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Egypt caught off guard
Egypt caught off guard, Israel Hayom, Dr. Shaul Shay, August 29, 2017
(The decision and its timing raise "questions as to whether everyone in the U.S. administration is in fact on the same page." Are they even reading the same book? — DM)
The timing of the decision, on the eve of a meeting between a delegation of senior U.S. officials and el-Sissi in Cairo aimed at promoting a peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, and just weeks ahead of a large-scale joint military exercise between U.S. and Egyptian forces, raises questions as to whether everyone in the U.S. administration is in fact on the same page. Trump even called el-Sissi shortly after the cuts to financial aid were reported in the media to assure him that he would work to bolster U.S. relations with Egypt.
Egypt was caught off guard by the United States' decision this week to freeze $300 million in financial and military aid to the country. The U.S. administration took these steps following reports that Egypt was not doing enough to improve human rights in the state.
Ever since signing the peace treaty with Israel in 1978, Egypt has benefited from $1.3 billion in U.S. military aid and $250 million in annual civilian financial support. Former U.S. President Barack Obama's administration expressed its disapproval of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi's removal from office in 2013 by freezing weapons deliveries to Egypt. Although they have improved following Abdel- Fattah el-Sissi's election in 2014, bilateral ties between the countries remain chilly. The freeze on weapons deliveries has convinced el-Sissi that Egypt must consolidate a strategy for diversifying its weapons resources and increase security ties with Russia and France.
The regime in Egypt faces a difficult struggle against an array of radical Islamic organizations that threaten that country's security and stability, including the Muslim Brotherhood, Islamic State proxies that operate in the Sinai Peninsula and neighboring Libya as well as smaller Islamic terrorist groups. To contend with Islamic radicalization and terrorism, the Egyptian regime has been forced to take a series of operational, administrative and legal steps, some of which are perceived in the U.S. and Europe as infringing on human rights. Since the Arab Spring in 2011, Egypt has been subject to a financial crisis and ongoing terror attacks that make it difficult for that country to rehabilitate its economy. This is especially true for its tourism industry and foreign investments in the country.
The U.S. administration's decision was a double surprise for Egypt: For one thing, Egypt had believed that with the election of Donald Trump, someone who is less sensitive to issues of human rights and prioritizes the war on Islamic terror, ties between the countries would improve and the U.S. would be more empathetic to the Egyptian regime's troubles at home. For another thing, news of the decision was relayed to the Egyptians mere hours before it was reported in the American media.
In a chaotic Middle East, Egypt is a vital ally to the U.S. and its moderate Sunni allies. Maintaining the 1979 peace deal with Egypt and the security ties forged with it in recent years are a vital strategic interest for Israel. Israel must therefore work to find a solution to the issues under dispute between the U.S. and Egypt so that they do not harm the stability of the regime in Cairo and ensure Egypt remains a fundamental component in the moderate Sunni coalition in the Middle East in light of all the threats the region faces, which in large part stem from Iran and the Shiite axis following Islamic State's defeat in Iraq and Syria.
Dr. Shaul Shay is a lecturer at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya.
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Egypt's Battle Against Islamic Extremism
Egypt's Battle Against Islamic Extremism, Gatestone Institute, Shireen Qudosi, June 3, 2017
Sisi faces more than just militant and political extremists within Egypt's borders; he is also walking a theological tightrope. Egypt is home to the regressive theocratic influence of the most revered Islamic institution in the Sunni world, Cairo's Al-Azhar University, which openly views freedom as a "ticking time-bomb."
Being held hostage intellectually by the grip of Al-Azhar University ensures that there is a constant supply when it comes to producing the next generation of militant and political Islamists.
President Sisi's response to the brutal slaughter of peaceful Christian worshippers is being called rare but should not be surprising, considering the aggressive measures that need to be taken to hold extremism at bay, and to eradicate the threat that local groups pose to the Egyptian people. Coming out of the Riyadh Summit, where President Trump and a host of Muslim nations, including Egypt, agreed to drive out extremism, Sisi's reaction was necessary.
When it comes to regional interests in the Middle East, the priority is the most dominant and violent force.
Egypt stands out as a primary target, given the cocktail of challenges that position it as a center of radical Islam. Egypt faces political, violent, and theological militancy within its borders.
For a nation to do what it must to survive, it needs the steadfast support of world powers. Step one is annihilating all sources of violent Islam.
For a Western audience, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is a complex figure, who was shunned by the Obama administration. There appear truly pressing, immediate priorities in Egypt, such as developing the economy and combating the avalanche of extremist attempts to overthrow him. Among Middle East and North African territories, Egypt stands out as a primary target, given the cocktail of challenges that position it as a center of radical Islam.
President Sisi faces violent extremist hotbeds in the Sinai Peninsula, and the still-destabilizing influence of the Muslim Brotherhood (a political arm of violent radicals). Most notably, Sisi brought a reality check to the Arab Spring when he led the military overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood government in 2013, ushering a spiritual and cultural Islamic reformation with widespread popular support from Egyptians on a grass-roots level.
Egypt also faces extremist infiltration from neighboring Libya, a nation caught in a power vacuum after the murder of its leader, Col. Muammar Gaddafi. This vacuum has been readily filled by Islamic militants, including ISIS.
Upon returning home in April from his first visit to the U.S. since 2013, Sisi faced a series of domestic terror attacks that once again put Egypt in a global spotlight. On Palm Sunday, in April, two suicide bombings in Coptic Christian churches killed more than 45 people and injured another 120. For Egypt, one of the last regional strongholds that still has a vibrant non-Muslim minority population, violent eruptions on major Christian holidays have become routine.
In England, just days after the May 22 Manchester suicide bombing, attention was once again on Egypt where 29 Coptic Christians were gunned down on a bus traveling to a monastery near the city of Minya. The attack was launched by masked terrorists who arrived in three pick-up trucks and opened fire on the passengers, many of whom were children. Egyptian intelligence believes the Minya attack was led by ISIS jihadists based in Libya. In February, the aspiring terrorist caliphate also launched a campaign against Egypt's Christian population. The Egyptian military responded swiftly with air strikes against terrorist camps, along with a televised warning against sponsored terrorism.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (front row, far-right) attended the May 21 Arab Islamic American Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, along with U.S. President Donald Trump (front-center). The problems of Islamic extremism and terrorism were much-discussed at the summit. (Photo by Thaer Ghanaim/PPO via Getty Images)
In a war that is equally ideological and kinetic, Muslim nations and others trying to survive the plague of Islamic terrorism will need to be as ruthless as their extremist counterparts. That is something that the warring political factions in the U.S. quickly need to understand. When it comes to regional interests in the Middle East, the priority is combating the most dominant and violent force. If that force wins, human rights are completely off the table. Beyond Egypt, President Trump has received considerable backlash in the U.S. for siding with what are seen as repressive regimes, whether it was hosting Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the White House or engaging with dictators and monarchs during the Riyadh Summit.
In order to bring security to the region, alliances need to look at the real instigators and agents of chaos. There is a metastasizing threat that requires a new coalition of the willing. For a nation to do what it must to survive, it needs the steadfast support of world powers. Step one is annihilating all sources of violent Islam.
Shireen Qudosi is the Director of Muslim Matters, with America Matters.
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Muslim Brotherhood in Desperate Campaign in US
Muslim Brotherhood in Desperate Campaign in US, Clarion Project, Ran Meir, May 4, 2017
U.S. Capitol building (Photo: JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)
Lectures, discussions and events are being held in prominent American universities, including Harvard and Georgetown, about the "constructive contribution" the Brotherhood has made to Egypt since the Arab Spring began.
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The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is mounting a desperate campaign in the U.S. to avoid being designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, according to The Seventh Day, one of Egypt's largest news outlets.
The political winds have changed in Washington and the Brotherhood is running scared. U.S. President Donald Trump has made clear his support of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, announcing he stands with the Egyptian president in his fight against terror and extremist groups that are threatening one of American's key allies in the Middle East.
After tens of millions of Egyptians took to the streets to protest the abuse and power grabs of former Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi (a member of the Brotherhood's political party) in the summer of 2013, El-Sisi and the military took control of Egypt. He was elected president in 2014.
El-Sisi's recently successful meeting with Trump in Washington set a Brotherhood plan in motion to gain support of members of Congress and academia to block a move to designate the organization as terrorists.
See Clarion Project's Fact Sheet about the Muslim Brotherhood and its links to terrorism.
For example, speaking under the title "The Nobility in Justice," Mahmoud a-Sharkawi, a Brotherhood official in Washington, lectured about the "positive" role the Brotherhood has played in Egypt since January 25, 2011 (the date marking the beginning of the Arab Spring in Egypt) in a conference at St. John's University in New York.
The group is also reaching out to members of Congress, trying to re-brand the way it is perceived in Washington after al-Sisi's successful visit.
Testifying in Congress, Tarek a-Zimer, head of the Building and Development Party, the political party of the Egyptian Brotherhood, urged Americans to change their views about the organization. Other officials of the Brotherhood who attended the hearing used their presence to incite against el-Sisi and the current Egyptian government.
Writing in a blog, A-Zimer asked, "Have the Americans internalized the lesson and fully understood the danger of the current situation to their interests?"
Sources close to the Brotherhood say the purpose of the campaign being waged on American university campuses is to put pressure on Trump in light of the negative opinions about the Brotherhood that are now prevalent in Washington due to the change in administrations.
What they fear most is a decision by the administration to designate the Brotherhood as a terror organization.
Hisham a-Naggar, an Islamic scholar, agreed. He said the purpose of the Brotherhood campaign is to confront the new negative shift in American opinions toward the Brotherhood. These opinions include support for el-Sisi and allying with him against terror – positions that include a crackdown on Brotherhood activities.
Formerly, having the support of the West (and the American president) was the Brotherhood's "ace in the hole" – the most important card the group could play in its multi-faceted moves to take over Arab countries and their current regimes. Now that support has been taken away, and the group is reeling.
Tarek al-Bashabishi, a former Brotherhhood official who now works against the organization, commented that ever since the Brotherhood lost power in June 2013, it's been been inciting various Arab countries and international institutions against Egypt to weaken el-Sisi so the Brotherhood can return to power.
Al-Bashabishi added that after Trump was elected, a huge political shift occurred. The U.S. administration is now against the Brotherhood and in support of el-Sisi's fight against them. Now, he says, the Brotherhood's only option is to try to bribe Trump's rivals in Congress so they can be used as mouthpieces for the Brotherhood.
He said the Brotherhood is engaged in a fight for its life, playing all its cards – including using financial support from Turkey and Qatar and the Brotherhood lobby in America – to avoid being designated as a terror organization.
Al-Bashabishi also noted the same phenomenon in the UK, where he said the Brotherhood is trying to bribe members of the House of Commons to support the anti-Egypt opinions of the Brotherhood.
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Sisi, Trump, and the Politics of Designating the Muslim Brotherhood
Sisi, Trump, and the Politics of Designating the Muslim Brotherhood, National Review, Clifford Smith, April 6, 2017
President Trump welcomes Egyptian President El-Sisi to the White House, April 3, 2017. (Reuters photo: Carlos Barria)
Hopes that the Trump administration will designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization have hit rough waters, with anonymous officials citing concerns about diplomatic blowback and frayed relationships with Muslims at home and abroad. The leaks come on the eve of a historic visit to Washington by Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, a key Arab ally and devoted Muslim who is locked in a life-or-death struggle with the Brotherhood.
The irony is hard to miss, particularly given that Egypt and several other Arab countries have already designated the Brotherhood a terrorist organization.
Whatever the truth behind the leaks, they underscore that the inside-the-Beltway conventional wisdom — that the Brotherhood is "moderate" and so popular that designation would be seen as "a declaration of war against . . . Islam itself" — will not die as easily as many hoped.
This thinking is rooted in a failure to understand the difference between Islamists — a sizable but distinct minority of Muslims who adhere to a totalitarian religious ideology — and the moderate majority of Muslims, who are our friends and allies. President el-Sisi, who has publicly called out extremism to clerics in Egypt, understands this. After all, Egypt is not the only state in which the Brotherhood engaged in attempts to kill its way to power. It did the same in Syria in the early 1980s.
Despite the Brotherhood's long history of bloodshed, claims that it is "moderate," or opposes violence, are still prominent. While above-ground Brotherhood organizations use peaceful means when effective, they are "prepared to countenance violence . . . where gradualism is ineffective," as a 2015 report by the British government noted with significant understatement.
Claims that designation will complicate U.S. relationships with certain Arab allies are overblown. While it is true that some allies, such as Jordan, have Muslim Brotherhood–affiliated parties represented in their parliaments, this is easy enough to finesse. Members of Hezbollah, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, have long served in Lebanon's parliament, but American diplomats manage to avoid contact with them and still do business with the Lebanese.
Moreover, failure to designate the Brotherhood complicates some alliances. The Egyptian public has grown deeply suspicious of the U.S. government precisely because under Obama the U.S. came to be seen as overly sympathetic to the Brotherhood. When Senator Ted Cruz introduced the Muslim Brotherhood Terror Designation Act, many Egyptians saw it as a sign the U.S. may be waking from its long slumber. A tweet introducing the bill was the subject of a segment by popular Egyptian talk-show host Amr Adib and was retweeted 17,000+ times.
Domestically, in the wake of Trump's admittedly troubling comments suggesting a "Muslim ban" during his presidential campaign last year, some fear that designation will fuel anti-Muslim bigotry and pave the way for "a legal assault on the institutions of American Muslim life." After all, several organizations claiming to represent U.S. Muslims, particularly the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR), have deep Muslim Brotherhood ties.
But groups such as CAIR are hardly "institutions of American Muslim life" — they're just pretending to be. A 2011 Gallup poll found support for CAIR among U.S. Muslims to be just under 12 percent. Britain's inquiry into the Brotherhood found that its activists in the U.K. "appear to be unable to generate any grassroots support."
Frankly, however, if public support for CAIR were higher, that would be all the more reason to be concerned. Notwithstanding its carefully crafted public image, CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2007–09 Holy Land Foundation terror-finance case, and was blacklisted by the FBI as a result. Unfortunately, the Obama administration failed to aggressively continue an FBI investigation into CAIR after it conspired to fund terrorist-designated organization Hamas, the Palestinian wing of the Muslim Brotherhood. Indeed, the United Arab Emirates has declared CAIR itself a terrorist organization.
Trump's rhetorical excesses cannot be understood without recalling the Obama administration's refusal to name the problem. Using euphemisms such as "violent extremism" and feigning puzzlement as to the motives of obvious jihadists made the administration's rhetoric concerning terrorism a national joke. In both the U.S. and Europe, when elites insist that voters must believe them, rather than their own "lying eyes," the voters turn sharply in the opposite direction. The cure for Trump's rhetorical excesses is increased security, not denial.
Trump laid out a number of smart proposals on radical Islam during his campaign. His administration should now use President el-Sisi's visit to move forward with these ideas. In particular, it should follow up designation of the Brotherhood with the formation of a congressionally authorized commission on radical Islam tasked with developing a strategy for winning the war against Islamic extremists and explaining the threat of Islamism to the American people. Both are badly needed. Wrongheaded conventional wisdom won't keep Americans, or our Muslim allies, safe.
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Sisi as key to Arab anti-ISIS pact with Israel
Sisi as key to Arab anti-ISIS pact with Israel, DEBKAfile, April 3, 2017
(Please see also, Restore the U.S.-Egyptian Strategic Alliance, Designate the Muslim Brothers as Terrorists. — DM)
Our Washington sources report that President Trump aims to complete his plan for bringing together Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Israel on a new footing by September.
US President Donald Trump's first face to face with Egyptian President Abdel-Fatteh El-Sisi at the White House Monday, April 3, focuses on four main topics, DEBKAfile reports: The fight against Islamist State terror rampant in Egyptian Sinai and neighboring Libya; topping up US military assistance to Cairo, aid for easing Egypt's dire economic straits and, finally, the effort to bolster normal relations between the Arab world (including the Palestinians) and Israel.
From the moment he assumed the Egyptian presidency in June 2014, El-Sisi has waged a never-ending war on Islamist terror against Ansar Beit-al Maqdis, which later pledged alliance to the Islamic State's leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi. The Egyptian army has so far been worsted. The Egyptian president is not deaf to the criticism of the Second and Third Armies' failure to overcome a few thousand armed men, even though they can at a moment's notice raise several thousand more fighters from the Bedouin tribes of Sinai. US intelligence has rated the Egyptian forces as slow-moving and unwieldy; but for limited forays, its contingents preferring to sit safely in their barracks rather than risk going out and pursuing the enemy across the Peninsula.
Shortly before President El-Sisi's trip to Washington, the Egyptian air force conducted intense bombardments of ISIS concentrations around the northern town of El Arish, killing at least 14 terrorists, nabbing 22 and seizing large caches of roadside bombs. But they too long delayed bearding the Islamists in their main stronghold atop Mount Jabal Hala in central Sinai. ISIS is therefore free to move around the territory and strike at will, the while expanding its operations into Egypt proper.
The weekend air strikes came after months in which ISIS overran sections of El Arish, Sinai's biggest town (pop: 100,000). Their grip is such that Egyptian forces no longer dared venture into those lawless neighborhoods, especially at night. Earlier this year, terrible persecution including executions forced the few thousand indigenous Christians, most of them Copts, to flee their homes in El Arish. Egyptian forces proved unequal to safeguarding the US-led international observer force (MFO) monitoring the 1972 Egyptian-Israel peace treaty at a nearby station.
American military aid to Egypt stands today at $1.3bn a year. Even though the US president means to slash foreign aid programs, he may make an exception in this case and expand military assistance -, possibly in the coin of advanced military hardware, given the country's unending frontline battle against Islamist terror.
Its presence in El Arish, 130km from the Egyptian-Israeli border, plants the peril on the doorsteps of Egypt's neighbors as well: Northern Sinai borders on Israel, its northwestern district shares a border with the Gaza Strip, abutting in the east on Jordan and in the southwest on Libya. The cities of western Sinai sit on the banks of the Suez Canal.
The Islamic State's Sinai affiliate is closely allied with Salafi organizations in the Gaza Strip and works hand in glove with its Palestinian Hamas rulers, especially in the lucrative arms-smuggling business.
Al-Baghdadi last year posted a group of Iraqi officers in his service to the Sinai contingent. They travelled through southern Jordan to reach the peninsula. The Islamist cells in Libya have moreover made ISIS-held turf in Sinai their safe highway for traveling undetected to their other strongholds across the Middle East.
To stamp out this sprawling, multi-branched menace, the Trump administration needs to bring Egypt, Jordan and Israel into a coalition for a sustained, common campaign.
The Obama administration, which boycotted President El-Sisi for persecuting Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, tried unsuccessfully to build Turkey, Egypt and Israel into a counterterrorism pact. The Trump administration, for which the Brotherhood is anathema, has a better chance. But first, relations between the Arab world and Israel need to be placed on a regular footing. Some groundwork already exists in the informal bilateral military ties Egypt and Jordan maintain with Israel. DEBKAfile's military sources have revealed in past reports the limited give-and-take relations for fighting terror Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi maintain with Israel.
The US President's advisers recognize that before a broad, effective front against ISIS and Al Qaeda can be put together from these partial, often covert ties, progress is necessary towards normalizing relations between the Arab governments and the Jewish state, including the Israeli-Palestinian track.
Trump will certainly want to hear what role his Egyptian guest is willing to take for bringing this process forward. He will ask his next Middle East visitor, Jordan's Abdullah II, the same question, when he arrives in Washington Tuesday. As for the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, he was promised an invitation to the White House this month, but not yet been given a date. He is clearly being left to wait until the senior players in the region have had their say. Our Washington sources report that President Trump aims to complete his plan for bringing together Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Israel on a new footing by September.
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Despite the fact that the simplest classification of fantasy divides it into only two types – science fiction and pure fantasy, modern cinematographic fantasy is divided into many additional directions. If you think about it, you can safely refer to fantasy films Tolkien's work, mystical thrillers, and even horror films.
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The plot begins with a pandemic, which kills 98 percent of American children and adolescents. Further – better. Survivors receive super-abilities, but the government decides that "rehabilitation camps" under reliable protection will be the best option for such children.
The main character – a sixteen-year-old girl named Ruby who owns telekinesis – escapes from the camp and joins a group of the same renegades. What will they do next?
The movie tells the story of an ancient sea monster, whose existence the professor of paleontology wants to prove. The hero of the picture is Jonas Taylor. He is a brave captain of a submarine. The man spent his entire life in the seawater, plunging into its expanses and exploring an incredible underwater world. Now Jonas works as a professor at the institute and teaches paleontology. However, the last expedition does not leave his mind. On that fateful day, the professor became a witness who saw a terrible prehistoric creature called Megalodon. This monster is so huge that it can pull out even a huge tyrannosaurus from the ocean floor. The professor is preparing for a new expedition in order to prove to the world the existence of an ancient monster. However, he does not even suggest that a monster can follow him.
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Fans of Starry Cinema Saga learn about daring antics in the very depths of the dark and dangerous criminal world of the galaxy, where Han Solo first meets his future friends. Together they will make their first journeys on the Millennium Falcon. The movie will tell full story about Solo and his friends.
After the death of his father, T'Challa returns to Wakanda, hidden from the outside world. He must become a new king. However, hardly a young heir manages to ascend to the throne, as his old enemy appears, a confrontation with which can lead to serious consequences for Wakanda and the whole world. T'Challa will unite his allies and free all the power of the Black Panther in order to rebuff the enemy and protect his people.
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It has become mandatory to show a 'Kovid-19 status certificate' for entry to closed areas in Switzerland
According to the data of the Federal Health Office (BAG) in Switzerland, which has a population of 8.6 million, 3 thousand 550 people in the last 24 hours Covid-19 case was detected and 7 people died.
With the number of cases climbing in recent weeks, the federal government has updated the Covid-19 rules across the country.
Accordingly, as of September 13, it has become mandatory to show a "Covid-19 status certificate" at the entrance to closed areas such as restaurants, bars, museums and sports centers.
A valid Swiss vaccination certificate requires proof of vaccination, recovery from infection, or a negative test result.
Age limit for certificate is 16
According to the government's decision, employers and universities in the country will also be able to request Covid-19 vaccination certificates from their employees and students.
In Switzerland, the vaccination certificate is still valid at nightclubs and large-scale events.
The Covid-19 vaccination certificate will be valid for those over 16 years old and the application will last until January 24, 2022.
On the other hand, Swiss Health Minister Alain Berset, at a press conference in the capital Bern, stated that the epidemic remains serious in his country and stated that they will do their best to avoid a full shutdown.
According to BAG data, 10 thousand 544 people have died due to the epidemic in Switzerland and Liechtenstein to date.
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HOOKSTOWN — After a lengthy 15-play drive that took 7:48 off the clock, South Side was lining up to attempt an extra point after Jake Botkin's 1-yard run. A Seton-La Salle defender, who was clearly offside, blocked the kick, and no flag was thrown.
But a little adversity early on wasn't able to slow down the Rams, who dominated time of possession en route to a 50-27 win over Seton-La Salle in a Three Rivers Conference clash Friday night.
Botkin ended up finding the end zone in the second quarter as well, this time off a 36-yard run. The senior finished with 19 carries for 105 yards, and also scored on a 1-yard run with four minutes to go in regulation to put the game away for good.
In addition to Botkin, Bruce rushed for 173 yards, including a 47-yard touchdown run midway through the second quarter, and added a 2-yard touchdown run in the third. Bruce doesn't care who scores for South Side, as long as the Rams see the final result in their favor.
Seton-La Salle had its opportunities, but couldn't cash in. The Rebels had a 38-yard pitch-and-catch in the second quarter wiped out because of a fumble at the end of the play, and they shot themselves in the foot with penalties. Seton-La Salle had 10 penalties for 76 yards, compared to two for 10 on the other side for the Rams. The ground game led the way for South Side, as the Rams ran 33 plays in the first half, while Seton-La Salle ran 17. The Rebels had 2 yards rushing in the first 24 minutes of play.
Now sitting at 4-2 in the Three Rivers Conference, South Side sets itself up for a chance at a first-round playoff game at home. The Rams head on the road for the next two weeks — at Fort Cherry, followed by a non-conference game against Steel Valley.
"We've been wanting a home playoff game for four years now," Bruce said.


This is much bigger and much more functional than I anticipated. I lost my last small clutch type purse for going out and i needed a replacement that had a shoulder string thing, which this one does and it's very long, and also one that could fit my giant phone.
This bag is just the right size....big enough to hold more than you think it will, yet small enough to not weigh you down. Can be used as a backpack or a shoulder/cross body bag. Seems good quality also.
I love the size and look of this bag; also, I feel like I'm not compelled to put my whole life into this bag--just the wallet, key and phone.
I got this for my daughter for a birthday gift.Very nice quality, feels sturdy, I like the funny tassel details.


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Empiricist
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"He had an army of forklifts. Magical racist forklifts."
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"...oh, wow, uh, geez. I guess this whole magical world thing really IS gonna take some getting used to if that's the sort of thing that's common."
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Chapter 1 - A Chance of Thunder
You get your paycheck. The manager's either too confused about what the hell happened today to question why you left in the commotion to, break a washing machine or something(?) or just simply doesn't want to know.
Your ass also remains unfired. Also in the evening a courier comes over to your apartment. Said her name was 'Satoshi Nakamoto' and that she had something for Kouta. That something as it turned out was a necklace that gave him a means to access the safehouse without being Awakened. You two were also offered a lift there wasn't much to pack.
Yoake
You get a good deal of return calls today thanks to having actually fought in public for a bit, though most of them were duds, even more so than usual thanks to you being in the entertainment district so most people thought it was a promotion for something or other than actually about a proper martial art.
It is now Wednesday morning.
Faith and Noriko
You two are currently at homeroom, waiting for Mr. Honda to show up. Through the windows you can see a few late students sprinting past the obligatory cherry blossom trees on the way from the bus and train stations right outside the school gates.
Minato and Yuki
You two are currently at homeroom, waiting for Mrs. Tanaka to show up. You are one floor above the other two, so you can see everything the other two see, but with a bit less hayfever and not recognizing as many of the sprinting figures.
Shef and Yoake
You, are somewhere. Where is that somewhere and why the fuck are you there? Shopping? Sipping drinks at a bar? Looking for a place to set up a dojo? In the safehouse pirating everything ever on someone else's dime? You two don't need to be together either just to be clear.
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Faith sat at her desk, lightly swinging her legs back and forth as she mulled over the previous day, hand lightly on her chin as she thought. Eventually, Faith begins to move, hesitates slightly, and then gets up and moves in Noriko's direction, leaning on the other Awakened girl's desk lightly.
"...I don't think that I'm gonna be able to focus on school today after learning all of that and, you know, the thing with the microwaves and stuff. How about you?"
spümpkin
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Ugh. So many people simply calling to praise her 'performance', and asking for her 'number'. When would people learn about the true honorable nature of Keijo?
Well, she supposed that's why she was doing what she was doing now. Heading to the school where the other Awakened (who still went to school) to teach P.E. under her new fake identity, of Yūgure Oppai.
She felt like a master of subtlety, what with her excellent disguise of a cap, glasses and ID card strapped around her neck.
Walking into the school, she headed to her classroom (the school gym, which has a desk), being given the permission to relieve for this one class. As far as she saw it, it was a pretty relaxing day as she sat at the desk, waiting for a class to turn up.
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An errant in search of a cause
"Probably not. Although, I don't know, it's different for me. Like I already knew about all that, sort of, I just thought it was all in my head." She shrugs. "It is a lot to get used to, though."
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Yuki, for her part, seems almost as if the last day had not happened. She doesn't act any different than she normally does besides not being a zombie in the morning. But then, that may be because she fucking called it all and so she'd not stayed up all night thinking about it. She wanders over to Minato soon after arriving. "Heeeyyy, good morning!" she declares in her normal way.
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There's a brief pause before Faith speaks, a bit awkwardly, tapping the tips of her fingers together.
"You know... I never was one of the ones to talk about you behind your back, uh, if that means anything."
You as usual get people staring and ogling you for your choice of attire and general mannerisms which aren't entirely standard for a PE teacher. What they do not do however, is question whether or not you are a PE teacher or your presence here. As far as they're concerned, you should be here, even though they have not met you before. The classroom is quiet for now, the hallways outside it however, are not, with plenty of students walking or running to homeroom, a few who pause to peek into the classroom, and a few who trip over when skidding to make a glance, or trip over the ones who already tripped. You've got a bit of time to kill before your lesson begins.
Noriko sighs slightly. "It does, a bit, but I sort of learned to ignore it after a while. Either way, it doesn't matter any more - though you should probably be careful that the same thing doesn't wind up happening to you now."
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Shef was in a closet, killing time, as he had a few minutes to wait before the halls began to clear up. He collected some of the implements with which he was expected to work. A mop, broom, disinfectant. He was dressed in a dirty gray uniform, with a small, inconsequential I.D. clipped on the chest. He was, in short, a janitor.
He peered out into the hallway, garnering some quick meaningless glances from passersby. As soon as the hallway emptied, he would begin his duties.
...My talents are wasted here.
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Within that world, she was God. But here, outside of it, her name was Yoake o-Shiri. That was unimportant. She was a Godslayer. That too was unimportant. But what was important, was that she had a motherfucking boat.
And by God, was she going to use it.
"But deceleration is for pansies. We're headed for the stars. Bye, Burnsie. Bye, Mission Control. Bye, Sol. See you at heat death" -Blindsight
The already kind of nervous Faith visibly practically deflates a bit at that last sentence; it certainly doesn't look like she wants that to happen.
"Right, haha... I'll be careful, huh."
Bored, Yoake puts her feet on the desk, pondering what to do.
Hmm... She cooould wait here and do some work or something, oooor... she could try find Shef and see if he wants to do anything! She knew he was here, but he didn't know where.
Stepping out into the halls answered this for her, as she burst into laughter at Shef cleaning the floor.
Quote from: Twinwolf on March 24, 2017, 08:58:57 pm
Minato smiles suavely at her.
"Hey, Yuki. Sleep well?"


ZIMBABWE – An international research think tank says Zimbabwe's construction sector has over the years deteriorated so much that it now ranks only better than that of the nascent nation state of South Sudan.
In its report published on January 1, United Kingdom-based BMI Research, which is part of the Fitch Group, ranked Zimbabwe second from bottom, saying prospects for the construction sub-sector of the country remained very poor.
"The country's construction industry remains high risk, poorly financed and subject to the unattractive investment policies," BMI said in its report on Zimbabwe.
It said that based on information on the ground, average real growth for the construction sector between 2015 and 2024 would be "a mediocre 2,6 percent".
"We expect continued weak growth in the Zimbabwe construction industry as high risks, little financing availability and poor growth prospects ward off investors. As such, we forecast 1,4 percent real growth for 2015, and an annual average growth of 2,6 percent over the next ten years," the BMI Research report pointed out.
The report highlighted that there were prospects for the construction industry in the mining and power generation sectors.
"We highlight upside potential for the power sector as Sable Mining Africa signed a memorandum of understanding with Chinese firm CITIC Construction to build a 600 megawatts (MW) coal-fired power plant at its 19 236-square kilometre Lubu coal mine in Zimbabwe. The mine will supply coal to the commercial power station. The project is part of the Zimbabwe government and Ministry of Energy and Power Development's plans to promote the development of energy and power generation.
South Sudan, the only country that Zimbabwe is outperforming, is the youngest in the African family of nations after it successfully seceded from Sudan following a brutal 23-year civil war that ended with a Comprehensive Peace Agreement of 2004.
The country only became a fully-fledged stand-alone nation in mid-2010 after a referendum in which an overwhelming majority of southern Christian Sudanese voted to confirm a war-time resolve to secede from the northern, Muslim-dominated, Sudan.
The BMI research polled 48 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and it excluded failed states like Somalia and others where no data is obtainable.
In the research, Zimbabwe received an overall score of 23 out of 100, below the regional average for all indicators, with the lowest score for country risks in the construction sector.
At Independence in 1980, former Tanzanian president, the late Julius Nyerere, described Zimbabwe at "the jewel of Africa" because of its pristine infrastructure, but that infrastructure has since become an eyesore due to lack of upgrade and maintenance.
The country's construction industry has been in the doldrums for more than a decade and a half, itself a hapless victim of the protracted economic crises bedevilling the country.
As testimony to the decline of the industry, there are hardly any cranes towering the country's urban centres, with the only crane in Harare being found in the Glen Lorne up-market suburb at a site where the leader of a crowd-pulling Pentecostal church, the United Family International Church Emmanuel Makandiwa, is constructing a multi-storey home which includes a private hotel and several guest houses on a hill.
At its peak in the late 1990s, the Zimbabwe construction industry employed about 35 000 people, but by 2009 the figure had plummeted to about 3 000 and continues to dwindle as there are hardly any meaningful projects for firms in the sub-sector.
Most of the skilled and semi-skilled manpower in the sector has left the country for greener pastures while the rest have joined the ranks of the country's unemployed.
Although it badly needs re-tooling, the construction sector has been excluded from duty-free import of capital equipment, a favour that has been extended to the mining, agriculture, tourism and hospitality sectors.


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Nutrition Information for Breads and Grains
Carbs and Nutrition of Movie Theater Popcorn
Jill Corleone
Jill Corleone is a registered dietitian and health coach who has been writing and lecturing on diet and health for more than 15 years. Her work has been featured on the Huffington Post, Diabetes Self-Management and in the book "Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation," edited by John R. Bach, M.D. Corleone holds a Bachelor of Science in nutrition.
Popcorn and movies go together like peanut butter and jelly. But if you're counting calories and carbs -- or you're concerned about fat and sodium -- you may want to reconsider your movie snacking choice. If, however, you plan ahead and know the nutrition information for your favorite theater's popcorn, you may be able to enjoy a small bag while watching the big screen.
To limit carbs, calories, fat and sodium, enjoy a kid's-size popcorn at the movies. (Image: Ingram Publishing/Ingram Publishing/Getty Images)
Calories and Carbs in Movie Theater Popcorn
The calories and carbs in your movie theater popcorn vary depending on the chain you frequent and the size you order. A small unbuttered popcorn, which may have 6 to 11 cups of popcorn, has 370 to 670 calories and 36 to 66 grams of carbs. A medium, which may have 9 to 14 cups of popcorn, has 590 to 760 calories and 54 to 84 grams of carbs. A 17- to 20-cup large movie theater popcorn has 910 to 1,200 calories and 102 to 120 grams of carbs.
Adding buttery topping doesn't up the carbs, but it can bump up calories by 120 per tablespoon. For example, a large 1,270-calorie popcorn turns into a 1,600-calorie popcorn with the added 3 tablespoons of buttery topping.
To give you some perspective on the difference between movie theater popcorn and the kind you make at home, 1 cup of air-popped popcorn has 30 calories and 6 grams of carbs, and 1 cup of regular microwaved popcorn has 65 calories and 5 grams of carbs. Eleven cups of air-popped popcorn is still lower in calories, with 330 calories, than one small movie theater popcorn.
Popcorn Fat Adds Lots of Calories
Fat is why movie theater popcorn is so much higher in calories than the air-popped kind. And it's usually not healthy fat, but artery-clogging saturated fat. The amount of fat ranges from 37 to 81 grams of total fat without buttery topping and 54 to 113 grams of total fat with buttery topping. Saturated fat ranges from 2 to 60 grams, with buttery topping adding another 2 grams per tablespoon. That means about 50 to 60 percent of the calories in the popcorn you eat at the theater comes from fat.
Eating too many foods high in saturated fat may increase your bad cholesterol level, raising your risk of heart disease. Based on guidelines from the American Heart Association, you shouldn't get more than 5 to 6 percent of your calories from saturated fat, which on a 2,000 calorie diet translates into 11 to 13 grams.
Watch the Salt
When it comes to good nutrition, movie theater popcorn falls short not only because of fat, but also salt. Even before you add extra salt, sodium content ranges from 210 milligrams in a small to over 2,000 milligrams in a large. Because it might increase your blood pressure, excess sodium in the diet is also bad for your heart. The 2015 to 2020 dietary guidelines for Americans recommends you limit your sodium intake to 2,300 milligrams a day for good health. While a small movie theater popcorn may not put you over the edge, devouring a large size or medium serving -- which may have as much as 1,200 milligrams in some theaters -- makes for one salty snack.
Healthier Treats at the Movie Theater
If you must have popcorn while at the movies, go for small and skip the added butter and salt. To save more calories and carbs, get the kid's size, which normally has about 200 calories, 22 grams of carbs, 11 grams of fat, 1 gram of saturated fat and 190 milligrams of sodium. If you're counting calories or carbs, drink water or diet drinks with your popcorn.
Some theaters also offer healthier options to snack on, such as frozen fruit bars and roasted nuts, which, depending on the diet you're following, might make better choices.
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Last weekend, the college football season began as Hawaii and Cal played a game in Sydney, Australia.
This week, Cal is off while Hawaii plays in Ann Arbor, MI against the Wolverines.
For the Wolverines, they've had a chance to see Hawaii play a game. Hawaii enters this game with no such luxury and asked Wolverine coach Jim Harbuagh for film of an inner squad scrimmage.
As the day progressed, I found virtually no one commenting who agreed with my view.
But then I began to talk about this with friends who weren't fans of either team and they also seemed to largely think that Harbaugh should turn over film.
People act like it's an advantage for the Wolverines that they have seen Hawaii play.
Advantages? Hawaii has already had the opportunity to play an entire game! And they also had the opportunity to start practicing earlier because their season started earlier. To think that they should get special access to practice film is Hawaii's attempt to have their cake and eat it too.
There are consequences in choices we make. Sometimes good, sometimes bad. This is a case where there are consequence which are both good and bad.
have already played a game at live speed which is helpful at the beginning of a season against a team who hasn't.
By virtue of playing earlier, they're playing a team who's seen them play who they haven't seen play.
Not sure if it counts, but they're not very good.
I hear people talk about fairness. The fairness is in the fact that they play a sport where teams make their own non-conference schedules. No one made Hawaii schedule a game a week early.
Hawaii also could have followed Cal's lead and scheduled a bye week for the following week, but decided not to. Not U of M's fault, not their problem. If a team loses their quarterback to an injury, the opponent doesn't bench their quarterback as a courtesy!
I've heard people say the Wolverines should give them film as a sign of good sportsmanship.
Seriously?! Sportsmanship is not about doing absolutely everything you can to eliminate any legitimate advantage you might ever have. Because it's never going to be exactly even. It's not even in terms of talent of players, quality of coaches. The Wolverines are home, playing at noon. Hawaii has to make another long trip and will be playing at…some ridiculous hour, Hawaii time.
Against all of those factors, people seem to be sympathetic to Hawaii. Because they're bad, why not help them out.
I heard one commenter say that it's a common courtesy for football teams to share game and practice tape. No. It's not. Game tape, yes. But teams do not share practice film. That's why practices are closed! Because they don't want other teams to know what they're doing.
In a scrimmage situation, the Wolverines are potentially (and quite likely) including plays that they're adding specifically for the game with Hawaii this weekend. To think that they would turn that over is absurd.
It's not because they're afraid. But if you have a chance to go into a game with a quarterback the other team hasn't seen, what good reason is there to willingly give that up?
What else does Hawaii want? The Wolverine playbook? Maybe the offensive gameplan? Maybe 5-6 players can just dress for Hawaii instead.
I've also heard people who don't like Harbaugh act like any other coach would give up practice film, and that it's just Harbaugh's personality. Again I disagree. I don't think any coach in his right mind would give up practice film.
I know it's just a football game.
Of course we should do the right thing. But is this really the right thing? To artificially boost a competitor who made a free choice to play an early game. I was at Target a few weeks ago and their card readers weren't working. So does that mean the Walmart across the street should have also closed to be fair?
Part of sports, competition, and life is overcoming obstacles and adversity.
In August of 2014, Toledo, Ohio had to shut off the town's water supply when toxins were found in the water supply. This was just as fall camp was starting for the University of Toledo football team and the Rockets found themselves without water.
Should Bowling Green have helped their rivals?
What's the difference? In the Bowling Green case, they were demonstrating sportsmanship because they were looking out for the livelihood of their rivals. For the Wolverines, giving up the tapes, would be artificially boosting your opponent and giving them information about your program and planning that they don't have a right to know.
I would argue the fact that Hawaii asked for practice tapes, such an outlandish request, is bordering on poor sportsmanship on their part. To suggest that they could reasonable expect to have those.
If you're in a position to help someone because it's helping their livelihood, that's a good thing. But you shouldn't help someone by giving them a better chance to beat you!


I knew your mother Alma Schwartz from a long time ago. Her parents Lena and Eddy were good friends of my parents. The Schwartz's and my parents were among the founders and members of the first and only snynagogues in Belmont. Before their arrival from Boston, Chelsea, and other older communities around Boston, Belmont was a pure Yankee town—virtually all white Anglo-Saxon Protestants—with a smathering of Irish Catholics and Italians.
Lena and Eddy were a few years younger than my parents and the other early members. Besides Alma, they had a daughter named Ella who was five years older than Alma. ( I don't recall you mentioning Ella in your memoir.) I remember Lena as a good-looking woman (Alma's looks came from her mother, though Eddy was good looking, too. Sort of on the lines of Tony Curtis—who is of Hungarian –Jewish extraction.) Eddy's background was a little different from my father's and their friends. Eddy was a rough-scrabble Jew who grew up in the tough Jewish neighbor-hoods of Chelsea. I think Lena helped him gain status and some culture, helping him blend in with the middle-class mores of the other Jewish families. Over the years, I would see Eddy at High Holiday services and watched him playing poker at our house. He was always smoking a cigar and seemed to be always louder and more boisterous than the others.
I first met Alma at the Schwartz's summer house in Hanson, Massachusetts. As we drove into the driveway I saw this athletic girl water-skiing in the distance. I never saw water-skiing before and the image of her (she was probably 11 or 12 years old) bounding across the wake of the motor-boat left a lasting memory for me.
The next memory of her was seeing her at dancing lessons at the Jewish community center. She was enchanting, unlike any other Jewish girl I had ever seen. She had wavy, sandy blond hair, big, blue-eyes, pert little turned-up nose, (rarely seen in the semitic race and baby-face lips; and wearing a tight- cut dress ( unlike the big skirted petty-coat fashions of the early 1950s) that suggested a small, but compact body and athletic legs underneath.. In short, she was every Jewish boy's dream-girl. (And as I later found out she was every gentile boy's dream girl,too.) I remember saying to her as we danced together for the last dance of the lesson: " I'll be seeing more of you." Oh, God! What a cool guy I thought I must have been back then!
Since I was Jewish, I had some advantage in dating her. As you can see from the attached photo I got to take her to the junior prom. (Don't feel sorry for your mother. I did turn out to look much better. Some Brits took me for Tom Jones, the British pop singer in the old days (1960s);others reminded them of Jean Paul Belmondo, the famous French gangster actor of the French new wave. I like to think your mother saw a little of Belmondo in me.
After high school. I didn't see or hear anything about Alma. I went to Harvard, then to Columbia, graduated and not long afterward became a journalist, working for Forbes, Newseek, and a Far East correspondent, covering Vietnam and Southeast Asia. I have been married for 47 years to a very smart and very good looking woman. We have a son and two grandchildren living in Denver.Colorado. But a strange coincidence happened when my wife and I returned from the Far East. We needed a place to stay in New York where I got a job working for Newsweek. My wife's sister had dated a man named David Satchi, who was from a wealthy Jewish Iraqi clan. David, who was out-of-town at the time, generously let us stay in his nice brownstone apartment in mid-Manhatten. When we moved in, I saw on the night table a picture of—it was Alma..
I learned later that David was madly in love with Alma, but she said that she was not ready for marriage and she was dedicated to pursuing a career in dancing. In another incredible coincidence I met alma at a subway station. We talked briefly before our trains parted us in different directions.. Before departing, we said we would get together and catch up, but we never did. Subsequently, I learned that Alma had gone to Europe to study under a famous dance teacher. That she didn't make it because her body-type was not that of a dancer. I learned nothing more about where she was and what she was doing. Until….
My family and friends were traveling in Maine and we stopped in Bath, Maine. While walking the streets I noticed a small alcove with a dance studio. There was under the name of the studio a picture of Alma, sporting a French cap looking like a Hollywood celebrity. I rang the bell and knocked on the door but she wasn't there. Over the years, I traveled through Bath a few times. There was the same photo of her at the studio, but the studio was never open.
Then several months ago, your memoir describing your emotional journey in search of your mother came across the Internet. What a thrilling revelation it was for me to find out what an extraordinary woman and the extraordinary life your mother had.
David Kales has been a journalist, editor, and free-lance writer for over forty years. His journalist experience includes Newsweek, Forbes, INC magazine, and foreign correspondent for the Hearst Newspapers, covering the Vietnam War and Southeast Asia. He has written several books, including "All About the Boston Harbor Islands." "The Phantom Pirate" is his first work of fiction.


It is no secret that venture capital is homogeneous when it comes to gender and race. But now there's new data on the industry's lack of diversity, including a previously-unstudied metric: Educational background.
It comes via Richard Kerby, one of Silicon Valley's few black VCs, who first analyzed venture's racial breakdown in 2016.
He finds that the percentage of white VCs has fallen from 74% to 70%.
Asian representation climbed from 23% to 26%.
Black representation up slightly from 2% to 3% (black females created the difference, as they were at 0% last time around).
Hispanics remain stuck at just 1%.
Women still only make up 18% of VC professionals, up from 11%.
The bar to create a more diverse industry is difficult when one looks for folks that most resemble themselves; and while talent is evenly distributed, unfortunately, opportunity is not.
When you couple the lack of gender and racial diversity with the lack of educational institution diversity, you not only end up with teams that look similar, but you also end up with teams that think in a similar fashion. Not only is our industry lacking in gender and racial balance, but we also suffer from a lack of cognitive diversity.
This insularity of the venture ecosystem has ripple effects throughout the tech industry.... If we want to have more successes in the venture and broader tech ecosystems, diversity in all fashions (racial, gender, cognitive) needs to be a part of what drives us forward.
Primary source: Here is Kerby's full dataset and his Medium post.
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Tyson (NYSE: TSN) is in exclusive talks to buy Keystone Foods from Brazil's Marfrig Global Foods for more than $3 billion, as first reported by Bloomberg.
Why it's the BFD: Because McNuggets. Keystone originally developed the boneless wonder in partnership with McDonald's, and now supplies the fast-food giant with around 300 million pounds of poultry per year (plus 150 million lbs of beef and 15m lbs of fish).
Bonus read: How an ex-cop rigged the McDonald's Monopoly game & stole millions, per The Daily Beast.
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Q: Pointcut for methods with @Scheduled Spring annotation I want to have a AspectJ pointcut for methods annotated with @Scheduled. Tried different approaches but nothing worked.
1.)
@Pointcut("execution(@org.springframework.scheduling.annotation.Scheduled * * (..))")
public void scheduledJobs() {}

@Around("scheduledJobs()")
public Object profileScheduledJobs(ProceedingJoinPoint joinPoint) throws Throwable {
    LOG.info("testing")
}

2.)
@Pointcut("within(@org.springframework.scheduling.annotation.Scheduled *)")
public void scheduledJobs() {}

@Pointcut("execution(public * *(..))")
public void publicMethod() {}

@Around("scheduledJobs() && publicMethod()")
public Object profileScheduledJobs(ProceedingJoinPoint joinPoint) throws Throwable {
    LOG.info("testing")
}

Can anyone suggest any other way to have around/before advice on @Scheduled annotated methods?

A: The pointcut that you are looking for can be specified as below:
@Aspect
public class SomeClass {

    @Around("@annotation(org.springframework.scheduling.annotation.Scheduled)")
    public void doIt(ProceedingJoinPoint pjp) throws Throwable {
        System.out.println("before");
        pjp.proceed();
        System.out.println("After");
    }
}

I am not sure whether that's all you require or not. So I'm going to post the other parts of the solution as well.
First of all, notice the @Aspect annotation on the class. It is required for the methods in this class to be applied as advice.
Also, you need to make sure that the class that has the @Scheduled method is detectable via scanning. You can do so by annotation that class with @Component annotation. For ex:
@Component
public class OtherClass {
    @Scheduled(fixedDelay = 5000)
    public void doSomething() {
        System.out.println("Scheduled Execution");
    }
}

Now, for this to work, the required parts in your spring configuration would be as follows:
<context:component-scan base-package="com.example.mvc" />
<aop:aspectj-autoproxy />   <!-- For @Aspect to work -->
<task:annotation-driven />  <!-- For @Scheduled to work -->

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The Kalverpassage Amsterdam is Formerly known as the Kalvertoren, the recently renovated shopping passage between Kalverstraat and Heiligeweg, is set to become "an important shopping destination in the Dutch capital, where shopping will be an experience with plenty of spectacle to draw them in", according to property developer Lesley Bamberger of Kroonenberg Groep, who was also responsible for breathing new life into ailing shopping areas like Gelderlandplein and Osdorpplein.
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Everyone remembers the iconic movie The Sandlot. It was one of those 90s classics that we would watch over and over again, until we finally learned each and every word of it.
When it came out, you could hear everyone repeating "You're killin' me, Smalls" all the time, and now, after all these years, it's all going to come back to us.
The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that a new movie is going to be released, and before you get mad at a potential reboot, relax, it's not a reboot.
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The studio is keeping the details under wraps for the most part, but it is reported that the director and writer of The Sandlot, David Mickey Evans, will be back writing the new movie with new writer Austin Reynolds.
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It's hard to believe that The Sandlot came out 25 years ago, but here we are. The cast has gotten together a few times to remember the classic baseball movie, but never hinted at this new prequel.
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They even got to hang out at Dodgers Stadium with their own specialized jerseys. The whole cast was there for a special screening of the movie after the game, and it was a huge event.
As of now we don't know what the title or plot of the new Sandlot prequel will be, but hopefully it'll hold up to the standards of the first!
Are you excited for a Sandlot prequel?


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On This Day … 19 September [2022]
Published on 09/19/2022 09/13/2022 by Andrew Marshall
1913 – Frances Farmer, American actress (d. 1970).
1954 – Adam Phillips, Welsh psychotherapist and author.
Frances Elena Farmer (19 September 1913 to 01 August 1970) was an American actress and television hostess. She appeared in over a dozen feature films over the course of her career, though she garnered notoriety for the various sensationalised accounts of her life, especially her involuntary commitment to psychiatric hospitals and subsequent mental health struggles.
A native of Seattle, Washington, Farmer began acting in stage productions while a student at the University of Washington. After graduating, she began performing in stock theatre before signing a film contract with Paramount Pictures on her 22nd birthday in September 1935. She made her film debut in the B film Too Many Parents (1936), followed by another B picture, Border Flight, before being given the lead role opposite Bing Crosby in the musical Western Rhythm on the Range (1936). Unhappy with the opportunities the studio gave her, Farmer returned to stock theatre in 1937 before being cast in the original Broadway production of Clifford Odets's Golden Boy, staged by New York City's Group Theatre. She followed this with two Broadway productions directed by Elia Kazan in 1939, but a battle with depression and binge drinking caused her to drop out of a subsequent Ernest Hemingway stage adaptation.
Farmer returned to Los Angeles, earning supporting roles in the comedy World Premiere (1941) and the film noir Among the Living (1941). In 1942, publicity of her reportedly erratic behaviour began to surface and, after several arrests and committals to psychiatric institutions, Farmer was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. At the request of her family, particularly her mother, she was committed to an institution in her home state of Washington, where she remained a patient until 1950. Farmer attempted an acting comeback, mainly appearing as a television host in Indianapolis on her own series, Frances Farmer Presents. Her final film role was in the 1958 drama The Party Crashers, after which she spent the majority of the 1960s occasionally performing in local theatre productions staged by Purdue University. In the spring of 1970, she was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer, from which she died on 01 August 1970, aged 56.
Farmer has been the subject of various works, including two feature films and several books, many of which focus on her time spent institutionalised, during which she claimed to have been subject to various systemic abuses. Her posthumously released, ghostwritten, and widely discredited autobiography, Will There Really Be a Morning? (1972), details these claims, but has been exposed as a largely fictional work by a friend of Farmer's to clear debts. Another discredited 1978 biography of her life, Shadowland, alleged that Farmer underwent a transorbital lobotomy during her institutionalisation, but the author has since stated in court that he fabricated this incident and several other aspects of the book. A 1982 biographical film based on this book depicted these events as true, resulting in renewed interest in her life and career.
Adam Phillips
Adam Phillips (born 19 September 1954) is a British psychoanalytic psychotherapist and essayist.
Since 2003 he has been the general editor of the new Penguin Modern Classics translations of Sigmund Freud. He is also a regular contributor to the London Review of Books.
Joan Acocella, writing in The New Yorker, described Phillips as "Britain's foremost psychoanalytic writer",[2] an opinion echoed by historian Élisabeth Roudinesco in Le Monde.
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