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Ukraine Showdown Only About 6 Weeks Away
CommentaryThe Ukraine war now seems to be in a comparative pause awaiting spring offensives from both sides, and any serious attempt at a settlement will have to reflect the results of what promises to be an intensified war, starting probably in April. The Ukrainians rightly publicize the outrages of the Russian assault upon their civilian areas, and the Americans and Germans are rightly providing them with the most sophisticated anti-missile defense to strike from the hand of the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, the barbarous ability to deliver missiles into civilian areas with impunity and without the slightest semblance of justification under international law. The impact of almost a full year of Russia's invasion of Ukraine hasn't been dramatic in western Ukraine, which has been less influenced by Russia and where about 60 percent of the population resides. But in the south and east, significant parts of cities have been reduced to rubble, and substantial civilian casualties have been incurred, including victims in schools and hospitals and churches, to obnoxiously cavalier Russian official responses. There are even many calling for unilateral de-escalation. This is natural; war is disgusting and stupid, and especially now that it can be graphically conveyed to every home in the world on television and the Internet almost instantly, it appalls most people. One of the great generals of modern times, the deputy Union commander in the U. S. Civil War, William Tecumseh Sherman, famously said that "war is hell." The Russian position is that since Ukraine was an integral part of Russia without even the status of a distinct province for two centuries, and is a fusion of Lithuanian, Russian, Polish, and Tatar ethnicities that have never been a distinct entity, and which has essentially been a failed state in its 30 years of independence, it really belongs to and in Russia. In this war, the Ukrainians have bestowed upon themselves a heroic tradition of the kind that builds a viable national mythos and raison d'être. In a referendum in 1991, over 80 percent of Ukrainians expressed their wish to secede from Russia, including 77 percent of Ukrainians in mainly Russian-speaking districts. From time to time, the West has been receptive to the idea of Ukraine in NATO, and at times the West has been relatively more placatory to the Russian view that it retained some legitimate interest in Ukraine. Russia and the major Western powers have all guaranteed the frontiers of Ukraine, and the word of all the major powers has been worthless. The West won the greatest and most bloodless strategic victory in the history of the nation-state with the end of the Cold War, when the Soviet Union lost all of its constituent republics and the population of Russia was reduced to less than half of that of the former USSR. The present government of Vladimir Putin has effectively regained control of Belarus and Moldova and has seized parts of Ukraine and Georgia, and undoubtedly exercises significant influence in Kazakhstan and several of the other Islamic republics that formerly composed the Soviet Union. Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, despite substantial Russian ethnic minorities, have joined NATO and seem now beyond Russia's reach. But the great prize in the substantial undoing of Russia's Cold War defeat would be if Russia could seize Ukraine, the most populous and strategically important of the constituent Soviet republics. Putin is trying to emulate the great Russian expansionists, Peter the Great and Joseph Stalin, but the Ukrainians have caused Putin to look more like a Mussolini, whom Winston Churchill described as a "whipped jackal," after he had been beaten by the Greeks. Clearly, most Ukrainians still support continuing the war with the objective of regaining all of Ukraine, including Crimea, which Putin annexed in protest against the Western-assisted 2014 ouster of the pro-Russian government of Ukraine elevated in the very questionable election of 2010. Ukraine was then in no position to resist Russian military action, and the Russian government apparently took no notice of the extensive training given by NATO powers to Ukrainian forces in the intervening time. Russia has purported to annex some Black Sea coastal provinces and to have held spurious referendums within them favoring reunion with Russia, so that the Kremlin can now claim that it isn't making war on Ukraine at all but merely defending itself. Even this is already a long climb-down from the Kremlin's initial intention to annex the entire Ukraine (which the ineffable joint chiefs chairman, Gen. Mark Milley, assured us would happen). Ukraine is obviously prepared to endure great hardship and heavy casualties to expel the Russians. And Russia, having been overwhelmingly humiliated at the end of the Cold War, when it simply disintegrated without firing a shot, is determined to regain a significant part of what it had lost. The stakes in Russia are such that th
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The Ukraine war now seems to be in a comparative pause awaiting spring offensives from both sides, and any serious attempt at a settlement will have to reflect the results of what promises to be an intensified war, starting probably in April.
The Ukrainians rightly publicize the outrages of the Russian assault upon their civilian areas, and the Americans and Germans are rightly providing them with the most sophisticated anti-missile defense to strike from the hand of the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, the barbarous ability to deliver missiles into civilian areas with impunity and without the slightest semblance of justification under international law.
The impact of almost a full year of Russia's invasion of Ukraine hasn't been dramatic in western Ukraine, which has been less influenced by Russia and where about 60 percent of the population resides. But in the south and east, significant parts of cities have been reduced to rubble, and substantial civilian casualties have been incurred, including victims in schools and hospitals and churches, to obnoxiously cavalier Russian official responses.
There are even many calling for unilateral de-escalation. This is natural; war is disgusting and stupid, and especially now that it can be graphically conveyed to every home in the world on television and the Internet almost instantly, it appalls most people. One of the great generals of modern times, the deputy Union commander in the U. S. Civil War, William Tecumseh Sherman, famously said that "war is hell."
The Russian position is that since Ukraine was an integral part of Russia without even the status of a distinct province for two centuries, and is a fusion of Lithuanian, Russian, Polish, and Tatar ethnicities that have never been a distinct entity, and which has essentially been a failed state in its 30 years of independence, it really belongs to and in Russia.
In this war, the Ukrainians have bestowed upon themselves a heroic tradition of the kind that builds a viable national mythos and raison d'être. In a referendum in 1991, over 80 percent of Ukrainians expressed their wish to secede from Russia, including 77 percent of Ukrainians in mainly Russian-speaking districts. From time to time, the West has been receptive to the idea of Ukraine in NATO, and at times the West has been relatively more placatory to the Russian view that it retained some legitimate interest in Ukraine. Russia and the major Western powers have all guaranteed the frontiers of Ukraine, and the word of all the major powers has been worthless.
The West won the greatest and most bloodless strategic victory in the history of the nation-state with the end of the Cold War, when the Soviet Union lost all of its constituent republics and the population of Russia was reduced to less than half of that of the former USSR. The present government of Vladimir Putin has effectively regained control of Belarus and Moldova and has seized parts of Ukraine and Georgia, and undoubtedly exercises significant influence in Kazakhstan and several of the other Islamic republics that formerly composed the Soviet Union. Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, despite substantial Russian ethnic minorities, have joined NATO and seem now beyond Russia's reach. But the great prize in the substantial undoing of Russia's Cold War defeat would be if Russia could seize Ukraine, the most populous and strategically important of the constituent Soviet republics.
Putin is trying to emulate the great Russian expansionists, Peter the Great and Joseph Stalin, but the Ukrainians have caused Putin to look more like a Mussolini, whom Winston Churchill described as a "whipped jackal," after he had been beaten by the Greeks.
Clearly, most Ukrainians still support continuing the war with the objective of regaining all of Ukraine, including Crimea, which Putin annexed in protest against the Western-assisted 2014 ouster of the pro-Russian government of Ukraine elevated in the very questionable election of 2010. Ukraine was then in no position to resist Russian military action, and the Russian government apparently took no notice of the extensive training given by NATO powers to Ukrainian forces in the intervening time. Russia has purported to annex some Black Sea coastal provinces and to have held spurious referendums within them favoring reunion with Russia, so that the Kremlin can now claim that it isn't making war on Ukraine at all but merely defending itself. Even this is already a long climb-down from the Kremlin's initial intention to annex the entire Ukraine (which the ineffable joint chiefs chairman, Gen. Mark Milley, assured us would happen).
Ukraine is obviously prepared to endure great hardship and heavy casualties to expel the Russians. And Russia, having been overwhelmingly humiliated at the end of the Cold War, when it simply disintegrated without firing a shot, is determined to regain a significant part of what it had lost. The stakes in Russia are such that the government probably couldn't survive emerging from this war with no accretions of Ukrainian territory at all.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned last week that a Russian defeat would likely lead to nuclear war, a threat the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, always a mouthpiece of the Russian government, for the Romanov, communists, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, or Putin, endorsed by predicting the "end of the world!" if Russia were defeated.
Such apocalyptic rhetoric is intended to deter NATO from getting more involved in the war, but the explicit recognition that Russia might lose on the battlefield marked a rare revelation of Putin's shaken confidence. Putin himself used the 80th anniversary of the Siege of Leningrad to raise the specter of Nazis threatening Russia from Ukraine, the puppet proxy-warrior for the West. Putin said that Soviet forces defeated Nazi Germany's "genocide of Leningrad" and drew comparisons with how contemporary Russia is fighting "Ukrainian neo-Nazis" in Donbas—where Putin previously accused Ukraine of conducting a genocide to justify his 2022 invasion. His return to nonsense about "Ukrainian neo-Nazis" and the "genocide of Russians" is an attempt to regain control over domestic war coverage.
The current level of Russian desperation is well illustrated by the comments of its sardonic foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, that the West wants a "final solution of the Russian Question," a deliberate use of Nazi anti-Semitic terminology as if there were the slightest comparison to be made between the status of 6 million European Jews tragically vulnerable to Nazi genocidists and Holy Mother Russia, a timeless and endless country with a population as great as Germany and France combined.
If Putin is trying to stoke up Russian fires to support a long war, he must see no way to bring the war into successful negotiations anytime soon. The Kremlin has to play to the extreme nationalists who demand blood, and to the weary Russian population who grumble about what happened to that lightning invasion they were promised almost a year ago. To force a satisfactory result, Russia will have to mount an immense mobilization that will be both unpopular and unaffordable, and while Russia has sacrificed with unimaginable heroism to protect the Russian motherland, "Rodyna," it's doubtful how much it's prepared to sacrifice over Ukraine, facing a purposefully U.S.-led NATO.
The next six to nine months should bring this war to an end on a basis that Putin can survive and Ukrainians can celebrate. If Russia will not stand down to this, the war will continue until Putin is gone. Paleo-conservative objections to it in the United States are nonsense. That the West is able to frustrate this hare-brained scheme in the midst of one of the most inept political periods in its history, with only a moderate commitment of resources to spare the West what would otherwise be a thumping humiliation, indicates to all but the most militant atheists that God has taken this most propitious time to bless America again, not in its leaders but in the identity of its adversaries.
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My 3 - week vacation in Zamboanga City was well spent in running and catching up with friends as I complete my store works.
But, part of running the Zamboanga City trail is the fact that I get to see the beautiful landmarks of Zamboanga City. And, my personal favorite includes the run along Fort Pilar.
It was only a waste not to be able to head to IT Ecozone because of the hard rain. But, come next year, I shall be cruising through the Sibugay Province and capture some beautiful pictures.
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Q: R: How do I c() nested character vectors grouped by another column? I have strings containing enumerations of words grouped under word type. The example below only has one type for simplicity's sake.
ka = tibble(
  words = c('apple, orange', 'pear, apple, plum'),
  type = 'fruit'
)

I want to find out the number of UNIQUE words per type.
I figured I would split the character vectors,
ka = ka %>%
  mutate(
    word_list = str_split(words, ', ')
  )

and then bind the columns per group. The end result would be
c(
ka$word_list[[1]],
ka$word_list[[2]],
)

Then I can unique these vectors and get their length.
I don't know how to bind columns together, grouped by a separate column. I could do this with an ugly loop within a loop, but there must be a map/apply solution as well, following the logic of:
ka %>%
  group_by(type) %>%
  summarise(
    biglist = map(word_list, ~ c(.)), # this doesn't work, obviously
    biglist_unique = map(biglist, ~ unique(.)),
    biglist_length = map(biglist_unique, ~ length(.))
  )

A: Here is an option for you. First we collapse the vectors, then we map out what you're looking for. Note that we have to trim off the whitespace to get the proper unique words.
library(tidyverse)

ka %>%
  group_by(type) %>%
  summarise(all_words = paste(words, collapse = ",")) %>%
  mutate(biglist = str_split(all_words, ",") %>% map(., ~str_trim(.x, "both")),
         biglist_unique = map(biglist, ~.x[unique(.x)]),
         biglist_length = map_dbl(biglist_unique, length))
#> # A tibble: 1 x 5
#>   type  all_words                       biglist   biglist_unique biglist_length
#>   <chr> <chr>                           <list>    <list>                  <dbl>
#> 1 fruit apple, orange,pear, apple, plum <chr [5]> <chr [4]>                   4

A: Another option would be to use tidy data principles and the tidyr package.
ka = ka %>%
  mutate(
    word_list = str_split(words, ', ')
  )

ka %>%
  # If you need to maintain information about each row you can create an index
  # mutate(index = row_number()) %>%
  # unnest the wordlist to get one word per row
  unnest(word_list) %>%
  # Only keep unique words per group
  group_by(type) %>%
  distinct(word_list, .keep_all = FALSE) %>% # if you need to maintain row info .keep_all = TRUE
  summarise(n_unique = n())
# A tibble: 1 x 2
# type  n_unique
#     <chr>    <int>
#   1 fruit        4

A: Here's a way you can do using separate_rows:
ka %>%
  separate_rows(words, sep = ', ') %>%
  group_by(type) %>%
  summarise(word_c = n_distinct(words))

A: Something like this:
library(tidyverse)
ka %>%
  mutate(words = strsplit(as.character(words), ",")) %>%
  unnest(words) %>%
  mutate(words = gsub(" ","",words)) %>%
  group_by(type) %>%
  summarise(number =  n_distinct(words),
            words = paste0(unique(words), collapse =' '))

# A tibble: 1 x 3
  type  number words
  <chr>  <int> <chr>
1 fruit      4 apple orange pear plum

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Huawei TalkBand B1 launching in the U.S. later this month
| November 6, 2014
Following its debut way back at MWC in February, the Huawei TalkBand B1 is finally making its way to the U.S. this month.
Huawei pinged us today to announce that the TalkBand B1 will be available in the U.S. through GetHuawei.com, Newegg.com, Amazon.com and Fry's Electronics starting November 14. Pricing for Huawei's wearable will be set at $129.99.
As its name suggests, the TalkBand B1 is a wearable that can also help you conduct voice calls. It can do this because it's got an embedded Bluetooth 4.1 earpiece that provides up to seven hours of talk time. The Bluetooth headset is compatible with Android 4.0 and higher as well as iOS 5.0 and higher.
When the TalkBand B1 is on your wrist and not in your ear, it can track your activity time, steps taken and calories burned. It'll also track your sleep and can wake you up with its smart alarm feature.
The body of the TalkBand B1 is made of a sweat-resistant material and includes a 90mAh battery that is expected to last six days on a single charge. Also included is a 1.4-inch flexible OLED screen and a security feature that'll alert you when your phone is more than 10 meters away from the synced TalkBand B1.
The wearables market is becoming increasingly crowded, and so the TalkBand B1 is Huawei's attempt to make its wrist-worn gear stand out in the crowd. While the device certainly took its time to come stateside, it's nice to see that the TalkBand B1 is finally coming to the U.S. to give consumers another wearable to choose from.
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School of Pharmacy Receives $15,000 NACDS Foundation Scholarship
School of Pharmacy Awarded $15,000 National Association of Chain Drug Stores Foundation Scholarship
The UMKC School of Pharmacy has received a $15,000 National Association of Chain Drug Stores Foundation Scholarship award for its efforts in mentorship and promoting diversity programs and initiatives.
The award will support the School of Pharmacy's mentorship program that pairs pharmacy students with pre-pharmacy students. Through this effort, mentors help under-represented minority students apply to pharmacy school, study for courses and prepare for the Pharmacy College Admission Test (PCAT).
UMKC is one of only seven pharmacy schools to receive thisyear's award for their endeavors with diversity programs.
The awards were presented in a virtual awards ceremony recognizing an ongoing commitment to advancing patient care through pharmacy education. The scholarship program funds prospective projects at accredited colleges and school of pharmacy that can significantly improve patient care.
"Thanks to our benefactors' outstanding commitment, schools and colleges of pharmacy nationwide have the opportunity to improve health outcomes and address existing care gaps in their own communities," Kathleen Jaeger, NACDS Foundation president, said. "We are so appreciative of our sponsors' generosity and tremendous support of the NACDS Foundation Scholarship Program as well as the students, faculty and upcoming public health champions it proudly promotes."
The NACDS Foundation Scholarship Program has provided nearly $4.5 million in scholarships for pharmacy education since it began in 1997.
Kelly Edwards
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Kraken Daily Market Report for May 05 2021
Total spot trading volume at $4.16 billion, 70% higher than the 30-day average of $2.45 billion.
Total futures notional at $953.9 million.
The top five traded coins were, respectively, Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Ethereum, Tether, and Ethereum Classic.
The Dogecoin (+19%) rally continues, up almost 6500% YTD.
XBT
$1.01B XDG
$572.9M ETC
$162.5M ADA
$159.7M LTC
$133.3M DOT
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$74.4M SC
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Figure 1: Largest trading assets: trading volume (measured in USD) and its percentage of the total trading volume (May 06 2021)
Figure 2: Mid-size trading assets: (measured in USD) (May 06 2021)
Figure 3: Smallest trading assets: (measured in USD) (May 06 2021)
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Figure 4: Average spread % by pair (May 06 2021)
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Returns and Volume
Figure 5: Returns of the four highest volume pairs (May 06 2021)
Figure 6: Volume of the major currencies and an average line that fits the data to a sinusoidal curve to show the daily volume highs and lows (May 06 2021)


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Pilot Studies for Remediation of Groundwater for two years.
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Project for the survey and removal of explosive materials from coastal areas.
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Survey Project for eliminating explosives and concrete blocks from the Reserve.
Remediation and Vegetation Project (6.25 km2) in Sabah Al-Ahmad Reserve.
Environmental monitoring project for Sabah Al-Ahmad Reserve.
Project for the remediation and clean closure of oil well head pits in Northern Kuwait above fresh ground water aquifer.
Project for the remediation and closure in place of oil well head pits in other areas.
Remediation of 71.5 km2 damaged areas in South Burgan outside KOC fence.
Remediation of 25 km2 damaged areas in Northern Kuwait inside KOC fence.
Identification of the five protected areas and their hand over from Kuwait Municipality, namely AL huwaymiliah, Alkuwaisat, Wady AL batin, Um Ghudair and Jal Liah.
Project for designing and construction of an external fence and monitoring system for the five protected areas.
Project to improve the capacity of the Public Authority for Agriculture and Fish Resources.
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SA artist's official portrait of Kate gets mixed reviews
The first official portrait of Britain's Duchess of Cambridge, popularly known by her former name Kate Middleton, was unveiled in London on Friday, and opinion was sharply divided over an image many deemed unflattering.
The 31-year-old, who, as a glamorous future queen, is one of the world's most photographed women, is portrayed in the large canvas with a faint smile, long, copper-tinted hair and shadows under her eyes.
Award-winning South African artist Paul Emsley, surrounded by a scrum of international news crews at the National Portrait Gallery where the work was revealed, described the duchess as a "wonderful subject" and "generous as a person.
"The brief was that it should be a portrait which in some way expressed her natural self rather than her official self," he said.
"When you meet her, that really is appropriate. She really is that kind of a person. She's so nice to be with and it's genuine and I felt if the painting can convey something of that then it will have succeeded."
Glasgow-born Emsley grew up in South Africa, where he worked as a lecturer at Stellenbosch University. He moved to the UK in 1996. His previous work includes a portrait of former South African president Nelson Mandela.
National Portrait Gallery staff said the duchess and her husband Prince William visited earlier on Friday and were "very pleased" with the outcome of a painting based on photographs taken at two sittings in May and June last year.
"Her family are also very pleased," Emsley said. "To me that's the ultimate test in a way, because they know her better than anyone else."
Widespread criticism
Public reaction was less positive, however, with views on Twitter and newspaper websites overwhelmingly negative.
Many comments focused on how the image had aged the duchess, herself a graduate in art history, while others took the artist to task for portraying her smiling slightly.
One Daily Mail reader from Canada summed up broader opinion in an unnamed comment.
"OMG, how awful! Rather than being overly flattering as many royal portraits are, this one is the extreme opposite. She's barely recognisable! Poor Kate, forced to say she's 'thrilled' when in all likelihood, she is as horrified as the rest of us."
Sunday Times art critic Waldemar Januszczak called the portrait "pretty ordinary … He [Emsley] made her look older than she is and her eyes don't sparkle in the way that they do and there's something rather dour about the face."
Emsley knew he would be in the public eye when taking on a subject of the duchess's stature as a royal and global celebrity.
"It's probably the most important portrait I'll ever do, and when you realise that, you do start to think rather carefully about what you're doing perhaps more than you usually do, and that made me more cautious than I normally am."
The duchess has recently been in the headlines after spending four days in hospital being treated for acute morning sickness having announced she was pregnant.
The National Portrait Gallery commissioned the painting of its patron, and it was given to the gallery by Hugh Leggatt through the Art Fund. – Reuters
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Yoruba Monarchs To Combat Insecurity in Southwest With Traditional Method
Insecurity In Southwest – By Babajide Okeowo
Traditional rulers in Nigeria's Southwest states have dropped a hint that they might resort to traditional methods to combat rising insecurity in the region.
The Owa of Idanre Kingdom, Oba Fredrick Aroloye, dropped the hint at the weekend when the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi visited him in celebration of his 45th coronation anniversary.
Oba Aroloye charged the Ooni of Ife with the need to arrest the spate of insecurity in southwest through unconventional means.
Addressing Ooni, Oba Aroloye said: "It's documented that you, Ooni of Ife, are the Arole of Oduduwa. I have many documents here with me to prove that.
"You have many vital roles to play now at this point. There's insecurity in Yorubaland. We need to tackle this unconventional way.
"Before the coming of the colonial masters, our fathers had their way of tackling insecurity. We still have these things with us. We haven't thrown everything away.
"We, all Yoruba Obas, should begin to have meetings to see how we can protect our land and brainstorm on different salient issues bordering our people.
"It is high time you began to organise meetings of Obas in Yorubaland. We all sons of Oduduwa must begin to have meetings from time to time."
Oba Aroloye disclosed that Oba Ogunwusi would be the third Ooni that had visited Idanre because of the relationship between the two towns.
Idanre was initially known as Ife Oke before the name was changed to Idanre, which was derived from the magical prowess of the people.
In his address, the Ooni of Ife agreed with Oba Aroloye on the issues raised, promising to address them all.
He promised to return to the Rock town soon to climb the popular Idanre Hill, which harbours several tourist centres.
Though 95-year-old Oba Aroloye, said he went to the hill last over 20 years ago, he implored the Ooni of Ife to visit the hill so that he could be acquainted with several traditional heritages conserved on the hill.
Some sons and daughters of the town were honoured by Oba Aroloye as he installed them as chiefs of Idanre kingdom.
Among many dignitaries that graced the occasion is the former Chief of Defence Staff, General Alexander Ogomudia (rtd).
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CAF Champions League Review: Al Ahly held as Rollers begin with a win
Township Rollers took an early lead in Group A of the CAF Champions League after Al Ahly were held to a goalless draw at home.
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Al Ahly were held in their CAF Champions League group-stage opener, while there was a victory for Township Rollers.
Egyptian Premier League champions Al Ahly knocked out ES Tunis en route to the final last year, but they were frustrated by the Tunisian side on Friday as their Group A meeting ended goalless at the Borg El Arab Stadium.
The both trail the Rollers, who beat KCCA thanks to Lemponye Tshireletso's goal in a 1-0 triumph in Botswana.
The opening match in Group B ended 1-1, despite Difaa El Jadida taking the lead against MC Alger's 10 men with just 13 minutes remaining.
Zidane Mebarakou was sent off early in the second half for the hosts, but Amir Karaoui rescued his side in the 82nd minute to cancel out Hamid Ahadad's opener.
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Shattering a Colorblind View of the Past
Color is always doing something. Sometimes color screams out a message, sometimes it casts a subliminal spell. So, what's happening in the world of color today? Yesterday? Tomorrow? What are the facts, what are the myths?
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For nearly two centuries, scholars have been arguing that beige and white were not the true colors of antiquity. The Parthenon in Athens and the Forum in Rome might have been almost gaudy. Unfortunately, such ideas have never influenced Hollywood or many experts. For example, in "Gladiator," when Russell Crowe strides down the streets of ancient Rome, circa A.D. 180, he's backed up by the proper complement of white marble. In almost every view of the past, textbooks included, the ancient world comes off as monochrome.
A flood of recent exhibitions has put color back into the vocabulary of antiquity. Last year, "Gods in Color" in Boston and "The Color of Life" exhibition at the Getty featured multi-colored sculptural masterpieces from the Greek and Roman eras.
However, not all scholars are pleased. Of note, Fabio Barry, an art historian at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, is not overly fond of the Prima Porta sculpture's colored reconstruction. "Can you imagine the family-values, back-to-basics, republican emperor Augustus . . . represented by something that looks like a cross-dresser trying to hail a taxi?" raves Barry, an expert on the history of marble. He insists that the Romans cherished the whiteness of fine marble as an important symbol of light and purity.
On the other hand, Getty Curator Kenneth Lapatin "For the Greeks it was all about mimesis," says, using the Greek word for realistic imitation. Beauty depended on it.
A week ago, scientists revealed something else that shatters our preconceived notions about the drab and dinghy colors of an even more distant past. A team of British and Chinese scientists found evidence that a dinosaur that lived about 125 million years ago had a feathered mohawk with orange-brown bristly feathers around its tail. By examining and comparing tiny structures (melanins) in the feathers, they found the color associated with red-brown. Source
While this colorful development in the lost world of dinosaurs is quite exciting, it will still be left up to our imaginations to create the colors of popular dinosaurs, like Tyrannosaurus rex - at least for now.
As for antiquity, we also need help visualizing and accepting a colored world of architecture and sculpture.
Perhaps this century will colorize the past in amazing ways.
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"Flashdance" is a song by American electronic music duo Deep Dish with the vocals from Anousheh Khalili. It is a cover of "He's a Dream" by Shandi Sinnamon, from the Flashdance soundtrack. Released in 2004, the song received positive critical reviews and became a hit in several countries, including the United Kingdom, where it debuted and peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart.

Reception

Critical response
Ben Hogwood of musicOMH was favorable of the song, saying that "Flashdance" has given Deep Dish "a huge worldwide club hit, its full-bodied hook picked up by many a DJ". Hogwood named it the most commercial track on the album, which according to him "loosely follows the lead of its predecessor, teaming moody instrumentals with club based vocal tracks".

The remix "Flashdance (Guetta & Garraud F*** Me I'm Famous Remix)" was nominated to the Grammy Award for Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical.

Chart performance
For the chart issue dated October 9, 2004, "Flashdance" debuted at number three on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Deep Dish's first and only single to reach the UK top 10. It was the second-highest entry for that week, behind "I Hope You Dance" by Ronan Keating. "Flashdance" peaked at number 14 on the Australian Singles Chart and was certified Gold by the Australian Recording Industry Association, denoting shipments of 35,000 copies.

Track listings

US CD single and digital EP
 "Flashdance" (radio edit) – 4:00
 "Flashdance" (original club mix) – 11:10
 "Flashdance" (Skylark Remix) – 10:44
 "Flashdance" (Raul Rincon Remix) – 7:49
 "Flashdance" (Guetta & Garraud F*** Me I'm Famous Remix) – 9:17
 "Flashdance" (Meat Katie Remix) – 6:35
 "Flashdance" (Meat Katie Dub) – 6:19

UK 12-inch single 1
A1. "Flashdance" (Flashdance club) – 11:12
AA1. "Flashdance" (Meat Katie Remix) – 6:33
AA2. "Flashdance" (Meat Katie Dub) – 6:33

UK 12-inch single 2
A1. "Flashdance" (Skylark Remix) – 10:42
AA1. "Flashdance" (Raul Rincon Remix) – 7:46
AA2. "Flashdance" (Guetta & Garraud F*** Me I'm Famous Remix) – 6:56

UK CD single
 "Flashdance" (radio edit) – 3:13
 "Flashdance" (original club mix—UK radio version) – 7:49
 "Flashdance" (Skylark Remix) – 6:56
 "Flashdance" (Raul Rincon Remix) – 7:46
 "Flashdance" (Guetta & Garraud F*** Me I'm Famous Remix) – 6:56
 "Flashdance" (Meat Katie Remix) – 6:33

Australian CD single
 "Flashdance" (radio edit)
 "Flashdance" (Guetta & Garraud F*** Me I'm Famous Remix)
 "Flashdance" (Skylark Remix)
 "Flashdance" (Meat Katie Remix)
 "Flashdance" (original club mix—UK radio version)

Remix
In 2005 a mashup of "Flashdance" with the Dire Straits song "Money for Nothing" was included on the George Is On album. The remix, titled "Flashing For Money" and arranged by DJ Sultan, appeared as a b-side on Deep Dish Records single releases of "Say Hello", and was released as an a-side single on the Absolute Sound label in France.

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

References

2004 singles
2004 songs
Deep Dish (band) songs
Positiva Records singles

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Some Notes on Model Organisms
In 1859, Charles Darwin published the first edition of his seminal work On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life which laid out the theory of natural selection. As people reckoned with the ideas of heredity and a common lineage for all organisms suggested by Darwin, the question of how to study these phenomena arose.
Unbeknownst to most of the scientific world at that time, while Darwin was unveiling his revolutionary theory, Gregor Mendel and his (now) famous pea plants were simultaneously laying down the foundations of modern genetics, and providing an answer to the question of how to acquire new biologic knowledge proving the incredible power and importance of "model organisms" in understanding biology.
What Mendel somehow intuited well ahead of the rest of the field was that if every organism has a shared origin, then there must be some basic biological principles that are at play in humans as well as in much "simpler" organisms. The idea that certain organisms can be studied and used to acquire knowledge on other organisms led the way to new fields of research and the development of a myriad of the models (zebrafish, yeasts, bacteria, phages, and, of course, mice and monkeys to name a few) that drive much of modern biology.
Three models have had an outsized impact on research (note, we absolutely acknowledge the importance and the contribution of other models and do not mean to insult our readers with a passion for other organisms).
The fruit fly, or Drosophila melanogaster, became a lab animal in 1901 at Harvard University as scientists were looking for an animal they could keep easily in the lab and reproduce in large numbers. These flies were key for Thomas Hunt Morgan, considered the father of all drosophilists and inspired by Mendel's experiments, to establish that chromosomes were the basis of heredity, for Eric Wieschaus and Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard to discover genes controlling embryonic development (those same genes are conserved in humans!) and, more recently, Michael Rosbash to uncover some of the mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm. In a 2001 survey, it was shown that 75% of known human disease genes had an identifiable match in Drosophila and the immense set of genetic tools developed for this model continue to make it an essential part of many biologists' experimental arsenal.
The round worm, or Caenorhabditis elegans, was the first multicellular organism to have its whole genome sequenced (a partial genome in 1998 and a complete one in 2002). With leadership from Sydney Brenner beginning in the 1970s, the round worm became a perfect screening tool where every gene could be knocked down using silencing RNA (siRNA) and thereby reveal its function. Silencing genes using this techniques has worked remarkably well in worms as they absorb the siRNA through their food and bodies in their normal living environment. Thanks to large screening efforts over the years, many discoveries were made via the worm including elucidating mechanisms in areas as diverse as programmed cell death (apoptosis), aging (development of Alzheimer's disease, role of oxidative stress and lifespan) and sleep. Overall flies and worms have been tremendous models to study cell cycle and developmental processes.
The mouse, or Mus musculus, combines features that make them the perfect proverbial lab workhorse—ease of maintenance and handling, high reproduction rate, and proximity to human biology. If fruit flies are humans' first cousins, then mice are their brothers sharing 99% of protein-coding genes. Mice are thus far better models than yeasts, worms, and flies to interrogate the immune, endocrine, nervous, cardiovascular, skeletal and other complex mammalian physiological systems. Mice get sick with many similar diseases as humans do, and researchers have managed to create models for diseases that normally do not affect the rodent. The Jackson Laboratory has played a crucial role in the development of the mouse into the leading model for biomedical research developing breeds to study conditions as diverse as multiple types of cancers, Down syndrome, Cystic Fibrosis, diabetes, and many more.
While many, many mice have been cured of all sorts of inflicted ailments, the translation to human biology and disease has often been more haphazard than is optimal. No model is perfect and, as useful a tool mice have been, there are species differences that have been hard to reconcile. As one example, although Dr. Valina Dawson managed to create a parkin knockout mouse, mimicking a mutation that causes some cases of Parkinson's disease, the mice did not display the disease's hallmark features - no trembling limbs, no rigid body movements, no unsteady gait.
Despite the glorious past (and noted shortcomings) of these model organisms, one can wonder about their future. From peas to flies to mice, is the next frontier of the model organism its complete virtualization? Some argue that the increasing use of AI will replace the need to experiment on animals, going directly from in vitro to in silico without the burdensome in vivo step. It is true that, while they enabled truly remarkable biological discoveries, many of these models fall short of clearly predicting how a drug will behave in humans. A complementarity of approaches however seems to yield more promising results, with this massive effort aiming at improving the translation from mouse to human an interesting effort in this direction.
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The canonical understanding of life on Earth is that it involves a four-letter genetic alphabet that encodes "three-letter words" which produce 20 amino acids. Three recent papers in Science show, however, that at least in some viruses, one of the four standard bases in their DNA is swapped out for a novel fifth one. These findings lead one biologist to comment "[We need to] stop taking the components of molecular biology as we know them for granted. Purely because our instrumentation has gotten better and we've looked harder, everything that we thought was standard and universal is just falling away."
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As more people in the U.S. switch to a gluten-free diet, popular belief has linked a low-gluten diet to increased cognitive benefit. But a new study finds no evidence of such an association. Scientists looked at more than 20 years of data from more than 13,000 women who didn't have a history of celiac disease. The analysis found no statistically significant differences in cognitive scores - including learning and working memory - between those who had the lowest daily gluten intake and those with the highest. As is often the case with nutritional studies, though, there were caveats: the study only included women who were of middle age, and the findings thus may not be generalizable.JAMA Network Open >
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While the world has understandably been focused on the Covid-19 pandemic for the past year, the global obesity pandemic has not gone away, and nor have the scientists who are trying to understand and solve it. Interesting recent work in the area includes:
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– Perhaps not surprisingly, another study shows that our brains process taste information before factoring in health information. One of the study's authors comments, "We've always assumed people make unhealthy choices because that's their preference or because they aren't good at self-control. It turns out it's not just a matter of self-control. Health is slower for your brain to estimate -- it takes longer for you to include that information into the process of choosing between options." Nature Human Behaviour >
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It is regrettably all too clear that certain populations remain underrepresented in health-related sciences on a national basis. Underrepresentation of these groups in the field overall trickles down to their underrepresentation in the life sciences commercialization and entrepreneurship community and ultimately in the amount of money that companies led by members of these underrepresented groups receive from venture capitalists.
In December of 2020, Columbia Technology Ventures, with support and sponsorship from Digitalis Commons, launched Columbia's Program for Diversity & Inclusion in Commercialization & Entrepreneurship (DICE). The program supports early-career individuals who identify as being from traditionally underrepresented groups in life science entrepreneurship and commercialization as defined by the NIH. DICE provides eligible Columbia graduate students and postdocs with educational programming, mentorship, networking, and funding opportunities to prepare participants for careers in bringing life science innovation to market, with a focus on therapeutics, diagnostics, medical devices, and enabling technologies.
In its highly successful inaugural cycle, 17 students across 12 departments participated in DICE. Students completed a Life Science Accelerator Bootcamp, were mentored by experienced life science entrepreneurs, industry executives, and venture capitalists from traditionally underrepresented populations, and were provided stipends for professional development. As the program moves into its second cycle it looks to expand its reach in myriad ways.
The Columbia DICE Report for Spring 2021 can be read here.
To learn more about the program, including details of the program structure, eligibility, awards & grants, and timelines, please visit techventures.columbia.edu/DICE.
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If you love chocolate with nuts, you can prepare it at home. This way you will avoid the dangerous oils and sweeteners, which are used in most store-bought cocoa products.
Ingredients: 250 g natural chocolate, 1 cup nuts to taste - walnuts, almonds, peanuts or a blend of different types of nuts. If you like raisins, add three-quarters cup of dried fruit. Add 1 additional tablespoon of shelled sunflower seeds.
Dark chocolate is broken into pieces and melted in a water bath. Nuts bake for five minutes in a hot oven and then are crushed coarsely. Dried fruits are cut into large pieces and mixed with nuts. Add sunflower seeds.
The whole lot is mixed well and then poured onto a tray, covered with aluminum foil. You can sprinkle the chocolate with some coconut if desired. Let it sit and then break into chunks.
You can make chocolate with nuts and without using ready chocolate bars.
Ingredients: 100 grams of cocoa, 25 g cocoa butter, which in the absence thereof is replaced with cow butter, 4 tablespoons powdered sugar, 6 coarsely chopped walnuts, 1 teaspoon coconut, 1 teaspoon of condensed milk, a pinch of cinnamon, a pinch of powdered milk.
Cocoa butter is mixed and melted in a water bath while stirring. Thereto is added powdered sugar and stir to remove the lumps.
Add the rest of the ingredients and mix everything well. The mixture is poured into a tray, covered with aluminum foil, or in smaller molds and allowed to cool, and after that - it sits. Because of the dry and condensed milk is obtained milk chocolate that melts right in your mouth.
Chocolate with nuts and flavored whiskey gets a lot easier.
Ingredients: 100 g cocoa powder, 200 ml liquid cream, 50 g butter, 5 tablespoons powdered sugar, 2 tablespoons milk, 50 ml of whiskey, 5 dozens large walnuts or hazelnuts.
Cocoa butter is melted in a water bath. The cream is mixed with powdered sugar and milk powder is slightly warmed and mixed with the cocoa mixture. Stir until homogeneous in a water bath. Add nuts, and pre kibbled whiskey. Everything is poured into a tray, covered with aluminum foil and let it sit.


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William Fritz (William Duncan "Bill" Fritz; * 14. August 1914 in Ferrybank, Alberta; † 14. Oktober 1995 in London, Ontario) war ein kanadischer Sprinter.

Bei den British Empire Games 1934 in London wurde er Vierter im 440-Yards-Lauf und gewann mit der kanadischen Mannschaft Silber in der 4-mal-440-Yards-Staffel.

1936 wurde er bei den Olympischen Spielen in Berlin Fünfter im 400-Meter-Lauf und kam mit dem kanadischen Team in der 4-mal-400-Meter-Staffel auf den vierten Platz.

1938 gewann er bei den British Empire Games in Sydney Gold mit der kanadischen Stafette über 4 mal 440 Yards und Silber im Einzelwettbewerb über 440 Yards.

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Search - List of Books by Jose Latour
Jose Latour (b. April 24, 1940 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban crime fiction writer. His first three novels (Preludio a la Noche, Medianoche Enemiga and Fauna Noctura), set in pre-revolutionary Havana, were published in 1982, 1986 and 1989. The fourth (Choque de Leyendas), was released in 1998.
In 1994 Latour submitted his new book The Fool to his Cuban publisher. Based on a real-life case of corruption in the ministries of the Interior and the Armed Forces, the book was considered counterrevolutionary and its author labeled an "enemy of the people." Certain that he would never be published in Cuba again as long as all publishing houses were state-owned, Latour took a shot at writing in English.
His first novel in that language, Outcast, was published in the U.S., Japan, five Western European countries and Brazil. It got flattering reviews and was nominated for an Edgar. Since then, he has penned Havana Best Friends (2002), Havana World Series (2003), Comrades in Miami (2005) and The Young Englishman (2006, still unpublished). His sole non-fiction book is Postcommunist CUBA Poscomunista, a bilingual essay.
Seeking creative fiction and fearing dictatorial repression, the author and his family moved to Spain in August 2002 and to Canada in September 2004. Currently he is researching his next novel, due in 2008.
This author page uses material from the Wikipedia article "Jose Latour", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0
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2010 - Crime of Fashion (Paperback)
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
2008 - Hidden in Havana [Thomas Dunne Books] (Hardcover)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
2008 - Comrades in Miami (Paperback)
2007 - Outcast (Paperback)
2006 - Comrades in Miami a Novel (Paperback)
2006 - Havana Best Friends (Paperback)
Genre: Literature & Fiction
2005 - Postcommunist Cuba Poscomunista (Paperback)
Genre: Nonfiction
2005 - Havana World Series (Paperback)
2005 - Havana World Series a Novel (Paperback)
2003 - The Fool (Paperback)
2002 - Outcast a Novel (Paperback)
2001 - Flucht Aus Havanna (Paperback)
Mundos Sucios / Dirty Worlds [Planeta Internacional - Spanish Edition] (Hardcover)
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Reference


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Will usually stay with a task until it is completed. This is excellent for room tidying and he often needs little reminding to do this. What he may need is time to disengage from the task at hand. He might be reluctant to start picking up if he hasn't finished the block castle he is building.
Will hardly ever forget something he wants and will continue to remind you about it. Never promise a child something you have no intention of getting him — better to just say "no" and deal with the upset at the time. But if you have a child who is not distractible, you will really learn to regret having made an idle promise!
Gets caught up in what he is doing and tunes out the rest of the world. This might include you and any instructions or information you might be trying to give him. He is not being purposefully rude or disrespectful; he is just preoccupied. Repeating the message over and over from another room or increasing the volume of your voice does not pass your message on to this child. When you need to convey some information, it's a good idea to get down to his level and make eye contact. Once you have his attention, you can calmly tell him what you need him to know. This also gives you the opportunity to observe from his facial expression whether he understands or perhaps might have a question about what you have said.
If you'd like to find out what your child's temperament scores are like, email the child's date of birth and your mailing address to temperament@avera.org.


Your knee is the largest joint in your body and commonly suffers injuries and disease that cause you severe pain and can become immobilising. Knee surgeries are operations designed to either repair an injury or to treat a condition such as osteoarthritis. The aim of knee surgery is to reduce your pain and improve the quality of your life.
Here at Berkshire Independent Hospital, our experienced and leading consultant knee surgeons offer you the very best care to treat all knee conditions with the aim of getting you back to full mobility smoothly and without waiting. They have access to a full range of diagnostic equipment and work in a multidisciplinary team to offer a full complement of knee procedures including knee arthroscopy, ACL reconstruction and knee replacement surgery. Your orthopaedic consultant will guide you through the process and procedures so you feel comfortable, confident and fully informed at all times.
Knee arthroscopy, also known as keyhole surgery, allows your surgeon to see inside your knee joint and to treat any problems as required. It's a very safe and straightforward procedure, commonly performed under general anaesthetic.
A camera and light source are passed into the knee joint to provide your operating knee surgeon with an excellent view of the inside of the knee. Medical instruments may also be inserted into the knee joint to allow your surgeon to repair damaged cartilage, tendons and ligaments and to remove inflamed tissue and small sections of bone and cartilage that have broken off and are loose within the joint.
Meniscus tears are among the most common knee injuries. A meniscal tear is a tear in one of your shock absorbers called a meniscus that are located between the thighbone and shinbone in your knee joint.
A meniscal tear is caused by any activity that causes you to forcefully twist or rotate your knee, especially when putting the pressure of your full weight on it. Athletes, particularly those who play contact sports and people with degenerative conditions such as osteoarthritis are at risk of meniscus tears.
Treatment will depend on the type of tear you have, its size, and location. Both non-surgical and surgical treatment options are available.
Your anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is a strong ligament that runs diagonally through your knee joining the thighbone to the shinbone. It is one of the most commonly injured ligaments. An ACL injury is often caused when you stop suddenly and change direction, if you land incorrectly from a jump or if you have a collision, such as during a football tackle. It is often thought of as a sporting injury as the ACL is commonly torn whilst taking part in sporting activities.
ACL reconstruction or knee ligament reconstruction is performed to improve the stability and function of your knee joint. It involves replacing the torn ACL with a graft, often from a tendon in another part of your knee or sometimes from a donor. Your knee surgeon will discuss your treatment options in detail with you. The decision to have ACL reconstructive surgery will depend on how damaged your ACL is, if you want to return to playing sport and its impact on the quality of your life.
A knee replacement or knee arthroplasty is a procedure to remove your damaged knee joint and replace it with an artificial one made out of metal, plastic or ceramic. Your orthopaedic surgeon may recommend a knee replacement if your joint is painful and has been damaged or worn away. The most common reason for this is osteoarthritis.
After your knee replacement surgery your knee should be much less painful and the joint should move more smoothly.


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At least 12 killed, dozens injured in Libya protests
19:52 17/02/2011 MOSCOW, February 17 (RIA Novosti) - At least 12 people were killed on Thursday and dozens injured in anti-government protests in Libya's northeastern city of Al-Baida and eastern city of Benghazi.
Inspired by popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, Libyan protesters also called for a "Day of Rage" on Thursday in a bid to challenge the 41-year rule of Colonel Muammar Qadhafi, who has been accused of human rights abuses.
Citing opposition websites and NGOs, Al-Arabiya news agency reported that security forces and militia of the Revolutionary Committees opened fire on the peaceful, mostly young demonstrators in the city of Al-Baida, killing at least six people.
Human Rights Solidarity, a human rights group based in Geneva, said witnesses in Al-Baida reported that several snipers opened fire from the tops of buildings, killing at least 13 demonstrators.
France Press news agency reported that at least six people were killed and 38 injured in the country's second largest city of Benghazi, where protests began on Wednesday, when at least 15 people were injured.
A Facebook group calling for the "Day of Range" had 4,400 registered members on Monday, but the number more than doubled to some 10,000 following Wednesday clashes in Benghazi.
Qadhafi, who came to power on the back of a 1969 coup, is the longest-serving leader in both Africa and the Arab world.
The spark for the protest was believed to be the detention of human rights lawyer Fathi Terbil by the Libyan security forces. Terbil was reportedly later released.
Local media reports said pro-Gaddafi demonstrations were held on Wednesday in several cities across the country following the Benghazi protest.


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Queensgate Shopping Center – Update Locations
Dec 15, 2016 | Business
The engineers pursued inspection Queensgate shopping center and otherwise not be reduced to the structure where the assessment carried out on capacity. This evaluation takes place, and the update will be offered more in this regard in the very near future.
Of the current tenants will be contacted individually to arrange access to areas of the Centre so that the government so that they can determine the steps necessary to allow them to resume negotiations. Address of the center will work with them to evaluate the necessary repair work, and engineers will be available to give advice as needed. Once the retailer can assess the situation with greater precision at the opening of the center will be paid back in the calendar.
The restoration work will also be part of the central superficial damage sustained as a result of the earthquake and subsequent replicas, and it will evolve as the center reopened.
Stride priority was, and remains, the conclusion of a thorough and comprehensive inspection by a structural engineer, Beca. Queensgate is the largest enclosed shopping center in the South of the North Island, with more than 180 rental and scale of the test is significant.
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Spain coach Vicente Del Bosque says he expects to stay on until France 2016, barring an unwanted surprise at next summer's World Cup finals.
While qualifying for Brazil 2014 was a little bit rockier than expected, Del Bosque's record as national team coach is unparalleled winning both the World Cup 2010 and Euro 2012.
The Spain boss told Television Espanola that he was looking forward to two more years in the job, but left it open that he might not continue should Spain not do as well as hoped when defending their title next year.
Nevertheless a deal for Del Bosque, 62, to remain in place up until the next European Championships is expected to be signed in the coming months, with the former Real Madrid player and coach widely respected and no obvious successor waiting to take on the job.
RFEF spokesperson Jorge Perez also told Spain's national broadcaster that while there was no rush to get everything signed he was sure an agreement would be reached before next summer.
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Residents who are uninsured or whose insurance does not cover vaccines can receive immunizations during upcoming Dakota County Public Health immunization clinics. The flu vaccine is available along with other recommended adult and child immunizations.
In addition to the uninsured or underinsured, immunization clinics are also open to children enrolled on a Minnesota health care program (Medical Assistance, MinnesotaCare or Prepaid Medical Assistance Program) or are American Indian or Alaskan Native. Eligibility information is available online.
Tuesday, April 9, 1–3:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 18, 1–3:30 p.m.
Tuesday, April 23, 8:30–11:30 a.m.
Thursday, April 11, 4–6 p.m. Dakota County Northern Service Center, 1 Mendota Road, West St. Paul, fourth floor.
A donation of $20 for each vaccination is suggested, but people who qualify for reduced-fee immunizations will not be turned away if they cannot pay the donation. Cash and checks are accepted; no credit or debit cards.
Minors under age 18 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian or have a signed authorization for another adult to accompany them. This form is available online. Please bring all immunization records with you to the clinic.


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Farmers' Hen House began in 1997. An Amish man wanted to provide local Iowa farmers with a way to keep their small farms sustainable. In 2000, Mark Miller took ownership of the company and has continued to use only small family farms. It is a family run business with his son Ryan, being part owner and General Manager.
High quality eggs produced from hens that are raised in open barns and fed an all organic diet turn out a superior product for Farmers' Hen House. Most of the producing farms are within a 10 mile radius of the processing facility, with the rest being in Brighton, Sigourney, Bloomfield, and Northern Missouri. Amish and Mennonite families operate these farms and have been farming for generations. Many of these farms grow their own grain for these chickens.
When you choose to purchase Farmers' Hen House eggs, you support the small local farmers and you chose a healthy food choice for your family. In Iowa, you can find these eggs in Hy-Vee (select locations), Fareway(select locations), and New Pioneer in Iowa City/Coralville. These eggs also travel to 13 other states!


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Home Appearance: Home structures are to be well maintained. All exterior surfaces are to be free of mildew and peeling paint, shutters are to be intact and hung in their original location, siding intact and painted to their original color, gutters affixed to fascia boards, roofs maintained and all of original color, and windows and doors functional and of original design. No signage is allowed in yards except for the Park West approved "For Sale" sign. Mail boxes are required to be maintained and conform to the standards that have been adopted.
Yard Appearance: Home owners are expected to maintain their front and side yards and floral beds. Each front yard floral bed and garden is expected to have mulch or pine straw and be edged. Front lawns are to be kept mowed and edged. Excessive lawn clippings are to be removed, bagged, and disposed of according to the community's rules. Lawns are expected to be free of weeds and maintained to an acceptable appearance. Trees are expected to be trimmed of dead branches, especially palm trees of dead palm fronds. Pond front owners are required to maintain their lot down to the water's edge. The front and side yard area should be free of unused toys, tools, storage containers, and general debris (natural and man-made).
Trash and recycle containers should be put curbside after 6 PM the night before pickup. (Wednesday night for trash and every other Sunday night for recycle). Containers should then be moved out of sight from the street on the evening of pickup. Leaves and grass clippings should be placed in brown paper bags, dead tree limbs, and home refuse other than trash (appliances, furniture, wood, etc.) should be placed curbside after 6 PM on Wednesday, allowing for Town pickup every Thursday morning. (Days will change if a holiday week) All debris created by commercial contractors is expected to be removed immediately by the contractor and failure to do so, or curb side placement, will result in a $150 fine.
Store all trash and recycle containers in your garage or screened from view from the street or other homes.
Overnight parking on the street or empty lots is prohibited. Parking is only permitted on driveways or approved paved areas in front of your home. Street parking during the day is required to be in the direction of the traffic, not on the grass, and never adjacent to another vehicle directly across from each other so as not to inhibit the passage of emergency, municipal, or school bus vehicles.
Tree Removal: An ARB request form is required to be presented to the Tennyson HOA management agent (LPPM, Inc.) before any tree removal is conducted. While dead trees must be cut down and removed so as not to be a hazard, approval to proceed must be given by the Tennyson HOA management agent. The Tennyson HOA fine for the unauthorized cutting down of a tree is $250.00 per tree. Additionally, the Town of Mount Pleasant can impose large fines for cutting down trees not approved for removal. All debris created by commercial contractors is expected to be removed immediately by the contractor and failure to do so, or curb side placement, will result in a $150 fine. Go to the "Home Owners Request Forms" link on this page to obtain a copy of the ARB tree removal request form. You can also call LPPM at 843-647-7555 for more information.
Managing your barking dogs is critical to the peace and quiet of your neighbors. "Peaceful Enjoyment" is a bedrock principle of real estate law. Accordingly, Tennyson has a restriction on barking dogs prior to 7AM and after 9:30PM. Further, dog barking that continues for a period of 15 minutes is considered a nuisance. Walking dogs not on a leash is prohibited by Tennyson as well as town regulations. Picking up your animal's waste while walking on Tennyson roads, park, and common property is mandatory.
No trailers, RV's, boats, or commercial vehicles are allowed to be parked outside of your garage or otherwise visible from the street or other homes.
ARB approval is required for all changes to your home including changing house color, major landscaping, structural changes, pools, tree removal, or play yard equipment.
The Park at Tennyson is solely for the pleasure of Tennyson residents. The park is open from dawn to dusk. No open fires at any time. No destruction or alteration of property, trees, benches, playground equipment, etc. is permitted. The use of golf carts or other motorized vehicles in the park or on Common areas is strictly prohibited. This is a family park, please respect the peace and privacy of those residents living nearby.
All assessments and violation fines are expected to be paid on time.
violations and to change the schedule of fines and warnings at any time. For a listing of the fine schedule, please go to the "Fine Schedule" link on the top left corner of this page.