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A phrenological mapping[1] of the brain. Phrenology was among the first attempts to correlate mental functions with specific parts of the brain.
René Descartes' illustration of mind/body dualism. Descartes believed inputs are passed on by the sensory organs to the epiphysis in the brain and from there to the immaterial spirit.[2]

A mind (play /ˈmnd/) is the complex of cognitive faculties that enables consciousness, thinking, reasoning, perception, and judgement—a characteristic of human beings, but which also may apply to other life forms.[3][4]

A long tradition of inquiries in philosophy, religion, psychology and cognitive science has sought to develop an understanding of what mind is and what are its distinguishing properties. The main questions regarding the nature of mind is its relation to the physical brain and nervous system – a question which is often framed as the Mind-body problem, which considers whether mind is somehow separate from physical existence (dualism and idealism[5]), deriving from and reducible to physical phenomena such as neurological processes (physicalism), or whether the mind is identical with the brain or some activity of the brain.

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[6] Another question concerns which types of being are capable of having minds, for example whether mind is exclusive to humans, possessed also by some or all animals, by all living things, or whether mind can also be a property of some types of man-made machines.

Whatever its relation to the physical body it is generally agreed that mind is that which enables a being to have subjective awareness and intentionality towards their environment, to perceive and respond to stimuli with some kind of agency, and to have a consciousness, including thinking and feeling.[3][7]

Important philosophers of mind include Plato, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Martin Heidegger, John Searle, Daniel Dennett and many others. The description and definition is also a part of psychology where psychologists such as Siegmund Freud, William James have developed influential theories about the nature of the human mind. In the late 20th and early 21st century the field of cognitive science emerged and developed many varied approaches to the description of mind and its related phenomena. The possibility of non-human minds is also explored in the field of artificial intelligence, which works closely in relation with cybernetics and information theory to understand the ways in which human mental phenomena can be replicated by machines.

The concept of mind is understood in many different ways by many different cultural and religious traditions. Some see mind as a property exclusive to humans whereas others ascribe properties of mind to non-living entities (e.g. panpsychism and animism), to animals and to deities. Some of the earliest recorded speculations linked mind (sometimes described as identical with soul or spirit) to theories concerning both life after death, and cosmological and natural order, for example in the doctrines of Zoroaster, the Buddha, Plato, Aristotle, and other ancient Greek, Indian and, later, Islamic and medieval European philosophers.

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Which attributes make up the mind is much debated. Some psychologists argue that only the "higher" intellectual functions constitute mind, particularly reason and memory. In this view the emotions—love, hate, fear, joy—are more primitive or subjective in nature and should be seen as different from the mind as such. Others argue that various rational and emotional states cannot be so separated, that they are of the same nature and origin, and should therefore be considered all part of what we call the mind.

In popular usage mind is frequently synonymous with thought: the private conversation with ourselves that we carry on "inside our heads." Thus we "make up our minds," "change our minds" or are "of two minds" about something. One of the key attributes of the mind in this sense is that it is a private sphere to which no one but the owner has access. No one else can "know our mind." They can only interpret what we consciously or unconsciously communicate.

Mental faculties

Broadly speaking, mental faculties are the various functions of the mind, or things the mind can "do".

Thought is a mental act that allows human beings to make sense of things in the world, and to represent and interpret them in ways that are significant, or which accord with their needs, attachments, goals, commitments, plans, ends, desires, etc. Thinking involves the symbolic or semiotic mediation of ideas or data, as when we form concepts, engage in problem solving, reasoning and making decisions. Words that refer to similar concepts and processes include deliberation, cognition, ideation, discourse and imagination.

Thinking is sometimes described as a "higher" cognitive function and the analysis of thinking processes is a part of cognitive psychology. It is also deeply connected with our capacity to make and use tools; to understand cause and effect; to recognize patterns of significance; to comprehend and disclose unique contexts of experience or activity; and to respond to the world in a meaningful way.

Memory is the ability to preserve, retain, and subsequently recall, knowledge, information or experience. Although memory has traditionally been a persistent theme in philosophy, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries also saw the study of memory emerge as a subject of inquiry within the paradigms of cognitive psychology. In recent decades, it has become one of the pillars of a new branch of science called cognitive neuroscience, a marriage between cognitive psychology and neuroscience.

Imagination is the activity of generating or evoking novel situations, images, ideas or other qualia in the mind. It is a characteristically subjective activity, rather than a direct or passive experience. The term is technically used in psychology for the process of reviving in the mind percepts of objects formerly given in sense perception. Since this use of the term conflicts with that of ordinary language, some psychologists have preferred to describe this process as "imaging" or "imagery" or to speak of it as "reproductive" as opposed to "productive" or "constructive" imagination. Things that are imagined are said to be seen in the "mind's eye". Among the many practical functions of imagination are the ability to project possible futures (or histories), to "see" things from another's perspective, and to change the way something is perceived, including to make decisions to respond to, or enact, what is imagined.

Consciousness in mammals (this includes humans) is an aspect of the mind generally thought to comprise qualities such as subjectivity, sentience, and the ability to perceive the relationship between oneself and one's environment. It is a subject of much research in philosophy of mind, psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science. Some philosophers divide consciousness into phenomenal consciousness, which is subjective experience itself, and access consciousness, which refers to the global availability of information to processing systems in the brain.[8] Phenomenal consciousness has many different experienced qualities, often referred to as qualia. Phenomenal consciousness is usually consciousness of something or about something, a property known as intentionality in philosophy of mind.

Mental content

Mental contents are those items that are thought of as being "in" the mind, and capable of being formed and manipulated by mental processes and faculties. Examples include thoughts, concepts, memories, emotions, percepts and intentions. Philosophical theories of mental content include internalism, externalism, representationalism and intentionality.

Brain and mind

In animals, the brain, or encephalon (Greek for "in the head"), is the control center of the central nervous system, responsible for thought. In most animals, the brain is located in the head, protected by the skull and close to the primary sensory apparatus of vision, hearing, equilibrioception, taste and olfaction. While all vertebrates have a brain, most invertebrates have either a centralized brain or collections of individual ganglia. Primitive animals such as sponges do not have a brain at all. Brains can be extremely complex. For example, the human brain contains more than 100 billion neurons, each linked to as many as 10,000 others.[9][10]

Understanding the relationship between the brain and the mind – mind-body problem is one of the central issues in the history of philosophy – is a challenging problem both philosophically and scientifically.[11] There are three major philosophical schools of thought concerning the answer: dualism, materialism, and idealism. Dualism holds that the mind exists independently of the brain;[12]materialism holds that mental phenomena are identical to neuronal phenomena;[13] and idealism holds that only mental phenomena exist.[13]

The most straightforward scientific evidence that there is a strong relationship between the physical brain matter and the mind is the impact physical alterations to the brain have on the mind, such as with traumatic brain injury and psychoactive drug use.[14]

In addition to the philosophical questions, the relationship between mind and brain involves a number of scientific questions, including understanding the relationship between mental activity and brain activity, the exact mechanisms by which drugs influence cognition, and the neural correlates of consciousness.

Through most of history many philosophers found it inconceivable that cognition could be implemented by a physical substance such as brain tissue (that is neurons and synapses).[15] Philosophers such as Patricia Churchland posit that the drug-mind interaction is indicative of an intimate connection between the brain and the mind, not that the two are the same entity.[16]Descartes, who thought extensively about mind-brain relationships, found it possible to explain reflexes and other simple behaviors in mechanistic terms, although he did not believe that complex thought, and language in particular, could be explained by reference to the physical brain alone.[17]

The original meaning of Old English gemynd was the faculty of memory, not of thought in general. Hence call to mind, come to mind, keep in mind, to have mind of, etc. Old English had other words to express "mind", such as hyge "mind, spirit".

The meaning of "memory" is shared with Old Norse, which has munr. The word is originally from a PIE verbal root *men-, meaning "to think, remember", whence also Latin mens "mind", Sanskrit manas "mind" and Greek μένος "mind, courage, anger".

The generalization of mind to include all mental faculties, thought, volition, feeling and memory, gradually develops over the 14th and 15th centuries.[18]

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of mind is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature of the mind, mental events, mental functions, mental properties, consciousness and their relationship to the physical body. The mind-body problem, i.e. the relationship of the mind to the body, is commonly seen as the central issue in philosophy of mind, although there are other issues concerning the nature of the mind that do not involve its relation to the physical body.[19]

Dualism and monism are the two major schools of thought that attempt to resolve the mind-body problem. Dualism is the position that mind and body are in some way separate from each other. It can be traced back to Plato,[20]Aristotle[21][22][23] and the Samkhya and Yoga schools of Hindu philosophy,[24] but it was most precisely formulated by René Descartes in the 17th century.[25]Substance dualists argue that the mind is an independently existing substance, whereas Property dualists maintain that the mind is a group of independent properties that emerge from and cannot be reduced to the brain, but that it is not a distinct substance.[26]

The 20th century philosopher Martin Heidegger suggested that subjective experience and activity (i.e. the "mind") cannot be made sense of in terms of Cartesian "substances" that bear "properties" at all (whether the mind itself is thought of as a distinct, separate kind of substance or not). This is because the nature of subjective, qualitative experience is incoherent in terms of – or semantically incommensurable with the concept of – substances that bear properties. This is a fundamentally ontological argument.[27]

The philosopher of cognitive science Daniel Dennett, for example, argues that there is no such thing as a narrative center called the "mind", but that instead there is simply a collection of sensory inputs and outputs: different kinds of "software" running in parallel.[28] Psychologist B.F. Skinner argued that the mind is an explanatory fiction that diverts attention from environmental causes of behavior;[29] he considered the mind a "black box" and thought that mental processes may be better conceived of as forms of covert verbal behavior.[30][31]

Mind/body perspectives

Monism is the position that mind and body are not physiologically and ontologically distinct kinds of entities. This view was first advocated in Western Philosophy by Parmenides in the 5th Century BC and was later espoused by the 17th Century rationalist Baruch Spinoza.[32] According to Spinoza's dual-aspect theory, mind and body are two aspects of an underlying reality which he variously described as "Nature" or "God".

Physicalists argue that only the entities postulated by physical theory exist, and that the mind will eventually be explained in terms of these entities as physical theory continues to evolve.

Idealists maintain that the mind is all that exists and that the external world is either mental itself, or an illusion created by the mind.

Neutral monists adhere to the position that perceived things in the world can be regarded as either physical or mental depending on whether one is interested in their relationship to other things in the world or their relationship to the perceiver. For example, a red spot on a wall is physical in its dependence on the wall and the pigment of which it is made, but it is mental in so far as its perceived redness depends on the workings of the visual system. Unlike dual-aspect theory, neutral monism does not posit a more fundamental substance of which mind and body are aspects.

The most common monisms in the 20th and 21st centuries have all been variations of physicalism; these positions include behaviorism, the type identity theory, anomalous monism and functionalism.[33]

Many modern philosophers of mind adopt either a reductive or non-reductive physicalist position, maintaining in their different ways that the mind is not something separate from the body.[33] These approaches have been particularly influential in the sciences, e.g. in the fields of sociobiology, computer science, evolutionary psychology and the various neurosciences.[34][35][36][37]- Other philosophers, however, adopt a non-physicalist position which challenges the notion that the mind is a purely physical construct.

Reductive physicalists assert that all mental states and properties will eventually be explained by scientific accounts of physiological processes and states.[38][39][40]

Non-reducti- ve physicalists argue that although the brain is all there is to the mind, the predicates and vocabulary used in mental descriptions and explanations are indispensable, and cannot be reduced to the language and lower-level explanations of physical science.[41][42]

Continued neuroscientific progress has helped to clarify some of these issues. However, they are far from having been resolved, and modern philosophers of mind continue to ask how (if at all) the subjective qualities and the intentionality (aboutness) of mental states and properties can be explained in naturalistic terms.[43][44]

Another perspective

Jose M.R. Delgado writes, "Aristotelian thought has permeated most Occidental philosophical system until modern times, and the classification of man's function as vegetative, sensitive, and rational is still useful. In present popular usage, soul and mind are not clearly differentiated and some people, more or less consciously, still feel that the soul, and perhaps the mind, may enter or leave the body as independent entities."[45]

Science of mind

Psychology is the scientific study of human behaviour, mental functioning, and experience; noology, the study of thought. As both an academic and applied discipline, Psychology involves the scientific study of mental processes such as perception, cognition, emotion, personality, as well as environmental influences, such as social and cultural influences, and interpersonal relationships, in order to devise theories of human behaviour. Psychology also refers to the application of such knowledge to various spheres of human activity, including problems of individuals' daily lives and the treatment of mental health problems.

Psychology differs from the other social sciences (e.g., anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology) due to its focus on experimentation at the scale of the individual, or individuals in small groups as opposed to large groups, institutions or societies. Historically, psychology differed from biology and neuroscience in that it was primarily concerned with mind rather than brain. Modern psychological science incorporates physiological and neurological processes into its conceptions of perception, cognition, behaviour, and mental disorders.

Evolutionary history of the human mind

The evolution of human intelligence refers to a set of theories that attempt to explain how human intelligence has evolved. The question is closely tied to the evolution of the human brain, and to the emergence of human language.

The timeline of human evolution spans some 7 million years, from the separation of the Pan genus until the emergence of behavioral modernity by 50,000 years ago. Of this timeline, the first 3 million years concern Sahelanthropus, the following 2 million concern Australopithecus, while the final 2 million span the history of actual human species (the Paleolithic).

Many traits of human intelligence, such as empathy, theory of mind, mourning, ritual, and the use of symbols and tools, are already apparent in great apes although in lesser sophistication than in humans.

There is a debate between supporters of the idea of a sudden emergence of intelligence, or "Great leap forward" and those of a gradual or continuum hypothesis.

Theories of the evolution of intelligence include:

  • Robin Dunbar's social brain hypothesis[46]
  • Geoffrey Miller's sexual selection hypothesis[47]
  • The ecological dominance-social competition (EDSC)[48] explained by Mark V. Flinn, David C. Geary and Carol V. Ward based mainly on work by Richard D. Alexander.
  • The idea of intelligence as a signal of good health and resistance to disease.
  • The Group selection theory contends that organism characteristics that provide benefits to a group (clan, tribe, or larger population) can evolve despite individual disadvantages such as those cited above.
  • The idea that intelligence is connected with nutrition, and thereby with status[49] A higher IQ could be a signal that an individual comes from and lives in a physical and social environment where nutrition levels are high, and vice versa.

Mortality of the Mind

Due to the mind-body dichotomy, much interest and debate surround the question of what happens to one's conscious mind as one's body dies.[citation needed] The permanent loss of consciousness after death is often called "eternal oblivion". Faith or belief that mind is preserved after physical death is described by the term "afterlife."[citation needed]

Mental health

By analogy with the health of the body, one can speak metaphorically of a state of health of the mind, or mental health. Merriam-Webster defines mental health as "A state of emotional and psychological well-being in which an individual is able to use his or her cognitive and emotional capabilities, function in society, and meet the ordinary demands of everyday life." According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there is no one "official" definition of mental health. Cultural differences, subjective assessments, and competing professional theories all affect how "mental health" is defined. In general, most experts agree that "mental health" and "mental illness" are not opposites. In other words, the absence of a recognized mental disorder is not necessarily an indicator of mental health.

One way to think about mental health is by looking at how effectively and successfully a person functions. Feeling capable and competent; being able to handle normal levels of stress, maintaining satisfying relationships, and leading an independent life; and being able to "bounce back," or recover from difficult situations, are all signs of mental health.

Psychotherapy is an interpersonal, relational intervention used by trained psychotherapists to aid clients in problems of living. This usually includes increasing individual sense of well-being and reducing subjective discomforting experience. Psychotherapists employ a range of techniques based on experiential relationship building, dialogue, communication and behavior change and that are designed to improve the mental health of a client or patient, or to improve group relationships (such as in a family). Most forms of psychotherapy use only spoken conversation, though some also use various other forms of communication such as the written word, art, drama, narrative story, or therapeutic touch. Psychotherapy occurs within a structured encounter between a trained therapist and client(s). Purposeful, theoretically based psychotherapy began in the 19th century with psychoanalysis; since then, scores of other approaches have been developed and continue to be created.

Animal intelligence

Animal cognition, or cognitive ethology, is the title given to a modern approach to the mental capacities of animals. It has developed out of comparative psychology, but has also been strongly influenced by the approach of ethology, behavioral ecology, and evolutionary psychology. Much of what used to be considered under the title of animal intelligence is now thought of under this heading. Animal language acquisition, attempting to discern or understand the degree to which animal cognition can be revealed by linguistics-related study, has been controversial among cognitive linguists.

Artificial intelligence

Computer simulation of the branching architecture of the dendrites of pyramidal neurons.[50]

In 1950 Alan M. Turing published "Computing machinery and intelligence" in Mind, in which he proposed that machines could be tested for intelligence using questions and answers. This process is now named the Turing Test. The term Artificial Intelligence (AI) was first used by John McCarthy who considered it to mean "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines".[51] It can also refer to intelligence as exhibited by an artificial (man-made, non-natural, manufactured) entity. AI is studied in overlapping fields of computer science, psychology, neuroscience and engineering, dealing with intelligent behavior, learning and adaptation and usually developed using customized machines or computers.

Research in AI is concerned with producing machines to automate tasks requiring intelligent behavior. Examples include control, planning and scheduling, the ability to answer diagnostic and consumer questions, handwriting, natural language, speech and facial recognition. As such, the study of AI has also become an engineering discipline, focused on providing solutions to real life problems, knowledge mining, software applications, strategy games like computer chess and other video games. One of the biggest difficulties with AI is that of comprehension. Many devices have been created that can do amazing things, but critics of AI claim that no actual comprehension by the AI machine has taken place.

The debate about the nature of the mind is relevant to the development of artificial intelligence. If the mind is indeed a thing separate from or higher than the functioning of the brain, then hypothetically it would be much more difficult to recreate within a machine, if it were possible at all. If, on the other hand, the mind is no more than the aggregated functions of the brain, then it will be possible to create a machine with a recognisable mind (though possibly only with computers much different from today's), by simple virtue of the fact that such a machine already exists in the form of the human brain.

Religious perspectives

Various religious traditions have contributed unique perspectives on the nature of mind.

The Indian philosopher-sage Sri Aurobindo attempted to unite the Eastern and Western psychological traditions with his integral psychology, as have many philosophers and New religious movements. Judaism teaches that "moach shalit al halev", the mind rules the heart. Humans can approach the Divine intellectually, through learning and behaving according to the Divine Will as enclothed in the Torah, and use that deep logical understanding to elicit and guide emotional arousal during prayer. Christianity has tended to see the mind as distinct from the soul (Greek nous) and sometimes further distinguished from the spirit. Western esoteric traditions sometimes refer to a mental body that exists on a plane other than the physical. Hinduism's various philosophical schools have debated whether the human soul (Sanskrit atman) is distinct from, or identical to, Brahman, the divine reality. Taoism sees the human being as contiguous with natural forces, and the mind as not separate from the body. Confucianism sees the mind, like the body, as inherently perfectible.

Buddhism & Mind

According to Buddhist philosopher Dharmakirti, the mind has two fundamental qualities: "clarity and knowing." If something is not those two qualities, it cannot validly be called mind. 'Clarity' refers to the fact that mind has no color, shape, size, location, weight, or any other physical characteristic, and that it gives rise to the contents of experience. 'Knowing' refers to the fact that mind is aware of the contents of experience, and that, in order to exist, mind must be cognizing an object. You cannot have a mind - who's function is to cognize an object - existing without cognizing an object. For this reason, mind is often described in Buddhism as "that which has contents."[52]

Mind, in Buddhism, is also described as being "space-like" and "illusion-like." Mind is space-like in the sense that it is not physically obstructive. It has no qualities which would prevent it to exist. Mind is illusion-like in the sense that it is empty of inherent existence. This does not mean it does not exist, it means that it exists in a manner that is counter to our ordinary way of misperceiving how phenomena exist, according to Buddhism. When the mind is itself cognized properly, without misperceiving its mode of existence, it appears to exist like an illusion. There is a big difference however between being "space and illusion" and being "space-like" and "illusion-like." Mind is not composed of space, it just shares some descriptive similarities to space. Mind is not an illusion, it just shares some descriptive qualities with illusions.

Buddhism posits that there is no inherent, unchanging identity (Inherent I, Inherent Me) or phenomena (Ultimate self, inherent self, Atman, Soul, Self-essence, Jiva, Ishvara, humanness essence, etc.) which is the experiencer of our experiences and the agent of our actions. In other words, human beings consist of merely a body and a mind, and nothing etxra. Within the body there is no part or set of parts which is - by itself or themselves - the person. Similarly, within the mind there is no part or set of parts which are themselves "the person." A human being merely consists of five aggregates, or skandhas and nothing else (please see Valid Designation).

In the same way, "mind" is what can be validly conceptually labelled onto our mere experience of clarity and knowing. There is not something separate and apart from clarity and knowing which is "mind," in Buddhism. "Mind" is that part of experience which can be validly referred to as mind by the concept-term "mind." There is also not "objects out there, mind in here, and experience somewhere in-between." There is not a third thing called "experience" which exists between the contents of mind and what mind cognizes. There is only the clarity (arising of mere experience: shapes, colors, the components of smell, components of taste, components of sound, components of touch) and nothing else; this means, expressly, that there is not a third thing called "experience" and not a third thing called "experiencer who has the experience." This is deeply related to "no-self."

Clearly, the experience arises and is known by mind, but there is not a third thing which sits apart from that which is the "real experiencer of the experience." This is the claim of Buddhism, with regards to mind and the ultimate nature of minds (and persons).

Other perspectives

Para- psychology is the scientific study of certain types of paranormal phenomena, or of phenomena which appear to be paranormal.,[53] for instance precognition, telekinesis and telepathy. The term is based on the Greek para (beside/beyond), psyche (soul/mind), and logos (account/explanation) and was coined by psychologist Max Dessoir in or before 1889.[54]J. B. Rhine later popularized "parapsychology" as a replacement for the earlier term "psychical research", during a shift in methodologies which brought experimental methods to the study of psychic phenomena.[54] Parapsychology is controversial, with many scientists believing that psychic abilities have not been demonstrated to exist.[55][56][57][58][59] The status of parapsychology as a science has also been disputed,[60] with many scientists regarding the discipline as pseudoscience.[61][62][63]

Meme- tics

Memetics is a theory of mental content based on an analogy with Darwinian evolution, which was originated by Richard Dawkins and Douglas Hofstadter in the 1980s. It purports to be an approach to evolutionary models of cultural information transfer. A meme, analogous to a gene, is an idea, belief, pattern of behaviour (etc.) which is "hosted" in one or more individual minds, and which can reproduce itself from mind to mind. Thus what would otherwise be regarded as one individual influencing another to adopt a belief is seen memetically as a meme reproducing itself. As with genetics, particularly under Dawkins's interpretation, a meme's success may be due its contribution to the effectiveness of its host (i.e., the meme is a useful, beneficial idea), or may be "selfish", in which case it could be considered a "virus of the mind".

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draw the wolf on the paper. then shade him in with your paper.then draw a spiral around the wolf when it gets to the point when you need to draw on the wolf do so.then draw a candle. shade the candle lightly .
right your name next to the wolf then fold in half the wolf will be on one side so will the candle. write the spell on the other side'
wolfs a pack I say my pack come forth to me mote it be say this after yo draw your pack.there should be a cave and the cave should have you and 2 adult wolfs and a wolf pup. of course you cant forget to draw a wolf spirit. now say the spell and hold up the paper.. put the paper under your pillow. at night for 2 nights you should dream of a pack.fold the paper four times after saying the spell, it dose not need to be perfect

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ISIL terrorists abduct nuns and Christian children in Iraq

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As of June 28, there has been no further news concerning the fate of two Chaldean Catholic nuns and the three children in their company. Sisters Atur and Miskinta of the Congregation of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate had returned to the northern Iraqi city of Mosul from Dohuk with two girls and one Christian boy. So far, no one has been able to contact them via cell phone. According to the Chaldean Patriarchate, the two nuns and children were stopped by ISIL militants who, however, contend that the abducted Christians are in good health.
The two nuns manage an orphanage in Mosul near the headquarters of the Chaldean Catholic archdiocese headquarters. Before the ISIL began its campaign against the Iraqi government, the nuns and children took refuge in Dohuk, Kurdistan, and Mosul. According to the Fides news service, Sister Luigina Sako - the Superior of the Chaldean nuns - said "In all these terrible years for our country" said Sister Luigina Sako, Superior of the Chaldean Sisters, "Sisters Atur and Miskinta have done a great job, without ever abandoning Mosul and allowing the girls to study. We are extremely worried for them, especially for girls".
The situation in Mosul, which is mainly controlled by Sunni insurgents led by the militiamen of the ISIL who have installed their own base even in the seat of the Chaldean archbishopric, remains critical. The villages in the Nineveh Plain, such as Qaraqosh and Kramles, register the return of a part of the population that fled in recent days. However, there is no water and electricity and no services managed by public entities, such as transport and waste collection.

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Dublin - Flyhalf Jonathan Sexton has recovered from a thigh injury and is included in an unchanged Ireland team for Saturday's Six Nations match against Italy here.

Ireland's match against France on February 11 was postponed because of a frozen pitch, meaning Declan Kidney's team faces four games in as many weeks to finish the northern hemisphere competition.

Kidney says "we need to approach this game by game, rather than as a block of four fixtures, and that's what we're doing."

The Irish, who opened with a 23-21 home loss to Wales, have never lost to Italy in the Six Nations.

Ireland: 15-Rob Kearney, 14-Tommy Bowe, 13-Keith Earls, 12-Gordon D'Arcy, 11-Andrew Trimble, 10-Jonathan Sexton, 9-Conor Murray, 8-Jamie Heaslip, 7-Sean O'Brien, 6-Stephen Ferris, 5-Paul O'Connell (captain), 4-Donncha O'Callaghan, 3-Mike Ross, 2-Rory Best, 1-Cian Healy.

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Liverpool - Everton have signed England youth international defender Brendan Galloway on a five-year deal from League One side MK Dons.

The 18-year-old, who was born in Zimbabwe, will join up with the Under-21 side at Goodison Park.

"It means an awful lot to me coming to such a great club. I'm now looking forward to learning off some of the more senior players - the likes of Sylvain Distin and Phil Jagielka," Galloway told the official Everton website.

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Galloway became the youngest player in MK Dons' history to feature for the club when, at the age of 15, he made his debut as a second-half substitute in a 6-0 FA Cup victory over Nantwich Town in November 2011.

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Manchester - Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal said Friday he was prepared to let Darren Fletcher leave on a free transfer to Premier League rivals West Ham as he ruled out adding to his squad before Monday's transfer deadline.

The 30-year-old Fletcher has played for United for over a decade and has made almost 350 appearances for the club where he has so far spent all of his career.

But despite being made vice captain by van Gaal at the start of the season, the Scotland international - whose life, let alone career was threatened when he was diagnosed with the bowel condition ulcerative colitis in 2008 - has made only five starts this season.

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Johannesburg - Following their poor start to the 2015/16 domestic season, Orlando Pirates midfielder Thandani Ntshumayelo says his team-mates are struggling to get their season up and running due to their tremendous run in the CAF Confederation cup.

Despite their impressive run yet again in the continental showpiece, the Buccaneers are currently on the bottom half of the Absa Premiership table, occupying the 12th spot after seven games played this season.

Ntshumayelo, 25, believes that his teammates are focused solely on winning the continental tournament which they will contest the final against Etoile Sportive Du Sahel of Tunisia late in a two-leg encounter next month.

“Bibo” also believes that the Buccaneers will definitely bounce back to find their fifth gear after the Confederation Cup final.

“I think the guys are still more focused on winning the CAF Confederation Cup for now” revealed Ntshumayelo.

“I have to be honest about that, that’s how I see it.

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Cape Town - Mamelodi Sundowns defensive midfielder Asavela Mbekile says being a late blossomer in the Premiership is what has driven him to double his efforts and make his mark in the top flight.

The 29-year-old hard-tackling midfielder, who hails from Lady Frere, Eastern Cape, made his Premiership debut at the age of 26 at Chippa United in the 2012/13 season.

With only nine appearances at Chippa United's colours - the then PSL rookies - Mbekile had made enough of an impression to be signed by Moroka Swallows, following the Chilli Boys' relegation at the end of 2012/13 season. Mbekile's performances in his second season in the top flight with Dube Birds didn't go unnoticed as he earned a dream move to Chloorkop before the beginning of 2014/15 season.

"As a late blossomer in the PSL, I made sure to grab my chance at the top-flight soccer level by both hands," Mbekile told Vodacom Soccer.

"Having  played for many seasons in the NFD, at some stage I once had a feeling of calling it quits. But when I finally made it in the PSL, I grabbed the opportunity to make my presence felt in the top flight."

"Struggling for game-time in my first season with Downs didn't demoralise me, because I knew my chance would come.

"And now I'm reaping the fruits of perseverance and hard work, though I know that I still need to fight to consolidate my berth in the team's starting line-up.

"Having won the league championship title for the first time in my professional soccer career, now I'm gunning for Champions League title," enthused Mbekile, who made 13 starts, five substitute appearances and scored one goal in 18 appearances in last season's campaign.

'Downs were given a lifeline in the CAF Champions League via AS Vita Club's disqualification in May and need to beat Zamalek on Sunday in Egypt to strengthen their grasp on top spot in Group B.

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Tokyo - Stanislas Wawrinka's surprise Australian Open triumph could spell the beginning of the end of the grand slam dominance enjoyed by the so-called 'Big Four' in men's tennis, Japan's Kei Nishikori said on Friday.

Having pushed eventual runner-up Rafael Nadal hard in a 7-6, 7-5, 7-6 fourth-round loss in Melbourne, Nishikori believes Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray and Roger Federer will soon have a new generation of players to deal with at the four majors.

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Wawrinka, while no spring chicken at 28, stunned Nadal 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 in the Melbourne final to give hope to the chasing pack as the usual suspects all fell short in the year's first grand slam.

Only one 'outsider' had previously broken into the cartel since 2005 - Juan Martin del Potro's smash-and-grab US Open victory in 2009 - until Wawrinka's breakthrough Down Under.

Nishikori, who has hired former French Open champion Michael Chang as coach, feels he too is getting closer and has targeted a first grand slam semi-final in 2014.

"That was the best I've felt playing against Nadal," said the world number 18, who has yet to beat the Spaniard in six meetings.

Gameplan to break the 'Big Four'

"It's the closest I've felt, I didn't feel out of my depth.

"I used to feel I had to just keep hitting and hitting.

"I was forcing my shots. But I had a game plan and stuck to it.

"Yes, I lost but I put myself out there and played to the limit.

"I need to use that as a springboard to take my game to the next level."

Wawrinka's heroics left Nadal stranded on 13 grand slam titles, four short of Federer's record of haul of 17.

"I'm pretty sure everyone was surprised but Wawrinka has stepped up to a level where it wasn't a huge stretch of the imagination for him to win a slam," said Nishikori, whose best showing at a major was the quarter-finals in Australia two years ago.

"New players winning grand slams is good for tennis. I'd like to get up to that level soon too.

"There are still a lot of things I need to work on to get there," added Nishikori, who has been ranked as high as 11th in the world.

"Both physically and closing out tight matches.

"To beat the top players you need so much concentration and skill.

"It will be tough but that's what I'm working towards."

A three-times winner on the ATP Tour, Nishikori credited Chang with giving him more match toughness.

Chang famously won the 1989 French Open as a 17-year-old, along the way overcoming severe cramp to shock Ivan Lendl in an extraordinary comeback from two sets down, frustrating the then world number one by hitting moon balls and serving under-arm.

"There is a lot I can learn from Chang," said Nishikori.

"Like when you're up against it and have to really grind out results."

The fleet-footed 24-year-old insisted, however, that he would not be hitting the gym to bulk up to the extent of Nadal or Wimbledon champion Murray.

"I'm not planning to add too much muscle," he said.

"Of course I need to add some but for me it's more about suppleness and flexibility.

"I don't think in tennis you need to be all that beefed up.

"I'll continue training in a way which suits my game.

"I haven't been able to crack the top four at a grand slam yet.

"I've won tour titles but a grand slam semi is something I want to achieve this year."

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Match info: Tour Matches in England 2013 at Fischer County Ground, Grace Road

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Joe Root carried out his England Lions orders to a tee as he "ground down" New Zealand at Grace Road and took his first-class runs tally to 646 in his prolific start to the new season.

Joe Root: Carried on his fine form
Joe Root: Carried on his fine form

The Lions captain's six-and-a-quarter-hour 179 out of 444 for seven - his second-lowest score so far this summer - ensured the Lions finished a rain-wrecked fixture in a dominant position.

That was just what match manager, and England's limited-overs coach, Ashley Giles had asked of his team of Test hopefuls to keep the tourists on the back foot before they head to Lord's. With that first Test and then a second on his home ground at Headingley to come, it is conceivable that Root could yet become the first Englishman in 75 years, and only the sixth ever, to pass 1,000 runs by the end of May.

The last batsman to achieve the feat in an English season was Zimbabwe-born Graeme Hick, in 1988, and new Test opener Nick Compton had an agonising near miss just last year.

Root's prospects remain unlikely, of course, but he has done enough to keep them just about realistic.

Irrespective of fanciful targets like that, Giles was once again impressed by what he had seen from the young Yorkshireman here.

"We talked about grinding them down, and we did," he said.

"It's great. Joe works very hard, and very specifically as well, and he's worked his game out.

"We still need to be guarded on how much we build the lad up - he's only played a few Tests - but so far so good."

On the final day in Leicester, where only four overs were possible after lunch because of rain, Root was still hungry for more runs.

The 22-year-old moved past 150 on Sunday morning in the same over which saw his fifth-wicket partner Jonny Bairstow (68) reach his half-century - the latter with an inside-edge past leg-stump for four off Trent Boult.

Bairstow later fell lbw when Boult (three for 86) got enough movement back in from over the wicket.

But joined by Ravi Bopara, Root continued until Doug Bracewell got through his forward defence to hit off stump and at last end a 276-ball innings which had contained 25 fours and a six.

Root's only significant blemish came two days ago, when he was put down at second slip by Kiwi captain Brendon McCullum off Bracewell on 23.

The Lions' hopes of putting New Zealand under more pressure in their second innings predictably evaporated as the rain arrived, with the lead 159.

In the absence of Tim Southee who pulled up with a foot injury on Saturday, Boult again bowled well - and Bracewell saw off Chris Woakes for a single when the Warwickshire all-rounder played a long way inside a useful delivery.

For the Lions, Bopara batted with increasing fluency and confidence to finish unbeaten on 42.

Giles could reflect with satisfaction after the Lions had put a poor first day behind them.

"We're very thorough in our pre-match plans to batsmen, and we just didn't get it right the first day," he said.

"They were really difficult conditions. That gale was tough, but that's what you're going to have to put up with in Test cricket at times.

"But it was great for us to see those four big lads operate together, and certainly when they came back on day two and took seven for 101 it was a good performance.

"Then even more pleasing was the way we went about it with the bat.

"I thought Boult bowled really well in this game, so they did really well to come through some of those periods."

Meanwhile, Southee has had scans on his sore foot, but New Zealand are awaiting more results of those to determine whether he is likely to be a doubt for the first Test at Lord's.


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    L.A. Federal Court Judge Stephen Wilson found that Priority Sports & Entertainment violated the privacy, as well as a California state law, of former employee and NBA player agent Aaron Mintz when a Priority employee hacked into Mintz' private email account. “Upon review, the Court finds that the undisputed facts show that Priority Sports knowingly and without permission used a computer to wrongfully obtain data, in violation of [California Penal Code] 502,” Wilson wrote in an order issued late Friday afternoon. “That statute imposes liability on whoever ‘knowingly accesses and without permission ... uses any data, computer, computer system, or computer network in order to ... wrongfully control or obtain money, property, or data,’” Wilson wrote. He also found in favor of Mintz on his invasion of privacy claim, but against Mintz on his claims of violation of the Electronic Communications & Privacy Act and the California Data Access & Fraud Act. It is unknown if Priority will appeal the order or if Mintz will seek damages based on the judge’s findings. Attempts to reach Mintz, Priority officials or their attorneys for comment by press time were unsuccessful. In the order, Wilson also dismissed 12 counterclaims Priority had filed against Mintz, who left that firm in March after working there for 11 years, to work for CAA Sports. Wilson denied Mintz’ motion for a court declaration that restrictions in his employment agreement with Priority, that would have prevented him from competing with that firm for two years, were not enforceable under California law. Wilson said in the order that a declaration was not necessary because Priority and its attorneys have stated they do not intend to enforce the restrictions.

    EXPLAINING THE DECISION: Wilson explained in a 26-page order why he granted Mintz’ and CAA’s motion for summary judgment to dismiss each of the 12 causes of action in Priority’s counterclaim. Those claims, filed in a lawsuit in April included breach of contract; breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing; breach of the duty of loyalty; misappropriation of trade secrets; intentional interference with contractual relations; intentional interference with present and prospective economic advantage and business relationships; conversion; violation of California Penal Code 502; defamation; trade libel; conspiracy; and violation of unfair competition laws. Wilson found there was no evidence to support the claims nor evidence that Priority had suffered any damages or the law did not support the claims as a triable issue. For example, in dismissing Priority’s claim that Mintz breached his duty of loyalty to the firm, Wilson noted that Priority alleged that Mintz prepared to leave while still employed at the firm and CAA agreed that it would pay future litigation expenses. Wilson wrote, “Even if these facts are true, they do not create a triable issue for two reasons. First, under California law, an employee does not breach his duty of loyalty merely by preparing to compete with his employer. ... Second, and in any event, Priority Sports has presented no facts that describe how it was harmed by Plaintiff’s preparatory steps.”

    THREE CAUSES REMAIN OUTSTANDING: The case was scheduled to go to trial on Nov. 13, but Wilson noted in his order that the only causes of action that remain are Mintz’ claims for defamation, interference with prospective economic relations and a violation of unfair competition laws. Wilson has previously stated that Mintz’ former and current basketball player clients would need to testify to prove these claims and his attorneys have stated in court that the players may be unavailable to testify.

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Why Bale-ing out has always been a Real deal

NORMAN GILLER on a transfer saga that has lasted all summer, the dearth of homegrown talent in action in the Premier League, and the impressive TV debut of a pair of pundits that could be the new Saint and Greavsie

Most football reporters from “Fleet Street” have been heavily defeated by Tottenham in the Gareth Bale Saga, and they have not got within sniffing distance of one of the greatest transfer stories in history. I have been amused and sometimes appalled at how far out the newspapers have been in their coverage of a tale that could have come from Ian Fleming’s imagination.

The Real deal? Gareth Bale

Gareth Bale: always wanted to play for Real Madrid

I am not being wise after the event. I knew weeks ago that Bale was destined for the Bernabéu and that the Real deal was about to be done. I have a betting slip at odds of 9-2 to show I put money where my mouth was.

Stupidly, I went on Facebook and Twitter sharing my knowledge and even gave the quote Bale will shortly be issuing: “I have always dreamt of playing for Real Madrid since I was a boy.” Doubtless, he will also add it is the only club for which he would have left Tottenham.

I had the advantage of a rosy-faced 16-year-old Bale saying this in my hearing eight years ago, when Lawrie McMenemy tipped me off that the Southampton Academy had unearthed two exceptionally talented kids in Bale and his then housemate Theo Walcott.

All I got for my naivety in posting on the internet was shedloads of vile abuse from Spurs fans not wanting to face the truth. I could understand them not wanting to believe it, but seeing Fleet Street going down the same denial route made me wonder who on earth they have as their contacts these days.

Just on Sunday I was astonished to see Glenn Hoddle mouthing on television the mumbo jumbo that, “Real Madrid have no money and cannot afford Bale.”

Anybody who knows their football history will confirm that Real have been doing business like this for years, going all the way back to when General Franco was virtually running his favourite club. They are a law to themselves and have never failed to get their man despite being rodilla-deep in debt.

Everybody has been blinded by the smokescreen generated by Tottenham owners Joe Lewis and Daniel Levy. They have cleverly put out the no-deal stories while buying in players.

They have been spending like repentant misers while keeping Real Madrid dangling. We will soon find out whether or not they have played their cards right.

The facts are that Gareth wants to go to Real. Real want Gareth. Jonathan Barnett, Bale’s razor-sharp agent, wants Gareth to go to Real. But billionaire Lewis and Cambridge Hons graduate Levy have hung out for a crazy world record fee.

Real’s interest goes back a year, as confirmed by none other than the Happy One, Jose Mourinho.

It’s now in the hands of Levy and Lewis, who was born around the corner to me in the East End and to whose Hanover Grand nightclub I used to go in the 1970s when he was known as the Money Magnet. He is one of the most successful businessmen ever. Now he and Levy have masterminded the biggest transfer in football history and used the money in advance to build a brand new team: TTTBB, The Team That Bale Built.

I would not like to play poker with either Levy or Lewis. Their last card will soon be played as they attempt to pull off the Real Deal.

If it goes wrong at this late stage there will be only one person more astonished than me: Gareth Bale, who has set his patented heart on becoming a Galactico.

Macey Giller cartoonTHERE WERE JUST  74 English players taking part in the opening Premier League games of the season, compared with 177 when the League kicked off in 1992.

It was back in that formative year when Coventry became the last Premier League team to kick off a season with an all-English team. And look what’s happened to the Sky Blues since.

Wearing my blue and white tinted Tottenham glasses, I am reeling at the number of foreign players being wheeled into the Lane. Four Englishmen have been shipped out in Steven Caulker, Tom Huddlestone, Jake Livermore and Scott Parker.

Here’s a startling stat to make you sit up and think: only three of the 23-man England under-21 squad (Ross Barkley, Jonjo Shelvey and Nathan Redmond) that flattened Scotland 6-0 last week managed to make it into the starting line-ups of their clubs when the 2013-2014 Premier League season started at the weekend.

IN PAIRING Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher, Sky Sports have found the new Saint and Greavsie. Dare I say Saint and Sinner?

Neville has already been cast as the good cop with Carragher the baddie.

In their early exchanges on their Monday night debut, Gary described van Persie’s skill in baffling unsighted defenders as being like having “a burglar in your house.”

The way they were: Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville might not always agree when performing their Sky Sports duties

The way they were: Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville might not always agree when performing their Sky Sports duties

Jamie quipped: “You’d be hiding under the bed.” With Greavsie-like speed and delivery, Gary instantly came back with: “You’d be the burglar.”

You could almost hear the sharp intake of breath of Sky producers at this non-PC portrayal of the stereotype Scouser.

But Merseysiders are always able to laugh at themselves, and it would need to be somebody very wooden headed to take offence.

Sky viewers are going to be in for a lot of fun as well as getting expert insights into the modern game. Presenter Ed Chamberlin is the perfect foil for the dynamic duo, keeping a low profile and steering their conversation that is like being privy to dressing-room dialogue.

The one thing they need do is slow down the Carragher tongue. His Scouse speak is often faster than a wheel being whipped off a parked car. Oops, more stereotyping.

Jamie has the fastest tongue in the North West and needs to bring it under control for Southern softies like me.

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Jack Macrae will happily cope with less love in the AFL if that is the price to pay for a Western Bulldogs premiership.

The midfielder admits that while he is rapt with the excitement surrounding the Bulldogs, their unofficial status as everyone’s second-favourite team sits uneasily with him.

Their only premiership was in 1954 and that, combined with their battler image, an exciting young team and two outstanding finals wins, means plenty of non-Bulldogs fans are on their bandwagon.

That bandwagon is headed to Spotless Stadium for Saturday’s preliminary final against Greater Western Sydney.

Macrae noted a lack of love for famously-unsociable Hawthorn had not bothered them at all as they won the last three premierships.

“For years, we’ve been known as everyone’s second-favourite team – which is good and bad, I guess,” he said.

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“Hawthorn aren’t too liked and they’ve won three premierships, so if that’s the trade-off, you’d probably take it.

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He racked up 39 possessions and was high among their best in last Friday night’s semi-final win over Hawthorn.

The Giants are renowned for their midfield depth, but Macrae said the Bulldogs’ onballers will back themselves.

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“It’s something we’ve prided ourselves on all year, our depth, and even when we had all our injuries.”

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