There are many people in Connecticut who choose to undergo minor surgical procedures to correct or adjust a physical trait. Cosmetic surgery is something that is very common across the country, though it still requires surgeons to provide a standard level of care to patients like any other surgical procedure. And this responsibility should not be taken lightly.
While there is no way to guarantee that an operation will be successful, patients should be able to expect that their doctors will perform an operation carefully and correctly. If this does not happen and a person suffers damages from a substandard surgical procedure, he or she may have a medical malpractice claim.
One man recently filed a legal claim against a doctor after he says a cosmetic procedure on his nose took a very ugly turn. He says that it will likely require about 30 additional surgeries to correct the damage done by the surgeon and says that he also developed an infection which required him to have a part of his nose completely removed.
The man went in for his first surgery to have his nostrils adjusted. Over the next 53 days, the doctor performed seven more surgeries on the man's face. All told, he underwent 22 surgeries on his nose and has ultimately been left disfigured after the doctor removed the tip of his nose because of an infection.
Since the surgeries, he has stopped working because of the pain he is in. He also feels compelled to wear a mask in public because of how his face looks now. He also now breathes through a straw.
The man says that he continued to undergo surgical procedures because he trusted the advice and opinion of the surgeon. People often place a great deal of trust in a doctor's opinion and expertise because we believe that they are supposed to know what is best medically. However, when a doctor makes a mistake and a patient suffers damages as a result, victims have the right to pursue compensation. A Waterbury medical malpractice lawyer can help to review the merits of your claim and determine the most effective path forward. For help with you claim, contact a Waterbury injury lawyer form D'Amico & Pettinicchi today.


Workmen prepare the area for the television antenna on the side of the 180 ft radio station tower.
Southwestern Adventist University's TV station, KGSW, turns digital today, Aug. 24. The station should be up and running by this evening at the earliest and tomorrow at the latest, according to station manager Randy Yates. It will now broadcast from channel 18, making use of four sub-channels.
The new antenna is omni-directional. According to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the signal will travel north to cover the southern part of Fort Worth; to the east it will almost reach Cedar Hill, to the south near Hillsboro and to the west just to the edge of Bosque County.
KGSW will make use of channel 18.1 for the Hope Channel, 18.2 and 18.3 are in the process of being leased and 18.4 will be used for university events and announcements. Yates said that he hopes to air church, vespers and in the long term, maybe even Wharton Auditorium recitals.
The station made its first step to digital TV when Southwestern applied for a construction permit 10 years ago, according to Yates. Since then they've received several grants, such as a $25,000 grant from Versafund, to help cover the cost of new equipment. The total cost of the new digital transmitter was around $100,000.
Dan Sessler, RF specialist, left, and Ron Maycomber, station engineer install the new digital transmitter.


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Nieu is a French word, made in Norway by comedian, Morten Ramm. Nieu is almost french. It sounds french. Its something nieu.
It might be a bit confusing. We run an online platform called humornieu, we recently opened a venue in Oslo called Nieu Scene, and we carry a fashion brand called nieu that is to be found in selected retailers around Norway. So, whats the nieu all about?
The actual word nieu was born in 2009. In 2015 Ramm and some other talented comedians co-founded an online comedy platform called humornieu. The aim of humornieu is to give new, weird, non-commercial, young comedians a platform where they can be creative and share their work. Today, humornieu is the biggest online comedy platform in Norway.In 2016, the first nieu sweater was to be seen on people involved in the humornieu community. From there, it has grown to be a brand focusing on providing timeless and easy design made of sustainable materials. eco.logic AS joined the team in 2018 to make sure that the production of nieu clothes is environmentally conscious.
In 2018, together with Oslo-comedian (and nurse) Lars Berrum, team humornieu opened nieu scene based in the cellar of Colonel Mustard in Oslo, Norway.
To explore the universe of nieu, come check out some live stand up – and other shows at at nieu scene in Oslo. If you dont feel like meeting people or drinking beer, go enjoy some of the videos at at www.humornieu.no (in Norwegian).
As the french people we strive to go easy on the environment by using organic cotton, recycled wrapping, green shipping, and provide timeless design.
To read more about sustainability – go to www.ecologicnorway.no.


Hazardous materials can be dangerous for staff, visitors, and volunteers at your historic site if they are not handled, stored, and disposed of properly. This page provides basic information on identifying and caring for hazardous materials in your collections. If you have any concerns or questions regarding potentially dangerous objects, it is always best to consult a professional.
Having trouble determining whether an object in your collection may be hazardous? Check out this link from the Museums and Galleries of New South Wales for a comprehensive (but not exhaustive!) list of hazardous materials. The Collections Trust also has a handy PDF identifying broad categories of hazardous materials and what to do when you find them in your collections.
Della Keyser at Sustaining Places wrote this guide to handling medicines in your collections. It offers advice on risk management, storage and display, what medicine is safe to keep, and how to best dispose of unsafe chemicals. This slide show and its corresponding notes, provided by the Western Museums Association, includes good advice compiled by professionals who regularly work with hazardous objects.
The National Park Service Conserve-O-Grams include this one on Hazardous Materials in Your Collection.
The Smithsonian Institution Green Team published this newsletter on plastics in your collection. It discusses issues of off-gassing, the deterioration of plastics, and safe handling practices.
The Canadian Conservation Institute offers these tips on identifying and managing mercury and lead in museum collections (if your organization owns a historic house, pay particular attention to the section on lead paint!).
This article will help you understand and deal with arsenic in taxidermy collection objects.
Connecting to Collections provides this useful Q&A as part of their webinar on hazardous collections materials.
The American Institute for Conservation and Artistic Works posted this helpful video about identifying and dealing with hazardous materials in your collection, and where you can go if you need help dealing with them.


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2021 brought plenty to be grateful for
Like many, I pause during the holiday season to consider all that I have to be grateful for. As I looked back on 2021, I realized that—despite a slow and uneven recovery from the pandemic—there is plenty to celebrate in the Columbus arts community. Today I'd like to take a moment to acknowledgesome of the wonderful things that we witnessed (and a few that we had a hand in).
Tom Katzenmeyer, CEO, president of the Arts Council
We have so many talented artists in Columbus, a few who had major events and recognition this year are:
Hanif Abdurraqib was awarded a MacArthur "genius" grant and was a finalist for a National Book Award in nonfiction for A Little Devil in America.
Columbus-based poet Maggie Smith got rave reviews for Goldenrod, her latest book of poetry, released this summer, which followed her popular book of essays, Keep Moving, published in 2020.
Andrew Levitt/Nina West was cast as Edna Turnblad in the upcoming North American touring production of Hairspray.
Columbus-based filmmaker Jon Sherman's feature film They/Them/Us is making the international festival rounds and earning awards. The movie, filmed in Columbus during the height of the pandemic, was directed by Sherman, a Columbus-based filmmaker, and written by Sherman and Columbus-based artist Melissa Vogely Woods.
American Electric Power Foundation committed $1 million, over four years, to the Greater Columbus Arts Council's newly created Community Fund at the Columbus Foundation. The endowment is privately funded through contributions made to the Artists Elevated campaign and the funds are used to provide significant cash awards to Columbus-based, professional artists working in any discipline.
I am especially thankful that the Arts Council was able to give out the first two Artists Elevated awards the same year we launched the campaign thanks in part to a donation from Bath & Body Works, which underwrote one award. The 2021 recipients are Erika Tay Lane, a theater director, writer and actor and Quianna Simpson, a dancer and choreographer.
We hosted the first Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson Residency recipient, Memphis, Tennessee-based artist Johnathan Payne lived and worked in Aminah's renovated house and studio for three months this summer.
Thanks to a generous donation from the Crane Family, the Arts Council launched the long-awaited Neighborhood Arts Connections fellowships—awarding fellowships to southside artists Jessica Naples Grilli and Ras Jahlani Ben-Levi. This program was originally planned for 2020 (and then we all know what happened). Without the Crane family this fellowship would likely have been pushed back to 2022.
The Arts Council was honored to help coordinate the activities for Columbus native Wil Haygood when he made Columbus his first stop on his 25-city tour for the release of his book, Colorization: 100 Years of Black Films in a White World. The series of collaborative events in mid-October involved ten organizations and helped hundreds of people connect with Wil and his wisdom.
Two community-centric programs that make Columbus a better place to live were awarded a Dale E. Heydlauff Community Arts Innovation Award (an award we started in 2020 to honor the innovative programs we saw blossom in response to the pandemic). The 2021 recipients were Donte Woods-Spikes for his Art & Empathy Talks and the Lincoln Theatre for PATTERNZ Summer Camps—I am grateful to Donte and the Lincoln Theatre for the ways in which they use the arts to better serve the community.
In 2021 the Arts Council and Film Columbus gave out the largest cash awards (in our history) to support Columbus-based filmmakers—Film it in Cbus Film Creation awards.
This is just the short list, I could go on, but it's time to get back to work. Currently we are diligently planning the 2022 Columbus Arts Festival. I don't want to jinx us, but I remain hopeful that we will be in the Arena District, June 10-12, shopping the best art, listening to incredible music and in general being grateful for the arts in Columbus.
—Tom Katzenmeyer, connect with Tom on LinkedIn.
Meet the Jury that will select the first Artists Elevated Award recipients
We are going to invest more in Columbus artists
Our New Fellowship Program Seeks to Ensure the Arts are Part of Positive Community Change
#ArtUnitesCbus Temporary Mural Installation Winter 2020
Why the 2021 Arts Fest can't happen, but 2022 is looking very good
The time to support the arts and imagine the future is now

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THOMAS: Questions Lester Holt should ask
September 20, 2016 Cal Thomas Opinion
Lester Holt
Next week's presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton could determine the outcome of the election. As polls show Trump leading in some swing states and closing the gap in others, it appears the only burden he must overcome is the one Ronald Reagan shared, looking presidential enough that voters trust him with so much power.The way these debates have usually gone in the past is that the Republican candidate is asked about abortion, gay rights and other social issues and the Democratic candidate is asked about subjects that appeal to a wider range of voters.Lester Holt, the "NBC Nightly News" anchor, will moderate the first debate. Here are some questions he should ask:For Clinton: You once supported traditional marriage, but now favor same-sex marriage. Polygamists now want to be next in line to receive legal and cultural approval. Do you oppose polygamy, and if so on what basis? If elected president, how would we know you wouldn't change your mind on this issue?Follow-up: What is your standard for defining right from wrong?For Trump: You were pro-choice, you said, until you heard about a baby that was going to be aborted, but wasn't. You called the child a "total superstar." Do you have a utilitarian view of human life — that a baby is only valuable if it grows up to be a superstar — or is every life valuable?For Clinton: You said you would have a "bunch of litmus tests" for Supreme Court nominees, including requiring potential nominees to have a commitment to preserving a woman's right to an abortion. Would you overlook qualified candidates because they oppose abortion?Also for Clinton: You appear to have an interventionist foreign policy record. What is your standard for sending American forces into battle, especially in the Middle East where nothing ever seems to get resolved?Follow-up: In one of your emails you praise Sidney Blumenthal's son, Max, for his virulent anti-Semitic and anti-Israel comments, favoring the dismantling of the State of Israel. Since Israel's enemies have also vowed to destroy the only democracy in the Middle East and one of the United States' few allies in the region, as president, would you support the Jewish state or demand that it give up more land to Palestinians when the land it has already relinquished has brought it no closer to peace?For Trump: Many voters are worried about your praise of Russian president Vladimir Putin, who routinely behaves like the KGB agent he once was. Putin has invaded and occupied territories, censored the news and been accused of murdering his opposition. Why do you admire his leadership? Should you become president, what do you think your public praise of Putin will accomplish that will be in America's interests?Follow-up: Under what circumstances would you use military force against Russia or our enemies in the Middle East?For both candidates: North Korea is developing nuclear weapons that will fit on top of missiles capable of reaching the U.S. Would you authorize a missile defense system able to shoot down North Korean missiles, despite China's opposition to such a system?For Clinton: The federal government took in record amounts of tax money in 2015 — $3.18 trillion — but the debt is approaching $20 trillion, and you want to spend more. Why won't you propose cutting programs that aren't working?For Trump: What agencies and programs would you eliminate or reform?Public interest for the debates will be at Super Bowl level. These and similar questions would produce the information undecided voters need to cast their votes wisely.The future of this country hangs in the balance.Cal Thomas is a nationally syndicated columnist. His latest book is "What Works: Common Sense Solutions for a Stronger America."
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ELLIOT: Waiting for Gov. McCooper
November 13, 2016 Drew Elliot Opinion
With just 5,000 votes separating Pat McCrory and Roy Cooper, there is no certainty as to who will live in the governor's mansion on Blount Street come January. A return to Democratic leadership will likely […]
KENT: A handful of brewers seek special legislative treatment
March 4, 2017 Tim Kent Opinion
In a highly-competitive beer industry with more than 5,000 U.S. beer companies, a handful of N.C. brewers now want to stack the deck in their favor at the expense of everyone else.Their legislative initiative to […]
ELLIOT: UNC leaders should assure free expression
September 11, 2016 Drew Elliot Opinion
As students return to colleges and universities this fall, campus speech codes are prominently in the news following the University of Chicago's shot heard 'round academia. Chicago, a private institution, told its incoming freshmen that […]
ATLANTA — Georgia's secretary of state has certified the results of the two U.S. Senate runoff elections, paving the way for Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff to be sworn in and for Democrats to take [...]
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Britain's spaceman
The pioneer of small satellites is laying plans for the infrastructure and services needed for travel to other planets
Technology QuarterlyMay 28th 2015 edition
SOMETIMES a childhood fascination can shape a lifetime. For Sir Martin Sweeting it began with forging a communications device out of two tin cans connected with a taut piece of string. This led to a schoolboy interest in amateur radio, which turned to a passion in the late 1960s at the time of the Apollo Moon landings and intoxicating space imagery from films like "2001: A Space Odyssey".
While studying for his PhD in the late 1970s at the University of Surrey in Guildford, a town south-west of London, Sir Martin made equipment from whatever he could lay his hands on to pick up signals from American and Soviet satellites. In 1985, with £100 ($150) borrowed from the vice-chancellor, he founded Surrey Satellite Technology (SST), a firm which has pioneered the use of small satellites built from cheap off-the-shelf equipment.
Space used to be the province of superpowers, but the arrival of lower-cost small satellites brought down the price of entering the space business to a level which companies, research groups, developing nations and even some schools could afford. Now Sir Martin is preparing SST for a future in which he plans to provide essential services to a new generation of space travellers.
Before SST, space was not a particularly promising field in flared-trousered 1970s Britain. The country had quit the space race as post-war enthusiasm for rockets had dwindled. Government spending cuts led to ambitious launch systems and manned-flight programmes being abandoned. Deciding that he did not have much chance of joining America's space agency, NASA, Sir Martin started to try some things for himself. With the first microcomputers arriving on the scene he wondered if it was possible to use one to build a small satellite that was reasonably "intelligent" compared with the large and expensive hard-wired satellites that were being put into orbit at the time.
Sir Martin persuaded the university to let him try. "I didn't have any money so had to go around scrounging from industry and anybody else I could think of," he says. With a team of volunteers the satellite was built. It was about the size of a couple of microwave ovens and weighed 72kg. Some of the big satellites that government space agencies were putting into orbit were as large as a London double-decker bus. Through the amateur radio network he managed to persuade NASA to provide a free launch, and in 1981 the microsatellite piggybacked into space as part of a mission to put a large scientific satellite into orbit.
The Surrey satellite was a novel piece of engineering. Besides containing an on-board computer, allowing the satellite to be reprogrammed from the ground, it was also fitted with an early charge-coupled device, a type of sensor which would become the heart of modern digital cameras, and a digital speech-synthesiser extracted from a toy. This meant that besides being able to take pictures of Earth the satellite could "speak'' to the world below. The idea was that radio amateurs and schools could use basic equipment to tune in to hear data, such as the temperature, being read out. "Amazingly," says Sir Martin, "to everyone's surprise it worked." In 1984 the team built a second satellite containing a new computer and an updated camera. It too was given a free launch by NASA and, although now not in the best of health with its solar-powered batteries deteriorating, it is still transmitting back to Earth.
The spin-out powers up
After years of begging and borrowing, Sir Martin and a team of four others began SST to see if they could turn the production of small satellites into a business. They were encouraged by interest from a number of countries that wanted to get a foothold in space, including Pakistan, South Korea, Malaysia and Chile. "And because we were linked to a university, we were prepared to train their people and share information with them," adds Sir Martin. Many of those tutored during the construction of the firm's first satellites went on to form the nucleus of other countries' space agencies—and produce overseas competitors that would come to emulate SST.
SST has, nevertheless, maintained what it says is a 40% share of the global export market for small satellites. It has built and launched more than 40 of them, ranging in weight from 3.5kg to 660kg, and has over 20 others in production along with various payloads for other space missions. The company now employs 500 people. In 2009 Airbus bought 99% of the firm's shares from the University of Surrey, which retained 1%. As part of the deal with the European aerospace giant, SST continues to be run as an independent company and Sir Martin, who was knighted in 2002, serves as its executive chairman.
Some of whizziest components made for terrestrial use might not be up to the rigours of space
Building small satellites from industry-standard parts means reaping the benefits of huge investments by car companies, consumer-electronics firms and others in developing sophisticated components for mass-produced goods. This can limit the abilities of a satellite but it provides economies of scale which are impossible to achieve if making bespoke components. "We were being parasitic, if you like," says Sir Martin.
Besides lower costs, commodity components have become increasing reliable—essential in building a satellite which, once in orbit, may not be repairable. In the early days, this could mean testing individual widgets, such as transistors or capacitors. Hundreds of them might have to be shaken, cooked and abused in various ways to see which ones were best. Nowadays, with modern manufacturing methods, components have been miniaturised and integrated into units, like microchips. So testing can be done on more complete systems. And because tolerances have become much tighter, fewer parts now contain defects. However, even some of the whizziest components made for terrestrial use might not be up to the rigours of space. One of the biggest problems is radiation. Some bits of a smartphone, a common source of miniaturised electronic components and sensors, are not as resilient to radiation as other parts. So knowing which bits to use and which to avoid has become part of the satellite-making art.
In 1998 the company's engineers wanted to see how small they could make a functioning satellite. The result was about the size of a beachball (the 3.5kg one in SST's inventory). It was one of the first of what came to be called a nanosat. Over the next five years or so some 1,000 nanosats are expected to be launched by companies, startups and researchers.
By 2000 SST had reached a turning point. "Before then these small satellites were useful, interesting, but could carry out only a few niche tasks," says Sir Martin. After 2000 technology improved rapidly, providing greater capabilities. "Now our satellites can rival the majority of conventional satellites," he adds. Taking pictures of Earth, for instance, can now be done in high resolution with a small satellite fitted with the latest high-power image sensors and, maintains Sir Martin, at about one-fifth of the cost of most traditional large satellites.
Some of SST's latest satellites have a one-metre resolution (ie, one pixel on the spacecraft's sensor represents one square metre on the ground). This means it might be possible to identify a shape smaller than one metre, but not in detail. So the satellite could, for instance, easily spot a car. Some big high-end satellites can take pictures down to a resolution of 50cm (the legal limit in America for commercial satellites), although military ones are thought to be able to zoom closer.
The snag is, at some point the laws of physics dictate a more powerful telescope means a bigger and more expensive satellite to transport it. And as the resolution increases the field of view diminishes, so the image produced is a bit like looking at the world through a drinking straw.
As a result there are plenty of uses for satellites with resolutions of 20 metres or so, including the ability to take a picture of an area several hundred kilometres wide. This can, for instance, help in geographic surveys, monitoring deforestation or observing crops. In partnership with groups in other countries SST also operates a constellation of satellites which can rapidly be deployed in the event of a disaster. The lower-resolution ones can, say, reveal the extent of a flooded area, and the higher-resolution cameras take a look at specific problems, such as a bridge that has been washed away. These satellites were used following the Asian tsunami in 2004, Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and after the recent earthquake in Nepal.
To a new wavelength
The company is now developing observation systems that go beyond the visible spectrum. These satellites use synthetic-aperture radar, which can penetrate clouds and work at night. It relies on using algorithms to process radar pulses bounced back from the ground to build a high-resolution image.
SST is also looking at ways to address worries about space debris. There are some 500,000 bits of space junk in orbit, but Sir Martin does not think that putting up more satellites—even 1,000 nanosats—will make much difference. "The real risk is when a satellite fragments," he says. One satellite exploding because of a fault or when it reaches the end of its working life can produce thousands of pieces of debris. Hence there are plans to develop systems that can tip old satellites out of orbit for them to burn up safely on re-entry. TechDemoSat-1, a one-cubic-metre satellite which SST launched in 2014 to carry out a number of studies, is fitted with a "de-orbit sail" developed by Cranfield University in Britain. The ultra-thin sail will be deployed at the end of the mission to turn it towards Earth.
Other satellites give another hint of where SST is going. The company is building its first small geostationary platform, which instead of orbiting Earth will remain in a fixed position relative to the surface, as telecommunications satellites tend to be. This is for Eutelsat, a Paris-based company, which provides satellite services to telecoms firms and broadcasters. In addition SST is building equipment for Galileo, a new constellation of satellites that will operate a European GPS navigation system.
"The reason we are doing that is we want to learn about navigation payloads," says Sir Martin. The discovery of water deposits, he believes, means that in the coming decades there will be sustained habitation on the Moon and Mars. "We need to play a part in supporting this," he adds. In likening space travel to the Californian gold rush that began in 1848, Sir Martin points out that it was not necessarily those who went to find gold that made money, but rather those who provided the infrastructure: railways, hotels, picks, shovels and the like. So, SST aims to be a service provider supplying, say, a GPS system around the Moon, or communications satellites to relay data from other planets. "We need to be building the expertise up now if we are going to be ready to do such things," he says. It is a far cry from the days of tin-can telephones.
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UFO-monumentet i Ängelholm är ett minnesmärke över en påstådd landning av en utomjordisk farkost i utkanten av Ängelholm, i området Sibirienskogen 18 maj 1946.

Den som bevittnade landningen var Gösta "Pollenkungen" Carlsson, och han lät 1972 uppföra monumentet på platsen för landningen. Monumentet består av en mindre skalmodell av själva farkosten, så som Carlsson minns det, och markeringar i betong som symboliserar de påstådda landningsspåren i originalstorlek.

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Semitjov, Eugen: De otroliga tefaten (1974), kapitel 13.
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The St. Ambroise district is so named because of the presence of the Church of St. Ambrose in his enclosure. The Church of St. Ambrose was built between 1863 and 1868. The architect Théodore Ballu drew the plans and directed the construction thereof. It is registered as a historic monument since 1978. It is built with a Éclectiste style. It is named in honor of Ambrose of Milan. The church was built on the place where placed the house built for John Popincourt during the reign of Charles VI. Choose the luxury shuttle to visit Saint-Ambroise district in Paris.
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Standards Wars: Situations, Strategies and Outcomes
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There have been more stories in the news about standards than ever before. The good news is that this raises awareness about how important standards are, particularly in areas like information and communications technology. The bad news is that a lot of this news is about "standards wars." Recent sagas include the seemingly endless HD DVD - Blu-ray Group battle to the death (taking content owners and consumers along for the ride); the head butting and accusations between proponents of WiFi, which has been adopted in most of the world, and China, whose home-grown WAPI alternative was recently voted down in ISO; the rivalry between two camps in the IEEE working group chartered to develop and adopt a UWB standard (which ultimately led to its disbanding); and, of course, the contest most often covered at this blog: OpenDocument Format vs. the Microsfoft XML Reference Schema. As a result, I've dedicated the March issue of the Consortium Standards Bulletin to examining the phenomenon of Standards Wars, as well as the lesser skirmishes and escalations that can usually (but not always) avoid full scale combat.
The two articles that most directly address these issues are the Editorial, which is titled Standards Wars and Mutally Assured Destruction, and the Feature Article, Standards Wars: Situations, Strategies and Outcomes.
The Editorial compares the futility of the worst types of standards wars to the arms race waged between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. during the Cold War, which relied on the concept of "Mutually Assured Destruction" (aptly short formed to the acronym "MAD"). Among those current confrontations referred to above, the HD DVD – Blu-ray Group is most clearly comparable to the futility of the nuclear arms race. And, like that arms race, serves as an example to inspire more reasonable behavior in other settings.
The Feature Article takes a more nuanced view, pointing out that some standards "wars" can actually be beneficial, and could better be called "standards competitions." Examples of this type of activity would include the first wireless standards that were developed (e.g., Bluetooth, WiFi, HomeRF and so on), not all of which succeeded, but some of which proved to be useful and differentiated. Moreover, they were developed and available when the hardware and software vendors were ready to start selling. Absent a "competition," we would be left with either a single compromise (and compromised) standard, or a long wait to fill in the voids with new standards, where the initial standard wasn't the right tool for the job.
The issue is balanced out by a somewhat updated version of the blog entry A New French Revolution? and a significantly expanded version of Where (if Anywhere) are the Boundaries of the Open Source Concept?
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PAKISTAN: CHRISTIANS BURNED TO DEATH IN ISLAMIST ATTACKS
Posted on August 9, 2009 by particularkev
14 believers reportedly killed; more than 100 homes burned in Gojra town, Korian village.
GOJRA, Pakistan, August 1 (Compass Direct News) – Islamic extremists today set ablaze more than 50 houses and a church in this town in northeastern Pakistan following an accusation of "blasphemy" of the Quran, leaving at least 14 Christians dead, sources said.
The dead include women and children, with several other burn victims unable to reach hospitals for medical care, according to the Centre for Legal Aid Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS). The attack came amid a protest by thousands of Muslim Islamists – including members of banned militant groups – that resulted in another six people dying when participants shot at police and officers responded with tear gas and gunfire.
The same rumor of desecration of the Quran that led to today's massive protest and attack in Gojra, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Faisalabad, also prompted an arson assault on Thursday (July 30) by Islamic extremists on the village of Korian, seven miles from Gojra, that gutted 60 houses.
Punjab Minister for Law Rana Sanaullah reportedly said an initial investigation of allegations of the Quran being blasphemed indicated "there has not been any incident of desecration."
Because of the earlier assault in Korian, Pakistani officials were already in the area and had sought reinforcements to help control the 11 a.m. demonstration today in Gojra, but security forces were slow to respond, according to CLAAS.
"There were unaccountable people in the mob and they were out of control because only four police constables were trying to stop the mob of thousands of people," a CLAAS report said.
Crowd size and attacks grew, and Islamists managed to block main roads and railways to keep fire brigades from fighting the house fires, according to CLAAS.
With authorities also blocking roads to keep more Muslim extremists from entering from neighboring villages, clerics at local mosques broadcast messages that those "who love Muhammad and Islam should gather with them to defend the Islam because it is in danger," according to CLAAS.
Asam Masih, a Christian in Gojra, said that that women and children were severely burned and had no way to get to a hospital, according to CLAAS, which was helping to transport victims for medical care.
Islamists set on fire a Catholic church on Sumandri road and destroyed it using firearms and explosives, according to CLAAS.
"50 houses are burned and totally destroyed," the CLAAS statement read. "14 people including children, women and men are expired."
Wedding and Funeral
As Christians have begun defending themselves against the onslaughts, mainstream media have already begun referring to the overwhelmingly Islamist aggression as "Christian and Muslim rioting."
Compass investigated the facts of the trigger incident in the village of Korian, where more than 500 Muslims, responding to calls from a mosque, attacked Christians in Toba Tek Singh district. Local sources said nearly all village Christian families fled. The fires destroyed their homes – collapsing their wooden roofs or melting T-iron roofs – and all belongings within that the attacking Muslims had not first looted.
"Our house is burnt and everything is gone, but Muslim neighbors around are not willing to give us a loaf of bread or a sip of water to us," 80-year-old Baba Sharif Masih told Compass.
He and his wife Hanifa Bibi, 73, were the only Christians left in the village in the northeastern province of Punjab. Masih, who is paralyzed, said the attackers let them live when they pleaded that they were unable to run away.
Two church buildings were ransacked but not burned, Compass sources said.
One Christian resident of Korian identified only as Shabir said the blasphemy accusation grew out of an incident at a wedding on Sunday (July 25). During the ceremony, Christian wedding guests tossed currency notes and coins into the air according to custom, with children catching most of them as they fall. Shabir told Compass a Muslim funeral was taking place at the same time, however, and that mourners told wedding celebrants to stop their music; they apparently declined.
The next day, Muslims met with the parents of the bride, Talib and Mukhtar Masih, and told them that their sons had cut pages of the Quran the size of currency notes and had been throwing them in the air the previous night, Shabir said.
"Talib said that nothing like this has happened, but that if there was anything, 'I'll call my son and he will definitely apologize for it,'" Shabir said. "But then they immediately began beating them and left Talib when he fell unconscious."
Shabir said that afterward when Christian women went to the Muslims and told them that they were wrong to beat Talib Masih, the assailants yelled at them and tried to attack them, but they were able to flee to their homes.
On Thursday (July 30), Shabir said, Muslim clerics announced from the village mosque that "if any infidel Christian wanted to save his or her life, then get out of here or they would be killed."
As the Muslim mobs gathered, he said, Christians immediately fled – leaving their meals prepared and fires burning in stoves.
"These assailants first looted these houses and then set them on fire and closed the door," he said. "Since then, not a single Christian is left there except a very old couple."
Islamist's Version
Village Muslims declined to open their doors when Compass reporters called on them.
But one of three Muslim leaders standing with a crowd of turban-clad Islamists at the entrance to the village, Qari Noor Ahmed, told Compass the story of the alleged cut pages of the Quran at the marriage ceremony.
"Because it was night, no one noticed, but in the morning we saw that the pages of the Quran had been cut to currency note size, and they were trampled under people's feet," he said.
Ahmed said that village authorities later met and called in Talib and Mukhtar Masih. He said that council authorities decided that their son should apologize.
"But when his son came in the meeting, he by no means seemed apologetic, rather he was aggressive," Ahmed said. "This was the root cause, and we told Talib and Mukhtar to tell their children to apologize."
Ahmed said that afterwards they searched for Talib and Mukhtar Masih and their sons but could not find them.
"Then Muslims became furious that first they had profaned the Quran, and now they had fled and were not apologizing," Ahmed said. "Then the villagers attacked their houses. All the Christians who are visiting here are armed, and we are sitting here to avoid any untoward incident. It is better for you to leave now or you may be attacked."
Munawar Masih, a 20-year-old Christian in Korian, said that he was preparing supper around 7 p.m. when he heard the announcement from the mosque that "infidel Christians had profaned the Holy Quran, and let's teach them exemplary lesson."
He looked outside as his family was about to sit down to dinner and saw a large mob approaching.
"We just fled from there to save our lives, and since then we are hiding in Gojra," he said.
Private TV channel reporter Ghulam Muhauddin told Compass that after the Korian houses were set on fire, the Islamic extremists blocked the Faisalabad-Gojra Highway to keep firefighters from arriving.
"When the attack was unleashed, several people were injured and even some domestic animals were killed," he said.
Muhauddin said that after negotiations between the District Police Officer and the protestors, Station House Officer (SHO) Jamshed Iqbal Nasir was suspended for not properly handling the incident.
Christians Accused
Officials at the Sadar Police Station, in whose precincts the attack took place, were not available for comment, but a deputy called Imam Din said that a First Information Report (FIR) had been filed under Section 295-B, or blasphemy of the Quran, against Talib and Mukhtar Masih.
He said that the complainant in the case was Muhammad Ashraf, and that police had possession of the alleged burnt or cut papers of the Quran. Din said that after SHO Nasir was suspended and Ashiq Hussein replaced him, Hussein was willing to file an FIR against those who had ransacked and burned houses of Christians. He said the accused were still at large and that police would arrest them after Christians returned to their homes.
Asked if police were under pressure from Islamists or the government, Din declined to comment.
Advocacy group Community Development Initiative (CDI) field officer Napoleon Qayyum said that the group had informed high officials about the Korian attack, including the presidency, and that soon afterward the president issued a notice. Qayyum noted that the Korian and Gojra attacks follow a July 1 attack in Kasur, where swarms of Islamists ransacked and damaged 110 homes.
"It is a clear sign that violent attacks against Christians have dramatically increased in recent days," he said, adding that CDI would provide legal help to victims. CDI works with assistance from the American Centre of Law and Justice.
Muhauddin of the private TV channel added that Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif had taken the notice of the attacks and was forming an investigative team comprising the Faisalabad Regional Police Officer and Faisalabad Commissioner, which will send a report to him.
A spokesman from the Pakistani president's office, former Sen. Farhatullah Babar, told Compass that President Asif Ali Zardari had taken a notice of the attack and had asked the provincial government to investigate. He said the president has condemned the attack and that there was no justification for anyone taking the law into their own hands.
Asked why the committee constituted by the provincial government did not have any Christians on it, he responded that it was the discretion of the provincial government to determine the make-up of the panel and that the federal government was concerned only about the report. Asked why an FIR had been filed against Christians and not Muslims for ransacking and vandalizing, he said only that appropriate action would be taken after the inquiry.
Member of National Assembly Farahnaz Ispahani, wife of Pakistani Ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani, told Compass that President Zardari had directed Federal Minorities Affairs Minister Shahbaz Bhatti to visit the area and "express sympathy with the victims."
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PAKISTAN TALIBAN MILITANTS MURDER AND RAPE CHRISTIANS
Pakistan's military and the militant Taliban group clashed in the country's strategic Swat Valley Wednesday, May 6, adding to fears among minority Christians and forcing thousands of civilians to flee the area, reports FCNN.
Some 40,000 people reportedly fled the city of Mingora in northwestern Pakistan and officials said a further half a million others were expected to leave as well. Wednesday's clashes came shortly after the Taliban threatened to expand Sharia, or Muslim law, far beyond Swat Valley and reports of massive Muslim attacks against minority Christians, including murder and rape.
Since late April, militants of the Taliban group executed at least two residents in a Christian neighborhood while one child died during a crackdown on believers who protested against the Talibanization of Pakistan, local Christians and rights investigators confirmed to BosNewsLife.
United States-based International Christian Concern (ICC), which investigates cases of persecution, said the incidents happened April 21, in Taseer Town near the city of Karachi, where Christians protested against pro-Taliban messages "chalked onto the walls of two churches."
Earlier, on the outskirts of Sargodha, a key city in Punjab province, a Christian young man was shot and killed and another Christian boy sexually molested by at least one suspected militant, although his links to the Taliban could not be established, family sources said.
Many bullets
On April 19, Adeel Masih, 20, was "sprayed with bullets" after returning home from work in Marrium Town near Sargodha, and died of his injuries at a local hospital, said his father Iqbal Masih. At the same time a suspected Muslim militant, identified only as Israar, allegedly raped a 10-year-old Christian boy, Waseem Sabir, in a field of Marrium Towm, residents said.
The man apparently managed to flee, but police promised to investigate both cases. Elsewhere, a nine-year-old Pakistani Christian girl was gang-raped and murdered on April 9, Christian right investigators said. Nisha Javid was reportedly abducted while walking near her home in Punjab's Essangri village. Her battered body was found two days later in a canal, but local Christians say police has been reluctant to detain suspects. Another Christian girl in her early teens was gang raped by Muslim men twice in as many months here in the village of Gumhe-k-Lidhur near Punjab's main city of Lahore, according to local residents.
Ambreen Munir 13, a daughter of an impoverished Christian laborer and a house wife, was allegedly kidnapped twice since February by Muslim youth, who took her to a lonely neighborhood where they apparently raped her for several hours. It came on the heels of another incident in the village of Chak # 39 NB where impoverished Christian carpenter Tariq Masih 19 was murdered because of his relationship with a 17-year-old Muslim girl, his maternal uncle, Allah Ditta said.
Churches and rights investigators have accused the Taliban of encouraging its militants and other Muslims to attack Christians, including minors, in several parts of the country. In one of the latest incidents, some 400 angry Muslims armed with clubs, iron rods and firearms attacked homes of Christians and accused five Christian villagers of desecrating the Koran, seen as holy by Muslims, villagers said.
Islamic extremism
Eyewitnesses told BosNewsLife the May 1 incident happened in the village of Harappa in a remote part of Punjab, considered a hot-bed for Islamic extremism. The violence broke out after police detained a Christian man Ashfaq Gill April 28 on suspicion of "tearing and desecrating" the Koran, Christian villagers said.
Soon after, Harappa police detained four other Christians, identified as Naseer Gill Madhauv, Imran Gill Naseer, Harris John Emmanuel Hero, Israar Wilson Inyat-Ullah and Ghulam Freed, under Pakistan's controversial blasphemy legislation, Christians said. Villagers went on saying that police also accused all five Christians of bursting into the Girls High School of Harappa and "desecrating the Book of Koran" there during theft.
However the 'All Pakistan Minorities Alliance', a major advocacy and political group, denied wrongdoing saying all five detained Christians are its political workers in the area.
Rights groups have urged the government to investigate these incidents and arrest those responsible, amid allegations of reluctance among police to detain suspects. Federal Minister for Minorities and head of APMA Shahbaz Bhatti told BosNewsLife he would "make sure that culprits responsible for this showdown are booked and justice is served" including to the five Christians against whom blasphemy charges have been leveled.
Yet, with the Taliban gaining ground in Pakistan, extremism is spreading and Christians are among minorities with little influence in this predominantly Islamic nation, rights groups warned.
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On the menu today is a recipe that I found several years ago in one of my many Taste of Home Annual Cookbooks. Slow Cooker Broccoli became a fast family favorite. The first time I made this recipe I was looking for a vegetable dish that I could serve with our Thanksgiving Dinner, one that preferably didn't take up anymore room in my already over crowded oven. When I saw this recipe, it sort of jumped out at me.
This recipe for Slow Cooker Broccoli is made with frozen chopped broccoli, one can of cream of celery soup, shredded sharp cheddar cheese, chopped onion, Worcestershire sauce and buttery-crackers. Sounds good doesn't it. This recipe is not only super delicious, its fast and easy. Everything goes into a slow cooker and baked for 2 1/2 to 3 hours. Perfect to serve for Thanksgiving or for any dinner when a tasty vegetable will be much appreciated.
After it's debut a few years ago, this delicious slow cooker broccoli bake recipe makes an appearance on our Thanksgiving table each and every year. It has definitely become one of our all-thyme favorite recipes from Taste of Home. I consider this recipe a Taste of Home classic recipe. Here are two other recipes you might want to try, one is made in the slow-cooker and the other in the oven. Slow Cooker Oxtail Stew and Mini Meatloaves and Gingered Carrots.
This recipe became a fast, family favorite and it will become your family's too.
In a lightly greased crock pot combine; broccoli, soup, 1 cup cheese, onion, Worcestershire sauce and pepper.
Sprinkle crackers on top; dot with butter.
Cover and cook on high for 2-1/2 to 3 hours.
Cook 10 minutes longer or until cheese is melted.
This recipe also became a fast, family favorite. It's probably the most requested 'vegetable' recipe that we have in our Recipe Box. Give it a try and see what your family thinks, Vegetable Casserole for a Crowd. This holiday season rethink your vegetables and try something new or try a vegetable dish in addition too the holiday classic, green bean casserole.


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Q: Rails ActiveRecord: Locking down attributes when record enters a particular state Wondering if there's a plugin or best way of setting up an ActiveRecord class so that, for   example, when a record enter the "published" state, certain attributes are frozen so that they could not be tampered with.

A: You can freeze an entire AR::B object by setting @readonly to true (in a method), but that will lock out all attributes.
The way I would recommend is by defining attribute setter methods that check for the current state before passing to super:
class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  def author=(author)
    super unless self.published?
  end

  def content=(content)
    super unless self.published?
  end
end

[EDIT] Or for a large amount of attributes:
class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  %w(author content comments others).each do |method|
    class_eval <<-"end_eval", binding, __FILE__, __LINE__
      def #{method}=(val)
        super unless self.published?
      end
    end_eval
  end
end

Which of course I would advocate pulling into a plugin to share with others, and add a nice DSL for accessing like: disable_attributes :author, :content, :comments, :when => :published?

A: You could add a custom validation to block changes to attributes if you're in a certain state. You could hard code things directly into the validation. But I prefer the slightly more robust approach using constants defining a whitelist (list of attributes that are allowed to change in a state) or a blacklist (list of attributes not allowed to change in a state).
Here's an example of both approaches. Each approach assumes there is a state method in your model that returns the current/new state as a string.
White List Approach
WhiteListStateLockMap = {
  "state_1" => [
    "first_attribute_allowed_to_change_in_state_1",
    "second_attribute_allowed_to_change_in_state_1",
    ...
  ],
  "state_2" => [
    "first_attribute_allowed_to_change_in_state_2",
    "second_attribute_allowed_to_change_in_state_2",
    ...
  ],
  ...
}

validates :state_lock

def state_lock
  # ensure that all changed elements are on the white list for this state.
  unless changed & WhiteListStateLockMap[state] == changed
    # add an error for each changed attribute absent from the white list for this state.
    (changed - WhiteListStateLockMap[state]).each do |attr|
      errors.add attr, "Locked while #{state}"
    end
  end
end

Black List Approach
BlackListStateLockMap = {
  "state_1" => [
    "first_attribute_not_allowed_to_change_in_state_1,
    "second_attribute_not_allowed_to_change_in_state_1,
    ...
  ],
  "state_2" => [
    "first_attribute_not_allowed_to_change_in_state_2",
    "second_attribute_not_allowed_to_change_in_state_2",
    ...
  ],
  ...
}

validates :state_lock

def state_lock
  # ensure that no changed attributes are on the black list for this state.
  unless (changed & BlackListStateLockMap[state]).empty?
    # add an error for all changed attributes on the black list for this state.
    (BlackListStateLockMap[state] & changed).each do |attr|
      errors.add attr, "Locked while #{state}"
    end
  end
end

A: If the particular state is merely persisted?, then attr_readonly is the best option.
attr_readonly(*attributes) public

Attributes listed as readonly will be used to create a new record but update operations will ignore these fields.

To test (courtesy of THAiSi):
class MyModel < ActiveRecord::Base
  attr_readonly :important_type_thingie
end

#RSpec
describe MyModel do
 its('class.readonly_attributes') { should include "important_type_thingie" }

 it "should not update the thingie" do
   m = create :my_model, :important_type_thingie => 'foo'
   m.update_attributes :important_type_thingie => 'bar'
   m.reload.important_type_thingie.should eql 'foo'
 end
end

A: Editing attributes which shouldn't be edited is a validation error:
class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  validate :lock_down_attributes_when_published

  private

  def lock_down_attributes_when_published
    return unless published?

    message = "must not change when published"
    errors.add(:title, message) if title_changed?
    errors.add(:published_at, message) if published_at_changed?
  end
end

This uses the ActiveRecord::Dirty extensions introduced in 2.2 or so.


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Justice and Home Affairs/Third Pillar/Freedom, Security, Justice (Nov. 1993-present) (597)
Asylum, refugees (97)
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UNSPECIFIED (1994) Opinion on the Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament on Immigration and Asylum Policies. [EU Economic and Social Committee]
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UNSPECIFIED (1995) Refugees Issues. [EU Commission - Working Document]
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The Frankfurt Kitchen In the presentation "Elementary Parts: From the Collections"
since 23 November 2017
It changed the concept of home living and is considered a prototype of the modern fitted kitchen: the "Frankfurt Kitchen", designed by Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. Following careful restoration measures, an example of the legendary kitchen has now made its way into Elementary Parts: From the Collections, a permanent exhibition of Frankfurt's Museum Angewandte Kunst.
Over the years, the role played by Frankfurt and the surrounding region in modern design has been an ongoing focus at the Museum Angewandte Kunst. In 2015, the museum was presented with the opportunity to make a new addition to its holdings: a complete and largely unchanged historical "Frankfurt Kitchen" from the Bornheimer Hang housing estate in Wittelsbacher Allee. The kitchen's owner, the ABG Frankfurt Holding, placed the kitchen on permanent loan to the museum. The museum's conservator Christian Dressen supervised the complicated task of removing it from its original site in its entirety. The restoration work that followed took him two years. Rather than merely retouching the furnishings' exteriors, he decided to expose the original painted surfaces by removing later coats of paint, but also to leave signs of wear and tear visible.
In the exhibition, the kitchen's various elements are arranged according to the original floor plan. The end wall of the kitchen opposite the doorway, which once featured a window overlooking the garden, has been omitted, permitting views of the gallery space beyond. And when standing outside the kitchen at that end, the museum visitor moreover gains insights into its construction. The installation even includes the original floor and wall tiles, which make for a very authentic overall impression of Schütte-Lihotzky's outstanding design achievement.
Prof Dr Klaus Klemp oversaw the project in the role of curator, with the extensive scholarly assistance and advice of Dr Christos-N. Vittoratos. The restoration was made possible by generous financial support from the Hessischer Museumsverband (Hessian museum association).
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Elementary Parts: From the Collections
The "Frankfurt Kitchen" has now taken up residence in Elementary Parts – a permanent exhibition in which the Museum Angewandte Kunst presents selected objects from all of its collections.
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Linton's poem is a caustic satire on the Nativity Story connected to the birth of Napoléon Eugène Louis Bonaparte. The only son of the French Imperial couple was baptized during the Treaty of Paris, the celebrations marking the end of the Crimean War. Decades later Linton would publish another pamphlet on the occasion of the death of the Prince Imperial as a soldier of the British army in the Zulu War.


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US Concerned by Bulgarian President's Remarks about Crimea
Monday, 22 November 2021 07:00 AM
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — A day after Bulgarian President Rumen Radev secured his second term with a landslide victory in a runoff election, he drew criticism from the country's main NATO partner on Monday for his remarks about the status of the Crimean Peninsula.
In a statement, the U.S. Embassy in Bulgaria voiced "deep concern" over Radev's recent comments in which he referred to Crimea as Russian.
The peninsula was annexed by Russia from Ukraine in 2014, and NATO and the European Union both consider it still to be part of Ukraine.
In a presidential debate with his center-right opponent Anastas Gerdzhikov last Thursday, Radev insisted upon having pragmatic ties with Russia, adding that the EU should restore its dialogue with Moscow.
"The sanctions that were imposed because of Crimea and Ukraine are not yielding results," Radev said. He said the Crimean Peninsula was "currently Russian," adding, "What else can it be?"
These remarks had already prompted protests from the Ukrainian government.
"The United States, G-7, European Union, and NATO have all been clear and united in our position that, despite Russia's attempted annexation and ongoing occupation, Crimea is Ukraine," the U.S. embassy said.
"All of us, including Bulgaria, declared at the Crimea Platform Summit in August that Crimea is an integral part of Ukraine and that we do not and will not recognize Russia's efforts to legitimize its illegal seizure and occupation of the peninsula," the statement said.
Bulgaria is very divided in its loyalties. While it belongs to NATO and the EU, many Bulgarians still feel a cultural and historical affinity with Russia. The Black Sea country remains heavily dependent on Russian energy and has been exposed to growing tensions between Russia and the West.
With nearly all ballots counted, Radev had 66% of the votes in the runoff election, the country's central electoral commission said on Monday.
His opponent, Anastas Gerdzhikov, conceded defeat and congratulated Radev, who will begin his second term on Jan. 22.
A day after Bulgarian President Rumen Radev secured his second term with a landslide victory in a runoff election, he drew criticism from the country's main NATO partner on Monday for his remarks about the status of the Crimean Peninsula. In a statement, the U.S. Embassy in...
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