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Back Workers at Weetabix : No to fire and rehire – Willie Howard, Unite the Union organiser
12th November 2021 26th November 2021 UniteLeave a Comment on Back Workers at Weetabix : No to fire and rehire – Willie Howard, Unite the Union organiser
"The story of this dispute is not just about a local spat between workers and management in two East Midlands factories, it is a story of corporate greed & a business model predicated on the acquisition of assets."
By Willie Howard, Unite the Union organiser.
In what is fast-becoming one of Britain's most prominent industrial disputes, 70 plant engineers working for Weetabix are currently entering their eighth week of strike action at both the company's Northamptonshire plants. These Unite members who have worked throughout the pandemic are fighting back against attempts by the company to 'fire and rehire' them on terms and conditions that would leave some of them up to £5000 a year worse off. While Weetabix is at pains to publicly stress this isn't a case of 'fire and rehire', their own proposals directly stated their intention to "terminate and re-engage" staff. On top of this direct attack on workers' remuneration, engineers would also face new working practices involving lone working at night which they believe presents a health and safety risk.
This raises the question as to why Weetabix is seeking to implement these cuts to workers' take home. The stark reality of the situation is that there is no legitimate business case for these attacks whatsoever. Weetabix as a stand-alone company is immensely profitable and conversely to many other businesses, it saw its profits skyrocket throughout the Pandemic. Profits jumped by 18% in the year 2020, up from 9% the year before that. Likewise, they have posted profits of over £80m as a result of increased amounts of people having breakfast at home as a result of lockdown and home-working. The sheer scale of profits become even more eye-watering when we consider Weetabix's parent company – Post Holdings, a huge multinational conglomerate based in St Louis in the USA. Post Holdings' investors range from investment banks to hedge funds and last year they posted net profits of well over $200m. Interestingly, Post Holdings is in turn owned by a parent company registered in the Cayman Islands. Readers can deduce for themselves the reasons behind this.
The story of this dispute is not just about a local spat between workers and management in two East Midlands factories, it is a story of corporate greed and a business model predicated on the acquisition of assets, driving profit at any cost and tossing people on the scrapheap whenever it's convenient to do so. While Weetabix likes to play up its status as a 'British heritage brand' who sponsors sports teams; it is now presiding over a process whereby money is being actively sucked out of working class communities in the towns of Burton Latimer and Corby and then decanted into the bank accounts of oligarchs based abroad.
It should also be stressed that Weetabix are but the latest in a long and shameful line of companies lining up to use 'Fire and Rehire'. Across Britain we have seen staggering numbers of workers subjected to this practice. Like the Banking Crisis of 2008, the Covid Pandemic has provided an opportunity for swathes of big capital to implement another "shock doctrine", seizing on economic instability and uncertainty to attempt to roll back wages, pensions and other terms and conditions in pursuit of greater profits. In doing this, they have been openly facilitated by the current government. While Fire and Rehire is banned in other countries like France and Ireland, here in the UK we have Conservative MPs deliberately obstructing proposed legislation to even mitigate its use.
While the above may paint a bleak picture, the actions of the Weetabix Engineers have been nothing short of inspiring. They have taken protracted strike action in the face of every union-busting trick in the book and Weetabix are now so desperate for staff they are offering £1000 bonuses for scab workers to undertake shifts. On top of this, Unite has launched a campaign to shine a spotlight on Weetabix' actions. Over 100 protests have taken place outside supermarkets in Britain and Ireland, over 25k people and counting have signed a petition and now the union is planning on escalating this to show the true face behind "The Nation's Favourite".
Unite is backing these workers with its unique strike fund however as Christmas approaches pressure on these workers will be increasing in please get in touch to offer solidarity and financial donations.
Ordinary people have rallied behind the Weetabix workers not only because they recognise the injustice of what's happening, but also because they realise they could well be next. A victory for these workers is a victory for anyone who goes to work on a daily basis to put food on the table. We need to show that there is a movement behind them.
Please donate in support – Strike fund details are Sort Code: 60-83-01, Account Number: 20173975.
Show your support at https://www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/weetabix-no-to-fire-and-rehire
Weetabix wants to snatch £5000 off workers.
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The Spectator's Notes
Charles Moore's Notes: Who benefits from Prince Charles shaking Gerry Adams's hand?
Plus: it was the hunts wot won the election; and obituary battles
Prince Charles shakes hands with Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams (Photo: Getty)
Who benefits from Prince Charles's handshake with Gerry Adams? Not the victims of IRA violence, including the 18 soldiers who died at Warrenpoint on the same day as Lord Mountbatten was murdered. Not the moderate parties in Ireland, north or south, who never blew up anybody and so can get no kudos for pretending to be sorry about it afterwards. Only Adams (who was a senior IRA commander at the time of the killings) and Sinn Fein. His party has thus been relieved of current unpopularity in the Republic caused by long-running rape accusations, and is suddenly made to look good in the run-up to the centenary of the Easter Rising. I gather the bright idea to involve the royal family in this tasteless choreography came from our own Foreign Office. If they sought to build on the Queen's wonderful visit in 2011, they made a category error. She healed wounds between Britain and Ireland. Making life easy for the IRA is not the same thing: indeed, it is the opposite.
It was the hunts wot won it. In these days when political parties have so few active members, the contribution of Vote OK, the pro-hunting group, was crucial to campaigning in numerous marginals. Near us in Hastings and Rye, it did much of the work needed for Amber Rudd to get back in and become Environment Secretary. The same applies to the new Chief Whip, Mark Harper, in the Forest of Dean. This is the third general election in which Vote OK has operated: its methods have become increasingly well-targeted. What it wants, of course, is a change in the Hunting Act, by repeal or possibly by amendment. Will the SNP follow its own principles, and refuse to vote on a measure that applies only to England and Wales? Even if they don't, they would, in logic, vote for the amendment being canvassed, since it is very similar to the law they themselves helped introduce in Scotland. The Scottish measure — unlike the English one, which prescribes a maximum of two 'dogs' for 'exempt hunting' — permits a full pack to be used if hounds flush foxes on to guns. The other question is 'What will David Cameron do?' He has been very steady in his personal support of repeal. His manifesto promises a free vote. The foolish thing would be to permit the vote, but not actively support it, so that the measure falls. The outcome will depend on the 'payroll vote' (ministers and PPSs). Will they be told that this matters to the Prime Minister, or feel free to slide away? The Tory election victory ought to exorcise the idea that hunting is an issue which loses the party votes. It should also revive the rule, unfulfilled for a generation, that the party should reward its best supporters.
'You know what I read first in the papers each morning?' Norman Tebbit said to me many years ago. 'The obituaries. Then I think, "Good, that bastard's dead.'" Even if you are of a more forgiving disposition, obituaries are often the most informative and enjoyable read in a newspaper. I follow the competition closely. The battle is really between the Daily Telegraph and the Times. At one point, I thought the latter was gaining on the former, but now the Times is turning its obituaries into lengthy tributes rather than a cool mixture of fact and assessment. There is too much of the stuff you hear at memorial services. About Andrew Rosenfeld, a businessman who died this year, the 'pull quote' highlighting the piece said, 'He preferred not to drink, but enjoyed the odd cigar', as if this was of interest. The Times now makes a point of giving the name and occupation of every child of the deceased — Gavin is a chartered accountant, Kathy is an events organiser etc. This may sell more copies among family and friends, but it isn't journalism.
The other day, I entered the office of a large company and was asked my name by security. I showed my card because this can be quicker than spelling it. The man on the desk, who was white and British, looked at my first name and asked, 'How do you pronounce that?' Since there is only one known way of pronouncing 'Charles' in English, I wondered if he was illiterate, but decided he could not be, since his job involved looking up lots of names on lists. The only remaining explanation is that common, traditional names have been so widely replaced by things like 'Unique' or 'Stardust', that he simply had not heard it before.
The Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion hands out £1.1 million each year to a holy man or woman and is thus the most valuable prize in the world. Being holy, the unfortunate winner must — though the rules do not state this — give it all away. (One half-hopes that some previously blameless monk will blow the lot on wine, women and cigars.) In St Martin's-in-the-Fields on Monday, we gathered for this year's ceremony. The winner, Jean Vanier, a Canadian, joined the Royal Navy during the war. He left it after a few years, studied theology, and became interested in mental disability. More than 50 years ago, he set up a tiny community in L'Arche, his house near Paris, where the mentally handicapped came to live with him. L'Arche now has 147 houses across the world, and 1,500 support groups. The guiding principle is that the strong need the weak. 'May those who are disabled, and those who think they are not, help each other', is how Vanier's sister, Thérèse, put it. Vanier is a big, impressive, gentle man. He has an unusual way of speaking which is like the waves of the sea. Rather than moving in a linear way, he repeats himself with variations and developments — big waves and small ones, surprising splashes of humour, constant movement, reaching his audience from something vast. 'Out of the deep have I called unto thee, O Lord.'
The only silly thing about this moving occasion was that the invitation said 'Business attire required'. Vanier has spent his life among people unfamiliar with the phrase and effectively excluded by the concept. He wore his usual plaid shirt and fisherman's jacket. Come to think of it, that is his business attire.
TaggedDisability, Gerry Adams, hunting, Jean Vanier, Lord Mountbatten, Obituaries, Prince Charles, sinn fein, Telegraph, Templeton Prize, Theology, Times
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1. The Hunting Bill was passed 2. A majority of the population neither want it repealed nor want it talked about any more – they are fed up with something being dragged up every few months which is of interest on the pro side to only a small proportion of the population and on the con side to a majority which just want it put away forever. Replace Hunting with Cock Fighting and Bear baiting and Dog Fighting and it might possibly enter the pro population's heads what is the majority's attitude to it. The hunting pros are viewed by most with abhorrence but they don't seem to be able to get this into their heads. ISIS have got a better image! Flogging a dead horse was never more apt. And if we're talking of votes, as many would never vote Conservative in a million years whilst there is any talk of repeal as there are those few who would vote on the slim chance of it being even discussed again. Move on!
davidshort10
It's comments like this that move me from the Tony Blair position – 'I don't care either way but the Party wants it' – to being pro-huniting and how sick is it to say ISIS, who simultaneously behead multiple numbers of people and film it, have 'a better image' than the hunting pros?
It's called hyperbole and is often used to get a concept over where there is a risk of there being little comprehension – as there might be in this case where pros are coming up with the same arguments again and again – arguments which have been rejected by the majority of the population and which they are fed up to the teeth with hearing. Cameron has an extremely vociferous minority who vote Conservative as that is their only hope of dredging up the hunting issue again – so he has had to make a token gesture. That gesture could well lead to civil unrest and cost an inordinate amount of money and time
AgZarp
Civil unrest over fox-hunting?
As there was prior to the Ban.
blandings
A few goons attacking people isn't civil unrest Margot
dalai guevara
Time to dig out this old gem:
You have been chasing a mere scent
for over a decade now. No fox.
You have been chasing a notion,
the shadow of a fox.
From pretence to pretending.
How sad that your game is now over.
twowolves
Your wrong Margot. I live in the countryside and I'm watching a population explosion amongst Foxes wipe out a whole swathe of other species. Yes there could be culls but there aren't because 1) they cost money 2) the council is full of people like you who think furry predators are cute. The natural predator to the Fox was wiped out by man centuries ago and its our job to maintain the ecology now. Grow up.
But even if you approve of their goings on, hunts are not the answer – so can't really see what you are saying. Perhaps some other way is needed to control foxes, though this is debatable, and perhaps you can suggest something. Have written under Rod Liddle's article how where we used to live the hunts would breed foxes and import them when needed – hardly controlling them. Whether I think they are cute and furry is irrelevant – I don't incidentally – but I do think they are sentient beings and not there to satisfy anyone's blood lust. Calling on me to grow up is pretty well giving up on the argument front. We had foxes near us last year that had been causing some havoc and they were shot and the farmer put extra security in – not been back since and no need for funny clothes nor breeding replacements for anyone's jolly day out!
The fact that you refer to "funny clothes" and using the word "jolly" underlines my impression that you don't give a stuff about hunting per se but dislike it because you perceive it to be something enjoyed by "toffs". In an age where celebrated artists and comedians wear dresses and high heels, I don't see why people shouldn't dress in hunting pink if they wish. Actually, I think it looks rather smart.
And I just do not believe that hunts breed or bred foxes for supply. I just don't. If you can prove me wrong I shall join the League Against Cruel Sports.
Shorne
Foxes don't need any encouragement to breed but secure earths and a ready supply of food assists the process so you get this sort of thing;
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2825555/Hunt-workers-caught-video-feeding-foxes-offal-eggs-bid-boost-population-illegal-hunting.html
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/feb/17/hunting.ruralaffairs
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1341954/Beaufort-Hunt-broke-rules-on-fox-breeding.html
http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/VIDEO-North-Cotswold-hunt-filmed-feeding-foxes/story-24193390-detail/story.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2251957.stm
The 'funny clothes' reminds me of the dress to impress style adopted by ISIS when chopping off heads. I have come across two hunts (yes, hunting foxes) fairly recently and there were a considerable number of almost straw chewing yokels there so I'm not under the impression that hunting is on a par with James Bond at the roulette table – although you seem to be. I used the word jolly sarcastically, there being nothing that most people would view as jolly in hunting. Actually I would agree with you that the hunt can make quite a sight – as long as they're doing drag hunting. If they're after foxes, as the two I saw recently were, then they are a cause of horror to most people.
I'm fully aware that there are plenty of "straw chewing locals" (is this you being sarcastic and daring again?) who support hunting – that's the point. I don't hunt myself but in my corner of Sussex it is very popular across the social spectrum and people from all walks of life follow and enjoy it mounted and on foot.
I remember at the time of the Countryside March a number of commentators were suggesting that it was well-attended only because the squires had instructed their serfs to turn up on pain of losing their tied housing. Interesting outlook.
And do tell – when you see a hunt in full cry, do you stop them to ask if they're chasing a fox or a scent so that you can decide whether to feel inspired or outraged?
Malcolm Stevas
Your continuing conflation of hunting with black-clad Muslim psychopathic religious maniacs is tendentious and grotesque. In a free society, what you assert "the majority" to believe about hunting should not matter a damn, since a tyranny of the majority is as deplorable as that of some individual despot.
Boys, will you pipe down. How do Canadians hunt rabbits? Do they perform hare coursing, rabbiting or beagling even? No, they get a shotgun out.
Now apply this *remarkable* technique (wow! how novel) and go for the English fox if you believe pest control was indicated. End of. Job done. Nature preserved. Animal killed humanely. Tick that box. And God darn it, shut up the idiots who know nothing about anything yet post inconsequential cow poo on these pages.
You must have missed the key thing about this whole, er, "debate": it's about political liberty and the freedom of the individual.
Re your curiously random reference to Canadians and rabbits, I've hunted in Canada a few times: they're relaxed, hospitable, and have a common sense approach to hunting that tends not to include neurotic sentimentality about fluffy bunnies or other critters.
I grew up on a farm and when we had problems with foxes my Dad wanted nothing to do with hunting them with hounds, he and my grandfather ( a one-time gamekeeper) shot them, like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlVHhVdbXzQ watch from about 3.00 (footage may distress some people).
30 or 40 couple of hounds with attendant riders and followers charging about upsetting the stock and churning up crops and taking hours or so to maybe kill one fox, which would be instantly replaced by another one taking over the territory, was and remains the least efficient method of control. The Burns Enquiry into foxhunting which preceded the Act found this to be so. I would add that the League Against Cruel Sports claimed that the Burns Committee had too many members drawn from the Hunting community.
Exactly – and this is what happened near us recently. A farmer had difficulty with a fox and shot it and upped his security. No problems since.
You're just dressing your prejudice as principal, its transparent. "Perhaps some other way is needed" is not a solution and a solution is required.
Sean L
Ludicrous. The number of 'sentient beings' killed by hunting dogs is infinitesimal compared with those slaughtered by the food industry having been reared in atrocious factory farms. To oppose hunting on the grounds of animal welfare is like being against armed violence while banning catapults.
So it's ludicrous to say that the hunts are controlling foxes if they're only killing one a year or such. As for factory farming etc – since when did two wrongs make a right. Wouldn't imagine there were many bears killed in bear baiting so maybe you should call for its return in the name of 'freedom' – it must have been popular with a lot of people.
But hunting isn't wrong, that's my point; whereas factory farming is. I've yet to hear anyone talk of bear baiting in the name of anything other than you…
In2minds
Who benefits from the Chuck and Gerry handshake, equal blame here?
Certainly not Jean McConville's children.
Diggery Whiggery
Peace benefits apparently. I hope Charles washed his hands afterwards.
Its mutual remember he was Commander in Chief of the Para's who murdered their own citizens in Derry and Belfast. The British State also were complicit in the murder of the solicitor Pat Finucane who was a close friend of Adams.
The reality is like the other protagonists the British state cannot claim any morality in that dirty colonial conflict.
WFB56
The Foreign Office once again proves that it is not fit for purpose. Whether in Ireland, Iraq or in downplaying the Commonwealth while praising the EU.
it was the hunts wot won the election if you replace the H with a C !!!!
justejudexultionis
I and millions of freedom-loving individuals throughout this country are looking forward with great anticipation to the day when the irrational, immoral and anti-democratic institution of monarchy is finally banished from these islands and replaced with the superior system of free republican government on the Swiss, German or American model.
You have a long wait before you, justejudexultionis you ready for it?
John Steadman
Windsor – Adams – obscenity.
Dealing with the Irish question appropriately could, constitutionally, affect its Westlothian counterpart which is of course, ultimately, an English one.
The right take on the handshake, Mr. Moore, but not on the outcome of the election.
Callipygian
Charles should have said what his heart no doubt counselled: 'No, I won't do it'.
mikewaller
Moore takes one-eyedness to a new level. He has a point of view and nothing else counts. Regarding Prince Charles and former members of the IRA, an intelligent person could spend pages considering the pros and cons. For example, when I was a school we told with some pride of transformation of General Jan Smuts from Boer guerrilla into pillar of the British Empire. Regarding the final phase of his guerrilla career, Wikipedia has this to say:
"To end the conflict, Smuts sought to take a major target, the copper-mining town of Okiep. With a full assault impossible, Smuts packed a train full of explosives, and tried to push it downhill, into the town, where it would bring the enemy garrison to its knees. Although this failed, Smuts had proven his point: that he would stop at nothing to defeat his enemies."
Had Moore's stance been adopted, the man who commanded British troops in Africa during WW1 and finished up in Churchill's war cabinet in WW2, would, instead have been no more than a social piranha. Of course, I have no such hopes of Adams et al, but it does suggest that one has to be somewhat more reflective in such matters than Moore is capable of.
Abie Vee
18 dead British Soldiers at Warren Point? Bogside Massacre? 27 unarmed civilians shot, 14 killed outright, by out of control rampaging paras.
Now then, you foolish old man, do see where such reactionary tripe as yours as yours gets us? Nowhere. We have no option other than to move on. Well done Charlie Windsor… to the back of the class Moore!
I do not believe Charles has any right to "represent" Britain. We have elected officials to carryout international policy – the unelected Windsors represent only themselves.
Isage000
I'm in the Hastings and Rye constituency and I never heard anything from any pro-hunting group. Not that it would have helped anyway- I voted UKIP because Amber Rudd is too much a tame A list Cameroon sycophant and gullible green, although she has tried to help our fisherman actually catch fish.
On the somewhat related environmental/energy policy madness – my congratulations to Charles Moore for joining the GWPF Board of Trustees, where a vestige of sanity prevails.
Quite_a_good_read
Is now a good time to mention there are no decent photographs of Margaret Thatchers New Biography by Charles Moore

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Q: How to get a mac address from scanning a local network when Firewall is blocking ping For a Security product I am currently writing in Delphi. I am using the below solution to use the ARP table to get MAC-Addresses from devices to detected what is on the network.
How to find MAC addresses from arp -a scan
I just do a range of Ping commands to fill the ARP table and read results from the ARP-table.
However when a Firewall on a machine is blocking Ping. Sometimes the MAC is still exposed in ARP, but not always. What is a better solution to detect all devices on a network and get MAC-Addresses from them?
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
{ ARP-table lists relations between remote IP and remote MAC-address.
 NOTE: these are cached entries;when there is no more network traffic to a
 node, entry is deleted after a few minutes.
}
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
procedure Get_ARPTable( aList: TStrings; aDeviceList : TObjectList<TNetworkDevice>);
var
  lIPNetRow    : TMibIPNetRow;
  lTableSize   : DWORD;
  lNumEntries  : DWORD;
  lErrorCode   : DWORD;
  lIdx         : Integer;
  lPBuf        : PAnsiChar;
  lPhysAddr    : TMACAddress;
  lMacAddr2Str : string;
  ldwAddr      : string;
  ldwType      : string;
  lNewDevice   : TNetworkDevice;
begin
  if not LoadIpHlp then Exit;
  if not Assigned( aList ) then Exit;
  if not Assigned( aDeviceList) then Exit;

  Get_LocalNetworkDevices(aDeviceList);

  aList.Clear;
  lTableSize := 0;
  lErrorCode := GetIPNetTable( Nil, @lTableSize, False );
  //
  if lErrorCode = ERROR_NO_DATA then
  begin
    aList.Add( ' ARP-cache empty.' );
    EXIT;
  end;
  // get table
  GetMem( lPBuf, lTableSize );
  lNumEntries := 0;
  try
  lErrorCode := GetIpNetTable( PTMIBIPNetTable( lPBuf ), @lTableSize, False );
  if lErrorCode = NO_ERROR then
  begin
    lNumEntries := PTMIBIPNetTable( lPBuf )^.dwNumEntries;

    if lNumEntries > 0 then
    begin
      Inc( lPBuf, SizeOf( DWORD ) );
      for lIdx := 1 to lNumEntries do
      begin
        lIPNetRow := PTMIBIPNetRow( lPBuf )^;

        lMacAddr2Str := MacAddr2Str( lIPNetRow.bPhysAddr, lIPNetRow.dwPhysAddrLen );
        lPhysAddr := lIPNetRow.bPhysAddr;
        ldwAddr := IPAddr2StrTrunc(lIPNetRow.dwAddr);
        ldwType := ARPEntryType[lIPNetRow.dwType];

        lNewDevice := SeekDevice(aDeviceList, lMacAddr2Str);

        if Assigned(lNewDevice) then
        begin
          lNewDevice.IP := ldwAddr;
          lNewDevice.IsNew := False;
          lNewDevice.EntryType :=  ARPEntryType[lIPNetRow.dwType];
          if (lNewDevice.EntryType = 'Dynamic') or
             (lNewDevice.EntryType = 'Static') then
                 lNewDevice.SetStamp;
        end
        else
        begin
          lNewDevice := TNetworkDevice.Create;
          lNewDevice.IP := ldwAddr;
          lNewDevice.EntryType  := ARPEntryType[lIPNetRow.dwType];
          lNewDevice.AddOrUpdate(lMacAddr2Str);
          lNewDevice.SetFirstSeen;
          lNewDevice.SetStamp;
          lNewDevice.State := dtRogue;
          lNewDevice.IsNew := True;
          aDeviceList.Add(lNewDevice);
        end;

        with lIPNetRow do
        begin
          aList.Add( Format( '%8x | %12s | %16s| %10s',
                           [dwIndex, MacAddr2Str( bPhysAddr, dwPhysAddrLen ),
                           IPAddr2Str( dwAddr ), ARPEntryType[dwType]
                           ]));
        end;
        Inc( lPBuf, SizeOf( lIPNetRow ) );
      end;
    end
    else
      aList.Add( ' ARP-cache empty.' );
  end
  else
    aList.Add( SysErrorMessage( lErrorCode ) );

  // we _must_ restore Pointer!
  finally
      Dec( lPBuf, SizeOf( DWORD ) + lNumEntries * SizeOf( lIPNetRow ) );
      FreeMem( lPBuf );
  end;
end;

A: To complement ping, you can try to establish a TCP connection on any port, for example port 80 (HTTP). Of course you'll get mostly connection denied but you'll still be able to find an entry in the ARP table.
Depending on the firewall, you may also simply get to response at all. Then you have to try another port. I would suggest 135 (RPC) or 445 or 139 (Both SMB) which should be open is network shares are enabled. Another one in 3389 used by RDP if enabled.
This is practical only if the subnet is small (Class-C, 256 addresses) or medium (Class-B, 16K addresses). Anyway, it would take a lot of time.

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FREE-TO-USE CASH MACHINES UNDER THREAT AS GOVERNMENT IGNORE PLEA FOR HELP
FREE-TO-USE CASH MACHINES UNDER THREAT AS GOVT IGNORE PLEA FOR HELP
Posted on October 02 2019, 10:31 PM
Plaid Cymru MP calls for sufficient mitigation measures to shield rural communities from disproportionate cuts
Plaid Cymru MP for Dwyfor Meirionnydd Liz Saville Roberts has urged the UK's second largest provider of cash machines to protect rural communities, as it moves ahead with plans to axe thousands of free-to-use ATMs including 3 in her constituency.
In a letter to the MP, NoteMachine confirmed plans to convert 3,000 of their 7,000 free-to-use cash machines to pay-to-use, following successive cuts to the LINK interchange fee - the fee paid by banks to ATM providers per cash withdrawal.
NoteMachine says that despite 2 ½ years of urging the UK government to intervene, maintaining free-to-use ATMs has become 'economically unviable'.
Liz Saville Roberts MP, who successfully campaigned to protect several free-to-use cash machines in her constituency, has urged ATM providers to exempt rural areas from future cuts, calling for sufficient mitigation measures to prevent customers from being denied access to cash.
She has also raised specific concerns about access to cash in Harlech, which is one of the areas hardest hit in terms of free ATM provision, distance to the nearest bank branch and poor and unreliable connectivity.
Liz Saville Roberts MP said: 'It is a damning indictment on the Tory government that ATM providers have been put in such a position that they are now left with no choice but to start converting a portion of their machines to pay-to-use.'
'It is the poorest communities and the most vulnerable people that are likely to be impacted the most as a result of this reduction in free access to cash.'
'Whilst customer habits are changing, rural communities still need access to cash, and the loss of free-to-use ATMs will be a big blow for local businesses.'
'Not only is it unfair for people to have to pay to get their own money out, but customers will now be faced with travelling further afield to cashpoints where withdrawals are still free.'
'If our dwindling ATMs face further threats, then many people will be left struggling to access the cash they need - with severe consequences for communities and businesses.'
'Our communities cannot afford to lose more free-to-use cashpoints, which local businesses and people rely on. Harlech is one community in my constituency where access to cash is a pressing concern.'
'With the perennial closure of high street banks, cashpoints have become a necessity for many communities in Dwyfor Meirionnydd and must be safeguarded.'


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package main

import (
	"log"
	"os/exec"
	"runtime"
	"strconv"
	"strings"
)

// GenericPlayer represents most players. The stream URL will be appended to the arguments.
type GenericPlayer struct {
	Name string
	Args []string
}

// Player opens a stream URL in a video player.
type Player interface {
	Open(url string) error
}

var genericPlayers = []GenericPlayer{
	{Name: "VLC", Args: []string{"vlc"}},
	{Name: "MPV", Args: []string{"mpv"}},
	{Name: "MPlayer", Args: []string{"mplayer"}},
}

// Open the given stream in a GenericPlayer.
func (p GenericPlayer) Open(url string) error {
	command := []string{}
	if runtime.GOOS == "darwin" {
		command = []string{"open", "-a"}
	}
	command = append(command, p.Args...)
	command = append(command, url)
	// #nosec
	// It is the user's responsibility to pass the correct arguments to open the url.
	return exec.Command(command[0], command[1:]...).Start()
}

// openPlayer opens a stream using the specified player and port.
func openPlayer(playerName string, port int) {
	var player Player
	for _, genericPlayer := range genericPlayers {
		if strings.EqualFold(genericPlayer.Name, playerName) {
			player = genericPlayer
			break
		}
	}
	if player == nil {
		log.Printf("Player '%s' is not supported. Currently supported players are: %s", playerName, joinPlayerNames())
		return
	}
	log.Printf("Playing in %s", playerName)
	if err := player.Open("http://localhost:" + strconv.Itoa(port)); err != nil {
		log.Printf("Error opening %s: %s\n", playerName, err)
	}
}

// joinPlayerNames returns a list of supported video players ready for display.
func joinPlayerNames() string {
	names := make([]string, len(genericPlayers))
	for i := range genericPlayers {
		names[i] = genericPlayers[i].Name
	}
	return strings.Join(names, ", ")
}


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Инара Нефедова (, в советский период Инара Язеповна Нефедова, урождённая Брумане, ; , Наукшенская волость, Валмиерский уезд — ) — латвийский искусствовед и музейный работник. Заслуженный деятель искусств Латвийской ССР (1980).

Окончила педагогическое училище в Валмиере (1949) и филологический факультет Рижского педагогического института (1959), работала учителем в школах Риги, Валмиеры и Резекне, а также в доме культуры в Сигулде. Затем окончила заочное отделение Латвийской академии художеств по кафедре истории и теории искусства (1965), защитив дипломную работу «Портрет в латвийской живописи» под руководством Эдуарда Клявиньша.

С 1966 года работала в Государственном художественном музее Латвийской ССР, заместитель директора по научной работе, в 1975—1987 гг. директор музея. Под руководством Нефедовой была подготовлена серия выставок искусства Латвии в Венгрии, Румынии, Дании, Швейцарии, Финляндии и других странах, с 1969 г. началась работа по возвращению работ художников латышской эмиграции в художественное пространство Латвии — заслуги Нефедовой в репатриации латвийского искусства высоко оценил Янис Петерс. В 1989 г. выступила одним из инициаторов создания Латвийского фонда культуры.

С 1962 г. публиковала научные и научно-популярные статьи об искусстве Латвии. Автор книг о творчестве Валдиса Калнрозе (1980), Джеммы Скулме (1981, русский перевод 1982), Карлиса Суниньша (1986), Эдгара Илтнера (1988, издательство «Советский художник»), Яниса Бректе (; 2001), автор-составитель альбома «Шедевры латвийской живописи» (1988, текст на английском, русском, латышском и немецком языках), автор текстов к выставочным каталогам Лео Свемпса (1968), Конрада Убанса (1969), Бориса Берзиньша (1973) в Латвийском художественном музее, Майи Табака в Западном Берлине (1979). Член Союза художников Латвийской ССР (1973).

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 Mūžībā devusies mākslas zinātniece Ināra Ņefedova // Latvijas Sabiedriskie Mediji, 6.01.2022.

Искусствоведы Латвии
Музейные работники Латвии
Заслуженные деятели искусств Латвийской ССР
Музейные работники СССР
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The platform was demonstrated last month at IBC and according to the company the solution is now ready for market.
Commenting on the development, Nordija VP of product management Peter Røder Kristensen said: "By replacing the Android TV launcher with your own custom launcher, the pay- TV operator can manage the experience of their specific Android TV solution. This provides more flexibility in placement and management of content, and the user experience as a whole.
"The result is a combination of more customisation, consistent interfaces across legacy devices and AndroidTM devices, recommendation-enabled experiences and a sharpened focus on content discovery and user trends".
Thomas Christensen, CEO at Nordija, added: "We had a successful launch at IBC, and we see this addition to our existing middleware platform as a great opportunity for the operators to build bridge between their existing Live TV and VOD services and the OTT apps that consumers are using on their multiscreen devices. In other words, the operator can stay on HDMI 1 and stay relevant with a one-for-all platform for the big screen".


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BREAKING NEWS: Louth man was 'more than double alcohol limit' court hears
A Louth man who drove his car whilst he was more than double the alcohol limit, crashed into the back of a parked lorry, a court has been told.
Thomas Edward Morley, 30, of Newmarket, admitted driving with excess alcohol when he
appeared at Skegness Magistrates Court.
The court was told that police were called to a vehicle collision in Legbourne Road at 11am on April 16 where they found Morley's Renault Clio wedged underneath the rear of a lorry.
After a positive breath test, Morley was arrested and provided a sample of breath and gave a
reading of 74 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35.
He told police he had been drinking since 3pm the previous day and had consumed 14 cans of
cider, then fallen asleep and when he had woken up had decided to drive to his parents' home.
He said the lorry was parked on his nearside and he thought he could pass it but changed his mind because of an oncoming vehicle and crashed into it.
"I realise now it was a foolish error of judgement," he told the magistrates.
Morley was fined £250 and ordered to pay £260 in costs and charges.
He was also disqualified from driving for 18 months but was offered the drink drivers'
rehabilitation course which would reduce the period of disqualification by four months.
Man linked to burglary and assault may have fled to Lincolnshire say police


Kakadu National Park - Crocodiles.
There are a number of safety-related aspects of travelling in Kakadu National Park: crocodiles, disease-carrying insects, large feral animals, dehydration, and what to do if a member of your group gets injured or lost.
External Link On Crocodiles, Swimming in pools and gorges, Disease-carrying insects, Large feral animals, Dehydration, Lost or injured group members, Wildfires, Flash flooding, Emergency telephone numbers.
Northern Australia is crocodile country. Therefore it is important to put awareness of crocodiles and safety at the top of your priority list when living in, working in or simply visiting crocodile habitat. Living with crocodiles is not difficult so long as you bear the following points in mind.
• Always be aware that crocodiles may be present anywhere that there is water.
• Unless there is clear signage that it is safe to swim, assume that crocodiles may be present.
• Warning signs are there for your benefit! Ignoring them is foolish.
• Always check with local authorities and rangers whether an area is likely to contain crocodiles.
• If in doubt, always swim in designated swimming areas only.
• If there's no sign, don't go swimming.
• A spotlight or LED head-torch is strongly recommended at night so that any eyeshines can be seen, but a lack of eyeshines does not mean that it's safe to swim - crocodiles may be underwater.
Swimming in Kakadu will pose a threat from Crocodiles in the Northern Territory. Though please check with the National Parks Headquaters in Darwin, Tourism Top End, Bowali Visitors Centre on the way through to Kakadu and always look for and heed any warning signs including Crocodile warning signs. Often there are friendly rangers at the bigger falls, tourist information centres and government websites for more accurate infomation. See more on swimming below.
Are there certain times of the yea r that I can't swim?
How can you identify if a water-hole is safe to swim in?
Salt and freshwater crocodiles are found in most Top End billabongs and rivers, and are occasionally seen on remote beaches. The accessible rivers and billabongs are generally sign-posted if saltwater crocodiles are known to inhabit the area, but if you are not sure, don't swim. Swim only where recommended and always observe and read the crocodile warning signs.
Aren't swimming spots hard to get to or only acesible as part of a tour?


24 x 14 Indoor/Outdoor pillow with poly-down super soft insert.
The "Beach Project" is a collection of pillows, textiles and home decor items. This collection is a collaboration between textile designer Amanda Johnson and photographer James Knill. All of the images used in this collection are photographs that James Knill has taken of Florida beaches. Amanda uses these photos and designs them into contemporary colorful fabrics that are then turned into specialty indoor/outdoor pillows and decor items.


In July 2019 I will once again be bringing an amazing group on a life changing YOGA RETREAT.
Tara McCabe ( a fellow yogini and instructor ) and I have guided retreats together in Bali , Greece, and Morocco. I could not be more happy to travel to THAILAND and share this experience with her and 20 fantastic students.
Our Retreat begins July 15th in beautiful KOH SAMUI THAILAND, where we will spend 5 nights at Vikasa Retreat center, an amazing cliff side beach front location with 3 yoga shalas, an organic restaurant, spa , and private beach Bungalows.
We will then travel by ferry to a more secluded location on the beautiful island of KOPANANG THAILAND, where we will stay 5 nights in traditional Thai Bungalows at the Healing Sanctuary Retreat center.
See and experience All THAILAND has to offer on our excursions to beautiful waterfalls and cultural sights .
Make new friends , laugh , and FEEL ALIVE !
I am so excited to be showing new artwork at Salt Key West along side my dear friend and amazing artist Lenny Addorisio.
Happy New Year! Another journey around the sun completed. Another 12 months. Another 4 seasons, from the dark cold of winter to the fresh liveliness of spring. Another 52 weeks. Another 365 days from sunrise to sunset.
As we complete this cycle and reflect on the year past, it becomes clear that we too are part of this Cosmic Circle.
There have been moments when we felt the darkness of winter and there have been moments when we have been newly inspired and alive like the rising of the sun. This is all part of our path on THE JOURNEY INTO THE GREAT ROUND, a cycle of personal growth. Discover your place on this journey.
On January 27th I will be teaching THE JOURNEY INTO THE GREAT ROUND, a workshops, at Shakti yoga Key west .


The record of this Japanese oil concession in Northern Sakhalin is most instructive because it features a multitude of extremely interesting details and circumstances understanding the essence of which is vital at the current stage of Russian-Japanese economic relations in the oil and gas sector.
Even before the 1917 Revolt, the Russian government had tried to draw British capital into the development of the Sakhalin oil fields discovered by then. Preference was given precisely to British rather than Japanese capital (after the Russo-Japanese war the southern part of Sakhalin had been taken over by Japan). According to Dr. Vladimir Kostornichenko, the Russian government was wary, not without reason, of its Far Eastern neighbor's expansionist encroachments in that region. Starting with 1909, the British-owned Sakhalin Oil and Coal Company repeatedly arranged prospecting and drilling expeditions which cost it up to a million rubles. The expeditions established the presence of a 400-verst-long oil-bearing area in Northern Sakhalin (1 verst is equal to 0.6629 mile or 1.067 km).
In May 1914, a preliminary agreement on oil production in Sakhalin was reached with two British oil companies: W. Peerson's company and Vickers Petroleum. At the end of 1916, however, the former gave up the project, and in May 1917, the latter followed suit.
In 1918, Japan's Kuhara company signed an agreement with Russia's industrial group of O. Stakheyev & Co. and sent a prospecting party to Northern Sakhalin.
In July 1920, Japanese troops occupied Northern Sakhalin. In the same year, the Japanese got down to drilling oil wells in the Katangli area, and in 1921, in the Okha area. The Okha wells started producing in 1923, and the Katangli ones, only as late as in 1932-1933.
Apprehensive of Japan's getting stronger, the United States formally declared against the Japanese occupation of Northern Sakhalin and insisted that it should revert to Russia. Although the Far Eastern Republic officially assumed political control over Northern Sakhalin, Japanese troops remained there. In 1921, the Far Eastern Republic entered into negotiations with the U.S. Sinclair Oil company on the development of Northern Sakhalin's oil-bearing areas. The Soviet government commented on the concession project as follows: "A clash of American and Japanese interests in the Far East is good for us politically."
Upon the Far Eastern Republic's accession to Russia, Moscow confirmed the agreement with the Americans on January 26, 1923. However, Sinclair Oil could not go ahead with the development of the local oil fields owing to the presence of Japanese troops in Northern Sakhalin. The Japanese pumped out Sakhalin oil without the Soviet government's permission and without paying it any money. On the larger Okha oil fields, the Japanese recovered 12,170 tons in 1924 alone. In 1924 Japan agreed, in principle, to withdraw its troops from Northern Sakhalin but only on condition that a concession for the production of Sakhalin oil be granted to it.
The USSR and Japan signed a convention on the establishment of diplomatic relations on January 20, 1923 in Beijing, China. Along with other matters, the document provided for granting Japanese companies concessions to produce oil and coal in Northern Sakhalin. An agreement was signed on December 14, 1925, granting an oil concession to a newly-established Japanese company which came to be known, since 1927, as Kita Karafuta Seki Kabusiki Kayasya (the Joint Stock Oil Company of Northern Sakhalin (JSOCNS)). The list of the company's shareholders featured major Japanese companies like Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Okura Kochyo, Nihon Sekyo, and Kuhara.
Concessions to develop the explored oil fields were granted for the term of 45 years, and to prospect for new ones, 11 years. Japanese concessionaires had to pay an annual rent constituting 4% of production worth. Besides, share deductions to the budget amounted to 5% of the original 30,000 tons, the charge growing by a quarter percent per each extra 10,000 tons. Upon the attainment of the 230,000 tons production level and over the concessionaries had to pay the USSR government a fixed 15% rent. Share deductions from the worth of oil coming from flowing wells (from 15 to 45%, depending on the volume of production) and of natural gas produced (from 10 to 35%, depending on the gas fractions content) were agreed upon separately. Moreover, a land tax was charged in the amount of 3.84% of overall recovery. The financial obligations provided for by the agreement were in line with standard world practice at the time.
Admiral Nakasato, who represented the interests of the Japanese Navy, then No.1 consumer of Sakhalin oil, was the first director of the Japanese concession company.
Later, throughout the 1930s, JSOCNS maintained close contacts with Japan's Naval Ministry. The company's executives and most of its personnel were picked up from among Japanese seamen.
The Japanese company Kita Karafuta Seki Kabusiki Kayasya operating in Northern Sakhalin produced 30,000 tons of oil in 1926; 70,000 tons in 1927; 133,000 tons in 1928; and 150,000 tons in 1929. Northern Sakhalin oil constituted about 13% of Japan's overall oil consumption. Nevertheless, that oil was of much importance for Japan's Navy, above all.
To quote L. Denny, an American oil policy analyst of the time, Sakhalin as the principal supply source of the Japanese Navy is plotted on world powers' maps as a major attack target or defense objective in any future naval war that may break out in the Pacific Ocean.
Under the concession agreement, the eight oil fields, explored by then, were arranged checkerwise, with half of the fields leased to the Japanese and the other half kept by the USSR. Ivan Strizhov, senior director for the oil industry under the Supreme Council of the National Economy (VSNKh), was of the opinion that it would have been better to simply lease out four fields and warned that the Japanese could siphon oil off from neighboring fields.
Initially, oil in Northern Sakhalin was produced by the Japanese only but as early as in 1926 the Sakhalinneft Trust was established and in 1927 the USSR's own oil production got off to a good start.
In 1928, the Japanese concession company produced 106,631 tons of oil in Sakhalin, and Russia's Sakhalinneft, 296 tons (in 1927/28). In 1932, the Soviet company produced 188,889 tons, and the Japanese concessionaires, 185,435 tons.
The Soviet government invested quite heavily in Sakhalinneft which accounted for the following shares of the total investments in the USSR's oil industry: 1927/28-0.3%, 1928/29-2.1%, 1930-2.5%, 1931-3.2%, 1932-4.4%.
Sakhalinneft's share in investments was considerably in excess of its share in oil production. There were political as well as economic reasons for such attention to Northern Sakhalin.
In 1928, Japan granted the Soviet Union a loan for the development of Sakhalin oil fields against import purchases of drilling equipment, pipes, etc. The loan was repaid in the supplies of Sakhalinneft-produced oil for the Japanese Naval Ministry. Imported equipment helped step up oil production efficiency appreciably.
Sakhalinneft's oil production kept growing thereafter, as illustrated by the table below, but the share of Northern Sakhalin in the USSR's total oil production remained small.
In September 1932, oil flowing was induced in Sakhalin for the first time, but the amount of cheap free-flowing oil was small. It cost the Sakhalinneft Trust 31.65 rubles to produce a ton of oil which was five times the national average oil production cost (6.35 rubles a ton).
Japan's oil exports in 1934-1938 were as follows: 1934 - 240,400 tons, 1935 - 174,600 tons, 1936 - 166,400 tons, 1937 - 216,300 tons, 1938 - 161,200 tons.
After 1934, oil exports began to diminish and dwindled to one-third by 1938. That was due to mounting tensions between the USSR and Japan culminating in armed clashes outside Lake Khasan. In 1938, oil exports – and Japan's oil production – declined sharply.
The Kita Karafuta company had planned to produce 243,600 tons of oil in 1938 but its actual production turned out to be about 60% the target figure.
The Soviet government was undoubtedly aware of the fact that the concession was managed by the Japanese military.
In the summer of 1938, Vice-Admiral Masazo Sakonji, ex-President of JSOCNS, arrived in Northern Sakhalin for negotiations with the Soviet side. In the meantime, "a border conflict broke out which compelled the company to cut the negotiations short," the Japan Advertiser newspaper reported on September 16, 1938. The paper pointed out further that in 1938 the company would incur substantial losses owing to deficient oil supplies from Sakhalin.
In 1939, Soviet-Japanese relations remained extremely strained. The summer of that year saw large-scale combat action in the area of the Halhin-Gol river. Naturally, that could not but tell on the functioning of the concession company.
On April 27, 1939, Mr. Nishi, Japan's Charge d'Affaires in Moscow, complained to the People's Commissariat for Foreign Trade (PCFT) about the Japanese oil and coal concession companies in Sakhalin allegedly being interfered with. For its part, the Soviet side stated numerous and repeated violations of the concession agreement and cited facts of fire code violations and neglect for personnel safety arrangements and precautions. The Japanese Charge d'Affaires complained about problems involved in renewing collective bargain agreements with the Soviet citizens – labor union members – who worked in Sakhalin. The Soviet side countered that "no government agencies can mediate in that matter because a labor union is a public organization" and that "because relationships with the concessionaries were governed by private law they were outside the government agencies' terms of reference."
Having cited more violations of the concession agreement by the Japanese, Mr. Semyonov, head of the Concessions Department of the People's Commissariat for Foreign Trade, who had been instructed to make a cross-appeal, wrote: "It is surprising that under the circumstances the Japanese government, instead of censuring concession companies which, by their neglect for mandatory concession agreements, do the Soviet side considerable damage, deem it possible to intercede for the companies and try to shift onto Soviet organizations the blame for the concession companies doing less business and incurring losses as a result. It stands to reason that the concession companies' breach of their commitments threatens the very existence of the concession agreements."
By the year 1939, Japanese concessionaires had operated 211 operating wells in the Okha area yielding a total of 300-320 tons a day, and 32 wells in the Katangli area with an average daily yield of 120-150 tons. That was far short of Japan's requirements. Japanese concessionaires planned to drill 10 exploratory and 49 operating wells in the first quarter of the 1939/40 business year – but never got down to drilling a single exploratory or operating well. Neither did they go ahead with their plans to build oil tanks, narrow-gage railroads, high-voltage transmission lines, oil pipelines, structures, etc.
The Soviet side had its misgivings about the concessionaires' activities, and with good reason, too. In 1938, the Japanese concession company filed a request for goods for its personnel but the PCFT agreed to supply only 40% of the items requested on the grounds that the Japanese side stubbornly refused to submit to the PCFT an inventory of the residue stock found at the concession company's warehouses. In January-February 1939, a PCFT commission inspected 129 Japanese warehouses in Sakhalin revealing substantial food and consumer goods surpluses there. Moreover, items falling into the "prohibited imports" category, such as Berdan rifles, gunpowder, a pair of binoculars, a field telephone set, a wireless set, a telescope and five moonshine stills were discovered.
The 1925 agreement stipulated that foreign nationals could account for 50% of the Japanese concession company's administrative and engineering personnel and for 25% of its unskilled workforce. As of January 1, 1927, 49% of all those employed were Soviet citizens; 47.5%, Japanese; 2.8%, Korean; and 0.6%, Chinese.
As of September 1, 1938, there were 1,092 citizens of the USSR and 967 citizens of Japan on the Sakhalin concession company's payroll.
The Soviet citizens employed by the concession company ran the risk of being accused of spying for Japan.
"It is common knowledge," Dementyev, chief of the NKVD (secret political service) of Checheno-Ingushetia, reported to a regional CPSU conference in May 1937, "that in our oil industry large numbers of workers are recruited every year for Sakhalinneft and for the Japanese concession company in Sakhalin. The Japanese are taking advantage of that as evidenced by the cases of Ionov, Petrachenok and Mishin who have been proved guilty of working for the Japanese intelligence service. Japanese resident spies – Martynenko, Antonov and others – were recruited while in the Sakhalin concession company's employ and then bought over here."
Over 200 Soviet workers of the concession company were arrested in the period of November 1937-April 1938. That got Japanese concessionaires seriously worried because in the spring of 1938 a mass exodus of Soviet workers to the mainland began. The Japanese pointed out that the workers had deliberately stepped down their efficiency – an act described as "defiant" by the Moscow representative of the Japanese concession company in his letter to the PCFT.
But for all that, quite a few Soviet citizens stayed on. As of June 1939, the Japanese concession company in Sakhalin employed 1,288 Soviet citizens and 517 foreigners.
Although Sakhalin oil was important to Japan, its share in the Japanese import was nothing much. Petroleum products output was next to nothing: in April through June 1939, and over the first quarter of the 1939-1940 business year, the Okha refinery processed a mere 200 tons of crude oil into 117.2 tons of fuel oil, 55.2 tons of diesel fuel and 24.3 tons of motor lubes.
Japan imported most of its oil and petroleum products, aviation fuel in particular, from the United States.
Japan's own oil production constituted a mere 272,000 tons in 1929; 275,000 tons in 1935; and 356,000 tons in 1938. In 1936, Japan's own oil production met only 8.9% of its domestic market requirements. The nation imported 3.4 million tons of oil then, with the United States accounting for 2.5 million tons, and the Dutch East Indies company, for 0.45 million tons.
In 1937, the United States exported 43.6 and 3.5 million dollars' worth of oil and petroleum products to Japan proper and to its Kwantung province, respectively. The total worth of Japan's oil and petroleum products import added up to $71.6 million in 1937 and $81 million in 1938. By comparison, 161,200 tons of crude oil worth 6.45 million rubles were shipped to Japan from Sakhalin in 1938.
In the late 1930s, Tokyo-Washington relations deteriorated, which told on trade in petroleum products – aviation fuel, above all.
In July 1939, the U.S. government denounced the trade agreement with Japan that had been in force for 28 years – since July 1911. Article 5 of the agreement prohibited banning the export and import of any goods; within six months of denouncing the agreement, the U.S. government was entitled to ban the export of certain items. Shortly afterwards, an embargo was imposed on the export of aviation fuel to Japan. Its supplies to Japan from the United States went down to a third in 1940 compared with the 1939 figure, and the supplies of crude oil were also reduced substantially.
By the year 1940, Japan imported about 90% of its oil and petroleum products (about 42 million barrels a year). The United States accounted for 66%, and Dutch East Indies, for 26% of Japan's oil import.
The principal sources of petroleum products supplies to Japan were controlled by American, British and Dutch capital. Japan could not reckon either on the Western democracies, or on the Soviet Union.
A desire to have large oil sources of its own was among the factors in putting Japan on the warpath; in selecting the target of its aggression Japan could not but take into account the fact that Dutch East Indies produced much more oil than Sakhalin did at that time.
During the war the Japanese promptly experienced an acute shortage of oil fuel, aviation fuel, in particular, although initially they could, in fact, draw on Dutch East Indies' oil resources.
Japan got East Indies under its control in March 1942. Although destroyed by the allies, East Indies' oil fields were promptly restored; what's more, the Japanese discovered a fabulously rich new oil field in Sumatra. Japan's wartime oil import reached its peak in the first quarter of 1943 only to decline sharply thereafter, first due to the sinking of most of its tankers and then as Tokyo lost its grip on the areas it had previously seized. In 1944, the Japanese began to synthesize fuel from soybeans, peanuts, castor oil seeds, and even from sugar and rice alcohol requisitioned from civilians. In 1945, a campaign was launched to gather pine tree roots as a material to synthesize liquid fuel from. By June 1945, pinewood was processed into artificial oil at a rate of 70,000 barrels a month, but overall gasoline production by this exotic method constituted a mere 3,000 barrels.
The Japanese retained the Sakhalin concession even after World War II had broken out. It was only as late as on March 30, 1944 that a protocol on the return of the Northern Sakhalin oil and coal concession to the Soviet Union was signed. In compensation for the property takeover the USSR undertook to pay Japan five million rubles and, after the war, to supply to that country 50,000 tons of oil a year on common commercial terms over the period of five years. During the war, Sakhalin oil had practically no effect on Japan's military-strategic capability.
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2016-17 Men's Basketball
Matt Lottich
Luke Gore
Associate Head Coach
David Ragland
Jackie Manuel
Chad Warner
Special Assistant to the Head Coach/Recruiting Coordinator
Joel Zimba
Director of Basketball Operations
Derek Bol
Email Jackie.Manuel@valpo.edu
Jackie Manuel joined the Valparaiso University men's basketball coaching staff as an assistant coach in April of 2016.
Manuel comes to Valpo after spending the last four years as an assistant coach under former teammate Wes Miller at UNC Greensboro. Last season, Manuel helped lead the Spartans to their first postseason bid since 2002, as UNCG advanced to the second round of the College Basketball Invitational. Over his four years, five Spartan players earned All-Southern Conference accolades, including a trio of First Team honorees.
Prior to arriving at UNCG, Manuel served one season as an assistant strength and conditioning coach at his alma mater, North Carolina. There, he prepared and assisted with the execution of the strength training workout plan for the men's basketball team while learning the ropes of coaching from Hall of Fame coach Roy Williams. The Tar Heels won 32 games and the ACC regular-season title while advancing to the NCAA Elite Eight in Manuel's season on staff.
Before embarking on his coaching career, Manuel played professionally for five seasons. He spent the 2010-11 season playing for the Miyazaki Shining Suns in Miyazaki, Japan, averaging 18 points per game. Prior to that, he spent four seasons in the NBA Development League, playing for the Erie Bayhawks (the minor league affiliate of the New York Knicks), the Iowa Energy (Chicago Bulls, New Orleans Hornets and Washington Wizards) and the Los Angeles D-Fenders (Los Angeles Lakers).
A 2005 graduate of the University of North Carolina, Manuel earned All-ACC Defensive Team honors in each of his final two seasons. He was a tri-captain for North Carolina's national championship squad in 2005.
Manuel and his wife, Ronda Jae, have two daughters: Ryann and Kameron.