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Interpretation Note: 2018-09 (October 2019)
Unpaid Claims and Reporting Requirements
Registered parties and associations have long been required to report certain unpaid claims in their financial returns, but changes to the Canada Elections Act ("CEA") in 2015 have led to inconsistencies in reporting. Some parties and associations declare all their accounts payable at the fiscal year-end, while others declare only accounts that are past due. This interpretation note clarifies the meaning of unpaid claims under the CEA and how the reporting requirements apply.
A claim is a debt owed by a political entity for expenses incurred or loans obtained.
For the purpose of providing a statement of unpaid claims in a registered party's or association's annual financial return, a claim for an expense is classified as "unpaid" from the day it is past due until it is paid in full.
For other reporting purposes of a registered party or association, including providing a statement of by-election expenses in an annual financial return or a statement of general election expenses, a claim for an expense is classified as "unpaid" from the day it is incurred until it is paid in full.
When no due date is specified on an invoice or written contract, a claim for an expense is deemed to be due on receipt of the related property or services.
A loan is classified as "unpaid" from the day it is obtained until it is paid in full.
In accordance with the CEA, registered parties and associations must report the following details about unpaid claims in their annual returns:
all claims for an expense that are past due as of December 31
all loans that have not been paid in full as of December 31
additional information on claims, including loans, that remain unpaid 18 or 36 months after their due date
previously reported unpaid claims, including loans, that have been paid in full since the last fiscal period
The most directly relevant provisions of the CEA in the context of this interpretation note are as follows.
For registered parties:
A person who has a claim to be paid for a debt of a registered party must send the invoice or other document evidencing the claim to the registered party or one of its registered agents. (s. 427)
A financial transactions return of a registered party must set out a statement of assets and liabilities in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, including a statement of:
claims that are the subject of proceedings to recover an unpaid amount, and
unpaid claims, including those resulting from loans. (s. 432(2)(e))
The statement of unpaid claims must include each unpaid claim in the statement for the previous fiscal period that has been paid in full since that statement was provided, and each claim that remains unpaid 18 or 36 months after the day on which it was due. (s. 432(6))
A claim, excluding a loan, must be paid within three years after the day on which the payment is due. There is an offence for failing to pay the claim within this time period. (ss. 428, 497.1(1)(g))
For registered associations:
A person who has a claim to be paid for a debt of a registered association must send the invoice or other document evidencing the claim to the registered association or one of its electoral district agents. (s. 475.1)
A financial transactions return of a registered association must set out a statement of assets and liabilities in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, including a statement of:
unpaid claims, including those resulting from loans. (s. 474.4(2)(d))
The statement of unpaid claims must include each unpaid claim in the statement for the previous fiscal period that has been paid in full since that statement was provided, and each claim that remains unpaid 18 or 36 months after the day on which it was due. (s. 474.4(6))
A claim, excluding a loan, must be paid within three years after the day on which the payment is due. There is an offence for failing to pay the claim within this time period. (ss. 475, 497.2(1)(j))
Analysis and Discussion
History of legislation
Until 2015, registered parties and associations only needed to report claims that were disputed or might be the subject of an application to the Chief Electoral Officer or a judge. This included claims that remained unpaid past the statutory deadline, which was six months after the claim's due date. When Parliament passed Bill C-23 in 2014, the statutory deadline was extended to three years after the claim's due date. The bill repealed the provisions that deemed unpaid claims to be contributions after a certain period, and replaced them with an offence for failing to pay claims by the deadline.
Bill C-23 also introduced more stringent reporting requirements for unpaid claims. As a result, registered parties and associations now have to report:
unpaid claims as of December 31
additional information on claims that remain unpaid 18 or 36 months after their due date, including whether they are the subject of a legal proceeding or a dispute, whether there is a repayment schedule in place, and whether an unpaid amount has been written off by the creditor
unpaid claims from the previous fiscal year's statement that have since been paid in full
The goal of increased reporting is transparency—for example, a long overdue claim could signal an attempt to circumvent the contribution rules, or it might raise concerns of potential undue influence by a claimant to which the political entity is indebted.
The CEA does not provide a definition of "unpaid" in the context of claims. Before 2015, registered parties and associations were only required to report loans, claims past the six-month payment deadline, disputed claims and claims for which an invoice was sent more than three months after the expense was incurred.
After the provisions changed in 2015, Elections Canada, registered parties and associations still sometimes interpreted an unpaid claim as a claim that was past due. This appeared to meet the objectives of the CEA, since transparency was provided for claims that might be linked to avoidance of the contribution rules or undue influence. At other times, Elections Canada, registered parties and associations operated under a reading of the CEA where an unpaid claim was any claim that had not been paid, even if not yet past due.
In examining the legislation, it is possible on the one hand to conclude that Parliament intended for there to be a difference between a claim and an unpaid claim. For example, paragraph 432(2)(e) requires that a financial transactions return set out a statement of the party's assets and liabilities, including a statement of:
(i) claims that are the subject of proceedings under section 429, and
(ii) unpaid claims, including those resulting from loans made to the registered party under section 373.
The meaning of a claim is suggested by sections 427 and 475.1, which state that a person who has a "claim to be paid for a debt" must send an invoice or other document evidencing the claim to the registered party or association. A claim could therefore be understood as an amount owing; once an amount is paid, there is no longer a claim.
On this reading, it would be redundant for an "unpaid claim" to also be defined as an amount owing. Looking at the reporting requirements, where a registered party or association is required to report on "claims that remain unpaid 18 or 36 months after their due date," the due date might be viewed as relevant to when a claim is categorized as unpaid. Therefore, an unpaid claim could be defined as an amount owing that is past due.
On the other hand, in accounting terms, unpaid claims are best understood as accounts payable. By that definition, an unpaid claim would be a claim that has not yet been paid in full at the fiscal year-end. Expenses incurred before year-end for which no invoice has been received would be reported using accrual accounting.
This second interpretation is supported by looking at political financing requirements for elections and contests. The wording of the unpaid claims provisions for candidates, nomination contestants and leadership contestants after an event is substantially the same as it is for registered parties and associations in their annual returns. As a result, a single interpretation could be expected to apply to all political entities.
For candidates and contestants, there is a clear relationship between campaign expenses–which must be reported in detail as paid, contributed or transferred, or unpaid–and the statement of unpaid claims. Registered parties are also required to report election expenses this way, whether paid or unpaid, and for by elections this reporting occurs within their annual return. If unpaid claims were only those debts past due, the link between unpaid expenses and claims would break, complicating the reimbursement of expenses paid after the return is filed but before their due date.
What is more, candidates and contestants must open a bank account exclusively for their campaign and close it "once all unpaid claims and surplus [campaign] funds" have been dealt with (s. 476.65(4), 477.46(4), 478.72(4)). The account is meant to be closed when all financial obligations are met. However, if unpaid claims were only those past due, the accounts might be closed before campaigns had paid claims with a long payment deadline.
Another important consideration is that some claims, including some loans, have no specified due date. If unpaid claims are interpreted as being only those past due, invoices with no due date or due dates far into the future—precisely the types of expenses for which transparency is required—would not be detailed in annual returns of registered parties or associations. They would be captured only in the broad category of accounts payable and accrued liabilities. Furthermore, loans with no due date would be reported in the fiscal year in which they were obtained, but no details would be provided in subsequent fiscal years if the loans remained unpaid.
Finally, it may be useful to consider the meaning of "unpaid" in other parts of the CEA. In most cases it is clear that the ordinary meaning of the word is to be applied. For example, a cost incurred is an expense incurred by a registered party or candidate, "whether it is paid or unpaid" (s. 376(4)). There is no middle option. As well, a person may commence proceedings to recover an "unpaid amount" if the registered party or association disputes that it is payable (ss. 429, 475.3). There is no indication that the person must wait until the invoice is past due to begin recovery. In these cases, the meaning of unpaid stands for itself without definition.
Definition of an unpaid claim
In deciding between the two interpretations above, Elections Canada considered the objective of the CEA to ensure transparency and the extent to which the same language is used for the unpaid claims provisions of different political entities. It was felt that transparency and especially coherence were better served by an interpretation of an unpaid claim as any claim that has not been paid in full. This also accorded with the ordinary meaning of the word. An interpretation to that effect was put forward in a draft version of this note in November 2018.
However, comments received from registered parties during the consultation period must also factor into Elections Canada's final interpretation. In their comments on the draft note, some parties argued for a purposive interpretation of the legal provisions. They contended that reporting hundreds of claims not yet past their due date would not help Elections Canada identify transactions that might in fact be non-monetary contributions. At the same time, the process of identifying and reporting on all amounts owed, including accrued expenses, would add a significant burden. Some parties also raised concerns about confidentiality and privacy, as employees of the party or association with unpaid expense claims might have their names and amounts due to them disclosed in the year-end reports without furthering the objectives of the regime.
In light of considerations outlined on both sides of the debate in the initial note, and the subsequent representations of registered parties, Elections Canada has revisited its draft interpretation. The goal of the CEA is to provide transparency, and Parliament's changes in 2014 reflected an intention to ensure that all unpaid claims, including loans, were clearly reported. However, it is also true that unnecessary reporting that creates a burden on participants without appreciably furthering the goal of transparency does not reflect Parliament's intention.
In the circumstances, it is appropriate to interpret the provisions in a way that ensures transparency without imposing unnecessary additional reporting requirements. To achieve these goals, Elections Canada interprets the provisions as follows.
When registered parties and associations prepare their annual financial returns, they must include a statement of unpaid claims, including loans. A claim for an expense is classified as unpaid from the day it is past due until it is paid in full. A loan is classified as unpaid from the day it is obtained until it is paid in full. In order to protect the goal of transparency, when no due date is specified on an invoice or written contract, a claim is deemed to be due on receipt of the related property or services. This interpretation ensures that no unpaid claims will be unreported indefinitely.
This interpretation applies only to the statement of unpaid claims in a registered party's or association's annual financial return. It does not apply to other reporting by a registered party or association, including providing a statement of by-election expenses in an annual financial return or a statement of general election expenses, or to reporting by candidates or contestants. In all of those cases, a claim is classified as unpaid from the day it is incurred until it is paid in full. This is so that a statement of expenses for an election or a contest gives a complete picture of the event. Otherwise, unpaid election or contest expenses that were not yet past due would fail to be captured and counted against spending limits.
Date Modified: May 12, 2020


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Q: TCP Client does not get reply for Socket.Send from Virtual Machine I have a TCP Client which communicates over network to a Server running on a virtual machine, now the virtual machine has the guest operating system as IBM OS 4690 and the host operating system as Linux.
Occassionaly, the TCP server application running on the guest OS restarts. It seems to call the socket close correctly before restarting.
Once the restart happens, when the client tries to do a Socket.Send, it gets no response from the server.
If the server was running oh physical hardware, the client was able to detect a connection reset through TCP Error 10054. This does not appear when the server is running on the virtual machine.

A: Your TCP client should be prepared that Send request will not be answered at all. Imagine a situation when TCP client sends data and server machine is suddenly restarted (or loses power). Client application will not get any TCP RST flag (error 10054).
For instance, you can add re-transmission logic your application protocol to handle such situations.
It can be something like this:

*- client Sends data

*- if no response for predefined time or connection closed - repeat request (data send).

*- if number of attempts exceeds some value (say 5), declare server unavailable.

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What's in a plant name?
Many plant species go by multiple common names, so botanical names help it all straight
What's in a plant name? Many plant species go by multiple common names, so botanical names help it all straight Check out this story on courier-journal.com: http://cjky.it/1Iy5qFN
Louisville Published 6:55 a.m. ET Jan. 9, 2015 | Updated 7:05 a.m. ET Jan. 9, 2015
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A name would seem to be such a simple thing; a pet's name, a person's name. Heck, Cher probably deserves an award for nomenclatural succinctness! But plants ... they've always been a different story.
Common plant names are amazing keepers of regional kitsch but are about as precise as a sledge hammer. Some plant species are known by scores of common names depending on where one gardens, leading to endless confusion. This is the reason professionals, and an increasing contingent of casual gardeners use botanical names. By and large, each plant species has one botanical name no matter where you put your spade in the ground. In addition, these Latinized monikers can carry a great deal of descriptive information.
Way back before our friend Linnaeus created the binomial naming system we all learned about in grade school, plant names were a bit of a nightmare. They weren't so much names as they were Latin descriptions. Some "names" were known to run to 15 or more Latin terms that would translate literally to something along the lines of "great big tree from up north with pointy leaves and fuzzy, nut-like things that the squirrels bury in your attic." Just imagine what plant labels would look like. And plant catalogs ...
But since Linnaeus, all plants are designated initially by two terms. The genus segregates plants into large groups — such as maple (Acer), oak (Quercus) or lilly (Lillium). The members of each genus tend to share similar traits, especially traits related to reproductive structures. All maples bear seed in those little helicopter thingies (technically, a schizocarp ... but more on that in another column). All oaks bear seed in the form of acorns. All citrus members have fruit that resembles an orange or lemon.
The second term in Linnaeus's binomial system is referred to as the specific epithet. Sugar maple in botanical Latin is Acer saccharum; red oak is Quercus rubra. The two terms together define what we refer to as a species. For a parallel closer to home: Homo sapiens — that would be us.
Now the genus terms are sometimes descriptive, such as Lithocarpus (hard seed) or Daphnephyllum (leaves like a daphne). But often they are not at all descriptive. Sometimes genus names come from botanists naming new plants in honor of a sponsor or fellow scientist/explorer. That's how we end up with Franklinia alatamaha, named by William Bartram in honor of his friend Benjamin Franklin.
Still others can have epithets that refer to geographic locations as in green ash (Fraxinus pennsilvanica). Occasionally, the line leading from a name's origin has been lost to antiquity, so they seem like they just drop out of thin air.
But if one has an even rudimentary knowledge of Latin language (or, for that matter any of the romance languages), a fair amount of information can often be divined from the specific epithet. It's not hard to make the connection between Acer saccharum and the reason for the nomenclatural sugar reference. And Quercu rubra — would you be surprised to know that it has a reddish hue to the wood as compared to the lighter colored wood of Quercus alba — white oak?
Of course, rubra and alba are easy examples. So are words like columnaris, repandens and horizontalis. But other terms can leave the casual gardener scratching his/her sunburned head. Reniformis ... that's kidney shaped. Cirrhosus ... that's "terminating in a spiral," a la the tip of a Dairy Queen ice cream cone. Isn't Latin fun?!
Well now that you're rapt in wonder, where does one turn for all this awesome information? There are numerous books out there that you'll just have to add to your library. Botanical Latin by W.T. Stearn is a standard reference that contains some 500 pages of page-turning botanical linguistics and is one of the best sources to ensure that at your next cocktail party you aren't caught without your humorous ensiformis!
Yew Dell Botanical Gardens is at 6220 Old La Grange Road, Crestwood, Ky. Information: www.yewdellgardens.org.
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Previously on "Getting Steamed:"
I met Beverly Bonner as she prepared to use some of my comedy material for a stage show she was producing. I had invited friends and family to the show. My spider-sense was tingling, because I wasn't sure that the show was going to be good. In the end, it was what it was.
I wrote a long email to one of my writer friends, one who hadn't been able to attend the show, to vent:
Oh. Man.
At first I was disappointed about you not being able to attend the showcase last night. Now, I'm relieved.
It was a train wreck.
A train wreck that my wife and kids witnessed. And our best friends. And some co-workers. And even a 2nd cousin.
My-oh-my. The woman who runs the show, Beverly Bonner, was like watching someone in drag doing Moms Mabley. I date myself, but that's the only parallel that exists. It was overly-ambitious yet under rehearsed. She didn't even pick my strongest sketches; Two commercial parodies in a sea of commercial parodies.
Maybe two people had any potential for sketch comedy. Only couple of sketches approached clever. And much use of the words "penis" and "vagina." And their synonyms. Not necessarily in context.
Entirely too much use of an off-stage narrator/announcer. Two female actors looked alike and wouldn't know how to project their lines to the last row if they had bullhorns surgically attached to their faces.
It's the first time two of my bits were done on stage. One was simply weak. At only a page and a half it came off too long. The other might have potential in the hands of people possessing comic timing. The third piece was one I've done before and back then it was in the hands of a limited actor who was still able to nail it with the help of a very fine actor opposite him. Last night, it was about as flat as a tortilla on Jupiter (denser gravity) while being amazingly over-played. But at least you could hear them in the back row.
They had several musical numbers. The appearance of a cello player during one musical act may have been the highlight of the evening.
Bonner, the woman running the show, has been endlessly complimenting me on my sketches but after seeing some of the other things she selected, I have to question her ability to judge. Some of the stuff was bawdy for bawdy's sake, and amazingly random.
I'm kicking myself for breaking my long-standing rule of not allowing the worlds of Writer Dan come into contact with Option Clerk Dan. I never in the past would have mentioned any shows that I was involved in to my co-workers. And there were some pretty good shows. But for this thing I let my guard down. Oy.
Everyone keeps asking me how I met this Beverly person; I respond "Craig's List." So let that be a lesson to all: Beware the internet. Another lesson; if you're going to produce a weak stage show, DO NOT put in an intermission which will give half the audience the opportunity to escape.
It was a cringe-inducing, head-shaking evening. It's the first time in a long while I've been involved in anything like this. I was getting desperate to re-join the creative community and maybe got my hopes up.
Bonner repeated her thoughts about me writing some material for her and her new partner (yes, she's attempting to launch a career as part of a middle-aged/black/Asian Nichols & May type of act, only with more use of the word "booty"). I guess I might consider it, but I'm at a lost as to what I could come up for them. The possibility of pay was brought up, so that's something to consider. On the other hand, she asked me to look over her opening monologue and she never sent that, so we'll have to see how she is on follow-through.
I did not meet the cast last night. The show started late, ran long and I had to get wife and the kids started on the long schlep back to Staten Island. And I used that as my justification for just slipping out. Should make for an interesting email exchange later on. In retrospect, I should have simply sent everyone home, slapped on a smile and faced the cast. But I was really, really bummed out and fled. Not very considerate. I'll have to figure out my approach on that.
Realistically, what was I expecting? I knew it wasn't going to be SNL. But, I dunno, something with a glimmer of potential, the seeds of a possibility? Raw talent looking for an outlet. She said she was attempting to form a group geared toward Baby Boomers, but the demographics didn't hold. A couple of performers were too young. They had one guy do a couple of rap songs which baby boomers so love. Another girl did a couple of Broadway tunes. And the band featuring the cello.
Seriously, the funniest part of the night may have been my bio entry in the "playbill." (which I had volunteered to copy and fold).
Family and friends have been kind but realistic with constructive feed-back. Our writer friends were naturally sympathetic to the results and at least I didn't have to explain it to them.
Well, now that I've vented, I guess I'll have to shake it off and soldier on.
The cast was unable to breath life into most of the material, and even my Barber sketch was dragged down. It's one of my sketches that I've seen on its feet and it worked every time.
My wife kinda nail it. She called Bonner "a cartoon." She was an outgoing, bigger-than-life character and my life is very small, and I just was uncomfortable around her.
I began to sense this wasn't going to lead to much. Bonner was writing me to say she was disappointed with the Head Writer. She felt he dropped the ball as head writer. Meanwhile, the Head Writer wrote me and felt Bonner had fallen down on her duties as producer and actor.
But here's where I learned a couple of things about Beverly Bonner; she was a hustler. She was always putting together that next show. She would team up with other talented people to attempt success as a comedy team. She worked to form comedy troupes. She had a public access cable show. She set up shop at the Broadway Comedy Club and made that her base of operations. And she was a fan of my material. It was around here when I learned about some of her past, and her acting career in horror movies.
In the end, I got a couple of bucks from the show out of the box office. I was wary of her, but I didn't shun her either. She continued to ask for sketches every so often and was using some in scaled-down showcases she was producing at the Broadway Comedy Club. That was fine. It didn't interfere with my life and it wasn't hurting me or costing me money. She dropped me a note in 2012; she was teaming up with another performer and thought I could write some material for her. She had an "Adam and Eve" bit she had started and wanted to know if I could punch it up. I did that. But, after a while, she kinda faded out of view.
A while later I answered another Craig's List. Someone looking for comedy sketches!
What happened? Tune in next time...


Fundraiser by Gioia De Cari : Truth Values: Help Mentor Students!
Truth Values: Help Mentor Students!
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Q: How to remove Java icon in Print Dialog on Java 7 I'm trying to do:
PrinterJob pj = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
pj.printDialog();

and want to change the Java Icon on the modal print dialog window (or even remove it) but I can't seem to.
The following SO question seems to answer it for Java 6, but even with the information provided in the following StackOverflow answer for Java 7 I was not able to resolve. I could not find the appropriate constant to remove it.
Does anyone know how to do this for Java 7 specifically?

A: The code you specified will only work if the attribute sun.print.DialogOwner() is supported by PrinterJob.
PrinterJob.java is an interface. getPrinterJob() has to be implemented by some printing service class. This class is specified as a system property"java.awt.printerjob". getPrinterJob() simply return a class defined under that system property
String nm = System.getProperty("java.awt.printerjob", null);
try {
   return (PrinterJob)Class.forName(nm).newInstance();
}

So ultimately it all depends on whether that Class that is returned supports that particular attribute.
You can use isAttributeCategorySupported  to check whether an attribute is supported. Click on "Print" to see the result.
 Frame f = new Frame();
DialogOwner dialogOwner = new sun.print.DialogOwner(f);

PrinterJob pj = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
boolean ok = pj.printDialog(aset);

System.out.println( "Result : " + dialogOwner.getName() + " supported : " + pj.getPrintService().isAttributeCategorySupported(dialogOwner.getClass()) );

// Result : dialog-owner supported : false

Attributes that are supported can be found in the link below.
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/javax/print/attribute/standard/package-summary.html
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/jps/spec/attributes.fm5.html
sun.print.DialogOwner.java is not part of the list above. It is not part of the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP). Therefore it is not supported.

A: PrinterJob pj = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
// Create an Attribute set
 PrintRequestAttributeSet aset = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();

// A different way to bring Up Native Dialog from Java
aset.add(sun.print.DialogTypeSelection.NATIVE);
// Looks like this class is being moved to javax.print.attribute.standard for Java 7

// To Remove the Icon from the dialog provide an owner.
Frame f = Frame();
aset.add(new sun.print.DialogOwner(f));

pj.printDialog(aset); // The dialog should not have an icon now.

A: As suggested in the comments of the linked question, you should try
aset.add(javax.print.attribute.standard.DialogTypeSelection.NATIVE);

Take a look at DialogTypeSelection for more details
Updated with Example
The example doesn't use the icon from the parent frame, which would be nice, but does get rid of the default Java icon from the print dialog...

import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.print.PrinterJob;
import javax.print.attribute.HashPrintRequestAttributeSet;
import javax.print.attribute.PrintRequestAttributeSet;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import sun.print.DialogTypeSelection;

public class TestPrintDialog extends JFrame {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        TestPrintDialog window = new TestPrintDialog();
        window.setVisible(true);
    }

    public TestPrintDialog() {
        setIconImage(new ImageIcon("NotJavaIcon.png").getImage());
        this.setSize(200, 100);
        this.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        this.setLayout(new FlowLayout());

        JButton printDialogButton = new JButton("Print Dialog");
        printDialogButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
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Thinking About Leaving Your Career in Tech?
If you're thinking about leaving your career in tech, you're not alone. In fact, women leaving their jobs in IT is happening at near epidemic numbers, with more than half of women abandoning the field by the time they reach mid-career, an alarming statistic that's more than double the rate of men.
Leaving Behind My Own Career in Tech
If you're thinking about leaving your career in tech, I know just how difficult struggling with this decision is. I know because I was there myself not too long ago.
At the time, I had invested over a decade of my life into my job as an IT executive. My lifestyle as an IT exec was characterized by very little balance, high stress, and a good amount of career dissatisfaction.
And so, like many other IT women, I found myself in the challenging position of deciding whether to stay in the field I had put my blood, sweat, and tears into for over 10 years, or whether it was time for me to leave behind this high-stress life to pursue work where I felt more empowered and authentic. Because as a female IT leader, almost every day felt like a battle to prove my competence and demonstrate that I could cut it in a field that's largely designed for men. This on top of the extreme demands of the job itself.
Turns out that the struggle women face in IT is a common byproduct of the cultures found in many tech shops, which are often set up in ways that make women feel like outsiders (the "brogrammer" cultures that are so infamous in tech, more on that later).
Even so, when it came down to it, actually leaving my career in tech behind was one of the toughest decisions I have ever made.
It was difficult because of how hard I had worked for my success. And, I knew that problematic IT cultures generally only change when leaders on the inside are willing to challenge the dynamics that create the inhospitable work conditions that so many employees deal with every day. But ultimately, I felt I would have a greater ability to influence tech cultures by going in a different direction.
With that, I left my job in early 2017, without knowing exactly what I would do next. What I did know was that I needed time to unpack what I had experienced during my IT career, and to reflect on ways I could use these experiences to influence the field in a new way.
This led me to pursue a second masters' degree in cultural anthropology, where I spent the next several years studying how corporate power structures negatively impact the careers of women and other underrepresented groups across male-dominated fields like IT. I now combine my anthropology education with my business and IT background to help women navigate the conditions that lead so many of them to abandon their tech careers at a time when their voices are needed more than ever to ensure the industry evolves in a more inclusive and representative direction.
Why So Many Women Leave Their Careers in Tech
One of the most validating aspects of studying oppressive work cultures during my anthropology education was that I learned my experiences in IT were not personal.
I learned that women leaving their careers in tech is happening at near epidemic numbers, with more than half of women abandoning the field by the time they reach mid-career, an alarming statistic that's more than double the rate of men.
So why is this happening? Turns out that the single largest driver of IT turnover was determined in a 2017 study by the Ford Foundation and Kapor Center for Social Impact to be the unfair treatment of workers, particularly women and other members of underrepresented groups, with 62% of workers who leave their IT jobs citing unfairness as a primary factor in their decision to move on.
So what causes this pervasive perception of unfairness? A primary reason is undoubtedly the Chilly Climate that exists in many IT shops, a term which was first coined by archaeologist Alison Wyle in 1994. The Chilly Climate exists in the inhospitable work environments women often face when working in male-centric fields, which has the effect of perpetuating their ongoing marginalization.
How Does Your IT Culture Impact You?
See if any of the characteristics of a Chilly Climate sound like what you're experiencing in your IT job:
Your work and ideas are consistently devalued or attributed to your colleagues or to luck.
You feel excluded from your department's networks and communication circles.
You're interrupted more often than your male colleagues, and your ideas are more likely to be discounted.
You experience different criteria for hiring and promotion.
You spend more time defending your decisions, and you get passed up for the best projects.
There's a tolerance for sexist comments about women's tech abilities, and you may have even experienced sexual harassment.
If any of these dynamics ring true, rest assured that they're likely not personal to you. In fact, these dynamics are common across many male-dominated fields, including IT, and they function to maintain the status quo of existing power structures.
Unfortunately, toxic IT environments have devastating consequences for women's career trajectories.
Consequences like women being clustered in lower status jobs, with career paths and comp systems that look very different from those of their male counterparts. When their contributions are routinely dismissed or discounted, women's confidence is significantly affected, resulting in disproportionately high levels of imposter syndrome which can negatively impact the ways they show up at work.
These combined factors lead many women to become frustrated and more likely to abandon their careers. And, alarmingly, when women leave tech, it reinforces the stereotype that women can't cut it in IT, which only serves to strengthen the many biases they face.
The Brogrammer Culture
If some of these descriptions track with your experiences, you're in good company.
In her groundbreaking book, Brotopia (2018), Bloomberg reporter Emily Chang painstakingly traces the origins of the harmful and false IT stereotypes that the best tech employees are young, white, and male. These tech "superstars" are often valued for their risk-taking tendencies and hyper confidence, traits which became especially coveted by IT companies during the height of the tech boom in 2007 when the PayPal mafia (made up of all men) was heralded as the model for tech innovation.
These harmful stereotypes have caused many tech organizations to bias their hiring and promotion decisions towards men fitting these profiles, which forms the foundation for the "brogrammer" cultures characterized by a fraternity-style, boys-club environment.
But, it's worth noting that these sought-after hyper-confident, risk-taking traits have nothing to do with actual performance. In fact, many of the traits typically associated with female workers, including empathizing with customers, bringing forth good listening and communications skills, and displaying strong collaboration capabilities, are more closely associated with strong outcomes in tech organizations.
Despite these data, the IT stereotype favoring men continues to persist and be reinforced, with companies emulating the "brogrammer" culture as the ideal to be sought. And, as long as IT organizations keep emulating this harmful type of harmful work culture, women will continue fighting an uphill battle for an equal bite of the apple.
The Negative Impacts of Hustle Culture
Gender biases are not the only issue women face in tech organizations.
Recall that I stated earlier that the model tech worker is idealized as young, white, and male.
Youth is so coveted in tech companies because of the rampant existence of Hustle Culture in the IT industry, a work style made popular in Silicon Valley and characterized by the expectation that workers dedicate their entire waking lives in service to their jobs, regularly putting in 100-hour workweeks. Hustle culture glorifies the idea that work is a virtue worthy of committing one's whole life to. Relationships, self-care, and other human needs like sleep are of lower priority, leading to a normalization of performative workaholism. As Elon Musk of Tesla famously said, "Nobody ever changed the world on 40 hours a week."
Working in this type of climate is only achievable by a minimal number of people, typically young, uncommitted workers, and people whose personal obligations can be managed by life partners, which is more often the case with men than women. By contrast, when women begin having families or have to attend to priorities outside of work, they may feel they have no choice but to leave the IT field for lack of perceived options to accommodate their shifting life priorities.
Okay, so there's the summary of why the tech industry has such a problem retaining women. And, while it's great to have this background to explain the challenges IT women face, it doesn't do much to help if you're working in a toxic environment with no solution in sight for navigating these very real obstacles. And that's where career coaching for women in IT can help.
How Career Coaching Can Help
Typically, the tech women I see in my coaching practice are fed up with their work environments and want to leave their careers in tech. They may not be fully aware that their experiences are shaped by systemic dynamics that permeate across many IT organizations.
Often, developing an awareness of these industry-wide dynamics, and devising a strategy for dealing with them, is a necessary first step in charting the best path forward.
While career transition (taking a new job in IT) or career transformation (changing industries) are viable While career transition (taking a new job in IT) or career transformation (changing industries) are viable options for addressing oppressive IT environments, another frequently overlooked option is devising a plan for effectively managing biased work conditions.
Such strategies, including developing allyships, tapping diversity and inclusion resources your company may already have in place, and forming Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) can be excellent ways to build the support and platform you need for navigating your challenges. Often, mobilizing like-minded resources within your organization can begin the education process needed to address biased cultures and behaviors. Depending on your circumstances, customized strategies for navigating your specific challenges can be created with the right career guidance for women in tech.
So before you decide to leave your IT career, consider hiring a career coach for women to help you vet all available options for moving forward (learn more about my coaching services here). This will lessen the chance that you'll end up in yet another oppressive tech environment, feeling just as frustrated as you are now. Doing so will help you explore the full range of career options and will give you the best shot of landing somewhere where you'll truly be happy.
Chang, Emily. 2018. Brotopia: Breaking up the Boy's Club of Silicon Valley. New York: Penguin Random House.
The Ford Foundation and Kapor Center for Social Impact. 2017. "Tech Leavers Study: A first-of-its-kind analysis of why people voluntarily left jobs in tech."
Wylie, Alison. 1994. "The Trouble with Numbers: Workplace Climate Issues in Archaeology." Archaeological Papers of The American Anthropological Association, Vol. 5, No. 1.
Yueh, Jedidiah. 2017. Disrupt or Die: What the World Needs to Learn from Silicon Valley to Survive the Digital Era. San Bernardino, CA: Lioncrest Publishers.
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Learning about the BMW R50
While BMW might be more synonymous with luxury cars today, that hasn't always been the case. The automaker got its start manufacturing airplane parts, a fact that is commemorated in the current hood emblem on their cars. However, they also had quite a presence in the world of motorcycles. The BWM R50 was one of the most iconic bikes to ever hit the road.
Differences Between German, American and British Motorcycles of the Era
There are many things that set BMW's motorcycles apart from those produced in the US or the UK. For one, they were nimble and agile, much smaller and less "beefy" than those produced by American companies like Harley Davidson. That meant they were easier to handle, and designed more for performance than for "road thunder".
They were also better performing than many of their British counterparts, which were marked by loud engines, and a very vibration-riddled ride. Many UK motorcycles also had a tendency to develop oil leaks. The R50, and other bikes from BMW, didn't suffer from these flaws. Like the company's cars, the R50 and later R50/2 and R60 were solid, high-performance machines marked by traditional German precision engineering.
The BMW R50 was produced from 1955 through 1960 and featured a 500 cc engine producing 26 hp. It was eventually superseded by the R50/2, which debuted in 1960 and ran through 1969. This new model produced the same horsepower.
The top speed wasn't at all that impressive by today's standards, when a motorcycle can attain 150 mph in a matter of just a few seconds. The R50's top speed was just 87 mph, and it weighed 429 pounds. The engine, while noted as a 500 cc model, was actually a 494 cc OHV horizontally-opposed twin model that pushed out its maximum 26 hp at 5,800 rpm.
While the engine and speed were certainty part of the bike's popularity at the time, it's the style that keeps this aging motorcycle so popular with riders and collectors. It's low-slung, with short, stubby handlebars and a large rear wheel cover. The motorcycle also had an optional side car available through the manufacturer at additional cost, which allowed you to carry another passenger or a small amount of luggage.
The headlight sat low, directly in front of the handlebars, and you'd find the speedometer mounted right to the back of the light. The fuel tank extended about ¾ of the length of the engine, before you came to the seat, which looked like it would be more at home on a bicycle than a motorcycle. Interestingly, both the headlight and the projecting tail light offered storage space for spare parts, or other items you wanted to take along on the drive.
To the side of the engine was the foot shifter, which allowed the driver to switch through the four gears (with a 5.33 / 3.02 / 2.04 / 1.54 gear ratio).
Today, there are very few BMW R50 models left on the road. Most have been relegated to the scrap heap or sit in the garages of collectors, tributes to a bygone era.
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It's the end of the year, and you know what that means: music publications published their year-end coverage approximately one to three months ago. We here at SportsAlcohol.com do not have a list of our 200 Favorite Albums That Came Out Between January and Mid-October, though we will have some individual write-ups of songs we love throughout the rest of the month and maybe into January. But Marisa, Sara, Rob, and Jesse did sit down to talk about our faves (and other opinions) from this year in popular musics. (They also took selfies. See above.)
For our best music of 2017 wrap-up, we decided to take a different tactic and take a roughly chronological trip through the various live shows we all attended, together and apart, throughout the year, and let the discussion spring from there. You'll find out who we went to see because we're afraid of death, whose live show exceeded their disappointing album(s), which band(s) Sara cannot deal with right now, and which show got Rob feeling real emotional in a rough year.
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Eleanor Friedberger used to live in my neighborhood. I'm pretty sure I passed her walking down my block once. Other people I've passed on the street in my neighborhood include Craig Finn and Ray from Girls, which is to say I might be priced out of Brooklyn before I'm done writing this. Back when Eleanor Friedberger lived in my neighborhood, she played a show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, just south of here; the vast majority of times I've seen her play, either as a solo act or as part of her band the Fiery Furnaces, have been in Greenpoint (here, until I get priced out) or Williamsburg (just south of here, until I get priced out). At that Music Hall of Williamsburg show, I was in the front row, and toward the end of her encore during the song "My Mistakes," she lowered herself from the stage onto the floor, using me and the guy next to me to help herself down. Offhand, I would call that brief moment the most intimate one I've shared with a professional rock and roll musician, especially if that sex dream I had about Shirley Manson doesn't count. (It doesn't count.) That moment, combined with passing her on Calyer Street, combined with the time I saw the Fiery Furnaces play at a club a block away from my old apartment that no longer exists (before you ask: both. The club no longer exists, and the apartment no longer exists, at least in the form it did when we lived there), combined with the lyric in "Owl's Head Park" about posing for a photo on Manhattan Avenue, has lodged Eleanor Friedberger firmly into my head as one of the New Yorkiest of indie rockers. It's a selfish distinction; she feels like New York City to me because I know that she knows my New York City – even if most of her New York references talk about further-flung places like Coney Island, Roosevelt Island, and Owl's Head Park, places I go maybe once a year if ever; Owl's Head Park being someplace I went mainly because of the song.
Those New York references I shouldn't care that much about continue with "False Alphabet City," her new single that doesn't appear on her new album New View. She recorded it for some kind of film-based art project (oh, New York) but it stands alone just fine, even for a New Yorker who rarely finds himself in Actual Alphabet City. The way it starts with a stuttery creep throws back to her Fiery Furnaces days; the way the guitar swings in after seconds feels like a veer away from the Furnaces' weirdness (though their pop instincts, occasionally deployed, were not too shabby). Where it really opens it up is its New York City sentiment: "Everyone's searching for their own letter in the false alphabet city." She'd know better than most, having spent over a decade in the city and only recently decamped for upstate. The NYC-centric lyrics, plus the tempo and instrumentation, don't really fit in on New View, so it makes sense that it was left off; you wouldn't want the best song on an album to be one that sounds nothing like the rest of it.
For most of her show last night at the Bowery Ballroom, I didn't think Eleanor Friedberger was going to perform "False Alphabet City." She played every song on New View, and had to play some older stuff, too (impeccably chosen), which didn't seem to leave much room for a one-off single based on an art project. But she played it, late in the show, telling the crowd it was for us. That would sound like a cheesy rock-star sentiment coming from a lot of singers, but one of the more remarkable things about Eleanor Friedberger is the way she combines real, sometimes inscrutable charisma (that voice, those mysterious bangs) with a slight hesitation – she's not a wild dancer on stage, but when she moves with her music, it looks natural and sincere. So when she tells me and a couple hundred other people that a song is for us, I believe her, no questions asked, even if I don't see her around anymore.
Eleanor Friedberger is out on tour in support of New View right now.
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THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS: BIBLIOGRAPHY AND BIOGRAPHY IN BROOKLYN (JUNE EDITION)
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They Might Be Giants is playing a show on the last Sunday of every month of 2015 at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York. Marisa and Jesse have been going to these shows and reporting on each one. Here is the sixth installment of our TMBG musical biography, which was a kids show. We usually don't go to the kids' shows, but the fact that Marisa is pregnant a) means that they're trying to pack in every live concert they can before the baby makes them cut back on these kinds of outings, and b) makes them look like they're less likely to be kidnappers.
Kid shows are a whole different jam. They're more chaotic than punk shows, with an audience that truly does not give a fuck about how attendees are supposed to behave at a concert. If they're bored, they will let you know about it. Here, the babies react to the TMBG set.
They Might Be Giants at the Music Hall of Williamsburg: 6/26/15
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They Might Be Giants: Bibliography and Biography in Brooklyn (April Edition)
May 28, 2015 Jeremy	Leave a comment
Jeremy's headshot looks better than the rest of ours because he is the type of talent that warrants a professional headshot. You can see and/or hear him do improv on the regular in New York City, and on some of the commercials that play in your web browser, but only the good ones.
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They Might Be Giants: Bibliography and Biography in Brooklyn (April Edition) - May 28, 2015
They Might Be Giants is playing a show on the last Sunday of every month of 2015 at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York. Marisa and I have tickets to all of the Williamsburg shows that have been put on sale so far, and we will be reporting on each show. Here is the four installment of our TMBG musical biography, arriving just before the May show, where the band will play all or most songs from their 2007 The Else. For the April show, which spotlighted the band's new record Glean, comedian, actor, writer, and SportsAlcohol.com contributor Jeremy Bent of Brooklyn takes up the TMBG-notation pen.
1. Can't Keep Johnny Down
Great kick-off. "Can't Keep Johnny Down" feels like it's part of the "Modern TMBG Era" Canon. I've heard it frequently at shows over the last few years, and I'm never sad to hear it. It's got that classic TMBG DNA of irresistible melody and weird lyrical content.
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Some people who make a new claim for these benefits will get Universal Credit. Between 2013 and 2022, most people claiming the old benefits and tax credits should be transferred onto Universal Credit.
You can use an online benefits checker such as the benefits calculator at www.turn2us.org.uk.
Income-based Jobseeker's Allowance is for people working less than 16 hours a week who are looking for work. You may also be able to get help towards your mortgage. There may be a time limit of 104 weeks on the help with your mortgage.
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You can claim Pension Credit once you have reached the qualifying age. The amount you are entitled to depends on your income. There is an extra payment called Savings Credit if you or your partner are 65 or over. This rewards you for having modest savings. The amount you get will depend on how much money you have saved. You may also be able to get help towards your mortgage.
The Savings Credit part of Pension Credit will end for people who reach State Pension age on or after 6 April 2016. Some protection will be given to couples who were already getting Savings Credit on 6 April 2016.


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Imagine how blind we were before the data. The question now for brand managers is what to do with all the new knowledge. Big data in marketing circles often refers to the enormous amounts of data that businesses collect from marketing campaigns, customers, and business leads collated through different channels.
However, when it comes to Southeast Asia, the picture is not the same. Marketers face a dearth of consumer insights due to our shorter history of digital advertising and fewer digital touch points, compared to Western markets. As a result, brands find it harder to observe and pick up fast-changing consumer habits in this region.
Driving Data and Digital OOH
Driven by big data, out-of-home (OOH) advertising is experiencing a renaissance globally, especially with digital out-of-home (DOOH) due to its versatility as a digital touch point. Formerly seen as the "last broadcast medium" targeting people on the move, DOOH's capability is its ability to not only to reach – but actually target – the young, urban population that might otherwise be difficult to achieve through traditional media.
The numbers speak for themselves. Out-of-Home advertising is now a US$29 billion market with revenue expected to grow by 3 to 4 per cent per year over the next five years to reach US$33 billion by 2021, according to the MAGNA Intelligence and Rapport study. Although digital OOH contributes only 5 per cent of the global OOH inventory, it already generates 14 per cent of total advertising revenues and is expected to grow to 24 per cent globally by 2021. The exposure weekly to DOOH per capita has significantly increased from 8 minutes in 2008 to 20 minutes in 2017.
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Behind the screen is IDOOH's big data architecture to 'capture all'- from location, time, taxi details, previous location prior to engagement and campaign attributes. We also capture location and movement of the fleet which provides data on historical and real-time which can be used in the data analytics.
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JiWire, San Franciso-based location-based mobile media company, is now using data to show just how close the connections are between our physical location and our behavior.
Named the 'Location Graph', the data provides a unique look at how people's behavior is interconnected with their locations and each other.
In looking at whether we are creatures on habit, always traveling in the same circles, and other behaviorisms, some of the findings from the Location Graph include:
60% of women eat at the same three restaurants each month;
Moms who go to the zoo also tend to frequent beauty salons, child care centers, counseling services and restaurants;
23% percent of people who go to Peet's Coffee and Tea also go to Starbucks.
And are people loyal shoppers? Well, JiWire found that 43% of those who shopped at a Best Buy also shopped at a competitor's location
"The Location Graph offers deep insights into user behaviors, some more expected than others," says David Staas, interim CEO of JiWire. "We all know that people tend to travel in similar circles, and it was extremely exciting to actually see what those patterns looked like, Using location, we can see how similar audiences tend to exhibit the same patterns and compare them to other audience segments – like moms vs. dads vs. students, etc.. The ability to find and create look-alike audiences is going to completely revolutionize the way people think about mobile and location."
JiWire's data includes more than 3 billion location tags and continues to grow by more than 16 million per day – a rate that will effectively double the database over the next six months. With that information they are able to build an anonymous profile of a person based on their past and present location. For example, a mobile user may visit a children's park, grocery store, zoo and maternity store within a given month, qualifying that user as a parent. JiWire's then incorporates third party data and a machine learning algorithm to continually refine and improve the profile. To date, it has profiled over 500 million devices across the network. This patent-pending process seems to be the most sophisticated form of audience targeting that the mobile industry has seen.
JiWire managements says that the result is a win for users and advertisers alike: consumers see ads that are more relevant and advertisers are able to reach the right audience on mobile in with the right message. Beta testing partners have seen a 30% increase in click-through rates in ads that use Location Graph data and big brands, like Microsoft and Comcast, have already started taking advantage of this information.
"I think using location, not just present location but present and historical location, is a smart way to define an audience," says Phuc Truong, managing director at Mobext, a mobile media planning agency with offices in 15 countries. "JiWire's latest solution appears to fill a void in the marketplace for mobile marketers."
JiWire notes that defining audiences on mobile is nothing new – most mobile audiences are defined by using content as a proxy or using geofencing. However, it claims that both have significant limitations: content targeting is only able to target based on content or web category, not individual user behavior. According to JiWire, location itself is a better proxy for intent, because where a person has been is more important than the mobile apps or websites they visit. Geofencing, on the other hand, is one-dimensional and has a great deal of waste: it assumes that everyone in a geofence is a customer and people are only 'in market' when near a store. It is also limited in scale and misses the opportunity that potential customers are also potential customers outside the geofence. JiWire can now provide deep insight into consumer patterns – similarities, frequency, loyalty, and more for brands or anyone using the Location Graph.
"JiWire's Location Graph is a huge step forward in moving beyond geofencing physical locations to apply location history as a means of gaining insights into discrete audiences," says Gabriel Cheng, group head of media solutions at Ansible Mobile. "The additional context provided by location history, coupled with the other targeting criteria we rely on, is a great example of how innovation can add to proven methodologies and ultimately elevate the true value of mobile. This is poised to be a game-changer for the mobile ad industry."
The Location Graph is certified by TRUSTe, provider of privacy management solutions. This partnership ensures people's safety and privacy on mobile devices. The TRUSTed Mobile Ads privacy management solution allows anyone to easily opt-out if they do not want to receive targeted ads. Additionally, the program guarantees that all data is stored and handled in a way that protects the user's privacy.
"TRUSTe is excited to partner with JiWire and help power this innovative mobile advertising solution which benefits businesses and consumers by providing highly relevant advertising in a privacy-friendly fashion," says Chris Babel, TRUSTe CEO.
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From Mondialisation.ca,
The 14 sept. 2006 – Couple Rio News
Afghanistan once again breaks all opium production records, poised to flood Europe with premium heroin.
According to data recently released by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (ONUDC), opium poppy cultivation has increased by 59 % this year to achieve 165.000 hectares, against 100.000 in 2005, the overall harvest of raw opium expected to amount to 6.100 tons.
To this we must add that this year, according to Afghan experts, opium is particularly rich in morphine: it only takes 7 kg of raw opium to make one kg of heroin.
This ratio is exceptionally rare. Usually, making one kg of heroin requires 10 at 15 kg d'opium. So, the 4.000 tonnes of raw opium harvested last year in Afghanistan, still according to the UNODC, allowed to produce 400 tons of heroin. This means that with the current morphine content of opium the 6.100 tons of raw opium could yield more than 870 tons of heroin. An absolutely fantastic figure.
It's easy to imagine how many tonnes of this high-quality hard drug will hit the Russian and European markets in 2006. Especially since in Afghanistan the scheme including the opium harvest, its transformation into morphine and heroin and, finally, the export of opiates to consuming countries via reliable routes is regulated like music paper.
The question is whether or not it is possible to stem the flow of Afghan drugs.
In Afghanistan, control mechanisms are absent, whether they are economic or military mechanisms. As for the international anti-terrorism coalition and the international security assistance force (ISAF), they need a special UN mandate to carry out opium poppy seed destruction operations and heroin laboratories.
United States, who lead the anti-terrorist coalition, or NATO, who sponsors ISAF, will never go to the UN Security Council for the necessary mandate. Especially the United States which, unlike ISAF, have no UN mandate in Afghanistan. What's the use of falling out with the locals, especially since the Russian and European problems related to Afghan drugs are completely foreign to them? "Rising drug production in Afghanistan explained by growing demand in Europe and Russia. To eradicate the problem, joint efforts of Russia and Western Europe are needed in Afghanistan", notably estimated the US Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld.
Illusions about possible ISAF assistance dispelled by UNODC director, Antonio Maria Costa, at an international Afghan drug conference in Moscow. In his opinion, the experimental engagement of ISAF troops mobilized in 2005 to destroy opium poppy crops and chemical laboratories by 2005 did not have the desired effect and increased tensions with the local population. ISAF assistance will now be limited to logistical support and training of Afghan personnel.
M. Costa also dispelled the myth of "drug trailers" who roam Afghanistan under the beard of the United States and ISAF. The "caravans" existent, just it's not about drugs, but of its precursors. The precursor is a reagent used in the manufacture of a toxic chemical. To turn a ton of raw opium into heroin, it is necessary, according to experts, 2 at 6 tonnes of acetic anhydride.
On the 4.000 tonnes of raw opium, Afghanistan imported more than 10.000 tonnes of acetic anhydride, specified M. Costa. A real "caravan", because we must 500 trucks 20 tonnes to transport this quantity of chemical agents.
Acetic anhydride is not of Afghan origin. Today, according to experts, this chemical is only made in China, in India and Russia. It remains to be seen how these "caravans" manage to go unnoticed in an Afghanistan with underdeveloped road infrastructure and in neighboring countries.
Beginning of July, the Afghan authorities had to admit the ineffectiveness of the measures applied in the country to curb the illegal manufacture of narcotics. New law on combating drug production passed last year, just like the ministry specially created for this purpose, were of no help, and the problem remains.
How to solve it? A UNODC coordinator for Central Asia said that "despite the efforts of the Central Asian governments, transit through this region is not decreasing".
Afghan opium continues to spread despite everything. Russia and Western Europe have only hope with the annual extension of 50% opium poppy seeded areas, the area of cultivable land in Afghanistan will shrink. Nowadays, on the 7 million hectares of cultivable land, only 165.000 have been highlighted.
Article from www.mondialisation.ca HERE
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