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BEIJING — An Australian writer who was detained in China last week is suspected of "endangering national security," the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Thursday, confirming that he is the third foreigner to have been detained on that ominous charge since last month.
The writer, Yang Hengjun, arrived in the southern city of Guangzhou on Friday on a flight from New York, despite warnings from friends about the risks of returning to China, where he was born, at a tense time. Officers took him away before he and his wife and child could catch a connecting flight to Shanghai, according to friends of Mr. Yang who spoke to his family.
The Australian government confirmed on Wednesday that Mr. Yang, 53, had been detained. But the severity of the charges against him was unclear until Thursday, when Hua Chunying, a spokeswoman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told reporters in Beijing that Mr. Yang was suspected of crimes related to "state security." She referred to Mr. Yang as Yang Jun, and later said that was his officially registered name.
Beijing's state security bureau detained Mr. Yang "on suspicion of criminal activities endangering national security," Ms. Hua said at a regularly scheduled news briefing. "Currently, the case is still under investigation under the law."
Ms. Hua did not say what specific crimes Mr. Yang was accused of. But "endangering national security" is a sweeping set of potential charges that include espionage and political subversion. Two Canadians were detained in China on the same broad accusation last month.
Those detentions have created a deep rift between China and Canada. And Mr. Yang's case appears likely to similarly strain Australia's relations with China at a volatile time, and to fan broader criticism about the increasingly heavy-handed use of vague security laws under China's president, Xi Jinping.
Already, China's handling of the case has prompted polite criticism and prodding from two Australian government ministers.
Before Ms. Hua's announcement, the Australian minister for foreign affairs, Marise Payne, said in Sydney that she was seeking "further clarification from the Chinese authorities as a priority" about Mr. Yang's detention. Ms. Payne also pressed for China to allow Australian Embassy officials to visit him.
"We have requested and we do expect consular access at the earliest possible opportunity in accordance with the bilateral consular agreement," Ms. Payne said at a news conference in Sydney.
But it appears that Mr. Yang is not being held in a conventional police station or detention center.
Ms. Hua said the Beijing state security authorities had imposed "compulsory coercive measures" on Mr. Yang, using a term that can refer to detention outside the usual settings. Christopher Pyne, the Australian defense minister, who was in Beijing on Thursday for previously scheduled talks, told Australian reporters there that Mr. Yang was under "residential surveillance" — which can mean being held in a home, hotel or other informal site.
Mr. Pyne also pressed for Australian access to Mr. Yang. "There have been meetings between the Australian government and the Chinese government to talk about the situation with Mr. Yang," he said. "But as yet he is not being provided with consular support."
Mr. Pyne also said that it had taken four days for the Chinese government to notify Australia of Mr. Yang's detention, a day longer than required under rules agreed upon by the two governments.
"Obviously that is disappointing," Mr. Pyne said. "We will be raising that, too, with government officials."
Ms. Hua, the spokeswoman, denied that China had violated the agreement. She said that "the Chinese side informed the Australian side within three days."
Feng Chongyi, a China scholar who was Mr. Yang's Ph.D. adviser at the University of Technology, Sydney, said it was "essential that the Australian Embassy in Beijing force them to allow access." Mr. Feng, who was briefly detained by the Chinese authorities in 2017, said there was a "very high risk that they can subject Yang Hengjun to torture."
"They can use all kinds of leverage — using your family, tell you that your family will be bankrupt or telling you things they've said," Mr. Feng said. "They will use all kinds of leverage to force a confession."
China's detention last month of the two Canadians — Michael Kovrig, a former diplomat turned policy analyst, and Michael Spavor, a businessman — occurred less than two weeks after the Canadian police arrested Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei, China's biggest telecommunications equipment company.
Ms. Meng is on bail in Vancouver, facing a likely court battle over whether she can be extradited to the United States, where prosecutors have accused her of taking part in fraudulent bank transactions for deals that violated American sanctions on Iran. Supporters of Mr. Kovrig and Mr. Spavor have said that the Chinese authorities appeared to have engineered their detention to put pressure on Canada to let Ms. Meng return to China.
It is less clear, though, whether Mr. Yang's detention is related to broader tensions between China and Australia.
Mr. Yang, who worked for the Chinese Foreign Ministry before setting out on his own as a novelist and commentator, became an Australian citizen in 2002. After migrating, he remained an influential voice in China with a large internet following. He has used his online presence to offer lectures, current affairs commentaries, advice on migration to Western countries and online sales of health supplements while also staying within the bounds of official acceptance.
Critics say that even as he cast himself as an independent voice, Mr. Yang went out of his way to soothe the Chinese government. He has spent the past two years with his family in New York, where he was a visiting scholar at Columbia University.
In recent years, Australia has become more wary of Chinese political and military influence, passing a sweeping new espionage bill last year to counter foreign interference, even as Australia's economy has benefited from China's enormous appetite for raw materials and agricultural goods. And last year, Australia said that Huawei could not take part in a planned rollout of 5G, the next generation of mobile phone networks.
But Ms. Payne, the foreign minister, said she saw no evidence that Mr. Yang's detention was connected to the detention of the Canadians or to Australia's decision on Huawei.
"I don't believe there's currently any evidence of such a connection," she said. "If there were one, I would be concerned."
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DLF-Trifoliumis spending 3 million on a new 4,000m2 (43,000ft2) grass seed mixingfacility and distribution centre just outside Edinburgh.
Itwill be the biggest investment in grass mixtures production ever seen in theUK, with the capacity to handle up to half of all the agricultural grass seedsown in the country.
Mostof the seed passing through the plant will have been grown on farms in the UKand mainland Europe, with the rest coming from as far as Canada and NewZealand.
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Webelieve grass will play an increasing role within UK farming, as livestockproducers strive to produce more meat and milk from home-grown forage, saysTim Kerridge, Agricultural Sales Director for DLF Trifolium.
Morefarmers are realising that re-seeding pastures with new, higher yielding andbetter quality varieties, boosts grassland productivity and animal output,whilst reducing their reliance on expensive bought-in feeds. We see demand forgrass seed rising in line with this more progressive approach to grasslandmanagement.
MrKerridge continues: This new mixing plant will allow us to cater to the veryspecific demands of all our customers but especially in terms of in-seasonlead times and the just-in-time culture that exists within our businesssector.
Whenfarmers order grass seed in season they need it immediately, and we have torespond accordingly. The new plant will have the speed and capacity to ensurewe can deliver the best lead times in our sector, even at the height of theseason when traditionally most suppliers are forced to extend them by up to aweek, due to lack of capacity.
Wehave designed it to suit our needs now and in the future, and will be able tomanage production output in line with seasonal demand, Mr Kerridge explains.This means we will be able to cope very efficiently with unexpected weatherevents, such as the condensed sowing season of spring 2013, which shortened thedelivery window by around three weeks.
Morethan half of the grass seed sown in the UK has been bred by DLF-Trifolium andthe company has more varieties on the Recommended Grass and Clover Lists in theUK than any other breeding company.
Thesevarieties are marketed under the HF Seeds, Oliver Seeds and ForageMax brands.They are also included in the mixtures of many third party merchant customerswho sell them under their own brand identity.
Allthe forage mixtures will be produced in the new plant from next autumn, whenthe company relocates from its existing site in Leith, which has been operatingas a grass seed mixing facility for more than 50 years.


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Great news PlayStation fans, it looks like there will be more PS2 remakes coming to PS3. In a recent interview with IGN, Shuhei Yoshida, president of SCE's Worldwide Studios revealed that Sony are planning to release more upgraded PS2 games.
"Santa Monica Studios had the brilliant idea to upgrade and improve God of War for PS3 with the God of War Collection that we released last year," Yoshida said. "There were a lot of positive reactions from consumers in doing that, and now we get a lot of suggestions for types of packs they'd like to see."
"So we are looking to continue to do these HD conversions,"
Now we know more games are coming, what do you want to see? My games are FFVII, of course, maybe a Metal Gear Solid Collection or even a remastered Grand Theft Auto Collection, assuming Rockstar are willing to play ball.
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Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, Inc. (SESA), A US subsidiary of Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. Ltd, Japan, recently announced the hiring of Robert Jovingo as LIMS Process Engineer for their state-of-the-art Liquid Injection Moulding System Technical Center in Akron, Ohio.
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Jovingo said: "The goals of the LIMS Technical Center are to drive the design of new LIMS products, and provide full-scale process development of LIMS materials. Additionally, we will provide value-added support at new and existing customers with training, moulding trials, prototyping, production start-up, and process improvements."
With over 25 years of experience in liquid silicone moulding, Jovingo's primary focus will be to support the design of new LIMS products, provide full-scale process development and testing of LIMS materials, and assist new and existing customers with training, moulding trials, and process improvements. Beginning his career at Quality Synthetic Rubber, Inc. in Twinsburg, Ohio, where he served as Liquid Injection Process Engineer, and installed their very first LSR press in 1992, Jovingo then became the HCR Process Engineer and department supervisor at Forest City Technologies, and most recently worked at Robin Industries, Inc. as Research and Development Process Engineer.
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The Selfie — The art of taking a picture of oneself.
An art mastered by all three of my daughters, my 8 year old included.
An art I begrudgingly adopted when I became a Sweatpink ambassador this past summer.
An art I've come to appreciate as a powerful tool in meeting my health and fitness goals.
What is a Sweatpink Ambassador you might ask? Sweatpink is a community of fitness bloggers who are every day women like you and me committed to living a healthy lifestyle and sharing our passion with others. We accomplish this through our blogs and social media channels. I was honored to be selected as an ambassador last July and promptly began sharing a lot more of my daily habits via selfies and other photos across my social media channels.
What I discovered in the process is how valuable a tool these selfies can be. Not only was I inspiring others in being completely transparent about my habits, my good days and not so good days, I also started feeling empowered by the changes I was seeing in my photos.
As you know, this past year was a challenging year for our family, and though I did my best to eat healthy and make time for exercise as often as possible I was mostly in survival mode. I took care of myself so I could be present to my family and handle the craziness but my primary focus was on them. I stayed healthy but my fitness level and stamina took a toll.
Then July came along and I suddenly came back to life when I attended Blogfest and the IDEA World conference. For 4 days I was surrounded by women all passionate about health and fitness, attending blogging workshops and many fitness master classes… and, yes, I took a lot of selfies! I have to be honest, I was not too thrilled with what I saw. The reality of my year of greatly diminished activity was staring me in the face… I had felt it too, during the classes, but I am strong willed and was so excited to be challenging myself again that I pushed hard in every single class. It felt Ah-Ma-Zing! The spark started a burning fire and by mid September I was back in the gym five to six days a week, with my new training partner, Christiana Greene.
Christiana is a fellow Sweatpink ambassador so we've had a lot of fun sweating it out together, taking photos of our various feats and sharing them on social media. It felt a little weird and self centered at first but I got over that fairly quickly thanks to the awesome feedback I started getting right away.
By far the most amazing thing for me was to SEE my own transformation! I committed to training to regain my stamina and strength and with that my energy and focus. I gained all of these but what blew me away was how quickly I started seeing changes in my body… I can't tell you how many times I wished I had taken a "before" picture so I could compare it to an "after" picture. Physical change was not my main focus but I'd be lying if I told you I don't LOVE the changes I see! And yes, that it the power of the "healthy selfie". In posting my workout photos day after day, week after week, I've publicly charted my transformation. It's exciting and rewarding and so empowering! I love to see definition, tone, and a sliming down of my frame. It feels awesome!
With the New Year right around the corner and many of you setting health and fitness goals here are 3 ways in which the Selfie can become a powerful tool in reaching your goals:
The Selfie Provides Accountability
We all know that accountability plays a huge role when it comes to sticking to our health and fitness goals. What better way to stay accountable than to post your sweaty selfies? Yep embrace those sweaty moments. No make up needed, just that beautiful post workout glow that says "I love my body and treat it with love and respect." 🙂 I post these regularly on my Instagram and never cease to be amazed how many people find them inspiring. Are you ready to inspire others while you stick to your healthy lifestyle?
The Selfie Provides Important Feedback
The selfie provides much needed feedback in more ways than one. One of the wonderful things about having a workout partner is that she can take photos for me so I can focus on executing the exercise. Okay so that's not technically a selfie but it's an invaluable tool. I can see right away what my posture is and whether I need to make adjustments or not.
And of course I can see my transformation… Muscles gaining more definition… Stomach flattening ( "Do I really have a six pack?")… Butt tightening … Yep I like what I see 😉
The Selfie Provides Many Reasons to Celebrate!
We women have a tendency to focus on all of our imperfections and tear ourselves apart… STOP! Love yourself and love your selfies.. Celebrate every workout just because you stuck it out and made it through no matter how tired you felt. Admire the changes you are creating! Yes go ahead and love on yourself, you deserve it!
My selfies often include videos of new moves I want to master or a new milestone reached. I can't tell you how powerful these videos are!
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NEW DELHI -- India's health ministry announced on Monday that the country's COVID-19 cases have surpassed 1.8 million, reaching 1,803,695.
As many as 52,972 fresh cases were added to the tally in the past 24 hours, according to data released by the ministry. (India-COVID-19)
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BANGKOK -- Thailand's Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Monday instructed authorities to help flood victims in several provinces affected by tropical storm Sinluka.
The prime minister confirmed he has ordered the authorities, especially those in the northern provinces of Chiang Mai and Nan, the northeastern province of Loei and the central province of Phitsanulok to urgently take relief measures for villagers affected by torrential rains and flash floods due to the tropical storm. (Thailand-Tropical storm-Impact)
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SEOUL -- China is expected to record a positive gross domestic product (GDP) growth this year by overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic at a fastest pace, a South Korean economic expert said.
"China's second-quarter GDP growth is 3.2 percent. If China's economy is normalized and its GDP rises between 6 and 7 percent in the third and fourth quarters, China's annual GDP growth rate would be in a range of 2.6-3.0 percent this year," Jeon Byeong-seo, director at the Institute of Chinese Economic and Financial Research, said in a recent interview with Xinhua. (South Korea-China-Economy)
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JALALABAD, Afghanistan -- Up to 24 people including three attackers were killed as fighting for the control of Jalalabad prison in the eastern Nangarhar province has been continuing since Sunday evening, a provincial government spokesman said Monday.
The victims, according to the official, include three assailants and 21 others including civilians, jail guards and security personnel. (Afghanistan-Attacks)


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1. William Henshall m Margerie Gyll 2.. Thomas Henshall (?-c1631) m - Kendrick 3... John Henshall (1611-c1687) m Elizabeth - 4.... William Hinshaw (?-1699) m Elizabeth - 5..... Thomas Hinshaw (c1680-?) m Mary Marshall (c1685-?) 6...... Jacob Hinshaw (1710-1796) m Rebecca Mackey (c1716-1796) 7....... Benjamin Hinshaw (1738-1840) m Elisabeth Hinshaw (1750-1823) 8........ Jacob A. Hinshaw (1778-1826) m Phebe Allen (1789-1869) 9......... Jacob Allen Hinshaw (1826-1910) +Peninah Scott (1829-1910) 10.......... Enos H. Hinshaw (1847-1923) 1,2,3 10.......... Simpson Scott Hinshaw (1848-1901) 1,2,3,4 10.......... Nancy Scott Hinshaw (1857-1935) 1,3,4,5 10.......... Lewis Hinshaw (1858-1858) 1,4 10.......... Elkannah James Hinshaw (1860-1947) 1,4,5,6,7,8,9 10.......... Mary E. Hinshaw (1863-1938) 1,4,7,8 10.......... Elwood Scott Hinshaw (1866-1928) 1,4,5,6,7,8 10.......... Ora Etta Hinshaw (1868-1917) 1,4,7,8 10.......... Orla B. Hinshaw (1870-1937) 1,5,6,7,8,9 10.......... Jacob Allen Hinshaw (1871-1951) 1,4,8 10.......... Minnie May Hinshaw (1876-1953) 1,4,6,8
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Born 9-27-18265,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15 [8-26-18266,16], Holly Spring MM, North Carolina5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15.
He married Peninah Scott5,6,12,17,18 [Penina Scott1,4,6,13,19, Peninnah Scott5,14], Nov 29 18455,6,12,17,18, Lynn MM, Randolph County, Indiana5,6,12,17,18. Peninah, daughter of Edward + Chloe Scott2,6,7,15,20, was born Feb 6 18292,6,7,15,20 [Jun 29 182916, May - 18299], Indiana2,6,7,15,20.
Jacob and family were shown in the 1850 census, Washington Township, Randolph County, Indiana:2
Jacob and family were shown in the 1860 census (Jun 13 1860), Washington Township, Randolph County, Indiana:3
Jacob and family were shown in the 1870 census (Jul 13 1870), Washington Township, Randolph County, Indiana:7
Jacob and family were shown in the 1880 census (Jun 16 1880), Washington Township, Randolph County, Indiana:8
At Cherry Grove MM on 2-8-1896, Jacob A. & wife Peninah, Lynn meeting, were received in membership.6
Jacob and family were shown in the 1900 census (Jun 1900), Lynn, Washington Township, Randolph County, Indiana:9
Jacob and Penina were shown in the 1910 census (Apr 19 1910), South Main [street], Lynn, Washington Township, Randolph County, Indiana:15
Peninah died May 12 1910.1,4,19,22
Jacob Allen Hinshaw died Dec 20 1910.1,11,14,19
Jacob wrote a letter in 1896 that paints a picture of his early life at Lynn MM in Randolph County, Indiana.12 Click here to see his letter:
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I produttori attraggono fondi in Germania
di Erik Kirschbaum - Reuters
- Introdotto nel 2005, il Fondo federale tedesco per i film ha stanziato 180 milioni di euro con notevoli effetti sull'industria cinematografica tedesca. Il Fondo ha anche aiutato a ricreare un clima di fiducia culturale in un paese che aveva perso la gran parte dei suoi talenti e delle sue infrastrutture durante l'epoca nazista. Bernd Neumann, ministro della cultura, spera di estendere il programma oltre il termine iniziale di tre anni.
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BERLIN: It was more than just the historic settings in Berlin that drew Tom Cruise to Germany last summer to film his $80 million epic Valkyrie, about a failed 1944 attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
It was also the cash.
The German government was able to show Cruise the money - writing a check for €4.8 million, or $7.1 million, for the MGM/United Artists production.
A fresh source of film subsidies has injected new vigour into Germany's rich cinematic tradition, which before the Nazis took power in 1933 had been a great rival to Hollywood, with classics like Fritz Lang's Metropolis and Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel featuring a young Marlene Dietrich.
"It's been a Wundermittel," said Dieter Kosslick, director of the Berlin Film Festival, which starts Thursday, using the German term for miracle cure. About 34 international co-productions got money last year under the program, known as the German Federal Film Fund, or DFFF. None of the films are ready to show in Berlin.
"The whole film industry infrastructure is being expanded and professionalized," Kosslick said.
Germany is not the only country luring international productions with cash. Singapore, Hungary, Canada and others offer handsome rebates to film production companies. But besides filling production schedules at studios like Babelsberg and Bavaria, the new fund - worth €60 million in rebates to 99 films, including "Valkyrie," last year - has helped revitalize cultural confidence in a country that lost much of its talent and infrastructure in the Nazi era.
Lang, Dietrich, Billy Wilder and others fled to Hollywood, and the local industry was used as a tool by the Nazis for propaganda. It never really recovered, even after unification in 1990.
Now the €180 million program that runs to 2009 has Hollywood, European and domestic filmmakers tripping over each other to make enough of their films in Germany to qualify.
The grants - up to 20 percent of a film's budget provided enough of it is spent in Germany - had a total economic effect of €388 million in production spending in 2007, its first year. They run alongside €230 million in existing German film board subsidies.
The fund has reversed a situation where for many years German taxpayers unwittingly helped finance Hollywood films through private tax-shelter film funds. Germans were previously able to offset losses on investments in film, making the film funds attractive to thousands of private investors. They put €2 billion a year into them, and 70 percent of the money went to Hollywood.
The government first closed the tax loophole in 2005 and then introduced the DFFF, which the culture minister, Bernd Neumann, said he hoped to extend beyond its initial three-year run.
"There's no more 'stupid German money,' " Kosslick said, referring to the tax loophole. "Something like €20 billion of German tax money was squandered on Hollywood films hardly anyone saw. The situation is much better now. I'd call this 'smart German money.' "
Business is booming at Babelsberg, which calls itself the largest studio complex in Europe. There were 11 major films produced at the studios in Potsdam in 2007, with revenues of €245 million, up from just one major film in 2006.
"We're at the start of a sustained development," said Carl Woebcken, chairman of Studio Babelsberg. The status of Berlin as a relatively inexpensive European city is another helpful factor, he added. "We're expecting the positive trend to continue."
Aside from the Cruise film, due out in 2008, other international co-productions lured to Germany in the last year include the Wachowski brothers' Speed Racer, which got €9 million from the fund, and Stephen Daldry's The Reader.
There is also The International, starring Clive Owen and Naomi Watts, and a Danish World War II drama by the Danish director Ole Christian Madsen, Flame & Citron, starring Mads Mikkelsen, who played the principal villain in the recent Bond film Casino Royale.
DFFF fund representatives have gone on the road in recent months to try to spread the word, sending delegations to Italy, Britain, France, Austria and Denmark to encourage more applicants.
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3-pointers: Takeaways from Rockets' win over Hawks
Takeaways from the Rockets' 119-111 win Monday against the Atlanta Hawks:
Rockets coach Mike D'Antoni laughed at the thought. Had James Harden put up one more shot in pursuit of a 33rd consecutive game scoring at least 30 points, D'Antoni said Harden would have been roasted on Twitter.
D'Antoni does not indulge in social media, but he was right — and wrong. Harden would have been ripped for taking that last shot. But he is still Harden and it is still 2019 so he was ripped anyway.
Still, as Harden brought the ball up in those last seven seconds, crossing mid-court in time to give it a last shot, he did not stop to consider the streak, the impropriety of a final shot or how Joe DiMaggio was treated on Twitter after the 57th game.
He instead did what he and countless others have over the years and dribbled out the clock, happy just to have taken the win.
Harden had always said the streak was just about finding a way to win. He did not have to find a way in those last seven seconds.
If anything, he seemed relieved, not by no longer having the streak to maintain, but by no longer needing to carry the load he had for more than two months. He quickly pointed out that the Rockets had six players in double figures, with another two points away.
The Rockets had ended a much longer streak when the game started, ending the arduous run of 59-consecutive games in which someone was hurt when they had their full lineup available for the first time all season. With 22 games remaining, Harden said there is time to work out the kinks in a reworked rotation with their 18th starting lineup of the season and reach the level they have sought before the playoffs.
The Rockets had won without Harden at Golden State on Saturday. They won without his shot on Monday. They will head to Charlotte without the streak going along for the ride. They seemed fine with that, having had their fun with it, but hoping to move on to bigger and better things.
A broken streak and routine
Long before James Harden's final 3-pointer missed, making him 0 for 10 from deep and finishing without a 3 in a game for the first time this season, it was clear why he does not like to ever take a day off.
When Harden has been asked about his success, including his 32-game streak scoring at least 30 points that ended on Monday, he always cites the work. He has long been a grinder, a player that will not compromise on his work ethic or routine.
His shot has come from the grind; a point he has especially made this season when he has relied on the high degree of difficulty step-back 3s. That is not a good shot for most players, but Harden has made it a key to his offensive explosion this season and always explained it as a result of the drills he puts in between games.
Those are the shots he takes "every single day," he has often said. That is why, he had said, they went in from New York to Oakland.
That is also why he hates to miss practices and won't skimp on his shooting drills or nearly anything in his routine. He goes through the same workouts, taking the same shots at the same time nearly every day. He even arrives for home games at almost the exact same minute, taking the court at the same time with the same running, no-look flip of a shot, then leaving the court at the same time each night before a run to chapel and then back to the locker room.
Nothing changes if he can help it. That was how he had worked his way into being an unstoppable scorer. He caught a wave and rode it.
Then he had to get off for the All-Star break. He played through the neck injury for a game and then barely got out of bed for three days.
With that, the shot was off and Harden seemed out of sync. But in some ways, even that might have pointed to how remarkable the run had been. So many things could have stopped it along the way, from a bad shooting night to a defense that forced the ball out of his hands. One way or another, he kept finding ways to score.
That took remarkable focus, not just through the games, but in between when he had to keep pushing.
In the long run, the break was probably a good thing, or at least it would have been had it not ended with a strained neck. Harden said the days spent barely moving impacted his play more than the injury, which should allow him to get back to his routine.
It was a phenomenal run, and fun while it lasted. He averaged 41.7 points in those 32 games (along with 7.6 rebounds, 7.4 assists and 2.22 steals.) And for what it is worth, his streak of 34 consecutive games scoring 28 points is the NBA's longest since the 2001-02 season.
Another balanced effort
The Rockets struggled along the way, but did not need James Harden to score 30 points, or even make a 3-pointer, to get a win.
This could be considered a good thing. There will be plenty of games in which he will have to be a spectacular scorer, but that should not have to be every night.
Instead, Chris Paul scored 20 for a third-consecutive game, matching his longest run of the season. The Rockets the past two seasons are 32-6 when he gets 20 points. With eight assists and just one turnover, he has an assist-to-turnover ratio of 6.08 to 1 in his past seven games, seeming able to get teammates good looks at any time.
Eric Gordon and Gerald Green looked comfortable moving easily to get those shots, combining to make 7 of 18 3-pointers. Iman Shumpert returned and could offer another shooter. The combination of Kenneth Faried and Clint Capela, clearly a work in progress, could provide more reliable interior scoring as Paul and Harden get accustomed to working with two big men usually near the lane, rather than one.
That should make the Rockets more balanced which could make them more consistent. The key, as always, will be defensively. But in a game the Hawks put in 17 3-pointers, with Trae Young sensational, the Rockets needed to score. They put up 119 points with Harden 0 for 10 on 3s.
To be a contender, they always would have to have a variety of weapons, and a second star. In the past two games, they have seemed to have that, heading to the final 22 games regular-season games with their entire roster available in time to finally smooth out the rough spots and reach another level, rather than just find a way to hang on.
Tinkering with big lineup
Rockets coach Mike D'Antoni will continue to look at the lineup with two big men playing together, but he is clearly not sold. He waited 71 second-half seconds to go back to the usual four-out lineup, replacing Kenneth Faried with Eric Gordon.
That was done in part to get Gordon going after he had scored just two first-half points. He had been far better as a starter this season, averaging 17.4 points on 33.7 percent 3-point shooting as a starter compared to 13.6 points on 28.6 percent 3-point shooting off the bench. If he does remain in his reserve role, the Rockets will need Gordon to score as he did as a starter or as he had as the sixth man in his first two seasons with the Rockets.
Beyond that, the Rockets still have to work out the kinks of having Faried and Capela on the floor together. They did cut back on P.J. Tucker's minutes, one of the goals of having him as a three where the Rockets have more depth. Other than Chris Paul, who played 35 minutes, three to five more than the Rockets would prefer, the playing time was finally kept where D'Antoni wants it, even with Nene sitting out.
The Rockets, however, will have to work to make sure they have the spacing to still drive and finish.
Faried knocked down another 3-pointer, giving him twice as many in his 15 games with the Rockets as in the other 453 games of his career. He has scored in double figures in all 15 of those games, the longest streak scoring at least 10 points in his career. But the Rockets cannot have his scoring take away from anyone else's if the lane is clogged. That will take time to work smoothly.
On Monday, after the initial burst built on strong 3-point shooting, things worked better when the Rockets went back to their typical lineup. Faried and Capela were on the floor together for just three second-half minutes.
The idea is worth more time. Besides addressing the shortcomings on the defensive boards, perhaps the Rockets' greatest issue, Faried in the starting lineup adds athleticism to a group that lacks the explosiveness he brings. If he can defend well on the perimeter, and he seems to have that potential though it has never been considered his strength, the Rockets should be able to find ways to smooth things over on the offensive end.
The Rockets need to give it time, but also have to keep winning. But while they continue with the experiment, Monday's second half showed that they can always go back to what they know when necessary.


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A.T.M. is your weekly digital source dispensing music, art and film. This week we have the latest collaborative EP from producers Tanner Ross and Julian "Jules Born" Randolph, a current solo exhibition by artist Robert Thiele, and Wild Tales, a film co-produced by Pedro Almodóvar and directed by Damián Szifrón.
"The Y Tape" by Tanner Ross and Jules Born
I came across The Y Tapes while browsing for new music on SoundCloud and have been listening to it non-stop.
Listen to the full EP below.
Robert Thiele: 3 for 8 mins 23
In this solo exhibition at Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Robert Thiele displays new works in which he embeds found objects into his paintings. The objects are slightly visible through an aperture in the painting created by Thiele.
The exhibition is open through May 30, 2015. More info here.
"Wild Tales (Relatos Salvajes)"
Nominated as Best Foreign Film at this years Academy, Wild Tales is a black comedy—six short stories about distressed people, united by a common theme of violence and vengeance.
Wild Tales is now playing at O Cinema Wynwood and Miami Beach theaters. More info and show times here


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Mundesley round-the-world sailor survives close whale encounter
PUBLISHED: 11:25 31 October 2017 | UPDATED: 11:28 31 October 2017
An intrepid brain injury survivor had a close encounter with a whale while on a Round the World Yacht Race challenge.
David Greer, 65, from Mundesley survived a brain injury in 2012 which left him unable to walk.
He is taking part in the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race; an 11 month ocean sailing challenge.
And Mr Greer described the encounter with the whale as one of the highlights of the race.
He said: "There was no time to be frightened."
"We had to pull together as a team to bring our boat under control.
"We had to bail out the water, undertake a temporary repair to the hole in the boat and to continue bailing water as we returned to port.
"Sadly we didn't have much time to see if the whale was seriously injured as our focus was on saving ourselves, but we did glimpse it swimming away and believe that it survived.
"Once on dry land, there was a moment of realisation of what a close call we had."
Read more: Survivor tackles toughest endurance challenge on the planet
Mr Greer's team, PSP Logistics, began the second leg of the race on a high after coming in second to cross the first leg's finish line.
They left Uruguay for Cape Town on October 4, but just one day into the race, they suffered a disaster, when their boat collided with a Southern Right whale, flooding it, and forcing them to return to Uruguay.
They restarted the race on October 10, and battled through four major storms to reach Cape Town on October 28 - 24 days after they first set out.
The team were awarded the Leg 2 prize for best social spirit, and best on-board photograph.
Read more: Mundesley man says goodbye to wife and two dogs, as he sets off on the toughest endurance challenge on the planet
And once the team arrived at the harbour in Cape Town, they were given the news that their skipper - the only professional sailor on board - had resigned.
The team were given a day off sailing, and on October 30 they practiced with their new skipper.
They will set sail again on October 31, as they take on the third leg of the race, from Cape Town to Fremantle, Australia; a 25-day journey of 4,800 miles.
And when the team arrive, the intrepid survivor will be reunited with his twin brother for the first time in 15 years.
Mr Greer said his highlights of the second leg were surviving to tell the tale of the whale; the exhilaration of riding the storms; and finally seeing Cape Town and Table Mountain come into view after 24 days at sea.
Read more: 'I am living my dream' - Mundesley sailor starts second leg of Round the World Yacht Race
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yeah, you know the rest…i swear, writing this, it still amazes me somedays that i was blessed with two boys. these two little guys have opened my eyes to a whole new world of boyhood that i never knew…
but that doesn't mean that this mama can't blend my boys love for all things boy (think superheroes) with my love of making sure that our house looks nice. (confession: i might have pulled off some jedi mind tricks to make it happen, but nevermind about that…)
so, little mr. re-nest #1 is obsessed (i reiterate, obsessed) with all things superman. good lord. one day before christmas, we were on a relatively innocent trip through hobby lobby for my usual canvas + acrylic paint shopping trip, and we
mistakenly walked by the metal sign home decor area…which happened to be filled with various superman designs. to say that we stopped and looked would be a tremendous understatement. we stopped. begging ensued. reminders started that christmas was right around the corner, and well, wouldn't it be nice to put some of these signs on your christmas list? more begging ensued. i had to take pictures with my iphone to have a reference to send to santa. and, i probably bribed him with candy just to get him away from that section.
fast forward to christmas: presents are being ripped open, and lo and behold, sissy came through! (sissy is my sister….the boys' term of endearment for her.) we had a couple of bright and shiny, new superman metal signs from hobby lobby! oh, the excitement to get them placed in his room!
let's just say, i had one idea as to where they could go, + my five-year-old opinionated son had another idea. who won? do you even need to ask?
i had one goal with getting these included in little mr. re-nest #1's room: do it without adding any more holes in the wall. mission: accomplished.
when he was born, i ordered two of the espresso gallery frames from pottery barn kids (18″ x 18″ with the 5″ x 7″ opening). way back then, i placed some fun numbers scrapbook paper in the openings, and called it a day. that stayed that way until two weeks ago when i had a brain wave…
and, it worked! i was able to take my frames, remove one of the spacers in the frame, and place the flat metal sign in the frame (with the glass included!) what do you think? (our little superhero loves his new decor!)


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President Mahinda Rajapaksa has expanded the mandate of the Presidential Commission on mission persons and appointed three international experts to advice the commission.
In a Gazette notification, President's Secretary Lalith Weerathunga said that the President is of the opinion that the Commission of Inquiry should have the benefit of the advice of distinguished international experts, whose internationally recognized expertise and experience encompasses legal and other relevant dimensions of the matters covered in the mandate.
Accordingly the President named Sir Desmond de Silva, QC (Chairman), Sir Geoffrey Nice, QC and Prof. David Crane as the three experts to advice the commission.
The experts will serve on an Advisory Council to the Commission of Inquiry to which the President says he may appoint other experts as may be required from time to time, to advise the Chairman and Members of the Commission of Inquiry, at their request, on matters pertaining to the work of the Commission.
Sir Desmond has developed a vast experience before international criminal tribunals in relation to the gravest of international crimes while Sir Geoffrey Nice led the prosecution in the trial of Slobodan Milosevic at the international tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.
The Mission Persons Commission has now been tasked with investigating and reporting on on the principal facts and circumstances that led to the loss of civilian life during the internal armed conflict that ended on the 19th May 2009, and whether any person, group or institution directly or indirectly bears responsibility in this regard by reason of a violation or violations of international humanitarian law or international human rights law.
The Commission will also investigate if such loss of civilian life is capable of constituting collateral damage of a kind that occurs in the prosecution of proportionate attacks against targeted military objectives in armed conflicts and is expressly recognized under the laws of armed conflict and international humanitarian law, and whether such civilian casualties were either the deliberate or unintended consequence of the rules of engagement during the said armed conflict in Sri Lanka.
The appointment of the experts and expanding of the mandate of the Commission comes after the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) launched its own investigation on the war and appointed three experts to oversee the probe. (Colombo Gazette)


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Have the Belgians learned to make poutine with their excellent frites, and if so where can one try them?
I can answer the first question fairly easily and inexpensively, and intend to go over there myself.
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Philip Hammond has restarted the sale of government owned shares in Royal Bank of Scotland, offloading a stake worth almost £2.6bn to City investors at a loss.
The chancellor, through UK Financial Investments, which owns the RBS stake on behalf of the government, kickstarted the sale of 925 million shares, representing about 7.7% of the bank's stock.
The government, which will still own a majority stake in RBS almost a decade after the bailout during the financial crisis, said it would reduce the state's ownership of the bank from about 70.1% to 62.4%.
The disposal marks the first time RBS shares have been sold since the summer of 2015, when Hammond's predecessor George Osborne was forced to defend the sale of a first tranche at a loss of about £1bn.
Analysts said the government would need to sell the shares for slightly less than the 280.9p closing price on the London Stock Exchange on Monday in order to entice City investors to buy. The Treasury said it would announce the sale price on Tuesday morning.
However, at just below the current share price, the latest sale will net less than the last disposal under Osborne, when the government offered shares to investors for 330p.
Labour criticised the latest share sale, with the disposal coming well below the 500p per share paid by the government to save RBS at the height of the financial crisis, costing taxpayers more than £40bn.
John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, said: "There is no economic justification for this sell-off of RBS shares. There should be no sales of RBS shares, full stop. But particularly with such a large loss to the taxpayers who bailed out the bank."
The view at the Treasury has increasingly become that RBS shares are a yoke that needs to be removed as quickly as possible, with potential to use the funds to help cut the government's budget deficit. Officials are of the view the price paid for the shares is an irrelevance because they were bought to save RBS from collapse and not as an investment.
City analysts also said there was little chance of the government recovering all of its money from RBS for at least several years. Sam Dumitriu of the free market Adam Smith Institute said it was a mistake for Labour to think that because RBS was once worth twice as much it would ever be worth that again.
"Chasing your losses is not a sound investment strategy, it's problem gambling," he said.
The latest disposal could help Hammond lay the ground for raising public spending at the budget later this year. The chancellor earmarked RBS share sales worth £3bn for each financial year until 2023 at the autumn budget, helping to keep the government's budget deficit shrinking over the course of the current parliament.
However, the sale is likely to raise eyebrows because it comes after RBS's outgoing chief financial officer, Ewen Stevenson, said now was not the right time to sell shares in the bank. Political turmoil in Italy and the threat of a global trade war triggered by Donald Trump have rattled financial markets in recent weeks, making it a riskier time to sell shares.
Even so, shares in RBS have rebounded in recent months, with the bank having reached a $4.9bn (£3.6bn) settlement with the US Department of Justice to end an investigation into sales of financial products in the run-up to the financial crisis.
Laith Khalaf, senior analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: "The taxpayer is still going to be significantly out of pocket as the government sells down its stake. Few argue the RBS bailout was necessary to maintain financial stability but the cost of that intervention is now starting to emerge."


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The Latest Fantasy Baseball Trends, and What You Should Do
What may be the hardest thing to do in a Fantasy Baseball season is knowing when to move on from a player or when to believe the hype and try to acquire him. We are in late April. The weather is starting to warm up in the northeast and that means the bats should also. It's still early to make any kind of long-term prognostications for anyone who has been somewhat productive in their career, but anyone at the bottom of your roster who isn't getting the job done can be moved on from. Those last couple of spots are meant to be churned.
Who's Hot
- Ozzie Albies, Atlanta Braves: Albies hit his seventh HR of the season Wednesday night. Fantasy owners could have been happy if he hit double-digit bombs this season more or less reach that number at some point in May. It's not all roses for Albies as some Fantasy owners, like myself, were hoping for more than one lousy stolen base at this point in time. Hopefully the thefts will come as the season progresses. Either way Albies has been one of the more positive surprises in the early going this year.
- Khris Davis, Oakland Athletics: The only reason Davis is never talked about as a Top 25 pick in Fantasy come draft time is because of his AVG. Since his trade to Oakland before the 2016 season, he has hit 92 HRs in 328 games. That's impressive when you consider that he plays his home games in the Oakland Coliseum, which is far from a hitter's paradise. The only negative is that his power is going to come with a sub .250 AVG which isn't ideal, but not the end of the world either, as it is usually in the .247 range which won't kill that category.
- Yoan Moncada, Chicago White Sox: When Moncada went from the Red to the White Sox, he did so as one of the top prospects in the game. Perhaps Chicago rushed him to the majors too quickly, which seemed to stunt his development, but he seems to have figured it out now. It's a small sample size, everything at this point is, but in his last seven games he is batting .375, with three HRs, and he stole a bag (four on the season). Just think of what he might do in that ballpark once the weather warms up.
- Dylan Bundy, Baltimore Orioles: Bundy has become a true ace in MLB. There, I said it. He may not quite be up there with the lines of Chris Sale or Max Scherzer, but he's not that far away either. The only real concern with Bundy is whether or not he can maintain this excellence pitching a full season in Camden Yards and in the AL East. Fantasy owners should be buying in on Bundy, but not overpaying to acquire his services.
- Miguel Andujar, New York Yankees: The injury to Drury allowed Andujar to get extended playing time at 3B and he is showing that he will not be giving that job back to Drury without a fight. Andujar struggled at first, but now seem to be an extra base hit machine. His defense is a work in progress as he is no Graig Nettles, but it's also not poor enough to be a liability. Torres was/is the top prospect in the Yankee system and they didn't call him up just for a cup of coffee. He's here to stay. He's not a major power guy and likely never will be, but rather someone who can contribute in all the categories. Add Andujar if still available or acquire him to fill a hole.
Who's Not
- Brandon Drury/Neil Walker, New York Yankees: What does the emergence of Andujar and Torres mean for Drury and Walker? A bit more time riding the pine than expected. Drury could come off the DL next week, but it seems unlikely that he will reclaim the 3B job from Andujar. Walker is healthy but not hitting and with Torres entrenched at 2B, his best chance for playing time is likely as a left-handed complement to Tyler Austin at 1B, but that goes away when Greg Bird returns next month. The Yankees will have some tough roster decisions to make in the next couple of weeks.
- Matt Harvey, New York Mets: While it's true that so many people don't like Harvey because of his demeanor, it's a shame that he will likely never be the SP he once was. When he first came up, he was must-watch TV, as he could've pitched a no-hitter or perfect game at any moment. That time has passed, and we have been robbed of possible greatness because of injuries. We preach patience quite a bit in this column, but it's time to move on.
- Chris Davis, Baltimore Orioles: Chris is the other Davis, the much less productive one. He has little to no value in Fantasy. Power is more prevalent now than it was 5-10 years ago. There just isn't a reason to keep him on your roster and you're never starting him with an AVG that is currently sitting well south of the Mendoza line. The risk greatly outweighs the reward.
- Gregory Polanco, Pittsburgh Pirates: A good deal of the production for Polanco seems to have occurred during the first 7-10 days of the season, but everything has plummeted since. He's batting .205 overall and only .174 over his past 14 games. Should you be giving up on him? No, of course not, but an MVP-type season is not coming. He is the definition of a player that got off to a hot start but is now regressing back to the player we guy we expected him to be coming into this season.
- Carlos Santana, Philadelphia Phillies: Is it the switch in leagues that is hurting Santana's numbers? Possibly, but he does have a criminally low BABIP. It stands at .191, when over his career it has been .268. That could indicate that Santana is just hitting into some bad luck and the good times are coming if you can remain patient.
As always feel free to follow me on Twitter and ask any questions you like, @georgekurtz.
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Progressive Agriculture and Allied Industries Workers' Union of Zimbabwe (PAAWUZ) says working conditions for most farm workers are appalling and need to be urgently addressed. Its leader, Raymond Sixpence (RS), told NewsDay (ND) senior reporter Obey Manayiti that the union is trying to engage government and other stakeholders to help improve the plight of farm workers. Below are excerpts of the interview:
ND: Can you briefly tell us what you stand for?
RS: Progressive Agriculture and Allied Industries Workers' Union of Zimbabwe is a registered trade union in terms of the Labour Act and we represent workers in the agriculture industry. We have been operating since 2013, but were registered in 2016. We have a membership of about 17 000 people.
ND: Since you became operational, what have you managed to achieve?
RS: Farm workers have been working for many hours outside the stipulated times and the unions that were there before us did nothing to correct that.
Workers were subjected to many injustices and they suffered in silence because no one was there to fully represent them.
You will find out that during the tobacco planting season, workers will be working overtime, but they will not be paid for that. We are trying to stop that and we have already made strides in that regard.
There are issues of child labour as well that we are dealing with. Another issue which is very important is that farm workers are paid peanuts.
They get about $70 to $80 per month, and this is far below the poverty datum line.
There are also issues of underdevelopment in farms. You will find that some have no schools and children have to walk for quite a long distance and this is of concern to us, especially these days.
We do not expect such things to be happening and also, there are issues to do with shortage of medical facilities.
Workers do not have medical aid and they are expected to make ends meet with that $80 and to us, this is unfair because the majority cannot afford to pay their medical bills.
In short, there is a lot of unfairness at the farms and, as a union, we are trying very hard to put a stop to that.
Workers' rights need to be addressed and with right people in place, their plight will be addressed.
ND: In your view what should be done to correct the situation?
RS: Look, farming is a very lucrative business and this is why agriculture is one of the top income earners for this country.
The bulk of the foreign currency that we have comes from agriculture, but in turn, the workers are not being appreciated.
Our issue is that there must be reasonable wages which are sustainable for the farm workers and above that, we want them to be given a cocktail of incentives such as medical aid so that they access primary health care with ease.
Their living conditions need to be improved and we are going to continue fighting for that.
ND: Are the workers paid timeously?
RS: In rare cases, yes, but the fact of the matter is that the majority of farmers owe their workers.
They don't pay them on time and we have had to take some farmers to court over that.
What we want is for the farmers to respect the rights of their employees and start treating them with respect.
Some farmers owe workers' wages for periods of up to five months, and it is not acceptable.
ND: Who in particular often defaults paying wages?
RS: These are powerful politicians, connected white farmers and the Chinese as well. We have a problem of farmers who do not pay their workers because of their political muscle and in most cases if workers complain, they just fire them and hire other people.
Politicians must separate their political office from farming business. Some people prefer to take their matters to court knowing very well that they will frustrate the processes and workers will continue to suffer.
We have many cases of farmers beating up their workers or taking advantage of their illiteracy to avoid paying them. However, we have taken to court a lot of politicians on the issue of defaulting on payments.
ND: You talked about underdevelopment and biting poverty at many farms. What are you doing to have this corrected?
RS: There are no adequate schools and health facilities in most cases. If we don't have clinics, many workers are just dying because they cannot access basic medication and we have cases where people rely on traditional medicines, but the danger of that is that some medicines are not tested or in some cases, they are given wrong dosage or diagnosis.
The government should prioritise having crucial amenities in farms and we want that to be addressed as a matter of policy.
ND: We have the cholera epidemic ravaging the country and you talked about shortage of clinics, how safe are your members?
RS: Fortunately, we haven't recorded any cholera case at the farms, but we are actually on a national conscientisation drive so that farm workers are on the lookout and protect themselves.
ND: As an organisation, what are you doing to ensure the plight of farm workers is addressed and their conditions improved?
RS: We are engaging the National Employment Council, Labour ministry, National Social Security Authority and other stakeholders to have the wages and working conditions reviewed.
As we negotiate further, we want the money they are getting to be doubled for them to sustain themselves.
Prices of basic commodities and other services are rising each day and workers have nowhere to turn to and they are the worst hit by this current cash crisis.
We know for a fact that the farmers get incentives from the government and they must extend those to their workers, but that is not happening.
We want our members to get bonuses, a total shift from what we are seeing now. Farmers must stop abusing their workers.
ND: We have had the land reform programme, where the majority benefited, did your members benefit anything?
RS: We are engaging government and we have been writing letters to the Minister of Agriculture to consider giving out land to farm workers.
The biggest challenge to that is we have some unions who were busy telling their workers not to apply for land during the land reform exercise and now people are regretting.
We are still waiting for a response from relevant people, but we want that to be addressed as a matter of urgency as well. Newsday


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Bury St Edmunds look to start 2019 like they ended 2018 – with a bang!
PUBLISHED: 09:00 05 January 2019
Bury St Edmunds signed off 2018 in style, by winning three of their four matches during December and clinching their last victory thanks to Cameron Ritchie's last kick of the game in a 24-22 win over Old Albanians.
Now Nick Wakley's improving side face a big trip to Guernsey, to kick-off 2019, hoping to continue their good run at a club who are currently in the bottom three of National League Two South.
However, head coach Wakley is expecting a tough challenge against a Guernsey side who boast a big pack, and who have been unlucky to lose several of their home matches by a very small margins.
"Guernsey are improving, and they have recruited. They have a good back row and a strong pack," explained Wakley, before the Wolfpack's departure for Guernsey yesterday. "It will be a different brand of rugby from what we are used to, and it will be a real challenge.
"Even though they are struggling near the bottom, Guernsey have the fourth highest number of bonus points in our division. They have lost a lot of tight home games, by just a score.
"But we will be hoping to put our game-plan into play. We have been operating with more width, using both wings.
"Beating Old Albanians just before Christmas was a nice little bonus. I thought we thoroughly deserved that win. We were strong in defence, and clinical at times.
"I also think we can improve on that. We won with the last kick of the game, but that kick did not change what was I going to say to the boys after the match. Win or lose, this was a good performance.
"Old Albanians tried to pin us back, and wait for us to make mistakes, but we were strong and shrewd with our exit strategies.
"Now we face a big month ahead, starting with Guernsey before we play three teams who are above us in the league (Barnes, Rams and Tonbridge Juddians).
"Three of those four games during January are away from home as well, so it will be a good test for us," added Wakley, who has 10 players unavailable for this weekend's trip.
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RUSSIA: The first of 25 double-deck electric multiple-units which Aeroexpress has ordered for its services to Moscow's Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo and Vnukovo airports has begun its journey to Russia from Stadler Rail's Altenrhein factory in Switzerland.
The €381m order for 16 four-car and nine six-car aluminium-bodied EMUs based on Stadler's Kiss family was finalised in May 2013. The first four EMUs are being manufactured at Alternrhein, with the rest to be assembled at Stadler's new plant at Fanipol in Belarus. The factory near Minsk will be responsible for commissioning the EMUs, with certification to be undertaken at the Shcherbinka test centre near Moscow.
The 1 520 mm gauge Russian-profile cars are 5 240 mm high and 3 400 mm wide, meaning delivery from Switzerland by rail is not possible. Instead they are being taken by road from Altenrhein to Muttenz near Basel, where the first cars were loaded onto a ship on September 6. They are to be shipped via Rotterdam to Sassnitz and then to Klaipeda, from where they will be taken to Minsk by rail.
The EMUs will have 396 or 700 seats, including 84 in business class, with eight or 13 doors per side. There will be controlled-emission toilets in every car, with one per set being wheelchair accessible. The 3 kV DC units will have three or four drive chains with water-cooled IGBT power converters giving a continuous output at wheel of 2·4 MW or 3·2 MW and a maximum speed of 160 km/h.
Gazprombank is providing a 15-year financing package for the order, with SERV Swiss Export Risk Insurance providing project risk insurance.
The first EMU is scheduled to enter passenger service in June 2015 and the last a year later, providing a 30% to 40% increase in capacity on Aeroexpress services.


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Records on Immigration Prisons Demanded
CHICAGO (CN) – The National Immigrant Justice Center demands that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security release all reports in which the United Nations High Commission for Refugees reported of conditions inside U.S. immigration prisons, in a FOIA complaint in Federal Court. Co-defendant Immigration and Customs Enforcement told the Center that it had nine responsive documents totaling 264 pages but it wouldn't release any of them.
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A CALIFORNIA girl who claims she was trapped in a world of sex trafficking until recently, credits a South Sacramento postman with her rescue.
In June, Ivan Crisostomo, a postal carrier, heard a "desperate crying" coming from behind a tree. When he looked around, he saw 16-year-old Crystal Allen.
"She started to point to her arm, saying: 'They were putting things in me. They were putting things in me. They are coming to get me,'" Mr Crisostomo recalled Ms Allen telling him, according to FOX 40.
She then told Mr Crisostomo that she was able to escape her captors by jumping out of the car as they were driving through a neighbourhood, managing to grab a mobile phone on her way out.
Mr Crisostomo and Ms Allen used the phone to call the teen's mother, Stacy Ohman. Officials with the Sacramento Sheriff's Department were also called.
The postman said he stayed with the 16-year-old until authorities arrived to take her to the hospital. She is now home with her family, CBS13 reported.
Ms Allen was allegedly "drugged, tortured and abused" for three months before she escaped, the news station reported.
"I just cried all the time and prayed that I'd get to see my mum again," the teen said.
It is not currently clear who her alleged captors are or how she became involved with them.
The teen and Mr Crisostomo were reunited on Thursday, when she thanked him for helping her.
"Ivan himself is a hero for saving me," Allen told FOX 40. "Even though he doesn't think it."
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Nike's Air Max 1 Premium Takes on an ACG-Like "Ridgerock" Colorway
Suede, leather and mesh.
The Nike Air Max 1 has had countless colorways since it first debuted 30 years ago. This time, however, the Tinker Hatfield model returns with an ACG-inspired colorway and premium materials. Dubbed the "Ridgerock" colorway, this iteration sees the iconic silhouette dressed in khaki suede, brown/tan leather and sports mesh on the upper, as well as a tan midsole to round out the monochrome base. Hits of "Turbo Green" appear at the Swoosh branding, tongue tab, Air unit and outsole to add some vibrancy and contrast, while embroidered Nike Air branding at the heel counter builds on the luxurious feel.
The Nike Air Max 1 Premium "Ridgerock" is available now in-store and online at Nike's website for $110 USD.