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Behind the Headlines: Israelis Living in Line of Fire Live in Fear, but Won't Panic
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Fresh tank treads etched in the pavement on Ha'anafa Street in Gilo are the latest sign that this southern neighborhood of Jerusalem has been thrust into the front line of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
Several tanks, which were stationed here for days, have been moved away.
They were positioned to respond to Palestinian gunmen who have repeatedly shot at Ha'anafa Street from the predominantly Christian village of Beit Jalla, just 800 yards across a picturesque valley.
A wall of concrete blocks erected on a segment of the ridge along the street provides little sense of security.
Replacing the tanks, further down the ridge that overlooks the "tunnel road" linking Jerusalem and the Gush Etzion settlements in the West Bank, an infantry platoon is digging in.
Within the makeshift outpost — behind a protective dirt embankment — about 25 soldiers are building seven sandbag-enforced firing positions for machine guns and a night-vision system, which will be intently trained on the village for many nights to come.
As the army modifies its positions around Gilo, life goes on as normal away from the exposed perimeter, even just one street further inside the neighborhood.
Indeed, what is happening in Gilo, which was established in 1973 in eastern Jerusalem and now has 45,000 residents, is the most tangible sign of what is happening throughout Israel.
Areas in contact with Palestinian territories are quickly turning into battlefields, and Israelis make every attempt to continue with their daily lives as the conflict rages in their backyards.
"It takes a while for the situation to sink in," says Ruti Vanunu, a 43-year- old housewife who is casually walking her dog and running after a toddler on a tricycle on Margalit Street, parallel to Ha'anafa.
Last Friday night, however, the situation did sink in. Vanunu was taking out the garbage when a burst of automatic fire rang out.
She dropped to the ground instinctively.
"I'm no hero, but I try and stick to my regular daily routine," she says, after describing that incident. "Maybe when I feel the bullets in my house it will do something to me, but we cannot leave here because of the shooting. That's what they want us to do."
On Ha'anafa Street, which has been exposed to much of the fire, it is harder to go on as usual.
Some bullets have landed in living rooms on this street, which has an open view of the valley facing Beit Jalla and the firefights taking place regularly.
Residents know that from the distance the shots are being fired, the chances of being hit are slim. Most have not put any special protection on their windows.
Still, the nights have become terrifying.
Anat Mor, 27, an advertising professional, has lived on the street for one year — and is getting ready to leave.
Her house is a rental so she should have no problem.
Others who own homes will struggle to find a buyer.
"Arafat wants a war and it was clear it would come from somewhere," Mor says. "By chance it landed on us. The situation is very difficult, but I try not to show my kids any pressure."
Genis Lev, a 68-year-old immigrant from Ukraine, has lived on another street nearby since arriving in Israel six years ago.
One night, a bullet came through his window.
"Ten minutes later, our friends came in because we were supposed to go to the theater," he says. "We saw no reason to change our plans."
Perhaps it is the routine of the shooting that has allowed residents here to go on with their lives.
Nighttime sounds of gunfire and helicopters resonate to other parts of Jerusalem a few miles away, but they inevitably give way to the surrealism of a peaceful morning with no sign of hostilities.
In the morning, the local commercial center is bustling with shoppers, and children attend schools and kindergartens as usual.
At one school, children are not allowed to play outside at recess. At nights most people stay home, anticipating what has become a strangely predictable routine.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, a soldier who has served on the hill facing Beit Jalla for a week said there is a regular pattern to the events.
At around 7 p.m., a few bursts of automatic fire are shot from several positions in Beit Jalla. Israeli police with loudspeakers order residents on the Gilo perimeter to turn off their lights.
Then, the tanks that had been positioned on the mountain would hit back with machine guns. Sometimes, when the firing continued, they would fire one or two nonexplosive shells at houses. Attack helicopters have also been brought in to hit the village with missiles.
Despite Israel's massive deployment of firepower, it is having serious difficulties quelling the gunmen.
First, the gunfire from Beit Jalla is being initiated by fighters from the Tanzim, the militia affiliated with Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction, who enter the village at night and quickly scatter after shooting.
Villagers in Beit Jalla have, for years, been friendly to Israel.
Many do not want the Tanzim to use their village for cover, but are powerless to keep them out.
Yet the Israeli shells that have landed in some living rooms in Bet Jalla – – which is under full Palestinian control — have terrified and antagonized some villagers, who say Israel is hitting innocent civilians and not the Tanzim.
A harsher response could provoke them into becoming even more hostile toward Israel. Even in Gilo, many realize that this would be counterproductive.
"We do not want any conflict with the Beit Jalla residents," says Shimon Cohen, 58, who has come to watch the soldiers dig their outpost just in sight of the elementary school where he is a maintenance manager. "It is a Christian village, and many people work over here. They are harmless, and they are being used."
Meir Tourjman, chairman of the Gilo community council, agrees that the Beit Jalla residents are not behind the shootings, but wants the army to take more pre-emptive actions against the gunmen.
"All I want is quiet, and I hope that at the end of the day the prime minister will realize how serious the situation is and will figure out what must be done," says Tourjman.
In the meantime, Gilo's community center is being kept open for free activities and psychologists have been brought in to deal with people feeling traumatized.
But, according to Tourjman, only a handful have asked to be evacuated.
"People here are pretty scared, but there is a difference between fear and panic," he says. "There is no panic in Gilo. It may interfere with our routine a little, but this is not what will bring down our neighborhood."
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Q: Can I use numpy to replace values in an array, rather than generating a new array? I feel like this can be easily accomplished. I have the following code:
my_array =   np.zeros(6)
min =      0
max =      1

my_array = np.random.uniform(min,max, my_array.shape)
print(my_array)

I might be wrong, but I think np.random.uniform() generates a whole new array, and then the my_array variable simply points to the new array, while the old array gets garbage collected. Since I'm positive that the new array will have the same shape of the old one, is there a way to efficiently replace the values, rather than allocating a whole new array. Furthermore, I hope I could do this efficiently, such that I don't need to use for loops.
The following code was my attempt:
my_array[:] = np.random.uniform(min,max)

However, this results in a single new random value that gets reproduced 6 times, which is not what I want, and, furthermore, probably results in 6 calls to np.random.uniform() which seems inefficient
EDIT: I want to keep the same functionality as in the code above, i.e., I want to replace all values of the array with new, random, values. The idea is to do this multiple times which is why I want to avoid having to generate a new array each time

A: One can replace the values of one numpy array with the values of another numpy array using the syntax
original_array[...] = array_of_new_values

The ... is an Ellipsis. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/118508/5666087 for more information. As hpaulj comments, some numpy functions provide an out= argument, so values from the function can go directly into the existing array. np.random.uniform does not have this argument.
I have provided an example below.
import numpy as np

arr = np.zeros((100, 100, 100))

And now we overwrite the values:
low, high = 0, 1
arr[...] = np.random.uniform(low, high, arr.shape)

Here are timeit results of overwriting an existing array and creating a new variable:
%timeit arr[...] = np.random.uniform(0, 1, arr.shape)
# 67 ms ± 6.62 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10 loops each)

arr2 = np.random.uniform(0, 1, arr.shape)
# 85.3 ms ± 10.3 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)

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Spektrum's SPMAR7210BX 7CH DSMX Flybarless Control System combines the security of a DSMX receiver with a BeastX flybarless system in a lightweight 2-in-1 unit. At the center of its capabilities is a high-resolution, 6-axis MEMS stabilization system that delivers flawless response in all types of conditions, that does not require a separate programming interface. All setup and adjustment can be done with a DSM2 or DMSX transmitter!
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The Good: Great, simple to use FBL. Tail hold is amazing, way better than the older 7200. And overall handles vibration much better than the 7200.
The Bad: Bailout features require seperate purchase plus usb dongle to connect to PC. User interface is somewhat limited in control features.
Overall: Personally if the MSH BRAIN-2 was available at the time I bought this, I would have gotten the BRAIN, as it includes bailout/self level features at no additional cost, not to mention the comprehensive interface to tune and tweak every aspect of control is way beyond what the beastx software offers.
I have a few of the AR7200's but decided to buy the 7210 instead of upgrading the firmware on my 7200's. I wanted to try out the governor on my 6ooN and it works very well. The setup took some time but the next one will be a breeze. No issues with tail hold here. The AR7210 comes with the firmware for the governor so no need to buy anything extra.
Coming from the ar7200bx I had high hopes for this gyro, but I soon realized it wasn't living up to the original. The tail hold on this is the worse out of all the gyros. Changing everything from the rotor head back to the tail, messing with the gyro gains, playing with the advanced menus, and re checking all the setup menu I still can't get the tail to hold nice and solid like the ar7200. And just for fun I put the original ar7200 back on the heli, and it flew perfectly. I soon realized a guy at my local flying club was having the exact same issues as I was with his goblin 630, I'm flying the trex 500 dfc. Tried contacting horizon hobby about the issue, but after two weeks of no response I've kind of have up. So in short I'm very unhappy with this new ar7210bx.


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Great Expectations – The 2018 Garmin Mourne Skyline MTR
By Rock & Ride OutdoorsOctober 21, 2018 No Comments
It's 2:42am. I can't sleep.
The unfamiliar cocktail of caffeine and sugar is still coursing through me, synapses firing and thoughts swirling. I need to write, to understand, to analyse and for catharsis, the disappointment of yesterday's race raw and grating. The chemical contaminants will work themselves through my system soon but the mental anguish will undoubtedly linger, festering on my psyche, why did it go so wrong?
Overriding emotions from a whirlwind of a day. Disgust, loneliness, emptiness, dredging the depths of physical and mental reserves. To do so for victory, be it through winning or personal achievement feels noble, but to dig so deep to feel so low seems pointless, I nearly skipped Slieve Donard, abandonment in fourth place so near to the end almost preferable to finishing fifth.
This has an air of arrogance. I've no god-given right to win the Skyline and was beaten by some extremely talented athletes, as well as leaving some equally good ones in my wake, but context is required. Conditions this year were seemingly benign, the biblical tempest of last October a distant memory, and the ground, although greasy, largely hard-packed. It was what I'd waited for, a chance to transfer my 3:41:11 FKT from GPS footnote to accepted record, reward for a testing training regime, 6:30am starts and dietary denial. I knew the standard would be high, Brennan Townshend put nine minutes into me at the Worlds and Javier Rodriguez was in town, but far from providing pressure I expected the competition to assist in pushing the pace, I never expected to fall away from it.
The day started well. Pre-race buzz and amiable conversation. It's a hell of an event, Ryan and the team know how to keep it slick, and kit check, registration and bag dump were handled effortlessly. As ever, form is intangible and despite training efforts and a lack of illness I was unsure which version of my body would turn up; nevertheless I felt relaxed and confident, this is my backyard, familiar granite peaks scattered with a lifetime's worth of positive memories. Home advantage counts for a lot, the personalised support I'd receive on course wouldn't just be from people reading the name on my race number.
The hooter took everyone by surprise, not least Ryan himself who condensed a five second countdown into one, and we were off, pushing a gentle pace along the seafront and into the woods, leading out confidently and smiling for the cameras. The plan was simple, tried and tested. Run my own race, steady to the Fofanny 'half-way' point and then allow the legs off the leash for the iconic Skyline return. As a lead group of three edged away prior to the Granite Trail I happily let the elastic snap, hoping they'd over-cook the initial skirmishes, race-heads operating to the latter detriment of race-legs. This tactical error of my laissez-faire pacing becoming apparent as I hit the mountain proper, a solid headwind funnelling the valley and nobody to shelter behind. Opting to take the hit I continued to turn a steady cadence rather than going hard to close the gap and it was a slow time to the col, no dramas, the race hasn't even started at this point.
The Brandy Pad let me stretch out a bit, smoothly picking off third place, an early psychological boost. I felt okay but a touch blocked, the sense that the top two gears were unattainable, and the humidity was stifling. I contemplated losing the base layer and running topless, retrospectively this was the first portent of the suffering yet to come and an indication that all was definitely not well, at the time I just regretted not opting for a vest.
Bearnagh came and went, choosing to run the whole way, as per the majority of training. Following the flags on the descent proved frustrating and wasted valuable concentration, off to the right of the fall-line and hugging the wall, but I appreciated the need to keep the masses away from the ankle-breaking scree. Meelmore dispatched with a modicum of effort and back into a stiff breeze for the technical drop towards the Happy Valley, but by this point the wheels were starting to wobble. There was a heavy nausea brewing, emanating from the stomach but resting in the throat, vomit close to the exit and an overwhelming sluggishness. It's not altogether surprising; force-feeding contaminants into a system unfamiliar with such abuse has repercussions, but caffeine is a well-proven performance-enhancer and the gloop of the gels tends to stave off hunger. Degeneration was alarmingly rapid and the head was lolling before the feed station, and yet with the leaders in touch, I still expected a resurrection once the muscles claimed the dormant energy from the guts. At this point racing was still well on the cards.
Happier times! Two weeks ago and a training effort with the Mournes in all their early morning glory.
Ott, Loughshannagh, Meelbeg, grinding through the peaks and still seeking that elusive flow, but body and brain were starting to squabble. Fog creating a bubble and the physical weight of the mugginess, my field of vision creeping towards my toes, this is going wrong, who's legs are these? A sense of displacement exacerbated by the loneliness, I'd had nobody alongside me for the entire race and the lack of human contact saw nothing to deflect from the negative spiral of internal dialogue. I began to reminisce previous efforts, Dropping Dan and Seamus and prancing to victory, but this was so different, the conscious mind jumping ship for self-preservation as the primal drive took over, I just want this shit to be over.
Cresting Meelmore and the cheery support commences. Kathleen, Taryn, Ricky, friendly faces amongst the marshals and outgoing runners and yet I can't even respond to the encouragement. I feel like a fraud, ashamed, the voices tell me I look great, I'm going well. I don't and I'm not, I look defeated, crestfallen and shell-shocked, necessity driving me on, not competitive desire. This is still the fastest route back so I may as well persevere.
The return trip over Slieve Bearnagh has previously been race-defining, a welcome transition from run to power-walk and a nine minute push to the summit, stretching gaps and striking the decisive mental blows. Today I reel sideways as if shoved by non-existent winds, dizziness of the head and weakness of the legs. A photographer snaps at the crown of my head, eyes to the floor, hollowed out; he easily keeps pace for a couple of minutes, following me into the clouds, this is bad, really bad. The cramps have started, electric pulses rippling muscles, salt sachet in the mouth to shock the system, locking allayed for now but another nail in the coffin of pacing.
Hares Gap, I wish I didn't know what remained. So many memories, powering from here to Commedagh summit in nineteen minutes, today would take a sorry twenty-five, Rodriguez knocking me off the podium on the steep sludge as we near the summit tower but I'm past caring. I could quit, end the anguish and drop from the col, nothing to lose, and yet the remnants of racing dignity remain and the Spaniard is still in touch, a decent descent and I could still even win this. Except there's nothing left but nausea and emptiness. Sweden's David Holmberg dances past looking fresh and I can't even congratulate him, a throaty growl where my voice should be, fifteen minutes of purgatory and I'm rewarded by a tumble off the back of the stile, downhill all the way from here but that's scant consolation.
Finally the calves give up the ghost, simultaneously locking as I drop to the floor, jolts of pain and I'm actually relieved not to be leading. No need for panic when the race has long-since parted so I sit and rub, one minute, two? Time is an abstract concept by now. A glimpse of the muscular frame of Paul Tierney over the wall, strength to weight, that man can run two hundred miles.
Defensive descending, holding the core tense to protect the legs, a motional foetal position and it's exhausting. 500 sit-ups a day proving their worth and keeping me off a mountain rescue stretcher. Tinkling cowbells and the final few bends, shaking my head apologetically as I pass Jim Patterson; he understands, some days it all falls apart and that man has a lifetime of racing to reflect on, and yet I can't help but feel I've let him down, I've let myself down. A fresh bout of cramp and the ignominy of a crab-like waddle to the finish, passing Anna and the boys and I can't even raise a smile, I've nothing left to offer. Bent double at the line and a pat on the back from Ryan, 'I know you'll be disappointed' he says and that means a lot, that stated degree of understanding begins the healing. 3:58:15 is a dismal effort, my slowest ever, including numerous training laps, but having that acknowledged is instantly cathartic, I'm better than this and at least somebody else knows it too.
Gradually the relief floods in and realistic context returns. To say 'it's just a race' is flippant, insulting. If we don't mentally raise these arbitrary efforts on to pedestals then what's the point? It has to matter, and yet post-race conversation with Robert, my travel companion from the Glencoe Skyline gives genuine perspective. 'Apart from me, probably only two other people care about what I've done today' he states, and it strikes home satisfyingly. My anguish is genuine, but it's so self-indulgent. Time invested in a desired outcome is never time wasted and lessons learned hard are often the most powerful. Writing this has already settled my mind, time to wise-up and move on, nobody died and there's a category winners medal sat on the table and 29 minutes chopped off the vet 40's record, little consolation but the time for consoling is done. Sunday with the family and a decent feed, life goes on and it goes on well, I'm a lucky man.
I've suffered disappointment before when races held dear rejected my meagre efforts, and it's impacted me hard. This time will be different, the physical symptoms will be gone in a week and by then the mental will have departed too. Life is too short.
I'm bordering on the philosophical, it's time to sleep…
All about these fellas today, and hopefully no pictures of my four-hour long grimace will ever see the light of day. Congratulations to all the runners, we all suffer together.

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Are you someone who goes to therapy but struggles with verbalizing your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors during sessions? Do you find it challenging to present facts from your life using your words?
Are you a therapist who struggles to find the right way to approach hesitant, reticent, and "hiding" clients? Do you have a hard time trying to encourage younger clients to verbalize their emotions, thoughts, or behaviors?
If so, Susan Borkin, author of The Healing Power of Writing: A Therapist's Guide to Using Journaling With Clients, suggests you pick up a pen.
And as a therapist myself, I know it is a powerful endeavor between therapist and client that can empower the client, enlighten the therapist, and open doors.
Many clients enter therapy with a striking apprehension that not only gets in the way of true personal growth, but causes them to become defensive toward their therapist and unable to benefit from the power of conversation. But with a trained, compassionate, and genuine therapist, journaling can become a very helpful endeavor. Borkin provides great case studies and research on the usefulness and healing power of writing, and how it can open up the connection.
I often provide journaling to my own clients who find it difficult to verbalize what bothers them. The tool has proven beneficial not only to them but also to myself, as I learn a great deal about the "internal, hidden world" of the client.
For fellow practitioners who have not yet tried journaling as an exercise in therapy, Borkin's book can help — but be sure to read it with an open mind and to adapt her tips to your own flare or style.
One obstacle is that people often view journaling as a teenage endeavor that affords the adolescent privacy in their world. They picture a notebook with colorful pages and a lock and key. A journal is a book for minors, they think, children unable to voice their emotions or teenagers unable to express their crushes or deepest desires.
But journaling is really much more than this. It is a process that allows you to reflect upon your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors during events in your life. It affords you the privacy to examine the behavior and attitudes of others and even re-inspect a situation from multiple angles. In other cases, journaling affords you the opportunity to write a "love letter" to yourself with inspirational sayings, reminders, and joyous memories.
When I journal (yes, even as a therapist I journal!), I find myself able to arrive at both logical and spiritual conclusions. I am able to spiritually look at myself and my interactions in the world more clearly. This provides a sense of identity, a sense of well-being, and consciousness.
Some other benefits of journaling, as Borkin writes, include cognitive processing (compiling fragmented thoughts and memories into a storyline), personal empowerment (helping clients become responsible for their own healing), confronting and regulating emotions (releasing difficult emotions and learning how to cope with them), and providing an adjunct to healing.
My experience is that having clients journal results in a stronger relational bond between us. It also allows me to peek inside the emotional mind and world of the person, which further helps our sessions.
Borkin gives us multiple ways that we can journal to make it effective and enjoyable. For therapists, she offers ways to structure your approach. And while her book is not really intended for clients themselves, it can provide any reader with some insight into why journaling is useful and how to begin.
For example, Borkin writes that journaling can come in various formats. There is narrative (starting at the earliest age remembered and working your way down to where you are now. This type of writing is done to tell a story about your journey, about your life, about changes in it); bullet points (offering short descriptions or facts about yourself and things that struck you as important, memorable, or life changing); mind map (creating connections between events and things in your life); and "stepping stones" (listing major life events that change you or appear life changing).
Whichever way you decide to try it — if you do decide to try it — make sure that it is something that fits your style. And keep in mind that journaling doesn't require proper grammar, writing skills, or expertise. It is your own "therapy" session with yourself, and Borkin does a good job lighting the way.
Támara Hill, MS, LPC is a licensed therapist and certified trauma professional who specializes in working with children and adolescents who suffer from mood disorders, trauma, and disruptive behavioral disorders. Hill strives to help clients to realize and actualize their strengths in their home environments and in their relationships within the community. She credits her career passion to a "divine calling" and is internationally recognized for corresponding literary works as well as appearances on radio and other media platforms. She is an author, family consultant, and founder of Anchored-In-Knowledge. Visit her on Twitter.


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Lithophyllum, rod crvenih algi iz porodice Lithophyllaceae, dio potporodice Lithophylloideae. Sastoji se od oko 130 vrsta

Rod je opisan 1837. godine.

Vrste

 Lithophyllum acanthinum Foslie
 Lithophyllum accedens Foslie
 Lithophyllum acrocamptum Heydrich
 Lithophyllum aequum Foslie
 Lithophyllum affine (Foslie) Foslie
 Lithophyllum almanense Me.Lemoine
 Lithophyllum alternans Me.Lemoine
 Lithophyllum amplostratum W.R.Taylor
 Lithophyllum anguineum Conti
 Lithophyllum aninae Foslie
 Lithophyllum atlanticum Vieira-Pinto, M.C.Oliveira & P.A.Horta
 Lithophyllum azorum Me.Lemoine
 Lithophyllum bahrijense Bosence
 Lithophyllum bamleri (Heydrich) Heydrich
 Lithophyllum bathyporum Athanasiadis & D.L.Ballantine
 Lithophyllum belgicum Foslie
 Lithophyllum bipartitum Me.Lemoine
 Lithophyllum brachiatum (Heydrich) Me.Lemoine
 Lithophyllum byssoides (Lamarck) Foslie
 Lithophyllum californiense Heydrich
 Lithophyllum canariense Foslie
 Lithophyllum canescens (Foslie) Foslie
 Lithophyllum carpophylli (Heydrich) Heydrich
 Lithophyllum chamberlainianum Woelkerling & S.J.Campbell
 Lithophyllum coibense Me.Lemoine
 Lithophyllum complexum Me.Lemoine
 Lithophyllum corallinae (P.Crouan & H.Crouan) Heydrich
 Lithophyllum crassum Rosanoff
 Lithophyllum crouaniorum Foslie
 Lithophyllum cuneatum Keats
 Lithophyllum cystoseirae (Hauck) Heydrich
 Lithophyllum decussatum (J.Ellis & Solander) Philippi
 Lithophyllum dentatum (Kützing) Foslie
 Lithophyllum depressum Villas-Boas, Figueiredo & Riosmena-Rodriguez
 Lithophyllum detrusum Foslie
 Lithophyllum dispar (Foslie) Foslie
 Lithophyllum divaricatum Me.Lemoine
 Lithophyllum dublancqui Me.Lemoine
 Lithophyllum elegans (Foslie) Foslie
 Lithophyllum esperi (Me.Lemoine) South & Tittley
 Lithophyllum fernandezianum Me.Lemoine
 Lithophyllum fetum Foslie
 Lithophyllum flavescens Keats
 Lithophyllum fuegianum Heydrich
 Lithophyllum fulangasum J.H.Johnson & B.J.Ferris
 Lithophyllum ganeopsis W.H.Adey, R.A.Townsend & Boykins
 Lithophyllum geometricum Me.Lemoine
 Lithophyllum giraudyi Me.Lemoine
 Lithophyllum gracile Foslie
 Lithophyllum grumosum (Foslie) Foslie
 Lithophyllum hancockii E.Y.Dawson
 Lithophyllum hermaphroditum (Heydrich) Woelkerling
 Lithophyllum hibernicum Foslie
 Lithophyllum imitans Foslie
 Lithophyllum impressum Foslie
 Lithophyllum incrustans Philippi - tip
 Lithophyllum insipidum W.H.Adey, R.A.Townsend & Boykins
 Lithophyllum intermedium Foslie
 Lithophyllum ippolitoi P.Fravega, M.Piazza & G.Vannucci
 Lithophyllum irregulare W.Ishijima
 Lithophyllum irvineanum Woelkerling & S.J.Campbell
 Lithophyllum johansenii Woelkerling & S.J.Campbell
 Lithophyllum kaiseri (Heydrich) Heydrich
 Lithophyllum kenjikonishii Woelkerling, Y.Iryu & D.Bassi
 Lithophyllum kotschyanum Unger
 Lithophyllum kuroshioense A.Kato & M.Baba
 Lithophyllum laeve Kützing
 Lithophyllum leptothalloideum Pilger
 Lithophyllum lithophylloides Heydrich
 Lithophyllum lividum Me.Lemoine
 Lithophyllum lobatum Me.Lemoine
 Lithophyllum longense Hernández-Kantún, P.W.Gabrielson & R.A.Townsend
 Lithophyllum margaritae (Hariot) Heydrich
 Lithophyllum marlothii (Heydrich) Heydrich
 Lithophyllum megacrustum J.H.Johnson & B.J.Ferris
 Lithophyllum mgarrense Bosence
 Lithophyllum neoatalayense Masaki
 Lithophyllum neocongestum J.J.Hernandez-Kantun, W.H.Adey & P.W.Gabrielson
 Lithophyllum nitorum W.H.Adey & P.J.Adey
 Lithophyllum okamurae Foslie
 Lithophyllum orbiculatum (Foslie) Foslie
 Lithophyllum pallescens (Foslie) Foslie
 Lithophyllum papillosum (Zanardini ex Hauck) Foslie
 Lithophyllum paradoxum Foslie
 Lithophyllum perulatum (Gümbel) Foslie
 Lithophyllum pinguiense Heydrich
 Lithophyllum platyphyllum (Foslie) Foslie
 Lithophyllum polycephalum Foslie
 Lithophyllum prelichenoides Me.Lemoine
 Lithophyllum premoluccense Me.Lemoine
 Lithophyllum preprototypum Me.Lemoine
 Lithophyllum proboscideum (Foslie) Foslie
 Lithophyllum prototypum (Foslie) Foslie
 Lithophyllum pseudoplatyphyllum J.J.Hernandez-Kantun, W.H.Adey & P.W.Gabrielson
 Lithophyllum punctatum Foslie
 Lithophyllum pygmaeum (Heydrich) Heydrich
 Lithophyllum racemus (Lamarck) Foslie
 Lithophyllum reesei E.Y.Dawson
 Lithophyllum rileyi Me.Lemoine
 Lithophyllum riosmenae A.S.Harvey & Woelkerling
 Lithophyllum rugosum (Foslie) Me.Lemoine
 Lithophyllum sancti-georgei Me.Lemoine
 Lithophyllum searlesii P.W.Gabrielson, Freshwater, J.L.Richards & Hughey
 Lithophyllum shioense Foslie
 Lithophyllum sierra-blancae M.Howe
 Lithophyllum sigi Me.Lemoine
 Lithophyllum simile Foslie
 Lithophyllum skottsbergii Me.Lemoine
 Lithophyllum socotraense D.Basso, Caragnano, L.Le Gall & Rodondi
 Lithophyllum stictiforme (J.E. Areschoug) Hauck
 Lithophyllum subantarcticum (Foslie) Foslie
 Lithophyllum subplicatum (Foslie) Basso, Caragnano, Le Gall & Rodondi
 Lithophyllum subreduncum Foslie
 Lithophyllum subtenellum (Foslie) Foslie
 Lithophyllum subtile (Foslie) A.Kato & M.Baba
 Lithophyllum tasmanicum (Foslie) Foslie
 Lithophyllum tedeschii P.Fravega, M.Piazza & G.Vannucci
 Lithophyllum tenuicrustum J.H.Johnson & B.J.Ferris
 Lithophyllum thikombian J.H.Johnson & B.J.Ferris
 Lithophyllum trinidadense Me.Lemoine
 Lithophyllum tuberculatum Foslie
 Lithophyllum tumidulum Foslie
 Lithophyllum uvaria (Michelin) Me.Lemoine
 Lithophyllum veleroae E.Y.Dawson
 Lithophyllum vickersiae Me.Lemoine
 Lithophyllum viennotii Me.Lemoine
 Lithophyllum woelkerlingii Alongi, Cormaci & G.Furnari
 Lithophyllum yemenense D.Basso, Caragnano, L.Le Gall & Rodondi
 Lithophyllum yessoense Foslie

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Ukrainian CSOs will direct their efforts to reduce the financial barriers to filing lawsuits in cases of access to public information.
On March 31 Roma Youth Forum was launched in Kyiv. It will last three days. The first day was a meeting and determining priorities for future work.
Residents of the village of Fedorivka (Bilozerka district) appeared in a difficult situation. People were left without water for consecutive days as the water supply was blocked, allegedly because of the accident and debts. Human rights defenders, who came to Fedorivka for the field legal advice, found that the organization that provides water supply services improperly keeps records and contracts with consumers. Now the company will be revised and residents will restore the water supply.
In the beginning of 2013 a resident of Bila Tserkva sold her house in the village. The customer immediately paid part of the money and promised to return the rest later. The agreement was confirmed by a receipt. However, three years passed and the debtor never gave the money. Maria* supported by a lawyer Bila Tserkva office of the Legal Development Network went to court, which ruled in her favor. However, she faced with the inaction of the state executor. The woman again had to go to the Office and ask for help from human rights defenders.
On International Roma Day, April 8, an interethnic festive flashmob was held in Kharkiv for the first time. The surprise for holiday guests was a concert with the participation of Roma and Ukrainian artists, as well as performance of the Anthem of Ukraine in Romani and Ukrainian.
Roma from the village of Korsuntsi, Odesa region, are threatened by cutting off water. The Vodokanal (the water supplier) motivated this decision by a statement that people do not want to install water meters at their own expense. The lawyers of Roma human rights centerpointed out the illegality of such threats and solved the situation in the legal field.
Looking for a better life and better earnings Ukrainians go abroad. However, not always meeting the desired conditions of labour and payment. Often people without bothering about their safety in advance become victims of human trafficking. In recent years, a number of complaints of labour exploitation abroad has increased. More than 80 Ukrainians suffered in labor slavery associated with the production and transportation of drugs in Russia.
Consultation the lawyers of Severodonetsk Office of the Legal Development Network provided to residents of Luhansk is a sequence of actions for IDPs who wish to draw benefits for housing and communal services.
The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine has simplified rules of enrollment in external studies for residents of the occupied and uncontrolled territories, as well as the line of contact. This is reported in the press service of the Ministry.
In addition to IDPs, who fleeing from the consequences of conflict were forced to leave their native towns and villages, there are people, who moved within their home locality, in Ukraine. For example, a building was hit by a shell, so people moved in with relatives or friends. Human rights activists call this category of people affected by the conflict "displaced", according to Right to Protection.
Employers will be reimbursed for 2014-2015 within the average earnings of employees accepted for military service during the special period, according to the Ministry of Social Policy.


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Christmas is here. This is a time of great joy, but also some excesses like overeating – specially too much sugar, fats, and sometimes meat for flesh eaters. But Christmas does not have to be synonymous with lots of food or an unbalanced diet. There are many healthy options that can also make the delights of a festive table, while still giving a gourmet touch to the menu.
For starters try unsalted nuts, goji berries, inca berries, dried pears or brown bread sandwiches with vegetable pates. Discard the traditional Foie Gras, as it is very unhealthy – besides being produced in a very cruel way for ducks and geese, it is far from being a nutritious food. Or you can try a colourful soup, such as a pumpkin cream or beets sprinkled with chia seeds or hemp seeds.
The traditional turkey and codfish may be replaced by healthier dishes. It is even more important as codfish is now an endangered species – codfish shoals have been reduced over the centuries due to overfishing. Codfish and turkey can be replaced by healthy and delicious dishes of tofu or seitan with potatoes and steam cooked cabbage. Serve with assorted vegetables, sautéed shiitake mushrooms or more exotic salads, for example sprinkled with seeds and oregano, as well as with olive oil and lemon juice.
Instead of alcoholic or soft drinks, prefer healthy and nutritious natural fruit juices, kombucha (a probiotic drink) or aromatic infusions.
Cook easy and delicious desserts, avoiding refined sugar and eggs, dairy products and fried products. Even if you have little time or don't like cooking, you can already find instant healthy desserts with organic ingredients.
Choose sweeteners such as coconut sugar, jelly corn or lucuma. Or simply use dried fruits, like gojis berries, dates, raisins or dried mango, or carob flour. Prefer soymilk instead of cow milk to drink or cook - you can make healthy and inexpensive soy milk at home with a soy milk machine and you don't spend more than 20 cents per liter. Soy milk is healthier than cow milk and equally versatile to cook.
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Online conference with participation of 35 APK departments was held in ENU
L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University hosted an international scientific and practical conference on the theme "Modernization of public consciousness and preservation of the national code in the context of "Mangilik El" with participation of 35 departments of APK.
The conference was attended by Deputy Chairman of APK – Head of Secretariat Leonid Prokopenko, head of the Department of APK ENU, Chairman of the Republican Association of APK departments of APK Anatoly Bashmakov, Vice-rector for Social and Cultural Development of ENU Dikhan Kamzabekuly, Second Secretary of the Embassy of the Republic of Belarus Igor Ivanov, Head of the Center for Study of Interethnic and Interreligious Relations in the Central Asian region Aigul Sadvokassova and others.
Deputy Chairman of APK – Head of Secretariat Leonid Prokopenko made a welcoming speech.
"The Assembly initiated a large-scale cultural and educational project Qazaqtany, which corresponds to the idea of spiritual modernization in its spirit and content. Thanks to the project, Kazakhstan people will learn more about the history, culture, traditions and customs of the Kazakh people.
It is aimed at the development of intergenerational relations, formation and strengthening of national values and Kazakhstan patriotism. The project created a mechanism for the transfer of our values, the model of unity and consent to new generations," said Head of Secretariat.
Head of Secretariat said that publication of the article of the President of Kazakhstan, Elbassy Nursultan Nazarbayev "Seven facets of the Great steppe" set the new vector implementation of the project "Kazakhtan".
"Our national historical consciousness and identity should be based on a powerful ideological triad "pride in the past, pragmatic assessment of the present and a positive view of the future", where there is a place for every citizen of Kazakhstan.
"I would also like to inform you that the research and educational project Qazaqtany included in the list of projects for the filling of the program "Rouhani zhangyru" with new content and areas," concluded Head of SAPK.
Head of APK Department Anatoly Bashmakov noted that important in the sovereignty of the country is the spirit of the people, the unity of the people, the socio-political unity of the people of Kazakhstan.
"Without this spiritual and moral core, there can be no social immunity. And without this immunity psychological immunity is lost to information attacks and spiritual temptations. That is why I say what a great role the Department of the Assembly of people of Kazakhstan plays, it has become a real school of the Kazakh spirit, the Academy of Kazakhstan patriotism over the years. After the independence of Kazakhstan, our country faced many difficulties, because we were a potential hotbed of ethnic conflict, separatist forces took the form of a possible social crisis. Our first President Nursultan Nazarbayev has adopted such a country. Neither the law of gravity, nor the periodic table, nor Einstein's theory could provide spiritual material for the creation of such a unique institution as the Assembly of people of Kazakhstan. Through this spiritual tool the doors of practical knowledge of all subtleties of the internal mechanism, spiritual tissues of the Kazakhstan model were opened. We call it the model of Nursultan Nazarbayev," said Anatoly Bashmakov.
He cited N. Nazarbayev's quote from the article "Course towards future: modernization of public consciousness": "I am convinced that the large-scale reforms we have started should be accompanied by advanced modernization of public consciousness. It will not only complement political and economic modernization, it will be at its core".
"This should be the slogan and rule in the work of each of our departments, anyone who performs ideological and simply educational activities. Kazakhstan is formed and approved today as a union of cultures and ethnicities, this union will be stronger and more cohesive provided that its main participant is the Kazakh ethnicity as a state-forming object. Kazakhs as a binding fabric of society, is the core of the state, it is the supporting structure of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Integration of other, including small ethnicities and cultures in Kazakhstan into a single community, Kazakhstan's identity will be difficult if the integration of the state-forming ethnos is violated", concluded Head of APK Department.
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The Pullmen – The Western Score
When I was first handed The Pullmen's EP "The Western Score" to review I was skeptical at best about how a band could successfully convey a western thrash musical vibe to someone listening to their band.
And what I found when first listening to the band took my misguided skepticism and threw out a metaphorical window of a thirty story building never to be seen or heard from again.
This album is a must have for anyone that is into Thrash, and Western music. The fourth track of the EP entitled "Mourning Song" lyrically speaks of man that has learned a lesson about how in life hind sight is truly 20/20; conveying that message with a musical delivery reminiscent of "Against Me!" with a dash of "Johnny Cash" thrown in for a melodic kick, all the while, taking that aforementioned sound to a whole new level.
The Pullmen are currently working on a new EP that is being released later this year. Until then catch out on their musical history and check out "The Western Score." The EP can be found HERE
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Why Raiou Needs to Reach #1~ | personal.amy-wong.com - A Blog by Amy Wong.
Raiou, based on the novel by Mari Ueza about tragic lovers, is set to open next week on Friday the 22nd. It stars idol-in-the-rise Masaki Okada opposite established-idol-transitioning-to-actress Yu Aoi. What does Raiou mean to their careers?
Why does Yu Aoi need Raiou to succeed? She is indeed an idol still. She sponsors products, and she makes a living selling products. She's young — to westerners, anyway — she's cute, youthful… the whole shebang. However, the life-span of a Japanese female idol is short, some of them have retired at 20! So Yu, having turned 25 already, isn't… well, a young idol any longer. She's been away of major mainstream entertainment, she's had relationships, she's been on tabloids as people discuss who she really is dating. Everything takes its toll. She's now a woman. An actress who is still an idol. Will people support her passed her prime-early-twenty years like they did when the hit Hula Girls came out?
Raiou holds Yu's idol-hood future. Will it be a hit right away? Shoot to number one the first week to then drop the next? Will it slowly climb to number one in two or three weeks and stay there a week or two? Will it climb slowly up to stay there for several weeks? Will it never reach number one?? Whatever happens, it will change Yu's bankability.
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News | South Dakota
Ex-Salvation Army captain heading to federal prison on child porn charges
While Moreno admitted to collecting roughly 10,000 files, prosecutors say he possessed over a million.
By Hunter Dunteman
RAPID CITY, S.D. — A former Salvation Army captain was handed a lengthy prison sentence after admitting to collecting child pornography for the past two decades.
Javier Moreno, 41, of Rapid City, South Dakota, was sentenced Aug. 16 to 17 years and six month in federal prison after he was convicted of receipt of child pornography. The sentence also ordered Moreno to spend eight additional years on supervised release, register as a sex offender and make a special assessment of $100 to the Federal Crime Victims Fund.
Javier Moreno
The charges stem from April 2021, when two Cybertips were submitted to law enforcement by Kik, a free instant messaging app. Upon receiving the tips, an investigation was conducted by the Department of Homeland Security, South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation, Pennington County Sheriff's Office and Rapid City Police Department.
After obtaining a warrant, authorities conducted a search of Moreno's account on the instant messaging platform, where they discovered over 10,000 recordings and images of child pornography. The Rapid City Journal, however, reported that U.S. Attorney Sarah Collins claimed that Moreno was in possession of over a million such files.
According to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of South Dakota, the multimedia files included sadism and other sexual acts of victims determined to be "infants and toddlers." In an interview with law enforcement, Moreno reportedly admitted to viewing and collecting child pornography since the early 2000s.
Court documents indicate that over 30 devices were confiscated during a warrant execution, including laptops, phones, iPods, hard drives and more.
Moreno was indicted in May 2021 and eventually pleaded guilty in December 2021 to one count of receipt of child pornography in exchange for the dismissal of charges for possession of child pornography.
The 17-and-a-half year sentence handed down by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Viken fell just short of the maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison.
Following the conclusion of the sentencing hearing. Moreno was immediately remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service.
The SCORPION unit was formed in October 2021 to concentrate on crime hot spots
By By Maria Cardona and Diane Bartz
South Dakota man charged with possessing videos of child porn, including rape
Video shows Memphis police officers kicking, beating Tyre Nichols
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As Biden sends mixed signals on death penalty, Alfonso Rodriguez's fate unclear
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A South Dakota native, Hunter joined Forum Communications Company as a reporter for the Mitchell (S.D.) Republic in June 2021 and now works as a digital reporter for Forum News Service, focusing on regional news that impacts the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Outlaws, lawmen and colorful characters: Who built the legend of Deadwood
A look into some of the personalities that created the legend of Deadwood, one of the Wild West's most infamous towns.
By Cassie Williams
Punk Chef Pizza and Bar in downtown Moorhead announces it is closing
"It's become too much" to keep the eatery open, the owners said in a Facebook message. The last day is Saturday, Jan. 28.
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Senator's suspension sparked by 'inappropriate' conversation, according to Senate leadership
Sen. Julie Frye-Mueller on Jan. 26 was suspended from the Senate indefinitely, with the discipline stemming from a conversation with a staffer involving "childhood vaccines and breastfeeding."


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Sand Hill Group Announces First Annual Awards For Software Industry Good Samaritans, Social Entrepreneurs And Luminary
Sand Hill Group last night announced the winners of the first annual SHG Foundation awards for software industry Good Samaritans, Social Entrepreneurship and Luminary. At a gala benefit event in conjunction with Software 2006 this week, awards were given to the eight companies and people across the three categories.
Sand Hill Good Samaritans
Sahana (www.sahana.lk)
LiveOps (www.liveops.com)
Santa Clara University's Center for Science, Technology and Society (www.scu.edu/sts/programsandpartnerships/gsincubator.cfm)
Sand Hill Social Entrepreneurs
John Wood, Room to Read (www.roomtoread.org)
Suzanne McKechnie Klahr, BUILD (www.build.org)
Vikram Akula, SKS Microfinance (www.sksindia.com)
David Green, Project Impact (www.project-impact.net)
The Sand Hill Luminary Award was given to FC Kohli, founder in 1968 of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and considered the father of Indian IT. The Luminary Award is given to an individual who has dramatically improved people's lives. TCS envisioned and pioneered the adoption of the flexible global business practices that today enable companies to operate more efficiently and produce more value. Known as the "global delivery model" this delivery concept has reshaped the IT services industry and enabled employment for thousands of people.
"As software industry entrepreneurs and investors it's important that we give back to our community and at Sand Hill we have had a philanthropic mission since we started our events almost 10 years ago," said M.R. Rangaswami, co-founder of the Sand Hill Group. "The SHG Foundation annual awards allow us to look at a wider array of organizations, including those that combine social and technology vision. It is a great pleasure to recognize these forward thinking individuals and companies, all of whom reflect a spirit of selfless giving and sacrifice and who help complete the software industry ecosystem."
The SHG Foundation Good Samaritans
Good Samaritan awards were given to three organizations that have substantially aided emergency or disaster victims and helped other non-profit organizations.
Sahana's Free and Open Source (FOSS) project was quickly built over a 2-3 week period around the time of the tsunami in Asia to help coordinate the relief effort in Sri Lanka. Sahana's FOSS project facilitates online management of missing person, organization, camp registries and request management systems. In addition to its work assisting tsunami victims, Sahana's FOSS project was used to great effect in the recent Pakistan earthquake and Philippines mudslides.
Liveops is a for profit virtual call center company that aided Hurricane Katrina victims by setting up a call center for the Red Cross and a toll free number for victims. More than 150,000 phone calls placed to the national Family Link service have reunited over 10,000 family members and friends since September 2, 2005. Liveops will donate their cash award to the Red Cross.
In partnership, Santa Clara University's Center for Science, Technology and Society and Leavey School of Business Administration have developed the Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) program. GSBI recruits award-winning, socially conscious innovators from around the globe, and arms them with strategies to help develop business models that are more likely to attract funding and achieve long-term success. With its intensive two-week residential program and access to world-class partnerships and resources, GSBI's "business bootcamp" encourages program participants' continued commitment to applying technology to address urgent human needs throughout the world.
The SHG Foundation Social Entrepreneurs
Social Entrepreneurship awards were given to four organizations whose chief executive officers have left highly profitable jobs in technology and other professions and started a non-profit because of their passionate belief in a cause.
John Wood left Microsoft to start Room to Read, an organization which seeks early intervention in the lives of children to help provide them with a high quality education and the lifelong gift of literacy. Since its inception in 2000, Room to Read has impacted the lives of over 755,000 children by constructing 197 schools, establishing over 2,565 libraries, publishing 77 new local language children's titles representing over 600,000 books, donating over 1.1 million English language children's books, establishing 60 computer labs and 25 language labs, and funding over 1,757 long-term scholarships for girls.
Suzanne McKechnie Klahr finished law school and passed up a lucrative opportunity at Skadden to start Businesses United in Investing, Lending, and Development (BUILD), a social venture which bridges the divide between youth and business in the Palo Alto area. BUILD empowers youth from low-income communities to excel in the classroom, on the job, and beyond by giving them an education in entrepreneurship.
Vikram Akula left McKinsey & Co. in the United States to start SKS Microfinance in India, a company that empowers the impoverished to become economically self-reliant by providing financial services in a sustainable manner. SKS has delivered US$40 million in microfinance to over 150,000 women clients in one of the poorest parts of Southern India. In the last year alone, SKS grew by nearly 300% and has a current portfolio of US$15 million with a 99% on-time repayment rate.
David Green, of Project Impact, is devoted to making technology and healthcare services accessible, affordable, and financially self-sustaining. Project Impact helped establish an independent company in India called Aurolab that makes intraocular lenses-plastic implants that restore sight to cataract patients-and in the process lowered the cost from US$300 to three dollars. The Affordable Hearing Aid Project (AHAP) has a similar mission: to alleviate the burden of hearing impairment in as large a population as possible, regardless of the recipients' ability to pay.
About Sand Hill Group
Sand Hill Group serves the US$600+ billion software, services and solutions market by providing investment and management advice to emerging enterprise technology leaders. Sand Hill also owns Sandhill.com - the premier destination site and resource center for CEOs, VPs, Entrepreneurs, VCs and for members of the software industry eco-system. Its weekly electronic newsletter is read by thousands of executives. Sand Hill produces the 'Enterprise' and 'Software' conferences for CEOs and executives in the industry and creates high-impact research reports for its constituents.
Sand Hill Group created the SHG Foundation to enable the surplus from its annual Enterprise Conference to be donated to charity. The goal is to build a US$1 million endowment. The annual SHG Foundation awards include grants to non-profit organizations, which help to improve the lives of low-income women and children worldwide.
More information can be found at www.sandhill.com.
Room to Read Appoints Sonny Kalsi to Global Board of Directors
Room to Read Appoints Michael Bowers as Chief Program Implementation Officer and Cynthia Orme as Chief People and Technology Officer
Room to Read's New York Gala celebrates education as the great equalizer, benefiting 115,000 children with honorees IMC, Lilly Singh and Tatcha


An 18th century coaching inn which used to be on the main Bury-Newmarket road but has since been by-passed and is now on what's essentially a slip-road for the A14.
It was reported by West Suffolk CAMRA to be closed. This was confirmed by a visit in July 2016, when the building appeared abandoned. The building is to be auctioned in July 2017; it seems unlikely it will reopen as a pub.


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Story from birthplace of sodomy..Sadoom
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Scientific signs in the story of prophet "Lût"
Story of prophet "Lût" (Peace be upon him)
Prophet "Lût" lived in a village where its people were practicing adultery and he used to advice them to stop that but they were refusing to respond. So that he decided to go away of them and worship Allah. Then Allah chose him to be His prophet to those people to order them to obey and worship Allah the only God.
Allah says: (And (remember) Lût (Lot), when he said to his people: "Do you commit the worst sin such as none preceding you has committed in the 'Âlamîn (mankind and jinn)?)(Sûrat Al-A'râf-verse 80). Those people were doing the worst sin by practicing adultery with each others (Man and Man) and (woman and woman) which called today homosexuality
And they refused to talk to him even to listen and their answer was the same every time he calls them to believe, as Allah says: (And the answer of his people was only that they said: "Drive them out of your town, these are indeed men who want to be pure (from sins)!") (Sûrat Al-A'râf-verse 82) so, what happened?
Allah sent to him some people as guests, those people were not human but they were angels, when the people of the village knew that some nice men came, they decided to practice the adultery with them. But when they arrived the angels told prophet "Lût" what Allah tells us in the Qur'an: (They (messengers) said: "O Lût (Lot)! Verily, we are the messengers from your Lord! They shall not reach you! So travel with your family in a part of the night, and let not any of you look back; but your wife (will remain behind), verily, the punishment which will afflict them, will afflict her. Indeed, morning is their appointed time. Is not the morning near?")(Sûrat Hûd-verse81).
Immediately, prophet "Lût" respond to Allah and started to go out of the village with his family and when they were out of the village Allah almighty started to send down His torment on the village also on the wife of "Lût" because she used to accept the work" adultery" of the people of the village.
Allah's torment was by sending rains of stones on those people but the wife refused to listen to the order of Allah as she turned behind to see what happened to the people so that she was injured by these stones and died. Allah says: (Then we saved him and his family, except his wife; she was of those who remained behind (in the torment)* and we rained down on them a rain (of stones). Then see what was the end of the Mujrimûn (criminals, polytheists and sinners).
) (Sûrat Al-A'râf-verse 83-84).
Psycho biological disorders is an effect of homosexuality
The scientists noticed that the white matter is rare in the brain of homosexual people; the white matter is the tissue through which messages pass between different areas of gray matter within the nervous system. So the brain of the people who suffers that decrease became unable to make coordination between the cells, as a result the homosexual will be affected by Dementia or Alzheimer.
The decrease of the white matter causes a huge disorder in the brain working mechanism so that homosexual people are unable to take right decisions and they tend to be violent, also they are affected by many psychological diseases, the same as a blind man who don't know what to do, Allah says about people of "Lût": ((Verily, by your life), in their wild intoxication, they were wandering blindly.)
(Sûrat A-Hijr-verse72)
In many western countries, it is common to see a man lives with another man and also a woman lives with a woman as husbands and wives. The modern statistics say that violence is common between homosexual persons which are 18 times more than what happens between Heterosexual persons.
The researchers confirm that the relation between those homosexual people don't continue more than 2 or 3 years which is evidence that any practice against Allah's nature will not continue or fruit.
AIDS is a result of adultery
AIDS is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This condition progressively reduces the effectiveness of the immune system and leaves individuals susceptible to opportunistic infections and tumors.
HIV is transmitted through anal, vaginal, oral sex, and blood transfusion,
AIDS is now a pandemic. In 2007, it was estimated that 33.2 million people lived with the disease worldwide, and that AIDS killed an estimated 2.1 million people, including 330,000 children.
Although treatments for AIDS and HIV can slow the course of the disease, there is currently no vaccine or cure.
Scientists say that due to the difficulty in treating HIV infection, preventing infection is a key aim in controlling the AIDS pandemic, with health organizations promoting safe sex in attempts to slow the spread of the virus.
Recently in a published research, scientists discovered a new type of bacteria which called MRSA.
MRSA stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, but is shorthand for any strain of Staphylococcus bacteria which is resistant to one or more conventional antibiotics.
Researchers believe that the MRSA may cause Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome; also this kind of bacteria can be found where homosexual persons are living such as "Castro district" in San Francisco in the United States. Also they added that the ratio of infected people by MRSA in homosexual men is 13 times than in Heterosexual men.
Doctors say that 20 years ago clinicians began noticing what has come to be called "gay bowel syndrome," a collection of intestinal and rectal complaints that frequently plague gay men. Many of these illnesses stem from infection by fecal bacteria following anal sex--specifically, anal intercourse, analingus, and fellatio following anal intercourse. Some heterosexual couples (estimates range from 5 to 27 percent) also engage in anal sex, and they're at risk too.
Homosexuality and purity Top of Form
Scientists confirm that homosexuality contribute in transferring viruses and bacteria between homosexual persons, so that prophet "Lût" and his family were keen to purify themselves and to be away from homosexual people, Allah says: (And the answer of his people was only that they said: "Drive them out of your town, these are indeed men who want to be pure (from sins)!")(Sûrat Al-A'râf-verse82), is this verse a sign that homosexuality is against purity.
Today we find doctors ask people to wash after any sexual practice, in Islam Allah almighty ordered us to wash after practicing sex and also He almighty made this as a condition for prayer , Allah says: ( If you are in a state of Janâba (i.e. after a sexual discharge), purify yourselves (bathe your whole body))(Sûrat Al-Mâ'idah-verse 6).
The Way of Allah
Allah almighty punish any one commits these sins by sending stones of baked clay, Allah says :( And we turned (the towns of Sodom in Palestine) upside down and rained down on them stones of baked clay.)(SûratAl-Hijr-verse 74).
This is the way of Allah which will never change as what happened with the people of "Lût" happened again with the people of Pompeii.
Pompeii is an old roman city that lived in a lot of luxury. God gave people of this city a lot of graces such as the best crops, a lot of rains and many natural resources. But the people of that city were doing adultery and homosexuality and they were so proud with that. Also they used to draw pornographic pictures on walls in front of all people; researchers believe that art of pornography started in this dissolute city.
One day, people of Pompeii was celebrating god of fire day , but suddenly and without any kind of warning a volcanic eruption occurred which released a lot of lava. As a result, people tried to escape but all of them were killed immediately and the city was disappeared .also their bodies were covered with lava and these covered bodies had transferred after many years to be fossilized rocks. Allah says: (So we seized them all of a sudden while they were unaware) (Sûrat Al-A'râf – verse 95).
Scenes of torment
A real photo for an inhabitant of Pompeii .the body was transferred to be fossilized rock. This punishment is in this life but in the hereafter punishment is strong and last forever, god says :( And thus do We requite him who transgresses beyond bounds [i.e. commits the great sins and disobeys his Lord (Allah) and believes not in His Messengers, and His revealed Books, like this Qur'an], and believes not in the Ayât (proofs, evidence, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) of his Lord; and the torment of the Hereafter is far more severe and more lasting.) (Sûrat Tâ-Hâ- verse 127)
Another body, Allah wills to let all people see what happened to those wrong doers. Indeed what happened to the people of that city is totally identical with the following verse, God be He blessed and exalted says :( So, when they forgot (the warning) with which they had been reminded, We opened for them the gates of every (pleasant) thing, until in the midst of their enjoyment in that which they were given, all of a sudden, We took them (in punishment), so! They were plunged into destruction with deep regrets and sorrows.* so the root of the people who did wrong was cut off. And all the praises and thanks are to Allah, the Lord of the 'Âlamîn (mankind, jinn, and all that exists) (Sûrat Al-An'âm- verse 44-45).
Finally, let us read this eloquent verses which tells us a whole story in just few words , Allah says:(The people of Lût (Lot) (-who dwelt in the town of Sodom in Palestine) belied the Messengers.* When their brother Lût (Lot) said to them: "Will you not fear Allah and obey Him? * "Verily I am a trustworthy Messenger to you. *"So fear Allah, keep your duty to Him, and obey me. * "No reward do I ask of you for it (my Message of Islamic Monotheism); my reward is only from the Lord of the 'Âlamîn (mankind, jinn and all that exists). * "Go you in unto the males of the 'Âlamîn (mankind), * "And leave those whom Allah has created for you to be your wives? Nay, you are a trespassing people!" *They said: "If you cease not O Lût (Lot)! Verily, you will be one of those who are driven out!" * He said: "I am, indeed, of those who disapprove with severe anger and fury your (this evil) action (of sodomy). *"My Lord! Save me and my family from what they do." * So we saved him and his family, all, * except an old woman (his wife) among those who remained behind. *Then afterward we destroyed the others. * And we rained on them a rain (of torment). And how evil was the rain of those who had been warned! * Verily, in this is indeed a sign, yet most of them are not believers. *And verily your Lord, He is indeed the All-Mighty, the Most Merciful.)(Sûrat Ash-Shu'arâ-verse160-175).
By: Abduldaem Al-Kaheel
www.kaheel7.com/eng
1. http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0000762
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/medical_notes/j-m/2572841.stm
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bowel_syndrome
4. Statistics Canada, Canada's National Statistical Agency, July 7, 2005)
5. - Salvatore Ciro Nappo, Pompeii: Its Discovery and Preservation, www.bbc.co.uk
6. - 2005 National Crime Victimization Survey, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice.
Note: Sodomy came from word Sadoom. This is the name of the country where sodomy was began. Then Allah Sent prophet Looth for them to send the message of Islam but they refused and got sever punishment as you see still their land is dead and was named as Dead Sea.
Dead Sea English Homosexuality Sodomy


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package com.opengamma.financial.analytics.model.credit.isda.cds;

import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;

import com.opengamma.engine.ComputationTarget;
import com.opengamma.engine.function.FunctionCompilationContext;
import com.opengamma.engine.value.ValueRequirement;
import com.opengamma.engine.value.ValueRequirementNames;
import com.opengamma.financial.analytics.OpenGammaFunctionExclusions;
import com.opengamma.financial.analytics.model.credit.CreditInstrumentPropertyNamesAndValues;
import com.opengamma.financial.property.DefaultPropertyFunction;
import com.opengamma.financial.security.FinancialSecurityTypes;
import com.opengamma.financial.security.FinancialSecurityUtils;
import com.opengamma.util.ArgumentChecker;

/**
 *
 */
public class StandardVanillaCDSIR01Defaults extends DefaultPropertyFunction {
  private static final String[] VALUE_REQUIREMENT = new String[] {
                ValueRequirementNames.IR01,
  };
  private final PriorityClass _priority;
  private final Map<String, String> _currencyToYieldCurveBump;
  private final Map<String, String> _currencyToYieldBumpType;

  public StandardVanillaCDSIR01Defaults(final String priority, final String... perCurrencyDefaults) {
    super(FinancialSecurityTypes.STANDARD_VANILLA_CDS_SECURITY
        .or(FinancialSecurityTypes.LEGACY_VANILLA_CDS_SECURITY)
        .or(FinancialSecurityTypes.CREDIT_DEFAULT_SWAP_OPTION_SECURITY)
        .or(FinancialSecurityTypes.CREDIT_DEFAULT_SWAP_INDEX_SECURITY), true);
    ArgumentChecker.notNull(priority, "priority");
    ArgumentChecker.notNull(perCurrencyDefaults, "per currency defaults");
    ArgumentChecker.isTrue(perCurrencyDefaults.length % 3 == 0, "Must have one yield curve bump and yield bump type per currency");
    _priority = PriorityClass.valueOf(priority);
    _currencyToYieldCurveBump = new HashMap<>();
    _currencyToYieldBumpType = new HashMap<>();
    for (int i = 0; i < perCurrencyDefaults.length; i += 3) {
      final String currency = perCurrencyDefaults[i];
      _currencyToYieldCurveBump.put(currency, perCurrencyDefaults[i + 1]);
      _currencyToYieldBumpType.put(currency, perCurrencyDefaults[i + 2]);
    }
  }

  @Override
  public boolean canApplyTo(final FunctionCompilationContext context, final ComputationTarget target) {
    return _currencyToYieldCurveBump.containsKey(FinancialSecurityUtils.getCurrency(target.getSecurity()).getCode());
  }

  @Override
  protected void getDefaults(final PropertyDefaults defaults) {
    for (final String valueRequirement : VALUE_REQUIREMENT) {
      defaults.addValuePropertyName(valueRequirement, CreditInstrumentPropertyNamesAndValues.PROPERTY_INTEREST_RATE_CURVE_BUMP);
      defaults.addValuePropertyName(valueRequirement, CreditInstrumentPropertyNamesAndValues.PROPERTY_INTEREST_RATE_BUMP_TYPE);
    }
  }

  @Override
  protected Set<String> getDefaultValue(final FunctionCompilationContext context, final ComputationTarget target, final ValueRequirement desiredValue,
      final String propertyName) {
    final String currency = FinancialSecurityUtils.getCurrency(target.getSecurity()).getCode();
    if (CreditInstrumentPropertyNamesAndValues.PROPERTY_INTEREST_RATE_CURVE_BUMP.equals(propertyName)) {
      return Collections.singleton(_currencyToYieldCurveBump.get(currency));
    }
    if (CreditInstrumentPropertyNamesAndValues.PROPERTY_INTEREST_RATE_BUMP_TYPE.equals(propertyName)) {
      return Collections.singleton(_currencyToYieldBumpType.get(currency));
    }
    return null;
  }

  @Override
  public PriorityClass getPriority() {
    return _priority;
  }

  @Override
  public String getMutualExclusionGroup() {
    return OpenGammaFunctionExclusions.ISDA_COMPLIANT_IR01;
  }

}


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Remembering Red Summer: Years Of Racial Violence 'Set The Stage' For Tulsa Massacre
By Audie Cornish,
Lauren Hodges, Patrick Jarenwattananon
It's known as the Red Summer, but it actually stretched well into the fall of 1919. From April through November of that year, a wave of white mobs attacked Black communities in cities across the country, killing hundreds, if not thousands of civilians. Red Summer refers to the blood they shed.
Washington Post staff writer DeNeen Brown has investigated this history closely. She helped make two new documentaries from National Geographic and PBS about the 1921 race massacre in her hometown of Tulsa, Okla. She told us we actually should think of the Red Summer as not one season, but several years of racist violence.
DENEEN BROWN: Well, I argue that Red Summer actually began in 1917 in East St. Louis, Ill., when white mobs attacked Black people, pulling them off of streetcars, beating them. That was a reign of terror that engulfed at least 26 cities - included Washington, D.C.; Chicago; Omaha; Elaine, Ark.; Charleston, S.C.; Knoxville; Houston. These attacks set the stage for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
CORNISH: Can you take us back to this period in time in terms of what was going on with these Black communities? I'm thinking of post-war, post-pandemic and also the start of the Great Migration. But how does this play out in terms of Black and white communities coming up against each other?
BROWN: OK. So Red Summer coincides with the second resurgence of the Klan. There were police chiefs. There were police officers. There were mayors. There were governors. There were senators who were proud members of the Klan. They actually carried Klan cards. It also coincides with the Great Migration, when you see millions of Black people fleeing the South for cities in the North and also cities in the West. They encounter white people who are angry over the competition for jobs and also for voting power.
This period coincides with what historians call the New Negro. That means Black people were no longer subservient. This was a period when Black soldiers were returning from World War I. They were expecting human rights. They had been willing to die to defend their country. There's a famous quote by W. E. B. Du Bois who wrote, we returned from fighting. We returned fighting.
CORNISH: This is the atmosphere...
BROWN: Yes.
CORNISH: ...Going into that period - 1919, 1920, 1921. This is sort of what the country has been marinating in, for lack of a better word.
BROWN: Yes. Yes. Yes. So coming out of the Civil War, following the period of reconstruction, Black people are building Black towns across the country. They're building Black wealth. They're building universities. They're also building capital power and voting power. And as a result of that voting power, there's a huge backlash against them. You start seeing Jim Crow laws, segregation. The number of lynchings increases during this period. There was this real move, this drive, to exterminate Black people, to clear out their communities, to stop their economic progress, to wipe them out.
CORNISH: Do you see any parallels or historical lessons for the modern observer, given the last year we've had a lot of protests over racism more broadly?
BROWN: Yes. So this was a period of history that was kept out of textbooks, was whitewashed out of American history. But it happened. I mean, hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Black people were killed. There is a direct parallel between that period with what is happening now in this country. There was great economic progress, voting progress. The country saw its first Black president. And then you have this backlash, which was very similar to the backlash that occurred around the turn of the century, during this Red Summer period.
And in order to understand what's happening now with police brutality, what's happening now with the racial tensions, you have to understand Red Summer. You have to understand what happened during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The fires that burned, destroying Black Wall Street, still burn today.
CORNISH: DeNeen Brown has been writing about this for The Washington Post.
Thank you so much for your time.
BROWN: Thank you. It was great to be here.
Audie Cornish
Over two decades of journalism, Audie Cornish has become a recognized and trusted voice on the airwaves as co-host of NPR's flagship news program, All Things Considered.
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Lauren Hodges
Lauren Hodges is an associate producer for All Things Considered. She joined the show in 2018 after seven years in the NPR newsroom as a producer and editor. She doesn't mind that you used her pens, she just likes them a certain way and asks that you put them back the way you found them, thanks. Despite years working on interviews with notable politicians, public figures, and celebrities for NPR, Hodges completely lost her cool when she heard RuPaul's voice and was told to sit quietly in a corner during the rest of the interview. She promises to do better next time.
Patrick Jarenwattananon
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Toronto, Venice Film Festivals Offer How-to Course in Planning
Thursday August 01st 2013
Toronto and Venice kicked festival season into high gear when they unveiled their lineups on July 23 and 25, respectively. The two announcements also offered reminders that festivals are like film franchises: You must fulfill audience expectations yet give them something new, and you must forge a distinct identity while retaining the essential elements of thousands of similar offerings.
Both events — Venice runs Aug. 28-Sept. 7; Toronto is Sept. 5-15 — will offer the usual quota of movie stars, name directors and world premieres. But Toronto underlines its role as an awards launchpad with such titles as Ron Howard's "Rush," Steve McQueen's "12 Years a Slave," Jason Reitman's "Labor Day" and John Wells' "August: Osage County," while also maintaining its reputation as an industry behemoth with hundreds of titles encompassing documentaries, kidpics, midnight movies and more.
In the coming weeks, Toronto will continue to announce titles across its various, often nebulously titled sections, including Masters, Mavericks, Discovery, Vanguard and its region-specific City to City sidebar.
Venice also puts a spotlight on kudos contenders, but within a much more selective lineup of 60-70 titles, demonstrating its global mandate by showcasing numerous international works. This year's lineup includes Xavier Dolan's "Tom at the Farm," Tsai Ming-liang's "Stray Dogs" and Merzak Allouache's "The Rooftops."
Venice's flair for innovation and diversity include its bookending 3D films (opening-night attraction "Gravity" from Alfonso Cuaron and closer docu "Amazonin"), plus an animated film, Hayao Miyazak's "The Wind Rises," in competition. It's also offering its first in-competish documentary, Errol Morris' "The Unknown Known."
As if that weren't enough, the festival found an out-of-competition slot for Greg McLean's "Wolf Creek 2."
The fest will offer selected titles on the Web, for a 24-hour period, day-and-date with their world preems at the cutting edge Horizons sidebar. After dipping its toes in digital last year, Venice is looking to increase the reach of its Sala Web Theater, which is limited to 500 virtual seats. Fest topper Alberto Barbera is touting the online Sala Web as an opportunity for films to gain additional worldwide exposure, while providing the chance to test the waters of the international market.
While both festivals enjoy the sunny weather of the fall schedule, they offer the festivalgoer entirely different experiences. Mosquitoes aside, Venice is less frenzied; cineastes get around on bicycles, and the generous scheduling and relatively manageable lineup make for an atmosphere that will refresh anyone who's spent time in the Cannes hothouse or the Sundance cold. By contrast, the sheer number of titles at Toronto make for a more overwhelming experience, off-set somewhat by the festival's smoothly run operation, comfortable venues and the benefits of a decent transit system and above-average dining options.
As usual, the two fests have a bit of an overlap, in terms of dates and shared titles; the always-last-minute announcement from Telluride will undoubtedly reflect a few duplications as well. So far, the Italian and Canadian fests will both be showing "Gravity," "Philomena" (Stephen Frears), "Under the Skin" (Jonathan Glazer), "Parkland" (Peter Landesman) and "Night Moves" (Kelly Reichardt), among others.
The inclusions of Reichardt and Emma Dante (with "Via Castellana Bandiera ") in competition rep an attempt to reverse a prevalent trend: under-representation of women directors, as reflected in the recent Cannes fest and at the Oscars. Both of last week's announcements included films from women, but neither could match the just-wrapped Durban Festival, where seven women helmers were repped among the 24 competition films.
"I don't think this is an issue that is unique to South Africa or Africa," South African director Sara Blecher says. "But I do also think we're on the curve of improving and increasing the number of women making feature films here. In other parts of the world, like the U.S., it feels like there are less and less women in film."
Durban also pointed up one of the hurdles for many fest directors: politics. Its July 18 opening night was canceled at the last minute when the South Africa Film & Publication Board refused to give a permit to Jahmil X.T. Qubeka's "Of Good Report." Hopefully, Barbera's relationship with the government-sponsored La Biennale committee, which oversees the festival among other things, is more sanguine. But politics and world events could play a role in the Cairo Film Festival, scheduled Nov. 27-Dec. 6.
Fest programmers also have to deal with the sociopolitics of film execs, who weigh the costs and logistics of a festival berth as they consider the access of global press and awards buzz. For example, "Captain Phillips," directed by Paul Greengrass and starring Tom Hanks, was predicted to be slotted at both festivals, but was a no-show at last week's announcements. It may show up at one or both, but others are predicting it could bow at the New York Film Festival instead. The George Clooney-helmed "The Monuments Men" was sought by every festival, but the word is that it won't be ready for these.
Source: Variety


Anyone wishing to become a beverage alcohol importer (IMP), importing into the United States beverage alcohol not for personal use, and subsequently distributing the imported beverage alcohol to wholesalers or retailers, must file this application. You will need the right permits to import wine and also will need an appointment letter from the winery you are planning to import. Our Guide on How to Import Wine will help you make your portfolio and with the right application process you can start your wine importing business.
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Home Business & Property Business Is Manchester's restaurant scene in trouble – or do new openings mean...
Is Manchester's restaurant scene in trouble – or do new openings mean it's in good health?
We spoke to analysts and operators to see how the city's dining scene is faring - and what lies ahead
It's a difficult time for Manchester restaurants and bars, with several high-profile closures over recent weeks. The closure of Manchester House and Artisan was swiftly followed by The Rabbit, several bars and restaurants within the MAD group, and news that Grill on the Alley is set to shut.
But there are also lots of new restaurants opening, from big names like The Ivy (the biggest restaurant opening in the UK this year) and Dishoom to new arrivals such as Manahatta, Peter Street Kitchen and Mana – the latter part of a burgeoning scene in Ancoats.
So how is the dining scene faring overall? Is the bubble about to burst? Will we see supply outstrip demand? Or is it healthier than we think? And how does it compare to other major UK cities?
We spoke to analysts and operators to find out how Manchester's dining and drinking scene is faring – and what lies ahead.
The past five years has seen huge growth in Manchester. According to data from consultancy group CGA, the number of licensed restaurants rose by a whopping 36.5% between 2013 and 2018. That's the biggest increase across 16 major UK cities, more than double the growth in London (17.7%), and far outstrips the national average of 15%.
But over the past year, the figure has flattened out. From 2017 to 2018, restaurant growth in the city is 0% – which means that the number of new openings is balanced by the number of closures.
"That flat year-on-year for restaurants in Manchester is interesting," says Karl Chessell, unit director for retail and food at CGA.
"It is obviously against the backdrop of huge net growth over the last five years. We know that whilst the net change over the last year is zero, a lot of closures and openings will have happened to balance out that figure.
"This is one of the themes we are seeing – large churn in the market. It is not easy for operators when there has been such an increase in supply, and demand has not really shifted."
Despite restaurant growth being flat over the past 12 months, figures show there has been an increase in licensed bars and pubs.
"Overall, Manchester fares well against other major city centres," says James Bennett from CGA. "If you viewed just on the five year trend alone then it would be the fastest growing city."
"Over the past year, though, the Manchester restaurant trend is flat, and the growth rate of pubs and bars has overtaken restaurants."
There has been a 3.4% increase in licensed pubs and bars in Manchester from 2017 to 2018, when many cities – including London (-3.2%), Edinburgh (-2.5%), Brighton (-1.2%) and Newcastle (-7.3%) – have seen decreases. Nationally, there's a decrease of -0.9%.
"The growth in pubs and bars in Manchester is interesting," says Karl. "Drink focused outlets have actually declined in numbers nationally.
"Manchester has bucked this trend and will be drawing from the secondary towns around it – Bolton, Wigan, Stockport etc. What we are seeing nationally, though, is drink-led outlets performing better than food in terms of sales growth."
Taking into account all licensed premises – including restaurants, bars and pubs – Manchester is not performing badly compared to other cities, with an overall increase of 2.1%.
It's much lower than the 23.8% increase in licensed premises we've seen during the previous five years, when Manchester had the biggest growth of any UK city, but it has still performed better over the past year than London (0.1%), Edinburgh (0.5%) and Leeds (1.7%). Other cities, including Glasgow (-1.7%), Newcastle (-4.5%) and Brighton (-1.9%), have seen decreases.
So what does this mean for the city's dining scene?
"The huge increase in the number of restaurants means we are arguably over-supplied," says Karl. "Great for consumer choice but hard for food-led operators."
One of the ways we will see restaurants begin to adapt over coming months is to encourage dining outside of peak times, believes Karl.
"I think some of this challenge is why operators are looking to other day parts to drive revenue. People like The Alchemist have done well with their food offer and getting people in through all day parts. Dishoom will aim to do the same I am sure."
Thom Hethington, CEO of the Northern Restaurant & Bar exhibition, one of the founders of the PPA award-winning Restaurant magazine and the 50 Best Restaurants in the World awards, and a speaker, consultant and writer on food and drink in the north of England, agrees that it's a difficult time, but believes that many operators – and especially the smaller independents – are ready for the challenge.
"It's a tough time for restaurants nationally, due mainly to rising costs, but I think CGA's data proves that Manchester and other northern cities are actually faring better than most," says Thom.
"Huge new operations like The Ivy will obviously have an impact on Manchester's dining scene, but if you talk to the indies the vast majority are quite bullish and are looking to expand and to open new venues.
"They feel that, as agile, smaller operators with relatively low overheads and a ton of passion, they are well placed to ride out any rocky periods, and will relish picking up trade and staff from the ongoing casual dining crisis."
It's an optimism shared by Richard Brown, co-founder of small independent restaurant Beastro in Spinningfields.
"As an independent operator in Manchester, it is incredibly positive to see the new operations seeing Manchester as a viable place to open – for us it means we made the right decision to open here," says Richard.
"If multi-million pound operators are investing and joining the city, we must be in the right location. Their economic analysis of where to open in the UK will be far more thorough than anything we could do, and to have this many operators choose Manchester as the place to open is quite a compliment."
Richard believes that new openings will provide more opportunities, and hopes that restaurants can work together rather than solely being competitors.
"Obviously we have seen it work for some and not work for others on many occasions, however going up against the big brands actually is a great opportunity for some friendly competition," he says.
"I was at a Manchester Hospitality Network event recently and Becky Wilkes, sales and marketing manager at 20 Stories, made a great point – that as an industry we should be working together and not against each other.
"If you're full or unable to take a booking, event or group, suggesting or passing on a lead to another operator may seem foolish. However in doing this, and strengthening the bond in the industry, you're bound to see this repaid in the future if the industry works together."
Richard believes the personal service offered by smaller independents and their agility and adaptability may be an advantage in a tough climate.
"As a smaller independent operator, we are lucky to have a strong base of regular guests who support us monthly, weekly or even daily," he says.
"We are able to offer a personal service that may not be able to be created by the larger operators and, while small, we can make changes, react and adapt far quicker than most of the larger players.
"Having the polished, established brands open on our doorstep always offers new challenges and means we have to adapt, grow up, develop, change and become different, but always sticking to our core values and our promise to our guests of honest, passionate food."
Gary Usher is arguably the poster boy for growth and innovation amongst independent restaurants, having followed up his critically acclaimed Burnt Truffle in Merseyside and Sticky Walnut in Chester with equally acclaimed Hispi in Didsbury and Wreckfish in Liverpool.
He recently opened his fifth restaurant, Pinion in Prescot, after a successful crowdfunding campaign raised £50,000 in less than an hour, and is planning to open his sixth site, Kala, in Manchester city centre in February.
Photo: MFDF
"We're incredibly excited and proud to be opening on King Street in 2019," says Gary. "Manchester has been so bloody kind and welcoming to us up to now, so it makes the whole prospect a little less scary."
Gary believes that restaurants should focus on being the best they can rather than worrying about the competition.
"If you waste your time concentrating on others, you'll lose sight of where you should be. Restaurants will come and restaurants will go. Use them or lose them of course, but if they're not being used, it's probably because they're shit. As for the 'casual dining crisis', I really couldn't care less. Do what you do the best you can, that's all anyone can do."
Having said that, Gary relishes the competition that the big new openings bring.
"The Ivy is an absolute institution with an incredibly consistent product and I'm looking forward to its Manchester site because it will keep us all on our toes," he says. "I recently had lunch in the new Leeds Ivy and it was nothing short of faultless.
"There was scepticism about Hawksmoor before they opened… '£30 quid just for a steak?!', but look at them now – probably the best restaurant in the whole of the north west.
"Bring it on, I say."
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Selected at the fantastic Westonbirt Arboretum, this is an exciting Japanese maple, with green summer leaves and excellent, long lasting, scarlet red autumn colour.
A superb large garden shrub or small tree for leaf colour in mid to October.
Hardiness: Hardy. Acer palmatum 'Westonbirt Red' will grow best when planted in an area sheltered from strong winds.
Habit: Acer palmatum 'Westonbirt Red' will grow to be a large shrub or small branching tree in time with a rounded habit.
Glorious red autumn colour in mid October on a 4 - 5 year old Acer palmatum 'Westonbirt Red' in our woodland gardens.


Five expats have had their resident visas cancelled in just the past week.
Foreigners living in Mexico under resident immigration permits run the risk of losing their status unless they go strictly by the book every time they exit and reenter the country, Florencia Vega Mendez, head of the Chapala ranch of the Instituto Nacional de Migracion (INM) is warning.
Incidents of local expats getting downgraded to 180-day tourist visas are piling up, with five cases reported just in the past week.
International travel that can be hectic and stressful under the best of circumstances tends to become more intense in busy holiday seasons. Understanding and complying with your INM obligations will save you from getting entangled in bureaucratic boondoggles, penalties, time delays, lost flights and added expenses that could turn an upcoming trip abroad into a Christmas nightmare.
Persons holding temporary (RT) or permanent (RP) resident visas should think of their wallet-size green cards as shields against snags at INM checkpoints. Revocation of residency most commonly stems from errors committed in processing the Forma Migratoria Multiple (FMM), a standard form that must be submitted individually by all foreigners entering or exiting Mexico.
The FMM comprises two sections. Immigration officers collect the top portion upon entry to Mexico and the shorter bottom part at exit points.
For tourists traveling beyond the border zone the short part of the form serves as the official visitor permit that is stamped with date of entry and normally marked as valid for 180 days. It should be kept in a safe place and turned in to INM upon departure prior to the expiration date.
RT or RP visa holders fill out an FMM when leaving the country. When traveling by air, the lower segment must be presented at the INM desk along with the residency green card and a valid passport to get a boarding pass. Save the top part for the return trip.
To avoid being unwittingly reclassified as a tourist when returning to Mexico follow a few important tips. Hand write "Residente Temporal" or "Residente Permanente" across the top of each section of the FMM. To fill in the information boxes appearing in the upper portion, note Mexico as country of residence (box #7), the number shown on the back of the INM green card (box #8) and otro/other (instead of tourism) for purpose of trip (box #9).
Once off the plane pay close attention as you go through the INM station. Immigration officials often assume that all foreigners are tourists. So first of all show your green card and verbally state "soy residente". Then hand over your passport with the top portion of the FMM.
If for some reason you use the full FMM handed out on board the plane make sure the officer does not give you the bottom part with markings in the grey section for official use indicating visitor status and validity for a specific number of days. Otherwise you will be registered as a tourist in the INM database and your residency status automatically cancelled.