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War Leaves Yemen's Aden Hollowed-Out Shadow of Former Self
June 15, 2018 | Associated Press
Nariman El-Mofty
This Feb. 15, 2018, photo shows sand drifting over an empty highway from Abyan to Aden in Yemen. Violence, famine and disease have ravished the country of some 28 million, which was already the Arab world's poorest before the conflict began. The conflict pits a U.S.-backed, Saudi-led coalition supporting the internationally recognized government, which has nominally relocated to Aden but largely lives in exile, against rebels known as Houthis. Image by Nariman El-Mofty. Yemen, 2018.
ADEN, Yemen—The mood is eerie on the mostly empty streets of Aden, Yemen's southern port city and designated seat of government that has suffered three years of civil war.
Damaged buildings are hollowed-out versions of their former selves, a testament to past lives and aspirations of inhabitants who now scrape by on aid handouts and the bare minimum for survival. Shot-up storefronts and apartment blocks, carcasses of burnt-out armored vehicles and signs marking minefields now define the cityscape along the sea.
Violence, famine and disease have ravished the country of some 28 million, which was already the Arab world's poorest before the conflict began. The conflict pits a U.S.-backed, Saudi-led coalition supporting the internationally recognized government, which has nominally relocated to Aden but largely lives in exile, against rebels known as Houthis.
In this Feb. 9, 2018, photo, a girl runs inside a school turned into a camp for displaced persons in Khanfar, Abyan, Yemen. She is just one of some 2 million displaced by the war in her country. The fighting has killed more than 10,000 people, and driven the Arab world's poorest country to the brink of famine. Image by Nariman El-Mofty. Yemen, 2018.
This Feb. 9, 2018, photo shows damage inside a classroom of a school that turned into a camp for displaced persons in Khanfar, Abyan, Yemen. Because of the country's civil war, damaged buildings are hollowed-out versions of their former selves, a testament to past lives and aspirations of inhabitants who now scrape by on aid handouts and the bare minimum for survival. Image by Nariman El-Mofty. Yemen, 2018.
In this Feb. 12, 2018, photo, a girl pulls water from a well in the home of Ahmed al-Kawkabani, leader of the southern resistance unit in Hodeida, in al-Khoukha, Yemen. Image by Nariman El-Mofty. Yemen, 2018.
This Feb. 17, 2018, photo shows a damaged theme park in Aden, Yemen. The mood is eerie on the mostly empty streets of Aden, Yemen's southern port city and designated seat of government that has suffered three years of civil war. Image by Nariman El-Mofty. Yemen, 2018.
This Feb. 11, 2018, photo shows a clock damaged due the ongoing war ahead of sunrise, in Aden, Yemen. The conflict in Yemen pits a U.S.-backed, Saudi-led coalition supporting the internationally recognized government, which has nominally relocated to Aden but largely lives in exile, against rebels known as Houthis. Image by Nariman El-Mofty. Yemen, 2018.
In this Feb. 9, 2018, photo, a displaced girl from stands in her shelter in Abyan, Yemen. Violence, famine and disease have ravished the country of some 28 million, which was already the Arab world's poorest before the war here began. Image by Nariman El-Mofty. Yemen, 2018.
In this Feb. 12, 2018, photo, women walk past Saudi-led coalition backed forces, who are leading the campaign to take over Hodeida, as they patrol Mocha, a port city on the Red Sea coast of Yemen. Violence, famine and disease have ravished the country of some 28 million, which was already the Arab world's poorest before the conflict began. The conflict pits a U.S.-backed, Saudi-led coalition supporting the internationally recognized government, which has nominally relocated to Aden but largely lives in exile, against rebels known as Houthis. Image by Nariman El-Mofty. Yemen, 2018.
In this Feb. 13, 2018, photo, a man jogs on the beach after the sun sets in Aden, Yemen. Image by Nariman El-Mofty. Yemen, 2018.
This Feb. 15, 2018, photo shows a sign with Arabic that reads, "danger mines, danger mines" on the highway from Abyan to Aden in Yemen. Image by Nariman El-Mofty. Yemen, 2018.
In this Feb. 13, 2018, photo, a man smokes a traditional "shisha" water pipe inside his car parked his car in front of the beach in Aden, Yemen. Even with a civil war in full swing, people seek some simple recreations and acts of normal life. Image by Nariman El-Mofty. Yemen, 2018.
In this Feb. 13, 2018, photo, a elderly man walks past a damaged building from the 2015 war in Aden, Yemen. Violence, famine and disease have ravished the country of some 28 million, which was already the Arab world's poorest before the conflict began. Image by Nariman El-Mofty. Yemen, 2018.
This Feb. 10, 2018, photo shows a shipwreck abandoned on the shore from Mocha to Aden in Yemen. On the beach, old pleasure venues also lie empty, broken and deserted due to the civil war here. A shattered night club and a vacant children's theme park are ghostlike reminders of generations past. Image by Nariman El-Mofty. Yemen, 2018.
In this Feb. 12, 2018, photo, a girl walks alone on a street in al-Khoukha, Yemen. Since the Saudi-led coalition began its bombing campaign against the rebels in 2015, the U.N. estimates that some 10,000 civilians have been killed. Millions need humanitarian assistance and have been forced to flee their homes. Image by Nariman El-Mofty. Yemen, 2018.
This Feb. 17, 2018, photo shows the Mercedes Benz building damaged in Aden, Yemen. Once a peg in a thriving commercial center that sprang up under colonial rule, the dealership sits empty and pockmarked with bullet holes. Its damaged sign now stands over bay windows boarded up by people sheltering inside. With the war still raging, nothing is being rebuilt. Image by Nariman El-Mofty. Yemen, 2018.
In this Feb. 15, 2018, photo, youth play pool on a street in front of damaged buildings due to the war in Aden, Yemen. Many damaged buildings are hollowed-out versions of their former selves, a testament to lives and hopes once lived by inhabitants who now scrape by on aid handouts and the bare minimum for survival. Image by Nariman El-Mofty. Yemen, 2018.
This Feb. 13, 2018, photo shows damage and bullet holes from the country's civil war outside a women's hair salon in Aden, Yemen. The mood is eerie on the mostly empty streets of Aden, Yemen's southern port city and erstwhile seat of government that has suffered three years of civil war. Image by Nariman El-Mofty. Yemen, 2018.
In this Feb. 12, 2018, photo, an elderly woman smokes a water pipe at the home of Ahmed al-Kawkabani, leader of the southern resistance unit in Hodeida, in al-Khoukha, Yemen. Image by Nariman El-Mofty. Yemen, 2018.
This Feb. 12, 2018, photo shows the interior of a home in Mocha, Yemen. Even with a civil war in full swing, people seek some simple recreations and acts of normal life. Image by Nariman El-Mofty. Yemen, 2018.
This Feb. 15, 2018, photo shows war damage outside Lelte boutique for wedding dresses on a street in Aden, Yemen. Despite the country's ongoing war, wedding boutiques are open late into the night, salesmen inside chewing stimulant qat leaves to pass the time. "Women come in and look at some dresses, but they are expensive for people now, so it's hard to sell," said one clerk. Image by Nariman El-Mofty. Yemen, 2018.
In this Feb. 16, 2018, photo, 18-year-old Abdullah gets his hair cut at a barbershop in Aden, Yemen. Even with a civil war in full swing, people seek some simple recreations and acts of normal life—such as this young man's haircut. Women visit salons where a blow-dry costs 200 Yemeni Riyals ($0.80). Image by Nariman El-Mofty. Yemen, 2018.
Crumbling, empty billboards line Aden's rubble-strewn streets. An old Mercedes-Benz dealership, once a peg in a thriving commercial center that sprang up under colonial rule, sits empty and pockmarked with bullet holes. Its damaged sign now stands over bay windows boarded up by people sheltering inside. With the war still raging, nothing is being rebuilt.
Since the Saudi-led coalition began its bombing campaign against the rebels in 2015, the U.N. estimates that some 10,000 civilians have been killed. Millions need humanitarian assistance and have been forced to flee their homes.
The Mercedes Benz building damaged in Aden, Yemen. Once a peg in a thriving commercial center that sprang up under colonial rule, the dealership sits empty and pockmarked with bullet holes. Image by Nariman El-Mofty. Yemen, 2018.
On the beach, old pleasure venues also lie empty, broken and deserted. A shattered night club and a vacant children's theme park are ghostlike reminders of generations past.
Even with a civil war in full swing, people seek some simple recreations and acts of normal life — young men get haircuts and women visit salons where a blow-dry costs 200 Yemeni Riyals ($0.80).
Wedding boutiques are open till late at night, salesmen inside chewing stimulant qat leaves to pass the time. "Women come in and look at some dresses, but they are expensive for people now, so it's hard to sell," said one clerk.
"I am engaged and want to get married but how can I in this situation when I do not have a job?" said a nearby youth, who like most young men here has recently taken part in the fighting.
Youth play pool on a street in front of damaged buildings due to the war. Image by Nariman El-Mofty. Yemen, 2018.
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A Brighter Summer Day () è un film drammatico taiwanese diretto da Edward Yang. Il film è un progetto straordinariamente grande per un film in lingua cinese, non solo per la sua durata di quasi quattro ore, ma anche per il suo coinvolgimento di oltre 100 attori dilettanti in ruoli diversi. Il titolo deriva dal testo di Elvis Presley di "Are You Lonesome Tonight?". Il film è stato selezionato come miglior film alla 64ª edizione degli Academy Awards ma non fu nominato.

Trama
A differenza degli altri film del regista, tutti ambientati nel contemporaneo, A Brighter Summer Day si svolge nei drammatici anni '60 dell'isola di Taiwan, segnati dalla politica del governo locale e dai difficili rapporti tra nativi e gli immigrati dalla Cina Popolare insieme al governo del Kuomintang e del suo leader Chiang Kai-shek, dopo la vittoria di Mao Tse-tung. Nelle sue quattro ore, A Brighter Summer Day mostra un episodio di cronaca che ebbe per protagonista un ragazzo, colpevole di aver ucciso una coetanea. Il film si concentra sullo scontro fra due gang giovanili, che rappresentano il luogo in cui un'intera generazione cerca di identificarsi, travolti dal dramma dell'esilio e dall'altra parte la rappresentazione alla lotta al comunismo di Mao che Taiwan imponeva in quegli anni.

Immerso (nonostante il titolo) nell'oscurità, il film si concentra su un giovane, S'ir. Figlio di un padre intellettuale proveniente da Shanghai e incapace di adattarsi alla nuova realtà di Taiwan, si innamora di Ming, una coetanea, legata sentimentalmente a Honey, carismatico capobanda della banda giovanile cui lo stesso S'ir appartiene. Dopo un lungo periodo di assenza, Honey, ricercato dalla polizia, riappare, ma solo per essere ucciso dai membri della banda rivale. Ming tradisce l'amore di S'ir con un altro ragazzo, spingendo così il giovane e smarrito protagonista ad ucciderla. Le incertezze di Ming e S'ir, la confusione dei loro sentimenti, sono in realtà anche lo specchio della stessa Taiwan, un paese dall'identità confusa, che per sostenere il proprio anticomunismo, e quindi i sentimenti di rivalsa nei confronti della Cina continentale, è costretto a cercare il sostegno dei paesi occidentali, in particolare degli Stati Uniti, e quindi ad abbracciarne la cultura, in tutta la sua estraneità.

Personaggi principali
 Xiao Si'r
 padre di Xiao Si'r
 madre di Xiao Si'r
 Ming
 Cat
 Airplane
 Ma
 Honey

Produzione

Regia
I sentimenti di confusione e incertezza di S'ir, e di generale disagio che la pellicola vuole mostrare, sono resi visivamente dal regista con modalità di costruzione delle scene, a partire da quell'oscurità diffusa che le permea - come nella scena del massacro, illuminato solo da rapidi e fuggenti flash -, e continuando con un frequente uso di piani distanziati ed effetti di fuori campo che oggettivamente limitano la visione dello spettatore.

Sceneggiatura
Ambientato all'inizio degli anni '60 del Novecento, a Taipei, il film è basato su un vero e proprio incidente che il regista ricorda dai tempi della scuola, quando aveva 13 anni. Il titolo originale cinese, 牯嶺街少年殺人事件, che letteralmente si traduce come "L'incidente omicida del ragazzo sulla strada Guling", si riferisce al figlio quattordicenne figlio di un funzionario pubblico che uccise la sua fidanzata, la quale era a sua volta legata ad un capobanda adolescente, per motivi non chiari. Il film pone l'incidente nel contesto del clima politico di Taiwan in quel momento. Il retroscena politico è espresso nel film nella seguente didascalia tradotta:"Milioni di cinesi dal continente fuggirono a Taiwan nel 1949 con il governo nazionalista dopo la sua sconfitta nella guerra civile contro i comunisti cinesi. I loro figli sono stati cresciuti in un clima di disagio creato dall'incertezza dei genitori per il futuro. Molti formarono bande di strada per ricercare un'identità e per rafforzare il loro senso di sicurezza."A Brighter Summer Day è ricco di riferimenti all'assimilazione della cultura americana da parte di Taiwan: dalle innumerevoli scene in palestra, dove i ragazzi giocano a basket, alle altrettanto frequenti mazze da baseball, dai biliardi che campeggiano nelle sedi delle due bande rivali, al western Rio Lobo di Howard Hawks, al cinema. Soprattutto la cultura americana è evocata attraverso la musica rock 'n' roll e un'icona come quella di Elvis Presley (buona parte del film ruota intorno all'organizzazione di un concerto studentesco; il titolo del film nasce dall'erronea traduzione di un verso della canzone di Elvis Are You Lonesome Tonight?), e gli evidenti riferimenti ad altri classici del cinema americano come West Side Story e Gioventù bruciata. Accanto alla presenza della cultura americana c'è poi quella giapponese (gli interni della casa di S'ir, la spada samurai del suo amico Ma, l'ironica frase pronunciata dalla madre di S'ir: «Otto anni di guerra coi giapponesi e ora viviamo in una casa giapponese e ascoltiamo musica giapponese»), che rappresenta il desiderio del governo di Taiwan di emulare il paese orientale che più di altri ha stretto un'alleanza con l'Occidente dando così vita allo sviluppo economico capitalistico. Sospesa tra influenze americane e giapponesi, la Taiwan del film pare una nazione priva di identità tanto quanto lo sono i suoi protagonisti.

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 1991 - Golden Horse Film Festival
 Miglior film
 Nominated: Best Director – Edward Yang
 Nominated: Best Actor – Chang Chen
 1991 - Asia Pacific Film Festival
 Miglior film
 1991 - Tokyo International Film Festival
 Premio speciale della giuria
 FIPRESCI Prize
 1991 - Kinema Junpo Awards
 Miglior regia straniera – Edward Yang
 1991 - Festival des 3 Continents
 Miglior regia – Edward Yang

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Film basati su eventi reali

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A person faulted me for not acting quickly enough (in his estimation) to do what I said I wished to do. He treated me with disdain, accusing me of being all talk and no action. Subsequent to his shameless mistreatment of me, he cornered me and coerced me to name the date that I would begin courting clients and go about the business of my work. I was not ready to take action yet I took his bait. This person offered me no good will yet I felt I had to prove myself.
Shakespeare wrote: The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought and enterprises of great pith and moment, with this regard, their currents turn awry and lose the name of action. (Hamlet: Act 3, Scene 1) We can spend too much time in our heads, inventing scenarios, taking action only when we feel in control. But control is an illusion because the outcome is never assured. And we find ourselves ruminating, making up fantasies about how we think the situation might unfold–favorably or unfavorably–and taking all painstaking possibilities into account.
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Two months after my conversation with that disdainful fellow, I was as ready as I was ever going to be. Any consequences that would transpire would warrant responses one step at a time. Kind and knowledgeable people who had my best interests at heart supported me. I was ready to co-create a transformative experience with people with whom I shared a vision.
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Emotional hurts have a way of making a lasting impression while all the big and little daily happiness-es can run like water through a fist.
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When I see something non-essential on sale that I would like to have but would not buy at full price because I do not have the discretionary funds, I wobble.
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Temptation pulls at us on a regular basis. We can choose to be impulsive and indulge our appetites. It is important at these times to remember our commitments to ourselves and to not betray ourselves.
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Jackson 1st MLB HR, Neidert 1st win as Marlins edge Mets 5-4
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MIAMI (AP) — Newly acquired Alex Jackson hit his first career home run, Nick Neidert earned his first big league win and the Miami Marlins beat the NL East-leading New York Mets 5-4 Tuesday night.
Isan Díaz also homered, Bryan De La Cruz had three hits and Lewis Brinson had two hits and scored twice for the last-place Marlins, who have won the first two of the four-game series.
Home plate umpire Stu Scheurwater ejected New York manager Luis Rojas before the bottom of the seventh. The Mets have lost five of six and are 8-11 since the All-Star break.
The Mets were limited to five hits by Neidert (1-1) and four relievers.
Neidert allowed three runs and three hits, struck out five, walked four and hit a batter in 5 2/3 innings. The 24-year-old righty was in his 11th game in the majors.
Jackson's homer put Miami ahead 1-0 in the second. Acquired from the Atlanta Braves on Friday at the trade deadline, Jackson drove a pitch from Taijuan Walker (7-6) over the center field wall.
The Marlins increased their lead in the third on Díaz's solo homer and De La Cruz's two-run single.
The Mets got to within 4-3 in the sixth on Dominic Smith's second sacrifice fly and J.D. Davis' run-scoring double that chased Neidert.
The Marlins padded their lead on Jorge Alfaro's RBI double in the eighth.
Anthony Bender relieved Neidert and got the last out in the sixth while David Hess and Richard Bleier combined to retire six straight.
Dylan Floro allowed James McCann's RBI double with two outs in the ninth before retiring pinch-hitter Brandon Dury on a grounder for his fourth save.
Walker (7-6) lasted 5 2/3 innings. The right-hander allowed four runs, eight hits, struck out four and walked two.
ROSTER MOVE
Mets RHP Miguel Castro was reinstated from the injured list after testing negative for COVID-19. RHP Geoff Hartlieb was optioned to Triple-A Syracuse. … The Marlins placed LHP Trevor Rogers on the bereavement list.
Mets: RHP Robert Gsellman (torn right lat) underwent a recent MRI that disclosed he has progressed sufficiently to begin a throwing program soon, Rojas said.
Marlins: IF Jazz Chisholm Jr. (unspecified) was placed on the injured list. … RHP Pablo López (right rotator cuff strain) extended his throwing program to 90 feet.
RHP Carlos Carrasco (0-0, 2.25) will start the third game of the series for the Mets on Wednesday while the Marlins will go with RHP Zach Thompson (2-4, 2.33).

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My company Paper Balloon recently performed our piece Once Upon A Snowflake at Pegasus Theatre, Oxford for the theatre's Christmas show.
We had a great time, loved being in Oxford over the festive period and enjoyed great audiences, lovely reviews and sold out performances.
Spending so much time at the Theatre allowed me a little thinking time. I know that Pegasus have suffered funding cuts in this past year, as have many similarly vital arts organisations in local communities around the country. I suspect that my connection with Pegasus will be similar to many other artists working around the UK.
In my formative years I saw challenging, different, powerful work at Pegasus that shaped my view of what theatre is. Performances by young people, disabled people, refugees, non-white people - people who looked and sounded like me, and those who didn't. The door was always open, and there was the exciting option of participating. I was perhaps surprisingly quite shy and nervous when I was younger and so I bottled the opportunity the first time round, but I kept watching and coming back...
I returned after university and was given the opportunity to intern, working with young people to develop a production. It gave me vital experience and launched my career in theatre.
Several years later when I had founded a company I came back again and won a position of 'supported artist' created especially to formalise the theatre's longstanding tradition of nurturing theatre companies.
This relationship helped us launch our first fully funded touring piece, 'The Grumpiest Boy in the World' (by award winning writer Finegan Kruckemeyer - now enjoying further life across the globe in the USA & Australia), helped us discover our working style and voice, and set us up to become a touring company working in South East England. In short, it was a crucial step in our development as a company; I do not believe we would exist to make the work we're making without this support.
We've retained links with the theatre, its staff and artists over the years, but have also moved on to other things, which is as I believe it should be. But I haven't forgotten its role in our formative years. There are other companies that could talk about Pegasus in a similar way. Complicite, the multi-award winning, trailblazing, Barbican-selling-out theatre company began their story at Pegasus. They ran a workshop with us when I interned there - it blew me away.
There are people much more well-placed to talk about the theatre's work with young and vulnerable people in Oxford than me, despite having seen the enormous power of this work over the years. I can only describe with any authority my own, positive experience.
I want to illustrate a point. As I began writing this, I learned that the MAC Birmingham, (a giant compared to Pegasus) is due to receive devastating funding cuts from the council, yet another in a long list of councils slicing or completely severing arts funding.
If we let those who set the agenda ascribe this as a battle of theatres vs hospitals (already in their own funding crisis) we know who will win. But the question we should be asking is: can we afford to let our arts centres slowly die away?
Pegasus is fighting valiantly on, and will be supported in their endeavours by a local community & an audience built over the last 50 years who love and trust in their work.
But for those who value different artists' voices within our society, if the venues' ability to take risks and nurture new talent is lost, where will the next Complicite, Improbable, Blind Summit, Right Size, Idle Motion come from?


In this Year's pantomime, the evil Sheriff of Nottingham hopes to gain the lands and riches of two orphaned children, but doesn't reckon on Robin Hood and his Merry Men.. and Women.
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A ruling by a federal judge in California declaring the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy unconstitutional adds to growing momentum to end the nation's ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military, and the only question may be whether Congress or the courts makes the decision.
In May, the House voted to repeal the ban, as did the Senate Armed Services Committee, and President Obama said he looked forward to signing a bill repealing the ban. "This legislation will make our armed forces even stronger and more inclusive by allowing gay and lesbian soldiers to serve honestly and with integrity," he said.
Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called the repeal "the right thing to do."


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iPhone: If you travel a lot, or just worry about leaving things behind when you do, iPacking might be just the app you need for creating your packing lists.
iPacking lets you create and save multiple packing lists for different kinds of trips and even specify which items go in which piece of luggage. You can make your list using a built-in catalog of items or just type them in as you go. iPacking also includes templates for common types of trips (such as business, family, and camping trips) that you can customize as you see fit. When you're ready to pack, you can view or print your list, or have iPacking walk you through the packing process one item at a time so you're sure to get everything.


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Q: Exponential Decay of a radioactive substance If $375$ mg of a radioactive substance decays to $300$ mg in $72$ hours, find the
half-life of the element. I first used the mathematical formula of
$$A = A_0e^{kt}$$
or exponential decay. After doing my calculations with natural logarithms, I got
an odd answer of $1.3$ days, by dividing $\ln (375)/\ln (72)$. I know this cannot be the half-life of a radioactive element. Where is my wrong step?

A: Because it is exponential decay, I would prefer to use $A(t)=A(0)e^{-kt}$.
Then $\frac{300}{375}=e^{-72k}$, so $k=\frac{1}{72}\ln(375/300)$.
Now for the half-life $\tau$, we have $\frac{1}{2}A(0)=A(0)e^{-k\tau}$, so $k\tau=\ln 2$. It follows that the half-life, in hours, is $72\frac{\ln 2}{\ln(375/300)}$.

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Studying for tests and exams is a stressful time, we know. Not only do you want to do well, but there's pressure from your parents/caregivers and even peers to achieve the required results. And with The South African Depression and Anxiety Group (SADAG) reporting a significant increase in students and learners calling their helpline over exam periods, exam stress is real and needs to be addressed or we could face tragic consequences.
As mentioned in a previous article (https://www.milpark.ac.za/-/successful-studying-seven-simple-steps-to-get-the-most-out-of-revision), as soon as you receive your exam timetable, put a study schedule together. Knowing you have a plan (with enough time to revise everything) will give you a sense of control. Ticking off each day is also a great motivator! Make your schedule realistic and be sure to schedule in personal time too.
Mindfulness is the art of being fully present in the moment and the task at hand. It helps the mind focus and reduces anxiety, stress and negative emotions. A few ways of practising mindfulness are meditation and yoga. Here's a simple guide to get you started.
Eating properly, exercising and getting enough sleep will go a long way in reducing anxiety and re-energising the mind. Make sure you are eating a balanced and nutritious diet, try to exercise at least half an hour every day and get at least eight hours of sleep a night.
Often just telling yourself "I CAN do this" is all you need to squash anxious thoughts and emotions. According to counselling psychologist and life coach Kerry Acheson, you should observe what happens with your thoughts, feelings and body when you are anxious and replace these 'negative' thoughts with positive ones. "Putting affirmation statements up around the house can help," Acheson says. She also advises that you remind yourself of challenges you have overcome in the past, and then apply them to your current situation.
Problem-focused coping: the incessant drilling outside your house is stressing you out, so you go to the library to study. Problem solved.
Emotion-focused coping: you're anxious about the amount of studying you have to do, so you decide to go for a walk to clear your head. But the 'problem' will still be there when you get back.
While problem-focused coping resolves the anxiety in its entirety, emotion-focused coping can be counter-productive. The walk to clear your head could leave you refreshed and ready to tackle the next study session, but excessive avoidance of the problem such as watching too much TV is not the answer. Both methods have their merits; you just need to figure out what works for you.
There is absolutely no shame in asking for help. If you feel you are not coping and are feeling overwhelmed, reach out to your family, a friend, or the counsellors at your school or place of education. You don't need to go through this alone.


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LONDON: Gold was up on Monday morning in Asia, with investors welcoming the news that the U.S. Congress reached a deal on the latest stimulus measures.
Gold futures were up 0.70% at $1,902.20 by 11:11 PM ET (4:11 AM GMT), passing the $1,900 mark. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission said on Friday that hedge funds and money managers raised their bullish positions in COMEX gold and silver contracts in the week to Dec. 15. The dollar was also up on Monday, capping gains for the yellow metal.
Republicans and Democrats reached agreement on a $900 billion package over the weekend. The House of Representatives will vote on the bill later in the day, followed by the Senate.
However, a rapidly spreading new strain of COVID-19 in the U.K., Described by U.K. Health Secretary Matt Hancock as "out of control," overshadowed the news as the U.K. imposed fresh restrictive measures.
Physical gold was sold at a discount in India during the previous week for the first time in six weeks as a rebound in local prices squeezed demand. Purchases also slowed in other Asian hubs ahead of the upcoming holidays.
Meanwhile, Russia's gold reserves stood at 73.9 million troy ounces as of the start of December, the country's central bank said on Friday.
France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Ireland and Belgium have closed their borders to travelers, and in some cases freight from the U.K. Other countries, such as Canada, Argentina and Chile have also banned flights from the U.K. Other countries are considering similar bans.
The U.K. is also continuing negotiations with the European Union (EU) for a post-Brexit trade deal. Although the U.K. insisted on Sunday the EU shift position to open the way to a post-Brexit trade pact, EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said, "Both the EU and U.K. must have the right to set their own laws and control their own waters. And we should both be able to act when our interests are at stake."
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DC Alters First-Wave New 52 Collections
By Russ Burlingame - September 7, 2017 12:33 am EDT
When it was announced that several of DC Comics's New 52 titles would be canceled following the release of their eighth issues in April, some fans wondered whether the collected editions previously solicited for 2012 would be altered to include the final issues of those titles, or whether their favorite canceled books would never see the inside of a bookstore, relegated instead to digital single issues. Well, yesterday DC gave us the answer; on their blog, The Source, the publisher released an "updated" list of the first wave of New 52 collected editions, including slightly longer volumes to accommodate including the complete run of O.M.A.C., Hawk & Dove, Mr. Terrific, Static Shock, Men of War and Blackhawks. Check out DC's list at the link above, although at first glance it doesn't appear to have any other notable changes.
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McDonald's ex-CEO is in trouble again for his deceit!
According to Bloomberg, McDonald's was investigating its HR department along with whether the ex-CEO Steve Easterbrook covered up for the improprieties of other employees. The quick service restaurant is reportedly suing the former CEO for allegedly lying and covering about his sexual relationships with three employees. The report also stated that McDonald's HR department was under internal review since April 2020.
Employers should understand where state, federal laws overlap!
In a recent announcement made by the New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal dated 20 August, 2020, the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights would pursue the discrimination claims made by a former marketing director before an administrative law judge. The worker had claimed that her rights under the New Jersey Family Leave Act were denied and the company had retaliated against her when she had taken the time off under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act to recover from child birth.
Pay raise indicated for US employees in 2021!
According to the 2020 General Industry Salary Budget Survey conducted by Willis Towers Watson Data Services released on 17Aug 2020, it was revealed that there was an indication of salary hike for employees at numerous companies in the US. The hike in salary was expected to come through in 2021. The survey report also stated that most of the employers were expecting a 'turn toward normalcy in 2021.
JP Morgan staff to oscillate between office and work from home!
According to the announcement made by JP Morgan, the workers in both corporate and investment bank would cycle between days spent at the office and at home. The move would ensure remote working on a part-time basis. The announcement was made by JPMorgan – the world's biggest Wall Street bank by revenue – and could pressurize other financial organizations as well to offer similar arrangements.
American Airlines to slash 19,000 US jobs in October!
In an internal announcement made by American Airlines on Tuesday, it was stated that the airlines would be cutting about 19,000 jobs in October. The move was planned as the COVID induced lockdown continued to affect air travel. The airline stated in the announcement that unless the government extends their aid for airline employee payrolls there would be no other option but to slash the jobs. The airlines had received about $25 billion in US government stimulus funds in March that was meant to cover payrolls and also protect jobs till September end.
Demand for remote jobs on the rise amid coronavirus spread fears!
According to a LinkedIn report dated 30 July, 2020, it was revealed that there has been a steady increase in demand for remote jobs. The report stated that since March the remote job listings on LinkedIn have tripled and most of the organizations planned to continue with their remote work practices. The report also stated that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had advised businesses back in February to opt for teleworking so as to contain the spread of the disease.
US shale oil producers plan to slash jobs!
Reporting large second-quarter losses two of the US shale oil producers – Pioneer Natural Resources Co and Parsley Energy Inc have planned to slash their workforce in coming days. With the oil demand and prices going down due to coronavirus pandemic, the cost cutting announcement are the latest by the oil and gas producers. During the pandemic, more than 100,000 jobs in the US industry have been axed.
Vox media pays $4 million to settle lawsuit claims!
In another development for settling lawsuit claims, another company Vox Media had agreed to pay $4 million to settle a trio of lawsuits alleging that bloggers and site managers for its SB Nation team sites were misclassified as independent contractors. According to the lawsuit filed the workforce were denied overtime pay, minimum wages, and other benefits under California, New Jersey, and federal law.
DHL Express faces lawsuit for federal law violation!
According to a class-action lawsuit filed in federal court in Tennessee DHL Express and its vendor Flyaway Express had violated federal law by failing to properly compensate package delivery drivers and couriers. The lawsuit claimed that the company had failed to compensate drivers or couriers for all the time they worked and failed to offer overtime premium for all hours worked in excess of 40 per workweek that is in compliance with Fair Labor Standards Act.
Payroll tax holiday deadline looms near, employers nowhere ready!
The recent executive order signed by the US president Donald Trump calling for a deferral of the employees' portion of the payroll tax from 1 Sept, 2020 had created a furor. With the final guidelines still awaited, employers and payroll companies are in doubts as to how this would work. The final guidelines would come from the IRS. While the deadline looming, payroll companies, the US Chamber of Commerce and other business associations revealed it would be difficult to implement the deferral. The concern is about the liability both employers and employees could face.
Research detects bias against Black women with natural hairstyles!
The recently published research revealed some disturbing results related to discrimination. The results revealed that Black women with natural hairstyles like Afros, braids, and twists were considered less competent, less professional, and thus less likely to be recommended for a job as compared to Black women with straight hairstyles and White women with either curly or straight hairstyles. The research was published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science.
Coronavirus highlights the strategic value of HR: Paychex
According to the Paychex's 2020 Pulse of HR about nine out of 10 HR professionals that were surveyed by the firm revealed about their say in company strategy. The survey also revealed that respondents had placed HR strategy first when ranking the needs for third-party support. About 575 respondents pointed out evaluating workplace productivity, driving results through company culture and implementing training and development rated as these as their top priorities.
American Airlines to suspend services to 15 small cities in October!
In an internal memo shared by the American Airlines, it was revealed that it was planning to suspend its services to 15 small US cities from October. The services would be suspended post the terms of federal aid that required minimum amount of flight services expires on 30 Sept, 2020. American Airline was the only airline that offered scheduled commercial services to nine of the cities including Del Rio, Texas; Dubuque, Iowa; Florence, South Carolina; Greenville, North Carolina; Joplin, Missouri; New Haven, Connecticut; Roswell, New Mexico; Stillwater, Oklahoma and Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
Bay Area restaurant owners pay $2.6 million as wage settlement claim!
In a response to the statement issued by Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN), which was violated by the owners of a Bay Area Kome Japanese Seafood & Buffet, restaurant owners have agreed to $2.6 million of wage settlement claim. The claim charges were brought by California's Labor Commissioner's Office and alleged that it failed to offer minimum wage, overtime, and split shift premium pay to about 133 workers.
About 40% of Americans stand on the edge of financial ruin!
According to a SimplyWise survey about 40% of Americans who had lost their jobs or had a cut in their take-home salary because of COVID-19 would not be able to last most than a month on any kind of savings. The survey results were the reminder of the disturbing fact that numerous American families were standing on the edge of financial ruin. In addition, federal unemployment aid had ended in July and even eviction protections had expired in various parts of the country.
USCIS announces increase in employee visa fees!
As per the new rule published by the US Citizenships and Immigration Services (USCIS) fees for certain immigration and naturalization requests would be subject to a weighted average increase of 20%. The new rule came into being on 3 Aug 2020. The new rule also included fee increase for Form I-129, which is filed by employers on behalf on their nonimmigrant workers to bring them to the US temporarily. The increase in fee would depend on the type of worker an employer had filed for.
Facebook announces support to Black-owned businesses
According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York about 41% of the 1.1 million Black-owned businesses on Main Street had shut down between February and April when the global pandemic struck the country. Facebook, in order to help this sector had announced that it would be updating its Businesses Nearby platform so that it would be easier for users to discover and support Black-owned businesses in their communities.
Lack of child care issues prevent employees to resume full time office!
According to the survey carried out by the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation dated 3 Aug, 2020, it was revealed that employers had cited as lack of child care as one of the main reasons along with health and safety concerns why some workers were unable to fully return to work. About 40% of the 170 employers surveyed revealed that they have offered child care assistance, along with benefits or accommodations in response to the pandemic.
Millions of Americans face long-term unemployment!
In a recent development related to unemployment cases in the US, it was reported that millions of Americans would face long-term unemployment with greater financial risks. The implications for long-term unemployment could be depleted savings and could turn into debt to cover daily living expenses. Finding a job befitting their qualifications and salary expectations gets difficult.
Lawmakers float a bill to modify employer educational assistance programs!
In a recent development, the lawmakers have floated a bipartisan bill that would sought to expand and modify the employer educational assistance programs. The Upskilling and Retraining Assistance Act was introduced on 4 Aug, 2020, with an aim to assist employers in hiring and retaining employees who had lost their jobs amid the COVID-19 pandemic.


France 1429 is a game of dynastic ambition, where players assume the roles of nobles in the 15th century Kingdom of France. Each player strives to become the most powerful ruling force in the Kingdom by gaining control of Fief and Bishopric territories. In turn, they acquire Royal and Ecclesiastical (church) titles which give their families influence to elect the next Pope and King. Players strengthen their positions by negotiating marriage alliances between their families, setting the stage for love treachery and deception!


The Russian airlines in January, 2019, according to operational data, transported 8.2 million passengers that is 8.8% more, than for the same period of last year, reported in Rosaviatsia. The passenger turnover increased by 10.8% — to 21.7 billion passenger-kilometers. Increase in volumes of production activity in January is noted at Aeroflot airlines — 2.8 million passengers (13.4%), S7 — 818.3 thousand passengers (2.6%), "Victory" — 689.1 thousand passengers (43.7%), Ural Airlines — 603.5 thousand passengers (6.5%) are transported.


Freehold Soccer League would like to take this opportunity to thank all the players, coaches, families and friends who participated in the 3rd Annual War at the Shore Soccer Tournament to make it such a big success!!
Please check back often for updates to the website for information on Freehold Soccer League's Frightfest XVIII Invitational Soccer Tournament. It's open to travel teams in U8 - U12 divisions and is being held on Saturday, October 15, 2016 (rain date is Saturday, October 22, 2016). So mark your calendars and get your costumes and scary makeup ready for this great day of soccer and just plain ol' fun!!


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Q: CSS difficulty within loaded div with Ajax I am having trouble with the CSS when I load a page into div.
Firefox loads CSS perfectly, but in Chrome, it does not load the CSS styles of the loaded page.
It only works when I apply style with the element, for example

Only this way does it work in Chrome.
But this doesn't work:

Is there a way to fix this?

A: I'm guessing the page you are loading via AJAX has its own styles in the head of that page. While that could/should work, I suggest putting all the styles for your site in one or more external style sheets and load them at every page. When you then load HTML content in a div via AJAX, the styles will already be there and will be applied to the new content.
Putting styles in an external stylesheet is, in most cases, the best practice for a number of reasons.

A: Did you forget a ; on the end of fixed?

A: I would be curious to see if this:

would work if it were to be formated as:

BUT, as others suggest, I would prefer to see it in an external style sheet file and linked in that way.


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'Dick Johnson Is Dead': CPH:DOX review
By Tim Grierson, Senior US Critic2020-03-27T13:36:00+00:00
Kirsten Johnson documents the slow loss of her father to Alzheimer's disease
'Dick Johnson Is Dead'
Dir: Kirsten Johnson. US. 2020. 89mins
A daughter memorialises her father while he's still alive in Kirsten Johnson's powerfully moving Dick Johnson Is Dead. Filming her octogenarian dad as Alzheimer's takes hold, the director and cinematographer offers an intimate portrait of both their loving relationship and their growing acknowledgement that — either because of his mental decline or actual death — they will soon be separated. This documentary sports fantastical digressions in which Johnson crafts fictional scenarios of how her father could die — starring Dick himself — but the movie's light-hearted tone merely holds at bay the tears that will be shed by the filmmaker and viewers.
Johnson's deeply compassionate, even hopeful tone could be a balm for her fellow grievers
Screening as part of CPH:DOX, this Netflix film premiered at Sundance, where it received a special jury prize for Innovation in Nonfiction Storytelling, and indeed Dick Johnson Is Dead's clever, life-affirming approach to inherently gloomy subject material should help it find an audience. For those who have watched loved ones fight a losing battle with Alzheimer's, the movie might seem unappealing, but Johnson's deeply compassionate, even hopeful tone could be a balm for her fellow grievers.
Early on through voiceover, Johnson explains how close she is to her father C. Richard 'Dick' Johnson, a Seattle psychiatrist who has been struggling in recent times with Alzheimer's. Making the difficult decision to move Dick from their family home so that he can live with Johnson and her young children in New York, she films his mental deterioration while also staging scripted sequences in which her dad dies through random accidents — or is in Heaven enjoying the afterlife.
A long-time documentary cinematographer who in 2016's Cameraperson reflected on the footage she's shot over the years, Johnson reminiscences in another way in her new film, grappling with the loss of someone she describes as her best friend. We don't doubt her claim: Dick Johnson Is Dead features multiple warm interactions between the director and her father, and their charming, easy-going rapport is one of the documentary's core strengths. But as pleasurable as it is to watch their exchanges — with Johnson usually behind the camera — there's an undeniable poignancy attached since we (and they) know that Dick will only deteriorate.
Maybe that's why Johnson is so intent on filming Dick, wanting as much footage as possible. (As we'll learn, her dedication to this task is, in part, a way to assuage her guilt for not filming much of her mother, who also suffered from Alzheimer's and died about a decade ago.) In her voiceover, Johnson tries to bear witness to the man he was — a sweet, gentle father and husband who always believed in living in the moment. Subdued but noticeable emotion comes across in this narration, and her restraint only makes the obvious sadness that much more crushing.
Perhaps as a way to add some barbed levity to the proceedings, Dick Johnson Is Dead occasionally segues into these surreal scenarios in which Dick (with the help of stunt doubles) acts out his own death. He's crushed by a falling air conditioner, tumbles down a flight of stairs, and is struck by a careless construction worker. Other fictional scenarios are manufactured — including brief visits to Heaven — and while they help ensure that Dick Johnson Is Dead isn't too sombre, the playacting can sometimes feel cutesy or redundant. With that said, for Johnson (and maybe her father) these digressions are clearly therapeutic — a way to talk around the insurmountable sorrow in which they find themselves.
The film is a quiet marvel of astute, intuitive editing courtesy of acclaimed documentary editor Nels Bangerter (who is credited as a co-writer alongside Johnson). While Dick Johnson Is Dead unspools in a generally chronological manner, Johnson deftly moves between past, present and fantasy, turning what might seem like a stream-of-consciousness piece into a focused treatise on family, love and the pain of saying goodbye. Along the way, the documentary also subtly explores the limits of nonfiction to tell this story — how chronicling a person with a camera is, in its own way, an imperfect form of memory. It's a valid point, but as Dick Johnson Is Dead argues persuasively, imperfect forms are all we have when we're trying to hold onto those who mean so much to us.
Production company: Big Mouth Productions
Worldwide distribution: Netflix
Producers: Kirsten Johnson, Katy Chevigny, Marilyn Ness
Screenplay: Nels Bangerter & Kirsten Johnson
Editing: Nels Bangerter
Cinematography: Kirsten Johnson
Music: SYZYGYS
Devashish Makhija's cat-and-mouse thriller is a race across India's troubled interior
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'A House In Jerusalem': Rotterdam Review
Muayad Alayan ventures into genre with his third feature, a UK/Palestinian co-production set in a rambling old house in West Jerusalem


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Sole Trader: taxable income is calculated on an April to April basis and should be sent to HMRC, via the self assessment tax return, before the following 31st January. So the 5th April 2012 tax return is due 31st January. If the tax return is submitted by paper this date is earlier.
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The Andrews Labor Government will provide more support to vulnerable Victorians and make the courts safer and more efficient under a major boost to the legal system.
The Victorian Budget 2017/18 will deliver $89.2 million to update the ageing IT systems at the Children's and Magistrates' Courts. A new case management system will be developed to ensure better information sharing between the courts and other agencies.
The new system will make court processes faster and help judges to make more informed decisions to keep victims safe, addressing key recommendations from the Royal Commission into Family Violence.
The Supreme Court will also receive a boost of $10.9 million for advanced new audio and visual technology set to allow witnesses to provide testimony via video link.
A further $14.5 million will be invested in Victoria's community legal centres to help disadvantaged members of the community access free legal advice and support. The funding also includes ongoing support for Job Watch, which will continue to provide free advice to Victorian workers.
The Budget provides a $15 million investment in Victoria Legal Aid which will fund additional legal services for children and young people in the justice system.
The Budget will also deliver $3.4 million to establish a Fast Track Remand Court in the Children's Court to speed up the processing of youths on remand. The fast track court will ensure that young people's cases will be dealt with more quickly, reducing pressure on the system.
$22 million will provide more mental health support services in the courts, including an additional Mental Health Court Liaison Officer in the Children's Court and an expansion of the Assessment and Referral Court List to provide intensive pre-sentence support and judicial supervision to accused people with a mental illness or cognitive impairment.
Court Services Victoria (CSV) will receive $12.2 million to upgrade court facilities and boost resources at a number of regional courts to make them safer and more efficient.
The Family Drug Treatment Court will also get $1.4 million to extend a trial operating at the Broadmeadows Children's Court which works with parents whose children are in care due to parental drug or alcohol issues.


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Fierce clashes between Palestinian stone throwers and Israeli soldiers continued over Israel's opening of the rebuilt Hurva synagogue, located several hundred metres from the al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem. The clashes erupted in East Jerusalem as well as in the suburbs of the West Bank cities of Nablus, Beit Sahour and Hebron. The Israeli army dispersed the Palestinian protestors by force. During Tuesday's clashes some 100 Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers were injured.
Meanwhile Israeli Radio quoted senior Israeli army officials as saying that they expect the wave of violence in the West Bank and East Jerusalem to decline because "the Palestinian leaders in the West Bank are not interested in keeping the wave of violence flaming".
But in the Gaza Strip, hundreds of Palestinians demonstrated on Wednesday near the eastern border with Israel against the ongoing Israeli blockade imposed on the coastal strip and the latest Israeli measures in Jerusalem — mainly over the synagogue and the expanding settlements.
Gaza organisers of the protest said that the demonstration was arranged also to protest against the Israeli security measures in the Gaza Strip like the enlarging of the no-go zone area on the borders between the blockaded enclave and Israel.
Crowds gathered near the Nahal Ozz crossing east of Gaza city, when Israeli soldiers opened intensive warning fire at the demonstrators who tried to approach the border area.
Left-wing Palestinian parties in Gaza had earlier called for a demonstration near the borders to protest against the security no-go zone, the ongoing blockade and the latest Israeli measures in East Jerusalem. Foreign activists from several international solidarity movements joined the protest, where demonstrators waved Palestinian flags and chanted slogans against Israel.
"The West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem are one united Palestinian territory that was occupied by Israel in 1967 and should be completely liberated," said Zeidan.
On Tuesday dozens of Palestinians demonstrated near the border between northern Gaza Strip and Israel, during which Israeli army forces opened intensive warning fire, and the demonstration was peacefully dispersed with no injuries.
Meanwhile Abbas on Wednesday called on Israel to stop building Jewish settlements in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, in order to start US-led proximity talks between the two sides, which are backed by the Arab League.
Israel's approval last week of the building 1,600 homes in the eastern section of Jerusalem, which the Palestinians want as a capital for their future state, delayed the re-launch of the indirect negotiations after the Arabs and Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) accepted the US proposal.
Speaking to reporters in a joint news conference with Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday in Ramallah, Abbas urged his rival Hamas movement to accept an Egyptian proposal for Palestinian national reconciliation, a matter which would help lifting the Israeli blockade.
Hamas took over Gaza after routing pro-Abbas forces in deadly fighting in 2007. Currently, the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) holds sway in parts of the West Bank.
Both Abbas and Lula called for an end to the blockade Israel imposed on the Gaza Strip.
Abbas basically opposes resolving the conflict with Israel by violence, but insists that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can be only resolved through peace negotiations.
"The siege on Gaza must be lifted" and the barrier Israel is building in the West Bank "must fall," Lula said. He added that Brazil takes part in international efforts to rebuild Gaza following the end of a three-week Israeli war there in January 2009.


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Biografia
Izz ad-Din ibn Munqidh apparteneva alla dinastia dei Banu Munqidh, emiri di Shayzar dal 1081. Alla morte del padre, 'Izz ad-Dawla abu-l-Murhaf Nasr ibn Munqidh (1098), Izz ad-Din divenne emiro di Shayzar ma, dato che non aveva eredi maschi, affiancò al trono il fratello Majd ad-Din abu Salamah Murshid ibn 'Izz ad-Dawla ibn Munqidh. Durante il regno dei due fratelli, Shayzar dovette barcamenarsi nelle continue contese tra i vari potentati turchi e gli Stati crociati.

Nel 1106, i Banu Munqidh sconfissero Guglielmo Giordano di Cerdanya, conte di Tripoli, ma nel 1108 e nel 1110 dovettero pagare tributo al potente signore di Antiochia, Tancredi d'Altavilla. Nel 1111, temendo nuove rappresaglie da Tancredi, alleatosi al re Baldovino I di Gerusalemme, Izz ad-Din chiese aiuto al atabeg di Mosul, Mawdud, comandante del corpo di spedizione dei selgiuchidi del sultano Mehmed I. Le armate dei turchi e dei crociati si scontrarono nella Battaglia di Shayzar, sotto le mura della città siriana: la battaglia si concluse con una vittoria tattica dei selgiuchidi ma Tancredi, costretto a ritirarsi, fece erigere il castello di Tell ibn Ma'shar per minare il potere dei Munqidhidi sulla regione.

Nel 1113, alla morte dell'emiro di Aleppo Ridwan ibn Tutush, i Banu Munqidh vennero attaccati dai Nizariti che tentarono di occupare Shayzar e costruirono una propria roccaforte limitrofa alla cittadella degli emiri. Nel 1119, Izz ad-Din si unì alla campagna del atbeg di Aleppo, Ilghazi ibn Artuq, contro le terre antiochee e, nel 1123, fece da mediatore tra i turchi ed i crociati per la libertà del re Baldovino II di Gerusalemme ed il conte Joscelin I di Edessa, prigionieri degli Artuqidi.

Nel 1127 i Banu Munqidh dovettero riconoscere la sovranità del potente atabeg di Aleppo, Zengi.

Nel 1137 un esercito congiunto di bizantini e cavalieri templari, guidato dal basileus Giovanni II Comneno, cinse d'assedio Shayzar (v. Assedio di Shayzar): prima di ritirarsi per evitare il confronto diretto con Zengi, Giovanni II ottenne la sottomissione dei Munqidhidi.

Alla morte di Izz ad-Din (1154), il potere su Shayzar passò a suo figlio Taj ad-Dawla Nasr ad-Din Muhammad ibn abu-l-Asakir ibn Munqidh, l'ultimo emiro della dinastia dei Banu Munqidh.

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Bibliografia

Fonti antiche
 Niceta Coniata, Grandezza e catastrofe di Bisanzio, Milano, 1994, ISBN 88-04-37948-0.
 al-Kāmil fī l-tārīkh, ed. C.J. Tornberg, Beirut, 1982.
 An Arab-Syrian Gentleman and Warrior in the Period of the Crusades; Memoirs of Usamah ibn-Munqidh (Kitab al i'tibar), ed. P.K. Hitti, New York, 1929.
 Ibn al-Qalanisi, Dhail ta'rìkh Dimashq, ed. Amedroz, Leiden, 1908.

Studi
 Y. Noah Harari, Operazioni speciali al tempo della cavalleria, 1100-1550, Gorizia, 2008, ISBN 978-88-6102-029-0.
 F. Gabrieli [a cura di], Storici arabi delle crociate, Torino, 1987, ISBN 88-06-59856-2.


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Sukoon is an Arab-themed, English language, online literary magazine reflecting the diversity and richness of the Arab world. Sukoon is the first of its kind in the Arab region, where established and emerging artists, poets and writers of short stories and personal essays, publish their original work in English. Artists and writers need not be Arab, nor of Arab origin, but all art and writing must reflect the range and richness of the cultures of the Arab world, where Arabic is spoken—a Semitic language with over 30 different varieties of colloquial Arabic. Sukoon is an Arabic word meaning "stillness." What we mean is the stillness discovered within, as the artist continues to follow his/her creative calling—a calling that compels the artist to continue on his/her creative path for the sole reason that he/she does not know how not to. Sukoon is also a phonetic symbol used in the Arabic script.
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Tiny Harris revealed just how far back her recent troubles with T.I. really go when she explained her decision to release a song about their marriage.
A lot of people might not remember that Tiny was famous before she met Tip because of her success with Xscape. When she and Tip got together, though, she put her singing career on the back burner to be a wife and mom.
Tiny could seemingly drop a whole new album whenever she's ready to do it since she likely has years of material. She sent the rumor mill into overdrive last week when she finally decided to break from her routine and put out "What The F*ck You Gon' Do." On the track, she reminds her hubby T.I. that he's got a lot to lose if she decides to walk because of all his alleged marital shenanigans. (Sister 2 Sister Magazine).
"My new song is a statement," Tiny said, adding that she didn't just create the song this summer after months of negative reports on her marriage. "I wrote this song a year ago. I never planned to put it out. It was therapy for me. At the time, I was really going through a lot. Stuff that the public didn't know and still doesn't know." (Sister 2 Sister Magazine).
Tiny looks at "What The F*ck You Gon' Do" as her way of addressing all the rumors of T.I.'s infidelity and the speculation about the status of their relationship. "Over the past year, as things have unfolded publicly, people expected me to speak on it," Tiny said, explaining why she chose to put the track out now. "I realized, I did speak on all of this, a year ago, in this song. So it made sense to release it." (Sister 2 Sister Magazine).
Hints of Tiny and T.I.'s marital problems have been sprinkled all over social media, as the couple supposedly put subliminal messages to and about each other on Twitter and Instagram. People have criticized them for not talking it out in person, but Tiny assured that they've had some heart-to-heart conversations about their relationship behind closed doors. (Sister 2 Sister Magazine).
"I'm doing that too!" she stated. "You're not in our house. You're not in our conversations. You're not in our bed at night. This song is not all there is to this relationship." (Sister 2 Sister Magazine).
Eskridge, S. (2014, July 28). Tiny speaks out on song about her marriage. Sister 2 Sister Magazine. Retrieved from http://s2smagazine.com/2014/07/28/tiny-speaks-out-on-song-about-her-marriage/ .


While Priyanka Chopra released her album In My City and even collaborated with top pop stars like Pitbull, it seems that Madhuri Dixit too is keen on testing international waters. But unlike her acting career in Bollywood, the actress wants to tap into American music scenes with her new venture. Reports have it that the Kalank actress wishes to make an English pop album and is currently prepping for it.
While Madhuri Dixit has made her singing debut of sorts in Bollywood with Gulaab Gang, we hear that the actress wants to take her love for music a step ahead. The actress reportedly has started working towards her English album which is expected to be launched by the end of this year. If recent reports are to be believed, Madhuri will be lending her voice to a mix of songs that will be inspired by the pop culture.
Interestingly, when it comes to Indian cinema, Madhuri has explored many other aspects of films and also being behind the camera. While she has ventured into regional cinema as an actress, she has also turned producer for these films. She has also been reality show judge in the past owing to her impeccable dancing skills. However, music will be unexplored territory for the actress and her fans are equally excited to see her in the new avatar.
On the acting front, Madhuri Dixit will next be seen in the multi-starrer Karan Johar film Kalank. The actress will star alongside Sanjay Dutt, Varun Dhawan, Alia Bhatt, Sonakshi Sinha and Aditya Roy Kapur. The film is expected to release next week on April 17.


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By suggesting that artists may have to go to court to resolve even minor publication disputes, the Orphan Works Report raises a jurisdictional question that it doesn't answer. US Copyright law is federal law and filing a federal lawsuit is prohibitively expensive. There are only 11 Federal Districts in the US and approximately 100 US District Courts. We've asked Copyright Office attorneys how artists scattered across the country can be forced to go to Federal Court to be paid minimum fees for unauthorized usage. Their answer was they weren't sure, but are considering establishing a copyright small claims court. However, this still doesn't resolve the jurisdictional issue, unless the government establishes a Federal small claims court in every city and town in the US to resolve an increased number of copyright disputes. This seems most unlikely.
Another problem with relying on small claims courts is that awards are limited to US $2,000, which would cap the "reasonable royalty" allowable for any, usage, regardless of commercial value and number of works used. Small claims judgments are also unenforceable. Also since an infringer will need only prove that he could not identify or find the artist of an unmarked image, the judge may be forced to uphold the majority of infringements, regardless of the effect it will have on the copyright holder.
Congress is scheduled to commence Orphan Works hearings the first week in March. They hope to pass legislation before the end of the year. According to a source on the committee, this proposal is being fast-tracked because lawmakers think it has wide-spread support within the creative community. The Illustrators' Partnership opposes this legislation outright and is working with other groups to mobilize opposition in the short time we have to do it.
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Q: When are there no maps from a variety of high dimension to a variety of low dimension? It's easy to show that the only maps from $\mathbb P^{n+d} \to \mathbb P^n$ are the constant maps for $d \geq 1$. Given two smooth, projective varieties $X,Y$ of dimensions $n+d,n$ as above, are there any nice, general conditions under which the only maps between them are constant? It's not always true as the example $X = Z\times Y \to Y$ shows.
By Noether normalization, we can assume that $Y = \mathbb P^n$ so I believe we are looking for conditions on $X$ so that any $n+1$ divisors on $X$ intersect non trivially.

A: For what it's worth, here is a discussion on families of examples where such a property holds.


Nathan Orr completed a two-year career with the Lethbridge Kodiaks men's basketball team.
Nathan Orr faced an uphill struggle to realize a childhood dream to play college basketball.
Playing for a 2A high school away from the view of college recruiters and being away from the game for almost three years, Orr was a longshot to make the Lethbridge College Kodiaks when he attended open tryouts.
Orr was up to the task, making enough of an impression on Kodiaks coach Ryan Heggie to crack the lineup.
Orr was a multi sport athlete while attending F.P. Walshe, earning the Danny Paskal Memorial Award as the school's top athlete in his Grade 12 year.
In his senior year in 2012 at Walshe, Orr was a league all-star and the Flyers most valuable player in both basketball and rugby, earned a provincial silver medal in volleyball and competed in track and field.
Those comments were echoed in 2017 by Ryan Heggie, head coach of the Kodiaks.
Orr got a job after high school to earn some money before embarking on a two-year mission in England with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
During that time Orr had little opportunity to keep his hoop skills sharp.
Orr never lost sight of his goal of playing college basketball, and trained hard when he returned to Canada from his mission.
Orr was not recruited by any colleges during his high school career and knew the odds were stacked against making the Kodiaks.
As a walk-on, Orr was competing against top high school players recruited by the Kodiaks from across Alberta and other provinces.
Orr knew he would have to outwork those other players and prove to the coaches he had something to offer the Kodiaks.
Orr had trained hard in the months after returning home from his mission and went to the open tryout determined to work hard and leave it all on the court.
Hard work and hustle became Orr's trademark throughout his two years with the Kodiaks as he earned the coaches' trust and played increasingly more minutes coming off the bench.
Orr said in his first season his role was to be a good teammate, encourage the other players with his positive attitude and push them hard in practice to prepare for games.
At the same time, Orr was adjusting to the college game.
Orr said he learned a lot in his first season, thanks in large part to Kodiaks coach Ryan Heggie.
Orr also learned not to be afraid to fail — a lesson he will carry from the court into life.
As a result, Orr was much more comfortable coming into his second season, but suffered a setback when he broke his wrist and sat out the first semester.
Orr returned following the Christmas break and things went well as he averaged more minutes coming off the bench.
Orr took pride in playing tough defensively against opposing point guards and battling for rebounds.
The Kodiaks placed second in the Alberta College Athletics Association this past season and earned silver in the playoff tournament. They went on to a fifth-place finish at nationals in Prince Edward Island.
Orr was enrolled in general studies at Lethbridge College but switched to an apprenticeship to become an electrician.
Recently married and with a new career, Orr decided he won't return for a third season with the Kodiaks.
It's an amazing experience Orr wouldn't have had, he said, without the support of his parents, brothers and wife through his school and college career.
Orr will play in local leagues and hopes to one day coach junior or senior high school basketball — possibly at his old high school.


1. The Intro Topic has been, for the most part, a recommendation. You could simply engage with the community for some time, most likely passing the 20-post mark easily, and be in the green. This would be a dramatic change to require new users to post Introductions as their first post, and doesn't really deal with the core problem of people not following rules and guidelines... that and people don't typically devote their whole spew on introductions to begin with. I certainly didn't.
2. It's pretty much a given that you must create your own topic regarding your work and not leave links to other sites (There's an exception to those who meet the post limit). That part has pretty much already been implemented via administrative description. I'm... not quite sure how you plan to take that part to a programming level.
3. This is about the only part that people have problems with... on a regular basis. The only thing I'd add would be to leave a message notifying the user of the pending approval and the reason for such. Other than that, it should be fine.
On another note... The Artist Request Board is by far the only board that has been a consistent pain-in-the-bum to deal with, for everyone involved. We all know how it's like: new guy wants an artist to make their stories come to life, and posts a tiny request seeing if anyone is up to it. Only to realize that "No, MangaRaiders does not have artists on-standby." Some ad-artists come by and leave links to their work and can also be a pain sometimes, but those are by far few in-between compared to the "Art-Beggers" as I doth call them.
Thinking back on my own self, who joined this forum some couple years ago... I initially came here with the intention of creating something tangible with whatever work I had in mind. That's the impression I got back then, and I'm certain many others will also get that impression the first time they join. With that in mind, we have to be clear to new members what are the standards and what is expected of them in the forum. People sometimes make mistakes.... I get that. I make mistakes too, and I shouldn't expect people to understand how the forum works on the first day. Regarding repeat offenders... I have no sympathy for utter incompetence, but the first mistake should never have to be the last mistake.
To be honest, I do not believe there will be a one-hit solution to this problem anytime soon. We can only hope to quell the symptoms, but the flu won't go away entirely. We longtime members feel obligated to help others, but in the end, we must recognize we are not representatives of the forum itself. We are only its collaborators. Let those who represent the forum: The Admin, the Moderators, deal with forum issues, as it is expected of representatives of the forum to do so. We cannot act like moderators when we officially aren't, so we have to step aside and let the mods do their hard-working jobs of keeping this forum organized.
But have we considered getting rid of the artist request board entirely? I know it sounds really out there, but let me explain.
If we get rid of it, that forces new users to go somewhere else, and if it were me, I'd start browsing around galleries and asking artists personally if they'd like to work with me, and if I were then told to share a sample of my writing, I'd probably be eager to make it happen. However, if I find that the artist isn't a no-pay and I'm broke, I'll look to other sources.
Even so, as annoying as it may be for artists who would probably get harassed and begged to work with, it would eliminate at least some of those "dead posts".
I'll be the first to admit that this isn't a perfect solution either. No matter how this falls, it puts a lot on our mods.
...and with that a quick heads up to the "rules" upstairs the "Artists presentations". Although it might cause less "on forum negociations" and get more "PM negotiations".
You really shouldn't be doing everything in the Post Box... It's meant for posting, not for drafting work.
That should be done outside on a word doc, like microsoft or google.
Yes, this would have all the artist hunters spamming peoples' threads with their offers/spamming their pms and a lot of the artists have their own projects to work on instead so... I think it's worse since you can't ignore unwanted posts that were made on your threads as easily as if they were separate.
Well its good that there's some form of update coming soon that'll make some of the process automatic.
In my opinion the rules on the board are pretty solid already, plus the mods and admin team are pretty on it when it comes to posts that break said rules. Really the best thing to do is to simply ignore the posts that don't follow the rules and wait for the mods to do their thing.
Thay way when a one time poster checks back and wonders why they're having no activity on their posts, yet active and contributing members are receiving feedback and comments, the penny might drop.
i noticed some of threads in the artist wanted board are just locked without any notice. perhaps the original poster is PMed the rules by a mod, but i for one tend to look at other people's threads as examples rather than reading the rules right off the bat.... literally pasting the rules everywhere could lessen the chance of people thinking the existing locked threads are fine examples.


There are two days of the year that I celebrate and dote on myself. First is my birthday and second is Valentine's Day. It works out perfect because the two events are six months apart. So I treat myself and make time for me at least twice a year. Now that I'm single - I treat myself way more than twice a year. My next "treat" will be buying a house.... all.by.myself. It scares me but at the same time, I should have BEEN done it a long time ago. I remember when I was separated from my first husband, my mother begging me to buy a house. If I had known then what I know now, I would have listened to her. She was so wise! Miss you mom!!
While most people celebrate their birth DAY. I celebrate for all of the Leo Zodiac season -- July 22nd to August 22nd. I take an entire month to celebrate me. Of course there are tons of people who are also in celebration with me because a lot of what I do is orchestrated by my family and friends. I am so grateful to be surrounded by so much love and such a strong support system. I cannot express enough gratitude for all the people in my life.
I turned 42 last August. One of the highlights of Leo Season was ziplining at Keana Farms. The exhilaration of flying through the air with just some rope and pulleys preventing me from falling to my death was an amazing experience. And to share the experience with my two oldest nieces just brought me so much happiness. I told myself when I was in my 20's that when I turned 40 I would go skydiving. That didn't happen because my husband at the time (now my ex) said that it was an unnecessary risk. Now that I have the freedom to choose my destiny, I just might put skydiving back on my bucket list.
Valentine's Day is coming up. I just the love the idea of celebrating love and romance. You can do a google search and see that it has a sordid past but all I care about is how I celebrate now. The way people say there's a special feeling in the air during Christmas - that's how I feel about Valentines. I love walking into stores and seeing all the reds and pinks, the hearts and the chocolates, the lace and the satin, and the flowers. Oh my goodness I love seeing the flowers. One can never go wrong by sending me flowers.
Maybe the chic flicks have done me in where I just might have an unrealistic expectation of romance. I think it's healthy to dream and fantasize about being swept off my feet by a handsome, kind, and generous man. It keeps the visual in my mind of what I want in a partner. It is not a secret that my heart has been broken before. Heck, everyone's heart has been broken before but I do not let it stop me from seeking out love again. I am not a bitter woman and I am beginning to think that my trail of broken hearts are actually helping to break me wide open, forcing me to fulfill my potential.
***A handwritten love letter where he writes his truest feelings about me - why he loves me and specific examples of what he loves most about me. I don't think men know the power of "specific examples". Every woman wants to hear the whens and the whys. I thrive on it. My first love told me, "When I looked in your eyes, there was nothing fake there. You didn't shake my gaze and I could see inside you." We always had a special connection and some days I really miss it. Even though he ended up breaking my heart, I know that if we were to have a go at it a second time, it just might be the right time. But that is not in cards as he is very married.
***Red Roses delivered to my office - I don't know why this makes me happy but it does. Receiving flowers at my office from anyone is such a thrill. I am not a materialistic person at all so the lavish gifts of jewelry is nice but I rather have something that took some thought, which is why I love handwritten letters. And the roses? Well, I just love red roses. The deep red is so gorgeous to me and it just screams LOVE.
In high school there used to be "candy-grams" during Valentines. I never got one but I loved the anticipation and wondering if someone would send me one. I still get that feeling leading up to Valentines, wondering if someone is going to send me something, hoping that the one I am thinking of is going to be thinking of me too. When Valentines Day arrives and the day is almost over and I have received nothing, I don't fret. I go out and treat myself to something nice - maybe a shopping trip for a new outfit or some new shoes. I might take in a movie or hit the spa. There is no time to be sad over things out of my control. So even if I don't have a Valentine this year, I will still treat myself to something nice - the day AFTER Valentines when everything is half off.


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Milt Schmidt (født 5. marts 1918 i Kitchener, Ontario, død 4. januar 2017 i Needham, Massachusetts) var en canadisk ishockeyspiller.

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Bison mount big fourth-quarter comeback to down Georgetown on Senior Day
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Nov. 16, the Bison football team hosted Georgetown on Senior Day. The Bison came into the game 2-7 on the season and 2-2 in conference play. After honoring the team's seniors and fifth-years, the team strutted to an impressive 20-17 victory over the Hoyas.
The key difference in this game was the Bison's defense. The Bison were able to pressure Georgetown all game on their way to three sacks. The Bison trailed early on but were able to cut the deficit to four going into halftime when Nnamdi Unachukwu '21 forced a Georgetown fumble that Gavin Pringle '23 was able to take back for an Orange and Blue touchdown.
Entering the second half, the Bison responded to a Georgetown touchdown with a blocked punt in the fourth quarter by Simeon Page '21, which was recovered by Brent Jackson '23. Logan Bitikofer '21 then completed a pass to Connor Holmes '23 for 16 yards, which helped Chad Freshnock '20 set up a touchdown. The Bison trailed 17-12 and tried for the two-point conversion to cut the deficit to three points, but failed.
On the next Georgetown drive, the Orange and Blue's defense came up big again. Conner Romango '21 picked off a pass to set up a five-play drive that resulted in a Bison touchdown by Dominic Lyles '22. Gerrit Van Itallie '21 iced the game and secured the Senior Day victory with a fumble recovery during Georgetown's last drive.
"Physically, we are much stronger as a team largely due to our new strength coach, Mark Kulbis. He came in last semester and helped us create a new culture along with the rest of the new coaching staff. We dealt with many injuries last season and had many inexperienced guys playing a lot of snaps. Although some of us probably weren't physically or mentally ready to play last season, we gained some valuable experience which has helped us execute more often this year," Grayson Cherubino '22 said.
The Bison will be back in action when they play Fordham on Nov. 23 at 1 p.m. The team is currently tied for second place in the Patriot League standings with a chance to secure a tie for the title with this upcoming game.
"I believe the biggest difference between our team last year and this year is our perseverance and confidence. Last season, we likely would have given up with a 17-6 deficit in the fourth quarter. After giving up double-digit leads against Holy Cross and Lafayette, our team is finally learning how to finish games and win. Saturday's game is a huge step in the right direction for this program," Cherubino said.
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The Chaffee County Poor Farm, near Salida, Colorado, was established in 1891.  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.  The listing included three contributing buildings.

Its buildings were built in 1892 by Buena Vista, Colorado contractors Lawrence Bros.

It is located at 8495 County Road 160.

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