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Trump Nixes Iran Nuke Deal
VIDEO: Trump Announces U.S. Withdrawal From Iran Nuclear Deal
Posted by Washington Free Beacon
John R. Houk, Blog Editor
© May 9, 2018
Yesterday President Trump did a magnificent thing. He ended former President Obama's (the next Benedict Arnold at worst or Aaron Burr at best) so-called Iran Nuke Deal that only delayed a nuclear armed Iran. Obama's lie: the deal prevented a nuclear armed Iran.
Traitors: Benedict Arnold, Aaron Burr & Obama
President Trump's election mandate from my perspective is to unravel all the damning acts Obama's designs to fundamentally transform America into a State supremacist Socialist nation where the People are told how to think rather than the People telling the government how to act.
Stopping to put trust in Iran's criminal Islamofascist Shi'ite ruling elite is not only a great thing for American National Interests, but also for the people of Western Nations that have benefitted from actual free elections deciding their national path.
ONE THING to keep in mind: The Iran Nuke Deal was NOT a treaty ratified by the Senate. Obama chose to circumvent the Constitution (as he had done so many times) and sign an agreement with Iran as an Executive Order. An EO is easily undone by the next President's EO action. Thank you President Trump.
Below are a series of articles about President Donald Trump's decision with a few titles that may be of interest.
JRH 5/9/18
Promise Kept — Trump Nukes Iran Deal
Yet another pillar of Barack Obama's horrible legacy crumbles at Trump's hands.
By National Security Desk
Trump Caption: I Undid his (BHO) deal & Legacy. Patriot Post
Keeping his promise, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the United States will withdraw from the "horrible" Iran nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) and reinstate sanctions that were suspended as part of the deal. "We will not allow American cities to be threatened with destruction. We will not allow a regime that chants 'Death to America' to gain access to the most deadly weapons on earth," Trump declared. "Today's action sends a critical message: The United States no longer makes empty threats. When I make promises I keep them."
Despite attempts by the Europeans to dissuade Trump, despite John Kerry's smoke-filled-backroom efforts to save the deal, and despite Iran warning that it would be "a historic mistake" to withdraw, the president reiterated what he has said all along: "We cannot prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb under the decaying and rotten structure of the current agreement." Trump reportedly remains open to improving the deal, and he will now have economic leverage to persuade Iran and the Europeans to do just that.
Barack Obama, who paid the Iranians $1.7 billion in ransom cash loaded on pallets as well as hundreds of billions more in sanctions relief, predictably criticized the decision to withdraw — which is tantamount to an endorsement in our book. "Walking away from the JCPOA turns our back on America's closest allies," Obama admonished, adding that it's "a serious mistake." But the biggest mistake was made by Obama and his feckless secretary of state, Kerry, caving in to one Iranian demand after another and agreeing to the deal. As we said at the time, "You want it bad, you'll get it bad."
Obama was so desperate for a foreign policy "victory" that getting a deal was more important than the content of the deal. Having agreed to a deal that he knew would never pass the Senate as a treaty, the minute the ink was dry Obama instead ran to the United Nations, which passed a Security Council Resolution establishing the deal's terms. But only laws passed by the U.S. Congress, or treaties approved by the Senate, are binding on the actions of the United States. And as "constitutional scholar" Obama and long-time Senator Kerry undoubtedly knew, any deal that really was in the United States' best interest would have been able to pass muster in the Senate and gain the two-thirds votes needed to ratify a treaty.
Obama and his various minions told us time after time that the deal would moderate Iran's behavior and help bring it back into the community of nations, but a quick survey of recent events shows the spectacular deception of that claim.
Iran is fighting a proxy war in Syria to keep Bashar al-Assad's murderous regime in power, and it probably has more troops on the ground than any group other than the Syrian Army. It continues flying military equipment into Syria via Iraq, attracting the occasional Israeli airstrike (including one just last night) and risking major escalation of the fighting there. Its proxies in Yemen have fired Iranian-made weapons at U.S. Navy ships in the Red Sea, as well as used one of Iran's signature weapons, the explosive boat, to hit and severely damage a Saudi warship. Its ballistic missile activity has continued unabated, despite UN Security Council Resolution 2231's prohibitions on such activity. In addition to missile testing, Iran has actually fired ballistic missiles at targets in Syria, and its Yemeni proxies have fired Iranian-made missiles into Saudi Arabia.
Needless to say, we don't see much moderating in Iran's behavior. Worse, Obama helped fund Iran's increased terror sponsorship.
In the coming days and weeks we expect the various actors that supported the deal — Democrats, the Leftmedia, the Europeans, the Iranians — will all make the most of the opportunity to paint President Trump as a bumptious and warmongering rube. The Europeans will follow Obama's cue and decry the undiplomatic behavior of withdrawing from a gentlemen's agreement. The Iranians will shout about the untrustworthy nature of the United States. We even expect Rep. Maxine Waters will ascribe racism to President Trump's decision, claiming it is an act of spite against his African-American predecessor.
But all the wailing and teeth-gnashing among various Europeans, Iranians, Democrats (and even some short-sighted Republicans) will merely serve to demonstrate the double injury Obama inflicted when he accepted the deal. The first injury was the deal itself. The second, as we said at the time, was that some future president would have to withdraw and harm our standing with friends and foes alike.
That day has now come, and our standing with our European allies may indeed suffer temporarily. Iran may try to create even more mischief around the Middle East. Oil markets and the U.S. and world economies may feel some pain as Iran's oil market is squeezed.
But the undeniable fact is that the existing nuclear agreement merely kicked the can down the road for a decade, ensuring that Iran would emerge with a full, UN-approved nuclear fuel cycle that would enable very rapid nuclear breakout in the future. Dealing with this problem now, even if painful, is vastly better than dealing with it later, when it may not only be painful but also deadly. Withdrawing from the nuclear deal is a first step in the right direction.
On a final note, North Korea's Kim Jong-un should take note that Trump isn't messing around. Perhaps he already has, as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo returns home today from Pyongyang with three released American hostages.
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Donald Trump Ends the Obama Mirage
The Iran nuclear deal, 2015-2018
By Matthew Continetti
President Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), aka the Iran nuclear deal, on the afternoon of May 8. The deal, announced to such fanfare in July 2015, did not live to see its third birthday. And for that, I am grateful.
Why? Because the president said not only that America will be leaving the accord. He declared that the period of waxing Iranian influence in the Middle East is at an end. The deal financed several years of Iranian expansion through Shiite proxies in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen. By reimposing sanctions, President Trump will weaken an already ailing Iranian economy. The Iranian currency, the rial, has plummeted in recent weeks. Inflation is rampant. The financial system is corrupted, dysfunctional. Strikes are proliferating, and often turn into displays against the government. This is a situation the United States should seek not to mitigate but to exacerbate.
Removing ourselves from the deal puts Iran on the defensive. Its people and government are divided and uncertain how to respond. Its leverage is minimal. Iranian citizens have seen their leaders use the money from the deal not to improve the economic lot of the average person but to fund the military, IRGC, and other instruments of foreign adventurism. Implicit in the deal was recognition of the Islamic regime as a legitimate member of the so-called "international community." President Trump has rescinded that recognition and the standing that came with it. The issue is no longer Iranian compliance with an agreement that contained loopholes through which you could launch a Fateh-110 heavy missile. The issue is whether Iran chooses to become a responsible player or not, whether it curbs its imperial designs, cuts off its militias, abandons terrorism, opens its public square, and ceases its threats to and harassment of the United States and her allies. That choice is not Donald Trump's to make. It is the Iranian regime's.
Trump has made his choice. Like he did with the Supreme Court, the Paris Climate Accord, and the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, Trump kept a promise made many times throughout the campaign. In truth, anyone who has listened to Trump over the last several years should not be surprised by his decision. From the beginning, he understood that any deal which gives the weaker party benefits up front in exchange for minimal temporary concessions is not a deal worth taking. And since he does not accept the worldview that inspired the deal, there is no reason for Trump to remain in it.
The worldview Trump opposes privileges therapy and dialogue over realism and hard decisions. It imagines that the Iranian theocracy is a reliable or trustworthy hedge against Sunni power and will liberalize gradually as the arc of justice progresses. These are the ideas that motivated the presidency of Barack Obama. The Iran deal was the signature achievement of Obama's second term, and it is now gone. In truth, though, Obama's legacy was disappearing long before Trump made his announcement. Obama's legacy, like much of his self-presentation, was a mirage, a pleasing and attractive image that, upon closer inspection, loses coherence.
Because he governed so extensively through executive order and administrative fiat, because he was so contemptuous of criticism and had a "my way or the highway" approach to negotiations with Republicans (though not with Iranians), the longevity of Obama's agenda depended heavily on his party winning a third consecutive term in the White House. As Tom Cotton warned the Iranians years ago, an agreement entered into by a president and not submitted to the Senate as a treaty can be abrogated by the next man who holds the office. Hillary Clinton's failure doomed the Iran deal and the reputations it had established. It was Barack Obama and John Kerry who allowed Donald Trump to exit the deal by rejecting longstanding procedure. Perhaps it was knowledge of this fact that inspired Kerry in his desperate attempt to preserve the agreement.
Trump has spent much of his time in office reversing Obama policies that were made outside of, or in opposition to, America's constitutional framework. He has had the hardest time repealing Obamacare, for the very reason that the Affordable Care Act was passed by the Congress and upheld by the Supreme Court. That is a lesson for any president: To have a long-lasting influence on American life, work within the system bequeathed to us by the Founders.
Because Republicans widely shared a negative attitude toward the Iran deal, many people assume that President Trump is doing what any other GOP president would do. But I am not sure. Another Republican president who had come up through the political system, or been enmeshed in the foreign policy establishment, or held elite opinion in esteem may well have given in to pressure to remain in the Paris accord, keep the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv, and stay, at least partly, in the JCPOA. Trump's outsider status and independence give him the freedom not only to flout political correctness but to repudiate the international and domestic consensus in ways his supporters love.
It took a small boy to say the emperor had no clothes. And it took Donald Trump to say that Barack Obama's foreign policy legacy was a superficial and dangerous mirage.
Matthew Continetti is the Editor in Chief of the Washington Free Beacon. He can be reached at comments@freebeacon.com.
Defying world, Trump says US withdrawing from Iran nuclear deal
Citing Israeli intelligence, president slams 'defective' pact, promises 'highest level of economic sanction' on Tehran
By ERIC CORTELLESSA
8 May 2018, 9:46 pm
US President Donald Trump announces his decision on the Iran nuclear deal in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House in Washington, DC, on May 8, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB)
WASHINGTON — President Trump announced the US was withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal on Tuesday, following through on a campaign promise and defying European allies who implored him to maintain an agreement that international agencies have said Tehran is honoring.
In a highly anticipated address from the White House's Diplomatic Reception Room, Trump cast the landmark agreement forged under predecessor Barack Obama as "defective" and unable to rein in Iranian behavior or halt the Islamic Republic's quest to develop nuclear weapons.
"I'm announcing today that the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal," he said, adding that his administration "will be instituting the highest level of economic sanction."
Trump said the 2015 agreement, which included Germany, France, Russia, China and Britain, was a "horrible one-sided deal that should never ever have been made."
His remarks came ahead of his self-imposed May 12 deadline to walk away from the deal; that date is when the president would be required to renew waivers on sanctions against Iran's nuclear program as required under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, as the deal is formally called.
Trump emphasized that sanctions would also apply to other nations that did business with Iran, meaning that the United States could very well apply sanctions on its closest European allies. "America will not be held hostage to nuclear blackmail," Trump said.
However, officials said European companies would have several months to pull out of the Iranian market.
Trump said that his explosive move would signal "the United States no longer makes empty threats" on the world stage. "When I make promises, I keep them," he said.
Responding to the move, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has lobbied against the deal, said he offered his full support for Trump's "bold move."
In Iran, President Hassan Rouhani said Tehran would remain in the deal, but his country could resume nuclear activity if need be.
European signatories vowed to stick by the agreement.
In January, Trump waived sanctions for the third time in his presidency, but said he wouldn't take that action again unless Congress and European allies amended the pact.
US President Donald Trump signs a document reinstating sanctions against Iran after announcing the US withdrawal from the Iran Nuclear deal, in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House in Washington, DC, on May 8, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB)
Since then, international negotiators have unsuccessfully sought to make changes to the deal — and Tehran has refused to accept any alterations to its terms.
One official briefed on the decision said Trump would move to reimpose all sanctions on Iran that had been lifted under the 2015 deal, not just the ones facing an immediate deadline.
As administration officials briefed congressional leaders about Trump's plans Tuesday, they emphasized that just as with a major Asia trade deal and the Paris climate pact that Trump has abandoned, he remains open to renegotiating a better deal, one person briefed on the talks said.
The Iran agreement, struck in 2015 by the United States, other world powers, and Iran, lifted most US and international sanctions against the country. In return, Iran agreed to restrictions on its nuclear program making it impossible to produce a bomb, along with rigorous inspections.
Over the last several weeks, leaders from France, Britain, and Germany have all lobbied the president not to abscond from the accord, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu campaigned assiduously to discredit the deal.
Last week, he gave a PowerPoint presentation detailing a trove of documents the Mossad scooped that outline Iran's covert attempts at developing a nuclear arsenal. Trump cited the trove and said the documents proved he was "100 percent right" in his skepticism and antipathy to the deal.
Trump has long cast the JCPOA as "worst deal ever negotiated" and a symbol of American weakness.
Trump signaled hours before his announcement an intention to undo the Obama administration's signature foreign policy achievement.
Responding to recent reports that former secretary of state John Kerry recently met with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to try and salvage the deal, Trump tweeted: "John Kerry can't get over the fact that he had his chance and blew it! Stay away from negotiations John, you are hurting your country!"
Hours before the announcement, European countries met to underline their support for the agreement. Senior officials from Britain, France, and Germany met in Brussels with Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs, Abbas Araghchi.
If the deal collapses, Iran would be free to resume prohibited enrichment activities, while businesses and banks doing business with Iran would have to scramble to extricate themselves or run afoul of the US American officials, who were dusting off plans for how to sell a pullout to the public and explain its complex financial ramifications.
In Iran, many were deeply concerned about how Trump's decision could affect the already struggling economy.
In Tehran earlier Tuesday, President Hassan Rouhani sought to calm nerves, smiling as he appeared at a petroleum expo. He didn't name Trump directly, but emphasized that Iran continued to seek "engagement with the world."
"It is possible that we will face some problems for two or three months, but we will pass through this," Rouhani said.
From left, US Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, US Secretary of State John Kerry, and US Under Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman meet with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, second from right, at a hotel in Vienna, Austria, Saturday, June 27, 2015. (Carlos Barria/Pool via AP)
Members of the Obama administration who helped solidify the international agreement told reporters before Trump's announcement that the consequences of blowing up the deal could be cataclysmic.
"Iran could start on its way back to getting a nuclear weapon," said Wendy Sherman, a former State Department official in the Obama administration who was the chief US negotiator of the agreement. "It raises risk of conflict in the Middle East. It could potentially put our forces at risk everywhere. It also puts Americans being held in Iran more at risk. It will weaken our alliances with Europe, and for that matter Russia and China, who are important to the North Korea negotiation. This is a crisis that Trump is precipitating himself."
In his speech, Trump said "a constructive deal could easily been struck at the time, but it wasn't." The ensuing deal was "a great embarrassment to me as a citizen and all citizens of the United States."
As he has in the past, he cast the deal's sunset provisions, which allow certain restrictions on Tehran's nuclear program to expire over time, as unacceptable. He said Tuesday, however, that they led Iran to "the nuclear brink" and that, "If I allowed this deal to stand, there would soon be a nuclear arms race in the Middle East."
He further portrayed the accord as one that would lead to Iran crossing the nuclear threshold, not one that would prevent that.
"It is clear to me that we cannot prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb under the decaying and rotten structure of the current agreement," he said. "The Iran deal is defective at its core. If we do nothing, we know exactly what will happen."
He also said that Iran would ultimately want to re-negotate another deal that fully meets Trump's demands — something Iran itself has said it would not do. "The fact is they are going to want to make a new and lasting deal," Trump said.
Anthony Blinken, a former deputy secretary of state in the Obama administration, warned this move will give hardliners in Iran an excuse to restart their pursuit of nuclear weapons, but without a united international coalition to oppose them, or inspectors on the ground to expose them." He said that meant, "we would get to the point where we would have to live with an Iranian nuclear weapon or get into a conflict."
He also surmised that if Iran and Europe decide to stick with the deal, despite Trump's refusal to renew the sanction waivers, that will "at some point force the administration to sanction our closest allies to stop them from doing business with Iran."
"So we're on a collision course in two directions," he added.
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20 Rules For Succeeding In Business, By The Conqueror Of American Iconic Brands
Anderson Antunes Contributor
Business & Wealth News From Brazil
You may not have heard of him, but Jorge Paulo Lemann is certainly the most successful Brazilian abroad, ever. Thanks to his controlling stakes in traditional American companies such as Anheuser-Busch InBev , the maker of Budweiser beer; Burger King and H. J. Heinz Company, which he bought through his 3G Capital investment fund along with Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway , Lemann, a Harvard-educated billionaire, could be called the "conqueror of America." That sobriquet that may sound strange to many Americans, who for a long time have been used to seeing U.S. corporations buy up foreign firms -- not the opposite.
As Brazil's richest man, and together with his longtime partners and fellow billionaires Marcel Herrmann Telles and Carlos Alberto Sicupira, Lemann's first big success was at investment bank Banco Garantia, which he founded in 1971 and sold to Credit Suisse First Boston in 1998 for $675 million. While at Banco Garantia, Lemann and his partners bought control of a Brazilian brewery that eventually became AmBev. It merged with Interbrew of the Belgium in 2004, a move that resulted with the creation of Inbev.
Brazilian billionaire Jorge Paulo Lemann (PHOTO: Alan Marques/Folhapress)
In 2008 Lemann made headlines when Inbev acquired Anheuser-Busch for $52 billion to create AB-InBev, the world's largest beer company, in which the billionaire holds a 10% stake. His appetite for American companies emerged once again in 2010, when Lemann, Telles and Sicupira, through 3G Capital, bought Burger King Holdings for $3.3 billion.
His partnership with Buffett to buy Heinz came earlier this year, when the two billionaires, who were addressed simply as "Owl" and "Goose" during the negotiations to buy the 144-year-old American iconic brand, agreed to the terms of the $23 billion takeover. Including the debt they assumed, the transaction is worth $28 billion.
So what's Jorge Paulo Lemann's recipe for doing business?
Journalist Cristiane Correa tells Lemann's story in the book "Sonho Grande" (Big Dream), which was officially launched in April in Brazil. Correa, who worked as the executive editor of Exame (Brazil's largest business magazine) for 12 years, wrote, among other things, how the billionaire still follows a set of rules that he and his partners came up with in their early days at Banco Garantia (see below) and they consider crucial to succeed in business. It's clear they value people as assets and follow a proactive price-cutting policy in order to create equity for acquisitions and expansion.
It's also clear that Lemann, a former tennis player who once played in the Wimbledon championship tournament, was destined to become a major player on the global mergers-and-acquisition stage, something that also reflects the rise of Brazil as an economic power. While at home Lemann and his partners benefited from a growing domestic economy, he used that prominence to achieve his current status of an aggressive buyer of American companies.
Worth an estimated $17.8 billion as of FORBES' last World's Billionaires list, Lemann is said to have come up with the idea to buy Heinz and brought it up to Buffett, who called it "my kind of deal." Longtime friends, the two first met two decades ago when both served on the board of Gillette, where Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is a shareholder. Berkshire Hathaway also held a significant stake in Anheuser-Busch before InBev's takeover bid, which Buffett regrettably believed would fail.
According to Correa in her book, there's a reason why Lemann and Buffett are becoming even closer and have started doing more serious business together: in spite of recent reports that have suggested a possible purchase of Pepsico by the Lemann-Telles-Sicupira trio, they could instead be considering the takeover of the most iconic of American brands, none other than Coca-Cola, in which Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is already the largest shareholder, with a 9% stake.
Considering the two men's reputations and respective histories, it's fair to say that The Oracle of Omaha may indeed have found his soul mate in business, since they share the same simple values and are not afraid of dreaming big.
Check out Jorge Paulo Lemann's 20 Commandments To Succeed In Business:
1. Good people working as a team and with common goals is the most important and differentiator asset of a business.
2. Finding, training and keeping good people around are a constant and permanent struggle for all shareholders.
3. People's earnings should be stimulating, fair and balanced with the general interests of the company.
4. The assessment of people is an essential and constructive item for the business.
5. The main function of the heads of a business is to choose people better than them to keep the company going even without its leaders.
6. Leadership is exercised by clear ideas and by the daily example in the smallest details.
7. To debate is important, but everything to be considered requires someone responsible for it, and at the end someone must make a decision.
8. Common sense is worth a lot and more than complex ideas. Simple is always better than complex.
9. A good business is always looking to improve. Whatever degree of success, there is always room for improvement. This ensures a lasting competitive advantage.
10. Always reduce costs. That's something that is under your control and ensures survival.
11. Innovations that create value are useful. But copying what works well is way more practical.
12. The improvement and continuing education of people must be an ongoing effort incorporated into businesses' routines.
13. Only appear in the news with concrete goals.
14. Focus, focus, focus. Focus on the essential.
15. Communication and transparency with key data circulating help educate, pulling in the same direction and create a competitive advantage,
16. Appreciate the rearguard.
17.Always being ethical is essential.
18. It takes a lot to build a reputation that can fade away quickly.
19. In order to get to the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow you have to go all the way through the rainbow, but do it at a profit along the way.
20. A big, challenging and common dream is essential, and it helps everyone to work in the same direction.
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For April, 3 Novels Of Love At Any Age, In Any Era
By Maya Rodale • Apr 15, 2019
Just in time for spring: three charming romance novels with heroines who find love at any age and in any era — and put a fresh spin on the journey from once upon a time to happily ever after.
One of my personal favorite combinations of romance tropes is the English lord in a contemporary tale with a Jane Austen twist, and The Austen Playbook by Lucy Parker delivers. Frederica "Freddy" Carlton is a celebrated dramatic actress, granddaughter of the famous playwright Henrietta Carlton and currently cast as Lydia Bennett in The Austen Playbook, an interactive play being staged for one night only (and broadcast on TV) from the theater at the estate of James "Griff" Ford-Griffin. He is every hero with cutting wit, good sense and a keen awareness of the family's dwindling fortunes. He's putting up with theatrical production for the revenue. And he's totally falling for Freddy.
The feeling is mutual; the romance happens quickly and intensely. What really keeps the pages turning — and the HEA in doubt — is a delicious mystery about playwright Henrietta Carlton and her most successful work, a play called The Velvet Room. The truth about it could pit Freddy against her father, and her family against Griff's with a much-needed fortune at stake. Freddy and Griff's passion for each other may not be in doubt, but the real question is whether they will let their families and their pasts define their future.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that romance heroines ought to be young and in want of a hero. But Courtney Milan turns that convention on its head with Mrs. Martin's Incomparable Adventure, an exquisite example of what a romance novel can be.
Mrs. Bertrice Martin is "some seventy-three years young," incredibly wealthy and plagued by her Terrible Nephew. Violetta Beauchamps is 69, impoverished and just the ally Bertrice needs to evict Terrible Nephew from her rooming house. (He is terrible: He tries to rape women and refuses to work and runs up massive debts while waiting for his rich aunt to die. We do not feel sorry for him.)
These two women embark on one delightfully outrageous and hysterical scheme after another in order to evict him from his boarding house and his gentleman's club. This novel is full of an unapologetic rage at men, the power they have and the fear they can inspire. But it is also a novel about joy, the necessary pleasure of being seen, loved and feeling connected to another human — at any age. And there is no doubt these two old women will live happily ever after together. Even in a world with men.
A truth less universally acknowledged is that heroines may have flaws but they must always be kind. But the young adult romance If I'm Being Honest by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka presents a heroine who is undeniably a Mean Girl. The novel is a contemporary version of Shakespeare's Taming of The Shrew, set in a wealthy Los Angeles high school — the twist is that our heroine, Cameron Bright, embarks on a scheme to tame herself.
Cameron is known for always honestly — or bluntly or cruelly — voicing her opinions. She's had a crush on her friend Andrew forever, and when their first hookup is interrupted by a weird girl named Paige, Cameron has some choice words that cool Andrew's interest in her.
So Cameron plans to win back Andrew's affections by making amends with everyone she's wronged, starting with Paige and her brother — who Cameron has nicknamed "Barfy Brendan." The list goes on. Cameron was not nice. In the process, she develops new friendships and goes deep on other complicated relationships in her life (her parents, especially). Her scheme works, but by the time Andrew asks her out, she's already genuinely fallen for Brendan. Cameron may be a mean girl, but she's also smart, self-aware and willing to do the hard work necessary to earn her happy ever after — and that makes her heroine material in my book.
Maya Rodale is a best-selling romance author. Her new book is Duchess by Design.


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Myanmar is characterized by a long-standing civil war between the state and a large number of ethnic armed organizations (EAOs). Myanmar's conflicts are set against the backdrop of political transition from military rule to a rapid opening of economic, social and cultural spheres to the outside world. The nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA) signed between the Myanmar government and eight EAOs provides a fresh opportunity to resolve the country's civil war and build sustained peace.
Women in Myanmar face systemic barriers to their realization of rights, including domestic, sexual and gender based violence (SGBV), trafficking, and forced marriage. Women and girls in Myanmar are also disproportionately impacted by conflict, including as civilian casualties, refugees, targets of SGBV, and forced labor.
They face recovery challenges given pre-existing vulnerabilities, such as limited access to livelihoods, finance and weak representation in local level and national level decision-making. Meaningful progress for gender equality and women's empowerment is stymied by entrenched patriarchal attitudes, policy-practice gaps, and weak domestic legislation.
Complementarities & Partnerships
Myanmar civil society includes community-based social associations, nongovernmental organizations and social and political movements, including grassroots organizations and national networks that are women-led, addressing issues of gender equality, violence and participation. Although civil society in Myanmar operates in a gradually democratizing space, women CSOs face continued challenges around registration, freedom of assembly and expression.
The WPHF aims to fund civil society actors from ethnic women's organizations and broad-based civil society peace forums, providing critical platforms where women can effectively influence their country's peacebuilding agenda.
In Myanmar, the WPHF will specifically focus on:
Improving attitudes towards gender issues and women's leadership in governance and development.
Linking national and local civil society initiatives relating to women, peace and security (WPS) and engaging women CSOs in the peace process to increase sustainability and popular support for peacebuilding interventions across the country.
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United Nations Command
Headquarters of the United Nations Command and ROK-US Combined Forces Command in 2009.
Members of the United Nations Command Honor Guard Company.
The United Nations Command (UNC) is the unified command structure for the multinational military forces, established in 1950, supporting South Korea (the Republic of Korea or ROK) during and after the Korean War.
The United Nations Command and the Chinese-North Korean Command signed the Korean Armistice Agreement on 27 July 1953, ending the heavy fighting. The armistice agreement established the Military Armistice Commission (MAC), consisting of representatives of the two signatories, to supervise the implementation of the armistice terms, and the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission (NNSC) to monitor the armistice's restrictions on the parties' reinforcing or rearming themselves. The North Korean-Chinese MAC was replaced by Panmunjom representatives under exclusive North Korean management.[1] Regular meetings have been stopped, although duty officers of the Joint Security Area (commonly known as the Truce Village of Panmunjom) from each side met regularly.[2] On November 6, 2018, it was announced that the UNC would transfer primary guard duties of the now demilitarized Joint Security Area to both North and South Korea.[3][4]
Legal statusEdit
The resolutions suggested the forces under the UNC were "United Nations forces", and the United Nations itself could be considered a belligerent in the war. However, in practice the United Nations exercised no control over the combat forces. These were controlled by the United States, which supplied more men (and suffered more casualties) than any other of the nations which came to the war. Most observers[who?] concluded that the forces under the UNC were not in law United Nations troops, and the acts of the UNC were not the acts of the United Nations. The UNC can be regarded as an alliance of national armies, operating under the collective right of self-defense. United Nations Security Council Resolution 84 authorized the use of the United Nations flag concurrently with the flags of the participating UNC nations.[5]
In 1994, UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali wrote in a letter to the North Korean Foreign Minister that:
the Security Council did not establish the unified command as a subsidiary organ under its control, but merely recommended the creation of such a command, specifying that it be under the authority of the United States. Therefore the dissolution of the unified command does not fall within the responsibility of any United Nations organ but is a matter within the competence of the Government of the United States.[6]
Establishment in 1950Edit
After troops of North Korea invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 82 calling on North Korea to cease hostilities and withdraw to the 38th parallel.[7]
On June 27, 1950, it adopted Resolution 83, recommending that members of the United Nations provide assistance to the Republic of Korea "to repel the armed attack and to restore international peace and security to the area".[8]
The first non-Korean and non-US unit to see combat was No. 77 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, which began escort, patrol and ground attack sorties from Iwakuni, Japan on 2 July 1950. On 29 June 1950, the New Zealand government ordered two Loch class frigates – Tutira and Pukaki to prepare to make for Korean waters, and for the whole of the war, at least two NZ vessels would be on station in the theater.[9] On 3 July, Tutira and Pukaki left Devonport Naval Base, Auckland. They joined other Commonwealth forces at Sasebo, Japan, on 2 August.
United Nations Security Council Resolution 84, adopted on July 7, 1950, recommended that members providing military forces and other assistance to South Korea "make such forces and other assistance available to a unified command under the United States of America".[10]
President Syngman Rhee of the Republic of Korea assigned operational command of ROK ground, sea, and air forces to General MacArthur as Commander-in-Chief UN Command (CINCUNC) in a letter (the "Pusan Letter") of July 15, 1950:
In view of the common military effort of the United Nations on behalf of the Republic of Korea, in which all military forces, land, sea and air, of all the United Nations fighting in or near Korea have been placed under your operational command, and in which you have been designated Supreme Commander United Nations Forces, I am happy to assign to you command authority over all land, sea, and air forces of the Republic of Korea during the period of the continuation of the present state of hostilities, such command to be exercised either by you personally or by such military commander or commanders to whom you may delegate the exercise of this authority within Korea or in adjacent seas.
On August 29, 1950, the British Commonwealth's 27th Infantry Brigade arrived at Busan to join UNC ground forces, which until then included only ROK and U.S. forces. The 27th Brigade moved into the Naktong River line west of Daegu.
Units from other countries of the UN followed: Belgian United Nations Command, Canada, Colombia,[11] Ethiopia, France, Greece (15th Infantry Regiment), Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand (16th Field Regiment, Royal New Zealand Artillery), the Philippines (Philippine Expeditionary Forces to Korea), South Africa (No. 2 Squadron SAAF), Thailand and the Turkish Brigade. Denmark, India, Norway and Sweden provided medical units. Italy provided a hospital, even though it was not a UN member. Iran provided medical assistance from the Iranian military's medical service.
On 1 September 1950 the United Nations Command had a strength of 180,000 in Korea: 92,000 were South Koreans, the balance being Americans and the 1,600-man British 27th Infantry Brigade.
1950–1953Edit
During the three years of the Korean War, military forces of these nations were allied as members of the UNC.[12] Peak strength for the UNC was 932,964 on July 27, 1953, the day the Armistice Agreement was signed:
Combat forces
South Korea – 590,911
United States – 302,483
Australia – 17,000
United Kingdom – 14,198
Thailand – 6,326
Canada – 6,146
Turkey – 5,453
Philippines – 1,468
New Zealand – 1,385
Ethiopia – 1,271
Greece – 1,263
France – 1,119
Colombia – 1,068
Belgium – 900
South Africa – 826
Netherlands – 819
Luxembourg – 44
Humanitarian aid (not counted in total above)
Denmark (the hospital ship MS Jutlandia) – 600
Italy (Ospedale da Campo n° 68)
Norway (NORMASH)
The commanders of the UNC were: Douglas MacArthur, Matthew B. Ridgway, and Mark Wayne Clark. John E. Hull was named UNC commander to carry out the cease-fire (including the voluntary repatriation of prisoner of war) after the armistice was signed.[13]
1953 onwardsEdit
In early July 1950, amid the confusion of the first days of the war, Seoul placed its armed forces under the command of General Douglas MacArthur as United Nations (UN) commander.[14] This arrangement continued after the armistice. For some twenty-five years, the United Nations Command headquarters, which had no South Korean officers in it, was responsible for the defense of South Korea, with operational control over a majority of the units in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces, the South Korean military. The command was the primary peacetime planning organization for allied response to a North Korean invasion of South Korea and the principal wartime command organization for all South Korean and United States forces involved in defending South Korea.
On November 7, 1978 a binational headquarters, the Republic of Korea – United States Combined Forces Command (CFC), was created, and the South Korean military units with front-line missions were transferred from the UN Command to the CFC's operational control. The commander in chief of the CFC, a United States military officer, answered ultimately to the national command authorities of the United States and that of South Korea.
In 1994, all South Korean forces were returned to the operational control of the South Korean government. South Korean forces were severed from CFC during the continued Armistice period and the CFC Commander was no longer ultimately responsible for the fighting readiness of South Korean forces. South Korea, as a sovereign nation, assumed this responsibility.
Under the law, the Commander of United States Forces Korea, is dual-hatted as Commander of the ROK-U.S. CFC. The Deputy Commander is a four-star general from the South Korean army, who is also dual-hatted as the ground forces component commander.
The CFC has operational control over more than 600,000 active-duty military personnel of all services, of both countries. In wartime, augmentation could include some 3.5 million South Korean reservists as well as additional U.S. forces deployed from outside South Korea. If North Korea were to invade South Korea, the CFC would provide a coordinated defense through its Air, Ground, Naval and Combined Marine Forces Component Commands and the Combined Unconventional Warfare Task Force. In-country and augmentation U.S. forces would be provided to the CFC for employment by the respective combat component.
The transfer of wartime control of the defense of South Korea to the South Korean government has been discussed periodically.[15][16] As long as South Korea's KAMD and Kill Chain pre-emptive strike system remain in development, full operational control transfer will likely be postponed.[17]
In May 2018,[18] Canadian Lt. General Wayne Eyre became the first non-American to serve as deputy commander of the UNC.[18][19][20][21]
UNC-RearEdit
United Nations Command-Rear is located at Yokota Air Base, Japan and is commanded by a Royal Australian Air Force group captain with a deputy commander from the Canadian Forces. Its task is to maintain the SOFA that permits the UNC to retain a logistics rear and staging link on Japanese soil.[22]
Transfer of Joint Security AreaEdit
On November 6, 2018, it was announced that the UNC had agreed to allow North and South Korean soldiers to take command of security personnel stationed on their perspective sides of the now demilitarized Joint Security Area.[3][4]
United Nations Memorial Cemetery – in Busan, where 2,300 casualties from various nations are buried.
^ State Department message to DPRK URL retrieved November 29, 2006
^ Joint Security Area / Panmunjom URL retrieved April 9, 2006
^ a b https://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/koreas-ready-for-joint-guard-duty-as-dmz-truce-village-gets-new-look-1.555405
^ a b https://www.nknews.org/2018/11/two-koreas-unc-agree-on-guard-duty-rules-for-new-look-joint-security-area-mnd/
^ Patrick M. Norton (March 1997). "Ending the Korean Armistice Agreement: The Legal Issues". Nautilus Institute. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
^ Pak Chol Gu (7 May 1997). "Replacement of the Korean Armistice Agreement: Prerequisite to a lasting peace in the Korean Peninsula". Nautilus Institute. Retrieved 2 May 2013. UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali noted in his letter to the Foreign Minister of the DPRK, dated 24 June 1994: I do not believe, though, that any principal organ of the United Nations, including the Secretary General, can be the proper instance to decide on the continued existence or the dissolution of the United Nations Command. However, allow me to recall that the Security Council, in operative paragraph 3 of resolution 84 (1950) of 7 July 1950, limited itself to recommending that all members providing military forces and other assistance to the Republic of Korea 'make such forces and other assistance available to a unified command under the United States of America'. It follows, accordingly, that the Security Council did not establish the unified command as a subsidiary organ under its control, but merely recommended the creation of such a command, specifying that it be under the authority of the United States. Therefore the dissolution of the unified command does not fall within the responsibility of any United Nations organ but is a matter within the competence of the Government of the United States.
^ "United Nations Security Council Resolution 82" (pdf). 25 June 1950. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
^ Korean Scholarships – Navy Today, Defence Public Relations Unit, Issue 133, 8 June, Page 14-15
^ "United Nations Security Council Resolution 84" (pdf). 7 July 1950. pp. 1–2. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
^ Coleman, Bradley Lynn (October 2005). "The Colombian Army in Korea, 1950–1954" (PDF). The Journal of Military History. Project Muse (Society for Military History). 69 (4): 1137–1177. doi:10.1353/jmh.2005.0215. ISSN 0899-3718.
^ United Nations Command Archived March 12, 2013, at the Wayback Machine retrieved June 27, 2011
^ Paul M. Edwards (10 June 2010). Historical Dictionary of the Korean War. Scarecrow Press. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-8108-7461-9.
^ Webb, William J. "The Korean War: The Outbreak". United States Army Center for Military History. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
^ Eun-jung, Kim (14 October 2013). "S. Korea, U.S. to decide timing of OPCON transfer next year". www.globalpost.com. Yonhap News Agency. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
^ Sean Kimmons, Army News Service (May 23, 2019) South Korean exercises being revised amid peace talks
^ Diplomat, Ankit Panda, The. "US, South Korea Discuss Operational Control (OPCON) Transfer".
^ a b https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canadian-lt-gen-wayne-eyre-appointed-deputy-commander-at-un-command/
^ https://ipolitics.ca/2018/11/05/canadians-at-centre-of-potentially-historic-turning-point-in-korea/
^ http://www.usfk.mil/Leadership/Article-View/Article/1582206/deputy-commander-unc/
^ https://nationalinterest.org/feature/can-united-nations-command-become-catalyst-change-korean-peninsula-34857
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Home › News › Newsroom Fort HealthCare Wins Community Engagement Award
Fort HealthCare Wins Community Engagement Award
Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative joined forces with Quarles & Brady, LLP to create the Quarles & Brady RWHC Community Engagement Award recognizing excellent community engagement in health and wellness. Out of the many qualified applicants, they awarded first place to Fort HealthCare. The criteria for the award consisted of health improvements over time, community assets, community vision for health improvement and community partnerships.
"As a healthcare organization, we have established our mission and vision to be community-based. By promoting 'health' rather than 'health care', we are helping our communities turn a corner with their personal health, to be more proactive rather than reactive. Our community members are our greatest assets" states Mike Wallace, President/CEO of Fort HealthCare.
Programs and initiatives implemented over the last four years have been contributing to Fort HealthCare achieving its vision to become the healthiest community in Wisconsin. This process helped Fort HealthCare develop a needs assessment specific to measuring community wellness and impact across the service area. Qualitative research identified the most important health issues from a number of key groups including Fort HealthCare staff, community leaders, business leaders, school districts, and agencies/social services. The community door-to-door survey ensures that the strategic plans are aligned with the vision to become the healthiest community in Wisconsin.
While strengthening the inter-county coalitions, Fort HealthCare continually works to grow the Healthy Community Coalitions, serving six communities and establishing health initiatives in a variety of sectors including schools, worksites, and the community-at-large.
For Fort HealthCare, the continual promotion of health improvement is a primary focus. There is a true grassroots effort happening right now in all of the local communities. The Healthy Community Coalitions of Jefferson County have taken progressive steps towards making these local communities healthier places to live through the promotion of positive behavioral health changes. The coalitions exist in Johnson Creek, Cambridge, Jefferson, Fort Atkinson, Whitewater, and Lake Mills.
Some of the other major initiatives produced by the volunteers that make up these Coalitions include: Fort HealthCare Community Challenges, COACH – The Coalitions have had a significant part in the COACH (Collaborating, Organizing, and Advocating for Community Health) program facilitated by the Healthy Wisconsin Leadership Institute to educate these community leaders on how to manage and succeed with their coalition, Eating Clean in 2015, Simple Swaps- small changes that can be incorporated into everyday life that can improve health, Let's Drink More Water/Rethink Your Drink – A major success that several of the Coalitions celebrated was the increase of water consumption in the schools, Bike to School –Bike/Walk to School days are held in the fall and spring that encourage students and employees to bike or walk to school rather than take the bus or be dropped off by their parents, and Try-It Tuesdays – the Coalitions not only focus on physical activity for kids, but also healthy eating through programming such as Try-It Tuesdays, Farm to School initiatives, and school garden.
The Quarles & Brady RWHC Community Engagement Award reflects our progress towards becoming the healthiest community in Wisconsin!
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Galaxy Tab S7 specs leak w/ AMOLED and LCD displays, S Pen matches Apple Pencil latency
- Jul. 26th 2020 6:28 pm PT
If you want a powerful Android tablet, the only real option for the past few years has been Samsung, especially now that Huawei can't use Google apps. In the next few weeks, Samsung's latest pair of Android tablets, the Galaxy Tab S7 and S7+, are set to debut and today a huge spec leak reveals all of the details.
WinFuture today published a gallery of images of the Galaxy Tab S7 and its larger, upgraded Tab S7+ model. As some previous rumors suggested, too, there's going to be a much bigger disparity between the S7 and S7+.
The standard Galaxy Tab S7 has a spec sheet which is surprisingly lacking in one key area. Samsung's tablets have been praised for high-quality AMOLED displays, but Tab S7 is using an 11-inch 2560×1600 LCD panel. It is 120Hz, though, which is a nice bonus.
It's pretty shocking Samsung is planning to use an LCD panel in its upcoming flagship tablet, but it's probably not going to be a problem. After all, the main competitor to this tablet, the iPad Pro, has the same type of display and most likely, it will also result in cost savings. As previously reported, too, this change swaps the fingerprint sensor to a capacitive sensor versus one under the display.
By comparison, the Tab S7+ has a 12.4-inch AMOLED display at 2800×1752. The panel is also 120Hz and has a higher pixel density as well.
Beyond the display, the only big differences between the two sizes are the battery — 7,040 mAh vs 10,090 mAh — and, obviously, the size. Internally, the tablets are pretty similar. There's a Snapdragon 865+, 6GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, a microSD slot, 13MP/5MP ultrawide rear cameras, an 8MP front-facing camera, quad-speakers, and three colors — Mystic Black, Mystic Bronze, and Mystic Silver.
As with the Tab S6, Samsung includes an S Pen in the box with this tablet. With the Galaxy Tab S7's upgraded spec sheet, too, that S Pen will be capable of 9ms latency, a huge upgrade which notably matches the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil which have been the gold standard for a while. As with the Tab S6, the S Pen is mounted on the back of the tablet magnetically where it can also charge.
It's still unclear how much the Tab S7 series will cost, but Samsung is expected to debut these tablets around the time of its Galaxy Note 20 event on August 5th.
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"Blink of an Eye Opener"
How do you open VMware's biggest event of the year? With a vision of the future, a dramatization of the speed of technology, or a fun human moment with the CEO Raghu Raghuram? How about all 3! This short narrative kicked off the event and introduced the keynote open from the CEO. It has traveled all over the world for hundreds of thousands of event attendees. Look for the cameo appearance from Measure Twice's Producer/Director BB!
"The review links went all the way up the chain at VMware. Everyone's responses have been very positive, both creatively and substantively. This is not an easy audience, and I thank you all for the skill, patience, and devotion it has taken to make this show a reality."
DON RICHARDS | Vice President, Executive Create Director at Freeman Company
"Marino vs. Montana"
The deadline was short, the creative was ambitious, the talent was high profile, and the pressure was high. Less than 1 week to prepare 1 shoot day capturing 4 commercials, including multiple sets and Joe Montana sabering a champagne bottle. What could go wrong? We delivered, everything came together, it was fun, and everyone left with what they wanted, minus one champagne bottle.
"Thank you for getting us through all of this. Amazing job you pulled off. Clients are more than happy."
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This is one of the six commercials from the "Bite Sized Moments" series. Made a fun and quirky campaign, with a limited budget, for an old brand that has never done video before.
"It's amazing all the nuts and bolts that went into this. We were thrilled, the client was thrilled, it was successful from beginning to end."
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Plastc had only 5 weeks for a vision video and website backgrounds. They needed these deliverables for their PR campaign and presales of their upcoming product "Card." The creative was a true narrative story, not just a tutorial, with visual effects that showed Card's future functionality. The timeline was very aggressive, with many challenges and late nights.
"I am Naomi"
This is one of a series of behind the scenes inspired web commercials that Measure Twice produced for Yahoo! original series. Other commercials included "Community," "Other Space," "Sin City Saints," and a few unreleased shows. The top-billed cast included Naomi Campbell, Joe Zee, Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, John Oliver, Neil Casey, Joel Hodgson, Malin Maria Akerman, and Tom Arnold.
"Hack Chat"
Leading antivirus software company Avast was written into the first series of "Mr. Robot," and wanted a branded show that discussed the details behind the shows hacking scenes, as well as commentary of cybersecurity in popular culture. The challenge was quickly creating adaptive content to the plot of the show and moments in popular culture.
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Tourism top career choice for young Saudis
RIYADH, November 23, 2020
Nine in 10 (91%) young Saudis are interested in pursuing a career in tourism, compared to just over three quarters (77%) who are interested in a career in petrochemicals, said The Red Sea Development Company (TRSDC) in a new report.
The research, based on more than 850 face-to-face interviews, found that young Saudis are less interested in careers in more 'traditional' sectors such as petrochemicals and oil and gas, but favour those within the country's strategic growth industries aligned with Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030.
"We are only at the beginning of Saudi Arabia's exciting transition to a new and diversified economy and future generations have a chance to play their part," said John Pagano, CEO of TRSDC.
"A career in tourism or hospitality offers a range of opportunities like no other. From managing an international hotel group, to becoming a world class chef or entrepreneur, the sector has something for everyone. The Red Sea Development Company is at the heart of this emerging industry and once completed our destination will support 70,000 direct, indirect and induced jobs providing opportunities to people throughout the country," he added.
A prosperous future
Young Saudis and their parents are acknowledging the roles that tourism and hospitality will play in the country's new diversified economy with two thirds (69%) and six in 10(59%) respectively believing the sectors will become more important for the Saudi economy over the next 10years.
They are also optimistic that these roles will be a key driver of employment for Saudi nationals, with over two thirds (69%) of young Saudis believing that expanding tourism and hospitality industries would provide jobs for Saudi nationals.
"Saudi Arabia has a long and rich cultural heritage, and the people of this magnificent country have the opportunity to showcase this and their fabled hospitality with the rest of world," said Pagano.
"Our people are at the heart of our business and will be essential to the development of our ambitious destination; therefore it is encouraging to see so many young Saudis acknowledging the benefits that a career in this dynamic sector has to offer them."
Tourism and hospitality deliver on lifestyle expectations
The appeal to young Saudis of a career in tourism or hospitality is driven by the perceptions of the lifestyle it will provide. Over eight in 10(84%) believe that a career in tourism and hospitality will give them the salary and resources they expect to sustain themselves.
Although there is excitement at the prospect of employment in emerging sectors, as is the global trend, young Saudis understandably give importance to conventional factors such as salary (33%), job security (22%) and opportunities for personal growth (19%) when considering jobs. – TradeArabia News Service


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By Joan Greve
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On early Sunday morning, 49 people were killed and 53 injured inside Orlando's gay nightclub Pulse. Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has renewed his call for a "Muslim ban" while Democrat Hillary Clinton responded by demanding tougher legislation on gun control. As condolences and policy proposals stream in, we took a look at the history and make-up of the community hit by this tragedy.
How many Americans identify as LGBT?
Accurate estimates of LGBT Americans have proven elusive for many researchers over the years. Gary Gates of UCLA's Williams Institute, who has studied the matter extensively, blames this on surveys' shifting definitions of LGBT and inconsistent questions.
Analyzing the conclusions of eleven studies, Gates theorizes that there are approximately 9 million members of the LGBT community in America today. This number would indicate that the LGBT community is larger than the population of 40 American states.
What percentage of the U.S. population is LGBT?
Gates estimates that approximately 3.5% of Americans identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual, while 0.3% are transgender.
Have nightclubs factored into LGBT history before?
A 1969 police raid of the Stonewall Inn, a popular bar among New York City's gay community, set off riots which lasted several days. It also marked the beginning of the modern LGBT rights movement.
Just four years after Stonewall, though, the city of New Orleans was rattled by a massive fire in another gay bar, the Upstairs Lounge. The act of arson left 32 dead, making it the largest mass killing in LGBT history, until Sunday.
How many Americans are now in same-sex marriages or partnerships?
Gallup estimated in 2015 that 780,000 Americans are in same-sex marriages, while another two million live with a same-sex domestic partner. That number will likely increase in the coming years, given the Supreme Court's 2015 decision striking down all remaining same-sex marriage bans.
Are there openly LGBT politicians in the U.S.?
Openly gay Americans have been serving in political office since 1974, when Kathy Kozachenko won her election for city council in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The 1978 assassination of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay office holder in California, brought renewed attention to the LGBT community's attempts and struggles to be represented in government.
In the decades since, openly gay politicians have served in each of the 50 states. Today, seven members of Congress identify as gay or bisexual, including Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin, who became the first openly lesbian senator in America when she was elected in 2012. The six openly gay or bisexual House representatives also co-chair the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus, which counts another 77 representatives as members.
How many military service members are LGBT?
The Williams Institute estimated in 2010 that 70,000 members of the U.S. military were lesbian, gay, or bisexual. In 2014, the Institute also concluded that about 15,500 transgender Americans currently serve in the armed forces.
While the 2010 repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" outlawed military discrimination against lesbian, gay, or bisexual service members, transgender military personnel do not enjoy the same protections.
How often are hate crimes committed against LGBT Americans?
Looking at 14 years of hate crime data, Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center recently told the PBS Newshour, "LGBT people are targeted for violent hate crimes at a rate of two times that of... Muslims or black people, four times that of Jews, and 14 times that of Latinos."
Data from the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs also shows that the transgender community is particularly vulnerable to such violence. In 2013, 67% of hate crime homicides were committed against transgender women of color, a group also present at the Pulse nightclub shooting.
What about other forms of discrimination?
Despite many legislative and social gains in recent years, LGBT Americans still frequently experience discrimination. Statistics from the Human Rights Campaign show that 42% of LGBTQ youth report living in a community that is "not accepting." 92% of them also said they "hear negative messages about being LGBT."
SEE ALSO: By the numbers: Muslims in America
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The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Aden (disambiguation) .
Coordinates 12 ° 48 ' N , 45 ° 2' E Coordinates: 12 ° 48 ' N , 45 ° 2' E12.8 45.033611111111
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Old town below the crater
Street scene in Aden, 1999
Aden on a wood engraving by Daniel Meisner (1638)
Port of Aden (around 1910)
Historical map of the region (around 1888)
Aden ( Arabic عدن, DMG ʿAdan [ˈʕɑdæn] ) is the fourth largest city in Yemen with 568,704 inhabitants. From 1967 to 1990 it was the capital of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen . On March 21, 2015, Aden was declared the interim capital of Yemen by President Abed Rabbo Mansur Hadi , as the capital Sana'a was occupied by Houthi rebels .
3.1 Tawahi
3.2 Crater
4 Terrorism in Aden
5 sons and daughters of the city
6 Climate table
9 items of evidence
Aden is a port city on the Gulf of Aden . Less than 200 km to the west is the Bab al-Mandab , the strait that connects the Gulf of Aden with the Red Sea . The oldest part of the city is located in a volcanic crater and is therefore called Kraytar . The port is dominated by the 517 meter high Jebel Shamsan volcano.
Aden was already in the 8th century BC. It was an important trading port under the ancient empires of Ausan and Saba . After a period of decline starting in the 3rd century, the city experienced a great economic boom again under the Ayyubids and Rasulids in the 12th century when it became a trading center for trade between India and Egypt during the Ayyubid and Mamluk era . According to Marco Polo , 80,000 people are said to have lived in Aden.
In the 16th century, with the relocation of trade routes, the city began to decline. On February 26th, 1548 Piri Reis succeeded , that of the Portuguese King John III. to conquer occupied Aden for the Ottoman Empire . By 1838 the population had dropped to 600.
On January 16, 1839, Great Britain conquered the town on a peninsula , which at the time was still an insignificant village. It was fortified and expanded into an important coal and goods depot for ships . The strategic importance of the port, which was the only deep-sea port on the South Arabian coast with the introduction of steam shipping, resulted from trade relations with India ( India trade ). England placed the city under government in Bombay , but in 1864 the local resident was given extensive government powers.
Since the Suez Canal opened in 1869, the city has grown in importance as an important naval station (central British military base) was located in the city that could have blocked the entrance to the Red Sea . Aden also flourished as a trading port and was soon the third largest seaport of its time. On April 1, 1937, the city was raised to the status of its own crown colony as "Colony Aden" and was detached from the British Presidency of Bombay in India. Between 1963 and 1967 Aden was part of the South Arab Federation as the "State of Aden" .
The once large Jewish community of Aden was expelled or evacuated in the course of the pogrom of 1947 . Aden achieved independence from Great Britain with South Yemen in 1967 and also became the capital of the new state. But in the same year the Suez Canal was blocked by the Six Day War , which made the port of Aden less important for international shipping. When the Suez Canal reopened eight years later, other port cities had taken over the role of Aden.
Tawahi
Tawahi ( Arabic التواهي, DMG at-Tawāhī ) is a district of Aden. During the British colonial era, Tawahi became the city's posh district. The quarter also includes "Steamer Point", a colonial port for passenger ships and tankers. Today most of the tourist hotels are located in this urban area.
Crater (also: Kraytar) , ( Arabic كريتر) is the unofficial name of a district of Adens located in the crater of an extinct volcano. The official name of the district is Ṣīra (Seera) ( Arabic صيرة). This part of the city is home to around 70,000 residents.
The Tawila cisterns are located in Crater as historically significant sights from the Himyarian period . Originally 53 cisterns were dug into the mountain and connected to each other by a system of canals. Over the centuries, they largely fell into disrepair and were filled with rubble and trash. From the middle of the 19th century, they were partially restored at the instigation of British colonial officials, so that today 17 cisterns can collect rainwater of up to 100,000 m³ from the Shamsan massif.
Other districts are al-Muʿalla (at the north foot of the volcano) and Khor Maksar with the Aden airport and the rapidly expanding Shaykh Uthmān (university district and the "Aden Free Zone" and container port).
Terrorism in Aden
When pogrom in Aden in 1947, the historical was Shield of Abraham Synagogue destroyed.
During the hijacking of the "Landshut" aircraft , which began on October 13, 1977, Aden was the hijackers' penultimate stopover. Because the Aden's government refused to interact with terrorists, contrary to what the kidnappers planned, the runway was blocked by the government. Since the Landshut only had fuel for a 20-minute flight, the pilots were forced to land in the sand next to the runway.
On October 12, 2000, the destroyer USS Cole (DDG-67) moored in the port of Aden for bunkering. When he was picking up fuel not far from the landing stage, a boat loaded with explosives set course for the destroyer in the late morning and detonated amidships, at the level of the engine rooms and the mess. This tore a nine by twelve meter hole in the hull. 17 members of the US Navy were killed in the attack and 39 others were injured.
On December 18, 2016, a suicide bomber blew himself up near a military base where soldiers had gathered to collect their pay . At least 42 people were killed as a result.
sons and daughters of the town
Mohammed Basindawa (* 1935), Yemeni politician
Keith Vaz (* 1956), British politician
Mukesh Ambani (* 1957), Indian entrepreneur
Eddie Izzard (born 1962), British comedian and actor
Christopher Steele (* 1964), British secret service worker
Claude Moraes (* 1965), British MEP
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Temperature in ° C , precipitation in mm
Source: wetterkontor.de
Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Aden
Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 28.5 28.6 30.2 32.2 34.1 36.6 35.9 35.3 35.4 33.0 30.7 28.9 O 32.5
Min. Temperature (° C) 22.6 23.2 24.0 25.6 27.7 28.8 28.0 27.5 27.8 24.6 23.2 22.9 O 25.5
Precipitation ( mm ) 6th 3 5 2 1 0 3 3 5 1 3 5 Σ 37
Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 7.8 7.2 7.0 8.0 9.8 9.4 7.8 8.7 9.0 9.5 9.5 8.3 O 8.5
Water temperature (° C) 25th 25th 26th 27 29 30th 29 29 30th 28 27 25th O 27.5
Humidity ( % ) 72 72 74 74 72 66 65 65 69 68 70 70 O 69.7
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List of cities in Yemen
Commons : Aden - album with pictures, videos and audio files
↑ Horst Kopp (ed.): Yemen geography . Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden 2005, p. 91 (Population figures of Yemeni provincial capitals 2003 (calculation by World Gazetteer))
↑ Aden . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 1 : A-Androphagi . London 1910, p. 190 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
↑ Gerhard Heck, Manfred Wöbcke: Arabian Peninsula
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↑ Gerd Weimer: Abduction of the "Landshut" - 108 hours in hell . ( Memento of January 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved April 25, 2011
^ Brian T. Bennett: Understanding, assessing, and responding to terrorism .
↑ dpa: IS is committed to suicide attack. In: FAZ.net . December 18, 2016, accessed October 13, 2018 .
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Weekly Mining Sector
Share Talk Weekly Mining Sector News Round-Up, 28th November 2021
Eurasia Mining Plc (AIM: EUA), the palladium, platinum, rhodium, iridium and gold producing company notes recent media speculation about a listing of the ordinary share capital of Eurasia on the Moscow Exchange, while retaining its listing on AIM ("Dual Listing").
The Board has actively explored the potential benefits of a Dual Listing, including provision of an opportunity for Russian investors to have easier access to a facility for the trading of shares in the Company, but no decision has been made yet.
Asiamet Resources Limited (AIM: ARS ) announced further strong results from recent drilling completed as part of the Company's 2021 Resource extension program at the BKZ deposit located on its KSK Contract of Work (KSK CoW) in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Drilling at BKZ continues to return high grade Zinc-Lead-Copper-Silver-Gold (Zn-Pb-Cu-Ag-Au) mineralisation and most recently also intersected strong gold-silver dominant mineralisation immediately to the east and below the base metal horizons including 29m at 4.59g/t Au, 161g/t Ag.
Panther Metals PLC (LSE: PALM) announced the signing of a purchase option agreement over four multicell mining claims (the "Properties" or "Claims") covering a total area of 7.7km2 to supplement the Obonga Project's 235km2 of prospective greenstone belt coverage,160km north of Thunder Bay in the Province of Ontario, Canada.
Horizonte Minerals PLC, (AIM: HZM). stated that it raised approximately £147.4mln through placings as part of a transformative finance package. This funding will fully fund the Araguaia Nickel Project in Brazil. The shares were purchased at 7 pence each.
Kavango Resources PLC, LSE: KAV) wants to increase its position in Botswana's copper belt through two separate deals. The junior has chosen to purchase 85.2% of Kalahari key mineral exploration (KKME), which is the owner of Molopo Farms Project. Kavango also stated that it will accelerate its acquisition of a 90% share in the LVR Joint Venture (KCB) in the Kalahari Copper Belt, also in Botswana.
Kavango Resources commences the most important drilling in its history (LSE: KAV)
Also announce the commencement of drilling of the Company's B1 Conductor Target (the "B1 Conductor", with Hole KSZDD002. The B1 Conductor is a cross-formational, strongly conductive geophysical anomaly that has a conductance reading of 8,200 Siemens. Part of Kavango's exploration model in the Kalahari Suture Zone ("KSZ") is based on identifying sub-surface conductors with conductance readings greater than 1,000 Siemens. According to the Company's model, the B1 Conductor is 475m by 550m in size, exhibits a decay constant in excess of 350ms and dips at a 60-degree angle.
Trident Royalties PLC, (AIM: TRR), stated that the Ontario Superior Court of Justice granted an order to stop a lawsuit brought forward by Lithium Royalty Corporation. This "effectively dismissed the litigation against Trident". This case was brought against Trident's Thacker Pass royalty arrangement.
Caracal Gold plc, (LON: GCAT) announced the arrival of two drill rigs in-country ahead of the commencement of diamond drilling ('DD') and reverse circulation drilling ('RC') programmes. This follows the renewal of Caracal's Prospecting Licence as announced on 17 November 2021.
Bradda Head Lithium Ltd. (AIM: BHL). reported the highest results from its 2021 drilling program on Burro Creek East (BCE), an Arizona project. The first three holes revealed thicker Upper Clay intersections than expected.
Shanta Gold Ltd stated that it was encouraged to report on exploration drilling results outside of the existing mineral reserves at New Luika's gold mine (NLGM), Tanzania.
MetalNRG (LON: MNRG), the natural resources and energy investment company, announces an update on its Arizona based Gold project, GoldRidge.
Following on from our previous announcement, regarding GoldRidge on 6th September 2021, in which we gave an overview of work completed, Bart Stryhas Phd CPG, the Company's Senior Geologist, has made solid progress on the project.
Technology Minerals PLC, (LSE: TM1) stated that 49% of Recyclus Group's shareholders signed a contract with Slicker Recycling to take battery waste from the UK and deliver it back to its plants. Recyclus is able to process both lead-acid as well as lithium-ion power units thanks to its unique technology. The business plans to handle 16,000 tonnes of the former, and 5,000 tonnes for the latter in the next year.
IronRidge Resources Limited (AIM: IRR, "IronRidge" or the "Company") confirms that further to the passing of the resolution at the AGM held by the Company on 18 November 2021, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has approved the Company's change of name to Atlantic Lithium Limited.
From 8.00 a.m. today, Monday22 November 2021 the Company will trade under the new name of Atlantic Lithium Limited with a new Tradable Instrument Display Mnemonic ("TIDM" or "Ticker") of 'ALL'. The Company's ISIN number and SEDOL will remain unchanged.
Galantas Gold Corp, (AIM: GAL), stated that it received additional high grades from its second underground bore at the Omagh project in Northern Ireland. This hole was part of a 4,000-metre drilling program at the Kearney Vein.
Thor Mining PLC (AIM:ASX: THR) said more than 45 metres (m) of tungsten-molybdenum-copper mineralisation was intercepted at the Molyhil project in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Nicole Galloway Warland, Managing Director of Thor Mining, commented: We are excited to be sharing this new discovery at our Molyhil critical metals project. Testing a new geological concept, in this case an interpreted magnetic target from 3D modelling to the south of existing mineralisation, has paid off significantly. The tungsten-molybdenum-copper mineralisation is open to the south and the third hole is designed to test this south plunging model.
Tharisa Plc (LSE: THS), South Africa's chrome and platinum producer reported that earnings for the year ended September 2021 were up between 128% and 134%, to between US$37-40c.
Power Metal Resources plc (LON: POW) update for the Alamo Gold Project (the "Project"), located in west-central Arizona, USA. Power Metal has the right to earn-in up to a 75% interest in the Project and full earn-in details were published in the Company's announcement on 22 July 2020.
Oriole Resources PLC (AIM: ORR), provided an update on its Senala gold project ('Senala' or the 'Project') in Senegal, where joint venture partner IAMGOLD Corporation ('IAMGOLD') has the option to spend up to US$8 million to earn a 70% interest
Alien Metals Ltd. (AIM: UFO). agreed to purchase Platina Res Ltd. (ASX.PGM) and Platina Resource Ltd. (ASX.PGM))'s 30 per cent interest in the Munni Munni gold and platinum group metals project in Western Australia. The total amount of cash and shares is A$2.23mln. (PS1.2mln). Alien stated that the Munni Munni project in the Pilbara is one of Australia's largest undeveloped primary platinum-group elements (PGE) reserves. It is also adjacent to Alien's Elizabeth Hill project which has potential for additional significant silver, nickel, and PGE mineralisation.
Xtract Resources Plc (AIM: XTR) advised that independent laboratory assays have been received for drill hole BRDD-21-012 on the Phase 2 diamond drilling programme at the Bushranger copper-gold exploration project.
Pembridge Resources PLC, (LSE: PERE) announced that the reverse takeover to create Minto Metals Corp has been completed. Based on the price of the listing, Pembridge will own an 11.2% share in the TSX-venture quoted mining group.
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Microsoft, Others Seek to Get Paid for Sales to WaMu
By Nancy Gohring
Microsoft got in line with several other organizations that are taking steps to get paid for products and services provided to Washington Mutual, the largest bank to fail in U.S. history.
On Tuesday, Microsoft filed a document with the Delaware bankruptcy court handling the WaMu case asking to be sent copies of all proceedings in the case.
"Microsoft filed a notice of appearance because we have existing contracts for software licenses and consulting services with Washington Mutual and we want to make sure those contracts are properly administered through the bankruptcy process," said David Bowermaster, a Microsoft spokesman, in an e-mailed statement.
Microsoft would not describe the size or duration of its contracts with WaMu. The bank is a beta tester and early user of its products, and last year a WaMu executive joined Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on stage at a launch event for Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange 2007.
Microsoft isn't alone in its efforts. On Tuesday Siemens filed a motion asking that JP Morgan, which is taking over WaMu, either reject or assume an IT services contract it has with the bank, worth US$5 million to $6 million each month. Siemens said it had supplied about $10 million worth of IT services to WaMu that have not been paid for. Siemens has about 400 employees and contractors providing services to the bank, it said.
And Tata Consultancy Services, the Indian outsourcing and IT services company, filed a motion similar to Microsoft's asking to be kept apprised of proceedings.
Government regulators seized WaMu in late September and let other companies bid to take over the bank. JP Morgan had the winning bid. The economic crisis in the U.S., driven in part by a housing slump, hit WaMu particularly hard because it was one of the country's biggest providers of home mortgages, including risky loans.
Amid the troubles in the financial sector, many analysts say that the surviving financial organizations will still need to rely heavily on technology, so IT vendors may not be hit too hard by banking failures. While the wider economic meltdown is sure to slow IT spending overall, many analysts still say that they expect most of the big vendors to be able to weather the storm.


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Fans need to know number of tickets available to general public: Stubhub
By Marco Vigliotti. Published on May 8, 2019 11:52am
Scotiabank Arena, then known as the Air Canada Centre, in downtown Toronto. (COLIN MCCONNELL / TORONTO STAR)
Fans deserve to know how many tickets are available for concerts and sporting events, with a U.S. report finding that only 25 per cent of tickets for top shows ever go on sale to the general public, MPs heard Tuesday.
Paul Nowosad, general manager of ticket reselling channel StubHub, told members of the House heritage committee that the oft-demonized online bots used by professional sellers are not the sole factor restricting access for fans.
Rather, a large number of tickets for top events are never released for sale to the general public, held back for "industry insiders, artists, fan clubs, credit card pre-sales, and other sources," he explained.
"Providing fans information on the number of tickets available for sale, when these tickets will be offered, and at what price, will create a clearer picture of event accessibility," he said in his address to the committee.
"It is a critical part of any discussion on ticket access. It will also help inform consumers' purchasing decisions."
Nowosad pointed to a 2016 study from the New York Attorney General's Office that found on average only 46 per cent of tickets go on sale to the general public, which fell to 25 per cent for top shows. For some events, it was reported to be as low as 12 per cent.
He also noted, as an example, that NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said over 90 per cent of tickets to 2016's World Cup of Hockey in Toronto were already sold in advance of the general sale.
StubHub, the world's largest ticket marketplace, was one of four groups that appeared Tuesday to kick off the committee's study of the online secondary ticket sales industry.
Another meeting on the topic is scheduled for Thursday, with the Music Managers Forum Canada and former Ontario Liberal MPP Sophie Kiwala scheduled to appear.
The disruptive use of digital technologies like bots — which allow for automated ticket sales across a variety of platforms — was a key focus of Tuesday's debate, though many worried that not much could be done to tackle the problem.
Asked about B.C. legislation barring bots, Erin Benjamin, president and CEO of the Canadian Live Music Association, said it was an essential part of any law, though the enforcement element would remain challenging.
"I think it has to be done … but it's extremely difficult to enforce," she told the committee.
"I think it's a nod, though, to the legitimate companies to continue working on their technologies."
Making bot technology illegal, she said, would also empower legitimate companies to sue operators of these tools.
Jean-Francoys Brousseau, president of cloud-based ticketing platform Outbox Technology, said a similar law is on the books in Quebec but if no one can enforce the rules outside the province, the bots will just move away from the jurisidiction's grasp.
"These robots can come from any part of the world," he noted.
As many provinces are moving forward with their own rules on bots and online secondary ticket markets, it's unclear what role Ottawa could play in the regulatory process.
When asked what role the federal government should play, Benjamin urged Ottawa to consult with the ticket industry and performers, and partner with their provincial counterparts to explore "existing or future legislation."
"We all need to be working together; it's a global business," she said.
Brousseau said Ottawa could help by addressing the separate but connected issue of fighting fraud. Promoters and ticket agencies are not told at the time if a credit card used to purchase tickets has been stolen, and when they do find out, if it's often only after the show or event has ended.
Requiring banks to disclose at the time of a purchase that a card is stolen would be a "great asset," he said.