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From the last three years, I face difficulty in walking because of arthritis, then I consulted a doctor, who suggested that I have go through a surgery. Then I heard about stem cell treatment at Giostar Hospital, arrived here. After consulting doctor over here, I felt very satisfied and I went through stem cell treatment. After the first session, only I felt my condition improvement almost 50 percent. Earlier my legs used to get locked while walking, but now this problem is almost gone. Now, after the second sitting, I am feeling very good, and feel that my condition has improved by 70 percent. Until now, one session is left, as the course is of three sittings. Two sessions have already completed and one is left, and I hope that after the third session, my problem will be gone forever. I would like to thanks the doctor and staff at Giostar Hospital. The ambiance is very homely here and I don’t feel that I am away from home. The staff is very cooperative and polite, ad even if we have any queries they talk very politely and all give satisfactory answers to our queries.

Note: Result varies from patient to patient. These testimonials do not constitute typical results nor do we claim otherwise.

Neurol Res. 2012 Mar;34(2):129-42

Authors: Bednar MM, Perry A

OBJECTIVE: Neurorestoration within the human central nervous system (CNS) is a concept that is barely a decade old. Despite this, there is significant clinical activity in this area, although there has not been any attempt to systematically identify these trials and organize them by disease area and phase of development. The objective of this investigation is to broadly review the current state of neurorestorative clinical trial activity ongoing worldwide.
METHODS: Iterative searches of the databases, EU Clinical Trials Register and ADIS Insight were used to locate clinical trials identified as involving neurorecovery/restoration strategies or stem cells for central nervous system diseases.
RESULTS: A wide range of neurorestorative clinical trials (N = 106) are ongoing or planned. Nearly three-fourths of all clinical trials (75/106) are targeting one of four disease areas: multiple sclerosis, stroke, Parkinson’s disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Nearly two-thirds (63%) of 106 ongoing and planned clinical trials focus on cell-based therapy, although these are almost exclusively in phase 1 or 2 of development.
DISCUSSION: Neurorecovery is an emerging field that is currently focused on earlier stages of clinical development, primarily in four disease areas. As the field matures, it is expected that there will be a greater balance of studies across a wider spectrum of CNS diseases as well as in late-stage development.

PMID: 22333068 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]

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Booming economic development in the mid-2000s in Kazakhstan, fuelled by soaring hydrocarbons prices and increased oil production, arrived after a harsh decade of post-Soviet transition in the country. The rise of middle-class consumerism, slow yet steady growth of salaries for employees of state-funded entities, and massive propaganda proclaiming political stability have neutralised the population's civil consciousness and political participation. The state-secured informal control over civil society through the network of GONGOs (government-organised non-governmental organisations) and use of state social order have left few authoritative NGOs in the field. The financial crisis hit the country in 2007 and highlighted a gap between the rich and the poor, invigorating the society's protest potential, albeit it driven primarily by socially vulnerable groups.

Years of economic well-being in Kazakhstan has led to rapid growth in internet penetration – which keeps on increasing. According to official statistics, the number of subscribers rose from 203,000 in 2004 to 756,500 in 2009; [ Statistics Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2010) Number of Internet Users] other government sources referred to 4.7 million users online in 2009. [PRIME-TASS (2009) Количество интернет-пользователей в Казахстане превысило 4,7 млн чел. ( The number of internet users in Kazakhstan exceeded 4.7 million), 19 October.] Critics say the lack of clarity in methodology used by various agencies to show off their successes leaves a narrow field for quality analysis, while excessively high numbers might be a result of counting the same users several times – connected household members, employees having access at work, mobile internet subscribers, etc. The latest official figure was 4.3 million [Novosti-Kazakhstan (2011) Число пользователей интернета в Казахстане достигло 4,3 млн чел. ( The number of internet users has reached 4.3 million), 10 January.] (out of a total population estimated at 16.6 million). Most connections are run by the national internet service provider JSC Kazakhtelecom. A survey conducted by JSC Kazkontent suggests that 37% of its users use social networking sites, 27% prefer forums and 11% host/read blogs [Kazkontent (2011) Обзор казахстанского Интернет-рынка 2007-2011 ( Review of the Kazakhstani internet market 2007-2011), 14 April.].

Political background

Politics is heavily dominated by the presidency and the hidden balancing of interests between various elite groupings. Nursultan Nazarbayev, who is 71, has ruled the country since it gained independence in 1991. Although internationally praised for maintaining interethnic peace and tolerance, the authorities are regularly criticised for their human rights record and electoral practices. Most elections were held ahead of schedule and earned negative assessments from international observer missions. The 2005 presidential election resulted in 91% of votes allegedly going to the incumbent, and the last parliamentary elections in 2007 resulted in a one-party legislature.

The media environment is characterised by stiff government control over both print and broadcast media, either via direct ownership, indirect ownership through national companies or the ruling party, or, more importantly, by restrictive legislation, self-censorship and financial incentives. Opposition and critical voices are effectively excluded from the mainstream media. In these conditions, the internet appears to offer an important space for freer speech. Yet, in 2009, the authorities adopted a set of amendments to various laws that regulate online activities by attaching the status of a mass media outlet to all websites, blogs, forums, etc., and by granting them the prerogative to block web resources whose content runs counter to the national legislation.

The country's Election Law (Chapter 5) does not forbid the use of the internet in campaigns.

Presidential elections 2011

The most recent presidential elections in Kazakhstan were to take place in 2012. In late 2010, a campaign was launched, widely seen as orchestrated by the presidential administration, which sought to extend the authority of the incumbent president until December 2020. The campaigners did not use web tools at all, completely relying on administrative pressure to collect signatures and on state media propaganda to substantiate the process. The application to conduct a referendum on the issue was approved by the Central Election Commission (CEC), and the campaigners vowed to have more than five million signatures collected in close to a two-week period that included the Christmas and New Year holidays.

The internet community and blogosphere criticised the initiative in various posts and articles, some of them satirical. The opposition – the People's Party “Alga” and the Social Democratic Party “Azat”, both unregistered – denounced the referendum, publishing their statements on politically friendly news sites. Unidentified enthusiasts, allegedly associated with the opposition, launched a dedicated website called elbasy.net (“no to leader of the nation”) to collect signatures in support of Nazarbayev's resignation. According to the website, only 604 signatures arrived in the period between 3 March and 12 May of 2011. Another drive-for-signatures campaign was set up by Bakhytzhan Toregozhina, a leader of the human rights and youth activism group Ar-Rukh-Hak, on a popular Russia-based online petition platform. The drive, aimed against the collection of signatures in support of the referendum, generated around 200 signatures. Apparently the activists had chosen a losing approach for articulating citizen protest by using the internet – against the backdrop of the massive campaign managed by the authorities. As a result, the number of signatories was unconvincing for the public and discrediting for the idea. One more comparatively prominent online action was a remixed and redubbed version of the animated movie Shrek satirizing the referendum. It was uploaded to YouTube by an anonymous user, who has never uploaded anything else since. The clip was viewed 1,847 times; only three comments were left.

Support for a referendum was significant and parliament unanimously urged the president to introduce the necessary amendments in the constitution and set a date for the referendum. Although there was no visible protest within the country, international partners were exceptionally critical about the plan by the 2010 Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) chair country to cancel elections. This forced the government to abandon the idea. The Constitutional Council, to which Nazarbayev had sent the referendum bill after the parliament overpowered his veto, found it illegal. The president agreed and suggested that elections be held. Constitutional amendments allowing the incumbent to announce early elections and a separate law to determine that early presidential elections must be held within two months after the announcement were hastily adopted in just two days. On 4 February, Nazarbayev scheduled the elections for 3 April, leaving virtually no space for election campaigning. The opposition was clearly unprepared. “Azat” conditioned its participation with unrealistic demands for the liberalisation of legislation, and stated it would tour the country and monitor elections. No newsworthy actions followed these promises.

The registered candidates who were allowed to run for the presidency included Nursultan Nazarbayev, Zhambyl Akhmetbekov of the Communist People's Party, Ghani Kassymov of the Patriots Party and green activist Mels Yeleussizov. The parties of Akhmetbekov and Kassymov are trying to position themselves as a sort of opposition, but in fact both are phantom organisations, designed to be satellites of the ruling party. There is no political party behind Yeleussizov, who heads the Environmentalist Union “Tabigat”, which does not usually get involved in politics. Kassymov and Yeleussizov had already been presidential candidates in 1999 and 2005 respectively. It was, as a result, widely believed that all candidates in the 2011 elections, except the incumbent president, were booked to act as supporting characters for Nazarbayev's re-election.

The way candidates ran their campaigns supported this assumption. Nazarbayev publicly refused to get involved in campaigning. His competitors sufficed with several paid-for and free (i.e. guaranteed by the election law) publications and TV appearances and some outdoor ads. The campaign was covered very quietly in the media, with no ads aired on TV. In this regard, what appeared to be a sudden desire by the candidates to use social media in their campaigns was not a deliberate intent to reach out for prospective supporters, but seen as a cost-saving way to make it appear as if pre-election agitation was taking place.

Akhmetbekov publicly announced [Kazakhstan Today (2011) КНПК намерена использовать для агитации социальные сети ( KNPK intends to use social networks for agitation), 3 March.] that he would aggressively use new media for self-promotion, but his representation in social networks was the weakest one of all. None of the candidates launched a blog as a more solid and consistent communication medium, and none of them used Twitter. Clearly there was not much they could have written about on these platforms. Facebook was the main campaigning channel used, which basically came down to a “friending” of random users. The Facebook pages failed to provide information on political agendas, to deliver emotional messages to the readers, or even respond to the comments on their pages, which were abandoned immediately after the elections.

There were two noteworthy web-based movements addressing the issue of participation. One of them pushed for voters to take part in the elections in an unconventional way. Alisher Yelikbayev, one of Kazakhstan's top bloggers, backed the call for participation, but since there was effectively no choice to be made between the candidates – and no option to vote “against all” candidates, as had been possible with previous ballot papers – he thought voters should spoil the ballot. [Interview with Alisher Yelikbayev (Almaty), 10 May 2011.] His rationale for doing so was that, on the one hand, this would show people’s readiness to vote if there were normal elections, and, on the other hand, the action would use up ballot papers so that they could not be used for fraud and ballot-stuffing.

On the opposite side was a call to boycott the elections, a campaign championed by “Alga”, both online and offline. As party chairman Vladimir Kozlov said, its idea was “to boycott the elections that had been discredited.” [Interview with Vladimir Kozlov (Almaty), 10 May 2011.] The movement's online front included the creation of dedicated groups and communities on social networking sites. Project coordinators set up pages on numerous social networks, including Facebook and the Russian-based MoiMir and Vkontakte. This multiple online presence was probably a failure, as even the most popular communities had few members (around 400 or less), with members signing on to more than one group. The campaign was accompanied by videos, which included computer graphics, satirically remixed popular movies and other content advocating for the boycott. “Alga's” channel on YouTube has 138 subscribers, several of them accounts set up by the party's regional branches. The most popular video of the whole campaign, redubbed Lord of the Rings footage, gathered 4,300 views. The only evidence of the campaign's impact was the CEC chair's remark that it was “destructive, provocative and insulting for voters.” [Novosti-Kazakhstan (2011) ЦИК призывает граждан не поддаваться призывам бойкотировать выборы. ИА Новости-Казахстан ( CEC urges citizens not to follow the calls for boycott of elections), 16 March.] This response, however, was more likely caused by comments in the party's traditional media, and the distribution of printed leaflets.

Preliminary results of the elections were announced on the day after voting, and the day after that the final results were made public. According to the official data, voter turnout was 89.98%. The incumbent president reportedly received 95.55% of the votes. [Tengri News (2011) Нурсултан Назарбаев набрал 95,55% голосов на выборах президента Казахстана ( Nursultan Nazarbayev won 95.55% of the votes in the Kazakhstan presidential elections), 5 April.]

Disillusionment with politics, coupled with the relative well-being of the population, makes it a challenging task for any activist to campaign, especially on the web, given that access is currently not affordable to many in Kazakhstan. In this regard, it is hard to measure the effectiveness of the campaigns held during the 2011 presidential elections. The fact that elections were neither free nor fair depreciates official data on turnout and voter numbers, further complicating attempts to trace campaign results. The boycott campaign was even harder to measure, as many people – despite the official reports of high voter turnout – opted to stay at home not because they supported the cause, but due to a general lack of interest and absence of political struggle.

Politicians who took up social networking on the eve of the elections were following a fashion, but showed little expertise and commitment in running their accounts on the social networking sites. Moreover, the candidates were not actually opposing each other or the incumbent, so it is quite natural that people showed little or no interest in their campaigns.

Few members of the established opposition – although typically excluded in traditional media coverage – showed a desire to seek new media tools to get their messages across. Awkward attempts to employ online media tools ended up with the uncreative duplication of traditional communication methods that appeared not to appeal to an online audience. There is no understanding that social media bear the potential to recruit new, younger members and sympathisers.

At the same time, it needs to be said that new media are starting to penetrate political life and, notably, government officials are taking the lead in setting up online channels in an attempt to get in touch with the population. For instance, some members of parliament and public figures have actively taken to social networks, but tend to avoid expression of a principled stand or coverage of sensitive issues. At the same time, not all of them respond to comments or get involved in discussions, making many of them again a case of one-way communication. Still, the prime minister's Twitter account is often cited in the news.

There are areas in which social media have repeatedly made a difference. Most importantly, this has been the case when it comes to awareness campaigns (which have included the dissemination of crucial information not covered or insufficiently covered by the mainstream media), and charity campaigns. Experts believe that the efficacy of the latter is explained by the people's readiness for immediate action towards the good, involving no interaction with the authorities. The dead-end nature of political participation in the country rarely produces civil action, except in the expression of virtual sympathy online.

Action steps

  • Advocate for the general affordability of access to the internet.
  • Promote the computer literacy of the population.
  • Encourage the use of social networking websites that have activism-ready functionality, rather than entertainment-centred architecture.
  • Train political activists, civil society and opinion leaders on the basics of online communication, starting with Skype (since it offers easy collaborative communication). They also need to be trained on the effective use of social media with the focus on building trust and sustainable communication channels, dedicated and responsible communication practices, and incorporating multimedia into their work.
  • Training should be supplemented by reviews of the best innovative communications practices and seminars that encourage creativity in order to avoid the mechanical copying of learned methods.
  • Awareness, advocacy or promotional campaigns staged online should be tools for action (preferably offline action).
  • New media should be used to raise international awareness and to keep foreign stakeholders (NGOs, media, politicians, etc.) informed.
  • Recruiting virtual followers on social networking sites should not be random, but based on an analysis of users. Interventions should be targeted at specific groups and communities, etc.
  • Learn by doing; evaluate activities; distinguish between the reasons for error and success.

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Here's why DeGeneres is so good: You think she's not going to do anything, and then—bam!—Jennifer Lopez is yelling expletives on daytime TV because DeGeneres scared her with someone dressed like a cougar. Ashton Kutcher should be shaking in his boots right now, because DeGeneres is actually the Grand Supreme of Pranks. Want proof? Watch these 13 clips, below, and be transformed.

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The time DeGeneres took Michelle Obama to a CVS, and they bought a bunch of random stuff.

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And when she did the same thing to Nicki Minaj?

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America’s descent into totalitarian violence is accelerating. Like the Bush regime, the Obama regime has a penchant for rewarding Justice (sic) Department officials who trample all over the US Constitution. Last year America’s First Black President nominated David Barron to be a judge on the First US Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston.

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Barron’s confirmation ran into opposition from some Republicans, some Democrats, and the American Civil Liberties Union, but the US Senate confirmed Barron by a vote of 53-45 in May 2014. Just think, you could be judged in “freedom and democracy America” by a fiend who legalized extra-judicial murder.

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Bybee and Yoo got rid of torture by calling it “enhanced interrogation techniques.” As Wikipedia reports, these techniques are considered to be torture by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, medical experts who treat torture victims, intelligence officials, America’s allies, and even by the Justice (sic) Department.

Others who objected to the pass given to torture by Bybee and Yoo were Secretary of State Colin Powell, US Navy General Counsel Alberto Mora, and even Philip Zelikow, who orchestrated the 9/11 Commission coverup for the Bush regime.

After five years of foot-dragging, the Justice (sic) Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility concluded that Bybee and his deputy John Yoo committed “professional misconduct” by providing legal advice that was in violation of international and federal laws. The DOJ’s office of Professional Responsibility recommended that Bybee and Yoo be referred to the bar associations of the states where they were licensed for further disciplinary action and possible disbarment.

But Bybee and Yoo were saved by a regime-compliant Justice (sic) Department official, David Margolis, who concluded that Bybee and Yoo had used “poor judgement” but had not provided wrong legal advice.

So, today, instead of being disbarred, Bybee sits on a federal court just below the Supreme Court. John Yoo teaches constitutional law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Boalt Hall.

Try to imagine what has happened to America when Harvard and Berkeley law professors create legal justifications for torture and extra-judicial murder, and when US presidents engage in these heinous crimes. Clearly America is exceptional in its immorality, lack of human compassion, and disrespect for law and its founding document.

Now we have a West Point professor of law teaching the US military justifications for murdering American critics of war and the police state.

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William C. Bradford, the professor teaching our future military officers to regard moral Americans as threats to national security, blames Walter Cronkite for loosing the Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War by reporting the offensive as an American defeat.
Tet was an American defeat in the sense that the offensive proved that the “defeated” enemy was capable of a massive offensive against US forces. The offensive succeeded in the sense that it demonstrated to Americans that the war was far from over. The implication of Bradford’s argument is that Cronkite should have been killed for his broadcasts that added to the doubts about American success.

The professor claims to have a list of 40 people who tell the truth who must be exterminated, or our country is lost. Here we have the full confession that Washington’s agenda cannot survive truth.

I am unaware of any report that the professor has been censored or fired for his disrespect for the constitutionally protected right of freedom of expression.

However, I have seen reports of professors destroyed because they criticized Israel’s war crimes, or used a word or term prohibited by political correctness, or were insufficiently appreciative of the privileges of “preferred minorities.” What this tells us is that morality is sidetracked into self-serving agendas while evil overwhelms the morality of society.

Welcome to America today. It is a land in which facts have been redefined as enemy propaganda, a land in which legally protected whistleblowers are redefined as “fifth columns” or foreign agents subject to extermination, a land in which America is immune from criticism and all crimes are blamed on those whom Washington intends to rule.

Barron, Bybee, Yoo, and Bradford are members of a new species—the Inhumanes—that has risen from the poisonous American environment of arrogance, hubris, and paranoia.

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts’ latest books areThe Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West and How America Was Lost.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops III Salvation DLC Review

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September 6, 2016.

The sun sets on another Treyarch Call of Duty for a couple of years with the last instalment of Black Ops III DLC, and it seems that with Salvation the team could well have pulled it out of the bag with this final batch of multiplayer maps, and conclusion to the zombies story.

Citadel was the first map I played on, and immediately I was struck by the colours. Lots of greens and reds in a medieval style fantasy location complete with castle, battering ram and even a Mage’s tower in the distance. Like the Berserk map from the previous DLC pack, Citadel is visually and thematically a really interesting place for a futuristic shooter.

There is a moat around the castle and a drawbridge which made for some interesting surprise kills. And there is a nice mix of open killing grounds and more tightly-packed areas, particularly within the castle itself.

Micro is perhaps the standout of the whole pack. It’s set on a picnic table within a back garden and for some reason everybody has been shrunk down to the size of ants.

It has a real “Honey, I shrunk the kids” vibe with huge hot dog rolls, ketchup bottles and cans of beer strewn across the place. There are some nice touches with melting ice and bottles dumped in it to keep them cool, as well as sausages sizzling away on the BBQ – even ants crawling all over the cupcakes and other items.

I really liked Micro, not least because it feels like a map that the development team just let themselves and their imaginations go to really come up with something novel and fun. However, as it is a small map there are issues with poor spawn-points at present, with players spawning right in the line of sight of opponents.

Outlaw is a re-imagining of the Black Ops II map, Standoff, and Treyarch have done a really nice job of re-skinning it to look like an Old West style town. Standoff was one of the best maps from Black Ops II and it really lends itself to the new movement style with lots of wall running and open areas.

There doesn’t appear to be too much different to the original map, with the layout pretty much identical and all the same elevations as before. The back alley areas are all still in place and, with the added player elevation, make for some pretty frantic fights.

The central area of the map is really nicely detailed, and there are some interesting touches that add an element of dynamism to the map during play, with a steam train roaring past at certain points.

Rupture is another old Treyarch map, but this time from World at War. Built from the ground up, Rupture re-skins Outskirts from the eight-year-old game and renders it completely unrecognisable.

One of my favourite maps from World at War, I really struggled to see any element of the base map. World at War had significantly larger maps than Black Ops III has in general, to account for times when tanks could be used and as such Rupture seems huge. Littered around the map are mechs that can be entered and utilised in battle, but they are very slow and surprisingly not fun to play with.

The map itself is fairly open with some obvious chokepoints and high elevations to snipe from. Overall, Rupture feels like the weakest of the four new maps.

Revelations is another solid Zombies map, seemingly managing to tie up the narrative for the original cast from World at War.

As I have said in the last three pack reviews, I am not a huge Zombies player, but from what I have seen from this instalment is another strong entry with plenty of secrets and Easter eggs for those players heavily invested in the storyline to uncover.

Salvation feels like a suitable conclusion to Black Ops III, and is the best DLC pack Treyarch have put out for this development cycle. Micro is lots of fun to look at and I like the feeling that the development team really let their imaginations run wild with a couple of the maps.

Outlaw is a good remake of a favourite Black Ops II map and the Revelations map offers lots of surprises for fans of Zombies, nicely tying up the ongoing saga for the original cast. But overall, Salvation is the strongest of the four DLC packs and is a high note for Treyarch to go out on for this instalment of Call of Duty.

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Really feels like Treyarch had some fun with this last pack
Zombies ties up nicely

Rupture feels like a weak point in the pack
Poor spawns on a couple of maps

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Salvation is the strongest of the four DLC packs and is a high note for Treyarch to go out on for this instalment of Call of Duty.


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Golden 1 Center houses a full-stack esports training facility, complete with a broadcast center, content studio and gamer lounge. Designed to be a “venue within a venue,” the facility features state-of-the-art gaming technology, full-service broadcast capabilities to produce live streams and content and amenities to serve gamers, artists and the community beyond. Tournaments and events with theater-style audiences can be comfortably held in the space, with the ability to expand into Golden 1 Center’s premium clubs – as well as a direct feed into the arena’s bowl utilizing the NBA’s largest and only 4K Ultra HD video screen, VSP Skeyeview.

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Sleek. Sexy. Modern. Designed as a cocktail reception space. The most high-end of all the courtside clubs. The room features sumptuous upholstery and highly designed furniture pieces. Suspended over the bar island, the centerpiece of the room is the dragon chandelier designed by Barlas Baylar, a New York based lighting designer. All the elements of this space come together to create a sophisticated and upscale lounge unlike anything in Sacramento.

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Grand Entrance

The most versatile of any space in Golden 1 Center, this area features spectacular views of the interior of the arena bowl, in combination with the hangar doors. The grand entrance is perfect for large scale formal dinners to casual cocktail receptions.

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This special spot, hovering L Street, features multiple groupings of adirondack chairs, two unique, large scale dining tables with built-in shading, and various other seating options. The Deck is perfect for casual cocktail receptions or dining al fresco.

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This bar is the epitome of rustic chic; from the Mooi designed pig tables to the industrial farm house pendants and farm tables, this space truly feels Sacramento. This is a fantastic lounge for cocktail receptions, boasting a great view of the arena bowl as well as a display showcasing iconic neon storefront signs from Sacramento’s past.

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Sierra Nevada Draught House

The Sierra Nevada Draught House features two bars beautifully designed in reclaimed wood and steel, while the view is second to none. The bar also has two banquets overlooking the interior of the arena bowl and various drink rails throughout the space, perfect for a casual standing reception.

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Junction by Bud Lite

This space features a spectacular view of the inner arena bowl, directly across from Sierra Nevada Draught House. Junction features high top tables and stools and two portable bars. This space is perfect for a variety of casual style events.

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The Elms

The Elms consists of two bars, one on each side of the Grand Entry on the third floor of Golden 1 Center. Connecting the two, the bridge features a stone drink rail and spectacular views of the interior of the building and the plaza. The bars feature a variety of seating perfect for a casual gathering.

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Happiness Begins Tour Stops at Golden 1 Center on Tuesday, October 15

After building overwhelming anticipation, GRAMMY® nominated multiplatinum powerhouse trio–Jonas Brothers—announce the details for their 40-city Happiness Begins Tour this summer and fall with special guests Bebe Rexha and Jordan McGraw.  The announcement coincides with the launch of the pre-order for the band’s highly anticipated comeback album Happiness Begins, as well as the launch of their official merch store online today.
Pre-order Happiness Begins (Republic Records) HERE.  For exclusive items from the newly launched official merchandise store visit HERE.
Produced by Live Nation, the “Happiness Begins Tour Presented by American Airlines and Mastercard” kicks off August 7 in Miami, FL and will make a stop at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento on Tuesday, October 15 before wrapping October 20 in Los Angeles, CA at the famous Hollywood Bowl. This marks the first headline tour for the Jonas Brothers in almost a decade.
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The Jonas Brothers have also partnered with Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan platform to ensure tickets get in to the hands of their fans, not scalpers or bots. Fans can register now through Monday, May 6 at 7pm local time HEREfor the Verified Fan presale. Registered fans who receive a code will have access to purchase tickets before the general public from Wednesday, May 8 at 10am local time through Thursday, May 9 at 10pm local time. Additionally, TIDAL subscribers will also have access to an exclusive presale beginning Thursday, May 10 at 10am local time through 10pm local time. TIDAL members can find details for purchasing tickets on via the TIDAL mobile, web and desktop apps.
Jonas Brothers VIP packages will be available and sold exclusively through HOST VIP. VIP package details will be announced on Friday, May 3 prior to all ticketing pre-sales. VIP packages will be available for purchase on May 10. A limited number of LaneOne Premium Packages will also be available, including amazing seats in first 5 rows, GA First On Floor, B-Stage VIP Bar area, transportation, preferred entrance and more.  Check LaneOne for details.
The Happiness Begins pre-order will include instant grat downloads of the band’s hit singles “Sucker” and “Cool,” produced by GRAMMY® Award-winning songwriter, producer, and lead singer of the multi-platinum band OneRepublic, Ryan Tedder. The third instant grat titled “Only Human,” produced by GRAMMY® Award-winning producer Shellback, will follow. Not only will this be the group’s first album since 2009, but it stands out as one of 2019’s most anticipated records.
These announcements set the stage for the boys to light up the Billboard Music Awards tonight with what promises to be a blockbuster performance. The band is expected to perform their first #1 hit at Top 40 radio “Sucker,” which has just clenched its second consecutive week at #1. Be sure to tune in to NBC at 5:00pm PT.  Next up, you can catch them on Saturday Night Live on May 11.
“Sucker” now exceeds 445 million global streams to date. During release week, it clinched #1 on Apple Music, #1 on Spotify, and #1 on iTunes in North America. Globally, it reached #1 on Apple Music, #1 on YouTube, #1 on Twitter, and #2 on Spotify, as well as the #1 Streaming Song and #1 Digital Song. Speaking of making history, the rollout of “Sucker” marked “the first time a band debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart this century.” Continuing the runaway success, “Cool” has notched 70 million global streams and soared to #1 on iTunes Overall Top Songs Chart and Top Music Videos Chart.

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April 30, 2019

Each month, we tap experts from the equipment industry to answer your most commonly asked questions. In this installment, Roger Cleveland, Callaway Chief Designer of Wedges, explains where golfers go wrong when selecting wedges and how you can avoid the same mistakes.

Q. What’s the biggest mistake that average golfers make when selecting wedges for their game? -Shannon M., Delray Beach, Fla.

The first big mistake is not gapping correctly and not having enough wedges in the bag. Most modern irons are built with stronger lofts. A lot of pitching wedges are now 45 degrees or stronger, leaving a huge gap between PW and SW, which is usually 55 or 56 degrees.

Players need to have a gap wedge, sand wedge and lob wedge to achieve the gapping that’s required for optimum scoring. I see a fair number of players carrying multiple fairway woods and hybrids, which is fine, but it shouldn’t be at the expense of another wedge that can be used in the scoring area around the green.

Sole grind is another key factor—if you play primarily square-faced shots, a model like our W grind with more bounce and less heel and toe relief will resist digging and yield better results. If you like to open the face, a more versatile design like our C grind would be a better choice. Be aware that different grinds can work for different players, depending on a number of factors. Getting fit is critical if you want the proper design for your swing and playing conditions.

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Year 6 walk in Shakespeare's footsteps...

On the 4th of July, Year 6 travelled to Stratford to visit the home of William Shakespeare and learned more about the famous poet and author.  During our time here, we visited Mary Arden’s farm - Mary was the mother of Shakespeare. At the farm we saw lots of different animals including donkeys, goats and cows and we even got to feed the goats. We also took part in a Birds of Prey workshop where we saw a type of owl fly and learnt more information about that bird of prey.

During the drama workshop, we focused on Shakespeare and the play Macbeth. As part of the workshop we had to memorise and perform the first part of the play (which was the witch scene). We also practised using freeze frames which we all really enjoyed. This involved half of the room standing still and the other half of the room moving their hands and telling us how to stand while we were stood still.

On the tour of Stratford, we got the chance to see Shakespeare’s birth place and where he went to school. We got to visit Warwick Castle and explore all of the different dining halls, secret doorways and the dungeons – these were a bit dark and scary!

We had a great time on our trip and we enjoyed all of the different activities that we experienced, especially the drama workshop and exploring Warwick Castle.

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Jamaica: The Caribbean’s Favorite Movie Location

The Jamaica Inn was the location for several movies shot on the island.
The Jamaica Inn was the location for several movies shot on the island.

Jamaica, The Land of Film, tells the story of the many movies shot on the island

By Peter Polack

If Jamaica were an actor she would have appeared in more than one hundred and forty-one films according to a popular internet database. In the new book, Jamaica, The Land of Film, these locations are cataloged and described in depth.

The list of movies, to use the American term, where the name Jamaica plays a prominent part is probably closer to two hundred but this number pares down substantially if it is limited to those films that were actually shot in part or whole in the country.

Very often films shot mostly in other countries such as Fiji would have additional footage coming from Jamaica and Bahamas which were two popular spots for tropical island footage.

The earliest known film was discovered quite by chance during overall research, the now lost 1910 silent film of less than a thousand feet of footage, Between Love and Honor, produced at an unknown location in or near Kingston.

While there is a modern trend to protect Brand Jamaica with the popularity of Bob Marley and the success latterly of athletic superstar Usain Bolt, Jamaica has been used in books and film for some time to promote a tropical or Caribbean flavor without significant economic dollars being collected for the benefit of the country.

The producers and cinemas have long been able to keep the lion’s share of revenue from a genre unconnected to Europe or North America. Perhaps reparations in the form of royalties could begin here.

Anthony Quinn in Rio Bueno, filmed in Jamaica.
Anthony Quinn in Rio Bueno, filmed in Jamaica.

There have been more benefits in recent years confirmed by a 1990 comment in The Hollywood Reporter that: “Club Paradise was the foreign production that most benefited the local economy, adding US $5.3 million to the coffers.”

Most Costly Film of its Day

One of the most costly films of its time at US$1 million was the 1916 drama A Daughter of the Gods that not only saw substantial set construction in Kingston but one of the earliest examples of nudity by actress Annette Kellermann in mainstream cinema. At least two early pictures had names sought after a cash prize was offered to the Jamaican public including A Daughter of the Gods.

Jamaica was associated with at least one other first with The Devil’s Daughter in 1939 being the first American black feature film shot on location in Jamaica.

Denzel Washington while he was filming a movie at the Trident Hotel in Jamaica.
Denzel Washington while he was filming a movie at the Trident Hotel in Jamaica.

A few films shot in Jamaica were startling at the time in their imagery of neo-colonialism, violence, black exploitation and even homosexual rape such as the 1968 film Dark of the Sun released in the UK as The Mercenaries, in France as The Last Train From Katanga, about the Congo.

Jim Brown and the Train

Stars included Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimeux, and Jim Brown performed for a film that also preserved useful historical footage of a working Jamaica Railway steam engine used in airplane strafing shots at Frankfield and Suttons in Clarendon. The engine was eventually destroyed as part of the script.

Jamaican themed films not shot on location also included: City Beneath the Sea (1953) based on the book Port Royal: The Ghost City Beneath the Sea; Jamaica Run (1953); Swashbuckler (1976) Mexico; Home Again (2012) Trinidad.

Actress Annette Kellermann
Actress Annette Kellermann in Daughter of the Gods, filmed in Jamaica in 1916.

This was a worldwide phenomenon with the blockbusters Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales shot in Australia and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides using Hawaii. It is left to cinema audiences to reject this visual plagiarism.

The number of movies shot in the island nation grew exponentially post 2000 with the advent of relatively affordable camera gear that saw many amateurs with small or non-existent budgets entering the field; some with wild abandonment while others sought to perpetuate old clichés.

While this book has essentially been confined to early major productions often, where Jamaica or Jamaican actors played a substantial part, the future has been left to the next generation for self-dissection.

Peter Polack was born in Jamaica in 1958. He is a proud graduate of the University of the West Indies and Norman Manley Law School. While at UWI he was a co-founder of the Amnesty International campus group and a member of the Union of Democratic Students. A criminal lawyer in the Cayman Islands since 1983, he resides there with his family.  He was a former rapporteur of the International Bar Association, Co-Founder, and first Treasurer Caymanian Bar Association. His only hobby, but not a current interest, is pistol shooting.

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Shock and confusion reign when you first receive a SEN diagnosis for your child. BBC presenter Carrie Grant is a veteran of the system, as mother to four children with SEN. She offers the wisdom of her experience.

When my three daughters were first diagnosed I erroneously thought that someone took over from there, informing you of everything you needed to know, what to expect, where to seek help, what to ask for from the school and which strategies to use to get the best from your child.

It was a few years before I realised it is the parents who initiate most of the help, fumble around in the dark to find strategies, fight for their child’s rights and sadly, all too often are left to pick up the pieces of their own frazzled headspace.

This is not to be too negative - parents of children with SEN are amazing warriors.

My family

I have four children: Olivia, who has ADHD and dyspraxia and is an actor; Talia, has Asperger’s and dyscalculia, she is highly talented at Tai Kwondo and was World Champion (2012) in her age/belt bracket; Imogen has autism and Tourette’s, she has perfect pitch and is an amazing singer and gymnast; Nathan is adopted and has attachment disorder, he is brilliant at construction.

All of the children have a great sense of fun and make for the most extraordinary family life.

All appear ‘normal’ but inside carry huge levels of anxiety and sometimes struggle to make sense of the neuro-typical world around them. They are also ‘out of the box’ thinkers. It is people who think differently who change the world, so our children are an asset, not a burden to society.

How to move forward from the diagnosis

From my experience, what I would say to any parent whose child has just been diagnosed with a special need is:

  • Without a diagnosis it is very tricky to fully access help so the diagnosis is positive. Remember it doesn’t suddenly change your child, they will continue to be as they have always been. The label is not the sum total of the child, they are ‘themselves’, they just have this part to them which is different. The key is to own it but not be defined by it, to love and accept them just as they are.
  • Knowledge is power. Learn as much as you can about the special need your child has. We find going on one-day courses much more helpful than reading huge amounts on the internet. Try not to look too far ahead but just deal with the age they are at now, each day has enough worries.
  • Find strategies that work for you and your child. You will be embracing a whole new way of parenting, different to your friends, different to what you’d planned. Once you’ve found a strategy that works it will empower both you and your child. To encourage independence let your child know this is a strategy; they will then use it when you’re not there. You may have to ‘sell this in’ with your partner/family so learn how to negotiate!
  • Begin a collaborative relationship with the school. You can initiate this and lead in your child’s school experience. Get as many professionals involved as you can. A team offers a well-rounded experience for your child. Thank everyone!
  • Be assured that there are many people in society today with SEN who lead successful, fulfilled and purposeful lives. Your child is a whole person, a gift and an asset.

Carrie Grant is a broadcaster and vocal coach

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Throughout its history, Australia has been the undisputed leader in production of fine woollen products to the world’s markets. Our first settlers could not have envisaged the magnitude of the industry they started when they imported a few Spanish sheep all those years ago. Although the modern trends are for man-made fibres, there is a ground-swell that is pushing wool back to its previous prominence.

A fibre that provides natural insulation is welcome not only for winter warmth but coolness in summer. As clothing, the shearers of the Australian outback wear woollen singlets year round – they know the benefits.

The excellent insulation qualities of wool are combined with the strength of natural leather to produce the modern equivalent of the caveman’s first clothing. As society developed so did clothing. A sheepskin boot still has the comfort and protection it offered our ancestors.

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Hearing the Word of the Lord

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If you don't have a strong stomach, go straight to the second paragraph of this story. Nathan Hannover, who survived the 17th century Ukrainian pogroms, records in The Abyss of Despair how Bogdan Chmielnicki, liberator of his nation from the Poles, killed 100,000 Jews. He skinned some alive and fed them to the dogs; he buried others alive; he ripped open the bellies of pregnant women and inserted live cats, after cutting off the women's hands so they couldn't remove them.

For centuries the Jews of Eastern Europe lived in terror of the cry "Christ-killers", which heralded the arrival of the Christian mob intent on destruction, rape and murder. Usually engineered by the government of the day to distract the Christian majority from their own troubles, the pogroms were whipped up from the pulpits. Indeed, the church has an appalling record of persecution of Jewish people over the past millennium.

So it is little wonder that Jews regard the New Testament with deep suspicion. Jewish scholar Daniel Goldhagen, author of the controversial Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, has written a new book, A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair, in which he calls on the church to admit to its misdeeds and repent.

Goldhagen claimed recently in The Age's Saturday Extra that "the Christian Bible is replete with the most damaging and inflammatory anti-Semitism. All you need to do is change the word 'Jews' in the Christian Bible to 'blacks' and say blacks are the children of the devil, that they no longer hear God because they reject Jesus, that they killed the son of God, and all blacks are forever guilty of doing so, and let's hand this book to a billion people and say it's the word of God."

Goldhagen is not the originator of this idea. It has been widely held in the Jewish community for centuries, as has the conviction that if this hatred is not present in the Bible, the Bible has certainly been used to justify it. As Rabbi John Levi, regional director of the Union for Progressive Judaism, says: "Most Jewish people do believe that anti-Semitism arose from religious texts. And it's a major problem in the relation between the two faiths."

So is Goldhagen right? Is the New Testament virulently anti-Semitic? Or is it rather, as Rabbi Levi implies, that the church over the centuries is guilty of misinterpreting its scriptures and taking verses out of context?

Goldhagen's charge would have made little sense to the New Testament's authors. After all, 25 of its 27 books were written by Jews (the exception is Luke, author of Luke and Acts), chiefly to Jews, arguing for what they considered the true Judaism against the orthodoxy of the day, represented by the Pharisees.

They opposed the contemporary Jewish religion, not the Jewish people - a vital distinction. In fact, they hoped to persuade and convert the Jews, and Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles, made a point of approaching the Jews first in every town he sought to evangelize. For "the Gospel of salvation . . . is to the Jew first, and also to the Greek" (Epistle to the Romans, 1:16).

In the first two centuries of the church's existence the persecution went in the other direction, from Jewish establishment to Christian minority. Even after the destruction of Jerusalem in AD70, Jewish communities were far more important in the Roman empire than Christian communities.

It was the stoning of Stephen (described in Acts 7) that caused the Christian Jews to flee and take the Gospel outside Judah. Before that they had little theology of mission to non-Jews.

This battle for the "true Judaism" provides the context in which the New Testament strictures later used to justify persecuting Jews should be understood. As early as the fourth chapter of Genesis (the first book of the Jewish Bible, or Old Testament), humanity is divided into two streams, the lines of Seth and Cain, those who will serve God and those who rebel.

There are no stronger admonitions of the Jews than those in the Jewish Bible, when the authors perceive that the people are deserting God. Moses condemns them as a stiff-necked and rebellious people from their beginnings as a nation (Exodus 33:3 and Deuteronomy 9:7). The prophets call them adulterers, idolaters, rulers of Sodom, people of Gomorrah, covenant-breakers, and much more.

For example, in the eighth century BC Hosea wrote: "Hear the word of the Lord, O people of Israel, for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or kindness, and no knowledge of God in the land; there is swearing, lying, killing, stealing, and committing adultery; they break all bounds and murder follows murder" (Hosea 4:1,2).

The New Testament authors clearly saw themselves as writing in the same tradition with the same prophetic authority.

"Anti-Semitism" is a modern term, according to Graham Keith, author of Hated Without a Cause: A History of Anti-Semitism (1977). It was popularized by German journalist Wilhelm Marr in The Victory of Judaism Over the Jews (1879). Marr, an atheist, had no interest in religion but wanted to oppose Jews on social, economic, political and racial grounds.

But the concept, defined as hatred and persecution of Jews as a group - not the hatred of persons who happen to be Jews, but the hatred of persons because they are Jews - has a venerable history.

It is first documented in Exodus, when Pharaoh is frightened of the Hebrews, so persecutes them. Haman, in the Old Testament book of Esther, is a Hitler prototype who wants to exterminate every Jew. His defeat, and the salvation of the Jews, is celebrated each year in the Jewish feast of Purim.

This is very different to the sort of opposition found in the New Testament, where the fledgling Christian religion was fighting for its identity and in constant danger of being overwhelmed by orthodox Judaism. Early Christians wrote to defend their message to pagans and to Jews, and above all to reassure confused members of their own flock.

The apostle Paul writes his letter to the Galatians on this very subject. He had founded the small church there, but later Jewish-Christian teachers were saying that, besides keeping the faith Paul taught, the gentile believers should also be circumcised and observe Jewish law.

"O foolish Galatians!" Paul pleads. "Who has bewitched you . . . Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?" (Galatians 3:1,2).

This tension between Christian faith and Jewish law is a common Pauline theme. But no one could doubt Paul's love for his people. "I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen by race" (Romans 9:2,3).

So does the Jews' "blindness" about Christ mean they are now God's enemies? Paul addresses that question two chapters later: "I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected the people whom he foreknew." One of the texts often used to foment hatred is Matthew 27:25, when Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea, is trying to pardon Jesus but the mob refuses. Pilate washes his hands and says, "I am innocent of this man's blood". Verse 25 says: "And all the people answered 'His blood be on us and on our children'." This verse was soon regarded as the self-condemnation of the Jewish people for all time.

But, as Keith points out, this interpretation is hard to sustain. Without getting too technical, there is no verb in the Greek text. The word "be" is put in for sense in English, which makes it sound like a wish or even a prayer.

In the wider context, Matthew's message - like the rest of the New Testament - is clear that it is Christians, who by their sins, are responsible for Christ's death. He died to save them.

The charge against the Gospel of John, is more serious. John often speaks of "the Jews", and sets them in opposition to true believers. But John speaks of "the Jews" in several contexts, sometimes in a geographical sense, sometimes of the Jewish leaders only, and sometimes favourably, as when Jesus is identified as a Jew, or when He says "salvation is from the Jews" (John 4:9, 22).

The letters of John show the same distinction between those "of God" and "of the world" but in a new context. Some have left the Christian community for a new teaching, showing their allegiance is to the world. As Keith observes, it doesn't matter whether they were originally Jews or Gentiles, it is their attitude to Christ that is vital.

The passage in John that has understandably caused most concern comes in John 8 where Jesus is addressing some Jews in Jerusalem who reject him, and who pride themselves on being Abraham's children. Jesus says: "If you were Abraham's children you would do what Abraham did, but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth . . . You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies" (John 8:44).

Reading that today, it is a difficult verse. But that surely is not Jesus' intention, for it is clear that these Jews are not beyond hope - there is a way of escape from Satan's bondage.

The language is strong, but no stronger than the Old Testament prophets. It should be seen as hyperbole, a rhetorical device common at the time. For example, in showing how committed his disciples have to be, Jesus says that unless they hate their father and mother, wife, children, even their own lives (Luke 14:25) they cannot follow him. Yet he loves and upholds the law, including the commandment to honour one's parents, and repeatedly teaches that love is the great commandment. Overemphasis to make a point is common in the Bible.

The event that changed Jewish-Christian relations was the conversion of the Roman emperor Constantine in the fourth century. Christianity became the state religion - a mixed blessing. And from now on it would have power over the Jewish community.

For many centuries relations were relatively tranquil. Keith identifies the bureaucratic revolution at the end of the Middle Ages as the most important element in developing systematic anti-Semitism. The clerical class, envying the skill and influence of Jews at court, built a stereotype of the Jew as "dirty, downtrodden, sinister but contemptible". Drawings showed Jews with long hooked noses, and the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) segregated them by ordering them to wear special clothing.

The crusades, though theoretically against Muslims rather than Jews, made the latter a legitimate target as "enemies of God". Some on the first crusade in 1095 even delayed leaving for the Middle East so they could murder Jews in Europe.

Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg says that since the fourth century "there have been three anti-Jewish policies: conversion, expulsion and annihilation. The second appeared as an alternative to the first, and the third as an alternative to the second . . . The missionaries of Christianity had said in effect: You have no right to live amongst us as Jews. The secular rulers who followed had proclaimed: You have no right to live among us. The German Nazis at last decreed: You have no right to live."

But after the Holocaust, the horrified world took a fresh look at anti-Semitism. The thawing between Christianity and Judaism was made explicit at the second Vatican Council in the 1960s, which repudiated the idea that the Jews were responsible for the death of Christ.

Rabbi Levi believes that it is scholarship that is bringing greater mutual acceptance. "Scholarship is scholarship, whether Jewish or Christian. It doesn't matter. When you have a biblical studies conference, you check your faith in at the door - what matters is the scholarship that you bring."

So now, as in the beginning, it's the Word that counts.

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Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz have not been “living separate lives” for “nearly a year,” despite a new tabloid report. Gossip Cop can correct this manufactured story, which falsely alleges the couple is now working to “save their marriage.” We’re told it’s all “false.”

According to the National Enquirer, the James Bond actor has a “new mission”: saving his marriage to Weisz. A so-called “source” tells the magazine, “They’re going to spend the next two years in London, so Daniel can get underway on the next James Bond film and Rachel can do some theater.” The publication’s supposed “insider” explains that the new arrangement is “for the good of the family.”

What’s more, the outlet goes on to assert that Craig and Weisz have been living “virtually separate lives” for almost 12 months, but now the couple is determined to get their relationship back on track. “Daniel admitted that he doesn’t like to be alone and would be lost without Rachel,” adds the tabloid’s seemingly made-up “source,” before adding that Weisz wants to “get back to their roots and keep the marriage strong and exciting.”

But the latest article is just one of a string of untrue stories the Enquirer has published about the couple. For example, Gossip Cop previously corrected the supermarket tabloid in July when it wrongly maintained Craig and Weisz’s marriage was in “crisis.” We then busted the same publication for untruthfully alleging Craig and Weisz’s relationship was in trouble, simply because the highly private couple wasn’t photographed together in public for some time. The latest tale is almost identical to those reports, proving the magazine has nothing new to claim and is simply regurgitating its old made-up scenarios.

Regardless of the Enquirer’s long history of publishing untrue stories about Craig and Weisz, Gossip Cop still investigated, and a source close to the couple tells us the new article is completely “false.” The two stars have not been “living separate lives” for the past year, nor do they have any reason to “save their marriage,” which is perfectly fine. The tabloid’s report is than a fabrication.

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    Anointing Erie County Republican leader Nicholas J. Langworthy as State Party Chair is an embarrassment for the New York GOP.

    Under his leadership, Erie Republicans have been shut out of nearly every elected office countywide. They’ve lost the county legislature, lost Assemblymember Ray Walter, and lest we forget Congressional Rep. Chris Collins is still walking that long Green Mile towards resignation and life as a future convicted felon.

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    The New York Republican Party is on the brink -- perhaps not of extinction, but of a certain type of political wilderness -- and one longtime party figure says he knows where things went wrong and what to do about it.

    Republicans have not occupied a statewide office since George Pataki left the governor’s mansion at the end of 2006, and barring a massive upset in November, the statewide offices will continue to be occupied by Democrats from 2019 through 2022. Meanwhile, the state Senate,

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    Heading into a three-day, six-stop tour across the state, Governor Andrew Cuomo has formally released ten planks of his 2017 State of the State agenda. Through public events and press releases, Cuomo has announced a variety of proposals under the banner “excelsior, ever upward.”

    Cuomo’s State of the State junket comes as he’s feuding with state legislators and with the backdrop of a major corruption scandal in his administration, particularly his economic development programming. The second-term

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    The next two weeks will see the formal nominations of the two major party candidates in the contest to succeed Barack Obama as President of The United States. First, this week, Republicans are expected to nominate Donald J. Trump, who on Saturday morning introduced Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his vice presidential running mate. On Saturday, Trump promised “we’re going to have an incredible convention.” The theme of the convention is "Make America Great Again," which has been Trump's campaign

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    Gov. Andrew Cuomo launched himself onto the national political stage this month by orchestrating a budget deal that made New York the first state to pass a $15 minimum wage and a paid family leave program. With Vice President Joe Biden at his side the governor pushed family leave; weeks later, Cuomo signed the package of “economic justice” legislation at a celebratory rally with Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary


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