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Millions Of U.S. Taxpayer Dollars Going Right Into The Pockets Of Corrupt Government Officials In Afghanistan
October 12, 2012 July 7, 2010 by Michael Snyder
Whatever you think of the war in Afghanistan, there is no denying that the recent reports of rampant financial corruption going on even at the highest levels of Afghanistan's government are extremely troubling. The United States has spent billions upon billions of dollars to help Afghanistan set up a "democracy", but now there is news that corrupt government officials have been shipping billions and billions of dollars out of the country and have been buying luxury villas in Dubai. Apparently many Afghan officials have decided to achieve "the American Dream" the same way that many U.S. politicians have achieved it – by lying, cheating and stealing. The Wall Street Journal recently reported that over three billion dollars in cash has been flown out of Kabul International Airport in recent years. Considering the fact that this is far more than the Afghan government collects in tax and customs revenue annually, it is obvious that there is a huge, huge, huge problem with corruption in Afghanistan. Much of the cash being shipped out of the country is from the drug trade, but the narcotics money does not account for all of it. Investigators allege that a significant portion of this money that is being shipped out of the country is actually aid money that comes directly from U.S. taxpayers.
One U.S. official who is investigating corruption and Taliban financing recently gave his bleak assessment of what is going on….
"A lot of this looks like our tax dollars being stolen. And opium, of course."
The truth is that rampant, in-your-face corruption is going on in a country that we are currently occupying militarily and that we are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to supposedly try to bring democracy to.
Afghan officials aren't even trying to hide it. As Der Spiegel described recently, this corruption is going on right out in the open….
Brigadier General Mohammed Asif Jabarkhel sits with folded arms in his office, just a few steps away from the security checkpoint at Kabul International Airport. "Of course I know what's going on here," the 59-year-old head of the airport's customs police grumbles from beneath his thick moustache as a fan whirs in the background. "But, in this country, who's allowed to speak the truth?"
Jabarkhel is referring to the huge amounts of money regularly being secreted out of Afghanistan by plane in boxes and suitcases. According to some estimates, since 2007, at least $3 billion (€2.4 billion) in cash has left the country in this way. The preferred destination for these funds is Dubai, the tax haven in the Persian Gulf.
You know, there is just one major airport in the capital of Afghanistan. How hard would it be for the U.S. military to get a handle on what is going on at that one airport?
What in the world are we accomplishing anyway? Are we there to keep corrupt Afghan officials safe enough so that they can smuggle billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars out of the country and buy luxury villas in Dubai?
While the corrupt Afghan government officials live the high life, U.S. soldiers are paying the price. In fact, the violence in that nation is rapidly getting worse. It was recently reported that a majority of all combat-related U.S. casualties in the nine-year-long war in Afghanistan have occurred since Barack Obama was inaugurated about a year and a half ago.
So now there have been more U.S. casualties in Afghanistan under Obama than there were under George W. Bush.
Isn't that wonderful?
But now Obama even wants to send U.S. civilians to Afghanistan. During a recent speech in Racine, Wisconsin, Obama called for sending a "civilian expeditionary force" to Afghanistan and Iraq to help "overburdened" U.S. military forces build infrastructure.
And yet Obama denies that we are engaged in "nation building".
Considering the fact that U.S. cities such as Detroit now look like bombed-out war zones, shouldn't we be devoting our resources to building up our own infrastructure?
No, we have to send billions to Afghanistan instead so that corrupt government officials can steal it and ship it out of the country. The previously referenced article in Der Spiegel summed up the situation this way….
It is clear that much more money is making its way out of Afghanistan through Kabul's airport than is being officially declared and logged. For example, important politicians and businesspeople can often board planes from the airport's special VIP area without being searched. And if customs officials do conduct a search and find a suitcase stuffed with millions of dollars in cash, people with powerful connections often step in to make sure that the luggage makes it out of the country with its owner — no questions asked. "A couple phone calls are made," General Jabarkhel says with frustration in his voice, "and the person can carry on."
Meanwhile, the United States continues to spend mind-boggling amounts of money to keep Afghanistan safe and secure.
According to a report from the Pentagon to the U.S. House of Representatives, it costs the United States $1 million per year for each U.S. soldier in Afghanistan.
In addition, it has come out that the U.S. military spends about $400 per gallon of gasoline in Afghanistan.
Why is it so expensive?
Well, Afghanistan is a landlocked nation. In order to get gasoline to U.S. forces operating in remote regions, it often has to be sent by helicopter. But sending gasoline by helicopter is incredibly inefficient.
So needless to say, the U.S. military is burning up massive amounts of money in Afghanistan.
But that is nothing when compared to the sacrifices that the dead and wounded U.S. soldiers have made.
So how is the Afghanistan government repaying us?
They are taking our aid money and buying expensive villas in Dubai with it as Der Spiegel recently detailed….
A number of Afghan businesspeople have purchased expensive villas in Dubai, once only attractive as a golfer's paradise. These include a brother and a cousin of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, one of Karzai's former vice presidents and the brother of Mohammad Qasim Fahim, one of the country's two current vice presidents. Asking prices for the stylish, Roman-style houses built along the beaches of the man-made island Palm Jumeirah, for example, start at $2 million. Until just a few years ago, many of their current inhabitants were far from wealthy.
As the Washington Post has discovered, these properties are often only registered under the names of the individuals issuing the loans, such as Sherkhan Farnood, the founder and chairman of Kabul Bank, Afghanistan's largest private bank, who was also a key supporter of President Karzai during his 2009 re-election campaign. Like many of his clients, Farnood now spends the majority of his time in Dubai. And among the 16 shareholders in his bank are Mahmoud Karzai, the president's business-minded older brother, and Haseen Fahim, the brother of Afghan Vice President Mohammad Qasim Fahim.
Are you angry yet?
Perhaps we should let these corrupt Afghan officials pick up arms and start defending their own country against the Taliban.
Perhaps then they would not have so much time to be running around buying luxury villas in Dubai.
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Kenya wakes up to coffee
By Tristan McConnell (AFP) Jun 5, 2016 in Food
Africa's best barista doesn't drink coffee, nor even really like it, yet two-time Kenyan champ Martin Shabaya won the Africa round and next month competes at the World Barista Championships.
Shabaya, 26, has only been pouring coffee for five years but his success is indicative of a country that –- unlike him –- is learning to love coffee.
"I had not even tasted coffee. I had only taken this Nescafé," said Shabaya of his first day at Kenya's Artcaffe restaurant chain. "It was my first time to see an espresso machine."
They are everywhere now. Java House is Kenya's answer to Starbucks with 36 branches in shopping malls and petrol stations across the country. Artcaffe Coffee and Bakery has grown rapidly since 2009 with 11 branches and four more managed under Dormans brand, the country's oldest coffee roaster.
"Roasting is an art and a science," said Rozy Rana, managing director of Dormans Coffee, dressed -- like everyone else at the Nairobi factory -- in a white lab coat.
"East African coffees have unique flavours and that's why they are revered worldwide," she said. "Roasting brings out the nuances and flavours. Even a few seconds can make the difference to a roast's success."
- Don't kill the flavour -
Kenya's Arabica beans are at their best when medium roasted, for around 15 minutes at 250 degrees Centigrade (482 farenheit), then quickly sealed
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Kenya's Arabica beans are at their best when medium roasted, for around 15 minutes at 250 degrees Centigrade (482 farenheit), then quickly sealed in aluminium packages to protect them from what quality controller Tim Obiayo calls "the enemies of coffee": heat, light, moisture and oxygen.
"The most dangerous is oxygen, it assassinates flavour," he said.
Dormans produces around a dozen coffee blends and has seen strong domestic growth.
"For many years you would question the viability of setting up a coffee shop as drinkers were tourists and foreigners, and very few Kenyans," said Rana.
But that has changed. "Coffee is being taken seriously, as a business and by consumers," she said.
Dormans is the biggest but not the only roaster in town.
Smaller operations such as Ransley Coffee Company, run out of a ramshackle compound on the city's outskirts, and Kahawa Corner -- kahawa is Swahili for coffee -- with its small roasting and grinding shop next to a neighbourhood grocery store, have also found space in an expanding market.
Quality control workers sort green, unroasted coffee beans at Dormans coffee factory in Nairobi, which produces around a dozen coffee blends and has seen strong domestic growth
Ransley supplies independent outlets Tin Roof Café, in the leafy Karen suburb, and Pointzero Coffee in downtown Nairobi.
The proprietors of both say buying from a small supplier enables them to choose the beans they want, roasted and ground how they want.
Self-described coffee enthusiast Andrea Moraa opened Pointzero in the courtyard next to the Nairobi Gallery in late 2015 hoping to create a calming oasis among the city's hurly-burly.
She seeks out single-origin Arabica because, "coffee is like wine: it brings to the cup the taste of the place it was grown."
- Growing coffee, drinking coffee -
Moraa says Kenyans are becoming more discerning, sophisticated consumers.
"For the longest time we were a tea-drinking nation that grew coffee, now it's becoming part of our culture to drink coffee as well as grow it," she said.
Sitting on the shady verandah of the Tin Roof Café, co-owner Abbie MacAndrew, says coffee drinking has thrown off its reputation as something for the fusty and the foreign.
"Coffee isn't an elitist pastime anymore," she said.
Shabaya tried brewed coffee for the first time when he began training as a barista, "but I never liked it," he said with a grimace and a sip of lemon and ginger tea to wash away the memory.
But Shabaya soon acquired a regular customer, a discerning Italian in his 40s who came in everyday, sat at the bar counter and ordered an espresso.
"He explained the techniques and I learned to master the perfect shot of espresso," said Shabaya.
While his espressos and cappuccinos are popular with customers and judges, the drink that sets Shabaya apart at competition is an idiosyncratic concoction he calls 'Goodnight Kenya' blending espresso with Cabernet Sauvignon grapes, orange juice and cardamom.
"Kenyan coffee is full of citrus and blackcurrant, so these flavours complement those," he said.
Shabaya hopes his signature brew will propel him into the top three at the world barista championships in Ireland, and earn Kenya a name for consuming coffee that matches its reputation for growing it.
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The Education Voter's Guide
Parents like the freedom to choose the best educational experience for their children. It may be the one thing just about everyone in America can agree on. Choice is better, and now that parents know what it feels like, we think it is likely they are never going to give it up and go back to the way it used to be.
More than 4 in 5 parents (83%) agree that education has become a more important political issue to them than it was in the past, with 2 in 5 strongly agreeing (40%). In 2022 and beyond, education will surely be on the ballot since many parents say that they are focused on education. The upcoming elections provide an opportunity for charter school supporters to raise public and policymaker awareness about the importance of charter schools.
Here is your guide to #ParentsVote:
How Parents Might Vote This Fall
A recent national survey of more than 5,000 parents of school-aged children, conducted by The Harris Poll and commissioned by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, suggests education voters may be the new "swing" voters. For many, education has risen in importance when it comes to key considerations when they head to the polls.
Parents, regardless of political affiliation, report that they support and want more public charter schools in their area. According to The Harris Poll, 82% of respondents across the political spectrum said they would be willing to vote for someone outside their political party if the candidate shared matching views on education issues. And 83% of parents agree that education has become a more important issue to them than it was in the past.
See the Findings
Why Parents Are "Never Going Back" on Education
In a new report, Never Going Back: An Analysis of Parent Sentiment on Education, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools examines results from a survey of more than 5,000 parents conducted by The Harris Poll in May 2022. The report indicates that parents overwhelmingly like and want the freedom to choose the best education option for their children. This is true across all races, political ideologies, and geographies, but more pronounced in some. Especially after parents experienced a first-person look at schooling during the pandemic, they began to understand that choice in their child's education is essential.
Read the Top Reasons
Learn More About Charter Schools
Charter schools are tuition-free public schools that accept all students and families who choose to enroll there. In many cases, they are founded by people within the community who want to create options for families who would prefer not to, or can't afford to, send their children to private school.
Because every charter school is founded for a different reason, they are all unique. Some charter schools have an arts-centered curriculum or a STEM focus, others use a Montessori learning model or a college-prep focus, and some are dual credit—offering college credit while in high school and others provide career training. Charter schools can serve children in any grade from Pre-K to 12 grade and some offer other programs like GED courses or classes for adults who didn't have the opportunity to graduate high school earlier.
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Islam is a way of life, the religion for this world and the other. The meaning of Islam is submitting to the Will of Allah (Arabic word for God). The foundations of Islam are established in the Qur'an and hence are non-negotiable. They can be summarized as the Five Pillars and the Seven Articles of Faith.
1.	The Declaration of Faith (al-shahada): "There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah". The first half of this declaration affirms Islam's absolute monotheism, an unshakable and uncompromising faith in the oneness or unity (tawhid) of God and His absolute transcendence. The second half declares how His message was transmitted to humanity through His prophet Muhammad. This acknowledgement of, and commitment to, Allah and His Prophet is simply the means by which a person professes his/her faith and becomes a Muslim.
2.	Prayer (salat): Five times each day - predawn (fajr), noon (zuhr), afternoon (asr), Maghrib (sunset) and 'Isha (late evening), individually or in a group. They can offer their prayers wherever they may be - in a mosque, at home, at work, or on the road. On Friday, the noon prayer is congregational prayer, recommended to all adults. (Q, lxii, verses 9-10). The person leading the prayer (Imam) delivers a sermon (khutbah) on social, religious or political issues of the day important for the congregation. It is customary in majority of Muslim countries that men pray in congregation and for women it varies from region to region.
In Islam, prayer has a wider significance, in the sense that it is meant to help the individual develop consciousness of the Creator, Allah, and to have communion with Him for a short time, five times a day in the midst of other daily mundane activities. For details of the ritual of praying , please see the section below, "Rituals, Practices and Festivals."
3.	Fasting (sawm) during month of Ramadan, the ninth month of Islamic calendar. From dawn to sunset, all adult Muslims whose health permits are to abstain completely from food, drink, and sexual activity. Ramadan is a time for reflection and spiritual discipline, for expressing gratitude for God's guidance, and atoning for past sins, for awareness of human frailty and dependence on God, as well as for remembering and responding to the needs of the poor and hungry. During this month, Muslims perform additional devotional prayers (salat al- tarawih), combined with the late evening prayer. As the end of Ramadan nears (on the 27th night in particular), Muslims commemorate the "Night of Power" (lailatul qadr), when the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon Him) first received God's revelation. (For details, see Q. 97: 1-5, 1765.) The month of Ramadan comes to an end with a great celebration, the feast of the breaking of the Fast, Eidul - Fitr.
4.	Almsgiving (zakat) is both an individual and a communal obligation, so payment of zakat instills a sense of communal identity and responsibility. This promotes social welfare of the community by redressing economic inequalities through payment of an alms tax. It is an act both of worship or thanksgiving to God and of service to the community. It is levied at the rate of two and a half percent on accumulated wealth and assets after normal expenses each year. The Qur'an and Islamic law stipulate that alms (zakat) are to be used to support the poor, orphans and widows.
5.	Pilgrimage (Hajj) is asked for every adult Muslim who is physically and financially able to perform it once in his/her lifetime. The focus of the pilgrimage is the Ka'bah, (sacred cubic-shaped structure called by the Muslims, the House of God in which the sacred black stone is embedded, situated in Mecca, Saudi Arabia). The pilgrimage takes place once a year in the twelfth month, Dhul-Hijja, of the Muslim lunar calendar. It is a pilgrimage, not only to Mecca, but also towards God, the Creator, and a time to reflect the attributes of God, the attributes of mercy, compassion, love, and concern for others, of repentance and forgiveness. It is a unique experience individually as well as collectively. Muslims of all races and tongues from around the globe congregate in millions in the sacred places of Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia. The pilgrimage ends with the Feast of Sacrifice (Eidul - Adha). It commemorates God's command to Prophet Abraham to sacrifice his son Isma'il. When he was all set to do so, God switched a ram to be sacrificed in place of Isma'il. The pilgrims sacrifice animals (sheep, goat, cattle or a camel).
It should be noted here that all Islamic festivals, celebrations etc. are based on the Islamic calendar, which is lunar. The lunar calendar is 10-11 days shorter than Gregorian calendar and hence it repeats every 36 years. Consequently, all celebration days vary from year to year.
First a few words about the formal place of congregational prayers: Mosque (masjid) is considered the nerve center of Muslims as a group wherever they may be. In the history of Islam as a religion and as civilization, from the lifetime of the Prophet (peace be upon him), the mosque has been the forum to pray together, to learn together, to discuss political and social issues relevant to the community living in the area, and to unite the community. It served as an inn for the travelers, to feed the hungry, to provide refuge to individuals in distress.
When you enter a mosque, removal of your shoes is mandatory for Muslims and non-Muslims. There is no formal dress code; simple and modest clothing should cover all parts of body (shorts and bikinis not permitted) and women are encouraged to cover their head with a scarf.
In all properly built mosques, usually there is a niche in the prayer hall (mihrab) indicating the direction of prayer toward Mecca. It also determines the direction of the rows. It is also the spot where Imam (religious person who leads the prayers) stands when addressing the congregation. The floor of the prayer hall is carpeted with the markings for the rows. There are no pews or allotted seats; people sit or stand in the rows as they come. All human beings are equal, irrespective of their race, colour, and socio-economic status. Generally, for women and girls, there is a separate hall, a mezzanine floor with a view of the Imam or an area at the rear of the main prayer hall.
In the prayer hall or any other part of mosque, no photos, pictures or statues are displayed. The only decorations are verses from the Qur'an inscribed in beautiful calligraphy.
Before joining a congregational for prayer or praying individually, a Muslim must have either a bath or perform ritual ablution (wudu). It comprises of washing your hands, rinsing your mouth, cleaning your nose, washing face and forearms up to elbows, wiping head, and neck, cleaning ears with wet hands, and finally washing feet up to ankles That completes the ablution and worshipper is set for offering prayer to Allah. While facing in the direction of Ka'bah, the worshipper silently declares the intention to pray.
"Prayer is better than sleep"
Performance of prayer has several postures and for each posture the Arabic terms are given in parentheses: Intention to pray is followed by (Takbir-i-Tehrima), standing (qiyam), bowing (raku'), standing momentarily (qawmah), prostrating oneself with forehead and nose touching the ground (sijdah), followed by sitting position (jalsa). One unit of these postures is named in Arabic, rak'ah. The last two photos are from (jalsa) position in the last rak'ah, (salam) to the right and (salam) to the left and concludes each prayer.
Each obligatory (fard) prayer consists of two, three or four rakahs, depending on whether it is predawn, noon, afternoon, sunset, or evening prayer, and it is offered in a specific format as described below. Obligatory prayer means that it is an individual's duty toward the Creator, Allah.
In each rakah, the opening verse of the Quran, (al-Fatihah) is repeated.
You do we worship, and your help do we seek.
It is recommended to adults to offer the Friday prayer in congregation (noon prayer) in a mosque where the resident Imam (or occasionally a guest scholar) delivers sermon (khutbah) before the prayer (a distinctive feature of this prayer). People start arriving before the prayer time and sit down in rows. In progressive mosques, khutbah is delivered in Arabic and English/French, switching from one language to other. In traditional mosques, the main khutbah is delivered in Arabic and paraphrased in English or French, depending on the demographics of the congregation. In general, the khutbah should relate to the current events, in the city, country or the world, with references to relevant Quranic verses and the sunnah (tradition of the Prophet).
Please note that the timing of the steps may vary during the daylight saving and standard time (Summer or Winter). Most of the mosques in Montreal do not change their times to avoid confusion. However, some mosques advance the times by 30 minutes in the Fall and Winter (Standard Time).
2.	The second adhan at 1.20 p.m., followed by the khutabah (duration fifteen to twenty minutes).
3.	Friday prayer (salat al-Jum'ah), comprised of two rakahs, is performed behind the Imam and is led by him. Therefore, the worshippers follow the Imam. Parts of prayer where Imam is silent, the worshipers recite the required portions of the prayer silently.
These two prayers are offered in congregation and provide opportunity for the social interaction of the community. It is comprised of two wajib (binding) rakahs, with additional takbirat (pronouncement of 'Allah is the Greatest'). The prayer is led by the Imam, and is followed by a short sermon. After the prayer, people hug each other (friends, acquaintances and other worshipers) while wishing them Happy Eid (Eid Mubarak).
The Prophet's birthday is commemorated each year by holding functions at many mosques and inviting guest speakers, who reflect on his life, and his numerous attributes (aswatul hasana). It falls on the 12th day of the 3rd month (Rabi-ul-Auwal) of the Islamic calendar. Refreshments are served at the end of the meeting.
The largest group of Muslims is the Sunnis. They consider themselves the followers of the sunna (tradition) of the Prophet, restrict the religious authority to the Qur'an and the Prophet and their interpretation through consensus of the community (ijma'). The full name of the Sunnis is ahl al-sunnah wa al-ijma' (the People of the traditions of the Prophet and the Consensus). They recognize the first four successors (khalifas, caliphs) of the Prophet in political leadership and not in prophet-hood, attribute no special religious or political function to the descendants of the Prophet's son-in-law 'Ali', and adhere to one of the four Sunni Schools of Law (Hanafi, Shafi'i, Malaki and Humbali). They constitute 85% of the total Muslims in the world.
The name shi'ah comes from shi'at 'Ali' (party of 'Ali). Ali ibn Abi Talib (d. 661) was a cousin of the prophet and his son-in-law, married to his daughter Fatimah, and was one of the first converts to Islam. Historically, the roots of Shi'ism go back to the time immediately following the Prophet's death in 632, when Abu Bakr (d. 634) was elected as Caliph, (successor to the Prophet) at the popular assembly (saqifah) in Medina. 'Ali was not present there, since he had stayed at the Prophet's deathbed. A small group of people wanted him to succeed the Prophet. 'Ali had to wait Umar (the second Caliph, d. 644) and Uthman (the third Caliph, d. 656) before being elected the fourth Caliph.
In the mean time, Mu'awiyah, a relative of Uthman, had become governor of Syria, and opposed 'Ali, which led to a long and inconclusive Battle of Siffin in 657 AD (36 al-Hijra), and to the secession of the Kharjites (separatists) from Ali's army. In 661 AD, Ali was assassinated by the Kharjites. His elder son, Hasan (d.670 AD) was elected Caliph in Medina, but because of the threat of attack from Mu'awiyah, he ceded the Caliphate to him.
After the death of Hasan, his younger brother, Husayn, the only other son of Ali and Fatimah, succeeded him and revolted against Mu'awiyah's impious son Yazid (d. 685), was defeated by Yazid's army and was martyred in Karbela in 680 AD along with many of his family members. (For the tragedy of Karbala, see Muharram in the site, "Shiane Haidery Islamic Association Inc.").
The fate of 'Ali and his sons is regarded a great tragedy in Islam, both by Shi'is and Sunnis. The Sunnis hold 'Ali in a high place as he is a great champion of Islam in its early fight to survive and the venerable fourth Caliph, one of the Khulafa'ar-rashidun (the rightly guided Caliphs). The Shi'ites, however hold Ali in a special high place in a spiritual function, along side the Prophet and as his designated successor, Imam.
2.	Fivers (five Imam Shi'ites), also called Zaydis.
3.	Seveners (seven Imam Shi'ites) are the Ismailis (followers of Agha Khan). For details, See 'Jamat Khana and Ismaili Centre'.
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, India in 1889. He declared that he was the Promised Messiah and al-Imam al-Mahdi. He claimed that Ahmadiyya is not a new religion. It represents the essence of Islam in all its purity, as enunciated by the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). See 'La Communaute musulmane ahmadiyya du Quebec'.
1 The author (Mumtazul Haque Rehman) is grateful to Dr. Alvi for involving him in this important project. He greatly appreciates her guidance and support right from the inception of this project.
2 M. A. Sherif, Searching for solace: A Biography of Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Interpreter of the Qur'an (Kuala Lumpur: Islamic Book Trust, 1994), 128.
This section is in progress. More references will be added and will be thematically Organized later on.


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Q: Can I move some npm dependencies into another project and then to install that project as a dependency? I try to move some dependencies from a project to another project in order to have a cleaner view in my package json regarding the project I work on. Most of dependencies I mention are build dependencies, so they are somehow poluting my actual project. I prepared the sub-project with only a package.json containing those build packages as devDependencies, and I published to npm, then I installed that package as a devDependency into my project. So far, so good... except npm does not install the packages contained by the sub-project.
What am I missing?

A: Solved! I just had to set packages in sub project as dependencies, not devDependencies.

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Enjoy a guided tour the Palace of Versailles and its most beautiful rooms. After your tour, spend time exploring the beautiful gardens before enjoying lunch in a restaurant near the Grand Canal. The second part of your visit includes an afternoon tour of the Petit and Grand Trianons and the Queen's Hamlet.
Your tour begins with a 45-minute drive from Paris to Versailles. On the luxury air-conditioned coach, your guide will give you an introduction to the history of Versailles.
Follow your guide to the front of the line and start your tour of the palace's most beautiful rooms: the King's Apartments, with seven elegant room all dedicated to a different god, and the Queen's Apartments, including the Queen's Bedroom, where Marie Antoinette once slept. You'll also visit large reception room Hall of Mirrors, designed to leave visitors to the Sun King speechless.
After your tour of the palace, you can enjoy some free time to explore the gardens and admire the many works of art, fountains, ponds, flower beds, and trees.
Next up is a lovely lunch at restaurant 'La Petite Venise' in a peaceful spot right in the heart of the palace's grounds, near the Grand Canal.
After lunch, you'll get a tour of the Grand Trianon, a palace built for Louis XIV in the grounds. This pink marble palace is surrounded by delicate gardens and pools, making it one of the most elegant of all the buildings at Versailles.
The last stop on the tour is the Petit Trianon, which was Marie Antoinette's favorite place; she would come here with her children and friends to experience the charm of country life and to amuse herself.
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The tour ends back at the PARISCityVISION office in Paris.
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The tour is available in English, Spanish, French and Japanese.
*The menu is subject to change.
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- Guide commentary will be played through individual headsets.
- In winter, you'll ride the mini train across the gardens to the Trianon. In summer, you'll walk through the gardens to the Trianon.
- We highly recommend comfortable walking shoes as the tour includes a great deal of walking.
- Pushchairs are forbidden inside the palace.
- Pictures without flash are permitted inside the palace.
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Rusalka at Grange Park Opera
Grange Park Opera
I adore Rusalka, for me one of the finest of all late romantic operas, coming as it does right at the nadir of the 19th century (it was finished in 1901). In places the affinity with Janacek's Jenufa (of 1904) is overwhelming, though the latter feels like a 20th century work in every way, whereas the former is without question a late flowering of the romantic era. The score is absolutely gorgeous throughout, something very special even by the standards of Dvorak, with orchestration of an art that conceals art. The peculiar luminosity and beauty of the prelude alone is extraordinary and provides the musical norm by which Dvorak continues.
But Rusalka is hard to bring off in performance, and many productions go wide of the mark and don't allow the piece to make it's full impact. Part of this I believe is due to the confusion that arises about how to categorise this opera: the music falls into two distinct styles throughout and is constantly switching between them. The first is the ultra-lyrical, serious and sad music that surrounds Rusalka and the Prince - this is as you'd expect from late romantic opera - rapture, heart break, passion (Eugene Onegin the clearest antecedent, with Wagner for orchestral sweep and erotics) though of course with Dvorak's instantly distinctive personality always recognisable. Behind it all, Smetana provides another important well spring.
The second style Dvorak utilises when dealing with virtually all the ancillary characters, and this one is far more connected to the folk music of his native Bohemia; the clearest ancestor is Humperdinck in Hansel and Gretel, and it's extension again back to Wagner. Humperdinck's peerless masterpiece manages to merge German folk song into a wholly Wagnerian orchestral fabric and is one of the greatest of all Wagnerian operas. Similarly in Rusalka, Dvorak's native folk music is given deluxe late romantic orchestral treatment, creating a spirited, folksy charm that marks a stark contrast to the music for central heroin's plight. This seems to vex many directors who struggle to assimilate both styles into one vision, the "serious-tragic" on the one hand and "spirited-folksy" on the other - each has it's own vocal style, it's own dramatic rhythm, mood and dramatic workings. As a result, Rusalka remains only on the fringes of the repertoire, revived with regularity, but often one leaves the theatre feeling that it's a better opera than the production has allowed.
The opening scene with the water nymphs for instance, so clearly borrowed from Scene 1 of Rheingold and Act 3 of Die Walkure, but then sculpted and folked to taste, beautiful and enchanting when sung well, here felt awkward in contrast to Rusalka's entry. Part of Dvorak's dramatic plan is this enormous contrast in mood and pace, but it didn't come off here. The production is slightly redolent of a school production with its simply painted sets (overhead projector onto flat boards?!), and crude simulacra of the pool and forest. It's not at all visually alluring, but at least the story is told clearly and effectively enough.
Rusalka can be interpreted in lots of different ways - another reason that it is rather hard to stage - it's not at all obvious what to do with it. Part of the late 19th century's obsession with folk tales was what they might mean psychologically, what under the surface they really reflected about the situation and us. So whereas the story is relatively simple (effectively the Little Mermaid, but with a sad ending), the psychological and sexual undercurrents as well as comedic aspects add a very interesting zest and bouquet to proceedings. The psychological roller coaster was interestingly explored here I thought, mostly in lots of piquantly arresting details.
The march in the central act was depicted here as a pantomime banquet, though the guests get rather more raunchy than might be expected at a royal dinner. In the previous scene, during the Gamekeeper and Kitchen Hand's first exchange, two kitchen staff are seen gutting fish for the feast, and when Rusalka is late offered the fish we feel her revulsion and shudder with her. Anne Sophie-Duprels plays the part wonderfully, her unpassionate, innocent, coolly piscine youthfulness all brought across very well in a myriad of little details. Her hands are constantly held stiffly by her side, flapping gently in the air. During the pantomime she is wrapped in bridal gauze but we realise that for Rusalka it feels like a fishing net, choking and harrowing. Throughout, her legs show the still bloody suture that the witch inflicts on her when her mermaid tail is cut up to grant her wish, the barbarism and pointlessness of the action again making a very visceral impact, despite it's comedic overtones (The witch is wielding a huge cleaver). The idea of mirroring that this opera contains is nicely and subtly picked up in many ways - while Rusalka's new legs are always on show and she loses any sense of elegance, the other women wear fishtail like dresses and sweep across the stage. Rusalka has bright red hair, and so to does the Foreign Princess (so evil, she doesn't even have a name!), though in the latter case her tresses are permed and quaffed, in contrast to Rusalka naturally flowing locks, straight and sleek.
Rusalka's father is a merman, here depicted like an aging rock star - long haired, narcissistic (the opening scene has him sitting on a rock admiring himself in a mirror!), world weary, and impotent. Clive Bayley plays the part very well and has great vocal presence for this great bass role.
Character actors are often very good in provincial opera, because they get paid less than the stars and so smaller houses can afford to hire them too. Virtually all the supporting cast were good or outstanding. Emma Carrington as the witch Jezibaba almost steals the show in an amazing piece of dramatic characterisation, both vocally and her superb acting. She is an ambiguous character - she seems to hate humans, but she doesn't exactly love the water spirits either - she seems to want to help Rusalka in some ways, but exacts cruel punishments too. Her costume is fantastic a business like pinstriped dress, acting as a facade for for the fishy details that trail behind. A coral necklace also suggests her aquatic affinity. Her youthful figure and beauty, but tightly pinned mass of white hair suggest an unnaturally prolonged youth, unsettling even while it remains alluring. Carrington's portrayal of the witch is sexy and captivating but her lapses into cruelty and sadism, sometimes just a flicker running across the face, show us that she's ultimately inhuman and not at all a sympathetic character. A superb performance here, and though the voice isn't naturally one that is effortlessly beautiful or even very large, it's very well produced, even, extremely expressive and beautifully controlled. I'd love to see her as one of the stern Janacek mother figures, especially as Kabanicha, a role she apparently has played at Scottish Opera. The voice is probably not quite big enough or low lying enough to be ideal, but with musicianship and acting as good as this, It's still something I'd gladly pay to see.
Janis Kelly made a glamorous and vocally splendid Foreign Princess, all sophistication and glitter, where Rusalka is childlike simplicity and plainness. She a good comic actress too, and was perfect in this role. James McOran-Campbell is a very talented young baritone and made a great Gamekeeper - look forward to seeing more from him. Karina Lucas sang the role of Karina Lucas well, though overracted.
The two leads however were disappointing - Anne Sophie-Duprels sounded hoarse, husky and vocally tired as Rusalka, and it's not a voice that I'd want to hear much lyric repertoire in (though she seems to keep getting cast in roles which require the most liquid beauty for success). The horrible jaw shaking whenever the volume increased was one of the most extreme cases I've seen - not just jaw but tongue, neck, mouth and cheeck oscillation too - way too much tension and tongue compression, which strongly affected to sound. The song to the moon was ugly. As I have said though, her acting was very good.
Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts seemed strained vocally in every scene, with a forced, horribly grainy tone in the passagio and whenever he was singing quietly and high. Again huge jaw oscillation due to tention made the sound squeezed and lumpy. His acting is fine, though physically he's not really right for the part - he's rather large and it's difficult to imagine that the nubile nymph Rusalka would be so aroused by his bulky visage.
Again the reason for this relative disappointment is perhaps only to be expected at these small-medium sized opera houses - the people who this music was written for, the people who could really do it justice, tend to be much bigger stars that demand much higher salaries that more modest venues cannot afford.
The English Chamber Orchestra sounded decent but never inspired under Stephen Barlow's direction, but then my comparison is Charles Macckeras with The Czech Philharmonic (Fleming as Rusalka) so maybe th comparison isn't fair.
So what of Grange Park Opera? To me it feels like Glyndebourne light. It's not as big, the grounds aren't as nice, the quality is not the same, the house is shabby. Even the brochure feels cheaper than Glyndebourne's (though is £5 dearer), the printing quality, layout and design, as well as the smell (! always important). I still enjoyed myself a lot, but perhaps they should try less hard to compete. Though the clientele make Glyndebourne look like a hoody scheme, so maybe that's just who their audience is.
I'm seeing Rusalka at Glyndebourne later in the season, also a revival, but one I didn't see last time, so it will be interesting to see another take on this paradoxical beauty.
Labels: Anne Sophie-Duprels, Clive Bayley, Emma Carrington, Grange Park Opera, James McOran-Campbell, Janis Kelly, Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts, Karina Lucas, Rusalka
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Игра рукой — нарушение правил футбола, которое наказывается штрафным ударом или пенальти. Правилами наказывается только умышленная игра рукой, поэтому трактовка каждого эпизода является предметом постоянного спора болельщиков и специалистов.

Критерии
Для определения умышленной игры рукой судейские комитеты ФИФА и УЕФА выработали ряд критериев, на которые должен обращать внимание судья:

Положение рук (естественное или нет). Как правило, естественным положением считается рука в нижней части туловища параллельно корпусу футболиста — «от четырёх до семи часов по циферблату».
Расстояние от мяча до руки при ударе и скорость полета мяча.
Направление движения рук — убирал игрок руки или наоборот тянул их к мячу.
 Являлась ли рука средством защиты здоровья футболиста. Например, если игрок инстинктивно закрывал рукой лицо от удара.
Возможность убрать руку от мяча. Например, если игрок облокотился на руку в подкате и после этого атакующий футболист ударил мячом в неё.
 Видел ли игрок мяч

В упрощённом виде все критерии можно свести к одному: мог ли игрок избежать контакта руки с мячом.

Вопреки распространенному суждению, на решение судьи не влияют следующие факторы:

 Куда летел мяч. Неважно, мяч шёл в пустые ворота, прерывал потенциально голевой пас или летел в аут. Наказывается только умышленная игра рукой, направление полета мяча не имеет значения.
 Была ли прижата рука к туловищу. Даже если рука не прижата к телу, касание может быть неумышленным — например, если игрок находился спиной к бьющему и не мог предугадать удар.

Изменения в правилах
В июне 2019 года в правила были внесены изменения. В частности,  судьи обязаны отменить любой мяч, забитый рукой, будь то умышленная игра рукой или непредумышленная.

Известные случаи
Преснель Кимпембе блокирует рукой удар Диогу Дало в ответном матче 1/8 Лиги Чемпионов 2018/2019 ПСЖ—Манчестер Юнайтед. Защитник находился в 10 метрах от бьющего и мог избежать контакта, однако, он выпрыгнул по направлению удара, широко расставив руки и тем самым увеличил площадь тела. Судья Дамир Скомина верно разобрался в эпизоде и назначил пенальти, благодаря которому МЮ прошел в следующую стадию.

Жерар Пике играет рукой в матче 1/8 Чемпионата мира 2018 года Россия—Испания. Мяч летел прямым ударом с углового — Пике видел момент подачи и мог выпрыгнуть другим способом, чтобы избежать попадания мяча в руку. Положение руки также является неестественным. Судья Бьорн Куйперс верно определил нарушение и назначил 11-метровый, который позволил россиянам сравнять счет и довести матч до победной серии пенальти.

Бастиан Швайнштайгер играет рукой в матче 1/2 Чемпионата Европы 2016 года Франция—Германия. Мяч попал в руку после удара головой с близкого расстояния, однако, рука Швайнштайгера находилась в неестественном положении — ситуацию можно интерпретировать так, что капитан немцев выпрыгнул с поднятыми руками, чтобы получить преимущество в верховой борьбе. Он мог избежать касания, если бы выпрыгнул другим образом. Никола Риццоли принял решение назначить пенальти. По итогам Евро-2016, УЕФА признала его лучшим судьёй турнира

Гжегож Крыховяк  в матче 20-го тура чемпионата России Локомотив—Краснодар бьёт по воротам и мяч попадает в правую руку Шарля Каборе, которая находится в естественном положении параллельно корпусу. Удар наносился с близкого расстояния, убрать руку можно было только обладая невероятной реакцией. При этом, Каборе не делал движения рукой к мячу. Его действия нельзя интерпретировать как умышленную игру рукой. Таким образом, пенальти назначен ошибочно, что подтвердил глава Департамента судейства РПЛ Александр Егоров.

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Cross-subsidy model 'isn't working', says London mayor
By Hamish Champ2019-10-09T10:17:00+01:00
Sadiq Khan says downturn presents opportunity for local councils to build more homes
The cross-subsidy model used by housing associations to fund social housing is not working, according to the capital's mayor Sadiq Khan.
As property prices have stagnated in London the ability of housing associations to fund the building of homes for affordable rent and shared ownership from the profits on private sale units has reduced.
But while the London mayor believed the cross-subsidy model wasn't working for the capital, he believed the situation could be turned into an opportunity.
Speaking at the Homes for Londoners conference yesterday (Tuesday), Khan said: "When you bear in mind the number of homes we need in our city and look at the past, the only time we build anywhere near the level of homes we need is when councils are building as well. With the best will in the world the private sector isn't going to build more than 30,000 homes. They don't want to flood the market.
"So we have to supplement that with subsidised housing, built either by councils, housing associations or others."
Khan said it would require grant cash and investment from central government to ramp up local authority housebuilding activity.
"We've done the homework for the government and worked out if it was to increase funding to London by £700m a year for seven years it would get us the homes we'd need."
Responding to the mayor's comments, Susan Hickey, chief financial officer at housing association Peabody, said: "We're working with the mayor, London's boroughs, and others to provide thousands of new genuinely affordable rented homes for London.
"The limits to the cross-subsidy model are well known. Whilst sales values and the ability to reinvest surpluses remain strong, government grant to complement the sector's own investment will be the most effective way of building more much needed new social rented housing.
"The stable revenues from social lettings also make Peabody and the sector an attractive proposition for investors which allows us to lever in more money to tackle London's housing challenges. This also has the additional benefit of de-risking sales activity, enabling us to deliver more in the long-term."
Atkins develops social housing business
Engineering giant will use firm to help councils build low-cost homes on brownfield sites
Record 10,000 build-to-rent homes delivered in 2019
Regions have caught up with London, new British Property Federation data shows
Clarion forms new-homes partnership with Lovell
Scheme for 99 homes in Cheshire is first joint venture
First look at £1.4bn central Manchester scheme
Mayfield development near Piccadilly station includes 1,500 homes and first new park since 1926
Dangerous cladding identified in more private towers
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I have created a personal access token for the azure devops project that allows me to clone the repository.
If I create a username/password credential (with the personal access token as the username and the password left blank), I can use that credential to clone the repository.
The problem is that when I do this, the full text of the personal access token is displayed in the configuration, which seems pretty insecure to me:

I tried adding the personal access token as a "secret text" credential, but that credential did not show up in the combo box of credentials I could use for the git repository.
What is the best way of using a personal access token in a git credential?

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Amanda Anderson was working as a preschool teacher when she was called to have surgery. Initially, Anderson thought her constant headaches and nausea were linked to a sinus infection, but doctors said her symptoms were caused by a brain tumor.
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Krystyna Pawlak – polska naukowiec, diagnosta laboratoryjny, profesor nauk medycznych.

Życiorys
Od 1988 zatrudniona na Akademii Medycznej w Białymstoku, gdzie w 1992 pod kierunkiem prof. Michała Myśliwca z Kliniki Nefrologii obroniła pracę doktorską "Wpływ erytropoetyny na inhibitory układu fibrynolizy u chorych na mocznicę" uzyskując stopień naukowy doktora nauk medycznych.  W 2005 na podstawie osiągnięć naukowych i złożonej rozprawy "Stres oksydacyjny a zmiany miażdżycowe u pacjentów z przewlekłą niewydolnością nerek" otrzymała stopień naukowy doktora habilitowanego nauk medycznych. W 2012 uzyskała tytuł naukowy profesora.

Od 2012 kierownik Zakładu Farmakoterapii Monitorowanej UMB, w którym od 2008 zatrudniona była na stanowiskach adiunkta i profesora nadzwyczajnego.  W 2012 otrzymał tytuł naukowy profesora z rąk prezydenta Bronisława Komorowskiego.  Wcześniej pracowała w I Klinice Nefrologii z Oddziałem Transplantacji i Pododdziałem Dializoterapii.

Prywatnie żona profesora Dariusza Pawlaka.

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Fish and Wildlife Service proposed today to remove Endangered Species Act protection from the interior least tern, a small bird that nests along major rivers in the Midwest and southern United States. Least terns in the interior population prefer nesting on open sandbars near wide river channels. The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than 1.6 million members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places. The Lower Mississippi River hosts the largest numbers of interior least terns, due in large part to a more naturally functioning river system and periodic flooding. "The Endangered Species Act brought these tiny terns back from the brink," said Noah Greenwald, endangered species director at the Center for Biological Diversity. Least Terns are summer residents in Kansas. Endangered Species Act protections have helped interior least tern numbers expand nearly tenfold over the past three decades. The fish-eating least tern is the smallest of North American terns. The interior least tern population is now estimated at roughly 18,000 birds. California Least Terns nest on open, sandy dunes along the coast, and feed on small fish like anchovy and smelt in shallow coastal waters, lagoons and estuaries. Natural wide channels dotted with sandbars have been replaced by narrow, armor-banked rivers with highly altered flows. Status: Endangered (Proposed for Delisting) The Interior Least Tern (Sternula antillarum) is the smallest of the terns found in North America.Meriwether Lewis and William Clark recorded their first observation of an Interior Least Tern on August 5, 1804 along the Missouri River, near present day Omaha, Nebraska while on their 1803—1805 "Voyage of Discovery" across North America (2013 Tern and Plover … Protective legislation in 1918 allowed the species to recover in the 1920s and 1930s. This was caused by changes to river systems from dams, dikes, reservoirs and water diversions, which eliminated most historic least tern nesting habitat. They occur along major midwestern rivers such as the Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio and Arkansas, along the Red River in Louisiana, and on the Rio Grande River in New Mexico and Texas. The spread of invasive plants also reduced suitable tern nesting habitat. Nesting birds have been recorded in six central and western Kansas counties, Jeffery Energy Center and along the Kansas River. Threats include egg and fledgling predators, high tides and recreational use of nesting beaches. Fish and Wildlife Service, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and San Diego Gas and Electric (SDG&E). A 1990 recovery plan set an overall population goal of 7,000 birds, which has been exceeded since 1994. The tern would be the 45th species to be delisted for recovery in the United States, including 21 in the past five years. "If we don't save the Endangered Species Act from Trump, it won't be able to save our imperiled plants and animals anymore.". They winter along coastal areas of Central and South America and the Caribbean Islands. The interior least tern population is now estimated at roughly 18,000 birds. The tern would be the 45th species to be delisted for recovery in the United States, including 21 in the past five years. "This is another example of how well this landmark law works to save wildlife that's at risk of vanishing. Protecting these pretty birds has also helped us move toward managing rivers to more closely mimic natural flows, benefiting many other species and river health.". Our conservation efforts can be broken down into three main volunteer programs: habitat restoration events, the Conservation Team Leader program, and Ternwatchers, our predator monitoring volunteers. The recent 5-Year Review indicated that interior least tern numbers have increased substantially since listing. Tern population targets have also not been met for the Rio Grande River drainage, but there have only been periodic and partial tern surveys there since 1985. Over 60% of the nesting population can be found in San Diego County. The California Least Tern (Sternula antillarum browni) is an endangered species of migratory seabird that nests along the coasts of California through Baja every April through mid-September. Listing: Listing the interior least tern as an endangered species in 1985 provided this bird with Endangered Species Act protection, which increased its visibility and made it a conservation priority for federal agencies working on rivers within the central U.S. Threats to the species include habitat loss, invasive plants, disturbance by beachgoers and dogs, increased predation, and declining food resources. Tern population size targets for recovery have been met in the Mississippi, Red and Arkansas river drainages, but not yet in the Missouri drainage, perhaps the most heavily impounded and managed of the rivers in the tern's range. The second smallest species of tern (only 9 inches long when fully grown), this bird was one of the first species to receive federal protections after the Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973. Click on each program below to learn about how you can help, and keep an eye out for events on the calendar. "Trump officials are mangling a law that has been critical to rescuing these birds and so many other species," Greenwald said. San Diego Audubon has been working to meet each of these threats with the help of our dedicated volunteers and our funders and partners, including the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG), the City of San Diego, the U.S. Terns require barren areas near water such as saline flats in salt marshes, sand bars in river beds, and shores of large impoundments. Most terns in the Missouri watershed are found on the Niobrara, which is the least impounded of the tributaries. The tern's recovery announcement comes months after the Trump administration finalized rollbacks to key Endangered Species Act regulations. Around the turn of the century, the least tern was in danger of extirpation in the northeastern U. S. because of hunting for the millinery trade. The California Least Tern (Sternula antillarum browni) is an endangered species of migratory seabird that nests along the coasts of California through Baja every April through mid-September. The second smallest species of tern (only 9 inches long when fully grown), this bird was one of the first species to receive federal protections after the Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973. October 23, 2019, Noah Greenwald, (503) 484-7495, ngreenwald@biologicaldiversity.org, Interior Least Tern an Endangered Species Act Recovery Success, Federal Officials Propose Removing Bird From Protected Species List. Before being protected as endangered in 1985, the number of interior least terns had plummeted below 2,000 birds. JACKSON, Miss.— The U.S. CA Least Terns had a Successful Nesting Season in Mission Bay! Tern counts in the Missouri River drainage continue to fall below the population target, because the river is highly regulated and dams interrupt the supply of sediments needed to build sandbars along rivers. San Diego Audubon Intensifies Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Efforts, The Future is Now: King Tides Photography Project, 2020 Conservation Team Leader application. Surveys from 1985-1995 found an average of approximately 3,000 breedin… But least terns have proven resilient to habitat changes and have benefited from improved river management to create suitable habitat. Recreational activities on rivers and sandbars can disturb nesting terns, causing them to abandon their nests. WASHINGTON (October 23, 2019) – Today, the US Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to delist the Interior Least Tern as a result of its increased population. Save the Endangered California Least Tern. There were no historical records of least terns from natural river segments in the Rio Grande River drainage, and all current populations occur in human-created or altered habitats. The population is about 21,500 pairs; it is not currently considered federally threatened, though it is considered threatened in many of the states in which it breeds. The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service lists the least tern population found in the interior U. S. as endangered. On the Gulf Coast, our Beach-nesting Birds Program and many partners are cooperating to bring back populations of Least Tern and other vulnerable beach-nesting birds including Black Skimmer , Wilson's Plover , and Snowy Plover . Our staff organized the first range-wide population survey of the Interior Least Tern; in the near future, the species may be removed from the endangered species list. Endangered Species Act protections have helped interior least tern numbers expand nearly tenfold over the past three decades. A 1990 recovery plan set an overall population goal of 7,000 birds, which has … The changes could lead to extinction for hundreds of animals and plants.
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Congress and BJP legislators said they were not opposed to the Bill, but alleged that the manner in which the AAP was trying to introduce the Bill was unconstitutional. Photo: HT
Speaker says Jan Lokpal Bill not tabled in assembly
4 min read . Updated: 15 Feb 2014, 12:44 AM IST Anuja, Gyan Varma
Earlier, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal introduced the Bill amid noisy protests by Congress and BJP legislators
Arvind KejriwalJan Lokpal BillAAPGovernorNajeeb JungDelhi
New Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Delhi quit on Friday, just a day before what would have been its 50th day in power, and called for fresh elections to the state assembly.
The immediate trigger for the decision to resign was the defeat of a resolution to introduce the Jan Lokpal Bill in the assembly. Most analysts saw the resignation as a strategic move by the AAP to gain public sympathy and generate fresh momentum for itself ahead of the Lok Sabha election.
The administration of the state will now revert to the lieutenant governor (LG) of Delhi. It is not clear whether the LG will accept the outgoing chief minister's recommendation. The constitution allows him to keep the assembly under suspended animation for six months, or call for fresh elections, or invite either the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) or the Congress to form a government.
"Today, when the Jan Lokpal Bill has fallen apart, our government is giving its resignation. We can sacrifice posts of 100 ministers for the Lokpal Bill. We will consider ourselves fortunate if we have to give our lives for this country," Kejriwal told supporters at the party office in the national capital after a meeting of his cabinet.
The Jan Lokpal Bill is a key electoral promise of the AAP aimed at instituting an independent anti-corruption ombudsman to probe cases of graft. The resolution brought by the Kejriwal government to introduce the Bill was defeated 42-27 in the 70-member assembly.
In a clear bid to claim the political space occupied by those opposed to corruption, Kejriwal accused the Congress and the BJP of ganging up to prevent the AAP from putting in place the Jan Lokpal Bill it had authored.
The AAP, an offshoot of the anti-corruption movement led by activist Anna Hazare, made a spectacular debut in the Delhi elections in December but fell short of a majority, winning 28 seats. It was sworn into office on 28 December with the support of the eight legislators of the Congress party, which was routed after three successive terms in power in the city-state.
In its less than two months' rule, the AAP made several populist announcements. It reduced electricity tariffs by 50% for households consuming up to 400 units of power a month and exempted households that have functional meters consuming up to 20 kilolitres of water per month from having to pay for it.
There were also more controversial decisions such as auditing of power companies and taking on Reliance Industries Ltd chairman Mukesh Ambani and oil minister M. Veerappa Moily over the issue of gas pricing.
On Friday, Kejriwal claimed: "The BJP and the Congress colluded to not allow the Jan Lokpal Bill to be tabled. Why? This happened because three days ago we lodged an FIR (first information report) against Mukesh Ambani."
Political analysts said that the resignation had been expected and that Kejriwal was ceding power in Delhi in order to concentrate on the Lok Sabha election due by April-May.
"Resigning on the issue of Jan Lokpal Bill is quite on the expected lines as he has been saying it for a long time. However, a lot will depend on whether the BJP is able to convey to the people that it was not against the Bill but the manner in which it was brought," said Sanjay Kumar, a New Delhi-based political analyst said.
"A sizeable section of people would treat this as drama on the part of Kejriwal in trying to get out of Delhi and as an excuse to engage himself in the bigger battle of 2014. He would be more open to contesting the Lok Sabha election now," he added.
Kumar also said that the AAP would ideally like to "paint the Congress and the BJP with the same brush" as being corrupt, and if it succeeds in doing so, it can reap political gains.
Kejriwal, who has not been able to concentrate on party activities after his swearing-in, will now be able to refocus his energies.
The AAP, which has opened nominations for candidates for the forthcoming Lok Sabha election, has already announced that it would target constituencies held by high-profile politicians including Rahul Gandhi, vice-president of the Congress party; Union ministers P. Chidambaram and Sushil Kumar Shinde, also of the Congress; Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh; former BJP president Nitin Gadkari; Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati; National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah, and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leaders M. Alagiri and A. Raja.
Earlier in the day, Congress and BJP legislators opposed the tabling of the Jan Lokpal Bill in the assembly, saying the manner in which the government was introducing it was "unconstitutional".
Delhi assembly speaker Maninder Singh Dhir, who was informed in writing by Delhi LG Najeeb Jung to not allow the introduction of the Bill, said the draft law had not been tabled.
Kejriwal along with his party members had sought to introduce the Delhi Jan Lokpal Bill, 2014, in the assembly during the day amid vehement protests by Congress and BJP members.
"We have not got a copy of the Bill. We support the Jan Lokpal Bill, but I don't think this government has got the right intentions," legislator Arvinder Singh Lovely of the Congress party said.
"The Jan Lokpal Bill was not in the list of agenda yesterday (Thursday), then how did the Congress and the BJP create hurdles...as alleged by the AAP. They falsely allege that the BJP is not in the favour of the ombudsman, but our commitment for it is far more than them," Harsh Vardhan, the state's BJP chief, said.


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High salmon, trout prices drive a doubling of profits at Leroy Seafood
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Norwegian fish farming and fishing company Leroy Seafood Group (LSG) has reported operating profit before fair value adjustments of almost NOK 1.3 billion (USD 151.3 million, EUR 139.1 million) for the first-quarter of this year, up from NOK 584 million (USD 68 million, EUR 62.5 million) in the same period of 2016.
LSG's revenue for the last quarter increased to NOK 5.5 billion (USD 640 million, EUR 588.6 million), compared with NOK 3.8 billion (USD 442.2 million, EUR 406.6 million) in Q1 2016. Compared with Q1 2016, its slaughter volumes of salmon and trout increased by 13 percent to 43,307 gross weight tonnage (GWT)
"For the first-quarter of 2017, Leroy Seafood Group can report their highest revenue and best operating profit of any quarter throughout the group's history. The salmon and trout prices have remained very high throughout the first-quarter and are the most significant driver behind the record result reported by the group. However, release from stock costs remain at a high level and we are working hard to reduce these costs," said Henning Beltestad, CEO of LSG.
With the acquisitions of Havfisk and Norway Seafoods in 2016, LSG is now Norway's largest whitefish corporation. These two businesses make up LSG's new Wild Catch segment, with Norway Seafoods now being renamed Leroy Norway Seafoods AS (LNWS).
"2017 has gotten off to a great start and the outlook is very promising. We very much look forward to further developing the market for whitefish," said Beltestad.
Havfisk's total catch volume in Q1 2017 was 20,586 metric tons (MT), compared with 16,169 MT in Q1 2016. Of the harvest volume in Q1 2017, 9,425 MT was cod, 7,380 MT was haddock and 2,841 MT was saithe. Compared with Q1 2016, prices for cod were up 9 percent, prices for haddock were up 29 percent while prices for saithe were down 24 percent.
The remaining quotas as of Q1 2017 are approximately 43,000 MT, on par with the remaining quotas at the same time last year.
LNWS's primary business is processing wild-caught whitefish. The company has eight processing plants, five of which are leased from Havfisk, and is the largest purchaser of cod from the coastal fishing fleet in Norway.
The total contribution to operating profit made by these two companies in Q1 2017 was NOK 158 million (USD 18.4 million, EUR 16.9 million).
LSG currently estimates a total harvest volume of 180,000 GWT salmon and trout for 2017, including LSG's volume from associates and a wild catch volume in excess of 60,000 MT.
But the group also expects its harvested volume of salmon and trout will be significantly lower in Q2 2017 when compared with both Q1 2017 and Q2 2016. Its Board of Directors therefore expects results before fair value adjustments for the current quarter to be substantially lower than in Q1 2017, but at the same time that the results before fair value adjustments for 2017 to be higher than in 2016.
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There have been rumors since my freshman year that BHS does not actually recycle and that what we are putting into the recycling bins actually goes into the garbage. And as a student at this school where there are thousands of kids everyday accumulating waste and trash, it is important to be conscious of our choices as a school in 2018. The environment is threatened and there are little ways which can help reduce our carbon footprint as a large school.
Paper vs Online: First, it should be made clear that we are doing some positive things currently. Over the past few years many classes have converted to online materials for most of their coursework. By implementing tools like Google Classroom, we have reduced how much paper we are using. That being said, there can be more improvements in how much paper we are printing on the daily that will inevitably end up in the trash. More classes should push to turning in assignments online and persuading kids to take notes and use other online tools to complete their work.
Recycle: While it is still debated whether we are recycling or not and it is hard to know what is strictly a false rumor, BHS should absolutely be recycling as much as possible. We have an enormous student body and staff and the amount of waste we create is incredible. Recycling should be a priority in reducing our waste of plastic and paper. Besides just having recycling bins available, the lunch rooms packaging materials could be switched to more recycling friendly materials.
Cleaning Products: Products used in classrooms and by custodians to clean areas of the school can be adjusted to eco-friendly products. Decreasing the toxic chemicals in our schools can be more beneficial to the environment.
Water Bottle Initiative: While many students do use reusable water bottles already, we can limit our sale of plastic bottles in our cafeteria. Encourage students to bring their own water bottles and use water fountains to refill. Another way to promote this is to market Bedford High School water bottles in our school store. Creating nice BHS water bottles and promoting them to students could reduce the need for plastic water bottles.
Unplug: So much power is wasted when we leave devices turned on or plugged in. Make sure to turn off the lights when you leave a room or unplug your devices when you are finished using them. Most computers at BHS are owned by students but computers throughout the school that are plugged in, typically stay plugged in all day long. For example, students that use the computers in the library could plug them in when they go to use them and unplug them when they are done. This helps to conserve the amount of energy they are using.
Styrofoam: Go styrofoam free! Styrofoam stays on the earth for an insanely long time and the school should reduce it as much as possible. Switch to plastic, washable trays of recyclable paper ones instead of creating a massive amount of styrofoam going into landfills during the school year. With such a large amount of students buying hot lunch on these trays, we should do away with the styrofoam and opt for a more eco-friendly material.
Meatless Mondays: The school lunches do not always contain meat but it is always available in the sub and salad lines. Meat production is very harmful towards the environment with using immense amounts of water to produce it as well as contributing largely to greenhouse gas emissions. By having just one day a week where there isn't any meat options available to students, this could greatly reduce our contributions to harming the environment.
It is important to be knowledgeable about our carbon footprint and impact on the environment when we have such a large student body that accumulates a lot of waste. Although it may not be possible to adopt all of these tips as a school, individuals should be mindful of their choices and effects on the environment. Earth Day is on April 22nd this year and I challenge us as students and a school to adopt new ways to create a more sustainability friendly school in the time between now and then.


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Mary-Kate Olsen (Sherman Oaks, 13 de junho de 1986) é uma designer de moda, produtora, modelo e ex-atriz norte-americana. Sua carreira como atriz iniciou-se aos 9 meses de vida em um trabalho realizado com sua irmã gêmea Ashley Olsen. Deste então, atuou junto de Ashley em diversas produções até o ano de 2004, quando Ashley decidiu se aposentar como atriz, quando resolveram se dedicar à industria da moda. A partir de 2006, Mary-Kate, independente de sua irmã gêmea, como era de costume, participou de alguns filmes e séries, e encerrou sua carreira com atriz em 2012. Assim ambas se derivan exclusivamente a industria da moda.

Biografia
Carreira Com Ashley
Mary Kate Olsen começou sua carreira em 1987 com nove meses de vida quando ela e sua irmã gêmea Ashley foram contratadas para o papel de Michelle Tanner no seriado Full House. Para cumprir com as leis trabalhistas rígidas quanto atores mirins, elas alternaram no papel durante a gravação do show. Elas foram creditadas na abertura do sitcom como "Mary Kate Ashley Olsen", em uma tentativa de manter as audiências de perceber que o papel foi interpretado por duas crianças.

Em 1995, na sequência de Três É Demais (Full House), Mary Kate e Ashley Olsen lançou uma série de sucessos em linha reta para os filmes em vídeo VHS e tornaram-se figuras populares no mercado de pré-adolescentes durante o final dos anos 1990 e início de 2000. Tornaram-se um nome familiar, com suas imagens vistas em roupas, livros, perfumes, revistas, músicas, filmes e cartazes. Há bonecas com suas feições feita pela Mattel desde 2000 a 2005).

Elas estrelaram o seriado As Aventuras De Mary Kate & Ashley. O sitcom da ABC Dose Dupla (Two of a Kind) e da ABC Family's, o So Little Time, para o qual Mary Kate recebeu uma nomeação para melhor performance em uma série de crianças no Emmy 2002 Awards. Elas foram classificadas em três o número de programa VH1 100 Greatest Child Stars.

Em 2004, Mary Kate apareceu ao lado de sua irmã gêmea no longa-metragem, No Pique De Nova York (Nova York Minute), também estrelado por Eugene Levy.

Tanto Mary Kate quanto Ashley trabalham em sua linha de moda "The Row".

Em 2008, Mary Kate e Ashley lançaram um livro intitulado "Influence" (Influência), que continha entrevistas com muitas pessoas criativas e influentes, incluindo Karl Lagerfeld, Terry Richardson, George Condo e muitos mais. O livro incluiu duas capas diferentes, uma com Mary Kate e outro com Ashley. O livro recebeu críticas positivas, não só dos fãs das gêmeas, mas também de críticos.

Carreira Independentemente
Buscando estabelecer identidades independentes para ela e sua irmã, Mary Kate pediu ao público e os meios para não se referirem a elas como "as gêmeas Olsen", mas, sim, como Mary Kate Olsen e Ashley Olsen, respectivamente.

Posteriormente, Mary Kate teve sua primeira aparição solo na atuação do filme Factory Girl, lançado em dezembro de 2006. A cena curta acabou cortado do lançamento nos cinemas, e não fez parte do DVD. Além disso, ela teve um papel na série Weeds como Tara Lindman. Ela apareceu em 2008 no filme The Wackness como Union Europeia. No Sundance Film Festival, coestrela e vencedora do Oscar Sir Ben Kingsley elogiou dizendo que "O retrato desta menina é perfeita - ela é histérica. Faz sentido, ela está neste negócio muito mais tempo do que eu".

Mary Kate fez uma aparição de um episódio na comédia da ABC "Samantha Who?" em 10 de novembro de 2008. Durante a segunda temporada do seriado, Mary Kate é Natalie trocada no episódio 5, uma auto-destrutiva, a menina má quem Samantha tenta ajudar ao fazer serviço comunitário.

 Carreira na moda
 Dualstar
Em 2004, ambas, Mary Kate e Ashley Olsen se tornaram CEOs da sua empresa Dualstar' (criado em 1993 após o sucesso em Full House). A marca vende atualmente em mais de 3000 lojas nos Estados Unidos e 5300 lojas em todo o mundo. Seu sucesso foi noticiado na Forbes, na lista The Celebrity 100 desde 2002, e em 2007, a Forbes classificou as gêmeas na posição 11.ª Mulheres Mais Ricas Do Entretenimento, com um patrimônio estimado em 100 milhões de dólares.

 Designer de moda
Na sequência de um elevado volume de interesse público nas escolhas das irmãs da moda, ambas trabalharam em colaboração em uma sequência de linhas de moda à disposição do público.

Começando como jovens, elas têm uma linha de roupas em lojas do Wal-Mart em toda a América para meninas de idades de 4 à 14 anos, bem como uma linha de beleza chamada "Mary-Kate and Ashley: Real fashion for real girls" (Mary Kate e Ashley: Real moda para meninas de verdade). Em 2004, elas fizeram a notícia através da assinatura de um compromisso de permitir que todos os trabalhadores que costurar sua linha de roupas em Bangladesh pleno licença maternidade. O Comitê Nacional Do Trabalho, que organizou a promessa depois elogiou as gêmeas de seu compromisso com os direitos do trabalhador. O diretor da organização, Charles Kernaghan, é citado como tendo dito: "As gêmeas Olsen ter feito a coisa certa. Agora cabe a Wal-Mart querer apoiar Mary Kate e Ashley pelo compromisso para com os direitos das mulheres, ou tragicamente para fechá-los".

Em 2006, as irmãs apareceram juntas em uma campanha publicitária para uma luxuosa linha Fashion Badgley Mischka, Mary Kate e sua irmã lançaram a linha, uma linha de alta moda inspirada na final Savile Row em Londres. A roupa é vendida em lojas mais sofisticadas, como a Barneys, Maxfield, Harvey Nichols, de Brown, e outros ao redor do mundo.

Mary Kate e Ashley continuaram sua expansão na indústria da moda com o lançamento do Fall '07 Elizabeth e James, sua coleção contemporânea inspirada por muitos de seus achados originais vintage e peças em seus armários pessoais.

Seu último projeto é uma linha em colaboração com estilistas famosos, Jane Magnitude e Fred Holston, que já trabalhou com estilistas como Marc Jacobs, Balenciaga e Christian Louboutin no passado. Os detalhes exatos ainda não foram anunciados, mas o zumbido muito tem sido em torno do trio acima da vinda de linha.

Imagem pública e vida pessoal
Apesar de suas escolhas de moda se tornarem bastante populares, a linha de roupas "mary-kateandashley" foi publicamente criticada por usar e promover roupas-de-pele.

Em 2005, Mary Kate terminou seu romance com o herdeiro grego Stavros Niarchos III. Ela disse que o rompimento foi um dos principais fatores para sua licença da New York University (Universidade De Nova York). "Sinto falta dele e eu adoro ele", Olsen disse: "É doloroso e um assunto doloroso". Quando perguntado se havia uma razão específica para deixar a NYU, ela respondeu: "Eu acho que todos nós podemos adivinhar". A separação e Niarchos estar se relacionando com Paris Hilton levou a um racha entre Hilton e Mary Kate. "Paris e eu sempre tivemos somente coisas boas a dizer sobre a outra", disse Mary Kate. "Agora eu acho que você pode dizer que não estamos nos falando".

Mary Kate foi amiga íntima do falecido ator Heath Ledger até ao momento da sua morte, em 22 de janeiro de 2008.

Respondendo a uma afirmação anônima de um oficial da lei (Ministério Público) sobre ela não falar com investigadores federais a respeito da morte de Ledger sem a garantia de imunidade completa, o advogado de Olsen, Michael C. Miller, disse: "Nós já fornecemos ao Governo informações relevantes, incluindo fatos acerca da cronologia dos acontecimentos que rodearam a morte de Ledger e o fato de a Sra. Olsen não conhecer a origem das drogas que teriam sido consumidas pelo Sr. Ledger".

As gêmeas Olsen receberam uma estrela na Calçada da Fama em 29 de Abril de 2004.

Em meados de 2004, Mary Kate anunciou que tinha entrado para o tratamento de uma anorexia nervosa. Em 20 de novembro de 2007, ela foi hospitalizada por uma infecção renal relatada.

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 Cinema
 2006: Factory Girl 2008: The Wackness
2010: Beastly Televisão
 1987: ''Full House  '' as Michelle Tanner
 2007: Weeds 2008: Samantha Who?''

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- €1.97 Income Tax
- €1.41 National Insurance
€33,100 after tax is €26,047 NET salary (annually) based on 2020 tax year calculation. €33,100 after tax breaks down into €2,171 monthly, €499.21 weekly, €99.84 daily, €12.48 hourly NET salary if you're working 40 hours per week.
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The average monthly net salary in the UK is around 1,730 GBP, with a minimum income of 1,012 GBP per month. This places United Kingdom on the 5th place out of 72 countries in the International Labour Organisation statistics for 2012.
Most individuals pay Income Tax through the pay-as-you-earn (PAYE) system. Employers use this system to take Income Tax and National Insurance contributions from the employee's monthly salary. Self-employed individuals may pay these taxes through Self Assessment, by filling in a tax return at the end of the year.
The capital, London, was named the most popular city in the world five times in the last seven years, ahead of Paris. London is also one of the world's foremost industrial, financial, commercial, and cultural centres. According to numbeo.com the cost of living in London is high, being the 16th most expensive city in Europe.
With an unemployment rate of only 5.4% and a good social security system, UK is also one of the countries with the highest number of immigrants in Europe — over 7 million people, or about 12% of its population.
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