by 29-year-old striker Jamie Vardy. Released by Sheffield Wednesday at 16 for being too small, he rose through non-league football until Leicester paid Fleetwood Town £1m for him in 2012. He is now an England international, second in the Premier League's scoring charts this season and was named the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year on Monday. Meanwhile, Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year Riyad Mahrez, 25, was bought for just £400,000 from French second-tier side Le Havre in January 2014. Only 14 players have made more than a dozen league appearances - illustrating how settled the side has been- and Ranieri's preferred starting XI cost an estimated £22m, less than a 10th of what is arguably big-spending Manchester City's first-choice line-up. Leicester's record £8m signing Leonardo Ulloa is usually a substitute; Manchester City's record signing is £55m Kevin De Bruyne The key stats Kasper Schmeichel has marshalled a defence which has helped Leicester win 14 games by a one-goal margin, including seven 1-0 victories Since the Premier League began in 1992-93, only Blackburn Rovers have managed to take the title away from either Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea or Manchester City. Leicester's highest previous top-flight finish was second in 1928-29. Ranieri - known in England as 'The Tinkerman' after his spell as Chelsea boss more than a decade ago - has made just 27 changes to his line-up across the entire Premier League

I put money on Leicester City to win Premier League BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty was one of hundreds of journalists and pundits to predict a lowly finish and probable relegation for Leicester in his season preview. At the start of the season, 47 people placed a bet with Ladbrokes for Leicester to win the title at 5,000-1, around half of whom chose to cash out early. One Leicester fan took £72,000 from a £50 bet, when he would have won £250,000. Joe Crilly, from bookmakers William Hill, described Leicester's title win as "the biggest sporting upset of all time", while Ladbrokes' Alex Donohue said it was his company's "biggest payout by a distance". Crilly added: "It is not just a one-off like Japan beating South Africa in the rugby (whichwas 200-1), it has been a sustained effort over a full season and one which we, as bookmakers, continued to believe was impossible until just a few weeks ago. "The Foxes only became odds-on favourites for the first time at the end of March when they moved five points ahead at the top of the table, such was the scepticism with which we viewed Leicester's ability to continue their title push. It is quite simply incredible." The store manager of the Loughborough branch of Betfred, an Arsenal supporter, wrote "pigs might fly" on a betting slip when a Leicester fan put a £1 on his side to win the Premier League title Leicester's season on social media And these are the 10 most discussed Leicester moments of the season on Twitter: Danny Welbeck

at the King Power against Chelsea - 18,000 (14 Dec, 2015). Vardy breaks away to put Leicester 2-0 up against Sunderland - 18,000 (10 Apr, 2015). West Ham shock the King Power with two goals in two minutes, before Leonardo Ulloa equalises with a controversial penalty at the end - 17,000 (17 Apr, 2016). 'Jamie Vardy's having a party' The popular chant from Leicester fans - that striker Vardy "is having a party" - was never more true as the forward held a get-together at his home for team-mates to watch the Tottenham game. Supporters also gathered outside the star's home, while many more filled the city's bars and pubs, or took to the streets to celebrate the historic moment. Supporters gathered outside Jamie Vardy's house to mark the occasion as the players celebratedThomas (6525 Inwood Rd., Dallas) will host the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, on April 28. Jefferts Schori will participate in a rogation blessing for St. Thomas new community garden, tour St. Thomas' newly restored buildings, speak at a reception, and take questions from the audience. St. Thomas' community garden is located on a formerly vacant lot adjacent to the church. Church members have created two large "pantry plots" on which they are growing vegetables they will donate to local food banks and organizations fighting hunger in Dallas, especially North Dallas Shared Ministries and the Resource Center of Dallas. In addition, 16 individuals, who maintain private plots, have agreed to give at least 10 percent of their harvest to local food banks.SCHEDULE9 to

ARCIC. That all ended after General Convention 2003. That reality is one of the major reasons several Episcopal Bishops went to Rome. They recognized that TEC was no longer a bridge church between Catholic Christianity and Protestant Christianity but was now the bridge church between Trinitarianism and Unitarianism. If Dr. Os Guinness is right, even that's being left behind as TEC sinks into liturgical unitarianism and paganism. As we saw recently in Los Angeles, TEC may becoming the Bridge Church between Unitarians and Hindus. But certainly there appears to be no room for extending the hand of fellowship to Benedict. Perhaps she remembers that he is the author of the letter sent from the Vatican to the gathering at "Plano Dallas" in the fall of 2003. Usually it not wise toDo actors’ have a copyrightable interest in film? In a recent 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision filed on February 26, 2014, the court ordered YouTube to take down an anti-Muslim video. In correspondence to the decision, many lawyers are thinking that the ruling could give a significant rise in copyright litigation against content creators. Corynne McSherry, who is the director of intellectual property at the Electronic Frontier Foundation believes that movie makers should be worried. Some experts in the Intellectual Property field have already expressed disapproving remarks on the decision. Timothy Wu, a professor at Columbia University Law School thinks it is a terrible decision as mentioned in a chat with Law Blog. Professor Eric Goldman, the director of the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University School

Real life slaying horrifies Shakespeare town Friday Nov 25, 2011 at 12:01 AMNov 25, 2011 at 11:00 PM ASHLAND, Ore. (AP) ? In this storybook Southern Oregon town, murder is commonplace on the stages of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where sword fights are carefully choreographed entertainment, and the blood that spurts is fake. From Archive Data ASHLAND, Ore. (AP) — In this storybook Southern Oregon town, murder is commonplace on the stages of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where sword fights are carefully choreographed entertainment, and the blood that spurts is fake. The real-life slaying of a young grocery clerk nearly decapitated by an apparent stranger wielding a sword or machete has sent a shiver of horror through residents and visitors alike, and stumped investigators desperately searching for clues. A small shrine is growing on theside of the bike path where 23-year-old David Grubbs was killed last weekend while walking home from work, the way he had countless times, just as darkness was falling. It's an open place next to a parking lot where the path goes through a park with ball fields and tennis courts — and past an elementary school — where parents bring their small children to play. "I'm freaking out," said Zhawen Wahpepah, who came to the shrine Friday morning with her boyfriend, August Haddick, to burn sage and leave a booklet of music that she and Grubbs had played together as members of a school chamber orchestra. She added it to the candles, flowers, carrot cake, NY Times Sunday crossword puzzle, music CDs, photos, and lyrics from the song,

"Stairway to Heaven." They were all carefully placed on the ground next to a green metal cross painted with the name David and driven into the ground. "I think it was a thrill kill," said Wahpepah. Grubbs "was not into anything bad. He was just really shy and really nice," she added. "I used to walk this way home, and now I don't anymore because of this," said Haddick, who worked stocking shelves at the Shop'n Kart grocery with Grubbs. Living in the same student neighborhood, they often walked home together, but the night of the slaying, Haddick's schedule had him working three hours later, so Grubbs walked home alone. When Haddick drove by last Saturday night with a friend, the spot was cordoned off by police, blue lights flashing inthe darkness. Haddick didn't know until the next day, when the "Rest in Peace" tributes appeared on Facebook, that Grubbs had been killed. "It's hard to imagine it could just as easily have been me," he said. Ashland is a liberal outpost in conservative rural Oregon. The town of 20,000 just a few miles north of the California border is known for good schools, good restaurants, high housing prices, and deer that walk freely through town. Many residents are happy to work at low-paying jobs serving tourists for the chance to live here. "It's like this little paradise," said Brenna Heater, who knew Grubbs growing up and now works behind the counter of a downtown pizza joint. "The fairytale land is like the definition to us. I always use the word

and Vancouver Canucks. The Coyotes boring style, as Richard puts it, lulled the Canucks high powered offense to sleep, as the Nucks mustered 31 shots on Mike Smith, but only could net two of them. NWSB Insider and Vancouver Canucks blogger Kevin “The Flying V” Vanstone says the Vancouver Canucks may not be as deep on the blue line as it seems, will Mike Gillis move to make a trade deadline deal to bolster the back end? As the Canucks approach the 20-game mark of the 2013 season there is still a healthy amount of time for players like Alex Edler to adjust. Who knows with Ryan Kesler and Kevin Bieksa injuries. Richard Hodges previews the Phoenix Coyotes vs. Vancouver Canucks Feb 27 matchup. Richard says this is the CanucksA refugee center employee in Hamburg, Germany spoke to German newspaper Die Welt telling about her experience of working at the center and how her one time passion to help refugees has been destroyed because of their ungrateful behavior. The employee of the refugee center gave an interview to the German publication asking to stay anonymous. She recalled how she was enthusiastic to join the center in autumn of 2015 when tens of thousands of refugees poured into the country fleeing war zones in the Middle East. She was full of optimism, “It was exactly what I wanted to do in life.” © AFP 2020 / Daniel Bockwoldt Refugees are seen in their temporary housing in a former hardware store in Hamburg, northern Germany. However, her enthusiasm vanished within just a few

10 percent. “Working with the others is very difficult,” the girl said. She said that she will quit her job if the situation continues to deteriorate. “My idealism is undermined and almost destroyed. I am disappointed, and feel dejection,” the employee said. This interview was taken just a few days before a 22-year-old worker Alexandera Mezher who was employee in the same institution in Swedish city of Mölndal was killed. A 15-year-old teenager from Somalia was arrested on suspicion of committing the crime. Presumably, he stabbed the girl to death in the back and thigh. According to some reports the girl was murdered when she tried to stop a knife fight at the migrant center. Mezher had recently graduated from university with a degree in psychology. Her parents were migrants themselves, aRussian president says Russia has made breakthrough in designing new weapons that are decades ahead of foreign designs. Russian President Vladimir Putin has boasted about his country’s prospective nuclear weapons, saying they are years and even decades ahead of foreign designs. The new weapons represent a quantum leap in the nation’s military capability, Putin told graduates of Russian military academies in the Kremlin on Thursday. He said that Russia has made a “real breakthrough” in designing new weapons. The Russian leader also spoke glowingly about the new Avangard hypersonic vehicle and the new Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, which are set to enter service in the next few years. Putin also mentioned the Kinzhal hypersonic missile that has already been put on duty with the units of the country’s southern military district. The Russian president

had in March presented the systems among an array of new nuclear weapons in the thick of tensions with the West. He revealed the new nuclear weapons could hit any target around the globe with little chance of interception. Russia and the West are at odds in several conflicts – including Syria, where Russia supports President Bashar al-Assad – and Ukraine.various venues throughout Austin. Conference programming begins on the 8th and runs through the 16th, while schedules for the festivals are staggered. Interactive (8-12), Film (8-16) and Comedy (8-16) kick off the first week of SXSW, while Gaming (15-17) joins the main attraction, Music (11-17), in the second week. For venues for specific events and a full conference schedule check out the SXSW website. SXSW Film Festival The film festival (March 8-16), which was added to the SXSW lineup in 1994, welcomes filmmakers of all levels and celebrates innovation in front of and behind the camera. The film festival had an inauspicious start when a mere 600 people attended what was then a combined film and multimedia event at a downtown Austin hotel. Since then, it has blossomed into a