A driver should be 15 years of age or older on the day of the experience. However, we may permit younger persons in the driver's seat, at the discretion of the instructor on the day. This highly depends on the person's age and height, and they may be required to sit with a driver who is over 15 years of age. If you wish for anyone under the age of 15 to drive, we recommend you call us when booking or prior to purchasing a voucher to discuss your requirements. At all our times, our instructor's decision on a driving day is final.
No, additional drivers are welcome without charge. However, please note that the drive time for each additional driver will be shorter. If you intend for there to be more than one driver, please tell us when you book your day.
What days and when do you operate?
We operate throughout the year on a pre-booked basis only. Generally speaking, we are most busy on weekends but we can accommodate during the week and during holiday periods. All bookings must be made in advance via our online form.
We are based near Roundwood, Co. Wicklow about 15 mins from the M50 and Bray. Please click here for directions.
How many people can the tank accommodate?
The tank can accommodate 6 people, one of whom is the instructor.
No. You do not require a driving license or permit to drive a tank.
No. We provide all insurance and equipment. You will be driving on a closed course under expert guidance.
Do I need driving experience?
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Is the tank automatic or manual/stick shift?
The tank is fully automatic. There is no need to change gears.
While driving, you will be exposed to the elements via an open cab. Likewise, where we are located can be muddy depending on the weather. You should dress accordingly and for the prevailing weather. We recommend a warm coat or fleece on cooler days and suitable outdoor shoes. Do not wear flip-flops or high heels as you will not be permitted on the tank.
What type of tank is it?
The tank is a tracked Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) known as an FV432. There are two crew positions, the driver and the instructor. When driving, you will always be under the guidance of the instructor.
Any reason I couldn't drive a tank?
You should be in good health without any significant heart and history of orthopaedic injuries (e.g. Bad back). You will be required to sign a waiver hence you should seek medical advice before booking if you feel there is any reason you should not drive a tank.
Any height or weight restrictions?
No. Anyone and everyone are welcome to drive. Please see our age requirements on this page for specifics relating to drivers under the age of 15.
No. Spectators may only sit in the rear of the tank and take photos when and where they are instructed it is safe to do so. When booking, only the number of drivers indicated in the booking will be permitted to drive. Additional drivers are welcome without additional charge but please tell us when you book so we can plan your day.
Yes, they can! However, the course is closed in areas so you will only be able to take photos in certain areas.
Can I bring a Go Pro or similar camera?
Please contact us prior to booking to discuss your requirements.
Can I use photos or videos commercially?
No, any photos or footage you take cannot be used commercially without prior approval.
How many spectators can I bring?
You can bring as many spectators as you wish but only 6 persons, one of which will be the driver and the other is an instructor, can be in the tank at one time. We recommend you keep your party size between 4 and 6 persons.
Any age restrictions for spectators?
A tank is noisy and can be a somewhat claustrophobic space. Spectators are welcome from any age but children under 10 must be accompanied, at all times, by an adult that is not driving.
Is the tank accessible or wheel-chair friendly?
The tank is a tight space that requires some mobility. That said, we are happy to make accommodations where we can and we would encourage you to contact us for a chat regarding your individual requirements.
Any restrictions as to when I can drive?
A few. You cannot be under the influence of or impaired by any substance, including alcohol, prior to and during the tank experience. There is a strict no refund policy if you arrive under the influence. Spectators must likewise be sober. The consumption of any substance, including alcohol, is not permitted by anyone whilst undertaking the Tank.ie experience.
What course will I drive?
Depending on the weather, and the usage of the course, the exact route you take may vary. If more than one driver is booked, you may repeat the same course.
Can I bring something to crush or destroy?
It can't be flammable or liable to explode e.g. Fire extinguisher.
It cannot create a flame or generate a loud noise.
It can't be sharp, pointy or a risk to handle.
It can't be pressurised, under vacuum or sealed e.g. Lightbulbs, Tubes etc.
It can't be poisonous or pose a danger to wildlife.
It cannot pose a risk to our tank or the persons operating it.
One person must be capable of comfortably carrying it.
You must bring the article with you and likewise carry it away with you upon completion of the day. You cannot leave the article at our location.
Tank.ie, at their sole discretion, may impose a cleanup or disposal fee.
You must seek and be granted approval from the team prior to being allowed to crush or destroy an object during your experience.


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The occasion, attended by Thailand's Royal representative, HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn and senior officials from the Royal Thai Navy, comes just 14 months after the initial contract was signed.
Under the agreement, BAE Systems supplied the design of its proven 90 metre Offshore Patrol Vessel, which Bangkok Dock has adapted to meet the specific requirements of the Royal Thai Navy, for example incorporating a similar combat system to that being fitted to other ships in its fleet. Engineers from BAE Systems are working alongside Bangkok Dock, throughout the construction of the vessel to transfer design knowledge, technology and skills that will contribute to the growth of a sustainable shipbuilding capability in Thailand.
Commenting on the programme, Alan Johnston, Managing Director of BAE Systems' Surface Ships division, said: "At a time when we are seeking to boost exports, this approach to industry partnerships shows the strength that BAE Systems can bring to navies around the world as they look for cost-effective solutions to enhance the capability of their fleets to meet future requirements."
Captain Chumpol Promprasit, managing director of Bangkok Dock, said: "To promote a domestic shipbuilding industry, the Royal Thai Navy assigned Bangkok Dock to undertake the provision of design and supply of ship build material using both domestic and international experts during construction of the Offshore Patrol Vessel.
"This is considered as promoting and improving the technical competency and potential of the Royal Thai Navy personnel in building ships for domestic purposes, based on the King's self sustainability programme."
The multi-mission Offshore Patrol Vessel will be used by the Royal Thai Navy to primarily be used for Economic Exclusion Zone roles, including routine patrols and border controls. It will also undertake fishery protection tasks as well as protection of natural resources in the Gulf of Thailand and the Andaman Sea and disaster relief.
The BAE Systems designed 90 metre Offshore Patrol Vessel being built by Bangkok Dock for the Royal Thai Navy is the same core platform design as the ships that BAE Systems is building in the UK for the Trinidad & Tobago Coast Guard. The platform is based on the design for the smaller River Class vessels used by the UK Royal Navy and is a highly capable vessel that is attractive to the export market.
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Small World, Big Places
In my continuing saga of possibly pointless comparisons between WoW and Elder Scrolls, I want to look at sense of world size.
Both games use a "discover it to get there" system. Elder Scrolls: Oblivion has a 'fast travel' system where you can just click on a significant location you've discovered and the game will play out as if you'd run there; passing time, moving NPCs, but taking no more time than a loading screen. Similarly, WoW has flight paths, which are slower, but since you can go afk during them, aren't too dissimilar.
Teleports, whether we call them portals in WoW or fast travel in Oblivion, tend to reduce the sense of world size. As humans we unconsciously measure distances in time. This is why walking a mile can seem longer than driving ten miles, even setting aside the physical labor aspect. When travel time goes down, perceived distances goes down as well. Despite being a big world, the outside of Oblivion doesn't seem gigantic. Imperial City and Bruma, despite being several hours away in game time (this would be 10 or 15 minutes in real time running), are a few seconds away to me. I go back and forth between them often.
Beside the outside world, there's also the inside. In these places, Oblivion is much bigger. Recently I carried out the greatest heist of all time. This involved running through all manner of sewers, then crypts, and in and out of buildings. The distance covered was at least as much as that previous 10-15 minute run, spanning the city (which is pretty wide), back and forth (think spiral, not loop), and over it all again. It took much longer than 10-15 minutes, thanks to being filled with enemies. That wasn't what gave the full sense of size.
I kept trying to find my hearthstone. You think I'm kidding? I was carrying tons of armor, really valuable stuff, or at least my noobish self thinks so, but I was running out of strength to carry it, so I'd keep finding a new thing, estimating value/weight ratios, and dropping stuff. I would have loved to hearth out and vendor some of it. Or teleport out of instance. I needed to recharge my dagger too. The enchant ran out way too quickly. And I was low on arrows.
When you're loaded with loot, barely halfway in, your items are breaking, and there's no quick way out, that's when you get a sense of scale. Location mattered. Maybe the dungeon was a lot smaller than I think, but it felt huge.
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I'd love to see an Oblivion MMO. The key though would be keeping the sandbox feeling that made the single player game so great yet successfully applying it to a MMO setting. Also, the way quests could be completed in a variety of fashions was truly inspiring and that would be tough to pull off on such a grand scale. But if they could do it... then it would be a wonderful roleplaying experience.
Ahh...a proper sense of travel, don't we all wish it.
seems we don not, or there wouldnt be so many games with HS-like items? in any case, I'd love to see distance matter more in WoW and even things like loot weight impact on speed; but please not the way they did it in EQ2, where a bunch of flowers and mushrooms wears the plate-wearing adventurer down....
Reala said...
Damn it Kleps you're making me want to play Oblivion again! I completely empathise with the (often painful) heirarchy of loot and decision making there.
There was a weapons and armour shop, I'm not sure where, maybe Bruma, where I used to break in, ransack the place for all I could carry, break out the back door, drop it all down the well, break back in. Rinse and repeat until I had it all, then sell it off bit by bit in my own time.
Swigging brews surrounded by my most precious items in Rosethorn Hall says that was a good decision. Speaking of which, I wonder if you were like me in so far as I would *painstakingly* place one-off weapons and full armour sets on all the surfaces and in the display cabinets in the house. I wasted so much time trying to align it *just* right. I'm beginning to wonder if I did any actual work at uni.
@Gordon: As best as I can tell, level is pretty much irrelevant except for having more strength to carry more loot. No one challenge me on that, I am greatly enjoying this illusion. That means there's no "leveling vs. end-game" and thanks to the difficulty slider, we don't have to worry too much about min-maxing loot.
@Syl: I can't say I like the weight-speed impact, but I do like that what I carry is a decision, even if at times it was a decision I didn't want to have to make.
The sad part: I didn't yet have a vendor high enough to handle 2000 gold items, so I have a set of drawers filled with all the loot that I refused to drop but refuse to sell at 1/3 price.
@Reala: If you don't like what I write you are free to leave! I kid of course.
I never had that problem. Well, not quite. I did have the problem that since I am a compulsive thief, after I pimped out Frostcrag Spire I immediately started grabbing stuff off tables. Then I thought that it added to the ambiance and tried to put it back, but it all just fell on the floor and I cried. Thankfully that wasn't my real alchemy bench upstairs.
Nils said...
I, too, would love distance to amtter again. But it must not feel annoying!
To make it feel meaningful instead of annoying distance must be a central part of the game(play).
Examples would be
- long range trade,
- self sufficient cities with only lose ties to other cities,
- no quests that want you to go from one corner of the map to the other,
- local mindset of NPCs,
Distance should mean something other than a waste of time, I like that idea.
I've been playing Mass effect recently, both one and 2. the actually travel in both games is incredibly short - I mean you are literally hopping between star systems via relays.
and yet the world feels big, though now I'm wondering if the first game felt bigger due to its inventory system?...nyahh... honestly, when you're out in a world, killing things or interacting with them and you keep moving along and finding more things to interact with - that in my opinion is what gives world a scope, not long travel between spots. Most people just afk while traveling, so they miss all those distances anyways.
I actually feel like in WoW at least, the world seemed bigger when questing was more open ended and there was less phasing - you explored, you fought through, you met other people..it seemed so vast. I miss that feeling.
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Covering: June & July 2008
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FinanceEdit
Much of June was spent developing the Wikimedia Foundation's first-ever annual plan, covering the 2008-09 fiscal year (July 1, 2008 – June 30, 2009).
Here is how the 08-09 annual plan was constructed: In planning spending, we started with 07-08 historical spending information. We modified those numbers in consultation with the staff and the board, adjusting for increased costs due to anticipated project growth and other changes, and adjusting for underspending in the prior year. We then approved new spending in key areas, consistent with our strategic goals. Also this year, for the first time in the Foundation's history, we have set revenue targets for business development and fundraising. The business development targets were set by Kul in consultation with Véronique; the fundraising targets were set by Sue, Erik and Véronique.
On June 29, the board voted to approve the plan, with this resolution: "RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees hereby approves management's proposed 2008-2009 annual plan of $5.97 million of annual expenses, $7.33 million of annual operating revenues, and an annual operating reserve of $1.36 million. If during the year management anticipates the annual reserve will differ materially from the planned annual reserve, the Board directs management to consult the Board Treasurer promptly." A presentation summarizing the annual plan, including the budget, revenue targets, goals and hiring projections, can be found here: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Finance_report. And there is a detailed FAQ here: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2008-2009_Annual_Plan_Questions_and_Answers
At the end of June, at the request of Walter Vermeir, the board voted to approve an interim administrative procedure for looking after the Dexia account, currently maintained by Walter: "Whereas the Wikimedia Foundation seeks to improve the security and controls of transactions involving its Dexia Bank Account, the Board hereby approves the Interim Dexia Account Policy." It was also agreed that a replacement for the Dexia account, to be maintained by staff of the Foundation, would be implemented before the end of December.
Much of July was spent in preparations for the audit of the 2007-08 financial statements, such as reconciliation of fixed assets.
HiringEdit
Our fundraising team is now almost complete. The following new staff were hired in June and July:
Rebecca Handler, Head of Major Gifts (to begin August 4)
Rand Montoya, Head of Community Giving
Sara Crouse, Head of Partnerships and Foundation Relations
We will also hire a Development Associate to support the team. Rand has begun this hiring process in July.
Other important additions:
Frank Schulenburg is now on-board full-time as Head of Public Outreach, and we are helping him relocate to San Francisco.
Tomasz Finc has been hired as a full-time software developer, to begin work on August 4.
Michael Dale has started work in the San Francisco office on open source video editing tools. His work is sponsored by Kaltura.com.
Patti Melton is the new Personal Assistant to the Executive & Deputy Director; she started in mid-July.
Staff names and photos, as well as an organization chart, can be found on the Wikimedia Foundation's staff page: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff
Job openings will continue to be advertised at: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings
All-Staff MeetingEdit
An all-staff meeting was staged in San Francisco on June 26 and 27. Day One focused on orientation and getting to know each other, as well as a presentation by Sue of the 2008-09 annual plan. Day Two focused on 2008-09 goal-setting. New staff members Rand Montoya (Head of Community Giving) and Rebecca Handler (Head of Major Gifts) attended all or parts of the meeting. Erik Zachte, who will be working with the Foundation as data analyst starting September 1, and Domas Mituzas, Board member and a volunteer on the technical team, also made it to San Francisco and attended part of the meetings.
WikimaniaEdit
The fourth annual Wikimedia conference, Wikimania 2008, took place in Alexandria, Egypt from July 17 to 19. The venue, the new Library of Alexandria, was well-equipped to host the more than 650 attendees from around the world. Talks and workshops in up to five simultaneous tracks gave attendees from inside and outside the volunteer community new insights into the Wikimedia projects, other free knowledge efforts, and the challenges facing us.
The conference received positive coverage in both Arabic language and world-wide media. Journalists James Gleick (the Wall Street Journal) and Noam Cohen (the New York Times) provided in-depth coverage from Egypt:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121815517776622597.html http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/21/business/media/21link.html http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/wikipedia-goes-to-alexandria-home-of-other-great-reference-works/
Arabic press clippings have been compiled by the Library: http://www.bibalex.org/isis/Frontend/News/Newspaper_archive.aspx
Videos from the conference can be found online both on the Library's website, and on Kaltura's Wikimania video website:
Library collection: http://webcast.bibalex.org/Home/List.aspx?Conference=6u0LkBzgNlZm+RzGhC/6Ag==
Kaltura Video archive: http://www.kaltura.com/devwiki/index.php/Wikimania_Sessions
More information about the conference can be found in our press release: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedians_Prepare_for_Wikimania_2008
And on the official Wikimania 2008 website: http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Thanks to everyone who made the conference a success. As in previous years, the Wikimedia Foundation and the chapters used the conference for organizational meetings and work. This included:
An Advisory Board meeting to discuss the Foundation's goals;
A regular Board meeting and a Board Q&A panel at the conference;
A press conference (thanks to the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, we could provide real-time translation from and to Arabic);
Various Staff and Board meetings with dignitaries and potential partners and supporters;
An ad hoc meeting of chapter representatives;
A presentation of the Foundation's goals & plans by the Executive and Deputy Director;
Various discussions, both on the program and off, between staff, board, and volunteers..
A comprehensive postmortem of Wikimania is underway. Delphine has begun work on a survey soliciting input from attendees and speakers, and input has also been requested from the local planning team, the program committee, the scholarships team, the site selection jury and the staff of the Foundation. Results from a mini-survey given to the audience of the "Wikimedia 2008-09" talk will also be published.
Wikimania 2009 will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and bids for Wikimania 2010 are currently open at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2010/Bids
Board Meeting at WikimaniaEdit
Key outcomes of the Board meeting at Wikimania include:
The Board has appointed Michael Snow as its new chair, replacing Florence Devouard, whose term expired and who chose not to run again.
The Board has officially appointed Ting Chen, who was elected to the seat formerly held by Florence.
The Board has approved the process for forming a Nominating Committee, which will begin a search process for the vacant appointed Board seats.
The Vice Chair of the Board, Jan-Bart de Vreede, will officially function as "whip" to ensure Board member attendance and participation in the work of the Board;
Further details about the meetings will be published by the Board in its minutes and resolutions.
CommunicationsEdit
In July, Treasurer Stu West arranged for the Wikimedia Foundation to receive ongoing, free access to comScore Media Metrix internet audience measurement data. This gives us access to a world of useful information, including reach, ranking and raw numbers such as unique visitors monthly. Jay is handling the comScore relationship on behalf of the staff. Data and more information can be found at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Stu/comScore_data_on_Wikimedia
In June and July, the Wikimedia Foundation participated in interviews with the following media organizations: the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Post, PR magazine, National Public Radio (Baltimore), Newsweek, the Toronto Star (Canada), The Age (Australia), the Municipalist (Washington DC), the Canadian Press, the Courier Post (New Jersey), Publico (Spain), Haaretz Business (Israel), the International Regional Magazine Association, the New York Times, the Houston Chronicle (Texas), NBC 6 (Florida), Hot Press magazine (Ireland), NBC News (Florida), BBC News, the Rockford Register Star (Illinois), Human Events (Washington DC), Fox Business News, Ideal TV (Brazil), Agence France Press, the Allen Town Morning Call (Pennsylvania), the Sunday Times (UK), the Los Angeles Times, Al Ahram Hebdo, al Yom Al Seoudya, Nesf El Donia, Al Alam Al Youm, Al Akhbar, Rose Al Youssef, Al Ahrar, Al Dostor, German public radio (Heidelberg), WNYC Radio, the IDG news service (Florida), and the Baltimore Examiner (Maryland). http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_room/Media_Contact_2008
Sue is now represented by The Lavin Agency for speaking engagements. Her fees will be paid to the Wikimedia Foundation.
A first draft "messaging grid" was released to the staff to help in media and stakeholder communications.
There have also been many blog posts by various staff members in June and July: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/06/ http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/07/
LegalEdit
Work has continued on revisions to the privacy policy. The latest draft can be found at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Draft_Privacy_Policy_June_19_2008; the board will be voting on it soon.
Mike has followed up on several cases of trademark infringements, with some now resolved. We have also prevailed in the Barbara Bauer court case, concerning her biography on Wikipedia.
Public OutreachEdit
On June 9, Frank started a qualification program to train senior citizens of the 50-plus age group as "Wikipedia trainers". The goal is to enable the participants to run their own Wikipedia workshops in Internet cafés for older people, in order to increase participation among older people, who are underrepresented in the Wikimedia Foundation's projects. More information: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Trainers
On June 20 and 21, Sue attended the Wikipedia Academy 2008 Berlin, which took place in the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, with a focus on mathematics articles in Wikipedia. Photos can be found here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Academy_Berlin_2008
Frank has begun coordinating the production of a video tutorial about editing Wikipedia in collaboration with the German chapter. This video tutorial will be available in English.
Work has continued on the first Wikimedia survey of readers and contributors, which has now been fully translated into 16 languages. We hope to launch the survey in September in cooperation with UNU-MERIT.
OfficeEdit
As we continue to grow, our office set-up is rapidly approaching capacity. With the help of design firm Because We Can, we have now created several iterations of floor plans designed to optimize the current space. We are also beginning to explore longer-term options such as a radical overhaul of the current space, the possibility of accessing additional adjacent space, co-siting with like-minded organizations or renting satellite space.
TechnologyEdit
Due to the rapidly developing technical ecosystem of Wikimedia, this report only tries to present a high level snapshot. Details concerning software development can be found in the weekly Wikipedia signpost newsletter. The June reports begin here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2008-06-02/Technology_report
FlaggedRevsEdit
The German experiment with the "FlaggedRevs" extension for edit review and patrolling continues. The feature allows regular contributors to review and flag changes made to Wikipedia articles, and to select the default version (most recent version, or most recent reviewed version) shown to readers. In July, the configuration on the German Wikipedia was changed to always show the most recent version, but this is not necessarily final: a poll was started to determine whether and how the feature should be used.
The general availability of the feature to all Wikimedia communities was announced on June 4: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-June/043691.html
This announcement included instructions for requesting the feature to be enabled. Several such requests have been entered into bugzilla.wikimedia.org, and will be processed in the coming weeks.
The FlaggedRevs extension continues to be rapidly developed by Aaron Schulz (under contract with the Wikimedia Foundation), based on bug reports and enhancement requests. Some additional tools have been developed by volunteers, such as the FlaggedRevs statistics tool at: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~aka/cgi-bin/reviewcnt.cgi?lang=english
Aaron has begun work on a "reader feedback" feature for FlaggedRevs to allow non-editing readers to rate articles. This widget will also plot graphs of the perceived quality development of an article over time.
OtherEdit
A new extension (TorBlock) has been installed, to regulate edits of Wikipedia through Tor, an anonymization network. Edits from unregistered users via Tor exit nodes are now blocked; and editors who are logged in via Tor are restricted until they have accumulated at least 100 edits.
[Summary adapted from Wikipedia Signpost]
Many bugs affecting media playback using the Java-based Cortado player were fixed.
Double redirects are now fixed automatically.
New keywords __INDEX__ and __NOINDEX__ for including or excluding non-article pages in search engines were added.
New static HTML dumps of Wikipedia are available at:
http://static.wikipedia.org/
Support for the Universal Edit Button extension has been enabled on all Wikimedia wikis.
We're bringing onboard additional technology contractors to work on specific projects.
Fundraising & PartnershipsEdit
We've completed our transition to a new fundraising database, CiviCRM 2.0, consolidating two older databases. This database will be used to record our relationships with all donors, and to track all gifts. This was a major undertaking, and is a critical precondition to effectively conducting our fundraising work.
On July 9, the Wikimedia Foundation received a donation of USD 262K from the Stanton Foundation, a private foundation created to further philanthropic goals set by the late Dr. Frank Stanton, a noted American broadcasting executive and longtime president of the CBS television network. The donation is intended to support the purchase of database servers, application servers, network equipment and other hardware. The tech team has already begun to spend the money, and will begin to have the new hardware installed and operating in just a few months.
On July 31, fundraising strategy firm Building Blox led a solicitation training workshop in the San Francisco office. It was attended by Board Chair Michael Snow, Treasurer Stu West, Jimmy Wales, Head of Major Gifts Rebecca Handler, and Head of Community Giving Rand Montoya. Of that group, it's expected that only Jimmy and Rebecca will directly ask for donations; the goal for Michael, Stu and Rand was primarily that they be able to support efforts by Jimmy, Rebecca, Sue and Erik, as required.
Sara Crouse, Head of Partnerships and Foundation Relations, is working with Sue, Erik, Rebecca Handler (Head of Major Gifts) and Jay to plan and stage the Foundation's first-ever funders' briefings – informal events bringing together a few dozen current and potential financial supporters. The goal of the briefings is to share and discuss the Wikimedia Foundation's key goals and plans. We also hope to line up major donation commitments in advance of the online fundraiser which is planned to launch in late October.
Sara, with Sue, Erik and Frank Schulenburg, is engaged in the development of several major funding proposals for foundations:
A proposal aimed at encouraging participation among technology-averse subject-matter experts: people who have a lot of knowledge to contribute to the projects, but who are currently dissuaded from contributing because they don't want to learn wiki syntax, and/or are experiencing
other technical or social/cultural barriers to participation.
A proposal aimed at growing the Arabic-language Wikipedia and the Arabic-language Wikimedia community.
A proposal aimed at building technical interfaces among wiki communities.
A proposal aimed at staging an international slate of Wikipedia Academies.
Other Board ResolutionsEdit
On June 22, the board approved this resolution: "It is hereby resolved that the board of Trustees of Wikimedia Foundation approves the Duty Entertainment Guidelines policy," which can be found here: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:_Duty_Entertainment_Guidelines_Policy
On June 29, the board approved this resolution: "It is hereby resolved that the board of Trustees of Wikimedia Foundation approves the Pluralism, Internationalism and Diversity policy," which can be found here: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Pluralism,_Internationalism,_and_Diversity_Policy
On July 28, Board Chair Michael Snow sent an announcement to the foundation-l mailing list regarding the Nominating Committee, the body which will help the "community representative" board members fill the four seats on the board dedicated to specific skills and expertise. Michael laid out a proposed process for the work of the Nominating Committee, with the goal of having the seats filled by January. He also asked for community volunteers to sit on the committee: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-July/044915.html
ComingEdit
Mike is creating a new version of the Gift Policy: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Gift_Policy. The current version is a mix of policy-level material (guiding principles, etc.) and procedures-level material (e.g., requirements for acknowledgment "within two days of receipt"). The goal with the new version is to remove procedures-level material from the policy, and ensure that the remaining material is clear and understandable, and accurately reflects the Foundation's intent and practice.
A first version of the first-ever Wikimedia Foundation annual report will be released in September. This version will not include the 2007-08 financial statements. The report will be re-released including the financial statements, once the audit is finished.
The open source wiki-to-PDF technology developed with PediaPress.com will be rolled out, initially on Wikimedia Labs, followed by Wikibooks and other Wikimedia projects.
The reader feedback module for the FlaggedRevs extension will be tested on Wikimedia Labs.
Three new technology positions will be advertised: a mid-level software developer, an entry-level developer / IT suppport specialist, and a system administrator.
The Wikimania postmortem will be completed.
The Board will vote on Mike's new version of the privacy policy.
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2nd Largest Insurance Firm, Swiss Re, Classifies 5G as a "High Impact" Liability Risk in Annual Risk Report – Activist Post
Posted by EN-ABon 4 december 2019 in Insurance, Largest
04-12-19 09:10:00,
By B.N. Frank
In February, telecom executives gave congressional testimony that they had NO scientific evidence that 5G is safe. Many doctors and scientists say it isn't. People and pets have already become sick where it's been installed (see 1, 2, 3). Despite increasing worldwide opposition, warnings, and lawsuits (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) companies are still installing it anyway. Most would consider that to be very risky especially considering that
Insurance companies tend to NOT do business with telecom companies anymore (see 1, 2).
Telecom companies have been warning investors for many years that they may eventually be held liable for harm caused by their devices and transmitters. In fact, there's currently a Smart Phone Class Action lawsuit due to phones exceeding federal RF safety levels.
So it's really not surprising that Swiss Re has classified 5G as a "High Impact" Risk.
The top five emerging risks in our SONAR 2019 report are digital technology's clash with legacy hardware, potential threats from the spread of 5G mobile networks, increasingly limited fiscal and monetary flexibility by central banks, genetic testing's implications on life insurers, and the impact of climate change on the life and health sector.
SONAR examines new and "slow-burner" emerging risks and their potential effects on the re/insurance industry. This year's report features 15 emerging risk themes and five trend spotlights as well as an overview of global macro trends. Among the topics are the rising vaccine hesitancy, hazards of cosmetic surgery tourism, artificial intelligence and healthcare, concussion injuries in sports, the warehouse of the future, and the baby boomers' skills gap.
Ever noticed how 5G rhymes with "insanity"?
Activist Post reports regularly about 5G, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other sources of unsafe technology. For more information visit our archives and the following websites.
5GCrisis
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Drugmaker Pays Largest Opioid Settlement In History To Make Investigations Go Away
Posted by EN-AGon 13 juli 2019 in Drugmaker, Largest
A UK-based drugmaker has agreed to pay a record $1.4 billion settlement to the US government in order to end criminal and civil probes into allegations of illegal marketing of opioid addiction treatment medication, according to the Justice Department.
The settlement with Reckitt Benckiser Group (RB Group) will include multiple investigations into a subsidiary, Indivior (formerly Reckitt Benckiser Pharmaceuticals Inc.).
"Opioid withdrawal is difficult, painful, and sometimes dangerous; people struggling to overcome addiction face challenges that can often seem insurmountable," said assistant Attorney General Jody Hunt of the DOJ's Civil Division. "Drug manufacturers marketing products to help opioid addicts are expected to do so honestly and responsibly."
Suboxone, which proved to be a blockbuster-selling drug for Indivior, is an addiction-fighting medication that also contains opioids. Indivior was spun off into a separate company from the RB Group in December 2014, but the exposure and looming litigation and probes related to Suboxone were still attached to the parent company.
On April 9, a federal grand jury in Virginia indicted Indivior for "allegedly engaging in an illicit nationwide scheme to increase prescriptions of Suboxone," according to the DOJ. The company denied the charges and trial is scheduled to start in May 2020.
Federal prosecutors charged that Indivior allegedly marketed a version of Suboxone (Suboxone Film) to medical professionals as less addictive and safer than other drugs containing its active ingredient, the opioid buprenorphine, according to the DOJ statement. –ABC News
According to the indictment, Indivior's "Here to Help" web and phone resources actually funneled opioid-addicted patients to doctors who were actively prescribing Suboxone and other opioids "to more patients than allowed by federal law, at high doses, and in a careless and clinically unwarranted manner."
The company was also accused of discontinuing its tablet form of Suboxone "based on supposed 'concerns regarding pediatric exposure' to tablets, despite Indivior executives' knowledge that the primary reason for the discontinuance was to delay the Food and Drug Administration's approval of generic tablet forms of the drug."
Included in the settlement is an immunity agreement, while RB Group will forfeit $647 million of proceeds from the sale of Indivior – nor will it manufacture,
Notre-Dame: the Largest Real Estate Transaction in Europe has Begun in Paris
Posted by EN-AGon 20 mei 2019 in Largest, Notre-Dame
The Ile de la Cité real estate renovation operation and its transformation into a tourist promenade began with the awarding of part of the Hôtel-Dieu to Novaxia, "philanthropist" Joachim Azan's "transitory urbanism" group (photo).
This mega-operation was imagined in 2016, at the request of President François Hollande and the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, by the director of historical monuments Philippe Bélaval and architect Dominique Perrault.
It plans to take advantage of the renovation of the Tribunal de Paris, the Prefecture of Police and Hôtel-Dieu, in order to draw all the tourist potential of the Notre-Dame Cathedral and the Sainte-Chapelle.
The cathedral fire constituted a "divine surprise" for the public authorities who will thus be able to carry out this project and commercially exploit the whole island. This, the Minister of the Interior, Christophe Castaner, summed up by declaring that Notre-Dame de Paris is "not a cathedral, it's our common good".
Rented for 144 million euros for 80 years, part of the Hotel-Dieu hospital will be transformed into housing, luxury shops and a gourmet restaurant. The hospital unions, observing the cuts to Parisian emergency services, are protesting against this choice.
The public tendering process had started before the Notre-Dame Cathedral fire.
Fast-tracked, an ad hoc law was voted in first reading by the National Assembly to manage the collection of donations for the restoration of the cathedral. It provides incidentally that the Government will be authorized, by government order, to make any and all derogations:
1 ° "To the rules concerning town planning, environment, construction and heritage preservation, in particular with regard to the compliance of planning documents, the issuance of works and construction authorizations, modalities of public participation in decision-making and environmental assessment, as well as preventive archeology;
2 ° Rules relating to public commissions, public lands, roads and transport. "
The real estate project provides, for its part, the construction of a network of tunnels that will allow tourists to access the crypt of Notre Dame, but especially to relieve traffic on the island.
The ultimate goal is to transform the island from an administrative city into one of the busiest tourist areas in Europe.
On the same subject: "The Hidden Stakes of the Restoration of Notre-Dame",
Largest Palestinian Displacement Project Since 1967 Underway in West Bank, Galilee – Global Research
Posted by EN-ABon 2 maart 2019 in Largest, Palestinian
New plans to ramp up the largest wave of forced displacement in Palestine since 1967 are currently underway.
In response to pressure from far-right Nahala groups, a number of Israeli senior lawmakers agreed to the terms of an early February petition pushed forth by groups rallying in support of settling two million settlers in the West Bank, or 'Judea and Samaria.'
The Nahala Movement, campaigning on an end to the two-state solution through a rapid settlement of all West Bank territory, joined the rightist factions in modeling a settlement vision pushed by former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, also an early member of the Lehi paramilitary organization.
Their statement read:
"I hereby commit to be loyal to the land of Israel, not to cede one inch of our inheritance from our forefathers. I hereby commit to act to realize the settlement plan for the settlement of 2 million Jews in Judea and Samaria in accordance with Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's plan, as well as to encourage and lead the redemption of all the lands throughout Judea and Samaria. I commit to act to cancel the declaration of two states for two peoples and replace it with the stately declaration: The land of Israel: One country for one people."
The plan, upheld by New Right and Likud members, seeks to annex 61 percent of West Bank territory, threatening 297,000 Palestinians by the settlements.
In comparison, the 1967 mass exodus saw the displacement of between 280,000 and 325,000 Palestinians from their homes and lands.
The main proponents of the plan include former Jewish Home and now New Right members Naftali Bennett, the current Education Minister of the Zionist entity who recently accused Donald Trump of planning a "Palestinian state over our heads," and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked.
While mobilization of the most recent settlement project went into full force this week, it followed a trajectory that took root far before early February.
This plan falls under the framework of last summer's Jewish nation-state law, the Section 7 of Israel's Nation-State Law, which where "developing Jewish communities" was legitimized as a "national value" and that the Zionist entity would "act to encourage, promote, and establish them."
Last October,
US and EU Support Largest Land Grab Since 1948
Posted by EN-ABon 10 februari 2019 in Largest, Support
"Largest Land Grab Since 1948" — Israel to Expel 36,000 Palestinians From Negev
Given the Israeli state's rejection of their existence, government officials have called the Palestinians living in these villagers "violators" and "squatters" – accusing them of illegally occupying "state lands."
EL AVIV, ISRAEL — According to an Israeli media report, the Israeli government has completed work on a massive, far-reaching plan that would expel an estimated 36,000 Palestinians from "unrecognized" villages in the Negev Desert. If the plan is approved by the Knesset, Israel's legislative body, its implementation could begin as soon as this year and would take four years to complete. News of the plan was first published by Israel Hayom – Israel's largest Hebrew-language newspaper, funded by Sheldon Adelson, the top donor to both U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The plan — compiled by Uri Ariel, Israel's Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, and his staff — features the seizure of an estimated 260,00 dunams (64,247 acres) from Palestine's Bedouins. The size of the territory in question and the high number of Palestinians set to be affected has led some to call the plan the largest "land grab" of Palestinian-inhabited land since 1948, when the state of Israel was founded.
Israel Hayom's report stated that, per the new plan, the Palestinian villages would be demolished and the ruins of their homes would then become the sites of "national projects," infrastructure projects, and "security" installations after the forcible "transfer" of the land's current inhabitants to other "state-approved" settlements such as Tel Sheva, Abu Talul and Umm Batin. The report noted that a major motivation behind the plan's creation was the transfer of an arms-industry factory from another part of Israel to the Negev, as well as the expansion of the "Trans-Israel Highway" system.
Furthermore, the plan involves calling for a budget increase to boost the presence of law enforcement officials involved in the forcible "transfer" and in the demolition of Palestinian villages.
Rights groups have yet to comment on the newly announced plan targeting Palestinian communities in the Negev. However, Human Rights Watch has previously condemned Israel's targeting of "unrecognized" Palestinian villages in the region. In 2016, Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of Human Rights Watch's Middle East and North Africa Division, » Lees verder
Largest Cache Of Hacked Data In History Discovered: Over 770 Million Email Addresses, 21 Million Passwords
Posted by EN-AGon 17 januari 2019 in Largest, Million
Security expert Troy Hunt has exposed a the largest publication of breached data in history, affecting over 770 million email addresses and 21 million passwords.
The new finding, called "Collection #1" by Hunt, consists of 2.6 billion rows and is made up of "many different individual data breaches from literally thousands of different sources."
New breach: The "Collection #1" credential stuffing list began broadly circulating last week and contains 772,904,991 unique email addresses with plain text passwords (now in Pwned Passwords). 82% of addresses were already in @haveibeenpwned. Read more: https://t.co/BAa3rbgZo4
— Have I Been Pwned (@haveibeenpwned) January 16, 2019
The database going back as far as 2008 is a staggering 87GB in size, and comprises 1.1 billion unique combinations of email addresses and passwords – many of which have been "dehashed," or cracked and converted back to plain text.
This is when treating the password as case sensitive but the email address as not case sensitive. This also includes some junk because hackers being hackers, they don't always neatly format their data dumps into an easily consumable fashion. (I found a combination of different delimiter types including colons, semicolons, spaces and indeed a combination of different file types such as delimited text files, files containing SQL statements and other compressed archives.)
The unique email addresses totalled 772,904,991. This is the headline you're seeing as this is the volume of data that has now been loaded into Have I Been Pwned (HIBP). It's after as much clean-up as I could reasonably do and per the previous paragraph, the source data was presented in a variety of different formats and levels of "cleanliness". This number makes it the single largest breach ever to be loaded into HIBP. –Troy Hunt
The collection was dumped on anonymous storage site MEGA before it was posted on a popular hacking forum for anyone to access.
Last week, multiple people reached out and directed me to a large collection of files on the popular cloud service, MEGA (the data has since been removed from the service). The collection totalled over 12,000 separate files and more than 87GB of data.
In Pictures: The Largest Strike in History Is Happening in India Right Now – Global Research
Posted by EN-AGon 9 januari 2019 in Largest, Pictures
Around 150 million people began a two-day general strike in India today against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's anti-Labour and anti-trade union policies in India.
Workers from both the public and private sectors were joined by teachers and students from across the country, forming possibly largest strike in history.
#WorkersStrike Photos from Haryana where thousands of people marched as part of All India General Strike. pic.twitter.com/hw26PCy7e4
— CPI (M) (@cpimspeak) January 8, 2019
Below are a selection of AP photographs from today's general strike.
Mumbai: Trade union activists demonstrate, march and wave communist flags on the first day of a two-day general strike.
Bangalore: Another huge trade union demonstration. A large number of people carry the banner of the All India United Trade Union Centre (AIUTUC).
Kolkata: The strikers are joined by Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) activists.
Arrests: Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Sujan Chakraborty and fellow activists are arrested during today's demonstration in Kolkata.
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The Largest Conspiracy Theory Peddlers Are MSM And The US State Department
Posted by EN-ABon 11 december 2018 in Conspiracy, Largest
Authored by Caitlin Johnstone via Medium.com,
The US State Department has issued a statement accusing the Syrian government of having carried out a false flag chemical weapons attack in northwestern Aleppo with the intent to blame it on the jihadist factions in the region, citing "credible info" that the public has not been permitted to see.
Never mind the known fact that there are actual, literal Al Qaeda affiliateswho have admitted to using chemical weapons in Aleppo, and who are known to have used chemical weapons throughout Syria even by the State Department's own admission: the Official Narrative is that only the Syrian government uses chemical weapons, so the chemical weapons usage must necessarily be a false flag staged by Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.
Except they didn't use the words "false flag". Despite the accusation being the exact definition of the thing that a false flag attack is, you won't see the US government using that term, nor will you ever see it used in this instance by any of the authorized mainstream narrative-framing institutions like CNN or Fox News. This is because the term "false flag" is reserved solely for mention when referring to crazy, kooky Kremlin propaganda, as in the insane, unhinged, tinfoil hat belief that terrorists in Syria might possibly have some kind of motive to stage a false flag chemical attack in order to get the US, UK and France to act as their air force in a retaliatory strike against the Syrian government. That kind of false flag would be completely inconceivable to any right-minded empire loyalist, and is forbidden to even think about.
#MSM trying to link the #GiletJaunes protests to #Russia and #Putin.
Only surprising thing is how long it took.https://t.co/0A0p8dnQiq
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At the same time we are seeing a push from the mass media to advance a narrative that the Yellow Vests protests in France are due to Russian influence, with Iraq-raping neocon Max Boot publishing a column today in the Washington Post that is based entirely around the talking point that two trending Russian topics on social media have been "giletsjaune" and "France," and Bloomberg putting out an article blatantly titled "Pro-Russia Social Media Takes Aim at Macron as Yellow Vests Rage".
U.S. Completes Largest Ammo Shipment To Europe Since NATO Bombing Of Yugoslavia
Posted by EN-ABon 28 oktober 2018 in Completes, Largest
Is something big coming related to heightened tensions either with Russia, Iran, or Syria? It appears the U.S. military is publicizing a "show of force" of sorts, but not exactly in the conventional way of deploying tanks, ships, and aircraft.
Instead the official US Air Force website, af.mil, has announced to the world late this week that Ramstein Air Base in Germany has received its largest shipment of ammo in 20 years. The official government Air Force website announced:
The 86th Munitions Squadron on Ramstein Air Base, Germany, received its largest shipment of ordnance in recent history. Approximately 100 containers with a variety of munitions rolled into Ramstein during the month of October.
Master Sgt. David Head, 86th MUNS Munitions Operations section chief, noted that a delivery of such magnitude has not taken place since the late 20th century.
This, according to the press release, is so that the Department of Defense (DoD) will have the "ability to provide a rapid response against threats made by aggressive actors."
Image source: US Air Forces in Europe-Air Forces Africa
It comes amidst dangerously heightened rhetoric from both the White House and NATO which are threatening to finally pull out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, something which Russia says it will refuse to renegotiate. The build-up of ordinance in the heart of Europe also comes after months of back-and-forth threats between Washington and Iran as the latter attempts to survive an aggressive US sanctions regimen.
An Air Force spokesman said of the unusual size of the munitions transfer: "This is the largest shipment of its kind since Operation Allied Force, which took place in 1999," according to af.mil.
The spokesman, Master Sgt. David Head, referred to the 78-day NATO operation over Yugoslavia to bomb Serbian military positions and cities like Belgrade. "The munitions that we received will be used for future theater operations and the evolving U.S. European Command presence," he added.
Interestingly, the press release even mentioned potentially supplying operations in Africa where US AFRICOM has been expanding rapidly, according to a separate official: "We're a major airlift hub for U.S.
NATO's Largest Exercise Since the Cold War – Global Research
Posted by EN-ABon 21 oktober 2018 in Largest, NATO's
NATO's Largest Exercise Since the Cold War
Trident Juncture 2018 is NATO's largest exercise since the Cold War.
Around 50.000 troops, 250 aircrafts, aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman, 64 vessels and 10,000 vehicles will participate to Nato's collective defence scenario (Article 5) from 25 October to 7 November 2018.
All Nato's members as well as NATO partners Finland and Sweden will participate.
NATO casually describes Trident Juncture as a peacemaking endeavour, as means to defending Scandinavia against Russia:
The drills will take part in Central Norway, in the North Atlantic including Iceland, in the Baltic Sea and in the airspace of Finland and Sweden.
The aircrafts will operate from four Norwegian air bases, from northern Finland and from Kallax in northern Sweden.
In the Finnish archipelago more than 40 surface vessels will simultaneously hold naval exercise called Northern Coasts, which is connected to Trident Juncture.
Although the majority of Finns are against NATO membership, there is almost no public debate as to why Finland is participating.
Arizona is home to the largest Bio Chemical Weapons Dump… | Light On Conspiracies – Revealing the Agenda
Posted by EN-AGon 25 september 2018 in Arizona, Largest
San Carlos Apache Nation
Arizona is home to the largest Bio Chemical Weapons Dump for Agent Orange in the world. Whole military arsenals buried under schools, office buildings, and residential districts by design sealed under contract by the gate keepers.
San Carlos Apache Tribe a congress enacted corporation foreign to the Apache that a few pride filled misguided tribal members work for, our oppressors, on the never ending quest to keep Native American people subjugated Into Eternity. The ones who dealt our community the death sentence as Prisoners of War at Camp San Carlos Apache have sold the generations to come to slavery or terminal illness. Federal Agents the San Carlos Apache Tribal Government Mr. Victoria's Secret Robert Howard included, hold $100,000.00 Christmas parties for the select families maintaining federal control over Apache resources while the rest are left to die in chemical cesspools.
The American population thinks natives are happy and contently represented, there could be nothing further from the truth. Compliments of McCain, the U.S. Military, Department of Interior, and Department of Defense classified chemical projects with this duel purpose were delivered to unsuspecting community. Unknowingly contaminating all of Arizona's headwaters in eastern Arizona possibly forever. One Develop Bio-Chemical Weapons and tell the public its water conservation. 2. Remove the remainder Apache prisoners of war to gain access to valuable minerals corrupted politicians can make backdoor auction block agreements with international corporations.
One clear example is the public land exchange, former Apache Territories Oak Flat eastern Arizona, to Resolution Copper. Of the richest ore bodies ever discovered to date on earth at 7000 feet sub-surface will become fully extracted with remote robotic mining from Australia, no need to spend significant amounts when American minerals can be exploited without leaving harbor. McCain, an Indian Act Policy maker maintained the world's most raciest nation by confining a heritage of people to oppression and 3rd world poverty in the name of nationalism and special interests for economic gain. When it was the sell out Apache and Navajo Tribal Governments of equal immorality whom violated a culture betraying the next generations to come for self interest. A motley crew since it always takes two to make dirty deeds done dirt cheap.
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Video: Largest US Weapons Store – in Italy – Global Research
Posted by EN-AGon 13 september 2018 in Largest, Video
On 8 August, the Liberty Passion docked at the port of Livorno, and on 2 September, the Liberty Promise. On 9 October, they will be followed by the Liberty Pride. The three ships will then return to Livorno, successively, on 10 November, 15 December and 12 January.
These are enormous Ro/Ro ships (Roll-On/Roll-Off – vehicle transporters), 200 metres long. They have 12 decks, each one capable of housing 6,500 automobiles. However, they are not, in fact, carrying vehicles, but tanks. They are part of a US fleet of 63 ships belonging to private companies who, on behalf of the Pentagon, are constantly transporting weapons in a global circuit between ports in the United States, the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and Asia.
The main Mediterranean stop is Livorno, because its port is connected to the neighbouring US base of Camp Darby. During a recent visit to the Florence daily 'La Nazione', Colonel Erik Berdy, Commander of the US Army garrison in Italy, emphasized the importance of this base.
The logistics base, situated between Pisa and Livorno, constitutes the largest US arsenal outside of the home country. The Colonel did not specify what the content of the 125 bunkers of Camp Darby may be. However, it may be estimated at more than a million artillery projectiles, airborne bombs and missiles, to which should be added thousands of tanks, vehicles and other military material. It can not be excluded that in the base there may have been, there are, or there may be nuclear weapons in the near future.
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Camp Darby, claimed the Colonel, plays a key role by supplying US land and air forces much faster than if they were supplied directly from the USA. The base supplied most of the weapons used for the wars against Iraq, Yugoslavia, Libya, and Afghanistan. Since March 2017, with huge ships that make monthly stops at Livorno, the weapons from Camp Darby are continually transported to the ports of Aqaba in Jordan, Jeddah in Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern ports in order to be used by US and allied forces in the wars in Syria,
Visualizing How The 50 Largest US Companies Are Connected
Posted by EN-ABon 7 augustus 2018 in Largest, Visualizing
For any corporation, the Board of Directors plays a crucial role in corporate governance.
Elected by the company's shareholders, the board is meant to represent shareholder interests – it ultimately hires the CEO, sets strategic objectives, approves annual budgets, and provides accountability to the shareholders regarding the performance of the organization.
These duties are no cakewalk, and, as Visual Capitalist's Jeff Desjardins notes, finding capable and experienced board members to help run a multi-billion dollar corporation just isn't easy.
CORPORATE OVERLAP
To locate a qualified candidate, one option is to hire someone that already has experience working on a big corporate board – and because it's a part-time gig, people can actually be on multiple boards at once.
Today's data visualization is from Reddit user /r/qwerty2020 and it shows the overlap between boards of the top 50 largest companies in the United States.
It reveals that 78% of the multi-billion dollar companies here have at least one board connection with another company on the list.
THE MOST CONNECTED COMPANIES
Here are the three most connected companies:
3M (7 connections)
The 3M board has 12 members on it, including people like the retired CEOs of Kroger and UPS, and the current CFO of Microsoft.
As for board members in common, there are seven people on 3M's board that have a connection to one of the other 50 large companies, including: Boeing, Coca-Cola, AbbVie, Proctor & Gamble, Amgen, Chevron, and IBM.
Boeing (6 connections)
Boeing's board has 13 members, including the CEO and Chairman of Amgen, and Ronald Reagan's former White House Chief of Staff (Kenneth Duberstein). The former CEO of Allstate and the former CEO of Continental Airlines also serve on the board.
It has six connections to other big U.S. companies through its board, including: 3M, AbbVie, Amgen, Johnson & Johnson, U.S. Bancorp, and AT&T.
Amgen (6 connections)
The large biopharmaceutical company has 13 people on its Board of Directors, including the CEO and Chairman of Phillips 66, the former CEO of Mattel, and a former CFO of Walmart.
In total, it has six people that also serve on other boards: 3M,
Largest Iceberg & Crazy Weather | Armstrong Economics
Posted by EN-AGon 20 juli 2018 20 juli 2018 in Iceberg, Largest
QUESTION: You said while the energy output of the sun declines, at the same time the summers can get hotter. It seems strange but my daughter lives near you in Florida and it is hotter here in New York. Is the weather just getting crazy?
ANSWER: This summer we should see sweltering heat build across parts the northern United States and over western and central Europe throughout the summer months. The temperatures will be hotter in the Northern regions which definitely seems crazy. It is more comfortable in the South than in the North. These regions will simply see high temperatures past 90 F (32 C) up to 100 F (38 C ) on numerous occasions from June through August from probably Toronto to the Carolinas in the USA and in Europe from Frankfurt down to Milan/Rome.and Berlin, Germany.
There seems to be a pattern historically of dry summers and cold winters for Europe while in the Eastern US there will generally be flooding. This can contribute to producing dangerous conditions for not just people, the young and elderly, but to further the cycle of drowning crops in the US to droughts in Europe. This historically also tends to create the cycle of famine. The entire process is plagued by higher volatility with the swings to both extremes. This builds in cyclical force much as a bull market in a volatility period.
Meanwhile, the largest iceberg to ever threaten the shoreline in Greenland has appeared. An 11-million-ton iceberg, 300 feet tall, is now hovering over the town of Innaarsuit in Greenland. The massive iceberg floats dangerously close to shore coming within just 500 to 600 feet offshore last weekend. This is all part of perhaps the shift in climate that is brewing.
The World's Largest Migration Is About To Begin
Posted by EN-AGon 15 februari 2018 19 juli 2018 in Largest, World's
This Friday, China is going to celebrate its new year, kicking off one of the planet's great migrations.
Also known as Spring Festival or Lunar New Year, Statista's Niall McCarthy notes that this the event sees hundreds of millions of people leave their cities in order to visit their families in more rural parts of the country. In fact, practically all of China takes holiday at once, making the new year the biggest human event on earth.
You will find more infographics at Statista
This year, the number traveling to welcome the Year of the Dog will be approximately 385 million, marking a 12 percent increase on 2017 according to China News.
Comparing China's largest annual migration with North America's is a good way to gauge its sheer size.
Thanksgiving 2017 saw 50.9 million travelers negotiate long tailbacks on the interstate and overcrowded airports. Even though Thanksgiving is a major travel event, China's new year is still seven times bigger, with its massive population making a big difference of course.
Known as "chunyun", the annual new year migration in China also easily surpasses the world's biggest pilgrimages in scale with Arba'een and the Hajj not even coming close.
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Q: C string literal vs. C string array/pointer with P/Invoke not working correctly I have this simple situation setup:
Basic .NET Code:
[DllImport ... stuff... use cdecl]
public static extern void SetCallback(CallbackDelegate c);

[UnmanagedFunctionPointer ... use cdecl]
public delegate CallbackDelegate(MarshalAs(single byte string with null terminating character pointer) string c)

public static CallbackDelegate theNotGCdDelegate = null;
public void Start() {
    theNotGCdDelegate = new CallbackDelegate(CallbackCalledHere);
    SetCallback(theNotGCdDelegate);
}

public void CallbackCalledHere(string text) {
    Debug.WriteLine(text);
}

The Basic C Code (compiled with MinGW):
__declspec(dllexport) void __cdecl SetCallback(void (__cdecl *TheCallback)(char* text)){
    // This does not work as expected:
    TheCallback("This is a string literal");

    // This works as expected:
    char pointerMessage[] = "This is also a string literal, but referenced by an array.";
    TheCallback(pointerMessage);
}

So my situation (and I promise I'm not making this up!), is that calling SetCallback from C with the string literal direct (i.e., TheCallback("Hello World")) results in an empty string (the first byte of the string is NULL).  .NET converts this to an empty string (i.e., "").  I've confirmed that this is the case by using Marshal.ReadByte and by Marshaling the parameter as an IntPtr myself.
In the second case (when declaring a pointer/array and passing that variable into TheCallback), I get the string perfectly and as expected!
That doesn't make sense to me theoretically.  Both strings should be placed in the data section of the C DLL and both have pointers which should never move!  Both situations should pass pointers to actual data.  I have no warnings on my compile.
This may be related, but maybe not:
I'm running on a 64 bit machine.  I am 100% certain that when I compile a 32 bit DLL in MinGW, that I always call that DLL from a 32 bit process space in my .NET application (explicitly outputting a 32 bit assembly).  Likewise, when I compile the 64 bit DLL, I always call that DLL from 64 bit process space in my .NET application (explicitly outputting a 64 bit assembly).
I've verified that the proper 32 bit flag is showing up in Task Manager and is missing on the 64 bit build.  The DLL is only located in the bin directory and is not regsvr32'd.
Importantly, the 64bit DLL doesn't exhibit this problem: both strings are passed through correctly to the .NET runtime.  The 32bit DLL exhibits the problem which I've stated above.
I'm compiling/linking the 32bit DLL with the gcc/ld from MinGW (from http://mingw.org/).  I'm compiling/linking the 64bit DLL with the mingw-w64-bin_i686-mingw_20111220.zip package from http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/
Can anyone explain what is happening here?  Or maybe you'd rather recommend a different compiler or compiler flags?
EDIT
I just found out that GetFunctionPointerForDelegate works only with stdcall functions.  I think thats an important point.  I was using this Marshal call on and off, but I guess I'll completely avoid it now since the callback should be cdecl.  I'm assuming the UnmanagedFunctionPointer notation should be sufficient to pass a pointer to a cdecl function.

A: Despite missing my 'actual code', this problem was solved by not using ld when compiling.  Apparently I was missing some linker flags which--when using gcc--were automagically added by the compiler.  All my problems went away when I switched to using gcc alone.
Thanks everyone!

A: On Linux, gcc normally puts string literals in a read-only section (.rodata for ELF format; not sure what the equivalent would be for Windows).
Try compiling with the -fwritable-strings option and see if that makes a difference.
Edit
Double-checked on my Linux system (don't have Mingw handy).  Without the -fwritable-strings option, string literals go in the .rodata section.  With the option, they go in .data.

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TARTA riders required to wear masks on buses
Despite the COVID-19 shutdown, hundreds of Toledoans still rely on TARTA to get to work or other essential obligations every day. In an effort to protect both the public and its own employees, TARTA announced on April 9 that all riders would now be required to wear a cloth or paper mask while riding Toledo buses.
The policy shift took effect on April 11, and the TARTA website offers links to resources where individuals can learn how to make their own facial coverings at home.
The move to require masks is the latest in a line of policy changes aimed at protecting bus drivers and riders. TARTA announced in late March that all buses would operate at "Level III" service, meaning that they would run on a Saturday schedule, with lineups beginning at 9am and ending at 6 daily.
In addition, the majority of riders will use the rear entrance of the bus, while elderly and ADA riders will board from the front, in an effort to encourage social distancing. The TARTA Transit Hub has also been closed since March 18.
For more information on the changes to TARTA'S services, visit the TARTA website or call the TARTA information line at 419-243-7433.
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Prior to that, Dr. Ng taught MBA classes as an adjunct associate professor for a local University and delivered training in various China provinces. He delivered lectures, training, workshops and seminars to business executives in Hong Kong and China, covering "Change Management", "Leadership and Organizational Development" and "Seminars in Marketing". Dr. Ng is currently the Guest Host for various radio programs for Commercial Radio HK Channel and certain Web Radio programs.


From goodreads: Maggie Young had the market on normal. Normal friends, normal parents, normal grades…normal life.
I had a really hard time rating this book and not because I didn't love it but because the beginning of the story seemed a bit slow. I went back and forth between the 4 and 5 star rating. I'm all for laying the foundation for a strong and powerful slow-building story but some of it just seemed to drag. I think the insta-love also had something to do with my initial lack of connection to the characters. But make no mistake…I absolutely loved this book.
This is how you tell a heartbreaking story about the fragility of the mind. Not many authors can tackle this dark subject matter and get it right but A. Meredith Walters nailed it. Find You in the Dark touched me deeply and I'm not sure that I have fully recovered from reading this book because I still feel a bit broken inside.
It is when we are overwhelmed by our mental anguish that we hurt the ones we love and often time, hurt ourselves more. Sometimes we seek in others what we are unable to give ourselves, love and stability. It's when we force happiness and a love that is meant to be wonderful by creating a façade; we only plunge deeper into the depths of despondency. This is that story.
Enter Maggie. Maggie is a sarcastic and witty high school senior who is bored to pieces with her life until she meets Clay. Their worlds literally collide together and nothing will ever be the same again. The love that Clay and Maggie have for each other is intense and unyielding. The honeymoon is brief and secrets are slowly revealed and that's when we meet the real Clay.
One might think that Clay's love for Maggie is obsessive or even oppressive. You might even think his love is selfish but as the story unfolds you realize that's not it all. His love is pure and his redeeming qualities are there but his love is filled with desperation.
I felt the desperate love that Maggie and Clay had for each other. Maggie's love was loyal and profound and she was faced with the challenge in helping him. She was desperate to protect him at all costs regardless if it meant she had to alienate herself at times. Clay desperately tried to do the right thing by Maggie but struggled daily with the demons that were his constant companions.
This is a well written story about the complexities of falling in love with someone who cannot be cured by love alone. Find You in the Dark will make you uncomfortable and perhaps even scare you but it's told with dignity and respect. While I wasn't invested in Maggie and Clay immediately I have not been able to stop thinking about them or their journey.
My final two cents: This is an amazing story despite the bumpy start. I cannot wait to read book 2, Light in the Shadows and I only hope they get their happily ever after.
Just bought this book on sale. Would love to find time this century to read it Sounds good!
This book moved me so much! I loved it!!! Worth every penny!


The Joy of Fashion: "I'll wear this all the time"
Has it every happened to you that you bought something swearing that you would wear it all the time and you actually rarely wear it? This cardigan is one of those cases. I really like this cardigan, the colors, the shape, the pattern... everything is great. But for some reason or another, I never get around to wearing it.
I totally understand what you're saying. But now I try to be extra extra picky with what I buy so I don't accumulate a ton of things I won't wear!
P.S. You seriously have the BEST shoe collection.