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BISL
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BSL Rules
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Tourney
Brotherhood comes first
1. In the spirit of Brotherhood and Islamic principles, no profanity, in any language, shall be tolerated. A team has the right to place a grievance with the Umpire if profanity was uttered in any language including English. Umpire may warn and/or expel the player(s) from the game/park. BSL Committee will review all Umpire ejections and may add to the suspension period. Repeat offenders will be suspended from future games or the league.
2. No smoking is allowed anywhere near the diamonds. Any player found smoking within 50 metres of the diamonds will receive a $50 fine and reported to the city.
1. No METAL cleats or METAL jewelry will be allowed, you will be forced to remove them before entering the field of play.
1. Minimum of 8 male players, 18-years-old or over, are required to play a game. If any team is found in breach of this rule at the game, team will be fined and game will be forfeited.
2. A 24-hour advanced notice is required if a team is to forfeit a game. Notifying the league 24 hours in advance will result in a $60 fine otherwise it will be a $100 fine at the game. The Fine must be paid by the team before its next scheduled game or the next game shall be forfeited for an additional Fine of $60.
3. A Substitute player can only be used if the team has 7, 8 or 9 regular players. The substitute can play any position but must bat last. If the team has 6 regular players, the opposing GM can allow the use of two substitutes to avoid a forfeit.
4. Fielding team must always play a catcher. If they have 9 players, only 3 outfielders will be allowed and a catcher must be played.
5. The trade deadline will be 3 days after week 3 of the season.
6. A minimum of 50% of the games or weeks must be attended for a player to play in the playoffs. GMs who wish to seek exceptions to this rule for players who are in situations beyond their control, may appeal to the BSL Board and be subject to a private hearing. Exceptions will be granted only in the event of unanimous approval by the Board.
7. Illegal player: Any player(s) who has not played a minimum of 50% of the games, will not be allowed to participate in the playoffs. If any team is found in breach of this rule, they will be dismissed from the playoffs.
8. Pictures: BSL will require a team picture or individual pictures from all players. All teams are required to participate.
1. Game is played in 7 innings, Bases are 70 feet apart, Pitching distance is 50 feet, commit line of 28 feet, Strike Mat / Home Plate: A 2 feet by 3 feet mat.
2. A 3 home-run differential (over the fence) is in effect. Exceeding the limit is an OUT.
3. 7-run mercy rule is in effect in every inning from 1st inning to the 6th inning.
4. Only 7th inning is open or the final inning called by the umpire.
5. If a team is leading by 15 runs or more, the 5th or 6th inning will be the final inning. Home team does not bat in the 5th or 6th if leading by 15 runs. If trailing by 15 or more, the home team bats with the game ending if they are still trailing by 15 after 5 completed innings.
6. Batting lineup must be submitted before start of game and not in the middle of the first inning.
7. No player can be added to batting line up after the completion of the 2nd inning or 30 minutes after start time, whichever comes later.
8. After 1 pitch has been taken by a player batting out of order in a lineup and is realized by the other team or an organizer, the player up to bat will be out and the rightful player in the lineup will go to bat.
9. If a player is injured during play and cannot continue then he will be skipped in the batting lineup and NOT deemed as an out.
10. Grace period of 10-minutes from listed time will be observed before a game is defaulted.
11. Any team found delaying the game by the umpire will receive a warning and may forfeit the game.
12. Regular season rules apply for playoffs. Only players with minimum games attended are allowed to play. If any team is found in breach of this rule, the team will be dismissed from the playoffs.
13. No new inning shall start after one hour and twenty minutes.
14. If time is running short, the umpire will announce time left before cut off. If the visiting team is trailing and allows the home team to bat and time runs out during their at-bats, those runs and at bats will count towards stats and run differential.
15. If a game runs for one hour and thirty minutes based on the umpires clock/judgement, the game will be considered complete and the last completed inning will considered the final score.
16. Complete game is 4 innings: All games will be deemed as complete after 4 full innings of play. Whichever team leads at the end of the inning will be proclaimed the winner. If the score is tied, then both teams will receive a point. An inning is complete when the home team (team batting second) has completed all 3 outs. If the game is called off before the 7th inning is complete, then the score after the 6th inning will be used to determine the winner.
17. Rainouts: Any games cancelled or stopped due to weather conditions will be deemed as a tie, unless 3.5 innings have been completed. The home team leading after 3.5 innings or if the away team is up by 7 they will be proclaimed as the winner. An inning is complete when the home team is up to plate. If the game is called off before the 7th inning is complete, then the score after the 6th inning will be used to determine the winner.
Batting Rules
1. Third strike foul is an out.
2. If a batted ball hits the mat or the plate it will considered a dead / foul ball.
3. A batter is not allowed to switch sides of the plate after taking the first pitch.
4. Any ball hit in play is considered fair even if it doesn't reach the pitcher.
5. When a homerun is hit over the fence, the batter and base runners have the option of walking straight back to their dugout or they can touch all the bases. There is no need to touch the next base. If a batter touches first with the bat in his hand, he is NOT out unless the ball is still in play. The batter that hit the homerun is expected to retrieve the ball if no one else has already.
Base Running Rules
1. Anticipation is acceptable but lead-off is forbidden. Runner(s) may leave a base only when the ball makes contact with the bat, plate or ground. Any player that is caught leading off by the umpire will be ruled out.
2. Sliding is permitted except at Home plate.
3. BSL enforces a commitment line and any contact by the runner with the catcher on home plate is an automatic out.
4. No player can be tagged out at home plate. Player will be called out if he touches the home plate while coming around to score a run.
5. A maximum of 3 courtesy runners are permitted during a game. The last player ruled out can only be the courtesy runner unless allowed by the opposing team.
Pitching Rules
1. Pitching distance is 50 feet, and Strike Mat / Home Plate: A 2 feet by 3 feet mat.
2. A pitched ball must have a minimum height of 6 feet and a maximum of 12 feet, as per the judgment of the Umpire.
3. The pitcher must have a pivot foot that does not move during the pitching motion.
4. The pitch must be released while the pitcher is standing parallel to the plate but he can stand up to 10 feet behind the rubber.
5. Pitchers must make an attempt to pitch to all batters. For clarity, a pitcher may not throw a pitch that is blatantly unhittable because the pitch is a considerable distance away from the home plate mat. Any unusual pitches deemed by the umpire to be suspicious will result in a warning. A second warning will result in an ejection of the pitcher and the pitcher may be subject to additional penalties by the Board of Directors, including suspension or fine.
Score and Standings
1. A Win is two points, Tied games are one point, and a Loss is zero points.
2. The criteria used for tiebreakers are: Points, Wins, Run Differential, Head to Head, Runs Scored.
3. A forfeit is a loss of 10-0. The winning team players are credited with a game played while NONE of the players from the team that forfeited gets a game played credit.
Umpires and discipline
1. Each Captain of the team must identify themselves to the Umpire before the start of their game. Only a Captain is permitted to discuss an Umpires call with the other Captain and the Umpire. Umpires decision is Final during the game and CANNOT be reversed by the league.
2. Game UMPIRE is the ultimate authority in the park. Any ejection will serve a minimum one game suspension. That player will be skipped in batting lineup as an out.
3. If the umpire finds anyone made a play with the intent to injure someone, that player will be automatically ejected and subject to further suspension and a fine.
4. Any argument with an Umpire, resulting in an Umpires decision to eject the player(s) will be an automatic next game suspension for the same player(s) for the first offence. A second ejection will result in a $50 fine and a heavy suspension. The Player(s) will be made aware of their future suspension lengths by the Committee within 5 days.
5. Any ejected/suspended player(s) must leave the park immediately or their team shall forfeit the game and the player will receive additional suspension. BSL Committee will review all Umpire ejections and may add to the suspension period. Repeat offenders may be suspended from future games or season. Suspended players are not permitted at the fields, if seen at the field the team will receive a forfeit.
6. Scorekeeper or a Committee member present at the park may serve as witnesses to the facts of a dispute. Scorekeeper must be informed with the intent to lodge a complaint and/or appeal before the end of the game or it will be negated.
7. The BSL Committee will convene to hear the appeal. The hearing must be attended by the appellant/agent by Thursday night at 8 PM on a conference call. Failure to attend the hearing shall negate the appeal.
8. All players must wear their league uniform; failure to do so will result in a $10 fine payable before the next game.
9. In the absence of an Umpire or Committee Member, two team Managers will mutually decide upon the person responsible to Umpire the game.
10. Managers are responsible for throwing away all litter/garbage in and around the dugout at the end of each game. Failure to do so will result in a $50 fine. Stat keepers will note which teams are responsible.
11. Any player or players involved in the consumption of any drugs or alcohol near the playing area shall be suspended and the team will be fined $200. The team that this player or players belong to will be put on probation until further notice.
ASA and USSSA Altered Bat Suspension Policy
BSL only allows ASA or USSSA 1.2 approved bats. All bats must be stamped by ASA or USSSA 1.2 to be eligible for play. Any bats that are altered in any way will result in confiscation and suspension from play in Canada. The offending player(s) will have two choices: 1. The player(s) can allow the BSL representative to inspect the bat and the BSL representative can reach a conclusion as to whether the bat may have been altered or, 2. The player(s) can refuse to allow the representative to inspect the bat and take an immediate Three (3) year suspension from any and all ASA Canada play with no right of appeal. Exception: Bats that have the approval stamp, but that were subsequently banned, will not be permitted
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Poor-quality forages make great biomass.
Wisconsin farmers have been growing biomass for generations, says Kevin Shinners. They just have a different name for it.
"Biomass is really just poor-quality forage," says the UW-Madison agricultural engineer. "We allow it to get very mature and it's really high in fiber, so it doesn't make very good animal feed, but it makes great biomass."
And Wisconsin farmers have a leg up in the business of producing biomass, says Shinners, a specialist in forage systems who branched out into bioenergy crops about 10 years ago.
VALUABLE RESOURCE: Biological systems engineering professor Kevin Shinners with the biomass known as corn stover.
"We have all of the tools to harvest and handle and process it. And an added advantage is that when we take biomass off the field, we have new places to put our dairy manure," he says. "When you take corn stover off the field, you're removing nutrients that you need for next year's crop. A Wisconsin farmer can apply manure, while an Illinois farmer may have to go out and buy fertilizer."
Wisconsin also is rich in off-farm resources. The state's custom harvesters are expert at chopping stalks and grass, and biomass could fit nicely into their schedule. After they finish chopping corn silage in September, crews could move on to corn stover or switchgrass in October and November, spreading fixed costs over more acres and keeping employees working longer.
In fact, under some business models, farmers might job out most of their biomass crop production. If the crop is a perennial, such as switchgrass, the farmer may spend more time in front of the computer and on the phone than out in the field. "Once the crop is established, he'll manage fertilization and weed control through an agronomic service, cutting and removal through a custom harvester and marketing through a biomass aggregator," Shinners says.
But even though Wisconsin farmers may be very much at home with the types of crops involved and the mechanics of producing them, they'll be on less familiar ground when it comes to marketing, Shinners notes.
"If you're a cash crop farmer, you're used to marketing your corn and beans through multiple paths, selling some out of the field, storing some, selling futures, to optimize what you earn on an annual basis,"
he says. "For biomass, you'll have to change your mindset.
"If a firm builds a large cellulosic biorefinery here, it will need an absolute dedicated supply," Shinners says. "If half the people in the area decided not to produce biomass one year, that plant would be a dinosaur." Meaning that a critical mass of local farmers must be willing to lock into a long-term production contract.
The economics of biomass are driven by the fact that, pound for pound, the stuff isn't worth as much as other crops. Profit margins may be slim, so farmers will need to produce as efficiently as possible.
That's where Shinners comes in. His research centers on streamlining the harvest and handling a variety of biomass crops, including such perennials as switchgrass and reed canarygrass, and annuals such as sorghum. But his biggest push has been in corn stover—the stalks and leaves and cobs left after grain harvest—simply because there's so much of it.
"There are some 90 million acres of corn being grown in the United States this year, and with the prices we're seeing, there's going to be more and more of it grown. If you're really interested in biomass, it's right there at our doorstep," he reasons.
Since profit-minded crop producers aim to make as few trips across the field as possible, Shinners' first efforts focused on harvesting both corn grain and corn stover in one pass. Essentially, he grafted a forage harvester to the back of a combine and hitched a wagon behind to catch the chopped stover.
This impressive 50-foot train of machinery worked, he says, but handling two crops at the same time slowed down the grain harvest, putting both yield and quality at risk. "That's even more of an issue these days, when we have seen corn go over $7 per bushel," he says.
"As corn grain increases in value, everything that slows the combine down has a much greater economic cost."
Shinners is focusing now on a system in which the combine harvests grain and leaves the stover behind in a long, neat row. "A custom harvester could come in behind and chop these windrows and store them for the farmer."
Since buyers will need year-round deliveries, storing biomass crop until it's needed is part of the equation. Shinners thinks the best approach is one that dairy farmers use for forage—seal it from the air in long plastic bags or covered bunkers and let it ferment. "We know this from dairying: You can open up a silo bag from two years ago and it's still good quality," he says.
That fermented biomass could be good enough to eat—by livestock, at least—which may offer farmers a way to take advantage of the bioenergy market without having to wait for a biomass refinery to be built nearby.
"If we apply amendments like lime right before we store corn stover, the feed value can increase substantially," says Shinners. "So instead of waiting for somebody to develop a biorefinery in Wisconsin to convert stover to ethanol, why not divert some of the grain normally used to feed cattle toward ethanol production and use the stover to replace the corn as animal feed?"


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Highlights: The Experience 2020 – Global Edition
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The Experience has been described as "the world's largest gospel concert" and is arguably the largest gathering of worshippers on the African continent.
The colossal concert, which averaged an attendance in the hundreds of thousands in preceding years, attracts music enthusiasts from all over the globe, gathering to worship God from dusk till dawn. Previous editions held at the Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos,Nigeria, with many more watching online, creating a digital footprint on all 7 continents of the
This year, on Friday, December 11, 2020 beginning at 21:00 hours West African Time (GMT+1), The Experience held exclusively online. Premiered as a global edition which streamed simultaneously around the world on YouTube, Facebook, and other major digital platforms.
Despite restrictions imposed by the pandemic, this award-winning concert uphold its standard of excellence and showcase amazing musical performances and goodwill messages by internationally recognised Artistes and Icons, uniting under Christ's banner to amplify the gospel and share His universal message of peace and goodwill to all.
The Experience – Global Edition featured some new entrants to its outstanding line-up. From Australia – Hillsong United, Tasha Cobbs and Maverick City from the United States of America, from South Africa -The Cape town Philharmonic Choir, Sheldon Bangera from India, Matt Redman from the United Kingdom and Sidney Mohede from Indonesia.
Making a comeback to The Experience are other internationally artistes including Travis Greene, Nathaniel Bassey, Sinach, Don Moen, The Planetshakers, Donnie McClurkin, Chevelle Franklyn, Onos Ariyo, Sonnie Badu, Eben, Tope Alabi, Mercy Chinwo, William McDowell, Ada, Nokwe the Poet and the host choir – The Lagos Metropolitan Gospel Choir.
The Experience is hosted by Pastors Paul and Ifeanyi Adefarasin, Senior Pastors of The House On The Rock, who more than 15 years ago, envisioned it to serve as a platform where people from every nation, every continent and every race can raise their hearts, hands and voices together as one to God in unfettered praise.
PHOTOS FROM THE EXPERIENCE 2020 TE15
VIDEOS FROM THE EXPERIENCE 2020 TE15
DOE - Take Me Back (Live Performance)
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Mercy Essien – Nara Ekele (Lyrics, Mp3, Video)
Oche Jonkings – Seated On The Throne (Live)
Dj Horphuray – Jesus Music (EP)
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1878 in Afghanistan
19th-century military history of the United Kingdom
Second Anglo-Afghan War
Military history of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Military history of Afghanistan
Battle honours of the King's Royal Rifle Corps
The Great Game
World Digital Library related
Second Anglo–Afghan War
Part of the Great Game
92nd Highlanders at Kandahar. Oil by Richard Caton Woodville
Emirate of Afghanistan
British victory
British withdraw after achieving the desired political goals through the Treaty of Gandamak[1][2][3][4]
Afghans maintain internal sovereignty but cede various frontier areas and the control of their nation's foreign relations to the British
Belligerents
British Raj
Commanders and leaders
Sher Ali Khan,
Ayub Khan Samuel Browne
Frederick Roberts
Donald Stewart
Casualties and losses
5,000+ killed in major battles, total unknown.[5] 1,850 killed in action or died of wounds,
8,000 dead of disease[5]
Ali Masjid
Peiwar Kotal
Charasiab
Ahmed Khel
Second Charasiab
The Second Anglo–Afghan War was fought between the United Kingdom and the Emirate of Afghanistan from 1878 to 1880, when the nation was ruled by Sher Ali Khan of the Barakzai dynasty, the son of former Emir Dost Mohammad Khan. This was the second time British India invaded Afghanistan. The war ended in the Treaty of Gandamak after attaining all the British geopolitical objectives. Most of the British and Indian soldiers withdrew from Afghanistan. The Afghans were permitted to maintain internal sovereignty but they had to cede control of their nation's foreign relations to the British.[3][4]
1 War
1.1 First phase
1.2 Treaty
1.3 Second phase
1.4 Captured British soldiers
2 Timeline of battles
3 Order of battle
4 In Fiction
War[]
After tension between Russia and Britain in Europe ended with the June 1878 Congress of Berlin, Russia turned its attention to Central Asia. That same summer, Russia sent an uninvited diplomatic mission to Kabul. Sher Ali Khan, the Amir of Afghanistan, tried unsuccessfully to keep them out. Russian envoys arrived in Kabul on 22 July 1878, and on 14 August, the British demanded that Sher Ali accept a British mission too.[6]
The Amir not only refused to receive a British mission under Neville Bowles Chamberlain, but threatened to stop it if it were dispatched. Lord Lytton, the viceroy, ordered a diplomatic mission to set out for Kabul in September 1878 but the mission was turned back as it approached the eastern entrance of the Khyber Pass, triggering the Second Anglo–Afghan War.[6]
First phase[]
A British force of about 40,000 fighting men, mostly British and Indians, was distributed into military columns which penetrated Afghanistan at three different points. An alarmed Sher Ali attempted to appeal in person to the Russian Tsar for assistance, but unable to do so, he returned to Mazari Sharif, where he died on 21 February 1879.[7]
Mohammad Yaqub Khan with Britain's Sir Pierre Cavagnari on May 26, 1879, when the Treaty of Gandamak was signed, photograph by John Burke.
Treaty[]
With British forces occupying much of the country, Sher Ali's son and successor, Mohammad Yaqub Khan, signed the Treaty of Gandamak in May 1879 to prevent a British invasion of the rest of the country. According to this agreement and in return for an annual subsidy and vague assurances of assistance in case of foreign aggression, Yaqub relinquished control of Afghan foreign affairs to Britain. British representatives were installed in Kabul and other locations, British control was extended to the Khyber and Michni passes, and Afghanistan ceded various North-West Frontier Province areas and Quetta to Britain. The British Army then withdrew.[8]
However, on 3 September 1879 an uprising in Kabul led to the slaughter of Sir Louis Cavagnari, the British representative, along with his guards, and staff – provoking the next phase of the Second Afghan War.[9]
Second phase[]
Major General Sir Frederick Roberts led the Kabul Field Force over the Shutargardan Pass into central Afghanistan, defeated the Afghan Army at Char Asiab on 6 October 1879, and occupied Kabul two days later.[10] Ghazi Mohammad Jan Khan Wardak, and a force of 10,000 Afghans, staged an uprising and attacked British forces near Kabul in the Siege of the Sherpur Cantonment in December 1879. Despite besieging the British garrison there, he failed to maintain the Siege of Sherpur, instead shifting focus to Roberts' force, and this resulted in the collapse of this rebellion. Yaqub Khan, suspected of complicity in the massacre of Cavagnari and his staff, was obliged to abdicate. The British considered a number of possible political settlements, including partitioning Afghanistan between multiple rulers or placing Yaqub's brother Ayub Khan on the throne, but ultimately decided to install his cousin Abdur Rahman Khan as emir instead.[11][12]
Ayub Khan, who had been serving as governor of Herat, rose in revolt, defeated a British detachment at the Battle of Maiwand in July 1880 and besieged Kandahar. Roberts then led the main British force from Kabul and decisively defeated Ayub Khan on 1 September at the Battle of Kandahar, bringing his rebellion to an end.[11] Abdur Rahman had confirmed the Treaty of Gandamak, leaving the British in control of the territories ceded by Yaqub Khan and ensuring British control of Afghanistan's foreign policy in exchange for protection and a subsidy.[13]
Abandoning the provocative policy of maintaining a British resident in Kabul, but having achieved all their other objectives, the British withdrew.[11]
Captured British soldiers[]
The British officer John Masters recorded in his autobiography that Afghan women in the North-West Frontier Province (1901–1955) of British India during the Second Anglo-Afghan War would castrate non-Muslim soldiers who were captured, like British and Sikhs.[14][15] They also used an execution method involving urine; Pathan women urinated into prisoner's mouths.[16] Captured British soldiers were spread out and fastened with restraints to the ground, then a stick, or a piece of wood was used to keep their mouth open to prevent swallowing. Pathan women then squatted and urinated directly into the mouth of the man until he drowned in the urine, taking turns one at a time.[17][18][19][20][21][22][23]
Timeline of battles[]
There were several decisive actions in the Second Anglo–Afghan War, from 1878 to 1880. Here are the battles and actions in chronological order. An asterisk (*) indicates a clasp was awarded for that particular battle with the Afghanistan Medal.
British team at the site of the Battle of Ali Masjid
British Royal Horse Artillery withdrawing at the Battle of Maiwand
Afghan victors of the Battle of Maiwand
1878[]
Battle of Ali Masjid* (Decisive British victory)
Battle of Peiwar Kotal* (British victory)
Action at Takht-i-Pul
Action at Matun
Battle of Khushk-i-Nakud
Battle of Fatehabad* (Afghan victory)
Battle of Kam Dakka* (Decisive Afghan victory)
Battle of Charasiab*
Battle of Shajui
Battle of Karez Mir
Battle of Takht-i-Shah
Battle of Asmai Heights* (Decisive Afghan victory)
Siege of Sherpur* (Decisive British victory)
Battle of Ahmed Khel* (British victory)
Battle of Arzu
Second Battle of Charasiab
Battle of Maiwand (Decisive Afghan victory)
Battle of Deh Koja (Afghan Victory)
Battle of Kandahar* (Decisive British victory)
Kandahar (and Afghanistan) Evacuation
Order of battle[]
Durban Maidan of Sherpur Cantonment in 1879.
Bengal Sapper and Miners Bastion in Sherpur cantonment.
Highlanders of Amir Yaqub at Gandamak
Drummer James Roddick of the Gordon Highlanders defends a wounded officer during British attack at Gundi Mulla Sahibdad during the Battle of Kandahar
45th Rattray's Sikhs guard Afghan prisoners during an advance through the Khyber Pass
Peshawar Valley Field Force Lt Gen Sir Samuel Browne
Cavalry Brigade Brig Gen C. J. S. Gough
10th Hussars (2 Sqdns)
11th Probyn's Lancers
Guides Cavalry
First Infantry Brigade Brig Gen H. T. Macpherson
4th Battalion Rifle Brigade
20th Brownlow's Punjabis
4th Gurkha Rifles
Second Infantry Brigade Brig Gen J. A. Tytler
1st Battalion Leicestershire Regiment
Queen's Own Corps of Guides (infantry component)
51st Sikhs
Third Infantry Brigade Brig Gen F. Appleyard
81st North Lancashire Regiment
14th Sikhs
27th Punjabis
Fourth Infantry Brigade Brig Gen W. Browne
51st King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
6th Jat Light Infantry
Kurram Valley Field Force Major General Roberts
Cavalry Brigade Brig Gen Hugh Gough
10th Hussars (1 sqdn)
12th Cavalry
Royal Artillery Col A. H. Lindsay
First Infantry Brigade Brig Gen A. H. Cobbe
2nd Battalion, 8th Foot
23rd Pioneers
58th Vaughn's Rifles
Second Infantry Brigade Brig Gen J. B. Thelwell
72nd Seaforth Highlanders
21st Punjabis
56th Rifles
Kandahar Field Force
First Division Lt Gen Donald Stewart
Cavalry Brigade Brig Gen Walter Fane
15th Hussars
19th Fane's Lancers
Royal Artillery Brig Gen C. G. Arbuthnot
First Infantry Brigade Brig Gen R. Barter
2nd Battalion King's Royal Rifles
Second Infantry Brigade Brig Gen W. Hughes
59th East Lancashire Regiment
12th Kelat-i-Ghilzai Regiment
1st Gurkha Rifles
3rd Gurkha Rifles
2nd Division Maj Gen M A Biddulph
Cavalry Brigade Brig Gen C. H. Palliser
21st Daly's Horse
22nd Sam Browne's Horse
35th Scinde Horse
Artillery Col Le Mesurier
First Infantry Brigade Brig Gen R. Lacy
70th East Surrey Regiment
127th Baluchis
Second Infantry Brigade Brig Gen Nuttall
32nd Pioneers
55th Coke's Rifles
In Fiction[]
At the beginning of Study in Scarlet, the first of the Sherlock Holmes books, Dr. Watson is mentioned as having been wounded in the Second Anglo–Afghan War and invalided home.
M.M. Kaye's novel The Far Pavilions is set, in part, during the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Second Anglo-Afghan War.
Wikisource has original text related to this article:
Treaty of Gandamak
First Anglo–Afghan War
Third Anglo-Afghan War
European influence in Afghanistan
↑ Adamec, L.W.; Norris, J.A., Anglo-Afghan Wars, in Encycloædia Iranica, online ed., 2010
↑ Norris, J.A., Anglo-Afghan Relations, in Encycloædia Iranica, online ed., 2010
↑ 3.0 3.1 Barfield, Thomas (2010). Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History. Princeton University Press. p. 145. ISBN 978-0-691-14568-6. http://books.google.com/books?id=fqRFCkpTdUcC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA145#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 22 August 2010.
↑ 4.0 4.1 Posturee, Bad (2002). Understanding Holocausts: How, Why and When They Occur. iUniverse. p. 84. ISBN 978-0-595-23838-5. http://books.google.com/books?id=6TgXuP-ezB8C&lpg=PR1&pg=PA84#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 22 August 2010.
↑ 5.0 5.1 Robson, Brian. (2007). The Road to Kabul: The Second Afghan War 1878–1881. Stroud: Spellmount. p. 299. ISBN 978-1-86227-416-7.
↑ 6.0 6.1 Barthorp, Michael (2002) [1982]. Afghan Wars and the North-West Frontier 1839–1947. London: Cassell. pp. 66–67. ISBN 0-304-36294-8.
↑ Hanna, Henry Bathurst (1904). The Second Afghan War, 1878-79-80: Its Causes, Its Conduct and Its Consequences. 2. Archibald Constable & Co. pp. 150–155. http://books.google.com/books?id=GzQoAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false.
↑ Barthorp, Michael (2002) [1982]. Afghan Wars and the North-West Frontier 1839–1947. London: Cassell. pp. 71. ISBN 0-304-36294-8.
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Keeping the powder dry
CEO Ade Ayeyemi keeps Ecobank on a cost-cutting diet
By Joël Té-Léssia Assoko, in Kigali
Posted on Wednesday, 1 May 2019 10:00, updated on Thursday, 2 May 2019 16:19
Ecobank CEO Ade Ayeyemi at the Africa CEO Forum in Kigali, Rwanda in March 2019. Himbaza Pacifique/ACF 2019
Convinced that it is still necessary to improve the financial ratios of his group in order to continue its development, Ecobank's boss is asking shareholders to be patient.
Money is expensive. A banker for thirty-one years, including three and a half years at the head of Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), Nigeria's Ade Ayeyemi knows this better than most. And even if he were sometimes tempted to forget this, the markets will never fail to remind him of this.
In mid-April, for its first foray into the international bond market, ETI had to accept an annual interest rate of 9.5% to borrow $450m over five years. A "successful" and "oversubscribed" first, says Greg Davis, ETI's chief financial officer, who noted the strong enthusiasm of international investors.
"Predominantly, subscriptions come from Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States," added Mireille Bokpe-Anoumou, head of communications at the pan-African Bank.
No dividend, high profit
At the same time, from Abidjan to Lagos, Accra, Lomé and Johannesburg, thousands of ETI shareholders will have to tighten their belts again. For the third consecutive year, ETI's management and board of directors recommended that the bank not pay a dividend.
Except for the 2012 financial year, the group's owners have only been rewarded for the capital they have contributed once in recent years: in 2015, with $69m paid. Withholding dividends is all the more difficult as the group posted a profit of $329m last year, a remarkable increase of 44%. This is the highest profit level reached in this decade, with the exception of 2014 (about $338m).
Above all, it is the first time that ETI has recorded two consecutive profitable financial years since Ayeyemi took over the reins in September 2015. "Given our company's improved results in 2018, we are aware that shareholders expect to receive dividends," said Emmanuel Ikazoboh, chairman of the board, in the annual report published in early April.
Ecobank's difficult decisions
The "difficult" decision to waive the payment of dividends is explained, according to the Nigerian manager, by "the new regulatory capital requirements to which the group is subject and by the need to build a liquidity cushion for the holding company".
In addition, added the Deloitte veteran who was appointed chairman of Ecobank in 2014, "to realise our planned growth initiatives and ensure our victory in key countries such as Nigeria and Kenya, we must increase capitalisation levels in the short term by combining new capital injections with profit reinvestment."
"Overall, our performance is in line with our projections and expectations," Ayeyemi said on the sidelines of the Africa CEO Forum in Kigali, a few weeks before the official figures were published.
Coming from the US bank Citi, whose activities he managed in sub-Saharan Africa and where he acquired a reputation as a cost-killer, Ayeyemi has deployed a certain zeal to strengthen the criteria for granting loans across the 30 countries where Ecobank is present.
Also, despite an 18% increase in deposits between 2016 and 2018, outstanding loans and advances to customers fell last year to $9.2bn, their lowest level since 2012. As a result, revenue declined to $1.8bn, the lowest level in six years.
Costly provisioning
Ayeyemi has also opted for an accelerated application of the new IFRS9 and Basel II and Basel III regulations, which require in particular a strengthening of provisioning. This has been costly for the group, which has had to increase its bad-debt provisioning from 52.4% in 2017 to 67.6% in 2018.
According to Moody's, this represents a cost of more than $225m for ETI, which had three years to implement the reform. As a result, the cost of risk fell sharply to 2.4% and the share of delinquent loans in its portfolio also fell to 9.6%. Delinquent loans average more than 12% in Nigeria and 22% in Ghana, Ecobank's top two markets, according to a Moody's study.
Despite these constraints, pre-tax earnings increased by half last year. At $436m, this is only slightly lower than the $519.5m recorded five years ago, when ETI's revenue reached an historic high of $2.3bn. Ecobank has managed to make more profits by being more cautious than ever in its lending policy.
Staffing and other strategies
Ayeyemi also shaken up the workforce – with more than 2,000 positions eliminated since his arrival – and top management, with the departure of several executives linked to the controversies at the beginning of the decade. The Nigerian boss has gradually surrounded himself with a management team that is considered more compatible with his management style and able to implement his "roadmap for leadership", a five-year strategy that is entering its second phase this year.
This executive committee combines Ecobank veterans – such as Patrick Akinwuntan, Samuel Ashitey Adjei and Joséphine Anan-Ankomah, appointed in recent years to head the teams in Nigeria, Central, Eastern and Southern Africa and the commercial banking division – and international managers recruited with "competitive" salaries, such as chief financial officer Greg Davis (formerly of Standard Bank Group), corporate secretary Madibinet Cissé (Africa Finance Corporation) and business and investment banking manager Amin Manekia (Citi).
With a sound credit policy, a prudential framework that is more in line with international standards and a reconfigured management structure, ETI now says it can benefit from the efforts made in recent years and from the improvement of macroeconomic frameworks in its countries where it operates.
This started with an increase in commissions and fees from non-credit activities such as cash management, investments in securities and credit card fees. This segment grew by 5% in 2018. It represented 50.4% of ETI's revenue in the last quarter of 2018, compared with 43.6% a year earlier. By focusing on these capital-efficient activities, Ecobank hopes to protect its profitability.
Digital dividends
The other part of this strategy is digital. Ayeyemi maintains the target of 100 million customers for Ecobank's digital banking services by the end of 2020. According to the pan-African group, its focus on digital has enabled it to grow to 19 million retail banking customers by the end of 2018, an increase of one-third year-on-year.
At the same time, the value of transactions carried out with its Ecobank Mobile application tripled to $1.5bn. "We are counting on exponential growth in the benefits of digitisation," explains Ayeyemi. He says the bank is already seeing, positive effects. Through the digital platforms of Ecobank Pay (individuals), Ecobank Omni (SMEs) and Bank Collect (payment and transaction tracking), customer deposits increased by $2bn (controlling for exchange rate fluctuations) in 2018.
Shifting the regional focus
Finally, the geographical rebalancing of the group's revenue, which for too long depended on the large Nigerian market, are also bearing fruit. Already the main source of Ecobank's profits in recent years, the Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine region, led by Côte d'Ivoire, is now the largest contributor to the group's revenue, with $511m, and net income of $143m.
The task entrusted to Paul-Harry Aithnard, appointed at the end of 2018 to head this zone and the Ivorian subsidiary, is to put an end to the leadership of Société Générale, the number one in Abidjan. Nigeria now contributes only $444m to the group's revenue (compared to more than $800m in 2013). Non-French-speaking West Africa, led by Ghana, also consolidated its position with more than $390m in revenue recorded.
While the Central, East and Southern Africa zone ($450m), which suffers from an overrepresentation of the group's smallest subsidiaries (Mozambique, Uganda, Kenya, São Tomé e Príncipe…) "is performing better than [the group's] expectations," says Ayeyemi, with a net margin of $68m.
For 2019, Ecobank expects to relaunch dividend distributions, with pre-tax profit expected to increase by 6% to 8%, slightly below the projected increase in deposits and loans. But, as promised, the group's cost-to-income ratio should remain stable. After all, with or without dividends, Ayeyemi has a reputation as a cost-killer to preserve.
This article was first published in Jeune Afrique.


Please see the directions attached for Point Pinole Regional Park and be there by 10.00 a.m. The ride should be over by about 2.00 p.m. Please be available by phone in case our trip ends early or late.
1. Take the I-580/San Francisco/Hayward exit onto Macarthur Fwy (I-580 W) toward San Francisco.
2. Keep left onto Eastshore Fwy (I-80 E) toward Vallejo/Sacramento.
3. Take the Richmond Pkwy/Fitzgerald Dr exit.
4. Turn left onto Fitzgerald Dr, Richmond Pky.
5. Turn right onto Atlas Rd.
6. Turn left onto Giant Hwy.
7. Your destination on Giant Hwy is on the right.


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After court ruling against immigration ban, US airlines taking passengers from 'banned' countries again
Capital Float secures ₹17 Crore funding from IFMR Capital through NCDs
Mudit Mohilay
court,
Immigration,
Trup,
As the result of the first — but probably not the last — conflict between the judiciary and the executive at the very early stages of the new government, the Trump administration has backed down from the order that banned entry into the US from seven Muslim-majority countries. The ruling also temporarily ended a state of status quo between liberal states that were facing off against a not-so-welcoming central administration.
The whole mess started a couple of weeks ago when the newly installed Trump administration passed an executive order banning travel to and from seven middle-eastern, Muslim majority countries. The move was perceived as highly discriminatory and there was outrage in the general public — as well as the tech community, which sources many of its employees from there.
The move also saw tech companies register their complaints by way of making donations to various foundations battling against the decision legally. Some of the efforts bore fruit as Judges in Washington state, New York, California, and Massachusetts ruled against the decision, temporarily banning the government from enforcing its orders across the nation. The US administration appears to have bowed down to the decision for now — albeit in poor grace. The administration has notified all airlines that they can board passengers with valid travel documents.
Meanwhile, President Trump tweeted:
The opinion of this so-called judge, which essentially takes law-enforcement away from our country, is ridiculous and will be overturned!
He also said:
When a country is no longer able to say who can, and who cannot come in & out, especially for reasons of safety & security – big trouble!"
As expected, President Trump appears to have taken the decision in poor grace.
The US State Department has also announced the reversal of visa cancellations for almost 60,000 travellers from the seven middle-eastern countries. Meanwhile, a justice department ruling hinted that the White House was not giving up and would take the legal route to fighting this decision for now — that is, by filling an appeal.
The statement said:
The president's order is intended to protect the homeland and he has the constitutional authority and responsibility to protect the American people.
Meanwhile, a bitter legal fight is expected to follow before the issue can be resolved for good -either way. For now though, people separated from their jobs, education, families and friends as a result of this ban will have the opportunity to go back to the US.


It's been a long time in between drinks for brother sister duo Angus & Julia Stone, but their label EMI has confirmed this morning that new music for the pair is just around the corner.
After initially seducing local audiences with their platinum debut 'A Book Like This' back in 2007, Angus & Julia went on to release the celebrated four times platinum sophomore album 'Down The Way' in 2010, which subsequently picked up a handful of ARIAs at the 2010 awards ceremony.
Now they're back with album number three, announcing that the self-titled set will drop in Australia in August.
It's been produced by Rick Rubin, whose production discography stretches back to the early 1980s. He's previously worked with the likes of Run DMC, LL Cool J, Beastie Boys, Joan Jett, AC/DC, Johnny Cash, Aerosmith and Melanie C on 'Northern Star'. More recently, he produced Adele's inimitable '21', as well as Justin Timberlake's 'FutureSex/LoveSounds', Lana Del Rey's 'Paradise' and Lady Gaga's 'Artpop'. Suffice to say, Angus & Julia are in safe hands.
The first taste of the new album will come via a single next month. 'Angus & Julia Stone' will hit Aussie retailers on Friday August 01.


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Dima Wannous
The Frightened Ones
Elisabeth Jaquette (Translator)
Out of the blue, Suleima's lover sends her a book he has written. Might this be the moment she finally feels she can understand him?
An electrifying new voice from contemporary Syria on life in a climate of fear
Suleima and Nassim first meet in their therapist's tiny waiting room in Damascus. In the city's atmosphere of surveillance and anxiety, they begin a tenuous relationship.
Some years later, after civil war breaks out, Nassim leaves Syria for Germany. He doesn't ask Suleima to come with him; instead, from thousands of miles away, he sends her a book he has written, a novel about a woman whose experiences are very close to her own.
As Suleima reads, her past overwhelms her. Time begins to fold in on itself, her sense of identity unravels, she has no idea what to trust – Naseem's pages, her own memory – both – or neither? As she attempts to solve the mystery of her lover's manuscript, she must confront what has happened to her family, to her country, and start to make sense of who she is and what she has become.
Bold, contemporary, and told with captivating immediacy, The Frightened Ones is an intimate reckoning of living with fear from an electrifying new voice.
Dima Wannous was born in 1982. She is a writer and translator who studied French literature at Damascus University and the Sorbonne. She is the author of a short story collection, Details (2007), and two novels, The Chair (2008) and The Frightened Ones (2017), which was shortlisted for the Arabic International Prize for Literature.


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Q: XSLT, create table header and rows I have following XML-structure:
<Tab4>
    <T4Head1>First Table header 1</T4Head1>
    <T4Head2>First Table header 2</T4Head2>
    <T4Head3>First Table header 3</T4Head3>
    <T4Head4>First Table header 4</T4Head4>
</Tab4>
<Tab4>
    <T4Col1>First Table row 1 column 1</T4Col1>
    <T4Col2>First Table row 1 column 2</T4Col2>
    <T4Col3>First Table row 1 column 3</T4Col3>
    <T4Col4>First Table row 1 column 4</T4Col4>
</Tab4>
another element than Tab4 might occur here...
<Tab4>
    <T4Head1>Second Table header 1</T4Head1>
    <T4Head2>Second Table header 2</T4Head2>
    <T4Head3>Second Table header 3</T4Head3>
    <T4Head4>Second Table header 4</T4Head4>
</Tab4>

<Tab4>
    <T4Col1>Second Table row 1 column 1</T4Col1>
    <T4Col2>Second Table row 1 column 2</T4Col2>
    <T4Col3>Second Table row 1 column 3</T4Col3>
    <T4Col4>Second Table row 1 column 4</T4Col4>
</Tab4>
<Tab4>
    <T4Col1>Second Table row 2 column 1</T4Col1>
    <T4Col2>Second Table row 2 column 2</T4Col2>
    <T4Col3>Second Table row 2 column 3</T4Col3>
    <T4Col4>Second Table row 2 column 4</T4Col4>
</Tab4>
<Tab4>
    <T4Col1>Second Table row 3 column 1</T4Col1>
    <T4Col2>Second Table row 3 column 2</T4Col2>
    <T4Col3>Second Table row 3 column 3</T4Col3>
    <T4Col4>Second Table row 3 column 4</T4Col4>
</Tab4>
another element than Tab4 might occur here...

With XSLT 1.0 I need to output html looking like below. In other words I need each Tab4 block containing T4Col1, T4Col2 etc to repeat until next kind of element occurs (not being Tab4/T4Col1).

                            Table header 1

                            Table header 2

                            Table header 3

                            Table header 4

                                Table column 1

                                Table column 2

                                Table column 3

                                Table column 4

I've had some tries but can't get grip of it. My current XSLT code looks like this:
<xsl:for-each select="./node()">

    <xsl:choose>

        <xsl:when test="name()='Rub1' and . !=''">

        </xsl:when>

        <xsl:when test="name()='Tab4' and ./T4Head1">

                                    <xsl:value-of select="./T4Head1"/>

                                    <xsl:value-of select="./T4Head2"/>

                                    <xsl:value-of select="./T4Head3"/>

                                    <xsl:value-of select="./T4Head4"/>

                            <xsl:for-each select="following-sibling::node()/T4Col1">

                                        <xsl:value-of select="."/>

                                        <xsl:value-of select="."/>

                                        <xsl:value-of select="."/>

                                        <xsl:value-of select="."/>

                            </xsl:for-each>

        </xsl:when>

        <xsl:otherwise>
        </xsl:otherwise>

    </xsl:choose>

</xsl:for-each>

Problem with the code above is that it outputs all Tab4/T4Col1 (1+3), even the ones after next header occurrence. Somewhat I need to group header and all rows/columns since I want them to be in the same HTML-table.

A: Consider the following example:
XML
<root>

para 1

   <Tab4>
      <T4Head1>First Table header 1</T4Head1>
      <T4Head2>First Table header 2</T4Head2>
      <T4Head3>First Table header 3</T4Head3>
      <T4Head4>First Table header 4</T4Head4>
   </Tab4>
   <Tab4>
      <T4Col1>First Table row 1 column 1</T4Col1>
      <T4Col2>First Table row 1 column 2</T4Col2>
      <T4Col3>First Table row 1 column 3</T4Col3>
      <T4Col4>First Table row 1 column 4</T4Col4>
   </Tab4>

para 2

   <Tab4>
      <T4Head1>Second Table header 1</T4Head1>
      <T4Head2>Second Table header 2</T4Head2>
      <T4Head3>Second Table header 3</T4Head3>
      <T4Head4>Second Table header 4</T4Head4>
   </Tab4>
   <Tab4>
      <T4Col1>Second Table row 1 column 1</T4Col1>
      <T4Col2>Second Table row 1 column 2</T4Col2>
      <T4Col3>Second Table row 1 column 3</T4Col3>
      <T4Col4>Second Table row 1 column 4</T4Col4>
   </Tab4>
   <Tab4>
      <T4Col1>Second Table row 2 column 1</T4Col1>
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There are pieces of equipment used in construction which are VERY difficult to control their noise generation; open cabs of equipment, drilling machines, impact drivers/drills, and some mechanical devices are the first to come to mind.
Modifying equipment to control the noise is better than handing out ear plugs. But, before you modify the equipment, does your company have a "Buy Quiet" program? NIOSH & CPWR released some info graphics which can help start you down this road to considering noise levels when purchasing new equipment.
Does the manufacturer have a "factory approved" modification already available?
Are there any liability considerations if you make this change?
How much noise reduction are you hoping to achieve?
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Ducks, Trojans hoping for highlight in their…
Ducks, Trojans hoping for highlight in their unusual seasons
PUBLISHED: November 4, 2016 at 9:22 pm | UPDATED: April 20, 2018 at 6:12 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oregon is ordinary. Southern California is just so-so.
Two down seasons have removed some of the shine from these West Coast powers' showdown at the Coliseum on Saturday. For the first time in the 21st century, neither USC nor Oregon is ranked for their meeting.
But there's still plenty of reason for both teams to keep fighting. The Trojans (5-3, 4-2 Pac-12) have a four-game winning streak and plans for continued contention in the Pac-12 South, while the Ducks (3-5, 1-4) are playing for bowl eligibility and a boost to next season — and possibly coach Mark Helfrich's job security.
"Like I told our team, don't buy into this 3-5 record that they have," USC coach Clay Helton said. "This team could easily be 6-2, and if you don't bring your 'A' game, you're going to get beat. We have to take this game as serious as a heart attack."
The game also features a matchup between two promising freshman quarterbacks who refused to wait their turns to play.
Sam Darnold will get his sixth straight start for USC, while Justin Herbert will make his fourth start for Oregon. Both passers seized their jobs from their older counterparts during the disappointing stretches of their teams' seasons, and both have capitalized impressively.
Darnold is the type of athletic, big-armed quarterback who would look perfect in the Ducks' up-tempo offense, and the school pursued him in recruiting. The Orange County native made an unofficial visit to Eugene before committing to USC, and he won the Trojans' starting job as a redshirt in September, usurping veteran Max Browne .
Five games later, Darnold has already set USC's freshman single-season record with 18 touchdown passes.
"He's just a really good football player and surrounded by excellent talent," Helfrich said. "A guy that presents a great passing threat and a great run threat that really makes it go."
Herbert pulled a similar trick at Oregon this season, taking over for Dakota Prukop after the Ducks' 2-3 start. The first true freshman to start for Oregon since 1983 has posted a series of lofty offensive performances, even setting the school record for total offense with 512 yards last week against Arizona State while the Ducks ended their five-game skid.
Herbert knows the USC defense presents a markedly different challenge. The Trojans have been on a roll defensively during their streak, most recently holding high-octane California to 24 points in a blowout win.
"I think they're just an exceptional team," Herbert said. "So regardless (of their record), they're going to have a good defense and a great offense."
Here are more things to know about the schools' 61st meeting:
GROUND GAME: The Trojans' offense started to roll during an undefeated October, and it shows no signs of slowing. USC averaged 264 yards rushing per game in October despite losing top tailback Justin Davis to injury, while Oregon's run defense is ranked a dismal 116th in the nation.
COUGHING IT UP: The Oregon defense's best shot to stop USC might reside in Darnold's pattern of turnovers. He has thrown 16 touchdown passes in the last four weeks, but also threw four interceptions. In addition, he lost two fumbles apiece in wins over Colorado and Cal. The freshman is working on ball security, but Helton also doesn't want to remove the exciting, risk-taking style that has made Darnold stand out.
ADOREEBLE: The Ducks are well aware of Adoree Jackson, the cornerback and kick returner whose speed has few equals in college football. The junior already holds USC's career kickoff return yardage record, and he leads the Pac-12 in both punt return yardage and kickoff return yardage this season. "Adoree Jackson, getting him out of the game is a huge, huge key to success there," Helfrich said.
CALLED FOR TRAVELING: Oregon played the USC fight song during practice this week to prepare the Ducks for what should be a fairly full Coliseum. But Helfrich drew the line at a simulated Traveler, the Trojans' mascot: "We didn't bring in a horse."
AP college football website: www.collegefootball.ap.org


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This study is the first comprehensive treatment of the provincial allocations system in the late Roman Republic, between the provincial law carried by Gaius Gracchus in 123 BCE and that carried by Pompeius Magnus in 52 BCE. It considers the actual process of allocations, from the Senate's decree of consular and praetorian provinces through to the transfer of command on the ground. Different chapters address the system of allotment (sortitio), the authorisation of troops and funds (ornatio), and the ritual prerequisites for departure, all based solidly on the surviving evidence. An appendix recording the Senate's year-by-year decisions supports this and allows us to see trends in the data.
Since provincial questions were of central importance to the senatorial class, they were the source of many of the political contests which dominate our source record. And at every stage, the institutions shaped the politics. A new picture emerges, of structural conflicts revolving around the relationship between consuls and tribunes. As Rafferty argues, this made the provincial allocations system one of the central causes of Rome's growing political dysfunction in the late Republic.
David Rafferty is Lecturer in Classical Studies at Massey University in New Zealand. His research focuses on Roman political and institutional history under the Republic.


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OFFICIAL NOMINATION: "Most Entertaining"
-Dublin Fringe Festival, 2005
WINNER: "Best Multimedia Experience"
-Hoontown Puppet Festival, Bangkok, 2005
WINNER: "Best Music Video: CLEANING UP CONEY ISLAND"
-Coney Island Film Festival, 2007
"When Pirates of the Caribbean was just a ride nobody wanted to go on at Disney World, Jollyship the Whiz-Bang was cranking out funny "pyrate puppet rock operas," with all the olde tyme speech patterns that knotty genre tag implies. The group's first song, "Pyrate Love," covered the swashbuckling traditions of rape and murder, and the eight member collective - made up of musicians, singers, puppeteers, and a few Bindlestiff Family Cirkus veterans - has since waded deeper into the pirate infested waters with an album called Songs to Drown By. Here, Jollyship takes its winding storylines, bizarre seafaring characters, and well-crafted puppets to Spiegeltent, the temporary vaudevillian venue at South Street Seaport."
-The Onion AV Club, August, 2006
DEPRAVED NEW WORLD: Jollyship the Whiz-Bang
. . .Whiz-Bang makes a solid case that artistic innovation and grandiosity need not be confounded with tastefulness. Low budget showmanship, improvised dialogue and a predilection for ribaldry imbues the episodes with a spirit of joyful anarchy. While critical to the show's audience appeal, this illusion of spontaneity often conceals the meticulous degree of precision and labor harnessed to synthesize its many components . . .
-Brooklyn Rail (July/August 2005)
for "Songs to Drown By" (album)
After having to listen to hundreds of boring hipster rock band clones, a little novelty music is pretty refreshing. This is a "musical pirate puppet sea saga." I suppose the live show is where it's at, what with the puppets and pirate ship stage set and all, but these songs aren't half bad either. Reminds me of Bobby Conn with a nautical theme. I like "Kill it if it Don't Got Feet" and "Pyrate Love." Fans of kooky stuff like Flossie & the Unicorns or Dame Darcy will dig this.
-VICE (Music Issue, April 2005)
for SLEEPLESS FISHES (running 12/05/03 - 8/13/04)
When my friend Steve called me up and insisted I go down to the Bowery Poetry Club and see Jollyship the Whiz-Bang, a crazy "electro-rock puppet show," I could only think "Holy shit! How can two of the best pleasures of the modern world be combined into one?" . . . Aquatic ballyhoo plus electric accordion plus guitar solos equal a guaranteed good time. When you break it down, the whole 90 minute affair is like being inside the animated Yellow Submarine: there's quite a few hot tunes, a cast of notably zany characters and the big swirls of giddy psychedelia. Okay, so the Beatles never fucked with any puppets, but when the alternative to this lysergic rock fest is standing at some bar with your arms crossed trying to chat up some hoity-toity stranger, you gotta dive in.
-The Fader #27 (Jan/Feb 2005)
"Life on the high seas has never been easy. Storms create stomach-churning swells. Being confined to a ship can make sane souls go positively loopy. And dangers constantly lurk in the deep. Of course, your woes are just beginning if you've been captured by pirates. . . It's a hilarious dilemma that's explored by the multimedia rockers of Jollyship the Whiz-Bang, which performed Episode 5 of its ongoing pirate/puppet rock opera Tuesday evening at Someday Lounge as part of the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art's Time-Based Art Festival. . . Much of what makes Jollyship infectious comes from Nick Jones, the group's lead singer, voice of many of the characters, and one of the three puppeteers. He's got a captivating stage presence when he's banging out a rocking number, then he slips into various puppet guises with subtlety and great humor. He's aided by a rollicking backup band that can move from sea shanties to punked-out riffs faster than you can slit a scurvy dog's throat."
-The Oregonian (Sept. 2006)
"A clever musical number here, some death by scoundrel there, some nasty adult humor dressed in children's clothing throughout. All in all, a fun time. The Jollyship crew succeeds in creating a spontaneous, slapped together, anything can happen aesthetic. Yet, I imagine the show is pieced together scrupulously. . . Going into the show, I wondered how (if at all) Jollyship would breath life into the tired pirate nonsense that has been so thoroughly played out. It seems everyone I know has come and gone through a pirate fascination phase. I can't count the number of pirate parties I've been to in the last few years. . . .I think the fact that they didn't take the piracy angle too seriously was a saving grace. The ship and casual references to raping and pillaging provided a context, but the story was so absurd it could have worked with any premise."
-PICA TBA Festival Blog (Sept, 2006)
"The show is so inventive and such a good time; it is the epitome of what good off-the-wall New York theater ought to be."
-In-nyc.com
Avast, it's the JOLLYSHIP! Pirate puppets will be pillaging . . . .
-The Nation (Bangkok, December 29, 2005)
"We never understood the appeal of The Rocky Horror Picture Show or Hedwig and the Angry Inch, but many of you apparently enjoy them. Nick Jones has created a twisted musical that we can all enjoy. Jones, the quirkiest sex symbol around, keeps updating his Jollyship the Whiz-Bang adventures of pirate puppets and filthy sea shanties. Cheer on the sweet cabin boy, Tom, as he challenges the traditions of ocean crime and sodomy, and hope for a happy ending that may never arrive. Sit up front if you can."
-NY Press
"The creators of Jollyship the Whiz-Bang elevate what could have been a simple gimmick into the realm of serious series entertainment."
-ELJ All Arts Annex
"Awesome. . . utterly ridiculous. . . the performers are obviously having fun with their semi-improvised dialogue, and it's infectious. Call it the theater of low expectations – everything is so lo-tech here that a simple action like a puppet kicking his feet when he swims can elicit applause, and an ambitious act like sending a puppet over the audience on a wire seems like a more impressive piece of stagecraft than a chandelier collapsing on a Broadway stage. And it helps that the songs fucking RAWK!. . . it's theater that makes you feel good. It has the feeling of "Hey let's put on a show" – except that the performances are actually really tight - you don't get that level of songs and elaborate sets without some hard work."
-Culturebot
"Loud, low budget, raggedy, and with a few beers in you, pretty freaking funny."
-Time Out NY
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"For Christian Trosclair, the pirate scene isn't about entertainment, fashion, art or history.
"It's about being ridiculous and absurd," said Trosclair, 32, standing in line in pirate gear before a recent "Jollyship the Whiz-Bang" performance in New York. Brooklyn-based "Whiz-Bang" is part puppet act, part rock band. The seven-member group started doing pirate stuff in front of a dozen or so people a few years ago and are now selling out 200-seat venues. . . ."Pirates have always been cool," said Raja Azar, 26, the shaggy haired key board player and co-founder. "You can project more with pirates, more so than with robots or ninjas," he said, wearing a striped tank top, black studded pants and boots with bare feet as he stood aboard a boat before the gig."
-REUTERS, India, August 21, 2006
"The final fling of the evening was given over to a gang (perhaps I should say 'horde', as there were about a million of them) called Jollyship the Whiz-Bang. With a name like that, you'd probably guess that here you have a band that could comfortably be described as 'eccentric'. For sheer entertainment and a certain youthful zest and diablerie though, they were hard to fault. Besides, I can't but feel an affinity for a band whose members all look like they regularly got the shit kicked out of them in school."
-Somebody's Blog, after a show in Limerick ("Stab City"), Ireland
"Dirty dirty dirty, scurvy scurvy scurvy . . . Give me some of that PIRATE LOVE!"
-Nonsense NYC
"Shows that really kick ass. . . grab your eye patch and staple a stuffed parrot to your shoulder."
"Creepy, but funny."
-Carter, Sonna's K-1 Class
Review of "The Colonists," a new show (non pirate related) created by Jollyship the Whiz-Bang for Hoontown puppet festival in Bangkok
"The show itself was a singular mixture of hi-tech and low: in one scene, the Queen Bee (manipulated by a puppeteer in jumpsuit) carefully fertilizes a honeycomb, and each cell lights up one by one as she graces it with her larvae. A few feet away, puppeteers wiggle cardboard honeycomb and jump in place to the music. The story moved forward at a rare, dreamlike pace amidst crowded, century-old homes and residents hawking spicy papaya salad and sticky rice.
-"Bangkok's Puppet Town," Dragonfire
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Q: Find minimum value in 2d array I want to make a generic method which returns the minimum value of a two dimensional array.I am going by the following code:
public static <T extends Comparable<T>> T Max(T[][]stuff) {
    T min = stuff[0][0];
    for (T[] row : stuff) {
        for (T elt : row) {
            if (elt.compareTo(min) > 0) {
                max = elt;
            }
        }
    }
    return max;
}

But in stead of max, I need to find min and I have to use the signature:
public static E Min<E>(E[,] matrix) where E : IComparable<E>

Sorry if this sounds like homework but I just can't wrap my head around it. Help would be very much appreciated.

A: A simple solution would be
    public static <T extends Comparable<T>> T min(T[][]stuff) {
    T min = stuff[0][0];
    for (T[] row : stuff) {
        for (T elt : row) {
            if (elt.compareTo(min) < 0)
                min = elt;
        }
    }

    return min;
}

A: Functional approach:
Optional<T> min = Arrays.stream(stuff)
            .flatMap(Arrays::stream)
            .min(Comparable::compareTo);


A happy home team celebrating victory in the fourth leg of the FEI Nations Cup Europe Division 2. Photo (c) FEI/everhorsephoto.com/T. Bisgaard.
It was Danish delight in Uggerhalne (DEN) on Saturday evening when the host nation won the fourth leg of the FEI Nations Cup Europe Division 2 league with an impressive performance including a sensational double-clear from Søren Møller Rohde. There's nothing quite like a victory on home ground, and this was the first for ten years so there were big celebrations when France and Sweden had to settle for joint runner-up spot ahead of Belgium in fourth place.
Success was sealed by second-round clears from Lars Bak Andersen riding Carrasco (Caretino x Capitol I), Søren Møller Rohde with Velerne ASK (Cosimo x Carpaccio) and Thomas Sandgaard partnering Amarone (Arpeggio x Potsdam). Anchor man Thomas Velin with Chopin van het Moleneind (Quick Star x Darco) didn't need to go again as the result was already secured.
"We have often had a stupid pole and then you slip down the rankings. There have to be some clear rounds, and today we got them - it was amazing!" said Thomas Sandgaard.
The course designed by Bo Bak Andersen really tested the less experienced horses and riders in the closing stages as nerves began to fray. Denmark was equal-third with France and Belgium going into the second round with eight faults on the board, while Sweden and Great Britain shared the lead with just four each.
"All of the distances were a little long, but later on the course, suddenly it's getting short. It was really well designed. Bo always does that," Sandgaard explained. However, there were some superb performances from up-and-coming stars throughout the competition, and the talented French added just four faults to finish on a total of 12.
Philippe Le Jeune fielded yet another exciting young Belgian side, but adding eight to their scoreline their challenge faded, while the Swedish effort faltered when they had to count two single errors despite a brilliant double-clear from Alexander Zetterman with Cordalis (Corrado I x Lansing).
It seemed the British might just hold on for the win if Keith Shore with Mystic Hurricane (Tornado x Magic Motion) could stay clear and discard Louise Saywell's second-round 12 faults. But a foot in the influential open water, a pole off the last element of the Longines triple combination and a mistake at the final fence put paid to that, Matthew Sampson's single mistake with the fabulous stallion Jaguar vd Berghoeve (Emerald van't Ruytershof x Nabab de Reve) bringing their final tally to 20 despite the third double-clear of the day from William Funnell and Billy Buckingham (Billy Congo x Clover Hill).
"It was incredibly close after the first round, we had two teams with four penalties and three teams with eight. We were a little behind in scores, but it wasn't impossible and then I finished with a clear round, and Søren Møller does a second clear round, and then it starts to feel a bit like we could have a top three position. And when Sandgaard makes the third clear round we are definitely in the top two, then you add the mistakes from other riders and we win!" said a thrilled Lars Bak Andersen about the Danish victory.


Instead of the usual drudgery of slicing and dicing my objects up I am trying the crack it plug in. However, I'm using LW 9.3.1 and I keep getting an error.
Can anyone help me on this or suggest a differnet plug in?
make sure its aUB compliant plugin.
you could try the rosetta Version of LW. a quick search in this forum will explain.


Music can connect people who don't speak even the same language. It is a common tongue that cuts to the heart of human society. Ora Reed uses the power of music and faith to connect with people around the globe, serving as an ambassador for her home state and her culture.
Whether you know of Ora Reed or not, she represents the soul, arts, and culture of not just the people from her native Mississippi, but of creole people around the globe. Serving as the official Cultural Ambassador of Mississippi since 2006, she continues to perform around the world, putting a good foot forward for creole people everywhere.
Ora Reed was born in the rich cultural hotbed of Mississippi, in the city of Greenville, and grew up with her mother in the city of Lexington. Her mother recognized her potential from an early age, enrolling her in piano lessons at three, where she excelled at playing the "ABCs" on the piano. Throughout her elementary and high school years in Mississippi, and into college at Jackson State University, she continued working on her ability with the piano, clarinet, and violin.
However, despite all of this time practising on various instruments and perfecting her skills, it wasn't clear from the beginning that she would enjoy the career she has followed. Before moving to Baltimore, Maryland, to teach in the city's public school district, she performed at the world-famous Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas.
The experience at Caesar's Palace was surprisingly comfortable for Ora. It was also her first singing job and introduced others to the type of music she would go on to sing for years to come.
Every artist develops a style that is uniquely their own, and Ora is no different than any other artist in this respect. Although she is often classified as Jazz standard performer, her music touches on much deeper styles and topics than simply Jazz music alone. She is a woman of deep faith, and as such writes, performs, and sings music from genres such as Worship and Praise, Spirituals, Gospel, and even Pop.
Ora is more than just a singer and piano player to many people. Her music and albums, such as, "Simply Black and White", call attention to issues of racial and religious tensions, and efforts to reconcile those problems.
Perhaps the most common theme in her music is her Christian faith. Ora is a devout Christian, and as a four-time survivor of cancer, she credits her faith in God for her ability to face down and defeat cancer on numerous occasions. She uses her music and position to call attention to women's health issues, and focuses on the importance of faith in life. Her music has touched lives in various corners of the world.
Ora's voice, whether you hear it in a song or listen to her give an interview on the radio, captures the imagination. She is quite clearly a person with a wonderful disposition who believes in spreading faith, joy, and personal strength to others. In her own words, "no matter what continent you are on, or country you are in, music is truly a universal language. I am so aware of this when I share in a church service where no English is spoken and I know the message of music has touched hearts".
As her musical career began to blossom, she found herself performing around the globe in front of audiences of various faiths, nationalities, and cultural identities. She has performed concerts, both Jazz and Worship, in Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Malaysia, and the United Arab Emirates. Her voice has graced the inside of Carnegie Hall, and she has performed at home with the Mississippi Orchestra.
Away from her life as a musician, though still connected to it, Ora has served in many organisations. She has been an administrative assistant to a Mississippi state senator, to the President of the National Baptist Convention, worked as a concert promotions manager, and even as a PR consultant to Mission Mississippi, and in a Christian organization that works to bridge the racial and religious divides in her native state.
Serving as the Cultural Ambassador for Mississippi, Ora believes in always putting her best foot forward. She views her role as a representative of Mississippians and creole people as critically important. She observes, "When you meet foreign people who do not understand where you're from, as a cultural ambassador, you are going to contribute to the impression people develop of that region".
After years of living abroad, including six years in Japan and one year in Brazil, Ora has returned to live part-time in her native Mississippi. She continues to work as a cultural ambassador for the state, and supports the blossoming arts and culture of the people of Mississippi. The Riley Center at Mississippi State University is the state's hub for performing arts, including an opera hall and smaller performing arts centre that Ora loves to perform at in support of arts and culture in her home state.
Today, in addition to seeing Ora at the Riley Center, those interested in her soulful, faith-based music and Jazz standards can catch her at smaller venues as well, such as events like "An Evening with Ora Reed".


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Ankeny Fanatic announces its all-time Ankeny boys' basketball team
It's been more than a month since the Ankeny boys' basketball team capped off an amazing postseason run by winning the Class 4A state title at Wells Fargo Arena. Man, I miss sports. The Hawks' 78-70 victory over Waukee in the championship game was played before a sparse crowd because both schools were limited to just 100 fans due to concern over spread … [Read more...] about Ankeny Fanatic announces its all-time Ankeny boys' basketball team
Bayless, McCullough named to Register's Class 4A all-state first team
Ankeny's Braxton Bayless and Ankeny Centennial's Cody McCullough racked up some more postseason honors on Friday. The two boys' basketball standouts were both named to the Class 4A all-state first team by The Des Moines Register. The duo was previously selected to the Class 4A first team by the Iowa Print Sports Writers Association. Bayless, a senior … [Read more...] about Bayless, McCullough named to Register's Class 4A all-state first team
Bayless, McCullough, Crews, Johnson earn all-state honors from IPSWA
Four of the state's top 24 boys' basketball players in Class 4A played for either state champion Ankeny or CIML Central Conference champ Ankeny Centennial, according to the Iowa Print Sports Writers Association. Senior guard Braxton Bayless of Ankeny and senior forward Cody McCullough of Centennial were both selected to the Class 4A all-state first team … [Read more...] about Bayless, McCullough, Crews, Johnson earn all-state honors from IPSWA
Ankeny Fanatic Podcast: Episode 87
Check out the latest edition of the Ankeny Fanatic weekly podcast sponsored by the Ankeny office of Iowa Realty. Ankeny boys' basketball coach Brandt Carlson and one of his top players, Jordan Kumm, stopped by to recap the Hawks' state championship with Ankeny Fanatic publisher Dan Holm, who also interviewed Tim Scheib--one of the players on Ankeny's 1995 … [Read more...] about Ankeny Fanatic Podcast: Episode 87
'He's an animal': McCullough sets school record with 24 rebounds in Jaguars' loss
Bob Fontana got a little choked up following Friday's Class 4A consolation game at the boys' state basketball tournament. He knew he had coached the seniors on his Ankeny Centennial squad for the last time. "It's real tough with these guys because they've been so good," Fontana said following the Jaguars' 65-58 loss to Cedar Falls at Wells Fargo Arena. … [Read more...] about 'He's an animal': McCullough sets school record with 24 rebounds in Jaguars' loss


"Thank you, father!" And with that he was off and out into the rain.
The eleven-year old boy walked the streets of the town, going from door to door, handing a Gospel tract to all he met. Two hours later he was soaked, bone-chilled, wet and down to his very last tract. He stopped on the street corner and looked for someone to whom he could pass on this very last one, but the streets were totally deserted.
He then turned toward the first home he saw, went up to the front door and rang the bell. Nobody answered. He rang it again and again but still no answer. He waited and still no answer. Finally he turned to leave but something stopped him. Again he turned to face the door, he rang the bell, and also knocked loudly on the door. He waited, something was holding him there at the front door. He rang once again and this time the door slowly opened.
Quietly and slowly in the back row an elderly lady stood up. As she began to speak a look of glorious radiance was upon her face.
She said, "No one in his meeting knows me. I've never been here before. You see, before last Sunday I was not a believer. My husband passed away some time ago, leaving me totally alone in this world.
Last Sunday being a particularly cold and rainy day, it was even more so cold in my heart, for I had come to the end of all hope – I could no longer go on. I had no desire nor will to live. So, I took a rope and chair and ascended the stairway into the attic. I fastened the rope securely to a rafter in the roof, then stood upon the chair and fastened the other end of the rope around my neck. Standing upon that chair, so lonely and miserable, I was about to leap off when suddenly the loud ringing of my doorbell downstairs startled me. I thought, I'll wait a minute and whoever it is will go away. I waited and waited but the ringing of the doorbell seemed to get louder and more insistent. Then the person ringing the doorbell began to also knock loudly. I thought to myself, who on earth can this be? Nobody ever rings my bell or come to see me.
By this time there were now no dry eyes, and shouts of praise and thanksgiving resounded to the very rafters of the building. Pastor-dad descended from the pulpit to the front seat where the little lad was seated. He took his son up in his arms and sobbed uncontrollably.
This little lad reminds me of your spirit! God bless you pastor Malcomson. Always praying for you, sister Malcomson and the church there. Glory be to God and His mercies!


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Coronavirus research study shows SEX could be spreading the illness
Out of the group of recovering coronavirus patients, one in six was discovered to have traces of COVID-19 in their semen, even after no longer being symptomatic. This could mean that the contagious virus can be transmitted through sex, similar to Zika and Ebola which also are found in some semen samples.
Although the testing was not conclusive that coronavirus can be passed during intercourse, it is being considered a possibility.
The outcome of the research prompted the team to issue a warning to refrain from sex while infected and during recovery.
In the world, so far, there have been 3.7 million cases of coronavirus reported.
Sex could be spreading the coronavirus suggests a new study by researchers in China (Image: GETTY)
The contagious virus can be transmitted through sex, similarly to Zika and Ebola (Image: GETTY)
However, this statistic does not include those who have not been hospitalised or tested.
Meaning that potentially millions more could have been exposed to or infected with COVID-19.
The study took place at Shangqiu Municipal Hospital, the only designated centre for the treatment of COVID-19 in Shangqiu, Henan province.
Men over the age of 15 who had tested positive for the virus between January 26 and February 16 gave semen samples.
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In the world, there have been 3.7 million cases of coronavirus that have been reported. (Image: GETTY)
39.5 per cent of the 38 men were in the acute stage of infection, while the rest had recovered.
The most important observation by the researchers was the 8.7 per cent that had recovered from the virus, yet still had traces in their semen.
Conclusions of the tests revealed no clear pattern between the men
The participants were between their 20's to 50s. and the symptoms started six and 16 days prior to providing the semen sample.
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Conclusions of the tests revealed no clear pattern between the men (Image: GETTY)
The participants were between their 20's to 50s. (Image: GETTY)
Implications of coronavirus's impact upon the male reproductive system are yet to be studied.
However, urologists at Nanjing University have previously suggested that COVID-10 can cause testicular damage.
The men in the Shanggiu Hospital study were not called back to provide another sample, meaning it's hard to tell how long the virus can remain in semen for.
The authors of the paper noted that the coronavirus may one day be found to be sexually transmissible.
UK coronavirus map live. (Image: EXPRESS)
They wrote: "If it could be proved that SARS-CoV-2 can be transmitted sexually in future studies, Sexual transmission might be a critical part of the prevention of transmission."
"Especially considering the fact that SARS-CoV-2 was detected in the semen of recovering patients.
"Even if the virus cannot replicate in the male reproductive system, it may persist.
"Abstinence or condom use might be considered as preventive means for these patients.
Implications of coronavirus's impact upon the male reproductive system are yet to be studied. (Image: GETTY)
"To avoid contact with the patient's saliva and blood may not be enough since the survival of SARS-CoV-2 in a recovering patient's semen maintains the likelihood to infect others."
This breakthrough study could open the door to more in-depth observations and prove whether the virus can be transferred during sex.
Professor Richard Sharpe, MRC Centre for Reproductive Health, University of Edinburgh gave his opinion on the research.
"This finding raises the possibility that COVID-19 might also be transmissible via semen (and thus via sexual contact), perhaps including during the recovery phase – which would have disease management implications."
Source: Daily Express
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