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W&M welcomes U.S.-Spain Council to campus
Visiting W&M: Members of the U.S.-Spain Council enjoy a luncheon at the Muscarelle Museum of Art on Saturday. Photo by Skip Rowland '83
Sharing research: Paul Mapp, associate professor of history, discusses his research in the Spanish archives during the Saturday luncheon. Photo by Skip Rowland '83
Meet and greet: (From left) U.S. Sen. Timothy M. Kaine and U.S. Secretary of Defense Gen. James Mattis talk with Max Sterling '18, Hayley Burton '19 and Maj. Dustin Menhart Saturday morning at the Raymond A. Mason School of Business. Photo by Skip Rowland '83
Meet and greet: (From left) U.S. Sen. Timothy M. Kaine, Max Sterling '18, Hayley Burton '19, U.S. Secretary of Defense Gen. James Mattis and Maj. Dustin Menhart pose for a photo together Saturday morning. Photo by Skip Rowland '83
Meet and greet: W&M President Taylor Reveley (left) talks with U.S. Secretary of Defense Gen. James Mattis on Saturday morning. Photo by Skip Rowland '83
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by Erin Zagursky | September 25, 2017
Some of the top business and government officials from the United States and Spain — including the defense leaders of both countries — gathered at William & Mary on Saturday as part of the 2017 U.S.-Spain Council Forum.
The Sept. 22-23 event included sessions at locations throughout Williamsburg and was brought to the city by U.S. Sen. Timothy M. Kaine (D-VA), who serves as honorary chairman of the council. The group, which aims to strengthen ties between the U.S. and Spain, includes leaders in business, government, education and culture from both countries.
"It's grand that the 22nd running of the United States-Spain Forum has come to Williamsburg and especially nice for William & Mary that the forum is meeting on our campus today," said President Taylor Reveley during a luncheon at the Muscarelle Museum of Art Saturday.
That morning, students from the university's ROTC program and Maj. Dustin A. Menhart, chair of the military science department, had the opportunity to meet and take a photo with U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis before he joined María Dolores de Cospedal, Spain's minister of defense, at William & Mary's Raymond A. Mason School of Business for a discussion about the future of NATO.
Accompanied by Kaine, Mattis talked to Hayley Burton '19, a public policy major, and Max Sterling '18, an international relations major, about their ROTC activities, including training for the next Ranger Challenge, as well as their futures as U.S. Army officers.
"It was very inspiring," said Menhart. "He's just a brilliant man, leader and person, and to hear some of the things he was saying was quite amazing."
Later that morning, Business Dean Larry Pulley signed a memorandum of understanding between W&M and the Fulbright Commission in Spain to provide the opportunity for one eligible Spanish Fulbright candidate each year to pursue the two-year MBA program in the Raymond A. Mason School of Business.
During a luncheon held at the Muscarelle Museum of Art, Karin Wulf, director of the university's Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, discussed the work of the institute. Paul Mapp, associate professor of history, and Molly Warsh, an assistant professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh — both of whom held National Endowment of the Humanities postdoctoral fellowships at the institute — shared insights from their research in Spanish archives.
"Early America was vast — chronologically and geographically," Wulf later said. "Here in Virginia we sit at the very center of that vast early America, at the eastern edge of North America, and the western edge of an expansive Atlantic world, for example, in which Spain played a critical role.
"Because the Omohundro Institute is the leading research and publication organization for the study of this expansive early America, the U.S.-Spain Council meeting was a wonderful opportunity to share award-winning research by two of our scholars."
Reveley also addressed the luncheon attendees, discussing W&M's history and accomplishments and detailing its close ties to Spain.
"Spain is among the three most popular study abroad venues for our students, and we have ties to many Spanish universities," said Reveley. "Here on campus Spanish is the foreign language with the highest enrollments among our students. Many William & Mary professors have deep research commitments and interests in Spain. Today an agreement was signed between William & Mary's business school and Fulbright Spain, making it possible for a highly talented graduate student from Spain to study in our MBA program, starting next academic year.
"In short, William & Mary has significant ties to Spain, which we value enormously," he said.
The forum takes place annually, alternating its location between the U.S. and Spain. In addition to William & Mary, this year's sessions took place at venues in Kingsmill and Colonial Williamsburg. Friday morning, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine joined other dignitaries including Brad Smith, president and chief legal officer of Microsoft, and Erin Egan, vice president and chief privacy officer for Facebook to announce the completion of the Marea transatlantic cable, which stretches from Virginia Beach to Bilbao, Spain, and can transmit 160 terabits of data per second.
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The remarkable Jane Elizabeth Giraud
Posted: 5th February, 2021 Category: Culture, Gardens, Natural History
Justin Croft goes in search of Faversham's Victorian flower artist
Words Justin Croft Photographs various
'February' from Jane Elizabeth Giraud's The Floral Months
February is here and we are eagerly searching for signs of spring. I won't be alone in scanning the undergrowth for green shoots pushing their way through last year's decayed leaves. Already we have snowdrops, aconites, a few early daffodils and a hellebore or two — while supermarkets and social media are tempting us with the brighter colours of tulips and lilies, desperate to bring us spring before its time. But let's be patient — there is much to appreciate in the muted colours of February.
With that in mind, I've been enjoying a lovely image of February flowers by Jane Elizabeth Giraud, Faversham's own Victorian flower artist. It comes from her book The Floral Months published over 170 years ago in 1850. In this illustrated floral calendar, which has a flower picture for every month, Jane Giraud shows us just three humble flowering plants for February — weeds really — common daisy, groundsel and chickweed. She saves the bolder colours of spring for their rightful place in the later months.
Midsummer Night's Dream from The Flowers of Shakspeare
I've been researching Jane Giraud's life and works for nearly a decade now and think she deserves to be better known in her native Faversham. She was born in 1810, daughter of John Thomas Giraud — descended from Huguenot immigrants — who became a surgeon and mayor of Faversham. Jane's grandfather had been rector of St Catherine's and a headmaster of the grammar school.
Like many young women of her age she took up flower painting as a pastime and she became remarkably successful, publishing no less than three illustrated books. The first, titled The Flowers of Shakspeare, illustrated the many botanical references in Shakespeare's plays and appeared in 1845. It was followed in 1846 by The Flowers of Milton illustrating Paradise Lost and Paradise Regain'd and then finally by The Floral Months of 1850.
The Flowers of Milton
While her watercolours were typical of the period, Jane's success in having them published is what marks her out. It probably goes without saying that publishing as a woman in this era was an exception rather than the norm — though botanical illustration was one area where it was possible. A generation earlier for example, Jane Loudon had produced a series of very well-received flower books, while the most successful female botanical artist of Jane Giraud's time was the Rochester-born Anne Pratt, whose books all became bestsellers. Like Loudon, Jane Giraud benefitted from the printing technology of lithography and the illustrations in all her books are lithographs, which were then individually hand-finished in watercolour.
Lithography (literally 'stone printing') was a process which allowed an artist to draw with a wax crayon directly onto the smooth polished surface of a slab of limestone, rather than relying on an engraver to transfer their pictures onto copper plates or blocks of wood. The stone surface was chemically treated so that the drawn lines absorbed printer's ink rolled onto the stone. Once the excess ink was wiped away from the remaining smooth surface, it left just the artist's inked lines, which were transferred onto paper as the lithographic stone was passed through a rolling press. It is a rather magical process — of which you'll find some excellent demonstrations on YouTube.
The Flowers of Shakspeare
All Jane Giraud's books were printed in London by the firm of Day & Haghe, lithographers to Queen Victoria, and I'm still intrigued as to how a Faversham flower painter came to their notice. The firm had recently pioneered a clever modification of the lithographic process which dispensed with the huge, heavy and unwieldy lithographic stones by using instead sheets of specially prepared sheets of zinc, which were much more portable and convenient. It was cutting-edge technology, and it is this method that Jane Giraud used for her flower books. One wonders whether she worked here in Faversham, sending her plates up to London, or whether she travelled to London and worked at Day & Haghe's studios.
However they came to publication, her books were much appreciated and sold well. The Flowers of Shakspeare was by far the most popular and seems to have been reprinted in three successive editions, producing hundreds, perhaps thousands of copies. Obviously Day & Hague knew their market and this was the era of the Victorian gift book, where publishers vied with each other to produce handsome volumes, well illustrated in eyecatching gilt-stamped cloth bindings, partly for the Christmas market. It seems that Jane too played a part in the marketing of her work — I once saw a copy of The Flowers of Shakspeare containing a sales receipt, personally signed by Jane Giraud, suggesting she sold them directly to customers as well as having them sold in bookshops.
Watercolour from The Fête of the Flowers
The printed books were obviously just the finished product of Jane's art, and like most artists she must have produced hundreds of preliminary drawings, presumably filling albums and portfolios — none of which are known to survive. I'm aware of only one collection of her original watercolours, now preserved in the collections of the garden museum at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington DC. I was fortunate to be able to examine them myself several years ago, but anyone can now look at them, since they have been digitised in their entirety. I'd recommend having a close look at this exquisite album entitled The Fête of the Flowers at this link, taking advantage of the zoom functions to look closely at the watercolour technique. While Giraud's lithographed books are delightful, it is only in these originals that we can see her rich appreciation of botanical detail and texture, and her skill in translating it in paint onto paper.
Feasting on the colours of the variegated 'broken' tulip here, or the feathery foliage of the crimson pheasant's eye, and the velvety texture of an early damask rose are more than enough to sustain me as we patiently count the days of February — the shortest month — and await the coming of spring.
Thanks to Anatole Tchikine at Dumbarton Oaks for his assistance with the images of The Fête of the Flowers from the Harvard Digitistation, used here under the Creative Commons Licence, and to Rachel Thapa-Chhetri for the other pictures. I'm also grateful to the historian of lithography, Michael Twyman, for sharing information about Giraud's lithographic processes.
Text: Justin Croft. Photographs: various
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Next I have Yuna. Yuna is described as a "warm gray with copper and gold liquid metal." This polish is a chameleon! In some lights, it leans blue; in others, it leans green. I did 2 coats on these photos. I had a bit of drag on the first coat. I topped it with Cult Nails Wicked Fast.
I really liked both of these polishes. Typically I love the Fall collections, but I was a little underwhelmed this year, and just got these 2. After trying these 2, I have a feeling I may pick up a few more.
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Eat the whole thing. Choose breads, crackers and cereals made from whole grains. Refined grains are stripped of their outer coat (bran), which removes some of the important vitamins, minerals, and nutrients, including fiber. Enriched grains have some of the vitamins and minerals added back. Brown rice is a whole grain; white rice is not. Similarly, removing the skin from fruits and vegetables decreases their fiber content. It's better to eat an apple than to drink apple juice.
Try something different. Whole-grain pasta may sound unusual, but it's delicious and doesn't take any longer to cook than white pasta. Bulgur, quinoa and barley are good side dishes or chilled in salads. Add fresh or frozen vegetables to soups and sauces. For example, mix chopped frozen broccoli into prepared spaghetti sauce or toss fresh baby carrots into stews. Add chopped fresh spinach or frozen spinach to soups. Or make a pesto from spinach and walnuts. Try adding crushed bran cereal or oat bran to muffins and cookie recipes.
Add some beans. Tuck beans into whole-grain tortillas or pita bread. Add them to soups, salads, and pasta dishes. Toss beans into sautéed veggies or mix them with cooked greens and garlic.
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I have just released a new version of TimelineFX which features a long overdue "Undo" feature. I always wondered exactly how I would implement this and I think I was reluctant due it being a big job. I'm pleased with the final implementation and it actually felt good to create effects and have it there available. I threw in the added bonus of creating a new effect from an undo history. So if you like a particular version of an effect you can copy it to a new one and keep editing the current one.
There's also one or two improvements in there too, including the fact that you only have to single click in the preview area to play an effect. It seems odd that it hasn't always been like this, but there was a historical reason why you always had to double click – except I can't remember what it was any more!
Merge Effects. This option will automatically merge 2 effects together, so they will become sub-effects of a single effect.
Easier way to specify exactly how many particles you want to spawn in one go – currently you have to make the effect an area, line or ellipse effect and set the particle to single one shot which isn't ideal.
New option to add a container emitter. These are emitters that you use purely to contain a sub-effect, to save you having to manually create an emitter and then make it 0 size and single.
Option to automatically restart an effect after a certain time to save you always having to click to restart an effect.
That's what I'm planning for the next update, and I've got more intentions beyond that, but first – I'm going to update the documentation for the new history tab, release a new Muzzle Flash effects library I've been working on and then I'm going start adding content to the Particle Shapes section!
So why the sudden influx of updates? Well TimelineFX was always my hobby, I originally created it because I planned on making a shoot-em-up game, but once I reached a certain point I thought it was a decent product I could try selling. It's always been hard finding the time to update it in my spare time with a full time job as a web-developer, but then back in September 2014 I was made redundant and decided to go freelance. I've concentrated on web work for safety but now I have more confidence I'm transitioning to making TimelineFX my full time occupation! I think it has lot's of potential and it's done well so far considering I've barely pushed it marketing-wise the last few years.
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Minster Vaz Calls for More Private-Sector Support in Building Climate Resilience
Economic Growth & Job Creation
Written by: Alecia Smith
Photo: Dave Reid
Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Daryl Vaz (left), is in discussion with (from second left), Principal Director, Climate Change Division, Economic Growth and Job Creation Ministry, Una May Gordon; Country Engagement Specialist, Latin America and the Caribbean, Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) Partnership Support Unit, Cayetano Casado; and Senior Country Engagement Specialist, NDC, Yamide Dagnet. Occasion was a micro, small and medium-sized enterprise (MSME) consultation on supporting private-sector investment for advancing climate action in Jamaica, held at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel in St. Andrew on Tuesday (February 12).
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More private-sector stakeholders are being encouraged to partner with the Government in executing projects designed to build Jamaica's climate change resilience.
This call comes from Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Daryl Vaz, who said more innovators, investors and private-sector leaders are needed to further advance mitigation efforts.
"Partnerships are integral to our success, and so we absolutely cannot [overstate] the important role the private sector can play, as our partners, in reducing our vulnerability to a changing climate and reducing their own carbon footprint," he said.
The Minister was speaking at a micro, small and medium-sized enterprise (MSME) consultation on supporting private-sector investment for advancing climate action in Jamaica, at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel in St. Andrew on Tuesday (February 12).
Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Daryl Vaz, addresses participants at a micro, small and medium-sized enterprise (MSME) consultation on supporting private-sector investment for advancing climate action in Jamaica, held at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel in St. Andrew on Tuesday (February 12).
Mr. Vaz praised private-sector stakeholders who are taking "smart and steady action" to adapt and mitigate the effects of climate change.
"Private-sector companies are finding their footing and taking big leaps, impacting positively on our carbon footprint… among them, providers of renewable energy such as the Jamaica Broilers Group, Solar Buzz Jamaica and GeNNex Elite," he said.
Mr. Vaz urged others to follow suit, and assured that the Government will continue to garner assistance for the private sector in advancing the climate change agenda, through facilities such as the Green Climate Fund's Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme.
He pointed out that in 2017, the Ministry's Climate Change Division requested readiness support through that programme in order to mobilise private-sector engagement in developing low carbon and climate resilient projects in Jamaica and other CARICOM states.
"This idea was to investigate barriers and develop solutions that will leverage private-sector support and then work together at the national and regional levels to develop an action plan for engagement," Minister Vaz explained.
The Green Climate Fund is a unique global platform to respond to climate change by investing in low-emission and climate-resilient development. It is the largest source of international climate finance and was established to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries, and to help vulnerable societies adapt to the unavoidable impacts of climate change.
The two-day consultation seeks to further investigate challenges for climate action and highlight best practices and possibilities for innovation, and increase knowledge of available financing options for climate action for MSMEs.


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The casino has a nautical theme - remnants of sunken ships, a variety of exotic fish and other oceanic species displayed behind reinforced glass aquariums, and other nautical items are on display. The owner of the casino, who is only called "Mister Coffin" by his staff and customers, is shrouded in mystery and the subject of much speculation - the claim that he is a former pirate is merely the least outrageous of the rumors surrounding him.


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The first thing to ponder is on the kinds of lights that you choose.
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There is no other type of comfort that only your bedroom can give. Bedrooms must be able to produce you a satisfying feeling, that is why, you must make sure that you are getting the right ways of getting comfortable inside your room. A furniture is one of the best things to consider for you to feel more comfortable inside. Settle for an ashley bedroom furniture, they offer the best quality of their products. There must be cushions and blankets that would help you feel more cozy and relaxed when you sleep.


For the fourth instalment of the Hell Let Loose Developer Briefing, we're bringing out the big guns!
It can be your saving grace or your worst nightmare. If you hear the unmistakable sound of an artillery shell hurtling towards your location, you'd better hope it isn't aimed at you!
Gunner – Aim, fire and relay co-ordinates with unit officer.
Loader – Reload, load HE or Smoke rounds, aiming support and further communication.
Artillery can be operated by a one-man crew, but at a reduced rate of fire.
Traverse – This is the direction that the gun is facing. The Gunner can use A or D on their keyboard to turn the barrel, whilst the Loader can rotate the entire gun using A and D.
Elevation – This is the angle of the barrel. Aiming the barrel higher will fire the shell closer to your location. On the flip side, the lower the barrel, the further the round will travel. On the left of the gunner's screen, they'll see a chart of elevation mils and the corresponding range in meters. To set the weapon to the needed elevation, the gunner muse use W or T to raise and lower the barrel. The elevation can be seen in the bottom right hand corner of the screen.
Say hello to the artillery that you'll be firing in Hell Let Loose!
The US will take to battle with the M2A1 155mm Howitzer, which can fire either the HE M107 (High explosive) or the HC BE M116 (Smoke).
On the other side of the front line, the Germans will be using the sFH 18 'Evergreen' 15cm, that can be loaded with 149 MM x 260 R (High explosive) or 149 MM x 260 R (Smoke variant) shells.
Whether an artillery crew are using HE shells to take out enemy positions, or smoke rounds to provide invaluable infantry cover during an advance, precision use of artillery can change the flow of battle in front of your very eyes!
Buddy up – Whilst possible to man an artillery piece alone, having the support of a designated loader will allow you to focus on adjusting your elevation and traverse to perform different strike patterns and styles – including a creeping barrage onto an enemy position. You'll also have a significantly faster rate of fire!
Danger close - Artillery is realistically powerful. It will kill and main anyone within a 50m area. Be very careful when firing near friendly units.
Request orders – A marker placed on a target by your Officer will allow you to immediately check the precise range.
Finite firepower – Artillery ordnance is fed by your team's munitions resource. This is a limited resource that can only be replenished by friendly forces capturing and holding munitions sectors on the map. Running out of munitions means you'll lose the ability to rain hell down on your enemy, so use manage this resource wisely!
Take note – Creating a range book or map to record the elevation and traverse needed to hit significant roads or strong-points will allow you to quickly sight the artillery piece without the need to manually find the range each time. Clear communication of degrees and traverse will empower your battery to quickly change targets or adjust its fire pattern.
If you're meticulous in your execution and enjoy impacting the battle from afar, then using artillery could be the playstyle for you!
Through working together with your unit's Officer and making use of your own frontline coordinates, you'll have the power to support infantry advances or slow down enemy tank advances with smoke rounds, as well as raining down hell on enemy positions with a high explosive barrage.
Your shots will ring out across the frontline as infantry and armour alike dash for cover as they hope, with baited breath, that the incoming barrage doesn't have their name on it.
Due to the Christmas period, there won't be a Developer Briefing next week. But fear not, we'll be back in the first week of January with the next instalment of the Developer Briefing and more!
Have a fantastic Christmas and we'll see you in 2019.


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The Rosette Nebula, NGC 2237, is a large cloud of glowing Hydrogen gas. It houses open star cluster NGC 2244, whose stars formed from the gas of the nebula and cause the nebula to emit the light we see. It is roughly 5000 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros.
This detail from the above image shows globules of dust and gas that appear dark against the glowing hydrogen.


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Some vapor escapes from the top of the column and is returned to a liquid state in the condenser. Some of this liquid is returned to the column as reflux, and the remainder is the top product or distillate.
A mechanical stoker is a mechanical system that feeds solid fuel like coal, coke or anthracite into the furnace of a steam boiler.They are common on steam locomotives after 1900 and are also used on ships and power stations.
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Kammy's Korner: We Have A Winner!!
So not being a very techy savvy person, I didn't know how to use those random giveaway winner things that everyone's using these days sooooo I painstakingly gave all contestants a number and then had Tobin draw a number. The winning number???


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In Virginia, we love our rustic venues, our lace frocks and vintage treasures, but we also adore our modern, sleek cities, and fancy dining and cocktails. Bringing a little city to the country with this styled shoot was the inspiration behind the whole project. By blending the hard, industrial elements of our decor with the soft, lush elements of our venue, we tried to break the mold with what one typically sees in the rural venues of Virginia.
It took a team of incredibly talented vendors to pull together this styled shoot. The energy was high, the music was blasting and everyone was having such a good time the entire day! Thank you to all of the vendors that contributed their piece of the puzzle!
Ola Ingram took some fun behind the scenes shots of all of the vendors in action! And Charles took video of the entire shoot! Make sure to view the images here and the time lapse video below! Thank you, Ola & Charles!
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Watch it all come together! A time lapse video of everyone at work!
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Changes in Kazakhstan's Local Content Rules for Oil Operations
Abai Shaikenov, Partner with SALANS International Law firm
Anthony Cioni, Senior Associate with SALANS International Law firm
In December 2004, the President of Kazakhstan signed an amending bill that brought about a number of changes to Kazakhstan's subsoil legislation, including some amendments designed to further encourage the development of the Kazakhstan oil service sector (the New Changes). These New Changes were significant and have generated much discussion in the investment community.
We will focus on the effect of the New Changes in this article. We will also briefly address the application of the same in the face of the various stability guarantees under previous legislation and contracts and current bi-lateral treaties.
Legislative History of Kazakhstan Content Rules
Before explaining what changes are afoot in Kazakhstan law, it is useful to explain that the Subsoil Law and Petroleum Law were first brought into existence in 1995/96 (the Original Versions) with a large overhaul in 1999 (the 1999 Versions). Therefore, when one is discussing changes to the law it is useful to explain the relevant benchmarks.
Under the Original Version, an Operator was obliged to use:
· materials and equipment produced in Kazakhstan, provided they were competitive in terms of ecological, technical, pricing, delivery and operational considerations; and
· the services of Kazakhstan businesses to the extent the same are competitive in terms of price, effectiveness and quality.
The above requirements were tightened by the 1999 Versions. Under the amended version of the law, Operators were obliged to purchase materials and equipment produced in Kazakhstan, "if they meet the standards and other requirements by holding a tender in Kazakhstan in accordance with the procedure established by the Government". The vague reference to "standards and other requirements" was seen by the petroleum community as a step backwards, which took the view that the tender requirement was an unnecessary (and potentially meddlesome) layer of regulation.
The situation for the procurement of services was similarly altered. As a result of the 1999 amendments, Operators were obliged to "involve" Kazakhstan businesses in the procurement of services for oil operations provided that the services "meet the standards and other requirements by holding a tender". Along with the need for a tender, the investment community had concerns over the vague wording of the amended law.
Following on these changes in 2002, the Government passed a regulation setting out specific rules for the conduct of tenders in respect of materials and services (the Tender Rules), the effect of which is further discussed below.
The New Changes
The final step in the above legislative trail is the New Changes. The recent amending bill brought in a number of new concepts, including the term "Kazakhstan Content". This term is broadly defined as a declining percentage of:
· Kazakhstan personnel providing services relative to oil operations, the number of which should increase each year as a result of training programs; and
· goods, works and services of 'Kazakhstan Origin' purchased by the Operator or its subcontractors.
Under the amended laws, field operators must now:
· use equipment materials and finished products manufactured in Kazakhstan, provided that they meet state and/or international standards;
· involve Kazakhstan organizations in the performance of services relative to oil operations, so long as they meet "the standard, price and quality characteristics of similar work and services provided by non-residents" of Kazakhstan;
· give preference to Kazakhstan personnel during the performance of oil operations; and
· finance training and re-training programs for Kazakhstan citizens in accordance with the subsoil use contract.
All tolled these changes would not appear to effect drastically the rights and obligations of existing field operators in Kazakhstan. However, these concepts are coupled with an amendment that is causing great concern in the international oil sector investment community.
Generally speaking, Article 63 of the Subsoil Law requires operators to procure the bulk of oil service goods, works and services through a tender. However, this Article now requires the operator or the "tender organizer" to "notionally reduce the price offered by a Kazakhstan producer by 20%, provided that its goods, services and work meet the tender conditions and stated standards". This is the crux of the amendment and issues abound as to its application.
Firstly, there is the general concern of operators on price certainty. The decision to develop or shelf an oil field can often turn on as little as one or two percentage points difference to the company's internal rate of return. It is difficult to predict the effect of a potential 20% cost rise across the board. This clearly seems to erode the financial position of subsoil users.
Secondly, there may often be a question as to whether a local producer's goods, services and work meet the tender conditions and "stated standards". In the case of the latter term, it is unclear what constitute 'stated standards'. Given the potential health, safety and environmental concerns regarding inferior goods, works and services, these vagaries are less than desirable. This is especially true when one considers that, as a matter of law, an operator is liable to third parties for the negligence of its contractors. This could pose a serious problem in the event of an accident or spill caused by substandard goods or services; especially if the Kazakhstan producer does not have the financial wherewithal to repay the operator for the damages paid out to the public. In this sense, the rules seem to be wrongly oriented; de-prioritizing health and safety matters to the benefit of a select number of local providers.
Thirdly and most broadly, the regulatory enforcement of the above tender rule will likely go hand in hand with the monitoring and enforcement of the percentages listed under the 'Kazakhstan Content' definition. Many, including the writers, believe that this will simply represent an added layer of regulation designed to extract further concessions from operators and their contractors.
Interaction of New Changes and Tender Rules
When addressing the above enforcement concerns, one must recall that the State already purports to regulate the tender of goods, works and services relative to oil operations under the Tender Rules.1 This not only reiterates the above issues, but also brings in a new set of provisions under the Tender Rules, thereby further muddying the waters.
1. Government Decree No. 612 On the Rules on the Purchase of Goods, Works and Services for Oil Operations
For example, the Tender Rules mandate Kazakhstan content requirements by percentage. By illustration, a service does not qualify as the Direct Performance of Services in Kazakhstan if more than 30% of the costs are allocated to the use of foreign employees. Similarly, if more than 50% of the costs of work performed in Kazakhstan are allocated to foreign raw materials, then that work will not constitute the Direct Performance of Work in Kazakhstan.
As a first observation, this places a great administrative burden on oil producers and oil service sector players to keep sufficient records to evidence their compliance with these thresholds.
If the thresholds are not met (or not evidenced by proper recording keeping), goods, works and services may fail to qualify as 'Kazakhstan Origin' for the purposes of considering 'Kazakhstan Content' requirements. In this event, the State may try and take steps to remedy what it views as a breach by the operator or the 'tender organizer' of the subsoil legislation.
Application of the New Changes to Operators and Oil Service Companies
All subsoil use grants occurring after the New Changes will be subject to the above regime. In this instance, investors will need to consider whether this regime, combined with other factors such as recent tax changes, affects the price they are willing to pay for new blocks.
For existing players in Kazakhstan, the situation is more complicated. Subsoil users may be able to resist the application of some or all of the above changes, depending on the year in which they procured their subsoil use right grants from the State. The various iterations of the Petroleum Law, Civil Code and Investment Law over the years have included so-called 'stability clauses'. Similar clauses were included in some subsoil use contracts; particularly for the larger projects.
These clauses were designed to 'freeze' the laws applicable to a given oil field to those laws that were on the books on the day that the subsoil use contract was signed up. If any legislative changes were made after this date and if those changes have a negative economic impact on the operator, then arguably these legislative changes do not apply to that operator.
In the present case, there are a number of arguments to support the proposition that the New Changes would, in fact, have a negative economic effect on various field developments. The negative impact is likely to be felt by the additional administrative burden placed on the operators and their 'tender organizers'. It is also likely to manifest itself in the increased cost of retaining local producers and service providers, possibly by as much as 20%. Given the foregoing, it is important for operators and their service companies alike to think about whether the field is stabilized against the New Changes.
Abai Shaikenov is a Partner in the Salans Almaty office. Mr. Shaikenov is the author of many articles published both internationally and in the domestic market. He graduated with honors from Kazakh State Legal Institute, the Asia-American Institute in Transnational Law under the auspices of Duke University School of Law & the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law. Mr. Shaikenov has extensive experience in oil and gas law, corporate, energy, banking, foreign exchange control, environmental, tax and securities regulations. His work extends to advising on multilateral institution financing, structuring of transactions, foreign investment, intellectual property, and various corporate matters related to doing business in Kazakhstan. He speaks fluent Russian, English, and Kazakh.
Anthony Cioni is the Senior Solicitor in the Salans Almaty office. Mr. Cioni is a Canadian Barrister and Solicitor (Alberta) and is a fully qualified and registered UK Solicitor. He concentrates on energy and natural resources matters with a particular emphasis on petroleum sector matters dealing with upstream and midstream issues. Anthony's practice also extends to oil sector related financing matters, including the negotiation of loan and pre-export finance facilities. Mr. Cioni is a regular contributing author to many business journals and international publications. Anthony is a member of the International Bar Association and the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators. He speaks English, French, Italian, Russian, and has studied Spanish.
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Q: umbracoNaviHide doesn't work on new project All my recent projects has implemented umbracoNaviHide inside a True/False property, and they all work just fine. In my 7.6.9 upgraded project, I simply cannot get a True/False value to work.
On my Master composition, I have a "Navigation" tab together with a True/False property. All my pages inherit through that composition.
When I do something like:
var menuItems = CurrentPage.Site().Children;

@foreach(var item in menuItems) {
    if(item.IsVisible()) {

    }
}

It doesn't work. It should work, as it has in all my lastest projects. Here's what I've tried:
var menuItems = CurrentPage.Site().Children.Where("Visible");
var menuItems = CurrentPage.Site().Children.Where("umbracoNaviHide == false"); //setting this to true gives me no results
var menuItems = CurrentPage.Site().Children.Where(x => x.IsVisible());
var menuItems = CurrentPage.Site().Children.Where("randomProperty == false"); //or true

foreach(var item in menuItems) {
    if(!item.HasValue("umbracoNaviHide)) {  }
    if(item.GetPropertyValue("umbracoNaviHide")) == "false") {  }
}

I think that's all. I did update my ModelsBuilder. I did restart the project. I did remove the property and readd it. I basically tried everything, but it just won't work.
What on earth?
UPDATE: Check out this. This is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo weird:
@foreach(var item in menuItems) {

@item.GetPropertyValue("umbracoNaviHide") - @item.Name

}

This gives me the following:
FALSE - Our offers
FALSE - Technology
TRUE - Projects
FALSE - About us
FALSE - Gallery
TRUE - Contact

However, this is how the umbracoNaviHide is setup in the backoffice:
Ticked - Our offers
Not ticked - Technology
Ticked - Projects
Not ticked - About us
Not ticked - Gallery
Ticked - Contact

How the flying hell is this possible?

A: Ok, everything's clear now :)
You're using dynamic objects and you're trying to treat them as IPublishedContent. If they are not mapped correctly it behave weird and unpredictable.
As dynamic objects will be removed in the following Umbraco versions, I suggest to use strongly typed IPublishedContent objects or take advantage of ModelsBuilder and operate on generated models of specific types.
My test code is below. Both versions works in my test 7.6.9 solution.
// Dynamic object version - will be deprecated - don't use!
//var visibleChildItems = CurrentPage.Site().Children.Where("Visible");

// Strongly Typed version - suggested
var visibleChildItems = Model.Content.Site().Children(x => x.IsVisible());

    @foreach (var item in visibleChildItems)
    {

            @item.Name

    }

Hope it will solve your problem. If you'll be interested about operating through dynamic objects and how to get properties from them, check a little bit old, but still valid Razor Cheetsheet for Umbraco: https://our.umbraco.org/projects/developer-tools/umbraco-v6-mvc-razor-cheatsheets.

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Independent From What?
July 5, 2018 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 12:19 pm Finance Tagged with: America, Eisenhower, Founding Fathers, Greece, Huxley, Independence Day, military industrial complex, Orwell, OXI, Trump, Tsipras
René Magritte The secret player 1927
There's something wonderfully -though at the same time sadly- ironic in simultaneously contemplating America's Independence Day and Greece's NO! (OXI!) vote three years ago that was subsequently defeated by it own prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, at the behest of the European Union's powers that be.
Where Americans managed to break free of their yoke in 1776, the Greeks did not. Indeed, they were betrayed by their own. There are certainly plenty of similarities with the Declaration of Independence to be made, plenty voices and forces that sought to defeat the Founding Fathers. In the end, the result is simple: the Americans succeeded in breaking free, the Greeks did not.
It's just that this is not where the story halts; it's not the whole story. You can say that the Greeks are not independent while the Americans are, but that is true in name only. What does that famous American independence consist of?
How free and independent are Americans really today? In 1956, Dwight Eisenhower famously talked about the military-industrial complex that the nation should beware of, but 62 years later is seems safe to say his warning was not heeded.
Donald Trump ran on a non-interventionist platform, but the military-industrial complex appears to have him gift-wrapped up and ready for delivery a year and a half into his presidency. Under Trump, the US have dropped more bombs than even under Obama, no small feat.
It is of course well understood that if you justify such action properly through the media, the people will buy about anything when it comes to waging war abroad, but it's still not what people voted for. They are not independent of the war machine.
And you can take this one step further. You can ask how independent a nation can really be if its citizens never learn to have independent thought, if they are deliberately never taught how to think for themselves. How can you be independent if and when other people define your thought and views?
Every single American and European must recognize at least part of Caitlin Johnstone's Babies. It may read as if it's describing some Chinese or Soviet system, or even Huxley or Orwell, but there's not really any plausible denial that at least some of what she says resonates with you:
When a baby is born, its parents teach it how to eat solid foods and walk and talk, which generally works out fine. Then they start teaching the baby all the lies their parents taught them, and things start to get messy. When the baby is old enough, they send it to school, where it spends twelve years being taught lies about how the world works so that one day it will be able to watch CNN and say "Yes, this makes perfect sense" instead of "This is ridiculous" or "Why does this whole entire thing seem completely fake?" or "I want to punch Chris Cuomo in the throat."
The baby is taught history, which is the study of the ancient, leftover propaganda from whichever civilization happened to win the wars in a given place at a given time. The baby is taught geography, so that later on when its country begins bombing another country, the baby's country won't be embarrassed if its citizens cannot find that country on a globe. The baby is taught obedience, and the importance of performing meaningless tasks in a timely manner.
This prepares the baby for the half century of pointless gear-turning it will be expected to undertake after graduation. The baby is taught that it lives in a free country, with a legitimate electoral system which facilitates meaningful elections of actual representatives in a real government. It is never taught that those elections, representatives and government are all owned and operated by the very rich, who use them to ensure policies which make them even richer while keeping everyone else as poor as possible so that they won't have to share political power.
And so you get to, have to, wonder if this is what the Founding Fathers would have wanted. Were they intending for America to be a nation filled with obedient sheeple? Since they themselves were revolting against a power that wanted for them to be just that, it doesn't seem likely.
Beyond the issue of slavery, which would take another 90 years to come on the agenda, and another 90 after that to lead to the abolishment of racial separation (and likely another 90 for the next step), the Fathers appear to have sought actual independence. There are precious few signs that they would have looked kindly upon the military-industrial complex.
Or the existing political parties for that matter, replete with 'life-long' politicians who label themselves 'public servants' but whose careers depend entirely on lobbyists and the corporate powers they serve, which donate the campaign cash needed to get the 'public servants' elected and re-elected.
Power corrupts absolutely. And it crushes independence. Since all US politicians need corporate money to build and sustain their careers, isn't it ironic that they, too, would celebrate Independence Day? Independent from what?
Sure, you can celebrate that you no longer depend on British rule, and their tea, but if and when you simply swap one dependency for another, what does the word independence even mean any more?
At least that's something the Greeks have an answer to. They depend on Europe's largest nations and their banks. They had a chance to break that dependency, and voted to do exactly that, only to see their Independence Day crushed by the first prime minister in decades who was not part of an age-old corrupt system.
Their quiet despair should be shared by Americans too, who are free and independent men and women in name only, and who depend on Washington and Wall Street's deeply entrenched power brokers perhaps more then ever in their history.
The Greeks have no options left; they voted for the one independent party there was three years ago, and were betrayed with a kiss. America voted Trump into the White House and though he seemed independent, he also seems to have been eaten alive by the Deep State and the war machine.
Independence appears to mean, first of all, not relying on entrenched power blocks for your lives and livelihoods, the ability to make your own decisions, to reap the fruit of your own labor. Has America been further away from that at any time since 1776 than it is today?
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July 5, 2018 at 12:19 pm #41592
Raúl Ilargi Meijer
René Magritte The secret player 1927 There's something wonderfully -though at the same time sadly- ironic in simultaneously contemplating Ameri
[See the full post at: Independent From What?]
V. Arnold
I, most assuredly, do not celebrate July 4th anything.
CJ's article is all about control. And that is achieved throught forced, public education/indoctrination.
The whole system is based on the Hindu model, which teaches docility; how the hell does one think the cast system in India survived for, how long? 1,000, 2,000 or more years? Hell, it still exists today!
I could rail on for pages; but it's getting late, so I won't.
If one wants to know how we arrived here, look no further than the forced, public educational system; it is the root of our problems. Yes, it is…
By the way, Magritte's painting, The Secret Player, is very spooky for 1927. Surrealist at least…
July 5, 2018 at 1:02 pm #41595
Where Americans managed to break free of their yoke in 1776, the Greeks did not.
I'm not so sure that is true. I'm not even convinced we had a revolution.
Maybe a coup.
And if that's true, then we've been living a myth for 242 years.
A whole system built on a myth.
Kinda asks, what's real? Nothing?
Everything is real except for your beliefs; dump them and discover the world…
V.Arnold says "The whole system is based on the Hindu model, which teaches docility".
Hello Mr. V.Arnold, I dont know your culture and country of origin. Without knowing fully about the "hindu Caste system" You have "NO BUSINESS" writing such comments. Hinduism is the "MOST NOBLEST" of all religions today.
It believes in understanding oneself, living in harmony wth nature and respect of all individuals. The "caste system" of VEDAS is not set in stone. It says a "brahmin should have certain characteristics" to be called a brahmin and so on. Also the the caste system allows for conversion (voluntarily – NO forced conversion) if a person or their family so chooses to convert from one caste to another.
YOUR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE on HINDUISM and writing about the same is unfortunate. Please educate yourself about HINDUISM FULLY before casting aspersions.
Diogenes Shrugged
Independent from what? Independent from the truth. We're FREE to adhere to the official misconceptions, though. The term for that is "patriotism."
Just look at who writes the history books, who teaches the official history, and whose power is preserved through a history of censorship and lies. A population that thinks itself free by definition is a population deceived.
If you have the time, only the first 12 minutes:
Again, if you have the time, just the first 17:
"Power never leaves the posterity."
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barnaby33
Ilargi, based on your definition, nobody is free. All societies have rules. Anarchy and complexity are each others enemies. Now it would be morally correct and quite observant were you to tie our obedience to the complexity and alternately our fear of simplifying that our societies desperately need, but you didn't do that.
July 6, 2018 at 4:10 am #41603
Freedom is another concept little understood.
July 6, 2018 at 11:58 am #41612
Who could have predicted Trump would turn out to be a carnival barker, surrounding himself with the "best and brightest" scumbags known to man (Bolton, Kudlow, et al). He is a charlatan, at best.
Dr. D
Interesting points. It's all myth, or at least history is: you couldn't fit what really happened, what every person really thought, believed, and tried into a book. But leaving it out in any coherent way is a lie by omission. It can't be helped. What is the quote? "You can't get wet from the word 'water.'" – Alan Watts A book on history is not history. We can't know that. If you follow "Hamilton" there are two significant sections where Miranda (Chernow) has to add 'we don't know. No one wrote it. They weren't in "the Room Where It Happened." Most of history is like that.
Long way round as usual to say, all revolutions are 'coups'. Or in our case, not exactly a coup because we had no interest in toppling the King or taking India and Gibraltar. Did forces such as France help us? Obviously. Did more hidden powers agitate and interefere? You can see some of them in the sympathies of Parlaiment. How about super-secret, unknown forces? Well all of D.C. was laid out on Masonic architectural references, no joke, so you be the judge if they had underlying debts to pay.
But that would be the same as every other war or revolution ever. What we can't know is what they INTENDED. Who intended? The Silversmith? The Tailor? The Brewer? What Jefferson intended or what Adams intended? Samuel or John? See the problem? Suppose Washington was a straight-up agent of the Masons or some secret, evil order we don't know, AND he promised to deliver the whole Continent into the hands of Cthulhu. Could he do it? No. He could pull and influence it — which is significant — but he couldn't do it alone. He needs some form of quorum, some majority of the power nexus points as the Deep State has today, and like today, even that is not enough.
But it's disingenuous to say the Revolution was a scam, or that we're totally free or totally not free — it's childish thinking. No one is free, whether under governments or under anarchy, because there are always limits and consequences, there are only levels. And because 40 years is not long enough even reading the Cliff Notes that are books, no one can communicate the "truth" of history, only some aspect of it that can't be tested or proven, and those are the limits of knowledge. In that the map is not the territory, and we have no way to send surveyors into the past, doesn't mean the map is useless or imaginary. It's just less than perfect like every other map ever made.
My unproven, unfounded feeling is that the Revolution was a set up from behind to overthrow Kings and set up an empire of man. However to get adequate buy-in they had to offer a great deal of good, and less bad than they would have liked. The Founders took them up on the offer, not in one smoky room, but over time, incompletely, each in their own struggle. Once liberated though, they generally rebelled against the intent of their backers and stopped them out of power, but not completely, just as today there is a 50-year hidden struggle of the Neocon police state and the American democratic state. Since then, at various times, one or another has managed to get their foot forward and take ground, (like Hamilton's centralization and Quincy's oligarch track) only to lose it again under a Jackson or a Teddy. Those have their own effect, like Lincoln preventing the recapture of America by breaking it into Euro-attackable pieces, yet Lincoln's federal primacy itself got the whole ship captured later on. History is complex that way, no one's on top. There is no pure good or bad, but only men, trying things.
So are we free or not free? Yes. Same as 5,000 years. Is it a lie or not a lie? Yes. Same as 5,000 years. But the thing we did here was to try something, to aspire to have things be better, and as you see today, to keep fighting for it, fighting and fighting and fighting and not giving up on our values and our intent even when we are today captured, abused and vilified by all. A lot of nations give up. France in 1870 didn't care anymore, Venezuela today. And Greece to some extent tolerates what Americans wouldn't, and didn't burn the place down when Varofakis' plausible new ideas were booted out and German occupation began killing thousands. That's up to them, I have no opinion with Turkey looming over them on the leash and the Serbian example showing what NATO can do, but we Americans TRIED, and we still try today. Try to see the good in man, or what the other guy is up against before you tell the bloodied boxer how he falls short.
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." –Theodore Roosevelt
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