Ed Dougherty, a long time figure at JFK airport, has been part of the electrical trades industry since 1961. From apprentice to foreman to owner, Ed has done it all. He has worked on spectacular projects involving Yankee Stadium, Jet Blue terminal, the original TWA terminal and has now come full circle being back in the famed building working on the project for the TWA hotel at JFK. Ed works tirelessly for many charitable organizations and events supporting the trades, children's organizations and the local airport community. He is currently on the board of directors of the JFK Chamber of Commerce, the JFK Rotary Club, and is a member of the NYECA Advisory Board.
My father was an electrician so I followed in his footsteps and entered the Apprentice Program in 1961. My career as an A Journeyman blossomed and I eventually was promoted to Foreman and General Foreman. As I learned more and more about the business aspect of the Electrical Industry I then became a Project Manager and Vice President. In 1983 I founded and opened my own business PEM Electric from 1983 to 2004. PEM represents the first initial of my three son's names, Patrick, Edward and Michael. I am currently working as a consultant for Unity Electric an Engie Company.
2. How did you break into the airports?
In the 1970's as a General Foreman I successfully managed several large scale projects at LaGuardia and JFK Airports and established many long standing business relationships. When I opened PEM Electric in 1983 it was only natural that I would continue to support the airports and maintain my business relations and clients. I have also been very blessed to work with many great people who have greatly helped with my success.
3. How does it feel to be back at the TWA Terminal?
Nostalgic. The iconic TWA Terminal brings back very special memories personally and professionally. I have had the pleasure of meeting many exceptional people, and they have been instrumental in the success of many projects. I fondly think of my past Project Manager Tom Carmody and all the TWA employees I have encountered over the years. Unfortunately Tom and a several other TWA employees are no longer with us. I know all the former employees would be very proud of the current TWA Hotel Project by MCR Development.
This event was established 42 years ago. After watching the magic come alive for so many years as a spectator I expressed an interest in the 1990's to my Project Manager Tom Carmody that I wanted to be a part of this magical event and the rest is history. Tom also introduced me to the Rotary's 5Krun on the airport runways and naturally wanted to be involved as well. So many people contribute to the success of these events. I know I speak on behalf of all the Rotary officers, members and volunteers that we feel blessed to be part of an amazing event. JetBlue and Ted Walters specifically have been instrumental with their continued support over the past 10 years. They have exceeded our expectations and the resources they provide have allowed us to bring something new and exciting every year to the children.
5. Where did you get your famous World Series ring?
In 1983 I met George Steinbrenner at a social event and he asked me to bid on the New York Yankees electrical contract for the stadium. My company PEM Electric was the successful bidder and we were awarded the project from 1983 to sw2004. Mr. Steinbrenner presented me with the ring after PEM Electric successfully completed several major projects on behalf of his organization.


The next English TCG set has been announced. Plasma Storm will be the English equivalent of the Japanese set Plasma Gale that came out Sept. 14, 2013. Plasma Storm will be released Feb. 6, 2013.
Plasma cards will be making their English set debut. Articuno-EX, Victini-EX, and Cobalion-EX, will also be making their English set debut.
Pokébeach for originally reporting the news.


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Reject subversive attempts to push towards racial and religious disharmony – President
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says that this is the time for all Sri Lankans to join hands as one, to overcome the economic, social and political challenges faced by the people.
In a twitter message, he also urged all Sri Lankans to reject the subversive attempts to push them towards racial and religious disharmony.
Promoting moderation, toleration and coexistence is vital, the President added.
President's statement:
"This is a time when Sri Lankans must unite to overcome the economic, social and political challenges we face."
"I urge all Sri Lankans to reject the subversive attempts to push you towards racial and religious disharmony. Promoting moderation, toleration and coexistence is vital."
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KHOU.com remembers the deadliest industrial accident is history.
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A caring coach from Peterhead who has committed the past two decades to helping budding young footballers has been recognised with a national honour.
Walter Innes has been given a British Citizen Award for his services to the community.
The British Citizen Awards (BCAs) were launched in January 2015, to recognise exceptional individuals who work tirelessly and selflessly to make a positive impact on society.
BCAs are awarded twice annually, and honur 'everyday' people whose achievements may otherwise be overlooked.
Walter, aged 53, has given up almost every Monday night for the past 22 years to coach budding footballers in Peterhead and the surrounding areas at his Hexagon Football Coaching club, only missing an amazing total of five sessions in the whole of that time.
Passionate and dedicated to football, he is now teaching the children of some of the dads he originally taught many years ago.
And while the sessions can at times be frustrating due to the age group spanning from five to 12 years old, Walter never loses his patience or says a bad word about his group.
Walter not only teaches the children football skills, but life skills too.
He ensures that no child is left out and mixes up the group to encourage less confident children to fully participate.
Walter has helped many children with disabilities to participate in the sport throughout the years, including children with down's syndrome, cerebral palsy and Asperger's – no child is discouraged or turned away and are always integrated into the groups.
Hexagons has also raised thousands of pounds for charity over the years.
Parents say one of the biggest impact Walter's Hexagon sessions have is on the confidence of the children who attend the sessions.
Walter has instilled, apart from excellent knowledge of the game and rules, manners and consideration for others, making difference to 1,000s of young children's lives.
Nearly every member of Peterhead Boys Club has been trained by Hexagons, and all Peterhead football teams are doing extremely well as a result of the passing football that Walter has instilled in them from a young age.
Walter is well known in the community and also helps his wife, Marion, with various fundraising events locally.
He has also been a scout for Aberdeen football club for many years and is a SFA qualified coach.
Walter, was amongst 36 medallists honoured at a prestigious ceremony on January 25 at the Palace of Westminster.
All BCA recipients had positively impacted society undertaking various activities in support of a number of worthy causes. Each received a Medal of Honour, inscribed with the words 'For the Good of the Country'.
Medallists can use the initials BCA after their name.
Speaking about the award, Walter said: "I was very surprised and delighted to have been nominated as publicity and awards are not what I'm about.
"If someone had said to me all those years ago that I would still be doing this 22 years later, I wouldn't have believed them but I've loved every minute of it.
Group Executive Director of affordable housing, Pat Egan, from at BCA sponsor Places for People, said: "Places for People are proud to support the British Citizen Awards.
"I was thrilled to present Walter with this award for services to the community.
Walter was nominated for a BCA by his friend Ross Mann, who said: "Walter is genuinely the most patient man I have ever met, with parents, coaches and of course with the children.
"He works full time, rushes home, misses his supper and goes straight to the community hall to set up for the night, and without a doubt he will always be the first coach there.


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Ten Movies Studios Should Release Early Due to Covid-19
BY Roman Colombo March 24, 2020March 23, 2020
Onward, Emma, the Hunt, and the Invisible Man all jumped out of theaters and to our streaming services last week. It's one of the only ways studios can possibly make money right now, while nearly every theater is closed in America. Sadly, the Covid-19 crisis might have only just begun, and studios are going to have to decide what movies to postpone and what to release on streaming early. Looking at the upcoming slate of movies, from April through July, these are the best movies to skip a theatrical release.
The Covid-19 Survivor We Need to Rally Behind with an Early Release
(Image: Greyhound, Sony Pictures)
NOT TOM HANKS! If there is a god or goddess or flying spaghetti monster controlling the universe, they are cruel. The first celebrities to get the novel coronavirus are two of our treasures: Hanks and his wife, director, writer, and producer Rita Wilson. Both Hanks and Wilson were suffering symptoms, but now they both doing better. Still, not that we want anyone to be infected, but did it have to be them first?
And Hanks was supposed to have a movie debut soon: Greyhound. We all want to cheer on Hanks and Wilson during their isolation and recovery. This makes Greyhound one of the best movies studios should release early due to Covid-19. Not only will it give us all something to watch, but it would also be like a collective viewing party with Hanks. In fact, now that he's tweeting, maybe we can convince him to live-tweet during the movie as we all watch. But more importantly, we want them to recover.
The Movies to Keep Us Laughing During the Covid-19 Restrictions
(Image: Legally Blonde 3, MGM)
First of all—there's a Legally Blonde 3 coming out? Go figure. Regardless, the previous Legally Blonde movies are kind of classics now, so much so there was a Broadway musical based on the first movie. Legally Blonde 3 would probably be a box office success, so why, during the Covid-19 social distancing, should the studio makes this one of the early release movies?
One, it's not something you "have" to see in theaters. It will be just as funny on a big or small screen. And Reese Witherspoon, who has her own book club, loves bringing the community together through arts and entertainment. This franchise is also one of the few that are fairly family-friendly, especially for moms and daughters. Having three comedies to marathon doesn't just take up a good half-day of social distancing, it's a bonding experience.
The Children's Movies to Release Early So Parents Can Survive Covid-19 Sequestering
(Image: The Spongebob Movie: Sponge on the Run, Nickelodeon)
Because of Covid-19, kids are stuck at home—making most children's' movies perfect for early release. Out of all the children's movies coming out this summer, Scoob! and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On the Run are the best choices for the studios. Parents will need to entertain their kids for possibly months on end.
Thankfully, children love watching the same thing over and over…and over and over and over…again. Especially the targeted audience of these two particular movies. And though it might annoy parents to have Scoob! on repeat, it will also provide 90ish minutes of semi-privacy. Their parents can work mostly uninterrupted. And there are probably a few other things parents might want to do while their children are glued to SpongeBob.
An Early Release for the Reboot of One Most Loved Horror Movies of All Time
(Image: Candyman (2020), Universal Pictures)
While it's doubtful that people will want to watch scary movies and then just go nowhere, Candyman has a big cult following. Since this is one of many reboot movies that is risky, making this a Covid-19 early release might actually help the movie. More of the fanbase will buy it to own instead of spending money at the theaters to see it once. And for the horror film community, it's a chance to get—remotely—get together and discuss something they love.
The Rock V Quarantine: Dawn of Boredom
(Image: Jungle Cruise, Walt Disney Pictures)
Jungle Cruise is basically Jumanji, but with more Rock and a healthy dose of Emily Blunt. Could it make a lot of money in theaters the way Jumanji did? Possibly. Could audiences go "wait, didn't we just see the Rock fight a jungle last year?" Also very possible. However, Right now, for many, the worst part of the social distancing in the boredom of their surroundings.
So, wouldn't it be great to see a jungle adventure right now? Sit on your couch, put on Jungle Cruise and get lost in the Rock's sinew and Emily Blunt's eyes…oh, sorry, for a second I forgot this was about ways studios can release movies early to help us survive Covid-19.
Fly Away From Your Coronavirus Troubles with Tom Cruise
(Image: Top Gun: Maverick, Paramount Pictures)
First off, did we really need a Top Gun sequel? The original movie might be a classic, but it's a very dated classic. There's not much brand recognition when it comes to Top Gun: Maverick other than nostalgia. The only thing the movie really has going for it is Tom Cruise, who has one of the most consistent box office returns.
And that's why it's a good choice for the studio to make this part of the Covid-19 early release movies. If Cruise can make money in the box office, he can make money on Vudu or Amazon Prime or whatever you might use. An early release might provide a little boost in revenue for Hollywood.
A Movie That Can Make Us Feel Like a Free Guy
(Image: Free Guy, 20th Century Fox Walt Disney Pictures)
The new Ryan Reynolds video game comedy Free Guy looks like it could be one of the most fun summer movies this year. And while there are other fun movies on this list, this is the best one to release early in response to Covid-19. One of the best ways to fight the isolation is playing video games. A movie about an NPC gaining control of a game? That's the perfect movie for these crazy times.
And since we don't have a new Deadpool this year, it's the next best thing. Ryan Reynolds just helps through any crisis.
Movies to Dispatch Early While We Listen to Covid-19 Coverage
(Image: The French Dispatch, Searchlight Pictures)
The independent film crowds need something to help them get through this time, and there's no filmmaker that screams "indie" like Wes Anderson. It's also a bit fortuitous that Anderson's new movie is a bit of a love letter to journalists. Right now, we're relying on journalism for information about lockdowns, social distancing, and possible sequesters. Since journalists are often putting their health in jeopardy reporting on Covid-19, celebrate their efforts by making The French Dispatch one of the early release movies.
Face Covid-19 with Keanu and Movies Studios Release Early
(Image: Bill and Ted Face the Music, United Artists)
Keanu Reeves. Is that not enough of a reason. Okay, fine—Bill and Ted Face the Music is another reboot-sequel with a limited audience based on nostalgia. All of that makes it a logical option in the lineup of movies getting early releases while Covid-19 keeps us locked in our homes. But mostly, we just need more Keanu. Keanu being a bit goofy in one of his classic roles? Even better.
Save us, Keanu.
(Featured Image: Free Guy, 20th Century Fox Walt Disney Pictures)
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Book review: Rogue Leaders
The demise of LucasArts didn't go totally unnoticed here at FFG, but we were a little busy with other things to do much more than post a brief note (and a link to a clip from the Spanish-language version of Monkey Island).
As it happens, though, around the time of the announcement, I did come across a history of the company in one of those discount bookshops that specialises in offering heavy reductions on celebrity hardbacks from a few years ago. So rather than rake up our old opinions about the favourites and put them in chronological order, I thought that reviewing the book might be a good way to look back at the LucasArts story.
While I was in the middle of doing that, I picked up an issue of Retro Gamer magazine, which also had its own retrospective, and I'll bung a few thoughts on that in for good measure too. [And any aspirations of moving towards more highbrow territory by reviewing a book evaporated the moment you used the word 'bung'. Well done, sir – a reader].
So, then, the book is called Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts and it's by someone called Rob Smith, who apparently was once the editor of the US-based version of PC Gamer magazine. While it's a fairly hefty tome, and certainly not the sort of thing you want to be lugging round, say, Hemel Hempstead while, for example, awaiting confirmation that your distressingly-expensive car repairs have been completed, when you open it up you'll find most that most of its 256 pages have been filled with pictures, screenshots and concept art, leaving little room for anything else.
It's fair to say that anyone expecting an in-depth history is going to be disappointed here. There's some good stuff on the early years at Lucasfilm Games – a licensing deal with Atari prevented the company from making Star Wars titles, although the design of what was to become Rescue on Fractalus! was influenced by the famous franchise – it was initially going to be called Rebel Rescue, with the implication being that the downed pilots rescued in the game were part of the Rebel Alliance, until it was made clear that even loose connections to the license were off-limits. The idea to include aliens disguised as pilots in the game as a surprise element apparently came from George Lucas following a playtest, and the specific effort made not to mention their presence in any of the game's advertising or documentation, in order to maximise the shock for the player, is a nice detail.
But, when it comes to the company's point-and-click heydey, the details all seem rather glossed over. Maniac Mansion, as the first of its type, gets some relatively significant coverage, but Monkey Island, Sam and Max et al get only around 25 pages in total between them. Later adventures, meanwhile, have to settle for the odd page here and there, as the focus increasingly shifts onto the ever-expanding library of Star Wars titles.
Of course, the Star Wars games have to be mentioned – I'm as big a fan of TIE Fighter as the next guy, and it's a relief to note designer Larry Holland's admission here that X-Wing was a little on the hard side – but there seems to be a disproportionate amount of space devoted to licensed titles, including some that weren't even developed by LucasArts, and others that were cancelled altogether.
Rogue Leaders is an officially-sanctioned product, complete with a going-through-the-motions foreword by George himself, so perhaps it's not surprising that the recent history of the company is given more prominence. As you might expect, this also means there's very little juicy gossip – the troubled development of The Dig is mentioned but in rather bland and brief terms, as is the last-minute decision to make Obi-Wan an Xbox-only release. Less successful titles such as Star Wars: Supremacy/Rebellion and Force Commander are acknowledged, but shortly before a chapter detailing the company's 'renewed commitment to quality'.
There's some nice artwork and the odd interesting tidbit – I'd forgotten simulations like PHM Pegasus and Battlehawks 1942 had been an important part of their early success, for example – but overall, you're left wanting more. If one of the downsides of an official book is the fact you have to airbrush away less flattering details, you'd think that would be mitigated by access to some more exclusive material, but in general the impression is that, artwork aside, you could probably have found out most of what's here for yourself.
The same can occasionally be said of Retro Gamer magazine, although for every, "Wow, guys, do you remember Super Soccer?" [double-page screenshot] moment, there's an in-depth interview or a developer retrospective that makes it worth reading. The cover of issue 116 (May 2013) promises "A Celebration" of LucasArts with a 16-page retrospective. It's rather a whistle-stop tour of the company's history, although that's far more understandable than with Rogue Leader given the space restrictions involved, and more prominence is given to the old adventures. There are one or two good snippets here though, my favourite being that Maniac Mansion's famous line 'Don't be a tuna head!' was supposed to be 'Don't be a shit head':
"We argued with the head of the Lucasfilm Games Division and I'm sure we talked about our 'artistic vision' and other stuff. In the end our boss told [us] to go away and think about why we wanted to swear. If we came back with a good reason, we could keep it. But we couldn't. It really me an important lesson about writing and how and why you choose the words you do."
(Ron Gilbert, Retro Gamer 116, p. 25)
Elsewhere, there's a top ten Star Wars games feature that controversially (or so it seems to me) includes Episode 1: Racer, Battlefront II and the original Atari version of Empire Strikes Back, as well as a brief interview with Ron Gilbert and one with composer Peter McConnell.
It's not a massively substantial piece, but Retro Gamer is a monthly magazine that has to get out a reasonably timely acknowledgement of a company's history and legacy and fit it into a small space. The sins perpetrated by Rogue Leaders are less forgivable, however, and I imagine anyone who paid the eye-watering cover price of $60 in expectation of something better would have been extremely cheesed off. At £10, buying it becomes a little more palatable – but only if expectations are lowered accordingly.
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Comment by Stoo
I played a couple of their Flight Sims back in the day; I've thought about doing some writeups but I never really got into the campaign modes so I dunno if I would do them justice.
Comment by Rik
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe is the one that most readily springs to mind. Although in the book, the comparatively-recent Secret Weapons Over Normandy is given much more prominence.
I'd totally forgotten about Normandy! Just reading up, It sounds quite accessible. So I'm off hunting on ebay now…
I think there's whole a sub-genre of arcadey flight-combat games out there…there's those Blazing Angels games, and one called Heroes of the Pacific which I have lying around somewhere. Maybe I could review that soon? (He says, with many other projects lying around unfinished).


Two males, aged 22 and 16, are expected to appear in court this morning in connection with a robbery in Portrush yesterday.
They were arrested after an incident at commercial premises in the Dunluce Avenue area of the town.
They are both expected to appear at Ballymena Magistrates Court later.
It was reported that jewellery was removed from the premises by two men who entered the shop, one armed with a knife.


What is the Executive Coach/Client Alliance™?
A coach is an ally. A coach will challenge, question, listen, question and challenge again.
In a time of change and transformation, a coach is a stable and available resource as you define your own compass and work together in alliance.
Coaching and the Crisis: Working together in an alliance to define the crisis, understand its impact and design a strategic plan for identifying obstacles and moving forward from the crisis.
Coaching and the Compass: Focusing on the clear and specific development of an ethical compass designed by and for the individual through the alliance of client and coach.
Coaching and Assessments: The use of pragmatic and applicable assessments to identify and address business and personal goals, significant values, productivity and efficiency.
Coaching and Dynamic Change: A crisis offers an opportunity that can turn the shock and stress of loss and change into an open door.


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Review: Carpenters Gold, The Spa Pavilion, Felixstowe, January 20
Carpenters Gold visited The Spa Pavilion, Felixstowe. Picture: CONTRIBUTED - Credit: Archant
"When I was young I'd listen to the radio, waiting for my favourite songs" and back in 1972, when I was a mere slip of a girl, many of my favourite songs were those sung by The Carpenters.
It was quite usual to hear me in my bedroom singing my heart out into a pencil, which doubled as my microphone, to tunes such as Goodbye to Love and Top of the World. So much was my love of songs performed by The Carpenters that my dad bought me a cassette player and a tape of their album Song for You. That is when my admiration of this brother and sister act really grew.
You can probably imagine my delight at being asked to review Carpenters Gold. This show not only included the many hits by The Carpenters, it also emulated how they performed when they played at venues such as Talk of the Town and the London Palladium.
Vikki Holland-Bowyer accurately performed as Karen Carpenter, complete with amazing contralto vocals. The talented Greg Stevenson was on piano as Richard Carpenter.
The pair sung and played just as the real duo once did and at the start of the second half of the show Karen played the drums while singing We've Only Just Begun. Drumming was a skill the real Karen acquired while at high school and Vikki did a great job of portraying that talent.
Throughout the evening there were interjections of light-hearted humour and enjoyable banter between The Carpenters, the rest of their band and the audience. There was even a ripple of laughter when Karen suggested Felixstowe might be like Miami.
Naturally, the greatest delight of the evening was every time Karen sang. Her performance of Jambalaya got several members of the audience up on their feet dancing and I personally loved her rendition of Ticket to Ride, originally sung by The Beatles; and Superstar which was formerly recorded by Bette Midler.
The evening ended on a high when the Carpenters treated the audience to a medley of songs they either recorded themselves or would have sung when they appeared on various television shows including Solitaire, Only Yesterday and Sing.
All in all, Carpenters Gold was an absolute joy to witness and I was also rather pleased I could recall most of the lyrics to many of their songs - even after four decades.
Gill Atacocugu


Well, it certainly was a crazy week. Couple of weeks. This week, too. I haven't had a free night after work at all! Now that my orchestra rehearsals are back in full swing my free reading time has become sadly limited. I'm still working my way through Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink (70% complete after two weeks… grr). But aside from the time issue I think I'm just having trouble with this one. I'm not sure if I'm slumping in general being busy or if I'm reading this at the wrong time. It's interesting and compelling, just not as gripping as I expected.
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay and Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood, baby! I'm really excited to read these two. I'd love to read something in line with Banned Books Week this year but I'm just not sure I'd have time to participate anyway—I bet I'll still be working on Five Days at Memorial all week, honestly. I will definitely enjoy checking out participating blogs, though, and I hope you do, too!
I'm half-finished with Three Parts Dead by Gladstone (ebook) and will start Dog Stars (audiobook) probably tomorrow.
The Weight of Blood by Laura McHugh (ebook).
I just obtained a copy of the new Atwood. I'm afraid she's bumping some things lower on my list!
Samesies! That one is definitely next.


Tamsen Wojtanowski is an artist living and working in Philadelphia, PA. Her work has been included in recent exhibitions at Artist-Run, The Satellite Show, Miami, FL; COOP Gallery, Nashville, TN; Soil Gallery, Seattle, WA, Lux/Eros Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; The Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR; and 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL. Wojtanowski is a founding member of the artist-run exhibition space NAPOLEON, in Philadelphia, PA, started in 2011. She received her MFA from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, where she is currently an instructor. She also teaches photography at Arcadia University in Glenside, PA.
With these images I reject the wave of defeat that has become so commonplace for so many of us today. I refuse to fall into line with the powers that be, or to acknowledge their labels or limitations placed on my body, my sexuality or my behavior. I wish to unburden from expectations. Through the creation of these prints in the B&W darkroom, using handmade masks and multiple exposures, I celebrate moments of play and discovery. I use images of the landscape as a kind of blank slate, a way to recall or reminisce about the past we never had but all of us have this sense that we remember. I explore the materiality of the photographic image and dislodge it from its relationship with reality. I forge ahead into a different kind of space where we are all equal, curious and free. With the resulting prints I wish to extend those moments of static time that I experience while working, and in them I hope the viewer can find their own moments of wonder, affirmation, and vitality.
Shooting on film allows my practice a measured cadence. There is no way to rush things or skip steps. You have an idea, you scout your location or subject, and then you have to get there with your camera and your film and take the shot. Shooting on film allows my studio work the opportunity for unexpected results. Once the shot has been taken, you still must go through the steps of film development, and after film development, enlargements in the darkroom. There is the first reveal with your contact sheet, seeing if what you thought you shot is actually there. Then come the big discoveries of things you didn't know you had. Enlargements in the darkroom offer a number of other possibilities and responsibilities to get the print on paper and see it realized as you envisioned. All while you stand in the dark and listen to music. It's better than a vacation.


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Pope to settle 1,000-year argument in Christianity?
'You call me and I'll come'
Published June 29, 2015 at 10:47pm
(INDEPENDENT) — An historic meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church is "getting closer every day," a senior Orthodox prelate said in an interview published on 28 June.
The unprecedented meeting would be a significant step towards healing the 1,000-year-old rift between the Western and Eastern branches of Christianity, which split in the Great Schism of 1054.
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"Now such a meeting is getting closer every day but it must be well prepared," Metropolitan Hilarion, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church's foreign relations department, said in an interview with Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper.
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Charter flights from Russia to Red Sea resorts will soon resume: Russian official
Egypt IndependentApril 20, 2021
Charter flights from Russia to the Red Sea cities of Hurghada and Sharm el-Sheikh will soon resume, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said on Tuesday.
In response to a question about the flights, Bogdanov told reporters: "Everything is going according to plan. In the near future, the announcement will be made, the announcement will be made at a different level."
Bogdanov added that the agreement to resume charter flights to the resorts was made during the visit of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to Egypt, which took place in early April.
An anonymous source told the Russian "Interfax" news agency that charter flights are expected to resume in the second half of May.
And another source told the Russian "TASS" agency, that flights will not resume before the end of the May holidays, which end May 11.
The resumption of flights from Russia to the two resort towns will contribute to boosting tourism in Egypt. Before flights were suspended, Russia was a major source of tourism to Egypt.
On April 12, Lavrov said that Russia is interested in restoring regular flights with Egyptian resorts, and it also expects to resume charter flights to Egypt in the near future.
Moscow had suspended flights to and from Egypt after an Airbus-321 belonging to a Russian airline was shot down over the Sinai Peninsula by terrorists at the end of October 2015, killing all 224 people on board.
After that, regular flights were resumed to Cairo's Airport only, while charter flights remained suspended to Sharm el-Sheikh and Hurghada.
IMAGE: Russian charter airplane Ural airlines arrives at the airport of the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt November 12, 2015. (File photo: Reuters)
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Q: looking for a parser for smali files It exist a parser for the .smali files? Let me be more explicative: i need to code a program. the input of this program is a .smali file.this program ( thanks to the parser i'm looking for ) should catch every time a global variable is declarated.next step add some code.is that possible, or no parser yet exist for a similar task?Thank you.

A: This is the parser that smali itself uses when reassembling the smali files.
https://github.com/JesusFreke/smali/blob/master/smali/src/main/antlr/smaliParser.g
Another option might be to use dexlib2 directly to read in a dex file, perform the modifications you want, and write it back out.


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Looks like prior reviews were either friends or enemies of the author so I will give my objective point of view. I am not a nutrition expert, but do try to keep up on the latest nutrition news. there is some truth to each review; it is a quick read, it is dated, it is like cliff notes (not sure that's a good thing), but my problem with it is it seemed like I paid for a book that turned out to be a supplement the author is trying to push, there are much better nutrition books out there for the price with authors that seem to have the background required to give such advice.
All of this information is common knowledge and some is quite dated. You can get all of the information provided in this book in a much better format by spending $2. 95 on the latest fitness magazine which will actually provide accurate information. I would be willing to guess that the "Dr. " in this title is not a doctor in nutrition science. A scam!
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I am loving going back and sharing all our favorite things from 2014. We seriously had some fun and memorable couples! Next on our list of Favorites are the Dance photos.
We love shooting reception photos. It is a time where we can let loose and get creative. We love trying out new techniques with our lighting and getting different angles.
Another thing we love during the reception is watching people dance. Luke & I are already people watchers. We could seriously make a date out of it and just go and watch people…. I know a little weird. But it is so much fun watching how everyone interacts with one another. And then put them on a dance floor with some good music and it's all over! After attending and photographing several weddings I have come up with a list of people that attend the reception. Let me know which one you are or which ones attended your wedding.
1. The one who doesn't dance. ( These people will sit at their table and watch everyone else dance. ) I am sure they have their reasons…But no fun!
3. The single guy. ( The guy who tries to dance all cool to attract the ladies ).
4. The sideline dancer. ( This one cracks me up. These are the ones that want to and will dance every dance. Except not on the dance floor. They will dance next to their table to stay safe).
5. The Dancing With The Stars Couple. ( The couple who is practicing to be on Dancing with the Stars ).
6. The Grandparents. ( These are the sweet couples who have been married 30 plus years and will spend the night in each others arms like they are 18 again).
7. The Best Friends ( The group of girls that dance every dance together…even the slow ones).
8. Cute Kids ( If you have kids at your wedding & they are cute kids…They will steal the show! Especially if they love to dance)!
These are just a few off the top of my head. If you have any other ones please let me know in the comments below!
Here are some of our favorite 2014 Dancing Photos! We definitely have some couples who have some moves!
My nana !!! Lol forever young ! You guys took some great and hilarious shots of her !
She was my favorite to photograph through the night! I hope I am like her when I am old!


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Prostitution in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) is present in different forms and Kolkata's sex industry is one of the largest in Asia. Prostitution may be brothel-based or non-brothel based as in the case of call girls. India is regarded as having one of the largest commercial sex trades globally. Kolkata has many red-light districts, out of which Sonagachi is the largest red-light district in Asia with more than 50,000 commercial sex workers.

Prostitute population
The total number of prostitutes in Kolkata is unknown. Some estimates state that there are more than 60,000 brothel-based women and girls in prostitution in Kolkata.

The population of prostitutes in Sonagachi constitutes mainly of Nepalese, Biharis, Rajasthani, North east, trafficked tribal girl's from jharkhand,Odisha and Bangladeshis women. Some sources estimate that are 30,000 Bangladeshi women in the brothels of Kolkata.

According to some sources the most common form of trafficking consists in offering false promises or some offer of help out of a dead-end or crisis situation, force is used later after the prostitutes have already been sold. "Mashis (brothel owners/older sex workers) use friendship, sympathy, also veiled threats to convince the women that it is now in their best interest to conform and begin working."

History of Prostitution

A farcical short-drama book named Beshyaleela ( বেশ্যালীলা ) was printed in the middle of the year 1880 written by an anonymous writer ( অজ্ঞাতনামা ).  It is not very familiar or much discussed book till now.  In this drama, a good description can be found about the negative attitudes shown by the then existing 19th century educated Bengali Babu class of people towards the prostitutes and the prostitution. From the first half of the 19th century, centering on Sonagachhi, a huge organised prostitution area surrounding Cornwallis Street on the east, and Chitpur on the west were formed. Although many areas in Calcutta were inhabited by those prostitutes outside those areas also.  On the south it was Kalighat to Khidirpur dock areas, in the middle-Calcutta it was Kalinga-Fenwick Bazar, on the far south in Kareya area many girls from different social-classes of Hindu-Muslim-Christian communities were engaged with this profession.  More than that, there was no clear 'mark' or 'boundary-line' between the 'gentleman areas' and the 'prostitutes areas'.  Many areas had scattered or mixed up population of those two kinds. Rather, many areas could be termed as 'half-gentleman' areas, where normal gentleman's families and various types of prostitutes co-existed side by side.  From the middle of the 19th century, the British colonial administration, Christian Missionaries, and native English-knowing educated 'Victorian' Indian gentlemen started campaign against prostitutes.  This was their part of the project of social 'sanitation' process for creating the so-called 'gentle-society'. Under the leadership of Mr. Kaliprasanna Singha, the 'Vidyotsahini Sabha' ( বিদ্যোৎসাহিনী সভা ) submitted one mass-petition in the Indian Legislative Council.

Red-light districts

Bowbazar

Bowbazar has a red-light district where about 12,000 prostitutes work. The surrounding areas are inhabited by slum dwellers, truckers and migrant labourers. The adjacent Tiretta Bazar area is mainly a loadingunloading point with offices or godowns of a large number of transport companies. The area is very unsanitary.

Garia
There is a small red-light district in Garia. There were plans to build a home for retired sex workers in the area.

Kalighat

In south Kolkata, there is a red light district in the neighbourhood of Kalighat. Located around the banks of the Adi Ganga canal, an estimated 1,000 to 1,500 prostitutes live and work there. Kolkata has emerged as a hub for the trafficking of girls, who often arrive from Nepal, Bangladesh, Assamese and Burma. From Kolkata they are often sold again to brothels in Mumbai (Bombay) or Chennai (Madras). Some will go on to the Middle East, Africa and Europe. Many of the women in Sonnagachi were forcedly taken away from their homes; some were tricked and others sold into prostitution by their friends and families; most of them are illiterate.

Kidderpore
The red-light district in Kidderpore is the third largest in Kolkata. Many girl's from UP and Bihar get's trafficked to kolkata. NGO Apne Aap has a support centre in the area and has made two films about life in Kidderpore's red-light district: Kali and Shaadi Ka Shart Shauchalaya.

Lebu Bagan
There is a small, little known red-light district in north Kolkata called Lebu Bagan. About 100 prostitutes work there in four streets.

Sonagachi

The largest red-light district in Kolkata, is Sonagachi, it is also the largest red-light district in India. The area came to be known as Sona Gachi from a Sufi saint Sona Ghazi whose tomb (mazaar) is located in the locality. It is an area with several hundred multi-storey brothels, and around 10,000 sex workers. Sonagachi is located in North-Kolkata near the intersection of Chittaranjan Avenue Sova Bazar and Beadon Street, just north of the Marble Palace. Previously there were many Bengali prostitutes in Sonagachi.  But now-a-days Rajasthani, Bihari and Khamia-Nepalese prostitutes have gained in number. According to class-division, the red-light areas of Kolkata are also divided into four different classes: poor-class, lower-class, middle-class, and rich-class.  For example, The red-light area which once existed opposite to the diagonal angle of Khanna Cinema Hall was of 'poor-class'.  When they contacted customers, they asked them "Khat-e na Chot-e" ? Which means, "Do you want to sleep in wooden cot or on jute-sheet spread over the floor?"  As customers wished, the fee varied according to their choice.  The lower-class and middle-class of prostitute areas were scattered around Haarkaata Gully and near Chetla/Kalighat bridge.

Several non-government organizations and government organizations operate here for the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) including AIDS. Sonagachi project is a prostitute's cooperative that operates in the area and empowers sex workers to insist on condom use; a relatively low percentage of prostitutes in this district (5.17% of the 13,000 prostitutes in Sonagachi) are estimated to be HIV positive.  However, these efforts are hindered by human trafficking:  refusal of clients to wear condom, and women controlled  by third parties are forced to oblige.

According to some sources, prostitutes from Sonagachi who test HIV positive are not told about the results, and live with the disease without knowing about it "because the DMSC is worried that HIV positive women will be ostracized." Some prostitutes in Sonagachi have stated that "the clients, at least three quarters of them" refuse to use condoms and "If we force them to use the condom, they will just go next door. There are so many women working here, and in the end, everyone is prepared to work without protection for fear of losing trade."

Tollygunge
Tollygunge is a small red-light district located near Prince Anwar Shah Road.

Street prostitution
Street prostitutes work in Esplanade Crossing, opposite of cinema 'Metro' and in the street between Elite Cinema Hall and Regal Cinema Hall, Jagat Cinema near Sealdah station and under Sealdah flyover, and another place is Ultadanga flyover and railway foot over bridge, Kalighat and Garia. Also a very small level high class escort service operates here, mostly college student or housewives or executives. Generally they use hotels booked by client or the flat of their pimp.

Male prostitutes often pick up clients in the Maidan, particularly in front of the Victoria Memorial.

Call girl
Call girls operate independently and through pimps or escort agencies. Prostitution is operated from many beauty parlours and massage parlors in the city. Pimps (commonly called agents) in nightclubs, pubs, star hotels and floorboys acting as agents generally keep catalogues with pictures of the call girls. The girls operate in places like flats, hotels, etc. Generally the call girls go to the rooms in star hotels. However, when the client cannot provide a place of convenience, the agents provide one and the place is generally decided on before.

Call girls in Kolkata may come from middle class, upper middle class and upper-class families. They may be executives, housewives, college students or actresses.

The Kolkata Police have connections with many call girls working as their informers. Many criminals like to spend time with the girls. Hence some call girls are used by the police to get information about suspected criminals.

Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC), which runs the Sonagachi project and several similar projects in West Bengal, lobbies for the recognition of sex workers' rights and full legalization. DMSC hosted India's first national convention of sex workers on 14 November 1997, in Kolkata, entitled 'Sex Work is Real Work: We Demand Workers Rights'.

In popular culture
Born into Brothels, a 2004 American documentary film about the children of prostitutes in Sonagachi, won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature in 2004.

The documentary entitled Tales of The Night Fairies by Prof. Shohini Ghosh and Dr. Sabeena Ghadioke from Asia's leading Media institute AJK, Mass Communication Research Centre, is about the Sonagachi area. It has won the Jeevika Award for the best documentary feature on livelihood in India.

Popular actor Kamal Haasan's movie Mahanadhi has a storyline based on the Sonagachi. The film won three awards at the 41st National Film Awards. It received the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil and H. Sridhar and K. M. Surya Narayan received the National Film Award for Best Audiography. It also won Tamil Nadu State Film Award Special Prize for Best Film.

The Malayalam Film Calcutta News depicts the story of women being trafficked and forced to become sex worker in Sonagachi.

See also
 Prostitution in India
 Prostitution in Asia
 Prostitution in Mumbai
 All Bengal Women's Union
 Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee
 Male prostitution

References

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Culture of Kolkata
Culture of West Bengal
Prostitution in India
Red-light districts in India

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Phuket | Phuket Gazette Sports: African Nations Cup quarters offers a tasty mix
Phuket Gazette Sports: African Nations Cup quarters offers a tasty mix
Friday, February 1, 2013 13:49
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH
– World sports news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket's international community
Last eight offer tasty mix at African Nations
Reuters / Phuket Gazette
PHUKET: The right ingredients seem to be in place to make the knockout rounds of the African Nations Cup, which reaches the quarter-finals stage this weekend, a real football feast for fans a little short-changed by the group games.
Hosts South Africa have survived, so have the tournament favourites Ivory Coast, the fairytale underdogs from the Cape Verde Islands, the unexpected wildcards Togo and Burkina Faso along with traditional powerhouses Ghana, Nigeria and Mali.
All that is needed now after a stop-start group phase is more quality on the field, more goals and more fans.
The remaining teams look easily capable of raising the profile of the tournament with eight matches still to be played including the final in Soccer City on February 10.
This weekend's four games begin in Port Elizabeth on Saturday (10:00 p.m. Phuket time) where outsiders Cape Verde Islands take on a strong-looking Ghana team, seeking their fifth continental title, but their first since 1982.
The attention then switches to hosts South Africa who face the west Africans from Mali in front of what will be a capacity 56,000 crowd at the Moses Madhiba Stadium in Durban at 3:30am Sunday Thai time.
Not only will South Africa be looking for a place in the last four but also to gain some revenge for their defeat by Mali at the same stage in 2002.
Sunday's action starts with the clash of the unbeaten heavyweights: Ivory Coast and hard-to-beat Nigeria, who have reached this stage despite their coach Stephen Keshi repeatedly saying his young team is in a period of transition.
Ivory Coast, chasing a second title since their only success 21 years ago, look too strong for Nigeria but their talisman and captain Didier Drogba, who has seen too many campaigns end in failure, is taking nothing for granted.
"We know what to expect, it is going to be very tough," he said after scoring in their 2-2 draw with Algeria on Wednesday.
"It's too early to talk of titles, but we can still dream."
That game is at the magnificently-appointed Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace in Rustenburg at 10:00 p.m. Thai time before the action switches to Nelspruit where the sand-covered pitch at the Mbombela Stadium looks more suited to beach volleyball than international football.
The surprisingly impressive Burkina Faso and unpredictable Togo, who qualified for the later stages for the first time in eight attempts, will have to deal with the pitch in their bid to reach the last four.
Real Romance
All four games have their obvious attractions, but there is no doubt which one will capture the imagination of football romantics watching on TV around the world – Ghana's clash with Cape Verde on Saturday.
Cape Verde are the smallest nation ever to compete in the finals, and coach Lucio Antunes is a friend of Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho.
What might have been overlooked is that despite their obvious limitations in terms of international experience and the strength of their domestic league, Antunes has forged a Mourinho-like work ethic into his team and the sum is greater than the individual parts.
Antunes does not give much away when he speaks other than to say he has met his objectives in getting Cape Verde this far, but there is some talent in the side, most obviously from the self-styled Platini (Luis Soares) in attack, Ryan Mendes in midfield and captain Nando in defence.
Ghana, another side in development according to coach Kwesi Appiah, have talent and experience in almost every position and if skipper Asamoah Gyan is on form as he was in Monday's 3-0 win over Niger, Cape Verde will find it hard to keep him quiet.
Once that match is over, the attention will switch to the hosts, who finished top of Group A after a win against Angola and draws against Cape Verde and Morocco.
While South Africa will fancy their chances of reaching the semi-finals, Mali boast one of the stars of the tournament so far in former Barcelona midfielder Seydou Keita.
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The Early Edition: April 9, 2019
by Robbie Stern
The White House yesterday announced the departure of Secret Service Director Randolph Alles, just a day after the ouster of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, with Alles reportedly having fallen out of favor with the president even before the security incursion at his private Florida Mar-a-Lago club last week. At least two to four more high-ranking figures affiliated with Nielsen are expected to leave the Department of Homeland Security (D.H.S.,) according to administration officials who have asked not to be identified, Peter Baker, Maggie Haberman, Nicholas Fandos and Zolan Kanno-Youngs report at the New York Times.
President Trump "has selected James M. Murray … a career member of the U.S.S.S. … to take over as director beginning in May," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced in a statement, Dartunorro Clark reports at NBC.
"No doubt you have seen media reports regarding my 'firing,'" Alles said in his departure message to Secret Service agents, stressing "I assure you that this is not the case, and in fact [I] was told weeks ago by the administration that transitions in leadership should be expected across the Department of Homeland Security … the president has directed an orderly transition in leadership for this agency and I intend to abide by that direction," Erin Durkin reports at the Guardian.
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) yesterday called on Alles to testify about potential security vulnerabilities at Mar-a-Lago despite his departure. "The outgoing Secret Service director must testify before Congress as soon as possible about the potential security vulnerabilities at Mar-a-Lago involving a Chinese national arrested with malware, and other counterintelligence and national security threats," Schumer said in a statement, Jordain Carney reports at the Hill.
Nielsen yesterday vowed to work to ensure a "smooth" transition, with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Kevin McAleenan set to replace her as acting chief of the D.H.S. In her first comments since her ouster was confirmed, Nielsen said: "I share the president's goal of securing the border … I will continue to support all efforts to address the humanitarian and security crisis on the border, and other than that I'm on my way to keep doing what I can for the next few days," Rafael Bernal reports at the Hill.
Trump has reportedly told aides he wants to reinstate his family-separation policy, which sparked a political outcry when it was implemented last spring. According to an administration official, Trump recently told hardline adviser Stephen Miller: "you're in charge" of the administration's immigration policy, Rebecca Ballhaus and Vivian Salama report at the Wall Street Journal.
U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg yesterday blocked President Trump's policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico to wait out the processing of their cases, ruling that the D.H.S. had overstepped its authority. The judgment marked a rebuke for the Trump administration's efforts to stop the flow of migrants at the Southern border, AFP reports.
Seeborg ruled that the Nielsen-introduced Migrant Protection Protocols that the D.H.S. sought to authorize lacked sufficient safeguards for ensuring that people who want to apply for asylum are not returned "to places where they face undue risk to their lives or freedom." The judgment came in response to a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and other advocacy groups on behalf of 11 asylum-seekers from Central America, who submitted that requiring the migrants to wait in Mexico violated humanitarian protections offered under U.S. and international law, Richard Gonzales reports at NPR.
Nielsen's ouster signals the final victory for Stephen Miller in a power struggle that has lasted over a year and half, Asawin Suebsaeng comments at The Daily Beast.
Nielsen's resignation fits within a line of Trump firings where sycophancy of the president has merely backfired, Dana Milbank writes at the Washington Post.
"Cosmopolitan progressives have disproportionate economic and cultural power … that power should be deployed to force the sort of accountability Nielsen reportedly fears … and to serve as a warning to others that the Trump stink never washes off" Michelle Goldberg argues in an Op-Ed at the New York Times.
MAR-A-LAGO INTRUSION
The Chinese woman charged with tricking her way into President Trump's Mar-a-Lago Florida resort – Yujing Zhang –will remain in custody at least another week, a federal magistrate ruled yesterday. Zhang was arrested after giving conflicting reasons for the incursion, and Prosecutors claim that a search of her hotel room unearthed a device to detect hidden cameras, five cell phone SIM cards and over $8,000 in cash, Reuters reports.
A Secret Service agent investigating Zhang's Mar-a-Lago visit infected one of the agency's own computers with the malware brought in by the unannounced Chinese national, in a development that provoked "wide derision" yesterday from computer security professionals. Kevin Poulsen reports at The Daily Beast.
House Democrats plan to question Attorney General William Barr forcefully about his handling of special counsel Robert Mueller's final report when he appears before an Appropriations subcommittee this morning. The hearing is ostensibly focused on the Department of Justice's (D.O.J.) budget, but will mark Barr's first public appearance since the release of his four-page summary of Mueller's findings; "in extremely quick fashion, you turned a 300-plus page report into a four-page letter that supposedly summarized the findings … the American people have been left with many unanswered questions; serious concerns about the process by which you formulated your letter; and uncertainty about when we can expect to see the full report," Committee Chair Rep. José Serrano (D-N.Y) will say in his opening statement tomorrow. Andrew Desiderio and Kyle Cheney report at POLITICO.
The leaders of the House Judiciary Committee yesterday agreed to call Mueller to appear for a hearing, although it remains unclear whether Mueller would agree to such a call. Ranking member of the panel Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) kick-started the process, sending a letter asking Committee Chair Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) asking him to invite Mueller to testify later this month, writing that " it is special counsel Mueller who is best positioned to testify regarding the underlying facts and material in which you are so interested," Philip Ewing reports at NPR.
The full Mueller report could be released if the House opens preliminary impeachment hearings, former Watergate special prosecutor Philip Allen Lacovara and constitutional law professor Laurence H. Tribe write in a legal analysis at the Washington Post.
The U.S. yesterday designated Iran's Revolutionary Guard a foreign terrorist organization, in a move illustrating the Trump administration's determination to damage Tehran's strategy in the Middle East. The White House announced that the decision marked the first time the U.S. had named part of a government a terrorist organization and would "significantly expand the scope and scale of our 'maximum pressure' on the Iranian regime;" Secretary of State Mike Pompeo commented that the U.S. would "bring all pressure to bear" on Iran, adding "the leaders of Iran are racketeers, not revolutionaries," Aime Williams and Najmeh Bozorgmehr report at the Financial Times.
Iran's Supreme National Council moved swiftly to brand the U.S. as a "state sponsor of terrorism," in a tit-for-tat response to the administration's decision. In a statement carried by state-run I.R.N.A. news agency, the council said it also declared all U.S. forces operating in the Middle East "terrorist groups;" Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif also sent a message on Twitter slamming Trump's decision as "another dangerous U.S. misadventure" in the region and a "misguided election-eve gift" to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Al Jazeera reports.
Saudi Arabia has welcomed the U.S. decision, with the Sunni-led country having accused Shi'ite Iran of meddling in its internal affairs and faced off against Tehran in proxy wars for years – including those in Syria and Yemen. "The U.S. decision translates the Kingdom's repeated demands to the international community of the necessity of confronting terrorism supported by Iran," state-run S.PA news agency said, citing a foreign ministry source, Reuters reports.
The designation of the Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization is merely a reflection of reality, even if it serves to alienate those who wish to do business with Tehran, the Wall Street Journal editorial board argues.
The U.N. has condemned an air strike that yesterday closed the only functioning airport in the Libyan capital of Tripoli. The U.N. blamed the air strike on forces loyal to eastern Libyan commander General Khalifa Haftar, who are engaged in an offensive to seize control of the city; a spokesperson for Haftar's forces said civilian planes had not been targeted, the BBC reports.
"The [U.N.] Secretary-General [António Guterres] urges the immediate halt of all military operations in order to de-escalate the situation and prevent an all-out conflict," a spokesperson for Guterres announced in a statement, adding that "he emphasizes that there is no military solution to the Libya conflict and calls on all parties to engage in immediate dialogue to reach a political solution" the U.N. News Centre reports.
An analysis of the implications of the battle for Tripoli – both for Libya and the wider region – is provided by Patrick Wintour at the Guardian.
U.S. President Trump will tomorrow host Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at the White House, with the two leaders set to discuss tensions in the Middle East, security, economic reform and human rights in Egypt, according to a senior administration official. Egypt's parliament has moved to implement constitutional reforms that would enable Sisi to stay in power until 2034 with constitutional reforms; asked whether Trump supported such a move, the official said the administration was encouraging Egypt to develop democratic institutions while remaining mindful of U.S. security interests, Reuters reports.
"The only sensible course is for the United States to make clear… that it opposes the [constitutional] amendments and sees them as taking Egypt in the wrong direction—even if the U.S. cannot stop them from happening," Michael Dunne argues at POLITICO Magazine.
Russia and Turkey will continue their efforts to establish peace in Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin said after talks with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in Moscow yesterday. Putin also claimed that the two leaders discussed the supply of S-400 missile systems to Turkey, Reuters reports.
The State Department yesterday named 16 individuals who it claims had roles in the murder of Washington Post columnist and Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi. The individuals named in a State Department in a press release, along with their immediate family members, will not be allowed entry into the U.S. following the designation, Michael Burke reports at the Hill.
A car bomb outside of Afghanistan's Bagram Airfield yesterday killed three U.S. service members and a contractor, also wounding three other U.S. service members who were evacuated and receiving medical care, according to a statement released by the N.A.T.O.-led Resolute Support mission. The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the attack, Courtney Kube, Mosheh Gains and Tim Stelloh report at NBC.
The Pentagon wants to streamline its security clearance program using an A.I. – specifically, a "continuous evaluation" system which autonomously analyzes applicants' behavior. Rolling out such a system "would signal a dangerous new direction for personnel management at the federal level," John Bowers explains at Just Security.
The U.S. is "wide open for foreign influence," Stephn M. Walt writes in an Op-Ed at Foreign Policy.
Robbie Stern
Associate News Editor at Just Security and Senior Legal Fellow at JUSTICE, a law reform and human rights organization based in the UK - Follow him on Twitter (@robbieguystern).


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Sandhems distrikt är ett distrikt i Mullsjö kommun och Jönköpings län.

Distriktet ligger nordväst om Mullsjö.

Tidigare administrativ tillhörighet
Distriktet inrättades 2016 och utgörs av socknen Sandhem i Mullsjö kommun

Området motsvarar den omfattning Sandhems församling hade vid årsskiftet 1999/2000.

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Impeachment Summer? August Town Halls May Decide Next Steps
With half the House Democrats now in favor of beginning an inquiry, the pressure will only mount on the holdouts to reach a tipping point
By Lisa Mascaro, Mike Catalini, Denise Lavoie and David Eggert	• Published at 1:45 am on August 3, 2019
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Freshman Democratic Rep. Andy Kim came face to face with impeachment fervor at a town hall in New Jersey. "Do your job!" shouted one voter.
Several states away, a woman held up a copy of special counsel Robert Mueller's report and told freshman Rep. Elissa Slotkin at a Michigan town hall she hoped she would "be the person that puts us over the top to start an impeachment inquiry."
And in semi-rural Virginia, newcomer Rep. Abigail Spanberger encountered voters with questions, if not resolve, about impeaching President Donald Trump.
"I don't have blood dripping from my fangs for or against impeachment," said David Sussan, 70, a retired U.S. Postal inspector from Chesterfield, who favors starting an inquiry. "I just want the truth to come out."
It's these freshman lawmakers, and others like them, who will likely decide when, if ever, House Democrats start formal efforts to impeach the president.
Neither Kim, nor Slotkin, nor Spanberger supports impeachment. But with half the House Democrats now in favor of beginning an inquiry, the pressure will only mount on the holdouts to reach a tipping point. And with lawmakers returning home to voters during the August recess, what happens next may prove pivotal.
The pro-impeachment group Need to Impeach is running television ads and, along with activists from other groups, fanning out to congressional districts to push lawmakers, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, to move more swiftly toward impeachment proceedings.
The organization's lead strategist Kevin Mack says his counsel to lawmakers, especially those new freshmen who took over formerly Republican-held seats, is to ignore the campaign consultants and party strategists, and "do what you think is right" about Trump.
"You can't really make the argument he's the most corrupt president in American history and not hold him accountable," he said. "Either you think what he's doing is OK or you hold him accountable."
For lawmakers, though, the calculus is not so simple. Voters in many of these districts helped elect Trump in 2016, but flipped to give Democrats control of the House in last year's election. Many of the first-term Democrats already face challengers for 2020 and are trying to balance the divergent views in their districts. While some voters want impeachment, others have different priorities.
New Jersey lawmaker Kim, a former national security official, told some 80 voters at a town hall in Riverside to remain even-keeled and to trust in the investigative process that House Democrats are pursuing.
"I don't think getting caught up in the knife fighting and name calling is going help us get out of this pit," Kim said.
That caused some from the crowd to retort that pursuing impeachment wasn't "knife fighting" but part of the Constitution.
"Just do the investigation into impeachment," said Marianne Clemente, of Barnegat. "Just so that we're doing something" to show Trump he'll be held accountable, she said. "If we let him get away with this, we can kiss our democracy goodbye."
Among the loudest applause from the audience came when one constituent stood up and said Trump was "destroying our country."
Another voter said the congressman's focus on other issues, like health care, was like "cutting the grass while the house is on fire."
In Spanberger's Virginia district over the past week, she, too, fielded several questions about her stand on the impeachment inquiry as she crisscrossed the region for town hall events.
When she was asked about it in Culpeper, Spanberger told voters that she helped block an impeachment bill based on Trump's racism because she did not believe that qualifies as "high crimes and misdemeanors" set out by the Constitution.
"My opinion and stance has long been that I believe in facts and evidence," she said. "As long as the investigations are continuing, and we see my colleagues are continuing to gather information, I am watching very closely."
Democrat Ron Artis, a retiree, seemed satisfied with the new congresswoman's approach.
"If she was to come out without having enough people behind her, that stuff is suicidal," he said.
And when Michigan lawmaker Slotkin faced the questioner armed with Mueller's report, she told those gathered at the store in Mason about two recent moves by House Democrats that she sees as important — the special counsel's testimony and House subpoenas of the Trump administration.
"I'm open to where this goes," Slotkin said. "But I think that it is important that we do it in a way that communicates clearly what we are intending. And we do it in a way that doesn't forget about the other part of our job, which is to legislate."
One of those attending the event, Army veteran Joshua Johnson, 41, of Webberville, expressed some skepticism about impeachment and said Congress should keep investigating.
"I don't know that impeaching the president is going to be a good thing," he said. He worries the 2020 election is right around the corner, and any impeachment proceeding won't get done "in time to make a difference."
He added, "I think it might hurt more than it helps. ... It probably splits people worse."
Pelosi has made it clear she has no plans to press toward impeachment without a groundswell of support on and off Capitol Hill.
The speaker, who was herself a newer congresswoman during Bill Clinton's impeachment and rejected calls to impeach George W. Bush during her first speakership, is not eager for Democrats to take on such a politically, emotionally fraught issue alone.
So far, Pelosi's effort to cater to the frontline freshmen appears to be holding House Democrats in line. Even though she gave lawmakers a greenlight after Mueller's testimony to speak their minds on impeachment, and dozens of lawmakers announced their support for starting an inquiry, it's still nowhere near the 218 votes Pelosi would need to pass legislation in the House.
The holdouts will likely determine what Pelosi does next.
Associated Press writers Laurie Kellman and Mary Clare Jalonick contributed to this report.


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ГЕС-ГАЕС Велебіт — гідроелектростанція на заході Хорватії, в Далмації.

Машинний зал цієї дериваційної станції розташований неподалік від Обровац на березі річки Зрманья та сполучений тунелем із карстовим плато Грачац. На плато для збору води із річок Opsenica та Ričica, а також струмків Krivak та Otuča створені два водосховища: Opsenica об'ємом 2,7 млн м3 та Стікада об'ємом 13,65 млн м3. Останнє також виконує роль верхнього резервуару при роботі станції у режимі гідроакумуляції. Як нижній резервуар при цьому використовується водосховище Razovac на Зрманьї, об'єм якого становить 1,84 млн м3.

Основне обладнання станції становлять дві турбіни загальною потужністю 276 МВт та два насоси загальною потужністю 240 МВт. На початку 2010-х років виробництво електроенергії на ГЕС Велебіт коливалось від 243 до 635 млн кВт-год.

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Another great thrift store find from 2015 was the Pentax ME Super. I actually bought two of them in one week by accident. The second came from a local pawn shop. I gave it to a friend's 8-year old son as a gift when our family traveled to Portland, Oregon. I've detailed some of the features below, but found that my fellow blogger and film enthusiast, Simon Hawketts, has done a great job detailing the specs on his site.
The Pentax ME Super was manufactured from 1980 to 1986, and is the younger, newer sibling to the Pentax ME and MV models. Both of these prior models are all automatic and have no manual modes. The ME Super has aperture priority, manual, 125X and bulb modes. The ME Super features a focal plane shutter with speeds from f/4 to 1/2000. The exposure meter is an open aperture TTL center weighted type that is displayed in the viewfinder with a series of LED's. The ISO range is 12 to 1600. The lens paired with my ME Super is a SMC Pentax K bayonet mount, 50mm f/2 lens. Overall, the ME Super is a great camera. At the time, it was Pentax's smallest and lightest SLR at 440g.
Before I started tracking my cameras loaded with film with the Film Roll app on my iPhone, I had forgotten that my ME Super was loaded. There's a large gap in time between the first group of shots and the end of the roll. They start in early spring and end of Veteran's Day. For my testing, I shot a roll of Lomography Color 400.
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Nice. I love the plain ME but haven't shot an ME Super. I imagine in aperture-priority mode they feel pretty much the same!
I bought two ME Supers in 2015 as well! Mine came in a single purchase, in their case with a variety of lenses, flash, accessories and so on, as well as 16 rolls of expired film. A great purchase – I very much like the camera. Funny that on my test roll for those bodies I also shot a neon sign in our local Chinatown.
The Pentax ME Super was the 'Camera of the Year' in the UK in 1982, the year I bought mine, which still seems to be in working order; I need to shoot some film to find out for sure!


Jeff Mucci is owner of and head trainer at Wolfpack Boxing Club. Jeff has been involved in amateur boxing and martial arts since 1990 including studying Muay Tai, Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do and USA Boxing in State College, PA. Coach Jeff has been with Wolfpack Boxing Club as a coach since 2009 and took over ownership in 2012. Coach Jeff has committed himself to the betterment of his students through the art/science of boxing. Coach is a former Regional Golden Gloves champion (undefeated) and still spars with his students regularly.
Coach Jeff's approach to coaching is very hands-on, analytical, and comprehensive (no trendy boxing training gimmicks here!). His ability to tailor his coaching methods to his students as well his keen attention to detail and ability to effectively communicate have enabled Coach to produce 8 Golden Gloves champions, 2 Silver Gloves Champions and 3 Master's Division World Champion (Ringside Masters Tournament, Sonny's International Master's Tourney and Gleason's Master's World Championship) in the past 3 years alone. Wolfpack Boxing Club's focus is solely on Amateur boxing and teaching the "Sweet Science" to all skill levels (beginner to competition). We are not a competition-focused club (3% of our members compete).
Coach Jeff is not only an experienced boxer, Certified Rock Steady Boxing Instructor and Level 2 USA Boxing certified coach, but he also holds a Masters degree in business (MBA). Coach Jeff is also a strong supporter of the Wounded Warrior Project. Favorite fighters: Speed: Manny Pacquiao, Power: Mike Tyson, Defense: James Toney/Pernell Whitaker.


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First Hate
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Rising from the snake pit into the international spotlight; the journey continues for First Hate. It all began with the self-titled debut EP 'First Hate' (Bad Actors Inc., September 2014), which featured hit singles "Girls In The Club" and "In My Dreams", music that transcended genres transforming the Copenhagen underground scene. It was a steady climb for the two Copenhageners, who have spent time on the road with Trentemøller, Communions, Iceage and Lust For Youth.
Summer 2015 was spent in the studio producing their follow-up EP 'The Mind Of A Gemini' (Escho, March 2016). Sold out headline shows at Lille Vega, Copenhagen and The Waiting Room, London proved the band's popularity was now hitting a wider more mainstream audience with singles "White Heron" and "Trojan Horse" getting heavy rotation on national radio.
Spring 2017 saw the release of their highly anticipated debut album 'A Prayer For The Unemployed' , which was released May 12th 2017 via Escho, the album was produced with the boys with guidance by Troels Damgaard Holm and Malthe Fischer (Lust For Youth).


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La Casa del 83 del Carrer de Sant Joan és un edifici medieval de la vila de Vilafranca de Conflent, de la comarca d'aquest nom, a la Catalunya del Nord.

Com el seu nom indica, és en el número 83 del carrer de Sant Joan, en el sector nord-oriental de la vila. Li corresponen la parcel·la cadastral 72.

La casa, del , és totalment construïda amb còdols. Té dues arcades de traça segmental molt rebaixada, amb arestes aixamfranades, dovelles curts i extradossades. L'arc de ponent s'insereix en l'angle de la casa contigua, i està retallat, per a encabir-hi una porta més petita, pel costat de llevant, deixant una part de l'antiga obertura tapiada. En el pis, una finestra amb llinda plana damunt de permòdols.

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Books+Publishing's first magazine was founded in 1921 by Daniel Wrixon Thorpe as the Australian Stationery and Fancy Goods Journal, at a time when there were few Australian retailers solely focused on the sale of books. The magazine has been continuously published ever since, changing its name to Ideas in the 1937. (See the chronology here.)
The name changed to Australian Bookseller & Publisher in 1971 when the D W Thorpe company was taken over by Thorpe's daughter, Joyce Nicholson.
In 1971 an offshoot of the magazine, the Weekly Book Newsletter, began publishing weekly book industry news and became colloquially known as the Blue News, because of the blue paper it was printed on.
In 1992 the D W Thorpe company was sold to Reed Reference Publishing, then sold to R R Bowker in 2001, and the company became Thorpe-Bowker in 2003. In 2001, the Cambridge Information Group (later becoming ProQuest LLC) had acquired R R Bowker, which was repositioned as an affiliate of ProQuest.
The Think Australian magazine was established in 2002 to provide information about rights sales of Australian books to at audience at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
A newsletter called Media Extra, listing the mentions of books in Australian media for booksellers, began in 2004 and finished publication in 2012.
The word 'Australian' was dropped from the magazine's title at the start of 2006, to become Bookseller+Publisher. In 2006 the Weekly Book Newsletter became an online publication.
Many changes occurred in 2012. The overall publication was renamed to Books+Publishing, with the magazine, website and newsletters all carrying the new masthead. The content of Library News (which Thorpe-Bowker had acquired in 2007) moved away from a stand-alone publication and was folded into the Weekly Book Newsletter, in order to provide more content to the library audience. The magazine became a quarterly publication and more content was placed online. The first Books+Publishing Reviews Newsletter and Books+Publishing Junior Newsletter were sent out to subscribers on a monthly basis.
In 2013, the Books+Publishing Daily newsletter, featuring the latest local and international news stories about the book industry, began to be sent out on a daily basis.
The Book Buzz newsletter, a newsletter allowing publishers to showcase their new and upcoming books, was established in 2016.
The Think Australian and Think Australian Junior newsletters were established in 2017 to provide news about rights sales and acquisitions, award-winners and bestsellers, as well as profiles of publishers, to an international audience of publishers, rights managers, scouts, literary agents, and film and TV agents.
On 1 July 2018, ProQuest sold Books+Publishing to the newly created Australian company Books and Publishing Pty Ltd, owned by Thorpe-Bowker general manager Gary Pengelly.
In celebration of its 100th birthday in 2021, and to prepare to continue serving the publishing industry for the next 100 years, Books+Publishing transitioned to a digital-only publication.
While continuing to deliver daily news to its local and international audience, Books+Publishing has expanded its social media presence with increased author engagement through the Books are Essential campaign, and continues to reach a global audience through the Think Australian rights newsletter and strategic partnerships with international colleagues Publishers Weekly and Book Brunch.
Books+Publishing will continue honouring the vision of founders Daniel Wrixon Thorpe and Joyce Thorpe Nicholson, a vision that has stood the test of time and is, in fact, more relevant in today's world than it was in 1921.
View magazine numbering and chronology here.