Following working in public relations and for the LGBT-specialist insurance company Emerald Life, as of 2019, Wharton holds the position of Wellbeing Services Manager at Birmingham LGBT.

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Adam joined Birmingham LGBT to coordinate SHOUT Festival in 2016.

He is also a theatre-maker, creative producer, and project manager working in the Midlands, and has worked for a number of arts organisations in the region including Birmingham Hippodrome, Stan's Cafe, and ORT Gallery.

Adam is a vocal advocate for LGBTQ+ representation, inclusion, and development in the arts sector, and has recently written guidance for arts organisations on the importance of LGBTQ+ inclusive programming for children and young audiences.

His show Fantabulosa!, an interactive public-space drag show for kids is currently touring the UK.

As a birmingham native Adam is passionate about amplifying the voices of midlands artists and unearthing local queer histories.

Leaving in 2008, she has worked in a variety of different settings including young homeless, adults with learning difficulties, mentoring young persons in the social care system, and with adults experiencing poor mental health.

Since 2012, she has primarily worked in Sexual Health promotion, covering Public Sex Environments, Sex and Relationships Education within schools and colleges, GBT prisoner support groups and Trans* support via group or one to one sessions.

## More about Cecily Stevenson (She/Her)

Cecily is responsible for all the little details that keep the ship sailing on a day-to-day basis, and, being in charge of the stationery budget, many would say that the true locus of power at Birmingham LGBT lies with Cecily.

Cecily has a degree in history, and previously worked in tourism for some of the UK's largest tourist attractions before landing at Birmingham LGBT.

Outside (and indeed inside) of work, Cecily likes to talk a lot about the environment, The Carpenters, and her baby nephew.

Sexual Health Promotion Worker (South Asian & Middle Eastern MSM)

Lesbian and Bisexual Women's Sexual Health Promotion Worker

Chris has six years experience of working in health care setting.

For two years he worked in mental health rehabilitation before moving to an acute health care setting specialising in a long term condition offering support and counselling for people newly diagnosed and people living with kidney failure.

Before this he has worked in many public settings including working with Birmingham City Council with children and young adults from underprivileged areas.

Chris has always been passionate about the LBGT community and has volunteered and fund raised over the years with events such as Birmingham and Leicester Pride.

Since January 2016 Dan has worked as a part time sexual health outreach worker mainly with South Asian and Middle Eastern gay and bisexual men or 'men who have sex with men' (MSM).

Dan also runs a group called RANG who meet up every second Sunday of every month from 1pm – 3pm at Birmingham LGBT.

This is a social/support group where various topics discussed are around culture, faith, religion in relation to sexuality and gender expressions.

We explore this through conversation, art, music in a fun and friendly way.

Further to this Dan also offers sexual health testing and well-being services at Birmingham LGBT in and around the gay village in Birmingham.

We are open 7 days a week and all the services are free!

Dan also speaks Punjabi and understands some Hindi and Urdu and sometimes this helps where language may be a barrier.

## More about Georgia Pattison (She/Her)

Since 2004, Jake has worked exclusively in helping and support roles spending 5 years as a health promotion officer for a leading HIV charity and 9 years in the field of smoking cessation, progressing to a middle management position within the NHS.

Jake is experienced in supporting people with multiple and complex needs such as addiction and mental health issues.

He has experience of leading and supervising a team of sessional staff, as well as planning and delivering a range of training to healthcare and medical providers.

He is also a student member of BACP and a volunteer counsellor with a counselling service in Birmingham operating within a person centered approach.

He also holds a Ba hons in Applied Social sciences.

Prior to taking up his Post here as Team Leader, Jake was employed in the Wellbeing support worker role for 3 years.

Jamie has worked within sexual health outreach and sexual health promotion within the LGBT community for a number of years.

He has experience of providing face-to-face sexual health support sessions including sexual health testing, offering a variety of support including the facilitation of a married men's group, which has now become an independent group.

Jamie has previously supported LGBT youth projects with a variety of needs, which also included cooking skills, building self-confidence, group discussions and various group trips.

Jamie has a passion for baking and photography.

James is new to Birmingham having recently moved from London to take up the role of Health and Wellbeing Manager.

James's background ranges military, media, marketing and PR.

His most recent role before moving to Birmingham LGBT was as Communications Manager at LGBT Insurer Emerald Life.

In addition to his working life, James has been a campaigner for a number of causes he holds close to his heart.

This has included LGBT equality in the armed forces, equal marriage in England and Wales, tackling school based homophobia, the right and welfare of veterans and most recently, the preservation of war gravesites overseas.

In his spare time James likes to write, enjoys the cinema, and is an avid follower of Formula One motor racing.

Maria is the Ageing Better Network Enabler.

Maria has previously worked in information, outreach, community capacity building, training and awareness-raising for a variety of charities, including Birmingham & Solihull Women's Aid and Birmingham Settlement.

Maria has also been involved with the music business and community arts, trade union activism, and has a specialist interest in monitoring and evaluation.

Sexual Health Promotion Worker (African Carribbean and Black African MSM)

Matt has over 20 years of working experience in a variety of health and social care settings in both frontline service delivery and management roles.

He first became interested in the area of sexual health whilst volunteering at Birmingham based HIV charity AB Plus in the early 2000's as a holistic therapist, from where he went on to further this interest and gain more experience in subsequent employed positions.

His previous position was with a Black Country based charity where he worked as a MSM Sexual Health Outreach Worker and Project Worker for people living with and affected by HIV.

Matt's experience includes delivering community based sexual health outreach and HIV/STI testing clinics, delivering training and facilitating peer support programmes around Sexual Health, HIV and LGBT issues before moving into a management role.

Matt is passionate about empowering individuals and developing quality and accessible sexual health and well-being services to LGBT communities and tackling the barriers and inequalities that can often be faced.

Birmingham LGBT's mission is to build a vibrant, diverse lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans community in Birmingham in which individuals can realise their full potential and have equal access to all the city has to offer.

In the four years she has been involved with the organisation it has grown from a small charity with a £10,000 a year turnover to an organisation with a turnover of over £250,000 a year.

Birmingham LGBT delivers a variety of services and events including SHOUT: Birmingham's festival of Queer Culture, and has recently opened the first LGBT Health & Wellbeing centre in England and Wales in Birmingham city centre.

Steph and her co-worker Dave Viney were included in the Independent on Sunday's influential Pink list in 2013 for their contributions to the LGBT community in Birmingham.

Steph has skills in not-for-profits, change management, strategic planning and income generation.

Steph a social science graduate has worked in the third sector for twenty years, beginning her career as in the field of substance misuse and going on to work in a variety of areas including mental health, capacity building, social enterprises, and women's issues.

Before moving to Birmingham she was a key player in Gloucestershire's community coordinated response to domestic violence where, as the CEO of a domestic violence charity, she developed a network of survivors' groups, women's safety work, a 24-hour crisis advocacy service and a service for BME women.

Steph is passionately committed to human rights and social justice and has always worked to create a better and more equal society for all.

She has never moved very far from her background in, and commitment to, grassroots community activism.

Stuart has over eight years experience of work within social care.

He started his career working for Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council delivering front line care to adults with learning disabilities.

Stuart developed an interest for providing support for young LGBT people in the Dudley area after noticing a gap in provision of appropriate services while volunteering for a local HIV charity.

Stuart moved on to work with Dudley Youth Services, Connexions and the voluntary sector to set up a support service for young LGBT people in the Dudley area – Project Vogue, which gained funding from the Big Lottery to deliver work in schools to tackle homophobic bullying and awareness of LGBT issues for young people as well as a support group and information website.

Stuart also worked for Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council as a Senior Youth Worker and has worked on a sessional basis for a number of sexual health services delivering outreach interventions to young people and MSM communities.

Sexual Health Promotion Worker - Sessional

Adam joined Birmingham LGBT to coordinate SHOUT Festival in 2016.

He is also a theatre-maker, creative producer, and project manager working in the Midlands, and has worked for a number of arts organisations in the region including Birmingham Hippodrome, Stan's Cafe, and ORT Gallery.

His show Fantabulosa!, an interactive public-space drag show for kids is currently touring the UK.

As a birmingham native Adam is passionate about amplifying the voices of midlands artists and unearthing local queer histories.

## More about Cecily Stevenson (She/Her)

Cecily has a degree in history, and previously worked in tourism for some of the UK's largest tourist attractions before landing at Birmingham LGBT.

Outside (and indeed inside) of work, Cecily likes to talk a lot about the environment, The Carpenters, and her baby nephew.

Chris has six years experience of working in health care setting.

Before this he has worked in many public settings including working with Birmingham City Council with children and young adults from underprivileged areas.

Chris has always been passionate about the LBGT community and has volunteered and fund raised over the years with events such as Birmingham and Leicester Pride.

Sexual Health Promotion Worker (South Asian & Middle Eastern MSM)

Lesbian and Bisexual Women's Sexual Health Promotion Worker

Since January 2016 Dan has worked as a part time sexual health outreach worker mainly with South Asian and Middle Eastern gay and bisexual men or 'men who have sex with men' (MSM).

Dan also runs a group called RANG who meet up every second Sunday of every month from 1pm – 3pm at Birmingham LGBT.

This is a social/support group where various topics discussed are around culture, faith, religion in relation to sexuality and gender expressions.

We explore this through conversation, art, music in a fun and friendly way.

Further to this Dan also offers sexual health testing and well-being services at Birmingham LGBT in and around the gay village in Birmingham.

We are open 7 days a week and all the services are free!

Dan also speaks Punjabi and understands some Hindi and Urdu and sometimes this helps where language may be a barrier.

## More about Georgia Pattison (She/Her)

Jake is experienced in supporting people with multiple and complex needs such as addiction and mental health issues.

He has experience of leading and supervising a team of sessional staff, as well as planning and delivering a range of training to healthcare and medical providers.

He is also a student member of BACP and a volunteer counsellor with a counselling service in Birmingham operating within a person centered approach.

He also holds a Ba hons in Applied Social sciences.

Prior to taking up his Post here as Team Leader, Jake was employed in the Wellbeing support worker role for 3 years.

Jamie has worked within sexual health outreach and sexual health promotion within the LGBT community for a number of years.

Jamie has previously supported LGBT youth projects with a variety of needs, which also included cooking skills, building self-confidence, group discussions and various group trips.

Jamie has a passion for baking and photography.

James is new to Birmingham having recently moved from London to take up the role of Health and Wellbeing Manager.

James's background ranges military, media, marketing and PR.

His most recent role before moving to Birmingham LGBT was as Communications Manager at LGBT Insurer Emerald Life.

In addition to his working life, James has been a campaigner for a number of causes he holds close to his heart.

In his spare time James likes to write, enjoys the cinema, and is an avid follower of Formula One motor racing.

Maria is the Ageing Better Network Enabler.

Maria has previously worked in information, outreach, community capacity building, training and awareness-raising for a variety of charities, including Birmingham & Solihull Women's Aid and Birmingham Settlement.

Maria has also been involved with the music business and community arts, trade union activism, and has a specialist interest in monitoring and evaluation.

Sexual Health Promotion Worker (African Carribbean and Black African MSM)

Matt has over 20 years of working experience in a variety of health and social care settings in both frontline service delivery and management roles.

His previous position was with a Black Country based charity where he worked as a MSM Sexual Health Outreach Worker and Project Worker for people living with and affected by HIV.

Matt is passionate about empowering individuals and developing quality and accessible sexual health and well-being services to LGBT communities and tackling the barriers and inequalities that can often be faced.

In the four years she has been involved with the organisation it has grown from a small charity with a £10,000 a year turnover to an organisation with a turnover of over £250,000 a year.

Steph and her co-worker Dave Viney were included in the Independent on Sunday's influential Pink list in 2013 for their contributions to the LGBT community in Birmingham.

Steph has skills in not-for-profits, change management, strategic planning and income generation.

Steph is passionately committed to human rights and social justice and has always worked to create a better and more equal society for all.

She has never moved very far from her background in, and commitment to, grassroots community activism.

Stuart has over eight years experience of work within social care.

He started his career working for Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council delivering front line care to adults with learning disabilities.

Stuart developed an interest for providing support for young LGBT people in the Dudley area after noticing a gap in provision of appropriate services while volunteering for a local HIV charity.

Adam joined Birmingham LGBT to coordinate SHOUT Festival in 2016.

He is also a theatre-maker, creative producer, and project manager working in the Midlands, and has worked for a number of arts organisations in the region including Birmingham Hippodrome, Stan's Cafe, and ORT Gallery.

His show Fantabulosa!, an interactive public-space drag show for kids is currently touring the UK.

As a birmingham native Adam is passionate about amplifying the voices of midlands artists and unearthing local queer histories.

Sexual Health Promotion Worker - Sessional

## More about Cecily Stevenson (She/Her)

Cecily has a degree in history, and previously worked in tourism for some of the UK's largest tourist attractions before landing at Birmingham LGBT.

Outside (and indeed inside) of work, Cecily likes to talk a lot about the environment, The Carpenters, and her baby nephew.

Chris has six years experience of working in health care setting.

Before this he has worked in many public settings including working with Birmingham City Council with children and young adults from underprivileged areas.

Chris has always been passionate about the LBGT community and has volunteered and fund raised over the years with events such as Birmingham and Leicester Pride.

Sexual Health Promotion Worker (South Asian & Middle Eastern MSM)

Lesbian and Bisexual Women's Sexual Health Promotion Worker

Since January 2016 Dan has worked as a part time sexual health outreach worker mainly with South Asian and Middle Eastern gay and bisexual men or 'men who have sex with men' (MSM).

Dan also runs a group called RANG who meet up every second Sunday of every month from 1pm – 3pm at Birmingham LGBT.

This is a social/support group where various topics discussed are around culture, faith, religion in relation to sexuality and gender expressions.

We explore this through conversation, art, music in a fun and friendly way.

Further to this Dan also offers sexual health testing and well-being services at Birmingham LGBT in and around the gay village in Birmingham.

We are open 7 days a week and all the services are free!

Dan also speaks Punjabi and understands some Hindi and Urdu and sometimes this helps where language may be a barrier.

## More about Georgia Pattison (She/Her)

Jake is experienced in supporting people with multiple and complex needs such as addiction and mental health issues.

He has experience of leading and supervising a team of sessional staff, as well as planning and delivering a range of training to healthcare and medical providers.

He is also a student member of BACP and a volunteer counsellor with a counselling service in Birmingham operating within a person centered approach.

He also holds a Ba hons in Applied Social sciences.

Prior to taking up his Post here as Team Leader, Jake was employed in the Wellbeing support worker role for 3 years.

Jamie has worked within sexual health outreach and sexual health promotion within the LGBT community for a number of years.

Jamie has previously supported LGBT youth projects with a variety of needs, which also included cooking skills, building self-confidence, group discussions and various group trips.

Jamie has a passion for baking and photography.

James is new to Birmingham having recently moved from London to take up the role of Health and Wellbeing Manager.

James's background ranges military, media, marketing and PR.

His most recent role before moving to Birmingham LGBT was as Communications Manager at LGBT Insurer Emerald Life.

In addition to his working life, James has been a campaigner for a number of causes he holds close to his heart.

In his spare time James likes to write, enjoys the cinema, and is an avid follower of Formula One motor racing.

Maria is the Ageing Better Network Enabler.

Maria has previously worked in information, outreach, community capacity building, training and awareness-raising for a variety of charities, including Birmingham & Solihull Women's Aid and Birmingham Settlement.

Maria has also been involved with the music business and community arts, trade union activism, and has a specialist interest in monitoring and evaluation.

Sexual Health Promotion Worker (African Carribbean and Black African MSM)

Matt has over 20 years of working experience in a variety of health and social care settings in both frontline service delivery and management roles.

His previous position was with a Black Country based charity where he worked as a MSM Sexual Health Outreach Worker and Project Worker for people living with and affected by HIV.

Matt is passionate about empowering individuals and developing quality and accessible sexual health and well-being services to LGBT communities and tackling the barriers and inequalities that can often be faced.

In the four years she has been involved with the organisation it has grown from a small charity with a £10,000 a year turnover to an organisation with a turnover of over £250,000 a year.

Steph and her co-worker Dave Viney were included in the Independent on Sunday's influential Pink list in 2013 for their contributions to the LGBT community in Birmingham.

Steph has skills in not-for-profits, change management, strategic planning and income generation.

Steph is passionately committed to human rights and social justice and has always worked to create a better and more equal society for all.

She has never moved very far from her background in, and commitment to, grassroots community activism.

Stuart has over eight years experience of work within social care.

He started his career working for Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council delivering front line care to adults with learning disabilities.

Stuart developed an interest for providing support for young LGBT people in the Dudley area after noticing a gap in provision of appropriate services while volunteering for a local HIV charity.

Adam joined Birmingham LGBT to coordinate SHOUT Festival in 2016.

He is also a theatre-maker, creative producer, and project manager working in the Midlands, and has worked for a number of arts organisations in the region including Birmingham Hippodrome, Stan's Cafe, and ORT Gallery.

His show Fantabulosa!, an interactive public-space drag show for kids is currently touring the UK.

As a birmingham native Adam is passionate about amplifying the voices of midlands artists and unearthing local queer histories.

Sexual Health Promotion Worker - Sessional

## More about Cecily Stevenson (She/Her)

Cecily has a degree in history, and previously worked in tourism for some of the UK's largest tourist attractions before landing at Birmingham LGBT.

Outside (and indeed inside) of work, Cecily likes to talk a lot about the environment, The Carpenters, and her baby nephew.

Chris has six years experience of working in health care setting.

Before this he has worked in many public settings including working with Birmingham City Council with children and young adults from underprivileged areas.

Chris has always been passionate about the LBGT community and has volunteered and fund raised over the years with events such as Birmingham and Leicester Pride.

Sexual Health Promotion Worker (South Asian & Middle Eastern MSM)

Since January 2016 Dan has worked as a part time sexual health outreach worker mainly with South Asian and Middle Eastern gay and bisexual men or 'men who have sex with men' (MSM).

Dan also runs a group called RANG who meet up every second Sunday of every month from 1pm – 3pm at Birmingham LGBT.

This is a social/support group where various topics discussed are around culture, faith, religion in relation to sexuality and gender expressions.

We explore this through conversation, art, music in a fun and friendly way.

Further to this Dan also offers sexual health testing and well-being services at Birmingham LGBT in and around the gay village in Birmingham.

We are open 7 days a week and all the services are free!

Dan also speaks Punjabi and understands some Hindi and Urdu and sometimes this helps where language may be a barrier.

Lesbian and Bisexual Women's Sexual Health Promotion Worker

## More about Georgia Pattison (She/Her)

Jake is experienced in supporting people with multiple and complex needs such as addiction and mental health issues.

He has experience of leading and supervising a team of sessional staff, as well as planning and delivering a range of training to healthcare and medical providers.

He is also a student member of BACP and a volunteer counsellor with a counselling service in Birmingham operating within a person centered approach.

He also holds a Ba hons in Applied Social sciences.

Prior to taking up his Post here as Team Leader, Jake was employed in the Wellbeing support worker role for 3 years.

Jamie has worked within sexual health outreach and sexual health promotion within the LGBT community for a number of years.

Jamie has previously supported LGBT youth projects with a variety of needs, which also included cooking skills, building self-confidence, group discussions and various group trips.

Jamie has a passion for baking and photography.

James is new to Birmingham having recently moved from London to take up the role of Health and Wellbeing Manager.

James's background ranges military, media, marketing and PR.

His most recent role before moving to Birmingham LGBT was as Communications Manager at LGBT Insurer Emerald Life.

In addition to his working life, James has been a campaigner for a number of causes he holds close to his heart.

In his spare time James likes to write, enjoys the cinema, and is an avid follower of Formula One motor racing.

Maria is the Ageing Better Network Enabler.

Maria has previously worked in information, outreach, community capacity building, training and awareness-raising for a variety of charities, including Birmingham & Solihull Women's Aid and Birmingham Settlement.

Maria has also been involved with the music business and community arts, trade union activism, and has a specialist interest in monitoring and evaluation.

Matt has over 20 years of working experience in a variety of health and social care settings in both frontline service delivery and management roles.

His previous position was with a Black Country based charity where he worked as a MSM Sexual Health Outreach Worker and Project Worker for people living with and affected by HIV.

Matt is passionate about empowering individuals and developing quality and accessible sexual health and well-being services to LGBT communities and tackling the barriers and inequalities that can often be faced.

Sexual Health Promotion Worker (African Carribbean and Black African MSM)

Birmingham LGBT's mission is to build a vibrant, diverse lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans community in Birmingham in which individuals can realise their full potential and have equal access to all the city has to offer.

In the four years she has been involved with the organisation it has grown from a small charity with a £10,000 a year turnover to an organisation with a turnover of over £250,000 a year.

Steph and her co-worker Dave Viney were included in the Independent on Sunday's influential Pink list in 2013 for their contributions to the LGBT community in Birmingham.

Steph has skills in not-for-profits, change management, strategic planning and income generation.

Steph is passionately committed to human rights and social justice and has always worked to create a better and more equal society for all.

She has never moved very far from her background in, and commitment to, grassroots community activism.

Stuart has over eight years experience of work within social care.

He started his career working for Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council delivering front line care to adults with learning disabilities.

Stuart developed an interest for providing support for young LGBT people in the Dudley area after noticing a gap in provision of appropriate services while volunteering for a local HIV charity.

James Wharton  is the author of "Out in the Army: My life as a gay soldier" and "Something for the Weekend': Life in the chemsex underworld" and an LGBT activist. Wharton was born in Wrexham on the first of January 1987, and grew up in the nearby village of Gwersyllt. In 2009, he garnered attention by  featuring on the cover of Soldier Magazine – the official monthly publication of the British Army – as an openly gay trooper in the Blues and Royals. Wharton came out as gay to his regiment in 2005, aged 18 and just six years after the army's discrimination against gay people was declared a breach of human rights  by the European Court of Human Rights.
Before 2000, Wharton could have been court-martialled.
 Wharton left the army in 2013 after ten years' service and in 2014, he was granted the Freedom of the City of London for his work as a prominent LGBT activist.


On 13 December, two Senegalese peacekeepers were killed at a bombing outside the Malian Solidarity Bank in Kidal a day before the second round of the Malian parliamentary election, 2013.

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# Car bomb kills UN peacekeepers in Mali

## The UN peacekeeping mission in Mali has confirmed the deaths of two soldiers, who were killed while guarding a bank.

The peacekeepers were guarding the Malian Solidarity Bank in the northern town of Kidal [Al Jazeera]

A car bomb has killed two Senegalese UN peacekeepers and destroyed the only operating bank in the northern Malian town of Kidal, one day before a second round of parliamentary elections.

No one has claimed responsibility for Saturday's attack on the Malian Solidarity Bank, which was being guarded by Mali's army and the UN peacekeeping mission known as MINUSMA.

There is a huge amount of black smoke in the sky hanging over the town.

"A car bomb targetted MINUSMA forces and the Malian army who were guarding the building of the Malian Solidarity Bank in the centre of Kidal," said a statement by MINUSMA, which condemned the attack.

"The explosion caused the death of two Senegalese blue helmets and also caused a number of serious injuries among the ranks of the Malian national guard and MINUSMA," the statement added.

Some fighters linked to al-Qaeda are still holding out in the north nearly a year after the start of a French offensive aiming to drive them from the desert region they occupied for most of 2012 after hijacking a Tuareg separatist rebellion.

A military source said MINUSMA troops were guarding the outside of the bank while the Malians protected the inside.

"A vehicle in front of the bank is in flames after the explosion.

There is a huge amount of black smoke in the sky hanging over the town," resident Ibrahim Maiga said.

Another resident, Youssouf Toure, said the bank was reduced to rubble.

It was not clear whether the bank was open for business at the time.

The Tuareg rebels, who demand an independent homeland they call Azawad, ended a five-month ceasefire on November 29, a day after Malian troops clashed with stone-throwing protesters who blocked a visit by the prime minister to Kidal.

The French-led offensive scattered armed groups across Mali and into neighbouring countries but the groups have stepped up operations in recent months, attacking UN peacekeepers and killing two French journalists in Kidal last month.

The Tuaregs seized control of Kidal after the French offensive had driven armed groups out of the town, leading to tensions with the government in Bamako.

Under a June peace pact that allowed the army to return to Kidal, rebels are still inside the town but are required to return to their barracks under UN supervision, stop carrying arms in public and dismantle all roadblocks.

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# Australia seeks DOD's newest air-to-air missile, the AIM-120D

Australia could become the first foreign nation to buy the radar-guided Raytheon AIM-120D air-to-air missile under a $1.1 billion foreign military sales package approved by the US government this week.

AIM-120D is the latest variant of Raytheon's popular AMRAAM series, developed for the US Air Force and Navy.

The networked, beyond-visual-range missile introduces satellite-aided navigation, a two-way datalink and new guidance software that "improves kinematic performance and weapon effectiveness".

It has greater range than the legacy variants and is optimised for high-angle off-boresight shots.

Canberra has requested 450 missiles – as well as instrumented test vehicles and spare guidance sections – for integration and carriage on the Royal Australian Air Force's (RAAF) Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet and E/A-18G Growler fleets as well as the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II.

The US Defence Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) says in a 25 April notice that the military hardware, produced by Raytheon Missile Systems of Tucson, Arizona, is worth an estimated $1.08 billion.

The overall acquisition is valued at $1.22 billion.

The US military completed AIM-120D operational testing in July 2014 and it was declared combat-ready by Navy in January 2015, followed by the Air Force that July.

The F-35 will eventually be integrated with the AIM-120D

Last year, Raytheon's director of AMRAAM business development Neil Jennings told Flightglobal that several nations had expressed strong interest in the AIM-120D but it had not yet been approved for export.

Until now, the most sophisticated variant approved for export has been the AIM-120C7, which is integrated with the F-15, F-16, F/A-18, F-22, F-35, Typhoon, Gripen, Tornado and Harrier.

Thirty-seven nations currently employ the C-series AMRAAM and Australia will become the lead customer for the D-model if it proceeds with an acquisition.

The US services expect to keep buying the AIM-120D through fiscal year 2027.

AIM-120D noise and vibration testing on the F-22 at Edwards AFB in California

"This proposed sale will provide the RAAF additional air-to-air intercept capability and increase interoperability with the US Air Force," DSCA states in its notice.

"The principal contractor for production is Raytheon.

The principal contractor for integration is unknown and will be determined during contract negotiations."

Australia imports most of its airborne weaponry from America was also first foreign nation to receive the Lockheed AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Weapon (JASSM) and is probably eying the latest iteration, the JASSM-Extended Range.

It has also requested Raytheon's newest dogfighting missile, the AIM-9X Block II Sidewinder.

Australia is the only foreign operator of the Growler electronic attack jet and will be the first to receive the Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton.

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Australia could become the first foreign nation to buy the Raytheon AIM-120D air-to-air missile under a $1.1 billion foreign military sales package approved by the US government this week.

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Variants and upgrades.:Air-to-air missile versions.

The lighter weight of the advanced AMRAAM enables an F/A-18E/F pilot greater bring-back weight upon carrier landings.
 The AIM-120D is an upgraded version of the AMRAAM with improvements in almost all areas, including 50% greater range (than the already-extended range AIM-120C-7) and better guidance over its entire flight envelope yielding an improved kill probability (Pk). Raytheon began testing the D model on August 5, 2008, the company reported that an AIM-120D launched from an F/A-18F Super Hornet passed within lethal distance of a QF-4 target drone at the White Sands Missile Range. The range of the AIM-120D is classified, but is thought to extend to about 100 miles (160 km).
 The AIM-120D (P3I Phase 4, formerly known as AIM-120C-8) is a development of the AIM-120C with a two-way data link, more accurate navigation using a GPS-enhanced IMU, an expanded no-escape envelope, and improved HOBS (high off-boresight) capability. The AIM-120D max speed is Mach 4 and AIM-120D is a joint USAF/USN project, and is currently in the testing phase. The USN was scheduled to field it from 2014, and AIM-120D will be carried by all Pacific carrier groups by 2020, although the 2013 sequestration cuts could push back this later date to 2022. The Royal Australian Air Force requested 450 AIM-120D missiles, which would make it the first foreign operator of the missile.


She believed that Pari was meant to be the protagonist of the story but that the shifting focus on the numerous other personalities left her "barely [squeaking] through the clutter".

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# And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini: Review

By Kim HughesThu., May 16, 2013timer3 min. read

There is a gripping story at the heart of And the Mountains Echoed, the third and latest novel by author Khaled Hosseini, whose previous works, The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, have sold jaw-dropping numbers while spotlighting an Afghanistan rarely glimpsed and seldom considered.

But Hosseini makes you work for your satisfaction.

And the many detours he sets up in the form of smaller, tangentially connected stories tucked around the main narrative is at once the novel's most defining feature and its most exasperating conceit.

Sooner or later, you will think: "Can we please get back to the main story?"

Also possibly: "Remind me who Idris and Timur are and why they're here exactly."

Then again, you may be too swept up in Hosseini's tranquil prose and ridiculously detailed characterizations to care.

There's no question And the Mountains Echoed offers a ton of story for your scratch.

The book begins in 1952 Afghanistan with a fable told by a father to son Abdullah and kid sister Pari which chronicles agonizing choices parents make in the hope of creating a better life for their children.

The story is textbook foreshadowing, and young Pari is swiftly cut away from her poor family to join an upwardly mobile one, triggering the novel's slingshot trajectory between Afghanistan, France, Greece and California and back and forth across the decades up to the present.

Smart, cultured, devoted Pari may be the book's protagonist but she is not its obvious star.

Between an alcoholic poet married to a closeted gay man, an ornery but heroic nurse, a sentimental man-servant, a selfless plastic surgeon, and not one but two horribly disfigured children variously introduced via posthumous letters, media interviews and misty-eyed recollections, Pari barely squeaks through the clutter once the novel starts rolling.

By the time she returns to the narrative forefront near the book's end, she seems pale compared to what has come before and is squaring off against a namesake relative to boot.

Readers skim at their peril; keeping track of these multiple characters — several swathed in matching terms of endearment — requires attention (you were warned).

Moreover, several of these excursions read like novellas; it's startling to conclude a chapter only to realize the path back to the central story will leave this or that character forevermore in the dust.

Other times, these asides — ostensibly to underscore the inner-connectedness of family across time and place — seem, if not pointless, then a lot of work for rather small payoff.

When he seizes us, though, Hosseini's grip is unbreakable, and he imparts lavish detail without larding us in self-consciously writerly prose.

"The waiter brought the pastries and coffee.

Pari focused on the waiter's hands as he arranged the cups and plates on the table, the palms of her own hands blooming with sweat.

She had only had four lovers in her lifetime.

and she hadn't loved any of them — though she had lied to one and said she did — but pinned beneath each of them she had thoughts of Julien, of him and his beautiful face, which seemed to come with its own private lighting."

Evocative stuff that, and Hosseini is generous with his descriptive flair, giving each of his characters, even the least consequential ones, heft that makes them feel three-dimensional.

He can also paint everyday life so vividly that we feel the sun on our neck.

It just takes a while to get where we're going.

Still, if you're game for a journey, And the Mountains Echoed offers a very scenic trip.

Kim Hughes is a Toronto writer/editor and book obsessive.

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Susan Balee from Philly.com wrote that it "[captures] at the personal level the history of his war-torn homeland: Fierce loyalties alternate with bloody betrayals". "The Guardian's" Philip Hensher gave a more mediocre review and said, "I enjoyed this novel in a very undemanding sort of way. The shifts of viewpoint would be ambitious if the novel had any interest in varieties of psychology. But it serves its purpose in providing amusement for two and a half hours; a day after finishing it, I had forgotten everything about it."
 Reviewers agreed that Hosseini's succeeded in making his characters complex. Alexander Linklater from "The Guardian" wrote, "From the moment the realisation dawns that Saboor is going to give Pari to the wife of a wealthy man in Kabul, Hosseini saturates the various layers and characters of his novel with a yearning for the moment that brother and sister will reunite." Soniah Kamal of "Atlanta Arts" was particularly favorable towards Amra, the Bosnian aid worker who cares for and adopts Roshi, as she "stuns with her hope in humanity no matter what callousness she has witnessed". "USA Today" critic Kevin Nance found the story of Abdullah and Pari "devastating" but thought the large cast of characters, "including some introduced fairly late in the proceedings, when the reader just wants to return to the core cast", was excessive. The structure of the book drew mixed reactions, with "Toronto Star's" Kim Hughs describing it as "the novel's most defining feature and its most exasperating conceit".


She represented Junagadh (Vidhan Sabha constituency) in the Gujarat Legislative Assembly.

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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Rajya Sabha member Suryakant Acharya died at his residence in Junagadh, Gujarat, in the early hours of today due to ailments related to old age.

He is survived by his wife, Hemaben Acharya, who was the Health Minister in Gujarat from 1975-80.

Mr Acharya had held various posts at the state level in the BJP and was elected to the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat in August, 2005 for a six-year term.

The Rajya Sabha adjourned today without transacting any business after Chairman M Hamid Ansari informed the members about the death of Mr Acharya as soon as the House assembled.

Members stood in silence for two minutes for their departed colleague.

The Rajya Sabha was to hold its last sitting of the Winter Session today but will now meet tomorrow.

In a condolence message, Mr Ansari said Mr Acharya had always championed the cause of the poor and the downtrodden.

"He shall always be remembered for his dedication, sense of public service and honesty," the Vice-President added.

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Hemaben Acharya  is a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party. She was Health minister in Government of Gujarat from 1975 to 1980.


Dinsmore was employed by the "Clydebank Post" and then later he worked as a reporter for the "Eastwood Mercury", "Milngavie Herald" and "Kirkintilloch Herald" newspapers.

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# 'Sound judgement, clear direction and affable personality' - profile of The Sun's new editor David 'Dins' Dinsmore

New Sun editor David Dinsmore is known to his many friends and colleagues at News International as 'Dins' or 'Dinsy' – though Press Gazette suspects most will now be calling him 'Boss'.

Many were surprised at his shock promotion last week to editor of The Sun from his role as News International director of operations (a non-editorial job in charge of printing and distribution).

But all who Press Gazette spoke to were pleased for him and said it was a move that made sense given his wide experience both at the 'coalface' of journalism and in management.

Glasgow-born Dinsmore, 44, was privately educated at Strathallan School, near Perth in Scotland, and left after A-levels to pursue his journalistic ambitions.

His career nearly fell at the first hurdle when he was kicked off a two-year journalism course at Edinburgh's Napier University one year in (after failing to pass his 80-words-per-minute shorthand by the required point).

The Clydebank Post gave him a job anyway and he later worked as a reporter at the Eastwood Mercury, Milngavie Herald and Kirkintolloch Herald.

Dinsmore eventually passed his 100 words per minute shorthand after what he said was the 25th attempt continuing his studies at secretarial college.

Dinsmore enrolled in a business management degree at Paisley University in 1991, while also working nights as a casual reporter at the Scottish Sun.

He got his first national press staff job on the Daily Star in Edinburgh before joining the Scottish Sun as a reporter in February 1994 (he has stayed with News International even since).

One contemporary from his early time with the company said: "He was extremely ambitious, but in a good way – he wanted the most senior job he could get."

He progressed via the production route, becoming a sub-editor and then chief sub at the Scottish title, and made the move to London after becoming picture editor of the News of the World under Phil Hall.

There, he went on to become News of the World night editor before holding the same job at The Sun (from January 2004 to 2006).

As Scottish editor of The Sun from 2006 to 2010 he was in charge at the point the title (helped by price-cutting) overtook the Daily Record to become the best-selling paper in Scotland.

During his time as editor its average sale dropped from 362,440 to 339,586 (but when he left it was comfortably ahead of the Daily Record, which at the point was selling 294,250 in Scotland).

He was made interim general manager in charge of the whole of News International Scotland from October 2010 to December 2011 and was interim managing editor of The Sun from December 2011 to October 2012 (at a time when many Sun journalists were being arrested).

One former colleague of Dinsmore's said: "I think he's a very good choice for the job.

He went up to Scotland to run NI's operations up there and came back very much the accomplished executive.

"He's been at the coalface but also has plenty of experience on the management side as well.

"First and foremost he's a journalist – he's got good judgment and a good eye for detail.

Everyone I know likes him and they are all very happy he's got the job."

Dinsmore's wide experience in various aspects of the media business may stand him in good stead facing his first challenge as editor, to move The Sun on to a new paywalled website incorporating access to near-live clips from the football Premier League.

Another former colleague from Scotland said: "He was quite a generous boss with his time and expertise and bringing people on.

He's been at News International for such a long time that he knows everybody."

James Alan Anslow, a media academic now researching tabloid journalism at the University of Essex, was chief production editor of the News of the World in the 1990s when Dinsmore was in News International's Scottish plant at Kinning Park helping to co-ordinate production.

He said: "Dave was a disembodied voice at the other end of the phone.

Matching Scottish and national NoW pages was a complex business, but I remember he was always almost annoyingly cheerful even early on a Saturday morning after we'd all been working almost non-stop through the Friday night preparing Sunday's paper.

"His enthusiasm for the Scottish edition was palpable, even at the other end of a phoneline."

Former News of the World chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck, who now runs TalentGB, recalls working with Dinsmore when he was picture editor of the now defunct redtop.

"He was universally respected by everyone on the newsroom floor from the editor downwards, largely because of his sound judgement, clear direction and affable personality.

"Everyone liked 'Dins' and it's not often you can say that about someone who rises to the top.

"David used to carry a lot more weight and I fondly recall standing behind him in the queue for the executives' Saturday lunch trolley when he bent down to pick up a pork pie, splitting his trousers clean down the seat with an ear-splitting rip and revealing a large pair of brightly striped underpants.

"I laughed for half an hour but he took it in good humour.

He doesn't suffer from the common editor's flaw of taking himself too seriously!"

Interviewed for the NI intranet Dinsmore described going through the emotions of "surprise, excitement, terror and back to excitement" on getting The Sun editorship.

And amid a backdrop of more than 20 Sun journalists being arrested, he said: "Any personal excitement is tempered by the ongoing ordeal being endured by my colleagues and I will do everything in my power to help and assist them."

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All three of these monographs have been released in English on CD.

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every year, AIPC (the Italian CP Society) offers to its members 4 issues of its magazine, dedicated to several topics on the wonderful world of carnivorous plants.

In 2007 we begun an experiment devoting an entire issue to one single topic and so, in November 2007, the first monograph came to light: "The Drosera petiolaris complex" by Maurizio Saroldi, a double issue comprising 64 pages.

The foreign growers who received this work voiced their appreciation, but also their regret at not being able to read the text, which of course, was in Italian.

For this reason we have now prepared a CD containing a pdf English version of the monograph.

CDrom "A tour of the Venezuelan Gran Sabana and some of its Tepuis"

Special Issue 2: this number is completely devoted to a field trip that our friend Andy Smith has written just for our journal, where it was published slightly reduced and that is offered here in full version, enriched by many more photos.

This experience is a dream for every CP lover, and it is hard to read this story without flying with the fantasy in this wonderful places without at least a little empathy with this group of explorers, so enthusiastic and passionate to face any problem with a smile, beyond any fatigue or hardships.

So a big thank to Andy Smith and his infectious enthusiasm.

AIPC is pleased to present the Special Issue n° 3 which belongs to the series specifically addressed to the English-speaking friends of the Association.

This special double issue of AIPC Magazine 14 (June 2009), now available on CD, includes an incredibly beautiful monograph by Gabriele Basso completely devoted to Mexican Pinguicula, and it is divided in 3 parts: • Part I: The Mexican Pinguicula: distribution and habitat, phenology, morphology and classification • Part II: Species by species • Part III: Cultivation

AIPC sells every CDs at the price of 10 Euros to raise money for "Cerbaie's project: Drosera rotundifolia var. corsica preservation".

In order to have the CD, send an e-mail to Gadget AIPC

In the heart of the Tuscany, close to the Cerbaie's Hills, in a tiny area, it's possible to find the Drosera rotundifolia L. var. corsica Maire.

The "sfagnum-bog" of the little San Martino's valley (Fucecchio – FI) is one of the few sites in the world where is possible to find this particular plant and surely it is the southernmost Italian site where Drosera rotundifolia grows.

The "sphagnum-bog" is large 1,000 sq. mtrs and additionally has some esteemed species, like Osmunda regalis L. and, until few years ago, the nice Gentiana pneumonanthe L., probably extinct due to phytosanitary measures and to many fires in this zone.

AIPC, in close cooperation with the probate authorities and the landlord, is working in order to promote the preservation project for this very important natural biotope, participating in the activities structures, management and info campaign, aimed at the Drosera's survival; this plants, indeed, is currently at very high risk of extinction because of the site peculiarity and the lack of effective protection from the danger elements (infesting plants, shading, indiscriminate plants-collection, etc.).

The project includes the re-establishment of the original habitat, limiting the competition of other infesting plants.

The area will be fenced and several footbridges will be built as well as some guide-boards will help even the less expert excursionist to understand the peculiar area.

If you prefer to receive a link to download a PDF file, instead of CD support, after the payment you will receive the direct link to click.

It's possible to contribute to Cerbaie's project in many other ways:

By buying the European Meeting 2008's conferences DVD.

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The periodical was established as "AIPC News" by Marcello Catalano in January 1998, at a time when the newly founded AIPC had only around 30 members.
 "AIPC News" underwent a number of format changes in its early years. In its first two volumes (1998–1999), it was printed in A4 format and consisted of a colour cover and black and white body. Volumes 3 through 6 (2000–2003) were printed in the smaller A5 format and included a colour cover and insert, the rest being in black and white. From volume 7 in 2004 the magazine began printing in full colour on glossy A5 paper, and was renamed to "AIPC Magazine". The magazine was released in annual volumes until 2006, when it adopted continuous issue numbering starting with a new issue 1 (March 2006). On January 1, 2006, it was registered as the society's official magazine.
 Three special monographic issues have been released: issue 7 (September 2007), on the "Drosera petiolaris" complex; issue 14 (June 2009), on Mexican "Pinguicula"; and issue 18 (June 2010), on the tepuis and Gran Sabana of Venezuela.


It is roughly rectangular in plan with a single entrance on the south/southeast side, but with a later break in the wall on the western side.

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Earthwork remains of an Iron Age univallate hillfort, has also been described as a defensive cattlepen.

(ST 9600 4400) Knook Castle (TI) CAMP (GT).

(1) Knook Castle was described and planned by Hoare (2) and Petrie (3).It

has been described as a defensive cattle-pen associable with thenearby RB settlement (4) (ST 94 SE 1) but Grinsell lists it as IA (5) It is of oblong plan with an entrance on the SSE.

(2-5) Knook Castle is a sub-rectangular univallate IA camp with an internalarea of about 1.5 hectares.

It has a simple entrance on the southern side and a modern break on the west.

(6)No change - under permanent pasture (7)Additional bibliography.

(8)Resurveyed at 1:1000 by RCHME field staff as part of the SPTA project.

History of Ancient South Wilts. 1, 1812, 84, plan (R Colt Hoare).

VCH. Wilts, 1, 1957, 270, (L V Grinsell).

A complex of two Roman settlement sites in close proximity to an Iron Age hillfort (Knook Catle), and reusing an existing linear ditch system.

An extensive Roman field system within the area of Knook West and East settlements is visible as cropmarks.

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Knook Castle is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort on Knook Down, near the village of Knook in Wiltshire, England, but within the civil parish of Upton Lovell. It has also been interpreted as a defensive cattle enclosure associated with nearby Romano-British settlements.


She would work to lower the cost of prescription drugs, and would get rid of Shuette's drug immunity law, which she believes protects drug companies from legal trouble if their drugs harm or kill people.

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# A Blue Cross CEO Encouraged a Michigan Woman to Get Into Politics.

Now She's Running for Governor and Says Single Payer Is Unrealistic.

Zaid JilaniZaid JilaniJuly 18 2018, 5:06 p.m.

Health care has become a major issue in Michigan's Democratic gubernatorial primary race, with two out of three candidates — medical doctor Abdul El-Sayed and businessman Shri Thanedar — both promising to enact a single-payer health care system.

Thanedar's support of single payer appears purely ornamental: He's offered no details, and in an interview with The Intercept, seemed to confuse federal- and state-level single-payer plans, as well as the distinction between single payer and Medicare expansion.

By contrast, the plan put forward by El-Sayed, who is the former health director for the city of Detroit, is one of the most comprehensive state-level plans that has been introduced.

But where Thanedar's support for single payer appears to be purely performative, the third candidate in the race for the Democratic nomination, former Senate Democratic leader Gretchen Whitmer, doesn't think single payer is viable at all — at least not anytime soon.

"I don't oppose that," she told Crain's Detroit Business, which asked her about single-payer health care, "but it's not a real option right now. …

The projections tell us it's not realistic in Michigan at this moment."

It's possible that Whitmer's opposition to single payer might not be rooted in practical concerns, but in personal ones.

Her father, Richard Whitmer, was president and CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan between 1988 and 2006.

And in March, lobbyists for the company held a fundraiser for the Whitmer campaign.

"The vibrancy of Michigan's economic climate is driven by public policy put forward by our state's Governor; and we believe Gretchen Whitmer will be a great leader for Michigan," the lobbyists said in the invitation announcing the fundraiser, which was on Whitmer letterhead.

The Intercept has now unearthed an interview from 2015 in which Whitmer revealed that her "friend Dan Loepp," the current president and CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, was the first person to suggest she run for office:

Q: What has made it possible for you to get where you are today?

A: Fortunately, I have been mentored by many great leaders throughout my life.

As a candidate for the House, I was extremely fortunate to have someone like Frank J Kelley, our former Attorney General, support me and advise me along the way.

I know how a few words of encouragement can open up so much possibility.

My friend Dan Loepp was the first to suggest that I think about running for office, and both my parents quickly voiced their support.

Before that it had not really dawned on me and that is why I make such an effort to encourage people to engage in this process and to run for office.

Whitmer first ran for the state House in the 1990s when Loepp was a chief of staff to Democratic House Speaker Curtis Hertel Sr.

The BCBS fundraiser earlier this year is a sign that this relationship may still be going strong and illustrates how the Democratic establishment and the company are, in Whitmer's case, literally friends and family.

After being asked about her ties to BCBS, a spokesperson for Whitmer's campaign emphasized the candidate's work with incumbent Republican Gov. Rick Snyder to expand Medicaid.

He also pointed to Whitmer's campaign promise to end Michigan's drug immunity law, which makes it difficult to sue pharmaceutical companies.

"When Gretchen's mother was dying of brain cancer, she spent countless hours on the phone battling the insurance company.

That's why as Senate Democratic leader she fought so hard to negotiate the expansion of Medicaid, and because of that work, 680,000 people in Michigan now have access to health care.

As governor, she'll stand up to Donald Trump and Republicans when they try to take health care away from Michiganders and fight to protect people with preexisting conditions.

Gretchen will also work to lower the cost of prescription drugs and repeal Michigan's drug immunity law, which was sponsored by Bill Schuette to shield drug companies from liability when their drugs injure or kill," spokesperson Zack Pohl told The Intercept.

"That's the kind of leadership we need to build a better Michigan for everyone."

Michigan's campaign finance disclosure laws do not require campaigns to disclose their 2018 fundraising sources until July 26, so the public won't know the exact amount of money that BCBS executives raised for Whitmer until two weeks before the August 7 primary.

Whitmer's campaign declined The Intercept's request that they provide the fundraising totals from BCBS prior to the disclosure date, saying that they will disclose as the law requires at the end of the month.

The issue of corporate money has been one that has broadly distinguished progressives from establishment politicians since Bernie Sanders's primary effort in 2016, and it continues to generate excitement around progressive challengers who can claim to be "unbought and unbossed."

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There are, however, still a lot of Turkish schools operating in Baku and the regions.

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2. Secondary school under Western University;

4. Baku economy branch of the private Turk lyceum;

5. Physics, mathematics and information science lyceum;

6. Republican art gymnasium named after A.Alakbarov;

7. Technical lyceum under Az.Technical University;

8. Physical and mathematical (physico-mathematical) lyceum under Azerbaijan Architecture and Construction University;

10. School-lyceum "Intellect named after T.Ismayılov;

12. Elitar gymnasium named after İlyas Afandiyev;

14. Gymnasium of humanitarian disciplines named after S.C.Pishavari

15. Technical-humanitarian lyceum Taraqqi named after İ.Hajıyev

17. Foreign language gymnasium named after S.Bahlulzade;

18. Caucasian Azerbaijan Turkey private gymnasium;

19. Art lyceum named after Arif Huseynov;

20. Republic physics and mathematics Lyceum;

22. Baku Turkish lyceum (under the Baku State University, constitutor Turkey Dayanat Vakf)

24. Humanitarian lyceum of Slavic University;

27. Baku private Turkish computer lyceum Dada Qorqud"

28. Technical Humanitarian lyceum No 16;

31. Technical Humanitarian lyceum No 147;

32. Classical education gymnasium No 160;

33. School-lyceum of mathematic and nature orientation No 202;

35. Secondary school-lyceum No 289 "Zangi'

1. Ganja Azerbaijan – Turkish Private lyceum;

2. Mathematics-informatics lyceum No 27 names I.Mamedov

3. Kindergarten-school-lyceum complex No 44

Lankaran branch of Baku private Turkish Lyceum;

City nature - mathematics and Humanitarian sciences lyceum;

2. Physical and mathematical (physico-mathematical) lyceum named after N.Tahirov;

1. Guba branch of Baku Private Turkish Lyceum;

3. Nature school-lyceum No 2 named after A. Mamedov;

1. Technical and nature sciences Lyceum;

5. Sumgayit Computer branch of Private Turkish Lyceum

1.Sheki Azerbaijan- Turkish Private Lyceum

2. Sheki physics and mathematics and Humanitarian lyceum

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In October 2015, LuPone, along with the current Fantine on the West End, joined her castmates to celebrate the 30th anniversary of "Les Misérables".

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# Les Mis at 30: original London cast reunite to celebrate

Past and current cast members sing the closing ceremony for the Les Miserables 30th anniversary gala performance

Les Misérables, the world's longest-running musical, celebrated its 30th birthday yesterday with a charity gala performance at the Queen's Theatre in the West End.

Presided over by Cameron Mackintosh, the producer, and creators Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg, members of the cast were joined on stage by actors from the original line-up.

These included Colm Wilkinson, the Irish tenor who first played Jean Valjean and Roger Allam, the actor from The Thick of It, the BBC television series, who was Valjean's arch enemy, the policeman Javert.

Frances Ruffelle, Colm Wilkinson and Patti Lupone during the rehearsal for the 30th anniversary gala performance

Mackintosh introduced an extended encore to the performance of the musical.

The encore featured Frances Ruffelle and Patti LuPone, the actresses who first played the two tragic heroines Eponine and Fantine, and four actors to have sung Jean Valjean, including Wilkinson and Peter Lockyer, the current incumbent.

The 130-strong cast of schoolchildren who will be taking part in a forthcoming production at the Cardiff Millennium Centre sang the anthem Do You Hear the People Sing?, and the entire original London cast came on stage for an ensemble rendition of One Day More, as confetti in red, white and blue rained down on the audience.

Herbert Kretzmer, who wrote the English language lyrics to the musical, adapting and extending Boublil's original libretto, also came on stage.

Having turned 90 earlier in the week, he was serenaded with a rendition of "Happy Birthday" from the audience and cast.

The night, in which 40 per cent of the tickets were made available for purchase by fans via a lottery system, was in aid of the Syria Children's Appeal by Save the Children Fund.

Guests from the theatre world and beyond included Jonathan Pryce, Anthony Andrews and Tom Daley.

Les Misérables opened at the Barbican theatre, London, on October 8 1985, a production by the RSC that arrived with impressive credentials: Trevor Nunn and John Caird directing, and Mackintosh, who already had the smash hit of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats under his belt, producing.

Mackintosh had seen an earlier, French-language version of the musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel and had worked with lyricists Boublil and Kretzmer, as well as composer Schönberg to hone the piece for British audiences.

Producer Cameron Mackintosh (centre) at the rehearsal for the Les Mis 30th anniversary performance

Notwithstanding Mackintosh's supposed Midas touch, reviewers initially poured scorn on the musical.

It was only after the box office reported huge ticket sales that the RSC realised they had a hit on their hands.

In a film shown at the end of last night's performance, before the encore, Ruffelle was shown being interviewed in 1986, after the musical had been running for a single year, and was asked how long she thought it would last.

Hugh Jackman with Isabelle Allen in the film version of Les Mis

Prescient – Mackintosh called it "clairvoyant" last night – but at the time it would have been far from obvious.

Since then, the musical has been seen by nearly 70 million people in 44 countries and in 22 languages.

In 2012 it was made into an Oscar-winning film starring Hugh Jackman, Eddie Redmayne and Anne Hathaway.

Last night, the story of Valjean, a convict who breaks his parole to reform and rise to be mayor of his town, received, perhaps predictably, a standing ovation.

But the show has weathered fairly well, particularly in the second half when Valjean's story comes together with a dramatisation of the failed 1832 uprising when students barricaded the Paris streets.

The momentum – almost too fast at times – and rousing pop opera tunes still pack a punch, and have the power to move.

Lockyer can muster a falsetto nearly as impressive as Wilkinson – they matched each other for high notes in the encore.

Carrie Hope Fletcher as Eponine and Phil Daniels as the wicked innkeeper Thenardier stood out in the supporting cast.

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LuPone concluded a 63-performance Broadway engagement of her concert with former "Evita" co-star Mandy Patinkin entitled "An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin". The run started on November 21, 2011 at the Ethel Barrymore Theater and ended on January 13, 2012.
 In the fall of 2012, LuPone appeared with Debra Winger in the premiere of David Mamet's play "The Anarchist". Despite the play receiving less than stellar reviews from critics, LuPone received widespread praise for her role as Cathy.
 In early 2015, she returned to Los Angeles Opera to perform the role of Samira in a new production of John Corigliano's "The Ghosts of Versailles", receiving positive reviews.  In April 2016, an audio recording of the production was released by Pentatone (PTC 5186538, a 2-SACD album). It won the 2017 Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical and for Best Opera Recording.
 In June 2015, LuPone appeared in the Douglas Carter Beane play "Shows for Days" at Lincoln Center Theater.