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Stream The Gospel According to John from The Black Watch
Before there were blogs and music streaming there was the Black Watch. Now, 15 albums into their career, the band have crafted what I'm going to say is their best work yet. Each time I play it, I'm struck by something that has me scrambling to press repeat, to tune into a note or an element I didn't hear the first run though, even now as I speak, I'm doing just that. If you're a fan of pop music and poetry, stream The Gospel According to John. And if you want my two-cents on the track by track breakdown, skip beyond the jump. Otherwise, pick up the album tomorrow courtesy of The Eskimo Record Label and Pop Culture Press.
Whence – This song is all about Fredrick's vocal performance. There's a sincerity to his calming delivery as the guitars seemingly dance around. I love how you can hear bits of words floating off into the distance if you care to pay attention to the details. It's a powerful opening statement to this opus. The acoustic fade out at the end is a nice touch.
Way Strange World – Initially this song felt like an homage to everything that was great about Interpol. You'll find great percussive work providing a rhythm as Fredrick leads you to the swirling chorus; I love the way he stretches out syllables into new notes. Pay close attention to the jittering noise here, as it all points towards the album's close.
The All-Right Side of Just OK – This song offers an upbeat version of dreamy pop. The vocals are a touch cloudy, and you can hear the frantic guitar trying to push the song…yet it also seems like its always playing catch up. On the song's latter half you get to experience some of the nosier elements the band bring to the fold on this release, bring cacophony, and the track, to an abrupt end.
A Story – Perhaps my favorite song on the record. I love the lyrical content such as "tell me a story/be sure to make it sad" or "tell me about the worst day/the worst day you've ever had." I particularly love how he carries lines into other lines without even taking a breath…and that chorus. Ugh…this song kills me.
Jealously – Perhaps a song about love, but perhaps just a song about our abilities to let people go. This number is one of the LP's shortest, and as such, its a nice bit of respite from the overwhelming brilliance that came before. It also seems to calm the listener ahead of the record's more boisterous moments.
Orange Kicks – Seems like even the greats can influence one another (or so I like to think) as I feel this song looks to the modern incarnation of The Wedding Present. Guitar chords ring in a discordant manner, while Fredrick cooly offers his voice. The song rushes to a frantic finish, with guitars furiously tearing through your speakers.
Oscillating Redux – Fans of the Black Watch will surely recognize this tune, as it appeared in a slightly different fashion on Led Zeppelin Five. There's still a lasting sensation of brooding, but a slight touch-up on the chorus deepens the emotional impact. It also seems like the band flirt with replacing "oscillating" with "isolating," but who am I to make that call. For me, this is a standout, though it was definitely one of the record's slow burners.
Satellite – You'd be forgiven after the opening few moments to expecting the band to settle into calming guitar pop, but let the song unfold. It builds and it builds, forcefully, yet there's balance in the guitar notes on top of the mix, steadying the track for pop fans. It's probably some of the noisiest stuff I've heard from the band, and then it fades out with nearly a minute of unexplained silence. And then it's over, leaving you to question the purpose of said silence. It has to be intentional, but what does it mean? Where does one go from here?
I thought about that. I thought about how everything John Fredrick does has a purpose an intention. And then I gave in. I decided it was okay to enjoy that silence. I needed a break, a moment to process The Gospel According to John. And in the end, I pressed play and listened all over again, this time knowing that I could handle all that was before me, as there's solace waiting in the end. And once there, it's best to press play and start all over again.


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Signs of a serious financial and medical crisis are everywhere at Durrah Children's Hospital in Gaza City.
Dirt and dust have been collecting on the staircases since cleaning staff went on strike ten days ago, as they haven't been paid for the fifth month in a row. Its hallways are dark because fuel supplies are depleted, and the generator no longer runs.
Three-year old Hamza Sakar lies on a bed in one of the crowded rooms while his grandma holds up a nebulizer to his nose to help him breathe. He is just one out of many Palestinians at risk of dying due to a lack of medication and treatment.
"If he receives a life-threatening infection, he will die," said Dr. Essam Garably, director of the hospital. "All patients are at a risk of infection, even those who come to the emergency department to use the nebulizer."
Children with contagious diseases have no choice but to stay in overcrowded rooms, posing a high risk for illnesses to spread.
Three weeks ago Durrah hospital shut down its intensive care unit and combined three of its departments into one in order to make the most out of the limited allocation of electricity, just four hours a day.
Gaza has been struggling with an unprecedented medical crisis since the end of January. Around 45 percent of essential drugs are at zero stock while 16 medical centers and three hospitals in Gaza have shut down their services as they don't have enough fuel to keep the generators running.
The Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority (PA) is responsible for the purchase of medications sent to Gaza, but fails to do so regularly.
Since Sakar is immune deficient, his life depends on consuming IGIV (Immune Globulin Intravenous), which contains antibodies to fight bacteria, fungi and viruses. But Gaza hasn't received any in the last six months.
Due to the lack of IGIV, Sakar caught severe pneumonia in the last two months. Fluid accumulated above his lung, sending him into a septic shock. During surgery, doctors inserted tubes into his left chest, where they successfully drained the fluid and gave him medication to maintain his blood pressure. He managed to recover, but with the IGIV he wouldn't need to go through this ordeal.
"Sometimes they send from Ramallah ten grams [of IGIV] but Gaza's hospitals need 300g per month. We haven't received a single gram," Garably said, "Last time [about a month ago] Ramallah sent 750 boxes of medication. 450 of them consisted of fluid- the cheapest [medication]. Each one costs two shekels."
"For chronic diseases, emergency cases such as epilepsy, immune deficiency, cardiovascular disease, chemotherapy- they didn't send even one tablet," Garably went on.
"They told the media, 'We are sending a lot of medication to Gaza', but look at the quality,"
Six premature infants have reportedly died since the start of 2018 due to a lack of respiratory medication that helps them to breathe normally. The lives of another 113 are at risk, according to Gaza's ministry of health.
Last summer the PA made headlines when it stopped issuing medical referrals for treatment outside of Gaza which ended in the deaths of many newborn babies. The denied permits were seen as a measure of pressure to force Hamas to relinquish control.
Hamas announced last fall they were relinquishing control of the Gaza Strip in an attempt to reconcile with Fatah and to end the crushing sanctions. However, the deal has been fruitless thus far; sanctions by the PA continue.
According to Tareq Baconi, an analyst at al-Shabaka, the Palestinian policy network, the PA is still maintaining pressure on Hamas until it completely relinquishes control of its security sector, which it so far has been unwilling to do.
"For the Palestinian Authority, that continues to remain unacceptable and from their perspective, they've been using Palestinians in Gaza as political pawns by increasing the suffering, by increasing pressure on Hamas' government," Baconi said.
"This is a very cynical attempt by the Palestinian Authority and it's absolutely morally repugnant that they could use the livelihood of two million Palestinians in Gaza as political pawns to pressure Hamas whether or not they believe they are justified," he said. "There should be a government for all the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. What it's doing is it's buying into the divisions that the Israeli occupation is trying to institutionalize in the Palestinian territories."
Rejected and delayed permits
Garably submitted an urgent referral report for Sakar to undergo a bone marrow transplant outside of Gaza and to receive his monthly IGIV, but the PA rejected his application.
"The last six months have been very difficult," Garably said. "It's a political problem."
Three-year old Ahmad Abu Amra from Deir al-Balah, Gaza died on January 27, 2018 while waiting for an exit permit to be approved as he suffered from internal bleeding in the head. Despite submitting an urgent transfer application, his family waited three weeks and received the approved permit a day after he died. All permits to leave Gaza for treatment in Israel must first be approved by the Palestinian Authority. Leaders in Gaza accused Ramallah of delaying and out-right refusing to turn over the requests to Israel.
"I wish someone could investigate his case and hold to account the person who is responsible for transferring patients," said Muhammad Abu Amra, Ahmad's grandfather.
"Here in Gaza, we live in difficult conditions. It's unbelievable that it took 20 days to transfer him from one hospital to another."
Two months ago Ahmad underwent a successful surgery in Ramallah, in which doctors removed the cancer in his head. But 20 days after returning home, doctors in Gaza discovered fluid in his head and conducted another surgery where they inserted pipes to drain it.
This turned out to be a serious mistake, as his family later found out. After the surgery, Ahmad's head began to bleed internally which required urgent surgery, unavailable in Gaza.
The family spent one week frantically emailing, trying to contact hospitals in Ramallah, but all of them refused, saying they could not correct mistakes made by doctors in Gaza.
To visit a hospital in Israel, they were also waiting on a permit, but it came too late.
Due to decade-long Israeli-Egyptian siege, Gaza doesn't have adequate resources to provide proper treatment and surgical skills and medical expertise have been frozen in time.
Patients in Gaza have been left abandoned, unable to receive treatment in Gaza and unable to receive treatment in Israel or the occupied West Bank due to denied or delayed permits.
Israel as an occupying force is obligated under international humanitarian law to ensure the Palestinian population's access to medical treatment and to maintain its medical facilities, hospitals and services in the occupied territories.
However, in 2017, 54 Palestinians from Gaza died while waiting for Israel to issue their exit permits in order to receive treatment abroad. Forty-six percent of all permits were denied or delayed in 2017–a record-low rate.
At Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, six-year-old Ahmad Hanadi cries in pain. He suffers from a severe type of skin sclerosis–it's the only case in Gaza and the seventh case in the world.
"There's something in his chest," his mother Yasmine Hanadi explained, while she propped Ahmad on his side like a doll, as he can no longer move his joints.
After analyzing his skin in Jerusalem, doctors discovered that he most likely developed the disease by inhaling toxic fumes caused by the Israeli military assault on the Gaza Strip in 2012.
Born on the first day of the eight-day assault, the Hanadi family lives on farmland in the outskirts of Khan Younis. In these open areas, one can easily breathe in the toxic fumes, Yasmine explained.
They need to visit a hospital in Jerusalem for treatment in early March and so the specialist can conduct further tests and transfer the information to the U.S. to be analyzed since his case is especially rare.
But Israel has denied their exit permit three times in the last three months. They have applied again and are also waiting for a medical permit from the PA. However, Yasmine doubts that the PA will provide them financial cover since they have said in the past that his case is too expensive.
"The PA doesn't even recognize us as Palestinians to help us," Yasmine said.
"Ahmad has the right to receive treatment and to recover. I will be grateful for any support that we can get."

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Gilles Peterson, The Black Madonna and the Rush Hour Allstars will also play the Japanese festival from April 29th.
The annual Japanese gathering—which scored third place in our Top 10 April 2016 Festivals feature—will return to Higashi Izu Cross Country Course, south of Tokyo, from April 29th to May 1st, with Andrew Weatherall on headline duties. He'll be joined by two more UK veterans, Gilles Peterson and Nightmares on Wax, as well as Move D and The Rush Hour Allstars (this time comprising Antal, Hunee, San Proper and Soichi Terada), who return for their second year. The Black Madonna will go back-to-back with DJ Nobu on the main stage, while DJ Funk and Egyptian Lover will head up the RBMA stage. Domestic talent includes Kenji Takimi, Kuniyuki, Sauce81 and DJ Sodeyama.
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United States of America Bond
Developed Markets Bond
North American Bond
By: Sam Watry RIA of Durig Capital
5.386% Yield to Worst Call
Netflix Inc has forever altered the way movies will be watched. They currently have over 12 million household subscribed to their services which include DVD by mail and streaming video via Internet connection. The Internet based delivery method can be view with consumer electronic items like game consoles, televisions with Internet connectivity, and Blu-ray players. Subscribers currently have access to over 100,000 different titles. Netflix delivered its 1 billionth item in 2007 and the business continues to grow with the addition of the Canadian market in fall of 2010 for video streaming. They currently distribute over 700 million media items per year.
At Durig Capital, we have developed a process to review, select, purchase and monitor corporate bonds on an ongoing basis. Enclosed is our review, along with supporting documents/links, showing why we believe this corporate bond makes sense in clients' portfolios. We reviewed thousands of separate corporate bond listings to find what, we believe, is currently the best corporate bond for investors. The following illustrates our selection criteria.
Step 1 – Yield Curve at 4-7 Years Out.
With the uncertainty that is griping the investment community, we have studied the yield curve and are going out to earn current yield while trying to protect against principal loss. Investors are disgruntled with savings accounts that are yielding on average .73% per bankrates.com. US Government issues are no better with yields approaching all time lows. When the current economic environment, weather you would like to call it a recession or depression, turns around, owning long term fixed income instruments could effect ones purchasing power. Inflation should be a concern for long term fixed income investors as interest rates have been held artificially low for to long to try to jump start the economy.
Step 2 – We like companies that are profitable.
Understanding that Netflix Inc has found a niche in the multimedia rental market is important as the growth they have demonstrated will continue albeit current levels should revert to industry mean. With that in mind, Netflix is very profitable and exhibiting growth in earning. Earning per share last quarter, ended June 2010, were $.78, an impressive 27% higher than a year before. The trend in revenues is upward as the last three years has seen over 18% annualized growth in revenues. This is impressive as the overall economy has been sputtering, as mentioned in last weeks This Weeks Best Bond article.
The niche that Netflixs has created in the multimedia market is interesting because it is defensive in nature. With household budgets being pinched around the US, a nominal $5 per month package allows subscribers two movies a month and this is cheap entertainment.
Due to the competitive nature of the industry, Netflix has consistently been in price wars. When Blockbuster and Hollywood Video realized Netflix was gaining market share, the three engaged in trying to undercut each others prices. With the weight of the expensive bricks and mortar retail locations that Blockbuster and Hollywood Video had, Netflix had more room to maneuver due to its cheaper to operate centralized nonretail locations. Price wars are not sustainable however and Netflixs seems to have endured the storm with the other two in real financial trouble.
The multimedia industry has low barriers to entry that will allow for increased competition. Competitors such as Amazon, Redbox, Comcast and DirecTV, to name a few, are or have already entered the market with similar product offerings. The bargaining power of suppliers, movie studios, is coming to light which could crimp margins. Recently, Netflix signed a contract with Warner Brothers delaying subscribers ability to obtain new releases for 28 days to boast hard copy purchasing demand. Similar agreements are on the table with other major studios.
Step 3 – We like companies with lower debt to cash and short term investment ratio.
As of the end of last quarter, Netflix has $200 million of long term notes outstanding. With $134.22 million in cash coupled with $186.02 million in cash equivalents, Netflixs fits Durig Capital's bond models. We like companies that have short term liquid assets that more than cover long term debt. This gives Netflix bond holders an additional layer of protection.
Step 4 – We like companies that have flexible balance sheets
Although it is unlikely that they will, Netfix has the ability to repay the long term debt with existing liquid assets as mentioned above. Having a flexible balance sheet affords Netflix other options if capital needed to be raised. Currently there market equity value is over $7 billion with $200 million in notes issued. This gives them an enterprise value, removing the cash, of $6.5 billion. The debt to equity ratio is currently only around 2%. A low ratio like this allows the company to issue debt and/or equity with a secondary offering. As a comparison, when Netflix initially issued this debt, in November 2009, it shares were trading at $55 per share and having an overall market cap of about $3 billion. With the $200 million issue with a market cap of $3 billion the ratio was 6.66%. Understanding that the equity happened to be bullish and it could have been bearish, this illustrates that Netflix currently has control of the appearance of its balance sheet. Their investor relations website with balance sheet links can be viewed here.
Step 5- We like companies with strong operational cash flow.
Netflix has one of the stronger cash flows we have seen compared to their debt. For the trailing year, they produced $325 million in cash flow from operations. They haven't needed to, nor does it look like they will, but they could apply this flow of cash from operations and pay off the long term notes in less than 8 months. In addition, cash flow from operations has increased year over year for the last three years.
Step 6 – We like higher yields.
This issue has a yield to worst of 5.386%. The issuer has a call option where they can call the bonds away starting 11-15-2013 at 104.25. They can call these bonds thereafter annually until the final maturity. This bond is rated Ba2 by Moodys and BBB- by S&P so it is considered a speculative issue. Enclosed is a link to current junk grade bond offerings one can use as a benchmark against Netflix Inc.
Important Yield Forecasts
|Call Price(Maturity)
**Current yield is 7.55%**
Step 7-We currently like shorter maturities.
This issue is first callable in as mentioned in November of 2013. It is unclear at this point, if Netflix will exercise there option. They could be able to call and refinance at a lower rate or choose to let the issue ride. The yield to worst, lowest current yield metric, is 5.386% and this factors in the bond being called at the first call date. The bond is callable, at diminishing price levels, until final maturity on November 15, 2016. If and/or when this issue were to be called or held to maturity, the time frame is concurrent with our economic outlook.
The 5.386% yield till worst case scenario is attractive for a diversified portfolio. Netflix Inc lacks an investment grade rating but has strong operating cash flow, solid business model, and cash which is a solid foundation. The call features of Netflix are comparable to those of Frontier Oil Inc. The issue has similar metrics to our previous bond reports such as Seagate Technology(SPX), Expedia(EXP), Interpublic(IPG) and Unitrin(UTR), which have done quite well for are clients.
Coupon 8.5 %
Ratings Ba2/BB-
Maturity 11/15/2016
Price 112.58
Yield to Worst 5.386% 11/15/2013 called at 104.25
Yield to Maturity 6.293% 11/15/2016
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Disclosure: Durig Capital's clients currently do not have positions in Netflix Inc Corporate bonds.
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Micro Mac: McDonald's Contribution to April Fool's 2017
Look, I know that April Fool's Day is the worst day of the year for the brands, because they have to create mildly amusing but basically inoffensive pranks to keep the wheels of the giant content engine we all live in greased and clicking. And normally I would be leery if not outright hostile towards the idea of covering these pranks after April 1st had come and gone, but McDonald's 2017 outing would be, I think, worthy of a look even in the dog days of summer. It's the Micro Mac.
The Micro Mac is a fourth size variant of the restaurant chain's signature Big Mac sandwich, this one brought down to tiny, adorable proportions. And the thing that really makes it worthwhile is that they actually made a tiny Big Mac, in a tiny kitchen, with tiny kitchen implements—there's a level of craft here not seen inside a McDonald's kitchen since the McDLT was invented.
You can watch the assembly of the Micro Mac, presumably not coming to a McDonald's near you (unless they get really, really desperate), below.


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NASDAQ Dubai outsourcing to Dubai Financial Market systems takes place successfully
The outsourcing of trading of NASDAQ Dubai equities to Dubai Financial Market's (DFM's) systems took place successfully and on schedule today. Trading took place in the shares of DP World and Depa through UAE and international brokers before the market close at 2pm (10am GMT).
Jeff Singer, Chief Executive of NASDAQ Dubai, said: "We are delighted to have achieved a successful migration to DFM's trading platform. This has been a joint effort involving many of our market participants and we are grateful for their support.
"We now look forward to higher trading volumes in due course. Already several more UAE brokers have inquired today about how to become a Member of NASDAQ Dubai."


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Unix in easy steps – ebook (PDF)
By Mike McGrath
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Publication date: April 16th, 2014
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About the book
Unix in easy steps demonstrates how to get the most from any Unix-based operating system using the built-in BASH shell interpreter - the "Bourne Again SHell" (BASH). This is the default shell for Linux distributions (such as Ubuntu), Mac OS X, Solaris, and for the Raspbian operating system on Raspberry Pi devices.
This book will show you how to use the BASH command-line interface and how to employ BASH's powerful programming abilities. Complete examples illustrate each aspect with colourised source code and full-colour screenshots depict the actual output.
Unix in easy steps begins by demonstrating BASH commands for system navigation and file manipulation so you will quickly become familiar with the command-line interface. It explains all the BASH basics before moving on to describe advanced features such as:
- command history
- command-line editing
- environment customisation.
This book then introduces BASH programming with examples of flow control, command switches, input/output, job control, and program debugging - allowing you to create your own executable programs by copying the book's examples.
Unix in easy steps has an easy-to-follow style that will appeal to:
- users who are completely new to Unix-based operating systems
- casual users who wish to expand their knowledge of their computer system
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- those seeking a career in computing and need a fundamental understanding of the BASH interpreter on Unix-based operating systems.
Mike McGrath now lives in South-east Europe, on the sun-kissed shores of the Aegean Sea. Mike gained his extensive knowledge of computer languages while working as a developer contracting to companies around the world. His interests include coins of ancient Greece, dining-out with friends, and the ongoing evolution of the world wide web.
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Over the past decade, astronomers have established the remarkable fact that supermassive black holes have a scaling relationship with their host galaxies. The more massive the black hole, the more massive is the galaxy's spheroidal component (either an entire elliptical galaxy or the central bulge of a spiral galaxy). This M-sigma relation tells astronomers that the evolution of galaxies and their supermassive black holes are intertwined (see the cover story of the July issue of S&T).
Until now, this relation only applied to large and medium-size galaxies, where astronomers have found supermassive black holes. But in a paper to appear in the June 10, 2006, issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters, Laura Ferrarese (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Canada) and 11 colleagues say it extends all the way down to very-low-mass galaxies, albeit in a modified form.
The team studied 100 elliptical galaxies, from giant to dwarfs, imaged as part of a Hubble Space Telescope deep survey of the Virgo Cluster. Coupled with spectroscopic observations at several telescopes on Arizona's Kitt Peak, they found that the masses of compact stellar nuclei, which are found almost exclusively in the fainter galaxies, share the same scaling relationship with their host galaxies as do supermassive black holes. They also found that the nuclei of two low-mass galaxies in our Local Group, M33 in Triangulum and M110 (NGC 205), one of the Andromeda Galaxy's satellites, also follow the same relation. Neither galaxy shows evidence of a supermassive back hole.
The results suggest that all galaxies may form dense, central objects — either a supermassive black hole or a compact stellar cluster — that contain about 0.2% of the galaxy's spheroidal mass. The team speculates that compact stellar nuclei could be "failed black holes" — systems in which the central mass failed to collapse gravitationally all the way down to nature's ultimate abyss. The same conclusion has received further support by the work of Elizabeth Wehner and William Harris (McMaster University, Canada) and Joern Rossa (Space Telescope Science Institute).
"We were quite excited when we found this result, as I think it adds another important piece of information to the puzzle," says Ferrarese. "Compact nuclei are as fundamental a constituent of galaxies as supermassive black holes. Explaining how they formed might hold important clues as to the mechanisms by which the galaxies themselves formed."
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When only down-home comfort food will do, Bob Evans hits the spot. Go for lunch or dinner and top off the meal with a slice of Bob's creamy French Silk Pie. Or try our easy version at home.
How to Make It
Preheat oven to 350°F. Grind cookies in a food processor. Mix in butter until crumbs are moistened. Press into a 9-inch pie pan. Chill for 15 minutes. Bake until set, 10 to 12 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack.
In a saucepan over medium-low heat, stir 1/4 cup cream, chocolate and marshmallows until smooth, 5 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool for 15 minutes.
Whip 1 cup cream until soft peaks form. Add cocoa; beat until stiff peaks form. Stir a third of whipped cream into chocolate mixture; gently fold chocolate mixture into whipped cream. Spoon mixture into pie shell; smooth top. Chill until set, about 2 hours.
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Arnold Wright, the father of Army Staff Sgt. Dustin Wright who was killed with three other soldiers in an attack in Niger on October 4, spoke to Time Magazine on Wednesday about a condolence call he received from President Donald Trump on Tuesday and his thoughts on what his son knew when he volunteered for military service. Wright is an Army veteran as are his wife and another son. Wright blasted the controversy over the condolence call Trump made to the Myeshia Johnson, the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson who was also killed in the Niger attack. Wright's comments and observations are 180 degrees opposite of the highly negative experience reported by Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) about Johnson's talk with Trump.
Rep. Wilson accused Trump of saying to Myeshia Johnson, "He knew what he was signing up for, but I guess it hurts anyway." Wilson later accused Trump of a cover-up and said the Niger attack would become "Trump's Benghazi".
Staff Sgt. Dustin Wright.
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Arnold Wright earlier spoke to CBS News , reporting his call with Trump lasted about twenty minutes with Wright doing most of the talking, focusing on his concerns over lack of air cover for his son's patrol. Wright said Trump was "real cordial" and he was confident Trump would look in to the lack of air cover.
In his interview with Time, Wright blasted the controversy surrounding Trump's call to Myeshia Johnson, saying the focus should be on his son and the kind of man he was and that he "died in a bad situation that needs to be changed".
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…Arnold Wright, the father of the late Staff Sgt. Dustin Wright, said he and Trump spoke for about 20 minutes, and that Trump mostly listened.
"He talked to me about the loss of my son and how he served with honor and dignity and he just wanted to give me a call to thank me," Arnold Wright told TIME in a phone interview. "I told him the kind of man Dustin was. We talked about his deployment. … We got troops out there with no air cover. There are still teams in the country. That was the main point that was the conversation."
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Arnold Wright said he had no qualms about the fact that Trump's phone call came nearly two weeks after his son's death was announced…
"The tone was great," Wright said. "His comments were appropriate."
When pressed if Trump had said something similar to him, Wright said twice that Trump did not, adding that he didn't see anything problematic about it anyway.
"I'll say it: my son knew what he signed up for. He signed up to be a green beret. He had no illusions about what that meant," said Wright, a military veteran himself. "My son came from a military family with a tradition that dates back to 1812. He fully knew what it means to serve and the risk involved."
Wright, who declined to say whether he supported Trump in the 2016 election, said the focus should be on the lost soldiers and not Trump's response.
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"This isn't about Donald Trump and this isn't about a damn phone call," he said. "This is about my son and the kind of man he was. He died in a bad situation that needs to be changed. And he's not coming back home."


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Joep Lange, Who Died On Flight MH17, Changed The Way We Fight AIDS
The AIDS community is in shock over the news that dozens of its members were aboard the Malaysia Airlines flight that was apparently shot down Thursday. The sorrow is particularly widespread over the death of Joep Lange, a Dutch researcher and advocate, who played a pivotal role in the AIDS movement for more than three decades.
"We've lost one of the giants in our field," says Dr. Richard Marlink, who heads the Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative. "We've lost a voice that I don't think is easily replaced."
Colleagues of Lange said his career embodied some of the most important shifts in the way scientists have approached the fight against HIV/AIDS: He gave patients and advocates more of a say in setting the research agenda, and he worked with governments and businesses to ensure that breakthroughs in treatment become available to even the poorest patients.
"[Lange's] life's work didn't just reflect the changes in AIDS," Marlink says. "He led those changes."
Dr. Helene Gayle, who succeeded Lange for a two-year term as president of the International AIDS Society in 2004, agrees. "He could connect the dots between the different aspects of the HIV fight," says Gayle, who is now president of the nonprofit CARE. "There are some people who are just clinicians, or some people who are just researchers, or just on the prevention and behaviorial side or the social side. He really understood it all. And he was truly a scientist with a heart."
Lange, who was 61 and headed the department of global health at the University of Amsterdam, began his work on AIDS as a doctor and clinical researcher in the 1980s. His earliest contributions were scientific. He was the lead architect of many early trials of antiretroviral therapy and studied how to prevent HIV-positive pregnant women from transmitting the virus to their babies.
Gayle describes this work as groundbreaking. But she and others say Lange's true genius lay in realizing the need to translate scientific efforts into the broader, real-world context.
"Oftentimes people on the research side don't think about the impact of policies on people," Gayle says. "And that's something Lange cared deeply about."
From the start, Lange pressed for researchers to move beyond Europe and the U.S. and work in low-income countries, where the AIDS crisis was most acute. He pioneered efforts in Thailand and later, in parts of Africa.
Lange was also among the first in the scientific community to recognize the importance of listening to and engaging with patients and activists.
The two groups initially had little contact, recalls Shaun Mellors, an advocate who first met Lange in the mid-1990s.
"He was deeply committed to involving people living with HIV and also broader civil society in his discussions and meetings," says Mellors, now executive director for Africa at the nonprofit International HIV/AIDS Alliance.
When it became clear that the U.S. government wouldn't allow HIV-positive foreigners to attend the 1992 conference of the International AIDS Society, originally planned for Boston, Lange helped organize the conference in the Netherlands. He was also instrumental in pushing the society to hold its first conference in an African country — South Africa — in 2000, Mellors says.
On his frequent trips to Africa, Mellors says, Lange made a point of checking in regularly with people who were HIV-positive, "not as patients, but trying to get a sense of what their issues were, what their needs and desires were." Mellors says. "Lange valued the importance of community voice, and he championed that in the way he worked."
Lange often mentored activists, whom he deemed promising — reaching out to Mellors, for instance, to explain the science behind the research.
"He made me realize I didn't have to be intimidated by science," Mellors says. "And that in order to be effective as an activist, I needed to understand and question the science."
Lange also took to heart the corollary of that insight — that to be effective as a scientist, Lange would need to be an effective activist, Mellors says.
Most recently for Lange, this had meant working to increase access to medical care, not just for HIV/AIDS, but more generally. He was the founder of the PharmAcess Foundation, which aimed to put more doctors and nurses in sub-Saharan Africa. The nonprofit has spun off a health insurance fund for Nigerians, Tanzanians and Kenyans.
Colleagues said Lange's success as an activist was largely a tribute to his personality. His humor was dry and a bit wry, but his manner was gentle. Stories of Lange's kindness abound.
He insisted on making Gayle's frequent layovers in Amsterdam comfortable, even though she would often arrive at dawn. Lange would pick her up at 6 a.m. and take her to his house for coffee, a stroll, a shower or quick nap. "I'd always say, 'Oh Joep, it's too early. And he'd say, 'No, no, I'll be there.' "
It will be hard for anyone to replace Lange, Gayle says. But she is confident that Lange's inclusive style will ensure that his work will continue, even after his death.
"The thing about a good leader is that they don't try to do it all by themselves," Gayle says. "They build teams. And Joep has built great teams wherever he's gone. So there are people who are poised and ready to take on the work that he started."


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DARIEN — In an entreaty for forward-thinking on downtown redevelopment, Jon Zagrodsky asked the town to take a look into the past.
Rather than focus on established issues like height of buildings and density, Zagrodsky — speaking in a private capacity and not on behalf of the Board of Finance, of which he is chairman, at the first public hearing, Tuesday, on Baywater Associates' Corbin Drive redevelopment project since the original application was withdrawn in Oct. 2016 — sought to provide historical context with an anecdote on the origins of the Eiffel Tower.
Zagrodsky said that when it was first proposed, the Parisian landmark stirred great controversy and spurred organized efforts working against its construction. He read from an 1887 declaration made by the "Artists against the Eiffel Tower," in which the artists imagined the structure a "giddy, ridiculous tower, dominating Paris like a gigantic black smokestack, crushing under its barbaric bulk Notre Dame, the Louvre or the Arc de Triomphe."
History, of course, did not agree.
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Roma, know as the Eternal City, is the capital of Italy. It's the famed city of the Roman Empire, the Seven Hills, La Dolce Vita (the sweet life), the Vatican City and Three Coins in the Fountain. Rome, as a millenium-long centre of power, culture (having been the cradle of one of the globe's greatest civilisations ever) and religion, has exerted a huge influence over the world in its roughly 2800 years of existence.
The historic centre of the city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. With wonderful palaces, millennium-old churches, grand romantic ruins, opulent monuments, ornate statues and graceful fountains, Rome has an immensely rich historical heritage and cosmopolitan atmosphere, making it one of Europe's and the world's most visited, famous, influential and beautiful capitals.
Today, Rome has a growing nightlife scene and is also seen as a shopping heaven, being regarded as one of the fashion capitals of the world (some of Italy's oldest jewellery and clothing establishments were founded in the city).
With so many sights and things to do, Rome can truly be classified a "global city".
A visitor's biggest challenge in Rome is to decide how to cram in as much as time limitations allow, without doing so much that the true masterpieces in art and architecture are overlooked. Reach a good balance by taking some time out to sit at pavement cafes and people-watch, in order to pick up the slower pace of Rome..
How to get here
by plane
Leonardo da Vinci/Fiumicino International Airport. Rome's main airport is modern, large, rather efficient and well connected to the city centre by public transport, the Leonardo Express leaves every 30 minutes to Roma Termini
Ciampino International Airport, located to the southeast of the capital, this is the city's low-cost airline airport,
by tram and metro
In Rome,there are six tram lines and three-and-a-half Metro lines
by train
Rome's main railway station is Roma Termini. Other main stations are Roma Tiburtina, Roma Ostiense, Roma Trastevere and Roma Tuscolana.
by car
the city is ringed by an avenue - the Grande Raccordo Anulare or, simply, the GRA. If you are going to the very center of the city any road leading off the GRA will get you there
by boat
the port of Rome is Civitavecchia, an hour and a half away from Rome
what to see....
There is so much to do and to see in Rome, sights are everywhere waiting to be discovered, classical ruins, early places of worship, ancient fountains and Renaissance palazzos. Against this dramatic backdrop, where centuries of different architectural styles vie for the visitor's attention, you will find a modern, vibrant city with a smorgasbord of activities, eateries and museums.
Must-sees in Rome include the iconic Colosseum, the city's most classical ruin as well as the former Roman temple- turned- church, the Pantheon. Marvel at the 50 meter wide Trevi Fountain, Rome's largest Baroque fountain, and the beautiful façade and interior of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore. Pay a visit to one of the most ancient parts of the city, the Palatine Hill full of archaeological ruins. The Borghese Gallery contains one of the world's greatest art collections, with hundreds of statues and other artefacts, the Doria Pamphilj Gallery famous for its incredible pieces of art and for its palazzo. The Vatican Museums, with the Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel, are also home to classical statues, frescoes and other decorations. St Peter's Basilica, the heart of the Catholic Church. and the Square.
what to visit....
The medieval town of Anagni with the Romanesque castle-like cathedral and the impressive Papal Palace. Bomarzo with his Park of the Monsters. The Roman Castles, a hilltop towns southeast of Rome, famous for their pastoral surroundings and palace-castles. Frascati is famed for the wine and Villa Aldobrandini with its surrounding gardens. At Castel Gandolfo see the Papal Palace and gardens and views across Lake Albano. Genzano overlooks Lake Nemi and is known for shopping; the Ducal Palace and visiting the Corpus Christi floral display. Albano Laziale slopes down towards Lake Albano and has ancient Roman remains. Ariccia is a good place to taste the local roast pork and visit the 17th century Palazzo Chigi. At Velletri enjoy the Camellia Festival in March and the Archaeological Museum. Cerveteri important ancient Etruscan city. The archaeological site of Ostia antica. The Abbey of Montecassino on a rocky hill southeast of Rome. Tivoli, a hilltop town east of Rome, famed for its three beautiful villas – UNESCO sites Renaissance Villa d'Este with its beautiful gardens and Hadrian's Villa Adriana built in 118-138AD plus Villa Gregoriana with its famous Great Waterfall and Grottoes of Neptune. ... and more
what to eat....
Roman cuisine is based on seasonal ingredients mostly from Roman Campagna, and prepared in a simple way. Among these, the most important are vegetables (typical are peas, globe artichokes and fava beans), meat (milk lamb and goat) and cheeses (Pecorino romano and ricotta). Also used is the fat of prosciutto, while olive oil is used only for raw vegetables and - occasionally - to fry.
Pasta is one important element of Roman cuisine.
Famous pasta sauces include amatriciana, carbonara, (a sauce made with pancetta or guanciale - pig's cheek -, cheese and egg), cacio e pepe and gricia (like carbonara but without eggs).
The old-fashioned coda alla vaccinara (oxtail cooked in the way of butchers) is still one of the city's most popular meals and is part of most of Rome's restaurants' menus. Lamb is also a very popular part of Roman cuisine, and is often roasted with spices and herbs.The city is known as a centre of white wine, especially with the warm territory. Frascati and Castelli Romani have been called the best ones in the city.
what to buy...
Rome has excellent shopping opportunites of all kinds - clothing and jewellery (it has been nominated as a top fashion capital) to art and antiques. You also get some big department stores, outlets and shopping centres, notably in the suburbs and outskirts.
Main shopping areas include via del Corso, via Condotti (plus the surrounding streets) and via Cola di Rienzo; the finest designer stores are around via Condotti, whilst via del Corso has more affordable clothing. The surroundings of via del Tritone, piazza Campo de' Fiori and the Pantheon are the places to go for cheaper items.
The lovers of vintage and antique products will find in Rome various markets: Porta Portese, only on Sunday morning in the Trastevere area; Dei Fiori, especially flowers and vegetables, opens in the morning and is located in Campo de 'Fiori. It's a fascinating and colorful; Piazza Fontanella Borghese, every day, except Sunday, and sells books and antiques. It is located near the Spanish Steps; Via Sannio: 5 minutes from the San Giovanni metro stop, this market is open on business days until lunchtime. Here you will find new or vintage clothing.


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Add a visual punch with a pomegranate salad
The superfood I can't get enough of at the moment is pomegranate. Full of antioxidants, vitamins, fibre and anti-inflammatories, the arils (not seeds, as they are commonly called) pack a punch visually; their jewel-like appearance makes just about any recipe look fabulous.
Australian pomegranates are now in season so make the most of them while you can.
They're quite easy to prepare, though fiddly. Cut the fruit in half and peel away skin and pith, turning it inside out to release the arils. Wear an apron if you are wearing white! You can also do this in a bowl of cold water and skim off any bits of pith or the parchment-like membrane that surrounds the arils as they float to the top.
The sweet/sharp burst of flavour as you bite into a pomegranate aril is deliciously refreshing.
This salad is a traditional dish prepared in the Middle East; I like to use fresh mint and parsley but dill or coriander can also be used. Add some pistachios for crunch if you like.
Serves 4
200g pearl barley; 1 tsp salt, plus salt and pepper to taste for dressing; 1/3 cup olive oil, divided; 1/2 red onion, finely sliced; 1 carrot, peeled and shredded; arils of 1 pomegranate; 1/4cup chopped fresh herbs (mint and parsley are good); 2 tbsp pomegranate molasses; juice of half a lemon.
Bring a pot of water to the boil and add barley, salt and 1 tablespoon of oil. Return to the boil, reduce heat and simmer for 20-25 minutes. Drain and allow to cool.
Heat a tablespoon of oil in a small frying pan and cosok onion over low heat for 4-5 minutes. Add carrot and cook for a further minute. Remove from heat and allow to cool.
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Dominic Chavez is a Boston-based free-lance photographer who specializes in global health coverage. In the last 18 months, the Ministerial Leadership Initiative has supported Chavez and writer John Donnelly's travel to all five countries that work with MLI: Ethiopia, Mali, Nepal, Senegal, and Sierra Leone. In this fifth of five segments, one from each country, Donnelly interviewed Chavez about his work and about the images below. What follows are his perspectives on his assignment in Ethiopia, which focused on the Federal Ministry of Health and its efforts to bolster community-based health care.
In the village of Shera Dibandiban, about 50 miles southeast of Addis Ababa, the capital, Lomi Desse, 38, tends to her garden. She has helped the health extension workers teach others to live healthier lives by installing proper latrines and running water as well as eating more nutritious foods
"In a way, I was taken aback by how well off this woman was. She was kind of living the African dream. She had running water, she had an awesome house, she had an amazing walk-through, front-yard garden with flowers, and trees that were filled with flowers. She had a big piece of property to grow her own food. She was totally self-sustained. The health extension workers educated her and gave her guidance on having running water, a good toilet, and eating well, and she is going to have a happy, healthy, productive life. She is going to be alright. She was one of the wealthiest people I've ever met. I don't mean wealthy as in material things, but as in happy, healthy, a good home, a place she can produce her own food and sell food. She wasn't dependent on an NGO, she wasn't dependent on a government, she was totally self sustained."
Health extension worker Lomita Bekele uses simple technology to listen to the heartbeat of a fetus during a checkup of Medhanil Legesse, who was eight months into her pregnancy, in the village of Shera Dibandiban.
"We're at a small clinic, a health post, in the middle of nowhere, and this just kind of shows how bare-bones the resources are. But it also shows a well-trained staff, and the good common sense for a pregnant mother to get checked out, to see if everything is on track. It seemed like kind of an ideal health post. There were two staff members, they had a computer, they seemed to have a good supply of medication, so it was nice to visit it and see the staff taking care of people."
Health extension worker Lomita Bekele talks to Medhanil Legesse during an ante-natal care checkup.
"This is the same health extension worker, and she was quite impressive. What I liked most about her was her ability to connect with not only her patients, but her ability to explain and show us her role and her responsibility. In the picture, you get a sense of her explaining something and a sense of the connection between her and the patient. What I like about the photograph is she is reaching out to her and that creates a dialogue between the two."
Ethiopia's Health Minister Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a meeting with his top staff at the Federal Ministry of Health in Addis Ababa.
"He's kind of an interesting guy. It's like he has a responsibility for empowering his staff as well as influencing people of power. In this picture, it's like you get a sense of him in one of these marathon meetings that just won't end. You know that these intense conversations have such a big effect on the average Ethiopian. What happens in this meetings will change important parts of how the health system runs, so there's a tremendous amount of pressure on this ring of leaders in that room."
Roman Tesfay, Director General of the Policy, Planning and Finance General Directorate at Ethiopia's Federal Ministry of Health, makes a point during a Ministry meeting in Addis Ababa.
"She is surrounded by men mostly, but to her it's not a gender thing; she's leading. It's a nice complementary light on her and it shows her in the middle of her daily job. You can't help but like her, or like these other people around the table. They are the real thing. It's not a movie. It's real life. They have long prepared for these days that they are living and working now. They have spent a lifetime preparing to do what they are doing. You can't help but want to see who they really are."
Ato Fikru Tessema of the Health Sector Reform Directorate in the Federal Ministry of Health in Ethiopia.
"This is just like a kind of a solid picture, not really a portrait, that portrays his enthusiasm for his work. He has a good energy, a good personality, and he seemed to take his work very seriously. I just wanted to photograph him closer and closer, so eventually it became more of a head shot, and it was a vertical and I almost never shoot verticals. I was drawn in closer to him because of his personality and the light on his face."
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