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Reading any academic book or serious journal article, we soon discover that the authors freely acknowledge the sources of their information and ideas. Unlike many kids of writing (such as personal letters), academic writing depends upon authors carefully examining their sources and carefully reporting to their readers how those sources were used. Studying in college is primarily an exercise in analyzing the words of previous writers, integrating those thoughts into our own thinking, and effectively communicating our thinking to our readers.
As academic writers, we provide documentation (parenthetical citations, footnotes, bibliographies, etc.) for several important reasons:
We want to help the reader understand our message. For most assignments, the more relevant information we can provide, the better. Documentation often provides significant, useful information for readers interested in the subject.
We acknowledge sources because we need to establish our integrity and honesty as writers. The proper use of a documentation system is a means for demonstrating that we understand and respect the conventions of academic writing. To fail to document sources is dishonest, a form of stealing (the word 'plagiarism' derives from the Latin word for 'kidnapping').
Many academic assignments often require the writer to clarify what has been previously said on the subject. For these assignments, we might imagine ourselves walking into a room where people, perhaps for hundreds of years, have been discussing our subject. An author's primary responsibility is to make clear what has already been said on the subject and who said it. Documentation systems such as those developed by the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the American Psychological Association (APA) are efficient and surprisingly simple procedures for communicating that information.
What to Document? For most papers, students can use the following guidelines for determining when to provide documentation for identifying sources.
Quoting. A quotation should be placed in quotation marks and duplicate the source exactly. Even when quoting a phrase or unique terminology, the passage should appear in quotes with a documented citation. We cannot indiscriminately mix our own words with language from the original source and then pass it off as our own writing.
Paraphrasing and Summarizing. If we are restating facts or opinions that are unique to a particular author or text, we must provide documentation for the source. A useful rule of thumb is that we should document any facts, ideas or evidence that we did not have when starting our research. We should also document data that varies from source to source or from year to year. Obviously, it is not necessary to document information that is common knowledge or could be readily discovered in reference resources. When we are repeating information that could be found in three or more available sources (and we are not quoting directly) we have the option of not providing documented citations.
Some final comments on plagiarism. According to one English Handbook, plagiarism is "the unacknowledged use of another person's work, in the form of original ideas, strategies, and research as well as another person's writing, in the form of sentences, phrases, and innovative terminology." Plagiarism is intellectual theft and absolutely unacceptable.
Most instances of plagiarism occur because students fail to understand the conventions of academic writing. Whenever you are unsure how to handle a source, you can study guidelines in any good English Rhetoric (for example Brenda Spatt's Writing from Sources, available in the Writing Center) or discuss the matter with your instructor or a consultant in the Writing Center. Ignorance of the rules is no defense in your favor. It is your responsibility to know the proper guidelines and procedures.
A second cause of plagiarism comes from sloppy note-taking, writers failing to distinguish clearly between their own thoughts and what the original source said. When taking notes from a source, carefully distinguish between what was written in the source (always use complete quote marks when copying passages) and what is written in your own words.
A third cause of plagiarism derives from an insecurity that all writers occasionally experience. We all have a feeling of inadequacy, a sense that we can never do justice to a subject. In some instances this occurs because we find ourselves writing about a subject where the primary reader (such as an instructor) obviously knows far more about the subject than we have been able to learn in a few weeks of research. Such a situation can sometimes lead to a desperate "appropriation" of someone else's text. The inadequacy may also occur when we confront an excellent piece of writing on a subject and we recognize that the piece "says what needs to be said and says it better" than we can. If you experience such an anxiety about a writing assignment, speak with your instructor or the Writing Center Director. Don't jeopardize your college career and your future life by failing a course or being dismissed from college because you plagiarized.
Some material in this handout was adapted from St. Martin's Guide to Writing (Second Edition) by Rise B. Axelrod and Charles R. Cooper and Writing from Sources by Brenda Spat.


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Lower IV's musical theatre visit
Posted: 13th October 2017
Enthusiasm for 'School of Rock'
Thursday 28th September saw Lower IV broaden their theatrical experience with a visit to see 'School of Rock'. Vaisavi Kumaraverl, Lower IV Alpha, reports:
'School Of Rock' was an incredible production that I was fortunate enough to witness at the New London Theatre. I loved the musical, especially because of the upbeat songs such as 'Stick it to the Man' and these made me sing along and I enjoyed every moment. Every actor in this musical was very confident and engaged the audience very well, specifically the pupils of Horus Green. I particularly liked the part when they sang at the Battle of the Bands because this was where you could really see how well they can play their instruments live and sing as a whole cast. I also loved the scene where Tomicka, a Horus Green pupil, sang Amazing Grace beautifully and elegantly.
There are many morals in this play – such as if you are determined to do something you will succeed. The costumes were really fun and crazy and there is not one scene where you didn't laugh as the actors made a joke out of every sad moment. Overall, I recommend this musical as it was excellent and fantastic!'
Daisy Morris, Lower IV Alpha, continues, 'After three weeks back at school, my year group was delighted to be going to see the West End production of School of Rock, as our first theatre visit of the year. Unlike our Form III theatre visit, we took the tube and were filled with excitement as we travelled to the theatre. On arrival, we took much pleasure in discovering our seats which were dead centre, and we prepared to watch the incredible show. School of Rock started with an exhilarating opening scene which included a band performance which showcased the incredible music that was performed brilliantly throughout.
The staging and set were very convincing and realistic and complemented the choreography that was excellently performed by the astounding young actors and musicians. Some of my favourite scenes included when the children performed their rock pieces, when the meaning of rock was explained, and I thoroughly enjoyed all the songs – I am still singing them today! This amazing performance ended with a memorable closing song and competition. Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed the outstanding performance of School of Rock, and I thank our school's amazing Drama Department for such an incredible evening.'
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The Grants Manager (Francophone Region) is responsible to develop high quality project proposals and concept notes for direct submission to key donors including ECHO, Europeaid, UN Agencies and other major institutional donors. Experience with and an understanding of the rules and requirements of these donors is essential.
Developing log-frames, work-plans, budgets and monitoring processes/templates will be a key task, requiring hands-on work with the country program teams ahead of and during the proposal development process. The 'needs assessment' is also an important and major element for proposal development and, while not being the responsibility of this position, must be undertaken by the country program teams to enable the task to be completed by the Grants Manager.
The Grants Manager (Francophone Region) will need the ability to adapt and quickly shift focus and/or agenda in response to shifting priorities within the country programs while taking on diverse tasks within the proposal development process from writing, developing monitoring plans, and providing administrative support.
Based in Yaoundé, Cameroon the Grants Manager (Francophone Region) shall report to the Global Funding Coordinator in Geneva (line management, technical and work-planning matters) and to the Team Leader, Cameroon (for admin and security issues in country).
Master's degree in humanitarian or development work, and/or other related social science.
Minimum of 3 years of professional experience in international humanitarian and development programs. Experience in project plan donor networks. Work experience with institutional donors including ECHO & Europeaid is required.
Cultural sensitivity and adaptability. High degree of integrity and professional responsibility.
Working experience in African countries is an asset.
Flexibility, patience and ability to work under pressure in challenging contextual circumstances and working with very tight deadlines.
Ability to work independently and at times with little supervision.
Strong organizational, interpersonal, verbal and written communication.
To identify specific funding opportunities (Institutional donors including, US, UN, EU and other Government funding) through necessary mapping and research in the 3 country programs/emergency operations and then provide proposal development support according to agreed priorities (preparedness and readiness to respond).
To lead and/or coordinate the timely submission/response to calls including writing high quality concept notes and proposals.
To assist remotely as well as provide in-country support for the proposal development and writing process (including log frames, work plans, budgets and monitoring templates).
To conduct the necessary research to support the technical content of concept notes and proposals (including liaison with relevant technical staff in country).
To maintain proper records and electronic filing systems of all drafts and final submissions and approved proposals.
To ensure that all rules and regulations required by the donor are adhered to and included in the proposal. This can include donor liaison when in country.
To finalize, package and submit proposals in collaboration with the GFT in Geneva according to donor specifications and deadlines and LWF quality standards.
Work closely with the M&E focal points in country and the Regional M&E Advisor (where present) to develop and maintain program monitoring and evaluation tracking tools to ensure all project indicators report clear linkage of activity outputs to intended outcomes and that the progress of change is clearly tracked.
To carry out regular and continuous site visits to track project progress, measure performance, and ensure accountability to the targeted communities as well as compliance with donor rules and regulations.
Provide training support and build capacity of the implementing project officers in the country programs. This will include internal workshops as well as identifying external training opportunities (e.g. in situ and online).
Liaise with the GFT in Geneva to develop and conduct training modules with key staff in country programs (eg. ECHO, EuropeAid, USG etc).
Manage assigned grants' proposal development, monitoring, timely reporting and close out of grants.
Ensure that the approved grants are in compliance with donor requirements.
Maintain the relations with respective donors in country.
Identify sources of co funding for new funding opportunities (including timely discussions with potential co funding agencies).
To carry out any other tasks as needed and requested by the LWF-WS Global Funding Coordinator (e.g. screening reports, monitoring visits, training workshops, exchange visits).
To participate in exchange visits to LWF Country Programs in the region/country with a focus on peer exchange of experience in capacity building, grants management and successful project implementation.


More Physics and Astrophysics MSci degree lecture notes and links.
Most of the Lecture notes and other material presented in these pages are based on the University of London MSci Physics and Astrophysics degrees as given in previous years. Some of the Lecture notes may be incomplete or unavailable.
Spacetime diagram: a photon's path is along the inner (diagonal) boundary of the shaded region. A mass carrying particle would be confined to the time-like region traveling forward in time (upward) from past to future. If it were to divert into the space-like (shaded) regions, it would then be traveling faster than the speed of light and escape to infinity.
At R = Rg the Schwarzchild radius is the event horizon, but the true singularity is at R = 0.
Paper: Can a primordial black hole or wormhole grow as fast as the universe?
The orbits of nearby stars around possible black hole candidate Sgr-A at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
Diagram of the same stellar orbital trajectories and velocities around Sgr A.
Dissipational Galaxy Formation (would be interesting to compare with the star formation rate over the Universe's history).
PART 10: Tensor book, Cosmology Pt. 1, PHY413 Quantum Mechanics B (incomplete), 1B30 Astronomy Practicals, High Energy Astrophysics, etc.
PART 11: PHY413 Quantum Mech B (QMUL) cont. ASTR5700 Stellar Structure and Evolution (UColorado), 5 misc Oxford short physics options, etc.


Although we could ship 1 or 2 bags out, we do not because the price of shipping often cost more than the feed itself. So solution is to ship an entire pallet at full capacity, which carries 2500lbs of feed. When we ship this much organic feed, suddenly you might find you are saving money compared with your local organic sources. If you aren't too far from the West coast, sometimes, we can keep your prices at what our Arizona customers are paying.
However, if you own only 5 chickens, then probably shouldn't order 2500lbs of feed for yourself. just to save a little money. However with a few neighbors and friends or just one local feed store, you'd be surprised at how quickly you can get to 2500 lbs with no one having to stock pile any organic feed. This is exactly how the Arizona group formed, from about 20 online acquaintances pooling our feed volume together.
We have shipped to the east coast but shipping tends to be more expensive, but still within the realm of saving you money. If believe you can conjure up an order for 2500lbs, then give us a call and we will get an exact quote which will include shipping to your zip code. If you team up with neighbors, I can also show you an easy way to keep track of everyone's different organic orders.


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Q: Exception Handling in MVC How to handle the exception in MVC in such a way that control moves to a particular point when exception occurs at any place of the code? Please explain with example

A: use try-catch
try{
----code----
}
catch(exception ex)
{
---code after exception occurs---
}

here,ex catches the exception and you can check for the reason exception occured as well

A: There are many ways to do that it depends on where you want your control to be
most basic place will be to use
Try-catch-finally.
Next is to use the BaseController and using the OnException Method there
Another approach will be to use the GlobalException handling using filters which are provided by MVC
next approach could be to use the Application_Error in the global.asax.cs and this will be a single place where we can write our own exception logic

A: This is one example how you can do it. ExceptionMiddleware is responsible for dealing with exceptions.
 Of course you need to add it in Configure method of Startup.cs class. Something like this:
app.UseMiddleware<ExceptionMiddleware>();

 public class ExceptionMiddleware
    {
        private readonly RequestDelegate next;
        private readonly ILogger<ExceptionMiddleware> logger;
        private readonly IHostEnvironment env;
        public ExceptionMiddleware(RequestDelegate next, ILogger<ExceptionMiddleware> logger, IHostEnvironment env)
        {
            this.env = env;
            this.logger = logger;
            this.next = next;

        }

        public async Task InvokeAsync(HttpContext context)
        {

            try
            {
                await next(context);
            }
            catch(Exception ex)
            {
              logger.LogError(ex,ex.Message);
              context.Response.ContentType = "application/json";
              context.Response.StatusCode = (int) HttpStatusCode.InternalServerError;
              var response = env.IsDevelopment()
              ? new ApiException((int)HttpStatusCode.InternalServerError, ex.Message, ex.StackTrace.ToString())
                    : new ApiException((int)HttpStatusCode.InternalServerError);

                   var options = new JsonSerializerOptions{PropertyNamingPolicy = JsonNamingPolicy.CamelCase};

                   var json = JsonSerializer.Serialize(response, options);

                   await context.Response.WriteAsync(json);

            }
        }
    }
 public class ApiResponse
    {
        public ApiResponse(int statusCode, string message = null)
        {
            StatusCode = statusCode;
            Message = message ?? GetDefaultMessageForStatusCode(statusCode);
        }

        public int StatusCode { get; set; }
        public string Message { get; set; }

        private string GetDefaultMessageForStatusCode(int statusCode)
        {
            return statusCode switch
            {
                400 => "A bad request, you have made",
                401 => "Authorized, you are not",
                404 => "Resource found, it was not",
                500 => "Errors are the path to the dark side. Errors lead to anger.  Anger leads to hate.  Hate leads to career change",
                _ => null
            };
        }
    }

public class ApiException : ApiResponse
    {
        public ApiException(int statusCode, string message = null, string details = null) : base(statusCode, message)
        {
            Details = details;
        }

        public string Details { get; set; }
    }

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Experience London, Windsor Castle, and the White Cliffs of Dover - 6 Days
This tour covers the key London experiences, as well as popular day tours to Kent, The White Cliffs of Dover, and Windsor Castle. Explore this bustling city with a private guide and tick off all the major sites, including Westminster Abbey, Tower Bridge, Big Ben, St. Paul's Cathedral, and more. Watch the changing of the guard, stroll through Hyde Park, and discover the foodie scenes at Camden and Borough Markets.
Stroll the River Thames and cross the Tower Bridge
Tickle your taste buds at the famous markets of Camden, Borough, and Portobello
Join a local guide on a private tour of the city and Westminster Abbey
Feel like a royal at Windsor Castle and watch the changing of the guard
Explore the natural beauty of Kent and the White Cliffs of Dover
Day 1 Welcome to London London
Day 2 Enjoy a Private Tour of London London
Day 3 Day Trip to Kent and The White Cliffs of Dover London
Day 4 Act Like a Local - Free Day to Explore London London
Day 5 Enjoy Royal Art at Windsor Castle London
Day 6 Depart from London
Day 1: Welcome to London
London - Big Ben & Iconic Red Phone Box
Welcome to bustling London! After arriving at London Heathrow Airport, a private driver will transfer you to your accommodation. Get settled and then set out to explore one of the most famous cities in the world. Suggested activities include:
Get familiar with the London landscape by walking along the Thames River.
Explore some of the city's famous monuments, including Big Ben, Tower Bridge, Buckingham Palace, and St. Paul's Cathedral.
Enjoy art exhibits at Tate Modern and the National Gallery.
Channel Shakespeare at the Globe Theater.
Day 2: Enjoy a Private Tour of London
London - Changing of the Guard
After breakfast at your hotel, a private guide will lead you on a tour of London, including Westminster Abbey. Your guide will use a combination of walking and public transport to get you to through the cities to see as many attractions and landmarks as possible, making sure you won't miss the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace.
As you make your way from site to site, you'll pass by many iconic London landmarks. Your guide will be sure to narrate the always interesting stories of London history. Before returning to your hotel, stop in for a high tea to recharge. Then enjoy another evening exploring this energetic city.
Additional suggested activities include:
Find hidden delights at Camden, Portobello, or Borough Markets.
See the city from above by taking a ride in the London Eye.
Enjoy a romantic stroll through the greenery of Hyde Park.
Day 3: Day Trip to Kent and The White Cliffs of Dover
White Cliffs of Dover
Today you'll trade the hustle and bustle of London's city center for a bit of nature. As you leave the city, you'll start to see the scenic rural parts of England (also known as The Garden of England) in the Kent region. Kent has a number of great day trip attractions, including Leeds Castle, Canterbury, and The White Cliffs of Dover.
Depending on your preference, you can either opt for a guided tour departing from London's city center or a self-guided tour via public transportation. Either way, your host will help you arrange the details and you'll return to the city in time for dinner.
Day 4: Act Like a Local - Free Day to Explore London
The Shard London
Now that you have some familiarity with your surroundings, you can explore the city on your own. With our guidance—and the help fo fast-track transport/attraction passes—you can traverse London with top recommendations of what to see and do.
Day 5: Enjoy Royal Art at Windsor Castle
Today you will explore the beauty of Windsor Castle, home of the royal family. Quite often, the Queen and members of the royal family are in residence at Windsor, but getting a glimpse of them is rare. Still, your visit to the castle will not disappoint.
As you explore the castle grounds, be sure to see the amazingly preserved collections of royal artifacts and visit Henry VIII's tomb in St. George's Chapel. Plan a little extra time if you want to see the collection at the State Apartment, as it's very extensive.
While you are at Windsor, there is a strong chance you will see the changing of the guard and enjoy their marching. Nearby to Windsor is the UK's most prestigious school, Eton College. If you have a driver for today's tour, you can travel nearby to Runnymede where the Magna Carta was signed.
Day 6: Depart from London
Goodbye, London!
Enjoy your final breakfast and a leisurely morning at your hotel as you prepare for your departure. A private transfer will be arranged to take you to the airport in time to catch your flight.
Written by Garreth Cooke, updated Feb 18, 2021
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Adopted individuals can obtain a summary of their socio-biological history, with certain information about their background and origins. It can include information of a medical nature or details on the profile of their biological parents (such as age, language or religion).
Also, adoptive parents can obtain a summary of the socio-biological history of their adopted child, and biological parents can do the same concerning the adopters.


Bellaire City Council makes changes to the Group D Phase 2 sidewalk plan.
The following is the outcome of the September 24 City Council meeting pertaining to sidewalks. This information is from the City of Bellaire.
The Bellaire City Council acted to install 4' sidewalks on the west side of Bolivar, but not the east side. A sidewalk is not to be installed in the cul-de-sac.
October 1 – Bellaire City Council will consider amendments to the current approach for requiring new residential construction to install sidewalks.
October 1 – Bellaire City Council will consider removing the 4500 block of Teas from the Phase 1 Sidewalk project.
Please check the City of Bellaire's website at www.bellairetx.gov for updates on the scheduled meetings.
If you would like to sign up to speak at a City Council meeting, please contact the City Clerk at tdutton@bellairetx.gov.
For more information on the sidewalk projects, contact Cristin Emshoff by email cemshoff@bellairetx.gov or by office phone 713-662-8157.
For more information or if you have a general question, please do not hesitate to contact me, Cheryl Bright, Community Relations Administrator atcbright@bellairetx.gov or 713-662-8286.


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Tag Archives: Islam
Moslem reaction to 'Charlie Hebdo' style provocations
Two very different attitudes and responses in the Moslem world to 'Charlie Hebdo' type insults against the founder of their religious beliefs.
The first, which is intolerant, aggressive and full of malice, revolves around a harsh and primitive interpretation of Islam preached by the Wahhabi-Salafist sect which originates from Saudi Arabia. This is the ideology that fuels the criminal head-choppers of Daesh and Al-Qaeda who have decimated Syria and Iraq, murdering and massacring other Moslems and Christians by the tens of thousands.
The second, exemplified by Iran, condemns attacks against Christians and against churches. They say that their religion forbids murder, just like Christianity, and that people who do these things are criminals, not Moslems. They point out that the criminals who do these things are brainwashed by the Wahhabi-Salafist sect which originates from Saudi Arabia and by the Moslem Brotherhood organisation that, today, centres around Erdogan's Turkey and which wants to re-establish the Ottoman Empire.
They point out that the Enlightenment ideology that motivates France and other western countries is also anti-Christian, and that it is the 'Enlightened' countries which have helped fund, train, and arm Salafist terrorists to wreak havoc wherever those countries want to impose 'regime change'. They also point out that it is the 'Enlightened' countries that have opened their borders to swamp once Christian countries with uncontrolled immigration and which allow Wahhabi-Salafists to act virtually with impunity within their borders.
They say do not blame ordinary Moslems for these acts, but blame western secularism and its Wahhabi-Salafist tool. A manipulated clash of civilisations between Christians and Moslems only benefits would-be Lords of the World and their sought-for New Order of the Ages.
Posted by George of Lydda. Categories: Uncategorized. Tags: al-Qaeda, charlie hebdo, Daesh, France, Freemasonry, Iran, Islam, Muslim Brotherhood, Salafism, Secularism, Shia, Wahhabism. Leave a comment
The only true basis for world unity and social justice
Posted by George of Lydda. Categories: Uncategorized. Tags: Buddhism, Capitalism, Catholicism, Christianity, Communism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Liberalism, Orthodox, Protestantism, Sikhism, Socialism. Leave a comment
Shia today, Christians tomorrow
"Nobody is safe: today it's the Shia, tomorrow it could be us Catholics too," says the Nigerian Cardinal John Onaiyekan.
Cardinal Onaiyekan explained to Vatican Radio that recently, for the government in Nigeria, the question of Shia Muslims has become an issue.
He said [Shia] followers have been holding protests to demand the release of their leader, Ibrahim Zakzaky, who has been detained in prison for the last four years.
Various tribunals and courts, he noted, have ordered that he be released, and the government has refused to obey the courts' order.
Thus, Cardinal Onaiyekan said, the established Sunni majority in Nigeria "doesn't want to recognize that the Shia are also Muslims, and because of this the government treats them with serious violence".
He said Shia have been holding almost daily protests in the streets of Abuja for over a month.
"From my own understanding, the protests were always peaceful and we never saw them armed," he said.
And yet, he noted, government soldiers and police have attacked them with arms, rubber bullets and tear-gas canisters.
News outlets said at least 20 members of the group were killed over the past week during the demonstrations.
Posted by George of Lydda. Categories: Uncategorized. Tags: Cardinal John Onaiyekan, Islam, Nigeria, Shia. Leave a comment
Some cardinal clarity
"I am scandalised by all these men dying at sea, by the human trafficking, by the mafia networking, by the organised slavery."
Read more cardinal clarity……..
Posted by George of Lydda. Categories: Uncategorized. Tags: Cardinal Robert Sarah, Christianity, Europe, immigration, Islam, multi-culturalism, Secularism. Leave a comment
Jun. '19
A Catholic priest and scholar has some useful insights into the Islamic world, its relationship with Christianity, and its relationship with the Western World.
"To understand what is happening today in regard to the Western World and the Middle East we must understand the main branches of contemporary Islam. They are a) Pan-Arab nationalism, and, b) Takfiri [also commonly referred to as Wahhabi-Salafist] Jihadism which has roots in both the Middle Ages and the nineteenth-twentieth centuries."
Read more here …….
and here …….
Posted by George of Lydda. Categories: Uncategorized. Tags: Don Curzio Nitoglia, Iran, Islam, Judaism, Salafism, Saudi Arabia, Takfiri, The West, Wahhabism. Leave a comment
"Why do they treat Christians like this?"
UK visas: YES to radical Islamists, NO to Christian archbishops!
It is hard to imagine a more incongruous headline – just as the world's attention focuses on the liberation of Mosul, the UK government has refused to grant a visa to the Archbishop of Mosul to attend the consecration of the UK's first Syriac Orthodox cathedral, a church whose flock includes many refugees fleeing persecution from Islamists in Iraq and Syria………..
……….. Yet, at the same time this is happening, radical Islamist leaders are being told they can have visas – even though they represent organisations or movements that incite violence and persecution against Christians.
Read more at Barnabas Fund.
Posted by George of Lydda. Categories: Uncategorized. Tags: Christianity, immigration, Iraq, Islam, Syria, Takfiri, Wahhabism. Leave a comment
The Power of the Rosary
The Catholic Herald writes:
"The reason I'm sitting here before you," Bishop Oliver Doeme tells me mid-interview, "is the grace of God." For a moment I think this is a pious generalisation about divine providence. But that's not what Bishop Doeme means. He means that, by rights, he shouldn't really be alive.
The bishop's diocese is Maiduguri in Nigeria – the epicentre of terrorism in the country. Nigeria is where Boko Haram is most active. Founded in 2002, the Islamist group claims affiliation with ISIS, and is no less demonic in its aims and methods. Among its chief aims is to kill as many Christians and to blow up as many churches as possible. Bishop Doeme is an obvious target.
The story of Maiduguri's Catholics is one of terrible suffering. "To experience what we are going through is enough martyrdom," says Bishop Doeme. But it is also something else: a story of supernatural intervention, and of the immediate power of prayer. For Boko Haram has run into trouble – partly thanks to a successful campaign by the Nigerian military, but also, it seems, for more supernatural reasons.
In 2014, Bishop Doeme had a vision while praying before the Blessed Sacrament. Jesus appeared to him, and handed the bishop a sword – which, as soon as he received it, turned into a rosary. Jesus then repeated the words: "Boko Haram is gone." Bishop Doeme decided at once that this was an invitation to spread devotion to the rosary. So he began doing just that.
Maiduguri had always been a Marian diocese – when Bishop Doeme was installed in 2009, at the age of 48, he consecrated the diocese to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, a consecration which has been repeated every year.
But after the vision, the bishop wrote a pastoral letter encouraging the daily saying of the rosary – and especially, rosary processions – in families, schools and parishes. At his own residence there is a rosary procession every evening; if he isn't there, his secretary or someone else will lead it. Every Saturday, meanwhile, Mass is offered throughout the diocese in honour of Our Lady.
Why does Bishop Doeme think Jesus appeared in 2014? "It happened that way not because of me," he says. "I am just a poor sinner … It was about Jesus and his Mother, and his suffering people, his suffering children. It happened at the climax of the suffering of our people… 2014 will never be forgotten by our people."
That was when Boko Haram's attacks were at their most terrible. In that year they killed more than 6,000 people; the 276 schoolgirls in the town of Chibok were abducted (218 are still missing); over 80,000 Catholics were displaced; 25 priests (half those in the diocese), 45 nuns and 200 catechists and parish workers had to flee.
"Churches were razed down," the bishop remembers, "schools were razed down, hospitals were razed down. So our people were devastated, our people were traumatised. And the Lord came in order to console his people, [to show] that his Mother is there for us."
The vision encouraged Maiduguri's Catholics to believe "that the rosary would ultimately give us victory over this evil. Boko Haram is evil. ISIS is evil. So as long as we go to a place with his Mother, especially by praying the rosary, which is the most pronounced form of Marian devotion, we will be victorious."
Although it is too early to declare victory, Boko Haram has suffered defeat after defeat since the people of Maiduguri stepped up their Marian devotion. In September 2015, the Nigerian military reported that the terrorists were "completely in disarray", and that they were no longer capable of holding territory.
A few months later, President Muhammadu Buhari announced that Boko Haram had been "technically defeated". Bishop Doeme says the terrorists have been driven into the forests, and "will soon fizzle out".
Posted by George of Lydda. Categories: Uncategorized. Tags: Boko Haram, Islam, Nigeria, Pope Pius IX, Rosary. Leave a comment
The Lowdown on Daesh – Part 1
Posted by George of Lydda. Categories: Uncategorized. Tags: Daesh, Islam, Rome, Salafism, Takfiri, Wahhabism. Leave a comment
How Feminism Destroyed Europe
Catholic journalist Iben Thranholm tells it as it is in a wide-ranging video interview about contemporary moral and social problems.
Posted by George of Lydda. Categories: Uncategorized. Tags: Christianity, Europe, Feminism, Iben Thranholm, immigration, Islam, Masculinity, Stefan Molyneux. Leave a comment
Save Europe from Terrorism – Go to Church
You can't fight something with nothing
Why is Europe unable to defend its people against terrorism?
This question is becoming increasingly urgent to growing numbers of Europeans, especially after the terrorist attack in Brussels. Despite massive surveillance and armed guards, terrorists succeeded in striking yet again. The reaction from media and authorities followed the same old template as the display of stunned impotence applied to the Paris attacks. Politicians and experts condemn, explain and analyse – without a shred of sensible response – the fact that radical groups in the West are growing. Voices – like Michael Hayden, former head of the CIA and NSA – clamour for even more surveillance and powers for intelligence agencies, while politicians call for initiatives to take pedagogical measures to soften radicalism. This crescendo will grow to a withering cacophony until the next attack springs its deadly surprise, with mayhem and new floods of inane infotainment news.
This predictable pattern leaves many Europeans with the distinct impression that politicians and police are incapable of protecting their populations against terrorism.
Why do public authorities fall so pathetically short?
Read more of Iben Thranholm's article at Pravoslavie
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Catholic Action in Poland
Father Jacek Miedlar's speech to 70,000 participants at the March for Independence 2015, calling for the defence of Christianity in Poland in the wake of the 'refugee' invasion of Europe.
The entire march and rally, according to different sources, ranged from 70,000 to 150,000 participants.
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Paris Attacks – Moslems: Their Beliefs, Practices and Politics
From Carmel Books 1
To understand what is happening today in regard to the Western World and the Middle East we must understand the main branches of contemporary Islam. They are a) Pan-Arab nationalism, and, b)Takfiri Jihadism which has roots in both the Middle Ages and the nineteenth-twentieth centuries.
It must be recognised that Classical Arab culture (not the religion of Islam, especially when interpreted in its fundamentalist and fideist form derived from Al-Ghazali) is not a course or rough Bedouinism, devoid of substance and depth (which Al-Ghazali reduced it to), which is how it is commonly presented by a politically-correct Western media today.
In fact Classical Arab culture is humanistic and scientific (originating in India and China and then transmitted to Europe by way of Arabia). Arabic Aristotelian philosophy (Avicenna, Averroes) touched great heights of development in the Middle Ages before its decline. The decline, primarily theological, philosophical and exegetical, influenced by the philosophy of Al-Ghazali, became far-reaching, but didn't replace the Classical Arab culture that underwent a revival under social Pan-Arab nationalism. Pan-Arab nationalism is fundamentally opposed to Takfiri Jihadism which is bankrolled by the USA, Israel and Saudi Arabia.
In the Middle Ages Thomistic metaphysics, based on Aristotle, corrected and purged Arabic philosophy of its rationalistic defects and also perfected the doctrine of being as the final act of essence.
The philosophy of the West, which is the theoretical foundation of Neo-Conservative politics, is Enlightenment Empiricism influenced by Nominalism leading to Agnosticism, and which, according to St. Pius X, is "the evil of the modern world" and the basis of theological Modernism.
So Empiricism is radically opposed to sound scholastic philosophy, theology and metaphysics. The mediaeval Arab world was only imperfect in respect to it, but not opposed to it.
Eventually, if we study a) mediaeval Jewish metaphysics (especially Maimonides), which despite some healthy theological and metaphysical principles borrowed from Aristotle, Averroes and Avicenna, flows into Nihilism, and b) contemporary Jewish philosophy (Buberand Levinas) which is Subjectivist, Structuralist and Nihilistic, it is clear that there exits a radical incompatibility between them and right reason, sound theology and divine revelation.
When we objectively and dispassionately study mediaeval Arab, Jewish and Christian metaphysics and Western Empiricism, we find that a much greater opposition to classical Greek-Roman metaphysics and to Christianity (patristic, scholastic and social doctrine) comes from Jewish Nihilism (Maimonides), Anglo-American Neo-Conservative ideology(Burke, Strauss, Kristol, Popper, Hayek, Mises and Friedman) and Zionism (Buber and Levinas), than from the metaphysics of mediaeval Arabia and modern Pan-Arab nationalism.
By going back to the origins of current events we can distinguish:
1) The incompatability in religion between Christianity and Islam, which is, however, less than that which exists between the Gospel and Hebrew Talmudism;
2) The affinity between mediaeval Arab and Thomist metaphysics, which are to one another as potency is to act, and less perfect to more perfect;
3) The irreconcilability of Western Agnosticism with right reason and the Christian Faith, which stand against each other as black and white, yes and no;
4) The unitary design of Jewish-Anglo-American Globalism which uses the Takfirism-Salafism–Wahhabism of Saudi Arabia to undermine and destabilise the foundations of lay Arab States, causing division and chaos in countries once socially and economically ordered and not morally corrupted by the immanent subjectivism of Western modernity.
The existing branches of Islam
Classical Islamic theology and culture was formed in Arabia in the seventh century. Towards the end of the thirteenth century it began to decline and towards the end of the eighteenth century, with the expedition of Napoleon Bonaparte in Egypt, came the eruption of European Enlightenment modernity.
After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1917 and the fragmentation of the Arab world into French/Anglo colonies there was a renaissance in the Arab world in the form of a social-orientated nationalism as a reaction to the forced establishment in Palestine, in 1948, of the State of Israel.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, in 1990, a radical anti-nationalist, and anti-Arab, Islamicist ideology funded by the United States, the Gulf States and Israel, with some co-operation from Turkey, became prominent. These Islamicists were first deployed in the 1979-89 proxy war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan and have been operating as a proxy force in Chechnya ever since, in Iraq since the Second Gulf War of 2003, in numerous countries afflicted by the so-called 'Arab Spring' that began in earnest in 2011, and in the central regions of Africa.
In the nineteenth century there prevailed at first in the Islamic world a certain fascination towards modernity. Egypt was the first Moslem country to send a team of forty scholars to France to study the sciences, technology and literature, and to apply them to the socio-economic benefit of the country, without, however, wanting technological progress at the expense of their traditions, culture and religion.
Therefore the social emancipation of the Moslem world was always viewed in light of a renewal and rebirth of Arab culture, and not in opposition to it. The study of European science and technology was intended to be in line with a return to the sources of Arab culture and used by the Arab nations to solve the political and social problems that they faced in the nineteenth century.
The late introduction of philosophical modernity – subjectivist, rationalist and relativist – in Arab countries, irreconcilable with their religious tradition, gave birth to a traumatic disturbance in the populations of the Near and Middle East. This was exasperated by Anglo-French colonialism which was not accepted by the Arab world, in part because it was more inclined to exploit economically than to evangelise and civilise.
Father Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916), a missionary in Algeria and Morocco, had explained tirelessly to the French authorities the grave danger of what was primarily a material and exploitative colonialism that neglected or rejected being the bearer of the Gospel and Christian civilisation; a colonialism that was, therefore, unable to conquer the minds and wills of the Arabs. It was not only necessary but opportune to bring the Gospels to the Arabs because they were still immune to the rationalism of the Enlightenment and still profoundly orientated towards the transcendent, despising atheism and agnosticism, and thereby being open to grace having a deep impact on their souls.
Unfortunately modern Europe, with the exception of the missionaries sent by the Church (who were not supported by the secular power of the State), instead of bringing the Gospels, the Fathers, Thomist metaphysics and the social doctrine of the Church, brought with it Agnosticism and Enlightenment culture along with the technological development and, therefore, the colonialism of Europe was, with good reason, despised and hated by the Arabs.
Faced with the sudden intrusion of European Enlightenment modernity into the nineteenth-century Arab world, many of the leaders of Arab society were blinded by self-preservation and lust for greater wealth and power, and began to act as parrots who aped Napoleonic Liberalism, without trying to understand its meaning, and without trying to distinguish what might be consistent with truth and what was not.
In turn, this led to an exaggerated fideistic reaction which was anti-metaphysical and gave birth to Wahhabism, Salafism, the Muslim Botherhood and the radical politicised movement of a fundamentalist Islam that came into conflict with traditional Sunni and Shia beliefs, and the social-orientated nationalism of Egyptian Nasserism and Syrian and Iraqi Baathism.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Arab intellectuals studied European thought in the light of the Arab renaissance and formed a national and Pan-Arab political vision and understanding of the world.
Pan-Arab social thought, which was mainly political without being irreligious, and somewhat comparable to Ghibellinism or to Italian Fascism and therefore fundamentally different from both Atheistic and Materialist Marxism on the one hand and religious integralism on the other, attempted to raise Arab culture to the high levels once obtained during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. This Pan-Arab current looked towards Islam as the cement for reunification and political and cultural renaissance of the Arab world, with the Arab national and political element holding primacy over the Islamic religious element.
This socially-inclined Arab nationalism was tolerant, not confrontational, with Christians who accepted the building of a national and Pan-Arabic State and its culture; for example in Syria, Iraq, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. The national and Pan-Arabic State was also seen as a means of emancipation from Ottoman-Turkish despotism.
However, this current of thought was opposed by Salafist thinkers or ideologues who rejected all the developments of Islamic thought and culture over the centuries as innovations, and who want to return to an almost stone-age cultural barbarity. The conflict of the Muslim Brotherhood with Arab nationalism gave birth to Al-Qaeda and Jihadist revolution and the current on-going struggle against the Pan-Arab nationalist and secular Islamic regimes and populations of Iraq, Eqypt, Libya, Tunisia, and Syria.
So, since the nineteenth century, two types of Islam have collided: the first secular-nationalist/patriotically-inspired, religiously Islamic but not fundamentalist (Nasserism in Egypt, Baathism in Syria and Iraq), and the second which is fundamentalist and Jihadist which wants to fight against social Pan-Arab nationalism but which, at the same time, is trained and bankrolled by a US-Israeli-Gulf-Turkish alliance which they theoretically claim to oppose.
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Just War? Or Malevolence and Madness?
The armistice signed ninety-seven years ago, which was hailed as putting an end to 'The War That Will End War,' was really only a temporary halt to the genocidal objectives of the New Unhappy Lords of the Modern Age. Every war and conflict that followed throughout the 20th Century and into the 21st can trace its cause to the social upheavals, fragmentation of Old Empires and the consolidation of a growing New World Empire that resulted from the 'Great War'.
Two seminal books were published nine years ago that laid out Catholic Just War principles, and questioned from every conceivable angle the morality of pursuing War in Iraq. Those principles of Catholic Just War doctrine remain just as profound, just as vital and just as applicable today whether it be in regard to the ongoing butchering of Syria and Iraq, or the insane provocations continually pursued against Iran and Russia, whether it be by direct military intervention, or by the training and funding of Takfiri or Banderite terror forces.
Refuting the myth that America's socially conservative thinkers, journalists, and commentators tended to support the war in Iraq, Neo-Conned: A Condemnation of War in Iraq incorporates the opinions of some of the leading figures in America's conservative movement on why the decision to go to war and the continuing occupation of Iraq was and is the wrong course of action. Twenty-five articles by influential thinkers such as former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, syndicated columnists Sam Francis, Joseph Sobran, Eric Margolis, and Charley Reese, leading economist Jude Wanniski, social critics Tom Fleming and Paul Gottfried, and religious figures Bishop John Michael Botean and the late Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani make the case against the Iraqi conflict using conservative arguments on geopolitics, Christian morality, and common sense. Four detailed appendices on the war teachings of the Catholic Church are also provided.
In Neo-Conned Again: Hypocrisy, Lawlessness and the Rape of Iraq the moral, political, and legal problems surrounding the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq are addressed with uncommon frankness by an eclectic mix of some of the world's most influential academics, lawyers, journalists, politicians, and military, intelligence, and media experts. Contributions include academics such as Noam Chomsky, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Claes Ryn; journalists Milton Viorst, Robert Fisk, Kirkpatrick Sale, and Justin Raimondo; former CIA professional Ray McGovern; former Defense Intelligence Agency professional W. Patrick Lang; and Fr. Jean-Marie Benjamin, personal friend of the former Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq Traiq Aziz. Discussing the Iraq war and related issues such as the legal foundation of the war on terror, the detention practices at Guantanamo Bay, and the roots of the American Neo-Conservative ideology, the essays illustrate the hypocrisy and illegality of America's stance on terrorism and its policies of aggression in the Middle East.
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Vaccine researcher balances science and faith
By Michael Ashcraft —
At one time, Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett didn't know that there was an academic degree called a PhD. Now, the outspoken Christian is leading a National Institutes of Health team developing a Covid vaccine.
"I would have never thought that I would be in this moment right now," the viral immunologist says on Black Enterprise. She wonders if she is living in an alternate universe, one in which God is shaking the table.
Kizzmekia grew up in North Carolina and somehow caught the eye of her high school chemistry teacher who hooked her up with summer internships in a lab at the University of North Carolina after the 10th and 11th grades.
"I was in the middle of a laboratory with this world-renowned organic chemist, his name is James Morkin. And he paired me with a black grad student, Albert Russell," said Corbett. "Beyond the love for science and the scientific process, I learned that being him was possible."
Mentors helped her climb the heights of science, along with her Christian faith, she says.
"I am Christian. I'm black. I am Southern, I'm an empath," she says. "I'm feisty, sassy, and fashionable. That's kind of how I describe myself. I would say that my role as a scientist is really about my passion and purpose for the world and for giving back to the world."
Researching on the cutting edge of science to counter the world's deadliest disease in 100 years allows Kizzmekia to combine her faith and intellect to serve others.
"My team is responding to the world's most devastating global pandemic in the last hundred years," she says. "There's something to be said about knowing who you are."
Outgoing president Trump visited her lab and became aware of her service to the country.
"I'm frankly in a very blessed position to be able to respond to this pandemic in the way that I am with some level of purpose and passion," she says. "I'm being introduced to various facets of vaccine development where I was once just understanding the science and doing the preclinical work. Now, I'm connected to an array of physicians who understand the human immunogenicity side, the FDA, and tech companies. All of this has been a very intricate network and a learning experience for me."
To be able to contribute something valuable to humanity is rewarding. To contribute to the rescue from a disease is sublime.
"Many of the things that you do in life should have some level of concern about somebody else," she says. "Even if it's just that you have to pick one person. I would hope that everybody would have a concern for just the world, I think that it will make the entire world a better place."
Michael Ashcraft also sells annuities in Los Angeles.
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The Elder Services' Meals on Wheels program provides home-delivered meal services to older adults and adults with disabilities. Our mission is to assist frail and older adults and adults with disabilities to remain in their homes for as long as possible in an independent and dignified manner. We provide nutritious meals delivered by trained drivers, daily safety checks, resource information, and peace of mind for the participants and their loved ones. Overall, the program successfully helps to reduce or prevent malnutrition, ensure safety, reduce isolation and to keep folks at home where they prefer to be.
Ages Served: 60+ and disabled adults.
Income Guidelines: 60+: None; Under 60 and disabled: contact for information.
Other Requirements: Must be over 60, primarily homebound and unable to prepare nutritious food. Under 60 must be homebound, disabled and meet income guidelines.
There is no cost for the Meals on Wheels program, just a suggested donation of $2 per meal.
Drivers provide a safety check, brief friendly visit, and connection to resources.
Meals on Wheels meals are served out of CAPBMCI Senior Centers and Central Concord Kitchen and delivered to homes by trained drivers. Please click the link under "Contact" for your local area Senior Center phone numbers and locations.


Nadia Chauhan, Joint MD & CMO, Parle Agro, drinks only Jamaican coffee.
Tea/Coffee: Coffee. I have my personal coffee machine in office and I love the Jamaican Coffee Pods that I use to make my coffee. Can't start my day without it!!!
Spirit: White spirits, especially Stolichnaya Vodka.
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Steve was born of an English inspector of the South African Railways and a Tswana mother from Northern Transvaal. Given the oppressive apartheid regime of that period, the Kenny's relocated to Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) in 1969 where Steve took up his schooling at Morgan High School in Salisbury (Harare).
His schooling was uneventful and spent acquiring knowledge in the 3-r�s before following his parents to London in 1988. Although Steve had always drawn and painted, he did not know just how good he was until he won acceptance to the St. Martins School of Art in Central London.
Steve did not finish his course at St. Martins due to lack of funds and also his disagreement with the direction of the studies.
Too much academic drawing of still lives and bones and stones, whereas Steve wanted to concentrate on his portraits and figurative works, particularly his beloved African women.
In 1998 Steve came back to South Africa and has been painting ever since, gradually becoming known for his fine work.
Many politicians have commissioned Steve to do their portraits in addition to many established emergent businessmen.
Steve will continue to develop and his work will continue to appreciate with time. He is a rare and talented artist of the new generation.


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20th century saw some serious improvement in terms of both men's and women's apparel. Spearheading this reform were a class of fashion icons whom we refer to as fashion designer artists. Most of the famous iconic fashion designers of the last century are known till at the present time for their ability to exhibit the beauty of a woman's body by way of stylish, modernist, creative and elegant clothing. Below you will find a 10 list of all such iconic fashion designers, who have made women look stunning,beautiful, sensuous and gorgeous through their interesting and unique fashion designs.
A stylist co-ordinates the clothes, jewelry, and accessories used in fashion photography and catwalk presentations. A stylist may also work with an individual client to design a coordinated wardrobe of garments. Many stylists are trained in fashion design, the history of fashion, and historical costume, and have a high level of expertise in the current fashion market and future market trends. However, some simply have a strong aesthetic sense for pulling great looks together.
"I love a woman, I love to judge how beautiful she is, how beautiful I can make her." Here at KOKET we are as in love with women as Cavalli. This italian designer Roberto Cavalli presented his first collection in 1970 and came to be known for his lavishly printed and colored leatherwear and denim. In 1999, he introduced menswear and eyewear and followed with Cavalli Jeans (later renamed to Just Cavalli) in 2000.
To continue the designing process, different skills, knowledge, educational experiences are required. Personal judgments, inspiration, concept development and decision making are needed to select and reject ideas. Here I will show quick research exercise flowchart that will help you to research easily. From the following flow chart you may choose one or more elements from each level to start new designing.
Fashion design is customarily deemed to have started in the 19th century with Charles Frederick Worth was the first to have his decal sewn into garments. Fashion designers stab to design clothes which are serviceable as well as aesthetically pleasing. They deliberate who likes to wear a garment is. Fashion designers can vocation in a number of many ways.
He rebounded in the 60's and 70's, designing his own line and stunning Paris and the entire fashion world with his own brand of French elegance. However, the stress of his work led him to abuse booze and drugs; in time, the fragile designer's health became precarious. By 1987, he was unable to fulfill his responsibilities, and allowed others to design his prêt-a-porter line.
He was born and brought up in Mumbai, and was studying to graduate in commerce whilst decided to alter his field and therefore applied for National-Institute-Of-Fashion-Technology New-Delhi. After graduation won the Best Student Award! Launched his label "Manish-Arora" & started vending in India. Manish symbolized India at HongKong Fashion Week, in the year 2000 and also participated in the first Indian-Fashion-Week held in New-Delhi. In the next year he launched his other label "Fish Fry" , it was shown in six topmost Indian-cities. His future in our space stimulated line at Wills-India-Fashion-Week fascinated many international viewers, in 2007. Arora is an industrious man who's always on the go! Because of his intellect and beautiful sense of styling, MAC has enrolled him to team up on a new project, the Raj-inspired-beauty-range. He also introduced his jewelry collection in 2012 that was much loved. He's recognized for his eccentric amalgamation of western&Indian clothing that assemble perfectly!
Donna Karan came from a background that was related to fashion in certain ways. This fashion designer worked as a head of a design team for a few number of years and launched some designs that included the very well-known 'Seven Easy Pieces'. She is the sole creator of the DKNY label (Donna Karen New York). Since then, this label has seen many new additions in the fashion segment.
In 1995, Rodriguez became design director of TSE, where he presented the first ready-to-wear collections for men and women. In 1996, Carolyn Bessette asked Rodriguez to create the gown she wore to marry John F. Kennedy Jr, putting the designer firmly on the fashion radar. Rodriguez was soon appointed design director of Cerruti in Paris. After that a consequence, Loewe appointed Rodriguez as design director of the women's ready to wear collection. Rodriguez held the position until 2001.
"We saw the 'army' mood return, but in a more effortless and understated way than previous seasons. A utility and combat mood was a favorite in Milan, particularly from the likes of Prada and Miu Miu, who offered full army-inspired looks. I loved Isabel Marant's oversized styles which similarly drew inspiration with oversized vests and pocket-detailed trousers. A favourite piece had to be Stella McCartney's full khaki green jumpsuit, which looks great with an oversized jacket in the same hue and a pair of pumps," says Hsu.
In this stage fabric properties like its weight, tenacity, and construction are determined. Now-a-days fabrics are becoming smarter. For the textile development there are new terms are used such as, high performances, technical, intelligent and smart fabric. Some designers select these kinds of fabrics to show their creativity and present it on fashion show.
Over in London, things were distinctly more aggressive: Punk and themes of dissonance could be felt strongly (Brexit, much?), with plenty of tartan, more safety pins than even Johnny Rotten could handle and Vivienne Westwood staging an entire protest about climate change for her show. The strong mood could clearly be felt over the Channel, too, as British designer Sarah Burton's vision for Alexander McQueen this coming season established the poshest and most brilliantly executed iteration on punk we've seen in a long, long time. And talking of being combative, if you don't pick up on the "army" theme of many of the season's biggest shows (Bottega Veneta, Chloé, Miu Miu) and end up buying a pair of combat boots, I'll eat my bucket hat.
The hats Roy Frowick created in his spare time became his entrée into the world of high fashion. After garnering some publicity for his designs in a Chicago newspaper, he was able to open his first boutique in 1957. Around this time, he dropped his first and last names, opting for a more glamorous moniker that has became synonymous with American glamour…Halston.
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Culottes are dubious, particularly with the length. Falling somewhere close to a bootcut and an all out flare, have advanced from last-season's crude denim, twofold tone or weaved variations to the practically pants with wide legs this pre-fall season, and the length is stitched just between the upper lower leg and lower calf. Aside from the lower leg brushing length, a higher, more infamous length is likewise going hot, and it will look best cooperated with tall cowhide boots, impressively restraining the style.
A prominent name in the Indian fashion-industry from the western-Indian region of Goa and is amongst the top ten India's designers. He started as a catering graduate, later on moved to fashion-designing. He was the foremost Indian who was given invitation by IGEDO(World's largest garment fair). He's well-known for his passion for white and his modest chic style is a kinda rage among Indian-cloth lovers. In major Indian-news media, this multi-talented person has written exclusive features particularly for Goa Today, Apparel, columns for Femina and free-lance fashion journalism. He does the tasks of advertising styling, theater-designing and forecast portfolios. The ministry of culture , in 1994, exhibited his shiva temples compilation in Canton, Peking & Shanghai ,at the Festival of India. He's eager at art-patron and puts forward the artists of Goa through special promotions at the Endell Rodricks Couture Salon. He did intern at the Fashion institute of technology , New York to learn how to preserve and conserve costumes.
Ottavio Missoni started their own fashion design company with his wife Rosita. First they started with stripes, the easiest design which could be made with the ch. They use up to twenty different fabrics, including wool, cotton, linen, rayon and silk and some 40 different colours for each of their collections. Their clothes range from sweaters to skirts, dresses and jackets. Ottavio Missoni has also diversified from clothes to tapestries and carpets. Ottavio died last year leaving Rosita being the head of the business.
Fashion designing is the knack in which the relevance of design and instinctive exquisiteness to attire and embellishments. Fashion design is predisposed by edifying and societal autonomy and has speckled over time and place. Some fashion designers work unaided or as part of a panel. They endeavor to gratify client ardently desire because of the time is requisite to bring a garment onto the souk.
A leading name who embarked on the world of fashion in 1980's. She won the Yuv Rattan Award and is counted among the modern-designers of the country. Best known for her theme collections, and focuses on silhouettes and is always busy in experimentation and introducing new trends! Rina-Dhaka has arranged shows in Paris, London, Singapore, Hong-Kong, New-York, Jakarta & Dubai . Rina's Singapore shows in 2001 nd 2002 were her major victory! Even "Vogue" and "Elle" (International megazines) have featured 'er work and fashion-designing is now her family business as her brothers Shantanu and Nikhil also joined her in late 90's.
If there could be such a thing as Big Dress Energy, the A/W 19 runways were absolutely chock-full of it. Avant garde eveningwear has become a focus for many brands, both those known for their elaborate after-dark looks (say, Rodarte) and those who are usually more casual (Y/Project). It's all about volume, drama, embellishment, rich colours, and as much satin and tulle as you can get your hands on. Sure, the hyped-up and hugely Instagrammable frilled dress explosions created by Tomo Koizumo won't literally slide effortlessly into your wardrobe, but the mantra of more is more will definitely influence the party season.
This sleek blend of an advanced robe, a conventional kimono and a legitimate coat has been a shockingly in vogue and all around acknowledged pattern since the previous summer. A fancier, single-shaded adaptation of a year ago's midriff length elegant gowns absolutely worth bringing down from the runways that it is administering this. They are slouchy, ample and lightweight. In spite of the fact that tossed in with these late spring trench coats, only for it, belts, particularly a medium-estimate obi belt, with a bunch in the side, can finish the look.
The India's dearest and beloved designer, known & appreciated not only by Bollwood's-leading-ladies and men but also designs for Hollywood-superstars like Reese-Witherspoon and supermodels Naomi-Campbell nd Kate-Moss. He's the one who brought vivacity, energy and colors to blockbuster movies like kuch-kuch-hota-hai, Dil-to-pagal-hai….He was also asked to design-clothes for Michael Jackson. He's linked with the top international companies of Thai-Gems & Jewellers Association, Deutche-Bank, American-Express-Bank, Wizcraft, Moet and Henessey..


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2016 BLUE Ocean Film Festival Awards, A PLASTIC OCEAN Wins Best of Festival
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He didn't have much to do with computers.
So why talk about him?
Well, he is one of the most prominent design engineers of our era. His designs have affected many fields, as well as influenced and inspired many designers. This includes Apple's Vice-President of Industrial Design: Briton Jonathan Ive.
Dieter Rams work is remarkable in that he was not just an innovator; he was also an aggregator and a simplifier, putting words to ideas. He strived to do better with less.
"Surfaces that were without apology, bold, pure, perfectly proportioned, coherent and effortless" – Jonathan Ive.
Good design is environmental friendly.
Ten principles that follow themselves.
I could dig in to each principle, however that is not the object of this blog article… Those principles are quite self-explanatory, since most of those ideas are the writ form of notions we all have. Some can also be correlated to familiar terminologies (ie. KISS).
This realization is common to many fields, including the software industry. The spreading of the Web changed our society. More companies, more engineers, more clients, more products, etc. Boom! Within a short decade we have a world of new industries.
To be able to keep as much of an understanding as possible, we devise paradigms, design patterns and frameworks, all so that we can find some common understanding; an understanding not just among programmers (see for example Brad's article about naming conventions: http://34.208.95.78/2011/09/name-recognition.html) but also for the public. Users do not want to feel lost.
Google: Text field with a "Search" button.
One function, sharp edges, rounded corners.
Apple's designs have been following those ideas for more than a decade now, however those principles were really only pushed to their first extreme with the iPod in 2001.
It's simple, to the point, does it's job, looks nice, and looks solid (even in pink).
Just as the users started realizing that they were looking for familiar landmarks on websites, Apple designs got accessible, keeping only those landmarks. And obviously it works.
We are aware of these ideas: Functionality, simplicity and reliability. We have to contend with these issues daily. We are aware, but not all the time and not with such a precise understanding.
Dieter Rams's Ten Principles (as mentioned earlier) are an aggregation of those ideas that he put into writing; ideas we can all understand.
So don't hesitate to refer to that list once in a while, it might help you figure out a flaw, or some enhancement you could make to your websites, apps and/or architectures.
From a visual perspective, designs inspired by Braun or Apple products, products that are seen and understood by a majority of people, will only be made more understandable by their familiarity.
Don't hesitate to take the time to check out the Dieter Rams expo. Observe his and his team's work, with the ten principles in mind. Look at how the products are functional, aesthetic, detailed; how it is not fashionable and therefore never out of style.
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Over 5,700 Babies Saved from Abortion in August 2022, Zero elective abortions performed
By Kimberlyn Schwartz, Texas Right to Life
Abortions in Texas plummeted in August 2022, according to new data released by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. The report shows 0 legal elective abortions committed and 3 medically necessary abortions legally performed to save the life of the mother. A year ago in the same month, there were 5,706 lives taken by elective abortion.
Texas law allows abortion when the life of a mother is jeopardized by her pregnancy:
"Medical emergency" means a life-threatening physical condition aggravated by, caused by, or arising from a pregnancy that, as certified by a physician, places the woman in danger of death or a serious risk of substantial impairment of a major bodily function unless an abortion is performed.
This risk of death must be foreseeable but does not have to be imminent in order for this exception to apply.
Advancements in medical technology have greatly reduced the situations where both mother and child are at risk, but in rare and heartbreaking circumstances, a woman's pregnancy can endanger her life. The death of the child is an indirect result of a life-saving intervention for the mother. Texas Right to Life mourns the loss of the three children who tragically could not be saved last year but we are grateful the doctors rightly protected the mothers rather than losing both precious lives.
Thankfully, the August report shows a substantial decrease in abortions even from the prior month. July 2022 data revealed 67 elective abortions committed in Texas, likely during the few days in which an activist judge attempted to prevent Texas' pre-Roe abortion ban from regaining effect.
However, this report does not reflect illegal, unreported abortions driven by radical anti-Life groups. That is why Texas must focus on stopping websites that ship illegal abortion drugs from overseas and activists who traffic these life-ending drugs across the border.
With thousands of babies who will be born rather than aborted, Texas Right to Life will promote legislation in 2023 that would:
Reform the adoption and foster care systems,
Remove barriers for pregnant and parenting mothers in schools and workplaces,
Increase funding for the Alternatives to Abortion program, and
Ensure that mothers have medical coverage up to one year after giving birth.
Thousands of lives are being saved, as many as 50,000 since September of last year, and the best days of our movement are yet to come! We must continue to fight against the abortion industry's new efforts and create a culture that respects and values.
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These are so perfect for lunch, dinner, snack, even breakfast. They're also a perfect travel companion that will pack up easily and keep you full for hours, thanks to all that protein, fiber, and super nutritiousness. These bad boys also happen to be really easy to make, as long as you have a food processor. Serve them with bread, in a leaf, or on their own.
Preheat oven to 350°F and line a baking dish with parchment paper. Also grab a large mixing bowl, and your food processor.
I served this on toasted ciabatta bread, but you can choose whatever vessel for serving you'd like, especially if you're trying to keep the recipe gluten-free.
Total Calories: 1724 | Total Carbs: 135 g | Total Fat: 103 g | Total Protein: 88 g | Total Sodium: 554 g | Total Sugar: 11 g (Per Serving) Calories: 287 | Carbs: 23 g | Fat: 17 g | Protein: 15 g | Sodium: 92 g | Sugar: 2 g	Note: The information shown is based on available ingredients and preparation. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist's advice.
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People Notice Someone Strange Stranded On An Iceberg Miles Out At Sea
"We knew we were his only chance for survival."
By Stephen Messenger
Last week, while aboard a crab-fishing boat off the coast of Labrador, Canada, Mallory Harrigan and her colleagues noticed something unusual. There, about 4 miles from shore, was a rather sizable mushroom-shaped iceberg — and it had an unwitting passenger stranded atop it.
"We thought it was a baby seal," Harrigan told The Dodo.
But then they got a closer look.
Mallory Harrigan
Turns out, the animal riding the iceberg was not exactly a seafaring species.
It was an Arctic fox — and he was in real trouble.
Rather than leave the fox to face the grim fate that awaited him, Harrigan and her colleagues decided to try to help. They pulled up alongside the iceberg in their boat, and wrangled the frightened castaway to safety.
"We were able to get him aboard even though he fought it," Harrigan said. "We knew we were his only chance for survival, as the winds had changed and were driving all the ice farther out to sea."
While the fox had good reason to have given up all hope, hope was now restored.
Harrigan and the other unlikely fox rescuers quickly cobbled together a little bed aboard their boat and offered food to the exhausted animal so he could regain his warmth and strength.
Then they began the journey back to dry land together.
Once back to the harbor, Harrigan and the crew gave the fox a few more morsels — and then they set him free.
"We dropped him off in an old doghouse," she said. "He shook himself off and that was it!"
It may have only taken a few minutes for Harrigan and the others to go out of their way to rescue the fox, but that simple act of kindness changed everything for him.
"We're glad to have saved an animal," Harrigan said, noting the fox seems to be doing well, and appears occasionally to remind his rescuers of the life they saved. "We can still see him from time to time!"


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STRAUSS, ALL STRAUSS, AND NOTHING BUT STRAUSS
Karita Mattila (photo by Pete Checchia)
An evening spent with Richard Strauss is a glorious evening indeed. And with principal conductor of the Metropolitan Opera Fabio Luisi replacing an ailing Lorin Maazel on the podium, we have no complaints. We have never seen Maestro Luisi as animated and energetic as he was at Carnegie Hall, putting the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra through its paces. We enjoyed hearing works from different periods of Strauss' life.
The final work on the program was Ein Heldenleben, Op.40, a programmatic work which premiered in 1898. Strauss composed the work with himself as the eponymous hero; his youthful narcissism fits right in with contemporary culture. This is a colorful work in which Strauss filled the pit with no less than 8 horns and 5 trumpets, even more than in his Der Rosenkavalier Suite which he arranged nearly a half century later.
This orchestral mammoth shook Stern Auditorium with its vibrations. It is divided into six contrasting segments and is replete with variety from the bombastic opening theme to the dissonant depiction of his enemies, the critics (uh-oh), to the gentle love theme and the wild battle scene. Most notable was the virtuoso violin solos so gorgeously performed by Concertmaster Sreten Krstič. The ending was marked by a horn-violin duet that was astonishing in its beauty.
The opening work, Der Rosenkavalier Suite, was orchestrated and premiered in 1944. Anyone who loves the opera, present company included, was sitting there in total bliss as scenes from the opera were evoked. Indeed, we found ourselves seeing the sets in our mind's eye and visualizing the opening scene which culminates in a rather intense climax in both senses of the word. Likewise for that charming tinkly theme on the celeste involving the presentation of the silver rose.
The score is filled with waltzes, some taken at a very slow tempo and others which made us want to get up and dance. Maestro Luisi did the dancing for us as he used his entire body to rouse the orchestra to great heights. Luscious sweeping melodies were played by the massive corps of strings. There was dynamic variety aplenty. We loved the renunciation theme which was followed by a fast-paced, raucous and dizzying waltz which brought the work to a stunning close.
From the very last period of Strauss' long life, we heard Vier letzte Lieder sung by the world famous soprano Karita Mattila whom we well remember for her stunning performance in "Salome". Her huge voice cut through the massive orchestral forces like a hot knife through butter and her voice was thrilling from the highest register to the lowest, but the words were sadly not understandable, although that is often a difficulty with writing in such a high register. My native born German companion likewise needed to read the text.
Three of the texts are by Hermann Hesse--"Fruhling"; "September", with its elegiac message and taps-like trumpet solo; and "Beim Schlafengehen" which opens with a growling from the double basses. Our personal favorite and the one with the most direct end-of-life symbolism was "Im Abendrot", the setting of a text by Joseph von Eichendorff, with its thrilling horn introduction and its use of the piccolo to represent larks.
It was a fine survey of Strauss' oeuvre--50 years in two hours. One wondered whether he changed styles all that much! Not that we object--Strauss is, after all, Strauss-- and this Strauss-fest was just about right.
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Encounters at the End of the world
Roger Ebert July 10, 2008
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Read the title of "Encounters at the End of the World" carefully, for it has two meanings. As he journeys to the South Pole, which is as far as you can get from everywhere, Werner Herzog also journeys to the prospect of man's oblivion. Far under the eternal ice, he visits a curious tunnel whose walls have been decorated by various mementos, including a frozen fish that is far away from its home waters. What might travelers from another planet think of these souvenirs, he wonders, if they visit long after all other signs of our civilization have vanished?
Herzog has come to live for a while at the McMurdo Research Station, the largest habitation on Antarctica. He was attracted by underwater films taken by his friend Henry Kaiser, which show scientists exploring the ocean floor. They open a hole in the ice with a blasting device, then plunge in, collecting specimens, taking films, nosing around. They investigate an undersea world of horrifying carnage, inhabited by creatures so ferocious, we are relieved they are too small to be seen. And also by enormous seals who sing to one another. In order not to limit their range, Herzog observes, the divers do not use a tether line, so they must trust themselves to find the hole in the ice again. I am afraid to even think about that.
Herzog is a romantic wanderer, drawn to the extremes. He makes as many documentaries as fiction films, is prolific in the chronicles of his curiosity and here moseys about McMurdo, chatting with people who have chosen to live here in eternal day or night.
They are a strange population. One woman likes to have herself zipped into luggage, and performs this feat on the station's talent night. One man was once a banker and now drives an enormous bus. A pipefitter matches the fingers of his hands together to show that the second and third are the same length -- genetic evidence, he says, that he is descended from Aztec kings.
But I make the movie sound like a travelogue or an exhibit of eccentrics, and it is a poem of oddness and beauty. Herzog is like no other filmmaker, and to return to him is to be welcomed into a world vastly larger and more peculiar than the one around us. The underwater photography alone would make a film, but there is so much more. Consider the men who study the active volcanoes of Antarctica, and sometimes descend into volcanic fumes that open to the surface, although they must take care, Herzog observes in his wondering, precise narration, not to be doing so when the volcano erupts. It happens that there is another movie opening today in Chicago that also has volcanic tubes ("Journey to the Center of the Earth"). Do not confuse the two. These men play with real volcanoes.
They also lead lives revolving around monster movies on video, and a treasured ice-cream machine and a string band concert from the top of a Quonset hut during the eternal day. And they have modern conveniences of which Herzog despairs, like an ATM machine, in a place where the machine, the money inside it and the people who use it, must all be air-lifted in. Herzog loves these people, it is clear, because like himself they have gone to such lengths to escape the mundane and test the limits of the extraordinary. But there is a difference between them and Timothy Treadwell, the hero of "Grizzly Man," Herzog's documentary about a man who thought he could live with bears and not be eaten, and was mistaken. The difference is that Treadwell was a foolish romantic, and these men and women are in this god-forsaken place to extend their knowledge of the planet and of the mysteries of life and death itself.
Herzog's method makes the movie seem like it is happening by chance, although chance has nothing to do with it. He narrates as if we're watching movies of his last vacation -- informal, conversational, engaging. He talks about people he met, sights he saw, thoughts he had. And then a larger picture grows inexorably into view. McMurdo is perched on the frontier of the coming suicide of the planet. Mankind has grown too fast, spent too freely, consumed too much, and the ice cap is melting, and we shall all perish. Herzog doesn't use such language, of course; he is too subtle and visionary. He is nudged toward his conclusions by what he sees. In a sense, his film journeys through time as well as space, and we see what little we may end up leaving behind us. Nor is he depressed by this prospect, but only philosophical. We came, we saw, we conquered, and we left behind a frozen fish.
His visit to Antarctica was not intended, he warns us at the outset, to take footage of "fluffy penguins." But there are some penguins in the film, and one of them embarks on a journey that haunts my memory to this moment, long after it must have ended.
Note: Herzog dedicated this film to me. I am deeply moved and honored. The letter I wrote to him from the 2007 Toronto Film Festival is at rogerebert.com
Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.
Encounters at the End of the World (2008)
Rated G
Peter Zeitlinger


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Serena Williams Wins 60th Career Title
Novak Djokovic extended his recent dominance over Rafael Nadal by rallying for a 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 victory Sunday to win the Italian Open for the third time
By ANDREW DAMPF	• Published at 12:42 pm on May 18, 2014
Serena Williams kept the crowd from being a factor in a 6-3, 6-0 victory over 10th-seeded home favorite Sara Errani to win the Italian Open for the third time.
Errani was bidding to become the first Italian to win the tournament in nearly 30 years but the top-ranked Williams quickly took control in both sets and Errani appeared slowed by a left thigh problem.
In the men's title, Novak Djokovic extended his recent dominance over Rafael Nadal by rallying for a 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 victory Sunday to win his third Rome title — then dedicated the title to his flood-hit native Serbia.
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Having also been beaten in Monte Carlo and Barcelona recently, it marked the first time in a decade that the top-ranked Nadal has lost more than two matches on clay in the same year.
Djokovic carved a heart on the clay with his racket to celebrate his title.
"This heart on the court is for you," he told the fans in Italian during the victory celebration. "It's also a special dedication to my country, which is suffering a lot right now. My heart is with them."
Authorities say 25 people have died in the Balkans because of the worst flooding in a century after three months' worth of rain fell on the region in three days this week. Tens of thousands of homes were left without electricity or drinking water.
The second-ranked Djokovic has now won four straight matches against Nadal — the previous three in straight sets — and takes the psychological edge into the French Open, which starts next weekend.
Roland Garros is the only Grand Slam that Djokovic has yet to win, with his best result a runner-up finish in 2012. Nadal has won the French Open eight times.
Djokovic's other Rome titles came in 2008 and 2011.
Midway through the final set, Djokovic earned a decisive break as Nadal made several uncharacteristic errors, and then broke again to close it out.
In the final game, Djokovic blasted a backhand cross-court return winner right by Nadal, before a backhand from the Spaniard sailed long on the second match point.
Djokovic, who sat out last week's Madrid Open due to a right wrist injury, hit 46 winners to Nadal's 15, while the unforced errors column was nearly even with Djokovic committing 30 and Nadal 27.
Djokovic's serve was also a factor. He hit six aces while Nadal had none.
Nadal was pushed to three sets in four out of his five matches here.
"It was a difficult week," the Spaniard said. "Too many hours on the court."
Earlier, Errani left the court for an injury timeout while trailing 5-3 in the opening set and came back with her thigh bandaged. On the final point before she left the court, Errani pulled up and let a shot from Williams pass by her without even attempting to get to it.
"I'm sorry. You were unbelievable all week," Errani told fans during the victory ceremony, as she brushed back tears. "I tried to do my best and stayed on the court only for you."
Williams' other Rome titles came in 2002 and last year — and she went on to win the French Open on both occasions.
"I'm also sorry for Sara today," Williams told the crowd in Italian. "She really played great all week."
A left thigh problem prompted Williams to withdraw before her quarterfinal match at the Madrid Open last week but now she appears back on track for the French.
"I'm not 100 percent but I'm just kind of going on adrenaline," Williams said.
Organizers attempted to whip up patriotic fervor by having the Italian anthem sung before the players walked out onto the court, and fans continuously chanted "Sara, Sara" to try and encourage Errani in an atmosphere that more resembled a Davis Cup or Fed Cup setting.
But Williams jumped out to a 3-0 lead and while Errani had a few chances to get back into the first set, Williams overpowered the Italian with her serve — she had seven aces to Errani's none — and overall attacking game.
Still, Errani could console herself by becoming the first Italian finalist in the tournament since Raffaella Reggi took the 1985 title in Taranto.
The last Italian man to win was Adriano Panatta back in 1976.
When former Italian player Lea Pericoli asked Errani during the trophy presentation if she was "disappointed" with her showing, the crowd responded with boos and whistles. Pericoli then acknowledged that Errani's appearance in the final was an accomplishment by itself.
It was the 60th title of Williams' career, and a large portion of those trophies have come in recent years for the 32-year-old American.
Martina Navratilova holds the record with 167 titles and Williams needs seven more to match Billie Jean King for sixth place on the all-time list.
"I'm like a fine wine, I guess — at least my tennis is," Williams said. "My game gets better with age."


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Q: How do I remove the Innershadow that's on my action bar? Picture Example
I've tried to add this prefix and also added it to the AppBarLayout, but it doesn't work.

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Any help is appreciated, Thanks

A: Try something like in your style
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Check this Remove shadow below actionbar
On Android 5.0 this has changed, you have to call setElevation(0) on your action bar. Note that if you're using the support library you must call it to that like so:
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