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choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist and has posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera i really still liberated as a journalist was. going to the truth as it always does with this job. inmates learning from other inmates acquiring knowledge that can set them free. through legal education classes and mock tribunals vegetation has led to starring results you've been in prison for fifteen years recently but that was the teaching empowerment. part of the rebel education series at this time on al-jazeera.
our pays off in armenia protests to celebrate in the capital after the prime minister and i'm since his resignation. of them gentlemen donald this is al jazeera live from london also coming up the only surviving suspect in the twenty fifteen parasitize the senses twenty years in jail over a place shoot tacked. well stocked shelves despite hefty sanctions we are taken to a shopping center in north korea where there are no apparent shortages. and papa new guinea is disappearing forest why the business of logging is booming despite a court ruling that says it's illegal.
a very warm welcome to the program good to have your company if i was in of armenians a celebrating the west think nation of prime minister service so i guess c.m. in the last few hours. he's stepping down well that follows eleven days of anti government protests valving hundreds of thousands of people his resignation came shortly after pictures of ours showing soldiers joining the protest is in the capitol hill surrogacy and had been accused of a power grab who was appointed prime minister earlier this month soon after finishing two five year terms as president but we've seen over the past few days plenty of people out in the streets in their tens of thousands and yesterday the military joining them the whole idea was to get the prime minister who'd seen that transfer of executive powers from the presidency which used to be more of
a ceremonial position and their message was clear that they wanted him we hope to speak to our correspondent boban for the walker some point later. the only surviving suspect from the twenty fifteen paris attacks al abdul salam has been sentenced to twenty years in prison for his role in a gunfight which led to his arrest in brussels verdict came down in his absence which was not a surprise to many natasha butler has more from the belgian capital. sulla up to slums loyalism of brussels called for the verdict but not his client of dislodgement his co-defendants sophia and iare had chosen not to attend the judge sentenced both men to twenty years in prison for attempted murder during a shootout with police in the belgian capital two years ago the judge said there was a common will from both the defendants to belong to a terrorist group that they joined the aim of this group was to terrorize the
population the only surviving suspect from the twenty fifteen paris attacks had been on the run for four months when belgian police raided a house in brussels and were fired on by gunman four police officers were wounded. a skate a few days later was arrested in the city soon after attackers targeted brussels airport and metro. up disarms lawyer says he may appeal listen to nz. i am not convinced of anything in this verdict but i will analyze it with my client this is a bird ticked i respect that but in my view there are things to say and we need to see. wishes to appeal and if he does we will see what we will do. that up to slam decided not to attend the verdict surprised few people here he was present on your first day of his trial in february calling the process a fast and refusing to answer questions that's not
a surprise for us. from the first day we understood that don't want to participate still in mind we want to kill the still in this mind understand that from the first . and render stand that it will never try to collaborate and to explain what he did abt islam will have learnt of the verdict in france where he is in prison he is waiting for the trial into the paris attacks that is expected next year any future sentence will be added to this one what is unclear is whether up to slum will now break his silence and cooperate with french investigators natascha butler al-jazeera brussels belgium. more than thirty people have been killed in an airstrike that hit a wedding party in yemen. the attack by saudi led forces happened in the western province of hug or than a dozen all those were also injured which the rebels say another attacker there on
sunday killed six people. ten people have been hospitalized and more than one hundred detained on the greek island of les pauls after clashes between locals a migrants rioting separated the two sides late on sunday local said bins on fire during protests against the two hundred asylum seekers camped out on the island's main square as boss was a gateway for more than one million refugees passing into europe during the twenty fifteen migrants crisis there are about ten thousand migrants still on the island the foreign ministers of russia and china say they'll block any attempt by the united states to sabotage the iran nuclear deal so will jump has until may twelfth to decide whether to keep the ten to fifteen agreement to iran and six world powers the us president has often called or has often called the deal which lift sanctions on iran in exchange for limiting its nuclear program one of the worst ever in u.s. history the united nations is also urging him to stick to that agreement. the
secretary general remains convinced that the joint comprehensive plan of action continues to be the best way to ensure the exclusively peaceful nature of iran's nuclear program and to realize the promised economic benefits for the iranian people we hope that all of its participants remain fully commit church to its implementation and long term preserve ration. france is another signatory to the deal and president manuel mccall is on his way to the united states for a three day a facial visit by karl has already said he'll use the trip to try to change jobs mind well she had her times he joins us from the white house so high there she had so can he change trump's mind it's interesting my concern is given several interviews to the u.s. media where he suggests that some just his relationship with donald trump that if anyone can it is micro who can change donald trump's mind on this not that we've
seen any evidence so far that my columns combination of charm and flattery but hard nosed political rhetoric can actually change donald trump we do often hear the trump bases policy pronouncements more on personal relationships rather them and the briefings he gets from his national security staff there has been a lot of chatter international chatter head of this visit by mark you heard from the u.n. just a moment ago the iranian foreign minister is in the u.s. he tweeted this today there is no plan b. on nuclear deal with powers it's either all or nothing we also had a job and minister of being quoted as saying the situation would quite significantly deteriorate if u.s. pulls out of iran nuclear deal interfax the russian news agency said micron how to phone call if i do have putin recently where they both agreed that the deal must be continued a lot of expectation being created not least by macro him and his folks at the palace in the run up to all of this but now we'll see whether he really is the trump whisperer she have a sense of
a life in the white house she had thank you. well let's return now to talk top story those phone sex and i mean the on the resignation of the prime minister at the center right our correspondent open for the walk ahead in the capital gang of on. the up with speed here on the squaring up to do you make sure i'm surrounded by value. that the audience you want to. see old video really how they feel excluded. from the hospital that. resulted in the capitulation of a couple good really mates like this actually yes it is really media for the past ten years and no young audience i told can look forward to a different all media at least we don't know yet how it's going to tell but today at least it's maybe not so much about it like we're looking for just about celebrating what they have achieved or not what they're doing here now on the square i can hear the popping of champagne both to. the crowd like the steak and
it's it's an extraordinary experience to be here tonight because this is really a very very historic first for this tiny focus the country that has been really struggling with its economy which how did you want without a fight john are going to the going to care about religion and it's really been in the doldrums for many many years because people here felt that they couldn't really . change the development of. the elections that we can see you know media have. previously been considered. to be a. i actually back in two thousand and eight when president then started to any degree then came to power there were demonstrations that resulted in ten people being killed on the streets or with very violence and so that. the democrats of movement i think of a movement which quelled this now is the culmination of if you will take years
we've had to drink protests in the past but not. like this just unfolding about the beings it's really extraordinary with with the president said the president appreciate. the value you follow if you take that history we killed on the street people children we school parents young and old coming out the show really i mean it was actually united in one thing the changes the buck majority of people that need to see and that's what the president said the. prime minister said that the consent role and that is what you conceded in the statement that he made in which he said because question the opposition leader of the press yesterday was right and he got it wrong he said they were actions on the table but he wasn't prepared to go down that route to deal with the talking about using bullets like we've seen back in two thousand and eight again this time he was prepared to do that so he has taken a noble step and. now we're at
a real spiritual approach for the country. face of malaysia has really sketches as to the suspects in the targeted killing of a palestinian academic by the al botched repeatedly shot on saturday found they say by israeli mossad intelligence agents israel denies killing the hamas member florence the reports from all of them for. two murder suspects wanted in connection with the killing a foggy al bunch these men are thought to have fired at least fourteen shots at the palestinian lecture at the university of kuala lumpur on saturday they fled on a motorbike. mission to really the sketch shows to light skinned suspects who are european or middle eastern with beards to look quite long at both men are about one hundred ninety cents reaches with steady build. and. police haven't been able to identify the men and have alerted airport and border guards. his brother arrived on
sunday to accompany the body back to gaza where his family want him to be buried almost certainly. the local n.g.o.s have been supporting us throughout this ordeal we thank them for that we also hope that the malaysian authorities will announce the result of this investigation so we know who did this. was a member of hamas which describes him as a scientist who had made important contributions the group which controls gaza and his family accuse mossad of being behind the killing the israeli intelligence agency denies any link israel's defense minister has said the palestinian was no saint who was working to improve the accuracy of rockets fired from gaza at a door liberman has also suggested could have been targeted because of an internal palestinian dispute this is not the first time mossad has been accused of killing hamas members abroad palestinian drone expert muhammad al-zawahiri was shot into
his year two years ago and in two thousand and ten hamas commander mahmoud was killed in a hotel in dubai florence louis al-jazeera. you're watching live from london still ahead on the program a u. turn by the nicaraguan president over controversial pension reforms but is it enough for protesters and a crucial vote for president chavez pick for the next secretary of state said mrs decide if he is the right person for the child. how i would get some pretty wet weather into western parts of china at my long line of cloud and rain stretching all the way down into the north of vietnam for the race it's generally fine and dry twenty seven celsius there in hong kong that
normally breeze just picking temperatures back to around fifteen degrees there in shanghai with a fair amount of cloud around it will brighten up as we go into wednesday so to see the temperatures lifting to around twenty one degrees further west it does stay rather wet the rain becoming a little more p.t. in the process but we could see wanted to show sliding down towards heimat and on into vietnam still seeing plenty of showers making their way across southern parts of india into sri lanka a little bit of cloud still in place just around the eastern side of in the us was a possibility of one of two showers just sliding in here but for the most part the story is about the pre monsoon hate one pool forty one celsius choose the name similar values as we go on into wednesday a little bit about whether they're into the fall of india into carola maybe also into sri lanka and a little bit of wet weather in the forecast across the arabian peninsula over the next day you see some clouds there just to the north of us here in concert joins up with some western weather that we do have a little further south i look at more widespread awareness day with
a chance of rain for many. on counting the cost of a trade war a real war and rising debt find out why the i.m.f. and the world bank a warning of risks to the global economy what saudi arabia is the ideal world price and the castro you envision cuba but an economic blockade remains counting the cost on a. moment
of our top stories here on al-jazeera thousands of armenians are celebrating the resignation of prime minister. he's stepping down following more than a week of anti-government protests. a court in brussels was sentenced to twenty fifteen paris attack suspects. to twenty years in prison for his role in a gunfight which led to his arrest. more than thirty people have been killed in yemen after a year strike hits a wedding party in the western province. and we just heard that one of the top political leader of the yemen has been killed in a society led airstrikes. has headed the administration in some months since the rebels took over that city in twenty fifteen is considered to be an effective second in command of the rebel group. says korea says it stopped propaganda broadcasts
across its border with the north ahead of this week's inter korean summit so says it wants to create a peaceful atmosphere before the talks between the koreas which of the first in a decade kathy novak has the details there from seoul for more than two years south korea has used loudspeakers at the border to play messages about democracy news and even k. pop music into north korea the propaganda campaign has angered the government of kim jong un which tightly controls the information it allows its citizens to access north korean soldiers have even shot at the speakers in the past south korea has used them on and off after south korean soldiers were injured in the landmine incident at the border in twenty fifteen and again in twenty sixteen after north korea's fourth nuclear test well now in the latest sign of easing tensions south korea says it will stop broadcasting propaganda into north korea ahead of the historic summit between president mungy and kim jong un on friday south korea
welcomed news over the weekend that north korea would stop its nuclear and missile tests and shut down a nuclear test site south korea hopes that the meeting on friday will lay the groundwork for a summit between u.s. president donald trump and kim jong un well after initially welcoming north korea's announcement donald trump now has tweeted a more cautious message saying we are a long way from a conclusion on north korea maybe things will work out and maybe they won't only time will tell just days before that summit is juices start order truce village of panmunjom we've been looking we've been taking a look what life is like inside north korea al-jazeera has been given rare access to the capital our diplomatic efforts to james face takes a first hand look at whether a raft of international sanctions have had any impact at all. north korea has been targeted with tougher and tougher sanctions by the u.s.
and the international community of a what persuaded the country's leadership to pursue a diplomatic course and what effect a they having on ordinary people in this isolated country. we've been taken to a department store in the center of pyongyang despite the international sanctions the shelves here are full. we managed to visit a number of shops in the city center were upmarket places catering to the elite we found no shortages and luxury items like chocolates and bottles of alcohol that were clearly smuggled in in defiance of the sanctions the official line is that foreign imports have been replaced by increase domestic production. do you believe i don't know why others around us are starving us dear reporter when we return please tell them we are indomitable no matter what thank sions are upon us. the only medical facility we were taken to was
a gleaming new hospital most of the equipment here was imported clearly a problem in the future when spare parts become needed we were shown the eyeglasses which is subsidized for north korean citizens q what is the main yes what's the name of the north korean brown. yellow yet not yet not ok but a recent un report says the humanitarian situation particularly in rural areas outside the capital is poor before traveling to north korea i spoke to the un's top humanitarian official in new york. there's a nutrition problem lots of malnourished children especially there are too many women having a really hard time too often dying in childbirth it's the u.n. security council that voted in the international sanctions and the netherlands is the council member that administers them. in all resolutions there's
a view very clear passage where it says. these sanctions are not meant to have adverse negative effects on the people of the period. that's the official line privately even western diplomats will tell you there's a stigma to donate in humanitarian aid to north korea for example an important program by the n.-g. o. the global fund to fight malaria and tuberculosis was caught earlier this year sanctions are having an effect in north korea but perhaps not the one the international community wants it james pays zero pyongyang. the u.s. is shutting down some of its operations at its embassy in nicaragua as violence continues in the capital managua on sunday president daniel ortega scrapped a planned overhaul of the welfare system is one days of deadly protests you know rights groups say twenty six people have been killed so far in my comics things. on the fifth day of anti-government protest residents are trying to stop from being
looted. we're defending this supermarket and these stores because we're not going to allow looting or vandalism. was police are being criticized for what demonstrators say is the heavy handed response including gunfire a t.v. journalist is among the dead. hello go home and was shot while reporting live on facebook one of his colleagues blames a government sniper so far the police haven't commented on the desk but some expect more unrest despite the president's announcement about the we are protecting our hundred everything that has cost us so much that we have gotten i don't want anyone to target us we're ready for anything protesters were infuriated when the government approved the social security changes last wednesday to try and stop the widening deficit the united nations human rights office criticize the government for not allowing free assembly of protesters president daniel ortega said on sunday
he would withdraw the proposed reforms but that hasn't been enough to call the ngo . groups and our representatives and delegates will be ready to go to the table for talks and make sure the first thing they approach is pensions. protesters still have other grievances including what they say is ortega's influence over the national assembly the law in the constitution such as eliminating presidential term limits imran khan is there. another two palestinians have died from wounds by israeli fire during protests at the gaza border these thirty five palestinians have now been killed in the four weeks of demonstrations against the israeli israeli and most of those have been killed have been shot by israeli snipers palestinians are calling for the united nations to investigate the killings but israeli forces say they only open far in self-defense. donald trump's pick for secretary of state will face the senate foreign relations committee in the next cia director mike compare
could become the first nominee for the position to win the panel support more than half of the senators refused to back him and as alan fischer reports many have questions about his health than just. oh my computer with these protesters at his confirmation hearing in front of the senate foreign relations committee we was trying to sell himself as america's next top diplomat centers on confirmed i would know senators are suggesting he may not be right for the job cia director easily won the nomination for that role but secretary of state is a bigger job with a broader responsibility a lot of democrats who are seeking to find common ground with trump try to figure out some ways they could demonstrate some bipartisanship and i think that reservoir of potential goodwill that trump had won in january twenty seventeen with senate democrats has dissipated significantly since then a former kansas congressman a former u.s. army officer some senators have been unsettled by pompey was past positions you
pose as the iran nuclear deal has criticized gay marriage and his claim that muslims are a threat to america he's seen as a hawk someone who promotes and the gress of foreign policy that there's no one as you just heard what i described there is no one but someone who serve in uniform who understands the value of this policy and the terror and tragedy that is war like someone who served in uniform it's the last resort must always be so god bless you all compare was picked for the job of secretary of state after rex tillerson was unceremoniously sacked by tweet in march from people recently made news by holding secret talks with north korean leader kim jong un giving the way for a summit in the coming weeks president donald trump is urging a yes on his pick i think my call they are going you know one of the really scary. republican senator rand paul has already said you look close the nomination and democrats do think you'll do enough to stand up to the president we didn't hear any evidence at that hearing for director pompei of that he was willing to do that fire
so no committee vote or is crucial for donors trump it would be really bad for donald trump with a republican senate failed to achieve confirmation of his chosen secretary of state donald trump thinks that might pompeo will be a better fit for the job as his top diplomat someone he knows someone he believes he can trust thinks like the president and will echo his view on important issues on the global stage they senators on the foreign relations committee have to decide if that's something they want i want fish or al-jazeera washington. environmentalist and politicians are joining forces to try and save fragile rain forests in the asia pacific region and summits on the way in indonesia to build on the commitments made at the paris climate agreement on the agenda is the rapid rate of deforestation in papua new guinea when looking continues at a rapid pace as andrew thomas reports from the village of tallia.
this machine should not be operating these logs should still be standing as trees most of this land should still be forest in twenty sixteen papua new guinea's supreme court ruled that the special agricultural business lease or a.b.l. which allowed logging in this part of the east sipek region was invalid and illegal logging did stop for a few months but it's restarted since the same is true across the country. according to some there isn't the political will to enforce logging bans after s.a.b. elsewhere made illegal new types of licenses were issued for the same areas instead in rural areas many say logging companies have more sway than the government does over police and officials and basically paralyze the public service system so that those public service systems so a very rather than the interest of the nation or its people people here in a remote part of east new breton island say representatives of logging companies
trick to them into signing away their rights to log their land giving very little in return even for there was no proper clearance for the local communities at all people weren't aware of what was going to happen to the forests and the land local say deforestation has taken away a source of food and traditional medicine they say that the local weather has changed and that the locals leave a barren often burned landscape in their wake the logging doesn't just change the way this landscape looks it completely changes the way it feels as well it's cool in their hearts out here just two years ago this entire area was covered with virgin rainforest. now we're at the more marks the dividing line between that forests and the devastation all around of broader consequences what the rapid deforestation means for southeast asia as a whole is the on and off part where this is third largest forest broker on the
planet and to see nature regulate off the climate in this or specific but it's where we would live so with the loss of forest we have launched a negative impact on the climate the malaysian company operating here. accuses the tractor's of trying to stifle p. and g.'s economic growth it says here in east new britain it funds infrastructure upgrades and provide significant support for education services and health logging companies in papua new guinea are certainly a powerful economic force all right also our own shopping centers hotels and businesses in i.t. and media when al-jazeera first ran reports on p. and g.'s logging industry in january the country's main national newspaper ran an article accusing us of being biased and politically motivated the article did not mention the newspaper it appeared in is also by all rights under thomas al-jazeera tali a popular new guinea. a
critic of our top stories here on al-jazeera surrogate sergey sam the newly appointed prime minister of army has resigned after days of mass anti-government protests people poured onto the streets of the capital here a van to celebrate and said on his website that he is stepping down to maintain civic case they've been arming as president for a decade until last month when his term expired critics say his appointment to prime minister was an attempt to thwart falls and stay in power. we're open for se walker is in the capital here about. their birth. and will go through in the capitulation of the of the government really led by thirty seconds the under the rule. for the past three years the little guy in the army i don't know if you're looking or through a different harley or at least your outlook turned out to greatly.
reduce the rate that they have achieved or not exactly what they're doing merely. one of the top political leaders of the who is in yemen has been killed in a society led airstrike salah al summit has headed the who see administration in summer since the rebels took over the city in twenty fifteen meanwhile more than thirty other people have been killed in the other side the lead strike on a wedding party in the western province of hunch or many of us were also injured the un has criticized the saudi led air campaign for killing large numbers of civilians. but only surviving suspect from the twenty fifteen paris attacks has been sentenced to twenty years in prison for his role in a gunfight which led to his arrest in brussels sala salaam was convicted of attempted murder for firing on belgian faeces they tried to detain him three officers were wounded verdict came down in his absence of those salaam has refused
to cooperate with the court since the first day of his trial. foreign ministers of russia and china say they'll block any attempts by the united states to sabotage the iran nuclear deal donald trump has until may the twelfth to decide whether to keep the twenty fifteen agreement between iran and six world powers u.s. president has often called the deal one of the worst ever in u.s. history those are your top stories counting the cost is up next we'll see in just under half an hour's time but by.
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St. Luke's chapel of ease, at TUTSHILL, 1¼ miles south-west from the parish church [of Tidenham], is a building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch, vestry and organ chamber and a turret containing 3 bells: the roof was renovated in 1896 at a cost of £400: there are 250 sittings. The chapel of ease of St. Michael and All Angels, at Tidenham Chase, 2½ miles north of the parish church, erected in 1888 by the Rev. Fielding Palmer M.A. at a cost of £1,200, is a building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a turret containing one bell: there are 100 sittings: the east window is a memorial to Miss P. Phillips, of Pen Moel House, Tutshill, and the two west windows form a memorial to the Rev. Fielding Palmer M.A. d. 1897.
There is a Wesleyan chapel at Tidenham. A charity of £45 yearly, left by Mrs. Williams, is distributed to the poor. The Iron room at Stroat, built by Miss Morgan, of Boughspring, in 1888, has a library and reading-room, and is also used for religious services and meetings of various kinds. The Memorial Hall at Woodcroft was erected by Mrs. Morgan, of Tidenham House, in memory of her husband, T.H. Morgan esq. and contains reading and coffee rooms and a spacious hall in which religious services are held. On the banks of the Wye, and not far distant, are Tintern Abbey, Raglan Castle, Piercefield Park, Chepstow Castle, Usk, Caldecot, and the Roman station of Caerwent.
Sedbury Park, now (1922) unoccupied, is about 2 miles from Chepstow; the mansion is in the Italian style, and stands in a finely timbered estate, traversed by the famous Offa's Dyke. Tidenham House is the residence of Henry Francis Morgan esq. J.P.; Pen Moel, of William Robert Price esq. J.P. H.F. Morgan esq. J.P. and William Royse Lysaght esq. C.B.E., J.P. (Mon.), are the chief landowners. The soil is loamy; subsoil, limestone. The chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips. The area is 6,374 acres of land, 2 of water, 924 of tidal water and 626 of foreshore; rateable value, £15,158; the population in 1911 was 1,710 in the civil and 1,608 in the ecclesiastical parish.
Under the provisions of the Divided Parishes Act, 1882, Madgett and Sheepcott farms have been transferred from Wollastone to Tidenham for civil purposes.
SEDBURY, about 2 miles south; Bishton and Church End, 1 mile west; Stroat and Wibdon, 2 miles north, are hamlets.


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The word "rust" usually brings to mind images of corrosion, decay, and demise. All true, but in all that there is a beauty of purples, oranges, and reds that seems to catch my eye. All these images are from an old storage and loading building for train transport. Captions tell a little bit of this rusty story. As always your thoughts, critiques, and responses are invited.


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Weathering the Covid-19 storm: Diversification, liquidity, and maintaining contact
Rory Pasquariello
Turbomachinery Magazine, July/August 2020,
No one saw a Covid-19 pandemic coming. Big changes were made virtually overnight. Most in the sector report decreased sales, project delays, supply chain disruption and warehouse shortages. The pandemic is expected to reduce power consumption in U.S. commercial and industrial sectors by more than 4%, according to GlobalData.
Yet there are encouraging signs. Oil prices have rebounded somewhat, and infrastructure projects are restarting as economies cautiously reopen. For example, GE completed its first major onsite inspection project since the Covid-19 outbreak in China.
Turbomachinery International interviewed turbomachinery industry leaders to see how they're faring, what's changed, and how they are responding. Companies such as Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Howden, Rotoflow, SSS Clutch, Velo3D, Sullair, Voith, MTU Power and PAL Turbine Services reported on how they are adjusting to social distancing and other guidelines. Some of them said they are pivoting from onsite work to remote maintenance services. Others are investing in new technologies such as digitalization and the Internet of Things (IoT) or providing employees with better training. More than a few have stripped down their operations to focus on core competencies.
Howden, a manufacturer of compressors, steam turbines, heaters, fans, and blowers, noted postponements and cancellations of planned outages with subsequent cancellation of spare part orders. That's hit their bottom line.
In response, Howden expedited the launch of a new remote service that uses an augmented reality annotation technology with real-time communications based on the Chalk app from PTC. It connects remote product experts to on-site field technicians and customers. The company also hired a dedicated IoT Strategy Manager to improve its digital solutions.
"We see opportunities in remote monitoring and support; as well as customer self-service interface points as key elements of a post-Covid world," said Darryl Halter, Vice President, Aftermarket at Howden. "As customers continue to place requests for quotes, we see that as a good indication that they are looking to proceed with projects when this is over."
Halter's advice? Adapt and innovate. "When situations like this arise, we are leaning into it, not fighting it. Accept that this is the reality. Adapt to it and innovate in ways that benefit the customer and the company."
Sullair, an Indiana-based manufacturer of portable and stationary rotary screw air compressors (a subsidiary of Hitachi), has felt Covid's impact, particularly in its operations and facilities in China. It is continuing to focus on its core business. With no trade shows on the horizon, it is stepping up efforts along other marketing channels.
"We are actively looking at other means we can communicate our message including virtual events," said Brian Tylisz, Senior Vice President of Sales for the Americas at Sullair.
After mandated shutdowns ended, Sullair ramped factory activity back up. But when business-as-usual will return is anybody's guess.
"Nobody within our industry had this in their business plans for 2020," said Tylisz. "With nearly six months to go in the year, it is difficult to predict a full-year impact."
While thankful for tools that make it easier to communicate digitally, he said that nothing can replace face-to-face interaction.
"There is nothing like sitting down, having a meal and looking somebody in the eye while talking business," said Tylisz.
Despite Covid, business at Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) is doing well. The company had a record year, and ranked first in market share by megawatts for gas turbine orders in the first quarter of 2020. The MHPS remote monitoring and diagnostics centers have helped the company leverage real-time data to help users make risk-informed decisions on delaying planned maintenance safely.
"Right now, it's all about flexibility and ensuring that our customers are able to reliably keep the lights on while so many other factors in our lives remain unknown," said Marco Sanchez, Vice President and Head of Intelligent Solutions at MHPS Americas.
The current crisis has made it clear that plant operators need remote operating solutions to improve operations and protect employees. As a result, MHPS is focusing even more on its Tomoni Autonomous Power Plant initiative.
"Going forward, we expect many inspection and maintenance tasks will be supported from an offsite location instead of in person," said Sanchez. Both artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning will allow the knowledge of today's experts to be captured for the future."
Sanchez's advice to others in the turbomachinery sector? Have flexible contingency options in case of future disruptions. This should include cyber-secure communication channels with sufficient bandwidth for the desired level of implementation.
SSS Clutch
SSS Clutch, a Delaware-based manufacturer of automatic overrunning clutches for high-power and high-speed applications, was remodeling its UK facility when the world went into lockdown. It paused construction for six weeks, delayed employees from moving in and instituted remote work.
"Things were far from perfect and seamless, but there has not been a huge disruption," said Morgan Hendry, President, SSS Clutch. "The situation has helped us to establish better workflows and practices for the future. It prompted us to make positive changes."
SSS Clutch obtains about a quarter of its business from marine propulsion, a quarter from mid-stream and down-stream oil and gas and from half power generation. Hendry said the company hasn't skipped a beat on the operations side.
"We expect bumps in the road but not a fall off," he said. "There will be some delays and cancellations within our oil & gas portfolio, but we believe our overall business will not see a material effect."
Rotoflow, a manufacturer of companders and expanders, has been operating at full capacity. It implemented heightened safety procedures for those allowed to remain at work in its manufacturing facilities. Office employees worked from home.
The effect of the crisis on the company for 2020 overall is uncertain. But one good sign is that it recently achieved record production in the industrial gases space.
"Once the crisis is over, we are looking forward to re-engaging with customers face- to- face, offering even more value-added solutions, and introducing new products," said Sarah Farnand, Rotoflow's Global Sales Manager, New Equipment. "One potential opportunity from the pandemic has been time to spend on some of our product development initiatives."
Her advice to the turbomachinery world: "Focus on what you can control, keep your employees safe, and don't let your guard down."
MTU Power
For MTU, which offers diesel and gas power generation system services, protecting customers from disruptions has been top priority. It temporarily scaled back to emergency staffing levels at its Berlin facility where GE LM series turbines are serviced. As well as protecting employees, this was a result of supply chain disruptions. With reduced staffing, the company maintained minimum service levels, carried out field services and received delivered engines and parts. This minimized disruption for customers.
"We intend to flexibly adjust shop capacities to meet demand going forward as we monitor the supply chain situation, COVID-19 developments and regional trends daily," said Gregor Stoecker, Director of Sales, Industrial Gas Turbines at MTU Power. "We can also support the ramp-up operations of our customers by offering intelligent repair solutions, flexible lease and rotable services, and sourcing of serviceable material."
Voith Turbo
The German-based Voith Group, which manufactures drive components and systems for turbomachinery, has weathered the crisis relatively well. It has carefully monitored its supply chain to keep it up and running. A few suppliers from regions like Italy and India struggled. But overall, its supply chain is almost back to normal.
That said, some large capital expenditure projects, especially in the Middle East, have been postponed. Further, travel restrictions have caused challenges in the aftermarket, especially in Europe and the U.S.
"Thanks to our global service footprint, we benefit from close customer proximity and the situation in China improved much earlier than in many other areas, so China strongly supported our business in the past weeks," said Rolf Schweizer, Executive Vice President & CEO Voith Turbo.
The drop in oil and gas prices hit Voith particularly hard. It specializes in drives for electrically driven gas compression for up-, mid-, and downstream applications. In response, it is strengthening its capabilities in the retrofit area.
In the short-term, Voith sees potential in service and aftermarket businesses.
"We will continue to invest in new products and solutions (such as VoreconNX variable speed drives, the VECO-Drive VFD, AeroMaXX turbo gear technology or new condition monitoring solutions) that provide competitive advantage," said Schweizer. "The current crisis has uncovered significant potential for digital collaboration, autonomous operation and remote maintenance."
Only a few months ago, for VELO3D, a metal additive manufacturing (AM a.k.a. 3D printing) solutions provider, AM applications in aviation and oil and gas were still vital sales targets. However, all signs now point to those sectors scaling back capital expenditure investments. VELO3D has had to make some operating and capital adjustments but still intends to launch new machines into the market later this year, such as their 1-meter tall Sapphire system. The company was able to secure an additional $40M in funding amid these unprecedented times and hopes to be profitable by mid-2022.
"As a smaller business, we are more agile and can shift our focus a little more easily than larger, publicly listed companies," said Benny Buller, founder and CEO of VELO3D. "We are targeting other industrial segments like aerospace, defense and energy. We are also putting more investment into marketing and business development." The company also recently landed a $20M order from an existing aerospace customer.
One potential opportunity is in printing parts traditionally manufactured via casting. 3D printing offers much shorter lead times and lower cost for small quantities. Buller's advice to others in the turbomachinery sector is to stay agile.
"Agility is your strongest asset," said Buller. "Make investments in technologies that will enable you to be flexible to keep costs down and respond to customer and market needs quickly."
PAL Turbine Services
PAL Turbine Services, a subsidiary of Pond and Lucier, a field engineering services company focusing on legacy gas and steam turbines, is an example of the unforgiving nature of market disruption. The company has virtually ground to a halt with purchase orders drying up, according to Dave Lucier, owner and general manager.
He complained about public utilities and many private owners of gas turbines (refineries, process plants) looking with fondness at the lowest bid instead of insisting on experience and technical capability. As a result, PAL's 20 full and part-time engineers (each forty-year plus veterans) don't have much work.
"Clients don't want us to retire, but they won't send us business until they are in trouble," said Lucier. "Even then, they want us to accept reduced rates, though we charge about half OEM rates." ■
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Pekmezci is a graduate of the Ivriz Normal School who participated in the Art Seminar of Istanbul's Capa School for Teachers, In 1968 he graduated - from the Gazi Teacher Training Institute Department of Painting and Crafts, and taught art for a time in normal and secondary schools.
In 1978 he joined the staff of the Gazi Teacher Training Institute Department of Painting and Crafts, where he started the serigraphy studio, and he has written a book on the subject published in 1992 and entitled Tum Yonleriyle Serigrafi Ipek Baski (Serigraphy Silkscreen From A to Z).
In 1985 he received the "proficiency in art" degree, becoming an associate professor in 1987 and a full professor in 1995. Since 1987 he has been on the faculty of the Hacettepe University School of Fine Arts in the Department of Painting. Pekmezci has his first one-man show in 1971 at the State Gallery of Fine Arts in Ankara, and since then has had 45 others, as well as contributing to collective exhibitions both at home and abroad, and since 1979 has won prizes in a number of competitive exhibitions.
He has chosen to express himself in prints and oils, focussing on the relationships and paradoxes between the city and nature, between man and bis environment, with primacy accorded to color, surface dynamics and texturing. In his approach to abstraction he combines color values with compositional tension.


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Children of the Monroe Doctrine
By: Arturo J. Viscarra and Michael Prentice
Editor's Note: Originally published in AlterNet.org, the authors of the piece approached us as well and have given us permission to reprint. The following essay is our latest installment of opinion pieces regarding U.S. policy in Central America.
"[I]n the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States.. . to the exercise of an international police power." —Theodore Roosevelt, 1904
It is impossible to understand the root causes of the current wave of Central Americans arriving to the United States, and therefore the appropriate U.S. response, without acknowledging the historical relationship between the U.S. and Central America. Unfortunately, the debate in Congress and in the mainstream media has largely focused on whether or not the U.S. has new obligations under international humanitarian and refugee law or a moral duty to treat non-citizen children with compassion. Vice President Biden recently referred to them as "our kids", but he was stressing the importance of due process for the children's asylum claims while simultaneously calling for a "Plan Colombia" in Central America. Policy-makers often tout Plan Colombia as a great success, ignoring the over 6,000 extrajudicial assassinations by Colombia's military since its implementation in 2000. Before pushing for even more Drug War militarization, the U.S. needs to respond to this long-running crisis by first coming to terms with its history in Central America and accepting its share of the responsibility in creating the current political, social, and economic conditions refugees are fleeing.
The U.S. has long exercised control of Central America through military interventions or the financing, arming, and training of pro-U.S. local elites and their armed forces. In 1823, President Monroe declared the U.S. the sole commercial and political power throughout the Western Hemisphere. By the 1880s, many Central American and Caribbean republics were reduced to "protectorates or in effect client states" of the U.S., according to historian John Coatsworth. During the Banana Wars, the U.S. military intervened in Honduras seven times between 1903 and 1925. The 1954 CIA-orchestrated Guatemalan coup effectively sparked their civil war. It would cruelly last until 1996. In the 1980s, El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala were inundated with U.S. military aid and advisers. The "Banana Republic" of Honduras became a staging ground for U.S. trained armed forces fighting leftists in the three countries it borders and so earned a new nickname – the "U.S.S. Honduras".
The School of the Americas (SOA) is the embodiment of the U.S.'s traditional policy towards Central America—pretending to apply military solutions to social and economic problems. Established in 1946, the SOA remains the only U.S. military institute dedicated to training the security forces of one specific region of the world. During the Cold War, its curriculum was designed to "thwart armed communist insurgencies." It continues to equate democracy with "free markets." Graduates of the SOA include the most notorious Central American human rights violators: members of the Battalion 316 in Honduras; the murderers of Archbishop Oscar Romero, the four U.S. churchwomen and over 900 civilians at El Mozote in El Salvador; and the former and current Presidents of Guatemala (Efrain Rios Montt and Otto Perez Molina) connected to genocidal military campaigns in that country. Despite the Pentagon's claims of change and transparency, they have refused to release the names of SOA graduates for the last 10 years. Be it Cold War or Drug War, the SOA continues to be part of the apparatus that enables U.S. allies to commit human rights violations in the name of democracy.
The role of the U.S. in the Central American civil conflicts of the 20th Century was not as much an aberration, but an escalation of long-established relations. Local oligarchies and the U.S. collaborate militarily to assure that the unequal political and economic status quos prevail. What was unprecedented in the 1980s was the scale of the civilian carnage left behind by U.S. trained and financed armed forces, and the resulting large-scale arrival of Salvadoran, Guatemalan, and, to a lesser degree, Honduran refugees to the U.S. From 1980 to 1990 the number of Central American-born people in the U.S. roughly tripled from 353,900 to 1,134,000. By 2000, the number surpassed 2 million. Although systemic violence and its accompanying destruction of economic activity is at the root of the current wave of Central American migration, the choice to flee to the U.S. instead of another country is also linked to the desire to reunite with family members that arrived during prior migration waves.
June 29, 2009 in Honduras (Yamil Gonzales)
June 28, 2014 marked the fifth anniversary of the military coup (led by SOA graduates) that ousted democratically elected Honduran president Manuel Zelaya. Opposition to the coup and the resulting governments was widespread and continues to this day. Thousands of activists, journalists, lawyers, campesinos, LGBT persons and others opposed to the resuscitated fascist forces have been threatened, beaten, tortured, disappeared or killed. The U.S. worked diligently, against the overwhelming opinion of the rest of Latin America, to guarantee that the coup regime remained in power. In 2009, Porfirio Lobo was elected in a fraudulent process which was boycotted by coup opponents. In 2013, Juan Orlando Hernandez was elected in another tainted election. The U.S. quickly recognized both results. Post-coup Honduran security forces have been the recipients of increased U.S. military aid and training despite their well-known record of human rights violations and infiltration by the drug cartels they ostensibly combat. This illogical, yet familiar pattern can only be explained by the geopolitical importance of the "U.S.S. Honduras"' to the Department of Defense. Since the coup, the Pentagon has not only built up Soto Cano Air Force Base, already the largest U.S. military base in the region, but it has also built at least three new U.S. military installations in Honduras.
29% of the unaccompanied minors that have surrendered to Border Patrol in 2014 are from Honduras. It should be no surprise that Honduras has for the first time become the number one source of Central American migration when the U.S.-backed Honduran regimes have exacerbated lawlessness, violence, and economic alienation over the last five years. The current wave of children and adults fleeing Central America is, at the very least, partly due to the continuation of the supremacy of Pentagon whim over the basic needs of the poor majority of Central America.
It is imperative to consider why Nicaraguans are not migrating en masse despite facing similar historical, economic, and imperialist obstacles as the other Central American countries. The Marines' occupation of Nicaragua (1912–1933) spanned five U.S. presidencies, including that of Democratic icon Woodrow Wilson. During this period, the Marines created, trained, armed, and commanded Nicaragua's National Guard while assuring that Conservative governments ruled the country, whether or not they actually won elections. When the occupation ended, the Marines passed de facto power of the country over to the National Guard, which was then headed by the U.S. favorite, Anastasio Somoza. Somoza and his family led a corrupt and brutal military dictatorship until the triumph of the 1979 Sandinista Revolution, the first and only successful popular revolution in Central America. Remnants of the deposed National Guard would then form the U.S. proxy army known as the Contras, who became infamous for their atrocities against civilians, Iran/Contra, and their connections to drug-trafficking. In 1985, the International Court of Justice would decide that the U.S. owed Nicaragua reparations for supporting the Contras and mining Nicaragua's harbor. The ruthless efforts to topple the Sandinistas would temporarily prevail when war-weary Nicaraguans voted them out in 1990 elections. But after 16 years of relative peace (and neo-liberal policies), Nicaraguans voted the Sandinistas back to power in 2006 and again in 2012.
Despite similar levels of poverty, it is undeniable that Nicaragua's far lower levels of violence and forced migration differentiate it greatly from its neighbors. It is also undeniable that its military and security policies have developed differently due to repeated breaks from the Pentagon's orbit, including withdrawal from the SOA in 2012. Even the U.S. has conceded that the Sandinista "community policing" model has been successful, and is now promoting a version of it in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala as part of the solution to the child migrant crisis. But the importation of the model is doomed to fail unless a fundamental change in the culture of the security forces accompanies it. AFGJ's Chuck Kauffman noted last month, "Drug cartels have been unable to gain a foothold because the army and police are those same muchachos and muchachas who defeated a US-backed dictator and aspired to be New Men and New Women. Nicaraguans are astounded at the corruption and brutality of the security forces of their neighbors."
Since 2008, the U.S. has spent over $800 million in security aid to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador through the "Central American Regional Security Initiative" (CARSI) as well as millions more in bilateral military and police aid to each country. But when that money goes to the likes of Honduras's cartel-infiltrated politicians and brutal state security forces is it surprising that the rule of law further deteriorates? Central Americans are suffering through increasing and extreme levels of violence, while there has been zero impact on rates of drug use in the U.S. Central American adults are risking their lives and those of their children to escape the historical and current system of violence that the U.S. refuses to recognize its role in creating. Who is more irresponsible, the parents or the Pentagon? Who is more rational, the parents or the U.S. Congress?
If the goal of the Drug War is actually to disrupt the drug cartels while safeguarding the lives of ordinary people, then resources should be refocused on drug money laundering by the Central American elites who are propped up by U.S. military aid, as well as Western financial institutions. The narco-oligarchs and the executives at HSBC, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and other banks responsible for documented drug money laundering should currently be in detention, not child refugees and their families.
In 2013, after nearly 200 years, Secretary of State John Kerry declared the era of the Monroe Doctrine over. Despite the statement, it appears that business as usual continues for the Pentagon and its corrupt allies in Honduras and Guatemala. As record numbers of Central American refugees and immigrants are detained at the border, the media and policymakers need to take a hard look and admit that these children are the progeny of past and current armed conflicts funded by U.S. taxpayers. If the U.S. is actually going to treat the root causes of Central American migration, the conspiratorial right-wing blame on DACA must be dismissed, and the Pentagon's standard alarmist and racist proclivity towards further militarization must be ignored. Honest, bold, and research-based reevaluations of the Drug War and overall foreign policy towards the region must first be conducted and implemented for conditions in Central America to improve any time soon.
Arturo J. Viscarra is a child of the Monroe Doctrine who migrated to the U.S. from El Salvador during the civil war. He is an immigration attorney and the Advocacy Coordinator for School of the Americas Watch (SOA Watch): www.soaw.org.
Michael Prentice is a student at Vassar College interning for SOA Watch. Join Michael, Arturo, and thousands of others for the 25th SOA Vigil this November, whether or not the police "allow" it to happen: http://soaw.org/november/en/.
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If you are transitioning from chemically relaxed hair, you have to choose whether to do a big chop and cut off all the permanently straightened hair, or wear your hair in braids or other styles that conceal the dramatic contrast in texture.
Even if you are simply growing out your natural locks, you will have to pay more attention to the way you moisturize and style your hair to avoid breakage and to allow your hair to grow healthily.
Stop all chemical treatments. The first step to transitioning to natural hair is to stop chemically relaxing or treating your hair. This will allow your hair to begin growing with its natural texture, though the hair that you have already chemically relaxed will be permanently straightened.
Do a big chop. The easiest way to transition to natural hair is to cut off all chemically relaxed hair. This will help you avoid that abrupt change in textures between the relaxed hair and your natural hair growing in. However, doing a big chop will mean sacrificing length and getting a short cut to remove the relaxed hair.
Wear a weave as you transition. If you want to grow out your natural hair but don't want to sacrifice your length, you can get a weave or hair extensions as you wait for your hair to grow. The weave will conceal the radical change in your hair texture and give you the long hair that you want. When your natural hair has grown to your desired length, you can remove the weave, chop off the relaxed hair, and continue growing out your natural hair.
Wear your hair in protective styles as you transition. To conceal the transition between your straightened hair and natural hair, you can also wear your hair in braids, cornrows, or other protective styles until your hair has grown long enough that you feel comfortable cutting off the relaxed hair. These hairstyles have the advantage of being low maintenance while still maintaining the length of your hair.
Shampoo your hair once a week. Because African hair is drier and more brittle than Asian or Caucasian hair, washing more than once or twice a week can zap the hair of the oils it needs and cause breakage. You don't need to worry about your hair looking oily or greasy, as this won't be a problem as long as you do a weekly wash.
Condition hair after shampooing. Always use conditioner each time you shampoo your hair. Conditioner will restore moisture to your hair and helps protect it from breaking. Make sure to heavily condition the ends of your hair, which are the oldest and most fragile sections of your hair.
Co-wash your hair between washes. If you are an athlete or sweat regularly, you may feel the need to wash your hair more than once a week to remove sweat or other buildup. Instead of using a shampoo, substitute a conditioner when you wash your hair. Use the conditioner as you would a shampoo, rubbing it into your scalp and through the lengths of your hair.
Deep-condition your hair once a week. Deep conditioning is critical to healthy natural hair, especially if you are transitioning from relaxed hair. Apply a water-based deep conditioner while your hair is still wet after getting out of the shower on days that you shampoo. Divide your hair into sections to make it more manageable and spread the deep conditioner from the roots of your hair to the ends.
Use a leave-in moisturizer daily. Because African hair is quite dry and prone to breakage, it's essential to moisturize daily on top of your weekly deep conditioning treatments. Purchase a leave-in moisturizer, trying to find product that is lightweight and won't weigh your hair down, but is still heavily moisturizing. Begin your morning styling routine by wetting your hair using a spray bottle of water, then applying the leave-in conditioner according to its packaging.
Seal your hair with oil or butter. After you apply the leave-in moisturizer, spray your hair with an oil-based spray to seal in the leave-in moisturizer. You can also simply rub coconut oil, castor oil, shea butter, or your prefered oil or butter into your hair, focusing at the tips.
Limit heat styling. Heat tools like straightening irons or blowdryers damage your natural hair, so it's best to limit your use or stop all together, especially if you are transitioning to natural hair. Your hair will be especially fragile if you have not cut off the relaxed ends, and you want to give your newly growing natural hair a healthy start.
If you need to use heat, try to reduce it to only two to three times a month. Spray your hair with heat protective spray beforehand, and use the lowest heat settings possible that is still effective. Try to use a ceramic or tourmaline-ceramic flat iron, which does less damage to your hair.
Untangle knots when they form. If you notice knots in your hair, don't wait until after a shower to untangle them. Instead, dampen the section of hair in the sink or using a spray bottle of water, apply conditioner and oil directly to the knot, and ease it apart with your fingers. Then use a wide-toothed comb to fully undo the knot.
Comb hair only when damp. Combing dry natural hair causes excessive breakage, so comb your hair directly after showering while the hair is drying. Apply a small amount of leave-in conditioner or moisturizer and use a wide-toothed comb to gently comb your hair, starting at the tips and working your way up to the roots.
Wear protective styles. Protective styles get their name because they keep your hair in place, minimize friction that can damage your hair, and require minimum handling so that the chances of breakage are less. Examples of protective styles include braids, cornrows, bantu knots and twists. You can keep these styles in for a few weeks up to two months before they need to be taken down.
Be gentle when styling your hair. When you are putting your hair up in a bun or ponytail, or getting it styled in protective styles, make sure not to pull too hard on the "edges" of your hair, or the hair around your temples and at the nape of your neck. The hair in these areas is finer and more delicate and can easily get broken or ripped out.
Change up your hairstyles. While it may be tempting to wear your hair in a bun or ponytail every day, or keep in protective styles longer than two months, doing so is bad for your hair. Be sure to take out your protective styles or weaved-in hair after a month or two, and vary up your hairstyles so that you are not doing a style that tugs at the same part of your hair. Doing so will minimize breakage and give your hair a rest.