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MORRISBURG – Of course dynamite can come in petite packages!
Leisa Way as Dolly Parton literally erupts on to the Upper Canada Playhouse stage in a flurry of feathers, fringe and bejewelled finery. Way's new show, Rhinestone Cowgirl: A Tribute to Dolly Parton, is designed to leave audiences amazed, hugely entertained, and clamouring for more.
It's not just that Way has a voice with extraordinary range and power, she also manages to capture the essence of Dolly Parton, a star for over five decades.
"Doing research for this show," Leisa Way explained May 8, after yet another sold out performance at the Playhouse, "I came across over 60 hours of interviews and shows Dolly had done. Her personality has never changed. She is still the same kind, generous and sweet person she always was."
Way manages to convey these qualities throughout her new show, which is making its debut at the Playhouse in this initial sold out run.
"We've actually cut the show by about 15 minutes since we opened," Way said. "What audiences are seeing now is the final, finished version. And audiences here at the Playhouse are truly genuine. We have been able to gauge how the show is going by their laughter and reactions to Dolly's music and one-liners. They seem to love the show. And it's been a blast."
The one liners, and commentaries Way delivers throughout the Tribute ("You folks paid a lot to come here tonight, and frankly I need the money. It costs a lot to look this cheap!") are entertaining and revealing. However, the real magic lies in hearing Way sing Dolly's songs.
Backed up by a terrifically talented band which includes Bruce Ley, Dave Wilson, Randall Kempf, Kim Ratcliffe and Aaron Solomon, Way performs hits from every era of Parton's career.
She sings pure country in a medley of Dolly/Porter Waggoner classics with Aaron Solomon. She crosses over, with Randall Kempf to country pop in the Dolly/Kenny classic, "Islands in the Sun". She injects new life into disco with "He'll come again", then simply leaves the audience breathless when she sings one of Parton's greatest song-writing triumphs, "I Will Always Love You."
Like many in the audience, I found myself deeply moved when Way and her band unplugged their instruments, gathered downstage, and simply harmonized on gospel. There was a timeless feeling about this musical moment in the show, a sense, for the audience, that we were sitting on a porch in the sunlight, just listening to old friends sing.
This is a show that draws audiences in. Parton is a super star, of course, but Way succeeds in making us believe that she is also a great human being.
Leisa Way is spectacular in Rhinestone Cowgirl. All I can say is: What a band! What a show! What a lady!


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Blarney town is a major tourist attraction in County Cork. Mostly people come to see the castle, kiss the stone, and to shop at the Blarney Woolen Mills.

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Subscribe to VICE News here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-News The UK government is going ahead with its plans to commence fracking across more than half of the country, hoping that it will boost the economy and provide an abundant supply of natural gas. Critics of the process argue that it contaminates groundwater and damages the environment and public health. A grassroots resistance movement has emerged to fight the introduction of fracking in the UK, and it appears to be gaining momentum throughout the country. VICE News travels to Blackpool, Lancashire, to see the fractivists in action. The seaside resort town is at the center of a David and Goliath battle between local residents and the energy company Cuadrilla over fracking in the region, which is believed to have one of the largest shale gas reserves in the Northern Hemisphere. Check out "These Towns and Counties Across America Just Banned Oil and Gas Fracking" – http://bit.ly/1F3oiwu Watch "The Lake That Burned Down a Forest – Full Length" – http://bit.ly/1vZSnMX Watch "Showdown in Coal Country" – http://bit.ly/1wfWtur Check out the VICE News beta for more: http://vicenews.com Follow VICE News here: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vicenews Twitter: https://twitter.com/vicenews Tumblr: http://vicenews.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/vicenews
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Nope...don't have that. I have too many unread books that prevent me from fearing at the idea of having nothing to read. Wait...maybe I do have this. I keep buying books even though I have mountain in my room. Do I do this because to do fear? Huh...ReplyDeleteReplies
I keep buying books too!! I have way too many unread books.Delete
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Tevel was drawn to work in Burundi first and foremost due to the dire need in the country. The third poorest nation in the world, Burundi has suffered deeply from violent inter-ethnic conflicts between Hutus and Tutsis, similar to its neighbor Rwanda. However unlike Rwanda, Burundi did not receive the same extent of international media attention and subsequent aid necessary to recover from the conflict. When the Tevel staff first visited Burundi in December 2012 as part of a fact-finding mission, it was clear that while the challenge was enormous, so was the potential to make an impact.
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- Tutsis comprise 14% of the current population of Burundi while Hutus make up 85%.
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Gera Tsahalin, an alumnus of Tevel's program in both Nepal and Haiti was deployed to Burundi in January of 2014 to select the area of activity and local partners. In March he was joined by Noga Shafer-Raviv, Tevel's Director of Community Development. After traveling extensively and meeting with both local and international organizations, Gera and Noga decided that Tevel's first focus would be in the Makamba region, in the southern tip of the country that has seen an influx of returnees over the past years. The organization's work will be focused in the rural Vugizo district, an area which suffers from a complete lack of infrastructure needed to advance development activity. Rural communities have no running water, minimal roads and are not connected to the electricity grid. Schools often lack basic physical infrastructure, teachers are poorly trained and there are few books or other educational resources available to the students. Likewise there is a severe shortage of occupational opportunities for youth and of venues to provide training to the adults of the community in critical fields such as agricultural techniques, family planning, literacy and numeracy, micro-savings and vocational training.
"Many countries in Africa have been flooded with international NGOs that often do more damage than good, disturbing local leadership structures and creating dependence. Burundi is virgin territory in that way. Working here is an opportunity to create a different dynamic between development organizations and communities, similar to what we have created in Nepal," said Odenheimer.
Tevel's Burundi staff, including Bijay Shresta, one of the organization's key staff members from Nepal, are already in the field. The first group of international volunteers, from the Tevel Fellowship program, will be deployed to Burundi in September 2014. Follow Tevel's activity in Burundi at #TevelBurundi on all of our social media channels.


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Yeah, so, have you heard about that great new show, Cake Boss? (I'm only four or five seasons tardy in discovering it). Don't look at me like that... Really. Don't.
I love the show. Buddy, the 'Cake Boss,' is so funny, and the cakes are outrageous, and at the end of the day, even after all the squabbles and dropped cakes and pies in the face, the family still loves each other. Aahh. It's my new favorite unwind show.
It also reminds me of the time I decided that I really wanted to decorate cakes. I took the basic Wilton cake decorating course at the local Jo-Ann Fabrics, bought far too many tips, bags and gadgetry, succumbed to delusions of grandeur (don't you know, I was nearly as good as Buddy - in my own mind), and generally had a great time.
The phone ringing woke me a couple hours later. It was my husband, and he had that voice, preternaturally calm, and yet still a little choked. He'd stopped by the church for a look-see at my handiwork.
My handiwork had somehow become a three foot long swath of edible destruction strewn across the reception room floor.
I don't know if the cake just toppled on its own, or if someone bumped the table (there were kids in the building). It doesn't really matter, I guess - the result was the same. My husband found a garbage bag and started shoveling. I called the mother of the bride, my voice preternaturally calm, and yet a little choked, and told her what happened. It was under two hours to reception time.
I panicked.
And panicked some more.
And then I got to work. I called the local supermarket. They were so kind, and let me borrow their plastic cake tiers (it's common for some layers on big cakes to be fakes). I bought two unfrosted rounds from them and a couple bunches of fresh cut flowers. Quickly, I coated everything (except the flowers) with leftover frosting, then hauled it to the church. I sequestered myself in a little room and desperately started cutting flower stems. Through the door I could hear the music playing and the people walking by. The mother of the bride stopped in several times, very kind, very understanding - it made me feel horrible.
I went home and cried. And I never decorated another cake.
It was only years later that a real live professional cake decorator befriended me. Finally I worked up the courage to confide my story to her in hushed, embarrassed tones. And she laughed! She laughed and said, "Now you've been initiated as a real decorator. And you pulled it out in the end, didn't you? You saved the day. Why'd you quit when you'd finally made it?"
Since I started writing again, I've found a lot of parallels between cake decorating and writing:
- If it doesn't turn out right, scrape it off and try again.
- Words, and frosting, can be delicious.
- Sometimes less is more. Too much sparkle, bling, adjective and adverb can hide the simple beauty of a piece.
- Practice, practice, practice
- There will always be someone with a different, maybe even a better skill set (Buddy, I'm looking at you). Don't sweat it. You'll find your niche.
- Learn, learn, learn: classes, YouTube, books, observation.
- New techniques feel awkward at the start, but lead to more polished, professional results.
- Don't be afraid of sharing your talents at whatever stage you're at.
- Your lifeline is your support system of people who believe in you (and are willing to scrape the cake off the floor) - cherish them.
- Sometimes your creation will end up nothing like you envisioned it - and that's okay.
- When the cake falls or the rejections flood in, and you can still pick yourself up and keep going, then you know you've made it because you have mastered the tenacity it takes to be a professional.
Last week, for the first time in years, I picked up a decorating bag and made cupcakes with my daughter.
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little med vid JUST OUT !
little med vid JUST OUT !
hasta la vista miene lieblings !
Well a week of frenzied activity has occured , all the wiring is now finished ,barring all the mistakes i probably made , and will have to redo ,
theres a sexy new /old fuse box on the bulkhead behind the seat , and so today i had to actually turn it all on .
Amazingly , it all seemed to work , i ha a wrong input setting for the 2nd wide band o2 sensor ,
which was easily fixed by scrolling up the selection box and realizing that megasquirt in their wisdom gives two choices for the same input port ,
and only one of them works !
i cranked the engines to log the crank sensor output , and that allowed me to wire it the right way round .
i then activated the gas supply , and heard the familiar sound of gas leaking ...
turned out to be A) a copper compression joint that had bottomed out B) a pair of flattened o rings on the gas supply elbow on the reducer
C) a jumped jubilee clip on the gas rail , D) another copper compression fitting .
so i A) made a new pipe B) fitted new elbow with new o rings C)found an even mankyer clip that worked ...and D) tightened it up .
.so all fixed.
then checked my lpg pressure gauges , one was at 17 psi ,, fine , the other was at nuffin , not fine ,
i took the gauge off and found the plastic lens was rubbing on the needle , so fixed that and had 17 psi there too .noice.
engine 1...
engine 2 ..
this ones dropped a bit , but that's ok ...its probably seeped out past the injectors which have not been used for a while .
i set up the wide bands ..
i had to reprogram them to put out 10:1 =0 v and 20:1 = 5 volts ...so the ecu will chat happily with them ,
and automatically set the mixture to what i want .
the ecu has its little umbilical cord..
which i can tape up and fix in permanently once i know it will all work .
so tomorrow is running car/mushroom cloud day ...
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Hello Robert!
Phew, just finished a complete read of all 317 pages and here we are on a cliff edge ending, waiting to see how she'll run injected.
You're an inspiration! I love the way you show every up and down of the project. So many builds are just someone with deep pockets bolting together a lorry load of catalogue parts, but your's is a truly 'I made this' car....
I have some 4.2 jag engines in my garage, but they are military issue. I've not yet needed to get inside them, but I am an expert on carb stripping now!
I'm also playing with re-mapping my Moto Guzzi and built some homebrew datalogging gear. Wideband O2 logging is on my list to do.
So lots of interesting stuff in your build, other than the general awsomeness of it!
Many thanks for taking the time to post the tale of the birth of Medusa, I am looking forward to seeing the next installment!
First of all , Ritchie ! that's a lovely post to read , thank you for writing it , i am always amazed when someone says "just read the whole thing" , makes me wish i was there watching their faces as page after page of nonsense reels by
It's simply really really nice to hear .
Also i must say , there's been a dramatic increase in positive, kind posts in the last weeks , and so i will say once again , and i know i am repeating myself and demonstrating a total lack of original script ..THANK YOU ALL.
NOW back to the reporting from the eastern front ( well ,more central really ,but it sounds more dramatic).
Yesterday my solitarynositude was , for the first time in ,well , since v went back to vancouver last september ,was graced with another living being (not counting that little troublemaking grebo THEO , who is basically trying to kill all the new cats that have moved into the 15 brand new "truman show" executive houses behind me ( which two years ago was all fields and crushed concrete )).
My visitor was my friend graham , and i actually asked for help ! ,i felt having someone there ,who knew a lot more about megasquirt than i did , and could wave a extinguisher about if i had disapeared in a ball of flame , was a good idea .not to mention he's great company .
So to cut to the chase , the day was a total failure. but if your of a mind to suffer, here's the long version ...
slightly excitedly , i jumped in , and cranked her up ,er nope... nuffin .
span over ok , but no combustionosityness ness a happenin.
i could hear the injectors clicking , so i knew we had a crank signal to the ecu , and it was telling the injectors to open. we had gas pressure on the gauges .
so we focused on sparks .was there or was there not a ht spark at the plug leads ?
pulled all 12 plugs , since the battery was not sounding to energetic , (i think it may be dying ) and wopped a plug in the coil lead for each engine , upon spinnage , no sparking on engine2 , and intermittent sparking on engine 1 ..
we pulled the trigger wire from the ecu , and by earthing them you should get a spark , this worked on E1 , but on E2 , it sounded like the spark was happening inside the msd 6 .we concluded it had died .
we then went back and forwards trying the osciloscope to see what trigger signal we had, it seemd to vary around 3 volts which is much too low , so we unplugged the throttle position sensor and the air temp and coolant temp sensors , which is everything no the 5v line , and our signal came up to 4.9 v ..then we plugged it all back in again , and the signal staved at 4.8v , weird , but hey it was better .
we then completely rewired the no 2 engine , and treid to use the original 4 pin gm module that was on there from before , no luck .we think we have misunderstood what the 5 v square wave signal is doing .
so we then focused on the front intermittent spark . we thought maybe this 5v dig square wave signal is not enough to trigger the procomp 6al (msd clone from china i think ) ,so , as an experiment , we had another ecu with a proper 12v signal spare ,so we plugged that in to see if it would then trigger the box consistently , by feeding it a 12v signal ..BINGO ...it worked .
so the whole drive your msd with a 5v dg signal does not seem to work ,like it shows in the manual .pox.
by this time by lovely soldered and taped loom was looking like it had been attacked by a robot goat , but hey , we did find stuff out .
now research goes into ignition triggers and can i or my friend andy fix the msd6 , or shall i find some logic driven vw coils down the scrappy and throw out all the msd boxes .
nil desperandum NON CEDO !
Well I sure we're all glad you weren't having all that trauma unaided Robert, way too much brain ache and fade for one man to handle alone old bean!
Your disciples still have faith in your powers even if megasquirt doesn't
Whirrr whirrr chuff chuff de chuff........chuff......BRUMMMM!
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Thanks bernard , i am off tomorrow to the scrappy to see if i can find some 5v logic switched ignition coils ...
Sorry to hear of your woes Robert, I'm sure you will find some wizardry to sort it though.
I'll just put this here though my MSD6AL car did 22mpg last weekend and this weekend
Any progress on the ignition coils?
Don't keep us waiting now!
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Beasts, vanmorgen aangekondigd, nu al details bekend en een screenshot uitgegeven.Beasts promises breathtaking 3D environments inhabited by Yeti - truly individual creatures who think and act for themselves thanks to the company's innovative technology. Beasts will be the company's first fully 3D title and is provisionally scheduled for release in Q2 2001. The game's objective is to guide and control the actions of a small group of Yeti who must overcome a serious crisis that threatens their existence. A large mining company has started up operations near the Yeti, and, as a result, poisons their environment. Players must drive the mining company out by any means necessary. The Yeti tribes feature dominance hierarchies, realistic mating habits and complex social structures. To win, players will have to deal with a number of specific, time-pressured missions. Between missions, they will have a more general responsibility for their charges, ensuring that their Yeti prosper and multiply and are ready for the next challenge. Multi-player options range from 'death-match' conflicts between Yeti tribes, to open-ended play, in which players can observe their beasts interacting with no set goals. Using a third person, God's eye view with zooming and camera-control, the game also provides realistic, living ecosystems with annual cycles and growth patterns. Individual Yeti are controlled by their impressive biochemical drive systems and neural net brain structures which allow them to learn and adapt to situations. Bekijk de rest hier
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Crytek's Hunt: Showdown Launches on Xbox OnePosted by STGuy1040 on September 20, 2019 under Euro, News, Xbox OneToday Xbox One players can finally get their hands on the official release of Crytek's tense and atmospheric online multiplayer bounty hunting game, Hunt: Showdown. At launch, players will also be able to grab the game's first Legendary DLC pack – "Legends of the Bayou." Hunt: Showdown is available on Xbox One for $39.99/€39.99, or bundled with the "Legends of the Bayou" DLC for ... more.
Hunt: Showdown Now Available on PC Beside New Legends of the Bayou DLCPosted by STGuy1040 on August 27, 2019 under Euro, News, PC, PS4, Xbox OneDeep Silver and Crytek today announce the PC launch of Hunt: Showdown, a thrillingly tense multiplayer game which sees bounty hunters working together or alone to take down deadly beasts prowling unsettling stretches of swampland. With players having to worry about betrayal by their fellow trackers as much as they do an untimely death from their prey, Hunt: Showdown offers unpredictable, exhila... more.
Hunt: Showdown – Now Available on Xbox Game PreviewPosted by DaRipp3r on May 29, 2019 under Euro, News, PC, PS4, Xbox OneCrytek has announced that its multiplayer bounty hunting game Hunt: Showdown is now available on Xbox Game Preview, a service which allows Xbox players to purchase games that are still in development in order to be a part of the game's continuing development journey. The game is launching in North America, Europe, Australia, and a number of other regions (Microsoft Store link), priced ... more.
Hunt: Showdown: Update 6.0 – Now LivePosted by DaRipp3r on May 2, 2019 under Euro, News, PC, PS4, Xbox OneHunt: Showdown fans have gotten their wish as Update 6.0, available now, brings a new boss to the playing field. The Assassin materializes in a whirlwind of bugs and rags, then spawns a pair of decoy clones in order to distract players as it comes in for the killing blow. Update 6.0 also contains six new weapons—the LeMat Revolver, Lebel Rifle, Bomb Lance, Alert Trip Mine, Concertina Trip M... more.
Hunt: Showdown – Update 5.0 Now LivePosted by DaRipp3r on March 12, 2019 under Euro, News, PC, PS4, Xbox OneThe Hunt: Showdown team is delighted to let loose their new AI creature: the Immolator. Its highly destructive and volatile behaviors are highlighted in the Immolator's new gameplay trailer. Meanwhile, today's Update 5.0 brings all times of day to both maps and enables Quickplay on Lawson Delta. Also new to the game is the Bornheim No. 3, the latest addition to the game's compact pistol fam... more.
Hunt: Showdown – Update 4.0 Now LivePosted by DaRipp3r on December 13, 2018 under Euro, News, PC, PS4, Xbox OneEarly access development means constant updates, and today Crytek have released another big one for their early access online multiplayer bounty hunting game, Hunt: Showdown. In conjunction with the new release, Hunt: Showdown will be on sale for 25% off on Steam from December 13 at 10 am PT/ 1 pm ET/ 7 pm CEST to December 19 at 10 am PT/ 1pm ET/ 7pm CEST. One of the stars of Update 4... more.
Hunt: Showdown – Map Enters Beta Phase for Update 3.0Posted by DaRipp3r on November 15, 2018 under Euro, News, PC, PS4, Xbox OneToday Crytek announced the release of Update 3.0 for the early access first-person multiplayer bounty hunting game Hunt: Showdown. The update contains NVIDIA highlights, as well as many changes intended to improve the overall user experience, the biggest of which are the additions of a new Louisiana map—called Lawson Delta—for beta testing and skill-based matchmaking. The Lawson Delta map d... more.
Hunt: Showdown – "Performance Update 2.4" Now LivePosted by DaRipp3r on September 13, 2018 under Euro, News, PC, PS4, Xbox OnePerformance in Hunt: Showdown gets a big boost this month with the release of Update 2.4, which focuses on performance-related additions and changes to the multiplayer FPS bounty hunting game from Crytek. Additionally, the new solo mode, which proved to be highly popular during the game's recent Solo Event, is here to stay. Performance upgrades in 2.4 are manifold, and in a new video intervie... more.
Hunt: Showdown – Coming to Xbox One PreviewPosted by DaRipp3r on August 21, 2018 under Euro, News, PC, Xbox OneCrytek has announced a collaboration with Microsoft that will bring Hunt: Showdown to Xbox One players for the first time. Hunt: Showdown will be released on Xbox Game Preview, a service that allows Xbox players to preview and purchase work-in-progress digital titles, as well as to actively take part in the development process. Hunt: Showdown is a competitive first-person bounty hunti... more.
Hunt: Showdown – "Free Steam Weekend"Posted by DaRipp3r on August 9, 2018 under Euro, News, PCHunt: Showdown will be free to play on Steam from Thursday, August 9th, at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET/ 7 p.m. CEST to Monday, August 13th, at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET/ 7 p.m. CEST. During that time, the game will also be on sale for 20% off. The free weekend event also coincides with the addition of South American servers to the game, bringing a new continent of players to the action, and... more.
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Romania's parliament voted to investigate claims that President Traian Basescu violated the Constitution by interfering too much in domestic politics, a step that could lead to his suspension.
Opposition politicians say Basescu must be investigated for publicly calling for the ouster of parliamentary leaders, criticizing the Constitutional Court, and saying the justice system and parliament are corrupt. They say his actions violate the Constitution and he should resign. "In two years as president of Romania, Traian Basescu has demonstrated he cannot obey the Constitution," Titus Corlatean, a lawmaker with the PSD, said in a speech to parliament today before the vote. "He has constantly provoked crises in relations with public authorities." The vote, 243 in favor and 76 against, also measures support for Basescu during a feud with Prime Minister Calin Tariceanu.
They have accused each other of corruption in increasing spats since Romania joined the European Union on January 1. The feud has split the ruling coalition, dominated by Tariceanu's National Liberal Party and the Democrat Party loyal to Basescu. Cristian Radulescu, a Democrat lawmaker, said his party will ask the Constitutional Court to rule on the legality of parliament forming a committee to determine whether the Constitution was violated. Lawmakers didn't set a date to start the 15-member commission. If it decides Basescu violated the Constitution, opposition lawmakers intend to propose his suspension. (Bloomberg)


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Mount Kenya University (MKU), School of Health Sciences, in recognition of the growing need for quality research-oriented innovation and technological advances has entered into collaboration with the institute of Primate Research (IPR) to offer Master of Science degree in Medical laboratory Sciences (MSc-MlS). The MSc-MLS program will be implemented as a two year master's degree program that will engage students both in theoretical and practical research training. This program shall be implemented jointly by both MKU and iPR, however, lessons, practicals and research projects shall be supported by iPR who are investing in a new training centre at its premises in Karen that will host the students and program sup- port staff.
iPR is an internationally renowned research facility operating as a semi-autonomous directorate of the National Museums of Kenya. the institute is a research leader especially in Biomedical Sciences, and the only one of its kind in Africa with proven capacities to develop and utilize animal models for medical research, generate scientific innovations and undertake capacity building in cutting-edge scientific research program. The students will also benefit from the breadth of well-trained scientists who are experts in the biomedical fields of immunology, parasitology, microbiology, biochemistry, molecular biology, virology and laboratory animal sciences.
The World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes iPR as a collaborating centre for biomedil research and human reproduction. In addition, the institute is registered with the USa National institutes of Health-Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (NiHOlaW) and has recently become an associate Partner of the EU Primate Net- work (EUPRiM-Net). iPR was conferred recognition by the WHO/UN supported African Network for drugs and diagnostics innovation (ANdi), as an African Centre of Excellence in Pre-clinical Research. The newly proposed MKU-iPR partnership will benefit from these linkages both locally and internationally resulting in a well informed and competitive MSc-MLS programme.
The newly developed iPR-MKU MSc- MlS programme is designed to equip students with the basics of research methodology; ability to design projects in the medical sciences and to carry out experiments based on important health questions; ability to synthesize, analyze and report findings competently; an appreciation of the challenges posed by common, emerging and re-emerging diseases; think broadly on how to solve medical problems in key areas of specialization as presented in medical laboratories; acquire and operate essential laboratory equipment; acquire good laboratory practices for proper laboratory management in research and hospital set-ups; ensure health and safety in medical laboratories; communicate with peers and other professionals in the health industry and be able to disseminate the acquired knowledge to others through presentations and publications.
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Nigeria is experiencing a remarkable paradox. The country has abundant energy resources – and yet many of its residents can't access sufficient energy.
About 40% of Nigeria's population don't have access to electricity and around 70% of households rely on firewood for their most basic needs, like cooking. This is dangerous. Annually, 93 000 Nigerians die from smoke inhalation.
The government is trying to tackle its energy issues, particularly by focusing on renewable resources. For instance it has built more natural gas power plants. It has also increased the number of off-grid solar PV systems – which convert solar energy into electricity – in rural areas .
These interventions came after the Energy Commission of Nigeria, which is in charge of coordinating and supervising all energy functions and activities within each member state, conducted a number of studies. Their research aimed to ascertain the country's future energy demand and supply projections. But the commission didn't really address how demand could be met in an environmentally sustainable way.
We wanted to address this gap. So we conducted a study that identified efficient ways of meeting Nigeria's energy demands at minimal cost and with low carbon emissions. Our results suggest that increasing the country's renewable energy capacity and introducing nuclear energy will be the best approach.
This may seem like a strange combination, given ongoing controversies around nuclear power. But nuclear power produces low emissions and uranium ore is readily available in a number of Nigerian states.
Our results show that combining these improvements to energy efficiency with fuel switching and technology switching has the potential to lower energy demand by 826 Petajoules in 2040 (229,444 GWh). Fuel switching involves moving from one fuel type to another, such as from kerosene to liquefied petroleum gas. Technology switching is the process of changing conventional energy technologies to low carbon energy technologies. For example, petrol generators can be replaced with rooftop solar PV systems.
Here are some changes that Nigeria can make to properly harness its energy resources.
A range of changes
1. Improving technologies in the home
More households are starting to use safer, energy efficient cooking stoves. But these are more expensive than traditional firewood stoves. And people aren't educated about the importance of energy efficiency. Consumer awareness is key.
2. Energy efficiency standards in buildings
Our study found that increasing solar PV systems in residential and commercial buildings could reduce energy consumption by more than half. The government should provide incentives for buildings with solar PV systems and reward those groups or organisations that maintain good standards of energy efficiency.
3. Making strides in the industrial sector
Improving energy efficiency in the industrial sector is vital in achieving low carbon development. Simple switches like maintaining air conditioners and switching off lights during the day will really help.
Industry could also tap into the Global Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Fund. This provides capital for projects that aim to improve sustainable energy and energy efficiency.
4. The transport and electricity sector
Changes in the transport and electricity generation sectors could significantly lower greenhouse gas emissions in Nigeria. We found that encouraging public transport could make a huge difference.
Alternative vehicle fuels – liquefied petroleum gas, compressed natural gas, or bio fuels like petrol and ethanol, blended fuel and electricity for electric cars – will reduce the dependence on high emission emitting petrol and diesel fuels.
Nigeria's government could adopt the global Autogas Incentive Policies, or develop something similar. Incentives include lowering vehicle taxes and removing barriers like parking restrictions. Some countries with successful policies of this nature include Germany, India, Japan and Thailand.
Carrying projects through
To its credit, the Nigerian government is already championing various initiatives designed to address the country's widespread energy poverty.
For instance, low carbon development has been championed by the Renewable Energy Program, which is part of the Ministry of Environment. Through this programme the Nigerian government has set up projects to promote cleaner energy to mitigate climate change. Some projects include developing a bio fuel production complex in the northern part of Nigeria's Ekiti state, and the establishment of a rice processing and power generating plant in Adamawa state.
The government has also started a campaign to raise public awareness about firewood and introduce clean cooking stoves which are more energy efficient and less polluting. Other projects include the 50 MW solar farm in Kaduna state, an energy efficient housing scheme, the Nigerian Clean Energy Access Programme and the introduction of compressed natural gas bus transport system in Nigeria .
These projects are mostly in the early stages. Authorities must commit to seeing them through.
Another important focus will be for Nigeria to develop homegrown solutions and technologies. This is because energy technologies such as solar PV manufactured overseas may be substandard. The government should provide incentives for local investors and promote indigenous technologies.
Some examples include the case of bio fuel incentives in Mozambique. There, private biofuel companies can benefit from tax exemptions when exporting bulk of biofuel products to Europe and the United States. In South Africa, the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers Procurement Programme launched in 2011 led to the development of the wind industry with an increase in local content and a rise in Black Economic Empowerment.
Nigeria and Ghana's governments have declared support for and partnership with local solar PV manufacturers to boost local manufacturing of solar PV systems. With policy incentives and government support, Nigeria can tackle its energy crisis and improve its energy access.
Nnaemeka Vincent Emodi, P.hD. candidate in Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy, James Cook University
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.
Investors Ontario Teachers Pension Plan (OTPP) and Macquarie have settled a legal dispute over Brussels Airport, allowing the sale of the transport hub to go ahead after the summer, sources familiar with the situation said.
OTPP has given up its preemption rights over the asset and agreed to information being circulated to potential buyers of Macquarie's stake, one of the sources said, without specifying what conditions the Australian investor met in return.
A spokesman for OTPP declined to comment.
OTPP bought 39 percent of Brussels Airport in 2011 and rights of first refusal on Macquarie's stake. It wanted Macquarie to provide limited information to prospective bidders as this may give a competitive advantage to those taking part in the initial stages of the process.
JP Morgan is still mandated to sell the airport, which had nearly 2.25 million passengers in April, a rise of 5 percent compared with the same month in 2017.
The Wall Street bank declined to comment.
Brussels Airport serves as a hub for Brussels Airlines, which was taken over by Lufthansa in 2016.
Macquarie wants to cash out as the fund in which it holds part of its stake has matured. Brussels airport is the last remaining asset of the Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund (MEIF) I, while the remainder of the stake is held in its MEIF III, which was closed to new investors in 2010.
According to ratings agency Fitch which upgraded the airport in May, earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) post-specifics increased to 308 million euros during the 2017 financial year.
Fitch said the airport had recovered since a 2016 bomb attack.
Trash heaps line the potholed streets of Edenville in central South Africa, where residents complain that municipal services have ground to a near halt, crime is rampant and jobs are scarce.
It's a familiar story in scores of other rural towns driven to a state of near collapse by years of mismanagement, graft and declining revenue as companies gravitate toward cities with better services and transportation links. The meltdown has put the nation's finances at risk, as the National Treasury faces increasing demands to bail out broke councils.
It can take weeks for the Edenville municipality to unblock sewage pipes or collect the garbage, and the local economy has ground to a near halt, according to Miriam Matsuso, who lives in the town of about 6,200 people in the Free State province, about 180 kilometers (113 miles) south of Johannesburg.
"Sometimes it does feel as though we as the people living in small towns are forgotten by the government," Matsuso, 70, who supports her unemployed daughter and two grandchildren on her monthly state pension of 1,695 rand ($128), said outside a grocery store. "Our children have to move to bigger towns just to try and look for jobs."
More than 60 percent of the 257 municipalities are categorized as dysfunctional or almost dysfunctional, according to the Co-operative Governance Ministry. The parlous state of their finances was laid bare last month in an Auditor-General's report, which showed just 33 got clean audits in the year through March last year and spending that contravened regulations surged 75 percent to a record 28.4 billion rand ($2.2 billion).
"Across the country, smaller municipalities are under significant pressure," Kevin Allan, the managing director of Johannesburg-based Municipal IQ, which monitors local government, said by phone. "It is difficult to sustain a local economy where there isn't a lot going on."
Dalene van Stryp, who's lived in Edenville for 26 years, has seen her own fortunes decline along with the town's. While customers used to line up outside the door of her butchery, she's now down to a few clients a day, and her once-full shelves are sparsely stocked.
"A lot of people are leaving to seek a better life," she said. "The facilities haven't been maintained in years, the roads are still mainly gravel roads, and I cannot tell you how many times in a week I call the municipality asking for the streets to be cleaned or any other services that we need, and there's no response."
The decay is equally evident in Jagersfontein, about 500 kilometers southeast of Johannesburg, where many buildings have been abandoned and stripped of their windows and doors and the disintegrating roads are strewn with trash. The town hasn't had running water since November, according to Nthabeleng Olyn, an attendant at the only gas station.
"It's almost as though small towns like this one don't matter or even exist in South Africa because no matter how many times the communities protest or complain to the municipality, there's no change or development," 32-year-old Olyn said. "This town is basically dead."
Fixing the municipalities will require more active intervention by provincial authorities, and the government and ruling African National Congress to ensure officials are held accountable, according to Municipal IQ's Allan.
The government has set up teams to ensure municipalities put proper governance structures in place, fill their vacancies, do proper budgeting, collect revenue that is owed to them and spend their infrastructure budgets, according to Co-operative Governance Minister Zweli Mkhize.
"Right now we think there is enough political will to actually get the matters resolved," he said in Cape Town on Thursday.
Matsuso, the Edenville grandmother, isn't optimistic that will happen.
"I have lost hope for this town," she said. "It is too far gone."
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Besides the website, the content that is being drawn is the best! So many young artists create their own styles or draw in popular ones and make awesome pictures! Here is some background about the artists and their styles.
PPGOriginating from the show "The Powerpuff Girls", it hardly ever gets called "Powerpuff Girls style." It was originally designed by EarthGirl1001 around 2011/12, this is possibly the most popular style to draw in on DC. The style really took off when Lucy100- started drawing it. Her art was inspirational and got all of DC going. Now so many artists draw in this style still today mainly because of how easy and simple the style is.
Again another abbreviation, meaning My Little Pony. This style got rapidly popular when the show My Little Pony Friendship is Magic came out. This is probably the secondmost popular style on Create.
Sonic CharactersOriginating from the entire Sonic commnutity, it was commonly know as an SC or OSC. This style used to be crazy popular back around 2009-2012. Unfortunately SC's are not that popular anymore, but there are still artists out there!
Manga Wolves/other furriesManga wolves don't really come from anywhere but has always been around. At times this style had its high and low points but is still commonly used on DC.
Anime/Chibi/MangaAnime, Chibi, and Manga also don't come from anywhere but are quite popular universal. These styles aren't oftenly used on DC, and when they are they are most commonly used incorrectly.
Original StylesProbably the most uncommon thing is a totally original style. They're hard to come up with but there are some artists who do an amazing job!
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The Atlantan behemoths return with another huge dose of hard, psyc rock. Full of haunting vocals, howls and even a slight detour into glam territory, Mastodon (now in their 14th year!) show no sign of slowing down.
Wednesday, 25 June 2014
Mastodon, no sign of slowing down!
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Black Light White Light /// High Like A Hurricane
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Black Light White Light are back with a new banger. Hailing from Scandinavia, this Danish rock band have released their new single 'High Like A Hurricane' along side their B-side 'Sex & Fury'. If you're into that 60s Bohemian psychedelic type indie rock, then you'll love 'High Like A Hurricane'. Click on their soundcloud below to check it out.
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Möngöl Hörde /// UK tour
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Hardcore band Möngöl Hörde has released their new album on the 26th of May through Xtra Mile Recordings and they are touring the UK in June! Check out the dates and the new video below
19/6 Birmingham The Institute - Library
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21/6 Leeds Cockpit
22/6 Bristol Fleece
23/6 Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
25/6 London Garage
27/6 Nottingham Rock City Basement
28/6 Manchester Academy 3
29/6 Glasgow King Tuts
Robin Romei To Release 'VAPOURS' July 2014
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Robin Romei has been coming from underneath the radar of late. The One man music machine is gaining fans by the day and working hard to cement his position into the music world. He has announced a new single to be on its way, titled 'VAPOURS'. After his last release 'EFFY / (WE ARE) THE UNDERDOGS' his name stepped up a notch. It got great feedback from listeners and has helped created the excitement for his next single. His influences come from bands such as The Clash and The Smiths, and his sound is an almost harder, more modern take on these bands. VAPOURS is to be released 7 July 2014. Check out the track EFFY below to prepare you for his next release.


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08 October 2013
Raymond Honeyman
Mary Schoeser (textile historian and author) in consultation with English Heritage has asked Raymond to design new fabrics for an antique, armless, highbacked chair for the Nursery Suite at Audley End House, an early 17th-century country house just outside Saffron Walden, Essex. Ehrman will be providing the wool for the project, and work continues.
Magie Hollingworth
In the spring of 2013 May-July, Magie exhibited her paper works for the first time in Sweden. This was hugely successful.
Her paper spoons will also be stocked by craft2eu in Hamburg in the autumn.
Here in the UK Magie's work will be exhibited at the Plymouth museum in an exhibition entitled Making Futures: life cycles of material worlds, to coincide with an international Crafts conference- Making Futures. The theme of the conference and exhibition is sustainability - materials or method - in craft making. Sept 23rd – Dec 9th 2013.
Her annual 'open studio' event takes place this year on 23rd/24th November at the Harley gallery in north Nottinghamshire. A great opportunity to meet makers, see inside private studios and buy work. Visit www.harleygallery.co.uk for more details.
Plans are afoot to join the workshop programme of Hope and Elvis in 2014. Please visit www.hopeandelvis.com soon for details.
Margaret Murton
Margaret's art prints are now for sale via a link on her personal website, www.margaretmurton.co.uk.
She is also in discussions with English Heritage over the possibility of a needlepoint course, It would take place in Spring or Summer 2014.
Kaffe Fassett
Kaffe is currently touring America. And has future events scheduled for Italy and England, and into 2014, Singapore, New Zealand and Australia. Details of all the various events can be found at http://www.kaffefassett.com/Calendar.html.
His Knitwear exhibition at the National Wool Museum, Wales, which runs alongside the exhibition of Kaffe Fassett's quilts at The Welsh Quilt Centre in Lampeter, continues until November 2nd 2013.


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Did you know that Bring Me The Horizon have an entirely different version of their "medicine" music video available to watch? The alternate cut of the clip for the amo earworm that rung in New Year's 2019 is available now on Spotify.
Here's how to watch this second "medicine" video: Just fire up the Spotify app and cruise over to either the "Rock This" or "Hot Hits UK" playlists. On both playlists, stashed among choice cuts from other artists, is a special version of the latest BMTH video that swaps the proper clip's eccentric shapes for a more standard live footage/behind-the-scenes affair.
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The band are calling it a "vertical video" on social media, pointing to the new visual's mobile device-adapted aspect ratio. It's just another fresh take on the number that earlier received a stripped-down rendering from Bring Me The Horizon.
But it sure is a different animal from the eerily stylized production that serves as the tune's main vid. (That's the clip that followed not one, not two, but three creepy teasers.) Which video do you like best? Sound off with your thoughts in the comments section, down after the original "medicine" video and Bring Me The Horizon's upcoming U.S. tour dates.
01/23 – Nashville, TN @ Municipal Auditorium
01/25 – Orlando, FL @ CFE Arena
01/26 – Atlanta, GA @ Coca-Cola Roxy
01/28 – Fairfax, VA @ Eaglebank Arena
01/29 – Manhattan, NY @ Hammerstein Ballroom
02/01 – Boston, MA @ Tsongas Center
02/02 – Montreal, QC @ Place Bell
02/04 – Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore Detroit
02/05 – Chicago, IL @ Aragon Ballroom
02/06 – Minneapolis, MN @ Armory
02/08 – Dallas, TX @ South Side Ballroom
02/09 – Houston, TX @ Revention Music Center
02/11 – Denver, CO @ The Fillmore Auditorium
02/13 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum
02/15 – Phoenix, AZ @ Comerica Theatre
02/16 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Joint


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INVITED LECTURES/TUTORIALS/SEMINARS (selected list)
Within India
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"Clustering in a Multiobjective Optimization Framework", Ramanujan Distinguished Lecture
Series, CR Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science,
March 20, 2015.
"Optimizing Multiple Objectives for Clustering", INAE Seminar, Heritage Institute of Technology,
Kolkata, February 18, 2015.
"Computational Methods for Solving Problems in Life Sciences", Fourth International Conference
of Emerging Applications of Information Technology (EAIT), Computer Society of
India, December 20, 2014.
"Evolutionary Computing with Applications in Drug Design", Rajasthan University, December
13, 2014.
"Evolutionary Computing with Applications in Drug Design", IIT Jodhpur, December 8,
"Computational Challenges in Biology", INDO-CHILE Workshop on Big Data Handling",
BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus, (sponsored by DST, India and CONICYT, Chile), June
5, 2014.
"Computational Intelligence Applications in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology",
Summer School on Advances in Computational Intelligence (SSACI-2014), Institute of Technical
Education and Research (ITER) and Siksha O Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar,
Odisha, April 15, 2014.
"Biology Challenges Computational Scientists", Inaugural lecture on Research Scholars Day,
Department of Information Technology, IIT Kharagpur, January 11, 2014.
"Multiobjective Clustering with SVM Based Ensembling for Analysis of Gene Expression
Data", Indo-US workshop on Statistical Methods for Bioinformatics, Indian Institute of
Science, Bengaluru, December 14, 2013.
"Metaheuristic Optimization and Drug Design", Short Term Course on Computational Biology,
Bioinformatics & Their Application to Healthcare, IIT Kharagpur, Nov. 01, 2013.
"Genetic Algorithms, Multiobjective Optimization and Applications", Maulana Azad National
Institute of Technology, MANIT, Bhopal, July 1, 2013.
"Evolutionary Computing in Data Mining", Workshop on Data Mining & its Industrial
Applications, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, Feb 20-22, 2013.
"A Computational Perspective on the Regulatory Network of TFs, microRNAs and Genes",
Annual Convention, Indian National Academy of Engineeering (INAE), CBRI, IIT Roorkee,
December 6-7, 2012.
"The TF-microRNA-gene Regulatory Network: A Disease Speci_c Analysis", National Institute
of Biomedical Genomics (NIBMG), Kalyani, October 17, 2012.
"Genetic Algorithms for Clustering", Institute for Development and Research in Banking
Technology (IDRBT), Hyderabad, August 6, 2012.
"Genetic Algorithms in Rational Drug Design", Indo-SingaporeWorkshop on Role of Computational
Biology in Advancing Modern Medicine, Saha Institute for Nuclear Physics, Kolkata,
February 2-3, 2012.
"Genetic Algorithms in Rational Drug Design", Indian Science Congress, Bhubaneshwar,
Jan 7, 2012.
"Genetic Algorithms: Application in Data Mining", International Conference on Information
Systems Design and Intelligent Applications (INDIA-2012), Jan 6, 2012.
"Predicting Targets of MicroRNAs", Statistics and Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical
Institute, Kolkata, India, March 21, 2011.
"Involvement of MicroRNAs in the Regulatory Network of a Cell", 30th Annual Convention
of the Indian Association for Cancer Research (IACR), IICB, Kolkata, India, February 6-9,
"Regulation of and by MicroRNAs", Humboldt Kolleg, Bengaluru, India, February 4, 2011.
"Mining of Biological Data", International Conference on Methods and Models in Computer
Science (ICM2CS), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, December 13-14, 2010.
"Pattern Recognition Algorithms for Analyzing Biological Data", Tutorial Lecture, National
Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics
(NCVPRIPG), January 15, 2010.
"Computational Methods for microRNA Target Detection", Workshop on Data Mining Techniques
in Bioinformatics, NIT Rourkela, December 4, 2009.
"Soft Computing Methods in Drug Design", IMTECH, Chandigarh, March 23, 2009.
"Evolutionary Computation in Computational Biology", National Institute of Pharmaceutical
Education and Research (NIPER), Mohali, India, July 7, 2008.
"Genetic Algorithms in Search and Optimization", Pre-Conference Tutorial, International
Conference on Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithm in Material Science and Engineering
(NGMS), Bengal Engineering and Science University, India, January 8, 2008.
"Evolutionary Computation in Structure Based Ligand Design", National Workshop On
Application of Bioinformatics in Molecular & Structural Biology, Bose Institute, Kolkata,
February 23-24, 2006.
"Classi_cation and Clustering of Satellite Images using Evolutionary Computation", Seminar
on Advances in Image Processing Techniques, Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication
Engineers, Defence Electronics Application Laboratory (DEAL), Dehradun, India, July
1-3, 2005.
"Evolutionary Approach to Molecule Design Using Variable Length Representation", Institute
of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India, December 27, 2004.
"Feature Extraction for Protein Superfamily Classi_cation", National Center for Biological
Science (NCBS), Bangalore, India, October 16, 2003.
"Genetic Algorithms and their Applications", Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, July 15, 2003.
Adress : Machine Intelligence Unit
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West Bengal, India
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Iran seeks stronger ties with Qatar, urges Europe to promote dialogue
WASHINGTON, June 27, (Agencies): The chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on Monday he would block arms sales to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council pending progress in resolving a simmering dispute with Qatar. "All countries in the region need to do more to combat terrorism, but recent disputes among the GCC countries only serve to hurt efforts to fight ISIS and counter Iran," Republican Senator Bob Corker wrote in a letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
His action could increase pressure on members of the Gulf Cooperation Council to settle the crisis. The GCC groups Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates imposed a boycott on Qatar, their tiny but wealthy neighbor, on June 5, accusing it of supporting terrorism.
They have sent it 13 demands including closing al Jazeera television, curbing relations with Iran, and paying reparations. Under US law, major foreign US arms sales are submitted for review to a small group of lawmakers, including the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, before they can go ahead. Trump considered Corker as a potential vice-president and secretary of state, and he works closely with the White House. The administration would be unlikely to ignore his resistance to the arms sales, and US officials said they considered his statement part of a broader effort to solve the Qatar crisis. A State Department official noted that Tillerson called on Sunday for the countries involved to sit down together and discuss ways forward.
The official declined comment on arms sales beyond saying the department remains committed to working with lawmakers. It was not immediately clear what sales would be affected.
Trump has announced billions of dollars in arms sales since taking office in January. He sees weapons sales as a way to create jobs in the United States. A Corker aide said his action would not affect sales that had already been reviewed by Congress or non-lethal assistance, including training. One sale already cleared by Congress was for up to $350 billion in precision-guided munitions and other offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia.
In his letter, Corker said he was pleased with Trump's recent trip to Saudi Arabia, which included a GCC summit. "Unfortunately, the GCC did not take advantage of the summit and instead chose to devolve into conflict," Corker wrote.
Germany urges talks
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel on Tuesday appealed to all sides in the Qatar crisis to hold direct talks to avoid a further escalation, and urged Iran to play a constructive role. "The longer the crisis around Qatar continues, the deeper and stronger the lines of conflict will become," Gabriel told reporters after a 90-minute meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. "We hope that there soon can be direct discussion among all those involved because a further escalation will serve no one."
Gabriel said a 2015 agreement in which major powers lifted international sanctions against Iran in return for curbs on its nuclear programme had helped avert military conflict. US President Donald Trump has criticised the deal, but Gabriel said Germany and Europe would resist any efforts to cancel it. He said Iran and Germany remained "worlds apart" on Israel's right to exist, which he called "non-negotiable", but that he and Zarif had had open discussions about that issue and many others. Gabriel said Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was trying to make Iran more attractive to foreign investors as part of a broad effort to improve the lives of the Iranian people. But he said Iran could also improve its standing by helping to reduce tensions in the region. Zarif said Iran was interested in working toward a political solution to the conflict with Qatar — which, unlike its Gulf neighbours, maintains good relations with Tehran — arguing that "pressure and sanctions and blockades" were not the answer.
Iran seeks stronger ties
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday said his country wants to bolster ties with Qatar and rejected a Saudi-led blockade of the Gulf Arab emirate. "Iran's policy is to develop more and more its relations with Doha," Rouhani said in a phone conversation with the Amir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, according to the presidency website. "Tehran stands alongside the people and government of Qatar and we believe that … pressure, threats and sanctions are not a good solution to solve problems" between countries of the region, Rouhani added. Shiite dominated Iran, an arch-rival of Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia, has stepped in by shipping to Qatar tonnes of fruit and vegetables. "Helping Qatar economically and developing ties, particularly in the private sectors of both countries, could be a common goal," Rouhani said on Sunday. Saudi Arabia and its allies, including Egypt, have issued 13 demands which they want Qatar to meet in return for an end to the nearly three-week-old diplomatic and trade "blockade". Doha has said denounced the demands — including the closure of Al-Jazeera news channel and downgrading ties with Tehran — as unreasonable.
Promote dialogue
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called on Monday for Europe to use its influence to defuse tensions in the Gulf where Saudi Arabia and its allies have cut ties with Qatar. In a speech in the German capital, Zarif said the countries who blamed Iran or Qatar for terrorism were trying to avoid taking responsibility for their own failures in addressing the demands of their own people. "One day it's Iran, today it's Qatar," he said. "It's an attempt to evade responsibility, escape accountability for this very fundamental … failure of the state system to address, to respond to the demands of its populus." Zarif argued for a new regional dialogue forum for the Gulf countries and called for an end to the armaments spiral in the region, which he said influenced some Western countries' relations with states in the region. "When foreign policy becomes a commodity, then purchasing military equipment becomes your yardstick for measuring who is a terrorist or who isn't a terrorist," he said. "This reinforces a cognitive disorder in our region that security can be purchased from outside, that security can be purchased by trying to buy more military equipment," he added. "What is needed in our region is a regional dialogue forum."
Turkey rejects demand
Turkey's president on Sunday rejected a demand by major Arab states to remove Turkish troops from Qatar, among a sweeping list of ultimatums that the United States has described as "difficult to meet." Speaking after Eid Al-Fitr prayers in Istanbul, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called the demand to pull the Turkish troops "disrespectful" and said his country would not seek permission from others when making its defense cooperation agreements. "Demanding that Turkey pull its soldiers is unfortunately also disrespectful toward Turkey," he said.
He said Turkey would continue to support Qatar against the many sanctions it has faced since several Arab countries moved earlier this month to isolate the country for its alleged support of terrorism. Turkey shipped suppliers and food via cargo planes to Qatar after its neighbors closed down air, land and sea routes. The United States said the demands on Qatar by its Mideast neighbors "will be very difficult to meet." But the US isn't rejecting the demands outright. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson added in a statement Sunday that the list of demands from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates includes major areas that "provide a basis for ongoing dialogue leading to a resolution." He called on the Arab countries to "sit together" with Qatar to work through what he hoped would be "reasonable and actionable" demands.
In a sign of support, the Turkish parliament swiftly ratified a 2014 military agreement with Qatar earlier this month, allowing the deployment of troops to its base there. The military said a contingent of 23 soldiers reached Doha on Thursday. Turkey has also shipped supplies and food via cargo planes after Erdogan said he made a similar offer to Saudi Arabia to set up a base there in the past but did not hear back from the king. A Turkish foreign ministry statement Sunday reiterated that the deployment of Turkish troops in Qatar contributed to regional security and was not aimed at a specific country. "Just like the presence of other foreign military bases or units in other countries of the region, our military presence in Qatar is principally based on a decision taken by the two countries relying on their sovereign rights," ministry spokesman Huseyin Muftuoglu said.


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KUWAIT CITY, May 9: Filipinos in Kuwait joined the rest of the over 1.3 million Filipino Overseas Voters and 54.4 million registered voters in the Philippines as they trooped on Monday to the Philippine Embassies and Consulates across the globe for the last day of the month-long Overseas Absentee Voting (OAV) to elect the next set of leaders, President, Vice President, 12 Senators and a Party List Representative.
In Kuwait, the maverick Mayor Rodrigo Duterte won by landslide in the presidential race with 9,747 votes based on the partial and unofficial results as announced during the canvassing of votes led by Philippine Ambassador to Kuwait Renato Pedro Villa and Labour Attache Cesar Chavez Jr. Trailing behind Duterte was the administration candidate Secretary Mar Roxas with 1021 votes followed by Senator Grace Poe with 598 votes, Senator Miriam Santiago with 580 votes, Jejomar Binay and Roy Seneres with 224 and 3 votes respectively.
Meanwhile in the Vice Presidential race, Senator Bongbong Marcos topped the other candidates with 4,777 votes and trailing closely was Duterte's running mate Senator Alan Peter Cayetano with 4,666 while Representative Leni Robredo had 1,999 votes, Chiz Escudero 545, Senator Antonio Trillanes IV with 85 votes and Senator Gringo Honasan, 70 votes.
A total of 14,524 voted in Kuwait out of the 58,533 registered voters that accounts for 24% voters, short of the 30% voters turnout as earlier projected by Villa. The Ambassador thanked all the Filipinos in Kuwait who went out to cast their votes and exercise their right of suffrage.
Based on the Commission on Elections data, there are a total of 1,376,067 overseas voters registered for this year's elections — the highest number of Filipino overseas voters, ever. As of May 9 at 12pm ,based on figures by the Department of Foreign Affairs Overseas Voting Secretariat, the Middle East has been leading in the number of voter's turnout with 158,250 followed by the Asia Pacific (134,015), Americas (72,021) and Europe (42,494).
Despite its top spot, the Middle east failed to get at least 50% voters turnout as the number accounts for 26.65% voters turnout out of the 590,440 registered voters in the Middle East. Generally, the OAV in the Middle East went on smoothly posting the highest number of voters turnout since the OAV started. Among the posts that used the automated election system were Abu Dhabi (UAE); Beirut, Lebanon; Doha, Qatar; Dubai, UAE; Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Kuwait; Manama, Bahrain; Al Khobar Saudi Arabia; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and Tel Aviv, Israel. Other posts are in the Asia Pacific such as Hong Kong; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Osaka, Japan; Seoul, South Korea; Singapore, Tokyo, Japan; in North and Latin America such as Agana, Guam; Chicago, USA; Honolulu, USA; Los Angeles, USA; New York, USA; Ottawa, Canada; San Francisco, USA; Toronto, Canada; Vancouver, Canada; Washington DC, USA; and in Europe namely London, United Kingdom; Madrid, Spain; Milan, Italy and Rome, Italy. Canvassing of votes is still ongoing in various embassies and consulates in the Middle East and across the globe.
In the Philippines, Duterte looked virtually certain to become the Philippines' next president as results from Monday's election poured in and a rival conceded defeat, confirmation the outsider's vow to crush crime had resonated with voters. Seven hours after polling stations had closed, a rolling ballot count by an election commission-accredited watchdog showed Duterte had about 39 percent of votes cast. Grace Poe, a popular senator, won more than a fifth of the votes counted but conceded defeat to Duterte and said his lead reflected the will of the people.
Duterte's incendiary rhetoric and advocacy of extrajudicial killings to stamp out crime and drugs have alarmed many who hear echoes of the Southeast Asian country's authoritarian past. The 71-year-old's truculent defiance of political tradition has drawn comparisons with US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, as have his references to his libido. Duterte made a succession of winding, bellicose and at times comical remarks on television as the votes were being counted, venting over corruption and bad governance and telling anecdotes from his 22 years as mayor of Davao city.
He said corrupt officials should "retire, or die" and reiterated his support for police to use of deadly force against criminals. "If they put up a good fight and refuse to surrender and if you feel your life is in jeopardy, shoot. You have my authority," he told reporters in Davao, wearing a checked shirt and slouched in a chair. His man-of-the-people demeanour tapped into popular disgust with the political establishment over its failure to tackle poverty and inequality despite several uninterrupted years of robust economic growth. The election numbers reported by the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) had, by midnight (0400 GMT), accounted for about 80 percent of the 54 million registered Filipino voters. Duterte had 13.7 million votes, with the government's candidate Manuel Roxas second with nearly 8 million, followed by Poe with 7.6 million votes. The PPCRV count is not official but Poe's decision to concede defeat added weight to his presumed victory.
By Michelle Fe Santiago Arab Times Staff and Agencies


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However, in contrast to the diversity of the participating political forces in the parliamentary elections, only three political units participate in the struggle for the management of the capital: the ruling Republican Party, the opposition "Yelq" (Exit) Alliance and newly-established oppositional "Yerkir Tsirani" (Land of Apricot) party. Other political forces that had a chance to get seats in the City Council through the elections are not taking part in this electoral event for various reasons.
Voting results of April 2 showed that it is impossible to achieve power via elections because people vote under the influence of money. "Whereas the impact of bribes was 35-40% and was mainly in the regions, now its scope expanded drastically also in Yerevan. Conventionally saying, if election bribes were distributed among 800 people, 600 of them display an electoral behavior in favor to the political force that gave money. In these circumstances, to participate in Yerevan elections for example for Tsarukyan Alliance that was the second with its votes in the Parliamentary Elections is meaningless," Armen Badalyan, Political Technologist, said.
Armen Badalyan, Political Technologist, Armen Grigoryan, Political Scientist, Hakob Badalyan, Political Commentator, participated in the discussion entitled "Pre-Election Developments on the Upcoming Elections of the Yerevan Council of Elders" at Media Center on April 11.
Armen Grigoryan said that the April 2 parliamentary elections played a decisive role in a fact that only 3 political forces participate in Yerevan Council elections. He thinks that during the Parliamentary elections not money is so much a decisive factor but the administrative resources. "In this context, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation's decision is due to the fact that 20 percent of their votes are in Yerevan; the remaining 80 percent are in regions. This was obvious after the elections on 2 April. The most votes ARF received in Shirak marz as the administrative governor of the region is from ARF. "Tsarukyan" Alliance also has fewer votes in Yerevan than in the regions. This party received the most votes in Kotayk region of Armenia due to the fact of Gagik Tsarukyan, also in Ararat region. And here the election results are the consequence of "dried streams separated from the mother river" (it is about Hovik Abrahamyan who left the Republican Party of Armenia and is Tsarukyan's relative - ed.)," the political scientist said.
Armen Badalyan contrasted Grigoryan saying that "Tsarukyan" Alliance was allowed to distribute bribes but they were not allowed to bring people to the polling stations which caused few votes in Yerevan.
Armen Grigoryan also noted that "Yelq" Alliance received the majority of its votes in Yerevan during the Parliamentary Elections so the participation in the Yerevan Council Elections is an option of capitalizing that electorate. "What refers to the participation of "Land of Apricot" Party it is a newly-established force that will participate in the political processes, it will become more popular, its name will be circulated," Armen Grigoryan said.
Hakob Badalyan noted that after the parliamentary elections there is usually energy stored in the society, which is consumed through the elections of the Yerevan City Council. A similar situation occurred after the presidential elections in 2008 and 2013. In these elections, the participation of the Prosperous Armenia Party has always had a role of a buffer. "Now there is no need for it because this time there is no tension after the elections, there is no need for his participation and spending money," Badalyan said.
In the end, the experts noted that despite the fact the opposition would be unified before the Yerevan Council Elections or not, it has no chance of winning anyway. "The opposition will get as many votes as the Republicans would give them, it is about 25 percent. The Republicans have their electorate; their objective is that at least three political forces participate in the elections because it is a legal requirement and it will make competitive illusion," Armen Badalyan said.
To watch the video, follow the link.
Arshaluys Mghdesyan, editor/events coordinator at "Media Center"
To contact the author please send an email to [email protected].


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After a fine showing at Eurogamer Expo this year the fine folks behind the upcoming Velocity 2x are ready to announce a brand-new project later this afternoon. According to the official Futurlab twitter account the reveal is scheduled for 4pm BST today, however no other details about the unveiling have surfaced as to the project.
Today @FuturLabQuality announces our other project on PlayStation Blog at 4pm BST 🙂
— FuturLab (@FuturLab) October 11, 2013
Futurlab have a strong track record in the Shoot' em up genre and due to this many are speculating that it may be a project derived from such mechanics. We here at The Vita Lounge aren't so sure about rumors, especially when one considers the diversity of mechanics that were displayed at EGX 2013; when the developer took the stage for a keynote and displayed Velocity 2x's newly introduced platforming sections.
It should also be noted that there has been no confirmation in regards to platform, but given the developers track record with PlayStation's portable hardware lineup in the past it is fair to presume a strong possibility of it being a PlayStation Vita title.
Check back in with us later where we will cover the news as comes.


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The Euro suffered heavy losses below 1.1210 against the US Dollar after the Fed interest rate decision announcement.
The EURUSD pair declined sharply and moved below a crucial support trend-line at 1.1212, the 100 hourly simple moving average and the 61.8% Fib retracement level of the last wave from the 1.1165 low to 1.1295 high.
The pair is currently approaching the last swing low of 1.1165. It may soon break it and move towards the 1.236 extensions of the last wave from the 1.1165 low to 1.1295 high at 1.1135.
Overall, the trend for EURUSD has turned bearish and the pair remains a sell on rallies towards 1.1210 and 1.1215 in the near term.


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History Channel – The Real Story of Halloween
Halloween began centuries ago as a pagan holiday that honored the dead that warned of a netherworld of spirits and ghosts. Today, Halloween has morphed into a day for breaking rules, pushing boundaries and wearing disguises. But Halloween remains a time for us to deal with our own mortality. Our modern Halloween traditions have ancient roots – people were going door to door and begging for treats on Halloween night as far back as the Middle Ages.shop.history.com/the-real-story-of-halloween-dvd
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