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Piotr Pawel Polczak (born 25 August 1986) is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a central defender. He currently serves as the sporting director of Zagłębie Sosnowiec.

Club career
In February 2011, he joined Russian club Terek Grozny on three and a half year contract.

On 3 July 2017 he signed a contract with Romanian side Astra Giurgiu.

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He made his first appearance for the Polish national team in a friendly against Ukraine on August 20, 2008.

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Events: The strength of overseas Law offers an research of overseas legislation, targeted upon these ancient and up to date occasions during which overseas legislation has exerted, or obtained, its strength. From Spanish colonization and the Peace of Westphalia, during the unencumber of Nelson Mandela and the Rwandan genocide, and to contemporary foreign exchange negotiations and the 'torture memos', each one bankruptcy during this publication specializes in a particular overseas criminal occasion. brief and available to the non-specialist reader, those chapters give some thought to what forces are placed into play while foreign legislation is invoked, because it is so usually this present day, via legal professionals, laypeople, or leaders. whilst, in addition they consider what's entailed in naming those 'events' of foreign legislations and the way foreign legislations grapples with their disruptive power. enticing monetary, army, cultural, political, philosophical and technical fields, Events: The strength of foreign Law should be of curiosity to foreign attorneys and students of diplomacy, felony background, diplomatic background, battle and/or peace reviews, and criminal idea. it's also meant to be learn and favored by way of somebody conversant in appeals to overseas legislation from the final media, and interested by the boundaries and probabilities occasioned, or the forces mobilised, via that appeal.
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Gli ebrei in Estonia hanno una presenza organizzata dal XIX secolo ai giorni nostri. La comunità ebbe nel primo Novecento il suo periodo di massimo sviluppo ed importanza e fu quindi duramente colpita dall'Olocausto e dalle repressioni del regime comunista sovietico. Un tempo forte di 5000 unità, essa conta oggi circa 1700 persone.

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Gli inizi nel XIX secolo sotto l'Impero russo

Benché vi siano testimonianze di alcune presenze individuali di ebrei nella regione sin dal XIV secolo, sia sotto il dominio svedese sia sotto quello dell'Impero russo l'Estonia rimase chiusa a qualsiasi insediamento ebraico. La presenza organizzata di comunità ebraiche in Estonia risale solo al XIX secolo, a quando lo zar Nicola I di Russia nel 1828 richiamò nel proprio esercito i giovani ebrei di età superiore ai 12 anni risiedenti nell'Impero. Una delle scuole militari ebbe sede a Tallinn in Estonia. La comunità ebraica di Tallinn fu così ufficialmente costituita nel 1830. Nel 1865 lo zar Alessandro II di Russia concesse ai reduci ebrei e ai loro discendenti il privilegio di risiedere nella regione. La popolazione ebraica crebbe considerevolmente e nuove comunità si costituirono in altri centri: a Tartu (1867), Pärnu (1869), Valga (1871), Viljandi (1876), ecc. A Tallinn e Tartu furono costruiti anche i due più grandi edifici sinagogali del paese: la sinagoga grande di Tallinn nel 1883-84 e la sinagoga grande di Tartu nel 1901-03 (entrambi gli edifici saranno distrutti durante la seconda guerra mondiale). Una fitta rete di servizi (scuole, cimiteri, associazioni culturali e sportive, ecc.) fu creata per servire alle necessità degli ebrei estoni. Un tempo composta di artigiani e commercianti, la comunità divenne sempre più integrata con l'accesso agli studi e all'Università.

La guerra di indipendenza estone (1918-20) e Repubblica di Estonia (1920-40)

Gli ebrei parteciparono alla guerra di indipendenza estone (1918-20) che portò alla creazione della Repubblica di Estonia. La nuova Repubblica ripagò il sostegno ricevuto dalla popolazione ebraica con una serie di provvedimenti culminati con l'approvazione nel 1925 di una delle legislazioni più avanzate d'Europa nel campo della tutela dei diritti delle minoranze linguistiche e religiose. Mentre nel cuore d'Europa cresceva l'antisemitismo, l'Estonia offriva un raro esempio di tolleranza e integrazione, che non venne meno nemmeno con l'inizio nel 1934 del governo autocratico del Presidente Konstantin Päts. Nel 1934 Lazar Gulkowitsch, già professore all'Università di Lipsia, fu nominato primo professore di Studi Ebraici all'università di Tartu e nel 1937 il vice presidente della Comunità Ebraica Heinrich Gutkin entrò con decreto del Presidente a far parte del senato estone.

La Seconda guerra mondiale e l'Olocausto

L'autonomia culturale degli ebrei cessò bruscamente con l'occupazione sovietica delle repubbliche baltiche nel 1940. Il 14 giugno 1941 circa 400 ebrei (il 10% della popolazione ebraica del tempo) furono deportati in campi prigionia in altre regioni dell'Unione Sovietica (vedi deportazioni sovietiche dall'Estonia). Tutte le organizzazioni ebraiche furono chiuse, l'insegnamento dell'ebraico e dell'yiddish proibito. La temporanea occupazione sovietica consentì tuttavia a quasi il 75% della popolazione ebraica dell'Estoni di lasciare il paese prima dell'arrivo delle truppe tedesche nel 1941. Tutti coloro che rimasero (circa 1000 persone) saranno sterminate con l'Olocausto; meno di una dozzina di ebrei estoni sono noti per essere sopravvissuti. In assenza di forti sentimenti razziali antisemiti, i nazisti nella loro propaganda fecero leva soprattutto sull'anticomunismo della popolazione locale presentando i provvedimenti antiebraici come misure repressive contro "i comunisti". Gli eccidi furono perpetrati con rapidità tanto che già alla Conferenza di Wannsee il 20 gennaio 1942 l'Estonia risultava Judenfrei. Ora che la popolazione ebraica locale era stata completamente liquidata ed i segni più importanti della sua presenza sistematicamente distrutti e cancellati, l'Estonia divenne sede di 22 campi di concentramento e lavoro per ebrei provenienti da altri paesi (Germania, Francia, Polonia, ecc.); il più grande fu il campo di concentramento di Vaivara. Si stima che circa 10.000 ebrei "stranieri" perirono in Estonia durante gli anni dell'occupazione tedesca.

La Repubblica Socialista Sovietica Estone (1944-1988)

Dopo la guerra la Repubblica Socialista Sovietica Estone fu ricostituita come una delle repubbliche dell'Unione Sovietica. Il ritorno in patria della popolazione ebraica estone evacuata e l'arrivo di numerosi ebrei russi permise una rapida ricostruzione demografica della comunità tanto che nei censimenti del 1959 e 1970 gli ebrei estoni risultavano raggiungere nuovamente le 5000 unità. Una piccola sinagoga in locali di fortuna fu riaperta a Tallinn già nell'autunno 1945 ed alcune iniziative culturali poterono essere avviate, ma le politiche repressive del regime e l'assenza di autonomia sociale ed organizzativa non permisero in alcun modo la rinascita della vibrante vita ebraica del periodo pre-bellico. Il patrimonio storico, artistico e culturale dell'ebraismo estone (in primo luogo le due grandi sinagoghe) non fu ricostruito né si fece nulla per preservarne la memoria. Negli anni Settanta fu concesso ad un numero considerevole di ebrei estoni di emigrare in Israele.

La fine della guerra fredda (1988-91) e la nuova Repubblica d'Estonia (1991-presente)

Già dal 1988, con le riforme della Perestrojka, cominciano ad avvertirsi i primi segnali di cambiamento. Rinascono le prime libere associazioni culturali e religiose ebraiche, e alcune scuole. Raggiunta la piena indipendenza nel 1991, l'Estonia riprende la tradizionale politica di tolleranza interrottasi con la seconda guerra mondiale. La comunità ebraica è stata ufficialmente riconosciuta con l'approvazione del suo statuto in data 11 aprile 1992. Ed una nuova legge sulle autonomie è stata approvata nell'ottobre 1993, basata sulla legislazione del 1925. Per motivi economici tuttavia molti ebrei hanno lasciato l'Estonia, per trasferirsi in Israele, Germania o negli Stati Uniti, provocando un crollo demografico di oltre il 50%. Oggi la popolazione ebraica in Estonia è stimata attorno alle 1700 unità.

Le autorità governative si sono impegnate anche sul fronte della preservazione della memoria dell'Olocausto. Nel 1998, il presidente dell'Estonia Lennart Meriha convocò una Commissione internazionale di inchiesta con il compito di indagare sui crimini contro l'umanità commessi sul territorio della Repubblica di Estonia durante le occupazioni naziste e sovietiche. La commissione era presieduta dal diplomatico finlandese Max Jacobson e composta da Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, Paul Goble, Nicholas Lane, Peter Reddaway, Arseny Roginsky, e Wolfgang von Stetten. I risultati delle indagini, condotte tra il 1999 e il 2008, sono a disposizione del pubblico online, in lingua inglese, russa ed estone.. Il 1º settembre 1994 un cippo è stato eretto in memoria delle vittime sul luogo dove sorgeva il campo di concentramento di Klooga e il 18 luglio 2001 un monumento è stato dedicato alle vittime dell'Olocausto a Tartu. Nel gennaio 2012 il governo ha finanziato l'apertura della Galleria della Memoria, in cui sono conservati i nomi del quasi migliaio di ebrei estoni che perirono nell'Olocausto.

Dal 2004 si tiene in Estonia l'annuale festival "Ariel", dedicato ai vari aspetti della cultura ebraica, e che comprende la presentazioni di libri, conferenze, mostre d'arte, proiezioni di film, programmi radiofonici, e concerti .

Il 16 maggio 2007 la nuova sinagoga di Tallinn è stata aperta, servendo alle necessità religiose e culturali della comunità. È il primo edificio sinagogale ad essere stato costruito in Estonia dal periodo precedente alla seconda guerra mondiale. Dal 17 dicembre 2008 I locali della sinagoga ospitano anche un Museo sulla storia degli ebrei in Estonia.

Ebrei estoni
 Moses Wolf Goldberg
 Louis Kahn
 Eri Klas
 Jurij Michajlovič Lotman

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Bibliografia
 Anton Weiss-Wendt. Murder without Hatred: Estonians and the Holocaust. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2009
 Ezra Mendelsohn. The Jews of East Central Europe between the World Wars. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1983.

Voci correlate
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 :Category:Sinagoghe dell'Estonia
 Deportazioni sovietiche dall'Estonia
 Campo di concentramento di Vaivara
 Campo di concentramento di Klooga
 Storia degli ebrei in Europa

Collegamenti esterni

Ebraismo in Estonia
Estonia
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We've been saying for the last couple of years that augmented/virtual reality is the fourth wave of consumer technology, and that AR could become much bigger than VR. But AR itself is not one giant wave, it's a set of four big ones: mobile AR software, mobile AR hardware, tethered smartglasses and standalone smartglasses. These four waves could drive AR from tens of millions of users and $1.2 billion last year, to more than a billion users and $83 billion by 2021. Surf's up.
Mobile AR hardware: dedicated smartphone/tablet AR hardware and software, like Google Tango phones.
Tethered smartglasses: AR smartglasses requiring a smartphone/tablet or PC host, like Meta smartglasses.
Mobile AR software is the tsunami that came out of nowhere, with Pokémon GO downloaded 750 million times in its first year. But where Pikachu gave consumers their first taste of mobile AR, Facebook's AR platform and Apple's ARKit for iOS democratize mobile AR software at scale as true consumer platforms.
Apple's ARKit for iOS requires at least an iPhone 6s, iPhone SE, 2017 iPad or iPad Pro, with 300 to 400 million ARKit-compatible devices today. Eighty-six percent of iOS users installed iOS 10 a year after launch, so assuming iOS 11 follows a similar path and iPhones/iPads keep selling, ARKit could have an installed base of up to 400 million devices by the end of 2018.
Facebook's Camera Effects Platform is being rolled out to Facebook Messenger's 1.2 billion MAU, WhatsApp's 1.2 billion MAU and Instagram's 700 million MAU (with significant overlap). Facebook migrated 15 percent of WhatsApp users to Status 10 weeks after launch, 29 percent of Instagram users to Stories less than a year after launch and 54 percent of Instagram users to Direct four years after launch. A similar growth curve could deliver around 400 million installed base for Facebook's Camera Effects Platform by the end of 2018 too.
Mobile AR hardware might take five years to reach the same scale as just one of the dominant mobile AR software platforms next year.
As well as these two dominant platforms, mobile AR software is set to play out across messaging apps from Tencent, Snap, LINE, Kakao and Snow, maps apps from Google and Baidu, e-commerce apps from Alibaba, Amazon and eBay, plus consumer (non-games), enterprise, games, location-based, video and other new mobile AR apps nobody has thought of yet. The mobile AR software wave could drive more than a billion users by 2021.
As with early iOS/Android, a Cambrian explosion of mobile AR apps with new dominant forms should emerge on top of these platforms (see what's been developed so far here), making them a bonanza for developers. As mobile AR software players will be able to migrate to mobile AR hardware, tethered smartglasses and standalone smartglasses waves, mobile AR software looks like the one wave to rule them all.
Mobile AR hardware's additional sensors, CPU/GPU grunt and AR-focused device efficiency could improve user experience where computer vision and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) are critical. This is despite the fact that Apple's ARKit for iOS and Facebook's Camera Effects Platform apps will work just fine on many standard smartphones.
With phone replacement cycles at 2.5 years and high-end phones anywhere between one-third and two-thirds of smartphone sales (depending on manufacturer and geography), range-topping AR phones could deliver an installed base of tens of millions in the next 12 months, and more than 400 million by 2021. In other words, mobile AR hardware might take five years to reach the same scale as just one of the dominant mobile AR software platforms next year.
This makes the mobile AR hardware user base a high-end subset of mobile AR software (except for Apple, where it will eventually be the same thing). Mobile hardware makers could do very well out of this market, and it might also have stronger monetization for mobile AR software developers with less-price-sensitive early adopters.
Say "AR" and most people hear "smartglasses" (or "Iron Man"). But smartglasses' five major challenges must be conquered for them to work in consumer markets: (1) hero device (i.e. an Apple-quality device, whether made by Apple or someone else), (2) all-day battery life, (3) mobile connectivity, (4) app ecosystem, and (5) telco cross-subsidization. While most attention is paid to what that hero device will look like and when it will get here, two of the other challenges are particularly hard to solve.
Until a major breakthrough in battery technology or device efficiency, a lightweight pair of standalone AR smartglasses doing heavy-duty AR is hard to power all day without a battery pack or hot-swappable batteries (fine for enterprise users, a harder sell for consumers). This is a non-trivial problem. Plus, it's a major risk for the developer ecosystem to invest heavily in building apps for new platforms until the installed base reaches scale. It's the perennial chicken and egg problem that all new tech platforms face. Mobile tethered smartglasses offer a potential solution to both.
It's the perennial chicken and egg problem that all new tech platforms face.
As mobile tethered smartglasses are peripherals to, not replacements for, smartphones, users will need to pay for, charge and carry two devices rather than one. That additional inconvenience and cost could limit market size to the tens of millions by 2021. By comparison, mobile AR might have billions of users in the same time frame.
PC tethered smartglasses that require more computing power could remain more expensive, enterprise-focused and have smaller installed bases than their mobile tethered equivalents. They also might not benefit directly from the mobile AR software ecosystem. A parallel for this dynamic already exists in VR, where mobile systems outnumber PC equivalents 10 to one.
You could buy standalone smartglasses (HoloLens anyone?), but price (around $3,000), form factor (weighing more than a pound, limited field of view), battery life (2-3 hours), app ecosystem (limited consumer apps) and mobile connectivity (Wi-Fi only) restricts them to the enterprise market today. High-profile startups like Magic Leap are trying to solve AR's five big consumer challenges, but standalone smartglasses look like the fourth and final wave of consumer AR (at least until The Matrix gets here).
But good things come to those who wait. Mobile AR software will solve the app ecosystem. Tethered smartglasses will solve the hero device. Mobile connectivity is easy (although not powering it all day), and telcos are already selling AR phones to replace standard smartphones to drive data revenues. But all-day battery life without a battery pack or hot-swappable batteries remains a challenge. Again, without a breakthrough in battery technology or device efficiency, standalone smartglasses might not completely replace your smartphone before 2020.
When standalone smartglasses are ready to conquer consumer markets, user adoption reverts to the phone replacement cycle. Early adopters will lead the charge to replace their phones with standalone smartglasses, but we're still talking about a Tesla market by 2021. By way of analogy, Interstate 280 between San Francisco and Sand Hill Road is a Tesla parking lot at rush hour; you don't see many Teslas in Marengo, Indiana.
Since early 2015, we've said that Apple could deliver as great dominance and profitability in AR as it has in mobile today. Its end-to-end ecosystem of hardware, software, app store, developers and retail are natural advantages that can't be beaten (and many have tried). Dominance across all four AR waves looks like it could be the innovation for which Tim Cook is remembered, and take Apple beyond Steve Jobs' legacy to make it a 100-year company.
Facebook's user base, platforms (Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp), developer ecosystem, mobile AR developer tools, mobile market experience and financial muscle guarantee its success in mobile AR software. However, Facebook's entry into the phone hardware market did not go to plan, and Oculus is orders of magnitude smaller than the rest of Facebook. This makes a mobile AR hardware play (i.e. a Facebook AR phone) look unlikely.
Mark Zuckerberg believes in smartglasses' long-term future, but a head-to-head battle with Apple in this market might not be a fair fight. Apple's inherent advantages and consumer hardware DNA make it the most valuable company in the world (mostly), and Facebook would be building a smartglasses hardware ecosystem from scratch. Facebook could still launch smartglasses, but sticking to its knitting as an AR software company is always on the table. Either way, expect significant Facebook investment in AR beyond the Camera Effects Platform.
Tencent has as great mobile AR software potential in China as Facebook outside it, focused on the more than 846 million folks who use WeChat. But if Tencent really wants dominance across all four AR waves in China, it could approach the AR hardware market in a unique way. Enabled by the market share of WeChat, its app store strength and the fragmented nature of the Chinese phone market, Tencent could produce a domestic version of Apple's AR ecosystem together with major domestic phone makers. This could result in Tencent AR hardware, software, app store, developers and WeChat as the dominant Chinese AR platform. As with Facebook, Tencent also could avoid AR hardware altogether and remain a pure software player.
Google's Maps, VPS and data resources give it significant advantages in mobile AR software outside China, but it doesn't have mobile messaging platforms like Facebook or an integrated ecosystem like Apple. Google Tango relies on hardware partners outside the top five globally (e.g. Lenovo, ASUS), but Samsung, Huawei, Oppo and Vivo haven't signed up yet. If Google wins support from these four companies, the road to tethered smartglasses and standalone smartglasses for consumers becomes clearer. But if it doesn't, Google would need to find another path (potentially as an evolution of Google Glass Enterprise Edition). Baidu faces similar opportunities and challenges in China, but with a different set of domestic competitors.
Whether or not Google partners with them, Samsung, Huawei and other phone makers don't have the advantages of Apple's ecosystem, Facebook/Tencent's messaging platforms or Google/Baidu's data to support them in mobile AR hardware, tethered smartglasses or standalone smartglasses. To break out of today's status quo, investments and M&As for totally new AR capabilities might be required.
Apple could dominate all four AR waves and your augmented future.
Alibaba has already invested heavily in AR, with a view to becoming the AR e-commerce leader in China (where it doesn't have Tencent's advantages as a mobile AR software platform). Given Jack Ma's penchant for bold moves in new markets, he might consider going from Magic Leap's lead investor to its owner (assuming it delivers on its promise). Amazon and eBay have similar AR e-commerce software opportunities outside China to sell things to folks in totally new ways.
Microsoft currently has no play for mobile AR software or mobile AR hardware, and it isn't clear that it will enter either market. Satya Nadella focused HoloLens on the enterprise, and even Windows 10 VR is being left to PC hardware partners without Xbox One X support this year. Microsoft's enterprise focused strategy for AR (which, again, they call mixed reality) means HoloLens is their only horse in the race. When a future HoloLens is ready for consumers, Microsoft might have to try to switch mobile AR and tethered smartglasses developers and users away from Apple. That sort of thing was last done successfully by a young man called Bill Gates in 1981.
Apple, Facebook and other major AR developer ecosystems might already be monetizing at scale at that stage. This could give smartglasses pure-plays the challenge of switching developers and users across from standard platforms with billions of users and network effects to proprietary platforms with a few million users and revolutionary technology. That sort of thing was last done successfully by a man in his 50s called Steve Jobs in 2007.


MW Builders recently broke ground on the Meadowbrook Inn in Prairie Village, Kansas. The new, 54-room boutique hotel will be centrally located and adjacent to the new Kessler Residences located within the Meadowbrook Park development — a mixed-use neighborhood and public park in Kansas City.
The Inn will offer a stop for travelers and will allow residents of the Meadowbrook community to connect with friends and family. It will also feature amenities including a corner breakfast café, a destination restaurant with outdoor courtyard dining, fitness center, and courtyard pool.


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Mining Project will bring development for Dongria Kondh People: A report by Kailash Tudu
July 18, 2010 at 8:53 am sanjibkarmee	Leave a comment
Following report is taken from Kalahandia blog:
Contributor: Kailash Tudu
Jitu Jakasika, Then (A Dongria Kondh before making into BBA)
Jitu Jakasika, Now (A Dongria Kondh after making into BBA)
"Dongria Kondh Community want development and mining from Niyamgiri will bring a lot socio-economic development opportunity for the tribals," says Jitu Jakasika, one of the few English Speaking youths in the Kondh Community. However, few days before, He was well known for his hardcore and stiff opposition for Vedanta and its mining project.
He had visited almost all Dongria Kondh villages to organize people to oppose the mining plan. Continuous feeding of misleading facts and systematic brainwash made him to believe that industrialization and development would dilute the originality and culture of Dongria Kondh tribe. He left his education mid-way to join activists and vehemently opposed industrialization and associated development in the locality.
However, one incident opened eyes of Jitu. He was in Bada Denguni village to organize people against industrialization. The village has no motorable road. A pregnant lady suddenly became critical and was required to be taken to the hospital. However, in absence of any ambulance or vehicle, she was portered to the hospital. Jitu was also with her. On the way, she delivered a baby, who died just after birth. Jitu was shocked by the incident. At that time, the lady told Jitu that due to opposition to industrialization and development linked with it, her child died. If he would not have opposed industry and development work carried out by it, there would have been motorable road to the village and she could have gone to hospital in time. "This was a great learning for me. It forced me to think, whether I am doing the right things by blocking development," said Jitu Jakasika.
He explored more on industry and development. He visited other industrial sites in the locality and mainly the ongoing bauxite mining sites. He saw for himself that neither Bauxite mining is ecologically hostile, nor it dries the spring and underground water. He also realized that 'industrialization and development do not dilute tribal culture or lifestyle'.
"We did not want mining at Niyamgiri. We were misguided by different NGOs and groups,' admits Jitu. He reveals that different NGOs from different countries and political parties, who are working only to fulfill their interests, were claiming that Vedanta's mining at Niyamgiri would destroy the hill and would adversely affect the environment of the area and the lives of the tribals. Of late, he realized that all these were false claims which were intended to instigate the poor and ignorant tribals against Vedanta. They never want the development of the Dongria Kondhs.
Now, He has stopped to help the outsiders who campaign against industrialization and development of tribal children. After seeing the social development initiatives of Vedanta in periphery villages, he was convinced that development through industrialization can bring development for Dongria kondh people by providing them basic services like, health, education, infrastructure and sustainable livelihood. "I always wanted development of Dongria Kondh community and I believe industrialization can bring rapid development for tribal people," says Jitu.
He also expressed his desired to resume his studies, so that he could know the mainstream world better and work for development of his community. Vedanta Aluminium Limited, under its Scholarship program provided support for his education. Jitu, a dongria kondh tribe, is now studying at a reputed management college at Bhubaneswar in Bachelor of Business Admission (BBA) program. In holidays, he comes to his villages and encourages fellow community members for education and other development initiatives. He is now playing a key role in facilitating education of tribal children from his villages in formal schooling and Colleges. To him "education alone can remove superstition, reduce vulnerability to contamination and can bring empowerment and in turn development".
Vedanta's venture into the aluminium sector of Orissa with signing MoU for an alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi and an aluminium smelter at Jharsuguda was an important event in the aluminium industry of the State. After 25 years, Vedanta set up the first Refinery in the state, which is having more than 55% of India's Bauxite. And also, Vedanta is the only company that has rolled in its project in Orissa as per its agreement with the State Government and has already started its production partially from its Lanjigarh refinery. The company, which has placed itself in a significant position in the global aluminium industry, is very well concerned towards carrying out its Corporate Social Responsibility and has taken up several initiatives with the aim to bring qualitative improvement in the lives of the community surrounding its plant. VAL has expressed and reiterated its commitment towards socio-economic transformation has now reached 'the society at large'. And fortunately, the particular society, to which it aimed to transform, has now realized the real intention and motive of Vedanta and has now accepted it. This is very much evident from the positive vibes coming from the statements of some tribal leaders including Jitu.
Entry filed under: Industries and Environmental Issues, Industries and mineral resources, Infrastructure, Kalahandi, Kalahandi-Nuapada, Nuapada, Region watch, Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL), Lanjigarh.
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Meet at hotel lobby then transfer to Labuan Marina for a 40 minutes speedboat ride to Rusukan Island, which located in southwestern of Labuan Island (snorkelling equipment included ). Along the way enjoy the beautiful scenery in Brunei Bay. Upon arrival at Rusukan Island, free guided snorkelling activity will be carried out, to watch the large area of beautiful coral, and also fishes and lobsters.
Meet at hotel lobby then proceed to Labuan International Golf Club .True to its vision, "Tee-Off With Mother Nature", the brand new Labuan International Golf Club (LIGC) is set amidst over 200 acres of lush landscapes and natural surrounds in Federal Territory Labuan.
Semarang is a wonderful place for a fishing trip, there are many species of fish here. It is bound to make you reluctant to leave.


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City student flat developments, abortion, girl's health in school, disappearing swifts, new MOT, betting curbs and history plea
The Caton Court student accommodation project on Bulk Road in Lancaster. PIC BY ROB LOCK'19-3-2018
Readers' letters, May 31
As a result of the most recent collapse of the Canal Corridor Project, Lancaster citizens are being consulted once again regarding how that area should be developed.
As residents of the town centre, LCCRA is eager to participate in that process. There is hesitation and concern, however.
I am sure we are not alone in harbouring a lack of confidence in another process when we consider our little town's position, caught as we are between the unstoppable expansion of the universities and the city council's seeming inability to push through anything progressive at all other than granting permission for more and more student accommodation.
There is nothing wrong with purpose-built student accommodation – it frees up the terraces of traditional houses to, once again, fulfil their role as family homes.
Local businesses have developed to take advantage of this opportunity and have provided employment, consolidated unviable buildings and have kept the profits within the district.
However, the enormous Bulk Road project heralds a new and foreboding future. That this was allowed to happen by the city council now surely tells us one thing – that anything goes, no matter how out of scale and damaging it is to the character and feel of our lovely town.
A recent article in Private Eye magazine regarding the "studentification" of provincial towns names Lancaster as the "locus classicus (best known example) of student housing blight" and implores university chancellors to "wake up to the architectural vandalism they are allowing".
Well, it surely is time that both the universities and the city council should wake up. Many long-term and native Lancastrians are becoming genuinely upset by the permanent effect that that particular huge complex now has on our historic skyline.
No doubt it looks impressive to the overseas shareholders who stand to receive the dividends.
The canal corridor is an opportunity for city and universities to come together to build something that truly benefits everyone, both long-term residents and students, by redressing the balance. Mixed housing, artisan retail, innovative cultural quarter, business start-up units to help keep graduates in the town, and beautiful, appropriate architecture – something that builds real long-term community in the city centre and something to be proud of. Let's be in these magazines for the right reasons.
James Mackie on behalf of LCCRA, Lancaster City Centre Residents' Association (LCCRA)
Rail fares rise, Brexit, remember polytechnics, disability attitudes, protecting nature, Poppy support, give young say on Brexit, musician Andre Rieu's calming influence
Irish women have won an historic battle. The referendum on May 25 on the question of the repeal of the 8th amendment to the Irish Constitution – which effectively prohibits in almost all circumstances – delivered a resounding yes to its abolition.
By the end of the year the Irish Parliament is set to legalise abortion on demand up to 12 weeks of pregnancy.
The battle will now be taken to Northern Ireland, where women are still denied the right to choose whether they will or will not continue with a pregnancy.
What is too little recognised, however, is that on this island abortion remains a criminal act unless women have secured the opinion of two doctors to the effect that a continuation of pregnancy will put at serious risk their physical and/or mental health.
This is fundamentally demeaning to women and the time is right to demand a change to the 1967 Abortion Act to reflect a woman's full sovereignty over her body. It is her right to choose whether she will or will not continue with a pregnancy.
J McNally, Long Marsh Lane, Lancaster
Student flats
I can't wait to see what the "exciting ground floor retail offering" at the newly-proposed CityBlock development on Penny Street is going to be, and can only hope that Mr Bargh's definition of 'exciting' matches my own!
Stephanie Bruntlett, Forton
Girl's health
Can you imagine not being able to access a toilet when you most need to? For girls all over the UK, being refused this basic human right is a reality when they are at school and on their period.
A recent survey by Plan International UK found that 68% of girls aged 14-21 had a rule that they couldn't go to the toilet in lesson time at school. This rule exists in my school, with some teachers letting girls go and some refusing. Not only does this have hygiene and safety risks but it can make the situation for students very awkward, and causes huge anxiety.
Girls are worried about leaking, or having to explain in front of the whole class why they need to be excused.
You might be even more shocked to learn that 16% of girls have missed a day of school because they were so worried about not being able to go to the toilet in lesson time. Surely there is no excuse for allowing menstruation to affect a girl's education.
It's imperative that schools provide pupils with free access to toilets, adequate sinks and waste disposal bins, and give teachers support to openly discuss periods without embarrassment or shame.
There's more about the changes we need to see at plan-uk.org/locked-out. I wonder, will your local schools commit to recognising the needs of those who menstruate?
Eva (17), A member of Plan International UK's Youth Advisory Panel
After a delay due to the weather, our summer visitors, the swifts, are gracing our skies again...but so few of them!
They've flown thousands of miles north to return to their nest sites in our buildings.
Swifts are the all-brown ones with the biggest wingspan and short tail – not to be confused with swallows (with the long v-shaped tail and red throat), or the more squat martins.
The main difference is that swifts don't build nests.
They just zip into a small hole high up in a building – often in the eaves.
The trouble is that our buildings are getting so hole-free these days that swifts are losing their homes, and hence their numbers are dropping steeply.
I should be delighted to hear news of anyone who knows where they are nesting in our area because it's possible to put up special nestboxes (best near to existing sites) to help these marvellous birds.
For more details and to report sightings, please see www.swiftconservation.org.
Shan Oakes, by email
New Mot
Once again this Government is doing its best to make things as difficult as possible for the less well-off in this country to stay on the road.
The new MOT test has become much harder, which will not bother the rich because they can just say "fix it".
The rich will also have the majority of new cars on the roads, the less well-off will be the ones that have to pay.
You can expect the MOT test to go up in price.
This is just another move to force the poor off the road.
Dave Croucher, By email
The Department for Digital Culture, Media and Sport has just reduced the maximum stake on fix-odds betting terminals from £100 every 20 seconds to £2.
This is a positive step, but it still doesn't address the issue of online betting.
For some, gambling addiction will move from the real world to the virtual world, online.
Fixed-odds betting terminals and, to a lesser extent, The National Lottery and the like are a tax on the poor.
It beggars belief that these machines, up until now, have had so little regulation from central Government. The same applies to the loan shark industry.
It is allowed to roam this country taking money with menace like a modern day Dick Turpin.
There is no situation so dire that a politician can't make worse. Regulations in this country can be quite severe when it comes to parking, fishing and dog ownership, just to name a few.
But multi-national companies and wealthy individuals can 'rob' people with impunity, sometimes causing them to take their own lives, as they see it as the only way out of the nightmare they find themselves in.
The welfare of the people should be the supreme law.
The vulnerable in our society need more protection on these important matters.
John Booker, via email
My name is Paul Rasmussen and I'm the membership Secretary of the Lancaster & District Male Voice Choir.
I am researching the history of the choir and would be most grateful if any readers had any information about us.
We have been in existence since 1899 and have some information about our history, but some areas are very sketchy.
Paul Rasmussen, rpaul842@aol.com
Morecambe Music Festival set to be town's 'biggest weekend of the year'


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China approves three more free-trade zones
China has given the go-ahead for three more free-trade zones, despite the country's first project in Shanghai proving disappointing.
A meeting of the Communist Party's politburo hosted by President Xi Jinping on Tuesday approved zones in the southern province of Guangdong, eastern province of Fujian and northern city of Tianjin, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
State media says the Guangdong FTZ aims to speed economic integration with neighbouring Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China.
The Fujian zone is focused on Taiwan, which China considers part of its sovereign territory. The Tianjin FTZ is part of a push to better integrate the city with nearby Beijing and Hebei province.
Media reports originally gave March 1 as the official opening date for all three. Hong Kong's South China Morning Post newspaper later reported the Guangdong FTZ would launch on March 18 but no opening was announced.
A statement from the politburo said the establishment of FTZs aimed to "deepen reform" and "expand opening up to explore new approaches", adding the Shanghai zone had shown "positive progress" since its founding, according to Xinhua.
The Chinese commercial hub set up its FTZ in September 2013, promising a range of financial reforms, including full convertibility of the yuan currency and free interest rates but they remain unfulfilled.
The American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai said this month 73 per cent of the 377 companies responding to its annual business climate survey said the FTZ offers "no tangible benefits" for them.
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US new-home sales surge in February
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The Complainants are Facebook, Inc. and Instagram, LLC of Menlo Park, California, United States of America, represented by Hogan Lovells (Paris) LLP, France.
The Respondents are Xiamen eName Network Co., Ltd of Xiamen, Fujian, China, the "First Respondent") / weiwei of Beijing, China, the "Second Respondent" (collectively, the "Respondents"), self-represented.
The disputed domain names <facebookenespanol.com>, <faecdook.com>, <faecook.com>, <fecaboock.com>, <hackfacebookid.com>, <iinstagram.com>, <imstagram.com>, <inastagram.com>, <inatagram.com>, <indtagram.com>, <innstagram.com>, <insatagram.com>, <insatgram.com>, <insragram.com>, <insstagram.com>, <instaagram.com>, <instagaram.com>, <instagarm.com>, <instageam.com>, <instaggram.com>, <instagraam.com>, <instagrama.com>, <instagrame.com>, <instagramm.com>, <instagream.com>, <instagrem.com>, <instagrma.com>, <instagrom.com>, <instagrram.com>, <instagrsm.com>, <instagtam.com>, <instagtram.com>, <instalgram.com>, <instamgram.com>, <instargam.com>, <instasgram.com>, <instgaram.com>, <instogram.com>, <instragam.com>, <instrgram.com>, <instsagram.com>, <instsgram.com>, <intgram.com>, <intsagram.com>, <isntagram.com> and <istragram.com> are registered with eName Technology Co., Ltd (the "Registrar").
The Complaint was filed with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (the "Center") on February 29, 2016. On March 1, 2016, the Center transmitted by email to the Registrar a request for registrar verification in connection with all but one of the disputed domain names. On March 2, 2016, the Registrar transmitted by email to the Center its verification response disclosing registrant and contact information for the disputed domain names which differed from the named Respondent and contact information in the Complaint. The Center sent an email communication to the Complainant on March 7, 2016 providing the registrant and contact information disclosed by the Registrar, and inviting the Complainant to submit an amendment to the Complaint. The Complainant filed an amended Complaint on March 11, 2016, with one extra domain name added to the original Complaint. On March 14, 2016, the Center transmitted a request for registrar verification to the Registrar in relation to the added domain name, <faecook.com>. On March 15, 2016, the Registrar transmitted its verification response, confirming that the Respondents are the registrant.
On March 7 and March 14, 2016, the Center transmitted an email respectively to the Parties in both English and Chinese regarding the language of the proceeding. On March 8 and March 16, 2016, the Complainant submitted its request that English be the language of the proceeding. On March 10 and March 18, 2016, the Second Respondent submitted its request that Chinese be the language of the proceeding.
In accordance with the Rules, paragraphs 2 and 4, the Center formally notified the Respondents of the Complaint in English and Chinese, and the proceeding commenced on March 22, 2016. In accordance with the Rules, paragraph 5, the due date for Response was April 11, 2016. The Second Respondent submitted its request to automatically extend the Response due date for four calendar days under paragraph 5(b) of the Rules on April 8, 2016. On the same day, the Center confirmed that the Response due date was extended to April 15, 2016. The Response was filed with the Center on April 13, 2016.
On April 22, 2016, the Complainant submitted a Supplemental Filing of Reply to the Response.
The Center appointed Douglas Clark as the sole panelist in this matter on April 26, 2016. The Panel finds that it was properly constituted. The Panel has submitted the Statement of Acceptance and Declaration of Impartiality and Independence, as required by the Center to ensure compliance with the Rules, paragraph 7.
The Complainants are Facebook Inc. ("Facebook") and its wholly owned subsidiary, Instragram LLC. ("Instagram"). The First Complainant, Facebook, is a large social networking company founded in 2004. It has more than 1.59 billion monthly active users and 1.04 billion daily active users on average worldwide (as of December 2015). Its main website "www.facebook.com" is currently ranked as the 2nd most visited website in the world, according to information company Alexa. Facebook's social networking services are provided in more than 70 languages, including Chinese.
The First Complainant is the registered proprietor of the trademark FACEBOOK in many countries around the world including, the USA and China. The first registration in the United States date from 2006 with a claim to first use in commerce in 2004. The first registration in China for FACEBOOK was September 21, 2009.
The Second Complainant, Instagram, is an online photo and video sharing social networking application. It was launched on October 6, 2010. It developed 100,000 users in its first one week, 1 million registered users in its first 2 months (by December 21, 2010) and over 10 million registered users by September 2011, less than a year after it was launched. The Second Complainant reached over 100 million monthly active users by September 2012 and 150 million active users by September 2013. Today, the Second Complainant has over 400 million monthly active users, with more than 40 billion photos shared and an average of 80 million photos uploaded per day.
The Second Complainant is the registered proprietor of the trademark INSTAGRAM in many countries around the world including, the USA. The first registration in the United States was May 22, 2012 with a claim to first use in commerce on October 6, 2010. It has a pending application for the trademark INSTAGRAM in China.
The disputed domain names redirect Internet users to either dynamic advertising pages (at the following URL http://bidr.trellian.com) or to parking pages displaying commercial links targeting the Complainant's trademarks and related services, for instance, "Facebook Login", "Facebook Sign up" and "Instagram", "Download Instagram", "Photos", etc. Upon clicking on said links, Internet users are redirected to third party commercial websites.
With regard to the disputed domain names <facebookenespanol.com> and <hackfacebookid.com> the Complainants contend that they identically reproduce the First Complainant's FACEBOOK trademark with the mere addition of generic terms such as "en espanol" (which means "in Spanish" in English) and "hack id".
With regard to the remaining domain names, the Complainants contend they consist of common or obvious misspellings of the Complainants' FACEBOOK and INSTAGRAM trademarks. The only difference between the disputed domain names and the Complainants' trademarks is the omission, addition or replacement of one or more letters. Prior panels deciding under the Policy have held that obvious or common misspellings of a trademark are insufficient to distinguish a domain name from a complainant's trademark.
The Complainants submit that the Respondents have no rights or legitimate interest in the disputed domain names. The Complainants are not in anyway related to the Respondents. Further, the Respondents have not made bona fide offerings under the disputed domain names nor is it commonly known by the disputed domain names.
The Complainants submit that the disputed domain names were registered and are being used in bad faith with the intention of attracting Internet users to the websites under the disputed domain names. The Complainants submit that the Respondents knowingly registered the disputed domain names so as to attract Internet users to parking pages and generate financial gain.
With regards to the disputed domain names that the Complainants allege are confusingly similar to INSTAGRAM, the Complainants allege that the registration of the disputed domain names on dates soon after Instagram was launched and around the time it had reached 1 million users is clear evidence of registration in bad faith.
The Second Respondent submits that the earliest it registered the disputed domain names was September 6, 2009. It purchased the disputed domain names with the purpose of establishing its own company and selling products. It has legally registered the disputed domain names. In 2010, the Second Respondent commenced its Instagram related business. Facebook purchased Instagram in 2012. Instagram only purchased the domain name <instagram.com> in February 2011. The Second Respondent therefore asserts it has prior rights.
The Second Respondent contends that Facebook and Instagram are not well known in China because it is not possible to access their pages in China. From a legal perspective in order to have trade name protection in China it is necessary to have registered or used a trade name; or, manufactured products. The Complainants do not have any business presence in China. It is indisputable that their websites are not accessible in China.
Further, the Second Respondent contends that the Second Complainant does not have a registered trademark in China. It only filed an application for INSTAGRAM in China on September 4, 2013. The Second Complainant cannot prove that it was well known in China before September 6, 2009. The Second Respondent asserts further that there is no such thing as a "domain name right" in China.
The Second Respondent asserts that it has rights in the disputed domain names which it has legally registered. It registered the disputed domain names prior to the Second Complainant acquiring the domain name <instagram.com>.
Finally, the Second Respondent asserts that the Complainants have not produced any evidence of bad faith registration. There is no evidence it has sought to sell or transfer the disputed domain names to others and the Complainants have not produced any evidence to show their fame in China to establish the disputed domain names have been registered to confuse consumers.
The Complainants have requested consolidation of complaints on the basis that the Second Complainant is a wholly owned subsidiary of the First Complainant and they are making a complaint against the same respondent.
The Complainants requested the language of the proceeding be English on the grounds that inter alia, the Complainants conducted business in English and they would be unduly burdensome for them to translate the Complaint into English, and that the websites at the disputed domain names are in English and target English speakers.
The Second Respondent requested the language of the proceeding be Chinese on the basis that paragraph 11 of the Rules requires that the language of the proceeding shall be the language of the Registration Agreement, and because the Complainants are large companies and it is more equitable to proceed in Chinese.
The Second Respondent filed a Response in Chinese. From the Response, it is clear that the Second Respondent has understood the claim made against it and has been able to defend itself. Many of the webpages under the disputed domain names are all in English indicating that the Second Respondent does business in English. The Panel will follow the Center's preliminary determination.
The Reply was filed by the Complainants without permission of the Panel and was unsolicited. The general consensus of panelists is that supplemental filings should only be accepted if there are "exceptional circumstances" which explain why the party submitting the filing was not able to present the evidence in the first place. Further, where a panel decides to accept the filing, the panel should give the other party a chance to respond (See WIPO Overview 2.0, paragraph 4.2).
The Panel has reviewed the Reply and the evidence attached to it and declines to accept it, noting that it would not have had any effect on the outcome of the case.
The disputed domain names are confusingly similar to the Complainants' trademarks FACEBOOK and INSTAGRAM. With regard to <facebookenespanol.com> and <hackfacebookid.com> the domain names incorporate the Complainants' FACEBOOK trademark in full with the addition of generic terms "en espanol" (which means "in Spanish" in English) and "hack" and "id". The disputed domain names <faecdook.com>, <faecook.com> and <fecaboock.com> are all clear misspellings of FACEBOOK. The other disputed domain names are clear misspellings of INSTAGRAM.
The Panel notes that the First Complainant, Facebook, did not did not have a registered trademark for FACEBOOK in China when some of the disputed domain names were filed and that the Second Complainant has not yet registered INSTAGRAM in China and that its application is pending.
"While the overall burden of proof rests with the complainant, panels have recognized that this could result in the often impossible task of proving a negative, requiring information that is often primarily within the knowledge of the respondent. Therefore a complainant is required to make out a prima facie case that the respondent lacks rights or legitimate interests. Once such prima facie case is made, the burden of production shifts to the respondent to come forward with appropriate allegations or evidence demonstrating rights or legitimate interests in the domain name. If the respondent fails to come forward with such appropriate allegations or evidence, a complainant is generally deemed to have satisfied paragraph 4(a)(ii) of the UDRP."
The Complainants have made out a prima facie case that the Respondents have no rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain names.
The Second Respondent has not provided any evidence to show preparations to use the disputed domain names. On the contrary, the Second Respondent admits that despite the lapse of between 4 to 6 years it has not started its business. Neither of the Respondents are commonly known by any of the disputed domain names.
Essentially, the Second Respondent's arguments are directed to paragraph 4(c)(iii) of the Policy. The Second Respondent alleges that it has rights and legitimate interests on the basis that it registered the disputed domain names in order to develop its Facebook and Instagram businesses. For the disputed domain names <facebookenespanol.com>, <faecdook.com> and <fecaboock.com> these were registered before the First Complainant has trademark registrations in China and for Instragram, these were registered before the Second Complainant had any trademark registrations any where in the world and before it acquired the domain name <instagram.com>.
The disputed domain names <facebookenespanol.com>, <faecdook.com> and <fecaboock.com> were, however, all registered after the First Complainant had trademark registrations in the United States and other countries.
All of the disputed domain names that are confusingly similar to INSTAGRAM were registered after Instagram commenced business and had already proved its popularity.
The registrations were clearly made to ride on the coattails of the fame of the Complainants. The websites under the disputed domain names are not just available in China and, for the most part, are in English. They are intended to divert consumers around the world to the Respondents' websites. The use made by the Respondents is not fair use.
None of the circumstances in paragraph 4(c) of the Policy are, therefore, present in this case.
The second part of paragraph 4(a) of the Policy is therefore satisfied.
The Panel finds that the disputed domain names were all registered in bad faith and are being used in bad faith. The Respondent clearly knew of the Complainants, Facebook and Instagram, when it registered the disputed domain names. It uses the disputed domain names to generate click through revenue or in connection with other advertising schemes.
The websites under the disputed domain names are accessible worldwide and for the most part are in English. The Respondents are clearly seeking to attract Internet users around the world to their websites under the disputed domain names. Therefore, whether the Complainants' websites can be accessed in China or not is irrelevant.
(b) that the disputed domain names <iinstagram.com>, <imstagram.com>, <inastagram.com>, <inatagram.com>, <indtagram.com>, <innstagram.com>, <insatagram.com>, <insatgram.com>, <insragram.com>, <insstagram.com>, <instaagram.com>, <instagaram.com>, <instagarm.com>, <instageam.com>, <instaggram.com>, <instagraam.com>, <instagrama.com>, <instagrame.com>, <instagramm.com>, <instagream.com>, <instagrem.com>, <instagrma.com>, <instagrom.com>, <instagrram.com>, <instagrsm.com>, <instagtam.com>, <instagtram.com>, <instalgram.com>, <instamgram.com>, <instargam.com>, <instasgram.com>, <instgaram.com>, <instogram.com>, <instragam.com>, <instrgram.com>, <instsagram.com>, <instsgram.com>, <intgram.com>, <intsagram.com>, <isntagram.com> and <istragram.com> be transferred to the Second Complainant.


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Habash, George,
1925?–2008, Palestinian guerrilla leader. When Israel was established (1948), he fled to Lebanon, where he attended the American Univ. of Beirut (M.D., 1951). He practiced medicine in Jordan during the 1950s. In 1953 he co-founded the Arab Nationalist Movement, which advocated pan-Arab action against Israel. Disenchanted with pan-Arabism after the 1968 Arab-Israeli WarArab-Israeli Wars,
conflicts in 1948–49, 1956, 1967, 1973–74, and 1982 between Israel and the Arab states. Tensions between Israel and the Arabs have been complicated and heightened by the political, strategic, and economic interests in the area of the great powers.
..... Click the link for more information. , Habash founded (1967) the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a member of the Palestine Liberation OrganizationPalestine Liberation Organization
(PLO), coordinating council for Palestinian organizations, founded (1964) by Egypt and the Arab League and initially controlled by Egypt.
..... Click the link for more information. . In the late 1960s and 1970s, PFLP mounted a terrorist campaign of bombings, kidnappings, and hijackings, e.g., the 1970 hijacking and destruction of four Western airliners. Its actions also precipitated a brief civil war in Jordan, which ended with the expulsion of Habash and the PFLP from the country. A longtime rival of Yasir ArafatArafat, Yasir or Yasser
, 1929–2004, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the coordinating body for Palestinian organizations, and head of Al Fatah, the largest group in the PLO.
..... Click the link for more information. and the leader of the Palestinian "rejectionist" wing, Habash denounced Arab-Israeli peace negotiations and opposed the 1993 Oslo accords. He retired from the PFLP leadership in 2000.
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The summer of 2012 will be remembered as a time when people around the world were caught up in events in the skies above Mars, where the rover Curiosity eventually touched down onto the red planet. Fifty years ago this summer there were strange doings in the skies above earth as well. In July 1962, eight airplanes, including five commercial flights, plummeted to the ground in separate crashes that killed hundreds. In a ninth incident that month, a vulture smashed through the cockpit window of an Indian Airlines cargo plane, killing the co-pilot. Higher in the atmosphere, cameras mounted in U-2 spy planes soaring above the Carribean captured images of Soviet ships that, unbeknownst to the U.S. at the time, were carrying missiles to Cuba.
In gray skies over Cape Cod, a 20-year-old telephone operator named Lois Ann Frotten decided to join her new fiancé in a celebratory jump from an airplane at 2,500 feet. It was her first attempt at skydiving. While her fiancé landed safely, Frotten's chute got tangled and failed to open fully. She tumbled end over end and landed feet-first in Mystic Lake with a terrific splash—and survived the half-mile free fall with a cut nose and two small cracked vertebrae. "I'll never jump again," she told rescuers as she was pulled from the lake.
But of all the things happening in the skies that summer, nothing would be quite as spectacular, surreal and frightening as the military project code-named Starfish Prime. Just five days after Americans across the country witnessed traditional Fourth of July fireworks displays, the Atomic Energy Commission created the greatest man-made light show in history when it launched a thermonuclear warhead on the nose of a Thor rocket, creating a suborbital nuclear detonation 250 miles above the Pacific Ocean.
In the fifty minutes that followed, witnesses from Hawaii to New Zealand were treated to a carnival of color as the sky was illuminated in magnificent rainbow stripes and an artificial aurora borealis. With a yield of 1.45 megatons, the hydrogen bomb was approximately 100 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima 17 years before. Yet scientists underestimated the effects of the bomb and the resulting radiation.
What Van Allen had discovered were the bands of high-energy particles that were held in place by strong magnetic fields, and soon known as the Van Allen Belts. A year later, he appeared on the cover of Time magazine as he opened an entirely new field of research—magnetospheric physics—and catapulted the United States into the race to space with the Soviet Union.
On the same day Van Allen held his press conference in May 1958, he agreed to cooperate with the U.S. military on a top-secret project. The plan: to send atomic bombs into space in an attempt to blow up the Van Allen Belts, or to at least disrupt them with a massive blast of nuclear energy.
The first Starfish Prime launch, on June 20, 1962, at Johnston Island in the Pacific, had to be aborted when the Thor launch vehicle failed and the missile began to break apart. The nuclear warhead was destroyed mid-flight, and radioactive contamination rained back down on the island.
Despite protests from Tokyo to London to Moscow citing "the world's violent opposition" to the July 9 test, the Honolulu Advertiser carried no ominous portent with its headline, "N-Blast Tonight May Be Dazzling; Good View Likely," and hotels in Hawaii held rooftop parties.
Just after 11 p.m. Honolulu time on July 9, the 1.45-megaton hydrogen bomb was detonated thirteen minutes after launch. Almost immediately, an electromagnetic pulse knocked out electrical service in Hawaii, nearly 1,000 miles away. Telephone service was disrupted, streetlights were down and burglar alarms were set off by a pulse that was much larger than scientists expected.
Both the Soviets and the United States conducted their last high-altitude nuclear explosions on November 1, 1962. It was also the same day the Soviets began dismantling their missiles in Cuba. Realizing that the two nations had come close to a nuclear war, and prompted by the results of Starfish Prime and continuing atomic tests by the Soviets, President John F. Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev signed the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty on July 25, 1963, banning atmospheric and exoatmospheric nuclear testing. And while the U.S. and the Soviet Union would continue their race to space at full throttle, for the time being, the treaty significantly slowed the arms race between the two superpowers.
Books: James Clay Moltz, The Politics of Space Security: Strategic Restraint and the Pursuit of National Interests, Stanford University Press, 2008. Rosemary B. Mariner and G. Kurt Piehler, The Atomic Bomb and American Society: New Perspectives, The University of Tennessee Press, 2009.


The answer will depend on how you define "risk". Unfortunately the financial services industry is fixated on the extent of volatility as a way of defining and measuring risk.
In my view the fact that equity type investments (both individual shares and funds) will fluctuate both upwards and downwards is not a risk; it is a certainty. And yet achieving even modest pension goals is almost impossible without using those types of investment.
Trying to reduce volatility will not even help you sleep better at nights. If your investments are going down in value – and that can't be avoided from time to time if you are going to get anywhere near your pension goals – you will still feel nervous and worried even if the fall is less than it would be with a fund with greater growth potential.
The nature of pension funds, whether you are just starting out on the journey, close to retirement, or already drawing from your pension fund, is that they are medium/long term investments.
Rather than reducing potential returns through an over-reliance on low volatility products my suggestion is that you should reduce risk by getting your cash flow planning right. Not a problem if you are young as the earliest you can take out anything from your pension fund is age 55.
If you are approaching 55 think seriously about your withdrawal strategy. If you are going to take out the maximum tax free cash sum of 25% at 55 you should be holding that as cash at least 12 months before. Think about starting to bank profits from age 50 onwards.
If you are already taking a regular income from your pension fund cash flow planning becomes even more important. Ideally you should always hold enough cash in your pension fund to be sure that you can sustain withdrawals for at least three years without having to sell any investments which may have fallen in value. The day you have to sell investments to support income withdrawals will inevitably be a bad day and from there recovery is almost impossible.
This is not easy. Someone needs to have the courage to tell you the truth. It is not enough to tell you values will fluctuate both upwards and downwards. If you are invested for ten years you are likely to experience two downturns of at least 10% and don't be surprised if one of them exceeds 30%. Sit through it and the recovery often takes less than a year and rarely more than two years.
It still won't be easy. But if you know this is likely to happen, accept it as the price of standing any chance of achieving your pension goals, and have someone by your side who has seen it all before, you should be able to get through it.
I am not a regulated financial adviser but my Retirement Coaching Service will set you on the right tracks, show you how to use the low cost, user friendly, online pension platforms effectively, understand what is going on, and give you the confidence that you are doing everything possible to achieve your pension goals.
So are you taking enough risks to achieve your pension goals? Probably not.
Should you be prepared to accept greater volatility in return for better returns? Almost certainly.
If you would like to know more just pop your details in the enquiry box or text me, Richard, on 07770 575122.
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Stress vs Anxiety: what are the differences?
Stress and anxiety can seem like very similar issues. They're certainly both negative and lead to tiredness, worry, distraction and irritability.
But there are some fundamental differences between stress and anxiety. And when you understand those differences, you're better equipped to deal with both issues—and help anyone suffering around you, too.
Stress is a natural reaction to external triggers. It's a response designed to energise you, to help you take action. Stress usually goes away once you solve the problem stressing you out.
Anxiety, however, is sustained. Anxiety has physical symptoms that stay with you, even after you tackle the underlying problems. It's not always a direct response to something external—though stress is a common trigger.
Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD)—this is a chronic sense of worry about everyday life. Someone suffering from GAD may find it hard to concentrate, feel like crying all the time, or even experience physical symptoms like nausea.
Social Anxiety Disorder—we can all feel nervous when faced with a new experience. But social anxiety disorder magnifies that tenfold. People suffering this may isolate themselves out of fear, or experience panic attacks when thinking about social interaction.
Panic Disorder—repeated sudden feelings of terror and panic attacks. These cause physical symptoms like heart palpitations, dizziness, chest pain and shortness of breath.
What are some anxiety and stress symptoms?
Of course, any one of these in isolation could be a symptom of something else entirely. But if you're experiencing high pressure at work or home, and begin to feel like some of these symptoms are kicking in, it might be time to visit your doctor.
Your doctor will ask questions about your work life and your home environment. This is purely to get a handle on what's causing your stress, and how badly—remember, there's a big difference between 'signs' and 'symptoms'. Medically, a sign presents itself externally, and is visible to others—a symptom is something you feel, and you need to explain to your doctor.
A doctor can see a rash caused by stress, but can't know about nausea unless you tell them. That's the difference. So be certain to let them know everything.
As we can see, the difference between anxiety and stress isn't always easy to spot. But if you feel worried, pressured or panicky even when your life is going well—that's the time to seek help.