was born in Clones, Co. Monaghan, in 1875, he studied at St. Macartan's College, Monaghan, before going to Maynooth College to study for the priesthood.
Ordained in Maynooth for the Diocese of Clogher in 1899 taught English and Classics in St. Macartan's, College, and from 1911 he worked as a curate in St. Joseph's, Ballyshannon.

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Killed 17 July 1929 by Chinese Communist-bandits in Nancheng diocese.

Tim was captured while celebrating Mass, taken away and killed shortly afterwards.

His head was partially severed from his body.

He was born on 29 June 1893 at Ballysimon, Co. Limerick.

Educated at St. Munchin's College; Maynooth 1911-1918.

Ordained Maynooth 1918 for diocese of Limerick.

Was a member of the first band to go to China in March 1920.

Was in Hanyang 1920-1928 and was a member of first group of Columbans go to Nancheng in 1928.

Taken captive by Chinese Communist-bandits in Nancheng diocese onl4 November 1930 and died from the hardships of captivity while still a prisoner on 28 February 1931.

He was born in Clones, Co. Monaghan, on 1 December 1872.

Educated at St. Macartan's College, Monaghan, 1890-1893; Maynooth 1893-1899.

Ordained for Clogher diocese in Maynooth in 1899.

Curate in St. Joseph's, Ballyshannon, 1911-1917.

He had had an operation for the removal of a kidney nine years previously.

Was bursar and spiritual director in Dalgan until he went to China with the first batch of Columbans in 1920.

Was in Hanyang 1920-1924; on Promotion in U.S. 1924-1927.

Was Superior of first group of Columbans to go to Nancheng in 1928.

Frank, a New Zealander, was killed on 27 August 1943 during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in Second World War.

Japanese Military Police took Frank into custody on 24 July in Pililla, his parish about 25 miles from Manila.

The Military Police wanted to question Frank about some Filipino guerilla leader.

They eventually took him to the town of Paete, Laguna, and there in the baptistery of the church he was beaten and given the water cure.

There were many witnesses to this, as the town was under investigation at the time.

He was left lying in the church for some days with other men, when he asked to see the priest (a Filipino).

The priest found Frank very weak and clad in shorts only.

As the interpreter insisted on being present, only very little conversation passed between them.

He gave Frank absolution and saw him no more.

It is believed he was killed in Logos, Laguna, and that Filipino Military Police agents (collaborators) did the actual killing.

He had taken a terrific beating in Paete, and the blood was on the walls of the baptistery for many months afterwards.

Frank was born on 22 May 1920 in Johnsville, New Zealand.

He was educated at Johnsville primary school and Marist Brothers, Wellington.

Studied for priesthood at Holy Cross, Mosgiel, and ordained for the diocese of Wellington in 1934.

Joined the Columbans in 1937 and went to the Philippines in 1938.

Was a British Army chaplain in the Second World War and was killed in France on 14 August 1944.

During the fierce battle for the Falaise Gap, after the Allies had broken out of their beachhead and were in pursuit of the fleeing German armies, Paddy went out under fire in an ambulance to rescue a wounded Canadian soldier.

On the return Journey a shell hit the ambulance and he was killed.

He was buried in consecrated ground in the churchyard at Ussy, Salvados.

Paddy was born in Dundalk on 14 December 1916.

Educated Friary School, Dundalk, 1921-1924; C.B.S., Dundalk 1924-1926; Oram N.S., Castleblayney 1926-1929: St. Marcartan's College, Monaghan, 1929-1934.

Came to Dalgan 1934 and ordained there 1940.

Killed 10 February 1945 during the fierce U.S.-Japanese battle for Manila.

Japanese Navy personnel surrounded Malate church and convento and took every male they found on the premises (20 in all), along with four priests of Malate parish - Johnny Heneghan, Pat Kelly, Joe Monaghan and Peter Fallon.

Peter was born in Ballinlass, Dunmore, Co. Galway (Tuam diocese), 22 February 1895.

Educated Ballinlass N.S. 1901-1906; N.S. Dunmore 1906-1909; St. Jarlath's College, Tuam, 1910-1915; All Hallows College, Dublin 1915-1918.

Joined Columbans and was in Dalgan 19 18-1922.

Ordained 1922 and went to Hanyang, China; was there 1922-1930.

Born Louisburgh, Co. Mayo (Tuam diocese), 19 December 1882.

Educated St. Jarlath's College, Tuam, 1894-1900.

Ordained Maynooth 1909 for Tuam diocese.

Curate in Annaghdown, near Tuam, 1909-19 10.

In Easter Week 1916 he heard the confessions of Tuam Volunteers on their way to Athenry to joining the Rising.

He said to a fellow priest the following morning with tears in his eyes: "if those brave lads are ready to die for Ireland, I, a priest, ought to be ready to die for Christ".

He joined to Columbans in 1916 and was the first editor of the FAR EAST.

He went to the Philippines in 1931 when he was 49 years of age.

[see Peter Fallon above] Born Tullamore, Co. Offaly (Meath diocese), 10 January 1899.

Educated St. Finian's College, Navan and Mullingar, 1904-1909.

He helped establish Columbans in Australia and was Spiritual Director to the Brothers in Dalgan before going to the Philippines in 1929.

Was first Superior of Columbans in Philippines.

Peter Fallon, Joe Monaghan and John Lalor were attached to Malate parish the convento of which was the 'Centre House' for Columbans in Philippines.

Malate parish was also the parish for English speaking Catholics (m mostly American) in Manila.

During the Japanese Occupation American civilians were interned in Santo Tomas University campus in Manila.

American POWs were in prison-of-war camps.

Paddy used to visit the civilian internees in Santo Tomas - he insisted to the Japanese that he was their parish priest and chaplain.

After his death an American wrote to the Columbans saying "Fathers Lalor and Kelly did heroic work for U.S. prisoners of war in Bilibid and Cabanatuan".

It was written by a woman-Journalist, whose name I forgot.

In it she referred to the Malate priest and their work for Interned civilians and U.S. POWs.

She wrote that the convento in Malate parish was a centre for storing medicines and food, which the Filipino underground movement used to smuggle into the internment and POW camps.

In the latter stages of the Japanese occupation conditions were very bad in the camps, and food was scarce and medicine even more so.

The Japanese may have found out about this.

That the priests were engaged in this humanitarian work would seem to be confirmed by the award (posthumous) of the Medal of Freedom by the U.S. Government to Fathers Lalor, Kelly and Heneghan some years after the war.

The Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian decoration, which the U.S can give to non-U.S. nationals.

See Peter Fallon and Patrick Kelly above.

Born Banbridge, Co. Down, 17 November 1907.

Educated St. Patrick's N.S., Banbridge, 1912-1920; St. Colman's College, Newry, 1920-1925.

Went to Dalgan 1925 and ordained there 1931.

Killed in Manila on 13 February 1945, during the battle between Americans and Japanese for the city during Second World War.

John was attached to Malate parish, the only Manila parish at that time of which Columbans had charge.

While the battle raged, John was working under an assumed name dressed in the white suit of a doctor in the Malate school, which had been converted into a hospital.

He helped in the hospital, cared for the sick and the dying.

He celebrated Mass in the darkness of the night.

Two hundred died in the hospital compound and are buried there.

Born in Cork City, parish of St Mary and St Anne, on 9th August 1897.

Tom was killed in the battle of Mandalay, Burma, between British and Japanese, on 16 March 1945.

A shell exploded while he was celebrating Mass, along with other Columbans also celebrating their Masses, in the chapel of the Leper Asylum in Mandalay.

The Columbans in Burma were interned in the Leper Asylum.

Tom was born in Naas, Co. Kildare, on 25 February 1906.

A Street in a new housing estate in Naas was named after him in 1984.

Educated C.B.S., Naas, 1912-1922; Mungret College, Limerick 1935.

Was among the first batch to go to Burma in 1936.

Killed by North Korean soldiers on 27 June 1950.

North Korean forces had crossed the 39th Parallel, the dividing line between North and South Korea, on June 25.

Tony was in charge of the second Columban parish in Chunchon city, not many miles south of the 38th Parallel.

He, Monsignor Tom Quinlan and Frank Canavan had been urged by a U.S. Army officer to leave Chunchon on 26 June but they decided to stay.

Tony was taken into custody, briefly interrogated and then shot dead.

Quinlan, Canavan and later Phil Crosbie were taken into custody and the three of them took part in the notorious "Death March" to the far north of Korea.

Along with them were many U.S. POWs and some civilians (many of them missionaries); the death rate from the hardships of the march was appallingly high.

Consult PHIL CROSBIE'S book THREE WINTERS COLD and CAPTIVE IN KOREA by Philip Deane.

Tony was born in Clogherhead, Co. Louth, on 20 June, 1913.

Educated in C.B.S., Drogheda, 1921-1926; St. Patrick's College, Armagh, 1926-1931.

Came to Dalgan 1931 and ordained there 1938.

Killed in Korea 4 July 1950, two days after North Korean troops occupied Samchok, his parish on the east coast, about 50 miles south of the border between North and South Korea.

In the week between the outbreak of war and the occupation of his parish he had been urged by his people to leave but he refused to do so.

It was not until March 1952 that his grave and body were located by Fr. Brian Geraghty.

Jim was born in Bute, Montana, USA on 15 November 1911.

Educated in St Mary's Newcastle, Co Down and St Malachy's, Belfast.

Came to Dalgan in 1929 and ordained 1935.

Killed by North Korean soldiers on 29 August 1950 near Mukho, his parish, not far south of the border.

He had gone to hide in the house of a catechist on June 28 or 29, when the North Korean army occupied Mukho.

The catechist's house was about 5 miles northwest of the town.

After 26 days the North Koreans discovered Paddy's whereabouts.

He was arrested and taken to the police station in Mukho.

The exact details of his death are unknown.

His body was found on a mountain path by an old man gathering wood.

Paddy was born in Drumraney, Co. Westmeath, on 21 October 1915.

Educated Drumraney N.S. 1920-1929, and St. Finian's College, Mullingar, 1929-1934.

Came to Dalgan 1934 and ordained there 1940.

Did pastoral work in diocese of Clifton, England, 194 1-1946.

Monsignor Patrick Brennan, an American and Prefect Apostolic of Kwangju, Korea, was taken into custody, along with Tom Cusack and Jack O'Brien, by North Korean troops on 24 July 1950.

They were attached to the Columban Mission in Mokpo, in the south of the country.

They were taken to Taejon prison and are presumed to have perished in the general massacre of prisoners there on the night of 24 September 1950.

Pat Brennan was born in Chicago on 13 March 1901.

Educated at St. Rita's High School 1915-19 17; Quigley's Preparatory Seminary, Chicago, 19 17-1922; Mundelein Seminary 1922-1928.

Ordained for archdiocese of Chicago 1928.

Joined the Columbans in 1936 and went to Korea in 1937.

Repatriated to U.S.A. as an enemy alien (by the Japanese) In 1942.

Served as U.S.Army chaplain in Normandy, Germany and the Ardenne and was awarded the Soldier's Medal for bravery.

Member of General Chapter of the Society 1947.

Appointed Director of China region in 1947 and resided in Shanghai.

A year later they Holy See appointed him Prefect Apostolic of Kwangju, Korea.

Killed during Korean War In Taejon on 24 September 1950.

Born Ballycotton, Liscannor, Co. Clare, on 23 October 1910.

Educated Ballycotton, N.S., 1914-1924; St. Mary's College, Galway, 1924-1928.

Came to Dalgan 1928 and ordained there 1934.

Killed during Korean War in Taejon on 24 September 1950.

Born in Donamon, Co. Roscommon (Elphin diocese), on 1 December 1918.

Educated Kilalla N.S. 1924-1925; Ballinrobe N.S. 1925-1931; St. Nathy's College, Ballaghaderreen 1931-1936.

Came to Dalgan and ordained Dalgan (Navan) 1942.

Served as British Army chaplain 1943-1948.

Died in North Korean prison camp on 6 December 1950 as a direct result of hardships experienced on notorious Death March of prisoners.

Born Headford, Co. Galway, on 15 February 1915.

Educated Headford Convent School 1919-1922; Headford N.S. 1922-1929; St. Mary's College, Galway, 1929-1934.

Came to Dalgan in 1934 and ordained there 1940.

Killed on 26 November 1950 in the Philippines.

He was taken from his parish in Labrador, Luzon, on 30 October by Huk Communist guerrillas.

Born on 5 November 1908 in Sixmilebridge, Co. Clare.

Educated Kilkishen N.S. 1912-1920; Ardnacrusha N.S. 1921-1922; Kilkishen N.S. 1922-1923; Sacred Heart College, Limerick, 1924-1926; St. Flannan's College, Ennis, Co. Clare, 1928-1931.

Educated for priesthood Clonliffe College, Dublin, 1928-1931; Maynooth 1931-1935.

Served as British Army chaplain during Second World War.

He was working in a Kachin parish at a time when Kachin guerrillas were active against the Burmese army.

The Kachins wanted a Kachin national state.

John had come down from his parish to Columban Centre House in Myitkyina.

It was on his way back to his parish that he was killed.

His body was found in a shallow grave a short distance from an army post.

There was a bullet through the back of his head and his rosary beads were in his hand.

It was surmised at the time that he may have been killed in retaliation for the killing of two Burmese Buddhist monks by Kachin rebels a short time previously and that the Burmese army did the killing.

John was born in Bandon, Co. Cork, on 5 August 1921.

Educated Bandon N.S. 1927-1933; St. Finbarr's College, Farranferris, 1933-1939.

Educated for priesthood at Irish College, Rome, 1939-1945.

Killed in Balabagan, Mindanao, Philippines, on 19 October 1970.

Martin had reprimanded a 14 year old student in the parish high school for a breach of discipline in the morning.

The student, accompanied by his 17-year-old brother, returned in the afternoon, armed with a revolver and a carbine.

Martin was born in Dublin on 18 August 1934.

Educated Dominican convent School, Muckross, Donnybrook, Dublin, 1940-1943; Xavier College, Donnybrook 1944-1946; Ring College, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, 1947; Presentation College, Bray, 1948-1952; Kevin Street Institute of Science and Technology, Dublin, 1953.

Came to Dalgan 1954 and ordained there 1961.

Joan Sawyer was a Columban Sister who was shot dead in Lima, Peru, in December 1983.

She used to go to the Lurigancho Prison in Lima three or four days a week to visit the prisoners there.

Out of 5,000 prisoners only 1,000 were sentenced.

The rest were pending sentence or perhaps innocent.

Joan used try to bring them some relief - medicines for some, a kind word for others, news about how she was progressing with their legal papers in the ministry for Justice, etc.

The large majority of prisoners came, in her own words, "from the poor sectors of Lima where they never had enough to eat, didn't finish school and couldn't find decent work".

On the morning of 14 December 1983 a group of prisoners decided that at all costs they were going to escape.

They took as hostages Joan Sawyer, three Marist Sisters and social workers.

After all day negotiations with the prison authorities it was agreed that the prisoners and their hostages would be allowed leave the prison in the evening in an ambulance, the most inconspicuous mode of travel for getting out unnoticed.

They were no sooner outside the prison gate than waiting police riddled the ambulance with bullets from all sides.

Four bullets struck Joan, one through the back of the neck, two through her leg and one through her finger.

When removed from the ambulance she was dead.

Joan Sawyer was born in Donegore, Co. Antrim, in 1932.

She entered the Columban Sisters in 1949 having previously worked as a secretary in Belfast.

Subsequently she took her B.A. degree in Mundelein College, Chicago.

She went to Peru in 1977 and was 51 years old at the time of her death.

James died in Japan on January 2, 1985 as a result of an assault by a deranged man.

James was born in Bofeenaun, Ballina, Co Mayo in 1916.

Ministered in the Diocese if Menevia, Wales during World War II.

In 1950 moved to Japan following the revolution in China.

He spent the next 33 years ministering in Japan until his untimely death, buried in Fuchu, near Tokyo.

Vincent was murdered in St Joseph's Church, Falmouth, Jamaica on April 21 1994.

Vincent was born on September 15 1931 in Clonmel, Co Tipperary.

Assigned to Jamaica in 1990 and was parish priest of Falmouth at the time of his death.

Vincent is buried besides the Church in Falmouth.

On 28 August 2001 Michael Anthony (Rufus) Halley was shot dead in Malabang, Mindanao, Philippines.

The death took place during an attempted kidnapping.

Rufus was born in Waterford, Ireland in 1944.

His primary education was at Waterpark College and Ring College, Waterford.

His secondary education was in Glenstal Abbey.

He joined the Columbans in 1962 and was ordained 1969.

He was assigned to the Philippines the same year.

Ministered in the Manila area and Jala-jala a remote town in the Province of Rizal.

A gifted linguist, he spoke excellent Tagalog.

Following a visit to Mindanao, he requested assignment to the Diocese of Marawi.

Marawi is the center of Muslim life in the Philippines.

He learned to speak both Cebuano and Maranaw.

Rufus spent his remaining years working for reconciliation midst the strife and violence of Marawi and Malabang.

Returning from a Christian Muslim meeting, he was stopped by a heavily armed group who attempted to kidnap him.

Rufus is buried in the Columban plot in Cagayan de Oro.

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Middleton was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, and brought up in France.

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Ant Middleton is best known as the Chief Instructor for Channel 4's hit show, SAS : Who Dares Wins.

After three hugely successful series', a Stand Up to Cancer Celebrity Special and a fourth series have already been filmed by Channel 4.

In early 2018, Ant travelled around the UK on his tour 'An Evening with Ant Middleton'.

His book 'First Man In: Leading From The Front' was published by HarperNonFiction and reached No. 1 on The Sunday Times Best Seller List.

Ant also was also filmed climbing Mount Everest, an adventure which tested him further than ever before.

In 2017, Ant captained a team of men, in Channel 4's re-enactment of Captain William Bligh's journey after the infamous 'Mutiny on the Bounty'.

He also led teams of engineers as they attempted to build a vehicle in extreme environments, in Channel 4's engineering and survival based show 'Escape'.

Born in Portsmouth and raised in rural France, Ant set his sights on a career in the armed forces and didn't stop striving until he achieved his goal.

He joined the Special Boat Service (SBS) in 2008 and spent 4 years there.

The SBS is the UK's naval special forces unit and the sister unit of the SAS.

He was a point man/lead scout and also a primary fires operator and sniper.

Prior to joining the SBS, Ant also served in the Royal Marines and 9 Parachute Squadron Royal Engineers – meaning that he has achieved the 'Holy Trinity' of the UK's Elite Forces (P Company, Commando Course, UK Special Forces Selection)

Thanks to his huge range of Special Forces experience, Ant has invaluable skills in survival and endurance.

His appetite for adventure and extremes has no limit and has lead him to take on some amazing challenges.

Before SAS : Who Dares Wins, Ant transferred his Special Forces skills to personal security and was selected to protect VIPs, including government officials and high profile celebrities, he also operated as a security expert in South Africa and across various other countries for governments in West Africa.

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He told "Newsweek" this added to the evidence that Trump may have engaged in obstruction of justice, and compared it to the Watergate scandal.

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By Jason Le Miere On 5/13/17 at 10:40 AM U.S. Donald Trump James Comey Impeachment

President Donald Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey is "much more serious" than Watergate and could arguably be enough to see him impeached now, says the historian who predicted the Republican's shock election win.

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Allan Lichtman, a professor of history at American University, came to national prominence after continuing his streak of predicting the outcome of every presidential election since 1984 last November.

He also has written a book on Trump called The Case for Impeachment.

It is no surprise then that he sees this week's events as adding further fuel to the case for an investigation.

"He arguably could be impeached now," he told Newsweek Friday.

"Arguably he's already obstructed justice and already violated the emoluments clause [regarding receiving gifts from foreign governments].

I'm not saying we should impeach him now, I'm calling for an impeachment investigation."

Trump's dismissal of Comey came in the midst of an investigation the former FBI head was leading into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion with the Trump team.

The president has shifted the narrative after the White House initially claimed the termination was prompted at the recommendation of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein based off of Comey's handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server.

"When I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said: 'You know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made up story, it's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should've won,'" he told NBC News Thursday.

Again, the story that there was collusion between the Russians & Trump campaign was fabricated by Dems as an excuse for losing the election.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2017

Trump also has insisted that Comey assured him on three separate occasions, including once over dinner and on another occasion over a phone call he placed to the then-FBI director, that he was not under investigation.

It has been reported, too, that Trump sought repeated oaths of loyalty from Comey, despite the fact that his role is supposed to be independent and non-partisan.

The White House has denied such demands were made.

Critics, including the Senate's number two Democrat, Richard Durbin, have claimed that Trump's actions regarding Comey, a man who was investigating him, constitute obstruction of justice—an impeachable offense.

"President Trump is dangerous because he may be obstructing justice in terms of the investigation that goes to the heart of our democracy, the accountability of the president," Durbin, who represents Illinois, told MSNBC Friday.

"We see credible reporting that he may well be guilty of obstructing justice in the FBI investigation, first by demanding loyalty to him personally from the man investigating him," Lichtman said.

"That's pretty blatant obstruction of justice.

And then by firing director Comey and then in effect lying initially, or having his team lie in his direction, about the reasons for the firing."

President Donald Trump arrives aboard Air Force One at JFK International Airport in New York, May 4, 2017.

The two modern presidents who came closest to removal from office—Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton—were both accused of obstruction of justice.

But Lichtman says Trump's conduct is "vastly more important" than the allegations against Clinton over testimony about Monica Lewinsky and even more serious than the cover-up of the break-in at Democratic Party headquarters that brought down Nixon.

"The only parallel is Watergate, and this is much more serious," Lichtman said.

"What Trump is involved in is more serious because it involves a foreign power and the national security of the country."

The firing of Comey was instantly compared to the infamous Saturday Night Massacre in which Nixon fired independent special prosecutor Archibald Cox.

It was an event that turned both the opinion of the American public and of some of those within Nixon's Republican Party against him.

And there have been signs that Trump's latest actions crossed the line with some of his Republican colleagues.

Notably, Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, said: "I am troubled by the timing and reasoning of Director Comey's termination."

Ultimately, it will take widespread Republican dissension to impeach Trump, given that they control both the House and the Senate, something that is unlikely to happen anytime soon.

But it may not even get that far, says Lichtman, who believes impeachment proceedings against Trump are inevitable.

Nixon resigned before impeachment proceedings formally began.

And Trump, he believes, could do similarly, particularly given the lifestyle he enjoys outside of the White House.

"Throughout his business career, Donald Trump was the master of avoiding accountability," he said.

"If he is true to his M.O. of more than 40 years, he may avoid accountability again by resigning.

After all, it's not like he goes back to some hovel out there in the woods."

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By the first days of April 2016, thousands of Mosul residents began to flee the area, as Iraqi government forces inched closer toward the city.

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# Civilian exodus begins as Iraqi forces close in on Mosul

An Iraqi soldier holds a position on the frontline

The 74-year-old man was detained, blindfolded and taken to an isolated house before being beaten.

Mizar Mohammed's assailants were soldiers from the Iraqi Security Forces – the very people who are supposed to protect him.

His only apparent crime in the eyes of these Shia soldiers was being a Sunni from an area that had spent two years under the rule of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil).

"The Iraqi forces took my phone and money, they told me they were going to execute me," he remembered.

Mr Mohammed was able to escape with the help of a sympathetic soldier and travel eastwards to the Kurdish town of Makhmour.

As Iraqi forces advance towards Mosul, the largest city under Isil's rule, thousands of people are already fleeing what is expected to become the biggest operation since the start of the counter-offensive against the terrorist movement.

Mr Mohammed joined the almost 2,000 people who have arrived in Makhmour from the area around Mosul, some 60 miles away.

When Iraqi forces try to recapture the city itself, this trickle of displaced people is expected to become a flood.

Iraqi children, whose families fled the violence in the northern city of Mosul

The United Nations is preparing for as many as one million people to flee – about two thirds of Mosul's total population.

"As we look at the likely scenario facing us in the coming months, we know we don't have the capacity or the funding to deal with this.

We are deeply worried," said Lise Grande, the UN's humanitarian coordinator for Iraq.

"If the destruction is extensive, people who have been displaced won't be able to return to their homes for months, if not longer."

The first step along the Iraqi army's road to Mosul took place on March 24 when soldiers, backed by coalition air strikes, recaptured a handful of villages east of the Tigris.

They are now pushing westwards towards the Isil-controlled town of Qayyarah.

The current advance alone is likely to prompt 100,000 people to flee, according to UN estimates.

They are expected to enter the autonomous Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq.

But this area is already coping with a million fugitives from elsewhere in Iraq, along with a further 250,000 Syrian refugees.

The total number of displaced people already approaches 30 per cent of the Kurdistan Region's resident population of 4.5 million – the highest such proportion in the world.

At a time when the Kurdistan Regional government is short of money, it is unlikely to open its doors to even more displaced people when the Mosul offensive begins in earnest.

Iraqi Defence Minister Khaled Al-Obeidi (2ndL) meets soldiers holding a position on the frontline

The government is, however, allowing them to enter Kurdish-controlled disputed areas such as Makhmour, which lies outside the official boundaries of the Kurdistan Region.

The refugees now live inside a youth centre in Makhmour, where men, women and children sit on thin mattresses.

"We heard that we would be killed either by Isil or the shelling, so we left everything we had," explained a mother of four, who asked not to be named.

"Before, the civilians were escaping Isil.

Now they're escaping Isil and the Iraqi forces."

In a conflict where time is of the utmost importance, the UN has yet to decide if building a new camp is the best way to help the newly displaced.

The Kurdistan authorities must also consider the security risk that comes with a mass influx of people from Isil-held areas.

Civilians are screened and interrogated, explained Brigadier Mahdi Younes, the commander of the local Peshmerga forces, with the focus being on the men.

The husband of 26-year-old Sara Omar, for example, was escorted away by security forces on arrival.

"They took him away because they suspect him of having links to Isil," she explained.

"We've no plan for the future, both of our houses were destroyed," added the mother of two.

"My father is an old man and he doesn't even have a mattress to sleep on."

An Iraqi man, who fled the violence in the northern city of Mosul

One Peshmerga soldier was adamant that Isil members and sympathisers were hiding among the civilians.

"We found a doctor who was Isil," he said matter-of-factly.

Hours later, a suicide bomber from Isil territory penetrated the Peshmerga front line and targeted the police headquarters inside Makhmour, killing three policemen.

For some, even Isil's tyrannical rule is less unsettling than the presence of Iraq's largely Shia security forces.

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Brigadier Younes acknowledged the problem.

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"Now they're escaping Isil and the Iraqi forces.

"They have a bad reputation – they mistreat people and deal with everyone as though they are terrorists."

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He hosted GT Bank's Fashion week red carpet alongside Sharon Ooja in 2017.

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In the heart of Victoria Island at the Temple Muse conceptual store, the crème de la crème of fashion and lifestyle in Lagos enjoyed an evening of cocktails and great music from the decks of DJ Obi and DJ KoolJay.

The occasion was the GTBank Fashion Weekend Pre Event Cocktail, a glimpse of the fun planned for Fashion Weekend on the 11th and 12th of November.

Stepping into the exclusive party greeted by the beautiful Sharon Ooja and Timini Egbuson who were hosting the red carpet videos for GTBank's Ndani TV was very pleasant but also intimidating.

Sharon was a complete #BellaStylista in a S.O.M.O multiple side pleat blush and damask fabric set.

While Timini kept things cool in an ankara set from menswear brand Lookslikeagoodman.

Ik Osakioduwa kicked off the activities with a welcome bit of comic relief inside the boutique which had been totally transformed to a dimly lit party space, with more of the invited guests taking in the vibes of the night – drink in hand and munching on samosas.

The transitioning of the music from the 70s, 80s, to the 90s sure made the atmosphere jolly, close buddies like Teni Sagoe, Denola Grey, Papa Omisore and Latti Ronx Bamisedun among other glittering crew of friends shared laughs in between snapchat photos and cute boomerangs.

One of the highlights of the night was the well-curated mini fashion show TheStyleInfidel put together showcasing pieces from brands that will be showing at the GTBank Fashion Weekend and also stock at Temple Muse.

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The GT fashion week been held so close to the LFDW ain't cool.

It practically overshadows the LFDW-post-discussions which is necessary for better planning next time.

Even during the LFDW, I kept seeing events been held in preparation for GTF.

I'm nothing close to fashionista or enthused by fashion but I believe the industry must grow at least for employment's sake and this kind of pseudo rivalry isn't the way forward.

GT fashion week must allow LFDW some breathing space.

That's how Daddy freeze has been frozen out of social.

relevance sha am sure no one will hire him for gigs I remember when he used to do a lot of hosting gigs then now nothing How someone will use his hand to do himself baffles me

Please allow GTB Fashion Weekend to flourish.

There's enough space in the clouds for two birds to fly, heck there's even space for 2 billion birds sef.

If GTBFW wants to show even during LFDW they are free.

What I came here to say before I forget, Sharon Ooja is one fine wine!!!

How does she always look so fly and fresh and clean and well put together all the time mehn.

If I was a booooooy, I would chase her down LOL.

I only clicked because i saw Toke's name on the headline o. WHERE IS TOKE?

From the one wey forget the tin wey dem be wan talk come dey halla Sharon Ooja, to de one wey dey find Toke, I hail all of una.

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Jermaine graduated from Arizona State University, and is the founder of Stronger Together Arizona and the We the People Summit.

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# Meet Our Candidates: Jennifer Jermaine for State Representative, LD 18

The time to fight back — and fight forward — for reproductive justice is fast approaching.

The stakes are high in this year's state election, with candidates for governor, secretary of state, attorney general, and other races on the ballot.

The Arizona primary election will be held August 28, 2018, and early voting began on August 2.

Voters need to have been registered by July 30 to cast their ballots.

Reproductive health has been under attack, both nationally and statewide, but Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona has endorsed candidates who put our health and our rights first.

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Jennifer Jermaine has a long history of being politically engaged, advocating for women's rights, public health, and other causes on behalf of nonprofit and social services organizations.

But the last two years have brought two waves of activism that were transformative for the longtime Chandler resident, inspiring her to launch her own advocacy organization — and run for state Legislature.

"Health care decisions are very personal and private and should be kept that way."

The first wave was the mounting protests in the wake of Donald Trump's election in 2016.

The victory of such a far-right candidate prompted Jermaine to post a call for action on Facebook.

Her idea was a network that would register voters and organize communities, a group she dubbed Stronger Together AZ.

By the end of the month, an inaugural meeting drew 1,000 participants.

The second wave was Arizona's #RedforEd movement, which sparked strikes and walkouts this spring for better teacher salaries and school funding.

Strengthening public education is the first issue Ms. Jermaine mentions on her campaign website.

She seeks to represent Legislative District 18, which includes Ahwatukee and parts of Chandler, Mesa, and Tempe, "because the children of Arizona deserve fully funded public schools."

Along with that focus, Ms. Jermaine is committed to standing up for civil rights and equality on behalf of women, people with disabilities, communities of color, and LGBTQ people.

That includes recognizing women's bodily autonomy and their right "to make their own health care decisions without government intervention or impositions."

Her positions on these and other reproductive justice issues have earned Ms. Jermaine the endorsement of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona.

She generously took the time on August 7, 2018, to tell us more about her background and her candidacy for the Arizona House of Representatives.

Please tell us a little about your background.

I am running for Arizona Legislative District 18 for the House of Representatives.

I have spent over 15 years in the nonprofit industry and am currently the executive director of the STAZ Advocacy Network and am a co-founder of Stronger Together AZ, which represents more than 9,000 Arizona residents.

I also serve as the executive director of the We the People Summit, training new activists on the tools and techniques of community organizing.

I have worked on advocacy on all levels of government in several states, at the federal level, and on the international level.

My background includes advocating for public education, public health, access to health care, women's rights, the Equal Rights Amendment, civil rights, disability rights, elder care, senior services, and end-of-life options.

Prior to my position with STAZ Advocacy Network, I worked for Steps of Love, the LVA Alumni Association, the Zen Hospice Project, the Arthritis Foundation, the Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce, and the San Diego Greenroom Theatre Company.

I hold a Master of Public Administration from Arizona State University and a bachelor's degree in international business from San Diego State University.

What kind of beneficial legislation would you like to introduce should you be elected?

The first bill I would introduce would be to remove the full-federal match requirement from KidsCare.

It is imperative that the children of Arizona have access to preventive and routine health care.

I will co-sponsor Rep. Butler's AHCCCS Buy-In bill and Rep. Salman's bill to remove the right for pharmacists to deny service based on religious or moral objections.

I will also introduce Sen. Bowie's Mitch Warnack Act into the House; this bill provides resources to schools to help prevent teen suicide.

Why do you think it's important that people make their own health care decisions?

Individuals should be free to make their own health care decisions without the imposition of government.

No one belongs in that exam room except for the patient and his/her/their doctor.

Republican Jill Norgaard, who currently holds one of the House seats for LD 18, has been a longtime foe of abortion access.

sponsored SB 1394, which requires abortion providers to collect and report intrusive information about their patients — and their own practices

I testified in front of that committee and told Ms. Norgaard that a person's private medical decisions are none of her business and none of the state's business.

SB 1394's sole purpose is to shame women and restrict access to care.

It adds unfunded mandates to the health care industry and does not reimburse doctors or facilities for the extra exam time to complete these forms.

Restoring funding to our public education system and college systems, ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, a state-level Equality Act, protecting civil rights, protecting the Arizonans with Disabilities Act, expanding AHCCCS, passage of a drought contingency plan, and common-sense gun reform.

What gives you hope for Arizona's future?

The rising youth leaders from March for Our Lives and NextGen.

They are dedicated and driven and will be a mighty force who are more concerned about issues than the letter behind a politician's name.

Why was it important for you to be endorsed by Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona?

I am a former Planned Parenthood patient.

Their doctors and nurses were my primary care providers while I was in college.

They provided critical access to women's health care for thousands of uninsured people prior to the Affordable Care Act and continue to provide critical care to families on AHCCCS, those with private insurance, and those with no insurance.

I am honored to be endorsed by PPAA and to have the support of a wonderful networking of individuals who care about access to health care.

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Product Samples that Save Money (and the Earth)Georgia startup Tricycle makes recycled-paper carpet samples that look just like the real thing, and save the planet too.

By Maggie Overfelt, FSB writer-reporterOctober 24 2006: 9:06 AM EDT

In a time of global warming and PCB-filled streams, fabric carpet samples might not seem like a pressing environmental issue, but consider the numbers.

An average order of 30 carpet samples, each 18 inches on a side, uses more than seven gallons of oil to create 45 pounds of carpet, most of which architects and interior designers throw away after a single use.

Cost: $500 to $1,200, which the big carpet mills pay; samples take up about 8 percent of their revenue.

Outside Dalton, Ga., where giant mills manufacture about 80 percent of the U.S. carpet supply, a 32-person startup is out to replace fabric samples with versions made of recycled paper.

Tricycle (tricycleinc.com), based in Chattanooga, sells high-end optical technology that creates paper samples so life-like that designers have a hard time distinguishing them from fabric versions.

These new versions save 45 pounds of carpet and seven gallons of oil on an average order.

"The carpet industry has been the antithesis of environmentally friendly for the past ten years," says Bo Barber, founder of carpet maker Nood Floorcovering, a Tricycle client based in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.

"Tricycle's influencing everybody - not only is it alleviating the time and money associated with custom-made carpet, but it's alleviating the environmental impact."

Tricycle's software generates computer printouts that replicate the colors and texture of carpeting using computer-animated design and sophisticated models of a mill's tufting machines.

To use the technology, manufacturers create a database by entering hundreds of variables - colors, types of fiber, different treads and pile heights - into a software program.

Tricycle charges $250,000 to $1 million to set up the database.

When a client wants to see what a particular carpet looks like, the mill can create and order samples online and send him stacks of precisely colored paper.

Jonathan Bragdon and Michael Hendrix, ex-Web developers, founded Tricycle in 2002 after landing a job with a carpet maker a year earlier.

"We saw an opportunity to make a big impact," says Hendrix, 34.

He estimates that Tricycle's technology saves manufacturers 70 percent of the costs associated with samples, about $5 million a year.

In 2005 manufacturers shipped about 34,000 paper samples, saving 8,611 gallons of oil and 51,665 pounds of carpet from being sent to landfills.

That's a small footprint - samples take up less than 10 percent of U.S. landfills - but Tricycle has bigger plans.

The company, with revenues of nearly $10 million last year, plans to expand into other design markets, replicating textiles, wallpaper, and wood.

Says Bragdon, 37: "Our future is being able to show every available surface."

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Between 2003 and 2007, Penone was involved in the production of a large scale installation of sculptures for the seventeenth-century Palazzo di Venaria in Piedmont.

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Between 2003 and 2007, the sculptor Giuseppe Penone created Il Giardino delle Sculture Fluide (The Garden of Fluid Sculptures) for La Venaria Reale near Turin, Italy.

Born in nearby Garessio in 1947, Penone is widely regarded as one of Italy's leading contemporary artists.

A younger member of the Arte Povera movement of the 1960s and 70s, he has long been involved with establishing connections between humanity and nature, and this series of outdoor environmental installations represents one of the most ambitious realizations of his engagement with sculpture.

Covering an area equivalent to several acres, Penone's Garden of Fluid Sculptures brings to life one of the formerly long-neglected areas of a magnificent European estate.

In the mid-seventeenth century, Duke Carlo Emanuele II of Savoy commissioned the architect Amedeo di Castellamonte to design a grand house with grounds to be used for hunting and leisure.

The grand project included the palace and grounds, woods, and a small village; its Italianate gardens featured fountains, spectacular staircases, and terraced parks on different levels.

In the eighteenth century, the estate was redesigned, and the gardens were rebuilt in the French style, with all-encompassing vistas in the style of Versailles.

By the following century, however, the Reggia had been converted to military barracks, and the estate entered a long decline.

In 1999, an ambitious restoration project was undertaken with support from local authorities as well as the European Union, and in 2007 La Venaria Reale opened to the public, becoming one of Italy's five most-visited historical sites.

The unique layout of the Parco Basso, or Lower Park, and the centuries-old history of its gardens were the prime inspiration for Penone's Garden of Fluid Sculptures.

Dismantled in the early eighteenth century when the gardens were redesigned, the Lower Park was bordered by Castellamonte's retaining wall for the palace and the Peschiara, or fishpond.

Based on a seventeenth-century checkered pattern, The Garden of Fluid Sculptures runs some 1,500 feet in length.

There, artistic and natural elements – trees, bronze, marble, stone, granite, and water – mark the passage from one sculpture to the next, creating an uninterrupted experience of the mineral, vegetal, and human realms.

Like rooms in a museum, the Garden sections are organized in a sequence, with rows of lime trees and birches delimiting the spaces of the artworks against the backdrop of Castellamonte's architecture and, in the distance, the towering peaks of the Alps.

In Penone's garden, ancient history and contemporary vision coexist also in the combination of materials used to make artworks with aspects of nature.

This was not the first time Penone embarked on an environmental installation project.

Most notably, the artist placed a large bronze sculpture recalling the form of a fallen tree in Paris's famous Tuileries Gardens, and in 2000 he also worked in Turin on Albero Giardino (Tree Garden), a project for a garden on the Underground Railway Link, where vegetation expands out, recalling the branches of a tree.

Discussing this work, he wrote: "The structure of fluids is the same in each element.

A river, a growing tree, a path, they all have similar forms."

In this open-air project, human action – and therefore culture – resonates with the power of natural elements and finds its expression in a path where the vegetation is laid out according to a tree-like pattern.

As with these earlier projects, Penone's Garden of Fluid Sculptures was inspired by the artist's response to a specific site, the concept of integrating sculpture and nature, and the changing nature of matter over time.

In the Lower Park, he reshaped the section of the Gardens extending between Castellamonte's wall and the fishpond with environmental works where vegetal elements – trees, hedges, tree trunks – and the materials that are typical of sculpture – bronze, stone and marble – merge in harmony.

The arrangement of elements creates a lively tempo that leads the visitor to the discovery of the beauty of nature and art and of the dialogue between the ancient and the contemporary.

Instead of reproducing the ponds and decorative structures that characterized the seventeenth-century garden, Penone preserved their rhythm and proportions while working to define the garden's shape.

The completed environment consists of 14 works in a sequence that provides an original reinterpretation of the baroque garden.

At one end, Between Bark and Bark consists of two halves of the bark of a bronze tree that shelters a lime tree planted between them.

In The Light of the Steps, the artist marked the boundaries of the area with a grove where bronze elements emerge from the ground as if they were roots; by walking on them, visitors unearth their presence and make the bronze gleam, a sign of the life and energy pulsating underneath.

Next, in Water Sketch a fingerprint appears and disappears at regular intervals on the water's surface in a large, shallow pool made of black granite; the image is formed by tiny air bubbles floating to the surface, suggestive of a point of contact between different states of being.

The Colors of Storms is a lime grove, cutting across the path and providing an unadulterated immersion in nature and color, before giving way to two adjacent works: the enormous installation Marble Skin, a 400 - square – meter surface made of Carrera marble, whose veins suggest the flow of the human lymphatic system, creating a connection between the mineral and human realms; and the marble sculpture Anatomy, where one unfinished side brings out the character of the material while the other three are sculpted by Penone to show the pattern of the stone's inner substance.

Like The Colors of Storms, Chiaroscuro is a small forest of trees, Himalayan birches in this case, planted in a square section arranged in a symmetrical pattern.

Here, the perfectly white bark of the trees is also reminiscent of the marble surfaces of other works.

Sharing another section, Brain of Stones represents the image of a brain drawn in the ground using large river pebbles, with a tree planted between the two "lobes," connecting them, while Bifurcation is a fountain shaped like a bronze tree, extending from the ground and reaching out to the surrounding landscape.

On the end side of the trunk, a handprint can be seen, from which water drips down and returns to the ground, bearing witness to the circular flowing of the elements.

Similarly paired, Bones of the Earth and Direction "towards the light" respectively show a tree tethered to the ground by a heavy stone that impairs movement and growth and a monumental bronze tree positioned at the garden's center.

Likewise, Ideas of Stone's bronze tree with a stone stuck between its branches is paired with Vegetal Gesture, an unfinished human silhouette of bronze, completed by the branches of a tree planted in its midst.

At the garden's edge, Direction "towards the centre of the earth" consists of a bronze tree trunk resting on the ground and pointing to the depths of the earth.

An exedra of copper beech trees delimits this section, mirroring the one at the entrance surrounding Between Bark and Bark.

The Garden of Fluid Sculptures springs from Penone's long meditation on the relation between nature and culture.

Of landscaped and cultivated spaces in particular, he has commented: "The garden begins when a man treads on the ground and ventures into the vegetal, the mineral space.

The action is fixed into the ground and the miniscule realities his step has encountered memorize his presence.

The shrubs displaced by something other than the wind, the fallen leaves, the broken twigs, the bent and trampled grass, and the miniscule, invisible animal life perturbed by the steps, all bear witness to the passage and remember the man's path.

The perception of these countless small events, the reflection, the observation, the wonder accompanying the steps of those who walk with their eyes to the ground and their thoughts suspended, soaked up in the sky, harmonize the senses…

.Since that moment, the memory of his presence is fixed to that place.

The systematic organization of this memory, its structuring, a will to ritualize the path, its repetition, this is what generates the garden."

Visitors to Penone's Garden of Fluid Sculptures can complement their visit with an exploration of the estate's grounds.

The palace, which has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, includes some of the finest examples of European baroque design: the enchanting scenario of Castellamonte's Hall of Diana, the solemnity of the Great Gallery and the Church of St. Hubert, and the eighteenth-century stables designed by Filippo Juvarra, not to mention imaginative contemporary decorations and installations concerning life at court by filmmaker Peter Greenaway.

For information about visiting Giuseppe Penone's The Garden of Fluid Sculptures at La Venaria Reale, visit: www.lavenaria.it

The work forms part of a series made from acacia thorns applied to silk and sometimes associated with slabs of marble, whose veiningin relief is shown to match traces marked by the vegetation. An example is the work titled "Pelle di marmo su spine d'acacia" ("Marble Skin on Acacia Thorns"), exhibited in 2001 at the Musée d'Orsay of Paris and the Fujikawa Gallery in Osaka.
 ln "Pelle di cedro" ("Cedar Skin") of 2002 exhibited for the first time in the anthological exhibition of Penone's work by the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 2004, an imprint of the bark of a tree is impressed on the cowhides tanned using traditional methods. The roughness of the bark transferred to the hides and displayed in negative resembles a pattern of veins, as in the "Anatomie". Bark also underlies the casts that appear in "Lo spazio della scultura" ("The Space of Sculpture") an installation presented at the recent exposition at the Studio per l'Arte Contemporanea Tucci Russo at Torre Pellice and the Museum Kurhaus Kleve between 2006 and 2007.
 "The structure of fluids is the same whatever the element. A watercourse, a growing tree and a pathway have similar forms" writes Penone of the work titled "Albero giardino" ("Tree Garden"), produced for a former railroad site in Turin in 2002. ln this outdoor work, the human action, hence culture, is compared to the force of natural elements and expressed in the design of a path traced by the vegetation, whose outline represents the growth of a tree.


A Guinness World Record was created in 2012 when 12,588 people from 20 countries did the Three Wise Monkeys actions on World Hepatitis Day to signify the willful ignorance of the disease.

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At the Communiqué Awards 2013 Red Door Communications and the World Hepatitis Alliance won the the McCann Complete Medical Award for Innovation in Healthcare for their work to raise awareness of and engagement with World Hepatitis Day 2012.

They did this through a global Twitter campaign and targeted SMS outreach.

The Twitter campaign asked global audiences to tweet a photo of someone performing the 'three wise monkeys' poses.

Pictures posted with the hashtag #seehearspeakno were automatically uploaded to an online gallery linked to the World Hepatitis Alliance's website and social media accounts.

The SMS campaign provided information to hard-to-reach groups in Africa.

The campaign evolved and continued to cover World Hepatitis Day the following year.

The above case study covers activities of Red Door Communications and the World Hepatitis Alliance for World Hepatitis Day 2013.

500 million people globally are living with either chronic hepatitis B or C - while this is higher than those with HIV or any cancer, the disease is hugely underfunded, with thousands remaining undiagnosed.

The disease is too often ignored and stigmatised.

By raising public awareness the World Hepatitis Alliance's aim was to: prevent new infections and improve health outcomes for people with hepatitis; widen access to treatment; reduce stigma by highlighting its prevalence and indiscriminate nature.

It was also important to create an integrated campaign through theme, but segment regions to employ tactics that met the needs of more remote countries.

The Alliance also wanted a campaign that would inspire participation among their member patient groups and raise awareness of prevention and treatment among the public and policy makers.

Red Door Communications developed the 'Know it. Confront it' campaign, using the three wise monkeys' proverb as its central theme to highlight that denial and ignorance of hepatitis are a global problem.

Posters for local adaptation'Three wise monkey' mascots - soft toys with t-shirts customised by language and country flag - distributed to 45 countries An online gallery for patient groups to upload photos of their monkeys travelling around their countryA YouTube video featuring the three unwise monkeys in spoof film clips exploring how outcomes of famous films would have ended differently if the monkeys had chosen ignorance over awarenessA Guinness World Record of people enacting the three monkeys' poses Targeted radio and SMS campaigns to communicate with traditionally `hard to reach' audiences in Africa.

The online monkey gallery had a Tweet reach of 13.4 million with 5 million page impressionsViews for the YouTube video featuring the three unwise monkeys currently stand at 1.16 million, directly leading to 25,000 visits to the World Hepatitis Alliance website.

4.13 million reached via text message in Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana>368 million reached worldwide via the radio campaignFor the Guinness World Record, 26,204 people in 21 countries participated (including 13 European countries), surpassing previous record by >13,000.

Charles Gore, president of the World Hepatitis Alliance said: "'Know it. Confront it' was a highly engaging and original campaign that secured unprecedented engagement from our members and the global hepatitis community.

The global campaign enabled and inspired our members to execute bold and exciting campaigns in their own regions, not only raising awareness but more importantly, inspiring action."

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He was one of the founders of the Office for Creative Research, with Jer Thorp and Ben Rubin.

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# This Brooklyn data and design studio is calling it quits

The Office for Creative Research posted a farewell letter on its site Thursday.

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The Office for Creative Research announced it's ending operations this month.

Brooklyn data studio The Office for Creative Research announced it will shut down this month, posting a goodbye letter in the past tense on its website yesterday.

The company created data visualizations and art installations for editorial and tech companies, mostly.

Projects included visualizing Einstein's theory of relativity for Scientific American, and data analysis on counterfeit medication in Nigeria for the venture fund Acumen, among many others.

A full catalogue of their work exists on their site.

The Office for Creative Research was founded in 2013 by Mark Hansen, Ben Rubin and Jer Thorp.

We're very proud of the work that we've done to advance equality in data systems 1/2

Poynter had a very good interview with Thorp last year, in which he explained what the OCR was trying to do.

This bit about the subjectivity of algorithms stood out:

We use algorithms as a means to process data, to generate visual forms, to create scripts for performers, to create soundscapes.

Some of these algorithms are "off the shelf," in which case there's editorial judgement that goes into which algorithm makes sense to use.

Other algorithms we create ourselves, in which case we try to be mindful of how our subjectivity gets baked into the code.

A two-word definition for an algorithm is "do until" — and it's that until that gets us into trouble, as any quiet communication can be amplified into a loud one.

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After getting his PhD in 1994, Hansen went on to be a Member of the Technical Staff at the Statistics Research Department of Bell Laboratories. After 8 years at Bell, he became a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, teaching there for 9 years in the Department of Statistics, the Department of Design|Media Arts, and the Department of Electrical Engineering. While at UCLA, he studied sensor networks as a Co-Principal Investigator for the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing,  He is known for being the graduate advisor for statistics students including Nathan Yau of FlowingData and Jake Porway of The Numbers Game and DataKind.


He competed in the men's freestyle 130 kg at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

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After the destruction caused from both Hurricane Irma and Maria, she was docked in St Croix, US Virgin Islands under charter to FEMA to house hurricane relief workers from October 15, 2017 until February 3, 2018.

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# Statement Regarding Carnival Fascination

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Per FEMA's request, the ship will be docked in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands and will provide housing and meals for relief workers.

The duration of the charter is from October 15, 2017 to February 3, 2018.

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The comments were criticised on social media by figures on the left, while Conservative MP Jo Johnson voiced support for Cable's stance.

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# Michael Gove And Vince Cable Spark Anger By Defending University Tuition Fees

## 'When will you be paying back your tuition fees?'

Michael Gove's "hypocritical" defence of tuition fees has sparked anger among students, graduates and voters, with some calling on the Tory cabinet minister to pay back his own university fees.

Lib Dem leadership hopeful Sir Vince Cable also found himself in the firing line after he suggested scrapping tuition fees would be "very dangerous and stupid".

The politicians' comments follow a huge swell in youth support for Labour after the party promised to scrap tuition fees for undergraduates, with de-facto deputy prime minister Damian Green calling for a "national debate" on the issue.

Michael Gove said those who don't go to university should not pay for those who do

But newly-appointed environment secretary Gove caused controversy during an appearance on the BBC's Andrew Marr show when he said that people who go to university must "pay something back".

"If you don't benefit from a university education, you shouldn't have to pay additionally to support those who do," Gove said.

#### But many angry viewers were quick to point out that Gove, who studied English at Oxford University, was part of generation that studied at university for free:

Michael Gove "those who don't go to Uni shouldn't pay for those who do"Says a man who had HIS tuition fees paid for by the state

— James Lewis (@JamesTLewis) July 2, 2017

Time for you and me to 'pay it forward' Mr Gove!!

.@michaelgove when will you be paying back your tuition fees?

— Tim Eveleigh (@timeveleigh) July 3, 2017

I wonder if Michael Gove would have said the same if his generation had to pay tuition fees

#### Others criticised Gove's logic, suggesting that offering young people a free university education actually benefits society as a whole:

by providing free tuition fees u r investing in the next generation to b able to further society n I think that affects us ALL, michael gove

— zoë from the block (@thezoedaniel) July 2, 2017

I don't benefit from Michael Gove's £130 elephant lamps but he still thought it important that I paid for them pic.twitter.com/h8CHEuZ3Hs

— Eve Livingston (@eve_rebecca) July 2, 2017

#michaelgove only the 1% benefits from a Tory govt but for the last 7 years we've all paid for it. https://t.co/MIK9qGNSHp

— Harry Leslie Smith (@Harryslaststand) July 2, 2017

I've had university education but have yet to benefit from it careerwise... by this logic I can stop paying my tuition fees, right?

Cable faced similar criticism when he told Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme that scrapping tuition fees would be "very dangerous and stupid".

The Lib Dem MP was part of the coalition government that increased tuition fees from £3,000 to £9,000.

The party faced a huge uproar over the move, having promised to oppose tuition fee increases during the campaign.

But Cable told Ridge yesterday that scrapping tuition fees would be "cheap populist gesture" that would create an unfair system.

"If you don't have any form of fees, I mean who pays for universities?" Cable said.

"How do you end this discrimination between the 40% of students who go to university and would be subsided as opposed to the 60% who don't?

He added: "Universities are about the only bit of the publicly financed sector of the economy which is flourishing."

"I haven't benefitted from a uni education," a man named Pascal addressed Cable on Twitter.

I wouldn't mind paying for uni studies of today's youth."

Other's also took to social media to share their frustration about the MP's argument:

I agree @vincecable - it's outrageous that government should give the electorate things they actually want and need.

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) July 2, 2017

Crippling students with debt when they just want to advance themselves is wrong.

Scrapping tuition fees affordable if DUP not given £1Bn

— UpperGwladysBlue (@UpperGwladysBlu) July 2, 2017

Dear @vincecable, I haven't benefited from a Uni education.

I wouldn't mind paying for Uni studies of today's youth.

— Pascal Jacquemain❄ (@jacquep) July 2, 2017

But universities minister Jo Johnson tweeted to say he "agreed" with the Lib Dem:

I agree with Vince https://t.co/WwyEbQuVDB

— Jo Johnson (@JoJohnsonUK) July 2, 2017

Abolishing tuition fees & funding unis out of general taxation would be regressive, benefiting richest graduates, as IFS has repeatedly said

— Jo Johnson (@JoJohnsonUK) July 1, 2017

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In 2017, Cable defended the £9,000 per year university tuition fees cap, claiming it would be "dangerous and stupid" and a "cheap populist gesture" to abolish tuition fees, adding that the "40% of students" who go to university should not be subsidised by the "60% who don't".


In July 2019, the Earl and Countess, visited Forfar on their first official visit to the town since the Queen granted the Earl the additional title Earl of Forfar in March 2019.

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# The Earl and Countess of Forfar visit Forfar

The Earl and Countess of Forfar, Earl and Countess of Wessex, visited Forfar today on their first official visit to the town since The Queen granted The Earl of Wessex the additional title Earl of Forfar earlier this year.

His Royal Highness is Patron of a number of Scottish charitable organisations, including Edinburgh International Festival, the The National Youth Orchestras of Scotland and Badminton Scotland.

As Trustee of the DofE Award, His Royal Highness has supported the non-formal education of thousands of young people in Scotland, and holds annual Gold Award presentations at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh.

The Earl of Forfar has a personal connection to the area as The Queen Mother's family home was situated closeby.

The Earl and Countess today viewed the entry for the Confirmation of Elizabeth Bowes Lyon - His Royal Highness's Grandmother, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother - in the St John's Episcopal Church in Forfar.

The Earl and Countess met local residents, visited businesses and landmarks in the town - including Saddlers, makers of the famous Forfar Bridie.

His Royal Highness was presented with 'Earl of Forfar' tartan, which has been designed for Their Royal Highnesses to celebrate their new titles.

In the last engagement of the day, Their Royal Highnesses visited Guide Dogs Scotland, where The Countess met Gunner.

Engagements continued in the Scotland the following day, and began at Glenfiddich's Distillery Visitor Centre.

The centre was the first of its kind for the Scotch whisky industry and helped to kick start the local whisky tourist industry which attracts more than two million visitors a year.

#DYK Glenfiddich started life when William Grant hand-built the original distillery in a single year in 1887 with the help of his seven sons and two daughters?

In the afternoon, The Earl and Countess of Forfar learnt more about another great Scottish invention: the kilt.

Their Royal Highnesses met teachers and students keeping the craft of kilt-making alive at the Keith Kilt School and Textile Centre.

Thank you to everyone who welcomed The Earl and Countess to Scotland!

Find out more about the life and work of The Earl of Wessex...

## The Earl of Wessex visits Slovenia, North Macedonia & Croatia

## The Earl and Countess of Wessex visit the Baltic States

The Earl and Countess of Wessex visit Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

## The Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award Presentations at Buckingham Palace

## The Earl of Wessex's Charities & Patronages

## The Earl of Wessex speaks at the closing of the Commonwealth Games 2018 in Australia

## The Earl of Wessex opens the transformed Royal Airforce Museum

## The Earl and Countess of Wessex visit Brunei

## The Countess of Wessex's Charities & Patronages

## The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire's opening Gala Concert

## The Royal Family joins celebrations for The Royal Air Force's 100th Anniversary

## 'Nobody's ever forgotten meeting him' – The Earl of Wessex on The Duke of Edinburgh

## The Earl of Wessex visits the National Youth Theatre

## The Duke of Edinburgh hosts a DofE Gold Award Presentation at Buckingham Palace

## The Earl of Wessex visits Bletchley Park

## 60 years of The Duke of Edinburgh's Award

Congratulations to everyone graduating !

The Earl of Wessex, Chancellor, is presiding at today's Ceremony

Find out more about the life and work of The Countess of Wessex...

## The Countess of Wessex visits Lebanon

## The Countess of Wessex visits Treloar School and College

It has been a privilege to experience the famous Lebanese hospitality and culture for the first time, and I am very pleased to join you tonight to celebrate the strong and growing partnership between our two nations.

A speech by The Countess of Wessex at The Queen's Birthday Party in Lebanon

We must ensure that the silence that hides pain and suffering is turned into voices of hope and a reason to continue to act.

A speech by The Countess of Wessex at a reception for Women Peacebuilders, Buckingham Palace

## The Countess of Wessex attends The Commonwealth Eye Health Consortium

## The Countess of Wessex attends the Commission on the Status of Women at the UN

## The Countess of Wessex sends open letter to the people of Malawi

## The Countess hosts a reception on International Women's Day to celebrate women peacebuilders

## The Countess of Wessex visits Haslar Marina

## The Countess of Wessex visits Cumbria

## The Earl and Countess visit Sri Guru Singh Sabha in Southall

## The Countess of Wessex opens the Thames Valley Air Ambulance HQ

## The Countess of Wessex on the Isle of Wight

An avid supporter of charities that deal with learning disabilities, the Countess made a solo trip to Belfast in January 2018 to visit a number of charities that she had supported through her work over the last decade including Mencap's children's centre. She also opened the new dementia-friendly unit of Northern Ireland Hospice, the first of its kind in the UK. The Earl and Countess of Wessex visited Sri Lanka in February 2018 to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of Independence, Sri Lanka–United Kingdom relations, the Commonwealth, education and young people. In October 2018, the Earl and Countess of Wessex toured the Baltic states.
 In March 2019, the Countess travelled to New York City to attend the 63rd session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). The annual event brought together more than 9,000 gender equality representatives from around the world. The CSW is "the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women." From 29 April to 3 May 2019, the Countess, Vice-Patron of The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust, visited India in her final overseas tour as vice-patron ahead of the Trust's planned closure in January 2020. The Countess saw the work the charitable foundation has supported to tackle avoidable blindness and heard about programmes successfully launched by Queen's Young Leaders.


Fisher would later become a vice president at Warner Bros., supervising films like "Men in Black" and "Jerry Maguire".

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DOUGLAS WICK is an award-winning motion-picture producer whose movies have earned more than $2 billion at the box office as well as 22 Oscar® nominations and seven Oscar® wins.

Along with his partner Lucy Fisher, he is co-head of Red Wagon Entertainment.

Wick and Red Wagon's most recent production was Allegiant, the third in the international blockbuster trilogy Divergent.

In 2013 Fisher and Wick produced The Great Gatsby, which was directed by Baz Luhrmann, starred Leonardo DiCaprio and won two Academy Awards®.

Wick also produced Gladiator, the Ridley Scott-directed epic that won five Academy Awards® including Best Picture and became a worldwide cinematic phenomenon, winning two Golden Globes®, four BAFTAs, the Producers Guild of America's Motion Picture of the Year Award, the MTV Movie Award for Best Movie and the AFI's Movie of the Year.

Wick also garnered a bevy of Academy Award® nominations and a Golden Globe® win for his first solo producing effort Working Girl, directed by Mike Nichols.

Wick's Girl Interrupted won Angelina Jolie both an Academy Award® and a Golden Globe® for her breakthrough performance.

Wick's prior films also include the family hit Stuart Little, starring the first CGI leading man; Wolf, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer; The Craft, with Fairuza Balk; Spy Game, which paired Robert Redford and Brad Pitt under director Tony Scott; and Paul Verhoeven's Hollow Man, starring Kevin Bacon.

In 2001 Wick expanded his Red Wagon Entertainment to bring in Lucy Fisher, former vice chairman of Sony's Columbia Tri-Star Motion Picture Group, as co-head.

The first picture in their new partnership was Stuart Little 2, the sequel to the Wick-produced Stuart Little.

Wick and Fisher went on to produce a wide range of motion pictures together including Jarhead, Peter Pan, Lawless and Memoirs of a Geisha, which was nominated for six Academy Awards® and won three Oscars®.

After graduating cum laude from Yale, Wick began his career as a production assistant for filmmaker Alan Pakula.

He earned his first credit as associate producer on Starting Over.

Wick is the co-founder of CuresNow, an organization that promotes regenerative medicine and stem-cell research.

In addition, he has been a co-chair of Prop 71, the successful Stem Cell initiative in California, which now awards $3 billion for stem-cell research in the state.

He has also served on the board of trustees for the Center for Early Education in Los Angeles and the board of directors for the Producers Guild of America.

His many awards include the NATO ShoWest Producer of the Year award, the Producers Guild of America's David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures, The Hollywood Film Festival Producer of the Year Award, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival's Producer of the Year, the Motion Picture Club's Producer of the Year, The Saturn Award, the Los Angeles Father of the Year Award and Friends of Cancer Research Advocacy's Lifetime Achievement Award.

LUCY FISHER, former Vice Chairman of the Columbia Tri-Star Motion Picture Group at Sony Studios, is an award-winning motion picture producer and co-head of Red Wagon Entertainment.

Fisher's most recent production was the international blockbuster THE DIVERGENT SERIES, the franchise based on Veronica Roth's New York Times bestselling books.

DIVERGENT, the first in the series, starred a cast of stellar newcomers including Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Miles Teller and Ansel Elgort as well as Oscar winner Kate Winslet.

It was followed by INSURGENT with Naomi Watts and ALLEGIANT with Jeff Daniels.

Previously, Fisher produced THE GREAT GATSBY, which was directed by Baz Luhrmann, starred Leonardo DiCaprio, and won 2 Academy Awards.

During Fisher's tenure as Vice Chairman at Sony, the studio broke all-time industry records for biggest domestic and worldwide grosses with films she supervised, which included MEN IN BLACK, MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING, AIR FORCE ONE, JERRY MAGUIRE, AS GOOD AS IT GETS and STUART LITTLE.

After leaving the executive suite, Fisher partnered with Oscar®-winning producer Douglas Wick (GLADIATOR, WORKING GIRL), and together they have produced a wide range of critically acclaimed and popular movies including JARHEAD, LAWLESS, and MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA, which earned 3 Academy Awards.

Before moving to Sony, Fisher served for 14 years as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Production at Warner Bros., where she developed and supervised a diverse range of films including THE FUGITIVE, THE COLOR PURPLE, GREMLINS, THE GOONIES, MALCOLM X, SPACE JAM, EMPIRE OF THE SUN, THE OUTSDERS and THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK.

Fisher previously served as Vice President of Production at Twentieth Century Fox before being tapped as Head of Worldwide Production for Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope Studios.

In addition to her creative achievements, Fisher is widely considered a pioneer for women and working mothers in the entertainment industry.

She was the driving force behind the on-site Warner Bros. Studio Children's Center, which has since provided care for over 2000 children and served as a prototype for day care centers at other studios.

Fisher's many awards include the Producer's Guild of America's Award, David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures, The Hollywood Film Festival "Producer of the Year" Award, the Hollywood Award for Outstanding Achievement in Producing, the Crystal Award from Women in Film, Premiere Magazine's Icon Award, and Friends of Cancer Research Advocacy's "Lifetime Achievement Award."

She has been listed as one of Fortune magazine's 50 Most Powerful Women in American Business.

After their youngest daughter was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes, Fisher and Wick co-founded CuresNow, an organization which promotes regenerative medicine and stem cell research.

She served as co-chair of Prop 71, the successful Stem Cell initiative in California, which now awards 3 billion dollars for stem cell research in the State of California.

A cum laude graduate of Harvard, Fisher has served on the Harvard University Board of Overseers and founded the Peters Ivers Visiting Artist Program there.

Fisher also currently serves as a delegate for the PGA's Producers Council.

Ivers dated film executive Lucy Fisher for many years.