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A New Women-Run Mosque In Berlin, Is This How The Reformation Of Islam Begins?
Seyran Ates, a German-Turkish lawyer, has opened the first "liberal" mosque in Berlin, where she herself is the imam. The goal is nothing less that the worldwide reformation of Islam.
Ates after the opening of the new mosque
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BERLIN — The room where the reformation of Islam is intended to begin measures a total of 90 square meters (969 sq feet). It has high, stained-glass windows, and there is a light green carpet on the ground. A whitewashed shoe rack is in front. Otherwise, the space is void of furniture.
But for Seyran Ates, this space means her dream has come true. The German-Turkish lawyer has opened the first self-professed "liberal" mosque in Berlin's central Moabit neighborhood where men and women pray together, and where she herself is the imam.
The Ibn-Rushd-Goethe-Moschee, whose name combines the name of the 12th-century Muslim philosopher and German Enlightenment writer, has existed in this barren room in the annex of an evangelical church in Berlin-Moabit since last Friday. The small space is the first prominent mosque in Berlin that has labeled itself as "liberal," perhaps becoming the germ cell of reformed Islam in Germany.
Ates planned and founded the mosque with other Muslims from places like Morocco, Algeria, and Indonesia. The goal: nothing less than the reformation of Islam. Gays and lesbians are welcomed in the mosque. Men and women pray together. Ates has even trained herself as an imam. Once the mosque in Berlin becomes operational, she hopes similar mosques will emerge across Germany.
Who determines what the contents of liberal Islam are?
The project is ambitious. After all, it has two sticking points. First, who determines what the contents of liberal Islam are? And, secondly, shouldn't the Muslim world unite instead of allowing for every person to create his or her own sect?
On the opening day of the mosque, Ates was standing barefoot, wearing a white robe in the recently renovated room. Several journalists, some young men without cameras, two or three women with headscarves (but many without) were sitting in front of her.
"On the whole, man is required to use his head and all that which is contained inside," Ates preached. She quoted a scholar who stated that one could kill a camel through thought. She continued: "Let's not kill camels. That's also not pleasant for the camel. Let's defend love and peace with deeper thought."
Ates has reached a milestone of a vision that she conceived of eight years ago. At the time, she was upset with the fact that most mosques separated the sexes, requiring women to sit behind the men during prayer. She was also dissatisfied with the sermons in the mosques, which were often political and only served to disseminate a victim's mentality among Muslims rather than fostering coexistence together with the rest of society.
The founding of the Ibn-Rushd-Goethe Mosque is without a doubt a frontal assault on the religious establishment. "What have these mosques done in the last decades in Germany that have led young people to radicalization? Why have Muslim people so often said: 'this mosque community has distanced me from my faith?""
Ates adds: "There are refugees who come to us and say: 'the mosques in Syria are more liberal than the ones here.""
The new mosque project is supposed to fight against this tendency, and to aim even higher. "The reformation to which I aspire is also in a way aimed at getting back to the primitive state of our religion, and also to a situation in which there is just one Islam and not many different, combating movements," she wrote in a recent book.
But what does that mean? And is there a basic Islamic doctrine on which Muslims could unite?
Some points are non-negotiable
Ates at least has a clear vision: There are tenets in the Koran that are non-negotiable. "For example, I can't say 'I now worship several gods."" But Ates also argued that many of the noted declarations and legal concepts in Islamic lore, not in the Koran, and one must interpret these with an eye toward the present.
"The best example is the covering of women. We have a concept in the Koran that is not interpreted as headscarf but rather as the covering without reference to the shrouding of the head." In the past, shrouding had outwardly signaled that a woman was not sexually available. "We don't need that anymore."
She is not alone in this thinking. "I'm not founding a Seyran-Ates Mosque; rather, I rely on scholars like our namesake from the 12th century as well as contemporary theologians."
Thus far, Ates' mosque community is admittedly small. There are seven members and around two dozen worshippers. The woman's rights activist financed the project largely out of her own pocket. Donations have only come in recently. Ates is denied funding that other Turkish mosques in Germany receive from the Turkish government.
Attitudes from non-Muslims toward this project are divided. Ates says that most have responded positively, but there are also those who propagate fear around any place of worship with the label Islam. Every Friday there is a man who stands on the grounds in front of the prayer room shoving a piece a paper into every visitor's hand. The flyer reads: "Ivory tower dreamers are founding a mosque here in the evangelical community of Saint John. With it, they are bringing terror directly to us."
There had also been a sense of unease in the church's daycare center. Some parents were troubled by the idea of a mosque existing on the grounds. But, the mosque's presence at the church is only temporary. Ates is planning to construct a "beautiful, large mosque" in Berlin.
This is a woman who is not lacking in self-confidence. For years she had largely been forced to hide from the public eye after multiple death threats. But at a certain point, she decided to champion her stances in full view of the public. "When we fight for the liberation of our religion, we by no means want to Christianize Islam or institutionalize it accordingly. It is a question of interpreting the surahs and hadiths (chapters and reports of the Koran) in our time without altering the core of our religion," she writes in her book. By this, she means that Islam belongs to Germany but just in a different guise.
Not everybody finds Ates' reforms appealing. Even among Muslims who describe themselves as liberal, resistance is strong. "I think liberalism becomes dogmatic when it means that one formulates an idea of a progressive Islam everyone has to take part in, because there is no other way of doing things.", said Nushin Atmaca of the Liberal Islamic Association.
On the other hand, perhaps it is precisely this demonstration of liberalism that causes more conservative Muslim institutions to begin their own reform efforts.
The Central Council of Muslims, one of the Muslim societies that Ates criticizes, perceives itself as being both a defender and an attacker of the status quo. "Muslim life in Germany is changing," the chairman of the Berlin-based society, Mohamad Hajjaj, said. "The separation of the sexes, sex, and homosexuality are also being discussed in our mosques. And this is a good thing."
He noted, however, that women have not served as imams historically. And he likes it better when scholars (whether men or women) debate the subject, rather than lay people. Nevertheless, he argued, "by no means does the fact Ates is now serving as a imam give grounds for her expulsion from Islam."
Hajjaj also does not want to speak out against the new mosque that has deviated in some many ways. "Every house of worship in the city that meets the needs of Muslims is welcome."
Stuart Richardson
Die Welt ("The World") is a German daily founded in Hamburg in 1946, and currently owned by the Axel Springer AG company, Europe's largest publishing house. Now based in Berlin, Die Welt is sold in more than 130 countries. A Sunday edition called Welt am Sonntag has been published since 1948.


Premier Waste Management has been ordered to pay £10,000 plus costs for failing to clear up litter originating from one of the companys landfill sites.
The fine was in response to an incident at the Joint Stocks Quarry at Kelloe, Durham, after a case was brought by the Environment Agency. In court prosecutor Ben Reid explained how on April 13 2006 litter escaped from the facility but was not cleared up by the end of the day, contravening Premiers waste management licence.
Environment Agency representatives attended the site at 1.50pm and found a large quantity of litter caught in trees and shrubs adjacent to the waste facility. Officers could not see any staff attempting to retrieve the rubbish and when they returned at 7.30pm there were still plastic bags in fields.
A spokesman for Premier, which describes itself as the largest independent waste management company in the north east, said that after monitoring wind speeds managers had decided it was safe to open, but as wind speeds increased the site was subsequently closed. Two people had been employed to retrieve escaped litter that day and since the incident the firm had bought an electronic weather station and installed a wind-proof bay.
The court judged that the company had breached the terms of its waste management licence, contrary to section 33(6) of the Environment Protection Act 1990.
Helen Courtney, environment officer at the Environment Agency said: Conditions of a waste management licence are there to protect the environment and must be adhered to. When they are broken we take it very seriously.


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River Region boasts diverse arts scene
It may surprise newcomers, and even those who have lived here for years. But the arts have an expansive reach within the River Region.
River Region boasts diverse arts scene It may surprise newcomers, and even those who have lived here for years. But the arts have an expansive reach within the River Region. Check out this story on montgomeryadvertiser.com: http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2018/05/22/river-region-boasts-diverse-arts-scene/621084002/
Staff reports Published 7:00 a.m. CT May 22, 2018
The Scarecrow (Danny Mitsios), Dorothy (Rania Charalambidou), Tin Man (Carl Bachman), the Cowardly Lion (Ryan Arnold) and Dorothy's little dog Toto (Margie Anne Prescott) are seen during a rehearsal for The Montgomery Ballet's 2018 production of "The Wizard of Oz" on May 5, 2018.(Photo: Shannon Heupel/Advertiser)Buy Photo
It may surprise newcomers, and even those who have lived here for years. But the arts have an expansive reach within the River Region. Visual arts, dance, theater, classical music and film form a vibrant, vast, ever-changing work in progress. Here is a look at what you will find.
The Alabama Shakespeare Festival
A scene from the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's 2018 production of William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night." (Photo: Courtesy ASF)
The Alabama Shakespeare Festival presents a full season of productions, with resident directors and actors as well as visiting Actors Equity performers. Productions include Shakespeare's works as well as celebrated musicals and critically acclaimed plays — some born out of the Southern Writers Project Festival of New Plays, which takes place each May at ASF. The state theater of Alabama moved to Montgomery from Anniston in 1985 after Montgomery arts philanthropist Winton "Red" Blount donated land for an arts facility. Since that time, the theater has managed to put Montgomery on the theater world's map.
The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
Members of the Wilber Terrell Jazz Ensemble, Billy Whatley, left, and Jacob Walker, second from right, jam with Sam Williams, second from left, and Bob Avery, right, during the Jazz Jam at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Montgomery, Ala. on Sunday October 26, 2014. The ensemble is made up of students from BTW Magnet High School. (Photo: Advertiser file)
The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts boasts one of the largest fine arts collections in the Southeast. Annually, there is a diverse schedule of exhibitions — installations, sculpture, abstract paintings, touring shows and works from the museum's own extensive permanent collection. It is also a hub of art instruction and interaction, with classes, seminars and events throughout the year. There is a thriving gallery scene here, too. ArTrek, a tour that coincides in mid-September with the opening of the Montgomery Art Guild and Regions Bank Art Exhibition, is one of the biggest art events of the year.
Montgomery Symphony Orchestra
The Montgomery Symphony Orchestra holds its Children's Concert at the Davis Theatre in Montgomery, Ala., on Thursday March 30, 2017. (Photo: Mickey Welsh / Advertiser)
Montgomery Symphony Orchestra, a volunteer orchestra under the direction of Maestro Thomas Hinds and joined by world-class cello and violin fellows, presents a variety of concerts each year. There are classical concerts as well as three pops concerts each season.
Three dance companies
Members of the Montgomery Ballet and School of Dance perform during the Performance on the Green on Friday, Aug. 4, 2017, at Blount Park in Montgomery, Ala. (Photo: Albert Cesare / Advertiser)
The Montgomery Ballet, a professional company that's home to dancers from throughout the world and overseen by artistic co-directors Joseph and Laura Villalobos, takes on both classical and edgy new works. Alabama Dance Theatre, a youth performance/training company, is directed by founder Kitty Seale, winner of an Alabama State Council on the Arts Governor's Arts Award, and Alabama River Region Ballet, the newest on the dance scene, is a youth company started by Priscilla Crommelin-Ball, a veteran choreographer/dancer and local arts pioneer.
The Capri Theatre
The Capri Theatre in Montgomery on June 4, 2016. (Photo: Mickey Welsh/Advertiser)
The Capri Theatre is one of the only remaining art house cinemas in the state — even in the Southeast — and is home to several film festivals throughout the year, as well as first-run independent movies that otherwise might never make it to town. It recently upgraded to an all-digital format, and plans are in the works for an impressive expansion.
The Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum
This undated photo provided by the F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum in Montgomery shows a pillow on a chair embroidered with a quote from Zelda Fitzgerald: "She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring." The chair is in an apartment upstairs from the museum. The apartment and museum are located in a 1910 house where the Fitzgeralds lived in the 1930s. (Photo: Jonathon Kohn/AP)
The Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum at 919 Felder Ave. in Montgomery is the world's only museum dedicated to celebrating the life and works of the Fitzgeralds. It is filled with personal memorabilia, photographs, artifacts and reference materials. The couple met in Montgomery, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald's home-town. To find out more, go to http://fitzgeraldmuseum.net/
Troy University's Davis Theatre for the Performing Arts
Chief Master Sgt. Kevin R. Burns plays trumpet as the Airmen of Note perform for Montgomery's annual Glenn Miller Holiday Concert at Troy University's Davis Theatre on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017. (Photo: Shannon Heupel/Advertiser)
Troy University's Davis Theatre for the Performing Arts, 251 Montgomery St. in downtown Montgomery, is a performance home to several local arts groups and also host to touring Broadway shows, concerts and other events. The Davis opened in 1930 as The Paramount. It closed in 1976 and was purchased in 1983 by Troy University, which restored the 1,200-seat theater to its former grandeur. The theater was named for the late Tine W. Davis and his wife, Eunice, the major contributors to the restoration.
Community theaters
Kiersten Mattox, AUM communication and theater major, and Elizabeth Woodworth, AUM associate professor of English and Philosophy, rehearse for the 2018 AUM Theatre production of Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure." (Photo: Frank C. Williams/Auburn Montgomery)
The area's community theaters form a close-knit network, with groups frequently working together and supporting one another, offering everything from revivals of popular musicals to edgy, thought-provoking works. This area is also home to some award-winning university theater departments, including The Cloverdale Playhouse, Alabama State University's Department of Theatre Arts, and Auburn University Montgomery's Theatre AUM. Other community theaters include the Wetumpka Depot Players, the Millbrook Community Players and Prattville's Way Off Broadway Theatre.
WHERE TO FIND THE ARTS
Here's a listing to help locate whichever art form best suits your interest. Whether you're seeking live music, art galleries, theater or film, options abound in the River Region.
The Montgomery Ballet, Suite 223, 2101 East Blvd. www.montgomeryballet.org, 490-0522
Alabama Dance Theatre, 1018 Madison Ave. (Armory Learning Arts Center), http://alabamadancetheatre.com/, 241-2590.
River Region Ballet, 7981 Vaughn Road, www.riverregionballet.com, 356-5460
Classical theater
Alabama Shakespeare Festival, 1 Museum Drive, Blount Cultural Park, www.asf.net, 271-5353 or 271-5300
The Cloverdale Playhouse, 960 Cloverdale Rd, http://www.cloverdaleplayhouse.org/, 262-1530
Millbrook Community Players, 5720 Main Street, http://www.millbrooktheater.com/, 782-7317
Prattville's Way Off Broadway Theatre, 2003 W. Fourth St. (Prattville). https://www.facebook.com/prattvillewobt/, 595-0854
Red Door Theatre, 101 N. Prairie St., (Union Springs), http://www.reddoortheatre.org 738-8687
Wetumpka Depot Players, 300 S. Main St. (Wetumpka), http://www.wetumpkadepot.com/, 868-1440
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1 Museum Drive (Blount Cultural Park), www.mmfa.org, 240-4333
Montgomery Art Guild, Exhibit locations rotate, www.http://montgomeryartguild.org/
The Dauber Gallery, 130 Commerce St., Suite 102 http://www.daubergallery.com/
The Georgine Clarke Alabama Artists Gallery, RSA Tower, 201 Monroe St., Suite 110, www.http://arts.alabama.gov/gallery.aspx, 242-4076
Gallery East, 8103 Vaughn Road, http://galleryeast.net/, 356-3900
Gallery One Fine Art, 423 Cloverdale Road, www.http://galleryonefineart.com/, 269-1114
Prattville Creative Arts Center and Gallery, 342 Chestnut St. (Prattville), http://artguild@prattvilleal.gov, 595-0854
Marcia Weber Art Objects, 1050 Woodley Road,https://marciaweberartobjects.com, 262-5349
SACS Gallery (The Society of Arts & Crafts), 529 S Perry St., www.sacsgallery.org, 265-9931
Stonehenge Gallery, 1041 E. Fairview Ave., http://www.stonehengeinc.com, 262-8256
The Village Gallery, 107 S. Court St., http://www.the-village-gallery.com/, 538-0680
Capitol Sounds Concert Band, www./capitolsounds.org
Clefworks (performance/education), www.clefworks.org
Montgomery Area Chamber Music Organization, http://www.montgomerychambermusic.org/, 277-3505
Montgomery Chorale, http://www.montgomerychorale.org/, 265-3737
Montgomery Symphony Orchestra, http://www.montgomerysymphony.org/, 240-4004
Montgomery Performing Arts Center, 201 Tallapoosa St., http://www.mpaconline.org/, 481-5110
Davis Theater for the Performing Arts, 251 Montgomery St., http://www.troy.edu/davistheatre/ 241-9567
The Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum, 919 Felder Ave., http://www.thefitzgeraldmuseum.org/ 264-4222
The Capri Theatre (Capri Community Film Society), 1045 E Fairview Ave., http://www.capritheatre.org/, 262-4858
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Air France And Airbus Face Manslaughter Expenses For Lethal 2009 Crash – Easy Flying
Air France and Airbus are wanting prone to have to face trial for the crash of an plane that passed off over 10 years in the past. Air France flight 447, operated by an Airbus A330, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean whereas flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris on June 1st, 2009. A French appeals court docket has right this moment overturned a earlier choice to not press costs on the planemaker or the airline.
Air France and Airbus will face costs over the crash in 2009. Photograph: Getty Photos
The crash of Air France 447 was the deadliest within the historical past of the airline. 216 passengers and 12 crew members misplaced their lives after the Airbus A330 stalled in a thunderstorm and crashed into the ocean. Subsequent investigations blamed pilot errors, but in addition highlighted a problem with defective velocity monitoring gear.
Following the crash, the Public Prosecutors Workplace had known as for a manslaughter trial in opposition to Air France, alleging that the airline didn't present adequate info to its pilots on the procedures to be adopted. It cited a number of incidents of an identical nature that had occurred within the months previous the crash of AF 447.
Nonetheless, in September 2019, all charges were dropped. On the time, the investigating judges stated, as reported by the Financial Times, that,
"[This] accident is evidently because of a conjunction of parts that had by no means occurred earlier than, and thus highlighted risks that might not have been perceived earlier than this accident".
It took two years to get well the 'black field' from the crash website. Photograph: Getty Photos
Nonetheless, the affiliation representing the family of the victims, 'Affiliation entraide et solidarité vol AF447', appealed the judgment. Right this moment, the Court docket of Attraction of Paris has overturned the 2019 choice, and has ordered that Air France and planemaker Airbus be tried for involuntary manslaughter in relation to the accident.
Danièle Lamy, president of the Affiliation entraide et solidarité vol AF447, instructed France 24 that,
"It's an immense satisfaction to have the sensation of getting lastly been heard by the courts."
Iced Pitot tubes
Following investigations, the French Bureau of Enquiry and Evaluation for Civil Aviation Security (BEA) reason behind the crash of Air France flight 447 has been attributed to a mixture of things. The primary subject is believed to have been defective readings from the Pitot sensors, which had change into froze throughout the flight. The report states that one of many causes was possible,
"Momentary inconsistency between the measured airspeeds, possible following the obstruction of the Pitot probes by ice crystals that led specifically to autopilot disconnection and a reconfiguration to alternate legislation."
The restoration made use of an ROV to search out wreckage on the ocean ground. Photograph: Getty Photos
It goes on to say that the issue was additional compounded by the crew making incorrect selections. Most crucially, the crew didn't determine the approaching stall, and subsequently couldn't implement corrective actions in time.
The plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil at simply after 2 AM on the 1st of June 2009. It took two years for the flight recorders to be recovered from the ocean ground, which required using a remotely operated car (ROV) because of the depth concerned.
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Next Wave of Banking Crisis to come from Eastern Europe
by F. William Engdahl on 25 Feb 2009 0 Comment
European banks face an entirely new wave of losses in coming months not yet calculated in any government bank rescue aid to date. Unlike the losses of US banks which derive initially from their exposures to low-quality sub-prime real estate and other securitized lending, the problems of western European banks, most especially in Austria, Sweden and perhaps Switzerland arise from the massive volumes of loans they made during the 2002-2007 period of extreme low international interest rates to clients in Eastern European countries.
The problems in Eastern Europe which are just now emerging with full force are, if you will, an indirect consequence of the libertine monetary policies of the Greenspan Fed from 2002 until 2006, the period where Wall Street's asset backed securitization Ponzi Scheme took off.
The riskiness of these Eastern European loans is now coming to light as the global economic recession in both east and west Europe is forcing western banks to pull back, refusing to renew loans or 'rollover' the credits, leaving thousands of borrowers with unpayable loan debts. The dimension of the Eastern European emerging loan crisis pales anything yet realized. It will force a radical new look at the entire question of bank nationalizations in coming weeks regardless what nice hopes politicians in any party entertain.
Moody's Rating Service has just announced it 'might' downgrade a number of western European banks with large exposures to Eastern Europe. On the report, the Euro fell to 2 and a half month lows against the dollar.
The Moody's report mentioned especially banks in Eastern Europe owned by western European banks including specifically Raiffeisen Zenetralbank Oesterreich and Sweden's Swedbank. The public Moody's warning will now force western banks with subsidiaries in Eastern Europe to dramatically tighten lending conditions in the east at just the time the opposite is needed to keep economic growth from collapsing and thereby setting off chair-reaction loan defaults. The western banks are caught in a devil's circle.
According to my well-informed City of London sources, the new concerns over bank exposures to Eastern Europe will define the next wave of the global financial crisis, one they believe could be even more devastating than the US sub-prime securitization collapse which triggered the entire crisis of confidence.
As a result of the Moody's warning, west European banks will now likely be selective in supporting their subsidiaries. Moody's report noted that 'banks in countries that are associated with higher systemic risks might face reduced support.' Western European governments may also establish rules to ensure banks receiving state support are forbidden to aid foreign subsidiaries. This is already the case with Greek banks and the Greek Government. The result is to make a bad situation far worse.
The size of risks is staggering. The amount of loans potentially at risk involve mostly Italian, Austrian, Swiss, Swedish and it is believed German banks. Once the countries of the former Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact declared independence in the early 1990's west European banks rushed in to buy on the cheap the major banks in most of the newly independent east countries. As US interest rate cuts after the stock crisis in 2002 pushed interest rates around the world to new lows, easy credit led to higher risk lending across borders in foreign currencies.
In countries such as Hungary, Swiss and Austrian banks promoted home mortgage loans denominated in Swiss Franc where interest rates were significantly lower. The only risk at the time was if the Hungarian currency were to devalue, forcing homeowners in Hungary to repay sometimes double the monthly amount in Swiss Francs. That is what has happened over the past 18 months as western banks and funds have dramatically reduced their speculative investments in eastern countries to repatriate capital back home where the mother banks had serious problems caused by the US banking catastrophe. In the case of the Polish Zloty, the currency has dropped in recent months by 50%. The volume of mortgages existing in foreign currencies in Poland is not known, but London estimates are that it could be huge.
In the case of Austrian banks, the country faces a rerun of the 1931 Vienna Creditanstalt crisis which in chain-reaction spread to the German banks and brought Continental Europe into the economic crisis of 1931-33. At the recent EU Finance Ministers' meeting in Brussels, Austrian Finance Minister Josef Pröll reportedly pleaded with his colleagues to come up with a Euro150 billion rescue package for the banks in Eastern Europe.
Austrian banks alone have lent Euro230 billion there, equivalent to 70% of Austria's GDP. Austria's largest bank, Bank Austria, which in turn is owned by Italy's Unicredito along with the German HypoVereinsbank, faces what the Vienna press calls a 'monetary Stalingrad' over its loan exposure in the east. In a bitter historic irony, Bank Austria bought the Vienna Creditanstalt in recent years in its wave of mergers.
According to estimates published in the Vienna financial press, were only 10% of the Austrian loans in the east to default in coming months, it 'would lead to the collapse of the Austrian financial system.' The EU's European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London estimates that bad debts in the east will exceed 10% and 'may reach 20%.'
German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück reportedly flatly rejected any EU rescue funds for the east, claiming it was not Germany's problem. He may soon regret that as the crisis spreads to German banks and results in far greater costs to German taxpayers. One of the most striking aspects of the present crisis which first erupted in summer of 2007 is the increasingly evident incompetence of leading finance ministers and central bankers from Washington to Brussels to Paris and Frankfurt and Berlin to deal resolutely with the crisis.
The London office of US investment bank, Morgan Stanley, has issued a report estimating the total of western European bank lending to the east. According to the report, Eastern Europe has borrowed a total of more than $1.7 TRILLION abroad from mainly west European banks. Much of that has been short-term borrowing of less than a year. In 2009 eastern countries must repay or roll-over (renew) some $400 billion, fully 33% of the region's total GDP. As global recession deepens the chances of that are fading by the day. Now western banks are refusing to roll-over such loans, under political pressure and financial pressure back home. The credit window in the east, only two years ago the source of booming profits for the west European banks, have now slammed shut.
Even Russia which a year ago had more than $600 billion foreign exchange reserves, is in a difficult situation. Russian large companies must repay or roll-over $500 billion this year. Russia has bled 36pc of its foreign reserves since August defending the rouble.
In Poland, 60% of all mortgages are in Swiss francs. The Polish zloty has just fallen in half against the Swiss franc. Hungary, the Balkans, the Baltics, and Ukraine are all suffering variants of this same story. As an act of collective folly – by lenders and borrowers – it matches America's sub-prime debacle. This crisis, for European banks comes atop their losses in US real estate securities. In is the next wave of the crisis that is about to hit. Almost all East bloc debts are owed to West Europe, especially Austrian, Swedish, Greek, Italian, and Belgian banks. Europeans account for an astonishing 74% of the entire $4.9 trillion portfolio of loans to emerging markets. They are five times more exposed to this latest crisis than American or Japanese banks, and they are 50pc more leveraged according to the IMF.
Whether it takes months, or just weeks, Europe's financial system now faces a major test and the situation is complicated by the fact that when the rules of the European Central Bank were finalized in the late 1990's, governments could not agree to surrender total national central banking powers to the new ECB. As a result, in this first test of the ECB in a systemic crisis, the bank is unable to act in the same manner as say the Federal Reserve and fulfil the role of lender of last resort or to flood the markets with emergency stimulus.
By some estimates the European Central Bank already needs to cut rates to zero and then purchase bonds and Pfandbriefe on a huge scale. It is constrained by geopolitics – a German-Dutch veto – and the Maastricht Treaty. The EBRD estimates that Eastern Europe needs at least Euro 400bn in help to cover loans and prop up the credit system.
Europe's governments are making matters worse. Some are pressuring their banks to pull back, undercutting subsidiaries in East Europe. Athens has ordered Greek banks to pull out of the Balkans. The sums needed are beyond the limits of the IMF, which has already bailed out Hungary, Ukraine, Latvia, Belarus, Iceland, and Pakistan – and Turkey next – and is fast exhausting its own Euro 155bn reserve, forcing it to sell its gold reserves to raise cash.
The recent IMF $16bn rescue of Ukraine has unravelled. The country – facing a 12pc contraction in GDP after the collapse of steel prices – is going towards default, leaving Unicredit, Raffeisen and ING facing disaster. Latvia's central bank governor has declared his economy "clinically dead" after it shrank 10.5pc in the fourth quarter. Protesters have smashed the treasury and stormed parliament.
Perhaps most alarming is that the EU institutions don't have any framework for dealing with this. The day they decide not to save one of these one countries will be the trigger for a massive crisis with contagion spreading into the EU.
Clear at present is that for small-minded political reasons, Berlin is not going to rescue Ireland, Spain, Greece and Portugal as the collapse of their credit bubbles leads to rising defaults, or rescue Italy by accepting plans for EU 'union bonds' should the debt markets boycott Italy's exploding public debt, hitting 112% of GDP next year, just revised up from 101%.
F. William Engdahl is author of A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order (Pluto Press) and Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation (www.globalresearch.ca). His new book, Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order (Third Millennium Press) is due end of March. His website is: www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net
© Copyright F. William Engdahl, Global Research, 2009; Courtesy Global Research
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    GraphicsComplex[nnodes, Polygon[topol[[All, {1, 2, 3, 4}]]]]}];
dists1 = Graphics[{Arrow[{{0, -1.1}, {1/Sqrt[3], -1.1}}],
    Arrow[{{0, -1.1}, {-(1/Sqrt[3]), -1.1}}],
    Arrow[{{1/Sqrt[3], -1.1}, {0, -1.1}}],
    Arrow[{{-(1/Sqrt[3]), -1.1}, {0, -1.1}}], FaceForm[],
    EdgeForm[Black]}];
dists2 = Graphics[{Arrow[{{-1.1, 0}, {-1.1, 1/Sqrt[3]}}],
    Arrow[{{-1.1, 0}, {-1.1, -(1/Sqrt[3])}}],
    Arrow[{{-1.1, 1/Sqrt[3]}, {-1.1, 0}}],
    Arrow[{{-1.1, -(1/Sqrt[3])}, {-1.1, 0}}]}, FaceForm[],
   EdgeForm[Black]];
nodeVis = Graphics[{Black, PointSize[Medium], Point[nnodes]}];
pts = {{-(1/Sqrt[3]), -(1/Sqrt[3])}, {1/Sqrt[3], -(1/Sqrt[3])}, {1/
    Sqrt[3], 1/Sqrt[3]}, {-(1/Sqrt[3]), 1/Sqrt[3]}};
ptstext =
  Graphics[{Style[Text["0.57735", {-0.57735/2, -1.2}], Medium],
    Style[Text["0.57735", {0.57735/2, -1.2}], Medium],
    Style[Text["0.57735", {-1.2, 0.57735/2}, Automatic, {0, 1}],
     Medium],
    Style[Text["0.57735", {-1.2, -0.57735/2}, Automatic, {0, 1}],
     Medium]}];
integartionpoints = Graphics[{Black, PointSize[Large], Point[pts]}];
axes = Graphics[{Style[Text["\[Xi]", {1.4, -0.2}], Medium],
    Style[Text["\[Eta]", {0.2, 1.4}], Medium]}];
coords = Graphics[{Style[Text["(-1,-1)", {-1.1, -1.1}], Medium],
    Style[Text["(1,-1)", {1.1, -1.1}], Medium],
    Style[Text["(1,1)", {1.1, 1.1}], Medium],
    Style[Text["(-1,1)", {-1.1, 1.1}], Medium]}];
masterel =
 Show[meshVis1, nodeVis, axes, coords, integartionpoints, dists1,
  dists2, ptstext]
(*Export["C:\\Users\\diogo\\Dropbox\\ArtigoFemMathematica\\figuras\\\
masterel.jpg",masterel,ImageResolution\[Rule]300]*)

topol = {{1, 2, 3, 4}}
eltype = 2;
forcing = 0.;
nnodes = {{2, 1}, {5, 2}, {4, 6}, {1, 4}};
meshVis2 =
  Graphics[{Arrow[{{0.6, 0.5}, {6, 0.5}}],
    Arrow[{{0.6, 0.5}, {0.6, 6}}], FaceForm[], EdgeForm[Black],
    GraphicsComplex[nnodes, Polygon[topol[[All, {1, 2, 3, 4}]]]]}];
nodeVis2 = Graphics[{Black, PointSize[Medium], Point[nnodes]}];
axes2 = Graphics[{Style[Text["x", {5.8, 0.25}], Medium],
    Style[Text["y", {0.4, 5.8}], Medium]}];
coords2 =
  Graphics[{Style[Text["(2,1)", {1.8, 0.8}], Medium],
    Style[Text["(5,2)", {5.3, 1.8}], Medium],
    Style[Text["(4,6)", {4.3, 6.2}], Medium],
    Style[Text["(1,4)", {0.9, 4.2}], Medium]}];
defel = Show[meshVis2, nodeVis2, axes2, coords2]
Show[masterel, defel]

It should look like this:

A: The problem is that you are not joining two Graphics expressions; you are trying to join too many Graphics expressions. The solution is to work with one Graphics expression, which is actually quite easy to do.
I will build up the two main components of your final image from more elementary elements just as you did. I will also build each of the main components in its own coordinate space as you did. I will make the final image by translating and scaling the first the main component.
First component
topol = {{1, 2, 3, 4}};
eltype = 2;
nnodes1 = {{-1, -1}, {1, -1}, {1, 1}, {-1, 1}};
pts =
  {{-(1/Sqrt[3]), -(1/Sqrt[3])}, {1/Sqrt[3], -(1/Sqrt[3])},
   {1/Sqrt[3], 1/Sqrt[3]}, {-(1/Sqrt[3]), 1/Sqrt[3]}};

meshVis1 =
  {Arrowheads[.01],
   Arrow[{{0, 0}, {0, 1.5}}],
   Arrow[{{0, 0}, {1.5, 0}}],
   FaceForm[], EdgeForm[Black],
   GraphicsComplex[nnodes1, Polygon[topol[[All, {1, 2, 3, 4}]]]]};

dists1 =
  {Arrowheads[.01],
   Arrow[{{0, -1.1}, {1/Sqrt[3], -1.1}}],
   Arrow[{{0, -1.1}, {-(1/Sqrt[3]), -1.1}}],
   Arrow[{{1/Sqrt[3], -1.1}, {0, -1.1}}],
   Arrow[{{-(1/Sqrt[3]), -1.1}, {0, -1.1}}]};

dists2 =
  {Arrowheads[.01],
   Arrow[{{-1.1, 0}, {-1.1, 1/Sqrt[3]}}],
   Arrow[{{-1.1, 0}, {-1.1, -(1/Sqrt[3])}}],
   Arrow[{{-1.1, 1/Sqrt[3]}, {-1.1, 0}}],
   Arrow[{{-1.1, -(1/Sqrt[3])}, {-1.1, 0}}]};

nodeVis = {PointSize[Medium], Point[nnodes1]};

ptstext =
  {Text["0.57735", {-0.57735/2, -1.2}],
   Text["0.57735", {0.57735/2, -1.2}],
   Text["0.57735", {-1.2, 0.57735/2}, Automatic, {0, 1}],
   Text["0.57735", {-1.2, -0.57735/2}, Automatic, {0, 1}]};

integartionpoints = {PointSize[Large], Point[pts]};

axeslbls = {Text["ξ", {1.4, -0.2}], Text["η", {0.2, 1.4}]};

coordlbls =
  {Text["(-1, -1)", {-1.1, -1.1}], Text["(1, -1)", {1.1, -1.1}],
   Text["(1, 1)", {1.1, 1.1}], Text["(-1, 1)", {-1.1, 1.1}]};

Second component
topol = {{1, 2, 3, 4}};
eltype = 2;
nnodes2 = {{2, 1}, {5, 2}, {4, 6}, {1, 4}};

meshVis2 =
  {Arrow[{{0.6, 0.5}, {6, 0.5}}],
   Arrow[{{0.6, 0.5}, {0.6, 6}}], FaceForm[], EdgeForm[Black],
   GraphicsComplex[nnodes2, Polygon[topol[[All, {1, 2, 3, 4}]]]]};

nodeVis2 = {PointSize[Medium], Point[nnodes]};

axeslbls2 = {Text["x", {5.8, 0.25}], Text["y", {0.4, 5.8}]};

coordlbls2 =
  {Text["(2, 1)", {1.8, 0.8}], Text["(5, 2)", {5.3, 1.8}],
   Text["(4, 6)", {4.3, 6.2}], Text["(1, 4)", {0.9, 4.2}]};

Now all I have to do is translate and scale the first component and add a curved arrow.
Graphics[
  {Scale[
     Translate[
       {meshVis1, nodeVis, axeslbls, coordlbls, integartionpoints,
        dists1, dists2, ptstext},
       {11, 4}],
     2],
   {Arrowheads[.025], Arrow[BezierCurve[{{5.5, 5}, {6.5, 5.3}, {7.5, 5}}]]},
   {meshVis2, nodeVis2, axeslbls2, coordlbls2}},
  ImageSize -> 500]

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Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross argued with loans backed by the guaranteed back pay, federal workers should be able to find the money to carry them through the government shutdown. | Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images
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Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Thursday said he doesn't understand why some federal workers are seeking out food banks during the government shutdown, saying they have the option of low-interest loans instead.
Speaking on CNBC, Ross argued the roughly 800,000 unpaid federal workers can take out loans to cover their bills as they're poised to miss another paycheck this week. The billionaire investor also emphasized that they'll eventually get back pay and that the overall economic impact won't be severe, becoming the latest Trump official to minimize the toll of the longest shutdown in U.S. history.
"These are basically government-guaranteed loans because the government has committed, these folks will get back pay once this whole thing gets settled down," Ross said. "So there is really not a good excuse why there really should be a liquidity crisis now."
"Now true, the people might have to pay a little bit of interest, but the idea that it's paycheck or zero is not a really valid idea," he continued.
Federal employees have reported going to homeless shelters to find food for their families, but when asked on Thursday about the desperate measures, Ross replied: "Well, I know they are, and I don't really quite understand why." Ross argued with loans backed by the guaranteed back pay, federal workers should be able to find the money to carry them through the shutdown.
Regardless of the individual cost on federal employees, Ross said the shutdown won't be too damaging for the country's image or economy. "You're talking about 800,000 workers and while I feel sorry for the individuals that have hardship cases, 800,000 workers, if they never got their pay — which is not the case, they will eventually get it, but if they never got it, you're talking about a third of a percent on GDP so it's not like it's a gigantic number overall," he said.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi quickly pounced on the comments, characterizing them as a "let-them-eat-cake attitude."
"He said he doesn't understand why they have to do that," Pelosi told reporters, unprompted, during a news conference. "I don't quite understand why, as hundreds of thousands of men and women are about to miss a second paycheck tomorrow."
Other Trump officials have also received backlash for comments that seemed out of step with the thousands of federal workers who are suffering because they live paycheck to paycheck.
Kevin Hassett, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, got flack after appearing to compare the shutdown to a vacation, saying it could leave workers "better off" because they will receive backpay and many aren't having to report to work. Hassett later said his words were taken out of context.
And Lara Trump, an adviser and daughter-in-law to President Donald Trump, was criticized earlier this week after saying the shutdown was necessary to get strong border security.
"Listen, this is, it's not fair to you, and we all get that," she told Bold TV when asked what she would say to furloughed workers. "But this is so much bigger than any one person."
Trump himself said earlier this month that he could relate to government workers who are working without pay, but added without evidence that most federal employees support his fight for $ 5.7 billion in border wall spending.
Federal workers are becoming increasingly frustrated with Washington's funding standoff. A group of workers staged a sit-in outside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's office on Wednesday demanding an end to the shutdown. J. David Cox, national president of the American Federal of Government Employees, wrote a letter to Trump earlier this month arguing the shutdown impacts not only employees but also the beneficiaries of their services.
"They want to be providing vitally important services to their fellow Americans and they want to be paid," Cox wrote of federal workers.
Cox also hit back at Trump's assertion that workers mostly support his shutdown fight. "With the exception of a tiny handful, federal workers are united in opposition to the shutdown, the lockout, and their forced labor without pay," he wrote.
Some of the president's allies have started privately worrying that the seemingly callous comments reinforce the perception that the president and his team of wealthy advisers are out of touch with the public.
"Although prioritizing things like a border wall may make sense in the abstract as a policy determination, it gives the impression of not caring about the day-to-day lives of those impacted by the shutdown," a former senior White House official said.
The partial government shutdown is persisting as Trump and Democrats in Congress battle over $ 5.7 billion for a border wall with Mexico. The fight has reached unprecedented levels of political theater, with Pelosi delaying the State of the Union address and no concrete resolution in sight.
Trump, who gave in to Pelosi's request to delay his State of the Union, lightly jabbed at her Thursday morning after she seized on Ross's comments.
"Nancy just said she 'just doesn't understand why?' Very simply, without a Wall it all doesn't work. Our Country has a chance to greatly reduce Crime, Human Trafficking, Gangs and Drugs. Should have been done for decades. We will not Cave!" he tweeted.
Brittany Holder, communications director at the National Federation of Federal Employees, called Ross's comments "insulting" to federal workers, saying her organization feels Ross is out of touch with the everyday challenges of working people. Holder noted mortgage payments for many workers are coming up in about a week and that loans carry interest that can be challenging to manage even with back pay.
"It's insulting and unrealistic [to assume] that 800,000 federal employees should just be out here applying for loans," Holder said. "Is he going to be paying the interest that we're going to have to pay back?"
Holder also said that federal employees are occupied with the day-to-day expenses they have to scrape together — from feeding their families to putting gas in their cars — rather than the overall macroeconomic health of the country. She said with fewer federal workers going out for food and coffee or taking Ubers, she's met private-sector workers also reeling from the shutdown with less business.
"It has an impact on everybody," she said.
The National Air Traffic Controllers Association also took issue with Ross's comments about their workers. TSA officers and air traffic controllers are working without pay, and many TSA officers are calling out sick in record numbers to find alternative ways to pay their bills.
Ross said he was concerned about the safety risks the shutdown has created, but put the responsibility on the employees themselves.
"It's kind of disappointing that the air traffic controllers are calling in sick in pretty large numbers," he said.
Doug Church, spokesman for the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, said his organization is in daily contact with air traffic facilities across the country and denied air traffic controllers have been calling in sick in greater numbers. He added most facilities are actually showing lower rates of sick leave.
Andrew Restuccia contributed to this report.
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K-19 The Widowmaker – amerykańsko-brytyjsko-niemiecko-kanadyjski oparty na faktach thriller z 2002 roku.

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Rok 1961, trwa zimna wojna. W toku jest wyścig zbrojeniowy między USA a ZSRR. Sowieci zbudowali atomowy okręt podwodny K-19 z pociskami nuklearnymi. Kreml chce wysłać jeszcze niedokończony okręt w pierwszy rejs, czego nie akceptuje kapitan Polenin. Z tego powodu zostaje zdegradowany do rangi pierwszego oficera, a dowódcą zostaje kapitan Aleksiej Wostrikow. Po wypłynięciu na Atlantyk okręt przeprowadza udane wystrzelenie rakiety, ale załoga odkrywa wyciek z reaktora jądrowego, co może doprowadzić do katastrofy. Na domiar złego zbliża się do nich amerykański niszczyciel.

Główne role
 Harrison Ford – kapitan II rangi (komandor porucznik) Aleksiej Wostrikow
 Liam Neeson – kapitan III rangi (komandor podporucznik) Michaił Polenin
 Joss Ackland – marszałek Zielencow
 John Shrapnel – admirał Bratiejew
 Steve Nicolson – kapitan III rangi (kmdr ppor.) Jurij Demiczew
 Shaun Benson – Leonid Paszynski
 Tygh Runyan – Maksim Portenko
 Peter Sarsgaard – Wadim Radczenko
 Christian Camargo – Paweł Loktiew
 James Ginty – Anatolij Subaczew
 Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson – starszy oficer mechanik, kapitan III rangi (kmdr ppor.) Wiktor Gorielow

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Go one step further. Sometimes, you can go one step further than saying thank you. You can write a letter to the person, write a letter of praise to the person's boss, give them a shout out on social media, write a good review and so on.
Write a thank you note. When we were growing up, and we were old enough, we always wrote a thank you letter for birthday and Christmas presents.
Look for the positive in a negative situation. Sometimes, when things are rough, it's really hard to see the positive side of a negative situation. But there is usually something to be grateful for. When my dad was dying, I was grateful for the doctors and nurses who made him comfortable. I was grateful for the opportunity to be there holding his hand when the time came, and I was grateful for the time we shared in the last few years.
Donate what you don't want. One of the things you realise when you practice gratitude is how much you have. Pay it forward, and donate some of the things you don't need, that someone else would be grateful for. There are so many people in need these days who would appreciate what you no longer want.
Pay it forward. Make someone else's day by paying it forward. Whether When someone does a good deed for you, then pay it forward, and do it for someone else. Whether its buying a cup of coffee, or helping someone else in the way you were helped, paying it forward spreads joy as well as gratitude.
Random acts of kindness. Instead of responding to someone else's good deed, why not just do a good deed yourself. Here are 10 ideas to get you started.
Practice forgiveness. Sometimes the lessons we learn are learnt the hard way, and they can be very painful. By forgiving the person who hurt you, you are not absolving the person from their guilt, but you are releasing yourself from the pain that you're holding onto. Acknowledge the lesson and be grateful for it, but in a positive way. Sometimes the gifts we are sent come in unusual packages!
Sometimes the person you have to forgive is yourself, so this can be a very powerful way of helping you move forward. One way of doing this was suggested by Carolan Dickinson in her Udemy course: "(your/persons name) from my heart to yours, I forgive you for anything real or perceived you may or may not have done to hurt me, from this lifetime or any other." Repeat three times.
There are lots more ways you can practice gratitude and if you'd like to read more, then check out this article from Lifehack. You may also want to read Roberts Emmon's article. He's a scientific expert on the effects of gratitude.


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Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914
Ancestry.com. Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.
Original data: Anglican Parish Registers. Marriage Bonds and Allegations. Somerset Archives & Local Studies, South West Heritage Trust, Taunton, England.
About Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914
Marriage Registers
Both the British government and the church had an interest in record keeping, and a 1538 act of Parliament required ministers in the Church of England to record baptisms, marriages, and burials. In 1754, Hardwicke's Marriage Act of 1753 went into effect, requiring a formal ceremony be performed by Anglican clergy in the parish of one of the participants following the publication of banns and in the presence of two witnesses. (There were exemptions allowed for Jewish and Quaker marriages.) In 1837, civil registration began, which removed many of the restrictions imposed by Hardwicke's Act. This database includes parish records with dates ranging from 1754 up until 1914.
Couples were usually married in the bride's parish. Marriage records typically include the bride and groom's names, residence, date and location of the marriage, names of witnesses, condition (bachelor, spinster, widow, or widower) and the name of the officiant. Some records may also include the father's name and occupation. The early records may contain less detail.
Marriage Bonds and Allegations
Marriage bonds and allegations were drawn up when an application for a marriage licence was made. When applying for a licence the groom would have to swear that there were no impediments to the marriage. This document was known as a marriage allegation. They usually record names, ages, occupations, residences, condition (eg. Bachelor, spinster) and the proposed location of the wedding. Marriage bonds were sworn statements containing assurances by friends or relatives that there were no reasons why the marriage shouldn't take place.
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Pentagon says US jets supported Turkey in Jarabulus
Turkiye, World
Agency spokesman says he can't discuss contributions of other coalition members
By Esra Kaymak Avci
The U.S. said Wednesday that U.S. jets conducted airstrikes supporting Turkish efforts to clear Daesh from Jarabulus in northern Syria.
"U.S. manned and unmanned aircraft participated in these operations near the Syria-Turkey border," Pentagon spokesman Adrian Rankine-Galloway told Anadolu Agency in a written statement.
Galloway said the U.S.-led coalition's airstrikes were in support of Turkey's operation and vetted Syrian opposition forces seeking to clear Daesh from Jarabulus -- a city located 5 kilometers (3 miles) from the Turkish-Syrian border.
According to Galloway, the coalition's intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) assets have been regularly monitoring the border as it is "a key transit point for ISIL fighters moving back and forth between Syria and Turkey".
The spokesman added that the coalition continued to monitor ongoing operations along the border.
Galloway said it was not up to the Pentagon to discuss the contributions of other coalition members on the ongoing Jarabulus operation.
Turkish military's Operation Euphrates Shield in Syria was launched early Wednesday, when artillery and airstrikes were followed by Turkish tanks crossing the border to target Daesh and the PYD in support of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters.
The operation is in line with the country's right to self-defense borne out of international treaties and a mandate given to the Armed Forces by the Turkish parliament in 2014 and extended for another year in September 2015.
Operations by the Turkish army which have been actively fighting Daesh, have significantly contributed to ongoing efforts of the U.S.-backed international coalition against the terror group.
Since January, rocket attacks against the Turkish province of Kilis from Daesh-held territory in Syria have killed at least 21 people, while terrorist attacks in Gaziantep blamed on Daesh include Saturday's suicide bombing of a wedding that killed 54 victims and a car bomb attack in May that martyred two police officers.
The Free Syrian Army recently took control of Jarabulus, where one FSA member was killed. The Turkish army sustained no casualties.
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Události
 21. ledna – Po 17 letech vlády zemřel osmanský sultán Mustafa III. a na trůn nastoupil Abdulhamid I.
 2. července – Anglický mořeplavec James Cook v Tichém oceánu objevil ostrov Vatoa.
 10. května – Po 59 letech vlády zemřel francouzský král Ludvík XV. a na trůn nastoupil jeho vnuk Ludvík XVI.
 21. července – Rusko a Osmanská říše podepsaly mírovou smlouvu, která ukončila šest let trvající válku. Smlouva umožnila Rusku zasahovat do politiky a chránit křesťany v Osmanské říši.
 4. září – James Cook objevil ostrov Nová Kaledonie.
 5. září–26. říjen – Zástupci britských kolonií v Severní Americe se sešli na prvním Kontinentálním kongresu a shodli se na bojkotu Británie a petici králi Jiřímu III.
 22. září – Zemřel papež Klement XIV.
 6. prosince – Císařovna Marie Terezie zavedla všeobecnou školní povinnost.

Probíhající události
 1768–1774 – Rusko-turecká válka
 1772–1775 – Druhá plavba Jamese Cooka
 1773–1775 – Pugačovovo povstání

Vědy a umění
 Švédský chemik Carl Wilhelm Scheele objevil chlor a mangan.
 Anglický chemik Joseph Priestley objevil kyslík. O dva roky dříve jej objevil i Carl Wilhelm Scheele, ale Joseph Priestley objev publikoval první.
 Německý spisovatel Johann Wolfgang von Goethe vydal román Utrpení mladého Werthera.

Narození

Česko
 17. dubna – Václav Jan Křtitel Tomášek, hudební skladatel a pedagog († 3. dubna 1850)
 21. července – Jan Alois Sudiprav Rettig, právník, spisovatel a překladatel († 26. července 1844)
 24. července – František Josef z Klebelsbergu, šlechtic, rakouský ministr, sběratel umění († 28. prosince 1857)

Svět

 29. ledna – Robert Shaw, britský poslanec a bankéř († 10. března 1849)
 3. února – Carl Brandan Mollweide, německý matematik a astronom († 10. března 1825)
 15. února – Vilém Jiří Frederik, syn Viléma V. Oranžského († 6. ledna 1799)
 16. února – Pierre Rode, francouzský houslista a hudební skladatel († 25. listopadu 1830)
 23. února – John Parish von Senftenberg, německý obchodník a astronom († 2. září 1858)
24. února – Adolf z Cambridge, britský šlechtic a syn krále Jiřího III. († 8. července 1850)
 13. března – Pierre Narcisse Guérin, francouzský malíř († 16. června 1833)
 16. března – Matthew Flinders, britský navigátor a tvůrce map († 19. července 1814)
 26. března – Ernst von Hügel, württemberský generál a ministr († 30. března 1849)
 21. dubna – Jean-Baptiste Biot, francouzský fyzik, astronom a matematik († 3. února 1862)
 26. dubna – Anne-Jean-Marie-René Savary, francouzský generál a politik († 2. června 1833)
 28. dubna – Francis Baily, anglický astronom († 30. srpna 1844)
 7. května – Francis Beaufort, irský hydrograf († 17. prosince 1857)
 3. června – Robert Tannahill, skotský básník († 17. května 1810)
 21. června – Daniel D. Tompkins, americký politik († 11. června 1825)
 24. června – Karolína z Gloucesteru, britská princezna († 14. března 1775)
 12. července – Jozef Decrett, slovenský lesník († 18. července 1841)
 20. července – Auguste Marmont, francouzský maršál († 2. března 1852)
 12. srpna – Robert Southey, anglický romantický básník a literární badatel († 21. března 1843)
 18. srpna – Meriwether Lewis, americký cestovatel, voják a politik († 11. října 1809)
 2. září – Pavlína ze Schwarzenbergu, kněžna ze Schwarzenbergu († 1. července 1810)
 5. září – Caspar David Friedrich, německý malíř a kreslíř († 7. května 1840)
 8. září – Anna Kateřina Emmerichová, německá mystička, vizionářka a stigmatička († 9. února 1824)
 9. září – Salomon Mayer Rothschild, vídeňský bankéř, majitel Vítkovických železáren († 28. července 1855)
 19. září – Giuseppe Gasparo Mezzofanti, italský kardinál a polyglot († 15. března 1849)
 26. září – Jonathan Chapman, misionář Církve Nového Jeruzaléma († 18. března 1845)
 7. října – Ferdinando Orlandi, italský hudební skladatel a pedagog († 5. ledna 1848)
 11. října
 Peter Nobile, rakouský architekt, stavitel a pedagog († 7. listopadu 1854)
 Maximilian Füger, rakouský profesor práv († 14. února 1831)
 12. listopadu – Charles Bell, skotský anatom, chirurg a teolog († 28. dubna 1842)
 14. listopadu – Gaspare Spontini, italský skladatel a dirigent († 24. ledna 1851)
 18. listopadu – Vilemína Pruská, nizozemská královna († 12. října 1837)
 28. listopadu – Marie Antonie Josefa Parmská, parmská princezna († 20. února 1841)
 25. prosince – Johann Heinrich Fenner von Fenneberg, německý lékař a básník († 16. prosince 1849)
 27. prosince – Johann Philipp Neumann, rakouský fyzik, knihovník a básník († 3. října 1849)
 neznámé datum
 John Braham, anglický operní pěvec († 17. února 1856)
 Charles Sylvester, anglický chemik a vynálezce († 1828)
 William John Coffee, anglický malíř a sochař († 1846)

Úmrtí

Česko
 30. ledna – František Ignác Tůma, skladatel (* 2. října 1704)
 3. března – Steydl z Greifenwehru, kněz a spisovatel (* únor 1692)
1. května – Michael Antonín z Althannu, rakousko-moravský šlechtic (* 3. července 1716)
 29. května – Silvestr Weltz, kapelník a hudební skladatel (* 15. srpna 1712)
 17. října – Heřman Hannibal Blümegen, katolický biskup (* 1. června 1716)
 31. prosince – Jan Kryštof Handke, barokní malíř (* 18. února 1694)

Svět

 20. ledna – Florian Leopold Gassmann, rakouský hudební skladatel, dirigent a varhaník narozený v Čechách (* 4. května 1729)
 21. ledna – Mustafa III., osmanský sultán (* 28. ledna 1717)
 28. ledna – Antonio Galli da Bibbiena, italský malíř a architekt (* 1. ledna 1697)
25. března – Zeynep Sultan, osmanská princezna a dcera sultána Ahmeda III. (* 8. dubna 1714)
30. března – Karolína Falcko-Zweibrückenská, německá šlechtična (* 9. března 1721)
 4. dubna – Oliver Goldsmith, anglický básník, prozaik a lékař (* 10. listopadu 1728)
 10. května – Ludvík XV., francouzský král (* 16. února 1710)
 11. května – Christophe Moyreau, francouzský hudební skladatel (* 6. dubna 1700)
 26. května – Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg, rakouský polní maršál (* 27. května 1684)
 25. srpna – Niccolò Jommelli, italský hudební skladatel, (* 10. září 1714)
 4. září – Samuel Lišovíni, slovenský duchovní a spisovatel (* 31. ledna 1712)
 22. září – Klement XIV., papež (* 31. října 1705)
 17. října – Levin Friedrich von Bismarck, pruský ministr a soudce (* 3. října 1703)
 16. prosince – François Quesnay, francouzský lékař a ekonom (* 4. června 1694)

Hlavy států

 Francie – Ludvík XV. (1715–1774) / Ludvík XVI. (1774–1792)
 Habsburská monarchie – Marie Terezie (1740–1780)
 Osmanská říše – Mustafa III. (1757–1774) / Abdulhamid I. (1774–1789)
 Polsko – Stanislav II. August Poniatowski (1764–1795)
 Prusko – Fridrich II. (1740–1786)
 Rusko – Kateřina II. Veliká (1762–1796)
 Španělsko – Karel III. (1759–1788)
 Švédsko – Gustav III. (1771–1792)
 Velká Británie – Jiří III. (1760–1820)
 Svatá říše římská – Josef II. (1765–1790)
 Papež – Klement XIV. (1769–1774) / Pius VI. (1774–1799)
 Japonsko – Go-Momozono (1771–1779)

Externí odkazy

18. století


text:
我们的最后一个例子是使用reflect.Type来打印任意值的类型和枚举它的方法:

gopl.io/ch12/methods
```Go
// Print prints the method set of the value x.
func Print(x interface{}) {
	v := reflect.ValueOf(x)
	t := v.Type()
	fmt.Printf("type %s\n", t)

	for i := 0; i < v.NumMethod(); i++ {
		methType := v.Method(i).Type()
		fmt.Printf("func (%s) %s%s\n", t, t.Method(i).Name,
			strings.TrimPrefix(methType.String(), "func"))
	}
}
```

reflect.Type和reflect.Value都提供了一个Method方法。每次t.Method(i)调用将一个reflect.Method的实例,对应一个用于描述一个方法的名称和类型的结构体。每次v.Method(i)方法调用都返回一个reflect.Value以表示对应的值(§6.4),也就是一个方法是绑到它的接收者的。使用reflect.Value.Call方法(我们这里没有演示),将可以调用一个Func类型的Value,但是这个例子中只用到了它的类型。

这是属于time.Duration和`*strings.Replacer`两个类型的方法:

```Go
methods.Print(time.Hour)
// Output:
// type time.Duration
// func (time.Duration) Hours() float64
// func (time.Duration) Minutes() float64
// func (time.Duration) Nanoseconds() int64
// func (time.Duration) Seconds() float64
// func (time.Duration) String() string

methods.Print(new(strings.Replacer))
// Output:
// type *strings.Replacer
// func (*strings.Replacer) Replace(string) string
// func (*strings.Replacer) WriteString(io.Writer, string) (int, error)
```

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