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Once a thriving 18th Century flour mill, 42 the Calls has been lovingly converted into one of the most outstanding luxury hotels in Leeds. Boasting original beamed ceilings, working mill machinery and elegantly exposed brickwork, this exceptional boutique hotel has a quirky charm all of its own. Its stunning 4-star rooms are packed with character, handmade furniture and original artworks to deliver the finest boutique experience in Leeds. Located in the centre of the city, on the River Aire, the hotel is perfect for business and leisure travellers alike.
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Starcast : Arjun Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Amrita Singh, Rishi Kapoor ,Prithviraj
Description : Gurgaon is the most modern boom-town of `India Shining`, the new frontier to be conquered by those who understand real estate. This city rose from a small town to a boom town satellite city in just fifteen years. However the law and order is yet to catch up. Under the guise of a respected citizen, Yashwardhan (Jackie Shroff) runs a parallel world where he is the Emperor.
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Final_Vent replied to rei's topic in DuelistGroundz AnnouncementsDon't browse as much anymore but this place (as corny as it sounds) was like a second home growing up, and it wouldn't have been as great as it was without yah. Made some great friends, learned so much, experienced a ton and more. Appreciate everything you've done for the site And goodluck to new management/ownership, hope you're able to do good as the torch gets passed to yah
I'd think Diablo would still be fine (having 2 in-hand when the time calls isn't always the easiest thing to do and in some case they might not meet their +5k condition), but I mostly agree with everything else
This G Guardian stuff along with the new 16 card G-zone size certainly shakes things up. Nice for legion decks that want to legion first but not go through the trouble of bad first strides later on, helps against guard restricts, Shibreeze+G Guardians helps fight against g2 lock, games will last a bit longer, and etc. There's probably some bad side effects too (like giving access to Gb2 strides much earlier than normal) but it'll probably work itself out in practice/future releases. Overall pumped and glad FC16 isn't so trash now
>only 3-4 cards to guard Oh man, that's beautiful. The CB cost is kinda heavy and Nubatama isn't the greatest at rushing/creating power columns but the option is ridiculous. Auto 1-off without question
Bigger point is it can be a glory maelstrom, which is redic on a stride. Not to mention how versatile in general it is, low cost, and is just a rare lol. Doesn't gain a crit but it's a great card.
Final_Vent posted a topic in Cardfight!! Vanguardhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIqp-ovcbaM This is exclusively for the English game atm btw. It looks amazing and is slated to be sometime soon this year (estimated in October with beta testing beforehand)
Final_Vent replied to NeoArkadia's topic in Cardfight!! VanguardOh man we're getting swordboys in the U.S. I'm abit disappointed in their actual effects though, only one that's interested me so far was: http://cardfight.wikia.com/wiki/Aizen_Kunitoshi http://cardfight.wikia.com/wiki/Kashuu_Kiyomitsu the restander might be cool if we get some ways to build field, but other than that it's kinda meh atm
Duo from this set was pretty disappointing imo, but really satisfied with the Prism support. Near infinite resource replenishing thanks the g1, great pressure with the g2 (getting u cards and putting your units back to hand to protect them as well as set off effects), and ofcourse their new stride which ties well with their aggro+bounce theme. Combined with Olivia they're gonna become pretty scary once it comes out
Final_Vent replied to NeoArkadia's topic in Cardfight!! VanguardThis probably won't come out in the US, but the prospect is interesting. CFV doesn't seem like the right place for collaboration releases outside of a few cute 1-2 offs like Etranger tho, that seems more of Weiss's area (especially with anime-esque things)
Final_Vent replied to NeoArkadia's topic in Cardfight!! Vanguard(credit to Rudy Toh Ding Han from Facebook) G-LD01/0?? Pure Black Sage, Charon 「真黒の賢者 カロン」 Grade 1 - Boost/Normal Unit --- Clan: Shadow Paladin ---- Race: Giant Power: 7,000 --- Shield: 5,000 None --- Critical: 1 Auto: [Choose a Grade 3 Card from your Hand, and Reveal it] When this unit appears on the Rearguard Circle, you may pay the cost. If you do, search your Deck for up to 1 Grade 3 card with "Blaster Dark" in its card name, reveal it to your opponent and add it into your hand. Afterwards, Shuffle your deck, choose a card from your hand, and Discard it. Continuous [R]: When this unit is retired as a Rearguard for the cost of a Skill, if you have a Grade 3 or higher Vanguard with "Blaster" in its name, it can used as a substitute for 2 Rearguards. searches g3s and is a kaiser sea horse
Just a fan animation but the op gets me so hyped for this lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DljzaLhFwsg
yusssssssssssssssss ...inb4 the anime is just like the new adaption: 5 pages in goes "Expect the next release in 2 months!"
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Final_Vent replied to Siulzen's topic in Cardfight!! VanguardI miss these updates ;_;
Kinda underwhelmed with the lack of flashyness/over-the-top with dpolice (except for the falcon is pretty interesting lol). Don't get me wrong though, there are certainly some good cards in here, personal favs being Daiearth with drobos finally getting a way to create card advantage/help with laurel, and the metalborg support making sin buster more consistent. They debatably lost more power with 3 less laurel then what the rest of this entire set made up lol
Final_Vent replied to Turbo Duelist Cromat's topic in Cardfight!! VanguardThey were actually considering not putting it, but they were being harassed on the regular on their Facebook page and emails: the community really drove them to make the decision lol


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And that's how they found her three hours later—slumped unconscious across from a dead man in the tiny room. If the police were competent they would have found her hours before because the trail of blood Scounger had left behind was easy to follow. Whoever had fired at them should also have arrived. But no one came. So she had sat there alone and afraid, not daring to leave, not daring to stay, until shock and lack of air had caused her body to shut down for recovery.
When the two officers finally opened the door, their hands carefully gloved and the weapons ready, they thought at first that both inhabitants were dead. As they cautiously entered, the blood spattered young lady jerked awake, roused more by the book-scented air released into the room than the officers' presence.
For Sandra, there was no moment of forgetfulness, but every thought and fear coursed through her the moment she awoke so that it was as if she had never fallen unconscious. In that moment, she saw the officers, knew that they would ask questions and chose the easiest and safest course of response.
She burst into tears and crawled towards them, her pitiful and relieved voice garbled by her sobs. Seeing the pretty young woman in need instantly snapped the officers from meticulous investigation mode to saving victim in distress mode. They helped her out and into the sunshine and calmed her down and asked her questions, their expressions sympathetic and understanding. She was simply an honest citizen who had been approached by a strange little man. In a friendly mood, and not wanting to be rude, she had allowed him to engage her in small conversation, when suddenly they had been fired on and he had grabbed her and dragged him with her. She thought maybe he was going to use her as leverage against his enemy, but she didn't know. That sort of wild thinking was normal of victims of this sort of trauma. When the man had died in the little room she had been too shocked and afraid to move.
After taking her to the hospital they drove her home to her apartment, promising that they would continue their investigation and apprehend the criminal and come and question her more later, once she had recovered from the shock.
Sandra lived the next three days in fear. Her nights were nightmare filled and restless. Every moment she expected someone to put a gun to her head. When she went to the kitchen for a glass of water she was sure that there would be someone waiting for her, by the sink, gun ready. And when she drove to work in the morning her ears strained for the sudden explosion of a gun over the dull roar of her car engine. Her boss tried to send her home that first day, having seen, like everyone else, the pictures in the newspaper. But she insisted on staying, to keep her mind off of it. They all said they understood. But they didn't. No one understood because no one knew. Because she had lied to all of them. She was not paranoid simply as a result of the stress. She was not just a victim. She was a target.
She would have been on a plane the next day, if she had anywhere to go, any family or friends far away to visit that she wasn't afraid of endangering.
The second day she didn't go to work. She didn't want them to find her there and kill more people, in the same way that they had killed the old woman in the street.
The only thing in her small empty apartment that at times distracted her from her thoughts and fears was cooking and eating. So she made tons of food and ate tons of food, never really tasting or enjoying it. A couple times she ate so much that she threw up.
Finally, on the fourth day, it was her empty cupboards that drove her out of the apartment and to the grocery store. She had been too afraid to shower, because that would make her more vulnerable. So she changed her clothes, pulled back her hair into a greasy, dirty-blonde ponytail, and washed her face.
The grocery store was bright and noisy compared to the solitude of the past two days and she had trouble focusing on the list she had forced herself to write.
She was selecting yogurt when she quickly looked up to see someone approaching. Every time anyone past her she looked up, always expecting them to be holding a gun. Never expecting them to be the person who walked towards her now, pushing a half filled cart.
It was Garith.
For the first time in all the years she had known him, he was wearing blue jeans. And a striped button-up shirt, and running shoes. His black gloves protruded somewhat suspiciously from the blue and black stripes and she wondered for a moment why he still wore them when they looked so out of place. Then she remembered the last time she has seen his hands—blackened and burned.
She stood staring at him for a moment, but he just walked passed, giving her no acknowledgment. Shocked, she looked after him as he turned the corner at the end of the isle. He had seen her—she knew he had. Those black eyes that she had once found so attractive had met hers. But why had he said nothing? Then she realized. There were other people around. He could say nothing without endangering her. Her body went back to examining the yogurt, but her mind was racing.
Her shopping cart was almost full when she met him again. This time she was halfway down a deserted isle, choosing between two cereal boxes when he entered the other end of the isle. He walked casually up to her and picked up a box of cereal.
"This kind is especially good," he said, "my children keep requesting it. My youngest son can't get enough of it—it's all he wants to eat." He handed her the box he was holding and took another off the shelf to put in his own basket.
"Uh, thanks," she said, once she had recovered from her surprise and realized that she was supposed to play along with his game. She put the box into her cart, sliding the note that had come with it into her pocket. He meandered off down the isle and she made her way to the cash register.
She unfolded the note while sitting in her warm car, before she had turned on the engine and rolled down the windows. It read:
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Hydroxy cruciforms and bis(hydroxystyryl)benzenes: synthesis, structure, and photophysical properties of novel π-systems
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This thesis examines the synthesis, photophysical properties, and sensory responses of hydroxy-substituted 1,4-distyryl-2,5-bis(arylethynyl)benzenes (Cruciforms, XFs). These two-dimensional cross-conjugated materials possess spatially separated frontier molecular orbitals (FMOs). This spatial separation allows the HOMO and LUMO to be addressed independently by analytes, which leads to significant changes in their absorption and emission. These properties allow XFs to be utilized for the detection of various analytes. These studies highlight the benefits of utilizing XFs for the development of advanced functional solid state materials for sensory applications.


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Fiji's Fisheries Production Decreasing20 July 2016
FIJI - Production of fish from coastal fisheries in Fiji has decreased at a rate of 6 per cent from 2007-2014.
This was revealed in a book titled Fisheries on the Economies of Pacific Island Countries and Territories, which was launched in Vanuatu by the Pacific Community (SPC).
SPC consultant Robert Gillett said findings of the study showed there were no significant increase in coastal fisheries production despite indications of increased fishing pressure at national level, reported the FijiTimes.
"This is consistent with the thesis that the fish resources that support coastal fisheries in the region are fully or over-exploited," Mr Gillet said.
"Even though people are fishing more, the amount of fish that are being caught is actually decreasing slightly.
The report also found that the value of fisheries and aquaculture production in Fiji was estimated at $250.9m in 2014 and contributed to 1.83 per cent of Fiji's gross domestic product.
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A flattened round shape approx. 40mm at it's widest. Darkish green with purple spikes
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When even the government's recruitment website could be about to get its P45, what chance does anyone have of getting a job? A document leaked from inside the Department of Work and Pensions reveals the government has drawn up plans to scrap Universal Jobmatch, the website it created in 2012 to get more people into work, because it was too expensive and impossible to police. The Labour MP Frank Field described the site as "bedevilled by fraud". At the beginning of March, site administrators had to remove more than 120,000 job adverts – roughly a fifth of those listed – because they failed to meet the necessary regulatory standards. Some of these jobs didn't exist, others were just a scam to get applicants to pay up front for unnecessary criminal record checks.
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42646 County Road 118, Rice, MN 56367
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Custom built 2-story on 10 wooded acres. 36x105 pole building (partially heated). 4-stalls of heated attached garage, 4 decks & extensive landscaping. 4 gas fireplaces, wood and ceramic floors, vaulted ceilings, 9' ceilings on all levels & walkout lower level with in-floor heat. Wood furnace or propane heat - very economical. Immaculate condition - a must see!!
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Property Details for 42646 County Road 118, Rice, MN 56367
Bedrooms: 3
Bathrooms: 3 Full | 1 Half
Lot Size: 10.00 Acres
Lot Dimensions: 660x658
Year Built: 1999
Garage Dimensions: 4 car
Garage: Attached Garage, Detached Garage, Insulated Garage, Heated Garage, Underground Garage, Driveway - Concrete, Garage Door Opener
Style: (SF) Two Stories
Water: Well
Sewer: Private
Square Feet: 4699
Above Ground Sq Ft: 3283
Below Ground Sq Ft: 1416 (approx)
Room Information for 42646 County Road 118, Rice, MN 56367
Main Floor
Living Room: 17.6x19
Dining Room: 11.6x13.6
Kitchen: 14.6x15
Informal Dining Room: 11.6x14.6
Den: 14.6x13.6
Lower Floor
Family Room: 16.6x30.5
Game Room: 15x14
Bar/Wet Bar Room: 19x10
Upper Floor
Bedroom 1: 17x19.6
Bedroom 2: 12.6x17
Bedroom 3: 13.6x13
Bonus Room: 21x11
Dining Room Description: Separate/Formal Dining Room, Informal Dining Room, Eat In Kitchen
Family Room Characteristics: Main Level, Lower Level, Loft
School Information for 42646 County Road 118, Rice, MN 56367
School District: Holdingford
School District Phone: 320-746-2196
Interior Features for 42646 County Road 118, Rice, MN 56367
Appliances: Range, Microwave, Dishwasher, Trash Compactor, Refrigerator, Washer, Dryer, Water Softener - Rented
Air Cond: Central
Heating: Forced Air, Hot Water
Fireplaces: Yes
Basement: (1416 sq Finished) Walkout, Full, Finished (Livable), Day/Lookout Windows
Exterior Features for 42646 County Road 118, Rice, MN 56367
Lot Description: Tree Coverage - Heavy
Lot Dimensions: 660x658
Roof: Asphalt Shingles
Zoning: Residential-Single
Additional Exterior/Lot Features: Metal, Brick/Stone
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Tax Amount: $6,494
Taxes w/Assessments: $6,504
Tax/Property ID: 04019190002
Tax Year: 2016
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Tim heard a knock on the door. "Just a minute!" He hollered, taking the pot off the stove, wondering who on earth still came by people's homes without calling first. He grabbed the towel out of the kitchen and went quickly to the door, unlocking and opening it wide when he got there. A police officer stood there.
"Hi, I am Officer Fredricks, are you Timothy Benson?"
"Um, yes, that is me. How can I help you?" Tim scrunched up his face.
"I just need to ask you a few questions about the car accident you witnessed on Monday evening. Do you mind if I come in?"
"Sure, come right in. I am in the middle of cooking, do you mind coming into the kitchen?"
Officer Fredricks followed the young man into his kitchen. Tim was young and tall, with a decent hair cut. His small apartment was clean for a bachelor, and he seemed to be doing a neat job of cooking dinner. Shoot, he was forty years old and still did not cook. He took a seat at the table close to the kitchen door as Tim returned to the stove and returned his pot to the hot burner.
"How can I help you, sir? I did give a statement at the scene on Monday."
"Yes, but since we are doing an open investigation, I would like to follow up on everything that the officers collected from you. The young man that was hit by the car is in critical care and we need to make sure that we know all of the details. So can you just tell me what happened from your point of view?"
"Sure... you know, my brother was there, too, and he should be here shortly. It is sort of a tradition for us to eat together on a regular basis."
"Sure, sure, that will be great. Go ahead with your version. I am going to go ahead and record it to make things easier on myself later. Do I have your permission for that?"
"Yes, I do not mind being recorded. Ok, so we were walking down A street- we had parked earlier at Flint's Diner and then walked to the bowling alley to shoot some pool. It was a little after nine o clock and we were about one hundred yards away from the overpass when I saw the car hit the guard rail out of the corner of my eye. I looked up to see the car flip over the rail and crash down onto the sidewalk. I was a little shocked, but I started sprinting for the car. My brother went a different direction to help the guy that was hit and I opened up my phone to call nine one one. Um, when I got to the car, I pulled the girl out, Christine, and checked to make sure there was no one else in the car. Then I talked to the nine one one operator for a few minutes and waited for the ambulance. That is pretty muich it."
"Great. Now you said that you just saw her car hit the guard rail and flip over? There were no other cars swerving or unusual loud noises or anything?"
"Well... not that i could tell. It did all happen pretty fast but all I saw..." Tim was cut off as the doorbell rang and the door opened.
"Hey Tim, it is me! What is for dinner tonight?"
"Hey Kev! Come on in to the kitchen."
Kevin, who was a few years older than Tim, was also an inch shorter and twenty pounds heavier. "Whoa, hi there, officer. What is going on, Tim?"
"Hey, Kev, this if Officer... I am sorry I do not recall your name, Sir."
"Sure, I am Officer Fredricks. You are Kevin Benosn?" He reached his hand out to shake Kevin's hand.
"Yes Sir, I am. Is something the matter, Officer?"
"No, Mr. Benson, I am just reviewing the testimony you gentleman gave at the accidnet on A Street this week." Kevin was wearing a nice suit and was also very well groomed, with a large presence about him as if he was used to comanding attention wherever he went. Fredricks continued, "If you do not mind, I would like to have Tim finish his before we lose track." Kevin nodded his head and they both looked at Tim. The recorder was still going on the counter in between them.
"Sure, I was only saying that the first thing I remember seeing is the car itslef hitting the rail and flipping over it. I do not recall that there were any other factors involved." Tim was draining a pot of pasta as he continued his account. "I think that is all I really have to tell you."
"Thank you, Tim. Mr. Benson, just so you know, we are recording your testimony this evening. Can you tell me your version of what happened that night?" Kevin took a seat at the table, removing his jacket and tie.
"Of course. On Monday night we were walking from the bowling alley on A Street to where or cars were parked at the diner. There was a sound of squeeling tires and when I looked up, a blue sedan had struck the rail along the overpass and was flipping over it. I saw the car hit the ground and saw a pedestrian fall down dramtically. Tim and I both took off running, he was going for the car, so I went straight for the young man who had fallen. When I arrived, there was a large part of the car- I could only assume it was a piece of the bumper or something, that appeared to have struck him. He had his arms curled up in front of him and he was moaning loudly. there was not much that I could do for him- I do not have any type of rescue training or anything. I did dial nine one one but there was already sounds of an ambulance coming by the time I had explained to the operator where I was and what had happened. Tim, here, had called right away. I gave a brief statement to the officer and we were told that we could go home. By that time it was almost ten thirty."
Kevin took the beer that Tim was handging him and took a small swig as he finished. The Officer was nodding while jotting some notes on a pad.
"Is there anything else we can help you with, Officer?" Tim asked. He had served the plates and started putting things away, being the neat person that he was.
Officer Fredricks looked up and smiled at the young men. Seeing Tim standing by the full plates of hot food, he stood up and excused himself. "Thank you, gentleman, for your assistance. I am sure there will not be anything further. Just in case, though, I have the wrong number for you, Mr. Benson."
Kevin reached in his wallet. "Here is my business card. My handwriting is illegible at best, so this is probably better, anyway. I apologize for that."
"Great. Thank you. Enjoy your dinner, guys. Good bye."


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New York Knicks big man Amar'e Stoudmire entered Saturday night's game against the Washington Wizards shooting 39 percent from the field, averaging just 3.6 points per game in seven contests. Stuck on a minutes restriction, Stoudemire has had a frustrating year while dealing with ongoing knee issues, as his play, defensive work, and turnover woes have been part of the problem as New York struggles to right its ship.
It didn't right that ship on Saturday, losing to Washington by nine points to fall to 3-9. Stoudemire, though, made all five of his shots from the field on his way to season-high 12 points, and don't think the Knicks weren't ready to pounce on that silver lining. From the team's Facebook page.
We don't mean to make light of the Knicks. Outside of the team's offensively daft owner, we appreciate the players on this team, the coaching staff, and the franchise's fans. More specifically, the team's promotional crew is top-notch, and we respect the heck out of Amar'e Stoudemire – for years he was one of our favorite players, and he's one that has worked his tail off in attempting to overcome these knee issues.
Still, does Facebook have a "Meh" button?
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Report: Rovers 3 Reading 1
Rovers made it a hat-trick of victories with an impressive 3-1 win over Reading on Saturday.
A brace from Rudy Gestede and another sumptuous strike from Ben Marshall saw the Rovers dispatch the Royals in yet another an entertaining Ewood affair to stretch their unbeaten run to five games.
Gestede headed Rovers in front just past the quarter hour, but Reading deservedly drew level through Glenn Murray before the break in an even first 45.
But it was the second half where Rovers step up their play. The visitors having no response as man-of-the-match Marshall curled the home side back in front with a wonderful free-kick nine minutes after the restart.
A third soon followed on 68. Marshall with the delivery, Jordan Rhodes unlucky to see his header strike the post, but Gestede snapped up the rebound with a cool finish to ensure Rovers claimed all three points with their second successive 3-1 win.
Ahead of the game Rovers made just the one change from the side that beat Nottingham Forest last time out.
Second half goalscorer Rudy Gestede returned to the starting XI, replacing Ryan Tunnicliffe as Rovers switched to their familiar 4-4-2.
For the Royals, they changed a winning side following their home victory over Blackpool. Jake Cooper, former Rover Nick Blackman, and Jake Taylor all coming into the side.
There was plenty of attacking intent as the game got underway, with both sides having opportunities in the early exchanges.
For Rovers, Rudy Gestede twice had headed chances. The first blocked by defender Alex Pearce from Markus Olsson's centre. The second coming as he dived to meet an Alex Baptiste ball but his effort flashed wide.
The Royals would go closer from the first corner of the game as Oliver Norwood's centre was met by Glenn Murray, but the on-loan forward saw his glancing header bounce off the crossbar and away.
For Gestede to miss two headed chances was rare, but he wasn't about to miss when a third chance came his way on 16 minutes. Tom Cairney started the move with a ball out to Ben Marshall on the left and he delivered a pin-point cross that the big man buried with aplomb - a bullet of a header.
Three minutes later it was very nearly two. A low ball in the box broke to Jordan Rhodes and as he turned to shoot the ball deflected into the path of his strike partner Gestede but he couldn't beat Adam Federici from close-range.
But Rovers certainly weren't having things their own way as play quickly switched to the other end of the pitch. Glenn Murray again going close to scoring as his low shot from one corner of the six-yard box flashed inches wide of the far post.
The Royals continued to look for a leveller, midfielder Norwood letting fly from outside the area, Rovers captain Grant Hanley with an important boot to deflect the shot wide.
The chances kept on coming, Rhodes couldn't lift his attempted lob over Federici at one end, whilst Jake Taylor saw an effort beaten away at the other.
Something had to give and a second goal duly arrived two minutes before the break as the visitors equalised.
Little had been seen of Royals wide-man Jordan Obita from an attacking sense but on 43 minutes he went forward down the left before delivering a low ball to the back post to where Murray cashed in with a goal from two yards out.
It was a goal that had been coming, both Gestede and Murray the main threat each side, and both on the scoresheet at the break.
Rovers made a change with the resumption of play as Ryan Tunnicliffe replaced Lee Williamson and six minutes in they very near regained the lead.
Ben Marshall broke down the left to deliver a peach of a cross for Jordan Rhodes who dived to connect, the ball appeared to have beaten Federici in the Royals goal but he somehow got back to claw it off the line.
Two minutes later however, Rovers were celebrating their second goal of the game. Man of the moment Ben Marshall followed up his first half assist by grabbing his sixth of the campaign, a superb free-kick from 20 yards that left a static Federici with no chance.
Nigel Adkins responded with a double change for the visitors as Simon Cox and Jamie Mackie replaced Hal Robson-Kanu and Jake Taylor in an attempted to get back on level terms once more.
Instead it was Rovers celebrating a third goal of the afternoon to put some welcome daylight between themselves and the Berkshire side.
The imperious Marshall was inevitably involved, taking on Royals captain Chris Gunter down the left before delivering into the box, Rhodes rose to head goalwards only to see his effort slam off the post, but Gestede was calm and composed as he stroked the rebound into the net for his eighth of the campaign.
That third Rovers goal took the sting out of the game, with substitute's Luke Varney and Craig Conway brought on to keep the Reading defence on their toes.
The workrate from striker Jordan Rhodes also caught the eye in the closing stages, tirelessly closing space down, much to the delight of the home fans.
To their credit the visitors continued to look for a way back, but Jason Steele was rarely tested as Rovers saw the remaining minutes without due concern to register a hat-trick of victories.
Next up is a tricky Tuesday night trip to the Den to take on Millwall.
Steele, Baptiste, Hanley (c), Duffy, Olsson, Cairney, Evans, Williamson (sub Tunnicliffe 46 mins), Marshall (sub Conway 86 mins), Gestede (sub Varney 81 mins), Rhodes.
Subs not used: Eastwood (GK), Henley, Kilgallon, Dunn.
Goals: Gestede 16, 68 mins, Marshall 55 mins.
Booked: Evans, Varney.
Federici, Gunter (c), Pearce, Norwood, Robson-Kanu (sub Cox 61 mins), Obita, Akpan (sub Williams 76 mins), Murray, Blackman, Taylor (sub Mackie 60 mins), Cooper.
Subs not used: Anderson (GK), Kelly, Ferdinand, Pogrebnyak.
Goals: Murray 43 mins.
Booked: Obita, Akpan, Cooper.
Attendance: 14,237 (including 411 visiting supporters)
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TOM JONES has revealed he had a hand in delivering Hollywood A-lister
Catherine Zeta Jones' first baby.
The Welsh Wonder, who is on the panel of BBC1 singing competition The Voice,
said the actress had to have Tom's songs playing during the birth of her son
Dylan Michael Douglas, who was born in August 2000.
Tom said: "People have said to me a few times that children have been
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Tom made the revelation after call centre worker Chris Grixti performed the
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Ten acts are chosen by each mentor who then pits them head-to-head in a battle
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Evelyn St. Rose belonged to the Seelie Court of fae folk. Sprites blessed and charmed as a representative for the great mother nature, they neither mingled nor consorted with any creature who carried a weapon.
"Unseelie folk," Evie mentioned cautiously, tugging on Aria's hand.
Aria laughed. "No, I think they're friends. Comrades perhaps."
"We must leave," Evie flashed furtive glances at the orange-eyed man with the weapon. "He is not an agent of the great mother. His eyes are orange."
Ray bared his teeth, resembling a wolfy grin. "Hello sprite, Aria. You're human and we are well-meaning creatures, mother nature gave us green eyes but this man-"
"He can't be trusted," Evie interrupted, wringing her hands.
"Hey now, let me prove myself. I'm a fighter, a young girl with her fairy friend and pup will need a protector." The young man with orange hair ran an skilled finger down the blade of his oversized sword. He flicked his finger off, creating a musical ring off the edge.
"Anivamp," Ray corrected, rather annoyed. "Just you wait."
The fighter's words did not ease Evie's jitters. She was beyond agitated. Her posture leaned heavily away from the shore, although her slight build did not drag Aria along with her. "Come! I smell something bad!"
Aria humoured her small friend by tugging her hand, sending Evie motion-ripples. "He looks strong Evie, he'll help keep us safe. Right?"
"Right," the fighter assured confidently.
"Exactly," Aria snow-white eyes gleamed with excitement.
The wolf's head shivered, and he cocked his head at the trees. "I hear, I think I'm hearing-"
An inhumane voice shrieked a battle cry. The fighter unsheathed his overgrown sword and the anivamp snarled. Evie felt the her doll shake free of her grip and assume a fighting posture.
"I smelt it," Evie said weakly as the forest rustled and mean, unforgiving faces peppered the scrub as far as the eye could see.
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Oil, banks trip up European shares
LONDON European shares slid in thin trade on Friday as shares in energy firms and banks dropped, ending a lacklustre week relatively little changed.
LONDON Oct 5 Polish and other central European bond yields rose on Wednesday after reports the European Central Bank could ease off its bond purchase programme and many other emerging assets also weakened, with stocks falling 0.4 percent.
While an ECB spokesman said the bank had not discussed reducing the pace of its monthly bond buying, a Bloomberg report that the 80-billion a month programme would probably start winding down, has spooked markets to a degree.
Euro zone yields hit two-week highs and the impact was felt across central Europe which has attracted investors fleeing crushingly low yields in Germany and elsewhere.
Polish 10-year yields rose 4 basis points to hover just off recent three-month highs and yields rose 2-3 bps across the rest of the curve. Hungarian 10-year yields gained 3 bps while shorter tenors were up 1 bp.
"The fact they are talking of getting out of it tells us the ridiculous levels on Bund yields are not going to persist indefinitely. Consequently Poland looks very exposed," said Peter Kinsella, head of emerging markets research at Commerzbank.
"It gives an upside impetus to yields in central Europe," Kinsella said, adding that 8-9 percent yields in Turkey or South Africa offered better protection from ECB tapering.
The Polish zloty was flat against the euro before a central bank meeting that should leave rates unchanged at 1.5 percent. But markets will look for clues from the governor's speech about the pace of future rate rises especially in light of the ECB taper rumour.
The zloty's fate is tied closely to the euro with local bonds' reacting to ECB newsflow, ING analysts wrote, predicting more euro/zloty upside.
"Recall that back in the second quarter 2015 during the Bund sell-off, euro/zloty appreciated...from just below 4.00 to close to 4.20 while longer dated (government bonds) sold off," they said.
The forint however rose 0.2 percent benefiting from data showing retail sales rising an annual 4.3 percent in August, accelerating from July and indicating the economic recovery remains on track.
While Asian emerging currencies earlier fell against the dollar, Russia's rouble firmed half a percent as oil prices held near $50 a barrel and South Africa's rand rose 0.6 percent.
Turkey's lira, pressured by domestic politics, gained only 0.11 percent however.
MSCI's benchmark emerging equity index retreated 0.3 percent after two days of gains.
In bond news, Argentina opened books on a dual-tranche euro-denominated bond, with the 10-year issue marketed around 5.625 percent. The deal continues this week's sovereign issuance gush after sukuks from Bahrain and Pakistan .
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Morgan Stanley Emrg Mkt Indx 912.83 -2.78 -0.30 +14.95
Czech Rep 877.34 +2.21 +0.25 -8.26
Poland 1753.43 -0.61 -0.03 -5.69
Hungary 28492.39 -78.60 -0.28 +19.11
Romania 6968.22 -13.76 -0.20 -0.52
Greece 578.36 -0.82 -0.14 -8.39
Russia 994.06 -6.78 -0.68 +31.31
South Africa 45300.49 -172.54 -0.38 -1.08
Turkey 77048.70 -9.07 -0.01 +7.42
China 3005.51 +7.03 +0.23 -15.08
India 28254.65 -79.90 -0.28 +8.18
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Czech Rep 27.00 27.00 +0.00 -0.01
Poland 4.30 4.30 +0.06 -0.95
Hungary 305.93 306.95 +0.33 +2.85
Romania 4.46 4.46 -0.14 +1.28
Serbia 123.01 122.95 -0.05 -1.25
Russia 62.44 62.78 +0.54 +16.83
Kazakhstan 332.71 334.10 +0.42 +2.34
Ukraine 25.87 25.80 -0.27 -7.41
South Africa 13.75 13.82 +0.53 +12.47
Kenya 101.20 101.10 -0.10 +0.99
Israel 3.77 3.77 +0.10 +3.09
Turkey 3.06 3.06 -0.04 -4.61
China 6.67 6.67 -0.00 -2.65
India 66.53 66.60 +0.10 -0.50
Brazil 3.26 3.26 -0.02 +21.56
Mexico 19.34 19.32 -0.07 -11.20
Debt Index Strip Spd Chg %Rtn Index
Sov'gn Debt EMBIG 351 1 .10 7 71.96 1
All data taken from Reuters at 09:04 GMT. Currency percent change calculated from the daily U.S. close at 2130 GMT.
(additional reporting by Sandor Peto; Editing by Jon Boyle)
LONDON European shares slid in thin trade on Friday as shares in energy firms and banks dropped, ending a lacklustre week relatively little changed.
LONDON European shares slid in thin trade on Friday as shares in energy firms and banks dropped, ending a lackluster week relatively little changed.
LONDON, May 26 European shares slid in thin trade on Friday as shares in energy firms and banks dropped, ending a lacklustre week relatively little changed.


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The original purpose for which the trade unions created the Labour Party was to get working-class representatives into Parliament. The old engineering union, the AUEW, which has now been absorbed in Unite, had a particularly strong record for taking members off the factory floor, training them up and getting them into Parliament.
With that pre-history, it might seem uncontroversial – laudable, even – that Unite has been recruiting party members with a view to getting Unite members into Parliament, if they had been more subtle. In some cases, at least, Unite members have had letters telling them bluntly that the union will pay their party subscriptions, and asking that in return they back Unite's nominees selected as parliamentary candidates.
In Falkirk, where the sitting MP Eric Joyce was barred from running again as a Labour candidate after swinging his fists in a Commons bar, Unite has recruited 100 people to the local party, swelling its membership by 50 per cent, with a view to securing the seat for a Unite activist, Karie Murphy, who works for the Labour MP Tom Watson, above. That campaign seems to have crashed, however, because the Herald reported at the weekend that Murphy had pulled out of the contest.
Her decision coincided with a stern warning from Peter Mandelson, condemning the unions' "disgraceful" interference in candidate selection. Tom Watson found that a strange outburst, because he can remember a time when it was much easier for union officials to handpick parliamentary candidates. Twenty years ago, the GMB boss in the north east, Tom Burlison, effectively chose who was going to be the next Labour MP for Hartlepool. He chose Peter Mandelson.
Pain means no gain for Farage
Last week's local election results have increased the likelihood that Ukip will win a seat in the Commons in 2015. But where? The map of the results suggest Boston and Skegness, where Ukip has now won seats both on the district council and Lincolnshire County Council. The incumbent Tory MP, Mark Simmonds, claimed in a BBC interview over the weekend that he would be "delighted" if Farage were to challenge him, because of the national publicity he would generate.
However, he is unlikely to get his way, because the local Ukip leader in Lincolnshire, Chris Pain, reputedly one of comparatively few Ukip members capable of telling Farage where to get off, has said: "I stood at the last election against Mark Simmonds and I will be standing at the next one, unless I'm assassinated between now and then." It sounds as if Farage will have to seek a seat somewhere else.
Evans learns to listen after talking tough
Nigel Evans, the deputy speaker, below, talked a brave talk after the news broke that he had been accused of sexual offences against young men, insisting that he did not intend to let the allegations interrupt his work schedule. Things have not quite worked out like that. He has now conceded that he will not chair any parliamentary debates while the police investigation continues. Someone appears to have had a word in his ear.
Gillard's army in battle to the death
Australia's Welsh-born Prime Minister, Julia Gillard has a tough budget and tough election ahead. To stiffen morale, her political secretary, John McTernan – who learnt his trade working for Tony Blair in Downing Street – called a motivational session for Labor spin doctors in Canberra's Parliament building, at which he screened the opening scene from the 1970 Hollywood blockbuster, Patton.
"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country," they heard George C. Scott, the actor in the title role, declare. "You won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." It makes you wonder what kind of campaign McTernan is planning.
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- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Dax under the influence of the Saltah'na. Also Sisko, to a lesser degree.
- Badass BoastSisko: You know what disturbs me? The ingratitude. I offered you my kindness, my help, my leadership, and how do you repay me? With betrayal. But you won't get rid of me so easily. You see, unlike you, I understand history. My name will blaze across the stars long after your petty treacheries have been forgotten.
- Bizarre Alien Biology: Odo is not affected by the energy field because of this. When it settles on him, his head goopifies, appears to split, and he collapses. Quark also seems immune (a previous episode had reminded viewers that Ferengi brains are different from most humanoids').
- The Caligula: Implied in Sisko's persona, who Mood Whiplashes between indifference to matters of state, to sudden outbursts of violence and Large Ham.
- Casual Kink: Odo is discussing the Klingons with Quark, who says, "Spare me from beings who think pain is pleasure. [beat] In small doses, perhaps..."
- Conflict Ball: In-Universe. Though there is still some lingering distrust between Starfleet and the Bajoran Militia, it is only because of the telepathic matrix that they start scheming against each other.
- Conveniently Timed Attack from Behind: On several occasions someone is nearly murdered, but is saved by the intervention of a third party.
- Cut Comm Channels: Odo tries to let higher authority know what's going on, only to find the Subspace Ansible to Starfleet has been shut down under Kira's authority, while communications with the Bajoran Provisional Government have been cut off under O'Brien's authority.
- The Ditz: Dax, who appears to be channeling the persona of a senile old man, easily dominated by the forceful Kira.
- Double Entendre: Odo's first sign that the senior staff are acting strangely is when Bashir and Kira start smirking and talking in political double-speak.
- Dragon-in-Chief: O'Brien, who runs the station while Sisko is locked up in his quarters, working on his hobby.
- Dramatic Drop: Kira says that she's going to remove Sisko "one way or another". Cue Off Screen Crash as Quark drops a tray, tipping off Kira that he's listening in on their conversation.
- Easily Forgiven: Kira's attempted mutiny, since she wasn't herself at the time.
- Even Evil Has Standards: One of the things Odo uses to convince Bashir to help him cure the virus (since he refuses to believe that he has been affected) is the possibility that if any of the others were affected they could destroy the whole station in their madness - though it quickly pales under the other point that he could use the cure to control everyone.
- Evil Is Hammy: Sisko is probably the worst offender, but everyone has their moments. Quite frankly it's a wonder they didn't have to build a whole new set after this episode, everyone was chewing the scenery so hard.
- Foreshadowing
- Bashir shows a lot of interest in political conspiracies. Five years later, Bashir gets recruited into Section 31.
- Kira has a seductive persona we're going to be very familiar with after meeting the Mirror Universe Intendant.
- O'Brien's plan for dealing with the mutiny involves fleeing Deep Space Nine and returning in superior numbers with a Federation attack force. This is what happens in Season Six.
- Sisko's rant about Kira's ingratitude when he offered her his kindness, help, and leadership sounds a lot like the things Dukat would say later about the Bajorans.
- Guile Hero: Once Odo works out what's going on, he uses everyone's ambition and paranoia to get them into one place where the virus can be purged from their heads.
- He's Dead, Jim: Bashir re Hon'Tihl.
- Ice-Cream KoanKira: How are you, Lieutenant?
Dax: You know what they say, put the shoe on the right foot first, but put the left foot first into the bathtub.
Kira: [beat] I understand.
- Implausible Deniability: Odo suggests that the Ops staff may have been infected with a telepathic virus. Bashir acknowledges the possibility, but says it's unlikely as HE certainly isn't acting any different.
- Indirect Kiss: Kira drinks from Dax's Modela aperitif.
- Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Sisko tries this on a Bajoran Kira sent to assassinate him, but he's interrupted by Kira before he can extract the information and/or kill the Bajoran.
- Last-Second Word Swap: Bashir is handing an injector filled with poison to one of Kira's men, to be used in Sisko's assassination."It'll take effect in two minutes. Plenty of time to get a good— (Odo enters) Plenty of time for you to get a good night's sleep."
- Leaning on the Furniture: Odo enters his office to find Kira sitting in his chair, with her boots up on his desk.
- MacGuffin: The Valerians only exist as the Conflict Ball between Sisko and Kira, never reappearing in the series.
- The Mutiny: Though those concerned are reenacting The Coup and act accordingly.
- Not Himself: Everyone except Odo and Quark.
- Only Sane Man: Odo is the only one in Ops not affected by the Saltah'na.
- Out-of-Character Alert: And it only takes Quark getting assaulted for Odo to finally acknowledge it.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Sisko gives one to Kira about her ingratitude.
- Somebody Else's Problem: Sisko ignores a brewing mutiny to construct and build a clock.
- The Starscream: Kira.
- Suddenly SHOUTING! / Big "NEVER!"SISKO: What can we do?
O'BRIEN: Leave the station.
SISKO: (jumping to his feet) NEVER! GET ME A PHASER; I'LL GET RID OF KIRA!
- Thrown Out the Airlock: Once Techno Babble is used to force the telepathic virus out of everyone, Odo tells them to hold on and briefly opens the cargo bay door to space, where it disperses.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: When Odo collapses right after blackmailing Quark into providing information, the Ferengi rushes off shouting for Dr Bashir.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: We never find out what became of the Valerians, or what Sisko told them about what happened on the station.
- Wild Card: Bashir eagerly observes the impending crisis on the station, waiting to throw in his lot with whoever looks like winning. Odo gets his loyalty by convincing him he can win in his own name.
- With Us or Against UsO'BRIEN: Anyone who is against Sisko is against me.
- Would Hit a Girl: O'Brien cuffs Dax when she tries to signal Kira.


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LEGEND tells us there was once a poor boy called Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, who grew up in a housing project on Staten Island, just across the water from the skyscrapers of Manhattan's financial district.
The Moby-Dick Marathon 2017
First published March 2017 in The Dublin Review
Filed Under: Books, Essays, Travel
THE 21st annual Moby-Dick Marathon was the first to take place in a blizzard. Somehow, the event had never coincided with a major snowstorm before, despite being held every January in New Bedford – a squall-prone seaport on the Massachusetts coast, where North Atlantic weather systems spin like sawblades against the edge of the United States.
A Talk Among The Tombstones: George Saunders
First published March 2017 in The Glasgow Herald
Filed Under: Books, Interviews
THE story goes that President Abraham Lincoln walked out of the White House in the middle of the night on February 20, 1862. He crossed Washington D.C. to Oak Hill cemetery, went into the crypt of his late son Willie, and sat there alone at his coffin. Willie had died of typhoid fever earlier that day, at the age of 11. His father, somewhat preoccupied through the boy's short illness with fundraising for the escalating civil war, was now so possessed by grief and guilt that he may even have cradled the corpse.
First published November 2016 in Etihad Inflight Magazine
Filed Under: Interviews, Reporting, Travel
WHAT'S your favourite cloud? Perhaps it's one of the stranger formations. Altocumulus lenticularis, maybe, which settles in spooky hoops over high mountain peaks like an alien mothership. Or it could be the simple, humble cumulus, also widely known as the "fair weather cloud". Surely everyone loves those puffy cotton balls that seem to morph into friendly and familiar shapes – elephants, teapots, diving bells – while you gaze at them against a backdrop of blue sky.
To The Lighthouse: Cabo Polonio
First published November 2016 in The Independent
Filed Under: Travel
URUGUAY: a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, rolled up inside Rizla papers. A nation that shares many of the same post-colonial woes and right/left governmental wobbles as its bigger Latin American neighbours, but has somehow lately emerged as a beacon of 21st-century liberalism, with justice and legalised cannabis for all. The best place to contemplate this might be right on the edge of the land, under the lighthouse at Cabo Polonio.
Saloons Of New York
First published January 2017 in The Independent
Filed Under: Reporting, Travel
THERE are still a few bars in New York that started serving long before Trump Tower was built, before Prohibition came and went, before the United States even became an independent republic.
How To Score
First published December 2016 in Etihad Inflight Magazine
Filed Under: Film
THE best movies have music to match. The Godfather, great as it is, would be less so without Nino Rota's dark and fateful main theme, also known as The Immigrant, or The Godfather Waltz – now a perennial repertory piece squeezed out by street accordionists all over Europe. Blade Runner's visionary opening shot of the future LA skyline gets much of its transportive power from the electronic soundscape provided by composer Vangelis.
The Explorer's Club
First published February 2017 in Etihad Inflight Magazine
Filed Under: Travel
ON the Upper East Side of New York, between Woody Allen's apartment and Henry Clay Frick's famous mansion turned art museum, is a meeting point for mountain climbers, deep sea divers, adventurers and spacemen. Today the two flags outside The Explorer's Club are flying at half-mast. One is the Stars and Stripes, the other is the flag of club itself. That standard has been carried to all the remotest corners of our planet, to the bottom of the ocean, and to the moon in every landing module that ever touched down there.
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
First published November 2016 in The Sunday Herald
Filed Under: Books
A former student of Zadie Smith's recently tweeted a telling anecdote. Some years back, while teaching creative writing at New York's Columbia University (she's now tenured at NYU) Smith handed out a laughable, pitiful, woefully sophomoric short story, and had the whole class critique it to pieces before admitting that it was one of her own.
Eyes In The Sky
First published July 2016 in Etihad Inflight Magazine
Filed Under: Interviews, Travel
PHOTOGRAPHY and manned flight are roughly the same age. The latter may be a little older – the Montgolfier brothers sailed over Annonay, France in a hot-air balloon some 30 years before Nicephore Niepce took the first heliographic picture from the window of his Burgundy estate in 1826. But aerial photography was born soon after that, as balloonists brought some of the earliest cameras aloft in their baskets, while Victorian meteorologist E.D. Archibald tied them to kites, with explosive charges on a timer to trigger the shutter.
On Imaginary Cities
First published May 2016 in Etihad Inflight Magazine
Filed Under: Books, Essays, Travel
CONSIDER Gotham City. A fictional, fanciful place, dark and dirty but not without glamour or grandeur, where threat posed by petty criminals and super-villains is forever set against the hope of protection and salvation symbolised by The Batman.
Spain and Cervantes
First published April 2016 in The Boston Review
Filed Under: Books, Essays, Reporting, Travel
On a recent Saturday morning, I caught The Cervantes Train from Madrid's Atocha Station. Don Quixote greeted me on the platform. He was dressed pretty much as described in the novel that made him immortal: a lesser nobleman of La Mancha from the early seventeenth century, passing for a knight in flimsy (cardboard) armor, and carrying the (padded foam) lance with which he tilts at windmills.
The Fall And Rise Of Onagawa
First published March 2016 in The New Yorker
Filed Under: Reporting, Travel
FIVE YEARS after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, the port of Onagawa has a craft beer bar, an artisanal coffee house, a Spanish tile factory, and a workshop where electric guitars are carved from local cedar, all laid out along the new Seapal Pier shopping precinct, at the town's own Ground Zero. None of these were here before March 11, 2011, when the quake sent a wave of almost fifteen meters through Onagawa Bay and over the waterfront – destroying more than seventy percent of the town's buildings and killing about eight percent, or one in twelve, of its residents.
Zero K by Don DeLillo
First published May 2016 in The Glasgow Herald
Filed Under: Books
AT this late stage of his life and career, Don DeLillo has been called a prophet so often, for so long, that he is now being sold as such. The publicity materials for his latest novel draw heavily on quotes and blurbs from peers and critics awed by Delillo's prescience – his spooky receptivity to currents and portents in the culture, his novelistic gift for reading runes in news and sports and weather reports, then telling us how we're going to die.
The Little Prince
First published February 2016 in Etihad Inflight Magazine
Filed Under: Books, Essays, Film
IN the interplanetary debris field between Mars and Jupiter is the asteroid 46610 Bésixdouze. Discovered in 1993, its name was suggested by Czech astronomer Jiří Grygar in honour of The Little Prince. The title character of that singular cosmic fairytale by Antoine de Saint-Exupery fell to Earth from a fictional asteroid designated B612, so this coding was rendered into phonetic French and hexadecimal notation for its real-life namesake. The author himself had drawn those specific figures from the registration of a plane he flew as an airmail pilot over the Sahara Desert in the 1920s.
The Killing Of Osama Bin Laden
First published April 2016 in The Glasgow Herald
Filed Under: Books
FOR years he was a ghost. Then, suddenly, a corpse. On the night of May 1, 2011, President Barack Obama announced that US forces had located and killed Osama Bin Laden at a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. More of the details emerged in later statements from the White House, Pentagon and CIA, some of them contradictory.
Travel And The Movies: Shooting On Location
First published February 2016 in Aspire Magazine
Filed Under: Film, Reporting, Travel
ON a recent visit to Morocco, I had a touch of déjà vu. It was my first time in the country, my first sight of the capital, Rabat, and the Kasbah of the Udayas. But walking up the outer staircase of that 12th-century fortress, a vivid image came to mind – a lucid memory of a silver car flying down these same steps, through the air, in the opposite direction. "Maybe you've seen Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation?" asked my guide Aziz Goumi. Oh yeah, I thought.
The Underwater Indiana Jones
First published February 2016 in Etihad Inflight Magazine
Filed Under: Interviews, Reporting, Travel
ON December 5, 2015, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced that the long-lost San José treasure galleon had been found at last, some 307 years after it was sunk by English warships off his country's Caribbean coast. The vessel was carrying a fortune when it went down – bullion, coins and gemstones en route from the mines of the New World to the coffers of Spain's King Phillip V and his French ally Louis XIV.
A Better Nation: Scotland's Referendum
First published September 2014 in The Boston Review
Filed Under: Essays, Reporting
EDINBURGH smells of sea salt and brewer's yeast. The Scottish capital is a touristy city, pretty as a snow globe and selling the most superficial brand of Scottishness at its romantic, historic center – toffee, whisky, tartan, bagpipes. Beyond the well-preserved world heritage sites of its gothic Old Town and neo-classical New Town, it is also a prosaic modern conurbation, ringed with affluent suburbs such as Craiglockhart, and comparatively deprived housing schemes in neighbourhoods like Niddrie and Craigmillar, which still suffer from some of the gang and drug problems that blighted them badly in the 1980s.
The Bourne Appraisal
First published November 2015 in Full Stop Magazine
Filed Under: Essays, Film
IT WAS the first confirmed sighting of Jason Bourne in almost eight years. A recently released photograph showed Matt Damon getting into character on the set of the new Bourne film, as yet untitled. He's shirtless and conspicuously ripped, strapping up his knuckles like a prizefighter, gaunter and tougher-looking than in the original trilogy.


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Guardian writers' predicted position: 14th (NB: this is not necessarily Geoff's prediction but the average of our writers' tips)
Last season's position: 14th
You can't be everybody's little brother for years. Since entering the AFL in 2011, the Gold Coast Suns have been treated with a kind of genial condescension. Even after the younger and even less co-ordinated GWS Giants appeared, most of us have still slow-clapped Gold Coast for not being quite so bad, then patted them on the head and given them a cookie. It's only to be expected: the Suns have to mature into a genuinely competitive team before they'll get respect. Realistically, not much is likely to change this year.
That's not to say the club hasn't made any progress. They won eight of their 22 matches last year, a tally that any relegation-zone English football club would seize with rapture. They've pushed any number of more fancied opponents close to the line. NAB Cup results don't mean much, but running over Essendon by a point in the final second of a match will stand them in good stead for close finishes. The players are growing older, fitter and more experienced.
"We have stepped up preseason 10% or 15% this year, workload wise," said captain Gary Ablett, "and the boys' bodies have been able to handle it. We're very happy with where we're at."
Ablett, Jarrad Harbrow, Michael Rischitelli, Nathan Bock and Matthew Warnock are their only players who've spent significant time at previous clubs, but the Suns now have 13 footballers on their list who've played more than 50 AFL games.
There's plenty for them to look forward to this year. Jack Martin must be the most lauded player never to play a game – recruited from GSW in the mini-draft, then traded to Gold Coast as a rookie. Tipped by club captains to win the Rising Star, former players have led us to believe he'll be a genetic cocktail of the Team of the Century in the shape of one skinny kid who's only just old enough to drive himself to training.
The mini-draftee from the year before Martin, Jaeger O'Meara, did win the Rising Star last year, playing all 22 games and averaging 22 disposals. He's added a lot of muscle and will be looking to impose himself. Harley Bennell has already shown himself to be a midfielder of high class who can kick bags of goals. David Swallow is uncompromising through the middle of the ground and at the contest, while Dion Prestia averaged more than 25 touches per game last season.
Code-swapper Karmichael Hunt could be forgiven for questioning that decision as he lined up for a NAB Challenge reserves practice match against the Aspley Hornets recently. (We don't even have hornets in Australia. Or Giants. Or a whole lot of Dockers.) But Hunt has shown greater aptitude for the game than fellow rugby convert and de-convert Israel Folau, and can be a centre-square wrecking ball when someone is lined up for the hit.
Warnock and Bock offer experience and a mature physical presence in defence, Steven May has emerged as a young defensive leader, and there has been plenty of pre-season praise for newcomers Clay Cameron and Sean Lemmens. Danny Stanley averaged over 20 disposals to go with his zealous competitiveness in charging out of the backline last year. Jesse Lonergan is also being talked up for his job tagging Daniel Rich in the match against Brisbane.
The Suns' forward line could be an impressive sight, with developing trio Tom Lynch, Sam Day and Charlie Dixon all pushing the two-metre mark and looking to stretch opposition defences. Brandon Matera, part of the famous Matera footballing clan from Perth, might also be ready to leave a stronger impression this season.
And all of that is before we get to Gary – the captain, the legend, the best player in the league by a Botanical Gardens time trial. Having passed his 250th game last year and approaching his 30th birthday in May, Ablett remains at his peak, averaging 31.2 possessions in his last season and kicking 28 goals. There have been more than enough superlatives expended on the little shiny-headed one. It's just a shame to see one of the best of all time turning out for a team so far from premiership contention.
Nonetheless, the Suns are maturing and 2014 should see further consolidation. They'll find it hard to rise much in ladder terms – this year's competition looks especially strong and even, with only a couple of residents of Struggletown identifiable this early. Another couple of years, though, and the condescension market could be left entirely to GWS.


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Katie Hopkins has unsurprisingly been advised to beef up security in her home.
The Big Brother star has never been one to mince her words, which has led her to a mass of death threats. Recently labelled 'Britain's Biggest C*nt' is there any surprise she's been told to increase her security?
Speaking to the Daily Star she stated:
Our house is rigged up to the local police station – that's just my life I suppose. My children are somewhat isolated from it. They don't have iPads and they don't have phones. My parents aren't a part of it at all either. They don't go on Twitter. I just send them clips of me looking fairly all right.
How about she stops making dickhead comments and she wouldn't be putting her children's safety at risk.


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Amnesty urges Russia to free punks after protest
By Nastassia Astrasheuskaya
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Amnesty International has urged Russia to release three members of all-woman punk band Pussy Riot who were detained after the group stormed into Moscow's main cathedral to sing a protest song against President-elect Vladimir Putin.
Amnesty said the three denied taking part in the protest launched by other members of the group who entered Christ the Savior Cathedral on February 21 and sang "Holy Mother, Throw Putin Out" wearing multi-colored masks.
Maria Alekhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Yekaterina Samusevich face up to seven years in prison if they are found guilty of hooliganism following the performance, which criticized the Russian Orthodox Church's support for Putin.
They were the only three arrested after the protest.
"Even if the three arrested women did take part in the protest, the severity of the response of the Russian authorities - the detention on the serious charge of hooliganism - would not be a justifiable response to the peaceful ... expression of their political beliefs," Amnesty International said in a statement released on Tuesday.
The protest lasted a few minutes, caused minimal disruption and did not damage the building, the human rights group said.
Russia should recognize people's right to freedom of expression "and release them immediately and unconditionally," Amnesty added.
Russia's Orthodox Church initially called for mercy for the protesters but later demanded harsh punishment for inciting hatred on grounds of religion. Continued...


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Mogadishu, Aug 15: Fifteen people were killed and dozens injured in a fierce clash Friday morning in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, officials said.
Somali government forces backed by African Union peacekeeping troops stormed the house of Ahmed Dai, a warlord and former commissioner of Wadajir district in Mogadishu after his militias resisted a disarmament call, Xinhua reported citing Somali government officials.
Dozens of militiamen were arrested while the warlord is missing.
The raid is part of the citywide crackdown on illegal weapons launched early this month which has seen hundreds of weapons and ammunition being recovered from warlords' homes and militias.