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|Reviews for Promise|
| Slero chapter 1 . 9/30/2016
4 years... 4 years and well i can't get rid of how coll you are Kry
you are really up to run your own Titan world ... taken the last 5 years of them in DC the is no suprice that yours historys are recomended even these days
regards from Chile and just as always keep awsome (sorry if my writing is no good)
| Guest chapter 56 . 7/31/2016
Dear gods. Its been a long long time since i had my heart thump with the suspense of a few structured words. From touch to masks and finally this. God you never made it easy for dick or starfire did you? But i guess thats what made me tick or my heart race whenever he's hurt or hurting. Because i feel him as if i knew him. I takes alot of time to write this especially with what your family was going through. The fact you were single and then married and then having kids throughout the years of writing. I have to thank you for your literature contribution because you didnt have to but you did. I have thoroughly enjoyed myself and you may not see this but i wish you the best for life and thanks again for the wonderful fic. I guess this is where i say HAMMER TIME!
| HiruneNeko chapter 55 . 3/19/2016
Muah Thank you thank you Thank youuu(saying three times to emphasize) Every moment has pulled out the emotion from me, I had been so noisy reading through your work. Couldn't stop smirking and laughing out loud( or mourning when it comes to sad scenes) I may be into reading books again thanks to you. Yumyum
| HiruneNeko chapter 54 . 3/19/2016
So glad to see wally and jinx are together again. I was sad when you mentioned a bit about how they broke up before. *v*
| HiruneNeko chapter 52 . 3/18/2016
Is anyone readingt this in 2016? :D I suppose no, but nevermind. Ahh I love this series so much, found this by accident when I was searching for a fanfiction of another anime also titled "Touch", but I have been a Robstar fan since I was eight or something, so why not give it a go? And after all the wow and ah and arr and oh noooo and yes, through Touch and Masks and Beneath the Mask and finally Promise. Aww I'm only reaching the end and. I AM already missing this storyHaha the boys, their interactions always make me laugh. And the part Wally claiming himself an assman O. My. Gawd XDDDDD I love wally and dick so so sweet good buddies
| Alytiger chapter 56 . 8/27/2015
33333333 Took me forever, but I don't regret a second of it. Amazing writing and a wonderfully stressful plot. Thank you for the longest and bestest RobStar fanfiction I've read.
| Alytiger chapter 44 . 8/20/2015
I enjoy your writing as much as I enjoy your before-and-after-the-story stuff
| Liz Wilson chapter 56 . 8/15/2015
I finished this a while ago and I didn't want to finish it because I never wanted it to end. I have finally decided to finish and now I don't know what to do. I can't read other fan fiction like this or my brain will think its continuing this book. I wish this series could go on forever but oh well. I will probably reread the series. Thx.
| Maria chapter 43 . 5/26/2015
Haha I misread what Starfire said about the Tameranian penis. I thought she said 'prolonged' not 'pronged.'
I thought Dick's feelings weren't hurt enough until I read the author's note and realized I misread it. Haha.
| bamasam777 chapter 1 . 4/15/2015
Oh my gosh I never get tired of your novel length stories. This trilogy and the e'ara stories are so amazing I cry all through them. You have spoiled us for there aren't any more wonderful and amazing stories as these. Thank you truly.
| Cameron Richards chapter 21 . 12/25/2014
GLC protects 2800 solar systems earth being one the question is in this story is there more than one GL assigned. To earth
| Guest chapter 56 . 12/20/2014
I am crying! Thank you for writing this:"")
| Guest chapter 49 . 11/16/2014
IM IN TEARS U MEAN PERSON
| WTGaff chapter 56 . 9/27/2014
I can't begin to communicate how much I love this trilogy! It's things like this that make me see how badly DC sabotages themselves with their vicious reboots and character betrayals. This is where they should have been by now, not busy shoving the future into the past and splashing it with gore. I especially like how you folded the continuity from the cartoon and the comics and made it feel so completely seamless.
When Dick was swinging from the chains a few chapters ago, I swear it felt like a callback to his ring swinging in Touch.
I love how balanced this series has felt, the pull between Starfire's life with Tamaran, Ryand'r, and the Psions, and Nightwing's career in Bludhaven gave them each a playground to romp in, and showed how their lives were becoming as one. I especially liked that you gave the first person perspective to Dick for this entry, chasing down the Psions was tense and exciting. I wouldn't have liked the extraneous torture porn that would surely have come from Starfire's perspective.
I enjoyed the return of Jason, and although it was a little weird to hear you recycling dialogue from Under the Red Hood [one of my favorite DCAU films], it would have felt incomplete if he didn't make a comeback after his short spell in Masks. Honestly, I wanted more of Nightwing's perspective on Jason's return all throughout Under the Red Hood, and was a bit disappointed that he wasn't more involved in that story.
And as with Masks, it was pure joy to see Starfire standing with the Batfamily, finding her own place among them. That was always something that bothered me about the comics, they always cast her as an outsider, no matter how close she and Nightwing were. It irritated me. But I was smiling every time Starfire and Alfred shared a moment. Pure Joy. And what a perfect way to end the trilogy, too. Thank you for this.
| Renee chapter 14 . 9/22/2014
I agree with you, I really don't get why Devin Grayson would forget Starfire and make him out of character with cheating on her with Babs. It's also very out of character for Babs. That's why I never liked Nightwing when Grayson was writing.

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A Life Ministering to Others on the Front Lines
Columbia International University alumnus, The Rev. Grover DeVault, has been honored for a lifetime of chaplaincy service.
DeVault is a 1953 graduate of CIU and was named Alumnus of the Year in 2008 for his work as a chaplain, including a tour of duty with the U.S. Army during the Viet Nam war. DeVault was also on the scene to minister to Pennsylvania State Police following a shooting at an Amish schoolhouse where a man killed five girls in 2006.
For his many efforts, DeVault, 86, was recently awarded The Chapel of the Four Chaplains’ Legion of Honor Bronze Medallion. Read more about DeVault and the honor in Lancasteronline from Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

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VOL. 125 | NO. 170 | Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Galloway Gardens Sells for $1.1 Million
A Germantown-based limited liability company, Galloway Gardens LLC, has bought Galloway Gardens Condominiums for $1.1 million. The sellers were Steve Benetti and Virginia Benetti of California, who bought the property in 2004 for $1.7 million.
The complex, which was built in 1970, sits on the south side of Galloway Avenue between North Willett Street to the west and North Avalon Street to the east.
The sale was financed with two $200,000 loans through Regions Bank – with one due next year and one in 2015 – and an assumption of a $916,937 loan that matures in 2013. That loan, with an original principal of $1.1 million, was taken out in 2004 by the sellers.
The listing agent for the sale was Steve Woodyard of Woodyard Realty Corp. Woodyard could not be reached by press time.
According to Woodyard Realty’s site, Galloway Gardens is an apartment complex separated into 45 parcels for a condo project. The occupancy rate is 89 percent, according to the site.
Source: The Daily News Online & Chandler Reports
– Kate Simone
Design Review Board to Meet Wednesday
The Center City Commission’s Design Review Board will discuss at its meeting Wednesday at 5 p.m. a signage application by RedRover Sales & Marketing, which wants to put up a sign at 415 S. Front St.
Also on tap for the meeting are discussions about renovations of existing apartment buildings at 685 Adams Ave. and 669 Adams Ave., as well as discussions of the 2001 Uptown zoning regulations and the policy for sign illumination.
The DRB meeting will be held in the conference room of the CCC office at 114 N. Main St.
– Andy Meek
CVS Opponents Meet to Discuss Next Step
Opponents of a CVS pharmacy planned for the corner of Union Avenue and Cooper Street are set to meet Wednesday evening at Memphis Heritage’s headquarters to discuss a next step in the controversy.
The 6 p.m. meeting at Howard Hall, 2282 Madison Ave., comes a week after the Memphis City Council voted to approve the planned development where Union Avenue United Methodist Church now stands.
The church would be demolished for the new pharmacy building.
The church’s congregation voted to sell the property and merge with another church.
Memphis Heritage led the opposition to the pharmacy, citing the church’s listing on the National Register of Historic Places. The Land Use Control Board and the Office of Planning and Development (OPD) recommended rejection of the planned development, citing the Midtown overlay guidelines.
CVS representatives said the company was willing to make changes to get closer to the guidelines than its original plans, but the company also pointed to the large parking lot facing Union Avenue at the neighboring Ike’s store.
Attorneys for Memphis Heritage suggested at last week’s council meeting that the preservation group might take legal action over a national pledge CVS made several years ago not to demolish buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
– Bill Dries
Music & Heritage Festival Set for the Weekend
The 23rd annual Memphis Music & Heritage Festival will be held Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Main Street between Peabody Place and Barboro Alley.
This year’s festival will honor Memphis musician Jim Dickinson and feature performances by Bobby Rush, Kate Campbell, Al Kapone, Joyce Cobb, Hill Country Revue, Eddie Bond, The Homemade Jamz Blues Band, a special tribute to Dickinson featuring Sid Selvidge, Jimmy Crosthwait, Cody Dickinson and Steve Selvidge, and more.
In addition, the festival will include walking tours of Downtown Memphis, a cooking demonstration stage, crafts vendors and music workshops hosted by musicians.
Kate Campbell will host a special songwriters’ workshop Sunday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. The cost is $30.
The festival is free but the Center for Southern Folklore encourages attendees to show their appreciation by making a $2 contribution.
For more information, including a full list of performers or to register for the songwriters’ workshop or Downtown walking tour, visit www.southernfolklore.com or call 525-3655.
– Taylor Shoptaw
Wings Foundation Hosts Fundraiser
The “Bet Against Breast Cancer” casino night with celebrity dealers is set for 7 p.m., Sept. 25, at The Memphis Zoo.
Live auction times include a weeklong stay at Grand Isle Resort and Spa in the Bahamas.
Tickets, which are $50, are available at all Panera Bread locations and online at www.wingscancerfoundation.org.
The dealers will include University of Memphis Tigers basketball coach Josh Pastner, WMC-TV news anchor Joe Birch, WREG news anchor Marybeth Conley and Rocky the Redbird.
– Tom Wilemon
The Peabody Celebrates 141st Anniversary
The Peabody Memphis plans to celebrate its 141st anniversary Wednesday with a public event from 4:45 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the hotel’s Grand Lobby.
Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. will be inducted into the Duck Walk Hall of Fame, and members of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra will play Big Band music created exclusively for The Peabody in the 1940s.
Cake, hors d’oeuvres and champagne will be served.
The Duck Walk Hall of Fame, which began in 1996, honors people who have played a significant role in the development of Memphis.
The original Peabody hotel opened in 1869 on Main and Monroe. It was torn down in 1923 to make room for a larger hotel.
The Peabody Memphis, as it now stands, opened on the corner of Union Avenue and Second Street on Sept. 1, 1925.
– The Daily News
Cafe Eclectic Temporarily Closes Midtown Store
Cafe Eclectic was forced to close its doors around lunchtime Tuesday after a car slammed into the front of the building.
The restaurant reported on Twitter (@cafeeclectic) that the Midtown location was closed along with a picture showing a car rammed into the front door.
After posting the photo the restaurant tweeted: “Also want to point out that, to the best of my knowledge, no one was injured. A few of us (myself included) were near the doors, but are ok.”
No additional details were available at press time.
– The Daily News
Will Rogers Institute Donates to Le Bonheur
The Will Rogers Institute has donated $50,000 to Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital to support its neonatal intensive care unit.
The gift will allow the hospital to buy an advanced ventilator to assist premature babies who are unable to breathe on their own.
Le Bonheur is one of 10 hospitals that received a grant from the Will Rogers Institute in 2010. The institute, which is named in honor of cowboy movie star and humorist Will Rogers, is devoted to the research and treatment of cardio-pulmonary diseases.
– Tom Wilemon
Former President Clinton to Stump for McWherter
Former President Bill Clinton is coming to Tennessee to campaign for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike McWherter.
The McWherter campaign confirmed that Clinton is scheduled to be in Nashville Sept. 9. Spokesman Shelby White said detailed plans for the visit were still being worked out.
McWherter, the son of former Gov. Ned McWherter, faces Republican Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam in the November election.
Clinton’s friendship with Ned McWherter dates back to when he was governor of neighboring Arkansas.
Clinton was the keynote speaker for a state Democratic Party fundraiser last year, and also came to Nashville and Memphis to support Harold Ford Jr.’s failed Senate bid in 2006.
– The Associated Press


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Again, the international sector returns to reward the work carried out by the Wineries of Valdeorras, being A Coroa winery awarded against with a silver medal at the LYON WINE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 2012.
Great start of the year for the DO Valdeorras wines that are still adding several international awards. This time, the award comes from France at the INTERNATIONAL WINE COMPETITION 2012, in Lyon, responsible to include in its list of achievements the 2011 harvest of the young white wine belonging to the A Coroa winery.
Thus, the winery from the "A Rua" town, adds a new recognition to its2012 showcase. And this award has a notoriously importance, highlighting the godello variety among a preponderant number of French wines.

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Ingham County Animal Control To Host All-Nighter Adoption Event
The Ingham County Animal Control will be hosting their annual Holiday All-Nighter Adoption Event on Saturday, December 16th. The event starts at 11am and will include holiday music, Christmas sweaters, and many adoptable dogs and cats. Adoptions will be discounted throughout the day, and as the evening progresses, the adoption fees will keep decreasing in price. The shelter will be offering adoptions through 1 am as part of the All-Nighter Adoption Event.
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The Dangers of Chronic Exposure to Arsenic
Arsenic has long been known to be toxic at high doses. But researchers have found that long-term exposure to low doses of arsenic also poses serious health risks. In New England, many people receive such exposure through private wells. The Dartmouth Toxic Metals Research Program has been at the forefront of efforts to identify and assess the risks of low doses of arsenic. They created a short video—available online at www.insmalldoses.org—that discusses those risks and outlines what homeowners can do to test their wells for arsenic, and to treat their water if arsenic is found. To read about a recent Dartmouth Medical School study of the relationship between arsenic and the ability of the immune system to fight off diseases, see "Arsenic might be a factor in H1N1 severity," from the Winter 2009 issue of Dartmouth Medicine.
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I can’t imagine I’m the only one starting a new blog today! It’s something I’ve mulled over for quite a while and decided this would be a great day to get it started. If you are a reader of my first blog I think you’ll see this one is going to be a bit different. Not much text or chatter, just images. I’ve got SO much digital art that I felt it was time for it to have it’s own platform. I’ll be sharing new and old images as well as mixing styles and types of digital art. I hope that you’ll enjoy discovering something new & fresh each day! Since these image will be posted in a larger format I will be adding my copyright info and a watermark to each one to discourage “borrowing” without authorization. Be assured if you order a print, those items will be removed!
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Maryland's Third Congressional District
Maryland's Third Congressional District encompasses parts of Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Howard County, Montgomery County and Anne Arundel County.
There are some great places to visit in Maryland. Listed below are a links to just a few of the wonderful sites in the Third District and across the State.
If you are interested in browsing district-specific population statistics, you can look up Census data for the Third District.
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Consequence has been consistently dropping new tracks every week over the last little while, and this week is no exception.
The seasoned emcee has decided to add a verse to Usher's soulfully explicit new single, "Good Kisser", taking on the first 16 of the song, while leaving the rest intact.
Last week we heard Cons take on a similarly classic-sounding R&B cut from Robin Thicke with "Get Her Back", and prior to that he shared his ode to the women of the New York nightlife scene, "Bottle Girls" .
Check back for a brand new track from Cons next week. What instrumental should he take on next?
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Mississippi High School Baseball - Oak Grove prevails Northeast JonesFebruary 27, 2021: Hattiesburg, MS 39402
The Oak Grove Warriors (Hattiesburg, MS) baseball trounced the visiting Northeast Jones Tigers (Laurel, MS), 12-3 in Saturday's non-league contest.
Coming up next, the Warriors encounter the Taylorsville Tartars (Taylorsville, MS) in a non-league contest, on Saturday, February 27. Oak Grove will attempt to better on its 4-1 season record. The Tartars come into the contest with a 0-2 record after their 13-9 non-league loss to St. Stanislaus (Bay St. Louis, MS).
The Tigers now sport a 4-2 record. They play next when they host Greene County for a non-league contest on Tuesday, March 2. Northeast Jones will encounter a Wildcats squad coming off a 8-2 non-league win over Resurrection Catholic (Pascagoula, MS). The Wildcats record now stands at 3-3.

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NORTH Korea has revealed it is to spend a fortune redeveloping a £1bn resort which was closed down after a tourist was shot dead by troops.
Kim Jong-un's cronies have vowed to resurrect the Mount Kumgang complex - a year after he ordered the destruction of South Korean-built hotels on the site.
The eerie "ghost town" is the closest North Korean settlement to its heavily-fortified border with its old enemy in the South.
The resort - once a prominent symbol of inter-Korean economic cooperation - was built by Hyundai on one of the peninsula's most scenic mountains.
It became an unlikely tourist hotspot for South Koreans with more than two million flocking there until 2008 to enjoy luxury hotels, a golf course and a spa.
But last year Kim branded the development an eyesore and described facilities there as "shabby" and built like "makeshift tents" in a disaster zone.
North Korea eventually postponed the demolition plans for the site over concerns about the spread of the coronavirus.
And today the official Korean Central News Agency reported Kim Tok-hun, the North's premier, stressed "the need to build the tourist area our own way" on the site.
He added Pyongyang now wants to turn it into a "cultural resort envied by the whole world", during his visit to the area.
Tok-hun also reportedly called for pushing ahead to turn the area into a "modern and all-inclusive international tourist" resort.
The Mount Kumgang complex was once one of the two biggest inter-Korean projects.
But the murder of a female South Korean tourist in a bloody shooting saw tours to the outpost stopped by worried officials in Seoul.
North Korea later claimed Park Wang-na had strayed into a military zone after ignoring warning shots from its guards.
The reclusive North has long wanted to resume the lucrative visits, but they would violate international sanctions imposed on Pyongyang over its nuclear and ballistic weapons programmes.
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"The Kim regime will struggle to find the resources to redevelop Mt. Kumgang and needs outside investment, but is signalling it will downgrade South Korean partners and stakeholders," said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul.
"By holding Seoul's hopes for engagement at risk, Kim is pressuring the Moon administration to find ways of resuming financial benefits for the North."


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The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has assaulted President Muhammadu Buhari over remarks he made to NYSC individuals from Igbo root.
MASSOB Leader, Comrade Uchenna Madu, in a press proclamation denounced Buhari for singling out Ndigbo, out of the number that paid him the Sallah visit.
"Advising the Igbo youth corps individuals to illuminate their kindred Igbo adolescents in MASSOB to stop Biafran fomentation, demonstrates that he (Buhari) specifically perceives the corps individuals as Biafrans", Comrade Madu said.
"Buhari still incorrectly believe that with his family in key positions in the military, he will effortlessly squash Biafra.
"MASSOB perspectives Buhari's steady negative remarks on Biafra as a method for stiring cognizance among Biafrans, even as he is nervous and precarious about our tenacity towards realizing our elevated dream", Madu said.
While reminding the Nigerian government that each progressive battle had its own philosophy, Madu, in any case, said that "the current Biafran battle will keep on unfolding mistaking strategies for the Nigerian initiative.
"We need President Buhari to keep on making comparative explanations that relevantly express his dissatisfaction. No man can pulverize Biafra on the grounds that God, history and mankind are on our side".
MASSOB reminded the President that the capture and confinement of Nnamdi KANU, Lotachukwu Okoli and a large group of others, and in addition the slaughtering, abuse, indictment, trancelike state, concealment and mistreatment of Biafrans, can't extinguish the unsettling.
"It should likewise be noticed that the present clampdown of peaceful, unarmed instigators for self standard, just decline the issue and underscores Nigeria as an inching, abusive provincial state.
"Any gathering whose stock in exchange is to relegate another to useless status, or denies another their full rights, including independence to political, social and financial advancement, is pretty much as blameworthy of expansionism as the customary white colonialists we are all acquainted with, and thus lies Nigeria's situation.
"Biafran unsettling is just a response to the numerous treacheries, rejections, useless citizenship, destined to manage theory, minimization and different types of imbalance and disparity that portray the Nigerian express", the MASSOB proclamation included.

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After directing last summer’s PGA Championship at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin, Jason Mengel didn’t have much time to savor the accomplishment.
That’s because he and his family were off to Charlotte, where his next task is to run the 2017 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club.
“It’s usually a two-year assignment,” Mengel said of his role hopscotching from one golf event to the next for the Professional Golfers’ Association of America, the organization that puts on the PGA Championship.
In Charlotte, one of his first duties has been selling hospitality venues that local and national companies will use to host customers and clients during the tournament, one of four major championships on the annual golf calendar. Sales have been so strong that the tournament is already looking at adding more locations, Mengel, 37, said.
With the event more than a year away, “we are looking at expansion plans for hospitality venues,” he said. “That’s almost unheard of at this point. It’s a great response from the corporate community here in Charlotte and of course regionally and nationally.”
More than 100 companies are expected to host guests during the competition in August 2017. The hospitality options range from $40,000 for 10 tickets in the “Champions Club” to $500,000 to host 150 guests at a 17th green village. The packages include food and beverage, preferred parking and other perks.
The hospitality tents will be familiar to those who have attended the Wells Fargo Championship, the Quail Hollow PGA Tour stop that will take a one-year hiatus in 2017. But there will be some differences, including new locations and more air conditioning because of the August time slot, Mengel said.
This fall, the tournament will construct two of the 100-person chalets on the course, so companies can get a preview of what the locations will look like, said Lauren Ries, marketing and promotions manager. “They can come out and see the product and what they can do with it,” Ries said.
In addition to the PGA staff preparing for the tournament, there is also a local organizing committee headed by general chairman Ralph Breeden, president of The Woodbury Group, an executive search firm. Dozens of volunteers are already heading up committees addressing various aspects of the tournament.
“Our primary job initially is to get hospitality sales going,” Breeden said. “There is a lot of interest. It’s a major championship. They don’t come around very often.”
During the event, around 200,000 fans are expecting to attend, with around 40,000 per day on the course during each of the four days of competition. Of those daily attendees, about 2,500 to 3,500 will attend on hospitality tickets.
For those looking to buy tickets, the PGA Championship will launch its pre-registration process in mid-May, after this year’s Wells Fargo Championship is completed. About 50,000 pre-registered for the 2015 PGA Championship.
To those who pre-register, tickets will then go on sale on Aug. 1, after this year’s PGA Championship is played at the Baltusrol Golf Club in New Jersey. “Then the clock is ticking,” Mengel said.
Prices haven’t been finalized, but daily grounds passes for Thursday through Sunday at the 2016 event range from $90 to $115, depending on the day.
The PGA Championship currently has a staff of five at its Quail Hollow office. That number will grow to eight by next spring. Overall, the tournament and its service providers will create about 1,100 temporary jobs for the event, handling everything from on-course construction to security to catering.
The tournament will also need 3,400 volunteers to help with various chores during the competition.
Once the tournament ends, the PGA Championship office will stay around for a couple of months to tie up loose ends, Mengel said. Then it’s off to his next stop: Back to Whistling Straits for the 2020 Ryder Cup.


So after some headcleanings the nozzles looks more terrible than before ( my vivid magenta channel shows some missing nozzles like 10 lines missing,) after a powerfull cleaning the vivid magenta not show nothing on nozzle check only 1 2 lines , i know its not a clogging because before worked perfect… the problem can be the dampers or the capping station?
I’ll preface this by saying I had 4800’s, not the 4900, but my understanding is that they are similar in this situation. It could be the dampers, as they do clog up a bit and after a bit of trepidation, I ended up changing them twice before I switched to a P900. That being said, I would ask how you did the power cleaning? Did you use a cleaning solution such as PiezoFlush (PF)? I had a separate set of carts specifically for PF for periodically cleaning the lines and dampers. If not, then you just ran pushed more ink through the lines and if the issue was the dampers (most likely), you may have just added to the problem. If you used PF, did you let it set for 24-48 hours to allow it to “do it’s job” since it can (and does) break down or dissolve the ink. that is the key to making PF work. What I would do is run a PF power clean, let it set for a day, then another power clean, followed by a nozzle check. That usually did the trick. If there were any gaps in the check, I’d let it set for at least another day and run another check. It my sound like I’m using a lot of flush, but PF is a lot less expensive than ink and the cost of a set of (what I called) “cleaning carts” was a one time purchase. Once everything was good, I’d reload the inks, run a couple of power cleans, another nozzle checks or two , and I’d be good to go.


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Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) records fluctuations of fluorescence intensity over time in a confocal observation volume using highly-sensitive avalanche diodes for detection. These fluctuations are caused by fluorescently labeled molecules diffusing through the observation volume, photophysics of the fluorophores, or chemical reactions. An autocorrelation function can be determined (figure 1a) and fitted yielding information on these processes, such as diffusion coefficients, particle concentrations, rate constants of various types of kinetics, or dissociation constants (figure 1b). While conventional FCS is a useful tool to study samples in solution with a high temporal resolution it does not give any information on the spatial heterogeneity of a biological sample.
Figure 1: Principle and applications of FCS. (a) Recording of fluctuations of fluorescence intensity in a confocal volume facilitates the calculation of an autocorrelation function which yields information on the observed biological target system. (b) Determination of dissociation constant of the receptor tyrosine kinase MET and its ligand InlB by analysis of FCS data.
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But, from Vietnams perspective, what Beijing has hailed as progress in these negotiations is not actually beneficial to Southeast Asian claimants.
For example, many famous stories in Vietnam involve historical figures with mythical proportions that struggled against Chinese imperialismsuch as the Trung sisters who waged a revolt against the Chinese in AD 40 or Ngo Quyen who ended Chinese control of Vietnam in AD 939.
Yet Vietnam and America also have a difficult history to reconcile.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, What the Chinese Army Is Learning From Russias Ukraine War, Autocracy Versus Democracy After the Ukraine Invasion: Mapping a Middle Way, Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center. Hanois preference is to continue to pursue a solution to the South China Sea disputes through diplomatic and legal means for as long as possible.
This shared view coincides with the latest dimension of the great power competition between Washington and Beijing in the wake of Trumps May 2019 ban on Huawei equipment in U.S. telecommunications networks, subsequent steps to tighten these restrictions, and a related pressure campaign to dissuade other countries from using Huawei components.
Many observers see this development as a part of a troubling trend of Xis increasing determination to wield Chinas power unapologetically.
The challenges facing Vietnam have become even more complex in light of how the coronavirus pandemic has visibly weakened the international community and provoked a startling absence of international leadership. In outlining these risks, the white paper does not explicitly identify the country driving these changes.
Washington will remain focused on its own November 2020 presidential election. By 1964, following the Gulf of Tonkin incident and the subsequent Gulf of Tonkin Resolution granting President Lyndon Johnson the ability to take all necessary measures to prosecute a war in Vietnam, the United States became fully involved in the country. China has taken territory in the South China Sea and Bhutan, used its economic leverage to bully countries that criticize it on the world stage, and deployed aggressive rhetoric filled with hyperbole, insults, and conspiracy theories known as Wolf Warrior Diplomacy.. Vietnam had not yet become a part of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), nor had it yet normalized ties with the United States, so the country was still suffering from severe diplomatic isolation, very limited aid, and a trade embargo that cut it off from many advanced postindustrial economies.
Beijing predictably extended a friendly hand to smooth things over after the oil rig incident, as the Chinese government has often done after sharp downturns in diplomatic relations.
Across seven decades of formal diplomacy between the current regimes built on the preceding millennia of historical interactions, the neighborly image the two sides seek to project has experienced no shortage of challenges.
After Chinese leader Xi Jinping took power, China became even more assertive in this maritime domain, pursuing expansive reclamation activities, militarizing nearby maritime features that it controls, and sharpening its coercive activities around the sea and the surrounding waters. These are important areas for observing if and how big Chinese tech companies like Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu make inroads in Vietnam on other technology fronts.
The congress will also be decisive in shaping the countrys new national socioeconomic plan for 20212030, as well as other priorities including on foreign policy.
Even as the Vietnamese government has kept diplomatic channels with Beijing open, it has also sought to assert and advocate for its own sovereignty and rights by diversifying its diplomatic partnerships and strengthening its own capabilities.
. While Vietnam itself was not the claimant in the case, the proceedings involving China and the Philippines (and especially the Chinese governments response) still cast a shadow over Beijings ongoing disputes with Hanoi. Normalization, however, did not put all of Beijing and Hanois differences fully to rest.
Vietnams coastline bordering the South China Sea is over 3,000 kilometers long.
How they navigate these choices will be a key barometer for gauging how Chinas neighbors are responding to Beijings growing clout. Hanois reconciliation with Washington and improving relations with other powers are important steps toward containing the threat China poses.
Vietnams leaders face consequential decisions in the coming few years.
Moreover, many other countries view Hanois positioning as important for countering Chinese maritime expansionism.
Domestic changes may be afoot as well. Official state media on both sides reaffirmed that this year would mark an important milestone for the two countries that would deepen their already strong and friendly party-to-party, state-to-state, and nation-to-nation bonds.
You are leaving the website for the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy and entering a website for another of Carnegie's global centers. From here, the economic relationship developed rapidly: In 2002 they signed a Bilateral Trade Agreement, and in 2007 the United States assisted Vietnam in joining the WTO and signed a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement.
This is especially true of the Philippines under President Rodrigo Duterte, who has softened his countrys stance on the disputes while courting Chinese investment and other diplomatic gains. Vietnam and China normalized relations at a time when Hanoi was far more exposed diplomatically than it is today.
Accordingly, China and Vietnam have overlapping claims of key shipping lanes, the Parcel and Spratly islands, and the natural resources within these territories.
Beyond the security concerns it has cited, Vietnams domestic 5G network is an important aspect of the nations strategy to harness cutting-edge technologies and expand high-tech domestic manufacturing, two areas of emphasis for Prime Minister Nguyn Xun Phc.
Notably, such a policy goes against Chinas recommendations for ASEANs code of conduct for the South China Sea, which aims to limit regional countries military ties with external powers.
But none of this has deterred China. Hanoi is concerned that the result could be an empty shell of an agreement rather than a meaningful mechanism for dispute resolution, if this so-called diplomatic progress does not coincide with an actual scaling down of provocations.
China has aggressively defended and asserted its claim over its territory, while it has not been shy to publicly tell Vietnam that its claims are illegal.
With its dubious nine-dash line, China has declared ownership over the vast majority of the South China Sea. Several other countries around the world seem to be questioning whether the current path China is taking reflects a continued interest in peaceful coexistence or a penchant for asserting its perceived rights and place of prominence in the international system. As one Nikkei Asia writer put it, Most Vietnamese consider resistance against China to be the continuation of a thousand-year conflict. Put another way, modern-day Vietnamese nationalism defines itself in contrast to China, resulting in much of Vietnamese folklore concentrating on Vietnamese nationals who resisted Chinese rule. Beijings recent aggressive and provocative actions in the South China Sea call into question from Hanois standpoint how committed the Chinese government is to the ostensibly shared goal of solving these disputes peacefully and fairly. In 2012, then Chinese president Hu Jintao voiced his desire to make China a powerful maritime nation.
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Yet these nations are not palatable for China either; They also have contentious relations with Beijing and share the United States support for the rules-based international order and concerns with Chinese ambitions.
As a result, Vietnam has since sought to diversify its network of diplomatic partners and take other precautionary steps to protect its interests. Beijings attitudes and behaviors have shifted many other countries views of Chinamost of all, the United States. And with this visit, weve put our relationship on a firmer footing for decades to come. Following Obamas opening up to the country, which continued under Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden, Vietnam has invited the United States to annually anchor multiple aircraft carriers at Vietnamese ports (despite officially only allowing one ship per foreign navy per-year to visit), participated in joint military exercises, invited high-level officials to the country (including a visit by a U.S. secretary of defense every year since 2018), and bought millions of dollars worth of military equipment (including UAV systems and coast guard cutters).
In spite of these differences, Hanoi remains invested in encouraging Washington to stay attentive to issues in Southeast Asia and the South China Sea.
The strategic document updated Vietnams Three Nos policy and included a fourth No, denouncing the use of force or threatened use of force to settle disputes.
Despite this legacy, it wasnt long after the war ended that the United States and Vietnam normalized relations, which they did in 2001.
It underscored that Chinas size and power would condition its international conduct more so than any vestiges of ideological solidarity. As a 1998 defense white paper states, Vietnam established guiding principles for its defense policy in the Three Nos: no military alliance, no foreign military bases on its soil, and no aligning with one country over another.
Beijing created the Xisha zone on the Paracel Islands and the Nansha zone on the Spratlys, both of which will be administered by the government of Sansha, a small city built on Woody Island and Fiery Cross Reef that is administratively considered part of Chinas Hainan Province.
Yet Beijings actions continue to demonstrate that China is increasingly less of a cooperative partner and is instead opting to double down on the assertive ways it has handled the disputes with Vietnam to date. The United States is distracted, offering contradictory signals of abandonment and heightened competition with China over the region.
Hanois competition with Beijing over the South China Sea and its threat perceptions over Chinese aggression are central motivations shaping its diplomatic posture. Late that spring, the China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) sent the oil rig deep into Vietnams claimed exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
For its part, the Chinese government and state media have labeled Vietnam a troublemaker and made disingenuous claims that Hanoi is acting in bad faith in ways that undermine dispute resolution and signs of supposed progress made in negotiations over a proposed China-ASEAN code of conduct in the South China Sea.
But more recently, we have seen the strategic and military relationship develop furtherwhich can be traced back to May 2016 when President Barrack Obama visited Vietnam.
The South China Sea, while important, will have to compete with many more pressing priorities. This presents an opportunity for Washington to deepen its strategic and military relationship with Hanoian opportunity China does not want to see America capitalize on. Notably, Vietnamese do not view Chinese belligerence in a vacuumit is amplified by the two neighbors long history of profound cultural distrust.
This historical perspective explains why we have seen multiple examples of visceral reactions in Vietnam to Chinese action.
In many ways, Hanoi has been left to bear the brunt of these tensions.
Vietnams relationship with China is complex and often troubled. But with the current intensifying U.S. competition with China, this is also changing.
Hanoi immediately protested this move as a diplomatic provocation and a violation of Vietnams sovereign rights.
These include internationalizing the dispute, handling the matter in a multilateral framework (primarily ASEAN), deterring China militarily insofar as possible, and keeping diplomatic channels with Beijing itself open. The country has high digital potential, given its young and dynamic demographics. These include questions of the South China Sea, on which Hanoi has long refrained from taking formal legal action for the sake of good neighborliness.
And in responding to a hypothetical scenario of being forced to choose sides between the United States and China, Vietnam was the country in the region most likely to choose the United States (85.5 percent), while the median score for the region as a whole was 53.6 percent. There are few signs that Beijing will change its tune dramatically under Xi. The last No would preclude a significant alignment with the United States over China. In developing its own 5G network, Hanoi does not solely aim to keep Huawei out. Nonetheless, U.S. support for democracy and human rights, the Vietnam Wars legacy (namely Agent Orange residue), Vietnams close military relationship with Russia, and Vietnams overall desire to not become dependent on America have been holding the relationship back.
As the Chinese government has grown more assertive and pushed the envelope in its dealings with Vietnam, Hanoi has performed a delicate balancing act with very little margin for error.
This has been a very important development for Vietnam, which had been politically and economically suffering from the effects of Chinas coercion with respect to these maritime resources. As Obama remarked, With our new Comprehensive Partnership, our governments are working more closely together than ever before.
The conflict left behind hundreds of thousands of dead, smoldering villages, and war crimes that created a level of distrust and hatred rivaled by few nation-to-nation relationships. He is currently a feature writer at the Borgen Magazine and an Editorial Intern for the National Interest.
Shortly after Frances expulsion from Vietnam in 1954, the United States began to shift its involvement from passively supporting the French in the First Indochina War to establishing its own military presence there.
Given its history, Vietnam has always been distrustful of being too dependent on larger powers and is, therefore, seeking to balance between the United States and China.
Despite the original terms of the Three Nos, Hanoi appears to be carving out targeted exceptions to expand its freedom of action. If the project succeeds, other countries might consider Vietnams model to be worth imitating, given Viettels investments in telecoms in Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia. Moreover, Beijing, despite the 2016 tribunals ruling, still adheres to its sovereignty claims based on the nine-dash line and still accuses Vietnam of encroaching on its waters. But any sense of vindication has been short-lived, as China rejected the ruling out of hand and has continued to assert its previous claims undeterred. As a result, Vietnam has deepened its ties with other states, especially South Korea, India, Australia, and Japan.
In this way, Hanoi is communicating its red line. He called Vietnam the single worst [trade] abuser of everybody and once warned it would be targeted next with tariffs after China. Viettel and another Vietnamese network provider, Mobifone, developed and built out the countrys 4G network in partnership with Nokia and Ericsson, though Chinese telecoms including ZTE did help develop the countrys domestic 3G networks.
Vietnam and China have a deeply rooted though sometimes uneasy diplomatic history. Diplomatic breakthroughs on the maritime territorial disputes over the Spratly Islands and the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea have proven far more elusive.
These stories are reinforced by naming streets and buildings after the same historical figures and focusing the grade school history curriculum on Vietnamese struggle against China. [host] foreign military bases on Vietnamese soil. In part, this policy was designed to persuade Beijing that Hanoi would not seek to pose any threat to Chinas periphery. During that tumultuous decade, the two neighbors fought on the land border (in 1979) and on the high seas when China seized what Vietnam calls Gc Ma Reef (also known as Johnson South Reef or Chigua Reef) in 1988, resulting in Vietnamese casualties. The sheer size of the imbalance between the two countries is, of course, apparent, but Hanoi has adopted a mix of soft and hard balancing to manage the power disparity as much as it can.
At the same time, the international community as a whole, even if interested in upholding the principle of peaceful dispute resolution, is significantly distracted too and has been weakened by the pandemic-related economic downturn and its political repercussions.
In this spirit, Xi visited Hanoi in 2015.
During this visit, Obama announced the end of the U.S. arms embargo against Vietnam. Although the incident was eventually resolved and the CNOOC withdrew the oil rig ahead of its scheduled departure, Chinas aggressive posture in the South China Sea has nonetheless motivated Hanoi to seek other ways of alleviating the power imbalance between the two.
In a 2019 poll conducted by the Singapore-based Yusof-Ishak Institute, overall 68 percent of surveyed respondents from ten ASEAN countries thought U.S. engagement in the region under Trump had decreased. Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees. The State Departments July statement has significantly updated the countrys position by explicitly rejecting Chinas claims and supporting Southeast Asian claimants rights to exploit offshore resources. Despite Chinas diplomatic efforts to keep alive a semblance of neighborly cordiality, the relationship has since deteriorated further as Beijings provocative actions have continued and intensified. Vietnams only ally at the timethe Soviet Unionhad just collapsed, and Hanoi was still very much isolated from the rest of the international community.
After that, Chinas control of Vietnam wavered off and on until the French established a French protectorate in Vietnam in 1883.
But, from Vietnams perspective, what Beijing has hailed as progress in these negotiations is not actually beneficial to Southeast Asian claimants.


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Inspiration struck me again this morning and this was the result. Now, whether YOU, the reader finds this inspirational or not is entirely a matter of opinion, preference or taste. But, I do hope that for whatever reason you will at least read it and understand where I am coming from with it, “The Times They Are A’Changin”*
Have a safe and Happy Labor Day weekend, here in the US. and a safe and happy first weekend of September everywhere else.
The Once And Future King
He sat in the chair at the head of the table
just like his father before
but it wasn’t the same
and though he shared the man’s name
he felt an imposter and poor.
For the chair was more than a furniture piece
back then, it appeared more as a throne
and when the king was at court
there was laughter and sport
and his castle was surely this home.
But those days have long passed from then until
and the king too, has now gone from this place.
His realm lies in shambles
overgrown now by brambles
and the son now weeps in disgrace.
For the government came and they took it away
and then parceled it off to the poor,
yes, they came and they stole
part, parcel and whole
until his great realm was no more.
Alas, the great kingdoms built of work and of toil
are now eroding from hill and from dale
and lest you think this be fable
come sit at his table
and join the crusade then to fail.
*”The Times They Are A’Changin’ ” Written by Bob Dylan
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Applicable on so many levels…………..my first thought was family which has been eroded by the many calling voices of the modern world. And for better or worse, I doubt many kingdoms-, familial or political- will survive the internet. Rome was overrun by barbarians from without. America, when deciding to finally assimilate those it had enslaved, somehow decided to lower its standards to the previously limited ones of the disenfranchised, instead of raising theirs. I guess it was cheaper in the short run.
Like so much of what I write, especially the spur of the moment material, I start with a basic idea and see where it goes. Like you suggested, it all started with a familial theme and took on a course of its own..
Just like the trade pacts that we have with China and other non-regulated countries! And thus, we will eventually collapse under the weight of the cheap “junk” that we import and the financial destitution that we burden ourselves with by having limited, if any, exporting rights with said countries..


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Keeping this in consideration, can I learn guitar at home?
It is definitely possible to learn guitar by yourself and if you follow the right advice, it isn’t hard. It’s important to remember that everybody finds it hard to learn guitar in the beginning whether you have a guitar teacher helping you or you’re learning by yourself.
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Rogues can be bought for as little as $50 – though some go up to $150. Ibanez and Yamaha acoustic guitars are good middle grounds between Rogue and Martin/Taylor. Acoustics from those brands tend to go for $150 to $500. They give quality sound but at an affordable price for intermediate guitar players.
For beginners, I always recommend acoustic guitars in the $200 range, and electric guitar and amp setups for around $300. … Some people consider going much lower for their first guitar, often looking to little-known brands coming in around $100 or less. While it isn’t the path I suggest, it’s not necessarily a bad thing.
How Hard is it to Learn Guitar? Guitar is hard to learn in the beginning, but gets easier the longer you stick with it. The more you practice, the easier guitar will feel to play. … This is why most people who quit guitar do so in the very beginning.
A guitalele (sometimes spelled guitarlele or guilele), also called a ukitar, or kīkū, is a guitar-ukulele hybrid, that is, “a 1/4 size” guitar, a cross between a classical guitar and a tenor or baritone ukulele.
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- Fender. CD-60S All-Mahogany Acoustic Guitar.
- Yamaha. LL6 ARE.
- Epiphone. Hummingbird Studio.
- Yamaha. FG800.
- Taylor. GS Mini Mahogany.
- Ibanez. AW54CE.
- Martin. LX1E Little Martin.
- Epiphone. DR100.
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- Yamaha FG830.
- Epiphone DR-100.
- Fender FA-100.
- Oscar Schmidt OG1-A-U.
- Fender FA-115.
- Yamaha FG800.
- Martin LXK2 Little Martin.
Although steel-stringed acoustic guitars are now used all over the world, the person who is thought to have created the first of these guitars was a German immigrant to the United States named Christian Frederick Martin (1796-1867). Guitars at the time used so-called catgut strings created from the intestines of sheep.


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Municipality workers carry out a sterilisation programme in Dubai.
The UAE Health Ministry announced 150 new cases of Covid-19, bringing the total number of cases to 814. The new cases identified are in a stable condition and receiving treatment.
The Ministry said a 62-year old Asian expat and a 78-year old GCC national who tested positive for COVID-19 died due to complications related to chronic diseases. This brings death toll to eight.
The ministry expressed its sincere condolences to the families of the deceased.
The ministry advised members of the general public to adhere to the preventative health and personal hygiene measures to prevent the spread of the pandemic.
The Dubai Civil Defence carried out sterilisation drive across the emirate to ensure community safety.
Dr Farida Al Hosani, UAE Health Sector’s spokesperson said we are proud to announce the launch of the biggest laboratory, built outside China, for detection and diagnosis of COVID-19 in the United Arab Emirates.
In addition, the public will be able to call a toll-free number 800-WEQAYA to answer their questions and to seek advice on coronavirus preventive measures and health guidelines.
Dr. Al Hosani announced the launch of “Weqaya” a digital platform that focuses on addressing health issues, enhancing public awareness, and offering latest information on coronavirus.
Dr Al Hosani urged the public to follow health advice and pay attention to groups at higher risk, particularly the elderly. We should abide by the physical distancing guideline for their health and safety.
“We highly appreciate everyone’s commitment to work safely from home. Let’s maintain our productivity while adhering to the preventive measures,” Dr. Al Hosani said.
Al Hosani said “Please join us in confronting this global challenge and be part of our campaign.”
It is noted that basic protective measures such as the frequent washing of hands, covering the mouth and nose when coughing or sneezing with a tissue or into ones elbow, and to seek early medical care if symptoms of fever, cough and difficulty in breathing arise.
The UAE ministry also advised individuals with respiratory illness symptoms to avoid mixing in crowded places. It also called on members of the public to seek information from official sources, and avoid spreading misinformation.
The total number of coronavirus cases in the UAE is now 74, while 12 people have already recovered.
The evacuees will be received at the newly established Emirates Humanitarian City in the UAE, and will undergo medical testing and monitoring to ensure their health and safety.
People stranded in Dubai who decide to leave to return to their home countries receive a special sticker on their passports.
Expatriates living in the UAE were elated as their family members, colleagues, friends stuck in other countries are now able to return as the UAE has lifted restriction on incoming flights from Monday onwards.
The Committee explained that the new guidelines take into account the exceptional situations of some categories of people including people of determination, children, and those with chronic respiratory conditions.
The UAE will today (Monday) start receiving residents with valid residence visas, who were stranded abroad due to coronavirus pandemic from various countries.


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MADRID, 18 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -
The Secretary General of the UN, António Guterres, has asked Iran and Pakistan this Thursday for "maximum restraint" to avoid "a further escalation of tensions" after the recent attack by Islamabad in the southeast of the neighboring country in response to the bombings of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard against positions of a terrorist group on Pakistani soil.
"It highlights that all security concerns between the two countries must be addressed through peaceful means, with dialogue and cooperation, in accordance with the principles of sovereignty, territorial integrity and good neighborly relations," stressed its spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric. it's a statement.
This comes after Iranian authorities have reported the death of nine people, including four children, following an attack carried out by the Pakistan Army against alleged "terrorists" in the Iranian province of Sistan and Balochistan, in the southeast. from the country.
The attacks by Pakistan took place a day after Iran's Revolutionary Guard bombed suspected terrorist bases in Pakistan, an event denounced by Islamabad, which claimed that two children had died in the attacks. Islamabad announced on Wednesday that it was recalling its ambassador in Tehran for consultations and stated that the Iranian ambassador in Islamabad, who is currently traveling in Iran, will not return to his position "for now."
The Middle East region is shaken by instability after the crossed attacks between Iran and Pakistan, which also join the Iranian bombings in Iraq, where it attacked alleged positions of the Israeli Mossad.
These episodes, together with the wave of attacks in the Red Sea by Houthis against commercial ships, which have received a response from the United States and the United Kingdom, have aggravated instability in the region, which has the focus on the offensive of Israel against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.