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Gustav Rödel (Merseburg, 24 de outubro de 1915 — Bona, 6 de fevereiro de 1995) foi um piloto de caça alemão da Luftwaffe e recebeu a Cruz de Cavaleiro da Cruz de Ferro com Folhas de Carvalho durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Gustav Rödel nasceu em 24 de outubro de 1915 na Saxônia. Em 1933, os nacional-socialistas chegaram ao poder na Alemanha. Rödel teve que escolher uma carreira militar e se candidatou para ingressar na Luftwaffe no final de 1935 e foi aceito no ano seguinte. Após o treinamento básico, ele foi selecionado para treinar como piloto de caça. Em 1938, Rödel completou seu treinamento e foi designado para o Jagdgruppe 88, sob o comando da Legião Condor. O J/88 participou da Guerra Civil Espanhola. Não há registro de Rödel reivindicando qualquer sucesso em combate na Espanha. Em julho de 1939, Rödel foi enviado para a Jagdgeschwader 21 (JG 21).

Em 1 de setembro de 1939, o Reich Alemão atacou a Polônia, começando a Segunda Guerra Mundial na Europa. Operando com o 2. Staffel (2.º esquadrão), ele conquistou sua primeira vitória aérea neste dia. Em novembro de 1939 ele foi transferido para a Jagdgeschwader 27 e entrou em ação na Batalha da Bélgica e na Batalha da França em maio e junho de 1940. Rödel reivindicou três aeronaves abatidas. Em julho de 1940, Rödel foi transferido para o 4./JG 27 e eventualmente nomeado Staffelkapitän (líder do esquadrão) do Staffel com vigência a partir de 1 de setembro de 1940. Rödel foi creditado com 10 aeronaves da Força Aérea Real (RAF) na Batalha da Grã-Bretanha.

Em março de 1941, Rödel foi transferido para a Frente do Mediterrâneo. Rödel serviu com o JG 27 na Batalha da Grécia e recebeu crédito por seis vitórias aéreas. Em junho de 1941, Rödel foi brevemente destacado para a Frente Oriental para apoiar a Operação Barbarossa. Ele conquistou apenas uma vitória na União Soviética. Por seu sucesso, ele foi condecorado com a Cruz de Cavaleiro da Cruz de Ferro em 25 de junho de 1941. Rödel foi enviado para o Norte da África com o JG 27 logo depois e permaneceu lá até novembro de 1942.

Em 22 de abril ele foi nomeado Geschwaderkommodore (comandante de ala) do JG 27. Posteriormente, Rödel entrou em ação sobre a Sicília e o sul da Itália em maio de 1943. Em 20 de junho de 1943, ele foi premiado com as Folhas de Carvalho na Cruz do Cavaleiro por 78 vitórias. Em outubro de 1943, o JG 27 mudou-se para a Alemanha Nazista para operações da Defesa do Reich e em junho de 1944 liderou a ala na Batalha da Normandia. Ele conquistou sua 98.ª e última vitória em 5 de julho de 1944. Em dezembro de 1944, serviu como oficial de estado-maior na 2. Jagd Division até a rendição alemã em maio de 1945.

Rödel foi creditado com 97 vitórias contra os Aliados Ocidentais e uma única vitória sobre as Forças Aéreas Soviéticas em mais de 980 missões de combate. Ele voou no Messerschmitt Bf 109. Em 1957, Rödel juntou-se ao Bundeswehr. Ele se aposentou em 30 de setembro de 1971, ocupando o posto de Brigadegeneral.

Juventude e início de carreira
Rödel nasceu em 24 de outubro de 1915 em Merseburg, no Reino da Saxônia, um estado federado do Império Alemão. Ele era filho de Wilhelm Rödel, um metalúrgico. Após se formar na escola com seu Abitur (diploma), ele completou seu Reichsarbeitsdienst obrigatório (Serviço de Trabalho do Reich) em Zeitz.  Rödel então estudou meio semestre de teologia antes de ingressar no serviço militar da Luftwaffe como Fahnenjunker (cadete) em 1 de abril de 1936. Ele então frequentou a Luftkriegsschule Klotzsche até 31 de janeiro de 1938.

Em 1 de fevereiro de 1938, Rödel foi promovido a Leutnant (segundo-tenente) e transferido para a Jagdfliegerschule (escola de pilotos de caça) em Werneuchen, na época sob o comando de Oberstleutnant (tenente-coronel) Theodor Osterkamp. De 1 de maio a 30 de junho de 1938, foi designado para o 2. Staffel (2.º esquadrão) da escola e concluiu o segundo curso de treinamento realizado até o momento. Em 1939, ele voou suas primeiras missões de combate com o Jagdgruppe 88 (J/88) da Legião Condor durante a Guerra Civil Espanhola. Lá, ele predominantemente voou missões escolta e apoio aéreo aproximado. Na Espanha, ele também foi encarregado de exumação e identificação de alemães mortos. Ele também aprendeu a falar espanhol e foi contratado como intérprete. Por seu serviço na Espanha, Rödel foi condecorado com a Cruz Espanhola em Bronze com Espadas (Spanienkreuz in Bronze mit Schwertern) em 6 de junho de 1939.

Segunda Guerra Mundial
Em 1 de setembro de 1939, a Wehrmacht alemã invadiu a Polônia. O 2./JG 21 era baseado em Heiligenbeil, Prússia Oriental. No dia de abertura, Rödel reivindicou um PZL P.24. Embora a reivindicação fosse sobre um PZL P.24 e possa ter sido um PZL P.11 identificado incorretamente, o tipo utilizado pela Brigada de Perseguição com base em Okęcie Warszawa. Após a campanha, o I./JG 21 foi usado para formar o segundo e terceiro Gruppen do JG 27, fundado em 1 de outubro de 1939.

Em 10 de maio de 1940, o JG 27 apoiou a invasão dos Grupo de Exércitos A e B na Bélgica. Rödel fazia parte do I./JG 27, ligado ao VIII. Fliegerkorps. Rödel foi designado como ala de Adolf Galland. Em 12 de maio, o Stab./JG 27 estava patrulhando perto de Huy liderado por Galland. O Stabsschwarm reivindicou quatro Hawker Hurricane da Força Aérea Real (RAF), um deles foi reivindicado por Rödel e os outros três por Galland. Os Hurricanes eram provavelmente do Esquadrão N.º 87 da RAF. O Stab./JG 27 tinha 101 Bf 109s em força no dia 10 de maio e voou 17 missões envolvendo 325 surtidas. A resistência do RAF no primeiro dia custou à Luftwaffe 10 Junkers Ju 87s que estavam sob a proteção do JG 27 e I./Jagdgeschwader 51. A oposição enfraqueceu em 13 de maio e três semanas se passaram antes que Rödel reivindicasse novamente.

Rödel foi promovido a Oberleutnant (primeiro-tenente) em 1 de junho de 1940. O Stab./JG 27 participou da Batalha de Dunquerque em 2 de junho e estava perifericamente envolvido na Operação Paula em 3 de junho. Rödel reivindicou um Supermarine Spitfire em 2 de junho. Em 7 de junho, ele conquistou sua quarta vitória e a última na França sobre um Potez 630 perto de Dunquerque.

Batalha da Grã-Bretanha
O JG 27 foi transferido para a Holanda, Bélgica e França após a capitulação francesa em 25 de junho de 1940. A Luftwaffe iniciou sua ofensiva aérea contra o Reino Unido em apoio a uma invasão planejada com o codinome Operação Leão Marinho. A ofensiva aérea ficou conhecida como Batalha da Grã-Bretanha. Em julho de 1940, Rödel foi transferido para o 4. Staffel (4.º esquadrão) do JG 27 para a fase Kanalkampf da batalha. Röddel foi nomeado Staffelkapitän (líder do esquadrão) do 4. Staffel em 6 de setembro de 1940. Ele substituiu o Oberleutnant Hermann Hollweg que assumiu o 2. Staffel da Jagdgeschwader 2.

Em 11 de agosto, o JG 27 fez parte de ataques de caça em grande escala sobre a Inglaterra. As asas dos caças alemães foram despachadas bem na frente das formações de bombardeiros neste dia, em uma tentativa de pegar os caças britânicos em desvantagem e antes que eles alcançassem os bombardeiros. Em um raro erro tático, o Comando de Caças da RAF interceptou o que percebeu ser uma formação de bombardeiro que se aproximava no ataque matinal. Rödel chegou sobre a Baía de Weymouth com o JG 27 para cobrir a retirada de Messerschmitt Bf 110s do Zerstörergeschwader 2. Um grande dogfight começou às 10:40 GMT, enquanto a unidade de Rödel lutava contra uma retirada através do Canal da Mancha. Ele reivindicou um Spitfire abatido. Todos os três Gruppen do JG 27 estavam envolvidos e eram conhecidos por terem sofrido três derrotas no total em combate com os Esquadrões de N.º 152, 238 e 145. Em troca, o Esquadrão N.º 238 perdeu cinco Hawker Hurricanes e quatro pilotos mortos em ação contra Bf 109s. O Esquadrão N.º 145 perdeu três Hurricanes e um piloto e o Esquadrão N.º 152 não sofreu perda. Em 30 de agosto, Rödel reivindicou outro Spitfire. Às 11:45, o JG 27 se envolveu em uma batalha com Spitfires do Esquadrão N.º 616 e Hurricanes do Esquadrão N.º 253. O JG 27 perdeu cinco Bf 109s e quatro pilotos desaparecidos em ação. O Esquadrão N.º 253 perdeu três Hurricanes e dois pilotos mortos e o Esquadrão N.º 616 perdeu dois Spitfires—o oficial J. S. Bell foi morto e o Sargento J. Hopewell sobreviveu a um pouso forçado. As perdas foram relatadas em Redhill, a área registrada na reivindicação de Rödel.

Em 1 de setembro, Rödel reivindicou dois Spitfires sobrer Ashford e Folkestone. O Comando de Caças perdeu 15 caças destruídos e quatro danificados em combate, com cinco mortos e sete feridos. Pela segunda e última vez na campanha, a Luftwaffe sofreu a perda de menos aeronaves: cinco caças destruídos e dois danificados; dois bombardeiros destruídos e seis danificados. Apenas os esquadrões de Hurricane relataram perdas na batalha da tarde no momento da reivindicação de Rödel: os Esquadrões de N.º 1 (dois destruídos e um danificado), 79 (três destruídos), 72 (três destruídos), 85 (cinco destruídos e um danificado) e 253 (um destruído). Rödel foi nomeado Staffelkapitän (líder do esquadrão) do 4./JG 27 nesta data.

Em 3 de setembro, Rödel reivindicou um Hurricane e um Spitfire sobre Southend. O JG 27 esteve envolvido em combate com Spitfires do Esquadrão N.º 603 da RAF e perdeu um piloto ferido. As únicas perdas britânicas sofridas foram por esquadrões de Hurricane. O Esquadrão N.º 46 da RAF perdeu três Hurricanes sobre Southend na época das reivindicações de Rödel—o Sargento G. H. Edgworthy, o piloto oficial H. Morgan-Gray e o Sargento E. Bloor foram abatidos por Bf 109s. Edgworthy foi morto. 13 Hurricanes foram perdidos e cinco danificados na batalha aérea. Seis foram registrados como perdidos para Bf 110s, quatro foram perdidos ou danificados em acidentes e outro por fogo amigo. Rödel foi creditado com outro Spitfire em 6 de setembro. O JG 27 perdeu cinco Bf 109s e um danificado. Quatro estavam desaparecidos e dois feridos. O Gruppenkommandeur Schlichting do III./JG 27 estava entre os desaparecidos. O Esquadrão N.º 43 e N.º 303 são conhecidos por terem sido seus oponentes. O Esquadrão N.º 303 perdeu dois Hurricanes e outros dois foram danificados por Bf 109s. Dois pilotos ficaram gravemente feridos, incluindo o líder do esquadrão Zdzisław Krasnodębski. O Esquadrão N.º 43 não sofreu perdas. Em 11 de setembro, Rödel conquistou outra vitória sobre Tunbridge Wells.

Em 27 de setembro, Rödel reivindicou dois Hurricanes. Um foi reivindicado às 12:05 GMT. Nesta batalha, o JG 27 perdeu três Bf 109s para os Spitfires do Esquadrão N.º 19 e Esquadrão N.º 222. O Esquadrão N.º 222 perdeu um Spitfire e teve um piloto gravemente ferido e o Esquadrão N.º 19 perdeu dois Spitfires e teve um piloto ferido e um piloto morto. Na grande batalha aérea, os Esquadrões de N.º 41 (três destruídos, um ferido), 46 (um danificado), 152 (cinco danificados), 242 (um destruído e desaparecido), 501 (dois destruídos, um morto e um ferido), 504 (um destruído), 602 (um destruído), 603 (um destruído e um morto) e 616 (um destruído e um morto por ferimentos) perderam aeronaves entre 12:05 e 12:30. Pelo menos nove Geschwader alemães estiveram envolvidos na batalha. A Luftwaffe perdeu 51 aeronaves e 15 danificadas para 28 destruídas e 13 danificadas do Comando de Caça. Rödel provavelmente derrubou o líder do esquadrão C. Haw, comandante do Esquadrão N.º 504 da RAF. O Hurricane P3415 fez um pouso forçado e ficou ileso.

Condecorações
 Cruz Espanhola em Bronze com Espadas (6 de junho de 1939)
 Cruz de Ferro (1939)
 2ª classe (17 de setembro de 1939)
 1ª classe (19 de junho de 1940)
 Troféu de Honra da Luftwaffe (14 de dezembro de 1940)
 Cruz Germânica em Ouro (16 de julho de 1942) como Oberleutnant no II./JG 27
 Cruz de Cavaleiro da Cruz de Ferro (22 de junho de 1941) como Oberleutnant e Staffelkapitän do 4. /JG 27
 255ª Folhas de Carvalho (20 de junho de 1943) como Major e Geschwaderkommodore do JG 27

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Bibliografia

Recebedores da Cruz Germânica
Recebedores da Cruz de Cavaleiro da Cruz de Ferro
Pessoas da Segunda Guerra Mundial (Alemanha)
Pilotos da Luftwaffe


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BBC Worldwide announces deal with Golden Bear for Justin's House
Published on: 25th January 2016
Following on from the Something Special toy range, BBC Worldwide has signed a new deal with Golden Bear as the master toy partner for the CBeebies show.
The CBeebies show debuted on the channel in 2011. Filmed in front of a live audience, Justin's House has been hugely popular with CBeebies viewers excited to find out who will be the next surprise visitor knocking at the door.
"Justin's House has immense popularity and it continues to be a huge success on CBeebies, so we're thrilled to be adding the license to our toy portfolio," says Katherine Pierce, senior licensing and marketing manager at Golden Bear. "It was a natural next step for us to add Justin's House to complement our highly popular, award-winning Something Special range. It extends the huge appeal that Justin Fletcher has across these TV programmes and we are delighted to be supporting this with new toy product."
Julie Kekwick, senior licensing manager at BBC Worldwide, added: '"We're so pleased to be working with Golden Bear, which is renowned for being able to capture the true essence of properties that delight and excite younger audiences. Justin's House is a unique show which lends itself perfectly to the careful merchandising that Golden Bear can offer and we are delighted with the initial product they have created."

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Q: How do you modify a selected reminder in the Reminders app in OS X with AppleScript The question title says it all. I'm basically trying to set the due date of an already created reminder using AppleScript (see the post I created here for more background). I can currently make a new reminder with a due date using the AppleScript code:
tell application "System Events" to set FrontAppName to name of first process where frontmost is true
if FrontAppName is "Reminders" then
    tell application "Reminders"
        set duedate to (current date) + (2 * days)
        make new reminder with properties {name:"New Reminder", due date:duedate}
    end tell
else
    display dialog "failed to make new reminder!"
end if

But have no clue how to set newReminder to "current reminder." Any ideas? All I have so far for the code is:
tell application "System Events" to set FrontAppName to name of first process where frontmost is true
if FrontAppName is "Reminders" then
    tell application "Reminders"
        set currentReminder to current reminder
        set due date of currentReminder to current date
    end tell
else
    display dialog "failed to make new reminder!"
end if

Adding a due date (not remind me date) has been a feature requested for a while in the OS X community that I'd like to make a reasonable workaround for. Currently it's not straightforward to set it, no clue why. See forum posts such as:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4142949?start=0&tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/message/24428695#24428695
Any help is much appreciated.

A: I don't think there is any way to get the selected reminder. With a highlighted selection or with the insertion point. Perhaps you can use get a reminder the matches a certain property.
tell application "Reminders"
    try
-- select a reminder modified in the last 5 minutes
        set thisReminder to last reminder whose modification date is greater than ((current date) - 300)
    on error
-- if not one, then select the last reminder in a particular list
        set thisReminder to last reminder of (first list whose name is "Office") whose completed is false  -- can leave off the list filter to just get last created reminder
    end try
end tell

set due date of thisReminder……

This script allows you to create a Reminder, and then programmatically set the due date of the Reminder that you created in the last 5 minutes (can shorten the window, of course)

A: I'm not sure how robust this will be, you'd need to give it a lot of testing, but it seems the most recent reminder is the last in the list when you do 'get properties'. So, you might try something like this:
tell application "Reminders"
    activate
    set myRemList to every reminder as list
    set myReminder to item -1 of myRemList
    set due date of myReminder to (current date) + (2 * days)
end tell

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Oh, happy satay
By Liz Kellar
It used to be that if you wanted Vietnamese food in this town, you were restricted to the pho noodle shops in South Sacramento or to longtime mainstay Andy Nguyen's. Then came Lemon Grass and the chance to eat the cuisine in more upscale surroundings. But now the lock on fine Vietnamese cuisine has been broken. Pho Hoa Viet, which has a half-dozen noodle shops in the region, has hit a home run with its newest venture, Bamboo.
Bamboo opened just more than a month ago on the corner of Madison Avenue and Auburn Boulevard. It is a stylish, serene retreat located in what appears to have been a chain-restaurant building with ample parking. Bamboo-themed wallpaper graces the dining room, punctuated by black-and-white photographs of Vietnam. White tablecloths and fresh flowers add to the pleasant ambience. The service is first-rate, friendly and knowledgeable, and the pacing of the food is smooth and unhurried. When my husband commented that the food wasn't spicy enough for his taste, our server brought us a dish of chili sauce and then, unprompted, presented us with more sauce to go.
If you are addicted to pho, the noodle soup considered to be Vietnam's national dish, you're in luck. Bamboo offers pho with your choice of rare steak, flank steak, brisket, tendon, tripe or chicken. Or, you could opt for one of the nine varieties of house noodle soup, with toppings including shrimp, roast duck and barbecued pork and with your choice of rice, egg or clear noodles. Bamboo also specializes in charbroiled meats, which star in the Vietnamese version of a plate lunch and are served over rice or vermicelli noodles.
But it is the dinner entrees, served after 5 p.m., that really stand out. The restaurant offers a wide variety of appetizers, including soups, salads and three types of egg rolls. On a recent visit, we opted for chicken satay and Vietnamese egg rolls. The satay differed from the usual presentation and was more like a brochette. The chicken was marinated with lemon grass, threaded with chunks of onion and green pepper, grilled and served with a sweet dipping sauce. The egg rolls, too, were a refreshing change from the ordinary. The rolls themselves were plump, with ground pork and shreds of carrot, and were served with lettuce, mint and cilantro as well as slices of marinated carrot and jicama. Following the waiter's instructions, we wrapped the egg rolls in the greens and dipped them in a spicy-sweet sauce. The resulting interplay of textures and flavors perfectly exemplified the complex heart of Vietnamese cuisine.
Our entrees, which came with a bowl of sticky rice, were equally successful. A spicy lemon-grass chicken dish contained strips of charbroiled chicken in a rich sauce accented with finely minced lemon grass and sautéed onions, topped with fresh sprigs of a fleshy herb identified as a native variety of mint. We made quick work of that dish as well as a stir-fried curry with spicy beef.
Bamboo offers a variety of interesting drinks with which to wash down your meal, including the ubiquitous iced coffee and fresh-squeezed lemonade. The restaurant also offers some interesting shakes, including jackfruit, sour sop, avocado, mango and durian; westerners might want to reserve those for dessert. Our waiter talked us into trying a tricolor sweet drink. This proved to be a colorful and exotic concoction of ice layered with coconut milk, red tapioca pearls, sweet bean paste and lime-green stands of stiff gelatin. I found the combination of tastes and textures a little disconcerting, but I was unable to pry it out of the kid's hands.
You'd think a cushy job like reviewing restaurants would have no real drawbacks. But there is one I hadn't considered when I applied for this position. Part of the fun of eating out, as an amateur, is finding a great new restaurant and making it yours. But, when you eat out for a living, unless you can afford to eat out every day of the week, you just don't have that luxury. It's very rare these days that I get to go back to some of the great places I've eaten. In a case like Bamboo, that's more than a shame. It's almost a crime.
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¡Cuatro estrellas!
Best Mexican food in town, according to our reviewer. And it's cheap and fast. What more could you want?
Buon alimento!
Cafe Milazzo provides East Sacramentans with a reasonably priced destination for good California-style Italian dining.
Autumnal pleasures
In Chicago Park, the area's other foothill apple-growing region, there's a pretty good place for straight-up American fried chicken.
Borsht belt
The Park Plaza Cafe devotes a quarter of its menu to what the cafe calls a "little bit of Russia": items such as stuffed cabbage rolls, beef stroganoff, schnitzel and pirogi.
Cocina fresca
Many area Mexican restaurants work from the same limited menu, but Ernesto's on 16th Street offers a much fresher, more vegetarian-friendly variation.


Last summer, S & M held the most wonderful cottage wedding that really has stuck in my mind for a long while. To start, S and M are the kind of people that you would want to bottle up and keep for a rainy day - they are the most kind, sweet and genuine people. It was even more evident in the way they chose to celebrate their love and marriage, in front of their closest family and friends, in the backyard of a close family friend's cottage. Honestly, when they mentioned they were having a cottage wedding, I was dreaming up all sorts of possibilities but everything exceeded what I envisioned! I personally always enjoy weddings that are held on private properties, whether it's a family cottage or a family farm or even just your own home! Because my photography work really focuses in on the emotional side of things, I love it when details like that have meaning!
The day started off with the girls and guys getting ready. If you follow along the photos carefully, you can see there's a sprinkling of photos of french bull dogs but to be exact, there were 7 french bull dogs present in the house that day. It certainly made the morning more entertaining trying to dodge and not try to step on any of the dogs as I moved around the room trying to catch all the moments. The room where the bride and bridesmaids got ready had these huge windows that looked towards the lake and the tents of where they were going to get married just moments later. S had the most stunning details. They went with a more formal, classic and glam style to the wedding and I loved how the bridesmaids wore black with simple green bouquets - so timeless! S's dress was also one of the most stunning dresses I've ever had the pleasure of photographing. Again, keeping with the classic and timeless style, it was long-sleeved with the most beautiful and intricate details.


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Former St. Joseph High School and Monmouth University star RJ Allen signs with Philadelphia Union
Greg Tufaro
Former St. Joseph High School and Monmouth University soccer star RJ Allen, an Old Bridge native, has signed with the Philadelphia Union.
Allen, a defender, has been added to the active roster and is available for selection ahead of Wednesday's regular-season match at Orlando City FC, the team that released him during the offseason.
"RJ will provide needed depth and cover for our fullback corps," Ernst Tanner, Union Sporting Director, said in a release announcing Allen's signing for the remainder of the 2019 campaign.
"He has four years of MLS experience and has shown well as a trialist over the past week. We'd like to welcome him to our team."
Philadelphia currently sits atop the MLS Eastern Conference standings, one point ahead of second-place D.C. United.
Allen made 71 appearances – 52 of which were starts – for New York City FC and Orlando City SC. He played for the latter last year, making 18 appearances and 10 starts while recording two assists.
Allen played three years for New York City FC, joining the team two months into its inaugural 2015 campaign.
Allen's best MLS season came in 2016 when he tied for the league lead in assists by a defender with six over 24 matches, 19 of which were starts. Allen tallied one goal and 11 assists in three seasons with New York City FC.
Allen was selected with the fifth pick in Major League Soccer's 2012 supplemental draft. However, he began his professional career in Denmark, playing for Skive IK in 2013, making 13 appearances for the Danish 1st Division club, scoring one goal.
A four-year-letterwinner at St. Joseph, who graduated from the high school in 2008, Allen also played four seasons at Monmouth University, where he became the second player in school history to twice be named an All-American.
At Monmouth, Allen garnered second-team All-America honors as a senior and third-team All-America honors as a junior from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. Allen helped lead Monmouth to four consecutive Northeast Conference championships as a midfielder and defender. He was a three-time All-Conference selection and graduated from college in three and a half years.
At St. Joseph, Allen was a two-time first-team All-Greater Middlesex Conference selection and earned first-team parochial All-State honors as a senior. He led the Falcons in assists as a freshman, was second on the team in goals scored the following year, and netted 14 goals as a junior while leading St. Joseph to the Greater Middlesex Conference Tournament final.
Allen's younger brother, Brandon, a 2012 St. Joseph graduate, signed a two-year deal earlier this year with the Tampa Bay Rowdies in the USL Championship.
The Allen brothers were recently selected for induction to the St. Joseph Athletics Hall of Fame.


First time visitors may seem surprised to discover the impressive inventory of quality pieces laid out in the store's showroom floor as they walk into Fisher James Discount Furniture & Supply store in Biddeford, Maine. The appearance on the outside might be deceiving to the actual contents within the store, as it just doesn't seem large enough to fit the wide assortment of quality pieces that the store has on display.
As you walk in, you'll be greeted by rows of office chairs, followed by various styles, shapes, and color choices by some of the industry's finest office desks, furniture, filing cabinets, and much more.
Robert M. Hayward, owner of Fisher James, seems comfortable in this homey Biddeford business environment. His keen understanding of office equipment comes from a lifetime commitment to the field. Fisher James has been a family owned business since 1978, but has actually existed since 1945!
Bob lives in York, Maine and travels thirty-five minutes to work every day. Business hours are 8:30am to 4:30pm Monday through Friday and open Saturday by appointment only.
There are currently 9 individuals staffed with the company, including 2 outside salesmen, 2 service/repairmen, a dedicated office manager, as well as drivers for delivery.
Although Bob seems content with it's location in Biddeford, having existed there for over 60 years, Bob hopes to see the building remodeled or possibly rebuilt; "Hopefully within the next five years". The familiar red building may take on a larger floor plan with a more modern appeal, but I'm certain that it won't lose it's personality or charisma as it's staff continues to serve the local community.
Fisher James caters to both business owners as well as any typical walk-in customer.
We are able to be more personal with our customers, allowing more emphasis on quality service, friendliness, and concentrating on commercial-grade office furniture rather than budget pieces. "If you want to buy a $39.00 chair that requires annual replacement… Go to Staples!" exclaims Bob as he explains the difference between quality pieces and low budget mass produced items available in corporate superstores such as Staples or Walmart (for example).
You won't be reminded by the employees of one of these superstores that your recently replaced equipment still has some monetary value. But you might feel comfortable asking Bob Hayward. In some circumstances Bob may even offer to take your old furniture off your hands with a trade value towards equipment that is more suitable for your needs. You won't get service like that from corporate chains!
Fisher James is currently servicing customers within about a 100 square mile radius from their Biddeford location. The company tries to avoid costly and otherwise impersonal postal delivery and prefers hands-on delivery through their own team of familiar-faced salesmen who customers often get to know on a first name basis. The Fisher James staff is knowledgeable providing a friendlier delivery experience.
Fisher James offers various repairs for a large assortment of electronic office equipment; computers, cash registers, typewriters, calculators, fax machines, small copiers and much more.
"There are very few people that fix typewriters now-a-days. In fact, there is nobody around who has more experience repairing typewriters than the two gentlemen who manage our service department." boasts Bob as he defines the experience of his dedicated staff. "Between the two of them, they share over 100 years of experience with electronic office equipment repair knowledge!"
What do you mean by distressed?
Bob said; "Our claim to fame is in our marketing with brand new furniture which has been damaged in the wholesaler's warehouse. We buy this merchandise by the truckload and sell it at 60% off of the Manufacturer's Suggested Retail price!".
The minor warehouse damage is enough to prevent the item from being sold for the suggested retail value, but is not the sort of damage that weakens the integrity of the product itself. Minor blemishes, scrapes, scratches and dents. (from my own personal observation). The display room proudly shows these pieces because there truly is nothing to be ashamed of.
"Eurotech chairs is our #1 best seller. It's perfect for people suffering from back problems. Eurotech's fully ergonomic chair alleviates most back issues." reports Bob, as he exhibits his undeniable knowledge of the product.
Fisher James can be found online at their website; www.fisherjames.com. The website supports a full selection of available office equipment including; desks, chairs, book cases, business equipment, file and storage cabinets, business forms, and more!
Internet sales are on the rise, and the company aims to continue offering the same quality service to customers online as they do in person. Bob supports his claims by stating; "Our Office Manager does a fine job corresponding with our website visitor's emails. She frequents the company's email inbox at least 3 times a day in an effort to always stay on top of our increasing Internet inquiries. We consider these online transactions to be a high priority!"
A lot of people speculate that the Internet could someday replace walk-in store environments such as Fisher James, but this company intends to stay on top by maintaining it's website and providing it's products to web-surfers as well as local patrons who have shown loyalty over the years.
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Fisher James is sponsoring a contest awarding a FREE Desk to the school teacher with the worst looking desk. This contest is open to all public schools in York County, Maine.
To enter your teacher into this contest, email a picture to: contest@fisherjames.com. (Please Note: Contest expires December 1st, 2007). Include your name, the name of the school, as well as the name of the teacher.
See the website for more details about this contest, or any other active contests or donations that may be available.
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Have you read The Yellow Wallpaper? You should. It's a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and a little chunk of feminist history. It was loudly denounced when it first appeared in 1892. One (male) reviewer said, "Such literature contains deadly peril." What it actually contained – then and now – is information to inoculate the (female) reader against many forms of harm.
a criminally late developer) self would have ended up far deeper mired in the sh*te the worst kind of men seek to put women through before they know themselves.
The story is about a nameless woman who has been diagnosed by her doctor husband John with "a temporary nervous depression […] a slight hysterical tendency". To treat her, he effectively confines her to the nursery – covered in heavily patterned yellow wallpaper – to rest. With nothing else to do, she gradually grows obsessed with the curlicued wallpaper – she can see a crouching woman creeping stealthily between the patterns, and finally goes mad. It was closely based on Gilman's own experience. She was labelled "neurasthenic" – a catch-all condition applied to any woman who seemed dissatisfied with her domestic lot – and prescribed "the rest cure", which she later described as bringing her "so near the borderline of utter mental ruin that I could see over".
Her 20-odd pages deliver so many warnings. Tuck this sentence, for example, into your mental quiverful of arrows and let it fly next time you are confronted with conflicting versions of an event: "John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him." What you will find here is dismissal, denial and gaslighting. So many times, I have been told by boyfriends that I "shouldn't" be upset. Moving along that spectrum of denying another person's reality because it does not chime with your own, you move into the world where victims of sexual harassment start to question their version of events, minimise their distress and even pretend nothing happened.
The Yellow Wallpaper also brilliantly recreates that process we have all taken part in at some point – of curbing our tongues, modulating our opinions and moulding ourselves (just slightly, why not? It's only polite!) the better to fit with our partner's wants and expectations. And then, perhaps, like the protagonist, because we are fearful of the consequences if we stop. And she is clear on the deeper ramifications of this – John denying her the tools of expression (she writes in secret: "I must say what I feel and think") is a large part of what drives her mad. In today's world, that means looking for lost and underrepresented voices so those individual selves can become whole and our collective self comes together stronger.
Gilman wrote her story about husbands, the medical profession and the patriarchy at large shaping and suppressing women's lives and freedoms 126 years ago. It was only in 2015 that we got a name and a crime – coercive control – for most of what her heroine experiences. Gilman started saving her readers long before the law even looked that way. Write your stories.


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Paolo Bartolozzi () a fost un om politic italian, membru al Parlamentului European în perioada 1999-2004 din partea Italiei.

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Nașteri în 1957
Nașteri pe 12 septembrie
Decese în 2021
Decese pe 4 februarie
Europarlamentari pentru Italia 1999-2004

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'It's like looking through a family album," Brian May muses softly as he turns the pages of 40 Years of Queen, the sumptuously illustrated new history of the legendary rock band. "But where's Freddie on this one?" he puzzles, coming to double page photograph, taken from the back of the stage in a stadium in Ireland in the summer of 1986.
He reaches into the breast pocket of his black, open-neck shirt and puts on neat, frameless glasses – even rock stars get old – but still can't locate Freddie Mercury, Queen's lead singer. "He must be in the wings," May concludes, and pushes the open book to one side.
We are sitting on either side of a white-clothed dining table in a private room at his favourite restaurant in London's Notting Hill. Though May's image as Queen's guitarist was flamboyant, big, bouffant black (now grey) curls down to his shoulders, glittery jackets and customised guitars, in this sober setting 64 year-old May is a master of reserve. He rarely grants interviews and guards his privacy fiercely when he does. I have been warned in advance not to ask him about his second wife, the former EastEnders actress Anita Dobson, who is now appearing in the new series of Strictly Come Dancing.
The questions he really dreads, though, are those about Mercury, whose death from Aids in 1991 brought down the curtain on Queen's career as one of the world's most successful recording bands.
But in death, Mercury's shadow has grown bigger still. "People who had made fun of him, derided him, suddenly began to regard him as a great seer, with godlike status after he died," May says.
Rock stars who die young are often airbrushed into plaster saints, resulting in something of a dilemma for those they leave behind. Do they play along, or do they put the record straight and risk sounding jealous?
Two decades on, May is still trying to square the circle. He is happy enough to celebrate Mercury's genius. Earlier this month, as part of "Freddie Mercury Day", a fund-raiser for Aids research that took place on what would have been the singer's 65th birthday, May and Taylor hosted a party at London's Savoy Hotel attended by a new generation of stars, plus the Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice.
But, alongside such tributes, he quite reasonably expects credit for his part in Queen's phenomenal success. He for instance wrote many of their best-known songs, including We Will Rock You, Fat-Bottomed Girls and I Want It All. And finally, this essentially modest man is also keen to make clear that he is still a creative force at the top of his game.
Does he ever have moments when he wants to put the past completely behind him? "I've been through periods like that, yes, notably straight after Freddie went. There were a couple of years or more when I didn't want to be in Queen. I wanted to be me, to reclaim myself. That is the way it felt, at least.
If it doesn't extend the metaphor too far, you might argue that May does still occasionally take up temporary residence there. In 2008-2009, for example, he went on tour with Taylor and the former lead singer of Free, in an act billed as Queen + Paul Rodgers. "What happened came about naturally, organically. And Paul brought his own legacy, so it was a coming together of different threads.
Occasionally, though, the struggle to fit all the pieces together neatly can still trip him up. Does looking at all the old pictures in the new book make him feel nostalgic, I ask.
I talk about that sense many of us have, when looking back on high days and holidays in photo albums, of wishing we had lived more in the moment, appreciated then how lucky we were. "I suppose," he says, "I'm very used to it. Sorry, I'm not explaining myself very well today. But our past as Queen still lives with us very strongly.
Queen came together in the late Sixties when May was well on his way to a high-flying academic career in astrophysics. He had been brought up in the west London suburb of Feltham, where his father was a draughtsman at the Ministry of Aviation by day but a keen amateur musician in his spare time.
Science and music were competing for May Junior's attention in 1969 when he was introduced to dental student, Roger Meddows-Taylor, and discovered they both wanted to be in a rock band. Then along came graphic design student Mercury – or Freddie Bulsara as he was at the time – and finally John Deacon, who was doing a degree in electronics.
Queen's first album in 1973 failed to reach the charts, but two years later they spent nine weeks at number one in the UK singles chart with Bohemian Rhapsody. Their Greatest Hits remains the biggest-selling UK album ever.
May continues to work closely with Taylor overseeing the band's legacy – "as wise uncles" is the distancing phrase he chooses. Relations with Deacon, who retired in 1997, sound cool. "We let him know what we are doing and he lets us know if he objects," he says.
Current projects are the hit "Queen musical" We Will Rock You, now in its 10th year, a planned movie (starring Sacha Baron Cohen as Mercury and written by Peter "The Queen" Morgan) and re-releasing old recordings on a new label.
And what about May's own recent output? There have been successful solo albums post-Queen. He produces and tours with the singer Kerry Ellis, and has just finished working with Lady Gaga and My Chemical Romance. In 2002, before a global audience of billions, he performed a memorable solo spot on the roof of Buckingham Palace playing his own arrangement of God Save the Queen as part of the Golden Jubilee celebrations.
It was quite an achievement. Many in his shoes might consider that they had now proved themselves capable of being successful with and without Queen and would therefore rest on their laurels, spend time with the family – May has three grown-up children from his first marriage, to Chrissie Mullen, which ended in 1988 – and enjoy an estimated fortune of £85 million at the rock-star mansion in Surrey he shares with Dobson. But instead May keeps stressing how busy he is. Today, he admits, has been his first chance to look properly at the forthcoming Queen book.
As well as music, he has picked up his abandoned academic career. In 2007, he returned to Imperial College, London, to finish his doctoral thesis in astrophysics and get his PhD. He is now a visiting researcher there as well as Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University.
There again is that endearing humility about May. He appears anxious, at all stages, not to talk himself up or claim some innate talent. "I've always worked very hard at everything I've done," he emphasises.
His current writing project – on astronomy – is with his great friend, 88 year-old Sir Patrick Moore. Occasionally he does guest appearances on Sir Patrick's long-running television series The Sky at Night. Another contributor once remarked that far from looking like an archetypal rock star, May was the spitting image of Isaac Newton.
His gaze has returned, as he talks, to the book that lies on the table between us. He starts once again to look through it and stops at the spread on Queen's headline-grabbing appearance at the Live Aid concert in 1985. There is a picture of him being introduced backstage to Diana, Princess of Wales. "She was a lovely human being," he remarks.
Queen, he seems to be saying, isn't only about revisiting the past.
We are offering two lucky readers the chance to win a copy of 40 Years of Queen, signed by Brian May and Roger Taylor, plus Island Records' remastered collection of 22 Queen albums, including Deep Cuts as well as the Live from Wembley DVD. Five runners-up will win an unsigned copy of the book.
Enter online at telegraph.co.uk/promotions before noon on Friday, September 30. Entrants must be UK residents aged 18 or over. Full terms and conditions available online.


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One of these samples that I found in my stash when selecting which drams to bring on the summer holiday. I only looked it up now and saw that it was drawn from a 'toasted hogshead', which is an interesting thing. There are probably quite some whiskies out there from toasted casks, but apart from some 14 year old Glenfiddich from years ago, I can't think of any.
This 21 year old from the SMWS is not something that would normally spark my interest, but I think I got the sample based on a recommendation by Ben Cops. He is kind of a regular customer of SMWS whiskies.
So, this review has been idling in my 'to post' list for quite a while now, and I decided to review it today since in eight days I'll finally be touring Glen Moray. I've visited the shop once before, because we had about 45 minutes to kill before we had to head on to BenRiach in 2013. Now we're going to be in the area again, and I wanted to do a tour on which I can bring the kids. I think they need to see why daddy loves whisky so much, and a first hand experience like that could help a lot!
Sweet and very fruity with hints of mango, pear and peach. Some custard like hints in the background. A gentle oakiness too.
A lot stronger than the nose suggests, with quite some alcohol heat. Still sweet and lots of tropical fruit. Peach, nectarine, mango. The heat turns into dry oak.
Dry on the finish, with a firm afterburner. Very warming and a hint of the light spirit shines through. Rather long.
Gorgeous! I didn't really know what to expect when I opened it, but I was very pleasantly surprised. I think, in general, the SMWS and Glen Moray are a very good partnership with some splendid results in the past. This one fits that list nicely and it's one of those whiskies I wouldn't mind having a bottle of!
The toasted oak is an interesting twist and makes it a lot fruitier than I'd normally expect. What's interesting is that, at least to me, it starts to taste more like a sherry cask than it normally would. This goes some way to underscore the importance of oak, although I do think the fruity spirit of Glen Moray is a large factor as well.
Glen Moray 1994-2016, 21 years old, 1st fill Toasted Hogshead, 55.5%, SMWS 35.159 "Waves of Intensity". Of course this is only available through the secondary market and should cost around 100 euros.
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Captivating photos show remnants of tribes in 'last frontier on Earth'
Martine Berg OlsenTuesday 26 Mar 2019 3:46 pm
Photos of tribes from the 'last frontier on Earth' showcase centuries of rich cultural tradition in Papua New Guinea.
The captivating photo series include pictures of Chimbu warrior painted as skeletons to scare their enemies, a group of Asaro Mudmen wearing eclectic carved masks, and the Huli Wigmen warmly gesturing towards the smallest member of their tribes.
The colourful, eye-catching shots were taken by Oxford photographer Jeremy Flint, 42, who always considered the Pacific island country to be a 'mysterious and intriguing' place to visit.
The sinister make-up of the Omo Masalai skeleton boys is now more celebratory than aggressive (Picture: Mediadrumimages/JeremyFlint)
Huli wig men have lived on the islands for 1,000 years (Picture: Mediadrumimages/JeremyFlint)
Flamboyant headdresses, grass skirts and face-paint make for an extraordinary display (Picture: Mediadrumimages/JeremyFlint)
The country comprises about 600 small islands and has some 5,150 km of coastline; only 13 per cent of people live in urban areas, the lowest proportion in the Commonwealth.
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Papua New Guinea has more than 800 indigenous languages, thought to be more than any other country in the world.
Flint captured most of his extraordinary images at the Mount Hagen festival – a national party celebrating the heritage, songs and dancing of over 100 of the country's tribes and the Commonwealth state's independence.
However, the intrepid explorer also ventured into the jungle highlands to see and experience their rustic lifestyle first-hand.
He explained: 'I have always been fascinated by the tribes and culture of Papua New Guinea and have wanted to visit there for over a decade.
The tribe used their terrifying make-up to intimidate their enemies in battle (Picture: Mediadrumimages/JeremyFlint)
Simbu province tribe at the Goroka show Mount Hagen where tribes from across the country come to sing and dance together (Picture: Mediadrumimages/JeremyFlint)
'I finally realised my dream recently when I visited this incredible country.
'The place always seemed very mysterious and intriguing to visit and I was not disappointed.'
Flint, who gave up a career as an accountant to become an international photographer, was excited to experience the cultural diversity of the tropical island.
He added: 'Tribal living is still a major part of the Papua New Guinea culture.
'There are over 800 languages spoken in the country mostly from the indigenous people or tribes scattered over the islands.
Tokuwa sing-sing group from the Western highlands (Picture: Mediadrumimages/JeremyFlint)
The Asaro Mudmen tribes' frightening masks honour their ancestors who once rose up from the river banks covered in mud (Picture: Mediadrumimages/JeremyFlint)
'Only around a small percentage of the population live in urbanised areas. I found life in Papua New Guinea to be interesting and insightful.
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'The landscape is mountainous and rugged and remains untouched by civilisation. The tribes have their own traditions, beliefs, ways of living and their own culture.
'The villages were remote and the accommodation was very basic with wooden huts and grass/ thatched roofs.
'The languages and dialects varied from one village to the next.'
Flint, who has won numerous awards for his photography after discovering his passion for the pursuit after he became severely ill 14 years ago, was thrilled to capture a completely different way of life.
The headdresses are passed from generation to generation and highly valued (Picture: Mediadrumimages/JeremyFlint)
The annual Goroka Show brings everyone together to celebrate Papua New Guinea's independence (Picture: Mediadrumimages/JeremyFlint)
He continued: 'I love travel photography because it gives me the opportunity to immerse myself in different cultures and meet people who I may not talk to if I didn't have my camera.
'Papua New Guinea is the last frontier on Earth, it still retains many of its traditions and cultures and that it is a terrain of unexplored and undeveloped wilderness.
'People always seem delighted to see my images and I often receive wonderful comments.
'People say "wow" a lot and that is what I like to capture – the "wow" moments.'
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Natura Naturals Inc. ("Natura") is pleased to announce that it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Evergreen Pacific Insurance Corporation ("EPIC", or "Evergreen Pacific") pursuant to which Natura will become a merchant partner for BuyWell.com, which aims to be the preeminent Canadian marketplace for health and wellness products and services.
Natura will offer our extensive product line to the customers of the BuyWell.com platform once our sales licence has been approved by Health Canada. BuyWell.com, a subsidiary of EPIC, is launching its e-marketplace in September 2018, which will include more than 10,000 curated health and wellness products and services, to be marketed to the discerning alternative health consumer.
Ben Nikolaevsky, President and CEO of Natura, stated, "This is a great partnership for Natura. Our commitment to our medicinal patients is a key pillar in our company strategy. We are excited about partnering with EPIC in the medical cannabis business."
EPIC is the parent company of Markers Financial Inc. ("Markers"), which is the founding sponsor of The Alternative Health Association of Canada. Markers provides broad extended health care coverages, including the first guaranteed issue insurance coverage for medical cannabis prescriptions for individuals. Similar to the way in which dental insurance is administered in Canada, medical cannabis producers licensed by Health Canada will be paid directly by the insurer, such that patients will never be out of pocket for the cost of their prescriptions. Policies will be customized to each insured's actual requirements, with no caps, exclusions or restrictions based on pre-existing conditions. All medical cannabis producers licensed by Health Canada are eligible to participate in this program.
Robert Wilson, CEO of Evergreen Pacific, commented, "We are delighted that Natura will be a merchant partner with BuyWell.com. The BuyWell.com ecosystem ensures that individual consumers seeking affordable and accessible healthcare options can now do so across Canada. We are excited to have Natura on board."


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Terrorism in Switzerland has occurred periodically since the 1970s. Switzerland has experienced both domestic and international terrorism over the past several decades, though domestic terrorism was primarily low‐level violence.

History
A number of left-wing terrorist cells were active in Switzerland in the 1970s. A group known as "Bändlistrasse" was active in Zurich in 1972. A group associated with Italian-German terrorist Petra Krause, was active around Zurich from 1971 to 1975. Members of the German group "Bewegung 2. Juni" (2 June Movement) were active in that period as well.

Armenian militants associated with Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide were also active in Switzerland, targeting Turkish diplomats. On May 28, 1976, in Zurich, two bombs caused extensive damage to the office of Garanti Bank and of Labor Attaché of Turkish embassy. On February 6, 1980, in Bern, Turkish Ambassador to Switzerland Doğan Türkmen was attacked. Türkmen escaped with minor wounds. Max Hraïr Kilndjian was sentenced as an accessory to two years imprisonment by the tribunal of Aix-en-Provence.

According to the Swiss Federal Prosecutor's office and media, in the 1990s and early 2000s Al Qaeda members had accounts at Swiss banks, including UBS.

In 2006, Swiss authorities showed greater awareness of the presence of terrorist groups operating in their country. The Swiss Federal Police described Switzerland as a "jihadi field of operations" in its 2005 terrorism report.

Since 2013, the Swiss Federal Intelligence Service (FIS) has warned of a heightened threat
emanating from Islamic terrorism in Switzerland.

Incidents
Notable incidents include the 1955 seizure of the Romanian embassy in Bern, El Al Flight 432 attack, and the bombing of Swissair Flight 330.

On 12 September 2020, a randomly-chosen man was fatally stabbed in Morges. The attacker was known to the Swiss intelligence service as an Islamist and under surveillance for possible links to terrorism.

Counterterrorism
In 1977, Petra Krause, an Italian-German woman, was extradited from Switzerland to Italy on allegations of supplying arms to outlawed terrorist organizations.

In 2015, Swiss police arrested two Syrians and found traces of bomb-making chemicals in a car. The arrested individuals were members of an Islamic State cell planning an attack using explosives and toxic gas.

Since the 2015 Paris attacks, Swiss and French officials say they have been working closely together. Geneva also has raised their alert level.

See also
 Terrorism in Europe
 Crime in Switzerland

References


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HomeMonday Music: Gil Shaham Revives German Composer
Monday Music: Gil Shaham Revives German Composer
Raphael MostelApril 16, 2012
Is there a more sunny and less ego-driven violinist than Israeli-born Gil Shaham? He makes even the most virtuosic music seem so effortless and natural, it's easy to forget how rare and difficult an achievement that is.
This year he has devoted himself to reviving a handful of under-played 20th-century violin concertos. In mid-March, abetted by David Zinman guest-conducting the New York Philharmonic, Shaham put his whole being into performing the Concerto Funèbre for violin and string orchestra by Karl Amadeus Hartmann. Most violinists would be daunted by this work's technical demands and try to make the audience see how much sweat is required to play it. Shaham, in contrast, made it sing.
There were not many German composers who behaved honorably in the Nazi period, but Hartmann was one. He chose to maintain public silence so as not to be co-opted by the Nazis. This rarely played violin concerto is an outstanding example of his work.
Composed in 1939 (and revised in 1959) the "Funèbre" of the title refers the burial of all that he valued with the ascension of the Nazis. He composed the concerto without thought of having it performed, as the piece references musical ideas the Nazis had banned — Hebraic chants and Russian workers' songs and works of "degenerate" colleagues like Alban Berg, Paul Hindemith and Béla Bartók.
Hartmann's wartime opera "Simplicius Simplicissimus," based on a 17th-century novel about the Thirty Years' War, begins: "In A.D. 1618, 12 million lived in Germany. Then came the great war… In A.D. 1648 only 4 million still lived in Germany."
After the war, Hartmann's musical style was not avant-garde enough for the new generation, so "Funèbre" also came to refer to his post-war career. His compositions are only now slowly beginning to make their way into the performances they richly deserve.
In early April, Gil Shaham's performance of Hartmann's "Concerto Funèbre" was broadcast on stations across the U.S., and until April 20th it can be streamed online at the New York Philharmonic's website.
The Hartmann is sandwiched between performances of Beethoven's First and Third Symphonies. Zinman puts a propulsively "modern" spin on Beethoven by returning to the composer's own indicated tempos, and keeping the structure clear. The whole concert was persuasively performed by Hartmann and the musicians of the Philharmonic.
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        <?php echo $CI->lang->line('LABEL_DIVISION_NAME');?>*

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            <option value=""><?php echo $this->lang->line('SELECT');?></option>
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        <?php echo $CI->lang->line('LABEL_TERRITORY_NAME');?>*

        <select id="territory_id" class="form-control">
            <option value=""><?php echo $this->lang->line('SELECT');?></option>
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                <option value="<?php echo $territory['value']?>" <?php if($territory['value']==$customer_info['territory_id']){ echo "selected";}?>><?php echo $territory['text'];?></option>
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<div style="<?php if(!(sizeof($districts)>0)){echo 'display:none';} ?>" class="row show-grid" id="district_id_container">

        <?php echo $CI->lang->line('LABEL_DISTRICT_NAME');?>*

        <select id="district_id" name="customer_info[district_id]" class="form-control">
            <option value=""><?php echo $this->lang->line('SELECT');?></option>
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                <option value="<?php echo $district['value']?>" <?php if($district['value']==$customer_info['district_id']){ echo "selected";}?>><?php echo $district['text'];?></option>
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        <?php echo $this->lang->line('LABEL_NAME');?>*

        <input type="text" name="customer_info[name]" id="name" class="form-control" value="<?php echo $customer_info['name'];?>"/>

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        <?php echo $this->lang->line('LABEL_CUSTOMER_CODE');?>

        <input type="text" name="customer_info[customer_code]" id="customer_code" class="form-control" value="<?php echo $customer_info['customer_code'];?>"/>

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        <input type="text" name="customer_info[credit_limit]" id="credit_limit" class="form-control" value="<?php echo $customer_info['credit_limit'];?>"/>

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        <input type="text" name="customer_info[tin]" id="tin" class="form-control" value="<?php echo $customer_info['tin'] ?>" >

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Analysis of Veolia share price
Veolia's market cap, dividends, sales and earnings in 2020
In 2020, the Veolia Group's business was conducted in a difficult context marked by the Covid-19 health crisis. However, the company showed great resilience in the face of this pandemic.
Acquisition of Suez: Veolia launches a capital increase
First of all, we will monitor Veolia's market shares in its areas of activity and the maintenance of its leading position in the face of competition.
We will also closely monitor the development of the group's activities, aimed at the private sector, which could become increasingly important in the coming years.
Naturally, all the news in this sector will be closely followed, including important information and publications from Veolia's main competitors, namely Suez, SAUR, RWE and Agbar.
Local competition abroad and in emerging countries in particular represents a threat to the development of Veolia's activities. These elements will therefore be monitored.
Of course, water as a natural resource and the quantities available are increasingly influential elements in the activities of this group.
Finally, the work carried out by Veolia to improve the quality of the water distribution network in Europe will also be verified, particularly in France where it is becoming increasingly obsolete.
Trade the Veolia share!
General presentation of Veolia
The Veolia Group is a French group that is currently the world leader in environmental services. Its activities can be broken down in this way according to their share in the group's turnover :
Water-related services account for 42.1% of the group's revenue. The group is the international leader in this segment, providing sanitation and drinking water distribution services and engineering, design and construction of water treatment facilities.
Cleaning services generate 37% of the group's revenue. The group is also the leader in this segment, with the upkeep of public spaces, cleaning and maintenance of industrial sites, soil decontamination, ri and recycling of materials, treatment and recovery of waste through composting, incineration and storage.
Energy services, which account for 20.9% of sales and for which Veolia is the European leader, with delegated management of district heating and air conditioning networks, management of thermal, multi-technical and industrial services, and global management of buildings and public lighting.
Veolia generates 21.2% of its turnover in France, 35.1% in Europe and 43.7% in the rest of the world.
The major competitors of Veolia
Knowing the Véolia group's competition is essential before embarking on the analysis of this value. You should fully know the main adversaries in this segment and in this market, here are the main ones:
Although this company will soon no longer be in competition with Véolia, which is going to buy it, you must take this into account. This French group specializes in water and waste management and is the leading private water supplier around the world. Before 2015, the name of this company was Suez Environnement. In 2020, Véolia launched a takeover bid on Suez which should be completed in 2021.
Another major competitor of Véolia is the French company Engie, which is the third largest group in the world in the non-oil energy sector. The French State is still the main shareholder of this company with nearly a quarter of the capital. Engie was created by the merger in 2008 between GDF and Suez. It went on to become the largest public service company in terms of revenue.
Still among the main competitors of the Véolia group, we find the Saur group, which is a French group specializing in the water and waste management sector. This group mainly carries out delegated management of services for local authorities and is also present in the engineering market and the construction of works related to water treatment. Its main customers are mainly local authorities and industrial customers.
RWE AG
Finally, Véolia's last direct competitor is not French but German. It is the company RWE which is a German conglomerate specialized in the energy sector and which was created in 1898. Its head office is still based in Essen today. The group owns and operates several subsidiaries with various specialties such as the distribution of electricity, gas, water and services, mainly in Europe and North America. Bear in mind that the RWE group is currently the second largest producer of electricity in Germany, particularly in the production of electricity from coal.
The major partners of Veolia
While the Veolia group has many competitors in its market, it can also count on the support of some strategic partners. Indeed, the group regularly sets up alliances with other companies as in the following three recent examples:
In 2021, the group partnered with Thales to create the first eco-sim card made of 100% recycled plastic. Indeed, the 4.5 billion SIM cards manufactured each year represent more than 20,000 tonnes of plastic. It is therefore in response to growing ecological awareness that Thales and Veolia have developed an alternative, innovative and original solution with the eco-SIM, a recycled card that is made from discarded refrigerators.
In 2020, the group also joined forces with Solvay in a partnership to create a circular economy consortium. Together, the two companies are proposing new solutions that promise more efficient management of the metals used in lithium-ion electric vehicle batteries. The number of electric vehicles on the road is expected to rise to more than 116 million by 2030 and the availability of raw materials is therefore a strategic challenge for this industry, as the materials used for batteries are not always recovered at their maximum value.
In the same year, Veolia signed a partnership agreement with Elise, a local environmental initiative company. This agreement concerns the collection of 50,000 tonnes of office paper per year and was signed for an initial period of 5 years. Its objective is to increase the collection rate of office paper in France.
The factors in favour of a rise in the Veolia share price:
Firstly, Veolia is currently number one in the environmental services sector throughout the world, particularly in the water, waste management and energy services sectors, which are particularly buoyant. Veolia also uses the delegated management model, which offers a lower cost for clients than with management by a public utility.
The Veolia group also has a strong international presence, with more than 40% of its turnover in Europe and 24% in the rest of the world. It is also well developed in Global Business targeting activities for large companies.
The fact that Veolia's business model is based on long-term contracts ensures good visibility and stability of the company's revenue. The group is in charge of 46% of municipal markets and 54% of industrial markets. Veolia's strategy is also based on the signing of large contracts, notably thanks to its recent reorganisation aimed at bringing together all the company's activities under a single brand in all its target countries by pooling support functions. The group's growth is based on four main pillars. Targeting major environmental issues, strengthening its position in growth markets, penetrating industrial customers and changing business models is also a strong point for the group. Project financing in the form of asset co/op co thus limits the proportion of capital employed and therefore does not unbalance the company's balance sheet.
It should also be noted that Veolia's financial situation has been strongly strengthened during 2016 thanks to the resale of SNCM and Transdev.
Finally, the last advantage of the Veolia share that can be retained concerns the good visibility of the dividend for investors.
The factors in favour of a drop in the Veolia share price:
If the Veolia share has real appeal for private investors who decide to trade it in line with CFDs, this share also has some weak points that it is also necessary to take into account and of which here are some concrete examples:
Firstly, a significant part of the business is showing significant cyclicality with the crisis, due in particular to the fall in prices in Germany, the renegotiation of contracts in France and the end of the Indianapolis contract.
In addition, the utilities segment is experiencing a bearish phase on the stock markets with a downward renegotiation of French contracts and doubts from investors who fear an imminent rise in interest rates.
Veolia's various business lines also show a strong disparity in terms of profitability, with high margins in the water sector, which accounts for ¾ of operating profit, followed by waste management, which accounts for the remaining quarter. The geographical distribution is also very disparate, since Veolia makes more profit in the rest of the world than in France and Europe.
Finally, the recent postponement of the financial targets that the group had set for 2018 has had a major impact on investor morale.
What is the listing and price information for the Veolia share?
Veolia shares are currently listed continuously on the Euronext Paris market and have been since 20 July 2000. The nominal value of each share in this group is currently €5 and the closing price of the share on 31 December 2019 was €23.71. The Veolia Group thus had a market capitalisation of €13.45 billion at the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020. The number of shares on the market is 567.2 million.
How can I view the price of Veolia's shares?
Veolia's share price is constantly changing thanks to its live listing on the Euronext Paris market. To view the price of this stock, you must therefore have access to a real-time chart. This type of chart is accessible online on specialised sites or from the trading platforms on which this stock is offered. It is also possible to view the historical price of this stock.
Who are Veolia's direct competitors?
The Veolia group has some serious competitors in its main sectors of activity. Although it is the leader in water supply, it faces stronger competition in its other segments such as sustainable development and ecology. The most important of these are Suez Environnement, a subsidiary of the Engie group, RWE and Agbar.


I am so proud of my students for how they practise good digital citizenship. We were lucky enough to have Susan Watt (@susanwatt) come to our classroom in the fall to teach us about the respectful use of other people's intellectual materials, and how important it is to give credit where due. My students in grades 4/5 are now compiling images for an art/Keynote assignment and are automatically seeking out "labeled for reuse" images and recording the URLs in their slideshows to give attribution. Even if the idea of plagiarism is incomprehensible at this age, it still makes me proud to see that the kids realize that someone else prepared this material for them, so simply learning how to give credit teaches them respect for other users and contributors on the net. To other elementary teachers out there: please know that students in grades 4 and up (in my personal experience) can truly comprehend the value and importance of being honest, and of giving attribution to their sources when required. I hope that when these same students arrive in college or university courses this will be as automatic as blinking. I can proudly say, Lesson Learned.


A solar research testbed is being set up on the rooftop of the Material Science and Engineering, Block N4.1 at Nanyang Technological University. The testbed is equipped with measuring instruments which consists of crystalline and thin film photovoltaic modules placed in different configurations, an array of solar irradiance sensors, a sun tracker device, solar inverters and a weather station. The data captured by these instruments will be used for future solar research. The data collected for study is the amount of direct normal irradiance, diffuse horizontal irradiance and global horizontal irradiance. Other captured data includes solar power and energy generated as well as weather temperature, rainfall and directional wind speed. The data is recorded and stored by each instrument via different means. The solar irradiance sensor array and sun tracker is each connected to an external data logger while the solar inverters and weather station transmit measured data back to its vendor for storage. A web portal is needed to automatically retrieve up to date research data from each instrument and display it on a centralised online platform for study by research staff. This project looks at the requirements for the portal and retrieval from each instrument, the development process and recommendations to host within the university domain.


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Willem Dafoe confirms Finding Dory role
Willem Dafoe has confirmed he will reprise his role of animated fish Gill in upcoming Disney movie 'Finding Dory'
Willem Dafoe has confirmed he is returning for 'Finding Dory'.
The 58-year-old actor will lend his voice to reprise the role of animated fish Gill, who he portrayed in 2003 movie 'Finding Nemo', and after starting work on the Disney motion picture he insists it is much better than the original film.
He told Total Film magazine: "Yeah I've already started. It's even better than the first. It's fantastic. It's good to say I think it's going to be better than the first; that's good advertising!"
The movie is expected to tell the story of the titular fish - who is portrayed by talk show host Ellen DeGeneres - and her journey to be reunited with her family, and while Dafoe is remaining tight-lipped on further plot details, he is having a "good time" working with the other cast members.
He added: "It's difficult to repeat a success and so many years afterwards, but it's really cool.
"I've done one session so far and I just am going to have such a good time."
'Finding Dory' - which is to star Diane Keaton as Jenny, Dory's mother, and Eugene Levy as Charlie, Dory's father - was recently pushed back to 2016.
The movie will now be released on June 17, 2016 instead of November 2015.
Directed by: Andrew Stanton
Written by: Victoria Strouse
Cast: Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Diane Keaton, Eugene Levy, Ty Burrell, Willem Dafoe
UK release: 29 July 2016
In the sequel to the much-loved Finding Nemo, annoyingly forgetful Dory goes on an adventure to find her family, crossing three oceans to get to them with Marlon and Nemo just a swish behind her.
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The transition from diesel to renewable energy affects the majority, if not all industries in Australia. Bus and coach transport is no exception, but where are we in 'turning the corner'?
The 2018 BusVic Maintenance Conference and Trade Show held at Pullman Albert Park Melbourne on 2 and 3 July 2018, touched on many contentious topics affecting the bus industry. Recognised as the industry's leading exhibition, conference and networking event, BusVic's 64th Maintenance Conference and Trade Show couldn't be unresponsive to the transition from diesel to renewable energy that is happening in Australia.
According to the studies done by Dr Robbie Napper from Monash University, 38% of Australia's energy consumption comes from oil. 27% of that energy is used in transport, and there are no signs of those numbers decreasing in the nearest future. "Because of the nature of our country, we may have to carry on with diesel for a bit longer," believes Napper, one of the speakers at the 2018 BusVic Maintenance Conference.
This perspective may be a bit concerning if we compare Australia to other countries, which set the bar high. "Majority of European cities will have no diesel powered buses by 2025 and no more hybrid vehicles by 2030. There, the demand for quick transition comes from top down. In Australia there is no push for a change, until the cleaner cities become an issue," compares Dr Robbie Napper.
Currently, it is impossible for battery powered buses to compete with buses running on diesel. Diesel has a very high energy density, which allows to fill up the bus tank in the morning and drive the bus around the city for the whole day with no need to be concerned about the energy. Batteries have 1000 times less energy density than diesel. Carrying a single charge battery on a bus means no room for the passengers.
The changes that the transition brings can also create new business opportunities. Efficient bus operation and smart charging can save the energy (even up to 70%) that can be stored and sold. What is more, companies that currently supply the conventional energy, are interested in providing the alternative batteries. "There is a sense of transition," reassures Napper.
So when will the transition be completed? "If we stop selling the diesel powered buses in 10 years, they will last for another 20, what means using diesel around until 2050. Hybrids will be here for extra 20 years. The full transition will be done by 2070", foresees Napper.
Thermo King Bus Australia is the forefront of the changes, with approximately 15 full electric Thermo King units currently in operation and more energy-saving technologies being trialled before being rolled out in Australia.


In a report, Human Rights Watch clarified that the European Union and Italy's support of the Libyan Coast Guard helps immensly in intercepting migrants and asylum seekers, and their arbitrary and abusive detention in Libya, according to the statement.
The organization noted that it recorded violations in terms of "Extreme overcrowding, unhealthy conditions, malnutrition, lack of adequate health care and violent abuses, including beatings and flogging," stressing that among the migrants, there is a large number of children in poor conditions.
Human Rights Watch said that 20 percent of illegal immigrants who arrived in Europe by sea from Libya in 2018 were children.
The organization added that Italy has given up all its responsibilities in coordinating rescue operations at sea, in an attempt to limit the number of people arriving on its coast, which has contributed to an increase in the number of international water interdiction operations from the Libyan Coast Guard, while Italy and Malta have blocked the work of NGO rescue vessels.
"The Libyan authorities should stop the detention of migrants arbitrarily and create alternatives to detention, improve conditions in detention centers, ensure accountability of governmental and non-governmental bodies that violate the rights of migrants and asylum seekers," the organization noted. "In addition to signing a memorandum of understanding with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Refugees, to enable them to register any person in need of international protection, regardless of their nationality, in full respect of their mandate.
Human Rights Watch noted that EU institutions and member states must impose clear standards to improve the treatment of migrants and the conditions of detention centers in Libya and be prepared to cease cooperation if these standards are not respected.
The Libyan authorities confirmed in previous statements that they provide care for migrants and hold accountable for the attacks against migrants in the shelters.


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Catholic Life Education
Dr. LaFever bids adieu to Catholics Schools
Patrick J. Buechi October 23, 2020
When the final bell rang on Oct. 20, Michael LaFever left his office for the last time to embrace retirement. As superintendent of Catholic Schools for the Diocese of Buffalo, he spent more than two years leading parish and regional elementary schools in Western New York. His main focus now will be heading the charity he founded last year, the Catholic Children's Learning Corporation.
Joan D. Thomas, who has nearly five decades of experience as an educator, principal and superintendent for two Western New York school districts, has now assumed LaFever's former position on interim basis.
The superintendent's role is to provide leadership to the schools to help them maintain a vibrant and financially solvent educational institute, as well as provide guidance to the principals, pastors and school boards.
Catholic Schools is the third largest school district in Western New York with 8,600 students. The nine-member Catholic Schools Department staff oversees government mandates, professional development and technology for 34 Catholic schools. This frees up the teachers and principals to focus on carrying out their education programs.
"Our principals in our schools, they're going 100 miles an hour just to run the school, but they can't do all the other professional work that we would do for them, that any other public school would provide to their schools – curriculum writing, instructional support, technology support, grant writing, legal issues," said LaFever.
Thomas has agreed to stay until May 1. Her first order of business will be to meet with canonical administrators of regional schools, as well as principals of struggling schools, to see where they see themselves at present, in the next year, and in the next five years.
"I think one of my main focuses is to try to come up with ways that these schools can be viable beyond five years," said Thomas. "One of my main goals has been to try and understand the financial situation of the schools and try to figure out whether a school or schools need to be merged or perhaps consolidated or perhaps restructured, or, in worse case scenarios, perhaps closed because they just can't sustain themselves without diocesan support."
Thomas recognizes the hard work of the principals to make their schools competitive with government-funded public schools. In a 2019 Business First ranking, 10 Catholic schools placed among the top 50 schools in Western New York.
Very poor public schools will get from the state upwards of 90 percent reimbursed state aid, Thomas explained. If a school wanted to start a new program, such as STREAM, it would receive $90 from the state for every $100 spent. Wealthier districts may only receive 30 percent in aid.
"(Catholic schools) don't get any. We get no state aid. Catholic schools are on their own as to how to fund initiatives. When you say we have schools in the Top 10 that compete right up there with an Amherst, that's a credit to the teachers and the principals because they are the ones doing all the work," she said.
Thomas will have some obstacles to deal with, most notably the fact that the Diocese of Buffalo, currently under Chapter 11 reorganization has stopped financial support of the parish and regional schools.
In a statement last July, Sister Mary McCarrick, chief operating officer of the diocese, explained the financial issue. "As a diocese, we face significant financial challenges that also constrict the ability of our parish and school leaders to make the investments they need and desire in the interests of their students. It is why we are looking at new models that will ensure the continuation of Catholic education across our region despite these present challenges. We are committed to innovation, collaboration and most especially, to our shared mission of perpetuating the proud tradition of Catholic education throughout Western New York for decades to come," she wrote.
Diocesan leaders are working with parishes and schools to identify ways to better collaborate and create greater impact by combining resources and harnessing the abundant expertise, talent and zeal of the teachers, administrators, parish leaders and Catholic faithful.
Even in retirement, LaFever will remain committed to doing his part for Catholic education. His charity, the Catholic Children's Learning Corporation, is designed to help support Catholic Schools by generating funds that will pay for the costs of running the schools, not tuition assistance like other local organizations.
"The charity is designed to generate income for Catholic education," LaFever explained. "It was deliberately structured in a way that it would not be in competition with BISON Fund or the Foundation of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo. Our primary source of income is not donations. It's not that we would reject donations, it's just not what we're focused on. We're focused on creating an income for the schools."
He compares the idea to religious orders earning money through the colleges and hospitals that they own. This, he said, will help small schools in rural areas with low enrollment to stay open.
"That's what makes this charity different," he said. "We're looking into investing in real estate or running small businesses. We're looking at research and development. We're looking at different fields where we can invest and create an income stream for the schools in the future."
Retiring superintendent of Catholic Schools Michael LaFever welcomes the new interim School Superintendent Joan Thomas.
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