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Mennonites Organize Meeting With Ahmadinejad, Again
By: Dexter Van Zile September 28, 2007
Prominent Christian leaders recently showed deference to the leader of a regime that murders its opponents and practices Jew-bating on an international scale at a low-profile meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The meeting was organized by the Mennonite Central Committee, a group which, like Ahmadinejad, openly questions the legitimacy of a sovereign Jewish State in the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Middle East.
While attendees went out of their way to extend courtesies to Ahmadinejad, one participant obliquely chided Jewish leaders in the U.S. for refusing to participate in "dialogue" with a Holocaust denier who has called for Israel to be wiped off the map
The leaders met with the Iranian president after he addressed the United Nations on September 26. According to The New York Times, Albert Lobe, executive director of the Mennonite Central committee told Ahmadinejad "We meant to extend to you the hospitality which a head of state deserves."
Lobe's obsequiousness was an apparent counterpoint to the treatment Ahmadinejad received at Columbia University on Sept. 24, when the school's president Lee Bollinger called him "a petty and cruel dictator."
According to a report from the Church of the Brethren News Service, Ahmadinejad took questions from a panel that included a Quaker, a Catholic, an Anglican, a Baptist and a representative the World Council of Churches. The New York Times reports that the audience comprised of "about 140 religious leaders." The paper also reported that the event organizers had tried to find a "Jewish leader to join the panel of questioners, but that those invited declined because they could not win support from Jewish organizations."
The refusal of Jewish groups to participate in the dialogue prompted oblique criticism from Ellen McNish, general secretary of the American Friends Service Committee. McNish told The New York Times that her "heart was broken that there was so little support from other religions to be here." She also stated that "If we don't walk down this path of dialogue, we're going to end up in a conflagration."
But while there was oblique criticism of Jewish leaders for refusing to participate, Iranian officials got a pass for insisting that representatives of the Baha'i faith be denied access to the meeting. According to The New York Times, representatives of the Baha'i faith, a persecuted religious minority in Iran, supported efforts at dialogue even though they were not allowed to attend the Sept. 26 event. The New York Times reported that "the Iranian side refused to come if the Bahais were there, said Kit Bigelow, director of external affairs, National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahais of the United States."
The meeting took place under tight security at the Interfaith Tillman Chapel near the United Nations in New York City. The New York Times described the meeting as "a friendly, even warm, exchange." The Times also reported "Given the furor over Ahmadinejad's earlier appearances, there was no advance publicity."
This is not the first time the MCC has facilitated a meeting of Christian leaders with Ahmadinejad. In February, the MCC organized a meeting with the Iranian President in Teheran. The delegation held a press conference in Washington, D.C. upon its return to the U.S. Christian leaders reportedly challenged Ahmadinejad about his anti-Semitic statements, but their complaints had little apparent effect. Four days after the delegation's meeting Ahmadinejad appeared in Sudan, where according to Islamic Republic News Agency (Iran's official news service), he said "Zionists are the true manifestation of Satan."
One troubling aspect of these repeated meetings with Ahmadinejad is that they were organized by the Mennonite Central Committee, an organization that has openly and repeatedly questioned the legitimacy of a sovereign Jewish State in the Middle East. In a book published earlier this year, What Is Palestine-Israel? author Sonia K. Weaver states that a one-state solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict has "several distinct advantages." Sonia K. Weaver, who has served as an MCC peaceworker in the Middle East with her husband Alain Epp Weaver, continues:
Having one state would allow Palestinian refugees to return to their original homes. In contrast, under many versions of the two-state solution discussed by Palestinians, Israelis and international mediators, Palestinian refugees would be repatriated to the new state of Palestine, but would not be allowed to return to their original homes in what is now Israel. The two-state solution, furthermore, does not address the systematic discrimination faced by Palestinian Christians and Muslims inside Israel. (What is Palestine-Israel?, pages 60-61).
The MCC's support for Israel's dismantling is also evident in an article published in the Spring 2007 issue of Cornerstone, a newsletter published by Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center headquartered in Jerusalem. In this piece, Alain Epp Weaver, writes:
After the horrors of the Shoah, it is understandable that the idea of Israel as a safe haven with a Jewish majority would be so important to many Jews. But must such a haven be tied to a project of maintaining and projecting a Jewish majority by any and all means? Might not a bi-national future in one state be one in which Palestinians and Israelis alike both sit securely under vine and fig tree?
The belief that Jewish sovereignty is the problem, a notion routinely proffered by MCC peace activists, is also shared by Ahmadinejad who wrote the following in a letter to President George Bush in 2006:
Young people, university students and ordinary people have many questions about the phenomenon of Israel. I am sure you are familiar with some of them. Throughout history many countries have been occupied, but I think the establishment of a new country with a new people, is a new phenomenon that is exclusive to our times. Students are saying that sixty years ago such a country did no(t) exist. The(y) show old documents and globes and say try as we have, we have not been able to find a country named Israel.
I tell them to study the history of WWI and II. One of my students told me that during WWII, which more than tens of millions of people perished in, news about the war, was quickly disseminated by the warring parties. Each touted their victories and the most recent battlefront defeat of the other party. After the war, they claimed that six million Jews had been killed. Six million people that were surely related to at least two million families. Again let us assume that these events are true. Does that logically translate into the establishment of the state of Israel in the Middle East or support for such a state? How can this phenomenon be rationalised or explained?
Mr President, I am sure you know how – and at what cost – Israel was established : Many thousands were killed in the process. Millions of indigenous people were made refugees. Hundred(s) of thousands of hectares of farmland, olive plantations, towns and villages were destroyed. This tragedy is not exclusive to the time of establishment; unfortunately it has been ongoing for sixty years now. A regime has been established which does not show mercy even to kids, destroys houses while the occupants are still in them, announces beforehand its list and plans to assassinate Palestinian figures and keeps thousands of Palestinians in prison. Such a phenomenon is unique – or at the very least extremely rare – in recent memory. Another big question asked by people is why is this regime being supported? (Emphasis added.)
Whatever differences there are between them, the Weavers and Ahmadinejad agree on one thing: Jewish sovereignty in the Middle East – not Arab and Muslim attempts to undermine it – is the cause of suffering in the region.
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Dexter Van Zile Dexter Van Zile is Christian Media Analyst for CAMERA. His work is focused on anti-Israel propaganda broadcast by Christian churches and para-church institutions and the failure of Christian peace activists to address human rights abuses in Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East. He has played a major role in exposing the errors in the Palestinian Christian narrative. His articles have appeared in The Jerusalem Post, The Boston Globe, Jewish Political Studies Review, The Algemeiner and The Jewish News Syndicate (JNS).


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Oncology clinical development programs are now typically using patient selection strategies to identify likely responders/non responders for efficacy and/or safety outcomes. Solid tumor lymphoma and leukemia indications increasingly have biomarker analysis built into their clinical development plans, and many of those biomarker plans include the provision for a companion diagnostic assay.
Since the approval of the first companion diagnostic (CDx), HER2 in 1998, precision medicine has embraced companion diagnostics as one way to ensure that targeted therapies can be appropriately administered to the right patient with some degree of assurance following clinical validity within clinical trials.
However, before a companion diagnostic can be delivered as an approved tool for patient care, it requires a vigorous level of analytical validation and testing within clinical trials before submission to the regulatory authorities, typically alongside the companion therapeutic.
There are several paths to that end goal that are available to pharmaceutical and IVD developers. These differently available routes should consider business, regulatory, science/technology, and commercialization elements. No two companion diagnostic projects are the same, and each relies on a balance and consideration of those four elements.
The majority of companion diagnostics approved by the FDA, and indeed, the majority of CDx assays evaluated in clinical trials, rely upon the submission of the assay by the IVD company for clearance/approval. The IVD company is responsible for the validation of that assay, the training and proficiency of the central laboratory to enable a verification of assay performance, and a pre-market approval (PMA) package to the FDA for approval. Typically, the IVD company will provide investigational use only (IUO) reagents and in Europe, under a performance evaluation only (PEO) designation. The pharmaceutical company and the IVD company typically enter into an agreement for the development and validation of the assay using GMP grade materials. This pathway has been successful for companion diagnostic assays that include PD-L1, EGFR, ALK, and BRAF. These assays have been successfully commercialized globally and are available in many labs as diagnostic tools to enable precision medicine treatment decisions.
A second model has been successful on a limited number of occasions but does offer an alternative path to a companion diagnostic approval—the so-called single-site PMA model. The laboratory develops and validates the assay and provides the testing for the clinical trials and is responsible for the submission to the FDA. In essence, these are laboratory developed tests (LDT's) and therefore cannot be transferred to additional laboratories. Accordingly, the initial commercial testing can only occur in the laboratory developing the assay. This has limitations as samples would need to be routed from global clinical sites to the one testing laboratory.
A hybrid model is gaining traction in which the central laboratory develops and validates an IVD to CAP/CLIA standards. It utilizes IVD company reagents and instruments to perform the validation and, accordingly, defines the performance characteristics of the assay. This can provide a platform to manage risk, for example, when IUO reagents are not available, or when there is a hesitancy to make an investment in an IVD product early in clinical development. At some point, however, a bridging study would be required in order for the IVD company to continue the development of the CDx assay from the laboratory.
For oncology, different technologies are available dependent on the biomarker(s) that are being considered for precision medicine. These include IHC, FISH, NGS, and PCR. Before testing can begin, pathology review (typically confirmation of diagnosis and assessment for tissue containing cells of sufficient quantity and quality) is required, it's imperative that pathologists are integral within the global central laboratory set up. Often, these pathologists will serve as principal investigators for the companion diagnostic assay.
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The Sharonville Engineer Depot (sometimes Sharonville Engineering Depot) was a facility constructed by the United States Army near Sharonville in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, for the purpose of storage of strategic metals.  The site was originally 642 acres in size.

The site was constructed in 1942.  The site was transferred to the General Services Administration (GSA) in 1949.  After that time, the GSA sold or transferred portions of the property to various governmental and private entities.  GSA retained approximately 80 acres which (in 1998) were leased to the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA).

The Depot is listed as a Formerly Used Defense Site by the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE).

The Depot was investigated by contractors working for the USACE in the mid-1990s.  The investigation was triggered by reports of possible contamination in groundwater by organic compounds at the nearby Brighton Corporation.  Four monitoring wells were installed and the groundwater was sampled, but no organic compounds were detected.

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Isaias: Tropical storm watch in effect for Charleston
Jared Smith / August 1, 2020 at 5:58 PM
As of 5 PM, a Tropical Storm Watch is now in effect for the Charleston Tri-County area. This means that tropical storm conditions — winds 39-73 MPH, heavy, flooding rainfall, storm surge, and isolated tornadoes — will be possible within the watch area within the next 48 hours. This is your signal that preparation should be underway for the potential for wind damage, power outages, and flooding from Isaias as we head into Monday and Monday night.
Isaias is weaker — temporarily
After an interaction between Andros Island, persistent wind shear, and an intrusion of very dry air, Isaias's maximum sustained winds dropped to 70 MPH, causing a reclassification to a (high-end) tropical storm. Recent satellite imagery, pictured above, indicates that thunderstorms are beginning to try to re-form on the northern flank of the circulation after having been completely detached from the center for several hours. We will need to watch carefully to see if this convection can wrap back around the center of the storm, allowing for some reintensification as it reaches Florida tonight and tomorrow.
Intensity has been particularly difficult to nail down with this storm. It is conceivable that there may be additional changes. Hang on. 🙂
The Hurricane Center forecast does show Isaias regaining minimal hurricane strength as it skirts the Florida coast tomorrow, but maintains the forecast from earlier for a strong tropical storm to make a very close pass just off of Charleston Harbor on Monday.
The earlier weakening of the storm allowed for a more westward component of motion for several hours. This, in turn, caused the track to shift back to the west — essentially a full walk-back of how we started today with a more easterly jog. The NHC forecast now indicates landfall very near Georgetown and Myrtle Beach late Monday night/early Tuesday morning, but this could still change. Overall, though, the main change in the storm's forecast is that it has progressively gotten slower as today goes on.
Expected impacts remain unchanged
With this track, the impacts I outlined earlier today still apply. The timeframe now slows down a bit — Monday to early Tuesday is the timeframe now — but the expected impacts should remain the same. Prepare for gusty winds, periods of heavy rain, and the potential for flooding in low-lying areas, especially Downtown. A tornado or two can't be ruled out during the day Monday, either, so be sure you know what to do if a tornado warning is issued for your area.
This update also increased the probability of tropical storm force winds (39-73 MPH) across the Lowcountry. Areas inland of Highway 17 are now projected at a 20-30% chance of tropical storm-force winds. The Charleston metro area's odds have increased to 30-40%, with 40-50% chances now along the coast.
Remember: prepare for a storm a category higher than what is forecast. As I mentioned above, intensity has been tricky to forecast with this storm (as it is with many tropical cyclones). Better to be prepared for a stronger storm and then experience a weaker storm than the opposite!
An important note on the flooding threat
Of note: On the current track, it is conceivable that Isaias' center may make its closest approach near high tide. Combine this with heavy rain potentially in the area, and there may be significant problems with flooding, particularly in downtown Charleston. As such, city officials have announced the opening of a few parking garages starting tomorrow at 8am for residents in low-lying areas to store their vehicles.
City officials announced that the parking garages below will be open to city residents free of charge from 8 a.m. Sunday, August 2 to 8 a.m. Tuesday, August 4. (A previous version of this tweet with an incorrect address has been deleted.) pic.twitter.com/5BUYmikF5C
— City of Charleston (@CityCharleston) August 1, 2020
Those garages include:
Queen Street Garage, 93 Queen Street
Aquarium Garage, 24 Calhoun Street
Visitor Center Garage, 63 Mary Street
St. Philip Street Garage, 34 St. Philip Street
If you live downtown in an area that floods regularly, take them up on this! I have personal experience with a flooded vehicle from Gaston in 2004. It was unnerving, to say the least.
Note that it is still too soon to say exactly what the magnitude of any flooding may be in any one place at any one time, but given the expected forecast timing, an already-enhanced king tide, onshore winds, and the potential for heavy rain, you should prepare for a long-duration flooding event downtown.
An intermediate advisory updating Isaias' position and intensity will be issued around 8PM.
The next full track and intensity forecast is due around 11PM.
Don't be surprised if Tropical Storm Warnings are issued tomorrow.
I'll have the 11 PM update on social channels, and will do another long post if significant changes arise.
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4 So as you come to him, 9 a living stone rejected by men but 10 chosen and priceless 11 in God's sight, 5 you yourselves, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood and to offer 12 spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 For it says 13 in scripture, "Look, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and priceless cornerstone, 14 and whoever believes 15 in him 16 will never 17 be put to shame." 18 7 So you who believe see 19 his value, 20 but for those who do not believe, the stone that the builders rejected has become the 21 cornerstone, 22 8 and a stumbling-stone 23 and a rock to trip over. 24 They stumble 25 because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do. 26 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues 27 of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 10 You 28 once were not a people, but now you are God's people. You were shown no mercy, 29 but now you have received mercy.
13 Be subject to every human institution 34 for the Lord's sake, whether to a king as supreme 14 or to governors as those he commissions 35 to punish wrongdoers and praise 36 those who do good. 15 For God wants you 37 to silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing good. 16 Live 38 as free people, not using your freedom as a pretext for evil, but as God's slaves. 39 17 Honor all people, love the family of believers, 40 fear God, honor the king.
18 Slaves, 41 be subject 42 to your masters with all reverence, not only to those who are good and gentle, but also to those who are perverse. 19 For this finds God's favor, 43 if because of conscience toward God 44 someone endures hardships in suffering unjustly. 20 For what credit is it if you sin and are mistreated and endure it? But if you do good and suffer and so endure, this finds favor with God. 45 21 For to this you were called, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving an example for you to follow in his steps. 22 He 46 committed no sin nor was deceit found in his mouth. 47 23 When he was maligned, he 48 did not answer back; when he suffered, he threatened 49 no retaliation, 50 but committed himself to God 51 who judges justly. 24 He 52 himself bore our sins 53 in his body on the tree, that we may cease from sinning 54 and live for righteousness. By his 55 wounds 56 you were healed. 57 25 For you were going astray like sheep 58 but now you have turned back to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.
the one who wants to love life and see good days must keep 16 his tongue from evil and his lips from uttering deceit.
12 For the eyes of the Lord are 17 upon the righteous and his ears are open to their prayer.
13 For 19 who is going to harm you if you are devoted to what is good? 14 But in fact, if you happen to suffer 20 for doing what is right, 21 you are blessed. But do not be terrified of them 22 or be shaken. 23 15 But set Christ 24 apart 25 as Lord in your hearts and always be ready to give an answer to anyone who asks about the hope you possess. 26 16 Yet do it with courtesy and respect, 27 keeping a good conscience, so that those who slander your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame when they accuse you. 28 17 For it is better to suffer for doing good, if God wills it, 29 than for doing evil.
7 For the culmination of all things is near. So be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of prayer. 21 8 Above all keep 22 your love for one another fervent, 23 because love covers a multitude of sins. 24 9 Show hospitality 25 to one another without complaining. 10 Just as each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another 26 as good stewards of the varied grace of God. 11 Whoever speaks, let it be with 27 God's words. 28 Whoever serves, do so with the strength 29 that God supplies, so that in everything God will be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong 30 the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.


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Blair calls for EU super-president
Written by Chris Perver
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has called for a democratically elected president that will give the European Union clear leadership as it engages with an increasingly competitive world. During an interview with the Times newspaper to mark the publication of the paperback version of his autobiography, Blair said that the rationale for Europe's existence had now changed, and that the EU's focus should be on 'power' and not 'peace'. He added that unless the EU is willing to radically change the way it works, European nations will risk being dominated by the likes of China, India and Brazil, whose economies are rapidly expanding.
Quote: ""If you want to have a debate about the direction of Europe it seems to me very hard to have that on a European-wide basis unless you have some means by which people elect something that is Europe-wide in nature."
The ratification of the Lisbon Treaty in 2009 paved the way for creation of permanent posts for President and Foreign Minister. The former Prime Minister was at one time tipped to become the European Union's first president following his resignation from Downing Street. But his involvement in the Iraq War went against approval of his nomination, and there were fears that a strong European president would steal the limelight from nation states. Blair himself was also unsure of whether to accept the job, as there was uncertainty as to how much power member states would grant the European president. As a result, two relatively unknown politicians were chosen to be president and foreign minister of the European Union. Former Belgian Prime Minister Van Rompuy, a socialist who favours a federal Europe, would become president, and Labour's Baroness Catherine Ashton would become foreign minister. Both are thought to be simply 'yes men' who wield very little real power, but are controlled by the 'big wigs' in the European Council and European Commission. So following his resignation, the former Prime Minister accepted the position of Special Envoy to the Middle East instead of President of the EU. But many believe he still aspires to the role whether he admits it or not.
Today there is a tug-of-war going on between the European Council (heads of state), the European Parliament (elected by the people but with very little real power), and the European Commission (the executive branch). The presidents of the European Council and the European Commission are at loggerheads as to who really speaks for Europe. An elected president would change all that. The Bible seems to indicate that the way will be prepared for a man to arise out of Europe who will hold the allegiance of all peoples. Several things are 'given' to this man in the book of Revelation. First of all, Revelation indicates that Satan gives this man his power, seat, and great authority (Revelation 13:2). This shows us that rather than there being anything special about the man himself, it is his willingness to accept what Satan offers that enables him to fulfil this role. During the Lord's trial in the wilderness, the Devil once offered to give Him all the kingdoms of this world, and the glory of them, if He would only bow down and worship him (Luke 4:6). I do believe they were his to give, as a usurper of Adam's God-given dominion over the earth. But the Lord refused Satan's offer, and would chose instead to redeem the earth by righteousness. Yeshua was later rejected by the nation of Israel, and He prophesied that because they had rejected Him who had come in His Father's name, they would end up accepting one that would come in his own name (John 5:43). The Antichrist will come in his own name (2nd Thessalonians 2:4), and the unbelieving nation of Israel will accept him. And what was once offered to Christ by Satan and refused will become the Antichrist's for a short period of time.
Revelation also tells us that this man will be given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and that he will open his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those that dwell in heaven (Revelation 13:7). Some of you may remember how European leaders have often called for the EU to speak more effectively on the world stage. It was the dream of former High Representative for the European Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana that the EU should speak with 'one voice'. The Lisbon Treaty was heralded as the answer to their prayers, but now it seems that this did not go far enough, and some are calling for the election of a 'super-president'. And the Bible seems to indicate that in a coming day, all global authority will be vested in just one man. Not only will he be able to speak for the entire world, but the entire world will be subject unto him. And again, the offer that Christ refused will be taken up by this man, and power shall be given him over all kindreds, tongues and nations (Revelation 13:7).
Whether this man will be the president that Blair is calling for or not, I do not know, but as you can see from today's news, the fact that people are now asking for a man of authority who can hold such influence over the nations shows us how close the fulfilment of these prophesies are.
Praise God that all of this will be done according to the will of God, and that He is still in complete control of world events. For although the world will have brought all of this on themselves through their rejection of God's Messiah (Psalm 2), He will allow mankind only to go as far as He permits. As it says in Psalm 76:10, "Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain". And in the time of great tribulation, when the Jewish nation has nowhere else to turn, they will recognize Yeshua, the Lord Jesus, as their Messiah and He will He return to deliver them from all their troubles (Luke 13:35). And whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved (Romans 10:13).
Is Jesus Christ your Lord and Saviour? Is He reigning in your heart? Have you given control of your life to Him? He is the only one who is worthy to reign. For He created you and He loves you and He gave His life for you. Trust in Him for salvation today.
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UK petition urges Sajid Javid to grant visas to blind Indian musicianshttps://indianexpress.com/article/world/uk-petition-urges-sajid-javid-to-grant-visas-to-blind-indian-musicians-5785357/
UK petition urges Sajid Javid to grant visas to blind Indian musicians
Prem Bhagavan Nagaraju, 25, and Jyothi Kalaiselvi, 19, were scheduled to travel to the UK with a group of people from the disability organisation Devasitham Charitable Foundation based in Chennai.
By PTI |London | Published: June 17, 2019 10:37:15 pm
The UK Home Office does not comment on individual cases but said that all applications were considered on their "individual merits" and in line with the immigration rules.
Hundreds have signed an online petition addressed to UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid urging him to grant visitor visas to two blind musicians from India, who were due to perform in Scotland as part of a UK-India cultural exchange programme.
Prem Bhagavan Nagaraju, 25, and Jyothi Kalaiselvi, 19, were scheduled to travel to the UK with a group of people from the disability organisation Devasitham Charitable Foundation (DCF) based in Chennai.
However, the organisers say that while their non-disabled colleagues who were supporting them on the trip were granted entry, their own visa application was declined by the UK Home Office.
"The Home Office refused the visa applications of these two young disabled people due to their economic and family circumstances, stating that it is 'not satisfied that you have sufficient ties in India that will act as an incentive for you to leave the UK at the end of your trip'," reads the petition, started by Ninian Perry, Creative Director of Paragon Music, the Scottish charity behind the tour.
The exchange programme, supported by the British Council, Creative Scotland and the Scottish government, was designed to address the barriers faced by disabled people when trying to participate in cultural activities.
"So the views and experiences of the very people that have been refused entry to the UK were absolutely crucial to the success of the two-week exchange programme," noted the Change.Org petition, titled 'Give young blind musicians from India UK visitor visas'.
Kalaiselvi, a violinist, and Nagaraju, a keyboard player, were set to perform alongside fellow non-disabled musicians during a two-week tour of Scotland starting this week. It was planned as a return trip of the Indian musicians to the UK after Paragon Music supported artists visited Chennai in November 2017. It covers workshops, seminars, performances, meetings and cultural visits in Scotland.
Alison Thewliss, Scottish National Party (SNP) MP from Glasgow, called on Javid to investigate the "discrimination at the heart of the hostile environment" that had led to this visa denial.
"It's incredibly cruel that a valuable cultural opportunity has been denied to these young people, particularly when the exchange programme was set up by the UK government in the first place," she said.
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We did not get the medals we were seeking, but we did have a good time. The flying was a lot of fun, with 24 national teams, and over 250 of the world's best racketeers in one place. Serbia was beautiful, and we were well treated by everyone we encountered.
In the Junior Division B Scale Altitude (designated S5B), Katie and Cassidy Steele entered models of the Space Grant 1, a NASA sounding rocket. Katie had her model finished before we left the States, but Cassidy had a few small things left to finish before the judging turn in.
In the Senior Division C Scale Altitude, Matt flew a Bumper WAC, Round B-8. He also had a few little things to finish before turn in, but there was no frantic building prior to turn in, like there had been in the Steele family workshop the month before the meet.
The judging of the Scale Altitude models was completed on Tuesday night. In the Junior division, the US Space Grant models were at the bottom of the static points as expected, since the Space Grants favor altitude capabilities over scale qualities. Katie had 473 points. Cassidy and George Reynolds were tied for last with 462 points. The top model in the static scoring was a Russian Bumper WAC that received 647 points. To win, the US team would have to fly at least 174 meters higher than the Bumper WAC.
In the Senior division, the top static score was another Russian Bumper Wac, with 669 static points. The US models were in the middle of the pack, with James Duffy scoring 625 points, Tony Reynolds scoring 619 points, and Matt Steele scoring 603 points. With the altitude potential of the Bumper WAC design, the US Team felt like there was medal potential, especially since all three team members had medaled in this event before. Most of the competition was Taurus Tomahawks, which scored well in static points, but do not fly as high.
On Wednesday, we awoke to light rain at breakfast. The weather was overcast in the morning, and finally cleared in the afternoon, but the wind was constantly at the limit. It was not fun.
Cassidy had the first flight of the US Junior team. Her Space Grant 1 model had a 13mm Estes A3-0T (from a special batch made for the 1985 US Team) in the lower stage, and a 10.5mm Delta A2-6 in the upper stage. Cassidy tried her first flight from just a tower. She had a good flight, only to have it disallowed when the Range Safety Officer couldn't confirm that it landed safely. It later turned out the model did land safely, but stripped the streamer off and made it hard to see. She had the 355 meter, flight, the third highest flight of the event. Learning from Cassidy's problems, Katie added some red tracking powder to her model. She got both stages to work properly, but with the wind, the second staged weathercocked quite a bit. The RSO saw her flight, and when the model and the tiny altimeter were recovered, it showed 376 meters. This was the highest flight of the event, but it was only good enough to place her 11th overall.
Cassidy's first flight damaged the motor tube in the model, and she struggled to repair it for another flight. Her second attempt was not successful, so she ended up with a zero for an altitude score. USA's George Reynolds had problems getting his upper stage motor to ignite and also got a zero for a flight score.
In the end the Russian Junior team won the gold, and the US S5B Team ended up 8th. Had Cassidy's first flight been seen by the RSO against the cloudy, gray sky, and George gotten his model to work, the US team would've won the bronze or silver team medal.
By the time the Senior team got to fly in the afternoon, the skies had cleared, but the wind kept blowing. Flying an Ultra B5-0 motor in the V-2 portion of the Bumper, and an Ultra B2-7 in the WAC, James Duffy had his first flight fly only to 238 meters. James later realized that his model hung up on staging. Matt Steele went next, only to have a low flight when the upper stage motor failed to ignite. Tony Reynolds followed with a spectacular flight to 606 meters, demonstrating the design's potential. Disaster struck on Matt's second flight attempt, when the second stage ignited with the WAC pointed down, causing it to pile drive into the ground, shattering the tiny model. The recovery team returned a small bag of "particles" to Matt, but never did find the altimeter – it may have vaporized! A third attempt by Matt with a single stage version did not go high enough to trigger the altimeter.
Tony ended up finishing 4th, just out of an individual medal. James was 18th and Matt was 24th out of the 35 entries. The US Team ended up in 6th overall. Again, with a little luck, the team could've earned a medal, as the potential was there.
We made a safe and uneventful voyage home, with a four day layover in Germany. We certainly had to scramble when we got back to the "real world" at work and school - paying the price for being away and out of touch for so long. It was worth it, though. We truly enjoyed the experience of traveling to a foreign country where not every teenager has an iPod and a laptop. It was an eye-opening experience. We felt proud to represent the United States and the National Association of Rocketry to the rest of the world spacemodeling community. It was a truly memorable event.
Cassidy and I hope to go to Slovakia in 2012. Katie is too old for the next Junior team, but hopes to go to see some of the friends she made.
We would like to thank everyone who contributed to help us. Every little bit counted, right up to the end. We appreciate your generosity – thank you so much!


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And this is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, EXPLORATIONS. Today we visit the Indiana Dunes. These hills of sand are near Chicago, Illinois. They rise on the shores of Lake Michigan, one of America's five Great Lakes.
More than two million people visit the sand hills in the middle western state of Indiana each year. The winds along Lake Michigan created some of these dunes in ancient times. Other dunes may be building right now. The winds create dunes when they drop loose sand onto land. Some dunes look partly round. Others take the form of long, narrow hills.
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The Save the Dunes Council has been involved in many other battles. It has successfully fought a number of threats. These include the use of vehicles in the park. Sand-mining. An airport on the lake. And a nuclear power center near the park.
Mister Cowles' studies showed how plant communities could make important changes in land. His work demonstrated how groups of plants could create conditions for a sand dune to become a living forest. He became a well-known professor and researcher. The work of Henry Chandler Cowles in the Indiana Dunes helped spread the science of ecology throughout the world.
This program was written by Jerilyn Watson. It was produced by Mario Ritter. I'm Steve Ember.
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Jay Wright and the Villanova Wildcats had been earning a "quick exit" reputation in the past few years of the NCAA tournament but 2016 is a different story as 'Nova shredded No. 7 Iowa, 87-68,Sunday to advance to their first Sweet 16 since 2009.
The Wildcats will now face Miami, the No. 3 seed in the South Region, either Thursday or Friday of this week. The Sweet 16 and Elite 8 games in the South will be played at the University of Louisville.
There was little drama in Villanova's victory on Sunday as it was up on Iowa, 54-29, by halftime. The 'Cats had four players in double-figures as Josh Hart (19 points), Ryan Arcidiacono (16 points), Kris Jenkins (15 points) and Jalen Brunson (12 points) led the way scoring-wise. Defensively, the South's No. 2 seed put on a clinic – stepping in the way of Iowa passing lanes and not allowing the Hawkeyes' offense to find any sort of flow.
One could easily make the case that the Wildcats looked like the best team in the entire dance this past weekend. They beat their Round of 64 opponent, UNC-Asheville, and Iowa by a combined score of 173-124. Kansas, which is the No. 1 seed in the South and the team that 'Nova could very well square off against in an Elite 8 matchup on Saturday, was the only other team during the first weekend that looked as impressive. The Jayhawks beat Austin Peay and UConn by a combined score of 178-140.
As for the more pressing matter of Miami (25-7 record). The Hurricanes, the No. 3 seed in the South, toppled No. 14 Buffalo, 79-72, in the Round of 64 and then beat No. 11 Wichita State, 65-57, on Saturday. Senior guard Angel Rodriguez has been a force in the tournament thus far, as he pumped in 24 points against Buffalo and 28 points against Wichita State. Rodriguez plays at a frantic pace and the Hurricanes live and die based on his performances. His highlight-reel, midcourt alley-oop pass to Sheldon McClellan got Miami out of a funk against Wichita State but there have been times in his career that he has shot the Hurricanes out of games with poor shot selection.
Miami's head coach is Jim Larranaga, the man who authored George Mason's unprecedented run to the Final Four in 2006. Larranaga has been at "The U" since 2011.


Australian professional boxer with Fijian links Renold Vatubua Quinlan will be in the country next month to train local boxers.
Quinlan is best known for knocking out Australia's former middleweight world champion Daniel Geal to claim the then vacant IBO super-middleweight title from 2016 to 2017.
Fiji Boxing Commission Chair Bulutani MataitawakilaI says this will be a big boost to the Commission as a whole.
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Delta back in India: US airline launches non-stop service to Mumbai
By Ondřej Koraba | May 25, 2018
New agreement allows the American carrier to connect the US with India after almost a decade
Delta Air Lines will soon return to India as they have announced they will be relaunching a non-stop connection between the United States and Mumbai.
The renewed flights should take off in 2019 and will either depart from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport or Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, CNBC reports.
Delta will come back to India after nearly a decade — Delta Air Lines
The carrier announced the plan less than ten days after an agreement between the US government and the countries of the United Arab Emirates and Qatar was struck.
The countries disputed the issue of government subsidies provided to state-owned carriers. US carriers were concerned about their ability to compete when three Gulf carriers were estimated to have received $42.3 billion in subsidies and unfair benefits.
Delta will resume its operation in India after almost a decade. They claimed they had been forced to leave the location by "unfair" competition from the Gulf states.
"The framework created by the agreement allows Delta to move forward with service to India, a market long impacted by government-subsidised Middle Eastern airlines," Delta said in its press release. "This move will mark a return to India for Delta, which was forced to exit the market after subsidised state-owned airlines made service economically unviable."
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Delta CEO, Ed Bastian, has credited the American government for reaching the Open Skies deal, mainly president Donald Trump himself.
"It is exciting to be able to announce Delta's return to India from the US as part of our vision to expand Delta's reach internationally," he said.
"We are thankful to the president for taking real action to enforce our Open Skies trade deals, which made this new service possible. We are looking forward to providing customers in the US and India with Delta's famously reliable, customer-focused service operated by the best employees in the industry."
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BELLEVILLE, Ill. – Fire officials say a small plane has crashed into a house and adjacent hangar in southern Illinois, and the two people aboard the plane are missing.
Signal Hill Fire Chief Greg Render tells the Belleville News-Democrat that the plane crashed Sunday evening in a subdivision in Belleville where homes have hangars and private runways. It's about 20 miles southeast of St. Louis.
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Moliere's SCHOOL FOR WIVES Up Next at ISU
When looking for classics, college theatre programs often land on Moliere. Moliere (or Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, which is his real name) isn't as familiar as Shakespeare, as talky as Shaw or as sad as Chekhov, plus his critiques of privilege and pomposity are still funny and still as much on target as they were in the 17th century.
Next week, Illinois State University's Department of Theatre and Dance returns to Moliere for the first time since 2008, when Tartuffe was on the bill, bringing The School for Wives to Westhoff Theatre. School for Wives is a comedy, of course, with humor that punctures the arrogance of a man of position who is so afraid of being cheated on that he brings up his beautiful young ward in a nunnery with the idea of marrying her himself before she can meet any other men.
MFA directing candidate Jonathan Hunt Sell directs a cast that includes Dario Carrion as Arnolphe, the middle-aged man trying to maneuver an innocent young woman into marriage; Natalie Kozelka as Agnes, the woman in question; and Kaitlyn Wehr as Horace, the young man she meets and falls in love with when Arnolphe isn't looking.
You will notice that Sell has gender-bent Horace as a comment on the sexual politics at work in the play. The other roles are played straight, however, with Nicholas Spindler and Eliza Palumbo as Arnolphe's servants, Bryson Thomas as a friend who tries to steer his old pal Arnolphe away from the errors he's making, and Aaron Thomas and Sam Willis as a pair of deux ex machina fathers who arrive on the scene just in time.
The School for Wives opens February 26 at 7:30 pm in Westhoff Theatre, with additional evening performances on the 27th and 28th as well as March 3, 4, 5 and 6. There is one matinee scheduled for March 1 at 2 pm.
For more information on ISU's entire season, visit this page on their website. Click here for ticket information.
Labels: Illinois State University School of Theatre and Dance, Jonathan Hunt Sell, Moliere, The School for Wives
JAC February 20, 2015 at 8:10 PM
The poster doesn't credit a translator. Are they using Richard Wilbur?
JulieK February 21, 2015 at 12:04 PM
Wilbur is mentioned in an ISU press piece about the show, but since the same piece calls Moliere a 19th century playwright, I'm not sure I trust it.
http://stories.illinoisstate.edu/university/media-relations/school-wives-opens-feb-26/
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Barbie to hit the big screen with Margot Robbie
Credit: Illustration by Tam Nguyen/Ad Age
Margot Robbie will soon be living in a Barbie World.
Barbie parent company Mattel announced a deal with Warner Brothers Pictures Group Tuesday for the franchise's first live-action film. The movie will star the Academy-award nominated Robbie, who will also co-produce, as Barbie. The project is the first product of the Mattel Films unit, which was founded late last year.
"Barbie is one of the most iconic franchises in the world," said Mattel Chief Executive Officer Ynon Kreiz in a statement.
But the 60-year-old brand has had its share of ups and downs in recent years as it battled more modern competitors and saw sales plummet. Kreiz, who took the reins at the toymaker last year, is Mattel's fourth CEO since 2015. A movie industry veteran and former leader of Disney's Maker Studios, Kreiz was expected to use his Hollywood roots to build the Barbie brand.
Three years ago, Barbie underwent a much-needed makeover with more diverse and inclusive products and a marketing campaign that celebrated the possibilities for children and their imagination. Such positioning has helped reverse sales—Barbie was the only one of Mattel's top brands to increase sales in last year's third quarter. For the period ending Sept. 30, Mattel reported an 8 percent drop in net sales to $1.4 billion, though Barbie sales rose 14 percent to $374.7 million.
"The traction on Barbie is reassuring," Richard Dickson, Mattel's president, told Ad Age last September, noting that the company is trying to use its learnings from Barbie's revival to improve other brands such as American Girl and Hot Wheels.
The timing of the film was not disclosed. Rumors around a Barbie movie have been swirling for years, most recently in connection to a film starring comedian Amy Schumer.
A representative from BBDO, Barbie's creative agency, says that the agency is not currently working on any marketing for the upcoming feature.
Investors, and consumers, were excited, however. Mattel's stock rose nearly 6 percent in early afternoon trading on Tuesday to around $11.85. Consumers voiced their enthusiasm on social media.
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The Golden Arches in Munroe Falls has a new look inside.
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�We wanted a more refreshing, straightforward look,� he said.
�The lobby, restrooms and kitchen all got a makeover so we stay vibrant as a business to the community and vice versa,� said Baglieri of the location that has been at state Route 91 (or Main Street) and Munroe Falls Avenue for about 20 years.
No structural changes were made to the outside, other than some updates to lighting.
Because of space constraints for the parcel � railroad tracks run nearby � Baglieri said this McDonald�s is the only face-to-face drive-thru in Northeast Ohio, as far as he knows. That means when a customer orders, he or she is talking directly to an employee, not to an intercom.
Baglieri estimates he spent $125,000 on the renovations.
Baglieri, who also owns the McDonald�s in Hudson and Stow, said some changes are coming at the Stow location at Route 91 and Norton Road. After the new year, he will put in a double drive-thru and update the facade with a new look. About a year ago, he updated the inside. Baglieri estimates the renovations will cost $600,000 to $700,000.


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"Italians, your First King is Dead"
Italia: "My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, and I must pause till it come back to me."--Shakespeare.
This Harper's Weekly cartoon by Thomas Nast mourns the loss of King Victor Emmanuel, the first constitutional monarch of a modern, united Italy, who died in Rome on January 9, 1878.
In 1815, the Congress of Vienna, which settled the Napoleonic Wars, left Italy divided into several states, a few independent and the rest under the authority of Austria, France, or the Vatican. The revolutionary and nationalist fervor of the nineteenth century, however, included a movement for the complete independence and unification of Italy. In 1848, a series of revolutions throughout Western Europe intended to bring about constitutional government, but ended largely in failure.
In the Italian kingdom of Sardinia, though, Victor Emmanuel II was elevated to the throne in 1849, and he oversaw the development of parliamentary government, economic reforms, military reorganization, and the sale of properties owned by the Roman Catholic Church. He was also a committed supporter of Italian independence and unification.
In 1859, with the assistance of France, Victor Emmanuel's troops drove back the Austrian invasion of Piedmont, allowing him to add Lombardy to his kingdom. The next year, two-thirds of the Papal States voted to unite with Sardinia. In 1861, after Guiseppe Garibaldi, the military hero of Italian independence, ousted France from control of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Victor Emmanuel was proclaimed king of Italy.
Following the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 (or Seven Weeks' War), during which Italy sided with the eventually victorious Prussians, Austria ceded Venice to Italy. In 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War, France withdrew its troops from Rome, and the city voted for union with the rest of Italy. In 1871, Rome became the capital of a unified Italy.
In 1860, illustrator Thomas Nast was sent to England by Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper to cover the championship boxing match between J. C. Heenan and Thomas Sayers. After completing that assignment, Nast ventured to Italy, where he met Garibaldi, traveled with his troops, and sketched the Italian War for Independence (or Unification) for the New York Illustrated News and the London Illustrated News. The artist returned to the United States in February 1861.
To Nast, Victor Emmanuel and Garibaldi were great heroes of liberal, secular, constitutional government. In this cartoon, bordered in funereal black, Italia, the female symbol of Italy, mourns the death of King Victor Emmanuel. The quotation from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar expresses the grief that Nast believed most Italians felt. The quotation on the monument's pedestal--"Those whom the state hath joined together, let no church put asunder"--is a parody of the declaration in the marriage ceremony. It recognizes the separation of church and state enacted when Victor Emmanuel came to power in Italy, and it reflects Nast's intense opposition to the Roman Catholic Church.


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Review Round Up: Love Love Love, Lyric Hammersmith
We round up the reviews for Mike Bartlett's play, running at the Lyric Hammersmith until the 4th April.
The Guardian: **** "Bartlett's dialogue is brilliant, from the whip-smart satire to its finely observed comment on youth, ageing and what remains of idealism in mid-life. The cast is uniformly brilliant, too, in bringing out both the laughter and moments of pain, especially Stirling as the supremely self-regarding Sandra but also Isabella Laughland as Rose, who never stops sounding like Harry Enfield's Kevin the teenager."
The Stage: **** "Revived precisely a decade later, its central premise of the white boomer middle classes gorging themselves on economic privilege and leaving a crumbling mound of debt in their wake has become a national conversation. Yet Bartlett's play, rather than feeling like old news, retains both its relevance and its satirical bite."
The Times: **** "Rachel O'Riordan's riveting revival is sharply funny with a shrewd attention to the excruciating minutiae of family dynamics."
The Metro: **** "unlike Bartlett's more recent Brexit play Albion, for which the playwright skilfully chose not to take sides, this work knows its target."
WhatsOnStage: *** "It writes everything large, but O'Riordan's direction is exceptionally well-judged. The scene in the second act – when the mutual cruelty of the parents to each other and to their children is laid bare – is beautifully played, full of silence and incomprehension as well as screaming and unkindness."
Evening Standard: *** "Rachel O'Riordan's zesty revival benefits from eight years of perspective on the way one selfish generation cheated its children and grandchildren, and also from a wonderfully monstrous comic turn from Rachael Stirling."
A Younger Theatre: *** "this is a wonderful production, deliberately flawed by the playwright in an incredibly interesting way, and unique to everyone who watches it."
The Telegraph: *** "In three trenchant, enjoyable acts, Mike Bartlett's Love, Love, Love (2010) delivers a provocative punch to the guts of the Baby Boomers. Whether in revival in 2020, it can be described as a well-timed one is another matter."
The Upcoming: *** "Burns and Stirling are great as a double act, especially the latter, who delivers a string of venomous one-liners in a sometimes absurd posh accent. But there's never a sense that these two hold any real affection for each other. It renders the play one-note, denying an element of emotional truth to the box-ticking debates and unkind comedy."
British Theatre.com: ***** "With a thumping sound-track by Simon Slater, and lit with panache by Paul Keogan, this entire production screams out loud that O'Riordan is taking the Lyric, Hammersmith into even classier territory than it has hitherto occupied. Love it!"
Love Love Love continues to play at the Lyric Hammersmith until the 4th April. To book tickets click here or visit: Love Theatre.com, From the Box Office, Encore Tickets, See Tickets, Theatre Tickets Direct.co.uk or Last Minute.com.
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