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Ocean Beach Local and San Diego Occupier Continues Hunger Strike Through Thanksgiving
by Annie Lane on November 26, 2011 · 8 comments
in Civil Rights, Ocean Beach, San Diego
John Kenney
For most people, Thanksgiving Day is as much about the food as it is self reflection. The turkey cooked to a golden brown, mashed potatoes topped with gravy, salty stuffing, sweet cranberry sauce and a collection of pies for the tasting.
But for OBcean John Kenney, this Thanksgiving was spent sipping glasses of water and contemplating the state of politics.
Kenney has been on a hunger strike for 19 days.
He announced his intentions at the San Diego City Council meeting on Nov. 8 and has since only indulged in water and the occasional coffee. His hope is simple: to get the attention of the City Council members and begin a dialogue regarding the rights of San Diego occupiers to gather at the Civic Center.
This isn't the first time Kenney has stopped eating for a cause. For the past 15 years, he's abstained annually in observance of Ramadan, the Islam month of fasting. For him, getting past the second and third days are always the hardest, but the lucidity that follows is equally as intense.
"I can see things and dream things that I would never feel if I wasn't on a fast," said Kenney, who lives on Saratoga Avenue.
It wasn't until 2004 that his fasting took on a political element. To protest electronic voting, Kenney stopped eating for 52 days, drinking only one glass of orange juice daily. He ended his hunger strike just prior to the November elections intending to resume afterward, but soon got the news that presidential candidate John Kerry had conceded.
"I felt someone had to do something; the only thing I could think of that an individual could do was a hunger strike," he said of the experience.
Ironically, societal interactions as a whole have since become even more electronic. In fact, each local facet of the Occupy movement has been held together, kept informed and continues to grow largely via groups of people communicating through social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.
But Kenney's beef isn't with that. Rather, it's against the ever pervasive ambition of greed among U.S. leaders, which he says grew exponentially during the era of George W. Bush, America's greatest "commander and thief."
"Bush almost destroyed our world," Kenney said. "Just being an American I can't stand it, but being a humanitarian … We have to change. We are at the last straw."
Kenney believes that change begins at home, as demonstrated by the efforts of occupiers at the Civic Center. He cites cities like Los Angeles and Oakland, where, respectively, a resolution was recently passed and a plans for a general strike are underway in support of the occupy movement.
The advances being made at other occupy locations is in stark contrast to the response of San Diego's city officials—all of whom have largely ignored the pleas of occupiers. In fact, during their weekly meetings, members of the City Council appear disturbingly unsurprised by public accounts of gross violations of first amendment rights during mayor-approved police raids at the Civic Center in the wee morning hours.
In an interview with KPBS on Nov. 2, Council president Tony Young states that he alone has the ability to put a resolution regarding Occupy San Diego on the agenda, but that "we will discuss the resolution only if and when I have four members of the council who will sign."
Young also stated that he frequents the Civic Center plaza in order to talk with individual occupiers. But that's not what the regular occupiers will say.
"I have zero respect for them," said Kenney of San Diego's district representatives. "They've totally ignored us. They could negotiate with us any time they want."
As for Young in particular, Kenney has been playing a game of phone tag that's involved him making most of the calls.
"He still hasn't gotten back to me," Kenney said. "I've left three more messages."
Surprisingly, that same lackadaisical sentiment is what Kenney faces from his friends, too. Most of them, he says, don't quite get the purpose of the hunger strike and often tell him to "just eat." It's a response that Kenney blames squarely on plants within the movement.
"When you really go into a hunger strike, you're supposed to have a whole emotional network behind you," he said. "And I've felt just the opposite, even from people who I hoped would be supporters. I'm sure some of them are outright plants. But, some of them, I just think they don't understand."
Now a mere 11 days away from what doctors would consider critical, Kenney will be on day 29 at the next Council meeting, scheduled for Dec. 6.
"I feel drained," Kenney said. "I definitely feel more spiritual than I would, for lack of a better word. That being said, I'm less tolerant of bullshit."
But despite the brick wall San Diego occupiers seem to be running up against, Kenney is one to see the positive changes being made as well. For example, the face of local and national politics has already been forever altered by the movement. The dialogue has changed to include new terminology: Occupy, the 99%, Mic Check! and more.
There may be a lull in forward movement, but the sleeping beast that is social and economic justice has most certainly begun to stir.
"We may have to hibernate throughout the winter, but there will be an American spring," Kenney said.
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Mike kemp November 26, 2011 at 10:38 am
Thank God for people like you. At 77 years old and not able to do much except vote with you and support your brave stand. The mayor and all elected officials will not receive my vote. Now days politics is like knots in a spider web. But all dictators soon or later fall.
Gandhi said this and was so right.
Marc Birou November 26, 2011 at 11:14 am
I am glad to see that the Council President is at least involved. I have tried contacting the Mayor (whom I actually respect) and Todd Gloria, my council member with no response. I can no longer support Todd Gloria in Hillcrest as he seems content with talking about pot holes and taking photos around town while ignoring First Amendment issues.
Lois November 26, 2011 at 1:08 pm
I am so tired of the tedious, tired, lame, unjustified attacks by police and politicians, "for health and safety reasons." I haven't seen any of these comments backed by examples. Maybe I am missing something?
How about the guy in the wheelchair that urinated in the bottle. Wasn't he respectful of using the bottle instead of urinating on the hallowed ground of the Civic Center. I agree that persons in wheelchairs can still commit crimes, but if he is using a bottle, that is ridiculous. Isn't urinating in public a citation?
Bless you, John Kenney. This is not something you are doing just for yourself. It is for the people of the 99%. Just hard for me to see you doing it.
ken keegan November 26, 2011 at 2:42 pm
Thank you, John Kenney! Thank you OB Rag for keeping us informed and illustrating the importance of the OWS movement. I hope San Diego officials wake up and align themselves with the voters. Their tenure will be short lived if they don't. I'm sure their wealthy supporters will keep them financially happy, though. Viva la Revolucion!
jim grant November 26, 2011 at 8:41 pm
Like I mentioned
City Hall really does not care if he is on a hunger strike !!!
City Councl cares about as much as John's hunger strike as the wall street people who looked down on the OWS drinking their champagne.
I can relate to this as a Registered nurse that has not worked since 2007. (Congress has promoted the myth that there is a nursing shortage which, in their mind, justifies going over seas to fill the nursing shortage. THERE IS NO NURSING SHORTAGE.) My point is, just as John feels the people who are not supportive of him, I could scream when someone with a job tells me to "be positive." How can a large part of the population not understand there are NO Jobs, not only in nursing, but in this country as well.
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Driverless Cars in Miami – are they safe?
by Anthony J. Mallo | Aug 10, 2018 | Traffic Tickets | 0 comments
Driverless Cars in MIami
Are Driverless Cars Safe?
by Sophie Mallo
Four months after the fatal incident involving a self driving car and a pedestrian, Uber has decided to put these advanced technological vehicles back out onto the roads. Although they are once again out, these cars can only be driven manually due to the complicated circumstances the company faces. Are driverless cars in Miami safe?
A new safety protocol calls for there to be two Uber employees inside, one to take responsibility of keeping the safety of the vehicle under control while the other documents events that have taken place throughout the rides. There will also be a monitoring system that will track the behavior of the Uber driver. These new rules are made specifically to keep the roads safe from any possible dangerous.
Two local sources have emerged saying they would not find themselves feeling safe around a self driving car. One source says the cars are too meticulous. The cars are wired to "think fast" due to their programming. This means the car only has certain ways of maneuvering, which can ultimately result in an accident. The contradicting source believes with these cars, the act of human error does not appear, thereby making roads safer.
What's your take?
It is believed these cars can predict events the average human cannot, which will benefit in safer roads. What do you think? Do you think the roads will be safer with driverless cars? The debate continues. While there are good arguments for either side, in keeping up with technology, it's just a matter of time before roads have driverless cars, like it or not.


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The Shakespeare Project of Chicago kicks off its 25th Theatrical Reading Season with free performances of Shakespeare's great revenge tragedy HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK, running Oct. 11-19, 2019, at eight Chicago-area venues, including a new venue for this season, the Des Plaines Public Library.
In the greatest play ever written by the world's greatest dramatist, Hamlet returns to Denmark from his university studies to mourn the death of his father, who died two months earlier. His uncle Claudius has now married Hamlet's mother, Gertrude. Suddenly, the ghost of his father appears to Hamlet and tells him that Claudius poisoned him. Hamlet vows to avenge his father's murder.
J.R. Sullivan directs a cast that includes Chloe Baldwin (Fortinbras/Ensemble), Josh Carpenter (Hamlet), Adrianne Cury (Gertrude), Matt Gall (Rosencrantz/Ensemble), Peter Garino (Polonius/Ensemble), Warren Jackson (Guildenstern/Ensemble), Callie Johnson (Ophelia), James Konicek (Ghost/Gravedigger), Daniel Millhouse (Osric/Ensemble), Zlatomir Moldovanski (Laertes/Ensemble), Bryan Wakefield (Claudius), Leica Wilde (Musician) and Sara Williams (Horatio/Ensemble). Julia Gorban and Chris Farrell, Jr., are the understudies.
The production features sound design and additional music by George Zahora. Andi Muriel is the assistant director and Emma Linder is the dramaturg.
HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK is presented in memory of David Bevington.
The Shakespeare Project of Chicago's theatrical readings are fully staged, book-in-hand performances featuring members of Actors' Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers.
Admission is free and seating is limited.
All performances are preceded by an introduction to the play that commences 15 minutes prior to curtain.
-Friday, Oct. 11, 7 p.m., Niles-Maine District Library, 6960 W. Oakton St., Niles (registration required, 847-663-1234, register)
-Saturday, Oct. 12, 10 a.m., Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton St., Chicago (registration required, register)
-Sunday, Oct. 13 at 2 p.m., The Highland Park Public Library, 494 Laurel Ave., Highland Park
-Monday, Oct. 14 at 6:30 p.m., Vernon Area Public Library, 300 Olde Half Day Rd., Lincolnshire (registration required, 847-634-3650, register)
-Tuesday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m., Mount Prospect Public Library, 10 S. Emerson St., Mount Prospect (registration required, 847-253-5675, register)
-Wednesday, Oct. 16 at 6:30 p.m., Des Plaines Public Library, 1501 Ellinwood St., Des Plaines (registration required, 847-376-2788, register)
-Thursday, Oct. 17 at 6:30 p.m., Elmhurst Public Library, 125 S. Prospect Ave., Elmhurst (registration required, 630-279-8696, register)
-Saturday, Oct. 19 at 2 p.m., The Wilmette Public Library, 1242 Wilmette Ave., Wilmette
The Shakespeare Project's 25th Theatrical Reading Season, composed solely of works by Shakespeare, will continue in January with RICHARD III, directed by Artistic Director Peter Garino. In February, Associate Artistic Director Michelle Shupe will direct ROMEO AND JULIET. One of Shakespeare's "problem plays," MEASURE FOR MEASURE, directed by Erin Sloan in her Project directorial debut, will conclude the season in May.
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The Islamic State: Combating the Caliphate Without Borders
Yonah Alexander, Dean C. Alexander
Lexington Books, 2015 - 336 pages
The so-called "Islamic State" (IS) that has swept into power in parts of Syria and Iraq presents an imminent danger to the global community with its capacity as an effective, ideologically motivated, and bloodthirsty fighting force, coupled with its expanding territorial reach, on the ground and online. The IS has taken on a quasi-state form that mixes modernity with ancient rites, and aggressively promotes sectarian violence and religious extremism with a decidedly apocalyptic bent. Too, it has introduced to the Middle East a new level of extremism and brutality, marked by volatile fluidity, with far-reaching, dangerously destabilizing effects on state and non-state actors, regionally and globally. This book offers insights into the nature of the IS and what the international community can do to combat it. In order to achieve this objective, the origins, intentions, leadership, capabilities, and operations of the IS are explored. The Islamic State s multifaceted efforts and effects in the region and beyond are described. Also, national, regional, and global strategies that are being pursued to address the new threat are examined. To this end, a range of recommendations are offered on specific steps that governmental, intergovernmental, and non-governmental bodies can take to counter the IS menace. Lastly, additional insights are presented relevant to combating the IS and undermining its potential future capabilities."
Yonah Alexander,Dean Alexander
Yonah Alexander is director of the Inter-University Center for Terrorism Studies at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies and the Inter-University Center for Legal Studies at the International Law Institute. Dean Alexander is professor and director of the Homeland Security Research Program at Western Illinois University.
Title The Islamic State: Combating the Caliphate Without Borders
G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series
Authors Yonah Alexander, Dean C. Alexander
Publisher Lexington Books, 2015


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Medical Importance of Measles in the U.S.S.R.
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Victor M. Zhdanov, M.D., Influenza Laboratory, Institute of Virology, Moscow, U.S.S.R.; Influenza Laboratory, Institute of Virology.
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The average morbidity rate for measles in the last 10 to 12 years in the U.S.S.R. is 12 per 1,000 inhabitants. Careful review in one area revealed that this reported incidence was only 75% to 80% of the true rate. The true morbidity rate probably approaches the birth rate of 25 per 1,000 inhabitants. The incidence of measles appears to be the same during the last 30 years. However, mortality rates have declined in the past 10 years from a rate of 3,000-4,000 to 700-800 deaths per year. More than 90% of these deaths have occurred in children under 2 years of age. Approximately one-fourth of all pneumonias are related to or directly caused by measles. Measles is also responsible for recrudescence of intestinal diseases, dysentery, and tuberculosis. Attention must be drawn to measles, as it is one of the important diseases of pre-school-age children in the U.S.S.R. and it
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Tu Sach VietNhim > World Knowledge > Science Fiction > Five Weeks in a Balloon - Jules Gabriel Verne
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Chapter Fourteenth
The Forest of Gum-Trees.--The Blue Antelope.--The Rallying-Signal. --An Unexpected Attack.--The Kanyeme.--A Night in the Open Air.--The Mabunguru.--Jihoue-la-Mkoa.--A Supply of Water.--Arrival at Kazeh.
The country, dry and parched as it was, consisting of a clayey soil that cracked open with the heat, seemed, indeed, a desert: here and there were a few traces of caravans; the bones of men and animals, that had been half-gnawed away, mouldering together in the same dust.
After half an hour's walking, Dick and Joe plunged into a forest of gum-trees, their eyes alert on all sides, and their fingers on the trigger. There was no foreseeing what they might encounter. Without being a rifleman, Joe could handle fire-arms with no trifling dexterity.
"A walk does one good, Mr. Kennedy, but this isn't the easiest ground in the world," he said, kicking aside some fragments of quartz with which the soil was bestrewn.
Kennedy motioned to his companion to be silent and to halt. The present case compelled them to dispense with hunting-dogs, and, no matter what Joe's agility might be, he could not be expected to have the scent of a setter or a greyhound.
A herd of a dozen antelopes were quenching their thirst in the bed of a torrent where some pools of water had lodged. The graceful creatures, snuffing danger in the breeze, seemed to be disturbed and uneasy. Their beautiful heads could be seen between every draught, raised in the air with quick and sudden motion as they sniffed the wind in the direction of our two hunters, with their flexible nostrils.
Kennedy stole around behind some clumps of shrubbery, while Joe remained motionless where he was. The former, at length, got within gunshot and fired.
The herd disappeared in the twinkling of an eye; one male antelope only, that was hit just behind the shoulder-joint, fell headlong to the ground, and Kennedy leaped toward his booty.
It was a blauwbok, a superb animal of a pale-bluish color shading upon the gray, but with the belly and the inside of the legs as white as the driven snow.
"A splendid shot!" exclaimed the hunter. "It's a very rare species of the antelope, and I hope to be able to prepare his skin in such a way as to keep it."
"Indeed!" said Joe, "do you think of doing that, Mr. Kennedy?"
"Why, certainly I do! Just see what a fine hide it is!"
"But Dr. Ferguson will never allow us to take such an extra weight!"
"You're right, Joe. Still it is a pity to have to leave such a noble animal."
"The whole of it? Oh, we won't do that, sir; we'll take all the good eatable parts of it, and, if you'll let me, I'll cut him up just as well as the chairman of the honorable corporation of butchers of the city of London could do."
"As you please, my boy! But you know that in my hunter's way I can just as easily skin and cut up a piece of game as kill it."
"I'm sure of that, Mr. Kennedy. Well, then, you can build a fireplace with a few stones; there's plenty of dry dead-wood, and I can make the hot coals tell in a few minutes."
"Oh! that won't take long," said Kennedy, going to work on the fireplace, where he had a brisk flame crackling and sparkling in a minute or two.
Joe had cut some of the nicest steaks and the best parts of the tenderloin from the carcass of the antelope, and these were quickly transformed to the most savory of broils.
"There, those will tickle the doctor!" said Kennedy.
"Do you know what I was thinking about?" said Joe.
"Why, about the steaks you're broiling, to be sure!" replied Dick.
"Not the least in the world. I was thinking what a figure we'd cut if we couldn't find the balloon again."
"By George, what an idea! Why, do you think the doctor would desert us?"
"No; but suppose his anchor were to slip!"
"Impossible! and, besides, the doctor would find no difficulty in coming down again with his balloon; he handles it at his ease."
"But suppose the wind were to sweep it off, so that he couldn't come back toward us?"
"Come, come, Joe! a truce to your suppositions; they're any thing but pleasant."
"Ah! sir, every thing that happens in this world is natural, of course; but, then, any thing may happen, and we ought to look out beforehand."
At this moment the report of a gun rang out upon the air.
"What's that?" exclaimed Joe.
"It's my rifle, I know the ring of her!" said Kennedy.
"A signal!"
"Yes; danger for us!"
"For him, too, perhaps."
"Let's be off!"
And the hunters, having gathered up the product of their expedition, rapidly made their way back along the path that they had marked by breaking boughs and bushes when they came. The density of the underbrush prevented their seeing the balloon, although they could not be far from it.
A second shot was heard.
"We must hurry!" said Joe.
"There! a third report!"
"Why, it sounds to me as if he was defending himself against something."
"Let us make haste!"
They now began to run at the top of their speed. When they reached the outskirts of the forest, they, at first glance, saw the balloon in its place and the doctor in the car.
"What's the matter?" shouted Kennedy.
"Good God!" suddenly exclaimed Joe.
"What do you see?"
"Down there! look! a crowd of blacks surrounding the balloon!"
And, in fact, there, two miles from where they were, they saw some thirty wild natives close together, yelling, gesticulating, and cutting all kinds of antics at the foot of the sycamore. Some, climbing into the tree itself, were making their way to the topmost branches. The danger seemed pressing.
"My master is lost!" cried Joe.
"Come! a little more coolness, Joe, and let us see how we stand. We hold the lives of four of those villains in our hands. Forward, then!"
They had made a mile with headlong speed, when another report was heard from the car. The shot had, evidently, told upon a huge black demon, who had been hoisting himself up by the anchor-rope. A lifeless body fell from bough to bough, and hung about twenty feet from the ground, its arms and legs swaying to and fro in the air.
"Ha!" said Joe, halting, "what does that fellow hold by?"
"No matter what!" said Kennedy; "let us run! let us run!"
"Ah! Mr. Kennedy," said Joe, again, in a roar of laughter, "by his tail! by his tail! it's an ape! They're all apes!"
"Well, they're worse than men!" said Kennedy, as he dashed into the midst of the howling crowd.
It was, indeed, a troop of very formidable baboons of the dog-faced species. These creatures are brutal, ferocious, and horrible to look upon, with their dog-like muzzles and savage expression. However, a few shots scattered them, and the chattering horde scampered off, leaving several of their number on the ground.
In a moment Kennedy was on the ladder, and Joe, clambering up the branches, detached the anchor; the car then dipped to where he was, and he got into it without difficulty. A few minutes later, the Victoria slowly ascended and soared away to the eastward, wafted by a moderate wind.
"That was an attack for you!" said Joe.
"We thought you were surrounded by natives."
"Well, fortunately, they were only apes," said the doctor.
"At a distance there's no great difference," remarked Kennedy.
"Nor close at hand, either," added Joe.
"Well, however that may be," resumed Ferguson, "this attack of apes might have had the most serious consequences. Had the anchor yielded to their repeated efforts, who knows whither the wind would have carried me?"
"What did I tell you, Mr. Kennedy?"
"You were right, Joe; but, even right as you may have been, you were, at that moment, preparing some antelope-steaks, the very sight of which gave me a monstrous appetite."
"I believe you!" said the doctor; "the flesh of the antelope is exquisite."
"You may judge of that yourself, now, sir, for supper's ready."
"Upon my word as a sportsman, those venison-steaks have a gamy flavor that's not to be sneezed at, I tell you."
"Good!" said Joe, with his mouth full, "I could live on antelope all the days of my life; and all the better with a glass of grog to wash it down."
So saying, the good fellow went to work to prepare a jorum of that fragrant beverage, and all hands tasted it with satisfaction.
"Every thing has gone well thus far," said he.
"Very well indeed!" assented Kennedy.
"Come, now, Mr. Kennedy, are you sorry that you came with us?"
"I'd like to see anybody prevent my coming!"
It was now four o'clock in the afternoon. The Victoria had struck a more rapid current. The face of the country was gradually rising, and, ere long, the barometer indicated a height of fifteen hundred feet above the level of the sea. The doctor was, therefore, obliged to keep his balloon up by a quite considerable dilation of gas, and the cylinder was hard at work all the time.
Toward seven o'clock, the balloon was sailing over the basin of Kanyeme. The doctor immediately recognized that immense clearing, ten miles in extent, with its villages buried in the midst of baobab and calabash trees. It is the residence of one of the sultans of the Ugogo country, where civilization is, perhaps, the least backward. The natives there are less addicted to selling members of their own families, but still, men and animals all live together in round huts, without frames, that look like haystacks.
Beyond Kanyeme the soil becomes arid and stony, but in an hour's journey, in a fertile dip of the soil, vegetation had resumed all its vigor at some distance from Mdaburu. The wind fell with the close of the day, and the atmosphere seemed to sleep. The doctor vainly sought for a current of air at different heights, and, at last, seeing this calm of all nature, he resolved to pass the night afloat, and, for greater safety, rose to the height of one thousand feet, where the balloon remained motionless. The night was magnificent, the heavens glittering with stars, and profoundly silent in the upper air.
Dick and Joe stretched themselves on their peaceful couch, and were soon sound asleep, the doctor keeping the first watch. At twelve o'clock the latter was relieved by Kennedy.
"Should the slightest accident happen, waken me," said Ferguson, "and, above all things, don't lose sight of the barometer. To us it is the compass!"
The night was cold. There were twenty-seven degrees of difference between its temperature and that of the daytime. With nightfall had begun the nocturnal concert of animals driven from their hiding-places by hunger and thirst. The frogs struck in their guttural soprano, redoubled by the yelping of the jackals, while the imposing bass of the African lion sustained the accords of this living orchestra.
Upon resuming his post, in the morning, the doctor consulted his compass, and found that the wind had changed during the night. The balloon had been bearing about thirty miles to the northwest during the last two hours. It was then passing over Mabunguru, a stony country, strewn with blocks of syenite of a fine polish, and knobbed with huge bowlders and angular ridges of rock; conic masses, like the rocks of Karnak, studded the soil like so many Druidic dolmens; the bones of buffaloes and elephants whitened it here and there; but few trees could be seen, excepting in the east, where there were dense woods, among which a few villages lay half concealed.
Toward seven o'clock they saw a huge round rock nearly two miles in extent, like an immense tortoise.
"We are on the right track," said Dr. Ferguson. "There's Jihoue-la-Mkoa, where we must halt for a few minutes. I am going to renew the supply of water necessary for my cylinder, and so let us try to anchor somewhere."
"There are very few trees," replied the hunger.
"Never mind, let us try. Joe, throw out the anchors!"
The balloon, gradually losing its ascensional force, approached the ground; the anchors ran along until, at last, one of them caught in the fissure of a rock, and the balloon remained motionless.
It must not be supposed that the doctor could entirely extinguish his cylinder, during these halts. The equilibrium of the balloon had been calculated at the level of the sea; and, as the country was continually ascending, and had reached an elevation of from six to seven hundred feet, the balloon would have had a tendency to go lower than the surface of the soil itself. It was, therefore, necessary to sustain it by a certain dilation of the gas. But, in case the doctor, in the absence of all wind, had let the car rest upon the ground, the balloon, thus relieved of a considerable weight, would have kept up of itself, without the aid of the cylinder.
The maps indicated extensive ponds on the western slope of the Jihoue-la-Mkoa. Joe went thither alone with a cask that would hold about ten gallons. He found the place pointed out to him, without difficulty, near to a deserted village; got his stock of water, and returned in less than three-quarters of an hour. He had seen nothing particular excepting some immense elephant-pits. In fact, he came very near falling into one of them, at the bottom of which lay a half-eaten carcass.
He brought back with him a sort of clover which the apes eat with avidity. The doctor recognized the fruit of the "mbenbu"-tree which grows in profusion, on the western part of Jihoue-la-Mkoa. Ferguson waited for Joe with a certain feeling of impatience, for even a short halt in this inhospitable region always inspires a degree of fear.
The water was got aboard without trouble, as the car was nearly resting on the ground. Joe then found it easy to loosen the anchor and leaped lightly to his place beside the doctor. The latter then replenished the flame in the cylinder, and the balloon majestically soared into the air.
It was then about one hundred miles from Kazeh, an important establishment in the interior of Africa, where, thanks to a south-southeasterly current, the travellers might hope to arrive on that same day. They were moving at the rate of fourteen miles per hour, and the guidance of the balloon was becoming difficult, as they dared not rise very high without extreme dilation of the gas, the country itself being at an average height of three thousand feet. Hence, the doctor preferred not to force the dilation, and so adroitly followed the sinuosities of a pretty sharply-inclined plane, and swept very close to the villages of Thembo and Tura-Wels. The latter forms part of the Unyamwezy, a magnificent country, where the trees attain enormous dimensions; among them the cactus, which grows to gigantic size.
About two o'clock, in magnificent weather, but under a fiery sun that devoured the least breath of air, the balloon was floating over the town of Kazeh, situated about three hundred and fifty miles from the coast.
"We left Zanzibar at nine o'clock in the morning," said the doctor, consulting his notes, "and, after two days' passage, we have, including our deviations, travelled nearly five hundred geographical miles. Captains Burton and Speke took four months and a half to make the same distance!"


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Andy Kirkpatrick
I was asked last year to try and help the Brecon mountain rescue team (@breconmountainrescue) raise funds following their base burning down in 2017. Ordinarily, I'd just come over and do a talk, and hopefully, that would net some cash, but that's not been so easy.
We talked about some Zoom style thing, but I felt that we're all a bit Zoomed out at the moment, plus I've had enough of looking at people's gormless faces, trying to work out if they can even hear me.
Thinking out of the box, I thought about doing it on the side of Pen Y Fan, with everyone standing in Zorb balls, employing the SAS (who bloody love Pen Y Fan), to keep people in position, but I ended up thinking it might be counterproductive in terms of helping Mountain Rescue.
At the same time, I've been thinking of how to reduce the number of climbing accidents - which is why I wrote Down - and wondered if I could kill two birds with one stone.
And so I hit on the idea of creating an hour-long training film/slideshow style thing and giving it away to clubs who donate £100 to the teams Justgiving page, with the university climbing clubs being the primary focus.
It's just an idea, but as I said, it seems to kill two birds with one stone or save two birds.
What do people think?
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In this Module, you will be introduced to the course and learn about AWS services, infrastructure, and compute services.
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Welcome back. Morgan here. We just got done talking about what an EC2 instance is, some of the different ways you can configure EC2 instances, and we defined all of those terms. What we're gonna do now is we're going to launch an EC2 instance, and we're going to deploy our directory application to that EC2 instance. So we're going to hop in the console and configure one. We've already logged in. So, the first thing we're going to do is click on the EC2 service console. So we're going to go ahead and click on EC2, which brings us to the EC2 dashboard. From this point, we can launch an EC2 instance pretty simply. I'm going to walk you through that process now. First thing to do is to click Launch Instance. This brings us to the screen where we can select an AMI. We've already defined what an AMI is: that's our Amazon Machine Image. This is what allows us to configure what operating system, web server, or other software that we have running on the machine. So we're just going to go ahead and select Amazon Linux 2, which is the first one. We'll click Select, and that brings us to the screen where we can choose an instance type. An instance type, again, is what is controlling the underlying hardware, and the capacity that hardware can support. We're going to select a t2 micro because it's Free Tier eligible, and we'll just click Next to configure the instance details for that instance. All right. At this point, we have to select a VPC to launch our instance into. We'll cover this later, so don't worry about it too much. We're just going to go ahead and select the app-vpc. Similarly, we also need to determine what kind of subnet we're going to be launching into. We just need to make sure that we're in a public subnet, and again, we'll talk about that later. Scrolling down a bit, we also have to select a role. We're going to select the instance-role for this. Roles are what allow one service in AWS to communicate with another service. Now we're going to scroll down to the Advanced Details section. If I click Advanced Details, it will expand and present me with a place where I can paste my user data. User data is what allows you to define what type of scripts will run once your EC2 instance has launched. I already have mine copied, so I'm just going to paste it here. This script is going to reach out to somewhere in AWS to get our source code, unzip it, and then run that application on our server. So now that we have our user data, I'm going to go ahead and click Next to add storage. We don't have to worry about this for now, we'll talk about it later. I'm just going to leave the defaults and skip through to tags. Tags are a feature that allow you to categorize your EC2 instances. Common tags would be things like name, where you can name your instance or department, so you can figure out which department owns the instance. We're going to go ahead and add a tag here, and I'm just going to give it a name. So give it a name, and we're just going to name it Demo. At this point, we'll click Next to configure the security group. We're going to select an existing security group, and we can see here we have a web security group, we'll select that one. What this is letting us do is it's going to let us reach our instance over HTTP. We're deploying a web application to this EC2 instance, so we want to be able to reach it over the internet. That's all this is letting us do. So we're going to now review and launch our instance. We get a warning here, that's fine, we don't have to worry about it. We're just going to continue through it. All right, so let's review our instance before we launch it. We have a Linux machine that we're going to be launching, we determine that through our AMI. Our instance type is a t2.micro. Again, that's our underlying hardware. We have a security group that will enable HTTP access, and if we scroll down, we can also see the tag that we defined as well. All right, so let's go ahead and click Launch, and see what we got. Here we just have to acknowledge that we have a private key pair for this. We're not going to worry about this for now, we'll just go ahead and select acknowledge, and launch the instance. Now that we've launched our instance, it's going to take a few minutes to come up, but we can scroll down and click View Instances. Now that we're back at the EC2 dashboard, we can see that our instance state is running, but the status checks are initializing. We're going to wait for those status checks to pass before we go and look at our application. Now we can see our status checks have passed, our instance is up and running, and we can go and access that instance through its public IP address. So we're going to make some more space on the screen here. I'm going to expand this. We can scroll down and see there is extra information about our instance if you wanted to look at it. The only thing that I need is this public IP address. So, I'm just going to copy this and open up a new tab so we can access our application. Make a new tab, paste that IP address in there, hit enter, and this is our corporate directory application. You can see right now it's empty. So to test our application, we're just going to add somebody to this directory and just see that data come back to us. So I'm going to go ahead and click Add, and I'm going to add Blaine into our directory. So for the name, we're just gonna say Blaine Sundrud, location is going to be USA, job title is going to be Lizard Keeper, and we're going to make him a Mac User and a Paperclip Aficionado. We're going to go ahead and also select an image. So, I'm going to choose file and browse to pictures, and we'll select our image of Blaine. Click Open and click Save. Now we've been redirected back to our home screen, and we can see that we've added Blaine successfully into our application. Now that we've been redirected to our home screen, let's recap what we just did. We decided to launch an EC2 instance, we selected an AMI, configured the instance type, gave it some user data, which reached out and deployed our application to this instance, and then it was up. We're able to add data to this application and then see it come back. So now all that's done, I hope you get a chance to spin one up yourself, and we'll catch you in the next video.
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Legal Briefs January 18, 2019 12:00 am
NEVSUN RESOURCES LTD. V. GIZE YEBEYO ARAYA, ET AL.
Amnesty International and the International Commission of Jurists were represented in this case by Paul Champ, Jennifer Klinck, François Larocque, and Penelope Simons.
WHAT IS THIS CASE ABOUT?
In November 2014, Gize Yebeyo Araya, Kesete Tekle Fshazion and Mihretab Yemane Tekle filed a claim for damages at the Supreme Court of British Columbia against Nevsun Resources Ltd ["Nevsun"], which is a Canadian mining company based in Vancouver. The plaintiffs claim that through its Eritrean subsidiary, the Bisha Mine Share Company, and in complicity with the government and military of the state of Eritrea, Nevsun is liable for gross human rights violations alleged to have taken place at the mine, such as slavery and forced labour, torture and crimes against humanity.
The plaintiffs, who claim to have fallen victim to these human rights abuses, are bringing claims for damages grounded in private law torts as well as in breaches of peremptory norms of customary international law. Nevsun denies the allegations in the claim and maintains that the court should not allow the claim to proceed. Nevsun argues that its liability is secondary to the alleged illegality of the National Service Program, an act of the State of Eritrea in Eritrean territory, which forced people to work at the mine. As such, Nevsun argues that it cannot be held liable for any of the alleged abuses at the mine as the 'act of state' doctrine precludes the court from assessing the validity of sovereign acts of foreign states within their own territory. In addition, Nevsun submits that the Canadian courts should not recognize a cause of action for damages based on alleged breaches of norms of customary international law.
The Supreme Court case arises out of a Supreme Court of British Columbia decision to dismiss motions brought by the appellant to stay, dismiss or strike aspects of the respondents' (plaintiffs') claims on October 6, 2016. These motions argued that Eritrea is the forum conveniens (more appropriate forum for the lawsuit), that the claims are precluded by or have no reasonable chance of success due to the act of state doctrine, and the inapplicability of customary international law. On November 21, 2017, the Court of Appeal for British Columbia dismissed Nevsun's appeal. The Court of Appeal rejected the application of the act of state doctrine and found that the chambers judge had not erred in declining to strike the plaintiffs' claims founded in the customary international law.
INTERVENTION BY AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF JURISTS
Amnesty International and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) intervened before the Supreme Court of Canada in the case. In our intervention, we submitted that the development of common law doctrines of judicial abstention and causes of action should be consistent with the right to an effective remedy for human rights violations, as protected under international law and as a fundamental value enshrined in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms ("Charter"). This requires a rejection of any definition of the doctrine of act of state that denies access to a remedy for serious human rights violations, and indeed, requires a cautious approach to recognizing a doctrine of act of state in Canada, if at all.
Amnesty International additionally submitted that it further requires the recognition of civil claims based on injury resulting from conduct that violates customary international human rights law. Accordingly, Amnesty and the ICJ submitted that that superior courts may develop the common law to recognize novel causes of action at common law for violations of well-established norms of customary international law.
STATUS OF THE CASE
The Supreme Court granted Nevsun's application for leave to appeal on June 14, 2018. The hearing was held on January 23, 2019, where the Court addressed the following issues raised in the case: (i) Does the act of state doctrine operate in Canadian law and its application to this case? (ii) Should the claim for damages based on alleged breaches of peremptory norms of customary international law be allowed to proceed?
In a landmark decision released on February 28, 2020, the majority of the Supreme Court dismissed Nevsun's appeal. They ruled that the act of state doctrine does not operate in Canadian law. Furthermore, they ruled that customary international law is automatically adopted and incorporated into Canadian law unless there is legislation to the contrary. This means that customary international law is a part of Canadian law, including the peremptory norms of customary international law breached by Nevsun's activities in Eritrea. The Court also affirmed that customary international law does not only apply to states but to corporate actors as well. Based on their analysis, the Court held that the workers' civil lawsuit should be allowed to proceed in Canada as part of seeking an effective remedy against violations of peremptory norms of customary international law.
Nevsun Resources Ltd. v. Araya, Supreme Court of Canada (28 February 2020)
Appellant's Memorandum
Respondents' Memorandum
Appellant's Reply to Respondent's Memorandum
Appellant's Factum – Nevsun Resources Ltd.
Respondents' Factum
Factum of the Joint Intervenors, Amnesty International Canada and the International Commission of Jurists
Fuctom of the Intervenor, International Human Rights Program, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Factum of the Intervenors, EarthRights International and the Global Justice Clinic at New York University School of Law
Factum of the Intervenor, Mining Association of Canada
Factum of the Intervener, MiningWatch Canada
"Supreme Court rules mining company Nevsun can be sued in Canada for alleged abuses abroad" (28 February 2020)
"Top court weighs precedent-setting case of human rights breaches at Canadian mine in Eritrea" (23 January 2019)
"Supreme Court set to hear Nevsun Resources case on Eritrea human rights abuses" (27 December 2018)


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This Upstate NY Landmark Might Bid to Create 'Miracles' Again
A famous New York sports town is in the news, as rumors are circulating that they may submit a bid to host the Olympic Games again in the coming years.
Wind Creates a Full-Blown Mess on Olympics' Penultimate Day
Wind created a full-blown mess in the mountains around Beijing on the Olympics' penultimate day.
Russian Skater Can Compete, but Medal Ceremony Won't Be Held
Russian teenager Kamila Valieva can compete in the Winter Olympics but, even if she wins the gold, there will be no ceremony if she medals.
Ukraine Olympic Team Calls for Peace, IOC Wants No Protests
The Ukrainian Olympic team has followed the lead of skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych in calling for peace.
No Slip this Time: Jackson Wins Olympic Speedskating Gold
Erin Jackson has become the first Black woman to win a speedskating medal at the Winter Olympics. A gold one.
At Olympics and Beyond, Getting Away with It is Russia's Way
Be it sports, politics, hacking or war, the recent history of Russia's relationship with the world can be summed up in one phrase: They get away with it.
Olympic Speed Skater Casey Dawson Borrows Blades After Flight to Beijing Loses His Luggage
"Stepping to the line was the biggest thing for me."
Leslie Jones Free to Post Olympics after 3rd-Party Error Resolved
Leslie Jones is free to take to social media to give her commentary about the Olympics after a misunderstanding with some of her posts.
The 1980 Winter Games Village in New York Was Turned Into a Prison
Have you ever wondered what happens to various structures built for the Olympics after the games have ended? One New York structure was turned into a prison!


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Focus on video visibility
Using their previous professional experience as television producers and reporters, three staff at the Pullman campus are creating videos to reach out to prospective students, potential supporters and other vital audiences. Their efforts augment the university's video advertising campaign, directed through marketing communications.
Two of these staff videomakers are alumni from the Murrow School of Communications. Kari Montgomery Watkins and Darin Watkins graduated in 1984 and married in 1985. Kari worked as a producer and reporter for commercial TV stations in Reno, Spokane and Rochester, N.Y., before beginning in Seattle as a writer and producer at KING-TV in 1996. Darin, who had worked in those media markets as well, began as a reporter at KING-TV in 1996.
They moved to Pullman in 2003 when Darin was hired as a public information officer for the College of Veterinary Medicine. Kari taught a class in student television production for two years and, in 2006, was hired as a producer at KWSU-TV. She produces television programming aired throughout the northwest on public broadcasting stations as well as cable stations like the Research Channel and TV Washington.
Darin created a pair of 30-second TV ads for the teaching hospital at the College of Veterinary Medicine to increase awareness of the college's reputation and of the number of clinical cases brought to the hospital. The ads will run on the Animal Planet cable station in Seattle through this summer and during WSU basketball and football games.
"We're already getting great feedback," Darin reported. "Those ads boosted pride at the college and resulted in inquiries about estate planning from three potential donors."
Gary Lindsey is the senior public relations/communications coordinator for the College of Liberal Arts and has a shared appointment with marketing communications.
He is also involved in video production. Before coming to Pullman in 2002, he was an executive producer and anchor at KOMO-TV in Seattle.
Lindsey recently began creating video features that are being used to reach a wide variety of audiences. He created Flash videos for distribution via e-mail to prospective high-achieving students. The first were released in January.
Future video productions will enliven websites. He says there are plans to incorporate video in media relations and he envisions video eventually becoming a tool for communication with donors, alumni and other audiences.
"Using video in this manner is just beginning," Lindsey said. "Video is such an effective and compelling way to tell the WSU story."
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Shows the use of high-precision weapons, probably from the Su-57
During the special operation of the RF Armed Forces in Ukraine, documentary evidence of the use of various Russian weapons systems against the Armed Forces of Ukraine periodically appears on Ukrainian territory. The first footage has appeared on the Web, showing the use of the latest Russian air-to-surface guided missiles X-59MK2 of the updated version.
It should be noted that before this confirmed the use of Su-57 fighters in Ukraine. Therefore, there is a possibility that the mentioned high-precision weapon was activated from the board of one of the indicated fifth-generation aircraft.
The video shows how the missiles approach their targets and successfully hit them. These are collected frames of objective control of the defeat of given objects.
Su-57s are among the carriers of Kh-59MK2 medium-range missiles (285-290 km). The first version of the X-59MK2 (a variation of the X-59MK) was presented at MAKS-2009 and has a round body section (length 5,7 meters). At MAKS-2015, an updated version of the X-59MK2 missile was presented - shorter and with a square section of the body, specially designed for placement in the internal compartments of the aircraft (length 4,2 meters).
The equally interesting video below shows how the wings and plumage are folded on a mock-up of such a rocket.
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I wonder what the sentry felt on the tower. She definitely passed through the tower
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And what - managed to feel or ...!
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This is not a sentinel tower. This is a elevator tower, and next to it is a warehouse for storing grain. By destroying the elevator, the possibility of loading grain is excluded (there are warehouses for floor storage of grain nearby, from which, through underground galleries, grain is fed into the shoe of the elevator (in the underground part of the tower), it also rises through gravity pipes (they are also visible on the video, from the elevator head above through the roof) enters the point of shipment. In this case, judging by the lack of railroad tracks, this is a vacation by motor vehicle. Apparently, our videoconferencing forces are destroying the infrastructure that is designed to ship grain. I won't tell which customers exactly. This is on the second video. On In the first video, the warehouse is empty (the side doors are leaky, which indicates the absence of grain in it), except perhaps if dill was hiding there.


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This year's graduating class at Pleasant View Christian School features two seniors who have been with the school for 16 years and four seniors for whom this is their first year.
Yet these six young women found that even though their respective length of time at the school has been greatly varied, they all share much in common when it comes to expressing how they feel about their experience as students.
"On the very first day I felt accepted," said Madison Carlson, a transfer from Christian Community High School in White House, whose mother, Shelly Carlson, is wrapping up her first year of teaching English at PVCS.
"She and I both have said that we wish we'd come here sooner," Madison said.
Fellow first-timer, Jessie Highers, echoed much of Carlson's sentiments, admitting that she was nervous on her first day but quickly found herself feeling welcome.
Kathryn Williams transferred from Davidson Academy and has found the small class size and accessibility of teachers as being especially beneficial.
"The teachers really get to know you, and they care about you," Williams said.
Haley Warmath and Gabby Lee, who attended PVCS since they were three years old, remember things like learning to tie their shoes and having nap time in the playroom.
They both remember the kindness and nurturing influence of the late teacher, Betty Plunkett.
"There was one time when all of the girls were fighting, and Ms. Plunkett took us all to the restroom, and then she started crying," said Warmath, smiling as she looked back. "Then we all felt so bad and started crying and forgave each other."
It was Plunkett who helped Warmath find her life verse, Matthew 6: 19-21.
Abby Settle went from being homeschooled to being a PVCS senior, but she knew about the school because her father has been coaching the Warriors football team and her mother teaches Bible.
"There are a lot of good people here, very accepting and encouraging," she said.
Each of the girls cited faculty members as being especially instrumental in helping them want to learn and make a positive difference in life.
"I looked forward to Mr. Short's writing prompts," said Lee, adding that Sonja Anderson had been influential and supportive over the years.
Warmath mentioned former Lady Warriors basketball coach Elizabeth Lemons as being a positive resource and friend.
"The teachers, friends, small classes, and the school being Christ-centered — that makes a difference," Warmath said.
The girls cited librarian Susan Winchester as being an amazing source of inspiration and wisdom.
"She is so positive," Williams said. "And she has absolutely everything in her library."
For Settle, it's her choice of what college to attend that counts as one of the biggest reasons she's grateful for being at PVCS.
"Welch College was not an option (before enrolling at PVCS)," she said of the Nashville school, once known as Free Will Baptist College, which has been the driving foundation for PVCS.
Settle, who plans to major in history, initially learned about Welch through her dual-enrollment classes while homeschooling.
Highers is looking into a career as a dental hygienist, while Carlson is thinking about transferring to Union University for pediatric nursing once she finishes her core classes at Volunteer State Community College.
Williams expressed interest in studying veterinary medicine, while Warmath will enter the nurse practitioner program at Austin Peay State University.
Lee will get her core classes out of the way at APSU before making her decision on a major.
"The smaller, more personal setting here helps with building friendships, and with really getting to know each other," Carlson said. "You feel comfortable talking and sharing because you know that people really care about you."
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The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1931 - 1954)
ARTHUR'S POLL PROSPECTS
Kahibah electorate A.L.P. officials last night would not speculate on Mr. J. G. Arthur's chances of gaining pre-selection ...
Arthur in car smash
Mr. J. G. Arthur, who on Wednesday night resigned as a member of the ...
AUST. JETS' SECRET FLIGHT PLAN
MELBOURNE, Thurs.--Six R.A.A.F. officers will carry out secret flight plans with two Canberra jetbombers in the England-New ...
EFFECT OF NEW £10 NOTES
Federal Treasury officials expect that new £10 notes will bring hoards of ...
INTAKE OF 38,418 MIGRANTS
CANBERRA, Thurs.--In the first six months of this year 38,418 migrants ...
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Mother, sons reunited
Two boys, aged nine and seven, yesterday embraced their mother who abandoned them at a Clovelly ...
Both fled--Anne returned
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The Department of Railways has received £14 conscience money anonymously with a letter posted ...
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Council, Zimra in bitter cash wrangle
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ZIMBABWE – Harare City Council is embroiled in a bitter wrangle with the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) after the revenue authority demanded an upward review of the subsisting payment plan of $1 million per month following its refusal to waive a 100 percent penalty charge for late payment.
Harare owes Zimra $136 238 792, 91 in penalties, Pay As You Earn (PAYE), Value Added Tax (VAT), presumptive tax and interest accumulated since 2009.
Late payment charges alone account for $103 049 947, 50.
VAT accounts for $20 926 936, 10, presumptive tax $143 125, 93, PAYE $12 118 743,38, penalties $75 785 186, 75 and interest $27 264 800, 75.
The city is now seeking the intervention of the Ministry of Local Government, Public Waorks and National Housing.
According to recent minutes of the Finance and Development Committee, finance director Mr Justin Mandizha reported that council was not meeting its monthly obligation due to cash flow challenges.
"The monthly payment as per the subsisting payment plan amounted to $1 million per month and Zimra was demanding an upward review to address the ballooning debt.
The underpayment continued to attract interest and penalty charges at the prescribed rate and at 100 percent respectively.
"Council had made an appeal for waiver of the 100 percent penalty charge and this was not granted. Zimra was yet to renew the City of Harare Tax Certificate," read part of the minutes.
In view of the challenges, council is seeking the intervention of its parent ministry to find common ground between the parties.
Council noted that remittances to Zimra are by way of direct transfers, set offs of amounts owed to council by Government and in some cases garnishee orders.
It also noted that arising from the Government directive to write off all domestic debts accrued to June 30, 2013, an amount of $13,7m was approved for write-off by Zimra against a claim of $21,7 million.
The city collected $138 million from January to September 2015.
Debtors were reported at $394,1 million, while creditors stood at $197,4 million.
Mr Mandizha reported that the prevailing economic challenges had affected most Harare residents and the corresponding revenue inflows.
He also sought council permission to hire 31 vehicles for a period of four months for use in revenue collection after reporting that council's fleet had outlived its useful economic life and some divisions were struggling to deliver their mandate.
Council granted him the authority.
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Murad to Partner with Massage Envy
Skin-care leader launches partnership with national therapeutic massage franchise
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. and SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Nov. 3, 2009 – Murad Inc. and Massage Envy, the nation's largest franchise of massage therapy clinics, has announced a joint partnership. Massage Envy announced this year that it will begin converting many of its nearly 600 clinics and opening new clinics as Massage Envy Spas throughout the U.S. Massage Envy Spa will offer Murad treatment facials, including special treatments which are customized specifically for this partnership.
Murad's introduction of its treatments and retail products to Massage Envy brings its scientifically proven skin-care solutions to a new consumer. The treatments will be performed by licensed estheticians who will receive ongoing training and education from Murad for maximum client results. Massage Envy makes massage therapy and
skin-care treatments available to a larger population thanks to convenient hours, including late nights and weekends.
"We're excited to be partnering with Massage Envy. Their core beliefs in the physical and mental benefits of healing touch and achieving wellness through internal and external skin care are very much in line with Dr. Murad's Inclusive Health Philosophy," said Richard Murad, Murad's chief operating officer and general counsel. "Not only is this a great introduction to Murad for Massage Envy customers, it is our hope that customers who will be experiencing a facial for the first time will continue to seek professional treatments to compliment their existing at home skin-care regimens."
"We're very pleased to be working with Murad in an effort to bring our members the most effective, highest quality treatments and products available," said David Humphrey, chief executive officer of Massage Envy. "The relationship says a great deal about our organizations' mutual regard for our clients. We believe it allows Massage Envy to offer our 625,000 plus members the benefits of exceptional facials and skin care, alongside offering the wellness benefits of massage."
Massage Envy Spa signature Murad facials
AHA Rapid Exfoliator® Anti-Aging Facial reveals smoother, vibrant, younger-looking skin. Appropriate for all skin types, concentrated glycolic acid provides maximum exfoliation, while a unique patented blend of antioxidants, anti-inflammatory agents and hydrators dramatically improve the skin's texture, tone and appearance.
Sensitive Skin Facial repairs and balances the skin with a gentle, yet effective treatment designed specifically to address skin that is easily irritated or sensitive. This facial provides mild exfoliation and a soothing mask to help reduce redness, discomfort and inflammation, while strengthening the skin's barrier function and restoring hydration and suppleness.
Environmental Shield® Vitamin C Infusion Facial is a scientifically-proven facial designed to reverse the signs of aging that result from everyday environmental factors, such as sunlight, smog, pollution and stress. Rich in antioxidants including vitamin C, the facial features patented infusion technology, which delivers pure vitamin C directly to the skin to maximize wrinkle fighting, collagen production and free radical protection. Skin pigmentation will fade, fine lines and wrinkles will be smooth, and you will discover increased clarity, brightness and firmness.
There are 35 Massage Envy Spas currently located in California, Illinois, New Jersey, North Carolina and South Carolina.
Murad Inc.
Murad, Inc. was founded in 1989 by Howard Murad. M.D., one of the world's foremost authorities on skin health and a pioneer of the clinical skincare movement. All Murad products are based in The Science of Cellular Water™, Dr. Murad's unified theory of health and aging.
The Murad brand includes 88 consumer products and 45 professional products sold in 45 countries. Murad is the number-one selling clinical skin-care brand at many locations, including Sephora and Ulta. Known globally for high performance topical and internal skin care, Murad has grown by producing innovative products that meet the needs of its customers.
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New retirement campus names Executive Director
Country Meadows announces Pattiann Rohrbach will serve as Executive Director for Country Meadows of Forks in Easton—a brand new retirement community under construction.
Pattiann Rohrbach
An 18-year Country Meadows co-worker, Rohrbach is eager for the campus' grand opening this summer. After three years as regional vice president of operations, she is excited to get back to what she loves most—spending time with residents and co-workers, helping to make a positive difference in their lives.
"Seniors have so much to share. They have a wealth of experience, and they really like to have fun," says Rohrbach, whose mother is a resident at Country Meadows of Allentown.
Before her stint as vice president, Rohrbach was executive director at Country Meadows of Bethlehem for five years. Previously she held management roles overseeing memory support and restorative care services. Rohrbach has more than 36 years of experience in the personal care/assisted living field.
She has received accolades for her dedication to seniors. In 2011, she was named Executive Director of the Year by the Center for Assisted Living Management (CALM). In a nomination written by Country Meadows co-workers, she is described as an example of a "heroic individual in the assisted living industry" with her "upbeat attitude, giving persona and ongoing encouragement."
Rohrbach began her career working nights as a receptionist at Leader Nursing Centers in Bethlehem—a company owned by the Leader family prior to Country Meadows. A young mother, Rohrbach chose the job mostly for convenience, but as she developed relationships with residents she realized working with seniors was something she loved and continues to love today.
She likes to say, "How can we make that happen?" and looks for ways to create a great experience for residents and co-workers. Former team members say she is an excellent listener and enjoys problem solving.
A native of Allentown, Rohrbach and her family have called Bethlehem home for more than 40 years. She is excited about the location and design of the Forks campus and is certain residents will love the beautifully appointed community gathering spaces and amenities. Happy to be entrusted with assuring great care and service to enhance the lives of residents, she is eager to build and lead a great team of co-workers who share her passion.


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Franju on Lang, Adler on Kael, and More
The Daily — Aug 17, 2018
Peter Lorre in Fritz Lang's M (1931)
We lost Aretha Franklin this week. Understandably, when the current outpouring of tributes to the immeasurable power of the Queen of Soul mention cinema at all, those mentions address her contributions to soundtracks. But there's a coincidental overlap between one of this week's five items and Mike Fleming Jr.'s interview with John Landis for Deadline. Landis credits Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi for their "intention to exploit their own celebrity of the moment" to capture performances by many of America's great blues and soul artists—Franklin included, of course—in his 1980 film, The Blues Brothers. And Landis notes that Pauline Kael "routinely slammed all of my films. Her review of The Blues Brothers is essentially a dismissal of the movie, and then five or six pages on the genius of Aretha Franklin. Which, by the way, was fine with me."
The New York Review of Books has unlocked from its archives one of the most famous—or, depending on which side you're on, infamous—takedowns in recent literary history. Renata Adler's 1980 piece "The Perils of Pauline" was ostensibly a review of New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael's collection When the Lights Go Down, which Adler, a fellow staff writer at the magazine, deemed "piece by piece, line by line, and without interruption, worthless." That's the pull quote, but the gist of her argument was that, while Kael had once been a critic to turn to, "the substance of her work has become little more than an attempt, with an odd variant of flak advertising copy, to coerce, actually to force numb acquiescence, in the laying down of a remarkably trivial and authoritarian party line." Looking back on the piece in 2015, M. H. Miller, a senior editor at ARTnews at the time (and now an editor at T: The New York Times Style Magazine), argued that "Adler's castigation of Kael still seems relevant, and encapsulates so much of what's wrong with the media."
In 1937, Georges Franju, the director of Judex and Eyes Without a Face, wrote a piece on the style of Fritz Lang for CINEMAtographe, which then reappeared in the 100th issue of Cahiers du cinéma in 1959. Kino Slang has posted Sallie Iannotti's translation of the essay in which Franju discusses what he calls Lang's "intuitive editing," his penchant for spectacle, and the performances he drew from actors, nearly all of them "characterized by extreme attitudes, energetic expressions, and nervousness of gesture. It is difficult to determine whether Lang discovers personalities, or exploits them."
Writing for Sight & Sound, Abé Markus Nornes looks back on the life of cinematographer Masaki Tamura, who passed away in May at the age of seventy-nine. The piece is shot through with memories of personal encounters with Tamura, known for his work with documentary filmmaker Shinsuke Ogawa, with Toshiya Fujita on Lady Snowblood and its sequel, and with Juzo Itami on Tampopo.
Programmer and critic Eric Allen Hatch has launched a new column at the Notebook, and his first installment picks up where his widely shared article for Filmmaker, "Why I Am Hopeful," left off in June. In essence, he's refreshing his call to all of us who participate in film culture to be more adventurous in our choices of films to watch, show, and write about, only this time by way of a frank assessment of some of the major film festivals in North America.
In the twenty-first entry in their series of audiovisual essays for De Filmkrant, "The Thinking Machine," Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin analyze the ways that "space is shaped and reshaped for the sake of plot, emotion, and theme" in Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious (1946).


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Mary J. Owen, MD, on Caring for Tribal Communities During COVID-19
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Mary J. Owen, MD
The desire to train in a program specifically dedicated to Native American physicians drew Mary Owen, MD, to the University of Minnesota Medical School nearly 20 years ago. After graduating from the U of M's North Memorial Family Medicine Residency Program, Dr. Owen returned to her tribe in Alaska to practice medicine.
"I was starting to get a little burned out after being on-call on nights and weekends," Dr. Owen said. "Then, I got a call and the Medical School, Duluth campus asked me to come back and, at first, I said 'no.' But, as that burnout progressed and I thought about the potential to serve a larger number of Native patients by training other physicians, it became a 'yes.'"
Dr. Owen relocated to Minnesota in 2014 to become the director of the Medical School's Center for American Indian and Minority Health and an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Biobehavioral Health.
Providing Care to Tribal Communities During COVID-19
Tribal nations have long been disadvantaged by inequitable access to healthcare and resources, including personal protective equipment. COVID-19 has further highlighted these disparities as the virus devastates Navajo Nation and tribal nations at far higher rates.
Frustrated with what she calls a "dog-eat-dog system," where "those who don't ask as fast as others to get supplies or monies to help their populations are left with less services," Dr. Owen took action in her community to introduce a number of response initiatives to ease the burdens faced by physicians and tribal communities providing care to COVID-19 patients.
One such initiative was the "COVID-19 Tribal Health Town Hall" hosted by the Center for American Indian and Minority Health. Dr. Owen also used her position as president-elect of the Association of American Indian Physicians to drive partnerships with Native American-owned locum companies to connect essential healthcare professionals to tribal communities in need.
In addition to these initiatives and her own part-time work at a Fond du Lac Nation clinic, Dr. Owen has been asked to participate in a new task force to work with local tribal communities to figure out how they need assistance in preparation for the fallout from COVID-19.
"It hasn't quite hit yet, but we've certainly seen the impact on Navajo Nation," Dr. Owen said. "We worry about something like that being replicated here. We really want to try and help and make sure we are as prepared as possible."
Continued Connections in the Time of COVID-19
"What inspired my response is my concern that people were fearful," Dr. Owen said. "And, primarily because they didn't know what was going on—because we can't make the usual connections that we do."
One of Dr. Owen's many duties as director of the Center of American Indian and Minority Health is to support, recruit and retain Native American students and physicians. Now—when faces are masked and loved ones are six feet away—Dr. Owen feels it's especially important to focus on supporting and connecting with students.
For Dr. Owen, this meant checking in on students as they began online learning and transitioning the annual honoring ceremony—a day dedicated to honoring the community, resilience and accomplishments of the graduating class—to an online format. For the Native American medical students she mentors, this meant starting a campaign to connect with Native youth who might be struggling.
The resilience of the students, youth and physicians, Dr. Owen notes, deserves to be recognized in these difficult times—as does that of the communities which they come from.
"The resiliency that we're seeing in communities, not just Native American communities but lots of communities, by people reaching out to one another," she said, "we want people to know, or as many people as possible to know, that we are thinking about them. They are not alone."


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Why Do Some Black Leaders 'Hate' President Obama
by GDN Shared Post	March 5, 2009
(NNPA) – In the aftermath of President Barack Obama's historic address to a joint session of Congress last week, the reaction to his call for American courage in the face of economic uncertainty has been widely hailed.
"Tonight, President Obama set forth a powerful vision for our country and an agenda for change that deserves the support of all Americans,"' said Sen. Edward Kennedy (D- Mass).
" President Obama is exactly the kind of leader we need in the face of our nation's significant challenges,' echoed Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ).
Instant national polls afterward showed well over 65 percent of Americans surveyed viewed the first Black president and his message favorably, with almost that many saying that they trust his leadership in this time of crisis.
And, of course, it's no secret that ever since he mounted his historic run for the White House two years ago, Obama has ultimately enjoyed the overwhelming support of his natural constituency – the African-American community. Most Blacks see both Obama's election, and leadership, not only as a tremendous source of pride, but an extraordinary example of excellence and achievement that all African-Americans, especially young people, should follow.
"Children with foreign-sounding names learned that they too can be president of the United States, and the electoral aspiration of almost an entire generation of young American voters was realized," Benjamin Jealous, president/CEO of the NAACP, said the day after Obama's historic election last November.
But not every Black leader is as fond or as proud of the new president as the NAACP and the American people are.
In fact, there are a number Black leaders, who span the spectrum of religion, politics and gender, who expressed during the presidential campaign, and many who continue to expound today, assessments of President Obama that range from philosophical annoyance, to petty envy, and even, in at least one case, absolute hatred.
Some actively worked to stop Obama's election, and at least one is feverishly at work trying to legally undo it.
Normally these leaders – many, but not all of whom, serve as mouthpieces for right-wing organizations or interests that mightily tried to cripple Obama's presidential candidacy – are ignored, if not dismissed, not only by the African-American community, but the public at-large.
But given the tremendous challenges Pres. Obama faces on the economic and national security fronts in his still infant administration, if his massive $787 billion stimulus plan fails to produce jobs and recovery, or if the nation is struck once again 9/11-style with a crippling terrorist attack, Obama's critics, especially in the Black community, will gain instant currency to undermine his leadership, and possibly destroy his presidency.
One need only look at the extraordinary cast of Black characters who are fully invested in creating dire drama for President Obama.
Number one on the list is a former 2008 presidential candidate himself, arch-conservative Alan Keyes.
"Obama is a radical communist, and I think it is becoming clear," Keyes, who lost to Obama in a contentious 2004 U.S. Senate race in Illinois, told Nebraska TV station KHAS-TV two weeks ago. "That is what I told people in Illinois and now everybody realizes it's true."
Then Keyes, who also has at least four failed runs for the White House under his own belt, issued this dire prediction on-camera, "He is going to destroy this country, and we are either going to stop him or the United States of America is going to cease to exist."
Keyes, who is party to a lawsuit alleging that President Obama assumed the office illegally because he has not proven to Keyes that he is a natural-born citizen (the state of Hawaii, which has Obama's original 1961 birth certificate locked away, confirms the president's citizenship), alleges even further constitutional calamity for the nation.
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Lawmakers near budget deal, Trump urges shutdown for immigration
Update: February, 07/2018 - 10:15
WASHINGTON — US congressional leaders said on Tuesday they were close to clinching an elusive budget deal that would keep government open -- despite President Donald Trump calling for a shutdown if he does not get his way on immigration.
The Senate's top Republican and Democrat signaled a deal was imminent that would raise both defence and non-defence spending maximum levels for the next two years, beyond the limits imposed by a 2011 law, clearing the way for lawmakers to swiftly pass a temporary spending bill before the government runs out of money at midnight Thursday.
Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer said there was "real progress" on a budget deal, while Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said "we're on our way to getting an agreement, and getting it very soon".
The bipartisan breakthrough came as the Republican-controlled House of Representatives debated and then passed a controversial six-week stopgap spending measure.
Schumer and Democrats threatened to block the bill in the Senate because it funds the military, but not domestic programmes, through the remainder of the fiscal year.
"We support an increase in funding for our military and our middle class," Schumer insisted. "We don't want to do just one and leave the other behind."
But Schumer said that the long-term deal being finalised would essentially make that concern moot, allowing his caucus to support a temporary funding measure that includes the language about spending levels through 2019.
Running in tandem with the shutdown showdown is a bitter fight over immigration, and lawmakers were sounding increasingly pessimistic about the prospects of reaching consensus on a plan that shields 1.8 million undocumented migrants from deportation.
'Shut it down'
Democrats have bridled at Trump's proposal, which puts those immigrants on a pathway to citizenship but imposes dramatic curbs on legal immigration including ending the green card visa lottery and restricting family reunification visas.
Last September Trump scrapped the Obama-era programme known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), meaning the 690,000 so-called "Dreamer" immigrants under its protection could face deportation as early as March 5 if Congress fails to act.
Democrats have pushed hard to tie immigration to the funding fight, and Republicans blamed the opposition party for triggering a three-day government shutdown over the issue last month.
Trump appeared to lose patience over a Congress still deadlocked on immigration.
"I'd love to see a shutdown if we can't get this stuff taken care of," he said at the White House.
"If we have to shut it down because the Democrats don't want safety... let's shut it down."
Since coming to office, Trump has repeatedly tried to link migration with crime. On Tuesday he held a roundtable discussion with lawmakers and law enforcement officials where he lamented that "killers" were coming across the border and living illegally in the United States.
Hours earlier on Twitter, the president blasted Democrats for their opposition to what he called a "merit-based" immigration system.
"If D's oppose this deal, they aren't serious about DACA-they just want open borders," he wrote. — AFP
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Brandon Capital Partners Chooses DealCloud for Company Tracking, Deal Tracking, and Pipeline Management
Brandon Capital Partners, a Melbourne, Australia–based venture capital firm that specializes in biotechnology and pharmaceutical investments, has selected DealCloud to help with company tracking, deal tracking, and pipeline management.
"DealCloud offered the comprehensive and user-friendly deal tracking capability we were in search of," said Amy Perkin, Chief Financial Officer at Brandon Capital. "Keeping track of investment opportunities and ensuring we follow up efficiently is critical to our success. As we grew, so did the number of deals in our pipeline and the size of the team, making deal tracking more complicated. DealCloud enables us to visualize and prioritize the pipeline in real time."
Brandon Capital invests in promising biomedical opportunities that have the potential to improve patients' lives. From early-stage seed investment and expansion capital to proof-of-concept and commercialization, the firm supports life science companies through all phases of their journeys.
Brandon Capital partners with entrepreneurs for the long haul, working collaboratively to support the development and commercialization of their technology, thereby creating value for their teams, investors, and — ultimately — patients. The team at Brandon Capital seeks to invest early and has been the founding investor for most of the 30 companies within the firm's current portfolio.
"We're very impressed by the investments Brandon Capital has made in the biomedical space, and supporting the firm's team with deal tracking and pipeline management is very rewarding," said Amit Lalwani, Head of Global Business Development at DealCloud. "We're poised to support more venture capital firms like Brandon Capital in 2021 and for many years to come."
DealCloud, an Intapp company, provides a single-source deal, relationship, and firm management platform that enables firms to power their dealmaking process from strategy to origination to execution. We offer fully configurable solutions purpose-built for the complex relationships and structures of private equity and growth capital firms, investment banks, private and publicly traded companies, debt capital providers, and other investors. For more information, visit dealcloud.com.
About Brandon Capital Partners
Brandon Capital Partners is a venture capital firm that manages the Medical Research Commercialisation Fund (MRCF), Australia's and New Zealand's largest life science investment fund. The MRCF is a unique collaboration between major Australian pension funds, the Australian and New Zealand governments, Australian state governments, and more than 50 leading medical research institutes and research hospitals. The MRCF supports the development and commercialization of early-stage biomedical discoveries associated with member organizations, providing both capital and expertise to guide the successful development of new therapies. Brandon Capital currently has more than 800 million Australian dollars under management and maintains offices in Melbourne and Sydney as well as Palo Alto, California. For more information about Brandon Capital and the MRCF, visit brandoncapital.com.au and mrcf.com.au.
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Secretary of State (United Kingdom)
Secretary of state (U.S. state government)
Secretary of State (disambiguation)
In the United Kingdom, a Secretary of State (SofS) is a Cabinet Minister in charge of a Government Department (though not all departments are headed by a Secretary of State, e.g. HM Treasury is headed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer).
There are a number of Secretaries of State, each formally titled "Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for ...". Legislation generally only refers to "The Secretary of State" without specifying which one; by virtue of the Interpretation Act 1978 this phrase means "one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State". These positions can be created without primary legislation, nowadays at the behest of the Prime Minister.
Kingdom of England
In the Middle Ages the kings of England were attended by a cleric called their "king's clerk" and later "secretary", who dealt with their correspondence. Until Henry VIII, there was usually only one secretary, but under him a second appeared. In the time of Elizabeth I (1558–1603) these men gained the title "Secretary of State". With Cabinet government after 1688, the Secretaries of State took on higher duties. Their posts came to be known as the Secretary of State for the Northern Department and the Secretary of State for the Southern Department. Both dealt with Home Affairs, but they divided Foreign Affairs, so that one dealt with the Protestant states of northern Europe and the other with the Roman Catholic states of southern Europe.
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Secretary of State or State Secretary is a commonly used title for a senior or mid-level post in governments around the world. The role varies between countries, and in some cases there are multiple Secretaries of State in the Government.
In many countries, a Secretary of State is a mid-level post. It is usually a politically appointed position, although in some countries, such as Germany and Sweden, it can be filled by a member of the executive bureaucracy (civil service) as a political appointment. In the Holy See, there is one Secretary of State, who coordinates all the departments of the Roman Curia (that is, equivalent to a Prime Minister). In the United Kingdom a Secretary of State is a member of the Cabinet appointed by the Queen on the advice of the Prime Minister (that is, equivalent to a Minister). In the Federal Government of the United States of America, there is one Secretary of State, the most senior political appointee responsible for foreign policy (that is, equivalent to a Foreign Minister).
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Secretary of state is an official in the state governments of 47 of the 50 states of the United States, as well as Puerto Rico and other U.S. possessions. In Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, this official is called the secretary of the commonwealth. In states that have one, the secretary of state is the chief clerk of the state, and is often the primary custodian of important state records. In the states of Alaska, Hawaii, and Utah, there is no Secretary of State; in those states many duties that a secretary of state might normally execute fall within the domain of the lieutenant governor. Like the lieutenant governor, in most states the secretary of state is in the line of succession to succeed the governor, in most cases immediately behind the lieutenant governor. In three states with no lieutenant governor (Arizona,Oregon and Wyoming) as well as the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, the secretary of state is first in the line of succession in the event of a gubernatorial vacancy.
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Secretary of State, in several countries, a senior government position
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McMaster on 'Fundamentally Flawed' Iran Nuclear Deal: 'How Do You Trust This Regime?'
Paul Crookston • September 21, 2017 11:04 am
National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said Thursday that the effects of the Iran Nuclear Deal have been the opposite of what was intended, allowing Iran to continue missile development.
McMaster spoke to CNN's Chris Cuomo, castigating the deal's sunset clause, which lifts restrictions on Iran's nuclear program after 2025, as well as the trustworthiness of the Iranian regime. He said the deal is "fundamentally flawed," and quoted President Donald Trump's declaration that the deal, agreed upon by his predecessor Barack Obama, was the worst of "all-time."
"The deal is fundamentally flawed," McMaster said. "As the president said, he called it the worst deal of all-time. It gave the Iranian regime all the benefits up front."
"The flaws of the deal, the sunset clause that could really give this regime, who is not trustworthy, obviously, cover to advance a nuclear program and then have this threshold capability," he added.
Cuomo argued that the deal has made some difference, and by some accounts, at least slowed the development of weapons in Iran. He inquired whether the Iran deal was simply the best deal possible because it is what Obama agreed to after negotiations, but McMaster disagreed.
McMaster said the Iranian regime has crossed the line by spinning unauthorized centrifuges, and corrective action must be tougher.
"Iran is continuing missile development, missile development that could be paired with a nuclear program later," McMaster said. "The regime has not just walked up to the line but crossed the line, spinning too many centrifuges, too much heavy water."
"So while the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency], the monitoring body, called them out on it and they've corrected some of this: How do you trust this regime to do it?" he asked.
He stated the need for more rigorous enforcement, and called the sunset clause the deal's "fundamental flaw."
"Much more rigorous enforcement is needed – the need to address the fundamental flaw, the sunset clause, the need to address other capabilities that could then threaten the world, from this autocratic, theocratic regime in Iran," McMaster said.
He also described the wider range of Iran's negative influence, calling for an overall strategy to prevent them from destabilizing the Middle East.
"So, these are the things we have to work on together, but in the context of an overall Iran strategy, because Iran is destabilizing not just the Middle East, but poses a broader threat," McMaster said. "Iran is perpetuating this humanitarian and political crisis in the Middle East."
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