By Sparky in Healthy Ways on February 14, 2014 .
Women with high blood levels of fish oils have larger brain volumes then those with lower levels, suggesting the oils may delay the normal loss of brain cells due to aging, research found.
Those who raised their levels of two major omega-3 fatty acids by eating fish or taking supplements had larger total brain volume than those who didn't, according to research posted online today by the journal Neurology.
As people age, their brains get smaller but the shrinkage is accelerated in those with dementia or Alzheimer's disease, the authors said. While today's findings suggest that larger brain volumes equal a one- to two-year delay in the normal loss of brain cells, more studies are needed to look at what that means for memory, said James Pottala, the lead study author.
More than 5 million people in the U.S. have Alzheimer's disease, a number projected to triple by 2050, according to the Alzheimer's Association. There is no treatment for the mind-debilitating disease. The only drugs approved for the condition ease symptoms for a few months while the disease continues to worsen.
Researchers looked at 1,111 post-menopausal women from the Women's Health Initiative Memory Study. During that trial, women had their red blood cell levels tested for eicosapentaenoic acid, or EPA, and docosahexaenoic acid, or DHA, two major fish-derived omega-3 fatty acids, Pottala said. Eight years later, MRI scans were taken to measure their brain volume when they were an average age of 78 years.
They found that those whose omega-3 fatty acid levels were twice as high, 7.5 percent, had 0.7 percent larger brain volume. Those with the higher levels also had a 2.7 percent larger volume in the hippocampus area of the brain, which plays an important part in memory and can begin to atrophy in Alzheimer's disease before symptoms even appear.
While the study didn't measure how much fish or supplements the women consumed, previous research showed that healthy men and women eating non-fried oily fish like tuna, salmon or herring twice a week and taking fish oil supplements had a mean red blood cell level of EPA and DHA of 7.5 percent, Pottala said.
The brain uses DHA to make anti-inflammatory compounds that may help prevent cell death. Also the brain cell membranes are made up of DHA and insufficient amounts may cause the brain matter to decline over time, he said.
More studies are needed looking at men and women at risk for dementia and whether increasing their fish oil dose until their red blood cell levels were more than 8 percent benefited them, Pottala said.


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Emilio de Gogorza (baritone): Selected Recordings
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MARSTON 52068-2 [79:38 + 79:23]
How good to encounter a two-disc selection of recordings by the pioneering baritone Emilio de Gogorza. A brief biography is inevitably called for since only those versed in the far-off days of vocalism on record will be at all familiar with his name.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1874, to a Spanish family. Two months after his birth, the family sailed back to Cadiz, and at eleven he was sent to England to study at the Brompton Oratory Choir school. A decade later the eminent English cellist Charles Warwick Evans followed him to the same school before finding international fame in the London String Quartet. De Gorgorza meanwhile finished his schooling in Paris where he made his debut as a singer at the age of 21. Soon after, he sailed for America where he largely remained for the rest of his life.
A stage career was denied him, apparently because of very poor eyesight, but he pursued life as a concert singer. He had a wide repertoire, singing in a variety of languages, and was a prolific recording artist. He sang under a variety of names – Ed Franklin, M. Fernand (in French), Herbert Goddard and Carlos Francisco were some. He first recorded commercially around 1900, and then gravitated to Victor in 1904. He was a useful singer, as he was a linguist of distinction and had a wide repertory. He was also something of a facilitator, advising Caruso, amongst others, to record for the company even in the face of apparent indifference. Later still he married the great singer Emma Eames – his second marriage – though it didn't last the distance. In 1925 he joined the Curtis Institute, where he taught Samuel Barber, Rose Bampton and many others. He died in 1949.
As a concert artist singer he was Victor's leading recording artist. This selection of discs, made between c.1900 and 1928 gives some indication of his eminence as a musician, and the qualities vested in his singing.
Marston has broken down its selection into handy paragraphs. The first is 'Operatic Arias and Duets' and ranges between 1904 and 1919. He was a wonderfully communicative singer, as evidenced by his Barber of Seville extract (the obvious one), though he smudges clarity of diction in favour of patter dynamism. We can appreciate sovereign elegance in his Don Giovanni and in the other Mozart extract, Crudel, perchè finora from The Marriage of Figaro, he seems more sympathetic than his wife-to-be Emma Eames, who seems just a touch too cool. His Italian repertoire is no less fine; the Pagliacci extract is spread over two sides and with piano accompaniment is theatrically persuasive and vocally sagacious. His avoidance of mawkish verismo tricks can only be applauded as a mark of good taste. There are hints however, from time to time, of a weakness, which was his quite fast vibrato. There is an outstanding 1907 recording with soprano Marcella Sembrich in Thomas' Hamlet; the radiant purity of her voice is tremendous. His French repertoire is just as expressive and eloquent, especially his subtly varied, legato-conscious Massenet Le Roi de Lahore, a rare example this from 1909. His voice is, though, neither quite steady nor especially beautiful in the same composer's Hérodiade though it does remain stylish.
With Louise Homer in 1908 he essays Saint-Saëns's A moi l'honneur from Samson et Delila but in English, oddly. There's a souvenir of his Wagner which excellent sleeve-note writer Michael Aspinall admires but which I, for what it's worth, find rather inert. The first disc ends with some Italian Songs. There's an uneven Caro mio ben and a much better Dormi pure whilst Mandolinata is dispatched with tongue-twisting élan.
The earliest recording starts the second disc and it's the Spanish song El celoso, recorded around 1900 on a two minute Edison cylinder. It's a little worn but as with so many cylinders, when properly transferred, the sound is wonderfully forward and vivid. His evocative command of his native songs is a delight whether in a standby by Yradier - La poloma – or in duet with the honey-toned tenor Tito Schipa. Rosario de la Aurora, recorded toward the end of his studio career, shows the voice still in good estate and he conveys its melancholy with touching sincerity and directness, as well as considerable artistry. The selection of French songs reveals again the mobility and lightness of his singing, not least in Weckerlin's Bergère légère. Some of these selections were not issued on 78 at the time, indeed one – Tambourin, recorded in 1925, seems to be wholly unissued until now, which is a bonus. These songs, sung as that famous 'Monsieur Fernand', reveal his stylish command of French repertoire, light or heavy. There are also English Songs, or at least songs in English, which includes a non-song like Where'er you walk, but let's not quibble. This, unfortunately, gets a lugubrious, neutral reading complete with excessive rallentando. Much better are Drink to me only (1909) and Elgar's The Pipes of Pan, adventurous repertoire in American studios for 1915. He sounds authentically British.
The two disc set comes with a typically first class booklet, with a fine essay and excellently reproduced photographs. The versatile baritone has been well served here, and this selection of his many discs shows him for the first rate, communicative artist that he was.
Track-listing
Operatic Arias and Duets
1.IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA: Largo al factotum (Rossini) 3:58
8 March 1909; (C-6867-1) 88181
2.DON GIOVANNI: Deh, vieni alla finestra (Mozart) 1:54
3 September 1913; (C-13721-1) 88447
3.LE NOZZE DI FIGARO: Crudel, perchè finora (Mozart) 2:58
with Emma Eames, soprano
6 April 1909; (C-6967-1) 89023
4.LA SONNAMBULA: Vi ravviso, o luoghi ameni (Bellini) 2:56
9 June 1904; (B-1453-1) 1342
5.RIGOLETTO: Pari siamo (Verdi) 4:10
26 May 1908; (C-6235-1) 74110
6.UN BALLO IN MASCHERA: Eri tu (Verdi) 4:33
20 September 1911; (C-9677-2) 88324
7.PAGLIACCI: Si può? [Prologo] (Leoncavallo) 5:30
7 June 1904; (B-1430A-1/B-1430B-1) 2822/2823
8.HAMLET: Ô vin, dissipe la tristesse [Chanson bachique] (Thomas) 3:25
9.HAMLET: Doute de la lumiere (Thomas) 4:11
with Marcella Sembrich, soprano
9 October 1907; (C-4871-1) 89010
10.CARMEN: Votre toast [Chanson du toréador] (Bizet) 2:35
with New York Grand Opera Chorus
11 June 1906; (C-3449-4) 74046
11.LE ROI DE LAHORE: Promesse de mon avenir (Massenet) 3:34
12.HÉRODIADE: Divine volupté …Vision fugitive (Massenet) 4:07
2 February 1909; (C-6115-4) 88153
13.PANURGE: Chanson de la Touraine (Massenet) 2:16
3 January 1919; (B-22497-1) 64862
14.PATRIE: Jadis elles chantaient [Air du sonneur] (Paladilhe) 3:53
19 September 1911; (C-10997-1) 74229
15.SAMSON ET DALILA: A moi l'honneur de la vengeance (Vengeance at last)
(Saint-Saëns) 2:42
with Louise Homer, contralto
25 May 1908; (B-6227-2) 89501
16.TANNHÄUSER: Da scheinest du ... O du, mein holder Abendstern
(Wagner) 3:34
Italian Songs
17.Caro mio ben (Giordani) 3:28
18.Dormi pure (Scuderi) 3:30
19.Comme se canta a Napule (Mario) 2:51
10 November 1914; (B-15369-1) 64479
20.Lasciali dir, tu m'ami (Quaranta) 3:45
16 December 1920; (B-24737-2) 66046
21.Mandolinata (Paladilhe) 2:48
28 November 1910; (B-9673-2) 64160
22.Non è ver (Mattei) 4:18
18 April 1916; (C-15368-2) 74421
23.Santa Lucia (Cottrau) 2:45
16 May 1927; (BVE-1916-11) 1263-A
Spanish Songs
1.El celoso (Álvarez) 2:24
ca. 1900; (2-minute Edison brown wax cylinder) 12082
2.Cantares (Álvarez) 4:07
28 November 1911; C-11314-1; 74262
3.La partida (Álvarez) 4:04
4.En calesa (Álvarez) 3:00
11 May 1920; (B-24104-7) 64898
5.Mi niña (Guetary) 4:08
19 November 1909; (C-8392-1) 74149
6.La paloma (Yradier) 2:21
12 January 1926; (BVE-1917-6) 1141-A.
7.La Sevillana (Yradier) 2:47
12 January 1926; (BVE-7-078-6) 1203-A.
8.A la luz de la luna (Anton and Michelena) 2:58
with Tito Schipa, tenor
8 February 1928; (BVE-38379-4) 1751-A
9.Rosario de la Aurora (Traditional) 3:07
18 May 1927; (BVE-38039-1) 1294-A
10.El relicario (Padilla) 3:04
18 May 1927; (BVE-38039-4) 1294-B
11.Bergère légère (Weckerlin) 2:00
4 February 1925; (B-31831-1) 1108-B
12.Tambourin (Traditional; arranged by Tiersot) 2:15
3 February 1925; (B-31800-2) unpublished
13.Alleluia d'amour (Faure) 4:21
14.Le mariage des roses (Franck) 2:39
18 May 1908; (C-6200-1) first issued on AGSB-69
15.Le plongeur (Widor) 1:59
16.A Colombine - Sérénade d'Arlequin (Massenet) 2:15
20 May 1902; (pre-matrix B-1401-2) Victor 1401
17.A toi (Bemberg) 2:30
21 May 1902; (pre-matrix 1406) 1406
18.Malgré moi (Pfeiffer) 2:57
19.Voici que le printemps (Debussy) 2:59
6 April 1928; (BVE-43617-1) first issued on IRCC 72-B
20.SEMELE: Where'er you walk (Handel) 4:01
3 July 1907; (C-4545-2) 74086
21.When dull care (Traditional, arranged by H. Lane Wilson) 2:26
24 October 1916; (B-18573-3) 64629
22.Drink to me only with thine eyes (Traditional) 3:04
23.Mother o' mine (Tours) 2:25
24.The lark now leaves his wat'ry nest (Parker) 1:53
25.The pipes of Pan (Elgar) 3:56
26.The clang of the forge (Rodney) 2:35
27.In old Madrid (Trotère) 3:10
12 January 1926; (BVE-24103-7) 1179-B
Languages: Italian [1-7, 17-23]; French [8-14]; English [15]; German [16]
Accompaniments: Tracks 1-3, 5-6, and 8-23 with orchestra; Tracks 4 and 7
with unidentified pianists
Languages: Spanish [1-10]; French [11-19]; English [20-27]
Accompaniments: Tracks 1-3, and 14-19, 23-24 with piano; 4-13, 20-22, and
25-27 with orchestra
All Tracks were recorded by the Victor Talking Machine Company except CD
2, Track 1

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Valsequillo este un oraș din Spania, situat în provincia Cordoba din comunitatea autonomă Andaluzia. Are o populație de 421 de locuitori (2007).

Orașe din Spania

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package org.apache.lucene.analysis.de;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Reader;

import org.apache.lucene.analysis.Analyzer;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.BaseTokenStreamTestCase;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.MockTokenizer;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.Tokenizer;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.ReusableAnalyzerBase;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.KeywordTokenizer;

import static org.apache.lucene.analysis.VocabularyAssert.*;

/**
 * Simple tests for {@link GermanLightStemFilter}
 */
public class TestGermanLightStemFilter extends BaseTokenStreamTestCase {
  private Analyzer analyzer = new ReusableAnalyzerBase() {
    @Override
    protected TokenStreamComponents createComponents(String fieldName,
        Reader reader) {
      Tokenizer source = new MockTokenizer(reader, MockTokenizer.WHITESPACE, false);
      return new TokenStreamComponents(source, new GermanLightStemFilter(source));
    }
  };

  /** Test against a vocabulary from the reference impl */
  public void testVocabulary() throws IOException {
    assertVocabulary(analyzer, getDataFile("delighttestdata.zip"), "delight.txt");
  }

  /** blast some random strings through the analyzer */
  public void testRandomStrings() throws Exception {
    checkRandomData(random, analyzer, 10000*RANDOM_MULTIPLIER);
  }

  public void testEmptyTerm() throws IOException {
    Analyzer a = new ReusableAnalyzerBase() {
      @Override
      protected TokenStreamComponents createComponents(String fieldName, Reader reader) {
        Tokenizer tokenizer = new KeywordTokenizer(reader);
        return new TokenStreamComponents(tokenizer, new GermanLightStemFilter(tokenizer));
      }
    };
    checkOneTermReuse(a, "", "");
  }
}

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Asterix in Spain
Alternative editions:
UK publisher / ISBN: Orion - 0-7528-6630-3
Volume No.: 14
Original publication language: French
Categories: All-Ages, European, Humour
Review by Roy Boyd
Asterix in Spain is the fourteenth Asterix book by artist Albert Uderzo and writer René Goscinny.
Julius Caesar has subdued the whole of Hispania (strictly speaking, the Iberian peninsula, not Spain) apart from one small village led by Huevos y Bacon. The chief's son, Pepe, falls into the Romans' hands and they elect to keep the boy as a hostage to ensure the good behaviour of the recalcitrant Spaniards. As it's too dangerous to keep Pepe in his homeland they send him to Totorum, one of the Roman camps close to Asterix's village. In no time at all the Romans transporting the lively child run into Asterix and Obelix, who, one quick beating later, take him from the Romans and back to their village.
Pepe causes mayhem in the village (this is the first, though not last, book in which the villagers fight amongst themselves) and, worst of all, he enjoys Cacofonix's singing. This is the straw that breaks the camel's back, and the catalyst for the Gauls to take Pepe home. Asterix and Obelix set off with Unhygienix in his fishing boat. Of course, every time they travel by sea it's not long before they encounter the poor pirates that make a career out of being sunk, attacked, robbed or beaten by the Gauls, who generally have a fight first, ask questions later approach to situations.
Once ashore our heroes get to enjoy all Spain has to offer: bad roads; Germans everywhere; tourists with their mobile homes; discussions about the exchange rate. Basically, Goscinny and Uderzo are taking a fairly gentle poke at the holiday industry. They're also affectionate in their depiction of the Spaniards as a proud race, and we get a whistle-stop tour of Spanish icons: Don Quixote and Sancho Panza; castanets; flamenco dancing; bullfighting and too much olive oil in the food.
This is the first book to feature Unhygienix the fishmonger, and his wife Bacteria. The fishmonger and the village blacksmith would go on to have a strained relationship over many of the remaining books. The plot device of one small village holding out against the Romans, as well as being the premise upon which the books are based, was also used in Asterix in Britain. However, despite recycling ideas from past adventures, which is part of the cosy appeal of these books, this is a great story that moves at a rapid pace, with lots to enjoy on almost every page. The books are really rather violent, but that's also a large part of their appeal, and it's all presented with such style and vigour. The artwork is both flawless and extremely detailed, and the amount of research that this must have taken is impressive.
Preceded by Asterix and the Cauldron, and followed by Asterix and the Roman Agent, which is quite possibly the best book in the entire series, Asterix in Spain was produced during the halcyon days of the strip, and Goscinny and Uderzo were masters of their crafts by this point in their careers.
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Farrah Abraham Says She Would Never Date Charlie Sheen Because He's 'So Old'
Cassandra Rose
Brett Kaffee/Thibault Monnier, Pacific Coast News / Michael Buckner, Getty Images
Newly-minted porn star Farrah Abraham had a real shot at becoming Charlie Sheen's new goddess -- right up until she leaked their text messages. That prompted an enraged response from Sheen.
But hey, no big. Farrah, 22, says she'd never date him anyway ... because he's super old.
"I really don't even care [about Charlie dissing me]. That's coming from someone so old and he needs to get his [life] together. I don't even care. Anything he said doesn't really even make sense to me," Abraham told Hollywood Life.
"I would never go on an intimate date with Charlie Sheen," she added, even though she's already tried to. "He is really not my type like that."
Her comments are a far cry from her texts to the 47-year-old Sheen, in which she was asking for "play-dates" (possibly between their children, but more likely between their genitals) as well as a role on his show 'Anger Management.'
Charlie almost certainly won't let her have the last word in this story. So now ... we wait.
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Change to regulation around use of PAPs in feed set to come into force in autumn
© GettyImages/Coompia77
Related tags: Processed animal proteins, Insect, poultry feed, EFPRA
The umbrella group of the EU insect production sector - the International Platform of Insects for Food and Feed (IPIFF) - has welcomed the ENVI Committee's vote backing the authorization of PAPs such as insect derived protein in poultry and pig feed.
On Tuesday [June 22] the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety of the European Parliament (ENVI) backed the draft Commission Regulation amending Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 - also known as the BSE regulation - that would lift the ban on using pig PAPs in poultry feed, poultry PAPs in pig feed, insect PAPs in pig and poultry feed, and ruminant collagen/gelatin in non-ruminant feed.
The regulation had been given the green light by the member states in April, leaving MEPs three months to scrutinize the text and raise an objection before it came into force.
Piernicola Pedicini, an Italian MEP in the Greens group, had sought to build a majority in the parliament's environment committee to record an objection, but was unable to garner such support.
"The proposed measure will unfortunately not solve our dependency on soybean imports for animal feed and it does not push for a positive shift towards extensive farming," according to a story in The Guardian citing the Italian politician.
There has been a ban on the use of PAPs in animal diets in the EU since 2001, following the BSE crisis. The ban was lifted on the use of such proteins in fish feed in 2013.
Milestone for insect protein sector
IPIFF president, Adriana Casillas, commented: "The upcoming authorization represents a relevant milestone for our sector, as it will unlock two of the key markets targeted by insects as feed producers. It will therefore be instrumental in upscaling the European insect sector."
According to IPIFF, the authorization of insect PAPs in poultry and pig feed would contribute to improving the sustainability of the European livestock sector as well as making it more competitive. It would also enable a reduction in EU's protein deficit. "More widely, it would improve the resilience of agri-food supply, in line with the objective of the EU Farm to Fork strategy and of the new Circular Economy Action Plan," remarked IPIFF vice president, Aman Paul.
He said insect producers have worked closely with academia and feed manufacturers to develop products that are aligned with the nutritional needs of poultry and swine animals.
"We look forward to offering local solutions to pig and poultry farmers involved in both conventional and organic production," added Christophe Trespeuch, chair of the IPIFF working group on feed hygiene and animal nutrition.
The final procedural steps on the regulation should be completed in the next weeks, with formal adoption by the College of Commissioners expected at the end of the summer.
Pig PAPs in poultry feed, poultry PAPs in pig feed
Meanwhile, Bruno Menene, policy advisor at EU farming lobby group, Copa and Cogeca, told this publication in April: "Many pig and poultry farmers are looking forward to having access again to [pig and poultry derived] proteins, which are really interesting from a nutritional point of view as PAPs constitute an important source of phosphorus-rich and highly digestible proteins.
"Nevertheless, the strict rules established to avoid cases of cross-contamination, such as dedicated single-species feed production facilities, and the issues with the analytical tools to control their enforcement, means that the investment for the production of those PAPs might be complicated at first and thus their development might take some time."
The regulation requires that only feed for species for which the use of poultry PAPs is permitted can be produced on the same site and vice versa for pig PAPs. And FEFAC says the number of feed mills that are 100% dedicated to pig feed or to poultry feed is extremely low.
Martin Alm, technical director of the European Fat Processors and Renderers Association (EFPRA), the trade group that supports PAP raw material suppliers, acknowledged that it will be somewhat of a slow process in terms of feed manufacturers adapting their facilities to enable formulation with these raw materials. The opening up of the EU market won't happen overnight, he said.
Alm also reckons there needs to be greater awareness raising around the nutritional value of PAPs as they have been so long out of circulation in terms of feed ingredients for use in formulations in Europe. "We have to educate the feed mills, give them an overview of our product, make them aware of it again."
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'To achieve the maximum feasible utilization of PAPs in feed, we don't require every mill to be using them'
'A huge step forward for the sector' - Ÿnsect boss reacts to EU pig and poultry feed market opening up to insect protein


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What Happened—and What Didn't Happen—with Flight MH17
In southeast Ukraine and in Russia, conspiracy theories abound.
By Bob Dreyfuss
A piece of the crashed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 lies in the grass near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, July 20, 2014 (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Let's try to sort out facts from nonsense about the shootdown of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17, and let's say up-front what probably happened.
You don't have to be a student of Occam's Razor to figure out that neither the pro-Russian rebels—those out-of-control, half-drunk thugs who've proclaimed ersatz "people's republics" in southeast Ukraine—nor Russia itself would have deliberately targeted a civilian airliner, so the shootdown was obviously a mistake. It was a mistake made in the context of recently successful efforts by the separatists to shoot down Ukrainian military aircraft, including recently two SU-25 fighter jets, but it reveals a stunning lack of competence by the anti-Kiev fighters, who managed to get hold of a sophisticated anti-aircraft weapons system, the Russian-made Buk, a mobile, radar-guided system that can hit targets as high as fourteen miles up, but clearly don't know how to use the system safely. Though the perpetrators of the shootdown may have received training by Russia's military, and though it's almost certain that the Buk used in the atrocity was supplied from Russian territory across the border into Ukraine and then hastily withdrawn, it is truly mind-boggling that both Russia and the commanders of the anti-Kiev rebels would have trusted such as deadly system in the incompetent and reckless hands of those who fired it.
Among the leaders of the "people's republics," there are fanciful theories about what happened. What's important to note is that these accusations are being made not by irresponsible bloggers and other propagandists either in the Donbass or in Moscow but by the actual senior leaders and commanders of the rebel force.
First, for sheer comic value—if comedy can ever be appropriate in a tragedy of such magnitude—take the comments of Igor Girkin (a k a Igor Strelkov, which means "shooter"), the Russian citizen and, reportedly, a retired Russian military intelligence officer who says that he served in the Russian FSB intelligence agency until 2013, who is the commander of the so-called Donbass People's Militia and who's sometimes been described as a ersatz "defense minister" of the Donetsk-Luhansk region. As the Associated Press reports, via Talking Points Memo, Girkin-Strelkov says that the plane that was shot down was full of dead bodies already and that the victims, drained of blood and reeking of decomposition, were therefore plants. "A significant number of the bodies weren't fresh," says Girkin-Strelkov. "Ukrainian authorities are capable of any baseness."
The Girkin-Strelkov Theory fits in with what is emerging among the conspiracy-minded rebels as the belief that Ukraine somehow deliberately lured the anti-Kiev fighters into shooting down Flight MH17, having larded it with dead bodies. While that theory pales in comparison with the lunatic beliefs of 9/11 Truthers, it's still crazy, but it's backed by another top rebel commander, Alexander Khodakovsky, the leader of the so-called Vostok Battalion.
In an interview with Reuters, published in The Guardian, Khodakovsky, a defector from the Ukrainian special forces, admits that the Buk system used in the Flight MH17 shootdown was supplied by Russia and then hastily withdrawn back into Russian territory, which conforms with US and Ukrainian intelligence reports and unconfirmed photographs of the used Buk transport vehicle missing one missile. The New York Times, noting that the intelligence is sketchy so far, reported that there is evidence that the Buk system used in the attack traveled from Russia:
Photographs and videos posted on social media sites of what Ukrainian intelligence officials have said was likely the Buk system are unconfirmed and far from conclusive. But they offer a muddy picture of what might have been the weapon's bumpy journey through eastern Ukraine to a location near this sleepy mining town where American intelligence officials believe it blew the passenger jet out of the sky that day.
But Khodakovsky, in a burst of conspiracy-mongering, that Ukraine had "timely evidence" that the rebels possessed Buks but deliberately "provoked the use of this type of weapon against a plane that was flying with peaceful civilians." In other words, the devious Ukrainian government tricked the rebels into shooting down Flight MH17. Said Khodakovsky:
They knew that this BUK existed; that the BUK was heading for Snezhnoye. They knew that it would be deployed there, and provoked the use of this BUK by starting an air strike on a target they didn't need, that their planes hadn't touched for a week. And that day, they were intensively flying, and exactly at the moment of the shooting, at the moment the civilian plane flew overhead, they launched air strikes. Even if there was a BUK, and even if the BUK was used, Ukraine did everything to ensure that a civilian aircraft was shot down.
Despite such nonsense, Khodakovsky admits in the interview quite a bit about the origin and departure of the Buk. According to The Guardian, Khodakovsky "said the rebels may have received the Buk from Russia, in the first such admission by a senior separatist." He said:
That Buk I know about. I heard about it. I think they sent it back. Because I found out about it at exactly the moment that I found out that this tragedy had taken place. They probably sent it back in order to remove proof of its presence.… I'm not going to say Russia gave these things or didn't give them.… Russia could have offered this Buk under some entirely local initiative. I want a Buk, and if someone offered me one, I wouldn't turn it down.
Amid horrific conditions, in wartime, investigators from Ukraine, the United States, the United Nations, Britain, the Netherlands and Malaysia—along with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe—are slowly making headway in the recovery of victims' bodies and in piecing together what happened. But it will be a long, slow process.
Contrary to the notion that the anti-Kiev separatists are simply one side in a Ukrainian civil war, it's by now undeniable that Russia's Putin has stoked the fire of conflict in Ukraine, turning what would have been an east-west civil dispute pitting the government in Kiev against the significant, long-standing pro-Russian feelings in the southeast into a shooting war, and one that now involves heavy weapons, including tanks, artillery, anti-aircraft weapons (including shoulder-fired Manpads) and other equipment supplied by Russia.
But, as The Guardian reports—and congruent with the deranged views of Khodakovsy and Girkin-Strelkov—in Russia there are rampant conspiracy theories among the shootdown of Flight MH17. Among them: that Ukraine itself shot down the plane, or that the rebels were aiming for Putin's plane, returning from Brazil, as Russia's Interfax/RT speculated. At least some of this is encouraged by Putin's own spurious charge, outrageous in context, that Ukraine somehow bears responsibility for the tragedy by virtue of its military campaign against the Donbass "people's republic."
So far, it isn't clear whether Putin is prepared to take responsibility for irresponsibly inflaming eastern Ukraine or that he'll take the opportunity of the unspeakable Flight MH17 tragedy to back off. In his middle-of-the-night statement on Monday, he declared that the tragedy would not have occurred if Ukraine hadn't renewed military efforts to retake the southeast in late June, but he called for negotiations to end the conflict and pledged to support efforts to secure the investigation of the shootdown. And he did say: "Such events should not divide, but rather unite, people." Then, in a foreign policy speech on Tuesday, Putin said:
We are being urged to use our influence with the militias in southeastern Ukraine. We of course will do everything in our power, but that is not nearly enough.
He then once again slammed Kiev for its military actions in the southeast, saying:
It is necessary to call on the Kiev authorities also to observe elementary norms of ethics. At least to impose a cease-fire for a short time to hold an investigation.
So far, though, there is little confidence that a cease-fire wouldn't allow Russia to step up the supply of heavy weapons and even personnel to the anti-Kiev forces. If Russia is truly prepared to use its influence over the rebels to get them to accept the authority of the government in Kiev, then the crisis could be eased. Lacking such a commitment from Putin, it seems obvious, and tragic, that the war will continue, and that the rebels will be pushed back into small enclaves and ultimately crushed, at enormous cost in human lives and destruction. And, unless Russia intends to get directly involved, there is virtually no chance that the anti-Kiev forces can hold out more than weeks or months. Meanwhile, given the staggering public relations setback that Russia has suffered since the Flight MH17 shootdown, it seems highly unlikely that Russia can back the rebels more aggressively. To President Obama's credit, he's ignored calls from neoconservatives and hawks, including in Congress, to rush American military support, arms and advisers to the Ukrainian government.
Bob DreyfussBob Dreyfuss, a Nation contributing editor, is an independent investigative journalist who specializes in politics and national security.


If you are the typical road rider and you ended your season in September or October and you have been riding the last six to eight weeks without any structure (ie, riding just for fun, not that training isn't fun), you can use December to start your training for the 2011 season. If you've been riding 'cross events this fall, you still need to take some time away from the intense rides even if its just three to four weeks. For those ready to make the most of December here's where I'd start and why.
The months of December, January and February are the most important in the training calendar. The road season will start up in March and while peak form is not needed or even necessarily desired at that time we don't want to simply 'race into shape'. I can't think of anything more miserable than struggling through the first four to six weeks of racing as you build fitness. Its better to build your strength and endurance over the next several months and then fine tune during the season and then properly peak for key events.
Some of the athletes I'm coaching will be working on Tempo efforts this December. The Tempo effort is beneficial for a number of reasons. These will allow for better utilization of fuel during races, increase your ability to handle the more intense efforts that will come in January and February and beyond, allow you to develop better power at moderate intensities, increase your ability to store muscle glycogen, improve your ability to use fat as an energy source, increase the mitochondria in your muscles, and improve your aerobic efficiency. That's a lot of benefits for one type of interval!
So what is the Tempo effort? Lets first start with a cadence of around 75-85 which may be a little lower than the pace we use normally. Lets also stay in the saddle even when climbing. If you're using heart rate (HR), you should be in the 75-84% of max HR range (zone 3) or 85-95% of your threshold HR. If you're using power, you should be around 80-85% of threshold power. By 'threshold' I mean the HR or power that you can hold for one hour.
I'd recommend that you start with Tempo's two days per week. They can be separated by one day or for more fun do them on consecutive days. The duration and number of efforts should build over the month. For example you could start with 2x8 minutes and 2x10 minutes in week on followed by 2x12 minutes and 2x14 in week two. The options are endless but you could, and should, eventually be working on 4x15 minute efforts. It wouldn't be usual to do 60 to 90 minutes non-stop in late winter or early spring. At this point the idea is to build for three weeks and then recover for a week. Your level of fitness would determine the frequency, duration and intensity.
Whether you're riding indoors or out and whether your riding crits, road races, time trials, or 'cross, the Tempo effort should be a big part of your training.
It looks like the first really cold weather is headed our way at the end of the week with temperatures on Friday hitting a high in the mid 30's. If it's not heading into the 40's, I'm training inside. Actually, I even train a lot inside throughout the year just because I like the controlled environment for certain rides and intervals. I've found that a true recovery ride is best ridden on the trainer where there is no temptation to catch other riders or hammer up a hill. But lets get back to winter indoor training.
I'm assuming that you have some type of indoor trainer and that it allows you to ride from a very low power to a very high power output. I've owned trainers by TravelTrac, Cycle-Ops, CompuTrainer, Kinetic, etc. They all work just fine. Currently I have the Cycle-Ops Indoor 400 and it truly the finest indoor bike I've ever had the pleasure to crank out 12-15 hours a week on. Check 'e out at Montgomery Cyclery sometime. There are unlimited combinations of slope (-10% to +10%), wattage zones, gearing (1 to 22), etc. I love this bike.
drink a lot of fluids before, during and after!!!
If there is an interest I can get the spin room at the Cincinnati Sports Club. We have 35 bikes. The cost would be about $10 per person to come in and have access to the club all day.
About two years ago I had a coach call me with some questions regarding the USA Cycling coaches program. At the end of the conversation he left me an interesting comment. He must have been talking to some athletes that I was coaching or had coached and he told me that having them do intervals in December is wrong unless these athletes have races in January. I thanked him for the advice and chose not to get into a lengthy discussion with him regarding how wrong he was.
I have to think that that belief comes from a lack of understanding of what constitutes an interval. An interval can be off the charts difficult or also quite easy. This time of the year I do, and I recommend, some high cadence work of 1,2,3 minutes at 120+ rpm (pretty easy) and some slow cadence, big gear seated climbs of 4-6 minutes (pretty hard). I don't have any pressing events on the calendar but I also don't believe in losing fitness, especially as a master age athlete. The recent 20k indoor tt is about as hard as I will go and I will take plenty of rest after that event. Am I doing 60 and 90 minute steady state and tempos? No Am I doing 3,4, and 5 minute ower intervals? Not yet. My goal, and the goal I have for my athletes, is start their really intense interval training in January. I want them to start these not from a low level of fitness but from a really great base that allows them to attack the efforts and ideally go further with their power than the previous January. Keeping them fresh through November and December with some intervals is fine.
I also recommend plenty of really easy days on the trainer pushing low watts. These are great recovery rides. Some riders have a hard time doing this. They think every ride should have some difficulty to it. I do find these rides easier to do inside where there is no temptation to take the hills hard or catch other riders. And for those who think there should be no intervals this time of year I'd have to say that most of the weekend group rides end up being interval workouts so be cautious on those. The training goal of the group may not be your training goal for that week.
If you pace yourself properly through the fall and early winter you can maintain your fitness through the harsh winter and be ready or some serious improvement with your racing in the spring.
While it used to seem that mosts cyclists didn't want to spend time in the gym because they incorrectly thought it would add un-needed weight to their body or they thought the time would be better spent on the bike I can tell you that the trend is towards using the gym to improve cycling and acheive total fitness especially for the master age athlete. I recommend that cyclists incorporate weight training not just in the off-season but year-round. There is little point in starting a weight training program in December just to abondon it in March. With this system you spend weeks every winter acclimating your body to the training just to quickly lose it as soon as your stop in the spring. Instead, you should devote more time in the winter, maybe two or three days per week, and then taper down to one or two days during the season. The types of exercises, sets and reps would also be adjusted depending on the time of year. I certainly go heavier on my legs in the winter but keep core and upper body in my routine all year.
I have a list of over 100 exercies that I use in my classes and with personal training clients. You would be welcome to attend one of my classes at the Cincinnati Sports Club or we could have a team training day there if anyone is interested. Working towards total fitness will help your cycling!


Concern for others, creative endeavors and plans for a career in communications consume much of the schedule of this week's Valley Sun All-Star.
The girl with the big heart and dreams is Elaine Park, a junior at Flintridge Preparatory School.
Park is the daughter of Austin and Cecilia Park of La Cañada. She has a brother, William, 15, a student at La Cañada High School.
She was born in Glendale, lived in Montrose, and attended Learning Castle in La Cañada and then first grade at Monte Vista Elementary School, before moving to La Cañada in time for second grade at Palm Crest Elementary School.
After attending La Cañada High School 7/8, she transferred to Flintridge Preparatory School.
Park enjoys school and is currently on the dean's list. This year, she was voted by her peers as one of about 16 youths — four in each grade — to be part of a conduct review group at the school.
She's also a member of the school's varsity swimming, water polo and tennis teams. And she sings in the school chorus.
She has been playing the piano since she was about 5 years old and regularly performs with a group of friends at area retirement homes and schools for disabled children. She also plans to use her musical talents together with brother, Will, who plays the violin, in August to provide a musical benefit concert to help North Korean refugees.
Friendship also is important to the youth, as is being respectful to her parents, teachers, and others in leadership positions, Young said.
Park is a member of Holy Trinity Korean Catholic Church, where she serves as a commentator and helps lead the mass, by reading from the Bible, making announcements and performing other necessary roles.
Being in front of a crowd comes naturally for the youth, who recently was one of four students to compete in the Crescenta Cañada Lion's Club speech competition at Verdugo Hills Hospital. Park's speech for that competition reflected her personal concerns with environmental issues and water conservation.
"A lot of kids don't like to read, but I just got into reading as a child and I read whenever I can," she said.
Her childhood dream, she said, is to someday become a news anchor. However, she plans to also pursue a degree in business.
Her awareness of environmental issues was enhanced last year when she traveled to Singapore for a Stanford University summer program with classes on globalization and the new economic order.
She's also involved in Assisteens, the Assistance League of Flintridge's youth community service club, which provides blankets, goodie bags, and other items for underprivileged kids. Park said she and other youths in the club also plan to help out with a dinner this week at a homeless shelter in Pasadena.
IF YOU'D LIKE TO NOMINATE an exceptional young person who lives in La Cañada or is a student here to be a Valley Sun All-Star, e-mail lcnews@valleysun.net.


Solid Fuel Burning Devices deposit creosote in pipes and chimneys - a fire hazard - these devices require careful maintenance, operation and regular cleaning.
Here is a quick review checklist of some helpful "do's" and "don'ts" if you use an alternative form of heating in your home.
Ensure that your equipment bears either a CSA or ULC label.
Make sure your stovepipe is constructed of an approved material and that all horizontal sections incline upward from the stove at least one-quarter inch per foot.
Locate fire extinguisher where it will be accessible in the event of a fire.
Dispose of ashes in a covered metal container away from buildings.
Clean and inspect all chimneys on a regular basis.
Burn trash in a wood stove.
Use a stovepipe as a chimney.
Use galvanized steel as a stovepipe for wood or coal appliances.
Vent stove into a chimney also used to vent a central heat system.
Use gasoline, lighter fluid, or other flammable liquid to start or rekindle a fire in your wood stove.
Put anything combustible near the stove, even temporarily.
Use coal in a wood-burning stove unless the manufacturer specifically says it's okay.
Overload the stove with wood or use green wood.
Use artificial logs which can create a fire that is too hot and which contain wax that can clog up the air inlet.
Touch the stove to see if it is hot.
Wear flowing clothing when you're near it.


Imagine your typical career day. Students sit in a classroom all day as a parade of professionals in uniforms and suits stream through the room. Each professional gives their spiel about what they do, sometimes with supporting graphics or props, but for the most part they're just talking to the students from the front of the room. Sounds riveting, doesn't it?
Now, imagine trying to connect science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) as it relates to modern agriculture when tied to talking specifically about the day-to-day. The incredible and interesting part of working in modern agriculture, or any field for that matter, is less about the "career" and more about the daily problem solving involved in that career.
Students learn better when included and engaged. Instead of talking at the students for 30 minutes before taking questions, consider encouraging your professionals to bring real-world problems they are working to solving. This will not only give them an inside glimpse of what the career is really about but also provide context for some of the more abstract concepts generally associated with STEM careers.
For example, consider the entomologist or agronomist. Based on the titles alone, students have already tuned out. Capture their attention and spark their curiosity by having your professional take the students on a journey through a field. Set the crops up as the heroes and their archenemies, a pesky fungus, waiting in the wings for the right time to strike.
Explain to your young learners how and the different variables required for the pest to spread. Walk them through the life-cycle of the fungus, what makes it tick, and how it affects crops. You don't need a fancy PowerPoint presentation or graphs showing loads of data, just a flip chart and some markers. Present the facts, then let the students' minds run wild with solutions for this real-world problem.
Split them up in to teams – no one in the business works alone – and ask how they would prevent the spread of this pest. Remember, these are students without all the information. Praise them for their efforts and don't get bogged down in the details. Have the groups present their best idea and promote discussion around each.
Once you've let the kids tackle the issue and heard their solutions, encourage your professional to share some examples of how they've solved the same problem through actions or products. But don't just give the students the answer, walk them through the thought process behind these "professional" solutions, show them the how. Finally, have the professional end their discussion with how problem-solving relates to all careers with professionals in medicine, transportation, agriculture, energy, teaching, etc. following the same steps – learning about the problem, asking questions, and working together to explore different solutions, tossing those that don't work and digging into those with potential.
At the end of the day, you should be asking your students what problems they want to solve and providing them with real world examples. Don't worry, a career will fall in to place.
Valerie Bayes serves as Monsanto Company's STEM Engagement Lead headquartered in St. Louis, MO. She aims to rethink the ways private and public partners can work together to increase scientific knowledge and critical thinking skills; not only in the next generation of leaders, but more importantly the master educators who guide them. Valerie can be reached at stemeducation.outreach@monsanto.com.


The Weather-Tech Roofing & Waterproofing team proudly supported Archbishop McCarthy High School at a recent golf tournament. Tim Fitzgerald is pictured here with David Day and Andy Pribyl, Senior Managers from CBRE, and Brett Aleshire from Debonair Mechanical.
This is not the only time that Weather-Tech Roofing and Waterproofing has teamed up with CBRE. The WTRW team is already working on several major roofing projects for the company. As you can see, we value the opportunity to spend time with our clients on and off the job.


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San Diego attorney honored by American Bar Association
March 26, 2001 Press Releases
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. — David Casey, Sr. — founder of prominent plaintiffs' law firm Casey Gerry Reed & Schenk — was recently honored by the American Bar Association's Tort and Insurance Practice Section's Task Force on Plaintiff's Involvement.
According to Janice Mulligan, the Task Force Chair and a partner with Mulligan and Banham, Casey earned this award in recognition of his lifelong dedication to the legal profession and for the many significant contributions he has made to the justice system. The honor was bestowed at a recent ABA reception held in Casey's honor at the downtown Hyatt Regency hotel.
Now retired, Casey founded what is now known as Casey Gerry Reed & Schenk in 1947 to provide quality service for plaintiffs in civil litigation and personal injury cases. During a more than 50-year career, he has been the recipient of numerous professional accolades, including the Award of Honor from the San Diego Bar Association and the San Diego Press Club Headliner Award for Law and Justice. He was elected to the Lawyer's Hall of Fame in 1999, and was a charter member of the California Trial Lawyer's Association, the first President of the San Diego Trial Lawyer's Association and Governor of the State Bar of California. In addition, he is a diplomate of the American Board of Trial Advocates and a fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and of the
International Society of Barristers.
The American Bar Association (ABA) is comprised of plaintiff's and defense attorneys, in-house counsel and judges. The Tort and Insurance Practice Section's Task Force on Plaintiff's Involvement was created to encourage participation by and recognize the involvement of plaintiff's attorneys in the ABA.
Established in 1947, Casey Gerry Reed & Schenk is the oldest plaintiff's law firm in San Diego. The firm's eleven attorneys practice in numerous areas, including personal injury, business torts, medical malpractice, asbestos litigation, maritime law, class action and products liability. The firm is located at 110 Laurel Street in the Banker's Hill neighborhood of San Diego. For further information call (619) 238-1811 or Contact Us online.
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$80 million Proposed Settlement Receives Preliminary Approval in VW/Porsche Emissions-Fuel Economy Case
Father of three children who were murdered by their mother files lawsuit against the City and County of Los Angeles for failing to respond to his pleas to intervene to protect his children
Female Athletes Add Unequal Treatment, Retaliation Claims to Title IX Sex Discrimination Class Action Against San Diego State University
Female Athletes File Title IX Sex Discrimination Class Action Against San Diego State University for Depriving Women of Equal Athletic Financial Aid
CaseyGerry Named in 2022 Edition of Best Lawyers® "Best Law Firms."
Thought Leader in California E-Commerce Liability Launches Resource Site
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Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed on Behalf of Young Woman Who Died After Ingesting Marijuana Edibles


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IBM Installation Manager is used to install WebSphere Application Server. If you have not installed IBM Installation Manager, follow the directions in the article on how to install IBM Installation Manager. You will also need to add a repository to Installation Manager that contains WebSphere Customization Toolbox.
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The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a Holy Day of Obligation, is Saturday, December 8. We will have an 8am Mass on Saturday, December 8. Following the Mass there will be church cleaning and Christmas prep in the church as well as an Esto Vir Men's workday on Christkindl Village construction needs. See below for more info. Join us for this Holy Day of Obligation and stay after to help us prepare for the coming of the Christ Child. In addition to the 8am Mass on Saturday morning there will also be a Vigil Mass on Friday, December 7 at 7pm for the Immaculate Conception. Please note that the Saturday evening Mass on December 8 will be a Vigil Mass for the 2nd Sunday of Advent and will not be a Mass for the Immaculate Conception.


On-schedule and on-budget: that's the progress report on the new $135-million hospital Bay Area Medical Center is building in Marinette.
BAMC President and CEO Ed Harding updated the City Council Tuesday. He says construction is expected to be complete in early June and the target opening date is August 16th.
The hospital stands on a 90-acre site along University Drive and will feature all private patient rooms, a ten-bed ICU, and a regional cancer center. Harding says hospital staff had the chance to walk through models of patient rooms before any of the construction was complete.
Public open house events will be held at the new hospital the week of July 17th. An official ribbon cutting ceremony is planned for July 19th.


As a small business owner, dentists are in position to take advantage of tax-deferred savings plans. In our sixth video, Practice Integration Advisor Mike McAninch explains why this is a powerful strategy. This video illustrates how your savings can grow and examines the questions to ask when you're selecting the right plan for your practice.
As a practice integration advisor with Buckingham Strategic Wealth, Mike helps clients develop a plan, which he sees as a roadmap to financial goals and objectives. Mike specializes in the implementation of strategies for business and personal cash flow tax efficient saving, income and estate tax planning, personal and professional debt review, and business transition planning and execution.
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What do all of these people have in common? Well, these men and women were (are) powerhouse tech leaders who contributed to how we use, view and interact with technology today. These men and women were unafraid of pushing the envelope. These men and women were passionate about the unknown, and hungry to learn more. These men and women pushed through adversity and made a silent vow to ignore anyone and anything that tried to tell them they could not accomplish something.
These men and women were African-American technology thought leaders.
In honor of Black History Month, we here at Coding Dojo salute these pioneers for paving the technology pathway that we so proudly walk on today. These men and women did not let anything hold them back from greatness.
We believe the same for our students. We believe that ANYONE can code and nothing should hold them back from achieving a bright future.
Who knows…we may have another powerful inventor in our midst such as Granville Woods…or women similar to Katherine G. Johnson or Dorothy Vaughan who helped NASA achieve what some thought to be…well, unachievable… or a Mark Dean who currently holds three of IBM's first patents and was the co-creator of the IBM personal computer.
These amazing women and men did not let race or culture define who they were or what they did. They believed they could, so they did.
We believe the same here at Coding Dojo. Anyone who believes they can code, will.
Black History month is a time for us to not only honor African-American men and women who have contributed to society as a whole, but it's a time for us to recognize an entire race. A race of people who lived through tremendous opposition, and now will continue to freely contribute to technology in a way the world cannot ignore.
Coding Dojo is invested in helping minorities achieve their career dreams. We have developed a special Diversity Scholarship that can be found at codingdojo.com/onsite-boot-camp.
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Witnesses could not testify against suspects in Nadheem's Murder
By Yameen Saeed
March 1, 2021 , 22:05
Nadheem Abdhuhrahmaan | Photo: Facebook
Malé, Maldives – Three witnesses that were to testify in Nadheem Abdhuhrahmaan's murder have failed to positively identify the involved suspects, while four others have opted to not testify at all after alleged threats.
In 2017, masked men entered the "Terminal Café" in Malé, and attacked Nadheem with sharp objects. He was pronounced dead shortly after and the subsequent investigation pointed the Maldives Police Service toward 4 males who have been charged with the murder of Nadheem Abdhuhrahmaan.
At the Criminal Court hearing today only 3 of the 7 witnesses testified, with 4 witnesses refusing to testify after alleged threats and tampering. While the state has decided to not use the testimonies of these 4 individuals, their original statements on the matter will be used in the trial.
Defence lawyer Nooruhsalaam Aboobakr objected to this, stating that investigative statements cannot be used for the trial without summoning witnesses, adding that none of the accusations by the state are proven by witness testimonies.
The 3 witnesses that did testify anonymously today against Mohamed Fawaz Hussain Saleem, Ali Nifaz, Hussain Shameem, Mohamed Karam Suhail, did not reveal any solid information that would lead to the conviction of these four.
The first witness said that he saw some people running into a café, but he is now doubtful of the identity of these people or even the name of the café, adding that he has forgotten the exact date or year of the incident. The suspects were then shown to the witness, who said he does not remember if any of these individuals were present in the café that day.
The second witness stated while he was standing outside of Terminal Café, 2 masked men went into the café. Shortly after, it became very loud inside, and the witness saw a chair being thrown. However, since their faces were covered, the witness wasn't sure of their identities, but the witness is positive both masked individuals were male.
The third witness also revealed that he saw 2 masked men going into the café, adding that an attack took place inside. He said that he did not see the attack happen, and he does not know who attacked Nadheem.
Head Judge Hussain Faaiz Rashaadh stated at the end of today's hearing that at the next hearing of this case, the defendant's witnesses are to give their testimonies.
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Home gaming Playing Hello Kitty Online
Playing Hello Kitty Online
Who says moms can't play? As much as possible, I want to be the coolest mom that I can be and part of that goal is being in the know of the latest games. My son and I bond through music, PC games, and PSP games. Not that I am old but, I guess, playing games keeps me young at heart besides giving me a break from the tension and stress of work.
Last August 20, 2009, I became part of a select group of bloggers who got introduced to Hello Kitty Online - Philippines. After a long wait, Filipino gamers and Hello Kitty fanatics can now go on a marvelous adventure with the Sanrio gang! We were fortunate to have been given DVD game installers and Founders Beta passes along with some Sanrio collectibles. Ralph did not come with me to the launch because he thought that the game is for girls only.
The following morning, I installed the game in my laptop and guess who had the chance to play first? Yep, it's the boy who thought that Hello Kitty Online is a girly game. But I love this boy so much that I let him get away with the crime of naming and creating my game character! I can't blame him, though. The game really is very appealing. Plus there are some mini-games in the game too that are part of the quests that some Sanrio characters ask gamers to accomplish. The dominantly pink background didn't bother him at all. I let him play the whole afternoon since it was the start of the long weekend. I just kept a close eye on him so he won't chat with other more mature players. It's our 3rd day of gaming and our character is now on Level 6!
If you want to be part of the Founders Beta stage, head on over to the Hello Kitty Online page and sign-up for a free account. Do hurry because slots are only limited. Installers are available from the same site. You can also play the game at any Netopia branch.
Hello Kitty Online is developed by Sanrio Digital and published in the Philippines by Level Up!, Inc. - the first and leading online game publisher in the country.


English is my second language after Art. I can express fantastical ideas and places by creating them on a two dimensional surface. The illusion of the multi dimensional world created on a flat plane is fascinating. Implying depth on a clean plane sparks my enthusiasm for creating space and filling it with artful shapes. Artists like Max Earnst , Claes Oldenburg and Dr Suess are inspirational to me as are Silver Age Comic greats like James F. "Jim" Steranko, Jack Kirby and John Buscema . Influenced by Richard Scary, Mad Magazine and Science Fiction my art has evolved into what I like to call visual stream of consciousness. In creating a piece, I want to fill the canvas with imagery and action to draw viewers in for close inspection that requires more than one visit. Using pencil, pen, brushes, spray paint and collage I encourage viewers to explore and discover personal messages via nostalgic icons of Film, Americana or Pop Culture.


The Lost City Museum is in the process of cataloging and inventorying its archaeological collections. This is the first step necessary in making the collection more accessible to researchers and more available to be used in exhibits and educational programs. The Object Identification and Sorting Workshop will consist of learning to recognize the major prehistoric material types and sub-types found at archaeological sites in southern Nevada and learn how archaeologists use these materials to understand the sites they study. As part of the workshop, members will spend time putting into practice what they learn by sorting uncatalogued artifacts from the Lost City Museum's collections.
Event is for NVFCP members only.


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4th Republic Ep 4: Yar'Adua Passes And Goodluck Jonathan Takes Over
Posted on February 1, 2022 by Inem Udodiong
The latest episode of our 4th Republic podcast takes a look at the 2011 Elections. Following the messy 2007 Nigerian Elections won by the relatively unknown Katsina State Governor, Umaru Yar' Adua, his administration sought to build credibility in the electoral process by appointing a new Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chair and signing the 2010 Electoral Act. Major players in the 2011 elections were the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP), All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP) as well as two newly formed parties: Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), and the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN). This election offered a flash of change as the two new parties became prominent opposition against the ruling parties.
Despite the statistics, Nigerians had two main options – Muhammadu Buhari, running for the third time, and Goodluck Jonathan, the Vice President to the now-deceased President Yar'Adua. His death in May 2010 triggered a debate about the zoning of the country's highest office. With the ongoing global economic crisis and Yar'Adua's ill health, the country was desperate for a leader; desperation that produced a wave of violence that threatened to impact the progress of Nigeria's democracy.
In spite of the controversy and initial postponement, Jonathan became the first Nigerian outside the three main tribes to be elected as President with almost 60 percent of the votes. The results of the elections triggered violence in the northern, Muslim parts of the country that killed at least 800 people.
Listen to the new episode to learn all about the elections and join the conversation on Thursday, the 4th of February when we take a closer look at the 2011 election and its impact on Nigeria's political trajectory via Twitter Spaces @takingCustody by 7 pm.
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Journalist given 13 months in jail for insulting Mohammed
Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns the sentence of 13 and a half months in prison that an Istanbul magistrate's court passed yesterday on Turkish-Armenian journalist Sevan Nisanyan for posting "insulting" comments about Mohammed in his blog.
"Nisanyan's jail sentence is a grave violation of freedom of information and sends a threatening message to fellow journalists and bloggers that is unacceptable," Reporters Without Borders said. "It should be overturned on appeal. Suppression of comments critical of Islam has no place in a secular country such as Turkey."
"We have often hailed the gradual weakening of Turkey's Kemalist – secularist, nationalist and militarist – taboos but democracy will not benefit if they are replaced by a new religious censorship."
Reporters Without Borders added: "We urge legislators to repeal article 216-3 of the criminal code, a draconian provision that is the basis for a growing number of prosecutions."
Nisanyan was convicted under article 216 of "denigrating the religious beliefs held by a section of the society" in a blog entry posted on 29 September 2012 that prompted 15 different complaints.
The court said the sentence could not be suspended because Nisanyan had a previous conviction. If upheld on appeal and by the Court of Cassation, he will have to serve the sentence.
Nisanyan's blog entry said hate crimes must always be combatted whether they target Muslims or other groups but he argued that the controversial anti-Islamic video "Innocence of Muslims" did not constitute a hate crime.
"Making fun of an Arab leader who claimed he contacted Allah hundreds of years ago and received political, financial and sexual benefits is not hate speech," Nisanyan wrote. "It is an almost kindergarten-level test of what is called freedom of expression."
He added further down in the post: "You also have to wonder why these friends who used to be so quick to denounce hate crimes against minorities and other ethnic groups in our country no longer manage to be consistent when it comes to reacting to defend Islam and Muslims."
Article 216-3 of the criminal code, which prohibits "openly denigrating the religious beliefs held by a section of the society," was included in a legislative reform adopted in 2005. Any violation deemed "sufficient to endanger public peace" is punishable by six months to a year in prison.
It was under this article that the pianist Fazil Say was given a suspended 10-month jail sentence last month. It was later canceled.
Istanbul: Turkish-Armenian journalist Sevan Nisanyan sentenced to 13.5 months in prison for posting insulting comments about prophet Mohammed in his blog
http://en.rsf.org/journalist-given-13-months-in-jail-23-05-2013,44662.html


Rugs are a great way to add warmth under foot, especially with so many of us having floorboards these days. The tricky part is finding something you love that isn't nudging the $1,000 mark.
Everything I search for is well beyond my budget and I know it's going to get trampled by little, muddy feet on occasions, and a neighbour's dog who he thinks he belongs at our house!
So here are some cool options I've shortlisted.
Kmart's Koa Indigo Rug…sidenote-isn't Kmart just getting better & better these days?!
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Dentinal hypersensitivity (DH) is a common problem, and its diagnosis is not always straightforward.
By Michael P. Rethman, DDS, MS On Sep 26, 2011 0
Dentinal hypersensitivity (DH) is a common problem, and its diagnosis is not always straightforward. A host of etiologies may need to be evaluated and eliminated to arrive at what may be a "diagnosis by exclusion." As such, patients should be informed that a diagnosis of DH is not ironclad and that DH may recur. Fortunately, many DH treatments are straightforward, inexpensive, and noninvasive. Follow-up diagnoses and treatments are based on responses to initial treatments. Sometimes the placebo effect is useful, but clinicians need to be wary of promising more than can be delivered.
Despite the remarkable advances in treatments, the detection of exposed and vital root dentin should trigger a "need for ongoing care" mindset. This is because no matter how successful therapies may seem, the conditions that cause DH can recur or develop anew in other sites. Preventing exposure of additional dentin should be part of a comprehensive treatment plan. In some situations, a solution to both DH and the risk of continued exposure of dentin may be treated by therapies that can address both. For example, the following case report illustrates how a procedure designed to cover tubular lumina can obviate the likelihood of additional root exposure, improve esthetics, mitigate DH, and improve the patient's abilities to perform better self-care.
Figure 1 through Figure 3 depict gingival grafting performed on a 30-year-old man. The patient was a former smoker who had recently stopped using snuff because of noticeable gingival changes. The referring dentist was mainly concerned about the lack of attached gingiva on the labial aspects of the mandibular anterior teeth. The patient's lower anterior teeth had recently been scaled and root planed, likely inducing what the patient described as "severe pain" to cold air and drinks. However, the patient reported that using a potassium nitrate-containing dentifrice was gradually decreasing DH. Examination revealed moderate to severe gingival recession both on the labial and interproximal aspects of teeth #23—#25. Despite the patient's self-care attempts, areas of clinical inflammation persisted.
A prominent labial frenum was also noted. As seen in Figure 1, at only 4 weeks post-scaling and root planing, the patient was already forming new calculus on several teeth. Connective tissue grafting was recommended to improve the gingival architecture in the area and to cover the exposed root surfaces. Figure 2 shows connective tissue grafts immediately following suturing but prior to the placement of a periodontal pack. A frenectomy was also performed. Figure 3 depicts the treated area 2 years later. Comparing Figure 1 to Figure 3, note the wider band of attached gingiva and substantial root coverage on the labial aspects of #23—#25 post-treatment. Unfortunately, the patient's self-care remained suboptimal. The patient reported that DH had persisted for several months following the grafting procedure but "had been gone for 2 years or so now," and he continued to use a desensitizing dentifrice twice daily.
If a similar case was to be treated today, a host of alternate post-surgical interventions might make better sense: for example, a prompt post-surgical professional application of arginine/calcium carbonate desensitizing paste followed by the daily self-care use of an arginine/calcium carbonate/fluoride dentifrice.
Clinicians must remain up to date on the evidence base for the many treatments available for addressing DH in order to provide the best options for their patients. As we learn more about how DH occurs and why it recurs, clinicians will be able to put this information into practice.
From Dimensions of Dental Hygiene. September 2011 Supplement; 9(9): 62.
Michael P. Rethman, DDS, MS
Michael P. Rethman, DDS, MS, is a periodontist and biomedical scientist. An adjunct associate professor at the University of Maryland and adjunct assistant professor at The Ohio State University, he is also a member of Dimensions of Dental Hygiene's Editorial Advisory Board.
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The law covering corporate director duties pertaining to management of intellectual property assets is evolving, making it important for directors to remain up-to-date on any and all changes in management procedures and best practices. Generally, courts treat intellectual property assets like any other corporate asset, which means directors must approach intellectual property with the same due care as they would any other asset.
For example, directors must be informed of the value of their intellectual property and always remember their duty of loyalty to their shareholders. Similarly, courts require directors to implement necessary internal controls to protect their corporation's intellectual property assets. Finally, directors must refrain from misappropriating intellectual property.
Recent cases include DuPont v. Medtronic Vascular, where the Superior Court of Delaware acknowledged that corporate officers and directors may have an affirmative duty to monetize their corporation's intellectual property, including the use of litigation if necessary.Furthermore, the Securities and Exchange Commission recently filed a complaint against CytoGenix Corporation, its president, Lex Cowsert, and a board member, Christopher Plummer, claiming the defendants lied to investors by issuing false press releases associated with an influenza vaccine's development when the corporation had already lost all of its patents in a prior lawsuit.
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The graphics and scoring bugs used by Fox Sports have gained awards and changed how sports broadcasts are presented on United States television.
Competitive boxers who're presently enrolled in college and competing for the United States Intercollegiate Boxing Association or high school seniors accepted to varsity who will compete for the boxing affiliation could apply for the scholarship.
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The regular taking part in of This Land Is Your Land" is a subtle reminder from Orioles administration that at the intersection of sports activities and patriotism, one dimension doesn't have to suit all.
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An incredibly rare opportunity for a detail-obsessed Customer Success expert to join a well-funded early stage Ed Tech start-up backed by marquee investors and led by a second time entrepreneur with a track record of a successful multi million dollar prior exit. Prototype has blockbuster results,targeting an immediate $30+ Billion market, enabling tremendous wealth generation in a short time for a dynamic and analytical leader, preferably with prior scaling experience.
Ideal profile is someone with prior customer success experience with razor sharp intellect, strong project management skills, and an innate desire for growth, looking for a start-up wealth creation experience.
Location- : Mumbai-Based Only. Co-location with founding team is a Must.
- CUSTOMER SUCCESS: The candidate will lead a team that will manage hundreds of post sale customer support execs for a live Human-to-Human technology platform connecting students to teachers. Coordination with the product and tutor teams will be required to help improve product offering and overall operations.
- OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT: Processes, playbooks and teams will need to be put in place for different regions and services. Coordination with the tech team will be required to leverage software to streamline these processes.
- Multi-Dimensional, "Growth Hacker" Skill Set: The role is a unique combination of customer support, engagement, and retention that will require close coordination with our product and operation teams.
- Exceptional Drive: The candidate will be managing multiple priorities simultaneously across geographies and will be single-handedly responsible for customer happiness on a two-way platform.
Demonstrated history of taking responsibility ahead of tenure/experience with a super-human drive and a passion to enable customer happiness is a must.
- Customer Success Experience: Role requires an analytical, structured approach since the scale will expand from supporting thousands of students in a very short time. With 200,000 students on the platform, customer success processes will have to be very rigorous and strong.
Backed by a team of second time entrepreneurs and marquee investors, this is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to have a large impact and make tremendous wealth for an exceptional growth hacker /customer success wizard. to join a well-funded early stage Ed Tech start-up backed by marquee investors and led by a second time entrepreneur with a track record of a successful multi million dollar prior exit. Prototype has blockbuster results, targeting an immediate $30+ Billion market, enabling tremendous wealth generation in a short time for a dynamic and analytical leader, preferably with prior scaling experience.


When it comes to architectural presentation boards, CAD programs fall further behind expectations, more and more people are using other software tools to create their presentations that meet their needs. Adobe's Photoshop and Illustrator are some of the most popular tools when it comes to preparing presentation boards. If you have not use either one of these software to enhance your presentation boards, then you must be missing something. In this article, we will look at one of the most common effects architecture students and illustrators love to play with but find difficult to figure out: the Gradient Mask.
In order to blend both of the images, you have to export them in the same exact view. To capture both views you can use any CAD software offers, In AutoCAD and Architectural Desktop, you can Plot a Hidden Wireframe to a .tif file and Render to a .tif file format as well to get really high resolution images.
With both the images from your CAD program, import them into Photoshop and put them on separate Layers. Typically I like to put the Wireframe on top of the Shaded or Rendered image but it is not necessary to follow my preferences.
After adding a Mask to the current selected Layer, use set the Paint Bucket tool to a Gradient tool and make any adjustments you see fit. The Color should be set to Black. You can always adjust the falloff of the gradient by double-clicking on the gradient drop-down.
With the Gradient Tool set, select two points across the image and witness the gradient results immediately, illustrated example can be seen at the image above. If you increase the distance the falloff should be stretched and less drastic while decreasing the distance should create a dramatic falloff as illustrated to the right. Recommended to use the Shift key while drawing the gradient line in order to create a straight gradient.
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thanks for the quick tutorial. good luck.
hey…thanx for the tutorial…keep more coming in…but after ur thesis..all the best for that..