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In his first trip to Africa, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken signed a $2.1 billion assistance agreement with Nigeria to support health care, education, agriculture, and good governance. But a small-town Baptist preacher told him in a Nov. 19 private meeting that what persecuted Nigerian Christians want most is free speech.
“Recently they have put one journalist, Luka Binniyat, behind bars for reporting a true story to an American audience,” the Rev. Joseph Hayab, chairman of the Kaduna state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, told Blinken in a small group meeting.
“Our government is full of lies, and to make sure the world does not get the truth of what is happening in Nigeria, they are against free speech. Binniyat is in prison only because the government wants to silence him,” Hayab told The Epoch Times, when recalling his meeting with Blinken.
Hayab and four other representatives of Nigeran civil society met with Blinken for a “heart to heart” exchange of views at the Embassy.
Binniyat, a contributor to The Epoch Times, was arrested on Nov. 4 and later charged with “cyberstalking” in connection with a story that a high official claimed was a threat to him. Cyberstalking is a charge that experts say has been used by the Nigerian government to silence journalists. Binniyat is being held in the main Kaduna prison.
Hayab said the State Department’s recent delisting of Nigeria as a “country of particular concern” (CPC)—a country judged to be guilty of particularly severe violations of religious freedom—is frustrating to him.
“How can they say the situation is improving when on Oct. 31, a whole Baptist congregation of 66 people [was] abducted, and just last night, the bandits put out a video saying they are doing it because they are against Christians?” Hayab said. “What he [Blinken] did baffles us, because Christians in Nigeria and others suffering persecution feel like they cannot rely on the U.S. government to help them.
“That is like telling a sick man in the hospital to go home to die.”
Hayab also told Blinken that using the term “farmer–herder conflict” to describe the killings in Nigeria is false.
“When bandits or terrorists come to a village at night and open fire on innocent people, how do you describe them as herders?” he said. “Those who use the farmer–herder conflict story are simply using it as a distraction from the real causes.
“Secretary Blinken thanked us for being frank and said that is why he invited me to give a point of view different from the official perspective.”
Religious freedom advocates in Washington strongly objected to the State Department’s more favorable rating of Nigeria, which was announced in mid-November.
“We call on the U.S. government to rectify this inexplicable decision, and instead continue America’s long tradition of standing up for those who are persecuted worldwide,” Sean Nelson, legal counsel for Global Religious Freedom at the Alliance Defending Freedom International, wrote in an email to The Epoch Times. “No explanations have been given that could justify this decision. If anything, the situation in Nigeria has grown worse over the last year.
“Thousands of Christians, as well as Muslims who oppose the goals of terrorist and militia groups, are targeted, killed, and kidnapped, and the government is simply unwilling to stop these atrocities. Blasphemy cases are regularly brought against religious minorities, including humanists, in the North. Removing CPC status for Nigeria will only embolden the increasingly authoritarian government there.”
Human Rights specialist Ann Buwalda, executive director of the Jubilee Campaign, also weighed in.
“The removal of Nigeria from the State Department’s list of violators of religious freedom is a significant setback in efforts to hold perpetrators accountable,” Buwalda told The Epoch Times in an email. “The USA has chosen to reward Nigeria’s abject failure to keep its citizens safe and pursue justice for the survivors and victims of jihadist violence and hate crimes. This is, when Christians in the Northeast of Nigeria are murdered every single day.”
Baroness Caroline Cox of the UK’s House of Lords also spoke out against the move by the U.S. State Department.
“We urge the State Department to reverse its decision to remove Nigeria from its list of ‘Violators of Religious Freedom,'” Cox said. “We receive daily reports of terrorist violence, massacres, forced displacement, forced conversions, forced marriage, and abductions for ransom. Experts say that religious affiliation is often used to recruit and inspire violent acts. In many cases, attacks are predicated by a hatred of people who refuse to renounce their religious beliefs.”
Blinken, who has served in and out of government as a foreign policy specialist since 1993, told African leaders in Kenya, Nigeria, and Senegal that the State Department would relate to African nations as “equal partners” under the Biden administration. He said on Nov. 19 that his visit to Nigeria and other countries was focused on “partnerships” in stemming the pandemic, pushing back against global warming, expanding access for renewable energy projects, revitalizing democracy, and achieving peace and security.
“Too often, international infrastructure deals are opaque, coercive; they burden countries with unmanageable debt; they’re environmentally destructive; they don’t always benefit the people who actually live there,” Blinken said, while announcing the aid package to Nigeria. “We will do things differently.”
According to several media reports, Blinken never mentioned China, Nigeria’s chief trade partner. But the message he conveyed was that the United States could do a better job than China of building Nigeria’s economy and improving the quality of life in the African nation.

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Indian television's beloved couple, Karishma Tanna and Upen Patel are hosting MTV's brand new reality show with an interesting twist, MTV Love School. A relationship school for real- life couples, MTV Love School will work towards healing damaged and troubled relationships. The show will comprise of a syllabus including tasks, challenges and tests to ensure progress and sustenance of relationships. MTV Love School will enable couples to give a fresh start to their strained relationships with realistic advice from the TV's most loved couple, Karishma and Upen.
Today we interact with one of the contestants who is not new to Indian television with a lot of fiction shows in his kitty but this being his first reality show:
Karan Singh Chhabra is a Mumbai based Software Engineer by Profession and a TV anchor / Actor with a lot of modelling assignments attached to his profile as well. He is known as one of the first turbaned models in the Indian fashion industry. Having won a Super Model contest in New Delhi, Chhabra has worked for several ace designers such as Sabyasachi Mukherjee ,and walked the runway at Lakme Fashion Week, FDCI Amazon India Couture Week etc.
Currently he is seen hosting a Bollywood talk show called AVS which telecasts on Sony TV and other digital platforms worldwide along with a fiction show on Sab tv & Zee Zindagi in his Kitty.
He got selected in MTV's new reality show named Love School with his real life girlfriend, Neha Singh.
How did you get selected in the show?
During our interaction with Upen and Karishma, they mentioned that intimacy and trust are major pillars in any relationship and since this was missing in ours, they thought they could help us through this show
What do you think are major issues in today's youth's relationships
In general trust is a major issue among couples nowadays. Everyone has access to Facebook and several social networking media....even girls are being vocal...It all contributes to trust issues among today's generation.
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They are completely different. In this show especially there were cameras all around recording our conversations and actions and each episode is only of 1 hour. So, what is shown and what gets edited can make or break your image on national television.
Share your experience with the hosts of the show
Both were extremely helpful and concerned about each couple. Their chemistry is equally great off screen
Why Loveschool ?
Intention of doing the show was to have a small break from my daily routine and spend quality time with my girlfriend and try to take our relationship to the next level.
Did the show actually benefit in improving your relationship?
To some extent yes as there were certain tasks which made us test each other and got us closer hence making the bond stronger.

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The minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole has appealed to Nigerians to be on the look out for suspected cases of outbreak of meningitis, saying the country is already approaching its season.
Professor Adewole made this appeal in Ibadan, Oyo State over the weekend while speaking with the members of Network of Reproductive Health Journalists of Nigeria, on some of his ministry’s preparedness to curtail any reported outbreak of CSM.
The Minister said the alert is important because the country has no money to vaccinate all Nigerians.
He said it is known that meningitis is seasonal and this is the season, “that is why we are saying Nigerians should be on the lookout for it. It is so easy to treat. The vaccine is expensive. When a case is detected we have an epidemic threshold then we quickly vaccinate people in the Local Governments, that is the best we can do for now. When we are more prosperous then we can vaccinate everybody.”
Prof Adewole added that the conjugate vaccine will protect everybody for 10 years, the polyvalent vaccine for three years, as he added that for now both are expensive, The Nation reports.

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BERKELEY – Multiple units responded to a fire that destroyed a boat and but did not injure anyone.
The fire started yesterday afternoon and, with the help of many departments, it was contained to the boat, according to officials.
Manitou Park Water Rescue Unit 1816 worked with Berkeley Hazmat Station 85 to minimize the amount of contaminants entering the lagoons.
The following agencies responded: Bayville Fire Department, Manitou Park Fire Company, Ocean County Fire Coordinators, Ocean County Fire Marshall’s Office, Berkeley Twp. EMS, Berkeley Police Department, New Jersey State Police, Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office, Ocean County Sheriff’s Office, and Tow Boat US.


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Eating well balanced meals is important at all times, but it is even more essential when you are pregnant. There are essential nutrients, vitamins, and minerals that your developing baby needs. Most foods are safe; however, there are some foods that you should avoid during pregnancy.
Raw Meat: Uncooked seafood and rare or undercooked beef or poultry should be avoided because of the risk of contamination with coliform bacteria, toxoplasmosis, and salmonella.
Deli Meat: Deli meats have been known to be contaminated with listeria, which can cause miscarriage. Listeria has the ability to cross the placenta and may infect the baby leading to infection or blood poisoning, which may be life-threatening. If you are pregnant and you are considering eating deli meats, make certain that you reheat the meat until it is steaming .
Fish with Mercury: Fish that contain high levels of mercury should be avoided. Mercury consumed during pregnancy has been linked to developmental delays and brain damage. A sample of these types of fish include: shark, swordfish, king mackerel, and tilefish. Canned, chunk light tuna generally has a lower amount of mercury than other tuna, but still should only be eaten in moderation. Certain types of fish used in sushi should also be avoided due to high levels of mercury. Please see Mercury in Fish for specific types of fish and further information on how to calculate mercury levels.
Smoked Seafood -Refrigerated, smoked seafood often labeled as lox, nova style, kippered, or jerky should be avoided because it could be contaminated with Listeria. (These are safe to eat when they are in an ingredient in a meal that has been cooked, like a casserole.) This type of fish is often found in the deli section of your grocery store. Canned or shelf-safe smoked seafood is usually OK to eat.
Fish Exposed to Industrial Pollutants: Avoid fish from contaminated lakes and rivers that may be exposed to high levels of polychlorinated biphenyls. This is primarily for those who fish in local lakes and streams. These fish include: bluefish, striped bass, salmon, pike, trout, and walleye. Contact the local health department or Environmental Protection Agency to determine which fish are safe to eat in your area. Remember, this is regarding fish caught in local waters and not fish from your local grocery store.
Raw Shellfish: The majority of seafood-borne illness is caused by undercooked shellfish, which include oysters, clams, and mussels. Cooking helps prevent some types of infection, but it does not prevent the algae-related infections that are associated with red tides. Raw shellfish pose a concern for everybody, and they should be avoided altogether during pregnancy.
Raw Eggs: Raw eggs or any foods that contain raw eggs should be avoided because of the potential exposure to salmonella. Some homemade Caesar dressings, mayonnaise, homemade ice cream or custards, and Hollandaise sauces may be made with raw eggs.
If the recipe is cooked at some point, this will reduce the exposure to salmonella. Commercially manufactured ice cream, dressings, and eggnog are made with pasteurized eggs and do not increase the risk of salmonella. Restaurants should be using pasteurized eggs in any recipe that is made with raw eggs, such as Hollandaise sauce or dressings.
Soft Cheeses: Imported soft cheeses may contain bacteria called Listeria, which can cause miscarriage. Listeria has the ability to cross the placenta and may infect the baby leading to infection or blood poisoning, which can be life-threatening. You would need to avoid soft cheeses such as: Brie, Camembert, Roquefort, Feta, Gorgonzola and Mexican style cheeses that include queso blanco and queso fresco, unless they clearly state that they are made from pasteurized milk. All soft non-imported cheeses made with pasteurized milk are safe to eat.
Un pasteurized Milk: Un pasteurized milk may contain a bacteria called listeria, which can cause miscarriage. Listeria has the ability to cross the placenta and may infect the baby leading to infection or blood poisoning, which can be life-threatening. Make sure that any milk you drink is pasteurized.
Pate: Refrigerated pate or meat spreads should be avoided because they may contain the bacteria listeria. Canned pate, or shelf-safe meat spreads can be eaten.
Caffeine: Although most studies show that caffeine intake in moderation is OK, there are others that show that caffeine intake may be related to miscarriages. Avoid caffeine during the first trimester to reduce the likelihood of a miscarriage.
As a general rule, caffeine should be limited to fewer than 200 mg per day during pregnancy. Caffeine is a diuretic, which means it helps eliminate fluids from the body. This can result in water and calcium loss. It is important that you are drinking plenty of water, juice, and milk rather than caffeinated beverages. Some research shows that large amounts of caffeine are associated with miscarriage, premature birth, low birth weight, and withdrawal symptoms in infants. The safest thing is to refrain from consuming caffeine.
Alcohol: There is NO amount of alcohol that is known to be safe during pregnancy, and therefore alcohol should be avoided during pregnancy. Prenatal exposure to alcohol can interfere with the healthy development of the baby. Depending on the amount, timing, and pattern of use, alcohol consumption during pregnancy can lead to Fetal Alcohol Syndrome or other developmental disorders. If you consumed alcohol before you knew you were pregnant, stop drinking now. You should continue to avoid alcohol during breastfeeding. Exposure of alcohol to an infant poses harmful risks, and alcohol does reach the baby during breastfeeding.
Unwashed Vegetables: Yes, vegetables are safe to eat, so you still need to eat them. However, it is essential to make sure they are washed to avoid potential exposure to toxoplasmosis.
Source: American pregnancy

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I sometimes wonder why libertarians aren’t more persuasive given that there’s so much evidence for our economic and social views.
The answer may have something to do with matters such as psychology. Let’s take a closer look at this issue, starting with a video from Johan Norberg. Johan’s point is that the real gap is between classical liberals (i.e., libertarians) and statists. Though most of the research and analysis is based on potential differences between conservatives and liberals, as conventionally defined. For instance, in a column for the U.K.-based Guardian, Arlie Hochschild writes about differences in awareness on the right and left.
…what’s startling is the further finding that higher education does not improve a person’s perceptions – and sometimes even hurts it. In their survey answers, highly educated Republicans were no more accurate in their ideas about Democratic opinion than poorly educated Republicans. For Democrats, the education effect was even worse: the more educated a Democrat is, according to the study, the less he or she understands the Republican worldview. “This effect,” the report says, “is so strong that Democrats without a high school diploma are three times more accurate than those with a postgraduate degree.” …Even more than their Republican counterparts, highly educated Democrats tend to live in exclusively Democratic enclaves. The more they report “almost all my friends hold the same political views”, the worse their guesses on what Republicans think. …Although in principle more tolerant of political diversity, highly educated – and mostly urban – Democrats live, ironically, with less of it.And here’s a tweet about educated folks on the left being more likely to live in a bubble.
Regarding the issue of how different ideologies respond to external threats (supposedly a major driver of philosophical differences), Ross Douthat analyzed how conservatives responded to coronavirus in a column for the New York Times.
He then applies this analysis to the coronavirus.…an influential body of literature has attempted to psychologize the partisan divide — to identify conservative and liberal personality types, right-wing or left-wing minds or brains… In its crudest form this literature just amounts to liberal self-congratulation, with survey questions and regression analyses deployed to “prove” with “science” that liberals are broad-minded freethinkers and conservatives are cramped authoritarians. But…Haidt argues that conservatives actually have more diverse moral intuitions than liberals, encompassing categories like purity and loyalty as well as care and fairness, and that the right-wing mind therefore sometimes understands the left-wing mind better than vice versa. …the political responses to the pandemic have put these psychological theories to a very interesting test.
By the way, a new study by four social scientists, published in Nature, casts doubt on the earlier research regarding ideological differences in threat perceptionIf there was ever a crisis tailored to the conservative mind-set, surely it would be this one, with the main peril being that conservatives would wildly overreact to such a trigger. …As the disease spread and the debate went mainstream, liberal opinion mostly abandoned its anti-quarantine posture and swung toward a reasonable panic, while conservative opinion divided, with a large portion of the right following the lead of Trump himself, who spent crucial weeks trying to wish the crisis away. …figures like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity manifested a conservatism of tribal denial, owning the libs by minimizing the coronavirus threat. …one might say that the pandemic illustrates the power of partisan mood affiliation over any kind of deeper ideological mind-set. Or relatedly, it illustrates the ways in which under the right circumstances, people can easily swing between different moral intuitions. (This holds for liberals as well as conservatives: A good liberal will be as deferential to authority as any conservative when the authority has the right academic degrees…) …what we call “American conservatism” is probably more ideologically and psychologically heterogeneous than the conservative mind-set that social scientists aspire to measure and pin down. In particular, it includes an incredibly powerful streak of what you might call folk libertarianism… This mentality, with its reflexive Ayn Randism and its Panglossian hyper-individualism, is definitely essential to understanding part of the American right. But…I’m doubtful that it corresponds to any universal set of psychological tendencies that we could reasonably call conservative.
About a decade ago, a study documented that conservatives have stronger physiological responses to threatening stimuli than liberals. This work launched an approach aimed at uncovering the biological roots of ideology. Despite wide-ranging scientific and popular impact, independent laboratories have not replicated the study. We conducted a pre-registered direct replication (n = 202) and conceptual replications in the United States (n = 352) and the Netherlands (n = 81). Our analyses do not support the conclusions of the original study, nor do we find evidence for broader claims regarding the effect of disgust and the existence of a physiological trait.And another study by three social scientists in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin also casts doubt on the earlier research.
One consistent finding is that conservatives show higher disgust sensitivity than liberals. This finding, however, is predominantly based on assessments of disgust to specific elicitors, which confound individuals’ sensitivity and propensity to the experience of disgust with the extent to which they find specific elicitors disgusting. Across five studies, we vary specific elicitors of disgust, showing that the relations between political orientation and disgust sensitivity depend on the specific set of elicitors used. We also show that disgust sensitivity is not associated with political orientation when measured with an elicitor-unspecific scale. Taken together, our findings suggest that the differences between conservatives and liberals in disgust sensitivity are context dependent rather than a stable personality difference.So maybe there’s not a meaningful difference between right and left with regards to matters such as disgust and threats. But there seems to be plenty of evidence that there are differences in other areas. Depending on political affiliation, Americans shop differently, as reported by Suzanne Kapner and in the Wall Street Journal.
Consumer research data show Democrats have become more likely to wear Levi’s than their Republican counterparts. The opposite is true with Wrangler, which is now far more popular with Republicans. There is no simple explanation behind those consumer moves. Some of it is due to social and political stances companies are taking, such as Levi’s embrace of gun control. …the country is becoming more polarized along political lines, which is having an effect on brands that choose to stay out of the political fray. …Nearly 60% of 1,000 Americans surveyed by Edelman last year said they would choose, switch, avoid or boycott a brand based on its stand on societal issues. That is up from 47% in 2017.Some of this makes sense to me. I have dramatically reduced my purchases at Dick’s, for example, because of the company’s opposition to the 2nd Amendment. Here’s a graphic from the story. The self-selection of Fox and CNN viewers is especially noteworthy.
Folks on the right and left may even sleep differently, according to research published in the Journal of Politics by Aleksander Ksiazkiewicz at the University of Illinois.
This article proposes that chronotype (a person’s time-of-sleep preference) is a previously unidentified psychological correlate of political ideology. Chronotype may lead to political ideology through a motivated social cognitive process, ideology may shape sleep patterns through a desire to align with social norms, or ideology and chronotype may arise from common antecedents, such as genetics, socialization, or community influences. Analyses demonstrate a link between a morningness and conservatism in seven American samples and one British sample. This relationship is robust to controls for openness, conscientiousness, and demographics, including age, sex, income, and education.Last but not least, Justin Lehmiller of the Kinsey Institute, in a column for Politico, says Republicans and Democrats have different fantasies.
I surveyed 4,175 adult Americans from all 50 states about what turns them on…one of the more intriguing things I uncovered was the political divide in our fantasy worlds. While self-identified Republicans and self-identified Democrats reported fantasizing with the same average frequency—several times per week—I found that Republicans were more likely than Democrats to fantasize about a range of activities that involve sex outside of marriage. Think things like infidelity, orgies and partner swapping… By contrast, self-identified Democrats were more likely than Republicans to fantasize about almost the entire spectrum of BDSM activities, from bondage to spanking to dominance-submission play. The largest Democrat-Republican divide on the BDSM spectrum was in masochism, which involves deriving pleasure from the experience of pain. …What connects Republicans and Democrats, I believe, is that their fantasies are at least partly driven by what they can’t have. …Interestingly, the single most commonly fantasized-about politician among both parties was the same: Sarah Palin (though Republicans were much more likely to have Palin fantasies than Democrats). Following Palin, the next most frequently mentioned politicians in Republicans’ fantasies were John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton and Nikki Haley. While, after Palin, Democrats fantasized about Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton.Maybe I’m strange, but I’ve never met or seen an American politician that piqued my interest.
Though I will confess to occasionally having quirky libertarian fantasies, one of which does involve sex. Speaking of quirky, folks on the left appear to have more issues with mental health. Since I’ve asserted that folks on the left are “neurotic” and “guilt-ridden,” part of me agrees with these findings. Though, to be fair, maybe they’re just more likely to visit healthcare providers. I’ll conclude with what I will conveniently characterize as the most insightful research. Three scholars, in an article for Current Psychology, find that libertarians are the smartest.
Previous studies consistently showed that analytic cognitive style (ACS) is negatively correlated with social conservatism, but there are mixed findings concerning its relation with economic conservatism. Most tests have relied on a unidimensional (liberal-conservative) operationalization of political orientation. Libertarians tend not only to identify themselves as conservative on this scale but also to score higher on ACS than liberals and conservatives.
Here’s the relevant chart from the study, courtesy of Rolf Degen.
Liberals can take some solace in that they score above conservatives, though there’s not much that can be said for self-identified moderates.
P.S. I started this column by noting that I want to understand how to be a more persuasive advocate for liberty. I don’t know if that will ever happen, but at least I can take comfort in that I will never be as deluded as this columnist who thinks he has discovered a way of becoming a more persuasive advocate for statism.
P.P.S. If you like this type of research, my previous columns on supposedly innate differences across ideologies can be found here, here, and here.
P.P.P.S. And here’s the research on the differences between libertarians and conservatives.
P.P.P.P.S. Here’s a humorous look at the difference between conservatives, liberals, and Texans.


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As the last leaves of the year come down, seed catalogs arrive in my mailbox, and I plan for May under the Bedding Plant Moon. Usually, I order a few packages of geraniums, coleus and petunias, and I start them under grow lights close to the furnace, which happens to be in the attic.
If I keep the soil warm, moist and close enough to the fluorescent bulbs, the seeds germinate within a week or so and then develop steadily throughout the winter.
Although I enjoy the flowers that the plants produce in spring and summer, for me, the best part of sprouting seeds in winter is sitting next to them, feeling safe and disconnected from the snow and from the rest of my life.
There, the only sound is the low purr of the furnace fan. All around me and the plants and the soft lights, the space is dark and private. The smell of new earth thins the musty smell of the attic. I hide, shielded by a comforter that is part childhood, part angel.
My eyes and, it seems, my longing itself search the magical glowing green of the sprouts for meaning. All their prophetic power rests in their two or four leaves, all of their potential compressed into the most delicate and vulnerable flesh.
Here there is no thought of maturity or harvest, no logical conclusion, no socially redeeming value, no death. I do not think about the eventual work of transplanting and mulching, conflicts with insects and weather and blights. Even the promise of beauty, color and fragrance is irrelevant. Only the coverlet of this time in this place with these creatures makes sense.

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Hundred of members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Thursday gathered at the state secretariat of the party to demand for the ratification of the suspension of the partyâ€™s National Legal Adviser, Dr. Muiz Banire, which was carried out in July last year, saying he did not only engages in political rascality, but also a dissident.
The party faithful in a letter to the National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, lamented that the refusal of the national leadership to ratify the suspension of Banire has embolden him in his antiparty activities.
According to the petition signed by the Legal Adviser of the party in Mushin, Lagos, Mr. Femi Martins, â€œsuch recalcitrant and political rascality (as displayed by Banire) undermines the democratic process, and parties at all levels must continue to strive to ensure decorum from its members, hence the protest of party faithful against Banire which resulted in his suspension, and was an exercise directed at saving the soul of the party and not a political vendetta.â€
They insisted that the suspension should be carried out immediately by the Oyegunâ€™s National Working Committee (NWC) before it leaves office in order to lay a foundation for party discipline.
They said because political parties are organised collection of people from diverse ethnic, cultural and socio-economic trappings and backgrounds who are voluntarily but deliberately united by common ideological objectives, there is the need to maintain discipline within the fold.
The party members insisted that â€œin the absence of discipline, members of the party would run amok as a result of the inevitable clash of all manner of centrifugal and centripetal force,â€ hence they want Banire to be used as example in this regard.
â€œWe therefore demand the national leadership of the party to act in furtherance of the suspension at the local level by completing the process to serve as deterrent to other dissidents alike,â€ the stated.
They described the activities of Banire as constituting grievous danger to the electoral fortunes of the party, adding that the confirmation of his suspension will â€œcurb his continuous embarrassment of the party in the media and social platforms at his disposal.
â€œIt should be noted that the recalcitrant member has further grown wings, committing worse atrocities against the same party that gave him semblance of relevance in the polity.
â€œHis activities constitute grievous danger to the electoral fortunes of the party. The remaining days of the NWC of the party should be written in gold by completing the process of Banireâ€™s suspension to lay a foundation for party discipline.â€
Receiving the petition on behalf of the state Chairman of the party, Mr. Tunde Balogun, the state Vice Chairman of Lagos West, Chief Funsho Ologunde, promised to ensure that the letter reaches the national leadership of the party immediately.

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Cancer Research U.K., AstraZeneca sign deal
Cancer Research U.K. and Cancer Research Technology, the charity's development and commercialization arm, have reached an agreement with AstraZeneca to take AZD2098, an experimental drug originally designed for asthma, into a clinical trial to treat kidney cancer.
This is the third agreement the parties have made under the Clinical Development Partnerships (CDP) scheme. CDP is a joint initiative between Cancer Research U.K.'s Drug Development Office (DDO) and Cancer Research Technology (CRT), to develop promising anti-cancer agents which pharmaceutical companies have not selected for further development and CRT is better placed to progress through early phase clinical trials. It is the ninth treatment to enter Cancer Research U.K.'s CDP scheme, with six having progressed into the clinic.
This deal with AstraZeneca will enable the charity's Drug Development Office to complete preclinical development and carry out early clinical trials of the compound to see if it can benefit kidney cancer patients. Cancer Research U.K.'s DDO also is funding the early phase trial of AZD2098 in which up to 40 patients will take part, set to begin 2015.
AZD2098 targets a molecule found on immune cells called CCR4, which is important for directing these cells to where they need to go. It is thought that in kidney cancer, immune cells move to the tumor because of this molecule. Once the immune cells arrive, the tumor often forces them to become inactive, or worse, help the cancer develop.
By blocking this function, AZD2098 may change the immune cell environment around the cancer, encouraging those cells to attack the tumor. CCR4 also has been found to be expressed on the surface of cancer cells, which may provide an additional way for this blocker to impair tumor growth. The work establishing the potential anti-tumor effect of AZD2098 was carried out by Professor Frances Balkwill at Queen Mary University of London's Barts Cancer Institute and was supported by Cancer Research U.K.
Professor Tom Powles, trial lead and Cancer Research U.K. clinician at Queen Mary University of London, said, "AZD2098 potentially allows us to target the support network which helps keep cancer cells alive, and it may be particularly potent in kidney cancer. As cancer treatments become more and more refined and our ability to attack the disease from new angles increases, we hope to bring forward the day when we can cure this disease."
Around 9,600 people in the U.K. are diagnosed with kidney cancer each year and the incidence rates in Britain have more than doubled since the 1970s.


I was most interested in how blood-thirsty my fellow Americans are. I admit I am somewhat bloodthirsty, even as I realize a military solution will probably "work" only if the US kills everyone else in the world. I at least want to know who actually did it. I still don't buy that it is Osama bin Laden (but that's another story).
You've probably all heard the figure already saying that 90% or more of Americans are in favor of military strikes. Gallup has that at http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr010914b.asp along with other tidbits. Some figures:
- 71% of Americans want to wait until we know who actually did it.
- 21% are willing to strike "against all known terrorist organizations even if it was unclear who orchestrated the attacks."
- Only 4% do not support military strikes.
- Two press polls mentioned include determining Americans' willingness for war casualties, etc. From the Gallup article:
The ABC News/Washington Post poll found that 69% of Americans support going to war even if it means "getting into a long war with large numbers of U.S. troops killed or injured." The NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found 83% support "even if it means risking further retaliation and the threat of war."
I also wondered about the President's approval rating. We all realize that President Bush is considered by many to be a lackluster president. I know that not too long ago Bush's approval rating was sitting around 50% or lower. Gallup has some poll data on that at http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr010914d.asp.
- Over many polls, Bush's overall approval rating has jumped 20 points to a value between 72% and 86% according to different polls.
- Bush's approval rating for his handling of the attacks is at 91% in one ABC News/Washington Post poll.
- The Gallup release notes that the largest rally effect was for George Bush Sr's announcement at the start of the Persian Gulf War, also 20 points.
- Even stranger to me, the congress-critters' approval ratings are up. Really up. At their highest level ever measured -- 75% in a CNN/Time Poll (I assume the more scientific variety). Previously Congress' approval rating was a dismal 42%.
The explanation that comes to mind is simply these are war numbers -- the president and congress (government in general) are always approved of more during a war. In other words (and the Gallup articles discuss this) we Americans believe we are at war. War presidents are often forgiven for many things (Wilson kept us out of war, but then he got us into it; Bush Sr. was in the Iran-Contra affair and presided over a recession). Bush Jr. hasn't been the best president but now he is a war president -- and so we approve.
I know poll numbers are always suspect and don't say everything. But it looks like America wants a war. The media, Congress and the President aren't the only ones (well, unless we citizens are being led by the nose). But I'm in that 70% even though the other half of me says that's silly, primitive, uncivilized and will probably do no good. Look for me next year at an anti-war rally or maybe in the army. One half of my brain might have beaten the other senseless.


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AFC Wimbledon manager Glyn Hodges refused to blame the club’s Covid-19 outbreak for their 2-1 defeat to Lincoln City on Saturday.
The Dons were missing five first-team players due to self-isolation. Four academy players were named on the bench, but the starting line-up wasn’t as heavily affected as it could have perhaps been.
When asked if the game going ahead despite the outbreak had set his team up to fail, Hodges stated he was “happy” and “confident” with the team he was able to put out.
“I didn’t think they were going to fail, no. Sometimes these sort of things happen and you win, so I was still confident in the team we picked. I was confident in the players – the only problem we had were concerns on fitness levels. Jaako Oksanen hadn’t played 90 minutes since October-November, Cheye [Alexander] hasn’t played and it’s Ollie Palmer’s first 90 minutes. But I was happy with the team I picked.
“I think there’s positives. We got beat on Boxing Day, but there were positives there. Today, we’ve gone toe to toe with the top team in the division who are a really good side and have got some really good players. It wasn’t as if they produced a great bit of magic to win – we’ve made a mistake that’s cost us the game and I feel sorry for the players. Like I said, if we carry on in this vein, anything can happen. At the moment, everything seems to be going against us. But the effort and the endeavour is there. It can turn on anything.
“Their player in the first half smashed one of his shins and it went through to the goalkeeper. That could have gone anywhere. We’ve missed contact and it’s gone straight to their player. It’s something you can’t legislate for, but you’re going to make mistakes and when you do sometimes you get punished. Paul done well, but that was unfortunate.
“We just continue to work and make sure that we get a result on Wednesday.”
Ollie Palmer netted his first Dons goal to restore parity in the first-half after Tayo Edun had given Lincoln the lead in the eighth minute. He powered a header home at the back post, but it was cancelled out by Tom Hopper’s late strike to extend Wimbledon’s winless run to six.
“I was pleased with that. It was nice for him to get his goal and hopefully he scores a lot more. I think in the first half they couldn’t cope with Pigott and Palmer. I thought we got the ball in some good areas and they caused them a few problems. We didn’t quite manage that in the second half, which is disappointing.”
To add to the current lack of bodies, Steve Seddon was recalled by Birmingham prior to the game. Hodges confirmed that his return to Birmingham was likely to lead to an addition now the window has reopened.
“There might be now. Especially with Seddon down and going back. The option was probably getting one out to get another one in the door, so fingers crossed we can do it.”
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Peugeot has revealed the special edition RCZ – the Brownstone, which is now available to order in Europe. The manufacturer will run the car in limited series of just 150 units.
It features a gloss black grille and brake calipers, and a set of big Magny Cours 19” alloy wheels fitted with low profile run-on-flat tires. The interior comes with Cohiba Leather and Alcantara for the sport seats, the dashboard and door trim panels.
The RCZ Brownstone is powered by the 1.6 liter THP petrol engine with 156HP (115 kW) and 243Nm (180 lb-ft). It is very economical – 6.4 liters / 100 km and CO2 emissions are 149g/km.
The equipment WIP Com 3D telematic system, Sport package including – shorter shifter, leather sport steering wheel and Motorsound-Generator, Comfort package – front PDC (park distance control), automatic low beam switch and rain sensor, and xenon package with dynamic cornering lights and headlamp cleaning system.
A JBL premium sound system with ten-channel amplifier and 240 WATTS of power is available as an option for €500.
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Last night on the very first Live Show for The Voice 2017, we said goodbye to one member of the Top 12 artists. Leaving the competition was Robin Johnson from Team George, with Team Delta hunk Tim Conlon surviving the bottom two sudden-death sing-off.
The remaining 11 Artists will now prepare to perform in the second Live Show on Sunday, June 11, 2017 at 7:00 PM on Channel Nine, with multiple ARIA award-winning artists The Veronicas appearing as a special musical guest act.
It was also announced last night that international superstar Katy Perry will be performing live at The Voice Grand Finale.
"I'm so excited to bring my brand new record 'Witness' to you, and to perform on the Grand Finale of The Voice", Perry said.
Katy Perry is one of the best-selling musical artists of all time, having sold over 100 million records globally, and having won numerous music awards.
Images from last night can be found here:
Top 12 Artists
Coaches & Host
The remaining teams are as follows:
Streaming or purchasing the artists tracks on Apple Music or iTunes contributes votes towards your favourite artist for the next live show, as does voting via The Voice app.
For more details on voting, please visit www.thevoice.com.au/vote
The artist who is crowned the winner of The Voice 2017 will receive the grand prize of a recording contract with Universal Music Australia, and $100,000 in cash.
The Voice, Australia is shot at Fox Studios in Sydney and is produced by ITV Studios on behalf of Channel Nine.
For more information, please contact:
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As part of TriStar Pictures’ upcoming Whitney Houston biopic, former Black Nativity director Kasi Lemmons has been brought in to direct I Wanna Dance with Somebody. As a result of creative differences, Selma Lemmons will take over the role of Stella Meghie. It will resume being produced by her. “I Want to Dance With Someone” traces Whitney Houston’s triumphs and tragedies.
As a teenager, Houston was a model and began singing religious music. By the 1980s and 1990s, she was one of the greatest R&B and pop musicians all over the world. Later in her career, she developed an addiction to drugs, which led to her premature death in 2012 at only 48 years old.
What is the Release Date for I Wanna Dance with Somebody?
Houston’s tragic death in 2012 ten years ago inspired the production of this film, set to debut around Thanksgiving of 2022. The film has already experienced some behind-the-scene changes, so we hope it will stay on schedule. Lemmons displaced Stella Meghie, who left the job due to creative disagreements. Though, Meghie will continue to be an executive producer.
Lemmons said she was connected to Houston professionally. Lemmons revealed that she had the opportunity to develop two projects for Whitney early in her professional life. She further describes that Whitney was an exceptional artist whose life story is at once inspiring and harrowing.
I Wanna Dance With Somebody: Who will be in the cast?
The role of Houston was given to Naomi Ackie after a rigorous search. Before winning the role of Houston, Ackie is known to appear in “Star Wars: Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker” as First Order Resistance fighter Jannah. Additionally, she played Denise’s (Lena Waithe) wife Alicia on the third season of “Master of None” (titled “Master of None Presents: Moments in Love”). Among her other film credits are “The End of the F***ing World,” and “Lady Macbeth.”.
Moses Ingram, who plays Robyn Crawford, Houston’s former assistant turned creative director, is the only confirmed cast member. Oscar nominee Anthony McCarten wrote the screenplay for the movie, which takes audiences on an exciting journey throughout Houston’s life and career.
In I Wanna Dance With Somebody, What will be the Plot?
What exactly the film will depict of Whitney Houston, who suffered from drug dependency in addition to her earth-shattering talent, has yet to be determined.
With Deadline announcing Lemmons’ involvement, it sounds like the filmmakers intend to tell Whitney’s story unfiltered. It is an amazing responsibility to tell Whitney Houston’s story honestly and without holding back. Not only does Kasi Lemmons possess an acclaimed, award-winning resume, but he also clearly understands Whitney as the preeminent artist who triumphed musically while fighting valiantly with addiction as well.”
Aside from that, the movie has Houston’s blessing. Ackie’s family has previously approved the script, so it wouldn’t surprise me if they wanted the star to be depicted more favorably in the script. This will allow them to use Houston’s music in a way that a previous biopic, the movie on her directed by Angela Bassett, was unable to.
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WANTED: Lancashire's most wanted
Police are appealing for information about the following men across Lancashire who they believe may be able to help them with their investigations.
A spokesman for the police said: "All these people are wanted by Lancashire Police. If you have seen them or know of their current whereabouts please get in touch."
Anyone with information should contact police on 101.


When the palace announced the queen’s condition had worsened, Anya tweeted: “I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating.” Twitter deleted the post for violating its standards.
Carnegie Mellon, where Anya is an associate professor of modern languages, criticized her for “offensive and objectionable messages” and accused her of violating “standards of discourse we seek to foster.”
Anya, from Nigeria, which was under British rule until 1960, explained earlier that she would not back down from her remarks. She accused the queen of overseeing a government “that massacred and displaced half my family.”
Anya’s tweets also provoked a response from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
“This is someone supposedly working to make the world better? I don’t think so. Wow,” he wrote.
In defense of the professor, The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression issued a letter asking Carnegie Mellon not to penalize her to affirm its commitment to free speech.
“We urge CMU tor resist public pressure … by refusing to investigate or punish Anya for her protected extramural expression.”
HuffPost has reached out to Anya for comment.


Solution(s) fail to deploy during a Nintex upgrade because a file is being used by another process.
When upgrading Nintex Workflow, some Nintex solution(s) may be in an 'Error' state with the following error:
The process cannot access the file 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\Bin\[NintexDLLName].dll' because it is being used by another process.
From a command prompt, run the following command (using the name of the .dll that was provided in the error text) to obtain a list of the PID's associated with the tasks that are currently using the dll:
tasklist /m [dllname].dll
Run the following taskkill command, using the PID list from Step 1, to stop any processes that are currently using the .dll:
taskkill /pid [PID1] /pid [PID2]
After stopping these processes, either go to Central Admin and redeploy the solutions or run the installer again.
After confirming that the .dlls have been recreated properly on the affected server, reboot the server and finish following the product update guide to complete the installation.
The copying of this file failed: Bin\NintexWorkflowStart\Autofac.dll. The process cannot access the file 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\Bin\NintexWorkflowStart\Autofac.dll' because it is being used by another process.
See the following references in Microsoft TechNet for the tasklist and taskkill commands:


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After Kaatru Veliyidai, Manirathinam is directing a film which is titled Chekka Chivantha Vaanam. The shooting of the film commenced recently and is progressing at a rapid pace. Aravind Swami, Vijay Sethupathi, Prakash Raj, Simbhu, Arun Vijay, Jyothika, Aishwarya Rajesh, Athithi Rao, Mansoor Ali Khan, Jayasudha, and Thyagarajan are starring in the film. At this juncture, Appani Sarath of Angamaly Diaries has been signed for an important role. Appani Sarath had earlier donned the villain role in Sandaikozhi 2. Initially, Malayalam versatile actor Fahadh Fazil was signed for this film but due to call sheet problems, he was not able to act in this film. So Manirathinam signed Arun Vijay in place of Fahad.
A R Rahman is composing the music while Santosh Shivan is handling the camera. Sreekar Prasad will be in charge of editing. Vairamuthu has penned the lyrics while Dilip Subbarayan will take care of the stunts.
Manirathinam is producing the film under the banner Madras Talkies. He has sold the negative rights to Lyca. The Telugu version of the film has been titled, Nawab. The story of Chekka Chivantha Vaanam is about trade unions. Hence it is understood that the film will have the backdrop of North Chennai where there are more factories.


text: Winter is usually welcomed with a variety of clothing that can drive cold air. There are many different types of clothing and accessories that can make your body feel warm. Some of the clothes and accessories are made with crochet. Well for those of you who are curious and want to see, anything you can make with crochet, then on this occasion we will share the Awesome Winter Crochet Patterns Ideas. Hopefully what is in this article can add to your insight.

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Mr. Fani Titi is Non-Executive Chairman at Kumba Iron Ore Ltd., Chairman at Investec Ltd., Chairman at Investec Plc, Non-Executive Chairman at Investec Bank Ltd., Chairman at Investec Bank Plc, Chairman at MRC Media Pty Ltd., Chairman at Tsiya Group (Pty) Ltd. and a Member at Remco, Inc. He is on the Board of Directors at Investec Asset Management Holdings Pty Ltd. and Investec Employee Benefits Ltd.
Mr. Titi was previously employed as Independent Non-Executive Director by MTN Group Ltd., Independent Non-Executive Director by Advanced Technical Systems Ltd., Non-Executive Chairman by AECI Ltd., Executive Director by African Bank Investments Ltd., Deputy Chairman by The Bidvest Group Ltd., and Executive Director by Tiso Group Ltd. He also served on the board at Kumba Resources Ltd.
He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Davis, a graduate degree from the University of California, Davis and an MBA from the University of the Witwatersrand.

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A discourse concerning the nature of idolatry:
in which a late author's true and onely notion of idolatry is considered and confuted. ...
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FNQ Farm Stay & Outdoor Education
Another exciting option that is available through FNQ FARM STAY & OUTDOOR EDUCATION – our farm-stay program including accommodation.
We have many different farms listed on our database, all well set-up and keen to show visitors the ins and outs of daily farm life. We have options available ranging from an overnight stay on a Dairy Farm, Avocado Farm or Sugarcane Farm to our Wilderness Package which includes rainforest walks to special places that only the locals can find.
Our Farm Stay Coordinator can streamline a visit to suit your needs whether it be for students or for those desiring to experience the wonderful sights of The Wet Tropics in Far North Queensland.
We have the capacity to handle up to 200 students at one time to various farms across the Tablelands. Bookings well in advance are essential.
***Please note that all Farm-stay programs organised by FNQ Farm Stay & Outdoor Education require a min 1 night’s accommodation on the farm. However, day visits can be arranged with specific farms (depending on seasonal availability)***

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As regular readers will recall, last December I was all set to take delivery of my new custom Sweetpea bicycle. Sadly, the "B" team at Fed Ex decided it would be fun to smoosh the bike's headtube on the way back from the powder coating plant in Colorado.
One sad telephone call later, and Natalie was busting out her fabrication tools all over again. Time passed, and the new and improved Sweetpea is almost ready to go back to the painters (this time packed in a giant lead case, no doubt . . .
If all goes well, I may be riding H.W. Jr. within a few weeks!


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The Lament for Donald Duaghal MacKay is often cited by top professional pipers as being in their shortlist of favourite pieces. This is probably for many reasons but could arguably all be boiled down to the fact that it does not fit into any regular phrasing pattern – it is what one would classify as an ‘irregular’ structure. This poses a number of challenges, not least in memorisation! It also, however, gives the player longer passages in which to express the emotions of the piece.
This series of lessons is not so much designed to teach the tunes, as to give an insight into some of the ‘bigger’ tunes, with the hope that it inspires curiosity, understanding and appreciation of these masterpieces, and of piobaireachd generally.
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Summer and salmon are made for each other, it's so versatile you can use it as an ingredient for everything from tarts to a roast. This meal provides a quick and easy lunch or a perfect supper with friends. It's ready in no time and is full of omega 3 oils to nourish and give your skin a healthy glow.
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily value may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Preheat oven to 210C.
Brush some olive oil over each salmon fillet, then sprinkle over salt, pepper, lemon zest and half of the chilli flakes.
Lay salmon on baking paper, then surround with the beans. Drizzle beans with remaining oil, and season. Drizzle fresh lemon juice over both salmon and beans, then scatter over fresh parsley.
Place in the oven to bake for 14-16 minutes, or until the salmon begins to flake and the beans are tender.

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I've been something of a slacker lately--at least in terms of blogging. Partly this is due to being swamped in work. I'm trying to get a few chapters of the latest incarnation of my book sent off to my agent in NY, and even when I'm not overtly writing/editing, I'm thinking about it, composing in my head, imagining the twists and turns of these lives. My editor told me the other day that I needed to draft a backstory for one of the storylines in the book. "Let them speak to you," she told me. "Let them tell you their story." And that's exactly what I've been doing.
For some writers, working with an outline/a map of the story is the best way to approach a novel. They know the ending before they start the beginning. These are left-brain writers, people who want to stay in charge of their work. This is not me. I would feel stymied if I had to write in such a tight manner--like a straight line from beginning to end, staying on track (I know I'm overgeneralizing, but you get the idea). Like CS Lewis says, for me, it begins with 'a lump in my throat.' I get to know my characters, and let them tell me their story. Sometimes they don't do what I'd like them to do--once they've begun to have flesh and muscle added to their skeleton, they are who they are, so they get a little messier than I'd like, and I have far less control than I wish.There are unexpected delays, roadblocks, tightrope walks...and sometimes I even write myself into a deadend. See, I didn't know the ending of this novel when I started it. In fact, all I knew was one scene--I wrote this family's story because I wanted to see what happened to them after that cataclysmic shift in their lives. I know them so well now, it feels like I could drive up to their big old farmhouse, knock on the door and they'd welcome me in. I'm not really crazy, I realize they don't really exist--except inside my head and in the words on a page--words I've written down for them. But those words aren't always ones I hoped they would say.
I've often thought that as their creator--the one who loves them most--they should at least do me the honor of being who I want them to be--noble, grand, enlightened. But they aren't. They stubbornly refuse to fit into the little character sketches I wrote for them in the early days. This one's too angry, that one has a tendency to flee. I wrote a mother I always dreamed of, and she turned out to have clay feet as well. Dang it!
But all this imagining I do, and this being subject to the characters I created has always made me think of the Holy Trinity. See, I'm the creator, these characters in my story wouldn't exist if I hadn't given them life. No one else thought them up, no one else gave them life. And it wasn't an accident--no big bang started this novel. It was my own imagination, brain and fingers. And therefore, every character has something of me in them--the Spirit of me, so to speak. Though it feels like I can't control them, they are also subject to that spirit of me that first invented them and loves them most (even the 'villians' of the piece!). But in any piece of fiction, there could also be a 'me': the very incarnation of the real self of the author, who speaks and acts exactly as the writer would in those fictional situations within the story. This is possible, though there is no such 'me' in my novel. But even now, I could write myself in--if I felt I needed to save the story, if my being present in the novel would make a difference between life and no life for those characters.
See, the Creator, the Incarnate, the Spirit--all the same exact person in mine or any other novel. A novel trinity. And that's the way it is with the actual Holy Trinity. He is complete: Spirit, Incarnate, Creator--All God almighty. How novel is that?

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David Cameron has dismissed critics within his own party opposed to his pledge to increase spending on aid at a time of severe cuts in public expenditure.
Cameron made the comments in Kabul, at a news conference with the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai. He sought to underline that Britain's reduction in frontline troops by 2014 did not mean the end of support for Afghanistan.
Asked whether an increase in aid to Afghanistan would now be needed to compensate for the withdrawal of troops, Cameron said: "To people who are hard-headed about aid and possibly even hard-hearted about aid, I would say the programme we have in Afghanistan, trying to help the people and government of Afghanistan, to have a stronger, more secure, more stable country is not just good to people in Afghanistan, it's good for people back home in Britain."
Cameron has pledged that the coalition will meet the UN target of 0.7% of GDP being allocated to international aid by 2013. It currently stands at 0.52% of GDP.
The pledge to increase spending on international aid at the same time as making cuts to other departments dates back to Cameron's early attempts to modernise the party, but he been buffeted by increasingly confident voices in the last few months.
A leaked letter from his defence secretary, Liam Fox, recently said there were dangers in such an inflexible target, suggesting it might limit the room for manoeuvre of ministers in foreign affairs.
The Department for International Development said £102m was spent on aid in the last financial year and it would rise this year to £178m. Of these totals, 16% goes to Helmand province, where British troops operate.
In Afghanistan's capital, Cameron said: "Our aid programme in Afghanistan is one of our largest aid programmes anywhere in the world.
"In the debate that we inevitably have in Britain about whether it's right to be spending money on aid, I would say this is a great example of a country that, if we walk away from and if we ignore and forget about, the problems come visited back on our doorstep.
"How do we know this? Because we've done it before. We walked away from Afghanistan in the past. The problem of drugs got worse. The problem of terrorism got worse. The problem of extremism got worse. The problem of asylum and immigration got worse."
He said his two aid priorities were to save lives and put money into previously broken states.
Karzai said: "I would like to thank Britain for the assistance already delivered to the Afghan people in both treasure and blood of the British people and the taxpayers' money.
"Of course. Afghanistan would find it desirable if Britain could continue to help Afghanistan, continuing to build its infrastructure and delivery of services to the Afghan people."


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Abby Wambach redirected a service from Ali Krieger off a set piece, and Amy Rodriguez put the finishing touches on a great buildup by Heather O’Reilly and Wambach to give the U.S. all it needed to defeat Japan, 2-0, Saturday night in Columbus, Ohio. But, unfortunately the U.S. was dealt a major blow as midfielder Lindsay Tarpley, who came on as a sub in the second half, tore her ACL in her right knee and will miss the 2011 Women’s World Cup.
Japan came out strong in the early going, but couldn’t get any great looks on goal. Yuki Nagasato, who plays in Germany’s Bundesliga for Turbine Potsdam and Kozue Ando (who also plays in Bundesliga, for FCR 2001 Duisburg), and captain and former Washington Freedom forward Homare Sawa (INAC Kobe Leonessa), created chances, but the U.S. back line of Krieger, Rachel Buehler (Boston Breakers), Stephanie Cox (Boston Breakers), and Becky Sauerbrunn (magicJack) managed to contain any legitimate attack.
Wambach put the U.S. on the scoreboard in the 29th minute when she put a header past Japanese keeper Ayumi Kaihori (INAC Kobe Leonessa). Krieger served the ball to the far post on a free kick from about 25 yards out and Wambach (magicJack) powered the header into the back of the net. In the 37th minute, Heather O’Reilly (Sky Blue FC) bolted some 30 yards before delivering a pass to an overlapping Wambach, who sent the ball to Rodriguez (Philadelphia Independence) for the one-timed shot past Kaihori.
Notebook: Keeper Hope Solo, starting for the first time since injuring her shoulder last year, earned her 51st shutout for the U.S. … Midfielder Carli Lloyd wore the captain’s armband for earning her 100th cap … The U.S. used five substitutes – Tarpley (magicJack) for O’Reilly (Tarpley was later replaced by Alex Morgan of the WNY Flash), Lori Lindsey (Independence) for Shannon Boxx (magicJack), Tobin Heath (Sky Blue FC) for Megan Rapinoe (Independence), and Lauren Cheney (Boston Breakers) for Amy Rodriguez … Whitney Engen (WNY Flash) flew out to Columbus following Friday’s WPS game, replacing the injured Heather Mitts (Atlanta Beat) on the U.S. roster … In addition to Sawa and Aya Miyama, there were two other Japanese players with WPS connections. Karina Maruyama, who did not play Saturday, was a member of the Philadelphia Independence in 2010. And, starting left back Aya Samejima trained this preseason with the Boston Breakers. Samejima previously played for TEPCO Mareeze … A moment of silence was held prior to the match to honor those affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Northeastern Japan … The two teams will play on Wednesday, May 18 at 7 p.m. ET at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, North Carolina (airing live on ESPN2) … Saturday’s match was played in front of a crowd of 5,234.


How to Build a Workbench
This workbench is simple to build and solid so it won’t move around as you work on it. It is also small enough to fit in most workshops.
|A||Top||198 x 48 x 1800mm|
|B||Corner brackets||90 x 35 x 240mm|
|C||Side top rails||148 x 48 x 800mm|
|D||Front/back top rails||90 x 35 x 1400mm|
|E||Coach bolts, nuts and washers||5/16 x 4 ½ – 5/16 x 6 ½|
|F||Side bottom rails||90 x 35 x 800mm|
|G||Legs||98 x 98 x 900mm|
|H||Front/back bottom rails||90 x 35 x 1400mm|
|I||Shelf||800 x 1470 x 19mm|
|J||Bench stop||90 x 35 x 300mm|
Claw hammer (570g)
Smoothing plane (no. 4)
Steel tape (3 meters)
Three beveled-edge firmer chisels (10mm, 18mm, 32mm)
Cross-cut saw (650mm long)
Tenon saw (300mm long)
Nail punch (3mm)
Set of twist drills
Set of screwdrivers (slotted, pozi, Phillips)
Variable-speed power drill
1. Cut to length the four legs (G) and mark in housings for top and bottom rails (D and H). The top housing is 148mm x 48mm deep; the lower one 90mm x 35mm deep. Set your circular saw to the right depth and cut on the waste side of the lines you marked. Cut a series of parallel lines about 12mm apart between the housing marks and knock out waste. Smooth each housing with a chisel or rasp.
- Cut to length front and back top and bottom rails (D and H), align them in their housing and pin in place with nails. Drill through both legs and rails as shown and bolt rails to legs. Check frame is square by measuring the diagonals.
- Cut and clamp side rails (C and F) to the front and back frame, then drill and insert the longer bolts. Tighten all nuts securely and check the table doesn’t rock.
- Cut out four corner brackets (B) with 45-degree angles. A miter saw will be useful for this or set a circular saw to cut at 45 degrees. Screw brackets in place flush with the top of rails. At this stage, the bench frame should be completely rigid.
- Cut the bottom shelf (I) to suit the dimensions of the bench. Notch out 35mm x 133mm in each corner to clear the legs. The shelf can be screwed in place or left loose.
- Cut the five pieces for the top (A). Move them around to get a good fit for the edges and hold them in place with a nail. Screw them to the bench frame with 100mm screws, two in each end, sunk slightly below the surface. Use a plane to smooth any major irregularities.
- Prepare a bench stop (J) as shown in the detail. Find the center and measure 60mm and 200mm from one end of a length of 90mm x 35mm pine. Drill an 8mm diameter hole at these points. Draw two lines joining the holes and cut along lines with a jigsaw to form a slot. Smooth the cut with a file or sharp chisel. Bevel the end at 45 degrees. Cut bench to a length of 300mm.
- Locate the bench stop where you want it. Right-handed people generally prefer the stop at the left-hand end of the bench and left-handed people vice-versa. Make sure you avoid the braces. Hold the bench stop against the front rails and mark around it on the underside of the bench top. Transfer this shape to the top of the bench.
Drill two holes in opposite corners and cut out the rectangular hole. Insert the bench stop and make sure it slides smoothly. Adjust with a file or chisel as necessary. Hold the bench stop so it is flush with the bench top and drill a hole through the front rail at the top of the slot. Insert a carriage bolt with a washer and wing nut to allow the bench stop to be raised and lowered easily.
- Workbenches are usually not finished with paint or a clear finish as it could mark other items which are built on the bench.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Jessica Davenport got off to a slow start but got plenty of help from her teammates as Ohio State (No. 9 ESPN/USA Today, No. 10 AP) beat Bowling Green 89-41 on Friday night in the preseason WNIT.
Davenport and Ashley Allen each scored 17 points and Ohio State went 13-of-20 from 3-point range.
"I think that's what happens when you try to take away one part of our offense," Davenport said.
The Buckeyes host Saint Joseph's on Sunday in the second round of the 16-team tournament. The Hawks beat Boston University 51-49 on Friday night.
Ohio State took control early with a 17-0 run. Davenport, the top freshman in the Big Ten last season, was the focus of the Bowling Green defense and opened up the perimeter for the Buckeyes' outside shooters.
"Jessica Davenport is such a good player she dictates the defense," Bowling Green coach Curt Miller said. "Our game plan was to sag and make them make shots. When Ohio State makes shots, they make you look silly."
Allen, playing her first game after missing almost all of last year and the second half of the 2002-03 season with knee injuries, hit a career-high five 3-pointers and was 6-of-7 from the field.
"It felt good to return after being out for about a year and a half," Allen said. "That was exciting."
Caity Matter chipped in with 12 points and seven assists.
"Ashley stepped up tonight and hit a lot of 3s, Caity hit her 3s and other players made shots," Davenport said.
No Bowling Green player hit double figures, with Casey McDowell and Megan Thorburn each scoring nine points.
Ohio State, voted the conference favorite by the Big Ten coaches, trailed 12-8 early on but held the Falcons scoreless for 5:46 during the first half. Bowling Green missed seven shots and committed four turnovers during the stretch.
"A team is going to counterpunch," Buckeyes coach Jim Foster said. "You've got to do the same until you see what's going to work that night. We've got a lot of people who can shoot the 3."
The Buckeyes led 37-23 at the break and then scored 23 of the first 30 points of the second half for a 60-30 lead.
Ohio State outscored the Falcons 12-0 in fast-break points, 12-0 in second-chance points and 30-10 in the paint.
"They're loaded," Miller said, shaking his head. "They're a legitimate Final Four contender of a team. And they looked it tonight."


Tower Grove Park has received an anonymous gift of $485,000 to fund the renovations of the Park’s stable building, a Victorian structure dating to 1870 and housing the Park’s Clydesdale horse and Shetland pony. The gift is one of the larger individual private donations in the park’s 146-year history. The donor selected the stable out of a love for horses and because of the building’s importance to park history.
“This gift honors Tower Grove Park’s legacy as a Victorian carriage park and helps bring that history to life,” says Steve Kidwell, president of the Tower Grove Park Board of Commissioners. “In a year spent crafting a new master plan with the public, this generous donation stands out as an example of leadership. It helps lay the groundwork for the park’s future by preserving a unique historical treasure for all to enjoy.”
Constructed in 1870 before widespread use of mechanized equipment, the Tower Grove Park stable originally housed working mules. The building is located in the northwest quadrant of the park, just east of the intersection of Magnolia and Alfred avenues. The structure features rustic Missouri limestone walls, a bell tower reminiscent of the Alamo, and an unusual end-grain woodblock floor. While the stable is operational today, the walls display decades of patchwork repairs, portions of the floor have sunk, and the roof suffers from deferred maintenance.
Thanks to the generosity of the anonymous donor, this historic structure will be fully and painstakingly restored to its historic glory. The entire exterior will be tuck-pointed with appropriate materials and stone replacement as needed, including the rebuilding of the bell gable. New roof, windows and doors will be installed, and architectural lighting will be added. The interior floor blocks will be removed and re-set with new subflooring. The building will have all-new electric, plumbing, ventilation and heat. A horse-washing station is being added, and the employee restroom attached to the residence renovated. The site will be graded to improve drainage for both the stable yard and paddock. The end result will be a magnificent renewal of this rare Victorian structure, as well as a more comfortable and accommodating space for both horses and humans.
“The clip-clop of hooves from a horse-drawn carriage ringing out in the park creates a magical connection to the past,” says Executive Director Bill Reininger. “This gift both secures our historic stable building and guarantees the continuation of our excellent standard of equine care. On behalf of the park’s 2.5 million annual visitors, we are deeply grateful.”
Construction will begin in January, weather permitting. During construction, the park’s horses will be relocated to a private facility in Wildwood, and carriage rides will be on hiatus. The park anticipates the completion of work and restoration of carriage rides later this spring. M
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Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo state has urged the Supreme Court to dismiss an application filed by the sacked governor of the state, Emeka Ihedioha, seeking the setting aside of the January 14 judgment that removed him from office.
Uzodinma is seeking the order in a preliminary objection he filed to challenged the competence of Ihedioha’s motion.
In the said motion dated February 5, 2020, Ihedioha prayed the apex court for an order setting aside “as a nullity the judgment delivered by it on the 14th of January, 2020 in Appeal No. SC.1462/ 2019 and Cross-Appeal No. SC.147Y0/ 2019.
However, governor Uzodinma in his preliminary objection dated February 6, 2020, urged the court to strike it out.
In addition, motion on notice brought pursuant to Section 6(6)(a) of the 1999 Uzodinma and his political platform, the All Progressive Congress (APC),
predicated their objection on the grounds that “the application being a proceeding relating to or arising from election of a governor is barred by effluxion of time.
“The application constitutes an invitation to the Supreme Court to sit on appeal over its final decision” Uzodinma posited.
Besides, the objectors through their counsel, Damien Dodo (SAN) submitted that “having delivered its final decision on the 1st and 2nd Respondents’ Appeal No. SC. 1462/2019 between Senator Hope Uzodinma & Anor v Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha & 2 Ors., the Supreme Court has become fuctus officio and divested of jurisdiction over the same subject matter.”
“Order 8 Rule 16 of the Supreme Court Rules 2014 prohibits this Honourable Court from reviewing its judgment once given and delivered, save to correct clerical mistakes or accidental slip.
“The judgment sought to be set aside having been given effect by the inauguration of the 1st Respondent/Objector as Governor of Imo State, this Honourable Court lacks the jurisdiction to grant the prayer sought” Uzodinma argued.
More so, Uzodinma stated that Ihedioha’s application “constitutes an abuse of court process” and “is against public policy.”
He added that the application filed by the ousted governor amounts to an invitation to the Court to indulge in academic exercise and answer hypothetical questions.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), had after the March 9, 2019 gubernatorial election in Imo state, declared Hon. Emeka Ihedioha as winner of the poll.
Aggrieved by the declaration of Ihedioha by the INEC as winner of the governorship election, Uzodinma and APC challenged the said declaration by way of a petition.
The litigation that ensued from the petition ultimately led to the appeal by Uzodinma and APC against the decision of the Court of Appeal which by majority decision dismissed their appeal against the decision of the Election Tribunal to apex court.
Ihedioha and PDP also cross appealed.
However, in its judgment of 14th January, 2020, the Supreme Court held that there was merit in the appeal filed by Uzodinma and allowed same.
Consequently, the judgment of the lower court affirming the judgment of the Governorship Election Tribunal which declared Ihedioha winner of the Imo governorship election, was set aside.
Among the orders, the Supreme Court declared that votes due to the Appellants, Uzodinma & APC from 388 polling units were wrongly excluded from the score ascribed to them.
It ordered that the Appellants’ votes from the 388 polling units unlawfully excluded from the Appellants’ score shall be added to the results declared by the INEC.
The Supreme Court also ruled that the 1st Respondent, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha was not duly elected by a majority of lawful votes cast at the said election, and that his return as the elected Governor of Imo state was null and void and accordingly set aside.
“It is hereby declared that the 1st Appellant, Sen. Hope Uzodinma polled a majority of lawful votes cast at the Governorship Election held in Imo State on 9th March, 2019 and satisfied the mandatory constitutional threshold and spread across the state.
“It is hereby declared that the 1st appellant, Sen. Hope Uzodinma is the winner of the Govemorship Election of Imo State held on 9th March, 2019.
“The Certificate of Return issued to the 1st respondent Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha is hereby withdrawn.
“It is hereby ordered that a certificate of return shall be issued to the 1st appellant, Sen. Hope Uzodinma forthwith and he should be sworn in as the Governor at lmo State immediately” the Supreme Court held on January 14, 2020.
In its objection, Uzodinma reminded the Supreme Court that “It is “mortar“ to note that amongst the orders issued in the judgment by His Lordships was Order 7 which reads: “It is hereby ordered that a certificate of return shall be issued to the 1st appellant, Sen. Hope Uzodinma forthwith and he should be sworn in as the Governor at lmo State immediately” the Supreme Court held on January 14, 2020.
He said the above order has since been made effective by his inauguration as the Governor at lmo State.


As part of its monthly Patch Tuesday update, Microsoft fixed 120 vulnerabilities in Microsoft products which included one privilege, and two zero-day vulnerabilities, both of which were exploited.
Microsoft’s mid-August Patch Tuesday cleared up 120 vulnerabilities for 13 products, 17 of which are categorized as ‘Critical’. Following June (129) and July (123) updates, Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday is the third biggest the company has ever released.
Microsoft released patches for the following products:
- Microsoft Windows
- Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML-based)
- Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based)
- Microsoft ChakraCore
- Internet Explorer
- Microsoft Scripting Engine
- SQL Server
- Microsoft JET Database Engine
- .NET Framework
- ASP.NET Core
- Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office Services and Web Apps
- Microsoft Windows Codecs Library
- Microsoft Dynamics
Basically, a Windows machine is at risk of being hacked if you browse a malicious site, play a video or audio files, open PDFs, receive an email etc.
Updates are available to download automatically or manually through the Microsoft Security Update Catalog.
See Also: 5 Key Takeaways From Black Hat 2020
Zero Day Vulnerabilities
The update includes fixes for two zero-day vulnerabilities, i.e., ‘a software security flaw that is known to the software vendor but doesn’t have a patch in place to fix the flaw,’ according to Norton. As a result, both have been subject to active exploitation.
CVE-2020-1380 is one of the zero-day vulnerabilities which if exploited can enable attackers in remote code execution. It is a vulnerability that makes the most out of the incorrect use of dynamic memory and was discovered by Boris Larin of Kaspersky Labs. CVE-2020-1380 arises from the scripting engine memory corruption in Internet Explorer.
It can grant the attacker current user rights, and if the use is logged in, the attacker can take over system controls to install programs, view, alter, or delete data. Microsoft explained, “The vulnerability could corrupt memory in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user.” It can also allow the attacker to create new accounts with full user rights.
The other zero-day vulnerability, named CVE-2020-1464, can validate Windows file signatures. It is a Windows spoofing vulnerability that allows attackers to load incorrect files by cheating the OS into legitimizing said files. Microsoft explains, “In an attack scenario, an attacker could bypass security features intended to prevent improperly signed files from being loaded.”
This vulnerability is rated ‘Important’ on the severity scale and can affect all Windows versions. Microsoft fixed the vulnerability by rectifying how file signature validation in Windows.
Of the 120 vulnerabilities, 103 are classified as ‘Important’. Around 17 classified as critical are all either remote code execution or memory corruption vulnerabilities with the exception of one (CVE-2020-1472).
Memory Corruption, RCE Vulnerabilities
- Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
Memory corruption bugs resulting in remote code execution include CVE-2020-1492, CVE-2020-1554, CVE-2020-1525, CVE-2020-1477, and CVE-2020-1379. All of these vulnerabilities emerged with the incorrect handling of objects in memory. These are mainly Windows Media Foundation flaws, which can be exploited either by convincing someone to open a malicious document or a malicious website.
All Windows Media Foundation vulnerabilities are critical in severity.
- Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2020-1472 or NetLogon Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability is unique to this month’s release in the sense that the fix is being issued in two phases. The company rolled out part one of the phased update, the Initial Deployment Phase, with the other scheduled to release in Q1 2021 (Enforcement Phase).
The vulnerability affects Windows server’s NetLogon process via a vulnerable Netlogon Remote Protocol (MS-NRPC). Microsoft explained, “To exploit the vulnerability, an unauthenticated attacker would be required to use MS-NRPC to connect to a domain controller to obtain domain administrator access.” The importance of patching this vulnerability is evident from the fact that its CVSS rating jumped from 8.3 to 10 recently.
Besides the above ones, Redmond also released patch updates for the following:
- Internet Explorer (CVE-2020-1567)
- Microsoft Edge (CVE-2020-1568, CVE-2020-1569)
- Microsoft Office (CVE-2020-1483)
- Microsoft Scripting Engine (CVE-2020-1555, CVE-2020-1570)
- Windows Media (CVE-2020-1339)
- .NET Framework (CVE-2020-1476)
- ASP.NET (CVE-2020-1597)
- Microsoft Dynamics (CVE-2020-1592)
- Microsoft Edge (CVE-2020-1569)
- Microsoft Graphics Component (CVE-2020-1562, CVE-2020-1529, CVE-2020-1577, CVE-2020-1561, CVE-2020-1510)
- Microsoft JET Database Engine (CVE-2020-1473, CVE-2020-1557, CVE-2020-1564, CVE-2020-1558)
- Microsoft Office (CVE-2020-1495, CVE-2020-1504, CVE-2020-1503, CVE-2020-1502, CVE-2020-1496, CVE-2020-1494, CVE-2020-1563, CVE-2020-1583, CVE-2020-1582, CVE-2020-1581, CVE-2020-1498, CVE-2020-1497, CVE-2020-1493)
- Microsoft Office SharePoint (CVE-2020-1499, CVE-2020-1501, CVE-2020-1500, CVE-2020-1580, CVE-2020-1573, CVE-2020-1505)
- Microsoft Windows (CVE-2020-1490, CVE-2020-1486, CVE-2020-1485, CVE-2020-1488, CVE-2020-1489, CVE-2020-1551, CVE-2020-1512, CVE-2020-1513, CVE-2020-1515, CVE-2020-1552, CVE-2020-1553, CVE-2020-1566, CVE-2020-1579, CVE-2020-1584, CVE-2020-1587, CVE-2020-1511, CVE-2020-1480, CVE-2020-1484, CVE-2020-1538, CVE-2020-1547, CVE-2020-1528, CVE-2020-1545, CVE-2020-1544, CVE-2020-1543, CVE-2020-1542, CVE-2020-1541, CVE-2020-1540, CVE-2020-1539, CVE-2020-1537, CVE-2020-1536, CVE-2020-1535, CVE-2020-1534, CVE-2020-1526, CVE-2020-1530, CVE-2020-1520, CVE-2020-1549, CVE-2020-1546, CVE-2020-1519, CVE-2020-1464, CVE-2020-1475, CVE-2020-1470, CVE-2020-1550, CVE-2020-1467, CVE-2020-1509, CVE-2020-1527, CVE-2020-1516, CVE-2020-1459, CVE-2020-1383, CVE-2020-1517, CVE-2020-1518)
- SQL Server (CVE-2020-1455)
- Visual Studio (CVE-2020-0604)
- Windows AI (CVE-2020-1521, CVE-2020-1522, CVE-2020-1524)
- Windows COM (CVE-2020-1474)
- Windows Kernel (CVE-2020-1578, CVE-2020-1417, CVE-2020-1479, CVE-2020-1487)
- Windows Media Player (CVE-2020-1478)
- Windows Print Spooler Components (CVE-2020-1337)
- Windows RDP (CVE-2020-1466)
- Windows Registry (CVE-2020-1378, CVE-2020-1377)
- Windows Shell (CVE-2020-1565, CVE-2020-1531)
- Windows Update Stack (CVE-2020-1571, CVE-2020-1548)
- Windows WalletService (CVE-2020-1556, CVE-2020-1533)


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The Oklahoma Sooners have picked up two solid wins to start the 2023 season and look like a team that will be in contention in the Big 12 this season.
They still have a lot to prove on the field to accomplish what they want this season, but it’s so far so good for the Sooners.
After beating SMU in week two, where does USA TODAY Sports project the Sooners and the rest of the Big 12 to land in their latest round of 2023 bowl projections.
Independence Bowl: Kansas Jayhawks vs. Colorado Buffaloes
This would be a really fun offensive matchup between Jalon Daniels and Shedeur Sanders. The Colorado Buffaloes hold the all-time lead with a record of 42-23-3 over the Kansas Jayhawks. But it was Kansas that won the last matchup back in 2010, before their former Big 12 North foe bolted for the Pac-12.
This would be a great way to welcome them back into the Big 12 for 2024.
First Responder Bowl: Texas Tech Red Raiders vs. Washington State Cougars
After falling to 0-2 with their loss to Oregon, the Texas Tech Red Raiders get a date with the Washington State Cougars who just dispatched of the Wisconsin Badgers. This could be a fun offensive matchup.
Tech holds the all-time series lead, but the two haven’t played since their home and home in 1963 and 1964.
Guaranteed Rate Bowl: BYU Cougars vs. Maryland Terrapins
Texas Tech loses their spot in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl to the BYU Cougars, who are off to a 2-0 start to their season. If Kedon Slovis can be as effective as he was in week 2, the Cougars are going to be a problem in 2023.
BYU and Maryland have never met on the gridiron.
Texas Bowl: TCU Horned Frogs vs. Texas A&M Aggies
Both teams have suffered a fall from grace this season. TCU lost to the upstart Colorado Buffaloes, and Texas A&M took a hit in week 2 against Miami.
Old foes from the former Southwest Conference, the Aggies hold the all-time series lead 56-29-7. The two sides have played just once since the Southwest Conference dissolved in 1995. It was a 28-9 win for the Aggies back in 2001.
Pop Tarts Bowl: UCF Knights vs. Miami Hurricanes
A matchup between UCF and Miami to end the 2023 season would make for fantastic theatre. UCF’s getting to the Big 12 allows them to better recruit against the Hurricanes and other Florida schools. You can bet that the eyes of Florida recruits will be on the Pop Tarts Bowl.
Alamo Bowl: Oklahoma Sooners vs. Oregon Ducks
This isn’t exactly the spot that Oklahoma would be satisfied with, but it’s still a better bowl selection than what they received in 2022. A trip to the Alamo Bowl likely means the Sooners just missed out on the Big 12 title game.
Making the trip to San Antonio along with the Sooners is old Pac-12 foe Oregon. The two have a lot of history, but the Sooners got the last laugh in their 2021 Alamo Bowl win with Caleb Williams at the helm.
Oklahoma holds a 7-1 all-time series lead.
Liberty Bowl: Oklahoma State Cowboys vs. Kentucky Wildcats
Oklahoma State and Kentucky have never faced each other on the football field. Mike Gundy vs. a Stoops brother hasn’t always gone well, though.
Cotton Bowl: Kansas State Wildcats vs. Notre Dame Fighting Irish
This would be a fantastic game, especially if Notre Dame quarterback Sam Hartman suits up for the Irish. Both teams are very well-coached and have dynamic running games.
Kansas State and Notre Dame have never played each other.
College Football Playoff
Texas thrust itself into the College Football Playoff picture with their 10-point win on the road over the Alabama Crimson Tide. Until someone knocks off the Longhorns, they’re headed to the playoffs. A trip to the Rose Bowl takes them back to their most memorable performance of the last two decades when Vince Young willed them to victory over the USC Trojans.
Like Texas, Florida State asserted itself early in the season with an emphatic win over the LSU Tigers. After Clemson stumbled against Duke, Florida State looks like the team to beat in the ACC.
CFP National Championship: Georgia Bulldogs vs. Michigan Wolverines
It’s understandable why these two teams are so highly-thought of, but neither team has been tested in 2023. We’ll see if this projection holds up.