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504th PIR Friendly Fire Tragedy in Sicily
On the night of July 11 after the Battle of Biazza Ridge, many men of the 505 bore witness to a horrifying incident involving the 504th PIR. Bill recorded what he saw in a letter to his sister:
"[On July 11 at night]…our own navy… shot down 27 transport planes killing 410 paratroopers, who were coming in to reinforce us." Source: William Clark, letter dated June 13, 1945
Years later, in an interview after the War Bill told his friend, Herd Bennett about the incident:
"He was lying in a fox hole watching the 504th make the jump. He states that he laid on the ground and saw many of the C-47 transport planes (they were bringing the paratroops in) blasted out of the air by American artillery that thought they were German airplanes." Source: Herd L. Bennett as told to him by William Clark, August 19, 1999.
For Bill, the worst thing next to witnessing his friend's death, was the shooting down of planes from 504 by the US navy. Bill had seen a lot of good men and close friends die that day, but the SNAFU by his own forces was overwhelming. It could have been avoided in his opinion, and now Bill was to watch as they needlessly died.
These were sentiments shared by other troopers who occupied his position on the ridge that night:
"Sergeant Raymond Hart, with Company H, and his men watching from Biazzo Ridge could see 'troopers jumping out of burning planes. Needless to say, we felt like we had lost the war. More than one man cried that night.'" Source: "Four Stars of Valor: The Combat History of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment in World War II", Nordyke, P., 2006 p. 91
General Gavin was also on Biazza Ridge and remembered what he saw:
"It must have been ten o'clock at night when all hell broke loose in the direction of the beaches. Antiaircraft fire was exploding like fireworks on the Forth of July, tracers were whipping through the sky, and as we were observing the phenomena, the low, steady drone of airplanes could be heard. They seemed to be flying through the flak and coming in our direction. Everyone began to grasp their weapons to be ready to shoot at them. A few of us cautioned the troopers to take it easy until we understood what was going on. Suddenly at about 600 feet the silhouettes of American C-47s appeared against the sky – our own parachute troops! Some seemed to be burning, and they continued directly overhead in the direction of Gela. From the damaged planes some troopers jumped or fell, and at daylight we found some of them dead in front of our positions." Source: "On to Berlin", Gavin, J., 1978, p. 42
"Later we learned that it was the 504th Parachute Infantry that was being flown to a drop zone near Gela to reinforce the 1st Infantry Division. General Ridgway had been there to meet them. Unfortunately, the Germans had sent in parachute reinforcements on the British front to the east the same night. In addition, there had been German air attacks on our Navy, so when the parachute transports showed up, our ships fired at them, and twenty-three were shot down and many damaged." Source: Ibid.
Major Mark Alexander commander of 505th PIR 2nd Battalion had been misdropped along with his troops far too the southeast of Gela. On the night of July 11 was perfectly placed to see the shooting:
"After dark when we hit the coast road again, we could see the invasion armada in the water off Gela. From our strung-out position along the coast road, we saw two German bombers fly in, bomb the fleet and fly off. I'd say about two minutes behind them came 48 C-47s carrying the rest of the 504th paratroopers. They came in at roughly the same altitude and from the same direction as the German bombers.
"The navy opened fire. From where I was, I could see the planes were our own, but the navy got excited and just kept shooting. Finally they stopped, but they had knocked down 23 planes. Some of them were able to make a hard landing on Sicily, but a whole bunch of men were killed. Even the 45th Division got in on the shooting. They thought the Germans were attacking." Source: "Jump Commander" Alexander, M. and Sparry J, 2010 pp. 86-87
504th PIR Paratroopers aboard their C-47 Sent to Reinforce the 505th PIR, July 11, 1943
Source: "United States Army in World War II Mediterranean Theater of Operations: Sicily and the Surrender of Italy" Garland
A., etal., 1993, page 137 retrieved May 4, 2011 from http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-MTO-Sicily/USA-MTO-Sicily-6.html
The cost of the friendly fire incident to the 504th was 81 killed, 16 missing, and 132 wounded. Source: "Four Stars of Valor: The Combat History of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment in World War II", Nordyke, P., 2006 p. 91
The 52nd Wing of the Army Air force was flying the 504th troopers. They suffered 7 men killed, 53 missing, 30 wounded and 23 C-47s lost. Source: "Valor Without Arms: A History of the 316th Troop Carrier Group, 1942 – 1945". Ingrisano, M. 1991 p. 23
In Bill's 1945 letter he states that 27 planes were shot down and 410 paratroopers. He wasn't far off on his estimation of the number of planes lost. Given the date of his letter and his ability to get accurate information, his estimate of the number of men killed wasn't too bad either.
As Major Alexander noted, minutes before the C-47s appeared, the Navy's ships were attacked by Luftwaffe bombers. Furthermore, the Navy had been under attack all day. Messerschmitt ME 109 fighters had strafed some ships, while others had been bombed by Junkers Ju 88 medium bombers and Heinkel He 111 heavy bombers. The navy fired on the C-47s because they thought they were under another attack.
"The persistent enemy air attacks had one unintended result, namely the predisposition of Navy gunners to fire at any aircraft, frequently before identifying them." Source: "Operation Husky: The Allied Invasion of Sicily, 1943" Nutter, T. 2003 http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwii/husky/naval1.aspx?p=7
American Ships Under Air Attack off Gela During the Day of July 11
Source: "United States Army in World War II Mediterranean Theater of Operations: Sicily and the Surrender of Italy" Garland A., etal., 1993, page 167 retrieved May 4, 2011 from http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-MTO-Sicily/USA-MTO-Sicily-8.html
C-47 Crew Perspective
The paratrooper perspective on the ground was of harrowing disbelief. But what was experienced by the men in the C-47 aircraft was far worse. Michael Ingrisano, a C-47 pilot quotes the 316th Troop Carrier Consolidated Mission Report of Husky 2 about their experience:
"All went well until the airplanes began to enter the designated corridor. There shore batteries opened fire on the airplanes and the entire corridor became alive with deadly machine gun fire and heavy flak. The fire became so intense that the formations broke up, each airplane seeking openings through the heavy curtain of fire. The situation became more acute as the planes approached the area of the DZ. By that time there was sufficient dispersion among the aircraft that some airplanes were able to drop their troops in comparatively calm territory, one airplane dropping 3 miles from the DZ; another 7 miles; another 10 miles from the DZ; others dropped the paratroopers as close to the DZ as possible despite the intense fire, some of them making two passes, others 3 passes over the field before being able to identify the drop points through the heavy bursts of fire.
Six of the planes failed to drop their paratroopers. They felt it suicide to drop them through such concentrated fire. One ship made 3 attempts to approach the drop zone but could not because of the impenetrability of the anti-aircraft fire. Another plane, trying to escape hostile fire, was going at such an excessive speed that it could not jump its troops.
All the airplanes that were able to survive the intense accurate fire dived through the barrage and headed out to sea, over the coast in the
vicinity of Gela and Licata. There another tragedy confronted them: Our own Navy.
As rapidly as they passed over one vessel, the next one took up the fire, and so it continued some 20 miles out to sea. In desperation, the pilots expended their pyrotechnics signals, but it only aided the massacre. For some it outlined the silhouette of the airplanes in the air; to others, the flare looked like another burst of flame hitting the target. Several of the C-47s were shot down in the sea. The survivors, in most instances, were saved and taken aboard naval vessels.
There they learned to some satisfaction that there were explanations for the tragedies seemingly unnecessarily committed. Just 10 minutes before the C-47s arrived at the DZ the Germans had been dropping bombs, the 14th raid of the day. The captain of one vessel told them that inter-boat communications system had just announced 'All planes in the immediate vicinity are friendly,' when suddenly a 500 pound bomb
burst within 200 yards of the destroyer. The reaction was in the form of active retaliation. Into this the C-47s flew. One pilot, 1st Lt. Ray E. Everhart, further reports 'The crew on the destroyer seemed to know about as little about aircraft identification as I did about battleship identification.' A very good example of this: The skipper called back at one time, 'Gentlemen, you see a beautiful formation of B-17s going to
Sicily to bomb Italians.' Actually they were British Halifaxes.
Survivors who crash landed in Sicily were told that one officer was going to be relieved because he had announced over the radio and in the clear the fact that American paratroopers were expected in the vicinity between 2200 and 2400. Yet, 2nd Lt. George S.[John J.] Hoye [44th], one of the survivors states: 'Ground troops reported that they had not been warned that friendly airplanes would be over our area and had assumed planes were hostile.'
The mission was costly to the 316th Group: F/O Anderson and co-pilot Lt. Harpster [45th] concluded: 'Something should be done about
friendly naval craft firing on us. Also something should be done about flights constantly losing formations. On the whole the mission was extremely dangerous and costly whereas it had [no] reason to be. Evidently the safest place for us tonight while over Sicily would have been over enemy territory." Source: "Consolidated Mission Report, 316th Troop Carrier Group, A-2 Section, Husky No. 2", Aug. 5, 1943. As quoted in: "Valor Without Arms: A History of the 316th Troop Carrier Group, 1942 – 1945". Ingrisano, M. 1991 p. 21
Wreckage of a Douglas C-47 which crashed about 4 miles north of Palermo airfield, Sicily on October 24, 1943
(Gives an idea of what a C-47 crash looks like)
Source: fold3.com
504th PIR Perspective
The paratroopers of the 504 had their own horrendous stories to tell about the disaster. Here's one from Lt. A. C. Drew of Company F, 504:
"The pilot of my plane gave me the warning twenty minutes out from the DZ. After the red light came on, he had to give me the green light in about one minute, due to the plane being on fire.
"We jumped into a steady stream of antiaircraft fire, and not knowing that they were friendly troops. About seventy-five yards from where I landed , plane No. 915 was hit and burned. To my knowledge only the pilot and three men got out. The pilot was thrown through the window. Another plane was shot down on the beach and another plane was burning about one thousand yards to my front.
There were four men killed and four wounded from my platoon.Three of these men were hit coming down and one was killed on the ground because he had the wrong password. After landing, we found out this had been changed to 'Think' – 'Quickly'. The antiaircraft fire we jumped into was the 180th Infantry of the 45th Division. They were not told we were coming.
"We tried to reorganize, but found we didn't have but forty–four men, including three officers. We searched all night for the rest of the men. After accounting for them we took care of the dead and wounded and started toward our objective. We arrived at the 504th CP at 2:00, July 12, 1943." Source: "All American All the Way: The Combat History of the 82nd Airborne Division in World War II" Nordyke, P., 2005 pp. 84 – 85.
Post War Conspiracy Theory of Friendly Fire Cover-up
This newspaper clipping is from Bill's sister's scrapbook of the Sicilian invasion.
The article praises the ability of the Army, Navy, and Army Air force to work well together as an effective team. It's an analysis of the post invasion success, and was published on July 12 or 13 1943.
To quote the article:
"Co-ordination of the three arms in the invasion appears to have been masterfully planned and executed" .
Interestingly none of the newspaper articles in her collection say anything about the friendly fire attack. Even if the press did know about it, it's logical that they wouldn't report it.
For obvious reasons, the enemy didn't need to know about a disaster of this magnitude. Not to mention the demoralizing effect it would have had on morale for the Allied forces fighting around the world, and the populations on the home fronts. This is especially true given that Operation HUSKY was at the time the largest sea and airborne invasion ever attempted and the first successful major joint US-British attack on Hitler's "Fortress Europe".
Articles like these one would be tantalizing fuel for proponents of the alleged cover up of the friendly fire disaster. Allegations of a cover up sprang up once the American public became aware of the incident, which wasn't until sometime after the war was over.
Newspaper Article Analyzing the Successful Coordination Between the Army, Army Air force, and Navy .
Source: Dayton Herald, circa July 12-13, 1943
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UPDATE Wednesday: The National Weather Service in Buffalo cautioned travelers of possible white-out conditions as a line of wind-blown snow moved through the Rochester region Wednesday morning.
Snow squalls that the weather service anticipated could be "dangerous" moved through Monroe, Wayne, Jefferson, Cayuga and Oswego Counties Wednesday, including the local municipalities of Greece, Irondequoit, Brockport, Hilton, Webster and Brighton. A weather warning lasted until 10:45 a.m.
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The silver lining? The cold snap will be a short one.
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Home News Featured News Open house: Parallel parlour wins over robot when bringing the kids in
Open house: Parallel parlour wins over robot when bringing the kids in
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GUELPH — The Walker family's future was sealed by their kids. The 44-year-old tie-stall was past capacity and at least three kids wanted to farm.
Scott Walker runs Walkerbrae Farms with his wife Deb and their four kids Cody, Tyson, Alycia, and the youngest Justin (in high school), and Scott's mother and father, Donna and Jim, and Scott's brother Brent and his son James (in his late 20s).
But milking 120 cows in an 80-stall tie-stall was not pretty. When the kids expressed an interest in taking over, they built a freestall barn.
Walker still loves the tie-stall model and believes they are just as good as freestall barns but a change was needed because of the size of the herd. None of the kids had a desire for robots so they installed a double-10 parallel parlour. The kids say they get "enjoyment" seeing cows with full udders walking to the parlour twice a day, he said. It's also easier to expand as the Walkers would just have to run the parlour a little longer instead of installing another robot.
In reference to robots he said the kids "don't mind coming in the middle of the night to calve cows, they don't mind doing a lot of things, but they don't need to be on-call 24 hours a day. They just said 'when we're done milking at night, we want to be done until tomorrow morning.'"
The new milking system doesn't save time. It took 90-105 minutes to milk 120 cows in the tie-stall, using a pipeline system and eight milking units. It takes the same amount of time in the parlour when you include washdown. The kids wanted to be more hands-on, and weren't scared of the extra work a parlour would bring compared to robots, he said.
Milk production dropped almost 20 per cent immediately after the Nov. 27 move-in date. Walker said the drop could be linked to factors other than the new milking system, such as stress on the cows from the move. The family used TMR feed for the first time. They didn't know the proper rationing or how much the cows would eat, so it took a couple of months to get the formula right.
The rebound was also swift. The cows averaged 30 kilos of milk per day in the old barn but are now averaging 33 kilos.
"Our biggest concern the whole time we were building this thing was 'is this going to work?' " Walker said. "You spend a lot of money and you're relying on a lot of different people telling you this is going to work. But until you actually put a cow through, you have no idea. "
There are 140 freestalls on one side of the barn. On the other side are 40 stalls designed for dry cows, plus packed pens that can be used for show cows and fresh cows. Both can be easily converted to freestalls to add another 180 milking cows.
They milk mostly Holsteins but also 20 Jerseys, six Shorthorns and one Brown Swiss. It was Walker's dad who came up with the philosophy of "a cow is a good cow no matter what colour she is," said Walker. "If they're profitable and a good cow, they're a good cow."
Here are three other features they highlighted about the barn.
SAND BEDDING
The decision to switch from straw and pasture mats in the old barn to sand was a no-brainer, said Walker. They saw an immediate impact. The somatic cell count went from 350,000 to 200,000 within two months in the new barn. It's dropped to 110,000 in the last two months.
The farmers add a dump truck of sand to the bedding once a week. While Walker can't say for sure sand is the sole reason behind the healthier cows, health improvement is his favourite outcome in the new barn. Conception rates have gone up and dry cows are milking better after calving.
"I always tell everybody, there's a hell of a lot of young women out there that love to lie on a beach, so why wouldn't cows like it?" he said.
However, sand does create its own set of problems. The sand can make cleanup a headache. The Walkers have had to unplug the drain pipes once at the parlour because of sand buildup.
AFI SYSTEM
Walker said the kids are more computer savvy so they wanted to make sure the new barn had a system the younger generation would enjoy.
The parlour is equipped with the latest AFI milking computer system. Each cow has a leg band that keeps track of how many steps she takes and how many hours a day she lies down. The system also tells a farmer what day to dry up a cow, when to pregnancy check and if a cow has ketosis.
"I guess I can learn it," said Walker. "It does a lot more things than I realized it does. Yesterday it called (to tell us) we had a cow calving."
MANURE HANDLING
The Walkers were warned about alley scrapers. Some farmers reported the cables attached to the scrapes could break, while the Walkers' hoof trimmer said the cables can fray and stick in the cows' feet.
The Walkers decided to use a skid loader to scrape the manure as they already had a skid loader and could therefore keep their costs lower. Each time the cows are milking or waiting to be milked on the breezeway, someone uses the loader with a tire scraper attached to scrape the manure into a pit at the end of the barn. It takes about 15 minutes.
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I honestly can't believe we're nearly at the end of the year! I know we probably say the same thing every year but where on earth did the time go? It is truly frightening how quickly time is going.
Since I made the commitment to date nights once a week, my husband and I have done so much together! It has been such an incredible experience and while I don't want to say I wish we'd done it sooner, because I believe things happen when they are meant to, I am just so happy that we are doing it now. If a week has gone past where we haven't managed a date night due to circumstances, we really miss that time together and it feels like something is missing in our relationship.
I have just counted my posts about 'Our Date Nights' and there are 15! That's an average of 3 a week which I think is pretty good going. I can think of a few that I didn't blog about as I just didn't get there but I'm pretty impressed with us if I do say so myself. I do think next year, though, we're going to have change things a bit as it has been rather costly but I'll let you know all about that next year.
Anyway, I thought, with it being end of year it's always nice to reflect back and do a bit of a round up of the year so I have decided, to list our 5 best date nights since we have started. We are basing it on our enjoyment of the date night as a couple and our memory of our experience together. I just have to say that I did this first and without telling my husband my choices, asked him for his. And…we both chose the same! Makes me feel that we're both on the same page :))) Very chuffed by that, I must admit. So here they are in no particular order.
We loved our date night here! Besides the delicious food and the romantic setting, I just remember it being such a great night together. We have said we are going to try a new place every time we go out but we could happily go back again! You can read more about that date night here.
What I loved about this date night was that it was spontaneous and we just had such a good laugh that night. The food was also delish and was exactly what we were in the mood for. You can read more about that date night here.
What was so great about this one is that both of these experiences were new to us. We hadn't been to either one before and together they made for such an awesome date night. You can read more about that date night here.
This one was also so enjoyable as, once again, they were new to us and the chocolate tasting was something we probably never would have done if it weren't for wanting to try different things. Running in from the rain to be greeted with that Lindt hot chocolate is something I still dream about…perfection! You can read more about that date night here.
What we loved about this night away was that it had a little bit of everything. We stayed in a beautiful place, we ate good food, we shopped a little, we went on a walk in the mountain and we were in a good space together and had a great time. You can read more about that date night here.
Okay, so I know we said 5 but just had to put this bonus one in. Alhtough I didn't write about it as a date night (don't know what I was thinking!) our weekend away when we did our bike ride together was also a great one!
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Bessenbach ist eine Gemeinde im unterfränkischen Landkreis Aschaffenburg und liegt südöstlich der Stadt Aschaffenburg zwischen den Ausläufern des Spessarts.

Geografie
Der topographisch höchste Punkt der Gemeinde ist der im Naturwaldreservat Kreuzbuckel liegende Gipfel des Salzbuckels östlich von Waldmichelbach mit  , der niedrigste liegt an der Aschaff östlich von Hösbach-Bahnhof auf  .

Geologie
Etwa die Hälfte der Gemeinde besteht aus Wald. In diesem Wald gedeihen am besten Buche und Eiche.

Seit 1996 besteht zwischen dem Markt Hösbach und den Gemeinden Bessenbach, Laufach und Sailauf eine Waldarbeitsgemeinschaft.

Gemeindegliederung
Es gibt zehn Gemeindeteile (in Klammern sind der Siedlungstyp und die Einwohnerzahl inkl. Zweitwohnsitz angegeben):

Der frühere Ort Mittelbessenbach ist heute mit Keilberg baulich verwachsen.

Folgende Orte sind zwar geografisch eigenständig, werden aber nicht als offizielle Gemeindeteile aufgelistet:
 Beetacker (Gewerbegebiet)
 Gemeindezentrum

Es gibt die Gemarkungen Keilberg, Oberbessenbach und Straßbessenbach.

Nachbargemeinden

Geschichte

Etymologie und Frühere Schreibweisen
Bessenbach hat seinen Namen vom gleichnamigen Bessenbach, der durch das Gemeindegebiet fließt und in die Aschaff mündet. Im Volksmund wird der Ort Bessemich (Aussprache: []) genannt.

Die früheren Schreibweisen der Orte Unterbessenbach, Mittelbessenbach, Straßbessenbach und Oberbessenbach aus diversen historischen Karten und Urkunden:

Fusion und Eingemeindungen
Die Gemeinde wurde im Zuge der Gebietsreform in Bayern am 1. Januar 1972 durch den Zusammenschluss der Gemeinden Keilberg und Straßbessenbach gebildet. Am 1. Januar 1978 kam die Gemeinde Oberbessenbach hinzu.

Einwohnerentwicklung
Im Zeitraum 1988 bis 2018 stieg die Einwohnerzahl von 4946 auf 5694 um 748 Einwohner bzw. um 15,1 %. 2005 hatte die Gemeinde 5942 Einwohner.
Quelle: BayLfStat

Religion
Katholische Kirchen:
 St. Georg, Keilberg
 St. Wendelinus, Straßbessenbach
 St. Ottilia, Oberbessenbach
 St. Stephanus, Oberbessenbach

Politik

Gemeinderat
Der Gemeinderat hat 20 Mitglieder. Weiteres Mitglied und Vorsitzender des Gemeinderates ist der Bürgermeister. Bei der Kommunalwahl vom 15. März 2020 haben von den 4524 stimmberechtigten Einwohnern in der Gemeinde Bessenbach 2954 von ihrem Wahlrecht Gebrauch gemacht, womit die Wahlbeteiligung bei 65,30 % lag.

Bürgermeister
Am 15. März 2020 wurde Christoph Ruppert (CSU) mit 90,52 % der Stimmen zum ersten Mal zum ersten Bürgermeister gewählt. Sein Vorgänger war von Mai 2002 bis April 2020 Franz Straub (CSU).

Städtepartnerschaften
 : Die Gemeinde Bessenbach unterhält mit den Gemeinden Dury, Saint-Fuscien und Sains-en-Amiénois seit 1985 eine Partnerschaft.

Wappen

Baudenkmäler

Bodendenkmäler

Wirtschaft und Infrastruktur

Verkehr
 Die Gemeinde wird ab dem Hauptbahnhof Aschaffenburg von verschiedenen Buslinien der Verkehrsgemeinschaft am Bayerischen Untermain bedient.
 Außerdem liegt Bessenbach direkt an der Autobahnausfahrt der Bundesautobahn 3 Bessenbach/Waldaschaff und nahe der Raststätte Spessart bei Rohrbrunn.
In diesem Zusammenhang hat Bessenbach gemeinsam mit Aschaffenburg vor allem durch die sehr häufigen Verkehrsstaus auf der A3 eine gewisse Bekanntheit erlangt.

Bildung
 Staatliche Realschule Bessenbach: 652 Schüler und 50 hauptamtliche Lehrkräfte (SJ 2019/2020)
 Grundschule Bessenbach: 186 Schüler und 12 hauptamtliche Lehrkräfte (SJ 2019/2020)

Sonstiges
 Sender Pfaffenberg

Söhne und Töchter der Gemeinde

 Hans Dietrich von Gemmingen (1869–1958), königlich bayerischer Kämmerer

Literatur
 Luise Braun: Oberbessenbach – Mein Heimatdorf gestern und heute. Norderstedt 2010.

Weblinks

 Homepage

Einzelnachweise

Gemeindegründung 1972

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Amnesty International: Did $1 Billion Worth of Lost U.S. Weapons End Up in the Hands of ISIS?
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A newly declassified Pentagon audit shows the U.S. Army failed to keep track of more than $1 billion worth of weapons and military equipment sent to Iraq and Kuwait, including tens of thousands of assault rifles and hundreds of armored vehicles. The audit found improper record-keeping, including duplicated spreadsheets, handwritten receipts and a lack of a central database to track the transfers. Some of the weapons have been tracked down In Iraq, says our guest Patrick Wilcken, Amnesty International's arms control and human rights researcher. "It's very difficult to actually track individual weapons, but we have been looking at a lot of images and films of Islamic State deploying weapons and also the Shia militias that are now grouped under the Popular Mobilization Units," Wilcken says. "We have looked at what type of weapons that they are deploying, and they're deploying weapons from all over the world, including fairly recently produced U.S. weapons."
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NERMEEN SHAIKH: We turn now to Iraq, where two suicide bombings on Tuesday left over 50 people dead, including three children. Dozens were injured in the car bomb attacks in the capital Baghdad. The first occurred just after midnight outside an ice cream parlor as families were gathering to break their Ramadan fast early on Tuesday. Hours later, the second bomb detonated during the morning rush hour near a government building. ISIS has claimed responsibility for both explosions, saying they targeted gatherings of Shia Muslims. The attacks come as thousands of families continue to flee Mosul amid the U.S. and Iraqi militaries' campaign to retake the city [from] ISIS. As many as 700,000 civilians have already fled Mosul amid months of fighting.
AMY GOODMAN: This comes as a newly declassified Pentagon audit, released last week, shows the U.S. Army failed to keep track of more than a billion dollars' worth of weapons and military equipment sent to Iraq and Kuwait, including tens of thousands of assault rifles and hundreds of armored vehicles. The audit found improper record-keeping, including duplicated spreadsheets, handwritten receipts, a lack of a central database to track the transfers. The arms and equipment transfers were a part of the Iraq Train and Equip Fund, a program that initially appropriated $1.6 billion under the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act to help Iraqi forces combat the rise of ISIS.
To discuss these findings, we go to London, where we're joined by Patrick Wilcken, Amnesty International's arms control and human rights researcher.
Patrick, welcome to Democracy Now! Talk about what you found. Talk about what this Pentagon—these Pentagon documents reveal.
PATRICK WILCKEN: Thanks. Yeah, this is a kind of a worrying audit of the whole process of the supply chain of over a billion dollars' worth of equipment—a lot of it weapons, as you said—going into Kuwait and then snaking its way up into Iraq to various U.S. Army depots. And it found, as previous audits have also found, that there was no real centralized information source, so the U.S. military, at any one given point in time, could not have an accurate assessment of the quantities and the locations of equipment coming in.
And I think this is especially concerning because we have seen in previous DOD audits that the situation is even worse on the Iraqi side. Once equipment is handed over to the Iraqis, previous reports have shown that the Iraqi warehouses are disorganized. Even the Iraqi officials don't know what's in some of the warehouses. There's uninventoried equipment sitting in shipping containers in the open.
So, I think all along this supply chain there are problems and deficiencies. And why we are very concerned about this is that there is a very long history of leakage of weapons supplied to the Iraqi Army, and that leakage is going out to Islamic State and the many, many other armed groups, completely unaccountable armed groups, who are committing atrocities and war crimes, not just in Iraq, but in Syria, as well.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: And, Patrick, can you talk about where you discovered much of this American military equipment, including assault rifles, among other things, including in stores in Iraq and also for sale online?
PATRICK WILCKEN: Yes, well, we have done a lot of systematic work. It's very difficult to actually track individual weapons, but we have been looking at a lot of images and films of Islamic State deploying weapons and also the Shia militias that are now grouped under the Popular Mobilization Units. And we have looked at what type of weapons that they are deploying. And they're deploying weapons from all over the world, including fairly recently produced U.S. weapons.
It's important to note that the U.S. supplies not just its own weapons, but it ships Soviet-pattern weapons from Eastern Europe, Kalashnikovs and the like, into the theater of war in Iraq. And so, there's a very eclectic mix of weapons that's being used by the Iraqi Army that reappears in the arsenals of armed groups, including Islamic State and, as our more recent research showed, the various militias that have now been incorporated into the Iraqi Army, militias that have been themselves accused of extremely serious human rights violations, executions and torture and the like.
So, I think that, you know, the problem is serious. It's recurring. Previous audits have highlighted similar problems. And while the—Iraq is in great need of security assistance and has suffered terribly over the years with the occupation of a third of the country by Islamic State, the wave of suicide bombings that we're seeing continuing to affect Shia neighborhoods in Baghdad, that assistance has to be provided with care and caution and the appropriate monitoring; otherwise, the U.S. and other coalition members will just be pouring fuel onto the fire.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: Well, you've suggested that previous audits have also highlighted similar problems. What, in this case, has the Pentagon said they're going to do to confront the situation and to master it?
PATRICK WILCKEN: Well, I think it's very important to look historically at this. At the height of the insurgency after the U.S. occupation in 2003, the situation really got out of control at that point. The U.S. was shipping—shipped over a million small arms to the Iraqi Army to try and stanch the insurgency, and they lost track of 190,000 of those weapons. Many of the weapons weren't registered at all. There was no system for really understanding what was going in to Iraq.
And that is the key recommendation from this current report, is the same as back in 2007. There is a need for a centralized system that incorporates all the information along a very complex supply chain dealing with vast quantities of weapons and equipment. And that centralized system has to coordinate all the various U.S. armed forces and Army bases in the region, not just in Iraq, but in the supply centers in Kuwait. And without that, it's impossible, really, for the U.S. or of the Iraqi authorities to know what exactly is going in, where it is at any given point, and if it is secure, ultimately, or not being siphoned off to these armed groups that has, you know, wrought havoc and created such human suffering across the country for so many years.
AMY GOODMAN: Patrick Wilcken, as we wrap up, it sounds like weapons manufacturers and ISIS are the beneficiaries of this $1 billion worth of arms and other military equipment that the U.S. and Iraq have lost track of—ISIS and weapons manufacturers. What about reducing arms sales and the arms flow to the region?
PATRICK WILCKEN: Well, I mean, I think the situation in Iraq is very difficult. There is an acute security problem. The Iraqi Army did collapse in 2014, and the whole country was vulnerable to armed groups. ISIS was camped on the outskirts of Baghdad. So, there is obviously a key issue to address, and part of that is security assistance. I think the real problem here is how that assistance is being managed and audited. And without that, we will see that the lessons from history won't have been learned, and this sort of assistance will only come back to haunt future U.S. administrations.
AMY GOODMAN: Patrick Wilcken, we want to thank you for being with us, Amnesty International's arms control and human rights researcher, speaking to us from London.
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Nashville Recap: Season 4, Episodes 1-2
Juliette is the spectacle and flashiness that every viewer craves.
By Desiree Williams
With the fall weather upon us, we get to enjoy pumpkin spice lattes, big sweatshirts, and finally, new television shows. Within the last two weeks, fresh shows, like Quantico, and new seasons of old shows, like Grey's Anatomy, have premiered. Along with Grey's Anatomy, ABC also renewed Nashville for its 4th season, which premiered on September 23rd.
After last season's cliffhanger, all viewers wanted to see in the premiere was Deacon (Charles Esten) waking up after his liver transplant. And of course, they wanted to see Deacon and Rayna (Connie Britton) finally be together without anything standing in their way. The writers granted wishes… sort of. Deacon does wake up. He and Rayna plan to get married. However, Deacon's sister, Beverly, remains in a coma after donating her liver to save Deacon. Teasers for next week's episode show Deacon and Scarlett deciding on whether or not to continue life support for Beverly.
Viewers also wanted to see Juliette (Hayden Panettiere) come home. She left her husband and newborn during the season finale to go on tour instead of confronting her postpartum depression. Juliette always puts her career first, but it looked like things were going to change after she married Avery and had her little girl, Cadence. However, Juliette doesn't come home; Avery (Jonathan Jackson) does. He returns to Nashville, hoping to bring Juliette back. In the second episode, Juliette finally talks to Avery, giving the viewers a peek at her softer side. She shows him that she wants to keep their family together.
Usually, each episode of Nashville has two parts: reality and drama. Deacon and Rayna's story is the reality. Viewers have watched their relationship through all the love and the struggles, like a real romance. The acting and writing tell that love story so well by that viewers are entranced. Their story is the core of the show, and viewers want to stay involved.
Juliette is the other part of the show, the drama. Viewers won't stay if everything is just like real life; they need a little fantasy. Juliette is the spectacle and flashiness that every viewer craves. Her scenes show the audience what it's like to be a county music star. It's fun to be transported there and escape reality for a moment. Yet, Juliette's story can mimic real life sometimes, like this season where she struggles with postpartum depression. Hayden Panettiere appeared on Live With Kelly & Michael last week. Panettiere touched on the issue of postpartum depression and explained that she herself experienced it after having her baby last year.
These different sides of the show are what I find fascinating. The constant shift from stark reality and emotion to pure fun and drama keeps the audience engaged, and you never know for sure what will happen next.
Having said that, this is where I think the rest of the season will go:
Rayna will sign Marcus Keen, which will negatively affect Layla and her music career.
Unfortunately, Deacon and Scarlett will disconnect Beverly's life support. This will put a dent in Rayna and Deacon's marital plans.
Rayna's daughters will have to confront their father in jail. That relationships will falter, causing a rift in the entire family dynamic.
Since Juliette left again and took with her the last chance to solve things with Avery, he will move on now. But I think Juliet will come back wanting him at the end of the season.
To see how it all unfolds, watch Nashville every Wednesday on ABC at 10pm.
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One of the biggest questions surrounding Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) is – why bother? We often react to problems as and when they arise, as surely that ensures we only spend what is needed?
A PPM Assessment is essential when it comes to maintaining your built assets. The service allows you to anticipate future costs of building work so that you can budget for them. It also ensures that repair works fit in around your business to avoid disturbance.
The aim of a PPM Assessment is to identify any repairs required and provide recommended timescales for undertaking the works. A PPM will include a detailed survey inspection of the building. The service also includes costs budgeting; this allows the client to budget accordingly and avoid one-off impacts on cashflow. It is estimated that Planned Maintenance can save around 12-18% over reactive maintenance per year.
We have listed below some main advantages for those struggling to justify preventative rather than reactive maintenance.
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When it comes to maintaining your built assets, prevention is unquestionably better than cure – Seek advice to ensure correct budgeting and management!


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• Mucin (a sticky substance which sticks the tears onto the surface of the eye producing a thin, even lubricating layer). This smooth layer is important for clear vision.
• Oils- secreted by the Meibomian glands in the eyelids. The oil in tears sits on the outer layer of the tears moisturising the eye by holding the mucin and water layers onto the eye and slowing their evaporation.
• Enzymes called lysosomes (these destroy most bacteria and viruses they come in contact with) and Immunoglobulins which protect against infection.
• Oxygen and nutrients dissolved in tears provide nutrition for maintaining a healthy cornea (the clear part of the eye which sits on top of the pupil). The tears also prevent damage to the eye surface from dust particles in the air by washing the surface of the eye each time there is a blink. In Sjogren's syndrome, due to inflammation and destruction of the tear producing glands, there is a marked deficiency in tear production and the tear film is abnormal in composition. The tears contain less mucin and enzymes so they break down quickly on the surface of the eye which causes the cornea to dry and vision is often blurred.
In Sjogren's syndrome the eyes feel dry, gritty and painful. Sometimes the eyes feel tired and sensitive to light. The eye is prone to frequent infections and the cornea prone to damage.
It is important to lubricate your dry eyes when ever they are uncomfortable or feel dry/gritty or painful as if they continue to dry out the eye becomes increasingly damaged.
• Artificial tears are the main treatment in dry eye. It is important that you use preservative free eye drops if you require drops more than four times per day, or one with special disappearing preservatives that evaporate on the eye surface (vistil forte is an example of this type of drop and is now funded in NZ).
Some brands of preservative free drops which are available in NZ are: Theratears drops, Refresh drops; Bion Tears; Systane Preservative Free. Gels are thicker drops, providing longer relief-often particularly useful for overnight. Gels available in NZ are Genteal Gel and Poly Gel. As the different brands have different compositions it is important to try several brands to find one that suits you best. If the artificial tears you are using are beneficial but the symptoms are quick to return then try using an artificial tea or gel that is thicker or more viscous.
Lubricating Eye Ointment – applied each night helps prevents eyes drying overnight- also may be used in the day for very dry eye though will cause blurring of vision for a short time due to the thickness of the ointment. Some people find it is useful to put artificial tears into the eye then apply a layer of ointment. There are several brands of non preservative ointment available fully funded on prescription in NZ. Two commonly prescribed are: Lacrilube and Polyvisc eye ointment. As with artificial tears, they differ in their composition so patients may prefer one brand better than another. It appears while one preparation my suit one person it may not bee the most suitable for another so we recommend you keep trying brands till you find drops and/or ointment that suits you best.
• Eye protection – Such as wrap around sunglasses to shield eyes from the drying effects of wind and sun and may be useful when in situations with air-conditioning such as on airline flights.
• Humidifying devices – Some people find vaporizers and humidification masks useful at night to moisturise the air in the room and decrease drying or the eyes nose and mouth.
• Warm compresses and eyelid massage-may be useful to encourage secretion of lubricating oils from the Meibomian glands.
• Tear Duct (Punctal) Occlusion- This can be very effective in helping to retain your own natural tears a bit longer – there are temporary dissolving plugs available which are useful as a trial – these are inserted by an eye specialist (ophthalmologist) into the tear ducts (which drain tears from the eye) to slow the drainage of any tears and drops from the eye. They are worth a try and if you have a good result then the next step is permanent Punctal Occlusion with insertion of silicone plugs (non dissolving) or punctual cautery which is a simple quick procedure performed under local anaesthetic. Punctal cautery involves passing an electric current along a tiny wire which has been inserted into the tear drainage holes. This causes a small burn to the ducts which then scar up and close. It is mostly painless and can markedly reduce eye discomfort and reduce the need for drops.
• Pilocarpine is a medication that increases saliva and tear production – some people find it very useful. It is fully funded on prescription. Try 2.5ml of Pilocarpine solution 1mg/1ml Oral Solution (chemists mix this oral solution from Pilocarpine eye drops). There are some conditions where Pilocarpine should be avoided for example if you have uncontrolled high blood pressure or heart failure.
• Autologous lubricating drops. In rare cases where not enough relief has been gained by the above treatments then a specialist eye department can organise to prepare eye drops made from your own serum. These are apparently very soothing but complicated to make requiring a collection of your blood for each batch.
• Antibiotic eye ointments/drops- Are sometimes required as without a normal tear film with its protective properties eye infections are common. Keep the use of these to a minimum as the drops contain preservatives. Sometimes early infection can be treated with more frequent use of artificial tears.
• Nutritional supplements: Many people are finding taking daily omega oil supplements useful to decrease dry eye symptoms. These are taken as capsules containing fish oil and/or flaxseed oil. Omega 3 has many health benefits including protective effects against heart disease, bowel cancer, and some studies show improve concentration and mood. People with arthritis may also find it helpful.
• Drugs which cause dryness- for example: tricyclic anti-depressants; some blood pressure medications (diuretics in particular); nausea medications; antihistamines.
Contact lenses are generally not used in dry eye as they tend to aggravate the condition.
• Conjunctivitis- which is an infection of the outer layer of the eye, and is much more common in people with dry eye. This is generally associated with a discharge of pus and increase in eye discomfort. If you find this occurs frequently your doctor may give you a prescription for some antibiotic ointment to have on hand. Antibiotic ointment is preferable to drops as it is moisturising as drops contain preservative.
• Blepharitis- Inflammation of the eyelids due to Meibomian gland dysfunction. Causes swelling and redness of the eyelids. This may be due to a low grade infection or sometimes due to the irritating effects of preservatives in artificial tears or ointments. Treatment for blepharitis includes massage of the lids after hot flannels have been applied and cleaning the eyelids with "baby shampoo" or a special product called "Lidcare".
• Keratitis- Inflammation of the cornea which sometimes occurs as a complication of autoimmune disease- this is extremely painful and if suspected it is recommended to see a specialist ophthalmologist for confirmation and treatment.


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A True Texans' Proposal
At Uptown Diamond, we take pride in our Houston roots. But even more than that, we are proud to congratulate this happy couple on their new engagement! Bryan and Sarah starting dating a year ago, while Sarah was a apart of the Houston Texans Cheerleading squad; Sarah left cheer practice early to go on their first date, intriguing the rest of the cheer team to follow her relationship with Bryan. Keeping with the Texans atmosphere, Bryan and Sarah had their second date during the preseason home opener, giving Bryan the chance to watch Sarah cheer for the first time. It only seems appropriate to have the Texans game be the first place Bryan took Sarah after he proposed!
Bryan popped the question before the game at Sarah's apartment for a more private moment. But once the Texans cheer squad saw the post on Instagram, there was no privacy for the newly engaged couple arriving at the game. With their seats down in the front, right in front of the cheer squad, Sarah and Bryan enjoyed showing off their custom Uptown Diamond bling to all the cheerleaders as they rotated around the stadium every quarter.
Not only will Uptown Diamond be cheering on the Texans this football season, we'll be rooting for Bryan and Sarah to have a wonderful, happy marriage! Congrats to the happy couple!


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Britain's House of Lords approves conception of three-person babies
Clinics in UK will be able to apply for licenses from this autumn after MPs approved new rules earlier this month
The artificial insemination of a human egg: babies conceived through the IVF technique would have biological material from a mother, father and a female donor. Photograph: David Gregs/Alamy
Hannah Devlin, science correspondent
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Tue 24 Feb 2015 15.56 EST Last modified on Wed 14 Feb 2018 16.37 EST
Britain has become the first country in the world to permit the use of "three-person IVF" to prevent incurable genetic diseases.
The House of Lords voted by 280 votes to 48 on Tuesday evening to approve changes to the law allowing fertility clinics to carry out mitochondrial donation. Babies conceived through this IVF technique would have biological material from three different people – a mother, father and a female donor.
MPs voted in favour of the new rules earlier this month and clinics can apply for licences to use the technique from the autumn.
Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, which supports research into mitochondrial donation at Newcastle University, said: "Families who know what it is like to care for a child with a devastating disease are the people best placed to decide whether mitochondrial donation is the right option for them. Parliament is to be commended for a considered and compassionate decision to give these families that choice, with proper safeguards under the UK's internationally-admired regulatory system."
Robert Meadowcroft, chief executive of the Muscular Dystrophy UK, said: "This result will be life-changing for many women living with mitochondrial disease, giving them the precious chance to bear unaffected children, removing the condition from a family line and reducing the numbers faced with its devastating effects."
Addressing the House of Lords on Tuesday, Lord Winston, the Labour peer and fertility expert, acknowledged that treating the first patients would be a "step in the dark", but said the same had been true of all major advances in reproductive technology, such as IVF, which are now widely accepted.
"It would be utterly wrong for this house to turn down the democratically elected chamber," he said.
Viscount Ridley said rejecting the amendment would mean knowingly prolonging the plight of those afflicted by defective mitochondria. "If we do not prevent suffering, it is on our consciences," he said. "Britain has been the first with most biological breakthroughs. In every case we look back and see we did more good than bad as a result."
Addressing concerns that the rules would pave the way for "designer babies", Ridley pointed out the rules applied to a narrow range of serious diseases. "There is nothing slippery about this slope," he said.
Mitochondrial diseases are caused by genetic faults in the DNA of tiny structures that provide power for the body's cells. The DNA is held separately to the 20,000 genes that influence a person's identity, such as their looks and personality. Because mothers alone pass mitochondria on to children, the diseases are only passed down the maternal line.
The "three-person" IVF therapy could help to eliminate mitochondrial diseases by swapping the affected mother's DNA with that from an anonymous female donor.
Technically the baby would have three biological parents, with 99.8% of genetic material coming from the mother and father and 0.2% coming from the mitochondrial donor.
The Roman Catholic peer, Lord Deben, on Tuesday evening put forward a delaying motion, arguing that it was not clear whether the amendment would be lawful.
His intervention followed a letter from 50 MEPs calling on the European Commission to look into Britain's "lack of compliance" with EU law. Slovakian MEP, Miroslav Mikolásik, and 49 others said the amendment to existing legislation would "violate the fundamental standards of human dignity and integrity of the person".
Separately, a group of Italian MPs had urged the House of Lords to vote down the proposals, saying that mitochondrial donation "could have uncontrollable and unforeseeable consequences" and would inevitably "affect the human species as a whole".
Lord Deben told the Lords he was not ethically opposed to the technique, but was concerned that the amendment could be contrary to European law. "I do not understand why the government has not taken the steps that would allow us all to accept that this was legal," he said. "You don't launch out into the deep until you are sure you have taken all the issues into account."
Other peers argued that since the amendment is part of existing law – the 2008 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act – there was little doubt that it is lawful.
Lord Winston said that doctors were wrongly accused of meddling with nature, but that patients' interests were paramount. "Sometimes we are accused of playing God … We do not try to supplant God. We try to augment his works," he said.
Around 100 children each year are affected by genetic defects in the mitochondria and in around 10 cases the defects cause severe illnesses such as liver failure, muscle wasting, blindness and brain damage.
Since mitochondrial DNA is passed down the maternal line, affected women are guaranteed to pass on the genetic defects to their children, leaving many with an agonising choice about whether to have their own biological children. In future, scientists hope they could be spared this choice.
This article was amended on 25 February 2015. An earlier version referred to Muscular Distrophy Campaign, which since 23 February 2015 is known as Muscular Distrophy UK.
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Readers, I'm still on the healthy baking bandwagon (and it's the end of January – success). Owing to Sunday night no money what's in the cupboard levels of boredom, I decided to do some kitchen experimenting last week. It's the first time I've attempted something like this – and I think the recipe needs a little refining – so this could be a work in progress. I got 8 small cake style muffins out of this mixture and it's the first time I've milled my own flour so I'll perhaps need to up the flour/try a bit less fruit and play around with the raising agent. These had a good rise in the oven but fell when they came out. (Could be something to do with a lack of stabiliser or gluten perhaps).
Anyway, give this a go and if I manage to make something even better next time around I'll update the recipe accordingly.
The main thing – these are free from refined sugar, bad fats and are loaded with fruits, vitamins and home blended flour made from oats.
To anyone wondering how to make flour at home: a good blender, or in our case a Nutribullet did the job. It's not quite as smooth as a pre-bought flour, but a good sieve got rid of any tough parts which I discarded and didn't use. I let it run for about 30 seconds, stopped and shook the mix, then milled for around 30-40 seconds. I used the milling blade (for any users of the Nutribullet out there).
Relatively easy and once mixed in, you couldn't tell the difference.
I used frozen fruit this time round, but I'll try fresh or freeze dried next time. There's a high water content when the berries melt, which seems to have affected the overall mix.
Anyway, happy kitchen experimenting and I'd love to know if these worked out for you… Oh and if they start to go a little too brown on top, pop a tinfoil hat over the top of them. Stops the tops burning as the heat is reflected back into the oven. Top tip.
Preheat the oven to 180c/160c fan. Place 8 cupcake/small muffin cases into a muffin tin.
Mill the porridge oats in the blender until a fine flour is created. Sift into a bowl and discard any "hard" pieces that are left behind. You won't need this. Sift in the baking powder and mix to combine.
Add the spices and pinch of salt. Mix to combine.
In another bowl add the eggs, vanilla essence and milk.
Mash the banana in a separate bowl.
Melt the coconut oil in a microwave proof cup and allow to cool slightly before adding to the eggs, vanilla and milk.
Add the wet mix and banana to the dry mix. Add in the fruit also. Mix until loosely combined – you don't want to over mix the batter.
Spoon into the muffin cases and place in the oven to bake for around 20 minutes.
After 20 minutes, check the muffins – if they look to be going a little too dark, place a sheet of tinfoil over the top of tin and bake for another few minutes.
Check by inserting a toothpick – it should have a few crumbs on it, when removed, but not wet mix.
Remove from the oven and allow to cool on a wire rack. Once cool, dust with icing sugar if desired.
Place in an airtight container and store for 2-3 days.


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Maersk quits Auckland
The transfer of the service will take place this weekend and will see Auckland lose 52 ship calls, 123,600 teu and nearly NZ$20m (US$15.5m) in revenue annually.
According to Tony Gibson, chief executive of Ports of Aucklands (POAL), Maersk explained that the possibility of further industrial unrest was central to its decision. As a result of the news, the port postponed proposed mediation with the Maritime Union of New Zealand – Local 13 (MUNZ), who has called for a series of strikes.
"Naturally, we are hugely disappointed," said Gibson. "The Southern Star was one of Auckland's largest shipping services."
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Charles "Charlie" Bunyan Sr. (Campton, 1869 - Elsene, 1922) was een Engels voetballer die speelde als doelman. Na zijn spelersloopbaan werd hij voetbaltrainer en was hij bondscoach van het Zweeds en het Belgisch voetbalelftal.

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Als doelman
Bunyan speelde als doelman bij de plaatselijke ploegen Old Horns en Spital Olympic. Hij debuteerde in 1886 in het eerste elftal van Chesterfield FC dat in de lagere regionen actief was. Het jaar nadien, in 1887, trok Bunyan naar Hyde FC. Op 15 oktober 1887 verloor Hyde, met in het doel Bunyan, met 0-26 in de eerste ronde van de FA Cup tegen Preston North End FC. Dit is anno  nog steeds het zwaarste verlies van een club in het Engelse voetbal.

Tussen 1889 en 1891 speelde Bunyan bij Derby County FC, actief in de Football League,  en keerde daarna voor een seizoen terug naar Chesterfield FC. Wegens wangedrag werd hij daar ontslagen en in 1893 trok hij naar Sheffield United FC. Hij bleef er één seizoen en trok dan voor een seizoen terug naar Derby County.

In 1895 en 1896 was Bunyan actief bij Ilkeston Town en Heanor Town in de lagere reeksen en keerde daarna terug in de Football League bij Walsall FC. In 1898 trok hij naar New Brompton en in 1901 ging Bunyan nog een seizoen bij Newcastle United FC spelen. In het seizoen 1905-1906 was Bunyan in Canada actief.

Als trainer
Bunyan werd in 1908 speler-trainer bij Brimington Athletic, de voetbalclub van zijn woonplaats. Hij kreeg in 1909 de kans om trainer te worden bij de toenmalige Belgische Eersteklasser Racing Club Brussel. Zijn twee voetballende zonen, Charles Jr. en Maurice trokken met hem mee en gingen eveneens voor Racing Club Brussel spelen.

In 1910 werd vader Bunyan eveneens assistent van William Maxwell, de bondscoach van het Belgisch voetbalelftal. Het jaar nadien, in 1911, ging hij naar Zweden en werd trainer bij Örgryte IS, op dat moment een van de topclubs van het land. Hij bereidde eveneens het Zweeds voetbalelftal voor op de Olympische Zomerspelen 1912 die dat jaar in Stockholm plaatsvonden.

Na de spelen keerde Bunyan terug naar België en werd terug assistent-bondscoach en trainer bij Standard Luik, actief in Eerste klasse. Na afloop van zijn tweede seizoen bij Standard kon de degradatie naar Tweede klasse niet vermeden worden. Toen Maxwell België verliet in de aanloop van de Eerste Wereldoorlog nam Bunyan zijn taak als bondscoach tijdelijk over en zat vier wedstrijden op de trainersbank. Bij het uitbreken van de oorlog keerde Bunyan samen met zijn zonen, die ondertussen nog steeds bij Racing Club Brussel speelden, terug naar Engeland om als vrijwilliger in dienst te gaan bij het Engelse leger.

Na de oorlog keerde Bunyan met zijn zonen terug naar België waar hij in 1922 stierf.

Engels voetballer
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package com.alibaba.jstorm.task;

import java.util.Map;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import com.alibaba.jstorm.callback.AsyncLoopThread;
import com.alibaba.jstorm.task.TaskReceiver.DeserializeRunnable;
import com.alibaba.jstorm.utils.JStormUtils;
import com.alibaba.jstorm.utils.TimeUtils;

import backtype.storm.task.TopologyContext;
import backtype.storm.tuple.BatchTuple;
import backtype.storm.tuple.Tuple;
import backtype.storm.utils.DisruptorQueue;

public class TaskBatchReceiver extends TaskReceiver {
    private static Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(TaskBatchReceiver.class);

    public TaskBatchReceiver(Task task, int taskId, Map stormConf, TopologyContext topologyContext, Map<Integer, DisruptorQueue> innerTaskTransfer,
            TaskStatus taskStatus, String taskName) {
        super(task, taskId, stormConf, topologyContext, innerTaskTransfer, taskStatus, taskName);
    }

    @Override
    protected void setDeserializeThread() {
        this.deserializeThread = new AsyncLoopThread(new DeserializeBatchRunnable(deserializeQueue, innerTaskTransfer.get(taskId)));
    }

    public class DeserializeBatchRunnable extends DeserializeRunnable {
        public DeserializeBatchRunnable(DisruptorQueue deserializeQueue, DisruptorQueue exeQueue) {
            super(deserializeQueue, exeQueue);
        }

        @Override
        protected Object deserialize(byte[] ser_msg) {
            long start = System.nanoTime();
            try {
                if (ser_msg == null) {
                    return null;
                }

                if (ser_msg.length == 0) {
                    return null;
                } else if (ser_msg.length == 1) {
                    byte newStatus = ser_msg[0];
                    LOG.info("Change task status as " + newStatus);
                    taskStatus.setStatus(newStatus);

                    return null;
                }

                // ser_msg.length > 1
                BatchTuple tuple = deserializer.deserializeBatch(ser_msg);
                if (isDebugRecv) {
                    LOG.info(idStr + " receive " + tuple.toString());
                }

                return tuple;
            } catch (Throwable e) {
                if (taskStatus.isShutdown() == false) {
                    LOG.error(idStr + " recv thread error " + JStormUtils.toPrintableString(ser_msg) + "\n", e);
                }
            } finally {
                long end = System.nanoTime();
                deserializeTimer.update((end - start) / TimeUtils.NS_PER_US);
            }

            return null;
        }
    }
}

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VOX Cinemas Signs exclusive deal with 'Masameer'
VOX Cinemas' has today signed an exclusive distribution deal with Myrkott, the leading Saudi production company behind YouTube animated hit 'Masameer'.
VOX Cinemas signs exclusive distribution deal with producers of animated YouTube sensation 'Masameer'
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: VOX Cinemas', the largest cinema operator in the MENA region has today signed an exclusive distribution deal with Myrkott, the leading Saudi production company behind YouTube animated hit 'Masameer' that has attracted more than 700 million views across social media. The announcement marks the first deal of its kind with a Saudi production company and will see Myrkott content screened across the Middle East and North Africa, including the exclusive distribution of a forthcoming feature film based on their popular YouTube show.
With two million YouTube subscribers and a further three million followers across Facebook and Twitter, Myrkott has produced more than 100 'Masameer' shows covering a variety of subjects related to Saudi society and the pursuit of the 2030 Vision. It has worked with a variety of high profile partners including the General Commission of Audiovisual Media (GCAM) and the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, using comedy to appeal to Arab audiences around the world.
The Myrkott deal also represents a major boost for the General Commission of Audiovisual Media to support the creation and distribution of original local Saudi content and inspire future content producers across the Kingdom.
Commenting on the agreement, Mohamed Al Hashemi, Country Manager at Majid Al Futtaim Ventures in Saudi Arabia, said: "Myrkott is proof that Saudi creative industries are going to be a powerful player regionally and internationally in the years to come. VOX Cinemas is delighted to provide Myrkott the regional distribution pedigree that will help their already hugely successful content find new audiences."
Myrkott General Manager Abdulaziz Almuzaini commented on the deal saying, "This is a huge moment for Myrkott and we are honoured to be the first home-grown Saudi production company to secure a regional distribution deal. To become successful in the movie business you need great content, great distribution and great marketing – we now have all of these elements through our partnership with VOX Cinemas."
Myrkott is the leading animation studio in Saudi Arabia. The company specialises in creating powerful local content for Saudi and the Gulf in both 2D and 3D format. With more than six years of experience, Myrkott was established in 2013 by a group of Saudi creative artists.
Owned and operated by Majid Al Futtaim Cinemas, VOX Cinemas is the cinema arm of Majid Al Futtaim, the leading shopping mall, retail and leisure pioneer across the Middle East and North Africa with over 300 screens across the region.
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