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Iran-US Tension: Putin, Erdogan Call For Restraint
The leaders of Russia and Turkey called for restraint in the escalating crisis between Iran and the United States, following a meeting in Istanbul on Wednesday.
"We believe that exchange of attacks and use of force by any party do not contribute to finding solutions to the complex problems in the Middle East," said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in a joint statement written in English.
"We express our commitment to de-escalate the existing tensions in the region and call on all parties to act with restraint as well as commonsense and to prioritize diplomacy," they added.
Posted on January 8, 2020 January 8, 2020 Author Ignatius IgweCategories World NewsTags Iran, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, us, Vladimir PutinLeave a comment on Iran-US Tension: Putin, Erdogan Call For Restraint
Soleimani's Killing Risks 'Aggravating' Mideast Situation – Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow. AFP
The killing of top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in a US strike on Baghdad threatens to inflame the situation in the Middle East, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday.
"This action can seriously aggravate the situation in the region," the Kremlin quoted him as saying during a telephone call with French President Emmanuel Macron.
Meanwhile, the world has reacted with alarm to the development, with many governments appealing for restraint.
Although, the attack was praised by US President Donald Trump's Republicans and close ally Israel, but elsewhere there were sharp warnings it could inflame regional tensions.
Following are some of the reactions from around the world:
'Terminated'
US President Donald Trump said Soleimani was "terminated" when he was on the verge of attacking US diplomats but insisted that Washington is not seeking to topple Iran's government.
But among Democrats, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the killing risks provoking a "dangerous escalation of violence".
"President Trump just tossed a stick of dynamite into a tinderbox," his 2020 presidential rival Joe Biden said.
'Cannot afford another war'
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned of the need to avoid war in the Gulf.
"This is a moment in which leaders must exercise maximum restraint. The world cannot afford another war in the Gulf," a spokesman for Guterres said in a statement.
'Remain calm'
"China has always opposed the use of force in international relations," foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said.
"We urge the relevant sides, especially the United States, to remain calm and exercise restraint to avoid further escalating tensions."
He said Iraq's sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity must be respected.
'Spark a devastating war'
Iraq's caretaker prime minister Adel Abdel Mahdi said the US strike, which also killed an Iraqi commander, would "spark a devastating war".
"The assassination of an Iraqi military commander in an official post is an aggression against the country of Iraq, its state, its government and its people," he said.
It was a "flagrant violation of the conditions authorising the presence of US troops" on Iraqi soil, he added.
'Cycle of violence'
"The current cycle of violence in Iraq must be stopped before it spirals out of control," EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell said in a statement.
"The EU calls on all the actors involved and on those partners who can have an influence to exercise maximum restraint and show responsibility in this crucial moment."
'Will not be forgotten'
The Syrian regime condemned the killing and heaped praise on the Iranian general.
The Syrian people "will not forget that he stuck by the side of the Syrian Arab army", Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in a letter of condolences sent to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
'Avoid aggravating situation'
Iran's regional rival Saudi Arabia cautioned against "anything that could aggravate the situation" while the foreign ministers of Bahrain and Qatar also called for "restraint."
The Jordanian foreign ministry also called for efforts to be made to avoid an escalation.
'Meting out punishment'
"Meting out the appropriate punishment to these criminal assassins… will be the responsibility and task of all resistance fighters worldwide," the leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah Shiite militant group, Hassan Nasrallah, said in a statement.
"We will carry a flag on all battlefields and all fronts and we will step up the victories of the axis of resistance with the blessing of his pure blood."
'Threaten peace and stability'
"Pakistan has viewed with deep concern the recent developments in the Middle East, which seriously threaten peace and stability in the region," the foreign ministry said.
"Respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity are the fundamental principles of the UN Charter, which should be adhered to. It is also important to avoid unilateral actions and use of force."
The foreign ministry in neighbouring India said: "We have noted that a senior Iranian leader has been killed by the US. The increase in tension has alarmed the world."
'Against foreign intervention'
"It is manifest that the operation carried out by the US will increase insecurity and instability in the region… Turkey has always been against any foreign intervention in the region, assassinations and sectarian conflicts," the foreign ministry said.
'Act with restraint'
French President Emmanuel Macron urged restraint after Soleimani's killing.
In his telephone call with Putin, Macron said there should be no "new dangerous escalation of tensions" and "called on all the parties to act with restraint," the Elysee said.
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said London had "always recognised the aggressive threat" posed by Soleimani and his Quds Force. "Following his death, we urge all parties to de-escalate. Further conflict is in none of our interests."
Posted on January 3, 2020 January 4, 2020 Author Ignatius IgweCategories World NewsTags Qasem Soleimani, us, Vladimir PutinLeave a comment on Soleimani's Killing Risks 'Aggravating' Mideast Situation – Putin
Russia, China Launch 'Historic' Gas Pipeline
China's President Xi Jinping (R) speaks with Russia's President Vladimir Putin via a video link, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on December 2, 2019. Noel CELIS / POOL / AFP
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Monday launched the first gas pipeline linking the two countries.
The mammoth Power of Siberia pipeline connecting the world's top gas exporter and its largest energy importer crowns years of tough negotiations and work in difficult conditions.
"Today is remarkable, a truly historic event not only for the global energy market, but first of all for us and for you, for Russia and China," Putin said during a televised ceremony featuring the two leaders.
Xi said the project "serves as a model of… mutually beneficial cooperation between our countries."
"The development of Sino-Russian ties is and will be a foreign policy priority for both our nations," Xi said on Russian television in translated remarks.
Alexei Miller, head of Russian gas giant Gazprom which championed the project, said nearly 10,000 people had worked to build the enormous pipeline.
During the ceremony Miller was shown ordering workers to open a valve allowing gas to pass across the border into China.
"Gas is going to the pipeline system of the Chinese People's Republic," he said.
The 3,000-kilometre (1,850-mile) pipeline runs from remote regions of eastern Siberia to Blagoveshchensk on the border, then into China.
Russia and China signed a 30-year, $400 billion deal to build and operate the pipeline in 2014, after a decade of difficult talks. It was Gazprom's biggest contract.
The company is to supply China with 38 billion cubic metres (1.3 trillion cubic feet) of gas annually when the pipeline is fully operational in 2025.
Gazprom has stressed that the pipeline ran through "swampy, mountainous, seismically active, permafrost and rocky areas with extreme environmental conditions".
Russia is also planning to soon launch two more gas pipelines that will ramp up supplies to Europe while bypassing Ukraine.
TurkStream, which Putin and Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan hope to launch in January, is to transport Russian gas to Turkey.
Nord Stream-2, which would double Russian gas volumes to Germany, is expected to go online in mid-2020.
Posted on December 2, 2019 December 2, 2019 Author Akinola AjibolaCategories HeadlinesTags China, Russia, Vladimir Putin, Xi JinpingLeave a comment on Russia, China Launch 'Historic' Gas Pipeline
Syria: 'Think Carefully', Putin Warns Erdogan
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, on March 26, 2018. SERGEI KARPUKHIN / POOL / AFP
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday urged his Turkish counterpart President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to "think carefully" before any offensive in Syria, the Kremlin said in a statement.
"Putin called on his Turkish partners to think carefully about the situation so as not to harm overall efforts to resolve the Syrian crisis," the presidency said following a call between the two leaders and ahead of news of the launch of an offensive.
Posted on October 9, 2019 October 9, 2019 Author Ignatius IgweCategories World NewsTags recep erdogan, Syria, turkey, Vladimir PutinLeave a comment on Syria: 'Think Carefully', Putin Warns Erdogan
US Sanctions Putin's Ally, Others Over 2018 Elections Interference
Russian president-elect Vladimir Putin takes the oath of office during a ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow on May 7, 2018. PHOTO: Alexander ASTAFYEV / SPUTNIK / AFP
The United States on Monday slapped fresh sanctions on a businessman tied to Russian President Vladimir Putin as well as to a disinformation operation accused of conspiring to manipulate the 2018 midterm elections.
The financial sanctions, which target Russian financier Evgeny Prigozhin, some of his assets and the so-called Internet Research Agency, are the first to be taken under an executive order signed last year President Donald Trump seeking to punish foreign actors accused of interfering in US elections.
"Treasury is targeting the private planes, yacht, and associated front companies of Yevgeniy Prigozhin, the Russian financier behind the Internet Research Agency and its attempts to subvert American democratic processes," US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement.
The announcement follows shortly after a Washington Post report that Trump told senior visiting Russian officials in 2017 he was not concerned by Russian efforts to sway the 2016 election in his favor.
The sanctions announced Monday marked the third time the US had added Prigozhin's name to its list of foreign nationals formally barred from the US financial system, a move which freezes him out of much of the global financial system as well.
US prosecutors last year indicted the Internet Research Agency as well as alleged employees, charging them with a broad conspiracy to influence the 2016 elections by spreading disinformation in the United States via social media.
The Treasury said Monday the IRA had announced its intention to do likewise in the 2018 midterms by seeking to discredit candidates it viewed as hostile to Moscow.
There was no evidence they were successful in preventing voting, altered vote counts or disrupted vote tallying, the Treasury said.
Treasury announced it was also designating six IRA members — Dzheykhun Nasimi Ogly Aslanov, Mikhail Leonidovich Burchik, Vadim Vladimirovich Podkopaev, Vladimir Dmitriyevich Venkov, Igor Vladimirovich Nesterov and Denis Igorevich Kuzmi — for acting to interfere in the 2018 elections.
Treasury also announced it was placing sanctions on three aircraft and a yacht belonging to Prigozhin and three entities incorporated in the Seychelles which he used to manage these properties.
Identifying the aircraft and vessels serves as a warning to others, the Treasury said, that by continuing to provide service or landing rights they "may also be subject to future sanctions."
Posted on September 30, 2019 September 30, 2019 Author Ignatius IgweCategories World NewsTags 2018 Elections, Russia, Sanctions, us, Vladimir PutinLeave a comment on US Sanctions Putin's Ally, Others Over 2018 Elections Interference
Trump Jokes With Putin: Don't Meddle In Elections
Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump hold a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka on June 28, 2019.
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Much of Donald Trump's time in office has been overshadowed by allegations Moscow helped get him elected, but when it came to confronting Vladimir Putin on the issue, the US President did it in a joke.
"Don't meddle in the election, president, don't meddle," Trump said with a smile, wagging his finger playfully at the Russian leader as the pair held talks in Osaka on Friday, on the sidelines of the G20.
Putin said nothing but grinned in response to the comment, which came only after a reporter shouted a question, asking whether Trump would warn his Russian counterpart about influencing the presidential vote next year.
The meeting was the first time the two leaders have held face-to-face talks since a controversial meeting last year in Helsinki.
Trump has been dogged throughout his presidency by allegations of suspicious ties to Russia.
A major probe led by special prosecutor Robert Mueller found there was an organised Russian campaign to influence the 2016 election won by Trump.
It found contacts between Russian operatives and Trump's election campaign, but no evidence of a joint plot, and the US leader has characterised the findings as exonerating him.
Ahead of his meeting with Putin, Trump brushed aside questions from reporters about what they would discuss.
"What I say to him is none of your business," he said at the White House.
But on Friday Trump said the pair would be discussing "trade… some disarmament, a little protectionism perhaps."
"A lot of very positive things are going to come out of the relationship," he predicted, to smiles from Putin.
"I cannot but agree with Mr. President," the Russian leader said.
Posted on June 28, 2019 Author Ronke IdowuCategories World NewsTags Donald Trump, G20 Summit, Vladimir PutinLeave a comment on Trump Jokes With Putin: Don't Meddle In Elections
Putin Signs Controversial Internet Law
Russian President Vladimir Putin / AFP
President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday signed into law a "sovereign internet" bill which will allow Russian authorities to isolate the country's internet, a move decried by rights groups.
Russian lawmakers insist the new law is necessary to ensure the security of Russia's online networks but critics say the vaguely worded bill gives new censorship powers to government monitors.
The text of the law was published Wednesday but it will not come into effect until November.
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The measures include creating technology to monitor internet routing and to steer Russian internet traffic away from foreign servers, ostensibly to prevent a foreign country from shutting it down.
The authors of the initiative say Russia must ensure the security of its networks after US President Donald Trump unveiled a new American cybersecurity strategy last year that said Russia had carried out cyber attacks with impunity.
Thousands of people recently rallied in Russia against this and other bills that critics say aim to restrict information and communication online.
Separately, Putin in March signed controversial laws that allow courts to fine and briefly jail people for showing disrespect towards authorities, and block media for publishing "fake news".
The laws are part of an ongoing Kremlin clampdown on media and internet freedoms that has seen people jailed for sharing humorous memes.
Last week 10 international rights organisations called on Russia to scrap the internet bill.
"The bill created a system that gives the authorities the capacity to block access to parts of the Internet in Russia," said a statement backed by Human Rights Watch, Reporters Without Borders and others.
The blocking would be "extrajudicial and non-transparent," the statement said.
Under the new law, Russian Internet access providers will also need to ensure that their networks have the technical means for "centralized traffic control" to counter potential threats.
This control will pass notably to the Russian FSB security service and the telecoms and media monitoring agency Roskomnadzor, which is often accused of arbitrarily blocking content on the web.
In recent years Russian authorities have blocked online sites and content linked to the opposition, as well as internet services which fail to cooperate with them, including the Dailymotion video platform, the Linkedin online social networking site, and the encrypted messaging app Telegram.
Posted on May 1, 2019 May 1, 2019 Author Ignatius IgweCategories World NewsTags Internet, Law, Russia, Vladimir PutinLeave a comment on Putin Signs Controversial Internet Law
Putin Meets Erdogan Over S-400 Missile Deal Amid US Concern
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) shakes hands with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) ahead of a meeting at The Kremlin in Moscow on April 8, 2019. Maxim SHIPENKOV / POOL / AFP
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart on Monday discussed a missile deal slammed by the US as well as closer military cooperation during a visit by Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Moscow.
The two sides must "strengthen cooperation in the military-technical sphere," Putin told Erdogan as they met in the Kremlin.
"This regard first of all the completion of the contract to supply S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems to Turkey," he said.
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"There are other promising projects on the agenda related to the supply of modern Russian military products to Turkey," Putin added.
NATO member Turkey's missile deal has tested its already soured relations with Washington.
The US has put a freeze on its joint F-35 fighter jet programme with Turkey in protest.
Last week, US acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said he was confident Turkey would drop the plan and buy the US Patriot system instead.
Erdogan has said the S-400s are needed to protect Turkey's borders. He said he turned to Russia because no acceptable US missile deal was available at the time.
The first S-400 delivery is expected in July.
The pair also discussed Syria, where they have backed opposite sides in the eight-year conflict but have been working closely to end the fighting.
Putin said they were unable to reach an agreement to set up a monitoring centre in Syria's jihadist-held Idlib region, agreed at a summit in Sochi in February.
"We have so far not been able to create the monitoring centre," Putin said. "But I am sure that we will do this."
Russia, which supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and rebel backer Turkey in September inked a buffer zone deal to prevent a massive regime offensive on the Idlib region, near the Turkish border.
On Sunday, 13 civilians died in a bombing in Idlib.
Along with Iran, Russia and Turkey have positioned themselves as key foreign players in Syria's long-running war.
Erdogan is on his third visit to Russia since the beginning of this year.
Posted on April 8, 2019 Author Ignatius IgweCategories World NewsTags missile, recep erdogan, Vladimir PutinLeave a comment on Putin Meets Erdogan Over S-400 Missile Deal Amid US Concern
Again, Russia Denies Meddling In US Elections
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The Kremlin on Monday reiterated denials that Moscow interfered in the 2016 US presidential election after Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report found conclusive evidence of Russian meddling.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists he had not seen the report but Russia's "principled position on this matter is well known: our country has not interfered in the domestic affairs of other countries, including the United States."
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Peskov insisted "the accusations of interference… that are still being made against Russia, we as before consider to be baseless."
Mueller's two-year investigation found Russia carried out a coordinated campaign of disinformation and hacked emails from Hillary Clinton's election team. The report, however, did not find that Donald Trump's campaign team colluded with Moscow.
In Russia, pro-Kremlin lawmakers hailed the report as vindicating both Russia and Trump but were cautious on whether this would prompt a revival in relations.
The report's findings "are a disgrace for the US and its political elite," Senator Alexei Pushkov wrote on Twitter.
"There's a chance to start a lot again from zero in our relations, but whether Trump will take the risk is still under question. We, of course, are ready," Konstantin Kosachev, foreign affairs committee chair in the upper house of parliament, wrote on Facebook.
The foreign affairs chief in the lower house, Leonid Slutsky, told journalists the report's findings "are hardly capable of changing anything immediately in the dialogue between Russia and the US," RIA Novosti state news agency reported.
Posted on March 25, 2019 Author Ignatius IgweCategories World NewsTags Elections, Russia, us, Vladimir PutinLeave a comment on Again, Russia Denies Meddling In US Elections
Putin At G20 Denounces 'Vicious' Sanctions
Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) is welcomed by Argentina's President Mauricio Macri at Costa Salguero in Buenos Aires during the G20 Leaders' Summit, on November 30, 2018.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday denounced the "vicious" use of sanctions and trade protectionism, in a veiled swipe at Donald Trump at a G20 summit.
"A vicious practice of returning to illegal, unilateral sanctions and protectionist measures is spreading, going around the UN Charter, the rules of the WTO and internationally recognized legal norms," Putin told leaders of emerging economies as the summit opened in Buenos Aires.
Posted on November 30, 2018 Author Ignatius IgweCategories World NewsTags G20 Summit, Sanctions, Vladimir PutinLeave a comment on Putin At G20 Denounces 'Vicious' Sanctions
Italy's PM Conte Praises 'Robust' Economy On Russia Visit
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) meets with Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte at the Kremlin in Moscow on October 24, 2018. Sergei CHIRIKOV / POOL / AFP
Italian premier Giuseppe Conte on Wednesday boasted of the "robust" Italian economy during a visit to Moscow as his government is crossing swords with Brussels over Rome's 2019 budget.
"Let's be certain that the fundamentals of our economy are strong, our economy is robust and we only need to go forward. The government will do its part" to help businesses, Conte told an Italian-Russian business council in Moscow.
"We are the second manufacturing power in Europe, we are probably the country which has the strongest fabric of micro and small businesses, and we are proud of this," he said.
The populist prime minister, who visits Russia just days after his far-right interior minister Matteo Salvini, also met President Vladimir Putin Wednesday and invited him to visit Italy.
"We have a great team — the government, the institutions, the businessmen, the workers. We have to play as a team," he said.
"In the (2019) budget, we pay attention also to the decrease of taxes, because we take into account that cost of labour in Italy has increased over time and weighs on our competitiveness," he said, adding that Italy should "hold all the cards to free its potential."
The populist coalition in Italy on Tuesday denied any modification to its next year budget despite the rejection of the document by the European Commission, an unprecedented move in the history of the European Union.
Salvini, head of the far-right Ligue and a strongman in the coalition government with the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) on Wednesday dug his heels on the budget.
"They would want us to cut the funds for health, for disability, for the right to education," he told Italian radio station RTL. "There's no way. If they continue inflicting random blows, it makes me want to give the Italian people more money."
Posted on October 24, 2018 October 24, 2018 Author Ignatius IgweCategories World NewsTags business, Giuseppe Conte, Vladimir PutinLeave a comment on Italy's PM Conte Praises 'Robust' Economy On Russia Visit
Kremlin Ready To Discuss Putin-Trump Summit In US Next Year
File photo: Aleksey NIKOLSKYI / Sputnik / AFP
The Kremlin said Wednesday it was ready to discuss the possibility of a summit in Washington next year between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US counterpart Donald Trump.
"Undoubtedly (we are) ready," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists after US National Security Advisor John Bolton told Russia's Interfax news agency that such a summit was possible.
He confirmed that the issue has been "raised" but that "so far there is no concrete decision on this."
The Kremlin is preparing for a "possible meeting" between the two leaders at an event in Paris on November 11 commemorating the centenary of the end of World War I, Peskov said.
Bolton arrived in Moscow on Sunday evening and held talks with Putin and other Russian officials. He said at a press conference that Trump wished to meet Putin at the World War I commemorations.
The US official told Interfax in an interview published Wednesday that Washington expected the two leaders to discuss in Paris a possible summit in Washington next year, after which Trump could visit Moscow.
Bolton's visit came just after Trump announced that the US would pull out of a Cold War-era nuclear weapons treaty.
Asked whether the Kremlin wanted to continue discussions with the US on the treaty, Peskov said that "as far as we understand the American side has taken the decision and is formalising in the near future the process of withdrawing from this treaty."
Posted on October 24, 2018 October 24, 2018 Author Rejoice EwodageCategories World NewsTags Donald Trump, Kremlin, Vladimir PutinLeave a comment on Kremlin Ready To Discuss Putin-Trump Summit In US Next Year
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DOB: October 16th, 1981
Birthplace: Toms River, New Jersey
Nickname: The Answer
Gym: KHK, Ricardo Almeida BJJ
Style: Boxing, Wrestling
Weight Class: Lightweight, Featherweight, Bantamweight
Championships: UFC Lightweight Champion, Strikeforce Bantamweight Champion
Edgar's amateur wrestling career
Frankie Edgar began wrestling in 7th grade under the guidance of coach Steve Rivera. Coach Rivera would actually continue training with Rivera throughout his MMA career.
In high school, Frankie made it to the New Jersey State wrestling championship on three occasions. Also during his senior year making it to nationals, where he took 2nd place.
At Clarion University, Edgar continued to wrestle. Qualifying for nationals all 4 years he was in school. After finishing school, he would become the assistant wrestling coach at Rutgers University.
Edgar begins his MMA career
After Edgar finished wrestling, he took up MMA first training with Rhino Fight Team in New Jersey. He immediately started fighting around the tri-state area in a few different MMA promotions.
While fighting for these promotions, Edgar improved his record to 6-0. Including a win over future UFC vet Jim Miller.
Edgar enters the UFC
Edgar first tried to get on The Ultimate Fighter reality series, but wasn't picked by Dana White. Although a short time after the audition, Frankie received a fight offer from the UFC.
They asked if he would like to fight another undefeated fighter in Tyson Griffin. Frankie gladly accepted the fight that was set for UFC 67.
He would fight out of a locked in kneebar by Griffin to grind out a unanimous decision win. With his first UFC win down, Edgar would go on to win his next two fights to go to 9-0.
His undefeated record would be broken in his next fight losing a unanimous decision to TUF vet Gray Maynard.
Frankie would get back to winning, beating his next 3 opponents. Setting him up for his first title fight in the UFC.
Franky wins the title
The Answer met MMA legend and the champ BJ Penn at UFC 112 for the lightweight title. Edgar would shock the champ controlling the fight with solid boxing and wrestling to win the title.
They had an immediate rematch and it was the same as the first fight. Franky dominated nearly every moment of the fight.
The Gray Maynard rematches
At lightweight, Edgar is probably most known for his back to back wars with Gray Maynard. In their first fight, they both dropped each other multiple times with the fight ending in a draw.
For the 2nd fight, they would have another war, but this time Edgar won by KO in the 4th round.
Edgar loses the title
In his next fight Edgar would lose his title to Benson Henderson. They would have a rematch, but he would also lose that fight.
Edgar moves to featherweight
After losing the title and rematch, Edgar would go down to featherweight and fight for the title. He would lose a decision to champ Jose Aldo.
In his next 12 fights, he would bounce back and forth between featherweight and lightweight. Going 8-4 in those bouts and coming up short in another featherweight title bout against Aldo.
Edgar moves to bantamweight
Franky was always small for the divisions he fought in and after a tough loss, he decided to drop to bantamweight. At 39 people were skeptical of this move, but Edgar won a split decision and FOTN honors.
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When we first started raising chickens, we gave them grain that we bought from tractor supply. And then I got into foraging and started foraging for the chickens in the spring summer and fall. So our cost of feed went WAY down and then winter hit and I couldn't walk through the yard and find for for them anymore. With much distaste, we went back to buying grain, but we really wanted a better way. Plus we know(well I know) we are going to have lots more animals in the future, so we need a good way to feed them. Chickens only take in a small percent of nutrients from pellets. Plus they may even poop some out without even digesting them. With the new feed option we found, they are able to take in more of their vitamins and nutrients they need to stay strong and healthy.
And one day it hit me while I was playing a game called Stardew Valley on our PS4…….FODDER!!!! Oh yes! We were pretty surprised we hadn't happened upon someone else doing this in all of our interweb searching about homesteading. Alas, we decided to start our own fodder system. We started on a system that would give us enough green tops, soggy seed, and roots to give to our chickens everyday. It is organic, cheaper, and awesome to watch. The only downfall is if you miss a day then you are behind a day. And since we cannot time travel yet, that means you will have to feed your animals something else a few days after you forget to contribute to the Fodder System.
To start you need to buy a bag of seed to grow. There are a lot of options when it comes to what to grow. Some people use just one seed and others like to use a mixture. We started on a budget. So we went to our local Co-Op and bought a 50lbs bag of wheat seeds for a little over $10. For us that was perfect. Since I have terrible luck, we didn't want to have to much into our experiment if it went awry. The first real difficulty we ran into was figuring out how much we needed to give our chickens each day to keep them healthy without making to much and it going to waste. That took us quite a while since most people tell you how much they use for the whole coop not how much each chicken needs so we could do it for ourselves. And since we love our eggs and chicken meat, we want our coop to be full of very happy and healthy birds. But since you are here reading, you won't have the struggle we did. Each chicken needs about a quarter cup of seed a day. Once it grows over a 7 day span, it will be a perfect amount for most backyard chicken breeds. If you have a special breed that tends to have specific feeding needs then go with other advice on amounts. We have not had any problems with our chickens with this amount though.
So find a shelf set up that works for the space you have to devote to the fodder system. We used a wire shelf and plastic shoe box bins. We drilled small holes in the bottom of all of the bins so that water will slowly drain down trough all of the bins.
The fodder will grow a few inches tall. Pulling it out of the bins will be super easy. Fodder becomes like carpet as it grows.
We used the lids to cover our seeds over night because we had some issues with mice.
Take Fodder out to animals.
Pour soaked seeds into bin 1.
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Watch your awesome creation work all while feeding your animals WAY better!
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The importance of healthy sleep
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Sleep health in early childhood deserves the same focus as nutritional and physical health, according to the experts.
"Sleep is an absolute necessity for all human beings, but especially for children who need adequate, good-quality sleep to help grow, learn and function," says Dr Yaqoot Fatima, Research Fellow for University of Queensland's Institute for Social Science Research.
Healthy sleep is critical in early childhood, especially for children under five years old, because of the rapid growth and development that happens in those early years.
"Research has established healthy sleep as a critical player in a child's brain development, learning, memory consolidation, emotional regulation, growth and creative thinking," explains Dr Fatima.
In 2015, Dr Fatima and her colleagues also found that poor sleep is linked to the increased risk of obesity and cardio-metabolic diseases in children due to changes in appetite controlling hormones in the body.
Not to mention the impact a child's poor sleep has on their parents.
Dan Fernandez, a nurse and PhD student at University of Queensland's Institute for Social Science Research, says, "there are physical and mental health consequences for parents and families with children who experience poor sleep".
"Among them are issues with the parents' own sleep patterns, mental health, quality of life and family functioning," he adds.
In 2015, a study found that mothers report that their child's sleep disruption significantly impacted their sleep patterns and daytime function.
The study concluded that interventions to improve children's sleep health, especially in the first few years of childhood, are likely to improve the quality of life for the whole family.
"It is imperative that disturbances in sleep patterns should be identified at an early stage and suitable interventions offered to children and their parents," Dr Fatima highlights.
What does healthy sleep in a child look like and how to get it?
"For young children, healthy sleep means sleeping for the age-appropriate hours, with age-appropriate naps, uninterrupted sleeping and following a consistent bedtime," explains Dr Dure Sameen Jabran, a doctor and PhD student at University of Queensland's Institute for Social Science Research.
In 2015, the National Sleep Foundation updated their sleep duration recommendations.
They found that, "for healthy individuals with normal sleep, the appropriate sleep duration for newborns (under three months) is between 14 and 17 hours, infants (four to 11 months) between 12 and 15 hours, toddlers (one to two years old) between 11 and 14 hours, and pre-schoolers (three to five years old) between ten and 13 hours".
Dr Fatima explains that since early childhood is the critical time when life-long habits are built, establishing healthy sleep habits early on is important to help set children on the right path for healthy sleep in the future.
"Sleep coaches explain that a baby between the ages of four and six months is developmentally ready to begin sleep training," she says.
"Healthy sleep practices can help build a healthy sleep routine during the first few years of life," agrees Dr Jabran.
It is imperative that disturbances in sleep patterns should be identified at an early stage and suitable interventions offered to children and their parents.
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What are common sleep problems in children?
"Research indicates that if some sleep problems in childhood, for example, pre-sleep anxiety, are not addressed, they may turn into sleep disorders, for example, insomnia," warns Mr Fernandez.
In 2002, researchers found the common sleep problems reported in children under five years are daytime sleepiness (11.8 per cent), bedtime resistance (15.1 per cent), anxiety around sleep (10.7 per cent), sleep-onset delay (8.1 per cent), and night awakenings (6.7 per cent).
"Children with poor sleep have been observed to be cranky, tearful and prone to tantrums," Mr Fernandez adds.
"Being constantly in a sleep-deprived states undermines brain maturation and the ability to regulate certain behaviours," says Dr Fatima.
Top five healthy sleep practices:
Maintain regular, consistent and relaxing bedtime routines.
Unplug devices at least an hour before bedtime.
Reduce light, temperature and noise to aid falling asleep.
Ensure daily sunlight exposure, preferably in the first hour after waking up.
Regular outdoor physical activity is essential.
"It is important to consult a doctor if a child is sleeping too little or too much, snoring, having difficulty in breathing and is restless or sweaty during sleep to exclude obstructive sleep apnoea," recommends Dr Jabran.
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A report a drug store or other company may file with the authorities if one believes a person is purchasing goods to produce methamphetamine. In general, a suspicious activity report is filed if a person is buying legal goods (such as cough medicine, which contains ingredients used to make methamphetamine) in such large quantities that the seller reasonably believes that there may be an ulterior motive in the purchase.
However, the Recommendations do not state at which point a financial institution or DNFBP should report, or if it should even make a notation of estimated risk on the suspicious transaction report.
CAFIU received approximately 1,000 suspicious transaction reports (STRs) and approximately 2 million currency transaction reports (CTRs) in the first 10 months of 2015.
It is particularly disappointing that another large retail bank failed to submit six time-critical suspicious transaction reports to An Garda Siochana and the Revenue Commissioners promptly.
The breaches include failures to adequately assess irregularities in activities pertaining to customer accounts, and file suspicious transaction reports.
When compared with the same period last year, authorities at the Financial Intelligence Directorate (FID) received 50 per cent more suspicious transaction reports (STRs) which are submitted by banks, money exchanges, insurance companies and the Industry and Commerce Ministry, reported the Gulf Daily News, our sister publication.
The Financial Intelligence Unit, tasked with collecting, analysing and disseminating information related to dubious financial transactions, last year detected, at least, 881 large suspicious transaction reports of over Rs10 lakh each allegedly carrying black money being circulated through PPP.
He said that Sebi registered intermediaries were required to file suspicious transaction reports to the Financial Intelligence Unit in case of such activities of their clients.
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According to the Financial Intelligence Centre, 148 suspicious transaction reports were received in 2011 compared to 88 in 2010 representing a 68% increase in reported suspicious activities.
Money laundering on the increase?
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) received around 20 suspicious transaction reports (STRs) a month in 2005, but this had ballooned to just over 50 a month by last year, according to figures obtained by the Daily Telegraph newspaper under the Freedom of Information Act.
In most situations, the accountant is simply on the reporting end of things, and they definitely keep records--large cash transactions, copies of official corporate records, copies of suspicious transaction reports," he notes.
It requires financial institutions to file suspicious transaction reports on all names listed under U.
However, ECU head Andy Blezzard wants greater input from the betting industry and said yesterday: "The ECU will continue to work with other sectors showing low reporting rates such as betting and gaming organisations, money transmission agents and bureaux de change, to improve the quality and quantity of suspicious transaction reports received.


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Paul Ninas (May 7, 1903—January 1, 1964) was an American artist. He was born in Leeton, Missouri. He began to study engineering at the University of Nebraska before he travelled around the Middle East and North Africa, which inspired him to become a painter. He studied painting in Vienna in 1922–1925. He then moved to Paris where he studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts and was influenced by fauvism and cubism. He was also associated with the dancer Isadora Duncan as well as the Montparnasse model Kiki, who also modeled for Man Ray. After time in North Africa and Dominica, where he bought a coconut and lime plantation, he returned to the United States in 1932 following his father's death. He settled in New Orleans where he would live from 1932 until his death in 1964. He was active in the city's art community and his European style was well received. He was described as the "dean of modern art" in New Orleans. he was married twice and has one daughter.

Paul Ninas' work is pivotal in the development of modern art in the South and, more particularly in New Orleans. Through Ninas' work as a teacher and as an active exhibiting artist, he introduced European modernist ideas to what had been hitherto a fairly traditional way of making art in the South. Aside from the obvious comparisons to Gauguin, the later work of Ninas is a dialogue with Pablo Picasso and translating his synthetic Cubist style into distinctly Southern subjects. Ninas especially sees New Orleans through a Cubist lens, depicting cemeteries, Mardi Gras parades and harbor scenes with angular, colorful flair.

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Australia is a relatively large country with a land area of about 7.6 million square kilometers. Despite the vast land area, Australia has a small population, which is estimated at only 21 million people in 2007. About 89.3% of the population are of European descent and only 2.3% are indigenous or of Aboriginal descent.
Similar to other developed countries, the Australian population is characterized as an ageing society. Fertility rate is low at 1.4 births per woman in 2005. According to experts, this figure is not enough to replace the impending ageing population. Currently, the Australian Government strongly encourages skilled and sponsored migration to sustain its population. The net migration rate recorded as of 2005 is 3.91 migrants per 1000 population.
Australian health is getting better in the last 10 years. Life expectancy has increased to 81 years old for males and 83 years old for females in 2008. This is one of the highest among developed countries. Infant mortality is low at 4.7 deaths per 1000 population. Some of the common health concerns in Australia are skin cancer, heat strokes, obesity, diabetes, dengue fever, and other chronic diseases common in developed countries.
The Australian health system is generally based on a broader perspective as defined by the World Health Organization. It does not only focus on the physical and mental health of its population but also on their general state of social well being and is characterized by a mixture of public and private health service providers. Known as Medicare, it coexists with a private health system. This was funded partly by 1.5% of an income tax levy with an additional levy of 1% for high-income earners.
The Australian government takes a Commonwealth form with six (6) States and two (2) Territories. In terms of health, the Commonwealth takes lead in the development of national health policies, regulations, and funding. The States and Territories operate in matters not covered by the Commonwealth's responsibilities such as the execution, oversight, and regulation of public health services as well as health care providers.
Some of the government's health strategies include: a) the provision of clinical services and programs, b) improvement of the social, physical, and economic environment of groups or individuals at special risk, c) reduction of health risk exposures, d) capacity building to enable individuals to exercise control in their environment and make appropriate health choices, and e) the provision of culturally relevant services, among others.
It is estimated that about seventy percent (70%) of Australia's health expenditure is funded by the government. The commonwealth shoulders 67% of this cost covering three (3) national subsidy schemes, a) Medicare, b) the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, and c) 30% Private Health Insurance Rebate while the remaining 23% is covered by the States and Territories.
Medicare is a National Subsidy Scheme that subsidizes services and prescription medicines bought from pharmacies. It provides free treatment in a public hospital. Medicare also provides free or subsidized payments to health professionals for specific services.
It was established in 1984 aimed at providing high quality health care that is affordable and accessible to all Australian residents regardless of their circumstance. For the period July 2004 to June 2005 alone, there are 20.5 million people who have registered for Medicare benefits. Also, there are about 236 million services processed during the same period.
Medicare is financed through progressive income tax and Medicare levy derived from incomes of Australian residents. The amount of contributions depends on their ability to pay.
You may have to take out private health but for prior conditions that will be expensive if you can get the illness covered at all. This link What Medicare covers – Medicare Australia says what is and isn't covered by Medicare.
Through the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, the government provides high subsidies on a number of prescription medicines. This scheme is available to all Australian residents and international guests from countries where Australia has Reciprocal Health Care Agreements. The Australia Government subsidizes the cost of prescription making it more affordable for all Australians.
Individuals or families with heavy medicine utilization can avail of the subsidized rate. Eligible patients are categorized as either concessional or general patients. Concessional patients are those that have Veterans' Affairs Cards, Family and Children's Services Cards, or passed certain criteria and declared as disadvantaged. Concessional patients can claim higher subsidies than general patients. Subsidies in this scheme are being paid directly by Medicare to the pharmacy on a reimbursement basis.
Private health insurance represents about 11% of health care funding in Australia. It can be used either in a private hospital or in a public hospital by patients who chose to be private patients. Similar to other countries, private health insurance allows the patient to have a wider option of doctors and hospitals. The timing is also important on the conduct of a procedure can be chosen by the patient. Private insurance also covers some services not covered by Medicare such as optical, physiotherapy, podiatry, and dental services.
The government provides a subsidy equivalent to 30% of the insurance premiums to those who have subscribed to private health insurance. The government facilitates payment of reduced premiums to health funds or directly to contributors as alternative payments. In the fiscal year 2004 to 2005, there are already 4.7 million registered subscribers of private health insurance. Of this, there is about AU$2.7 million paid to health funds and about AU$2.3 million claims directly paid to contributors. As of 2008, a total of $42.8 billion was spent on overall health care in Australia.
The government's support to private patients includes the regulation of insurance companies to ensure that community rating is observed. This means that the insurance company should charge equal premiums regardless of medical status or claims history. This will ensure that the chronically ill or the aged will not be overcharged by the insurance company.
Another government program that encourages individuals to avail of a private health insurance early in their lives and maintain them is the Lifetime Health Cover. This means that people aged 31 and below and who chose to stay in private insurance will be paying lower premiums. Insurance premiums for people aged over 31 years old will be charged 2% higher premium for each year the individual has delayed joining a private health insurance.
Not all the medical treatment is covered by Medicare. Private healthcare in a public or private hospital, ambulance transport, dental work and optometry are examples of services which fall outside Medicare cover. Many people decide to purchase private health insurance to cover some or all of these areas.
Has a possibility of entering a hospital or other health care facilities as a patient, visitor, trainee, or employee.
While in Australia, visitors that come from countries where the government has reciprocal health agreement can avail of Medicare benefits. However, the benefits of the reciprocal agreement do not include treatment as the purpose of their visit. Other visitors not eligible for Medicare can avail of a comprehensive health insurance to cover unexpected medical expenses during their stay.
Since special medical treatments are lower in Australia than in other developed countries, many patients go to Australia for treatment and other medical services. People going to Australia for treatment should be fully aware of all the related costs. They should also obtain an appropriate visa before entering Australia.
International students are required to avail a low cost health insurance called Overseas Student Health Cover during their stay in Australia.
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I have lived on the uk since the 1970's and intend to return to Australia in the near future. I have both UK and Australian Citizenship and have lived in australia since I was 3 years of age, and worked in australia for 12 years prior to leaving for the uk. What would be my monthly costs for medical insurance as I have not paid up for years like a permanent resident would have.
I cant seen to find that information on any site.
I am visiting my sons in Australia for 2 months, I cannot take my humira medication with me as it needs to be kept between 2-7 degrees. This is impossible to travel with. Is there any way I can get my medicine in Australia and not pay the full price as it is very expensive. I know there is a health care agreement signed between Australia and Britain, but i cannot make head nor tail of it. Can anyone give me any more information that could help me.


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Rihanna Is About to Play an Iconic Hitchcock Character on TV
Jan 31, 2017 @ 7:00 pm By Tonya Burks
Looks like "Bates Motel" is going out with a bang for their fifth and final season.
With the release of the new trailer, we can't help to catch a glimpse of our favorite bad gal, Rihanna, at the end.
As you know back in July, the show announced that the singer would be making an appearance during last year's Comic Con. So this comes as no surprise to us.
Get this, the A&E series decided to bring in Rihanna for not just one simple cameo, but for a multi-episode appearance! Whenever Rihanna does something it's never basic, so you know she had to come in as the iconic Marion Crane from the 1960s Alfred Hitchcock thriller "Psycho."
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We all know how it ended so abruptly for Marion during the notorious shower scene, but this time the show is putting a twist on things for this upcoming season.
In contrast to the original flick, viewers will get to see a deeper portrayal of the woman who stoled money from her boss's client to pay off her divorce boyfriend's debt, who's now on the run. Executive producer Kerry Ehrin stated, "the internal story of that, for a woman, is a really interesting one. We never really got to see that. In 'Psycho,' you just see the outside of that more. It was trying to do a story about a contemporary woman with some edge, with some expectations, who isn't perfect, who isn't always perfectly sweet, who is in that situation, but we're rooting for her to get what she wants."
Catch more Rihanna when Bates Motel returns Monday, February 20th 10pm on A&E!
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Six Attorneys from Nelson Hardiman, LLP were selected by their peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America© 2023.
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Around the globe, Vibration fitness machines are gaining a lot of popularity in the health and fitness industry. They have a large vibrating plate that is usually in the shape of an oval or rectangle. These machines are well equipped with accessories like a pad to sit on, straps to fasten to the sides of the machine, Bath Mats, Knee Pads, Padded Gloves, Aerobic Steps, Platforms, Yoga Mats/Padded Exercise Mats, Interlocking foam/rubber tiles, Stretch Bands, Yoga Balls/Chairs and Weights/ Weight Vests (Experienced users only).In a short amount of time, you get a whole body work out. The work out is the result of rapid muscle stimulation caused by the vibrations produced by the machine.
·Frequency: The speed at which the platform cycles.
By adjusting frequency, we can control the number of times per second our muscles contract. The strength of the vibration is adjusted by Amplitude. This amplitude controls the amount of force exerted on our body. It all depends upon the degree of difficulty in stabilizing yourself and the flow of blood through our body. This also has been backed by research that different frequencies will have different effects on our body. It all depends on what your goal is and also what all effects you are hoping to benefit from. This will determine what frequency you should run your platform at.
Lineal: Often referred to as vertical Whole Body Vibration platforms. There are some variants such as 3D vibration. These machines work great with higher frequencies and lower amplitudes.
Pivotal: Referred to as oscillating Whole Body Vibration platforms. These machines work great with lower frequencies and have higher amplitudes. Before you buy, always ensure the machine has a full range of frequencies. This is because many platforms are being sold in the market today with frequencies that don't exceed 11-14Hz.
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A frequency of 12Hz is good for therapeutic purposes or some light vibration training, but if you are after a good workout, you need a Whole Body vibration machine that will at least get up to around 25Hz.


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Bright Artists exists to reach out to students who, due to financial or family limitations, cannot attend private lessons at a studio. We teach realistic, fine art drawing and painting skills to elementary school kids where such instruction fills a need and is welcomed. Creativity can be a light in the dark. Through providing the highest quality of instruction within a flexible structure that meets the needs of individual communities, we seek to tangibly feed the fire of creativity within our local youth, and to watch those artists shine.


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We meet at school but have termly outings to local places of interest which sell cake & coffee, oh yes and have somewhere for the Toddlers to play safely.
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ARABIAN NIGHTS; LANE, Edward William, translator; HARVEY, William, illustrator
Thousand and One Nights, The
London: Charles Knight and Co.,, 1839. Item #03819
The First Lane Translation
[ARABIAN NIGHTS]. The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments. A new translation from the Arabic, with copious notes. By Edward William Lane… Illustrated by many hundred engravings on wood, from original designs by William Harvey. In three volumes. London: Charles Knight and Co., 1839-1841.
First edition translated by Edward William Lane.
Three large octavo volumes (9 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches; 247 x 157 mm.). xxxii, [1, translators advertisement, verso blank], 618, [1, printer's imprint], [1, blank]; xii, 643, [1, printer's imprint]; xii, 763, [1, printers device] pp. Numerous wood-engraved text illustrations throughout. Volume I complete with the translator's "Advertisement" giving the spelling and pronunciation of various Arabic words.
Bound ca. 1920 in three-quarter red morocco over red cloth boards ruled in gilt, spines with five raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, marbled end-papers, top edge gilt. With the engraved bookplate of William John Watson on each front paste-down. A fine set.
Originally issued from 1838-41 in thirty-two parts and with copious notes, this is the original appearance in book form of what is generally acknowledged to be the first accurate translation into English of the classic story of Scheherazade.
The Arabian Nights' Entertainments is "a collection of ancient Persian-Indian-Arabian tales, originally in Arabic, arranged in its present form about 1450, probably in Cairo. The collection is also known as A Thousand and One Nights. Although the stories are discrete in plot, they are unified by Scheherazade, the supposed teller; she postpones her execution by telling her husband Schahriah, a story night after night, without revealing the climax until the following session. The first European translation, into French, was Antoine Galland's twelve-volume (1704-17) free rendering of the oldest known manuscript, that of 1548. In 1840 E.W. Lane published a new scholarly English translation (3 vols); John Payne's translation appeared in nine volumes, 1882-84; and Sir Richard Burton's monumental version (10 vols) was issued only to subscribers by the Kamashastra Society of Benares in 1885-86. Among the more recent editions is a four-volume edition by Powys Mathers, completed in 1937" (Benét's Reader's Encyclopedia). The most popular stories include "Aladdin," "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," and "Sinbad the Sailor.".
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There is a decent reason for this one to own constant name of 1 of the foremost famed Mario 64 games and it's as a result of you'll have the maximum amount fun as you'd have there, even if it's totally different graphics. The story may be a little unhappy, for once Mario was returning from his last journey he resolve that his world wasn't something like he remembered. the total state of affairs is chaotic and he cannot settle for what happened together with his beloved land. Cheer him up and create him trail whoever did it, to own his revenge and rescue his land.


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Q: -ms-transform won't work on table header group (thead) in IE10 (and below, presumably) Can anyone help me find a way to get -ms-transform working on a table header? The context is that I'm repositioning the header (with Javascript and a CSS transform) to make it stick to the top of the screen when a user has scrolled down to the point that the header would otherwise no longer be visible (and the use rmay not be able to read or understand the data as well without visible column headers).
Here's a fiddle (without the Javascript), but I'll post the code here as well:

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This works fine in Chrome, Firefox and Opera, but unsurprisingly Internet Explorer (version 10, but presumably 9 as well) won't play nice. I'll admit it may not make a lot of sense to be repositioning a table header, but if the other browsers don't mind (thankfully), then perhaps there's a workaround for IE?

A: Turns out the transform does work on individual table cells, so I managed to fix this by applying -ms-transform specifically to all the td-children of thead, rather than the header itself.
In the simplified example used in the question, all it would take, then, is to add this:
#move-thead td {
    -ms-transform: translate(10px, 10px);
}

Updated Fiddle. My header now scrolls along happily in IE, too.

A: After playing with many settings in IE and getting nowhere I decided to do a very small amount of research and discovered that IE stopped working with pure css sticky tables about 4 years ago.
However, there is a solution which can be found at http://css-tricks.com/persistent-headers/
This uses jquery but achieves exactly what you seem to be asking and looks like a more long term solution to your problem.
Hope this helps you.

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A Date with Destino
Saturday afternoon I attended a talk at the Walt Disney Family Museum about the aborted collaboration between Salvador Dali & Walt Disney. Dali worked at the Disney Studio for 8 months in 1945/46, producing over 150 art works, including 6 paintings, for an animated short called Destino, which was eventually shelved in 1948. Around the time of the production of Fantasia 2000, Roy Disney resurrected Destino as a low-budget, high-prestige project & convinced Paris-based animator Dominique Monféry to create a 5-and-a-half minute film based on Dali's drawings & Disney artist John Hench's original storyboards.
Ted Nicolaou, curator of the museum's current exhibit about Dali, & Dave Bossert, Destino's associate producer, showed slides & told stories of the film's production with warm enthusiasm. Listening to Mr. Bossert, I experienced the vicarious pleasure of hearing someone who really loves his job. He amused the audience with his story of attending the 2003 Oscars & then attempting to take his limo up to the drive-through window of In-N-Out Burger. It was fascinating to learn that Dali's artwork was stolen by a Disney employee in 1969 then recovered from a Long Beach gallery, though a few items are still missing.
The talk concluded with a screening of Destino. Its use of CGI & cross-dissolves instead of full motion animation already looks dated, & the film does not feel like an artifact from the 1940s. It's most authentic element is the sound track, taken from an old LP recording, heard with all its clicks & pops. The scenario is clearly a love story & the imagery recognizably Dali-esque, including clocks, melting faces & ants crawling on a hand. Apparently Dali was interested in American baseball, but when a woman's head turns into a ball which is then batted into the distance by a baseball player, the gesture does not read as romantic. At one point bicyclists with baguettes on their heads appear, but the animators later discovered that the baguettes should have been rocks. The audience of mostly older adults knew a lot about Disney already & made appreciative noises whenever specific Disney lore was mentioned.
§ Talk | A Date with Destino
Ted Nicolaou and Dave Bossert
Sat, Sep 5, 1pm
Walt Disney Family Museum
§ Destino (2003)
Dominique Monféry, dir.
USA, 2003, 7 mins.
Labels: animation, art, film, museum, talk
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Q: How do I open an an excel file in Microsoft Excel by runnning a command in python? I want to open an excel file in Microsoft excel, and I don't want to do it using a mouse click but rather a python code. How can I do it?

A: You can use os.startfile
import os, subprocess
os.startfile(r'filepath') #For windows only
subprocess.call(['open', 'filepath']) #For MAC only


I give the Salomon Suspects an 8 because they do what they were made to do and they do it well. There is a reason the top pros use this ski on the gnarliest park features: it is sturdy and dependable. You won't get any surprises when you are skiing hard on these puppies, and I thought that was the ski's strong point. It is a high end ski for kids who like to charge big jumps and hit the pipe, and it will absolutely hold its own on rails. If you want a ski that isn't about little jibs and buttery, playful maneuvers then you have come to the right place. The Salomon Suspect means business, and it will slay any park.
I rode these skis pretty hard all season in very questionable conditions and I thought they were a lot of fun in almost everything. They are obviously no powder ski but they handle ice like a champ, and they were a fun snappy ride. I can't say they are extremely playful, but with a good waxing they are fast as hell and you can ski as aggressively as you want.
The skis look great with interesting topsheets and conservative bases. You can ski confidently on them, you'll feel like you have a solid set of ski on your feet ready to conquer the toughest features.
I got a fantastic deal on my Suspects, and I've seen many places carry them far under retail, and even a retail price in the 500s isn't insane, although it is a park ski. Bottom line, you can easily get Suspects cheaper than comparable high end park skis.
I am 5'11'' 160lbs and 176cm was great for me.
On the stiffer side. Possibly the best skis for any size jumps you can find. Hold up very well at high speeds and are very poppy. Some may find they aren't the ideal stiffness for rails but they will do just fine, butters are not a problem once you get used to them, but a lighter skier could have some difficulty with butters and presses.
Aside from some top sheet chips and a couple of base repairs they held up well after hitting plenty of rails, walls and a rock here and there. Despite the ridiculous scrutiny they receive about their edges, I found that if they are detuned underfoot you shouldn't have any problems at all, and overall they had good durability, they were neither worse nor better than any comparable park ski I've seen.
I only give this product a 5 because of durability. But until Salomon gets their act together i would not suggest this product to a friend or even buy this product again.
The performance on the ski is awesome pretty much perfect it just has one major problem.
This ski is extremely undurable everything to edge cracks or topsheet chippings. Coreshots this ski might be known as one of the least durable park skis out there. Everything else with the design is pretty good the graphic is cool.its light and has a very low swing weight. If Salomon could get there act together with the issues they could have an awesome park ski.
The value is pretty bad. The ski is average priced $600 at the start of the season.
you have a great time on the ski until 2-3 weeks then they will break or need many repairs.
i think i should have gotten a smaller size because it would be easier to spin.But its just that i'm short and young. Something that just has to do with preference.
This ski is not too buttery but after you break it in the ski soon starts to become more playful.
This is a great product for people who can afford new ski every year. it does not stand up very well to rails and it is very expensive. the ski ski works great in the park and most of the mountain.
The performance of this product is great it carves beautifully on the groomed runs and floats quite well in powder. i would recommend using this for park, groomers and not very deep powder.This ski turns great and feels awesome on your feet. on rails i found that it was a bit shaky and a little different from other skis, i dont know why.
I think that the ski is a bit over priced fr what you get out of it. its a terrific ski if you have the money for skis every year.
These skis you should buy them a little big but if you prefer a shorter fit go with whatever you are most comfortable with. These being a park ski though it is harder to spin with a longer ski so think about what you use right now and what terrain you will be shredding to base the height you get on.
It gets lots of chips and the bases and edges get destroyed on rails.
awesome skis that are perfect for my style since I'm not to abusive and like more than just park skiing since some of my friends are noobs who hate the park.
Salomon Suspect 2011 feel just as nice forward and backwards. It's got great carving and great grip. It's lightweight and smooth riding but not great flotation in powder.
Steezy top sheet that looks great with any setup and super sick with white STH 12 bindings.
I got it for just over $600 with tax and was worth every penny.
I have 171cm Suspects and with my Salomon STH 12 bindings they fit perfectly together and feel comfortable at head height for me.
powerful rebound. It maximizes ski/snow contact and filters vibrations.
I feel like this is an amazing ski with incredible preformance, and excetional feel. However, its durabiltty is what made the score lower from a 9.5. All in all I feel like the critizism isn't fully accurate for these ski's. If your bangin rails all day for most of the season yes they will get beaten up, but otherwise their a one of a kind.
Yes I was very content with these skis. They have good pop, super reactive perfect in jumps and pipe and can handle the rail very well ( even without the felxibility).
This is really up to personal opinion. I feel the graphics where dope, but thats just me and I can't speak for everyone.
I feel like it really depends. These skis do tend to be a hit and miss for the person. I've heard people complain about them and people refuse to ride anything else after hittin the mountain with them on.
I got 171 center mount even though they are a bit tall. I did this because I knew with a ski lie the suspects which can hit back country, groomers and park I would be able to use them for a while even if my interests change in terms of types of skiing.
Again it depends, i you are a big jibber and hit rails a lot and really use for your summer setup then NO. Their edges, despite being reinforced this season and made thicker, will be damadge, chipped and worn away. However, if your ridin these prodominatley in comps. or jumps I would say they will last a lot longer.


At a time when most new writers in the SF&F field are writing fantasy rather than science-fiction, John Scalzi has quickly become a reliable value for top-quality SF. Since his first professionally-published novel in 2005, Scalzi has already produced a remarkable and distinctive body of work: The Last Colony is his fifth novel, and the third in the universe launched by the Hugo-nominated Old Man's War. All of Scalzi's novels so far have shown an entertaining blend of competent SF, crystal-clear writing, snappy dialogue and terrific pacing. Scalzi's gone from hot new talent to reliable pro in a ridiculously short amount of time, and The Last Colony is another strong entry in the list of reasons why Scalzi belongs on your reading list.
Not simply content in repeating past successes, The Last Colony evolves the "Old Man's War" universe rather than try to repeat a familiar formula. The first novel attempted a straight-up military SF formula. The second, The Ghost Brigades, meshed special forces heroics with musings on personal identity. This third entry more or less abandons the swords in favour of the ploughshares, as it follows past protagonists John Perry and Jane Sagan while they establish a new colony on Earth's behalf.
This is a risky proposition. Readers of the series so far will recall how the galaxy is filled with competing alien races and how most of them wouldn't mind seeing the humans disappear. It's a tough Darwinian universe out there, and the humans are not among the most powerful hunters in the neighbourhood. Since colonization is so rigidly controlled by the galactic powers in charge, a new colony is almost an act of aggression. From the onset, it's not too clear how official this effort is meant to be, or who's telling the truth to the protagonists.
Fortunately, the prose and chapter-to-chapter pacing of the novel are up to the structural success of the novel. Scalzi's most distinctive writing trademark is a compulsively readable style and The Last Colony is no exception. Despite the less militaristic focus of the story, Scalzi has no trouble pulling in his readers; the mystery surrounding the colony is enough to get the narrative started, and the procedural aspects of colonization are intriguingly described. Science Fiction has often played around with the concept of planetary colonization, but aside from The Legacy of Heorot, I can't recall such a detailed nuts-and-bolts approach to the first few moments of such an event. It's surprisingly engaging, and holds out interest just long enough for the third-act betrayals and explosions.
Scalzi's ability to pose relatively complex conceptual and ethical issues in accessible language also remains intact. Like few other working SF genre writers, Scalzi is able to combine state-of-the-art speculation with a prose style that can reach much wider audiences than seasoned SF fans. And yet he's able to do so without dumbing down anything, which is a harder trick than you'd expect.
Picker readers will probably ask a few questions about the rationale for 18th-century colonization equipment when "wireless communications" is the thing to avoid: the state of today's mechanical design (especially for third-world environments) is such that better solutions could be used for 2Xth century colonies. But what's a Science Fiction novel without at least one detail left to pick for argumentative fans?
What's unarguable is that Scalzi is already an utterly dependable writer, one who keeps stretching the boundaries of his universe while delivering the same qualities that have attracted readers to his earlier work. Scalzi's not just a hot new SF writer; he's a model to follow if SF has any chance of surviving as a cohesive genre category in the twenty-first century.


BON APETIT! The island's rich culinary tradition got a jolt of flavour last year with the arrival of the Jamaica Food & Drink Festival, which returns to tantalize taste buds across the capital from Oct. 26-30, ahead of next month's renewal of Kingston Restaurant Week. The festival's can't-miss feast of activities ("Drink-Nyam-Jam") include Pork-a-Palooza (Oct. 26) at the Hope Botanical Gardens; Crisp (Oct. 27) at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel; Vintage (Oct. 27) at Address Privé; Stix & Stones (Oct. 28) at The Ruins, Mona Visitors' Lodge; Meat Street (Oct. 28 and 29) at Barbican Beach; Picanté (Oct. 29) at Kingston Polo Club and Brunch at the Gallery (Oct. 30) at the National Gallery of Jamaica. To get more info on the 2016 staging of this foodie fest, log on to jafoodanddrink.com.


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Ashly NX4004 Programmable Output Amplifiers Power New Fitness Facility Near Tokyo
Verdi Viale is a brand new health and fitness center in Yotsukaido, Japan, a suburb that's a half-hour east of Tokyo. It stands alone in a purpose-built two-story building and has a comprehensive range of amenities to help its clients achieve "life balance." Specifically, Verdi Viale is split into three studios: a cardio studio, a yoga studio, and a machine room.
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YOTSUKAIDO, JAPAN – SEPTEMBER 2015: Verdi Viale is a brand new health and fitness center in Yotsukaido, Japan, a suburb that's a half-hour east of Tokyo. It stands alone in a purpose-built two-story building and has a comprehensive range of amenities to help its clients achieve "life balance." Specifically, Verdi Viale is split into three studios: a cardio studio, a yoga studio, and a machine room. With the assistance of Morimoto Naniwa Sound Projects Co., Ltd. of Tokyo, Verdi Viale supplied each studio with its own powerful sound playback and instructor reinforcement system. Each studio uses One Systems 108im loudspeakers powered by a four-channel Ashly nX4004 four-channel programmable output amplifier.
"The main purpose of the system is to allow for background music or for program music with instructor reinforcement," explained Masaki Morimoto, co-owner of Morimoto Naniwa Sound Projects, who, along with Makoto Akashi, helped select the sound reinforcement products, specified their placement, and tuned the installed system. "Most of the facility is surrounded by glass walls, which led to long reverberation times. Of course, intelligibility was very important, and it was necessary to maintain perfect, undistorted fidelity. Ashly amplifiers are excellent in this regard, and Ashly's reliability would allow Verdi Viale to operate without interruption."
Kazuhiko Hosoi, president of S and A Planning Co., oversaw the installation of the system. A big part of Hosoi's job was making sure the system blended invisibly into Verdi Viale's sleek interior design. "This aspect of the job is very important in Japan," Morimoto explained. "There is a premium placed on making sure everything in the interior design is consistent, and Mr. Hosoi has a lot of experience making sound and video systems work with the interior designs of restaurants and retail stores."
Within each of the three separate studios, a four-channel Ashly nX4004 amplifier delivers 400W each to four One Systems 108im full-range loudspeakers. "The large-format compression driver of the 108im contributes to the high intelligibility of the system despite the reverberant character of the glass walls," Morimoto said. "And the one-to-one pairing of loudspeakers with amplifier channels allows the system to operate with plenty of headroom for undistorted playback. In addition, the Ashly amplifiers are robust to the area's poor power supply – most commercial facilities have less than 100V AC, and there is no grounding point. Despite this, the Ashly amplifiers perform reliably and sound excellent." Each One Systems 108im hangs from a custom bracket built by Morimoto Naniwa Sound Projects Co., Ltd. A simple DBX processor mixes inputs from various background music sources, a CD player for each studio, and an instructor microphone for each studio.
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Q: Word game 3 checks and Jtextarea background color I have to create a word game called "Lingo", so far everything is going well but lately I had problems occurring with the checks, in the game there are 3 checks.
//FIRST CHECK
        for (int i=0;i<input.length();i++){
        if(input.charAt(i)==CorrectWord.charAt(i)){
        LingoBoard[0][i].setBackground(Color.GREEN);
//WHEN every letter(input) matches the correct word = the background(TextArea) becomes                     green.

//SECOND CHECK

else { LingoBoard[0][i].setBackground(Color.RED); }
//When the letters do not match the letters from the correct word = TextArea becomes red

//THIRD CHECK
//When the letters are in the correct word but not in the right place = TextArea becomes      magenta

I'm stuck with the third check, i can't seem to find a way that can fix my problem.
i tried this, but it makes the background magenta for all 3 checks.
if((LingoBoard[0][i].getText().charAt(i)!=CorrectWord.charAt(i))){
            LingoBoard[0][i].setBackground(Color.MAGENTA);

A: A better way of matching a correct word is:
if(input.equals(CorrectWord)) {
    LingoBoard[0][i].setBackground(Color.GREEN);
}

Though I'm surprised that your code works as you have no closing curly brace (}) after that first if statement. Could you post the whole class, if it's not too large?
For the second and third check, you're better off doing something like the following:
if(!(input.equals(CorrectWord))) {
    // create temporary array to match against
    ArrayList<Character> tempArray = new ArrayList<Character>();
    for(char c : input.toCharArray) {
        // create from copy of player's input
        tempArray.add(c);
    }

    // for each character in the solution
    for(char c : CorrectWord.toCharArray()) {
        // loop through the player's input
        for(char d : input.toCharArray()) {
            // and check if features there
            if(d == c) {
                tempArray.remove(d);
                // we only want to remove one char at a time, so break if found
                break;
            }
        }
    }

    // if all the letters have been found, regardless of their order
    if(tempArray.size() == 0) {
        LingoBoard[0][i].setBackground(Color.MAGENTA);
    } else {
        LingoBoard[0][i].setBackground(Color.RED);
    }
}

Haven't tested the code, written it on the spot. I hate nested for loops but I haven't found a better way to handle char array manipulation.