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Politics: Forecast
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Brexit Party wins the European Parliament elections
The Eurosceptic Brexit Party (BP) won the European Parliament elections held on May 23rd, winning 31.6% of the vote and 29 seats (out of 73). The party won every electoral region in England and Wales except London. This will make the BP the largest national political party in the next European Parliament. The centrist, pro-EU Liberal Democrats came second, with 20.3%, winning 16 seats.
The BP won its resounding victory on a clear, single-issue platform of removing the UK from the European Union by October 31st, with or without a withdrawal agreement in place. The result was a remarkable outcome for the party—led by Nigel Farage, a former leader of UK Independence Party (UKIP)—especially considering it was created less than two months earlier.
Despite the BP's clear margin of victory, the combined vote share of pro-Brexit parties—the Conservatives, UKIP and the BP—fell from 51.4% in the 2014 European elections to 44%.
Meanwhile the collective vote share of the Liberal Democrats and the Greens (which polled at 12.1%) more than doubled, from 14.7% in 2014 to 32.4%, largely at the expense of the Conservatives and Labour. The Liberal Democrats' support was underestimated in the polls; the party won London and came second in four regions.
Labour finished third overall, but their vote share, at 14.1%, was down by more than 11 percentage points from 2014. The Conservatives finished in fifth place, with support in single digits, at just over 9%—their worst performance in a national election in modern history. Both parties were squeezed from each end of the Brexit spectrum, with the Liberal Democrats drawing in Remain supporters, and the BP drawing in Leavers.
This effect has already carried over to national opinion polls, albeit to a lesser extent, with support for the main parties falling 10-15 percentage points in recent weeks as support for the BP and the Liberal Democrats has spiked. Nevertheless, the two main parties still remain clearly ahead of their new rivals in national polling. The first-past-the-post electoral system means that the insurgency will be less potent in general elections, as it tends to favour larger, more established parties, unlike the proportional representation system used in European Parliament elections.
Impact on the forecast
The results of the European Parliament elections suggest that the prospect of the UK leaving the EU without a withdrawal agreement has increased. A general election in late 2019 or early 2020 has also become more likely.
Brexit impasse will lead to general election
Boris Johnson will fail to win concessions from the EU, forcing him to call a general election.

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Home D23 Expo 2022 D23 Expo 2022: Magic in the Air: 30 Years of...
D23 Expo 2022: Magic in the Air: 30 Years of "The Muppet Christmas Carol"
Jeanine Yamanaka
Hosted by RuPaul's Drag Race's Nina West, this presentation celebrating the 30th anniversary of The Muppet Christmas Carol was one of the fan favorites of the entire Expo. The panel of artists present included Brian Henson, the director, Polly Smith, the costume designer, Paul Williams, songwriter, and Dave Goelz, puppeteer for Gonzo and many others in the Muppet pantheon.
The idea for The Muppet Christmas Carol actually came from Henson's agent Bill Haber, founder of CAA.
It was initially developed as a TV movie for ABC, but Jeffrey Katzenberg read it and stole it from them to remake it into a feature film for Disney.
The film is often voted (particularly in Great Britain) as one of the most faithful of the Christmas Carol adaptations, partly because of their decision to include Gonzo as Dickens, which opened the door to including a lot of the book's prose.
When Williams got the call from Henson to do the songs, he immediately felt a parallel between the redemptive story of Scrooge, who was addicted to greed, and his own struggle at that time to quit alcohol. "Talk about timing. This guy has gone through in literature 100 years or whatever, what I'm going through this month!"
One source of discontent with the film had always been the loss of the ballad "When Love Is Gone" (sung by Belle, Scrooge's fiancee, at the point of dissolving their engagement.) Henson revealed that Katzenberg requested it be removed because during a test screening, he saw four children leave for the bathroom and decided it didn't play well to them. After a long discussion, Henson agreed that it could be removed from the initial theatrical release, if it was re-inserted into every version afterwards, such as home video, etc.
When it came to replace the song, however, it was discovered that the negative for the footage had inexplicably been lost and despite searching for it for over two years, it was never found.
What has been found, however, is a copy very close to the negative which has been used to put the scene back together, and on December 11th, under the "Added Extras" section, viewers can watch the Full Length version streaming on Disney+.
As a special treat, Disney legend Jodi Benson made an appearance to sing "When Love Is Gone" for the occasion.
The entire film was shot indoors on a stage so that they could use forced perspective to make all the streets seem longer…which was a relief to Henson who had not had much prior experience filming on location.
Henson on discussing Scrooge with Michael Caine: "He said 'I think the only way I can play this, is if I never react to anything with the Muppets as is there if anything out of the usual. I'm gonna play it like I'm playing opposite the Royal Shakespeare Company.'"
Goelz on his thoughts about the film: "Like Brian said, none of us knew if we could do this without Jim. But luckily, most of the team, like Jerry Juhl, had a huge part of this and we were able to carry on and do a wonderful, wonderful, heartfelt story that really celebrated the spirit of giving that was characteristic of Jim. We all knew him as a really incredibly generous person. Kind, high-spirited…The way we wanted the world to be. So in a way, for me anyway, this was making a movie about the way we want the world to be."
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Taken during the Trofeo Ciutat de Palma 2016, this 420 Class photo taken by Tomàs Moya topped the votes for the Yacht Racing Forum Award, as voted by delegates at the annual World Sailing Conference held in Mexico 4-12 November and the Yacht Racing Forum in Aarhus, Denmark, 27-28 November 2017.
134 photographers spanning 27 countries submitted a picture for the Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image award 2017. Sören Hese (GER) wins the main prize, whilst the delegates from the Yacht Racing Forum and World Sailing's annual conference elected Tomàs Moya. Zita Kovács (HUN) obtained most votes on the social networks and wins the Public Award. The pictures submitted illustrate the sailing season 2017 and highlight the extraordinary variety of the sport in all its aspects.
The Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image Award has once again been met with enthusiasm by the public and on the social networks. More than 20,000 votes were counted, with the event website visited by 2.2 million people.


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Q: Merge multiple vectors to a data frame I have a data.frame df, around 300 seperate numeric vectors and a character vector including the names of all 300 vectors.
allNames
 [1] "x.1"  "x.2"  "x.3"  "x.4"  "x.5"  "x.6"  "x.7"  "x.8"  "x.9"  "x.10" ...

I would like to combine all of these vectors with the data.frame df. My working solution is:
for (name in allNames){
  if( length(get(names)) == nrow(df)){
    df = data.frame(df, get(name))
    names(df)[ncol(df)] = paste(name)
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}

Is there a more efficient way to combine these vectors to the df? (Without using a loop or apply, with better memory allocation and faster processing)

A: Yes, there's a simpler approach. Here's a reproducible example:
df = data.frame(abc = "a", def = "b")
x1 = 1
x2 = 2
x3 = 3
allNames = c("x1", "x2", "x3")

df2 = cbind(df, do.call(cbind, mget(allNames, envir = .GlobalEnv)))

df2
# abc def x1 x2 x3
#1   a   b  1  2  3

str(df2)

#'data.frame':  1 obs. of  5 variables:
# $ abc: Factor w/ 1 level "a": 1
# $ def: Factor w/ 1 level "b": 1
# $ x1 : num 1
# $ x2 : num 2
# $ x3 : num 3

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I finished off my teenage years in Houston messing around on the brick paved streets of 4th ward in a whirlwind of malt liqour, swisher sweets, black tar heroin and glances behind me that never saw what was coming. It was a strange and sad and yet somehow beautiful time in my life. I had a couple old school partners that took me under their wing in the neighborhood but my best friend was Dell. We did it all together. His mama and my mama were friends and bless their hearts, were trying their damndest to straighten out two boys that had already turned crooked. We had a goodness within us but had to get real good and lost before it could be found and we quickly recognized our likeness in the other. We rode every day of the week.
One time we took a real good beating together over on Gilette and Robin Street. Wrong place to be for sure and the crowd that dealt it was full of fellas with names like Fat Daddy and Black Sam. I had blood in my eye for three weeks and Dell's lip swole up much like a cartoon. Somehow it's a real good memory though. Another time we were climbing on the roof of an old abandoned school by Fat Mama's house and D fell through halway but he caught himself and i pulled him the rest of the way out. We both seem to remember that one. And when i think of it all, it feels like there was always something to escape from or to run to. Feels like it was always humid and hungry and the empty lots in the ward were always overgrown green and soaking through to your socks. I can't remember it ever even being winter back then. But of course it must of been at some point.
Last time i saw Dell was maybe 2002 and his mom in the final stages of cancer. I had just got home after being gone down south for a few years and was already doing my best to give away the half a chance i had. We met up somewhere downtown and i remember we could have taken the bus to go see his mom one more time but instead i decided to skid around in the ward and found a bottle or two over in old chinatown. It's a regret i've pardoned myself for but one that still makes my chest hurt once in a while. I didn't know how to do too much else back then though.
When Dell rolled into Dallas two weeks ago i knew where his heart was soon as i heard his voice. Wasn't sure where his head was at but told him to come on through anyway. We linked up, hopped in the car for a drive and after about 15 minutes of feeling each other out we were the same again but better, you know? He might be still on the run in some ways but sure enough he's still here. And when we're here there's a chance.
He stayed on for a couple days and shared some meals, joined in for the girl's bedtime prayers and even gave the yard a once over while i was lost in kickstarter land. When we were up on the roof at dusk one evening he told me that some years back he took his Mother's ashes up to a mountain top in Tennessee to finally set her free. Climbed up as high as he could, talked to her for a while and gave her back to the earth and the wind. Later that night he said that was one of the reasons he was headed to Colorado next. To be up above it again. Somewhere he could beat the summer, breathe clean and see all around him for a long ways. All of us have some place like that we'd like to get to. And i keep hoping and believing and doubting and believing again that im walking towards that place, inside and out. About like the rest of you.
We said another goodbye early the next morning and promised to send each other some good news from time to time. Driving off, i watched him get small as we really are in my rearview mirror and in my chest and throat i felt the loss that IS being alive and having to exist apart from some of the things you love. A few days later though he texted from the mountains and said he was about a mile high. His facebook last night showed some snowy peak in the distance and i think it said, "gonna make it to the top."


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Eyedea & Abilities (ofta förkortad som E&A) var en inflytelserik amerikansk rap duo från Saint Paul, Minnesota, bestående av DJ Abilities (Max Keltgen) och Eyedea (Micheal Larsen). Gruppen grundades 1993 och blev en framträdande figur av 90-talets underground hiphop scen. Eyedea var känd för sina filosofiska och medvetna texter medan DJ Abilities var känd för dynamiska experimentella melodier. DJ Abilities melodier influerades mycket av rap och även en hel del rock. Duon var aktiva tills Eyedeas död år 2010.

Upplösta amerikanska musikgrupper
Musikgrupper bildade 1993
Musikgrupper upplösta 2010

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Selena Series Coming To Netflix!
Netflix just released their teaser trailer for Selena: The Series!
The short 15 seconds gives us just a tantalizing taste with a call out featuring one of her hits "Bidi Bidi Bom Bom".
Netflix is reliving the miraculous life of Selena Quintanilla, the timeless and iconic Latina pop star. Regardless if you have or have not seen the 1997 rendition with Jennifer Lopez, this has the hopes of being a breath of fresh air. The streaming service hopes to give this version a more intimate and first hand look at the pop star.
While the casting and premiere dates have not been announced, the producers have and that gives more hope to the authenticity of the show. Netflix states that the executive producers will have family working closely along side. Those producers include, Jaime Davila, Rico Martinez, Suzette Quintanilla, Abraham Quintanilla Jr., and Simran A. Singh with Star and American Crime writer Moises Zamora.
For more information directly follow the official website and look out for more information with us! We will be on the edge of our seats when this releases.


SALIFE celebrates the best of Adelaide and South Australia.
Now in its 15th year, SALIFE is South Australia's biggest selling lifestyle magazine, published on the first Thursday of each month. SALIFE explores the farthest reaches of our state, bringing you the stories of SA's people and places, as well as recipes, fashion, arts, homes, gardens, motoring, weddings, and of course our widely-followed social pages.
In addition to SALIFE, our quarterly SAGardens & Outdoor Living, and annual SALIFE Food & Wine and SAHomes & Interiors publications engage readers of all ages and interests.


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Q: How to renew CookieAuthentication expire time when some action is calling in MVC I use "Individual User Accounts" (IUA) Authentication template in my MVC 5 project. I set cookie ExpireTime 5 minutes.
public void ConfigureAuth(IAppBuilder app)
{
    ...
    app.UseCookieAuthentication(new CookieAuthenticationOptions
    {
        ExpireTimeSpan = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(5),
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I want to extend (renew) this cookie ExpireTime, when I call GetSomething in my Controller.
[CustomAuthorize]
public JsonResult GetSomething()
{
    ...
}

How can I extend this cookie ExpireTime in my CustomAuthorize filter?
public class CustomAuthorize : AuthorizeAttribute
{
    public override void OnAuthorization(AuthorizationContext filterContext)
    {
        base.OnAuthorization(filterContext);
        ???SetNewTimeForAppAuthCookie???
    }
}

A: Cookie ExpireTime extends automatically.
I used [SessionState(SessionStateBehavior.ReadOnly)] attribute in my controller class, which was cause of that problem.


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Risks and benefits of assisted conception
New ways of helping childless couples have exciting potential but limited effectiveness
Dr Chandra Kailasam and
Dr Julian Jenkins explain
Since the birth of Louise Brown in 1978, assisted conception has seen amazing developments both in terms of new treatments and increasing uptake. Assisted conception includes IVF, donor gametes and embryos, surrogate uteri and the cryopreservation of both gametes and embryos. More than a million babies worldwide have been born following IVF; more than one in 100 babies born in the UK today are conceived by IVF.
Treatment by IVF or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) involves the following cycle.
· Ovaries are hyperstimulated with follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), to increase egg numbers and provide a greater choice of embryos for replacement.
· Progestogens or the combined pill may be given before commencing a gonadotrophin-releasing hormone agonist (or antagonist) administered nasally or by subcutaneous injection to synchronise the onset of menstruation and reduce the risk of ovarian cyst formation and to prevent premature release of oocytes.
· Ovarian stimulation is monitored by serial transvaginal ultrasound with serum oestradiol used in selected cases.
· Once follicular development is optimal, final maturation of the oocyte is initiated by an injection of human chorionic gonadotrophin.
· Transvaginal ultrasound-guided oocyte collection is performed under deep sedation 36 hours later.
· The eggs are fertilised in the laboratory and after two or three days the resultant embryos are transferred to the uterus transcervically using a specialised embryo transfer catheter.
· Surplus suitable embryos beyond the two that are normally replaced may be frozen for subsequent treatment.
· Progesterone supplementation is usually given for two weeks after embryo transfer, generally in the form of vaginal pessaries to help implantation.
Effectiveness of treatment
The majority of patients who persevere with IVF treatment will ultimately have at least one child. The chance of a live birth is more than 25 per cent per treatment cycle below 35 years of age, but falls to less than 10 per cent beyond 40 years of age.
The chance of success is greatest in the first few cycles then gradually declines. Overall around 90 per cent of IVF pregnancies occur in the first four attempts; prognostic features are shown in the table above.
Risks of treatment
The greatest risk of assisted conception is multiple pregnancy in view of problems later in the pregnancy, particularly prematurity. This is why the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority limits IVF treatment to the replacement of no more than two embryos other than in exceptional circumstances.
Patients can be reassured that limiting the number of embryos replaced in high-quality centres reduces multiple pregnancy significantly without making a major impact on pregnancy rates. There is an increasing move in the profession to transfer just single embryos in suitable patients, although patients who are paying for treatment are understandably reluctant to accept this option.
Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) is the most clinically significant short-term morbidity following treatment with gonadotrophins. OHSS occurs in about one in 20 IVF cycles but presents a serious problem in only a small number of cases.
Patients may present with lower abdominal discomfort, bloating and nausea that may progress to vomiting and, in severe cases, ascites, pleural effusion and even thromboembolic disease.
The pathophysiology of OHSS is poorly understood and management
is mainly supportive. It is difficult to predict when this will occur, although it is more common in conjunction with conditions such as polycystic ovarian syndrome. Improved management of gonadotrophin stimulation appears to have reduced OHSS, but vigilance remains important with referral for expert advice when suspected.
Although the vast majority of children conceived by assisted conception appear normal in all respects, a slightly higher proportion has abnormalities when compared with natural conceptions. This is mainly due to the increased age of infertile patients presenting for treatment, increased risks with multiple pregnancies, subtle gene defects in either partner or poor reproductive function in general, but
a treatment effect cannot be excluded. Patients should be counselled appropriately, particularly with regard to the advantages of limiting the number of embryos replaced.
Although there have been theoretical concerns that controlled ovarian hyperstimulation with gonadotrophins may increase the risk of malignancy, the overwhelming balance of evidence is reassuring that this treatment does not increase the lifetime risk of either gynaecological or breast cancer.
Already the success of assisted conception exceeds natural conception, but human conception is relatively poor compared with other animals so there is room for improvement.
Research constantly strives to do this, but it is important to be cautious in our enthusiasm for new treatments until there is adequate proof of effectiveness, which may take time. For instance, only very recently has a detailed meta-analysis of techniques used to assist the hatching of embryos provided convincing evidence that these increase pregnancy rates following recurrent unexplained failures of IVF and ICSI.
NICE guidelines on infertility treatment are due out early this year. The draft guidelines recommend that IVF is an effective treatment that should be provided on the NHS
it will be interesting to see the final recommendations.
Chandra Kailasam is associate specialist and Julian Jenkins is clinical director, Centre for Reproductive Medicine, University of Bristol
Centre for Reproductive Medicine, Bristol: www.ReproMED.co.uk
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority: www.hfea.gov.uk
British Fertility Society: www.fertility.org.uk
Nice guidance: www.nice.org.uk/cat.asp?c=20092
Braude P and Taylor A. ABC of Subfertility. London: BMJ Books, 2004
Factors affecting outcome
of IVF treatment
Good prognosis
· Aged under 38
· Previous pregnancy
· Previous successful fertility treatment
· Aged over 38
· Long duration of infertility
· Previous failed fertility treatment
· Obesity (BMI >30)
· Smoking (active and passive)
· Untreated hydrosalpinx
· Basal serum FSH levels >10iu
· Poor response to ovarian stimulation
Pregnancy rate according to age
Age group Pregnancy rate*
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35-36 years 26 %
>40 years <10>
*Clinical pregnancy rates at CRM Bristol in 2001/3 per started IVF/ICSI cycle
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Opening Weekend's Top Nine Performances
(Photo Courtesy of Indiana Athletics)
The Hoosiers 5-0 start is their best since 1990. They outscored their opponents 32-11 while hitting .311 at the FAU First Pitch Classic in Boca Raton. They used a station-to-station approach at the plate as only eight of their 37 hits were for extra bases. They did, however, steal 17 of 22 bases.
Tara Trainer led the pitching staff with 16 innings and a complete-game victory over No. 6 Georgia.
Taylor Lambert finished the weekend 6-for-13 with seven runs scored, two doubles, two RBIs and six stolen bases.
N.C. State
The Wolfpack followed up its 23-31 finish last season with a fresh start under the new direction of Jennifer Patrick-Swift. The Wolfpack went 3-2 at the USF Opening Weekend Invitational in Tampa against No. 10 Michigan, Illinois State, USF, No. 7 Arizona and No. 5 Florida.
The big upset came on Sunday when the Pack took down Arizona 4-1 behind freshman Sydney Nester's complete game. It was her first collegiate win and she allowed an earned run on seven hits. The follow-up performance fell just shy as Florida walked off with a 2-1 win in the seventh.
Hear from @CoachPatrick_ her thoughts on going 3-2 this weekend vs. three top 20 teams and one that's receiving votes pic.twitter.com/rVxHEHrOnD
— PackSoftball🥎 (@PackSoftball) February 10, 2019
Bailey Hemphill
In five games, Alabama's Bailey Hemphill hit .571 (8-for-14) with three doubles, a home run, five runs scored and 11 RBIs. Her best game of the weekend came against Murray State when she was 4-for-5 with two doubles, a home run and seven RBIs.
The No. 16 LSU Tigers scored 73 runs and allowed two in five games. Amanda Sanchez paced the offense going 9-for-13 with seven doubles, 10 runs scored and 11 RBIs. Aliyah Andrews scored 14 runs and was a perfect 5-for-5 in stolen bases.
The player who shouldn't be overlook is Shelbi Sunseri. She was 7-for-11 with two doubles, four homers and 14 RBIs. She was also 2-0 in the circle with a 0.00 earned run average in 10 innings. She allowed five hits and struck out nine against 35 batters.
Uh-LIS-ah
If the pronunciation guide to your name is Uh-LIS-ah, you probably had a good weekend.
Georgia's Alyssa DiCarlo was 8-for-13 with a double, a triple, four home runs, seven runs scored and 11 RBIs.
Arizona's Alyssa Palomino-Cardoza was 8-for-15 with a double, three home runs and six RBIs.
Louisiana's Alissa Dalton hit .455 with a double, triple, home run and collected nine RBIs.
Baylor's Alyssa Avalos made her presence known defensively when she robbed a potential homer.
Mary Haff
Arkansas sophomore Mary Haff continues to climb the program record books as she earned her 32nd career win over the weekend for sixth all-time. She pitched three complete-games to open 2019 and tied a career-high with 13 strikeouts against Campbell on Sunday. In 20 innings, Haff has not allowed a single run and only surrendered four hits.
Melyssa Lombardi (Oregon), Tori Tyson (Howard) and Jimmy Kolaitis (UAB) were just three of the several first-year head coaches who earned their first career victory over the weekend. North Alabama (3-0) and Cal Baptist (1-4) also earned wins in their first weekend of D-I action.
Oregon dominated the Kajikawa Classic going 5-0 including run-rule victories over Kansas, CSUN and Bradley. Freshmen Rachel Cid and Hannah Galey powered the offense with three homers each. Additionally, Cid finished 8-for-17 with 10 RBIs while Galey was 6-for-15 with nine RBIs. Jasmine Sievers also made her collegiate debut in the final game of the weekend. She was 3-for-3 with a homer and three RBIs.
Jordan Dail pitched 22.1 innings and was 3-0 in four appearances. She gave up 16 hits, eight earned runs and struck out 26.
The Rebels of UNLV went 5-0 in their first weekend of 2019. The start is the best since 2007 and marks the third time in program history that the Rebels have gone undefeated in their first five games.
They scored six or more runs in each contest and batted .364 as a team. UNLV's 1-2 punch of Reina Bondi and Lauren Tycksen finished 13-for-31 with 20 runs scored, seven RBIs and 12 stolen bases.
ICYMI: You know its a 💣💣 when the 🥎 leaves the screen & clears not 1⃣, not 2⃣, but 3⃣ fences! What a shot for your first career home run @darmendariz3! #ItsOUTTAhere #WhereDidItGo #BEaREBEL pic.twitter.com/LDTRLXyZIc
— UNLV Softball (@UNLVSoftball) February 10, 2019
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Trevenson House is situated within the Cornwall College campus site at Pool. Within easy connection to the A30 junction at Tolvaddon and under 5 minutes' drive to both Camborne and Redruth town centres.


Tom Goodhead represents dying mother in her claim against Welsh NHS Board for delay in cancer diagnosis.
Katie Maytum, 35, is suing Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board for negligence after a five and a half month wait for treatment has left her with 18 months to live.
The young mother of two went to her GP in July 2010 after finding a lump in her left breast. Her GP considered it to be serious and faxed a request for a fast track appointment to the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend. This should have resulted with an appointment with a specialist cancer consultant within two weeks under guidelines drawn up by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Instead Vummiti Muralikrishnan, a consultant at the hospital, downgraded her case to 'routine' status and Ms Maytum waited until January 2011 for her appointment. This scan revealed her cancer and treatment commenced. But in April 2014 she was told she had 18 months to live.
NHS Wales has argued that instead of following the NICE guidelines they use their own alternative set of rules that allow urgent referrals to be downgraded and do not require patients with suspected cancer to be seen within a fortnight. They have, however, admitted that under their own guidelines Ms Maytum should have been seen within three months of her referral.
The case continues at the High Court in Cardiff. Tom Goodhead is instructed by Beers LLP and is being led by Nigel Poole QC.


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Az 5214-es mellékút egy bő 32 kilométeres hosszúságú, négy számjegyű mellékút Bács-Kiskun megye területén; Szabadszállást köti össze Kerekegyháza térségével.

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A Kecskemét határától Izsákig vezető 5301-es útból ágazik ki, annak az 1+200-as kilométerszelvénye közelében, Kerekegyháza külterületén, nagyjából északnyugat felé. Mintegy 600 méter után keresztezi az 52-es főutat, amely ott majdnem pontosan 10,5 kilométer teljesítésén van túl. Változatlan irányban, nyílegyenesen húzódik egészen Kerekegyháza központjának keleti részéig, amit 7,7 kilométer után ér el, előtte még, a lakott terület délkeleti szélénél – a 6+850-es kilométerszelvénye táján – beletorkollik keletről, Felsőszéktó-Hetényegyháza felől az 5218-as út.

A belterületen előbb a Szabadság utca nevet viseli, majd egy 90 fokos iránytörést követően Szilágyi utca lesz a neve. Még a 8. kilométere előtt visszatér az északnyugati irányhoz, a Fő utca nevet felvéve, majd a központban egy kereszteződéshez ér: maga az út délnyugatnak fordul, északnyugati irányból pedig beletorkollik a Ladánybene központjától odáig húzódó 5212-es út. Rövidesen két újabb derékszögű irányváltáson esik át, ezeket elhagyva előbb Dózsa György utca, majd Arany János utca lesz a neve; így lép ki a kisváros belterületéről, ott délnyugati irányt követve, nagyjából a tizedik kilométere táján.

10,7 kilométer után eléri Fülöpháza határát, onnantól szűk két kilométeren keresztül a két település határvonalát kíséri, közben – a 12+350-es kilométerszelvénye táján – kiágazik belőle az utóbbi falu központját feltáró 5215-ös út. A folytatásban újra teljesen Kerekegyházához tartozó területek közt halad, közben egy szakaszon északi határvonalát képezi a Kiskunsági Nemzeti Park Fülöpházi homokbuckák (vagy Fülöpházi buckavidék) elnevezésű részegységének.

15,9 kilométer után elhalad Kerekegyháza, Kunadacs és Szabadszállás hármashatára mellett, egy egészen rövid szakaszon kunadacsi, azt követően pedig szabadszállási területen folytatódik, délnyugati irányt követve. 19,5 kilométer után elhalad Balázspuszta déli széle mentén, Hunyadi János utca néven, majd a településrészt elhagyva nyugati irányban húzódik tovább. A 31. kilométerén túljutva éri el Szabadszállás lakott területének keleti szélét, a település házai között a Dózsa György út nevet viseli. Így is ér véget, a település központjában, beletorkollva az 5203-as mellékútba, annak a 42+100-as kilométerszelvénye közelében.

Teljes hossza, az országos közutak térképes nyilvántartását szolgáló kira.gov.hu adatbázisa szerint 32,355 kilométer.

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Egy hosszabb, 4,590 kilométeres szakaszának felújítását (a 0+614 és az 5+200 kilométerszelvények között) 2019 második felére tűzték ki, a Magyar Falu Program útjavítási pályázatának I. ütemében, a hivatkozott forrás szerint a Bács-Kiskun megyei Kunadacs település területén.

Települések az út mentén
 Kerekegyháza
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Gov't to restrict face mask exports
People wearing face masks contend with a rainy Tuesday in Seoul. AP
By Jung Min-ho
The government said Tuesday it will restrict the export of face masks over the next two months to ensure sufficient domestic supply amid the coronavirus outbreak.
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety said that, from Wednesday, mask manufacturers will not be allowed to export more than 10 percent of their daily production until April 30.
The manufacturers also are required to release at least 50 percent of their daily output to designated retailers, including Korea Post and Nonghyup.
"There have been setbacks in supplying enough masks to the public despite the fact that the daily production of masks has doubled to 11 million in the past two weeks," Minister Lee Eui-kyung said during a press briefing. "To meet the domestic demand, we will limit the amount of masks for export."
The ministry will also require surgical mask makers to report their daily production, prices and who they sold their products to.
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With a blend of warm red curry paste, sweet coconut milk, and a dash of tang from lime, this Red Curry Coconut Pork had me picking bits out of the pan to taste before I even snapped a picture.
Not really sure where I was headed when I tossed this pork tenderloin in my cart. Apparently, I was somewhere between wanting grill season to kick off and vibrant flavors of Asian cuisine to lure me into a food coma. A blend of warm red curry paste, sweet coconut milk, and a dash of tang from lime. It came to a harmonious agreement of sweet and savory that had me picking bits out of the pan to taste before I even snapped a picture… And then picking a few more out before serving… And I ended up shoving a few more bites into my pie hole after I was done and swore couldn't eat another bite. Yeah, it is that good.
Pro tip: pack your lunch before serving this to the family to guarantee yourself leftovers tomorrow.
Or later tonight. Who's judging?
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Curries are amazing, Try these out! Yeah, they are all good.
Whisk the coconut milk with the red curry paste, brown sugar, lime juice and zest.
Pat the pork dry and season with salt and pepper. Place in a large resealable bag, or baking dish and cover with coconut milk mixture. Cover (or seal) and refrigerate 4 to 8 hours.
Preheat grill pan over medium high heat.
Remove pork from coconut milk and pat the pork dry and place in grill pan. Sear on all sides,about 6 minutes per side, until pork temps at 145 internally.
*I Served with roasted sweet potato and cauliflower. Whisked some additional coconut milk up with red curry paste and brought to a boil in a small saucepan. Served drizzled over top and sprinkled with cilantro.
It is awesome swag! The first kabob I would make would be something with lamb – maybe Greek inspired.
Red curry paste is my favorite of them all. And this pork looks incredible. Great photos, as always!
Looks Yummy! Could you use the marinade as the sauce if you boiled it or would you have to discard it?
I would boil it just to be on the safe side. If you use a can of coconut milk, there's enough to marinate the pork and create a separate dish for the sauce later if you like.


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RUBY ROSE EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW + PHOTO SHOOT FOR THE #GIRLPOWER ISSUE
by The Untitled Magazine
The Untitled Magazine exclusive interview and photo shoot with actress Ruby Rose
"I was empowered when I finished school, despite the odds not being in my favor. I threw myself into making myself the best I could be. I found the love in myself, the beauty and for all the beatings and cruel days I had overcome, and I discovered my strength." Ruby Rose doesn't fit any conventional mold. What was cause for merciless bullying as a child would become the raison-d'être for her global fame. An already accomplished model and TV host, the twenty-nine year-old Aussie steamed her way into a global phenomenon when she was cast as inmate Stella Carlin in Netflix's Orange is the New Black, which premiered in June of 2015. Rose had long set her eyes on the role. "It was very surreal. I had prayed and meditated on it and hoped so much to get the role but it wasn't until I was on set it really hit me that my dream had come true." Her acting skills are obvious, and she has an aura that fascinates and compels those who span across sexual preferences and gender identities. And, most importantly, she's proved that it's okay to exist as your true self, even if it's outside the box. In that regard she is an idol to those who feel they are a little different. "Just know that you are not alone, and that you are beautiful, and uniquely you. We all have dark days, but the world needs you to keep fighting for your love and to feel support from me and every other out gay or trans person you may see in the media. We admire your strength as you often do ours."
Read the full exclusive interview with actress Ruby Rose here:
Interview date: June 12, 2015 – for The Untitled Magazine #GirlPower Issue – Print Edition
The Untitled Magazine: Let's begin with a little background. From what I've read, you moved around a ton when you were little, and lived in some really exotic places. What are some of your early memories of that?
Ruby Rose: Haha exotic! That's the first time I think that word has been used to describe rural Victoria and the outskirts of Tasmania and Queensland! But I'll take it! I had a young mum, and a very determined one at that, we moved around a lot 'till she found a good university to go to in a small town called Churchill. We stayed there a while then moved to Melbourne and lived in a church parish. I sung in the choir. I remember being very young, and my mum and her boyfriend making me batman wings for my birthday out of cardboard and me wearing them nonstop.
UM: Which of the places you lived were your favorites and why?
RR: I loved the time I lived in Germany for school when I was sixteen. It was an exchange program type thing; I wasn't actually very good at German, and they chose the top three best students. So I guess that means they chose the top two students and me. They wanted to get me away from the school for a while while I was being bullied.
UM: What was it like to finally settle in Melbourne? Do you consider that home?
RR: I consider Melbourne and Los Angeles both my homes. I could settle in both. Both for different reasons. I do like how Los Angeles has provided me such a new page in my life. However I miss my family of course.
UM: So your career began after coming in second on Girlfriend Model Search. How was that experience for you? Can you tell us about it?
RR: I was at a P!nk concert I was about fifteen, and someone picked me out of the crowd to enter the competition. I was so not down to do it, but eventually my friends were over it, and my non-willingness to get into modeling or even take the offer as a huge compliment, and walked me right up to the desk to fill out the entry form. I guess I just didn't think it was legit at the time.
UM: It sounds like, while you enjoyed being a model, you found you were more passionate about your career as a TV personality, after you became an MTV VJ. Can you tell us about modeling versus VJ-ing with regards to creative expression?
RR: I wasn't fulfilled as a model; I guess I wasn't a very good one. I am confident in front of the camera, I love fashion and art but the other side of it just rubs me the wrong way. I don't like being told I'm too short, or too boy like, or too fat or that my tattoos are ugly by people in suits who forget they are talking to a human being. I don't know how much longer I would have done it for regardless of my swift change and direction to TV. There were some good and fun moments of course, and I learnt a lot. But I don't think models get treated particularly well, no one seems to care about their overall mental and physical health. It's a scary world as a kid in that career. TV on the other hand, it's a kinder less vacuous path.
UM: Eventually you crossed over in acting and filmmaking. Can you tell us about that transition?
RR: I think as you evolve with age you start to want to create more as opposed to just exist within someone else's creation. TV hosting was fun, and I picked it up fairly organically. I learnt all I could about live TV, auto cue, dealing with people who love being interviewed and those that hate it. I got to really find myself in that role. Then it started to feel like I wasn't challenging myself when I was getting up and going to work in the morning. Acting was a long time passion of mine, and I knew it would be hard work, but I was ready to put my blood and guts into it. I was ready to be vulnerable and feel things and be scared. All things you fight being when being a presenter. I also wanted to tell some of my own stories and make some of my own art, I've picked up so much along the way through the people I've met and jobs I've worked on I have skills I barely get time to utilize.
UM: What was it like to receive the news that you got cast as a main role on next season of Orange Is The New Black?
RR: It was very surreal, I had prayed and meditated on it and hoped so much to get the role, but it wasn't until I was on set it really hit me that my dream had come true.
UM: How has it been filming the new season?
RR: It was wonderful. As and actor you couldn't choose a better show to be able to get stuck into than Orange. The writing is brilliant, the cast are unstoppable, I was in love from day one.
The Untitled Magazine – Ruby Rose – The GirlPower Issue
UM: Can you tell us about your role as Stella Carlin?
RR: Stella is an androgynous, charming funny girl, she is Australian and she sets her eyes on piper. Uh oh!
UM: Do you see yourself doing more acting in the future?
RR: Yeah it's all I'm working on right now. I shot a guest role on a Syfy called Dark Matter and I can't wait for the next projects!
UM: Can you tell us about your short film you write and produced, "Break Free"? What was the inspiration behind it?
RR: It's autobiographical; It's literally a five minute video to explain what gender fluid means to me, and why I have chosen the route to look the way I look versus what many have often commented in how I "should" look and how pretty I "could be"
UM: You are also a musician – can you tell us about your single "Guilty Pleasure"? Do you plan to release any more music in the future?
RR: Right now I'm just focused on acting. Perhaps as a hobby sometime but really acting is a full time job whether your working or not. Studying, auditioning, reading scripts, school.
UM: You got such a unique look! Can you describe some of the things that inspire your personal style?
RR: I'm not sure. I think sort of glam rock, but then that's only on certain days then I can just be a beach bum or high fashion meets street wear.
UM: You have tons of tattoos! Can you tell us about a few that are particularly meaningful?
RR: They are all meaningful. I have Basquiat [Jean-Michel Basquiat ] on my arm; he has been a huge creative driving force for me. I don't know why, I felt a connection to his art from a young age, and it's carried through.
UM: How was it designing your capsule collection with Milk and Honey?
RR: It was great; I'd love to get back into designing. There is nothing quite like seeing someone walking down the street in your clothes. Phoebe [Dahl] and I have designed a range together called Scallywags
UM: How did you and your fiancé, Phoebe, meet?
RR: We met at a BBQ at her house. It was one of those creepy and gross love at first sight things.
UM: What inspired the two of you to create an ethical street-wear line, and what kind of impact are you seeking from it?
RR: She wanted to expand what she already does in fashion, and I wanted to get back into fashion, so we sort of merged our ideas. She wanted to do something edgier and colorful because her range is more beautiful hues and monochromatic. Scallywags is more crazy colored African print.
UM: Are there any other social causes that are close to your heart?
RR: Bullying, mental health, LGBT rights, sex trafficking. Yeah, a few different ones.
UM: You came out when you were very young. Can you describe the challenges you had to overcome in doing this?
RR: I was lucky in many ways because I had a supportive mother and grand parents. The kids at school…not so much and I definitely got crucified for speaking out about my truth. But I still wouldn't have taken it back. I don't belong in a closet: no one does.
UM: What helped you recover, both emotionally and physically; from the abuse and bullying you suffered after coming out?
RR: Therapy haha, and healing, being good to myself and my animals. Animals have always been a huge part of my life and my healing process for trauma.
UM: What words of wisdom would you give to young people in the LGBT community who have been or are going through similar struggles?
RR: Just know that you are not alone and that you are beautiful and uniquely you. That we all have dark days, but the world needs them to keep fighting for their love, and to feel support from me and every other out gay or trans person they may see in the media. We admire your strength as you often do ours.
UM: Can you tell us what "Genderfluid" means to you?
RR: It means I'm never really here nor there on the binary gender scale. I'm not a woman; I'm not a man; I'm sort of just a being who floats in and out of female days and male days. I like to think of it as taking the best parts of the two traditional sexes and forming one.
UM: You've said before that you consider your mother a role model. Can you tell us how she was a role model to you?
RR: Well she wasn't the best mum and things were not always great, but she did the best job she possibly could and she did everything for us and our future and survival. It was a lot to put on one person. She grew up to be a beautiful woman who is caring and I'm proud to be her daughter.
UM: Are there any other strong women in your life who you look up to or aspire to emulate?
RR: I've always found both Angelina Jolie and Madonna to be for separate reasons very inspiring strong independent women. Meryl Streep is another.
UM: What female actresses have inspired you and why?
RR: I sort of answered this but I guess Angelina, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet, Mariska Hargitay.
UM: This is the "Girl Power" issue of Untitled. Can you tell us about any personal or professional experiences that have empowered you as a woman?
RR: I was empowered as a woman when I finished school, despite all the odds not being in my favor. I threw myself into making myself the best I could be. I found the love in myself, the beauty and for all the beatings and cruel days I had over come I discovered my strength.
UM: Do you consider yourself a "feminist" and if so what does that mean to you?
RR: Yes I am absolutely a feminist. Fundamentally feminism is about equal rights for men and woman. You don't have to be a woman to be a feminist, or lesbian, or a bra burner, but you can be all three if you choose! This means equal pay, equal rights in political nature as well as social nature.
UM: If you could change one thing on the planet right now, what would it be?
RR: GMOs and sex trafficking I know you said one… But heck.
UM: What keeps you grounded, in the face of fame?
RR: Fame is a funny thing. I'm twenty-nine; I'm grounded in it now, that doesn't take any work. When I was nineteen it was a different story, but I am just the same as everyone else except I get the luxury of doing a job many wish to do and that fulfills me in ways I can't describe. People may recognize me, but it doesn't really mean anything. It's just a great platform however to share stories and political agendas or campaign for human rights.
UM: What kind of exciting stuff do you have on the horizon that we can look out for?
RR: Hopefully movies!! And more TV. Plus I DJ around the world in my spare time too.
Photography by Dani Brubaker for The Untitled Magazine
The Untitled Magazine would like to note that this interview and images were produced in collaboration with the actress and with the approval of her publicist. We believe in promoting positive images of women and female empowerment. Read more about the #GirlPower Issue here.
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Today, we launch the Cambridge Self-Help Food Bank's Fall Harvest Food Drive, spanning from September 19th until October 19th.
When we launch a food drive, the most obvious place to start is with the need – and the need is great. The Cambridge Self-Help Food Bank serves over 1600 families a month. We distributed over 21,000 Emergency and Food Co-operative hampers to our community last year. We served over 3800 meals through our Mike's Lunch meal program, and we shipped out nearly 1 million pounds of food to participants and to our 26 partner agencies; the equivalent of over $2.5 million dollars in food.
But numbers only tell a part of the story, as each number represents one of our neighbours. Each number is someone struggling with food insecurity – be it the parent who is just a bit short in between paycheques and needs food to send to school with their child, to the senior struggling to get by on a fixed income, to the person on the street with no kitchen to cook a meal, relying on one meal a day at a community meal program.
If we step outside with our eyes fully opened, we know that the need is great, the challenges more and more complex, the urgency feeling all the more urgent. That's the reality we see each day at the Food Bank.
But there's another reality I want to talk about: The generosity of our community.
From my first day in this role I have been overwhelmed by the casual generosity of the people of Cambridge and North Dumfries. I've watched as a mother hauls in bag after bag of groceries to donate at our front desk. The churches and community groups and businesses that run event after event to make sure that nobody goes hungry and that kids go to school with a backpack and the supplies they need. The corporations that send their staff to harvest vegetables in our garden. The co-op members who contribute tens of thousands of hours of volunteer time in our community. The individual donor who has signed up to make a $10 a month donation, or having a donor anonymously hand over a $10,000 cheque to make sure our shelves are stocked throughout the summer.
Coming into this role, the need didn't surprise me. I knew that the need is great. The casual and consistent generosity – that's something I didn't expect.
In a short period of time it has impacted me, and even made me change the words I use. I asked Alie, who looks after our social media, to start using the hashtag #GenerousCbridge on posts that celebrate this generosity.
When writing our new website, I peppered the word generosity throughout. On the page that talks about volunteering and donating, I didn't call it "Volunteering and Donating" as you might expect. I called it "Our Generous Community," a name that just felt more apt to me.
The generosity of this community has given me so much hope. Our response to overwhelming need is a clear signal of our community's capacity to care. And care is what this community is built to do.
So let's do this, Cambridge! Let's make this Fall Harvest Food Drive our best one yet! Let's fill up boxes in classrooms, in houses of worship, in workplaces and community centres, let's get creative and maybe even a little competitive (friendly competition is okay!). Let's see just how much food and funds we can raise to ensure that nobody goes hungry this fall, that need isn't met with concern about our ability to meet that need, but with a response that says: we can help. Let's be the #GenerousCbridge that I know we are.
It says something about a society that allows hunger to exist. It says something very different about a community that steps up to end that hunger. This food drive is an invitation to our community to show what we're made of. Let's rise to the occasion – let's be #GenerousCbridge!


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Conveying the Prophet to Hearts and Minds: Between the Classic and the Modern Lastprophet.info
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- You have been living in the United States for a long time. Could you please briefly inform us on your works and your relations with the Islamic communities?
- I have been living in the United States for about 20 years now. I went to Dallas, Texas for the education of my daughters. About 40 years ago a dozen of Muslims from India and Pakistan had gathered here in order to study fields like engineering and medicine and they had formed IANT (Islamic Association North Texas). Their efforts bore fruit and the number of Muslims in that region has today reached about 150.000. One of the centers they established is the Dallas Center Mosque. Just as in the case of the Prophet's usage of masjid for multiple purposes during his time in Medina, this masjid also serves as the center of many social functions. Today it has been transformed into a complex with eleven classes, a great conference hall with a capacity for a thousand people and room for various sports and recreational facilities. Moreover, a clinic in the body of this Islamic center looks after patients without discrimination on the basis of religion three to four times a week free of charge. Another important institution within the body of the center is the Quranic Academy (IQA) which is a four-year school established with the purpose of raising Islamic scholars in the United States. This school has no precedent. From the pre-school (from the age 5) up to the ninth grade, we currently have 150 students. The classes are held in classes of ten. Apart from the official curriculum, the elementary and the middle schools aim to get the students to memorize the Quran and to master the Quranic Arabic. The aim is to teach the meaning of the most frequent words appearing in the Quran with the help of teachers and families. As such, we want children to memorize the Quran by knowing its meaning deep inside their hearts from an early age. Twelve of our students, six of them being girls, have already completed their memorization. Their level of Arabic is also very good. This year, the "scholar program" has been initiated in which the education of hadith (sayings of the Prophet), fiqh (Islamic law) and tafsir (exegesis) are being conducted over the classical Arabic texts. I teach fiqh and akaid (Islamic rulings). The students have read and memorized the entire body of el-fıkhu'l-Ekber by Imam-i Azam, the akaid book, el-Akidetü't-Tahaviyye by Tahavi, and Akaid-i Nesefiyye by Nesefi. Now they are about to complete the two and a half page text of Bedru'l Emani. In fiqh, we are reading Nuru'l Izah. They are also memorizing Kitabus-salat.
- Are the classical texts being read and memorized?
- Yes. Our aim is to educate these children, who were born in the United States, who speak perfect English and who know the American culture very well as Islamic scholars and strong Islamic leaders. We desire them to continue their education at an institution known as the Suffa Seminary when they graduate from high school. The director is a convert American named Mattheuw Mois. Sask accredited this school a while back.
- Does it have any equivalency problems?
- It is a school with no such problems. The official accreditation decision will be taken in Florida on December 9th, but they have already congratulated us based on the early reports. They also told us that we are being shown as examples to other schools. This is a first in the U.S. I mean, in terms of being the first school to teach the Islamic sciences in Arabic from the classical sources as well as other cultural courses.
- Then in a sense you are offering classical and modern education under the same roof for the same age range.
- We must. In this quest, everyone must contribute their share in raising our daughters and sons in a way to represent Islam in a leading country as America with a population of 270 million. So we say that we act on our share of the imaginary Islamic community. And we walk in that path. These students will receive their high school diplomas in three years. I am still the founding dean of the Suffa Islamic Seminary that is the equivalent of a university. Today we have Arabic, tafsir, hadith, fiqh and sirah courses on weekends and after the work hours. The aim is to get them to read and memorize the Ottoman madrasa (school) texts for these coming four years. Moreover, we also want them to learn Latin, Greek and Hebrew. We also have a program that enables the students to articulately address the crowds. Graduates from this school will hopefully pursue their PhDs in schools with great programs in Arabic, Persian and Orientalism such as Harvard, Michigan and Chicago and later become lecturers at these universities. As such, we hope that these students will represent Islam as great scholars in 15-20 years and contribute to the interfaith dialogues.
- We pray from Allah for your works to fully blossom. We would also like to ask you a few questions on lastprophet.info which emerged as a modest contribution to describe our Holy Prophet...
- Of course. I also attended the opening reception of Lastprophet.info held in Istanbul on April 19. This was rather a surprise gathering for me, and it is a work to be proud of. I hope that it becomes a vehicle to explain our Prophet to all mankind in all his beauty, maturity and exemplary status. Our aim must be to be mobilized by questions such as "how can we represent Islam by living it, how can we transmit it to others?" I believe that today's world is in need of the Ottoman understanding of religion that is gentle, tolerant but also one that is never giving concessions. Muslims and Non-Muslims alike are all in need of this type of an Islamic perception. Even the living beings, the animals are in need of it.
- Your program is important in relation with this issue. May Allah bless you with success. May we spread this proper understanding of Islam by informing about Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).
- Modern technology has facilitated penetration into other countries, cultures and religions. In this context, do you think that we have been able to sufficiently describe Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) to the rest of the world?
- Today, globalization, internet, high tech technology, satellites have transformed the whole world into a single global village, a single market, a single building, a single room. Anyone can hear anyone and anyone can reach anyone. At this point, Muslims encounter many obstacles when it comes to the Holy Prophet and the leadership of the Islam, because all opinions are monitored and automatically translated into other languages. Thus how Muslims should act, how we should describe our Prophet, Islam and the Quran in a coherent whole is very crucial. First and foremost a strategic planning has to be laid out. And in this lay out, we are in urgent need of intellectual, dynamic and flexible scholars who are aware of today's circumstances.
I believe that Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) should be described in two ways. One concerns the issue of describing him in a popular language to the larger populace. Of course the mawlids, meetings and general explanations are very beneficial and their numbers have to be increased. This is because we need to access the individual, his heart and his brain. Secondly, we also have to think about how we can explain our Prophet in a scholarly and intellectual fashion. First, we need strong institutions that analyze our Prophet comprehensively. A research center and even a library that cover all classical and modern studies on the Prophet must be established. This way, all these former compilations can be accessed by the specialists in explaining the Prophet to the rest of the world.
Even the Quran is a sunnah (practice of the Prophet). Let me explain what I mean by that: The Quran reached us by means of our Prophet.
- Why would we do all these? What would you tell us about the importance of the Prophet of Islam in understanding the religion itself?
- The Holy Prophet (pbuh) is a key person. All prophets are key people for the Abrahamic religions. In other words, we can reach Allah only through the way of a prophet. As the ummah (community) of Prophet Muhammad, we received the Holy Quran from him. He brought us the Holy Quran. Angel Gabriel is his tutor. The Quran and revelation can be learnt only through the way of the Prophet. All prophets confirm one another and as the last prophet, Prophet Muhammad confirms and accepts the other prophets. I will now state something rather awkward; Even the Quran is a sunnah (practice of the Prophet). Let me explain what I mean by that: The Quran reached us by means of our Prophet. Our Prophet made the revelation scribes write down the revelations he received from Gabriel. He memorized them and then repeated. Thus it was preserved in three ways as the strongest book of the world. Therefore, if we think of each action of our Prophet as sunnah, the Quran could also be relying on sunnah for it has been sent to us through him. In order to be able to believe in the Quran, in order to be able to believe in Islam, one must first believe in the prophethood of our prophet. This is why we need the supplement of " Muhammedu'r-Rasulullah (Muhammad is His Messenger)" right after we say "La ilahe Illallah (There is no God but Allah)". Otherwise "La Ilahe Illallah" would remain solely philosophical. Our Prophet is the uttermost critical key source in understanding the Quran and Islam. We go in through this path and we make our way through this path. We can test our understanding of the Quran by checking our proximity to his actions and deeds.
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Holly Holm announced as 2022 International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee
By Alexander K. Lee@AlexanderKLee Dec 8, 2021, 11:00am EST
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Add another accolade to Holly Holm's legacy.
On Tuesday, Holm was officially announced as an inductee of the International Boxing Hall of Fame class of 2022. The former UFC bantamweight champion joins such luminaries as Roy Jones Jr., Miguel Cotto, and one-time UFC fighter James Toney, along with fellow women's boxing standout Regina Halmich.
Holm celebrated the announcement on her Instagram:
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The induction should come as no surprise given Holm's accolades in boxing before her transition to MMA. Holm was a three-division world champion with a 33-2-3 (9 KOs) pro record, with her only losses coming against Rita Turrisi and Anne Sophie Mathis, the latter of which Holm avenged in an immediate rematch. She last boxed in May 2013, defeating Mary McGee by unanimous decision.
Holm would go on to great success in MMA. "The Preacher's Daughter" won her first 10 pro bouts capped off by a historical knockout of the then-undefeated Ronda Rousey at UFC 193 to become the promotion's bantamweight champion. She has also twice competed for the UFC's featherweight title.
The International Boxing Hall of Fame induction ceremony takes place on June 12 at Turning Stone Resort Casino in Canastota, New York.
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UN evaluates reports of record Arctic heat in Siberia
In this handout photo provided by Olga Burtseva, children play in the Krugloe lake outside Verkhoyansk, the Sakha Republic, about 4660 kilometers (2900 miles) northeast of Moscow, Russia, Sunday, June 21, 2020. A Siberian town that endures the world's widest temperature range has recorded a new high amid a hear wave that is contributing to severe forest fires. Russia's meteorological service said the thermometer hit 38 Celsius (100.4 F) on Saturday in Verkhoyansk, in the Sakha Republic about 4660 kilometers (2900 miles) northeast of Moscow. (Olga Burtseva via AP)
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. weather agency is investigating media reports suggesting a new record high temperature of over 38 degrees Celsius (100.4 degrees Fahrenheit) in the Arctic Circle amid a heatwave and prolonged wildfires in eastern Siberia.
The World Meteorological Organization said Tuesday that it's looking to verify the temperature reading on Saturday in the Russian town of Verkhoyansk with Rosgidromet, the Russian federal service for hydro-meteorological and environmental monitoring.
The reports suggest yet another possible sign of global warming in the Arctic, which the agency said is among the fastest warming regions in the world and is heating at twice the global average.
"Apparently, this particularly region of eastern Siberia has very, very cold extremes in winter, but is also known for its extremes in summer, so temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius in July are not unusual," World Meteorological Organization spokeswoman Clare Nullis said. "but obviously 38 degrees Celsius is exceptional."
"We've seen satellite images this morning, and it's just one mass of red — it's striking and worrying," she told a U.N. briefing in Geneva.
The area has been hit by wildfires that have driven up temperatures.
"A WMO fast-response evaluation team has given tentative acceptance of this observation as a legitimate observation, which is consistent with current upper air observations at the time in Siberia," WMO special rapporteur Randall Cerveny said in a statement.
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The World Meteorological Organization has not previously verified possible records for the "highest temperature recorded north of the Arctic Circle," but is considering creating such a category given the "interest in this extreme observation," the agency said.
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Q: Tomcat: block requests for certain paths for requests coming from certain interfaces Is there an open source filter that I can use on Tomcat to prevent access to certain path (say /a/b/*) when the request comes from a given interface?
The use case: I have REST services deployed on Tomcat that should only be accessed by the application itself, but which for security reasons should not be accessible from the outside world. I could do this in Apache, if Apache was used as a front-end, but in this case it is not.

A: Not sure if there's an open source one that you can use, but writing one that checks where does a request come from is quite easy.
See getPathTranslated(), getRemoteAddr, etc.
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Miley Cyrus warns "Future Ex-Husband" with "Maneater" Cover
MUMBAI: Miley Cyrus has a message for her "future ex-husband."
The 27-year-old singer performed a cover of Hall & Oates' "Maneater" during the Sept. 10 episode of The Tonight Show. Before Cyrus took the stage, Jimmy Fallon asked her why she chose to sing that song.
"So 'Maneater,' I think it's very important to be transparent," she said. "So, I'm freshly single. So anyone watching that's my future ex-husband, just know I told you."
Fallon then jokingly agreed the future ex couldn't be surprised after hearing Cyrus' rendition.
"Just wear it all out in the open. There's no skeletons in the closet," the Grammy-nominated artist continued. "I warned you first."
In August, news broke that Cyrus and Cody Simpson split after less than a year together. Before dating Simpson, Cyrus was in a relationship with Kaitlynn Carter. However, they called it quits after a few months.
Cyrus was also previously married to Liam Hemsworth. They announced their breakup in Aug. 2019 after less than a year of marriage and finalized their divorce last December.
"I recently just went through a very public divorce that f--king sucked," Cyrus said during a recent episode of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. "What really sucked about it wasn't the fact that me and someone that I loved realized that we don't love each other the way that we used to anymore. That's OK. I can accept that. I can't accept the villainizing and just all those stories. It's just amazing to me that the public kind of thinks that there's no gap of time that they didn't see that could possibly be what led to this."
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Breanna Stewart will met with the New York Liberty, Seattle Storm, Minnesota Lynx and Washington Mystics. How might those teams look with the unrestricted free agent on their roster in the 2023 season?
As we approach Saturday's real opening of WNBA free agency, when players and teams can begin negotiating, all eyes are on the two-time Finals MVP and her cryptic emoji tweets, the latest of which ESPN's Ramona Shelburne confirmed indicates Stewart's planned meetings. As the top player available, Stewart's decision could change the balance of power in the league.
It's no surprise Stewart will meet with the Storm — who drafted her No. 1 overall out of UConn in 2016 and have since won a pair of WNBA titles — and again with the Liberty after taking a meeting with the franchise last offseason before returning to Seattle on a one-year deal. Additionally, Stewart will meet with the Lynx and Mystics, two of the WNBA's most stable and successful franchises in recent years.
Let's take a closer look at how we might project all four of these teams this season with Stewart — and any other additions via free agency.
In six seasons in Seattle (she sat out 2019 with an Achilles injury), Breanna Stewart won two titles, two WNBA Finals MVP awards, the 2018 MVP, and she was the 2022 scoring leader. Steph Chambers/Getty Images
The Storm's strongest pitch to re-sign Stewart probably came last summer, when the Seattle community united to celebrate teammate Sue Bird's final WNBA season. The largest crowd in franchise history packed new home Climate Pledge Arena for Bird's last regular-season home game, and the Storm's average attendance (more than 10,600) was the highest reported in the league by nearly 3,000 fans per game.
Bird's sendoff would have been a big deal anywhere. It was special because Bird played her entire WNBA career in Seattle, famously bypassing an opportunity to return home and play for the Liberty shortly before Stewart's arrival.
"You can't help but think about the way that Sue has been here her entire career," Stewart said after last season, discussing her upcoming free agency, "the way this city always has her back and wanting that. It will be a decision that really Marta [Xargay, Stewart's wife] and I will talk about for probably the next however many months and hopefully it will become a lot clearer for me."
Of course, Bird's retirement also leaves a gaping hole in the Storm lineup at point guard. To convince Stewart to stay, Seattle will have to recruit a replacement capable of keeping the team a contender. The ideal scenario would be signing Chicago Sky point guard Courtney Vandersloot, a Seattle-area native who met with the team last offseason before re-signing with the Sky, according to Annie Costabile of the Chicago Sun-Times. Shelburne reported that Vandersloot's free agency "is expected to factor into Stewart's decision."
If not Vandersloot, the Storm would have a tough time replacing Bird's production at age 41 in free agency. Restricted free agent Marina Mabrey of the Dallas Wings would be a younger option, or Seattle could target Stewart's UConn teammate Moriah Jefferson, who averaged 10.8 PPG and 4.9 APG after joining the Minnesota Lynx last season and is a career 42% 3-point shooter.
With just two players under contract for 2023 (Jewell Loyd and Mercedes Russell), the Storm also have a hole to fill at small forward. Incumbent starter Gabby Williams, a restricted free agent, will be unable to play in the WNBA due to the new prioritization rules if her Asvel team advances to the finals of the French LFP playoffs as anticipated.
Although Seattle can bring back unrestricted free agent Stephanie Talbot, a key contributor off the bench the last two seasons, adding a small forward would make sense. Alysha Clark, who started for the Storm's title teams in 2018 and 2020, is an unrestricted free agent. So too is Kia Nurse, another UConn teammate of Stewart's who missed all of last season following an ACL tear.
Besides legacy, the best thing Seattle can offer Stewart is Loyd as a perimeter counterweight. The two stars have grown up together with the Storm. Of the 205 WNBA games Stewart has played, including playoffs, Loyd has played all but one (a regular-season win over Los Angeles in July 2021).
Stewart and Loyd have harmonized their games to seamlessly share responsibility for creating in the biggest moments.
"She gives me confidence to take shots and I have the same confidence in her," Loyd said during last year's playoffs. "I appreciate her friendship and us being teammates. It's a privilege."
In what could be their final game together, Loyd (29 points, a playoff career high) and Stewart (42, tying the WNBA playoff record) combined for the most points by teammates ever in the playoffs — breaking their own record from the 2020 title run. And yet, Seattle lost that game at home to the Las Vegas Aces, which raises the possibility Stewart might feel she needs more help to knock off the champs.
Breanna Stewart stayed in Seattle last season for Sue Bird's final year and the inaugural season at Climate Pledge Arena. Will she call Barclays Center in Brooklyn home in 2023? David Dow/NBAE via Getty Images
With the addition of 2021 MVP Jonquel Jones via trade earlier this week, the Liberty have plenty of help to offer. Because All-WNBA second team pick Sabrina Ionescu is in the final season of her rookie contract as the No. 1 pick (making $86,701 this season, per HerHoopStats salary data, which is also used for cap estimates) ) and Jones wanted a trade to New York, the Liberty are in position to team up three players from last year's All-WNBA teams.
Along with reigning MVP A'ja Wilson, Jones and Stewart have been two of the league's top three players over the past two seasons. Either Stewart (2018, 2020 and 2022) or Jones (2021) has led the league in my wins above replacement player (WARP) metric four of the past five years. And Ionescu finished third in WARP last season, one spot ahead of Jones.
Inevitably, playing together would limit the statistics Ionescu, Stewart and Jones would put up and require sacrifice from Stewart in particular. Still, Jones and Stewart would take their place among the great duos in WNBA history, with Ionescu as an incredibly strong third option.
Ionescu's development last season is key to making the fit work. Among the 25 ball handlers who finished at least 100 pick-and-rolls with a shot, trip to the free throw line or turnover, her 0.89 points per play ranked third in the WNBA according to Synergy Sports tracking. Pairing that with Stewart, whose 1.08 points per play was third among the 17 screeners with at least 50 plays, would put opposing defenses in a bind.
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The nightmare scenario for other WNBA teams is that New York could add Stewart and still not be finished. Signing Stewart for the max of $202,154 (a pay cut after she played last season at the higher supermax for players re-signing or acquired via sign-and-trade) would leave the Liberty with about $160,000 in cap room, which could increase to $180,000 if New York waived two players on non-protected contracts (Michaela Onyenwere and DiDi Richards). Would that be enough to sell Vandersloot on a UMMC Ekaterinburg reunion?
Howard Megdal reported Tuesday on the "Locked on Women's Basketball" podcast that there's mutual interest between Vandersloot and the Liberty. Given how Ionescu thrived after being moved off the ball last year with Crystal Dangerfield (sent to Dallas as part of the Jones trade) in the starting lineup, the fit makes sense for New York.
Vandersloot played with both Jones and Stewart for Ekaterinburg, and all three were part of the 2020-21 EuroLeague champions. That team was stacked with WNBA stars Brittney Griner, Emma Meesseman and Allie Quigley alongside them, but a Liberty lineup with Stewart and Vandersloot would undoubtedly be favored to win the 2023 title. Even adding Stewart alone could be enough to give New York the advantage on paper over the defending champion Aces.
If it happens, New York's superteam status could be short-lived. Ionescu will be eligible for an extension that will boost her pay starting in 2024, while both Jones and Stewart must contend with the fallout of the prioritization rule requiring players to arrive for the start of training camp by then.
Stewart has been among the most outspoken critics of prioritization, while Jones told ESPN's Alexa Philippou last year she intends to keep playing overseas. It's possible neither Jones nor Stewart play in the WNBA in 2024.
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The salary-cap math is more challenging for the Lynx. Minnesota could afford to sign Stewart outright at the lower max salary, but would be unable to offer any other free agent more than $76,000 — essentially the veteran minimum salary — with the No. 2 overall pick in this year's draft factored into the equation.
Currently, the Lynx have five players under contract following Sylvia Fowles' retirement: wings Kayla McBride and Aerial Powers, along with Natalie Achonwa, Napheesa Collier and Jessica Shepard in the frontcourt. Using their cap space on Stewart would leave Minnesota without a true point guard on the roster, a need that wouldn't likely be filled via the draft.
Because Collier and Shepard signed non-protected extensions last year, the Lynx could create additional cap space. That's obviously a non-starter with Collier, an All-WNBA second team pick in 2020 just beginning her prime at age 26 after missing most of last season after giving birth. And Shepard's contract, which pays $120,000 this season, is modest enough that waiving her would make little sense.
Instead, Minnesota's pitch to Stewart would likely involve trading one of their veterans with protected contracts, either in exchange for a point guard or to create cap space to pursue one of them in free agency. The Lynx's targets would likely look similar to the Storm's. Costabile reported that Vandersloot took a meeting with Minnesota last year, while re-signing Jefferson would be an attractive fallback option.
Depending on the point guard, the Lynx's roster would likely fall into a similar category as Seattle's. With Stewart, Minnesota would be a championship contender, and would benefit from coach Cheryl Reeve's experience in big games during four title runs with the Lynx from 2011 through 2017. However, Minnesota still wouldn't likely be a title favorite.
When last we saw the Mystics, they were losing to Stewart and Seattle in the first round of a playoff series that was closer than the final 2-0 margin indicated. Washington threatened an upset in Game 1, which would have sent the series back to the DMV for the deciding Game 3.
With a relatively clean cap sheet bolstered by a starting center (2022 No. 3 pick Shakira Austin) on a rookie deal and this year's No. 4 selection, the Mystics could comfortably handle Stewart's max salary or even a supermax via sign-and-trade.
Presumably, Stewart would slot in alongside fellow former MVP Elena Delle Donne and Austin in a supersized frontcourt, with the 6-foot-4 Stewart as the shortest of the three players. (Austin and Delle Donne are listed at 6-foot-5.). Offensively, the ability of both Delle Donne and Stewart to shoot the 3 would prevent any concerns about spacing the floor, while Delle Donne and Stewart could defend either forward position based on matchups.
Depth would be the one question mark for Washington. Signing Stewart would likely prevent the Mystics from bringing back Clark, the incumbent starter forward next to Delle Donne, leaving Myisha Hines-Allen as the only veteran reserve making appreciably more than the league minimum.
Washington could add another wing with the No. 4 pick, giving first-year head coach Eric Thibault (taking over for his father, Mike, who remains the Mystics' GM) the ability to replace Austin with that pick in smaller lineups, with Delle Donne and Stewart as the two post players that would be almost impossible to defend.
Last season, Washington's defense was championship caliber, allowing the league's fewest points on a per-possession basis. Adding Stewart, who finished third in Defensive Player of the Year voting, would only enhance that while dramatically upgrading what was a below-average offense hampered by shooting limitations.
Of course, there's much more for Stewart to ponder during free agency than the quality of her team. She'll weigh the idea of returning home to the East Coast against the roots she has put down in Seattle over the past seven years. But all four teams she meets with could both present intriguing options from a basketball standpoint.
(With Inputs from ESPN)
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