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There are three artists named Itch:
1) Solo project of Jonny "Itch" Fox, formerly of The King Blues
2) Math rock band from Leeds, UK
3) Experimental rock band from Belgrade, Serbia
1) Itch is the name of Jonny "Itch" Fox's solo project since the break-up of his previous band, The King Blues.
Itch's music is a mix of dubstep, poetry, hip-hop and electronica. He released his début EP - "Manifesto Part 1: How to Fucking Rule at Life" at the end of 2012 via Red Bull Records.
His album - 'Life Is Poetry' was released in March 2014 in both the UK and USA. Songs on the album include collaborations with Matisyahu, Megan Joy and Adam Lazzara.
2) Itch are a four-piece alternative math rock band from Leeds, West Yorkshire (UK). The band started in 1999. Drawing influence from bands like Sweep the Leg Johnny, Spy Versus Spy and The White Octave.
The band was never taken seriously until a small independent label called Happy Astronaut help release their first E.P 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf!' In 2002.
Followed by an album called 'Well,Well,Well, Three Holes in the Ground' in 2005 on Big Scary Monsters, and with the success that followed they were able to tour in and around the UK numerous times, before releasing a single 'The Bombshell' in 2007 on BSM again.
Since then they've been busy growing up and writing a long over due album entitled 'An Illusion Of Grandeur From A One Trick Pony' which was released on the 17th November 2009 on Tip Toe Records.
Mike Milner - Vocals & Guitar
Steven Banks - Guitar
John Darke - Bass Guitar
Lee Strong – Drums
3) Itch is alternative/experimental rock band from Belgrade, Serbia
Bend started at 2010.The idea is about making music with lot of different styles in it. All 4 of them have different music taste, but one thing brings them together, and that is love and passion for music and a wish to bring something new to people. They have one album recorded and it will be released soon. They already started working on material for their second album.
Dusan Simic - Guitar
Srdjan Vujnovic - Bass
Filip Stanisic - Drums
Jelena Risovic - Vocals
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Features · iPad
So, Can the iPad Pro Replace Your Laptop?
By Sir Newton on September 24, 2015 No Comments
Since the iPad first came onto the scene, we've been asking ourselves the question as to whether or not the next tablet release is going to kill the laptop once and for all. I've personally found the question to be a bit loaded – it's like comparing "Apples" and oranges. But the question still presses on. So the question is, will the iPad Pro, with its gigantic (for a tablet) screen replace your laptop?
Though we won't fully know the answer unless we get our hands on it this November, let's take a look at some of its qualities, specifications, and capabilities, and see if this device is capable of replacing your laptop computer.
Display, bulk, and dimensions
The iPad Pro boasts a 12.9-inch retina display with a 2732 x 2048 resolution with 264 pixels per inch (or ppi). The newest Macbook meanwhile, has a 12-inch retina display with a 2304 x 1440 resolution.
The iPad Pro is weighed in at 713 grams (1.57 lbs), while the Macbook is at a notch higher at two pounds. We can assume the former will be as heavy if attached to a keyboard. In the thickness category, the former is a 6.9 mm while the Macbook is twice as thick at 13.1 mm.
In terms of carrying them around, the iPad Pro definitely has the advantage despite it having a larger screen. It's not everyday you get to see a mobile device possessing a larger display than a laptop computer.
It will run on the iOS
The iPad Pro will run on the same operating system as your iPhone. In work-related matters, will this pan out?
Fortunately, the iOS 9 is well-suited for the iPad Pro: the operating system has multitasking, split-screen features which Apple says are tailor-made for the device. The company also mentioned that the new operating system is designed to make devices run more smoothly and respond more quickly.
Take note that the iPad Pro is still a mobile device, despite being freakishly large compared to its counterparts – my call is that the laptop really cannot be replaced unless iOS can provide the capabilities of OS X in full.
The Game Changer? Apple Pencil
Arguably one of the reasons why iPad Pro posts a distinct advantage over laptops is it being complemented by the Apple Pencil, a $99, high tech stylus paired with the device.
The Pencil is one of the most advanced styli in the world. It is pressure-sensitive and it's comparable to using a real pen: when you write or draw something on the iPad Pro, it feels like ink or pain is flowing from the tip. You can use the pencil to take handwritten notes and more importantly, draw.
This alone makes it a must for professionals who rely on their artistic abilities to make a living, like architects and artists. Rather than use a laptop and a scanner to upload and send drawings, the iPad Pro can easily do both. So I would say, in that sense, for the artist: you are getting closer to ditching the laptop.
I must admit that the selection of creative suites in iOS is becoming pretty robust. Some of the most notable ones include:
Notes – this built-in app can be used to…well…take notes. The Apple Pencil can be used in doing so.
iMovie – perfect if you need to edit videos, whether as a hobby or for work. Though video editors prefer software like Final Cut and Vegas, iMovie has the edge in simplicity and intuitiveness.
Pages – primarily a word processing app.
Other mainstay apps and features, like Safari, Photo Booth, and Mail are also present. There will be third-party applications – which can support Apple Pencil and iPad Pro's new features – on the App Store too.
Microsoft Office and Photoshop Fix
Yes, the iPad Pro supports Microsoft Office applications. Ironically, Microsoft presented it during Apple's event: it's a story you don't get to hear everyday.
The Office apps support the device's multitasking features. For example, you can work on an MS Word document and a Powerpoint presentation simultaneously via split screen. It has also been optimized for Spotlight, supports the iPad Pro's external keyboard shortcuts, and is compatible with the Pencil. Though this has not been talked about yet, we assume you can print documents straight from your iPad Pro by connecting your device with a Bluetooth or wireless printer.
Meanwhile, Adobe is set release a new Photoshop for iOS on October, called Photoshop Fix. It was presented during Apple's keynote event two weeks ago and is works well with the iPad Pro.
Verdict: iPad Pro or MacBook?
Though the iPad Pro seems like a must-have device, it's not for everybody. The Apple Pencil is awesome and all, but to fully utilize it, you have to be an artist or someone who works in design. Photoshop and MS Office are on laptops as well.
The iPad Pro offers the functionality of a laptop on a mobile device, but it's not enough to replace your laptop if all you're going to do is simply use it to edit spreadsheets, create presentations, and write documents.
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workdays from 8a.m. to 6 p.m., free enterance This exhibition will showcase posters and prints which the author has designed especially for this occasion. The concept of his work is best described as abstract identity, workaday spectacularity. Extremes such as body and spirit, artificial and natural, real and abstract are confronted in his work, producing a spark in their collision. The dialogue between these two extremes grows by itself, and is compared by the author to "growing flesh on the carcass". That carcass becomes a framework, peeped in the environment, taken out of context. To be able to provide acute attention to each subject, the use of language of abstraction seems appropriate. Flexible, vibrant and absorbing new meanings taken out of context. As a result, we obtain artefacts of these events. A chronicle documenting itself.


Josyane Colwell established Le Moulin Catering in 1991. Her culinary creativity and organizational and planning skills have brought her international recognition. She has over 30 years of experience catering for the finest affairs in the region as well as serving diplomats and politicians in Washington, DC. Born in the south of France her passion for using the freshest, most natural ingredients stems from her days of shopping in the markets in Nice where the produce, fish, meats and poultry, and flowers were all sourced not far from the markets themselves. For Josyane, the best meals are those prepared where the food source is not far from the kitchen. Menus sourced from seasonal ingredients, plates that replicate nature through presentation are the basis for Josyane's cooking style. To Josyane, cooking is part of giving, it comes from the heart, it's not a job. Food is nature, it should be healthy and organic, and along with imagination, creativity and beauty, this is the soul of Le Moulin Catering.
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Marco Abruzzi's Daughter Emily Shines in Super Comp at Frank Hawley's Drag Racing School
Ainsley Jacobs
Transitioning from a Jr. Dragster to a Super Comp dragster is quite a feat, but famed racer and transmission builder Marco Abruzzi's daughter, Emily Abruzzi, made it look easy while obtaining her competition license at Frank Hawley's Drag Racing School.
Emily was fortunate enough to grow up in a racing-oriented family as her father, Marco, has won multiple championship titles in both the NHRA and IHRA. Owner of the renowned Abruzzi Transmissions and Converters business, Marco wanted his daughter to have the best opportunity for success with her budding career and booked Emily into the School's December 27-28, 2022, session at Gainesville Raceway in Florida.
"I had a few friends that took their kids to Frank Hawley's Drag Racing School and they highly recommended it to me," shared Marco, who knew it would be far easier for Emily to get her NHRA Super Comp license in a safe, controlled classroom environment as opposed to making multiple trips to other tracks. "Frank [Hawley] was an excellent instructor and I'm glad she went. I sat in on the classroom lectures and learned some things, too."
Emily was slightly apprehensive at first, but quickly acclimated thanks to Hawley's teaching process. She appreciated how he instilled the basics and fundamentals in all of the students so they were comfortable before they got on track. "After every pass, we would get critiqued and the feedback was very helpful for me to improve every time," said Emily, who also learned the critical lesson that, if something doesn't feel right, just let out. "You can never do anything wrong by staying safe and stopping."
Letting go of the trans brake button and experiencing the difference between going 80 mph in a Junior to 160+ mph in the Super Comp chassis was certainly a huge step for Emily, but she relished the opportunity and enjoyed the thrill. "I'm used to racing eighth-mile, and I wasn't sure if I would make the full quarter-mile pass the first time I went, but I did and it was very rewarding," she added. "Leaving the line in a Junior is smooth, so I wasn't ready for the launch in the Super Comp car and it was a big shock… but in a good way!"
Marco was, admittedly, a little nervous about his 16-year-old daughter stepping up to quarter-mile runs at full tilt after having watched her run the eighth-mile at limited speeds for the last eight years of her life. "She handled herself like a professional and had no problems at all, even though this was her first time in a full-size car," noted the proud father. "Frank has found his calling – he's an excellent instructor and an expert at starting kids from scratch."
For her recent sweet sixteen birthday, Emily's parents gifted her with a 2022 American Dragster of her own. Coupled with a 598 cubic inch Chris Wilson engine and an Abruzzi Racing Powerglide transmission and 9" converter, the car will surely serve Emily well as she pursues a future as a big money bracket racer alongside her father.
"It was quite a compliment for us to have such an accomplished racer like Marco Abruzzi bring Emily to our School," affirmed founder Frank Hawley, who especially enjoyed meeting and talking with both Marco and his daughter. "Emily was one of the fastest drivers in the class and I expect she will do very well racing."


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Q: Saving an Android Spinner value as Text for use elsewhere I'm relatively new to Android Applications and have an App up and running and working (almost) how I want.
It's a fairly simple app that has only a couple of buttons/activities with the main goal of showing a Barcode on the screen.
I have it all working with a Custom Font and Hardcoded value to populate the barcode but i'm now looking to expand the app to give the user the option to select the barcode number they require.
I have a settings activity which, at the moment, holds only a spinner and button.  What i'm wanting to do is have the user select the barcode value from the spinner and then click the button to save the value (as Text) so that I can use the value to populate the barcode.
I've done some reading and come across SharedPreferences and Internal Storage but having trouble deciding which one would be best to use.
Will SharedPreferences continue to store the information if the application is closed or would the user need to repopulate the settings again?  Would Internal Storage be a better option for this?
If so, what would be the best way to go about saving the selected value and then populating it within another activity?

A: Each value you store in SharedPreferences will remain until your app is uninstalled. In this case SharedPreferences would be the best choice.

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Hearts! Hearts! They're everywhere! It's February, and of course that's the month of romance, the month of love, and the month of hearts. So it's fitting that February is Heart Month, too!
Celebrated in both the U.S. and Canada, Heart Month is dedicated to spreading awareness about the risks of heart disease and the importance of heart health. There are nearly 70,000 heart attacks each year in just Canada, which is equal to one heart attack every seven minutes, so Service Experts Heating and Air Conditioning Niagara decided to help.
Three years ago, Service Experts Niagara (located in St. Catharines) introduced a heartfelt campaign for the month of February. They match any customer donation up to $100 in support of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario, Niagara and so far, more than $6,000 has been raised.
As if donating to such a heartwarming cause isn't enough, anyone who makes a donation will be registered into a drawing for a chance to win three great heating and air conditioning prizes!
To contribute, visit Service Experts Niagara's donation page at http://tinyurl.com/zx9vmar or go by the office at 177 Scott St. in St. Catharines. For every gift, Service Experts will create a paper heart to write the donor's name and proudly hang them all in the office. Call 801-871-8425 for more information or to schedule an HVAC maintenance appointment.


Linen is provided and is required and includes sheets, towels, bath mat and face washers.
The kitchen is all electric and has a double oven, microwave and fully equipped kitchen.
The bathroom has a shub with a separate toilet.
The wood fire and sun drenched conservatory keep the home warm and cosy.
For the fishing enthusiast there is the lake or it is just a short drive south to pristine rivers where you can try your luck.
If this bach is booked for the dates you would like, try our other cottage which is also in Kingston on the lakefront called "Lakeview".
Extras: Linen, Includes sheets, towels, bath mat and face washers (Required, NZ$15.00 per person); NOTE: Under Kiwi bach tradition you are expected to: Clean the house and do the dishes before you leave.
20 minute drive to The Remarkables ski fields. Stunning lake and mountain views.
Handy to lake front & park across the road, short walk to golf club. good parking house very clean, tidy and warm.
Loved this house and hope to return some day.
A lovely and clean place, at a quiet location, right at the lake and not far from Queenstown. Thanks for letting us stay here.
Gorgeous spot perfect for RNR, and a recharge would definately visit again, very sad this spot is going to the rental market, would love to book for same time next year.


The Choral Arts Foundation of the UpperValley and the NH and VT state chapters of ACDA are hosting a two-day conference on choral music for conductors, singers, and all who love and support the choral arts. Please mark your calendars and join us for: performances, workshops for singers and conductors, reading sessions, and musical inspiration! All conference attendees are invited to join the "conference choir" led by Tim Sharp, as well as one small ensemble, and Saturday evening all will give a concert open to the public.
Online Registration has CLOSED. Please contact Johanna Evans (jrtevans@gmail.com) for information about registering at the door.
Registration for this conference is $50 and includes access to all of the events below as well as breakfast Saturday morning.
Those who register will receive a more detailed schedule, information about workshops, and an option to buy a parking pass closer to the conference date.


With a new academic year's first payments just around the corner, Student Finance England (SFE) is urging students – and especially freshers – across England, to be security savvy online to protect themselves from scammers trying to steal their finance.
SFE who pays maintenance loans and grants is keen to make students at Universities and Colleges in England aware of the danger they face from online 'phishing' scams and to remind them that they will never request a customer's personal or banking details by email or text message.
To receive their initial payments, students need to sign and return their online declaration forms and enrol on their courses for their university or college to confirm their attendance. Online fraudsters aware that students are receiving their funding target them with emails and texts requesting personal and banking details to access their finance.
• Be suspicious of any requests for personal or financial information. SLC or Student Finance England (SFE) will never ask you to confirm your bank details or login information by email.
• Phishing emails are often sent in bulk and are unlikely to contain both your first and last; the commonly start, 'Dear Student'.
• 'Failure to respond in 24 hours will result in your account being closed' these types of messages are designed to convey a sense of urgency to prompt a quick response.
"We are passionate about our customers and as such it's our aim to empower as many students in the in England with the knowledge they need to fight back fraudsters and stop scammers in their tracks. As well as reminding students that we will never ask for their personal information via email, we also want to encourage students to be mindful of the personal information about themselves they post online and on social media too."


Over the weekend some of us flew out to California to hunt down a cheap death-residence. The weekend seemed like a nice one to plan out the death of a family member. I guess technically I didn't plan out the death as much as the ceremonies after the death.
Here's something that you might want to think about – Jews sell dead-people-residence locations for less than other religions. It's true.
Catholics and Chirstians sell people on the nice grave and tombstone and blah blah blah even though they say people just go to heaven (why are you paying so much when you aren't going to use it?).
Hindus need special burial areas… where cows can poop on the graves. It's either to help the re-incarnation process or because they don't know where else to put cows.
Muslims.. hell, you don't need a grave when you blow yourself up.
Jews though, they like to keep together both in life and in death. For a small down payment you can have a burial location that's free of the deficient religious hoards.
So while going to the death place I decided to take some pictures (I didn't take pictures of the Jews helping us out because everyone knows it's a bad idea to take something from a Jew).
Nice sign, I'm sure the dead people are happy it's not made of cardboard and asking for money for homeless Vets.
If you wanna stop and say hi, just park near the curb with the "44 MAP 43" on it.
This is the corner of death.. ha ha ha.. ok, it's just a site marker.
The tree will help keep the dead cooler, nobody wants the sun beating down on them all day.
The view of other graves is what really makes this special.
Here's another view, this one a little better. Thankfully the place is quiet so the dead can rest.
Camouflaged into the background is one of the graveyard's pets, a road runner.
For those of you with dead tired eyes, here's a closeup from the above picture.
Not sure what is with this sign, guess that this would be a dead stop though.
For those curious as to what I'm going to have playing music wise at my funeral, it's the "Dead, Dead, Dead" song by Juan Schwartz (from SouthPark's Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics).
Anyone who hasn't seen SouthPark should probably take a moment to realize they are losing out on the most important and scientifically advancing television show in the history of Retardkind. I watch it like it were my cocaine and I was a supermodel or it was watermelon and shaded darker than Michael Jackson.


Ready to be baptized? Fantastic. If you're still not sure, go back to our baptism page to read more or email pastors@thecrossing.church. We are honored to walk with you through this process.
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Home / Companies / Start-ups / Premium tea start-up Teabox raises $7 million in series B funding
Premium tea start-up Teabox raises $7 million in series B funding
Teabox CEO Kaushal Dugar said the start-up plans to use the latest funding to further expand operations, especially in areas such as cold-storage capacity, production and new-age, natural-nitrogen packaging.
2 min read . Updated: 14 Dec 2017, 01:56 AM IST Anirban Sen
Teabox may extend the current round to $10 million as it continues talks with other interested investors, said founder and chief executive officer Kaushal Dugar
Bengaluru: Teabox.com, an online seller of premium tea that counts the likes of Accel Partners and Ratan Tata among its investors, has raised $7 million in fresh, series B funding from both new and current investors, making it one of the best funded early-stage start-ups in India.
Teabox, which raised $6 million in 2015 as part of a series A round, may extend the current round to $10 million as the Siliguri- and Bengaluru-based start-up continues talks with other interested investors, according to founder and chief executive officer Kaushal Dugar.
"We are perhaps the only global tea brand to have an extremely strong digital presence that has fuelled our growth so far. And that only helps us further our growth when we go multi-channel to create a 360-degree experience for customers through offline formats. We don't want to miss out on this huge potential and this investment is going to help us push the levers in this direction," said Dugar.
Teabox, which currently ships tea to over 100 countries from its Siliguri warehouse, wants to use the latest funding to further expand operations, especially in areas such as cold-storage capacity, production and new-age, natural-nitrogen packaging, Dugar said in an interview on Wednesday. A fair chunk of the new funds will also be used for capital expenditure and for marketing and growth spends.
Dugar said Teabox would also look to automate packaging and other processes so that the company can increase its production by at least three to four times to meet ever-increasing demand.
Outside India, Teabox uses its website and other online partners such as Amazon to sell tea to global audiences.
So far, that strategy has worked well for the start-up, which surprisingly counts the US as its biggest market. Till about early 2015, Teabox generated roughly 95% of its overall business from international markets.
"Online and offline expansion will be a major area of focus for us. The US continues to be our biggest market, generating about 40% of our overall revenues, but we've also seen demand from India pick up considerably over the past year or so," said Dugar.
Since it started in 2012, Teabox has attracted a wide assortment of investors, including the likes of Texas-based billionaire Robert M. Bass, who started out as a customer and then turned into an investor after identifying the unique potential of the early-stage venture.
"We are excited about backing the challenger in a large category with a demanding customer. We feel that Teabox's dynamic team and its innovative supply chain of tea from plantations to cup will enable them to provide the freshest tea to consumers worldwide and redefine the category," said Harshavardhan Bothra, principal at RB Investments.
Teabox currently ships a wide variety of premium teas from regions including Darjeeling, Assam, Nilgiris and Nepal, across the globe from its warehouse in Siliguri.
Teabox currently has a catalogue of well over 200 different tea plantations in India and Nepal. Online shoppers have the option of choosing from a variety of subscription plans to receive curated boxes of tea samples.
So far, Teabox has shipped at least 40 million cups worth of tea, Dugar said.
Teabox, however, isn't the only tea commerce start-up that is catching the attention of investors. Earlier this week, Delhi-based Vahdam Teas also raised $1.4 million from investors such as Fireside Ventures, Mumbai Angels and the Singapore Angel Network.
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French investigators met with prosecutors in Chile Tuesday, the day before the planned questioning of Nicolas Zepeda, a Chilean man who is the sole suspect in the 2016 disappearance of his ex-girlfriend, a Japanese university student, in eastern France.
"We expect Mr. Zepeda to respond to all of the evidence we have," Besancon public prosecutor Etienne Manteaux, who arrived in Santiago earlier in the week, told reporters.
"It's possible that Mr. Zepeda will respond tomorrow in a way that makes us doubt his guilt (in killing 21-year-old Narumi Kurosaki) ... The question of extradition could come later," Manteaux said.
Japanese student Kurosaki had been living in the university city of Besancon in eastern France when she disappeared on the night of December 4, 2016, and despite extensive searches her body has not been found.


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Lydia Ourahmane on why she made a work about her grandfather pulling all his teeth out
The Algerian-British artist explores her family's experiences living in the shadow of colonialism
Ben Luke
1st February 2018 18:49 BST
20 Naftal Oil Barrels form part of Ourahmane's installation The Third Choir (2015) The artist.; CZ-5HE Radio Transmitter; Dublin
Lydia Ourahmane's deft, deeply personal approach to exploring major geopolitical issues of our time has prompted international interest in her work. Following on from her appearance in the Istanbul Biennial last year, she has been busy in the early months of 2018, opening a solo show at London's Chisenhale Gallery, and preparing for the New Museum Triennial in New York and a group exhibition at the Ghebaly Gallery in Los Angeles.
Her work is informed by the events in her own life and those of her family, with a strong undercurrent of storytelling allied to a conceptual approach, leading to works in installation, sound, photography, film and text. Born in 1992 in Saïda, Algeria, to an Algerian father and Malaysian mother, Ourahmane now lives between London and Oran, in the north-west of the country. She spent her early years in Algeria and came to live in the UK in 2001; her parents had met in London. She remembers the experience of emigration as a "physically violent process, to be lifted out of a situation, and also a way of understanding how your body exists in a space"—themes that infuse her work today.
Ourahmane studied at Goldsmiths college in London, graduating in 2014, and has been showing her work internationally ever since. Her projects involve long and often complex periods of research. "I try as much as possible to be present and open to whatever can happen; I don't have a plan a lot of the time," she says. "I just see what I feel, and follow what feels right. And this is the way that I think about the production of art or how I make work: I am doing my research and it will just dip into this moment where I show something. It's like debris that falls off and accumulates at certain points."
This approach is exemplified by a new work in the Chisenhale show, Droit de Sang (Blood Right). The work features documents relating to her paternal grandfather, who was involved in the liberation of Algeria from French colonial rule, and avoided military conscription to the French army by removing all his teeth to be excused on medical grounds. Ironically, as Ourahmane's work reveals, his documents are now being used by his descendants to claim French citizenship, prompting major ruptures in her family. This complex story of colonialism, political conviction, migration and belonging is typical of Ourahmane's poetic exploration of history and the present, the personal and the political.
The artist Lydia Ourahmane
The Art Newspaper: At the core of your Chisenhale show is a sound piece that emerges from beneath a wooden floor. Tell me about that.
Lydia Ourahmane: I was doing all these sound tests with these bodyshaker things, which turn any surface into a speaker. I wanted it to be something that actually is more like a physical experience rather than just a sonic one, something that the audience could feel resonating throughout the space and throughout the body. I have been editing it in waves, so it will be a very spatial experience. The image I have been referencing while I've been editing is this image that I took from the outside of my house in Algeria. There's a corner that often has a group of teenage boys hanging out on it, and I was working with a few of these guys during my time there. I was speaking to [a boy called] Amine, asking what they did on that corner. He said: "We just watch people going up and down the street and talk about them and look at cars that go past." So, what I wanted to create in the sound work was an atmosphere that embodies that experience of waiting for something to happen. I have been thinking about landscapes that are key to projection.
You mean the projection of an idea?
Yes, or of a feeling. What happens in that space when someone's waiting for something. And that is very key to this show. It goes back to a lot of my previous works, the idea of escape and departure. It's something that I couldn't even try to ignore, because every young person in Algeria talks about leaving all the time; everyone is in a state of waiting to go.
Your subjectivity is crucial, in that you left the country and are talking to or making reference to people who want to leave. How do you characterise your position?
I can't ignore what my position is. There's no way of hiding that; it is always inherent in me. And that has always been recognised by whoever I am working with. There have been so many occasions where people will ask me to help them leave, because they think that if you have another passport, a British passport, or if you live outside the country, then you have some sort of power to send someone an invitation, to get them a visa.
How does the group of people on the corner appear in the work?
When I first found out that I was doing this show, I was in Algeria researching and working on the Istanbul Biennial [in 2017]. And in that time, my two dogs were stolen from my house, while I was there. So that experience was the starting point for this show. And my investigating and trying to find my dogs was how I became introduced to these guys.
People will ask me to help them leave, because they think that if you have another passport, a British passport, then you have some sort of power
Like so much of your work, there is a complex backstory, in this case involving police, identifying possible suspects who might have stolen the dogs and visiting them, feeling intimidated yet trying to establish a relationship with them.
What I found so strange about it was that I couldn't find a physical resolution. For me, the way that I would have seen this resolved was if the dogs had been found, but I guess what I found so interesting in this situation was that, with the people that I came into contact with and tried to forge a relationship with beyond the initial encounter, you can't get away from the fact that the whole time they were suspicious of me, while I was suspicious of them. So it almost felt like a dance, the whole time we were together.
What are the sounds in the work?
The sounds in this piece are field recordings, mainly of events or periods of time which I, for some reason or another, had felt it necessary to record. There are compositions I have been working on with various friends and musicians; melodies feature in the piece as body to hold the spatial aspect of the work. There are also recordings of music and sounds collected during my time in Algeria. I recorded a Gnawa group; Gnawa is a style of music that is part of Sufi [culture]—a form of worship that features these hour-long trances. The main instrument is the guembri, which is like a guitar. They talked about the guembri having three souls because it is made from three living things: the strings are made from the intestine of a goat, the back is made of wood, and the skin is the neck of a camel. There is a recognition of these materials as living on in a present, spiritual sense.
Tell me about the work with gold teeth in the Chisenhale show.
It's called In the Absence of Our Mothers, and it started three years ago when I was doing a lot of research about illegal immigration. In a renowned market in Oran called Medina Jedida there is a section where, so people say, they sell stolen goods. I met a guy who showed me this gold figaro chain, and it looked like an object that he wouldn't have owned. So I asked him where he got it from. He said that it belonged to his mum and that she wanted him to sell it for her. And then when I asked him the price of it, he said the equivalent to €300, which I had found out was how much it cost for people to pay for a seat in a boat that was going to Spain. So in my head when this connection was made, I was thinking that this chain that he potentially stole from his mum is the means for his escape. I bought the chain and I exhibited it in my solo show in Dublin but it didn't feel like that was the right format for it to exist.
So how did you develop the work from there?
Last summer when I was back in Algeria, my uncle told me about my grandfather, whom I never met; he died before I was born. He was in Oujda in Morocco and, at the time, Algeria and Morocco under French occupation were basically one country. Everyone had to do military service for two years but he was kept on for a further seven years because he was an amazing sniper; apparently he would never miss a shot. So they kept him on to train other soldiers and then, in 1945, during the Second World War, he was asked to go and fight. During the First World War, the French lost 1.4 million of their soldiers, so they started pulling from the Empire. He knew that if he left, he probably wouldn't be able to return. He was trying to see how he could get out of the army and his friend told him that if you pull out all of your teeth, then you will be dismissed because you have to be physically fit and have your teeth. So, during his two-week holiday period in April, he pulled out every single one of his teeth on his own. He went back to the military and he was dismissed, obviously. And when I heard that story, I was thinking about the intent of doing something like that, which is irreversible; he had dentures for the rest of his life. I was thinking about that as a means of escape, and when I went back to this idea of this gold chain, the two ideas made sense to me in the form of the work which I am showing here; I have had the chain melted down into two gold teeth, one of which is implanted in my mouth and the other is exhibited in the space.
So have you had to extract one of your teeth, like your grandfather did back then?
No, I already had a hole. When I went for the initial procedure, the way that they implant a tooth is they drill a hole into your bone and then they put in this screw. You then have to go through a period of integration; the bone has to grow around the screw and accept it, so there's a potential that your bone could reject the foreign object. And I thought that was so beautiful because the word "integration" is used so often in relation to immigration, but on social and economic terms—it almost dehumanises that process.
• Lydia Ourahmane: The You in Us, Chisenhale Gallery, London, until 25 March; The Pain of Others, Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, until 3 March; New Museum Triennial: Songs for Sabotage, New Museum, New York, 13 February-27 May
LYDIA OURAHMANE: THREE KEY WORKS
Lydia Ourahmane: The Third Choir (2015) Frederik Gruyere
The Third Choir (2015)
The physical manifestation of this work consists of 20 empty oil barrels branded with the name of the Algerian oil company Naftal, from which an atmospheric, industrial soundtrack can be heard, relayed through mobile phones at the bottom of each barrel. But the backstory of their shipment from Algeria to Europe across the Mediterranean, and the 934 documents that Ourahmane gathered in the tortuous process of their export, are an important resonance. "It is the same oil that's exported to Chevron, Total, BP, but it never leaves the country under Naftal," she says. Young Algerians blame the oil industry for the country's social and economic problems, prompting their desire for escape. "I wanted to use the barrels for a symbol," Ourahmane says. "As they came under such an intensified bureaucratic procedure in their exportation, they became very human."
All the way up to the Heavens and down to the depths of Hell (2017) The artist; Sahir Ugur Eren
All the way up to the Heavens and down to the depths of Hell (2017)
Created for last year's Istanbul Biennial, this work relates to the effects of industrial waste in the town of Arzew, just outside Oran. "The government doesn't care about who lives there, because the land is useless to it; it's an industrial area." At the beginning of her research, she spoke to people in this, her former hometown, who explained that "they knew they were being poisoned but there was no point trying to complain about it because nothing could change", she says. A plaintive trumpet piece informed by military bugle melodies, written by Ourahmane with her trumpeter friend Adam Chatterton, "tries to invoke that sentiment", Ourahmane says. "I thought it also acts as a cleansing."
Corales (2016) Lydia Ourahmane
Fleeing Will Save Us (2017)
"Photography is such a huge part of my practice but I never really show the photographs," Ourahmane says. This work is a rare exception. She has only recently begun to make Polaroids and in this case captured "two images of a cave area that is used as a departure point", she says. "If you go to the caves, you will see fishing boats tucked into them, but this is an area that is known. They're photographs of this place, which I was led to by word of mouth." The images do not include portraits of those who seek to escape, however. "I don't use people," she says. Instead, most often, she uses objects "to signify or represent people. Because they drive everything that exists in all of my work." The photographs were recently acquired by the British Museum in London.
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Paris, May 30, 2018 – Mersen (Euronext FR0000039620 – MRN), a global expert in electrical power and advanced materials, hereby announces the signing of a purchase agreement for the acquisition of FTCap, which specializes in the development and production of capacitors.
The operation will enable the Group to broaden its current range of high-speed fuses, cooling devices and laminated bus bars to capacitors, all of which are key components in the design of efficient, high-performance power electronics systems. It will also strengthen Mersen's position as a preferred partner for the global power electronics market.
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Based in Husum in Germany and Yverdon in Switzerland, FTCap has more than 70 years of experience in the development and production of capacitors used in diverse industries. Their product spectrum includes both film and electrolytic capacitors. The company employs around 200 people and generated revenues of close to €20 million in 2017.
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Enzo and Big Cass were pretty popular during their run with WWE, but as most wrestling fans know their run with the company didn't end well for either one of them.
Cass and Enzo got a lot of people talking on Saturday night when they jumped over the barricade and brawled with The Briscoes & Bully Ray at the G1 Supercard event.
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Royal Mail govt relations chief Fisher to depart
Royal Mail's long-serving head of government relations Mick Fisher is to leave at the end of the year.
The group is now searching for a replacement for a role that oversees four PA staff and reports to group director of corporate and government affairs Mary Fagan.
Fisher's exit comes as Royal Mail has been lobbying the Government to set up an employee share-ownership scheme that would give postal staff a 20 per cent stake in the company. The company hopes the proposals will secure the co-operation of workers in its restructuring, in which jobs have been cut.
Fisher was unavailable for comment but is understood to be leaving of his own accord. It is not clear whether he has another job lined up. A spokesman said: 'Mick has decided to leave after seven years as head of government relations.
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Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
AMT, 8, 3197–3207, 2015
Articles | Volume 8, issue 8
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 3197–3207, 2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-3197-2015
Research article 12 Aug 2015
Research article | 12 Aug 2015
New and improved infrared absorption cross sections for dichlorodifluoromethane (CFC-12)
J. J. Harrison1,2 J. J. Harrison J. J. Harrison1,2
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
2National Centre for Earth Observation, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
Correspondence: J. J. Harrison (jh592@leicester.ac.uk)
Received: 18 Feb 2015 – Discussion started: 16 Mar 2015 – Revised: 09 Jul 2015 – Accepted: 10 Jul 2015 – Published: 12 Aug 2015
Abstract. Despite its widespread commercial use throughout the twentieth century, primarily in the refrigeration industry, dichlorodifluoromethane (CFC-12) is now known to have the undesirable effect of depleting stratospheric ozone. As this long-lived molecule slowly degrades in the atmosphere, monitoring its vertical concentration profile using infrared sounders on satellite platforms crucially requires accurate laboratory spectroscopic data. This work describes new high-resolution infrared absorption cross sections of dichlorodifluoromethane over the spectral range 800–1270 cm−1, determined from spectra recorded using a high-resolution Fourier transform spectrometer (Bruker IFS 125HR) and a 26 cm pathlength cell. Spectra of dichlorodifluoromethane/dry synthetic air mixtures were recorded at resolutions between 0.01 and 0.03 cm−1 (calculated as 0.9/MOPD; MOPD = maximum optical path difference) over a range of temperatures and pressures (7.5–761 Torr and 190–294 K) appropriate for atmospheric conditions. This new cross-section dataset improves upon the one currently available in the HITRAN and GEISA databases.
How to cite. Harrison, J. J.: New and improved infrared absorption cross sections for dichlorodifluoromethane (CFC-12), Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 3197–3207, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-3197-2015, 2015.
Using infrared sounders on satellite platforms to monitor concentrations of atmospheric CFC-12, a stratospheric-ozone-depleting molecule with a long lifetime, crucially requires accurate laboratory spectroscopic data. This work describes a new high-resolution infrared absorption cross-section data set for remote-sensing purposes; this dataset improves upon the one currently available in the HITRAN and GEISA databases.
Using infrared sounders on satellite platforms to monitor concentrations of atmospheric CFC-12,...


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Fond du Lac High School to present 'Sister Act'
The musical will be presented from Thursday to Sunday at the Fond du Lac High School Performing Arts Center.
Fond du Lac High School to present 'Sister Act' The musical will be presented from Thursday to Sunday at the Fond du Lac High School Performing Arts Center. Check out this story on fdlreporter.com: http://fondul.ac/2hmT2ok
For USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 9:29 a.m. CT Oct. 30, 2017
Fond du Lac High School students acting as nuns pose for a photo for "Sister Act" at the Fond du Lac High School, on Tuesday Oct. 24, 2017.(Photo: Doug Raflik/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)Buy Photo
FOND DU LAC - Fond du Lac High School will bring "Sister Act" to the community at 7 p.m. from Thursday to Saturday, and 1 p.m. on Sunday, at the Performing Arts Center, 801 Campus Drive.
A special dinner option will be available beginning at 5 p.m. on Saturday.
Based on the 1992 film, "Sister Act" features original music by Tony winner and eight-time Oscar winner Alan Menken, known for his work on "Newsies," "Beauty and the Beast" and "Little Shop of Horrors." The feel-good musical was nominated for five Tony Awards, including Best Musical.
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Derek Rosenthal, David Bonlander, Jerome Poltrock, Alex Sesing and Simon Mueller perform in "Sister Act" at the Fond du Lac High School, on Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017. (Photo: Doug Raflik/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)
The story centers around Deloris Van Cartier, a disco diva, who after witnessing a murder is put in protective custody in a convent. Disguised as a nun, she finds herself at odds with both the rigid lifestyle and the uptight Mother Superior.
Van Cartier breathes new life into the church and the community by using her unique disco movies and signing talent to inspire the choir. However, through this, she blows her cover and the gang finds themselves up against Deloris and her newly found sisterhood.
Tickets are available online at hometowntickets.com, as well as at the Fond du Lac High School Performing Arts Center Lobby from 2 to 6 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Tickets also will be available in the FHS Performing Center Lobby one hour prior to each show.
Students receive reduced admission. Dinner tickets include dinner and show. All tickets are reserved seating.
The dinner on Saturday will feature a "Sister Act" theme with entertainment. Seating begins at 5 p.m. A buffet style dinner will include: beef tips, mashed potatoes, California blend vegetables, butterfly chicken breast, dressing, spring salad with blueberries and strawberries, dessert, appetizers and beverages. Dinner will conclude by 6:40 p.m. to allow everyone to find their way to the Performing Arts Center for the show at 7 p.m. Aramark will be catering the dinner.
Jenna Roth, Zakia Trotter and Kiya Petik perform in "Sister Act" at the Fond du Lac High School, on Tuesday Oct. 24, 2017. (Photo: Doug Raflik/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)
Fond du Lac High School's production will combine over 100 high school students singing and acting on stage, running lights and sound, playing in the pit orchestra and working backstage. Directors for "Sister Act" are Steve Wilson and Cory Schneider. The choreographer is Ann Kelly from Wempners' School of Dance. Costumes are being prepared by Lori Sass.
For more information, call 920-929-2740 ext. 3339. Information can also be found at fondymusic.com or hometowntickets.com.
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HomeAfricaDid You Know That President Mugabe Is The World's Most Educated Leader?...
Did You Know That President Mugabe Is The World's Most Educated Leader? With 7 Degrees
AFRICANGLOBE – President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe is the world's most educated president with 7 degrees of which two are Masters Degrees.
Mugabe was raised as a Roman Catholic, studying in Marist Brothers and Jesuit schools, including the exclusive Kutama College, headed by an Irish priest, Father Jerome O'Hea, who took him under his wing.
President Robert Mugabe
Through his youth, Mugabe was never socially popular nor physically active and spent most of his time with the priests or his mother when he was not reading in the school's libraries. He was described as never playing with other children but enjoying his own company. According to his brother Donato his only friends were his books.
He qualified as a teacher, but left to study at Fort Hare in South Africa graduating in 1951, while meeting contemporaries such as Julius Nyerere, Herbert Chitepo, Robert Sobukwe and Kenneth Kaunda. He then studied at Salisbury (1953), Gwelo (1954), and Tanzania (1955–57).
Originally graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree from theUniversity of Fort Hare in 1951, Mugabe subsequently earned six further degrees through distance learning including a Bachelor of Administration and Bachelor of Education from the University of South Africa and a Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Laws, Master of Science, and Master of Laws, all from the University of London External Programme. The two Law degrees were earned while he was in prison, the Master of Science degree earned during his premiership of Zimbabwe.
Teaching In Zambia And Ghana: 1955–60
After graduating, Mugabe lectured at Chalimbana Teacher Training College in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) from 1955–58, thereafter he taught at Apowa Secondary School at Takoradi, in the Western region of Ghana after completing his local certification at Achimota School (1958–60), where he met Sally Hayfron, whom he married in April 1961.
During his stay in Ghana, he was influenced and inspired by Ghana's then Prime Minister, Kwame Nkrumah. In addition, Mugabe and some of his Zimbabwe African National Union party cadres received instruction at the Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute, then at Winneba in southern Ghana.
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Hon. Raila Odinga is currently attending the Single Africa Air Transport Market session ahead of the #PIDAWEEK2018 Opening Ceremony in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe.
The High Representative for Infrastructure Development in Africa has addressed challenges Africans face traveling within the continent. Painting a picture of how inconveniencing the processes in place are, he has given an example of someone who charters a flight to fly from Nairobi for Abuja. He/she will need clearances from civil aviation authorities of about 4 countries to be allowed to fly over them.
This takes too much time and can be discouraging. Worse still is where one has to fly outside Africa first, to connect to an African destination, case in point, flying to Dubai to connect to Casablanca. Raila has said these processes belong to Stone Age and they impede the continent's efforts towards effectively tapping its huge potential, a market of over 2 billion people. We need free skies across the continent to enhance trade within.
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Megrahi decision: Undevolved reaction...
And now, the reaction. Rumours vindicated, anticipations fulfilled. Scotland's prison roll one man shorter, Liyba's population (briefly) swollen by magnitude of one. As I said before, and at length, I believe this is the correct decision. I wanted, however, to seize this apposite moment, without much reflection, to note various aspects of Kenny's address which will likely add piquancy to the subsequent coverage and sketch in its frame of reference. For the lazy, you can find various Scottish Government documents here, including the released medical report into Al Megrahi's terminal prostate cancer.
Firstly, the length of his address was a bit of a surprise. No brief statement of decision-made, but rather, a lengthy outline of the too often intertwining issues of prisoner transfer and compassionate release. Full transcript available here. Various elbows were thrown – respecting recent criticism of his in-person visit to Al Megrahi in Greenock Prison for instance which, assuming the Jack Straw quote alluded to is substantive, will connect smartly with Labour critics. The longer statement was, I believe, a cunning move. It gave a sense of the trajectory, an impression of the process, of deliberation. What is more, there is a distinct risk that the more disclosing one is when addressing an issue and the clearer the minister is about his own position, the more the mind lingers around the issues involved. As I've often argued here before, how you disagree with someone is almost as important as whether you disagree with them. Proper criticism gives reasons, rationales. After debate on such a level, we can have respect for the disagreeing interlocutor, confident that they have approached an issue and reached their decision by following their own lights. Equally, the bright places afford no corners or nooks for those who disagree. They too are pressed into a disclosure. How would you have done things differently? Why?
Secondly, MacAskill was clearly directing his speech at the Scottish audience. This may seem obvious, given the limited ambit of the SNP's electoral and political ambitions, but look again. Much – most – of the commentary on the decision will emanate from a London-based, dominatingly English media establishment. In Brian Taylor's (sadly, rather shallow) recent bit on 10 years of devolution, cock-eyed Boris Johnson appeared, ruminating that "Scotland seemed further away" than it had done previously, that Scottish stories were not filtering through into the UK press as, perhaps, they might once have done. Locating agency here is crucial, however, and contestable. Boris framed the changes he perceived in terms of Scotland taking a wider orbit, rather than the political planet-spotters in the Guardian, Independent, Telegraph and Times failing to point their telescopes north. Both dynamics have, I think, been in operation, working to produce that political Otherness which Johnson alluded to.
The most important of the pair in the present instance, however, is the second. Media inattention and the media anonymity afforded to this alternative Scotland may divide our shared social capital generally, but obscures Scotland in England all the more significantly. Isolated Brigadoon Correspondents excepted, writing authoritatively on Scottish issues in London-based papers are not been a recent area of confidence or competence. Of course, this might not matter. If talkers and writers are disposed to address the problem more universally, namely should Megrahi have been let out of any prison anywhere on grounds of executive compassion, the debate will remain at that level. However, how can such a discourse react to the MacAskill statement? Perhaps predictably, to some objectionably, MacAskill located his decision with reference to what he perceives as a distinctly Scots cultural capital. He absolutely did not claim a monopoly over the works of mercy, but rather, codes his decision in terms of the (perceived) cultural importance of humanity in Scots public life. Some (I'm looking at you Scottish Unionist) may be primed to denounce this sort of stuff as inventive babble, fictionalising groupism, an attempt to staple the signed mandate for compassionate release to the Saltire. Up to a point, the empirical basis for such claims are always rather wobbly, can conceal unpleasant things, but as a generalised claim about normative Scottishness, I can envisage worse characteristics than an insistence that our justice should be tempered with mercy, and the hardfaces of our harshest (and fairest) judgements stand in paltry relation to the insistent tug of death at our elbow, calling us to follow him.
That is by the by. My brisker point was this. Precisely because of the way in which MacAskill couched his announcement in terms of a shared Scots cultural capital, locating his decision in the specificies of a Scottish experience, will undoubtedly strike strange notes in English jeremiads for or against this decision. How are they to take it? Clearly, they are not being encompassed by the way he was addressing it. Indeed, MacAskill pushed quite frankly against conducting the debate on the level of culturally-blind universals, where reasons could be exchanged along a single, flat axis. If he successfully couched his decision in these terms, listening Scots may identify with his comments, and the implicit national conceptualisation implied, while culturally detached observers, unable to identify with the commentary, may struggle to find the vitality in the vocabulary. Keep an eye out. Beyond these, of necessity, rather loose speculations of the implicit rhetoric of nationalism in small places, heaven knows how this one will run.
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Your last paragraph hits the mark. MacAskill's statement was studiously Scottish, in the contrived and exclusive sense in which he would project it. Perhaps the clearest example of that was when he said:
"In Scotland, we are a people who pride ourselves on our humanity. It is viewed as a defining characteristic of Scotland and the Scottish people."
In other words: youse English willnae unnerstaun.
"youse English willnae unnerstaun"
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Indy 20 August 2009 at 18:14
I don't think English people are bothered.
It was more directed to an American/Scottish audience I believe - hence the very slow delivery, he must have been told to slow down or the Americans wouldn't understand him.
I think he was genuinely trying to explain what the basis of compassionate leave is.
Cruachan 21 August 2009 at 10:55
"Scotland the Brave" sometimes has an artificial, hollow ring and can be put alongside the tartan and shortbread and tourist attractions, but yesterday was the real thing.
This was true Government (with Kenny MacAskill acting in a quasi-judicial role) based on principles of justice and compassion. It was a real moment of truth for the Scottish Government.
I don't pretend to know whether the original conviction of Al Megrahi was the right decision, but a Scottish Court, (sitting on Dutch soil) made a judgement based on the evidence and the law. There continues to be debate about Al-Megrahi's guilt or otherwise and a number of the relatives of the Scottish victims at Lockerbie seem to be convinced that the real plotters and perpetrators of the outrage have never been brought to justice. Many more of the American victims' families are equally convinced of his guilt and remain angry and sometimes vengeful. However, Al Megrahi - a convicted mass murderer - is a dying man.
Seen through the eyes of the victims' families, all they ever wanted was to see their own loved ones walking down the stairs of a plane after that fateful journey. I did have mixed feeling watching the perhaps inevitable celebrations at Tripoli Airport and the strange site of St Andrew flags being waved, but it was a good day.
Over and above the rights and wrongs of the case itself, what struck me most about yesterday's events was that this was a glimpse at the future. Scotland taking responsibility for its own affairs and the consequences for its actions.
Despite heavy pressure on both sides of the Atlantic, in the full glare of the world's media spotlight, Kenny MacAskill made a brave decision yesterday and his clear and dignified statement set out the case convincingly. Scotland standing tall saying this is us, this is what we believe, this is what we stand for.
The future is within our grasp.
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Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach
Senator Darragh O'Brien
I move: "That Senator Denis O'Donovan be elected Leas-Chathaoirleach."
It is a great honour and pleasure to propose Senator Denis O'Donovan for election to the post of Leas-Chathaoirleach. Not only is he a colleague of mine, he is someone I consider a friend. He is a friend to many. He is a decent, honourable and experienced Senator. He has had the honour of serving in both Houses, the first time being in 1989 when he was nominated to the Seanad. His breadth of experience speaks for itself. He is well regarded in all parties and among the Independents. I can think of no one better to serve in the position of Leas-Chathaoirleach and assist the Cathaoirleach in his role.
Senator O'Donovan has been involved in national politics since 1989. He is a proud native of west County Cork, in particular the Beara Peninsula. This will be a special day for his partner, Eileen; his daughter, Naomi; his sons, Luke, Gerard and Donnachada, and the rest of his family who are in attendance. I can think of no one better and it is a pleasure and honour to nominate him for the post of Leas-Chathaoirleach.
It is my pleasure to second the nomination of Senator Denis O'Donovan who is a fitting person to be Leas-Chathaoirleach. He has given great service in this and the Lower House. In the spirit of cross-party co-operation, I have no problem in seconding his nomination.
I am happy to support the nomination of my old colleague and friend, Senator Denis O'Donovan, as Leas-Chathaoirleach. He is a distinguished Member of the House and a well known solicitor in Bantry or somewhere in west County Cork. His legal knowledge and expertise have been made available to the House in a quiet and gentlemanly way. He was a member of the Joint Committee on the Constitution, to which I made submissions. While serving on the committee, he was always extraordinarily courteous and careful to listen to and balance all of the evidence presented. He never got into difficulties or rows, however contentious matters became and some contentious matters were raised by groups which were displeased with the direction the committee took.
As I stated in another forum today, I know well the phrase, "If you cannot stand the heat, get out of the kitchen". Senator O'Donovan will be well able to stand the heat, as I am. What I did not realise was that it was Celebrity Chef Kitchen and I was going to have filthy language, knives and plates thrown at me. I doubt if this will ever happen to Senator O'Donovan, given his charming manner.
Senator O'Donovan was also involved in the Abbeylara committee. That experience will prove useful, as I understand the Government intends to revisit the matter. We are very lucky to have such a distinguished Member being put forward for the position of Leas-Chathaoirleach. I look forward to what I am sure will be his uncontested election.
I completely agree with the Leader, Senator Cummins, that this too is an example of cross-party co-operation. I hope we will continue to go about our business in respect of this matter in a non-contentious way and will not become involved in the kind of ping pong in which we usually engage on Wednesday evenings. It would ill become me to be contentious on this happy occasion of electing a distinguished Member, who is a friend to everyone in the House, as Leas-Chathaoirleach.
Senator Ivana Bacik
On behalf of the Labour Party, I support Senator O'Donovan's nomination as Leas-Chathaoirleach. He is an excellent choice for the position. I had the pleasure to mark him on the justice portfolio when we were on opposite sides of the Chamber during the lifetime of the previous Seanad. He was always very courteous, easy to deal with, knowledgeable and well-informed. We engaged in some excellent debates, particularly during the Committee Stage deliberations relating to justice Bills. I look forward to the same quality of debates during the lifetime of this Seanad. It is unfortunate that the Senator, as Leas-Chathaoirleach, may not be quite as able to participate in those debates. I look forward to seeing him in the Chair as Leas-Chathaoirleach and I support his nomination.
Senator Diarmuid Wilson
On my behalf and that of my Fianna Fáil colleagues, I give 100% support to the nomination of Senator O'Donovan as Leas-Chathaoirleach of the House. As Senators Darragh O'Brien and Norris highlighted, Senator O'Donovan has a very proud record of service in both Houses of the Oireachtas. Being elected to the position of Leas-Chathaoirleach is a great honour for him and his family. I wish him well in his role as Leas-Chathaoirleach of the 24th Seanad.
I add Sinn Féin's full support for the appointment of Senator O'Donovan as Leas-Chathaoirleach. This is a great occasion for the Senator and his family, members of which are present in the Visitors' Gallery. I wish him the very best of luck in his endeavours.
Senator Feargal Quinn
I add my voice to those which have already proposed Senator O'Donovan as Leas-Chathaoirleach. The Senator has been an active Member of this and the Lower House. He has been committed to subjects in which he has a particular interest, including fishing, harbours and ports and anything to do with the sea. The House has benefitted from the commitment he has shown. I believe he holds the record for the longest ever contribution in the House. I congratulate him on that.
Senator O'Donovan serves as a reminder that when someone is really interested in, enthusiastic about and committed and dedicated to a particular topic, he or she can get things done or change perceptions. The Senator's record provides evidence in this regard and I am sure he will be an excellent Leas-Chathaoirleach.
I indicate the support of my group for the nomination of Senator O'Donovan as Leas-Chathaoirleach. We look forward to working with him.
Senator Ned O'Sullivan
Senator O'Donovan and I have been friends for a lifetime. I am regarded as his main sidekick in the House. I will be at a major loss because he will be obliged to spend much more time in the House carrying out his official duties. I will, therefore, be forced to do much more socialising on my own.
Surely we can find Senator O'Sullivan a sidekick.
On a serious note, Senator O'Donovan is an outstanding Member of this House and he was also an outstanding Member of the Dáil. He is something of a legend in the electoral history of Fianna Fáil because he managed to win a seat in a constituency where it was seen as being almost impossible for my party to do so. By a quirk of misfortune, he lost out in 2007 when he was destined to serve either in Cabinet or as a Minister of State as a result of his performance in the previous Dáil.
Senator O'Donovan is a man of great grit and courage and he understates his legal ability and knowledge. However, he is always available to help anyone who needs it and has certainly been a great friend and adviser to me. We could select no better person to serve as Leas-Chathaoirleach. I look forward to his elevation.
Question put and agreed to.
As Cathaoirleach, I congratulate Senator O'Donovan on his election. As a number of speakers indicated, he is a long-serving Member of both Houses and is extremely familiar with the procedures and Standing Orders relating to this House. I have no doubt that he will do a tremendous job as Leas-Chathaoirleach and I look forward to working with him in the 24th Seanad.
Senator Denis O'Donovan
I am honoured and proud to have been elected to the position of Leas-Chathaoirleach. I thank my proposer, Senator Darragh O'Brien, and my seconder, Senator Cummins, and all of the other Members who spoke so kindly about me, including Senators Bacik, Norris, Cullinane, O'Sullivan and van Turnhout. I hope I have not left anyone out.
Five weeks ago I was fortunate to win a seat on the agricultural panel. Serving as Leas-Chathaoirleach or holding any other position in the House was the furthest thing from my mind at that point. However, it is a great honour to have been elected to the position of Leas-Chathaoirleach. I hope I can emulate the Cathaoirleach who for the past nine years has been an excellent Leas-Chathaoirleach. I am sure I can learn a great deal from him. I would like to work with him and with the officers of the House, including the Clerk, Ms Deirdre Lane, and all the staff in ensuring that the Seanad maintains its dignity and retains the important position it holds into the future.
When I first entered the House in October 1989, the Clerk was Mr. Kieran Coughlan, who is currently Clerk of the Dáil, the Leader was former Senator Mick Lanigan, the leader of the Opposition was former Senator Doyle from Wexford and the then Cathaoirleach was the late Senator Seán Doherty. That is a long time ago and we were all a great deal younger then. Many changes have marked the intervening period. Since I was first elected to the local council in 1985 I have fought a total of 17 elections. Unfortunately, I did not win all of them but that is the way politics goes.
This is a very proud day for my family and I pay tribute to them. Not all of my family are present in the Chamber. If they were, it would be possible to fill the Visitors' Gallery twice over because I am the youngest of 11 children. I pay tribute to my partner, Eileen, my daughter, Naomi, my son, Luke, and his wife, Marian, my son, Gerard, and his wife, Clare — who is not present — and my only grandchild, Lucy. I would have loved it if Lucy were here but she is only a year old and I am sure she is oblivious to what is happening to her grandfather. I pay tribute to my son, Donnachada, my partner Eileen's two daughters, Julie and Glenda, and my sister, Sheila, who is one of my seven sisters, thankfully, not all of whom are present. I also pay tribute to my sisters, Margaret and Noreen, Noreen's husband, John, my brother, Thomas, and his wife, Sadie, my brothers-in-law and all my friends who came to the Seanad today to support me. I hope I have not left anyone out.
This is a very proud day for me. I am honoured to be elected to serve as Leas-Chathaoirleach. I hope the Cathaoirleach will not crack the whip too hard in my direction and that we will get on together. I hope we have a good working relationship. I look forward to working with everyone in the House. I refer, in particular, to the new Senators, many of whom I have not yet met, in this regard. I look forward to meeting them and to fulfilling the role of Leas-Chathaoirleach in the manner that was envisaged when the Constitution was formulated in 1937. Go raibh míle maith agaibh.
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Alleged plot against Raul Castro draws skepticism
Former Mexican foreign minister says Raul Castro removed two top-ranking officials
It's claimed they were plotting to overthrow him fearing he'd betray Cuban revolution
Report says plotters received support from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
Some long-time Cuba watchers skeptical over the report
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By Arthur Brice
(CNN) -- Some long-time Cuba watchers expressed skepticism Tuesday over a report by a former Mexican foreign minister that Communist leader Raul Castro removed two top-ranking officials earlier this month because they were plotting to overthrow him with the support of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Fidel Castro, beset by illness, ceded power to his younger brother, Raul, pictured, last year.
Jorge G. Castaneda, who served as Mexico's foreign minister from 2000 - 2003, wrote in the March 23 issue of Newsweek, which became public Saturday, that Deputy Prime Minister Carlos Lage Davila and Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque were concerned that Raul Castro would make concessions that would betray the 50-year-old Cuban Revolution.
"For at least a month or so, Lage, Perez Roque and others were apparently involved in a conspiracy, betrayal, coup or whatever term one prefers, to overthrow or displace Raul from his position," Castaneda wrote. "In this endeavor, they recruited -- or were recruited by -- Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, who in turn tried to enlist the support of other Latin American leaders, starting with Leonel Fernandez of the Dominican Republic, who refused to get involved."
The Venezuelan Embassy in Washington did not answer a verbal and written request for comment.
The Dominican Republic Embassy in Washington did not answer telephones calls at various numbers.
Robert Pastor, who served as a Latin America National Security adviser for President Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s, returned Saturday from a weeklong visit to Cuba.
Pastor said he wrote Castaneda a letter upon his return expressing his disbelief in Castaneda's contentions.
"This is Jorge at his most creative," Pastor said Tuesday.
Louis A. Perez Jr., a Cuba scholar who has written 12 books on the nation, also expressed his doubts.
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"Where is this coming from?" Perez asked. "I operate with the idea that there has to be some standard of plausibility. Is there discontent in Cuba and was Lage seen as the heir apparent? Yeah, that's the conventional wisdom since last year. But that there's a conspiracy between Lage and Perez Roque? I don't think so. It would be helpful if the people who write these reports cross the barrier of speculation."
Castaneda freely offers that he has no proof, calling his thesis "informed speculation."
"I have no way to substantiate any of this," he said by telephone Tuesday from Mexico City. "I have no evidence of it."
Instead, Castaneda points to an "enigmatic" comment former leader Fidel Castro made in a column after the two men were removed.
"He resorted to a baseball metaphor on the occasion of the World Baseball Classic to praise Dominicans for not participating (the team's plans had been unclear) and to claim that Chavez's baseball players, 'as good and young' as they might be, were no match for 'Cuba's seasoned all-stars,' " Castaneda wrote in the Newsweek article.
Castaneda says Castro was thanking Dominican President Fernandez and sending a veiled message to Chavez.
The former Mexican official also points to Chavez' silence on the removal of the two men as further proof that he was involved.
The two fired functionaries were acting out of loyalty to the revolution, Castaneda wrote.
Fidel Castro, beset by illness, ceded power to his younger brother last year. Most analysts see Fidel Castro as the more idealistic and doctrinaire of the two brothers, while Raul is viewed as more pragmatic.
"Their reasons for wishing to unseat Raul were mainly turf and power," Castaneda wrote, "but they also feared that the leader was beginning to feel threatened by the reaction of the Cuban people to excessive economic and social deprivation, and after his brother's demise would be unable to control the flow of events. Consequently, he would accept a series of economic and political reforms to normalize relations with the United States. ...
"They believed this to be a betrayal of the revolution, and the beginning of the end of its survival."
According to Castaneda, Raul Castro detected the plot and went to his brother and gave him an ultimatum: support him or the plotters. Fidel Castro agreed to back his brother, Castaneda wrote.
The Castro brothers then called in Chavez and gave him a "devil's alternative: back off, while maintaining economic support for the island, or lose his Cuban security detail and intelligence apparatus, exposing himself to coups and assassination attempts from eventual Venezuelan replacements. He chose to stick with the Castros."
Castaneda acknowledges that Pastor and others have criticized him but says, "I ask that they offer a better explanation."
Says Pastor, "Most of them are quite conventional explanations. Everyone knew he was going to change the Cabinet. The only question was when the changes would be."
Raul Castro was merely trying to make the government more efficient, Pastor said.
"What was he doing?" he asked. "Merging different ministries, trying to decentralize and strengthen the government's capacity to undertake economic reforms."
But Castaneda points to the manner in which the two men were removed as proof that there was more to it than just a change in government.
Why weren't Lage and Perez Roque given ambassadorships or other face-saving posts, as is often done in cases like this, he asked?
Instead, Castaneda said, the men were stripped of all posts and made to sign letters in which they confessed to unspecified "mistakes." And one day after the two men were removed, Fidel Castro wrote in his column that they were ousted after they became seduced by the "honey of power," which led them to an "unworthy role." Castro further said the two men had reawakened the illusions of "foreign powers" regarding Cuba's future.
Castaneda says Raul Castro was worried about what would happen after Fidel dies and was trying to avert a succession battle. Perez Roque, 43, might have been perceived as a threat.
"Perez Roque was popular in Cuba; his youth, his humble origins, his combative nature all brought him closer to the people than most Cuban bureaucrats," Castaneda wrote in Newsweek.
Pastor notes that the decision to remove the two men was not popular.
"There was pushback in Cuba among the [Communist Party] cadres and the public who said, "We've connected with these two people. Why are they going?" Pastor said. "They didn't feel the government had given an adequate explanation for changing those individuals. They were concerned about the language of the resignations and about Fidel's comments."
Interestingly, Pastor said, "They blamed Fidel more than they seemed to blame Raul."
Perez, the Cuba scholar, also noted Fidel Castro's apparent passing from power.
"Nobody speaks of Fidel anymore," Perez said. "He's a non-presence. Out of sight, out of mind. The only time anyone speaks of him is when they are asked about him."
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Video of Winston-Salem traffic stop, arrest going viral
A video of a North Carolina officer arresting an irate woman during a traffic stop in Winston-Salem is going viral- prompting local officials to scurry in releasing the video that shows the situation from the officer's point of view.
The incident unfolded on Wednesday morning when Officer James Carter stopped a car being driven by Tekara Williams for allegedly going 16 miles per hour over the speed limit.
Local resident Da'ton Edwards was driving past the scene as Williams was being arrested. She picked up her smartphone and began filming, posting the video on social media when she was done.
However, Edwards only began filming after the situation had become a physical confrontation, and paints the situation in a bad light.
The five-minute video reportedly only covers the altercation, which involved the officer forcing her to the pavement when she resisted compliance and arrest.
Williams claimed she was speeding because she was late for work, serving as a cosmetologist at a shopping center.
In addition to the altercation, Williams said she wished the officer had called a female officer to come pat her down and that her children were screaming in the back seat the whole time.
Police responded in a Thursday statement, saying saying that the police officer introduced himself at the beginning of the incident and told Williams why she was being stopped, but that Williams then became confrontational she was informed that the car's license plate had been revoked, the NC-DMV had issued a "pick up order" on the vehicle, requiring that the license plate be seized.
The car -who belonged to Williams' grandfather- was to be seized, which is why the officer tried to remove the occupants.
"That's when the officer forcefully removes me from the vehicle," Williams said. "I told him, 'You are not telling me why you are trying to put me in handcuffs and trying to arrest me.'"
Edwards defended Williams, saying that she was "probably scared."
According to The Winston-Salem Journal, the city is currently take a court order to permit the release of the police officer's bodycam video, and that could take several days.
"The entire incident is on (police) camera," Winston-Salem City Manager Lee Garrity said. "We are going to petition the Superior Court judge to get permission to release it. We would be asking the court for permission for it to be released to the public."
Both Williams and her grandparents are demanding the officer apologize for his actions.
"He forcefully entered my personal space," Williams said. "That has never happened at a traffic stop. I didn't understand why."
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Jackie May 5, 2017 at 4:04 pm
Call the Waaaaablance.
John May 8, 2017 at 10:55 am
And the problem is?
KatiLu May 12, 2017 at 5:05 pm
She doesn't have a valid license, the car isn't insured or registered she is driving 16 over, and has the gall to tell him he pulled her because she is a black girl, and seems to think that is good reason to resist. It isn't police who need more training, but the public. All her drama and theatrics did was get her sent to jail when she could have cooperated, dropped her kids at daycare and gone to work. Now she misses work (and it could easily be a no show because of the time that passed and she didn't call), and it will all be the fault of the police if she looses her job, too.
Self accountability and responsibility is disappearing fast from this planet. What will it be like when it disappears completely?
Chip DeBlock June 7, 2017 at 2:14 am
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