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Federal Pedigree
March 28, 2012 Dirk Rodgers
I stumbled across the FDA's recently published "Guidance Agenda: New & Revised Draft Guidances CDER is Planning to Publish During Calendar Year 2012" while surfing the PharmTech website late last week. The guide is published each year in the spring to provide a "heads-up" on which guidance documents the FDA thinks they will be able to complete and publish by the end of the calendar year.
I first learned about the significance of the annual document about 18 months ago when an FDA official explained it in a conference presentation. In response to a question from the audience about when she thought the FDA would publish the Track & Trace (T&T) standard for pharmaceuticals, she recommended that people watch for a notice of it in the "Guidance Agenda…" each year. She said that the annual guidance list was usually pretty accurate. If the T&T guidance wasn't listed, according to the FDA official, people would know that the standard wasn't going to be published that year. It wasn't included in last year's list, but it is in this year's edition, which apparently means that we will see the standard by the end of 2012.
Congress instructed the FDA to create standards for Track & Trace, Authentication and Validation of pharmaceuticals in section 505D of the FDA Amendments Act (FDAAA) of 2007. That's the same section that instructed them to create the Standardized Numeric Identifier (SNI) guidance that was published two years ago. In that case the only difference was, Congress gave them a specific deadline for the publication of the SNI standard but no specific date for the T&T standard. But now we know it's coming soon.
The FDA originally published draft guidance for the SNI and then, after collecting public comments on the draft, they modified it and published it as final guidance. In my opinion, that process worked well for the SNI considering how well the final standard turned out. I assume they will follow the same process for the T&T standard.
Like the SNI guidance, this new T&T standard will probably be non-binding, but remember, one of my theories is that this Federal T&T standard just could be the standard that ends up being adopted by States in place of their soon-to-be non-standard pedigree laws (see my essay "What Happens If RxTEC Isn't Adopted?"). If that happens, it could eliminate the existing patchwork of pedigree laws over time (maybe a long time) without the Federal government adopting any binding national pedigree regulation.
It's hard to say, but it appears that sooner rather than later we will have a new Federal Track & Trace standard to consider.
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Santa Elena de Uairén  es una ciudad venezolana ubicada al sureste del país, en el estado Bolívar, siendo también esta ciudad la capital del municipio Gran Sabana. y de la parroquia Santa Elena. Es una ciudad fronteriza, encontrándose ubicada a escasos km de la frontera con Brasil.

Generalidades
Santa Elena de Uairén es una población de Venezuela localizada en el sureste del estado Bolívar a unos 20 km de la frontera con Brasil y es capital del municipio Gran Sabana. Está emplazada aproximadamente a 900 msnm, en una sabana rodeada por mesetas, conocidas como Tepuyes, y tiene una temperatura media de 21,8 °C. Cuenta con una población aproximada de 28.219 habitantes, equivalentes al 2% de la población total del estado (censo 2011).

Fue fundada el 13 de noviembre de 1923 por Lucas Fernández Peña, atraído por el auge diamantífero de la región y su fundación hizo retroceder a los ingleses interesados en colonizar la zona. El nombre de la ciudad se origina en el de su primera hija "Elena", y en "Uairén" que es el nombre del río que cruza la ciudad.

Posee un aeropuerto, aduana principal y destacamento militar. Es puerto libre desde 1999, gracias al trabajo realizado por el profesor Héctor Fernández Espinoza, hijo del fundador de la población. Su economía se fundamenta en el comercio y en la explotación minera. Recientemente el sector turístico ha tenido un desarrollo importante debido a su cercanía con los principales monumentos naturales de la Gran Sabana y a su ubicación cerca de la frontera.

La catedral de Santa Elena es uno de los atractivos principales de la ciudad, fue construida a mediados del siglo XX con las piedras que tanto abundan en los alrededores de la población. La misión de Santa Elena es el centro de actividad misionera de los padres capuchinos de la orden Franciscana en la localidad.

Historia
El 16 de septiembre de 1923, Lucas Fernández Peña, farmacéutico valenciano convertido en hacendado, fundó la población con el nombre de Santa Elena de Uairén, en honor a su hija y al río que atraviesa lo que actualmente es la ciudad, en plena dictadura gomecista, y con la real amenaza de anexión ante el avance de colonos británicos desde la Guayana Británica (hoy Guyana). Con su fundación Peña salvaguardó una gran parte del sureste del territorio venezolano, 8 años más tarde llegaron los primeros misioneros capuchinos, y en 1945 el aún caserío fue elevado a la categoría de Municipio.

Geografía

Situada a 4º 32' de latitud norte y a 61º 06' de longitud oeste. Apenas unos diecisiete kilómetros separan la ciudad de la población de Pacaraima denominada comúnmente como La Línea o BV-8 ubicada justo al lado de la línea fronteriza venezolano-brasileña.

Demografía
Tiene una rica carga pluricultural compuesta por venezolanos, brasileños de origen italiano, alemanes, guyaneses y de la inmigración de origen español que surgió en la década de 1920, por orden del Presidente Juan Vicente Gómez, para fomentar la autonomía española en la Región Guayana y hacerle batalla al Imperio británico que tenía bajo su jurisdicción la Guayana Británica (actualmente la República Cooperativa de Guyana). Principalmente provinieron de la comunidad autónoma de País Vasco (alrededor de quinientos) y de la comunidad autónoma de Castilla y León (alrededor de seiscientos), y además del toque de la ancestral y mística cultura indígena (etnia Pemón) habitante de la zona desde mucho antes de la fundación de la ciudad.

La ciudad ha presentado un acelerado crecimiento demográfico durante la última década y se estima que para el 2016 la población de la localidad será alrededor de 55.000 habitantes.

Transporte
Se puede llegar a Santa Elena a través de la carretera troncal desde El Dorado, que abarca aproximadamente 350 km. La distancia total desde Caracas es de unos 1.380 km. Después de Pacaraima, la siguiente población de importancia en Brasil, sobre la carretera BR-174, que llega hasta el Río Amazonas y a Manaus, es Boa Vista, capital del Estado de Roraima, a unos 250 kilómetros de la frontera.

En las afueras de Santa Elena existe un terminal de autobuses bastante completo, en sus servicios y en sus instalaciones. Hasta 2002, algunas de las líneas más importantes de autobuses mantenían sus propios terminales privados cerca del centro de la ciudad.

También se encuentra el Aeropuerto de Santa Elena de Uairén que ofrece vuelos hacia Ciudad Guayana y Porlamar a través de las líneas aéreas Conviasa, Aereotuy, Rutaca y Serami.

Idiomas
 Español
 Portugués
 Pemón

El idioma de casi todos los indígenas de la zona es el pemón, un idioma de la familia Caribe emparentado con los extintos tamanaco y chaimas. La mayoría de ellos también habla español. Sin embargo, cabe destacar que hay una amplia población no indígena, que habla español. En Santa Elena de Uairén, también es común encontrar que la gran mayoría de las personas residentes dominen el idioma portugués, debido a la cercanía con Brasil.

Deporte
El deporte principal en Santa Elena de Uairen es el fútbol, ya que la población cuenta con una gran influencia de personas oriundas de Brasil y es el deporte más practicado por la población y las comunidades indígenas cercanas, el segundo deporte más practicado en la población es la tradicional Bolas criollas, ya que la población cuenta con una gran cantidad de infraestructuras para la práctica de este deporte, también es practicado a buen nivel el Ciclismo de montaña, de tal manera que en la Gran Sabana se organiza todos los años un evento de ciclismo de montaña llamado: el reto de la frontera, con una participación aproximada de 1500 atletas de diferentes partes del país.

Ciudades Hermanas
  Pacaraima, Roraima
  Ciudad Bolívar, Estado Bolívar
  Upata, Estado Bolívar
  Boa Vista, Roraima

Véase también

 Gran Sabana
 Kavanayen
 Pueblo pemón
 Anexo:Ciudades de Venezuela
 Lista de municipios de Venezuela.
 Pueblos originarios de Venezuela
 Frontera entre Brasil y Venezuela

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Página oficial de La Gran Sabana.

Puerto Libre de Santa Elena de Uairén
 Destacamento de fronteras Nº 84
 alumnos-de-santa-elena-que-estudian-en-pacaraima

Frontera Brasil-Venezuela
Santa Elena de Uairén
Localidades establecidas en 1923

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From what I can see of your code, ../imports/api/tasks.js does not export anything, which means that
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won't give you anything, in fact it will replace the global variable Images with a null. So I think the solution is to replace the imports with this:
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Or you can put tasks.js in /common and that will do the same job

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UAE Competition Heats Up: BitOasis Gets Important Approval
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Dubai-based cryptocurrency exchange BitOasis adds another layer to the crypto race for their home country, the United Arab Emirates, having obtained an in-principle approval (IPA) from the local regulatory authorities.
BitOasis, which operates in the Middle East and North Africa, announced earlier today that they received a preliminary approval in April from the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FRSA) of Abu Dhabi Global Market Authorities (ADGM) for operating a cryptocurrency exchange, along with wallets. Now, the exchange has to satisfy certain requirements from the authority for the IPA in order to start offering services as a regulated exchange.
"The IPA serves as an important milestone and achievement for the company in its journey as it aims to become the first licensed and regulated crypto asset exchange and custodian in the Middle East, and among a group of few regulated exchanges in the space globally," the company said in a press release.
Ola Doudin, co-founder and CEO of BitOasis, wrote on her Twitter profile that it is "a big milestone for us and for the crypto asset industry in the region!" In February this year, at the annual Step Conference in Dubai, she said that they had been working with regulators since June 2018, adding, "Hopefully that happens this year […] It's a very extensive process, and a well-thought-through process."
In June 2018, the ADGM announced they would be establishing a framework to regulate spot crypto asset activities. "I want to give credit to the ADGM, [and] to the FRSA team," Doudin added at the time, "for taking action and putting the first crypto asset exchange framework, that allows companies to get fully regulated and serve the wider market."
On BitOasis, you can trade Ethereum, XRP, Litecoin, Zcash, Bitcoin Cash and Ethereum Classic against Bitcoin.
However, the exchange is not the only contender for the first regulated cryptocurrency exchange in the UAE. As Cryptonews.com previously reported, cryptocurrency exchange Kraken seems to be looking at the same course of action.
Also as reported, the Emirates seem to be entering the crypto game as a force to be reckoned with. For example, in the last six months, the UAE was second in the world by amount raised during token sales (USD 228 million, or 12.9% of the total amount,) according to token sale data provider CoinSchedule. However, by the number of token sales, the UAE was outside the top 10 countries.
Token sales in the past six months:
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Constantine Flirts with Citizen Cold on 'Legends Of Tomorrow'
By Jenna Anderson - January 17, 2018 05:33 pm EST
In less than a month, Legends of Tomorrow will return to television screens - and it sounds like it'll bring about a pretty great dynamic along the way.
During a set visit last year, Legends star Dominic Purcellwas asked about the arrival of John Constantine (Matt Ryan), who will partner up with the team beginning in the "Daddy Darhkest" midseason premiere. Purcell revealed that Constantine - or "Trenchcoat", as he calls him - will bring a new energy onto the Waverider, including him flirting with Leonard "Leo" Snart/Citizen Cold (Wentworth Miller).
"Well, Trenchcoat has just arrived and I've only had one scene with him, and that was last week," Purcell told reporters during the set visit. "He was hitting on Wentworth's character."
According to Purcell, this will be met with a pretty amusing response from his character, Mick Rory/Heatwave, especially since Heatwave was partners and "soulmates" with Earth-1's Snart.
"Rory watching Citizen Cold and Trenchcoat flirt with one another was like too much for Rory, so he just f*cking got out of there." Purcell added. "That's what I remember doing. It's all too much! Too much information! Which makes it really funny. The scene is hysterical. We were all just on the floor laughing, so it's all done in good fun."
Constantine's arrival onto Legends has been highly-anticipated for quite some time, especially for those who are following the character from his short-lived NBC series. While NBC's Constantine didn't really acknowledge the title character's bisexuality, it's safe to say that Legends will be.
"As for the character of Constantine, we knew that an alienated, chain-smoking, bisexual, world-weary demonologist would feel right at home among our Legends," executive producer Phil Klemmer explained when Constantine's arrival was first announced.
Fans will get to see Constantine join the team - and the awkward flirting that will come along with that - when Legends of Tomorrow returns Monday, February 12th, at 8/7c on The CW.
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Hamilton High School gets Project Lead the Way certified - Hamilton School District.
The Hamilton School District earned national certification for its Project Lead the Way (PLTW) program – making students eligible to receive college credits for coursework they have taken in high school.
Technology education teachers Brian Steingraber and Steve Campeau attended the School Board meeting and helped present the banner. They are among six teachers in the district who have completed an intensive two-week professional development course during the summer for each course they teach during the school year.
PLTW courses offered at the high school are "Introduction to Engineering Design," "Principles of Engineering" and "Digital Electronics." At Templeton, traditional technology education courses were updated with the quarterlong "Gateway to Technology and Engineering" class and the full-year "Technology and Engineering Education." In addition eighth-graders receive PLTW's "The Science of Technology" unit in their science courses.
Hamilton Principal Candis Mongan said she was pleased Hamilton students will be able to begin receiving college credit for certain PLTW classes.
Mongan and a team composed of teachers, staff, students and members of the community completed a self-assessment of the school's implementation of the Pathway to Engineering program that culminated in a site visit by a national PLTW certification specialist. The certification team met with teachers, administration, counselors, students, community representatives and reviewed student work.
"Hamilton High School has demonstrated its commitment to PLTW's quality standards and the real winners are the Hamilton High School students," said PLTW President and CEO John Locke.
A National Business Roundtable report states that to remain competitive in the global marketplace, America needs to graduate 400,000 science, engineering, mathematics and technical four-year degrees annually, yet we are currently graduating only 265,000. PLTW is providing students with a foundation and proven path to college and career success in these areas.


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Country Music, A Film by Ken Burns
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Country Music: Live at the Ryman Concert
Join celebrated musicians for Country Music: Live at the Ryman , A Concert Celebrating the Film by Ken Burns. Hosted by Burns and featuring performances and appearances by Dierks Bentley, Rosanne Cash, Rhiannon Giddens, Vince Gill, Kathy Mattea, Marty Stuart, Dwight Yoakam and more.
Tune in or Stream Sunday, September 15 at 8/7c
Explore the history of a uniquely American art form: country music. From its deep and tangled roots in ballads, blues and hymns performed in small settings, to its worldwide popularity, learn how country music evolved over the course of the 20th century, as it eventually emerged to become America's music. Country Music features never-before-seen footage and photographs, plus interviews with more than 80 country music artists. The eight-part 16-hour series is directed and produced by Ken Burns; written and produced by Dayton Duncan; and produced by Julie Dunfey.
Country Music explores questions –– such as "What is country music?" and "Where did it come from?"–– while focusing on the biographies of the fascinating characters who created and shaped it — from the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers and Bob Wills to Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Charley Pride, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Garth Brooks and many more — as well as the times in which they lived. Much like the music itself, the film tells unforgettable stories of hardships and joys shared by everyday people.
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AMERICAN TURF CLUB LEAD-TWO YEAR OLDS
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Monmouth's Haskell targeted for Wildcat Red
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Trained by Jose Garoffalo, Wildcat Red is currently at Gulfstream Park after his disappointing 1
California Chrome goes to school at Belmont Park
Elmont, NY (SportsNetwork.com) - Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner California Chrome was taken to school Thursday at Belmont Park as the chestnut colt became familiar with the track's paddock.
"We don't do a lot of schooling in the afternoon, hardly at all," said Alan Sherman,
California Chrome: Another Affirmed or Real Quiet?
Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) - California Chrome looks to become the first Triple Crown winner in 36 years when he enters the 146th running of the Belmont Stakes on June 7.
Back in 1978, Affirmed defeated Alydar in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont to compile the hat tric
Clubhouse Ride back to defend Californian Stakes
Arcadia, CA (SportsNetwork.com) - Clubhouse Ride, winless the last 12 months, goes for a second straight victory in Saturday's $200,000 Californian Stakes at Santa Anita Park. Eight older thoroughbreds have been entered in the stakes.
Trained by Craig Lewis, Clubhouse Ride has no
Eight to go in Penn Mile
Grantville, PA (SportsNetwork.com) - The second edition of the $500,000 Penn Mile at Penn National Race Course has attracted eight 3-year-olds for the grass stakes.
Global View, owned by Glen Hill Farm, will probably gain the most attention off his victory in the American Turf St
Up the Backstretch: Espinoza on the hot seat in Belmont
Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) - Thoroughbred horses feel no pressure as their connections do in horse racing.
So all the pressure for this year's Belmont Stakes is on the people involved with California Chrome, and the most may well be on jockey Victor Espinoza considering a Tripl
No clouds on California Chrome's horizon
Elmont, NY (SportsNetwork.com) - Clouds or no clouds, it doesn't make a difference to Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner California Chrome.
The 3-year-old colt completed his two-mile gallop Wednesday morning at Belmont Park after exhibiting his normal energy in spite of the lac
Medal Count headed to Belmont Stakes
Elmont, NY (SportsNetwork.com) - Trainer Dale Romans announced Tuesday that stakes winning 3-year-old Medal Count will start the 146th Belmont Stakes on June 7.
Owned by Spendthrift Farm, Medal Count was eighth in the Kentucky Derby to California Chrome. The colt won the Transylv
California Chrome and Wise Dan stay tops in voting
New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) - Triple Crown race winner California Chrome and two-time Horse of the Year Wise Dan continue to sit atop the NTRA Polls for racing through Memorial Day.
California Chrome, winner of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, for the second straight week r
Intense Holiday retired with injury
Elmont, NY (SportsNetwork.com) - A broken leg bone has forced the retirement from racing of stakes winning 3-year-old Intense Holiday.
Owned by Starlight Racing, Intense Holiday suffered a broken condylar bone in his right front leg over the weekend and has been retired. The 3-year-old wa
Champion colt makes successful return to races
Berkeley, CA (SportsNetwork.com) - While the world concentrates on the racing career of Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner California Chrome, last year's champion 2-year-old colt returned successfully to the races at Golden Gate Fields.
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Leap Motion Controller Hands-On: The Future Is Magic (Now With Apps!)
By Andrew Tarantola on at
Greasy fingers are the bane of touchscreens, obscuring the display behind snail trails of oil and streaks of grime. Forget that mess. Leap Motion has promised hands-free PC navigation for months now, and after some hands-on time we can confirm that the future is here, and it's amazing.
As a brief refresher, the Leap Motion Controller tracks your hand and finger movements in three-dimensional space, allowing users to recreate multitouch input without actually touching anything. You just wave your hands and wiggle your fingers in the air over it and boom, your computer responds.
It will be available for Windows 7 and 8, as well as Mac OS X 10.6 and above, when the £75-odd device hits store shelves. It won't be available for mobile to start, but the company is looking into potentially integrating the technology with a number of OEMs.
With a few waves of your hands, both native applications — from web browsers to Google Earth — and system navigations respond instantly to your commands. The company is also developing Airspace, an online hub for LeapMotion-enabled applications.
"Everything you can do with a touch-based system, like Windows 8, can now be accomplished with LeapMotion technology. We want our users to have a magical experience, with easy and natural movements in the air leading to amazing interactions. This is the foundation for our approach to existing systems," David Holz, co-founder and CTO of LeapMotion, said in a press statement. "But this is only the beginning. The potential for our 3D interaction technology is really unleashed by applications built specifically for LeapMotion, helping drive the future of computing."
I had the opportunity to try out the Leap Motion last week, and great googly moogly this thing is amazeballs. It tracks both hands — their position, angle, rotation, orientation, everything — in real time, as well as the positions and movements of all three joints in all ten fingers. The controller registers everything within a roughly 30cm-tall, 45cm-wide dome-shaped area surrounding the controller and is wildly accurate, picking up even miniscule finger twitches. During the demo, used Google Earth to fly around Lower Manhattan like I was the kid from Flight of the Navigator, I played a 3D variation of Brick Breaker using my index fingers as paddles to punch, poke, and prod the ball around the arena, and I navigated around both OS X and Windows 8 systems by swiping my hands through the air.
It was strange, initially, getting used to moving the cursor without grabbing a mouse or tapping the screen, but it only takes a second to get the hang of the process. The controller can also be set to use either basic controls (taps, swipes, and other common input commands) or more advanced gestures, which helps ease you into it as well.
Granted, I played with this device for all of 15 minutes in a controlled environment (LeapMotion's SF office) but that was a glorious quarter hour; I felt like Tony Stark using the Jarvis UI. This thing can't come soon enough.
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374) Golden Gate Exterior 2
Keywords: Israel, Central, Hill Country of Judah, Jerusalem, Old City, Golden Gate, Beautiful Gate, Gates, Umayyad, Caliph Abd al-Malik, James Jim Flemming, East Gate
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377) Jaffa Gate Tower
Keywords: Israel, Central, Hill Country of Judah, Jerusalem, Old City, Jaffa Gate, Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman, Herod the Great, Phasael, Hippicus, Jerry Hawkes
378) Zion Gate (1)
Keywords: Israel, Central, Hill Country of Judah, Jerusalem, Old City, Zion Gate, Bab Nabi Daud, Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman
380) City of David (Detail)
Keywords: Israel, Central, Jerusalem, City of David, Old Ancient Core, Dome of the Rock, El-Aqsa Mosque, Central Valley, Kidron Valley, Gihon Spring
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Badlapur (Movie)
Badlapur is a 2015 Hindi neo-noir action crime drama film directed by Sriram Raghavan and produced by Dinesh Vijan and Sunil Lulla. The film stars Varun Dhawan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui in lead roles, with Huma Qureshi, Yami Gautam, Divya Dutta, and Radhika Apte in supporting roles. The film was released on 20 February 2015 to highly positive reviews.
The wife and child of Raghu (Varun Dhawan) are killed all of a sudden under unfortunate circumstances during a bank robbery. The only mistake they commit is to be present at the wrong place at the wrong time. This leads to an intense revenge drama.
The movie then follows Raghu's life for the next 15 years. In the mean while, bank robber and murderer Liak (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) gets old in the jail and is surviving with a hope that he will be out after 20 years and lead a happy life with the help of the money he robbed along with his partner in crime Harman (Vinay Pathak). Raghu on the other hand, has a different plan for them altogether.
Varun Dhawan as Raghu
Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Liak
Huma Qureshi as Jhumli
Isha Pawar as Misha.
Yami Gautam as Misha.
Vinay Pathak as Harman
Divya Dutta as Shobha
Radhika Apte as Koko
Mateen Shaikh as Raghu's colleague
Sahil Lakhyani as Raghu's brother
The soundtrack is composed entirely by Sachin-Jigar, while the lyrics are penned by Dinesh Vijan & Priya Saraiya. The first song, Jee Karda, was released as a single on December 9th, 2014.
1. "Jee Karda" Divya Kumar 4:01
2. "Jeena Jeena" Atif Aslam 3:49
3. "Jee Karda" (Rock Version) Divya Kumar 4:00
4. "Judaai" Rekha Bhardwaj, Arijit Singh 4:32
5. "Jeena Jeena" (Remix) Atif Aslam 3:39
6. "Badla Badla" Vishal Dadlani, Jasleen Royal, Suraj Jagan 3:13
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Fernando Llorente Admits To Handballing UCL Winning Goal At Man City
April 20, 2019 15:18·
Tottenham grabbed two of those goals through Heung-Min Son, who became the highest scoring Asian player in the Champions League on 12 goals to give the Spurs a 2-1 lead.
With the score locked at 4-4 in the Champions League quarter-final, Eriksen passed the ball back towards his own goal.
It is not certain if the video assistant referee (VAR), Massimiliano Irrati of Italy, or the official on the pitch, Cuneyt Cakir from Turkey, had access to the specific angle which showed the contact with his arm, but they would have been well within their rights to award it anyway if they judged it was not deliberate and his arm was not away from his body.
His goal against City side helped Tottenham create history at the Etihad as Tottenham progressed to the Champions League semi-final, where they face Ajax.
Tottenham midfielder Christian Eriksen admitted he was lucky after he was guilty of giving the ball away in the build-up to what looked set to be a decisive City goal, only for a video review to deny Raheem Sterling a last gasp victor.
Beeping Easter Egg hunt caters to visually-impaired students
And, as always, Binky the Easter Egg Bunny will be on hand to hand out the eggs and for photos. The Rec Room Calgary is hosting their annual adults only Easter egg hunt on Sunday, April 21.
CITY'S late goal was ruled out because Christian Eriksen's back pass struck Bernardo Silva's leg before it reached Sergio Aguero, according to the laws of the game. And would De Bruyne or Aguero be sent packing if City could only retain one of their services? I am so happy because the effort is massive from the squad who have lived with everything.
"We have proved we deserve to be here at the top, amongst the top teams in the world", he said.
When the executive committee of UEFA announced last December in Dublin that they would be introducing VAR from the knockout stages of the Champions League this season, they started a process which culminated in a once-in-a-generation event at the Etihad on Wednesday night.
Sterling thought he had settled the affair in the most dramatic fashion but City's jubilation quickly turned sour and Tottenham were left to celebrate a first European Cup semi-final appearance since 1962. Their lethal front three of Sadio Mane, Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino all scored in that order. It was a good game to play, but I'm lucky I'm on the good side. "I didn't see the ball", he said.
He added on BT Sport: "We saw the game yesterday and they went through so it would have been a fairy tale to play them and now it is a fairy tale".
Chicago prosecutor Kim Foxx's staff members quit after Jussie Smollett case
Mark Rotert is retiring after about two years leading the Conviction Integrity Unit, which reviews alleged wrongful convictions. Some 70 people had convictions vacated or prosecutions abandoned by the office after CIU reviews exposed flaws in the cases.
The Mainstream Media's Mueller 'Meltdown' is 'Truly Astonishing'
In a draft termination letter, Trump cited low morale within the bureau in his reasoning for firing Comey on May 9, 2017. Now some prominent journalists are questioning whether she should remain in her job.
Felicity Huffman appears in Ava DuVernay's Netflix series trailer
The five teens all confessed but their lawyers insisted they were coerced into the confessions during hours of interrogations. In addition to producing, DuVernay also co-wrote and directed all four installments.
Thor Ragnarok sequel has been pitched: Tessa Thompson
The actor plays Valkyrie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and first appeared in 2017's Ragnarok . He said it was "so liberating and freeing to break away from who the character was prior".
Mark Carney: Banks must help fight climate change
The TCFD recommendations are aimed at helping businesses and other organisations to communicate climate related risks. The NGFS sets out three climate-related financial risks that companies, banks and governments need to fight against.
London Climate Activists Chain Themselves to Jeremy Corbyn's Home
Cops have been given the green light by the home secretary to use the "full force of the law" against climate change protesters. He said protesters could "expect a robust police response". "We are determined to keep the airport operating", he said.
Monte Carlo Masters: Novak Djokovic shocked by Daniil Medvedev
He served for the match leading 5-2 in the second only to drop serve again, but recovered to take the win as Pella double-faulted. In an interview to La Gazzetta dello Sport, Marco Cecchinato commented on the clay season that he just started this week.
Revamped Find My iPhone app may get Tile-like item tracker
If Apple does end up launching such a product , it could spell bad news for Tile, which makes popular Bluetooth trackers. So when another Apple user finds this tag, they can scan it, and inform you; you'll also get a notification via the app.
Lakers meeting with Lue regarding coaching vacancy
Since the Lakers parted ways with Luke Walton , Lue has emerged as a possible candidate for the team's open coaching position. Former Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Tyronn Lue is meeting with the Lakers on Friday, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported .
Siakam scores 30, Raptors top Magic for 2-1 lead
The Raptors trailed 61-60 midway through the third, then went on a 16-0 run over the next four minutes to take the lead for good. And now it's up to Orlando to regroup, the same way Toronto did after dropping Game 1.
Adele splits from husband Simon Konecki
Rumors of a secret wedding began swirling in December 2016, when the "Hello" singer was photographed with a band on her finger. In a statement on Friday, they said the pair were "committed to raising their son together lovingly".
Researchers Cure Bubble Boy Disease with Gene Therapy that Involved Using HIV
The "correct" gene - used to fix the defect - was inserted into an altered version of one of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. None has developed a life-threatening infection since receiving gene therapy, an indication of treatment effectiveness.
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Comedian Zelenskiy would win second round of Ukraine vote, poll shows
The lead that Zelenskiy has enjoyed over Poroshenko in recent polls has been substantial. The video has been published on the Facebook page of the Zelensky team.
Rockets vs. Jazz prediction: Utah can't win with a diminished Ricky Rubio
At times, the best scorer in the National Basketball Association has exploded and gone for huge games against Utah. Their first hurdle is getting past Utah, whom they eliminated in the conference semifinals last season.
TSA finds handgun concealed inside DVD player in passenger's checked bag
I can assure you that wrapping it in aluminium foil and then concealing it inside a DVD player isn't the way to go about it.... The man's checked bag triggered an alarm in the security scanning equipment, authorities said.
Mueller report details Trump's "mostly unsuccessful" efforts to influence Russian Federation probe
Half a dozen former Trump aides were charged by Mr Mueller's office or convicted of crimes during the 22-month-long investigation. Trump has repeatedly dubbed the investigation a "witch hunt" and insisted he did not engage in collusion or obstruction.
National Football League beefs up regular-season schedule for 2019 by adding Saturday triple-header
The Eagles will play in FOX's first Thursday night game on September 26, when the visit the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field. The Eagles only won nine games last season, barely sneaking into the playoffs in the season's final week.
Israel Folau requests Rugby Australia hearing over anti-gay message
The devoutly religious Folau is facing the sack by Rugby Australia after posting on social media that "hell awaits" homosexuals. Court drew criticism from marriage equality advocates in May following her comments on homosexuality.
Bruins beat Maple Leafs 6-4 to even playoff series
The Dallas Stars also came into the night in a precarious situation, but they were also to earn with a big-time win. And it was in those final seconds that time seemed to stand still when time finally ran out on the Boston Bruins .
What Ranveer Singh Told '83 Crew Before Kapil Dev Joined The Sets
Sharing his excitement to be a part of this film, Ranveer had earlier said, "I was born at the time when cricket was big time". Let's gear up to relive "83′ on next Good Friday, April 10, 2020, when our boys will change the game with their faith".
Dingoes pull toddler from camper bed
It's believed the dingo dragged the child from the camper van, where he had been sleeping with his parents. In January, a six-year-old boy was mauled by the native animal after as he ran up a dune on the island .
Gio Gonzalez a Mets' option with Yankees breakup imminent
In the past three seasons, he has averaged 183 innings while posting a 112 ERA+ and a 2.33 strikeout-to-walk ratio. Gonzalez, 33, was 2-1 with a 6.00 ERA in three Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre starts as of late Thursday night.
Romney 'sickened' by Trump's behavior during Russia probe
Nadal battles past Pella into 14th Monte Carlo semi-final
Ex-Peruvian president kills himself ahead of arrest
'Big Baby' Miller failed three drug tests
HBO takes immediate action after Trump's Game of Thrones tweet
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan give vacay goals with Maldives trip
Amazon Music is now free with ads for Alexa device owners
Google Warns Employees After a Worker with Measles Visited HQ
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hits home run out of stadium
Huawei has secured 40 commercial 50 network contracts
Indian voter chops off finger after accidentally voting for wrong party
Justin Bieber calls Laura Ingraham's remarks on Nipsey Hussle 'absolutely disgusting'
Islanders prove they're for real in sweep of Penguins
Australia 10-year bond yield jumps 4 bps after Aussie jobs report
Leafs back in Boston for crucial Game 5 vs. Bruins


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Die Bramstedter Beeke ist ein etwa 5,5 km langer, rechtsseitiger Nebenfluss des Finkenbaches. Sie fließt ausschließlich im nordöstlichen Bereich der niedersächsischen Stadt Bassum.

Die Quelle der Beeke liegt zwischen Röllinghausen und dem Waldgebiet Gattau, sie fließt in nördlicher Richtung durch den Bassumer Stadtteil Bramstedt, unterquert die DB-Strecke Bremen-Osnabrück und die L 333 und mündet bei Högenhausen in den Finkenbach.

Literatur
 Topographische Karte 1:25000, 3118 Bassum, 9. Auflage, 1994, Hrsg.: Niedersächsisches Landesverwaltungsamt – Landesvermessung, Hannover 1994

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 Landschaftsrahmenplan Landkreis Diepholz 4-293 (PDF; 17 kB)
 Überschwemmungsgebiete für 24 Gewässer im Landkreis Diepholz. Vorbeugender Hochwasserschutz wird verbessert: Jetzt beginnt Vermessung. Presseinformation des NLWKN vom 26. August 2009

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The AGM was held yesterday afternoon and parents agreed to increase school fees by R50 per month which brings the school fees total for the 2018 academic year to R9500.
As per the GDE policy, all textbooks must be retrieved at the end of each term. Learners are therefore requested to bring the relevant textbooks for each subject to school on the day that each exam paper is written. Textbooks will be retrieved immediately after each exam. Learners that have forgotten to bring a textbook or reader should submit them to the class teacher by Friday, 24 November 2017. Parents have signed acknowledgement of responsibility for textbooks, therefore, any textbook that has been misplaced or damaged must be paid for before the end of the term. The last day to make payment for lost or damaged textbooks is the 6th of December 2017.
Learners from Grade 4-7 can utilize a locker at a cost of R50 for 2018.
The school diary is compulsory for all learners to have. The school diary is R50 for 2018 and can be purchased from the finance office at school.
Learners who will be in Grade 4 in 2018 need to make a payment of R300 for a textbook deposit by the 31st of December 2017.
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Irony gets a bad rap these days. In an age when soul-baring honesty is seen as the pinnacle of artistic achievement, coating one's art in a "protective" shell of irony and snark seems defensive at best, and disingenuous at worst. But that obsession with frankness denies the notion that irony can be enjoyed for irony's sake, and suggests that an audience may not be bright enough to chip through the layers of sarcasm to find the sincerity hidden inside. Over the course of two full-length albums and a handful of EPs, Milwaukee's Sat. Nite Duets have buried their tales of bygone summers and lovers lost under piles of empty PBR cans and dude-friendly jokes. That's once again the case with the group's terrific new album, Electric Manland, though an expanded musical palette and a renewed devotion to all things pop (and junk) culture ensure that it's much more than a rehash of its predecessors.
But nowhere is the album's—and the band's—subversive duality better expressed than on standout track "Born To Walk." The title is a thematic downshift of Springsteen's "Born To Run," but the song itself is hardly a lark. Featuring an impossibly catchy chorus that cries out for shout-along status ("Walk on baby to the other side / Won't you call me crazy / Call me whatever you'd like"), "Born To Walk" finds Sat. Nite Duets at their most frenzied and inspired. Even tracks that would normally be considered tossed-off filler—the goofy "Big Worm," the even goofier "Women's Prison"—manage to make an impression due to the band's dedication to sticking to the joke. The fact that those jokes can be taken at face value and still contain loftier concerns is paramount to both Electric Manland and Sat. Nite Duets' success. Enjoy the candy coating, savor the gooey center.


The moment Jamie Wasley sat down to start his sixth form studies, he realised a further two years in the classroom was not for him. He didn't go back for day two. Instead he got himself an apprenticeship with a local builder and enrolled with Derby College.
Now, aged 27, Jamie is an award winning former bricklayer, a buildings inspector, and he is poised to become a chartered surveyor. He has special praise for Derby College which supported him when he began to fall behind while halfway through his Level 3 Construction Diploma.
There were good reasons. Jamie suffered a broken jaw in an unprovoked attack and underwent three months of painful treatment. As part of Level 3, apprentices are required to show a range of brickwork skills by making separate pieces over a period of time, and he was struggling to get them done. But his lecturers helped him design one "masterpiece" which he built featuring all the aspects he needed – an arch, a chimney stack, a curved wall, stilts and more.
He said the staff were "brilliant" and helped him through the dark times. Jamie went from strength-to-strength, winning both the College's and the East Midlands' SkillBuild competitions, before finishing third in the World Championship SkillBuild event in Birmingham. And because of his commitment, he was awarded a £1,000 Bowmer and Kirkland Bursary by the College.
Jamie passed his Level 2 and 3 construction diplomas with distinctions and in parallel took his Level 2 NVQ Trowel Occupations and Level 3 NVQ Brickwork (Advanced Craft). Having worked with a local builder, Jamie was head hunted by building surveyors JHAI Ltd where he is now a buildings inspector and 18 months away from qualifying as a chartered surveyor.
He intends to "get as good as I can be" and perhaps specialise. He is also considering going on to become a college lecturer to support teenagers who have practical rather than academic strengths.
"At college you learn the skills and intricate details you need, especially on Level 3.
"The biggest thing I found is it gives you a place to practise. When you get to site it's not practice, you're building and it's staying up. You've got to stand back and be happy with it.
"The big thing about college was the lecturers were brilliant, "not "yes, sir", "no sir." They taught you stuff you needed to know.
"You notice yourself becoming more useful at work. You learn something and then you can apply it."