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Crime at the Chinese Restaurant () is a 1981 Italian "poliziottesco"-comedy film directed by Bruno Corbucci. It is the eighth chapter in the Nico Giraldi film series; in this chapter Tomas Milian  plays a double role, the inspector Nico Giraldi and the Chinese Ciu Ci Ciao, a character reprised, with slight changes, from the role of Sakura that the same Milian played in the 1975 spaghetti western The White, the Yellow, and the Black.

Cast
 Tomas Milian as Nico Giraldi / Ciu Ci Ciao
 Bombolo as  Bombolo
 Enzo Cannavale as  Vincenzo Quagliarulo
  Olimpia Di Nardo as  Angela
 John Chen  as Chan Zeng Piao
 Giacomo Furia as  Giudice Arducci
 Massimo Vanni as  Brigadier Gargiulo
 Alfredo Rizzo as  Il marito dell'amante di Papetti

Release
The film was released in Italy on November 19, 1981.

See also
 List of Italian films of 1981

References

External links

1981 films
Films directed by Bruno Corbucci
Films scored by Detto Mariano
Italian crime comedy films
Poliziotteschi films
Films set in Rome
1980s crime comedy films
1981 comedy films
1980s Italian-language films
1980s Italian films

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Walter Jackson Freeman II, (né le  à Philadelphie – mort le  à San Francisco) est un médecin américain connu surtout pour ses travaux controversés sur la lobotomie, procédure neurochirurgicale aujourd'hui interdite dans de nombreux pays (y compris dans la plupart des États américains), qui consiste à sectionner mécaniquement une partie du cerveau du patient dans le lobe frontal. Cette opération a été utilisée sur des patients présentant toutes sortes de troubles mentaux. Freeman était membre de l'Association américaine de psychiatrie.

Biographie
Freeman est né en Pennsylvanie. Son père Walter Jackson Freeman I et son grand-père , étaient deux médecins célèbres, le deuxième ayant même été président de l'Association médicale américaine.

Il est diplômé de l'université Yale et de la .

Sa mère meurt en 1932.

Freeman préside l'American Association of Neuropathologists de 1944 à 1945, et l'American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology de 1946 à 1947.

Lobotomies
Freeman pratique près de  lobotomies dans 23 États américains, et il contribue largement à en répandre la pratique en dépit de ses bases scientifiques faibles et contestables. Neurologue, sans formation en chirurgie, il travaille initialement avec l'aide de plusieurs chirurgiens, notamment James W. Watts. En 1936, ils sont les premiers médecins américains à pratiquer une lobotomie pré-frontale dans une salle opératoire. Cette procédure, lors de laquelle on procédait à des forages dans le crâne, avait été développée par le Portugais Egas Moniz. Le lobe frontal du cerveau étant le siège de la personnalité et des fonctions cognitives supérieures, l'opération se traduisait par des modifications plus ou moins importantes du comportement et une régression, très variable également, de l'intelligence.

En 1941, Freeman opère la plus célèbre de ses patients, Rosemary Kennedy, sœur du futur président, âgée de 23 ans. Souffrant, selon ses parents et la thèse officielle, d'un léger retard mental et de trouble de l'humeur, elle subit l'opération, en reste incontinente et passe le reste de sa vie dans un état quasiment végétatif. Un autre patient, Howard Dully, écrit un livre intitulé Ma Lobotomie sur son long rétablissement après une intervention subie à l'âge de 12 ans.

À la recherche d'une procédure plus simple, rapide et moins invasive, Freeman s'intéresse à la lobotomie transorbitale mise au point par l'Italien Amarro Fiamberti et cherche à l'améliorer, utilisant dans un premier temps des pics à glace glissés au-dessus de l'œil du patient et enfoncé à coups de marteau dans le lobe frontal de chaque hémisphère cérébral. Cette procédure était effectuée en quelques minutes, en dehors d'un bloc opératoire, et sans en appeler à un chirurgien qualifié. Sa première intervention en 1946 est faite dans son bureau sur une mère de famille âgée de 29 ans Sallie Ellen Ionesco aux violentes pulsions suicidaires. Plus tard, il utilise un instrument appelé « leucotome » et développé spécialement. En 1948 Freeman complète sa procédure, en déplaçant latéralement le pic après son insertion dans le cerveau, ce qui lui permet de sectionner davantage de tissus cérébral. Cette manœuvre induit une plus grande contrainte sur l'outil, et il arrive que le leucotome se brise dans le crâne du patient. Un nouvel outil, appelé « orbitoclaste », plus robuste, le remplace alors.

Freeman se lance dans une campagne nationale dans un camion appelé sa « lobotomobile », pour promouvoir sa technique auprès du personnel des asiles d'États à travers les États-Unis, alors souvent surpeuplés (en partie à cause des vétérans de la Seconde Guerre mondiale présentant des traumatismes liés à cette expérience). Pour impressionner ses collègues, Freeman prend l'habitude de perforer les deux orbites des patients en même temps, en tenant un pic dans chaque main.  La surpopulation et le manque de traitements adaptés rendent alors déficients le traitement des malades mentaux, et Freeman présente sa procédure comme un moyen rapide de sortir un grand nombre de patients du système psychiatrique. La plupart du temps, les asiles ne possédant pas d'anesthésiant, le patient est rendu inconscient à l'aide d'un puissant électrochoc. Pour la presse de l'époque, l'opération rend le traitement des maladies mentales .

Typiquement, Freeman rencontre les familles des patients pour leur expliquer la procédure, une partie l'accepte, puis opère à la chaine les patients, assisté par le personnel de l'hôpital. Il facture sa prestation  par patient. Si la rémission physique des patients est en général très rapide, une chose qui étonne souvent le personnel des asiles est leur manque de curiosité sur l'intervention qu'ils viennent de subir, détail qui traduit l'apathie des personnes lobotomisées. Ils sont également plus dociles. James Watts met fin à sa collaboration avec Freeman, désapprouvant la banalisation d'une opération aussi lourde de conséquences.

Selon l'historien médical Ole Daniel Enersen, la lobotomie est pratiquée par Freeman

Fin de carrière
Dans les années 1950, l'apparition des premiers médicaments pour le traitement des maladies mentales, notamment la chlorpromazine (premier neuroleptique) ou l'imipramine (premier antidépresseur tricyclique) provoque un fort recul de la pratique de la lobotomie, déjà très critiquée pour ses effets imprévisibles, de nombreux patients étant restés dans un état plus ou moins végétatif. Rejeté de la communauté médicale de la côte Est, Freeman s'installe en Californie et recherche de nouvelles catégories de patients à opérer, y compris des mères de famille dépressives, ou des enfants hyperactifs -  - son âge mental après l'intervention est estimé à huit ans.

En 1967, alors qu'il a à son actif près de 3400 lobotomies, il opère pour la troisième fois Helen Mortensen qui décède trois jours plus tard d'une hémorragie intra-cranienne. Pour cette raison il est privé du droit d'exercer. Il continue cependant à parcourir le pays pour rendre visite à ses anciens patients jusqu'à sa mort d'un cancer en 1972.

Légende urbaine sur Frances Farmer
Une légende urbaine voulant que Freeman ait opéré l'actrice Frances Farmer a été invalidée, l'auteur en ayant admis devant un tribunal qu'il l'avait inventée de toutes pièces. Le dossier médical de Farmer ne mentionne aucune opération pendant son internement, et le biographe de Freeman, Jack El-Hai (The Lobotomist), qui a accès aux archives de Freeman, n'y a trouvé aucune mention de Farmer.

Notes et références

Voir aussi
  (qui employait Freeman pendant ses premières expérimentations)
 Lobotomie

Références

Bibliographie
 El-Hai, Jack (2005), The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness; Wiley.

Liens externes

 The Lobotomist, authoritative biography of Freeman by Jack El-Hai
 Psychosurgery.org
 New England Journal of Medicine article
 Article referencing Jack El-Hai's initial Washington Post feature on Freeman
 A Brief History of Lobotomy

 "Shedding Light on Shadowland"--in-depth essay debunking the lobotomy allegation about Frances Farmer, including a wealth of information from Freeman's own private correspondence

Neurologue américain
Naissance à Philadelphie
Étudiant de l'université Yale
Naissance en novembre 1895
Décès en mai 1972
Histoire de la psychiatrie
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Étudiant de l'université de Pennsylvanie


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Q: Framework not being overwritten in WP Child theme I have  a theme, which seems to have a framework folder, the coding isnt great so I have had to make some changes, and have created a child theme to do this. This works fine, except for 1 file which when I drop into my child theme it doesnt overide the parent. Being new to WP im a bit flumoxed about this.
So these (and other) file works and overwrites the parent
wp-content/themes/homes-child/functions.php
wp-content/themes/homes-child/property-details/property-contents.php
However this one, if I make changes to the live file, they work, if I make them to the child, no change. I see it part of a framework, and have tried dropping in the whole framework folder, but no use.
wp-content/themes/homes-child/framework/include/property-post-type.php
is there a way to debug why WP is not picking up this child theme file?

A: At a really blind guess, I am assuming that WP isn't executing property-post-type.php in your child theme folder because it is called from functions.php, which, unlike stylesheets / templates, in a child theme, does not override its parent functionality, it adds to it.
See http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes#Using_functions.php
Usually when developing child themes, you'll need to setup filters and action to override this behavior. http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference

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What Do Flight Attendants Think Are the Most Important Qualities to do the Job Well?
A UAE Airline Allegedly Suspends Pilot After He Refused to Fly to Tel Aviv
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Mateusz Maszczynski is a serving international flight attendant with experience…
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We've all got our own ideas of what makes a good flight attendant – for me, I think someone who can bring their own personality in bucket loads really sets your average flight attendant apart from a good flight attendant. But what do the crew at American Airlines think makes a really good flight attendant?
The popular AAStews Instagram page recently asked that very question of its 20,000 members – many of whom are serving flight attendants at American Airlines. And there was one answer that really stood out… Patience!
I've got to agree with that sentiment – no matter how much of a people person you think you are, there are going to situations or interactions that are really going to require a lot of patience. And let's be honest – that's not a quality that everyone possesses.
There were also some other really important qualities that cropped up again and again:
and Compassion
I also think other qualities that were mentioned like having lots of stamina, being resourceful and adaptable to change are definitely good points that every flight attendant needs to have.
I'd also say that all of these qualities are the things you need to prove you possess in or CV or resume. These are the qualities that cabin crew recruiters are looking for in new hires and it's so vitally important to provide tangible examples of how you have demonstrated these qualities.
Simply saying you possess these qualities just won't cut it – what did you actually do in a real-life situation that shows off these qualities. For example, I meet a lot of flight attendants who completely lack empathy – they fail to put themselves in the shoes of the passenger and struggle to understand why they are upset or annoyed. Having the ability to listen and feel what someone else is experiencing is the best way to actually help and make that person feel better.
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Shark Bites: Views to a Kill, Part II
By Lockhart Steele Apr 13, 2006, 3:12pm EDT
[Apropos of nothing, it's a special Thursday bonus installment of Shark Bites. As on Tuesdays, our friends from PropertyShark drop by to offer analysis from their trove of NYC maps. N.B. this is a follow-up to a previous installment concerning views—and the potential loss thereof. Caveat, caveat.]
Last weekend I went out shopping for an loft apartment in the East Village and ran across two tragic examples of beautiful, sun-filled lofts that will almost certainly lose their views and become dark caves staring directly into the backside of another building. The apartments were both lofts in the rear of 718 Broadway (units 6B and 8B, see arrow #1 for approximate position). They both overlooked a parking lot (arrow #2), giving them wide open sunny eastern exposures.
On the elevator on the way up someone mentioned that the views would never be blocked because "they could only build five stories in the parking lot." With the units being on the sixth and eighth floors, the implication was that the view would never be blocked. I asked the broker about this:
Me: I heard someone say that they can't build more than five stories on the parking lot. Why is that?
Broker: It's in the zoning.
Me: What zoning rule limits them to five stories?
Broker: It's an F-A-R of 5.
Me: And that means they can't build more than five stories?
Broker: Yes, I've talked to lawyers and architects about it many times.
First off, let me point out that there is nothing in the standard legal or architectural curriculum that trains or qualifies one to read the New York City zoning code. It's written in plain English and a patient person will be able to locate and read the relevant parts in a few hours. (It's available online.)
FAR, or Floor Area Ratio, is merely a limit on the square footage that can be built and is unrelated to height limits. To determine the height limit I first look on PropertyShark and see that the parking lot is zoned M1-5B (manufacturing). Then I look in Article IV of the zoning code, "Manufacturing District Regulations" under the section titled "Height and Setback Regulations" (see, plain English!). I find a simple chart (helpfully titled "Maximum Height of Front Wall and Required Front Setbacks") that sets out the limits: a setback of 15' to 20' from the curb (depending on the width of the street), a front facade soaring to 85 feet, and then a setback of 1 foot for each additional 2.7 or 5.6 feet of height (again depending on street width). In other words, it can be much higher than six or eight stories.
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More important than recordings for the growth of country music was broadcast radio. Small radio stations appeared in the larger Southern and Midwestern cities in the 1920s, and many devoted part of their airtime to live or recorded music suited to white rural audiences. Two regular programs of great influence were the "National Barn Dance" from Chicago, begun in 1924, and the "Grand Ole Opry" from Nashville, begun in 1925. The immediate popularity of such programs encouraged more recordings and the appearance of talented musicians from the hills at radio and record studios. Among these were the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers, whose performances strongly influenced later musicians. These early recordings were of ballads and country dance tunes and featured the fiddle and guitar as lead instruments over a rhythmic foundation of guitar or banjo. Other instruments occasionally used included Appalachian dulcimer, harmonica, and mandolin; vocals were done either by a single voice or in high close harmony.
Outside of the United States, Canada has the largest country music fan and artist base, something that is to be expected given the two countries' proximity and cultural parallels. Mainstream country music is culturally ingrained in the prairie provinces, the British Columbia Interior, Ontario, and in Atlantic Canada.[114] Celtic traditional music developed in Atlantic Canada in the form of Scottish, Acadian and Irish folk music popular amongst Irish, French and Scottish immigrants to Canada's Atlantic Provinces (Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island).[114] Like the southern United States and Appalachia, all four regions are of heavy British Isles stock and rural; as such, the development of traditional music in the Maritimes somewhat mirrored the development of country music in the US South and Appalachia. Country and Western music never really developed separately in Canada; however, after its introduction to Canada, following the spread of radio, it developed quite quickly out of the Atlantic Canadian traditional scene. While true Atlantic Canadian traditional music is very Celtic or "sea shanty" in nature, even today, the lines have often been blurred. Certain areas often are viewed as embracing one strain or the other more openly. For example, in Newfoundland the traditional music remains unique and Irish in nature, whereas traditional musicians in other parts of the region may play both genres interchangeably.
In 1980, a style of "neocountry disco music" was popularized by the film Urban Cowboy,[78] which also included more traditional songs such as "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" by the Charlie Daniels Band.[79] It was during this time that a glut of pop-country crossover artists began appearing on the country charts: former pop stars Bill Medley (of The Righteous Brothers), "England Dan" Seals (of England Dan and John Ford Coley), Tom Jones, and Merrill Osmond (both alone and with some of his brothers; his younger sister Marie Osmond was already an established country star) all recorded significant country hits in the early 1980s. Sales in record stores rocketed to $250 million in 1981; by 1984, 900 radio stations began programming country or neocountry pop full-time. As with most sudden trends, however, by 1984 sales had dropped below 1979 figures.[78]
Though his father was one of the first major superstars of the genre, Hank Williams, Jr. marches to the beat of his own drummer. Much of his early hit output was in a traditional style, such as 1972's "Eleven Roses," but it was later southern rock-inspired hits such as "Family Tradition" and "Women I've Never Had" that proved that Junior was in a league of his own. Also adding to his legend was his stage show, which inspired a generation -- including Garth Brooks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1tqAmvaoyE


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Rodrigo Fernandez will be managing director of the new office. He was a vice president of World Wrestling Entertainment's Latin American operations and also has worked for Fox International, Sony Pictures and The Walt Disney Co.
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He plans to promote awareness of the National Collateral Registry of Nigeria and further simplify the collateral registration process in the country where a myriad of challenges are making it practically difficult for businesses to thrive.
Atiku says he will remove infrastructure bottlenecks crimping the growth of companies as Nigeria needs to spend a minimum of $30bn (about N9.47tn) annual investments to bridge the infrastructure gap that exists in the economy.
"MSMEs and SMPS (Small and Medium Practitioners) will be given special fiscal advantages including tax breaks and rebates to accelerate business formalisation," said Atiku.
Atiku will pursue policies that will help harmonise state and federal laws to avoid over taking business while simultaneously pursuing aggressive credits to critical sector of the economy.
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The major challenge facing MSME operators is lack of finance. Most Nigerians are poor and they do not have money to set up business while collaterals demanded by banks before giving loans discourage many people from starting a business.
Poverty rates have exceeded population growth, a worrisome situation that calls for urgent actions by whoever is voted president come February.
Over 16 million people out of a population of 180 million are without any form of job, 9 million than in 2014.
Over 2 million new entrants join the labour market each year meaning the unemployed share of the labour force more than triple in less than a decade: from 5.10 percent I 2010 to 18.80 percent in 2017.
A report by Brookings Institution, a nonprofit public policy organisation in USA, reveals that Nigeria has already overtaken India as the country with the largest number of extremely poor in early 2018.
Federal Government has been formulating policies to help promote small business in Nigeria.
The Small and Medium Enterprise Equity Investment Scheme (SMEEIS) was established in 2001 by the Bankers' committee. The scheme requires all banks in Nigeria to set aside 10 percent of their profit After Tax (PAT) for equity investment and promotion of small and medium enterprises.
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) launched the N220 billion Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises Development Fund (MSMEDF) in 2013- with a view to paving the way for small business access to capital- but many MSMEs say they have not accessed it, though banks say they are disbursing.
Although Atiku's policy statement for small businesses are laudable, some experts are of the view that the policy is overly optimistic as the country is grappling with lower revenue brought on by a precipitous drop in crude oil price.
The Federal Government has embarked on borrowing spree in order to plunge a budget deficit and fund infrastructure.
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Federal Government's debt serving cost has been eating deep into revenue, at the detriment of a fragile economy.
In 2011, debt servicing was taking 20 percent of Federal Government revenue. By 2017, it had risen to 61.59 percent.
Nigeria's FG funds up to 60 percent of its annual budget from the proceeds of oil sales.
If the federal government's share of oil revenue at N1.12 trillion is compared with the associated cost of servicing debt of N1.64 trillion, clearly, the oil revenue will not be enough to pay interest on Nigeria's expanding debt, which leaves analysts wondering where Atiku will source N500 billion for small businesses.


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J.Al. Bayona, the director who got his big break with Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, will be directed the first two episodes of The Lord of the Rings.
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With Amazon going full speed ahead with the Lord of the Rings television series, this is the first big news about who's running the show that we've gotten. Before this, we knew that the television series will set during the 3,441-year period, known as the Age of Númenor, or the Second Age.
For the record, the Second Age is about 3441 years that ends the downfall of Sauron's army when he was defeated by the Last Alliance of Elves and Men.
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Instead of taking a children's book written by Tolkien and trying to haggle it into something resembling into Lord of the Rings, something which Tolkien himself tried and failed at (detailed in Rateliff's The History of The Hobbit), this new series isn't based on any specific work by Tolkien but will act as a prequel to Lord of the Rings.
This is a full swing effort in trying to bring the tone of Lord of the Rings and its history and somehow create an original story, and Amazon is pulling all the stops, reportedly preparing to spend at least $1 billion in addition to the $250 they spent to outbid Netflix for the rights.
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The crew currently consists of show creators Patrick McKay and John D. Payne, both un-credited writers for Star Trek Beyond and who are working on a screenplay for Flash Gordon. As for Peter Jackson, whose name is synonymous with Lord of the Rings.
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Also, Peter Jackson will not be left to the sidelines.
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Adding to this short list of television show creators is Juan Antonio J.A. Bayona. A key hire, Bayona will direct the first two episodes.
Deadline quotes the director as saying:
J.R.R. Tolkien created one of the most extraordinary and inspiring stories of all time, and as a lifelong fan it is an honor and a joy to join this amazing team…I can't wait to take audiences around the world to Middle-earth and have them discover the wonders of the Second Age, with a never before seen story.
Bayona will be responsible for giving audience their first, and second, impression. From the opening shot to the credits, Bayona will have to get the audience hooked for good. Will he succeed?
Well, Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom, his only major film production, hold a 47% on Rotten Tomatoes with an average rating of 5.45/10. However, on a personal note, I think that movie was doomed after the shooting script was approved.
Still, the question remains, is Bayona up for the challenge?
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Jennifer Salke, Head of Amazon Studios, surely thinks so. Comicbook.com quotes her as saying:
The scope and breadth of J.A.'s world-building is exactly the right fit for our ambitions for the Lord of the Rings. He's a passionate and collaborative director who has brought new stories to life with his multitalented producing partner, Belén,…We are all excited for them to join our writers J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay, and we can't think of a better way to begin this journey to Middle-earth.
Salke infamously spoke to sat with JRR Tolkien's grandson, Simon, after the rights were acquired. Historically the Tolkien family has had a tumultuous relationship with the film adaptations.
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Christopher Tolkien, J R R Tolkien's last surviving son, pent an enormous amount of time by editing and publishing thousands of pages of Middle-Earth material his late father left behind. However, when Jackson tried to meet with Christopher he was rejected and Christopher voiced his displeasure even before a single frame of the triology was shot, latter noting that, "[t]hey eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged fifteen to twenty-five".
In fact, a little while before the deal with Amazon was reached, Christopher Tolkien had stepped down from the director of the Tolkien estate.
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However, Simon Tolkien hasn't been receptive to all adaptations. Notably the Tolkien estate disavowed the film based on the Father of Fantasy, and the film went on to make $7.8 million of off a a $20 million dollar budget.
How will this adaptation do? It's not based on any specific work by Tolkien, and that might prove to be this adaptation's greatest asset or its greatest handicap.
Can this show give us a story tonally similar to Lord of the Rings but still stand on its own? Or will its fall under the weight of Tolkien? That is now in the hands of J. A. Bayona.
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A close shave for Ireland
Ireland, with Paul O'Connell (top) reaching for the ball against Italy, will have every motivation to beat France on Sunday to avoid a likely quarter-final clash with defending champions New Zealand. PHOTO: EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
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They let Italy come within a point before pulling ahead to win ugly, earn q-final spot
LONDON • Ireland coach Joe Schmidt was not pleased that his team's usual trademark accuracy went missing in Sunday's tight 16-9 victory over Italy but will take an ugly victory when it means securing a place in the quarter-finals of the Rugby World Cup.
Ireland came through their first meaningful test of the competition, thanks to a Keith Earls try and Johnny Sexton's boot. But they were far from convincing ahead of a final-game shootout with France to decide who finish top of Pool D.
"I said last week that I'd take a one-point win, I'd rather not though and a one-score win is extremely tough on the heart but sometimes you do have to win ugly, particularly when you're up against very good teams," Schmidt told a news conference.
"We didn't play with the same intensity that we needed and that intensity was thrown back at us by an Italian team that were inspired today," he added.
HARD-PRESSED
We didn't play with the same intensity that we needed and that intensity was thrown back at us by an Italian team that were inspired today.
JOE SCHMIDT, Ireland rugby coach
Ireland had tempered expectations that have been steadily building over the course of two Six Nations championship wins by warning that the Italians, boosted by the return from injury of Sergio Parisse, would present a tougher challenge than many had predicted.
But Schmidt said Ireland made life tough for themselves by giving back so much of the ball to their rivals, allowing Italy to come within a point early in the second half before Sexton pulled his side clear.
With centre Jared Payne running again after injuring his foot, Schmidt said he would have a fully fit 31-man squad to choose from for Sunday's game in Cardiff.
Captain Paul O'Connell said Ireland would need a massive performance similar to other recent successes against France to prevail.
"It's probably a timely reminder of where we need to be," he said of Sunday's win. "There is so much quality in the rest of the competition and with France, if we turn over the ball to them with the forward carriers they have, the backs they have, we'll be in big trouble.
"When we've performed well and won big games, we've been very good at denying teams access by our good set-pieces, by our discipline, by our accuracy and we need to do that again next weekend."
Ireland and France both have 14 points from their first three matches and their showdown is almost certain to send the losers into a quarter-final against reigning champions New Zealand.
The winners may face Argentina who look far from a soft option after a convincing win over Tonga.
The Italians, however, are out of the running after their second defeat, having lost 10-32 to France in their opener.
Italy coach Jacques Brunel was at least consoled by the fact that his side could finally produce a performance of note at the World Cup.
Pool D: Canada v Romania (11.30pm).
Pool A: Fiji v Uruguay (tomorrow, 2.45am), Singtel TV Ch115 & StarHub Ch209
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on October 06, 2015, with the headline 'A CLOSE SHAVE FOR IRELAND'. Print Edition | Subscribe


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Malarstwo
 Jan Matejko
 Otrucie królowej Bony – olej na płótnie, 78 × 63 cm
 James Whistler
 Przy fortepianie (1858–1859) – olej na płótnie, 67x90,5 cm
 Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
 Anioł Pański (1857–1859) – olej na płótnie, 55,5x66 cm
 Gustave Courbet
 Niemiecki myśliwy – olej na płótnie, 118x174 cm
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
 Bocca Baciata – olej na płótnie, 32,1x27 cm

Urodzeni
 19 marca – Alojzy Bunsch (zm. 1916), polski rzeźbiarz i pedagog
 3 maja – Jose Gallegos Arnosa (zm. 1917), hiszpański malarz, rzeźbiarz
 13 maja – Teodor Axentowicz (zm. 1938), malarz, przedstawiciel kierunku Młodej Polski
 4 czerwca – Paja Jovanović (zm. 1957), serbski malarz akademicki
 23 sierpnia – Wacław Szymanowski (zm. 1930), polski rzeźbiarz
 17 października – Childe Hassam (zm. 1935), amerykański malarz impresjonista
 10 listopada – Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (zm. 1923), francuski rysownik, malarz i grafik pochodzący ze Szwajcarii
 2 grudnia – Georges Seurat (zm. 1891), francuski malarz, przedstawiciel neoimpresjonizmu

Zmarli
 16 lutego – François-Léon Bénouville (ur. 1821), francuski malarz akademicki
 8 maja – José Madrazo (ur. 1781),  hiszpański malarz neoklasyczny
 7 czerwca – David Cox (ur. 1783),  angielski rysownik i malarz pejzażysta, przedstawiciel szkoły romantycznej
 18 września – Leon Szubert (ur. 1829), polski rzeźbiarz
 17 listopada – James Ward (ur. 1769), brytyjski malarz, grawer i ilustrator, reprezentant romantyzmu
 17 grudnia – Jan Feliks Piwarski (ur. 1794), polski malarz i grafik, jeden z pierwszych polskich litografów

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It has been known for a long time that there is a connection between dense breast tissue and an increased risk of developing breast cancer, but only recently have researchers begun to understand why.
Breast tissue is composed of several different types of cells which create different structures. There is the epithelium, consisting of duct cells and milk glands, the stroma, which is the connective tissue for the epithelial cells, and fat.
The 60 women who participated in the Mayo Clinic study were healthy with no history of breast cancer. Their breast tissue was biopsied to determine the difference in cellular composition between dense and non-dense tissue.
Results are now available from more than half of the participants who donated biopsy tissue. Dr. Ghosh found that areas of density contained much more epithelium (6 percent) and stroma (64 percent) and much less fat (30 percent), compared to non-dense tissue that contained less than 1 percent epithelium, about 20 percent stroma, and almost 80 percent fat. "This shows us that both the epithelium and stroma contribute to density, and suggests that the large difference in stroma content in dense breast tissue may play a significant role in breast cancer risk," Dr. Ghosh says.
In a second study, researchers also found that dense breast tissue has more aromatase enzyme than non-dense tissue. This is significant because aromatase helps convert androgen hormones into estrogen, and estrogen is important in breast cancer development, says that study's lead investigator, Celine Vachon, Ph.D.
"If aromatase is differentially expressed in dense and non-dense breast tissue, this could provide one mechanism by which density may increase breast cancer risk," Dr. Vachon says.
The researchers have found some strong links thus far, but they are recruiting more women for a second study to validate their findings.
"These are initial findings from one of the first attempts to study breast density at the level of healthy tissue. It doesn't explain everything yet, but is providing really valuable insights," says Dr. Ghosh, who established the patient resource for both studies.
Drs. Ghosh and Vachon are finishing their analysis of the initial 60 volunteers, and they are also enrolling more participants in order to validate and expand their findings. "No one knows why density increases breast cancer risk, but we are attempting to connect the dots," Dr. Vachon says.
The death of Natalie Morton at 14 years old is a tragic and cautionary tale.
She died within hours of receiving Cervarix, the HPV1 vaccine. Following the rule obeyed by the general public that correlation = causation, a huge outcry blaming the vaccine began making the rounds. This was undoubtedly fueled in part by those groups and individuals dedicated to eliminating vaccines altogether.
The National Health Service in England took a cautionary approach and suspended use of the vaccine until they could complete and investigation. The real medical professionals were betting that a batch of vaccines had become tainted somehow.
So far, 1.4 million doses of the vaccine have been administered.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) received 2,137 reports of suspected side effects of Cervarix between April 14, 2008 and September 23 this year.
The total number of suspected reactions is 4,657.
In total, there were 575 reports relating to side effects at the site of the injection, such as swelling and extreme pain, and another 241 allergic reactions, such as rash, swollen face and swollen lips.
A total of 455 reports were linked to 'psychogenic effects' such as nausea, panic attacks and fainting while 955 were other recognised effects like headache and sickness.
A total of 330 reports were suspected reactions not currently recognised, such as palpitations, blurred vision, chest pain and flu-like illness.
The MHRA said on September 23 that the balance of risks and benefits of Cervarix remains positive.
Globally, many vaccine doses have been administered and no deaths are directly related to the vaccine.
Gardasil, an HPV vaccination (though different than the one the girl in England received), has been given to over 7 million girls, yet there have been only 20 deaths after getting the shot… and for almost all of them there is no obvious relation between the shot and the fatality except for timing. In other words, they were tragic coincidences.
"The pathologist has confirmed today at the opening of the inquest into the death of Natalie Morton that she died from a large malignant tumor of unknown origin in the heart and lungs," said Dr Caron Grainger, joint director of public health for the Coventry area where Natalie died.
"There is no indication that the HPV vaccine, which she had received shortly before her death, was a contributing factor to the death, which could have arisen at any point," Grainger said in a statement.
It was a terrible coincidence of timing. Our deepest condolences go out to her friends and family.
The diet industry targets female consumers and product advertisements typically depict very slim models rather than average-sized or overweight female models, she says, so food choices appear to be weighed against how other perceive them. In other words, smaller, healthier portions are seen as more feminine, and women might believe that if they eat less they will be considered more attractive to men."It is possible that small food portions signal attractiveness, and women conform, whether consciously or unconsciously, to small meals in order to be seen as more attractive," says Young.
Men eat what they want regardless of whom they are dining with.
As for men's food selections, the study showed that men were neither substantially affected by the number of nor the gender of their dining companions.
According to the study's lead author, Wendy Troxel, PhD, Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, women who were stably married had the highest quality sleep measured objectively and subjectively, and these results persisted even after controlling for other known risk factors for sleep, including age, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and depressive symptoms.
Well, ladies, what are you waiting for?


It has been years since I had a shower.
By this I mean a shower enclosure in my home. When I built my little house in the big woods, I installed a 100-year-old clawfoot with a cranberry-red exterior. Found on Craigslist, it's provenance was a Victorian house in north Portland. Both my contractor and plumber tried to talk me out of it, calling it impractical—the tub was heavy, old and worn, and challenging to install. Yet while this was true, they couldn't see their misguided motives, clearly the result of too little bath-taking. They encouraged me to install a generic shower enclosure with a bathtub. But anyone who's tried to recline in such enclosures knows the tubs don't conform to the human body, being we are not shaped like praying mantises.
I have a penchant for submerging in water. Though it's indulgent, I bathe every morning, and soak in an outdoor mineral-salt hot tub every night (my friend Shonna suggests I'm a selkie—a seal-person in Irish mythology). Submerged in water is, for me, the most sublime posture, and both tubs invite prayer and staring off into the woods. While in high school, my daughter did prefer showers. To prove my tolerance, I installed a curtain enclosure and shower head over the clawfoot. But now she's a bather, thanks be to God. My husband converted as well. I removed the curtain and showerhead years ago, for why preserve the sham of harboring shower-takers?
Bathing slows people down. Hot water makes us soporific, a feeling unappealing to those rushing to get out the door. Bathing requires rising early, taking it slow. One must wait for the water to run. Who has time for this? … Who doesn't? If you have a tub you fit into (some are simply too tall), you'll find few cheaper pleasures or better therapies.
Jon Kabat-Zinn speaks of cultivating intimacy with the spaciousness of our minds, and bathtubs are a great place to practice this. What he describes is an old practice known as "contemplation" in religion. It assumes our minds are spacious, and that we become intimate with that spaciousness—noticing it, feeling how it feels, observing our thoughts, listening for wisdom's quiet whisperings—as we practice presence. I would align this spacious kind of "mind" with the unconscious mind—the part of us most conducive to (a conduit for) Spirit. On the other hand, the conscious mind is the part most unkempt and cramped, like an old filing cabinet. It is where we store learnings that we are aware of, our neurosis, fears, and prejudices, as well as fact-learning, positive emotion, memories. As the conduit for Spirit, our unconscious minds are as vast and spacious as the universe (while also harboring the cerebral space-junk we are unaware of). Intimacy with the unconscious offers endless possibility for inspiration, insight, and growth.
We can also cultivate intimacy with the less spacious parts of our minds, however—the cramped attics where hoarding of life's clutter leaves little room to navigate. If we don't go into the attic with the intention to acknowledge the mess and clean it up, we forever struggle with disquiet and act out of confusion.
Without time to listen introspectively, I become agitated. Usually the agitation comes from feelings I haven't acknowledged and felt, or from insights Spirit is trying to teach me that I need space to see/hear/absorb. Surveying the world around me, I sense a lot of disquiet, and expect this stems from a lack of contemplation in modern life. I am an introvert, so the need for solitude and introspective recharging is pronounced in me. Yet one of my close friends is a consummate extrovert and she too requires contemplation to hone in on precisely what needs processing—even if she ultimately processes verbally.
The ego (the illusive sense of a "separate self" we feel we must guard and promote; the vehicle ushering our own kernel of eternal Spirit through this world) is forever concocting expectations out of what we want and think we deserve, incessantly reaching for rewards. When the ego isn't satisfied we have a sense of disquiet. Only moments of true listening and contemplative observation allow us to see what's happening, how we've been led down another rabbit trail of expectation and reaching, so we can stop and remember we are cared for. Most importantly, contemplation reminds us to take a deep breath and trust.
Contemplation or thoughtful, mindful listening is different from the deluge of endless self-absorbed thought-babble the conscious mind serves up in heaps, like food at a cheap, small-town smorgasbord. Some thought-babble happens all the time whether we get quiet or not. It happens while we're giving directions, while we're "conversing" with our siblings, while we're watching TV or our kids' soccer game, while we're collectively praying in church or trying to meditate. But if we're able to observe and notice the thought-babble, it somehow loses momentum and quiets down. Such observation is called "mindfulness." Next time you're worrying what your co-worker thinks about you (for example), stop and take note: "Interesting. I am worrying what Agnes thinks about me again." And every time you take note, the thought's ability to run away with you diminishes. Babble thrives on being unwatched.
Thought-babble even takes place while we are (gasp!) bathing. Since contemplation isn't our human default, it requires not just being in quiet and space, but doing so with a bit of intention and awareness. It usually requires experience with contemplation. I personally find baths to be great for such practices. But for others, walking may be more conducive, or sitting in a quiet room, lying in bed, cooking a meal alone, even dancing.
My cats are models of quiet presence. Lately I've been travelling with them on weekends, packing them in crates and taking them to Mom's while I rent my cottage on AirBnB. They are not thrilled with this arrangement, thank you very much. But when we return and I open the crate doors, letting them hop from the car onto home turf, they are fully present. They don't spend the whole week fearing the next time they'll be absconded to the car, replaying grievances over and over in their heads. They just experience the week—or the moments that comprise the week—whether they're curled up on the porch, sleeping in shards of sunlight that cut through the windows, watching vigilantly for the neighbor-dog, hunting hapless creatures lower on the food chain, or being doted on by me. Sometimes Lupe even visits while I'm bathing. If I'm in the hot tub, he bats the water with his paw and licks it to taste the salt.
Now that is a good metaphor for contemplation, come to think of it: dipping in and tasting the salt. Life is full of flavor. And we are here to taste it.


Food Finds: Cheesy bacon fries and some healthy stuff too!
First, the slightly (they are mostly veggies after all – right!?) unhealthy but somewhat irresistible cheesy bacon fries.
This week's Food Finds are the ying and yang of your diet.
First, the slightly (they are mostly veggies after all – right!?) unhealthy but somewhat irresistible cheesy bacon fries. The item was first tested in a few cities in 2017 – causing a social media stir. At the end of January 2018, they were added to the menu nationwide along with some other notable bacon items – including the Big Mac and Quarter Pounder.
McDonald's classic fries are topped with a velvety cheese sauce and applewood smoked bacon bits. Yum! Get there quick, the dish is only available for a limited time.
Now for the yang: I traveled up Collier Boulevard, all the way to Immokalee Road, then a slight right and into the arms of healthy shopping as the much-anticipated Sprouts Farmers Market has opened.
The healthy grocer – like Whole Foods and Fresh Market but much more like a Lucky's – is the first store to debut in the newly constructed Logan Landings at Immokalee Road and Logan Boulevard.
The 30,000-square-foot market is only the eighth location to open in Florida. The Phoenix-based store operates more than 300 stores around the nation, and has expansion plans for Jacksonville, Deerfield Beach, Jupiter, Oviedo, Riverview and Trinity.
My personal win at the store was found in the form of calorie-burning (allegedly) drink Celsius. You can find assorted four-packs at some Publix stores, but Sprout's had a wider selection of flavors, sold individually. Flavors like watermelon berry, pineapple coconut and strawberries and cream.


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Michael Ledeen
From Wikispooks
(writer, philosopher, "terror expert", neoconservative)
"Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business."[1]
Founder of
Coalition for Democracy in Iran
American Committee for Peace in Chechnya/Members, Committee for the Free World, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Le Cercle
Bilderberg, Le Cercle,
Michael A. Ledeen has been described by the Jerusalem Post as "Washington's neoconservative guru". He was part of the neocon cabal that manufactured the fake intelligence in the lead up to the war against Iraq, and has since been active in making the case for the bombing of Iran. He was involved in "Iran-Contra".[2]
Ledeen was was a founder and former member of the Board of Advisors of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs. He resigned his position following the sacking of its executive director and pro-Israeli Hawk Shoshana Bryen in 2012 [3]
2 Billygate
3 The Bulgarian connection
4 Iran-Contra
5 Promoting the "War On Terror"
6 2001 Rome meetings
10 Events Participated in
11 Related Document
According to James Bamford, "His father designed the air-conditioning system for Walt Disney Studios, and Ledeen spent much of his early life surrounded by a world of fantasy". His latter life has been equally surrounded by fantasy, as Ledeen has been responsible some of the wilder claims about first the Soviet threat, and now the Islamic threat. Ledeen was a senior researcher at the CIA-affiliated think-tank CSIS in the 1970s. [4]
Ledeen taught in Rome for two years until 1977 and was involved in smear operations against the Italian Communist Party. In 1976 when a day after a CSIS conference on Italy the New Republic published an article by Claire Sterling and Ledeen claiming that the Italian Communist Party had received secret funding from the Soviets. The New Republic was at that time published by Robert J. Myers, a friend of Ray Cline of CSIS, and formerly of the CIA. [4] Myers appeared with Cline a January 1978 congressional hearing on the CIA and the media where he stated: "The reciprocal relationship between the CIA and the American press has been of value to both parties and often to the individuals themselves whose careers may have mutually benefited by such connections." The article was republished just before the elections by the Rome Daily American (which was funded by the CIA). Claire Sterling and Ledeen even appeared on Italian television on the night of the election. They featured as commentators from 4pm to 2am on Channel 1 which was controlled by the Christian Democrat Party - the main recipient of CIA funds in Italy. [4]
In 1977, after earning a Ph.D. in history and philosophy and teaching in Rome for two years, Ledeen became the first executive director of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, a pro-Israel pressure group that served as a flagship of the neoconservative movement.
In 1980, while working as Rome correspondent of The New Republic, allegedly collaborated with right-wing Italian intelligence officers on a series of black propaganda operations.
Billygate
The first of these involved a scandal sparked when Jimmy Carter's brother Billy accepted a $220,000 loan from Libya. The controversy had largely died down by the time of the election.
Then, in the last week of October 1980, just two weeks before the election, The New Republic in Washington and Now magazine in Great Britain published a story co-authored by Michael Ledeen and Arnaud de Borchgrave, now an editor-at-large at The Washington Times and United Press International. According to the story, headlined "Qaddafi, Arafat and Billy Carter," the president's brother had been given an additional $50,000 by Qaddafi, on top of the loan, and had met secretly with Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat. The story had come dramatically back to life. The new charges were disputed by Billy Carter and many others, and were never corroborated.
A 1985 investigation by Jonathan Kwitny in The Wall Street Journal reported that the New Republic article was part of a larger disinformation scam run by Ledeen and SISMI to tilt the election, and that "Billy Carter wasn't the only one allegedly getting money from a foreign government." According to Pazienza, Kwitny reported, Michael Ledeen had received at least $120,000 from SISMI in 1980 or 1981 for his work on Billygate and other projects. Ledeen even had a coded identity, Z-3, and had money sent to him in a Bermuda bank account, Pazienza said.[5]
The Bulgarian connection
In 1981, Ledeen played a role in what has been widely characterized as another disinformation operation. Once again his alleged ties to SISMI were front and center. The episode began after Mehmet Ali Ağca, the right-winger who shot Pope John Paul II that May, told authorities that he had been taking orders from the Soviet Union's KGB and Bulgaria's secret service. With Ronald Reagan newly installed in the White House, the so-called Bulgarian Connection made perfect Cold War propaganda. Michael Ledeen was one of its most vocal proponents, promoting it on TV and in newspapers all over the world.[5]
Iran-Contra
Full article: "Iran-Contra"
A few years later, after Ronald Reagan was elected, Ledeen had become prominent enough to earn a spot as a consultant to the National Security Council alongside Douglas Feith. There Ledeen was involved in the Iran-Contra scandal where he served as 'the administration's intermediary with Israel in the illegal-arms deal'. 'In 1985, he met with Manucher Ghorbanifar, a one-time Iranian carpet salesman who was widely believed to be an Israeli agent. The CIA considered Ghorbanifar a dangerous con man and had issued a "burn notice" recommending that no U.S. agency have any dealings with him. Unfazed, Ledeen called Ghorbanifar "one of the most honest, educated, honorable men I have ever known." The two men brokered the arms exchange—a transaction that would result in the indictment of fourteen senior officials in the Reagan administration.
Promoting the "War On Terror"
He attended the 1984 Washington Conference on International Terrorism.
2001 Rome meetings
Ledeen organised a series of meetings in an apartment in Rome, Italy from December 10, 2001 through December 13 2001.
The meeting included Larry Franklin (Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense, International Security Affairs), Harold Rhode (Office of Net Assessments), Michael Ledeen (former Office of the Secretary of Defense and National Security Council consultant), Manucher Ghorbanifar (Iranian exile), [Iranian #1] (Iranian living in exile in Morocco), Iranian #2] (Iranian Revolutionary Guard Official), and an unidentified employee of [a foreign government]. Michael Ledeen arranged the meeting with the help of his contacts in Italy and [the foreign government] who provided the meeting place and the logistical support.[6]
The US Senate Intelligence Committee issued a report on the meetings and subsequent events in 2008, which concluded:
The role Mr Ledeen played as interlocutor for Mr Ghorbanifar and in setting up the Rome meeting, and potentially the Paris meeting, was inappropriate. There is no indication that the Iranian officials attending the Rome meeting refused to meet with CIA officials. It is likely that this allegation was used by Mr. Ledeen, Mr. Ghorbanifar or others as a means of circumventing the Intelligence Community's knowledge of and involvement in the meeting given the CIA's fabrication notice against Mr Ghorbanifar. Also, Mr Ghorbanifar, aided by Mr Ledeen, used the opportunity presented at the Rome meeting to propose an agenda for "regime change" in Iran directly to DoD officials, including a proposal for U.S. funding of covert activities.[6]
"Creative destruction is our middle name. We do it automatically.... It is time once again to export the democratic revolution."
Michael Ledeen[citation needed]
"Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business."
Michael Ledeen [1]
ISI Enterprises
United States Committee for a Free Lebanon
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs - First executive director
International Analyst Network
Francesco Pazienza
Edward Luttwak
Nicolo Pollari
James Bamford, Iran: The Next War, Rolling Stone, 10 August 2006
Michael Ledeen, Creative Destruction: How to wage a revolutionary war, National Review Online, September 20, 2001
Events Participated in
Bilderberg/2005 5 May 2005 8 May 2005 Germany
Colloquium on Analysis and Estimates 30 November 1979 1 December 1979 Spooky 1979 Washington conference
Le Cercle/1986 (Washington) February 1986 March 1986 US
Washington Conference on International Terrorism 24 June 1984 27 June 1984 US
Washington DC A key conference in establishing the "War On Terror", 5 years after the seminal Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism
Document:Michael Ledeen, extract from The "Terrorism" Industry book extract 1990 Edward S. Herman
↑ a b Jonah Goldberg, 'Baghdad Delenda Est, Part Two', National Review Online, 23 April 2002
↑ https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-iran-contra-affair
↑ Shoshana Bryen sacking
↑ a b c Fred Landis, 'Georgetown's Ivory Tower for Old Spooks', Inquiry, 30 September 1979
↑ a b The War They Wanted, The Lies They Needed, by Craig Unger, Vanity Fair, July 2006.
↑ a b Report on intelligence activities relating to Iraq conducted by the Policy Counterterrorism Evaluation Group and the Office of Special Plans within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, United States, Senate Select Committe on Intelligence, June 2008, p3.
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When you visit any of our South African friendly online casinos, you should be pleased to learn that you will be able to find a wide variety of games. The main types of games that you can find include online slots (classic slots and video slots), craps, blackjack, roulette, baccarat and video pokers.
Online slot machines are the virtual version of a land based mechanical slot and they generally have either 3 reels or 5 reels. The 3 reeled slots with 1 to 5 winning paylines are often referred to as classic slots and the ones with 5 reels and multiple winning paylines, wild symbols, scatter symbols, bonus symbols and entertaining side games are often referred to as video slots.
You can find a variety of different video slot themes with plenty of special features and new slots are being released all of the time. Simply set your stake, play with the full amount of paylines active per spin and then hit the spin button. Three or more matching symbols appearing along a payline will award a prize.
Blackjack is a fast paced card game which is really easy to play. You can now find several different variations of this game available online and the rules are fairly straightforward. You have to try and beat the dealer by having a hand that adds up to 21 points, or as close to 21 as possible. Each card is worth its face value in points and an Ace can be worth 1 or 11 points.
A tie can occur when you and the dealer end up with the same valued hand. When this happens you will receive your stake back. You start with two cards and then you have the option of being able to take one or more cards to try and improve your hand. A 'natural' blackjack (e.g. Ace + Jack =21) is the best possible hand you could ask for when being dealt your first two cards.
Video Poker is a virtual card game which is based entirely on five card draw poker. There are many different Video Poker varieties available online today and the aim is really simple – just hope for the best poker hand. You will be dealt five cards, face up, and then you can either keep the cards you have or you can discard them and exchange them for some new ones in the hope of improving your hand.
You don't have to try and beat the dealer and you also don't have to try and beat any other players. The lowest win in most Video Poker games is a pair (usually a pair of 10's or better) and the best possible hand is a Royal Flush.
Roulette is a table game and the aim is to try and guess where the roulette ball will land after it has been released around the roulette wheel. The main types of roulette available online today include American Roulette, European Roulette and French Roulette, plus there are several other varieties also now available.
Roulette is a really easy and exciting game to play and when you are ready to place a bet on where the ball might land, you have lots of different betting options to choose from. All you need to do is place your chips on the betting table. The odds for each bet type should clearly be on display for you and the most sensible bets are red/black and odd/even.
Craps is a dice game, but it is more often referred to as a table game. The rules are fairly straight forward, but it may take a while for you to get used to the betting table and the different bet types that are available. You have the option of being able to place a bet on the outcome of just one single roll of the dice, or you can bet on the outcome of a series of rolls.
A point is established when a 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 or 10 is thrown to begin with, or you will instantly win if a 7 or 11 is thrown. Make sure that you read through the rules when playing this game for the very first time to familiarise yourself with how to play this exciting game.
One of the most popular games in an online casino is Baccarat and a version called Punto Banco is one of the most well-known varieties. The object of this card game (which is also often referred to as a table game) is to place a bet on the player's hand to win, on the banker's hand to win, or on the game to end in a tie.
The winning hand will be the hand that reaches as close to 9 points as possible. A Jack, Queen and King are worth 10 points, an Ace is worth 1 point and the remaining numbered cards are all worth their face value in points. This is a fast paced card game which is really easy to learn how to play.


I just ADORE all the colors in your garden!! Super yummy!!
I love the berries against the Miscanthus, definitely something to try out I think, and I have to agree on the ornamental kale, they're too blobby for me too, so as a result I've never considered them in my garden.
I can't really advise on the plants to have for winter issue, as I'm only learning myself... and if I'm honest I don't actually really have anything other than the odd confused plant that's still flowering when it ought to have died long ago.
Cyclamen are always an easy option, and always look very nice under a tree/shrub.
Have you tried winter jasmine, or other fragrant shrubs such as winter honeysuckle, sweetbox, daphne, viburnum and skimmia?
Great eye for winter color. Nice post.
Redhead, I wish all these colors were in my garden -- but they're not. I took all these pictures are the gardens at Michigan State University (where I work/go to school) But hopefully some of these colors will be in my garden next year!
Great ideas -- but here cyclamen and winter honeysuckle don't get blooming until February or March -- it is just too cold! I don't think anything actually flowers here in Michigan in December and January (except maybe helleborus, but for some reason I don't like them), so I think twigs and berries are the best I'm going to get.
Dangit. That's what I get for ogling - I miss the words. Bah. Still, that's a pretty impressive array of colors and nicely photographed.
Thanks for the tip Frances. I'm adding Redbor to my seed shopping list right now!


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Broncos & Zach Kerr Agree To 2-Year Deal
By Michael Spencer March 16, 2019 at 9:52 am
DENVER (CBS4) – Free agent defensive lineman Zach Kerr intends to re-sign with the Broncos a source told CBS4 sports anchor Michael Spencer.
DENVER, CO – SEPTEMBER 16: Quarterback Case Keenum #4 of the Denver Broncos is congratulated by defensive end Zach Kerr #92 after a quarterback sneak touchdown against the Oakland Raiders in the fourth quarter of a game at Broncos Stadium at Mile High on September 16, 2018 in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by Justin Edmonds/Getty Images)
The deal was finalized Saturday morning.
We've agreed to terms with DL @ZachKerr92 on a new two-year deal.
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— Denver Broncos (@Broncos) March 16, 2019
Kerr, who played in all 16 games last season, had a career high 33 tackles in 2018.
He becomes the latest Bronco to re-sign following Friday's signing of TE Jeff Heuerman. Heuerman and the team agreed to a two-year contract.
The Broncos also signed CB Bryce Callahan to a three-year contract Friday. Callahan is entering his 5th year in the NFL.
Michael Spencer
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