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April 4 is the 94th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (95th in leap years). There are 271 days remaining.
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4 Holidays and observances
1581 - Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of the world and is knighted by Elizabeth I.
1721 - Sir Robert Walpole enters office as the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom under King George I.
1812 - U.S. President James Madison enacted a ninety-day embargo on trade with the United Kingdom.
1814 - Napoleon abdicates for the first time.
1818 - The U.S. Congress adopts the flag of the United States as having 13 red and white stripes and one star for each state (20 stars) with additional stars to be added whenever a new state is added to the Union.
1841 - President William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia becoming the first President of the United States to die in office and at one month, the elected president with the shortest term served.
1850 - Los Angeles, California is incorporated as a city.
1865 - American Civil War: A day after Union forces captured Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.
1866 - Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt in the city of Kiev. A design for a city gate to commemorate his escape was the inspiration for Mussorgsky's The Great Gate of Kiev from Pictures at an Exhibition.
1887 - Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
1905 - In India, an earthquake near Kangra kills 370,000.
1918 - World War I: Second Battle of the Somme ends.
1939 - Faisal II becomes King of Iraq.
1945 - World War II: American troops liberate Ohrdruf death camp in Germany.
1945 - World War II: Soviet Army liberates Hungary.
1949 - Twelve nations sign The North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
1964 - The Beatles occupy all of the top five positions on the Billboard singles chart in the United States.
1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated.
1968 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6.
1969 - Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
1969 - The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour is cancelled after the brothers failed to submit an episode before its broadcast date.
1973 - The World Trade Center in New York is officially dedicated.
1975 - Vietnam War: Operation Baby Lift - A United States Air Force C-5A Galaxy crashes near Saigon, South Vietnam shortly after takeoff, transporting orphans. 172 people are killed.
1976 - Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.
1979 - President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
1981 - In Dublin, Ireland, Bucks Fizz win the twenty-sixth Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom singing "Making Your Mind Up".
1983 - Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space.
1984 - President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.
1991 - Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over Merion, Pennsylvania.
1994 - Netscape Communications Corporation is founded (under the name "Mosaic Communications Corporation") by Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark.
186 - Caracalla, Roman emperor (d. 217)
1648 - Grinling Gibbons master wood-worker (d. 1721)
1785 - Bettina von Arnim, German writer (d. 1859)
1802 - Dorothea Dix, American social activist (d. 1887)
1843 - William Jackson, photographer
1846 - Comte de Lautréamont, French writer (d. 1870)
1870 - George Albert Smith, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1951)
1875 - Pierre Monteux, French conductor (d. 1964)
1876 - Maurice de Vlaminck, painter (d. 1958)
1884 - Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese naval commander (d. 1943)
1888 - Tris Speaker, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1958)
1895 - Arthur Murray, American dance teacher (d. 1991)
1898 - Agnes Ayres, silent film actress (d. 1940)
1902 - Louise Leveque de Vilmorin, French actress (d. 1969)
1906 - Bea Benaderet, actress (d. 1968)
1906 - John Cameron Swayze, American journalist and television host (d. 1995)
1910 - Juri Pawlowitsch German, writer (d. 1967)
1914 - Marguerite Duras, French writer (d. 1996)
1914 - Frances Langford, American actress
1915 - Muddy Waters, blues musician (d. 1983)
1920 - Eric Rohmer, French film director
1922 - Elmer Bernstein, composer
1924 - Gil Hodges, American baseball player (d. 1972)
1928 - Maya Angelou, American writer
1931 - Bobby Ray Inman, American admiral and intelligence director
1932 - Anthony Perkins, actor (d. 1992)
1932 - Andrei Tarkovsky, film director (d. 1986)
1932 - Richard Lugar, American politician
1934 - Clive Davis, American record producer
1934 - Anne Haney, American actress (d. 2001)
1938 - A. Bartlett Giamatti, American university president and baseball commissioner
1939 - Hugh Masekela, musician
1940 - Sharon Sheeley, songwriter
1942 - Kitty Kelley, American writer
1944 - Craig T. Nelson, actor
1945 - Daniel Cohn-Bendit, political activist
1946 - Dave Hill, Slade, guitarist
1947 - Luke Halpin, American actor
1947 - Wiranto, Indonesian general
1948 - Dan Simmons, writer
1948 - Abdullah Öcalan, Kurdish leader
1950 - Christine Lahti, actress
1951 - Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia
1952 - Rosemarie Ackermann, German athlete
1956 - David E. Kelley, writer and television producer
1957 - Aki Kaurismäki, Finnish film director
1958 - Mary-Margaret Humes, American actress
1960 - Jane Eaglin, English soprano
1960 - Hugo Weaving, actor
1963 - Jack Del Rio, American football player and coach
1963 - Graham Norton, talk show host
1965 - Robert Downey Jr., actor
1970 - Barry Pepper, actor
1973 - David Blaine, illusionist
1974 - Dave Mirra, extreme sports athlete
1975 - Scott Rolen, baseball player
1979 - Heath Ledger, actor
1979 - Natasha Lyonne, American actress
1980 - Björn Wirdheim, race car driver
1991 - Jamie Spears, television show host
397 - St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan (b. c. 340)
896 - Pope Formosus (b. 816)
1284 - Alfonso X of Castile (b. 1221)
1292 - Pope Nicholas IV (b. 1227)
1305 - Jeanne of Navarre, queen of Philip IV of France
1701 - Joseph Haines, entertainer and author
1774 - Oliver Goldsmith, English writer (b. 1728)
1807 - Joseph Jérôme Lefrançais de Lalande, French astronomer
1817 - André Masséna, French soldier (b. 1758)
1841 - William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States (b. 1773)
1842 - Jean Moufot, French philosopher and mathematician (b. 1784)
1846 - Solomon Sibley, Senator from Michigan Territory (b. 1769)
1861 - John McLean, U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. 1785)
1884 - Marie Bashkirtseff, artist (b. 1860)
1919 - Sir William Crookes, chemist and physicist (b. 1832)
1923 - John Venn, British mathematician (b. 1834)
1932 - Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
1951 - Al Christie, film director and producer (b. 1881)
1951 - George Albert Smith, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1870)
1968 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., American civil rights activist and minister (b. 1929)
1972 - Adam Clayton Powell Jr., American politician
1972 - Stefan Wolpe, composer (b. 1902)
1979 - Ali Bhutto, President and Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1928)
1979 - Edgar Buchanan, American actor (b. 1903)
1980 - Red Sovine, country music entertainer
1983 - Gloria Swanson, American actress (b. 1897)
1984 - Oleg Antonov, Soviet airplane engineer
1987 - C.L. Moore, science fiction writer (b. 1911)
1991 - Max Frisch, Swiss writer (b. 1911)
1991 - H. John Heinz III, U.S. Senator (plane crash) (b. 1938)
1991 - Forrest Towns, American hurdler (b. 1914)
1995 - Priscilla Lane, American singer, actress
1996 - Barney Ewell, American athlete (b. 1918)
1996 - Larry LaPrise, songwriter (b. 1913)
1999 - Early Wynn, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1920)
2001 - Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, custom car designer
2002 - Harry L. O'Connor, film stuntman
2003 - Resortes, Mexican comedian
Holidays and observances
Lesotho - Heroes' Day
BBC: On This Day (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/4)
Today in History: April 4 (http://www.tnl.net/when/4/4)
April 3 - April 5 - March 4 - May 4 -- listing of all days
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Interview with Irenosen Okojie on début novel ‘Butterfly Fish’
Irenosen Okojie
Witty, shy and quirky were the three words that came to mind upon meeting Irenosen Okojie. Her début novel Butterfly fish, found its way to my desk- unannounced. Replacing my customary pick- me- up, I was intoxicated by its rich imaginative ardour. Butterfly fish by Irenosen Okojie came out in 2016 and is a smooth literary hooch, with a dark personality and complex finish.
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Controllable Fairness in Machine Learning
Pratyusha Kalluri
TLDR: How do we finely control the fairness of machine learning systems? In our AISTATS 2019 paper, we introduce a theoretically grounded method for learning controllable fair representations. Using our method, a party who is concerned with fairness (like a data collector, community organizer, or regulatory body) can convert data to representations with controllable limits on unfairness, then release only the representations. This controls how much downstream machine learning models can discriminate.
Machine learning systems are increasingly used during high-stakes decisions, influencing credit scores, criminal sentences, and more. This raises an urgent question: how do we ensure these systems do not discriminate based on race, gender, disability, or other minority status? Many researchers have responded by introducing fair machine learning models that balance accuracy and fairness; but this leaves it up to institutions — corporations, governments, etc. — to choose to use these fair models, when some of these instutitions may be agnostic or even adversarial to fairness.
Interestingly, some researchers have introduced methods for learning fair representations 1. Using such methods, a party who is concerned with fairness (like a data collector, community organizer, or regulatory body) can convert data to fair representations, then release only the representations, making it much more difficult for any downstream machine learning models to discriminate.
The goal is to learn and release well-controlled fair representations of data,
inhibiting downstream machine learning models from discriminating.
In this post, we introduce a theoretically grounded approach to learning fair representations, and we discover that a range of existing methods are special cases of our approach. Additionally, we note that all existing methods for learning fair representations can be said to balance usefulness and fairness, producing somewhat-useful-and-somewhat-fair representations. The concerned party must then run the learning process many times until they find representations they find satisfying. Based on our theoretical approach, we introduce a new method where the concerned party can control the fairness of representations by requesting specific limits on unfairness. Compared to earlier fair representations, ours can be learned more quickly, are able to satisfy requests for many notions of fairness simultaneously, and contain more useful information.
A theoretical approach to fair representations
We assume we are given a set of data points (), typically representing people, and their sensitive attributes (), typically their race, gender, or other minority status. We must learn a model () mapping any data point to a new representation (). Our goal is two-fold: our representations should be expressive — containing plenty of useful information about the data point; and our representations should be fair — containing limited information about the sensititve attributes, so it is difficult to discriminate downstream 2. Note that merely removing sensitive attributes (e.g. race) from the data would not satisfy this notion of fairness, as downstream machine learning models could then discriminate based on correlated features (e.g. zipcode) — a practice called “redlining”.
First, we translate our goal into the information theoretical concept of mutual information. The mutual information between two variables is formally defined as the Kullback-Leibler divergence between the joint probability of the variables and the product of the marginal probabilities of the variables: ; intuitively, it’s the amount of information that is shared. Our goals can be made concrete as follows:
To achieve expressiveness, we want to maximize the mutual information between the data point and the representation conditioned on the sensitive attributes : . (By conditioning on the sensitive attributes, we make sure we do not encourage information in the data point that is correlated with the sensitive attributes to appear in our representation.)
To achieve fairness, we want to limit the mutual information between the representation and the sensitive attributes : , where has been set by the concerned party.
Next, because both mutual information terms are difficult to optimize, we need to find approximations:
Instead of maximizing , we maximize a lower bound , which relies on us introducing a new model . Intuitively, maximizing encourages a mapping such that the new model that takes the representation plus the sensitive attributes can successfully reconstruct the data point .
Instead of constraining , we can constrain an upper bound . Intuitively, constraining discourages complex representations.
Or, we can alternatively constrain , a tighter approximation of , which relies on us introducing a new model . Intuitively, constraining discourages a mapping where the new model that takes the representation is able to reconstruct the sensitive attributes .
Putting it all together, our final objective is to find the models , , and that encourage the successful reconstruction of the data points, while constraining the complexity of the representations, and constraining the reconstruction of the sensitive attributes:
Our “hard-constrained” objective for learning fair representations
where and are limits that have been set by the concerned party.
This gives us a principled approach to learning fair representations. And we are rewarded with a neat discovery: it turns out that a range of existing methods for learning fair representations optimize the dual — a “soft-regularized” version — of our objective!
The “soft-regularized” loss function for learning fair representations
Existing methods
The they use
Zemel et al. 20133
Edwards and Storkey 20154
Madras et al. 20185
Louizos et al. 20156
We see that our framework generalizes a range of existing methods!
Learning controllable fair representations
Let’s now take a closer look at the “soft-regularized” loss function. It should feel intuitive that existing methods for learning fair representations produce somewhat-useful-and-somewhat-fair representations, with the balance between expressiveness and fairness controlled by the choice of s. If only we could optimize our “hard-constrained” objective instead; then the concerned party could instead set to request specific limits on unfairness . . .
Luckily, there’s a way! We introduce:
Our loss function for learning controllable fair representations
Intuitively, this loss function dictates that whenever we should be concerned about unfairness because or , the s will place additional emphasis on the unsatisfied constraint; this additional emphasis will persist until and return to satisfying the limits set by the concerned party. The rest of the time, when and are safely within the limits, minimizing will be prioritized, encouraging expressive representations.
With this last piece of the puzzle in place, all that’s left to do is evaluate whether our theory leads to learning controllable fair representations in practice. To evaluate, we learn representations of three real-world datasets:
the UCI German credit dataset of 1,000 individuals, where the binary sensitive attribute age<50 / age>50 was to be protected
the UCI Adult dataset of 40,000 adults from the US Census, where the binary sensitive attribute Man / Woman was to be protected7
and the Heritage Health dataset of 60,000 patients, where the sensitive attribute to be protected was the intersection of age and gender: the age-group (of 9 possible age-groups) the gender (Man / Woman)8
Sure enough, our results confirm that, in all three sets of learned representations, the concerned party’s choices for and control the approximations of unfairness and .
For all three datasets, we learn representations such that
C1 ≈ ϵ1 is satisfied and C2 ≈ ϵ2 is satisfied.
Our results also demonstrate that, compared to existing methods, our method can produce more expressive representations.
For a range of constraints ϵ2, our method (dark blue)
learns more expressive representations than existing methods (light blue).
And our method is able to take care of many notions of fairness simultaneously.
(higher is expressive)
(lower is fairer)
constraints < 10 < .1 < .1 < .1
our method 9.94 9.95 0.08 0.09 0.04
existing methods 9.34 9.39 0.09 0.10 0.07
When learning representations of the Adult dataset that satisfy many fairness constraints (on demographic parity, equality of odds, and equality of opportunity), our method learns representations that are more expressive and are better on all but one measure of fairness.
While these last two results may seem surprising, they occur because existing methods require the concerned party to run the learning process many times until they find representations they find roughly satisfying, while our method directly optimizes for the representations that are as expressive as possible while equally satisfying all of the concerned party’s limits on unfairness of the representations.
To complement fair machine learning models that corporations and governments can choose to use, this work takes a step towards putting control of fair machine learning in the hands of a party concerned with fairness, such as a data collector, community organizer, or regulatory body. We contribute a theoretical approach to learning fair representations that make it much more difficult for downstream machine learning models to discriminate, and we contribute a new method that allows the concerned party to control the fairness of the representations by requesting specific limits on unfairness, .
When working on fair machine learning, it is particularly important to acknowledge limitations and blind-spots; or we risk building toy solutions, while overshadowing others’ work towards equity. A major limitation of our work is that the concerned party’s limits an appoximation of unfairness, and we hope that future work can go further and map to formal guarantees about the fairness of downstream machine learning. Another potential limitation of this work is that we, like much of the fair machine learning community, center demographic parity, equality of odds, and equality of opportunity notions of fairness. We believe that future work will need to develop deeper connections to social-justice-informed notions of equity if it is to avoid shallow technosolutionism and build more equitable machine learning9.
This post is based on our AISTATS 2019 paper:
Jiaming Song*, Pratyusha Kalluri*, Aditya Grover, Shengjia Zhao, Stefano Ermon
Madras, David, Elliot Creager, Toniann Pitassi, and Richard Zemel. “Learning Adversarially Fair and Transferable Representations.” In ICML, 2018. ↩
For conciseness, we focus on demographic parity, a pretty intuitive and strict notion of fairness, but our approach works with many notions of fairness, as shown in our results. ↩
Zemel, Rich, Yu Wu, Kevin Swersky, Toni Pitassi, and Cynthia Dwork. “Learning Fair Representations.” In ICML, 2013. ↩
Edwards, Harrison, and Amos Storkey. “Censoring Representations with an Adversary.” In ICLR, 2015. ↩
Louizos, Christos, Kevin Swersky, Yujia Li, Max Welling, and Richard Zemel. “The Variational Fair Autoencoder.” In ICLR, 2016. ↩
Gender is not binary, and the treatment of gender as binary when using these datasets is problematic and a limitation of this work. ↩
For more on this, we strongly recommend reading “A People’s Guide to AI” by Mimi Onuoha and Mother Cyborg. Allied Media Projects. 2018. ↩
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First Edition Cycling News for January 1, 2005
Edited by Jeff Jones
Nine positives in Vuelta a Guatemala
In what is certainly the biggest doping case in the race's history, nine riders have allegedly tested positive in the 46th Vuelta a Guatemala, including the winner and the first four places on the general classification. The positives were mainly for EPO and testosterone, with four Guatemalan and five foreign riders implicated: Lizandro Ajc� (1st GC), Nery Vel�squez (9th GC), David Calanche (17th GC) and Abel Jochol� (all Gua), Noel V�squez (Ven, 2nd GC) and Yeisson Delgado (Ven, 7th GC), Carlos L�pez Gonz�lez (Mex, 3rd GC), Federico Mu�oz (Col, 4th GC), Jos� Reynaldo Murillo (ESA, 15th GC). The winner, Lizandro Ajc�, returned positive A samples for EPO on three separate occasions. He also recently and suddenly abandoned the Vuelta a Costa Rica.
None of the riders have admitted to taking banned substances. And as yet, no B sample analyses have been carried out, although it is not known how many of the riders will request them. If all are found guilty, the top part of the general classification will change radically, with Costa Rican Paulo Vargas (Pizza Hut) being elevated from fifth to first and the 18th placed rider, Jos� Migdael Zece�a (Caf� Quetzal), jumping up to 10th.
According to Guatemalan newspaper Prensa Libre, the news wasn't initially reported by the Guatemalan cycling federation. Instead, it came to light after the UCI informed the various other national federations of the positives. The Venezuelan federation has already confirmed the cases of Noel V�squez and Yeisson Delgado, and the Guatemalan federation, which claimed it was on holidays when the UCI communique was received, said that all the other riders had been contacted.
Wiggins and Hoy get gongs
British riders Bradley Wiggins and Chris Hoy have been included in Britain's New Year Honours list, being awarded an OBE and MBE respectively. Both riders were stars of the Athens Olympics, where Wiggins won a gold, silver and bronze medal and Hoy won gold in the kilometre time trial.
"This is a great honour and I am delighted to be recognised in this way," said Hoy on his website, www.chrishoy.com. "It has been a great year for me and for Track Cycling in Britain and this is the icing on the cake. The public recognition is much appreciated and helps with my motivation to strive for even more success in the Melbourne Commonwealth Games in 2006 and the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Thanks to everyone who has helped me on my way. I could not have done it alone."
Hoy is currently back to full time training and is preparing for the World Cup event in Manchester on 7-9 January and then the World Championships in Los Angeles at Easter.
Marco Polo Cycling Team to be launched in China
The Marco Polo Cycling Team, China's first professional cycling team, will be officially launched at a press conference in Zhuhai, South China, on January 2. The team is based upon an agreement between the Chinese Cycling Association and the World Wide Cycling Foundation (management Marco Polo Cycling Project), that runs from January 1, 2005 till December 31, 2008. The aim of the agreement is to develop the level of Chinese riders towards the international pro-level before the Olympic Games in Beijing.
The team will start this year with 12 riders, with a more to be added later this season. It's composed of an existing core of international riders: Mike Carter (USA), Jamsran Ulzii-Orshikh (Mgl), Robin Reid (NZl), Chi Yin Leung (HKg) and Maarten Tjallingii (Ned), with four new Chinese riders and three new internationals to be added: Tong Yu, Li Fuyu, Chengguang Yu, Gang Xu (all Chn), Rhys Pollock (Aus), Eddy Hollands (Aus), Rene Van Oord (Ned).
The international riders are to make the base of the team strong and bring experience and stability. The Chinese riders are in the team to learn and gain experience in international competition. The team's goals in 2005 will be a top ranking in the UCI Asia Tour for teams and have the Chinese riders gain experience in European pro-am racing.
The Marco Polo Cycling Team will be sponsored by Trek Bikes, Nestl� Pure Life, Craft, Volkswagen, Setpoint, JP Print, Vredestein, Lake, Tacx, Gazelle, Axley, Born Sportscare, Keywin, Nikon, Selle Italia, Pazzaz, Universal automation, Bontrager, Limar and Sigma Sport. Some of these companies are sponsoring the team, some the Marco Polo Cycling School training centre in The Netherlands and some both.
Team website: www.marcopolocycling.com
Japan aiming for Keirin glory in Manchester Track World Cup
- huge prize money on offer to trackies
A field of 28 riders from 15 nations has been invited to contest the Special Keirin, with Japan sending six of its top riders to this all-star event in Manchester, Great Britain on January 9, 2005. The race, sponsored by the Japan Keirin Association, is set to be one of the richest and most prestigious keirin races ever to be held outside Japan.
"All six of our riders are eager to do well against the world's top riders," said Japanese team manager Yujiro Shimizu commented. "We will be aiming for success in what is certain to be a spectacular event." Japan's specialist keirin riders rarely compete outside their own country, though the Manchester event, which carries a record £45,000 in prizes, is proving a strong attraction.
In recent years, non-Japanese riders have become expert in this sprint-type discipline. Leading exponents include world championship winners America's Marty Nothstein and Australia's Jobie Dajka, who will both be competing at Manchester. Nothstein, twice winner of the world keirin title, is looking forward to competing on the Manchester track, one of the fastest in the world.
"I will be racing the special invitation Keirin as well as the World Cup scratch and Madison," said Nothstein. "It is a very full programme of racing for me, but what better place to race than at Manchester."
Dajka, a product of the Australian Institute of Sport, is no stranger to Manchester, having won a Commonwealth sprint bronze there in 2002. Later that year, Adelaide-based Dajka went on to take the World Keirin title in Copenhagen. Also in 2003, he emerged from the Stuttgart World's with silver.
Current world champion Jamie Staff has been forced to withdraw from the Manchester line-up because of injury. He will be replaced by Olympic kilometre champion Chris Hoy. Although Hoy has concentrated on the kilo in recent years, his powerhouse style makes him a formidable keirin competitor.
Britain's trio is completed by World and Olympic team sprint medallist Craig MacLean and rising sprint star Ross Edgar.
Strong contenders for victory include Spain's Jose Antonio Escuredo, a keirin silver medallist in both the World Championships and Olympic Games in 2004. Ivan Vrba of the Czech Republic is another keirin star, taking a Worlds bronze in 2004, whilst Andriy Vyvnokurov, European Keirin Champion from the Ukraine, is perhaps the best of the young riders.
Partial start list
Takashi Kaneko, Kazuya Narita, Yusho Oikawa, Hiroshi Tsutsumi, Harutomo Watanabe and Yuji Yamamada (all Jpn), Mickael Bourgain (Fra), Rene Wolff and Jan Van Eijden (Ger), Theo Bos (Ned), Chris Hoy, Craig Maclean and Ross Edgar (all GBr), Jobie Dajka (Aus), Marty Nothstein (USA), Jose Antonio Escuredo (Spa), Ivan Vrba (Cze), Andriy Vyvnokurov (Ukr).
Race website: www.worldtrackcycling.com
Evans to ride Bay series
One of Australia's top cyclists, Cadel Evans, is a last minute inclusion in the Jayco Bay Cycling Classic. The reining Commonwealth Games time trial champion and runner up in the road race will lead the young UNO Clothing team.
"I felt I needed a bit of racing to get me ready for the National title and the Tour Down Under," Evans said. "I always enjoy myself at the Bay series and it is a great event to get yourself some good form. The criteriums are as fast as any race I have ridden anywhere in the world and it will be a perfect top up to the long rides I am presently doing. Plus it will be good to catch up with my new teammates."
Evans has recently signed up with Belgian ProTour team Davitamon-Lotto, alongside fellow Aussies Robbie McEwen, Nick Gates and Henk Vogels. With former top-line pro Allan Peiper taking a job as Sports Director, it has become a decidedly Australian affair.
Evans had a topsy turvy year in 2004. After a disastrous 2003 where he broke his collarbone an incredible three times, Evans started to show glimpses of the form that had many picking him for a podium finish in the Tour de France.
After winning the Tour of Austria for a second time, Evans was surprisingly left out of the T-Mobile team for the Tour de France. Then in a double blow he was not selected in the Australian team for Athens. Although Evans prefers not to discuss the setback, many find it hard to believe he didn't warrant selection for either event.
"That is water under bridge now and I just want to concentrate on the year ahead," Evans said.
There won't be any doubts about Evans riding his first Tour de France in 2005. Although his new team will be very focused on Robbie McEwen defending his green jersey and getting him to the front in the hectic stage finishes, the team has picked Cadel to be their number one rider for the overall classification.
Race website: www.jaycobayclassic.com.au
Three legends confirmed for JCTDU dinner
Australian cycling champions Stuart O'Grady, Graeme Brown and Michael Rogers will feature as guests at the 2005 Jacob's Creek Tour Down Under Legends Night Dinner, which will be held on Saturday, January 22 at 7:00pm in the Adelaide Hilton's Grand Ballroom (Level 1). The Legends Night Dinner will acknowledge, celebrate and allow fans to ask questions from the floor of their cycling heroes, including Tour de France race director Jean-Marie LeBlanc.
It will be the first time Stuart O'Grady and Graeme Brown will be interviewed on stage together since their Athens Olympic victory win of a Gold Medal in the cycling Madison. Coupled with Michael Rogers, the current World Time Trial Champion, this will make for a big night of cycling.
Limited seats are available and can be booked by calling Sally Heading on +61 (0)8 8463 4701.
Race website: www.tourdownunder.com.au
Rolling into the new year
Graeme Brown
Photo ©: CN
At the Tasmanian Christmas Carnivals, dual Olympic gold medallist Graeme Brown is one of the star riders and has been putting on a good show for the crowds. Shown here at the Devonport Carnival, 'Brownie' was already into the swing for 2005 by cruising around on a new Colnago C-50. He hastened to add his official team bike will be provided with Campagnolo components, unlike the Dura-Ace on the model provided by the Australian distributor, Excelpro.
He's looking forward to sprinting into the new year with Ceramiche-Panaria on his new mount, where he will be in action at the Jacob's Creek Tour Down Under, then the steamy Tour de Langkawi in Malaysia, before heading over to the cooler climate of Italy to commence the new season.
The Australian has been in good form at the Carnivals, both on and off the bike, although he's still hungry for more wins and at the time of writing, one of the high-value 'wheelraces' had eluded him, narrowly missing out in Launceston to American Jame Carney.
For all the reports, results and photos from the Carnivals, see our special section.
SCAT International Rider Award update
By Rod Morris
Any one of 12 riders remain in contention to win the inaugural Sports Carnivals Association of Tasmania - Malaysia Airlines International Award with only the Burnie New Year's Day Carnival to determine the end result. The inaugural award carries a return a trip to Europe for the eventual winner and Nook cyclist Belinda Goss, who is now based in Melbourne, will take a slender 3-point lead into Burnie.
All open age riders are eligible for the award, with nominated races offering a 5-3-1 points system. Goss has amassed 25 points from the Latrobe, Launceston and Devonport carnivals, including three wins, three seconds and a third and leads from dual gold medal Olympian Graeme Brown.
Sister-brother act, Carrie and Ben Price from Ulverstone are third and fourth respectively, while newly crowned Devonport Wheel winner Ben Kersten jumped into fifth place on Thursday with 15 points, after winning the 1000 m Lightning Handicap and A Grade Scratch on the first night of the Devonport Carnival. Unfortunately Kersten is the only one of the top 13 riders who cannot win the award, as he has returned to NSW for his brother Josh's wedding.
SCAT and Malaysia Airlines are also offering one lucky patron at the carnivals to win two return air fares to any of its European destinations. All patrons have to do is fill out a coupon and place it in the box provided. The winner will be drawn at tonight's Burnie New Year's Day Carnival.
SCAT - Malaysia Airlines International Rider Award standings
1 Belinda Goss (Tas) 25
2 Graeme Brown (NSW) 22
3 Carrie Price (Tas) 19
4 Ben Price (Tas) 17
5 Ben Kersten (NSW) 15
6 Sarah Eaves (Tas) 14
7 Ben Laskey (Tas) 14
8 Liz Williams (NZ) 14
9 Rochelle Gilmore (NSW) 13
10 Darren Young (Tas) 12
11 Aaron Salisbury (Vic) 11
12 Louise Yaxley (Tas) 11
13 Tommy Nankervis (Vic) 10
TV coverage on Cycling Central
The 2004-05 Basslink Tasmanian Christmas Carnivals Series will be featured on this Sunday's (January 2) edition of Cycling Central on SBS television, which screens at 11:30am and is repeated the following Tuesday at 3:30pm. SBS cycling host Michael Tomalaris was in Tasmania earlier this week to watch the Tasmanian carnivals as well as the third annual Launceston Criterium. Due to time constraints, the second night of the Devonport Carnival and the Burnie New Year's Day Carnival will be featured on the following week's edition of Cycling Central.
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Tag Archives: Egypt
Donald Trump, Economics, Egypt, Immigration, Persian Gulf
Game of Musical Pockets Between the Trumps and Gulf Princes, Fuzzy iPhone Math and Immigration…..
September 11, 2018 Mohammed Haider Ghuloum
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Some Arab media have recently quoted an Israeli source that First Son-In-Law Jared Kushner and some Trump associate and lawyer named Jason Greenblatt are using several allied Persian Gulf leaders and potentates as ATM cash machines. For their own financial advantage.
Previously, some media had quoted certain Persian Gulf princes & potentates as claiming that in fact it is they who have Kushner in their deep pocket.
Others had previously also quoted Kushner that the said Gulf princes are in his own pocket of questionable depth….
A bit confusing, this game of pockets, both deep and not so deep, no?
I saw some interesting figures put out by Spectator Index that:
It takes earnings of 133.3 average working days in Cairo (Egypt) to buy one iPhone X.
It takes earnings of 4.7 average working days in Zurich (Switzerland) to buy one iPhone.
Truly unfuzzy economic math that partly explains the recent westward and northward immigration surge. If you leave Cairo and go work in Zurich instead, you can buy 28.4 iPhones instead of only one, if you work for 133.3 days. And it can only get worse for the foreseeable future, unless Generalissimo Field Marshal Al Sisi and his ruling military Junta can perform a miracle.
On a lighter yet potentially more serious more ominous note: President Donald Trump was quoted today about Hurricane Florence that “it’s tremendously big and tremendously wet”
No doubt, ‘tremendously wet‘ is a higher category than merely ‘bigly wet’.
Mohammed Haider Ghuloum
EconomicsEgyptImmigrationKushnerPersian Gulf
Al Sisi, Arab Counterrevoltion, Egypt, Human Right
Egypt On the Rocks under Sisi: the Thrill is Gone, but Princes and Jihadis Both Love Him…..
August 11, 2017 Mohammed Haider Ghuloum
“Alexandria crash: One of the trains was traveling from Cairo,the other was heading from Port Said, et voila!……..”
A train crashed, again, near Alexandria Egypt just this week. Tens were killed, over a hundred wounded. Not the first one, will not be the last one.
A jetliner full of European and other tourists is blown up by terrorists over Sinai after take-off from a resort. Clearly an insider job at the Egyptian airport. All on board die.
Residential buildings collapse in Cairo neighborhood. Tens die, many more wounded. Not the first time, nor the last time.
Terrorism activity has spread from the lawless Sinai Peninsula to Cairo and rural southern Egypt. Coptic Churches, security forces, and soldiers represent popular targets for the Wahhabi Jihadis.
Civilian protesters are called “terrorists” and tried in military courts, illogical but maybe that is why it is has now become a habit among some Arab regimes from Egypt to Bahrain. If you protest or tweet, you are a terrorist.
People, mostly young people of both sexes, vanish without a trace.
And so the beat goes on……
There are discredited rumors that Supreme Leader Generalissimo Al Sisi has offered to commit Hara-Kiri, also known as Seppuku, but nobody dares wield the ceremonial sword and swing it at the neck. Besides, more credible rumors also abound that several princes and potentates from the Persian Gulf are offering him a few more billions of rice (Egyptian for dollar) to remain alive and well and in power.
Besides, the Jihadi terrorists also love for him to stay, although they can’t afford to pay him for it. Egypt has never been such fertile ground for terrorism as she is now…..
Even Donald Trump seems enthusiastic for him to stay and keep the military regime in power. They did, after all share a large strange white ball of magic with the king of Saudi Arabia last May.
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Arab Politics, Egypt, GCC, Gulf states, Qatar
Egypt and GCC Bubble Gum Policy: Al Sisi Ups His Price to Gulf Potentates…….
July 24, 2017 Mohammed Haider Ghuloum
Generalissimo Field Marshal Al Sisi of Egypt had a bunch of top Persian Gulf potentates, money bags, in Cairo this past week. He was making a speech, during which he said
“You in tiny countries, Egypt is huge. In ne day, Egyptians eat worth as much as some of you eat in one year. If you can’t spend $100 billion a year on Egypt, if you can’t spend enough money on Egypt, then stay out. Then don’t interfere in Egypt if you can’t afford it …….”
This is the speech. The Gulf potentates who were present there in Cairo laughed. Especially the leader of the UAE.
Qatar was not there, which suggests the laughter was supposed to mean Sisi’s barb was aimed at Qatar, since those potentates present laughed. Yet Sisi could also be sending a message to the other (anti-Qatar) Gulf princes and potentates. The comment also applies to ALL GCC countries, and at least two of them interfere in Egypt, or try to. They financed street agitation in 2013, and the Al Sisi military coup against the elected president Morsi (Muslim Brotherhood), who was at the time receiving billions of aid from Qatar.
Of course one of those present, the tiny Empire of Bahrain, can’t even afford to supply Egypt with enough bubble gum for one day, but it has been interfering in Egypt since 2012, along with the rest of them….
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Africa, Arab Politics, Arabian Peninsula, Egypt, GCC, Kuwait, MENA, Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia
The GCC Game of Musical Alliances: from the Gulf through Africa and Beyond………
December 20, 2016 Mohammed Haider Ghuloum
Something strange has been going on recently among member countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council.
They had their summit in Manama a couple of weeks ago, which ended with nothing spectacular to announce. The Salafis of the Persian-American Gulf and the usual Bahrain potentates (both fiercely Saudi proxies) have tried, again, to create some excitement about a possible “union” based on the European model. But it would be a union of ruling families, not based on the popular will, since Kuwait is the only GCC country that has free popular elections. But Kuwait has the misfortune of being stuck between three large and menacing neighboring countries: Iraq, Iran, and Saudi Arabia (the country was invaded by both Iraq and Saudi Arabia in the last century).
The idea of a Gulf union was a no-go, and DOA at the summit: it was not even discussed publicly. Some others within the GCC saw it as a way to formalize a fearsome Saudi attempt at hegemony. They/we all know how the Saudi Kingdom was formed during the last century by swallowing smaller neighboring emirates in the Arabian Peninsula.
After the summit, Saudi King Salman visited every member country except for Oman. Certainly because Oman is the least likely member to follow Saudi policies and wishes. It is odd for the ruler of a member of GCC to start visiting other member states immediately after the summit ends. Why not meet them individually during the summit? They apparently want to send a message to other members and to some Arab counties.
Soon after all that, a Saudi delegation last week visited Ethiopia, a country with which Egypt has serious disputes over the Nile waters. The delegation also pointedly visited a new Ethiopian dam that Egypt claims seriously reduces its share of the Nile waters. That visit created an uproar within Arab media and social media.
But wait, that is not all, there is more (as the TV ads say)…..
Now there is an announcement that the foreign minister of Qatar is visiting, you guessed it, landlocked Ethiopia. Almost certainly just to bother the hell out of the Egyptians.
Both Saudi Arabia and Qatar (and Turkey as well) have just suffered an immense strategic defeat in Syria, when their Jihadist surrogates were forced out of the eastern part of Aleppo. Egypt has been moving towards siding with the Assad regime (and hence by association with Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, and Russia) in the Syrian war. This has clearly angered some of the Gulf allies who either support the Jihadis in Syria or need to show that they do so for domestic political reasons.
That leaves out the UAE, the third major partner in the Saudi regional alliance. The UAE shares one very important thing with the current government of Egypt: they both hate and fear the Muslim Brotherhood. Meanwhile Qatar is practically a Muslim Brotherhood monarchy (and so close to the Turkish Islamist regime that they have agreed to have a Turkish military base in their country). The Saudis have warmed up to the Brotherhood recently because they are their allies in the Yemen War (through the corrupt Islah Party).
These are fascinating developments that are now unfolding in the Middle East.
As I said: wait, there will be more, and soon. The GCC states, especially Saudi Arabia, have been playing a game of “musical alliances’ in recent years. Since 2011 they have allied on and off with Jordan, Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, Eritrea, Djibouti, Mauritania, Sudan, and now Ethiopia, among others. A list of mainly countries with deep economic problems. And the game of Musical Alliances goes on.
As I said: but wait, there will be more, and soon………..
M Haider Ghuloum
AfricaEgyptEthiopiaGCCKuwaitOmanSaudi Arabia
Arab Politics, Arab Revolutions, Egypt, GCC, Saudi Arabia, Syria
Middle East Sands Shift Again in the Mayhem of Post-Post-Arab-Uprisings……
October 20, 2016 Mohammed Haider Ghuloum
In the beginning there were the Arab uprisings……
The era of the Arab Uprisings is over. The era of Post Arab Uprisings is over. Now the Middle East is going through the era of Post-Post Arab Uprisings.
The Arab convulsions that started at the end of 2010 were initially expected to usher in a new era of revolution against the stagnant order. That hope quickly shifted as the newly-anointed Arab Center of Power, represented by Persian Gulf oil wealth and Gulf Wahhabi-Salafi ideology basically took over the Arab League and its institutions. Or so it seemed.
But a few unseemly things happened on the way to the royal takeover of the Arab World.
The initial Syrian uprising of 2011, which had been taken over by Gulf-backed Salafi and Muslim Brotherhood Jihadists, stalled. Having been hijacked by essentially agents of even more repressive Arab regimes, it veered into the darkest realm of sectarian and confessional divisiveness, a normal Wahhabi inclination. Foreign intervention has made a solution even more difficult. But the military situation has now decidedly shifted in favor of the Damascus regime and its allies.
In Bahrain, the regime cracked down hard on the uprising of 2011, ‘invited’ Saudi and UAE forces to help its repression, and turned to the old divide and rule policy by going sectarian. That country is still very unstable, heavily dependent on foreign Arab forces and foreign mercenaries to keep order.
In Yemen, the GCC and the UN arranged for dictator Colonel Ali Abdallah Saleh to leave office. But they chose his deputy, another general named Abd Rabuh Mansour Hadi to be “elected” with 99.8% of the vote. Even Kim Jong Un does not get that kind of victory. Hadi was quickly co-opted by corrupt military and tribal forces, along with a very corrupt local version of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Eventually Hadi was overthrown by a rebellion of the tough northern Houthis and elements of the old Yemeni army. He was basically allowed to escape (reportedly dressed as a woman in Burqa).
As the Houthi alliance expanded south into Aden, Hadi (who had resigned AND his term had expired) and his henchmen escaped to Saudi Arabia. The Saudis made the same mistake they had made before, they tried to invade Yemen with a force of hired African and Arab mercenaries. It is now a quagmire, helped by the Obama Administration which arms and refuels the Saudi bombers that commit what is essentially a murderous genocide.
In Libya, the dreams of American and European liberals and conservatives alike were shattered by the aftermath of the overthrow, torture, and murder of Gaddafi and his son. The Western powers had engineered a UN resolution past Russia and China that had wordings that created a loophole for NATO to bomb Gaddafi’s Libya. All based on false claims by opposition rebels. Russia and China have not forgotten that Western deception at the UN, and they are unlikely to vote along the same lines again. Libya itself is now a smaller version of Syria.
The biggest prize as usual was Egypt. After one year of elected Muslim Brotherhood rule, a couple of Gulf states ‘financed’ a series of huge opposition protests and eventually a military coup. Shades of the CIA Operation Ajax in Iran, circa 1953. Egypt was to become basically a satrapy of the Saudi and Emirati potentates, rich but uncultured tribal despots. An absurd notion to anybody who knows anything about ancient Middle East history.
Now Egypt is reported to have swung another way. A media war is raging between Egypt and her presumed Gulf sisterly (or brotherly) bosses, and regional policies are shifting. From Yemen to Syria to Iran, possibly even to the Gulf, Egypt is seeking new alliances and restoration of old ties in the face of a Wahhabi blackmail.
The Egyptian-Saudi dispute has gotten so serious that former Yemeni officials, all Saudi agents who urge the bombing of their country from their comfortable Saudi exile, now are accusing Egypt of supplying the Houthi rulers of Sanaa with missiles.
Other Gulf media mouthpieces have accused neutral Oman of expediting the transfer of Iranian weapons to the Houthis. These are certainly attempts to justify the miserable failure of the expensively-armed and Western-guided but incompetent Saudi and UAE forces to win the war in Yemen.
Another major twist, but it is not over. Stay tuned…..
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Arab Politics, Cairo, Egypt, MENA, Saudi Arabia, Syria
Egypt and Her Sisters: Al Sisi and Syria and the Indian Givers of Riyadh………
Only a few months ago Saudi King Salman visited Cairo to inspect “his newest acquisition”. Or so jubilant Salafis and opinion-ators in Saudi and Gulf media screamed. Many fell for it. Even an astute person like myself, born and raised amidst the sandstorms and the annual locust invasions and under the loving truly burning sun of the (Persian) Gulf. But I did express some doubt.
At that time Saudi media claimed the King had a ‘pleasant’ surprise for the Egyptian people. It turned out that surprise was anything but pleasant. It was the draft of an agreement that cedes two Red Sea islands, Tiran and Sanafir in the Gulf of Aqaba, to the Saudis. The people of Egypt, with the exception of Saudi-financed Salafis, were furious at the Sisi regime. Other Arabs were also skeptic, except for the Salafi-Tribal types of the Gulf region. The whole thing backfired on the Cairo regime. Now the islands issue looks unresolved.
Then there is Syria. The Saudi-Qatari-Turkish axis, although frayed by now, has been consistent in its resolve to help replace the secular Assad regime with an Islamist-Jihadist one. More recently the Turks have given in to American pressure and tightened border controls a bit. They have also developed some focused worries about Syrian Kurds and their drive for autonomy. The Egyptian regime has been skeptic of the Saudi-Turkish position on Syria. Now they are openly so, as reflected in their latest UN Security Council vote on Syria.
The Saudi ruling elites are not very subtle or classy about showing their displeasure. They can be called “Indian Givers”, a politically incorrect term now here, I know, but succinctly describes them. Now they have retaliated by cutting off the billions of promised aid, starting with oil shipments. Reports claim Kuwait has stepped in to replace the promised Saudi oil shipments to Cairo. Their is a media war brewing between the two countries.
But it is not realistic to expect an ancient country like Egypt to remain long subservient to a bunch of tribal oligarchs in Riyadh
Saudi foreign minister Adel Al Jubeir used to go around the world asserting that the Syrian Assad regime will go, peacefully or by military means. Tough words for a Saudi minister whose well-armed country has been losing a war to the lightly-armed tribal Houthis of Yemen and their allies. For a few weeks Mr. Al Jubeir was silenced, by order. Now he is back, again threatening that his country is considering arming “moderate” Syrian rebels. Moderate by Wahhabi standards, no doubt.
That requires agreement by Washington which supplies most of the Saudi weapons in question.
And that is where the sisterly, or is it brotherly, relations stand now.
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Arab Politics, Egypt, France, GCC, Russia, Weapons deals
France Ships Vladivostok to Egypt: How the Saudis Financed Gamal Abdel Nasser….
June 21, 2016 Mohammed Haider Ghuloum
There was once a huge French-made naval vessel: a huge helicopter carrier of the Mistral class. It was ordered from France by Russia in 2011, but with Russia producing a large portion of it.
Then the Ukraine crisis occurred and the West initiated a boycott of Russia. France under pressure decided not to deliver the Mistral, to be named The Vladivostok, to Russia as scheduled in late 2015.
It had a bit of a problem finding a home, a paying home, meaning somebody to pay for it more than Euro 1.2 billion.
It looks like now the Saudis (and very likely their Emirati rivals) have paid for it to be sent to Egypt. Who else, since the Egyptian economy is in no position to buy rice.
So the princes and potentates on the Gulf have financed a new Egyptian battleship named after their toughest historic rival, the secular leftist strongman who sought to overthrow their regime. Another irony of modern Arab history…..
But who will Egypt be fighting in the near future in the Mediterranean or Red Sea that it keeps buying so many weapons with Gulf money (or plentiful Gulf “rice” according to Al Sisi)?
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Egypt, GCC, Iran, Persian Gulf, UAE, United Arab Emirates
Islands Afloat: Lebensraum from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea……..
April 11, 2016 Mohammed Haider Ghuloum
Speaking of Al Sisi selling two strategic Egyptian islands in the Red Sea to the Saudi ruling family (my previous post).
I must add that Generalissimo Field Marshal President Al Sisi got a better deal, financially speaking, than the potentates of what is now the UAE did a few decades ago. Rather better than some rulers of the Gulf (emirates) Sheikhdoms in 1970. At that time, many of the smaller sheikhdoms of what was called Sahel Oman (Omani Coast) on the Persian Gulf had no oil fields, and they needed cash. They usually sold colorful stamps, passports, as well as their share of the rights to some of the islands in the Persian Gulf.
That was before the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was created to join all these small tribal neighborhoods. Through a deal brokered by the British overlords of the Arab side of the Gulf, the Shah of Iran paid a few million dollars for the deal to “get the islands back”, according to the Iranians. The islands are near the Strait of Hormuz. Actually the agreement was for “joint administration” of Abu Moussa. The Iranians claim the British took the islands in 1921 and put them under the jurisdiction of the sheikh of Sharjah, which was part of the British Empire. They also claim the Qasismi ruling sheikhs were at one time living on the Persian shores of the Gulf, and hence were Iranian subjects.Another convoluted complication.
Now the UAE leaders, who were not part to the deal since the UAE did not exist in 1970, would like to re-purchase the islands from Iran. Not sure why they want the islands since they have had to import 6 million foreigners to populate their own country on the mainland. It is not like they need Lebensraum.
In short: both sides in the Gulf are using any argument, whether it makes sense or not to support its case. Nobody seems in a mood to share the islands anymore: that would be too sensible for the Middle East mindset. History has been telling us this for at least 70 years.
Anyway, all this is history, but some sheikhs in the smaller Emirates of the UAE are now kicking themselves for not knowing at the time that they had so much oil under their privies and outhouses. Right under where their pet goats dropped their pellets. (FYI: I had pet goats as a kid, as well as pet birds. We also had chickens but I ate my pet eggs whenever I could).
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Arab Revolutions, Bahrain, Egypt
Inspiring Pearl Square became an Uninspiring GCC Square, Could Tahrir become Salman Square?……
When the Bahrain uprising was frustrated with help from foreign mercenaries and Saudi forces, the ruling family decided to erase the memory of it. Or so they thought. The heart and symbol of the February 14, 2011 uprising was renamed from Pearl Square to GCC Square (actually renamed Al Farooq Square, a sort of historical slap at the Shi’as). Its structure was also changed so that people cannot gather in it anymore.
Now to Egypt: the historic true mother of the Arab world. General Al Sisi has agreed to sell two strategic islands in the Red Sea to the Saudi ruling family. Basically the sisterly (or brotherly) Saudis caught him at a tough time for the Egyptian economy. The islands were sold for an unspecified billions of dollars in aid and loans. That is apparently the Sisi plan to revive the Egyptian economy: borrow and beg dollars from the Saudis (and some from the UAE Emirates who suffer from severe Muslim Brotherhood Phobia). Egyptians on the street are outraged, but Sisi pretends he is deaf.
Is it possible that the Egyptian military will imitate the Baharin rulers and change Tahrir Square to, say, King Salman Square? That should lead the millions of Egyptians back to the “square’, I would think.
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Arab Politics, Arab Revolutions, Espionage, تخابر
Takhabur: a New Orwellian Post-Uprising Arab Weapon of Terror………
March 20, 2016 Mohammed Haider Ghuloum
An old new term has been adopted by Arab regimes to terrify, silence, and punish dissidents and opponents. It is one more weapons in their arsenal, to be added to prison, execution, and internal exile (banning from leaving the country) and others. A simple Arabic word now being used inside the Middle East’s kingdoms and republics of fear.
I posted about this in 2014. It has gotten worse since. The term Takhabur and its multiple threats has been exported from Egypt to the Persian Gulf region, where the oligarchs have adopted it eagerly and don’t hesitate to use it. My old post:
“One headline I saw yesterday: “Muslim brothers caught with ‘certificates’ of Takhabur (تخابُر) with Hamas”. (تخابُر is a broad Arabic word that can have any of several connotations: communicating with; contacting; or exchanging information).
‘Certificates of Takahbur‘: imagine how far you can go in telling your people how stupid you believe they are, maybe not in so many words. This “Takhabur” in Arabic is a recent twist of the term that Arab regimes (and their controlled media) have been using against their foes and against those they don’t like or suspect.
Takhabur: “communicating, exchanging news or information but also perhaps ideas” or “talking to”. You can get arrested for takhabur with The Onion magazine or with Mad Magazine or with the CIA or the Mossad or Dhahi Khalfan, even with your next door neighbor, if they want to get you.
Anyway, they twist things to make the word sound so sinister in a way that some regimes can do with impunity. The Egyptian military regime has even brought the charge of “takhabur” against president Morsi, and he was the president of the country! He was supposed to do “takhabur” with leaders and countries, just like any other head of state! Imagine how much ‘takhabur‘ Generalisimo Field Marshal Al Sisi is doing now with oily princes and potentates? How else could he do his job?
Now they are piling on Caliph Erdogan of Turkey, but that is okay: the Turkish Caliph ensconced in his billion-dollar palace deserves it. Suddenly the Egyptians are strongly pro-Greek on the Cyprus issue and on any other issues that come to their mind. They might even award ancient Troy to the Greeks, again. The Greeks must be amused.
Takhabur. A simple Arabic word has acquired terrifying connotations and meanings in the hands of Arab depots and potentates and their security agents and kangaroo courts. Journalists, former officials, dissidents, and doubters can spend many years in prison because of that word. From the Persian Gulf to the stagnant Nile, from Manama to Cairo, the regimes are using it to get you.
Remember the word: takhabur. Other non-Arab regimes in the Middle East (Iran, Turkey, Kurds, maybe Israel?) also use their own version of it to intimidate, but it sounds so pregnant with meanings and connotations in the Arabic language. So threatening on multiple levels. “
Takahbur: it is the greatest invention by Arab regimes and their controlled media minions since the failed uprisings of 2011. It is a simple word that has been twisted and now used to strike fear and to send people to prison and torture and even death.
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The following time line was gleaned from two wonderful websites: Dos.myflorida.com and Floridamemory.com
1513 – Juan Ponce de León and his expedition were the first documented Europeans to arrive in Florida. He landed near present-day St. Augustine. Ponce de León named the land “Florida” as the season was “Pascua Florida” (Flowery Easter).
Research indicates Spain had no true national flag in 1513, when Juan Ponce de León landed on Florida shores, but the Castle and Lion flag of the King was recognized as the flag of the country.
1521 – Ponce de León returns to Florida in search of gold. Ponce de León is killed in South Florida.
1527 – Pánfilo de Narváez leads a second expedition into Florida.
1539 – Hernando De Soto landed in Florida with an 800-man expedition.
1540’s – European diseases decimate Florida’s native peoples. Within a century 90% had died.
1559 – Tristán de Luna y Arellano, with 1500 colonists, attempted Florida’s first settlement, Puerto de Santa Maria (today’s Pensacola Naval Air Station.) It was not successful.
1562 – Jean Ribault, France explores northeast Florida
1564– France establishes Fort Caroline
FIRST SPANISH PERIOD 1565 – 1763
The Burgundian saltire, or Cross of Burgundy, represented Spanish rule in Florida from 1565 to 1763. The red cross symbolized the rough branches of the trees on which Saint Andrew, the patron saint of Burgundy, was crucified. The flag was introduced into Spain by Philip I, Duke of Burgundy, and was later established as one of the country’s banners by his son Charles I, in 1516.
1565 – Establishment of St. Augustine, first permanent European settlement in North America, located within Timucua territory. Spanish expel the French.
1560’s-1590’s – Spanish friars spread Christianity throughout the southeast
1672-1695 – Castillo de San Marcos built by Spanish in St. Augustine, using native and slave labor
1740 – British general, James Oglethorpe, invades St. Augustine
BRITISH PERIOD, 1763 – 1783
The red Cross of St. George, the patron saint of England, was the major element of the British flag. In combination with the white Scottish Cross of St. Andrew, it formed the Union flag. This flag flew over Florida from 1763 until 1784.
1763 – French and Indian (Seven Years War) results in the transfer of Florida from Spain to England. Division of Florida into East and West Florida. The British colonists expand Florida agriculture, especially cotton, rice, and indigo. St. Augustine remains the capital of East Florida, with Pensacola the capital of West Florida. James Grant is appointed Governor of British Florida.
1760’s – Native peoples from Georgia and Alabama, many of them members of the Creek peoples, move into Florida. They become known as the Seminoles from the Spanish word cimarron, meaning “outsiders” or “runaways.”
1776 – American Revolution begins. Florida remained loyal to England. Its previously sparse population swelled overnight as Tories escaped to Florida, mostly settling in St. Augustine.
1783 – Treaty of Paris ends the American Revolution. Spain reoccupies Florida.
SECOND SPANISH PERIOD, 1783 – 1821
Charles III created this Spanish national flag in 1785. It flew over Florida until the United States took official possession of the territory in 1821.
1816 – Andrew Jackson invades Florida in pursuit of Seminole Indians. Start of the First Seminole War.
1819-1821 – Florida transferred to the United States under the Adams–Onís treaty.
TERRITORIAL FLORIDA 1821-1845
The flag of the United States had twenty-three stars when the Treaty with Spain, ceding Florida, was ratified and proclaimed on February 22, 1821.
1835 – Beginning of the Second Seminole War
1842 – Second Seminole War ended by U.S. Government decision
1845 – The Act establishing statehood for Florida approved on March 3, 1845 by the second session of the 28th Congress.
Upon admission Florida as the twenty-seventh state on March 3, 1845. By law, new stars were added to the national flag on the fourth of July following the admission of each new state, so a twenty-seventh star was added for Florida on July 4, 1845.
Constitution of the Republic of East Florida
The Archives has developed an index to American and British papers which mention Florida in colonial times (1756-1819).
Dr. Schaefer’s British Land Grants online presentation.
Books at the Archives
Colonial Records of Spanish Florida 1577 – 1589 Vol II, by Jeannette Thurber Connor
Florida Under Five Flags, by Patrick Morris
Governor James Grant’s Villa, British A British East Fla. Indigo Plantation
William Bartram and the Ghost Plantations of Florida, by Daniel Schafer
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Boza and salep are traditional drinks with specific, familiar flavors. They do not require expensive advertisements and advertising agencies. Their customers are regular, and can’t wait for wintertime to come, especially in the Balkan countries.
Fans of traditional flavors eagerly wait for the winter to be able to enjoy the tastes of seasonal drinks such as boza and salep. Although they are slowly giving way to new, popular drinks, Balkan nostalgia for traditional products continues. In Istanbul it is “Vefa”, in Ankara “Akman”, in Skopje “Apce”and “Seherezada”, in Athens, in Paleo Faliro quart you’ll find the places where you are free to come round and enjoy the irresistible and nutritious taste of boza and salep. Balkon3 offers you a closer look into these old drinks, old flavors that recall ancient times.
Boza, a cure for nervousness
Boza is believed to date back several thousand years ago. According to some research, it was transferred from Central Asia to Anadolia and its surroundings, with the help of nomads. Its current name comes from the Persian word ‘buze’, which means a drink made from rice and millet.
In Turkey, the tradition of making boza started long ago, to be more precise in 1876, in the specialised stores “Vefa”, opened by Haji Sadiq. In a short while it became a recognizable brand across Turkey. It is located in the municipality of Eminonu, Vefa district. If you talk to older Istanbul residents they have stories to tell you about boza street vendors moving up and down the alleys of the metreopolis.
Boza went up and down the streets until 15-20 years ago, in the cold nights, singing a variety of songs, chanting “boza” “bozaaa”. Gradually, with the replacement of old wooden houses with tall buildings, a growing clamor in the streets was caused by the products of modern technology, so people could no longer hear the call of boza sellers. And that is how they disappeared.
Famous “Akman” brand, is typical for Macedonia. The owners are immigrants of Albanian origin, Muharrem and Vahap, the Akman brothers. The first boza store opened back in 1936.
In Macedonia, a good glass of boza has been connected with the cake shop “Apce” in Debar Maalo, Skopje, near the Universal Music Hall. It was opened in 1934 by Isman Kadri. Because of the good boza people often used to say that it is the cure for all diseases. In 1940 he renamed the cake shop “Apce” (a pill), and it is still called so.
You may be surprised, but in Greece boza is not actually very popular. In Athens it can only be found in specialized bars, and traditionally in Paleo Faliro quart, which is actually a suburb south of Athens. There lives a big community which moved from Istanbul in the 1960s onwards. There are specialised boza shops and restaurants. It should be noted that boza is not advertised enough, so if you want to find a drink you will have to look for it and ask for it, but at least the locals here know and enjoy drinking boza. It is the same situation in northern Greece with one exception. Thessaloniki has a specialized confectionery named “Hatzis”, founded in 1908, when its owner came from Kosovo and started to producee boza in Thessaloniki. Now the family of Hatzis has opened several restaurants in Athens, but the prices are too high. Nevertheless, boza is not advertised, and no attempts are being made to popularize it, though it can be found in local restaurants.
Salep, on the other hand, succumbed to the attacks of the tea-coffee duo. Nowadays, in Skopje, you can try it only in the oldest sweets shops and tea houses in the Old Bazaar.
Salep began to be used as a drink in the 17th century, until then it was used as medicine with various spices and pink water added to it. In the 18th and 19th centuries it was sweetened with jam, honey or sugar, with ginger or cinnamon on top.
In medieval Europe during the long oversea journeys, salep was often found stored in ships’ warehouses, because of its nutritious values. The first salep shop in England was opened in the first half of the 18th century. Believe it or not, in the middle of the 18th century, especially in England and France, salep was consumed in shops and restaurants in the morning.
Drinking salep is considered one of the oldest customs in Athens. It is a winter drink that softens the throat and keeps you warm. It can be found in the city center in street vendors, on the squares, in grocery stores and it is usually consumed early in the morning. Some traditional, old fashioned bars sell salep in the street and the Hatzis family have recently started selling it as a takeaway drink.
Homemade boza
3 cups bulgur
2 cups rice
1 cup old boza or yeast the size of a match box
Bulgur is left in water over night. The next day, boil bulgur and rice until well softened. Mix it with electric mixer, then you need to sift it through a sieve. Boil the mixture at low heat, add the sugar and stir until it melts. Then remove it from the fire and allow it to cool, stirring it from time to time. After it is cooled add the old boza or yeast which you have previously melted in hot water. Mix it well, put the mixture in a well closed container for 2-3 days at a temperature of 20-25˚C, whit occasional mixing. Once bubbles start to appear it is considered that the mixture is ready. Cool it and serve it with chickpeas or cinnamon on top.
Homemade salep
2 ½ tablespoons powdered sugar
½ half teaspoon powdered salep
Pour salep and sugar into a pot, mix them well, add milk and boil at low heat for about 10 – 15 minutes until it gets dense. Pour it in cups or glasses and sprinkle with cinnamon.
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Zum Einfluss der öffentlichen Meinung auf Entscheidungen des Bundesverfassungsgerichts
On the Influence of Public Opinion on decisions of the Federal Constitutional Court.
An Analysis of Abstract Judicial Reviews and Federal State Disputes 1974 – 2010
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Is the Federal Constitutional Court, as often depicted, a mostly independent actor in the German political system? The present analysis shows for the first time to what extent public opinion has a systematic influence on the decisions of the Constitutional Court. Our evidence is based on the analysis of abstract judicial reviews and federal state disputes from 1974 to 2010. We show that the Federal Constitutional Court is the more likely to rule in favor of the opposition, the stronger the public supports the specific substantive position of the opposition. Two mechanisms that could bring about this correlation are finally discussed. While the court does not blindly follow public opinion it will nevertheless consider the acceptance of its decisions as an important source of legitimacy.
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There is a misleading issue that permeates our craft and threatens to keep the focus away from moving forward if not addressed properly. Why isn’t the Aircraft Maintenance Technician (AMT) classified as skilled labor, and is instead classified as semi-skilled, or worse yet, unskilled labor? What, if anything, can be done about it? These questions are consistently brought up by our members, and are a battle cry by some who honorably seek professional recognition for the craft. Recently, the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA) was made aware of an effort on Facebook to change this incorrect designation. As the union who faithfully promotes and represents the AMT, AMFA is keenly aware that our technicians work on highly complex aircraft and associated systems, requiring education, training, and government certification just to get started in the craft. The investment in these prerequisites, not to mention tools and other essential items, is easily tens of thousands of dollars or more. To be considered anything but skilled labor is demeaning to the craft and a slap in the face to the skilled professionals who comprise it, and regardless of the issue, AMFA will never stand idly by when our significance is challenged.
Fortunately, this perceived insult is a misconception. Although there are issues with the Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) classification of our craft as mentioned later in this article, the short answer to the first question posed above is that the AMT is considered “skilled,” just in a convoluted way. The DOL no longer maintains a skilled, semi-skilled, or unskilled classification title for each occupation, which according to John Goglia, former National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Member and AMT, hasn’t happened “since the 80’s” (Goglia). In its place, and as “a means of stratifying occupations in terms of their level of required vocational preparation,” the DOL has substituted a Specific Vocational Preparation (SVP) score for each occupation (onetonline.org). This SVP essentially translates to the time it takes for the average person in the occupation to “learn the techniques, acquire the information, and develop the facility needed for average performance of a job” (ssa.gov). According to the Social Security Administration (SSA), one can gain SVP “in a school, military, institutional or vocational environment through such settings as: vocational training, apprenticeship training, in plant training, on-the-job training, and essential experience in other jobs” (ssa.gov).
Exploring SVP further, we find that each listed occupation is given a number on a scale of 1-9, with one requiring the least amount of preparation time (think refuse and recyclable materials collector), and 9 requiring over ten years to acquire the skillset necessary to perform the job duties (think surgeon). This scale can be further broken up into five zones based on a mean SVP: Job Zone 1=<4; Job Zone 2=>4–<6; Job Zone 3=>6–<7; Job Zone 4=>7–<8; and Job Zone 5=>8 (Oswald et al. 15-16).
This is where it gets a little tricky. Although the DOL no longer classifies occupations with a skilled, semi-skilled, or unskilled title, the SVP score could impact you and directly correlates to classifications used by the Social Security Administration (SSA) when making disability determinations. Their classifications are -- you guessed it-- skilled, semi-skilled, and unskilled. An SVP score of 1-2 falls into the unskilled category, 3-4 indicates semi-skilled work, while a SVP score of 5-9 means that the job is considered skilled (Laurence).
So where do AMT’s fall? According to Occupational Information Network (O*NET) the majority of our craft is designated in Job Zone 3 with a SVP range of 6-<7, placing us firmly in the highest designation of “skilled” work (onetonline.org). The SSA defines this as work that “requires high levels of judgment and adaptability, involves setting realistic goals or making plans independently, requires understanding, carrying out, remembering complex instructions, and often encompasses abstract ideas and problem solving” (ssa.gov). In addition to achieving the highest designation, our craft finds its SVP score among other career fields such as dental hygienists and nurses, while ranked with a higher SVP than many other careers, such as law enforcement (Oswald et al. 13-15).
Now that we can move on from the fallacy that the AMT is considered “unskilled” labor, we should take a closer look at how the DOL classification of our craft does hurt us, and answer the second question that was posed at the beginning of the article: “What, if anything, can be done about it?”
AMT’s are classified into four groups, which start from broad to narrow. The “Major Group” is 49-0000: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations. The “Minor Group” is 49-3000: Vehicle and Mobile Equipment Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers. Dialing in further is the term “Broad Occupation” 49-3010: Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians, and finally, the “Detailed Occupation” 49-3011: Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians. There is also Avionics Technicians who fall under a different “Minor Group” 49-2000: Electrical and Electronic Equipment Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers, “Broad Occupation” 49-2090 Miscellaneous Electrical and Electronic Equipment Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers, and a separate “Detailed Occupation” 49-2091: Avionics Technicians (“Comments for the 2018 SOC Revision” 2).
The Aviation Technician Education Council (ATEC) contends that because “nearly all aviation maintenance professionals fall under not only the same major group, but the same minor group, broad group, and detailed occupation,” the classifications as they exist “do not accurately reflect the occupational opportunities or responsibilities within aviation maintenance.” Furthermore, ATEC indicates that the inaccuracy “has created a statistical void in the industry, leading to misinformation on the current state of employment and an inability to forecast future needs” (“Comments for the 2018 SOC Revision” 2-3). They are suggesting changes to the system that would distinctly separate the certified AMT from the uncertified technician amongst other changes.
Why should we even care? Well, the government produces internal studies that are utilized by lawmakers to make decisions. One such recent study indicated that, in the face of evidence to the contrary, there was little evidence to support a shortage of AMTs (GAO 8). As a matter of fact, and according to the DOL’s Occupational Outlook Handbook on their website, the projected need for AMTs over the period 2014-2024 is only one percent, or 1,600 AMTs (bls.gov), whereas an independent study by Boeing indicated the need for 127,000 technicians over the next 20 years (2016-2036) in the US alone (“2016 Pilot & Technician Outlook” 8). The disparity is still enormous, and keeping in mind that the time periods are not an exact match, can in part be attributed to the lumping in of all service technicians to our occupation.
AMFA is concerned that the impending shortage of AMTs is being concealed because of improper statistics based on a flawed classification system, and that this failure could cause undue harm to the craft, such as effectively removing any leverage a shortage creates towards raising the standard of wages, benefits, and overall career potential. Accordingly, what can we do about it? To address this properly, AMFA supports ATEC’s efforts to change the classification via a revision in the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC), and will be working with them to do so. Furthermore, AMFA supports in principle any legitimate and strategic effort to raise the standing of our craft, and toils every day to accomplish just that at both the government and industry levels.
Finally, we urge every technician to become more concerned with our craft, as well as to continue acting in a professional manner on a daily basis. The aircraft maintenance landscape is ever changing, and along with upcoming opportunities to raise our profile and elevate the craft, there will also be threats to our respective livelihoods that we will have to overcome. There are important discussions about our craft occurring every day at the highest levels of industry and government. For example, the AMT testing process is currently being revised, and looking forward, it is not out of the realm of possibility to believe that our licensing standards will be scrutinized. We need your help ensuring that AMFA is at the table when things like this are determined, as we continue to represent the collective and unadulterated voice of aircraft maintenance labor. Without us, you will be left with government regulators and industry insiders alone determining your future. Demand that AMFA be seated at the table so that you have a voice!
Bureau of Labor Statistics. United States Department of Labor, www.bls.gov. Accessed 30 May 2017.
“Code of Federal Regulations: 404.1568. Skill Requirements.” Social Security Administration, www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/cfr20/404/404-1568.htm. Accessed 30 May 2017.
“Comments for the 2018 SOC Revision.” Aviation Technician Education Council, 4 Jun. 2015.
“DI 25001.001 Medical and Vocational Quick Reference Guide.” Social Security Administration, secure.ssa.gov/apps10/poms.nsf/lnx/0425001001#b78. Accessed 30 May 2017.
Goglia, John. “Maintenance Industry Needs Professional Standards”. 1 Jun. 2008, http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/aviation-international-news/2008-06-09/maintenance-industry-needs-professional-standards. Accessed 30 May 2017.
Laurence, Beth. “Unskilled Work, Semi-Skilled Work, and Skilled Work: Past Jobs and Social Security Disability”. www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/unskilled-work-semi-skilled-work-skilled-work-social-security-disability.html. Accessed 29 May 2017.
Oswald, Frederick et al. “Stratifying Occupational Units by Specific Vocational Preparation (SVP)”. 1999, https://www.onetcenter.org/dl_files/SVP.pdf.
“Summary Report for: 49-3011.00 - Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians.” O*NET Online, http://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/49-3011.00. Accessed 28 May 2017.
United States, Government Accountability Office. Aviation Workforce: Current and Future Availability of Aviation Engineering and Maintenance Professionals. Government Printing Office, 2014.
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Our trip from Flores to Lake Atitlan involved driving through a bit of Guatemala City. I admit to feeling a little wary when the driver stopped at a garage so we could use the toilet. It was just people paying for petrol and buying chocolate bars.
Lake Atitlan is surrounded by volcanoes and tiny villages. While researching the trip, Trip Advisor said that Panajachel is the most touristy one. Dan found a highly recommended hotel on the lake called Casa Del Mundo but I argued that it wasn't in a village, and it would be too difficult to see anything. In the end we compromised and spent one night in Panajachel, and two in Casa del Mundo. Dan was right. The night in Panajachel was a bit of a waste.
Panajachel is a town comprised of tuk tuks, tourist tat, coffee shops and restaurants. I found it pretty charmless though out of all the lake towns we visited it was certainly the most tourist-friendly. In order to reach the other towns (and Casa del Mundo) you have to take a boat. The public boat goes when it's full and costs between 2-4 euro, depending on how good you are at haggling. When I write that it looks pathetic, because when you're there you're dealing with quetzal. So it's between 15 and 25Q, which seems worth haggling for.
Casa del Mundo is beautiful. It's built up into the mountain so wherever you sit you overlook the lake and the volcanoes. At night they offer a meal 'family style' where you get to pick meat or vegetarian, and you sit with everyone else who's staying there. This is all great, except I couldn't eat the food. I sort of poked it around my plate and then ate a Nature Valley bar later. Everyone else seemed to like it but I'm not quite in the Latin American food zone yet. We met another lovely Irish couple who lent us their Cuba guidebook and offloaded their remaining Cuban currency. I only hope that when we leave Cuba we find someone to offload our otherwise completely unusable currency.
You can use the public boat to do a little tour of the lake towns. We went to Santiago, the furthest, first. You're only off the boat and everyone is shouting at you to get you onto another boat to San Pedro. We fought our way through the hoards of boat salesmen and a slightly deranged looking man called out behind us, in good English. 'Any chance you guys are going to the US?' This seemed a legit question so we turned back to him. He had a ripped 20 dollar note, he explained, and no one here would take it. That's also true in Guatemala. We said no sorry. He asked if we were Irish which was a good catch, but something still seemed weird. After a couple of minutes he took out a little squishy ball and an almost empty bottle of goo. 'It's empty because I've been healing people all day,' he said and started to rub the little ball on Dan's arm. 'Erm, we have to go,' we said and edged away warily. He called after us asking for a few dollars for the bus. I felt bad. But really, what was going on there? Did he genuinely have a ripped 20? Was he just waiting for Dan to take out his wallet so he could grab it? Was that supposed to be some weird magic trick? If so he needs to work on his intro...
Santiago isn't overly touristy once you get away from the dock. There are some churches and a statue called Maximon, a Mayan folk saint who gets moved around. You can go visit him and give him a cigar. We didn't. Some other ladies staying in our hotel did though and said it was all a bit weird.
We got the boat from Santiago to San Pedro. The streets are tiny (only tuk tuks fit) and it's on a very steep incline, which of course we climbed. The view is good. We went back to the dock thinking we'd go to San Juan, which was on the way back to the hotel. A very confusing conversation with the boat guy took place, where he said there are no boats to San Juan, only his friend's tuk tuk. We asked about a boat to Casa del Mundo and he said no, you must go from San Juan (at least that's what I thought he said, as I say it was very confusing). The upshot was he bundled us into his friend's tuk tuk. We agreed on 25Q for the 10 minute trip. The driver was awfully nice and suggested spots to take photos. When we got out Dan asked if he had change and gave him a 100Q note. He gave back a 20 and a 5, I assume hoping we'd think the 5 was a 50. Dan pointed out that he owed us 75Q and he sort of grunted and gave him another 5. This continued until we eventually got to 60 and gave up. Before leaving he told us we can't get a boat to Casa del Mundo from here, have to get a tuk tuk back to San Pedro. He wasn't wrong.
From San Pedro to San Juan via tuk tuk
The later it gets, the choppier the lake gets and by the time we were on our last trip I had to remind myself a few times that I don't get seasick.
It gets a bit wearisome dealing with the boat and tuk tuk drivers but the lake and surrounds are so beautiful that it's completely worth it. It's also not that bad, something you sigh and put up with. I suppose you could argue it's part of the experience. You just have to be careful.
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Implications of pumping and ponding water on water quality and the development of diverse aquatic ecosystems: Intervention Monitoring of the Hattah Lakes Icon Site 2006/07.
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Hattah-Kulkyne Lakes
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Implications of pumping water on the ecology of Hattah Lakes - M/BUS/210
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EPA Victoria & MDFRC Technical Report
1 of 2 reports associated with project see (Implications of pumping water on the ecology of Hattah Lakes).
The Hattah-Kulkyne Lakes is one of six Living Murray icon sites, located in Hattah-Kulkyne National park in the north west of Victoria. The lakes complex consists of 18 freshwater lakes, 12 of which are Ramsar listed. These lakes periodically fill during high flow events fed by Chalka Creek, an anabranch of the Murray River. The lakes and surrounds contain significant river red gum communities and support a diverse range of waterfowl, native fish and invertebrates during wet phases, making them a significant ecological asset. River regulation and drought have threatened the values of the Hattah Lakes. In particular, the absence of overbank flooding since 2000 led to serious concern regarding the health of river red gum communities. This prompted the delivery of environmental water into the Hattah Lakes from the Murray River as an emergency measure to maintain existing river red gum communities. Approximately 25GL of water was pumped and ponded in Chalka Creek and nine lakes from a series of four pumping events undertaken between April 2005 and December 2006. The Murray Darling Basin Commission (MDBC) engaged the Murray-Darling Freshwater Research Centre (MDFRC) and EPA Victoria to monitor the ecological response of the lakes to pumping and ponding for the 2006/07 period. The project aimed to determine whether pumping is a viable option to meet The Living Murray objectives. The study specifically focused on (i) assessing the response of river red gum condition to the flooding, (ii) identifying water quality threats that may prevent diverse aquatic ecosystems from developing and (iii) monitoring the response of fish, invertebrates and macrophytes by surveying newly filled lakes and those filled for over one year. Key findings from this study are: River red gum trees at inundated lakes (Lakes Mournpall and Brockie) improved their condition (measured as crown density) to a significantly greater degree than at a control lake (Lake Yelwell) that did not receive pumped water. This increase in tree condition is attributed to the pumped watering event. In addition, there was an increase in tree condition at the control lake (to a lesser extent than for the lakes receiving water) and this is attributed to above average rainfall during the study period. Due to a build up of organic matter loads on dry lakebeds, some lakes experienced a brief period of low dissolved oxygen following inundation. Extensive algal blooms also developed over summer, causing large diel fluctuations in dissolved oxygen and pH. These factors were identified as being potential threats to the development of aquatic communities, particularly for macrophyte establishment. An abundant and relatively diverse native fish community has developed within the Hattah Lakes. A total of 16,291 fish representing six native and two exotic fish species were sampled from six lakes and Chalka Creek. Because the lakes were completely dry prior to the first pumping event in April 2005, this community has developed from fish larvae, eggs or juveniles pumped into the lakes. The sampling of only two exotic fish species (goldfish and only one common carp) demonstrates that pumping is a filter upon the fish community, with common carp and eastern gambusia in particular being excluded with this water delivery mode. Macrophyte seed bank trials demonstrated that there is a high potential for diverse native macrophyte communities to develop at most lakes and therefore achieve the objectives listed in the Hattah Lakes Environmental Management Plan. Macrophytes were able to establish on the lakebeds under the managed flooding regime, although with varying levels of success between lakes. A total of 115 macrophyte taxa belonging to 34 families were identified. Distinct macrophyte communities occurred at each studied lake. The highest abundance and diversity of macrophytes occurred at elevations +30 and +60cm above the waterline. These elevations occurred in areas that were initially inundated following managed flooding but were exposed as lake water levels lowered. Aquatic macrophyte establishment at or below the waterline was initially quite poor at most lakes, however, macrophyte cover increased over the sampling period. It is difficult to ascertain whether the patterns in macrophyte development are a function of water quality (e.g. low dissolved oxygen, high turbidity) or the time since inundation. Despite some water quality concerns (e.g. blue-green algal blooms), pumping and ponding allowed diverse and abundant macroinvertebrate and zooplankton communities to develop and be sustained in the longer term, which will aid in achieving The Living Murray objectives. Sediment assessments at eight lakes and Chalka Creek showed a low risk of sulfidic sediments posing a management problem within the Hattah Lakes system. Overall, the managed flooding event achieved by the pumping and ponding of water has been a successful management intervention for improving river red gum health and allowing diverse aquatic ecosystems to develop at the Hattah Lakes icon site. In the current drought period, this has created a productive wetland system that is providing important ecosystem services as a drought refuge. The lake ecosystems are dynamic and both water quality and the condition and composition of biological communities will continue to change as the lakes dry. Intervention monitoring will occur in 2007/08 for continued investigation of river red gums, lakebed macrophytes, fish and some water quality variables. This additional intervention monitoring will complement the existing data by allowing the communities within the Hattah Lakes system to be monitored over a longer term. In the likely absence of seasonal flooding or further pumping of environmental water at the Hattah Lakes in 2007/08, this monitoring will occur as the lakes undergo their drying phase Macroinvertebrate have life histories linked to the natural flow regime and the loss of this will interfere with their lifecycle and habitat requirements.
MDFRC funding agency: Murray-Darling Basin Commission (now Murray-Darling Basin Authority) funded by The Living Murray program
MDFRC client: Murray-Darling Basin Commission
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AO Preview – Miami Beach: Art Basel Miami Beach and Miami Art Week, December 4th – 9th, 2018
Art Basel Miami Beach, via Miami New Times
Another year come and gone, another sojourn for the global art community to the southern tip of Florida for a week of fairs, exhibitions and parties on the streets of Miami and Miami Beach, all centered around the sprawling US hub of the Art Basel fair franchise, and spreading out across the city’s streets and parks, boardwalks and beaches.
Liz Larner, via Regen Projects
At the center of the week’s proceedings is, of course, Art Basel Miami Beach, the mega-fair that will take over the Miami Beach Convention Center’s newly renovated halls. Some things remain the same, of course, namely the packed lineup of 268 galleries from 35 countries around the globe (including 29 first-time exhibitors), and the focus on high-profile, blue-chip works alongside more adventurous curatorial projects and pieces. At the David Zwirner booth, one will be able to browse work by Jason Rhoades, Harold Ancart, and Ed Ruscha, among many others, while Regen Projects will bring work by Kader Attia, Walead Betty and Marilyn Minter. Cardi Gallery will also be on hand, showing works by Jannis Kounellis, Lucio Fontana and more.
Lonnie Holley via James Fuentes
Levan Mindiashvili, via Erti Gallery
Yet there are sure to be some new twists and tweaks to the fair this year as well. With the completed redesign of the Convention Center, the fair is focusing on utilizing its space for booths, trading off on resources previously devoted to other parts of the fair. Gone is the annual Public section of the fair, a popular draw that spread sculptures around Collins Park outside the Bass Museum, as is the Film sector, replaced instead with a single large-scale performance sculpture by Abraham Cruzvillegas. The work, Autorreconstrucción: To Insist, to Insist, to Insist…, is built from salvaged material and will be activated by dancers swinging from suspended pieces of the work. The work will be on view for free to all passerby, offering a unique visual spectacle for those interested.
Judy Chicago, via ICA
Jannis Kounellis, Untitled (2002), via Cardi Gallery
On the other side of Biscayne Bay, The New Art Dealers Alliance will also return to South Florida with NADA Miami, its annual event in the city. The 16th edition of the fair, to be held December 6–9, 2018 at Ice Palace Studios, is dedicated to showcasing new art and to celebrating the rising talents from around the globe, with a particular focus on younger galleries and a trend-setting perspective towards curatorial projects and new art. This year, Detroit-based artist and creator of the Heidelberg Project, Tyree Guyton will present a new tree sculpture in the garden area; Miami’s Fringe Projects will present a painted automobile cover by artist Keith Allyn Spencer parked on North Miami Avenue, and Los Angeles gallery AA|LA will present new hanging rawhide works by artist and writer Rindon Johnson installed across the palm trees.
Eric Shaw, via The Hole
John Opera, via Document
Joan Mitchell, via David Zwirner
Back in Miami Beach, UNTITLED Miami Beach brings its own take on the Miami fair experience straight to the beach. An international, curated art fair founded in 2012 that focuses on curatorial balance and integrity across all disciplines of contemporary art, UNTITLED innovates the standard fair model by selecting a curatorial team to identify, and curate a selection of galleries, artist-run exhibition spaces, and non-profit institutions and organizations, in dialogue with an architecturally designed venue. The result is a show that focuses more on unified concepts and interlinked ideas than most other fairs on hand, and often presents booths more as works in and of themselves rather than as a site for the featuring of lone objects or a series of pieces.
Janiva Ellis, via Rubell Collection
Bernat Daviu, via Bombon Projects
The week will also see a string of exhibitions and parties opening around the Bay. On Tuesday, the ICA Miami in the Design District will open its show dedicated to the work of Judy Chicago, with a public reception that will also allow guests to view the recently opened shows of work by Larry Bell and William Copley. That same night, Jeffrey Deitch and Larry Gagosian will co-host their annual collaborative exhibition at the iconic Moore building, Pop Minimalism, Minimalist Pop, exploring the intersections and legacies of two major American art movements of the 1960s—Pop art and Minimalism—and the ways in which features of Minimalism have been incorporated into a variety of contemporary art practices.
Jose Parla, via Bryce Wolkowitz
Trish Tillman, via Asya Geisberg
Two nights later, the Perez Museum will host its annual exhibition party, celebrating its show on the archival materials and concepts behind Christo and Jean-Claude’s famed Surrounded Islands project. The evening’s proceedings feature performances by Brooklyn Afrobeat collective Antibalas and musician/designer Kilo Kish. At the Bass Museum, a reception on Wednesday night will celebrate the work of the Haas Brothers and their new show, as well as recently opened exhibitions on the work of Aaron Curry and Paola Pivi.
Tschabalala Self, via Thierry Goldberg
Thomas Bayrle, via Gavin Brown’s Enterprise
Also of note is the Faena Hotel’s first entry of an ambitious art exhibition project, the Faena Festival, which will run the length of the week and feature a broad range of performances and projects. Launching December 3rd with a Grand Opening celebration on the beach outside of the hotel, the exhibition will feature a string of installations and special performances that draw on notions of identity, belonging and nationality, united under the phrase THIS IS NOT AMERICA, from the Alfredo Jaar installation A Logo for America. Highlights include a performance by Wu Tsang and Boychild, as well as a large-scale installation by artist George Sánchez-Calderón, which will include a ritual burning event December 4th on the beach. The Rubell Collection will also open an exhibition this week, mixing a curated show of new acquisitions to the museum collection, among them pieces by Janiva Ellis, Martha Jungwirth and more, alongside a survey of the work of artist Purvis Young, who spent the entirety of his life living and working in the City of Miami.
Suzy Kellems Dominik, via Nautilus
Peter Fagundo, via Shane Campbell
Of course, what would the week be without a series of special exhibitions and parties, as galleries court dealers and let some steam off at the end of a long year. At the Nautilus Hotel, Suzy Kellems Dominik will be presenting INVISIBLE, a series of soft-sculpture totems that surrealistically present the female body and investigate the social and cultural implications of beauty and age in monumental form. The hotel will also host a party with Half Gallery & Harper’s Books featuring rapper Fab Five Freddy on December 4th, and will showcase a new rooftop awning designed by David Salle.
Michelle Stuart, via Lelong
Manuel Solano, via Peres Projects
At the EDITION, Hank Willis Thomas’s For Freedoms project will unveil a specially designed Christmas tree. The hotel will also host a December 6th Monograph launch for hometown hero Daniel Arsham, and will host a bowling tournament December 5th at its BASEMENT Nightclub and bowling alley. The usual festivities of Aby Rosen’s annual party at the W Hotel also returns after a year off, making a comeback as a fitting comedown to a bustling week.
James Turrell, via Pace Gallery
Glenn Ligon, via Regen Projects
Alfredo Jaar, via Faena
Daichi Takagi, via KAYOKOYUKI
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MicroRNA inhibitors halt cancer cell growth
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JUPITER, Fla.—In early March, scientists at the Disney Lab of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) announced they had designed two new drug candidates to target prostate and triple-negative breast cancers. The new research, published recently as two separate studies in ACS Central Science and the Journal of the American Chemical Society, demonstrates that a class of drugs called small-molecule RNA inhibitors can successfully target and kill specific types of cancer.
“This is like designing a scalpel to precisely seek out and destroy a cancer—but with a pill and without surgery,” said Dr. Matthew D. Disney of the Department of Chemistry at TSRI’s Florida campus, who was senior author of both studies. In their ACS Central Science study, Disney and his colleagues used DNA sequencing to evaluate thousands of small molecules as potential drug candidates. The researchers were on the lookout for molecules that could bind precisely with defective RNAs.
This strategy led them to a compound which targets an RNA precursor molecule. Disney tells DDNews, “Targapremir-18a is a small-molecule drug that binds to a precursor to microRNA 18a. The compound inhibits the production of microRNA 18a, which is overexpressed and causative of prostate cancer.”
The scientists found that mature microRNA-18a inhibits a protein that suppresses cancer. When microRNA-18a is overexpressed, cancers just keep growing.
Disney and his team tested Targapremir-18a, and found that it could target microRNA-18a and trigger prostate cancer cell death. “Since microRNA-18a is overexpressed in cancer cells and helps to maintain them as cancerous, application of Targapremir-18a to cancer cells causes them to kill themselves,” Disney said.
“[Targapremir-18a] was tested in cancer cells isolated from patients. The compound silences the microRNA selectively, and causes prostate cancer cells to go into apoptosis or programmed cell death,” Disney continues. “[Next] we are planning to test the compound in mouse models.”
The precise binding of Targapremir-18a to microRNA-18a means a cancer drug that follows this strategy would be likely to kill prostate cancer cells without causing the broader side effects seen with many other cancer therapies, according to Disney.
And there may be even bigger implications. “We could apply the strategy used in this study to quickly identify and design small-molecule drugs for other RNA-associated diseases,” explained study first author Sai Velagapudi, a research associate in Disney’s lab.
Disney says Targapremir-18a and another agent, Targapremir-210, “both act by the same mechanism, and that is to bind to a precursor of these microRNAs and inhibit their production.” The same screening strategy used to find Targapremir-18a led the researchers to a drug candidate to target triple-negative breast cancer, as reported in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Triple-negative breast cancer is especially hard to treat because it lacks the receptors, such as the estrogen receptor, targeted with other cancer drugs. Disney and his colleagues aimed to get around this problem by instead targeting microRNA-210, which is overexpressed in solid breast cancer tumors.
The researchers tested their drug compound, Targapremir-210, in mouse models of triple-negative breast cancer. They found that the therapy significantly slowed tumor growth. In fact, a single injected dose decreased tumor size by 60 percent over a three-week period. The researchers analyzed these smaller tumors and discovered that they also expressed less microRNA-210, compared with untreated tumors.
Targapremir-210 appears to work by reversing a circuit that tells cells to “survive at all costs” and become cancerous. With microRNA-210 in check, cells regain their normal function and cancer cannot grow. “We believe Targapremir-210 can provide a potentially more precise, targeted therapy that would not harm healthy cells,” said study first author and TSRI graduate student Matthew G. Costales.
When asked if researchers plan to bring these drugs to trials in the near future, Disney says, “Yes, we are assessing compound toxicity and gearing up to get funding to advance these molecules for a clinical trial. We are searching for partners to accelerate these investigations.” The researchers also plan to further develop their molecule-screening strategy into a platform to test molecules against any form of RNA defect-related disease.
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No luck for Novo Nordisk
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Ablynx NV
BAGSVÆRD, Denmark & GHENT, Belgium—Going public with an acquisition bid is a common tactic when the target company is reluctant to consider offers, as it can often force management to reconsider bids if the company's shareholders feel the deal is promising. That being said, it is also a risk, because revealing your interest in a company can attract other offers as well, ones that might be higher and more attractive than your own.
That's a gamble that Novo Nordisk A/S is willing to take, to what seems like no avail so far. The company confirmed on Jan. 8 that it had made a second unsolicited conditional proposal on Dec. 22 to acquire all outstanding shares of Belgian firm Ablynx NV for roughly $33.66 per share in cash and one Contingent Value Right linked to two upcoming material events, with total potential cash payments of up to $3.01 per share. The total value of the new proposal is approximately $3.1 billion. According to Zacks, Ablynx's stock rose above 45 percent on the news. The companies have been working together since 2015 on a research collaboration centered around Ablynx's Nanobody platform.
This second offer is roughly 14 percent higher than Novo Nordisk's original proposal, which was made on Dec. 7 and valued Ablynx at approximately $31.57 per share in cash—but not high enough for Ablynx to be interested. Ablynx rejected the initial proposal on Dec. 14, and this second attempt, made on Dec. 22, was rejected Dec. 23. The company noted in a Jan. 8 press release that “The Ablynx board, with the assistance of financial and legal advisors, and taking into account the interests of all its stakeholders, unanimously concluded that the proposal fundamentally undervalues Ablynx and its strong prospects for continued growth and value creation as it implements its long-term strategic plan of becoming a fully integrated biopharmaceutical company.”
“After careful consideration, the Ablynx Board of Directors unanimously determined that Novo Nordisk’s proposal is not in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders as it fundamentally undervalues caplacizumab, the Ablynx pipeline, platform, technology, people and knowhow. The Board sees no merit in ceding control of its assets without full upfront value recognition for shareholders and believes the proposed consideration and a complex instrument like a CVR does not constitute a basis for further discussions at this time,” said Dr. Edwin Moses, CEO of Ablynx.
“With Ablynx’s enormous upside, we are focused on executing on opportunities that have the potential to deliver long-term growth and returns and are confident in our ability to create significant value,” he added. “The very positive results from our HERCULES Phase 3 study and our two ongoing Phase 2 studies validate our ability to execute on our plan to deliver meaningful products to patients that address unmet medical needs where there are currently limited or no therapeutic options. In addition to developing our proprietary pipeline, including preparing for the commercial launch of caplacizumab, we are engaged in a number of exciting strategic collaborations with major pharma companies, further validating the potential of our Nanobody platform. We firmly believe the continued execution of this strategic plan will deliver substantially more value to Ablynx shareholders than Novo Nordisk’s proposal.”
Novo Nordisk doesn't plan on letting itself be so easily rebuffed, however.
"The proposed transaction with Ablynx represents a compelling opportunity for both companies and is in the best interests of all of Ablynx's stakeholders,” Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen, CEO of Novo Nordisk, said in a press release. "Novo Nordisk and Ablynx share a common focus on innovation-driven, patient-centric R&D. Novo Nordisk intends to use its full suite of regulatory, scientific and marketing expertise to complement the existing strong management and medical team at Ablynx in order to optimize the development and global commercialization of caplacizumab for the benefit of patients suffering from aTTP. The proposed transaction is attractive for Novo Nordisk and is in line with Novo Nordisk's stated strategy to invest in its Biopharm operations. Ahead of the rapidly approaching potential EMA approval of caplacizumab, we believe now is the right time to consider a transaction that maximizes value for all of Ablynx's stakeholders."
Ablynx is not the only one to think that even the newer proposal is insufficient, however, as Bloomberg's Chris Hughes says the company is “rightly demanding” a higher price tag for it to consider a deal. While Hughes agrees that linking up with a big pharma partner to commercialize caplacizumab is sensible, adding that “Novo would be a natural choice thanks to its global hematology franchise,” he also points out that “While a partner would accelerate [caplacizumab's] commercialization, the company could plausibly argue that it can bring the treatment to market by itself. Rare diseases don't need the same large-scale infrastructure as more common illnesses. It has partnerships already with a host of big pharmaceutical groups, one of which might also be interested in a takeover.”
He also opines that the potential for the drug argues for a higher valuation of Ablynx.
“A reasonable forecast for [caplacizumab's] peak sales would be about $400 million (334 million euros). Given blood drugs usually offer high margins, Novo could expect at least half of that to drop to the bottom line if it owned the treatment. That already makes its offer, adjusting for Ablynx's small net cash position, look pretty ungenerous—never mind the touted 60-percent premium to the target's share price before Novo's initial approach last month. Add Ablynx's small drug pipeline and attractive R&D operation, and it's clear Novo can justify paying more.”
Analyst Peter Welford of Jefferies Group LLC also expects a bigger offer will be needed if Novo Nordisk hopes to change Ablynx's mind, writing in an investor note that “We envisage Novo needing to hike the offer and could see counter-bids.”
Brian Skorney of Baird shares that opinion, saying in an investors note that “We think this is only the starting point for Ablynx as a target and believe we could see other bidders come in. We think shares will trade above the offer price this morning, with the U.S. shares close to the $30s. We’re reiterating Ablynx as one of our top picks for 2018.”
As there are no approved therapeutics for acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (aTTP), the recent promising results of caplacizumab stand Ablynx in good stead in terms of a new foothold in the hematology market—and help explain Novo Nordisk's interest. October saw Ablynx announce that the compound had met its primary endpoint and key secondary endpoints in the HERCULES study, with a “Statistically significant reduction in time to platelet count response, with at any given time patients treated with caplacizumab 50 percent more likely to achieve platelet count response,” according to the press release, and a 74-percent relative reduction in the percentage of patients with aTTP-related death, a recurrence of disease or at least one major thromboembolic event during the study's treatment period. There was also a 67-percent relative reduction in the percentage of patients with disease recurrence during the overall study period.
The company reported in December additional results from its Phase 3 HERCULES study, in which they saw a 38-percent relative reduction in the number of days of plasma exchange, as well as a 41-percent reduction in plasma volume used. In addition, patients admitted to the hospital saw a 65-percent relative reduction in the number of days spent in the ICU, and the overall duration of hospital stays dropped by 31 percent compared to placebo. Ablynx submitted a marketing authorization application to the European Medicines Agency for caplacizumab in February 2017, and was granted Fast Track designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in July 2017.
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Harry Livingstone was featured on a few news channels in the 90’s when it came to the evidence of the J.F.K. Assassination.
Livingstone also collected many videos either recorded from the TV or made by fellow researchers. These are posted down further below this page.
For research and educational purposes only!
Harry on WJLA TV Nov 22 1998.
Harry Livingstone vs Gerald Posner.
Harrison Edward Livingstone – The Lost Tapes.
In 1991 Harry Livingstone put a panel together. Thanks to Matt Douthit for these two tapes.
Harry Livingstone worked closely with Mark Crouch for a few years and while he was working on his books High Treason 1 & 2 he also produced the movie below about the autopsy photographs. Both Crouch and Livingstone did some very good research as to the authenticity of the autopsy photographs.
Some more videos below which Harry worked on or were part of his archival collection.
These videos are for educational and research purposes only!
The Zapruder film enhanced by Vince Palamara. Made late 1991 or early 1992.
JFK Zapruder Film Recreation on 8 MM film by Brian Edwards for Harry Livingstone in 1997. Running at approx 18 minutes wards et all. Limo from Paul Crute. Donated by David Mantik to NARA in 1998.
Texas News 5 reporting on the Charles Bronson film in the early 90’s. Featuring Harold Weisberg as well.
Robert Groden giving a presentation on the autopsy photos and the Zapruder film. This film is from the 80’s.
Jack White giving a talk on the back yard photos.
Robert Blakey, Marita Lorenz and Sam Giancana on Geraldo Rivera.
Roy Schaeffer’s Photographic Interpretation of the JFK Assassination. Presented in 1995.
Senate Hearings on opening the JFK Assassination files May 12 1992.
A.B.A.Mock Trial.
The Jama article in the M.S.M. in May 1992.
Harry is protesting at 31:14.
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Definition of "amygdala" []
An almond-shaped mass of gray matter in the anterior portion of the temporal lobe. Also called amygdaloid nucleus. (noun)
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Brooklyn has historically been a hotbed of musical creativity, regularly producing exciting new artists that go on to achieve international acclaim. Whether you’re looking for some new bands to check out around town or seeking inspiration for your own music, these four Brooklyn indie bands are definitely worthy of your attention.
Though their styles are diverse, all feature sounds that are unique while also calling back to former musical eras, be it with 80s style synths or early-aughts crunchy guitar riffs. Look up their music now, while you can still catch a set in an intimate local venue — these Brooklyn bands, many of which are already touring nationally, will likely be blowing up in the next few years.
Read on for a roundup of our favorite acts from the Brooklyn music scene in 2017!
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This Brooklyn based trio of synth rockers are putting out a highly-anticipated record in summer of 2017 and kicking off a North American tour in support. They are buoyed in part to success by a collaboration with London-based producer Chris Zane, who had previously worked with Passion Pit, St. Lucia and Friendly Fires. There’s a clear connection between their sound and that of Zane’s other electro-pop projects, but VHS Collection stands out with their lyrical depth and is known for high-energy live performances. The band formed officially in 2014, but its members grew up together and have been making music together since adolescence.
Appreciated for putting on “a heck of a live show” as well as their honest yet surreal songwriting, Charly Bliss is another product of the Brooklyn music scene that’s on a fast track to success. The female fronted indie pop rock quartet produces tunes with callbacks to Weezer and other great indie rockers from the 90s and early 2000s. The four band members have been in some way connected since childhood (two members are siblings), but have followed a long and meandering path to the release of their first full-length record, Guppy. Catch them this summer somewhere along their East Coast tour.
Wilder Maker
The four-piece Brooklyn band Wilder Maker has a way of defying explanation, with critics frequently reaching for words like “bizarre,” “unique” and “idiosyncratic.” These experimental indie rockers write laid-back, lackadaisically paced tunes that strum along with simple, jangly guitar riffs peppered by unexpected bursts of saxophone, fuzzy distortion and beautifully layered vocal harmonies. Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Gabriel Birnbaum has earned acclaim for his evocative lyrics, so pay attention to the words — as easy as it is to get lost in the dreamy haze of their melodies. Pick up Wilder Maker’s release New Streets, available as a digital download or on vinyl from Saddle Creek.
The Undercover Dream Lovers
Endlessly smooth, slightly psychedelic and more than a little sexy, The Undercover Dream Lovers are one of the brightest Brooklyn bands of 2017. This dreamy, understated indie rock is the solo project of Brooklyn based artist/producer Matt Koenig, who channels the echo-y vibes of early Beach House, infuses it with the occasional funky influences, and packages the whole thing in lots of reverb and intriguingly meandering melodies. Catch the Lovers live (when Koenig performs alongside Sarah Galdes and Galen Gatzke) around New York City at venues such as Brooklyn Bowl. Check out their site here.
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The Alleged Hit Squad That Targeted Glenn Boyer
Thanks to several tips from here and from John Langellier at the Arizona Historical Society in Tempe and from Dan Nowicki at the Arizona Republic, I was able to track down the Quartzite Gunfight photo at the Polly Rosenbaum History and Archives Division in downtown Phoenix. It is housed in a huge warehouse style building down on Madison and 19th Avenue. Ken A. and I drove down into The Beast and went up to the second floor, signed a bunch of papers to gain admittance and, with white gloves on, were able to see the original photo, which is not very large:
Quartzite Gunfight Original from the Roscoe Willson Collection
It's not very large and doesn't show much that we can't see in the scan we have of the photo:
The Quartzite Gunfight: An alleged gunfight in progress. The shooter, at left, is chasing down an assailant, at the corner of the fence, who allegedly is holding a rifle and according to the writing on the back, had fired at the gent at left and was in the process of fleeing. The writing confirms it was taken in 1904 at Quartzite, Arizona.
We have ordered a high res scan so you can hopefully see it in better detail. I also got to check out some photos of Roscoe G. Willson himself at various times during his long and varied career when he was a prospector, a forest service ranger and a resident of Cave Creek (photos to follow). Roscoe collected photos from his time in Mexico and all over the West, and he also had the mug shots of the Tong Murderers who drove to Kingman and shot a former Tong gang member and were subsequently rounded up and after a sensational trial in Prescott, all four were executed. They are ID in pencil as Gee King, Shew Chin, Jew Har and BWL Sam.
When we were done, the young lady helping us, Laura Palma-Blandford, asked me if I wanted to see something in the archives that pertained to me. Taken aback I wondered what that could possibly be. She then excused herself, came back in a couple minutes with a letter to the governor of Arizona written on December 8, 1999. Let's just say, it involves a certain Wyatt Earp fiction writer accusing me of being part of an assassination attempt on his life.
"It is requested that you have the proper authorities investigate this matter, principally. . .to discover for me who I should know may possibly intend to kill me. . ."
—Glenn G. Boyer
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