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BUCKINGHAM Palace will be given extra security measures during tomorrow’s Changing of the Guard following the Berlin terror attack. A no-drive zone will be extended as soon as tomorrow to protect the thousands of spectators who flock to watch the event, as well as the military personnel involved. Metropolitan Police said a start date for a three-month trial period of measures had been brought forward to tomorrow in light of the attack in Berlin. A suspected terrorist is on the run after ploughing a HGV into a crowded Christmas market in the German capital, killing 12 people and injuring dozens more.
One of London’s most popular tourist attractions will be protected by strict road closures as police in the UK react to the attack in Berlin. Twelve people died after a lorry ploughed into a crowded Christmas market in the German capital on Monday night in what is assumed to be a terror attack. It came just hours after Russia’s ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov was shot dead at a photography exhibition in Ankara. On Tuesday evening, London’s Metropolitan Police announced that planned road closures for the Changing of the Guard outside Buckingham Palace would take place from Wednesday.
An intense manhunt was underway on Tuesday night for the perpetrator of the Berlin terror attack, as police warned he was still at large and could be armed and dangerous. Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isil) claimed responsibility for the attack in which a lorry ploughed through a crowded Christmas market in the heart of the city, leaving 12 dead and 49 wounded. The claim came less than two hours after the sole suspect in the case was released without charge as police admitted they had arrested the wrong man. A day that had begun with the killer believed to be in custody ended with the city on edge and heavily armed police patrolling the streets.
Many Christmas markets are closed in Germany today and police in the UK, France, Norway, Austria, Denmark, Italy, and other European nations are tightening security at festive events, with the terror threat at its highest level across much of the continent. At least 12 people died and dozens more were injured after a truck smashed its way through a Christmas market in Berlin, Germany, last night in a suspected terror attack. A similar attack in Nice, France, in July saw 86 killed. Since then, security experts warned that Christmas markets were easy, soft targets with added symbolic value for jihadists. Just weeks before the Berlin attack the U.S. government warned its citizens in Europe it had “credible information” Islamic State and al-Qaeda were planning to attack Christmas celebrations on the continent.
Within the hallowed grounds of one of the most famous Christian buildings in England, the traditional Christmas nativity scene should have been a place of peace and tranquillity. But yesterday crowds who gathered to appreciate the sacred scene at Canterbury Cathedral were confronted by the fearful sight of armed police bearing assault rifles patrolling the manger where the figure of Baby Jesus lay. The extraordinary image offers a chilling glimpse of Britain braced for a possible terrorist attack just days before Christmas in the wake of atrocities in Berlin and Turkey. Security was stepped up dramatically around the UK yesterday after a total of 12 people were killed and 58 injured when a truck was driven into crowds at a Christmas market in Berlin, hours after a Russian Ambassador was assassinated in Turkey on Monday night.
Theresa May has signalled some backing for a transitional period which allows business in the UK to adjust to Brexit. But the Prime Minister indicated that such an arrangement must not be used to delay Brexit or undertake further negotiations. Ms May told MPs on the Liaison Committee that she expects to complete withdrawal negotiations and set out future trading arrangements with the EU within two years after triggering Article 50. She also refused to explicitly commit at the hearing to giving Parliament a vote on the final Brexit deal that she negotiates. Asked about potential transition arrangements, she said: “When people talk about transition, often different people mean different things by transition. “There are some people who will talk about transition as a deliberate way of putting off actually leaving the European Union.
MPS AND peers will not be allowed to block Britain’s final Brexit deal, Theresa May signalled last night. In a forthright warning to Remain campaigners, the Prime Minister refused to guarantee a parliamentary vote on the EU departure terms, expected to be agreed with Brussels over the next two years. Instead, the Commons and Lords will get opportunities to “discuss” details of the exit arrangements but not vote on them, she indicated. Her warning was another massive blow to diehard opponents of Brexit still clutching at hopes of halting the departure process at the 11th-hour. But it also means that, while MEPs in the European Parliament will get a chance to veto the final deal, MPs at Westminster will not.
Voters will have to bring proof of their identity to polling stations for the first time next year as part of the government’s efforts to tackle electoral fraud. Pilot schemes in various areas of the country will require voters to show a driving licence, passport or utility bill before they can cast a vote. The plan, to be announced in the new year, follows a report by the former communities secretary Sir Eric Pickles. He claimed that “politically correct over-sensitivities about ethnicity and religion” had led to the state turning a blind eye to fraud in elections.
Voters will need ID to vote for the first time next year as part of a crackdown on electoral fraud. Downing Street has backed a report which warned that a culture of political correctness had led to the state turning a blind eye to abuses. In response to the inquiry by anti-corruption tsar Sir Eric Pickles, pilots will be set up in which voters will have to produce a document such as a driving licence, passport or utility bill to prove their identity. Sir Eric said it was ‘ridiculous that it is harder to take out a council library book than to pick up a council ballot paper’. The plans will be unveiled by the Cabinet Office early next year, Whitehall sources said.
From next year you will need to bring identification to the polling station in order to cast your vote, following the adoption of recommendations to crack down on electoral fraud. Traditionally, voters bring a polling card posted to their address, but a pilot scheme will be introduced next year in which a driving licence, passport or utility bill will also be required. Earlier this year, former cabinet minister Sir Eric Pickles produced a report into electoral fraud, following widespread corruption in Tower Hamlets, and concluded abuse of Britain’s electoral system was widespread. Sky News reported that many of the recommendations in Sir Eric’s report will be adopted, with an announcement coming in the next few days.
Voters will have to bring identification to polling stations for the first time next year, as part of a crackdown on electoral fraud. Sky News understands a series of pilots will be set up in which voters will have to produce a document such as a driving licence, passport or utility bill to prove their identity. Ministers have decided to adopt a series of recommendations contained in a hard-hitting report by former cabinet minister Sir Eric Pickles, who said he feared abuse of Britain’s electoral system was widespread. Sir Eric said this summer that it was time for ministers to consider voter ID rather than relying on trust, saying it was “ridiculous that it is harder to take out a council library book than to pick up a council ballot paper”. The Cabinet Office will announce in the coming days that it will adopt many of his 50 recommendations. Voter identification is slated to be the centrepiece of the announcement, according to sources.
BRUSSELS officials have dismissed calls to tighten up checks on how MEPs spend taxpayers’ cash because it would be “too expensive”. Eurocrats said they cannot afford to hire the extra pen pushers to make sure that parties in the European Parliament are following spending rules. The shock admission will heighten anger over the EU’s chronic waste at a time when European populations have endured almost a decade of public spending cuts and wage freezes. It came to light after Danish MEP Rina Ronja Kari lifted the lid on the stunning largesse enjoyed by Brussels representatives, revealing how she alone costs taxpayers £560,000 a year. On top of her £83,000 basic salary the MEP receives £79,000 in food and travel allowances, £226,000 to pay her office staff and an eye-watering £113,000 to “promote her work at the EU” to voters back home.
NICOLA STURGEON today presented her Brexit proposals for Scotland ahead of the UK’s divorce talks with the EU. In a 50-page document titled “Scotland’s Place in Europe”, the Scottish Government has proposed a “differentiated” Brexit arrangement from the rest of the UK. The First Minister has insisted this will “respect the voice and protect the interests of Scotland” after 62 per cent of Scots voted to Remain in the EU on June 23. But what exactly is in Ms Sturgeon’s plan? The Scottish Government has insisted the “best option” for Scotland and the UK is remain in the EU but notes the “UK Government’s current position is to take the UK out of the EU”.
NICOLA Sturgeon today insisted Scottish independence “must remain on the table” as she set out her demands for Scotland to defy Brexit. The First Minister claimed Scotland’s “best option” was to become “a full member of the EU as an independent country”. She called for the UK to stay in the single market and avoid a clean departure from the EU. The nationalist even blasted the government for being “intent on cutting immigration” despite the Prime Minister’s argument that there is a clear message from voters to tackle it. “There must be no Westminster power grab,” Ms Sturgeon warned as she outlined her paper on “Scotland’s Place in Europe”. “The proposals in this paper are detailed, serious and reasonable.
Four thousand soldiers are standing ready to drive rail replacement buses during Southern Rail strikes as the Government prepares to circumvent union disruption. Ministers have been lobbied by Tory MPs whose constituents have been worst affected by the strikes to deploy soldiers to help drive commuters to work. Conservatives believe the move would be similar to the “green goddess” fire engines that were used in the past when fire-fighters went on strike. Tens of thousands of commuters could also be offered free car parking to compensate them for the financial impact of disruption, The Telegraph understands. Currently commuters who drive to the station are forced to pay up to £13 a day to park even if their trains are delayed by hours because of strikes.
A strike set to cause misery for thousands of Christmas air passengers was called off last night, but rail commuters are being threatened with further walkouts in the new year. The RMT, one of the unions behind the cancellation of Southern Rail services, is threatening walkouts on London Underground early next year as a result of a dispute over job cuts. However, a proposed strike by baggage handlers and check-in staff at 18 airports across Britain was cancelled last night. The walkout was due to take place for 48 hours from Friday. About 1,500 members of the Unite union employed by Swissport were planning the action in protest at a pay offer of 4.65 per cent over three years.
A wave of strikes by thousands of workers, hitting the rail, post and airline industries in the run-up to Christmas, are taking place for the second day. A strike at Crown post offices closed about 50 High Street branches on Monday, while action by Southern Railway staff continues. A series of disputes have flared over issues including jobs, pay, pensions and safety involving some of the country’s biggest trade unions. British Airways have said it plans to run a full service on Christmas Day and Boxing Day despite the impending strike by cabin crews.
Conservative MPs have piled pressure on Downing Street to consider tougher action to end the strikes on Southern rail, with one politician tabling legislation that would change the rules governing industrial action. Chris Philp has submitted a private member’s bill that says strikes on critical national services, including rail, buses and the NHS, should have to be “proportionate and reasonable” in the view of a high court judge. The MP for Croydon South has argued that it is unfair for a dispute, which he describes as being about whether train conductors or drivers press a button that opens the doors, to have affected 300,000 commuters for a number of months. He has also suggested provisions that exist in Spain, Italy and Canada for services that means they will continue to operate at a 50% level during a dispute.
More than £185million from Britain’s controversial overseas aid budget was lavished on India last year, it can be revealed – as ministers hand over another £54million. The world’s fastest-growing economy has sent a mission to Mars, boasts more billionaires than Britain and hands out millions to needy nations itself. But latest figures show India was given a staggering £185.4million by the UK last year. Some £53.8million is set to be handed over this year, with at least a further £64.8million in the following two years. Despite promises to concentrate UK aid on the poorest nations, India received Britain’s ninth-biggest handout. It comes after it emerged the UK gave China, the world’s second-largest economy, more than £44.6million last year. The row over foreign aid has re-ignited amid calls for the money to be spent on our social care crisis.
A number of companies working on UK aid contracts have been told they have 30 days to provide details of their spending and tax status, and set out how they comply with conflict-of-interest regulations, in a move designed to appease increasingly vocal overseas aid critics. The demands in a letter from the international development secretary, Priti Patel, come after one of Britain’s biggest aid contractors orchestrated the sending of supportive statements to MPs scrutinising their work. However, Patel was accused of double standards at an appearance before the Commons international development committee on Monday when she ruled out subjecting CDC, the controversial private sector arm of the UK’s aid programme, to the same set of demands on transparency and issues around executive pay.
For palaeontologists, Lake Avernus is the broken heart of a 39,000-year-old supervolcano that left a crater eight-miles wide and may have helped to kill off the last of Europe’s Neanderthals. For Giovanni Chiodini and his colleagues it is something more troubling. They see signs that the long-dormant forces beneath it may be stirring once again 15 miles to the west of Naples. While the eyes of the world have been clapped on Vesuvius, 20 miles away on the other side of the Neapolitan sprawl, a caldera volcano known as the Phlegraean Fields could unleash a far more savage explosion.


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Bakaleke, a Muslim himself reassured the leaners that Islam doesn’t condone terrorism.
“Terrorists and other wrong doers are hiding inside Islam, but this religion does not promote such horrendous practices. I advise you not to associate with any individual with an idea of taking you into terror acts” remarked Bakaleke
He further asked the youngsters to focus more on education and preparations for their bright future.
‘Sacrifice your time only to reading books because it’s your today’s hard work that will determine your freer and happier tomorrow,” added Bakaleke
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To put it precisely, the Lone Nine Sword was not counted as a sword technique.
Different than other sword techniques, this sword technique itself was not created for attacking others. However, it was not precise to call it a defensive technique either.
It was because that the true form of the Lone Nine Sword was its formlessness.
What was the so-called saying of "To attack, but to not defend?" Regarding the attack, it would let one launch a surprise attack. However, it would allow one to predict enemy’s moves and use the offense as defense.
Thus, to have offense and no defense, in fact, it was to use offense as a form of defense. These two types of moves would alternate with each other.
Although Qin Wushuang did not hold the sword in his hand, he did have an image of the sword inwardly. Each day, he stimulated the sword intention inside his brain. Now, he could be said to have an excellent set of sword skills.
Only, he still needed a process to convert the sword intention from his mind into his hand. This process was not difficult but he needed to practice.
Qin Wushuang decided to use the opponent from this second round to practice this formidable sword technique.
This sword technique had no patterns. Although its’ name was the Lone Nine Sword, for sure, it was not similar to regular sword moves.
No one could find the antelope when they hung their horns. This saying referred to the stage of this sword technique.
It was rumored that in his former world, the senior who had created this technique was named Sword Devil Dugu Qiu Bai. The name meant that he was alone in his realm and only asked for defeat. One heard that when this person had achieved the highest stage of sword techniques, he had broken through the Upper Sky and became a celestial being with great power.
Thus, this set of sword technique did not appear as simple as the sword techniques from the secular world. When a Pre-Sky warrior used it, they would use the power from this sword technique and defeat the strong ones
Naturally, when an Upper Sky use it, it would become even more exquisite. They would be able to unleash all the power from the subtle sword intentions of this technique.
Suddenly, Qin Wushuang remembered something that the mysterious old man who had adopted had told him—There are no strong or weak techniques, but there are differences in stages.
Regardless of sword intentions or other techniques, since it would be passed down for thousand of years, it would have its own unique aspects of being the most elite and secretive technique.
If a Pre-Sky Realm warrior were to use it, they may only unleash ten or twenty percent of its power. However, at the hands of the Upper Sky warrior, they could unleash about thirty to fifty percent of its power.
It was similar to the use of the . Before Qin Wushuang had entered the Upper Sky, he always felt that the voided sword was the peak in the martial arts at the secular world.
However, when he reached the Upper Sky Realm, he only realized that the voided sword was only the beginning sword moves to the .
Just like this , a Pre-Sky warrior could perhaps only perform this move at about ten percent. However, at the hands of the Upper Sky warrior, the power may increase by ten times.
No strong or weak techniques, the only differences would be the stages.
The more Qin Wushuang thought about it, the more he felt it made sense. At his current stage, even if he were to use one of the weakest fist technique to fight against a Pre-Sky warrior at his peak stage, most likely the opponent would only face one result—Instant death despite using their best martial arts moves.
After all, the difference between an Upper Sky and the Pre-Sky was deadly.
An elite warrior would kill the enemy just by taking down a flower. To a lesser person, they would not win even if they were to have godlike weapons.
To put it bluntly, there would only be one word—Stage.
Yesterday, Qin Wushuang was absorbing the sword intention of the Lone Nine Sword at the secret chamber. Until the dusk, he had understood something new and walked out of the main Palace. Next, he went to that old plum forest and performed a set of sword techniques at a marvelous stage.
In that instant, the sword intention valve inside Qin Wushuang’s head had opened up completely. By his hand, he performed the Lone Nine Sword to a drift without any resting place. It was like a heavenly sword and demonic arrow in which his moves was unpredictable.
And now, those sword intentions had suddenly surged into his mind.
He walked up to the stage, his opponent had been waiting for him for a while.
With a treacherous face, this person glared at Qin Wushuang with a sneer. During all these times, he had also heard about Qin Wushuang’s name. He knew that he was the first place from the Advanced disciple exam and the one who had acquired perfect scores for all six categories.
However, he was not convinced. He felt that the disciples to the Palace Masters had enjoyed exceptional advantages. Initially, they had much better conditions and more benefits than disciples studying under the Shakyamuni.
Thus, today on the stage, he was determined to beat Qin Wushuang off the stage and to prove his strength!
"Junior Brother Qin, your name is like thunder piercing the ear. As to your exact strength, I would like to see." That person sneered.
Qin Wushuang nodded: "Ok, please tell me your name."
"My name is Xia Fei Hong, the person that will obstruct your momentum!" Apparently, this person was extremely confident. He had observed Qin Wushuang’s battle with that number Sixty-Eight. He felt that being a young teenager, Qin Wushuang did have good strength. However, it was only limited to good!
He was confident that with his fast sword attacks, he would catch Qin Wushuang unawares.
Since his name was Fei Hong, his sword technique followed the name to be as fast as graceful and as treacherous as possible. The speed of the sword technique would be fast as lightning.
"You are also a sword user?" Qin Wushuang asked with a smile.
Xia Feihong sneered: "Since you dare to carry a sword on your back even though u are someone that used the soft-whip, why shouldn’t I?"
Qin Wushuang smiled lightly: "Ok, since you are proud of your sword techniques, then let’s spar using our sword techniques. If I use the soft whip, it would be my loss, how about it?"
"No need. For a fight between elite warriors, we emphasize on fairness. Just use whatever you’ve got. I will do the same. Overall, we should use everything we got. So when you lost, but could not accept the fact, you won’t need to find excuses."
This Xia Fei Hong spoke with a voice full of confidence. It also seemed that he was intentionally belittling Qin Wushuang.
Of course, Qin Wushuang knew that this person wanted to provoke him. Immediately, he laughed: "If you think you could use a few words to provoke me, then you’ve made a mistake. In fact, regardless of using the sword, the soft whip or going barehanded, it would not be a problem to me. To any true elite warriors, even a branch in their hands could turn into a deadly weapon. There are no difference in weapons, but a big difference to the stages."
Qin Wushuang had learned and applied pragmatically the things he had understood at this place.
Initially, Xia Feihong planned to provoke Qin Wushuang on his young age. He wanted him to get angry and he would use his fast sword attacks to defeat him instantly.
Unexpected, despite being at such a young age, Qin Wushuang had seen things clearly and uncoveredeverything he wanted to do.
Next, he waved his right hand and the Violet Sun Sword arrived in his palm.
Qin Wushuang smiled and said: "This is the second time I am using this sword. Before, I had the sword but it acted as a decoration. And this time, I will use this sword and you to test my skills.
Hearing the disdain in his tone, Xia Feihong had become a little bit angry. He urged the Spiritual Qi into his palm and a narrow and thin blade emitted white light before Qin Wushuang.
He pointed at him: "Qin Wushuang, if you can block my eighty-one attacks, then you will not have disgraced your training!"
After he had finished, he twisted his body and merged with the sword into a wave of white light. Next, he rolled towards Qin Wushuang at a fast speed. Among all the sword techniques, this merging of the person and the sword was not rare.
Only, not many could merge to the extent of Xia Feihong’s level.
Qin Wushuang stared at Xia Feihong’s moves with his pair of sharp eyes. While carrying a smile on the corner of his mouth, he was being careful but not nervous. He knew that although this merging of the person and the sword may be terrifying, it was his speed that he must be cautious of.
For the sword technique itself, there weren’t much secrets within the moves. However, with the combination of this lightning fast speed, the power of the sword technique would rise as a tide.
With a light cry, suddenly, Qin Wushuang used the Violet Sun Sword and pierced towards that whirlpool of white light.
This stab was extremely sudden. It even appeared as reckless.
However, just this one attack had combined the in-depth meaning of the Lone Nine Sword. With this sword alone, not only had he caught the flaw within Xia Fei Hong’s sword intentions, he had also attacked at the place that he was powerless to defend.
Xia Feihong’s sword technique was named Tornado Falling Leaves. It relied on the tornado like speed and would use the momentum created from this speed to attack offensively.
With the old saying of how a person with handsome appearance would conceal all their flaws, he had used the speed to conceal all the loopholes within the sword intentions. Plus the white light he had emitted, it would also serve as a cover.
To a mediocre warrior, this move would become extremely useful.
However, in Qin Wushuang’s eyes, the flaws within this fast sword attacks had highlighted itself many times. Qin Wushuang had extensive combat experiences. Regardless of making a move at a later point or to launch a surprise attack, he had made enough consideration.
Regarding the speed, Qin Wushuang would not lose to this Xia Feihong. However, if he were to compete with him on speed, it would be a waste of Spiritual Qi. He would also have entered the rhythm that the opponent had set. Thus, Qin Wushuang was not willing to let the opponent grasp the upper hand of the battle rhythm.
Since Xia Feihong wanted to speed up the battle, he would slow it down and win against with unpredictable moves. He would not let Xia Feihong to enter the rhythm he wanted.
Indeed, this strategy had immediately got hold of Xia Feihong’s fatal points. It was like grabbing the seventh inch body part of the snake.
Since you were most proud of the speed, I would intentionally force you to be unable to unleash your speed before me. For this sword attack, Qin Wushuang had only struck after gaining the upperhand.
While he stabbed into the white bulb, his Spiritual Qi suddenly gushed forward from the tip of the sword. Again, he had merged three percent of the sword intention from the .
How could Xia Feihong not know about it? When he saw Qin wushuang’s sword stab, he knew that he had met with an elite warrior and someone extremely ferocious.
With one sword, it had hit his weak point and forced him to defend for himself. He would either withdraw his sword to defend, or get hit by the opponent.
He only had these two choices.
Sighing with sorrow, Xia Feihong swung his sword back.
The Spiritual Qi clashed through the weapons from the hands of these two. Xia Feihong only felt numbness in his arm as he was almost unable to hold on to the long sword in his hand.
On the contrary, it seemed that he had swung his sword against a ball of soft powerless cotton. However, the power that had emerged in a sudden in which the reactive force had almost shocked the sword away from his hand.
Inwardly, Xia Feihong was extremely surprised as he thought: "Good boy, such strong Spiritual Qi. Could he have started practicing Upper Sky Qi while he was in his mother’s womb?"
The sword attack that Qin Wushuang had used was just an ordinary move of "Breaking Sword". For this move, there was no particular trick to it. However, it could allow the user to predict the chances and catch the openings from the opponents. It would not only be able to break through the opponent’s sword attacks, it would force them to defend themselves. Indeed, it had a combination of both defense and offense characters!
Inwardly, Xia Feihong called out for bitterness. He had only made one sword move, and he could already feel the hardship.


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Colorado Gov. Hickenlooper's 'Independent Sheen' Has Faded
MELISSA BLOCK, HOST:
This week we're checking in on some close governor's races around the country, and today we'll hear from the purple state of Colorado. Polls show the Democratic incumbent, John Hickenlooper, essentially tied with his Republican challenger, Congressman Bob Beauprez. John Frank is covering the race for The Denver Post. Hi, John.
JOHN FRANK: Hi, how are you?
BLOCK: I'm good. And John Hickenlooper won the governor's seat there in Colorado four years ago by nearly 14 points. It was a three-way race. Why is he in trouble now?
FRANK: This is the first real test Hickenlooper has faced. That last race, he cruised to victory. And he became one of the most popular governors in the nation in between, and he was considered a possible vice presidential candidate. And now he's fighting for his political life. What made him attractive - that quirky, independent sheen - has faded as, you know, he's had to govern and dealt with a number of controversial issues.
BLOCK: What are some of those controversial issues?
FRANK: One of the major issues was guns from the 2013 legislative session. And this Democratic legislature really pushed him maybe further than he wanted to go to support universal background checks and magazine limits. You know, this of course all came in the wake of the Aurora theater shooting. And Hickenlooper actually stumbled on the campaign trail recently, telling the sheriffs that he screwed up on that legislation. So where he actually stood on it and why he signed it in the first place - you know, those all came back to haunt him here in the campaign.
BLOCK: Well, let's talk about one theme in ads that are running for the Republican Bob Beauprez, and that is public safety. There's one ad. It shows a nice house in the dark of night and there's text about criminals being released from prison and leisure time proposed for death-row murderers, and it ends this way.
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UNIDENTIFIED NARRATOR: With John Hickenlooper as governor, is your family safe?
BLOCK: John, who's being targeted with ads like this about family safety?
FRANK: Beauprez is going after particularly women in this case, trying to instill a little bit of fear in this race. A scary ad like this - that's generating a lot of controversy because it is so negative and broke his positive campaign pledge. But he's also getting a boost among men, we're seeing, in some early polling since this ad started running that are moving much more toward Beauprez.
BLOCK: Well, let's listen to an ad that's running on behalf of Governor Hickenlooper - and this one, clearly targeting women voters.
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UNIDENTIFIED NARRATOR #2: We can't give Bob Beauprez the power to be governor. Beauprez threatened to ban abortion, even in cases of rape and incest.
BLOCK: Now, John, we should mention there's also a constitutional amendment on the ballot in Colorado, the Personhood Initiative, which could play into this.
FRANK: Exactly. This is the third time they're trying to push personhood in Colorado, and Beauprez is actually against that ballot initiative. He says it goes too far. But Beauprez is a staunch conservative, particularly when it comes to abortion issues. He calls himself strongly pro-life. And his past statements on this are coming back to haunt him, though he's tried to take a more moderate approach in this campaign because women voters matter, and they'll probably decide the outcome of this election.
BLOCK: What other issues seem to be on voters' minds this year in Colorado?
FRANK: The death penalty is certainly an issue that's come up a good bit after Governor Hickenlooper granted an indefinite reprieve to a convicted murderer on death row. Now, the Republican candidate said he would lift that reprieve and execute Nathan Dunlap. And it's a larger issue that's really permeating the campaign and actually taking the oxygen out of Hickenlooper's broader message, which is the economy is thriving. Things are going well here in Colorado.
BLOCK: John Frank is political reporter with The Denver Post. John, thanks very much.
FRANK: It was my pleasure. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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State-run banks have written off nearly Rs 2.42 lakh crore worth of non-performing assets (NPAs), or bad loans, between April 2014 and September 2017, Minister of State of Finance Shiv Pratap Shukla told the Rajya Sabha in a written reply on Wednesday. Shukla said that recovery of dues is an ongoing activity under the legal mechanism, including the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets (SARFAESI) Act and debt recovery tribunals (DRTs). "Therefore, write offs do not benefit borrowers."
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everyone missed you and your work...and quite rightly.
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|We've all been waiting for your return, Sis. Very nice to see you posting.|
|Reviewed by Rose Rideout
|You are always missed Eileen, another wonderful write from the tips of your fingers.
Newfie Hugs, Rose
|Reviewed by Paul Berube
|Nice offering, Eileen.|
|Reviewed by Regis Auffray
|It is wonderful to read you once again, Eileen; and your poem is most engaging and meaningful. Thank you. Love and best wishes to you,
|Reviewed by Douglas Bentley
|I was just wondering about you and how you were feeling
And just like that - you post a poem! Glad you doing well enough to
post and review. I've missed you!
|Reviewed by Amber Moonstone
|An embrace is felt within each line. I feel we have waited so long for your return. Lovely poetry, ET
Hope all is well in your world,
Peace, love and light,
|Reviewed by jude forese
|after the waiting the calm sets in and wonder begins it recital ...
|Reviewed by Debby Rosenberg
|warm welcomes to you|
|Reviewed by TONY NERONE
|Dear Lady Eileen, It feels great to be able to read you again. Take care of yourself.
GOD BLESS YOU
|Reviewed by George Carroll
|I was concerned but happy to see you back again. Hope all those recent tests gave you new hope. God bless you. Poem is great.
|Reviewed by Ed Matlack
|Hey look who it is, our sister the witch of California...Mr. Ed has been wondering how you've been and Ma has been worrying about you too...glad to see you stopping by...Jersey|
|Reviewed by Sage Sweetwater
|Happy Thanksgiving Den Mother! We've missed you.
|Reviewed by Sheila Roy
|I'll be glad to see you posting again, Eileen. Nice poem! Hugs,

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Hit as many balls into the highlighted sections of the field as you can. Just landing a hit won't cut it. You need to have accuracy and precision in this ball game!
Crazy Canyon Golf
Try to hit the golf ball as far as you can! Watch out for the crazy obstacles! Some will help and some won't. Try to get the longest distance possible with your ball.
English Pub Pool
Play 8-Ball and Straight Pool tournaments against fast thinking CPU Players to become Rank #1. Plus play Challenges and Time Attacks to set new high scores and to win trophies. There are over 60 trophies to be won by winning matches, playing challenges, making big breaks and shooting special shots. It has a nice billiards physics engine allowing you to play spin for better ball control. Human vs Human matches against your mates at home are possible too - no network play yet... Finally, you can set your preferred 8-ball pool rules in the settings options - e.g. do you play 2-shots, or no 2-shots on the black, or place the white anywhere after fouls? All can be changed to your preferred settings.
Stranded on a desert island you must train up your animal of choice in an attempt to win the premier league and escape. Or alternatively, is a shark faster than a badger?
Top Spinner Cricket
Align your cricket bat just right to hit the balls thrown at you. Game over when the ball hits the stumps or the yellow-and-black zones.
Euro 2012 GS Soccer
Live the emotion to take part in Euro 2012 the biggest football tournament for European national teams. Select your favorite team and try to win the competition!
Supreme Extreme Snowboarding
Jump, Flip, and Spin while Bombing down a Diamond! The bigger the tricks, the higher your score, so get out there and Own that Mountain!
Play as the ragdoll goalkeeper and try to keep your goal clear. Throw the ragdoll goalkeeper around with your mouse. Click and drag a body part and let go to jump to the direction.

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The Beginning – Inspirational and beautiful track, indie-folk style with acoustic guitar picking, piano, warm string pad, glockenspiel and maracas shaker percussion. The track are positive, hopeful, simple, minimal, catchy and powerful moods.
Perfect for advertising (in 15 and 30sec version), background music for any production projects.
Have 5 versions :
1. The Beginning_full version (2:33) preview at 0:00
2. The Beginning_acoustic guitar only version (2:33) preview at 2:33
3. The Beginning_15sec version (0:20) preview at 5:07
4. The Beginning_30sec version (0:35) preview at 5:27
5. The Beginning_60sec version (1:04) preview at 6:02
This track has been collected in “Inspiring Acoustic Guitar Pack“ $35 ONLY!!!

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Catalent Micron Technologies
MULTI-PROCESSING SYSTEMS FOR SIZE MILLING AND CLASSIFICATION
When you’re dealing with narrow particle size requirements, pharmaceutical companies need to partner with a supplier who can offer the right equipment, as well as expertise and experience. At Catalent Micron Technologies, we’ve worked to develop micronization capabilities for the most challenging particle size requirements and pharmaceutical compounds, such as inhalation grade powders and active ingredients used in softgel capsule suspensions.
Micronize and Classify Pharmaceutical Compounds
Located in our Dartford, U.K., facility, our multi-processing classifier mill can provide unique solutions because of its ability to both micronize and classify a powder. It provides a much more narrow particle size distribution than traditional micronizing or milling techniques. This multi-processing system is often a perfect fit for inhalation grade powders or for any formulation where very fine or large particles must be minimized. This mill can be used for potent compounds and can be combined with Catalent’s customized containment system.
How Particle Size Classifiers Work
Traditional spiral jet micronizers rely on centrifugal forces to control the particle size. Our pharmaceutical multi-processor uses an integrated ultrafine classifier wheel, which ensures very accurate control when the particles exit the mill.
- Typical application area All pharmaceutical materials requiring narrow particle size distribution, including inhalation products, suspensions and modified release applications
- Typical size range d97 of 4μm, d50 approximately 2μm
- Batch size From 400g and up
- Micronize – d50 of 1μm to 30μm
- Mill – d50 of 10μm to 250μm
- Classify – Split a powder into two fractions
All the above functions will allow a narrow distribution of particle size, as an example, a d50 of 5μm may have a d10 of 1μm and a d90 of 7μm*

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FaTHER RHINE - OUR UNUSUAL FEATURE FOR FATHER'S DAY!
This week we'll devote our NEWSLETTER to fathers - but SPECIFICALLY TO Father Rhine!
Rhenus Pater - Father Rhine
The Rhine is probably one of the most famous rivers in Europe. With its over 1,200 km / 760 miles length, it is also one of the waterways with the most traffic worldwide. Rhenus, the river god, is best known as the namesake of the river Rhine. During the Rhine Romantic period from the end of the 18th century to late in the 19th this was an extremely popular motif for a broad range of works of art. The name Rhenus Pater probably dates back to the classical art period, but the Rhine River doesn’t only have an intriguing history, but also many wonderful places along its banks including the world heritage site of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley, also known as the Rhine Gorge. Enjoy our latest lightbox with pictures around the Rhine!
Father's Day is coming up
Would you also like to style your Father’s Day card or give your next project a brand-new and modern feel on the day? Then take a look at our latest lightbox on the subject of dad with great images, illustrations and videos.

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The NFL Players Coalition leaders Doug Baldwin, Anquan Boldin, Malcolm Jenkins and Benjamin Watson collaborated to pen a New York Times op-ed piece calling on the President of the United States to address the systematic racism that is symptomatic of a biased criminal justice system. Included therein was a list of people who they say had been unfairly treated by that system and therefore should be pardoned.
They’re also among several like-minded NFL players who posted videos to social media imploring Donald Trump to act by changing policies that have led to long sentences for nonviolent drug offenders.
The players, perhaps playing to Trump’s ginormous ego, credited the president for commuting the life sentence of 63-year-old Alice Marie Johnson, a nonviolent drug offender who had served more than 20 years in prison, at the urging of Kim Kardashian West.
“There are a lot of people out there like Ms. Johnson that should be pardoned that don’t know a celebrity or an NFL player,” Boldin said in his video.
“A handful of pardons will not address the sort of systemic injustice that N.F.L. players have been protesting,” the NYT letter read. “These are problems that our government has created, many of which occur at the local level. If President Trump thinks he can end these injustices if we deliver him a few names, he hasn’t been listening to us.”
“As Americans, it is our constitutional right to question injustices when they occur, and we see them daily: police brutality, unnecessary incarceration, excessive criminal sentencing, residential segregation and educational inequality. The United States effectively uses prison to treat addiction, and you could argue it is also our largest mental-health provider. Law enforcement has a responsibility to serve its communities, yet this responsibility has too often not met basic standards of accountability.
“These injustices are so widespread as to seem practically written into our nation’s DNA. We must challenge these norms, investigate the reasons for their pervasiveness and fight with all we have to change them. That is what we, as football players, are trying to do with our activism.”
@realDonaldTrump because you asked… An op-ed from our @playercoalition and my more personal thoughts on pardoning a population, not just a few. Even if all these pardons were carried out, reform is needed. (THREAD) https://t.co/2ghzR6sJj7
Included are statistics and percentages showing how many drug-related offenders were sentenced to 20 years or more in prison.
Chris Long, a Super Bowl champion defensive end with the Philadelphia Eagles pointed out in his video plea that marijuana is now legal recreationally or medicinally in nearly 30 states, yet thousands of people remain in prison for marijuana-related offenses and that many of them should be pardoned.
“You have a lot of people in the NFL in particular … they’re not proud enough to stand for our national anthem. I don’t like that,” Trump recently said in an ongoing battle of words against NFL protesters, adding that “it’s all talk, talk, talk” from the players.
“I’m gonna ask them to recommend to me people that were unfairly treated [by the justice system], friends of theirs or people that they know about,” Trump said. “And I’m gonna take a look at those applications. And if I find — and my committee finds — that they were unfairly treated, then we will pardon them or at least let them out.”
Whether or not this overture to the president, a man who has flip-flopped and lied on a multitude of issues since winning the election, will move Trump to act, this letter shows how some NFL players will continue to push for the fair treatment of those disenfranchized via draconian, outdated laws the disproportionately affect people of color in the United States.

domain: sociology


Spring Boot logging level
Problem: When I'm testing my Spring application hundreds of lines of log code appear (DEBUG level).
The quantity of log is particularly important using Spring integration.
According to the spring documentation it should be possible to set the level of debug in the
application.properties but the level of logs did not change.
The solution is to create a
logback.xml in the classpath of the test (
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <configuration> <include resource="org/springframework/boot/logging/logback/base.xml"/> <logger name="org.springframework" level="INFO"/> </configuration>
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A model of social-emotional functioning in adolescents with epilepsy
Psychiatric disorders and behavioral problems are common phenomena among children and adolescents with epilepsy, with studies consistently demonstrating higher prevalence rates when compared to healthy children and those with disorders not involving the central nervous system. The current literature suggests that psychoeducational interventions, designed to improve social-emotional functioning through the provision of information regarding the disorder, is a promising means of intervention. This study proposed a conceptual model explaining the mechanism through which epilepsy information improves social-emotional functioning in adolescents with the disorder. Based on the theoretical and research literature, a model incorporating family mastery (i.e., psychological, social, and financial resources), seizure severity, epilepsy knowledge, and self-efficacy for seizure management (seizure self-efficacy) was created. More specifically, parent seizure self-efficacy mediated the relationship between parent knowledge and adolescent social-emotional functioning. The same meditational relationship was posited between adolescent seizure self-efficacy, adolescent epilepsy knowledge, and social-emotional functioning. Results of the SEM analysis revealed that the proposed model was not supported and did not have adequate goodness-of-fit. Only one variable in the model, adolescent seizure self-efficacy, was a significant predictor of internalizing problems. The non-significant findings may, in part, be attributable to the restricted range of the sample, which was predominantly well-educated and of high socioeconomic status. In addition, due to the reading level required to complete the survey, adolescents with lower cognitive functioning were excluded from the study. This could have also contributed to the restricted range, as those with impaired cognitive functioning are at greater risk for psychological and behavioral problems. Given the importance of identifying factors that protect adolescents from developing mental health problems, further exploration of these variables with more diverse samples is warranted.
Social psychology|Developmental psychology|Clinical psychology
Miles-Mason, Eavan S, "A model of social-emotional functioning in adolescents with epilepsy" (2012). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI3494333.


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Iceman Mike – Cubans
Iceman Mike is representing the state of Texas building his name up in the jewelry scene for some time now. He’s been known for producing shine to some of the biggest names in music, sports, and entertainment. Outside of his talents in the bling industry, he’s also been producing his own music since a child. Now, he feels it’s time to get his name out there for his musical abilities and has released his debut single, “Cubans.”
Peep the track after the jump and get familiar with Iceman Mike.
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There is a change on the way in the top executive ranks of Telstra with Retail Group Executive Gordon Ballantyne set to leave the telco by the end of this year.
Arnie said ‘I’ll be back’ but for Telstra, ‘there’s no going back’ on the move to digital unless nuclear war breaks out and we’re bombed back into the stone age.
Doesn't using PayPal with Bitcoin further (or entirely) erode the (pseudo)anonymity aspect of using a digital currency? One doesn't use[…]
As a whole I don’t trust China as the chaos they have caused with COVID they bullying in disputed territories[…]
Would happily pay for 250mbit but sadly speed limited on the 850mtrs of copper to 50mbit max.
I believe that is an incorrect statement. While Wintel has a bullseye painted on it let's remember that iOS/RHEL are[…]
demonising bitcoin when cash is always a criminals best friend is just silly! also why would anyone trust paypal with[…]


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HY-PRO ADDITIVES – SPRAYMIX
PLANT SUPPORT NOT FOCUSSED ON THE ROOT INTERACTION
Foliar feeding is a technique of feeding plants by applying liquid fertilizer directly to their leaves. You might be asking, how is that possible? Isn’t that what soil, fertilizer, and hydroponic nutrient solutions are for? A plant can absorb nutrients through it’s leaves at a quicker rate than it can through it’s roots. Nutrients pass through the stomata of the leaves. Stomata are pores on leaves that allow plants to “breathe.” The nutrients provided through foliar spray will travel through the entire plant, all they way to the roots. Like carbohydrates produced through photosynthesis, nutrients from foliar spray will also disperse through the rest of the plant. In fact, up to 90% of a foliar-fed solution can be found in the roots of a plant within 1-hour of application.

domain: agronomy


Gauge blocks are the most accurate standards of length available outside a laboratory setting. Although the cost of a full set of the most accurate grade of blocks can run to near five figures, the price plummets if just a little less accuracy can be tolerated. A set of blocks of Federal Grade 2 accuracy , can be had for about $1,000, with sets of lesser accuracy even more reasonably priced. For a shop engaged in high precision work on a regular basis, such an expense may be justified.
The most accurate (and most an expense may be justified) blocks are Tresna Calipers, properly handled inside calipers are capable of returning a result more accurate than the 0.01-inch divisions on a rule, and unlike outside calipers, gauging the setting of the calipers does not introduce any particular problems, so a micrometer might be used for this purpose. It must be emphasized, however, that the initial gauging is not likely to be accurate to any closer than 5 thou, and often not even that; in general terms, calipers are best regarded as accessories to a steel rule.
Apart from the fact that calipers are not really precision measuring tools, by our definition, there is the additional problem of determining that tool is truly at right angles to the gap being gauged. Any slight amount of tilt will result in an error, always in the direction of exaggerating the dimension.
Also, when measuring a round hole, it is important to ensure that it is truly a diameter that is being gauged; If the tool is offset even slightly toward one side of the hole, an error that underestimates the true dimension will occur. Achieving decent results with calipers requires a very light touch, generally holding the instrument at the joint with just thumb and forefinger, patiently probing the gap until certain that the right dimension is being gauged. The correct technique is to use one leg as a fixed point and to rock the tool gently back and forth, gauging the drag of the other.
On place where this dirt-cheap, simple (indeed, almost primitive) device shines is in gauging the â€œtruthâ€?of a hole. A worker with a well-developed sense of feel can detect very slight amounts of taper or ovality and, with experience, can estimate the variation in roundness to within a few thou. As with outside calipers, there are both friction and spring-bow types, and ones with a third transfer leg that allows one of the gauging legs to be retracted to clear obstructions outboard of the measuring point, such as when measuring the depth of a snap ring groove within a bore. As with outside calipers, 6- and 12- inch sizes are available.


You know the fix is in when the left rail and the right rail hit the airwaves with the same talking points attacking Medicare for All. It is so obvious that they are working for the same outcome.
Rahm Emanuel, a Democrat and former President Barack Obama Chief of staff showed quite a bit of solidarity with former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in an attempt to further scare Progressive Presidential candidates away from Medicare for All. Rahm continued using Right-Wing talking points similar to Democratic Presidential Candidate Senator Michael Bennet.
Rahm & Christie team up to take down Medicare for All
“Healthcare is a single issue that Democrats have a 35 point advantage on,” Rahm Emanuel said. “President Trump is trying to do everything he can to narrow it down. We’ve taken a position so far, the candidates have, through the process, a few have not, on basically Medicare for All which would eliminate 150 million people’s healthcare and we are going to provide healthcare for people who just come over the border. That is an untenable position for the general election.”
Emanuel went on to cynically say he had biked around Michigan and Wisconsin for 1000 miles and no one asked him to take their health insurance away. He called supporting Medicare for All reckless and claimed it is unnecessary to support it to win the primary.
Later, Chris Christie claims he went to a diner in Pennsylvania where a woman ran up to him and asked him to tell the president to tell the Democrats to leave her healthcare alone. He claimed if the president wins Pennsylvania he wins the election. A panelist interjected swiftly to ask if he had reminded the woman that it is the president who wants to repeal her healthcare insurance with no replacement. Christie said he did not but he did not even attempt to defend the president.
Rahm later reminded everyone about Trump’s broken promise of not cutting Medicare and Medicaid. He was implying that speaking about the president going back on his word should be the extent of the Democratic healthcare message.
Any Democrat using Right-Wing talking points like Emanuel and Bennet show exactly where their loyalties lie. Math is absolute. It is impossible for private health insurance to be more efficient than a single-payer plan. It is clear that Medicare for Al covers more people with better insurance at a lower cost. While there will be some initial disruption for the system, not the patient, it is important that we get to true universal coverage in the most efficient manner.
All Democrats should be explaining why their constituents will do better under Medicare for All given that everyone would be covered at a much lower cost. Democrats using Right-Wing talking points should stop being the slaves of the health industrial complex and protect their constituents. Stop treating Americans as math-less dummies.
Tell Rahm Emanuel instead of being a ward of the health industrial complex, try standing up for the average American citizen.


Yeltsin Seizes Media, Slashes Aide’s Powers : Kremlin: Russian president swiftly commandeers Gorbachev’s office, sending ex-Soviet leader elsewhere.
Russian Federation President Boris N. Yeltsin, putting some final touches on the post-Soviet order, took over state radio and television Friday, slashed the powers of his vice president and commandeered Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s Kremlin office with such speed that the former Soviet leader had to go someplace else to work.
But even as Yeltsin solidified his rule, there were signs of alarming fissures in the new Commonwealth of Independent States. Its acting military commander, Air Marshal Yevgeny I. Shaposhnikov, told reporters that a two-day meeting of defense chiefs from the 11 member states failed to resolve all disagreements over defense policy.
By presidential decree, Yeltsin ordered the takeover of Gosteleradio, the state-run Soviet broadcasting company, and its renaming to “Ostankino” company, after the Moscow site where it has its main studios and broadcast tower.
Yegor Yakovlev, one of the earliest proponents of journalistic openness while editor in chief of the crusading Moscow News, will stay on as chief of television and radio. Under Yeltsin’s decree, the company is to broadcast news from Russia and the commonwealth.
As the evening news on Russia’s own previously existing channel noted, Yeltsin, who had spoken numerous times in favor of viewer choice, has now given Russia two different TV channels. But both are owned and financed by its government.
While the leader of Soviet radical forces, Yeltsin was the target of a virtual smear campaign by Gosteleradio. He then was practically banned from its airwaves in an attempt to stem his increasing popularity.
According to the Izvestia newspaper, the Russian leader, now the undisputed No. 1 figure in the Kremlin, moved into Gorbachev’s suite of offices Friday morning, to the great displeasure of the former Soviet president’s aides. They thought that their boss, who resigned on Wednesday, was to be given more time to wind up his affairs.
In fact, when Gorbachev showed up in the Kremlin later Friday, he found Yeltsin already behind his desk. With no visible signs of embarrassment or complaints, Gorbachev went down a floor to the office of Grigory Revenko, who had been his chief of staff, to go about his business, Izvestia said.
Gorbachev’s spokesman, Alexander A. Likhotal, said the former Soviet president plans to ring in the New Year in Moscow, then to take two or three weeks vacation in his native Stavropol region of southern Russia, where his mother, Maria, still lives in the rural village where he was born. Gorbachev, 60, will then return to Moscow to organize the work of an international think tank that he created after the August putsch , Likhotal said.
Once out of office, Gorbachev, who once had all the resources of a superpower at his beck and call, will have to get used to a more modest living standard. Under a deal worked out with Yeltsin and leaders of the other commonwealth republics, he has been allotted a three-room apartment on Kosygin Street in Moscow’s Lenin Hills, in lieu of the six-roomer he had before. He will be allowed to keep the dacha , or country cottage, outside Moscow that he had already been using.
In Moscow, defense ministers preparing for a key Monday summit meeting of commonwealth leaders in Minsk ended their negotiations to devise a common defense policy for the new community, with Shaposhnikov acknowledging that the earlier goal of a “single armed forces” was now unfeasible.
Consequently, participants in the meeting thrashed out the creation of a “united armed forces,” but even that concept did not satisfy Ukraine, Moldova and Azerbaijan, Shaposhnikov told reporters after the meeting ended.
He said he hopes that the remaining differences can be sorted out in Minsk. The ministers did manage to adopt documents, including an agreement on defense for the commonwealth states, to be submitted to the Minsk summit. But Shaposhnikov said some ministers added their own provisos.
One of the major disputes in the field of defense and strategy has been between Russia and Ukraine, which fears Russia’s dominance. A military spokesman confirmed that Shaposhnikov had urgently flown to Kiev along with the admiral of the Black Sea fleet Thursday to talk to Ukrainian officials, including Defense Minister Konstantin Morozov.
In particular, Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Alexander M. Kluban said, Moscow-based officials and the Ukrainians have been talking about how to carve up the Black Sea fleet.
Officials from the Moscow ministry have said the Ukrainians now oppose the idea of creating two separate fleets in the Black Sea and object, in particular, to the transfer this week of the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov from the Crimean port of Sevastopol to Murmansk in northern Russia.
Russian-Ukrainian tensions have also broken out on the economic front.
Ukraine, which lacks an adequate supply of Russian-printed rubles, wants more currency shipped to the republic, anticipating that the liberalization of prices on Jan. 2 will make demand for the money zoom. Failing that, Ukraine wants Russia to postpone its price liberalization program, which is expected to send costs skyrocketing.
But Russia reportedly refused both requests. Ukraine’s response has been to move to implement a coupon system that, while formally maintaining the ruble as currency, would require consumers to use special coupons, instead of rubles, to pay for goods most in demand.
As he acts to build up the structures of Russian state power, one of Yeltsin’s decisions, a decree forming a single ministry to handle both police and security affairs, was strenuously opposed by Russia’s legislature. Its members recalled how the NKVD and other super police agencies from the Soviet past had led to terrible abuses of power.
In what will provide a litmus test of the ability of Yeltsin and the lawmakers to work together following the demise of centralized power, the legislature voted to request that the Russian president annul his decree.
Yeltsin on Friday night also moved decisively to deal with one of his most unexpected critics, Russian Federation Vice President Alexander V. Rutskoi, by stripping him of his control over five state committees. The Afghanistan war hero has been increasingly vocal in denouncing what he calls the intrigue and incompetence of Yeltsin’s entourage and has openly criticized the Russian leader’s plan for freeing up prices, which is expected to result in a drastic loss of buying power for most of the population.
With the vanishing of the Soviet empire, the last soldiers of the now-dissolved Soviet Interior Ministry, which had tried unsuccessfully to keep the peace in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, were pulling out on Friday. That made residents worry about the likelihood of future bloodshed and hunger.
Each inhabitant of the mostly Armenian enclave will receive half a kilogram, or little more than a pound, of grain this month. That’s because the region has run out of flour and the largest grain storage depot is now in the hands of Azerbaijani guerrillas, the Tass news agency said. Legislative elections are scheduled today in the region, which wants to break away from Azerbaijan.
In other developments, Valery I. Boldin, Gorbachev’s 56-year-old former chief of staff, was released from jail because of deteriorating health so he can seek treatment in a hospital of his own choosing. He is charged with being one of the key figures in the August plot to overthrow Gorbachev.


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DEUTERONOMY XXXIV: 7.
“HIS EYB WAS NOT DIM, NOR HIS NATURAL FORCB ABATED.”
An inscrutable providence crowds this and other sanctuaries to-day. A nation, redeemed by the blood and toil of her bravest and best, mourns the loss of a Chief Magistrate, who was the embodiment of a people's hope, and the object round which the affections gathered of every lover of liberty in the world. Abraham Lincoln was sincerely loved. That “peasant proprietor,” and “village lawyer," whom, by some divine inspiration or providence, the republican party of 1860 selected to be their standard bearer; whose election was regarded as a calamity by many of his supporters; and as a justifiable cause for the most monstrous rebellion upon which the sun ever shone, grew to be the peer of Washington, and climbed to the highest peak of earthly distinction.
It was a great shock when half the nation attempted to make the dream of secession a real fact, and when the guns
of Sumter sounded the call to arms; but it was trivial when contrasted with the emotions experienced as the tidings reached us that Abraham Lincoln had
been assassinated. We were glad when the armies of the rebellion were beaten; when Richmond fell; when Lee capitulated; but we
would rather have had Washington environed with the enemy and have had Lincoln alive, than to have had the armies defeated and Lincoln dead. This is a new crime. We are not used to the bloody hand in that shape. We have felt that
slavery was the sum of all villanies,” and that men who could starve our brothers amidst abundance; who could suffer them to freeze, and go unsheltered amid primeval forests, were capable of any act of cruelty and injustice; but we had forgotten that sin is blinding, and that God often permits the wrath of man to work out his own destruction; and so we had somehow fancied that rebels had hearts and brains as other men; and that they would discover, what we have felt all the way, that our chief magistrate was a wall between the wrath of an outraged people and the veriest criminals of history.
They did not perceive the truth, and so they conspired against the life of their best, if not of their only powerful friend. There is no other like him. Death has frozen and hardened that loving face, and embalms it in the memories of mankind as a legacy of the past. That heart which felt its need of divine support when the nation's sky was o'erclouded, and the air was full of rumors and revolt; which nearly broke as the eye gazed upon the lifeless form of his idolized child; and which surrendered itself to Jesus as the boom of the cannon at Gettysburg assured us that the nation was in its Gethsemane struggle; which wrought, by the throes of an

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O. Primera-Pedrozo, L. Pacheco‐Londoño, Luis F. De la Torre-Quintana
Sep 15, 2004
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Explosives detection is a very important task for National Security. The formidable task includes development of new probes and methods for detection of concealed explosives which is of utmost priority to Homeland Security and other security enforcing federal agencies. Here we report on the detection of triacetone triperoxide (TATP) on metallic surfaces using a Fiber Optic Coupled FTIR method. FT-IR spectroscopy is well suited to be used outside the confinement of the sample compartment, provided the excitation source and the reflected light can be transported to the interferometer. Fiber optic cables that transmit in the Mid-IR range have made this possible by allowing the development of a range of spectroscopic probes for in situ analysis. In our study we used a specially designed sampling probe that operates at the grazing-angle to detect and to quantify μg/cm2 levels of explosives on stainless steel. Calibration curves were prepared using stainless steel plates, 3 inches wide x 6 inches long. The samples were deposited on the surface using a smearing method. To carry out the experiments, TATP was synthesized in the laboratory. For the calibration curves TATP was dissolved in dichloromethane. The standard solutions (20) μL were transferred on the plates resulting in surface mass concentrations of TATP that ranged from 8 to 150 μg/cm2. The data was analyzed using Chemometrics routines and Discriminant Analysis algorithms. In particular, multivariate Partial Least Squares (PLS) was used to determine the most significant peak for the analysis. In other experiments done with stainless steel plates coated with 150 μg/cm2 TATP, spectra were recorded every 27 seconds. For this concentration TATP sublimates to surface concentrations below detection in 800 s.


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One of the benefits associated with online dating is the fact it enables people to match outside all their immediate social circle. This type of dating is growing rapidly more convenient and safer than traditional internet dating, and that company website as well provides a varied subset of possible lovers. People in their early twenties and newer are particularly suitable for this kind of dating. In addition , this type of dating is strongly related people who not necessarily exposed to quite a few new people each day.
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Netflix’s Sonic Prime collection struck the streaming solution back in December, and also it appears much more episodes get on the method.
While it rests at a 60 percent doubter rating on Rotten Tomatoes, Sonic Prime got an 88 percent target market rating, which is rather fantastic as for video clip game television reveals go. Of training course, Rotten Tomatoes does not make up everyone that viewed the collection, yet it’s a peek at what target markets assumed. It appears Netflix prepares to address the need for even more since the authorities Sonic the Hedgehog Twitter account revealed today that even more Sonic Prime episodes are coming later on this year.
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As you can see, there’s very little to take place right here, so it’s presently uncertain if these are simply extra episodes or the disclose that a Season 2 is occurring. Regardless, much more Sonic Prime is involving Netflix in 2023.
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A. M.I.A killed them. Literally she did in her video “Born Free” the U.K rapper has taken a whole new approach to spreading a political message that speaks volumes.
|The carnage doesn’t last long as she instills nine minutes of fear, terror and brute force while annihilating the ginger race. This opens up a slew of questions and prickly issues that have been brewing for some time now. Why ginger’s? why not Asians? why not blacks?Persians? She shows us it doesn’t matter if it ends in genocide. Minority racism exists, art is not mirroring life. Rounding up a particular group and ridding them from the earth staging a movement of controlled genocide is just plain wrong.
A group of red headed young men arrive, are rounded up, and arrive at their unknown destination, some place in the desert.Without a sense of why, their only commonality hair colour, they are told to run. Run for their lives though a mine field. When one of the youngest can’t keep up, and pauses he is shot point-blank in the head. Although thought provoking and visceral on a whole other level, this very scene is what has got people all up in arms (what, children don’t die when a genocide takes place?)
M.I.A is powerful and thought-provoking, more so than any other popular rapper in our time today. Through the images and topics touched upon in her videos she is trying to open up the channels of communication, and our way of thinking. Whether we like it or not, genocide, segregation, racism does exist, it’s just sad that only when rapper M.I.A segregates ginger people as a minority-the same as Asians, Blacks, Jews etc ..have been separated for years, there is an outcry of persecution. We don’t garner the same reaction when right now, it’s happening around the world.
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CarepathRx Health System Solutions (CHSS), a CarepathRx company and portfolio company of Nautic Partners and Evernorth Health Services, a subsidiary of The Cigna Group announced a new strategic partnership and investment by Evernorth in CHSS.
The strategic partnership brings together Evernorth’s diverse specialty and care expertise with CHSS’ robust pharmacy and infusion management capabilities, technology solutions, and health system relationships to improve, expand, and accelerate pharmacy care delivery for the growing number of patients with chronic and complex care needs.
The CHSS and Evernorth partnership will deliver integrated specialty pharmacy care to CHSS’ growing base of 600-plus hospitals, health systems, and physicians – helping diversify the services they offer to best support patients. This includes enhanced coordinated infusion services, virtual care capabilities, value-based care arrangements, and site of care flexibility.
Evernorth’s expansive suite of services, including Accredo’s specialty care and pharmacy expertise and CuraScript SD’s specialty medication distribution across 12,000 physicians, is highly complementary to CHSS’ capabilities that help health systems expand in-house specialty pharmacies, infusion and polypharmacy services.
Evernorth’s significant minority investment in CHSS is expected to close in late Q2 or early Q3 of 2023. After close, the CHSS management team will continue to lead the business and, together with Nautic, will retain majority ownership.
CarepathRx most recently announced a new partnership with Infirmary Health, the largest not-for-profit, non-governmental healthcare provider in Alabama, to provide comprehensive home infusion services to the communities they serve.
CarepathRx also recently announced a new specialty pharmacy and home infusion partnership with Jackson Hospital and Clinic in Montgomery, Ala. As part of this dual-services agreement, CarepathRx will partner with Jackson Hospital to build and execute a specialty pharmacy program and a comprehensive home infusion program to serve the hospital’s growing patient population.
CarepathRx is transforming pharmacy care delivery for health systems and hospitals, delivering improved patient outcomes that drive clinical, quality and financial results.
CarepathRx provides the industry’s most comprehensive hospital pharmacy care delivery model, providing support across the patient’s complete healthcare journey—across multiple care settings, from hospital to home, no matter the patient acuity level.
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to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The GSG will provide a one-time $600 payment to all eligible CalWORKs Assistance Units. These
payments do not impact your CalWORKs or CalFresh eligibility or monthly benefits!
The payments will be automatically sent to households. For more information on the disbursement process,
In addition to the Golden State Grant (GSG) for CalWORKS families, recent California legislation authorized a one-time payment of $600 to Supplemental Security Income (SSI)/State Supplementary Payment (SSP) and Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants (CAPI) recipients to assist and provide relief from hardship due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For more information on the GSG for SSI/SSP and CAPI recipients, visit the SSI/SSP and CAPI webpages at the links below:
Also enacted as part of this same legislation is the Golden State Stimulus. For more information on the Golden State Stimulus and eligibility, visit our resources page or the Franchise Tax Board (FTB) Golden State Stimulus website.
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For dubbing insiders, Gerardo Di Cola’s name is undoubtedly reassuring. This is the 4th of his monthly section for us, telling us about the history of this often overlooked art. Here are the first, the second and the third part of the story.
“In the 1940s, very rigid rules were introduced to regulate dubbing: the actors that wanted to dedicate themselves to dubbing had to be available, have a perfect elocution, remarkable recitation skills, be capable of adapting to the original actor’s voice, have a pleasant, versatile voice with a peculiar timbre, have self-control and good timing. Being a dubber allowed you to earn money immediately and with no risks, have a non-itinerant job, lead a regular life; but it was repetitive and hardly exalting, forcing the actor to work in the dark for entire days and, worse still, keeping the artist in the sphere of anonymity. The imminent war, bound to upset the world, would not affect the world of hidden voices, which actually grew stronger and more vigorous, and would pave the way for the future generation of dubbers.
After the war, the Italians flocked to cinema theatres to bridge the gap that for years had separated them from the U.S. cinema, which once used to entertain them and shape their dreams, and which now allowed them to finally break away from the past. The Italians also found the voices that were carved in their memories: the voices of dubbers who worked painstakingly to dub the films previously under the U.S. embargo, as well as the new productions (the embargo was declared by the U.S. majors on 1 January 1939 owing to a tax on dubbing, introduced by the Fascist regime). There was a surprise in store for the apparently nonchalant anti-dubbing front too: the film ‘Rome, open city’ – which marked the dawn of a new era for Italian cinema, leading a poor, prostrate Italy back on the international stage, as it broke off from the traits of the past – also resorted to dubbing. Apart from Anna Magnani and Aldo Fabrizi, who dubbed themselves, all other actors were dubbed: Carla Rovere by Rosetta Calavetta, Francesco Grandjacquet by Gualtiero De Angelis, Marcello Pagliero by Lauro Gazzolo, Harry Feist by Giulio Panicali; and a German soldier had the unmistakable timbre of Bruno Persa, who would go on to become the dubber of Humphrey Bogart.”


Agilent Technologies announced it will demonstrate its latest military communications test technologies and tools at MILCOM, Nov. 7-10, at the Baltimore Convention Center (Booth 1201) in Baltimore.
Custom waveform generation and analysis: Agilent will demonstrate complete waveform generation and analysis with the combination of SystemVue for simulation, MXG vector signal generator for playback and the PXA signal analyzer with 89600 VSA software for analysis of waveforms, including custom OFDM, 802.11ac, SiQPSK and CPM.
RF and microwave handheld test tools: The company will also showcase its family of handheld spectrum analyzers, including the 7-GHz N9342C and the new 20-GHz N9344C. Also featured will be its Fieldfox handheld RF analyzers: the 4/6-GHz RF analyzer with cable and antenna tester and spectrum analyzer, and the 4/6-GHz vector network analyzer.
Wideband instruments for digital predistortion: With digital predistortion on its PXI-based wideband instruments, Agilent will show how power amplifiers can be driven at high drive levels while limiting the signal peak-to-average power ratios. This allows higher quality signals for next-generation communications systems.
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Twitter on Wednesday announced a new initiative that will help users stay up-to-date with alerts from government and aid agencies during emergencies. Much like the government alerts Apple users experience, Twitter users that sign up will be sent notification through the Twitter app and even text messages (if you hand over your phone number) from a handful of agencies. Many names such as the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency, Tokyo's Disaster Prevention service and the World Health Organization have all signed up.
Over the years, Twitter has become a trusted sources for breaking news, and is particularly useful during weather emergencies. Last year, Twitter demonstrated just how important the social network can be following the destruction of Hurricane Sandy. Before that, Twitter played a big part in rescue efforts after the devastating 2011 tsunami in Japan. The new alerts service will initially be available in the U.S., Japan and Korea, but will roll out to other countries soon.
Craig Fugate, FEMA administrator, applauded Twitter for its almost real-time information, and the ability for civilians and emergency officials to communicate so quickly and easily.
"Today we have a two-way street—residents are informed about hazards in real time and emergency managers receive immediate feedback on the consequence of a disaster," Fugate said.
Twitter is most widely known as a way for celebrities and everyday folks to muse about mundane events: going to the store, eating a sandwich, etc. But the service has evolved, and many today use it to spread news, communicate with important figures, get out messages, etc. Expanding on that for real-time alerts will only push the value of Twitter's platform. You can sign up to receive the notifications now.
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Welcome to Uplowman
Uplowman is a small parish about 4 miles northeast of Tiverton. Its idyllic village lies at the centre of the parish with beautiful views of Mid Devon’s rolling countryside.
Tiverton Parkway Railway Station, off the Great Western main line, is only 4 miles away, with connections to the Grand Western Canal.
- A Neolithic burial mound (or long barrow) was at Craze Lowman (middle lowman) with remnants of axe handles. In the 1980s, however, the mound was levelled for cultivation.
- Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond, commissioned the building of the parish Church of St Peter’s. Better known as the mother of King Henry VII, Lady Beaufort resided occasionally at the nearby village of Sampford Peverell.
- HRH Princess Margaret visited Uplowman Church for the Christening of her godson. The mother of the child, Margaret Rhodes, who lived at Uplowman House, was first cousins with their royal highnesses Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret.
- A leat runs through the village of Uplowman, originally created to drain the fields and supply water to the mill at Sampford Peverell.
What’s On in Uplowman?
- The Uplowman Women’s Institute host an annual Flower Show, held on the third Saturday in July.
- The Mid Devon Show is held about 6 miles away at Bolham. The annual event is the district’s biggest agricultural show and features a variety of live entertainment, crafts, food and drink. The Mid Devon Show is usually held on the fourth Saturday in July.
- August features the annual Uplowman show. The event includes a a historic vehicle gathering, dog show, stalls and games.
Things to Do and Places to See
- Visit the 15th century parish church of St Peter’s. The church features a wooden lectern, placed there on Christmas Day 1897 to commemorate the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria.
- Enjoy a hot air balloon trip – In good weather, hot air balloons are often seen drifting over Mid Devon in the mornings or evenings.
- The National cycle route goes through the nearby village of Sampford Peverell, along the Grand Western canal.
Places to Eat
- The Redwoods Inn offers lunchtime and evening meals. Senior citizen lunches are available on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and the pub offers a takeaway option.
- There are two pubs with restaurants at nearby Sampford Peverell.
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Beano's Cabin Restaurant Review: This cabin is hardly modest or rustic, but rather a hand-hewn log lodge nestled in an aspen grove, with large windows, high ceilings, an open kitchen and an array of Western artifacts and fabrics. In winter, Beano's is a private ski-in, ski-out luncheon club and a dinner adventure open to the public. Snowcat-drawn sleighs depart frequently from Rendezvous Cabin at the Beaver Creek base for the 20-minute ride, which --- wool blankets notwithstanding --- is just about as long as most people want to be out on a Colorado winter night. Summer access is by tractor-pulled wagon, horseback or van. Though transportation varies, the menu format does not: plan on a five-course prix-fixe meal with optional (read: non-inclusive) wine pairings (a three-course variant is available for younger children). Starters might include vegetables with candied walnuts in mascarpone-poppy seed dressing, fried rabbit with honey and horseradish aïoli and/or whiskey-glazed foie gras over plum terrine, followed by a palate-cleanser. Next comes elegant entrées like slow-cooked lamb cheeks with olive-lemon gremolata and shelling beans or venison flank steak accompanied by corn hash and braised peaches; there's always a vegetarian option as well. And desserts showcase Colorado’s seasonal bounty, ranging from goat cheese crêpes with pear compote in a port reduction to a trio of lemon mousse, olive oil cake and cucumber-melon sorbet.

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Tallulah Dash, daughter of music mogul Damon Dash and fashion designer Rachel Roy, is making a name for herself. Following in the footsteps of her older sister, Ava, the beautiful eight-year-old was just recently signed to the youth division of LA Models’ roaster.
In celebration and excitement, the company took to their Instagram page this week to announce the big news.
LA Models has been in operation since the early 1980’s. Founder Heinz Holba has built the company into one of the most successful agencies in the world, working tirelessly to scout and feature some of the most beautiful faces in the industry. Providing full service to its clients, LA Models is truly at the center of the fashion industry.
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The mining company, Vale S.A, was ordered to pay compensation for the environmental and economic damages caused by the rupture of the Feijão dam, which operated under its responsibility, in the city of Brumadinho, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Vale will also need to pay damages to families of those who were injured or perished due to the disaster. The actual value for the damages were not set as the judge Elton Pupo Nogueira stated it was not possible to quantify the actual economic damages caused by the dam collapse. However, the verdict called for 11 billion reais of the company (2,94 billion US dollars) assets to be blocked.
The dam collapsed on 25 January, killing 242 people and another 22 are missing. In addition, the accident let economic and environmental damage in the region that is still being calculated. This tragedy is considered to be the greatest work accident in the country's history and it is the second disaster that involved Vale S. A. in the past 5 years. In 2015, the dam Fundão, collapsed killing 19 people.
The Building and Wood Workers' International (BWI) has been pressuring the company through its affiliates in Brazil, which organized a broad-based Network for Vale S.A. to take responsibility and implement standards following international guidelines to prevent future disasters. In addition, BWI has utilized international foras and mechanisms such as the OECD and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to ensure fair compensation and increase safety in Brazilian dams in order to prevent further accidents from occurring.
As a result of this union effort and governmental verdict, Valle S.A. signed an agreement with the Public Ministry of Labour to compensate families of the people who died in the accident. 700 thousand reais (186 thousand US dollars) were assigned for spouses, children and parents of killed workers and 150 thousand reais (40 thousand US dollars) for siblings. The agreement also includes a lifetime pension for victims' dependents.