Looking to explain to the British public the "deep roots" of the July 7, 2005, terrorist attacks on London, Prime Minister Tony Blair pointed to the underlying causes of the violence including the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
Clearly, Israel is one of many international grievances cited in the Islamic world today, but the purported link between the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the rage of al-Qaeda and its supporters is patently groundless. Historically, al-Qaeda was not born in 1948, 1967, or 1973, in response to any of the Arab-Israeli wars. Rather, it was established in 1989, at the time of the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan.
Looking at the nationalities that make up the manpower of al-Qaeda, they mostly come from other conflict areas, from Kashmir, western China, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, Chechnya, Iraq, and Morocco.
Should the Quartet impose an Israeli-Palestinian settlement in 2005-06 that denied Israel its security safeguards against terrorism, Western powers might mistakenly think they have removed a major cause of militant Muslim rage, but at the same time they would be erecting the next safe haven for international terrorism. This is precisely the dilemma that the West will face if it forces Israel to prematurely open up international access to the Gaza Strip – after disengagement but before the Palestinian Authority dismantles the vast terrorist infrastructure in that area.
Just after President Bush's 2004 election victory, Blair offered congratulations and added that the allies now must pursue the war on terrorism by non-military means, as well, including an effort to revitalize the Middle East peace process, which Blair defined as "the single most pressing political challenge in our world today."2 This was said by a British prime minister, but could have been asserted by a half-dozen European leaders.
In other words, it wasn't Iran's pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, the fragile condition of the new Afghan government, or Pakistan's failure to dismantle its own terrorist militias, protected in the mountains of Northwest Frontier Province, that needed to be addressed urgently, but rather the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. On July 13, during prime minister's questions, Blair characterized Saudi Arabia – which, it is to be recalled, backed the Taliban and spread its own radical Wahhabist ideology to places like Iraq, the Indian subcontinent, and Southeast Asia – as a state seeking to recapture "moderate Islam." He did not address the fact that most of the 9/11 hijackers (15 out of 19), and indeed the clear majority of the foreign insurgents in Iraq, were Saudis. According to his reasoning, Israel and the Palestinian question are the central problem, but the fountainhead of al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia is not.
Blair somewhat corrected these impressions three days later, on July 16, when he specified, "what we are dealing with is an evil ideology."3 He spoke about its roots "in the madrasses of Pakistan" and the "extreme forms of Wahhabi doctrine in Saudi Arabia." This correction of his position made sense in retrospect when a month later it was revealed that two senior al-Qaeda operatives inside Saudi Arabia made money transfers and used coded text messages to communicate with suspected terrorists in Britain prior to the London bombings.4 But the Israel factor was still a major part of Blair's analysis of the motivation behind the new wave of Islamist terror.
In ticking off the political demands of al-Qaeda, Blair led with, "they demand the elimination of Israel," which he followed with, "the withdrawal of all westerners from Muslim countries."5 The other well-known parts of this militant agenda included the establishment of Taliban-like states in the Arab world "en route to one Caliphate of all Muslim nations." Blair rejected outright the notion that any of these demands was negotiable, but, nonetheless, Israel was the top item in his analysis.
Clearly, Israel is one of many international grievances cited in the Islamic world today. But the purported link between the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the rage of al-Qaeda and its supporters is patently groundless. Historically, al-Qaeda was not born in 1948, 1967, or 1973, in response to any of the Arab-Israeli wars. Rather, it was established in 1989, at the time of the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan. Its ideological fathers, like Abdullah Azzam and Osama bin Laden, saw their struggle in global terms: just as the armies of early Islam defeated Byzantium and Persia, the great powers of the seventh century, al-Qaeda had begun the long march to defeat the Soviet Union and then the United States and its allies. Israel was not a part of the calculus. As the prominent Middle East historian Bernard Lewis has pointed out, Israel at best appeared as a distant third in bin Laden's declared priorities. It may be argued that al-Qaeda declared war against the "Zionist-Crusader" alliance in 1996, but operationally, al-Qaeda focused its initial efforts against the "occupation of the land of the Two Holy Places" (i.e., Saudi Arabia) because it was "the greatest of all these aggressions." Israel barely existed on al-Qaeda's early radar screen.
Still, if progress was made in the Arab-Israeli peace process, wouldn't that at least remove one grievance from the table and reduce the hostility of Islamist militancy against the West? During the decade of the 1990s, when Israel actually did make unprecedented concessions in the peace process to Yasser Arafat's PLO, starting in 1993 with the Oslo Agreements, the fact of the matter is that al-Qaeda's rage against the West was simply unaffected. Israel and the PLO signed the Gaza-Jericho Agreement in 1994, the Interim Agreement over the West Bank in 1995, the Hebron Agreement in 1997, and the Wye Agreement in 1998, while the Barak government offered unprecedented concessions at Camp David and Taba in 2000 and early 2001. Yet al-Qaeda pursued Western targets in the very same period. After the first World Trade Center attack in 1993, U.S. citizens were bombed in Saudi Arabia in 1995, followed by the U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998, and the USS Cole in 2000. Blair's formula for ameliorating the rage of global terrorism through Israeli concessions was shown not to work – after more than ten years' experience. There was simply no correlation between the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and al-Qaeda's terror campaign against the West.
A Need to Atone for European Imperialism?
Then why do assertions like those of Tony Blair persist? Much of the British analysis of the root causes of terrorism assumes that al-Qaeda arose on the world stage because of something the West did to the Islamic world. In other words, al-Qaeda's actions were externally generated. As such, many observers assume that this terrorism was a defensive reaction to years of European imperialism and exploitation. For much of the British political class, whose fathers oversaw the dismantling of the British Empire, this reasoning makes sense. Now, according to this line of thought, all that European statesmen have to do is identify what exactly the West is still doing to the peoples of the Middle East and South Asia to enrage young Muslims, and then alter their nations' policies accordingly.
An American adherent to this school of thought, Michael Scheuer, a former CIA analyst, summarized this view in his bestseller Imperial Hubris: "It's not who we are but what we do." He mentions the dismantling of Muslim Indonesia and the creation of Christian East Timor. But he reserves his harshest criticism for U.S. support of Israel. His analysis became popularized in America through his appearances on CBS News' Sixty Minutes and in many high-profile lectures. Like some of his British counterparts, Scheuer believes that a change in U.S. policy toward the Middle East and other conflict zones is necessary to ameliorate the new wave of global Islamist terrorism.
The idea that democracy is anti-Islamic and must be destroyed also runs through the writings of Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, the religious mentor of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who leads today's al-Qaeda insurgency in Iraq.11 Al-Maqdasi spent years with master terrorist al-Zarqawi in a Jordanian prison. He wrote a book Democracy is a Religion, in which he argues that democracy is a form of heresy; as a result, Christians and Jews in the West are no longer protected peoples, according to his version of Islam, because they participate in the democratic process, which he says is a form of polytheism, with multiple sources of authority. For this reason, they are to be defined as combatants who may be killed. This provides the religious justification for erasing the difference between civilians and the military – a necessary prerequisite for Islamist terrorists. These sorts of anti-democratic ravings are common among al-Qaeda clerics and are used to set the stage for justifying the mass murder of today's infidels: the West and its allies.
Why Do Islamist Militants Target Shiite Muslims?
The source of the rage motivating Islamist militancy can also be seen in the selection of targets in the current wave of terrorist attacks. Since the rise of al-Qaeda, atrocities against Shiite Muslims have increased dramatically, ending the relative coexistence between these major Islamic communities over the last century. In central Afghanistan, thousands of Hazara Shiites were exterminated by the Taliban in the late 1990s. Others were offered the choice of accepting Sunni Islam or expulsion from Afghan territory.12 Today, Shiite mosques in Pakistan and in Iraq are regularly attacked by suicide bombers with scores killed each time. What do these attacks on the Shiites have to do with militant Muslim grievances against the West for "what it has done." No one would argue that a quick solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would somehow make Shiites in Najaf more secure from Zarqawi's forces. Indeed, for the supreme Shiite cleric in Iraq, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the al-Qaeda attacks against Shiites are very much motivated by "who they are"; he has even branded this terrorism as a "genocidal war."13 After all, it is a war against whole categories of people and not against particular policies.
It is important to recall that Osama bin Laden and his followers were the products of two Islamist movements that closely interacted in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan of the 1980s. The Wahhabi movement of Arabia re-invigorated the idea of the militant jihad (holy war), especially in order to eradicate any innovations in Islam that compromised the idea of pure monotheism. It seized on the Koranic verse: "slay the polytheists (mushrikin) wherever you find them," applying it more broadly than ever before to include other Muslims. Shiite veneration of the Prophet Muhammad's son-in-law, Ali, made them fitting objects for military attack, as seen in the Wahhabi slaughter of 5,000 Shiites in Kerbala in 1802, well before Zarqawi's campaign against the Shiite mosques in Iraq.
It was the Muslim Brotherhood, established in 1928, that sought to return Egypt to true Islamic rule after the leader of the Turkish republic, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, abolished the Ottoman caliphate four years earlier. The Brotherhood rejected the constitutional models of government that Egyptian political parties at the time were seeking to copy from the West. Their opponents were Egyptian nationalists seeking immediate independence and an end to British rule. Both the Wahhabis and the Muslim Brotherhood are regarded as salafi movements that aspire to restore a more pristine form of Islam taken from their pious ancestors (al-salaf) of the seventh century and stripped of the medieval innovations that were later added to Islam.
What is common to both the Wahhabis and the Muslim Brotherhood is that the growth of their fierce, anti-Western ideology was primarily internally driven. It grew out of an entirely domestic religious discourse. The spread of Wahhabism had nothing to do with Western encroachments on the Middle East, for it emerged from the Najd, the barren plateau of central Arabia where Europeans were rarely seen. The United States didn't even exist at the time, and in the mid-eighteenth century, the West's colonization of the Middle East had not even begun.
The Muslim Brotherhood, which was from the start anti-Western, nonetheless focused its energies on the question of Islamic governance. Because bin Laden himself was raised in a Saudi family that was very close to the Saudi establishment, their Yemeni roots notwithstanding, Wahhabi doctrines affected his upbringing. Once he came under the influence of his mentor, Abdullah Azzam, the former head of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood, the two militant movements together served as a wellspring for the growth of his ideas and those of his followers.
Saudi Arabia was a critical partner for the Muslim Brotherhood, for it controlled the Muslim holy sites and, even more importantly, had huge oil resources. Its universities, like the Islamic University of Medina, took in members of the Muslim Brotherhood and gave them jobs after they ran away from Nasserist Egypt. It set up huge foundations, like the Muslim World League, the World Assembly for Muslim Youth (WAMY), and al-Haramain, which in many cases employed members of the Muslim Brotherhood and spread Wahhabi Islam to every corner of the Islamic world, as well as to the heart of Europe. The U.S. Treasury Department, on June 2, 2004, called al-Haramain "one of the principal Islamic NGOs providing support for al-Qaeda and promoting militant Islamic doctrines worldwide."15 Moderate Sufi mosques could not compete with seemingly endless Saudi resources. Thus, these Saudi foundations, which were headed by ministers of the Saudi government, became conduits for promoting the global jihad – whether through terrorist financing or by providing its ideological justification.
What would happen if President Bush adopted Blair's view of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle as a root cause of terrorism? Patrick Sookhdeo, who has analyzed the doctrines of radical Islamist groups for the British armed forces and earned the praise of senior British officers, has looked at the value of policies that yield to the terrorists' demands.23 He notes that BBC World Affairs editor John Simpson has suggested that "there is only one method of defeating political violence" and that includes "reducing the causes of discontent." Yet Sookhdeo utterly rejects the idea that peace could be bought if the West met the political demands of the current Islamist agenda and ceded "Palestine, Chechnya, Kashmir, south Thailand, and Mindanao in the Philippines" to the Islamic world, for these groups are engaged in "a struggle for dominance," not coexistence. In other words, appeasement is not only a morally flawed policy option, it also will not work. After the 2004 al-Qaeda attacks in Madrid, Spain withdrew its forces from Iraq and met the political demands that appeared on al-Qaeda websites. But given the recurring theme of liberating "Andalusia" that is voiced by militant Islamists, did Spain actually buy immunity from future al-Qaeda attacks? It could be inferred from Sookhdeo's analysis that Spain still remains vulnerable despite its policy change.
There is an additional important dimension of such an appeasement strategy. If al-Qaeda and its supporters were able to claim that they succeeded in getting the West to change its policies toward Israel, India, or any other country, they would be able to announce that their strategy of terrorism indeed works. The same would be the case if Britain were to withdraw from Iraq in the aftermath of suicide bombing attacks in London. These policy changes would also promote the illusion that the "root causes" of terrorism were at last being addressed and the West could let down its guard as a result. Rather than reducing terrorism, however, such a diplomatic strategy would reignite it and ultimately prove to be completely self-defeating.
There will be those who, nonetheless, argue that even if the persistence of an unresolved Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not the main reason for the existence of al-Qaeda, nonetheless, Palestinian grievances assist al-Qaeda in recruiting new members, so that an imposed political solution by the Quartet might still help the war on terrorism. But looking at the nationalities that make up the manpower of al-Qaeda, they mostly come from other conflict areas: Saudi Arabia, Kashmir, Uzbekistan, Chechnya, Bosnia, Pakistan, Iraq, Jordan, Indonesia, Morocco, western China (Uighurs), and the Philippines. Historically, even when the West went to war on behalf of threatened Muslim societies like in Kuwait, Bosnia, and Kosovo, those efforts did not reduce the growing momentum of the global jihadi movements in the 1990s. In any case, the most frequent messages utilized in al-Qaeda's recruiting films (and hence in their view the most persuasive images to convey) are the scenes of what they believe are their military successes: the bombing of Western targets in Iraq or the beheading of their prisoners.
Should the Quartet, nonetheless, impose an Israeli-Palestinian settlement in 2005-06 that denied Israel its security safeguards against terrorism, Western powers might mistakenly think that they had removed a major cause of militant Muslim rage, but at the same time they would be erecting the next safe haven for international terrorism. This is precisely the dilemma that the West will face if it forces Israel to prematurely open up international access to the Gaza Strip – after disengagement but before the Palestinian Authority dismantles the vast terrorist infrastructure in that area.
In Saudi Arabia, Bakri had established al-Muharijoun as a radical offshoot of Hizb ut-Tahrir and then brought the movement to London. Besides recruiting British volunteers for the global jihad, al-Muharijoun openly supported Osama bin Laden and launched a campaign to commemorate the 9/11 attacks by "the Magnificent 19" in Great Britain. Two Britons of Pakistani origin who had attended al-Muharijoun meetings flew to Israel in April 2003, where one of them committed a suicide bombing against "Mike's Place," a Tel Aviv nightclub near the U.S. Embassy.26 But within Britain itself, Bakri maintained a "covenant of security" that prohibited attacks against the British state as long as it hosted British Muslims peacefully.27 Bakri determined that this "covenant" had ended in January 2005, exposing Britain to new domestic terrorist attacks.
In short, the creation of a radical Islamist center in London over the past decade – what has been called "Londonistan" – has posed a threat not only to Israel, but to other Middle Eastern and South Asian countries as well. Now this radical presence has turned on its British hosts. Bakri is not shy about talking about his group's aims: "flying the Islamic flag over Downing Street."30 This is clearly a global threat and not a spin-off of the Arab-Israel conflict.
The true dimensions of the current challenge from radical Islamist militancy may seem daunting, but they are not beyond the capability of the West to meet. To do so requires first an understanding that this is a battle inside the Islamic world that expresses itself in attacks on Western targets. This battle has actually been fought before; the Ottoman Empire, which was headed by a sultan who was the caliph in all Sunni Islam, defeated the Wahhabis in 1818. Currently, these struggles are being waged inside Islamic societies. The West needs to deny one side the resources it needs, while providing military and diplomatic backing to the other side. It needs a coordinated, multi-national effort to disrupt terrorist financing. It also needs to get Saudi Arabia to stop its export of radical Islamist ideologies. Ultimately, the Islamic world must reform itself from within, a process that will take a great deal of time. The 9/11 Commission judged that this struggle may last a generation or more. Deflecting international attention away from the true nature of this conflict to the question of Israel and the Palestinians will only prolong the process of dealing with its true root cause.
4. Tony Harnden and Andrew Alderson, "UK Terrorists Got Cash from Saudi Arabia Before 7/7," Daily Telegraph, August 7, 2005.
6. James Bennet, "Arafat and Peres Agree to Meet Today in Gaza in First High-Level Talks Since July," New York Times, September 26, 2001.
8. Dean Godson, "Lessons from Northern Ireland for the Arab-Israel Conflict," Jerusalem Viewpoints, No. 523, October 1-15, 2004.
11. Jonathan D. Halevi, "Al-Qaeda's Intellectual Legacy: New Radical Islamic Thinking Justifying the Genocide of Infidels," Jerusalem Viewpoints, December 1, 2003.
12. Ahmad Rashid, Taliban: The Story of the Afghan Warlords (London: Pan Macmillan, 2001), p. 74.
13. Patrick Cockburn, "Iraq's Top Shia Cleric Warns of 'Genocidal War'," Independent, July 19, 2005.
18. The Insight Team, "Focus: Undercover in the Academy of Hatred," The Times, August 7, 2005.
19. Fouad Ajami, "Within the Gates," U.S. News and World Report, July 16, 2005.
20. Giles Kepel, Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002), p. 147.
23. Patrick Sookhdeo, Understanding Islamic Terrorism (Wiltshire: Isaac Publishing, 2004).
24. Ahmad Rashid, Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002), pp. 116-118.
25. Yotam Feldner, "Radical Islamist Profiles: Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad – London," MEMRI, October 24, 2001.
26. Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank, "The Dangers of Tolerance: Clerical Error," New Republic, August 8, 2005.
27. Daniel Pipes, "British Islamists Threatened Violence," FrontPage Magazine.com, July 8, 2005.
28. Richard Beeston and Michael Binyon, "Blair 'Repeatedly Failed to Tackle Radical Muslims in His Backyard'," The Times, August 10, 2005.


CSU says as Australia's largest regional university, they pride themselves on offering industry-aligned, internationally recognised qualifications.
Did you know there are more than 40 universities in Australia?
But only one has Australia's highest graduate employment rate and according to the The Good Universities Guide Australian University Ratings and Rankings 2017/2018, that is Charles Sturt University (CSU), based right here in Albury-Wodonga.
Each year, CSU award more than $3 million in student scholarships and grants to help ensure the future of their communities.
The university says it's also nice to know you can get the qualification and industry connections you need to succeed in your career without having to relocate to a capital city.
As an active part of the local community, CSU works with organisations to benefit the region. CSU recently partnered with Albury Wodonga Health in the development of Riverina Shore, a new virtual community.
"Our colleague at Albury Wodonga Health was key to the project," said Dr Caroline Robinson, Course Director with CSU's School of Community Health.
Many CSU graduates take the first step of their career journey with an organisation they completed work experience with during their degree. This was the case for Brittany Heity, a graduate of CSU's Bachelor of Medical Radiation Science.
All of the practical placements and classes strongly influenced my ability to move smoothly into the workforce. I had the opportunity to complete placements at various locations.


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First opened Sabai Sabai as a small, cosy, family-run Thai restaurant in Moseley 10 years ago. Proving a real hit with the locals they opened the Harborne restaurant, oozing a subtle eastern sophistication with carved wooden benches and low inviting lighting. Mastering contemporary chic and bringing a taste of Thailand to Birmingham.
One of the best Thai meals I've had.
I love it here, it's my favourite Thai restaurant. Service always attentive and staff happy to make recommendations based on your tastes - nothing was too much trouble.
We never really had a bad experience/meal every time we visited Sabai Sabai. But on this occasion we are slightly disappointed. Portion of food has gone small/less, one of the dishes we've ordered is supposed to be served on a sizzling plate but might as well serve on a regular place - quality of food still good just little things you do noticed especially if your a regular visitor.
We were a group of 4 guests and had an amazing time during our recent visit! Sabai Sabai is our favourite Thai restaurant as the food has never disappointed us! The manager Stephanos and the waiter who served us, were exceptionally accommodating and did a great job at looking after us. Can't wait to re-visit! Keep up the great job!
Great service and brilliant food as always.
Very good ingredients and even better flavours. Make yourself a favor and order Pad Kee Mao (drunken noodles).
Delicious food and good service. Me and my friends had a great time there!
First visit pre theatre meal. Excellent service food lovely .
Excellent food and service - very accommodating and polite!
This restaurant service and ambience was fantastic. They were excellent in providing gluten free food. I will definitely be returning to this resturant again.
Really good food. Would appreciate if the tables are bigger. Haha.
Everything was great at the restaurant, until towards the end when the staff brought out the bill without us asking which we felt was kind of rude. I know on the email it said we had to clear out by a certain time but it sort of ruined the experience.
Disappointed there was no beef salad on the menu despite this this food was very tasty and good portion size although I found the starters were more Cantonese than Thai.
Lovely cozy but chic restaurant in the city centre.


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Home India Bangalore Karnataka Elections 2018 – Is BJP losing the plot?
Karnataka Elections 2018 can be understood as the Semi-Final before the Parliamentary Elections of 2019. BJP is trying to regain the power of the Congress and they have projected their big BS Yeddyurappa as the Chief Ministerial candidate. It was not easy to regain Karnataka but Amit Shah and Narendra Modi did not leave any stone unturned to turn the table.
Siddaramaiah would have certainly felt the challenge a month before, but when the nominations are getting filled and we are weeks away from the election, BJP is dismantling.
Yes, BJP supporters recently attacked their own party offices, blamed the national leadership and violated all sort of party conducts. This is for the Varuna Constituency of Karnataka from where Yathindra, son of Siddaramaiah is contesting the election. BY Vijayendra, son of Yeddyurappa, was running the campaign and it was all set for Son v Son clash between the two heavyweight leaders. But Amit Shah has something else in mind. Vijayendra was denied the ticket from Varuna and someone else will contest from there now. Karnataka Party Chief announced the news and said a common man will fight from Varuna and not his son. Well, that sounds weird, isn't it? Everyone is the common man in India, but let's just keep aside the dynasty politics for a moment. The point is, BS Yeddyurappa does not really have any control over the Party policies. The party cadres believe that the national leadership is shunning the state leadership and that is making them angry. The anger is fuming and the trend is definitely going against the Saffron Party.
BJP has chosen Hindutva as the agenda in the Poll and Congress as the Kannadiga pride. Well, both are not core issues and political parties have once again shunned the need of the people of Karnataka and playing dividing politics. However, with the Karnataka Elections on the card, it looks that BJP is losing the plot very fast. Amit Shah needs to ensure the cadres that the State Leadership is valued, if not, we might see a different picture on the D Day.


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James Franco is a multi-talented actor, director, and writer who has made a name for himself in Hollywood. With a career spanning over two decades, he has proven time and again that he is one of the most versatile and dedicated performers in the industry. But what exactly makes him stand out from the rest? What accomplishments and experiences has he accumulated to make him a force to be reckoned with? First, let's take a look at his acting career. Franco has appeared in over 80 films, receiving critical acclaim for his performances in movies such as "127 Hours," "The Disaster Artist," and "The Deuce." He has also earned multiple awards and nominations for his work, including a Golden Globe nomination for his role in "James Dean." But Franco is not content with simply being an actor. He is also a talented director, having helmed multiple films, including "The Disaster Artist" and "The Sound and the Fury." He has also written and produced several projects, including the feature film "The Broken Tower" and the television series "Zeroville." Additionally, Franco has also made a mark in the art world. He has had several solo exhibitions of his artwork and has published several books, including "Palo Alto," a collection of short stories and "Acting with James Franco: A Guide for Actors." But what truly sets James Franco apart is his relentless dedication to his craft. He is constantly pushing himself to improve, experimenting with different mediums, and taking on challenging roles. He is an inspiration to aspiring actors and creatives everywhere. In conclusion, James Franco is a force to be reckoned with in the entertainment industry. His impressive acting resume, his directing and producing skills, and his artistic accomplishments make him a one-of-a-kind talent. Are you ready to witness his brilliance on the big screen?
Are you a fan of late night television? If so, you've likely heard of Jay Leno. But did you know just how impressive his resume is? First and foremost, Leno is best known as the host of "The Tonight Show" for over two decades. But his career in entertainment stretches much further back than that. Leno began performing stand-up comedy in the 1970s and quickly became a regular on the club circuit. He made numerous appearances on television, including on "The Tonight Show" as a guest and guest host. But Leno's talents extend beyond stand-up comedy and hosting. He is also a talented voice actor, having lent his voice to numerous animated series and films. In addition, he is an avid car enthusiast and even has his own show, "Jay Leno's Garage," which focuses on his love of all things automotive. But perhaps most impressive is Leno's dedication to philanthropy. He has used his platform and success to raise millions of dollars for charitable causes, including disaster relief and education. In short, Jay Leno is a multitalented performer and a generous humanitarian. He truly embodies the idea that hard work and dedication can lead to a successful and fulfilling career.

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We've been considering compassion these past few weeks, and in this passage from Matthew, we heard that Jesus had compassion for the people he was meeting as he went from town to town. That compassion arose in part out of his perception that they were "like sheep without a shepherd," as Matthew's author put it. Just reading it now, we get good general understanding of his meaning with that phrase, but in writing his gospel to an original audience who primarily grew up within Judaism, they would have known that this phrase that shows up multiple times in the Hebrew scriptures, particularly to condemn government and religious leaders who haven't led the people wisely or well; who haven't looked after the people's best interests, and leaving them to fend for themselves.
A lot of times when this passage is used as a preaching text, the sermon emphasis will be on Jesus' last line – "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few." The sermon becomes a call to action; to evangelize more, and to do more for others in the name of the gospel because the amount of suffering in the world is so great.
There's nothing wrong with taking the sermon in that direction; it's a perfectly logical message to draw out of Jesus' words. As we've thought about compassion, we've certainly emphasized the idea of being the face of Christ, and being more compassionate to others, both inside the church walls and especially beyond. But you know, after a while that can become a real burden, to be told over and over and over again that we need to do more and more for others. We know we're supposed to be self-giving and compassionate, but there's just so much need in the world, so much that needs to be done, and with few clear answers on exactly what should be done, and how, that in our efforts to be compassionate, it's very easy to feel like a ship without a rudder, like sheep without a shepherd. With all the need, we can start to feel like whatever we might do adds up to less than a drop in a bucket. And after a while, we can find ourselves slipping into "compassion fatigue;" that we're depleting ourselves as we keep trying to do more and more for others. And along with that compassion fatigue, we can start to feel resentful of the continual calls to do more, more, more – and then, when we don't – can't – live up to all that, feelings of guilt and shame can set in, and in the end, we don't feel like being very compassionate at all.
Imagine being a woman with a husband and three kids and a fulltime job outside the home, and you do all the cooking and cleaning and grocery shopping and laundry and all the other housework and get dry cleaning and get the kids to soccer practice and dance class and youth group and the dog to the vet and your mother to the doctor and make dinner and clean up after dinner and then help the kids with their homework and you give of yourself all day and all night long for the good of your family – so that by the time you flop into bed at night, you're exhausted, you're spent, and you realize you haven't had a moment of the day just for yourself, and you start to wonder if there's really any "you" left at all – only to get up the next morning, get all the kids out of bed, and ready to go, and get out the door to church… only to hear the preacher – and yes, it's usually a man – tell you for the umpteenth time that you need to stop being to selfish; you need to think less of yourself, and that you have to give even more of yourself for others. If that's your story, I just don't think that's the sermon you need to hear.
So today, I want to suggest that we hear this gospel text from a slightly different vantage point. A lot of times, when we hear a story from the Bible, we tend to picture it as if we're watching it on a movie or television screen, watching it all unfold in the third person. But this morning, Instead of considering Jesus' having compassion for some abstract group of other people "over there," picture this story in the middle of the action, as one of those people. Imagine this story, seeing it through the eyes of one of those people that Jesus is helping and healing and having compassion on. I'm suggesting today that it's important to recognize that we aren't always the distributor of Christ's compassion in the world, but we're the recipient of it, too. It's important to recognize that we're worthy of that love and compassion.
That can be hard for us to imagine or accept sometimes. Maybe there's something in our past, or our present – something that we did that was immoral, or even illegal. We hurt another person. We were unfaithful. We were dishonest. Whatever it was, or is, it's something that maybe we feel guilt or shame about, and it's keeping us from feeling that we're worthy of Christ's compassion.
I want us all to do something this morning. We did this at Montreat; I've done it before, too, and probably some of you have also. I want you to get comfortable in your seat, and close your eyes. Sit in the silence; feel the stillness. Now take a deep breath in, and hold it…. Now breath out. Again, breathe in, and as you do, imagine that God, and all goodness and peace and love are entering into you along with your breath, then hold it… and let it out, and as you let it out, imagine all that stuff that's a barrier between you and God, all that stuff that's causing the feelings of unworthiness, is leaving your body. So breathe in… hold it… breathe out…. [repeats]. Now imagine yourself in someplace that's special to you, someplace where you feel at peace, someplace that you have fond memories of…. And imagine that you're sitting at a table, or maybe on a blanket spread out for a picnic…. And imagine sitting across from you, the most special people in your life, the people you love the most…. And now, imagine loved ones that you cared for the most who have passed away; you're all there together… And now imagine in the center of them, looking at you, is Jesus… Now imagine that they're all looking deeply into your eyes, into your very heart, and they're smiling, they're beaming at you… and they're all telling you, assuring you through their eyes, that you are a beloved child of God. That you are loved; that when you were created, God called you very good. That you are worthy…. Embrace the compassion of this stillness; feel it throughout your body….Now, imagine yourself coming back out of this, breathe in… hold it… breathe out…. Breathe in, and as you do feel the warmth and beauty of knowing that you are worthy and loved by God. Hold it… … Breathe out. [repeat]. OK, open your eyes.
Remember that we are indeed called to be compassionate to others; it's an important, inseparable part of what it means to follow Jesus. But before we can offer Christ's compassion to others, we have to know it, and be assured of it, for ourselves. So remember the compassion you felt this morning in the stillness – and remember that if you ever start to feel overwhelmed with compassion fatigue, or you feel guilt or shame creeping in, if you feel unworthy again, you can go back to that place in the stillness, and feel that compassion again.


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Another Good Week for President Trump
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Dr. Malcolm Cross
President Trump has had a pretty good week. One wouldn't know it to read of the Democrats' ongoing impeachment efforts or of the bipartisan backlash against his decision to withdraw troops from Syria. But the Democrats' conduct of their impeachment probe, as well as the most recent Democratic presidential candidates' debate, may well backfire in their efforts to take the President down.
"I'm concerned that if we don't impeach this president he will get re-elected." So said Representative Al Green, Democrat from Texas, indicating that one of the reasons Democrats want to impeach President Trump is to weaken his popularity going into the 2020 election. They believe that even if they can't secure his removal by the Republican-dominated Senate, they can at least weaken him to the point where the Democratic nominee can triumph next November.
But how the Democrats are going about this may play into President Trump's hands. Speaker Pelosi recently announced there would be no formal vote on whether to conduct the Democrats' investigation. The investigation would continue to be held behind closed doors by various committees—especially the House Intelligence Committee—with Republicans being deprived of the right to subpoena their own witnesses or even attend the hearings, unless they themselves are also committee members. Indeed, a Republican congressman who was not a member of the Intelligence Committee was recently ejected from one of the committee's sessions. Whatever the legality of the Democrats' conduct, they're opening themselves up to GOP charges that they're conducting an unfair kangaroo court before which the President and his supporters have no rights. Expect President Trump to use this arrangement to successfully gin up his devoutly and apparently unshakably loyal supporters.
Actually, the very refusal of Speaker Pelosi to hold a formal vote on whether to conduct an impeachment-related investigation reflects a weakness of the Democrats which President Trump can exploit. Speaker Pelosi apparently remains concerned about the 30 or so Democrats elected in 2018 from districts President Trump carried in 2016. She may think, quite rationally, that if they vote for a formal impeachment inquiry they'll lose their 2020 re-election bids and let the House be reclaimed by the Republicans. On the other hand, if they vote against a formal impeachment inquiry, they'll thereby discredit the one already going on and possibly bring it to a halt. Avoiding a formal vote is probably the least-bad option for the Democrats, however much the absence of a vote plays into the President's hands.
Also helping to energize and unite the President's base—and possibly even expand it—is the ongoing leftward drift of the Democratic Party, especially as Elizabeth Warren surges into the lead and Joe Biden continues to fade. However enthusiastic the hardcore activists of the Democratic Party may be about their probable presidential nominee, her radicalism may well drive some centrist Democrats and independents into the Republican camp and increase the President's chances of winning both the electoral and the popular vote in 2020—especially if the economy continues to hold up.
Of course, the state of the economy remains the key to the outcome of both the impeachment effort and the 2020 election. As long as the economy does well, President Trump's popularity will remain high enough to discourage Republican senators from removing him should he be impeached, as well as to practically guarantee his reelection next fall. Of course, should the economy falter and the President's popularity takes a hit, then all bets are off.
Malcolm L. Cross has lived in Stephenville and taught politics and government at Tarleton since 1987. His political and civic activities include service on the Stephenville City Council (2000-2014) and on the Erath County Republican Executive Committee (1990 to the present). He was Mayor Pro Tem of Stephenville from 2008 to 2014. He is a member of St. Luke's Episcopal Church and the Stephenville Rotary Club, and does volunteer work for the Boy Scouts of America. Views expressed in this column are his and do not reflect those of The Flash as a whole.
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Randall Hamrick says:
Again up to your misleading articles.
You said this –"Actually, the very refusal of Speaker Pelosi to hold a formal vote on whether to conduct an impeachment-related investigation reflects a weakness of the Democrats which President Trump can exploit."– The fact is that no where does the Constitution tell her she has to, that Ms Pelosi.
It was a good week for the President you tell us and how often does he does the President lose in court 7 times? 7 losses in court is a good week for the President then I guess he has had some bad ones.
Have any thing you'd like to tell us about deserting our Kurdish allies? What about the Doral law breaking plans his man Mulvaney told us about in holding next years G-7 in Miami. What was so swell about. Directly breaking the law our founded fathers wrote in the constitution to not do. So many more but you write for your Fox Cable News followers I suppose.
And I just read where Trump got his habitual lying world with news like this:
"Trump administration admits to stealing as many as 1,250 migrant kids that we didn't know about"
U.S. border officials likely stole an additional 1,250 children from their families before the barbaric "zero tolerance" policy was officially implemented, Health and Human Services official Jonathan White said in court on Friday. "Steven Herzog—who heads the steering committee of law firms and nonprofits working to reunite separated families—confirmed most of the parents have been deported to Guatemala and Honduras," Courthouse News Service reports.
Perhaps you can help Mr. Horton of Tanglewood Pharmacy understand why Senator John Cornyn;s name wasn't own a bill that would have help Stephenville citizens.
And run you a survey around town talking with citizens and ask them how the economy is in their lives. Ask folks that live in the world where the rubber meets the road not the ones with white collars and ties.
Randall Hamrick…
Here comparing impeachment facts.
Nixon 599 days inquiry…
Clinton 260 days to inquiry
Trump 11 days to inquiry..give it time and by the way, I didn't like Putin messing with campaign information I got over the American airwaves last time.
Change channels you'll find out thins quicker and hey overnight's new news is thah Iraq won't let the Syrian troops turning their backs on the Kurd's stay in Iraq. First you Republicans under George W. Bush say we got to invade Iraq and Saddam Hussein when actually we were after Osama bin Laden but you Republicans decide we may as well lie and open war against Iraq and GET Rich… thats what Bush's brain said after entering Iraq was , 'now we'll all get rich". And now we got this other liar Trump in office.
Bush's brain was Karl Rove…
And here Impeachment timeline in words are as it was a horrendous week for millions of American's like retreating troops out of Syria…
Today marks exactly one month (four Tuesdays; 29 days) since Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry on Sept. 24.
Why it matters: It's remarkable how fast it has gotten off the ground, Axios managing editor David Nather writes.
Take a look at this graphic, and you can see how quickly the Ukraine phone call came out of nowhere to become the all-consuming impeachment topic — way faster than the impeachment inquiries into Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton.
It was more than a year and a half between the Watergate break-in (June 17, 1972) and the House vote to authorize the impeachment inquiry into Nixon (Feb. 6, 1974).
Nixon resigned about six months later, in the face of certain impeachment and near-certain conviction and removal by the Senate.
It took nearly nine months between the first Washington Post report of an affair between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky (Jan. 21, 1998) and the House vote that authorized his impeachment inquiry (Oct. 8, 1998.)
The inquiry ran 73 days (10 weeks) until Clinton was impeached on Dec. 19, 1998 — just over two months.
He was acquitted by the Senate about two months after that — on Feb. 12, 1999, following a trial that ran for five weeks (37 days).
Now look at the Trump timeline:
It was less than a month and a half ago — Sept. 13 — when House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff announced he had issued a subpoena to acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire for a whistleblower complaint that the Intelligence Community Inspector General "determined to be credible and a matter of 'urgent concern."
Pelosi announced the impeachment inquiry just 11 days later.
Did I hear one of you Republican's ask why are they held in privacy? Here is why and in short it is because of Republican Bill Barr a man that is not fit to be near Washington D.C. yet he runs the Justice Department.
Here is –Adam Schiff: An open letter to my Republican colleagues
By Adam B. Schiff
Feb. 21, 2019 at 5:06 p.m. CST
Adam B. Schiff, a Democrat, represents California's 28th Congressional District in the House and is chairman of the Intelligence Committee.
This is a moment of great peril for our democracy. Our country is deeply divided. Our national discourse has become coarse, indeed, poisonous. Disunity and dysfunction have paralyzed Congress.
And while our attention is focused inward, the world spins on, new authoritarian regimes are born, old rivals spread their pernicious ideologies, and the space for freedom-loving peoples begins to contract violently. At last week's Munich Security Conference, the prevailing sentiment among our closest allies is that the United States can no longer be counted on to champion liberal democracy or defend the world order we built.
For the past two years, we have examined Russia's interference in the 2016 election and its attempts to influence the 2018 midterms. Moscow's effort to undermine our democracy was spectacularly successful in inflaming racial, ethnic and other divides in our society and turning American against American.
But the attack on our democracy had its limits. Russian President Vladimir Putin could not lead us to distrust our own intelligence agencies or the FBI. He could not cause us to view our own free press as an enemy of the people. He could not undermine the independence of the Justice Department or denigrate judges. Only we could do that to ourselves. Although many forces have contributed to the decline in public confidence in our institutions, one force stands out as an accelerant, like gas on a fire. And try as some of us might to avoid invoking the arsonist's name, we must say it.
I speak, of course, of our president, Donald Trump.
The president has just declared a national emergency to subvert the will of Congress and appropriate billions of dollars for a border wall that Congress has explicitly refused to fund. Whether you support the border wall or oppose it, you should be deeply troubled by the president's intent to obtain it through a plainly unconstitutional abuse of power.
To my Republican colleagues: When the president attacked the independence of the Justice Department by intervening in a case in which he is implicated, you did not speak out. When he attacked the press as the enemy of the people, you again were silent. When he targeted the judiciary, labeling judges and decisions he didn't like as illegitimate, we heard not a word. And now he comes for Congress, the first branch of government, seeking to strip it of its greatest power, that of the purse.
Many of you have acknowledged your deep misgivings about the president in quiet conversations over the past two years. You have bemoaned his lack of decency, character and integrity. You have deplored his fundamental inability to tell the truth. But for reasons that are all too easy to comprehend, you have chosen to keep your misgivings and your rising alarm private.
That must end. The time for silent disagreement is over. You must speak out.
This will require courage. The president is popular among your base, which revels in his vindictive and personal attacks on members of his own party, even giants such as the late senator John McCain. Speaking up risks a primary challenge or accusations of disloyalty. But such acts of independence are the most profound demonstrations of loyalty to country.
Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III may soon conclude his investigation and report. Depending on what is in that report and what we find in our own investigations, our nation may face an even greater challenge. While I am alarmed at what we have already seen and found of the president's conduct and that of his campaign, I continue to reserve judgment about what consequences should flow from our eventual findings. I ask you to do the same.
If we cannot rise to the defense of our democracy now, in the face of a plainly unconstitutional aggrandizement of presidential power, what hope can we have that we will do so with the far greater decisions that could be yet to come?
Although these times pose unprecedented challenges, we have been through worse. The divisions during the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement were just as grave and far more deadly. The Depression and World War II were far more consequential. And nothing can compare to the searing experience of the Civil War.
If Abraham Lincoln, the father of the Republican Party, could be hopeful that our bonds of affection would be strained but not broken by a war that pitted brother against brother, surely America can come together once more. But as long as we must endure the present trial, history compels us to speak, and act, our conscience, Republicans and Democrats alike.
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When I'm not out on assignment, I love to get out and photograph anything from landscapes to city scenes. My camera is rarely not by my side, especially when traveling and below is a selection of my favourite images, hand picked from my adventures. You may also like to review some of my images in the "Personal Projects" section above; if you see an image you like there or anywhere on my site then you can always reach out and talk about availability.
All images are delivered as unframed prints printed professionally (I use a lab in the UK) on highest quality lustre paper which balances matt and gloss finishes perfectly. I print each image at the highest resolution possible (they have been scaled down here to protect them from theft) and I remove the watermark. Each order is suitably protected and packaged, local pick up (near Oxford, UK) is always welcome and includes a free coffee or cup of tea! If you are interested in framing, I can ship directly to your framer or I can also work with you on custom printing options.
I've been lucky to shoot a series of events for Blenheim Palace, which gives me the occasional opportunity to capture the Palace when the crowds have gone home. On this occasion, the setting sun on a beautiful sky created a wonderful golden glow. This picture is by far the most popular image on my Instagram feed, it's easy to see why.
UPDATE: I currently have this image on display at Hampers Food and Wine Company in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, UK in the 24"x16" print size, with a frame from Renaissance Framing, also based in Woodstock. For customers looking to purchase the print with the frame, as displayed, then a special offer is available, see pricing for details.
I think this is one of the iconic Blenheim Palace views and on the day I took this picture, the clouds were forming a seriously moody scene. I find this image to really capture the beauty of the bridge and lake, and it reminds me of a painting.
UPDATE: I currently have this image on display at Hampers Food and Wine Company in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, UK in the 15"x10" print size, with a frame from Renaissance Framing, also based in Woodstock. For customers looking to purchase the print with the frame, as displayed, then a special offer is available, see pricing for details.
I first noticed this composition in the summer, each morning the light would hit the chimney tops. When I captured the image without the snow, it was a good picture, but with the snow of the winter, combined with a beautiful pink of an early morning sunrise, it really adds an extra edge to the image.
Referring to the storm, not the lady! During the winter of 2018, a severe winter storm hit the UK and parts of Europe. Sending the temperature into the negative and hitting Woodstock and many other parts of the country with snow. I was walking around town when I saw a lady making her way home with her shopping, it really struck me and I captured this image.
This is one of Woodstock's most recognisable landmarks, captured from Market St. I like how the light is hitting the church nicely to bring out the Cotswold stone.
Woodstock retains a certain coziness, even on a cold winters night. I really enjoyed capturing several images at night but this one, featuring the town hall and Park St, was my favorite.
UPDATE: I currently have this image on display at Hampers Food and Wine Company in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, UK in the 15"x10" print size, with a frame from Renaissance Framing, also based in Woodstock. For customers looking to purchase the print with the frame, as displayed, then a special offer is available for online orders, see pricing for details.
I tried to capture a slightly different take on what I call the grand Blenheim vista, which is the view you see when entering from the Woodstock gate. Shooting with a long lens, I was able to zoom in and capture some magnificent detail in this late summer, early fall shot.
On a summer's day, the clouds in the background, combined with the swans and vegetation, create a really nice image of the Grand Bridge at Blenheim.
I love this image, captured while on vacation in Costa Rice. With the sun setting on a moody gray sky, the darkness of the beach contrasts nicely with the bright white of the rolling waves. I used a slightly long exposure to create the blur in the water as it retreats back along the beach, as well as capture the spray from the surf.
I shot this beach/sea-scape image while in Tulum, Mexico. With the sun late in the day, it lights up the enormous cloud perfectly, plus the ocean is so clear and blue.
This stormy day beach scene is from just outside of Santa Cruz, California. I was planning to do a yoga shoot that day but the weather pretty much wiped that out. Instead, I pointed the camera out to sea and captured these beautiful layered waves against a suitably moody sky.
At the northern tip of Barbados, the Caribbean Sea meets the great North Atlantic Ocean. With nothing to the east for literally thousands of miles, the coastline is subjected to some impressive forces, resulting in some huge waves.
Perched on a cliff, I set up my camera and took a long exposure image, finishing and moving away just seconds before a huge wave came in and while not in danger, I would have been completely soaked, along with all my camera equipment! Either way, I think this is one of the finest images I have captured, it was worth the effort.
I have an entire blog post on my site dedicated to shooting the Cascades at Blenheim Palace but this is my favourite of all the images. Using a long exposure to capture that wonderful sense of movement in the water, I waited for what felt like an age for the bridge to clear, so I could capture this scene uniterrupted.
This image was a tale of being in the right place at the right time. Standing in front of the Concorde hangar at Manchester airport, I happened to look up and see the reflection of the blue sky in the hanger windows and I was struck by the image of the mighty plane almost looking out longingly, remembering a time when it was up there changing the world.
Sure, this is an image captured likely millions of times but a long exposure, with a wonderful glow from a night scene, is my take on an iconic image. I really like how the trails from the buses on the bridge help to create a sense of movement in a scene that is typically always busy.
I spend quite a bit of time in London, it's a truly amazing city and I have a whole section of images on my site in the "Personal Projects" section. This image captures the long, long shadows of the setting sun in this interesting street scene.
When I first came across this scene, I took my time to get the tripod out, get everything level and do all the things a photographer does before they click the button to take an image. As I am looking at the image I captured, it felt nice, I was happy in fact but then a young waiter from the restaurant came out on a break and proceeded to sit down right in the bottom of my image - I could barely fire off the images fast enough as I think it adds a wonderful balance to this image. I really like how the powerful beams of light coming from the Shard are met by the waiter's complete disinterest in the scene, I think it highlights that we so often miss the beauty of things all around us or at the very least become completely spoiled by repeated exposure!
On a family holiday in the early days of 2017, I sneaked out during the kid's nap time, for literally 15 mins, and headed straight to the beach in Brighton. I was treated to a fantastic scene: with the light, sky and ambience combining to turn the ocean into a turquoise beauty and the moody sky and the pebble beach contrasted it beautifully. In 15 minutes it was gone and we didn't see a scene like it for the next 4 days we were there.
This image is a sunrise image captured during the summer of 2016. Waking up early one morning and looking out of the window, I saw this beautiful scene developing and quickly grabbed the camera, set myself up and was just quick enough. Within 10 minutes, the sun was up and the light and ambiance had changed and it wasn't even half as nice.
Broadway is one of my favourite towns in the Cotswolds and to come across this Morgan, one of my favourite classic sports cars was a real find. I was able to wait for a few minutes to find a gap in the crowds and the traffic to capture this relatively uniterrupted scene.
I spend quite a lot of time on trains since moving back to England, but it's worth it when I get to take pictures like this one. Arriving early in the morning for a train to London, the sun was beaming in through the station, filling it with beautiful golden light. I spent the train ride processing and editing the picture.
A moody, summer scene from Higher Carden in Cheshire. I love the multiple layers of detail in this image, hence the name!
Architecture is a big part of what I love to capture and this image is one of my favorites. The people in the bottom right add a nice sense of scale and the black and white composition enhances the lines and symmetry of the image.
I've found some great characters at train stations and these two gentlemen are prime examples. The station is Crewe in Cheshire.
My family has a house in Portpatrick, Scotland and I've spent so much time there it really feels like home. This image is looking out to Ireland and the stormy sky is backlit by a setting sun, creating a wonderful effect.
In August 2017, I took a road trip from San Jose to Las Vegas, traveling through Yosemite and onto Mammoth before passing through Death Valley. It's always a challenge to find a composition in a place like Yosemite that hasn't been captured millions of times over, perhaps this has too, but I really like how Half Dome is framed by the trees on each side, the fallen tree trunk at the bottom and the sky above. In this image, the sky is actually enhanced by a forest fire and rain clouds which, despite it not being near sunset, created a similar effect.
I spent five years living in Santa Cruz, California and I still miss the sun and the beach! I really like the different tones of gray in this image, shot during the winter time.
For me, the highlight of the Amalfi Coast, situated along the southern edge of Italy's Sorrentine Peninsula is Positano. The sweeping hills on which this seaside town is built, lead to steep, stacked buildings, centered around the main church. Sat having a glass of wine at the La Sirenuse hotel, I was able to set up my camera and capture a series of images, which I then blended together to create this intriguing sunset, night and dusk scene.
While on the Amalfi coast, situated in Italy's Sorrentine Peninsula, I took a public bus from Praiano to Positano. As the bus followed the route along the winding coastline, I was desperate to make it to Positano in time for the sunset however, I quickly realised that there was a just as nice image right in front of me. Waiting until the angle of the sun and the alignment of the coast was just right, I managed to capture this image. I love this picture, it makes me imagine how simple life could be, just driving a bus every day along this beautiful coastline must feel like a privilege.


Outsourced waste management and recycling services specialist Reconomy has announced the acquisition of Prismm Ltd, the latest in a series of acquisitions by the business.
Founded in 2000 and based in Kent, Prismm – which uses the brand 'Prismm Environmental' – provides consultancy, waste management and compliance services. It specialises in the output from UK factories and commercial premises of materials which it says are seen as 'difficult to recycle'.
The company said it aims to achieve zero to landfill for its clients, primarily in the printing and packaging industries.
This is the fourth business acquisition announced by Reconomy in just over 12 months, following that of Waste Check, Helistrat and Valpak in 2018 (see letsrecycle.com story).
As a result of its growth through acquisitions, Reconomy's revenue for the end of 2019 is forecast to exceed £260 million, the company said.
Reconomy says that Prismm's reputation for innovative thinking and "adopting new ways of working" aligns closely with its own strategy of prioritising tech-enablement for detailed waste data, faster turnaround of information and improved accuracy in service fulfilment to its customers.
Commenting on the acquisition, chief executive of Reconomy, Paul Cox, said: "We're delighted to announce the acquisition of Prismm, a company that shares Reconomy's focus on customer-centricity and working collaboratively to find innovative solutions to today's waste management challenges.
Mike's father, Adrian Jackson, who set up Prismm in 2000, has been the chair of the Recycling Association for a number of years although he is stepping down from the post, and Mike Jackson is also a board member. Clients of Prismm include De la Rue and Lush Cosmetics.
Based in Telford, Reconomy principally operates across four key sectors: commercial construction, housebuilding, infrastructure and business & industry.
Providing outsourced waste services for SMEs and blue-chip clients, the company handles over 100,000 waste movements every week and annually manages a reported 3 million tonnes of waste.


Michelle graduated from the University of Canberra in 1989 specialising in objects conservation.
Her career has spanned working in public Australian institutions such as the Western Australian Maritime Museum and Museum Victoria as well as following a life long interest in archaeology, working in Egypt, Thailand and Antarctica as an onsite conservator.
In 2009 she moved to Tasmania and established an objects conservation practice and in 2010 she began to manage the AICCM Secretariat. Michelle has held several positions within AICCM including Objects SIG Convenor as well as positions in various state committees.
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The Golden State of California is a land full of hope and promise boasting world famous attractions and hidden must-see gems.
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The Golden State of California is a land full of hope and promise boasting world famous attractions and hidden must-see gems. It's a place of natural beauty and vibrant energy like no other state in America attracting the young, creative and wealthy.
The Golden Gate Bridge in central California is the gateway into the fast moving city of San Francisco. Here you can visit Alcatraz and Silicon Valley before heading out to the rolling hillsides of the California Wine Country. World-renowned Napa Valley is an ideal place to stop and sample the fine wine and good food of this land, rich in agriculture and vineyards. Death Valley can also be found in this part of California and is the largest National Park in the U.S. covering an incredible 5000 square miles. It's somewhere you can explore extinct volcanic craters and the soaring sand dunes of the hot desert. Further adventure can also be enjoyed at Palm Springs where an aerial tram ride can take you on a journey high above the desert heat in search of cooler temperatures.
Southern California celebrates life to the full and it's hard to know where to begin and what to do first. Los Angeles is an outstanding city when it comes to art and culture, with an array of theme parks, architectural landmarks, museums, galleries and all the glitz and glamour of Sunset Boulevard. L.A. is also known for its famous beaches where the waves ride high and the surfers gather. And, high up in the Hollywood Hills sit the jaw-dropping mansions of many an A list celebrity and movie star. Running through the heart of Beverley Hills is Rodeo Drive, shopping mecca for the rich and famous and for many, a place to window shop and people watch at no cost at all.
Northern California and the High Sierra are a popular place for those seeking outdoor adventure. Here you can hike through the Redwoods and explore the Yosemite, Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks. It is a stunning area full of natural rugged beauty and breathtaking scenery. A little further north across the Nevada border peacefully sits Lake Tahoe in all its glory. This part of California is most loved for its world-famous ski-resorts offering deep white snow and clear blue skies as well as art and music festivals throughout the summer months. You can still pan for gold in the rivers of the Gold County, although white-water rafting and kayaking are more popular these days!
Cuisine is varied using only the freshest ingredients from California's land and sea and is the ideal place to sample surf and turf. You can choose from small low-cost diners to fine dining restaurants and there's always a great choice of local Californian wine to sample too.
For many, life in California is the iconic American dream. It's a place of great natural beauty, offering a diverse array of experiences and adventures. Whether it is surfing on a golden sun-drenched beach, skiing down a snow-covered mountain or driving along infamous Route 66, California won't fail to disappoint.
California's climate is quite often compared to that of the Mediterranean, due to its warm, dry summers, and mild, wet winters. On the coast, average yearly temperatures range between the low 40s°F (4.4°C) and in the high 70s°F (21.1°C) and 80s°F (26.7°C). Inland, summers are generally hot and dry, and at higher altitudes the weather is more typical of a four seasons, cycle with cold, snowy winters making this popular for skiers. San Francisco is famous for its fog, especially in the summer, whilst Los Angeles is known for its year round, consistently sunny, desert-like, coastal climate.
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Can't or Won't – An Introduction To Apathy.
By Megan Jackson Edited by Sam & Chiara Often, when a person hears the word apathy, an image comes to mind. A glassy-eyed teenager scrolling vacantly through their phone while their parent looks on in despair. While comical, it does not reflect what apathy really is clinically: a complex symptom that has important clinical significance….
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The Best Non-Sticker iMessage Apps
While stickers are great and all, there's a lot more that can be done through iMessage now besides sending stickers. Keep checking this list for some awesome apps that help you make the most of iMessage!
Square, Inc.
Square Cash is a slick and super simple free app that lets you send money fast.
OpenTable, Inc.
Discover, reserve, and manage restaurant reservations free and instantly—anytime, anywhere.
IMDb: Movies & TV Shows
The Internet Movie Database is the top movie reference website and it now has an exceptional app. It's a huge database of everyone and everything in Hollywood such as movies, TV, actors, and more. In addition, you get a serviceable tv listings app and a nice movie showtimes app as well. If you don't need to buy your tickets on your phone, you really don't need a separate movie listings app. Here you can watch trailers, read reviews, read the latest news from Hollywood, plus so much more.
Shazam: Music Discovery
Shazam Entertainment Ltd.
With Shazam, you can instantly find out what that catchy tune is.
Venmo lets you send money for free and transfer to your bank overnight.
Zappos: Shop shoes & clothes
Zappos IP, Inc.
Zappos offers shopping by brand, category, or search term. Mark your favorites, make your purchases, and manage your account with this simple app. Using iMessage, you can send great items to your pals.
ESPN: Live Sports & Scores
The ESPN app is the ultimate sports source. Get scores, watch live sporting events, catch the news, and never miss a big play. The app also offers Apple Watch and iMessage support.
JibJab: eCards, GIFs, & Videos
JibJab Catapult CA LLC
The JibJab app is the ultimate funny on your iOS device. Feature GIFS, eCards, and favorite music videos, you'll never know what you might uncover next.
Genius: Song Lyrics & More
Genius Media Group
With Genius, you can find lyrics and crowdsourced musical knowledge on over 1.7 million titles. You can also find what songs are hottest on the service.
Fandango Movie Tickets & Times
Fandango is a classic app that belongs on the devices of every movie buff. With a Fandango account, you're able to pre-purchase your movie tickets without having to go to the box office first. The movie showtime app allows users to browse showtimes by movie or theater, and you can make a wish list of movies that you don't want to miss out on. Notifications let you know when a movie starts playing so you aren't late, and there are exclusives and giveaways that are only in the app, so don't miss out.
iTranslate Translator
Easy to use app that offers both typing or speaking translation.
Citymapper: All Your Transport
Citymapper Limited
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YOOX NET-A-PORTER Group S.p.A.
YOOX – Fashion, Design and Art provides upscale products for men, women, children, and the home. Select a category or search by keyword, add items to your cart, and check out with the easy-to-use interface.
LookUp: English dictionary
Squircle Apps LLP
LookUp is a beautiful and fun to use dictionary and the perfect use of an iMessage app.
CARROT Weather
Grailr LLC
CARROT Weather is a crazy-powerful (and privacy-conscious) weather app that delivers hilariously twisted forecasts.
** 2021 Apple Design Award winner, App Store Editors' Choice award winner, and featured by The New York Times, Good Morning America, CNN, Wired, & more! **
Overflowing With Personality
Choose one of five personalities for CARROT, from the straitlaced "professional" to the profanity-laden "overkill." You'll actually be looking forward to a torrential downpour just to see what your weather robot has in store for you!
Accurate & Detailed
CARROT's super accurate weather data gives you lightning-quick access to your current, hourly, and daily forecasts. And the easy-to-read details screens are just dripping with with meteorological goodness.
Your personal information, including your location data, will never be sold to third parties.
More Than A Weather App
Follow clues to track down 90+ secret locations. Unlock 60+ achievements. Film your own TV-news-style weather report videos. Or use Augmented Reality Mode to bring CARROT right into your living room.
Join Premium Club to unlock:
- More weather data sources, including Dark Sky, AccuWeather, and Tomorrow.io
- Notifications, including precipitation, weather alerts, and lightning strikes (where available)
- Home Screen widgets
- Apple Watch complications and background updates
- Weather maps with 20+ data layers (where available)
- Customization of the entire user interface
- And so much more!
Don't make CARROT angry. Download her now!
CARROT Weather uses auto-renewing subscriptions.
Premium provides additional features like weather data sources, notifications, customization, widgets, and Apple Watch complications.
Premium Ultra includes all the features of Premium, plus rain, lightning, and storm cell notifications (where available), a weather maps widget, and quick data source switching.
Premium Family includes all the features of Premium Ultra, with the added benefit of being shareable with up to five family members via Apple's Family Sharing service.
Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase. The subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your App Store account settings after purchase. Cancellation of the current active subscription period is not allowed.
Terms of Use: http://support.meetcarrot.com/weather/terms.html
Privacy Policy: http://support.meetcarrot.com/weather/privacypolicy.html


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What is Easy Voice Recorder?
Easy Voice Recorder is a simple, yet high-quality audio recorder for Android.
It would be hard to make an easier to use audio recorder. Perhaps impossible without controlling it telepathically. The hardest part of using this app is the very first launch.
It has something not seen in many apps these days, an end user license agreement.
A brief look doesn't show anything too sinister, but why? It's an audio recorder, do we really need to sign an agreement?
Aside from that, it's incredibly easy to get started. There is a giant microphone, just tap it and start recording!
Easy Voice Recorder, despite its name, does have quite a few useful options. It includes its own built-in audio player and the app allows for external audio players as well.
Other settings include choosing from a limited selection of audio formats, .m4a, .wav, .3gp and the sample rate.
One of the coolest features is the ability to pause and resume recordings. Want to interview someone, but don't want to include all that silence that will invariably occur? This Android app is for you!
The biggest gripe is the difficulty in naming recordings. Yea, it's not that hard, but it's annoying. There are two options. After making a recording, click the pencil in the upper right corner, or go to the player tab, long press on the file to select it and then click the pencil in the upper right. Not terrible, just not simple.
Simple. That's all that's needed to describe this interface. There are"record" and "done" buttons on the bottom of the screen, a couple tabs on top and a giant microphone in the middle.
When recording, there is even a monitor to watch for clipping.
The player tab has the recordings in the main section and the traditional play/pause/previous/next buttons at the bottom and a seek bar.
The only obnoxious thing is the ads, which can be removed with a pro version that also unlocks other features.
Easy Voice Recorder is, as should be evident from its name, easy to use. There are a few settings that can be tweaked for sound quality, but not nearly enough for professional audio. It's clear that this app was designed for quick and dirty voice recording.
It should also be noted that the actual sound quality of the recordings could not be reliably tested on Android 4.4.4. Android tablets are notorious for having lousy microphones and Android 4.4.4 doesn't make it easy to use an external USB mic such as the Blue Yeti Pro. However, audio quality sounded fine when taking all of this into consideration.


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Q: Proving a subset is a vector subspace using Subspace criterion Given
$$V =\ {f :\mathbb R\to \mathbb R \mid f(x)=a+bx+cx^2\mbox{ where }a, b, c \in \mathbb R}$$
and
$$W = \{f :\mathbb R\to \mathbb R \mid f(x)=α+βx^2\mbox{ where }α, β \in \mathbb R\}$$
how do I show, using the Subspace criterion, that the subset $W \subseteq V$ is a vector subspace of $V$?

A: Well, let $f=a+bx^2$ and $g=c+dx^2$ be elements of $W$.
Then $f+g = (a+bx^2) + (c+dx^2) = (a+c) + (b+d)x^2$ lies in $W$.
Moreover, for each scalar $t$, we have that
$tf = t(a+bx^2) = (ta) + (tb)x^2$ lies in $W$ too.

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Sell-out attendance at ITS Australia's 2017 summit
First publishedon www.ITSInternational.com
Over 400 international and Australian ITS leaders attended 5th annual Australian Intelligent Transport Systems Summit with more than 50 Australian and international speakers at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre (27 – 28 September).
ITS Australia hosted three exclusive functions- the Thought Leadership Series – with government ministers and leading influencers in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. In addition, this year's ITS Summit theme 'Transforming Transport' focused on Connected and Automated Vehicles, Mobility as a Service (MaaS) and Big Data and Transport for Smart Cities in the event hosted by ITS Australia in partnership with the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads.
Susan Harris, ITS Australia chief executive, said: "Twelve months ago, Australia hosted the 23rd ITS World Congress, attended by more than 11,500 delegates from across the world. It was important that interest in the ITS industry didn't tail off after the Congress and we are pleased that our events this year have either been sold out or record attendance."
ITS Australia also announced it will be hosting the MaaS 2018 summit in Sydney as well as re-confirming its bid to host 17th ITS Asia Pacific Forum and Exhibition at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre 2020.
Department of Transport and Main Roads
www.TMR.qld.gov.au
ITS Australia
www.ITS-Australia.com.au
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Council of Bishops' Conferences of Europe (CCEE)
The Council of Bishops' Conferences of Europe (CCEE) is made up of thirty-nine members, of which thirty-three are
Bishops' Conferences, the Archbishops of Luxembourg, the Principality of Monaco, the Maronite Archbishop of Cyprus and the Bishops of Chişinău (Moldova) of the Mukachevo Eparchy and the Apostolic Administration of Estonia; all together they represent the Catholic Church in forty-five countries in the European continent.
The CCEE Presidency consists of a President and two Vice-Presidents elected for a renewable five-year term. The Secretariat is run by a General Secretary, appointed by the Plenary Assembly of the CCEE, for a renewable five-year term, aided by a Deputy Secretary-General appointed by the Presidency. The Secretariat is based in St. Gallen (Switzerland).
At the end of the Second Vatican Council, the Presidents of thirteen Bishops' Conferences in Europe decided to analise the possibility of collaboration among themselves.
After a series of meetings, the CCEE was officially established in March 1971 with the approval of the directive rules by the Congregation of Bishops. Those were subsequently amended and, in 1995, the current Statutes were approved; under the new Statutes, it was established that the members of CCEE were the Bishops' Conferences of Europe, represented by their respective Presidents. Moreover, the Statute contemplates the possibility of equating to the presidents of the Bishops' Conferences, the bishops representing the episcopate of the regions in which a Bishops' Conference has not been established (art.3, § 3), or of associating, in an appropriate manner, the bishops not belonging to any Bishop Conference (art. 3, § 4).
Throughout its history, the CCEE has organized numerous initiatives, including several Symposia and numerous meetings on topics of great pastoral importance for Europe.
The nature and objectives of the CCEE are defined by the Statute (art.1) approved by St. John Paul II on December 2, 1995: "The Council of Bishops' Conferences of Europe (CCEE) is an organism of communion among the Bishops' Conferences of Europe that has as its goal the promotion and custody of the good of the Church ".
Among the goals set by the CCEE, it is worth mentioning: the exercise of collegiality in the hierarchical communion cum et sub romano pontiff; the realisation of a closer communication and cooperation between the Bishops and the Bishops' Conferences of Europe, respecting the function and the specific skills of each one, to promote and inspire the new evangelisation in Europe; the promotion of communion with the Councils of the Bishops' Conferences of other continents; support for ecumenical collaboration in Europe for the unity of Christians and a living ecclesial witness in European society.
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Discretion apparently isn't in this couple's lexicon, as footage taken from a Ryanair flight from Manchester to Ibiza showed two lovebirds not even bothering to take the trip to the airplane bathroom to get it on. Apparently it was an hour into the flight when a woman climbed aboard her husband/boyfriend/complete stranger. That's when things took a turn for the hot and heavy.
But, besides on woman who asked to have her seat moved away from the couple, pretty much everyone on-board the plane thought the in-flight hook-up was actually pretty amusing.