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Rory McIlroy stays in contention in South African Open knock off van cleef and arpels blue necklace despite back pain

South African Open third round leaderboard, Glendower Golf Club, Johannesburg 17 G Storm (Eng), 14 R McIlroy (NI), 13 J L Smith (Eng), Jbe Kruger (SA), 12 E Molinari (Ita), J Stalter (Fra), D Burmester (SA), J Van Zyl (SA), R Langasque (Fra), P Uihlein (US), Selected others: 10 D Drysdale (Sco), 9 O Fisher (Eng), 5 S Dyson (Eng), 4 T Lewis (Eng)Full leaderboard

Rory McIlroy remains three shots behind leader Graeme Storm after the third round of the South African Open.

England's Storm, going for his first European Tour title for 10 years, is 17 under after a 67 and has now gone 41 holes without a bogey in Johannesburg.

World number two McIlroy, who has been playing with back pain, also carded a five under 67 that included an eagle at the par four seventh and five birdies.

"I felt it could have been a couple better," said the Northern Irishman.

"I was in a bit of discomfort early on, but the physio patched me up and got me going.

"I drove the ball well for the most part today and gave myself plenty of chances and took quite a few of them, especially around the middle of the round."

Jordan L Smith the number van necklace replica one in last season's Challenge Tour, the second tier of European golf will complete the final group on Sunday. He is a shot behind McIlroy after a four under 68, level with South African Jbe Kruger, who carded a 69.

Italian Edoardo Molinari equalled the course record of 63 to get to 12 under par, alongside South Africa's Dean Burmester and Jaco van Zyl, French pair Joel Stalter and Romain Langasque, and American Peter Uihlein.

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Oct 13 '17 · 0 comments
Spain determined not to emulate glorious Dutch side

POTCHEFSTROOM, South Africa Spain are determined not to be remembered like the Dutch side of the 1970s who were widely praised for their delightful playing style but ended up trophyless, according to midfielder Xavi.

Deploying tactics that came to be known as 'Total Football', Netherlands reached the World Cup final in 1974 and 1978 but fell respectively to Franz Beckenbauer's West Germany and an Argentina side fired by the goals of Mario Kempes.

The Dutch players' orange shirts and their style, based around rapid passing and dominance of possession, prompted the nickname 'clockwork orange' in Spain after the van necklace fake film but Xavi said the team were only remembered now for their football.

"We don't want to become another clockwork orange, we want to be the champions," he told Spanish daily El Periodico ahead of Sunday's final against Netherlands in Johannesburg.

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Midfielder Sergio Busquets, who plays with Xavi at Spanish champions Barcelona, said on Friday Spain owed a large debt of gratitude to Netherlands because of the strong Dutch influence at Barca down the years.

Seven Barcelona players started Spain's semi final against Germany, including Xavi, Andres Iniesta and Busquets, all of whom have inherited part of the legacy handed down from Dutch coaches Johan Cruyff through Louis van Gaal to Frank Rijkaard.

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Shirtless Justin Trudeau photos go viral internationally

Sightings of a shirtless Justin Trudeau are causing something of a stir across Canada and internationally this summer.

The prime minister van cleef and arpels emerald ring copy was most recently photographed shirtless while taking a break from surfing and simultaneously photobombing a couple getting married on a Tofino beach.

A Vancouver Island wedding photographer, Marnie Recker, tweeted the photo of Trudeau on Saturday with his surf board standing several metres away from the bride, generating plenty of retweets and fanfare online.

It wasn clear exactly when the photo was taken, but Trudeau has been in British Columbia for the past week.

A previous sighting of Canada shirtless prime minister gained international attention.

The BBC and Time magazine reported on a Canadian family that encountered Trudeau while hiking in Quebec Gatineau Park last month and took a selfie with the prime minister who was not wearing a shirt.

Reporting on the same Quebec encounter, American online news provider Mic called shirtless Trudeau of Canada most prized national treasures. satirical news website the Syrup Trap poked fun at the online obsession over the prime minister physique with a story headlined: on camping trip doesn know how to tell shirtless Justin Trudeau to leave them alone. epaper, Digital Access, Subscriber Rewards), please input your Print Newspaper subscription phone number and postal code.

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The History and Mystery of the Arnolfini Portrait

What it shows seems unremarkable enough: a couple, standing in their home, surrounded by their possessions. Yet it is unprecedented, the first work of art simultaneously to celebrate both middle class comfort and monogamous marriage. Never before had domestic furniture, fittings and fabrics been depicted with such mesmerising realism.

Van Eyck picture is also deeply perplexing. Generations of art historians have failed to establish either who these people are or precisely what they are up to. Nor is it obvious what the prominent inscription right in the middle, usually translated van Eyck has been here actually implies. So the late Carola Hicks had rich material for this book, finished just before her death last year.

On the whole, she is better on the history than the mystery. Almost nothing is known for certain about the circumstances of its creation, beyond the van cleef ring price copy name of the artist and the date 1434 on which it was completed, both written on its surface. But an enormous amount of information survives about its subsequent fate.

Hicks alternates short essays about the contents of the picture itself the dog, the rug, the mirror with chapters about the many owners of the work and those who have become obsessed with it.

The latter chapters, though they stray sometimes rather far from the actual painting, are full of intriguing information. Early in the 16th century, the picture passed into the hands of the Habsburg family, and hence into the Spanish royal collection. There it stayed for centuries; one king of Spain hung it in a regal lavatory. At that stage, Velzquez would almost certainly have known The Arnolfini Portrait; it must have influenced Las Meninas, that other great mystery interior with a mirror.

The picture was appropriated by Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, then looted from his baggage by the British Army at the Battle of Vitoria in 1813.

At this point, it seems, it fell into the hands of a British army officer, Lieutenant Colonel James Hay. After being shot almost fatally in an unfortunate case of friendly fire at Waterloo, Hay tried to realise his asset.

The Prince Regent had it on approval for a while but, half baked as always, decided not to buy. Hay eventually sold it to the fledgling National Gallery in 1842 for a bargain 600 guineas; though the Treasury was shamefully slow to hand over the cash. From then on, it was one of the most celebrated pictures in the world, and scholars got to work on it.

In 1857 Joseph Crowe, an English journalist and Giovanni Cavalcaselle, an Italian artist, made a crucial discovery. In 1516 the picture is described in an inventory as le Fin with his wife in a chamber

They connected this with the documented presence of a merchant from Lucca, Giovanni Arnolfini, in Bruges in the mid 15th century hence the title by which the picture is now known.

Confusingly, recent research has found there were quite a few Arnolfini in Flanders around the right time.

In his magnificently scholarly entry for the picture in the National Gallery Catalogue of the Early Netherlandish School, Lorne Campbell lists no fewer than four. The two knock off van cleef & arpels ring best candidates, moreover, were both named Giovanni and neither seems definitely to have been married in 1434.

At this point, another problem arises. The man is clearly a highly individualised portrait (he was painted again by van Eyck), the woman, on the other hand, isn She is a type, similar to van Eyck saints and Madonnas. Was she then absent betrothed but not yet arrived or dead? And what are the two of them doing? Are they getting married, as was once widely believed, with van Eyck pictured in the mirror as a witness? Or are they just posing for a joint portrait (except one sitter doesn seem to have been there)?

Then there are the objects the lighted candle, the oranges almost all of them might, or might not, be symbols of something.

Wisely perhaps but disappointingly, Hicks is non committal about all this, simply describing differing theories. Nor has she much to say copy van ring about the deepest puzzle of all.

This picture, and van Eyck work altogether, represents an astonishing departure for visual realism. Those oranges, for example, and the window above are as brilliantly naturalistic as anything in Vermeer. No one has really explained how van Eyck came to see the world in such a radically fresh way.

Hicks is casually dismissive of the suggestion he might have known and been affected by a lens based instrument such as a camera obscura.

I am not so sure. Van Eyck didn as used to be believed, invent oil paint, but he did initiate a revolutionary way of painting. Why and how he did that is the true mystery of The Arnolfini Portrait.
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Suspected Isis terror cell 'planned to bomb Christmas crowds at UK shopping centres'

A series of attempts to carry out lethal attacks on Christmas markets and shopping centres across Europe, including Britain, were foiled before the Berlin murders. The security operations, according to senior sources, were carried out in direct response to information about terrorist threats linked to Isis.

In Britain, counter terrorism officers stated that a "significant plot" inspired by Isis had been halted. The alleged targets, say security sources, were one or more shopping centres crowded in the run up to Christmas. Four men in Derby, another one at van cleef and arpels perlee ring replica Burton on Trent in Staffordshire and a woman in London, aged between 22 and 36, were arrested ten days ago in connection with the alleged plot, with the recovery of material which could be used for making bombs. On Thursday, two of the men, aged 22 and 27 and from the Derby area were released without charge. The other four people remain in custody.

The strong possibility of terrorist acts during the Christmas period has been mentioned publicly by government bodies and repeatedly in exchange of intelligence between allied security agencies. Isis has also been publicly exhorting its followers to carry out attacks.

Five men, aged 26 to 37, were arrested last month in Marseilles and Strasbourg five days before the opening of a Christmas market, van cleef arpel ring replica annually attracting two million visitors, in Strasbourg. Police found pistols and a sub machine gun in their raids. French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve disclosed that an investigation had been launched following a tip off by a "partner country", refusing to specify which one it was.

Ten young men, most of them in their teens, were arrested in Belgium last week allegedly for plotting to attack a Christmas carnival. Eric Van Der Sjipt, a spokesman at the office of prosecution, claimed the suspects had received instructions online on making an explosive device as well as various methods which can be used to kill.

Germany had already experienced a recent attack, albeit a failed one, before Berlin. A 12 year old boy, of Iraqi origin, was arrested earlier this month in Ludwigshafen after attempting to detonate a nail bomb in the town's Christmas market.

Last month the US State Department warned American citizens travelling to Europe of possible terror attacks. It said "credible information indicates that the Islamic State (Isis) al Qaeda and their affiliates continue to plan terror attacks in Europe with a focus on upcoming holiday season and associated events".

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With a photograph of a Hertz rental truck and the annual Thanksgiving Day parade in New York on the front cover, the magazine pointed out that "though being an essential part of modern life, very few actually comprehend the destructive capability of the motor vehicle and its capacity of reaping large numbers of casualties if used in a premeditated manner".

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The London property developer who shies away from the super

At a recent political panel I attended, representatives of all the main parties were in agreement: the biggest problem facing London in the coming years is the chronic shortage van cleef alhambra mother of pearl necklace knock off of affordable housing.

Developers, it was said, just did not want to know. Plenty of flats were being built but they were mostly described as "luxury" with a price tag to match one far beyond the reach of ordinary folk.

If anyone represents the villains of the piece, it's Daniel Van Gelder, chairman of the Westminster Property Association (WPA), the property industry trade body for Central London.

"Our members are made up of the owners, the occupiers and the developers, so pretty much everyone from Crown Estates, Land Securities, British Land and Berkeley Homes to the affordable housing providers. We cover ultra prime to affordable housing, offices and housing."

First, though, something about Van Gelder. He's a major developer himself with Exemplar Properties. His father was also a developer. The family is of Dutch origin, settling in Spitalfields at the turn of the century.

"My father wanted me to go into real estate, and on Sundays when I was a child, he took me round buildings, copy van cleef pearl necklace and said this is something I could deliver. Something tangible. Something I could go back to and be proud of what I'd done.

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Aged eight, he was packed off to boarding school: "My dad always wanted to be able to send one of his kids to private school. He was very proud and wanted the English way. At 13, I went to Harrow, which was another proud moment for him."

After going to Bristol Polytechnic, now the University of the West of England, to study real estate, he spent two graduate years at Richard Ellis.

Other firms and developments followed until "I decided that I didn't want the constraints of a Plc. I wanted to have my own business. We could work on some large scale projects, and do them in our own style, using more imagination".

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He teamed up with Clive Bush to form Exemplar. Their first project was Lyon House, a 240,000 sq ft building in Croydon.

"It was one of those buildings which just wasn't loved. It was owned by a purchaser who hadn't even been to see it. He didn't understand how it worked. We gave it a lot of love. We refurbished the outside, the floors and the reception.

"When we took the building, it was 60% empty. When we sold it, people were moving back in again and it was 70% full. That's what real estate is all about. It requires a lot of love a lot of people just rely on the market moving."

Now, they've got Fitzroy Place: "It's the largest construction under way in Westminster, at 750,000 sq ft. It will be 50 50 homes and offices."

Van Gelder has an apartment at Fitzroy Place and lives there during the week. His partner and two children live on the Hamble River on the South Coast: "I love sailing sailing and backgammon."

Exemplar built new London offices for BlackRock and Rio Tinto: "We have the opportunity of being a very large business. But we don't want that. We have a great family at Exemplar and we are happy to stay this way.

"At any one time, we can be working on one to three million square feet of space. As soon as you start working on four or five schemes, you lose the personal contact and we don't want that. We are not one of those big Plc companies that has a buy team, a sell team, a build team and a marketing team."

They aim at the quality market, but not the very summit. "The Candy [Brothers] market [they developed One Hyde Park] doesn't excite me at all. We like the market from around 800 to 3000 a square foot. I call it the 'aspirational normal market'.

"When you get into the realms of the super rich, you may not want to deal with those sorts of people. And we certainly don't."

It's a nice phrase, "aspirational normal" although it's hard to see what is so normal about a modest, 1000 sq ft flat costing up to 3 million. At the WPA, he's had to put his personal views to one side: "If, in 30 years' time, London is going to remain the great city it is now, we have got to knock heads together, and think about what we need to do together."

Don't be fooled, he says, by all the cranes on the skyline. "You think there's a lot of cranes around in London but really there aren't. At the moment, the office vacancy rate in the West End is at around 3%, pretty much the lowest it's ever been, which means there's competition from occupiers for every bit of space. Which means prices are going up. Residential prices are going up. There's huge demand. London is a world city. Everyone wants to be here. You can't get the space. Even in Canary Wharf, which is why we're seeing some big rents."

Shortage: Quality office space is becoming scarce in London (Picture: Stefan Rousseau, PA)

The way we occupy space is changing. "Particularly in offices," Van Gelder says. "People want large floor plates. We're more reliant on technology. We need power, we need cooling. We need different kinds of services, which you just can't put in offices over shops. We need new buildings."

The housing crisis, he says, "is frightening. We know we need between 40,000 and 100,000 new homes in London per year. It's a huge figure. We also know that the population of London is going to increase by about three million people, from eight million to 11 million.

"It's a huge amount of growth. However, all these people that are going to be living in and around London are also going to need somewhere to work. Something that concerns me is that we're not creating enough new homes, we're also removing offices.

"If you're out of town, and you have a lovely green or brown site, you can choose to either build an office block or housing, and that's great. But if you're in London, where pretty much all the space is used up, you're swapping one use for another.

"Our big concern is what's happening in central London is converting offices to homes. It may sound like a great idea but it's not. Over the last five years we've lost around five million square feet of office space, which is a huge amount of jobs, around 70,000 gone from Westminster alone."

His solution? "We need to build bigger, not huge, buildings. We need to add one or two storeys to certain areas. Crossrail will bring 200,000 more people a day into London. We need to go wider or taller."
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Somalia country profile

Created in 1960 from a former British protectorate and an Italian colony, Somalia collapsed into anarchy following the overthrow of the military regime of President Siad Barre in 1991.

As rival warlords tore the country apart into clan based fiefdoms, an internationally backed unity government formed in 2000 struggled to establish control, and the two relatively peaceful northern regions of Somaliland and Puntland effectively broke away.

The seizure of the capital Mogadishu and much of the country's south by a coalition of Islamist shariah courts in 2006 prompted an intervention by Ethiopian, and later, African Union, forces.

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7th 19th centuries From van cleef black bracelet replica the 7th century arrival of Islam onwards, modern day Somalia is ruled by a series of at times competing sultanates.

19th century European colonial powers gradually make inroads into Somalia's rival regional states, with the bulk of the area coming under Italian rule and the British establishing control of the northwest.

1960 Italian Somaliland and British Somaliland become independent, merge and form the United Republic of Somalia.

1969 Mohamed Siad Barre assumes power in coup after the assassination of the elected president; he goes on to declare Somalia a socialist state and nationalises most of the economy. Former British Somaliland declares unilateral independence.

1990s US spearheaded UN peacekeeping mission fails to restore peace. Northern Puntland region declares autonomy in 1998.

2005 2012 Pirates mainly operating out of Puntland pose a major menace to shipping off the Somali coast, before falling away as a threat as a result of an international naval operation.

2006 Militias loyal to the Islamist Union of Islamic Courts capture Mogadishu and other parts of south after defeating clan warlords, before being driven out by Ethiopian forces.

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