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Raytheon announces sale of Patriot air and missile defense system to Bahrain
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11.26.2009 Photo by Staff Sgt. Anthony L Taylor
Raytheon Co., one of the world's largest defense contractors, announced that the Kingdom of Bahrain has purchased Patriot air and missile defense system from the U.S. Army.
"The Kingdom of Bahrain signed an agreement to purchase Raytheon's (NYSE: RTN) combat-proven Patriot air and missile defense system," the aerospace giant announced Tuesday.
This letter of offer and acceptance allows the U.S. government to begin contract negotiations with Raytheon for production of an undisclosed quantity of systems and missiles.
"Raytheon's Patriot Integrated Air and Missile Defense System will ensure the Kingdom of Bahrain is well equipped to defend against ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and manned and unmanned aircraft," said Ralph Acaba, president of Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems. "Patriot is continually modernized, enhanced and upgraded, through this 17-nation community, to ensure it outpaces the evolving threats for years to come."
Earlier this year, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency has reported that the U.S. State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to Bahrain of various Patriot missile systems and related support and equipment for an estimated cost of $2.478 billion.
The Government of Bahrain has requested to buy sixty Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) missiles, 36 Patriot MIM-104E Guidance Enhanced Missiles (GEM-T) missiles with canisters, 9 M903 Launching Stations (LS), 5 Antenna Mast Groups (AMG), 3 Electrical Power Plants (EPP) III, 2 AN/MPQ-65 Radar Sets (RS), and 2 AN/MSQ-132 Engagement Control Stations (ECS).
"The prime contractor for the PAC-3 Missile is Lockheed-Martin in Dallas, Texas. The prime contractor for the GEM-T missile is Raytheon Company in Andover, Massachusetts, " also noted the DCSA.
Bahrain will use Patriot to improve its missile defense capability, defend its territorial integrity, and deter regional threats.


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2008 Pitching Log (Regular Season)
date team opp wl score box seq g1 c-g decision gs qs cg sh gf ip h r er bb so wp bk hb iw bf ab 2b 3b hr sb cs gdp bbt g bbt f bbt p bbt l pit str bal fou play cal sw str% era whip
2008-08-05 PHI FLO L 2-8 box | pbp 3 1 18 -- 0 0 0 0 0 0.1 1 1 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 19 9 10 3 1 4 1 47.37 27.00 9.00
2008-08-08 PHI PIT L 0-2 box | pbp 5 2 19 L 0 0 0 0 0 1.1 3 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 1 7 6 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 24 11 13 2 5 3 1 45.83 16.20 4.20
2008-08-11 PHI LAN L 6-8 box | pbp 2 3 20 -- 0 0 0 0 0 2.2 2 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 3 13 8 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 0 1 42 21 21 4 7 3 7 50.00 6.23 2.77
2008-08-16 PHI SDN L 3-8 box | pbp 4 4 21 -- 0 0 0 0 1 2.0 2 2 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 9 7 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 1 0 31 18 13 7 5 3 3 58.06 7.11 2.53
2008-09-19 PHI FLO L 8-14 box | pbp 3 5 22 -- 0 0 0 0 0 2.0 3 2 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 9 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 3 31 20 11 3 7 6 4 64.52 7.56 2.40
2008-09-28 PHI WAS W 8-3 box | pbp 2 6 23 W 0 0 0 0 0 2.0 2 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 7 7 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 24 18 6 3 3 4 8 75.00 6.10 2.13
2008 Batting Log (Regular Season)
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John E. Bendix (August 28, 1818 – October 8, 1877) was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War who commanded two different New York regiments and then a brigade of infantry in Army of the Potomac in the Eastern Theater. He survived a serious wound at the Battle of Fredericksburg in December 1862. He was noted as a prolific recruiter and organizer, and after the war, as a brevet general in the New York Militia, he helped organize the postbellum the New York state militia that later became the New York Guard. Bendix was mustered out of the Union Army on May 7, 1863. In July 1866, he was nominated and confirmed for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general of volunteers, to rank from March 13, 1865.

Biography
Bendix was born in between the United States and Canada, on board the "Sarah," one of the first steamers that navigated St. Lawrence River. His parents (who were natives of Germany), returned to their native land soon after their son's birth and educated the boy in the common schools. While yet in his teens, young Bendix returned to the U.S. and settled in New York City, where he learned the trades of pattern maker and machinist. He joined the 9th New York State Militia in 1847 as a private. He was appointed as the lieutenant colonel of the 11th New York State Militia in October 1859. He became a prominent member of the New York City Freemasonry movement.

Following the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, Bendix organized the 7th New York Infantry and was appointed as its first colonel on April 23, 1861. He resigned that position on August 6, 1861 and became the colonel of the 10th New York Infantry (the "National Zouaves") on September 2, 1861. The regiment served at Fort Monroe in Virginia over the winter. In May, he was part of an expedition against Confederate forces at Norfolk, Virginia.

During the 1862 Peninsula Campaign, he suffered a painful ankle wound during the Seven Days Battles. Later that same year, he participated in the battles of Second Bull Run, Antietam, and Fredericksburg, as well as several engagements of the intervening campaigns. Bendix was carried from the battlefield at Fredericksburg after suffering a serious wound in the neck from a shell fragment during the assault on Confederate entrenchments on Marye's Heights. He returned home to New York City on a leave of absence. He rejoined his regiment in January 1863, and assumed command of the 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division of the II Corps between March 16, 1863 and April 27, 1863. He remained in command until April 28, when the 10th New York was ordered home to be mustered out of the volunteer service on May 7, 1863. Bendix then was heavily involved in helping recruit and train new soldiers for other New York units. On July 20, 1866, President Andrew Johnson nominated Bendix for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general of volunteers, to rank from March 13, 1865, and the United States Senate confirmed the appointment on July 26, 1866.

Bendix organized the Third Regiment (Bendix Zouaves) in November 1865. He was appointed a brevet brigadier general in the New York Militia in 1865. He retired from the  service in 1871 and died in New York City six years later at the age of 59. He is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

New York Post #402 of the Grand Army of the Republic was named for General Bendix.

See also

List of American Civil War brevet generals (Union)

Notes

References

Union Army colonels
People of New York (state) in the American Civil War
Military personnel from New York City
German emigrants to the United States
Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery
1818 births
1877 deaths

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That's Liv on the left with her bros. You wouldn't know it from the picture above but Liv is a cancer survivor. She fought and won!! This weekend, Liv, Bros and Co. is hosting a Lemonade Stand to raise money for the Make A Wish Foundation to return the favor for the wish she and her family received. Her goal is to raise $5,000 and I would bet she more than makes that goal. Everything over her goal will go to the Children's Oncology Group for further study of the Wilms Tumor.
You can visit the Liv, Bros and Co. Lemonade Stand this Sunday, May 29th, 2011 in Oakdale, California from 10 am to 2 pm at River Avenue Park. Please do if you are in the area. Jake, Clayton and I will not be able to visit but we will be mailing in our donation.
Nothing is more important in this world than our children. Liv is a living example of what strength, resilience and spirit should look like in all of us. Best wishes to Liv and her Bros on a super successful lemonade stand.
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Full Lee Johnson Five Live transcript: Everything the Bristol City boss said on transfers, injuries, club structure and Leeds United
There was a lot that was covered
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Lee Johnson appeared on national radio last night as he spoke to Mark Chapman, Ian Wright and Chris Sutton on BBC Radio Five Live's Monday Night Club.
In the interview, plenty of topics were covered, with Johnson revealing his delight over Bristol City's start to the season.
He also went into depth on the club's transfer policy, following the failed pursuit of Eddie Nketiah on loan in the summer, with the Arsenal striker instead heeding Wright's advice to move to Leeds.
Here is everything that was said in the interview with the Robins boss.
Arsenal legend Ian Wright (Image: Getty)
Mark Chapman: You must be pleased with your start to the season?
Yeah, not bad. After the opening day, obviously getting beaten by Leeds, I think the boys have responded ever so well to three or four big injuries to key members of the squad. A lot of young talent popping their head through and performing really well.
So well pleased with the boys' effort and application and long may it continue.
MC: You're only two points off the top of the Championship. Given the turnover at the club over the summer, and having to send players out on loan, there's a balancing act you presumably have. Does it feel like starting afresh every summer or can you put long-term plans in action?
We're certainly trying to put long-term plans it. It becomes difficult when clubs take your top talent, I know they have to pay for it but at that point you have to rebuild and readjust. I think the key is to be ready, show a good attitude, bringing the young lads through or recruit well, but to be fair we've done that well.
Sometimes it does feel like we're taking two steps forward and one step back but at least we're taking the two steps forward more often than not.
'Warming Leeds United's bench' - Bristol City fans react to Arsenal legend Ian Wright's Eddie Nketiah admission
I'm pleased with the squad that we've got, I think we signed some real talent, a couple of internationals have come across at various age groups and they've been magnificent additions to the squad. Obviously we had the three Chelsea boys on loan last year and we signed all of them on a permanent basis as well so we're looking strong, we're just keen to get everyone back fit and flying and have that competition for places.
MC: When you take those Chelsea players on loan, at that stage are you thinking 'we'll get them permanently', or is that something that develops over the course of the season? Because the loan market is a complicated one.
It is. I always try and sign players now, where possible, where there's the potential of maybe bringing them in on a permanent. We invest a lot in them both as human beings but also in coaching.
Probably the only one that hasn't happened with is Tammy Abraham, and we had a hot pursuit on Eddie Nketiah as well and that didn't quite work out for us. Those are probably the only two we felt we wouldn't be able to get on a permanent so I think it's always in the back of your mind because, naturally, you always want to build for the long-term.
They've got to be really special to make a short-term impact.
Ian Wright: You've had a few injuries.
Benik Afobe of Bristol City (Image: Rogan/JMP)
Yeah, it's been frustrating. We've had a tough time with injuries, we signed Benik Afobe, who started off fantastically well for us and just a freak accident in training, literally no one near him, and he's done his ACL in quite a bad way. He's got his op this week.
Jay Dasilva is a bit different, obviously he played for England over the summer, came back with a stress fracture. Another big player for us, Korey Smith, our vice-captain, has been out for six or seven months.
Kalas has unfortunately done his hamstring, that's the one as a coach where you look at it and wonder if you've done anything wrong, but generally our injuries have been contact injuries. Everybody gets injuries but it's just happened to us at the moment where you get key players go down and that's even more credit to the lads and the squad who have stepped up.
The likes of Han-Noah Massengo, that we signed from Monaco, he's 18 years old and has been absolutely fantastic, looking like a real top player. The young boys have really stepped up and done really, really well.
Chris Sutton: Is the loan market one that you ideally want to use?
I think it's important. I think there's a big picture as well, which is talent pool for the England squad. I think that's probably something that seems to be falling away a little bit if I listen to Gareth Southgate in his interviews. That's a bit of a worry and I think the Championship is a fantastic league, I think there's some really good homegrown players now in Premier League and Championship sides and actually all around the country.
Our coaching standards have gone up and we've caught up with the rest of Europe and probably gone ahead of them in many ways. You see now the likes of Germany taking our young players out on loan and trying to sign them on a permanent basis.
Arsenal legend Ian Wright responds to Lee Johnson after telling Eddie Nketiah to go to Leeds United instead of Bristol City
I do think just the sheer pressure and element of having to stay in the Premier League or get promoted to the Premier League cuts the pathway off for these young players and actually they're good enough. The frustrating thing more than anything is that you can't do the month-to-month loans anymore, so you have to hold and retain a bigger squad.
Given the turnover of managers, you can understand the thought process and the pressures that come with allowing a young player to make mistakes because inevitably they will.
MC: There was quite a bit of reporting on Eddie Nketiah and you having to do a presentation to Arsenal. Do you appreciate having to do that? Because...
Not when you don't get him(!)
MC: I can understand that bit as well. Given that you loan players out, can you see the benefits of clubs explaining how they're going to use your players, and is it quite forward thinking?
Eddie Nketiah celebrates scoring against Brentford
I don't think it's anything particularly new if I'm honest. I think a lot of clubs over the country work to a similar format. Without divulging too much, in any transfer there's a lot of different agendas. Whether that's a loan transfer or a permanent, there's a lot of money involved, there's agent fees, there's family fees which seem to turn up now, which seems to me outrageous, particularly if it's a young player who hasn't played too much football before.
It's part of the footballing world, so you've got to deal with it and play the game really to try and maximise the potential of getting these young lads. We had a fantastic spell with Tammy Abraham, who came in when no one had taken him and gave him his first taste of football. He scored 26 goals for us and I think it was a really steep learning curve but a good one. He's a good lad, we worked really had on him and he obviously produced for us. You're seeing the fruits of his labour now by the performances he's putting on for Chelsea.
IW: Can you understand why someone like Eddie Nketiah may have chosen Leeds over Bristol City?
Yeah, of course, I mean, look...
IW: Phew! Because I did mention to him to go there. I said you've seen what Tammy can do, they can create, but you've got the crowd and everything. I think that's what he was attracted by.
I'll have to invite you down to Bristol City to see what we're all about.
IW: I'll have to come down. I said to him that they'll create a lot of chances for him.
I'd never discredit. I think Leeds are a fantastic club, they've got a fantastic manager. By the way there was about 50 clubs that wanted Eddie Nketiah so that's no disgrace.
For me, I think the key thing for any young player is game time. That would have been the only question mark on Leeds and a club like that, is he going to get the pure game time that he would expect? Because, effectively, he could have done the 20-minute spells for Arsenal at the moment.
It's all about game time, I'm sure he'll get that game time as time goes on. I think Leeds are a fantastic club with a top manager and he's made that decision and good luck to him.
We move on, we signed Benik Afobe which unfortunately hasn't gone too well through no fault of anybody, it was just a freak accident.
MC: Do you feel a pressure to go up this season?
I've always wanted to go up. I think that's definitely the ambition without question of a doubt. Obviously circumstances can deflect or divert that but we've been building now for two or three years, we've had progression every year since I've been at the football club. It's been a lot of hard work from a lot of people behind the scenes.
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Sometimes it does get frustrating when you lose your top players, we've sold many players but we've also invested really well. Not just in the team and the recruitment side but also the training ground, which is going to be a top class facility, in various areas of our recruitment system, the hardware and software systems and processes and the people we've signed as well. There's a lot going on at this football club that makes our decisions easy to make.
The beauty of having a manager for three-and-a-half, four years is that everybody knows what he wants in terms of the playing staff and the football. So we're really getting there and there's so many signs of progression. The Championship is a really tough league and a brilliant league and very, very competitive but we're difficult to beat and this year we've got as good a chances as any.
MC: You talk about all the investing and all the work that's gone on with the infrastructure, have you had a say on everything that has been improved in the club or has it been a collective effort?
Bristol City CEO Mark Ashton
Gone are the days where the head coach or manager just got carte blanche to run the show. We've got a very good CEO, Mark Ashton, we talk three or four times a day. We've got good and stable ownership, which is good. We understand the plan, understand the vision and we try and implement that as best as possible within the financial guidelines we're given.
That is a collective, of course the people at the top of the tree end up making the final decisions. We're always trying to find those marginal gains in every area of the football club. It's not just the team, it's not just training, it's everywhere. I think that's enabled us to make better decisions more consistently and I think if we make enough good decisions on and off the pitch then hopefully the Premier League dream will come to us.
MC: You got Jack Leach to record a good luck message to your mate who was playing in a cricket cup competition or something?
It was my father-in-law. Sometimes you've got to get those brownie points! They did extremely well, they're a village side who got to Lord's in a national final. I managed to sneak up there and watch them, unfortunately they didn't win but it was a magnificent achievement.
You can just imagine these lads who've been playing village cricket all their life, that experience of playing at Lord's, they loved it.
Jack was brilliant, he gave us a nice little video footage and I sent that to the in-laws. Like I say, next time we go on holiday, I'm sure he'll get the first round in.
It's Nantwich Cricket Club, they did extremely well.
Bristol City power rankings: Taylor Moore and Ashley Williams the major movers plus a new No1
CS: I think they lost to a side from Norfolk, called Swardeson...
They did, that's great knowledge.
MC: Lee, thanks very much for coming on. First I'd like to apologise for Ian on Eddie Nketiah and I apologise for Chris for mentioning the side that beat your father-in-law's side.
I come on here and I've been abused.
IW: I'm coming down to Bristol City, you've got to get me down.
You did promise you'd talk to my young strikers, so I'm looking forward to that.
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Балыклыбашево () — село в Федоровском районе Республики Башкортостан Российской Федерации. Входит в состав Каралачикского сельсовета.

География

Географическое положение
Расстояние до:
 районного центра (Фёдоровка): 8 км,
 центра сельсовета (Каралачик): 3 км,
 ближайшей ж/д станции (Мелеуз): 51 км.

Население

 Национальный состав
Согласно переписи 2002 года, преобладающая национальность — татары (94 %).

Примечания

Ссылки
 Совет муниципальных образований Республики Башкортостан

Населённые пункты Фёдоровского района Башкортостана


Figure 1. Current distribution of Kauai 'Elepaio.
The head and back are gray, and the wing bars formed by contrasting tips on the greater and median wing coverts are completely white. The sexes are morphologically similar but can be distinguished by behavior and vocalizations.
10). Elepaios on all islands exhibit a 2-year delay in plumage maturation in both sexes, but the subadult plumage differs among islands in degree of similarity to adult plumage ( VanderWerf, E. A. (2001b). Two-year delay in plumage maturation of male and female 'Elepaio. Condor 103 (4):756-766.
Unusual among native Hawaiian birds, elepaios use a range of habitats and sometimes inhabit disturbed secondary forest dominated by non-native plant species. They are versatile foragers and use a remarkable variety of behaviors to search for and capture prey at all heights and on all substrates in the forest, including the ground, tree trunks, branches, leaves, and in the air.
The Kauai Elepaio is an adaptable species that inhabits forested habitats ranging from dense rainforest to mesic woodland, and is fairly common and widespread at higher elevations ( Gorresen, P. M., R. J. Camp, M. H. Reynolds, B. L. Woodworth and T. K. Pratt. (2009). "Status and trends of native Hawaiian songbirds." In Conservation biology of Hawaiian forest birds: Implications for island avifauna, edited by T. K. Pratt, C. T. Atkinson, P. C. Banko, J. D. Jacobi and B. L. Woodworth, 108-136. New Haven: Yale University Press.
12, Paxton, E. H., R. J. Camp, P. M. Gorresen, L. H. Crampton, D. L. Leonard, Jr., and E. A. VanderWerf (2016). Collapsing avian community on a Hawaiian island. Science Advances 2 (9). doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1600029.
13). Elepaios are affected by introduced mosquito-borne diseases, but have greater immunity than most of the Hawaiian honeycreepers, and in some areas they are found at low elevations ( VanderWerf, E. A. (2001a). Distribution and potential impacts of avian poxlike lesions in 'Elepaio at Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge. Studies in Avian Biology 22:247-253.
14, VanderWerf, E. A., M. D. Burt, J. L. Rohrer and S. M. Mosher. (2006). Distribution and prevalence of mosquito-borne diseases in O'ahu 'Elepaio. Condor 108 (4):770-777.
15). The Kauai Elepaio is the only native forest bird species on Kauai that is not declining ( Gorresen, P. M., R. J. Camp, M. H. Reynolds, B. L. Woodworth and T. K. Pratt. (2009). "Status and trends of native Hawaiian songbirds." In Conservation biology of Hawaiian forest birds: Implications for island avifauna, edited by T. K. Pratt, C. T. Atkinson, P. C. Banko, J. D. Jacobi and B. L. Woodworth, 108-136. New Haven: Yale University Press.
All three elepaio species are long-lived, sedentary, and occupy the same small territory throughout the year, and individuals can be found in the same location year after year. Banded Kauai Elepaios have lived to at least 13 years old. Younger birds in subadult plumage are subordinate and seldom breed, acting as floaters until they acquire their own territory.


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Digital Media in Uganda is experimenting with subscription-based models as an alternative to the traditional advertising model and as a recovery plan from the effects of COVID-19. The objectives for this study were: to identify critical success factors for subscription-based models in digital media platforms, to analyse audience consumption habits vis-a-vis payment for digital content on ChimpsReports, to establish the effect of paywalls on the financial bottom-line of ChimpReports, and to establish the barriers to subscription uptake among digital media in Uganda. The theoretical framework adopted the political economy of the media and the disruption of innovations theories to investigate the viability of digital subscription. The researcher used a mixed methods approach. The study employed key informant interviews and survey as methods for data collection. The methods were aided by a questionnaire and an interview guide as data generation tools. The researcher sampled 218 respondents. The sample size was achieved through purposively sampling technique and simple random sampling technique. Qualitative data was analysed thematically and presented in form of themes. On the other hand, quantitative data was analysed using Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets and data was presented in form of tables, pie-charts, and graphs. The findings show that the increase in internet penetration in Uganda and the increase in smartphone usage are the biggest enablers of paid-content consumption in Uganda. The quality of content, poor packaging, and unfair prices by publishers were the biggest barriers to uptake of paid news content. The study concluded that digital subscription can be the leading revenue source for digital media and recommended the use of freemium and metered paywalls over hard paywalls. The researcher further suggests that a further investigation into the monetization of instant messaging apps as this is a new phenomenon that this study did not capture.
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Samsung Electronics is hoping to bring something that the iPhone X had on its springtime smartphone next year and make it good enough so that it can abandon something it adopted just a couple of years ago.
Word from The Bell is that Samsung has made no orders to suppliers for any iris-scanning components. Even sample orders weren't made. Instead, the primary biometric authenticator is expected to be an in-display fingerprint sensor — Qualcomm, AuthenTec, Synaptics and other manufacturers have been improving their processes to make the component in question.
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There is a sense that Moritz Bauer's English might have been perfected by watching Premier League matches.
The 25-year-old right-back is in line to make his Stoke City debut at Manchester United tomorrow night, a few days after leaving a winter break at Rubin Kazan in deep Russia.
It has been a roundabout journey to get to this stage for the Austria international who grew up in Switzerland and he's excited, not daunted, about the prospect of walking out in front of 75,000 fans and the television cameras.
He said: "They have a really strong team, but every game starts at 0-0. I've seen already that we have quality players and it's about who wants it more.
"I think they call it 'parking the bus' but we have quality too.
He added: "The Theatre of Dreams, it's a bit like written in a movie if I make my debut there, but I'm just new, I don't want to put any pressure on. I want to adapt to the team, figure out my position in the team and do my best for myself and the coach.
"When I'm on the pitch I will suffer as much as I can to get a good result. I will do my best to make everyone proud.
Right-back Moritz Bauer has been unveiled as Stoke City's first signing in the January transfer window.
Tom Edwards has been holding down the right-back slot over the last few weeks, but Mark Hughes had lined up Bauer, who cost in the region of £5m, to provide at least competition and cover for the rookie 18-year-old.
Youth graduate Edwards, who has shown a lot of character as well as potential, has been a rare positive in a defence which has conceded 47 goals in 22 games.
That needs to drastically improve over the next 16 games if Stoke are to pull clear of danger – but how that is done is still up for debate.
Bauer, who has signed a four-and-a-half year deal, said: "Of course we want to change that record, but a lot depends on the system. Sometimes attack is the best form of defence. As long as we have the ball the other team cannot score, no?
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Bauer has shown he can play in all those roles, and on the left, over the last couple of years in Kazan.
It was nearly 2,000 miles away from home and he lived with a local family at first to help pick up the language and adapt to the culture, even if he now admits it was not as alien as many probably might believe.
He said: "It was a great experience, I cannot say one bad word about it.
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Stoke City manager gossip: Was Quique Sanchez Flores spooked by relegation clause?
You might be able to guess the headlines if he makes a flying start to that new chapter.
After all, it is not too often that a new Stoke signing comes complete with his own pilot's licence .
He said: "It was just a hobby. Some years ago I was interested in that, I had some time off and I wanted to be fit in the head. I'm a really curious person so I took a private licence with a friend. It was a great experience, but now I'm let's say I'm 120 per cent focussed on football.
Still, with the air miles stacked up over the last couple of weeks sorting out his move, he is happy to have his feet on the ground – and to find out about Stoke's own local cuisine and culture.


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Arnold Schwarzenegger's command of English might be the reason he appeared like such an automaton (used to wonderful effect in his first major American casting as The Terminator), but after two decades, his attempts at the 'acting' craft, using emotion and expression, have still been fumbling at best.
When Arnie symbolically passed the mantle of action movie alpha male in Welcome to the Jungle, it was to a pro wrestler. The possibility of a new action hero with any more acting talent than the last looked slim.
But as anyone who saw The Scorpion King and Welcome to the Jungle knows, the kid formerly known as Dwayne Johnston brings a surprising amount of brevity and clarity to his performance, outacting many of his Hollywood contemporaries.
In real life, he's no less impressive. He thinks fast and speaks clearly. You'd think you were talking to a teacher or an IT technician. Instead, you're talking to a talented and lucky young guy who knows where's he's at and more importantly, knows where he has to go.
'I work closely with all the directors and the writers that I work with,' The he says. 'So it's so important from the opening stages of sitting down with the writers of [for example] Walking Tall and understanding them and having them understand me, understanding the real person and finding themes.
'I find solace in the fact that I give my best effort, which is to work with everybody across the board — from the producers to the directors to the studio and be a complete team player.'
With his background in pro wrestling, the Rock knows all about being a team player, and rather than sitting in an ivory tower in Hollywood, it's a team he still holds dearly.
'I love wrestling, I grew up in wrestling,' he says. 'My father and grandfather were both wrestlers. That's why every once in awhile I go back and help out the company whenever and wherever I can, I help out the guys in terms of their performance. Plus it's fun!'
And in an ironic twist, The Rock is one pro wrestler who might appreciate the finer points of live theatre more than many film stars of today because of one essential element; the audience.
'When you perform live, not necessarily with wrestling but when you're writing dialogue and writing jokes it's tough, so I give it up for a lot of comedians and Broadway actors out there, it's really hard. I have lot of time for people who perform live because it's all about the reaction of a live audience. It's very captivating and you don't get that in film. Film is very gratifying in a lot of ways but you don't get that immediate response.'
And The Rock knows something about response in his last movie, Walking Tall. An old fashioned little guy against a town full of toughs (but with a very big little guy), he plays special forces soldier Chris Vaughan, returning to his Washington hometown to find it transformed.
The main source of employment, the lumber mill, has closed down, the kids are all dealing (and using) drugs, shops and businesses are boarded up, and overlooking it all is a gaudy casino run by the town's unofficial patriarch, Jay Hamilton (McDonough).
The last thing Chris wants is trouble, so he agrees to a night out at the casino with his buddies. But when he sees a dealer using loaded dice, he can't ignore it. After his accusation, security comes in and an all-out brawl ensues. What makes matters worse is that the casino security force is made up almost exclusively of Chris and his friends' old football rivals, and things turn serious when they violently bash Chris and leave him for dead.
When he tries to get the local Sheriff to act, he meets a brick wall of resistance and realises what his town has turned into — a prison held tightly in sway by Hamilton and his interests, with the local kids hooked on his products, the townspeople enslaved to work at his casino and the law in his pocket.
Rather than just waltz in and smash things up (which he does anyway), Chris goes about things the right way, trying to get himself elected sheriff so he can clean up his beloved town, drawing the ire of Hamilton and his cohorts in the process.
It's all slightly unrealistic, but done with a strong dramatic bent (with little of the wry comedy we've seen in most of The Rock's movies) that it's hard to not believe in. Not only a commanding physical presence, the former WWE wrestling champion brings a gratifying level of depth and humanity to the role first bought to life in the 1973.
It's also been an interesting career for both Knoxville and McDonough, coming from TV's Jackass and Band of Brothers respectively, the latter quickly becoming typecast as the slightly edgy villain (as he was in the risible Timeline early this year).
With little comic shtick or the genre trappings he had to fall back on in The Scorpion King or Welcome to the Jungle, this movie is all Rock — leaving him to prove his own mettle wielding the dialogue and his signature block of lumber, both of which he handles with style.


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Little North West may be cloistered away with her parents, but life goes on for the Kardashian family.
And on Tuesday, it started to get a bit more exciting to a certain little Mason Disick as he visited a potential school with his mother Kourtney and Aunty Khloe.
As we all know, however, three-year-old children aren't always enraptured by long days spent trawling through echoing halls so Khloe was on hand to goof around for her nephew's amusement.
Khloe,29, and Kourtney, 34, both looked suitably preppy for the outing.
Mason's mommy opted for pretty floral shorts, a white T-shirt and a pair of navy Converse trainers.
A cute fedora with a mustard yellow band completed the look.
Aunty Khloe slipped into desert boots and a pair of denim cut-offs and had a plaid jacket tied around her waist.
A red headscarf nestled in her chestnut locks while a Chanel bag dangled behind her as she dipped a giggling Mason up and down.
Kourtney's daughter Penelope Scotland turned one on Monday.
But partner Scott Disick marked the occasion by having lunch with a group of friends in Beverly Hills.
There was no sign of either one of the 30-year-old's two children or his long term girlfriend Kourtney Kardashian as he ate at upmarket eatery Il Pastaio.
Sporting a dark blue shirt, pale jeans and his trademark moccasins, the restaurant owner and businessman looked in sombre mood for his lunch out.
Perhaps Scott was just taking the opportunity to show off his new bright yellow Ferrari which he brought out for a spin.
It is not known if a party was planned for little Penelope later on Monday - although her mother and grandmother Kris Jenner were spotted buying party supplies and gifts at a children's store in Calabasas last week.
Not all of the Twitter-happy Kardashians were fast to tweet their congratulations to Penelope on her landmark birthday.
So far, only her aunts Kendall and Kylie Jenner along with Khloe Kardashian have wished her Happy Returns of the Day.
Khloe posted a photograph of herself with the bouncing baby who closely resembles her older brother Mason, three.
Scott has just returned from a party weekend in Las Vegas where he hosted a party at the Sapphire Day Club.
According to Radar Online, Kourtney arrived at the bash as a surprise, with the whole event captured on camera for one of the couple's reality TV shows.
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After waking up on June 12 to the news that a Muslim man had slaughtered 49 people at an Orlando nightclub, a large segment of the congregation at the Islamic Center of Long Island decided to skip Sunday prayer.
For many Muslims, with each attack, whether it's in an American community like Orlando or in a European metropolis like Paris, comes yet another wave of anti-Islam rhetoric.
Then there's Donald Trump. Since the vicious slayings in Orlando, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee has doubled down on his proposal to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the US and has said he supports racial profiling of Muslims. He also openly speculated that Muslims may be hiding potential terrorists. But it turns out that a Muslim American reported the Orlando shooter to the FBI. On previous occasions, Trump has talked favorably about spying on mosques and killing innocent family members of terror suspects.
For some Muslim Americans, simply visiting their local mosque necessitates extreme caution.
A report released jointly Monday by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the U.C. Berkeley Center for Race and Gender detailing the meteoric rise of Islamophobia in the US found that attacks on mosques nearly quadrupled from 20 to 78 between 2014 and 2015. Nearly half of those incidents occurred between November and December—around the same time of the attacks in Paris and the shootings in San Bernardino, Calif. The far majority of those incidents were labeled vandalism or intimidation, according to the report.
In announcing the findings, Corey Saylor, director of the Department to Monitor and Combat Islamophobia, said Muslim Americans haven't faced this much backlash since the "Ground Zero Mosque" controversy reached a fever pitch in 2010.
"This time around [Islamophobia] has a much more violent tenor to it, and we see a lot more acts of intimidation targeting mosques," Saylor told reporters in Washington, D.C.
The study also revealed that 74 groups make up what researchers have termed the "US Islamophobia Network." Promoting anti-Islam sentiment is apparently a lucrative business. According to the report, 33 of those organizations had access to $205 million in revenue. A larger segment of the network, considered to be in the "outer core," includes such media personalities as Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Bill Maher.
Saylor said the goal of the report was not to silence Islam's detractors but to encourage Muslim Americans to become more involved in social justice movements and to delegitimize groups that promote Islamophobia.
After the homophobic attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Muslim American leaders on Long Island reached out to their respective police departments and requested stepped up patrols.
Both Nassau and Suffolk County police said they had already instituted a heightened presence since this is the holy month of Ramadan.
Acting Nassau County Police Commissioner Thomas Krumpter said bias-related crimes in the county are relatively low. Any incidents that do arise, he insisted, would be investigated thoroughly.
The Islamophobia report counted only seven attacks on New York mosques from 2013 to 2015. But Saylor cautioned that the actual number might be higher due to under-reporting.
Following the shootings in San Bernardino last December when a radicalized couple killed 14 people, the Islamic Center of Long Island was tagged with graffiti by vandals who drove a truck onto the mosque's grounds, Chaudhry said.
Nayyar Imam, the first-ever Muslim chaplain for the Suffolk County Police Department and president of the Long Island Muslim Alliance, said the Selden mosque has not been targeted, but leaders there remain vigilant. The mosque recently cancelled a bake sale for a girl's youth group out of concern that they'd be targeted.
"When they're sitting outside, you're exposing yourself to any kind of crazy person who can walk in," he said.
Imam says he is worried about the toll these attacks—and any future incidents—will have on the Muslim community.
"We have to do a lot of work," he said, noting that Muslim Americans have to do a better job of reaching out to non-Muslims.
One way Muslims can get more exposure is through the political process, Saylor suggested.
The anti-Islam rhetoric may have one unintended effect, however. According to data released by CAIR on Tuesday, more than 300,000 Muslim Americans have registered to vote since the 2012 election.
What could be driving the increase?
"The apparent jump in Muslim voter registration is just one possible indicator of increased political involvement resulting from rhetorical attacks on that faith community by public figures," the organization said in a press release.