Air France is the best airline to travel to France and the world. The French know how to live in style and comfort, and Air France captures the elusive, and compelling feeling that is called Frenchness. It is that certain something that the French call "Je ne sais quoi" It is hard to describe but extremely pleasurable to enjoy.
He experienced what I have come to call the "French" feeling. To me, Paris is not just a place but a state of being, a way to see the world's beauty at a relaxing and sensual pace. Air France has worked hard to encapsulate that "French" experience into an airline and succeeded splendidly.
In today's travel world with the average airline flight being dreaded instead anticipated, look forward to your next international flight by choosing Air France as your airline carrier. While most major airlines are reducing their services, amenities, cabin sizes and support staff, Air France continues to improve on all these fronts and more.
My first experience flying Air France was when I took a river cruise with my favorite and voted best by Conde Nast travelers, company Grand Circle from Paris to Nice. I simply booked the package including airfare, assuming that it would be an acceptable airline flight. So I was pleasantly surprised by Air France's quality on every level from terminal lounge, airline design, roomy seats and delicious food.
My flight originated in New York's JFK airport. The moment I stepped on the Air France plane, while technically still in America, I was emotionally transported to France. All the beauty, style and joy of living the French are famous for was evident.
I flew standard coach class but had an almost first-class experience. One of my favorite things about the French is their impeccable attention to detail, both in physical and emotional ways.
Entering the airplane you get an immediate sense of spaciousness, not like other airlines that are cramped and boxy. The seats are amply sized and very comfortable – even after a 7-hour flight from NYC to Paris. I am uniquely qualified to report on this being a full-size 16 woman married to a full-size 2XL American man. Check out my photo showing the well-designed tray table with a special compartment for two bottles of water. The French think of everything! They know you will be dehydrated and need refreshment during your flight, but don't always want the tray table down. So they created a space for two water bottles. Simply brilliant! Industry publications, reports that Air France seats are roomier by a critical few inches, 8% wider than other airlines.
My husband watched three recent released American movies on the oversized video screen in front of his seat – while stretching out with the extra legroom that makes a difference. There were no additional costs for these video rentals, as we have paid on other airlines. I use the long flight time to practice my French by watching a fun and informative short shows and documentaries. The range and selection of entertainment choices are extensive and comprehensive. Additionally, they had a large number of news music channels in many languages.
Oh la la, was food was scrumptious! I included a photo of our breakfast complete with the buttery, flaky croissants every French person eats for breakfast. It was a genuinely impressive meal complete with beautifully presented fresh fruit, scrambled eggs with nicely seasoned with fresh grilled mushrooms and tomatoes. Additionally, there was a small serving of a deliciously creamy hot grain cereal, a whole grain roll plus a pretty petit jar of jam. And yes, real silverware -made of metal, not plastic. This breakfast was truly a delight after a long overnight flight. What a wonderful way to start our day in Paris, ready to visit the city of light, and experience all of its delights.
Then, while still smiling from this delicious breakfast, the flight attendants brought around most darling little gift bag with all French personal-care products. I dashed off to the laboratory and began my French girl beauty routine with such exquisite products made by esteemed French companies such as Fragonard. After a quick 10 minutes in the bathroom, I came out looking and smelling like Gigi, that beautiful French girl. Wow, what a super way to start your French holiday.
An important part of your air travel experience is the terminal that you will invariably be spending some time waiting for your flight. In New York's JFK airport, Air France has a special lounge that is 2 stories high. It is usually reserved for business class and above. However, when it is not full kind Air France ground personnel invite other class passengers to enjoy the luxury – like Lucky me!
Wow, such an impressive airport lounge. The modern, sleek design is also comfortable and embracing. Travel can be so stressful and be tiring so a good airport lounge can make all the difference in your airline experience. The room was huge and offered many different types of seating nicely tucked throughout the large space. Whether you wanted an intimate space for two, or a conference table setting or a small bistro dining set up, all were available. Space was well-designed by a good architect, probably French, since the many wall partitions of varying heights made the lounge, private and relaxing, even though it was an enormous space. Hubby and I settled into the leather padded bucket seats and dreamed of our French holiday to come while snacking on freshly prepared food and designer coffees.
While we were traveling to France on Air France, they fly to destinations worldwide from Vancouver to Panama City and almost everywhere in between. As of May 2004, Air France and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines are the largest European air travel, group. According to their corporate website, they carry more than 70,000,000 passengers annually to 243 destinations in 103 countries worldwide. I appreciate their on-time record. Approximately 80% of the time their flights departed as scheduled. They experienced fewer delays than many other airlines.
You would think with all this luxury and amenities that the ticket price would be higher than others. However, surprisingly, that is not so. In online website comparisons, Air France fares are comparable, and sometimes cheaper than other major carriers such as United Airlines, Delta Airlines, and British Airways.
My review here is just one person's good experience, however, upon studying Air France's reviews across the Internet, I found that they are amongst the most positive rated international airlines. The authoritative rating site Skytrax rates it 4.0 stars in these categories: LONG HAUL: First Class – 4-Star Rating Business Class – 4-Star rating Premium Economy – 3.5-Star Rating Economy Class – 3-Star Rating SHORT HAUL: Business Class – 4-Star Rating Economy Class -3-Star Rating.
In conclusion, your best choice for international travel is Air France, whether you are lucky enough to be traveling to Paris or any of their other destinations. Don't delay. Book your ticket on Air France today.


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Happy Friday-eve, you guys! Working on this post with Pongo next to me, both wrapped up in blankets, with the fireplace on, and Christmas music in the background--it's so unbelievably cozy and the absolute best.
Today, I'm sharing another Chicwish find--if you haven't heard about them or been on their website, you need to! They're one of my favorite online boutiques--their pieces are so classy and unique! This cape/poncho sweater is one of my favorites this season (it also happens to be 33% off)! It comes in several colors, and it flatters everyone! I do recommend wearing a tank or cami underneath because the side slit does go up a little ways--I was wearing high-waisted jeans and still had to wear a cami. The rubbed detailing on the sleeves, mock neck, and bottom adds the perfect amount of texture to break up the solid color of the cape. Overall, it's such a fun and cozy sweater! I've paired it with white jeans, but it can be worn with any kind of denim and is the perfect piece to wear to any casual Christmas activity!
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Little did I know that I would post NOTHING while I tried to complete my Four in February. The challenged proved more difficult to complete than I first imagined. Last night, at 11pm, I finished my fourth game in February. I spent around 20 hours a week gaming, so all told I spent roughly 80 hours gaming this month. The playtime for the four games I beat totaled somewhere near 60 hours. The 20 remaining hours were spent on games I didn't finish. Here's my notes on my Four in February experience:
I was off to a blazing start after beating Portal in just a couple hours. I enjoyed it, but it seemed a lot easier and shorter than Portal 2. Though, had I known what Wheatley was when I played Portal 2, I would have trusted him a lot less. Even though I played it fast, I still got chills from Portal's creepy, abandoned vibe. Actually, I get that vibe from any game that sends my character to prison or leaves them alone for a stretch of time… perhaps it's just my own fears of isolation…
Anyways, with only three games left on February 2nd, I thought I had this challenge in the bag. The next two were Assassin's Creed: Revelations and Fire Emblem Awakening. Fire Emblem was a bit of a struggle to find, due to some unexplained shipping problems. AC:R is one that had been sitting on my shelf since launch, still in the plastic.
Assassin's Creed wasn't bad, especially for a game that juggled three main narratives (Desmond was exploring as Ezio who was tracing the steps of Altair). I think this one took around 15 hours to beat. I didn't do any side missions, only crafted bombs when forced, and took no time to explore the cities. It sucked the joy out of the experience a bit, so I'm eager to go back and fill in some of the gaps. Fire Emblem took considerably longer, even though I played on the easiest mode (Normal Casual). I still pushed through the story a little faster than usual. I think without the Four in February challenge I'd still be farting around, playing DLC and fighting in skirmishes.
I had the first three game completed in the first two weeks of February, but I wasn't celebrating yet. My fourth game represented a history of abandonment. You see, my next game was Ocarina of Time. I have no trouble starting this or any Zelda game, but usually at about 10 hours in I realize that I've got something better to do. I was determined to change this.
I failed. I was sinking a lot of time into the game and making little progress. More importantly, it wasn't fun. I found myself feeling impatient and frustrated. Some games are not meant to be tackled in a time-based challenge, especially not as a first playthough. You need to have time to wander, time to enjoy, time to get lost in that world.This is precisely the reason I didn't choose Skyrim as a February game.
So, it was time for an alternate. I looked over the games I already owned (quite a few) and considered the ones I haven't already beaten (not so many) and narrowed that down to ones I thought I could beat in under a week (very few). I tried Banjo-Kazooie Nuts and Bolts briefly, but the multitude of individual challenges lead me to try something else. I settled on Assassin's Creed 3 (which was still in wrap from launch). I had just played Revelations, so the story was fresh in my mind. Also, I was confident that I could beat it quick. By this point, I only had four days left.
The first three chapters were horrible. The next couple were long. I was getting very concerned that I'd be playing until midnight tonight trying to get finished. The second half of the game, however, was quick. It wasn't a great game. In terms of the Assassin's Creed series, it wasn't even a good game. Nevertheless, I beat it. Just like the AC game before it, there was a completely WTF ending, then a half hour of unskippable credits.
I enjoyed the 4if Challenge. I don't know when I would have gotten around to beating the last two AC games without it. I may have never played Portal. I would have played Fire Emblem regardless. I intend to write a meta-review about all four in the coming days.
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This fantastic 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom villa overlooking the prestigious Links Hope Island golf course and lake is perfect for any occasion. Ideal for those that want to stick to a budget yet enjoy first class facilities in a fantastic location. Get the best of both worlds and enjoy the quiet surrounds of this gated estate yet you're just minutes from all the major Gold Coast attractions. This lovely 1st floor villa features a great floor plan with beautiful views and provides plenty of space and facilities for the whole family to enjoy.
Centrally located within the villa is the large open plan living room which features beautiful modern furnishings and overlooks the lush green fairways of Links Hope Island Golf Course and the sparkling lake beyond. Enjoy the free Wifi, be entertained with the huge flat screen TV, curl up on the comfy sofa with a good book, or simply take in the magnificent views through the large glass sliding doors.
The well positioned bedrooms ensure everyone can relax and enjoy their own space. Relish in the water views from the master suite which features a king size bed, flat screen TV and ensuite complete with spa bath to soothe the body after a big day of exploring.
The second bedroom has 2 king single beds, and large ensuite.
Complete with everything you need to cook for the whole family, the kitchen features quality appliances including built in oven, microwave, and dishwasher, all surrounded by stone top benches including a large breakfast bar. A 6-seater dining table is only metres away.
The villa also features a compact laundry complete with washer, dryer and ironing board etc.
Open up the large glass sliding doors and bring the outside in!! The villa has a great size patio that overlooks the prestigious Links Golf Course and beyond to Lake Lugano. Enjoy the warm coastal breezes from the patio while enjoying a barbeque with friends or put your feet up and enjoy a glass of wine to take in the peace and tranquillity of the lake front lifestyle. The outdoor dining setting is the perfect place to read the morning paper and watch the sunrise above the trees and flood the villa with sunshine.
As for the facilities you can enjoy a game of tennis on the courts and cool off afterwards in the sparkling pool, or why not take a BBQ pack and cook by the pool on those warm balmy nights. Book for Winter and enjoy the HEATED Lap pool. You could tee up a game of Golf with friends - just be sure to make it count on the 17th hole as you may have spectators watching from your own patio!! You'll also have access to the heated lap pool and miles of walking tracks within the resort. And best of all being a 24hr gated estate the kids can play in a safe environment.
Did we mention the home also comes with a GOLF BUGGY!!! Leave the car behind because now you and the whole family can now get around Hope Island in style!!! Imagine cruising around the waters edge, playing a round of golf without the need to hire a buggy or driving down to the one of several shops, cafes, restaurants and tavern without starting your car not to mention looking for parking. Now you're really one of the locals!!! Please be aware that parking is on the street.
Restaurants, coffee shops, waterfront tavern, Coles Shopping centre and world renowned golf courses are just a short distance away.


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Mustard Plug ready seventh album, tour (2013, 2014)
When Mustard Plug formed in the Midwest in 1991, it was their fierce D.I.Y. work ethic that connected the members, ingrained in them from growing up in the 1980's hardcore and punk scenes. This background would continue to buoy the band for over 20 years right up to their forthcoming seventh album, Can't Contain It, set for a release on legendary independent punk label No Idea on January 14. The band released a new track "White Noise" today off Can't Contain It and pre-order for the record is available today on the No Idea webstore.
Listen to "White Noise": http://soundcloud.com/brixton-agency-pr/mustard-plug-white-noise
Can't Contain It was funded by an overwhelmingly successful Kickstarter campaign which saw the band more than double their initial funding goal.
Pre-order Can't Contain It: http://noidearecords.com
Catch the band on tour here:
12/05 – Hamilton, ON @ Bay City Music Hall
12/06 – London, ON @ Call The Office
12/07 – Toronto, ON @ Lee's Palace
12/08 – Sarnia, ON @ Trinity Lounge
12/20 – Curitiba, Brazil @ Music Hall Curitiba (Warm Up Wros Fest)
12/21 – Sao Paulo, Brazil @ Espaco das Americas (Wros Fest)
12/27 – Detroit, MI @ Majestic Theatre Complex (Black Christmas)
12/28 – Chicago, IL @ Metro (12th Annual Holiday Show & Record Release Party)
12/29 – Grand Rapids, MI @ The Intersection (11th Annual Holiday Show & Record Release Party)
01/22 – Tampa, FL @ Crowbar Live
01/23 – Orlando, FL @ Will's Pub
01/24 – Miami, FL @ Churchill's
01/25 – Gainesville, FL @ Loosey's
01/26 – New Smyrna Beach, FL @ Beachside Tavern
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'Suicide Squad' review roundup: Not the wild ride we were hoping for
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By Jacob Siegal @JacobSiegal
August 2nd, 2016 at 3:23 PM
After failing to win over audiences with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice earlier this year, DC and Warner Bros. desperately needed Suicide Squad to be a success, both critically and financially. Unfortunately, when the review embargo lifted on Tuesday, a wave of negativity hit the internet.
Critics really didn't dig Suicide Squad.
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Let's go through some of the negative reviews first, because they're far more prominent that the positive ones (which we'll get to in a bit).
Here's what our sister site Variety had to say about director David Ayer's difficulty (through no fault of his own) in bringing his iconic style to the movie:
Whereas Ayer blurred the lines between the good guys and the bad guys in such hard-R thrillers as "Training Day" and "Harsh Times," and brought immersive street cred to the relatively tired cop genre with "End of Watch," he's saddled with a family-friendly PG-13 rating (his first) and entirely too many characters to let his gritty sensibility loose here. Yes, he and Leto manage to invent a version of the Joker every bit as unsettling as the late Heath Ledger's immortal incarnation, turning the iconic Batman rival into a ruthless seducer (hunt down "Mr. Nobody" to see the origins of Leto's wicked deep-throated cackle), but the character barely has anything to do.
Vanity Fair was more concerned with the actors being dragged down by the script, which apparently left a whole lot to be desired:
But even those stars [Will Smith, Viola Davis, Margot Robbie] eventually succumb to Suicide Squad's grim undertow, Ayer's script forcing such erratic shifts in character and tone that it would be impossible for even the most nimble and resourceful of actors to keep their footing. The rest of the squad, played by the likes of Jai Courtney, Cara Delevingne, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, and Joel Kinnaman, don't register much at all.
Alarmingly, IGN can't even figure out where Suicide Squad fits in the DCEU:
As a chapter in a larger story of interconnected movies, it's hard to say how Suicide Squad fits in. It doesn't bend over backwards to set up other movies, one of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice's biggest sins, which is a relief. And it gifts us a few standout characters that could show up as anti-heroes or villains in upcoming DC flicks, or even spin off into their own feature. Ultimately, Suicide Squad never amounts to much as a film, and so what looked to be a much-needed course correction for the DCEU has instead become the third strike against it.
The review from the Chicago Tribune might have been the most damning I read:
But folks, this is a lousy script, blobby like the endlessly beheaded minions of the squad's chief adversary. It's not satisfying storytelling; the flashbacks roll in and out, explaining either too much or too little, and the action may be violent but it's not interesting. At this point in 2016 America, if there's one thing I could vote out of all movies, permanently, it's the drooling slow-motion close-up of hundreds of assault weapon bullets bouncing off gorgeously lit pavement.
But it wasn't all bad! USA Today says Suicide Squad shows "shades of Guardians of the Galaxy and the original Ghostbusters," while Slashfilm says "the characters are lovable, the world they live in is intriguingly weird, and all in all Suicide Squad offers a playful alternative to DC's more straightforward superhero films."
Sadly, these two are in the minority, as evidenced by the depressing 38% score on Rotten Tomatoes at the time of writing. For the sake of the DCEU and all comic book movie fans out there, let's hope DC figures turns this around soon.
Tags: DC, Suicide Squad, Warner Bros
Jacob started covering video games and technology in college as a hobby, but it quickly became clear to him that this was what he wanted to do for a living. He currently resides in New York writing for BGR. His previously published work can be found on TechHive, VentureBeat and Game Rant.
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PORT CANAVERAL, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - Weather in the area pushed the lift-off into the overnight hours, but it was a special launch when it finally got off the ground; the first time a former nuclear missile launched a satellite into space here at the Cape.
The Minotaur rocket, as it's called today, lit up the night sky over the Cape at 2:04 in the morning.
It really got off the ground fast, just like it's former namesake, the Peacekeeper missile, which was tipped with nuclear warheads and kept in underground silos during the Cold War.
Aerospace company Orbital ATK repurposed the decommissioned missile to launch a military satellite from Launch Complex 46. The satellite is essentially a giant orbiting telescope with a mission to look for threats in space to American satellites.
"And it's going to find them, as a point source very precisely, and it's a very low cost mission," said Ken Kremer with Universe Today. "And so they are going to look for these point sources and identify the threat, and that's when we would launch the counter counter measures."
Also unique, launching from this usually dormant Launch Complex 46. The next planned launch from here is more than a year away.
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To accompany and offset Alain Badiou's Lacano-cinematic disquisitions on the spectacle of the credit crunch, here is a translation of Tronti's recent intervention in "il manifesto", to announce a series of workshops and debates on the current politics of work. Aside from representing a moment of salutary rigour and lucidity in the general wasteland of the Italian Left, it is worth noting that it bears two points of affinity and three points of dissension with Badiou's own salvo. On the first count, it (a) sees fit to resuscitate a language of the people and the popular in a time of supposed multitudinous dissipation, and (b) views the crisis as being internal to the strategies and impasses of the capitalist class and not implicated in the dynamics of class struggle. On the second count, Tronti differs from Badiou in (c) continuing - I think rightly - to pose the problem of exploitation as the analytical key to this situation, (d) being rather more mistrustful of the thinking of the "people" - even hinting at an anthropology of general embourgeoisement, and (e) calling for the formation of a broad-based party of the working people. Perhaps the juxtaposition between this renascent popular frontism and Badiou's distance from the state should not be viewed as an alternative, as much as an antinomy. While both fail to fully persuade as political prescriptions, they certainly identify crucial questions any contemporary anti-capitalist project needs to face.
This is what it hurts to see today: that the class adversary is not in good shape, that it is unable to provide for the majority of its subalterns, and that nevertheless its problems are entirely relative to the relationships between its internal parts. At base, labour-power too was an internal part of capital, but when it took off the uniform of the producer of surplus-value and donned the outfit of the realiser of political value, it threatened, as we used to say, the constituted order, hinting at something other and beyond. Now instead capitalist contradictions are only ever settlings of accounts between sections of the dominant forces: financialisation against real economy, liberalisation versus regulation and vice versa, market and/or state, world distribution of energy resources and therefore pieces of the world against other pieces of the world, but still within a single thought of social relations: the bosses – whether private or public – rule, and the workers comply.
Bringing the theme of work back on the political agenda. How? With whom? The answer to the last question seems obvious: with the workers themselves. Getting to know them again, these unknowns. Getting them to speak again, these mutes. Bringing the place of work back into the non-places of today's politics. Empirical inquiries are not lacking. We are not starting from zero. Thankfully, the social sciences exist, data and numbers are not lacking, investigations have been carried out with regularity, the latest one by the metalworkers' union, FIOM. What's missing? A political interpretation: serious, lucid, realistic, non-ideological, non-conventional, non-electoralist.
The famous transformations of work are like the equally famous transformations of capitalism: when everything has been said, nothing has changed. The storytellers of the social come and describe the state of affairs: the liquid instead of the solid, what melts into air rather than what sediments on the ground, the whole that must become flexible, the production that becomes molecular, the power that is everywhere and nowhere like the holy spirit, because it is micro and no longer macro, and then the immaterial, the cognitive, the politics that is bios, made to measure for the asocial individual – forget about women and men of flesh and bone who organise themselves for the struggle. With limitless patience we read and listen, careful not to let what we don't know slip through our fingers.
What is to be done about the exploitation of work? Do we put up with it, hiding it like dust under the carpet of good manners, or do we start once again to condemn it, showing that it is what objectively and materially unifies the current form of fragmented labour? Is it not true that today the social figure of the exploited brings together the worker in the great factory, the employee of the small service company, the precarious call-centre worker, the college graduate baby-sitter, the teacher or professor commuting while she awaits a permanent post, the labourer risking his life in one of the many thousands of subcontracted firms, the immigrant construction worker, the part-time researcher technician and the scandalously underpaid, or even not paid, contract lecturer, all the way to the self-employed worker filing his tax returns who, compared to rest, has the privilege of exploiting himself? We could go on and on. Asking what worker means after the working class is the same thing as wondering what the Left is after the workers' movement. This is well and truly an epochal problem.
If it is true that the political centrality of the mass-worker has been replaced by the political centrality of the mass-bourgeois, then a great anthropological question poses itself on the terrain of human labour. The ideological hegemony of the Right – your boss's interest is your interest, and you should do things on your own and not with others – does not stop before the factory gates, just like it doesn't wait in front of the entrance to the home, where the holy family dwells. It enters, penetrates, invades, conquers, seizing hold of the soul – if there is no body of collective forces that pushes it back, countering it with the reasons of an organised solidarity. The material condition of subaltern labour – whether dependent or autonomous, stable or precarious – must now face up to this politically unprecedented situation, that the middle classes no longer need to be a separate social stratum, because they have become a diffuse democratic mentality. This is an illusory veil which the presence of an alternative horizon, both credible and practicable, has the duty to rend asunder.
But who today denounces the evils of society? A few precious experiences among social movements, some isolated scholarly gadflies, the odd papal homily, some praiseworthy grassroots philanthropy. What is lacking is the powerful voice of a subject that counts, and that makes its authoritativeness count, armed with consensus and thought. Work and politics is the point from which to begin once again to weave the interrupted thread of a new fabric of organisation. Around this point everything can be born, in terms of discourse and multiple experiences, but without it nothing will be born. It is first and foremost a political-cultural battle.
We are working in the furrows of a great tradition. But this is only a temporary surrogate, while we await the return of the initiative into the hands of practical politics. Of course, we need to make workers speak, even through new forms of co-research. But we must also start speaking about workers again, with programmes and projects that concern them directly, existentially. And here the forms in which practical politics is currently organised on the Left do not work, they do not respond to the command that the theme of work and politics should trigger in the operational machine. The latest disheartening events tell us as much. The Partito Democratico spoke of something else, the Arcobaleno didn't speak to anyone, and it will not suffice to cloister oneself in a generous heretical sect of the refounders of communism in order to resolve this problem.
An alternative Left that for the time being closes ranks around the field of work is necessary, and we must therefore make it possible. But this too must be thought and practiced as a passage rather than a point of arrival. Once upon a time we used the formula 'the world of labour'. Now we sometimes say 'the world of labours': not that much has changed when it comes to the fact that whatever world we're dealing with, we need representatives and forms of representation adequate to it. To put it bluntly, so that everyone will understand, we need a great political force, a popular Left, rooted in the real country, with mass confidence – social before it is electoral – a mass party of working men and women, with the political pride to name the matter at hand in this way. Then, we might even lose some battles, but at least we'll know that we're there fighting a just war.
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On June 1, 2016 September 6, 2016 By goodenoughfordickensIn short stories
The full moon shone briefly through a gap in the clouds and ahead of him George saw the forbidding shape of Lancing College Chapel silhouetted against the sky. Full of posh boys Jack had said, but not at the moment – requisitioned by the Admiralty it was now full of sailors. George wondered what they'd done with all the boys, but for now the school was a vital landmark on his mission.
As long as he kept the chapel on his right, and the lazy stream of the Adur on his left, he'd soon reach his target. He pressed on, disturbing lots of dozy rabbits as he pushed the bicycle awkwardly across the field to the lane. He'd thought about walking from the village but it would have taken too long so he'd borrowed the delivery bike from outside the butcher's.
At last he came to the perimeter of the airfield, and he followed it all the way round to the far side. He hid the bicycle in some bushes by the railway embankment and crept back towards the fence. Jack said that opposite the railway, in line with the big conker tree, there was a place where you could lift it up and squeeze underneath. He said he'd done it loads of times, but now in the soft darkness of the summer night, George began to have his doubts. Had Jack really gone to all this effort just to see the planes, when he didn't even like them that much, not like he did. George could tell a Spitfire from a Blenheim by the noise as they went over, and ever since he'd heard that the fighter pilots were using Shoreham in emergencies, he'd been ready and waiting.
And then today he'd heard Mr Johnson saying that they were here again, landing short of fuel after fighting the Germans in the skies over the Channel. So tonight was the night, and at last he'd found that loose bit of fence – a quick wriggle and he was through. He kept low to the ground, heart pounding, imagining himself behind enemy lines as he crept across to the terminal building, its handsome art deco profile disguised with camouflage. He pressed his back to the wall and found the stairs that led up the outside to the roof.
Finally he reached his target, the edge of the viewing gallery. Gingerly he leaned over the parapet and looked down at the air strip. There they were, even better than he'd imagined, four Spitfires and a Hurricane. He gazed down enraptured, and began to breathe more easily, his heart slowing. From inside the building the sound of a wireless drifted upwards through an open window. He could hear music, and laughter, and snatches of conversation. It was the pilots joking with relief about how Shoreham was "bloody handy" after "Jerry got a bit of a hit."
George grinned to himself, he'd remember this night. Now all he had to do was get back home before anyone missed him, or the bicycle.


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Зорянский сельский совет () — входит в состав Розовского района Запорожской области Украины.

Ранее носил название «Карло-Либкнехтовский сельский совет», в соответствии с «законом о декоммунизации» 2 августа 2016 года переименован в Зорянский (Зарянский) сельсовет.

Административный центр сельского совета находится в селе Заря (до 2016 года — с. Карла Либкнехта).

Состав сельсовета
В состав сельсовета входят 12 депутатов, по результатам местных выборов 25 октября 2015 года избрано 6 депутатов от «Оппозиционного блока» и 6 самовыдвиженцев.

Населённые пункты совета
В состав сельсовета входит 3 населённых пункта:
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Объекты, названные в честь Карла Либкнехта

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Francis to become first pope to visit Arabian peninsula
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The first visit by a pope to the Arabian peninsula will take place in February when Francis travels to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, the Vatican said on Thursday.
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis leads a special audience with members of a volunteers association from Sardinia island in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican November 30, 2018. REUTERS/Max Rossi/File Photo/File Photo
The Feb. 3-5 trip, Francis' latest to a predominantly Muslim nation, will be centred around the theme of inter-religious peace.
The Vatican said the pope had accepted an invitation from Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, and the tiny Catholic community there. He will attend an inter-faith meeting.
In a statement, Bishop Paul Hinder, head of the Roman Catholic Arabian Vicariate of Southern Arabia, thanked the UAE government for having given permission for the pope "to celebrate a Mass at a public venue in Abu Dhabi".
The freedom to practice Christianity — or any religion other than Islam — is not always a given in the Gulf and varies from country to country.
In the UAE and Kuwait, Christians may worship in churches and other places with special licences. Saudi Arabia, home to Islam's holiest sites, bans the practice of other religions.
Hinder, whose jurisdiction includes the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Yemen, said the Mass would be held on Feb. 5.
Francis has visited Turkey, Jordan, Egypt, Bangladesh, Azerbaijan and the Palestinian territories and used those trips to call for inter-religious dialogue and to condemn the notion of violence in the name of God.
"The theme of the visit is 'Make Me a Channel of Your Peace' – and that's the pope's intention in going to the United Arab Emirates. How all people of goodwill can work for peace will be a major topic on this trip," Vatican spokesman Greg Burke said.
The theme is taken from the opening words of the Prayer of Peace of Francis of Assisi, the saint whose name the pope took when he was elected in 2013.
"This visit, like the one to Egypt, (2017) shows the fundamental importance the Holy Father gives to inter-religious dialogue. Pope Francis visiting the Arab world is a perfect example of the culture of encounter," Burke said.
Crown Prince Mohammed said in a tweet that the pope "is a symbol of peace, tolerance and the promotion of brotherhood. We look forward to a historic visit, through which we will seek dialogue on the peaceful coexistence among peoples."
Additional reporting by Alexander Cornwell and Nafisa Eltahir in Dubai; Editing by Janet Lawrence


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A festering scandal: Our food safety system falls well short
Adele Ferguson
Investigative journalist and columnist
January 3, 2020 — 11.00pm
A baby rat filmed emerging from inside a restaurant wall. A mouse caught on camera feasting inside a tray of hamburger rolls.
Raw chicken and meat not labelled or date coded and incomplete food safety records.
Food safety is again in the headlines following an investigation into the Grill'd burger chain.
The long list of food safety transgressions at hamburger chain Grill'd outlined in a series of leaked internal food and safety audit reports, internal documents, a council report, and dozens of photos from staff, triggered a social media backlash.
In an attempt to dilute the public's disgust Grill'd announced it would hire a global food auditor to review its food safety and work practices.
But in the process of exposing the worker exploitation and uncleanliness scandal it became clear there was another scandal that has been festering away: an overall lack of enforcement by the relevant authorities of food hygiene regulations and fines that are so low they fail to act as a deterrent.
Take for instance, Grill'd in Windsor, Victoria, the local council, Stonnington, issued an inspection notice of "major non-compliance" in October 2018. It said it didn't have effective cleaning systems in place, which is the basic requirement of any restaurant.
What was even more disturbing was the council admitting that the same non-compliances were happening every year and that "infringement notices may be issued if this continues".
In other words, the council's inspection notice and wishy-washy threats were ineffectual.
This was no better demonstrated in early December when a photo was taken and posted on The Age and Sydney Morning Herald websites of a mouse inside a tray of hamburger buns sitting on the floor at Grill'd in Windsor.
The council's reaction was to keep the public in the dark. It refused to say how many years of non-compliance it had recorded at the Grill'd Windsor restaurant and its only reaction to the buns stored on the floor, which attracted a mouse in the pest infested restaurant, was that it would act if someone lodged a complaint.
On a broader level, it illustrates shortcomings in the food safety system in Australia. It seems the public only get to know what's going on when it is too late.
The Victorian Health register of convictions of food safety is an eye-opener. In 2019 only a few cases went to court and received a conviction, which attracted a minuscule fine.
Examples included a restaurant in Footscray found guilty in the Magistrates Court of operating a business that wasn't registered with a proper registration authority. It was fined $1586. Another case was a delicatessen and café found guilty of poor standards of cleanliness including accumulation of food waste, dirt, grease and a failure to ensure food contact surfaces of equipment was clean and sanitary to avoid contamination. It was fined less than $5000.
NSW also issues relatively small fines despite a number of restaurants being repeat offenders. For instance, a kebab shop in Bankstown was fined $880 for failing to maintain a standard of cleanliness on fixtures, fittings and equipment. The restaurant received a previous warning.
A Vietnamese restaurant in Haymarket was fined $440 for failing to keep fixtures, fittings and equipment to the required standard of cleanliness. A previous warning had been given. A butcher in Wollongong was fined $440 for selling food that contained an illegal preservative.
The fines are so small they are failing to act as a deterrent. It means restaurants are getting away with poor food safety, which potentially puts customers at risk.
Ensuring a restaurant is compliant with food safety standards, including cleanliness, filling in food diaries and trace reports takes time, which costs money. The laws may be strict but if they aren't properly monitored and enforced then things fall apart.
In May Retail Food Group was caught instructing franchisees at its national bakery chain Michel's Patisserie to ignore expiry dates on certain foods and adopt a new shelf life extension date of up to six months.
At the time of the media expose, the NSW Food Authority said it had referred RFG for investigation to its counterpart in Queensland, Queensland Health, where RFG is headquartered.
More than seven months later, Queensland Health said it investigated the date marking practices of a Queensland supplier to Michel's Patisserie, not RFG. It said no breaches of the Food Act were identified.
NSW Health investigated a NSW supplier, not RFG and said "NSW has no jurisdiction over RFG as its head office is based in Queensland. "We investigated the NSW supplier and found no food safety compliance issue."
It would appear that RFG, which instructed the use by date changes, slipped through the regulatory cracks.
Like anything, when there is little oversight, light penalties and a lack of appetite to take action, things go awry. Food safety is no different.
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Access to the Agreement between Google Books and the British Library
The Google Books project has been the subject of protracted legal battles, generating a huge debate as to whether it will help authors distribute their work or turn them into low paid employees of the corporation. Most of these debates have focused on books under intellectual property restrictions, with less debate covering the inclusion of out-of-copyright works.
The British Library recently announced to much fanfare a deal with Google to make available online a quarter of a million books no longer restricted by copyright, thus in the public domain.
The deal is presented as a win-win situation, where Google pays for the costs of scanning the books, which will be available on both Google and BL's websites. This sounds very philanthropic from Google, however the catch is in the detail:
"Once digitised, these unique items will be available for full text search, download and reading through Google Books, as well as being searchable through the Library's website and stored in perpetuity within the Library's digital archive."
In order to find out what this really means we asked the British Library for a copy of the agreement with Google, which was not uploaded to their transparency website with other similar contracts, as it didn't involve monetary exchange. This may be a loophole transparency activists want to look at. After some toing and froing with the Freedom of Information Act we got a copy, which can be downloaded here:
British Library Google Books Agreement
Notice: Google has kindly agreed to the publication of the agreement, while asserting their copyright over it and wishing to restrict further re-distribution.
The document seems to follow similar agreements with US libraries, but please let us know in the comments or by email what you think. Our preliminary views are below.
The agreement has clauses that in a nutshell mean that only Google will be able to do anything they want with the scanned books, while BL will have restrictions on what they can or cannot do with their digital copy of the scans. BL will be able to display the books in their website, but must prevent commercial use (e.g. print on demand), redistribution of the copies or automated downloads. Google will primarily index the books, but will also be able to license or sell copies and make them available for printing.
This is understandable, as despite its laudable motto to "don't be evil" Google is not a charity, but a very successful business that is investing hard cash on scanning books in order to make a profit elsewhere. It must restrict access to the books to competitors. But, however natural it may be, is this a satisfactory state of affairs for the public interest and the protection of the public domain?
Free as in beer
Google already has digitised and made freely available over 15 million books in the public domain. This is a good thing in principle, but is it wise to base national policy for the digitisation of literary works on the good will of a corporation? There is a clause (4.3.1) in the Agreement that would lift restrictions on the Library if Google fails to provide free online access to the public domain works for a certain period of time.
While this provides some safeguards, public institutions should look for a mixed model that avoids relying excessively on one single partner. There are other initiatives promoting open access -such as The Internet Archive – which should be given consideration.
Copyright Year Zero
An issue with public private partnerships for digitisation is the creation of new intellectual property. This is not generally a problem in the USA, but in UK digital copies may attract a new copyright, although this is unclear. When combined with restrictions on access to original works, this could create a de facto "copyright reset" on materials that have long entered the public domain. This would place restrictions on redistribution and reuse of the digitized books, making derivative works very difficult and expensive.
The agreement clearly claims all rights on Google's digital copy in clause 4.2. In the case of Google fortunately this seems less of an issue in practice, as their business model is not based on selling access to the public domain. There is an intractable conflict between open access and placing restrictions on public domain works via digitisation contracts –mass downloading, text mining, redistribution, etc. — instead of copyright, which remains an issue here and elsewhere.
Monopoly concerns
Concerns have been raised with this concentration of digital works under one company, although in theory anyone else can step forward and scan those books again as the Agreement is not exclusive.
This sounds reasonable until you have a look at the wider picture of the digitisation of culture in Europe. Nick Poole, from the Collections Trust estimates the costs of digitising the contents of Europe's museums, archives and libraries, including the audiovisual material they hold at €100 billion over ten years, with another €10-25 billion over the following ten years to maintain it and make it available.
With such a need for investment, it would be reasonable to expect that works be digitised only once, with a common strategy for ensuring the eventual incorporation of all works to an unrestricted public domain digital network run for the public interest in the same way as physical national libraries.
Length of restrictions
If Google and other companies are to invest in digitisation they will expect a profit, which will come from some restrictions. The Agreement establishes such restrictions for a period of 15 years.
A recent EU report on the digitisation of culture called The New Renaissance defines optimal arrangements for public private partnerships, and sets a maximum of seven years for preferential terms. This is perceived to strike a balance between the interests of businesses and public institutions.
Most digitisation agreements of this kind by The National Archives and British Library are set to last ten years. We believe that a transparent cost recovery should inform the length of restrictions, with a cap of seven years as recommended at European level.
Open Data and the Strategy for Growth
Google does not make any money selling public domain books, but it uses them for text mining, for its search engine and translation software, which is seen as the main business objective of the whole operation, including the digitisation of in-copyright books.
The Agreement contains provisions for non-commercial access to the material by non-profit institutions for academic and research purposes, although the latter will have to sign a separate contract with Google. There is also a welcome clause explicitly allowing for metadata to be included in the Europeana database (4.9).
The Hargreaves Review of copyright in UK proposed a "wide non-commercial research exception covering text and data mining" because this area is perceived as critically important. Separately, the recent consultation paper on Open Data envisions that public data will be one of the engines of innovation to overcome the economic crisis, deserving a section in the forthcoming Strategy for Growth.
If we look at the Agreement from this perspective we see that allowing non-commercial research is laudable, but many opportunities for innovation will require commercial input and it will be up to Google to determine what counts as commercial in the research access contracts. Economic growth will be lost if start-up companies are denied the chance to innovate by incumbent businesses such as Google.
If the government wants to stimulate growth through open data it needs to put its money where its mouth is and provide adequate funding. Besides, the digitisation of cultural and archival materials, into datasets, media, texts and metadata, should be a natural extension of the mission of public institutions. However, in our conversations with the British Library, the response is always the same: there is simply no money being provided for digital activities.
In addition, this process distorts the values of cultural institutions, which increasingly perceive digital activities as a source of revenue similar to the ubiquitous gift shop. Thus, libraries and museums attempt to claim and enforce copyright over digital copies of public domain works themselves.
The British Library already has a digital collection of public domain works which are not open and freely accessible, in part due to the perceived loss of potential revenue. We would like to see a commitment form the British Library to make public domain books fully available once they are free from contractual restrictions. However, we understand this entails some funding, which is not generally available.
A recent report on Funding of the arts and heritage from the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee contains one single passing reference to supporting the "challenging transition to the digital age", and some praise for the efforts of the Arts Council Collection to digitize and put their works online. There is no vision for the internet age.
Without a national strategy for the digitisation of culture, supported by an adequate mix of government and private funding, public institutions will be at the mercy of a handful of businesses, which is not beneficial for the public interest. This should be seen as money well invested in the future.
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You must have high-powered binoculars or a telescope to see Saturn's rings.
The planet Saturn is known for its distinct rings. When it is visible in the night sky, however, Saturn looks like a bright star. If you have a telescope, you will be able to see Saturn in greater detail. As the power of your telescope increases, you may be able to see Saturn's rings, moons and color bands.
Magnitude is the measure of an object's brightness in the night sky. Bright objects have low magnitudes. Because the planets reflect the sun's light, their magnitude will vary. Saturn has a maximum magnitude around -0.3. When this is the case, it is still fainter than Sirius, the brightest star in the sky. But Saturn typically has a magnitude closer to 1, which makes it brighter than the stars of the Big Dipper but fainter than the star Vega. By contrast, both Mars and Jupiter have brighter maximum magnitudes, at -2.0 and -2.7, respectively.
The ecliptic is the plane of the solar system. Like the other planets of the solar system, Saturn travels the sky near the ecliptic (see References 3). The zodiac constellations all lie on the ecliptic. Therefore, you will always see Saturn in a zodiac constellation. The exact position of Saturn in the sky depends on its orbital position. You can't see Saturn every night of the year, as sometimes it is below the horizon at night.
Saturn is perhaps best-known for its massive rings. You will not be able to see these rings with the naked eye. If you use a small telescope with at least 25x magnifying power, however, you should be able to see the rings. At first, they may look like small blurry ears around the planet. As you increase the telescope size, you will be able to see the rings with increasing definition.
Saturn has more than 60 moons. If you have a 2-inch telescope, you should be able to see Saturn's biggest and brightest moon, Titan. The moons will appear as small dots around Saturn. As the strength of your telescope increases, you will be able to see an increasing number of Saturn's moons.
Saturn is a gas giant planet. To see the contrast between bands of gas on Saturn, you must have a fairly high-powered telescope. In fact, even at high powers, this contrast will only show faint traces of color. Without a filter, Saturn appears in a pale, yellowish brown color. If you have color filters, you can use them to display more contrast and subtle color changes.
Murmson, Serm. "What Does Saturn Look Like in the Night Sky?" Synonym, https://classroom.synonym.com/saturn-look-like-night-sky-31660.html. 26 September 2017.


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India pumps in liquidity; bonds see profit-taking after initial rally
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is likely to pump 360 billion rupees ($4.95 billion) into money markets in October this year. It has also pledged to buy back government bonds... #indiapumpsin
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is likely to pump 360 billion rupees ($4.95 billion) into money markets in October this year. It has also pledged to buy back government bonds as part of a bid to quell fears of a credit crunch cascading through the economy.
The latest move came after the government announced a borrowing target of a gross 2.47 trillion rupees ($34.08 billion), with higher-than-expected earnings from its small savings scheme helping to reduce its borrowing needs by 700 billion rupees.
In response, Indian bond yields dropped sharply to their lowest in more than a month on Monday morning, but profit-taking and a falling rupee pushed yields higher towards market close.
The benchmark 10-year bond yield fell as much as 12 basis points to 7.90 percent in opening deals, its lowest level since Aug. 29. But it closed down just 3 basis points at 7.99 percent.
"Markets are cheering after a long time. The cut in borrowing and the (bond buying) open market operation have both helped equally," said Harish Agarwal, a fixed income trader with First Rand Bank in Mumbai.
"But I fear profit booking will keep it between 7.95-8.00 percent levels," he added.
The RBI is widely expected to raise interest rates on Friday at the conclusion of its two-day monetary policy committee meeting.
The RBI said its latest steps followed an assessment of "durable liquidity" needs and the seasonal growth in currency in circulation ahead of upcoming holidays in India.
The auctions would be conducted during the second, third and fourth week of October, the RBI said. The RBI said the sum of 360 billion rupee for open market operations was indicative and it retained the "flexibility to change it, depending on the evolving liquidity and market conditions".
In the currency market, the partially convertible rupee was a whisker away from its record low of 72.99 per dollar touched last month. Having touched an intraday low of 72.97, the rupee ended at 72.91 per dollar, down 0.5 percent from its previous close.
The rupee continues to be the worst performing Asian currency in 2018 having lost 12.4 percent in 2018.
Global crude oil prices, at their highest since November 2014, have been weighing on rupee sentiment as the country imports more than two-thirds of its oil needs.
Traders are also watching how the dollar is faring against other Asian currencies, and the trend in flows in and out of share markets for cues.
(With inputs from Reuters)


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The latest events in the economic and political markets are having an increasing impact on the cryptocurrency sector, which is seeing a growing number of new users who were not previously familiar with digital assets. Blockchain project Onfo, known for its social experiments, has published the results of its new study, aimed at showing how quickly cryptocurrencies have been spreading in different countries in Q2 2020. This time, 700 users from the US, Great Britain, Germany, China, Russia, Indonesia, and Brazil took part in the experiment, receiving coins for registering in the system and telling other people about the cryptocurrency.
The results were quite unexpected. In the CIS countries, which include Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan, a record level of cryptocurrency distribution among new users was reached in a month. According to the research results, on average, one active crypto user from the CIS attracts 62 new users to the industry, who subsequently create their own crypto wallets. In Indonesia, this figure is 58, in Brazil 56, and in China 53. In the USA, Germany and the UK, the number of users attracted is significantly less at 17, 6 and 8, respectively.
Onfo has previously noted a higher level of cryptocurrency spread in developing countries compared to the developed ones. The same was revealed in CoinMarketCap study. The platform showed the countries with the most user growth, including India, Pakistan, Colombia, Canada, and Nigeria. What's more, independent research also found that Bitcoin trading volumes on the African continent have increased since April. Significantly, this was the same time that many countries took isolation measures.
The same connection with Covid-19 is observed in Nigeria, which is the most trending country in recent months, with a 60% increase in April. Not surprisingly, since the suffering of the economy and national currency creates favorable conditions for the growth, popularity and price of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Moreover, according to data from Blockchain.com, Peru, India, and Indonesia are also among the countries with the biggest increase in the number of new crypto wallets. A report published by Arcane Research and Luno shows that African countries such as Uganda, Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana and Kenya are among the top 10 countries with the most searches for Bitcoin and cryptocurrency year-round.
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In addition to developing countries in Africa and the Middle East, cryptocurrency adoption is growing in many European countries. For instance, over 1,000 locations in Slovenia are now accepting payments in cryptocurrency, including cafes, restaurants, dentists, hairdressers, and hotels. Sydney Ifergan, honorary advisor of Hong Kong International Blockchain Association and founder of The Currency Analytics, explained the growing popularity of such solutions by the growth in demand for online payment services in cryptocurrency.
"Every day it becomes more and more obvious that cryptocurrency is becoming an integral part of the daily life of an increasing number of users around the world. Growth is especially visible in developing countries, where users' confidence in their currency, and its stability is similar, so people are looking for alternatives for payment and investment. If this trend continues, then we can talk about crypto adoption in the world in the next 15-20 years."
In addition to economic factors, the restriction on travel abroad, which still applies to residents of most countries in connection with Covid-19, may also contribute to the growth of user interest in cryptocurrency. The attitude of states towards cryptocurrency is also changing. For instance, a positive trend is observed in the countries of Eastern Europe, in Russia, where cryptocurrency was accepted at the state level and legalized for investing and trading. Thus, users' interest in a new way of earning money has been mounting against the background of the fall in the national currency rate and the difficult economic situation in the country as a whole. A similar economic situation is now being observed in China, Brazil, and Mexico, where a growing number of people who lost confidence in local authorities are withdrawing money from banks and investing it in cryptocurrencies. This may account for the high prevalence of digital money in these countries.
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Madsen machine gun
Danish Madsen M1902 - 8x58mmR Danish Krag
Portuguese Madsen machine gun - 7.92x57mm Mauser. This is a typical example of the later-type Madsen, including the double-feed magazine (which can be identified by the reinforcement plate at the end). The strange-looking vertical green thing on the magazine is a spring-like metal band with a pointed tip: the Madsen magazine has no feed lips, and the tip of this spring retains the cartridges when the magazine is detached and also acts as a magazine catch. Note the coat of arms of Portugal on the side.
The Madsen is a Danish magazine-fed, recoil-operated light machine gun. Designed in the period from 1883-1901 by Julius A. Rasmussen and Theodor Schoubue and named after the Danish Minister for War at the time, Colonel Vilhelm Herman Oluf Madsen, it is the first light machine gun adopted in any meaningful quantity, being adopted by the Danish Army in 1902. It was used by Russian cavalry during the Russo-Japanese war and later as an aircraft gun by the Imperial Russian Air Service, by Germany during the WW1 (as the "Leichte Automatische Muskette M15") prior to the adoption of the Maxim MG08/15, and by the Norwegian Army and Nazi Germany during WW2. It was ultimately sold in 12 different calibers to 34 countries.
The principles of the gun date back to a series of black-powder and smokeless powder self-loading rifle prototypes produced starting in 1883. The final design was patented by Lieutenant Jens Schouboe on behalf of the Dansk Riffel Syndikat in 1901 (sometimes leading to him being credited as the inventor in older sources), and after a brief hiccup of trying to run a machine gun with black powder cartridges, entered production.
The operating cycle of the Madsen is one of the most complicated machine gun actions ever devised, using a mixed recoil operating system built around a copy of the lever-action Peabody Martini breechblock. The block in this design, unlike most machine guns, performs none of the actions of extracting or loading. Instead, extraction and cartridge ramming are performed by two separate mechanisms, which are operated by cam grooves in a "switch plate" mounted to the inside of the receiver: the block tilts up on the rearward stroke of the barrel assembly to provide access for the extractor mechanism, which ejects the spent casing downwards, and tilts down on the forward stroke so the rammer can push a new cartridge into the breech from the top-mounted magazine: the net result is an action which is incredibly compact, only requiring about 1.3 inches of travel to cycle a 3-inch long cartridge. In spite of all this insanity going on inside it, the Madsen had an enviable reputation for reliability in most calibers (the Norwegian 6.5x55mm Swedish Mauser version being a notable exception). The barrel and action form a single group that can easily be removed from the weapon by pulling out a single pin and hinging the trigger group down, functioning as a fairly rapid barrel change system. Charging is accomplished with a crank-like non-reciprocating charging handle on the right side of the receiver, though this is only pulled back rather than rotated. Unlike most other top-loading machine guns, the Madsen is sighted along its centerline, with the magazine offset to the left to allow this. One interesting aspect of the Madsen is because it uses a gravity-assisted feed and its feeding lips are part of the gun rather than the magazine, it is possible to simply drop loose rounds into the magazine well and have the weapon fire them with no magazine fitted (up to four at a time). The original Madsen used 25-round single-row magazines; some sources also give magazine capacity of 30 or 33 rounds, while period documents and survive examples suggest that only ubiquitous used magazines capacity was in fact 25 rounds. Later modifications, starting with the M22, received double-row magazines, which made it possible to use a large capacity for 30 and 40 rounds with smaller overall dimensions. For use on armored vehicles, an 80-round drum was developed, as well as a separate version with a belt feed.
Despite being comparatively expensive to manufacture due to the complex mechanism, the Madsen had an incredibly long service life with over a hundred variants produced, the last in 1950 featuring a quick-change barrel. Amazingly, it appears to still be in service today, with 7.62mm NATO guns retired by the Brazilian Army in 1996 used by military police units in Rio de Janeiro State. While it was supposed to have been retired in 2008, police Madsens were seen in video footage taken in 2018.
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Type: Light machine gun
Caliber: 12 different calibers, including 8x58mmR Danish Krag, 7x57mm Spanish Mauser, 6.5x55mm Swedish Mauser, 7.92x57mm Mauser, 7.65x53mm Argentine, 7.62x54mmR, .30-06 Springfield, 7.62x51mm NATO, .303 British
Weight: 20lbs (9.07kg)
Length: 45 inches (1,143mm)
Barrel length: 23 inches (584mm) (many other lengths available)
Capacity: 25, 30, 40-round box magazine, 80-round drum magazine, belt-fed
Fire Modes: Semi-auto / auto (350–450 rpm)
The Madsen Machine Gun and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:
Young Eagles (Noored kotkad) Estonian soldiers M1916 in 7.62x54R caliber 1927
A Hill in Korea Chinese soldiers 1956
Reptilicus Danish soldiers Danish M/48 in 7.92x57 caliber, on bipod and tripod 1961
The Thin Red Line Japanese soldiers Stand for Type 96 or Type 99 1964
The Eighth (Osmiyat) Bulgarian soldiers and resistance fighters Supposedly in 7.92x57 caliber 1969
The Black Angels (Chernite angeli) Bulgarian poice Mounted on motorcycle 1970
The Stolen Train (Otkradnatiyat vlak) Dimitar Buynozov Damyan 1971
Les Morfalous French soldier 1983
Tango & Cash Seen in hangar 1989
Seven Years in Tibet 1997
April Captains (Capitães de Abril) Seen in DGS headquarters; Portuguese version in 7.92x57 caliber 2000
April 9th Danish soldiers 2015
Batalion Yanina Malinchik Dusya Grynyova 2015
Colonia A Chilean soldier 2015
The Lost City of Z German soldiers 2017
Bors Seen in barracks; Ep.15 1968
And Quiet Flows the Don (Tikhiy Don) Roman Danilin Podkhorunzhiy Khristonya In 7.92x57 mm caliber 2015
Porco Rosso Pirate 1992
Golden Kamuy - Season 1 Ep. "Grim Reaper" 2018
Battlefield: 1918 2004
World of Guns: Gun Disassembly Madsen Machine Gun with bipods and stock support 2014
Battle of Empires : 1914-1918 "Madsen" 2014
Verdun "Madsen" 2015
Battlefield 1 "Madsen MG" 2016
Battlefield V "Madsen MG" Dutch version; added with Tides of War Chapter 4 (2019) 2018
Beyond The Wire "M1902 Madsen" 2021
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Irene Pacheco est un boxeur colombien né le  à San Juan de Uraba.

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Passé professionnel en 1993, il remporte le titre vacant de champion du monde des poids mouches IBF le  après sa victoire par arrêt de l'arbitre au  contre Luis Cox Coronado. Pacheco conserve son titre à six reprises puis s'incline face à l'arménien Vic Darchinyan le . Il mettra un terme à sa carrière de boxeur en 2007 sur un bilan de 33 victoires et 2 défaites.

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THE U.N. & AGENDA 21:
Imagine a scenario, where the place, the time and the participants have the allure of an international thriller, involving leaders of countries from around the globe, including a U.S. President, conspiring with an evil organization bent on total world domination and the destruction of the American way of life.
The place was Rio de Janerio in June of'92. There were 108 heads of state that came to the sunny beaches of Brazil to betray the allegiances of their governments. A total of 172 countries had representatives at the United Nations conference on Environment and Development, also known as, "Earth Summit". President George Bush (senior) was the presiding president representing the U.S. at this summit of sedition.
It only took 10 days, but the U.N. and these evil-doing dignitaries ingeniously concocted the most authoritarian plan to control the world ever seen. They were going to execute this diabolical task by convincing the global
population that the earth is in the midst of an environmental apocalypse, that we are doomed to certain destruction, and that they have the plan to "SAVE THE WORLD." All the world would have to do is capitulate. Their collectivist code word to complete this objective is "sustainability," economically and environmentally.
There were five major documents to come out of this conference:
The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development
The Statement of Forest Principles
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity
On many differing levels these new agreements induced leaders and non-governmental organizations into this scheme to usurp the authority of legitimate governments and the rights of the individual. Immediately, all of these declarations had obvious positive results, until the negative effects became evident to citizens in local communities. Modernized Nations noticed a loss in industry and economic freedom concerning trade, production, and consumption. The most menacing of the five binding works is the comprehensive plan on sustainability, titled "Agenda 21."
"A21" is the document formatting the framework that will be the foundation of a new and very powerful international bureaucracy, which will regulate everything. Trade, manufacturing, development, lifestyle, and all natural resources will be the domain of this newly constructed and centrally controlled global government. This new entity will be to the U.N. what the Commerce Clause is to the U.S. federal government. The U.N. calls it their Comprehensive Action Plan.
Most people do not understand the consequences of obligating ourselves to international treaties. The impact of this summit alone threatens the sovereignty of our country. Treaties ratified by the U.S. Congress, and signed by our president, are legally contractually binding on our people. Congress ratified, and Bush signed this informal treaty to come out of "Earth Summit" called, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change "UNFCCC." However, that nonbinding treaty set the precedence for future environmental agreements that are legal obligations.
Agenda 21 has 40 chapters broken up into 4 sections, with each section defining the progression of levels designed to slowly erect this "New World Order."
Section I is SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DIMENSIONS. This section establishes international agencies to redistribute wealth from the first world nations to the third world nations. It also deals with keeping records on consumption patterns on the populations of the different countries involved in the plan. When this data is collected it will then be used to change the consumption habits and develop what the U.N. believes is a
more "sustainable"way to feed, clothe, and house a nations people using international welfare& healthcare programs. There will be set standards for what every individual can and cannot consume and how much.
The world's population will change through demographic relocation. Global systems will use the data derived from all the corresponding agencies to make everyone in the world socially and economically equal.
Here is a direct quote: "The resulting systems of integrated environmental and economic accounting (IEEA) to be established in all member States at the earliest date should be seen as a complement to, rather than a substitute for, traditional national accounting practices for the foreseeable future."
The U.N. will institute new intrusive mechanisms to measure and analyze poverty and its relations to the environment. Those of us in wealthy countries will have to forfeit some of our hard earned wealth to our brethren who live in poor countries---all because of the U.N.'s perverse sense of fair. People are going to lose control of their property, the public lands and the natural resources of their home country---all to serve and sacrifice as global citizens in this new global village.
Section II is CONSERVATION & MANAGEMENT OF RESOURCES FOR DEVELOPMENT. This section describes the political apparatus the U.N. will use to apply control of Earth's atmosphere. They have developed an integrated approach to the planning and management of land resources, deforestation, desertification, while promoting "sustainable" agriculture, mountain and rural development and the conservation of biological
diversity. They will assume charge of protecting the oceans, all enclosed and semi-enclosed seas, and all coastal areas. The Agenda mentions "broad and multidimensional" means to achieve these goals without precisely laying out the details.
Agriculture, Fishing, Forestry, and Mining are the base industries of any economy. The real purpose of Section I & II is to regulate commerce and the four base industries of every country, thus taking full control of their economy. Whoever controls a country's economy controls that country. This is the first step in their action plan. The next step will be to accomplish these goals by infiltrating governments on the local level, such as your city or town, using section III & IV and another U.N. initiative called "Local Agenda 21" or "LA21". In part two of this series I will describe...............
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