This is the first time I’ve gone on foot to Arba’inya. I usually go by car, but this year was special. I wanted to challenge the Wahabi Sunnis, who have attacked pilgrims in the past. At 7 a.m. on Monday morning [Feb. 25], I left Baghdad with four of my friends, Musa, Ahmad, Muhammad and Basim. We took some bottles of water and carried the picture of the Imam, Al-Hussein, and two flags, one green and one black to honor him....
If you’re one of the millions Americans trying out online dating, you may sometimes feel overwhelmed not just by the amount of people you can match with, but also by the amount of rejection that may entail. You may feel so discouraged by a string of bad dates that you’ll feel ready to give up the practice altogether. But online dating is a bit of an art: with the right strategy and tools, you can find someone worth your while, whatever your end goal may be....
The site, best known for hosting adult content, allows creators to sell video clips, photos, and messages directly to subscribers on a pay-per-view basis, working from their homes and on their own schedule. Customers pay between $5 and $50 and OnlyFans take a 20% cut. The platform particularly appeals to disabled people who find it hard to work more “traditional” jobs. It provides a steady stream of income with less danger, while allowing them to work their own hours, independently....
This article will help you understand the benefits of open heart surgery and possible follow-up surgeries, as well as lifestyle changes your doctor is likely to recommend as you recover. Benefits of Surgery Surgeons use open heart surgery for conditions such as heart attack, heart failure, valvular disease, and coronary artery disease. It’s the most common method for performing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Given the scope of open heart surgery and its inherently invasive nature, it’s helpful to know that it has a longstanding and high overall success rate correcting life-threatening problems and improving quality of life....
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While obviously a fun play on words, an “open-zone” title seems like it’s the perfect design for a great Sonic game. There’s plenty to be seen about Sonic Frontiers, but that one piece of design knowledge has given fans plenty to think about and speculate over. It’s still too early to say, but an open-world Sonic game might be exactly what the series needs to get on top of the world again, and this could happen if properly implemented and designed around....
Poland hosts the largest contingent of volunteers, who spend two years on assignment. Elizabeth Metcalf, 48, is an accountant from California who now advises a railroad-repair facility in southeastern Poland on accounting methods and financial analysis. James Cason, 51, is a water-treatment specialist from Florida who offers advice on sewage systems and waste disposal to towns in the same area.David Allen, 30, is a junior-high-school teacher from Rhode Island who now instructs highly motivated students at the new English Teachers’ College in Warsaw....
After playing Iron Banner for a good amount of the day yesterday, we can answer a lot of those questions, and perhaps another: “Is Iron Banner any good?” The answer is: This might be the best Iron Banner in Destiny to date. The Power Curve In a blog yesterday, Bungie explained the updated Power Curve. It’s a graph that helps explain what’s going on inside Destiny’s code during Iron Banner (and Trials of Osiris) when level advantages are turned on....
WWE hasn’t built up many of its marquee matches for the event that well, like Brock Lesnar vs Roman Reigns. This week’s editions of Raw and SmackDown Live were mostly fillers, with little of note occurring on both shows. Although the card boasts long-awaited dream matches like AJ Styles vs Samoa Joe and Daniel Bryan vs The Miz, there is nominal interest heading into the event. The lackluster build to SummerSlam has endangered the event’s chances of success....
With owner Mike Ashley making a rare appearance, much of the fan’s anger was rightly directed at the owner, who is seemingly intent on running the club into the ground. But he wasn’t the only one to feel the disappointment of the fans. For the first time during his two and a half year reign at the club, the performance of the manager Rafael Benitez started to come under scrutiny....
I was switching channels on my television when the remote suddenly stopped working. As a result, I was forced to see a guy with yellow underwear stand over another guy with a gold plated belt up in his hands. But, then a bell rang and the lights went off! After a brief moment, the guy underneath the yellow underwear champion was gone and another man wearing black robe replaced him magically....
Ever since Phillipe Coutinho made the 142 million euro move to Spain, he has not been able to reach expectations, much less exceed them. When he made the switch to his dream club, everyone thought he would become the Blaugrana’s next Andres Iniesta. He didn’t, he hasn’t, and quite frankly, he won’t. The 26-year-old didn’t achieve the consistency required of him, and he lost his place in the first team to Osumane Dembele....
Here’s all you need to know about the Oppo Reno 2 and Oppo Reno 2 Z, including release date, pricing details and the key features of the latest smartphones. You can also read our full Oppo Reno 2 review since we’ve had the phone for a while. When will the Oppo Reno 2 be released? As revealed by Oppo, both the Oppo Reno 2 and 2 Z will be released on 18 October in the UK and parts of Europe....
Oral herpes is incredibly prevalent, with most people in the United States having HSV-1 by the age of 20. This article explains what causes oral herpes, its symptoms, when you should seek medical treatment, and more. Oral Herpes Causes The herpes simplex virus has two types: HSV-1 and HSV-2. Oral herpes is usually caused by HSV-1, while genital herpes is usually caused by HSV-2. That said, HSV-1 can also cause genital herpes and HSV-2 can also cause oral herpes....
RELATED: Beginner Tips For Orcs Must Die! 3 The Orcs Must Die! is an indie game series that was able to mix two seemingly different genres (Tower Defense and Third-Person Shooter) into one epic and action-packed adventure. And with Robot Entertainment’s latest game, Orcs Must Die! 3, players must again protect The Rift from the hordes of evil. One enemy type that poses the biggest threat to the players are the ones that fly, as they can easily sneak past them and enter The Rift....
According to Barack Obama, “change is coming to America.” He must not be watching the same nominating contest as the rest of us. With the Democratic Party having long ago fractured into two warring factions–in this corner, Hillary Clinton’s whiter, older, bluer-collar, more heavily female supporters; in that corner, Obama’s coalition of African-Americans and upscale, metropolitan, progressive Caucasians–any dunce could’ve predicted the outcome of today’s primaries in Oregon (progressive, coastal) and Kentucky (working-class, white) simply by looking at the 2000 U....
In a statement on Thursday shared with Oregon Live, the Douglas County COVID-19 Recovery Team confirmed that a coronavirus patient had died while waiting for a bed at the Mercy Medical Center in the city of Roseburg. “A COVID positive patient was in our Emergency Department, within our four walls, waiting for an open Intensive Care Unit bed to receive life-saving care,” the statement said. “It had been several hours because other COVID positive patients had filled those beds....
The Ducks, the West Region’s top seed, faced little pushback from the fourth-seeded Blue Devils, as Duke failed to recover from a mostly lethargic first half in which leading scorer Grayson Allen managed just three points and Marshall Plumlee spent a good chunk on the bench after early foul trouble. MORE: Ranking Sweet 16 choke jobs | Coach K lectured Dillon Brooks on sportsmanship All told, Duke was lucky to trail only 36-31 after Oregon went on a 10-4 run to close the half....
“I had no idea there was such bigotry and inflammatory action that was going to take place here by the board,” the farmer, Erin McCarthy, told news station KPTV. After hearing about the board’s vote, she thought of placing the flag on her farm. She recruited some volunteers online to help construct the flag. Together, they painted the large plywood flag which now stands on McCarthy’s property. It is reportedly visible from the Newberg High School football stadium....
