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Home Health Anti-gay attitudes blamed for high HIV rates in Hong Kong
Anti-gay attitudes blamed for high HIV rates in Hong Kong
Hong Kong (Photo by Diliff; courtesy Wikimedia Commons)
HONG KONG — HIV diagnosis rates in Hong Kong have climbed over the past decade, unlike in other places in the world where there has been a consistent decline in the numbers of new HIV cases, the South China Morning Post reports.
Between 2010-2016, the annual number of new HIV diagnoses in Hong Kong increased by nearly 80 percent, to a total of 692 new cases in 2016. By contrast, between 2010 and 2017, the annual rate of new HIV diagnoses declined by 14 percent in Asia and the Pacific as a whole, the Post reports.
Meanwhile, Hong Kong’s annual government expenditure on HIV prevention policies has soared in an attempt to address this entrenched health scourge. By 2020, prevention costs are projected to reach a total of $400 million in Hong Kong dollars, the Post reports.
Statistics show a solid majority of HIV diagnoses in Hong Kong have been in the group of men who have sex with men (MSM). Dr. Tim Brown, HIV epidemiologist from the East West Centre in Hawaii, once characterized HIV in Hong Kong as an epidemic within that group, the Post reports.
Andrew Chidgey, chief executive of AIDS Concern Hong Kong, has argued that a major cause of the rapid growth in HIV-infection rates in Hong Kong is the pervasive cultural taboo against homosexuality among Hong Kong Chinese families, leading to men’s unwillingness to disclose either a gay or HIV-positive identity, the Post reports.
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WNBA Today, 09/02/2013: Shock drive past Liberty to further dent New York’s disappearing playoff dreams
Sep2 by richardbcohen
It was an unusually light Sunday schedule for the WNBA this week with just one game on the slate. And considering one of the teams involved had already been eliminated from the playoff hunt, and the other has been heading that way for a while now, fans could be forgiven for ignoring the day entirely. The result was always likely to have more impact on lottery percentages than postseason participation.
However, New York arrived in Tulsa with faint dreams of the playoffs still in their minds. They were 2.5 games behind Indiana with five left to play (six for the Fever). If Indiana have a disastrous run-in, a couple of wins could be enough for the Liberty, but it was likely they’d need at least three and probably four to have a realistic chance. The way New York had been playing lately made that seem distinctly unlikely. Their only win in their previous six games was over Connecticut, and there’d been some heavy defeats mixed in the rest of that run. Cappie Pondexter’s heel injury has taken the edge off her performances – when she wasn’t even playing that well to begin with – and left very little on the perimeter for the Liberty. It left them coming into this game as underdogs with the bookmakers, despite being the only team with anything meaningful to play for – and Tulsa being a lottery team with key injuries.
The Shock started to excite everyone in the middle of the season, once Liz Cambage got healthy and they started to win a few games while revolving around the dangerous young post pairing of Cambage and Glory Johnson. But they were already falling off when Cambage sprained her ankle again to make things worse, and she was still in a boot for this game. Point guard Angel Goodrich – whose promotion into the starting lineup ahead of Skylar Diggins also coincided with the Shock’s upturn in form – was also still out due to illness. Reportedly she’d been coughing up blood and complaining of headaches, but she joined the team on the bench for this game so hopefully she’s on the mend. Shock head coach Gary Kloppenburg stuck with the same starting five he’d introduced in their loss to San Antonio on Friday, with Tiffany Jackson-Jones replacing Cambage in the paint, and a diminutive perimeter of Diggins, Riquna Williams and Candice Wiggins.
It doesn’t get talked about much because they always appear to be working hard and they often pressure the ball to create problems in opponents’ backcourts, but Tulsa are a deceptively bad defensive team. They get broken down too easily, they make too many mistakes, and the pressure for turnovers often costs them more points than it creates. Also, while her limited speed and desperation to sit in the paint sometimes limits her, Cambage is a big loss to their defense. She just fills so much damn space in the middle, and makes it hard to score inside. Jackson-Jones was awful defensively in this game (not that she did anything on offense either), allowing New York to gain an early foothold via layups from their posts. Glory Johnson picking up two fouls in barely two minutes of play didn’t help the Shock, either.
But it was still Tulsa who managed to build a first half lead, thanks to offensive production from a pair of guards. Initially, most of the damage was done by Riquna Williams. She can be a frustrating player because she’s constantly looking for her own offense, and she doesn’t shoot the highest percentages from the field (although they’ve been notably better this year, so there’s progress). But she’s an electric scorer at times who can light up a game – and she’s vital on a team like Tulsa who need someone who wants to take charge. They’re too passive at times, and they definitely lack players who can create their own offense. She was flying to the rim on drives, or firing in shots from the perimeter, and was the main element in pushing Tulsa to a nine-point first quarter lead.
Williams was joined in the attack by Candice Wiggins in the second quarter, bombing away from outside. Wiggins has been pretty frustrating herself this season – largely due to the expectations that came with her. As the first free agent acquisition of any real note since this franchise moved to Tulsa (yes, technically it was a trade – essentially it was a free agent signing), Shock fans were hoping she’d emerge from her shell on their team. She’d gone from a driver who drew countless fouls to a backup point guard who did nothing but jack three-pointers in Minnesota. No one was quite sure whether that was because it was the role she’d been asked to play, or if injuries had forced her to simply become that player. Largely speaking in Tulsa, she’s looked like that backup three-point shooter, just starting games instead of coming off the bench. It’s disappointing that they’re not getting more, but the numbers still say she’s been one of the better long-distance shooters in the league yet again. She’s also tossed in a few more drives lately, and while she rarely manages to finish any of them, sometimes opponents are stupid enough to foul her. She didn’t need to drive in the first half of this game. On kick-outs, off pin-down screens, off staggered-screen sets that were designed for her to get open – Wiggins just rained in threes. She was 6-8 from beyond the arc in the first half alone, and led the Shock to an eventual 52-48 lead at halftime. Yeah, they still weren’t getting many stops.
New York’s offense predominantly came from Plenette Pierson and Kara Braxton in the paint in the first half, with Cappie Pondexter making a very limited impact. She had a couple of decent assists, and hit a shot or two from deep, but largely drifted through the half without drawing much attention. Maybe she’s providing everything she’s got through the heel injury, and still trying to settle into the ‘lead guard’ role Bill Laimbeer is asking her to play, but like Diana Taurasi in Phoenix – New York need Pondexter to score. They’re going nowhere without that.
The third quarter was a scrappy affair, the ball swinging quickly from end to end while rarely going through the hoop. Alex Montgomery hit a couple of shots to give New York some offense, but the Liberty committed far too many unnecessary, dumb fouls to send Tulsa to the line. The Shock were doing a perfectly good job of missing shots when the Liberty left them alone, but spent a lot of time at the free throw line thanks to silly reach-ins or blocking fouls from New York. Part of this comes from Tulsa’s regression back into their old offensive style now that Cambage isn’t there to target. They either fire up threes, or they throw themselves to the hoop. It’s not particularly complicated or clever, but it can be relatively effective. The Shock led 70-61 to close the third quarter.
Tulsa’s lead hit 13 early in the fourth, before Pondexter actually stepped up and began to lead the Liberty’s comeback effort. It was about damn time, to be honest. She finally beat a couple of defenders off the dribble, had a pullup three from deep, and generally started playing like the star she’s supposed to be. Within minutes New York were right back in the game.
There were several important moments down the stretch. Kara Braxton picked up a technical foul for bitching with under four minutes left in a four-point game – not a good time – but after seeing a semi-intentional flailing arm from Glory Johnson catch Braxton in the face on replay, you could understand why she was upset. The nice spin move and finish through contact for a three-point play that she produced moments later was a much better way to respond. Wiggins actually converted on a couple of drives in the fourth quarter, which was nice to see, especially as her outside bombing had dried up in the second half.
One key sequence came with 45 seconds left, after Diggins bricked a three. Glory Johnson managed to come down with the offensive rebound, which would’ve been huge in a game Tulsa led by five at that point. But in the process of kicking the ball back out to Wiggins, Johnson appeared to catch DeLisha Milton-Jones with an elbow. It looked largely unintentional, and also looked like Milton-Jones made the most of it she possibly could, but the referees bought it and called a flagrant foul. That gave New York two free throws – which Milton-Jones hit – and possession – which Pondexter turned into another three-pointer. From up five with the ball, Tulsa’s lead had disappeared in the space of eight seconds.
The Shock answered with a Riquna Williams drive, where she drew Braxton into sliding over and found Courtney Paris for the finish with a sweet bounce-pass feed. She might call her own number most of the time, but clearly Williams can make a pass when she feels like it. Pondexter answered with a drive for two, but that still left New York trailing by a point with only 22 seconds left on the clock, and they had to start fouling.
Williams made a clutch pair at the line, before a Pondexter pullup for three to tie the game came up well short. Both Diggins and Nicole Powell were 1-of-2 at the line in the waning seconds, but that was enough for the Shock to hold on for a 93-88 victory that puts yet another dent in New York’s playoff chances.
Ultimately, Tulsa won this game at the free throw line. They shot a ridiculous 37 attempts, hitting 30, and that was the difference (New York were 10-13 at the line). Some of it came due to Tulsa’s consistent willingness to drive and create contact. Some was due to simple laziness and stupidity from New York, reaching in far too often when there was no need to give the officials such obvious reasons to blow their whistles. There were also nice performances from Wiggins in the first half and Williams driving the offense forward throughout the game, plus Paris working hard in the paint. With Cambage out (plus Johnson in foul trouble and Jackson-Jones having a miserable night) there were plenty of post minutes on offer, and she made the most of them. Every now and then you see Paris produce a game like this – 4-6 for 10 points and 13 boards, including five on the offensive glass – and think maybe one day she could translate her college dominance to the pros. Then she disappears for ten games or has five where she’s a defensive liability. Maybe a strong finish to this season can give her a springboard into next year.
New York still just aren’t very good. Even with solid offensive production from Pierson, Braxton and Pondexter in the same game – which has been pretty rare lately – they didn’t have enough. It’s rather startling that they’re still in playoff contention, at least as long as you’re a mathematician. With four games left, they still might only need to win two – as long as one of those wins is in their remaining game against Indiana, and the Fever lose all their remaining six. But that’s clutching at very thin straws, and this team show no signs of being able to go anywhere in the postseason even if they somehow found a backdoor route to get there. Pondexter’s flashes in this game just made you wonder what might’ve been if she’d been able to produce more like that all season, or even consistently for a few games in a row. After this loss, the Liberty are even less likely to be sticking around for the postseason – and it’s exactly what their performances deserve.
Monday September 2nd (today):
Los Angeles @ Atlanta, 6pm ET. I took LA -1.5 in yesterday’s column. Details of the uncomplicated reasons why back HERE.
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How to Be Cast As an Extra
by Aurelio Locsin
Extras fill the screen in a stadium scene.
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1 Find Work as an Actor's Double
2 What Do Agencies Look for in an Acting Resume?
3 Write an Acting Resume With Little Experience
4 Interview Questions for an Actor and Model
The traditional way of working in movies and TV demands becoming an actor or crew member. These jobs generally require talent, perseverance, experience and the proper training. An alternative path to Hollywood magic exists. Being cast as an extra is easy enough that you can do the work part-time, or as a one-time experience on your favorite show.
Extras are also called "background actors" because they fill the background behind the speaking principals. Their presence adds reality to a scene whether they’re appearing as a cheering crowd in a stadium, doctors and patients in a hospital, or passengers on an airplane. They may mouth words, dance or perform vigorous activity but do so silently to emphasize the voices of the main actors. Editors later add any sounds of activity, music and conversation in post-production. Because they act as moving scenery, extras cannot pull focus from the main actors.
The declarations of wannabe agents and scammers notwithstanding, you do not need talent, acting lessons or headshots to be cast as an extra. All you have to do is sign up with an extras agency, such as Central Casting, which is the biggest such agency in the Hollywood. Requirements differ slightly by agency, but at Central Casting, you can download registration forms from its website, fill them out and then take them to one of the orientation/registration sessions. You’ll need proof of citizenship or authorization to work, such as a U.S. passport or I-94 card, a driver’s license, and a Social Security Number. If you are a member of SAG-AFTRA, the actors’ union, bring your union card.
When you arrive at the agency, a representative will take your picture for the extras database. Some agencies charge a small processing fee; Central Casting does not. Your appearance is the primary qualifier for casting, so wear presentable clothes but avoid black, white, logos and any distracting patterns. Business attire is always acceptable. Bring a list of your measurements and clothing sizes: these numbers go into the database with the information on the forms you submit. Many agencies offer an orientation session to explain what is involved in working as an extra. After you attend the session, you are ready to be cast as an extra.
If your casting agency is small enough, an agent may call you directly whenever she finds a suitable position. In most cases, however, you'll call the agency’s casting line before the day you want to work to find out what work is available. Pay particular attention to the descriptions for gender, age, ethnicity and special abilities. You must usually bring your own clothing, so listen carefully for any clothing requirements. If you match the requirements, you can call the casting agent who looks at your picture and verifies your information in the database. If she feels you match production needs, she casts you in the production and provides the location and other details for the shoot. Non-union extras generally receive minimum wage. The pay for union extras is usually more-than-double the non-union rate.
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Aurelio Locsin has been writing professionally since 1982. He published his first book in 1996 and is a frequent contributor to many online publications, specializing in consumer, business and technical topics. Locsin holds a Bachelor of Arts in scientific and technical communications from the University of Washington.
Locsin, Aurelio. "How to Be Cast As an Extra." Work - Chron.com, http://work.chron.com/cast-extra-20953.html. Accessed 20 January 2020.
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Pediatricians help infants, children and adolescents stay healthy by providing preventive care services and advising parents about common childhood health issues. They also take care of sick children by performing physical assessments, ordering tests, prescribing medications, treating injuries, performing medical procedures and referring patients to specialists when necessary. For success in this field, a pediatrician must possess several personality qualities.
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Some personality qualities help pediatricians communicate effectively and interact with others in a professional way. A pediatrician should be diplomatic, sympathetic and persuasive when working with patients, parents and staff members. Diplomacy is necessary when a pediatrician is counseling patients and parents about sensitive topics such as childhood obesity or personal hygiene. Compassion is essential for pediatricians who work with children who have chronic medical conditions so they can provide emotional support for sick patients and their family members. Persuasiveness helps pediatricians convince colleagues to adopt new policies or procedures.
When a child exhibits signs of an illness, a pediatrician must be able to determine the cause of the problem. Pediatricians should be observant, intelligent, persistent, level-headed, open-minded and resourceful when diagnosing and treating injuries and illnesses. An observant pediatrician can notice subtle changes in a patient's condition and act accordingly. Intelligence and persistence help pediatricians solve complex diagnostic problems. If a child has a medical emergency, a pediatrician must be level-headed enough to react quickly and provide the correct treatment. Open-mindedness is necessary for adapting to change and accepting views that contradict your own. Pediatricians should also be resourceful, as they need to use a variety of tools to gather information.
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Pediatricians have supervisory responsibilities in hospitals and private practices. When admitting a young patient to the hospital, a pediatrician orders the necessary tests, medications and procedures. Patience is required when explaining these orders to nurses and other health care professionals. Some pediatricians run their own practices, giving them a variety of management responsibilities. A private practice owner must be orderly, efficient, decisive and detail-oriented to balance patient care responsibilities with the demands of running a business. These demands include hiring and supervising staff members, making financial decisions and developing practice policies.
Basic Physician Qualities
Pediatricians must possess the same basic personality qualities as other types of physicians. Honesty is important when advising patients and their family members about the risks of medical procedures and the likelihood of complications. Pediatricians must be very discreet, as they handle a great deal of protected health information. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act -- commonly known as HIPAA -- governs how medical professionals may share this information. Confidence is also a key attribute, as a pediatrician must be able to make decisions independently.
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Leigh Ann Morgan began working as a writer in 2004. She has extensive experience in the business field having served as the manager of a $34 million rental property portfolio. Morgan also appeared as a guest on an episode of National Public Radio's "Marketplace Money" in 2005.
Ann, Leigh. "What Personality Qualities Are Involved in Being a Pediatrician?" Work - Chron.com, http://work.chron.com/personality-qualities-involved-being-pediatrician-10404.html. Accessed 20 January 2020.
Ann, Leigh. (n.d.). What Personality Qualities Are Involved in Being a Pediatrician? Work - Chron.com. Retrieved from http://work.chron.com/personality-qualities-involved-being-pediatrician-10404.html
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I felt a kinship with Wefunder... allowing people to invest in the things they believe in, have a passion for, or an emotional connection... that's what we're about also.
Ed Damiano
CEO of Beta Bionics - raised $1M on Wefunder · $100M+ raised after
Raising money this quickly makes my life easier. It was also cheaper than our last traditional financing. I will definitely do this again.
Josh Hare
CEO of Hops & Grain - raised $1M on Wefunder
Wefunder was the first to take a shot on us. It feels like they really want us to succeed and will do anything they can to help. Every time we go to the Wefunder house for office hours and fireside chats, everyone treats us so nicely; we really feel like we're a part of their family.
Courtney Sabo
Founder of Faros - funded by Wefunder · accepted by Y Combinator after
If you find a better deal, we'll beat it
You won't pay us a dime unless you raise money. We believe in very simple pricing. Absolutely no hidden fees or silly extra charges.
7.5%6.75%
of total funds raised
unless funded
What kind of businesses can get funded?
Anything in the United States - from tech startups to donut shops. We fund flying cars, coffee shops, breweries, rockets, ostrich farms, movie studios, films - you name it. The one thing in common? Each have a community of people who believe in them.
Can you group all investors into one shareholder?
Yes! We group all shareholders on Wefunder into one legal entity on the cap table. You can pick a lead investor who will sign on behalf of this entity.
Have a lot of companies raised venture capital after Wefunder?
Yes! Lots of them. We've had over $2.2 billion dollars of venture capital get invested in companies after they raised on Wefunder. We have over a dozen companies that are now valued at over $100 million. Just a few examples:
Beta Bionics raised over $1M in 2016. In 2019, they raised a $126M Series B.
Meow Wolf raised over $1M in 2017. In 2019, they raised $150M in venture capital.
Red Bay Coffee raised in 2016. In 2019, they closed an $8M Series A.
Checkr, Rappi, Zenefits, and Ginkgo Bioworks are valued at over $1 billion.
What terms can I use?
We support any security, such as a loan, promissory note, convertible note, SAFE, revenue share, or preferred stock. You can upload your own custom investment contract, or, if you'd rather not hire a lawyer to re-invent the wheel, choose from our library of investment contracts.
We recommend agreeing on terms with your lead investor - you'll raise more money if smaller investors are investing on the same economic terms as a professional.
What federal laws do you use?
In 2012, Wefunder helped Congress pass the JOBS Act, a law that allows businesses to raise funding online from anyone, not just the wealthy. This law created new federal laws to raise money: Regulation Crowdfunding, Regulation A+, and Regulation D, Rule 506(c).
Wefunder supports all of these new regulations, so we can help you raise money at any stage of your company.
Can I raise more than $1 million?
Yes! For companies that raise over $1,070,000 in a Regulation Crowdfunding offering, we host concurrent Regulation D 506(c) offerings for free, where unlimited amounts of money can be raised from accredited investors.
For companies that raise over $1 million with Regulation Crowdfunding, we also host Regulation A+ offerings for free, where up to $50 million per year can be raised from any investor.
LegionM, for instance, has raised over $8M from over 20,000 investors on Wefunder, using both Regulation Crowdfunding and Regulation A+.
What work do I need to do to raise money legally online?
We help create and file all paperwork with the SEC (called a "Form C") so you can do a Regulation Crowdfunding campaign. This is the easiest way to legally accept money from any potential investor online.
For later-stage companies, we can also support Regulation A+ and Regulation D.
What are the downsides to using Wefunder?
For Regulation Crowdfunding campaigns, there are two potential downsides:
Disclosure of GAAP financials. The law requires that you disclose your GAAP financials when you fundraise, in some cases reviewed by a CPA. If you don't have them, we can introduce you to CPAs who typically charge under a few thousand.
Annual reports. For 3 years in most cases, your company is supposed to release an annual report. We've written software that can help you do this in a few hours, but it is public information. If you choose not to do an annual report, the law bars you from raising via Regulation Crowdfunding again until you do so. However, you can still raise with Regulation D from accredited investors and venture capitalists.
We've solved many of the other potential downsides, which is why many startups on Wefunder have been able to raise venture capital afterwards. You'll have one legal entity on your cap table that represents all of your investors. Your company can be protected from costly "12g" reporting requirements if your security is designed properly. We can help draft the disclosure documents for $0.
What does this cost?
$0 up front. We charge 7.5% of the funds raised only if you raise money. We charge $0 if you can't raise funding.
Wefunder does not take a percentage of your company.
There are no other hidden fees.
If you can get a better offer in writing, we'll beat it.
Does Wefunder take a percentage of my company?
How fast can an investment be made?
30 seconds. Try it! Your friends can click a few buttons to transfer money with their credit card or a bank account. Or they can wire funds or mail a check. All the funds go into an escrow account until your round closes.
When can I get my money? Do you support "rolling closes"?
After your campaign hits your minimum funding target, and the funds are collected in an escrow account, you can ask us to initiate a "rolling close". After investors reconfirm their investment, we'll transfer all money in escrow to your bank account. Your Wefunder round can remain open to attract additional funding.
How is this different than Kickstarter or GoFundMe?
Unlike Kickstarter, you are not selling a product. Unlike GoFundMe, you are not asking for a handout. With Wefunder, you are offering your friends the ability to invest (i.e., be owners) in your company. If you make money, they will make money.
Since your investors are literally owners, they are in it for the long haul, and are much more incentivized to care about your company than just a customer. You'll also be able to raise more money when it's not a donation.
How does Wefunder help me after I raise?
We're more than just money. You'll be able to book office hours with an experienced founder from XX every now and then. We can't guarantee your top choice. Instead, we'll match your request for office hours with the best advisor who is available and best able to help.
We will also help you unlock the value from your army of superfans who want to help you succeed.
I've never raised money before. Where can I learn more?
Check out our guides and reading materials here: https://help.wefunder.com/#/guides/305019-founder-guides
There's a wealth of fundraising advice out there. We know it can be intimidating to someone new at this. When you use Wefunder, you also get a dedicated team of fundraising experts that will give you the best advice for your particular stage and kind of company.
I have more questions! Can I talk to a human?
Sure! Shoot us an email at hello@wefunder.com, and a friendly human will get back to you. Or book a call below.
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The fam Team
fam is a project by Wefunder to help create 20,000 new companies by 2029.
Ana Kilani, Head of fam
I fell in love with entrepreneurship when I realized it was the closest thing there was to a discipline of curiosity - the constant asking of questions, exploring of options, innovating, failing, executing, succeeding, failing, testing, innovating, and on. There are questions of ethics, there are questions of design, there is an inevitable risk and an unlikely reward. There is fear and there is the great unknown.
So, to anyone else who loves that world and has an idea they want to build, DO IT.
Nick Tommarello, CEO @ Wefunder
When I look back on my career, I remember the first investors that believed in me. Who not only invested their money, but their time and wisdom. They made me me who I am today. (Thank you, Bill Warner!)
I believe thousands more founders could start great companies, if only they are given a small nudge at the right time, from the right person. That's what I want to do with my life.
About Wefunder
We're like Kickstarter for investing. We've funded 336 companies with $119,064,288. Our companies have gone on to raise over $2 billion in venture capital.
We're a Public Benefit Corporation with a mission to keep the American dream alive. Our goal is to help 20,000 founders get off the ground by 2029.
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Capcom Defends Project Resistance, Says They’re Trying To Branch Out
By Joe Pring @JCPring 4 months ago
Project Resistance has been the source of growing controversy since its announcement.
The Resident Evil spinoff, which pits a team of four players against one human-controlled ‘Mastermind,’ is a drastic departure from Capcom’s core survival horror franchise, a truth that’s resulted in a mass of disgruntled (putting it lightly) fans unhappy with the developer’s decision. The disdain exhibited by purists is somewhat understandable, too. After all, the critically acclaimed remake of Resident Evil 2 released earlier this year is considered a magnificent return to the series’ roots and many had expected the Japanese institution to follow its success either with a sequel to 2017’s Resident Evil 7 or another remake.
The sentiment is one that’s since been echoed by one of the studio’s producers, Matt Walker, who took to Twitter in order to address fans directly.
Been seeing a lot of people who are not pleased with the idea that we’re making Project Resistance. It’s totally valid that people want more of that quality core experience offered in RE2 and RE7. My take- we as a company need to continue to branch out and try to offer up new
— Matt Walker (@retroOtoko) September 12, 2019
Screenshots From New Resident Evil Game Leak, Full Reveal Coming Sept 9th
Simply put, Capcom believes in the importance of exploring experimental ideas, not just as a means of spurring franchise growth, but to prevent genre fatigue and stagnation. For Resident Evil, in particular, such concerns are completely valid, especially if one considers its tumultuous track record. A wariness of tinkering with Resident Evil 4‘s celebrated gameplay formula too much ultimately resulted in two sequels that were criticized for leaning too heavily on past successes rather than attempting innovation.
On the flip side, however, Capcom’s track record with spinoffs in the same vein as Project Resistance have often failed to impress. Both Umbrella Corps and Operation Raccoon City, in particular, were designated bargain bin status almost immediately following their respective releases. That being the case, some semblance of skepticism is certainly warranted, but as always, final judgement should be reserved until the full picture is realized.
Project Resistance is currently without a release date but those eager to get an early hands-on can do so next month via a beta test. See here for all the details.
Tags: Project Resistance, resident evil
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Nashville Job Board For Veterans | WE HIRE HEROES
Click Here for Nashville Veteran Jobs
Camaraderie is a critical part of military service, and a valuable quality veterans bring to the civilian workforce in Nashville, Tennessee. Service men and women spend years relying on their team members to stay safe and complete important tasks. They understand the importance of teamwork, and how people from diverse walks of life can work together to achieve their goals. This is undoubtedly one of the most important soft skills employers look for in job candidates, which makes hiring veterans a top choice. At We Hire Heroes, we believe in standing with those who have stood strong for us.
About Nashville TN
Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and it’s home to Vanderbilt University. Often referred to as the capital of country music, the city has multiple country music venues. These include the Grand Ole Opry House, home of the famous “Grand Ole Opry” stage and radio show, the Country Music Hall of Fame, and the Museum and historic Ryman Auditorium. The Downtown District features honky-tonks with live music and the Johnny Cash Museum, which celebrates the singer's life.
Nashville Economy
As of 2018, Nashville had the 4th strongest economy in the nation, according to a Policom report. It’s a major music recording and production center. Three of the largest record labels have offices in Nashville, and it has been the headquarters of guitar company Gibson since 1984. Although Nashville is renowned as a music recording center and tourist destination, its largest industry is actually health care. Nashville is home to more than 300 health care companies, including Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), which is the largest private hospital operator in the world. In 2012 it was estimated the health care industry contributed US$30 billion per year and 200,000 jobs to the Nashville-area economy.
Working in Nashville
Since the main industry in Nashville is healthcare, it stands to reason the highest number of jobs are in this field. Out of the top 10 occupations in the region, eight are healthcare-related in some way according to reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The best-paying positions are those of physicians and surgeons, followed by dentists and nurses. Wherever you find these professionals operating, there are jobs for veterans who have some medical background. From nurses to cleaners, anyone who has worked in a medical environment while in the military is likely to find work fairly easily. The Nashville area has seen its job market increase by 2.4% over the past year, and growth of 48.3% is projected for the next 10 years. This is significantly higher than the 33.5% national average.
Jobs for Veterans in Nashville
Just as Amazon announced the location of its newest headquarters in New York City and Northern Virginia, the e-commerce giant also announced it is investing $230 million in Nashville and adding 5,000 jobs at a new operations site. The new Amazon site will be located downtown at Nashville Yards near the Interstate 40. Plans include a massive complex of hotels, shops, restaurants, apartments, offices, and a 1.3-acre park. This is likely to open up a whole world of new jobs for veterans in multiple occupations.
In addition to music and healthcare, a number of large corporations have strong presences in Nashville, including:
Nissan North America HQ.
Dollar General Corp.
Mars Petcare.
Caterpillar Financial.
Community Health Systems.
Tractor Supply.
These companies are continuously hiring in management and tech-focused jobs, including software developers, and the new Amazon property will boost recruitment both locally and from outside of the area.
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Understanding our region. Exploring our future.
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Because of its size and its position as a crossroads for highway, rail, air, and ocean-going goods, the Atlanta region is the Southeast’s most important freight hub. And that reputation will certainly continue in the future.
external-linkRelated: Managing Impact of e-Commerce on Retail Space & TrafficMetro Atlanta’s total freight volume is projected to grow 76% from 2013 to 2040, according to federal projections, driven by rising global trade, population growth, and the return of manufacturing and suppliers to the U.S. The Port of Savannah moved a record number of freight containers in 2017, many of which traveled to metro Atlanta.
If this growing cargo volume impedes goods movement, experts say the region could face economic difficulties and lose jobs. Almost one third of the area’s employment depends on reliable freight shipments. By 2040, that number is expected to grow by more than 400,000 jobs, to 40% of all new employment.
A third of metro Atlanta jobs depends on reliable freight shipments
To deal with looming freight traffic issues, metro Atlanta and Georgia must make significant investments in new infrastructure and boost the efficiency of existing facilities. The Georgia Ports Authority is spearheading efforts to improve rail links and create inland ports, while the Georgia Department of Transportation is planning truck-only lanes along I-75 north of Macon.
But freight traffic already strains the region’s road network, as most of the region’s busiest trucking corridors are the region’s most congested and have the greatest need for safety improvements.
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With more than 3,900 logistics providers in Georgia, the movement of goods within and through metro Atlanta is critical to the region’s economic competitiveness.
Many recommended projects from ARC’s freight plan are already in the region’s Transportation Improvement Program (TIP), or short-term work program, including $1.8 billion programmed for projects that will begin construction by 2021.
Other long-range projects include new interchanges, merging lanes on highways, and managed Express Lanes for commuters that will free up capacity on general purpose lanes. The Georgia Ports Authority is continuing with construction of the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP), while Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is constructing new air cargo facilities to move freight more quickly and expand their operations.
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Title: Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [21 April 1873]
Whitman Archive ID: duk.00626
Source: The Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. Transcribed from digital images or a microfilm reproduction of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
Editorial note: The annotation, "21 April 1873," is in the hand of Richard Maurice Bucke.
Contributors to digital file: Elizabeth Lorang, Cathy Tisch, Felicia Wetzig, Wesley Raabe, and Natalie Raabe
Cite this page: "Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [21 April 1873]." Ed. Wesley Raabe. The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 17 January 2020. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
My ever dear walt
i2 thought i would write to you to day as i dident know what to doo with myself i dident hardly expect a letter to day as i got one saturday3 we have just had our dinner after waiting for george4 2 or 3 hours we had a peice of beef yesterday and had it again to day and shall have it till wensday or thursday sometime we have a good peice then it aint so bad to have it last so long but this peice is not very good Lou5 sends orders and eddy6 goes the errands she is down stairs now gets up to breakfast when we are nearly over walk[e?] around and lays on the sofa yesterday she went up to the lot7 to see it george and she it was as much as she could doo she said i dont know whether she will make out any thing or not8
i get very much annoyed someti[m?] and very nervious little things affects me more than it does some people i think since her aunt is here9 she could dispence with me very easily) the other day Lou was saying how much butter we used in a week and it was so dear she said she was shure aunt libby dident eat much butter i said dont get any butter when its so high) i dont think edd and i together eats a quarter of a pound in a week he dont get it to eat
the aunty is helpet to the best and the largest sometime i feel bad enoughf if i was younger i should show some of my dignity now10 walt write to me to morrow and tell me how you are getting along walt if you think you cant get a house for us to live in dont worry about me i shall live my allotted time) if you ever do get one i think one about the size of what i wrote about11 would do and wouldent cost very much with a cellar under the 2 rooms and not under the shed kichen
but walter dear if you was only well how glad i would be and i gess you would be as glad as i
good bie walt12
1. This letter dates to April 21, 1873. Richard Maurice Bucke dated this letter April 21, 1873, which fell on Monday, the day of the week in Louisa Van Velsor Whitman's hand, and Edwin Haviland Miller concurred with Bucke's date (Walt Whitman, The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:215, n. 70). Bucke's and Miller's date is correct. Louisa Whitman acknowledged two recent letters from Walt Whitman, one received on the date of this letter and one received the previous Saturday. The letters that she received were Walt's letters of April 16, 1873 (received Saturday) and April 19, 1873. [back]
2. Louisa Van Velsor Whitman (1795–1873) married Walter Whitman, Sr., in 1816; together they had nine children, of whom Walt Whitman was the second. For more information on Louisa and her letters, see Wesley Raabe, "'walter dear': The Letters from Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Her Son Walt" and Sherry Ceniza, "Whitman, Louisa Van Velsor (1795–1873)." [back]
3. See Walt Whitman's April 16, 1873 and April 19, 1873 letters to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman. [back]
4. George Washington Whitman (1829–1901) was the sixth child of Louisa Van Velsor Whitman and Walter Whitman, Sr., and ten years Walt Whitman's junior. George enlisted in the Union Army in 1861 and remained on active duty until the end of the Civil War. He was wounded in the First Battle of Fredericksburg (December 1862) and was taken prisoner during the Battle of Poplar Grove (September 1864). After the war, George returned to Brooklyn and began building houses on speculation, with a partner named Smith and later a mason named French. George also took a position as inspector of pipes in Brooklyn and Camden, and he married Louisa Orr Haslam in spring 1871. For more information on George, see "Whitman, George Washington." [back]
5. Louisa Orr Haslam (1842–1892), called "Lou" or "Loo," married George Washington Whitman in spring 1871, and they were soon living at 322 Stevens Street in Camden, New Jersey. At the insistence of George and his brother Thomas Jefferson "Jeff" Whitman, Louisa Van Velsor Whitman and son Edward departed from Brooklyn to live with George and Lou in the Stevens Street house in August 1872, with Walt Whitman responsible for Edward's board. Her health in decline, Louisa Van Velsor Whitman was displeased with the living arrangement and confided many frustrations, often directed at Lou, in her letters to Walt. She never developed the close companionship with Lou that she had with Jeff's wife Martha Mitchell "Mattie" Whitman. [back]
6. Edward Whitman (1835–1892), called "Eddy" or "Edd," was the youngest son of Louisa Van Velsor Whitman and Walter Whitman, Sr. He required lifelong assistance for significant physical and mental disabilities, and he remained in the care of his mother until her death. During Louisa's final illness, Eddy was taken under the care of George Washington Whitman and his wife, Louisa Orr Haslam Whitman, with financial support from Walt Whitman. [back]
7. George Washington Whitman was building a larger house on a corner lot at 431 Stevens Street in Camden, New Jersey (see Jerome M. Loving, ed., "Introduction," Civil War Letters of George Washington Whitman [Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1975], 31). For an extended description of George's planned house, see Louisa Van Velsor Whitman's April 8, 1873 letter to Walt Whitman. [back]
8. The phrase "anything or not" is written in the right margin. [back]
9. The "aunt Lib" or "aunt Libby" who was engaged to assist Louisa Orr Haslam Whitman has not been identified but was probably named Elizabeth. Louisa Van Velsor Whitman described her daughter-in-law Louisa Orr's aunt as English, and Louisa Van Velsor Whitman was not fond of the aunt's company: "i wouldent be very sorry if aunty wasent here" (see her April 21–May 3?, 1873 letter to Walt Whitman). The aunt is designated "aunt Lib" in Louisa Van Velsor Whitman's April 10Ὰ15, 1873 letter to Walt. [back]
10. Between the words "dignity" and "now" Louisa Van Velsor Whitman canceled the phrase "it would bee all good to have my." [back]
11. For an extended description of the house that Louisa Van Velsor Whitman imagined she, Walt Whitman, and Edward could share, see her April 8, 1873 letter to Walt. Walt may have initiated this fantasy with the remark "if you & I had a house here" (see his February 23, 1873 letter to Louisa). [back]
12. The conclusion is written inverted in the top margin of the first page. [back]
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The Bunker: a business hive for veterans in Philly
Tom MacDonald
David L Cohen, Comcast Executive (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
A co-working space for veterans in Philadelphia is getting a helping hand from a big local company.
It’s called The Bunker and it’s a space for entrepreneurs who served in any branch of the military where they can work together, share resources and experiences.
Daniel Tobin runs Starchup, which sells software to laundries and dry cleaners. He started in the Bunker’s Chicago outpost and moved here.
“It’s like being back with old friends that you’ve never met, that sense of familiarity makes the working environment a lot easier to fit into,” Tobin said.
David L Cohen, senior executive vice-president of Comcast says helping The Bunker fits into the cable giant’s plans to hire more than 10,000 veterans.
“Starting a business is hard for anyone, but I think veterans face special burdens and barriers, even though they bring special tools and strengths to bring to the table,” Cohen said.
Comcast won’t say how much in cash and technology assistance it’s giving to the effort.
For many young people at the march, it was about showing the lawmakers and other people in power that they’re galvanized and ready for change.
Philly public defenders move for union vote after management skips voluntary recognition
The union, which would represent about 200 lawyers, said it’s holding out hope for a new proposal from management — but it’s still filing for an NLRB election.
The Philadelphia Tribune
Julie Coker to leave Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau
Julie Coker is moving on after four years of leading the Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau.
About Tom MacDonald
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NewsWorks Tonight February 10, 2016 – Full Show
Air Date: February 10, 2016
Host Dave Heller speaks with PennLive.com’s John Micek about the Senate’s vote whether to oust Attorney General Kathleen Kane. Laura Benshoff gives an update on the investigation of a police-involved shooting in Chester, PA. Zoe Read reports that Governor Jack Markell has signed a resolution formally apologizing for slavery in Delaware. Elana Gordon reports that Delaware announced its first known case of the Zika virus. Dave Heller speaks with WHYY’s Amy Quinn about who owns social media content on business sites. A dance performance at the Wilma Theatre will be set to the music of the late Amy Winehouse, reports Peter Crimmins. And Diana Allen recounts experiences performing music in nursing homes.
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Human vs apes: What advantages do humans have over apes?
In my world, humans are fighting intelligent apes who have captured some human weapons. The conflict will mostly take place in the woods, some of it in an urban city by the woods. The apes have a wide variety of weapons, including a couple tanks and several sniper rifles; they have had about 6 months to practice with these weapon before the human reinforcements arrived. There are a wide variety of apes including gorillas. The number of humans is about equal to the number of apes.
When it comes to conflict of equal numbers with equal level of weaponry in forest environment, is there any advantages that humans may have over apes?
reality-check warfare
Bryan McClure
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$\begingroup$ I made a few edits to your question, but one sentence I couldn't determine your intent: "There are a wild...that gorillas." I would recommend reviewing that sentence. $\endgroup$ – Frostfyre Oct 21 '16 at 17:04
$\begingroup$ “In general, the men of lower intelligence won out. Afraid of their own shortcomings and of the intelligence of their opponents, so that they would not lose out in reasoned argument or be taken by surprise by their quick-witted opponents, they boldly moved into action. Their enemies,on the contrary, contemptuous and confident in their ability to anticipate, thought there was no need to take by action what they could win by their brains.” - Thucydides (the historian, not our own) $\endgroup$ – Kys Oct 21 '16 at 18:55
$\begingroup$ BTW, humans are apes. Maybe you should be more specific as to what sorts of non-human apes you're dealing with. $\endgroup$ – mu is too short Oct 21 '16 at 22:21
$\begingroup$ Stack Exchange. $\endgroup$ – David Conrad Oct 22 '16 at 10:31
$\begingroup$ So a group of guerrilla gorillas? $\endgroup$ – kasperd Oct 22 '16 at 20:45
Assuming people will not just blow everything away (which depends on politics, tradition and position of militaries), still they probably will have upper hand.
To point out human advantage is made of:
industry, any apes that had to steal human weapon seemingly didn't have earlier means of manufacturing mechanisms and munitions. Each of them needs many precision if they are expected to work. Bad munitions will explode in barrel, even ammo clips have some small parts. Crudely made gun may easily jam or injure user. The same goes for factories. Nothing able to research modern weaponry inner workings in half a year would not need to steal them in the first place. It would simply create ones of their own and dominate the planet BEFORE the naked apes (humans) tried to do something funny with a stick. However, human probably posses many advanced facilities for both weapons and vehicles. For apes they would need knowledge about explosives and metallurgy before even making some crude adaptations of their own.
supply, for now let's forget about fighting, even for training apes would need ammo clips, fuel, explosives and spare parts to even train with weapons. How would the get it they have no industry? They would need a constant flow of resources, but it would be hard for humans to allow repeating security breaches. If apes were able to steal supplies big enough they would need carriages or some other ways of transportation or to simply raze secured supply depot. However military would be pretty... disturbed and it would need some politics to force them into waiting half a year before taking action. People have probably powerful industry machine. People may be limited by budget or law but no normal organization would send people without necessary supplies.
maintenance, people know how to preserve vehicles and equipment functionality, they will also avoid many accidents caused by improper handling of these.
training, as long as military is engaged they would send people that know how to use weapons, vehicles and tactics. As long as apes fight with human weapon, their adversaries will have advantage as most of time they would know exactly what to expect. Apes probably do not have remarkable military, however with enough battle experience this advantage may be nullified.
experience, it's hard to expect for apes to know how ways of human mind, unless one of them will teach them. They would need to know imitations of technology on which people will rely. Even thermal vision may be tricked if one knows right ways of doing it.
conceptuality, people posses many abstract ideas and concepts that come from living in high-tech society. They may have knowledge on many topics, which may prove useful in environment of operation. Tank operations, driving, tactics, shooting and so on, there is no need to invent something that is already known.
tech, simply the more advanced, the lesser will be chances that apes will be able to use them properly, the greater will be advantage of humans and the more important will be points mentioned above.
possibility to retreat, offenders usually may withdraw whether they find that situation is not at their favor. They may return later, better accustomed to enemy and environment.
better equipment, most probably apes would get only some decent weapons but nothing beyond average. Any storage that would contain more advanced weaponry normally would receive better protection. Also, the apes wouldn't probably even know if some rare equipment would have any value.
reinforcements, people can keep the numbers but still may bring others from the outside, request bombing or other help from outside.
Apes advantage is mostly made of:
terrain, for half a year they should get accustomed to the terrain, maybe even it was theirs from the beginning. Possibly they've taken some measures to secure it with traps if they expected humans to arrive.
physique, big apes posses strength and endurance far beyond human. Smaller ones posses unusual dexterity. This won't make an advantage against rifles but with some strategy it would be possible to make it a close-contact fight.
language, people will probably never understand language apes use to communicate. Also, apes may be less conservative about their language as they adapt new concepts. Terminology represents most important ideas and concepts behind culture in which specific language is used. Of course language barrier works both ways but people would be more disturbed hearing battle cry of the beast.
As for opinions on evolutionary advantage:
brain size, whales have the greatest brains and still they are not considered any more intelligent than human. Opposite example: Neandertals had greater brain that "homo sapiens", last archaeological discoveries show that they were even much more advanced as civilization. About the apes: tests on gorillas that were learned abstract symbolic language to communicate with humans proved to have IQ about 90 to 102 (from research on apes intelligence). Brain size does not simply prove one has to be more intelligent. It is important how brains are used. For example Einstein had brain smaller than average.
language capacity, it was proved by experiments that big apes are able to learn abstract language to communicate humans, the only problem is to make them interested in that task and to explain meanings of used symbols. They may spontaneously create new terms to reflect freshly known phenomenas. Creative invention however varies between individuals.
capacity for high co-op, usually apes do not need to display complex behavior, however they are fully capable of using them when it proves to be useful for group and their leaders. Isn't it the same as people?
manual dexterity, human hands are obviously different from those of other apes. Apes could find a way to use human tools and devices, however most probably it would be difficult and that's why they would rather think of their way around or own tools for the same tasks.
Any more would depend on tactics and details of setting.
evarevar
"Intelligent" is not the same as "Educated". Any average person can learn about military tactics and the history of warfare, but few do. Those that do will be at a SIGNIFICANT advantage.
Consider this: You and three of your buddies (none of whom have any military expertise or experience with guns) are given assault rifles and 6 months. At the end of the 6 months four soldiers who have received years of education in military tactics and warfare and extensive training - not to mention a greater variety of weapons at their disposal - will come to your neighborhood to try to kill you. Who do you think will win? Despite what TV would have you believe, the odds-on winners are going to be the military guys. Not because they have any physical or mental capabilities that you could not learn, but because they have received physical and mental training which you did not receive.
For lack of knowledge about them, I actually expect the tanks and most any large munitions to be useless to the apes. Tanks are more complicated than cars, but let me make an analogy here. Unless you have been educated to understand that you need to insert a small piece of metal with odd ridges into a similarly-sized slot near a car wheel and turn it, you will never get a car to start in the first place to be able to figure out how to drive it. Seriously - go find someone who has lived in a jungle their whole life and give them a car and tell them to drive it, leaving the key nearby on the ground. They will never get that car moving.
Munitions are a similar story, but they can probably be worked out. Unfortunately, many of the apes who tried to figure out how to use them were killed in the attempt. That's pretty demoralizing and might well lead to a "let's just leave those alone" stance.
And speaking of that... the humans should fight SMARTER and not HARDER
Let's consider what to do from the perspective of a human being that knows a bunch of darned, dirty apes are waiting for a fight in the forest. I could walk in and engage them, but instead I think I'll just burn it to the ground. Similarly, for the apes in the city I'm going to start with some bombardment. I won't get them all with either action, but I'll get enough that the numbers are going to tilt noticeably in my favor.
GrinningXGrinningX
$\begingroup$ «you will never get a car to start in the first place» even if you did know some time ago! My wife’s been driving a Prius for 5 years and she totally forgot how to start my 20th century Trans Am. The steps are interlocked and it won’t accept the action if done wrong. It must be in P or N first, you must press the brake, and only then turn the key to ignition and hold for a fraction of a second before returning it to the start position. $\endgroup$ – JDługosz Oct 21 '16 at 18:42
$\begingroup$ They will never get that car moving. - have few enjoyable moment imagining how they will get that car moving. $\endgroup$ – MolbOrg Oct 23 '16 at 1:02
$\begingroup$ Funnily enough, Humanity's greatest strength against the Apes will be Guerrilla warfare. $\endgroup$ – SGR Oct 24 '16 at 7:58
$\begingroup$ @MolbOrg if ever there was a reason to abolish keyless entry and keyless start, this is it :D $\endgroup$ – Gusdor Oct 24 '16 at 11:26
$\begingroup$ If you leave a toddler in a car for ten minutes they do figure out how to lock themselves in and release the parking brake though. Beat that, APES! $\endgroup$ – Daniel Darabos Oct 24 '16 at 23:22
The ability to use their weapons.
Assuming these intelligent apes are anatomically the same as real-world ones, they don't have opposable thumbs. They can grip things precisely, but their thumbs are "pseudo-opposable" or "apposable": they don't rotate in quite the same way as a human's, and thus can't press the pad of their thumb flat against the pad of another finger.
Using a weapon such as a sniper rifle requires great precision in aiming, and human weapons are designed for human hands. Without opposable thumbs, the apes would have to grip the weapon differently, making it difficult to pull the trigger without moving the barrel and disrupting their aim.
As far as tanks go, if the apes have really had access to them for only six months, it's unlikely they could use them effectively. Consider how long it takes for a human to learn to drive, even having been exposed to cars for their whole life. And that leaves aside the issue of shooting.
DraconisDraconis
$\begingroup$ Additionally one should never underestimate the little finger. The ability to curl the hand itself gives an amazing dexterity. $\endgroup$ – pluckedkiwi Oct 21 '16 at 17:51
$\begingroup$ Imagine taking a firearm's recoil when you don't have an opposable thumb... and off she goes, yer gun. $\endgroup$ – Damon Oct 23 '16 at 20:58
$\begingroup$ Driving is not hard at all. Its following the hundreds of Rules of the Road that is hard. There are only 4 controls that matter (gears, steering wheel, gas, and brake), and 3 of those are used in just about every game that has you drive anything, and children can do just fine with those games. $\endgroup$ – Ryan Oct 24 '16 at 15:46
$\begingroup$ @Ryan yeah, but apes have literally 0 context. Even if they put the car into drive (somehow), would they be able to stop it? A car isn't useful to the apes if they plow it into a tree at 70 MPH during the first 10 minutes. $\endgroup$ – user64742 Oct 25 '16 at 5:24
$\begingroup$ Not to mention the difficulty in using tools when you aren't truly bipedal, meaning your hands are not free for as long stretches of time. $\endgroup$ – N. Post Oct 25 '16 at 13:16
The apes are effectively dead.
Tanks sound impressive, but you really need planning, support, and tactics in place before you can use them effectively. The apes may grasp the basics of how to drive and shoot the things, but how will they perform maintenance on their vehicles and firearms?
Furthermore, we've had plenty of armored vehicles blown up by a road side IED. Humans, I'm sure, have access to anti-armor weapons, and mines. And if they don't, then they know how to lay a trap for those vehicles.
A couple of tanks, with no air support, no repair depots, and little experience in deploying them in a mixed infantry/armor battle will only serve as big, fat targets.
And while the apes may have a firearm or two on hand, human soldiers have a steady supply of equipment and training which enables them to use those weapons and many others far more effectively.
Things like guided bombs, RPG's, night vision, and infrared detection systems, not to mention armed drones (both land and air ones), etc. I remember a video of American soldiers fighting in Iraq. They were advancing in an urban environment, in complete darkness, using night vision (the camera was also night vision enabled). A soldier turned on a UV spotlight, and shone it on a building. In a window, was a guy with an AK, staring out into the darkness, trying to make out the US soldiers. The video cut out as one of them raised his weapon, and the guy dropped into the room, having never even realized that the "enemy" was upon him.
What I'm trying to illustrate here is that human technology, weapons, and tactics will allow us to dominate any mere ape "rebels". (the difference between them and the Taliban - in case anyone asks - is that they don't have a large population within which to hide and blend).
AndreiROMAndreiROM
$\begingroup$ A technological advantage didn't help in the American / Vietnam conflict where a major section of the fighting was done in wooded areas. $\endgroup$ – Mathias Rechtzigel Oct 21 '16 at 17:57
$\begingroup$ @MathiasaurusRex - you're wrong. US forces had a massive advantage in the death to kill ratio of the Vietnam war. Their war efforts were hampered by the enemy's guerrilla tactics, and their own rules of engagement, which were asinine. The apes have no local population within which to blend. In any forest, they will stand out like a sore thumb, among the deer, and bears, etc. A human will not walk down the road of an ape village, surrounded by ape children asking for candy, while an unknown number of the apes around him might be insurgents. $\endgroup$ – AndreiROM Oct 21 '16 at 18:00
$\begingroup$ You're making assumptions about the environment which you haven't been given. You have no idea of what the population diversity of this world is, you have no idea whether or not the "Urban City" is New York sitting next to Central Park or something akin to this: smilingalbino.com/planetasiatravelchannel/wp-content/uploads/… $\endgroup$ – Mathias Rechtzigel Oct 21 '16 at 18:06
$\begingroup$ @MathiasaurusRex - again, you're reading too much into an analogy. Understand this: in Vietnam (and Iraq, and Afghanistan), US forces would walk into a village and not know who's their friend, and who's their foe. When you're fighting a different species that's not a problem: all apes are enemies. You see an ape, you shoot it. You don't stop to wonder whether they're an enemy combatant or not. There is zero reason why advanced tech would not give humans an edge in the forest. Once in the forest, again, you see an ape, you shoot it. What am I assuming here? $\endgroup$ – AndreiROM Oct 21 '16 at 18:09
$\begingroup$ @AndreiROM You're assuming the human war effort would not be crippled by massive "Save Harambe's Brothers!" demonstrations. The popularly elected Pro-Nature leadership imposes laws causing any soldier found killing an innocent animal to be convicted of a war crime. $\endgroup$ – Kys Oct 21 '16 at 20:15
The biggest single advantage will be speech.
Apes, even intelligent ones, don’t have the vocal anatomy to make all of the sounds humans are capable of. For the apes to communicate they will have to resort to their own limited language of grunts and hoots or sign language. Either alternative will provide a number of difficulties.
Complex planning will be difficult with a restricted and newly invented language. Conveying complex ideas like where to go, what to do, and various contingency plans is a challenge already in commanding poorly trained militias. Communication failures will lead to defeat. Ape commanders will likely have to keep tactics simple.
Apes will be unable to effectively use radios. Long range communication is vital to modern military tactics in which forces working together are often miles apart from each other.
Both these issues will be exacerbated in the heat of battle when communication speed is key. Soldiers rely on vocal communication constantly in battle. How for instance will an ape tank commander communicate with the driver or gunner where to drive or what to shoot.
The humans advantage in communication will prove decisive over all other factors.
Mike NicholsMike Nichols
$\begingroup$ "Ape commanders will likely have to keep tactics simple." Of course, the ape commanders would be using gorilla tactics. $\endgroup$ – Kys Oct 21 '16 at 19:22
$\begingroup$ That pun was just begging to be made at some point. :) $\endgroup$ – Charles Burge Oct 21 '16 at 19:49
$\begingroup$ While it is true that apes cannot make all of the vocal sounds that humans can make, they can make their own sounds which will serve them just as well. However, the different species will probably not be able to make the same sounds, which will greatly reduce inter-species communications. $\endgroup$ – EvilSnack Oct 26 '16 at 4:13
equal numbers with equal level of weaponry
The more advanced your weaponry is, the more complicated support chain it needs.
Your apes have guns. How many rounds do they have? How many rounds were they left with after target practice? Can they make more? Would they have to build a facility for that, defend that facility, transport new ammo? Can they request an air drop?
Your apes have tanks. While it's true that tank can withstand quite a lot, tanks need a lot of maintenance too. Do your apes have repair facilities? Do they have sufficient supplies of spare parts?
Modern weaponry is designed to take advantage of modern supply chains. As an example, you could take a look at people in DNR - they had a lot of problems with their tanks because of trivial stuff like antennas that were regularly damaged and needed replacement. Cheap and easy to produce, those antennas are not really a problem... if you have facilities that produce spare parts for tanks and supply lines that deliver those parts where you need them.
Tanks, jet fighters and attack helicopters and whatnot are only a miniscule part of modern war machine, hardened spear tip. Production, repair and supply facilities are the shaft which pushes that spear tip through the target.
DaerdemandtDaerdemandt
$\begingroup$ "Amateurs study tactics. Professionals study logistics." $\endgroup$ – EvilSnack Oct 26 '16 at 4:09
Tanks and guns are very hard to use. A WW2-era tank requires a 5-man crew (the later models, at least), and the commander needs years of training to be able to accurately assess the situation and tell the rest of the crew, most of whom are effectively blind, on what to do. Apes can't do that.
For example, let's say that you have 5 apes that miraculously find their way into a late WW2 tank, and for the sake of argument, they find themselves sitting in the right places. First of all, only 2 of them can see: the commander and the gunner. The rest are blind.
In order to move, the commander needs to tell the engine guy to turn in a direction and move for a certain distance. Somehow, they manage to do that. Ok, the tank can move.
However, tanks are useless without guns. To accurately fire a gun, you need coordination between 3 people: the commander, the gunner, and the ammo loader. This needs to happen for a shell to hit a target:
Commander spots a target, and talks to the radio (which, btw, the apes automagically operates): "gunner move to 3 o'clock, estimate 500 yards" (not his exact words, but close enough, I'm too lazy to look up how they spoke)
Gunner turns his sights to 3 o'clock, and sees the tank. Assuming the ammo is automagically loaded, he fires a shot
It is impossible to hit a thing on the first try, since the initial range estimate is probably off. The commander sees that the shell overshot, and yells into the radio again: "revise estimate to 300 yards" (again, not exact, but you get the idea)
Remember, at this point, you need a commander that can manage a crew, accurately estimate distance, and revise that estimate when it's off. Good luck trying to train an ape to do that in 6 months.
At this point, you need to reload the gun. For this to happen, the ammo loader (yes, modern tanks have auto-loaders, but your apes won't know how to use them) needs to open the gun, take out the hot shell, and then shove in a new shell. Magic happens, and a new shell is loaded.
Gunner hears the new range estimate, and is smart enough to know, with very limited training, how much he needs to adjust to hit the target, and then fires a second shell, which has a half-decent chance of hitting (if everything goes according to plan)
Do you see how complicated this is? This requires a highly-trained crew that knows how to work together, and operate all the equipment in a tank. A tank is not a car with some armour and a gun; it needs trained personnel and experience to even move.
Back to the forest. Fighting in a forest in hard. Especially when you can burn it down. Oops. Okay, what happens if we don't burn the forests down?
Forest warfare requires deep knowledge of how terrain affects combat and ambush setting/countering, skills which the most intelligent of humans have a hard time grasping. Yes, apes in trees make good ambushes, but sniper rifles can only do so much. Assuming that the apes somehow manages to operate those rifles with the precision required, which again, requires years of training, they still can't inflict much damage.
Also, you know what makes better ambushes? Explosives. Guess who knows how to drop landmines from the skies? Not the apes.
There is really no way for your apes to win. Sorry.
Isaac KhorIsaac Khor
$\begingroup$ Actually, in several WW2 tanks, the driver could see out through a small slit. Sherman had a drivers viewport, as did most panzers. In fact, I do not know of any tank s or armored vehicles that did not have a way for the driver to see where he was going. $\endgroup$ – NZKshatriya Oct 23 '16 at 2:58
$\begingroup$ Also, in many older tanks (don't know about new ones) the recoil mechanism had the back of the gun slamming through the crew compartment. Anyone in the way would be seriously injured, so part of the drill was to not be in the way. The apes would not know that. $\endgroup$ – Paul Johnson Oct 23 '16 at 7:57
$\begingroup$ @Paul Johnson Although I daresay that if the apes were smart enough to drive the tank, seeing a guy get jellied by the recoiling gun would be enough of an example for the rest of them. $\endgroup$ – EvilSnack Oct 26 '16 at 4:11
Our evolutionary advantages (relative to the animal kingdom in general) include:
Brain size, which correlates with intelligence - just how do these apes come by their intelligence?
Capacity for symbolic/abstract language (both spoken and written) which can be used to express pretty much any idea or instruction, describe any past, present, or future event, etc.
Capacity for highly co-operative behavior, altruism, self-sacrifice, delayed gratification, teamwork, etc..
Manual dexterity - forelimbs physically and neurologically adapted away from walking/climbing and toward the sort of hand-eye co-ordination required to perform intricate tasks. Ever see a chimp thread a needle?
Thermoregulation adapted for endurance. Hairy animals are typically adapted to cool by panting, which they can't do when running, so can sprint fast but overheat quickly; humans can sustain an elevated metabolism (think marathon running) for long periods due to our ability to sweat and efficiently remove body heat by evaporative cooling from most of the skin surface area. Horses are an exception, but according to this article, our cooling system is so superior, a human could outcompete a horse in a marathon on a hot day.
Anthony XAnthony X
$\begingroup$ Can you support your stance that apes do not display behaviors required for teamwork? This Article would seem to directly go against your assumption. Also as per Wiki Primates and Horses use thermoregulation.....tell me, have you ever actually seen monkeys/gorillas/orangutans pant to cool off? Also, when it comes to Manual Dexterity, you might want to check out this article on phys.org $\endgroup$ – NZKshatriya Oct 23 '16 at 2:52
$\begingroup$ @NZKshatriya Interesting; I'll admit to making a few assumptions/extrapolations based on related tidbits of information. I'll happily correct or delete any incorrect information. $\endgroup$ – Anthony X Oct 23 '16 at 4:21
$\begingroup$ @NZKshatriya About thermoregulation and the Wiki article... I did read it; although it states that primates have armpits that sweat (for signalling by odor), it says only that humans and horses can generate enough sweat to cool down; not a clear statement that chimps have this ability. $\endgroup$ – Anthony X Oct 23 '16 at 4:38
$\begingroup$ Scientific American article stating that we primates, apes included, sweat to cool off. Sweaty article I am bored outta my mind at present $\endgroup$ – NZKshatriya Oct 23 '16 at 4:51
$\begingroup$ @NZKshatriya That's not how I read the article. Other primates may have sweat glands, but the fur covering impedes the efficiency of cooling via sweating - a point the article makes in reference to racehorses - which is why we became essentially hairless. What surprised me about that is that a human can even win out against a horse in an endurance race. Unless these intelligent apes are also hairless, the humans could drive them to heat exhaustion and then go in for the kill, just like our ancient ancestors did (and some African tribes still do today) when they persistence hunted for dinner. $\endgroup$ – Anthony X Oct 23 '16 at 15:09
Military Intelligence. Specifically, satellite imagery, which presumably apes do not have. If you know where the enemy is and they don't know where you are - and you have similar numbers and armament - the fight is already won.
Communication. Knowing what to say on radio, and how to say it so it isn't misunderstood, is quite important. As is being able to speak at all.
Experience. Human military knows how to work together in multiple squads in a way that minimizes chances of a rout or friendly fire, even when some of them are stressed or panicked. They also know the logistics of combat.
Better gear. Holding and firing a rifle that's made for the physique of a different animal will significantly compromise it's value.
Choice of engagement. Presumably the humans had 6 months to prepare, while knowing the strength of the enemy forces. They can chose to attack, to reinforce, or to retreat. The range of strategic options available to the apes seems to be smaller.
Advantages that the apes have:
Their military training wasn't hampered by ethics at any point, which will lead to tactics that catch the humans by surprise.
Large variety of species with different abilities, which makes them less predictable.
Humans are likely to underestimate them. Lots of historical precedent.
Humans are likely to use tactics meant to fight humans.
PeterPeter
$\begingroup$ Humans are not unfamiliar with training and tactics that are unhampered by ethics, I don't think there will be much that surprises us. $\endgroup$ – PStag Oct 24 '16 at 20:42
FOXP2 Gene
I agree that speech is at least one of the greatest advantages humans have over apes and monkeys. It opened the way for further complex communication that allowed the transgenerational transmission of culture (hunting grounds, watering holes, times to forage, etc) like we have. There are other animals that can effectively teach the next generation, their offspring, of their learned behaviors but nothing to the breadth and depth that we have as humans.
nevdullnevdull
$\begingroup$ good point, indeed they can learn them by example, by showing what to fear (like int his crow experiment interesting documentary, conclusions a bit waggle, it is more just interesting story about crows), monkeys also able for that type of activity. But ability to tell stories, depict history by words - it is definitely next step and whole new level, and different mind set. $\endgroup$ – MolbOrg Oct 23 '16 at 1:19
First of all, Apes are in fact intelligent so I do not understand the whole "intelligent apes" statement.
As there are two families, Lesser Apes and Great Apes, this question is a bit broad in my opinion.
Lesser Apes: Hylobatidae, several species of Gibbon. As per wikipedia they are light and arboreal, meaning they are good at heights and precarious perches. Imagine these armed with grenades and/or suicide vests coming from any direction.
Great Apes: Orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees.
Think of Gorillas and Orangutans with body armor taken from humans, using weapons modified to work without opposable thumbs.
Lets take the tanks out of the equation, as forested terrain is not the best location for tank warfare, and being intelligent the Apes would likely see the lack of freedom of movement, and inherent vulnerability. A single man/ape could take out a tank with a man-portable anti-armor weapon such as the M2CG.
Arboreal snipers (orangutans) would have an upper hand for a while, due to having an elevated position, and being able to move efficiently from tree to tree. Humans would likely begin taking out trees to diminish this threat. This would, however, lead to more places for Ape ground forces to find cover to shoot from on the ground. Rubble is great for defenders, not so much for the offense, as was found to be the case during the 2nd 3rd, and 4th battles at Monte Cassino in WW2.
Where the Apes would excel however, would be hand to hand combat. While humans are great with weapons, we are for lack of a better term, quite squishy when compared to a charging mature male gorilla or orangutan.
NZKshatriyaNZKshatriya
Let's not forget culture.
If the apes are still a tribal culture, we can put then out of business by sending in a few special ops guys to bump off the leadership. Then we wait until the contenders to replace them prevail in whatever internecine struggle takes place, and then a bit more for them to get their act together to the point where anything can get done. Then our special ops guys go in and whack those leaders.
The apes become a far less predictable force, but any action requiring large-scale coordination become impossible.
EvilSnackEvilSnack
Im pretty sure that our fighter jets will make quick work of their tanks.
Sniper rifles require math in order to be used correctly, and while they might kill a few of our armored soldiers (or injure them), we would figure out their positions using shot spotters and then call in an air strike.
The apes have no chance.
mike510amike510a
I'd like to avoid retreading some very good points made earlier, but will enumerate the ones that jumped out at me as being very valid before going into what I feel is the biggest issue. In no particular order, humans have experience in the following:
Technology usage and maintenance
Communication and coordination of large scale endeavors
Logistical networks to support military operations
Now, what I feel is really the most significant factor in the whole "Humans vs. Apes" scenario put forth is the simple fact that humans have been waging war for thousands of years and no other species on earth has even come close to the level of conflict that we engage in. Humans are amazing at fighting. We are an apex predator like no other.
We are incredibly adaptable, and have all the most terrifyingly dangerous elements of both predators and prey. We have developed and employed weapons and tactics for every conceivable scenario throughout our history. We are able to plan for and carry out very sophisticated operations, and cooperate to accomplish them in ways that apes would need years if not generations to begin to recognize, even assuming they were intellectually capable of doing so.
In my in-expert opinion, apes simply lack the military instinct that seems to distinguish humanity. Apes may fight and quarrel, but that is the equivalent of schoolyard fistfights compared to the level of military sophistication that has been demonstrated by human armies since antiquity.
rideoutcolinrideoutcolin
They can't produce or repair anything. They would basically lose on endurance. This is assuming the other issues (speech, training with complex historical knowledge) are already resolved. Even if they could do it all and were able to read and speak, a handful of "anything" won't stop them from getting wiped out.
John KeatesJohn Keates
Food. If there are the same number of apes as humans (I assume you mean same number as the local military) then they need to be fed large amounts of food. Much too much for them to forage, which would take all their time anyway. And they can only raid human settlements for so long before they need to move on. The apes strategy would be controlled by the fact that they always need to move towards a new food source.
PStagPStag
Domesticated Animals
Humans have obtained great advantages by domesticating various animals:
Dogs are great for hunting down enemies and can even serve as offensive weapons
Geese are great alarm systems
Carrier pigeons can provide communications in difficult circumstances
Horses and pack animals are useful for navigating terrain machines cannot handle
Brian BBrian B
$\begingroup$ It's not clear how relevant these are to the specific scenario presented by the OP. $\endgroup$ – rideoutcolin Oct 30 '16 at 19:55
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If US Voters Cannot Be Trusted To Choose An Able President, Let Tech Firms Take The Lead
By Chandran Nair
The dysfunctional US political system is the place to start if American technology firms truly believe in their claims of being able to create a global, connected utopia
Even by the usually shallow standards of American politics, the 2016 election is dire. There is little policy discussion to speak of, as both sides resort to character attacks and accusations.
Many Americans have despaired about their choices this year. Donald Trump is widely viewed as unqualified for the presidency, but he still appeals to about 40 per cent of America. Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, comes with a great deal of self-inflicted baggage. Her opponents say she is the “most corrupt person” ever to contest the US elections. Many Americans do not trust her, and she is likely to be the most unpopular election victor in recent history.
Between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, American voters face a difficult choice for their next president. Photo: AFP
And there is still this uncomfortable fact: assuming Clinton wins next week, four out of America’s past five presidents would have been either a Clinton or a Bush. This would be almost a quarter century of America being run by two political families. In any other democratic country, this would be seen as extremely troubling and even attract ridicule.
So here is a modest proposal to save the United States and the rest of the world. If America’s political process, parties and voters cannot be trusted to select good candidates and a capable president, maybe someone – or something – can take its place? Perhaps, given the hype surrounding technological innovation in the US, it is time for some “artificial intelligence” to inject some sanity into the process?
After all, American tech has not been afraid to thrust itself into politics, so long as it is outside of the US.
American tech firms never seem to need an invitation to propose how technology can solve everyone else’s problems. Innovation and disruption are the words of the day; so what about “innovation” and “disruption” in US politics and for the global good?
Google’s Eric Schmidt has stated that China needs a free internet, freedom of speech and freedom of information to escape the “middle-income trap”. Twitter used to call itself the “free speech wing of the free speech party” and has celebrated its role in fostering opposition movements around the world, while staying silent on the mayhem that often results.
Some developers have already tried to apply their technologies to (non-US) elections. In last year’s Nigerian elections, US developers wrote a programme that would autonomously sift through Nigerian social media, detailing incidents of voter intimidation. The programme would then notify election monitors on which polling stations needed more protection and which areas needed independent ballot counting. Perhaps, given America’s history of disenfranchising minorities and the rhetoric about “rigged elections” coming from the Trump campaign, these developers may want to offer their services to the US government.
Nigerian opposition candidate Muhammadu Buhari (right) and president Goodluck Jonathan prepare to sign a renewal of their pledge to hold peaceful “free, fair, and credible” elections, at a hotel in the capital Abuja in 2015. Buhari won the election with 53 per cent of votes. Photo: AP
The dysfunctional American political system may now be the greatest threat not just to the US, but the whole world. Analysts from both the Economist Intelligence Unit and Moody’s see a Trump presidency as one of the greatest risks to the global economy. Others worry that former secretary of state Hillary Clinton will continue with outdated hawkish policies that will contribute to global tensions and worsen relations with countries like Russia, Turkey, and so on. Washington is currently incapable of tackling any long-term crisis. Key international agreements, from the Paris climate treaty to the Iran nuclear deal, hinge upon the whims of American domestic politics.
The world cannot be held to ransom by the bitter squabbling of poorly informed and ruthless US politicians.
Rather than look abroad for problems to solve, perhaps US technology firms should look inwards to solve a major contemporary issue within their borders: how can they use technology to improve the American political process and truly disrupt a system past its sell-by date?
One problem with the US system is low turnout: only 53.6 per cent of the voting-age population actually voted in the 2012 US election, compared to 80.4 per cent in South Korean elections the same year. Low turnout is especially pronounced amongst minorities, the young and the poor. A tech solution that provides easy and comprehensive voter registration, reminders of electoral deadlines, and secure methods of voting digitally would help boost turnout.
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and incumbent Barack Obama spar during the second presidential debate in Hempstead, New York, in 2012. Fewer than 54 per cent of eligible US voters cast their ballots in the election that November. Photo: AP
Another problem is poor information and the tendency for people to sort themselves into communities that reinforce, rather than challenge, their existing views. Technology could play several roles here, especially in the realm of “big data” and artificial intelligence. Programmers could write code that would analyse statements made by politicians and automatically “fact-check” them for the audience. Some observers have called the 2016 election the “fact-check election”; imagine what a system super-charged by technology would look like. No participant in a debate would be able walk off a debate stage or TV interview without a global audience knowing that he or she may have stretched the truth, did not know the facts or straight-out lied.
And, why not use a robot to moderate the debate? Such a programme will be less focussed on the horse-race narrative and character attacks of regular political journalism, and could instead use data from the cloud to determine what voters actually care about, and would want to see addressed in the debate.
A programme could analyse the data of prospective voters to predict their overall policy preferences. This may sound impossible, but companies are already doing this: when they are trying to predict what someone wants to buy.
One final issue is secret money in politics. A technological solution could help with transparency: a database that could track how and whose money flows into political campaigns. A computer programme may be better able to handle this, given the sheer scale of the US system and the money involved. Legitimacy for this could be conferred by a tech company partnering with the Carter Centre or Transparency International. But solving the myriad problems of the US electoral system is probably too great a task for technology firms alone. Technology (especially social media) has in many cases exacerbated these problems, rather than alleviated them. But applying technology to something as complicated and important as the American political process may drive US developers as well as provide a much-needed incentive to overcome these issues.
Donald Trump holds up a poster comparing funding sources for the rival camps in the early days of campaigning, at Sunrise, Florida in August this year. Photo: EPA
If technology truly is going to drive global society towards some connected, prosperous utopia, then US tech companies should urgently attend to the pressing issues of American politics. Once they solve these, the rest of the world may take more seriously their push for technology-aided solutions to promote democracy in other countries.
And what if it can’t solve the problems of American politics or makes them worse? That would tell us much about technology’s real ability to bring about global social and political change.
This was first published in the South China Morning Post on November 4 2016
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The Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council released a draft Funded Priorities List (FPL) Thursday for public comment. This FPL details active restoration projects total $139.6 million, and recommends setting aside approximately $43.6 million for future projects.
According to a summary posted by the Council, the proposed projects on the list would "provide substantial near-term ecological benefits and would help set the stage for future success with large-scale, comprehensive Gulf restoration."
The FPL included eight projects in Alabama, totaling more than $12.6 million in up front or "Category 1" funding and $13.5 million in "Category 2" funding in the future. The fact sheets for those projects are linked below:
Coastal Alabama Comprehensive Watershed Restoration Planning Project
Alabama Living Shorelines Program
Comprehensive Living Shoreline Monitoring
Alabama Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Restoration & Monitoring Program
Marsh Restoration in Fish River, Weeks Bay, Oyster Bay & Meadows Tract
Mobile Bay National Estuary Program
Upper Mobile Bay Beneficial Use Wetland Creation Site
Enhancing Opportunities for Beneficial Use of Dredged Sediments
In addition to the Alabama projects, the FPL includes projects to fill in abandoned oil and gas canals and wells, work with land owners to prevent approximately 16,000 pounds of fertilizers per year from entering the Gulf, preserve 9,400 acres of "high value coastal habitat," and invest in Gulf-wide science, coordination and planning programs.
A group of local and national conservation organizations including National Audubon Society, the National Wildlife Federation, Environmental Defense Fund and the Nature Conservancy released a joint statement:
"While we haven't yet engaged on the details of the list, we are encouraged to see this first Funded Priorities List moving forward into the public comment period, and we congratulate the RESTORE Council and staff for their efforts to reach this point. The RESTORE Act is focused on comprehensive restoration for the Gulf of Mexico, and our organizations are eager to see strong projects progress to actual construction and implementation.
"With a final BP settlement on the horizon, the RESTORE Council and the Gulf states have a tremendous opportunity ahead to plan for and achieve meaningful restoration and lasting resilience for the essential ecosystems of the Gulf. Our organizations look forward to reviewing and providing comments on this first project list over the coming weeks and working with the Council on the next, more comprehensive FPL process."
Bethany Carl Kraft, director of Ocean Conservancy's Gulf Restoration Program said that the FPL marked an important step in the process of choosing which projects to fund through the RESTORE Act.
"While we are still reviewing the details of the draft list, we are encouraged by the approach they seem to be taking, including foundational investments in science and a commitment to funding projects that will begin to address the stressors that prevent our environment from functioning at its full potential," Kraft said in a news release. "The Council appears to have put politics aside, choosing to focus on prioritizing projects by watershed rather than by political boundary, but have unfortunately left out any consideration of the offshore waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
"The success of coastal restoration is intrinsically linked to a healthy marine ecosystem. We encourage the Council to extend their comprehensive approach beyond the salt line."
As established by the RESTORE Act, the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council will handle one portion of the Clean Water Act fine money paid by BP and other companies responsible for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. In Alabama, it is often referred to as the federal council to differentiate it from the state RESTORE council, which will administer Alabama's portion of the Clean Water Act fine money.
Government officials recently announced a settlement agreement with BP that set the final Clean Water Act fine amount at $5.5 billion, to be paid out in increments over 18 years. If that settlement is finalized as is, the federal council would receive approximately $1.32 billion in total to be put toward comprehensive ecosystem restoration projects, as laid out in the legislation.
Public comments on this draft FPL can be lodged online, or by mailing or emailing the Restoration Council. The deadline for making comments is Sept. 28. There will also be a series of public meetings to discuss the FPL across the Gulf Coast, including one at Mobile's Battle House Renaissance hotel on Sept. 1 at 6 p.m.
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The Bizarre Importance of Bleeding Bodies in Medieval Trials
The history of criminal justice and forensic science is really interesting because of all the absurd rituals and superstitions courts relied on to determine guilt or innocence right up until the 19th century. Before the advent of blood tests, fingerprint analysis, and DNA testing, many cultures used various trials by ordeal to help decide a suspect’s guilt. To prove a murderer was guilty, for example, many European courts relied on a type of trial by ordeal that involved a “bleeding” corpse.
A trial by ordeal is an ancient method of ascertaining guilt or innocence and can be found in cultures all over the world (Roth 2010 and Primm 2013). Societies that used a trial by ordeal believed that a god or gods would protect the innocent from harm and punish the guilty. They were used for crimes like murder, heresy, and witchcraft (Roth 2010).
There were various kinds of ordeals that a court could use to test the innocence of a suspect. During a trial by fire, the accused had to walk across hot coals or pick an object out of a fire. If he or she did not emerge unscathed they were found guilty. In a trial by water, a suspect was bound then submerged in water. If they were innocent, they would sink; if guilty, they would float (Roth 2010).
One ordeal, dating to the end of the Roman Empire, was reserved for accused murderers (Brittain 1965). The bier-right, or cruentation, was based on the belief that the body is still able to hear and act a short time after death, so that if a murderer approached or touched the corpse of their victim then the corpse would bleed or froth at the mouth (Roth 2010 and Brittain 1965). Bier-right got its name from the stand or barrow, called a bier, which held or carried a corpse or coffin. Cruentation comes from the Latin word cruentatio meaning staining of blood or cruentare meaning to make bloody (Brittain 1965).
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Funeral bier in St.Helen's church, Brant Broughton, Lincolnshire, Great Britain. ( CC BY SA 2.0 )
In Cruentation: In Legal Medicine and Literature (1965), Brittain discusses how a cruentation was performed.
“…the suspect was placed at a certain distance from the victim who had been laid naked on his back. He approached the body, repeatedly calling on it by name, then walked around it two or three times. He next lightly stroked the wounds with his hand. If during this time fresh bleeding occurred, or if the body moved, or if foam appeared at the mouth, the suspect was considered to be guilty of murder.”
The substance that these people were likely seeing was purge fluid, or decomposition fluid. Purge fluid, which drains from the mouth, nose, and other orifices during putrefaction, looks a lot like blood and is often mistaken for it (DiMaio & DiMaio 2001).
The bier-right was so well-known that the ritual made its way into poetry and plays. The best example is probably in Shakespeare’s Richard III, in Act I, Scene II (Fitzharris 2011). During the funeral of King Henry VI, Lady Anne confronts Gloucester, the man who murdered Henry:
“Foul devil, for God’s sake hence, and trouble us not;
For thou hast made the happy earth thy hell,
Fill’d it with cursing cries and deep exclaims.
If thou delight to view thy heinous deeds,
Behold this pattern of thy butcheries.
O! gentlemen; see, see! dead Henry’s wounds
Open their congeal’d mouths and bleed afresh.
Blush, blush, thou lump of foul deformity,
For ’tis thy presence that exhales this blood
From cold and empty veins, where no blood dwells:
Thy deed, inhuman and unnatural,
Provokes this deluge most unnatural.
O God! which this blood mad’st, revenge his death;
O earth! which this blood drink’st, revenge his death;
Either heaven with lightning strike the murderer dead,
Or earth, gape open wide, and eat him quick,
As thou dost swallow up this good king’s blood,
Which his hell-govern’d arm hath butchered!”
David Garrick as Richard III. (c. 1745) By William Hogarth. ( Public Domain )
England stopped using the bier-right at the end of the 17 th century, and German courts abandoned the cruentation at the end of the 18 th century (Fitzharris 2011 and Brittain 1965). But there are still records of courts in the U.S. using it until 1869 (Lea 1878).
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In New Jersey in 1767, a bier-right was used to discover the murderer of Nicholas Tuers, despite the fact that the coroner thought the whole thing was ridiculous.
“In 1767, the coroner’s jury of Bergen County, NJ, was summoned to view the body of one Nicholas Tuers, whose murder was suspected. The attestation of Joannes Demarest, the coroner, stated that he had no belief in the bier-right, and paid no attention to the experiment, when one of the jury touched the body without result. At length Harry, a slave, who had been suspected without proof, was brought up for the same purpose, when he heard the exclamation ‘He is the man,” and was told that Tuers had bled at being touched by Harry. He then ordered the slave to place his hand on the face of the corpse, when about a tablespoonful of blood immediately flowed from each nostril, and Harry confessed the murder in all particulars (Lea 1878).”
In Philadelphia in 1860, a body was actually exhumed for a bier-right after being buried for weeks.
“In 1860, the Philadelphia journals mention a case in which the relatives of a deceased person, suspecting foul play, vainly importuned the coroner, some weeks after the internment, to have the body exhumed, in order that it might be touched by a person whom they regarded as concerned in his death (Lea 1878).”
‘Bier-Right’ (1879) by Jenő Gyárfás. ( Public Domain )
Last, but not least, probably the largest bier-right ever performed happened in 1869 in Lebanon, IL.
“…in 1869 at Lebanon, IL, the bodies of two murdered persons were dug up, and two hundred of the neighbors were marched past them, each of whom was made to touch them in the hope of finding the criminals.”
Featured image: Detail from a n illustration of a body in its coffin that starts to bleed in the presence of the murderer during a cruentation 1497. Source: Public Domain
The above article, originally titled ‘ The ordeal of the bleeding corpse ’ by Dolly Stolze was originally published on her blog ‘ Strange Remains ‘ and has been republished under a Creative Commons License.
Brittain, RP. (1965). Cruentation: In legal medicine and in literature. Medical History. 9(1): 82–88.
DiMaio, VJ; DiMaio, D. (2001). Forensic Pathology, 2 nd Edition . Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
Fitzharris, L. (2001). ‘Crying to heaven for revenge’: The bleeding corpse and its significance in history. Retrieved from: http://thechirurgeonsapprentice.com/2011/03/30/crying-to-heaven-for-revenge-the-bleeding-corpse-and-its-significance-in-history/
Lea, HC. (1878). Superstition and force: Essays on the wager of law-the wager of battle-the ordeal-torture . Philadelphia, PA: Collins, Printer.
Primm, A. (2013). A History of “Trial By Ordeal.” Retrieve from: http://mentalfloss.com/article/50161/history-trial-ordeal
Roth, M. (2010). Crime and punishment: A history of the criminal justice system, 2nd Edition . Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.
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Winter Tournament Week 2019
22 September 2019 Aquinas_SportSports
Aquinas was well represented during Winter Tournament Week this year with Basketball, Football, Hockey and Netball teams traveling to Auckland, Rotorua, Hamilton and Whanganui. Below is a brief of how the teams went.
Basketball – Junior Girls and Boys
Aquinas College basketball was well represented in the recent junior regional championships held in Rotorua during tournament week. The tournament ran over 4 days and there were some highly skilled teams playing that was a big step up from our local competition. Both our junior girls and boys teams played with real heart on court and fought hard to keep themselves competitive in matches when the score could easily have blown out. This was due to some tenacious defence by AC and it was great to watch. After 4 days of competition the girls finished 7th with an epic win over our local rivals Tauranga Girls by just 2 points when we had been down the entire match. This was a great fight back by the girls and coach Mike Rogers was suitably impressed with that performance. The boys team who had a couple of early losses in the tournament did not let this dampen their spirits, in fact they played their strongest basketball on the final 2 days of competition to finish 9th place. Coach Matt Adsett of the boys team was thrilled with the boys comeback and highlighted how the boys exemplified the touchstones of the school both on and off the court.
Basketball – Senior Boys
The Aquinas College Senior A boys basketball team recently played in the Schick Northern Cup which was held at the North Shore Events Centre from Sept 5 – 7. The team had been hit hard by injuries leading up to the tournament and this gave the younger members of the team a great opportunity to stand up and take on more responsibility on the court. It was a great experience for the boys and they thoroughly enjoyed themselves. With the majority of the team being Year 11 the future of Aquinas basketball looks bright! Thanks to Lawrence Young for coaching the team.
Hockey Girls
On Monday of tournament week, the girls fought a hard game against Rotorua Girls, unfortunately they didn’t come home with a win. This only made them more motivated to do better in the next game. On the Tuesday they played two games and came out victorious in both. This resulted in second place in our pool, meaning they made it into the top 8. St Peters Cambridge was the next day, unfortunately they were a whole other league to us coming away with a 9 – nil score. Thus, the semi- finals did not become a reality for the Aquinas 1XI hockey team this year. So, although ultimate victory was not the horizon, 8th place was. The girls played with determination but to their disappointment the efforts were not reflected on the score board and we left without a trophy in hand. The girls are already looking forward to claiming their rightful throne next year!
Hockey Boys
The Aquinas College First XI Hockey boys team travelled to Rotorua to compete in the Woolaston Trophy. The team was hit hard by an injury to a key player, days out from tournament. However, the inclusion of Fergus Lellman to the tournament team brought some direction and leadership. The boys got off to a great start winning their first two pool games. The results in the other pool games meant that the likelihood of the boys going through to the top 8 was very high. A narrow loss to Gisborne Boys’ High School in the final pool match refocused the boys before the quarterfinal match with Cambridge High School. The boys fought well but couldn’t quite put their opportunities away and came away from that match with a narrow 1-0 loss. This meant that they could only playoff for 5th – 8th place. With only a few players leaving next year, this was a good opportunity to give the younger boys some experience and develop the team for next season. This valuable experience will bode well for the boys next season, and the future of hockey here at Aquinas College is exciting. He mihi nui tēnei ki ngā kaiawhina, ngā kaiwhakahaere, me ngā mātua o tēnei tīma.
Football Girls
With a large number of new and young players for this year, our trip to the Maurice Hulme Winter Tournament Week, in Rotorua, was looming as a bit more of a challenge than previous years. We were drawn in the ‘pool of death’ which included two strong Auckland schools, a stronger Hamilton school, a not so strong Northland school and one comparable school from Palmerston North. Our girls would need to be primed and raring to go for every game.
Despite the prospects, our girls were keen to enjoy the experience and they certainly tried in every game despite the uneven odds. They even had enough energy for a couple of active games of Laser Tag in our midweek down-time. After four uneven pool games, and one that just didn’t go our way, we finally found our scoring boots in the knockout games. However, unfortunately we still struggled to score more than we conceded in each game and, although we had enjoyed success in the fun penalty shoot-out event, we found ourselves on the losing end of a final penalty shoot-out that settled our last game, and that was after conceding a late equalising goal by the opposition. A sucker punch to bring our week to an end, and not the most successful week of football, but a great experience for our young squad and one they can hopefully learn from, in readiness for next year. Thank you Chris Phayer for your awesome coaching!
Football – Boys
The Boys all headed down to Whanganui to play in the Trident Tournament. It was a tough start to the week with a couple of injuries and illnesses facing the team. From the 5th round the remained undefeated when all team players were available to take the field. This included beating a local Prem team Katikati 1-0 – one of our best games played this season. The boys had a great week playing together, bonding together and giving each other haircuts. But the highlight of the week has to told!
Picture this, it is nil all in a knockout game during tourney week with less than 10 minutes to go, it is getting tense – the coach looks to the bench and sees a young man itching to get on and be the man of the moment – on goes young Sam Rush, and his moment arrives within minutes. Tom McCarroll bursts up the wing, puts in a pin point cross to Dan Sheahan who rises majestically above his marker to nod the ball across the goal to his striking partner – Sam the Man – hoping he would chest the ball down and cushion the ball into the old onion bag. But this young man’s inner Wayne Rooney took hold and a spectacular overhead volley was attempted – unfortunately it did not end in the result we needed but never the less what a moment – an outstanding effort by the young fellow. This also provided the evening‘s entertainment as it was all caught on camera.
Thank you to Tony Eberlein and Andrew Berntsen for taking the lads away for the week.
The Netball Girls headed up to the North Shore in Auckland for their UNISS experience this year. Heading into the Tournament we had a strong team made up of 8 Year 13 and 3 Year 12 Students.
The girls won all 3 of the games in their first pool, so moved on to the top half of their grade comprised of 32 teams. After further strong performances throughout the next couple of days, the girls made it to the top 8 teams. After a 1 point loss in the penultimate match, they played for 7th/8th place of 32 teams. The momentum that started the week was unfortunately unable to continue through to end but should still be very proud of their finish 8th in the C Grade.
The girls all had a great time together, celebrating the final year of Netball before the vast majority head out of school next year. A special thank you to Theresa Price and Mary Patel, you were a wonderful Coaching and Managing duo.
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IN MEMORIAM: Marion Lawhead, 96;
NYSEG Bookkeeper Led Vibrant Life
Marion Lawhead
ONEONTA – Marion Lawhead, a NYSEG retiree who lived a vibrant life in Bainbridge, Cooperstown and Oneonta, died on Dec. 12, 2016, at Chestnut Park Nursing Home in Oneonta. She was 96.
Marion Jean Hill was born to Henry and Edith Hill on March 12, 1920, in Bainbridge, and grew up on Pearl Street there with an older brother Bruce and a younger sister Joan. She graduated from Bainbridge High School in 1938.
After high school, her Aunt Adeline invited her to Chanute, Kansas, to enroll at Manhattan Junior College. Marion graduated in 1940.
Back in Bainbridge, she met Henry Hiscox at Scintilla in Sidney,where they both worked during World War II. She married Henry in 1943. Her daughter Karen was born in 1944, followed by her son Steve in 1947. Marion became a single mother when Henry left in 1948.
Marion was working as a clerk in a feed store when, one day in 1950, she happened to meet a former classmate on the street. The woman was just leaving town and her clerk’s job at New York State Electric & Gas. Marion immediately applied and got the job as the only woman among 50 men at the Jennison Station in Bainbridge.
In 1955, NYSEG promoted her to bookkeeper in the Cooperstown office. After marrying Don Lawhead, she transferred in 1968 to Oneonta, where they lived on Bolton Drive. Don died in 1977. Marion retired at age 60 in 1980 after 30 years with NYSEG.
Along the way, Marion served as a Cub Scout den mother; she sang as an alto in church choirs in Bainbridge, Cooperstown, Richfield Springs and Oneonta; she bowled for many years on the Richfield Diner team; she golfed at Ryerson’s in Springfield Center; she sent her children to college; she took up painting and studied German; she swam hundreds of miles at the Oneonta YMCA; she travelled to Europe three times; she enjoyed her three grandchildren; she survived cancer twice; she volunteered for many years at The Catskill Area Hospice; she rode her bike and mowed her own lawn into her late 70s.
At the age of 83, Marion decided to move into assisted living at the Hampshire House in Oneonta. She sold her home, of course, but she kept her car. For the first few years, she drove some place nearly every day, just because she could.
In 2014, when she fell and broke her hip, she moved to Chestnut Park Nursing Home.
She never lost her sense of humor. She often said: “Old age ain’t for sissies.” The staff at Chestnut Park fondly remember Marion as a “real pistol.”
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The news is full of the economic and social woes facing the UK, from income inequality to globalisation and the decline of manufacturing. But can thinkers as diverse as Karl Marx and Adam Smith provide the answers? Linda Yueh came into the studio to discuss her latest book, including a look at the pioneering work of Joan Robinson on how to measure unemployment and the influence of Irving Fisher, whose poor investment track record has overshadowed his contribution to economics.
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If you think the world's in something of a mess, what with Brexit trade wars, the aftershocks from the two thousand eight financial crisis and social inequality, then what can you do to make the world a better place? Well, I'm joined now by Linda you. She's written the great economist on how their ideas can help us today, then to thank you for joining us. First of all, why did you write the book now and who's it for? I've written the book because I wanted to see if we could better understand some of the big economic challenges which clearly came to light after the banking crash. I think it's really made people look again and say, What kind of economy do we want to live in? Should I settle for high levels, income inequality in my society? What about growth in a digital age? So I wanted to answer some of these big questions, but I did so by drawing on the insides of the greatest thinkers, the greatest economists in history. So I could take their wisdom because actually, quite a lot of the issues that we face today are then what has come before. But share. A lot of similarities is like that. Mark Twain saying History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes, eso taking their I think ideas concepts, see how they coped with issues. What went wrong about be a nice way of informing a current discussion. So the book is meant for anyone who is interested in finding out answers to some of our biggest economic challenges. You got twelve chapters. Each one I mean, simplistically put has got a big idea and an economist walk. Did you search out the ideas and then find economists to fit them? Or did you pick your top twelve economists and then take their ideas? It's the former. So there were these big questions I wanted to answer, like why our wages so low? Do trade deficits matter What is the future globalization? Because I think these are some of the big issues around that we really just need to get a grip on because it matters for all of our lives, our employment really prosperity. So by looking at the big questions, then went back and said, Who are the seminal thinkers that really coped with this issue? At a previous period on DH What might they say about the issue today? So, for instance, in the chapter on wire wage is so low I look at when, actually, for the first time on Wadlow, wages were discussing, this was in the nineteen thirty. So after the last stemming financial crisis. So this is, of course, the nineteen twenty nine great crash nineteen thirty's Great Depression. That was when economists were saying, You know, wages are really slow. Why is this the case and the economists were the seminal work around. It is Drone Robinson Cambridge Economy. So then I looked at her work, and they shows how those models were changed over time because, obviously, she was coping with a slightly different issue than what you would have later on the twentieth century and how those ideas got revised and bringing us to today. And then I present some of the solutions that would be in line with what Joan Robinson's work first suggested and how subsequent economists and refined it. What's going on, reading that chapter, written and obviously, she wrote in the nineteen thirties. But it's very contemporary, and she talks not just about what who's unemployed, but people who are essentially underemployed, doing jobs it on really, in their skill set that I don't say that beneath them, but part time they're trained for something better. And she's got this idea of putting that all together to give you a true picture of unemployment. How important is that today? And what? What's this? What solution would she have her? She was sitting in. That's hugely important. So she her work is the reason why the United States publishes a measure called you six. Unemployment so actually looks not just that those who are officially unemployed but those who are part time work but one full time work so different forms of what's called disguised unemployment, which is actually one of her terms and actually here in Europe. And there's also we moved by statisticians to do that. So in other words, there's one of the big issues around. The wages is a lack of job security. So ice there, Remember going Tio, a lecture by President Bill Clinton, and he said, I've created all these jobs in the economy. Onda woman in the audience raised her hand and said, Mr President, I have three of those jobs, but I can't make ends meet. And that's why wages are low so you don't have permanent employment. You don't have job security. If you have a permanent job, you might expect to get wage increases if you only have part time work or work that isn't really suited to your skills. Obviously, temporary workers make less. They don't get guaranteed promotions. Officer. They may not even have a job tomorrow. So it's really Joan Robinson's work around what she called monotony. That still So this is monopoly power in labor market, so it's called monotony. That concept is today one of the concepts that's being hotly debated by economists and policy makers about what can we do? Do taking her ideas around competition when employers have too much market power? Why don't employees have more bargaining power and applying it to the wage stagnation challenge that we face now? So Britain really median wages? So that's the average worker in the income distribution when you take away the effects of inflation, has had stagnant wages for a decade. It's twenty years in Germany and in Japan, and it's forty years in America, So the average the median worker hasn't had a real pay increase in America since the nineteen seventies. And it's really her ideas that are being debated now about what you can do about one thing the government's looking outside here in the UK is, Can we get more manufacturing? Other things other than this greats of financial ization? We've seen that a Northern powerhouse, for example, being a bit of an idea. You touched on that in the book This whole question of easy, sensible toe sit there centrally and try and re plan an economy on you. Bring Adam Smith in on that. Yeah, so this is the first chapter of the book on it follows the same format. I've got a big issue, which is, should governments rebalance the economy? And then I look for the economist whose thinking really shapes this issue. And it turns out to be the father of economics, Adam Smith. So I go through his bio of it and then on DH. Then I take his ideas, show how that's influence policy over the years on DH, then address the current issue, which is, should the British government be talking about basically moving back towards manufacturer? Making things again? Andi remember Adam Smith is the father of the invisible hand, which is this idea that want kids left you there. Its own devices would allocate what gets produced, who produces a prices quantity and all of that. And so out of Smith would be very reluctant to have government intervene in the way the markets work. But we know that his work has been revised over the years because capitalism needs institutions. So I think he looking at what he wrote in the wealth of nations in what other ways have revised later on, I would very much focus on is the system. The economic system competitive isn't fair. In other words, do the regulations promote competition? So you have a economy that has inefficient mix? So that, I think would be the criteria with which to judge is have services to large in Britain? Um, our manufacturing sectors being properly supported. I think those are the kind of issues to look at, whether when you look at Thea answer to that question. And, of course, interestingly, Adam Smith. He was writing during the centuries the wealth of nations and publishes seventeen seventy six. He saw the beginning of the Industrial Revolution so he was very enamored of manufacturing. So the fact that Britain isn't as big a manufacturing economy anymore, I think he might view that as hang on. That's the source of prosperity, and also he didn't think much of services. He described the sector as being consisting of opera singers and buffoons. But I think I think you would have changed his mind if you realize the services could be commoditized and traded, because obviously technology means their services today are very different than the services that he had seen. So you could by a download or a CD of a Mozart concert. It's something that can be traded that has value because member in his day you would go to a concert and then you would leave, and that's why he didn't value it. So I think Adam Smith would look at what the government is doing and saying, Are you promoting an efficient operation of the market? That would probably be Mohr important than what, exactly which sectors you're moving toward? The book is in some ways it charts the movement of the sort of the center of economic thought from Europe across the United States. Yes, Do you see that center of economic staying in the U. S? Or do you see it moving to somewhere else like China? Over time, I think we will see a lot more economic models coming from different parts of the world. But certainly thie home. The H Q of economics was inverted with Adam Smith and then some of his successors. Think about Alfred Marshall, who I also write about who led the neoclassical economists who kind of revised Adam Smith thinking to introduce the welfare state. So the neo classical economists were the ones to say, Well, actually the kind of capitalism that Smith word about the eighteenth century that's not suitable for the twentieth century. We need to make sure people are taking care of. So that neoclassical mint in Britain, I think, really change deciding which we live. But then America had its own neoclassical movement, led by Irving Fisher, who I write about. He's the first great economists in America. He introduced mathematics into economics. And that, of course, is the dominant set of models that economists use. And that's when the H Q of economics move from Britain to America. But you'll normally not see him included in books like this, because in nineteen twenty nine he predicted that the stock market was on a permanently high plateau right before the nineteen twenty nine great crash. It destroyed his his reputation. It also destroyed him financially. He never recovered from that. So I think his contributions, though economics, are probably overlooked as a result, a number of economists in there you bring in around this issue of China, and essentially can it get rich before it gets cold? How bigger issue is that for the columns? And I know that's your background as economist has been focusing on. Well, it's partly what I want done. Yes, I think, the Karl Marx. He never saw China. He passed away, actually, before the big communist revolutions took off in China, on actually and even in the former Soviet Union. So, Karl Marx is thinking was so influential that at one point in the early part of the twentieth century, about sixty percent of the world lived in either a Communist or socialist regimes. So that really suggests that this idea of having egalitarian you know principles is very was very persuasive. But as with all of these economic discussions. That just meant that other economists, like Friedrich Hayek and Joseph Schumpeter, wrote about how capitalism is actually synonymous with freedom because is only in a capitalist society, not a Communist one in which you were determined where you worked, what you produced on where you lived, all the things that under communism would be centrally planned, where the state would tell you where you lived, where you worked. What you produced on DH really gave you a job for life and really housing for life. And that still characterizes China to a limited extent, because China was communists between forty nine to seventy nine, but then it grew well by injecting market forces. So what's being fascinating is seeing how the political system remains nominally, you know, very committed to communist principles. But at the same time they recognize market characteristics. So the challenge for China is. Can you take a country with one point three one point four billion people on lift them all into the ranks of rich countries? That's very, very challenging. Only thirteen countries have become rich in the post war period, so most countries in the world are middle income or or lower income. And I think, for China from the coastal cities already in the high income level, but taking the average one fifth of the world's population on lifting. That is the question that I think I I touch on in that chapter, and I think it comes down tio, not just technology and innovation, which is the kind of key ingredient. But that's not the only one. There's also institution. So what you need is a market economy that sufficient that promotes competition that isn't distorted and, of course, safeguards and people's rights. And, I think, institutional reform, which I also write about in a later chapter by the great economist Douglas North. I think that's going to be a challenge for China as well as can you innovate enough to lift the entire economies productivity so that the country that size could become rich? Remember China's innovate eating at a time when digital technologies it's not clear that digital technologies have so far produced the same kind of economy wide effects as thie inventions of the previous industrial revolution. So, you know, is the smartphone the same as electrification? And that's That's another issue that exploring the book. Linda, you. Thank you so much for coming in on talking to us about your book you're having.
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Dental caries on the teeth of buried skeletons (oral pathology of individual MO59 (female, YA). (a) Left maxilla: A, dental wear; B, ante-mortem tooth loss; C, occlusal-dentin caries and pit caries; D, occlusal-pulp caries. (b) Mandible, occlusal view. (c) Mandible, lingual view on right side: E, M2: occlusal caries and related abscess and cervical caries; F, M3: gross-gross caries and related abscess. (d) Mandible, buccal view on left side: G, M1: occlusal pulp caries, abscess, and alveolar resorption/ image: Luis Nicanor Pezo-Lanfranco). Credit: Luis Nicanor Pezo-Lanfranco
by Archaeology Newsroom
04 12 '18 11:09
Study puts the Neotropics on the map of the world’s food production centers in antiquity
Shell middens are archeological features consisting mainly of the remains of marine animals thrown away near settlements over hundreds or thousands of years. They are the debris of human activity. In Brazil, they are known by the Tupi word sambaqui.
The sambaquis were left by people who lived between 8,000 and 1,000 years ago in coastal Atlantic Forest areas, traditionally considered peripheral to South America’s first food production centers in the Andes and the Amazon.
A new study, however, presents strong evidence that sambaqui societies were not ordinary hunter-gatherers. Analysis of their middens shows that they cultivated or at least managed edible plants and had a rich diet with a substantial proportion of carbohydrates.
Findings from the study have recently been published in Royal Society Open Science. It was conducted by researchers from Brazil and the United Kingdom using data collected at the Morro do Ouro and Rio Comprido sambaquis in Babitonga Bay near Joinville, Santa Catarina State.
A mixed subsistence economy
“The significant levels of consumption of high-carbohydrate foods evidenced by these two sambaquis suggests the communities had a mixed subsistence economy that combined fishing and the collection of seafood with some form of plant cultivation,” said Luis Nicanor Pezo-Lanfranco, a bioarcheologist at the University of São Paulo’s Bioscience Institute (IB-USP), first author of the article.
Pezo-Lanfranco conducted the study at IB-USP’s Biological Anthropology Laboratory, led by Professor Sabine Eggers, in partnership with archeologists at the University of York (UK) and Joinville’s Sambaqui Museum.
According to the traditional archeological view of prehistory in South America, the hunter-gatherers who left the shell middens maintained themselves mainly by foraging marine resources. This idea began to be contested in the 1980s when evidence was found that the sambaqui societies had a far more diversified economy.
Population density, monumental architecture, social complexity
The high frequency of sambaquis on the southern coast of what is now Brazil and the large volume of some of these shell middens, which also contain hundreds of human burials, are considered evidence of high population density, monumental architecture, and social complexity during the Middle to Late Holocene.
Dental caries on the teeth of buried skeletons, interpreted as evidence of a high-carbohydrate diet, are among the reasons for concluding that these communities had a more diversified economy and diet than previously believed.
Moreover, archeological digs have identified remains of plants that may evidence incipient cultivation of food crops, including tubers (yam and sweet potato), corn, palm trees, soursops and sweetsops (Annonaceae).
Oral health and stable isotopes
The new study was based on oral pathology and stable isotope analyses performed directly on the skeletons. The analyses revealed unexpectedly high consumption of plant resources, i.e., carbohydrates, by the Morro do Ouro sambaqui people on the northern coast of Santa Catarina in the Middle Holocene (8,000-4,000 years ago).
The northern coast of Santa Catarina has the largest number of sambaquis in Brazil. Hundreds of shell mounds are scattered around Babitonga Bay.
“We analyzed the oral health and stable isotopes of human remains buried in the Morro do Ouro and Rio Comprido sambaquis to investigate the dietary habits of these communities during the Middle and Late Holocene,” Pezo-Lanfranco said.
Animal remains and human burials at Morro do Ouro
Finds made at Morro do Ouro have contributed significantly to the discussion of population density, health and disease, and cultural and dietary variability in Atlantic Forest coastal communities during the Middle Holocene.
Archeological digs conducted there in the 1980s brought to light large amounts of remains of terrestrial and marine animals, artifacts, domestic structures, and human burials.
The animal remains were from several species of mollusk (clams, mussels, oysters), fish (mullet, croaker, seabass, pufferfish, catfish) and terrestrial mammals (lowland paca, white-lipped peccary). Polished stone tools and charred coconut remains have also been found.
According to Pezo-Lanfranco, 116 burials were excavated by several archeological expeditions between 1960 and 1984. Carbon dating of bone collagen for this study showed that the site was occupied between 4,800 and 4,100 years ago. An analysis of minute dental calculus traces from the site performed in 2010 by Verônica Wesolowski, a researcher at the University of São Paulo’s Museum of Archeology and Ethnology (MAE-USP), had already identified grains of starch compatible with sweet potato, yam, and coconut.
At nearby Rio Comprido, archeologists found polished stone knives and axes as well as 67 burials in the 1970s. The site was occupied in two phases: Rio Comprido 1 (RC1) between 5,600 and 4,300 years ago (Middle Holocene) and Rio Comprido 2 (RC2) between 4,000 and 3,400 years ago (Late Holocene).
Morphological analysis performed for the study included the determination of sex and age as well as oral pathologies in 70 individuals, 42 from Morro do Ouro (MO) and 28 from Rio Comprido (16 RC1 and 12 RC2). Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes from 36 individuals were analyzed, 20 from MO and 16 from RC (nine RC1 and seven RC2).
Analysis of skeletons
Using 11 oral health markers, a total of 1,826 alveoli and 1,345 teeth from these 70 individuals were examined. Most of the skeletons analyzed were found to be male and aged 20-49 on average at the time of death.
“The frequency of dental caries ranged from 7.6% to 13.2% of the samples. This was more than expected for groups of hunter-gatherer-fishers and more compatible with the pattern found for the first farmers of the Late Holocene in other regions, such as the Andes,” Pezo-Lanfranco said.
Analysis of teeth from Late Holocene hunter-gatherers found in Patagonia, for example, showed caries frequencies ranging from 3.3% to 5.19%, while samples from more recent sedentary populations in Patagonia displayed a frequency of 10.17%.
Caries types varied considerably across the two sambaqui sites, but statistically significant differences were observed only in cervical (extraocclusal) lesions.
The frequency of occlusal caries was generally high in all groups, ranging from 53.7% (MO) to 70% (RCI) of the individuals analyzed. The highest frequency of enamel caries was recorded for RC1, whereas MO had the highest frequency of extraocclusal caries.
Carious lesions have been associated with diets rich in fermentable carbohydrates and sugar. The frequency of extraocclusal caries and cavities on smooth tooth surfaces increases when diets are rich in cariogenic foods.
“It’s probable, therefore, that the Morro do Ouro people had a more cariogenic and refined diet than the Rio Comprido 2 people, quite possibly because they cooked their food, for example,” Pezo-Lanfranco said.
Processed carbohydrates
Dietary estimates based on stable isotopes from teeth and bone showed that the main protein source was fish, ranging from a low of 33% in people from MO to 87%-90% in RC2.
Plants accounted for the largest share of calorie intake in MO (48%), followed by fish (44%) and hunted terrestrial mammals (8%).
Bone collagen data from RC1 showed fish to be the main source of calories (48%), followed by plants (44%) and terrestrial mammals (7%).
Pezo-Lanfranco found similar proportions for RC2: fish (48%), plants (42%) and terrestrial mammals (10%). All percentages are averages, with individual values varying considerably.
The main protein source was fish for individuals from MO (58%-84%), RC1 (66%-85%) and RC2 (74%-83%). These levels are slightly higher than the values found for prehistoric and contemporary hunter-gatherers.
“The high proportion of chronic or static caries among individuals from RC1 suggests a less cariogenic diet than among individuals from RC2 and MO. This may be associated with the phosphate and calcium present in diets of marine origin, as you would expect for fisher communities,” Pezo-Lanfranco said.
“On the other hand, the higher frequency of deep and extraocclusal caries in RC2, and particularly in MO, points to widespread consumption of cariogenic and processed carbohydrate from roasted or boiled plants. The evidence from RC and MO suggests the existence of some kind of plant cultivation, albeit incipient.”
Cervical caries, the most frequent type of extraocclusal caries in individuals from MO (29%), are associated with the frequent consumption of sucrose and solid fermentable starch, high levels of salivary lactobacilli, and the deposition of cervical calculus with gingival recession (receding gums).
“Cervical caries frequencies of around 16% have been reported for Pleistocene hunter-gatherers in northern Africa and interpreted as the first signs of the systematic harvesting and storing of high-carbohydrate wild plant food,” Pezo-Lanfranco said.
In Andean agriculturalists, cervical caries are attributed to the consumption of fermented beverages made from cassava, corn, and other starchy foods. Previous studies have shown that sucrose, starch with sucrose, fructose and dextrose in descending order stimulate the production of smooth-surface and cervical caries, while high amounts of maltose and starch tend to lead more to cervical caries.
“So the MO diet was probably richer in cariogenic carbohydrate than the RC diet, and comparable to the diets of some agricultural peoples in antiquity,” Pezo-Lanfranco said.
The dental wear index in MO and RC was lower than for several sambaqui communities studied elsewhere. The RC2 diet seems to have been more abrasive than the MO diet. Stone vessels and grindstones found at MO may have been used to make flour. Microscope analysis of these implements is pending.
“This study puts the Neotropics on the map of the world’s food production centers in antiquity. The Atlantic Forest coast has mostly been peripheral to this narrative despite its unique biodiversity and the archeological records of dense human occupation since the Middle Holocene. The new study challenges this traditional view,” Pezo-Lanfranco said. “We assembled strongly convincing evidence for high-carbohydrate dietary habits among hunter-gatherers in the Joinville region some 4,500 years ago. Confirmation that they had cultivar production systems and how far they had progressed with domestication of the plant species concerned awaits further research.”
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Marconi, Italy (BLQ)Bolzano, Francesco Baracca, Italy (BZO)Bonaire, Flamingo Field, Netherlands Antilles (BON)Bordeaux, Merignac, France (BOD)Bossembélé, Bossembélé civil airport, Central African Republic (BEM)Boston, Logan Itl., USA (BOS)Bourgas, Intl. Airport, Bulgaria (BOJ)Brasilia, Pres. Juscelino Kubitschek Intl. Apt., Brazil (BSB)Bratislava, International Airport, Slovakia (BTS)Brazzaville, Maya Maya, Congo (BZV)Bremen, Neuenland, Germany (BRE)Breslavia, Strachowice Airport, Poland (WRO)Brest, Guipavas, France (BES)Brindisi, Papola Casale, Italy (BDS)Brisbane, International Airport, Australia (BNE)Bristol, Lulsgate International, Great Britain (BRS)Brive-La-Gaillarde, La Roche, France (BVE)Brunswick, Glynco Jetport, USA (BQK)Brussels, National, Belgium (BRU)Bucaramanga, Palonegro, Colombia (BGA)Bucharest, Otopeni, Romania (OTP)Bucharest, Int. Airport, Romania (BUH)Budapest, Ferihegy 2, Hungary (BUD)Buenos Aires, Int., Argentina (EZE)Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Airport, Argentina (BUE)Buffalo, Greater Buffalo, USA (BUF)Bujumbura, Int, Burundi (BJM)Bukhara, Bukhara, Uzbekistan (BHK)Cabinda, Cabinda, Angola (CAB)Caen, Carpiquet, France (CFR)Cagliari, Elmas, Italy (CAG)Cairo, Itl., Egypt (CAI)Calgary, Calgary Intl., Canada (YYC)Cali, International Airport, Colombia (CLO)Calvi, Sainte Catherine, France (CLY)Cambridge, Int., Great Britain (CBG)Campo Grande, Antonio Joao, Brazil (CGR)Cancun, International Airport, Mexico (CUN)Canton, Baiyun, China (CAN)Caracas, Simón Bolívar, Venezuela (CCS)Cardiff, Rhoose Wales, Great Britain (CWL)Cartagena, International Airport, Colombia (CTG)Cartago, Cartago Santa Ana Airport, Colombia (CRC)Casablanca, Mohamed V, Morocco (CMN)Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco (CAS)Catamarca, Coronel Felipe Varela International Airport, Argentina (CTC)Catania, Fontanarossa, Italy (CTA)Catumbela, Catumbela, Angola (CBT)Cayenne, Félix Eboué, French Guiana (CAY)Cephalonia, Int. Airport, Greece (EFL)Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India (IXC)Changsha, International Airport , China (CSX)Chania, Souda, Greece (CHQ)Charkiv, Civil Airport, Ukraine (HRK)Charleston SC, Charleston International Airport, USA (CHS)Charleston WV, Yeager Airport, USA (CRW)Charlotte, Charlotte/Douglas Intl Airport, USA (CLT)Charlottetown, International Airport, Canada (YYG)Chattanooga, CHA Lovell Field, USA (CHA)Chengdu, Chengdu Shuangliu Intl. Apt., China (CTU)Chennai, Chennai International Airport, India (MAA)Chetumal, International Airport, Mexico (CTM)Chicago, O'Hare Int, USA (ORD)Chicago, Chicago, USA (CHI)Chios, Int., Greece (JKH)Chisinau, International Airport, Moldova (KIV)Chongqing, Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport, China (CKG)Christchurch, International airport, New Zealand (CHC)Cincinnati, Greater Cincinnati Intl Airport, USA (CVG)Città del Capo, Cape Town Airport, South Africa (CPT)Ciudad del Carmen, International Airport, Mexico (CME)Ciudad Juarez, International Airport, Mexico (CJS)Clermont-Ferrand, Aulnat, France (CFE)Cleveland, Hopkins Itl., USA (CLE)Cluj, International Airport, Romania (CLJ)Cochin, Cochin Intl., India (COK)Coffsharbour, International Airport, Australia (CFS)Cologne, Cologne, Train Main Railroad St., Germany (QKL)Cologne, Cologne/Bonn, Germany (CGN)Colombo, Bandaranaike Intl., Sri Lanka (CMB)Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs Municipal, USA (COS)Columbia SC, Columbia SC Metropolitan Airport, USA (CAE)Columbus GA, Columbus Metropolitan / Fort Benning, USA (CSG)Columbus MS, Golden, USA (GTR)Columbus OH, Port Columbus Intl Airport, USA (CMH)Comiso, Gen. Vincenzo Magliocco, Italy (CIY)Comodoro Rivadavia, General Enrique Mosconi International Airport, Argentina (CRD)Conakry, Int, Guinea (CKY)Copenhagen, Kastrup, Denmark (CPH)Corfu, Int. Airport, Greece (CFU)Corrientes, Doctor Fernando Piragine Niveyro International Airport, Argentina (CNQ)Costanza, Mihail Kogălniceanu, Romania (CND)Cotonou, Cadjehoun International, Benin (COO)Cowley, Intl. Airport, Canada (YYM)Cozumel, International airport, Mexico (CZM)Crotone, International Airport, Italy (CRV)Cuiabá, Marechal Rondon Int., Brazil (CGB)Curaçao, Hato Airport, Netherlands Antilles (CUR)Curitiba, Afonso Pena Int., Brazil (CWB)Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina (COR)Dakar, Int, Senegal (DKR)Dakhla, Aeroporto civile Dakhla, Morocco (VIL)Dalian, Dalian Zhoushuizi Airport, China (DLC)Dallas, Ft Worth Intl, USA (DFW)Dallas, Love Field, USA (DAL)Damascus, Int, Syria (DAM)Dammam, Int, Saudi Arabia (DMM)Dar Es Salaam, Dar es Salaam International Airport, Tanzania (DAR)Daytona, James M Cox Dayton International, USA (DAY)Daytona Beach, Daytona Beach International Airport, USA (DAB)Deauville, Saint Gatien, France (DOL)Deer lake, Deer Lake Airport, Canada (YDF)Dehradun, Dehradun, India (DED)Denpasar, Ngurah Rai, Indonesia (DPS)Denver, Denver International, USA (DEN)Des Moines, Municipal, USA (DSM)Detroit, Detroit Metropolitan Airport, USA (DTW)Detroit, Detroit, MI, USA (DTT)Dhaka, Hazrat Shahjalal Intl., Bangladesh (DAC)Diyarbakır, Diyarbakir Airport, Turkey (DIY)Djerba, Zarzis Int., Tunisia (DJE)Djibouti, Ambouli, Djibouti (JIB)Doha, Int, Qatar (DOH)Doncaster, Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield, Great Britain (DSA)Dothan, Municipal, USA (DHN)Douala, King Fahad Intl., Cameroon (DLA)Dresden, Dresden International, Germany (DRS)Dubai, Dubai Bus Station, United Arab Emirates (XNB)Dubai, International airport, United Arab Emirates (DXB)Dublin, Civil Airport, Ireland (DUB)Dubrovnik, Int. Airport, Croatia (DBV)Dundee, Riverside Park, Great Britain (DND)Dundo, Dundo, Angola (DUE)Düsseldorf, Rhein-Ruhr Lohausen, Germany (DUS)East Midlands, Nottingham East Midlands Airport, Great Britain (EMA)Edinburgh, Turnhouse, Great Britain (EDI)Edmonton, Edmonton Intl. Airport, Canada (YEG)Eindhoven, International Airport, Netherlands (EIN)Ekaterinburg, Koltsovo Intl., Russia (SVX)El Ayun, Hassan I El Ayun Airport, Morocco (EUN)El Calafate, Comandante Armando Tola International Airport, Argentina (FTE)El Paso, El Paso Intl., USA (ELP)Entebbe, Int, Uganda (EBB)Erkliet, Erkliet, Turkey (ASR)Errachidia, Errachidia civil airport, Morocco (ERH)Esquel, Aeroporto Brigadier General Antonio Parodi, Argentina (EQS)Evansville, Evansville Regional Airport, USA (EVV)Exeter, Exeter International Airport, Great Britain (EXT)Faro, International Airport, Portugal (FAO)Fayetteville, Fayetteville Municipal, USA (FAY)Fergana, Fergana, Uzbekistan (FEG)Fez, Int, Morocco (FEZ)Figari, Sud Corse, France (FSC)Florence, Amerigo Vespucci, Italy (FLR)Florence, Gilbert Field, USA (FLO)Florianópolis, Hercílio Luz Int., Brazil (FLN)Foggia, International Airport, Italy (FOG)Formosa, Formosa International Airport el Pucù, Argentina (FMA)Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood Itl., USA (FLL)Fort Myers, Reg. Southwest Apt, USA (RSW)Fort Myers, Fort Myers, Page Field, FL, USA (FMY)Fortaleza, Pinto Martins Apt., Brazil (FOR)Frankfurt, Int. Airport, Germany (FRA)Fredericton, International Airport, Canada (YFC)Freetown, Lungi Intl., Sierra Leone (FNA)Fuerteventura, Puerto del Rosario, Spain (FUE)Fukuoka, Intl. Airport, Japan (FUK)Funchal, Santa Catarina, Portugal (FNC)Fuzhou, International Airport , China (FOC)Gainesville, Jr Alison Municipal, USA (GNV)Gassim, Gassim International, Saudi Arabia (ELQ)Geneva, Cointrin, Switzerland (GVA)Genoa, C.Colombo, Italy (GOA)Giuba, Giuba, Sudan (JUB)Gizan, Jizan-Re Abd Allah bin Abd al-Aziz, Saudi Arabia (GIZ)Glasgow, Glasgow, Prestwick, Great Britain (PIK)Glasgow, Abbotsinch International, Great Britain (GLA)Goiânia, Santa Genoveva, Brazil (GYN)Goldcoast, International Airport, Australia (OOL)Gothenburg, Landvetter, Sweden (GOT)Goulimime, Goulimime civil airport, Morocco (GLN)Grand Cayman, International Airport, Cayman Islands (GCM)Grand Rapids, Kent County International Airport, USA (GRR)Graz, Graz, Austria (GRZ)Greensboro, Piedmont Triad Intl Airport, USA (GSO)Guadalajara, International Airport, Mexico (GDL)Guaranì, Ciudad del Este, Paraguay (AGT)Guayaquil, Simón Bolívar, Ecuador (GYE)Gulfport, Gulfport/Biloxi, USA (GPT)Ha'il, Civil Airport, Saudi Arabia (HAS)Halifax, Stanfield Intl. Airport, Canada (YHZ)Hamburg, Fuhlsbüttel, Germany (HAM)Hanga Roa, Mataveri, Chile (IPC)Hangzhou, Int, China (HGH)Hanoi, Noi Bai Intl Apt, Vietnam (HAN)Hanover, Langenhagen, Germany (HAJ)Hartford, Bradley Intl., USA (BDL)Havana, José Martí, Cuba (HAV)Helsinki, Helsinki-Vantaa, Finland (HEL)Heraklion, Nikos Kazantakis, Greece (HER)Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan (HIJ)Ho Chi Minh, International Airport, Vietnam (SGN)Hobart, International Airport, Australia (HBA)Hong Kong, Int, China, Hong Kong (HKG)Honolulu, Honolulu Intl., USA (HNL)Horta, International Airport, Portugal (HOR)Houston, Houston Intercontinental, USA (IAH)Houston, Hobby Airport, USA (HOU)Huambo, Huambo-Albano Machado, Angola (NOV)Huatulco, International Airport, Mexico (HUX)Humberside, Int., Great Britain (HUY)Huntsville, Huntsville-Madison County Jetplex, USA (HSV)Iași, Civil Airport, Romania (IAS)Ibiza, Es Codolar, Spain (IBZ)Iguazu Falls, Cataratas, Brazil (IGU)Iguazú, Cataratas del Iguazú International Airport, Argentina (IGR)Ilheus, Jorge Amado, Brazil (IOS)Indianapolis, Indianapolis International Airport, USA (IND)Indore, Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar , India (IDR)Inverness, International airport, Great Britain (INV)Irkutsk, International Airport, Russia (IKT)Islamabad, Benazir Bhutto Intl., Pakistan (ISB)Islip, Long Island-MacArthur Airport, USA (ISP)Istambul, Sabiha Gökçen, Turkey (SAW)Istanbul, Ataturk, Turkey (IST)Ixtapa - Zihuatanejo, International airport, Mexico (ZIH)Ixtepec, Ixtepec, Mexico (IZT)Izumo, Intl. Airport, Japan (IZO)Jackson, Allen C Thompson Field, USA (JAN)Jacksonville, Jacksonville International Airport, USA (JAX)Jaipur, Jaipur, India (JAI)Jakarta, All airports, Indonesia (JKT)Jakarta, Halim Perdanakusuma Intl., Indonesia (HLP)Jakarta, Soekarno Hatta Intl., Indonesia (CGK)Jeddah, King Abdulaziz Int., Saudi Arabia (JED)Johannesburg, O.R. Tambo, South Africa (JNB)Joinville, Lauro Carneiro de Loyola, Brazil (JOI)Juazeiro Do Norte, Orlando Bezerra De Menezes, Brazil (JDO)Jujuy, Gobernador Horacio Guzmán International Airport El Cadillal, Argentina (JUJ)Kagoshima, Kagoshima, Japan (KOJ)Kahului, International Airport, USA (OGG)Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Airport, Russia (KGD)Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA (MKC)Kansas City, Kansas City Intl., USA (MCI)Karachi, Quaid-e-Azam Intl, Pakistan (KHI)Karlsruhe , Baden Baden Airport, Germany (FKB)Kauai Island, Lihue Municipal Airport, USA (LIH)Kavala, Int., Greece (KVA)Kazan, International Airport, Russia (KZN)Keflavik, International Airport, Iceland (KEF)Kelowna, Intl. Airport, Canada (YLW)Kemerovo, International Airport, Russia (KEJ)Keywest, International Airport, USA (EYW)Khabarovsk, Novy, Russia (KHV)Khartoum, Civil, Sudan (KRT)Kiev, Borispol, Ukraine (KBP)Kiev, Kiev, Ukraine (IEV)Kigali, Int, Rwanda (KGL)Kilimanjaro, Int, Tanzania (JRO)Kingston, Norman Rogers Airport, Canada (YGK)Kinshasa, N'Djili, Democratic Republic of the Congo (FIH)Knoxville, McGhee Tyson, USA (TYS)Kolkata, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Intl. Apt, India (CCU)Komatsu, Kanazawa di Komatsu , Japan (KMQ)Kona, Keahole, USA (KOA)Kos, Int., Greece (KGS)Kosice, International Airport, Slovakia (KSC)Krakow, Jana Pawła II Intl., Poland (KRK)Krasnodar, Pashkovsky, Russia (KRR)Krasnoyarsk, KJA, Russia (KJA)Kristiansand, Kjevik, Norway (KRS)Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia (KUL)Kuito, Bie Silva Porto, Angola (SVP)Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan (KMJ)Kunming, Changshui Intl. Airport, China (KMG)Kuwait, Int, Kuwait (KWI)La Aurora, La Aurora Intl Airport, Guatemala (GUA)La Coruna, La Coruna Alvedro Airport, Spain (LCG)La Rioja, Capitán Vicente Almandos Almonacid Airpor, Argentina (IRJ)Lagos, Murtala Muhammed, Nigeria (LOS)Lahore, Allama Iqbal Intl., Pakistan (LHE)Lamezia Terme, S.Eufemia, Italy (SUF)Lampedusa, International Airport, Italy (LMP)Lanzarote, Lanzarote, Spain (ACE)Larnaca/Nicosia, Int. Airport, Cyprus (LCA)Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain (LPA)Las Vegas, McCarran International Airport, USA (LAS)Leeds, Bradford, Great Britain (LBA)Leipzig, Leipzig Int., Germany (LEJ)Leopoli, Leopoli Airport, Ukraine (LWO)Libreville, Int, Gabon (LBV)Liege, International Airport, Belgium (LGG)Lille, Lesquin, France (LIL)Lima, Jorge Chávez Itl., Peru (LIM)Linköping, Saab, Sweden (LPI)Lisbon, Portela de Sacavém, Portugal (LIS)Little Rock, Little Rock Regional Airport, USA (LIT)Liverpool, John Lennon Airport (Speke), Great Britain (LPL)Livingstone, Harry Mwanga Nkumbula, Zambia (LVI)Ljubljana, Brnik, Slovenia (LJU)Lomé, Int, Togo (LFW)London, London, Great Britain (LON)London, Heathrow, Great Britain (LHR)London, London City, Great Britain (LCY)London, Ontario Canada, International Airport, Canada (YXU)Londrina, Gov. José Richa, Brazil (LDB)Lorient, Lann-Bihouet, France (LRT)Los Angeles, Int, USA (LAX)Louisville, Standiford Field, USA (SDF)Lourdes, Tarbes Intl., France (LDE)Luanda, Quatro de Fevereiro, Angola (LAD)Lubango, Lubango, Angola (SDD)Lublin, Lublin Airport, Poland (LUZ)Lucknow, Chaudhary Charan Singh, India (LKO)Luena, Luso di Luena, Angola (LUO)Lugano, Agno, Switzerland (LUG)Lumumbashi, Luano, Democratic Republic of the Congo (FBM)Lusaka, Lusaka International, Zambia (LUN)Luton, Luton, Great Britain (LTN)Luxembourg, Findel, Luxembourg (LUX)Luxor, Int, Egypt (LXR)Lynchburg, Municipal Airport, USA (LYH)Lyon, St. Exupéry, France (LYS)Lázaro Cárdenas, Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexico (LZC)Maastricht, Zuid-Limburg, Netherlands (MST)Maceió, Palmares, Brazil (MCZ)Macon, Lewis B Wilson, USA (MCN)Madrid, Barajas, Spain (MAD)Malabo, Saint Isabel, Equatorial Guinea (SSG)Malaga, Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Spain (AGP)Malindi, Int, Kenya (MYD)Malta, Luqa International, Malta (MLA)Malé, Ibrahim Nasir Intl, Maldives (MLE)Manaus, Eduardo Gomes Int., Brazil (MAO)Manchester, Itl., Great Britain (MAN)Manila, Ninoy Aquino Intl., Philippines (MNL)Manizales, La Nubia, Colombia (MZL)Mar del Plata, Astor Piazzolla international Airport, Argentina (MDQ)Maroochydore, International Airport, Australia (MCY)Marrakech, Menara, Morocco (RAK)Marseille, Provence, France (MRS)Matsuyama, Matsuyama, Japan (MYJ)Mauritius, Sir Seew. Ramgoolam Itl, Mauritius (MRU)Medellin, International Airport, Colombia (MDE)Melbourne, International Airport, Australia (MEL)Melbourne FL, Regional Airport, USA (MLB)Memphis, International Airport, USA (MEM)Mendoza, Gobernador Francisco Gabrielli International Airport El Plumerillo, Argentina (MDZ)Menongue, Menongue, Angola (SPP)Menorca, Aerop De Menorca, Spain (MAH)Merida, International Airport, Mexico (MID)Metz Nancy, Lorraine, France (ETZ)Mexico City, Benito Juarez Itl., Mexico (MEX)Miami, Int, USA (MIA)Milan, All airports, Italy (MIL)Milan, Malpensa, Italy (MXP)Milan, Linate, Italy (LIN)Milwaukee, General Mitchell Field, USA (MKE)Minneapolis, Minneapolis/St. Paul Intl Airport, USA (MSP)Minsk, Minsk, Belarus (MSQ)Mobile, Mobile Municipal, USA (MOB)Mombasa, Moi International, Kenya (MBA)Moncton, Greater Moncton Intl. Airport, Canada (YQM)Monterrey, Escobedo, Mexico (MTY)Montgomery, Dannelly Field, USA (MGM)Montpellier, Fréjorgues, France (MPL)Montreal, Dorval, Canada (YUL)Montreal, Montreal, Mirabel, Canada (YMX)Moscow, Sheremetyevo, Russia (SVO)Moscow, Moscow Airport, Russia (MOW)Moscow, Domodedovo, Russia (DME)Mulhouse, Euroairport, France (MLH)Mumbai (Bombay), Int, India (BOM)Munich, Franz Josef Strauss, Germany (MUC)Murmansk, Civil Airport, Russia (MMK)Muscat, Seeb, Oman (MCT)Mykonos, Int., Greece (JMK)Myrtle Beach, Myrtle Beach International, USA (MYR)Mytilene, Int., Greece (MJT)N'Djamena, Int, Chad (NDJ)Nador, Taouima Airport, Morocco (NDR)Nagoya, Intl Airport Chūbu, Japan (NGO)Nairobi, Nairobi, Wilson Arpt, Kenya (WIL)Nairobi, Jomo Kenyatta Itl., Kenya (NBO)Nanjing, Lukou International Airport , China (NKG)Nantes, Château Bougon, France (NTE)Naples, Capodichino, Italy (NAP)Nashville, Nashville Metropolitan Airport, USA (BNA)Natal, Augusto Severo Int., Brazil (NAT)Navegantes, Ministro Victor Konder, Brazil (NVT)Ndola, Ndola, Zambia (NLA)Neuquén, Presidente Perón international Airport, Argentina (NQN)New Delhi, Int, India (DEL)New Orleans, New Orleans, USA (MSY)New York, NEW YORK, USA (NYC)New York, J.F.K., USA (JFK)Newcastle, Int, Great Britain (NCL)Niamey, Int, Niger (NIM)Nice, Côte d'Azur, France (NCE)Nizhniy, Nižnij Novgorod-Strighino Airport, Russia (GOJ)Norfolk, Norfolk International Airport, USA (ORF)North bay, Garland Airport, Canada (YYB)Norwich, Weather Centre, Great Britain (NWI)Nouakchott, Int, Mauritania (NKC)Novosibirsk, Tolmachevo, Russia (OVB)Nukus, G.nukus, Uzbekistan (NCU)Nuremberg, Int., Germany (NUE)Oakland, International Airport, USA (OAK)Oaxaca, International Airport, Mexico (OAX)Odessa, International Airport, Ukraine (ODS)Ohrid, St. Paul the Apostle Airport, Macedonia/FYROM (OHD)Okayama, Intl. Airport, Japan (OKJ)Okinawa, Okinawa, Japan (OKA)Oklahoma City, Will Rogers World Airport, USA (OKC)Olbia, Costa Smeralda, Italy (OLB)Omaha, Eppley Airfield, USA (OMA)Omsk, Civil Airport, Russia (OMS)Ongiva Pereira, Ongiva Pereira, Angola (VPE)Ontario, Ontario International, USA (ONT)Oporto, Francisco Sá Carneiro, Portugal (OPO)Oradea, International Airport, Romania (OMR)Oran, Es Senia Intl., Algeria (ORN)Orlando, Orlando, FL, USA (ORL)Orlando, Orlando Int. Apt., USA (MCO)Osaka, Osaka International, Japan (OSA)Osaka, Kansai, Japan (KIX)Osaka, Itami, Japan (ITM)Oslo, Gardermoen, Norway (OSL)Ostrava, International Airport, Czech Republic (OSR)Ottawa, Ottawa Intl Airport, Canada (YOW)Ouagadougou, Int, Burkina Faso (OUA)Ouarzazate, Taourirte Angads Airport, Morocco (OZZ)Oujda, Les Anglades Airport, Morocco (OUD)Oviedo, Asturias, Spain (OVD)Palermo, P. Raisi, Italy (PMO)Palma de Mallorca, Son San Juan, Spain (PMI)Panama City, PFN, USA (PFN)Panama City, Tocumen Intl, Panama (PTY)Pantelleria, Public and Military Airport, Italy (PNL)Papeete, Faaa, French Polynesia (PPT)Paraná, General Justo José de Urquiza Airport, Argentina (PRA)Paris, Paris, France (PAR)Paris, Orly, France (ORY)Paris, Charles de Gaulle, France (CDG)Parma, Giuseppe Verdi, Italy (PMF)Pau Pont Long, Uzein Pyrénées, France (PUF)Penang, Penang Int., Malaysia (PEN)Pensacola, Regional, USA (PNS)Pereira, Matecaña, Colombia (PEI)Perm, Civil Airport, Russia (PEE)Perpignan, Rivesaltes, France (PGF)Perth, Int, Australia (PER)Perugia, International Airport, Italy (PEG)Pescara, Liberi, Italy (PSR)Philadelphia, Philadelphia, North Philadelphia, USA (PNE)Philadelphia, Intl, USA (PHL)Phnom Penh, Pochentong, Cambodia (PNH)Phoenix, Sky Harbor International Airport, USA (PHX)Phuket, Int, Thailand (HKT)Pico Island, International Airport, Portugal (PIX)Pisa, Galileo Galilei, Italy (PSA)Pittsburg, Greater Pittsburgh, USA (PIT)Podgorica, Golubovci, Montenegro (TGD)Pohang, Pohang, Rep South Korea (KPO)Pointe Noire, Int, Congo (PNR)Pointe-à-Pitre, Le Raizet, Guadeloupe (PTP)Ponta Delgada, João Paulo II, Portugal (PDL)Port Harcourt, Int, Nigeria (PHC)Port-au-Prince, Toussaint Louverture, Haiti (PAP)Portland ME, Portland International Jetport, USA (PWM)Portland OR, Portland International Airport, USA (PDX)Porto Alegre, Salgado Filho Int., Brazil (POA)Porto Santo, Civil Airport, Portugal (PXO)Porto Velho , Porto Velho, Brazil (PVH)Posadas, Libertador General José de San Martín Airport, Argentina (PSS)Prague, Václav Havel Apt., Czech Republic (PRG)Praslin Island, PRI, Seychelles (PRI)Providence, T.F. Green State, USA (PVD)Puerto Escondido, International airport, Mexico (PXM)Puerto Vallarta, G.Diaz Ordaz Intl, Mexico (PVR)Pula, Pula International Airport, Croatia (PUY)Pune, Pune, India (PNQ)Punta Cana, Punta Cana Intl, Dominican Republic (PUJ)Pusan, Busan-Gimhae International Airport, Rep South Korea (PUS)Qingdao, International Airport, China (TAO)Quebec city, Jean-Lesage Intl., Canada (YQB)Queenstown, International airport, New Zealand (ZQN)Quimper, Pluguffan, France (UIP)Quito, Mariscal Sucre, Ecuador (UIO)Rabat, Salé, Morocco (RBA)Raleigh/Durham, Raleigh Durham International Arpt, USA (RDU)Recife, Guararapes Int. Apt., Brazil (REC)Reggio Calabria, Tito Minniti, Italy (REG)Regina, Regina Intl. Airport, Canada (YQR)Rennes, Saint Jacques, France (RNS)Resistencia, Brigadier Mayor Cesar Raúl Ojeda Airport, Argentina (RES)Rhodes, Paradisi, Greece (RHO)Ribeirão Preto , Ribeirão Preto , Brazil (RAO)Richmond, Richmond Itl., USA (RIC)Riga, International Airport, Latvia (RIX)Rimini, Federico Fellini, Italy (RMI)Rio Cuarto, Rio Cuarto Airport, Argentina (RCU)Rio de Janeiro, Santos Dumont Intl. Airport, Brazil (SDU)Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro Airport, Brazil (RIO)Rio de Janeiro, Int, Brazil (GIG)Riyadh, King Khalid Int., Saudi Arabia (RUH)Roanoke, Roanoke Regional Airport, USA (ROA)Rochester, Monroe County, USA (ROC)Rome, Rome, Italy (ROM)Rome, Fiumicino, Italy (FCO)Rosario, Islas Malvinas international Airport, Argentina (ROS)Rostock , Laage-Rostock , Germany (RLG)Rostov, Rostov-na-Donu International Airport, Russia (ROV)Rotterdam, Zestienhoven, Netherlands (RTM)Río Gallegos, Río Gallegos Airport, Argentina (RGL)Río Grande, Hermes Quijada International Airport, Argentina (RGA)Río Hondo, Termas de Rio Hondo International Airport, Argentina (RHD)Saarbrucken, Saarbrucken Airport, Germany (SCN)Sacheon, Sacheon Air Base, Rep South Korea (HIN)Sacramento, Sacramento Intl., USA (SMF)Saint Denis de la Réunion, Roland Garros, Réunion (RUN)Saint john, Saint John Airport, Canada (YSJ)Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City International Arpt, USA (SLC)Salta, Martín Miguel de Güemes international Airport, Argentina (SLA)Salvador da Bahia, Airport Luis R. Magalhães, Brazil (SSA)Salzburg, W.A. Mozart, Austria (SZG)Samara, Kurumoch , Russia (KUF)Samarkand, Samarkand, Uzbekistan (SKD)Samos, Int., Greece (SMI)Samsun, Samsun, Turkey (SZF)San Andrés, Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, Colombia (ADZ)San Antonio, San Antonio International, USA (SAT)San Diego, Lindbergh International Airport, USA (SAN)San Francisco, Int, USA (SFO)San Jose, International Airport, Costa Rica (SJO)San Juan, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Airport Las Chacritas, Argentina (UAQ)San Juan, Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rico (SJU)San Luis, Brigadier Mayor Cesar Raúl Ojeda Airport, Argentina (LUQ)San Luis Potosi, Ponciano Arriaga Intl, Mexico (SLP)San Martín de los Andes, Aviador Carlos Campos Airport Chapelco, Argentina (CPC)San Rafael , Suboficial Ayudante Santiago Germano International Airport, Argentina (AFA)Sandefjord, Torf, Norway (TRF)Sanpedrosula, International Airport, Honduras (SAP)Santa Ana, John Wayne Airport, USA (SNA)Santa Cruz, El Trompillo, Bolivia (SRZ)Santa Fe, Sauce Viejo Airport, Argentina (SFN)Santa Marta, Simón Bolívar, Colombia (SMR)Santa Rosa , Santa Rosa La Pampa Airport, Argentina (RSA)Santiago de Chile, Comodoro A.M. Benitez, Chile (SCL)Santiago del Estero, Vicecomodoro Ángel de la Paz Aragonés Airport Mal Paso, Argentina (SDE)Santo Domingo, Santo Domingo, Las Américas, Dominican Republic (SDQ)Santorini, Int., Greece (JTR)Sao Luiz, Marechal Cunha Machado Int., Brazil (SLZ)Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo Airport, Brazil (SAO)Sao Paulo, Guarulhos, Brazil (GRU)Sao Paulo, Congonhas Airport, Brazil (CGH)Sao Paulo, Viracopos Campinas Airport, Brazil (VCP)Sapporo, International Airport, Japan (SPK)Sapporo, Chitose, Japan (CTS)Sarajevo, Butmir, Bosnia (SJJ)Sarasota, Sarasota-Bradenton, USA (SRQ)Sarnia, Chris Hadfield Airport, Canada (YZR)Saskatoon, John G. Diefenbaker Intl. Airport, Canada (YXE)Satu Mare, International Airport, Romania (SUJ)Sault ste. Marie, Intl. Airport, Canada (YAM)Saurimo, Saurimo, Angola (VHC)Savannah, Travis Field, USA (SAV)Seattle, Tacoma Itl., USA (SEA)Sendai, Sendai Airport, Japan (SDJ)Seoul, Gimpo International Airport, Rep South Korea (GMP)Seoul, Int. Airport, Rep South Korea (SEL)Seoul, Incheon Intl., Rep South Korea (ICN)Seville, San Pablo, Spain (SVQ)Seychelles, Seychelles Itl, Seychelles (SEZ)Shanghai, All airports, China (SHA)Shanghai, Pudong, China (PVG)Sharm El Sheikh, Sharm el-Sheikh International, Egypt (SSH)Shenyang, Taoxian International Airport, China (SHE)Shenzhen, Bao’an International Airport, China (SZX)Shreveport, Regional Airport, USA (SHV)Sibiu, International Airport, Romania (SBZ)Simferopol, International Airport, Ukraine (SIP)Singapore, Changi, Singapore (SIN)Skopje, Petrovec, Macedonia/FYROM (SKP)Smirne, Adnan Menderes International Airport, Turkey (ADB)Sofia, Int, Bulgaria (SOF)Southampton, Eastleigh, Great Britain (SOU)Soyo, Soyo, Angola (SZA)Split, Int. Airport, Croatia (SPU)Spokane, Spokane Intl., USA (GEG)St. John’s, St. John’s Intl. Airport, Canada (YYT)St. Louis, Lambert-St Louis Internatl, USA (STL)St. Maarten, Juliana, Netherlands Antilles (SXM)St. Petersburg, Pulkovo, Russia (LED)St. Thomas Island, St. Thomas Island, Virgin Islands (US) (STT)Stavanger, Sola, Norway (SVG)Stavropol, Stavropol Shpakovskoye Airport, Russia (STW)Stettino, Goleniow Airport, Poland (SZZ)Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden (STO)Stockholm, Stockholm, Bromma Arpt, Sweden (BMA)Stockholm, Arlanda, Sweden (ARN)Strasbourg, Int, France (SXB)Stuttgart, Echterdingen, Germany (STR)Suceava, International Airport, Romania (SCV)Sudbury, Greater Sudbury Airport, Canada (YSB)Sydney, JA Douglas McCurdy Airport, Canada (YQY)Sydney, Kingsford Smith, Australia (SYD)Syracuse, Hancock International Airport, USA (SYR)Syros Island, Int., Greece (JSY)Szczytno, Civil Airport, Poland (SZY)Taegu, Daegu International Airport, Rep South Korea (TAE)Taipei, Chiang Kai Shek Airport, China, Taiwan (TPE)Takamatsu, Takamatsu, Japan (TAK)Tallahassee, Tallahassee, TLH, FL, USA (TLH)Tallinn, Ülemiste, Estonia (TLL)Tamaulipas, Tamaulipas, Mexico (CVM)Tampa, Int, USA (TPA)Tan Tan, Plage Blanche Airport, Morocco (TTA)Tangier, Boukhalef Souahel, Morocco (TNG)Tashkent, Int, Uzbekistan (TAS)Tbilisi, International Airport, Georgia (TBS)Teesside, Itl., Great Britain (MME)Tegucigalpa, International Airport, Honduras (TGU)Tehran, International Airport, Iran (THR)Tehran, Imam Khomeini Intl., Iran (IKA)Tel Aviv, Ben Gurion, Israel (TLV)Tenerife, Tenerife North Los Rodeos, Spain (TFN)Tenerife, International Airport, Spain (TCI)Tepic, Amado Nervo, Mexico (TPQ)Terceira Island, Base Aérea das Lajes, Portugal (TER)Thessaloniki, Makedonia, Greece (SKG)Thunder bay, Thunder Bay Intl., Canada (YQT)Tijuana, International Airport, Mexico (TIJ)Timișoara, Traian Vuia, Romania (TSR)Timmins, Victor M. Power Airport, Canada (YTS)Tirana, Rinas, Albania (TIA)Tokyo, Tokyo Airport, Japan (TYO)Tokyo, Narita, Japan (NRT)Tokyo, Haneda, Japan (HND)Toronto, Pearson Itl, Canada (YYZ)Toronto, Toronto Airport, Canada (YTO)Toulon, Hyères, France (TLN)Toulouse, Blagnac, France (TLS)Toyama, Toyama, Japan (TOY)Trapani, Birgi, Italy (TPS)Trebisonda, Trebisonda, Turkey (TZX)Trelew, Almirante Marcos A. Zar International Airport, Argentina (REL)Tri City, Municipal Tri-City Airport, USA (TRI)Trieste, R.Dei Legionari, Italy (TRS)Tripoli, Int, Libya (TIP)Trondheim, Trondheim-Vaernes, Norway (TRD)Tucson, Tucson Intl., USA (TUS)Tucumán , Tucumán Benjamín Matienzo International Airport, Argentina (TUC)Tulsa, Tulsa International, USA (TUL)Tunis, Carthage, Tunisia (TUN)Turaif, Civil Airport, Saudi Arabia (TIF)Turin, Caselle, Italy (TRN)Tuxtla Gutierrez, International Airport, Mexico (TGZ)Tyumen, Civil Airport, Russia (TJM)Târgu Mureş, Târgu Mureș, Romania (TGM)Tétouan, Saniat Ramel Airport, Morocco (TTU)Udaipur, Maharana Pratap Airport, India (UDR)Ufa, Civil Airport, Russia (UFA)Ulsan, International Airport, Rep South Korea (USN)Urgench, Urgench International Airport, Uzbekistan (UGC)Ushuaia, Islas Malvinas Airport, Argentina (USH)Valdosta, Valdosta Regional, USA (VLD)Valencia, International Airport, Spain (VLC)Valparaiso, Fort Walton Beach, USA (VPS)Vancouver, Vancouver Intl., Canada (YVR)Vancouver, Vancouver, Vancouver Harbour Airport, Canada (CXH)Varadero, Juan Gualberto Gómez Airport, Cuba (VRA)Varna, Intl. Airport, Bulgaria (VAR)Venice, Marco Polo, Italy (VCE)Veracruz, International Airport, Mexico (VER)Verona, Villafranca Veronese, Italy (VRN)Victoria, Victoria Intl. Airport, Canada (YYJ)Viedma, Gobernador Edgardo Castello di Viedma Airport, Argentina (VDM)Vienna, Schwechat, Austria (VIE)Vigo, Peinador, Spain (VGO)Villahermosa, International Airport, Mexico (VSA)Viruviru, International Airport, Bolivia (VVI)Vitória, Eurico Salles, Brazil (VIX)Vladivostok, Knevichi, Russia (VVO)Volgograd, Volgograd-Gumrak, Russia (VOG)Warsaw, Chopin Airport, Poland (WAW)Washington, Washington, DC, USA (WAS)Washington, Dulles, USA (IAD)Washington, R. Reagan Washington Nat., USA (DCA)Wenzhou, International Airport, China (WNZ)West Palm Beach, International Airport, USA (PBI)Westchester County, Westchester County Airport, USA (HPN)Westerland, Sylt Airport, Germany (GWT)Wichita, Mid-Continent, USA (ICT)Wilmington, New Hanover County Airport, USA (ILM)Windsor, Windsor Intl. Airport, Canada (YQG)Winnipeg, Winnipeg Richardson Intl. Airport, Canada (YWG)Wuhan, Int, China (WUH)Xiamen, Int, China (XMN)Xianyang, International Airport, China (XIY)Yanbu, Prince Yanbu Abd al-Muhsin bin Abd al-Aziz, Saudi Arabia (YNB)Yaoundé Nsimalen, Nsimalen, Cameroon (NSI)Yeosu, Yeosu, Rep South Korea (RSU)Yerevan, Int, Armenia (EVN)Zagabria, Pleso, Croatia (ZAG)Zanzibar, Kisauni, Tanzania (ZNZ)Zhengzhou, Zhengzhou Xinzheng Airport, China (CGO)Zielona Góra, Babimost Airport, Poland (IEG)Zurich, International Airport, Switzerland (ZRH)Čeljabinsk, Chelyabinsk Airport, Russia (CEK)Čeljabinsk, Int, Nigeria (ABV)
Your Destination Your Destination, Int, Denmark (AAL)Aalesund, Aalesund Vigra Aereoporto, Norway (AES)Aberdeen (UK), Dyce, Great Britain (ABZ)Abha, Khamis Mushayat Airport, Saudi Arabia (AHB)Abidjan, Port Bouet Apt., Ivory Coast (ABJ)Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Itl., United Arab Emirates (AUH)Acapulco, General Juan N. Álvarez International Airport, Mexico (ACA)Accra, Kotoka, Ghana (ACC)Adana, Adana / Sakirpasa civil airport, Turkey (ADA)Addis Ababa, Bole, Ethiopia (ADD)Adelaide, International Airport, Australia (ADL)Adler, International Airport, Russia (AER)Aeroparque, Aeroparque Jorge Newbery, Argentina (AEP)Agadir, Al Massira, Morocco (AGA)Ajaccio, Campo dell'Oro, France (AJA)Al Ain, Al Ain Shuttle Bus, United Arab Emirates (AAN)Albany GA, Dougherty County, USA (ABY)Albany GAThiruvananthapuram, Trivandrum, India (TRV)Albany NY, Albany NY, Albany County Airport, NY, USA (ALB)Albuquerque, International Airport, USA (ABQ)Alexandroupolis, Int., Greece (AXD)Alghero, Fertilia, Italy (AHO)Algiers, Houari Boumedienne, Algeria (ALG)Alicante, Alicante Elche, Spain (ALC)Allentown, Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, USA (ABE)Almaty, Int, Kazakhstan (ALA)Amman, Queen Alia Itl., Jordan (AMM)Amritsar, RajaSansi Intl. Airport, India (ATQ)Amsterdam, Schiphol Intl., Netherlands (AMS)Ancona, Falconara, Italy (AOI)Ankara, Esenboğa Intl., Turkey (ESB)Ankara, Ankara, Turkey (ANK)Antalya, Havalimani Int., Turkey (AYT)Antananarivo, Int, Madagascar (TNR)Antwerp, Deurne, Belgium (ANR)Aqaba, Aqaba King Hussein Airport, Jordan (AQJ)Aracaju, Santa Maria, Brazil (AJU)Arkhangelsk, International Airport, Pakistan (ARH)Aruba, Queen Beatrix, Netherlands Antilles (AUA)Asheville, Asheville Regional Airport, USA (AVL)Astrakhan, International Airport, Russia (ASF)Asunción, Silvio Pettirossi Intl Airport, Paraguay (ASU)Aswan, Daraw, Egypt (ASW)Athens, Eleftherios Venizelos, Greece (ATH)Atlanta, Hartsfield Atlanta Itl., USA (ATL)Auckland, International Airport, New Zealand (AKL)Augusta, Bush Field, USA (AGS)Austin, Austin Bergstrom International Airport, USA (AUS)Avignon, Caumont, France (AVN)Bacău, International Airport, Romania (BCM)Bahia , Porto Seguro, Brazil (BPS)Bahrain, Int, Bahrain (BAH)Bahía Blanca, Bahia Blanca Comandante Espora, Argentina (BHI)Baia Mare, Tauti Magherusi, Romania (BAY)Baku, Heydar Aliyev Intl., Azerbaijan (GYD)Baku, Baku, Azerbaijan (BAK)Ballina, International Airport, Australia (BNK)Baltimore, Baltimore-Washington International, USA (BWI)Baltra, Seymour, Ecuador (GPS)Bamako, Int, Mali (BKO)Bangalore, Bengaluru Intl., India (BLR)Bangkok, Int, Thailand (BKK)Bangui, Int, Central African Republic (BGF)Banja Luka, Banja Luka International Airport, Bosnia (BNX)Barcelona, El Prat, Spain (BCN)Bari, Palese, Italy (BRI)Bariloche, Teniente Luis Candelaria international Airport, Argentina (BRC)Barnaul, International Airport, Russia (BAX)Barranquilla, International Airport, Colombia (BAQ)Basel, EuroAirport, Switzerland (EAP)Basel, Basel EuroAirport, Switzerland (BSL)Bastia, Poretta Corsica, France (BIA)Beijing, Capital Intl. Airport, China (PEK)Beirut, Int, Lebanon (BEY)Belem, Val de Cans Intl. Airport, Brazil (BEL)Belfast, Belfast, Great Britain (BFS)Belfast City, Belfast City Airport, Great Britain (BHD)Belgrade, Surcin, Serbia (BEG)Belo Horizonte, Confins Pampulha, Brazil (PLU)Belo Horizonte, Tancredo Neves Int., Brazil (CNF)Belo Horizonte, Belohorizonte, Brazil (BHZ)Benghazi, Int, Libya (BEN)Bergamo, Orio al Serio, Italy (BGY)Bergen, Flesland, Norway (BGO)Berlin, Tegel, Germany (TXL)Berlin, Int. Airport, Germany (BER)Bhopal, Bhopal, India (BHO)Biarritz, Bayonne Anglet, France (BIQ)Bilbao, International Airport, Spain (BIO)Billund, Int, Denmark (BLL)Birmingham, Int, Great Britain (BHX)Birmingham, Seibels/Bryan Airport, USA (BHM)Bishkek, Int, Kyrgyzstan (FRU)Bodrum, Bodrum civil airport, Turkey (BJV)Bogotá, Int, Colombia (BOG)Boise, Boise Gowen Field Airport, USA (BOI)Bologna, G. Marconi, Italy (BLQ)Bolzano, Francesco Baracca, Italy (BZO)Bonaire, Flamingo Field, Netherlands Antilles (BON)Bordeaux, Merignac, France (BOD)Bossembélé, Bossembélé civil airport, Central African Republic (BEM)Boston, Logan Itl., USA (BOS)Bourgas, Intl. Airport, Bulgaria (BOJ)Brasilia, Pres. Juscelino Kubitschek Intl. Apt., Brazil (BSB)Bratislava, International Airport, Slovakia (BTS)Brazzaville, Maya Maya, Congo (BZV)Bremen, Neuenland, Germany (BRE)Breslavia, Strachowice Airport, Poland (WRO)Brest, Guipavas, France (BES)Brindisi, Papola Casale, Italy (BDS)Brisbane, International Airport, Australia (BNE)Bristol, Lulsgate International, Great Britain (BRS)Brive-La-Gaillarde, La Roche, France (BVE)Brunswick, Glynco Jetport, USA (BQK)Brussels, National, Belgium (BRU)Bucaramanga, Palonegro, Colombia (BGA)Bucharest, Otopeni, Romania (OTP)Bucharest, Int. Airport, Romania (BUH)Budapest, Ferihegy 2, Hungary (BUD)Buenos Aires, Int., Argentina (EZE)Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Airport, Argentina (BUE)Buffalo, Greater Buffalo, USA (BUF)Bujumbura, Int, Burundi (BJM)Bukhara, Bukhara, Uzbekistan (BHK)Cabinda, Cabinda, Angola (CAB)Caen, Carpiquet, France (CFR)Cagliari, Elmas, Italy (CAG)Cairo, Itl., Egypt (CAI)Calgary, Calgary Intl., Canada (YYC)Cali, International Airport, Colombia (CLO)Calvi, Sainte Catherine, France (CLY)Cambridge, Int., Great Britain (CBG)Campo Grande, Antonio Joao, Brazil (CGR)Cancun, International Airport, Mexico (CUN)Canton, Baiyun, China (CAN)Caracas, Simón Bolívar, Venezuela (CCS)Cardiff, Rhoose Wales, Great Britain (CWL)Cartagena, International Airport, Colombia (CTG)Cartago, Cartago Santa Ana Airport, Colombia (CRC)Casablanca, Mohamed V, Morocco (CMN)Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco (CAS)Catamarca, Coronel Felipe Varela International Airport, Argentina (CTC)Catania, Fontanarossa, Italy (CTA)Catumbela, Catumbela, Angola (CBT)Cayenne, Félix Eboué, French Guiana (CAY)Cephalonia, Int. Airport, Greece (EFL)Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India (IXC)Changsha, International Airport , China (CSX)Chania, Souda, Greece (CHQ)Charkiv, Civil Airport, Ukraine (HRK)Charleston SC, Charleston International Airport, USA (CHS)Charleston WV, Yeager Airport, USA (CRW)Charlotte, Charlotte/Douglas Intl Airport, USA (CLT)Charlottetown, International Airport, Canada (YYG)Chattanooga, CHA Lovell Field, USA (CHA)Chengdu, Chengdu Shuangliu Intl. Apt., China (CTU)Chennai, Chennai International Airport, India (MAA)Chetumal, International Airport, Mexico (CTM)Chicago, O'Hare Int, USA (ORD)Chicago, Chicago, USA (CHI)Chios, Int., Greece (JKH)Chisinau, International Airport, Moldova (KIV)Chongqing, Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport, China (CKG)Christchurch, International airport, New Zealand (CHC)Cincinnati, Greater Cincinnati Intl Airport, USA (CVG)Città del Capo, Cape Town Airport, South Africa (CPT)Ciudad del Carmen, International Airport, Mexico (CME)Ciudad Juarez, International Airport, Mexico (CJS)Clermont-Ferrand, Aulnat, France (CFE)Cleveland, Hopkins Itl., USA (CLE)Cluj, International Airport, Romania (CLJ)Cochin, Cochin Intl., India (COK)Coffsharbour, International Airport, Australia (CFS)Cologne, Cologne, Train Main Railroad St., Germany (QKL)Cologne, Cologne/Bonn, Germany (CGN)Colombo, Bandaranaike Intl., Sri Lanka (CMB)Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs Municipal, USA (COS)Columbia SC, Columbia SC Metropolitan Airport, USA (CAE)Columbus GA, Columbus Metropolitan / Fort Benning, USA (CSG)Columbus MS, Golden, USA (GTR)Columbus OH, Port Columbus Intl Airport, USA (CMH)Comiso, Gen. Vincenzo Magliocco, Italy (CIY)Comodoro Rivadavia, General Enrique Mosconi International Airport, Argentina (CRD)Conakry, Int, Guinea (CKY)Copenhagen, Kastrup, Denmark (CPH)Corfu, Int. Airport, Greece (CFU)Corrientes, Doctor Fernando Piragine Niveyro International Airport, Argentina (CNQ)Costanza, Mihail Kogălniceanu, Romania (CND)Cotonou, Cadjehoun International, Benin (COO)Cowley, Intl. Airport, Canada (YYM)Cozumel, International airport, Mexico (CZM)Crotone, International Airport, Italy (CRV)Cuiabá, Marechal Rondon Int., Brazil (CGB)Curaçao, Hato Airport, Netherlands Antilles (CUR)Curitiba, Afonso Pena Int., Brazil (CWB)Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina (COR)Dakar, Int, Senegal (DKR)Dakhla, Aeroporto civile Dakhla, Morocco (VIL)Dalian, Dalian Zhoushuizi Airport, China (DLC)Dallas, Ft Worth Intl, USA (DFW)Dallas, Love Field, USA (DAL)Damascus, Int, Syria (DAM)Dammam, Int, Saudi Arabia (DMM)Dar Es Salaam, Dar es Salaam International Airport, Tanzania (DAR)Daytona, James M Cox Dayton International, USA (DAY)Daytona Beach, Daytona Beach International Airport, USA (DAB)Deauville, Saint Gatien, France (DOL)Deer lake, Deer Lake Airport, Canada (YDF)Dehradun, Dehradun, India (DED)Denpasar, Ngurah Rai, Indonesia (DPS)Denver, Denver International, USA (DEN)Des Moines, Municipal, USA (DSM)Detroit, Detroit Metropolitan Airport, USA (DTW)Detroit, Detroit, MI, USA (DTT)Dhaka, Hazrat Shahjalal Intl., Bangladesh (DAC)Diyarbakır, Diyarbakir Airport, Turkey (DIY)Djerba, Zarzis Int., Tunisia (DJE)Djibouti, Ambouli, Djibouti (JIB)Doha, Int, Qatar (DOH)Doncaster, Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield, Great Britain (DSA)Dothan, Municipal, USA (DHN)Douala, King Fahad Intl., Cameroon (DLA)Dresden, Dresden International, Germany (DRS)Dubai, Dubai Bus Station, United Arab Emirates (XNB)Dubai, International airport, United Arab Emirates (DXB)Dublin, Civil Airport, Ireland (DUB)Dubrovnik, Int. Airport, Croatia (DBV)Dundee, Riverside Park, Great Britain (DND)Dundo, Dundo, Angola (DUE)Düsseldorf, Rhein-Ruhr Lohausen, Germany (DUS)East Midlands, Nottingham East Midlands Airport, Great Britain (EMA)Edinburgh, Turnhouse, Great Britain (EDI)Edmonton, Edmonton Intl. Airport, Canada (YEG)Eindhoven, International Airport, Netherlands (EIN)Ekaterinburg, Koltsovo Intl., Russia (SVX)El Ayun, Hassan I El Ayun Airport, Morocco (EUN)El Calafate, Comandante Armando Tola International Airport, Argentina (FTE)El Paso, El Paso Intl., USA (ELP)Entebbe, Int, Uganda (EBB)Erkliet, Erkliet, Turkey (ASR)Errachidia, Errachidia civil airport, Morocco (ERH)Esquel, Aeroporto Brigadier General Antonio Parodi, Argentina (EQS)Evansville, Evansville Regional Airport, USA (EVV)Exeter, Exeter International Airport, Great Britain (EXT)Faro, International Airport, Portugal (FAO)Fayetteville, Fayetteville Municipal, USA (FAY)Fergana, Fergana, Uzbekistan (FEG)Fez, Int, Morocco (FEZ)Figari, Sud Corse, France (FSC)Florence, Amerigo Vespucci, Italy (FLR)Florence, Gilbert Field, USA (FLO)Florianópolis, Hercílio Luz Int., Brazil (FLN)Foggia, International Airport, Italy (FOG)Formosa, Formosa International Airport el Pucù, Argentina (FMA)Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood Itl., USA (FLL)Fort Myers, Reg. Southwest Apt, USA (RSW)Fort Myers, Fort Myers, Page Field, FL, USA (FMY)Fortaleza, Pinto Martins Apt., Brazil (FOR)Frankfurt, Int. Airport, Germany (FRA)Fredericton, International Airport, Canada (YFC)Freetown, Lungi Intl., Sierra Leone (FNA)Fuerteventura, Puerto del Rosario, Spain (FUE)Fukuoka, Intl. 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Battle for Mosul: ISIL's innocent victims
Iraqi medics on Mosul frontline say growing proportion of the patients they treat are non-combatants.
by John Beck
Relatives of Mohammed, 15, comfort each other at an outdoor clinic in Mosul's Samah district after he was killed by a mortar attack minutes earlier [John Beck/Al Jazeera]
Al-Samah, near Mosul - Four men clung to the black Humvee as it careered toward the east Mosul field hospital. Anguish marked their faces, blood stained their clothes and they cradled between them the broken frames of two slightly built boys - victims of a mortar strike minutes earlier.
A crowd rushed forward to meet the vehicle, helping to lift the casualties on to stretchers under a shroud of settling dust. Matham, 15, was unresponsive - head back, mouth open, gaze unfocused - and an ugly red stain had soaked through his clothes at the neck. A medic placed him on a stretcher, examined his wounds and put two fingers on his carotid artery, searching for a pulse.
The 12-year-old Mohammed lay on a nearby cot. He was conscious, but his right leg was torn open from ankle to groin and dangled sickeningly. A crowd of doctors cut away his trousers then applied a tourniquet to halt the massive blood loss.
He called weakly for his mother as they worked then closed his eyes. "Is he breathing?" someone asked urgently. "Is. He. Breathing?" A few seconds later, the boy groaned, asked for water, then lay with his head tilted sideways staring at the sky.
Mohammed, 12, and a 15-year-old neighbour are carried from an Iraqi army Humvee at an outdoor field clinic in Mosul's Samah district. The boys were hit in a mortar attack that shredded Mohammed's leg and killed Shafiq [John Beck/Al Jazeera]
A middle-aged woman in a white headscarf and black polka dot dress skirted the clinic wall and rushed frantically forward, calling the younger boy's name. Male relatives intercepted her a few metres from the cot, took an arm each and coaxed her away.
She turned her head as she walked, looking back at a scene that has become increasingly common as civilian casualties of the month-long offensive to retake Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) continue to mount.
The military-run field hospital is the forwardmost facility along this front. It's set up outside a battle-scarred house in the city's al-Samah district: 10 dark green cots folded out on the irregular ground of a compound still littered with spent bullet casings. It smells of dust, cigarettes and smoke from burning piles of used bandages and gauze. Supplies are piled on the back of pickups.
A team of more than 20 Iraqi and foreign volunteer medics take shifts treating as many as 50 casualties every day. The priority is to stop bleeding and stabilise patients to the point that they can be sent on to better-equipped facilities in IDP camps, army bases or the nearby city of Erbil.
This is more difficult than Ramadi and those areas. ISIL know it is their last land so they are trying their best to kill as many as possible.
Captain Ala, Clinic worker
Gogjali was only recently cleared of ISIL fighters and a large military presence remains in the area. But there are civilians too. Some preferred to stay in their homes regardless of the fighting and now sit on doorsteps cautiously chatting and smoking.
Many more arrive every day from further into Mosul, trudging along roads or barren hillsides holding white flags and battered suitcases, then converging on an Iraqi army gathering point opposite the clinic. There they are ushered on to trucks and taken to recently constructed camps on the Erbil road.
There had been a run of military and civilian casualties that day, but the afternoon brought respite. The medics relaxed in the last of the sun, lounging on plastic chairs or with their backs to a breeze block wall.
Regular outgoing artillery fire from a nearby battery punctuated the murmur of conversation, as it had done for hours. No one appeared to notice. Then came the crash of a mortar landing nearby and another quickly afterwards. The hospital crew looked up as black smoke rose a few hundred metres beyond the compound wall.
The shells had torn into Matham and Mohammed as the two, who had been neighbours, made their way towards the IDP assembly point with their families.
A nearby squad from the elite Counter Terrorism Service (CTS) hauled the boys on to their Humvee hood, one of the soldiers helping three family members to hold them as it sped the short distance to the clinic.
It was quickly apparent that Matham had died from his wounds by the time they arrived. A burly, goateed medic gently closed the boy's eyelids and covered his face with a blood-soaked jumper. Two black uniformed CTS soldiers then unfolded a light grey body bag on the ground next to the stretcher. Matham had been small for his age and it only took one to move him.
The father of Maytham, 15, opens the body bag containing his son at an outdoor clinic in Mosul's Samah district. Maytham was killed by a mortar attack minutes earlier [John Beck/Al Jazeera]
His father rushed over as they begin to zip up the bag, dropped to his knees and kissed his son's cheek again and again, collapsing on top of him. A doctor carefully pulled him back, while the soldier and a relative placed the body on the ground next to an ambulance. His silver-haired grandfather and two other relatives crouched there among empty water bottles and discarded food containers, sobbing.
A small boy from the house next door to the clinic sat on top of the wall and watched, expressionless.
Meanwhile, Mohammed had been stabilised and what was left of his leg bandaged up. Medics moved him to an orange-framed stretcher and into a waiting ambulance that bounced off along the irregular road. No one seemed sure whether he'd live, and even if he did, his leg would likely have to be amputated, an American volunteer who'd treated him said.
Having done all that they could, the clinic staff relaxed again, even posing for a smiling picture with a news crew security guard who'd arrived with a leg wound shortly after the boys.
A few metres away, Matham's grandfather opened the bag a few inches to say a final goodbye. The sturdily built patriarch stared for a moment then cried and cried, eventually collapsing back cross-legged, where he remained, crippled by grief, with one hand over his face.
These kinds of injuries are distressingly typical, said clinic head Colonel Khalil Jawad Kadim. "We see gunshot wounds, head wounds, amputations and shrapnel in all parts of body," he explained, perched on a lawn chair during a quiet moment. Kadim, a small man with a soft handshake and hint of grey moustache, added that recent days had been some of the worst he's seen in his 26-year medical career.
A colleague, Captain Ala, who worked in similar field hospitals during previous battles against ISIL, added that ISIL fighters were desperately defending the only major Iraqi urban centre still under their control.
"This is more difficult than Ramadi and those areas," he said, referring to offensives in Anbar province. "[ISIL] know it is their last land, so they are trying their best to kill as many as possible."
Mosul: A look inside ISIL’s extensive tunnel system
Commanders reported there were no major operations taking place that day, but fighting further into Mosul was still heavy. Around noon a radio crackled with the news of an ISIL suicide car bomb attack. A Humvee roared up soon afterwards with a casualty lying across the back seat.
A medic examined him as others rushed to prepare a stretcher. "No," he yelled, urgency suddenly evaporated. "We need a body bag."
Sergeant Ali Jafar arrived later with bullet fragments in his arm from clashes in Mosul's al-Zahra, formerly known as Saddam district. He chatted to medics as they probed and washed out his wound using iodine solution from a water bottle, grimacing only when they tightened his bandage, then quickly breaking into a smile.
ISIL have been fighting hard, Jafar said. Their typical tactics involve teams four or five strong employing sniper rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars from inside densely populated areas, sometimes even using the roofs of inhabited homes as firing positions.
Worse still were the suicide car bombs, he said, describing an incident the previous day when his squad had been forced to use their own Humvee as a barrier to stop one advancing.
His commander, Captain Sarmad al-Saadi, derided ISIL's methods as cowardly. "They only use suicide attacks," he said lighting up a slim cigarette.
READ MORE: Iraq - 'Now we have a grave to visit'
Iraqi commanders stress that they are doing everything possible to avoid civilian casualties, but Ala, the medic, says that a growing proportion of the patients they treat are non-combatants.
The danger is not only of stray bullets or bombs. Both soldiers and civilians describe ISIL targeting residents attempting to flee. "They are doing that every day," Saadi says. "They want everyone to stay as a human shield."
Recent victims included three-year-old Jawahar, a tiny, curly-haired girl in a red top who'd been hit in the foot with bullet fragments. Her uncle, Ahmed, said that they'd joined a large group attempting to move towards the relative safety of the Iraqi army in al-Zahra when ISIL fired on them from the other end of the street, hitting several people.
"[ISIL] are shooting people who try to leave," he said. "They think we are unbelievers going to the land of unbelievers."
Iraqi troops are still fighting on Mosul's outer edges, but as they push deeper into the city against determined and ruthless resistance, hundreds of thousands more civilians are expected to be displaced.
With few ways out that don't involve a gauntlet of violence, medics at the frontlines expect many more Mohammeds and Mathams to come.
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Volvo Trucks to display parallel hybrid diesel-electric system at U.K. show
Dane Muldoon
Feb 18th 2007 at 6:33PM
Volvo Trucks, which has full control of the Mack Trucks brand in North America and Renault Trucks in Europe, will be showing off an example of their hybrid diesel–electric D7 engine and I-SAM (Integrated Starter, Alternator Motor) drivetrain system at the Commercial Vehicle Show to be held in Birmingham, U.K. in late April.
The D7 engine and I-SAM have been developed in-house by Volvo and is a parallel hybrid system where the diesel engine and electric motors can work independently of each other. Thanks to efficient interaction between the two power sources, a smaller diesel engine can be used without compromising on performance. Incorporating regenerative breaking, the system is also highly efficient in stop-start urban environments where tests results have indicated that fuel savings of up to 35 are possible. Other features of the system are significant reductions in emissions and noise levels.
Also on display at the Volvo stand will be the recently-launched 540 hp / 402 kW version of the new Volvo FH16 truck as well as examples of the new FL and FE ranges, making their first appearance at the CV Show.
Analysis: 35 percent is a massive fuel saving around urban centres where the reduction in emissions will also be really appreciated. We first covered the D7 back in August last year and its good to see it's now on the market. I want to see government agencies as a start mandating use of hybrid trucks for their own fleets to send a positive message to the market.
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What are you listening to this week?
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“True Blue,” Dirty Beaches
Hearing Françoise Hardy’s magnificent “Voilà” in Netflix’s The End Of The Fucking World got me thinking about Dirty Beaches, the former moniker of Alex Zhang Hungtai, who sampled the song in “Lord Knows Best,” a highlight of his breakout album Badlands. It’s an LP I was obsessed with back in the day, and while its sample-centric shtick feels a little more shallow when revisiting it these days, I have to admit that I’m still enthralled by Hungtai’s aesthetic of smoky, degraded ’60s pop. For my money, the track that nails it as neatly as the album’s artwork—a profile shot of Hungtai, engulfed in shadow with slicked-back hair and cigarette smoke pouring out of his mouth—is still “True Blue,” an elegiac, jangling slow burn built around a sample of The Ronettes’ “Keep On Dancing.” While his voice is present across the whole album, this is the closest Hungtai comes to actual era-appropriate pop star panache, borrowing liberally from “Be My Baby” and boldly dropping in some well-placed falsetto. It’s no wonder the guy managed to work his way into a Roadhouse performance on Twin Peaks, playing sax with David Lynch’s son, no less. [Matt Gerardi]
Typhoon, “Rorschach”
I got an out-of-the-blue recommendation from a co-worker a few weeks ago to check out the new album by Typhoon, that recommendation based on a mutual love of Scottish sad sacks Frightened Rabbit. He was spot-on: Typhoon’s epic new Offerings is right up my melancholy-music alley. A concept album about losing your memory, it’s not exactly light listening, but it’s both well considered and rendered. Dense with both guitars and words, it’s not background listening: On “Rorschach,” singer-mastermind Kyle Morton combines ’90s indie crunch—think darker Death Cab or even Seam—with harrowing lines like, “And I’m trying to stay sane / Meanwhile, the river of forgetfulness starts spilling the banks.” It also turns out that Typhoon has been around for a while—under my radar completely—so there’s a back catalog of several albums that I can now dive into. [Josh Modell]
Mount Kimbie featuring King Krule, “Blue Train Lines”
There’s this tone that certain songs hit, a frantic, nocturnal energy. “The Rat” by the Walkmen has it; “Lust For Life” has it, as does “Born Slippy” and “Sympathy For The Devil.” A lot of times it’s “rock” music, but not always—it can pop up anywhere, this strange frayed-wire intensity that’s almost filmic in its energy. Critics used to talk about “night bus” a few years back as a way to describe the broad variety of quiet music built around interstitial places—headphones music for a long ride home. The stuff I’m talking about is its opposite, or its dark twin, paranoid and totally alive.
Anyway, whatever this weird sub-sub-genre I’m describing is, it’s “Blue Train Lines,” off last year’s excellent Mount Kimbie record Love What Survives. The record’s rangy and hard to pin down, but here, driven by King Krule’s inimitable bleeding-throated rap, things coalesce into a shaky-cam breakdown, all nervous drums and blinding highway-light synthesizers. Recommended as background music next time you’re chasing someone down a train track. [Clayton Purdom]
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Russiagate Open Thread: Watching the “Detectives”, Nunes Edition
by Anne Laurie | February 11, 2018 7:36 pm | 116 Comments
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Nunes has created his own alternative news site called The California Republican whose headlines include “CNN busted for peddling fake news AGAIN!” https://t.co/cW39gRgrMX
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) February 11, 2018
Nunes Memo Reveals Congressman’s Penchant for Conspiracy Theories https://t.co/dDEp0cS0rC
— Jeff Stein (@SpyTalker) February 11, 2018
… “Nut job” has clung to Nunes’s reputation as long as he’s been chairman of the House Intelligence Committee (HPSCI, in Washington-speak). Or at least among Democrats (and some Republicans) who have decried Nunes’s transformation of a once bipartisan national security panel into a GOP platform to attack Democrats.
Janz thinks he knows why: Nunes’s mentorship by Michael Flynn, the now disgraced former Trump national security adviser. “I know that they had a pretty close relationship,” he said. Nunes served on the executive committee of the Trump transition team with Flynn, he noted, which was headed by Vice President Mike Pence, “and it seems to me like he never left. He’s still on that team.“
A descendent of Portuguese Azorean immigrants, Nunes grew up on a Central Valley, California farm and concentrated on water issues when he came to Congress in 2003. But his fundraising prowess for fellow Republicans endeared him to Representative Paul Ryan and House Speaker John Boehner, who in 2013 anointed him chairman of the intelligence panel.
Like many hawks back then, Nunes was in awe of Flynn, who had won praise for revolutionizing the hunt for terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan. “This guy was one of the best intelligence officers in several generations,” Nunes told me in a December 23, 2016 interview. “I don’t know if you’ve ever met him, but Flynn is extremely smart. He really is top notch.”
Nunes was speaking fives months after Flynn had startled many former military officers by leading “Lock her up” chants against Hillary Clinton at the Republican National Convention. It was also two years after the Obama White House has forced Flynn’s resignation as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. “What happened,” Nunes told me, “is…he went out and said a lot of things that Obama didn’t like…”
But that’s not close to the full story on Flynn, whose battlefield talents didn’t transfer well to running the DIA from 2012 to 2014. Not only were his executive skills lacking, according to many observers, including former Army general and Secretary of State Colin Powell, he quickly developed a reputation for indulging in conspiracy theories—or “Flynn facts,” his aides derisively called them.
But Nunes embraced them. During Flynn’s tenure, the neophyte intelligence overseer and the general came to share a number of beliefs. One was that the CIA was suppressing the release of documents captured from Osama Bin Laden’s lair that supposedly showed a closer relationship between Al-Qaeda and Iran than the Obama White House, then conducting backchannel talks with Tehran on halting its nuclear weapons program, wanted known. Nunes, according to a then-close observer, demanded the CIA open up its files for him and Flynn one Saturday. “He was going to sneak up on them” on a weekend, the source snorted, speaking on terms of anonymity to discuss the sensitive incident. Nunes denied that excursion, but said he did go down to Central Command headquarters in Tampa “to meet with the team that was doing exploitation of the documents in 2013.”…
…[Flynn] and Nunes paired up to champion another issue, one that they were right about: whistleblower accusations that U.S. Central Command leaders were manipulating intelligence reports to burnish the Obama administration’s record against the Islamic State group. Flynn, according to The Weekly Standard, was annoying the White House with, “assessments that Al-Qaeda had doubled in strength over The preceding two years.” Nunes was helping lead a Republican-led joint congressional task force into the issue. At one point, he flew down to CENTCOM headquarters demanding to see documents, according to reports, but “once in Tampa…was denied access to the analysts and their findings, creating further schisms between the parties.” The task force ultimately backed up the whistleblower complaints. So did the Pentagon’s inspector general.
Nunes and Flynn evidently maintained close ties through the election and beyond, even as Flynn’s world was beginning to unravel with questions about his payments from Kremlin mouthpiece Russia Today, secret talks with former Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak and a confidential lobbying contract with a law firm tied to Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “I talk to Flynn virtually everyday, if not multiple times a day,” Nunes told me in the late December 2016 interview. “Seldom there’s a day that goes by that I don’t talk to Flynn, and especially right after the campaign, directly.”…
… Nunes’s efforts to distract attention from Russiagate didn’t cease with Flynn’s departure from the administration a year ago. And even his now-famous “midnight run” to the White House weeks later indirectly involved Flynn: According to multiple reports, Ezra Cohen-Watnick, whom Flynn put in charge of intelligence matters on the White House national security council despite his scant, low level experience at the DIA, helped provide Nunes with classified documents that the congressman claimed to show—falsely—as it turned out, that Obama had “wiretapped Trump Tower.” That stunt prompted complaints from good-government groups that Nunes had improperly obtained and publicized classified information…
I swear, someday Devin Nunes and Carter Page are gonna open a bed-and-breakfast together. And every room will feature fan shots of their mutual idol, Inspector Closeau.
and total total coincidence that Nunes forced himself back into the House Intel circus five minutes after Flynn became a government witness. https://t.co/gZkNcrkoFv
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) February 11, 2018
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California can do us a real solid by getting rid of this mofo in November.
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Nothing quite like government by right wing nut job fantasies.
delk
Heh, just listened to My Aim Is True while making dinner.
@Baud:
I’m not moving there to vote against him. Or actually for any other reason either. I’ve been through the town. It ain’t pretty.
MisterForkbeard
@Baud: That area of California is not particularly nice, sad to say. There s a reason nutjobs like Nunes are elected.
ThresherK
Slight quibble on What measure is a “nutjob”?
among Dems and some R’s on the committee
What, it has to be unanimous?
Janz and the other Democrats opposing Devin were considered no-hopers, but I think he is doing his re-election chances serious damage. After Janz put up the billboard showing Putin holding Nunes and Trump on kiddie leashes, he had $40,000 in his campaign account to Nunes’ $3 million.
Reaction to the memo got Janz $100,000 in donations the day it came out, and he has appeared on MSNBC, etc., and made enough strides to take a leave of absence from his job. He seems like he’ll be a good candidate, based on things like this tweet:
It's not just the Russia investigation – Devin Nunes has forgotten us here at home in the Central Valley. We need jobs and water, not fake memos. Pitch in a few bucks at t.co/NSHC4IXn4Y t.co/Ww0YkPDQig— Andrew Janz (@JanzforCongress) February 10, 2018
Local issues FTW!
Major Major Major Major
The way things are going, “The California Republican” is going to be the name of his fake news site and an accurate description of the number of Republicans in California.
danielx
Watching the defectives.
but “once in Tampa…was denied access to the analysts and their findings, creating further schisms between the parties.”
This means that the CENTCOM J2 (Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence) in combination with the CENTCOM Special Security Officer (SSO) were uncomfortable reading Congressman Nunes on to these compartments. They had determined that he was a security risk.
They were right.
This what happens when you let the lunatics run the asylum.
US figure skater Adam Rippon unimpressed by ‘generic’ Olympic condoms
“Like, I’m not entirely sure what I was expecting. I thought maybe they’d have like Olympic rings on them or they’d be all different colors, but, no. It’s all a myth,” Rippon said, his tone deadpan.
@Mary G: I keep hearing that Nunes’ district has a plurality of Hispanic voters, 45.9% per Ballotpedia. What kind of support he gets from that community, how immigration is playing there, what turnout is like, that I’ve had a harder time finding out. Seems to me the right investment and organizing could make the goofy bastard sweat.
@raven: Ringed for comfort?
@raven: What will Mother think?
@Adam L Silverman: Did the VP weigh in?
@raven: Only if Mother gave him permission.
Adam didn’t “officially” tell his mother he was gay until he was in his 20s. “We were on our way to a show and he said, ‘I want to make sure that you know that I’m gay, but you probably already knew’ ” says Kelly. “I told him that’s not something I would ever assume, and, his sexual orientation is not really my business as his mother.”
@Adam L Silverman: I’m sure it’s: “if you ain’t making babies, you shouldn’t have sexy time”.
@raven: Oh THAT Mother. . .
That Arby’s ad was the weirdest shit I’ve ever seen!
Hahaha! Nunes’ noosepaper has either crashed, been DDOS’d, or been deleted although I hear the FB page is still up.
Well, that didn't take long.After @Politico exposed it, Devin Nunes' personal fake news site is already down.He can't do facts right.He can't do lies right.But how compromised is Devin to be to be THIS obvious and lie THIS MUCH?#WhoOwnsDevinNunes?#RemoveNunes CC: @tedlieu pic.twitter.com/yXX0fq7kmV— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) 11 February 2018
Adam Rippon !
The Moar You Know
@Baud: sadly, California is not a homogeneous blue. He is perfect for his district, which, since our dear president has set the precedent for saying such things, is a shithole. In every way.
mai naem mobile
Has anybody else noticed how similar Donnie Jr and Devin Nunes look? Also they both commit similarly stupid acts. Are they brothers from different mothers? Inquiring minds want to know.
No Drought No More
Nunes and his co-conspirators aren’t stupid. They’re scared, and for good reason. I don’t claim to understand the reason, but have concluded it’s a criminal conspiracy that extends deep into the republican party and its bankers. It alone serves to explain the GOP’s collective behavior since the day Comey was fired.
The cold stone fact is that Russia is at this very moment waging war successfully on the United States. We are under mortal attack by a foreign power, and the rank treason practiced by Trump and congressional republicans makes Benedict Arnold look like Dwight Eisenhower. Russia Owns Trump (R.O.T). That traitorous dog is effecting Putin’s orders in the war upon America as I type.
Tim McVeigh was executed for less.
And democrats shouldn’t kid themselves, either. They should be prepared to roll with some punches concerning some of their own, too. Don’t forget this is all about money, and money corrupts…
Patrick Chan ! Beautiful.
NotMax
Nunes, worst Joe Isuzu impersonator ever.
Wouldn’t come as a surprise to find out his Congressional office walls are lined with aluminum foil.
I assumed this “scoop” was from legendary courtier Mike Allen, but it’s from his intern, Jonathan Swann
Axios @ axios
Behind closed doors: The president has told multiple people that he believes the accusations about Porter, and finds him “sick.”
erin ryan @ morninggloria
Hi Ivanka
@Aleta: Was that Jeff Buckley?
@Jim, Foolish Literalist
“I’ll hire only the best people.”
@raven: I think it was! Thanks.
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: There are race issues here that a lot of Californians don’t like to talk about. All Latinos are not equal. People who can trace their bloodlines completely from the original Spanish and Portuguese conquerors think they are better than natives, or people with mixed blood. Nunes is considered one of the Portuguese, so historically a lot of Latinos have deferred to him. It’s ridiculous, but what it is. That’s why I am impressed with Janz. It’s water that is critical in the central valley, and he gets it. Someone who will pledge not to allow us city people to take all the water and starve the farms can do well regardless of race.
schrodingers_cat
Rs unveil an absolutely horrible immigration bill.
Carolina Dave
Go Adam! Beautiful skate by Patrick Chen
geg6
@No Drought No More:
Well, yes. For instance, Wilmer should be investigated as so many bots are associated with his social media and one of his major campaign advisors has extremely suspicious ties to Russians and Putin supporters.
@Mary G: It’s bad for the glass. . .
@raven
What, were they in the presence of a notary public? Methinks whoever wrote that needs to be introduced to the word “explicitly.”
@NotMax: I report, you decide.
@schrodingers_cat: Any bill supported by Senator Cotton is horrible. It’s who he is.
@JPL: Also, Cornyn, Grassley, Ernst, and some others.
ETA: They want to go back to the 1920s Reed-Johnson Act. That’s what T promised in 2016.
@schrodingers_cat: Paul Ryan’s obvious loophole. He said he would only bring to the floor what Twitler will sign, so the senate will pass the piece of crap, Ryan will see if he can get enough of the crazy caucus to vote yes, which I think he is perfectly incapable of doing, and hopefully the Democrats will get behind Nancy Smash and get the issue into the headlines when it’s not about shutting down the government.
Not pointing a finger at you, as it’s obviously from elsewhere.
Sometimes the inner editor becomes highly miffed and irked and demands to be heard.
Davebo
Want to buy a house in California for under $140,000.00?
If you do, Nunes will be your congressman. Fresno really bites.
@schrodingers_cat: My Senator also, David Perdue. The list is filled with those who think that whites are the premiere class.
@Mary G: Why do you think that this will pass the Senate?
@schrodingers_cat:
What was always going to happen. All the promises in the world…
@Corner Stone
“Ladies and gentlemen (silken tarp pulled off with a flourish), the 2018 Edsel!”
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Baud: If the House is taken back, he’ll definitely be removed as chair.
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: I’m with Baud! Get him the hell out of the House.
@Corner Stone: This is a disaster, having an immigration debate based on false premises and Republican terms.
@schrodingers_cat: I probably should have said that they will pass some piece of crap, rather than Trump’s complete wish list. Jeff Flake is the only one I think will go against it. Marco Rubio will talk a big game, but he’ll vote yes like the marshmallow he is. Lindsay Graham has got to have some serious Russian hold on him. Democrats in red states are going to be nervous. Bernie Sanders will be an asshole. We’ll see what happens this week. They are all talking about passing whatever they can, but it may just fizzle out like every other immigration bill has in this century. I hope I’m wrong.
@WaterGirl:
I’d like him voted out of office as well. It’s a long shot though since his district’s blood red. The consolation is that by this time next year, hopefully, Nunes will at least be off the committee as chair if the House is retaken.
@schrodingers_cat: @Mary G: It won’t make it through the Senate. We may all have to reconcile the Democratic minority in the Senate simply holding the line by protecting the current immigration laws until or unless both the House and the Senate flip. And the Senate flips enough so that the GOP members don’t do what they do every previous time on this stuff: vote against bipartisan, compromise immigration bills that they are cosponsors of. Grassley did this in 2010. If the Democrats flip both chambers they still have to be able to clear the 60 vote cloture threshold in the Senate. And they may very well have to clear 2/3rds in each chamber to overcome a veto on a proper set of reforms.
Of course if they just capture both chambers, they capture the power of the purse and can simple defund ICE.
@Adam L Silverman:I
t won’t make it through the Senate. We may all have to reconcile the Democratic minority in the Senate simply holding the line by protecting the current immigration laws until or unless both the House and the Senate flip.
I agree that this is the best case scenario.
Adam Rippon was just spectacular. His condom commentary is extra hilarious.
SuzMom is making me extra crazy today. I cannot handle the nonstop talking. So much talking.
@Mary G: It is unlikely that anything will clear the 60 vote cloture threshold. And if something decent does, say a clean DACA EO withdrawal fix with some additional funds for border security (broadly defined), it will be DOA in the House.
That would likely make Twerp go into high dungeon on the Twittertron. Make it so.
If the House is retaken this fall, then such a reform bill could pass and be sent to Twerp. He would probably veto it. Or is he too much of a coward to use the veto. Has he actually vetoed anything yet?
James E. Powell
It won’t be easy. I think it’s an R+8 district.
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: I’m not sure an actual clean reform bill can clear the 60 vote closure threshold in the Senate. Doesn’t matter how many GOP senators are working with the Democrats on such a bill. In the past they always vote against their own bills when they come up for a vote.
Lapassionara
@Adam L Silverman: Defunding ICE would be good. Every day another horror story.
When I was a young person, learning to read, my local library had children’s books about young people who acted bravely when faced with Nazi atrocities. Now I do not know how and where to act in the face of the horrors being done in the name of the US. Help us, Obi Wan, you are our only hope.
glaukopis
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: I grew up in what is now the 21st district, next door to Nunes’ 22nd. It had about the same ratio of whites to Latinos then as the 22nd has now & was consistently conservative, but is now 71 % Latino & voted for Hillary & Obama in 2008 & 2012 . I’m convinced it can be done, especially if the dems have a candidate who focuses on local issues.
@Lapassionara:
“ICE, history is not on your side.”
Bernard Marks, 90, survivor of Auschwitz & Dachau, confronts ICE director Thomas Homan and Sacramento Sheriff Scott Jones at public forum—likening ICE raids to Nazis raids.#NoBanNoWallNoRaids
pic.twitter.com/hnjFUsIxKf
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@MuslimIQ) February 4, 2018
Omnes Omnibus
@Lapassionara: Even the little things count. Small acts of kindness and decency can make a difference. Start there.
@Suzanne:
I cannot handle the nonstop talking. So much talking.
I wonder sometimes if I should just build a cone of silence, instead of trying to hear around the constant talking.
@Lapassionara: In the case of the Dreamers and other undocumented immigrants, as well as those here under TPS (temporary protected status), all you can do is: 1) make sure you are aware of what is happening, 2) make sure as many other people are, 3) voice your displeasure with your Senators and member of Congress, as well as with your state legislators and local officials, 4) register to vote, 5) get as many people as you know to register to vote, 6) get them to get as many people as they know to register to vote, 6) vote, 7) get as many people as you know and that you got to register to vote to vote, 8) get as many people as you know to get as many people as they know to vote.
Right now that is it. Right now the solution is flipping the House and the Senate in November. Because what ICE and CBP are currently doing is actually in line with the law. It may violate the spirit of it. It may even be immoral and unethical. But it is legal.
@Omnes Omnibus: This too!
@Adam L Silverman: I remember this, this clip is from last year. Powerful stuff.
@James E. Powell: Found this on a website I’ve never heard of
Results are Valid, Surprising
So, overall, it can be concluded that these results are essentially accurate, meaning that the race for the 22nd Congressional District could be more competitive than many, including me, had assumed.
The minor flaws of the poll seem to be on par with usual results and do not disqualify its findings.
While Nunes has significantly more fundraising capabilities, name recognition and experience in the field than his challengers, this election will likely prove to be a far greater test to his resources than those won easily in the past.
MomSense
@Mary G:
Yes, exacrly. Run on local issues in your district. Fundraise with the big donors on Russia and other national issues.
Imagine being dopey enough to include Devin Nunes in your conspiracy. No sentient being would send him to the store for a quart of milk. He’s probably still got his name magic marketed on his underwear.
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
If the House is taken back, he’ll definitely be removed as chair.
With extreme prejudice?
@JMG:
Imagine being dopey enough to include Devin Nunes in your conspiracy.
No. You can’t make me.
@Lapassionara: I am trying to convince my friends who are permanent residents to become citizens with some success.
@Omnes Omnibus: To imagine it. To be dopey enough to possibly do it. Or to actually do it?
Would it be considered “bad form” if you said to her “Hey, Mom, can you please Google ‘STFU’ for me? I can never remember what it stands for.”
Hilarity might ensue.
To imagine it. To be dopey enough to possibly do it. Or to actually do it?
@Adam L Silverman: All of the above.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@JoeNBC
WH insiders are saying it’s just a matter of time before Kelly is gone. One source tells me more unflattering stories are coming out against an isolated CoS who has lost the president’s confidence. politico.com/story/2018/02/11/mulvaney-trump-john-kelly-nothing-402903 …
464 people are talking about this
Look like Morning Blow and Drumpf are back on speaking terms. “Why can’t I quit you!”
OT but maybe not: Holy fuck! Johnny Thunders covered “Eve of Destruction.”
I hope Trump torches John Kelly and leaves him stranded on some trip away from the WH. Then hires Lewandoski as the new CoS.
Now what, Hope?
@Omnes Omnibus: Its a good cover too.
@Adam L Silverman: Yes, it is. Knowing it exists makes me happy in a small way. I am about the little things today.
ETA: Have I learned the lesson of Candide?
I have a friend who lives in Nunes’ district. He says everyone he’s talked to despises Nunes … but that was true last election, too. He’s in a small blue dot, bobbing on the edge of a red swamp.
@Corner Stone: If we must have racist assholes in charge, let them be incompetent racist assholes.
I’m sure it’s been discussed, and I missed it, but the Koch Industry commercials in the Olympics are harshing me out.
@Corner Stone: I am so old that I remember when the good general was hailed as a noble soul and a savior.
ETA: Is our MSM learning?
@schrodingers_cat: Are you describing people’s judgments or their hopes? How would you know?
Frankensteinbeck
It alone serves to explain the GOP’s collective behavior since the day Comey was fired.
White race panic serves to explain it just fine. As far as Republicans both elected and in the voting base are concerned, their backs are to the wall and even one loss on any issue might be the one that releases the Brown Horde. They sure as HELL don’t want to admit they’re already at the stage where they can’t win without cheating.
While I can’t guarantee it, I think odds are good Trump is too cowardly to veto anything, ever. It’s the one thing that went way beyond my imagining in this election. I knew he was this stupid. I didn’t know ANYONE was this chickenshit.
randy khan
It makes perfect sense to put a guy like Nunes in charge of the Intelligence Committee. Sort of like putting an arsonist in charge of the fire department.
@SFAW:
opiejeanne
@Mary G: I’ve been flipping past most of the commercials but I paused when I saw KOCH industries on the screen. I experienced a moment of inchoate rage.
When it comes to Nunes, it is mocking a defective.
@Omnes Omnibus: Hope based on his stellar performance as the DHS secretary? I got yelled at here for calling him a racist, at his obvious glee when DACA was rescinded in August of 2017.
@Davebo:
Fresno really bites.
So it has a lot of mosquitoes?
BTW the Muslim ban is still hurting people.
From ACLU’s Twitter feed.
Who yelled at you? Kelly was never well liked around here as far as I know.
@Omnes Omnibus: What saddens me is the multiple passes people like Kelly and Porter get, which no woman or minority ever does. All their wrong doings are explained away until the evidence becomes overwhelming.
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: People still had hopes about him as CoS. In the media, I am not just talking about here.
The more I read and hear of Nunes, the more amazed I become that he was named chairman of anything more complicated than assigning post office names. This guy couldn’t organize a drinking party in a brewery; how is that he was considered competent to chair a select subcommittee in the first place? And how is that this cretinous oaf is considered competent to organize a cover up of the magnitude that’s required in the present situation?
Unless…it’s already considered likely that will need to be a congressional sacrifice at some point, and my man Devin has already been selected for the role in keeping with his continuing role as one of the House’s more useless appendages.
Devin my man, there’s an old rule about the sucker in the game: if you don’t know who it is, he’s probably occupying your chair.
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
At this rate, Spinal Tap drummer will be a more secure job than White House Chief of Staff.
@danielx:
He was named chair of that committee for a specific reason. Russia. The PTB wanted someone with all the smarts of a fart in the wind. Looks like they got their wish.
Apropos of nothing, I have a wife and two daughters.
@schrodingers_cat: Don’t project all of that on everyone here.
Yutsano
@Steve in the ATL: …Suddenly the getting away for days at a time makes sense…
@schrodingers_cat: I have called Kelly an asshole multiple times.
@Steve in the ATL: I too have two daughters and a wife and feel the need to mention this for no reason at all.
@Steve in the ATL:
Could be worse. The daughter unit and I once walked into the local grocery and headed for the produce section, and we could hear this sort of uproar before we even got there. We go around the corner and there’s this guy with a grocery cart which has four little girls ranging from maybe two to seven in age, and they’re all going at the same time…dahdahDAHdahDAHdahdah!!!!!!! Couldn’t help myself – I asked “are they all yours?” and he gave me this exhausted look and said “yes, I’m afraid so”. I don’t like to think about what it was like in that home ten years later.
Sandia Blanca
Best name for this mess came from Asha Rangappa
sdhays
@schrodingers_cat: I figured he was a racist piece of shit based on his short performance at DHS and the fact that he agreed to work for Donald J. Trump – twice. I hoped I was wrong, but, yes, he’s a racist, misogynist piece of shit.
I will be pretty shocked if he loses his job over this (although he certainly deserves to). Clearly he and the Preznit are on the same page, very sad that those two harpies had the nerve to bring down their friend by exposing him as a monster. So unfair!
@Sandia Blanca: She’s kind of a wingnut, IMO. So.
@schrodingers_cat: Any specific call outs?
@Corner Stone: Hmmm, have not noticed that about her, but I’ll watch for any such tendencies. Thanks for that tip. “Nooney Tunes” is still a cool name though, right?
@Suzanne: Dead thread, but we just finished seeing some old friends. The wife loves to talk. On our rail trailnride I clocked her at 10 minutes nonstop. On the way back in the pickup she was in back with 2 bikes and talked to us the whole way… through two closed windows and we couldn’t hear any of it. A marvel.
@schrodingers_cat: Why do your permanent resident friends not want to become citizens? But I admit we’re not at our best right now and sensible people might not want to throw in with us. The meeting with the in laws went ok, I think. I hope. They seem nice. They took down the spiciness of the food by an order of magnitude, and my daughter warned me to make a generous application of the yogurt sauce, so I enjoyed the dinner. There were lots of relatives, and socializing with new people is not one of my strengths, so I hope I did well enough.
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Opinion | Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren Are Democrats‘ Top Choices for President
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“[Ballingrud's] evocative and strangely beautiful.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Nathan Ballingrud is one of my favorite contemporary authors and any time he’s got a new book out I run to the front of the line. His work is elegant and troublingly, wonderfully disturbing.”—Victor LaValle, award–winning author of The Changeling
“Nathan Ballingrud's brilliant fiction brims with imagination, integrity (I do not use that term lightly), and an authentic world-weary dread that bores directly into your heart. With Wounds you'll gladly follow Nathan to Hell and (maybe) back.”—Paul Tremblay, award-winning author of The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts
“Nathan Ballingrud is one of my favorite short fiction writers.” —Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times bestselling author of Annihilation and Borne
“Stretch[es] the boundaries of the genre by employing these grand, horrific worlds. “The Butcher’s Table” reminds me of the first time I read Clive Barker’s “In the Hills, the Cities.” It’s horrifying, but there’s beauty.” —The New York Times
“In only two slender collections, Nathan Ballingrud has emerged as one of the field’s most accomplished short story writers.” —The Washington Post
“Ballingrud’s work isn’t like any other.”—Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing
“One of the most disquieting and memorable short story collections to come out this year.”—The New York Review of Books
“Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell is without a doubt one of the best, most accomplished horror collections in recent memory.”—Hellnotes
“Wounds will no doubt be remembered as one of the most disquieting and memorable short story collections to come out this year.”—New York Journal of Books
“There’s enough nightmare fuel here to inspire weeks of insomnia — all told with an even hand with a penchant for precise storytelling. How else do you chart the furthest reaches of the uncanny?”—Tobias Carroll, Vol. 1 Brooklyn
A gripping collection of six stories of terror—including the novella “The Visible Filth,” the basis for the upcoming major motion picture—by Shirley Jackson Award–winning author Nathan Ballingrud, hailed as a major new voice by Jeff VanderMeer, Paul Tremblay, and Carmen Maria Machado—“one of the most heavyweight horror authors out there” (The Verge).
In his first collection, North American Lake Monsters, Nathan Ballingrud carved out a distinctly singular place in American fiction with his “piercing and merciless” (Toronto Globe and Mail) portrayals of the monsters that haunt our lives—both real and imagined: “What Nathan Ballingrud does in North American Lake Monsters is to reinvigorate the horror tradition” (Los Angeles Review of Books).
Now, in Wounds, Ballingrud follows up with an even more confounding, strange, and utterly entrancing collection of six stories, including one new novella. From the eerie dread descending upon a New Orleans dive bartender after a cell phone is left behind in a rollicking bar fight in “The Visible Filth” to the search for the map of hell in “The Butcher’s Table,” Ballingrud’s beautifully crafted stories are riveting in their quietly terrifying depictions of the murky line between the known and the unknown.
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Home » Navigation » PBA » PBA League » Dallas, Portland advance to L.L.Bean PBA League Elias Cup Finals
Dallas, Portland advance to L.L.Bean PBA League Elias Cup Finals
The excitement generated from four sudden-death roll-offs in the quarterfinals continued to build in the L.L.Bean PBA League semifinal round at Bayside Bowl in Portland, Maine, when the defending champion Shipyard Dallas Strikers swept their best-of-two-game match against the Sysco Philadelphia Hitmen while the local-favorite L.L.Bean Portland Lumberjacks won a stunning sudden-death battle over the Live + Work in Maine Silver Lake Atom Splitters to set up the finalists for next Sunday’s Elias Cup finals.
The best-of-two-game semifinal round matches aired Sunday on ESPN. The PBA League Elias Cup will be decided next Sunday at 1 p.m. EDT on ESPN in a showdown involving singles, doubles, trios and Baker team matches.
Employing a strategy that proved successful in the opening round, Dallas player-manager Norm Duke (above left) disregarded his personal views, electing to put his team on the more consistent right lane for the first game in order to finish the match on the tricky left lane.
The strategy worked when team members Bill O’Neill, Duke, Rhino Page, BJ Moore III and anchor bowler Tommy Jones (right) strung five strikes in the second half of game one for a 239-196 win.
The Strikers then clinched their berth in the Elias Cup finals with a 201-165 win in game two – the first match settled without a roll-off – taking advantage of a pair of doubles while Philadelphia ran into split trouble as the scoring conditions on the right lane began to change.
“We were the higher seed so we got to choose the order of lanes,” Duke said. “We decided to do what we did (in the first round) because my guys seemed to like them when they’re hooking more. I don’t know about that, but they have a point. When the other guys go to the right lane, it’s harder to move right than left.
“It was against my instincts, but I have some really good minds and they know what they like,” the PBA Hall of Famer added. “I can pretty much deal with all of it, so I try to put them in the right position. Now we’re back in the title match, and that’s what counts.”
The Lumberjacks had a more challenging trip to their finals berth, facing a comeback after the Atom Splitters – the only team to win the Elias Cup twice – escaped with a 221-217 win in the first game. As the lane conditions continued to transition in the second game, strikes became less frequent and spares became more valuable.
Heading into the 10th frame, Portland was on the brink of elimination after throwing only three strikes in the entire game. The Atom Splitters, needing only a mark in the 10th frame to lock up another berth in the Elias Cup finals, saw their hopes slip when anchor Jesper Svensson (left) got his first shot wide and left the 3-7 split.
Then the crowd was stunned when the left-handed two-hander threw a near-perfect shot, but the 3 pin wrapped around the 7, handing the Lumberjacks a 185-182 victory and sending yet another match into sudden-death.
In the one-ball roll-off, Silver Lake’s Tom Daugherty (right) and Portland’s Wes Malott both struck. On the second attempt, Svensson came up light in the pocket again, leaving a 3 pin, and Portland’s Ryan Ciminelli sent the crowd into a frenzy with a strike.
“I couldn’t even hear myself screaming over the fans,” Ciminelli (below left) said. “Before Jesper got up in the 10th frame, I told (Lumberjacks manager) Tim (Mack) if he gives us a chance, I want it and he said, it doesn’t matter; you’re already getting it.
Then he looked at Wes, and Wes said he wanted to throw (the sudden-death shot). We kinda went back and forth, but we decided it was going to take two shots, so (Wes) went first and he gave me the opportunity to be the hero. It’s a very cool feeling.”
“What a match,” Mack said. “We never expected Jesper to give us a chance. Just goes to show it isn’t over until it’s over. He gets up in the 10th and gets the ball a little wide, and leaves that split. And then he wraps the pin around the 7 pin, which is crazy. He couldn’t have made a better shot.
“In the roll-off it’s about heart and determination. All of a sudden we got a second life,” Mack (below right) continued.
“I knew it was going to be Ryan or the big guy (Malott), and I went with Wes first just because he wanted to redeem himself after feeling like he let us down in the 10th frame. That’s not true, but he gave a chance. Then Jesper left a 7 pin and Ciminelli made an unbelievable shot. That’s what it’s all about.”
Next Sunday’s 1 p.m. EDT Elias Cup finals telecast between the Shipyard Dallas Strikes and L.L.Bean Portland Lumberjacks will include singles, doubles and Baker trios matches worth one point each, and a five-player Baker format team finale worth three points. In case of a tie, the Elias Cup will be decided in a one-ball sudden-death roll-off.
In addition to the Elias Cup, the PBA will recognize the PBA League’s Mark Roth Most Valuable Player at the conclusion of the finals. The ESPN telecast will be simultaneously streamed on ESPN3 and the WatchESPN app.
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Single-elimination, best-of-two-game Baker format
Match One:
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Sysco Philadelphia Hitmen
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239-196, 201-165.
Match Two:
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(Bryon Smith, Liz Johnson, Kyle Troup, Ryan Ciminelli, Wes Malott) def.
Live + Work in Maine Silver Lake Atom Splitters
(Chris Barnes, Shawn Maldonado, DJ Archer, Tom Daugherty, Jesper Svensson),
217-221, 185-182, 10-10, 10-9 in one-ball sudden-death roll-off.
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20 December 2018 / News
Wakanow gets $40 million investment from Carlyle Group
Wakanow—a famous online travel agency in Nigeria focused on West and East Africa—received funding of $40 million from The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG)—an american multinational investment firm.
The decade-old travel agency operates a network of traditional brick-and-mortar travel centers and has operations in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. Wakanow is one of West Africa’s largest full-service online travel companies, providing its customers with a one-stop online booking portal for flights, hotels, holiday packages, and other travel services.
Wakanow enjoys strong brand recognition in its local markets, perks of persisting for a long times.
Carlyle is the same company that invested $147 million in the troubled Diamond facing an acquisition by Access bank—in the year 2014.
Yet, four years later, the US private equity remains bullish on African investments.
For this Wakanow investment, equity came from Carlyle’s Sub-Saharan Africa fund.
The investment adds to Carlyle’s experience in the online travel sector, where it has invested in companies such as C-trip—one of the major online travel agencies operating across China, CVC Brasil—a Latin American travel and tour operator and Vasco Turismo—one of the largest travel operations groups in Peru.
Speaking on the investment on Wednesday, Idris Mohammed—Managing Director, Carlyle’s Sub-Saharan African Fund team (CSSAF): “Wakanow has experienced incredible growth since inception, disrupting the travel market and taking market share both online and offline”.
Idris Mohammed, MD at The Carlyle Group
“We believe that this strong growth trajectory will continue as Wakanow benefits from an expanding middle class across the continent in addition to increasing internet penetration and mobile connectivity, which is driving increased online traffic. We look forward to working with Wakanow’s management team to help them deliver on their vision for growth and expansion”, Idris added.
This is good for Wakanow and comes as a refresher. Because, at the start of the year, there were suspicions and rumours that the International Air Transport Association (IATA) were going to yank off Wakanow from its Billing and Settlement Plan (BSP) due to unpaid settlements signalling that Nigeria's largest travel agency was facing financial challenges. It was suspected that the devaluation of the naira made it difficult for Nigerians to travel outside the country. And on the flip side, Wakanow might have been reluctant to pass down the full cost of travel to her already distressed customers. But because they are a private company and they do not make their financial records public, it was hard for anyone to confirm whether or not they were indeed facing this financial challenges.
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Also, observers are hopeful that this would help the travel agency meet defaulted financial obligations like payment of salaries.
Speaking on the investment, Obinna Ekezie—CEO, Wakanow said: “We are excited to partner with Carlyle as we continue to grow and expand in Africa and beyond”.
“Carlyle’s global footprint and scale, as well as its extensive experience and network in the online travel sector, will help us to further develop our offerings and broaden our customer base”.
Hopefully, this investment gives Wakanow a chance to retain their position as the country's leading travel agency and more.
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Tony Bell: I wasn't popular in Portadown and when I scored the Irish Cup final winner for Cliftonville, it added insult to injury
Tony Bell on 1979 Cliftonville heroics, excelling in different sports, and brave battle with cancer
Swing of it: Tony Bell is still playing bowls and golf
Tony in action for Ireland
Famous day: Tony Bell (far right) celebrates Irish Cup success with Cliftonville teammates Marty Quinn and John Flanagan (front)
By John Campbell
January 4 2020 10:20 AM
Not too many players can claim that they scored the winning goals in both the Irish Cup final and the Armagh 'B' Gaelic Football Championship final, but then not many have shared in the level of versatility that has underpinned Tony Bell's sporting life to date.
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/irish-league/cliftonville/tony-bell-i-wasnt-popular-in-portadown-and-when-i-scored-the-irish-cup-final-winner-for-cliftonville-it-added-insult-to-injury-38832121.html
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Now 66 but "going on 40" as he puts it himself, this former teacher's sporting prowess has brought him success in bowls, cricket and badminton as well as soccer and GAA.
A soccer career that began with Glenavon was to span some 17 years and take him to Portadown, Glentoran, Ards, Larne and Cliftonville.
From the word go, goalscoring was to be Bell's forte and he retains a vivid recollection of his most memorable moments in this respect.
"I was lucky enough to score a couple of goals on my debut for Glenavon against Crusaders and this seemed to kick-start my career as a finisher, if you'll pardon the pun," recalls Bell.
But one goal more than any other during his playing career afforded Bell considerable satisfaction. That came in the 1979 Irish Cup final for Cliftonville when his late strike proved the winner and allowed the Reds to take delivery of a trophy which they have not been able to get their hands on again since.
As a native of Portadown and a former player with his local club, Tony was not too surprised that his winning goal did not endear him to the population of the town.
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"I wasn't too popular in Portadown because I had thrown in my lot with Cliftonville and then when I scored that winning goal in the 1979 Irish Cup final, this was viewed as adding insult to injury," reflects Tony.
"But we had a decent Cliftonville team then and it was my job to get goals. Obviously it gave me satisfaction to get that winner but I was sorry that my native Portadown had to be the victims on that occasion.
"My father, who is now 93, has been a lifelong supporter of the club but he didn't hold what I did against me.
"That Cliftonville team and that final will stay with me until the day I die. It was a great team with great men in it."
It was through his involvement with soccer that Tony came into contact with former Armagh GAA star Ger Houlahan.
Bell admits that he was "slightly flabbergasted" when Houlahan suggested that he might like to try his hand at Gaelic football and subsequently paved the way for him to turn out for Armagh city club Pearse Og.
If he found the physical demands of the Gaelic code on a rather higher level, Tony's scoring touch was nonetheless still there to serve him well, never more so than in the Armagh 'B' Football Championship final against Clan na gael.
"The Pearse Og side were awarded a penalty in the closing moments and when it was suggested that I should take it, I initially baulked at the prospect because the goals looked smaller and the spot-kick mark looked rather more distant from the target than in soccer but in the end I said I would have a go," recollects Bell.
"I set the ball down and thumped it as hard as I could but the goalkeeper still managed to beat the ball out to the side. I followed up and from an acute angle I was able to squeeze the ball into the far corner of the net and that score gave us a victory that we never thought we would achieve."
In time, he graduated to the Pearse Og senior string in which he proved a very capable forward and when Houlahan expressed the view that he could possibly reach inter-county status, this provided him with more encouragement.
But his myriad of sporting interests meant that Bell was not able to commit himself more fully to a career in GAA.
"To be honest, the fact that Gaelic football is played on a bigger pitch than soccer or rugby suited me down to the ground because I was able to use my pace better and avail of space," reveals Tony. "I was also able to score with both feet which I found to be a big help.
"I know nowadays most players have mastered this particular skill but back some 30 years ago it was rather different with most players only able to kick scores with one foot."
It was with some regret that he eventually departed the GAA scene.
"I made some good friends in the Pearse Og club and since then Gerard Houlahan has invited me to oversee soccer coaching courses which were run under the auspices of the Council in Armagh," he points out.
When he called time on his field game pursuits, Tony turned his hand to bowls and was to make an impact in both the indoor and outdoor codes.
"I was fortunate enough to reach the British Isles Triples and Fours finals over the course of the last few years and this afforded me tremendous satisfaction," reveals Bell. "I had initially taken up the sport as a means of relaxation but as I got more involved my competitive juices started to flow again and I found myself competing at quite a high level, which was rather unexpected."
Indeed, since he called time on what he terms "high-energy sports" he has been enjoying an extended sporting career through bowls, golf and cricket as well as becoming an armchair rugby fan.
"I have represented Dunbarton bowling club and I am a member of Tandragee golf club but I can assure you that my interest in rugby is away from the field of play," smiles Bell. "My brother Gary's daughter, Jodie, is married to the former Ulster and Ireland captain Rory Best so it's no great surprise to learn that I have been a passionate follower of both teams for some years now."
Even the onset of prostate cancer has failed to diminish his spirit or quench his pursuit of an active life.
"The cancer was initially diagnosed some 13 years ago and I had radiotherapy treatment last year, but I must say I am feeling good just now," states Bell.
"I like to get on with what I am doing, although I recognise my limitations. There are people out there who are more unfortunate than me and I have to say that life is good."
He certainly did not pick his love for the outdoor life up off the stones. At just seven years short of reaching the 'ton', his father still undertakes his walk in Gosford Forest Park, Markethill on at least four days in any given week.
"My father has always been a very active man and he has kept us all on our toes. He lives just a few doors from me in Castle Avenue, Richhill while my brother also resides in the same row of houses so we are a close family with sport helping to cement what is a great bond. Maybe they should rename the street 'Bell Avenue'," adds Tony.
He follows in his father's footsteps by walking and exercising in Gosford Forest Park and continues to take a keen interest in all sports.
"I like to think that I have a positive attitude and I feel that this helps to sustain me," states Tony.
"I know that there are a lot of people engaged in sport who derive tremendous satisfaction from it and I must say that I certainly enjoyed my involvement in whatever sport I was pursuing at any given time.
"I like to think that I have been trying to put something back into football by overseeing coaching courses and helping young players. There is obviously great interest in sport just now and with the improved facilities and highly enthusiastic coaches I can see great progress being made on all fronts.
"It's tremendous to see young people getting the encouragement they receive to help them maximise their talents and I have no doubt that the stars of the future are right here in our midst when you think about it."
Reds' no. 2 fully aware of Anderson's threat
By Ian Callender Cliftonville assistant manager Brian Donaghey knows all about Lloyd Anderson from their time together in the Northern Ireland Schoolboys set-up, but his team were helpless to prevent the 21-year-old Carrick Rangers midfielder from turning in a match-winning performance off the bench.
'They'll have to fear us': Linfield won't relish Solitude trip, says Cliftonville star...
By Steven Beacom Cliftonville hero Conor McMenamin insists champions Linfield will be fearful of tonight's crunch league game because Paddy McLaughlin's men are in such red-hot form.
'We need to get better': David Healy calls on Linfield to find consistency for title charge
By Steven Beacom Linfield manager David Healy knew the question was coming. He had been down this road before… too often this season for his own liking.
How Reds ace McMenamin has taken the scenic route to the summit
By Gareth Hanna From Big Two reject to the Irish League's in-form forward via a spell as Warrenpoint Town's make-shift left-back; it's been quite a journey for Conor McMenamin.
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Zinedine Zidane happy with Vinicius Junior’s performances despite lack of goals
Centre-back Raphael Varane and striker Karim Benzema were on target in the 2-0 win over Espanyol.
Vinicius Junior could not mark his impressive display with a goal (Bernat Armangue/AP)
By PA Sport Staff
December 7 2019 16:18 PM
Zinedine Zidane is unconcerned about Vinicius Junior’s lack of goals after Real Madrid recorded a fourth straight LaLiga win.
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/zinedine-zidane-happy-with-vinicius-juniors-performances-despite-lack-of-goals-38762633.html
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Centre-back Raphael Varane and striker Karim Benzema were on target in the 2-0 win over Espanyol at the Bernabeu that moved Real back to the top of the table ahead of Barcelona’s clash with Mallorca in Saturday’s late kick-off.
Real were without injured wingers Gareth Bale and Eden Hazard, so Zidane started teenage duo Vinicius and Rodrygo together for the first time.
Zinedine Zidane watched his side win again (Nick Potts/PA)
Vinicius impressed throughout with his pace and trickery down the left, but he missed a number of chances and has managed to score just once this season.
Real boss Zidane, quoted by Marca, said: “The important thing is his work. What he has done he has done well, both in attack and defence.
“He started the game very well. Today he has had to play and he has done quite well, although everyone likes to score.
“The important thing is to score one and then get into some rhythm. These are things that come with confidence.
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“I do not ask anyone for goals. That is a consequence of what the team does. Today it was Varane’s turn, for example.”
Varane’s goal was his first for the club since March and he told the club’s website: “We’re a team. The strikers help us and we help them. It’s a team job and I’m happy with my goal.
“We’re more confident, looking fit and are on a good run. We’ve got to keep it up because between now and the end the year we have some tough games and we’ll be giving our all.”
The only disappointment for Real during Saturday’s win was Ferland Mendy’s late dismissal for a second bookable offence.
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Mendy will miss next weekend’s league clash with Valencia, while fellow left-back Marcelo is sidelined through injury.
Espanyol boss Pablo Machin felt Real were lucky not to have also had Vinicius sent off earlier. The 19-year-old – who had already been booked – collided with former Real goalkeeper Diego Lopez.
Machin said: “The second card to Vinicius is clear. There are many who think that it could have been a second yellow.”
On his side’s performance – off the back of last week’s 4-2 home defeat to Osasuna – Machin added: “The reality is that we have not been able to score, but we set a target to improve and many have done that today. We have changed the image.”
By PA Sport Staff Speculation about the future of Tottenham attacker Christian Eriksen continues, with the Daily Mail reporting that Inter Milan want to bring in the Denmark international in time for their game next Sunday. Eriksen, 27, has been on the books at Spurs since 2013.
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Don't Do High-Rep Squats, Deads, And Bench! Do These Instead
John Rusin, DPT, CSCS
To build strength and size, you need both low reps and epic burnouts. But not all moves lend themselves to both approaches! Rather than risking life and limb under the bar, use these smart approaches!
When it comes to safely and effectively loading a movement, not all exercises were created equal. Sure, there are regions of the body, muscle groups, and movements that respond extremely well to torturous high-rep sets to produce a desired training response, but there are also movements that, in my experience, should not be challenged with reps. You may have heard of them: the back squat, barbell deadlift, and bench press.
Why aren't these great for reps? Any time one of these compound movements is trained, there is one mandatory rule in order to yield the greatest training effect while also reducing the risk for injuries: You must—must!—produce and maintain full-body tension with laser focus and locked-in intensity.
Lifters who have shed blood, sweat, and tears in the weight room over the years know that keeping full tension under serious loading is pretty damn hard to do for a hard triple, let alone maintain for higher rep sets. They also know that losing tension and falling into ugly, grinding reps is a fast track to injury.
This doesn't mean that all versions of these movements must be in the six-reps-and-under club, though. Here's how to program the big lifts safely, and alternative movements that you can program more safely in higher-rep schemes for pain-free results.
Low Reps: Barbell Deadlift
Proper full-body tension and bracing during the deadlift is arguably the single hardest setup skill to master in the weight room. Why? Because you train this staple movement from the bottom up as opposed to the top down.
By starting with the bar on the floor and setting up around it to perform the concentric (raising) half of the rep, rather than performing the eccentric (lowering) half first, you have to consciously generate the tension you need, rather than having the lift help you generate it. This tough setup is also the reason I often see lifters get stronger, tighter, and more explosive in their second and third reps in a set, as opposed to the first rep off the floor. For those latter reps, they have the eccentric portion to help them.
But that rock-solid tension you find at rep three doesn't last forever, and when you lose it, things can get ugly fast. This is the reason why I primarily program the traditional deadlift in pure strength rep schemes of between 2-6 reps. Load it heavy, and allow it to help teach you the skill of tension.
High Rep Alternative: Trap Bar Deadlift
The mechanical difference between the conventional deadlift and the trap bar deadlift is subtle. The trap bar has neutral grip handles, for one, but more importantly, it shifts the weight's center of mass back just a few crucial inches—to where it is more in line with your body's center of mass.
This shift of just a few inches slightly alters the movement pattern, making it easier to achieve and maintain the brace through more reps per set.
So if you're looking for a brutal max-rep challenge on the deadlift, stick to the trap bar, and of course, keep constant effort to perfect that spinal position and full-body tension. To be clear, you can also can train this movement low, in that 2-6 rep range, but it's also perfect to strap in and go for a ride.
Low Reps: Barbell Bench Press
Unlike the deadlift, the bench press starts with eccentric lowering. But even with that advantage, it can be equally as challenging to do right. Think of all the cues that you've heard—or googled—for how to get tight for the bench press. It's a head-to-toe undertaking! You start at the feet, driving them down into the ground actively. Then your glutes must fire maximally, the core brace hard, and the lats and pecs co-contract at the top of the lift.
And that's all before you move the weight! Seriously, the setup itself on the bench is the hardest aspect of the lift. I tell people that the best way to optimize tension on the bench press is to make light weights feel heavy. In other words, work your ass off to create stiffness from head to toe with the same intensity using an empty bar as you'd have with a few wagon wheels on each side.
With all of that in play, you'll quickly realize that the limiting factor for a pristine multi-rep bench press is usually not the pecs or shoulders not being strong enough, but rather the endurance of the brace.
This is why the bench press should be programmed as a power and strength-based movement only. Stick with rep schemes of between 2-6 reps for resilient strength development, and if you really want a challenge, try incorporating some extremely light bands into the mix, either from the top or bottom of the lift.
High-Rep Alternative: Dumbbell Bench Press
Due to the complex anatomical structure of the pecs and shoulders, I recommend hitting the horizontal-press movement pattern from multiple angles, and with a range of intensities, to maximize both muscle and strength. And when it comes time, up the rep ranges and relative intensities—how hard a set feels—with dumbbells.
While full-body tension during dumbbell bench-press variations is still a hurdle, the fact that two external loads are being moved instead of one load helps set you up for success. The two loads reflexively produce stability at the shoulders, which means you can safely scale reps up to target both hypertrophy and the metabolic pump effect.
In layman's terms: go nuts. Use a variety of bench angles, and don't be afraid to add intensity techniques to this setup as well. As long as your spinal, hip, and lower body positions stay strict, you can push yourself on this movement.
Low Reps: Barbell Back Squat
Throughout my tenure coaching athletes, I've seen no lift produce as much apprehension in athletes as the back squat. Part of this is because you have to control the load through such a large range of motion, and through a number of different body positions. Part of it is also no doubt due to the fear of missing a rep and having the bar pin you into the rack—or the ground.
In either case, the squat is the perfect example of how damn hard it is to maintain a brace through a change of direction, and a change of muscle action. At the bottom portion of a squat, the lowering phase (eccentric) rapidly turns into the raising phase (concentric), and it happens at the most vulnerable part of the lift.
Think of the complexity of the movement as I've described it, then think about placing 15-25 rep sets on top of that positional challenge. Doesn't really add up, does it? That's why the barbell squat and its many variations are best trained in the strength rep range, but also trained placing an emphasis on bracing and regaining the brace at the top of every single rep.
This doesn't have to mean that you sit and wait for 15 seconds between each rep to complete a set. Just do what you have to do to ensure that you can rebuild maximum tension before descending into the next rep. This works best for rep schemes of 2-6 reps for the squat. And for some extra CNS fun, try an explosive triple dropset starting at a top-end load, as featured in the video.
High-Rep Alternative: The Goblet Squat
I talked about the virtues of this movement at length in my article "The More Gain, Less Pain Guide to Squats," as well as on my visit to the Bodybuilding.com Podcast, but if you're looking for the six-word version, here it is: You really should be doing these.
If you want to create metabolic stress and challenge using squat patterns, it's best done using a setup that enforces the most stability in the kinetic chain. For the squat, that's actively holding a weight out in front of your body as opposed to passively placing it on your back. The goblet squat is my preferred squat variation to take rep counts to failure—and upward of 25 reps per set.
Don't dismiss the goblet squat as just another corrective exercise. When it's loaded correctly and programmed with a goal in mind, this simple move can be a game changer for your muscle growth and strength. Think you're strong? Take the relative strength goblet-squat test. Can you get 25 or more unbroken reps with 50 percent of your body weight held in the goblet position?
Try it and see. That's the kind of intensity I'm talking about!
Dr. John Rusin is a coach, speaker, and writer who runs a sports-performance physical-therapy practice in Madison, Wisconsin.
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We're pleased to announce that we have arranged for Justin Bowen to come to West Salem, Wisconsin to run a 3-day skill development camp for youth and middle school players. This is a youth and middle school camp for players looking to develop an advanced scoring and playmaking skill set.
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AGE GROUP:Grade 4 to 9, Boys and Girls
You will improve your shooting, ball handling, passing, athleticism footwork, decision-making, and 1 on 1 moves to take your game to the next level.
Game like shooting drills to drive up your shooting percentage.
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Advanced hand-eye coordination and ball handling drills that will accelerate your feel for the basketball. These drills will make dribbling during game situations feel easy.
How to develop an explosive first step. This is probably one of the most important aspects of being a playmaker, but it is rarely broken down and taught properly. Learn about the proper shin angle, head position, shoulder position, and hip position.
Advanced finishing moves will be taught, such as finishing with the inside hand, wrong/goofy foot, taking away defenders angle by using the rim and making a defender go through you to get a traditional 3 point play.
Critical components of basketball IQ required to become a great offensive player from an individual and team aspect.
How the top pros create advantages which allow them to make plays for themselves and their teammates.
Here are some of the topics covered throughout the camp:
Stationary ball handling routine that improve rhythm, feel, and coordination with the basketball.
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How to cut and get open. You will learn v-cuts, basket cuts, l-cuts, backdoor cuts, and more.
Attacking down screens, back screens, and more.
How to score and make plays using ball screens. Learn how to run defenders into screens and make lightning quick decisions.
How to use dribble hand off actions to attack the defense and put them in a constant disadvantage.
How to use your feet to gain a better position to score from almost anywhere on the floor.
Utilize front pivots, reverse pivots, step throughs, sweeps, drop steps, and hops to make you an elite player.
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Competitive Play and Controlled Scrimmages
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This camp is for both boys & girls 4th-9th grades, ages/skill levels will be separated.
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�If it doesn�t challenge you, it doesn�t change you.�
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His Whitney Young teams won the 2017 4A Boys State Championship and they were the runner-up in 2018 with Coach Bowen serving as Associate Head Coach.
Along with being the Founder and CEO of GOAT Sports Academy in Chicago, he�s currently Head Varsity Basketball Coach at Kenwood Academy High School in Chicago.
Players love learning from him because they know he�s played at the highest levels, having played at the University of Illinois at Chicago and spending time with the San Antonio Spurs and Chicago Bulls after graduation.
Parents and players also love the way he mixes motivation with encouragement, so that players leave with major breakthroughs in skills AND confidence.
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Court session at the criminal court/tribunal de grande instance in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, with interpreter sitting in chair second from left, defendant standing, lady witness sitting, prosecutor far left, court clerk writing by hand on far right and three judges. ©
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Observations of an anthropologist
The courtroom at the tribunal de grande instance in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, looks like a stage to me – audience on one side of a wooden fence, court on the other. The members of the court perform a well-rehearsed choreography here at the criminal court. This feeling arises because the procedure is exactly the same every time I come to observe a day of trials. First, a clerk moves busily back and forth between offices and the courtroom, bringing in an impressive pile of files – les dossiers – and a huge, black ledger for today’s court session. He places the ledger on the prosecutor’s desk. Why, exactly, this book needs to be so huge I do not understand yet. Once this task has been accomplished, the clerk turns on the air conditioner and fans, pushes chairs into position and reprimands those individuals in the audience, who seem to not follow the etiquette as he sees it. With a snap of his fingers and a swiping hand gesture he orders one man to take off his hat. Satisfied, he then checks if the five members of the court, who are waiting in the hallway off of la salle d’audience – three judges, one prosecutor and one court scribe – are ready to enter the courtroom. If they are, he can finally ring the bell and loudly announce «La cour !» which is the sign for everybody to get up. So far, he is the uncontested boss in the room. Then the door opens and the toga-clad, serious looking members of the court enter, moving towards their designated seats and sitting down. Now the clerk transforms into the court interpreter, in turn taking his designated seat. Who is this person who is first clerk and then interpreter? What is his role, exactly?
Is the language of justice a just language?
Everybody in the salle d’audience here at the criminal court in Bobo-Dioulasso only sits back down when the presiding judge has opened the proceedings, giving us all permission to do so. The courtroom of the tribunal de grande instance is a contact zone, or rather, and to further develop Pratt’s (1991) concept, a zone of struggle – a space where different languages and cultures meet and grapple with each other. The mandatory language for the court, i.e. judges and prosecutors, is French, while defendants, witnesses, victims and the court interpreter are permitted to use other languages. It seems like an unnecessary detour that judges have to use French since they could simply speak to defendants directly, using Jula, the language everybody in Bobo-Dioulasso speaks at least as a second language. This constellation calls for an interpreter.
At the palais de justice in Dakar, a country where the inherited French justice system persists as well, criminal trials get interpreted, too. But judges also use Wolof – in fact, entire trials are conducted in Wolof – a language 80% of Senegalese speak. Why is the use of French mandatory for the court in Burkina Faso but not in Senegal? Who decides this and how? And who are the interpreters? Who hires them and upon what criteria are they recruited? Since there is no training for court interpreters in Burkina Faso, how do interpreters translate the technical legal language? How do they interpret faithfully, while at the same time assuring defendants understand?
In this choreographed performance in the contact zone a struggle is going on between those in charge of the proceedings – the court – and those who are being brought to trial. It is a struggle not only of understanding, but also about who is in charge and how this power can be maintained.
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March 20, 2018 - 01:08:33
Did you know that the beginning stages of Paul the Apostle’s ministry were greatly affected by a woman? And not just any woman: Lydia, a successful businesswoman, who many scholars believe to be his first known convert.
Specifically, she sold purple cloth—which, back then, was valuable and expensive. It was a sign of wealth, nobility and royalty. Purple cloth was purchased and worn by members of the royal family and Roman senators. So Lydia’s customers—her demographic and target market, in fact—were upper-class people. And we can assume that Lydia was successful and prosperous because she owned a home with enough rooms to host Paul and three of his friends overnight at the same time!
What I love about Lydia’s story is that it’s a biblical example of how God cares about our life as a whole, not just our spiritual life. The biblical account of her life doesn’t shy away from the fact that she was a successful businesswoman. And why would it? God cares about our business pursuits! He is the One who gave us those gifts to be used in the first place.
If it weren’t for Lydia’s business, would she have had the means and the space to house Paul and his companions overnight? Maybe not.
Later in her story, she once again offers up her home as a place for the early church to meet. Lydia didn’t operate what we would call a “Christian” or faith-based business, but her business and her lifestyle of faith was certainly helping Christians.
Related: What Happens When You Use Your Gifts
One of my favorite Bible passages speaks to not only using your gifts, but also using them as a light for others:
“You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.” Matthew 5:14–16 (NIV)
How Can Faith Affect Your Business?
As a Christian, when you live a life of faith, you are being true to yourself. But you may have wondered how prominent your faith should be in your business.
As a Christian, when you live a life of faith, you are being true to yourself.
There are two ways to approach faith in business:
Your business is identified as being in the Christian sector.
Your business is in the general marketplace but is owned by someone of faith.
Choosing which approach to take in your business is an important decision, because it will affect your:
Unique position
Access to other markets
In this episode, I’ll explain the real differences here and give lots of examples. I want you to decide which path makes the most sense for you. That way, you can reach the most people!
My First Guest This Week Is Alli Worthington!
Alli is an author, speaker, mom of five boys (send prayers), and the executive director of Propel Women. She’s an amazing entrepreneurial coach, helping everyone from small-business owners all the way up to fortune 500 companies!
But being a successful businesswoman wasn’t always part of Alli’s story. She shares her journey of dealing with an unsettling force that so many of us deal with: anxiety. Alli remembers one day in a Target parking lot when she broke down in tears. She called a friend for help, and her friend told her, “You’re so held down by the weight of fear and worry—and you’re trying to make safety your god.”
But Alli thought that was normal. She thought anxiety was just part of modern life.
It wasn’t until the release of her first book—while simultaneously walking with her husband through a serious illness—that she was able to confront her fears head on and break free from anxiety.
Alli’s story is a very real example of how tough, terrifying and downright unpleasant it can be to put one foot in front of the other, trusting God and pursuing what you love in the face of fear. In this podcast, Alli and I talk about:
How men and women experience fear differently
Practical ways to follow God’s “Fear not” command
Working through the unique kind of visceral, vulnerable fear that comes with being a mom
Exploring Faith in Business With Stephanie Meek
Stephanie and her husband, Isaac, own and operate Five Daughters Bakery in Nashville, Tennessee—and y’all, their donuts are like a drug. These are not your typical donuts; they are gourmet, croissant donuts . . . and they’re next-level good.
The bakery is named for Stephanie and Isaac’s five daughters, and that’s not the only element from their personal lives they incorporated into the business. While they don’t run a business that falls into the Christian sector, they are business owners of faith. Their faith influences everything about their approach to business: from the way they treat their employees and customers to what they charge for donuts (and guess what—they’re not “cheap!”).
In this episode, Stephanie and I talk about:
Seeking God first in your dream and your business
How they got their product into stores and then grew into their own storefront
Operating a business under their number one core value: relationships first
Leaving a legacy of leadership for your family to see
Plus, I’ll answer a question from one of our live Business Boutique events about operations.
How has your faith impacted your business? I’d love to hear from you in the comments below!
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'The BJP-led government has a larger and more sinister agenda and that is why the NPR approved by them yesterday is very dangerous and different in terms of the TEXT as well as the CONTEXT of NPR 2010,' Chidambaram said
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Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Thursday alleged that the National Population Register (NPR) approved by the BJP government was different and dangerous in terms of the "text and context" of the data collection done in 2010.
Charging that the BJP government has a "sinister agenda", he said if the BJP's motives are bonafide, the Government should unconditionally state that they support the NPR form and design of 2010 and do not intend to link it to the controversial NRC.
"The BJP-led government has a larger and more sinister agenda and that is why the NPR approved by them yesterday is very dangerous and different in terms of the TEXT as well as the CONTEXT of NPR 2010.
The BJP-led government has a larger and more sinister agenda and that is why the NPR approved by them yesterday is very dangerous and different in terms of the TEXT as well as the CONTEXT of NPR 2010.
— P. Chidambaram (@PChidambaram_IN) December 26, 2019
"If the BJP's motives are bonafide, let the Government unconditionally state that they support the NPR form and design of 2010 and have no intention of linking it to the controversial NRC," he said on Twitter.
If the BJP's motives are bonafide, let the Government unconditionally state that they support the NPR form and design of 2010 and have no intention of linking it to the controversial NRC.
Chidambaram also said that he is happy that the BJP has released a video clip of the launch of NPR in 2010.
"Please listen to the video. We were enumerating the "usual residents" of the country. The emphasis is on residency not citizenship," he said.
The Congress leader said cases have been registered against 8000 persons for anti-CAA protest in Chennai; 1300 booked in Madurai; against 1200 for taking out a candle march in Aligarh.
"Long live the right to assemble peacefully guaranteed by the Constitution!
"Police believe that peaceful protests are more dangerous to law and order then rape, murder and lynching," he said on Twitter.
Also read: CAA & NRC III: Who are 'doubtful' citizens NPR seeks to identify?
Also read: Union Cabinet approves NPR; all you need to know about National Population Register
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Media Release: Asia-Pacific workers demand an end to savage attack on Exxon/UGL workers
Workers at Exxon/UGL have been on strike for over a year
Joint Media Release: The Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) and Public Services International (PSI) Asia Pacific Regional Organisations
Asia-Pacific workers demand an end to savage attack on Exxon/UGL workers
The Asia-Pacific Regional Organisations of two global union federations – the BWI and PSI – are proud to support the striking Exxon/UGL maintenance workers in Gippsland, Victoria (Australia).
These 230 workers have been on strike for over a year now, taking a stand against an employer that has savagely attacked the rights of their workforce and ignored the social obligations owed to the communities in which they operate.
“Workers never take going on strike and losing their income lightly, but this was no ordinary situation,” said BWI Regional Representative Apolinar Tolentino.
“This struggle is about challenging a broken system of industrial relations that lets big corporates act without regard for the workers that generate their wealth.”
The strike began when Exxon/UGL’s maintenance workers were sacked, then offered their jobs back with wages and entitlements cuts of 30-40 per cent, as well as new rosters that would tear fly-in fly-out workers away from their families.
It is particularly shocking that there is nothing illegal about this behaviour under the Australian Fair Work Act; by using dodgy outsourcing arrangements and sham contracting some of the biggest multinationals in the country are getting driving down wages across the sector.
Unfortunately, a growing number of employers are choosing to take advantage of these loopholes, including in high profile struggles such as Streets and Carlton United Breweries. Exploiting these loopholes, as well as cuts to penalty rates and other anti-worker policies by the Liberal Government are making harder and harder for working class Australians to get ahead.
In addition to their questionable labour practices Exxon and UGL are also in the firing line for collectively paying no tax on over $30 billion of revenue over the last three years ($24.8 billion from Exxon and $5.6 billion).
“By 2030 Australia is projected to be the largest exporter of liquid natural gas, however the Australian Government is staring down the barrel of a fiscal crisis”, said PSI Regional Representative Kate Lappin.
“Much of the resource sector pays little-to-no due to complex financial accounting and generous tax exemptions. How are public sector workers supposed to be able to bargain for better wages and conditions when that money has been shifted to offshore tax havens.”
Nationwide rallies over the last two months held by the Australian trade union movement have seen hundreds of thousands of workers hitting the streets demanding the Government #ChangeTheRules to make the behaviour of Exxon/UGL illegal.
“A year has passed since the beginning of this strike and Exxon/UGL have not only failed to drive down wages, they’ve cost their shareholders millions more than they would have ever had to in wages by policing this strike”, said Tolentino.“
"It’s time to do the decent thing, meet the workers’ basic demands, and get back to work.”
For further information, contact:
Apolinar Tolentino, Regional Representative, BWI
Kate Lappin, Regional Representative, PSI
+66 93-051-8861
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HIRAM, Ohio – The Baldwin Wallace University women's swimming and diving team defeated Hiram College in a non-conference dual meet inside the Alumni Memorial Pool.
BW (5-1), who won their fifth straight meet, defeated the Terriers (0-5) by a final score of 136-34.
The Yellow Jackets were led by sophomore freestyler Allie Thorson (Amherst/Marion L. Steele) as she won the 800-meter freestyle and the 100-meter butterfly in times of 10:18.64 and 1:51.76.
In addition, senior freestyler Lena Kortis (Canton/Massillon Perry) took first in a time of 2:31.61. Sophomore freestyler Jenna Ball (Salamanca, N.Y.) won the 50-meter freestyle in a time of 31.08 seconds. Sophomore stroker Sarah Krupp (Williamsville, N.Y./Williamsville South) won the 200-meter individual medley in a time of 2:51.75. Senior freestyler Jordyn Miller (Ann Arbor, Mich./Pioneer) won the 100-meter freestyle in a time of 1:06.95. Freshman stroker Marissa Kural (LaGrange, Ill./Lyons Township) won the 100-meter backstroke in a time of 1:16.89. Sophomore stroker Erika Nockengost (Cuyahoga Falls) won the 400-meter freestyle in a time of 5:13.93.
In relay action, the 200-meter medley relay team of sophomore stroker Alyssa Mahle (Aurora), sophomore stroker Ellie Clymer (Independence), Nockengost and Ball won in a time of 2:20.17.
BW is back in action on Saturday, November 18 when it travels to Alliance for an OAC dual against the University of Mount Union in the Hammond Natatorium at 1 p.m.
March 1, 2018 Five Women's Swimming and Diving Student Athletes Land on Academic All-OAC Team
February 17, 2018 Women's Swimming and Diving Sets Three School Records, Finishes Third at OAC Championships
February 16, 2018 Nockengost Wins First OAC Title, Women's Swimming and Diving in Fourth Place on Day 2 of OAC Champs
February 15, 2018 Jacob Earns All-OAC Honors, Women's Swimming in Third Place After Day One of OAC Champs
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January 27, 2018 Swimming and Diving Celebrates Senior Day with Wins over Franciscan, Pitt.-Bradford
January 20, 2018 Women's Swimming and Diving Falls to OAC, Crosstown Rival John Carroll
January 19, 2018 Women's Swimming and Diving Drops OAC Dual to Ohio Northern
December 3, 2017 Women's Swimming and Diving Places Third at Blue Devil Invitational
November 18, 2017 Women's Swimming and Diving Drops OAC Dual to Mount Union
November 17, 2017 Women's Swimming and Diving Wins Fifth Straight with Victory Over Hiram
November 11, 2017 Women's Swimming and Diving Defeats Penn State Behrend
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October 21, 2017 Women's Swimming and Diving Wins OAC Opener Over Wilmington
October 20, 2017 Women's Swimming and Diving Falls to Ohio Wesleyan in Season Opener
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Pssst! Want a Deal? How About Merlin PSA?
December 22, 2015 by Dan Johnson Leave a Comment
Are you intrigued by an affordable yet well-performing single-seat Personal Sport Aircraft? In a time when so many claim light aircraft have simply become too expensive, one aircraft is coming to challenge that belief. Some rather grudgingly acknowledge that, yes, you can buy a low-cost aircraft but that it won’t satisfy your desires … that it will have an open cockpit, or is too slow, or uses an engine you don’t know, or that it lacks the right instruments, or it will be a weight shift aircraft or a powered parachute … or something that disqualifies it for them.
Well, even our friends at Flying magazine — thanks to popular writer Pia Bergqvist, who also covered such aircraft as Quicksilver‘s wide-open Sport 2 SE — gave recent prominent coverage to what importer/developer Chip Erwin is doing with his Merlin PSA.
Does the name Chip Erwin ring a bell? If you’ve followed his work, you know his ambitious background but for others it may only have a vague recollection or was perhaps merely a conversation reference. The familiarity comes from his LSA-pioneering work to develop the airplane Piper Aircraft once adopted as “their” Special LSA. Chip was the man behind the original SportCruiser that continues to do well today, thanks to steady support from U.S. Sport Aircraft, based in Texas.
Today, Chip operates Aeromarine LSA based at the South Lakeland airport, just south of Sun ‘n Fun. This business offers the Zigolo and the coming Merlin PSA.
“[Merlin PSA] is the aircraft you did not know you were waiting for,” said U.S. assembler, Chip in his common manner of turning a phrase somewhat differently. Americans will soon get a look at this handsome single seater. (Don’t confuse it with Glasair’s Merlin, aimed at the two seat SLSA market.
Merlin PSA is an all-aluminum aircraft with a cantilevered wing, 112 mph cruise speed and ample cabin and luggage space for less than $35,000. This certainly-modest price tag includes the entire airframe kit, the engine, and a builder’s assistance program in sunny Florida. Has Chip got your interest yet?
Let me be up front. This is a single seat aircraft. For some that’s a deal killer but I love to cite a long-repeated statistic from AOPA. Year after year, their surveys showed that the average occupancy of a general aviation aircraft was 1.6 persons. Since the large majority of these are four seat airplanes, for the average to be only 1.6 persons on board meant that these aircraft were very often flown solo. Therefore, why not a single seater? If you need to carry passengers, rent or borrow a GA or LSA aircraft and do so.
Chip recently announced that his Merlin PSA is now available as a quick-build EAB (Experimental Amateur-Built) aircraft. “Merlin is a very modern design made with 3D CAD/CAM equipment, which results in a very quick and jigless matched-hole assembly. Build time is measured in days not months or years. Enjoy a couple of weeks in Florida and fly home in your new Merlin PSA.” Chip added, “Merlin fits [the parameters of] LSA, which means a pilot needs only a Sport Pilot certificate and no medical required to fly the Merlin.”
Those who love water flying but also fret over the cost of a seaplane should consider this: “Amphibious floats are available now for less than $10,000,” said Chip. Those who wish amphibian capability can own the Merlin Personal Sport Aircraft on floats for less than $50,000. By any measure that is a solid value.
Merlin was first introduced at Germany’s Aero show in 2009. (See our coverage of several single seaters at that event, including Merlin here.) Chip advises that tailwheel and tricycle-gear configurations are available and buyers can choose from three powerplants. “In addition to two- and four-stroke engines, a fully electric-powered Merlin is now in development. The best known of these is the Rotax 582 that has earned ASTM approval.
Chip expressed a few interest points for Merlin PSA:
112-mph cruise speed
All aluminum construction and cantilevered wing
Amphibious floats available now
“More cabin space per person than a Beechcraft King Air 200”
$100,000 less than most Light Sport Aircraft
“Merlin PSA and our all new 800 amphibious floats will be officially introduced at the US Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring beginning January 20th,” Chip advises. All y’all come on down.
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Cadillac Returns To Racing With CTS-V Coupe
Two teams set to compete in SCCA World Challenge GT Series
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DETROIT – Cadillac announced today it will return to racing in 2011 with a race-prepared version of its CTS-V Coupe competing in the Sports Car Club of America World Challenge, North America’s top production-based racecar series.
The move returns Cadillac to a series where it competed from 2004 to 2007. Competing in the GT Class with the CTS-V Sport Sedan, Cadillac captured the Manufacturer’s Championship in 2005 and 2007 and the Driver’s Championship in 2005.
Cadillac will field two teams in the upcoming SCCA World Challenge GT Class with a racecar based on the CTS-V Coupe. The CTS-V line, which also includes the CTS-V Sedan and CTS-V Wagon, was recently named to Car and Driver magazine’s 10 Best list for 2011.
“Returning to racing in the SCCA World Challenge is a great way to demonstrate the performance and capability of the CTS-V Coupe,� said Don Butler, vice president for Cadillac marketing. “The racecars in this series are production based, which allows us to validate our performance against the best of our competitors on the track, and not just the showroom.�
Cadillac is working with Pratt & Miller, a New Hudson, Mich., engineering firm which specializes in motorsports, to develop the CTS-V Coupe racecar. While some of the production CTS-V components will be modified due to the unique demands of racing or to meet the SCCA series’ technical rules, every effort is taken to maintain as much production content as possible.
“The SCCA World Challenge lends itself well to a natural transfer of knowledge,� said Jim Campbell, GM vice president for Performance Vehicles and Motorsports. “The series will become a key test-bed for Cadillac. We anticipate using what we learn on the racetrack to ensure the V-Series stays on the cutting-edge of performance.�
The first event in the SCCA World Challenge is March 25-27 in St. Petersburg, Fla. Johnny O’Connell, a three-time GT1 champion in the America Le Mans Series, and Andy Pilgrim, who won the 2005 SCCA World Challenge GT class in a Cadillac, will be behind the wheel of the CTS-V racecars.
Introduced for the 2003 model year, the CTS-V has quickly earned a reputation among luxury sports car buyers. For the 2011 model year, Cadillac added the CTS-V Coupe and the CTS-V Sport Wagon to the CTS-V Sport Sedan, creating an impressive family of performance vehicles. The CTS-Vs feature Brembo brakes, a supercharged 6.2L V8 delivering 556 horsepower and a Magnetic Ride Control suspension system that can read and react to the road 1,000 times a second.
Started in 1944, the SCCA organizes and supports racing at all levels from amateur to professional. The World Challenge series is designed to provide teams, manufacturers and aftermarket suppliers a competitive production-based race series in which to prove their products. The races follow a 50-minute maximum time limit, with the number of laps and total distance determined by track configuration, lap times and race conditions.
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Johnny O'Connell Makes Transition from Corvette Racing to Team Cadillac
Record-Setting Racer Reunited with Corvette Racing Teammate Andy Pilgrim in New Cadillac SCCA World Challenge GT Program
DETROIT, Dec. 14, 2010 – Johnny O'Connell will move from Corvette Racing to the new Team Cadillac motorsports program in the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) World Challenge GT in 2011. After 10 successful seasons in Corvettes, O'Connell will join former Corvette Racing teammate Andy Pilgrim in a pair of Cadillac CTS-V Coupes as Cadillac returns to racing in the SCCA production-based series.
"Johnny O'Connell has made a tremendous contribution to the success of Corvette Racing both on and off the track," said GM Racing director Mark Kent. "Now as GM launches a new motorsports program with another iconic brand, Johnny was the unanimous choice for Team Cadillac. We are very pleased that Johnny will continue to be a valued member of the GM Racing family, and we believe that his proven speed, racecraft, and outgoing personality will be great assets for the Cadillac racing program."
O'Connell, 48, of Flowery Branch, Ga., joined Corvette Racing in 2001. He won 40 races with the team and captured three American Le Mans Series GTS/GT1 championships with co-drivers Ron Fellows (2003-04) and Jan Magnussen (2008). In 2009, O'Connell notched his record-setting eighth career win in the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring and became the first American to score four class victories in the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
"After 10 amazing years with Corvette Racing as part of one of the best American sports car teams in history, I am extremely flattered that Cadillac selected me for this very important program," said O'Connell. "I'm very proud to have won more ALMS races in Corvettes than any other driver and to set records at Sebring and Le Mans. I've enjoyed fantastic relationships with the team, with great friends and co-drivers like Ron Fellows and Jan Magnussen, and with Corvette enthusiasts around the world. I look forward to building a similar fan base with Team Cadillac and representing Cadillac for many years to come."
Corvette Racing will announce its 2011 program plans and driver lineup at a later date. Corvette Racing’s next event is the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring at Sebring International Raceway on March 19, 2011, the season-opening round of the 2011 American Le Mans Series.
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HomeNewsletterEarth Day Intersection: At the Corner of Recycling Knowledge and Behavior
Earth Day Intersection: At the Corner of Recycling Knowledge and Behavior
When cleaning out an old purse, a mom laid on the table three items that were no longer useful: a lipstick with a color that was out-of-date, an old cellphone and some used crayons. Her first inclination was to throw these in the trash, but a little investigation would tell her that each of these products are, in fact, recyclable.
According to a survey commissioned by Call2Recycle® and conducted online by Harris Poll® among more than 3,000 adults (aged 18 and over) in both the U.S. and Canada in October 2013, nearly three quarters of respondents would have known to recycle their old cellphone, but less than 40 percent would have known to recycle crayons and only 16 percent would have know that cosmetics are recycleable.
When the survey was sent, respondents were provided a list of 20 items and asked to define their recyclability. Mobile phones, rechargeable batteries and wine corks (thanks Pinterest!) were the most understood recyclables, while items like plastic water bottles with caps, juice boxes and used pizza boxes were among the least understood (i.e., respondents incorrectly identified them as recyclables items).
Call2Recycle also asked respondents to identify the frequency of their recycling. Of the American and Canadian adults surveyed, 67 percent stated that they recycle at least once per week and 49 percent said they recycle at least once per day. Only seven percent never recycle.
The survey questions were designed to examine respondents’ knowledge of waste materials and their behaviors associated with recycling. As North America’s first and largest battery stewardship program, Call2Recycle is excited to see that three of the materials that we recycle—cellphones, rechargeable batteries and single-use batteries—appeared in the top five most understood category.
What do you think – can you recycle hair, surf boards or trophies? Share your answers on our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/Call2Recycle or on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Call2Recycle and we will let you know if you are right!
Survey Methodology – United States & Canada: This survey was conducted online by Harris Poll on behalf of Call2Recycle both within the United States via its QuickQuery product from Oct. 23-25, 2013 among 2,016 adults ages 18 and older and in Canada via its Global Omnibus prod uct from Oct. 22-28, 2013 among 1,127 adults age 18 and older. These online surveys are not based on a probability samples and therefore no estimate of theoretical sampling error can be calculated. In each country, the data were weighted to reflect the composition of the general adult population. Where combined percentages are noted, these are not weighted, just mathematical averages calculated from each individual countries’ results. For complete survey methodology, please contact Jen Childress at (678) 218-4580 or mediaRelations@call2recycle.org.
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I've done my best to confirm this, but if I'm wrong, don't kill me.
I just completed the first non-Japanese interview with Tokyo's Escalator Records, the label that brought us all Yukari Fresh, Miniflex, Cubismo Grafico, most recently the astounding young talent that is Avalon, and many, many more.
On top of that, Escalator has a spectacular Harajuku record store, cafe, and weekly events night that's literally one of the most fun times you can find in Tokyo. They've been the bold voice of an outspoken and ignored generation that's been unable to fight its way to any sort of real cultural acceptance in its homeland. To outsiders, it's easy to say that Escalator and its followers are just obsessed with foreign musics, but look beneath the surface and you'll find a world of creativity, unique ingenuity, and individualism that's unparalleled even in the States, a land of tremendous musical output.
Check out the rather lengthy Q&A over at Anthem Online
Here's one of my favorite bites:
I'm curious about these new compilations called We Were Escalator Records. They're very ominous! Do they mean anything or is simply just a new series of mixes?
So, in my own mind, Escalator ended around 2006, when I started Every Conversation. I may be killed by the Japanese fans, so I can't say that in Japan [laughs], but I have no interest in the Japanese music scene, and never want to do business [in it].
If we keep on doing stuff like we did in those old Escalator days, maybe we'll get a smash hit and maybe we will make the living... but can you imagine that? [I'd be] so bored, fed up, nauseous.
Now Escalator has Cubismo Grafico's label KIT, so I don't concern myself at all with Escalator. Maybe only Avalon. They'll become better in a while, and maybe you'll want to put them in your magazine. But Escalator's old works are still highly acclaimed, so I did We Were Escalator Records, [out of] responsibly. Oh yes it maybe it's ominous. Quite literally. It's an anthology.
Editor's Note: A Japanese compilation album is called an "omnibus" CD.
And now a few Escalator tunes from the archives ... enjoy!
Cubismo Grafico - Fairytale of Escape (Tahiti 80 Remix)
Yukari Rotten - Break
Miniflex - Broodje
Losfeld - Clear Cut (feat. Gary Olson)
Labels: Dance Electronic Experimental Indie International Interview Japanese Pop Rock
well that interview puts an end to my notion of miniflex really being yukari, don't know how i got that idea
Nicholas Mercer said…
Nope -- they've always been married.
And I've visual proof!
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Exodus18 GNB
Jethro Visits Moses
1Moses' father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, heard about everything that God had done for Moses and the people of Israel when he led them out of Egypt. 218.2–3: Ex 2.21–22So he came to Moses, bringing with him Moses' wife Zipporah, who had been left behind, 318.3: Acts 7.29and Gershom and Eliezer, her two sons. (Moses had said, “I have been a foreigner in a strange land”; so he had named one son Gershom.18.3 Gershom: This name sounds like the Hebrew for “foreigner”. 4He had also said, “The God of my father helped me and saved me from being killed by the king of Egypt”; so he had named the other son Eliezer.18.4 Eliezer: This name sounds like the Hebrew for “God helps me”.) 5Jethro came with Moses' wife and her two sons into the desert where Moses was camped at the holy mountain. 6He had sent word to Moses that they were coming, 7so Moses went out to meet him, bowed before him, and kissed him. They asked about each other's health and then went into Moses' tent. 8Moses told Jethro everything that the LORD had done to the king and the people of Egypt in order to rescue the Israelites. He also told him about the hardships the people had faced on the way and how the LORD had saved them. 9When Jethro heard all this, he was happy 10and said, “Praise the LORD, who saved you from the king and the people of Egypt! Praise the LORD, who saved his people from slavery! 11Now I know that the LORD is greater than all the gods, because he did this when the Egyptians treated the Israelites with such contempt.” 12Then Jethro brought an offering to be burnt whole and other sacrifices to be offered to God; and Aaron and all the leaders of Israel went with him to eat the sacred meal as an act of worship.
The Appointment of Judges
(Deut 1.9–18)
13The next day Moses was settling disputes among the people, and he was kept busy from morning till night. 14When Jethro saw everything that Moses had to do, he asked, “What is all this that you are doing for the people? Why are you doing this all alone, with people standing here from morning till night to consult you?”
15Moses answered, “I must do this because the people come to me to learn God's will. 16When two people have a dispute, they come to me, and I decide which one of them is right, and I tell them God's commands and laws.”
17Then Jethro said, “You are not doing it the right way. 18You will wear yourself out and these people as well. This is too much for you to do alone. 19Now let me give you some good advice, and God will be with you. It is right for you to represent the people before God and bring their disputes to him. 20You should teach them God's commands and explain to them how they should live and what they should do. 21But in addition, you should choose some capable men and appoint them as leaders of the people: leaders of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens. They must be God-fearing men who can be trusted and who cannot be bribed. 22Let them serve as judges for the people on a permanent basis. They can bring all the difficult cases to you, but they themselves can decide all the smaller disputes. That will make it easier for you, as they share your burden. 23If you do this, as God commands, you will not wear yourself out, and all these people can go home with their disputes settled.”
24Moses took Jethro's advice 25and chose capable men from among all the Israelites. He appointed them as leaders of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens. 26They served as judges for the people on a permanent basis, bringing the difficult cases to Moses but deciding the smaller disputes themselves.
27Then Moses said goodbye to Jethro, and Jethro went back home.
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Despite recent agreement Rwanda says no travel to Uganda
KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Rwanda says its citizens are not allowed yet to travel to Uganda despite a deal reached between leaders of the two countries on Wednesday in Angolan capital. The leaders agreed to resume “as soon as possible” the cross-border activities including the movement of persons and goods.
Rwanda state minister for foreign affairs Olivier Nduhungirehe told Associated Press Friday Rwandans should still desist from travelling to Uganda because of safety concerns.
The minister said the travel advisory issued in February this year against travelling to Uganda will only be lifted after Ugandan leadership released hundreds of Rwandan citizens illegally arrested in Uganda.
Ugandan officials have made a counter-charge accusing Rwandan state agents of operating unlawfully in Uganda, including in the alleged abductions of Rwandan citizens wanted back home.
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) — An independent commission established by Myanmar's government has concluded there are reasons to believe that security forces committed war crimes in counterinsurgency operations that led more than 700,000 members of the country's Muslim Rohingya minority to flee to neighboring Bangladesh.
However, the commission, headed by a Philippine diplomat, said in a report given Monday to President Win Myint that there is no evidence supporting charges that genocide was planned or carried out against the Rohingya.
BERLIN (AP) — A German-Afghan man who worked for years as an interpreter and adviser for the German military went on trial Monday on charges of spying for Iranian intelligence.
The 51-year-old man, who has been identified only as Abdul S. in line with German privacy rules, is charged with "a particularly serious case" of treason and with breaching official secrecy laws in 18 cases.
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Billie Eilish & Van Halen: Why Is This “Controversy” Even A Thing? [OPINION]
Posted on December 5, 2019 | by Tom Chang | 0 Comment(s)
Billie Eilish committed the biggest “sin” in music: not knowing who Van Halen is. In an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the host quizzed the 17-year old on ’80s pop culture. Among the icons she missed were Huey Lewis, Run-DMC, and Cabbage Patch Dolls.
Since the appearance, social media shamed Eilish for her ignorance of Van Halen. She’s had defenders, most notably Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren and the youngest member of the group, Wolf Van Halen (son of Eddie Van Halen, who replaced original band bassist Michael Anthony)
L – Credit: Billie Eilish – Christian Bertrand/Alamy Live News. R – WANTAGH, NY-AUG 14: David Lee Roth (L) and Eddie Van Halen of Van Halen perform onstage at Jones Beach Theater on August 14, 2015
The Prosecution
Apparently Billie Eilish doesn't know who Van Halen are. It's a long shot, but I wonder if there are any righteous middle-aged men available online to respond to this.
— A Mancino-Williams (@Manda_like_wine) December 2, 2019
I want every old man who is shocked that billie eilish doesn’t know who van halen is to send me their favorite tik tok & at least two gay memes right now
— Woman (@AlexisGZall) December 2, 2019
All I says is that if you had told me, after MTV played "Jump" for the 5 billionth time in 1983, that someday a new music generation would not know who Van Halen was, I would have cried and thanked you.
— James Poniewozik (@poniewozik) December 2, 2019
Warren appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to defend Eilish after the host asked her the same question.
“Do you know who Van Halen is?” Jimmy Fallon asked.
“Yes, but you don’t have to,” Warren responded. “Let’s ease up on Billie.”
Wolf took to Twitter to also defend Eilish following her appearance on Kimmel. He complimented and promoted her work while doing the same for his father’s band.
If you haven’t heard of @billieeilish, go check her out. She’s cool. If you haven’t heard of @VanHalen, go check them out. They’re cool too.
Music is supposed to bring us together, not divide us. Listen to what you want and don’t shame others for not knowing what you like.
— Wolf Van Halen (@WolfVanHalen) December 2, 2019
What exactly is the expectation here? Do people pay Eilish to be a music historian? No, they pay to listen to her voice and music. What is the statute of limitations of music eras and genre? Would it be a bigger sin if Eilish didn’t know who The Beatles, Elvis Presley or Frank Sinatra were? Who cares?
Eilish and Van Halen aren’t even in the same genre and different paths. Eilish is a contemporary pop artist surging across multiple platforms and has yet reached her potential. Van Halen made their name in rock and at their most popular during the ‘70s and ‘80s. Most rock stations play their older music than their contemporary work. Wolf along with Eddie, Alex Van Halen, and David Lee Roth tour playing their classic songs while writing new material.
Not every artist from every generation is aware of those around them even if it’s the biggest name.
The world will still go on…
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I'm a gamer, sci-fi and fantasy fan. film and TV snob. I love to write and read the classics. Anything you want to talk about, I'm here to entertain or at least pretend to be interested.
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Dems to Trump: Keep Richard Cordray
Wire reports
Richard Cordray, former Ohio attorney general, is director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
WASHINGTON (AP) Democratic lawmakers in the Senate are urging Donald Trump not to follow through on the wishes of some Republican lawmakers and fire the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Some GOP lawmakers say once he becomes president Trump should remove the bureau's director, Richard Cordray, because he has pursued regulatory policies that are costly and contradict a pro-growth agenda.
But Democratic lawmakers, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, counter that the bureau has returned about $12 billion to 29 million Americans. The payments have come from credit card companies, banks and debt collectors, among others.
Sen. Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader, says the bureau under Cordray's leadership has been an effective watchdog and that weakening it would signal to financial institutions there is no longer a cop on the beat.
Prior to this position, Cordray was Ohio's attorney general.
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“When we visit Istanbul, all we do is eat”
In Istanbul, the iconic Turkish city with a mix of ancient cultures and heritage connecting Europe and Asia, a foodie and a serial entrepreneur met at a restaurant called Saray ('palace' in Turkish). It inspired them to open a restaurant of the same name when they moved to Cape Town.
On 7 June 2019, they opened a second halaal restaurant, called EatStanbul based on a personal joke, "because when we visit Istanbul, all we do is eat.”
Veysel Bogan from Sanliurfa, Turkey, and Naadiya Moosajee from South Africa are the husband-and-wife team bringing the culinary flavours of Istanbul to Cape Town. Bogan spent 13 years in the restaurant industry in Istanbul before they started Saray Restaurant in De Waterkant three years ago.
Moosajee, is the serial entrepreneur and engineer who co-founded her first venture, called WomEng, at the age of 21. It’s a non-profit to develop women and girls in engineering and tech. She also runs an incubator for women entrepreneurs and is building a co-working space for women.
WHAT TO EXPECT ON THE MENU
“We would say we are going to 'EatStanbul' – because the food is so amazing in Istanbul,” says Moosajee on how the name came about. Now the couple are bringing those flavours home with spices, teas and coffee (khave) imported from Turkey.
There are traditional mezes, like hummus and falafel, for around R40 and Turkish breads baked on-site. But Turkish food is also about coal grills, which gives meats a smoky taste. The platter of mixed grills will go for around R190, and don’t forget to try the kebabs too.
The main course of güveç (seasonal vegetables cooked in a clay pot), as with most mains, will average at R140. You’ll be able to order baklava, the Middle Eastern confection made of honey-soaked phyllo pastry filled with chopped nuts, and other traditional desserts such as sütlaç, which is traditional Turkish rice pudding made with exotic vanilla powder.
INSIDE EATSTANBUL
The decor, too, comes from Istanbul, including the cut glass lights and Turkish tea glasses.
“We want to transport our customers to Istanbul and give them a truly authentic experience, from the meals and the shisha to the design and decor,” says Moosajee, about the new blue-hued eatery on Kloof Street that's soon to be on everyone's Cape Town restaurant list.
EATSTANBUL
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Yinglin is chairman of Muyuan Foodstuff. The majority of his $8.6 billion net worth comes from his 60% stake in Muyuan. Qin is a native of Henan province. He was born in 1965. He graduated from Henan Agricultural University with a degree in animal husbandry. Three years after graduating from college, he quit his job to launch a pig-breeding business in Nanyang. He started out with 22 pigs. Today, Muyuan slaughters five million pigs a year.
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Yinglin's company disinfected trucks, sterilized animal feed, and filters the air at his farms to ward off the spread of the African swine flu. There is no vaccine for the fatal pig disease. African swine flu is not a threat to humans.
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CENTRAL SILO SYSTEMS ARE IMPORTERS AND STOCKISTS OF SKIOLD FEED MILLING EQUIPMENT.
SKIOLD is a Danish company who are world market leaders of feed milling, feeding and ventilation equipment.
We offer a range of milling, mineral dispensing, mixing, transporting, weighing and control systems to suit fully automated feed mill solutions.
We can design and supply complete feed mills in both tailor made and standard design with capacities from 1tph to 20tph and also bigger on request. We offer complete feed milling solutions including installation and technical support. We are dedicated to offering the complete solution for your milling, mixing or grain handling needs.
Take a look around a 10tph turnkey Skiold-VMS plant in Mulgildie, Australia.
This video offers you an aerial view of the exterior and interior of the plant.
Take yourself on a 3D walkthrough of the Mulgildie plant.
Grain Cleaning
Mineral Dispensing
SKIOLD SCREEN CLEANER
The SKIOLD screen cleaner is designed for efficient cleaning separating both under- and oversized impurities from many different sorts of raw materials for animal feed e.g. wheat, barley, maize, peas, etc.
SKIOLD Screen Cleaner (501 KB)
SKIOLD Screen Cleaner - Data Sheet (360 KB)
SKIOLD TWIN DRUM CLEANER
The SKIOLD twin drum cleaner is designed for efficient cleaning separating both under- and oversized impurities from many different sorts of raw materials for animal feed e.g. wheat, barley, maize, peas, etc.
SKIOLD Twin Drum Cleaner - Data Sheet (453 KB)
FlexMix Standard
FlexMix matches the modern production’s demands for flexibility. For instance, the system is based on control of raw materials, meaning that a raw material – for example wheat – can be stored in various silos, and not necessarily always in the same one. The system will then identify which silo to take the wheat from, and will automatically keep track of consumption and stock.
Another significant importance is that the system handles up to three different weighing systems, making it possible to dose also very small quantities using a separate weighing system – e.g. minerals in liquid form.
The FlexMix controls all mixing principles; both the traditional with one mixer, and the more advanced where the mixer is provided with pre-bin and surge bin, with multiple feed mixtures under production at the same time.
SKIOLD FlexMix (1 MB)
FlexMix Pro
As standard, the FlexMix is supplied with a wide variety of registration and calculation functions, to give the user a complete overview of financial and nutritional issues in connection with the feed production.
The FlexMix automatically calculates 10 different production data, such as the price of the ready feed mixture, content of energy, protein, amino acids, phosphorus, etc. All production data and alarms are registered for future use. In addition to production data, the computer registers raw material stock, and displays an alarm once the minimum level has been reached.
Mill control in focus
It is very important to be able to control the mill in an optimal way; both because of the fact that it is one of the most energy consuming machines in the feed mill, but also to obtain the optimal feed structure.
With FlexMix and the SKIOLD Disc Mills in combination, it is possible to obtain optimal utilisation of the ressources. The FlexMix can be programmed to vary the grinding degree of different raw materials in different feed mixtures, to obtain just the right structure for different groups of animals. This ensures the best feed utilisation and health.
SKIOLD FlexMix Pro (1 MB)
FlexMix Pro II & Production Manager
FlexMix PRO II is a process control system designed specifically to feed mills, pet feed plants and premix plants. Many years of experience have been put into this system, providing for quick start-up and intuitive operation. It is quick and easy to adjust any modifications of the plant to the system – it is not necessary to have an expensive PLC technician compile software.
As standard, FlexMix PRO II features many registrations and calculations, providing the user with a complete overview over economic and nutritional matters in the feed production.
Advantages of FlexMix PRO II:
Easy-to-learn intuitive software
Animated process flow showing the plant functions in progress
Hot keys for frequently used functions, such as history of production, recipes, orders, etc.
Alarm analysis functions helping the user to diagnose errors
Integrable with ERP
Extendable to comply with any future changes, easily and cost effectively
FlexMix PRO features very sophisticated techniques for optimising the production and for running the plant unstaffed when possible. At the same time, operation of the system is very simple and intuitive.
FlexMix PRO is fully user configurable and built up from a number of modular blocks to control the requested fields of production. This includes intake of raw materials, grinding, mixing, and out-loading. Control of pellet press/extruder is integrated in the FlexMix PRO by third party systems. The system is fully scalable and configurable to all feed mills, from small farm plants to large industrial plants. It is easy to modify the system from controlling one field of the production to comprise any extensions, if the need arises. Many modifications can even be made while the plant is operating.
Solid and reliable
FlexMix Pro software is now well tested and has now shown its worth with many installations worldwide.
FlexMix PRO II is a system designed specifically to control of feed mills. Many years of experience have been put into this system, providing for quick start-up and intuitive operation. It is quick and easy to adjust the system to any modifications of the plant. In many cases, adjustments can be made online via remote support.
FlexMix PRO features a safe user control preventing unauthorised admission.
By entering supplier and reference for each delivery of raw materials, it is possible to see origin and time of delivery for each component in the production result. Every dosing adds supplier and reference according to the “first in, first out” principle.
User controlled development
With FlexMix PRO II, SKIOLD has changed the process control fundamentally, to meet our clients’ needs and to ensure them “good value for money”.
Elimination of unnecessary work caused by outdated process automation methods.
Removal of unnecessary complexity from technology and working methods.
Integration of know-how from experienced operators into the technology, in order to internalise knowledge about the production and help less experienced operators become more efficient quickly.
From raw material to finished product
FlexMix PRO can control:
The intake control of FlexMix PRO is designed to be easy to operate, to prevent errors, to reduce the number of entries required, and to handle comprehensive automation and stock operations.
FlexMix PRO can be configured to control several intake pits and complex routings to bins and silos.
FlexMix PRO registers all intake operations in the data base.
The system incorporates read-out and reporting of data.
SILO PLANTS
It is possible to use up to 10 silos for the same component. When the active silo runs dry, the system automatically switches to the next silo in the sequence. The sequence can be adapted according to need. It is possible to automatically transfer the delivered quantity to silo stock to reduce entries.
FlexMix PRO uses advanced algorithms to calculate trail after each weighing. High or low density of the component is automatically adjusted in the trail calculation, along with fluctuations in flow of the components. All this contributes to quick and accurate weighing.
It is very important to be able to control the mill optimally, firstly because the mill is one of the largest energy consumers in the plant, and secondly to obtain the ideal feed structure.
In combination with a SKIOLD Disc Mill, FlexMix PRO makes it possible to make the most of the resources. FlexMix can be programmed to vary the grinding degree of different raw materials in different recipes, to obtain the right structure for each animal group. This ensures the best utilisation of the feed and health.
OUT-LOADING
FlexMix PRO II has different ways of handling out-loading. In small plants, transportation can be started by means of external push buttons mounted close to the feed truck. In larger plants, a touch screen can be used to initialise start/stop externally. Out-loading orders can be established by the plant operator or can be controlled directly from touch screen.
Current quantity in raw material silos is shown by means of graphical level columns on silo symbols.
The system is designed to read out raw material consumption as consumption per component, per recipe, per client, or per destination. Further filtration is possible, e.g. component consumption per recipe. It is possible to export data to Excel or PDF.
Modern grinding principles with disc mills, hammer mills and crushers have been developed from the old method of grinding grain, seeds and straw between two stones.
The structure of the feed should be adapted to the different animal groups, and a number of different machines are nowadays available for production of basic feed and fine-ground feed.
The choice of grinding plant is determined by the type of feed that is to be produced:
For pigs and poultry, hammer mills and disc mills are commonly used.
For cattle and other ruminants, the natural choice is a crusher or a disc mill.
The disc mills from SKIOLD are suitable for grinding of many different types of raw materials, including pellets with a diameter of up to 12 mm. One of the advantages of the disc mill is that it is possible to vary the grinding degree during operation, and thereby optimize the feed structure for different animal groups. Other advantages are its very low noise level in operation, exceptionally long durability of wearing parts, and high capacity with low power consumption. With its compact construction, the disc mill can easily be incorporated into new as well as existing plants.
3 models are available:
SK2500 – capacity up to 2500 kg/hour
SK10 – capacity up to 12000 kg/hour
SKIOLD Disc Mill (2 MB)
SKIOLD Disc Mill SK780 (1 MB)
DM is the designation of type for SKIOLD’s range of hammer mills. The DM mills are made in a very robust and simple construction, and have a transportation capacity of up to 80 meters. The DM3 is also available in a Prof-Line version, with longer durability for wearing parts. All wearing parts are easy to replace by original spare parts from SKIOLD. In addition to the traditional hammer mills, our range includes a gravity mill, DM6, and a WM version for grinding of moist maize (CCM).
DM2 – capacity up to 500 kg/hour
DM3 – capacity from 500 to 1500 kg/hour
DM4 – capacity from 1000 to 1800 kg/hour
BM5 – capacity from 1000 to 2500 kg/hour
SKIOLD Hammermills (2 MB)
With SKIOLD’s complete range of crushers, there is a crusher for any herd size – from a few horses to many hundreds of dairy cattle. The crusher program includes two standard models, each available in different versions: Drive on two or three rollers, different motor sizes, different capacities, different outlet heights. The simple and thorough construction of the SKIOLD crushers ensures a high capacity/kW and optimal security of operation. They are easy to operate and to adjust, and are efficient for crushing of all common raw materials.
KB160 – 2 or 3 rollers, capacity up to 1700 kg/hour
KB300 – 3 rollers, capacity up to 3000 kg/hour
SKIOLD Grain Crushers (3 MB)
A magnet is usually placed in connection with the raw material intake to the feed mill, or before the grinding unit, to remove metallic impurities etc. before further processing. All the magnets are permanent.
2 types are available:
Cascade magnet
Inlet magnet
A proportioning system is made up of flexible augers, tubular augers, trough augers, or chain conveyors, which dose material from hoppers or silos to a weighing unit. The choice of dosing unit depends on requested capacity and/or price.
There are many different systems for weighing of raw materials in the feed making process. In general, there are two main principles; weighing before or after the grinding process.
SKIOLD Dosing (1 MB)
SKIOLD Flexible Augers & Hoppers
Mineral Hopper
This is normally used for premixed mixtures to be conveyed to the mixer or wetfeeding tank. At the conveying point of these mixtures, a flexible auger with a 40 mm pitch is used in order to obtain a low capacity and thus greater accuracy at the weighing point into the mixer. Where there is limited space available, the two hoppers can be placed on top of one another, but please note that there is an increased filling height on the upper hopper.
Flexible Augers
SKIOLD flexible augers are available in two sizes, 75 mm diameter and 90 mm diameter. For both models, SKIOLD offers a comprehensive range of accessories, making almost any conveying possible. The auger is made of flat spring steel with an ultimate stress, thus ensuring a stable operation. The 75 mm diameter auger is available in two different pitches. The smaller auger would be used for conveying mineral/vitamin mixtures or fish meal. It can also be used for lower capacity work.
SKIOLD Flexible Augers and Mineral Hoppers (720 KB)
SKIOLD MINERAL HOPPERS (784 KB)
SKIOLD Mini Proportioner
The SKIOLD Mini Proportioner is suitable for adding af micro components, such as vitamins, medicine, zinc, acids in dry form etc., in feed production plants. The proportioning accuracy is +/- 25 g (wheat meal).
SKIOLD Mini Proportioner (429 KB)
SKIOLD Tanks
SKIOLD heated and insulated tank for liquid products. Ideal for storage with minimum oxidation. For both in- and outdoor installation. Suitable for fat, oil, molasses, etc. Electric heating. Foam insulated.
SKIOLD TANK (784 KB)
A single raw material is not sufficient to cover the feed demand of the livestock. A balanced and homogeneous diet requires mixing of different ingredients. The type and character of the raw materials to be mixed, and requirements to mixing time, are factors to consider when choosing type of mixer.
Small Batch Mixers
The new cone mixer from SKIOLD is an accurate weighing bin and efficient mixer in one. The scale is constructed in heavy-duty stainless steel, and is very reliable. The function of the cone mixer is to weigh out batches of 30 to 50 kg. The throttle on the mixer opens automatically by means of an air cylinder. A 300 x 300 mm discharge bin made in galvanised plate facilitates even and continuous feeding of material to the mill. A full level sensor ensures that the discharge bin always contains a sufficient quantity of weighed out raw materials to keep the mill fully loaded at all times.
SKIOLD FLOW MILL-MIX FULLY AUTOMATIC MILLING/MIXING PLANT (875 KB)
Diagonal Mixers
The diagonal mixer from SKIOLD is suitable for accurate mixing of almost any kind of raw material in the form of meal or granulate. It is possible to add liquid raw materials, such as fat, molasses, or oil, during the mixing process. The mixing principle based on a large, slowly rotating bottom auger is gentle to the structure of the raw materials, which makes the diagonal mixer well-suited for mixing of feed for cattle, which contains crushed material.
The diagonal mixer is available in 3 versions:
Uni-Mix 500 – 500 kg
Uni-Mix 1000 – 1000 kg
SKIOLD Uni-Mix Inclined Mixer (395 KB)
SKIOLD UNI-MIX INCLINED MIXER - Data Sheet (377 KB)
Horizontal Mixers
The horizontal mixer from SKIOLD is a batch mixer suitable for very accurate mixing of almost any kind of mealy or granulated raw material. The duration of the mixing process is 4-12 minutes, during which it is possible to add liquid raw materials such as fat and oil, as well as up to 50% corncob maize (CCM). SKIOLD’s horizontal mixers are equipped with open double auger, and the mixing chamber is designed with the exact same cylindrical curving as the auger. This ensures a homogeneous mixing and facilitates complete emptying of the mixer.
The horizontal mixer is available in 3 versions:
1-step – mixer only
2-step – mixer + pre-bin
3-step – mixer + pre-bin + discharge bin
The number of steps is based on requirements to capacity.
SKIOLD HORIZONTAL MIXERS H2000 & H2500 (2 MB)
Skiold Twin Shaft Paddle Mixer PTS2000 And PTS4000.
The Paddle mixer from SKIOLD is a batch mixer suitable for very accurate mixing. The duration of the mixing process is < 1min Mixing time (dry ingredients) < 2 minutes Mixing time (liquid ingredients < 3%) Mixing capacity for the PTS2000 is 15 t/h and PTS4000 is 30 t/h designed for mixing of compound feed and feed ingredients, Quick filling and emptying, available with pre-bin and discharge bin Fully emptying through “bomb doors”. It has the ability to Add up to 3 different liquids.
SKIOLD TWIN SHAFT PADDLE MIXER PTS2000 AND PTS4000 (843 KB)
SKIOLD Chain Conveyors (971 KB)
SKIOLD Chain Conveyors CL (964 KB)
SKIOLD Outlet Slide Model S (842 KB)
SKIOLD Outlet Slides Model CL (1 MB)
The SKIOLD bucket elevators, type D, are designed for vertical conveying of grain, granulates and meal products – say ordinary small-grained crops and feed pellets with a maximum diameter of 16 mm and a maximum moisture content of 25% – yielding a capacity of up to 200 t/h in a maximum height of 40 m.
SKIOLD Bucket Elevators (432 KB)
SKIOLD Flex Augers (995 KB)
SKIOLD FLEXSNEGLE Easyflex (2 MB)
Tubular Augers
SKIOLD Tubular Augers - 102/152mm (897 KB)
SKIOLD Tubular Augers - 200/240mm (1 MB)
U Trough Augers
SKIOLD Trough Augers (871 KB)
SKIOLD Augers System 102 - 152 (722 KB)
Weigh Bins
The SKIOLD weighing bin is well qualified for accurate weighing of all solid raw materials in any form, i.e. grain, meal, granulates, pellets etc.
SKIOLD Weighing Bin (761 KB)
Agridry Dryers
Mathews Company Dryers
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Endorse the Lima Declaration on Tax Justice and Human Rights
After seven days of coordinated activities in some 43 countries, the Global Week of Action for #TaxJustice has culminated in the release of the Lima Declaration on Tax Justice and Human Rights.
The Lima Declaration, already endorsed by 157 organizations worldwide, calls for deep reforms to tax policies and practices to bring them in line with human rights standards and principles. It also sets the stage for concerted collaborative efforts in the years ahead across the tax justice, women's rights, trade union, development and human rights communities.
THE LIMA DECLARATION ON TAX JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS
We come together as a broad-based community of experienced advocates, practitioners, activists, scholars, jurists, litigators and others committed to advancing tax justice through human rights, and to realizing human rights through just tax policy.
Tax revenue is the most important, the most reliable and the most sustainable instrument to resource human rights in sufficient, equitable and accountable ways. The realization of all human rights, likewise, is a core raison d'être of government. It is through respecting, protecting and fulfilling civil, political, economic, social, cultural and environmental rights that the state earns its legitimacy to tax. Taxation also plays a fundamental role in redistributing resources in ways that can prevent and redress gender, economic and other inequalities and reduce the disparities in human rights enjoyment that flow from them. Moreover, a just system of taxation can cement the bonds of accountability between the state and its people, fostering governments to be more responsive to the rights and claims of those to whom they are answerable. Tax policies can likewise counteract glaring market failures and protect global common goods – not least a healthy environment within planetary boundaries.
Yet many countries struggle to collect sufficient tax revenue to adequately fund the realization of human rights, all of which come with some financial cost. In parallel, unjust tax systems at the national and global levels continue to fuel rising inequality and widening disparities in human rights enjoyment, shifting the burden of financing public services onto society´s least well-off, weakening the provision of existing services and concentrating wealth in the hands of a privileged few. Regressive fiscal policies being pursued in many countries across the globe from North to South are a serious threat to the economic and social rights of already disadvantaged groups. This basic injustice is fuelling deeper economic, gender, and political inequalities, eroding trust in government institutions, which are perceived as more accountable to transnational economic elites than to their own people.
Tax policy is public policy, and so can no longer be treated as a matter of mere technical engineering or be left entirely to the often unaccountable discretion of government. Instead, we call on governments to cultivate transformative social and fiscal compacts, and empower citizen watchdog institutions that have the purpose of subjecting tax policy to the most rigorous standards of transparency, public participation, and meaningful accountability in line with internationally-recognized human rights principles.
Existing human rights standards provide a normative justification for a capable and well-resourced state. In order to comply with their obligations to protect and progressively realise economic and social rights, states must use and generate the maximum available resources (especially through sufficient and sustainable taxation) in equitable, non-discriminatory ways.
Tax laws, policies and practices must work to end structural discrimination rather than entrench growing inequalities of all kinds, including gender, ethnic, and economic disparities. Indeed, taxation is a key instrument for addressing discrimination against women and ensuring their substantive equality. Regressive revenue-raising measures (including those which effectively impose a disproportionate fiscal burden on the most disadvantaged within and between households and disregard individual ability to pay) as well as socially-useless tax incentives and relief for business and the wealthy that have the effect of shifting the tax burden to those less able to pay while relieving those more able to pay, are inconsistent with the human rights principles of non-discrimination and equality. We call on governments to conduct impact assessments of the human rights and equality implications of tax laws. Likewise, we urge governments and statistical agencies to collect individual, household, and corporate data that enables decision-makers to accurately evaluate the human rights and equality impacts of all fiscal policies.
Today’s international corporate tax system – put in place when the nature and composition of the global economy was fundamentally different – is thoroughly outdated, privileging the interests of multinational corporate groups, global financial interests and some advanced economies while preventing national governments from raising sufficient revenue in non-discriminatory and accountable ways. Rigorous, evidence-based scrutiny of the impacts tax laws, policies and practices have on human rights and equality abroad should replace the all-too-often unsubstantiated assumptions about the economic benefits of maintaining the prevailing international tax system. Grounded on states’ existing legal duties to take steps individually and through international cooperation and assistance to achieve the full realization of human rights, we call for the rewriting of global tax rules under the auspices of a legitimate, fully inclusive and democratic United Nations global tax body.
A state implementing tax policies or practices that erode the capacity of other states to resource human rights (whether by means of preferential tax rulings, preferential corporate tax regimes for internationally mobile forms of capital, or any other means) may be in violation of this international legal duty to cooperate. Further, states which purposefully obstruct tax information exchange, as well as banks and law firms that exploit secrecy arrangements to the detriment of the public purse, are foreseeably depriving other states of the resources needed to meet their human rights obligations. We therefore call on states to conduct human rights impact assessments of the spill-over effects of their tax policies on other countries, to take immediate action to halt any harmful practices, and to provide effective remedy where harm is done. Likewise, we call on states to enact legislation to regulate transfer pricing mis-practices, and to curtail financial and banking secrecy so as to enable governments to effectively combat tax abuse.
Business behaviour—and tax advice—that place tax revenues at risk may well deprive states of the resources they need to realise human rights. Therefore, the tax behaviour of business can no longer be treated outside the purview of the corporate responsibility to respect human rights. In order to implement their obligations in accordance with the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, we call on governments to develop legal and regulatory frameworks which safeguard against the human rights risks of business tax behaviour. We also call on governments to provide effective remedy for any harmful conduct stemming from tax behaviour. In parallel, we urge companies and corporate groups to assess and address corporate tax abuse, for example in their policy statements, due diligence and grievance processes. Starting from a clear recognition of the adverse human rights impacts of tax abuse, companies should then conduct their tax arrangements in transparent and accountable ways so as to not jeopardize government revenue collection, even when such arrangements are technically lawful yet contravene human rights principles. We especially call on suppliers of schemes which may put government revenues at risk (in particular tax lawyers, accountants and financial intermediaries) to avoid colluding in tax abuse, to recognize their particular human rights responsibilities, to conduct human right due diligence, and to redress any harmful activities. Further, we call on companies of all stripes to refrain from interfering in the public interest of tax policy-making, be that directly through special-interest lobbying or indirectly through provoking tax competition.
We call on international institutions to support the reform of the broken global tax system by, amongst other things, integrating human rights standards into how they address corporate tax avoidance and the adverse spill-over effects of certain governments’ tax policies. Likewise, international financial institutions which advise governments on their tax and fiscal policies should, above all, respect those governments’ human rights obligations.
Rather than be an obstacle, the law should be transformed into an instrument of tax and fiscal justice. We urge the legal profession (including human rights and tax lawyers, judges and the judiciary at large) to consider its particular responsibilities to oppose unjust tax policies that impede the realization of human rights.
One of the human rights community’s most urgent challenges is to ensure states are accountable for equipping themselves with the material means for the fulfilment of human rights. We therefore call on the human rights community at large (e.g. advocates, lawyers, academia, women’s rights organizations, NGOs, trade unions, national human rights institutions, treaty bodies and regional commissions) to actively examine how tax practices affect their missions, and develop capacities and practices to advance human rights through closer monitoring and review of tax policy. Whistleblowers and other tax justice advocates who work in the public interest to expose blatant tax-related human rights abuses, meanwhile, should be considered human rights defenders, and protected accordingly.
Finally, we call on the tax justice and development communities at large to integrate human rights into their research and advocacy, so as to harness the power of invoking human rights discourse, norms and accountability mechanisms in the pursuit of just taxation and sustainable development.
The under-signed organizations endorse this Lima Declaration on Tax Justice and Human Rights, and pledge to continue collaborating to advance tax and fiscal justice through human rights.
A pdf version of the Lima Declaration can be downloaded here (español) (français)
For more information, contact: lholland@cesr.org or teresa@globaltaxjustice.org.
SIGNATORIES (as of 24 July 2015):
1. 11.11.11 - Koepel van de Vlaamse Noord Zuidbeweging, Belgium
2. 9 to 5, United States
3. Academics Stand Against Poverty, Italy
4. ActionAid, International
5. Alianza Española contra la Pobreza, España
6. All Together in Dignity, Ireland
7. Alliance Sud, Switzerland
8. Asia Development Alliance, Korea
9. Asia Initiatives, USA
10. Asian Peoples Movement on Debt and Development, Philippines
11. Asociación Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia, Argentina
12. Asociación Española para el Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos, España
13. Association For Women's Rights in Development (AWID), International
14. Association of Canadian Financial Officers, Canada
15. Attac-Ireland, Ireland
16. Avocats Sans Frontières, Belgium
17. Brazilian Society of Bioethics, Brazil
18. British Columbia Government and Service Employees' Union, Canada
19. Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, International
20. CCFD-Terre Solidaire, France
21. CEICOM, El Salvador
22. CELS (Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales), Argentina
23. Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR), International
24. Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) at Rutgers University, USA
25. Centre for the Enforcement of Human Rights International, Austria
26. Centre pour la Justice et la Réconciliation, République Démocratique du Congo
27. Centro Bonó, República Dominicana
28. Centro de Documentación en Derechos Humanos "Segundo Montes Mozo S.J." (CSMM), Ecuador
29. Centro de Estudios de Derecho, Justicia y Sociedad -DeJuSticia, Colombia
30. Centro de Estudios para el Desarrollo Laboral y Agrario (CEDLA), Bolivia
31. Centro de los Derechos del Campesino, Nicaragua
32. Christian Aid, UK
33. Christian Aid Ireland, Ireland
34. Citizens for Tax Justice, USA
35. Citizens Watch It Uganda, UGANDA
36. Civic Initiative for Environment and Sustainable Development, Burundi
37. Comision Justicia y Paz Madrid, España
38. Comisión Nacional de Enlace (CNE), Costa Rica
39. Community Hope Project, USA
40. Community Legal Aid Institute (LBH Masyarakat), Indonesia
41. Compassionate Revolution, UK
42. Comunidad Ecuménica Martin Luther King, Chile
43. Concejo Ecuménico Cristiano de Guatemala, Guatemala
44. Coordinadora de ONGs de Desarrollo de España, España
45. Coordinadora por los Derechos de la Infancia y la Adolescencia de Paraguay, Paraguay
46. Cristina Escarmis Homs, España
47. Debt and Development Coalition Ireland, Ireland
48. Department of Philosophy, Mindanao State University, Philippines
49. Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), Global South
50. Diverse Voices and Action for Equality, Fiji
51. EcoProsperity, UK
52. Ecumenical Association for Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development (ECASARD, Ghana
53. Education International, International
54. EDUCON, Czech Republic
55. Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights (ECESR), Egypt
56. Egyptian Foundation for Health for All, Egypt
57. El Colegio de México, Mexico
58. Elizabeth Albuquerque Pelisson, Brazil/Italy
59. Entreculturas, España
60. EOS - Associação de estudos, desenvolvimento e cooperação, Portugal
61. Ethical Consumer Research Association Ltd, UK
62. European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU), Europe
63. European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad), Belgium
64. Federación Internacional de Fe y Alegría, Colombia
65. Feminist Legal Studies Queen's, Canada
66. FIAN Mexico, Mexico
67. Forum Solidaridad Perú, Peru
68. Fundación Para El Avance De Las Reformas Y Las Oportunidades - Grupo FARO, Ecuador
69. Fundar, Centro de Análisis e Investigación, México
70. Ghent University, Belgium
71. Giving What We Can, UK
72. Global Alliance for Tax Justice, International
73. Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, USA
74. Global Policy Forum, Germany/USA
75. Grupo de Trabajo Contra la Corrupción, Perú
76. Grupo Nacional de Presupuesto Público, Perú
77. Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics, Belgium
78. IBIS, Denmark
79. IndustriALL Global Union, Switzerland
80. Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (ISER), Uganda
81. Institute for Economic Research on Innovation, South Africa
82. Institute of Global Responsibility (IGO), Poland
83. Instituto Centroamericano de Estudios Fiscales, International
84. Instituto de Estudos Socioeconômicos - INESC, Brasil
85. Instituto Justiça Fiscal, Brasil
86. International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute, UK
87. International Federation of Musicians, France
88. International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development-INFID, Indonesia
89. International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), International
90. JONCTION, Senegal
91. Kairos Europe, Belgium
92. Kenya Human Rights Commission, Kenya
93. Labour,Health and Human Rights Development Centre, Nigeria
94. Law Clinic, University of East London, UK
95. Lawyers for Better Business, UK
96. McGill University, Canada
97. Methodist Tax Justice Network, UK
98. Movimento Infantojuvenil de Reivindicação, Brasil
99. Movimiento Unificado Francisco Sánchez-1932, El Salvador
100. Natural Resources Alliance of Kenya (KeNRA), Kenya
101. New Rules for Global Finance, USA
102. NGO Federation of Nepal, Nepal
103. NRDS, Bangladesh
104. Oxfam France, France
105. Oxfam Brasil, Brasil
106. Oxfam Guatemala, Guatemala
107. Oxfam International, International
108. Oxfam Novib, Netherlands
109. Pacific Partnerships on Gender, Climate Change and Sustainable Development (PPGCCSD), International
110. Participatory Research Action Network- PRAN, Bangladesh
111. Personal, France
112. Plataforma Global El Salvador, El Salvador
113. Plataforma Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, Democracia y Desarrollo (PIDHDD), Ecuador
114. Plateforme Paradis Fiscaux et Judiciaires, France
115. Private Citizen & Tax Payer, Canada
116. Promocion de Derechos de adolescentes en riesgo social (FUNPRODE), Nicaragua
117. Public Services International, International
118. Red Activista El Salvador, El Salvador
119. Red de Justicia Fiscal de América Latina y El Caribe, Latinoamerica y El Caribe
120. Red de Organizaciones de Managua, Nicaragua
121. Red Latinoamericana sobre Deuda, Desarrollo y Derechos - LATINDADD, International
122. Red Mexicana de Acción frente al Libre Comercio (RMALC), México
123. Red Nacional Género y Economía (REDGE), México
124. Red por la Justicia Tribuaria en Colombia, Colombia
125. Research and Support Center for Development Alternatives - Indian Ocean (RSCDA-IO / Centre de Recherches et d'Appui pour les Alternatives de Développement - Océan Indien (CRAAD-OI), Madagascar
126. Réseau Foi & Justice Afrique Europe, France
127. Right to Education Project, UK
128. Sherpa, France
129. Southern and Eastern African Trade Information and Negotiations Institute, Uganda
130. Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute, South Africa
131. SUPRO-Campaign for Good Governance, Bangladesh
132. Sustainable Initiatives Aotearoa, New Zealand
133. Tape'a, Paraguay
134. Tax Justice Network, International
135. Tax Justice Network, UK
136. Tax Justice Network - Africa, Ethiopia
137. Tax Justice Network - Norway, Norway
138. Tax Justice Network - the Far East Chapter, South Korea
139. Tax Research UK, UK
140. The Engage Network, USA
141. Transparency International France, France
142. Trócaire, Ireland
143. Tunisian Observatory of Economy, Tunisia
144. UNI Global Union, Switzerland
145. United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, USA
146. Uniting Church in Australia, Synod of Victoria and Tasmania, Australia
147. Universal Rights Network, Australia
148. Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brasil
149. Universidade Federal do Parana, Brasil
150. University of Auckland, New Zealand
151. University of Connecticut, USA
152. University of Delhi, India
153. University of Southampton, UK
154. Water Governance Institute, Uganda
155. WEED - World Economy, Ecology & Development, Germany
156. Welfare Association of Legal Justice for Awareness of Human Rights, India
157. Women for Tax Justice, International
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BLOG 06 January 2020
African Digital Credit Goes West
Kwame Oppong , Max Mattern
The age of digital credit has arrived in West Africa. Customers from Abuja to Accra are increasingly turning to their mobile phones for quick access to funds, and digital lenders are pointing to growing portfolios and relatively low default rates. CGAP reached out to West Africa’s leading providers to understand the factors behind the region’s apparent early success with digital credit and what this means for the future of digital credit on the continent.
Photo: Solene Ducretot, 2014 CGAP Photo Contest
Last year, CGAP research raised consumer protection concerns surrounding digital borrowing in East Africa, home to the continent’s first digital credit offerings. Surveys of digital borrowers in Kenya and Tanzania and analysis of data from over 20 million digital loans in Tanzania revealed high delinquency and default rates, especially among poor borrowers. The research also showed that most borrowers used digital credit for discretionary consumption, rather than for productive investments or household emergencies.
Nevertheless, the commercial success of digital credit in East Africa has paved the way for the rise of similar lending products across the continent. This is especially true in West Africa, where the growth of mobile money and an enabling regulatory environment have created the right conditions for digital credit. Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria and Senegal have thriving digital credit products today. In Ghana, for instance, MTN’s Qwikloans platform alone disbursed 5 million loans worth about $120 million before its first anniversary. Nigeria, the largest market in the region, has also seen a proliferation of digital credit offerings from providers such as Carbon, Aeella, Branch, Fairmoney, Alat and Palm Credit.
“With high mobile money penetration in territories such as Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon and Benin, as well as a clear need for lending services (due to low pre-existing access to affordable financing), West Africa is very much the next key region for digital credit providers operating on the continent,” explains Daisy Mwanzia, MTN Group banking specialist.
Interestingly, early results from West African providers indicate that digital credit may be on a different trajectory than that charted by their peers in the East. CGAP’s research in Kenya and Tanzania revealed delinquency rates of 50 and 56 percent and default rates of 12 to 31 percent, respectively. These numbers stand in stark contrast to those of West African countries like Ghana, where providers told CGAP that nonperforming loan rates are in the single digits. These rates also compare favorably to Ghana’s traditional banking sector, for which the central bank reports a nonperforming loan rate of 18 percent.
While CGAP could not confirm the profiles of borrowers in Ghana, experience in East Africa suggests that many are borrowing from formal lenders for the first time. JUMO, one of Ghana’s most successful digital lenders, also operates in Tanzania, where it found that 81 percent of its borrowers had never before borrowed from a formal financial institution. The ability to reach excluded customers and help them to build formal credit histories has always been touted as the promise of digital credit. And while more data are necessary before forming any conclusions about the potential impact of digital loans in West Africa, the results from Ghana are cause for optimism.
What is West Africa doing differently? One factor may be that lenders are learning from customers and building better products.
In response to queries from CGAP, MTN cited several steps it has taken along with JUMO in Ghana to protect against risky borrowing and repayment issues. JUMO is using data on repayment behavior to discourage “spinning,” in which borrowers apply for and quickly repay a small loan in order to increase their credit limit and take out a larger loan. They are experimenting with ways to discourage unhealthy credit decisions — for example, by mandating a cool-down period for frequent borrowers with rapidly increasing credit limits. And they are putting a premium on awareness and education, implementing initiatives designed to improve customers’ understanding of loan products.
“MTN and JUMO are consistently dedicated to improving ecosystem health in Ghana and constantly researching guardrails to ensure healthy interaction between consumers and the platform,” Mwanzia emphasizes.
Regulations may also play a role. Both Ghana and Nigeria require lenders to have a license from the central bank, while Kenya and Tanzania allow unlicensed digital lending (however, the largest deployments in each country involve regulated banks). Regulatory oversight, in which each product must be approved by the central bank before launch and is subject to ongoing supervision, could mitigate risky lending associated with unlicensed entities.
MTN cites one additional factor working to its benefit in countries like Ghana, where its dominance of the mobile money market has placed it in a unique position. Because of its overwhelming market share and robust know-your-customer data, delinquent borrowers cannot simply ditch their SIM and open another account.
“These factors combined produce a high perceived value of mobile money account holding to the customer,” explains Mwanzia. “This becomes a proxy for loan collateral and drives high collection rates.” Of course, none of this suggests that the same problems witnessed in East Africa could not befall West Africa’s digital credit providers and borrowers.
Digital credit is a relatively new phenomenon in West Africa, and the results seen thus far are not necessarily predictive of where things will head as the market matures and more (and potentially riskier) borrowers take out loans. Therefore, it is paramount that regulators, providers and other stakeholders continue to monitor these deployments and emphasize core principles of consumer protection, including those identified in CGAP research on digital credit.
Protecting customers will be an increasingly important concern as recent regulatory reforms promise to drive further innovation and growth in the region’s digital credit offerings. For example, Ghana's new Payment Systems and Services Act formally recognizes fintechs as institutions within the payment sector and empowers the central bank to regulate their activities. Nigeria has also announced several regulatory updates that allow nonbanks such as mobile network operators to play an active role in the payments sector. Both developments promise to offer new channels for lenders to reach customers digitally.
"[Regulatory changes] in Nigeria will lead to large, million-person ecosystems in need of quick access to credit,” Mwanzia predicts.
With new opportunities and increased competition on the horizon, MTN is already looking toward the launch of a new generation of digital credit. Following on JUMO’s successful introduction of risk-based pricing in Zambia (where repeat borrowers see a reduction in interest rates), MTN is considering bringing the feature to Ghana. It also plans to introduce flexible repayments and installment products. The goal, says Mwanzia, is to grow MTN’s customer base by offering products that “are more able to fit a customer’s specific and customizable needs — significantly more so than the current single-term, fixed price access product.”
Topic: Business and Markets
Tag: Products, Sub-Saharan Africa, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria
Kwame Oppong
Max Mattern
E-Commerce Is Taking Off in Rural China: 3 Lessons for Other Countries
China's e-commerce market has $2 trillion in annual sales and is growing as digital services reach rural areas. CGAP visited several villages and spoke with farmers and manufacturers about e-commerce. Here's what we learned.
Blog 21 November 2018
Digital Credit Helping to Put Kids in Classrooms in Cote d'Ivoire
By partnering with farmers’ cooperatives to offer an innovative digital credit product, Advans is seeing high repayment rates and having an impact on school attendance in rural Cote d'Ivoire.
Blog 16 October 2018
Client Registration: The Blind Spot in Agricultural Insurance
This agricultural insurance provider tripled its product registration rates in rural Nigeria by improving its registration process.
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Mini Paceman JCW – official pictures and specs
After its parent company unveiled the 2013 BMW M6 Gran Coupe, Mini follows the example and introduces us its newest addition to the John Cooper Works family.
It is the new 2013 Mini Paceman John Cooper Works that will make Mini fans to tremble. Seen as a logical derivative of the current 4×4 range, the new Paceman JCW borrows its brother, Countryman JCW, appearance, except the two back doors.
On the outside, the new Mini Paceman JCW gains an aerodynamic kit, sports suspension and exhaust system, 18-inch light-alloy wheels and the same exclusive Chilli Red contrasting paintwork for the roof and exterior mirrors as Countryman JCW.
Under the hood, as you would expect, we have the same engine: 1.6 liter turbocharged fou-pot, equipped with direct injection and capable of delivering 218 horsepower and 300 Nm, thanks to an overboost function.
The new Paceman will also be offered along a six speed automatic transmission, next to the classic six-speed manual transmission.
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New electric era? Tesla must adapt its vehicles to succeed in Japan
Last modified on 10-26-2018 market-research-blog
By Dominic Carter
Anyone paying attention to the stock market over the past six months will have borne witness to the incredible run up of the price of electric vehicle maker Tesla Motors, Inc.
Back in March the stock was trading in the mid thirties, but had reached almost $170 by September. At this price, the market capitalization of Tesla is $20.5 billion — two-fifths of that of General Motors Company (GM) — which is massive for a company that has been around barely a decade.
Tesla is clearly hot to trot and is shaping up to be the American industrial success story of the decade, if not beyond.
The company’s latest bout of publicity was driven by the fact that the Model S sedan was recently awarded a five-star safety rating in every category by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
Although the NHTSA denies it, rumor has it that the Model S actually scored an average overall Vehicle Safety Score of 5.4 — a new record.
The brand is making strong gains in California, where it is the third-bestselling luxury sedan in the state. This means that it is already in greater demand than marques such as Cadillac, Porsche and Volvo.
Despite its high-end competitors, Elon Musk, the company’s young founder, has higher ambitions. Musk recently told reporters: “What the world really needs is a great, affordable electric car. I’m not going to let anything go, no matter what people offer, until I complete that mission.”
In the midst of this American industrial renaissance story, what is less well known are the company’s strong ties to Japan.
Key, of course, to any electric vehicle (EV) is the battery. Tesla is working very closely with Panasonic Corporation and, in June, the Japanese electronics manufacturer announced that shipments of their automotive-grade lithium-ion battery cells would surpass 100 million units by the end of the month.
The partnership with Panasonic runs deep. The two companies are also collaborating on technology for lithium-ion battery cells for the next generation of electric vehicles.
In addition, Tesla works with Toyota Motor Corporation, which has purchased a stake in the company and committed future investment. Meanwhile, Tesla has bought a section of Toyota’s Fremont-based plant.
As a result of that partnership, Toyota recently announced a full electric version of its popular RAV4 mini-SUV model. Tesla is working closely with Japanese industry, but what about Japan’s consumers? They have taken to modern propulsion technology like no others in the world.
Helped by government subsidies and tax incentives, hybrids make up 40 percent of Toyota’s sales and around 10 percent of the market overall, with Toyota’s Prius being the market leader.
Given this openness to innovation, Tesla should be fishing in the right pond but, despite the hype about a new electric era of motoring being just around the corner, hybrids are showing enduring popularity with car buyers here.
The immaturity of the pure electric category is very evident when you consider an issue that is relevant not only to Japan: range.
The Nissan Leaf, for example, gets only 75 miles per charge, whereas Toyota’s Prius hybrid has an expected range in the vicinity of 540 miles in “blended” mode.
While this highlights one of the main selling points of the Model S — provided you can cough up the roughly ¥7 million for a pure EV — its 265-mile range is quite impressive.
While pure EVs appeared a likely hit prior to the 2011 disasters, many Japanese now are put off by associations with TEPCO and the other Japanese power companies that provide the energy source that is necessary for Tesla to function.
It is still too early to say whether Tesla will make a significant impact in the Japanese market beyond a premium specialty niche. Further, for a foreign brand to succeed on any scale in Japan, it must adapt its products and sales practices to the needs of the market. Sometimes significant changes are required.
However, if they can convince Mr. and Mrs. Watanabe in Japan to finally go electric, Tesla seems well placed to chase a much wider target than just captains of industry.
CarterJMRN is a strategic market research agency that has been helping clients with consumers and businesses in Japan and beyond since 1989.
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LEGO: Harry Potter: Years 1-4 Review
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System: PS3, PC, X360, Wii, PSP, DS Review Rating Legend
Dev: Traveller's Tales 1.0 - 1.9 = Avoid 4.0 - 4.4 = Great
Pub: Warner Bros. Interactive 2.0 - 2.4 = Poor 4.5 - 4.9 = Must Buy
Release: June 29, 2010 2.5 - 2.9 = Average 5.0 = The Best
Players: 1-2 3.0 - 3.4 = Fair
ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+ 3.5 - 3.9 = Good
The Magic of LEGO!
by Amanda L. Kondolojy
When the LEGO series burst onto the scene with LEGO Star Wars in 2005, it was an instant hit. The game's simple controls, fun humor, and family-friendly gameplay made it a classic among players and assured it a spot in the upper echelon of licensed games. However, as the LEGO series started branching out and extending its trademark influence across other properties, it seemed as if some of the spark had faded. The LEGO Indiana Jones games in particular were criticized for having numerous glitches and having a general lack of polish.
When I started playing LEGO: Harry Potter, I had some serious concerns. However, it looks like Traveler's Tales has gotten back to doing what they do best with LEGO Harry Potter, and the love that they put into this title definitely shows.
Right from the moment you start the game, the affection the developers have for the series as a whole is apparent. The opening cutscene features a mish-mash of humorous takes on the opening scenes from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone mixed with a few nods to both the fans of the books as well as previous LEGO games. I won't spoil anything here, but it must be said that the cutscenes in LEGO Harry Potter are definitely on par with the best of the cutscenes from the LEGO: Star Wars series.
The cutscenes definitely continue the series' trademark humor, and the gameplay follows suit by providing users with more of the same puzzle-platform style of gameplay that has been featured in previous LEGO titles. Although this sounds a little disparaging, it's actually quite a boon for the game in this instance. The LEGO fanbase is one that must have some repetitious elements, especially when you consider that many of the players are quite young. Having a repetitious format may become tiresome in a game series designed for adults, but with a franchise with fans with single-digit ages, being able to hop right in and know what to do is key for success.
That's not to say, however, that there are no new elements in LEGO Harry Potter. Although games like LEGO Star Wars feature broad-based powers like the force that can be used to grab and interact with items, LEGO Harry Potter gives users a whole new element to play with: spells. Instead of a single action you can take with items in game, LEGO Harry Potter features more than ten special abilities that you can use to achieve various effects in the game. These spells can be easily cycled through using the shoulder button, and add a new puzzle element to the game.
Although there are quite a few spells (including the always-funny Ridikkulus spell), the one you are most likely to use in 90% of situations is Wingardium Leviosa. This levitation spell is the first spell you learn and will be used to move objects around and interact with switches. The Lumos spell is also used quite a bit, along with various graduated intervals of attack-style spells including Expecto Patronus and Incendio.
And speaking of combat, there is a fair bit of magic-based fighting in LEGO Harry Potter. This is a change of pace from previous LEGO games, but it sits nicely with the overall tone of the game. The Harry Potter series of movies and books has always been well-known for its magical creatures and (at least in the beginning) fantastical battle sequences. Although boss battles generally do contain some amount of puzzling, you will be able to fire off magical spells from your wand fairly easily to overpower your opponent.
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Charlie Chuck, Uncle Peter and Me
Starring: Charlie Chuck
Charlie Chuck returns to the Fringe after four years with a tour-de-farce of music, magic and mayhem. And a four-day special show in the middle of his run, just to confuse reviewers who don’t pay attention. Same title. Different show.
For most of the Fringe run, Charlie is going to play with the Uncle Peter Band, perform magic tricks Tommy Cooper would not have dared, reminisce about Reeves & Mortimer, act extracts from Doctor Faustus nd possibly talk seriously about life, the universe and anything - although, fair enough, there will probably still be quite a lot of randomly hitting inanimate and sometimes animate objects with his plank of wood.
But, for four days in the middle – 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th August - it’s a different show - the return of The Family Chuck, last seen at the Fringe in 2002’s Charlie Chuck Is Scrooge. This time, there’s a medieval flavour, aerobics lessons, horoscope readings and a gameshow not unreasonably called Falling Donkeys. And there might be some unexpected guests.
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“You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it”
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Making Tax Digital (MTD) represents a significant change to the way in which taxpayers record their financial information and submit tax returns. At C W Dix, we can provide guidance on the key aspects of MTD for individuals in the Wakefield area.
The government has started phasing in its landmark MTD initiative, which will see taxpayers move to a fully digital tax system.
In this factsheet we outline some of the key issues for individuals including the Personal Tax Account and Simple Assessment.
Making Tax Digital for Business (MTDfB) was introduced in the 2015 Spring Budget. The government’s ‘Making Tax Easier’ document was published shortly after, and outlined plans for the ‘end of the tax return’. It also set out the government’s vision to modernise the UK’s tax system, with digital tax accounts set to replace tax returns for ten million individuals and five million small businesses.
Revised timescales
However, industry experts and those within the accountancy sector expressed concerns over the proposed pace and the scale of the introduction of MTDfB. As a result, the government amended the initial timetable for the initiative’s implementation, to allow businesses and individuals ‘plenty of time to adapt to the changes’.
The focus of MTD is currently VAT, which was implemented from April 2019. HMRC has confirmed that businesses will not be asked to keep digital records, or to update HMRC quarterly, for other taxes until at least 2020.
Although MTD has been paused for individuals until at least 2020, HMRC has introduced the Personal Tax Account and Simple Assessment.
The Personal Tax Account
Personal Tax Accounts (PTAs) are digital tax accounts for individuals that have been created by HMRC, and are pre-populated with information held by it. PTAs are designed to permit individual taxpayers to communicate with HMRC, allowing them to update their financial details and check their tax affairs in real time.
Taxpayers may make use of a PTA to make tax payments, provide bank details to HMRC for tax refund purposes and provide details of taxable benefits from employment: for example, the use of a company car.
Individuals can register for a PTA by visiting www.gov.uk/personal-tax-account. The government predicts that, over time, the requirement to complete and file a tax return will lessen for those with straightforward tax affairs.
Simple Assessment
Under Simple Assessment, HMRC has the power to assess an individual's liability to income tax or capital gains tax, without the taxpayer having to fill out and submit a tax return.
Simple Assessment may be used to deal with the tax liabilities of:
state pensioners whose state pension is higher than their personal tax allowance where the tax owed cannot be collected via their tax code.
taxpayers with PAYE liabilities who have underpaid tax and cannot have it collected via their tax code.
Taxpayers are required to ensure that the information provided by HMRC is correct, and pay their income tax liability online, or by cheque, before a specific deadline, as outlined within the letter they receive. If the taxpayer believes the information to be incorrect, customers are given 60 days to contact HMRC.
Those that miss the deadline are encouraged to contact HMRC in order to discuss their circumstances. Individuals who fail to do so may be subject to penalties.
Development ‘paused’
HMRC announced a prioritisation of certain HMRC projects at a House of Commons Public Accounts Committee in April 2018 and a pause in the extension of MTD in certain areas. These areas include further developments to the PTA and further roll out of Simple Assessment. So far only some pensioners and taxpayers with underpaid PAYE have been moved onto Simple Assessment. The expectation was that more PAYE taxpayers would be moved out of self-assessment and into Simple Assessment. This has now being paused with no indication of when it will be resumed. HMRC has confirmed that it will continue to encourage more individuals to use their PTA and will focus on improving the existing service to taxpayers.
If you are in the Wakefield area, please do contact us for information on MTD.
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Fast Food Nation (2006)
2010-03-13 Christian Sauvé Leave a comment
(On DVD, March 2010) Adapting a book to a movie is a gamble even in the best circumstances, but adapting a well-regarded non-fiction classic into an ensemble drama is really asking for trouble. To its credit, Richard Linklater manages to touch upon much of Eric Schlosser’s critique of the fast-food industry: We get a taste of its reliance on students and migrant workers, the bloody mass butchery required to keep those burgers flowing, the external costs inherent in cheap food and even details such as made-in-laboratory flavours. What the film doesn’t do as well is in dramatizing those issues: Often, Fast Food Nation feels like a talky issues show in which every scene mentions a problem or two. (Even a quick walk through school corridors can’t help but feature metal detectors and drug-sniffing dogs.) Some characters are more interesting than others (there are plenty of cameos and small roles for familiar faces, the best of which being a single-scene semi-villainous turn for Bruce Willis), but the film shuts down before it can tie up most situations adequately: it’s all setup and little payoff, although it leads, Heart of Darkness-style, to a revelatory climax showing the gruesome nature of the “Killing Floor” discussed so often during the rest of the film.. This unflinching moment, filmed in a real Mexico butchery said to be cleaner than US ones, is meant to disgust –but it may not be the film’s intended climax for viewers who already understand that animals become meat become burgers. Still, Fast Food Nation generally sticks close to reality, and its failings as a piece of narrative fiction are profoundly linked to its strength as a semi-documentary exposé. It could have been much stronger by including a third act, presenting its messages more carefully (although, thanks goodness, it avoids the most obvious “fast food will make you fat”) and sticking closer to its characters. But even with its flaws, it’s a worthwhile film: the issues are there to ponder, and there are a handful of scenes good enough to make the film compelling. Don’t plan on eating much fast-food right after, though. Appropriately, viewers may come to appreciate the film more after listening to co-writers Linklater and Schlosser on the audio commentary track: they discuss what material was kept from the book, the nature of low-budget moviemaking and some of the themes they were tackling. A handful of other extras round up the DVD, the most memorable of them being the now-classic Meatrix Flash animation short films.
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Letter from the Editor: A Farewell to Shock
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By Ryan Turek & Christopher Jimenez On November 17, 2014
6 Times Universal’s Classic Movie Monsters Became Superheroes
Much has been written over the weekend about a recent roundtable discussion that was published within the Hollywood Reporter recently. During the talk, Universal’s Donna Langley explained the studio’s vision for the upcoming reboot of the classic movie monsters. Needless to say, monster kids and horror fans were not happy.
“We don’t have any capes [in our film library],” Langley said.
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By Christopher Jimenez On November 13, 2014
The 10 Most Tragic Deaths from the Nightmare on Elm Street Legacy
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the original A Nightmare on Elm Street and its antagonist, Freddy Krueger. A child-killing psychopath who was burned alive by vengeful parents only to return to take his revenge through the dreams of their now teenaged children.
Many of the deaths were fantastical of course, but some were crueler than others. Those are the ones that stick in my mind because they didn
By John Squires On November 12, 2014
8 Times Freddy Krueger Wasn’t Played by Robert Englund in the Nightmare on Elm…
When you hear the name Freddy Krueger, the first thing that comes to mind is most likely another name: Robert Englund.
One of the things that makes Freddy unique in the world of horror villains is that he was always played by Englund, in each and every film of the original Nightmare on Elm Street franchise – and even in Freddy’s long awaited cinematic battle with Jason Voorhees. Well, for the most part, at least…
By Ryan Turek On November 11, 2014
30th Anniversary: My Terrifying First Encounter With A Nightmare On Elm Street
“Time to go to sleep.” Those ominous words preceded my introduction to A Nightmare on Elm Street nearly 30 years ago. My father, having borrowed a VCR, rented Wes Craven’s seminal 1984 horror film on the day it was released on VHS. He was a savvy horror fan and had obviously read about the film – why he missed it in theaters is unknown to me. I’ll just chalk it up to being the father of two youngsters and he was unable to escape the house for an evening when the movie opened wide in theaters on November 16, 1984. Alright, I’ll take the blame. Regardless, he was finally catching up to it. My mother was turning in for the night, my little sister was passed out in her bed and it was my turn to head to my bedroom while my father looked forward to indulging in some horror movies.
By Christopher Jimenez On October 29, 2014
20 of the Best Bummer Endings in Horror
By Anthony DiBlasi On October 29, 2014
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Elder Brock in Missionary is a complicated guy. In the simplest of terms he
By Stephen Graham Jones On October 28, 2014
Editorial: 20 Greatest Moments in Horror Movies
The other day I stumbled onto Roger Ebert
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Editorial: The Three Major Problems With American Horror Story Today
In last week’s episode of American Horror Story: Freak Show, a bratty, privileged character named “Dandy” donned a clown costume and mask and stalked his sassy, unimpressed maid (played by Patti LaBelle). The whole thing was a choreographed rip-off of the opening of John Carpenter’s Halloween.
You know the POV shot, I don’t need to describe it for you if you’re reading this site.
I sat there at first thinking “Heh, neat.” But then the thought dawned on me: I get very annoyed when filmmakers “borrow from the best” – mostly out of nostalgia – and I don’t cut them slack, so why am I giving American Horror Story a pass?
By Kalyn Corrigan On October 26, 2014
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Every year, horror fans spend tons of money going out to movie theaters to see their favorite films on the big screen. Of course, this is one of the greatest activities available during the month of October, but for those who are short on cash or don
By Julian Gilbey On October 24, 2014
Greatest Movie Death: The Terminator
The (very belated) “death” of the T-800 in The Terminator (1984) – I know this is not strictly a human death but it lingered in the consciousness long after the film had finished.
I saw the film on VHS in 1986 and had NO IDEA what the story was about or even if the guy from Conan The Barbarian was gonna play a good guy or a bad guy (NB – back then, it took anywhere from a year to 18 months for a cinema film to come out on video in the UK).
By John Squires On October 24, 2014
10 Fun New Products for the 2014 Halloween Season!
One of the great joys of the Halloween season is seeing all the new products that companies roll out in celebration, from masks to costumes, decorations to unique foods and beverages.
Ghostbusters donuts, anyone?!
As we fast approach the best day of the year, we wanted to shine the spotlight today on ten choice products from this year’s Halloween haul, with a particular focus on the new masks, costumes and decorations that 2014 has provided us with.
By Jeff Allard On October 23, 2014
Editorial: ‘Trick or Treat, Motherf*cker!’ – Revisiting Halloween:
As anyone who follows the genre knows, no horror villain can ever be considered dead. Final Chapters seldom stick to the whole
Editorial: In Defense of the Sexy Halloween Costume
It’s that time of year again. The weather’s cooling, jack-o-lanterns are being placed proudly in front of houses like glowing badges of honor, haunted attractions are booming, and bloggers are dictating what costume is and is not okay to wear. By this point, I’ve lost track of how many posts I’ve read belittling women who wear provocative clothing on Halloween night. Men and women of all ages seem to be infuriated at the idea of a woman using one of the biggest party nights of the year as an excuse to dress up and let loose, despite how many times some of those same exact women have worn revealing outfits every other night of the year. For some reason, Halloween seems to bring out hatred just as much as it does nostalgia in people. After all of the rampant lecturing, I felt that it was time for someone to come along and defend the sexy Halloween costume.
By Joe Begos On October 16, 2014
Editorial: Vampires is the Best John Carpenter Film of the ’90s
Twenty-two years after John Carpenter exploded onto the scene with his Western-esque siege classic Assault on Precinct 13, he was finally given the chance to use his glorious widescreen compositions and cigar-chomping tough guy leads to make what he was born to make: A MOTHERFUCKING HORROR WESTERN. Audiences should have eaten it up, but they didn’t. In fact, I am regularly ridiculed for not only thinking that Vampires is a damn fine movie, but the best Carpenter movie since his back-to-back low budget gut punches of Prince of Darkness and They Live. Everyone claims that Vampires is just plain bad. I’m here to argue that the movie isn’t bad – it’s the definition of badass.
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15 Great Opening Scenes in Horror
The opening of a horror film may be the most important in the film barring the ending, of course. It sets the tone and hooks the audience. If done right, it buys the director or writer time to build character and set up situations.
In recent years, this art has been all but lost, studios instead going for the
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Financial Statements 2012 - 13
To the Speaker of the House of Commons and the Speaker of the Senate
Report on the Financial Statements
I have audited the accompanying financial statements of the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages, which comprise the statement of financial position as at 31 March 2013, and the statement of operations and net financial position, statement of change in net debt and statement of cash flows for the year then ended, and a summary of significant accounting policies and other explanatory information.
Management's Responsibility for the Financial Statements
Management is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of these financial statements in accordance with Canadian public sector accounting standards, and for such internal control as management determines is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
Auditor's Responsibility
My responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on my audit. I conducted my audit in accordance with Canadian generally accepted auditing standards. Those standards require that I comply with ethical requirements and plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free from material misstatement.
An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditor's judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers internal control relevant to the entity's preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the entity's internal control. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements.
I believe that the audit evidence I have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for my audit opinion.
In my opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages as at 31 March 2013, and the results of its operations, changes in its net debt, and its cash flows for the year then ended in accordance with Canadian public sector accounting standards.
In my opinion, the transactions of the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages that have come to my notice during my audit of the financial statements have, in all significant respects, been in accordance with the Financial Administration Act and regulations and the Official Languages Act.
The original version was signed by:
Sylvain Ricard, CPA, CA
Assistant Auditor General
for the Auditor General of Canada
Statement of Management Responsibility Including Internal Control Over Financial Reporting of the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages
Responsibility for the integrity and objectivity of the accompanying financial statements for the year ended March 31, 2013 and all information contained in these statements rests with the management of the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages (OCOL). These financial statements have been prepared by management using the Treasury Board's accounting policies, which are based on Canadian public sector accounting standards.
Management is responsible for the integrity and objectivity of the information in these financial statements. Some of the information in the financial statements is based on management's best estimates and judgment, and gives due consideration to materiality. To fulfill its accounting and reporting responsibilities, management maintains a set of accounts that provides a centralized record of OCOL's financial transactions. Financial information submitted in the preparation of the Public Accounts of Canada, and included in OCOL's Departmental Performance Report, is consistent with these financial statements.
Management is also responsible for maintaining an effective system of internal control over financial reporting (ICFR) designed to provide reasonable assurance that financial information is reliable, that assets are safeguarded and that transactions are properly authorized and recorded in accordance with the Financial Administration Act and other applicable legislation, regulations, authorities and policies.
Management seeks to ensure the objectivity and integrity of data in its financial statements through careful selection, training and development of qualified staff; through organizational arrangements that provide appropriate divisions of responsibility; through communication programs aimed at ensuring that regulations, policies, standards, and managerial authorities are understood throughout OCOL and through conducting an annual risk-based assessment of the effectiveness of the system of ICFR.
The system of ICFR is designed to mitigate risks to a reasonable level based on an ongoing process to identify key risks, to assess effectiveness of associated key controls, and to make any necessary adjustments.
A risk-based assessment of the system of ICFR for the year ended March 31, 2013 was completed in accordance with the Treasury Board Policy on Internal Control and the results and action plans are summarized in the annex.
The effectiveness and adequacy of OCOL's system of internal control was reviewed by the Audit and Evaluation Committee, which oversees management's responsibilities for maintaining adequate control systems and the quality of financial reporting, and which recommends the financial statements to the Commissioner.
The Office of the Auditor General, the independent auditor for the Government of Canada has expressed an opinion on the fair presentation of OCOL's financial statements which does not include an audit opinion on the annual assessment of the effectiveness of the OCOL's internal controls over financial reporting.
Financial Statements for the Year Ended March 31, 2013
OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF OFFICIAL LANGUAGES
Statement of Financial Position
As at March 31
(in dollars)
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities (note 4)
1,432,443 1,828,491
Vacation pay and compensatory leave
Employee future benefits (note 5)
Financial assets
Due from the Consolidated Revenue Fund
Accounts receivable and advances (note 6)
Total financial assets
Net debt
Non-financial assets
- 7,164
Tangible capital assets (note 7)
Total non-financial assets
Net financial position
(1,434,126) (1,460,831)
Contractual obligations (note 8)
Contingent liabilities (note 9)
The accompanying notes form an integral part of these financial statements.
Statement of Operations and Net Financial Position
For the Year Ended March 31
2013 Planned results
Protection of Linguistic Rights
8,028,471 7,411,320 7,978,071
Promotion of Linguistic Duality
24,514,510 24,265,689 24,479,268
Net cost of operations before government funding
Government funding
Net cash provided by Government
Change in due from Consolidated Revenue Fund
11,996 (306,888) 233,151
Services provided without charge by other government departments (note 10)
Net cost of operations after government funding
(424,420) (26,705) (1,070,895)
Net financial position - Beginning of year
(1,739,451) (1,460,831) (2,531,726)
Net financial position - End of year
Segmented information (note 11)
Statement of Change in Net Debt
Change due to tangible capital assets
Acquisition of tangible capital assets
134,037 55,951 101,157
Amortization of tangible capital assets
(459,726) (444,524) (624,992)
Loss on disposal of tangible capital assets including adjustments
- (17,172) (1,019)
Total change due to tangible capital assets
Change due to prepaid expenses
(800) (7,164) (544)
Net decrease in net debt
(750,909) (439,614) (1,596,293)
Net debt - Beginning of year
Net debt - End of year
Net cost of operation before government funding
24,265,689 24,479,268
Non-cash items:
(444,524) (624,992)
Loss on disposal of tangible capital assets
(17,172) (1,019)
Service provided without charge by other government departments (note 10)
Variations in Statement of Financial Position:
Increase (decrease) in accounts receivable and advances
(81,849) 47,846
Decrease in prepaid expenses
(7,164) (544)
Decrease (increase) in accounts payable and accrued liabilities
396,048 (274,798)
Decrease (increase) in vacation pay and compensatory leave
15,076 (10,080)
Decrease in employee future benefits
417,227 1,600,174
Cash used in operating activities
Capital investing activities
Cash used in capital investing activities
Net cash provided by Government of Canada
Notes to the Financial Statements
1. Authority and objectives
The Parliament of Canada adopted the first Official Languages Act in 1969. This Act provided that English and French would henceforth have “equality of status and equal rights and privileges as to their use in all the institutions of the Parliament and Government of Canada”.
Under the Act, therefore, the Commissioner is required to take every measure within his power to ensure that the three main objectives of the Official Languages Act are met:
the equality of the status and use of English and French in Parliament, the Government of Canada, the federal administration and the institutions subject to the Act;
the development of official language minority communities in Canada; and
the advancement of the equality of English and French in Canadian society.
The Commissioner of Official Languages is appointed by commission under the Great Seal, after approval by resolution of the House of Commons and the Senate, for a seven-year term. The Commissioner of Official Languages reports directly to Parliament.
The Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages (OCOL), which serves the public from its offices in Ottawa and its five regional offices, supports the Commissioner of Official Languages in fulfilling his mandate. The responsibilities of the Commissioner consists of taking all actions and measures to ensure recognition of the status of each of the official languages and compliance with the spirit and intent of this Act in the administration of the affairs of federal institutions, including any of their activities relating to the advancement of English and French in Canadian society.
OCOL has three programs which are described below:
Through the Protection of Linguistic Rights program, OCOL investigates complaints filed by citizens who believe their language rights have not been respected, evaluates compliance with the Official Languages Act by federal institutions and other organizations subject to the Act through performance measurements and audits, and intervenes proactively to prevent non-compliance with the Act. As well, OCOL may intervene before the courts in cases that deal with non-compliance with the Act.
Through the Promotion of Linguistic Duality program, OCOL works with parliamentarians, federal institutions and other organizations subject to the Official Languages Act, official language communities and the Canadian public in promoting linguistic duality. OCOL builds links between federal institutions, official language communities and the different levels of government to help them better understand the needs of official language communities, the importance of bilingualism and the value of respecting Canada's linguistic duality. In order to fulfill its role in that promotion, OCOL conducts research, studies and public awareness activities as well as intervenes with senior federal officials so that they instill a change in culture to fully integrate linguistic duality in their organizations.
The Internal Services program involves groups of related activities and resources that are administered to support the needs of the organization's programs and other corporate obligations. It includes Management and Oversight Services, Human Resources Management Services, Financial Management Services, Information Management Services, Information Technology Services, Real Property Services, Materiel Services, Acquisition Services, and Travel and Other Administrative Services.
OCOL is named in Schedule I.1 of the Financial Administration Act (FAA) and is funded through annual authorities.
2. Summary of significant accounting policies
These financial statements have been prepared using the Treasury Board's accounting policies stated below, which are based on Canadian public sector accounting standards. The presentation and results using the stated accounting policies do not result in any significant differences from Canadian public sector accounting standards.
Significant accounting policies are as follows:
Parliamentary authorities
OCOL is financed by the Government of Canada through parliamentary authorities. Financial reporting of authorities provided to OCOL do not parallel financial reporting according to generally accepted accounting principles since authorities are primarily based on cash flow requirements. Consequently, items recognized in the Statement of Operations and Net Financial Position and in the Statement of Financial Position are not necessarily the same as those provided through authorities from Parliament. Note 3 provides a reconciliation between the bases of reporting. The planned results amounts in the Statement of Operations and Net Financial Position are the amounts reported in the future-oriented financial statement included in the 2012–13 Report on Plans and Priorities.
Liquidity risk is the risk that OCOL will encounter difficulty in meeting its obligations associated with financial liabilities. The entity's objective for managing liquidity risk is to manage operations and cash expenditures within the appropriation authorized by Parliament or allotment limits approved by the Treasury Board.
Each year, OCOL presents information on planned expenditures to Parliament through the tabling of Estimates publications. These estimates result in the introduction of supply bills (which, once passed into legislation, become appropriation acts) in accordance with the reporting cycle for government expenditures. OCOL exercises expenditure initiation processes such that unencumbered balances of budget allotments and appropriations are monitored and reported on a regular basis to help ensure sufficient authority remains for the entire period and appropriations are not exceeded.
Consistent with Section 32 of the Financial Administration Act, OCOL's policy to manage liquidity risk is that no contract or other arrangement providing for a payment shall be entered into with respect to any program for which there is an appropriation by Parliament or an item included in estimates then before the House of Commons to which the payment will be charged unless there is a sufficient unencumbered balance available out of the appropriation or item to discharge any debt that, under the contract or other arrangement, will be incurred during the fiscal year in which the contract or other arrangement is entered into.
The entity's risk exposure and its objectives, policies and processes to manage and measure this risk did not change significantly from the prior year.
OCOL operates within the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF), which is administered by the Receiver General for Canada. All cash received by OCOL is deposited to the CRF, and all cash disbursements made by OCOL are paid from the CRF. The net cash provided by Government is the difference between all cash receipts and all cash disbursements, including transactions between departments of the Government.
Due from the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF)
Amounts due from the CRF are the result of timing differences at year-end between when a transaction affects authorities and when it is processed through the CRF. Amounts due from the CRF represent the net amount of cash that OCOL is entitled to draw from the CRF without further authorities to discharge its liabilities. This amount is not considered to be a financial instrument.
Expenses are recorded on the accrual basis:
Vacation pay and compensatory leave are accrued as the benefits are earned by employees under their respective terms of employment.
Services provided without charge by other government departments for accommodation, employer contributions to the health and dental insurance plans, payroll services and audit services are recorded as operating expenses at their estimated cost.
Employee future benefits
Pension benefits: Eligible employees participate in the Public Service Pension Plan, a multi-employer pension plan administered by the Government of Canada. OCOL's contributions to the Plan are charged to expenses in the year incurred and represent the total departmental obligation to the Plan. OCOL's responsibility with regard to the Plan is limited to its contributions. Actuarial surpluses or deficiencies are recognized in the financial statements of the Government of Canada, as the Plan's sponsor.
Severance benefits: Employees entitled to severance benefits under labour contracts or conditions of employment earn these benefits as services necessary to earn them are rendered. The obligation relating to the benefits earned by employees is calculated using information derived from the results of the actuarially determined liability for employee severance benefits for the Government as a whole.
Accounts receivable are stated at the lower of cost and net recoverable value. A valuation allowance is recorded for accounts receivable where recovery is considered uncertain.
Credit risk is the risk that one party to a financial instrument will cause a financial loss for the other party by failing to discharge an obligation. The entity is not exposed to significant credit risk. The entity provides services to other government departments and agencies and to external parties in the normal course of business. Accounts receivable are due on demand. The majority of accounts receivable are due from other government of Canada departments and agencies where there is minimal potential risk of loss. The maximum exposures the entity has to credit risk equal to the carrying value of its accounts receivable.
Contingent liabilities are potential liabilities that may become actual liabilities when one or more future events occur or fail to occur. To the extent that the future event is likely to occur or fail to occur, and a reasonable estimate of the loss can be made, an estimated liability is accrued and an expense recorded. If the likelihood is not determinable or if an amount cannot be reasonably estimated, the contingency is disclosed in the notes to the financial statements.
Tangible capital assets
Effective on April 1, 2012, all tangible capital assets and leasehold improvements having an initial cost of $5,000 or more are recorded at their acquisition cost. The threshold was $1,000 in previous fiscal years. OCOL does not capitalize intangible assets.
Amortization of capital assets is done on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful life of the capital asset as follows:
Machinery and equipment 5 years
Informatics hardware 4 years
Furniture 5 years
Informatics software 3 years
Motor vehicles 7 years
Leasehold improvements Lesser of the remaining term of the lease or the useful life of the improvement
Measurement uncertainty
The preparation of these financial statements requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities and expenses reported in the financial statements. At the time of preparation of these statements, management believes the estimates and assumptions to be reasonable. The most significant items where estimates are used are contingent liabilities, the liability for employee future benefits and the useful life of tangible capital assets. Actual results could significantly differ from those estimated. Management's estimates are reviewed periodically and, as adjustments become necessary, they are recorded in the financial statements in the year they become known.
3. Parliamentary authorities
OCOL receives its funding through annual parliamentary authorities. Items recognized in the Statement of Operations and Net Financial Position and the Statement of Financial Position in one year may be funded through parliamentary authorities in prior, current or future years. Accordingly, OCOL has different net results of operations for the year on a government funding basis than on an accrual accounting basis. The differences are reconciled in the following tables:
(a) Reconciliation of net cost of operations to current year authorities used
Adjustments for items affecting net cost of operations but not affecting authorities:
Services provided without charge by other government departments
Total - Adjustments for items affecting net cost of operations but not affecting authorities
Adjustments for items not affecting net cost of operations but affecting authorities:
Acquisitions of tangible capital assets
Total - Adjustments for items not affecting net cost of operations but affecting authorities
Current year authorities used
(b) Reconciliation of authorities provided and used
Vote 20 – Program expenditures
Statutory – Contributions to employee benefit plans
Statutory – Spending of proceeds from the disposal of surplus Crown assets
Lapsed: Operating
(1,031,397) (960,864)
4. Accounts payable and accrued liabilities
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities are measured at cost, the majority of which are due within three months of year-end.
The following table presents details of OCOL's accounts payable and accrued liabilities:
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities (in dollars)
Accounts payable - Other government departments and agencies
Accounts payable - External parties
Total accounts payable
Accrued liabilities
Total accounts payable and accrued liabilities
5. Employee future benefits
Pension benefits
OCOL's employees participate in the Public Service Pension Plan, which is sponsored and administered by the Government. Pension benefits accrue up to a maximum period of 35 years at a rate of 2 percent per year of pensionable service, times the average of the best five consecutive years of earnings. The benefits are integrated with Canada/Québec Pension Plan benefits and they are indexed to inflation.
Both the employees and OCOL contribute to the cost of the Plan. The 2012–13 expense amounts to $1,647,101 ($1,633,686 in 2011–12), which represents approximately 1.7 times (1.8 times in 2011–12) the contributions by employees.
OCOL's responsibility with regard to the Plan is limited to its contributions. Actuarial surpluses or deficiencies are recognized in the financial statements of the Government of Canada, as the Plan's sponsor.
OCOL provides severance benefits to its employees based on eligibility, years of service and salary at termination of employment. These severance benefits are not pre-funded. Benefits will be paid from future authorities.
As part of collective agreement negotiations with certain employee groups, and changes to conditions of employment for executives and certain non-represented employees, the accumulation of severance benefits under the employee severance pay program ceased for these employees commencing in 2011–12. Employees subject to these changes have been given the option to be immediately paid the full or partial value of benefits earned to date or collect the full or remaining value of benefits on termination from the public service. These changes have been reflected in the calculation of the outstanding severance benefit obligation. Information about the severance benefits, measured as at March 31, is as follows:
Accrued benefit obligation - Beginning of year
Expense for the year
Benefits paid during the year
(443,107) (1,903,281)
Accrued benefit obligation - End of year
6. Accounts receivable and advances
The following table presents details of OCOL's accounts receivable and advances balances:
Accounts receivable and advances
Receivables - Other government departments and agencies
Receivables - External parties
Employee advances
Total accounts receivable and advances
7. Tangible capital assets
518,390 - - 518,390
Informatics hardware
3,153,311 22,622 (131,868) 3,044,065
1,038,378 - - 1,038,378
Informatics software
678,350 33,329 - 711,679
30,630 - - 30,630
Leasehold improvements
Accumulated Amortization
2,766,592 162,098 (114,696) 2,813,994
986,672 22,840 - 1,009,512
22,609 4,374 - 26,983
1,212,047 192,545 - 1,404,592
Total Accumulated Amortization
Net Book Value
Total Net Book Value
Amortization expense for the year ended March 31, 2013 was $444,524 ($624,992 in 2012).
8. Contractual obligations
OCOL has obligations arising in the normal course of operations for future years. These obligations include equipment rental, service contracts, as well as the obligation for workers' compensation death benefits which is explained hereafter.
OCOL employees are covered by workers' compensation benefits across Canada. This plan is managed by Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC). As plan manager, HRSDC has authority to charge to OCOL its share of the annual workers' compensation benefit payments incurred under the plan. These amounts are expensed by OCOL and charged to authorities when OCOL becomes liable to HRSDC in the year the amounts are billed.
In April 2002, the death of an employee resulted in the payment of benefits under the workers' compensation death benefit plan. The total cost is expected to be approximately $670,000, including a fee of 20% for administration costs, and is payable under the plan by OCOL to HRSDC. The 2012–13 expense in relation to this claim amounts to $44,956 ($44,171 in 2011–12). It is estimated that HRSDC will bill OCOL $148,000 over the next four years.
Contractual obligations (in dollars)
Total Contractual obligations
240,126 203,692 51,961 16,686 5,060
9. Contingent liabilities
In the normal course of its operations, OCOL may become involved in various legal actions. Some of these legal actions may result in actual liabilities when one or more future events occur. To the extent that the future event is likely to occur, and a reasonable estimate of the loss can be made, a liability is accrued and an expense recorded in the financial statements. No contingent liabilities are recognized in OCOL's financial statements for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2013.
10. Related party transactions
OCOL is related as a result of common ownership to all government departments, agencies, and Crown corporations. OCOL enters into transactions with these entities in the normal course of business and on normal trade terms. During the year, OCOL received common services which were obtained without charge from other government departments as disclosed below.
Common services provided without charge by other government departments
During the year, OCOL received services without charge from certain common service organizations, related to accommodation, the employer's contribution to the health and dental insurance plans, payroll services and audit services. These services provided without charge have been recorded in OCOL's Statement of Operations and Net Financial Position as follows:
Common services provided without charge by other government departments (in dollars)
Employer's contribution to the health and dental insurance plans
Other transactions with related parties
Other transactions with related parties (in dollars)
Expenses disclosed in (b) exclude common services provided without charge, which are already disclosed in (a).
Accounts receivable - Other government departments and agencies
Expenses - Other government departments and agencies
11. Segmented information
Presentation by segment is based on OCOL's program alignment architecture. The presentation by segment is based on the same accounting policies as described in the Summary of significant accounting policies in note 2. The following table presents the expenses incurred for the programs, by major object of expenses. The segment results for the period are as follows:
Segmented information (in dollars)
Salaries and employee benefits
6,005,451 5,681,240 5,473,217 17,159,908 17,506,472
498,658 600,238 1,958,543 3,057,439 2,900,172
626,258 596,369 573,043 1,795,670 1,775,377
Transportation and telecommunications
73,857 227,797 396,756 698,410 888,532
155,032 147,633 141,859 444,524 624,992
Small equipments, materials and supplies
41,150 57,023 340,026 438,199 258,123
4,000 16,321 312,000 332,321 86,603
Communications and printing
6,474 163,730 42,266 212,470 127,901
Repairs, maintenance and others
440 929 125,379 126,748 311,096
Net cost of operations
12. Comparative information
Comparative figures have been reclassified to conform to the current year's presentation.
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Cars flipped, trees down: 'Extremely dangerous tornado' spotted near Jackson area
A MEMA spokesman said the agency has not received any reports of storm-related injuries or fatalities.
Cars flipped, trees down: 'Extremely dangerous tornado' spotted near Jackson area A MEMA spokesman said the agency has not received any reports of storm-related injuries or fatalities. Check out this story on clarionledger.com: https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2019/04/18/large-and-extremely-dangerous-tornado-confirmed-near-raymond-mema-says/3511345002/
Alissa Zhu, Mississippi Clarion Ledger Published 2:35 p.m. CT April 18, 2019 | Updated 5:38 p.m. CT April 18, 2019
Multiple tornadoes and storms swept across parts of Mississippi Thursday, leaving downed trees and tens of thousands of households without power.
The Jackson metro area was hit with powerful winds and heavy rains in the afternoon.
At around 2:15 p.m., Mississippi Emergency Management Agency tweeted that a "confirmed large and extremely dangerous tornado" was located seven miles southwest of Raymond and 14 miles southwest of Clinton.
The tornado was moving northeast at 45 miles per hour, according to MEMA, which urged people to move to their safe places.
CONFIRMED LARGE AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RAYMOND, OR 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CLINTON, MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. GET TO YOUR SAFE PLACE NOW! #MSWX
— MSEMA (@MSEMA) April 18, 2019
MEMA spokesman Ray Coleman told the Clarion Ledger the agency, as of 4:30 p.m., had not received reports of any storm-related injuries or fatalities from across the state.
"There's been no widespread damage reported," Coleman said.
Two vehicles flipped over during Thursday afternoon's storms in Clinton. (Photo: City of Clinton)
Clinton sustained some damage, in the form of fallen trees, flipped cars and flash flooding, said Mark Jones, spokesman for the city of Clinton.
He said the storm moved through Clinton around 2:41 p.m., most severely impacting the east portion of the city, near its border with Jackson.
Winds flipped two vehicles onto their side in a Walmart parking lot in Clinton, Jones said. Walmart is assessing possible damage to its fences.
Emergency workers rescued a motorist out of a car that became trapped in a flooded portion of Springridge Road, he said.
Jones said the city has also received reports of three damaged homes. Trees were down, some in a park, others blocking roads, he said.
A home, located on Church Street in Clinton's Easthaven subdivision, was damaged during a storm on Thursday, April 18, 2019. (Photo: Courtesy of Mark Jones)
"We're just doing our best while the storm is still in our area. We're just assessing and responding to emergency needs," Jones said.
About 26 miles southwest of Clinton, a school bus got trapped between two trees on a road in Utica, WJTV reported. No one was injured and loggers were able to get the bus out safely.
All kids, driver are okay after the bus got trapped by trees in Utica - no injuries. Thankfully. #mswx
— Patrick Ellis WLBT (@PatrickEllisWx) April 18, 2019
Riggs Manor Retirement Community in Raymond said the tornado in Hinds County got close to its campus, but lifted before hitting.
"Praise be to God for blessings!" a Facebook post from the retirement community said. "Everyone is fine, but we are without power."
Videos posted on social media show flooded yards and trees that have fallen across roads in the Jackson area.
Sgt. Roderick Holmes said the Jackson Police Department has received calls about trees down and debris in roadways in some areas of the city — all normal occurrences during big storms.
Reddoch Dr. Water beginning to enter two houses @NWSJacksonMSpic.twitter.com/nMJMjKIBHp
— Will Day (@wx2day) April 18, 2019
Utilities reported more than 50,000 customers were left without power statewide.
MEMA reported more than 20 counties across the state were issued tornado warnings on Thursday as a powerful storm system blew through the southeastern part of the country. The same system produced tornadoes and hail in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas.
More: Live coverage of severe weather in Mississippi Thursday
This is a breaking story. Check back for updates.
Contact Alissa Zhu at azhu@gannett.com. Follow @AlissaZhu on Twitter.
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UPDATE: Police safely remove man barricaded inside home
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Jackiw and BPYO Cure Warhorseitis
by Crawford Best
November 27, 2019 November 26, 2019 by Crawford Best
Three brisk repeated E naturals played in octaves in the brass and bassoons begin the Overture to Verdi’s La Forza del Destino; it continues with several short slow sections from the opera, before concluding in an extended brilliant section. If the Boston Philharmonic Youth Symphony performance lacked something of the opera’s dramatic display, it nevertheless made for a brilliant start to the season under Benjamin Zander.
Stefan Jackiw’s appearance in Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto with Zander and the BPYO at Symphony Hall Sunday came almost exactly 20 years after his having done it with Zander and the London Philharmonic. In the intervening years Jackiw has been no stranger to his native Boston, having appeared in Rockport, Roxbury Latin, for the Gardner, for Boston Conservatory, for the Celebrity Series, with the Boston Symphony, and in a concerto with Zander and the BPO in 2012. He made his professional debut with the Boston Pops at the age of 12.
Jackiw’s immersion in historically informed performance style (yes this goes on in Mendelssohn) enlivened the warhorse concerto with much unexpected variety and interest. Instead of long lush melodic lines from the violin we heard shorter phrases given out with little vibrato and tapering off at the ends, their individual characters emphasized, and rhythmic motifs conveyed as gestures and not necessarily precisely in rhythm. Jackiw somehow made this approach sound utterly natural and un-studied.
The solo violin begins with essentially no orchestral introduction, typically characterizing the eight-bar theme with one sustained style throughout. But it subdivides into shorter phrases which Jackiw characterized differently, some more rhythmic and some more melodic. He took the same refreshing approach to Mendelssohn’s famous cadenza.
Zander and Jackiw agreed to interpret the Andante movement as a simple light song with two pulses per measure. Instead of the expected sustained violin tone filling the space between each 8th of the 6/8 time signature, we heard a floating pulse whose speed matched the harmonic changes of the music. It made perfect sense.
The virtuosic Allegro ma non troppo-Allegro molto vivace challenges the conductor and orchestra to stay with the soloist rhythmically, and they generally succeeded. Zander wisely emphasized steadiness of rhythm while staying close to Jackiw’s tempo instead of trying to be exactly with him at all times, which can unsettle all involved. He used the full string section, which also makes it harder to stay with the soloist, but gives all the string players a valuable and enjoyable experience. Overall, Zander led with appropriately varied lightness.
The exuberant response led to an encore, the Largo from Bach’s Sonata No. 3 in C Major for solo violin. Employing no expressive vibrato, Jackiw instead opted for lots of color changes from precise bow control; he made total emotional and musical sense of the notes, phrases and larger architecture.
Before embarking with us in Mahler Symphony No. 1 in D Major, BZ shared his enthusiasm for its amazing range of sounds and emotions. One can hear an extended version of the talk HERE. The orchestra responded like true believers to Zander’s vigorous exhortations, from the French horn section rips in the first movement, to the several tempo changes in the second movement waltz, to the tautly controlled canon on the nursery rhyme Frere Jacques (in the minor tonality) third movement, to the wild and crazy final movement with many different sections, tempi, and transitions.
Stefan Jackiw, Benjamin Zander and BPYO (Paul Marotta photo)
Hearing this contingent for the first time, and, believe or not, Zander for the first time, I can attest as a satisfied listener and critic that much of the execution reached completely professional levels. Only in the slower, softer moments did we detect where experience would allow for better integration of varied tone colors, dynamics, and stylistic personalities. But these 100+ adherents already fully communicate the inspiration they get from participating in the BPYO.
I strongly recommend their subsequent concerts on March 12th and May 10th
Crawford Best received his AB degree from Duke University and his MM degree from New England Conservatory of Music. He was principal bassoonist of the New Orleans Philharmonic and Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, bassoonist with the Minnesota Orchestra, and faculty bassoonist of the Dartmouth College Congregation of the Arts.
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Cricket Australia permits paid one-year maternity leave
Cricket Australia Parental leave policy
By Rvel Zahid
Cricket Australia (CA) is receiving praise from all corners as they have promulgated a 'parental leave scheme' that will allow female players to stage a comeback in the competitive top-level cricket after giving birth.
The new policy entails 12 months paid parental leave to players who are starting a family and they will be given an assurance of their contract extension which will keep the doors open for them to start afresh. Also, travel support will be available to women if they are the child's primary guardian.
Australia's cricket association had been working meticulously to draft this programme from last three years and have now finally implemented the parental policy much to the delight of female cricketers. Men will also be allowed three weeks' paid leave after the birth of their child.
"(It is) a world-leading parental leave policy providing all professional players peace of mind when starting a family," Official spokesperson from CA said.
“A world-leading, player-centred policy, providing focus on the family and balance in the lives of all players.”
Today, Australian Cricket announces a parental leave policy to support professional cricketers’ through pregnancy, adoption and their return to play. #ASportForAll pic.twitter.com/Xt2qUBBBtj
— Cricket Australia (@CricketAus) October 11, 2019
Australia wicketkeeper-batsman Alyssa Healy lauds CA initiative
Australia wicketkeeper-batter Alyssa Healy was all praise about this long due scheme and said it would do a world of good to women players as they will be able to take care of their children without hampering their career.
"The policy is a game-changer for players planning for the future while providing job security," she opined.
According to the policy, during pregnancy players can switch their roles from playing to some other work that does not put stress on the body - and return once they are ready to play after medical clearance.
With Cricket Australia taking a much-needed measure, it is high time for other boards to follow suit and include a parental leave as part of players' contract.
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HomeLA synagogue vandalized with ‘Free Palestine’ graffiti on 9/11 anniversary
LA synagogue vandalized with ‘Free Palestine’ graffiti on 9/11 anniversary
Categories: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS)
(September 12, 2019 / JNS) A synagogue in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles was spray-painted with anti-Semitic graffiti on early Wednesday, which marked the 18th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.
Rabbi Yonah Bookstein of the Babe Sale Congregation posted on Twitter an image of the graffiti, which read “FREE PALESTINE.” He wrote that the vandalism was done around 5:20 a.m. and added, “It seems that the perpetrators waited for congregants to enter and then sprayed the graffiti, so that when they come out they should see it.”
The graffiti on the Moroccan synagogue was painted over by midday on Wednesday.
Zev Opos, who sits on the board of directors for the congregation, told the Jewish Journal that three female witnesses saw three men in hoodies drawing on the synagogue. A witness described one of the suspects as “a tall African-American man,” according to Opos.
“Once they finished tagging and saw the women, they ran to their car, which was waiting for them on Oakwood [Avenue], and they drove away,” said Opos. Video footage confirmed a hooded man spray-painting the synagogue before driving off in a vehicle.
Opos said there have been “small graffiti incidents in the past” at Baba Sale, but never anything large like Wednesday’s incident. He noted that the congregation will take additional security measures following the vandalism.
Opos wrote in a Facebook post after the defacement that he wanted to “send a clear message that we are not afraid, we will not be intimidated, and we have no fear.”
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
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Seek and destroy: envy and its modus operandi
by Paula Fenn MBACP(Accred) GradDip Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy MastersCounselling, listed counsellor/therapist
In my clinical experience envy rears its ugly head in everyday life more than it appears in the consulting room. It seems to be the case that expressing this shadowy part of the self is so wrapped in shame and the fear of negative judgement from an outsider witness that its expression is abandoned. In this act of abandonment, it leaves material of crucial significance on the outer side of the consulting room door.
So why is envy so shameful, so unable to be expressed and acknowledged? Is it because it is so destructive in terms of the ‘other’, or because of its internal mechanics and the deep, hidden, vulnerable layers within the self which birth envious reactions in the first place? Let’s explore...
Karen was a businesswoman and was married to John. The marital couple were considered as physically attractive, professionally successful and had longevity in their relationship. Neither partner had strayed and fidelity was an established connector; as were their future paced goals. They were what one might call a ‘solid couple’. One evening they attended a business event and were introduced to a single woman, Anna, whom John took an interest in at a socially engaging level. Watching - that which on the surface looked like no more than a pleasant conversation with resonant aspects between her husband and the single female - Karen felt threatened. She was aware of a rising anxiety in her chest. Her head, her logic, held no sway here. This was emotional territory. The stimuli was the threat of loss, the effects bore emotional and physical content, the behavioural reaction was to act to protect against a perceived loss. Karen verbally instructed this third party intruder to sit in a specific seat at the table “Away from the men!” i.e. away from her husband.
Fear is a hallmark of envy. When fear strikes, when threats appear, they require to be mitigated against. In this case, the strategy was to ‘remove’ and contain the threat. Once Anna was parcelled off, Karen’s emotions and body calmed as pertained to the perceived threat of Anna. However, the effects of the initial threat transformed into anger towards her husband accompanied by a heaviness in her tummy. With Anna at a distance across the dining table from ‘her man’, and an awareness that expressing this seething and primitive up-swelling of anger would not hold any rational legitimacy if recounted to her husband, Karen was able to sit somewhat pleasantly through dinner with the cohort of friends and colleagues around the large table.
However, once an energetic charge is created it must be released in some form, and in this scenario it was released in an almighty slap across her husband’s face; when after dinner and during the phase of social interaction, music and dancing, he Facebook friended Anna in recognition of their shared links with Anna’s sister.
So why is this envy? Well, envy has a lot to do with perception and self-judgement. It goes along the lines of, if I perceive such a threat in such a context, then I am judging myself to be under threat, and if I am judging myself to be under threat, then in some way I have constructed a hierarchical assessment replete with psychological and emotional content that the ‘other’ is higher, bigger, better, more attractive, and so on, than me. Henceforth, and in order for me to maintain equilibrium, they must be ‘reduced’ via a psychological process of destruction.
Of course, there’s more to it than that. For a start there’s a historical component, a rhythmic dimension, in that it may be possible that intervention was determined as necessary because Karen held a perception, a belief system, that lest she not intervene (perhaps as she had felt called to do many times in the past?) then maybe, just maybe, this would be the occasion during which her unfounded fears became founded.
History also rears its head when we look at Karen’s perceptions of herself as this is the self that reacted to and acted upon the incoming stimuli. In this particular case, Karen was a woman who felt professionally unfulfilled, a little overweight and therefore not as attractive as she would like. She was a woman who had invested time and energy into her marriage and her children often at the expense of herself and her own needs. With investments, risk becomes present and its attendant fear of loss. This in combination with her negative self-judgements, in conjunction with the presentation of Anna - an object ‘believed’ to be higher in the hierarchy and risky on the investment index – brought forth a psychological necessity to “seek and destroy incoming threat”.
Destruction of the threat is a core aspect inherent within envy. I often laugh at the early example I heard during my psychotherapy training: A woman buys a gorgeous pair of shoes and shows them to her friend. Rather than validate the purchase and coo over the design and colour the friend asks rhetorically, “Did you buy them in the sale?” Bam! Seek and destroy! Passive aggressive derision! The transformation of something which could be perceived as a non-event into a psychological event with a psychological necessity to make oneself whole by using destruction to mitigate the risk of being reduced to ‘less than your friend’ – all via an innocuous in itself pair of shoes. Never ask your friend “Does my bum look big in this?” And, especially not, if you actually look great! Trust me. You have become a threat.
In envious destruction, there are two sides to the story, two players, the suddenly vulnerable destructor and the passively or explicitly attacked destructee. In this case, Anna was one of the victims of said destruction. When she was instructed to “sit there away from the men!” her mind became preoccupied with self-judgment. She ran through the scenario in her mind and questioned what she did wrong, had she been overly friendly, had she overstepped some social boundaries and so on. Her vulnerabilities of attending the function alone peaked. Her self-assuredness depleted and she consciously became hypervigilant about averting her gaze away from the couple. She struggled to engage in everyday conversation with the cohort of strangers around the table and physically noted anxiety in her body.
The time over dinner transmuted much of the tension and her emotions gradually morphed into self-assertive mild indignancy and anger. Acting on this newly arrived space of self-assuredness, and in the mix embracing resentment in action, she happily engaged in a few minutes of cursory social banter post the meal with John. During which time they found a commonality which they concretised by becoming Facebook friends. At the point of the slap to John’s face, she left the event feeling humiliated and rejected, and sad and angry that an identity had been projected towards her which bore no truth in reality.
Another victim in this scenario was John. He was shamed by the physical wound but fearing the wrath of his wife, and empathically acknowledging her plight, he held back from any expressions of distaste and made light of it. The abandoned shame of his wife had clearly been ‘split off’ and carried by her spouse. He ‘shut down’ and allowed himself in that moment to become something he inherently was not. Weak and ineffectual. A mirror to his wife’s sense of disempowerment when faced with the perceived risk of Anna. The ramifications of this would naturally play themselves out over time in the dynamics of this couple's relationship.
Envy does not only destroy, it’s not only an aggressive survival mechanism. It turns reality into fantasy, it creates worlds that previously did not exist, it shifts identities, creates incongruence and incoherence within the self, and via projection lies and twists the truth within the ‘objects’ and the object relationships in our lives. Victims of envy must fly a banner emblazoned with the words “I am not that which you would have me believe I am”. Whilst the vulnerable perpetrators must acknowledge those shadowy and insecure parts within themselves which have been triggered in order to understand themselves more fully. Recognition of envious thoughts can thwart envious actions and such awareness can also catalyse development of those parts of the self which are open to doubt and deprecation, and negative self-judgement.
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Who wants a cheap dog, anyway?
By The General
Another visit to the Vet to interrupt my schedule...
"He's been in the wars, hasn't he?" the receptionist at the Vet's said to the Boss.
"He has," the Boss says grumpily.
"Do you have pet insurance?"
"No. I thought he'd be the healthy one. He's been very expensive to run, as a matter of fact."
Now, that's me he's talking about and I'm the one suffering. It's only money to him but I'm having to put up with pain. You'd reckon he'd be a bit more sympathetic.
See, I was tearing through the bush down by the river, giving fair chase to a hare and clipped a log as I went over it. And it must have been a huge log because I can leap high and long, like a kangaroo, as you probably know.
Naturally I kept going - a tough hound like me doesn't let a nasty injury slow him down or anything - but the Boss says I just made it worse.
He had a look at my bleeding claw and toe when we got back to the house and shook his head.
"You'll just have to put up with it, General," he says.
Just like that. And that was last Tuesday, before the rain came. But the morning walks got a little shorter after that and he was watching me limping while pretending he wasn't really noticing. By Saturday he was feeling guilty enough to run me in to the Vet.
And about time, if you ask me. He told the Vet he thought I might have a splinter in my toe but she shaved around it and told him a claw was dislodged and should probably come out, or it could get infected.
He seemed to think she could do it on the spot and she splashed a bit of "local" on it, whatever that is, gave it a few minutes and took some monstrous clippers to it.
Naturally I howled like I was having my throat cut and she said "He'll need to be sedated."
That was obvious, wasn't it? To me, anyway. You can't put a noble creature like me through excruciating pain like that.
"He's a sook," said the Boss.
A sook! It wasn't him getting half his leg ripped off.
The Vet and I both looked at the Boss like the unkind brute he really is and he finally nodded. Half an hour later I'm under it, the claw gets pulled out and I'm all wrapped up, as you can see, with a plastic bag thing so I can go outside and be a real dog. With a few good drugs to ward off any unnecessary effects.
The Boss drove me home, complaining that it was all the price of a small car. You'd think he'd be saying soothing things like "It'll all be okay soon" or "You're a fine hound, General, and worth every penny" but he said nothing like that.
So I've been whimpering a lot and hobbling in quite an obvious way so as not to cut him any slack but all he says is "Quit whingeing."
He's not very happy with me at the moment and it shows. What a dog has to put up with. Woof!
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Tighter standards on reverse mortgages
Nov 23, 2014 | 3:00 AM
Are reverse mortgages headed in reverse? Based on forthcoming federal rule changes for seniors who expect to apply for one, you might think so. But as a taxpayer, you might say, bravo: Toughening up qualification standards — including such basics as checking applicants' credit, income and cash flows — is a leap forward, long overdue.
Last week the Federal Housing Administration, whose reverse mortgage program dominates the field, adopted guidelines tightening eligibility standards as part of an effort to avoid additional losses to government insurance funds. The changes, which are scheduled to take effect in less than four months, come on top of earlier reductions in maximum financing amounts that have resulted in sharp declines in the numbers of new loans being made. Volume has plunged by more than 50 percent in the past five years alone.
Aggressively marketed by entertainers such as Henry "Fonzie" Winkler and Robert Wagner, reverse mortgages are targeted at seniors 62 or older. They allow borrowers to tap into their home equity to obtain cash. Unlike standard mortgages, there are no monthly payments required and the amounts borrowed need not be repaid until the seniors die, move out or sell their houses.
Originally intended primarily as an income supplement tool for retirees, the program grew rapidly during the last decade. But it also became a nightmarish money pit for taxpayers as thousands of borrowers defaulted on their obligations to pay local property taxes and insurance premiums, and the values of many of the houses securing the mortgages sunk in the wake of the recession. In 2012, one out of 10 borrowers was in default. Ultimately the Treasury had to bail out FHA's insurance fund with a $1 billion-plus cash infusion.
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Under the original rules, applicants were not required to pass the typical underwriting tests associated with home mortgages -- nobody checked their credit reports or past financial behavior. All they mainly needed was sufficient equity in their house and a willingness to sit through some brief financial counseling sessions.
Starting next March 2, however, that's going to change dramatically. FHA will require all reverse mortgage applicants to undergo a "financial assessment" that looks a lot like the underwriting process used for standard mortgages. Lenders will vet applicants for:
>> Credit reports, using merged data from all three national credit bureaus.
>> Payment histories on property taxes, homeowners association fees and hazard insurance premiums.
>> Income from regular and part-time employment, Social Security, pension funds, regular draws on IRAs and 401(k) accounts, plus any earnings on investments.
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>> Recurring household debt obligations. FHA wants lenders to find out what debts borrowers already are carrying, such as for credit cards or medical bills, in order to come up with a cash flow and residual income analysis.
If applicants look weak or marginal on these tests, lenders will be allowed to take into account any "extenuating circumstances," such as an unexpected hospitalization or illness that temporarily cut off income and led to late payments. But if applicants appear unlikely to make regular on-time payments for property taxes or hazard insurance premiums, lenders can reject them or "set aside" potentially large chunks of their loan amount for later payments by the servicing company handling the loan. These impounds, in turn, will reduce the effective cash many borrowers will be able to obtain from their reverse mortgage.
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How is this all going over? Some veteran loan originators say not so well. Maggie O'Connell of Danville, Calif., who originates reverse mortgages for the Federal Savings Bank, says the new rules "are going to hurt" applicants with less than pristine credit and limited post-retirement incomes. Up until now, she says, they have been the program's traditional core borrowers and simply need the extra money from their home equity to live on. John A. Smaldone, executive vice president of Hanover Financial Services in Maryville, Tenn., worries that FHA is turning reverse mortgages "into a middle-class or upper-class program."
But Lori Trawinski, a senior policy adviser at AARP, the seniors lobby, has a different take. While her group is still studying FHA's latest changes, AARP supports the broad concept of financial assessments. Though some seniors won't make the cut, she acknowledged, "there's always a balance between access to credit and responsible credit."
Bottom line: Maybe for the long run it's more responsible for borrowers — and the taxpayers who pick up the bills — if the government restricts reverse mortgages to people who can actually handle them and stay out of foreclosure.
Ken Harney's email address is kenharney@earthlink.net.
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Rest in Peace, Billy Graham
By William Murchison
February 27, 2018 5 min read
The rap on Billy Graham — and it wasn't much of one, given the essential sweetness, you might say holiness, of his character — was that he hung around politicians, and especially presidents, too much: to the point of joining the power elite and dissipating his witness.
A certain kind of modern Christian seems to think that a Christian minister's job is "speaking truth to power" — an old Quaker ideal lately turned into a rationale for detaching church from state. A minister, on this showing, is supposed to rebuke from a distance instead of counsel and comfort from close up.
The idea is that wielders of power, especially conservative ones, grow addled in the pursuit of their, and their constituencies', aims. Didn't Richard Nixon, a Graham friend (and Quaker-born), prove just that point? Graham decelerated his presidential relationships after Watergate, but the embarrassment he felt on account of the Nixon tapes, and his failure to reprobate Nixon in the way the media thought he should, damaged his image only a little. He had lived clean. He stayed clean.
The problem was, the field of ministry he had occupied to such acclaim was changing. An earlier America — the one he lived in when he began preaching, in 1938 — had broadly assumed the worth of a strong connection between politics and Christianity. I'm afraid you have to be of a certain age to get the point. You have to recall that announcers prayed before football games. You have to remember that Congress gave the Pledge of Allegiance a religious spin; we became (and remain so while saying the pledge) "one nation under God."
It was natural for the powerful to incorporate into their circle a gifted evangelist — e.g., Billy Graham — who would remind powerful and non-powerful alike of America's dependence on God.
Billy Graham in that sense began strong. But the 1960s brought in a dispensation that spread across the land. Fewer and fewer Americans, proportionately at least, understood the point of Graham's entreaties to repent and accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. What was the point? they wondered. The political game pulled away from the religious task, to become the horse Americans put their money on for success and the fulfillment of dreams.
I am not aware of the developments' surprising Billy Graham terribly much. He knew his Bible: not least his Old Testament. He remembered — how could he not? — the kings and emperors who had disfigured their calling as servants to the Almighty. He remembered the pride of Pharaoh. He recalled the Psalmist's injunction to eschew the putting of trust in mere princes.
And he noticed (I have not read this; I infer it, but properly so, I think) that counseling presidents was just part of good works, and nothing more — not an element in the construction of an impossible "Christian nation."
A president needed the Gospel no less than did a bookkeeper. Neither enjoyed exemption from sin. Both required the saving love of Jesus Christ. Politics was no instrument of salvation. It was a method of imposing on human disorder a certain — putatively benevolent — level of order; guaranteeing basic liberties; protecting rights; undergirding civility; doing the basic stuff of life in order that humans might use their inventiveness and worthwhile instincts for the general good.
I do not think Billy Graham was ever up to anything grosser or demoralizing than reminding his vast flock, his cure of souls, that the Son of God had died for their sins: in consequence of which they had acquired certain duties, starting with love, good old basic love. I do not think he sought the powerful because they were powerful. Rather, for a time they recognized in him a power more consequential than any they themselves wielded.
I generalize, naturally. How do I know Sen. A or President B didn't say, "Let's use Graham to help turn out the Baptist vote?" I suppose it could have happened — but if it did, it likely happened a lot less often than secularists and the truth-to-power lobby imagine. A good man was Billy Graham. I am glad I heard him a long time ago, accompanied by Ethel Waters and George Beverly Shea. There was a cleanness and a joy about the experience: more than at any place I ever marked a political ballot.
William Murchison's latest book is "The Cost of Liberty: The Life of John Dickinson." To find out more about William Murchison, and to see features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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DML 1/72 Leopard 2A4 Kit First Look
118 parts (113 in grey styrene, 2 etched nickel, 2 pre-painted vinyl, 1 section of braided steel wire)
Nice, cleanly done kit with plenty of options to match specific user countries' fits; pre-painted tracks (!) something really new
No explanation in kit as to which parts go with what variants
Back in 1987 I read a Russian article that assessed the three main combat threats the Soviets saw in the NATO armies. The Challenger 1 was dismissed out of hand as "quaint" (mind that this was pre-Operation Granby ) due to its design, suspension, and two-piece manually loaded rifled gun. The US Abrams was considered a severe threat but not with the 105mm gun. The German Leopard 2, however, scared the daylights out of the Soviets with its 120mm gun and layered armor arrays. (Note that the LeClerc did not even rate a mention!)
The Leo 2 was something else when introduced, and with a 1500 HP diesel engine was the equivalent of the US Abrams in most areas of performance, exceeding it in mileage. Even ADAC , the German auto club, had warnings in its magazine on what to do and what not to do when encountering one on the autobahn. They noted the tank could cruise at 60-70 kph (up to 42 mph) and had brakes sufficient to stop it in less than 75 feet from that speed. They showed a stunt driver tailgating one when it hit its brakes, and the result was a squashed Opel. (They did have a roll cage around the driver!)
Overall, this was a great tank and even in its initial form is a serious battlefield threat. German training films show the gun staying rock steady (with stabilizers engaged) as the tank turns "neutral steer" 360s underneath it. The early models (2A1 to 2A4) were rather chunky vehicles, even with a turret fully as large as a WWII light to medium tank, and most modelers have shown a preference for the later long-barreled 2A5 or uparmored 2A6 with the "wedges" on the front of the turret. However, many NATO countries bought the earlier versions and use them today, including the Poles, Finns, Swedes, Swiss and Dutch.
DML is now offering this version of the tank as part of its "Armor Pro" series kits, which includes new cut molds and more options for a slightly higher pricetag. Among the details are the multitude of "non-skid" plates on the top of the hull for crew safety.
This kit provides two different guns (the shorter original gun and the longer L/55 barrel of the 2A5), two types of engine fans (plus etched brass screens for them), two types of smoke projectors, and training aids such as a Hoffman gunfire simulator and a "whoopie light" on a mast for the rear of the turret. The suspension is a full one with separate road wheel arms, twin wheels (not "siamesed" as with the T-34 kits), and very nicely done skirts.
Many modelers (me in particular) will be very pleasantly surprised that the vinyl tracks come pre-painted – a brownish metallic color with the rubber pads in the Diehl tracks painted black. These look really good and capture the look of tracks with a bit of use (e.g. paint worn off) but not bright rust red.
The model comes with two sets of markings – a very thorough decal sheet and a set of stick-on "exercise" markings for German force-on-force training. These are red Xes and simulate the real thing, which also just stuck on. The kit provides markings for eight German Leo 2A4s to include four in winter camouflage, one Polish, one Swiss, one Finnish, and two Dutch vehicles.
The problem I have is that the directions do not differentiate one tank from another, as I recall they use different smoke projectors and arrangements but all the kit does is indicate "optional" parts and not which vehicles use them. The same goes for the engine deck fan covers (the plastic bases, not the nickel screen). This is a bit of a shame, as the kit is otherwise very nice and complete. (You will need references to check on these details.)
Overall, this is a nice kit and should please a lot of NATO fans.
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Breaking: Shock Announcement – Robert Mueller Is…
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s witch hunt against President Trump and his allies has taken a stunning turn, and now the nation is wondering where it will go next.
According to a status report, former national security advisor Michael Flynn’s cooperation with Mueller has come to an end. While Flynn remains “in a position to cooperate with law enforcement authorities, his “cooperation is otherwise complete.”
Surely this is yet another sign that Mueller’s sham of an ‘investigation’ is wrapping up, but he also seems determined to draw it out as long as possible — especially since he hasn’t found the smoking gun he so desperately desires for validation.
In fact, for all of the media’s uproar over Flynn — who has done everything he was asked — he may not even receive prison time. Federal guidelines suggest his maximum sentence will be no more than six months, with the minimum sentence being zero.
Flynn is a good, patriotic man, who was tricked by the FBI and charged with a crime. His career and life have been ruined as a result of Mueller’s zeal to take down Trump and anyone associated with him. It’s one of the worst displays of partisan hackery in history.
The DC establishment still cannot accept that Trump is president and they’ll do whatever they can to hurt honest people like Flynn in the process. This is about a power struggle for the heart of America — “collusion” with Russia is just a cover.
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It's a battle to get it made: World War Z lives up to its title as star Brad Pitt 'feuds' with director Marc Forster
By Mike Larkin
Published: 16:48 EST, 13 July 2012 | Updated: 11:23 EST, 14 July 2012
It seems zombie apocalypse movie World War Z is living up to its title.
For it has been claimed the relationship between star Brad Pitt and director Marc Forster has broken down to the degree they are communicating through third parties on set.
Studio chiefs have ordered reshoots for the troubled film, but the apparent breakdown in the duo's relationship is making progress extremely problematic.
Best of enemies: Brad Pitt has reportedly fell out with World War Z director Marc Forster
Vulture entertainment reporter Claude Brodesser-Akner said: 'Things got so bad that when Forster had notes on a scene for Pitt, they had to be relayed through an intermediary -- and vice versa.'
This is just the latest twist in the story of what seemed to be a sure fire hit movie.
A-lister Brad, , is starring as U.N. worker Gerry Lane, who searches the globe for information that can stop the zombie outbreak that is bringing down nations.
Everything had seemed to be going smoothly, but in March distributor Paramount moved the film from its December release date to June of 2013.
You've Scot to be kidding: Despite going all the way to Glasgow for filming last year it is still not complete
It then emerged in early June screenwriter Damon Lindelof was hired to rewrite the ending before several weeks of reshoots were scheduled in the fall.
This is despite the fact J. Michael Straczynski's original green lit draft of the film was completely tossed aside earlier in development.
Hard working man: Brad has travelled all over the world to shoot the film
A completely re-written script by Matthew Michael Carnahan setting the movie in the present was used instead, which meant the story is vastly different to the hit Max Brooks book on which it is based.
And in another chilling development for fans of Pitt and the novel, It was recently revealed by Deadline that Cabin in the Woods director Drew Goddard was actually handling the rewrites, though Lindelof was also involved.
Apparently the Prometheus writer felt 'the script needed months of work, not days.'
Many critics will be wondering just how bad this means the story is at the moment, considering how the writer's own storyline for the Alien prequel was roundly criticised.
Filming has already taken place in Scotland, England and Budapest, and wrapped at the end of last year.
If the film is a failure it will be particularly humiliating for Brad, as his company Plan B Entertainment won a bidding war with Leonardo DiCaprio's company for the rights to the book.
It is not the first time Monster's Ball director Forster has been involved in a troubled production however.
Daniel Craig revealed his second James Bond film Quantum of Solace was compromised, with the filmmaker having to pick up much of the slack.
He said: 'On Quantum we were f-cked. We had the bare bones of a script and then there was a writers' strike and there was nothing we could do.
'We couldn't employ a writer to finish it.'
Brad Pitt 'feuds' with director Marc Forster as World War Z lives up to its title
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Dumfries OAPs' anger over TV licence threat
Ian lets BBC chief know what he thinks of proposal
Jackie Grant
Ian Waugh of Gilloch Avenue shows what he thinks of the new proposals (Image: Loftus Brown)
Dumfries pensioner Ian Waugh showed yesterday what he thinks of proposals to scrap free TV licences for people over 75.
Ian was shocked when BBC Director General Tony Hall said the fee could be introduced by June 2020 because over 75s “watch more television than others do”.
Making pensioners pay for the licence once more could save the BBC around £150million.
But Ian and his fellow members of Dumfries and Galloway Pensioners for Independence aren’t impressed.
He blasted: “We’ve been told we live too long, we’ve been told we use the NHS too much, we’ve been told we didn't save enough.
“Now we’ve been told we watch too much TV.”
The group, set up in April to discuss issues around the Scottish independence debate, are now calling for licence fee avoidance to be decriminalised.
Last year, there was 180,000 prosecutions for TV licence avoidance – 10 per cent of all criminal cases in England and Wales.
Currently, people over 75 can apply for an exemption from the current fee of £150.50.
Ian pretended he was taking a hammer to his TV after Mr Hall’s words.
He said: “The BBC pay stars like Gary Lineker £1,750,000 while Lord Hall himself is paid £205,000 a year. Pensioners get £125.95 a week.
“UK pensioners suffer from the lowest rate of pensions in the developed world.
“They suffer more than most from the lack of rural transport, bank closures and lack of retail outlets.
“Care providers are increasingly under threat.
“ For many, the TV provides their only distraction and light on the outside world.
“If the BBC wants to act with a cavalier disregard for its social obligations, it should lose the protection of the criminal justice system and be forced to seek redress like any other commercial business.”
ChildrenToddler brothers try to wake up mum, 30, after she collapses and dies at homeDanielle Talbot's family has been left devastated after paramedics' desperate battle to save the doting young mother failed.
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Turkey congratulates Iraq over 'anti-Daesh victory’
DAILY SABAH WITH AGENCIES
MidEast Iraq celebrates victory over Daesh with military parade in Baghdad
MidEast Iraq liberated from Daesh terror group, PM Abadi says
The Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a statement late Sunday congratulating Iraq for its victory over Daesh and extending condolences for the country's citizens who lost their lives in the fight against the terrorist group.
"We welcome that Iraq's fight against Daesh has been successfully brought to an end and we congratulate the Iraqi government," the statement said.
On Saturday, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced that the war against Daesh was over and that Iraqi forces are now in full control of Iraq's border with Syria.
"I break the good news to all Iraqis that the Iraqi people have completed purging the Jazeera region from Daesh and have complete control of the border with Syria," al-Abadi said adding that victory was realized with unity among Iraqis.
Meanwhile, the Turkish Foreign Ministry statement added, "It is our assessment that decisive steps have to be taken to reconstruct the liberated areas, strengthen the capacity of Iraqi institutions and establish national conciliation among our Iraqi sisters and brothers in the upcoming period. It is important to carry out these efforts with an inclusive approach that embraces all segments of Iraqi society."
Turkey will continue to work in solidarity with the Iraqi government in post-Daesh period like in the period of anti-Daesh fight, it added.
Daesh overran nearly a third of Iraqi territory, including Mosul, the country's second largest city and Tikrit, the capital of Iraq's central Salahaddin province in the summer of 2014. The following year, Daesh terrorists also overran Anbar's provincial capital of Ramadi.
Over the past three-and-a-half years, Iraqi ground forces closely backed by the U.S.-led coalition and mostly Shiite paramilitary forces backed by Iran have slowly retaken all of that territory.
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Nation Current Affairs 17 Oct 2019 Asaduddin Owaisi cal ...
Nation, Current Affairs
Asaduddin Owaisi calls BJP a 'drama company', attacks party over jobs, UAPA Act
Published Oct 17, 2019, 8:04 pm IST
Updated Oct 17, 2019, 8:04 pm IST
The AIMIM, along with other parties, like Congress, BJP, Shiv Sena and NCP are in the fray in the Maharashtra Assembly elections.
Voting to the 288-member state assembly will take place on October 21 in a single phase. Counting of votes will take place on October 24. (Photo: ANI)
Buldhana: All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday attacked the BJP over jobs and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and termed the party as a "successful drama company".
"When we asked the BJP how many jobs you gave, Maharashtra Chief Minister (Devendra Fadnavis) said we will give one crore jobs if we form the government. Kya aakhri paanch saalo se mehendi laagake baithe the kya? (Had you applied henna on your hands in the last five years?) Who stopped you from giving jobs. You were supposed to give, but you didn't," he said at a rally here.
Taking a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Owaisi said, "Modi had said that 'make me a 'chowkidar' (watchman), I will give two crore jobs every year.' But even 15 lakh jobs were not created. You tell me, whom do we trust."
Continuing his tirade against the BJP, Owaisi asserted that the party is "successful" as the Congress has "weakened" and it did not have a "fighting spirit" anymore.
"This drama company (BJP) is successful because Congress has weakened. It is on the verge of being finished. It does not have fighting spirit anymore. Where was it when the law (Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act) by Indira Gandhi was made dirtier and stricter by the Modi government?"
Owaisi said a person's life will be "destroyed" as he will be declared a terrorist and accused the Congress of supporting the BJP in this regard.
"In the name of terrorism, a list will be brought out now. Someone's name will be written on it and he will be declared a terrorist. His life will be destroyed and he will not be able to approach the court. The court will declare him a terrorist. Such a law has been brought and Congress supported them," he added.
Voting to the 288-member state assembly will take place on October 21 in a single phase. Counting of votes will take place on October 24.
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Location: India, Maharashtra
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Opinion DC Comment 28 Jul 2017 Nitish’s somer ...
Opinion, DC Comment
Nitish’s somersault is a jolt to Opposition
DECCAN CHRONICLE.
Published Jul 28, 2017, 12:38 am IST
Updated Jul 28, 2017, 12:38 am IST
Mr Kumar had earned respect in recent years for being clean.
Nitish Kumar was sworn in as Chief Minister of Bihar on Thursday. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)
Janata Dal (United) leader Nitish Kumar resigned as Chief Minister of Bihar on Wednesday only to return as CM — this time in the company of the BJP — first thing on Thursday morning. While effecting this extraordinary somersault, Mr Kumar did the ordinary thing. He said he had switched back to the saffron side in the best interests of his state. But the CM’s subliminal message was no different from the tagline of BJP’s propaganda that only the saffron party is capable of ushering in development. With Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the outgoing CM, who within hours became the incoming CM, has clearly adopted a forgive-and-forget policy. In 2013, the JD(U) leader had made a violent break with the BJP after sailing with it for 17 years, including during the 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom in Gujarat. This was only because he could not stomach the idea that Mr Modi should be projected as the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate.
After breaking ties, Mr Kumar even gave a call for “Sangh-mukt Bharat” or an India freed from the influence of the RSS, BJP’s progenitor. BJP’s verdict at the time was prescient. It held that the saffron party and Mr Kumar were “natural allies”, and the latter’s effort to go with Lalu Prasad Yadav’s RJD and the Congress amounted to politics of opportunism. BJP leaders even predicted that such an alliance, which went under the name of Bihar’s “Mahagathbandhan” or Grand Alliance, simply could not last. Mr Kumar had earned respect in recent years for being clean. Even so, he had chosen with his eyes open to sever ties with the BJP to join hands with Mr Yadav, who has gone to jail for orchestrating Bihar’s “fodder scam”. This had raised eyebrows, but Mr Kumar’s image took only a minor hit. Alas, now the image the Bihar CM is projecting is of being a quick-change artist — another name for self-promotion.
The CBI, which has built for itself the reputation for being in the service of the establishment, has for months targeted the “Mahagathbandhan” deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav, Mr Lalu Yadav’s son, for corruption, filing an FIR against him. Mr Kumar made it his mission to oust the younger Yadav. His action might have carried weight as upholder of good governance if he had simultaneously asked the PM questions about persisting with Union minister Uma Bharti although she is facing trial in the Ayodhya case. With Mr Kumar’s somersault, the idea of a combined Opposition challenging Mr Modi’s BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls has received a jolt. Needless to say, nothing remains static in politics.
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Promiscuous and specific phospholipid binding by domains in ZAC, a membrane-associated Arabidopsis protein with an ARF GAP zinc finger and a C2 domain
Promiscuous and specific phospholipid binding by domains in ZAC, a membrane-associated... Jensen, Rikke; Lykke-Andersen, Karin; Frandsen, Gitte; Nielsen, Henrik; Haseloff, Jim; Jespersen, Hans; Mundy, John; Skriver, Karen 2004-10-16 00:00:00 Arabidopsis proteins were predicted which share an 80 residue zinc finger domain known from ADP-ribosylation factor GTPase-activating proteins (ARF GAPs). One of these is a 37 kDa protein, designated ZAC, which has a novel domain structure in which the N-terminal ARF GAP domain and a C-terminal C2 domain are separated by a region without homology to other known proteins. Zac promoter/β-glucuronidase reporter assays revealed highest expression levels in flowering tissue, rosettes and roots. ZAC protein was immuno-detected mainly in association with membranes and fractionated with Golgi and plasma membrane marker proteins. ZAC membrane association was confirmed in assays by a fusion between ZAC and the green fluorescence protein and prompted an analysis of the in vitro phospholipid-binding ability of ZAC. Phospholipid dot-blot and liposome-binding assays indicated that fusion proteins containing the ZAC-C2 domain bind anionic phospholipids non-specifically, with some variance in Ca2+ and salt dependence. Similar assays demonstrated specific affinity of the ZAC N-terminal region (residues 1–174) for phosphatidylinositol 3-monophosphate (PI-3-P). Binding was dependent in part on an intact zinc finger motif, but proteins containing only the zinc finger domain (residues 1–105) did not bind PI-3-P. Recombinant ZAC possessed GTPase-activating activity on Arabidopsis ARF proteins. These data identify a novel PI-3-P-binding protein region and thereby provide evidence that this phosphoinositide is recognized as a signal in plants. A role for ZAC in the regulation of ARF-mediated vesicular transport in plants is discussed. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Plant Molecular Biology Springer Journals http://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/promiscuous-and-specific-phospholipid-binding-by-domains-in-zac-a-82qcWTylRT
Jensen, Rikke; Lykke-Andersen, Karin; Frandsen, Gitte; Nielsen, Henrik; Haseloff, Jim; Jespersen, Hans; Mundy, John; Skriver, Karen
Plant Molecular Biology
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Life Sciences; Biochemistry, general; Plant Sciences; Plant Pathology
Arabidopsis proteins were predicted which share an 80 residue zinc finger domain known from ADP-ribosylation factor GTPase-activating proteins (ARF GAPs). One of these is a 37 kDa protein, designated ZAC, which has a novel domain structure in which the N-terminal ARF GAP domain and a C-terminal C2 domain are separated by a region without homology to other known proteins. Zac promoter/β-glucuronidase reporter assays revealed highest expression levels in flowering tissue, rosettes and roots. ZAC protein was immuno-detected mainly in association with membranes and fractionated with Golgi and plasma membrane marker proteins. ZAC membrane association was confirmed in assays by a fusion between ZAC and the green fluorescence protein and prompted an analysis of the in vitro phospholipid-binding ability of ZAC. Phospholipid dot-blot and liposome-binding assays indicated that fusion proteins containing the ZAC-C2 domain bind anionic phospholipids non-specifically, with some variance in Ca2+ and salt dependence. Similar assays demonstrated specific affinity of the ZAC N-terminal region (residues 1–174) for phosphatidylinositol 3-monophosphate (PI-3-P). Binding was dependent in part on an intact zinc finger motif, but proteins containing only the zinc finger domain (residues 1–105) did not bind PI-3-P. Recombinant ZAC possessed GTPase-activating activity on Arabidopsis ARF proteins. These data identify a novel PI-3-P-binding protein region and thereby provide evidence that this phosphoinositide is recognized as a signal in plants. A role for ZAC in the regulation of ARF-mediated vesicular transport in plants is discussed.
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Identification of a new Pyk2 target protein with Arf-GAP activity
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Basic Local Alignment Search Tool
Altschul, S.F.; Gish, W.; Miller, W.; Myers, E.W.; Lipman, D.J.
Activation of ADP-ribosylation factor 1 GTPase-activating protein by phosphatidylcholine-derived diacylglycerols
Antonny, B.; Huber, I.; Paris, S.; Chabre, M.; Cassel, D.
The KDEL receptor regulates a GTPase-activating protein for ADP-ribosylation factor 1 by interacting with its non-catalytic domain
Aoe, T.; Huber, I.; Vasudevan, C.; Watkins, S.C.; Romero, G.; Cassel, D.; Hsu, V.W.
Calmodulin-stimulated Ca2+-ATPases in the vacuolar and plasma membranes in cauliflower
Askerlund, P.
In planta Agrobacterium mediated gene transfer by infiltration of adult Arabidopsis plants
Bechtold, N.; Ellis, J.; Pelletier, G.
ASAP1, a phospholipiddependent Arf GTPase-activating protein that associates with and is phosphorylated by Src
Brown, M.T.; Andrade, J.; Radhakrishna, H.; Donaldson, J.G.; Cooper, J.A.; Randazzo, P.A.
Direct interaction of a Ca2+binding loop of synaptotagmin with lipid bilayers
Chapman, E.R.; Davis, A.F.
The ARF1 GTPase-activating protein: zinc finger motif and Golgi complex localization
Cukierman, E.; Huber, I.; Rotman, M.; Cassel, D.
A single C2 domain from synaptotagmin I is sufficient for high affinity Ca2+/phospholipid binding
Davletov, B.A.; Südhof, T.C.
Calciumdependent membrane penetration is a hallmark of the C2 domain of cytosolic phospholipase A2 whereas the C2A domain of synaptotagmin binds membranes electrostatically
Davletov, B.; Perisic, O.; Williams, R.L.
The tobacco luminal binding protein is encoded by a multigene family
Denecke, J.; Goldman, M.H.; Demolder, J.; Seurinck, J.; Botterman, J.
Crystal structure of a mammalian phosphoinositidespecific phospholipase Cδ
Essen, L.-O.; Perisic, O.; Cheung, R.; Katan, M.; Williams, R.L.
A ternary metal binding site in the C2 domain of phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C-δ 1
Essen, L.-O.; Perisic, O.; Lynch, D.E.; Katan, M.; Williams, R.L.
Phosphoinositide binding domains: embracing 3-phosphate
Fruman, D.A.; Rameh, L.E.; Cantley, L.C.
FYVE fingers bind PtdIns(3)P
Gaullier, J.-M.; Simonsen, A.; D'Arrigo, A.; Bremnes, B.; Stenmark, H.; Aasland, R.
Structural basis for activation of ARF GTPase: mechanisms of guanine nucleotide exchange and GTP-myristoyl switching
Goldberg, J.
Structural and functional analysis of the ARF 1-ARFGAP complex reveals a role for coatomer in GTP hydrolysis
GUS fusions: β-glucuronidase as a sensitive and versatile gene fusion marker in higher plants
Jefferson, R.A.; Kavanagh, T.A.; Bevan, M.W.
An abundant, highly conserved tonoplast protein in seeds
Johnson, K.D.; Herman, E.M.; Chrispeels, M.J.
Widespread occurrence of a highly conserved RING-H2 zinc finger motif in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana
Jensen, R.B.; Jensen, K.L.; Jespersen, H.M.; Skriver, K.
Phosphoinositide-dependent activation of the ADP-ribosylation factor GTPase-activating protein ASAP1
Kam, J.L.; Miura, K.; Jackson, T.R.; Gruschus, J.; Roller, P.; Stauffer, S.; Clark, J.; Aneja, R.; Randazzo, P.A.
Ca2+/phospholipid-binding (C2) domain in multiple plant proteins: novel components of the calcium-sensing apparatus
Kopka, J.; Pical, C.; Hetherington, A.M.; Müller-Röber, B.
The Plant Plasma Membrane: Structure, Function and Molecular Biology
Larsson, C.; Mø ller, I.M.; Widell, S.
A cDNA encoding a new GTPbinding protein of the ADP-ribosylation factor family from Arabidopsis
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Crystal structure of the ARF-GAP domain and ankyrin repreats of the PYK2-associated protein β
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Hyperosmotic stress induces rapid synthesis of phosphatidyl-D-inositol 3,5-bisphosphate in plant cells
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Molecules in the ARF orbit
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Cloning genomic sequences using long-range PCR
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Phospholipid signalling in plants
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HRT, a novel zinc finger, transcriptional repressor from barley
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Jensen, R., Lykke-Andersen, K., Frandsen, G., Nielsen, H., Haseloff, J., Jespersen, H., Mundy, J., & Skriver, K. (2004). Promiscuous and specific phospholipid binding by domains in ZAC, a membrane-associated Arabidopsis protein with an ARF GAP zinc finger and a C2 domain. Plant Molecular Biology, 44(6), 799-814.
Jensen, Rikke, Karin Lykke-Andersen, Gitte Frandsen, Henrik Nielsen, Jim Haseloff, Hans Jespersen, John Mundy, and Karen Skriver. "Promiscuous and specific phospholipid binding by domains in ZAC, a membrane-associated Arabidopsis protein with an ARF GAP zinc finger and a C2 domain." Plant Molecular Biology 44.6 (2004): 799-814.
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Slaughter pushes for optics institute
Rep. Louise Slaughter has written the White House about the optics industry’s importance.
Slaughter pushes for optics institute Rep. Louise Slaughter has written the White House about the optics industry’s importance. Check out this story on DemocratandChronicle.com: http://on.rocne.ws/1g8zadH
ROC Published 7:09 p.m. ET March 28, 2014
Louise Slaughter
U.S. Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-Fairport, has started to extol the virtues of optics and photonics to the White House in hopes of eventually landing substantial federal funding for an optics manufacturing institute.
In a letter to President Barack Obama, Slaughter asked the president to consider optics when setting up a series of manufacturing innovation institutes around the country. The White House announced in February the first such institute, the Digital Lab for Manufacturing, to be based in the Chicago area. It is to serve as an R&D lab for manufacturing processes and then disseminate the results and findings to U.S. companies.
According to Slaughter’s office, if the White House agrees that optics is an important enough technology to warrant a similar institute, then she will push for it to be located in the Rochester area.
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Those who do not learn from history are stupid
I know the Spanish-American War was, like, a long time ago and — let’s face it — it wasn’t exactly one of the most glorious episodes in the American record of bringing freedom to the oppressed, but still, if you’ve got a war memorial made out of the mast of the USS Oregon in the middle of the Rose Festival Waterfront Village where presumably tens of thousands of people are going to be passing by, is it really necessary to clamp stands selling pizza and elephant ears onto it?
[UPDATE] I’d actually forgotten reading about this, but Jack Bogdanski mentioned it when he linked to this post yesterday. Apparently, sticking inappropriate stuff in memorials is just accepted practice in the Tom McCall Waterfront Park. Last year’s Navy fleet’s security zone chopped through the Japanese internment memorial garden, and during the huge Obama rally last year the city set up portable toilets in the memorial to fallen police officers; during the week dedicated to honoring cops killed in the line of duty.
I’ve never understood the whole “High school was some of the best years of my life” thing that seems to be a part of a lot of people’s lives. It might be surprising for those who know me now, but my high school years were much the continuation of the unpleasantness of my grade school years, which had been bad enough that my parents scrimped and saved to send me to the local Catholic high school, which had a — largely undeserved — reputation for academics. Even though I did fine taking some college level chemistry coursework the summer after my freshman year in high school, my parents were reluctant to allow me to go on to college full-time because of a certain lack of maturity on my part. There’s no disputing that was the case, but then again, thirty-odd years later maturity seems still not to have kicked in.
Yearbook photo from my sophomore year, taken in the room that served as the yearbook office at Marist High School.
Anyway, despite having worked on the yearbook for three years — including a stint as editor my junior year, when I aroused the ire of my fellow students by making the tradeoff of color photography inside for a black cover — my school loyalty has been pretty negligible (I didn’t work on the yearbook my senior year and I don’t even have one, after spending most of my year as editor having a staff of myself). Years ago, the alumni association tracked me down (I’m not that hard to find) and started sending me the newsletter, which I desultorily read and recycle, but I’ve never been to a reunion or been invited to one. Maybe there’s a reason for that. This was in the latest edition of the newsletter:
In Case You Need It
I got some bills this morning,
They tumbled through the door
I counted every penny but
The bills still came to more
And printed in the paper
For Pisces it did say,
“If you would just be bolder,
Then this might be your day”
It said, “Lady Luck apologises
For the way she’s been behavin’
And she promises she’ll change.
If you don’t want to know her, she’ll understand,
But if you’d like to take her hand,
She could be back at your command.”
So I ran round the corner,
The bookie’s there I entered
Put ten quid on a mare
From a stud in Kildare
But though the jockey beat her,
In Belgium they will eat her.
The tannoy began to rip as I tore up the slip
I met a girl this evening
And I began to think
That I might get her drunk
But she matched me drink for drink.
So when she drew the curtains,
I felt success was certain
But as she kicked me out,
She spoke in the third person:
She said, “Lady Luck apologises
—The Proclaimers, “Lady Luck”
does anyone remember if FLA and SWF were introduced in Flash 1.0 or 2.0? I think it was 2.0 but want to verify.
— Mike Downey (@mdowney) May 27, 2009
Mike Downey was asking on Twitter yesterday if anyone could confirm his memory that the FLA and SWF formats were introduced in Flash 2, which was the first version released under the Macromedia imprint (“Flash 1” was just stickers plastered on the box for FutureSplash Animator). I answered late (I remember Peter’s FutureSplash box around the old Alder Street office) but it did prompt a peek into the folder where I keep versions of older applications, since my old dual-PPC desktop Mac will still run OS9, and sometimes I’ve needed to open old source files for one reason or another.
The Gleaner
The smart car (and Barbara) next to an Agco Gleaner R75 combine in Dayton, Washington last week. The R75 looked big even surrounded by a bunch of other farm machinery, which tends to be a tad larger than the smart anyway.
5ft 1in
Base Weight
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The Threat-Based Economy
Years ago it was just a simple little slogan/word play: “Every Litter Bit Hurts.” A cajoling reminder that when you tossed your garbage on the ground, you adversely affected the earth and the environment.
But sometime in recent history the caution to pick up your crap turned from inveiglement to ultimatum, at least in the hands of the Washington State Department of Transportation, which has the inelegantly-worded signs above posted along ther scenic highways and byways.
I was wincing so much at the poor word choice that I didn’t even make the connection to the original slogan, which Barbara mentioned as I was complaining about the signs. That just enraged me, because you have to know that in some ad or PR agency, someone decided at some point to punch up the old slogan by adding some “zazz” to it and give it a hip, “edgy” feel for the new millennium, and maybe, you know, make some commercials with guys who could torture litterers.
For the Guitar Heroes
The action really gets heated about two minutes in.
Dueling Banjos Guitar Hero 2
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Department of Subtle Irony
A company I reported to the Oregon Department of Justice’s Consumer Protection division earlier this year because I felt they used misleading tactics in order to jack up monthly service fees related to digital telecommunications sends me a mass-mailed postcard stating “BEWARE: Some will stop at nothing to get a sale.”
They go on to say “do not rely on what the door-to-door salesperson tells you as factual,” and suggest you report any deceptive sales tactics to their company. From my experience with them, I’d say don’t rely on what their own salespersons tell you as factual; they probably want you to report the tactics so they can include them in their repertoire.
In addition to anniversaries of the science-fiction convention I put together and the time I watched a building in Portland blow up (well, down, at least), this May is the anniversary of the end of the last job I held, at a company called Reality Engineering.
Back in October 2005 I got hired for what I called The Last Director Job In Portland, just before heading off to that year’s MAX conference in Anaheim.
I’d started looking for a steady gig because even that far back work at the bottom of the multimedia tank had started to get pretty spotty, for whatever reasons, and the year-and-a-half of steady employment I received from Reality helped get us back on our feet after effects of the dot.com implosion combined with my little brush with death.
But it’s been two years since that ended. Incoming projects (Director, Flash, or whatever) have been even less frequent than they were four years ago. Resumes and project inquiries have gone out steadily since I was laid off with nary an answer. A couple of the projects that came to me from previous contacts fell through, and one client still owes me thousands of dollars for work I did more than a year ago.
I had a conversation a couple of weeks back with a graphic designer I know whose been in worse straits for longer. He’s lost his house and is subsisting on the kindness of some friends along with a very small income from a part-time front desk job. It’s not just the lack of income that’s a problem, but every month our portfolios get dustier and more out-of-date. Not that anyone’s looking at them, but even if they were, when you’ve been scrabbling to find small jobs to fill in the cracks and the last major project you worked on was literally years ago, what kind of impression does that leave on a potential client? Where have you been since 2005? In prison?
Like a lot of other desperate or semi-desperate people, I’ve got some hope and money riding on the iPhone gold rush right now. Like a real gold rush, the people selling mining supplies and leading people across the passes are the ones who are going to come out of it well; a lot of the rest will end up worse off than they were before they made the trip.
Crossing my fingers and hoping that I’m among the lucky ones this time. I’ll let you know how it ends up when I’ve released my app (whether you care or not).
Moving kind of slow
No I never had much balance,
Why does everyone I know
Keep making lots of dough?
I guess I’ll find out soon
When I get to that
Crystal palace in the sky.
I’ve heard stories second-hand
About its grand interior
Its gold and silver strands
Cathedral ceilings way up high.
All the furnishing’s unique
When you get to your
Well I’ve worked as a part-time circus boy,
Collected cans down Saticoy,
And patiently put forth my master plan.
I’ve imagined futures and full plates,
And slept with every subliminal tape,
But now I’m so angry at someone.
My contract is in breach.
Why must my crystal palace
Always be on hold this week?
I feel lucky, I suppose,
At least we’re all still breathing.
Stuck here in escrow
Just a-waiting out our loan.
But no big-arm patrol will stop me
When I get to my crystal palace
And it’ll be my way
Or the highway
Getting to my crystal palace
In the sky.
Stan Ridgway. “Crystal Palace,” Black Diamond
Just a Box of Games, Box 6
Home of the Boolean
John Henry Hypercard
This day is called the feast of Crispian
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Eric Chiu
PCI Security Standards Council
Ryan Wilk
NuData Security
Stanley F. Orszula
Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP
Big Breach Highlights Encryption's Value
Incidents Involving Unencrypted Devices Still Common Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • October 24, 2013
The theft of two unencrypted laptop computers from an administrative office of a California healthcare provider has potentially exposed information on 729,000 patients.
The laptops were stolen on Oct. 12 from Alhambra, Calif.-based AHMC Healthcare Inc., which operates six hospitals in the state. Information on the computers included patient names; Medicare or insurance identification numbers; diagnosis and procedure codes; and payment data, according to an online statement from the organization.
If the total number of individuals is confirmed by federal officials, this would be the second largest health data breach reported so far this year. The biggest confirmed breach for 2013 on the Department of Health and Human Services' "wall of shame" website also involves the theft of unencrypted computers. Four desktop devices were stolen in July from Advocate Medical Group, a physician group practice in Chicago, affecting about 4 million individuals.
As of Oct. 23, the HHS tally included 682 major breaches affecting a total of 26.9 million individuals since September 2009, when the HIPAA breach notification rule went into effect. The loss or theft of unencrypted computers, storage media and other devices is the No. 1 cause of breaches on the tally.
"The primary lesson to be learned is that the cost to prevent mobile device data breaches is far less than the cost of breach mitigation," says independent security consultant Brian Evans. "Mobile device encryption is a low cost/high impact solution with the goal of providing protection for confidential information.
So why do so many organizations still fail to encrypt? "In my experience, the primary drivers preventing encryption are competing priorities and a lack of leadership and staffing resources to make it happen" Evans says. "Encryption should not be too hard for healthcare providers since it is already 'baked' into most mobile devices and operating systems today."
Breach Details
AHMC says that although the campus where the administrative office that was the site of the theft is located is gated and patrolled by security, someone still broke into a video-monitored sixth floor office and removed the computers. The organization says it notified local police as soon as the theft was discovered on Oct. 14. After reviewing the video surveillance, police are reportedly searching for a homeless man from the area, who they allege stole the computers, according to local news media reports.
The California provider organization says it had recently engaged a third-party auditing company to perform a security risk assessment and was working through its recommendations. In the wake of the theft, AHMC says it will be expediting a policy of encrypting all laptops. "In taking these actions, AHMC Healthcare is strengthening the high standards it maintains for safeguarding protected health information," its statement notes.
AHMC did not respond to a request for comment.
Dismissed Suit
A number of major breaches, including the Advocate health breach and others involving stolen devices, have resulted in class action lawsuits. The lawsuit tied to the Advocate Health breach focuses on the organization's alleged failure to safeguard and secure data in violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. It alleges the organization placed affected patients at risk of identity theft and fraud.
Meanwhile, a California appellate court recently dismissed a class action suit against the Board of Regents of the University of California stemming from a breach involving a 2011 burglary at the home of a UCLA Faculty Group Practice physician. An unencrypted external hard drive stolen in the burglary contained data on more than 16,000 patients treated at UCLA facilities. In dismissing the suit, which alleged UCLA failed to have reasonable controls in place to prevent the disclosure of private medical information, the court noted there was no confirmation that the affected patients' data was actually inappropriately accessed.
Facts About Hostile Profile Takeover
Paper Records Breach Leads Roundup
https://www.databreachtoday.com/big-breach-highlights-encryptions-value-a-6168
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Gord Jamieson
Jim Cunha
Governance , Legislation & Litigation , Standards, Regulations & Compliance
CISA's Hidden Secret: More Power to DHS
Bill Also Would Require Agencies to Beef Up Encryption, Authentication Eric Chabrow (GovInfoSecurity) • October 30, 2015
Sens. Ron Johnson and Tom Carper
Senate-approved legislation that would incentivize businesses to share cyber threat information with the government also would strengthen the Department of Homeland Security's oversight of civilian federal agencies in implementing cyber safeguards.
Buried on page 56 of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015, which passed the Senate on Oct. 27, is the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, which grants DHS the authority to implement technologies and processes to minimize cyber risks at federal civilian agencies (see Senate Passes Cybersecurity Info Sharing Bill).
"Had the powers of this bill been implemented already, they likely would have stopped the hack of the Office of Personnel Management," says Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., a sponsor of the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act (see Analysis: Why the OPM Breach is So Bad). "They will make it far more difficult for our adversaries to steal our private data and to penetrate government networks."
DHS's Authority
But is DHS up to the task of ensuring cybersecurity at other federal agencies? "If DHS is given both the resources to accomplish the task and an opportunity to perform without the administration or Congress changing direction 12 months from now, then I think they can succeed," says Robert Bigman, the former CISO at the CIA.
Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act's cosponsor, says DHS is well-positioned to lead the government in cybersecurity. Helping to pave the way, he says, are last year's reforms to the Federal Information Security Management Act, the law that governs federal IT security, and the creation of DHS's National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center.
Sen. Tom Carper explains why Congress wants to give DHS more oversight over federal civilian agencies.
"Five, six years ago, the Department of Homeland Security was a 98-pound weakling; it is no weakling anymore," Carper said on the Senate floor during the CISA debate.
Bigman sees granting DHS additional authority over civilian agencies' IT security as a natural extension of the DHS's responsibilities. "Giving DHS primacy for intrusion assessment plans and incident management will hopefully lead to programmatic and technology consistency across the civilian sector of the government," he says. "It should also speed up the adoption of consistent standards for incident reporting and consistent protection of privacy-related information."
But granting DHS broader authority isn't universally supported within the IT security community. "Not all agencies are alike and therefore they cannot be governed as one," says Patricia Titus, a distinguished fellow at the Ponemon Institute and former CISO at DHS's Transportation Security Administration, Freddie Mac, Symantec and Unisys.
"DHS appears to have become the melting pot for everything that's too hard for executive leadership to figure out within the executive branch," Titus says. "Civilian agencies all have different missions and forcing them to be constrained by DHS oversight may create a larger issue then they already have. Perhaps a better route would be to rethink the organizational structure of the information security program and have [each agency's] CISO a peer to the CIO. ... If you want things fixed, empower the people that can fix the problem rather than pushing it all under one department."
Ironing Out Differences
Still, CISA has a long way to go before it becomes law.
Earlier this year, the House passed two bills to promote cyberthreat information sharing (see House OKs 2nd Cyberthreat Info-Sharing Bill). As a result, the Senate and House will form a conference committee to come up with legislative language for a new bill incorporating provisions in measures approved by both chambers, which would then be voted upon by Congress before it goes to President Obama for his signature. The conference committee has yet to be formed, and neither Senate nor House leaders have stated when such a panel will be assembled.
"We are hopeful the Senate and the House can work together expeditiously to send the best possible bill to the president's desk as soon as possible," White House spokesman Eric Schultz says.
One of the House-passed cyberthreat information sharing measures - National Cybersecurity Protection Act - contains language similar to the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act, which is included in the Senate's CISA legislation.
Encryption, Authentication Requirements
The best-known element of CISA is a provision that gives liability protections to businesses that share cyber threat information with the government and each other.
But the bill's Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act provisions would require federal civilian agencies to encrypt sensitive and mission-critical data, employ single sign-on trusted identity platforms for public websites and implement multifactor authentication standards for remote access to agency systems. The legislation also would:
Require DHS to include intrusion detection and mitigation tools as part of its initiative to identify systems anomalies at civilian agencies in its continuous monitoring initiative;
Provide liability protections to private organizations hired to assist DHS in providing cybersecurity to civilian agencies;
Direct DHS to collaborate with the Office of Management and Budget to update government information security metrics to include measures of intrusion and incident detection and response times;
Require OMB to display agency metrics on federal government performance websites; and
Authorize DHS to operate technology at civilian agencies to diagnose and mitigate against cyber threats and vulnerabilities.
Provisions of the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act section of CISA would sunset seven years after its enactment, although the remainder of CISA's provisions would terminate in 10 years.
Workforce Assessment
CISA also incorporates the Federal Cybersecurity Workforce Assessment Act of 2015, which would require all agencies to identify jobs within their organizations that require cybersecurity or related skills.
Each job would be assigned an employment code to be created by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. All agencies would be required to conduct baseline assessments using the employment codes to identify critical cybersecurity needs within their organizations and report those needs to Congress within two years.
Visa's Perez on Why PCI Still Matters
Federal Cybersecurity Strategy Revised
https://www.databreachtoday.com/cisas-hidden-secret-more-power-to-dhs-a-8643
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David Matthews
National Restaurant Association
Phil Curran
Events , Infosecurity Europe Conference , Multi-factor Authentication
How Banking Security Will Evolve
Vasco's Valcke Sees Shift to Continuous Authentication Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • June 5, 2015 10 Minutes
Vasco's Jan Valcke
How will banking security evolve? To answer that question, it's important to address the three main types of banking, says authentication expert Jan Valcke.
"The first one is cash management - transactions between corporations and banks; the second one is consumer banking, and there is a third one [which] has become more and more popular, and that's mobile banking," says Valcke, who's the chief operating officer at Vasco, which sells authentication and e-signature solutions and services.
Each of those areas is seeing related security controls and approaches change in different ways. "The trends are a higher level of security products in cash management, more convenient products in retail banking, and in mobile banking, software that is completely integrated in the apps," he tells Information Security Media Group.
In an interview at Infosecurity Europe, Valcke discusses:
The forthcoming evolution in banking security;
The shift from contextual to continuous authentication;
How biometrics can be used to help eliminate passwords;
Valcke is COO of Vasco. Previously, he was a co-founder of Digiline, which developed and marketed the first Digipass strong authentication tokens in 1991. Valcke headed sales and marketing for the firm, which became part of Vasco in 1996.
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Securing a Borderless Workplace
Machine Learning & Threat Protection
https://www.databreachtoday.com/interviews/how-banking-security-will-evolve-i-2729
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Two candidates become party to NA-122 plea
The Newspaper's Staff ReporterJanuary 08, 2016
LAHORE: An election tribunal on Thursday allowed two independent candidates of NA-122 to become party in a petition challenging victory of National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq in the by-poll.
The tribunal member, Rasheed Qamar, took up applications filed by Khurram Qureshi and Manzoor Laeequr Rehman, two candidates who contested the by-election of NA-122 independently. Both applicants pleaded that they wanted to become a necessary party in the case as mandate of the public was stolen.
They challenged the election result for being “engineered”. The tribunal accepted their pleas and allowed them to become party in the case.
The tribunal dismissed applications of two other candidates Jamshed Iqbal Hameed and Mian Yameen Tipu for non-prosecution. The tribunal adjourned further hearing till Jan 13.
PTI’s runner-up candidate Abdul Aleem Khan had filed the main petition challenging victory of Sardar Ayaz Sadiq in the by-election. He mainly alleged that at least 30,000 votes were shifted from the constituency before the by-poll and asked the tribunal to set aside the election result and order a re-election in the constituency.
Published in Dawn, January 8th, 2016
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If Sardar Ayaz Sadiq found of cheating in Election, he must be punish and should be band in participating any future election. This is only way you can stop these corrupt politicians doing the same thing over and over.
malick
Why to set aside the election result and order for re election. There is no need of re election the runner up candidate should be declare the winner candidate. For just one seat three time election is wastage of national finance. This is the only way to make PMLN understand.
Agree with Aleem Khan & other 2 candidates.
Zafar Ahmed
We all know that PMLN got the doctorate/PhD in "Engineering & Rigging Elections" and they got all the local administration behind them to get the votes in their favor.
Don't matter which party you support a fair election is essential for a democracy to work. In a rigged election your not accountable to the people but to those who helped with the rigging.
Philosopher (from Japan)
Wastage of time n money.
They also alleged Siddiq Baloch NA-152 for same case before election but after winning by huge margin they are silent about it. Is justice only required when they lose ?
Hats off to PTI and Aleem Khan for taking a stand against corruption and political terrorism.
Sadiq has to go again and this time for good............. cannot believe 2nd corrupt party is running the government............... 1st is PPP..................
nac Paris
PML-N has no respect for the law, rules and regulations prevailing in Pakistan. Why bother about election results when whole Punjab is at their mercy and has been hijacked by kingdom
@Justice - and should be jailed as well, unfortunately that ain't happening in this corrupt environment.
Sallu Bhai
@Justice Sardar Ayaz Sadiq won fair and square. No proof has been provided till date. All PTI has done is cry wolf instead of presenting any solid proof.
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Linked Data: A Personal View from Jerry Persons
Community, Interest Groups, LinkedData, News
This piece inaugurates an occasional series by or about linked data practitioners that will be cross-posted on the DLF site and LOD-LAM.net. The first post in the series is a personal reflection on the linked data landscape written by Jerry Persons, technology analyst at Knowledge Motifs, Chief Information Architect emeritus at Stanford, and author of the CLIR-commissioned Literature survey in support of Stanford Linked Data Workshop.
The ecosystem in which both library-generated metadata and vendor-generated search environments are players has changed radically with unprecedented swiftness:
search engines continue to morph, witness Bing, WolframAlpha, Siri
Google surfaces its things not strings work as Knowledge Graph
schema.org announces a W3C vehicle to extend its core vocabulary
Microsoft’s Academic Search provides glimpses of new ways to find connections
Nature Publishing Group initiates linked-data access to some of its metadata
the BNB and Harvard’s cataloging come out of the closet as CC0 data
many national libraries release CC0 bibliographic and authority data
Europeana continues to expand open access to cultural heritage metadata
OCLC moves toward ODC-BY for VIAF and other of its data environments
W3C Library linked data incubator group issues its announces [linked data] modeling initiative
Richard Wallis (late of Talis, now OCLC) recently summarized these trends in terms of web-wide factors in his post A data 7th wave approaching:
With the advent of many data associated advances, variously labelled Big Data, Social Networking, Open Data, Cloud Services, Linked Data, Microformats, Microdata, Semantic Web, Enterprise Data, it is now venturing beyond those closed systems into the wider world.
Well this is nothing new, you might say, these trends have been around for a while – why does this constitute the seventh wave of which you foretell?
It is precisely because these trends have been around for a while, and are starting to mature and influence each other, that they are building to form something really significant ….
Indeed, for those in pursuit of a broader-than-library take on what’s going on in the web-wide world of structured data, one should take advantage of Richard’s experience including a deep understanding of libraries as a member the Talis library systems group and spanning the company’s evolution toward its present-day provision of Kasabi, “a startup business spun out from and backed by Talis. Our aim is to unlock the value in the World’s data by enabling new business models for producers and consumers of structured data at all scales.” Among his posts and presentations worth close review are those that can be had at his Data Liberate site, for example:
Create data not records
Libraries through the linked data telescope
Who will be mostly right – Wikidata, Schema.org
My own views on the potential benefits to be had from a rapidly evolving web that is increasingly dominated by well-structured and well-curated data were shaped in large part by exposure to the vision, concepts, and people involved in a set of antecedents to the current flurry of activity and developments. The thread leads from a turn of the century piece written by Danny Hillis, through his Applied Minds and Metaweb companies, leading to Freebase and John Giannandrea, and onward from there to the recent Wall Street Journal interview with Amit Singhal and the subsequent discussions surrounding Knowledge Graph and things not strings:
Hillis: With the knowledge web, humanity’s accumulated store of information will become more accessible, more manageable, and more useful. Anyone who wants to learn will be able to find the best and the most meaningful explanations of what they want to know. Anyone with something to teach will have a way to reach those who want to learn. Teachers will move beyond their present role as dispensers of information and become guides, mentors, facilitators, and authors. The knowledge web will make us all smarter. The knowledge web is an idea whose time has come. Hillis, W. Daniel. “Aristotle”: (The knowledge web), 2000, published in The Edge (138) in 2004.
Freebase: A new company founded by a longtime technologist is setting out to create a vast public database intended to be read by computers rather than people, paving the way for a more automated Internet in which machines will routinely share information. Markoff, John. Start-up aims for database to automate web searching. NYT (9 March 2007).
Giannandrea: Freebase is an open database of the world’s information, built by a global community and free for anyone to query, contribute to, and build applications on. … Part of what makes this open database unique is that it spans domains, but requires that a particular topic exist only once in Freebase. Thus freebase is an identity database with a user contributed schema which spans multiple domains. For example, Arnold Schwarzenegger may appear in a movie database as an actor, a political database as a governor, and in a bodybuilder database as Mr. Universe. In Freebase, however, there is only one topic for Arnold Schwarzenegger that brings all these facets together. The unified topic is a single reconciled identity, which makes it easier to find and contribute information about the linked world we live in. Giannandrea, John. Freebase: an open, writable database of the world’s information (a one-hour lecture delivered in October 2008).
[Amit Singhal] said in a recent interview that the search engine [Google] will better match search queries with a database containing hundreds of millions of “entities”—people, places and things—which the company has quietly amassed in the past two years. Semantic search can help associate different words with one another. Efrati, Mair. Google gives search a refresh. WSJ (15 March 2012).
Knowledge Graph: [W]e’re focused on comprehensive breadth and depth. It currently contains more than 500 million objects, as well as more than 3.5 billion facts about and relationships between these different objects. And it’s tuned based on what people search for, and what we find out on the web. Britt, Phil. Google unveils knowledge graph. (24 May 2012).
Taken together, these and other suggestive developments in the linked-data ecosystem represent a confluence of tools, data, and methodologies of sufficient potential to warrant efforts that pursue:
new opportunities for addressing the traditional and prevailing problems of too many silos of content, too many disparate modes of search and access, and too little precision and too much ambiguity in search results in the extreme environments of academic information resources intended to support and report on the research and teaching in large research enterprises. Keller, Michael A. Linked data: a way out of the information chaos and toward the semantic web. EDUCAUSE Review 42 (4): July/August 2011.
Such opportunities are inextricably bound up with linked-data’s potential for (1) reshaping the infrastructure that supports web-wide management of information, knowledge, and data, and for (2) fueling unprecedented improvements in the efficiency and efficacy of navigation and discovery capabilities. It’s long past being a matter of if, now it’s about when—the game that’s afoot is about finding roles that libraries can play in aiding and abetting the creation of an increasingly dense tapestry of facts and links woven together from the flows of intellectual resources that the global academic community consumes and produces in the course of its research, teaching, and learning.
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Designing a decentralized energy grid
August 13, 2019 //By Nick Flaherty
Autonomous energy grid technology and machine learning aim to protect the grid from disruption and cyberattacks
A team at the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is working on autonomous energy grid (AEG) technology to ensure the electricity grid of the future can manage a growing base of intelligent energy devices, variable renewable energy, and advanced controls.
"The future grid will be much more distributed too complex to control with today’s techniques and technologies," said Benjamin Kroposki, director of NREL's Power Systems Engineering Center. "We need a path to get there—to reach the potential of all these new technologies integrating into the power system."
The AEG effort envisions a self-driving power system—a very "aware" network of technologies and distributed controls that work together to efficiently match bi-directional energy supply to energy demand. This is a hard pivot from today’s system, in which centralized control is used to manage one-way electricity flows to consumers along power lines that spoke out from central generators.
Instead, AEG grids are composed within one another, like a fractalized group of microgrids. Sections, or "cells" of AEG use pervasive communication and controllability to continually pursue their best operating conditions, which adjust to the temperament of customer demand, available generation, and pricing.
Decentralized control solves a few challenges as billions of new energy devices generating energy from variable resources are difficult to manage centrally. At the moment, the AEG is a highly theoretical framework for future energy systems to build from, with potential application 10 years out and a few early adopters currently trialing the technology.
AEG follows from an Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) project called Network Optimized Distributed Energy Systems (NODES) developing real-time optimization and control methods for power systems. "I would say for us, it all started with NODES," said Andrey Bernstein, Senior Researcher and AEG Technical Lead . "In terms of algorithms and framework, NODES covers just one cell—one bounded community.
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Posted on August 30, 2019 November 30, 2019 © 2020 by Linda Moulton Howe
Updated with Audio and Video: Mountain-Size “Alien Grey” Face Discovered in Antarctica
“I heard these scientists talking about that there’s some guys there at Pole that were working with these strange-looking ‘men.’ They weren’t saying, you know, ‘alien’ or ‘extraterrestrial,’ or whatever. And that the air sampling station (big hole in the ice) was actually a joint base with the scientists and the E.T.s.”
– Brian, retired Navy Flight Engineer, Antarctic Development Squadron Six
The following update comes from Linda Moulton Howe’s original Earthfiles YouTube Channel broadcast on August 28, 2019, about a half-mile-size carved black stone head in the Admiralty Mountains of Antarctica. Please subscribe to the Earthfiles channel now to explore Antarctica, alien intelligences and other Earth mysteries. Help Linda bring the pressure of facts to truth about our world’s past, present and future.
Updated August 30, 2019 Admiralty Mountains, Antarctica – On August 20, 2019, ufo_scandinavia announced in Instagram (below) the discovery of a Google Earth September 28, 2012, original satellite image of a massive “alien grey” face in the Admiralty Mountains not far from Daniell, Hallett and Adare Peninsulas on the USA’s McMurdo Station side of Antarctica. See large map below Instagram.
Grey alien face captured in Google Earth map in Antarctica. Go and search it for yourself. Shoutout to Thirdphaseofthemoon 👉 https://youtu.be/BVjH1onTFO4 Follow me👉 @ufo_scandinavia 🤘 . #ufo #alien #ovni #love #planet #earth #phenomenon #strangerthings #news #insta #instagram #ufosighting #antarctica
A post shared by 👽UFO👽 (@ufo_scandinavia) on Aug 20, 2019 at 3:35pm PDT
The McMurdo Station is a United States Antarctic research station on the south tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand-claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. The half-mile-long alien face is in the Admiralty Mountains at the latitude/longitude upper right between Adare and Hallett Peninsulas. Click map to enlarge.
In Google Earth, the mountain-size black rock head is at latitude and longitude: 72°00′ 36.00” S , 168° 34′ 40.00” E. That is about 400 miles from McMurdo on the Ross Sea side of the big, icy continent.Why has the 7-year-old Google image suddenly reached public attention now?
So I went to Google Earth, typed in the latitude/longitude and watched the Earth turn and swoop around the planet down to Antarctica and then stopped in mountains covered with snow.
https://www.earthfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Antarctica09GoogleEarthToAntarcticFaceRotate720p.mp4
I was puzzled by the face in front of me on my computer screen. The Google Earth Image Date for the photograph was: September 28, 2012, a full seven years before the sudden emergence for the first time of this Antarctica Oriental/GreyAlien face on August 20, 2019. That was only 8 days ago.
Dimensions of Black Mountain Rock-Carved Face
Using the measuring tool in Google Earth, the distance from the bottom of the pointed chin to the top of the pointed head is estimated to be 2,700 to 3,000 feet long. The width of the mouth is approximately 420 feet and the width of the entity’s left eye is approximately 520 feet.
Mountain-size “Grey Alien” face discovered by ufo_scandinavia on August 20, 2019, in Admiralty Mountains near Daniell, Hallett and Adare Peninsulas, Antarctica, at this latitude and longitude: 72°00′ 36.00” S , 168° 34′ 40.00” E Original Image Date of this Instagram-released Google Earth image: 09/28/2012. Click image to enlarge.
Original Image Date: 09/28/2012. Google Earth wide image at 8,130 feet with massive “Grey Alien” head marked by yellow pin and latitude and longitude: 72°00′ 36.00” S , 168° 34′ 40.00” E Click image to enlarge.
You, too, can copy the Google Earth latitude and longitude at my Earthfiles.com news report about the strange, mountain-size head and face. I placed the latitude and longitude in bold numbers throughout this Earthfiles report, so just copy and paste into Google Earth Pro, an app that is easy to get and explore the Earth.
I also learned that the strips of color on the Google Antarctic image, including the beige-gold color over the large Oriental Alien-Grey-looking head on the mountain is a color feature that Google uses on high res image data.
Click to enlarge this Google Earth map section that has the gold, green, pink, blue and white colors around the Oriental Grey Alien Face latitude/longitude. This Google image was taken on September 28, 2012, according to Google Earth Image Date.
Whatever all the reason for the green, pink and goldish strips at the latitude/longitude of the Antarctic head, the goldish-brown color reinforces an Oriental atmosphere for the huge head carved in the black mountain.
But why has this mysterious and massive head carved in a black mountain emerged now? There are a series of Google Images, both low res and high res, of this exact same mountain-sized head in the Admiralty Mountains going back to 2004? But why only now in August 2019 has this high resolution 2012 image of the face and head emerged publicly?
Perspective from Retired U. S. Navy Captain Mark Wood
I wanted to ask discuss that question with a military source who has contributed to my Earthfiles investigations for the past decade. The following are some excerpts from my phone discussion with him on Tuesday, August 27th. He is retired U. S. Navy Captain Mark Wood.
Mark Wood holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech and a Master’s Degree in Ocean Engineering from Florida Atlantic University. He is also a Registered Professional Mechanical Engineer (P.E.). He was screened for Aviation Command and was assigned as the Executive Officer of the first Reserve Patrol Squadron to be assigned the new P-3C Update III as well as the Commissioning Commanding Officer of a Reserve Patrol Squadron Augment Unit (VPSAU).
Segment 1, Sept. 28, 2012 Google Earth, 3-D View, Interview Audio
https://www.earthfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/10mp3MarkWoodAudio.mp3
LMH: MARK, WHY DO YOU THINK IT TOOK FROM SEPTEMBER 28, 2012, UNTIL AUGUST 20, 2019, FOR THIS ORIENTAL, ALIEN-TYPE IMAGE FROM ANTARCTICA TO REACH THE PUBLIC?
Retired Navy Captain Mark Wood: Well, obviously somebody who had control of or access to the high resolution photography that was done of Antarctica didn’t want this image out in the public. It’s not surprising. It ties in with what everyone has talked about regarding when disclosure is going to take place. And anything that would indicate alien presence on the planet is real gets pushed to the back burner and denied or just hidden.
Segment 2, December 30, 2004 Google Earth from 9,750 Feet, Interview Audio :
https://www.earthfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/11MarkWoodDecember30th2004FirstOrientalImage.mp3
LMH: WHAT YOU MEAN — IF WE GO BACK TO THE BEGINNING OF THE SERIES OF THESE IMAGES, WHICH YOU HAVE LOOKED AT, ON DECEMBER 30TH, 2004 — THAT WAS AN IMAGE AT 9,750 FEET. YOU COULD SEE THE LIPS, THE CHIN, THE NOSE, AND SORT OF A HEAD SHAPE THEN. IT WAS MORE ICY AND THERE WAS MORE SNOW.”
Segment 3, October 30, 2009 Google Earth from 9,950 Feet,
Interview Audio :
https://www.earthfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/12MarkWoodOct30th2009AntarcticaAlienFace.mp3
LMH: THEN THE NEXT ONE, OCTOBER 30TH, 2009, SAYS IN GOOGLE EARTH THAT IT WAS DONE FROM 9,950 FEET. AND THAT ONE SHOWS THE LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE CLEARLY AND IT IS A LONGER DISTANCE OF A FACE.
Segment 4, October 30, 2010 Google Earth from 21,000 Feet, Interview Audio :
https://www.earthfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/13MarkWood_13thSlide3rdOlderImage103010.mp3
LMH: AND THEN THE 3RD ONE WAS OCTOBER 30, 2010, FROM 21,000 FEET. AND YOU CAN SEE THE MOUTH, THE NOSE, THE EYES — BUT THIS IS FROM WAY UP HIGH.
https://www.earthfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/14-Slide-4th-after-2004-05-Audio-MarkWood.mp3
LMH: THEN NUMBER 4 IS OCTOBER 30TH 2011, FROM 10,000 FEET — THIS ORIENTAL FACE WITH THE SLANTED EYES IN THE SNOW.
Segment 6, September 28, 2012 Google Earth, 3D View,
https://www.earthfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/15SlideLindaMark5th2012imageAfter2004.mp3
LMH: NEXT WOULD BE SEPTEMBER 28TH, 2012, THE ONE THAT RECENTLY EMERGED AND IS VERY CLEAR THAT IT IS A HEAD.
Captain Wood: When you see something appear like it appeared in 2012, how do you know that that just wasn’t something that was disinformation? That was photoshopped and then put into Google Earth by the request of somebody? Well, we went back and looked at the earlier years and maybe we wouldn’t have found anything and that might have led us to the fact that that was a fake photo. But we found things, which means that IS a REAL image in 2012.
Segment 7, September 28, 2012 Google Earth, Color Strips,
https://www.earthfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/16SlideGoogleTrust08MarkWoodAudio.mp3
LMH: CAN WE TRUST GOOGLE EARTH? IS GOOGLE EARTH BLURRING IMAGES, CREATING IMAGES UNDER THE ORDER OF SOME GOVERNMENT AGENCY?
Captain Wood: Well, I think the answer to that is yes. They are under contract, they are under non-disclosure agreements, they’re under classification agreements and they are in business to make money and they are under contract to do what they are told to do, or to hide what they are told to hide. I have no doubt that Google does what they are told to do.
Segment 8, September 28, 2012 Google Earth, Sumer & Anunnaki,
https://www.earthfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/17LMHGoogleEarthTurnWithMarkWood.mp4
Captain Wood: The size of this thing is immense – it’s 6/10th of a mile. From some of the ancient history that we know about from cuneiform tablets in Sumer (Mesopotamia), their history says that the Anunnaki came here anywhere from 250,000 to 400,000 years ago years ago. Well, maybe they weren’t the first. Maybe they were somewhere else on Earth before they went to Sumer.
LMH: WELL, A LOT OF PEOPLE, INCLUDING ME, WOULD LIKE TO ORGANIZE AN INVESTIGATION AND GO TO ANTARCTICA RIGHT TO THE LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE OF THIS BLACK STONE FACE TO SEE FOR OURSELVES AS THE ANTARCTIC ICE AND SNOW CONTINUE TO MELT FASTER AND FASTER IN GLOBAL WARMING. SO, MARK, CAN AMERICAN CITIZENS GO TO ANTARCTICA TO EXPLORE THIS HUGE, ORIENTAL-ALIEN FACE?
Captain Wood: Well, there are two answers to the question:
— Can United States citizens go to Antarctica? Yes, they can.
— Can they go anywhere they want to explore? And the answer is that is pretty much no.
In 1982, President Reagan signed a memorandum called the U. S. Antarctic Program and that program controls who goes to Antarctica and what they do when they get there. And it’s monitored by the National Science Foundation, which one would think is the correct group of people because it primarily deals with scientific expeditions — whether they are astronomers, biologists, geologists — that through their research, there are programs that have been established. There is transportation provided by the military that can go there for scientific reasons.
If you are a regular citizen and not a scientist that is being funded by the National Science Foundation or some other science research organization, you can apply for an expedition to go to Antarctica. But if you do, you have to provide the plan. You have to be approved. You have to provide all your expenses. You have to provide insurance. You have to assure that everybody is trained in all the safety procedures and survival procedures if something happens. And then you have to agree to reimburse the government — whether it’s NSF or the military — if they have to go in and rescue you because you get stuck in the ice or get lost. So you don’t have free rein of the continent to go investigate things they don’t want you to see.”
05-05-2016 – Update: U. S. Navy Flight Engineer Saw Silver Discs and Entrance to Alleged E. T.and Human Collaboration Base in Antarctica
07-01-2016 – Antarctica Retired Navy Flight Engineer Warned by NSA to Stop Talking About Missing Scientists
“U.S. Denies ‘Spectacular Ruins’ in Antarctica Captured On Video,” March 18, 2002, Atlantic Mapping Project (AMP) by @lantisTV, news release:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/665579/posts
“Scientists Believe Hidden Lake May Reside Underneath Antarctica,” April 25, 2016, The Weather Channel: https://weather.com/science/environment/news/scientists-discover-antarctica-lake
“Antarctic Lake Vostok Yields ‘New Bacterial Life’”, March 7, 2013, BBC Science:
Antarctic Development Squadron Six: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VXE-6
Transantarctic Mountains:
http://www.antarcticconnection.com/shopcontent.asp?type=science-transantarctic-mtns
Beardmore Glacier: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beardmore_Glacier
Davis Station, Australian Antarctic Division: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis_Station
Operation Highjump and the UFO Connection:
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/antarctica/antartica11.htm
CategoriesEnvironment, Science TagsAdmiralty Mountains in Antarctica, AntarcticaHugeGreyAlienFace, Anunnaki, Beardmore Glacier, Daniell Peninsula in Antarctica Grey Alien Face, Face On Mars, McMurdo Station, Military Whistleblowers Know Antarctica Has Huge Black Basalt Structures Under Ice, Other Cosmic Civilizations On Earth, Ross Sea, Spartan 1, Spartan 2, Sumeria, U. S. Navy Seals, UFO Scandinavia
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Kovacevic: If we’re talking ‘accountability,’ and we are, we’re really talking one thing
By Dejan Kovacevic
One moment, Ben Roethlisberger pulls a Dan Marino with a dazzling fake-spike touchdown to Antonio Brown, for what should have been a fantasy finish to his “Follow me” comment earlier in the week
Mike Tomlin watches from the sideline Sunday. - MATT SUNDAY / DKPS
Go ahead and fire them.
Fire Mike Tomlin, Todd Haley, Keith Butler and the entire coaching staff.
Fire them all.
That’s what pretty much the entirety of Steelers Nation will demand after Sunday night, and I can’t say I blame them after that deflating, possibly devastating defensive collapse to the Cowboys and the 35-30 crusher that followed.
One moment, Ben Roethlisberger pulls a Dan Marino with a dazzling fake-spike touchdown to Antonio Brown, for what should have been a fantasy finish to his “Follow me” comment earlier in the week:
Then next, the defense lays down and dies.
You witnessed it. And if you were among the 67,737, chances are excellent you’ve never been part of anything like it. The last thing anyone would need is a revisiting.
So yeah, go ahead and fire them.
If they lose next week in Cleveland, fire them before they can get back on the bus.
And yeah, barring that, fire them if this team doesn’t make the playoffs.
No bluff. No hype. No hot take. Because the fact is, there’s no longer anywhere else to point.
Tomlin’s got an ever-growing list of problems, and a rookie safety accidentally grabbing a facemask isn’t one of them, though Sean Davis is sure to take his share of the heat.
Lay off Davis. He’s a kid. He’s talented. He’s smart. He’ll learn and be stronger.
You want real problems?
How about a defense so sickeningly soft that, when Dallas got the ball back after Ben’s beautiful play, the 42 seconds still on the clock undoubtedly had every single soul in the place convinced the Cowboys would come back?
Come on, fess up. You felt it, too.
Heck, even the stadium’s in-game operations backed off a second playing of ‘Renegade,’ which I almost couldn’t believe.
But that’s what this defense has become. There have been a couple blips and a couple individual bright spots, sure. But when these guys are tasked with winning the game, they don’t. And that’s not new. We’ve seen it now for half-a-decade and half-a-dozen wasted high draft picks on defensive studs turned duds. We’ve seen it for far too long, and there’s no longer an end in sight.
When Tomlin finished his opening monologue in the postgame press conference, I asked one simple question: Is he seeing progress with this defense?
So basically, no.
And that’s a hell of a thing, isn’t it?
Tomlin’s chosen defensive coordinator, Keith Butler, has had his playbook reduced to a Gordian knot for which neither of them, very clearly, has an answer. They entered the season terrified to blitz because they needed to shield their shaky secondary. Then, they started getting steamrollered by ordinary running backs for 200-plus yards and began filling the box. Then, when finally feeling at least a little confident in a young secondary, they started blitzing again, only to have this kind of thing happen:
That up there is Dez Bryant’s 50-yard touchdown catch from Dak Prescott. Blitzing up the middle is Mike Mitchell, who normally would be back helping another rookie, Artie Burns, to cover one of the NFL’s premier receivers. Anthony Chickillo also comes late.
So blame Burns for being beaten. Blame the ref for not flagging Bryant’s push-off.
But ultimately, blame the defense for failing all over the field.
Just as it did on Ezekiel Elliott’s Vaudevillian 83-yard run …
… and on Elliott’s 14-yard touchdown run with 1:55 left that was so egregiously easy …
… that the Steelers seriously entertained questions afterward as to whether they’d intentionally allowed him to score so they get the ball back sooner. No snapping. No indignation.
Even Tomlin responded to a question about allowing Dallas to score with a calm, “No, they scored.”
Stop and think about that for a second. The defense on that run was so pathetic that this was perceived, even by the perpetrators, as a wholly legit line of questioning.
“The Cowboys made the splash plays,” Tomlin said.
No, sorry. Because the term ‘splash’ in football connotes doing something special. It’s a positive. Elliott running all over the field like a wild ostrich isn’t ‘splash.’ It’s a defense that doesn’t know what it’s doing or, if it does, how to do it. That play up there isn’t ‘splash’ anything.
It’s Lawrence Timmons, a veteran who’s by now so used to having to compensate for other people’s mistakes, straying from the hole “I should have filled, and I wish I could have it again.”
And it’s Ryan Shazier badly overshooting his blitz, something he confessed to me happened a lot:
Cam Heyward, the defensive leader who could barely breathe afterward because of a pectoral injury but also probably because this performance was eating him alive, was adamant that Butler’s defensive calls were sound on the big plays.
“It was the right call, every time,” the big man said. “We just didn’t execute.”
Listen to him, watch him:
I’ve never heard or seen him like that.
The responsibility rises to the top. Kevin Colbert and Tomlin built this defense. Tomlin and Butler coach this defense. It isn’t nearly good enough and it isn’t collectively getting any better.
That’s a problem.
You want another real problem?
The franchise quarterback, very evidently, doesn’t think his coach is doing much of a job. At least in one area.
Roethlisberger’s gathering around his locker stall opened with an innocuous question about how the Steelers can move forward from this four-game losing streak.
“We’ll chew this up,” he answered. “And we need to be more disciplined and more accountable.”
Um, OK.
A bit later, someone asked if the Steelers have the right guys in the locker room to get things right.
“We have no choice. They’re a great football team. Like I said, we’re undisciplined and not accountable. That’s why they’re one of the best in the business, and we’re not right now.”
Well, then.
So he was asked by our beat writer Mark Kaboly about using the word ‘accountable’ a couple times and how the Steelers might achieve that.
“I don’t know. Is it players? Is it coaches? I don’t know, but we need to get there quick.”
Here’s the full video for the fullest context …
… but make no mistake: When the topic is accountability in team sports, and it’s raised by the team’s top player, and said player openly offers that the ‘coaches’ might be culpable, that’s not just a problem. That’s a lit fuse.
Add to that Roethlisberger’s public critique a month ago of Tomlin’s excessively physical practices, in his view, and a few other under-the-breath elements to the equation, and I’m not sure he could make it any more obvious that, even if there isn’t some outright rift, they aren’t exactly synchronizing their swimming these days.
I’m not going to take this too far. They’ve coexisted for far too long, they’ve won a Super Bowl together, and they’ve had much other success. That hasn’t happened because they hate each other or something silly like that.
I’m also not going to speculate as to what Roethlisberger’s specific issue might be, if it’s even specific. It could be anything.
That doesn’t matter nearly as much as … wow, just go up and read that again.
Understand this: Roethlisberger isn’t without his flaws, not then and not now. But if there’s one trait of his that I’ve believed to be truest since I’ve known him, it’s that he’s motivated by Super Bowls. It’s the way he defines his career, no matter how others might. It’s what he wants more than anything in football, and it’s absolutely what he wanted most heading into this season that, until the past month, had seemed so promising.
He’ll do anything to make that happen, even a him-or-me. And I wouldn’t blame him one bit if he did.
Art Rooney II made the serious mistake of once siding against Roethlisberger in replacing Bruce Arians with Haley, and one would hope he’d see that wasn’t a risk worth taking then or now. As another team in town has illustrated for a long time, the star player is always, always more valuable than any executive or coach.
This star player wants ‘accountability,’ and only one person can deliver that.
You want one last real problem?
Hey, the club is 4-5. And facing the Browns on the road, where … oh, you know:
If they lose to that team, of all teams … yeah, fire all of them.
I’m not intending this stance as idle gimmickry, and I don’t take it lightly. My respect and admiration for Tomlin is on the record and hasn’t altered in the slightest, even if he isn’t exactly best buds with most anyone in this business. He’s a good man, a good coach. And for what it’s worth, his history shows that his teams do bounce back, including from the lowest lows. I’ll never forget the gloomiest locker room I’ve ever covered, that day in London a couple years back when the Steelers were 0-4, and how he straightened that into an 8-4 finish.
But this team was supposed to be more than this. So much more, it could be argued.
And even if it’s doing nothing more than meeting expectations in some eyes, it’s not up for debate that any roster with Roethlisberger, Antonio Brown and Le’Veon Bell shouldn’t be wallowing this way.
So I’ll repeat: If this team fails to make the playoffs, fire them all.
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