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Windham County is a county located in the U.S. state of Vermont. As of the 2020 census, the population was 45,905. The shire town (county seat) is Newfane, and the largest municipality is the town of Brattleboro.

History
Fort Bridgman, Vernon, was burned in 1755, a casualty of the French and Indian War. The Court of Common Pleas (established 1768) of the County of Cumberland (established July 3, 1766) of the Province of New York was moved to the town of Westminster in 1772. On July 4, 1776, the Province of New York became an independent state.

On January 15, 1777, Vermont declared its independence from New York, and functioned as an independent republic until statehood in 1791. Cumberland County (N.Y.) and Gloucester County (N.Y.) were extinguished when Vermont declared its independence from New York; Albany County (N.Y.) and Charlotte County (now Washington County, N.Y.) were eliminated from Vermont.

Unity County was formed March 17, 1778, the eastern of the two original Vermont Republic counties. Unity County was renamed Cumberland County on March 21, 1778. Cumberland County and Bennington County (the eastern original county) exchanged land, adjusting their early border. On February 16, 1781 Rutland County was created from Bennington County, and Orange, Windham and Windsor Counties were created from Cumberland County. Some authors assume Cumberland County was renamed Windham County in 1781. Several original sources indicate Cumberland County was dissolved rather than renamed. This was probably to make a clean legal break from any connection with Cumberland County, New York, as some authors indicate the Cumberland County, Vermont Republic, records remained in Windham County. Newfane became the Shire Town of Windham County before 1812.

Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which  is land and  (1.6%) is water. It is the third-largest county in Vermont by land area.

Adjacent counties
 Windsor County - north
 Sullivan County, New Hampshire - northeast
 Cheshire County, New Hampshire - east
 Franklin County, Massachusetts - south
 Bennington County - west

Reservoirs
 Ball Mountain Lake
 Harriman Reservoir (also sometimes called Lake Whitingham or Whitingham Reservoir)
 Townshend Lake

National protected areas
 Green Mountain National Forest (part)
 Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge (part)

Demographics

2000 census
As of the census of 2000, 44,216 people, 18,375 households, and 11,447 families resided in the county. The population density was 56 people per square mile (22/km2). There were 27,039 housing units at an average density of 34 per square mile (13/km2). The county's racial makeup was 96.72% White, 0.50% Black or African American, 0.22% Native American, 0.79% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.32% from other races, and 1.42% from two or more races. 1.11% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 18.1% were of English, 13.3% Irish, 9.5% French, 8.9% American, 7.7% German, 6.0% Italian and 5.0% French Canadian ancestry. 95.9% spoke English, 1.3% Spanish and 1.2% French as their first language.

There were 18,375 households, of which 29.90% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.20% were married couples living together, 9.60% had a female householder with no husband present, and 37.70% were non-families. 29.70% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.20% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.35 and the average family size was 2.91.

In the county, the population was spread out, with 23.50% under the age of 18, 7.10% from 18 to 24, 28.10% from 25 to 44, 27.20% from 45 to 64, and 14.00% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females there were 95.00 males.  For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.80 males.

The county's median household income was $38,204, and the median family income was $46,989. Males had a median income of $31,094 versus $24,650 for females. The county's per capita income was $20,533. About 6.10% of families and 9.40% of the population were below the poverty line, including 12.00% of those under age 18 and 7.90% of those age 65 or over.

2010 census
As of the 2010 United States Census, 44,513 people, 19,290 households, and 11,453 families resided in the county. The population density was . There were 29,735 housing units at an average density of . The county's racial makeup was 95.3% white, 1.0% Asian, 0.9% black or African American, 0.3% American Indian, 0.5% from other races, and 2.0% from two or more races. Those of Hispanic or Latino origin made up 1.8% of the population. The largest ancestry groups were:
  21.8% Irish
  21.7% English
  12.3% French
  11.7% German
  8.6% Italian
  8.2% American
  5.5% Polish
  4.9% French Canadian
  4.5% Scottish
  3.2% Scotch-Irish
  3.0% Swedish
  1.2% Welsh

Of the 19,290 households, 26.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 44.8% were married couples living together, 10.1% had a female householder with no husband present, 40.6% were non-families, and 31.8% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 2.23 and the average family size was 2.79. The median age was 44.9 years.

The county's median household income was $46,714 and the median family income was $58,814. Males had a median income of $40,872 versus $33,278 for females. The county's per capita income was $27,247. About 6.3% of families and 11.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 13.3% of those under age 18 and 7.7% of those age 65 or over.

Politics and government
In 1828, Windham County was won by National Republican Party candidate John Quincy Adams and by Henry Clay in 1832.

From William Henry Harrison in 1836 to Winfield Scott in 1852, the county would vote the Whig Party candidates.

From John C. Frémont in 1856 to Richard Nixon in 1960, the Republican Party would have a 104-year winning streak within Windham County.

In 1964, the county was won by Democratic Party incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson, who became not only the first Democratic presidential candidate to win the county, but to win the state of Vermont entirely.

Following the Democrats victory in 1964, the county went back to voting for Republican candidates for another 16 year winning streak starting with Richard Nixon in 1968 and ending with Ronald Reagan in 1984, who became the last Republican presidential candidate to win the county, winning it with 54% of the vote to 45% for Walter Mondale.

In 1988 the county was won by Michael Dukakis and has been won by Democratic candidates ever since.

By some accounts, Windham County is now considered the 'bluest' county in the 'bluest' state in the USA. It was Vermont's bluest county in the 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012 U.S. presidential elections. Then-Vice President Al Gore won the county by an 18.4% margin over then-Texas Governor George W. Bush, with 53% of the vote to Bush's 34%. In 2004, John Kerry carried the county by a 35.2% margin over President Bush, with Kerry carrying the state by 20.1% over Bush. In 2008, Barack Obama won Windham by 48.1% margin over John McCain, with Obama winning by 37% over McCain statewide. In 2012, Obama won Windham County by a 48.7% margin over Mitt Romney.

In 2006, four towns in Windham County, Dummerston, Marlboro, Newfane, and Stratton, had their citizens pass resolutions supporting the proposed impeachment of President George W. Bush.

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County law enforcement
The Windham County Sheriff's Department is one source of law enforcement in this county especially in areas with no local police departments. Where no coverage exists, the Vermont State Police are the de facto law enforcement agency. The following towns maintain a contract with the Windham County Sheriff's Department for patrol services: Athens, Dummerston, Grafton, Guilford, Jamaica, Marlboro, Newfane, Putney, Townshend, Westminster, Windham, and Vernon.

In 2006, Sheriff Sheila Prue pled guilty to stealing department funds, using department equipment for personal use and for mismanagement of the department.

Transportation

Roads and highways
Windham County is crossed by:

Bus
Local bus service, particularly in and around Brattleboro and Bellows Falls, is provided by Connecticut River Transit's "The Current". The Current includes the entire Brattleboro BeeLine bus system, composed of the Red, Blue and White Lines, which also go to West Brattleboro and Hinsdale, New Hampshire. The Deerfield Valley Transit Association's fare-free MOOver serves mostly the southwestern portion of the county, especially the town of Wilmington and nearby ski areas. The MOOver also has bus connections to Bennington (in a partnership with the Green Mountain Express) to the west and Brattleboro, connecting to other local and intercity buses in both towns.

The national intercity bus service Greyhound serves Windham County with stops in Brattleboro and Bellows Falls daily.

Rail
Amtrak, the national intercity rail network, operates its Vermonter, running daily from St. Albans, Vermont to Washington, DC through Bellows Falls and Brattleboro with one daily northbound and southbound stop in both stations in the county.

Communities

Towns
In Vermont, towns are contiguous named places, subdivisions of counties, where there is permanent, year-round human population. They are usually formally incorporated, governing themselves in open town meetings (with very few exceptions), and their usual elected administrative body is called a selectboard. Though Brattleboro is by far the most populous town in the county, the historic "shire town" (county seat) is Newfane, and Windham County Superior Court is still there, as are the offices of the County Sheriff and the County Clerk.

 Athens
 Brattleboro
 Brookline
 Dover
 Dummerston
 Grafton
 Guilford
 Halifax
 Jamaica
 Londonderry
 Marlboro
 Newfane (shire town)
 Putney
 Rockingham
 Somerset
 Stratton
 Townshend
 Vernon
 Wardsboro
 Westminster
 Whitingham
 Wilmington
 Windham

Villages
Villages are named places and sometimes formal census divisions, but may or may not be incorporated separately within a town's borders.

Incorporated villages
 Bellows Falls
 Jacksonville
 Newfane
 Saxtons River
 Westminster

Census-designated places

 Algiers
 Brattleboro
 Chimney Hill
 Grafton
 Harmonyville
 Jamaica
 Londonderry
 North Westminster
 Putney
 South Londonderry
 Stratton Mountain (also in Winhall in Bennington County)
 Townshend
 Wardsboro
 West Brattleboro
 West Dummerston
 Whitingham
 Wilmington

Other villages

 Cambridgeport
 Dover
 Dummerston Center
 East Dover
 East Dummerston
 East Jamaica
 Halifax Center
 Houghtonville
 Rawsonville
 South Newfane
 South Wardsboro
 South Windham
 Wardsboro Center
 West Dover
 West Halifax
 West Townshend
 West Wardsboro
 Westminster Station
 Westminster West
 Williamsville

See also
 List of counties in Vermont
 List of towns in Vermont
 National Register of Historic Places listings in Windham County, Vermont
 Historical Society of Windham County

References

External links
 The Windham Regional Commission
 Windham County Sheriff's Department
 The Mount Snow Valley Chamber of Commerce
 The Historical Society of Windham County
 Windham County history and genealogy

1781 establishments in Vermont
Populated places established in 1781

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Home/Press Release/Mahindra Logistics on-boards women e-bike riders for its last-mile deliveries
Mahindra Logistics on-boards women e-bike riders for its last-mile deliveries
Mahindra Logistics Ltd. (MLL), one of India's leading providers of integrated logistics and mobility solutions, is committed to DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) in its workforce. MLL announced that it has partnered with women e-bike riders for its last-mile deliveries in an effort to achieve true equality. The initiative aims to bring about a significant change in the logistics industry by empowering women and ensuring their inclusion across all functions. MLL intends to make an impact in the logistics industry by providing women with equal opportunities, even in non-traditional logistics roles, allowing them to become self-reliant.
With this objective, MLL has appointed a total of 11 women riders for last-mile delivery across Mumbai, Bangalore and Nagpur in the first phase of this initiative. To make the process more efficient, Mahindra Logistics is working actively towards a robust execution of this initiative. Furthermore, the company is providing comprehensive training to the women candidates for safely riding e-bikes, operating last-mile delivery, and soft skills.
The organization stands by safety of its women drivers by deploying vehicles integrated with GPS tracking which enables MLL to trouble-shoot any concerns of prolonged stoppage or diversion from the designated route.
Commenting on the announcement, Mr. Rampraveen Swaminathan, MD & CEO, Mahindra Logistics, said: "We are delighted to be leading the way in hiring women e-bike drivers for last-mile delivery, as part of our commitment to promoting gender diversity in the workforce. We believe that equal opportunities create a more productive and successful workplace, and we are proud to be at the forefront of progressive initiatives that are enabling the logistics industry to transform. As a part of our expansion plans, on-boarding more women drivers, fleet owners and other transporters will be a major focus for us at MLL. We remain committed to our larger RISE purpose, by actively working towards creating an environment where women can thrive and contribute their unique skills and perspectives to our organization and the society as a whole."
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Home » News & Speeches » First arbitral tribunals constituted under ICC expedited procedures
First arbitral tribunals constituted under ICC expedited procedures
The first arbitral tribunals under the recently-enacted expedited procedure provisions of the 2017 ICC Rules of Arbitration have been constituted in the course of the past three months.
Expedited proceedings apply to all arbitrations introduced under the ICC Rules, where the arbitration agreement is signed on or after 1 March 2017 and the overall amount in dispute does not exceed US$ 2 million. Parties may elect to opt out of the expedited provisions, while the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce may also decide not to apply them if it considers it inappropriate in the circumstances of a specific case.
Parties may also elect to opt in to the expedited provisions regardless of the amount in dispute or the date of conclusion of the arbitration agreement. In fact, it is by express party agreement that the first seven cases are now being managed under expedited provisions.
In most cases to date, party agreement was reached when filing the Answer to the Request for Arbitration and upon the Secretariat's invitation for the joinder of additional parties. In one case, opt-in of the parties occurred only after the arbitral tribunal had been constituted and, specifically, was expressed during the case management conference.
The first disputes submitted to expedited proceedings cover a wide array of economic activities and sectors including industrial engineering, energy, pharmaceutical products, finance and hotel development.
The choice of language in the majority of proceedings is English while the place of arbitration varies from Vienna to Hong Kong, Singapore, Paris and London in line with the most frequently selected cities according to the recently-published ICC Arbitration statistics.
It is worth noting that in all expedited proceeding cases so far the parties agreed to submit to a sole arbitrator – either under the original arbitration agreement or subsequently. In one case, the parties agreed that the sole arbitrator shall be appointed by the Court. In other cases, the parties preferred to first attempt to jointly nominate the sole arbitrator for confirmation by the Secretary General.
Under the new expedited procedure, parties stand to benefit from streamlined arbitration with reduced scales of arbitrator fees. Under the ICC Rules, the arbitral award must also be made within six months from the case management conference, with extensions granted only in limited and justified circumstances.
ICC Court President Alexis Mourre said: "In the world of international commerce, time and cost management are key factors of success, to business and governments alike. ICC's expedited procedure guarantees that disputes will be managed as expeditiously and cost-efficiently as possible by a trusted and neutral institution."
As the world's leading arbitral institution, the ICC Court introduced the expedited procedure as part of a series of steps taken to foster the efficiency and the transparency of ICC Arbitration. The newly-amended ICC Arbitration Rules came into effect on 1 March 2017.
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Multiple regression analysis of salary vs rank/step. As indicated in Table 1, the simplest model with only demographic variables shows women earn salaries that are 14% lower, Asian and URM faculty earn 4%, compared to their colleagues who are white and male. Two percent of salary variation is explained by this model. As control factors are added to the model, salary differences change with women and Asian faculty earning 3% more, and URM faculty earn 1% less, compared to white male faculty. The percentage of salary variation explained by the model increases to 92%.
The results indicate there isn't a statistically significant difference in progression rate means by gender when compared to white male faculty. URM faculty, however, progress approximately four and a half years slower (p=0.01). Normative progression is defined in the Progression Matrix.


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Todd Haley Doing The Job The Steelers Hired Him To Do
By Luke Shabro
Posted on December 21, 2014 at 9:02 am
Three years ago, Pittsburgh Steelers ownership decided that they were tired of their $100 million quarterback being banged up. The Rooneys made a huge investment into quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and didn't want to see that investment squandered in a pass happy offense that was getting Big Ben killed. So previous offensive coordinator Bruce Arians was "retired" and in came polarizing Todd Haley.
Haley was brought in to establish a strong running game, enhance the quick passing game, and keep Roethlisberger upright and healthy. Throughout Haley's first two years with the Steelers, fans couldn't wait for him to be fired. There's been a constant stream of grievances about Haley's relationship with Roethlisberger, his "dink and dunk" offense, and of course his play calling.
However, three years into his tenure, Haley's offense is among the most dangerous in the league. He benefits from having a top 5 quarterback, running back, and wide receiver. Big Ben, Le'Veon Bell and Antonio Brown have been breaking NFL and Steelers records left and right this season. The best set of "triplets" in the league deserves the lion's share of the credit, but you can't put all the blame on Haley for the Steelers offensive woes and give him no props for how well the offense is doing.
The Steelers are number one in the league in yards per game with 424.9 yards per game. They are averaging 118 rushing yards per game and 4.4 yards per carry.
Pittsburgh has the second best passing attack in the NFL averaging 306.7 passing yards per game.
Roethlisberger has the fourth best passer rating in the NFL (103.4); only Aaron Rodgers, Tony Romo, and Peyton Manning are ahead of him. He has been sacked 32 times (good for 17th in the NFL) which is a far cry from being one of the most sacked quarterbacks in the NFL over a four year period under Arians. Most importantly, Big Ben hasn't missed a game since 2012 (Knock on wood).
While Haley has done a much better job than he is often given credit for, this offense still has three major shortcomings. The first is getting off to slow starts. It would be encouraging to see the Steelers come out and score easily on their opening drive and not start with a couple three and outs. The second problem is one that has been plaguing them since the Arians days: failing to score touchdowns in the red zone. Every offense wants to score every time they get to the end zone but the Steelers have to get better in the red zone if they want to make it to the playoffs and make some noise. Finally, consistency is a big problem. The Steelers offense looks like an all time great one in one week and then lays an egg the next week. That can't happen in the final two weeks of the season.
All in all, Haley has done the job he was hired to do. Steelers fans will continue to call for his job the next time he uses more than two bubble screens in a game but will be lamenting his loss if he is hired away this offseason.
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LOWELL -- A 10-fold increase of life insurance coverage for certain school district employees has been postponed at least a year, according to Paul Georges, president of the United Teachers of Lowell.
The issue was put "aside for next year to look at other options" by mutual agreement of the union and School Committee, according to Mayor Bill Samaras. The agreement was negotiated in July.
"It was a good-faith effort by both parties to get that solved," Georges said.
For close to three decades, life insurance policies for the teachers, paraprofessionals, custodians and cafeteria workers represented by UTL have held steady at $2,000, Georges said.
In June 2017, the district agreed to a union contract that would increase life insurance to $20,000. The increase was slated to take effect in the second year of the contract, which began this summer. The same contract also okayed nine percent raises for all workers over a three-year period.
When asked why the life insurance increase was put aside, Samaras mentioned the district's finances.
"There's a new School Committee and there's a need to look at what we can and cannot afford," he said.
The district currently faces a more than $1.6 million deficit, according to presentations by interim Assistant Superintendent of Finance Billie Jo Turner in August.
Samaras said he did not have an "exact figure" for how much money increasing the life insurance policies could cost the district.
He said he could not comment on the details of the agreement, since these negotiations were discussed during executive session.
Insurance companies receive rate payments from the district's budget. Life insurance, unlike sick leave, is not an unfunded liability.
According to Georges, during negotiations a city employee raised concerns regarding the legal implications of increasing life insurance coverage.
When asked, Human Relations Manager Mary Callery, who handles both life insurance for city and school employees, said she was not familiar with the outcome of the negotiations this summer.
Superintendent Jeannine Durkin provided the following statement when asked about life insurance for school employees.
"The district is reviewing UTL contract language regarding life insurance at this time," she wrote in an email. "We are also currently in negotiations with the UTL relative these benefits for members."
Georges said employees have been notified of the change. Independent of the district, teachers have a $10,000 accidental death coverage from the American Federation of Teachers, he said.
The agreement to delay the contracted increase, occurred before the School Committee voted 4-3 to place Superintendent Salah Khelfaoui on administrative leave.


First year Forensic Science students enrolled on Essentials of Forensic Investigation (FSCI1050) are eligible to participate in this opportunity. The maximum number of places on this opportunity is 25 and the minimum the trip will go ahead with is 10. DMU staff will be accompanying the group.
This trip will focus on placing criminal justice into historic context, through the Prison Museum and Peace Palace. This will show the ancient history of how justice used to be delivered, and then the major societal changes which drove the shift towards rights-based justice. The Hague's role as an international centre of policing will then be highlighted through examining the role of Europol in coordinating criminal investigations across the continent.
The NFI will not be visited, but forensic scientists from the organisation will explain the role that forensic science plays within the Dutch courts and also their internationally renowned research and innovation. The ICC will show how courts use evidence (including forensic evidence) in making their decisions and also focus on the devastating crimes which are prosecuted through their courtrooms.
students will be able to visit as part of this opportunity. This will likely include a visit to the Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery to see the world-renowned Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring.
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Baby tech makers, please figure out what parents actually need
Originally published December 18, 2017
For the past 19 months, my wife and I have been living with another human.
He can get cranky, and he's sometimes a picky eater. But he can also flash a smile that melts your heart.
I'm talking about my toddler son, Theodore.
As a tech reporter and the producer of CNET's Status Update podcast about parenting in the modern age, I'm often asked how much kid tech I own.
The answer: Not much.
And that's notable because I'm a tech fan boy. I get a new iPhone every year, I regularly geek out over new software, and I can't wait to play the Nintendo Switch with Theodore when he's older.
When it comes to stuff that's supposed to help me in my life as a dad, there are plenty of products that pass the "oh, that's clever" test. But few justify their price by truly upending the way I parent today.
That's a problem, and not just because needy and sometimes desperate parents could really use some good tech to help with their kids.
It's also an issue because bad products may end up hurting an industry that's still so small that few analyst firms follow it. Electronics accounted for less than 9 percent of baby product sales in 2015, according to industry watcher GfK. The top purchases by parents: food products, car seats and strollers.
That's part of the reason founders like Naya Health's CEO Janica Alvarez are frustrated by venture capitalists who just don't appear to understand women in technology at all. In one case, a male VC refused to touch her company's flagship product, the $999 Naya Smart Breast Pump. He called it "disgusting," she told Bloomberg. (Alvarez successfully turned to Kickstarter for her second product, a $79 smart bottle, due early next year).
That kind of resistance, mixed with the typical white-male heavy demographicof the tech industry, has slowed the evolution of baby tech products.
"They've tried to build a better mousetrap instead of disrupting an industry," said Sara Mauskopf, CEO of Winnie, an app to connect parents and help them find stuff to do nearby. "It's a lack of founders with the right background and insight into the problem."
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Q: return data from jquery $.post I want to have a simple function where i can insert a sqlQuery and get a database answer in json-format like this:
  function ExecuteQuery(query){
    $.post("sql.php", { "query": query },
     function(data){ return data;  },
     "json");
   }

The response i get is undefined, I think i have misunderstood something quite basic but i don't know what, can anybody give me a hint?

A: The problem is that you want something you cannot have :-)  Instead of thinking in terms of a function that returns a value, write yourself a function that takes another function as an argument and calls it when the data is available.
function ExecuteQuery(query, callback){
  $.post("sql.php", { "query": query },
   function(data){ callback(data);  },
   "json");
 }

Now, when you call that function, you'll pass it a function that can take the server response and do something with it.
ExecuteQuery("whatever", function(results) {
  // do something with "results"
});

A: You need to do something with the data - you can't just return it. The outer function returns instantly, but the inner function returns later, after the server round-trip. Try doing alert(data) to see how it works.

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World famous Catalan architect (1852-1926)
Antoni Gaudí helped the Catalan architecture to worldwide fame and reputation. Gaudí was also an architect and designer with a special ability to synthesise their own tradition and the courage to new technical solutions. He understood to integrate creative and plastic elements in his buildings.
In the footsteps of Antoni Gaudí
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Antoni Gaudí was born in 1852 in the Catalan town of Reus as the son of a craftsmen. In Barcelona, he studied architecture; he concluded his studies in 1878. During this time Catalonia experienced a period of cultural and political rebirth, the Renaixença, at a time of economic and urban growth. A big bourgeoisie patronage wanted not to mix with European currents.
The 1888 World's Fair awarded the generation of the modernisme the main impulses. Gaudí overcame the prevailing historical styles of the eclecticism of the 19th century and developed his own aesthetic with its own distinctive, but difficult to classify style.
Gaudí creation is closely linked to his patron, the industrialist and financier Güell. He has not only a considerable number of orders, but he stocked it with a high prestige.
Even at a young age Gaudí was instructed with the construction of the Sagrada Familia, he later devoted exclusively his power to the church.
Gaudí is also a great craftsperson. In collaboration with artists of his time, he designed all the architectural space filled elements: works from forged iron, furniture, ceramics, sculptures, mosaics and stained glass windows. His forms were always organic, curved and into the building.
Gaudí had not only followers in life, his daring forms cried out protest from his critics. Over the years they calmed and today you witness his due recognition.
Antoni Gaudí died in 1926 after a traffic accident.
In 1984, several of his works where on the list of world cultural heritage of UNESCO: the crypt and Facade of Birth of the Sagrada Familia, Casa Vicens, Casa Milà, Casa Batlló and the crypt of the Colonia Güell.
Gaudí's works in Barcelona
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With our proposal tour, you will learn about the works of Antoni Gaudí. On one day we show you the main buildings and places where the most famous representatives of Modernism are immortalized.
The Sagrada Familia basilica
The Sagrada Familia church is the most famous landmark Barcelona by Antoni Gaudí. Since 1883 Gaudí worked at the church. Towards the end of his life, he dedicated himself only to the Sagrada Familia.
One of the masterpieces of the younger Antoni Gaudí near the Ramblas. Gaudí worked here from 1886-1888.
Parc Güell
This park is a work of art, created by Antoni Gaudí from 1900-1914. There should be 60 houses in the park to be built, the people should live and work.
Like a Dragon back looks the Casa Battló, which Gaudí built between 1904 and 1906.
Whoever comes to see this structure is going to be absolutely fascinated. A house without the right angle attached, the shapes are organic. Gaudí built the Casa Milà from 1906-1910.
Torre de Bellesguard
The Torre de Bellesguard is one of Gaudi's works that is awarded only little importance. For sure without good reason, since you can see several elements in the Bellesguard, that he perfected in his later works. Bellesguard was Gaudi's only work for which he had to search for a building contractor. With this building, Gaudi executed a tribute to the middle age and interpreted the gothic in his own way.
Not listed works of Gaudí
Casa Vicens (1883-1888). metro "Lesseps" oder "Gràcia"
Pavellons Güell (1884-1887), metro "Palau Reial
Casa Calvet (1898-1900), metro "Urquinaona"
Colònia Güell (from 1898, partly completed in 1916), Sants Vicenç dels Horts
Parc de la Ciutadella, Dragons at the well, metro Arc de Triomf
Plaça Reial, lantern, metro "Drassanes"
We have a Gaudí tour. With this, we will guide you in an entertaining tour one day to the most important works of this extraordinary architect.
Antoni Gaudí - the brilliant Catalan architect
Further personalities of Barcelona
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To cut emissions from cattle ranching, beef up the soil, study says
By dragonarmy | December 20, 2022
Flying this November into a remote region of the Orinoquía savanna in Vichada, Colombia, environmental biologist Jacobo Arango could spot the Hacienda San José cattle ranch that his team was using as an open-air laboratory. From the sky, he could see the farm's greener hue of grass standing out against neighboring pastures. There, he and […]
The Climate-Resilient Fisheries Toolkit can help you build resilience now
By Jeff Young Climate change and overfishing are increasingly straining fisheries and marine ecosystems, putting marine biodiversity, the nutrition of people in coastal communities and global food supply at greater risk. Fishers, community leaders and practitioners worldwide are poised to take action, but often grapple with uncertainty, limited data or insufficient resources. Meanwhile, the journey of […]
Regenerative agriculture in Mexico boosts yields while restoring nature
NUEVO MEXICO, Mexico — Standing in her cornfield in Chiapas state, surrounded by mountains and dry tropical forests, Maria Luisa Gordillo Mendoza looks concerned. "They said we were pigs for sowing like this," she says of the other farmers' reaction to her fields covered with sticks and old corn husks and dotted with lanky trees. […]
Community-based seed banks in Nepal help conserve native species
By dragonarmy | July 14, 2022
MARAMCHE, NEPAL— The monsoon clouds that arrive in Nepal in the first week of June herald the start of the rice-planting season. The country's hills, valleys and plains turn green as farmers take to their muddy fields to start sowing the crop that will feed them for the whole year. As most farmers turn to […]
Return to agroforestry empowers women in Nepal
By dragonarmy | July 8, 2022
KAVRE, Nepal – Srijana Karki still remembers her childhood when she visited her grandfather's farm. "The green fields were dotted with various fruit trees and we would get to eat different varieties of fruits from the farm," Karki, South Asia director at the NGO World Neighbors, says. But these days, when she visits the farm, […]
For fisheries in the Caribbean, life revolves around the climate… and our climate resilience
By: Eduardo "Lalo" Boné Morón, Senior Manager, EDF Cuba Oceans Program Juan Carlos Duque, Project Manager of the Biological Corridor in the Caribbean of UNEP José "Pepe" Gerhartz, Conservation Specialist of the CBC Secretariat "Life revolves around the climate," says José Luis "Pepe" Gerhartz, a senior conservation specialist from the Caribbean Biological Corridor Initiative, or […]
Supporting climate-resilient fisheries during the UN Decade of Ocean Science
By EDF's Jacob Eurich and Kristin Kleisner, and Kathy Mills, Gulf of Maine Research Institute Fisheries, including the systems for harvesting, processing and marketing blue foods, are an important pillar of many economies, supporting hundreds of millions of livelihoods. Small-scale fisheries and aquaculture produce more than half of the global fish catch and two-thirds of […]
Leadership in focus — building to a more sustainable future for small-scale fisheries
By dragonarmy | June 7, 2022
By Bavidra Mohan, Director of Acumen Academy, and Jeff Young, Senior Manager, Global Capacity Development, Environmental Defense Fund The small-scale fisheries sector is a powerful example of our interconnectedness. Small-scale fisheries employ 90% of all fishworkers globally, supplying nearly half of the world's fish catch each year. In addition to feeding coastal communities, seafood harvested […]
Climate change is causing fishery problems, but we can solve them
By dragonarmy | April 21, 2022
By Eric Schwaab, Rod Fujita and Jacqui Vogel Climate change is already transforming the distribution and abundance of fish stocks around the world. Warming temperatures, lower pH levels and many other factors are causing many fish species to shift to better habitats and others to shrink in abundance. This is problematic for the communities that […]


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Al Quseir is one of the Egyptian gateways and one of the oldest cities on the western coast of the Red Sea. In the past it was known by various names such as Thagho in the pharaohs period, Licos Limen (the white port) in the Ptolemaic period and Portus Albus in the Roman period. In the Islamic period it was given the name Al Quseir which means small palace or fortress.
Located between Hurghada and Marsa Alam, Al Quseir used to be an important port. Many people traveled from there to the land of Punt to buy ivory, leather and incense.
During the Ottoman and the Islamic periods, Egyptians and Muslims from North Africa traveled from Quseir as pilgrims to Mecca. It was also the only port importing coffee from Yemen. During the French occupation of Egypt, Quseir was the arrival point for Arabs and Muslims from Hegaz coming to fight beside the Mamalic against the french army.
The two most important sites to visit in Quseir are the fort and the water reservoir. The water reservoir was Quseir's only source of drinking water 100 years ago.
Al Quseir Al Kadima is another important site to , it was the old Roman port where hundreds of amphora and old pottery artifacts were found, even the police station is an historical site.
There are now many bazaars as well as cafes, coffe shops and restaurants offering great sea food.
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Q: How lock the unlock screen after wrong password attempts? I enabled pam_tally2 to lock a user after several password attempts. It works well at the TTY, login screen and ssh.
However, I usually lock the screen when leaving the computer. You can type as many wrong passwords as you want at the unlocking screen, while the account won't be locked like pam_tally2.
Is there any way to lock the user after several wrong attempts when unlocking the screen?


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SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 28, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Neura (https://www.theneura.com), the leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform for user awareness, today announced the release of two new solutions - Neura for Connected Car and Neura for Transportation. As with all new solutions, Neura has conducted extensive testing with partners and customers to determine the best offerings for each solution based on market need and in what ways Neura's physical world user awareness can meet these requirements.
The average American spends 52 minutes of their day commuting to work. In countries like Israel, India, the United Arab Emirates and Hong Kong, the time expands to more than 90 minutes a day. With so much time being spent in the car, drivers are demanding a more personalized experience while in the vehicle, while cities are looking for ways to alleviate traffic and interact better with vehicles within their city limits. The problem has continued to worsen with congestion and traffic nearly doubled over the last ten years in The San Francisco Bay Area alone.
Neura's new solutions enable parking, airline and commute apps to interact with users in the moment. Meanwhile, connected car products address driver safety and situation awareness, while providing a more personalized experience for all the passengers in the car.
Neura enables companies launching upgraded connected cars and transportation apps to fully understanding who each user is, then anticipate and adapt to their needs throughout the day. This data is critical for apps and vehicles to respond to physical world variables such as a driver that has had little sleep or a carpool with several people with very different music tastes.
Neura is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform company that enables companies to reach their customers at precise, meaningful moments across mobile apps and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Neura's AI engine integrates with more than 80 connected devices to ensure sophisticated situational awareness for each individual consumer and offers a library of API calls designed to provide customized, highly relevant engagement. The Neura solution offers a better way to personalize consumers' app experiences and utilize the full potential of the connected environment, while ensuring sensitive data remains safe and secure.
Founded in 2013, Neura is a privately held company backed by AXA Strategic Partners, Pitango Venture Capital, Liberty Israel Fund and Lenovo Group. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and with R&D operations in Herzliya, Israel. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn, or find more information at www.theneura.com.


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The 3 P's for Greater Effectiveness of Frontline Leaders
The frontline leader role is always stressful. Consider this: they get stress from both sides. Their senior leaders are always on them, "You need to train your people, make them more effective, hold them accountable, be a good coach," and so on. And, all the people reporting to them are always complaining up. They have to be a mediator and chief explainer of everything that happens to team members. And, a lot of times, they don't get the training to handle it all. Now, add in a remote work environment, changing return to work plans and other challenges caused by Covid-19, and it's magnified even more.
In addition to being that great trainer, coach, performance manager, mediator, accountability partner, etc., now frontline leaders have to be a medical expert and prognosticator: "What's going to happen? What's the future look like? What's the company saying?" These frontline leaders have become the givers of hope that things will get better.
As a result, they have a lot more on their plate these days. And so, senior leaders, because they feel like they're being effective, are constantly bombarding the frontline leaders with more and more information. It's coming from the top and they're hoping frontline leaders understand it and institute it in the company for them. We all know what happens after these kinds of meetings. Announcements like this come out to the group:
Here's the new way we're operating…
Here's how we're pivoting with our product offerings…
Here's how we're gonna attack the next three months…
We're taking our offerings online…
After that meeting, inevitably contributors walk into their manager's office with questions and concerns. "What about this? I didn't understand that. I don't agree with this." So, they're back to having to wear a really big hat to consume all that themselves and still be that impartial, calming voice.
What can senior leaders to assist their frontline leaders during this unprecedented time?
It's about three things for senior leaders to do, not the frontline leader:
Pause with patience.
Practice for perfection.
Praise for progress.
What does "pause" mean?
The first step, pause, is meant to help senior leaders take a moment to stop and consider the amount of pressure their frontline leader is under. Don't ask the frontline leader, "Are you doing OK? Oh, and here's a list of everything you need to do." Pause to understand what's already on their plate and how they've been showing up lately.
It's important to ask frontline leaders critical questions like, "How is this affecting your leadership? What challenges does it present to you? What can I do to help?" Dig into what's causing them stress before challenging them with additional projects and processes. That's what will get their buy in. It's also where you'll find the blind spots, too. Remember, we're asking them to alleviate fears or calm the fears of everybody else, but what about them? So, pause and take a moment to have more than just a meeting. Make it a coaching session or connection session to better learn what kind of support we need to give that frontline leader.
Typically, frontline leaders get lists from senior leadership on what to do and when to do it. You know the documents, 14 things to say about a new procedure, how to respond to FAQs, and where to send folks with more questions you can't answer. But we don't ever practice what these documents say. We just give it to those frontline leaders and move on. It's critical for all leaders, senior and frontline, to set time aside to practice and test these documents before rolling them out to the company.
Practice provides opportunity to consider what might happen when something new is rolled out to the team. Many senior leaders like to think they come up with every scenario and practice it themselves, and then give you talking points. But the frontline leaders know what's really going to happen with their team. Why not practice that craft before it happens? Nothing creates more anxiety in those frontline performers than ambiguity.
So, take time to practice messaging and the frontline leadership and frontline performer interaction and what that could really look like.
Praise for Progress
In this day and age, we are trying to get through each day and then move on to the next. And while that's all well and good, because we need to be nimble and pivot, this approach doesn't give us time to give feedback to our frontline performers. We should give authentic praise and thank them for what they're doing, pointing out the good things they've accomplished with their teams. For real progress to occur, the senior leader must set up time to observe the frontline leader. Unfortunately, many of us feel too busy or pulled into too many directions to do that right now.
However, that's where the value and growth of your leadership team comes from — taking time to point out, "Hey, when you were asked this question, you answered it this way and that was excellent, because it gets us closer to accomplishing our team goal." It calms the nerves of others, gives better clarity, or shows you were listening compassionately. That's the kind of praise that creates growth. It helps frontline leaders understand what they're doing well and encourages them to do it more often.
Too often we turn praise on its head and we talk about punishment or negative feedback. "You had a good meeting but you said this wrong, and you did this wrong, and you did this wrong, etc…" So, praise the behavior you want, celebrate the progress that's attached to it, and try to deal with mistakes in a way that still grows people and keeps them productive and moving forward.
Pause, practice, and praise. The key result here, in my opinion, is to build leaders in these times of struggle and uncertainty.
You don't become a good sailor by navigating calm seas.
2020 has provided us with the amazing opportunity to build better leaders in 2021 by helping them understand how to steward people through rough times.
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Will Iceland be Handed Over to a New Gang of Kleptocrats?
For Iceland's voters in the election last Saturday the issues were more pragmatic than a supposed unseating of the right by the left, the trend most emphasized in news coverage. The country's main problem is reckless neoliberal bank privatization and the proposed responses are not inherently left or right as such. At issue is whether voters have become so desperate in the wake of crooks wrecking the financial system that they will seek a more stable currency (the euro) by joining Europe on terms that forfeit control over Iceland's North Atlantic fishing waters and burden taxpayers with unprecedented public debt, to compensate British, Dutch and other European bank depositors and speculators for their losses?
Europe would not dare make such a demand on the United States for the bad packages of junk mortgages it bought and for its losses when Lehman Brothers went bankrupt. But Iceland is a small country and may be easier and riper for plucking. For many voters the idea of joining the European Union is an attractive fantasy – adopting the euro to solve Iceland's financial problems. The alternative is for the country simply to change its destructive bank rules and reverse the giveaways made in times past to politically connected insiders. The victorious Social Democrats favor joining Europe, the Left-Green and formerly dominant Independence Party do not, while the centrist and largely rural Progressive Party (for many decades the second leading party) is wary but at least is willing to discuss the terms on which EU membership might benefit Iceland.
Everyone is against the oligarchy's insiders who ran up the debts. That is why their major sponsor, the Independence Party, lost one-third of its electoral support (down to just 20 per cent from its usual 33-35 per cent), the lowest percentage of votes and seats in the parliament (Althing) in the 80 years since it was founded in 1930. The days of the kleptocracy are over – and there is scarcely more sympathy for the foreign lenders and savers who were the enablers of these insiders. But voters are wary of the financial stance England and the rest of Europe have taken against Iceland, and of arrangements with the International Monetary Fund. Former Independence Prime Minister (and later head of the central bank) David Oddsson is adamant that Iceland's government and people not take responsibility for these bad debts, and shares the view I found to be unanimous among Icelanders: These crooks betrayed the country. The myth of deregulated "free" enterprise has been broken, and privatization is seen to have been a euphemism for kleptocracy.
I recently returned from a week in Iceland – a week in which I met with politicians and former prime ministers, financial officials, university professors and students, film makers, TV hosts and "just plain people." The terms "left" and "right" did not arise in a single conversation. The focus was on Iceland's pro-creditor practice of indexing consumer mortgages and other debts – a 17 per cent "inflation" premium for creditors based on the consumer price index (in effect, the Icelandic krónur's exchange rate, as most consumer goods are imported), on top of the normal nearly 6 per cent mortgage interest, leading a number of Icelanders to tell me they had lost their home to foreclosing bankers. Nobody can pay 23 per cent interest rates on mortgages for long while house prices are plunging, along with the economy at large. Most families are now paying by running down their savings, trying to carry debts that are practically unpayable.
This explains the population's desire for a stable currency. It would remove the onerous interest rate add-on. Originally, wages as well as debts were indexed, Brazilian style. But one day the wage index was dropped, keeping the financial index on the spurious rationalization that it was a "contractual" payment for property, and agreements with labor were less legally grounded. In other words, big fish eat little fish. No creditor class, regardless of how greedy and aggressive, has ever achieved anything like this law. Yet Iceland let it happen – despite the country's heavy homeownership-on-credit. Joining the euro is widely viewed as easier than changing the law to get rid of this debt fee, unique to Iceland among all countries of the world. I find this legalistic inertia incredible, but it seems to be a testament to Iceland's faith in law, however crazy that may be.
The currency collapse was caused by the bankruptcy and nationalization of Iceland's three major banks (Glitnir, Kaupthing and Landsbanki), which engaged in a wave of hubristic incompetence and outright fraud after being privatized in a series of insider dealings in 2002-03. These banks went under owing nearly $100 billion, but nobody knows just how much, or even who really is on the other end of many of the transactions involved. A special prosecutor has been retained to discover the details, which are still opaque.
n fact, Iceland is in many ways like the post-Soviet kleptocracies. But instead of emerging out of Komsomol, Red Directors and other vestiges of the Communist Party's bureaucracy, Iceland's kleptocrats emerged from the great landowners and politically powerful families that have dominated the nation for centuries, long before it achieved independence from Denmark in 1944, at a time when Denmark was overrun by the Nazis and independence represented a pro-Allied position.
Privatization of Iceland's fishing grounds and their licenses
When the North Atlantic became free of German U-boats after the war, British trawlers competed with Icelandic fishing boats for the rich cod and other fish. After a series of showdowns extending into the 1970s, Iceland became the leader in establishing the 200-mile limit to define international sea rights – thanks largely to U.S. support, which Iceland has reciprocated politically ever since.
The Law of the Sea treaty deals with the issue of to whom the natural resources of the seas belong. To maintain the fish population (at least, that is the stated logic), Iceland issued licenses representing a specified proportion of the annual permitted catch, whose magnitude was set each year based on the estimated fish population. In contrast to classical economic practice, these licenses were not auctioned off each year by the government so as to recover fair value for the nation's natural resource in the sea. Rather, the licenses were issued much like taxicab licenses in New York City: once issued, they became permanent, and naturally have risen in market price over time. The initial holders – the leading political insiders a century ago – have bequeathed them to their heirs, to be rented out to the actual fishermen or simply kept them in the family. Iceland's Treasury receives no benefit from harvest the seas. Licenses simply have become a rent-extraction fee, a payment to the former insiders and their successors.
Under competitive bidding, the potential licensee would calculate the market value of whatever resources they reckon can be extracted, calculate their costs of extraction and their targeted profit margin. The sea legally belongs to the Icelandic people, and the government would receive the proceeds. But today, the heirs or others who obtained the quota licenses from the original insiders from the 1980s receive this money. So it is no surprise that many Icelanders are so disgusted at the privatization of fishing licenses that they may not care if Iceland loses its fishing rights. After all, under the current rent-extracting system, the losers would be the owners of these artificially designed licenses, not the Icelandic people.
But this attitude loses sight of a highly desirable alternative – one that should appeal on free market grounds to the two traditional centrist parties as well as to the "left" because it is so economically fair: Auction off the fishing quotas each year, with the benefit going to the Icelandic people as part of the public budget, as should be the case with natural resources including the land itself. It is not necessary to join Europe, give its insiders fishing rights and its bankers the rights to create credit (which should be viewed as a public utility) to achieve fiscal efficiency.
The Icesave tangle with Britain
The other conflict with Britain concerns the Landsbanki's Icesave branches, which paid high enough interest rates to convince the Labour government to direct its local neighborhood councils to show "fiduciary responsibility" by placing their savings where rates were highest. It was as if high interest premiums were not a compensation for risk. And because Icesave took the form of local branches of Icelandic banks, Britain took no role in regulation or oversight of its own. I find this typical British economic incompetence, but it is in the character of incompetent governments to try to blame whomever else they can. So they reimbursed their depositors in full, and demanded that Iceland's government tax its own people as if these deposits were public loans!
To force the issue, Britain froze the accounts of all its Icelandic bank branches, including those of Kaupthing on the Isle of Man. This prevented them from remitting funds out of the country, forcing the head offices back in Iceland into insolvency. The only law at hand for this financial grab was emergency anti-terrorist legislation, presumably against Irish and Arab groups. Britain branded Iceland as a terrorist country, while acting in a financially violent way itself. Icelanders naturally found it unreasonable that after having taken high interest charges, Britain should insist that its depositors not suffer any capital loss at all – in contrast to the huge losses they suffered in the U.S. and other foreign markets (not to mention Northern Rock and other reckless domestic mortgage lenders). But with some Icelanders thinking of bank debts as "our" debts, why not make as large demands as possible, despite the double standard obviously at work? (Imagine what the response would be if, say, Germany would accuse America of being a terrorist economy in order to seize U.S. assets to compensate for the losses that banks in Düsseldorf and Saxony suffered on U.S. subprime mortgages.)
Many U.S. newspaper reporters played along by calling Iceland "Vikings" and preferring to "Viking finance" to the more politically sensitive "oligarchy." But the implication of a rough-and-tumble Nordic Wild West is silly. Iceland has no standing army, and America's former NATO base has become Reykjavik's international airport (and a long drive it is into the city proper – but pleasantly scenic through the volcanic island and the almost perpetual rainbows resulting from the fact that it always seems to be raining somewhere in the sea-laden air). Iceland's hard-working and closely-knit population is as middle-class as one could imagine, with the world's highest home ownership rates, high educational standards, and typically Nordic social welfare system and communalist values. It is a Scandinavian-type social democracy, but much more local in scale. And that may be part of the problem. Many Icelanders are so middle-class that they believe that paying bad bank gambles is a matter of honor, as if these were personal debts among neighbors. But the big banks were not like most neighbors, and engaged in deep financial fraud. This required complicity of the foreigners now demanding to be recompensed.
The IMF typically acts as a collection agent for global creditors, but in Iceland's case its local mission seems to feel uncomfortable in this role. No IMF funds have yet been drawn down from the $10 billion line of credit recently negotiated. I was impressed that the finance ministry was not going to draw down IMF funds to pay foreigners. Finance Minister Steingrimur Sigfusson heads the Green Party and is dubious about how much such borrowing – or joining the EU – can help matters by the government borrowing to stabilize today's inherently unstable situation.
This leaves the question of Iceland's krónur relative to the euro. As long as the creditor-oriented 17 per cent foreign-exchange index is added onto mortgages, Icelandic homeowners (about 90 per cent of the population) understandably will want to see price stability. But the euro will not necessarily provide this. It would merely impose austerity, shrinking the economy to cut back imports. The way to revive the currency is for the economy to grow, and this means getting rid of debt indexing, a free lunch that no other nation on earth has given the financial sector.
There is much confusion as to what "joining Europe" means in practice. For Central and Eastern European members of the former Soviet Union, beauty was in the eye of the beholder. They voted to join the EU in the early 1990s under the impression that the EU would take them under its protective wing to help them install a modernized Western-style industrial capitalism with rising living standards. Instead, the EU leadership looked at these post- economies simply as markets for their own farm and industrial exports, and for its banks to make a killing by entering into a virtual partnership with the Soviet-style kleptocrats who dominated these economies. The EU looked the other way when it saw crooks taking over and indeed, actively supporting them as long as these crooks sold to the Europeans much as a burglar sells to a fence, privatizing the public domain in insider dealings, selling off property and stock to European investors, and borrowing in foreign currency to fuel the world's most extreme (and unstable) real estate bubble. Collapse of this false start is tearing the euro apart.
The case of Latvia and its Baltic neighbors is instructive. Much like Iceland, they were burdened with a debt overhead far beyond their ability to pay – mortgage debts denominated in foreign currency, so that they cannot avail themselves of the time-honored policy of inflating their way out of debt. Nor will it help for the government to borrow from the IMF and EU to pay the debts of its insolvent real estate to Swedish and other foreign banks. Public-sector borrowing to bail out bad private-sector debts involves squeezing the money out of the domestic population by even higher taxes on labor, pricing it (and hence, domestic industry) out of world markets. In this condition the economy is unable to earn enough to cover its import dependency and the debt service with which it has been burdened.
This is the problem that Iceland must avoid. Unfortunately, the EU's treatment of the post-Soviet economies has shown how predatory and defensive of narrow national interests it can be. Joaqim Almunia of the European Commission made this clear in a letter of January 26, 2009, to Latvia's Prime Minister spelling out the terms on which Europe would bail out the foreign banks operating in Latvia – at Latvia's own expense. He was explicit that Latvia not use EU loans to develop its economy or to lighten the tax burden blocking new employment, but only to pay off debts to its creditors in the West (mainly Scandinavian banks) and to buy imports from them.
Extended assistance is to be used to avoid a balance of payments crisis, which requires … restoring confidence in the banking sector [now entirely foreign owned], and bolstering the foreign reserves of the Bank of Latvia. … financial assistance is not meant to be used to originate new loans to businesses and households. … it is important not to raise ungrounded expectations among the general public and the social partners, and, equally, to counter misunderstandings that may arise in this respect. Worryingly, we have witnessed some recent evidence in Latvian public debate of calls for part of the financial assistance to be used inter alia for promoting export industries or to stimulate the economy through increased spending at large. It is important actively to stem these misperceptions.
This leaves Latvia in much the position of a nation defeated in war and having to pay reparations. Riots broke out, and protesters stormed the Treasury. It was a scene that has been repeated in Hungary, Ukraine and other countries recently, akin to Latin America's "IMF riots" of the 1960s and'70s. It does not give much hope that joining Europe would, in itself, help Iceland solve its own similar economic clean-up needs. Instead of helping the post-Soviet nations develop self-reliant economies, the West viewed them as economic oysters to be broken open, sucked dry to extract interest charges and capital gains, and left as empty shells. After the domestic kleptocrats, foreign banks and investors have removed their funds from the economy, the Latvian lat will be permitted to depreciate. Foreign buyers then can come in and pick up local assets on the cheap once again.
This sounds remarkably like what Iceland has been going through. The danger is that it might surrender to European interests seeking to appropriate its fishing rights, obtain a monopoly on private bank credit, and lend to the government to bail out European investors who speculated and lost with the now-defunct Icelandic banks. One would hope that the Greens and Progressive Party would review the possible terms of entry into the EU and adoption of the euro, but not replace a domestic kleptocracy with foreign economic occupiers just because they are European. This would merely replace one group of politically well-connected insiders with others, largely to the benefit of Britain.
If we apply the traditional left/right dichotomies to the results of Saturday's election, the pro-Europe approach seems right wing in promoting financial interests (economic austerity to subordinate debtor to creditor interests, and debt deflation to dismantle public welfare spending). Social Democratic parties throughout the world have been the most ideologically extreme privatizers, from Tony Blair's New Labour to Roger Douglas's New Zealand Labour Party and the Australian Labour Party.
Iceland's Social Democrats are threatening to "fast-track" Europe, and to hold a take-it-or-leave-it referendum on whether to join on the terms her party negotiates, without bringing the citizenry into the process. Prime-minister elect Johanna Sigurdardottir hopes to start negotiations to join the EU within two months, and to hold a referendum on joining it by the end of next year. As far as parliamentary democracy is concerned, this plan is similar to the Independence and Progressive party leaders agreeing to join the Coalition of the Willing in Iraq, ignoring proper procedures by not consulting the Althing.
Meanwhile, the EU and euro are in danger of breaking up as the post-Soviet economies devalue, imposing austerity without having developed their economies outside of real estate. Yet I found little recognition of how the euro and indeed the expanded EU is being torn apart by the unstable post-Soviet economies that have no visible means of financing their structural trade deficits, now that the real estate bubble has burst and there is no more foreign-currency mortgage lending into these unfortunate countries. Europe's monetary management is looking nearly as irresponsible as Iceland's did.
The failure of EU tutelage in the Baltics and Central Europe suggests that Iceland would do best to set about solving its own problems, pursuing its national interest while cleaning up the residue from its disastrous neoliberal experiment. A true market reform would replace the remnants of feudal power with auctioned fishing rent rights so as to keep them as the tax base, and to restore a viable public banking system. Ultimately at issue is Iceland's economic independence itself.
MICHAEL HUDSON is a former Wall Street economist. A Distinguished Research Professor at University of Missouri, Kansas City (UMKC), he is the author of many books, including Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire (new ed., Pluto Press, 2002) He can be reached at mh@michael-hudson.com
Michael Hudson is the author of Killing the Host (published in e-format by CounterPunch Books and in print by Islet). His new book is J is For Junk Economics. He can be reached at mh@michael-hudson.com


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Ann Wilson confirmed the track listing and guest list for her solo album Immortal, which will be released on Sept. 14.
She had previously announced a new title for the record, which had originally been called Songs for the Living Vol. 1. The album contains new recordings of songs written by artists who have recently died. You can see the fill track listing below.
"The original working titles evolved as the concept for the album evolved, a little bit at a time," the Heart singer said in a press release announcing the LP. "As my understanding of what I had undertaken grew and clarified, I realized a larger truth -- that the souls may have departed, but the songs will forever be their resonances. These are the poets of our time and their expressions must be handed down. Poetry is lasting and elemental like carvings in rock."
Wilson hits the road on July 18 with Jeff Beck and Paul Rodgers on a tour called The Stars Align. Before that, she plays a few standalone shows, which you can see below.


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Club Creation - Charter
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Experience and Practice of Combating Bribery in Officially Supported Export Credits
The evidence so far from the OECD Working Group on Bribery Phase 2 reviews
by Susan Hawley for ECA-Watch
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Discussions on whether or not to improve a multilateral OECD agreement on combating bribery by Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) continue to take place during 2006, after OECD countries failed to reach consensus on doing so in October 2005. Several G8 countries appear to have been blocking significant measures propoposed by the OECD's Export Credit Secretariat (ECG). The ECA-Watch network (of which The Corner House is an active member) submitted this paper to an OECD meeting in March 2006 at which discussions on improving the agreement were set to resume.
The paper analyses comments and recommendations made by the OECD's Working Group on Bribery on ECA practice in combating bribery. These were made during reviews (known as Phase 2 reviews) of how OECD countries are implementing the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention.
It is clear that the Working Group on Bribery and peer review examiners involved in the Phase 2 reviews regard ECAs as essential to combating bribery. They believe that there is considerable room for improvement in ECA procedures for combating bribery. In particular, the Phase 2 reviews emphasise the importance of ECAs having proper procedures in place for detecting and reporting bribery suspicions to law enforcement agencies, and for excluding companies convicted of corruption from further export credit support.
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