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FGFJ | Global Fund General Manager Gabriel Jaramillo Visits Japan
The Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE) / Friends of the Global Fund, Japan (FGFJ) organized a series of meetings in Tokyo for Mr. Gabriel Jaramillo, general manager of the Global Fund, and Dr. Christoph Benn, director of resource mobilization and donor relations at the Global Fund. During their visit, they met with members of the FGFJ Diet Task Force, led by Co-chair Ichiro Aisawa and including members of the ruling and major opposition parties. Jaramillo and Benn also met with the FGFJ's multi-sectoral board, represented by leaders from Japan's corporate and civil society sectors, as well as officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
In addition to these two core meetings, Jaramillo and Benn met individually with former Prime Minister Naoto Kan, other senior Diet members, several senior government officials, and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). In all of these meetings, Jaramillo thanked Japan for its financial contributions to the Global Fund and for the important role that Japan plays in the fund's governance. He also touched on the reform process currently underway to improve the Global Fund's governance and grant management practices, discussing the need to respond to changing contexts in the fight against communicable diseases entering into the Global Fund's second decade. The visit proved to be a good opportunity for the FGFJ and its partners to maintain their relationship with the Global Fund during this time of transition and to share ideas on the future of the fund.
For more information on this event, please visit the FGFJ Website.


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American Cinema of the 2000s: Themes and Variations
By Timothy Corrigan (editor)
Jump down to see edition details for: Hardcover | Paperback
Publisher Rutgers Univ Pr
Publication date April 15, 2012
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
Dimensions 1 by 6.25 by 9.50 in.
Other format details university press
PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism
PERFORMING ARTS / General
Cinema/Film: Book
Motion pictures; United States; Plots, themes, etc.
Motion pictures; United States; History; 21st century.
The decade from 2000 to 2009 is framed, at one end, by the traumatic catastrophe of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and, at the other, by the election of the first African American president of the United States. In between, the United States and the world witnessed the rapid expansion of new media and the Internet, such natural disasters as Hurricane Katrina, political uprisings around the world, and a massive meltdown of world economies.
Amid these crises and revolutions, American films responded in multiple ways, sometimes directly reflecting these turbulent times, and sometimes indirectly couching history in traditional genres and stories. In American Cinema of the 2000s, essays from ten top film scholars examine such popular series as the groundbreaking Matrix films and the gripping adventures of former CIA covert operative Jason Bourne; new, offbeat films like Juno; and the resurgence of documentaries like Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. Each essay demonstrates the complex ways in which American culture and American cinema are bound together in subtle and challenging ways.
With Timothy Corrigan (other contributor) | from Rutgers Univ Pr (April 15, 2012)
About: The decade from 2000 to 2009 is framed, at one end, by the traumatic catastrophe of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and, at the other, by the election of the first African American president of the United States.

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Reviews	November 6, 2019
Pour Me a Grog: The Funaná Revolt in 1990s Cabo Verde
The opening riffs of accordion and pounding bass and drum hits of Ferro Gaita's "Rei Di Tabanka" announce the new compilation from Ostinato Records, Pour Me A Grog: The Funaná Revolt in 1990s Cabo Verde. With a rambunctious energy akin to punk, this relentlessly fast-paced, fervent music expresses a spirit of rebellion and catharsis. For the uninitiated, this compilation is an excellent introduction to the unrelenting power, drive and energy of late '90s funana and for those already familiar with this lightning rod of emotion and sound, there are plenty of hits to enjoy.
Pour Me A Grog: The Funaná Revolt in 1990s Cabo Verde by Various Artists
Also significant, Pour Me A Grog is only the second vinyl LP release of '90s gaita-based funaná, after Legend of Funaná, Analog Africa's 2016 reissue of the master Bitori's seminal album, recorded with the singer Chando Graciosa in the Netherlands in '97 that began the wave of recordings in the style. Bitori has a solid track on this compilation "Mô Na Máma" with Fefé di Calbicera and Graciosa sings on the standout track "Nha Boi" with the gaita virtuoso Tchota Suari. The field is widened to acknowledge the importance of younger, innovative artists including Ferro Gaita and Orlando Pantera.
The extensive liner notes include an excellent summary of the history and cultural implications of the genre by compiler Vik Sohonie and important interviews with central protagonists including Iduino, gaita player of Ferro Gaita, singer Chando Graciosa, and Valdemar Semedo Moreira, one of the producers who facilitated the funaná revolution. Funaná has its roots deep in the hills of the north of Santiago Island, it is an original expression of the Badius, the descendants of escaped slaves who live high in the mountainous north of Santiago Island, resisting colonial rule through isolation. Sung in their distinct accent of Criolu, the songs treat topics of mountain life, resistance and hardship, but also playful metaphors of sex and manhood (to this day, the genre is dominated by men.) The gaita accordion, an instrument loud enough to be heard without electricity, was given altered tunings to accommodate the needs of the musicians. Originally the gaita was used to accompany preachers in small congregations that couldn't afford an organ, but the instrument, when accompanied by the ferrinho, a rough metal scraper, proved just as functional for the after-hours dances, fueled by grog, moonshine liquor. The word funaná itself is reputedly derived from two masters of the gaita and ferrinho, Funa and Nana.
Tchota Suari and Chando Gracioso
After independence, bands including Bulimundo, Tulipa Negra and Finaçon introduced funaná into their synth-driven dance music, along with coladeiras and mornas. Music of this era of Cabo Verdean music was featured in a previous Ostinato release, Synthesize the Soul: Astro-Atlantic Hypnotica from the Cape Verde Islands. Recorded in the European diaspora cities of Rotterdam and Lisbon, this music was originally released on vinyl and later cassette, but by the mid '90s the vinyl industry had collapsed, giving way to CDs.
In 1997, a young group calling themselves Ferro Gaita shook the country with a heavy record of pure Badiu funaná delivered with punk-rock energy. Their groundbreaking debut Fundu Baxo sold 40,000 copies in a country of 400,000 people. Their success really emboldened producers and labels to record the masters and promote the music. Iduino, the gaita master of the group is quoted in the liner notes: "In Cabo Verde, we reached a level where everything was very monotonous because they were using synthesizers, they were playing with exactly the same setup, so people got a bit fed up. So there was a 'second revolution,' where we got more into the acoustic style."
Ferro Gaita
This revolution was achieved by adapting the acoustic village style of funaná to a small group format, adding a drum set, electric bass and some additional percussion, a bell and sometimes congas and conch shell, as heard on "Rei Di Tabanka." This music was recorded in the studios in the Netherlands that had the gear to capture the raw sound of the acoustic instruments with pristine, aggressive clarity. These recording swept Cabo Verde and the diaspora, interestingly enough, at the same time as Cesaria Evora was reaching a wide international audience with her lush versions of the mornas and coladeiras. Funaná, however, has remained for the most part a strictly Cabo Verdian affair, although artists have reported that their acceptance has spread beyond Santiago, the more African-rooted island, to include the entire archipelago and the diaspora. When I saw Ferro Gaita in New York this year, the Cabo Verdian community turned out in numbers and the band tore through an energetic two-hour set as if they were half their age and not sporting grey locks and beards.
Pour Me A Grog is short for a compilation, especially compared to the proceeding double disc Synthesize the Soul. Although there are many songs from the period that could have been included, keeping the release short was probably wise considering the intensity of the music. The compilation is perhaps a bit front-loaded, with the standout tunes "Rei Di Tabanka" first and "Nha Boi" third. Orlando Pantera's "Rabidanti" is a nice addition, as it introduces the more digital style of production that has defined much of funaná in the past 20 years. Fefé di Calbicera's ardent "Tra Tchapéu" closes the compilation, fading out slowly, leaving the listener ready for a second pass, or a deeper dive into the wealth of funaná from Cabo Verde.
Morgan Greenstreet
funana
Ostinato Records, October 2019
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Malaysian police raid Al-Jazeera's office, seize computers in escalating legal harassment
Bangkok, August 4, 2020 – Malaysian police raided Al-Jazeera's Kuala Lumpur office and seized two computers in an ongoing criminal probe into the global broadcaster's July 3 report on the government's treatment of undocumented migrant workers during the COVID-19 crisis, news reports said. Six of Al-Jazeera's Malaysia-based reporters and staff members are being investigated on criminal charges…
Data journalists describe challenges of reporting on the true toll of COVID-19
How many people worldwide have been infected by the coronavirus, and how many have died as a result? Finding reliable information on the virus's toll has proven such a challenging task that it is nearly impossible to answer these basic questions, five data journalists from around the world told CPJ in May and June. In…
Hong Kong journalists denied entry to Macau
Taipei, August 28, 2017–Local authorities in Macau should allow all journalists, including those based in Hong Kong, to enter and report freely from the territory, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
Chinese police detain, assault Hong Kong journalists for covering protest
September 15, 2016 6:15 PM EDT
New York, September 15, 2016 – Chinese authorities should launch a credible, independent investigation into allegations police assaulted journalists and allow reporters to do their work, including covering protests, without restriction, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Police in China's southern Guangdong province last night assaulted and detained five journalists from Hong Kong-based news…
As Beijing tightens grip on Hong Kong media, mainland journalists suffer
August 15, 2016 10:55 AM EDT
On August 1, prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Yu, who had been detained incommunicado for over a year, reemerged–with an unusual twist on an old script. Wang gave a TV interview in which she renounced her legal work and accused foreign forces of using her to "attack" and "smear" the Chinese government; the report…
Journalists in Hong Kong and Taiwan Battle Beijing's Influence
February 12, 2014 1:40 AM EST
Media owners' reluctance to draw China's disfavor imperils the ability of the Hong Kong and Taiwanese press to play a watchdog role. By a CPJ Contributor Popular protests like this one in Taipei on January 1, 2013, helped derail a plan for a wealthy business tycoon with interests in China to buy Taiwan's largest newspaper.…
Attacks on the Press: Enjoying Spotlight, Shirking Accountability
February 14, 2013 12:05 AM EST
Countries hosting the Olympics assume global obligations. What if they renege? By Nina Ognianova and Kristin Jones
New attempts to rein in train crash coverage in China
New York, August 1, 2011–Chinese propaganda authorities renewed their orders to media groups late Friday not to report on last week's train crash or its aftermath after their initial bans on coverage were widely disregarded, according to international news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists said today that popular outcry in China at the crash…


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Marketing services deals reached $33b in 2018, tech companies lead
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the marketing world reached $33 billion in 2018, an increase of 144 percent on the previous year, according to consultancy R3.
Technology companies rather than agency holding groups were the biggest spenders last year, with Adobe's $4.75 billion acquisition of software firm Marketo being the largest in R3's December M&A league table, CNBC wrote.
Tech businesses including Salesforce and Alibaba spent a total of $7.8 billion in 2018, a huge increase on the $632 million spent in 2017. Alibaba acquired a 6.62-percent stake in digital screen company Focus Media for $1.43 billion last July, as part of its exploration of 'new models of digital marketing.'
Agency holding companies including McCann owner IPG and Japanese group Dentsu spent $6.3 billion on deals in 2018, up from $2.7 billion the previous year. These groups also acquired tech companies, with IPG spending $2.3 billion on data mining firm Acxiom in July, in a move that IPG CEO Michael Roth said would help the business provide more personalized and targeted marketing.
Greg Paull, principal at R3, said that technology is becoming more important to marketing services companies. "The discipline of marketing has diverged. Martech (marketing technology) is making fringe digital tech more centralized in marketing operations, while agencies are focused on repositioning themselves as operating in both creative and data," he said in an emailed statement.
It was a tumultuous year for marketing services in 2018, with Martin Sorrell's sudden departure from his role as CEO of holding company WPP in April one of the biggest stories. Successor Mark Read moved quickly to merge agencies within the group, joining Young and Rubicam with digital agency VML in September and merging the longstanding JWT with Wunderman in November.
WPP also spent $464 million on acquisitions such as marketing technology company Emark and Indian digital agency Autumn Worldwide, according to R3's December league table, while Sorrell's newly-formed S4 Capital spent $475 million buying agencies MediaMonks and MightyHive.
Global trade concerns have had an impact on advertising budgets, with WPP's Group M media company lowering growth projections for 2019 to 3.6 percent from 3.9 percent.
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This study was conducted on men and women, and surprisingly only the women showed these results when the same diet was implemented along with some receiving the probiotic bacteria Lactobacillus rhamnosus, and others receiving a placebo.
"After the 12-week diet period, researchers observed an average weight loss of 4.4 kg in women in the probiotic group and 2.6 kg in the placebo group.
This is an amazing result to continue losing while trying to maintain. Now I am very interested in finding some Lactobacillus rhamnosus, for myself. An online search didn't come up with much, so I studied the various yogurt brands at my local grocery store and found a brand that has it – Stoneyfield Organic Greek Yogurt.
I like the whole milk full-fat version of dairy products as they are lower in sugar and taste better!
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Media Release – One Year of Scott Morrison But Still No Plan for Australia's Future – Saturday, 24 August 2019
Exactly one year after Scott Morrison became Prime Minister in a party room coup Australians are paying more for electricity, child care and healthcare.
Waiting lists for aged care packages are longer, out of pocket health costs are higher, youth unemployment remains at twice the national average and it is harder than ever for young people to find apprenticeships.
Scott Morrison's 12 month economic report card is defined by stagnant wages, weaker consumption, higher unemployment and underemployment, and higher household debt. Mortgage defaults are at their worst since the GFC.
The PM promised 80,000 new apprenticeships, but 150,000 apprentices and trainees have been lost under the Liberals.
Out of pocket costs to see a GP have gone up from $36.45 to a record high of $39.55. Hospital waiting times have blown out to record highs. Private health insurance premiums are more than ever.
In the last 12 months the Morrison Government has implemented a disastrous new childcare system that leaves one in four families worse off.
In his first public statement as Prime Minister, Scott Morrison said "drought is our most urgent and pressing need right now."
Yet almost a year later, nothing has happened.
At the recent bush summit on 18 July, the PM was forced to admit that "Minister Littleproud is working with the industry on the long-term drought strategy and we'll have more to say on that in the coming months."
Twelve months of Morrison leadership has also seen an increase in carbon emissions equivalent to an additional 450,000 cars on our roads.
Just moments after being declared Liberal Party Leader, Mr Morrison declared: "Our Government is going to put electricity prices down.''
Instead, he has done the opposite. Average wholesale electricity prices have increased by almost 20 per cent since and the Government is still yet to settle on a workable energy policy that will reduce consumer prices.
In the last 12 months, the number of older Australians waiting for a home care package has grown from 108,000 to 129,000. The mean waiting time for an older Australian needing the highest level of care is now 22 months.
Since the PM took office, the number of Closing the Gap targets being met has fallen from three out of seven to two out of seven. Meanwhile, four of the seven targets have expired and after a year in office, the Prime Minister has yet to outline refreshed targets.
After a year in office, everyone is wondering: where does Scott Morrison stand on an Indigenous voice to Parliament?
The RBA has cut rates twice to 1 per cent, but the age pension deeming rate has only been adjusted to 3 per cent – seriously short changing pensioners.
Scott Morrison has no plan for the future of Australia and is out of touch with how much pain Australians are feeling right now.
This is an anniversary Australia will not be celebrating.
ONE YEAR UNDER SCOTT MORRISON – THE FACTS
On Infrastructure:
Ignored repeated requests from the RBA to bring forward infrastructure investment to stimulate the economy.
Spending only 30 per cent of the "new" funding announced in 2019 Budget over the next four years – the rest is off on the Never Never.
Underspent in the infrastructure budget in 2018-19 by $252 million.
On Tourism:
Cut $35 million from the Tourism Australia budget in 2017 and failed to restore all of this funding in subsequent budgets.
On IR:
Failed to get wages moving and in fact admitted low wages are a "deliberate design feature of the economy".
Repeatedly voted to keep penalty rate cuts.
Said nothing about industrial relations before the election but then launched a surprise WorkChoices 2.0 review.
On Aged Care:
Cut funding per resident for older Australians in residential care following Morrison's $1.2 billion cut as Treasurer in 2016. Waiting times are now longer than ever before.
On Education:
Cut $3 billion from TAFE and training.
Restricted student places, denying thousands of Australians in our suburbs and the regions the opportunity of a uni education.
Refused to provide more than 12 months of funding to the existing four year old preschool funding.
On Health:
Under Scott Morrison out of pocket GP costs have increased from $36.45 to a record high of $39.55.
Out of pocket specialist costs have increased from $80.20 to a record high of $91.50.
Private hospital out of pocket costs have increased from $308.75 to a record high of $314.50.
Private health insurance premiums have risen around 2.8 per cent which means Australians have never paid more to access private health insurance.
Waiting times have increased to mean 1 in 4 people from have not been seen on time in emergency departments or waiting for elective surgeries.
On the NDIS:
Delivered a Budget that ripped $1.6b out of the NDIA.
Overseen executive exodus and dysfunction at the NDIA including Agency still having no CEO for more than 100 days.
Almost 100 days of inaction on an election promise to fix the NDIS, other than announcing another ineffectual review (there have been over 15 reports and reviews into the NDIS since 2016).
On Government Services:
Increasing Robodebt notices by 18.5 per cent
Ramped up Robodebt to include Medicare.
Targeted homeless flood victims with Robodebt while Minister Stuart Robert denied this was happening.
Only 313 redress payments have been made out of an estimated 60,000 eligible applicants.
On Housing:
1,141 affordable rental scheme properties cut from the national affordable rental scheme.
On the Environment:
Cut funding for the Environment Department by almost 40 per cent since 2013.
Coral bleaching has gotten worse with predictions of more intense and frequent bleaching events, twice per decade by 2035.
Murray Darling Basin is in crisis with mass fish kills.
Australia's faunal extinction crisis is now one of the worst on the planet.
The Government promised to legislate to protect LGBTIQ+ kids from expulsion within two weeks and then never did it.
On Carbon Emissions:
Total carbon emissions have risen by the equivalent of 450,000 extra cars on the road.
Electricity sector mission have raised by the equivalent of another 1.3 million cars on the road.
Average Wholesale electricity prices have increased by nearly 20 per cent.
On Newstart:
Refused to increase Newstart, describing it as unfunded empathy.
On Integrity:
Schemed to replace Malcom Turnbull.
Stood beside Angus Taylor in the midst of a conflict of interest scandal.
Restored Stuart Robert and Sussan Ley to the ministry following their earlier dumping on integrity grounds.
Failed to establish a promised Commonwealth Integrity Commission.
Attacked the freedom of the press.


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Top 6 brave inventors who changed the world we live in …
Jun 10, 2016 David Goran
Patrick volunteered to ride the crash sled for the sake of scientific advacement. source
There are many things in our daily life that we simply take for granted. In fact, we don't even care about this stuff.
Take for example elevator brakes, or airbags found in our cars to save us in the case of a car crash. Most of these things were once only ideas, solutions that came out of the minds of great thinkers. Moreover, it took those thinkers a great deal of courage, boldness, and plenty of time experimenting to reach the final result.
Gordon Giesbrecht
Dr. Gisebrech is a professor of thermophysiology at the University of Manitoba and is best noted for his significant work on the cold physiology.
As a scientist and researcher, Giesbrecht has defended the fact that most deaths caused by cold-water immersion are not due to hypothermia, but on the contrary, as he had argued, most deaths occur rather earlier due to the cold shock response of the body. In other words, that would be gasping and hyperventilation, as well as cold incapacitation because of the cooling of muscles and nerve fibers. Consequently, Dr. Gordon has coined the so-called '1-10-1 principle', an easy way to memorize the three phases of cold water immersion and the approximate time that each one should take.
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He introduced this principle on February 19th, 2004 on "Late Night With David Letterman", asserting: "If you fall in ice water, do not panic and remember you have 1 MINUTE to get control of your breathing, 10 MINUTES of meaningful movement, and 1 HOUR before you become unconscious due to hypothermia."
The fascinating part is that before concluding the simple principle, Dr. Gisebrech had successfully managed to lower his body temperature to less than 95 degrees, which equals to stage 2 hypothermia (at stage 3, it's over – you die). He reportedly tried this principle for 33 times, which has eventually earned him the nickname "Dr. Popsicle".
Jonas Salk was an American virologist and visionary, and thanks to him the world got the very first safe and efficient polio vaccine. The polio was widely spreading during the mid-1900s, severely affecting entire populations.
Jonas Salk (1959)
By primarily using the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (later known as March of Dimes) as a fund for his research, Salk was able to work on the polio vaccine trials whole-heartedly. In 1952, following a successful testing of the vaccine on thousands of monkeys, he was confident enough to inject the cure into himself.
After that, he courageously injected the vaccine to his family members: his wife and their three children. It turned out that the vaccine worked pretty well and Salk went on to announce the accomplishment of the first human test over the radio on March 26th, 1953.
Jonas Salk at the University of Pittsburgh where he developed the first polio vaccine
During the next year, the polio vaccine clinical trial turned out to be one of the biggest public health experiment in US history. By the summer of 1954, approximately 1.8 million people, among which hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren, underwent the polio vaccination. On April 12th, 1955, Salk's vaccine was endorsed and declared as "safe, effective and potent" to use.
Elisha Graves Otis
Elisha Otis was an American industrialist born in 1811, near Halifax, Vermont. He was the founder of the Otis Elevator Company and the inventor of the elevator brake.
His lasting accomplishment took place when he was 40. While cleaning up the factory where he worked, Otis started to wonder how he could possibly get all the debris to the upper levels of the factory. Otis had heard about hoisting platforms, however, he knew that these often broke so he was reluctant to take any risks. Along with his sons, Otis worked on their own design of "safety elevator". They tested it and it was a success.
At first, he neither patented the invention nor attempted to sell it. It was later that Otis took the opportunity and made an elevator company out of it, which was initially named "Union Elevator Works." The business struggled in the first couple of months, but soon after, there was a great chance to endorse the invention publicly, at the 1854 New York World's Fair. To suitably demonstrate, Otis offered himself as a human experiment.
Elisha Otis demo of his free-fall prevention mechanism, Crystal Palace, 1854
At the Crystal Palace, he astounded a crowd when he ordered the only rope holding the platform on which he was standing cut. The rope was severed with an axe, and the platform fell just a few inches before stopping. The safety mechanism worked out pretty well, and people accepted the usage of traction elevators.
After some time, these types of elevators became the model in most common usage and helped out the making of present-day skyscrapers possible. Construction workers were able to use cranes and other hoisting platforms at ease, without fearing that their life will end if something goes wrong. Sadly, Otis suffered from diphtheria epidemic and passed away in 1861, before he could actually witness the brilliant outcome of his invention.
Lawrence Patrick
In the 1940s, there was neither information about what the human body could withstand, nor anything similar to a crash test dummy. The Detroit Wayne State University appeared to be as one of the first educational institutions to conduct some more serious research concerning data collecting about the impact of high-speed collisions on the human body. Which brings us to another name on this list – Lawrence Patrick.
Patrick acted as a research director at the Wayne State University, he was also a professor there from 1958 until 1976, and in 1965 became director of the Wayne State Biomechanics Research Center as well. As a courageous researcher and a scientist, he, in fact, risked his life by volunteering to various types of impact tests.
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Reportedly, he took hits in the chest from 10 kg weight to evaluate his rib-cage. He further rode on a rocket sled over 400 times to reach conclusions about the deceleration of the human body, and he had deadweights dropped on his cheeks to find out how fracture mechanisms worked.
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Can you only imagine the infinite bruises, the broken ribs or fingers, and other fractures that eventually Patrick gained as being human crash test dummy? The collected data was then used to specify the standard for almost all safety measures employed in cars, which in turn, have saved countless lives. Thanks to Patrick, we got air bags and automobile safety tests. For his contributions, he had received numerous academic and industry honors. Lawrence died of Parkinson's Disease in 2006, at the age of 85.
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Williams is a town located in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia,  south-southeast of the state capital, Perth along Albany Highway and 32 kilometres (20 mi) west of Narrogin.  The Williams River passes through the town. At the 2016 census, Williams had a population of 411.

History
Williams is named after the Williams River that flows nearby. The river was sighted by Captain Thomas Bannister in 1831 while leading the first overland expedition from the Swan River Colony to King George Sound (now Albany), and was first shown on an 1833 map. More than likely, the name honours King William IV, who reigned in the United Kingdom from June 1830 until June 1837.

The first British claims on land in the area occurred in 1832. In 1835 a party led by Governor James Stirling and John Septimus Roe surveyed a route joining King George Sound with York via Williams to encourage inland settlement. No settlement occurred until after Lieutenant Henry Bunbury explored the region in 1836, despite his assessment that "on the Williams the land is generally very bad and the water brackish".

After the building of Albany Highway by convicts in the 1850s, Williams became an important stopover point for passengers and changing of horses, and became the main centre in the district. The bridge over the Williams River was completed in 1855. The Williams Hotel was erected in 1871, and a Road Board (predecessor to the current
Shire Council) first convened in 1877.

In early 1898 the population of the town was 55, 30 males and 25 females. Later the same year the local Agricultural Hall was opened by Frederick Piesse, it was built at a cost of £250 granted by Parliament.

The original town had been built on the Albany side of the river, but was subject to increasing floods due to the clearing of the land for intensive farming; therefore the town was relocated to the Perth side of the bridge. The town site was surveyed in 1905 and most of the buildings in the present town site were constructed after that time.

The Williams District Club was constructed in 1959; the foundation stone was set in December 1958. The Williams Shire offices were constructed the same year.

Present day

Today the town is a centre for the wool, cattle and coarse grains industry, and serves as a stopping point on Albany Highway. A heritage trail takes visitors past some of Williams's historic buildings, and nearby wildflower stands and dryandra forests are also attractions. One unusual feature is the Jesse Martin museum, a historic village and memorabilia collection constructed by a local farmer on his own property from old shops and post offices on the verge of being demolished in country towns, as well as barns full of old cars and farm machinery.

The roadhouse is a stop on the Transwa bus services to Albany (GS1) and Esperance (GE1). Williams has three service stations, one of which is open 24 hours a day.

References

External links
 Shire of Williams

Grain receival points of Western Australia
Towns in Western Australia
Wheatbelt (Western Australia)

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Agent of Chelsea-linked Moukoko deals Blues big blow
It was reported recently that Chelsea are exploring the possibility of bringing Youssoufa Moukoko to Stamford Bridge. A move to Chelsea is certainly not done but other Premier League clubs were under the impression it is advanced and are watching closely.Moukoko is out of contract at Dortmund at the end of this season and there is a school of thought that Chelsea are doing the groundwork for a summer deal ahead of time, but may find a way to bring him to west London next month.Moukoko became the youngest player to represent Germany at a World Cup when he came on as a substitute in the 2-1 defeat by Japan in their opening group game, aged 18 years and three days.However, the young forward's agent has now suggested that a deal is not close.He told Sky Sports in Germany: "I can confirm that we are not about to conclude a contract extension with Borussia Dortmund."I can also assure you that the numbers that are circulating are simply not correct and Youssoufa was never offered that much. But we are still in contact with Dortmund and will see what the next few days bring."A player like Youssoufa is interesting for every top club in the world. Especially when he is free and has a future in the German national team."Cardiff City vs Blackpool betting tips: Championship preview, prediction and oddsHull City vs Sunderland betting tips: Championship preview, prediction and odds
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Home » February 23: Chechnya's Holocaust – Mairbek Vatchagaev
February 23: Chechnya's Holocaust – Mairbek Vatchagaev
Even though many decades have passed, the Second World War is still an unanswered question for the Chechen people, and this historical burden inevitably impacts the continuing development of Chechen society today. Though the current Russian government is eager to emphasize recent peaceful developments, the image of the Chechen as "the enemy," originally created by the Communists, is alive and well within the country today. Historians, politicians and journalists have created thousands of works that are filled with deliberate lies that portray the Chechens as a people and the entirety of Chechen history in a truly terrible light.
February 23 is one of the most tragic dates in the history of the Chechens and the Ingush. Until the Russo-Chechen War of 1994, the Chechens were a small ethnic group relatively unknown to the rest of the world, living in the northern foothills of the Caucasus, one of the most remote corners of Europe. On February 23, 1944, the Chechens were exiled from their ancestral lands and deported to Siberia and the northern regions of Kazakhstan. The entirety of the Chechen nation was accused of collaborating with the Fascists, even though unknown to Russians and Europeans alike, the Chechens only knew about the Fascists from the movie screen and the wartime news reports. The frontlines of the German advance stopped in Mozdok, in Northern Ossetia, never reaching Chechnya. Therefore the Chechens not only were unable to collaborate with the Germans, but also never truly saw any of them [1].
The Chechens were deported en masse, only excluding a few hundred men who managed to escape to the mountains at the last moment and who over the years tried to extract a vengeance for the deaths of their people through constant attacks on local Soviet institutions. The Chechen deportation, the most massive of all Soviet deportations, took place over the course of only a few days. However, in that period, during the middle of winter, almost 400,000 men, women and children were loaded into cattle cars and shipped to various locations, thousands of kilometers away. The victims were only allowed to take three days' worth of rations and spent a horrifying two or three weeks on the road. Thousands died every day and the bodies were simply tossed out of the cars at every railroad station. Death quickly claimed the weakest the elderly and the children. According to the official Soviet figures, roughly a third of the whole Chechen nation perished during the thirteen years of exile, though independent researchers have suggested that essentially every second Chechen died during the Soviet government's terrible crime against part of its own populace.
Many Chechens had in fact fought on the front lines of the Soviet war against the German aggressor. Thousands of Chechens died on the field of battle, with many becoming war heroes. The long list of Chechen war heroes includes the first men to reach the fortifications of Brest, where over two hundred Chechens fought for their country. To name a few Chechen soldiers of note: Khanpasha Nuradilov died in Stalingrad having killed over 900 Germans; Movlad Bisaitov was the first to meet the Americans on the Elbe; Hakim Ismailov was one of the men who raised the Soviet flag over the Reichstag; and Alavdi Ustarkhanov (Andre) fought with the French Resistance. Yet all of these men died in obscurity, deliberately hidden or sometimes killed, so that their very existence could not be used as an accusation against the Soviet regime in later years.
Fifty years later, on February 24, 2004, the European Parliament suggested that the "deportation of the whole of the Chechen nation into Central Asia on February 23, 1944, as ordered by Joseph Stalin, was an act of genocide" [2]. Today's Chechens cannot help but compare themselves to their countrymen that lived during the deportation. Even today, Russia, having unleashed this latest war, has caused every tenth Chechen to be killed, every third to flee the territory of the republic and another ten percent to seek refugee status in Europe, trying to escape the regime that hunts them today, just as they had in the past. In the Chechen republic, over ten thousand are wounded, several thousand are invalid children (many lacking limbs), and nearly 20 percent of the population is suffering from illness and requires medical aid.
In 1944, the Chechens stood accused of cooperating with the Fascists, but in this war, their fault lies in being in league with the forces of international terrorism. Grozny, a city of 400,000, was wiped off the map while the leaders of those countries supposedly championing human rights stood by and applauded. People were killed everywhere and in all possible ways, while all of European society watched in confusion as the might of the Russian rulers was directed against women, children and the aged, all of whom were deemed terrorists. It is alarming that the people from the generation that survived the deportation say that living in Chechnya today is more frightening than the terrible years of 1944 to 1956.
Today, in pseudo-democratic Russia, in accordance with the wishes of the Kremlin, Potemkin villages are being built. What can a couple dozen new houses and several hundred kilometers of newly paved roads do to change anything in war-stricken Chechnya? What can it do to change the oppression led by the Kremlin? The applied lessons from the Soviet school of forcefully creating "loved and respected" leaders, widespread threats and endless pressure cannot solve the problems of Chechnya's society! These problems are ignored and sacrificed to the ambitions of certain leaders, leaving them to burst forth in the form of mass disturbances at the smallest opportunity.
It will probably take another fifty years for the international community to call things by their real names and agree that Russia has committed war crimes against the Chechen people, a people that suffered two military campaigns that left 100,000 dead and several hundred thousand crippled and traumatized. With Europe concerned over the fate of Kosovo today, it seems necessary to remind the Europeans that Chechens are also residents of the European continent who have fled their war-torn home to come to Europe, instead of heading East and who made a conscious choice to embrace European values [3]. To push them away today and to reject them as non-Europeans would be a crime that would need to be explained by European leaders.
Mairbek Vatchagaev
1. Grechko, A. A. Bitva za Kavkaz (Battle for the Caucasus), Moscow, Voenizdat, 1967. p. 86.
2. Committee of Foreign Affairs. A resolution of the European Parliament regarding relations between the Russian Federation and the European Union, February 24, 2004.
3. Data shows that close to 100,000 Chechens may live in Europe today, making them a powerful force free from Russia's influence. Most diaspora communities live in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany and Poland.


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Profiles: Fly Tyer names 2014 Lifetime Achievemnats Awards
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Fly Tyer Magazine makes it's 2014 Lifetime Achievments Award; honoring those who help us tie better fish-catching flies
Chuck at the International Fly Tyers Symposium 10 years ago. Photo credit Cuck Furimsky.
Chuck Furimsky, Director and CEO of The Fly Fishing Show: Chuck has been the director of the Fly Fishing Show since day one. He founded the Fly Fishing Show with his partner, Barry Serviente, nearly 20 years ago. Chuck formed a fly fishing show held at Seven Spring Mountain Resort in Pennsylvania in 1986. Several years later he met Barry, who was running as small fly fishing and book show in central Pennsylvania. Together they came up with the idea of a fly fishing only show to be held in Somerset, New Jersey. The event was so well attended that the fire marshal shut the doors to any additional people. Today, the Somerset location is the largest fly fishing specific show in the world and the Fly Fishing Show has expanded to locations nation wide. Barry retired in 2008.The current Fly Fising Shows run continuously throughout the winter months with the following stops: Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Denver, Colorado; Marlborough, Massachusetts; Lynnwood, Washington; Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Pleasanton, California and Somerset, New Jersey.
Chuck is an avid fly fisherman and fly tier. He is the sole director of the International Fly Tyers Symposium. He designs flies for Raineys Flies, and had developed a tying material made from leather called Bugskin. He began fishing as a young boy in McKeesport, Pennsylvania and developed his fly fishing skills under the late, great George Harvey while attending Penn State. He never misses the opening day of trout season in PA and enjoys a calm day at sea on his boat "Ole Man Winter."
Skip Morris. Photo credit Skip Morris.
Skip Morris, author, angler, craftsman and fly tyer. Skip Morris is among the most prolific fly-fishing and fly-tying authors alive – his name is known to anglers around the world.
He has written twelve books, including the established standard beginning fly tier's volume Fly Tying Made Clear and Simple, and The Art of Tying the Bass Fly, Morris & Chan on Fly Fishing Trout Lakes (with lake-fishing guru Brian Chan), Concise Handbook of Fly Tying, and Fly Fisher's Guide to Western River Hatches.
His videos and DVD's range from instruction for tying nymphs, to tying bass flies, to tying and fishing flies for sea-run cutthroat trout.
Skip has published over 200 articles in magazines from Fly Fisherman to American Angler. For three years he was among the hosts of the "Fly-Fish Television Magazine" show.
As a speaker and clinician, Skip is well-known as an entertaining, concise, and knowledgeable presenter, with a sly sense of humor and an easygoing manner that draws in the audience.
ORVIS' Tom Rosenbauer. Photo credit Saltwater Angler.
Tom Rosebauer almost single-handedly took ORVIS from being known as a doggy bed and fine womens and mens clothier company to its present status of being a serious fly fishing company producing some of the best and most popular fly angling gear in the world.
Tom Rosenbauer, host of the Orvis Fly Fishing Podcasts, has been with the Orvis Company over 30 years, and while there has been a fishing school instructor, copywriter, public relations director, merchandise manager, and was editor of The Orvis News for 10 years. He is currently Marketing Director for Orvis Rod and Tackle. As merchandise manager, web merchandiser, and catalog director, the titles under his direction have won numerous Gold Medals in the Annual Catalog Age Awards.
Tom has been a fly fisher for over 35 years, and was a commercial fly tier by age 14. He has fished extensively across North America and has also fished on Christmas Island, the Bahamas, in Kamchatka, and on the fabled English chalk streams. He is credited with bringing Bead-Head flies to North America, and is the inventor of the Big Eye hook, Magnetic Net Retriever, and tungsten beads for fly tying.
He has ten fly fishing books in print, including The Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide, Reading Trout Streams, Prospecting for Trout, Casting Illusions, Fly-Fishing in America, Approach and Presentation, Trout Foods and Their Imitations; Nymphing Techniques; Leaders, Knots, and Tippets, The Orvis Guide to Dry-Fly Techniques, and The Orvis Fly-Tying Guide, which won a 2001 National Outdoor Book Award. He has also been published in Field & Stream, Outdoor Life, Catalog Age, Fly Fisherman, Gray's Sporting Journal, Sporting Classics, Fly Rod & Reel, Audubon, and others. He lives in southern Vermont on the banks of his favorite trout stream.
Tom was Fly Rod & Reel magazine's 2011 Angler of the Year! To quote the magazine: "People who meet him know this: Rosenbauer is as valid a fly fisherman as they come – honest, approachable, generous, dedicated, and enthusiastic. It's that kind of enthusiasm and the written and verbal legacy he is providing that make Tom Rosenbauer Fly Rod & Reel's 2011 Angler of the Year."
Brian Chan. Photo credit Still Water Fly Fishing Store.
Brian Chan has been fortunate enough to live and work for the past 35 years in Kamloops, British Columbia. Kamloops is world famous for its rainbow trout, being strategically situated in the centre of hundreds of productive stillwater trout lakes. It is often referred to as the "Yellowstone of the North." It is here that Brian, as a provincial fisheries biologist, managed the recreational stillwater trout fisheries in the Thompson/Nicola Region, and developed his fishing skills.
Brian's lifelong passion for fly fishing has resulted in his spending literally thousands of angling days on these world class waters. He has shared his extensive knowledge of aquatic biology, trout ecology, entomology, and lake fly fishing tactics with others, through a number of magazine articles, books, and instructional DVDs on fly fishing. Brian has been featured on many TV fishing shows and is currently a regular guest on Sport Fishing on the Fly and co-host of The New Fly Fisher.
Over the years, Brian Chan has delivered many stillwater fly fishing seminars making him a much sought after speaker throughout North America. He is now taking the seminar theme one step farther by offering personalized guiding services on his home waters.
Brian enjoys introducing new fly fishers to this sport, getting them "hooked" on his lifelong passion, as much as he enjoys helping to refine the skills of even the most advanced stillwater anglers.
Phil Rowley. Photo credit Still Water Fly Fishing Store.
Phil Rowley has been fly fishing for over 30 years. His love of fly fishing has taken him across North America in pursuit of trout, Atlantic and Pacific salmon, char, pike, walleye and numerous other species on the fly. But Phil is best known for his stillwater exploits.
A former commercial fly tyer, Phil has written for almost every major fly fishing publication in North America. He has authored three books and numerous feature articles and two regular columns. Phil's first book Fly Patterns for Stillwaters is a best seller. In addition to his writing, Phil has four instructional DVD's. In 2007, Phil was a member of the gold medal winning team at the Canadian Fly Fishing championships.
When he isn't on the water Phil Rowley travels North America performing at outdoor shows, providing seminars, speaking to fly clubs and conducting fly-fishing schools. Phil also provides instructional stillwater guiding on the lakes located a short distance from his Edmonton area home.
Phil has appeared on a number of T.V. shows including, BC Outdoors Sports Fishing, Sport Fishing B.C., Fishing Alberta, Fishing with Shelly and Courtney and Let's Go Outdoors. Phil is presently one of the co-hosts of the New Fly Fisher, an educational fly fishing production.
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