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Pop-up retail is hot right now – a trend reflected in this topical sculpture by Chinese artist Kacey Wong.
This artwork is inspired by the resourcefulness of local 'hawkers' who sell food on the streets of Hong Kong – often without a licence, meaning they need to be able to pack up and run very rapidly whilst also effectively displaying their wares when they are open for business.
Wong's functional piece of art consists of wooden planters growing wheat grass and racks of apples, which can be squeezed together to make nutritious juice.
For one of Barber's more high profile pop-up store designs check out 55DSL Diesel's store at Boxpark.


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Maximising Investment Protection in Africa: the Role of Investment Treaties and Investment Arbitration
By King & Wood Mallesons on July 2, 2015
By Stuart Bruce and Juliette Huard-Bourgois, King & Wood Mallesons' London Office
Large-scale investments made in foreign jurisdictions face many risks, particularly when the investments are in countries with high levels of political and regulatory risk or developing judicial systems, as is often a concern for international investors entering certain African states. In such\ circumstances, investors are particularly concerned about the legal protections that are available to them during the life of their investments. Bilateral and multilateral investment treaties ("BITs", "MITs") have become the principle vehicle to overcome these challenges and mitigate the risks of government intervention.
BITs are international law instruments – treaties – agreed between two states. MITs are treaties agreed between more than two states. The purpose of BITs and MITs is to create a stable legal environment that fosters foreign direct investment. This is achieved by the "host state" (i.e. the state in which the investment is made) agreeing to provide certain guarantees and standards of protection to the investments of private foreign investors (i.e. those with the nationality of, or incorporation in, the "home state"). The investor is also provided with the opportunity to enforce its rights under the investment treaty against the host state through independent international investment arbitration. This is the major innovation of investment treaties, as traditionally it was only states that had standing to bring claims against one another.
Rights and obligations under investment treaties are reciprocal, protecting the investments of investors from a home state in the territory of a host state.
Structuring investments correctly can maximise those rights and protections, and has become a modern commercial imperative when transacting internationally.
Maximising investment protections
When structuring foreign investments, prudent investors will seek advice on the protections available under the domestic legislation of the host state as well as the investment treaties to which that host state is a party.
In order to rely on the protections offered by a particular BIT, a foreign investor will need to qualify as a defined "investor", as mentioned above, and its investment must fall within the definition of the protected type of investments under the relevant BIT. Most BITs adopt a broad definition of qualifying investments, ranging from tangible to intangible property, company shares to contractual rights.
The common categories of substantive BIT protections and guarantees owed by host states to foreign investors/ investments include the following:
No expropriation without compensation:
not to expropriate investments unless it is for a public purpose, in accordance with law and due process, with the provision of prompt, adequate and effective compensation;
Fair and equitable treatment: all investors/ investments will be treated fairly and equitably (an open category that includes upholding legitimate expectations, the rule of law and good faith etc.);
Full protection and security: including to maintain the investor's legal rights and protect physical assets from insurrection;
No discrimination: not to adopt measures that discriminate against investments based on type, industry, nationality etc.;
National treatment: not to treat foreign investors/ investments less favourably than domestic investors/ investments;
Most favoured nation treatment: the most favourable treatment available to investors/ investments of one state will be afforded to investors/ investments of other states;
Umbrella clause: general commercial contracts with the host state and investor are elevated to protection under the BIT; and
Free transfers: investors may convert investment returns into a currency of their choice and repatriate out of the host state.
Structuring Alternatives
Although the content and structure of BITs, are often similar they can vary considerably in scope and comprehensiveness, particularly between older and newer BITs and by region. As a result, investment structuring is vital to maximise the protections available under a BIT, for example, by choosing the most appropriate home state in which to incorporate the investment vehicle and by ensuring that all prerequisites have been satisfied to benefit from the BIT.
Effect of a treaty entering into force
When signatory states notify one another that domestic ratification procedures have been completed, the international legal obligations of the treaty will be activated, and the treaty will "enter into force" under international law. At that point, qualifying foreign investors will be able to benefit from the substantive and procedural protections available under the treaty, including the right to an effective remedy before a tribunal.
International investment arbitration
International investment arbitration is a mechanism to resolve investment disputes between a foreign investor and the state hosting the investment. It is different in many respects from international commercial arbitration, which involves two private parties, usually corporations.[1]
Who can claims be brought against?
Investment treaties may be unclear as to which entities in the host state are bound by investment treaty obligations.
For example, is it only the host state itself, or are state-owned enterprises or state-backed PPPs also accountable?
In short, the host state bears ultimate responsibility for breaches of an investment treaty, and is the entity against which a claim is to be brought, even when the host state itself may not have caused the breach of a treaty. This is because under the international laws of state responsibility the host state is generally accountable for conduct attributable to it from certain entities.
For example, the acts and omissions of any state organ (legislative, executive or judicial) or of persons or entities that are either empowered by the law to exercise elements of governmental authority, or are acting upon state instructions or directions, are considered as conduct of that host state.
As a result, if such conduct amounts to a breach of an investment treaty, the state may be held responsible for that breach.
Consent to arbitration
Like all arbitrations, investor-state arbitration is based on the consent of the parties. In an investor-state relationship, consent may be established in a number of ways:
(1) directly in a contract executed between the host state and investors;
(2) through the host state's domestic legislation; or
(3) from the terms of the relevant BIT or MIT, whereby each signatory state consents to resolve disputes with investors before an arbitral tribunal.
The practice of investor-state arbitration originated in the 1960's when, under the auspices of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes ("ICSID") was established by an international convention.
For an ICSID arbitration tribunal to have prima facie jurisdiction, a dispute has to exist between one state party to the ICSID Convention and a national of another state party to the ICSID Convention. The dispute must also be of a legal nature and relate directly to an investment. ICSID arbitrations are generally not confidential and awards tend to be made public, though certain restrictions are possible.
At the end of 2013, out of the 568 known ICSID cases, 43% had been decided in favour of the investor, 31% decided in favour of the host state and 26% had settled.
To date, 44 African states have ratified the ICSID Convention (see Table 1 below). Notable exceptions include Angola, Namibia, South Africa and Ethiopia.
Table 1 – African states party to ICSID
While arbitration under the ICSID procedural rules is the main form of investor-state arbitration, investors and states can agree to pursue their investment disputes under other arbitral rules, such as those proposed by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law ("the UNCITRAL rules") or by private arbitral institutions like the International Chamber of Commerce ("ICC") or the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce ("SCC"). In non-ICSID arbitrations, international enforcement of the arbitral decision ("the award") will be made under the 1958 United Nations Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the "New York Convention"). To date, some 29 African states have signed the New York Convention. Recently, the Convention entered into force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi and the Comoros, enhancing legal certainty for investors doing business with these countries.
Treaty termination and sunset clauses
Some states may decide to withdraw from their investment treaty obligations. This was the case of South Africa who recently decided to terminate many of its older BITs and instead develop domestic legislation on the promotion and protection of investments. South Africa's decision came as a result of a governmental policy review into the risks of domestic regulatory measures being challenged by foreign investors and a desire to promote investments from domestic sources of law.
Foreign investors subject to the denounced BITs will continue to enjoy extended protections for a certain number of years after the BIT's termination, due to the effect of a classic feature of most investment treaties – the "sunset clause". For example, the sunset clause of the Belgium-South Africa BIT provides that existing Belgian investments will continue to be covered by the treaty for another ten years after its termination.
Emerging investment protection in Africa for non-African investors
In recent years many African governments have made an effort to improve foreign investors' protections. They have entered into many BITs and related agreements with non-African countries (extra-Africa BITs), offering protections to investors outside of Africa making investments into Africa.
By way of recent example, in 2014 five BITs were signed between Canada and African states (Cameroon, Nigeria, Senegal, Mail, Cote d'Ivoire). In the same year, the Japan-Mozambique BIT entered into force, as did the Economic Partnership Agreement between Cameroon and the European Union, and negotiations were concluded for the Canada-Burkina Faso Foreign Investment Protection and Promotion Agreement.
A new generation of investment treaties
These recently agreed treaties are more detailed and specific than earlier investment treaties. The two newly-signed Canada-Cameroon and Canada-Nigeria BITs are examples of "new generation" BITs. Salient features of the lengthier (50+page) treaties include:
"promotion of sustainable development" in the preamble;
protections to investments in pre- and post- establishment phases;
express incorporation of the international customary minimum standards of treatment of aliens (i.e. non-nationals);
detailed guidance on the parameters of expropriation, preserving the regulatory space for certain public welfare measures;
explicit recognition that states should not relax health, safety or environmental standards to attract investment;
encouragement of corporate social responsibility;
detailed procedural rules for investment arbitration, akin to incorporation of institutional arbitration rules; and
three year limitation periods and other procedural innovations.
Emerging investment protection in Africa for African investors
There are around 30 investment treaties in force between African states at present ("intra-Africa BITs"), as well as over 120 BITs that are signed but not yet ratified. Most of these intra-Africa BITs have been agreed since the mid-1990s.
Intra-Africa trade is seen as a key missing ingredient in the growth and development of the continent and as a result African countries are increasingly showing a willingness to develop ways to facilitate and protect investments made within the continent, whether through new investment treaties, trade agreements, or international organisations.
For example, various intra-Africa regional organisations have come into being. These organisations aim to boost legal harmonisation and facilitate intra-Africa trade. One of the declared aims of the African Union ("AU"), which now consists of 54 African States, is to coordinate and intensify cooperation for development. Other important organisations include the Southern African Development Community ("SADC"), the Organisation for the Harmonisation of Business Law in Africa ("OHADA") which binds 17 Western- African states, and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa ("COMESA").
According to the United Nations Commission on Trade and Development ("UNCTAD"), 2,496 investment treaties are in force around the globe. Of that, 430 are extra-Africa BITs and 29 are intra-Africa BITs. And there are more to expect. Around 300 BITs involving an African state await ratification.
In line with this proliferation of investment treaties, recourse to international arbitration is increasing. In 2014, of the total claims registered with ICSID, 20% involved Sub-Saharan African states and 15% involved Middle East and North African states.
To date these geographic categories account for 16% and 11% respectively of the known ICSID cases.
To explore further, during 2013-2014 it is known that Burundi, Mauritania, Guinea, Senegal, Mozambique, Egypt, The Gambia and Sudan were respondents to investment claims, some in multiple disputes. The majority of claims cluster around the oil, gas and mining, information technology, agriculture, construction, water, services and transportation sectors.
Numerous states and commentators have voiced concerns with the current investment arbitration system, calling for, among other things, improved transparency and fewer restraints on state power. UNCTAD has proposed various pathways and design revisions for future BITs and investor-state dispute settlement, many of which have been incorporated into the new generation of BITs entered into by African states.
Despite concerns, the number of new BITs and investor-state disputes grows steadily. BIT protections and the availability of arbitration remain key factors to attract foreign investors.
It is crucial for any investor that is considering investing in Africa, or already has investments in Africa, to perform the following due diligence:
(1) assess whether its investments qualify for BIT protection;
(2) consider structuring its investments appropriately;
(3) be appraised of what protections it can expect; and
(4) understand how to bring investment arbitration proceedings to protect its rights.
[1] International Commercial Arbitration will be discussed in details in the next edition of Made in Africa.
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Science, Technology and Diplomacy
September 4, 2009 January 4, 2012 by daryl.copeland
In his typically excellent September 1 – 2 press and blog review of the burgeoning discourse on public diplomacy (PD), John Brown cites a quotation by Manuel Castells, author of the magisterial Information Age trilogy:
Public Diplomacy is the…projection in the international arena of the values and ideas of the public… The aim of the practice of public diplomacy is not to convince but to communicate, not to declare but to listen. Public diplomacy seeks to build a sphere in which diverse voices can be heard in spite of their various origins, distinct values, and often contradictory interests.
Among the almost infinite variety of subjects which might form the basis for that kind of conversation, science (because of its universality, inclusivity and relevance to almost everything) and technology (because of its power and ubiquity) represent one area which is is particularly well-suited to international ventilation.
For those reasons, among others, scientific exchanges, alongside similarly popular educational and cultural programs, were prolific during the Cold War. Although not necessarily considered an element of public diplomacy at the time, international S&T programming nonetheless played a prominent role in both the American and Soviet camps. In those days, wide-ranging ideological, strategic and geopolitical competition provided the framing and context, both directly and through third parties whose allegiance was being sought. One of the sources of continuing Russian influence in places such as India, Syria and Iran, for instance, stems from the scientific training received in the Soviet Union by at least a generation of students.
In the globalization era, however, world order has become more hetero– than bi- or even multi-polar, and the institutional memory of those Cold War activities is fading fast. Now, markets rule, and much of the scientific research and technological development has been either moved out of government and privatized, or has remained focussed on defence-related objectives.
None of that, of course, makes S&T writ large any less relevant. But it does make it harder to understand why so little is said about it outside of a few specialized, and somewhat isloated and obscure circles.
Although many of the most pressing issues facing humanity are based in science and propelled by technology, with critical downstream implications for development and security, most governments have not made significant efforts to ramp up the level of scientific and technological interchange globally. Were this to become a priority, foreign ministries, as the primary points of contact between the national and international interests of states, would almost certainly have to become involved.
All of which brings me to offer an account of a session I attended recently on "The Foreign Ministry of the Future". Senior officials spoke at some length about matters related to to the creation of an international platform for the efficient delivery of common services abroad to other federal government departments, about the need to transform various aspects of the bureaucratic process, and about a number of human resource initiatives.
S&T?
It never came up.
In fact, the entire episode was suffused with a somewhat surreal air, not least because of the complete absence of any references to either diplomacy or foreign policy, which one might otherwise think would have to be germane to such a discussion. Nor did the acute shortage of resources, which is at present wreaking havoc upon operations at home and abroad, attract any commentary. All of which is quite surprising.
One dimension of S&T which might have come up regards the issue of virtuality and foreign ministries, by which I mean the application of information and communications technology (ICTs) and the use of the new media. Especially in OECD countries, and particularly in the USA and UK, diplomatic methods and practices after a slow start have in fact have in fact adapted quite well to the possibilities inherent in the new media and ICTs. Ambassadors and foreign ministers are blogging, the web is being used interactively for the conduct of outreach and public diplomacy, foreign service officers in the field are being enabled through the issue of mobile communications devices such as Blackberries, and personnel departments are experimenting with telework and distance learning.
Among the many factors subversive of the lingering elements of hierarchy, secrecy, cultural conservativism and top-down control still prominent in contemporary diplomatic institutions, these sorts of developments, and the revolution in S&T more generally, are likely to figure centrally.
In my view, that can't happen too soon.
I began with a quotation from communications theorist Manuel Castells; let me conclude with a passage from Canada's own Marshall McLuhan:
The vested interests of acquired knowledge and conventional wisdom have always been bypassed and engulfed by new media.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A new United Nations report released on Tuesday calls for abandoning the U.S. dollar as the main global reserve currency, saying it has been unable to safeguard value.But several European officials attending a high-level meeting of the U.N. Economic and Social Council countered by saying that the market, not politicians, would determine what currencies countries would keep on hand for reserves.The dollar has proved not to be a stable store of value, which is a requisite for a stable reserve currency, the U.N. World Economic and Social Survey 2010 said.The report says that developing countries have been hit by the U.S. dollar's loss of value in recent years.Motivated in part by needs for self-insurance against volatility in commodity markets and capital flows, many developing countries accumulated vast amounts of such (U.S. dollar) reserves during the 2000s,it said.
The report supports replacing the dollar with the International Monetary Fund's special drawing rights (SDRs), an international reserve asset that is used as a unit of payment on IMF loans and is made up of a basket of currencies.A new global reserve system could be created, one that no longer relies on the United States dollar as the single major reserve currency, the U.N. report said.The report said a new reserve system must not be based on a single currency or even multiple national currencies but instead, should permit the emission of international liquidity -- such as SDRs -- to create a more stable global financial system.Such emissions of international liquidity could also underpin the financing of investment in long-term sustainable development, it said.
Jomo Kwame Sundaram, a Malaysian economist and the U.N. assistant secretary general for economic development, told a news conference that there's going to be resistance to the idea.In the whole post-war period, we've essentially had a dollar-based system, he said, adding that the gradual emission of SDRs could help countries phase out the dollar.Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, who previously chaired a U.N. expert commission that considered ways of overhauling the global financial system, has advocated the creation of a new reserve currency system, possibly based on SDRs.
But Paavo Vayrynen, Finland's Foreign Trade and Development Minister, told reporters that he doubted it was possible to make any political or administrative decisions how to formulate the currency system in the world.It is based on the markets, he said.I believe that the economic players in the market are going to have the decisive influence on that issue.European Union development commissioner Andris Piebalgs said it would be a bad idea to dictate what the reserve currency should be.
It is markets that decide, he said. Any intervention would just create additional challenges and make things even less predictable.
A new United Nations report on Tuesday called for the creation of a new global reserve currency to replace the U.S. dollar as the single major reserve currency.A new global reserve system could be created, one that no longer relies on the United States dollar as the single major reserve currency, said the report, titled World Economic and Social Survey 2010: Retooling Global Development.The dollar has proved not to be a stable store of value, which is a requisite for a stable reserve currency, it said.The report pointed to a trap inherent in the reserve and payment system, whereby reserve-creating countries are able to run payments deficits as long as other countries find it in their interest to keep building up their international reserves in the currencies of the reserve-creating countries.If this trap is not eliminated, all financial regulatory reform will come to nought, it warned.A new system should allow for better pooling of reserves at the regional and international levels, it said.It must not be based on a single currency or even multiple national currencies but, instead, should permit the emission of international liquidity (such as SDRs) to create a more stable global financial system.A feasible evolutionary path towards a more stable system is one along which there is an increased use of SDRs, within a system of nationally supplied reserve assets, dominated by the dollar, it said.The SDR, or Special Drawing Rights, is an international reserve asset, created by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 1969 to supplement its member countries' official reserves.Its value is based on a basket of four key international currencies -- the dollar, the euro, the Japanese yen and the pound sterling, and SDRs can be exchanged for freely usable currencies.In the future and given the changing weights in the global economy, other currencies, including those of emerging market economies, would need to be included in the SDR basket, said the report.The report suggested that IMF members start a process directed towards increasing the use of SDRs as a currency for central bank operations among themselves.
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Assembling parts for the Fujitsu supercomputer in Hokuto City, Japan.
.On an overcast day in western Japan, the Star Wars theme song blared as a truck carrying supercomputer hardware pulled out from a Fujitsu Ltd. factory. Fujitsu workers erupted into cheers as the truck inched forward. Local children unfurled a sign that read: We aim to be No. 1 in the world.The hardware was headed last week for Kobe, where installation has begun on a government-funded supercomputer project, aimed at giving Japan the world's fastest computer, the K Computer. K Computer is a play on the Japanese word kei for the number 10 quadrillion (10,000 trillion), which will be the number of calculations per second the machine can handle.The project, a joint venture between Fujitsu and Japan's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, also known as Riken, is expected to be completed in 2012, at a cost of 110 billion yen ($1.32 billion).The K computer aims to once again vault the country to the top of the global supercomputer rankings with a system capable of tackling complex problems related to climate change and weather patterns. It could also provide Japan Inc. with a powerful computational tool in the search for breakthroughs in drugs, materials and new technologies.This is a tremendously important project for Japan's international competitiveness and for the advancement of science and technology in the country, said Hideyuki Saso, Fujitsu senior executive vice president, at a briefing with reporters last week.
Five times faster than the current top supercomputer, a Cray Inc. system in the U.S. at Oak Ridge National Laboratory called Jaguar, the K Computer will stitch together 80,000 processors, each equipped with eight cores for a total of 640,000 electronic brains.What can that kind of brainpower do? With the current generation of supercomputers, running a simulation of how a beating human heart reacts to new medicine takes about two years. The new machine would cut the wait time down to two days, Fujitsu says.Fujitsu has started shipping the first eight refrigerator-sized computer racks to Riken's facility in the port city of Kobe, about 200 miles from the factory. It will make a shipment every week until the system is equipped with 800 computer racks.The project is Japan's answer to a reignited computer arms race. Leaders in the U.S. and Russia have identified supercomputers as a necessary area of investment. China, according to industry experts, has significantly ramped up spending in the last two years.There is a growing recognition of the close link between supercomputing and scientific advancement as well as industrial competitiveness," said Steve Conway, a supercomputer specialist with IDC, a market-research firm for the high-tech industry.Part of the reason, according to Mr. Conway, is because companies are using supercomputers for nearly every phase of product development from design to testing. Once the clear No. 2 to the U.S., Japan now also trails China and a trio of European nations. In the early 1990s, Japan had over 100 supercomputers in the Top500 a compilation of the 500 most powerful computer systems in the world, determined by a group of academic and government researchers. In the most recent list, compiled in June, Japan had only 18 machines.
India's vaunted tech savvy is being put to the test this week as the country embarks on a daunting mission: assigning a unique 12-digit number to each of its 1.2 billion people.The project, which seeks to collect fingerprint and iris scans from all residents and store them in a massive central database of unique IDs, is considered by many specialists the most technologically and logistically complex national identification effort ever attempted. To pull it off, India has recruited tech gurus of Indian origin from around the world, including the co-founder of online photo service Snapfish and employees from Google Inc., Yahoo Inc. and Intel Corp.The country's leaders are pinning their hopes on the program to solve development problems that have persisted despite fast economic growth. They say unique ID numbers will help ensure that government welfare spending reaches the right people, and will allow hundreds of millions of poor Indians to access services like banking for the first time.Critics question whether the project can have as big an impact as its backers promise, given that identity fraud is but one contributor to India's development struggles. Civil-liberties groups say the government is collecting too much personal information without sufficient safeguards. The technology requires transferring large amounts of data between the hinterland and an urban database, leading some to question whether the system will succumb to India's rickety Internet infrastructure.The sign-up effort is already under way in a handful of districts, and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to kick off nationwide enrollment Wednesday. The government hopes to issue the first 100 million unique ID numbers by March and 600 million within four years. The undertaking is the latest chance for India to show it can pull off a massive project after what is widely viewed as its mishandling of next week's Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, where infrastructure and hygiene issues led some nations to threaten withdrawing.
To lead the program, Mr. Singh picked Nandan Nilekani, former CEO of Infosys Technologies Ltd., which helped pioneer India's low-cost offshore model of technology services. A native of Bangalore, India's tech hub, and son of a textile-mill manager, the 55-year-old billionaire is trying to infuse some of Infosys's efficiency into a lumbering bureaucracy.You have a whole mass of people who are shut out of society, Mr. Nilekani says. A lack of identity is a big source of exclusion. You're giving them a key to social services.In one early registration drive in Nagaram, a village 30 miles outside the southern city of Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh state, dozens of people were streaming into a drab government office one recent afternoon to have their fingerprints taken and irises scanned. Many applicants, who ranged from vegetable and rice farmers to real-estate brokers and shopkeepers, had never used a computer much less seen biometric equipment. Local officials had knocked on their doors the night before to tell them about the program.Salekula Anjaiah, a 44-year-old farmer who earns about $40 per month for his family of five, said he hoped the IDs would keep people from cheating the welfare system and getting food rations they don't qualify for. It will take fraud out of the government schemes,said Mr. Anjaiah, who relies on subsidies to feed his family. Then it will be guaranteed I get what I deserve.India has been attempting to improve governance through technology for two decades. Programs have digitized land records, created Web portals for government agencies and computerized tax filing systems. But the unique ID program, dubbed Aadhaar, or foundation in Hindi, is by far the largest and most ambitious effort. Many countries have some form of national ID and a handful use biometrics, but none come close to matching the scale of what India is attempting.Mr. Nilekani started recruiting Indians in the global technology industry in the summer of 2009. These early recruits included Srikanth Nadhamuni, who had spent 16 years as a technology engineer for companies like Sun Microsystems and Intel. Word spread in Silicon Valley that Mr. Nilekani wanted help, and by the fall a few others arrived in Bangalore. The team rented an apartment at a gated community on the eastern outskirts of the city to use as an office. Everyone worked for free.
The group worked in the living room. They bought a few tables, two whiteboards and some markers. For food, they went to Mr. Nadhamuni's house nearby, where his wife served rice cakes, lentil crepes and lemon rice. Visitors had to use a wooden shoe rack as a bench since there weren't enough chairs. The team came up with a plan to capture a mix of biometric information—digital photos, fingerprints and iris scans—as well as names, addresses, genders and dates of birth. Since they knew they wouldn't have a second chance to collect the data, the engineers say they erred on getting too much information, including all 10 fingerprints instead of just one. The government would issue the random 12-digit numbers by mail. Passports, driver's licenses, ration cards and government health-insurance cards could either have the numbers printed on them or embedded electronically.That still left a major hurdle: How to verify that a number and a person actually match? Retailers, like banks and cell-phone companies, could install fingerprint readers and match the data over the Internet. But getting readers and Internet access to the 500,000, often remote locations where subsidized food is distributed to the poor would be costly and impractical.The Indian government is expected to spend as much as $250 billion over five years on programs aimed at the poor, including subsidies for food, diesel, fertilizer and jobs. But 40% of the benefits, as the system now stands, will go to the wrong people or to ghosts with fake identification papers, according to a report by brokerage firm CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets. Today's ration cards, for example, are issued on paper, and are relatively easy to forge or doctor.In November 2009, Mr. Nilekani wrote to tech companies such as Intel, Google, Oracle Corp. and Yahoo, asking them to send Indian-origin engineers to contribute to the cause, either on paid sabbatical or as volunteers. More than 20 people joined the effort.The government has approved about $670 million for the project so far, and the entire cost will likely be several billion dollars, says Mr. Nilekani.By early this year, the Bangalore team moved into a real office at a technology park. Mr. Nilekani became a traveling salesman for the project, taking a PowerPoint presentation on the road and making the case for unique IDs with government agencies and regulators across the country.In his pitch, Mr. Nilekani focused in part on reducing fraud, but also on the potential for bringing into the financial system the roughly two-thirds of Indian adults who don't have bank accounts. The poor often have few or no documents to prove who they are or where they live. The unique ID would solve that problem, says Mr. Nilekani, and could be linked to banks' plans to offer no-frills accounts, with no minimum balance and low fees, as well as nascent money-transfer services via mobile phones.
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Appearing on the Alex Jones Show today, Pastor Lindsey Williams provided further details on the ongoing plan by the global elite to destroy America, consolidate financial power, usher in world government, and reduce humanity to a slave class.Gas prices will rise to between $4 and $5 per gallon in the next few months. Photo: Eden Picutres.Lindsey Williams told Jones his source – described only as a CEO in the Big Three Oil industry who traveled in Bilderberger circles – is suffering from terminal cancer and spilled his guts to him on particular details of the globalist agenda now unfolding.Pastor Williams said the world is now at a critical phase in the globalist takeover scheme and that within the next few months we will witness the following important developments.
The globalists plan to use China and Russia to strangle America and Europe and eventually reduce both to third-world status.Lindsey underscored the importance of a major oil export deal between Russia and China. China reached a long-term deal to lend $25 billion to two Russian energy companies in exchange for an expanded supply of Russian oil, highlighting how the world's No. 3 economy is using its financial muscle to lock up access to natural resources,the Wall Street Journal reported in February. Russia wants to secure customers and find a counterbalance to its dependence on Western Europe.According to Williams, trade between Russia and China will be not be conducted using the world's reserve currency – at present the U.S. dollar – and this will further erode the value of the dollar and hasten its demise. In addition, the new trade will likely be used to bribe Europe into paying higher prices or possibly lose altogether its energy source provided by Russia.This prospect become painfully obvious in January when Russia and Belarus failed to renew an agreement on crude oil export tariffs and a cut-off of oil threatened the European continent.China is now the world's largest energy consumer, having just passed the United States. As China becomes the preferred globalist model for the 21st century, its need for energy will come into conflict with the west.On October 19, the New York Times reported on China's aggressive stance on resources. China, which has been blocking shipments of crucial minerals to Japan for the last month, has now quietly halted some shipments of those materials to the United States and Europe, three industry officials said this week,thus exacerbating already rising trade and currency tensions with the West.
The globalists will once again manipulate the price of oil and further the process of destroying the economy and impoverishing the average American. According to Williams' source, gasoline will rise to between $4 and $5 per gallon and this unprecedented price increase will reverberate throughout the economy with massive inflation and food and consumer price increases designed to decimate the middle class.Oil prices are once again on the rise. Earlier this week, the price of oil went above $82 a barrel after a short-lived plunge in response to China's surprise interest rate rise. Oil and gas prices have been rising to new highs since breaking through a previous high established in July 2008.In January, Williams told Alex Jones' audience the insiders would devalue the U.S. dollar by 30%-50% within 12 months and oil prices would rise correspondingly.The Federal Reserve has since announced its intention to begin a quantitative easing program — in short, to print more dollars, expand the money supply, and buy Treasury Bonds and mortgage backed securities — and in the process devalue the dollar. The dollar is at or near all time lows in relation to many currencies, a fact reflected in the USD Index, which dropped recently to 77.00.Lindsey told Alex that increased oil and energy prices, an engineered devaluation of the dollar and price inflation will result in a drastically reduced standard of living for Americans. Within two years, he said, you will not be able to do anything.
As Alex Jones and Infowars.com have warned for several years, the globalists have carefully engineered the mortgage crisis as a weapon designed to hold the American public hostage and eventually own all residential and commercial real estate.Lindsey points out that the elite planned the current mortgage economic crisis in the 1980s and will allow it to fully ravage the economy to the point that the bankster cartel, through the Federal Reserve, will be asked to bailout the industry to the tune of around $45 trillion dollars. The result of this will the elite holding all mortgages and ultimately the destruction of all property rights once cherished by Americans.We can see this game plan unfolding in foreclosure-gate,a term used by the corporate media to describe the full-court press effort by large banks to robo-sign foreclosure paperwork and grab property. Foreclosure-gate is heating up and the mad scramble for what's left of $45 trillion in real estate is guaranteed to leave homeowners homeless,writes Chris Kitze.Obama revealed his true colors as a teleprompter reader for the global elite when he gave a green light to JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America to resume home foreclosures, even as federal agencies have probed banks' foreclosure-documentation process after at least three financial institutions in recent weeks said they would either review or suspend foreclosures because of possible errors. In other words, the process will be allowed to continue until the mission is accomplished.
Finally, Lindsey Williams' insider source reemphasized the inevitability of war with Iran, likely within a 4-5 month period.Although the prospect of direct confrontation with Iran has apparently diminished since the Islamic nation began operating its Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant, the threat has continued to simmer in the background. In particular, the globalist neocon faction demands a military response to Iran non-existent nuclear weapon program and insist bombing the country back to the Stone Age should not be taken off the table. Both Democrats and Republicans have repeatedly stated military action against Iran should be used in the event sanctions against the country fail.Iran's National Prosecutor General Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei noted earlier this month that the U.S. and Israel are currently engaged in a low-level or soft war against his country. Mohseni-Ejei stated that the enemy has not abandoned the traditional means of confrontation with Iran and the enemy is training terrorist groups to create insecurity in the country,the Tehran Times reported on October 3.Williams' source insists this low intensity covert war will break out into open hostilities early next year.
Jeff Becker, running for Senate in West Virginia in the Constitution Party, raised questions about the foreknowledge of WTC Building 7′s collapse on September 11th during a live televised debate that was carried nationally on C-SPAN. Becker responded to a question about the continued build-up of troops in Afghanistan by telling the audience that We need to first take a look at what happened on 9/11. There were actually three buildings that collapsed on September 11th. Becker, who noted himself as an engineer, went on to give an extended explanation concerning the impossibility of WTC 7′s collapse, as well as the contradiction between the laws of physics and the government's official account [links added to suppliment the references to fact in his statement; emphasis in bold also added]:Building 7 was two blocks away from the twin towers– and that's important to consider because it was not rained on by any debris. It was just a 40-story building. And at 5 p.m. on 9/11, Jane Standley, reporter from the BBC was standing right in front, at Ground Zero, and reported that Building 7 had collapsed, when in fact you could see it over her shoulder. And then, 20 minutes later, it did collapse. This is foreknowledge, and it needs to be investigated.Additionally, Larry Silverstein, the owner of World Trade Center 7 Complex, before 9/11 had taken out a multi-billion dollar insurance policy to protect his property against a terrorist attack. And then, in 2002, on a PBS station interview, he said that he gave the order to pull-it. Pull-it is a controlled demolition term. More evidence of foreknowledge. And these are facts, you can watch the interview, you can look at the BBC footage. How did the British know 20 minutes ahead of time that this was going to happen? This needs to be investigated, there is a preponderance of anomalies surrounding the events on 9/11. Over 1,000 degreed-and-licensed Architects and Engineers have looked at the information, and there's just too much information that doesn't make sense with the official story. The only way for the official story to make sense is if the laws of physics had changed on that day. And I'm an engineer, and I can tell you that they did not.
Jeff Becker was mocked by establishment blogs like FireDogLake for these statements, as well as for his noted global warming skepticism, however he was able to communicate a powerful call to attention regarding the Building 7 issue without interruption.Becker has also been a noted critic of the Federal Reserve, publicly supporting a full audit to hold this shadowy organization accountable.As your next U.S. Senator, I will fight for passage of Senate Bill S604, the Federal Reserve Sunshine Act, which will require a full audit of the Fed for the first time in its history. I advocate a return to hard money and an end to banker bailouts. It is time to hold this shadowy organization accountable.Though he is undoubtedly considered a long shot (typically, he is not even mentioned this CNN poll, and he had to fight for enough signatures to get on the ballot), it is noteworthy that in West Virginia– where the other Senator is Jay Rockefeller– a candidate for Senate whould speak openly about Constitutional issues, the Federal Reserve and what really happened on 9/11.We need more candidates of all stripes to have the courage to speak out on these important issues.
Well, president Barroso, you're certainly flexing your muscles, using the powers given to you with the Lisbon treaty which you pushed through using illegitimate means. You now do everything you can on the world stage and within the EU to acquire all the attributes of statehood.And nowhere could that be more apparent than in your recent proposal for a direct tax to be levied by the European institutions on the peoples of this continent.Of course in previous times there was a very successful independence movement that campaigned on the slogan of No taxation witout representation.And you certainly, sir, are not a representative. We haven't voted for you and we can't remove you. So I think with this direct tax you actually made a mistake.And what an expensive club it's becoming. Just two years ago, Britain's net contribtuion was £3 billion a year. This year it's £6 billion. Next year it will be £8 billion. The year after that, it's due to be £10 billion. And now we hear that you want to take away the British rebate. You want to get rid of the British rebate, which will mean by 2013 our contribution will be £13 billion. It would have quadrupled in the space of six years.And simply, the taxpayers of Britain, realising all of this, seeing your direct tax will conclude that we simply can't afford the European Union.But I do see a ray of hope. The Doville deal between Merkel and Sarkozy – the thing that you're all so terrified of today – I hope it happens.Let's have a new treaty. You yourself seem to be almost supporting it (to Barroso). Let's have a new European treaty and let's put it to a referendum – in lots of countries, particularly in Britain, and the British people will conclude that this is a very bad deal for Britain, they'll vote for us to leave the European Union and begin the unravelling… [sarcastic applause]… Thank you. We;ll be happy to go, thank you.
Mr Farage, I have a question, maybe you .. you seem concerned about the tax coffers in the UK and you, the same as I, have an opportunity to decide where you get your daily allowances from at the start of the legislature – whether it be from the nation coffers or the European Union coffers. Maybe you could tell the House whether your daily allowances come from the EU budget or from the national system in the UK.
I think we ought to do away with this notion of European money. Prior to their being a direct tax there is as we speak today no such thing as European money. It's our money. We are a massive net contributor into this European Union for no single economic benefit in return whatsoever.
I usually do not intervene, but there is a point of order that I want to make. It is nit the first time that Mr Farage, addressing to myself, says you have no been elected.Certainly I have not been elected by you, but I've been elected by this parliament. I have been elected in a secret vote by this parliament. And you belong to this parliament. I can say that always saying that myself and the commission have not been elected is a lack of respect to the Commission and to the European Parliament where you belong.
ENOCH THE 7TH GENERATION PREACHER FROM THE BIBLE WAS CLEARLY A RAPTURE TEACHER,PROPHECY TEACHER.HE THEN HIMSELF WAS RAPTURED TO HEAVEN(MOST LIKELY SO CHRISTIANS WOULD BELIEVE THERE REALLY WILL BE AN EVACUATION OF GODS PEOPLE TO HEAVEN FROM THE HELL ON EARTH ACCOUNTS TO COME).AND ENOCH COULD HAVE BEEN RAPTURED TO HEAVEN TO BE 1 OF THE 2 TRIBULATION PREACHERS,SINCE HE PREACHED THE RAPTURE AND THE LITERAL RETURN OF JESUS TO EARTH PROPHECY TEACHING.WE KNOW 1 OF THE 2 WITNESS PREACHERS WILL BE ELIJAH WHO WAS ALSO RAPURED TO HEAVEN.THE TWO WILL EITHER BE ELIJAH AND MOSES A PAIR OR ELIJAH AND ENOCH A PAIR.AND SINCE SO MANY DISBELIEVE THE RAPTURE AND LITERAL RETURN TO EARTH OF JESUS TEACHING-PREACHING.THE 2 MOST LIKELY WILL BE ELIJAH AND ENOCH.I STILL SAY MOSES-ELIJAH MYSELF BECAUSE HE IS USED TO PLAGING THE EARTH WITH JUDGEMENT.OR ELIJAH AND ENOCH WILL BE THE 2 WITNESSES AND TO DECIEVE THE CHRISTIANS AND SAVED AT THE TIME THE EU WORLD POLITICIAN WILL TEAM UP AND ELECT A FALSE POPE BY THE NAME OF MOSES TO TRY TO MAKE HIM LOOK LIKE THE MOSES OF THE BIBLE TO COUNTER ELIJAH AND ENOCH THE 2 TRUE RAPTURED PREACHERS DURING THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION.THE 2 WITNESSES GET KILLED AND RAPTURED TO HEAVEN AGAIN AT THE MIDPOINT OR 3 1/2 YEAR MARK OF THE 7 YR PEACE TREATY.SO THE DICTATOR ONLY HAS TO PUT THESE 2 DOWN FOR THE FIRST HALF OF THE TRIBULATION.LOOK HOW THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION PUTS DOWN CONSERVATIVES AND CONSTITUTIONALISTS NOW.THE EU DICTATOR AND FALSE POPE WILL BE DOING THE SAME TO THE 2 WITNESSES TO TRY TO DISCREIT THEM FROM SAYING THE TRUTH.BUT IT WON'T WORK THE PROPHECY-RAPTURE-LITERAL RETURN TO EARTH OF JESUS TEACHING,PREACHING WILL BE HEEDED BY PEOPLE AND MANY-MANY WILL BE SAVED BECAUSE THEY WILL SEE THE PROPHECIES LITERALLY COMING TO PASS BEFORE THEIR EYES AND WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DENY THE TRUTH THAT JESUS IS GOD AND ALL HIS WORDS ARE TRUTH,NOT MYTH LIKE PEOPLE CLAIM.
AT THE END OF THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD JESUS RETURNS TO EARTH WITH THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS OF 7 YEARS EARLIER.AND ALL ON EARTH WILL VIEW IT THROUGH TV AND THE INTERNET.
7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him,(THATS THE WHOLE WORLD) and they also which pierced him:(THE ROMANS IN HELL POSSIBLY ALSO) and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
AND THE SIGN YOU KNOW JESUS IS RETURNING WILL BE A BOLT OF LIGHTNING FROM EAST TO WEST IN THE SKY AND THEN YOU WILL SEE JESUS RETURN TO EARTH LITERALLY ON A CLOUD LIKE THE WAY HE WENT UP.JESUS WILL RETURN TO JERUSALEM WERE THERE WILL BE A GIGANTIC QUAKE WHEN HIS FEET HITS THE MOUNT OF OLIVES.
Television is emerging as the dominant medium of the digital age. Yes, you read that right. Television.By just about any measure, television is a very healthy industry—with viewership, advertising and subscriptions all on the rise. In fact, in terms of overall revenue, TV networks and video programming are among the only media to grow since the advent of the Internet (aside from the Internet itself). For audiences, there's more choice than ever before—with higher quality and more original programming.But now television is at a critical moment in its evolution. Whether audiences continue to enjoy this golden era of TV will depend largely on whether content creators continue to stay apace of consumer needs and make strategic decisions that favor long-term sustainability over short-term dollars. I believe the best path for TV's next phase is clear. For the past 15 months, Time Warner, along with a growing number of content and distribution companies, has been implementing a new strategy called TV Everywhere. It operates on a simple but powerful premise: If you have access to television in your home—whether through rabbit ears or a paid cable, satellite or telco subscription—you should be able to view all the channels you receive on demand on whatever broadband device you wish. That means on-demand access to your favorite shows not only on the TV in your living room but also on your laptop or tablet wherever you might take it—all at no extra cost.
Because TV Everywhere is an idea and not an object, it may lack some of the glitz factor of new devices and services recently announced by Amazon, Apple, Google, Sony and others. These over-the-top devices and services allow companies to tap into viewers' love of TV with wonderful new gizmos such as high-definition touch-screen tablets and Internet-enabled television sets. They offer greater functionality, mobility and more powerful software that give consumers new applications to control, access and share content. It's a testament to the vitality of TV that there's so much investment coming out of Silicon Valley and the consumer electronics industries to help deliver TV content and monetize it in new ways.But let's be clear about what these new entrants are not: They are neither programmers nor distributors. Of course many of them want to turn themselves into content retailers or aggregators of programming, or they want to create another layer between content creators and their audiences.However, to be anything more than incremental, I believe these nascent services must meet two requirements. First, obviously, they must provide consumers with a superior TV experience. And second, they must also support or improve the industry economics that have led directly to the cultural and commercial renaissance that television is now experiencing.One of the reasons why television has performed well while other media industries have struggled is that TV has developed a system of dual revenues from subscribers and advertisers that has served viewers successfully in digital formats for three decades now, leading to an explosion of choice for consumers at a reasonable value and programming that is ever more original, diverse and daring.When this programming connects with viewers it offers unparalleled levels of engagement. Networks with strong brand identities—ESPN or the Discovery Channel, for example—are able to program to a very specific voice, allowing advertisers to reach targeted consumers in a way most media cannot. This helps explain why TV was also one of the most resilient advertising media during the downturn, and has been one of the strongest coming out of it.When it comes to technology, no media industry has innovated as steadily or successfully as television. It went from mass-market, over-the-air broadcast TV to digital satellite and cable delivery, which in turn provided an exponential increase in television channels, and later, pay per view and video on demand. Now television has evolved to high definition, and soon, 3D. In home video we evolved from VHS to DVD to high-definition Blu Ray. The impetus was the same in every example: to give viewers more choice, more control, and a better experience.TV Everywhere extends that tradition. Nearly every single cable, telephone and satellite distributor of video in the United States is supporting TV Everywhere, as are a growing number of content creators—including ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, TNT, TBS, HBO, Discovery and ESPN, which just last month agreed to participate. By this time next year, TV Everywhere will be available to consumers in 70 million homes.TV Everywhere is not about favoring one TV network model over another, or protecting outdated paradigms. It's about harnessing technology to redefine TV in the 21st century in a way that continues to give viewers the best possible experience, and ensures that great programming will continue to be created and enjoyed.Mr. Bewkes is the chairman and chief executive of Time Warner Inc. This commentary was adapted from a speech he delivered recently to the Royal Television Society in London.


Like all Catholic Philosophers, Hopkins believed in an outer world independent of man's knowing mind; he was in the present sense of the word a "realist". The four real shapes of Hopkins' mind were all Britons, all concerned with defending the ordinary means belief in the reality and renewability of things and persons. He doesn't, after the fashion of some mystics and Alexandrines, dissolve "nature" into a system of symbols translating the real world of spirit. "Inscape" stands for any kind of former or focused view, any pattern discerned in the natural world. A central word in his vocabulary and central motif in his mental life. It traverses some range of meaning: from sense-perceived pattern to inner form. An "inscape" is not mechanically present but requires personal action attention a seeing and a seeing into. The men in his poem are seen as from a distance-sympathetically. In poetry he desired both to use inscapes and to use words as objects. He wrote before composing the 'Deutsch land': "Poetry is in fact speech for the inscapes sake and therefore the inscape must be dwelt on."
1) Even in his middle style there remain vestiges of the earlier decorative diction, frequent use of 'lovely', 'sweet'.
2) He belongs among the poets who can be incited to poetry by scholars prose.
3) He derives from an imprecisely defined group of Victorian Historians and Philologists, who challenged the dominance of the Latin and Romance element in English language.
Hopkins characteristic critical and philosophical terminology is a compounding of Old English roots and suffixes to suit his needs and to replace Latinic terms, like "instress" and "inscape". To Bridges, Hopkins wrote of his manuscript book on rhythm, "It is full of new words without which there can be no new science." His words of Old English lineage were collected and used by him as dialectical, still spoken English. "Lonched" was, as Bridges observed, to be found in Wrights Dialect Dictionary.
Wherever Hopkins explains his words, their particularity, their compactness and detail were manifest. His defense would doubtless be that to compound freely was to restore to English language a power it once had possessed. Judged by its effect and its internal intent, Hopkins poetry resume the line of English music where its grammar succession was interrupted. Hopkins seemed to be reaching back while he is reaching forward to an "English" poetry. His pushing back of the Elizabethan's had some incentive in his desire to get back of the reformation to England at once Catholic and English.
Hopkins' poetry is oral, yet not conversational but formal and rhetorical. It uses dialectical word without intending to be local and homely; it uses folk in serious poetry. Hopkins' poems were written for an ideal audience, never existent in his days or composed of literally perceptive countrymen and of linguistically adopt and folk minded scholars.
The ideal of poetry must be to instress the inscape without splintering the architecture of the universe and to make every word rich, in a way compatible to a more than additively rich total poetic structure. But in Hopkins poems, the words, the phrase, the local excitement often pulls us away from the poem. The meaning of Hopkins poems hovers closely over the text, the linguistic surface. The rewarding experience of concern with them is to be let more and more into words and their ways, to contemplate the protopoetry of derivation and metaphorical expansion, to stress the inscapes of English tongue.


Growing prosperity and living the abundant life is something most people desire.
Isn't that why you are reading this right now?
But is it a bad desire?
Consider those who don't seek a life of growing prosperity and the abundance of God. They often believe the desire to prosper is selfish. And yes, within the ranks of those that seem to be prospering will be a scattering of selfish and greedy people. We do not have to look far in this world to find a selfish person in any arena of life.
But get this: The same group of people that believe it is ungodly to prosper, also seem to think it is a spiritual quality to be poor.
Take note, you cannot be greedy and truly prosper. Part of the spiritual law of prosperity is giving to God and also being a generous giver with others. You simply have to give in order to receive.
What does this say? When you scatter and give, you'll have increase. When you withhold and keep more for yourself than you should, it leads to poverty. When you are generous and bless others you will prosper.
Why do you want to have more money, a nicer house, closer relationships, more free time, a stronger faith? I think you would agree it is with the thought of others in mind more than yourself.
Growing prosperity provides the ability to give to others in a greater measure and in a greater quality. This in turn brings great satisfaction in life.
What a great feeling to be able to move your family into a nicer house in a safer neighborhood. There is nothing better in this world than a prosperous marriage. It is a great feeling to upgrade the car and know your family is driving a safe, dependable vehicle. And to have the free time to be spend with your family and serve in your community is so valuable. Having abundance financially to give generously to those in need is and wonderful position to be in.
The abundance of God is more than financial and material. It is God's desire that you prosper and be in health even as your soul prospers. (3 John 2) Prospering spiritually is the ultimate. There is nothing greater than strong faith and a close walk with God! And the closer you walk in obedience to God, the greater His involvement in your growing prosperity.
Thank goodness you can decide which path you'll take in life. Even if you are currently in poverty, there is hope and expectations of better things to come. The abundance of God is waiting for you as you begin to honor the Lord and follow His principles and laws of prosperity.
May your life continue to abound with growing prosperity!


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MLS review: Neville's Miami earn rare point, while FC Dallas and NYCFC win big
Sean Fisher
Sports writer
A rare point for Inter Miami relieves pressure on Phil Neville, while a shock win for FC Dallas and a 5-0 thumping at New York shakes up the standings.
2021-07-26 MLS review: Neville's Miami earn rare point, while FC Dallas and NYCFC win big
The busiest eight days of the MLS season wrapped up on Sunday after nearly every team in the league played their third game of the week.
Additionally, 25 of the 27 teams were without players during the multi-game week as nearly 60 MLS players participated in the CONCACAF Gold Cup.
The summer transfer window is also open, and teams have begun integrating and offloading players in their roster. For a lucky few teams, players who were eliminated in the Gold Cup group stage returned to their clubs for the final game of the weekend.
Inter Miami earn rare point
Inter Miami picked up a rare and surprising point on Sunday with a 1-1 home draw against the 2020 Supporters Shield winners Philadelphia Union. Miami's appeals for a penalty kick were denied by VAR early in the second half and the game remained scoreless until 20 minutes from time.
Robbie Robinson put the Herons ahead in the 71st minute, with his shot deflecting off the hand of back-up keeper Matt Freese and into the net. Robinson had a chance to double his side's lead moments later but his effort skipped inches past the post.
Despite their best efforts, the home crowd couldn't inspire Inter Miami to preserve their clean sheet. Philadelphia equalised through Kasper Przybylko in the 85th minute, with the goal standing after a lengthy review for offside.
Phil Neville's side hadn't picked up a point at all since beating FC Cincinnati on May 16. They saw an improved effort from a finally fully healthy Gonzalo Higuain. The former Argentine international provided the assist for Robinson's goal and led the squad with three shots on goal and four key passes.
With six days between games, Neville can now integrate his new players into the line-up in training. Inter Miami remain in last place and face CF Montreal next Saturday in another home game.
Meanwhile, the Union will host Chicago Fire on Sunday.
Galaxy thrashed by FC Dallas
With Chicharito sidelined and Sebastian Lletget and Jonathan dos Santos on international duty, LA Galaxy continue to struggle, losing 4-0 on the road to struggling FC Dallas.
The hero of the night for FC Dallas was 18-year-old Ricardo Pepi. He became the youngest player in MLS history to score a hat-trick, breaking Kekuta Manneh's 2013 record by 87 days. He dedicated his performance to his namesake, his grandfather, who passed away a year ago to the day.
Pepi is now third in the league's goalscoring charts with eight goals - two behind Chicharito and three behind league leader Raul Ruidiaz.
The Galaxy are still in third place but now have a -3 goal difference and sit seven points behind Western Conference leaders Seattle Sounders.
Galaxy will host Portland Timbers on Friday, and could potentially be without their leading scorer for a sixth straight game.
FC Dallas are now up to 10th place and play at second-placed Sporting KC on Saturday.
NYCFC's dramatic homecoming
Back at Yankee Stadium, NYCFC picked up their second 5-0 win of the season in an Eastern Conference showdown against Nani's Orlando City. After a goalless opening 40 minutes, five separate players scored for the Pigeons in a resounding win.
Jesus Medina's strike was the only goal of the first half.
Ismael Toajouri-Shradi made it 2-0 in the 53rd minute and Maxi Moralez scored 12 minutes later.
NYCFC put the game to bed in the last 10 minutes with goals from Malte Amundsen and leading scorer Valentin Castellanos.
NYCFC have now scored 26 goals this season and are 4-2-1 at home. The Pigeons, who now sit sixth, next host fifth-place Columbus Crew on Friday.
Orlando City were overtaken by Nashville SC and drop to third place ahead of their hosting of Atlanta United on Friday.


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Who's Who When Everyone is Someone Else
C.D. Rose
A hilariously charming novel about a heartbroken man trying to redeem himself by championing forgotten books
Fleeing heartbreak, an unnamed author goes to an unnamed city to give a series of lectures at an unnamed university about forgotten books ... only to find himself involved in a mystery when the professor who invited him is no where to be found, and no one seems quite sure why he's there....
So begins this Wes Anderson-like novel hilariously spoofing modernist literature even as it tells a stirring -- and eerily suspenseful -- story about someone desperate to prove the redeeming power of reading -- and writing -- books.
And as the narrator gives his lectures, attends vague functions where no one speaks English, never quite meets his host professor and wonders the city looking for the grave of his literary hero, the reader begins to suspect this man's relentless faith in literature may be the only thing getting him through the mystery enveloping him.
Praise For Who's Who When Everyone is Someone Else…
"This ingenious, uproarious novel deserves to sit on any bibliophile's shelf."—Times Literary Supplement
"A riotous, triumphant rattlebag of a novel. C.D.Rose has created an intricate exploration of literary intrigue, suspense and levity — lose yourself in this book at once, and savour every moment"—Eley Williams, author of Attrib. & Other Stories
"Anyone who's been looking for the same hit to the cerebral cortex produced when they first encountered Calvino and Borges will read this extraordinary novel, as I did, with a grateful sense of urgency. It quenches a thirst you almost forgot you had: endlessly inventive, wickedly intelligent, funny and melancholic. I don't remember the last time I read something this clever, puzzling and intricate which simultaneously packs so much soul. Who's Who When Everyone is Someone Else is so much more than a sequence of bravura exercises in style; the passages between the lectures have the tone and elegance of a forgotten masterpiece themselves. It puts us outside ourselves, beside ourselves, as readers, as critics, as writers: a total perspective vortex which reminds us, even as it upends our expectations, why we fell in love with reading in the first place." —Luke Kennard, author of The Transition
"Rose's invented canon is delightful: and this ingenious, uproarious novel deserves to sit on any bibliophile's shelves."—Times Literary Supplement
Melville House, 9781612197135, 256pp.
Publication Date: April 10, 2018
C. D. ROSE is the author of the satirical book The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure (Melville House) and is an award-wining short story writer. He currently teaches at the University of East Anglia, where he also earned an MFA in writing.


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Special edition Pikes Peak Bentley Continental GT launched
Bentley's latest limited edition model celebrates the Continental GT W12's record-breaking run up Pikes Peak International Hill Climb
by: Luke Wilkinson
Bentley has launched another limited edition version of the Continental GT W12, which celebrates the car's record-breaking production car run up the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. The special edition model will be available to order later this month, with production being limited to 15 just examples.
In June of this year, Rhys Millen shaved 8.4 seconds off the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb production car record at the wheel of a W12-powered Contental GT, stealing the crown from the Porsche 911 Turbo S. It completed the 12.42-mile course in ten minutes 18.4 seconds at an impressive average speed of 70mph.
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The special edition Continental GT shares the same electric yellow paint finish as the record-breaking car, along with its gloss black wing mirrors, front bumper inserts, rear fascia panel and roof. There's also a set of 22-inch Mulliner Driving Specification alloys, finished in black, along with Acid Green brake calipers and a carbon fibre exterior styling package.
There's also a unique Pikes Peak decal stamped the car's front wings and coloured tyre lettering, finished in the same Radium paint as the bodywork. Buyers can also spec an optional "100" branded radiator grille, which Bentley says marks the fact that the hill climb record took place in the brand's centenary year.
Inside, the Continental GT is trimmed in Alcantara and Beluga hide, with contrasting Radium stitching. The Pikes Peak logo is embroidered into all four of the car's headrests, while the steering wheel features a honeycomb stitching design and centre stripe – the colours of which are all matched to the exterior paintwork.
Bentley's three-sided rotating display is fitted as standard, along with a Bang & Olufsen stereo system. There's a blend of carbon fibre and piano black trim through the cabin, while the passenger-side dash panel features a unique graphic showing a section of the Pikes Peak course. A different section of the course will be printed on each of the cars in the 15-strong production run, as well as the car's record-breaking time of 10:18.488.
Like the record-breaking Continental GT, this limited edition model is powered by Bentley's twin-turbocharged 6.0-litre W12. The engine is mated to an eight-speed dual-clutch gearbox and develops 626bhp and 900Nm of torque, which is enough for a 0–62mph time of 3.7 seconds and a top speed of 207mph.
What do you make of the new limited edition Bentley Continental GT? Let us know in the comments section below…
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is that including shipping in the price?
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A Review of 400m Training Methods
By Mike Young on	 April 27, 2009 Mike Young's Blog
LONDON, ENGLAND – AUGUST 11: Sanya Richards-Ross of the United States approaches he finish line on her way to winning gold in the Women's 4 x 400m Relay Final on Day 15 of the London 2012 Olympic Games at Olympic Stadium on August 11, 2012 in London, England. (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images)
The 400m is one of the weird birds of track and field. Probably more so than any other event (other than the 800m) the 'Many Roads to Rome' concept seems to hold true. I'd like to take a look at why this is and maybe see what kind of ramifications this can have on a coaches choice of selecting the most appropriate training methods for their athlete's training.
What?When training for the 100m it's fairly well recognized that regardless of whether you follow a short-to-long or long-to-short periodization plan, that some form of speed training must be present in the training plan to achieve optimal performance. For marathon training, it's pretty clear cut you're going to have little to no chance of running an elite marathon by training under 80 100 miles per week. For the 400m though, things aren't nearly as clear cut. We see programs like Baylor turn out loads of top collegiate 400m runners and 4x400m relay teams with a program is is solidly based on over-distance tempo running. This setup is arguably the most successful training program as it counts Sanya Richards, Andrew Rock, Jeremy Wariner, and Michael Johnson as current or past champions using the setup. In general, the tempo-based programs have much larger volumes of running, most of which is performed at intensities below 85% of maximal sprint speed, and if weight lifting and plyometric are performed at all, they tend to not be highly sophisticated plans and the intensities are again not very high. On the other end of the spectrum, we frequently see short sprinters and even some jumpers and hurdlers step up to the 400m and run world class times with little 'event-specific' work. Marion Jones, Asafa Powell, Walter Dix, Allen Johnson have done it in the past and collegiate long and triple jumpers from all around the country do it every weekend on high school and collegiate relays. Athletes in these types of training protocols generally incorporate regular doses of true speed work (95+% with full recovery), and lots of plyometric and /or strength training work. Somewhere in the middle, we see training plans used by collegiate teams like LSU. LSU has the men's collegiate 4x400m record, has produced such elite 400m runners as Xavier Carter, Derrick Brew, Alleyne Francique, and Kelly Willie and has had more success with both 400m runners of both genders than any other collegiate program in the country. These programs use a combination of tempo and speed work throughout the year. They also typically integrate well-planned weight training and plyometric schemes to complement the track work. Quite clearly, the 400m is unique in that many training philosophies can be used to produce top level results.
Why?The reason we can see such diverse training methods produce such similar results is clearly because of the diverse metabolic demands and necessity for both speed and endurance in the 400m. Despite the 400m being considered a sprint event, recent research indicates that the contribution of the aerobic energy pathway is around 30% of total energy production for elite male 400m runners. That's right….ONE THIRD of the energy supplied to run a sub 45 second quarter mile comes from the aerobic energy system. This contribution is likely inversely related to the performance level of the athlete. So slower runners will have an even greater aerobic contribution. What's also clear is that you're going to have a hard time being an elite 400m runner without very good speed. Even the top 400m runners who many consider to be endurance based quarter milers with 'slow' top-end speed (Butch Reynolds and Jeremy Wariner come to mind) are still extremely fast at shorter sprints (20.46 and 20.19 respectively). So it's clear that the event requires a unique mix of nearly world class (or better) sprint speed and extreme speed endurance.
Who?I think this is an important question to ask. Obviously a wide range of training protocols have produced equal success in the 400m. Does this means you can just do whatever you want? Not really. Most coaches recognize that not all training plans work for all people. So as a coach, it's important to either tailor an individual's training to their specific response-type or only recruit and train athletes that you feel will respond well to the training you feel comfortable using.
How?So how is it that such seemingly varied programs can produce such similar results? I think this is partly explained by the above point but there's certainly more to it than that. Let's take a look at the extreme ends of the training spectrum. On the tempo-based side, I think that the reason these programs work so well is because:
They develop the 30% aerobic component much more efficiently than programs that focus on anaerobic speed-power development.
While many consider these programs to lack true speed specificity, I think this is only partially true. While these protocols do not use as much speed work at maximal intensities, they do incorporate quite a bit of volume at the 80-85% intensity level. The running volumes are probably twice as much as what we might see in the typical anaerobic speed-power based training program. That means that compared to their anaerobically trained speed-power 400m counterparts, athletes in a tempo-based program are getting in nearly twice as much volume in a highly specific activity, at an intensity that is still pretty darned close to the intensities observed in their competitive event. To make this a little more simple to understand, think of it in terms of strength training. Most people recognize that to increase maximal strength levels optimally, you need to train with loads that are 80-85% of maximal intensity. Within this guideline though we see different people using different methodologies successfully. We see people getting equally strong using routines with set, rep and intensity schemes as varied as 10 x 1 (average intensity of 95%) and 5 x 6 (average intensity of 80%). If the same guidelines hold true for sprint training, then it's easy to see why tempo-based programs would work because they're getting in a considerably larger volume of work that is still highly specific to their activity.
Now let's go to the other end of the training spectrum and look at a jumpers program- athletes who train primarily the anaerobic energy system and typically incorporate frequent doses of high intensity plyometric and strength training. There have been quite a few very good jumper / 400m combos athletes over the years. Anthuan Maybank (8.25m long jump and 44.15 second 400m) is the most notable, but Melvin Lister, and more recently Michael Morrison and several others have been great jumpers AND run on championship 4x400m relay teams. What could possibly explain this very obvious contrast in training producing similar results? In this case I think it's the following:
These athletes typically do a considerable amount of speed work on the run way and on the track and this creates a large speed reserve for the 400m. In other words, they train to be capable of running 11 m/s so running a race at less than 10 m/s is less of their maximal effort than someone who did not have the same top-end speed.
The extended and endurance bounding that is often found in these types of programs carries over nicely to developing the elastic abilities that are so important to 400m running.
Due to the nature of their primary event they may be more in-tune with rhythm and speed of running (because of needing to be accurate on the approach) than other runners.
Despite not doing much if any longer interval work they are still able to achieve very high lactate levels through acceleration development workouts which may carry over to 400m performance.
While the running volumes are drastically less than those observed in tempo-based programs, the total cumulative training load after weights and plyometric work is factored in is likely quite similar.
Those are just the two extremes and it seems obvious that in the battle for supremacy between these two ends, the tempo-based group clearly wins out. But it's important to note that the pure speed-power training can sure come mighty close without much '400m specific' training at all. If we were to look at the programs that take a more balanced approach, it's easier to see why they would be successful as they take many of the strengths from both sides of the continuum and leave out many of the shortcomings.
When?Based on some casual observations of various training systems I think it's fair to say that for many athletes it's probably best to start off on one side of the spectrum and move towards the center as there career progresses. It seems that most of the athletes that have stayed 'far-left' or 'far-right' seem to see their progress stall out if they don't make a switch.
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Egypt: Damning evidence points to security forces' failures
Egyptian security forces have used excessive force against supporters of the deposed President Mohamed Morsi, according to new evidence gathered by Amnesty International.
Read the evidence: Unlawful killings on 5 and 8 July (PDF)
Since last Friday at least 88 people have lost their lives in protests and political violence, including three members of the security forces. Around 1,500 have been wounded.
At least 51 Morsi supporters were killed yesterday during clashes outside the Republican guard headquarters.
Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Deputy Director of Amnesty's Middle East and North Africa Programme, said:
"Despite claims by the military that protesters attacked first during clashes on Monday and that no women and Children's rights were injured, first hand accounts collected by Amnesty paint a very different picture. Even if some protesters used violence, the response was disproportionate and led to the loss of life and injury among peaceful protesters."
The army and Interior Ministry said yesterday that the violence followed an attack by protesters around the Republican Guard Club, and announced that a military officer and two members of the security forces were killed.
However, accounts collected from eyewitnesses contradict this version of events. Amnesty has visited morgues, hospitals and sites of violence in Cairo and Alexandria to gather testimonies from injured protesters and relatives of victims.
Its findings suggest the use of disproportionate force by security forces, including intentional lethal force. Many of those killed and injured had been shot in the head and upper body with shotgun pellets and live ammunition.
Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui said:
"The Egyptian authorities must end the military and police use of grossly disproportionate force. Even when individual protesters use violence, the army must respond proportionately, without killing and injuring those not endangering the lives of the security forces or others. They must ensure an investigation which all sides see as independent and impartial is promptly conducted to ensure any alleged army abuses are not covered up.
"The Egyptian authorities must also ensure that proper autopsy and medical reports are issued to facilitate thorough investigations and ensure access to justice and reparations.
"As politicians squabble over who started the violence, it's clear that unless the security forces are reined-in and clear orders given on the use of force we're looking at a recipe for disaster."
Amnesty's fears of further bloodshed have been heightened by statements from Muslim Brotherhood leaders vowing to continue protesting until the former President is reinstated, calling on their supporters to "rise up" and "resist", despite the ongoing deaths and injuries.
A woman in her forties who was wounded on Monday said the violence began at as she finished prayers beside a tent housing women and Children's rights.
"I saw men running towards us, then the teargas started falling," she told Amnesty. "I did not know what to do or where to take the Children's rights. I couldn't go back to the tents because we would suffocate, and I didn't know where to run because of the shooting…There were shots and teargas coming from all directions…There were men lying on the ground in pools of blood in front of me, I just stayed there under the tree praying…I thought that was it."
Eventually, she managed to escape down a side street.
Amnesty interviewed several other women who had shotgun pellet wounds in the upper body including the back, and a child at a Cairo hospital with wounds in his head, face and legs.
The deaths yesterday followed shootings on 5 July, when security forces shot dead four people during protests in front of the Republican Guard.
Amnesty also found that security forces had intervened too late or not at all during clashes between pro- and anti-Morsi supporters in Cairo and Alexandria on 5 July leading to a loss of life on both sides.
At least eight people died during clashes between rival camps that lasted around five hours in Tahrir Square and the district of al-Manial in Cairo on Friday, with the security forces absent from the scene.
In Alexandria on Friday, at least 17 were killed in the Sidi Gaber area. Security forces arrived on the scene after some people had already been killed. Mohamed Badr al-Din, a local resident, was stabbed and thrown from a roof by Morsi supporters.
A survivor described how he escaped shortly before Mohamed Badr al-Din was thrown from the roof:
"I was chased by a big bearded guy with a huge knife and black flag … He started beating me, and raised a knife saying 'God is Great'. I escaped from him by jumping down an airshaft, an opening in the middle of the building's roof," he told Amnesty.
Local residents said calls for the police to intervene were ignored.
"It is the responsibility of the security forces to maintain security and protect lives. However, instead of preventing further bloodshed they appear to have contributed to it by using excessive force and ignoring the people's pleas for help.
"Those who violently attack their political opponents should be held to account, whatever their political affiliation."
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