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Greek Trial of Volunteer Migrant Rescuers Resumes on Lesbos
FILE - Migrants arrive at a temporary camp near Mytilene town, on the northeastern island of Lesbos, Greece, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
MYTILENE — The trial of 24 aid workers and volunteers who participated in migrant rescue operations resumed Friday on an eastern Greek island, a prosecution that has drawn widespread criticism from international human rights groups.
The Greek and foreign defendants argue they were doing nothing more than assisting people whose lives were at risk. Their lawyers have objected to the procedures followed by the prosecution, which could lead to the court on the island of Lesbos ordering prosecutors to refile the case.
Those on trial include prominent Syrian human rights worker Sarah Mardini, a refugee and competitive swimmer whose sister Yusra Mardini was part of the refugee swimming team at the Olympic Games in 2016 and 2021. The sisters' story was made into a Netflix movie.
Mardini, who was not present for Friday's hearing, and fellow volunteer Sean Binder, who was in Lesbos to attend the trial, spent more than three months in jail in Lesbos after their 2018 arrest on misdemeanor charges that included espionage, forgery and unlawful use of radio frequencies.
The two are also under investigation for felony offenses, but prosecutors have not brought any of the more serious charges against them. The case was initially set to proceed in 2021 but was postponed over procedural issues.
"Targeting human rights defenders and individuals engaged in acts of solidarity is both incompatible with states' international obligations and has a chilling effect on human rights work," Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatovic said in a statement Thursday.
FILE – Yusra Mardini and Tachlowini Gabriyesos, of the Refugee Olympic Team, carry the Olympic flag during the opening ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, Friday, July 23, 2021. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
She mentioned the trial on Lesbos, as well as other prosecutions of human rights workers, smear campaigns, cumbersome registration procedures for non-governmental organizations and pressure on journalists as having "undermined the protection of human rights and shrunk the civic space" in Greece.
"I urge the Greek authorities to ensure that human rights defenders and journalists can work safely and freely, by providing an enabling environment for their work and publicly recognizing their important role in a democratic society," Mijatovic said.
Harlem Desir, the senior vice president for the International Rescue Committee's Europe section, called on the European Union to "forge a new approach" when dealing with asylum-seekers who attempt to enter EU countries by crossing the Mediterranean Sea.
The trial, he said, was "emblematic of a broader trend towards the EU disrupting people's journeys and deterring people from reaching Europe, often leaving them trapped in dire conditions or at risk at sea, rather than protecting them along their journeys or providing routes to safety."
Greece, which saw around a million people cross to its shores from neighboring Turkey at the height of a refugee crisis in 2015, has clamped down on migration, erecting a fence along much of its land border with Turkey and increasing sea patrols near its islands.
Greek officials say they have a strict but fair migration policy. They also deny, despite increasing evidence to the contrary, conducting illegal summary deportations of people arriving on Greek territory without allowing them to apply for asylum, a procedure known as "pushbacks."
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Pantone picks a color of the year every year since they believe they are the Holy Grail of colors, and well, they pretty much are. Their website is quoted as saying, "Tangerine Tango, a spirited reddish orange, continues to provide the energy boost we need to recharge and move forward."
i love corals and oranges. i am also a fan on salmon. works for me! good choice for the year.
I love this shade mixed with pink or red! So bright and happy.
I was so glad they picked this colour as their Colour of the Year! I think we could all do with a bit of cheer and festivity in 2012!


Im taking a trip back home for my b-day to see Aly & Fila, Simon Patterson, and Sean Tyas Rip $HIT UP Woot Cant wait.
i got my ticket for the one in dallas but this line-up is off the mothafkn ho0ok!!
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All of the love in the air is causing our garden grow! A bunch of new artists have just popped up on the EDC 2010 line up :: Donald Glaude, Second Sun (Live), Trent Cantrelle, Daedelus, Mars, Low End Specialists & Android Cartel will all be adding their flavor to the EDC talent pool.
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On Friday 22 March 2019, the team at Excel-a-Rate Business Services Ltd were, once again, proud to sponsor the Ladies Luncheon in aid of The Bury Hospice Appeal. Proving that ladies not only lunch, but, can also raise a staggering £15,000 in just one afternoon, a huge achievement and a massive well done, to all involved!
The committee work tirelessly all year to raise funds for such a worthwhile cause, with the ladies lunch being one of the highlights of their fundraising calendar. We were entertained by not only a fabulous singer and table magician, but we also enjoyed games, a raffle and an auction, all helping to swell the final fabulous total.
A huge THANK-YOU to all involved and every success in fundraising over the coming year, looking forward to the next one already!


Tuesday night. Around 6:15. Daisy is securely locked in the laundry room as The Concrete Guy (TCG) is coming over to talk patios. (TCG oddly resembles a mix of Sam Drake and Dan Conner. Roseanne's TV hubby. This is not important.) It's been raining all day, is super windy, and is cold. I let in TCG through the front door and lead him to the backyard. We talk and he exits through the fence gate, so he doesn't track mud through the house. Vance has stepped in dog poop, so we take his shoes and pants off. I take the shoes and pants directly to the laundry room upon entering from outside. Daisy runs out of the laundry room. The baby gate is open. So is the front door. Obviously didn't get closed all the way when I let TCG in and being so windy, it was standing wide open. Justin sees that Daisy has run out. Yells to tell me, so I start chasing her. Interestingly, I was wearing a Sporty! track suit, but still wasn't able to keep up with Daisy. I'm guessing it was the slide-on Adidas flip flops that were holding me back. The chase is on.
Our neighborhood is still pretty new. If you turn right out of the subdivision, it's all residential. If you turn left, it's all cornfields. Daisy turned left. Here is where she exited the 'hood.
The Hope Gun Club is where Justin and Vance met up with me. I was on foot, they were in the car. I'm not familiar with the Gun Club, but for some reason they lock up the entrance. A wandering Sheriff had pulled in to the entrance (maybe after seeing me running down the road?) and Justin parked right behind him. Think it made the Sheriff nervous to be blocked in? I'm thinking yes. He was nice enough to sit with Vance while Justin helped me chase Daisy. Side note: Vance was not wearing any pants.
Again, because Daisy headed left out of the subdivision, this is a sample of where we were looking for her. And at night. I must add, for those who do not know Daisy, she is not an outdoors man. She was abused by her previous owner and was kept in a cage all day. Everything scares her. The worst being wind. Our dog is afraid of wind. Did I mention how windy is was that night? Nothing else we could do except go home, make phone calls, and print up fliers.
The next afternoon, around 3:00 or so, a lady called to say she thought she had seen Daisy around 6:30 in the morning right by the rocks in the picture below. She had seen one of our signs at the grocery store that afternoon.
We headed back out to look and ended up finding her by the trees below.
It was hard to detach myself and tell the story without so many details. It was an awful 22 hours that she was gone. I was physically and mentally in shambles. Oh, did I mention that she didn't even have her collar on? And that highways surround those cornfields?
Words can't express how happy we are to have our puppy back. And, no, I did not take these pictures while we were looking for her. Vance and I took a trip today to snap these.
We are glad our Daisy girl is back home safe and sound! Good job of reporting, Charisa! What did you decide on for a reward for this miracle lady? Talk to you soon.


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Meet The Australian Teen Who Transforms Herself Into A Japanese Anime Character
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Shinkai is an emerging name in Japanese animation (he's directed 4 common, frequently floridly named functions ), and Your Name appears like his moment to cross more than as masters of the medium like Hayao Miyazaki, Satoshi Kon, Mamoru Oshii, and Isao Takahata have before him. The film requires the well-worn notion of physique-switching and uses it to dig into the differences among a girl increasing up in rural Japan and a boy in Tokyo. Shinkai borrows from thousand-year-old lore (the movie's premise is roughly inspired by an ancient poem ) to create a function that is startlingly frank and modern, and need to appeal to teenagers and devoted film nerds alike. Skaters' organize themselves into teams such as Rez Boa Dogs and Skull Sabers. Every single particular person who skates Air Trek or AT is organized into a pyramidal class ranking beginning with the lowest rank of F and the highest rank of A. These teams and class ranking provide the excellent majority of the meat of the story. 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Re-viewing Thomas Lamarre's The Anime Machine after Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises: On the Critical Potential of Anime
This article aims to demonstrate how exactly Thomas Lamarre reads movement, plot, and characters in The Anime Machine (2009), as defined to an extent, yet not completely determined by the concept of the animetic machine. Mimicking the first part of Lamarrefs book, it approaches Miyazakifs last work, The Wind Rises (Kaze tachinu, 2013). What Lamarre sees in Miyazakifs manga eiga is a new way of gaining "a free relation to technology" as idealized by Heideggerian philosophy, but, of course, "in animation" (Lamarre 62). This free, critical relation seems to be most noticeably depicted in Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Kaze no tani no Naushika, 1984) and Castle in the Sky (Tenkū no shiro Rapyūta, 1986). But does the same kind of criticality that Lamarre finds in Miyazakifs prior works also apply to the latest one, and if so, to what extent? This again leads to the question whether the conclusions Lamarre arrives at actually capture the critical potential of his theory. In the discussion of these issues, anime is viewed not as a text, but a hub of interrelations, including those between audience groups. Finally, the argumentation arrives at the plurality favored by the medium itself, suggested by Lamarre himself, but not ultimately prioritized.
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Johnny Russell talks Scotland duty and quest for MLS glory
The 28-year-old forward left Derby County to join Sporting Kansas City in January
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Former Derby County man Johnny Russell insists he is happy to put in the miles in order to represent his country.
Russell left the Rams in January to join Major League Soccer side Sporting Kansas City.
His form for the American outfit has earned him a recall to the Scotland squad.
It means a lot of travelling for the former Dundee United forward - but he does not see this as a problem.
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Russell has linked up with Alex McLeish's men ahead of their UEFA Nations League double-header against Albania and Israel.
"I feel good. I am used to it now," said the 28-year-old, who is looking to add to his eight international caps so far.
"With the facilities and the sports science... it is not a problem.
"I was out of the squad for so long, I said I would do anything to be back in.
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"People have brought up the distance before but I have said there isn't a distance that I wouldn't travel to come back and play for my country.
"It is five hours for me. It can be difficult to travel, especially when you have been doing it all season but I spent so long out of the squad I would never do anything to jeopardise it again."
Russell arrived back in Scotland in confident mode after Kansas City's 5-3 aggregate win over Real Salt Lake sent them through to the Western Conference Championship of the MLS Cup play-offs, where they will face the Portland Timbers.
"Obviously winning at your club definitely helps when you come away and hopefully I can continue that," he added.
"We have had a great year. The aim was to get into the play-offs as high as we could and we have done that and we have another two tough games when I get back from here but I will think about them after these two.
"We know it is two massive games (Albania and Israel), must-win games, all the boys know that so it is time to get the head down and get to work.
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"It is going to be a difficult game, they beat Israel and they caused us a couple of problems.
"But we need to win the game."
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Set Up to Succeed
A board-driven CEO onboarding program forms the foundation of an effective working relationship
Robert L. Clarke and Sherrie Barch
Sheila had just been hired as the chief executive officer of a major hospital. She and Jim, the board chair, had spoken several times throughout the hiring process. Yet, shortly after Sheila officially took the helm, the pair hit some bumps in the road.
Jim had very clear expectations about a major decision that had been on hold prior to the new CEO's arrival. Understandably, Sheila wasn't completely up to speed on the history of the issue, so she tried to be helpful by suggesting several options. Instead, Jim was aggravated by the delays and wanted no further discussion.
What was the problem? Neither Sheila nor Jim was wrong; they simply hadn't established the groundwork for how they would communicate. They needed to establish an understanding about their different expectations.
Many trustees have experienced a situation like this, and most hospitals are able to muddle through it on their own. But, too often, the resolution is left to chance, which means the first year of a CEO's tenure is rockier than it needs to be.
When a hospital seeks a new CEO, the energies and attention of the board of trustees are poured into finding the right person for the job. Yet, the recruitment process doesn't end when a candidate accepts the position. Onboarding is the next essential step in the recruiting process. Following are ways the board can develop an onboarding program that will lead to long-term retention and a positive working relationship.
After the offer letter is signed, a communication vacuum can develop. Trustees don't want to bother a busy executive who has a job to wrap up, a family to move and a home to sell. To get and keep everyone on the same page, the board should put a plan in place to communicate during and immediately after the transition. The following questions can be used to establish the plan's framework:
Outside of meetings, how does the board want to communicate with the CEO?
What is the CEO's communication style?
In which decisions does the board expect to participate?
When the CEO makes a decision, when will the board be informed?
Pick the Targets
When the board hires a new CEO, it empowers that person to lead the organization. At the same time, it needs to establish expectations for the CEO's performance.
Upon hiring the new executive, the board and CEO should set specific initial goals and reach agreement about any perceived concerns about the CEO's style and experience. The CEO should be encouraged to consider the board's makeup in a similar manner. The hospital's human resources leader can help to facilitate these discussions.
Together, the board and the CEO should develop 30- and 100-day plans with milestones for goals and discussions. If necessary, the board should offer to provide executive coaching. A CEO can feel isolated or struggle with new leadership challenges and may need an external sounding board.
The following questions can help trustees to clarify their expectations:
Is the board looking for sweeping changes in a short time span, or is there an understanding that changes will be gradual and phased in over a certain period?
What agreements have been made on operational, financial and organizational goals?
What are the metrics for success for each of these goals?
When It Works
How does onboarding pay off? Consider Tom, who accepted his first CEO post with a mandate for change at an organization that needed a financial turnaround. He was replacing a retiring leader who had been at the helm for more than 25 years. Through numerous conversations, Tom and the board reached agreement on the boldness and freedom he needed to stop the flow of red ink. It involved a huge change in leadership style and philosophy, but the board, which had been known to be quite conservative, supported Tom, and positive results began to emerge within a year.
Bob Clarke (bclarke@furstgroup.com), CEO, and Sherrie Barch (sbarch@furstgroup.com), president, are co-founders of Furst Group, Rockford, Ill.
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The board is entrusted with finding the right person to lead the hospital and make a long-lasting, positive impact on the community. What can trustees do to help a new CEO meet and even exceed expectations? Here are five less-obvious hurdles the board can remove:
Offer a paper trail. Organizational decisions have been on hold during the search process. The new CEO will be expected to make some significant decisions in a short amount of time. The board can make it easier for the new leader with documents. In the weeks or months before he or she arrives, trustees can provide a great deal of context around decisions that were made over the previous few years. Strategic plans, board meeting minutes, historical documents — all of these can help a new executive understand why and how the hospital made its last major moves.
Make introductions. Who are the major supporters of the organization? Who are the key constituents in the community? Set up the new CEO for success in the community by taking him or her to key contacts' offices or places of business for a 20-minute introduction.
Nurture the family. Don't ignore the challenges of relocation. The new CEO is instantly immersed in a network and a job, but if there are a partner and children involved, they don't know anyone. Be proactive in engaging the entire family and easing the transition to a new neighborhood, school or church. This has absolutely nothing to do with the CEO's job, but if the new location doesn't work for the family, everybody suffers.
Communicate continually. A new CEO is pulled in several directions and has many things to consider before he or she officially starts. Still, the board should give him or her an opportunity to have a voice in decisions that need to be made prior to the first day and that will impact his or her job, such as a significant capital expenditure or a key hire.
Build trust. Any new executive will elicit a variety of reactions from board members and employees. The new CEO needs to know that the board has his or her back. In private and public, the board needs to express support for the new leader and the decision process that brought the CEO to town. Any disagreements should be discussed — and left — behind closed doors. — B.C. and S.B.
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Home News Premier League plans ahead for 2022-23 and the FIFA World Cup
Premier League plans ahead for 2022-23 and the FIFA World Cup
Some things in life are constant and practically untouchable. One of those things is the Premier League fixture list between Christmas and New Year, which is almost as traditional as the festive holidays themselves in England. But with the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup scheduled for winter, due to the intense Middle East heat during the summer months, this inevitably led to a conundrum for practically every domestic and continental competition.
Throughout most of continental Europe, competitions and leagues usually take a minimum two-week winter break, conveniently intended to coincide with the festive period and avoid postponements caused by inclement weather. However, in the traditional British home of the beautiful game, neither of the two world wars nor a global pandemic have prevented football being played at Christmas.
Indeed, throughout World War II, special matches were organised to keep morale high amongst the public and troops. Despite serving in the military, some professional footballers took part in high-profile exhibition matches, inter-service and inter-unit football matches were also commonplace. Football helped maintain fitness and was used to encourage workplace productivity, along with becoming an increasingly important form of civilian recreation.
With the FA Cup cancelled during wartime, the Football League established the War Cup to boost morale and keep the game going.
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Even during the height of the global COVID pandemic, although matches were played in empty stadiums, English football continued largely uninterrupted through the winter months of the 2020-21 season. This included the busiest time of the year during the festive period at Christmas, as the majority of professional teams played two or even three games, between Boxing Day and New Year's Day.
Since the inaugural 1930 World Cup in Uruguay, all the following tournaments have been held in the months of May, June and July. This has largely suited the domestic and continental club football competitions, as those months usually fall between their domestic and continental seasons, particularly in the widely acknowledged powerbase of club football in Europe. Previously, dates for the World Cup have only required scheduling adaptions.
Nevertheless, after the international federations insisted that playing in Qatar during the summer months was completely impractical, not to mention being a potential risk to the health of players, FIFA was forced to consider alternative dates for the World Cup tournament. Instead, the months of November and December 2022 were considered ideal for the local climate, although this inevitably led to considerable rescheduling of domestic competitions.
To accommodate the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, which is being played right in the middle of the English domestic fixture calendar, the Premier League has now adjusted their 2022-23 scheduling plans. The 2022-23 Premier League will commence on 6 August 2022, while the break in fixtures will come following match round 16, due to be played over the weekend of 12-13 November, just ahead of the first Qatar 2022 match on 21 November.
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Although the Premier League is working on a very fine margin, given that international players must reporting their availability to national reams by 14 November, they have clearly focused on the minimum of disruption to their own competition. This includes the coveted and hugely popular Christmas fixture schedule, which will now remain largely unaffected by the World Cup taking place shortly beforehand.
As one of the most popular days in the English football calendar, following the World Cup, fixtures in the Premier League will resume on precisely 26 December, which means the festive bonanza that is Boxing Day will proceed as normal. For the legion of Premier League football fans in England and around the whole world, that's great news. Especially given that most European league will maintain their habitual winter break, before resuming in January.
This is great news for lovers of English football everywhere, wherever they are located around the globe. Not only does the Premier League attract the biggest audiences internationally, compared to most other domestic football competitions, the compact and traditional scheduling also makes games even more appealing. Especially to anyone who is familiar with watching live games, while taking a punt on the outcomes.
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Testing the waters for UNGASS – are parliamentarians ready for a change in international drug policy?
PRI's Policy Director reports on a Hearing of the Inter-Parliamentary Union on world drug policies, part of a preparations for the forthcoming UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) in April.
I recall vividly the lively debate and the many interventions from MPs who expressed their frustration that far from the problem being addressed, there were more drug users, more weapons and bigger markets, causing more harm to the most vulnerable. The link with poverty and inequality was mentioned a lot, which amongst other things, provided organised crime with a huge base of poor people they could recruit from. One intervention I remember particularly was from a Latin American MP, who said that the 'war on drugs has been a war on poor people' and that it was a 'political construct as opposed to an evidence-based construct'.
Two years later, the IPU got together again to discuss global drug policies, this time at a two-day Hearing in New York on 8 and 9 February 2016 in advance of the UN Special Session on drugs in April.
The debate was again lively, with MPs from all regions participating and taking the floor. The Hearing started with opening remarks by the President of the General Assembly, the President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. A first session on 'The evolution of drugs control' was followed by one on how the system could work more effectively, and a third panel was convened on 'drug prevention and treatment from the standpoint of sustainable development and human rights'.
It is impossible to summarise here the deliberations of the two-day hearing, since the topics at hand were very diverse, ranging from development issues, healthcare and harm reduction and criminalisation, to social issues causing or caused by drug use, rehabilitation, money laundering and corruption, and international cooperation including joint border operations. The MPs' views and opinions varied hugely – from fierce defence of the international drug conventions and their approach of criminalisation to interventions highly critical of the current framework.
Strikingly, the death penalty, currently handed down as a sentence for drug-related offences in 33 countries and responsible for about 1,000 executions annually, was hardly mentioned, and the particular impact of the 'war on drugs' on women was only picked up following a question to the panellists.
Also strikingly, little time was dedicated to discussions on the lessons learned in other policy areas. One exception to this, however, was a Canadian MP who called on his peers to look at lessons learned from policies relating to tobacco and alcohol, noting that in the case of tobacco, where the approach had always been regulation rather than total prohibition, investment in education had shown good results, whereas alcohol prohibition in the 1920s had only driven the trade underground and fuelled organised crime.
There were other interventions claiming that criminalisation has 'worked', and some panellists and MPs in the audience reported – proudly or as a matter of fact – on the various measures which their country had taken to implement the drug conventions.
However, frustration over the existing drug control framework was omnipresent and statements denouncing the approach taken by the drug conventions as ineffective were frequent.
As I listened to the interventions on the panel and those of MPs from the floor, I could not help but recognise that where they raised – and praised – law enforcement and prosecution, the interventions explicitly or indirectly referred to drug trafficking, to the high-level kingpins and organised crime, linked with corruption and other criminal activities such as human trafficking and illicit arms deals.
This is striking as global statistics tell us that 83 per cent of people incarcerated on drug-related offences are locked up not for trafficking offences, but for drug use or possession, and that even amongst the remainder, the convicted traffickers are mostly low-level offenders.
Policy-makers appear to want their (criminal) laws to clamp down on traffickers, on the 'sharks' in the drug trade. Yet, as with many issues relating to drug policies, intentions and actual practice have diverged sharply.
The Hearing concluded with a final session with an unusual and interesting format. Two participants defended and objected to two motions, followed by a mock vote.
The first motion that 'implementing the international legal framework will address the world drug problem' was adopted by the Parliamentarians present. The second motion that 'states should seek alternatives to incarceration when addressing possession of drugs for personal use', ended with a draw.
The exercise was not an official vote and the moderator gauged the results from a show of hands, but the outcome provided an interesting insight into the minds of Parliamentarians, at least those attending the IPU Hearing.
Personally, I doubt that a couple of years ago there would have been a draw on the introduction of alternatives to incarceration for drug use. I think there would have been a solid majority for imprisonment.
Perhaps, some five decades into the 'war on drugs', people are now realising that more harm has been done by the drug control regime than by the drugs.
This briefing discusses the negative consequences of the 50 year 'war on drugs' and sets out what parliamentarians can do about it.


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using System;
using System.Linq;
using GoogleApi.Entities.Translate.Common.Enums;
using GoogleApi.Entities.Translate.Common.Enums.Extensions;
using GoogleApi.Entities.Translate.Translate.Request;
using GoogleApi.Entities.Translate.Translate.Request.Enums;
using NUnit.Framework;

namespace GoogleApi.UnitTests.Translate.Translate;

[TestFixture]
public class TranslateRequestTests
{
    [Test]
    public void ConstructorDefaultTest()
    {
        var request = new TranslateRequest();

        Assert.IsNull(request.Source);
        Assert.IsNull(request.Target);
        Assert.AreEqual(Model.Base, request.Model);
        Assert.AreEqual(Format.Html, request.Format);
    }

    [Test]
    public void GetQueryStringParametersTest()
    {
        var request = new TranslateRequest
        {
            Key = "key",
            Target = Language.Afrikaans,
            Qs = new[]
            {
                "query"
            }
        };

        var queryStringParameters = request.GetQueryStringParameters();
        Assert.IsNotNull(queryStringParameters);

        var key = queryStringParameters.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Key == "key");
        var keyExpected = request.Key;
        Assert.IsNotNull(key);
        Assert.AreEqual(keyExpected, key.Value);

        var target = queryStringParameters.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Key == "target");
        var targetExpected = request.Target.GetValueOrDefault().ToCode();
        Assert.IsNotNull(target);
        Assert.AreEqual(targetExpected, target.Value);

        var qs = queryStringParameters.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Key == "q");
        var qsExpected = request.Qs.FirstOrDefault();
        Assert.IsNotNull(qs);
        Assert.AreEqual(qsExpected, qs.Value);

        var model = queryStringParameters.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Key == "model");
        var modelExpected = request.Model.ToString().ToLower();
        Assert.IsNotNull(model);
        Assert.AreEqual(modelExpected, model.Value);

        var format = queryStringParameters.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Key == "format");
        var formatExpected = request.Format.ToString().ToLower();
        Assert.IsNotNull(format);
        Assert.AreEqual(formatExpected, format.Value);
    }

    [Test]
    public void GetQueryStringParametersWhenKeyIsNullTest()
    {
        var request = new TranslateRequest
        {
            Key = null
        };

        var exception = Assert.Throws<ArgumentException>(() =>
        {
            var parameters = request.GetQueryStringParameters();
            Assert.IsNull(parameters);
        });
        Assert.IsNotNull(exception);
        Assert.AreEqual(exception.Message, "'Key' is required");
    }

    [Test]
    public void GetQueryStringParametersWhenKeyIsStringEmptyTest()
    {
        var request = new TranslateRequest
        {
            Key = string.Empty
        };

        var exception = Assert.Throws<ArgumentException>(() =>
        {
            var parameters = request.GetQueryStringParameters();
            Assert.IsNull(parameters);
        });
        Assert.IsNotNull(exception);
        Assert.AreEqual(exception.Message, "'Key' is required");
    }

    [Test]
    public void GetQueryStringParametersWhenTargetIsNullTest()
    {
        var request = new TranslateRequest
        {
            Key = "key",
            Target = null
        };

        var exception = Assert.Throws<ArgumentException>(() =>
        {
            var parameters = request.GetQueryStringParameters();
            Assert.IsNull(parameters);
        });
        Assert.IsNotNull(exception);
        Assert.AreEqual(exception.Message, "'Target' is required");
    }

    [Test]
    public void GetQueryStringParametersWhenQsIsNullTest()
    {
        var request = new TranslateRequest
        {
            Key = "key",
            Target = Language.Danish,
            Qs = null
        };

        var exception = Assert.Throws<ArgumentException>(() =>
        {
            var parameters = request.GetQueryStringParameters();
            Assert.IsNull(parameters);
        });
        Assert.IsNotNull(exception);
        Assert.AreEqual(exception.Message, "'Qs' is required");
    }

    [Test]
    public void GetQueryStringParametersWhenQsIsEmptyTest()
    {
        var request = new TranslateRequest
        {
            Key = "key",
            Target = Language.Danish,
            Qs = Array.Empty<string>()
        };

        var exception = Assert.Throws<ArgumentException>(() =>
        {
            var parameters = request.GetQueryStringParameters();
            Assert.IsNull(parameters);
        });
        Assert.IsNotNull(exception);
        Assert.AreEqual(exception.Message, "'Qs' is required");
    }

    [Test]
    public void GetQueryStringParametersWhenSourceIsNotValidNmtTest()
    {
        var request = new TranslateRequest
        {
            Key = "key",
            Source = Language.Filipino,
            Target = Language.English,
            Qs = new[] { "Hej Verden" },
            Model = Model.Nmt
        };

        var exception = Assert.Throws<ArgumentException>(() =>
        {
            var parameters = request.GetQueryStringParameters();
            Assert.IsNull(parameters);
        });
        Assert.IsNotNull(exception);
        Assert.AreEqual(exception.Message, "'Source' is not compatible with model 'Nmt'");
    }

    [Test]
    public void GetQueryStringParametersWhenTargetIsNotValidNmtTest()
    {
        var request = new TranslateRequest
        {
            Key = "key",
            Source = Language.English,
            Target = Language.Filipino,
            Qs = new[] { "Hej Verden" },
            Model = Model.Nmt
        };

        var exception = Assert.Throws<ArgumentException>(() =>
        {
            var parameters = request.GetQueryStringParameters();
            Assert.IsNull(parameters);
        });
        Assert.IsNotNull(exception);
        Assert.AreEqual(exception.Message, "'Target' is not compatible with model 'Nmt'");
    }

    [Test]
    public void GetQueryStringParametersWhenModelIsNmtAndSourceOrTargetIsNotEnglishTest()
    {
        var request = new TranslateRequest
        {
            Key = "key",
            Source = Language.Danish,
            Target = Language.Danish,
            Model = Model.Nmt,
            Qs = new[] { "Hej Verden" }
        };

        var exception = Assert.Throws<ArgumentException>(() =>
        {
            var parameters = request.GetQueryStringParameters();
            Assert.IsNull(parameters);
        });
        Assert.IsNotNull(exception);
        Assert.AreEqual(exception.Message, "'Source' or 'Target' must be english");
    }
}

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Obama's Prayer: The Intended Audience (updated)
By Helen Cadogan
[Editor's note: Please see the important update below on the veracity of the story that the Obama campaign had a role in the release of the note.]
Barack Obama wanted the world to know that he can pray like a Christian. Thus, he penned a 'note to God' on stationery from the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, and he generously gave a copy to the "international media even before he put in the Kotel, a short time after he wrote it at the King David Hotel." Thus says the Ma'ariv spokesman in defense of his newspaper, which may be the subject of a criminal investigation for publishing the 'note to God' which Obama gave to the paper. For, interestingly, not only Ma'ariv was a recipient of Obama's generosity, so was Yediot Ahoronot (YA), the most popular Israeli daily. YA also obtained the 'note to God' from Obama but declined to print it, ironically, "to respect Obama's privacy."
Given the claim of both Ma'ariv and YA that it was Obama who generously gave them a copy of his note, immediately after writing it and preceding its placement in the wall, then one must wonder about the hullabuloo over the yeshiva student who allegedly stole the note from the wall and gave it to Ma'ariv, which published it the next day.
Follow the sequence of events:
Ma'ariv had a copy of the note immediately after it was written. At that point, the note was not put in the Kotel. Allegedly, the yeshiva student stole the note after Obama put it in the Kotel. The Jerusalem Post of 7/25 claims that the student gave the note to Ma'ariv which then published it. Why the circuitous route to publication?
If Ma'ariv had the note from Obama right after it was written, it could have published it at anytime. However, had Ma'ariv done so, then Obama would have been justly accused of politicizing one of the most sacred places of Judaism, the Western Wall. How, then, is he supposed to avoid such a charge? The logical answer would be to have a supporter temporarily retrieve the note (notice I don't call it a prayer, which is a private matter), take it to a newspaper, which would then publish it, with this added cachet that vindicates Obama of spiritual crassness -- claim it was stolen.
Who was the intended audience for this little passion play? Every speech act has an intended audience, and prayer, a very personal speech act, also has its own. In the normal course of events, God is the intended audience. However, given that Obama released his note for publication immediately after writing it, then God may not be the intended audience. Rather, Obama's intended audience may be of this world: America's voting Jews, Christians, and Muslims. To reach them, Obama would have to engage in a tricky balancing act purposed to let each group know that he believes as it does.
The appeal to America's Jews is straightforward; yet, it is the one most likely to disaffect his Muslim audience. Obama goes to Jerusalem, wears a yarmulke, goes to the Western Wall, and places a prayer in it. It warms the cockles of the heart to see this man of his storied background doing what millions of Jews have done before. To go to the Western Wall is to acknowledge the Jewish claim to Israel, to Jerusalem. It is to signify that this Wall is all that remains of the Great Temple, first built by Solomon and rebuilt by Herod. The Wall is symbolic in a deeper sense: it is a remnant of the Temple and of the faith of the Jews who worshiped in it. Throughout the Bible, God promises that a remnant will remain, and He has always kept that promise, from the Babylonian captivity down to the Holocaust. So, for Obama to go to that Wall and leave a prayer is to touch the hearts of millions of Jews by indicating that he, too, believes in the remnant. For the Jews, Obama's message is this: he believes as we do about this place.
Obama's audience of American Christians presents him with a different problem. In spite of his denials that he was ever a Muslim, many Christians disbelieve Obama, based on the testimony of those who knew him when he was in Indonesia, where he attended mosque and studied the Koran in school. (Many Muslims disbelieve his claims, believing the child inherits the religion of his father.) Moreover, many Christians distrust Obama's claims to Christianity because he spent 20 years at the feet of Jeremiah Wright whose liberation theology is a rejection of orthodox Christianity. Furthermore, Obama's ads designed to appeal to Christians have not done their job. Focus on the Family's James Dobson has publicly stated his rejection of Obama and signaled a shift to McCain. Thus, to appeal to these voters, to sway them to his side, Obama has to prove his Christian cred.
To accomplish this political objective, Obama needed to attract the attention of his Christian audience and move them to sympathize with him. He needed to have that audience know that he can touch all the right Christian buttons, that he, too, the Obamessiah, the One he and his followers have been waiting for, also humbles himself before God. He needed to let American Christians know that he, too, desires to be a vessel for use as God sees fit. He needed to have his American Christian audience know that he, too, requires forgiveness of sin. He needed to have American Christians know that, in spite of 20 years imbibing Jeremiah Wright's gospel, he, Barack Obama is, too, one of us.
How could Obama have accomplished that without having his note made public? He could not. Thus, the note was made public, and he sent this message to his Christian audience: he believes as we do on all points.
But it is with regard to his Muslim audience that the full cynicism of Obama's note becomes apparent. To appeal to the Muslims, he has to be a victim of the Jews.
Having gone to the Western Wall, and not to Al Aqsa mosque, having offered a Christian-type "prayer," he has to regain some credibility in Muslim eyes, without seeming to do that. To distract his Muslim American audience from his genuflection at the Western Wall of the Jews, Obama made his fall guy a yeshiva student -- not just your average garden-variety Jew, but a seminarian.
It is the Western Wall which gives the lie to the Muslim claim to Jerusalem, to Israel. It is an archaeological reminder that before Mohammed, there was Solomon and his temple, and a long line of Jews before and after him. If the Muslims could, they would root up and discard the Western Wall, just as they have many of the artifacts unearthed in their excavation of Temple Mount.
So, Obama called a play straight out of the Farrakhan playbook. The note is stolen and the Jew did it! The Jews, they are always to be blamed for everything. Who violated the sanctity of the note a man wrote to God? The Jews! Thus, Obama distracted from his visit to the Western Wall and appealed to his Muslim audience by being a victim of the Jews. His message to his Muslim audience: he believes as we do concerning the Jews.
Why the song and dance? It was a passion play designed to win votes. Jewish votes. Christian votes. Muslim votes.
Again, if Ma'ariv had published without the "theft," Obama would have been seen as politicking and disdaining a holy Jewish site, and he would have been justly and roundly denounced for it. Plus, he would have lost his Jewish and Christian audiences, many of whom are skeptical of him. Hence the seminarian.
Ma'ariv published the note it received from Obama, made a noise about the yeshiva student, and Obama, internationally, received lots of press -- thus attracting the attention of his intended and now sympathetic audience. Better yet, he wound up looking like a victim because his note alone, and not that of any other political figure, was stolen.
Helen Cadogan is the owner of iEdit.
Update: 7 31 08 3:42 EDT
The Obama note at the Western Wall is a story with more questions than answers. Some might ask, why not put the best construction on things (Eight Commandment) and let the matter pass? In the normal course of events, the Eight Commandment approach is the better way, regardless of the religious persuasion of the individual involved. However, the note at the Western Wall affair is not just a story about religion, about one man doing what countless other men have done before him: inserting a message to God into the Wall.
Thus, this is a political story that is essentially about character because the man putting the note is running for the highest office in the United States of America-the office of the president. Given Obama's proclivity for playing the low card; his history of reversals on issues; and his refusal to acknowledge error, there is sufficient cause for the scenario as envisioned.
Who is Barack Obama? Is he the kind of man who would write a note intended for the Kotel, send the media a copy, stick the note in the Kotel, have the note extracted and conveyed to the media all for political gain? That is the question that is germane to his character.
The story is a simple one with twists and turns.
Barack Obama goes to the Kotel/Western Wall as the sun begins to rise on Thursday, July 24th. There, Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitz reads to him; then, Obama places his note in the Wall. The Jerusalem Post reports that a man grabbed a scrap but was disappointed to discover it was not Obama's prayer.
CoVisions Productions posts a video of the note-grab at YouTube. Israeli Insider, who identifies the source of the video as "David Cohen, 'a freelance photographer/videographer currently living in Jerusalem'" says Cohen "reports that '[s]econds after Obama left the stones, some of his entourage stepped up to the wall (dressed in suits) and I recorded a young man gathering notes in his hands in what appeared to be the search for Obama's freshly placed personal note. He is joined by others who unwrap notes and read them. One person [is shown] walking away from the wall with a note that he unwraps as he tries to aggressively block the camera lens."
he Jerusalem Post's Aron Heller writes:
"Ma'ariv published a photograph of the note on its front page on Friday. It said the note was removed from the wall by a student at a Jewish seminary immediately after Obama left. [....]
"Another Israeli paper, Yediot Aharonot, published an article Friday saying it had also obtained the note but decided not to publish it, to respect Obama's privacy. Nearly all other Israeli media outlets ignored the story."
The LA Times carries a story that is different from Heller's on this point-staff writer Richard Boudreaux said that Ma'ariv's "chief rival, Yediot Aharonot, claimed that it too had been offered the note and had declined to publish it out of respect for Obama's privacy." The key word in Boudreaux's story is offered, as opposed to obtained in Heller's.
Why did Boudreaux alter the verb when all the Israeli papers used obtained? That is a question I have asked him and am awaiting his reply.
The Jerusalem Post reports:
"[A] Ma'ariv spokesman said that 'Barack Obama's note was approved for publication in the international media even before he put in the Kotel, a short time after he wrote it at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. In any case, since Obama is not a Jew, publishing the note does not constitute an infringement on his right to privacy.'
"Obama's campaign has neither confirmed nor denied whether the prayer published by Ma'ariv was in fact written by Obama. A campaign spokesman, however, made clear that the campaign hadn't approved the publication of any kind of prayer note."
Ma'ariv's denial of its previous story enters the news-stream after this.
The Plank at The New Republic runs a story with this comment by Zvika Krieger:
"UPDATE 2 (6:10 a.m.): Since posting this item, I've gotten a lot of comments from people questioning the veracity of Ma'ariv's accusation.... Though Ma'ariv is one of Israel's most prominent newspapers, there is certainly reason to question its motives regarding this story, considering it is trying to justify its own much-derided decision to print Obama's letter.... I've found additional quotes from Ma'ariv spokesmen to three other Israeli publications reaffirming their narrative-and going even further than their quotes to the Jerusalem Post by explicitly saying that the Obama campaign approved the printing of the letter, and even gave copies of the note to members of the international media before he went to the Western Wall. But Ma'ariv has yet to produce tangible evidence for either of these accusations, and I'm withholding any endorsement of their claims until they do so.
UPDATE 3 (4:25 p.m.): I finally heard back from the Ma'ariv spokesman, who denied that the Obama campaign leaked the memo to them or gave them approval to print it, and who disavowed the alleged spokesman who gave quotes to at least four Israeli publications. At the risk of beating a dead horse, I'll be following up with those publications to find out where they got those quotes from. I just spoke with an editor at one of those publications who broached the possibility that Ma'ariv was trying to deflect criticims of it by releasing these spurious rumors about the Obama campaign, but upon realizing that they'll have to back up those accusations, is now disavowing them...."
The Jerusalem Post, on the same day, contains this comment by code-name Aleph, who is reputed to have filched the note: "'I'm sorry. It was a kind of prank,' Aleph said, his hands shaking as he fingered the tightly wadded-up sheet of King David Hotel letterhead. 'I hope he wasn't hurt. We all believe he will take the presidency.'"
What to think of all this?
David Cohen's CoVisions Productions video suggests that Obama's campaign is gaming this and that Ma'ariv has either been suckered or is blowing smoke.
Significantly, Ma'ariv's defense for printing the note (Obama's not a Jew so no biggie) plays into the Jew-did-it narrative. Why would Ma'ariv offer Obama not a Jew as a defense when that statement is contrary to religious law? Surely the journalists and editors at Ma'ariv know that. Either Ma'ariv is secular and wants to slap at the religious community (just like the American press) or they wish to slap at Obama's Arab Muslim father. Their February cartoon of Obama painting the WH black suggests that Ma'ariv's editorial page may have issues with Obama, not racially but vis-à-vis his plans for Israel. Whatever, not a Jew is not a defense acceptable to the religious community or Israelis as a whole.
Yediot Ahronot's claim that it had obtained the note (Obama direct) rather than received a copy (the seminarian) of the note suggests that the stolen note is a campaign stunt. If YA has a copy, with all the creases necessary for stuffing in the Kotel, then the student may be the only source. Nevertheless, the video shows that he is part of the Obama retinue whose job is to extract the prayer from the Wall. There are other Obama security people there; how could this young man act unrestrained?
On the other hand, if Obama offered YA the text himself, YA would accept it and, for privacy reasons, still not print it. Given YA's privacy stance, it is unlikely that they would have accepted a copy of Obama's text from a secondary source. It is noteworthy that YA did not say that the seminarian provided the note to them.
YA could end the story by publishing its note, the condition of which would indicate the source. A note folded envelope-style signifies Obama; a note, photocopied and showing the creases made to stuff it in the Kotel, shows the seminarian.
If Ma'ariv published the wall note, the creases in it indicate that it did, then what did Yediot receive, from whom, and when?
All Ma'ariv has to do to put the entire thing to bed is to publish the original they got from Obama.
Neither Ma'ariv nor Yediot Ahronot has offered anything to end the speculation about this note. Why won't they?
Finally, given the video which shows that the student was in Obama's entourage, the conclusion I have drawn is that the whole thing is likely to be an Obama campaign publicity stunt that politicized the Western Wall-of a piece with his campaign posters along the entry way. His possible reasons, I have laid out above.


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WATCH: Environmental Activist Erin Brockovich Participates in Satellite Beach Water Quality Town Hall Meeting
By Space Coast Daily // September 30, 2018
Satellite Beach has determined presence of chemicals used mainly for fire suppression in groundwater
WATCH LIVE: Environmental activist Erin Brockovich is in Satellite Beach to participate in a town hall meeting that will address water quality issues. Recent tests showed possible cancer-causing chemicals in beachside groundwater.
BREVARD COUNTY • SATELLITE BEACH, FLORIDA – Preferred Drilling Solutions Inc. an environmental consulting firm that conducted tests on wells in Satellite Beach has determined the presence of chemicals used mainly for fire suppression in Satellite Beach's groundwater.
Satellite Beach City Manager Courtney Barker said on Facebook that a verbal report found Perfluorooctanoic Sulfonate and Perfluorooctanoic Acid used to suppress aviation fires in the sites of three newly dug wells on city property, including one at the Satellite Beach City Hall, one near Satellite High and one at Sea Park Community Park.
"The city has received a verbal report from our testing company," said Barker.
"The city tested three sites for Perfluorooctanoic Acid and Perfluorooctanoic Sulfonate, which are chemicals that were formally used in fire suppression of aviation fires.
"These chemicals are also used in household products, such as Teflon products, water repellent materials, waterproof sunscreens and other similar items."
Satellite Beach City Manager Courtney Barker said on Facebook that a verbal report found Perfluorooctanoic Sulfonate and Perfluorooctanoic Acid used to suppress aviation fires in the sites of three newly dug wells on city property, including one at the Satellite Beach City Hall, one near Satellite High and one at Sea Park Community Park. (Amy Green/Marketplace image)
These chemicals were identified by a recent Department of Defense Report as being present in high concentrations at Patrick Air Force Base and Canaveral Air Force Station.
"The City was concerned about the safety of our groundwater for our residents," said Barker.
"The City tested each site with newly dug wells on city-owned property to reduce the possibility of sample contamination since these chemicals are often present in materials used for the construction of wells.
Preferred Drilling Solutions Inc. an environmental consulting firm that conducted tests on wells in Satellite Beach this week has determined the presence of chemicals used mainly for fire suppression in Satellite Beach's groundwater. (U.S. Air Force/Tech. Sgt. Sam King image)
The results for each site are as follows:
• City Hall, 41.5 parts per trillion
• Jackson Avenue property (next to Satellite High School), 22.85 parts per trillion
• Sea Park Community Park 30.13 parts per trillion
As a benchmark, the Environmental Protection Agency has established a provisional health advisory level for drinking water regarding these compounds, which is 70 parts per trillion (ppt).
The Patrick Air Force Base concentrations ranged from 71 ppt to 4.3 million ppt for 28 different monitoring wells.
"The City is currently discussing these results with state and county experts as to how exactly this impacts our residents," said Barker. Please use your own judgment as to how you want to handle your irrigation water on your property. Please remember that your groundwater is not your drinking water and we use our groundwater primarily for irrigation purposes."
The written report for these test results will be sent out to the public on Friday.
The City staff and testing company Tetra Tech will be available for the community meeting being held Sunday, Aug. 5 by Dr. Julie Greenwalt regarding the cancer cluster research. This meeting will be held at the City's Civic Center, located at 565 Cassia Boulevard at 2 p.m.
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From Cairo to Cape Town and Tanzania's Link to the rest of Africa
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Rehema Tukai grew up in Kondoa and works in Dodoma, Tanzania's capital city. Until now, visiting her family in Kondoa involved a five-hour journey along a bumpy and dusty road. Thanks to a new road co-funded by the African Development Bank, it takes her a little over one hour to travel the same distance.
Tukai was one of several locals to celebrate when the President of Tanzania, John Pombe Magufuli, and the President of the African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina, commissioned the Dodoma-Babati road project on Friday.
Until its completion, the Dodoma-Babati road was a critical missing link in the 10,228-kilometre Trans-Africa Highway, linking Cairo to Cape Town, connecting nine African countries from South Africa to Egypt, through Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia and Sudan.
With the completion of the road, traders and travelers now conduct immigration procedures on only one side of the border, reducing time and costs. Thanks to these efforts, the volume of trade between Tanzania and the rest of Eastern and Southern Africa has risen to US $1.1 billion in 2016, a level both Adesina and Magufuli described as historic.
Magufuli said the Dodoma-Babati road will improve the lives of people living in Tanzania and neighbouring countries. "Projects financed by the African Development Bank have a real impact on people," Magufuli said, thanking the Bank and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for their strategic partnership in co-financing the project.
"Roads change everything. They bring hope alive. Such is the case of this road. While economic activity expands, so will family connections. It has brought much joy to families," said Adesina, referring to beneficiaries such as Tukai.
The 251-kilometre road is expected to provide rural communities with renewed hope, through expanded economic activities, improved access and better prices for farmers, and to transform several communities.
The Bank President congratulated Tanzania on the 54th anniversary of the union of the Republic of Tanganyika and the People's Republic of Zanzibar and described the country's unity as its strength and an example for the rest of Africa.
"Tanzania is headed in the right direction. With 7% economic growth this year, it has posted one of the highest growth rates in the world. That shows me the future of the Republic is very bright indeed! There will be need for massive physical and social infrastructure. There will be need for a Dodoma Airport. There will be need for a new road network to support increased transport, especially the Dodoma Ring Road. I wish to assure you that the African Development Bank will strongly support you on critical infrastructure for the new City of Dodoma," Adesina said.
The African Development Bank has invested US $3.6 billion in Tanzania, with an active portfolio of US $2 billion, 53% of which is in road projects. The institution has invested more than US $1.1 billion in five road projects in Tanzania, covering close to 1,400 kilometres.
At the commissioning ceremony, the Japanese Ambassador to Tanzania, Masaharu Yoshida, commended the African Development Bank for its contribution toward the completion of the project.
"Our cooperation with the Bank on this project will further strengthen the relationship between Japan and Tanzania and with Africa as a whole," said Yoshida. "This road will contribute to the economic growth of Tanzania and all of Africa because it is, in fact, part of the 'Trans-African Highway No. 4' that connects Cape Town-Lusaka-Dodoma-Arusha-Nairobi up to Cairo."
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38-40 Guest Street - Development of a retail home improvement and garden center with outdoor sale of garden supplies, erect rooftop solar panels, create off street, accessory parking for three hundred and eighty-seven vehicles and accessory loading spaces.
Yes, this is the Lowe's project that we thought was dead. Here is some more info from Dan Roan in the Mayor's Office:
Lowe's is going to the ZBA because they feel that the BRA's adequacy determination does not conform to the provisions that are stated in Article 80. Basically, they're asking the ZBA to force the BRA to reissue a new adequacy determination or if the ZBA believes that Lowe's has adequately satisfied the Article 80 requirements, simply grant relief for a conditional use.
http://www.cityofboston.gov/ons/pdfs/allstonbright.pdf
Posted by Harry Mattison on 10/22/2010 02:33:00 PM 6 comments
Support Stone Hearth Pizza on Western Ave
Stone Hearth Pizza would like to open a restaurant in Harvard's former CITGO station on Western Ave. Personally, I think this would be great and a nice addition to the neighborhood. But the Allston Civic Association voted to oppose this at last night's meeting.
I can't imagine that the City would deny whatever permits and approvals that Stone Hearth needs, but if you want (or don't want) this business to open in Allston you can email:
LicensingBoard@cityofboston.gov
Mark.Ciommo@cityofboston.gov (A/B City Councilor)
Daniel.Roan@cityofboston.gov (A/B liasion to the Mayor)
allstonbrighton2006@googlegroups.com (community email group)
Harvard Crimson story - http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2010/10/21/stone-allston-hearth-restaurant/
Reaction at Universal Hub - http://www.universalhub.com/2010/allston-neighborhood-group-would-rather-have-aband
Date: Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:25 PM
Subject: support for a Stone Hearth Pizza on Western Ave
To: Mark Ciommo , Michael Galvin , Dan Roan , LicensingBoard@cityofboston.gov
Cc: allstonbrighton2006@googlegroups.com, Kevin McCluskey , jschwarz@stonehearthpizza.com
I am writing to express my strong support for the proposed Stone Hearth
Pizza at the former CITGO station at 182 Western Ave. A successful, family-oriented, locally-owned, public-serving business like Stone Hearth is what Western Ave needs to move closer to becoming the "Main Street" that Harvard, the City, and many Allston/Brighton residents have agreed would improve our community.
At the same time, I would encourage Harvard, the City, and community to do some joint planning about the future of Western Ave. What hours of operation and what mix of uses (private/institutional, retail, food, alcohol-serving, etc) are desirable? Perhaps if we could reach some agreement on these subjects then we would be more likely to agree when specific projects & tenants are proposed.
Harry Mattison
New Harvard VP for capital planning
Harvard continues to centralize its planning and budgeting with the filling of this new position. Of note for those interested in Allston is this list of priorities that does not include any in Allston. With the exception of the two HBS projects that will probably break ground in 2012, it still seems like it will be a long time before Harvard does any Allston development of significant magnitude.
http://harvardmagazine.com/breaking-news/johnson-named-capital-planning-vp
But significant projects are looming: the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) urgently wants to renovate undergraduate Houses (at least a $1-billion project); several Harvard Medical School and FAS departments are space-constrained, as new laboratories have been filled to deal with the Allston deferral; and Harvard School of Public Health likely requires significant investment in its multibuilding campus, now that the idea of an entirely new school complex in Allston is indefinitely deferred. Alongside these items on the wish list, the campus facilities—some 26 million square feet—require regular maintenance and updating. And in the interest of maintaining its credit rating and preventing interest costs from soaring still further, Harvard has essentially put itself on a severe diet for debt financing, so hard choices will have to be made.
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University building includes first floor retail
I was in New Haven yesterday and noticed that Yale's new 87,000 sq ft Loria Center for the History of Art includes a Willoughby's Coffee on the first floor. If Harvard does at least this much to improve the public realm with its renovation of the WGBH building it would be a good step toward building the new Western Ave.
Harvard's Western Ave Entrepreneurship Opportunity
We learned yesterday that Harvard will spend $15-20 million to renovate the former WGBH building at 125 Western Ave to create a center for entrepreneurs and innovators. That's a pretty major renovation for a building that the city appraised as being worth $9M. Given the state of the Science Complex, this will be the first project that Harvard will complete on Western Ave and may be the only construction on Western Ave for several years.
So what tone will this project set for Western Ave? The North Allston Strategic Framework and subsequent planning by Harvard, the City of Boston, and A/B residents has called for Western Ave to become a pedestrian-friendly, amenity-rich, lively and vibrant boulevard. Harvard reaffirmed this goal an April 2010 interview with The Crimson:
University Executive Vice President Katharine N. Lapp, who oversees Harvard's expansion into Allston, said she and the faculty-led work team continue to use the Boston Redevelopment Authority's 2005 document "North Allston: Strategic Framework for Planning" as a "guidepost."
She specifically mentioned the plan to turn Western Avenue into the "main street" of the neighborhood.
Obviously that entire transformation can't happen with one building (though at 94,000 square feet, it is not an insignificant space). But if the transformation doesn't start now and with this project, when will it start?
In terms of programming, a relevant model to consider that I mentioned back in August could be Syracuse University's Enitiative and South Side Innovation Center (SSIC) programs. One interesting requirement that shows their local focus is that SSIC requires that entrepreneurs must be committed to business development on the South Side and neighboring communities. I wouldn't expect Harvard to require its innovators to develop businesses in Allston, but finding ways to encourage that sure would be a nice way to help revive our local economy and quality of life.
Another interesting program is the Syracuse Community Test Kitchen, a collaboration that includes Syracuse's Whitman School of Management. Considering the many restaurants in Allston and the challenges faced by these small business owners, here is a program that could have real relevance to our neighborhood too.
The Community Test Kitchen will support new and existing food entrepreneurs with training and guidance to commercialize home recipes. New Entrepreneurs will receive training in the areas of commercialization; from the development process of formulating scratch recipes into full scale-up production formulas, marketing, sales, and distribution. Existing Small Business Food Entrepreneurs in need of growing their business to the next level of profitability will be offered through a variety of business training programs and culinary product improvement Sessions.
The calendar of events at the SSIC shows the depth and extent of the community and university based programming that Syracuse is supporting.
There are other possibilities for physical changes and uses in and around the building that could set the tone for the permeable campus that Chris Gordon promised in 2007. Especially because Harvard is seeking approval for this project without any plan for its many acres of surrounding property, how Harvard chooses to move forward with this project will tell a lot about the future of this campus and community.
HBS gets $50M for Exec-Ed building
This new building will be on what is now the grass lawn between Kresge Hall and Soldiers Field Road. More interesting from a neighborhood standpoint in the renovation of 125 Western Ave (the former WGBH building) into a innovation & entrepreneurship laboratory.
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Is Harvard proud of excluding the A/B community from today's "major announcement"?
Some may consider pride to be "the original and most serious of the seven deadly sins". But as we were reminded a couple weeks ago, Harvard is proud of the partnership that it thinks it has with the Allston/Brighton community.
A couple years ago, I wrote about how the Harvard/A-B relationship doesn't match any reasonable definition of partnership and unfortunately that truth is being reinforced by how Harvard and Boston's Mayor are announcing "major new economic development plans for the Allston-Brighton neighborhood" this afternoon.
This is not the first time that City Hall and Harvard have chosen to talk with the media about A/B before they talk to A/B residents. Just last week we learned from a Crimson story that Harvard would grant a request from A/B residents and allow them to meet with Harvard's Allston real estate consultants.
Maybe this afternoon's announcement will be great news - perhaps HBS will want to build a new building that, unlike the rest of its insular campus, does something to enliven both the HBS and A/B communities. Perhaps it will be the first step toward building the vibrant Western Ave that Harvard Professor Peter Galison and I hope to see. If it does, I will be the first to applaud.
But it is too bad that Harvard and City Hall didn't want to give any public notice about the time & place of today's press conference. Also too bad that they didn't want to give any public notice and didn't want any A/B residents to be at the event. It wouldn't be hard for Harvard and the Mayor to make this announcement at a public meeting in the evening when more A/B residents would be able to attend, ask questions, and maybe feel like we really are "partners".
Unfortunately John, I don't think Harvard yet really wants to change.
Thursday, October 14th, 2:00 PM
Mayor Menino will join Harvard Business School to announce major new economic development plans for the Allston-Brighton neighborhood.
Posted by Harry Mattison on 10/14/2010 11:50:00 AM 0 comments
Cambridge St to get bike lanes btw St E's & Union Sq
Bike lanes coming to one-mile stretch of Cambridge Street - Allston Brighton - Your Town - Boston.com
Crimson story on yesterday's Harvard coffee hour
Nice to learn from this article that Harvard has agreed to let their Allston consultants meet with some Allston residents. During yesterday's meeting Purcell was steadfastly non-comittal after repeated requests for some community engagement with these experts. Glad that after further consideration Harvard realized that a little conversation would be OK.
Residents Ask Purcell for Greater Role in Harvard's Allston Development Decisions The Harvard Crimson
To help the state grow, Harvard could stop landbanking
The prolific Harvard economics professor Edward Glaeser wrote in yesterday's Globe about how the success of Massachusetts is being held back by a housing shortage.
Of course, Harvard could help make progress in this area by building hundreds of new units of housing on its under-utilized property in Allston and Brighton. The BRA, Harvard, and Allston/Brighton residents have all agreed to this in principle, but getting Harvard to follow through has proved elusive (the 10 units to be built on the Brookline Machine site will nice, but 10 units is pretty paltry when compared with the scope of Harvard's landbank and the extent of the need for more housing).
To grow, the state needs 40B - The Boston Globe
If our economy is so dynamic, why aren't more people moving here?
The simple answer is that we don't build enough homes. There is essentially a one-to-one correspondence between the population growth of a region and the amount of new construction. Massachusetts's cold climate matters, but the tendency of people to move to warmer climes also reflects the affordable housing that comes from unfettered construction in places like Houston and Phoenix.
A college president plans to revitalize a neighborhood
Drexel's new president outlines plan to revitalize neighborhood | Philadelphia Inquirer | 10/06/2010
Drexel University's new president, John A. Fry, on Tuesday outlined a five-point plan to improve the neighborhood, including an expanded safety-patrol zone and a loan forgiveness program for employees who buy homes in the area.
In his first major address to the university community, Fry also pledged expertise and fund-raising support for the area's public elementary school and an effort to improve the business district along Lancaster Avenue.
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Whelan & McCluskey on the Harvard-Allston "partnership"
The Globe published a couple different viewpoints in these Letters to the Editor last week
Harvard has flimsy grasp of Allston partnership - The Boston Globe
Harvard proud of partnership with Allston community - The Boston Globe
Harvard hires consultants for Allston
I guess it is nice that Harvard seems to be doing some thinking about its Allston empire, but we could probably do without the gross exaggerations like - "the considerations of the community are a very important part of what's been done in Allston"
To Help Plan Allston's Future, Harvard Hires Two Consulting Firms The Harvard Crimson
Harvard has hired two real estate consulting firms, Leggat McCall and McCall & Almy, to help formulate a blueprint for the University's future development in Allston, but there remains no clear time line or concrete plan for the expansion at this point.
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