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Heritage's Emma Harig goes up for a shot against Summertown's Rylee Long on Dec. 20.
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Alcoa senior T.J. Martin (right) dashes down court against the Cosby Eagles on Jan. 6 in a close first half.
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Heritage's Jacob Powell (32) pulls down a rebound against William Blount in the fourth quarter of the Blount County jamboree on Nov. 8, 2018.
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Prep hoops notebook: Heritage girls host Bearden in top-five match-up
By Corey Roepken coreyr@thedailytimes.com
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Heritage is riding a 10-game winning streak that is impressive all by itself, but the Lady Mountaineers can really make an impression by extending their run on tonight.
Heritage, which is No. 5 in this week's Associated Press Class AAA state rankings, plays host to No. 2-ranked Bearden at 6 p.m. Like the Lady Mountaineers, the Lady Bulldogs (17-1, 5-0 District 4-AAA) have lost only once this season.
The Lady Mountaineers' only loss came against district foe Farragut on Dec. 10, and it served as a reminder of how strong the league is. They had won their first six games by an average of 28.8 points before falling to Farragut by eight.
As tough as today's game is, Heritage coach Rick Howard said the key is to approach it like any other game.
"We have so many really good teams in our district," Howard said. "They're ranked No. 2 so you try to get them a little more fired up about it, but if it was William Blount or anybody else, Maryville, we'd get ready for it the same way."
The Lady Mountaineers (16-1, 4-1) are off to their best start in years in large part to the elite chemistry that has resulted in a selfless approach from every player.
Katlin Burger leads three players in double-digit scoring with 15.1 points per game. Lexi Patty follows with 13.3 points and Emma Harig with 13.1 points. Three players — Patty, Burger and Lauren Varitek — average at least two assists per game.
Heritage's ability to share the ball will be tested like never before against Bearden, which Howard said is one of the best rebounding teams he has seen this season.
Blessed with towering height, the Lady Bulldogs rarely give up offensive rebounds and are great at scoring second-chance points. Bearden beat Farragut — the only team Heritage has lost to — by nine points in December. Howard said he estimated Bearden scored 18 second-chance points that night.
The Lady Mountaineers' margin for error on Tuesday will be miniscule, but if any of his teams is capable of meeting the challenge, Howard said, it's this one.
"You need to hit open shots, but then again you have to put the rebounding shoe on your girls," he said. "They have to mimic what Bearden does. Their guards go in there and rebound. Our guards are going to have to go in there and rebound.
"You have to have more than one shot against Bearden if you're going to beat them. You can't be one and done every time."
Alcoa boys in middle of tough stretch
Good luck finding a more difficult schedule than the one Alcoa's boys are in the middle of.
Last week the Tornadoes lost No. 5-ranked (Div. II-A) Knoxville Webb and reigning Class AA state runner-up Fulton. On today, they will play host to Huntsville Scott, an undefeated District 4-AA foe ranked No. 3 in the state, and travel to Maryville — the state's No. 11-ranked team in Class AAA.
Though the first two games in the stretch did not go well, coach Ryan Collins said his team has a chance to prove something important this week.
"I'm looking for a response," Collins said. "The Fulton game, we got knocked down to the mat, and how the team responds in the next game against another very quality opponent can tell you a lot about the character you have in the locker room.
"One game can't define you. One loss can't define you. It's about picking yourself up, moving on and preparing the right way for the next one."
Milestones for Seymour girls
Seymour is among the girls teams experiencing a nice step in the right direction this season, and there is a strong chance the Lady Eagles will add a rare feather to their caps.
Maci Pitner eclipsed the 1,000-point mark for her career on Dec. 30. If Aebri Graham shoots it well in the coming weeks, she could reach that milestone, too, by the end of January. If that happens, coach Greg Hernandez said, it would be the first time in school history two Seymour girls players accomplish it in the same season.
It would be a highlight of what is already good season. Last season, Seymour went 12-15 overall and 3-9 against District 2-AAA competition. The Lady Eagles finished sixth out of seven teams in district play and beat only seventh-place South-Doyle in the district tournament before being eliminated by Sevier County.
Seymour (8-9, 4-2) is coming off a win over Sevier County and is tied for second. The Lady Eagles will take on first-place Jefferson County on the road today before playing host to South-Doyle on Friday.
Fittingly, Pitner will be honored for her 1,000 career points on Friday night.
Rivalry Week
Blount County basketball fans are in for a treat this week with a pair of rivalry doubleheaders on back-to-back days.
At 6 p.m. on Thursday, Maryville will play host to Alcoa. Heritage will visit William Blount for a 6 p.m. tipoff on Friday. The rivalries have had mixed results over the last two decades.
Maryville's girls have a 31-4 edge on Alcoa since the 2001-02 season and have won 12 in a row. The Lady Tornadoes' last win in the series came on Feb. 8, 2013.
Over the same time period, Maryville's boys lead the series against Alcoa 23-14. The Rebels have won three in a row. Before last season when Maryville swept the Tornadoes, the teams had split the season series three seasons in a row.
The Heritage girls lead the series against William Blount 25-18 over the last 18 seasons, but the Lady Governors have won six in a row and 10 of the last 11. The teams met three times last season with William Blount winning all of them by a combined four points.
William Blount's boys have won 30 of 39 meetings with Heritage since the 2001-02 season. Heritage won all five meetings during the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons, and William Blount have won five of six since then.
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Der Cinedom ist ein Multiplex-Kino in Köln, das im Dezember 1991 mit großer Medienpräsenz als erstes Gebäude des Mediaparks eröffnet wurde. Es bietet 3511 Sitzplätze in 14 Sälen, die jeweils mit bis zu 64 Lautsprechern ausgestattet sind, und ist damit das fünftgrößte deutsche Kino seiner Art.

Geschichte
Filmproduzent Bernd Eichinger hatte 1988 das Grundstück über die Projektgesellschaft Constantin Kino Cinedom GmbH erworben und war auch bei der Grundsteinlegung am 2. Dezember 1988 anwesend. Die Baukosten lagen bei
100 Millionen DM. Das Kino wurde am 20. Dezember 1991 übergeben.

In der Anfangszeit verfügte der Cinedom auch über einen eigenen Veranstaltungssaal mit dem Namen "Black Box". Dieser wurde später zu einem Kinosaal umgerüstet. Direkt unter der Blackbox gab es in der Anfangszeit noch ein Billard- und Snooker-Center, dass später in Gastronomie umgerüstet wurde.

Bedingt durch die Insolvenz des Hauptgesellschafters Kirch-Gruppe verkaufte im Mai 2006 deren Insolvenzverwalter den Anteil von 53,5 % am Stammkapital der Kinobetreibergesellschaft an den Mitgesellschafter Bernd Eichinger sowie den Cinedom-Geschäftsführer Thomas Peter Friedl, die damit alleinige Eigentümer wurden. Neben dem Anteil an der Betreibergesellschaft wurden auch die Anteile an der Immobilie verkauft.

Anfang 2012 schlossen die Cinedom Kinobetriebe GmbH eine Kooperation mit der Cinemaxx AG; seitdem übernimmt diese die Bereiche Filmeinkauf und Disposition und die Off-screen-Vermarktung, darunter auch die Bereitstellung des Reservierungssystems und -hotline.

Im Cinedom haben neben anderen Tom Cruise, Harrison Ford, Britney Spears, Angelina Jolie, Michael Douglas, Brad Pitt, Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Patrick Stewart und Jackie Chan ihre Filme auf Premieren vorgestellt.

Gebäude

Kernstück des mit Tuffsteinfassade versehenen Komplexes ist die sich zum zentralen Platz des Mediaparks öffnende, voll verglaste Rotunde, die in über 30 Meter Höhe von einer Kuppel überdeckt wird. Das 30 Meter hohe Gebäude hat an seiner Schauseite zum Platz hin eine große Glasfassade, die bei Nacht einen Einblick in das Innere des Cinedoms gewährt.

Die Bruttogeschossfläche beträgt 26.500 m². Der Komplex verfügt über drei Etagen mit jeweils einem Snack-Verkauf, Toiletten und den Kinosälen. Es gibt verschiedene Gastgewerbe im Cinedom, wie Filialen von Vapiano, Hans im Glück und eine Ben & Jerry's-Verkaufstheke.

Innenarchitektur

Die ursprüngliche Innenarchitektur von 1991 betonte das Thema Kino mit aufwendigen Maßnahmen. Die Kuppel griff das Thema romantischer Kinoabend auf. Hierzu war die Kuppel im Inneren in Glasfaseroptik mit 3200 Dioden der nördliche Sternenhimmel nachgezeichnet. Gleichzeitig öffnet sich durch zwei der zwölf Kuppelsegmente der Blick auf den Kölner Himmel. Gelegentlich bewegte sich auch eine animierte Sternschnuppe durch die komplette Kuppel.

Jeder Kinosaal-Eingang wurde mit einem großen Filmstar-Kinosaal-Wandplakat umrahmt. Die Fußböden waren im gesamten Gebäude mit Teppich belegt, welche die Farben des Filmstar-Kinossal-Wandplakates als Thema aufgriffen. Bei 14 großen Kinosälen mit entsprechenden Besucherbewegungen wurde sehr breite Wege geplant, die in der mittleren und obersten Etage zusätzlich ergänzt wurde mit einer Brücke zu jedem Kinosaal, so dass eine dem Blick weitende Innenhof-Atmosphäre entsteht. Die Brücken vor jedem Kinosaal gaben jedem großen Filmstar-Kinosaal-Wandplakat auch dem Betrachter nötigen Sichtabstand und durch dessen Beleuchtung wurde der Raumeindruck noch weitläufiger. Später wurden die 13. Filmstar-Kinosäle-Wandplakte ersetzt durch Ausschnittsvergrößerungen vom ursprünglichen Gesamtmotiv und in gedeckten Farben. Nur an der Blackbox hing noch das Gesamtmotiv mit den ursprünglichen Farben.

Der Kinoeingang im Innenhof betonte das Thema spontaner Kinoabend in dem über den zehn Kassen eine große durchgehende elektronische Tafel angebracht war, welcher die Anzeige der noch verfügbaren Plätze live anzeigt wurde.

Ab der zweiten Jahreshälfte 2018 fanden (bei laufendem Betrieb) umfangreiche Renovierungen und Änderungen der Innenarchitektur statt. Die bunte Optik wurde gewechselt in eine schwarze Decke und hellgrau für Wände, Säulen, Boden und Kuppel. Die Filmstar-Kinosaal-Wandplakate wurden mit Wandfarbe übermalt und werden seitdem mit einem animierten violett-weiß-Muster bespielt. Die Glas-Rolltreppen mit blauen Neonröhren wurden in Goldfarbe übermalt und sollen in warmen Goldtönen strahlen. Die Wand zur Blackbox erhielt Holz-Dekorationsleisten. Die Kassen zogen in dem Bereich hinter den Rolltreppen durch den vermehrten Verkauf der Eintrittskarten per Internet oder Terminals in Selbstbedienung. Die Anzeigetafel der aktuellen Kinofilme wurde abgebaut. Im freigewordene Platz im Kinoeingang Innenhofbereich zog Gastronomie ein. Der Sternenhimmel in der Kuppel war in Teilen nicht mehr funktionsfähig, eine Erneuerung unwirtschaftlich, so dass dieser ebenfalls durch eine hellgraue Decke mit animierten Muster ersetzt wurde. Im Oktober 2019 endete die millionenteure Umbauphase.

Technik
Die folgende Tabelle zeigt die technischen Daten der einzelnen Säle des Cinedom: Insgesamt acht Säle sind mit Dolby 3D ausgestattet.

Das Kino 4 wurde im Herbst 2015 als zweites deutsches Kino auf die Laserprojektion umgestellt: Barco DLP4k-60L. Des Weiteren wurde Dolby Atmos nachgerüstet.

Verkehrsanbindung
In der Umgebung befinden sich zwei Bahnhöfe, zum einen die KVB-Haltestelle Christophstraße/Mediapark und der Bahnhof Hansaring. Zudem befindet sich unter dem Kino unmittelbar in der Nähe des Eingangs eine Tiefgarage. Mit dem Auto ist das Gelände über das Kreuz Köln-Nord und die A 57 zu erreichen.

Weblinks

 cinedom.de – Offizielle Website des Cinedom

Einzelnachweise

Neustadt-Nord (Köln)
Kinogebäude in Köln

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Brian Setzer Explores Swinging Bluegrass on New Instrumental CD
With its forays into bluegrass and traditional jazz, Brian Setzer's new album Setzer Goes Instru-MENTAL! (out April 19 on Surfdog Records) has the guitar legend testing new waters and putting his signature Stray Cat stamp on a few instrumental favorites. Setzer didn't set out to create an all-instrumental affair but couldn't resist temptation when the music started heading in that direction.
"I didn't start writing an instrumental record, per se," says Setzer. "I wrote 7 songs with lyrics, and then all of a sudden I just took a turn and started fooling around with 'Blue Moon of Kentucky,' except without any vocals. I started playing melody chords and thought, 'Wow, this is pretty cool!' So the direction turned about halfway through my writing. I had never done an instrumental record, but I thought, well, now's the time."
Setzer wrote six originals and revitalizes five jazz-bluegrass classics – "Blue Moon of Kentucky," "Earl's Breakdown," "Cherokee," "Be-Bop-A-Lula," and "Lonesome Road." Recording each gave Setzer the chance to revisit old techniques and try new tricks, such as playing banjo on the Earl Scruggs' classic "Earl's Breakdown," or substituting jazz chords into traditional bluegrass on the Bluegrass Boys' "Blue Moon of Kentucky."
'Setzer Goes Instru-MENTAL!' Tracklist
(all songs written by Brian Setzer, unless otherwise noted)
1. "Blue Moon of Kentucky" (written by Bill Monroe)
2. "Cherokee" (written by Ray Noble)
3. "Be-Bop-A-Lula" (written by Tex Davis and Gene Vincent)
4. "Earl's Breakdown" (written by Earl Scruggs)
5. "Far Noir East"
6. "Intermission"
7. "Go-Go Godzilla"
8. "Lonesome Road" (written by Gene Austin, Nathaniel Shilkret)
9. "Hillbilly Jazz Meltdown"
10. "Hot Love"
11. "Pickpocket"
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Queen Latifah to perform at Mohegan Sun Arena
Published 12:00 am EDT, Thursday, July 11, 2019
Queen Latifah will perform at Mohegan Sun Arena on July 13.
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Singer-songwriter Queen Latifah has so many talents, when you hear she's appearing at a venue, you have to wonder what kind of show it will be.
After all, she's done everything from hosting her own television series to voicing the woolly mammoth, Ellie, in the animated children's film "Ice Age: Collision Course." She's an author and entrepreneur, too, as well as an acclaimed TV and film actress. (Not to mention she was the first hip-hop artist to be crowned with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.)
This award-winning entertainer will perform at Mohegan Sun Arena on Saturday, July 13. She'll have an eight- to 10-piece band with her and will sing and rap her hits, plus do some Broadway covers and American Songbook classics.
Mohegan Sun shared more about the New Jersey native on its website, pointing out she earned her first Grammy Award in 1994, for Best Solo Rap Performance. She was nominated for a Grammy for Best Female Rap Solo Performance for "Go Head," in 2004. The next year she switched gears and was nominated again, this time for Best Jazz Vocal Album for "The Dana Owens Album." In 2008 she was nominated for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for "Trav'lin Light."
Born Dana Elaine Owens, the Queen, 49, also earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Mama Morton in Miramax's "Chicago." She earned a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her role in the TV film drama, "Life Support," the true story of a crack-addicted mom who beats it to become a positive role model and AIDS activist. Additional film credits include "The Secret Life of Bees," "Hairspray," "The Last Holiday" and "Beauty Shop," among others.
The star's latest project, The Queen Collective, is a collaboration with Procter & Gamble and Tribeca Studios to create "a program that aims to accelerate gender and racial equality behind the camera," according to Forbes.com
Mohegan Sun Arena, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville. July 13, 8 p.m. Tickets: $45, $35, $25. 888-226-7711


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The Whip is a synth-pop band that was formed in Manchester, England in 2006 by Danny Saville and Bruce Carter. They make rock influenced dance music characterized by high energy dance beats, the use of guitars and synthesizers, and passionate vocals. The band quickly released a few singles including Frustration, Trash and Divebomb. The Whip quickly gained traction thanks to the inclusion of Trash on Kitsune Music's Kitsune Maison, Vol. 3, a yearly compilation of dance/rock music compiled by the well-regarded French dance and fashion label. Their debut X Marks Destination was released in 2008 on Southern Fried Records. Founding member Danny Saville quit the band following the release of their debut, while the remaining members released their follow up, Wired Together in 2011, also on Southern Fried Records.
The Whip continues the proud tradition of their Manchester, England home: bridging the divide between rock and dance and making sure the line between rock concert/club night is exhilaratingly blurry. With Mancunian dance rock fore-bearers like New Order, The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Doves and straight up electronic acts like The Chemical Brothers and 808 State, the Whip has got a lot to live up to. The young four-piece has some work to do before they can pencil their names in next to those guys, but their infectiously fun and energetic music have given them a healthy start.
Their recently released sophomore album Wired Together is inexhaustibly upbeat from start to finish, filled with banging drums, half sung/half shouted choruses and club pleasing synthesizers. "Secret Weapon" starts off strong with pounding kick drums and intense, bouncy synths. As any good dance-pop song should, things really kick into high gear in the chorus when an guitars, synths, driving bass line and vocalist Bruce Carter collude to create dance punk excitement. "Best Friend" is a classic moody synth-pop track, with its hypnotic verse and ear worm chorus. The New Order influence is really strong here, and well done. "Slow Down" is a pretty ballad that sees the band toning down the high energy a bit. Carter brings out one of his memorable vocal melodies over yearning organ and a steady dance rhythm pulse.
For the most part Wired Together isn't the deepest of music, but it's not trying to be an Artistic Statement. The band set out to create high energy, dance-floor filling pop songs, and that's just what they've done.


Surterra Wellness, a leading medical cannabis company, has announced a landmark global licensing deal to create a new medical marijuana brand, Coral Reefer. The new venture between Surterra and Coral Reefer will develop and market medical and therapeutic cannabis products, merchandise and a broad range of wellness lifestyle products under the Coral Reefer brand – the namesake of Jimmy Buffett's world-famous band.
Coral Reefer products will be distributed exclusively through Surterra's rapidly growing network of stores.
The Coral Reefer licensing agreement comes one month after William Wrigley Jr, the former chairman and CEO of the family-founded gum and confections company, joined the Georgia-based medical cannabis company as board chairman. Wychwood Asset Management, Wrigley's investment arm in West Palm Beach, Fla., recently led Surterra's $65 million series C equity fundraising round, bringing the total capital raised to more than $100 million since 2015.


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Kuchar not stressing as he attempts to close out Sony Open win
HONOLULU – There is nothing stress-free about PGA Tour golf. Even in victory, there are always moments when a player's ability to deal with pressure is tested. But that has not really been the case this week for Matt Kuchar.
Through three rounds at the Sony Open, Kuchar has hit 30 of 42 fairways, which some would consider a Herculean feat on Waialae Country Club's tight and turning fairways. Kuchar has hit 44 of 54 greens in regulation and he's had just three putts for par that were longer than 4 feet.
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"There are certainly enough doglegs left, which aren't my favorite. I hit a little bit of a fade. They're tough tee balls," said Kuchar, who leads Andrew Putnam by two strokes following a third-round 66. "There is kind of some indecision."
Indecision, perhaps. But has it been stressful?
"It's awful nice. It's not often," admits Kuchar, who is poised to win for the second time in his last three PGA Tour starts. "When you feel like you know what you're doing with your golf swing and the golf ball is reacting the way you want it to, it's a lot of fun."
Kuchar has played 54 holes with just one bogey, which came on the par-4 15th hole on Friday when his approach shot found a greenside bunker and he failed to convert a 20-footer for par.
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Volume 50, Number 1January/February 1999
Pioneer Photographer of the Holy Cities
Written by John De St. Jorre
Photographs courtesy of Farid Kioumgi / Egyptophilia
In late January 1861, as Americans were preparing for civil war, an Egyptian colonel in Cairo was boarding an east-bound train for Suez on a mission of a more peaceful kind. Muhammad Sadiq, an officer of the general staff and an engineer, had packed a large assortment of surveying instruments in his luggage, including a "hectometre," a wheel-like device for measuring distance. He had also carefully stowed away another relatively new invention: a large, unwieldy wet-plate camera.
Sadiq's destination was Arabia. His military mission was to explore the area between the Red Sea port of Wajh and the holy city of Madinah and report on the topography, climate, routes, and human settlements of the region. Photography, it seems, was not an official part of the plan, merely a hobby that the colonel had taken up and hoped to pursue on his travels. After a short stay in Suez, Sadiq took ship and reached Wajh two days later. Wajh was then a busy, medium-sized port on the Egyptian pilgrim route that ran southward from Aqaba along the Red Sea coast.
In an account of his travels published later in Cairo, Sadiq's observant, meticulous reporting style was immediately apparent. Nine kilometers (5½ mi) inland from Wajh, he reported, there was "a fort ... built amidst the mountains, which are composed of red sandstone. It is well-armed with guns, and is a proper store for the supplies of the pilgrims. ... The place is strewn with pebbles and stones, and is the point where three routes meet, the first leading to Suez and known as the al-'Ula Route, the second is called El-Sitar, and the third leads to the Holy City of Madinah." Sadiq went on to record the nature of the terrain around the fort, the district's water supply, the relations between the Ottoman governor and the Arabs, and the differences between the local camels and those of Egypt and Syria.
Sadiq and his small group then headed south, and they took 12 days—a leisurely pace for the time—to cover the 418 kilometers (259 mi) to Madinah, following the Wadi al-Hamd for much of the way. As they moved, Sadiq measured, mapped and recorded the barren, mountainous route, noting fortifications and areas where fresh water and provisions could be obtained. It was hard going. Temperatures exceeded 38 degrees Centigrade (100° F) during the day and plummeted to near freezing at night. But finally, the great walled city of Madinah, with its slender minarets rising against the surrounding hills, came into view. The party halted and the colonel, for the first time since he left Cairo, unpacked his precious camera.
The Hijaz, a scarred landscape of eroded hills, dry wadis and drifting sands comprising the coastal plain and mountains of northwest Arabia, had long been familiar to pilgrims from all over the Islamic world as the cradle of the holy cities of Makkah and Madinah. The Hijaz coast, particularly the ports of Jiddah and Yanbu', received visits from Western explorers, merchants and other travelers, but penetration of the hinterland was much rarer, especially for travelers with scientific or military purposes in mind.
Before the 19th century, the accounts of Westerners who had been to the holy cities could be counted on the fingers of one hand. (See Aramco World, November/ December 1974.) A Bolognese traveler, Ludovico di Varthema, accompanied Syrian pilgrims to Makkah and Madinah in 1503 and wrote informatively about his travels. During the 17th century, Johann Wild, an Austrian soldier taken prisoner by local tribes, and Joseph Pitts, a British sailor who was captured by Barbary pirates, spent some time in the two cities with their respective captors. Both eventually escaped and wrote books about their experiences. In the middle of the 18th century, Carsten Niebuhr, a Dane who, like Sadiq, was a military engineer, wrote about the discoveries his expedition made in Arabia, notably Yemen. The sole survivor of the group, he did not visit the holy cities but wrote about them and the Hajj from material he gathered during a visit to Jiddah.
In the early 1800's a Spaniard, Domingo Badia y Leblich, who called himself Aly Bey and who later turned out to be a spy working for the French, made the pilgrimage to Makkah and wrote extensively about his time in Arabia. He was followed a few years later by Giovanni Finati, an Italian soldier of fortune, who produced a sketchy account of his travels. Then came Ulrich Jaspar Seetzen, a German botanist and Arabist in the service of the czar of Russia; he was later murdered in Yemen.
The next Western visitor was the Swiss orientalist, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, who had already made his name as the discoverer of Petra. Burckhardt's conversion to Islam was as genuine as his predecessors' were suspect, and he spent three months in each of the holy cities. With the passion of the dedicated scholar, he described Makkah and, to a lesser extent, Madinah in encylopedic detail and documented the rites of the Hajj with unprecedented thoroughness and authority.
It was around this time that Egyptian interest in the region grew, provoked by the seizure of Makkah, Madinah and Jiddah by purist reformers from central Arabia. Muhammad Ali's first military intervention in the Hijaz in 1811 opened the door for Egyptian and Western explorers who were keen to record their experiences. The most famous of these was Richard Burton, who, disguised as an Afghan holy man, visited Makkah and Madinah for the first time in 1853. Building on Burckhardt's scholarly work, he later published his findings in a seminal three-volume travel book, A Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Makkah.
Burton returned to the Hijaz in 1877, 16 years after Muhammad Sadiq's first journey. He followed the northern section of the Egyptian officer's route along the Wadi al-Hamd toward Madinah, but not the southern part. Burton seemed totally unaware of Sadiq's achievements which, coincidentally, were published in Cairo a few months before he set out. Equally oblivious to Sadiq's pioneering exploration and photography was D.G. Hogarth when, almost 30 years later, the British scholar produced his monumental study, The Penetration of Arabia, without a single mention of the Egyptian officer.
In the late afternoon of February 12, 1861, as Muhammad Sadiq stood gazing at Madinah with his camera at his side, he seemed aware of the historic nature of the moment. He set to work immediately, measuring, drawing, interviewing and photographing. He took photographs of the Prophet's Mosque and its dome, and then went outside the city to capture a marvelous panoramic view of Madinah that also managed to include a section of neighboring Manakhah. This was achieved by taking two separate photographs and joining them in such a fashion that it looked as though the image had come from one plate. "No one before me," Sadiq noted factually in his diary, "has ever taken such photographs."
Sadiq then proceeded to measure and draw a detailed plan of the site, another "first" for the Egyptian colonel. Richard Burton had produced sketches in 1853 but they were very different from Sadiq's careful architectural-style drawings. Sadiq also described Madinah and its inhabitants. The Prophet's Mosque, he reported, was "overwhelming, ... decorated and lit with radiant lights." The people of Madinah were "a dark, almost black complexion," although some were "light-skinned, almost white." Being an Arab and a Muslim obviously helped Sadiq, and no one seems to have taken exception to his busy camera on this occasion, or indeed on any of his trips to the holy cities. The citizens, he noted, were "nice and civilized, and welcoming to traveling strangers."
After leaving Madinah, Sadiq and his party traveled westward to the Red Sea port of Yanbu', where they arrived a week later. Back in Cairo, Sadiq presented a report to his military superiors, but he did not publish anything until 1877, when his account appeared initially in The Egyptian Military Gazette and shortly afterward in a book called Summary of the Exploration of the Wajh-Madinah Hijaz Route and its Military Cadastral Map. The book contained the details of the journey, a long description of Madinah and the pilgrimage, four photographs, a map of the route, the plan of the Prophet's Mosque, and an illustration of the hectometre that he had used to measure distances on his travels.
Little is known of Muhammad Sadiq's background except that he was born in Cairo in 1832, educated there and at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, trained as an engineer and joined the Egyptian army. His interest in photography and the art's evolving techniques (see next page) may have begun during his time in France, or possibly later through the influence of Armenian photographers who established themselves in Cairo in the latter part of the 19th century. What is less speculative is his undoubted skill in framing, taking and developing photographic images, as his later career reveals.
Sadiq's reward for his Madinah journey was an assignment in 1880 to the convoy that took the Egyptian pilgrims to Makkah every year by the land route across Sinai and down the Red Sea coast. Sadiq's job was treasurer of the expedition, but once again he took his camera and photographic equipment along. On his arrival in Makkah, he photographed the Sacred Mosque, the Ka'ba as a multitude of pilgrims circled it, the al-Safa Gate, the tomb of the Prophet's parents in Ma'ala, and pilgrims camped at Mina and on the Plain of Arafat.
Sadiq also photographed Shaykh 'Umar al-Shaibi, the guardian of the key of the Ka'ba, and sent him the pictures. With the photographs he enclosed a poem which seemed to reflect the ambivalence that photographers sometimes feel about their art, and perhaps also to foreshadow the fate that many people would wish upon modern-day paparazzi.
My heart has captured your presence
In Ka'ba's grace and radiance,
Your parting burns my heart,
Yet aren't photographers destined to burn in fire?
Thee have I drawn on paper
In friendship and recollection.
Sadiq visited Madinah again and this time photographed Sharif Shawkat Pasha, the guardian of the Prophet's Mosque, surrounded by his eunuch assistants. He also took some more panoramic photographs of the city. On his return to Cairo he wrote up his material and published the photographs and his impressions in a second book.
Sadiq's reputation as a photographer, geographer and explorer was growing. Four years prior to this expedition, his earlier photographs of Madinah had been displayed in the Egyptian pavilion at the Philadelphia Exhibition of 1876. He had also been elected to the Khedival Geographic Society in Cairo, and had acquired the honorific "bey." And then, in 1881, came international recognition in the form of an invitation to show his work at the Third International Congress of Geographers in Venice. Sadiq prepared a portfolio of his pictures of the holy cities with a written commentary and was rewarded by winning a gold medal at the exhibition. His own photographic portrait may have been taken around this time. The picture that has survived shows a strong face adorned with a full and fashionably waxed mustache.
Three years later, Sadiq set out on another pilgrimage, again as the treasurer of the convoy escorting Egypt's pilgrims. This journey, Sadiq's last to the Hijaz, was marked by personal tragedy when his wife, who had come with him from Cairo, died in Makkah, on the women's side of the Sacred Mosque. Sadiq had a coffin made and arranged for the body to be buried in Madinah. The loss was exceedingly painful, for the couple had been married 34 years, and Sadiq was devoted to his wife. Finally back in Cairo, Sadiq began work on another illustrated book of his travels. When it was published, the passage describing the death of his beloved wife was bordered in heavy black ink.
Sadiq ended his military career as liwa (lieutenant general) and became president of the Khedival Geographic Society. He published a fourth book on the Hajj in 1896, The Guide to the Hajj for Its Universal Arriving Visitors, which summarized the findings of his three journeys and offered practical advice to pilgrims. By this time his honorific had expanded and he was known as Muhammad Sadiq Pasha—a contemporary photographic portrait shows him wearing the gold-embroidered frock coat reserved for men of that rank—and he was a respected figure in Cairo's intellectual circles. In 1902 he was appointed governor of El Arish in the Sinai but is believed to have spent only two months there before succumbing to sunstroke. He returned to Cairo and died later the same year at the age of 70.
Muhammad Sadiq is one of the forgotten pioneers, both of photography and of exploration in Arabia. His photographs of Makkah and Madinah were not only the first recorded of the holy cities themselves, but also the first pictures ever taken inside what is now Saudi Arabia. Sadiq combined his professional technical skills with a fine visual sense. He was also a serious and curious-minded scholar. It is interesting that a devout Muslim should have been the first person to produce photographic images of Islam's holy places. But at least there could be no doubt of Sadiq's motives, which were scholarly, religious and altruistic rather than mercenary or sensational.
There is perhaps no better epitaph for Sadiq than the phrase that D. G. Hogarth used about his illustrious predecessor, the Swiss explorer, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt. Praising Burck-hardt's descriptions of Jiddah and Makkah, Hogarth wrote that they were "the patient harvest of an observant, leisurely eye, for which nothing lacked interest."
Sadiq, of course, was able to go one better and produce photographic images of his own rich harvest, images that still convey something of the original clarity, technical skill, and sense of wonder that animated their author every time he released the shutter in the holy cities of Arabia well more than a century ago.
Rhode Island-based John de St. Jorre was the London Observer's Middle East correspondent in the early 1970's. He is the author of seven books, most recently Venus Bound (Random House, 1996).
The Colonel's Camera and Photography in His Time
When Colonel Muhammad Sadiq decided to take a camera with him on his first trip to Madinah in 1861, he had no alternative but to pack a large, cumbersome device known as a wet-plate collodion camera. Photography was barely 20 years old and the collodion method, which used a glass plate rather than paper as a support for the light-sensitive salts, had only been invented a decade earlier by Frederick Scott-Archer. Collodion was a light-sensitive emulsion composed of nitrocellulose and ether which, together with silver salts, was coated on a sheet of glass.
Glass negatives were more durable than the earlier paper negatives, produced clearer photographic images, and could be used to make a large number of prints using albumen-coated paper, on which Sadiq's photographs accompanying this article are printed. The disadvantage, apart from the camera's size, was that the collodion negative had to be sensitized immediately before use and exposed in the camera while still wet, otherwise it lost its sensitivity. The traveling photographer thus had to carry with him a portable darkroom, and this is what Sadiq was obliged to do on his first expedition in 1861.
The technology had improved by the time he returned to the Hijaz in 1880. Collodion plates could then be used dry, without any loss of sensitivity, although their over-sensitivity to blue light meant that the sea and the sky lost definition. In the late 1870's, a new method using a gelatin plate was invented. This meant that cameras became smaller and lighter and the photographer had less paraphernalia to carry with him. But it is not known whether Sadiq was able to take advantage of those advances.
Sadiq was meticulous in documenting his photographs. Descriptive titles were written in Arabic and he signed each plate "Sadie Bey," using the French spelling of his name, and also in Arabic. After his photographic exhibitions in Philadelphia in 1876 and Venice in 1881, he had a circular stamp made which read: "Sadic Bey, Colonel d'Etat-Major Egyptien. Photographe Diplomé a L'Exp. de Philie 1876 Medaille d'Or a L'Exp. de Venise 1881."
Sadiq's photographic achievements in the 19th century picked up a thread of Middle Eastern history spun some 900 years earlier when an Arab physicist, Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, wrote a treatise describing how an inverted image could be made on the wall of a darkened chamber—camera obscura in Latin—by using a small aperture whose size also governed the clarity of the image. Italian Renaissance architects used a device based on Ibn al-Haytham's idea to help them with their drawings. By the 19th century, the camera obscura was well established, and it was upon its principles that Jacques Daguerre and W. H. Fox-Talbot began experimenting with focus, control of the light entering the apparatus and, ultimately, the fixing of the images on paper.
This article appeared on pages 36-47 of the January/February 1999 print edition of Saudi Aramco World.
See Also: HAJJ, MADINAH, SAUDI ARABIA, MAKKAH, SAUDI ARABIA, PERSONALITIES, PHOTOGRAPHY, SADIQ, MUHAMMAD, COL., SAUDI ARABIA—DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL, SAUDI ARABIA—EXPLORATION
Check the Public Affairs Digital Image Archive for January/February 1999 images.


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Todd Boehly Makes Surprise Twitter Space Appearance
It has been a good few days for Chelsea.
Not only did they complete the loan signing of young talent Joao Felix, but they also acquired Arsenal target and highly rated young talent Mykhaylo Mudryk for almost 100 Million Euros.
This, to go with other signings like Benoît Badiashile, David Fofana and others.
Safe to say, new owner Todd Boehly has not been afraid to back his manager in the transfer market and made a hefty war chest available to him.
And Graham Potter has spent it in the hope of getting the London side up from the current 10th spot.
The Blues certainly took a step in the right direction this weekend, when they won the London derby against a feisty Crystal Palace side 1-0, thanks to Kai Havertz's 6th PL goal of the season.
What a pass from Hakim Ziyech for Kai Havertz goal!!!! pic.twitter.com/qymN8arp7k
Boehly's latest addition to the squad was in the stands, watching, as he has only signed a little over 24 hours ago.
Potter's side dominated the game but it could have easily gone the other way, with the Blues guilty of missing chances while also simultaneously being saved by Kepa a couple of times.
The fans and the owner though, would not care about that. Ultimately, this is a results-oriented business and a good result is what they got.
After the match, Chelsea supporters were in a post-match Twitter Space, discussing about the match and various other Chelsea-related topics.
And joining the fans was the club's co-owner Todd Boehly himself. Now that is something we do not see every day.
Sure, we want owners to interact with fans on a more regular basis but this was taking things to another level.
The American businessman was probably wanting to get in touch with the pulse of the fanbase, especially with such high-profile transfer dealings off late.
Chelsea owner Todd Boehly Joins Twitter Space and listens to fans vent about the club
Good to see an owner listening to the fans 👏 pic.twitter.com/FWvWZgiIvv
— FootballJOE (@FootballJOE) January 15, 2023
Todd Bohely is listening to Chelsea fans opinions. pic.twitter.com/uH17WKXn3u
— sam_c345 (@C345Sam) January 15, 2023
While the 49-year-old did not actively contribute to the discussion, there is some speculation as to why he joined the Space in the first place.
Was it a "Don't worry, I'm here" moment?
Boehly heard Abramovich chants, bagged Mudryk & Felix then joined a Twitter space and said "talk now" LOL
— Becs (@RebeccaLtd_) January 15, 2023
Or did he want some inspiration from fans as to who the next transfer target should be? Fans certainly did take this opportunity to do so.
Boehly is the funniest owner of all time. Just finished hijacking 2 deals and he's hopped on a twitter space to see who fans want next.
— Raf (@CFCRaf2) January 15, 2023
So Boehly was in Conn's Space yesterday and you guys didn't switch topic to Enzo Fernandez. 🤔
— Vince™ (@Blue_Footy) January 16, 2023
Unlikely. But hey, Boehly has been unconventional in his methods before. Him suggesting an All-Star game was only a few months ago after all.
It is doubtful if Mr Boehly would ever address this and why he joined the Space. But an owner taking some time out to listen to fans would certainly be appreciated by the Stanford Bridge faithful.
After years of the Roman Abramovich era, where the owner shied away from the spotlight and rarely interacted with the fans, Boehly and his antics are certainly a breath of fresh air.


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There are two key points that those involved need to focus on between now and then.
Informing and educating the UK so people understand the benefits, impact and drawbacks of voting for staying in or coming out of the EU.
Convincing those eligible to vote to actually cast their vote at the polling stations!
It is going to be a close call if a recent FT 'poll of polls' is a good indicator, showing 44% in favour of staying versus 42% preferring to leave. The recent visit by Barack Obama, the President of the USA, may well have influenced a number of voters and it certainly annoyed and frustrated the anti EU lobbyists.
What is clear is that there are many people with strong views and opinions on both sides of the debate as well as a significant number still to make up their minds.
There is a great deal of uncertainty about the impact and likely outcome if the UK choose to leave the EU. We would predict that there will be little immediate, noticeable change economically, and importantly, no change to the border controls initially. However, the speculation following a number of influential people backing the UK to leave campaign, such as Boris Johnson, led the UK £ versus the US $ to fall dramatically so a decision either way is likely to at least lead to a strengthening of the pound.
As property professionals we can try and predict how the private residential property rental sector could be affected:
Foreign buyers and landlords could potentially reduce investment in the Capital.
London has, for many years, been considered to be a safe and secure city for foreign investors. It is estimated that almost half of investors in central London property are foreign. We are currently in a period of uncertainty and this has led to a noticeable slowing of foreign investment in London during the last year.
The foreign investors who already own property are unlikely to sell and cash in their assets in the short term due to the recent down turn of foreign exchange rates. However, in the longer term in this scenario, London and the UK will become less attractive thereby negatively effecting future foreign investment potential.
We at Premier Property Search believe that the effect on foreign investment could be even greater once the result of the 23rd June vote is known. It could take more than two years to fully disentangle ourselves from the EU, during which the period of uncertainty will continue.
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If, however, it becomes necessary for people from all countries within the EU plus Switzerland to hold a visa in order to remain in the UK, the document checking process will become more burdensome and will need to be carried out again periodically where only a time-limited right to remain has been granted. This will mean that demand for rental properties, and therefore prices, will decrease.
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Ashanti Says She Hasn't Seen Nelly Since They Broke Up
Ashanti paid Andy Cohen a visit on Watch What Happens Live! alongside Eva Marcille, and they both participated in the post-show questions.
A fan asked the singer if Nelly ever repaid her and she cleared the air saying he never owed her anything in the first place. Of course, Andy had to reach to get some tea about the status of their relationship. Cohen asked if they're "good now" or "cordial" to which she openly said, "honestly hasn't seen him since we broke up. Which is crazy." Andy quips, "well let's bring him out, everybody! just kidding." Marcille and Ashanti start cracking up laughing.
Elsewhere in the video below, Andy asked the "Foolish" singer about Irv Gotti's recent interview with Wendy Williams about their past relationship. She curved him so hard, he couldn't even say anything after this response. "I feel like… I have a single out called 'PrettyLittleThing' featuring Afro B, it's so hot. I'm on two tours this year, one in the U.S., one in the U.K, you know, movie coming out this Saturday, you know, I'm very excited."
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Tomb Raiding and Wreath Robbing / Rebeca Monzo
The scandal of thefts in cemeteries continues, despite all the
denunciations published inside and outside the island. Of course for
many years here there was a silent complicity by the official press, the
only one accredited in the country. But with the advent of technology
and the access, although greatly restricted, to the social networks,
this seems to have escaped the censors and now, from time to time, an
occasional critical comment appears in local newspapers on this thorny
No longer is it only the Colon Cemetery, perhaps the most looted simply
because it has the most works of art of household value, but also
Baptist, Chinese, and Jewish graveyards have recently been vandalized,
by practitioners of African cults, who use bones of the dead (preferably
unbaptized) as offerings for their "religious" practices, in the face of
the unpunished and easy access to them.
Another phenomenon that occurred since the appearance of the two
currencies — the current Cuban pesos (CUP), in which they pay you wages
and pensions, and the strong pesos (CUC), in which you are forced to pay
for almost everything — is the reappearance at burials of two types of
wreaths: the poor ones, with sparse flowers, unattractive and
mass-produced, with paper tape and letters in purple ink, offered for
CUP, and occasionally in limited supply, depending on time and death;
and the others, for "hard currency," well-made with beautiful imported
flowers, fabric ribbons for the dedication in gold letters, and in
unlimited supply. As a result of this another type of theft began: that
of wreaths.
It is sad to think about the people who have made a sacrifice offered to
their deceased friend or family member of one of these beautiful wreaths
acquired in hard currency which, just after the burial is concluded and
the accompanying mourners dispersed, then disappears "as if by magic"
and is offered, in CUC of course, by other unscrupulous mourners, or is
simply dismantled to sell its flowers, to people who already have
pre-established contacts to buy them.
This has led increasingly to seeing fewer floral offerings on the
graves. This type of desecration also may occur at some of the monuments
to heroes in the city, where foreign delegations deposit elegant
wreaths, as recently occurred at the monument to Eloy Alfaro on the
Avenue of the Presidents, between 15th and 17th in Vedado.
Until now, as far as I know, there is no effective measure for stopping
this miserable and criminal practice. Nor do I know of anything having
been returned to the owners, any of the sculptures or large bronze
crucifixes stolen over the past twenty years. My family's burial vault
was plundered; I submitted the complaint, supported with
before-and-after photos, over five years ago, yet the cemetery
authorities have not given me any response.
It is shameful that these activities continue to occur in the 21st
century, practices that seem better suited to the Middle Ages, and which
are perpetrated in the face of the apparent apathy of the authorities,
who have the obligation of ensuring the preservation of our historical
and cultural heritage.
Translated by: Tomás A.
Source: "Tomb Raiding and Wreath Robbing / Rebeca Monzo | Translating
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In the year 1974, the Chipko movement was started today. In this movement, women and men used to protect the trees by wrapping the tree.
Table of Content:
1. Introduction to Chipko Andolan
2. Story of Chipko Andolan (Movement)
3. Current Situation at the place where Chipko movement happened
A movement that started in Uttarakhand about 45 years ago, which was named Chipko movement. This movement was mainly dominated by by Chandi prasad Bhatt and Gaura Devi and India's famous Sunderlal Bahuguna led it further. To avoid cutting trees in this movement, people of the village used to cling to the tree, that is why this movement was named Chipko movement.
Old Memories of Chipko Andolan
The Chipko movement was started at a place called Gopeshwar in Chamoli district of the Uttrakhand state. The movement started in 1972 to stop the indiscriminate and illegal harvesting of forests. Women also played a significant role in this movement, and during this time many slogans became famous and became part of the movement.
To stop deforestation in this movement, the men and women of the village used to climb down the trees and the contractors were not allowed to cut trees. At that time the movement was under way, environment became an agenda in the politics even at the Center. Through this movement, the Central Government made the Forest Conservation Act.
Story of Chipko Andolan (Movement)
Under the leadership of Gaura Devi, women were stuck with trees to save the forest.
On March 26, 1974, the workers of the Simon Commission went to cut down trees in Rani village. With the collusion of administration, the Simon Commission received the permission to cut trees. The day the trees were to be cut, the administration called the villagers for compensation for land in Chamoli Tehsil.
At nine o'clock in the morning, the workers of the Simon Commission took the saws and axes to cut the trees, women started Heavy protest.
Under the leadership of Gaura Devi, women in the area protested against the contractors and the workers. Women said that this forest is our home. You can take our lives but we will not let them cut.
Even after the fall of the trees began, all the women stuck to the trees at the behest of Gaura Devi. Women said that before cutting trees, you'll have to cut off us.
Seeing the heavy protests of the women in the jungle, the workers had put axes and returned from the forest without cutting trees.
Under Forest Conservation Act the protection of forests and keep environment clean and green become the main agenda. It is said that due to the Chipko movement, then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi made a bill in the year 1980. This bill banned cutting forests of Himalayan regions for 15 years. The Chipko movement was spread not only in Uttarakhand but in the whole country and its effect was visible. People gets aware for the conservation of environment.
Current Situation at the place where Chipko movement happened
Even today, women of Rani village area of Gopeshwar area are always ahead for the maintenance and supervision of forests. Bali Devi, associated with the Chipko movement, told that when the people of Simon Commission used to come to cut the forest of the village, the women of the village used to meet in the night to save the forest.
Even today, women of Rani village area of Gopeshwar area are always ahead for the maintenance and supervision of forests.
Gaura Devi inspires women to save the forest. Today the villagers perform animal husbandry and agriculture from this forest. Women still consider the forest as part of their family. Area panchayat member Sangram Singh says that due to the jungle, the natural drinking water source is still alive in the area. The livelihood of the villagers is also dependent on this forest. Women in the area are still struggling to save the forest.
No basic amenities in the village
Chipko leader Gaura Devi passed away on July 4, 1991. Now the villagers are raising the demand for setting up an environmental research institute here. Around 35 families live in Rani village today. Due to lack of facilities, many families have migrated to Joshimath.
Demands for water, communication, education and health have been a major demnad from the administration, but the situation has become tense. There is only one high school in the name of education system in the village. To study Inter, the students reach the GIC Tapovan by walkway, 12 km away. Due to lack of health facilities in the area, villagers have to come to Joshimath 27 km away even for a small disease.
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In a major breakthrough, the Lahore crime investigation agency (CIA) police on Monday finally arrested Abid Malhi, the prime suspect in the Lahore-Sialkot Motorway gangrape case, from Manga Mandi, some 33km from here.
The incident had sparked countrywide outrage in which a mother of two was gang-raped off the motorway on Sept 9 in front of her children after her car ran out of fuel on way to Gujranwala late in the night.
The arrest came after the police, as a strategy, released Malhi's parents, brothers and wife, allowing them to use their old mobile phone SIMs to trap him.
Punjab Operations Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Sohail Sukhera while talking to Dawn confirmed Malhi's arrest, and said the police's strategy of releasing his family members proved successful when the suspect contacted his mother on phone.
He said the police's special teams that were on high alert, traced Malhi's call. He said the location of the caller was Faisalabad, where the suspect had been hiding.
The DIG said during the conversation, Malhi's mother told him that she along with other family members had been released by the police. At this, Malhi expressed his desire to meet her at Manga Mandi, Mr Sukhera said, adding the suspect reached the house of his mother as per their plan.
Mr Sukhera said as soon as Malhi entered the house, the police teams, which had already been deployed there, raided the premises and arrested the suspect without facing any resistance.
He said the other suspect, Shafqat, whose arrest by the counter terrorism department (CTD) was announced by Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar, had already been sent to prison on a 14-day judicial remand by an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Lahore.
Malhi's arrest was also confirmed by prime minister's special assistant Shahbaz Gill through a tweet. Mr Gill pledged the suspect would be punished according to law.
Sources said the suspects' DNA test had already been conducted thrice and the results had matched with the samples of the rape victim. However, they said, the test would be conducted again before further proceeding in the case.
According to police, Malhi had managed to escape when the personnel of the law enforcement agencies carried out intelligence based operations in Kasur, Sheikhupura and Nankana Sahib to arrest him.
According to the police reports, Abid Malhi and Shafqat Ali had planned to rob citizens near Krol Ghati jungle in the wee hours on Sept 9, where they spotted a woman sitting in a car parked on motorway along with her children.
She had parked the car on the motorway at 1:30 after it ran out of fuel on her way to Gujranwala from Lahore and contacted a relative (in Gujranwala), besides calling on police helpline. The motorway police refused to help her taking an excuse that the area didn't fall in their jurisdiction, leaving the woman helpless on the road.
Meanwhile, both the criminals approached the vehicle, smashed its windowpanes and then dragged the woman and her children down to the jungle where they gang-raped her at gunpoint.
Later, Dolphin Squad personnel reached the spot on being informed by a passerby about a car parked along the motorway with its windowpanes smashed.
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Later, the reports said, the DNA samples collected from the survivor were sent to the Punjab Forensic Science Agency lab that confirmed the involvement of the two hardened criminals — Shafqat Ali and Abid Malhi in the gang rape.
An FIR of the incident was lodged with the Gujjarpura police under various sections of the Pakistan Penal Code and the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA).
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Before Liz Carroll and John Doyle, Irish music in America struggled to compete with the music of the Old World. With a new generation of creative powerhouses living in the United States, however, the tables have turned, and with John and Liz at the forefront, the US has become a place for vibrant, forward-thinking Irish music.
Both fiddler Carroll and guitarist Doyle began their careers young, recognized as instrumental virtuosos. Carroll won the Senior All-Ireland Championship at age 18, not a small feat for an American. While Carroll traveled eastward across the Atlantic, Doyle moved westward, relocating from his family home in Dublin to New York. Introduced to Irish music by his grandfather Tommy, Doyle was playing professionally by age 16, and soon joined an energetic collection of New-York based Irish musicians, including Eileen Ivers and Seamus Egan.
Websites: www.lizcarroll.com, www.johndoylemusic.com
Irish musicians learn traditional jigs and reels by playing them in 'sessions'. These jam-like gatherings, at parties and in pubs, have their own very particular etiquette. For instance, apprentice bodhran drummers generally aren't welcome because loud rhythmic lapses screw things up for everyone else � the legendary piper Seamus Ennis' once quipped that the best way to play the frame-drum is "with a knife". Another unspoken rule is that you don't introduce your original tunes into the session, as no one else can play along.
So for years Liz Carroll's prodigious talent as a writer of new traditional tunes went largely unknown. The Chicago-born fiddler has forged compositions in the Irish mould since her early childhood, but only her family got to hear them. She certainly didn't play any when, in 1974 and '75, she won the coveted all-Ireland title at both junior and senior levels � only the second Irish-American fiddler to do so.
"I've always written because I love to, and because there never seemed to be enough tunes around and I wanted to create little challenges for my fingers and my ears," says Carroll, on the line from her Windy City home. "The first person in Chicago I could really show them to was Jimmy Keane, the piano-accordion player. I could say 'Hey, I made this up' and he'd play it. The tricky thing about Irish sessions is that everybody wants to play. That's the reason I learned every damn tune I could hear. You didn't want to be left out."
So these days Carroll is happy to be making albums and getting her original compositions in circulation. Tunes like the achingly soulful slip jig "For the Love of Music" , and the wild-swinging reel "The Potato On The Door" from 2002's Lake Effect are surely destined to become favourites at Irish sessions from Sydney to Sligo.
"When I was really young my tunes didn't sound like anything that would get played. Then they got nicer, and then they got complicated because it was all about getting around the instrument - more about difficulty than melody. Later on they're all about melody, and they don't have to be difficult."
In recent years Carroll has found the perfect musical partner for her spirited new Irish music in John Doyle, who for many years played with the band Solas. The Dublin-born guitarist is a brilliant accompanist, combining harmonic richness and dazzling agility and speed. He also co-arranges the tunes on In Play , Carroll and Doyle's first release as a duo, featuring 23 original tunes by Carroll.
"I have my own idea of what I want the chords to be. But when John starts playing and putting in his ideas the tune gets better � a lot better. Being fast also means he gets things fast. He really understands those gutsy kind of tunes that are about 'let's dig in here'. And if you do something new with a tune, if you change something, he'll pick up on it right away and throw it back at you with a laugh the next time it's played through."
— Tony Montague


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Privatisation Of Water Supply In Lagos State
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Move to privatize drinking water supply dropped
Govt Yields To Public Opposition, Not To Set Up CIAL-Model Co Unable to overcome public opposition, the state government has finally decided to drop the proposal to set up a CIALmodel Kerala Drinking Water Supply Company.
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Not Worth The Parchment?
Many A Slip To The Sip •	30 Number of Indian cities where private sector and MNCs have been roped in by civic bodies to manage the water supply. •	0 No project has so far delivered on lofty commitments;
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Water Pricing
Chaos in Kerala Assembly over drinking water privatization
Opposition legislators tried to disrupt the question hour in Kerala Assembly on Wednesday over the alleged move of the Government to privatise drinking water supply in the State through the CIAL-model
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Privatisation of drinking water supply opposed
GUWAHATI, May 22: Addressing a press meet in the city today, president of Guwahati Sanmilita Nagarik Adhikar Suraksha Mancha (GSNASM) Dr Hiren Gohain said that, Commissioner of Guwahati Municipal Corporation
Greens see bid to commodify water in State
Formation of Kerala Drinking Water Supply Company Ltd. On April 9, Ponnath Devarajan, city councillor for Marad, a communally sensitive fishing hamlet that faces water shortage, moved a resolution before the Kozhikode Corporation Council against a government order for forming Kerala Drinking Water Supply Company Ltd. He said the company, described by the Water Resources Department in its December 31, 2012, order as one modelled after Cochin International Airport Ltd., was a sheer effort to commodify water, a natural resource and public asset.
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