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Omar Abdulaziz, a 27-year-old Saudi Arabian dissident, can still remember the time Jamal Khashoggi, the storied Saudi journalist, unfollowed him on Twitter. It was in 2015, and Khashoggi had been tapped to head a new TV network called Al-Arab, a partnership between a member of the royal family and Bloomberg. Abdulaziz started haranguing Khashoggi online, demanding that the network provide a platform for genuine critics of the Saudi regime. "He got so mad at me," Abdulaziz recalled in a recent phone call with CPJ.
But their relationship later warmed, as Khashoggi became more and more critical of the Saudi government, Abdulaziz told CPJ. When Khashoggi eventually went into self-imposed exile in 2017, and began writing regularly for The Washington Post, he reached out to Abdulaziz, then a university student in Canada, and one of most visible public critics of the Saudi regime abroad. The two struck up a complex relationship. In some ways it resembled that of a source and a journalist. But it also went deeper. The two were working on a number of journalistic and human rights-oriented projects together, Abdulaziz said. In the months before Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, the two became even closer; the older Khashoggi would nag Abdulaziz about how he was doing in school, and ask if he was eating right: "We were talking every single day," Abdulaziz told CPJ. "We had this kind of relationship, not just between colleagues, but between father and son."
What neither man knew at the time: Abdulaziz's phone had likely been attacked by the Saudi government, using a piece of spyware known as Pegasus, one of the world's most advanced cyber weapons, sold by the Israeli spyware company NSO Group. The attack, according to the Canadian digital rights organization Citizen Lab, would have given the Saudi government complete access to the contents of their calls, encrypted messages they exchanged, and the documents they shared. Citizen Lab published a detailed forensic report on October 1, where they established with a "high degree of confidence" that Abdulaziz was successfully targeted, and that the attack was linked to a Saudi Arabian operator. On October 2, Saudi operatives murdered Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
In the months prior, Khashoggi and Abdulaziz were exchanging views on Saudi affairs via Abdulaziz's cell phone. Saying anything controversial inside the Kingdom could lead to a prison sentence--CPJ estimates at least 14 journalists currently are jailed there, twice as many as at the end of 2017. Undeterred, Khashoggi and Abdulaziz planned a number of initiatives together, including a news and human rights website to document those caught up in the dragnet of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Abdulaziz shared mock-ups for the site with CPJ. All the while, Khashoggi was writing pieces critical of the Saudi regime in his Washington Post column.
This fall, Abdulaziz told CPJ, Khashoggi was planning to visit him in Canada to solidify some of their plans. But first, he visited Turkey where he walked into the Saudi consulate to secure paperwork to marry his Turkish fiancée, Hatice Cengiz. Inside, Saudi intelligence agents close to the crown prince murdered him. In the following weeks, the Saudi government provided a number of contradictory and misleading explanations for Khashoggi's disappearance. It's still not clear what triggered the decision to kill Khashoggi, but the Saudi government had tried multiple times in the months preceding his death to convince him to return to the kingdom and mute his criticism, numerous friends of Khashoggi's have told reporters.
Through their attack on Abdulaziz's phone, the Saudi government would have had access to hours of unvarnished conversations between the two men. "Jamal was very polite in public," recalled Abdulaziz. "But in private, he spoke more freely--he was very very critical of the crown prince."
Pegasus is one of the most advanced spyware tools available. It is designed to infect phones without being detected: a victim is sent a text message that spoofs a legitimate text. In Abdulaziz's case, he received a notification from Amazon about a delivery, according to Citizen Lab. The text message contains a link that, if clicked, secretly loads spyware onto the device, handing over remote control--including access to the camera, microphone, and text messages--to whomever launched the attack: "They could read everything and listen to everything me and Jamal were doing," Abdulaziz said. Abdulaziz had long been a target of the Saudi government's ire: The New York Times recently reported, for example, that in 2015 the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company produced a report tracking the most influential critics of Mohammed bin Salman's economic agenda on social media: Abdulaziz was named among the top three. Shortly after the report was compiled, two of Abdulaziz's brothers in Saudi Arabia were imprisoned, he told CPJ. They remain behind bars.
"That's how you try to go after ideas--it's through surveillance," Karen Attiah, Jamal Khashoggi's editor at The Washington Post, told CPJ in a recent call. The notion that the Saudi government can buy this capability from a private company, Attiah reflected, "is astounding." She added: "People are losing their lives over this."
CPJ has reported on the proliferation of Pegasus attacks all over the world, most notably, a string of attacks on journalists in Mexico in 2015 and 2016. Pegasus is sold by the Israeli firm NSO Group, a prominent cyber weapons company that claims to provide its technology only to governments who follow its internal ethics guidelines--but it's never made those guidelines public, despite requests from CPJ and other organizations to do so. When asked about Abdulaziz, a spokesperson for the NSO Group said they "cannot speak about specific customers or contracts."
The NSO Group is owned by the San Francisco-based Francisco Partners, a private equity firm whose website says its investors include Goldman Sachs and private-equity firm Blackstone. When contacted by CPJ, a spokesperson for Blackstone said it owns 4.8% of Francisco Partners, and that the NSO group is an "immaterial percentage" of Francisco's holdings. (The Wall Street Journal in May reported that Francisco--whose website says it has raised $14 billion in capital--was in talks to sell NSO Group for $1 billion). A spokesman for Goldman Sachs did not answer a question about the size of its stake in Francisco Partners, saying only the group has "no equity ownership" in the spyware company. Both Goldman and Blackstone made their investments in Francisco Partners in 2018, a year after the spyware was detected on the phones of Mexican journalists and human rights groups raised concerns. Neither firm would answer questions on the record about what, if any human rights vetting or due diligence they perform. Francisco Partners declined to comment.
"The investors are enabling these abuses," Bill Marczak, the senior research fellow at Citizen Lab who detected Pegasus on Abdulaziz's phone earlier this year, told CPJ. He said involvement of firms like Goldman Sachs and Blackstone mainstreams NSO's dangerous technology, making the offensive spyware trade an industry where billion-dollar valuations are possible: "It's a good time for these major firms to think about whether this is an industry they want to be involved in," he said.
The Saudi embassy in Washington, D.C., did not respond to CPJ's email seeking comment.
Abdulaziz can't be sure if the spyware attack contributed in any way to Khashoggi's murder. He does know that Khashoggi spoke frankly with him by phone about his views on Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman: "He would say to me: this guy is not going to change," Abdulaziz recalled. And he feels a tremendous amount of guilt that the hacking of his cellphone gave the Saudi government a direct line into Jamal's private thoughts. "I know that crying and screaming will not get Jamal back," he said. "We have to keep fighting."


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One of the big reasons that riders who work with a trainer or coach move forwards in their riding is due to the creation of a plan… Correct planning is essential for progress
If you find yourself 'thumb-sucking' your schooling sessions with your horse most times that you get into the arena, these re-usable worksheets will help.
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- Guide you in how to choose exercises that align with the goal
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- Give you the outline for a monthly 'review' at the end of each month, which will help you to set up the plan for the next month
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Check out this awesome project that Mel created!
Its a puppet theater card! What a wonderful "treat" - and its really not very "tricky" to make!
She shares all the details to create one yourself on Her blog: Mel Stampz.
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So, I had to do a creative adaptation a wee bit ago as part of my coursework. Since I now have the mark for it, I thought I would put the creative piece up here (no one wants an essay). Out of all the creative pieces I ended up doing for this particular act and scene, this was the most PG. I might put the more explicit versions up at some point.
As you can see, my adaptation followed Queer Theory. So if LGBT+ stuff is not your cup of tea, you probably are going to want to give this a miss.
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"A Rose By Any Other Name Would Smell As Sweet" (A Queer Adaptation of Act 2, Scene 2 of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet) – By Patrick Ward
The night shadowed the faint echoes that emitted from the Capulet's feast, as hordes of extravagant forms flocked out like painted sheep from the estate's opulent grounds. These over indulgent creatures that are numb to the reality around them, with their very movements clashed between intoxicated sways and swaggers of ignorant pride. Like drunk peacocks on parade, with their velvet mantles and silk garments.
The stomps of their march beyond the ground's borders was matched by the ever soft footfalls that danced upon the solid stone balcony that graced the eastern wall of the manor. Where a figure of ethereal beauty, the Capulet son Julio, paced with ghostly steps that faintly grace the floor; his silken robe failing to camouflage his slender legs that support a frail waist of a gaunt frame, blessed with a pale hue that shimmers in the blackness of the night. A living Aphroditus.
In the blindness of this glide, the figured remained impassive to the Stygian eyes that followed its steps, eyes that watched intently from the orchard field with obsessive zeal. Shadowing each movement with a possessive haunting, akin to a predator stalking its prey.
"But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?" the hushed figure murmured, as its rasped voice panted "He is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon. Who is already sick and pale with grief. That thou, his vestal, art far more fair then he."
Sightless to the trailing eyes, the Capulet arched himself over the balcony's ledge, shifting his arm to support. "See, how he leans his cheek upon his hand! O, what I were a glove upon that hand. That I might touch that cheek!"
"He speaks" proclaimed the figure in hushed tones, as the Capulet released a breathless sigh. "O, speak again, bright angel! For thou art as glorious to this night, being o'er my head, as is a wingèd messenger of heaven. Unto the white, upturnèd, wondering eyes of mortals that fall back to gaze on him. When he bestrides the lazy-puffing clouds and sails upon the bosom of the air."
The angel spoke, but faintly as a whisper, as if in fear of being overheard. The words that are taboo for even the lonesome night, as if a phantom could overhear. "O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name. Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I'll no longer be a Capulet."
As the masked figure, now known as Romeo, edged closer to drink the nectar of these words, the Capulet continued its lament song. "'Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though not a Montague."
Julio raised his hand to level to his pallor face, as he turned his skeletal appendage in a twisted fashion with his fingers twirling with one-another, like some mystical gesture. "What's Montague? It is not hand, nor foot." As he caresses his delicate face with his thin fingers, "Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part belonging to a man. O, be some other name!"
Julio was plagued with turmoil, the sadistic game of love that so binds the star-crossed had ensnared him into its web, and the wager was thus; family or love? What greater torment could there be. How so such a birth to one house could so doom one's freedom, a freedom to love and to chose. A title of heritage, a scion of name, a praised curse.
He shifts from his place with a dancer's grace that is still so oddly awkward, a clumsy falter, to look upon the fresco that adorns the cobbled wall, the mural of Saint Sebastian's martyrdom. As he murmurs under his breath "So an arrow to pierce thy own heart?" as he traces his hand across the painted mural.
Resting his head by his thin hand on mural, Julio spoke softly "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet. So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called, retain that dear perfection which he owes without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, and for that name, which is no part of thee take all myself."
Upon these soft words, Romeo lunged toward Julio and grasped him within his arms, forcing him against the mural of the cobbled-wall. "I take thee at thy word. Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized. Henceforth I never will be Romeo."
Julio's debilitated physique tired as it might to escape such clutches, clamoured "What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, so stumblest on my counsel?"
"By a name I know not how to tell thee who I am." stammered Romeo as he placed chaste kisses to porcelain skin, only narrowly missing slight lips. "My name dear saint, is hateful to myself because it is an enemy to thee. Had I it written, I would tear the word."
With each kiss Julio's protests slowed, till he rested his bawled fists on his paramour's sculpted chest. "I know the sound. Art thou not Romeo, and a Montague? How? The orchard walls are high and the place death."
"Neither, if either thee dislike, for I have night's cloak to hide me from their sight." exclaimed Romeo as he pressed his cracked lips against Julio's own, devouring their soft taste. With each of their tongues darting pass one another, fighting for dominance; as Julio hissed at the sensation of calloused fingers and blunted nails scrapping across every inch of his emaciated skin, while his own danced over marked flesh and felt every grove and indent revealing more recesses of sculpted muscle.
Their intertwined form was a living antithesis, as scarred muscle under tight skin twitched and pulled in its fight with a cadaverous form, with bones seeming on the edge of bursting from the confines of pale smooth skin.
Although drinking deeply of passion, Romeo soon stopped his assault much to a disappointment, as he heard the word "Master!" called from within the manor's walls. The nurse, the portly nurse for how long had she called. "By and by, I come" stammered Julio.
"Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed. If that thy bent of love be honourable, thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow." Julio hastily spoke as he placed one final kiss to those cracked lips and hurried inward.
"So thrive my soul – A thousand times the worse to want thy light." sighed Romeo as he descended the manor wall to the orchard field. For tomorrow would be the day.
Copyright © 2013 – 2016 Patrick Ward – All Rights Reserved.


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A bespoke collection of stools, chairs, sofas and canape in a variety of upholstery, wood and colors from Gaisbauer for your Mansionly homes.
Square back fauteuil, with front legs which are hand-turned, back legs curved and tapered, solid wood back curved to fit the body, backrest upholstered at the front and at the back, curved and rounded solid wood armrests with padded leather-inlays, upholstered with a 3-layer padding material on no-sag springs. Handmade in Austria. Execution on photo in walnut, semi gloss. Also available in cherry and many other types of wood upon request.
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Choc Chickpea Brownies
I'm a big fan of using chickpeas and other legumes in baking. They make a great gluten-free flour alternative, and in addition can bulk up your treats with lots of prebiotic fibre, which can help nourish your beneficial microbes in your gut. Plus the kids love them, and would never know they were made with… View more


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Training & Coaching
Trainings and workshops are aimed at groups. Coaching on the other hand means "one to one" training as well as reflecting present behaviour and thought patterns in a systemic way, and searching for alternatives and developing solutions.
In the beginning, the status quo is determined with the management and the involved team, and goals and criteria for measuring success are agreed. We pay special attention to transfer activities and processes which ensure the effect of your investments. These measures are aimed in most cases to co-workers and people in high and responsible positions.
Here you can find an overview of our topics.
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Friday, Mar 11 | 11:46 AM
The human race has constantly developed tools to make better use of the world and generate new economic platforms. From fire, flints, assembly line, to technology we have been incredibly agile at innovating and moving towards more advancement. In our observations, our brain is the latest tool we need to develop and understand to move towards a new area of economy and enlightenment. This is the core of brain technology, learning how to use our brain to its potential. When was the last time you questioned how your brain forms thoughts or ideas? Or are there things that you can do to make better use of your brain? Did you know that zone one part of the brain can only take in 40 items per minute, whilst zone 2 can take in millions? Or did you know that it only takes 90 seconds for a neurochemical to flood the entire blood stream? These two facts seem irrelevant to business, but if you are only using the zone 1 of your brain to create ideas or solve problems, you will only produce patterned ideas rather than building new neurological circuits. Building new circuits and delving into zone 2 generates better solutions thus allowing us to better business strategists. Or take the second fact, if we are constantly releasing dopamine over and over, we stop the brain from strategic thinking, however if you don't release enough your brain does't have the energy to create conceptual thought. Knowing our own brain technology helps us make better use of our potential, which is what we need right now; we need better visionaries, thinkers, and innovators. When you look at disasters like Japan, the economic crisis, the economic state of Detroit, it is not the use of old knowledge that will lead us to better answers, it is the understanding of our brain. After all the brain governs everything, how we think, how we articulate thought, how we interact with others, our ideas, and ultimately how we do business. The solutions are always there, it is just learning how to use the amazing technology inside our heads that is missing.
How Do We Do It Every tool that IEA develops for innovation and business strategy uses brain technology. Our tools are new and are constantly being questioned, observed, and developed. This is to ensure tools are fresh, relevant, and innovative. First Stage We spend 3 weeks studying research from brain synapses, circuitry, diseases, neurochemicals, etc. Second Stage We extrapolate the knowledge and create tools for business and innovation. Third Stage We experiment with the new tools during PLATYPUS and refine them. Fourth Stage We use give the tools to our members in our spaces and to our corporate clients
How Is It Deployed We deploy our brain technology through our collaborative workspace in London and soon in our innovation workspace in New York.


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RENEE'S BRAIN is an inspiring documentary that follows New Zealand's most severe sufferer of Tourette Syndrome, 25-year-old Renee Harvey, as she embarks on a surgical journey that could save her life, yet may also take her life.
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Sanitary Engineering
For whom?
This specialization is designed for professionals interested in achieving and maintaining the environment and public health. It is particularly relevant to BSc-level engineers who are involved in (or wish to become involved in) the provision of sanitation services. Typical students include civil, process and sanitary engineers, university faculty and researchers, and technical managers.
Students who successfully complete this programme will receive a MSc degree in Urban Water and Sanitation.
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Start: 15 October 2020
Application deadline: 01 August 2020
Learning objectives
After successfully completing this specialization, graduates will be able to:
- Understand and explain the role of sanitation in the urban water cycle and its relation to public health and environment;
- Develop rational approaches towards sustainable wastewater management via pollution prevention,
- Appropriate treatment, and resource recovery and re-use at both centralised and decentralised levels;
- Understand the relevant physical, chemical and biological processes and their mutual relationships within various sanitation components;
- Define and critically analyse, assess and evaluate various urban drainage and sewerage schemes, and wastewater, sludge and solid waste treatment process technologies;
- Analyse, synthesise, integrate, interpret, and discuss scientific and practical information in the context of preparing research and engineering projects including preparation of master plans, feasibility studies and preliminary designs;
- Apply modern tools for technology selection and to model sanitation components;
- Identify, develop and conduct independent research including field work, and laboratory research;
- Contribute to the development of innovative approaches to the provision of adequate and sustainable sanitation services in developing countries and countries in transition.
Structure & contents
This specialization consists of 14 modules covering a total of 12 months, this is followed by a 6-month research and thesis phase. Graduates of the programme will be awarded 106 ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System) credits.
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- Introduction to Water for Development Required Upon completion, the participant should be able to:
- Reflect critically on water related interventions, formulate own standpoint and engage constructively in debates
- Place the specialized knowledge on own discipline into a broader understanding of water related issues, challenges, debates and developments
- Recognize and distinguish different ways of knowing and framing water questions and problems in order to appraise water challenges from an interdisciplinary perspective
- Familiarize with the educational environment and procedures of IHE Delft and collaborate in multidisciplinary and intercultural teams
- Introduction to UWS 1 Required Upon completion, the participant should be able to:
- List legislative requirements for safe water and develop Water Safety Plan.
- Describe reactions in water treatment.
- Describe waterborne infectious diseases and pathogens.
- Develop paragraphs, avoid plagiarism, analyse, interpret and present data.
- Calculate stoichiometric relationships in reactions and balance them.
- Describe elements and bonds between them.
- Introduction to UWS 2 Required Upon completion, the participant should be able to:
- Forecast water demand and formulate water demand management measures.
- Practice critical reading and scientific writing
- To discuss the basic concepts of fluid properties, hydrostatics, fluid flow in closed conduits, and basic hydraulic structures.
- Understand the basic concepts of GIS (Raster, vector, projections, geospatial analysis) and use a GIS for: Thematic mapping, ◦Basic data processing and editing, Basic geoprocessing and analysis, DEM processing and catchment delineation.
- identify and discuss the basic elements of hydrology, and apply hydrological principles in water and wastewater engineering.
- Introduction to UWS 3 Required Upon completion, the participant should be able to:
- To describe different strategies for Integrated Urban Water Management, and to explain the consequences for urban water fluxes and the need for stakeholder involvement and planning processes.
- Identify the basic principles of microbial metabolism and microbial interactions within the environment. Application of microbiological methods for water and wastewater engineering.
- Apply mass balance analysis to natural and engineered water systems, especially for the analysis of microbial growth and substrate conversion in CFST and plug flow reactors.
- Urban Drainage and Sewerage Required Upon completion, the participant should be able to:
- Be able to judge different design options and alternative scenarios
- Describe the chemical and biological processes that take place within sewer systems, and evaluate their implications for the design and operate of urban drainage systems
- Explain the standard practice in designing urban drainage systems. Prepare drainage system designs by integrating information on hydrological, hydraulic, economic and practical engineering concerns.
- Critically assess and analyse quantity and quality characteristics of stormwater and wastewaters originating from urban environments as a basis for the design, operation and maintenances of urban drainage system facilities.
- Conventional Wastewater Treatment Required Upon completion, the participant should be able to:
- discuss the principles, fundamentals and applicability of recently developed wastewater treatment processes such as innovative nitrogen removal processes and membrane bioreactors.
- apply the knowledge on biological treatment processes and engineering on the process design and critical assessment of wastewater treatment systems and configurations for the removal of organic matter (as COD) and nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus)
- discuss the physical, chemical, and biological processes applied for sewage purification and the complex interactions among them occurring in wastewater treatment systems.
- critically determine and analyse quality and quantity characteristics of wastewater originating from urban environments as a basis for the design, control and operation of sewage treatment facilities.
- Resource Oriented Wastewater Treatment and Sanitation Required Upon completion, the participant should be able to:
- carry out preliminary process design of treatment and reuse systems to assess the needs for capital, land, equipment and operation and maintenance
- describe the physical, chemical and microbiological processes occurring in anaerobic reactors and a number of natural systems
- evaluate the feasibility of the application of the technologies studied in this module in urban settings in the developing world
- critically reflect on the current sanitation systems encountered in many urban areas and to indicate ways to improve this situation in a sustainable manner;
- evaluate the possibilities for closing cycles of energy, water and nutrients
- Wastewater Treatment Plants Design and Engineering Required Upon completion, the participant should be able to:
- Describe the main elements and components involved in the project planning, project management, and project administration for the design, engineering, construction, start-up and operation of a wastewater treatment plant.
- Identify and estimate the construction, operational and maintenance costs of a wastewater treatment plant and the investments required to secure its satisfactory operation throughout the expected life-span of the system.
- Select the most suitable and cost-effective wastewater treatment process technology to treat certain wastewater stream given its composition and characteristics and taking into account the required effluent standards.
- Carry out a preliminary design of a wastewater treatment system (based on the most widely applied anaerobic, aerobic, land-based and on-site systems) including the engineering process lay-out, hydraulic profile and process flow-diagram (PFD).
- Modelling of Wastewater Treatment Processes and Plants Required
- International Fieldtrip and Fieldwork UWS Required Upon completion, the participant should be able to:
- International Field Trip: To expose the participants to different international practises in the design, operation and management of water supply, wastewater, solid waste and urban civil infrastructure networks.
- Fieldwork: To familiarize the participants with performing research on location, how to process real data, and how to apply the newly acquired knowledge to a practical situation.
- Elective module 10 UWS Elective
Choose one of the following modules:
- Industrial effluents treatment and residuals management
- Water Treatment Processes and Plant Design
- Urban water systems
- Elective module 11 UWS Elective
Choose one of the following modules:
- Experimental methods in wastewater treatment
- Water sensitive cities
- Decentralised water supply and sanitation
- Remote sensing for agricultural water management
- Water resources planning under changing climate and environment
- Wetlands for livelihoods and conservation
- Sustainability and resilience of water organisations
- Solid waste management
- Advanced water transport and distribution
- Strategic planning for river basins and deltas
- Decision support systems in the water domain
- Summer course Required
Choose between eight one week summer courses. Topics include water diplomacy, water science communication, leadership, entrepreneurship, and serious gaming for the water sector.
- Groupwork Sint Maarten Required Upon completion, the participant should be able to:
- Defend the groups' findings in front of a team of experts in the field.
- Recommend engineering solutions to water and sanitation related problems.
- Assess his/her own strengths and weaknesses with respect to working in a group.
- Analyze complex water and sanitation issues in a limited time frame and with limited background information available.
- Apply and integrate the knowledge obtained during the specialisation to solve water and sanitation related issues
- Defend his/her input in an (interdisciplinary) team of specialists.
- MSc research proposal development for UWS Required Upon completion, the participant should be able to:
- Prepare participants for independent working in the laboratory.
- Prepare participants for writing an MSc proposal | thesis.
- MSc research, thesis and defence Required Upon completion, the participant should be able to:
- Demonstrate academic attitude and learning skills (incl thinking in multidisciplinary dimensions & distinguishing main issues from minor ones), to enhance & keep up-to-date the acquired knowledge and application skills in a largely independent manner.
- Formulate well-founded conclusions and recommendations based on a comprehensive discussion of the results.
- Conduct research, independently or in a multidisciplinary team by selecting and applying appropriate research methodologies and techniques, collecting and analysing data.
- Communicate, debate and defend, clearly and systematically, findings and generated insights, and provide rational underpinning of these in oral and written presentations to a variety of audiences.
- Formulate research questions and hypotheses
- Explore the background of the research problem by critically reviewing scientific literature; Evaluate relevant theories and applying these theories to a relevant scientific problem; Assure adequate delineation and definition of the research topic
- Introduction to Water for Development Required
Tuition & fellowships
Information about tuition fees can be found here.
The following fellowships are recommended for prospective students who wish to study Sanitary Engineering
Joint Japan Worldbank Graduate Scholarship Programme (JJ/WBGSP)We expect to have more information on the availability of JJ/WBGSP scholarships for MSc programmes at IHE Delft in the beginning of 2020.
more info: www.worldbank.org
MENA-CD Fellowships
IHE Delft will provide water professionals from seven MENA countries (Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Yemen) and Sudan with MSc level education in Delft on relevant topics for MENA region water scarcity.
To be considered for the MENA-CD fellowship for the October 2020 intake, you must apply for admission to an MSc programme before 15 June 2020.
more info: www.un-ihe.org/mena-cd-fellowships
National Fellowships in Latin America
These fellowships are for nationals from the mentioned Latin American country. As IHE Delft is a UNESCO affiliated Institute and not a regular university, it may not appear in their website listings of eligible institutions. It is worth applying for funding once you have been academically accepted by IHE Delft, as these organisations will most likely consider your fellowship application. The name UNESCO-IHE (former name of IHE Delft) may appear in some application systems.
- COLFUTURO - Colombia
- CONICYT - Chile
- CONACYT - Mexico
- CONAPE - Costa Rica
- GUATEFUTURO - Guatemala
- HONDUFUTURO - Honduras
- ICETEX - Colombia
- IFARHU - Panama
- SENECYT - Ecuador
Your country might also offer individual fellowships for studies abroad, contact your national Ministry of Education or a similar organisation/agency for more information.
Orange Knowledge Programme
The Orange Knowledge Programme is a €195-m Dutch global development programme, available in 53 developing countries and managed by Nuffic, a Dutch non-profit organisation for internationalisation in education. Launched mid-2017, it aims to have provided tens of thousands with the possibility to change their future through education and training by mid-2022.
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Orange Knowledge Scholarships for MSc Programmes
Rotary Scholarship for Water and Sanitation Professionals
The strategic partnership between The Rotary Foundation (TRF) and IHE Delft Institute for Water Education aims to tackle the world's water and sanitation crisis by increasing the number of trained professionals to devise, plan, and implement solutions in developing and emerging countries. Through this partnership, a limited number of scholarships are awarded annually for graduate students at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education's campus in the Netherlands. These scholarships are designed to promote long-term productive relationships between Rotarians and highly skilled water and sanitation professionals in their communities.
more info: http://www.un-ihe.org/Rotary-Scholarships-for-Water-and-Sanitation-Professionals
SIDS Fellowships
The SIDS programme is aimed at water professionals from small island developing states. To be considered for the SIDS fellowship for the October 2020 intake, you must apply for admission to an MSc programme before 15 June 2020.
more info: www.un-ihe.org/sids-fellowships-1
Application & Admission
Admission requirements
Academic admission to IHE Delft MSc Programmes may be granted to applicants who provide evidence of having:
- A university level Bachelor's degree in an appropriate field, which has been awarded by a university of recognised standing, comparable in level with a Bachelor degree from a research university in the Netherlands.
- A good command of the English language, if this is not the first language. All non-native English-speaking applicants must satisfy the English language requirements for IHE Delft's educational programmes.
- A strong motivation to successfully complete the programme.
Several years of professional experience in an area of work related to the specialisation is an asset.
Application procedure
For admission to the programme please complete the online application, the link to the application section of our website is available at the top of this page.
You need to submit the following documents:
- Certified copies of degrees/diplomas.
- Certified copies of academic transcripts. Authenticated or certified copies are copies with an official stamp to verify that the copies are true copies of original documents. This official stamp may be from one of the following: a solicitor/notary, the educational institution from where the student gained the diplomas or the local council/local authority/local government office.
- Two Recommendation letters which must be printed on official letterhead paper and need to be signed and dated. We do not accept recommendation letters which are older than 1 year nor which have copied and pasted signatures and/or letterheads. If you are employed, one of the recommendation letters should be from your current employer and not older than 3 months.
- Motivation letter; explain in maximum 500 words why you wish to be admitted to the chosen programme and how it will benefit you in the future. The letter must show that you understand what the chosen programme is about.
- Copy of passport.
- Copy of results of English language test score (if required, see English language requirements).
If any of the original documents is not in English we additionally need an official English translation by a sworn translator.
Multiple MSc applications (for the same academic year) are not allowed, unless there is a period of at least 3 months between the starting dates of the programmes of interest. If a student applies for an Erasmus Mundus programme for which Erasmus Mundus scholar ships are available, he/she can also apply for another programme. If the other programme is also an Erasmus Mundus programme, the applicant can submit up to 3 applications.
More information
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Ms Marlies Baburek
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Tulalip Tribal Chairman Responds to Shooting Tragedy: Asks for Prayers for Families
Our community is reeling from this experience.
–Herman Williams, Sr. Tululip Tribes of Washington Chairman
TULALIP, WASHINGTON — By late Saturday, law enforcement officials in Marysville, Washington had released still limited information about Friday's shooting at Marysville-Pilchuck High School that left two teens dead and four others seriously injured.
The shooter was Jayleyn Fryberg, 14, a member of the prominent family of the Tulalip Tribes of Washington. Fryberg was reportedly a popular student at the high school, where only one before he was on the homecoming court of his football team.
Both Fryberg and a still unnamed female student were dead. Fryberg shot two other female students and two male students.
The male students were identified by his family as being his cousins. They are Andrew Fryberg, 15, and Nate Hatch, 14. By Saturday, Andrew was listed in serious condition and Nate in critical condition.
While the full motive for the shooting may never be known, it has been widely reported Fryberg was upset because of a romantic relationship. Additionally, it has been reported, but not confirmed by school officials, he was recently suspended from his high school football team for fighting with a fellow student who reportedly had made racial slurs towards him.
Tulalip Tribal Chairman Herman Williams, Sr. issued the following statement:
"I am deeply saddened by the terrible tragedy in our local school district. Our prayers go out to the families and the entire community.
Our first priority is to support the families and the children of those involved.
Our community is reeling from this experience, so we ask that the media and the public honor the families and our children in this time of grief. Sadly, we are now experiencing what has become a national trend, which we, as a society, must address.
These are our children. They are suffering, and their lives will be forever changed.
The fact that tribal members were involved makes it extremely hard to respond to any inquiries until we are aware of all the circumstances.
As chairman, I ask everyone to pray for the children and families of those involved."


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Following The Liberty Kitchen's pop up in Chapelton, the health food truck company has provided the perfect recipe for summer – an easy, fresh and colourful spicy peanut rainbow vegetable bowl.
Great for lunch or dinner and quick to make, this dish is full of flavour but more importantly packed with healthy ingredients.
Spicy Rainbow Vegetable Bowl
Serves Four
Spicy Peanut Sauce
Vegetable Noodles
In a blender, combine all of the ingredients for the spicy peanut sauce. Add the water carefully until the desired consistency is reached. Set the sauce aside.
Heat a frying pan, add the coconut oil and lightly fry the cashew nuts. Once they are golden, add the edamame beans until warmed through. Add the carrot and courgette for around a minute until warm, these should still have a slight crunch. Remove from the heat and pour over the spicy peanut sauce. Add in the raw red cabbage, divide into four bowls and top with the avocado, spring onions, coriander, seeds and lime. Enjoy!
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I have been aching the last few days. I am sure you have been as well. I have felt sick and nauseated. I have been both angry and sad. I have had quite a bit to say but then have been driven to a mournful silence.
I had a conversation with a black friend of mine yesterday and she told me how she scared for her own family, and for what kind of future is in store for her two little boys. And it was hard to hear. I haven't walked a day in the shoes of a black man. I don't know what it is like on a day to day basis to be a person of color. But I know that my heart breaks when people…
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Gemstone provides 24-hour care and support services for elderly residents and people with a chronic condition or a prolonged illness that requires constant monitoring. Our staff is devoted to the creation of a comforting respectful environment, and we are focused on helping each person achieve the highest possible quality of life.
Gemstone's skilled nursing team provides:
- Long-term care, residential care and complex care services
- Medication administration services
- Individualized care plans
- Assistance with activities of daily living
- Incontinence, catheter & colostomy care
- Therapeutic and special diets
- Diabetic management
- Post-hospital and post-surgical care
24-hour nursing care is provided daily by professional Nurses and Resident Care Aides (RCAs). The provincial target for hours of service is 2.80 hours per resident day of direct care with a minimum of 20% of the total time performed by nurses. It is important to know that the targeted hours are managed on a facility-wide basis since some neighbourhoods may require additional resources during temporary times of transition.
We respect all our residents as individuals, taking the time to get to know them so we can personalize the way we care for them. Our approach is "resident first- dementia second" and our care revolves around each person's own needs, not fixed rules and routines.
The consistent, stable staffing at Gemstone creates a warm and caring home-like environment for those afflicted with Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia. Specially trained to care for people with these diseases, our staff creates individualized care programs that build on each resident's strengths and abilities.
Your loved one will have the ability to participate in individual and group activities with other residents, ensuring that each day at Gemstone is filled with moments your loved one will enjoy. The security of our Residential Neighborhoods offer you peace of mind while the familiar surroundings of the center and the many activities make every day fulfilling for your loved one.
Our residents are important to us, and we enjoy building relationships with the people closest to them. Family and loved ones often wish to be part of care home life – from joining the Resident & Family Council, to organizing activities and helping out in the garden. Relatives often say this helps them to feel closer to their loved one, and that they're playing a key part in their care.
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Alfred likes to chew things.
He will chew plastic, like Jacoby, but unlike Jake, Freddy's chewing is more…forceful.
Freddy chews not just to get inside a plastic bag (although, if it has food in it, Freddy will chew it), but he also chews for the sake of chewing.
He chews like dogs do. Nom…nom…nom…
I've started giving him bones. I mean, real, serious, dog-bone bones.
We had a smoked lamb leg after New Year's. When we got all the meat off the bone, we let the cats pick the remainder of the meat off the bone.
It was basically the "Freddy and whoever can stand to fight him for it" show.
Freddy is pretty possessive of his bones.
Here's a video of Freddy and Jake chewing on the lamb leg bone (click image for video).
Be sure you have the volume up to hear Freddy's possessive growling (again, click image for video).
It's gotten to the point where I am buying Freddy dog chew sticks to gnaw on.
And what's worse is, he actually chews on them.
This is my first Aby with an oral fixation. I hope that, at least, it means he's going to have awesome teeth.
Here's a video of Freddy chewing on a meat-covered rawhide stick I got him from an awesome pet store in Örebro (click image for video). There's no growling in this one, mainly because nobody else wanted to share it!


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Sugar Should Frost Him
After a seemingly endless string of forgettable champions defending even more forgettable titles (super-junior-cruiserweight), the Sugar Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns welterweight title conciliation fight next Wednesday night at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas comes as a refreshing rain after a season-long drought. It is a classic matchup: Hearns, 22, the undefeated WBA champion, is 147 pounds of corded muscles tightly coiled around a freakish (for a welterweight) 6'1" frame; and Leonard, 25, a loser only to Roberto Duran, is a baby-faced amalgam of speed, grace and magnum power. Leonard, the 5'10" Olympic champion, holds two crowns: the WBC welterweight title, which he will risk against Hearns, and the WBA junior middleweight championship, which he won three months ago and is holding in reserve as a hedge against unthinkable defeat.
Both have predicted a knockout. By a long ton, Leonard is the superior boxer. Hearns, who fancies himself a boxer, is pure slugger, about as scientific as a wrecking ball. If it should end with both fighters on their feet, Leonard will be the one with his hands in the air.
This will be the richest fight in history. Caesars paid $3.75 million to host the fight, and then spent another million for promotion and to erect a temporary 25,000-seat stadium a stone's throw from the parking lot where heavyweight champion Larry Holmes dispatched Muhammad Ali last October. With a $500 top, the arena is scaled to do $6 million. Ten days before the fight, the promoters announced a sellout.
Top Rank paid $1 million for foreign TV rights and expects to bounce the fight off three satellites and into 40 to 50 countries. As for closed-circuit TV, Main Event Productions—run by the curious combination of a rock-concert promoter, an attorney and a college basketball coach, and which operates out of a one-story building it shares with a barbershop in Totowa, N.J.—has put the fight in 275 locations, with a potential audience of two million. At an average of $20 a seat, the closed-circuit gross could hit $40 million. Another $10 million to $15 million is possible from the pay-per-view market, which has approximately one million outlets in 20 cities.
"The response has been so tremendous it's scary," said Shelly Finkel (the rock promoter), who will share a fixed promoter's fee of $1.5 million with his two rookie partners, Dan Duva, the Clarence Darrow of the threesome, and Dan Doyle, who last season coached Trinity (Conn.) College to a 22-4 basketball record.
Total revenues from all sources already have passed $32 million. The previous high was the $29 million for Leonard-Duran I in Montreal in June 1980. That night Leonard lost his welterweight title but gained $9.7 million. "I would be totally shocked if he doesn't exceed that on this fight," says Mike Trainer, Leonard's attorney. Hearns's share will be $5.1 million, plus one-quarter of the net above $21 million. Leonard's post-tax net could surpass Hearns's pretax gross. There's no debate about which fighter is the drawing card.
Sugar Loaf Mountain lies in the northwest corner of Michigan, on a slender finger of wooded land that juts out into Lake Michigan, and it was at a ski resort here, after a four-hour ride in the rain from Detroit (he missed his plane), that Hearns did his early training. It is an area of splendid solitude, a backwoods hush that gives a man time to reflect. This is fishing country, which suited Hearns, and each fall the hardwood forests are invaded by battalions of deer hunters. Sugar Loaf isn't actually a mountain; it's a 600-foot hill with a 33-degree slope—called "Awful, Awful"—that drops off for a mile. Sometimes on his morning runs Hearns would assault the slope, but mostly he was content to run the adjacent golf course, which is bordered by cherry orchards. By either route, hill or rolling pasture, he covered between three and five miles.
A ring was set up in a large barnlike structure normally used for indoor tennis. The building is called Sugar Barn, but if Hearns read any significance into the appellation he let it slide. When he was not at work, the fighter could usually be found in Baronet No. 8, one of the town houses on the perimeter of the resort, where he whiled away his otherwise unoccupied hours watching video-tapes of kung fu or Elvis Presley movies. The telephone seemed programmed to ring at 30-second intervals; mostly it was ignored.
Late one afternoon, after a 45-minute training session in the barn, Hearns returned to his sanctuary trailed by a covey of press people. He'll never be mistaken for an orator, but he tries. His normal expression is that of a veteran poker player; he is a man of closet emotions.
"I have nothing against Ray Leonard," he said in response to a question. "I still think he's a nice fellow. He just happens to have something I want. If I beat him, I will get the recognition. I need the recognition. I've always wanted to be the best." A tiny crack appeared in the ice; a glimmer of a smile. "Ray has really never done anything to me. He's run off at the mouth a few times, but that's something we are going to fix upon September 16th."
Shortly after arriving at Sugar Loaf, just 26 days before the fight, Hearns and his crew drove 20 miles to Traverse City, a picturesque fishing village at the southern tip of West Bay. A softball game had been scheduled against a team of local media. A first baseman, Hearns played seven innings, the last two in the gathering dusk. As a hitter he went I for 5; as one of the stars in a $40 million-plus fight, he struck out against common sense.
"You don't want to do anything to upset his normal routine," explained Prentiss Byrd, outfielder, close friend and No. 2 man to Emanuel Steward, Hearns's manager and trainer, at Detroit's Kronk gym. Countered a listener, "If he breaks a leg playing softball, you're going to upset his normal delivery of $5 million to the bank."
Another game was scheduled for the following night, this one against the police and firemen in nearby Cedar. Steward, who had pitched the night before, elected to pass. After taking heat from the media in residence, he also ordered that Hearns could play only in the safety of rightfield.
It was left to Byrd to relay to Hearns his banishment to the outfield. The fighter proved stubborn: "I want to play first base."
"No, the boss says..."
"Then I'll play second."
"No, the boss says..."
"I don't give a damn what the boss says," Hearns snapped. Angered, he turned his car homeward, refusing to test the Steward theory that rightfielders don't suffer grievous injury.
As part of his training regime, Hearns engages in simulated fights with Steward, who, after donning gloves that resemble catcher's mitts, directs the combat in pantomime. It's like painting by the numbers. The strokes are crisp and clean; the painting resembles a masterpiece. It fails, however, to make of the painter an artist.
Steward: "Tommy does everything exactly as I tell him. He listens intently to what I say and then goes out and executes exactly what I tell him. Tommy is like a robot."
Harold Weston Jr., now the assistant matchmaker at Madison Square Garden, agrees, but without applause. In May of 1979 Weston, already partly blind in his right eye because of a detached retina, fought Hearns in Las Vegas. In the sixth round, with Hearns fading badly, Weston was struck in his good eye. He claimed it was a thumb. Whether it was or not, Weston, who had won the fifth and sixth rounds and seemed en route to a rout, was left almost sightless and was forced to retire in his corner.
"Hearns is a programmed fighter, as Steward claims," Weston says. "But if the fight doesn't go the way they plan, he's totally lost. He cannot adjust. Like in my fight, he went back to his corner and said, 'He's not falling. He's not falling. What do I do now?' He was getting scared to death."
A few weeks ago Weston discussed strategy with Leonard in Las Vegas. Weston came away convinced that Leonard will win by a knockout. "I like his strategy," he says. "I like his attitude. His thinking is a lot like mine was. When I fought Hearns, my strategy was to stay low, get inside and dig body punches and keep the pressure on. I knew if I did that, his hand speed would slow down, his punching power wouldn't be as effective and I'd knock him out in the eighth or ninth round. We were headed in that direction when I got hit in the eye. I knew I had him because he started running, and he had never run from anybody. I was fast, but Leonard is about three times as fast as I was. I don't think Hearns has ever been hit as fast as he'll be hit on September 16th."
As an amateur, Hearns was strictly a singles hitter. He had 163 fights, won all but eight, but had only 11 knockouts. Not until after he became a professional did he master the leverage that converted him into such a devastating puncher. As a pro he has stopped 30 of 32 opponents. Most were intimidated by his 78½-inch reach and 73-inch height, which seems even greater in the ring because he wears elevator boxing shoes. The majority of his opponents came in handcuffed by fear, ready-made victims.
Hearns will enjoy no such advantage against Leonard.
Janks Morton, Leonard's prime trainer since his ring infancy, says, "The one thing I was afraid of the most when Ray turned pro in 1977 was that we might overmatch him. He wouldn't know he was overmatched. He'd just fight until he died. But I don't worry anymore. Hey, after two wars with Duran, to hell with Hearns. Hearns can knock the wall down coming out of the dressing room. Ray will still be standing in the center of the ring waiting for him."
Cus D'Amato, 73, manager of former champions Floyd Patterson and Josè Torres, sees the fight as a contest between an experienced and very competent amateur (Hearns) and a true and—by D'Amato's tough yardstick—rare professional (Leonard). After praising Hearns as a devastating puncher and a savage finisher, D'Amato, boxing's resident oracle, says, "I don't believe he's as good a fighter as everybody thinks. He doesn't throw punches with combination rhythm. Like ta-ta-ta, like an Ali or a Robinson, or a LaMotta when he was LaMotta. Hearns goes ta-ta-ta. There's a break in the rhythm. A man of experience, like Leonard, can avoid every one of them. Leonard throws combinations. You can probably avoid the first, but you'll get hit with the second, or the third, or the fourth. Some guys can hurt you with the first punch, or the last one, but they aren't like Leonard, who can knock you out with any punch he throws in a combination."
They take a different stand in the Hearns camp, of course, but Steward sounds like a man with his fingers crossed. "Sugar Ray Leonard never knocked out anybody with his ability," he says. "They all just got tired because they were in a brawl. Besides, Tommy has got the greatest chin I ever trained, and he isn't easy to hit. He just holds out those long arms of his and says stop."
If Hearns has a great chin, Leonard surely will discover it. Hearns can be hit; he's just never been hit by a real hitter. Last April he stopped a one-armed Randy Shields on cuts in 12 rounds. Shields, whose left arm was useless because of a training injury that was exacerbated during the fight, wasn't intimidated.
"They keep talking about his mean eyes," Shields says. "No professional is going to be bothered by that. He tried it on me before the fight and I felt like laughing in his face."
Unblessed by power, Shields is, in the vernacular of the trade, a cutie: quick of foot and head, a defensive fighter who could make a firing squad look bad. Late in 1978 he went 10 rounds with Leonard and lost a very close decision. Before being stopped by Hearns on the cuts, he had drilled at least a dozen clean right hands to Hearns's angular chin.
"Like all guys who rely on power, Hearns has neglected other areas, like defense," D'Amato says. "If Shields had any kind of power he'd have knocked him out. And that last guy he fought down in Houston, Pablo Baez, who wasn't too much, hit Hearns a right hand and drove him into the ropes, and Hearns covered up à la Ali. Somewhere along the line, Leonard will get him in the position where one of those incompetents got him—I mean incompetent compared to Leonard—and hit him like a dozen right hands to the jaw. Or if he gets him on the ropes like Baez had him, he'll stop him. Leonard won't let him get away. Leonard is one hell of a finisher, like Robinson was."
The opening bell has just rung and the two fighters move forward. The temperature is between 75° and 85°, but in September there is always a refreshing coolness to the Nevada desert at night. The fight has started at twilight and the heat is not a factor.
Hearns begins with a rush. He has always been an overanxious starter, as though he needed early knockouts to overcome Leonard's gold medal and cosmic personality. "He comes out like an amateur," Weston says with disdain. Hearns is the Hitman, a nom de guerre he despises but one he seems subconsciously determined to justify.
When people speak of Hearns, it's always of the right hand. But it's the left that is the killer. The left hand forces the head under the blade; only then does the right drop the guillotine. While Leonard is amassing a ton of points, Hearns's jab strikes out, again and again, a hissing snake searching for a victim...but finding only the Nevada air.
Odell Hadley is 6'2", and as he spars with Leonard in the ring set up in one of Caesars Palace's cavernous convention rooms, he is doing his best to imitate Hearns's jab. Leonard has already gone three smartly paced five-minute rounds with 6'1" Ray Kates, and he has yet to draw a deep breath. "His legs are like steel," whispers Victor Abraham, another sparring partner, as he watches Leonard in action.
Hadley's long left arm flicks out, again and again, and Leonard uses it to see where he is positioned after the jabs slide harmlessly past his left ear. Now and again Leonard lobs a stern right hand to Hadley's head. It's not the classic straight right; it comes in an arc, like a mortar shell.
"Anybody who thinks that Sugar Ray Leonard can't punch is in for a big surprise," says Jimmy Jacobs, the manager of WBC junior middleweight champion Wilfred Benitez. Leonard won his welterweight title by stopping Benitez in the 15th round, in November of 1979. "Before that fight," Jacobs goes on, "we studied films of about a dozen of Leonard's fights. Half of them ended in one-punch knockouts. It was a tremendous thing to see."
To the amazement of no one at ringside, Leonard has been outjabbing his two taller opponents. "And he'll outjab Hearns," predicts Angelo Dundee, who worked with Muhammad Ali and is Leonard's trainer. He'll huddle with Morton just before the fight to plot strategy. "They talk about Hearns's height and his 78½-inch reach. Ray's is 74 and he'll neutralize the difference with speed and movement, like Willie Pastrano. Willie had the shortest arms in history, but he was so quick he outjabbed everybody. Ray has that same ability."
Hadley is now in his third round, Leonard in his sixth. Between rounds they are resting for only 30 seconds. At the five-minute mark no one calls time. At the seven-minute mark Leonard, tired of practicing the jab, moves inside. He comes in quickly, bobbing and weaving, behind a flicking left hand, and then, his right glove tucked up under his chin to ward off a counter uppercut, he slams a hook to the body. Then he's gone.
A moment later, Hadley, while trying to ward off another assault, accidentally catches Leonard in the right eye. Grimacing, Leonard steps back, pawing at the eye. Then, in a cold fury, he moves in and rips tight, vicious hooks deep into Hadley's side. "God, when he hits you like that it's awesome," Abraham says. "And it's always in the same place." Lightly, Abraham jabs a finger into a listener's body, low, just a shade below the rib cage.
The round lasts 9½ minutes.
The following day Leonard was committed to appear on the Tonight Show in L.A., which Bill Cosby was guest-hosting. So, except for his usual 4:30 a.m. run, he took the day off. A little after 3 p.m., he and four friends flew to Los Angeles.
Flying doesn't appeal to Leonard. By talking about the fight he was able to take his mind off being at 38,000 feet. He had a window seat, but he rarely looked out.
His thoughts were on the first Duran fight, the one he lost in Montreal. "All that pressure," he said, shaking his head. "It was the first time I was in a position like that. Like Hearns is now. He's going to taste it. It's uncomfortable, it really is. He said it won't bother him. I said the same thing. But it eventually got to me. It bothers everyone until you've gone through it once. I'm interested to see how he handles it."
Another theory in Hearns's camp is that Leonard is no longer hungry, that he has lost his appetite for fighting. Leonard laughed. "Hungry for what? They use money against me because that's all they have. But I like to win, period. I like the sport; I like the artistry of boxing. I like the challenge. I like the competition. I like it when they say I can't beat a fellow, and then when I beat him I look forward to the excuses they make. If it's only money, why is Pete Rose still playing? Why is Tony Dorsett still playing? I want this fight bad. The same as Duran Two. I wanted him bad the second fight. I know what I can do now and I can do it even better because of the experience. I didn't want the Hearns fight just to beat him; I wanted this fight so I can show the world just how good I really am. Hungry? I'm darn hungry."
The two champions are in the final round now. Past the 10th, but not yet to the 15th. Hearns has been taking a fierce beating to the body. He has been missing wildly all night, and when he misses, he leaves himself woefully off-balance. For an instant after he throws a jab, his back foot is off the floor, making him a one-legged fighter. When he misses, Hearns rebounds with a backhand, as much to recover his balance as to distract his opponent.
"That's when Ray will nail him," Morton said. "To the body, kidney shots, under the heart. Steward taught Tommy how to punch. But he forgot to teach him how to duck."
Still trying, Hearns throws a jab. Leonard swats it aside with his left hand and, stepping in smartly, arcs a right to the jaw.
After that, all they have to do is go to the bank.
The 6'1" Hearns has a distinct advantage in height (3") and reach (4½"), but Leonard has the edge in savvy and speed. The WBC champ's stinging jab will make it difficult for the WBA champ to set up for his own jab or his devastating right hand.
Leonard trained against tall fighters and worked on his body attack. If Hearns is off with his left, Leonard's trainer, Janks Morton, says, he can expect a right to the heart or hooks to the side—always in the same place, a shade below the rib cage.
The right hand may be Hearns's only chance. He has taken out most of his 32 opponents with the right, after carefully setting them up with left jabs. Last week Hearns broke the jaw of sparring partner Marlon Starling with an overhand right while wearing pillow-like 18-ounce gloves.
Perhaps the most important tactic that Leonard picked up from Muhammad Ali was pulling back his head to avoid rights. If Leonard can frustrate Hearns in this manner for 10 rounds, Sugar Ray will have a better chance of stopping him.
"Like all guys who rely on power," says Randy Shields, who lost to both Hearns and Leonard, "Hearns has neglected the other areas, like defense." Leonard will try to slip Hearns's jabs and come over the top to stop him after the 10th round.


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It has become a bit of a tradition for us to land in Hong Kong at the beginning of a given year. Flying in on Cathay Pacific business (50K points each from Toronto), we stayed our first night at the Hong Kong Sky City Marriott Hotel (which is right at the airport). The hotel was free since we signed up for the Chase Marriott Rewards Premier Plus Card giving us 75K sign up bonus points (with a minimum spend) + a night free valued up to 35K points. With Platinum membership we were upgraded to a suite , had free breakfast and access to the Lounge which serves food and drinks for free.
This time in Hong Kong we decided to visit the Sha Tin area (north west part of the island). It has a multitude of parks and beautiful boardwalks to visit and stroll including Ma On Shan Country Park (be ready for some uphill climbing and incredible vistas of the city and the jungle like park). Tai Mo Shan Country Park offers similar gorgeous views (after the payment of a strenuous uphill climb).
For those interested in a less strenuous stroll, the Shing Mun River offers miles of lovely boardwalk lined with beautiful parks including the Sha Tin Park featuring gardens and lagoons filled with exotic flowers, turtles and coy fish.
The Hong Kong Heritage Museum (also on the Shing Mun River boardwalk) has free entry and features many different exhibitions. There are modern art displays, interactive wings and some exhibitions showing off Hong Kong's antiquities with stunning pieces that are thousands of years old. There is a large children's area and a wing dedicated to Bruce Lee which Rob thoroughly enjoyed.
While visiting the Sha Tin area we stayed at the Courtyard Hong Kong Sha Tin. This hotel is amazing – for only 12.5K points/night we were treated to a suite overlooking the river. Because of our Platinum status with Marriott we were able to visit the Lounge which served free food morning and night (with fantastic wine and beer available in the evenings). We also had a free breakfast in the main restaurant which we visited closer to lunch. Basically, staying at this hotel we had free food and drink day and night (and a suite) for the measly cost of 12.5K points per night. We will definitely be back!


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Ramsgate Arts Primary School News
We will rock you with guitars, keyboards, drums and vocals – Ramsgate Arts Primary pupils are raring to rock.
They will be taking part in a series of high energy music workshops with professionals from the Rocksteady education team.
The group's tutor Matt Palmer cranked up the volume with a powerful assembly at RAPS to engage pupils who were soon clapping and singing along.
In his dynamic demonstration he highlighted the various instruments he was playing and explained the difference between acoustic and electric equipment, with the accent very firmly on learning new skills and having fun.
He highlighted a number of drum beats and fills, guitar licks and keyboard parts and performed excerpts from a number of hits including We Will Rock You and Uptown Funk.
He said:
"The children were awesome in assembly – their reaction was fantastic. Our aim is to encourage them to explore various instruments and make some noise, create some music energy and really express themselves.
We will only be looking at contemporary music in our sessions – it helps them feel great about themselves. They will develop self-confidence and skills as they progress and play in their school rock band."
Head of School Nick Budge said:
"The children had a wow of a time with Matt in assembly. Music is an international language and it helps breaks down so many barriers.
The Rocksteady assembly was so positive and energising that we have asked them to get RAPS rocking with workshop sessions."
Ramsgate Arts Primary School is part of the Viking Academy Trust with Upton Junior School at Broadstairs and Chilton Primary School, Ramsgate.
Thank you to Ramsgate Arts Primary School for this good news story, it's so great to see the pupils are really getting into music with them taking part in a series of high energy music workshops!
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Wadi Halfa(wä`dē hăl`fə), town, N Sudan, on Lake Nubia (Lake Nasser). It is the terminus of a railroad from Khartoum and is the point at which cotton, wheat, livestock, and other goods are transferred to steamers going down the Nile into Egypt. Archaeological expeditions have worked to excavate and preserve the area's numerous Egyptian antiquities, which faced flooding from the reservoir of the Aswan High Dam.
Founded in the 19th cent., Wadi Halfa became (1885–98) the headquarters of the Anglo-Egyptian army as it prepared to reconquer Sudanese territory from the MahdiMahdi
[Arab.,=he who is divinely guided], in Sunni Islam, the restorer of the faith. He will appear at the end of time to restore justice on earth and establish universal Islam. The Mahdi will be preceded by al-Dajjal, a Muslim antichrist, who will be slain by Jesus.
..... Click the link for more information. . The railroad up the Nile to Wadi Halfa was built to support Lord Kitchener's forces during the reconquest. During World War II, the town served as a staging post on the Allied communication line with Egypt via central Africa.
Wadi Halfa
a town in the N Sudan that was partly submerged by Lake Nasser: an important archaeological site