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Overall Outlook - A year ago, Josh Nesbitt ran for 693 yards, passed for another 808 while leading Johnson's heralded triple-option offense. With a year of experience, Nesbitt, a junior, should be better.
"Last year, I really did not know what I was doing," he said. "Now it is about taking things from the film room and going out and executing on the field."
Nesbitt's capable backup last season, Jaybo Shaw, broke his collarbone in the preseason and is expected to miss at least half the season. Red-shirt freshman Tevin Washington, a dangerous runner, moves up to No. 2.
Keys To Success - Nesbitt, who missed two games last season, must stay healthy which is no easy task in the triple option where the quarterback can get hit on every rushing attempt.
Despite the run-first mentality, Nesbitt will have to air it out at times to keep opposing defenses honest. Tech ranked 116th out of 119 teams in the Football Bowl Subdivision in passing yardage and Nesbitt's completion percentage was only 43.9.
Grade - B plus.
Overall Outlook - The Atlantic Coast Conference's Player of the Year Jonathan Dwyer and a group of speedy slotbacks hit the league by storm last season. Dwyer led the ACC with 1,395 rushing yards and 12 touchdowns. Coach Paul Johnson says the junior might be the best player in the country.
Sophomore slotback Roddy Jones, an outside threat, makes the inside power running of Dwyer more dangerous. Jones, who had 214-yard breakout game against Georgia, averaged 8.5 yards a carry.
Keys To Success - Opposing defenses will be keying on Dwyer so Johnson will have to find innovative ways of getting him the ball.
And Dwyer must return this season with the same determination he displayed a year ago.
Along with Jones, Embry Peeples and Marcus Wright, are also burners at slotback. Lucas Cox averaged a productive 7.7 yards a carry and scored three touchdowns. Newcomer Anthony Allen, a transfer from Louisville, ran for more than 1,100 yards and 20 touchdowns in two years.
Grade - A.
Overall Outlook - Three returning linemen, including an anchor in second-team All-ACC guard Cord Howard, give coach Paul Johnson a lot to work with. Last season, the Jackets ran for 273.2 yards a game which led the ACC and ranked fourth in the FBS. Howard (6-5, 300), Dan Voss (6-4, 300) and Joseph Gilbert (6-4, 284) provide power up the middle. Sean Bradford (a 6-1, 267 center) and converted tight end Brad Sellers (a 6-2, 250 tackle) are expected to start. Austin Barrick (6-4, 254) and Nick Claytor (6-6, 286) played well at tackle after earning starts during a key November stretch.
Keys To Success - Most running backs will tell you a play's success starts upfront. Johnson knows this and recruited seven offensive linemen in his first two classes with Tech. The line was thin last season, but despite learning a new scheme from a new coach, the unit held its own on the line of scrimmage and the rushing attack averaged 5.6 yards a carry. Tech allowed 19 sacks (approximately 1.5 a game) but that was a lot for a team throwing less than 13 times a game.
Grade - B minus
Overall Outlook - Seems like the solution would be easy for a defense playing Tech. Wideout Demaryius Thomas caught 39 balls a year ago - the rest of the team caught 35. So opponents should hedge their coverage toward Thomas, right. Of course that's easier said than done. The triple option almost forces the single coverage on the outside and Thomas is thriving. He had all nine of his team's pass receptions for 230 yards and a touchdown against Duke.
Keys To Success - For the passing game to work, Tech will need someone other than Thomas to emerge as a threat.
Sophomores Tyler Melton and Zach Fisher saw playing time last season. Melton started the 2008 season as a true freshman, but suffered a knee injury in October. Red-shirt freshmen Quentin Sims and Daniel McKayhan are expected to contribute this season.
Grade - C plus.
Overall Outlook - It's easy to talk about who's gone. NFL draft picks Michael Johnson (17.5 TFL, 9 sacks), Vance Walker and Darryl Richard were three-fourths of a highly regarded front four that started all but one game last season. End Derrick Morgan is back and that's not a bad anchor for the newcomers. Morgan, an honorable mention All-ACC performer last season, had 9.5 tackles for losses, seven sacks and four fumble recoveries.
Keys To Success - Tech needs production from players who are elevating from backups to starters. Robert Hall, a junior, is the heir apparent to replace Johnson. Jason Peters and Ben Anderson must handle the middle. At 6-7, 353 pounds, T.J. Barnes has the ability to fill big shoes, literally and figuratively. Freshman defensive end Izaan Cross has been impressive in camp.
Grade - C.
Overall Outlook - A veteran, versatile group returns several playmakers. Cooper Taylor, who plays a hybrid outside linebacker/defensive back called wolf, was second on the team with 69 tackles. Sedric Griffin started 11 games at outside linebacker and recorded eight tackles for losses, three sacks and 53 tackles (fourth on the team).
Keys To Success -With some question marks from an inexperienced defensive line in front, the linebackers will be asked to help in run support along with putting pressure on the quarterback. Brad Jefferson, Kyle Jackson and freshman Julian Burnett must plug the middle, allowing Taylor to roam.
Grade - B.
Defensive backs
Overall Outlook - One of the strongest parts of the secondary is strong safety Morgan Burnett, A second-team All-ACC performer who led the team with 93 tackles, seven interceptions and eight pass breakups.
Junior cornerback Mario Butler started every game last season and sophomore Rashaad Reid got the starting nod in the final eight games.
Keys To Success - The talented secondary must hold up in one-on-one scenarios if the Yellow Jackets look to blitz. Sophomore Jarrard Tarrant, who was suspended last season, was a candidate to start before the suspension was handed down. Freshman Jemea Thomas has raised eyebrows and should help with depth.
Overall Outlook - Special teams weren't very special at Tech last season. The Jackets ranked 11th in net punting, 10th in kickoff returns and ninth in punt returns among ACC teams. Scott Blair, who handled all the kicking chores last season, will concentrate on kickoffs and placekicking. Chandler Anderson takes over as punter.
Roddy Jones led the team with a 23.6-yard average on kickoff returns.
Keys To Success - By relieving some of his kicking chores, Tech is hoping Blair can increase his long-distance kicking. Blair made 12 of 13 field-goal attempts inside 40 yards, but was 0 for 6 from outside 40.
Overall Outlook - Few coaches are better thinking on their feet than Paul Johnson, who calls his own plays from the sidelines. Who would question him? Johnson, the inventor of the triple option spread offense, has compiled a 116-43 record during his first 12 seasons as a head coach. Sports Illustrated predicted Tech to win three games last season. The Jackets won nine. SI has Tech ranked 12th this season.
Keys To Success - One of the most cerebral coaches on the collegiate level, Johnson will be called on to add some wrinkles to the offense as opposing defenses figure out what he was doing last season. Being a step ahead, however, is where Johnson, the 2008 ACC Coach of the Year, excels.
Coach Paul Johnson and his triple-option offense surprised the Atlantic Coast Conference a year ago and catapulted Georgia Tech to the league's elite.
The nine wins, a share of the Coastal Division title, a victory over rival Georgia, an appearance in the Chick-fil-A Bowl and a season-ending No. 22 ranking however, are in the media guide.
Now the Yellow Jackets' success has spawned a new question for the 2009 season - without the element of surprise, will Tech have similar success?
Johnson has the offensive weapons in place, and a year of experience might make the Jackets more lethal. Problem is the defense is rebuilding.
So hold on. One way or another Tech's season promises to be exciting.


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Indian Salesian abducted in Yemen freed
Indian Salesian Father Tom Uzhunnalil, who was abducted by Islamic State militants in Yemen and held captive for more than a year, has been freed. He is pictured in an undated photo. (CNS photo/courtesy of Salesians)
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Indian Salesian Father Tom Uzhunnalil, who was abducted by Islamic State militants in Yemen and held captive for more than a year, was freed.
According to Oman's state-run news agency ONA, Fr. Uzhunnalil was "rescued" by Oman authorities "in coordination with the Yemeni parties."
Upon his release, the Salesian priest "expressed thanks to God almighty and appreciation to His Majesty Sultan Qaboos (of Oman). He also thanked his brothers and sisters and all relatives and friends who called on God for safety and release," ONA reported Sept. 12.
Fr. Uzhunnalil was kidnapped March 4, 2016, from a home for the aged and disabled run by the Missionaries of Charity in Aden, Yemen. Four Missionaries of Charity and 12 others were murdered in the attack.
"We express our deep gratitude to God for the happy conclusion of this incident," Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas, secretary general of the Indian bishops' conference, told Fides, the news agency of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Sept. 12.
He also expressed the bishops' "immense gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and to Sushma Swaraj, Minister of Foreign Affairs, for having worked tirelessly for the release of Father Tom Uzhunnalil. In several meetings, the foreign minister assured us that the (Indian) government would do everything possible to release him."
Bishop Mascarenhas also thanked Pope Francis, "who has used all his influence" to ensure the Salesian priest's release.
After his release, the Vatican issued a statement thanking "all those who worked for his release, and especially His Majesty the sultan of Oman and the competent authorities of the sultanate."
The statement said Fr. Uzhunnalil would stay with the Salesian community in Rome for a few days before returning to India.
Sr. Mary Prema Pierick, superior general of the Missionaries of Charity, said she was "overwhelmed with joy for this good news."
"We never abandoned the hope that one day Fr. Tom would be released. His photograph is attached to Mother Teresa's tomb. The sisters, the poor and the people prayed every day for his liberation. We give glory to God and thank all those who prayed and worked untiringly for the release of Fr. Tom," Sr. Prema told AsiaNews Sept. 12.
Born in Kerala, India, the 56-year-old priest had been serving in Yemen for the past four years as a chaplain to the sisters.
Yemen has been experiencing a political crisis since 2011 and is often described as being in a state of civil war with members of the Shiite and Sunni Muslim communities vying for power; in the midst of the tensions, terrorist groups have been operating in the country, including groups believed to be associated with the so-called Islamic State and al-Qaida.
Although most Christians have fled the country, a handful of Salesian priests and about 20 Missionaries of Charity chose to stay and continue their ministry.
(March 2017) Prayers planned for kidnapped Indian Salesian
(April 2016) Pope urges kidnappers to release captives
When the situation in Yemen began to deteriorate, two of the five Salesians, including Fr. Uzhunnalil, decided to stay in the country along with a handful of other Catholics despite the risks to their safety, Salesian Father Francesco Cereda, vicar of the order's superior, told AsiaNews March 10, 2016.
The murder of the four Missionaries of Charity and Fr. Uzhunnalil's abduction was denounced by Pope Francis as an "act of senseless and diabolical violence."
The pope continued to call for Fr. Uzhunnalil's release and "for the liberation of all people kidnapped in areas of armed conflict."
Following the anniversary of his kidnapping, a video of the Salesian father was posted on YouTube by the news site, Aden Time, May 8. Appearing heavily bearded and frail, Fr. Uzhunnalil was shown seated with a cardboard sign on his lap with the date April 15, 2017. A similar video was posted in December.
Without describing his captors or referring to them as such, he said, "they are treating me well to the extent that they are able."
"My health condition is deteriorating quickly and I require hospitalization as early as possible," he said.
ONA published a picture of Fr. Uzhunnalil "appearing in good health" following his release and transfer to the Omani capital, Muscat.
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Safety the key for F1 post-Senna
April 14, 2004 10:30 IST
Jackie Stewart was probably the only person fretting about thermal underwear at Bahrain's desert circuit.
"You look at the drivers here and they will all have short-sleeved thermal (fireproof) underwear and shorts," declared the Scot, a tireless campaigner on safety issues as a three-times Formula One champion.
"Not good. They should have full length thermal underwear right down to their ankles...I think it should be compulsory for every driver."
When it comes to Formula One safety, there is always something to worry about.
Next week's San Marino Grand Prix marks a return, possibly for the last time, to the Imola circuit where Brazil's three-times champion Ayrton Senna and Austrian Roland Ratzenberger died a decade ago.
That weekend was a watershed for the sport, Formula One's last fatalities turning safety into an absolute priority. Much has been achieved since then.
"For 10 years we haven't lost a driver," said Stewart. "For twelve-and-a-half years before that weekend we hadn't lost a driver. That's pretty impressive. More people die fishing than die in Formula One cars.
"That doesn't mean to say that tomorrow or the next day we can't have a terrible accident. But what has been done for safety is immense."
The tragic weekend of 1994, coupled with Austrian Karl Wendlinger's serious accident at Monaco a few weeks later, came as a wake-up call.
The sport's biggest crisis in years prompted immediate changes, with measures including cars being modified to reduce downforce and engine sizes cut from three-and-a-half litres to three.
Tethers were introduced to prevent wheels flying off, crash tests became far more stringent, and circuits underwent substantial modifications.
Most recently, drivers have been forced to wear HANS head and neck restraints to limit their vulnerability in head-on accidents.
"I think there was a certain amount of complacency by the time Imola happened but I don't believe that's the case any longer," International Automobile Federation (FIA) President Max Mosley told Reuters.
"The real legacy for Formula One from Imola has been the (FIA) safety commission and the research group," he added. "They meet regularly and constantly work on safety, trying to update and upgrade it all the time.
"None of that means that we couldn't have a serious accident, in fact we've been quite lucky once or twice. But it reduces the probability.
"It's very, very seldom now that if something is shown to be safer that we can't get immediate unanimous agreement to bring it in," said Mosley.
"I think (Imola) was certainly when Formula One woke up to the idea that safety had to be attacked scientifically and systematically and on an ongoing basis, just as the performance of the cars was."
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Mosley said making the cars stronger was one thing but it was equally important to prevent the driver being subjected to G-forces greater than his body could withstand.
"That means crashes have to be progressive so one's always looking at better barriers, better ways of absorbing an impact to the cars, of slowing the cars down between the moment of lost control and impact if there is one," he said.
"It's now a programme of many measures, each of which depends on the other."
Senna would probably have survived a similar accident on the old Imola circuit at the wheel of a modern car, such have been the advances made, but there will always be an element of luck.
It was former champion Niki Lauda who said at Imola that "God has had his hand over Formula One for a long time. This weekend, he took it away".
It could happen again, however many precautions are taken, and Mosley is particularly concerned at present with indications that cornering speeds are again rising sharply.
He said the most important thing was to never be in a situation where you could do something and did not do it.
The Briton cast his mind back to his own days as a Formula Two racer, recalling his first race at Hockenheim in the 1960s and how three of the 21 drivers on the starting grid died in the space of four months.
"It was like being in Vietnam," said Mosley. "And the worst thing was you knew that it was preventable. It really wouldn't take that much to see that it didn't happen.
"Things that are nerve-racking to watch, like a trapeze artist, don't depend on somebody getting killed every now and then," he added.
"I think one of the great myths is that Formula One is less interesting because it isn't as dangerous as it was. All the figures point the other way.
"In the days when it killed at least one person a year, it had virtually no television coverage...Now it's become much safer and it's up there with football.
"I think that if a sport starts to kill people, you won't have the sport for very long."
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College of the Canyons sophomore guard Keiona Mathews was named the Western State Conference, North Division, Player of the Year and sophomore guard Shawn Kolani garnered first-team all-conference honors, as voted on by the conference coaches.
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The No. 13 seed College of the Canyons women's basketball team went scoreless for the final five minutes of the first half and never recovered, as the Cougars lost to No. 4 Pasadena City College, 77-59, in the second round of the California Community College Athletic Associations Southern California Regional Playoffs on Saturday night at Hutto-Patterson Gymnasium.
Women's Basketball Team's Second-Round Playoff Game Postponed To Saturday
The College of the Canyons women's basketball CCCAA Southern California Regional Second Round game against Pasadena City College has been postponed, due to a power outage at the school, and will be played on Saturday, March 1 at 7 p.m. at Hutto-Patterson Gymnasium.
Women's Basketball Team Donned No. 13 Squad in Regional Playoffs
The College of the Canyons women's basketball team was tabbed as the No. 13 seed in the 2014 CCCAA Women's Basketball Regional Championships, and will travel to No. 4 Pasadena City College on Friday, Feb. 28 for a second-round game, it was announced on Monday afternoon.
Women's Basketball Late Rally Falls Short In Final Regular Season Game
The College of the Canyons women's basketball team rallied from and 18-point deficit in the final regular season game of the year, but ran out of gas in the final minutes and was edged by Allan Hancock, 75-72, on Saturday afternoon in the Cougar Cage.
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The College of the Canyons women's basketball was downed by No. 1 Ventura College, 86-66, on Wednesday night at the VC Athletic Event Center.
COC Women's Basketball Overcomes 19-Point Deficit
The College of the Canyons women's basketball team outscored No. 19 Cuesta College 44-29 in the second half on Saturday night to beat the visiting Cougars, 73-66, at the Cougar Cage.
Mathews Breaks Three School Records In Victory Over Moorpark College
College of the Canyons sophomore Keiona Mathews broke her own single game scoring record and tallied the most free throw attempts and makes in Cougar history on Wednesday night as Canyons beat Moorpark College, 100-91.
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Kolani Scores Career High 30 Points In Victory
Sophomore guard Shawn Kolani scored a career-high 30 points to lead the College of the Canyons women's basketball team past LA Pierce College, 103-87, on Saturday night.
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Tribal chiefs and escaping teens. Sunrise Gili Air, Indonesia
It was fascinating to hear about the life behind the scenes at the paradise hotel Sunrise Gili Air. As a European, the first thing you think of isn't exactly clinking sabers with the tribal chiefs. Do you dare to keep reading?
Few hotels seep straight through the skin. At few hotels do you get so comfortable that leaving is hard. We wanted to know more about this place. I sit at the beach bar with the owner lady of Sunrise Gili Air, sipping cappuccino. Kirsten begins to tell me about hotel life and the cultural differences between Westerners and Indonesians.
A story about men and women
A striking percentage of the people working with tourists at Gili Islands are men. The waiters, construction workers, janitors, cooks – almost all of them men. The paradise-like Gili Islands: Trawangan, Meno and Gili Air are located a few hours boat ride away from the more liberal-minded Bali, but Gili is situated right next to conservative Lombok. The reason for the male dominance has to do especially with the conservative attitudes of Lombok; with the influence of the main religion, Islam; and with traditions. Every local is a member of a tribe that's lead by a tribal chief.
Gili Islands are, according to tribal chiefs and family men, places where "tourists run half-naked." This, in turn, is not an appropriate place for local women. On the other hand, there are normal families on the island and we didn't encounter a single burka. Some locals covered their hair with a scarf, but none of the few women working with tourists did. These women are, as a rule, unmarried. After getting married the work pretty much ends, because a woman needs the husband's permission to work. You can probably guess whether getting that permission comes easily…
A story about Indonesian teen love
People get married young in and around Lombok. A boy can take a girl out on a date during daylight,
but no intimate contact is allowed. If the father feels that the girl is brought back home too late – say, at 6:30PM at night – the couple must get married. Sleeping overnight is absolutely out of the question before marriage. So how do you date here? Young people are known for being inventive when it comes to getting to the object of their fancy. A girl can, for example, go sleep with a girlfriend of hers and wait until the parents make a check-up call or two. Then it's time to sneak out of the friend's house and to the boy's, and then head somewhere safe to spend the night. The story doesn't reveal whether the boy's parents' are in on the scheme… Some of the marriages are still arranged, but there is a growing amount of marriages that happen out of love.
There is a bride price, or a bride token, that is paid to the in-laws. The bride's parents decide on a fitting sum, which is then negotiated. One of the local young men whom we encountered started the negotiations at 40
million rupees and ended up at 6 million. This sum – equivalent to 400 euros – is a lot of money on the local pay
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A story about the power of tribal chiefs
I got hung up on the concept of tribal chief, which felt unfamiliar and somehow – well, African. What kind of a power do these people, the elderly of the village, possess? Kirsten lets out a dry laugh, leans back and says, "Guess how many of the hotel's 90 workers have been here since last September?"
The owner couple had noticed problems with some of the older employees and decided to take a new direction in motivating and guiding the employees. They hired a highly qualified and strict woman named Udina from the island of Java to be the hotel executive. The tight regime did not please the men and they went to the tribal chief and told him that they could not possibly receive these kinds of orders from a woman. The tribal chief came to talk to the hotel owners and announced that the woman must leave. After negotiations the owner couple said that this behavior discriminated women and that they had no intention of getting rid of a skillful employee because of the reasons presented to them.
The story gets even more strange. The tribal chief proclaimed in a dictator-like way that if the woman would not leave, he would order the rest of the personnel to go on strike. All 90 employees would up and leave, if the woman would not pack her belongings. And this really was what happened. In September 2015, 81 employees marched out and only 9 loyal workers stayed to run the fully booked hotel.
Imagine a situation where 9 people take care of 90 people's jobs. The restaurant had to be closed. The owners bought and dealt out breakfast vouchers from a nearby restaurant. Cleaning, hotel reservations and all other hotel activities relied on a few people. At this point the employees who stayed began receiving threatening text messages. The messages warned that if the employees wouldn't resign, their families would be killed. For real. Police from outside of the island had to be called in to investigate. The situation calmed down for a moment and then a new wave began. A rumor started spreading according to which the hotel was anti-Islam. The police was called back in.
How did this unbelievable saga end? Pretty well. Nobody died, Udina stayed as executive, 81 employees left and
they were replaced by people from the outside. The hotel stayed up and kept running without the tourists noticing a thing. There is a truce with the tribal chief. The situation was so stressful, however, that after six months Udina decided to leave the island and switch jobs. So who won?
A story about money
So what are job interviews like in Indonesia? Blunt, I heard. The potential employees always have two questions to begin with. First one is about the pay .The second one is how much "food money" they'll get. Food plays a very important part in Indonesia and therefore there isn't only one total pay sum, but each employee also gets to take with her or him a daily amount of cash – "food money" – which is for eating that day. This money you don't take with you home.
Follow your dreams. This reads on the pages of the notebook that's from Sunrise Gili Air. How far are you willing to follow yours and defend them?
Why our choice was Sunrise Gili Air
The beautiful bungalows were spacious and decorated with good taste, and especially the bigger condos facing the sea were luxurious. Downstairs has sleeping space with ventilation. The bathroom is under the sky and upstairs has a nice area with hammocks and couches for hanging out partly under the stars
Heavenly breakfast. In addition to Asian noodle breakfast and the basic toast and bacon, there are homemade croissants, yoghurt, muesli, and fruit.
A handy sun deck which is practically above the sea and next to the delicious Le Cirque restaurant whose desserts are almost too good.
Sunrise Gili Air is convenient for families with kids. Alternating between the sea and the pools is fast. The hotel food is also so good, that you'll often find yourself eating there.
The coral reef with its colorful fish is right in front of the hotel, on a prime spot. All you need to do is get in the water with a mask, snorkels and flippers.
The service is really friendly and the hotel personnel is genuinely present.
True to its name, fabulous sunrises that you can enjoy from your own bungalow.
The hotel's homepage can be found at: www.sunrisegiliair.com
Read more about the hotel from Miika and Gia's fabulous blog post (in Finnish)Unelma, paratiisi ja hotelli –Sunrise Gili Air.
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Saudi Arabia rejects U.S. intelligence report on Khashoggi's killing: statement
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(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia said it rejected completely "the negative, false and unacceptable" assessment of a U.S. intelligence report released on Friday that found Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had approved the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler approved an operation to capture or kill the Washington Post columnist in 2018, the U.S. report said, as the United States sanctioned some of those involved but not the crown prince himself.
"The government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia completely rejects the .... assessment in the report pertaining to the Kingdom's leadership, and notes that the report contained inaccurate information and conclusions," the Saudi Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by state news agency SPA.
"The crime was committed by a group of individuals that have transgressed all pertinent regulations... and the kingdom's leadership took the necessary steps to ensure that such a tragedy never takes place again," the foreign ministry statement added.
A Saudi Arabian court jailed eight people last year for between seven and 20 years over the murder of Khashoggi after his family forgave his killers and enabled death sentences to be set aside.
Khashoggi, a critic of the crown prince, was last seen at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2, 2018, where he had gone to obtain documents for his impending wedding. His body was dismembered and removed from the building and his remains have not been found.
The murder caused a global uproar and tarnished the reformist image of Prince Mohammed, and strained the relationship between the U.S. and its closest Arab ally.
"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs affirms that the partnership between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States of America is a robust and enduring partnership," the statement said.
Reporting by Alaa Swilam and Omar Fahmy; Writing by Aziz El Yaakoubi; Editing by Howard Goller


Some people do their best to avoid hiring furniture movers in Brisbane, because they don't want to spend the extra money when their budget is already tight. Moving can be expensive, but the benefits of having someone else move all of your furniture and belongings is monumental, compared to a DIY move.
If you are on the fence and are unsure whether you can afford to hire furniture movers in Brisbane for your next move, your first step is to calculate the costs of hiring a truck yourself, the cost of fuel and the number of trips you will need to do. Next, compare the costs in time and money with the cost of hiring furniture movers in Brisbane to do it all for you. Furniture removalists will cost you more money than a DIY move, but sometimes it is worth paying the extra money to give yourself and your family a stress free move.
If you still think that hiring removalists is too expensive, here are 3 ways you can save money when hiring furniture movers in Brisbane.
1. Hold a garage sale: The more of a load you need moved, the greater the cost. So get rid of everything you don't need in your new life. If you are planning on buying a new sofa, bed, fridge or freezer for example, then get rid of them now and cut your removalist costs.
2. Book early: If you leave booking your removalists too close to your moving date, you might have to pay a premium, because they will have to try and slot you into their tight schedule. So make sure to book early and hopefully, you will be charged at a lower rate.
3. Be flexible: If you can fit in with the removalist's tight schedule and be flexible with your dates, then there is no reason not to ask them for a discount. This is a win-win situation, because they earn more money and your moving costs are discounted.
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TomorrowWorld officially kicks off this weekend. We've showed you the stunner site map, TomorrowWorld TV (for those of you who can't make it), the most explosive shots from TomorrowLand's 2013 installment, and now (since narrowing it down is tough, we've done it for you), the time has come for your guide to 10 of the top stages must-catch acts. ?


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Variational methods and effective algorithms for imaging and vision
Generative models, parameter learning and sparsity
Learned forward operators: Variational regularization for black-box models
Jonas Adler KTH - Royal Institute of Technology
Tuesday 31st October 2017 - 15:40 to 16:00
[VMVW02] Generative models, parameter learning and sparsity
In inverse problems, correct modelling of the forward model is typically one of the most important components to obtain good reconstruction quality. Still, most work is done on highly simplified forward models. For example, in Computed Tomography (CT), the true forward model, given by the solution operator for the radiative transport equation, is typically approximated by the ray-transform. The primary reason for this gross simplification is that the higher quality forward models are both computationally costly, and typically do not have an adjoint of the derivative of the forward operator that can be feasibly evaluated. The community is not un-aware of this miss-match, but the work has been focused on "the model is right, lets fix the data". We instead propose going the other way around by using machine learning in order to learn a mapping from the simplified model to the complicated model using deep neural networks. Hence instead of learning how to correct complicated data so that it matches a simplified forward model, we accept that the data is always right and instead correct the forward model. We then use this learned forward operator, which is given as a composition of a simplified forward operator and a convolutional neural network, as a forward operator in a classical variational regularization scheme. We give a theoretical argument as to why correcting the forward model is more stable than correcting the data and provide numerical examples in Cone Beam CT reconstruction.


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Nabucco doubts have upside for Nord Stream and South Stream
The EU commission has excluded the Nabucco pipeline from its list of priority projects. The change in mood by the European Union may speed up the construction of South and Nord stream pipelines.
The Nabucco gas pipeline via the Caspian Sea to the west will not receive the necessary 250 million euro the EU had planned to invest, after a decision taken on Thursday. Members of the EU commission have questioned Nabucco's urgency amid low energy prices and economic recession.
The head of Russia's Gas Society, Valery Yazev, also sees political reasons behind the EU's move to drop its previous enthusiastic support.
"The Nabucco project was mainly backed by the former US administration. It found grounds for the realization of the project after the gas conflict with Ukraine. The new administration has a more constructive approach to relations with Russia. It doesn't make sense amid a crisis to build a multi billion dollar pipeline with no gas – simply in order to punish Russia."
Without EU finance the future of the $10 billion pipeline is vague. Money is not the only problem. There isn't enough gas to fill the pipeline, Aleksandr Nazarov, Analyst at Metropol investment says.
"The only gas that can fill Nabucco is Turkmen gas – to reach it they will need to build another pipeline – Transcaspian – that will double the cost of the project."
Market watchers say Russia-backed Nord stream and especially South Stream pipelines may now gain additional support in the European Union. Nord Stream will start operating in 2011 transporting gas from Yuzhnorusskoe and later on from the offshore Shtockman gas fields to Europe.
Russia also plans to launch its South Stream pipeline in 2016 delivering up to 47 billion cubic meters of gas annually to the European clients. Gazprom plans to finish the feasibility study of the entire route by July next year.
Global carmakers in Russia prepare for the longer haul
Home Credit & Finance Bank boosts net profit 85% for FY 2008


The term "Chinese Medicine" refers to a number of different treatments and practices.
When all of the underlying forces and systems are in harmony and balance, health can be achieved and maintained.
The practice and teaching of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is more than 5000 years old. The earliest text on the subject, The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine (Huang Ti Nei Jing Su Wen Ling Shu'), said to be written in the 1st and 2nd centuries BC, is still relevant to the teaching of acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine today. Is TCM and Acupuncture right for me?
Scientific theory and investigations in recent history have added to our understanding of the physiological mechanisms that may contribute to the acupuncture effect, and to our understanding of the pharmacological basis of Chinese herbal medicine. However, the unifying framework of this form of holistic therapy was developed and refined during 5000 years of clinical application in China and many Asian countries.
The major theoretical foundations of this science remain unchanged. Its continued evolution as a therapeutic system, in view of the impact of Western medical practices, attests to the effectiveness of this method of treatment and the soundness of the ancient theoretical basis of diagnosis and practice that are used by the traditionally trained practitioner.


The application process is important. We want to make certain that we are a good fit for you. Our mastermind is power packed and action oriented. You will be provided with several resources, accountability for your next move and access to a multitude of ideas. All of these benefits depend on the level of commitment from the members of the group.
Please complete the application as it will be used for acceptance into the Mastermind. You will be contacted within 48 hours of completion into The Passionate CEO Mastermind.
If accepted, you will receive an agreement and payment details.
Choose the description that best fits your current situation. Choose the description that best fits your current situation. I'm looking for inspiration that helps me create the life I want for myself. I know what I want, but I need guidance and accountability on how to move with passion. I need accountability and resources to grow the business that I'm passionate about.
Describe your business 1 year from now.
The value you get from participating in the mastermind group depends on your commitment to do the work between meetings. Please expect to spend 2-3 hours in between meetings on assignments, conference calls and meeting preparation. How much time can you commit each month outside of the time spent listening to training info?
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Fabulous 4/4 floor plan with large rooms.Within walking distance from Beach, Wonderful gated community, East of A1A. Large private
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Mac OS X Java Update Causing Problems with Java Web Start?
The most recent Java auto-update through OS X (Leopard) is causing some problems with Java Web Start, the program used to launch the MDO Transporter program. If you've gone through the update and your Java Web Start is no longer available it means that the update wasn't completely successful.
A symptom of this is trying to launch a Java Web Start Application (Transporter for My Docs users) and having it open something that looks like a text file.
Fortunately there is a fairly simple solution to the problem. You can manually re-install the Java Update from this Apple location.
Let us know through the comments here if this doesn't work for you.
THANK YOU!!!! You have solved my problem and probably saved my thesis! This worked perfectly.
That's great! Thanks for leaving the comment and letting us know. Good luck with the thesis.
The installer could not install some files in "/".
Contact the manufacturer for assistance.
When I check for software updates it tells me that I need to install Java update 5 version 1 and then…wait, I have to close my browser for the install, I'll come back and tell you what the warning says.
do I need to reinstall mac os x leopard?
Heather – are you running leopard or snow leopard? The Apple update was specifically was Leopard. I certainly wouldn't think you'd need to re-install leopard to get the Java Update to work. I wonder if the download was completed successfully before the install took place. The fact that it was looking for files is a bit odd.
I'm running leopard. I've done some searching online and heard of some other people that ran into the same problem and they all had to eventually rerun an install of the entire leopard. I just wanted a second opinion, before I go to such lengths.
I recently updated my new Mac to Snow Leopard. Since doing that, my printer does not have printer options anymore and I can't use the 'Family Search Indexing' program, a genealogy public indexing program, at all. I get a message that the 'application has requested a version of the JRE(version 1.5) that is currently not locally installed'.
JavaForMacOSX10.5 update 4.dmg will not load to Snow leopard.
Is there a way that a reformed pc user could fix this on her own?
Wow – this sounds kind of frustrating. When I upgraded to Snow Leopard I started having some really strange printer problems that would come and go. Finally, after about a month they came and stayed so I had to figure it out. It turns out that the HP printer driver I was running was not supported by Snow Leopard and I couldn't find the new drivers on the HP Site. However, all was not lost – I was able to find a link to the correct drivers on the Apple site and was able to download and install them. So after a frustrating couple of hours my printer was working again.
Ok, now on to the Java problem. I downloaded update 4 for Java and your right, it didn't work. There is an update 5 for Java that can be found here. I tried installing it and was unable to install it because it said I had a newer version on my machine. That newer version must have installed with Snow Leopard. I don't know if it will work on your system. If you do try it please let me know what happens.
The printer driver for my Epson printer is available with Gutenprint. That seems to be the problem. Evidently, that is a universal driver without all the available controls.
I'm currently downloading the JavaForMac update 5 that you linked for me. I'll let you know how that goes.
I would uninstall the Snow Leopard update if I could figure out how. I am more familiar with the workings of my former, may I say it, pc.
The ease of the search program is something I do miss.
I got a message saying that I have a newer version of the Update 5 already installed.
Thanks for your help. I'm sure that Apple with come up with a fix soon.


Fancy a chance to camp in the vast greenery and amidst nature. Ooty camping activity is a safe and secured campsite for you.
Relax & revive in chilled weather.
Get acquainted with the locals.
Ooty is a hill station in the state of Tamil Nadu, in southern India. There are beautiful mountain trails to trek. The chilled climate throughout the year attracts the nature lovers, honeymoon couples and relaxation seeker. It has very scenic places to visit. Ooty is famous for its tea plantations, homemade chocolates, adventure activities, camping & trekking too. Come & enjoy the camping under the sky. Also, get involved in adventure activities.
Day 1: Report at Ooty campsite.
All the guests are expected to arrive at the campsite by 11:00 am.
Relax at the campsite. We can involve in indoor & outdoor games.
We will enjoy the archery.
We will relax in the chilled weather with the bonfire.
ATV rides (if weather permits).
Accommodation tents at sharing basis.
Bonfire at night (if weather permits).
Kids below the age of 12 are not allowed.
Designated smoking zones and camp rules must be strictly followed.


Do Mutual Fund Fees Really Matter to 401k Investors and Fiduciaries?
The Department of Labor (DOL) has been on a foolish crusade for some time now. Under the banner of "protecting 401k investors," the DOL appears more likely to merely – and arbitrarily – increase fiduciary liability. If a plan sponsor, trustee and any other ERISA fiduciary can't see how this campaign will increase their liability, then how can they take the proper actions to reduce their fiduciary liability?
A mutual fund's expense ratio represents only one factor in analyzing the appropriateness of a mutual fund as an investment.
Unfortunately for us fiduciaries, Washington constantly falls victim to the behavioral fallacy known as "recency." For those not familiar with this academic realm, recency means overweighting the most recent event you've witnessed. It's why current players tend to overpopulate "greatest team" lists. It's also why sports Halls of Fame insist on waiting five years after retirement before a player becomes eligible for consideration. Worse, when applied to government, lies the awful corollary of recency: the knee-jerk reaction.
When markets fall (as they do periodically), hundreds of thousands of investors (read "voters) lose money. Rather than allowing time heal this wound, our friends in the Capitol tend to prefer to act. Here's the problem: investment advice, like witchcraft, tends to be a little hard to pin down. So the bean-counters in the various constitutional branches focus on the most measurable factors.
Only two measurable factors exist in the world of investments: performance and price. Of course, we're all taught "past performance cannot guarantee future results." No administrator will want to risk losing the boss's reelection chances by using something not guaranteed. That leaves price, or, in the case of mutual funds, an extremely easily measurable expense ratio. A mutual fund expense ratio includes everything from the investment adviser fee, to the independent auditor fee, to all regulatory fees (just to name a few). Some advisers use the expense ratio as an exclusive criterion when assessing the appropriateness of recommending a particular mutual fund.
This is wrong. Even if the DOL demands it, focusing too much on a mutual fund's expense may actually increase fiduciary liability and hurt 401k investors.
Why? Because a mutual fund's expense ratio represents only one factor in analyzing the appropriateness of a mutual fund as an investment. Other factors may in fact be more important (including, among other things, portfolio manager tenure, number of holdings, total net assets, investment objective and consistency of returns). As a fiduciary, a fund's expense ratio can become less relevant should the fund exhibit reliable high performance. Fund expenses, then, only rise to pertinence when all other factors are equal. Any fiduciary consultant can easily demonstrate this.
The mutual fund expense issue is perhaps one of the lower priorities when it comes to reducing 401k fiduciary liability. Indeed, the ICI report shows the average total expense ratio incurred by 401k investors in stock funds was 0.72%, exactly half of the average of all stock funds. The same is true for bond funds (0.52% versus the average 1.06%).
Is There a 401k Fee War Brewing?


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Give Me My Remote > Fargo > FX Orders FARGO Season 4, Chris Rock to Star
FX Orders FARGO Season 4, Chris Rock to Star
August 3, 2018 by Marisa Roffman
FARGO will officially return for a fourth season, FX announced ahead of its TCA day. Additionally, Chris Rock has joined the Noah Hawley-penned series.
"I'm a fan of FARGO and I can't wait to work with Noah," Rock said in a statement.
Though the season won't go into production until 2019, FX had a few teases about the upcoming installment: "In 1950, at the end of two great American migrations — that of Southern Europeans from countries like Italy, who came to the US at the turn of the last century and settled in northern cities like New York, Chicago — and African Americans who left the south in great numbers to escape Jim Crow and moved to those same cities — you saw a collision of outsiders, all fighting for a piece of the American dream. In Kansas City, Missouri, two criminal syndicates have struck an uneasy peace. One Italian, one African American. Together they control an alternate economy — that of exploitation, graft and drugs. This too is the history of America. To cement their peace, the heads of both families have traded their eldest sons.
"Chris Rock plays the head of one family, a man who — in order to prosper — has surrendered his oldest boy to his enemy, and who must in turn raise his son's enemy as his own. It's an uneasy peace, but profitable. And then the head of the Kansas City mafia goes into the hospital for routine surgery and dies. And everything changes. It's a story of immigration and assimilation, and the things we do for money. And as always, a story of basically decent people who are probably in over their heads. You know, FARGO."
Are you excited to see Rock on FARGO?
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The East Coast establishment was rocked to its very core earlier this month when news emerged that the coolest couple in the world, Jay-Z and Beyonce, had moved to Los Angeles and had already enrolled their daughter Blue Ivy in an undisclosed private school. According to Us Weekly, the westward move followed the advice of one Gwyneth Paltrow.
Everyone knows that Robert Zimmerman, aka Bob Dylan, grew up in Hibbing, Minnesota. But he made a name for himself in the Greenwich Village folk scene in the early 1960s, performing traditional songs in local coffee houses and doing his best Woody Guthrie impersonation. After he went electric, he recorded some of his most important albums in New York City before his motorcycle accident and a period of convalescence with The Band in Woodstock.
Seldom mentioned is the fact that Dylan moved to Malibu in the early 1970s (in his 1976 song, Black Diamond Bay, he sings: "I was sittin' home alone one night, in L.A. watchin' old Cronkite on the seven o'clock news."
Of course Dylan isn't home much – he's been on the road nearly continuously since 1988, though in 2009, his Malibu home did cause a stink, quite literally, when his neighbors started complaining about a noxious stench coming from an outhouse in his back yard. That led to all manner of excrement-themed pun headlines, like "Tangled up in Poo," "Defecation Row," and TMZ's contribution, "Bob Dylan's Crap — Blowin' in the Wind!"
How different might history have been had Riordan, born and bred in Flushing, New York, not moved to Los Angeles in 1956 to join the Downtown L.A. law firm O'Melveny and Myers? Though the move went unnoticed at the time, Riordan and L.A. did big things for each other.
"L.A., it was more of a meritocracy," Riordan told me in 2011. "New York, the big firms, it was important that you were a preppy sort of ... Compared to them I was a redneck, even though I grew up in an upper middle-class family."
In L.A., Riordan became fabulously wealthy and well-connected, a powerful insider who donated money to politicians from both parties. He was elected mayor in 1993, after running as a Republican in the wake of the L.A. riots under the slogan, "Tough enough to turn L.A. around." And he did turn L.A. City Hall around, making it more friendly to business, pushing out numerous lifer bureaucrats and hiring young and diverse creative types, even as crime in Los Angeles and in the rest of the most crime-ridden cities in the U.S. plummeted.
A Brooklyn native as famous for her accent as she is her vocal range and music, Streisand's sizable, 3-acre Point Dume estate sits on the bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean. In her basement, Streisand installed her very own shopping mall, which includes a Sweet Shop, Antique Shop, Antique Clothes Shop and Bee's Doll Shop.You just can't do that in Manhattan!
The Tonight Show moved from New York to Burbank in 1972, a decade after Johnny Carson had taken over as host. Although Carson would for the rest of his career refer sarcastically to "beautiful downtown Burbank," the move was a hit and the show's filming was a big deal for the city.
"'The Tonight Show' put us on the map," Burbank Mayor Marsha Ramos told the L.A. Times after The Tonight Show set up shop at Universal Studios. "Without that line from Johnny Carson, about 'beautiful downtown Burbank,' most people wouldn't even know that we exist. When The Tonight Show leaves, there will be a portion of our heart that will be empty."
Last year, the show moved back to New York City after Jimmy Fallon took over hosting duties. But Burbank is now a powerhouse in the industry, jammed with studio space and well-paid, studio-employed residents.
Born and raised in New York City, Abdul-Jabbar first made a name for himself at UCLA where he played under famed coach John Wooden. And though his NBA career began with six years in Milwaukee, he is best remembered in Lakers gold, wearing his trademark goggles and posting up in the center of the court.
In L.A., Abdul-Jabbar adopted many of its denizens habits, including yoga, which he later credited to prolonging his career, and acting, appearing opposite Bruce Lee in the 1972 martial arts film Game of Death and, most famously, Airplane! in 1980. He still lives in L.A., makes the occasional appearance at City Hall, and even penned a column in the short-lived Los Angeles Register .
Taking after his flashy predecessor, who hobnobbed with Hollywood celebrities, Cohen became Los Angeles' best-known mobster by embracing the media spotlight. He met publicly with evangelical leader Billy Graham, cooperated with biographers, and in 1957 appeared on ABC's "The Mike Wallace Interview," lambasting LAPD Chief William Parker and telling Wallace, "I have killed no man that in the first place didn't deserve killing."
Bratton first served as commissioner of the New York Police Department in 1994, under Mayor Rudy Giuliani, where he introduced the CompStat system and helped pioneer the "broken windows theory" of policing, taking a hard line against low-end quality of life crimes such as graffiti, vandalism and public intoxication.
In 2002, L.A. Mayor James Hahn tapped Bratton to be chief of LAPD and tasked him with reforming a police department operating under a federal consent decree in the wake of a series of upheavals and scandals, including the Rodney King beating, the 1992 riots and the Rampart investigation. The Rampart scandal ended with a handful of officers sent to prison, 12 fired or forced to resign, and the courts overturning 106 criminal convictions in which law enforcement work had been performed by cops involved in wrongdoing ranging from lying to investigators to planting evidence, drug dealing and, in one case, bank robbery.
Bratton transformed the department. Crime continued to fall dramatically, along with other big U.S. cities, as did allegations of police corruption and abuse of power. And while the LAPD isn't perfect, it's come a long way from the sorry days of Daryl Gates and Rampart. As for Bratton, he's back in New York, running their police department once again.
"I moved to L.A. due to its singular pre-apocalyptic strangeness," wrote Moby, last year, in the Guardian. "It seems equally baffled and baffling, with urban and suburban and wilderness existing in fantastic chaos just inches away from one another. There's no center to L.A., and in many ways it's kind of a fantastically confused Petri dish of an anti-city."
If you're in New York, Brussels, London or Milan, you're surrounded by a world that has been subdued and overseen by humans for centuries, sometimes for millennia. They're stable cities; and when you're in an older city you feel a sense of safety, as if you're in a city that's been, and being, well looked after. You feel like most well-established and conventional cities know what they're doing. LA, on the other hand, is constantly changing and always seemingly an inch away from some sort of benign collapse.
For Brooklyn-ites in the late 1950s, there was no greater crime than the uprooting of the Dodgers out of Ebbets Field in Flatbush by owner Walter O'Malley. According to the HBO documentary The Ghosts of Flatbush, hatred for O'Malley was so high that "if you asked a Brooklyn Dodger fan, if you had a gun with only two bullets in it and were in a room with Hitler, Stalin and O'Malley, who would you shoot? The answer: O'Malley, twice!"
The move was not without its controversies on our end. Chavez Ravine was a Mexican-American neighborhood in the hills near Chinatown. The neighborhood was in the process of being demolished; the plan, under liberal Mayor Fletcher Bowron, was to build a modernist housing project designed by Richard Nuetra. But the downtown business elite, known as the Committee of 25, hated the idea – it reeked of Communism! So they funded a campaign to defeat Bowron and replace him with Norris Poulson. Once installed, Poulson gave the land over to O'Malley, a huge windfall for the Dodgers owner, and a contingent of holdout tenants in the ravine were forcibly removed.


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Illovo is Africa's leading sugar producer and a significant manufacturer of downstream products, with extensive agricultural and manufacturing operations in six African countries; Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania and Zambia…
Illovo has multiple agricultural estates extending over its wide geographic footprint, producing more than six million tons of sugar cane annually. The territories in which these estates are located offer both the group's own agricultural operations and those of its outgrower partners ideal climatic and soil conditions, accompanied by irrigation from secure water sources which combine to ensure the cultivation of high yielding, quality sugar cane…
Illovo's leading position in African sugar production is driven by our ongoing investment in the continent's growth story. As significant suppliers of sugar in our countries of operation and major exporters to regional markets, Illovo is strategically positioning its operations to respond to Africa's increasing sugar consumption growth, forecast to grow by six million tons by 2020…
The group employs more than 30 000 people involved in agriculture, manufacturing, finance, marketing and administration. Around 12 600 people are permanent employees while approximately 18 000 people are employed at peak periods on a fixed-term contract basis, primarily in agriculture…
Illovo's 16 manufacturing plants are located across sub-Saharan Africa, producing brown and refined sugar together with a range of high-value downstream products for both domestic, regional and international markets…
Africa has the highest proportion of agricultural land deals in the world, according to Land Matrix. This means that independent growers face significant pressure on natural resources as well as raising the value of land beyond the reach of many, especially smallholder farmers. However, these challenges are compounded in countries which have historically poor practices in land tenure rights which can lead to lots of grievances resulting from land disputes, often caused by 'land grabs'. Ultimately this severely impact growers' livelihoods, especially in poor and vulnerable communities.
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The 2013 Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns softball team represented the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in the 2013 NCAA Division I softball season. The Ragin' Cajuns played their home games at Lamson Park and were led by thirteenth year head coach Michael Lotief and, for a short time while Lotief underwent family issues, former Cajun player Megan Granger served as interim head coach for the month of February.

Preseason

Sun Belt Conference Coaches Poll
The Sun Belt Conference Coaches Poll was released on February 4, 2013. Louisiana–Lafayette was picked to finish first in the Sun Belt Conference with 81 votes and 9 first place votes, all first place votes available.

Preseason All-Sun Belt team
Jordan Wallace (ULL, SO, Pitcher)
Hannah Campbell (USA, JR, Pitcher)
Sarah Draheim (ULL, SR, Catcher)
Matte Haack (ULL, SR, 1st Base)
Kayla Toney (MTSU, JR, 2nd Base)
Nerissa Myers (ULL, SR, Shortstop)
Natalie Fernandez (ULL, JR, 3rd Base)
Jessy Alfonso (FIU, SR, Outfield)
Brianna Cherry (ULL, SR, Outfield)
Blair Johnson (USA, SO, Outfield)
Kelsie Mattox (WKU, JR, Outfield)
Taylor Fawbush (FAU, SR, Utility/Designated Player)
Kayla Burri (FIU, SR, At-Large)
Brie Rojas (FIU, SR, At-Large)
Britney Campbell (USA, SR, At-Large)
Hannah Renn (TROY, SR, At-Large)
Karavin Dew (WKU, SR, At-Large)

Sun Belt Preseason Pitcher of the Year
Nerissa Myers (ULL)

Sun Belt Preseason Player of the Year
Jordan Wallace (ULL)

Roster

Coaching staff

Schedule and results

Baton Rouge Regional

Ann Arbor Super Regional

References

Louisiana
Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns softball seasons
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Engineering a Live Attenuated Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus Vaccine Candidate via Inactivation of the Viral 2'-O-Methyltransferase and the Endocytosis Signal of the Spike Protein.
Qiuhong Wang
Food Animal Health Research Program, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, College of Food, Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, The Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio, USA [Email]
https://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JVI.00406-19
Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) causes high mortality in neonatal piglets; however, effective and safe vaccines are still not available. We hypothesized that inactivation of the 2'-O-methyltransferase (2'-O-MTase) activity of nsp16 and the endocytosis signal of the spike protein attenuates PEDV yet retains its immunogenicity in pigs. We generated a recombinant PEDV, KDKE4A, with quadruple alanine substitutions in the catalytic tetrad of the 2'-O-MTase using a virulent infectious cDNA clone, icPC22A, as the backbone. Next, we constructed another mutant, KDKE4A-SYA, by abolishing the endocytosis signal of the spike protein of KDKE4A Compared with icPC22A, the KDKE4A and KDKE4A-SYA mutants replicated less efficiently in vitro but induced stronger type I and type III interferon responses. The pathogenesis and immunogenicities of the mutants were evaluated in gnotobiotic piglets. The virulence of KDKE4A-SYA and KDKE4A was significantly reduced compared with that of icPC22A. Mortality rates were 100%, 17%, and 0% in the icPC22A-, KDKE4A-, and KDKE4A-SYA-inoculated groups, respectively. At 21 days postinoculation (dpi), all surviving pigs were challenged orally with a high dose of icPC22A. The KDKE4A-SYA- and KDKE4A-inoculated pigs were protected from the challenge, because no KDKE4A-SYA- and one KDKE4A-inoculated pig developed diarrhea whereas all the pigs in the mock-inoculated group had severe diarrhea, and 33% of them died. Furthermore, we serially passaged the KDKE4A-SYA mutant in pigs three times and did not find any reversion of the introduced mutations. The data suggest that KDKE4A-SYA may be a PEDV vaccine candidate.IMPORTANCE PEDV is the most economically important porcine enteric viral pathogen and has caused immense economic losses in the pork industries in many countries. Effective and safe vaccines are desperately required but still not available. 2'-O-MTase (nsp16) is highly conserved among coronaviruses (CoVs), and the inactivation of nsp16 in live attenuated vaccines has been attempted for several betacoronaviruses. We show that inactivation of both 2'-O-MTase and the endocytosis signal of the spike protein is an approach to designing a promising live attenuated vaccine for PEDV. The in vivo passaging data also validated the stability of the KDKE4A-SYA mutant. KDKE4A-SYA warrants further evaluation in sows and their piglets and may be used as a platform for further optimization. Our findings further confirmed that nsp16 can be a universal target for CoV vaccine development and will aid in the development of vaccines against other emerging CoVs.
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The ESCRT-III molecules regulate the apical targeting of bile salt export pump.
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import os
import re
import time
import uuid

from installed_clients.AssemblyUtilClient import AssemblyUtil
from kb_SPAdes.utils.spades_utils import SPAdesUtils

def log(message, prefix_newline=False):
    """Logging function, provides a hook to suppress or redirect log messages."""
    print(('\n' if prefix_newline else '') + '{0:.2f}'.format(time.time()) + ': ' + str(message))

def mkdir_p(path):
    """
    mkdir_p: make directory for given path
    """
    if not path:
        return
    try:
        os.makedirs(path)
    except OSError as exc:
        if exc.errno == os.errno.EEXIST and os.path.isdir(path):
            pass
        else:
            raise

class SPAdesAssembler(object):
    INVALID_WS_OBJ_NAME_RE = re.compile('[^\\w\\|._-]')
    INVALID_WS_NAME_RE = re.compile('[^\\w:._-]')

    PARAM_IN_CS_NAME = 'output_contigset_name'
    SPAdes_PROJECT_DIR = 'spades_project_dir'
    SPAdes_final_scaffolds = 'scaffolds.fasta'  # resulting scaffolds sequences

    def __init__(self, config, provenance):
        """
        __init__: construct SPAdesAssembler
        """
        # BEGIN_CONSTRUCTOR
        self.workspace_url = config["workspace-url"]
        self.callback_url = config["SDK_CALLBACK_URL"]
        self.token = config["KB_AUTH_TOKEN"]
        self.provenance = provenance

        self.au = AssemblyUtil(self.callback_url)

        self.scratch = os.path.join(config['scratch'], str(uuid.uuid4()))
        mkdir_p(self.scratch)

        self.spades_version = 'SPADES-' + os.environ['SPADES_VERSION']
        self.proj_dir = self._create_proj_dir(self.scratch)
        self.s_utils = SPAdesUtils(self.proj_dir, config)
        # END_CONSTRUCTOR
        pass

    def _save_assembly(self, params):
        """
        _save_assembly: save the assembly to KBase and, if everything has gone well, create a report
        """
        returnVal = {
            "report_ref": None,
            "report_name": None
        }

        wsname = params['workspace_name']
        fa_file_dir = self._find_file_dir(self.proj_dir, self.SPAdes_final_scaffolds)

        if fa_file_dir != '':
            log('Found the directory {} that hosts the contig fasta file: {}'.format(
                    fa_file_dir, self.SPAdes_final_scaffolds))
            fa_file_path = os.path.join(fa_file_dir, self.SPAdes_final_scaffolds)

            log("Load assembly from fasta file {}...".format(fa_file_path))
            report_file = self.SPAdes_final_scaffolds
            min_ctg_length = params.get('min_contig_length', 0)
            if min_ctg_length > 0:
                self.s_utils.save_assembly(fa_file_path, wsname,
                                           params[self.PARAM_IN_CS_NAME],
                                           min_ctg_length)
                report_file += '.filtered.fa'
            else:
                self.s_utils.save_assembly(fa_file_path, wsname,
                                           params[self.PARAM_IN_CS_NAME])

            if params['create_report'] == 1:
                report_name, report_ref = self.s_utils.generate_report(
                                        report_file, params, fa_file_dir, wsname)
                returnVal = {'report_name': report_name,
                             'report_ref': report_ref}
        return returnVal

    def _find_file_dir(self, search_dir, search_file_name):
        """
        _find_file_dir: search a given directory to find immediate dir that hosts the given file
        """
        for dirName, subdirList, fileList in os.walk(search_dir):
            for fname in fileList:
                if fname == search_file_name:
                    log('Found file {} in {}'.format(fname, dirName))
                    return dirName
        log('Could not find file {}!'.format(search_file_name))
        return ''

    def _create_proj_dir(self, home_dir):
        """
        _create_proj_dir: creating the project directory for SPAdes
        """
        prjdir = os.path.join(home_dir, self.SPAdes_PROJECT_DIR)
        mkdir_p(prjdir)
        return prjdir

    def run_hybrid_spades(self, params):
        """
        run_hybrid_spades: breakdown steps of SPAdes assembling process
        """
        # 1. validate & process the input parameters
        validated_params = self.s_utils.check_spades_params(params)
        assemble_ok = -1

        # 2: retrieve the reads data from input paramete
        hybrid_reads_info = self.s_utils.get_hybrid_reads_info(validated_params)
        if hybrid_reads_info:  # UNPACKS the reads_info
            (sgl_rds, pe_rds, mp_rds, pb_ccs, pb_clr, np_rds, sgr_rds, tr_ctgs, ut_ctgs) = \
                hybrid_reads_info

            # 3. create the yaml input data set file
            yaml_file = self.s_utils.construct_yaml_dataset_file(
                sgl_rds, pe_rds, mp_rds, pb_ccs, pb_clr, np_rds, sgr_rds, tr_ctgs, ut_ctgs)

            # 4. run the spades.py against the yaml file
            if os.path.isfile(yaml_file):
                basic_opts = validated_params.get('basic_options', None)
                pipleline_opts = validated_params.get('pipeline_options', None)
                km_sizes = validated_params.get('kmer_sizes', None)
                dna_src = validated_params.get('dna_source', None)
                assemble_ok = self.s_utils.run_assemble(yaml_file, km_sizes, dna_src,
                                                        basic_opts, pipleline_opts)

        # 5. save the assembly to KBase and, if everything has gone well, create a report
        if assemble_ok == 0:
            return self._save_assembly(validated_params)
        else:
            log("run_hybrid_spades failed.")
            return {"report_ref": None, "report_name": None}

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don@fraserfinance.co.nz021777675
Don's Life And Work
Mr Trump
semi-retired
Where is the National Plan for Agriculture?
New Zealand's agriculture provides 60% of overseas income. With this huge percentage of exported agriculture, should we not have a National Agriculture Plan? At the very least to honour this great country that provides our export earnings, and allows us the lifestyle and standards that we have become accustomed to. More than that, the sudden demand for all foods across all sectors, on the back of a hungry world, puts us even more in the spotlight. It is little wonder our dollar has been slow to drop because we have what the world wants. Clean and green surplus food.
There are 4 million people, 8,887,000 cattle and 49,466,000 sheep in New Zealand. The New Zealand economy relies on exports of wool, meat, dairy, forestry and fishing. It also states that our main exports are beef and veal, lamb, mutton and hogget, fish, milk, cream, yoghurt, butter, cheese and milk powders, timber and logs, fruit and vegetables and wool. It also states that tourism is increasing. Yet, here we have Fonterra absolutely flying on every international dairy commodity market and doing a great job, but we have no National Agricultural Plan (NAP).
The National Agriculture Plan could include policies on:
One liaison point with the government; with all the pressure on agriculture to be clean, green and tidy the government will be able to talk to one body and that body would represent all agriculture. Federated Farmers are doing their very best but it needs the support of every farmer in the country and recognition by all sides of the fence.
Research and development. Funding should be approved and allocated into agriculture to improve research and development. It is clear that any
investment in research and development in agriculture shows a 25% return to the country.
Standards for effluent disposal in line with the RMA.
A fertiliser and nutrient policy for the whole country.
Protection of our elite soils from ever spreading urbanisation and small rural residential blocks. This is going to be a big problem for New Zealand as all our cities are close to good productive land which is being gobbled up at a rapid rate. As the demand comes on for food and biofuels any land that is available for growing crops and agriculture is going to come under increasing pressure.
A food safety policy. A 'gate to plate' policy, where growers are accountable for their products.
Biosecurity.
Animal welfare.
Environmental standards.
Tenure review.
Transmission lines, compensation standards and so on.
A water usage policy. Agreement on allocation between Agriculture and Commerce.
If we had a National Agriculture Plan (NAP) this would allow agriculture to operate under its own code and its own plan. Everything would be in the National Plan and it would prevent government and various interested parties from dabbling and interfering in agriculture.
The National Agriculture Plan would have to be formulated by industry leaders in conjunction with political interests and other vested interests, including Fish and Game, Power Generators and so on.
This Plan could assist in giving farmers and New Zealanders the pride and structures to plan their future, working together, without interference from politicians. The tenure review process is a very good example of no clear policy and interference from political interests.
New Zealand needs to also attract and retain the brightest young people into agriculture. Singapore has taken their top 100 students, sent them to the best universities in the world and invested $1 Million in each of them. That's a $100 Million investment into the future of their country. These students are then bonded to return to Singapore for a set period of time. This is the type of thing that New Zealand agriculture needs to think about also.
In summary, New Zealand needs a National Agricultural Plan (NAP). It needs unity and it needs one point of contact for all interested parties. The National Agriculture Plan could protect our elite soils, look after the land and be one point of liaison for all parties.
New Zealand as a country needs this national plan to go forward into the future. The nation needs the income from this industry to support our standard of living.


We're heading into the flu season! For flu viruses, the best time of year is when the weather's cold and the sun is hidden behind the clouds.
Many people will see their daily activities compromised by the occurrence of a nasty cold, or worse, the flu.
It's always difficult to make accurate predictions about which flu strains will dominate the season, but vaccination remains the most effective means of defense especially for the most vulnerable individuals.
For the elderly and those with chronic diseases, a seasonal flu shot is highly recommended as this segment of society has the highest flu-related mortality rates.
Each year, it's estimated that over 200,000 Americans get hospitalised and 36,000 die from flu complications.
According to the U.S. CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), from the 1976 to the 2007 flu season in the United States, flu-related deaths ranged from a 3,000 low to a 49,000 high.
In 2015, influenza and pneumonia were the eighth leading cause of death in the U.S., claiming the lives of over 55,000 people.
Fatal cases are mostly people with chronic diseases such as AIDS, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and asthma. The flu virus, as with any aggressive external agent, can trigger decompensation. This is defined by a breakdown of the systems in the body.
Other individuals at risk are older people, morbidly obese people, and pregnant women.
Mortality rates of the seasonal flu vary from year to year because of many factors, such as the length and severity of the flu season. The effectiveness of the vaccine batches, which also varies, comes into play.
Each season, the composition of the flu shot is determined several months in advance according to the evolution of the strains of the flu virus in circulation.
Since strains can evolve and mutate in the meantime, the vaccine will be more or less effective.
A team of biochemists at MIT conducted a study showing that the fast evolution of the flu virus stems in part from its ability to hijack some of the cellular mechanisms of the host cell.
The study's findings, published in eLife, showed that the flu virus uses what's called "chaperones", a type of protein that helps other proteins fold and take their functional shape in order to inform its mutations.
MIT biochemists, who worked on mammalian cells infected with the H3N2 virus, said that when they interfered so that viruses were no longer able to get help from host cell chaperone proteins, they did not evolve as fast as they had.
"It's relatively easy to make a drug that kills a virus, or an antibody that stops a virus from propagating, but it's very hard to make one that the virus doesn't promptly escape from once you start using it," said Matthew Shoulders, lead author of the study.
These new insights into viral evolution could potentially enhance viral treatments. There are already drugs that could be used to target chaperone proteins and inhibit their activity to slow down the virus evolution and reduce its chances of developing resistance to antivirals and vaccines.
How could these "chaperones" be involved in the same way with other deadly and rapidly-mutating viruses like HIV?


At home, he works as an asylum lawyer for the Spanish Red Cross.
He has been working as an asylum lawyer since 2003.
This is his second time volunteering with European Lawyers in Lesvos.
Aida has a Master in Law from Sweden with a specialization in International Migration Law and Human Rights Law.
She has previously worked on strategic litigation as a legal adviser for the human rights organization Civil Rights Defenders and has worked on a voluntary basis within the field of asylum law since 2013.
This is her first time volunteering with European Lawyers in Lesvos.
Martina is registered with the Hamburg Bar Association.
She has been working in the field of asylum law since 2016.
This is her fourth time volunteering with European Lawyers in Lesvos.
Pat Monro is registered with the Law Society of England and Wales.
She works as a lawyer for Refugee Action Kingston. For 17 years she has worked as a part-time judge at a tribunal hearing immigration and asylum cases.
She has been working in asylum law for 17 years.
Anna Graff is studying law at the Humboldt University Berlin and has a Master in Sociology and Bachelor in French and Social Science. Since May 2018, she has been a member of the Refugee Law Clinic of the Humboldt University. She worked as a researcher for the Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration for two years.
Katharina von Schack studied law in Germany and is spending three months with ELIL as part of her legal traineeship. She has a Master in Refugee and Migration Law and has been working as a volunteer for different organisations, including Amnesty International and the Law Clinic Leipzig, in the field of asylum law for eight years.
Nadia O'Mara is a member of the Bar of England and Wales. She is working as an Advocacy and Policy Officer for Liberty in London. She volunteered in the Calais Refugee Camp, as well as at the Hackney Community Law Centre. She worked for JUSTICE as a legal researcher and has a Master's degree which included refugee law issues.
Jared Ficklin is registered with the Bar Council of England and Wales.
At home, he works as an asylum lawyer and is the director of the Refugee Law Clinic of the University in Liverpool.
He has been working in asylum law since 2004 and qualified as a barrister in 2011.
This is his fourth time volunteering with European Lawyers in Lesvos.
Kristina Ratz is registered with the Frankfurt/Main Bar Association (Germany).
At home, she works as a lawyer in migration and asylum law.
She has been working in the field of asylum law since 2012.
Maxime Cléry-Melin is registered with the Paris Bar Association.
At home, he works as a lawyer in criminal law, commercial litigation and asylum law.
He has been working as an asylum lawyer for three years.
Prisque Navin is registered with the Bar Association of Guadeloupe, Saint Martin and Saint Barthélémy.
At home she works as a lawyer in civil law, criminal law, asylum law and residence law.
She has been working as an asylum lawyer for eight years.
This is her second time volunteering with European Lawyers in Lesvos.
Branislava Isailovic is registered with the Paris Bar Association.
At home she works as a lawyer in asylum law and human rights law at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the European Court for Human Rights.
She has been working as an asylum lawyer for 20 years.
This is her third time volunteering with European Lawyers in Lesvos.
Sancho Coenen is registered with the Netherlands Bar Association.
At home he works as a lawyer in asylum law and criminal law.
He has been working as an asylum lawyer for 18 years.
This is his first time volunteering with European Lawyers in Lesvos.
Alexandra Borowski is registered with the Liege Bar Association (Belgium).
At home she works as a lawyer in asylum, family and insolvency law.
She has been working as an asylum lawyer for four years.
Miguel Garre Murcia is registered with the Granada, Malaga and Paris Bar Associations.
At home he works as a lawyer in contract, intellectual property and asylum law.
He hhas been working as an asylum lawyer for five years.


2013: M.Sc., Automotive Engineering, Ain Shams University.
2006: B.Sc., Automotive Engineering, Ain Shams University.
F. Ibrahim, A. Abouelsoud, A. M. Fath Elbab, and T. Ogata, "Path following algorithm for skid-steering mobile robot based on adaptive discontinuous posture control," Advanced Robotics, pp. 1–15, 2019.
F. Ibrahim, A. Abouelsoud, and A. M. F. Elbab, "Time-varying fuzzy logic controller of skidsteering mobile robot based on lyapunov stability", in Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP), 2016 23rd International Conference on. IEEE, 2016, pp. 16.
Haggag SA, Ibrahim F. "Dual Mode Control of an Automotive Clutch-By-Wire System". SAE Technical Paper; 2013 Apr 8.