The World Cup in Russia is just around the corner and all 32 finalists have named who has made the plane and who will be staying at home.
The EPL will be well represented by eight elite nations with several of the league's players featuring with the likes of England, Belgium and France where 59 stars will be on show for the world to see.
Here, HT180 SPORT has compiled a complete list of the best nations' final World Cup line-ups, with a statistical breakdown and nod to each team's talisman to keep an eye out for at this year's tournament.


During the president's address, Merkley will host asylum seekers Albertina Contreras Teletor and her young daughter, Yakelin Garcia Contreras. They were separated for nearly two months.
Merkley says the experience of this mother and daughter and thousands of other stories of child separation should send a powerful message to Donald Trump and his administration.
"That Americans do not accept with our tax money, on our land, under our government, the abuse, the horrific abuse of children," the democratic senator said.
Merkley, a staunch critic of the president, has made trips to Texas to inspect family detention centers and migrant child internment camps.
Merkley's guests will be seated in the gallery for the State of the Union Address. He says Tuesday will be Yakelin's 12th birthday.
Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley spoke to constituents outside Kiva Grocery in Eugene today (Friday) to talk about the country's income gap. He hopes to fight growing inequalities with a couple of pieces of legislation.
Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley arrived in Texas Friday. He's leading a congressional delegation to investigate the Trump administration's treatment of detained migrant children.
As the 116th Congress gets underway, a pair of legislative proposals are being announced – including one by Oregon's Senator, Jeff Merkley - that Democrats say are key to restoring American democracy.
Increased funding and more modernized firefighting tools are being sought by a group of bipartisan senators, including Oregon's. As KLCC's Brian Bull reports, this push is being driven by increasingly hotter and larger wildfires.
City Club of Eugene: DACA Dreamers: They Get The Job Done!
What's DACA All About? Most American citizens are the children or grandchildren or great-grandchildren of immigrants. We know from our own family stories that whatever our roots, we found pathways to inclusion in the community, to productive places in the workforce, and to wide-ranging spots on the social and political spectrum. Is the situation of immigrants different today? Are the immigrants themselves any different? In this panel, we will hear from two experts on DACA—Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.


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AP Interview: Tokyo vows clean water for Olympic triathlon
Tokyo Organizing Committee CEO of the 2020 Olympics Toshiro Muto speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Tokyo Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017. The top Tokyo Olympic organizer has pledged to keep water clean and safe at marathon swimming and triathlon venue where E. coli bacterial contamination has been detected during the summer, saying they are implementing measures that are showing improvement. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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TOKYO — A top Tokyo Olympic Games organizer pledged Tuesday to keep water clean and safe at marathon swimming and triathlon venues, where bacterial contamination was detected during the summer.
Toshiro Muto, Tokyo 2020 organizing committee CEO, said in an interview with the Associated Press in his office that officials have been trying out various measures at the Odaiba Marine Park venue, including underwater curtains to close off the venue, which have tested effective.
Muto says water quality has improved and further measures are being tried out.
The water quality survey during the summer found E.coli at concentrations up to 21 times the levels permitted by the sport's governing body, a surprise for a country known for cleanliness. This raised concerns among athletes.
The water issue came up in early October at a project review meeting of the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo organizing committee. Tokyo officials have ruled out moving the venue.
Muto said the metropolitan government has conducted tests on the problem using underwater screens, and Tokyo organizers are working with them to set a roadmap to improve water quality and keep it under control.
"Results of their experiments have demonstrated significant improvement," he said. "We will keep working on them so that we can take highly effective measures."
Test results have demonstrated that use of underwater screens in two layers could keep out 90 per cent of E.coli inflow to the venue. Officials have been trying out curtains in double or triple layers to compare results.
Muto said adding a third layer of the screens could prove even more effective in keeping the water clean at the venue.
Metropolitan officials attributed the excessive reading to Tokyo's near-record summertime rainfall that affected sewage processing capacity. Japan's capital had 21 consecutive days of rain in August, the longest streak in 30 years.
Exceeding the processing capacity of sewage facilities can cause sewage water diluted by rain to be discharged into the ocean.
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Robert Donley Red Sun, Black Moon: the LA Paintings, 1959-1964
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Known for his huge landscape paintings full of hundreds of tiny people, Robert Donley is one of Chicago's great figurative expressionists, crafting a unique and wholly personal aesthetic since the middle 1960s. However, an entire arena of Donley's work has never been seen in the Windy City: his color-field paintings. Donley left Chicago for half a decade starting in 1959, moving to Los Angeles, where his work shifted from the abstract expressionist orientation that had been cultivated at the Art Institute of Chicago. Working in the same milieu out of which California's post-ab-ex community arose, including such figures as Robert Irwin, Ed Moses, and Billy Al Bengston, Donley exhibited his large-scale abstractions at Paul Plummer Gallery and in exhibitions at the L.A. County Museum. Elegant and often highly geometrical, they absorb influences from Josef Albers to John McLaughlin, tempering a hard-edged tendency with brilliant painterly touches, all quite thinly painted in vivid colors. A series of exuberant works on paper from his first year in L.A. show the influence of the California light on the Midwesterner – like the paintings Miyoko Ito executed on the West Coast, Donley's palette shifted to a soft, saturated, more organic, deeply warm set of dominant colors.
These exciting paintings have not been exhibited in nearly 50 years, and then only in Los Angeles. They offer an exclusive insight into the hidden bridge between Chicago and L.A., two cities that have long played second fiddle to America's art capital out east. When Donley was living and working in Hollywood, L.A. was still a distant outpost with a terribly provincial reputation. But the town fostered a group of intensely individual artists, with the nascent funk of San Francisco gestating just up the coast, and a small cadre of trailblazing curators taking the reins to be the first to mount major shows by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. Donley returned to Chicago in 1964, destined to build on a very different set of images, but the work he made in L.A. remains a spectacular cul-de-sac in his fascinating career.
In the East Wing, three of Donley's infinitesimally detailed new cityscape paintings will be on view.


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SciFi Weekend: Doctor Who; Sex in Game of Thrones; Homeland; Dexter; Elementary v. Sherlock; The Avengers; Merlin; Blake's 7 Reboot; Amy Sherman-Palladino Interview
Doctor Who has become the first British television show to make the cover of Entertainment Weekly.
How do you know when a TV show has become a cult phenomenon? When its (often comparatively small) ratings are eclipsed by the wild ardor of its fans. Take the case of the British science fiction show Doctor Who, whose current lead, Matt Smith, is this week's cover star. The now 49-year-old Who is hugely popular in its homeland but has always enjoyed a more select appeal here — not that you know that from the devotion of U.S.-based "Whovians." In 1983, 7,000 people attended a Doctor Who convention in Chicago and over the past couple of years the time-traveling "Doctor" has received a bordering-on-the-absurd number of onscreen shout-outs from Community, Criminal Minds, Craig Ferguson's The Late Late Show, Supernatural, and Grey's Anatomy, whose creator, Shonda Rhimes, describes herself as a "psychotic" follower of Matt Smith's time travel adventures in this week's cover story. "It's not an obscure show anymore," says executive producer Steven Moffat. "It's not even a 'British import.' It's just Doctor Who."
Has the time finally come for the so-called "Time Lord" to break big in America? Could be. The Doctor Who team has assiduously courted fans here with a succession of publicity appearances, including a panel at this year's Comic-Con where Whovians paid homage to Smith's red-haired costar Karen Gillan by donning ginger wigs. (No. 2 way you know a TV show has become a cult favorite? When fans start dressing as characters.) In June 2011, the show's U.S. broadcaster BBC America enjoyed its best ever ratings with the premiere episode of the sixth season since Doctor Who was revived in 2005, following a 16 year hiatus. The new season, which debuts later this summer, may well be the most eagerly anticipated ever as the Doctor prepares to say goodbye to his two trusty and beloved-by-fans "companions," Gillan's Amy Pond and Arthur Darvill's Rory Williams. In the cover story we track the ups and downs of the show's remarkable half-century history and preview the new episodes with help from Smith, Gillan, Darvill, and exec producer, Steven Moffat.
Mary Tamm, the first actress to play Romana as companion to Tom Baker on Doctor Who died during the past week at age 62. Regret ably she was not able to regenerate like the character she played. A video tribute to Mary Tamm follows:
BBC America will be broadcasting four documentaries about Doctor Who in August:
The Science of Doctor Who: explores the real life science behind the biggest concepts and most iconic ideas in Doctor Who. The Science of Doctor Who premieres Saturday, August 4, 11:00 pm ET.
The Women of Doctor Who: Behind every great Time Lord there's a great woman. Whether they're busting Daleks or the Doctor's ego, the women of Doctor Who prove that you don't need testosterone to save the universe. Premieres Saturday, August 11, 9:00pm ET.
The Timey-Wimey Stuff of Doctor Who: When the Doctor's around, tomorrow is yesterday, yesterday is tomorrow and 18th century France is in your fireplace. Confused yet? You've already seen it in the future. The Timey-Wimey Stuff of Doctor Who premieres Saturday, August 18, 11:00pm ET.
The Destinations of Doctor Who: Leave the beach towel at home and take a trip to the end of the Earth – literally. From the Starship UK to one very haunted hotel, you won't find the destinations of Doctor Who in any guidebook. This final instalment premieres Saturday, August 25, 9:00pm ET.
George R. R. Martin commented on the reaction to the sex in Game of Thrones during an interview with the Daily Star:
Martin, who has a blue collar background in an industrial suburb of New Jersey said he has been surprised with the reaction against explicit sex scenes coming from some American readers.
"I can describe an axe entering a human skull in great explicit detail and no one will blink twice at it. I provide a similar description, just as detailed, of a penis entering a vagina, and I get letters about it and people swearing off," he said.
"To my mind this is kind of frustrating, it's madness. Ultimately, in the history of [the] world, penises entering vaginas have given a lot of people a lot of pleasure; axes entering skulls, well, not so much."
Above is a trailer for the second season of Homeland, which returns on September 30. Showtime has released this press release:
In the wake of Israeli air strikes against Iran, the Middle East threatens to erupt in fresh violence. In Beirut, flags bearing the Star of David, and the Red, White, and Blue, burn in the streets. A woman swims through the chaos towards the American embassy, trying to make contact. The abused wife of a Hezbollah commander, she carries information about an attack – retaliation against Israel's ally, the United States. But this would-be informant insists she will only speak to her one-time CIA handler: Carrie Mathison.
The problem: Carrie Mathison is no longer with the Agency. The disgraced ex-officer is on the slow path to recovery, after her manic flight in Season One nearly crashed the political career of American hero Nicholas Brody. Months after her expulsion from the CIA, the adventure and turmoil that once defined Carrie's life is now a dull memory, replaced by regular ECT treatment and her father and sister's protective cocoon. It's this fragile new existence that Carrie's former colleagues Saul Berenson and David Estes threaten to shatter, when they come to her door asking for help.
Meanwhile Nicholas Brody, several months into his inaugural term as a freshman Congressman, finds himself buffeted daily by competing agendas. Everyone has a plan for him – whether it's Vice President William Walden, fellow Marine Mike Faber, or terrorist mastermind Abu Nazir. While Brody strives to change the face of American foreign policy without bloodshed, he learns that doing so may not be good enough for Nazir. And with every lie he tells, the walls around him close in a little tighter, threatening to bring Brody down, along with his family and everything they've achieved since his return.
As the situation at home and abroad escalates, Carrie and Brody's worlds will collide yet again, deepening a relationship built on lies, suspicion and longing. Will Carrie finally be vindicated for the truth she was so close to uncovering? Can Brody keep his head above water, as opposing powers play him like a pawn? Whoever gains the upper hand in this dangerous pairing, neither Carrie nor Brody will come out of it unscathed.
They also released this press release about the seventh season of Dexter:
Season 7 returns in explosive fashion, as Dexter (Michael C. Hall) is finally forced to confront his greatest fear, as Debra (Jennifer Carpenter) witnesses his insatiable, ritualistic slaying of a killer. Now Deb knows the secret of his Dark Passenger, his undeniable thirst for blood, and the Code that their father Harry ('James Remar') instilled in him as a young boy.
But as Deb tries to reconcile the unfathomable idea that her beloved, mild-mannered brother is Miami's most notorious serial killer, Dexter is still pulled by his natural impulses to seek out the guilty and exact his brand of vigilante justice, which leads him on the trail of a brutal Ukrainian mobster (Ray Stevenson).
Along the way, Dexter meets Hannah McKay (Yvonne Strahovski), a strong, independent woman with a past that she's struggled to put behind her. As a turn of events leads Miami Metro Homicide to ask for her help in solving some old cases, Dexter works with her and begins to wonder if there's more to this woman than she's professed.
The producers of Elementary and Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch discussed comparisons with the other show and the choice of a female Watson on Elementary. Elementary's executive producers Robert Doherty and Carl Beverly answered these questions at Comic Con:
Can you talk about how it came about that Watson is a woman in this show?
Robert: "[In preparation for the show], I read a handful of psychological assessments of [Sherlock] that real doctors have written up over the years. Somebody classified him as bipolar, somebody else said he had a mild form of Asperger's, and one of them happened to mention that he was classified as a gynophobe – he had just not a terribly healthy relationship with women, he was a little suspicious of them.
"And it just sort of made me laugh when I read it because I was like, 'Well, what would make him crazier than Watson is a woman? He's actually living with someone who's monitoring him who's also a woman'. All of that said, our Holmes is not a gynophobe, he's not a misogynist – it's just sort of what got that ball rolling.
"I also was sort of up for the challenge. I knew it would be inevitable that people would be fascinated by the 'will-they-won't-they' that would come up and I like that the question is there and it exists, but I also don't feel any rush to… In fact, let me be blunt – I don't want them to end up in bed together. That's just not what the show is for.
"I don't think that would be true to the spirit of the original relationship between the two characters, and that's important to me. I'd like to show that a man and a woman can be friends and go to work and live together and not end up romantically entangled."
Carl: "Robert often calls it a bromance, but one of the bros just happens to be a woman.
"I think it's a really apt description because there's this idea that a man and woman can't be together – on a show, especially – without needing to be together sexually or in love or whatever. And this is really just about the evolution of a friendship and how that happens. Watching that should be as much the story of this show as the mystery you see week in, week out about who killed who.
"You know, we love that and those stories will be great, but the mystery of this relationship and how the friendship comes into being, that should be something that draws people in too."
Obviously there will be comparisons to the BBC's Sherlock…
Carl: "We think it's fantastic."
Robert: "It's an incredible show. I have nothing but the highest regard for that show and Steven as a writer. I think sometimes we catch flak because we are a contemporised Sherlock. Sherlock has been contemporised dating back to the '40s. There were movies with Basil Rathbone set in the Victorian era and then suddenly there were movies with Basil Rathbone in World War II where they're fighting Nazis, so the idea's been around a long time.
"Sherlock has done it extremely well – I think it's a brilliant show. I've only seen the first series but I hear the second series is just as excellent. But as far as taking from the show, I just don't think that's true. Because he exists mostly in the public domain, many hands have handled Sherlock over the years.
"He's been everywhere – he's been to the future, he's been to the past, I've seen him in comics, I've seen him in books, I've seen many, many, many different takes and interpretations of the character and the franchise. They're all great. I don't think any of them hurt any of the others. Sherlock the character has big shoulders and I think he can carry all of us."
Answers from additional questions suggested a couple of ways in which Elementary might differ from Sherlock. They do not plan to update original Sherlock Holmes stories as has been done on Sherlock. Mycroft will probably wind up on the show eventually, but not initially. Sherlock's father will probably appear first.
Benedict Cumberbatch expressed these views on Elementary:
"If I were the [producer], I'd be frightened of the dynamic of male friendship that you'd lose," he confesses to TVLine, "because that is obviously the bedrock of the books as well. [Now] there might be sexual tension between Joan [Holmes] and Sherlock, which is [a different dynamic than you'd have] between the two men. So, that's a new thing to explore."
And not necessarily a bad thing to explore. Cumberbatch – who is friends with Miller and even appeared opposite him in the UK stage production of Frankenstein – believes the world is big enough for multiple interpretations of Sherlock. (And, having seen the jolly good pilot, I'm inclined to agree.) "I wish them luck, I really do," the actor insists. "I think it will be great. It will be a different spin on it, because obviously, theirs is modern-day as well, so it needs to be different from ours, and I think the more differences, the better, to be honest.
"I don't see why they shouldn't co-exist with us," he adds, "I don't think they'll steal our audience. I think people who are Holmes fans who think they do a good job of it will have a treat in watching ours and the films. So I wish them good luck!"
I'm not exactly sure what a television show set in the Avenger's universe but without the superheroes would be like, but such a show is being considered:
After scoring huge at the box office with its Avengers movie, Marvel is looking to explore the mythology on the small screen too. I've learned that Marvel's TV division is in conversation with ABC and ABC Studios about doing a drama series in the Avengers world. I hear that the connection to the Avengers franchise would be light as the project is expected to be set in the universe and feature some of its themes and feel, but may not include any characters from Joss Whedon's blockbuster. I hear the project is in a nascent stage, described as "a kernel of an idea," with a number of scenarios being explored, including a high-concept cop show. Marvel has already given the Avengers the animated treatment with Disney XD's The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes and the upcoming Avengers Assemble.
Establishing a primetime foothold has been a priority for Disney-owned Marvel. The company has developed several projects for ABC Studios over the last couple of years, one of which, a Hulk series, is still in the works. Search is under way for a new writer to pen the project.
Perhaps they could start with repairing all the damage to New York. Actually I stayed on Park Avenue in New York last weekend for the first time since the damage depicted in the movie and everything seems to have been restored. I did pass a couple of shawarma restaurants, but no sign of any superheroes.
The above trailer has been released for the fifth season of Merlin. The show was originally envisioned as running for five seasons but now there is talk of extending to a sixth season, along with a movie.
William Shatner's new documentary Get A Life! premiers this weekend on Epix. Trekmovie.com has a review.
A reboot of Blake's 7 is in the works, directed by Martin Campbell (Casino Royal). A reboot makes the most sense considering how much time has gone by and how the original ended, but I'd love to see them try to continue the series from the point of the finale of the original series. The opening to the original series is above.
Amy Sherman-Palladino was interviewed by Deadline Hollywood about her new show, Bunheads, and inevitably Gilmore Girls came up. No word on her planned final four words for the series and she is quite pessimistic about the chances of a Gilmore Girls movie:
DEADLINE: Well, Gilmore Girls worked — until you left. Right now, Gilmore Girls is back in the news because journalists are comparing your departure to the situation at NBC's Community, predicting that series won't survive the ouster of creator Dan Harmon as showrunner. Can a series successfully outlive its creator?
SHERMAN-PALLADINO: I think certain shows can. Great shows like Cheers went on and on after the original guys left, but you have to be able to train people in the style. I think procedurals can go on because you are doing cases. When a show is about a singular voice or a singular relationship, I think it's a lot harder. When you've got the guy who basically was Community, and you get rid of him in year four, I don't understand that position. You either keep the guy for a fourth season, or maybe you just don't pick it up. I don't know Dan Harmon; some people say terrible things about him. I don't know, maybe he is Lucifer. But if we based everything in Hollywood on who was a nice guy, holy moly, we would have no movies. No actors would work. This is not an industry that is ruled by kindness and generosity. But maybe Community will be a fucking phenomenon this year, who knows? I didn't watch Community, I don't have a dog in this race, but all the things I read about it just felt weird.
DEADLINE: Was the end of Gilmore Girls inevitable after you left?
SHERMAN-PALLADINO: Gilmore was tough and the cast was tired. It was a hard show, and I think that once I left there were pressures to do it cheaper, to really streamline it, to do things that they could not get me to do. But there are practicalities. If you are new, and they are telling you to do something and you would like to remain in your job, you need to do that. I think Gilmore Girls could have gone on another couple-three years. I was sad the way it went down and I don't think it had to go down that way. But I don't control the business, although I would like to. It was a great and wonderful experience, and I was lucky to have it.
DEADLINE: Sounds like that's TV.
SHERMAN-PALLADINO: It is TV. If I had any other transferrable skills, any other way to make a car payment, I would do it. It's the one thing I can do. You talk to people and they say, the business is changing and it sucks and it's awful. Well OK, but what's my option? This is it. It may suck, it may be awful, but you've got to just keep going.
DEADLINE: Any chance of a Gilmore Girls movie?
SHERMAN-PALLADINO: I thought so for a long time, I was into it, Lauren [star Lauren Graham] was into it, but the studio just does not seem to want to discuss it, so I'm thinking it probably won't happen. She and I were totally there, we were game, I had stories, I had a way that I thought would have worked for fans and non-fans alike, but Warner Bros right now is not interested in doing that kind of movie.
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SciFi Weekend: Doctor Who–A Good Man Goes To War
A Good Man Goes To War provided some answers, left others unanswered, and ended with a cliff hanger which might carry through the entire second half of the season of Doctor Who. American audiences watching on BBC America remain a week behind, learning in The Almost People that Amy was a Ganger and not really with the Doctor for quite a long time. The Almost People was discussed here, and this contains major spoilers for those who have not seen A Good Man Goes To War.
Kidnapping Amy and her new born daughter Melody provided reason for the Doctor to gather those who owed him favors and go to war to rescue them. The Ganger technology used by Amy's kidnapper, Madame Kovarian, was clearly far more advanced than that used in the previous two episodes, extending through time and even beyond our universe. Amy probably had been kidnapped before the events of The Impossible Astronaut. Unlike the Gangers who became independent beings in The Rebel Flesh, Amy's Ganger remained linked to the real Amy, who awoke when the Doctor destroyed the Ganger at the end of The Almost People. It was necessary for the Doctor to destroy Amy's Ganger so that Madame Kovarian would not know what the Doctor was planning.
The rescue, like many Doctor Who plots, had many holes in the story and was written to throw in as many ideas as Steven Moffat could possibly fit in. This included a wide variety of beings recruited to assist the Doctor, the most interesting being Commander Strax, a Sontaran punished by being turned into a nurse and forced to have compassion for the weak, plus Madame Vastra, a lesbian Victorian Silurian. Huge Vonneville's pirate and his son from The Curse of the Black Spot had a quick appearance, but it is questionable what real assistance they would have provided.
The kitchen sink extended beyond the Doctor's allies. The fat and thin gay married marines were quickly introduced, only to have one beheaded when "recruited" by the Headless Monks, and the other was forgotten. The Headless Monks have been mentioned when the Doctor and Amy visited a museum in The Time of Angels, part of the vast continuity to the series provided by Moffat. Lorna Bucket also seems to have entered and left the Doctor Who universe far too quickly.
The episode provided the final teases that the father of Amy's daughter might be the Doctor's before firmly establishing that Rory was the father. Her daughter had both human and Time Lord DNA due to having been conceived while the Tardis was in flight. We also learned an interesting, if not crucial fact about the Doctor. Not only does the TARDIS enable him to translate the language of any planet he is on. He can even speak "baby." I wonder if he can also communicate with my cats.
The key thing we learned from this episode is that, as the only water in the forest is the river (previously noted by Idris in The Doctor's Wife), River gets translated to Pond. In addition, Melody becomes Song and the names are reversed. Therefore Amy's daughter, Melody Pond, is also River Song.
This certainly explains why River could pilot the TARDIS. This also explains why River could not appear until the end of the battle of Demon's Run, or at least until the real Melody was taken away. She could not overlap with her own time line. I wonder if rescuing Melody will mean the end of the Doctor's relationship with River. It is also not clear where on the Doctor's personal time line the implied romance with River took place.
Now we know the full meaning of when River said, "the first time I met him I was just a young girl and he knew every single thing about me, imagine what that does to a girl." Amy Pond and Lorna Bucket also learned first hand, and did not have to imagine. River knew the Doctor in other ways, including his darker side which has included the destruction of the other Time Lords and initiating the killing of the Silence on earth. River warned: "This was exactly you, all of this. All of it. You make them so afraid. When you began all those years ago, sailing off to see the universe, did you ever think you'd become this? The man who can turn an army around at the mention of his name."
Is this why River ultimately kills ""the greatest man I ever knew, " assuming that it was the Doctor that she killed? Perhaps she killed him as a child in the astronaut suit in Day of the Moon for reasons which at this point are totally unclear. Now that the Doctor learned about his upcoming "death" from Amy in The Almost People, he is presumably making preparations and this was all part of some huge plan. I suspect we won't really understand what happened in that scene until the end of the season, which is also likely to be the end of Amy and Rory's time with the Doctor.
The cliff hanger to end the episode was the Doctor going off to rescue Melody. It was not a traditional cliff hanger as we know that Melody Pond/River Song will be rescued. I bet that Moffat ended this portion of the season in this manner to leave us questioning how all this fits together. Successful cliff hangers, from who shot J.R. on Dallas to the ending of Best of Both Worlds on Star Trek The Next Generation benefit a show when they keep the fans talking and speculating until the answer is revealed.
It looks like a lot remains to happen to Melody before she is ultimately rescued. It appears from The Impossible Astronaut and Day of the Moon that the Silence become involved, she is trapped in a space suit, shot at by her mother, and has the strength to bust out. It appears that she escapes and is on her own, making it to New York City where she regenerates.
The season resumes this fall with an episode entitled Let's Kill Hitler, suggesting the search for Melody Pond is a journey through space and time, also to involve the 1960's as seen in Day of the Moon.
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SciFi Weekend: Doctor Who–"The Almost People" Review (Spoilers) and Speculation About "A Good Man Goes To War"
The Almost People aired in the U.K. this weekend but BBC America decided not to show this week's episode of Doctor Who because of the Memorial Day holiday. Between those who watched on BBC and those who found other ways to download the episode, I assume that a substantial proportion of fans have now seen it. Warning, there are major spoilers here for those who plan to watch on BBC America next week.
The second part of this two-part story was better than last week's episode, The Rebel Flesh (reviewed here). The story took advantage of the set-up in the first episode, although this might have worked better if they could have had an extended full hour episode to tell a slightly condensed version of the story in a single sitting. The fight against the Gangers and ultimate conclusion made a good story, but far from a great one. Plot wise, the high point was Jennifer's deception of Rory with a second Ganger, which I had already anticipated. The best parts of the episode involved the Doctor's Ganger, and of course the final couple of minutes (video below).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isnaYwhcuL8&feature=player_embedded
Steven Moffat has added so much to the series with references back to the early years of Doctor Who. The Ganger of the Doctor was amusing as it went through the previous regenerations of the Doctor. This included the third Doctor (originally played by Jon Pertwee) saying, ""reverse the polarity of the neutron flow." While Pertwee became known for this phrase, he had actually only said it once.
The conclusion progressed the story arc involving the Schroedinger's pregnancy in Amy, but I suspect that other events of this week's story are also important to the entire season. The episode ended with learning that the Amy who has been with the Doctor is a Ganger while Amy is actually having a baby. As most already predicted, the woman with the eye patch was involved with the delivery. Seeing the Doctor "kill" the Ganger (or actually sever the link) now gives Karen Gillan two scenes this season in which she appeared to die. Rory retains his lead in overall appearances of getting killed.
One question is when the switch took place. It might have been when the Silence held Amy captive, but I suspect it was sooner as there had already been a scene showing the woman in the eye patch earlier in the episode. It could have happened during the gap we did not see between The Impossible Astronaut and Day of the Moon. With the Doctor saying Amy had been gone for a long time, the switch could have occurred even earlier, such as before Amy came out of the Pandorica in The Big Bang. Adding to my suspicion that the events of last season play into this, including the unexplained source for the destruction of the universe, are the promotional pictures for next week's episode in which Rory again appears Roman (such as above). The episode also contains multiple old enemies, as were seen in The Pandorica Opens.
This might suggest that Amy was impregnated by someone or something other than her husband. If Rory is the father, my suspicion is that it did not happen before their wedding. After all, this is technically billed as a children's show. If the baby is the child seen at the end of Day of the Moon, the father might be a Time Lord, unless living in the Tardis was the cause. This also raises a question of whether the picture of Amy holding a baby in the orphanage in Day of the Moon was the real Amy or a Ganger.
Ever since The Rebel Flesh, there has been speculation that the "future" version of the Doctor who was killed is really a Ganger. That would certainly solve the problem of having more regenerations before the Doctor dies, regardless of whether it is in two hundred years or much further in the future. I became more convinced of this possibility after both watching The Almost People and going back to the Doctor's death scene in The Impossible Astronaut. For a few seconds, the Doctor's face reminded me of the faces of the Gangers before they fully established human form–something which would not have meant anything to viewers at the time the show first aired.
Events in The Almost People add further to this possibility. Having a Ganger of Amy which was present for some time makes it more likely that other Gangers could be present in other episodes. The Doctor was concerned in The Almost People with finding out whether a Ganger of himself could fool others, also suggesting he had a plan involving another use of a Ganger.
Next week, in A Good Man Goes To War, we presumably will see the birth of Amy's child, and it is rumored that River Song's identity will be revealed at the end of the episode. It has long been suspected that there is a connection between Amy Pond and River Song beyond having a body of water in each of their names. One possibility is that River might be Amy's daughter. Promotional material for the upcoming episode reports (another possible spoiler) that Amy will have a daughter named Melody. Perhaps River Song is the daughter of Melody Pond, using both music and water in the names, if not Amy's daughter.
The trailer for A Good Man Goes to War:
The prequel to A Good Man Goes to War:
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Update: A Good Man Goes to War is reviewed here.
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Home Books Radical and Reconstructive Gynecologic Cancer Surgery
Chapter 12: Continent Diversions
Timothy Donahue; Bernard H. Bochner
Donahue T, Bochner BH. Donahue T, & Bochner B.H. Donahue, Timothy, and Bernard H. Bochner.Continent Diversions. In: Bristow RE, Chi DS. Bristow R.E., & Chi D.S.(Eds.),Eds. Robert E. Bristow, and Dennis S. Chi.eds. Radical and Reconstructive Gynecologic Cancer Surgery. McGraw Hill; 2015. Accessed February 01, 2023. https://hemonc.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=1577&sectionid=95457946
Donahue T, Bochner BH. Donahue T, & Bochner B.H. Donahue, Timothy, and Bernard H. Bochner. (2015). Continent diversions. Bristow RE, Chi DS. Bristow R.E., & Chi D.S.(Eds.),Eds. Robert E. Bristow, and Dennis S. Chi. Radical and Reconstructive Gynecologic Cancer Surgery. McGraw Hill. https://hemonc.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=1577&sectionid=95457946
Donahue T, Bochner BH. Donahue T, & Bochner B.H. Donahue, Timothy, and Bernard H. Bochner. "Continent Diversions." Radical and Reconstructive Gynecologic Cancer Surgery Bristow RE, Chi DS. Bristow R.E., & Chi D.S.(Eds.),Eds. Robert E. Bristow, and Dennis S. Chi. McGraw Hill, 2015, https://hemonc.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=1577&sectionid=95457946.
INDICATIONS AND CLINICAL APPLICATIONS
ANATOMIC CONSIDERATIONS
PREOPERATIVE PREPARATION
METABOLIC COMPLICATIONS
MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGICAL APPLICATIONS
Urinary diversion following cystectomy remains one of the great challenges of radical pelvic surgery because an equivalent replacement for the native bladder has yet to be developed. The bladder is ideally a low-pressure, highly compliant reservoir for the storage of urine with its own intrinsic continence mechanism, sensation, and coordinated, volitional emptying by muscular contraction. In addition, the bladder is generally impermeable, stores sterile urine, and possesses antirefluxing ureters to protect the kidneys and upper tracts from sustained increases in bladder pressure. Recapitulating many of the intrinsic properties of the native bladder and understanding the impact of the choice of bowel segments are paramount to successfully reconstructing the urinary tract. Urinary diversions are broadly divided into 2 main categories: continent and incontinent diversions. In this chapter, we will review the principles, surgical technique, perioperative management, and long-term issues associated with continent cutaneous reservoirs. The other major type of continent diversion, orthotopic urinary diversion is described in Chapter 13.
A continent catheterizable diversion was first described by Gilchrest et al1 in 1950, but it was not until more than 30 years later when continent cutaneous diversions were routinely performed. Although many different techniques have been described, all are based upon 2 underlying principles: a detubularized, spherical bowel reservoir for storage and a continent, catheterizable stoma for emptying. A variety of continent stomas have been described. The terminal ileum can be tailored and used as a catheterizable limb to take advantage of the nonrefluxing ileocecal valve. The appendix or a tailored segment of bowel can be submucosally tunneled to form a stoma utilizing the principles described by Mitrofanoff.2 With the Kock or Mainz pouch, a nipple or flap valve is constructed to provide a new continence mechanism. Continent cutaneous reservoirs are an outstanding option for patients in whom an orthotopic urinary diversion is contraindicated.
The Indiana Pouch, a continent cutaneous diversion based upon the terminal ileum and right colon, was first described in 1985 and uses the nonrefluxing ileocecal valve as the continence mechanism. The right hemicolon is detubularized, folded, and is used to fashion a spherical reservoir. The tapered terminal ileum is matured into a stoma either in the right lower quadrant or umbilicus for catheterization of the pouch. Long-term data from multiple institutions have shown this to be a safe and reliable form of urinary diversion, with continence rates that range from 94% to 98%,3 reoperation rates of 15%, and long-term complications, such as pouch calculi, stomal hernia, stomal stenosis, bowel obstruction, and renal insufficiency, in 17%.4 Bochner et al5 described a modification to the ileocecal reservoir whereby the ureters are anastomosed into the terminal ileum as a ureteral substitution segment and a flap valve is developed with the in situ appendix as the catheterizable stoma. This technique is especially useful in patients who have undergone preoperative radiation therapy where excessive manipulation of the ureters can result in devascularization ...


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Q: lpr on Cygwin appending .lnk to my PRINTER value I have Cygwin on a Windows 7 machine. In my .bashrc file, I have tried
export PRINTER=\\\\myPrintServer\\myPrinter

Escaping the backslashes, which, when I type $lpr -D, gives me
Windows Printer Name = '\\myPrintServer\myPrinter.lnk'
lpr: printer error: can't open '\\myPrintServer\myPrinter.lnk' for writing: The printer name is invalid.

But I didn't type the .lnk there and don't think I want it. If this is the problem, how do I get it to not append .lnk? If the problem is something else, I'm all ears.

A: I'd try
net use lpt1 \\myPrintServer\myPrinter

then
export PRINTER=lpt1
lpr -D

If that didn't help I'd try
/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/lpr -S server -P printer filename

after enabling Unix (LPD) printing on the server.

A: I use enscript to format my printouts, but since it uses lpr this clue can help you
after learning that some printers are accessed by the name you find in the windows add printers menu I had success with a script that wrapped these two lines
export PRINTER='HP LaserJet Pro M118-M119'
enscript --media=Letter -G -h "$@"
It is good to use cygwin's lpr -D command to display a list of printer names that you can set to your PRINTER environment variable, which you are doing!
By the way, "lpr" in the cygwin cygutils-extra package ( not installed by default ) I know you knew that, but other readers might not.

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Leaf Extracts Of Irvingia Gabonensis Increase Urine Output And Electrolytes In Rats
I Nosiri, I Abdu-Aguye, M Hussaini, E Abdurahaman
acetazolamide, electrolyte, frusemide, irvingia gabonensis, urine
I Nosiri, I Abdu-Aguye, M Hussaini, E Abdurahaman. Leaf Extracts Of Irvingia Gabonensis Increase Urine Output And Electrolytes In Rats. The Internet Journal of Alternative Medicine. 2009 Volume 8 Number 2.
The diuretic effect of the ethanol extract of the leaves of Irvingia gabonensis was assessed in adult wistar rats. Five groups of five adult wistar rats each were used for the study. Ethanol extract of Irvingia gabonensis was administered orally to the first and second groups of rats at doses of 50 and 100mg/kg respectively. The third and fourth groups were given Frusemide (5mg/kg) and Acetazolamide (5mg/kg) while the last group was used as positive control in the study. The parameters used to evaluate the diuretic effect of the different doses of the extract were cumulative urine volume, electrolyte changes and pH. The cumulative urine output was monitored at 3hrly intervals for 24hrs.The diuretic effect was compared with the control, acetazolamide (5mg/kg) and frusemide (5mg/kg). The extract (50 and 100mg/kg) produced a time related increase in urine output. The electrolyte excretion was also affected by the different doses of the extract especially the HCO3
- ions. The 50 mg/kg extract produced an increase (P< 0.03) in Cl- excretion compared with the control likewise the 100 mg/kg with a significant (P<0.001) increase in Cl- excretion. Comparing the urinary excretion of electrolytes produced by the extract with acetazolamide, similar diuretic profile was observed like the pH and the increased excretion of HCO3
-. Frusemide, a high ceiling diuretic had no effect on HCO3
-, had a different pH but enhanced the urinary excretion of Na+, K+ and Cl-. These results suggest that the active ingredient(s) in the ethanol extract of Irvingia gabonensis induces diuretic response comparable to that produced by acetazolamide.
Irvingia gabonensis (O'Rorke) Baill var Excelsa (Keay 1989) is a species from the family of Irvingiaceae. It is found in the tropical forests and often seen in villages and towns in the forest region like Njala in Sierra leone, Yapo in Ivory Coast, Port Novo in Dahomey, Owerri, Calabar, Lagos and Abeokuta in Nigeria. The fruit pulp is acrid and bitter though it can be eaten. The seed act as a source of human food in Nigeria and known as ogbono. Chemical composition of oil extracted from Irvingia gabonensis seed kernels include: protein (8.33-8.71%), oil (34.28-73.82%), ash (2.06-3.8%) and carbohydrate (15.71-55%) and the major fatty acid was, C12:0 (36.6-39.37%), C14:0 (50.92-53.71%) and C16:0 (4.97-5.23%) (Matos et al, 2009).
Irvingia gabonensis is largely used in traditional and modern medicine for the treatment of several illnesses, as well as in industry (Lowe et al, 2000, Anegbeh et al, 2003). Different parts of the plant have been employed for this purpose and prepared locally as crude extracts of the stem, bark, roots, leaves and kernels. The seeds have been found to reduce fasting blood glucose levels in obese subjects (Ngondi et al, 2005). The stem bark has also been reported to have analgesic effects (Okolo et al, 1995). The powdered chocolate prepared from the kernels is applied to burns and used to make astringent remedies (Irvine, 1961). A decoction of the stem back of Kigelia Africana and leaves of Irvingia gabonensis is used to cure spleen infection (Sofowora 1986). The aqueous leaf extract of Irvingia gabonensis has been found to cause a significant dose-dependent decrease of gastrointestinal motility in mice (Abdulrahman 2004). Preliminary phytochemical screening of the aqueous leaf extract of Irvingia gabonensis revealed the presence of saponins, tannins, phenols and phlobatanins. It has been reported that saponins are of great pharmaceutical importance because of their relationship to compounds such as the sex hormones, diuretics, steroids, vitamin D and cardiac glycosides (Adedapo et al, 2009). Some studies have also demonstrated that several compounds like saponins, and flavonoids could be responsible for plants diuretic effects (Maghrani et al, 2005) and according to Lowe et al 2000, this plant is used for the treatment of several illnesses. No previous pharmacological or clinical study has been carried out to test the diuretic activity of this plant. Therefore this study was designed to evaluate the diuretic effect of the ethanol leaf extract of Irvingia gabonensis in experimental animals in order to establish a pharmacological rationale for the traditional use of this plant.
Adult albino rats of both sexes weighing between 170 – 230g were used in the study. They were obtained form the animal house of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria. Before the commencement of the studies all animals were allowed to acclimatize to the laboratory environment for at least five days and within this period they were watched closely and observed for any clinical signs, body weight changes, water and feed consumption. The experiments were carried out in accordance with the Guidelines for Laboratory Procedures laid down by the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria Ethics Committee on Research as well as the internationally accepted principles regarding the care and use of animals for experimental techniques.
Plant Material
The leaves of Irvingia gabonensis were collected from the Herbarium Keeper of the Forestry Research Institute, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. A voucher specimen of the plant has been deposited with the Institute's Herbarium under voucher number FHI 103947 for future reference.
Preparation of plant extract
The plant leaves were obtained in large quantities and left to dry at room temperature for two days after which they were dried in an oven at 35 – 400 C for 36 hrs. After that some of the leaves were ground into a coarse powder. The powdered leaves were kept in an air-tight glass container and stored in a dry place. 100g of the powder was subjected to Soxhlet extraction for 20 hrs at 50 – 550 C. The extract was concentrated and dried under vacuum. The percentage yield of the 100 g powdered leaves of Irvingia gabonensis was 7.67% from dry weight, a black crude extract with a sweet smelling (turpentine) flavor.
Pharmacological evaluation for diuretic Activity
In this experiment, the animals were randomly divided into five groups of five rats. Acetazolamide and Frusemide were the standard drugs used to screen the effects of the extract for the diuretic studies. Both male and female albino rats (wistar strain) were fasted overnight prior to test and screened for diuretic activities using the ethanol extract dissolved in normal saline. The first and second groups were given 50 and 100mg/kg of the ethanol extract, third group Frusemide 5mg/kg, fourth group Acetazolamide 5mg/kg, and the fifth group 2ml of normal saline. Immediately after administration, all were paired and kept in a quiet room to avoid unnecessary disturbance inside different metabolic cages capable of collecting their urine in a graduated cylinder free from faecal contamination. The output of the urine was measured for 24hours at 3hrs interval and route of administration of saline, frusemide, acetazolamide and extract was oral. At the end of the 24 hours the urine excreted was pooled in each group and an aliquot taken for estimation of Na+, K+, Cl-, HCO3 - contents and pH expressed as mmol/litre.
Results are expressed as mean ± S.E.M. Statistical differences were analyzed using student's t-test where P< 0.05 was considered significant. SPSS version 15 software program was used.
Diuretic effect of the leaf ethanol extract in rats
The results of screening the ethanol extract for diuresis are shown in Table 1, Fig.1 and Fig.2. The extract increased urine output after an hour but the response to frusemide and Acetazolamide was within the first 30 minutes. The control showed only slight increase in urine output in the day (Fig.1) Frusemide (5mg/kg) induced brisk diuresis which reached maximum after 30 minutes and stayed constant until after about 6 hours and then increased gradually for the next 24 hours. The extract (50 and 100mg/kg) on the other hand produced a continuous increase in urine volume throughout the period of the experiment (Fig.2). This is similar to the diuresis obtained with acetazolamide (Fig.1) which produced a significant (P<0.05) increase when compared with the control.
Table 1. Effect of oral administration of ethanol extract of on electrolyte changes (mmol/l) and pH in the urine after 24hrs
Table 1 shows the electrolyte changes observed in the cumulative urine output. Frusemide was seen to enhance the increased excretion of Na+, K+ and Cl-. The different doses of the extract (50 and 100mg/kg) enhanced the excretion of HCO3- with pH of 10 compared with control. This is similar to the effect of acetazolamide (carbonic acid anhydrase inhibitor) on HCO3- level in urine. 50mg/kg of the extract produced an increase (P<0.03) in Cl- excretion compared with the control likewise the 100mg/kg of the ethanol extract with a significant (P<0.001) increase in Cl- excretion. However, acetazolamide produced a significant increase (P<0.001) in Na+ compared with the control.
The term diuresis has two separate connotations: One refers to the increase in urine volume per se while the other to the net loss of solute (electrolyte) and water (Irwin, 1990) and these are involved in the suppression of renal tubular reabsorption of electrolytes. The evidence of a diuretic response was observed in the rats treated with frusemide (LaxisR), acetazolamide (Diamox R) and the extract. Frusemide inhibits electrolyte reabsorption in the thick ascending limb of loop of Henle. Micropuncture experiment has demonstrated a greatly enhanced excretion of Na+ and Cl- (Greger and Wangemann, 1987). Studies has shown that the high ceiling diuretics enhance the excretion of both Ca2+ and Mg2+ to an extent approximately equal to the increase in Na+ excretion and also causes a greater depletion of K+ (Sutton, 1985). Some of these were also observed in this study.
Acetazolamide is a potent reversible inhibitor of carbonic anhydrase. More than 99% of enzyme activity in the kidney is inhibited before physiological effects become apparent (Preisig, 1987).
As the reabsorption of water is reduced, volume of urine increases and pH of urine becomes alkaline. Also it increases urinary concentration of HCO3 - accompanied by increases in Na+ and K+ ions with a fall in concentration of Cl- ((Preisig, 1987). All these were observed with Acetazolamide and the different doses of the extract.
There was a greater excretion of Na+ with the 50mg/kg of the extract than with the 100mg/kg which gave a greater depletion of K+. This suggests that an increase in the dose of the extract can lead to hypokalemic alkalosis (Milton,1970) and this is in line with the pH of the urine but with the lower dose can lead to hyponatremia. The urine bicarbonate (HCO3 -) and chloride (Cl-) contents were almost the same (HCO3 - (90 and 80mmol/litre), Cl- (9 and 11 mmol/litre) ) for the 50 and 100mg/kg of the ethanol extract. The HCO3 - content was much higher than frusemide treated animals.
The 24 hour cumulative urine output induced by the extract was higher than that of the loop diuretic agent but lower than that of acetazolamide. Considering the definition given to diuretics in the first paragraph, frusemide, acetazolamide and ethanol extract fall into this category. The leaf extract of Irvingia gabonensis may have similar mechanism of action to acetazolamide but different from that of frusemide, based on their effects on the concentrations of various ions in the urine and pH. However the presence of saponins in Irvingia gabonensis from the phytochemical screening may also have contributed to the diuretic effect as saponins have been reported to be involved in plant diuretic responses.
From this investigation, the different doses of the extract showed that Irvingia gabonensis has diuretic effect and this effect is similar to that produced by the carbonic anhydrase inhibitor, acetazolamide.
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I.Chidi Nosiri
Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacy, Ahmadu Bello University
I Abdu-Aguye
M. Isa Hussaini
E Abdurahaman
Department of Pharmacognosy, Ahmadu Bello University


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So we're trying to explore the myth of Shylock and the reality of the Ghetto. Sir - But, as you say, "its success is in inverse proportion to the … decline of the Jewish community." Explain this paradox. After landing in Salerno, through the dreadful Italian winter of 1943/4, we fought our way up this normally beautiful country, and somehow I survived getting wounded or killed. Discover Venice anew, from its rich history and many cultural quirks to its delightful, present-day customs and excursions. These enabled us to surprise the remainder of the German forces and advance across the Lake Comaccio marshy region and take Venice. Keep up-to-date on: © 2020 Smithsonian Magazine. The decision had nothing to do with modern notions of tolerance. You write that "instead of a mass tourism basking in melancholic fantasies of dead Jews, I dream of a new cultural traffic." What is your vision for the future of Venice's Ghetto? I may sound harsh, but it could be said that people like the Jews when they are dead, but not when they are alive. telling us how they liberated Venice - and all this time I thought it was Ron Goldstein and his 4th Hussars kangeroos ! As a city of merchants and dealmakers, was Venice less hostile, less anti-Semitic to Jewish moneylending than other European cities? Cookie Policy From April to November, there will be concerts and lectures, and from June a major historical exhibition at the Doges' Palace: "Venice, the Jews and Europe: 1516-2016." Then, on the 26th of July, we will have the premiere of The Merchant of Venice, an English-language production with an international cast—a truly interesting experiment with the play being performed not in the theater but in the Ghetto's main square itself. What light does it shed on the changing face of the Ghetto and non-Jewish perceptions? Advertising Notice How did the Holocaust affect the Ghetto—and the identity of Italy's Jewish population? The antidote, in my humble opinion, is to not only observe the past but to celebrate our culture in the present. She was robbed by her servants and marginalized socially. Tell us about its history and how the geography of the city shaped its architecture. My mob, the 4th Hussars, were OUTSIDE Venice when it … Finland during World War II The Winter War. Eight of them returned. In the event that you consider anything on this page to be in breach of the site's House Rules, please click here. This story has been placed in the following categories. These messages were added to this story by site members between June 2003 and January 2006. On April 29 1945, my grandfather, Lt-General Bernard Freyberg, liberated Venice. The word "ghetto" actually originated in Venice, from the copper foundry that existed here before the arrival of the Jews, which was known as the ghèto. Famous writers, like Henry James or John Ruskin, don't even mention it. You are at the center of the 500th-anniversary celebrations of the Ghetto, which will take place next year. Finland during World War II The Winter War. Tell us about the poetess Sara Copio Sullam and the role the Ghetto in Venice played in European literature. Continue This eventually created mutual understanding and tolerance. You could call it the world's first vertical city. When Italy entered the War in 1940, its forces were equipped more in line with the First World War, rather than the Second. The Jews who settled in the Ghetto came from all over Europe: Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal. World War II resulted in a slower trade around the world and thereby changed production in Trinidad and Tobago, agricultural exports decreased. or The Holocaust did have a huge impact on the Jewish population. The relationship between Shylock and the other characters is clearly based on a very intimate understanding of the new social configurations created by the Ghetto. Starting in 1939, the Allied forces – mainly Britain, Russia, and the USA – sought to stop Nazi Germany in its conquest for European domination. The BBC is not responsible for the content of any external sites I don't think that Shakespeare ever visited Venice or the Ghetto before the publication of the play in the First Quarto, in 1600. Even though the war was over we had to move two weeks later and take up battle positions north of Trieste, because they were worried about the Yugoslavs ('Jugs' as we called them) coming through under Tito and taking over Austria. Venice has never had so many tourists and so few residents. Padua fell on the 29th May and after a brief action by the Kiwis and 56 Div, Venice fell on the same day. This could be religious culture but also Jewish art and literature. Why could the Ghetto not become the site of an international center for Jewish culture? As commander of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force, he … Less than 500 people actually live here, including the ultra-Orthodox Lubavitchers. Are you sure it wasn't the Kiwi's ??? War didn't get in the way of The Morning Advertiser (MA ) hitting the nation's bar counters every day.. We were the first troops in Venice, and my battalion, the 2nd/6th Queens, was somehow put onto river buses and we went down the Grand Canal. After Poland's defeat in the autumn of 1939, the Soviet Union, wishing to safeguard Leningrad, demanded from Finland a minor part of the Karelian Isthmus, a naval base at Hanko (Hangö), and some islands in the Gulf of Finland.When Finland rejected the demand, the Soviet Union launched an attack on November 30, 1939, beginning the Russo-Finnish War. I was then appointed commander of the Mortar Platoon, and when our advance resumed we were sent to Lake Trasamene to train in the use of 'Fantails', which were large armoured vehicles which looked like tanks, and would cross marshy country otherwise unsuitable for motorised transport. This amazing woman was then silenced in the most terrible way: She was accused of denying the immortality of the soul, which was a heretical view for both Jews and Christians. In 1938, when the Fascist Party, which some of them had even joined, declared them a different race, they were devastated. Almost 250 people were deported to Auschwitz. Although they say the New Zealanders took it, it wasn't so. Shylock is the most notorious Venetian Jew. The Battalion were then dug in on the banks of the river Senio. So I really didn't have the time I would have liked in Venice, and that was very upsetting. I think that is the secret to rethinking this highly symbolic space. Known as one of the most brutal conflicts in recent history, the Second World War wreaked havoc for six years, involving 113 countries from six continents. In order to distinguish them from the Christians, they had to wear certain insignia, typically a yellow hat or a yellow badge, the exception being Jewish doctors, who were in high demand and were allowed to wear black hats. England however, was reluctant to surrender and the battle of Britain took place. Shaul Bassi, a Venetian Jewish scholar and writer, is one of the driving forces behind VeniceGhetto500, a joint project between the Jewish community and the city of Venice. But he never existed. For any other comments, please Contact Us. In 1943, the Fascists and Nazis started rounding up and deporting the Jews. Give us a sneak preview. The 'lightning war' against France and other small states was very efficient and they were overwhelmed relatively fast. What are the plans for staging The Merchant of Venice in the Ghetto next year? In the 1930s, there was a tremendous growth of military estab-lishments throughout Florida. When people visit the Ghetto today, they see two Holocaust memorials. In that sense, Venice was a multiethnic city ahead of London and many others. 17th Annual Photo Contest Finalists Announced. But I agree with what Alan Whicker said on his programme, that Venice has never been more beautiful or fantastic — the weather was marvellous, we went out to the Lido, and I did have a little time off - and it was a tremendous experience. Simon Worrall is a contributing writer for the Smithsonian Journeys Travel Quarterly. Read more from the Venice Issue of the Smithsonian Journeys Travel Quarterly. The term "ghetto" originated from the name of the Jewish quarter in Venice, Italy. Get the best of Smithsonian magazine by email. Some people even think the Ghetto was created during the Second World War! Italy's artillery included vestiges of the previous century, with a contingent of horse artillery and many leftovers from World War I. At a very young age, she became a published poet. Napoleon has burned the gates; the Jews have been set free. Children in World War 2; World War 2 Summary . Florida soon had 172 military installations, ranging from both extremely large to relatively small camps. public. There will be events throughout the year, starting with the opening ceremony on the 29th of March 2016, at the famous Teatro La Fenice Opera House. At night the gates to the Ghetto were closed, so it would become a kind of prison. Today the Ghetto is one of the most popular tourist destinations, with nearly a hundred thousand admissions to the synagogue and Jewish Museum per year.
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President Buhari's Speech at the Flag-Off of the Kano – Katsina – Jibiya – Maradi Rail Line
February 9, 2021 in Latest News, Speeches and Remarks
Protocols:
I am delighted to preside over the groundbreaking ceremony for commencement of the construction of yet another vital transportation infrastructure.
The rail line that traverses the major commercial and administrative centre of Kano and passing through other economic hubs of the country including Kazaure, Daura, Katsina and up to the border town of Jibiya and the Niger Republic city of Maradi.
The cities of Jibiya and Maradi constitute a significant trading core between Nigeria and Niger Republic – a tradition dating back many centuries.
This vital infrastructure line will establish an end-to-end logistic supply chain in railway transport services between Northern and Southern regions of the country, reaching Nigerian southern ports of Lagos and Warri.
The entire route encompasses territory inhabited by close to 80 million people across 10 states of the country. This project has a branch line to Dutse the capital of Jigawa state to open up this corridor which is endowed with vast resources.
The Kano – Maradi rail line has been identified as a viable line that will significantly enhance the movement of passengers and freight to the hinterland especially raw materials from both agricultural and mineral resources for our industries.
The project, when completed, would serve import and export of goods for Niger Republic and other countries in the sub-region through Nigerian ports. The country would earn revenue through expansion of trade and commerce, while the people of Niger Republic will benefit from ease of transportation logistics at affordable cost in their import and export business.
The connection to Niger Republic through rail will also foster Trans-Sahara trade and contribute to the expected gains in the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement.
The construction company handling this project, Messrs Mota-Engil Nigeria Limited is supporting knowledge and technology transfer by investing in the establishment of a learning Institution for Transportation and Railway Science. This is commendable.
Distinguished guests, this administration, in clear recognition of the challenges posed to our economic growth by absence of strong and effective infrastructure, has remained consistent in her effort at closing this gap. We have in the rail sector embarked on the completion of the 1,424 Kilometer Lagos – Kano rail line to join the one being flagged-off today for the country's Western axis.
On the Eastern corridor of the country, the Port Harcourt – Enugu – Makurdi – Maiduguri rail line with branches to Owerri, Imo state and Damaturu, Yobe state have been awarded for reconstruction to include a deep sea port in Bonny Island and a Railway Industrial Park in Port Harcourt with the objectives of achieving a vibrant and functional railway infrastructure in the Eastern part of the country.
The Federal Ministry of Transportation and Ministry of Finance have been directed to vigorously act on engagement and concluding financial arrangement with appropriate co-financiers to partner with the Federal Government for the development of the West – East Coastal rail line from Lagos to Calabar and linking Onitsha, Benin, Warri, Yenegoa, Port Harcourt, Aba and Uyo.
Furthermore, the contract for the important Central Railway traversing Itakpe – Baro – Abuja with connection to Lokoja and a new seaport in Warri has been signed and is expected to achieve appreciable level of completion during the tenure of this administration.
Distinguished guests, I believe, when all these initiatives of our Administration are realized, the country would have overcome the infrastructural deficiency in the Transportation sector.
Businesses will be able to take full advantage of availability of an affordable and effective transportation backbone that can transform industrial and economic activity to a higher level. I also enjoin our private sectors to invest and participate in the realization of these very promising economic opportunities.
I now have the honour to perform the groundbreaking ceremony for the Kano – Maradi standard gauge rail line and direct the Honourable Minister of Transportation to flag-off the project.
Thank you and God Bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
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Tampa Museum of Art Presents Thirty on Thursday – China's Millennial Artists: A Generation on the Rise Tampa Museum of Art 120 W Gasparilla Plaza Tampa, FL 33602 United States
thu18oct12:30 pmTampa Museum of Art Presents Thirty on Thursday – China's Millennial Artists: A Generation on the Rise12:30 pm Tampa Museum of Art, 120 W Gasparilla Plaza Tampa, FL 33602 United States
Join Barbara Pollack, guest curator of My Generation, to learn about her new book Brand New Art From China: A Generation on the Rise. In this new book, Pollack follows the artists
Join Barbara Pollack, guest curator of My Generation, to learn about her new book Brand New Art From China: A Generation on the Rise. In this new book, Pollack follows the artists featured in My Generation and presents the first book to tell the story of how these Chinese millennials, fast becoming global art superstars, negotiate their cultural heritage, and what this means for China's impact on the future of global culture.
(Thursday) 12:30 pm
Tampa Museum of Art
120 W Gasparilla Plaza Tampa, FL 33602 United States


Katie is a Class of 2016 student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in New York City.
Pleural Space looks at the experiential curriculum of medical school, the many things that are taught and learned that aren't listed in a syllabus.
On the first day of my surgery clerkship, our chief resident gave us a few instructions for our next two months together. We had to carry certain types of gauze and tape in our soon-to-be overflowing white coat pockets, create a clear and confident daily plan for each patient we followed, and be ready for rounds at 6 a.m. the next morning.
A few weeks ago, I was describing my team's discharge plan to the patient I had been following all week. We had found an anterior mediastinal mass on imaging, and the pulmonologist wanted to follow-up in a week after immunohistological staining came back. I told him we felt he was now stable, and that we would like him to follow up with the lung doctor as an outpatient within the week. He asked me if he should return to the ER to get his appointment.
She asked me if I was from New York. I told her I wasn't. I was from California, actually, but enjoying myself in New York City while I was here. I asked her where she grew up. She said Brooklyn. She asked to see my referral card. I asked her to clarify. She said she wanted to see my referral card. For coming here. And did the super know I was here? Where was my card?


Child Support may be established through either a divorce proceeding or a Petition for Paternity. If you cannot afford to hire an attorney, you may establish child support through the Department of Human Services in your county. However, you will need to establish the custodial and visitation rights as quickly as you can.
If a current child support order is in place and you want to increase or decrease the amount of child support, a "Motion to Modify Child Support" is appropriate. The main reason child support is modified is because one or both of the parent's incomes have changed. Child support is determined by the amount of gross income both parents earn.
If a child support order is in place but is not being paid, you have two options: (1) contact the Department of Human Services in your county or (2) contact an attorney to pursue a contempt citation for collection of that child support. If the other parent continues to not pay child support, they risk going to jail or losing their driver's license.
Visitation for a parent may only be established through a divorce or "Order Establishing Paternity". Every parent is entitled to visitation! However, some situations may require visitation to be supervised. This is determined on a case by case basis.
If you have a visitation order in place that is not working, you may pursue a "Motion to Modify Visitation". This may include increasing your visitation, decreasing the other parent's visitation or making the other parent's visitation supervised.
If you have a visitation order in place however the other parent is not abiding by the Order, a "Motion to Enforce" is appropriate. Unless an extreme situation has occurred and the child(ren) is in danger if visitation is allowed, everyone should always abide by the visitation order. A "Motion to Enforce" will help you get the visitation you are entitled.
Remember, failure to pay child support is never a reason to deny visitation!
Grandparent visitation is currently under the legal microscope. A few years ago, grandparents were able to get visitation with ease if the same was in the best interests of the child. Current law is limiting the ability of grandparents to get an order for visitation. Again, this area is a case by case determination.
You may ONLY terminate a parent's rights pursuant to an adoption unless the Department of Human Services is pursuing the visitation. The section on adoption will explain the procedure for adoption.
An adoption terminates the legal right of a parent to have any relationship with the child. It also terminates any child support obligation upon the finalization of the adoption.
If you are married, your spouse may adopt your child pursuant to a "Step-parent Adoption". The other parent's rights must be terminated for the adoption to proceed. There are many reasons a parent's rights may be terminated pursuant to the adoption, but this is no easy task.
If you are a married couple looking to adopt a baby, check with a qualified adoption agency to assist you.
If a friend or family member has a child (or is pregnant) and would like you and your spouse to adopt the child, the adoption is not difficult, but it is a lot of paperwork.
Once again, any orders pertaining to your family or your children are the most important legal documents that you could have.
In a divorce or paternity case, a "Petition" must be filed. With this Petition, an Application for Temporary Order is filed, that requests the Orders you want to be in effect while the case is pending. Many divorce or paternity cases can take a long time (even over a year) so the "Temporary Order" will establish rules and guidelines for the parents to abide by until the case is final. The Court hearing on the Temporary Order is usually three to four weeks after you have filed your Petition.
Good for you! If parents can agree on the issues pertaining to their family, they will save a lot of heartache for themselves and children, money and time.
To put it simply, joint custody means that the parents will work together to decide what is best for the children. I believe that joint custody is the way to go if you have two good parents. However, this does force the parents to discuss major decisions in the child's life and jointly decide the same.
First and foremost, contact the police to help you. If you do not reach out, you cannot get help.
There are certain criteria that must be met to be considered "common law" married. You should present your situation to an attorney to inquire if you are, indeed, common law married, as each situation is unique unto itself. If you are common law married, you must get a divorce to legally end the relationship. The Court will divide the property, determine if support alimony is proper and determine the legal rights with respect to the children.
Q: If my regular weekend with my children falls during my ex-spouse's holiday visitation, do I lose my weekend?
A: All holiday visitations supercede regularly scheduled weekend or mid-week visitations. Thus, if your ex's holiday is on your weekend, you lose your weekend. Likewise, if your ex's visitation weekend falls on your holiday, your ex looses their weekend. It all balances out in the end.


Figuring out where to buy certain items in Japan can be tough. Look through this list of the most popular home goods stores in Japan and the type of merchandise they carry.
You can also find information on drug stores and second-hand goods shops.
Select a category from the left or scroll through to see the whole section.
Can't find what you're looking for? Click here to let us know and we'll add it.
Nitori is a large chain home goods store with locations throughout Japan, a convenient online shop, and nationwide shipping in store and online. Nitori offers a wide variety of build-it-yourself products and ready-made products, from various price ranges. Nitori stores are generally (but not always) far away from train stations, so it may be best to drive or have a friend drive you.
Recently, however, a number of shopping malls have opened Nitori Deco Home stores, which are small shops that sell a limited variety of Nitori goods. Nitori Point Cards available. Shipping services are available.
There are 9 Ikea stores in Japan. Unfortunately, Ikea Japan does not have an online store, but you can browse their entire catalogue in English, make a list of products you want to look at in person, and print direct from the website. Ikea offers a wide variety of build-it-yourself and ready-made products.
No point cards available. Shipping services are available.
Mujirushi Ryouhin (Muji for short) is a variety home store that sells furniture, textiles, clothing, dining ware, and food. The chain is known for clean, modern designs, high quality, and logo- and label-free products.
Muji stores accept point cards of the mall or department store they are inside (ex. Seibu Department Stores). If they are stand-alone stores, they do not accept point cards. Shipping services are available. Muji also has an online shop.
Tokyu Hands is a variety store with a comprehensive set of product categories in the Greater Tokyo Area. They carry everything from stationery to tools and sporting goods.
They sell a lot of unique things that typically cannot be purchased at other stores, so it is a popular place to buy gifts. Tokyu Hands Point Cards available. Shipping services are available.
Loft is another variety store, similar to Tokyu Hands, but with a higher emphasis on Stationery, Character Goods, and Health & Beauty. Loft is also a very popular place to buy gifts.
Costco is an American bulk retail chain that requires a paid membership to shop at. While Costco is mostly known for its bulk food, furniture and outdoor fixtures like swing sets and pools. There are Costco stores throughout Japan, but the highest concentration of stores is in the Greater Tokyo Area.
They are often far from stations, so you will need to drive, ask a friend to drive, or take a taxi. Shipping services are also available.
Bic Camera is a huge chain of electronics retailers. They have a huge array of product categories. Shipping is available at in-store locations, and an internet shop is also available. If you shop at Bic Camera, it is recommended to get a point card for instant discounts at checkout.
Drug stores, where you can buy over-the-counter (OTC) medications, cosmetics, personal care items (menstrual products, shampoo, cleansers, lotions, condoms, etc.), cleaning products, baby care items, and a limited selection of food.
The most popular large chain drug stores are Matsumoto Kiyoshi (Matsukiyo for short), Sun Drug, and Seims. There are countless smaller chain stores, and depending on where you live, even the popular large stores may be different.
If you are ever unsure if a store is a drug store or not, look for a large 薬 (kusuri) somewhere on the storefront. This means 'medicine'.
Book Off, Hard Off/House Off, and Hobby Off are popular resale shops.
• At Book Off, you can buy used books, DVD, CD, Blu-ray, games, and game systems and peripherals.
• At Hard Off you can buy used audio equipment, games, musical instruments, DVD, TVs, monitors, cameras, mobile phones, computers, watches, & tools.
• At Hobby Off you can buy used figurines, collectibles, cards, and other memorabilia.
Click to see what the Japan Postal service offers in Japan.
You could see how to sort your trash and what items go in which category.
There are churches, mosques and synagogues throughout Japan.
This is the list of popular and widely available laundry products.
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Q: How to get the created / last DDL time for an Oracle synonym? SQL Developer shows the creation and last DDL time for a public synonym in a table:
CREATED         15-AUG-09
LAST_DDL_TIME   15-AUG-09
OWNER           PUBLIC
SYNONYM_NAME    ISEMPTY
TABLE_OWNER     MDSYS
TABLE_NAME      OGC_ISEMPTY
DB_LINK     (null)

How can I get the same information via a SQL query?
select *  from all_synonyms where synonym_name = 'ISEMPTY'

does not get the created/last ddl dates.
More generally, is there a good way to see the queries that sql developer uses to display the data it displays (when you do not have access to a profiler)?
Thanks

A: You need the ALL_OBJECTS system view:
select *
  from all_objects
 where owner = 'OWNER_NAME'
   and object_name = 'ISEMPTY'
   and object_type = 'SYNONYM'


Microsoft used the Windows Blog today to announce the availability of the first update to the Windows 10 Technical Preview, which was announced just three weeks ago. The new build is 9860, and contains several new features as well as bug fixes.
I have been running Windows 10 since it was released. My initial install was into a Virtual Machine, and after using it as a VM for a while I installed it on my primary PC in order to get a good feel for it. I am still working on my initial thoughts for the new Windows, but, being a technical preview, it has a few bugs that made me switch back to Windows 8.1.
In the blog post, Microsoft lays out the fact that there are bugs and features still missing which will be added later. Some of the interfaces have regressed in style and function as the new interfaces are being finished. While this is generally a normal process for software development, we do not normally get such early access to a pre-release version of Windows, so we are also along for the ride. Windows 8, for example, had a very early developer preview, and then a consumer preview came later which added a lot of additional features and functionality. This round, the features will be added to the current preview for all of the people in the Windows Insider program to get a taste of them.
The first big new feature, which debuted on Windows Phone 8.1, is Action Center. The Windows 10 build is adding this as a notification center, but at the moment is only enabling basic functionality. The quick actions, prominent in Windows Phone, will be coming later. Action Center is now available in the System Tray for easy access. One nice feature is that it will be available to desktop apps as well as Universal Apps. I expect it to also carry the Windows Phone customizations so you can select which apps you want to display in the notification list as well, in the event you have an app that likes to steal the show.
Action Center is not the only feature from Windows Phone to come to Windows 10. Battery Saver is also present in the new build. As with Windows Phone, you can set this to be on which reduces background tasks, or you can have it set to come on automatically when the battery is at a certain percentage. Right now, the latter settings are greyed out.
Yet another Windows Phone feature which helps you keep track of data usage is Data Sense, which is also new to this build. Data Sense keeps track of all wireless network data use, and can keep cellular based connections in check by limiting how much data is available and giving the user a graphical listing of how much data is remaining, as well as which apps are consuming the most packets. Hopefully they add the ability to track wired network traffic as well.
Virtual desktops are also new to Windows 10, and based on user feedback, Microsoft has added an animation to make it easier for a user to know when they are switching destkops. This was one suggestion which was added from over 250,000 pieces of feedback already generated by the preview. Microsoft goes into detail about how the process works and explains why some feedback may take longer to add to the build than others.
Windows 10 build 9860 now offers users earlier access to some of the code. In the PC Settings, you can select which line of Preview Builds you want. Some people will want every update as soon as it is available, whereas others may want to hold off and wait for more of the bugs to be worked out first. Windows 10 is accommodating all of these users in the preview builds by allowing you to choose how fast you get the new code.
Windows 10 is certainly a big departure from Windows 8, and not just in desktop use. Having such early access to the previews, and having Microsoft actively requesting and implementing user feedback is a big change from the Steven Sinofsky (former President of the Windows Division) ways. While the technical preview is generally pretty good, it is not as polished as something like Windows 7 or 8.1, but if you want to check it out, visit preview.windows.com and sign up.
My copy of Windows 10 is updating right now to the new build, and once it is completed I hope to have another post with initial thoughts of the new Windows soon.
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Q: How to check which version of C my compiler is using? Is there any piece of code I can write or any other way to check which version of the C language my compiler is compiling?
I was wondering if there was a way for me to see if the compiler in question is C89, C99, C11, C18 etc. Perhaps utilizing __STDC_VERSION__.

A: You can look at the __STDC_VERSION__ macro, which hast the format YYYYMM and from that deduce whether you run C89, C99, C11 or C18.
See also What is the __STDC_VERSION__ value for C11?

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How to check which version of C my compiler is using?

To check against standard versions, use __STDC__ and __STDC_VERSION__.  Various compilers also offer implementation specific macros for further refinement.
__STDC__ available with C89 version and onward.
Compliant versions prior to C94 do not certainly define __STDC_VERSION__.  Since then it is a long constant.
The common values found include:
199409L
199901L
201112L
201710L

Putting that together
#if defined(__STDC__)
  #if defined(__STDC_VERSION__)
    printf("Version %ld\n", __STDC_VERSION__);
  #else
    puts("Standard C - certainly 1989");
  #endif
#else
  puts("Pre 1989 or non-compliant C");
#endif

Example macro usage