The small print, in a decent sized font actually.
Email Packs means email credits which can be used with an Annual Licence for sending emails via the NewZapp Services. 1 email credit allows for the sending of an email to one recipient.
Email Send Up To Quota means the maximum volume of email You are able to send using a Monthly Licence every month via the NewZapp Services. 1 unit of Send Up to Quota allows for the sending of an email to one recipient.
Email Top Up means email credits which can be used with a NewZapp PAYG account for sending emails via the NewZapp Services. 1 email credit allows for the sending of an email to one recipient.
NewZapp Annual (or Annual Licence) means a NewZapp product which has a 12 month term and is billed annually.
NewZapp Monthly (or Monthly Licence) means a NewZapp product which has a 12 month term and is billed monthly.
NewZapp Subscriber (or simply Subscriber) is an email address that is in the customer's subscriber list. Where the same email address is in more than one group or list it is counted as a subscriber for each group or list. If an email address was in 4 groups it would count as four subscribers.
NewZapp Unlimited – What's an active subscriber. Any unique email address you upload and/or send to during a billing period.
Usage Level means the amount or volume of Messages which you purchase so that we can provide the Services.
Writing (or related expressions) includes but shall not be limited to a reference to email, communications via websites, postal letters, or other similar forms of communication.
1.2. The following terms have the meaning given to them in section 1(1) of the DPA: Data Controller, Data Processor, Personal Data, Processing and Process.
2.1. The NewZapp Services will commence from the NewZapp Services Commencement Date and will continue until terminated in accordance with this Agreement.
3.1. We will maintain a record of your usage of the NewZapp Services.
3.2.2. notify you before you exceed your Usage Level.
3.3. You may increase your Usage Level only by purchasing NewZapp Email Packs or Email Top Ups or by upgrading your NewZapp Account.
3.4.1. Annual Licences (NewZapp accounts with an agreement duration of 1 year and billed on an annual basis) include email packs as detailed on the Order Form. Any unused email packs cannot be carried forward, in full or in part, to a new Annual Licence Period. Usage in excess of the included email packs will require the advance purchase of Extra Email Packs.
3.4.2. Monthly Licences (NewZapp accounts with an agreement duration of 1 year and billed on a monthly basis) use Email Send Up To Quota. If You do not send the full quota in any month the balance cannot be carried forward to a new Monthly Period. No refunds, full or partial, will be given for unused Send Up To Quota under any circumstances. Monthly Periods will not be extended beyond 1 month under any circumstances. Usage in excess of the Email Send Up To Quota will require the advance purchase of Email Overage Credit.
3.4.3.1. Allow for an unlimited volume of emails, or a large volume of emails depending upon the account purchased, to be sent.
3.4.3.2. Having more active subscribers in the account in excess of the account limit requires upgrading to the next account level.
3.4.3.3. A "Fair Usage" policy applies to all Unlimited Accounts. This is to ensure a stable service is delivered to all customers. Customers deemed to be abusing their unlimited account, this being at the sole discretion of DestiNet Limited, will have their account automatically limited pending an investigation, suspended or terminated.
3.4.3.4. Any customers found to be sending excessively large volumes of email which is deemed, by DestiNet Limited, to be spam or non opt-in data will be liable to warnings, additional charges, account suspension and/or account termination.
3.4.4. Pay As You Go Licences (NewZapp accounts with no minimum term agreement) use Email Top Up which need to be purchased as required.
3.4.5. Extra Email Packs can be purchased at any time for use with Annual Licences and do not time expire and can be used at any time as long as you have an active Annual Licence. No refunds, full or partial, will be given for unused Extra Email Packs under any circumstances.
3.4.6. Email Top Up can be purchased at any time for use with Pay As You Go Licences and expire 12 months after purchase. No refunds, full or partial, will be given for unused Email Top Up under any circumstances.
3.5. Our record of your usage is accepted by all parties as being an accurate record of usage.
3.6. All Free Accounts come with 20 sending credits until you have spoken to one of our sales & support team. To qualify for the free 50'000 credits you must be a UK registered company using a business email address. The content of your email campaign maybe checked before the credits are added to ensure it meets with our spam policy. All data relating to your free account will be deleted 30 days after the account was created if a licence is not purchased.
4.1.1.2. in accordance with the Service Levels (if any).
4.1.2. put in place and maintain a reasonable level of security, taking into account electronic security technology from time to time, to prevent and/or detect any breach of external security of the NewZapp Service. For the avoidance of doubt, we will not be responsible for breaches of our internal security by your employees, agents, representatives and/or sub-contractors or by your acts or omissions.
4.2. We will carry out regular data backups of all data held in the NewZapp Services.
4.3. We will provide e-mail and/or telephone support and advice in respect of the NewZapp Services (or any of them) during the hours of 9 am – 5.00 pm (Monday to Friday but excluding bank holidays).
5.1.2. we will send 99% of Messages within two hours of the Scheduled Send Time.
5.2. If the Service Levels are not met then your sole and exclusive remedy will be the remedies set out in the Service Level Agreement.
5.3.2. Scheduled Send Time means the time which you indicate, via the NewZapp Services, that you require us to distribute Messages.
5.3.4. Uptime means that the NewZapp Services will be available to distribute Messages for 99% of the Total Availability Time during any period of 30 days.
5.4. The Scheduled Send Time for a Message must be later than the time at which you have created the Message.
5.5. Once you have created a Message and indicated (using the online tools which we make available to you) the Scheduled Send Time, you will not be able to make any further amendments or changes to the Message.
6.1. All sums specified in this Agreement are exclusive of Value Added Tax which will be payable at the rate and in the manner prescribed by law.
6.2. Subject to clause 6.3.1 and 6.3.4 payment of all amounts invoiced will be made by you, or the Reseller, within 30 days of the date of the invoice.
6.3.3. in respect of all other Charges, in advance of the commencement of the Services to which those Charges relate, and such invoice will be paid immediately.
6.3.4. in respect of Services to be provided in each Monthly Period, on the day of your next monthly billing cycle, and such invoice will be automatically and immediately charged to a valid credit or debit card you have added to your account, unless the Services are purchased from a Reseller, in which case they will be charged to the Reseller.
6.3.5. in respect of Services for Monthly Licences for all remaining months of your Licence Period where you have chosen to terminate your agreement before the expiry of your Licence Period, and you authorise us to charge such invoice(s) to any valid credit or debit card you have added to your account regardless whether you have deactivated such credit or debit card in your account.
6.4. We are not obliged to provide the Services relating to Charges which we have invoiced you, or the Reseller, for until you, or the Reseller, have paid those Charges.
6.5. For the avoidance of doubt any amounts payable in advance will not be refunded if you cease to use the NewZapp Services or purport to terminate this Agreement other than in accordance with its terms.
6.6. All sums not paid when due will accrue interest from the date due until the date paid at the rate of 8% above the base rate for the time being of the HSBC Bank Plc.
6.7. If we hold payment (including credit or debit) card details which you have previously provided to us for the purposes of paying the Charges, you hereby authorise us to use those details to charge to your payment card when due the Charges which are referred to in clause 6.3.1, 6.3.2, 6.3.3 and 6.3.4.
6.8. If you mistakenly pay us more than the invoice amount, make a payment when no payment is due or we automatically charge a payment (including credit or debit) card you have previously entered in to the NewZapp Service but which You have failed to deactivate, for a licence renewal you have failed to cancel in accordance with our terms and conditions we shall be under no obligation to refund any amounts. In the event we do make a refund it will be for an amount less any costs we have incurred in processing the payment(s) and less an administration charge of £45 + VAT.
7.1.2. not use the Services (or any part of them) for illegal or immoral purposes and not do any act or omit to do any act which is or is likely to disrupt or interfere (in anyway) with our provision of our services to others.
7.1.4. ensure that the Content sent using the Services is not contrary to and/or does not infringe any applicable laws, rules, regulations, by-laws, codes of practice and/or third party rights. Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, you will ensure that no part of the Content is or could be interpreted as being obscene, indecent, libellous, pornographic, seditious, offensive, defamatory, threatening, liable to incite racial hatred, discriminatory, menacing, blasphemous, or infringe or breach of any intellectual property rights or are otherwise illegal or contrary to or in breach of any law or third party right.
7.1.5. not use the Services for the purpose of sending unsolicited communication or SPAM of any kind.
7.2.2. we have no control over the Content and it is not our responsibility to, and we do not, monitor the Content. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we reserve the right (at our option) to restrict or prohibit access to the NewZapp Services at any time and/or remove Content from the NewZapp Services and/or terminate and/or suspend the NewZapp Services and this Agreement where we have reason to believe that there is or has been a breach of clause 7.1.4.
8.1. We will (as part of the Services) provide you with a number of pre-designed and pre-installed Templates, unless otherwise specified on the Order Form.
8.2. If in addition to the Templates referred to in clause 8.1 you require any Custom Templates the charges for and specifications for these (if any) are set out in the Order Form.
8.3.2. and solely for the purposes of adding Content to the Templates in order that we can provide the NewZapp Services.
8.4.1. change or otherwise modify any Template without our written permission.
8.4.2. reverse engineer or decompile (if compiled) any Template.
8.4.3. use any Template other than with the NewZapp Services unless otherwise agreed in writing.
8.4.4. (for the avoidance of doubt and without prejudice to the other provisions of this clause) remove from any Template any of our logos, trademarks or copyright notices or other text and/or images supplied by us.
8.5. The Templates contain IPRs belonging to us and/or our licensors, and you have no right to use such IPRs save to the extent set out in this clause 8.
8.6. If you wish to use the template, its design, layout or any of the IPR contained within the template, for any purpose other than with the NewZapp Services, you must obtain written permission from Us. There will be a charge in the event that such permission is granted of £1495 + vat per template or part template. Subject to payment of the charge in 8.6 we will grant to you a non-exclusive, non-transferable (except with written permission from us), non-sub-licensable, worldwide licence to use the template for your own purposes.
9.1. You will provide in a timely manner any request by us for verification of the opt-in details of a subscriber.
9.2. You acknowledge that you are the Data Controller and we are the data processor in respect of any Customer Personal Data.
9.3. We will process the Customer Personal Data only in accordance with your instructions from time to time (which instructions include our obligations under this Agreement).
9.4. We will take reasonable steps to ensure the reliability of all of our employees who have access to the Customer Personal Data.
9.5. You warrant, represent and undertake that our processing of the Customer Personal Data in accordance with this Agreement and your instructions under it will not infringe or breach any rights of any Data Subject or be other than in accordance with the DPA.
9.6.1.2. the nature of the data to be protected.
9.6.2. reasonable steps to ensure compliance with those measures.
9.7. You will indemnify and keep indemnified and defend at your expense us against all costs, claims, damages or expenses incurred by us due to any breach by you of Clause 9.5.
9.8.1. any failure to provide or delay in providing the Services to the extent that any such failure or delay results from an instruction given by you in relation to our Processing of the Customer Personal Data.
9.8.2. any claim brought by a Data Subject arising from any action or omission by us to the extent that such action or omission results from our compliance with your instructions.
10.3.2. you breach this agreement by sending unsolicited communication or SPAM. We reserve the right to terminate your account on the first such report or instance of SPAM being sent from your account. In the event we cancel your account you will not be entitled to any refund of any monies paid to us for the purposes of providing you with the Services (or any of them).
10.3.3. We have reason to believe you are connected by association, common company director, parent or group company to an account we have terminated for a breach of this Agreement. In the event we cancel your account you will not be entitled to any refund of any monies paid to us for the purposes of providing you with the Services (or any of them).
10.3.4. you become insolvent and unable to pay your debts, bankrupt or placed in the hands of a receiver or administrator or wound up.
11.1. In the event of termination of this Agreement for whatever reason all Charges for which an invoice has been issued will become due immediately unless the Charges relate to an invoice for a further Licence period or a further Licence Period beyond the Initial Licence period and for which you have given appropriate written notice. If we hold payment (including credit or debit) card details which you have previously provided to us for the purposes of paying the Charges, you hereby authorise us to use those details to charge to your payment card any Charges which become due upon the termination of this Agreement.
11.2. We will delete all Content and Customer Personal Data within 30 days following any termination of this Agreement.
11.3. If you wish us to provide you with a copy of the Customer Personal Data on or in relation to any termination of this Agreement we will be entitled to make a minimum charge of £125 + VAT for the time spent by us in carrying out this work.
11.4.2. the coming into force or the continuance in force of any provision of this Agreement which is expressly or by implication intended to come into, or continue, in force on or after such expiration or termination.
12.1.4. you should fail to pay any Fee or Additional Charges by the due date.
13.1. The Recipient will not use the Discloser's Confidential Information other than for the purposes of this Agreement and will keep in confidence and not disclose the Discloser's Confidential Information other than to those persons to whom the Confidential Information needs to be disclosed in order to fulfil such purposes.
13.3. The Recipient will make each person to whom it Discloses the Confidential Information aware of the confidential nature of the Confidential Information and will procure that each such person complies with obligations which are in writing and not less strict than those set out in this Agreement.
13.4. The provisions of this clause will survive any termination of this Agreement.
14.1. We will perform the Services using reasonable care and skill. Subject to Clause 5 in the event that we fail to comply with this warranty your sole and exclusive remedy will be that we will either (at our option) re-perform the relevant part of the Services within a reasonable time or refund to you such of the charges as are applicable to the relevant Services.
14.2. We will not be liable for any reduction in the connection speed nor do we warrant the continual, error free, uninterrupted availability of the NewZapp Services.
14.3. All conditions, warranties or terms which are not expressly set out in this Agreement and which might otherwise have effect between the parties or be implied or incorporated into this Agreement or any collateral contract, whether by statute, common law or otherwise, are hereby excluded, including, without limitation, the implied conditions, warranties or other terms as to satisfactory quality and fitness for purpose.
15.1. We do not exclude our Liability for any Liability which may not be limited or excluded by law.
15.2.1. our total Liability to you, and your total Liability to us, will not exceed the amount paid by you to us for the Services during the twelve months (12) prior to the event giving rise to the alleged claim.
15.2.2. we will have no Liability to you in respect of any of the following losses or damage (whether such losses or damage were foreseen, foreseeable, known or otherwise): (a) loss of profits, (b) loss of anticipated savings, (c) loss of business, (d) loss of goodwill, (e) loss of use or downtime, (e) loss of or corruption to data or other information, (f) any indirect, or consequential loss or damage.
15.3. We will not be liable under any circumstances for any delay, error or problem caused by any act or omission by you. We will be entitled to levy Additional Charges for all reasonable costs expenses incurred by us as a consequence of such acts or omissions.
15.4. You will fully indemnify us against any cost, claim, loss or damage incurred by us as a consequence of your breach of this Agreement.
16.1. The waiver by either Party of any breach or failure to enforce any of the terms and conditions of this Agreement at any time will not in any way affect, limit or waive either Party's rights thereafter to enforce and compel strict compliance with every term and condition of this Agreement.
17.1 Unless stated otherwise in the Order Form we will be entitled to indicate in press and publicity materials issued by us that you are a customer of ours, and we will be entitled to include on our website examples of Messages which we have sent in connection with the provision of the NewZapp Services.
18.1.3. forthwith upon receiving confirmation from the receiving Party either by facsimile, e-mail or by post.
19.1. This Agreement will be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the successors and assignees of you and us. We may assign our rights or obligations hereunder at any time.
19.2. We are entitled to subcontract any or all of our obligations under this Agreement.
20.1. This Agreement is governed by the laws of England and Wales and the Parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.
20.2. If one or more provisions of this Agreement are held to be unenforceable under applicable law, the Parties agree to renegotiate such provision in good faith, in order to maintain the economic position enjoyed by each Party as close as possible to that under the provision rendered unenforceable.
21.1. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement of the Parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and all prior agreements with respect thereto are superseded. No amendment or modification hereof will be binding unless in writing and duly executed by both Parties.
22.1. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which will be deemed an original and all of which together will constitute one instrument.
23.1. Except as otherwise expressly stated herein, nothing in this Agreement confers any rights on any person (other than the parties hereto) pursuant to the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.
24.1. We will not be liable for any failure to perform, or delay in performing, our obligations under this Agreement to the extent that such failure or delay is due to the occurrence of any event outside our reasonable control. If any such event continues for a period of greater than two weeks we will be entitled to terminate this Agreement.


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TRAGICALLY HIP, THE - Live At The Roxy [2022] 2LP. NEW
Live at The Roxy was recorded on May 3, 1991, originally for the Westwood One Radio Network. Prior to it's inclusion on the 2021 Road Apples Deluxe package, the full concert had never been officially available and was a much sought-after show for bootleggers and die-hard Hip fans. The 15-song set includes the legendary "Killer Whale Tank" version of "New Orleans is Sinking" and "She Didn't Know".

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As many of you probably know, I've been getting back into drawing lately! I've been trying out lots of new techniques, most of which involve mixing pen & ink with digital editing.
I recently decided to start drawing my characters. In one of my previous posts on character development, I mentioned making Pinterest boards to help develop your characters' aesthetic. For one of my characters, Kelly, I combined a few of the photos on her Pinterest board to create a drawing of her.
I started by drawing her outline in pencil, which I then went over in Micron pens. Then, I scanned it into the computer, and colored it in Gimp (I don't want to pay for Photoshop). I colored it by creating a second layer underneath the outline, and then tracing the outline in the color for that section. For her eyes, I made a layer on top of the outline, and colored in the different sections. The eyes took the longest. Feel free to comment or reach out to me if you'd like more advice on drawing/coloring in Gimp.
Even though my drawing obviously isn't photo-realistic, it was still nice to draw a picture that wasn't a collage on Pinterest, but rather an illustration of solely this character.
So I'd recommend drawing your characters! Especially if, like me, you want to practice drawing a lot lately to get better.


Radio has become my second sound home. I love the airwaves and thanks to the support of 1BTN together with Kate Wildblood I get to share my broadcasting passion with you. A place where I can be the regal radio wonder I hope to be and play the music I love, radio has given me the freedom to share the tunes that make me wiggle and the things that make me giggle. It's become a valued part of my life and one I truly cherish. A part of my life I'd love you to join.
Queenie & Wildblood on 1BTN is where we go regal, indulging in our love of classic and upfront house, disco, broken beats, funk and electronica as we deliver two hours of live radio. With added Queenie and Wildblood Detours, our AtoV vinyl selections (the only vegan friendly crackling you need) and longplayer love. Only on 1BTN. One world, one love, two old lady Djs who should know better. 1BTN.
Contact us here today to send promos, requests, guest mini-mixes and for radio advertising opportunities. Photo by Hannah Sherlock.
Listen again to all of our shows on Mixcloud.


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Tata Group-led consortium to acquire large stake in GMR Airports
Bikrant Kumar Singh 28 March 2019
Tata Group forays into Indian aviation sector with the acquisition of certain stake in GMR Airports. Credit: Yeray Sánchez on Unsplash.
A partnership between Tata Group, Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC and SSG Capital Management, will acquire a 45% stake in GMR Airports, a unit of GMR Infrastructure, for Rs80bn ($1.2bn).
The deal will see the consortium partners pay Rs10bn ($145.13m) as an equity infusion in GMR Airports while the remaining Rs70bn ($1.01bn) will be paid towards the acquisition of its equity shares from the listed entity along with its subsidiary.
Following completion of the transaction, Tata Group will own 20% in the airport unit, while GIC will hold 15% and SSG will own a 10% stake.
The Tata-GIC-SSG consortium clinched the deal, beating Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi, which was also engaged in negotiations with GMR.
"GMR Infrastructure Ltd announces Proposed Investment of Rs80bn ($1.2bn) by TATA Group, GIC and SSG Capital Management in its Airports business."
In a stock exchange filing, GMR Infrastructure said: "GMR Infrastructure Ltd announces Proposed Investment of Rs80bn ($1.2bn) by TATA Group, GIC and SSG Capital Management in its Airports business."
The deal, which also marks Tata Group's foray into the airport business, values GMR Airports at Rs180bn ($2.61bn).
Tata Group, which owns two local airlines, became the latest entrant into the Indian airport sector after Adani Group won bids to operate six local airports last month.
GMR Infrastructure has been offloading assets to pay off liabilities, which stood at $2.9bn at the end of December last year.
GMR Airports manages airports in Hyderabad and Cebu (Philippines), and is developing greenfield airports in Goa (India) and Crete, Greece.
The company has also secured the rights to build a new airport in Goa in 2017 and secured the privatisation contract for the Nagpur airport in October last year. It also secured a contract to develop and operate an airport in Crete, Greece, in 2017.


Be prepared to compete with several other buyers if you decide to make an offer on a home in Sumner County, where inventory is low and demand is high.
Be prepared to get in line with several other buyers if you decide to make an offer on a home in Sumner County, where there is about a two-and-a-half month supply of houses on the market.
That's especially true for affordably price homes listed for less than $250,000, said Realtor Derrick Miller.
"Inventory is short and demand is high. For anything under $250,000, we're getting multiple offers," said Miller, broker with Exit Realty Garden Gate.
"We're getting a lot of people commuting to Nashville and Bowling Green," said Miller.
There were 849 active listings of homes for sale last week in Sumner County across a range of prices. During the month of July, 344 sales were closed, according to data compiled by the Williamson County Association of Realtors, which tracks sales across the region. At that pace, it would take about two and a half months to sell all of the homes currently on the market.
The time some houses spend on the market before being snapped up is measured in days.
Homes in the $250,000 to $300,000 price range were on the market an average of just 19 days before going under contract, said Robin Lyons, affiliate broker for Re/Max Choice Properties in Hendersonville.
"That's pretty quick," she said.
Homes in the $150,000 to $250,000 range can move even faster, said Ed Andrews, managing broker for Exit Real Estate Solutions in Hendersonville.
"Days on the market are non-existent. They are normally pending in a few days," he said.
Growing numbers of buyers are looking on the north side of Sumner County, said Lyons.
"It's (the) availability" of homes, he said.
In addition to existing homes in the under-$300,000 price range, builders are bringing new houses to market across Sumner County. Goodall Homes, for example, offers new homes from $237,000 in the Summerlin subdivision in White House.
Davidson Homes is launching construction of 45 homes in Gallatin's Liberty Creek subdivision. Prices will start in the upper $200,000s. The subdivision is located on Harris Lane off Long Hollow Pike.
In Hendersonville's Berry Hill Villas development, Dalamar is offering new homes beginning at $285,900. The model home is located at 158 Cobbler Circle.
Davidson Homes expects to attract buyers who haven't found something affordable elsewhere in the Nashville region, said President and CEO Adam Davidson. Liberty Creek is the Huntsville-based company's first development in Sumner County. It is also building homes in Wilson and Rutherford counties.


Had a Nerf party and looking for a different twist???
The BoomCo guns are similar to Nerf but the darts fly a little faster and even more accurately. It creates a totally new game play but has the same rush and feel of Nerf!
The BoomCo's darts use a special kind of material on the end which means they stick to only a specific kind of material.
This material is found on small fold-out shields on the guns, on a special breastplate protector that everyone wears, and also on our own targets that are placed around the room.
We have completely different games for our BoomCo sessions making them a whole new experience!
Our BoomCo & Nerf Wars parties start from £150.
We have different packages fom Birthday Packages to Youth Group Packages so drop us an email and let us know your requirements.
We can run our parties in a variety of locations! Check out this interactive map for a list of all the locations we have used in the past!
We haven't discovered all the great halls in Edinburgh yet so if it isn't on the map it doesn't mean it won't work! Let us know and we will have a look!


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How to end Obama's culture of secrecy in just a few lines of code.
By Rosa Brooks
| May 30, 2013, 11:17 PM
George Washington University National Security Archive
Some dilemmas are unresolvable. Into this category, I'd place that old chestnut, "How much government secrecy is compatible with democracy?" There's no "answer" beyond "some, but not too much." Insofar as debates about U.S. drone policy or Justice Department leak investigations are debates about secrecy and democracy, we tend to go round and round in circles without arriving anywhere.
But other dilemmas have relatively straightforward solutions. Take this one: How can we reduce wholly unnecessary government secret-keeping? How can we prevent government documents from being classified when they should be unclassified, or from being classified "top secret" when they should be classified "confidential" — and how can we ensure that classified documents are promptly unclassified when the reasons for their original classification cease to exist? This is a thorny dilemma, but far from unresolvable — and thanks to several recent studies, both governmental and non-governmental, we have a pretty good idea of how to get moving on reforms.
The problem of over-classification isn't new. My first government job was at the State Department, during the waning days of the Clinton administration. During that period, I recall reading top-secret memo after top-secret memo, all signed by the same senior colleague, all dealing with a particular issue.
I'd tell you what the issue was, but then, as we say, I'd have to kill you. Believe me, that's not because revealing it would do the slightest damage to U.S. national security. I'm keeping mum for one reason only: Long ago, I signed a bunch of terrifying papers swearing to give Eric Holder, his predecessors, and his successors my firstborn child if ever I should reveal the contents of a classified document.
Aside from that, there's no reason for secrecy. Suffice it to say that these memos contained no information worthy of a top-secret designation. I was young and naïve, though, so at the time I assumed I must be missing something. I finally worked up the courage to ask my senior colleague directly: "Why," I wondered tentatively, "are all these memos classified top secret? Is this issue more sensitive than meets the eye?"
His response was brisk. "No, not really, but if I don't put 'top secret' on my memos, people will think they're not important, and no one will read them."
Since then, I've seen the same phenomenon over and over. To mix metaphors, classified information is the currency of the realm inside the national security sausage-making machine. Increasingly, it's the only way to be special.
You don't have a security clearance? You're no one. You have a secret-level clearance? I'm sorry, a top-secret clearance is required for you to be part of this meeting. You have a top-secret clearance? Regrettably, this document is part of a compartmented special-access program and you're not read-in. In fact, it's part of a waived, unattributed special access program that only I and four other people know about! Sorry 'bout that.
As the national security bureaucracy has expanded and more and more classified documents are produced, more and more people need security clearances in order to do their jobs. But as more and more people receive security clearances, the iron law of supply and demand kicks in, and the value of clearances goes down.
According to a 2010 Washington Post series on "Top Secret America," an estimated 854,000 people hold top-secret clearances. That's not a very exclusive club: Any secret held by 854,000 people isn't much of a secret. Throw in the people with lower-level clearances and we get up to more than 4 million, or nearly 2 percent of the adult population of the United States. Who let those guys into the club?
As a result, we keep finding new ways to distinguish between levels and types of access, and more and more documents are (often reflexively) given a high classification, even when there's really no secret to keep. The U.S. government's Information Security Oversight Office reported that 92 million decisions to classify information were made in 2011, representing a 20 percent increase in classification decisions from 2010 and a 40 percent increase from 2009.
And as I said, this problem isn't new. An excellent 2011 report by the Brennan Center for Justice offers some choice glimpses into history. By 1956, only a decade and a half after an executive order signed by FDR launched the modern classification system, a DOD panel was already warning that "overclassification has reached serious proportions." In 1970, a Defense Science Board task force reported that "the volume of scientific and technical information that is classified could profitably be decreased by perhaps as much as 90 percent." In 1985, yet another DOD committee concluded sadly that "too much information appears to be classified." In 1994, a joint CIA-DOD commission found that "the classification system… has grown out of control."
Fast-forward to the 9/11 Commission's report, which was every bit as damning: "Current security requirements nurture overclassification and excessive compartmentation of information among agencies." Even more recently, the congressionally established Public Interest Declassification Board (PDIB) concluded, in a November 2012 report, "The system is compromised by over-classification and, not coincidentally, by increasing instances of unauthorized disclosures."
Documents over-classified by U.S. government employees range from the embarrassing and illegal to the merely goofy. According to the Brennan Center report, FBI efforts to "completely discredit" Martin Luther King Jr. "as the leader of the Negro people" were classified, as were government radiation experiments involving human subjects. Ditto, oddly, a 1940s Navy study on sharks attacking human beings. A 2003 report by the National Security Archive notes that during a 1999 declassification review, a CIA employee even redacted a humorous portion of a 1974 memo dealing with a (wholly fictitious) effort by an "organization of uncertain makeup, under the name of 'Group of the Martyr Ebenezer Scrooge,'…to sabotage the annual courier flight of the government of the North Pole. Prime Minister and Chief Courier S. Claus has been notified."
Fictional threats against "S. Claus" notwithstanding, some classified material needs to be kept secret. Even the most ardent WikiLeaks supporter might accept that launch codes for U.S. nuclear weapons don't belong in the public domain, for instance, and the claim that we need to protect "intelligence sources and methods" isn't a frivolous one. Some of the intelligence the United States collects comes from individuals who pass information to us at great personal risk. Even when the information itself has little value to us, revealing that we have it can lead foreign organizations to identi
fy our source — sometimes with lethal consequences.
The problem, of course, is that from the outside there's just no way for a reporter or a citizen to know for sure: Is access to a document restricted because it contains information that, if revealed, could truly harm the nation? Or is access restricted to cover up fraud or stupidity, or simply to make an uninteresting issue seem more important or help a mid-level bureaucrat gain status?
Closely linked to the problem of over-classification is the failure of government officials to declassify documents when the need for secrecy is over. In theory, most classified documents are classified for 10 years or less, after which they are "automatically" declassified. Under a Clinton-era executive order, those exceptional documents classified for longer periods must be "automatically" declassified after 25 years.
But as report after report has demonstrated, "automatic" declassification is usually anything but. Agencies can review documents subject to "automatic" declassification to ensure that they don't fall into any exceptions to declassification, and agencies lack the authority to declassify information initially classified by other agencies. As a result, the "automatic" declassification process can take years. In the era of electronic information, documents of all kinds have proliferated, worsening the backload still more.
But here's some good news: None of these problems is insoluble. To a significant degree, simple technological changes can address both the over-classification and declassification problems.
The trick is to shift the default. At the moment, the default is to over-classify rather than risk under-classifying. Erring on the side of over-classification is perceived as safer — those who inadvertently disclose classified information can lose clearances, jobs, and even their freedom, but those who over-classify face virtually no consequences in the current system. Over-classifying is also easier: In most existing secure email systems, for instance, the system defaults to repeating the highest classification setting of any email in a chain. As a result, even unclassified comments can end up inadvertently being classified.
The Public Interest Declassification Board's report made 14 recommendations for addressing over-classification. Key suggestions included simplifying the multitiered classification hierarchy into only two categories, adding a requirement that classifiers specify the nature of the harm that is likely if particular information is revealed, and requiring classifiers to identify information with only "short-lived" sensitivity (e.g., certain tactical information) and tag it, in advance, for truly automatic declassification without further review once the short-term need for secrecy is over.
Both the 2012 PDIB report and the 2011 Brennan Center report note that much of this can be semi-automated. In our increasingly paperless world, most classification is done using electronic templates. Changing these templates can help shift the default from over-classification to classification to the minimum degree necessary. If, before a document can be finalized, classifiers are required to describe both the specific, identifiable harm likely to result from release of information and the specific harm likely to result from insufficient sharing of information, they're less likely to reflexively over-classify. Similarly, computer-generated documents (or portions of documents) can be tagged for automatic electronic declassification and release once the date specified in the original classification has passed, without the need for cumbersome human review.
I don't mean to suggest that implementing such reforms will be easy. It won't. Antiquated and incompatible agency computer systems, budget restrictions and simple bureaucratic sloth, and passive resistance will plague any reform efforts. But reform is far from impossible, given sufficient political will.
As the PDIB has argued, reform will require high-level White House leadership. President Obama has gotten off to a good start, signing the "Reducing Over-Classification Act of 2010" and issuing several executive orders to the same end. But he could do more, including acting on the PDIB's recommendation that he establish a White House-led Security Classification Reform Steering Committee to oversee implementation of PDIB-suggested reforms.
After all, some information needs to be released if we are to preserve our American values. I mean: Don't we owe it to the world to reveal the sinister 1974 plot against S. Claus and the government of the North Pole?
Rosa Brooks is a law professor at Georgetown University and a senior fellow with the New America/Arizona State University Future of War Project. She served as a counselor to the U.S. defense undersecretary for policy from 2009 to 2011 and previously served as a senior advisor at the U.S. State Department.
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Nikolay Mezhevich, a St. Petersburg professor who heads the Russian Association of Baltic Research, says that "for Russia the [three Baltic] countries should not exist" and that there are no prospects for an improvement in relations because the Baltic regimes can function only as anti-Russian actors.
In an interview with Rubaltic's Aleksandr Nosovich following a conference at the Kant Baltic Federal University in Kaliningrad on relations between Russia and Poland, Mezhevich says that relations with Warsaw while bad now can improve but those with the Baltic countries never can.
Moscow has accused the US of a "gross violation of international law" after being given two days to shut a Russian diplomatic outpost in San Francisco. The departing Russians burnt papers as the clock ticked down. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday that Moscow would "reply with firmness" also that they "needed time to study Washington's directive" and to decide on a response. "We will have a tough response to the things that come totally out of the blue to hurt us and are driven solely by the desire to spoil our relations with the US," Lavrov said in a televised meeting. The measure is the most serious by the US against Russia since 1986, when the two powers expelled dozens of each other's diplomats. US-Russia ties have fallen to their lowest point since the Cold War after the Kremlin's invasion of Crimea in 2014.
A U.S.-based space company ,United Launch Alliance, is expected to confirm plans to buy five previously banned Russian rocket engines by late September, the Kommersant business daily reported. ULA reportedly has been engaged in secret talks for over a year with Russia's Energomash on the purchase of 10 RD-180s. Initial plans to sign a contract were scrapped because of the U.S. presidential campaign, according to Kommersant. Following Russia's annexation of the Crimea in 2014, U.S. banned the use of Russian engines for U.S. military and spy satellite launches after 2019. The ban has been partly lifted given the U.S. space industry's reliance on the RD-180 engines.
WIESBADEN, Germany — The 2nd Cavalry Regiment will begin fielding the first of a new fleet of upgraded Stryker armored combat vehicles next summer, the result of a two-year push to give the unit greater range and firepower in response to concerns about a more assertive Russia. The decision to speed development of the upgraded Strykers was made in 2015, not long after the Russian intervention in the Ukraine. The intervention spurred NATO to enhance its presence along its eastern frontier.
Currently, there are four multinational battle groups in the Baltic states and eastern Poland, including an 800-soldier squadron from the 2nd Cavalry. The regiment is one of only two full-time combat units stationed in Europe.
Finnish President Sauli Niinistö says the development of a common European defense force will require a great deal of patience and time. He nevertheless senses that movement in this direction is already underway.
"EU defense is still a long way off, in terms of an objective. It will require substantial changes in attitude, and long-term advancement towards the goal in small increments," he told Yle in a Saturday morning interview.
"It seems to be the case that Europeans will perhaps slowly have to forsake the notion that NATO and the US provide security, and do something about it themselves. Fortunately, Finland has already made quite a bit of progress in this area," Niinistö said in the interview.
NATO's four multinational battlegroups in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland are finally fully operational. This milestone comes after the Canadian-led battlegroup based at Camp Ādaži in Latvia became the fourth battlegroup to complete its Certification Exercise.
Four multinational battlegroups totaling approximately 4,500 troops have deployed to the Baltic nations and Poland. Canada leads the battlegroup in Latvia, with contributions by Albania, Italy, Poland, Slovenia and Spain. Germany leads the battlegroup in Lithuania, with contributions by Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Norway. The United Kingdom leads the battlegroup in Estonia, with contributions by France. The United States leads the battlegroup in Poland, with contributions by Romania and the UK.
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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- Robby Anderson is a low-key, soft-spoken guy who would rather make noise with his play than his mouth.Well, the rookie wide receiver has been pretty loud on the field lately.Anderson set career highs with six catches for 99 yards in the Jets 23-17 overtime win at San Francisco last Sunday. In the last four games, he leads New York with 263 yards receiving on 15 catches while becoming a key part of the Jets offense.I mean, winning was the most fun part, Anderson said after practice Tuesday. But its been a lot more fun being involved in the offense more.Hes fourth on the team with 34 catches and ranks eighth among rookie wide receivers in team history with 464 yards receiving, with names such as Al Toon, Rob Moore, Wayne Chrebet, Wesley Walker and Keyshawn Johnson ahead of him on the list.Not bad for an undrafted free agent out of Temple who came to training camp as a long shot to make the Jets roster.Anderson is hardly the most imposing guy in the locker room, standing at a gangly 6-foot-3 and 190 pounds. But hes making big plays down the stretch for New York, including a leaping 26-yard catch on a pass from Bryce Petty that helped set up the winning score against San Francisco.I love that, Anderson said. Since I first got my opportunity, I wanted to help the team in any way possible.With Petty starting the final four games of the season, Anderson likely will get plenty more chances at making plays.Hes kind of one of those, as we like to call him in our QB room, a QB-friendly guy, Petty said. When youre running and escaping, he just finds where you are.The two worked together a lot during the preseason, when Anderson led the NFL with 264 yards receiving on 13 catches.The film speaks, Anderson said. Me and him have been connecting and making some big plays. I love being out there with him and playing and contributing.Fellow rookie Juston Burris has been staying patient all season while hoping to get opportunities in the Jets secondary.The fourth-round cornerback out of North Carolina State has just five tackles on defense, but had two of them and a pass defensed against the 49ers while seeing his first real extended playing time in the secondary.I felt comfortable and just trying to get better every day, Burris said. I think thats what Ive been doing in practice. Obviously, I havent been playing as much in the games.He has played in every game this season, but mainly only special teams, where he ranks second on the Jets with six tackles.Against San Francisco, Burris played a season-high 50 of 57 defensive snaps, second among Jets cornerbacks to Darrelle Revis after playing no defensive snaps against Indianapolis the previous game.They gave me an opportunity on Sunday, Burris said, and I just took it and ran with it.Burris played the snaps that backup Darryl Roberts has usually been getting this season.I wanted to take a look at Burris, coach Todd Bowles said. Wed like to see him a little bit more.Buster Skrine is in the concussion protocol and is uncertain to play, especially with a short week. So Burris could be in for lots of action Saturday night against Miami -- a welcome possibility for a guy who played many snaps in training camp and the preseason.I understand whats going on, Burris said. Weve got a lot of guys in front of me, a lot of guys who have experience. I know my role. My role then was special teams. I was just trying to embrace my role and do the best I could on that, and now, my job is to try to help this defense win.Burris says he picks Revis brain on a daily basis, trying to get pointers to improve his game.Hes a guy whos played this position and played it the way I want to play the position, Burris said. Hes been dominant, and thats the way I want to be.New Yorks leaky secondary has been a big issue throughout the season, with the Jets ranking 22nd in passing defense. Revis and Skrine have struggled, and Roberts and Marcus Williams have had their issues at times, too.With Revis no lock to be back next season, Burris -- like Anderson -- could be giving the Jets a glimpse at their future during the final few games.Weve got a lot of depth and a lot of young guys who are hungry and ready to play, Burris said. 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Cheap Nike Vapormax Black .2 billion agreement with Rogers Communications for the leagues broadcast and multimedia rights. The result of the WWE world championship match on Tuesdays episode of SmackDown Live was best summed up by Dean Ambrose in the closing moments of the broadcast.Hes the man who has more victories over?AJ Styles?than John Cena: James Ellsworth!Thats right -- for the second straight week Ellsworth defeated Styles, and he earned this win in a WWE world championship match in Tuesdays main event. Sure, he won by disqualification because Styles wouldnt stop hitting him, which means that because he didnt pin Styles, he didnt walk away with the most unlikely world championship victory in WWE history. But Ellsworths victory proved once again why SmackDown has been so enjoyable since the brand split.Its the land of opportunity, and anything can happen.Tuesdays show opened with a strong video package that cut last weeks SmackDown match down to its bare bones. Styles, the overconfident champion, was made to look every bit the fool, while Ellsworths best moments were cut together (well, some of his only good moments, but still) to give this glorified stunt match a big-fight feel.Imagine what the last three months of Ellsworths life have been like. He made a seemingly one-time appearance on Raw and got destroyed by?Braun Strowman,?but his brief time on the microphone made Ellsworth go somewhat viral. He appeared on Chris Jerichos podcast,?made a handful of independent appearances, then showed up out of the blue to assume the role of Styles tag-team partner when no one would team with him.The Miz?attacked Ellsworth and took his place in that match, but a few weeks later Styles brought him back as a joke of an opponent -- and brought upon himself the headache thats caused Ambrose to be embarrass him in a high-profile way for two straight weeks. Even with Cenas absence since No Mercy, Styles and Ambrose havent skipped a beat, and Ellsworths presence has been the perfect way to carry SmackDowns world title feud along during the long layoff between pay-per-views.The support for Ellsworth has been palpable, from the crowd and even the WWE superstars themselves.?Ambrose took credit for getting Ellsworth a shirt on WWE Shop (which is real, by the way), and that ongoing interaction has helped push Ambrose back toward being a good guy after toeing the line a bit in his interactions with Cena. During his entrance, and at several different points throughout the match, the crowd erupted into Ellsworth chants in the style of Goldberg, along with dueling Lets go Ellsworth and AJ Styles chants.While Ambrose was denied the chance to be guest referee again because of the world title being involved, he was given a list of other options by general manager?Daniel Bryan?-- volunteering to take over timekeeping, ring announcing and several other duties simultaneously.Ambrose had the time of his life making Styles life miserable throughout the match, and it started from the introduction, continued through his ringing of the opening bell about 35 times and throughout the last 20 minutes of the show. He did a promo for the Ellsworths t-shirt on WWE Shop mid-match, with accompanying video, announced a Blue Toyota had its lights on and hawked collectible WWE programs.As much as Ambrose crushed the comedy, Styles deserves an enormous amount of credit for making a match that should have been a 30 second Strowman-esque destruction and telling a 20-minute story in the ring. In between the multiple beatdowns there were some fun spots, including Ellsworth slipping out of a rear chinlock due to his perceived lack of a chin.As its been clear, though, this was all about Ambrose and Styles -- and nowhere was that more clear than when Styles kept tossing Ellsworth out and Ambrose tossed him back, which they repeated at least a dozen times in rapid succession.There had to be one moment where the inevitable outcome was momentarily doubted, and the crowd exploded as Ellsworth pulled Styles off the top rope, causing him to hit his face on the top turnbuckle, and followed it up with a superkick for a two-count that lasted just long enough to make you wonder.Fed up with Ambroses antics, Styles proceeded to beat Ellsworth down with a continuous series of right hands in the corner until the referee had no choice but to disqualify him. Ambrose slid in and laid Styles out with a Dirty Deeds and raised Ellsworths hand in victory, with Ellsworth crumpling into a heap on the mat as soon as he let go.For his part, Styles was every bit the angry and embarrassed champion on Talking Smack, demanding a match with Ambrose next week. Theyve built up a tremendous amount of tension going into that match. Theres also been a significant amount of blowback towards the GM, and Styles spoke clearly to that point in an angry rant on Talking Smack.What kind of ship are you running here? asked Styles. He pointed down to the WWE world championship, which sat on the table in front of them. This is serious business. I had to hurt this man, Styles continued, pointing at Bryans shirt. I had to hurt this man; I had to put him through a lot of pain, and thats on you.This WWE world title feud is still the most compelling rivalry in the WWE today and, on top of it all, theres a real sense of friction building between a babyface general manager and many of the heels on the roster -- a well thats filled to the brim with future stories that should help carry SmackDown through the end of the year and beyond.After the video package and a locker room segment with Ellsworth and Ambrose, the true opening segment of SmackDown once again centered on?Bray Wyatt and Randy Ortons?ongoing rivalry. It felt a little cheesy and familiar as Orton said, The evil inside of Bray Wyatt runs deepeer than I ever thought possible.dddddddddddd Hes torched every last shred of sanity I had left, but in a way I think hes set me free. I am wrath, I am vengeance, and I am coming for you.The lights went out, and this feud got a much-needed shot in the arm as the stakes were raised. An image of a robed and black sheep mask-wearing figure panned to show eight such figures standing over an open casket, with the camera slowly moving down to Wyatt, eyes closed and lying comfortably inside. He insisted he was the one having fun and introduced Luke Harper, who was set to face Orton one-on-one.After a few minutes of action, Wyatts music and lighting hit again as the eight hooded figures carried him, still inside the casket and holding his patented lantern, down the ramp. Coming back from commercial break, Wyatt was hunched over a prone Orton and the casket was pushed up against the ring apron.Harper got a few chances to show just how technically proficient he is in the ring for a big man and, rather than allowing Harper to take a big loss so soon after his return, Wyatt leaped into the ring to attack Orton to bring the match to a premature end at the first sign of trouble. As Wyatt went to put Orton into the casket, he opened the lid and found Kane lying in wait for him there. Just as it looked like Orton had the upper hand, Wyatt and Harper made a magical exit and left Orton and Kane standing there mystified. While the continued involvement of Kane in this scenario is a bit strange, as we dont know the scope of the supernatural powers allegedly in play, but the introduction of the casket opens up a number of possibilities going forward.Hits and missesAlexa Bliss broke out a Freddy Krueger-inspired outfit that she debuted during her time in NXT, just a couple weeks shy of Halloween. Its cool to see some of the women breaking out different versions of in-ring gear, as it makes each match feel a little different and special. Naomi seems to have a slightly (and occasionally radically) different look every week -- and on Raw, Charlotte has begun a collection of ring robes that could someday challenge her fathers incredible collection. The more ways in which the women can find even footing with the male superstars, the clearer the message of giving women a chance rings true.Naomi dominated pre-commercial, including a springboard cross-body and a number of key strikes like her rapid back-and-forth kicks, but Bliss grabbed control during the break with a vicious forearm. Naomi hit a split-legged moonsault, but a return to the top rope that was derailed by Bliss was followed quickly by Twisted Bliss and a victory for the No. 1 contender to the SmackDown womens championship.We should expect more of this kind of showing from Bliss in the lead-up to her title match in Glasgow in three weeks time.Not sure if they are going to the well too much with the perpetually delayed debut of Curt Hawkins (and by the way -- wheres Eva Marie?) but we got as close as weve gotten to his actual match. What happens when we actually get there? Who can say?It took a long, long time to acknowledge it on SmackDown or Raw (though its been clear on Total Divas and now Total Bellas for some time), but using Nikki Bellas?relationship with Cena for a story is a great idea, at least in theory. Giving Carmella a kernel of truth to build upon, as she refuses to walk around on eggshells like everyone else is just close enough to the truth to give her a real purpose in her rivalry with Nikki. Nikkis response rang true too, as she lambasted Carmella, saying, Shame on you, as a woman to take away from my accomplishments because of a man.That the segment didnt descend into physicality like many such segments tend to made it feel more impactful, too. Once these two finally have that one-on-one match, its going to feel like it matters.For the first time in almost two months, The Miz and Dolph Ziggler were relegated to an in-ring showdown midway through the show. It was a solid enough match in the 9 p.m. ET slot, and they still told a great story in the ring on opposite sides of a six-man tag as Ziggler teamed with tag team champions Heath Slater and Rhyno?and Miz brought back The Spirit Squad for another week.Ziggler took the bulk of the damage in the ring throughout the match, and the crowd got what it chanted for over the entirety of the match -- a tag to Slater -- and it looked like the champions team would persevere again. We got a twist on the story, though, as Miz got in a cheap shot and Kenny rolled up Slater for the victory -- a pinfall for the Spirit Squad over the tag-team champions. As JBL pointed out, Kenny is still in tremendous shape, and despite his first WWE run coming to an end almost eight years ago, hes still only 30 years old. Could there be another lengthy tenure in his future?We got more personality in five minutes of Talking Smack than we got in two years worth of out-of-the-ring segments from Zack Ryder and Mojo Rawley. The Hype Bros should be involved in the Survivor Series match, and Ryders ability to still connect with a crowd should serve them well in the infancy of SmackDowns tag team division.Talking Smack also provided a platform for Baron Corbin, who absolutely destroyed Jack Swagger in a two-minute match, to portray just how big of a jerk his character is. Pointing out that he was able to take a shortcut to WWE instead of spending 10 years on the independent scene was a nice touch -- and it was also a direct affront to Bryan, who continues to be the biggest source of ire of late. ' ' '
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Our post today is inspired by a book I spotted at our local library: Sneed B. Collard III's Most Fun Book Ever About Lizards by, you guessed it, Sneed B. Collard III (for a full review, see Wrapped in Foil).
We have many different kinds of lizards here in Arizona. I love how this book starts out with an introduction to "Joe Lizard," a western fence lizard, which is the kind we see in our yard all the time. The author also discusses other lizards common to Arizona, such as Gila monsters, horned lizards and western whiptails.
Whiptails have particularly long and slender tails.
Collared lizards, named for the black band at their neck, are often brightly-colored.
Lizards and other reptiles are ectothermic, which means that their internal body temperature is controlled by the temperature of the environment around them. Another word for this is "cold-blooded," although lizard don't really have cold blood. Lizards move from sun to shade and place to place to keep their temperature in the optimal range.
Children may assume that when the outdoor temperature is 78° F, it is the same temperature everywhere. In fact, many surfaces will be colder or warmer than the air temperature depending on sun exposure and other factors. These differences are called "microclimates."
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Marcopolis presents Indonesia Report focused on topics such as investments, doing business, economy and regional integration, featuring interviews with Indonesia's leaders. The sectors under review in this issue are agriculture, banking, energy, industry, telecom, IT, tourism, logistics and many more.
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Djayadi earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science, Ohio State University, USA.He obtained his MA degree from Ohio University, Athens-Ohio, US. He has been a research fellow at the Kennedy School, Harvard University, director of research at the University of Paramadina, and program officer at the National Democratic Institute (NDI), Jakarta. Besides often invited as a speaker at various seminars and mass media, he wrote several articles for journals and national newspapers.
Djayadi Hanan, CEO of Saifulmujani talks about the main challenges for Indonesia and the economy.
There are three main concerns of Indonesian people based on Saifulmujani's research. Number one is how to control the price of the basic goods. There are nine basic goods in Indonesia, including rice, cooking oil, and transportation costs. Number two is job creation and property reduction. The third one is corruption eradications. The findings of our research have been consistent over time. When you look at what Jokowi is doing, he is basically trying to relate directly to those three problems. In terms of job creation, he knows that the people need jobs. He needs a program that can create jobs immediately, but at the same time, can fix the economy. One choice is like the Marshall Plan in the U.S., because you do not have very good economic environment locally or internationally. People need to be put to work, and making sure that infrastructure projects are really underway is one of the good things. That is something that can be seen directly by the people and makes them happy.
At the same time, Jokowi needs to provide more investment for that. It is very controversial among Indonesian public, especially to one that is not educated enough. It could be a massive political liability for the president, because he can be accused of betraying his own people. HIs campaign runs on the promise that he is in favor of the people. How could you be in favour of the people when you are giving tax amnesty to the rich? Only a very strong leader with a strong and long-term vision, and also with the clear priority agenda on his head, can focus on that issue without being obstructed by controversial issues related to short-term problems.
What makes Indonesia attractive?
Number one, Indonesia is in the process of having a massive infrastructure project which not only requires investment, but also allows the middle and long-term projects to have a longer term contract.
Number two, Indonesia has 254 million people and 17,000 islands. Indonesia needs these massive infrastructures, and then from then on, it will move very fast. Even in the current poor international economic situation, Indonesia still manages to grow on the level of 4.5 until five percent. That shows that investment in Indonesia is not only very beneficial and very profitable in the short-term, but also in the long-term.
One possibly worry of the international investor could be the security and safety in Indonesia. With Jokowi as president, the president's approval rating in terms of managing the security of the country has always been around 80 percent-plus. Indonesia has the political stability especially now that the president has been able to garner support from the majority of the political powers in Indonesia, including from the so-called opposition. If you look at the three opposing political parties, two of them have declared that they are loyal opposition, which means that they are ready to cooperate with the government whenever it is in line with their political platform. This shows that even with the political parties in the opposition, Jokowi has the potential to make gain cooperation.
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Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) allow the user to put money aside without paying income tax on it. This money can be used for medical and dental expenses. Depending on your tax bracket, this way of paying expenses can save you money. There is a catch however. Any money put aside in an FSA and not used is returned to the employer. You lose money that you earned. A common strategy is to use up all of the money in the account by timing dental work at the year's end. That's fine to do, but please don't wait until December!
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The whistle sounds. An Eagle player and sophomore forward and center Joanne Thai reach high for the ball. Thai touches the ball first and passes it off to her teammates, and the Cardinal advantage sticks for the rest of the game. With this lead, the JV girls' basketball team swept the Eagles' defense with a 34–15 victory on Jan. 15 in Battle of the Birds at Kezar and currently stands at a 3–0 season.
The Cards started the game strong with the team utilizing gaps in the Eagles' defense to pass to offense and shoot. The girls had nearly every tip-off covered as freshman guard and forward Katelyn Lee took the next one mid-quarter. Using their offensive strategy and tip-off control, the Lady Cards ended the first quarter with an eight point lead, 8–0.
In the second quarter, players on both teams wrestled for the ball. After the Cardinals gained an 11 point lead, they played heavy defense. Sophomore forward and guard Gabrielle Lau had two straight steals and Lee blocked an Eagle shot. Though the Eagles made two free throws, they struggled to cut the Cardinal lead, and the Cards ended the first half 14–2.
At the beginning of the second half, the Eagles attempted to climb from the bottom of the scoreboard with free throws and came out of the quarter with seven more points. But, the Cardinals maintained their lead. Lee made a convincing fake-out against the Eagles and the Cardinals scored. The girls ended the third quarter 18–9.
The team focused on defense for the final quarter. Sophomore forward and guard Olivia Pan nabbed the first two points of the final quarter to allow the Cardinals to maintain control, but the Eagles turned the tables and earned four points with a free throw and a three-pointer, setting the score at 20–13. However, sophomore guard Elise Ng and sophomore forward and center Nomin Rinchin both responded with three-pointers, and the Lady Cards ran away with the game. A Cardinal steal at the buzzer marked the end of the game and Cardinals were victorious, winning 34–15.
The girls will continue with the season in their next game on Jan. 27 against the John O'Connell Boilermakers at John O'Connell High School at 4 p.m.


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Q: Q: Hoping that my logic is correct for testing integrability of a piecewise function Consider the piecewise function $f$ bounded on $[-1,1]$ given by
$$f(x):=
 \begin{cases}
  1 \text{ if } x>0\\
  0 \text{ if } x\leq0\\
 \end{cases}
$$
Let $P=\left\{-1,-\frac{3}{4},-\frac{1}{2},-\frac{1}{4},0,\frac{1}{4},\frac{1}{2},\frac{3}{4},1\right\}$ be the partition of $[-1,1]$. Then
$$
m_{j}=\inf \left\{f(x):x_{j-1}\leq x\leq x_{j}\right\}=
M_{j}=\sup\left\{f(x):x_{j-1}\leq x\leq x_{j}\right\}=\begin{cases} 1\text{ for } x\in(0,1]\\0 \text{ otherwise } \end{cases}
$$
Then the lower Darboux sum is given by
$$
U(P,f)=\sum_{j=1}^{n} m_{j}\Delta x_{j}=0+0+0+0+1(x_{5}-x_{4})+1(x_{6}-x_{5})+1(x_{7}-x_{6})+1(x_{8}-x_{7})=1(x_{8}-x_{4})=1
$$
Similarly, the upper Darboux sum is given by
$$
U(P,f)=\sum_{j=1}^{n} M_{j}\Delta x_{j}=0+0+0+0+1(x_{5}-x_{4})+1(x_{6}-x_{5})+1(x_{7}-x_{6})+1(x_{8}-x_{7})=1(x_{8}-x_{4})=1
$$
Since both the upper sum and lower sum are bounded, and since the least upper bound and greatest lower bound of the Darboux sums is 1, it follows that the lower Darboux integral and the upper Darboux integral are identically 1. So $f\in\textit{R}[-1,1]$ and $\int_{-1}^{1} f(x)dx=1$

A: This is not quite correct since $\inf \{f(x) \,|\, x_4 \leqslant x \leqslant x_5\}= \inf \{f(x) \,|\, 0 \leqslant x \leqslant 1/4\} = 0$, and we can't conclude that the lower Darboux sum equals the upper Darboux sum for this or any other partition.
However, in the same way we can choose a simpler partition $P_\epsilon=(-1, 0, \epsilon, 1)$ where
$$1- \epsilon = L(P_\epsilon,f) \leqslant U(P_\epsilon,f) = 1$$
Thus, $U(P_\epsilon,f) - L(P_\epsilon,f) < \epsilon$ which immediately proves integrability by the Riemann criterion.
Also, we must have
$$1- \epsilon = L(P_\epsilon,f) \leqslant \sup_P L(P,f) \leqslant \inf_P U(P,f) \leqslant U(P_\epsilon,f) \leqslant 1$$
Since this holds for all $\epsilon >0$, it follows that the upper and lower Darboux integrals both equal $1$, and, hence, the Riemann integral equals $1$.

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2408 - 14 September 2019
Textile Society supports talented student
The Textile Society has run antique and vintage textiles fairs in Manchester for the past 20 years with its annual London event launching in 2009. Proceeds from these 40-plus standholder events help to fund the society's awards and bursaries.
Joan Porter
A postgraduate student at Bath Spa University, Rebecca Bright, is one of this year's winners of the society's student bursaries. She was awarded £500 for her project "that sees a traditional approach to textile design".
Talking to ATG about the Neptune fabric she designed and screen-printed, upholstering the chair herself, Bright said: "I carried out extensive research on 20th century artist-designers, specifically Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Enid Marx, Peggy Angus and Eric Ravilious.
"I love the fact that each of these artists blurred the boundaries between art and design, creating functional art to decorate the home. I find their use of colour, subject matter and drawing style inspirational."
Bright currently works as a freelance textile designer for a London-based textile studio with the aim of building her brand to sell artist-designed textiles for interiors.
The upcoming London Antique and Vintage Textile Fair is at Chelsea Town Hall on Saturday, October 12.
bekibright.com
textilesociety.org.uk
Fairs & Markets (print edition)
Celebration of textile designer Lucienne Day
Bloomsbury Group haven hosts its first textiles fair
Old textiles fuel folk art
Sampler goes back to school
Museum of London to display signature Suffragette quilt


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Water Flowing East and West, a Land Speculating Sheriff and Passover: The Story of Mountain City
Mountain City's history is entwined with a Native American legend and a sheriff who saw the lucrative potential of a railroad.
Our story starts centuries ago in the time of Notla, son of a Cherokee chief, who wanted to marry Hiawassee, daughter of a Catawba chief. Hiawassee's father, who had no love for the Cherokees, told Notla that the Catawba drank the waters of the east (present-day North and South Carolina), while the Cherokee drank the waters of the west (Georgia and Tennessee). If Notla could find where these waters united, then and only then, would he be permitted to wed Hiawassee. The Catawba chief was confident this mysterious place never would be found.
The love-struck Notla went off on this seemingly impossible search. After months of exploration, so the legend goes, he came to a mountain valley containing a pool of water that was acting strangely. From the west end of the pool, the water flowed west. From the pool's east end, the water flowed to the east. Notla realized he had found the spot where the waters were united before running off to the Catawabas in the east and the Cherokees in the west. Though now able to claim Hiawassee as his bride, her father was nevertheless furious at this turn of events. To escape his wrath, the couple fled to an area now known as the town of Hiawassee.
Passover Founded Atop Eastern Continental Divide
Fast forward to 1903 when Sheriff D. W. Johnson of Hart County, Georgia, traveled to Tennessee to return an escaped prisoner. On his way back, he passed through Rabun Gap (not the town of the same name a few miles to the north), a scenic passage through the Blue Ridge Mountains of Rabun County. Said to be taken by the beauty of this place, Johnson acquired approximately 600 acres in the valley. After having the land surveyed into lots, he incorporated the area in 1904.
He called his town Passover. Not to be confused with the sacred Jewish holiday, the name Passover, or Pass Over as the town was initially called, was chosen because people traveling through Rabun Gap passed over the eastern continental divide at nearly 2,000 feet.
Just as Notla witnessed long ago, water on the north side of the continental divide flows west into the Little Tennessee River and then to the Tennessee River, Ohio River and Mississippi River, which empties into the Gulf of Mexico. Water on the south slope of the divide flows east into the Chatooga and Tallulah rivers, the Tugalo River and the Savannah River, before emptying into the Atlantic.
Capitalizing on Tallulah Falls Railroad
When Sheriff Johnson acquired the land in 1903 that became Passover, the Tallulah Falls Railroad was being built northward in stages from Tallulah Falls. It was not until 1906 that the line was extended to Passover before reaching its terminus at Franklin, North Carolina in 1907.
Johnson was more than an admirer of beautiful terrain. He also was a shrewd investor, who was speculating on the coming of the railroad from the outset of his land purchases. With that apparently in mind, he built the Blue Heights Hotel in 1903. It became popular with tourists traveling by horse and buggy. He likely figured business would explode when tourists could make the journey to Passover faster and easier by train.
1906 Land Auction
To take maximum advantage of the railroad, Johnson held a land auction in 1906. A newspaper ad carried a map of Passover, surveyed into approximately 800 lots. Headlined "Big Barbecue, Land Sale at Auction, and a Railroad Celebration at Passover (Rabun Gap) on the New Tallulah Falls Railway (Rabun Gap Route)," the ad extolled the many virtues of Passover. "The construction of the Tallulah Falls Railway through Rabun County (now completed to this point) has opened up one of the most healthful and picturesque spots in all of Georgia, if not the whole South, to those who seek fortune and health. The great forests and mineral wealth of this section are already famous, and the construction of this enterprise opens fields for investments unsurpassed in the whole South. Anyone wishing to invest in these properties can do so without fear of financial loss or pecuniary doubt."
Passover Becomes Mountain City
In a nod to marketing his land, Johnson changed the town's name in 1907. The Georgia legislature's articles of municipal incorporation stated that "the village now known as Passover, located in Rabun Gap, at the highest point of the Tallulah Falls Railroad, in the county of Rabun, be…hereby incorporated under the name and style of the 'Town of Mountain City…' " The document defined the corporate limits of Mountain City as "extending three-quarters of a mile from the center of the railroad, where it passes over the watershed (continental divide) of the Blue Ridge Mountains." Johnson was appointed Mountain City's first mayor.
The new mayor took his own advice about the investment-worthiness of Mountain City. In 1907, he built his second hotel, the 40-room New Rabun Hotel. A newspaper ad said: "Our rates are very low, considering the service: ranging from $12.50 to $25.00 per week and $3.25 to $4.25 daily." Among the hotel's bargain-rate services was a farm-to-table dining experience. "We serve vegetables from our own garden; poultry from our poultry yard; milk from our dairy; and country ham." The ham apparently was sourced from someone else's hogs.
Apples and Clogging
In addition to tourism, Mountain City also benefited from apples, which became a significant business in the 1920s. A packinghouse able to store 20,000 bushels of apples was built in 1933 near the train depot in downtown Mountain City. Given the fact that Rabun County was the moonshine capital of Georgia, there is a strong likelihood that a certain portion of the apple crop was transformed into applejack in stills hidden in the mountain hollows around the town.
During the 1950s and 1960's, Mountain City was best known for its Playhouse, where crowds gathered every Saturday night for traditional Appalachian folk dancing. In addition to clogging, buck dancing and square dancing, locally-distilled liquid refreshments (possibly applejack) were said to be available to patrons in the parking lot. The Playhouse closed its doors in the early 1980s.
The hotels, the apple warehouse, the applejack stills (well, most of them) and the Tallulah Falls Railroad have been gone for decades. Today, travelers on U.S. 23/441 pass through Mountain City much as they passed over the continental divide in the days of Passover, albeit at much slower speeds. And water in Mountain City continues to flow west to the Gulf of Mexico and east to the Atlantic.
This article by Society member Richard Cinquina was originally published in the Georgia Mountain Laurel magazine in January 2021.


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Under 9s say Olá in Benfica's Estádio da Luz
Stalybridge Celtic Juniors under 9s Blue and Whites took the trip of a lifetime to Portugal to take part in the Europa Cup last weekend (9-10 June). After months of fundraising activity which included supermarket bag packs, raffles and special events the team flew together from Manchester Airport to Lisbon for the two day Europa Cup competition held at Benfica's Estádio da Luz stadium.
The trip, which took months of planning and preparation by the team's volunteer coaches; Ali Rehman, Eddie Norton and Jonny Pritchard who will be familiar faces to many as they are regular coaches at the Soccer School, as well as the under 9s, plus Jamie Briers and Simon Heywood who volunteer with the team, was a huge success. The players got to train at Benfica's training complex before playing games inside the 65,000 seat Estádio da Luz stadium.
After making it through to the knock-out stages of the competition they were unlucky to finish runners-up in the Europa Cup Final Plate competition. After leading the game their opponents equalised deep into added time which forced the game to penalties which the under nines sadly lost out on.
The trip is sure to have made fantastic memories for the coaches, the players and their families who travelled with them which will stay with them forever. Next year it's the turn of the current under 8s to make the same trip.
Benfica, football, international football, Lisbon, match report, portugal, Stalybridge, Stalybridge Celtic Juniors
Walking Football Festival Raises £600 for Cancer Warriors
Open Day at Stalybridge Celtic FC


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As mentioned in last month's Budget newsletter the definition of a personal company was tightened up so that from 29 October the shareholder must have entitlement to at least 5% of the company's ordinary share capital, voting rights, profits available for distribution, and assets available on the winding up of the company.
This change means that certain "alphabet" and other shares with limited rights may no longer qualify for CGT entrepreneurs' relief when disposed of. As a consequence of this change we may need to review the rights attaching to the shares that your company has issued and make changes to ensure that the shares qualify.
For further information on Entrepreneurs' Relief, please contact Alan Rolfe on 023 8046 1235.


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VIDEO: Two men arrested in Fargo convenience store robberies
FARGO - Two men were arrested for two convenience store robberies here early Friday morning. Abdi Mohamed Abdi, 24, who has no permanent address was arrested on suspicion of two counts of robbery, said Sgt. Jason Nelson. Abdikhadar Mohamed Gelle,...
Fargo police are at the scene of one of this morning's two armed robberies, the West Acres All-Stop at 3441 13th Ave. S. Mike Nowatzki / The Forum
FARGO - Two men were arrested for two convenience store robberies here early Friday morning.
Abdi Mohamed Abdi, 24, who has no permanent address was arrested on suspicion of two counts of robbery, said Sgt. Jason Nelson.
Abdikhadar Mohamed Gelle, 20, of Fargo will be charged with one count of robbery, Nelson said.
The first robbery was reported at 5:04 a.m. at Petro Serve USA at 2110 S. University Drive.
Sgt. Bill Ahlfeldt said two suspects described as black males with their faces covered by scarves entered the store, demanded money from the clerk and made off with an undisclosed amount of cash.
The second robbery, reported about 7 a.m. at West Acres All-Stop Convenience store at 3441 13th Ave. S., involved one suspect, described as a black male with a shirt covering his face. He ran from the store with an undisclosed amount of cash. A police K-9 unit tracked his footprints to a location near a motel a short distance north of the store, where it appears he got into a vehicle, Ahlfeldt said.
In both cases, the suspects indicated they may have weapons, but it's unclear if a weapon was displayed, Ahlfeldt said.
No one was hurt in the robberies.
Nelson said the two men were taken taken to the Cass County Jail.
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The Bank of Canada is increasingly confident the economy will need less stimulus over time, Governor Stephen Poloz said on Thursday in an end-of-year speech that boosted the Canadian dollar and raised expectations of another rate hike early in 2018.
Poloz said the economy was in a sweet spot after making "tremendous" progress over the last year, with early signs that a long-awaited rotation to higher exports and business investment is happening as the housing boom cools.
The economy "is close to reaching its full potential. We are very encouraged by this, and we are growing increasingly confident that the economy will need less monetary stimulus over time," Poloz said, addressing the Canadian Club in Toronto.
While the central bank held rates steady last week, Poloz acknowledged that current monetary policy "clearly remains quite stimulative" despite rate hikes in July and September, fueling market bets the next hike will come in the first quarter of 2018. The next policy meeting is Jan. 17.
"He was a bit all over the place, but the slight tilt is that he is not as concerned as we thought previously, so yields are quite significantly higher, the loonie is up, January is almost a 35 percent probability right now," said Fred Demers, chief Canada macro strategist at TD Securities.
"So definitely, the next rate hike is not very far away - whether it is January or March," Demers added.
The Canadian dollar, known as the loonie, rallied more than one percent on the remarks.
While a mechanical approach to setting policy would suggest rates should already be higher, the bank still sees signs of ongoing but diminishing slack in the labor market, Poloz said.
Canada's economy is near capacity and growth is forecast to continue above potential, posing an upside risk to the inflation forecast, he said.
At the same time, labor market slack poses a downside risk, Poloz said, reiterating the bank's oft-repeated concern that the job market is not as strong as employment growth and a steadily declining unemployment rate would suggest.
"Wages, despite the fact that they have upticked, are still well below their typical level at this stage of the business cycle, so we know there is slack underneath there," he said at a news conference after the speech.


Many of Frank Lloyd Wright's most remarkable designs were never built. This lavish book presents 106 superb renderings of projects that never saw completion -- and explains why, in concise, insightful essays by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, director of archives at The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Pfeiffer draws on his long association with Wright to describe the circumstances surrounding the germination of each project and characterize the fascinating, often quirky personalities involved.
In his careful selection of projects, Pfeiffer has created a visual history of Wright's accomplishments over a career that stretched from 1895 to 1959. This collection of drawings is both a visual feast and a fascinating overview of Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural genius.