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Libya's rival leaders due in Paris for talks
Libya's UN-backed Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj will hold talks near Paris on Tuesday with Khalifa Haftar, the powerful military commander based in the country's east, the French presidency said.
Published: 24 July 2017 09:33 CEST
Self-styled Libyan National Army's chief Khalifa Haftar (L) and Libya's UN-backed Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj (R). Photo: AFP
French President Emmanuel Macron will host the meeting, it said in a statement on Monday.
"France intends, through this initiative, to facilitate a political agreement" between the two rivals as the newly appointed UN envoy for Libya, Ghassam Salame, takes office, the statement said.
Khalifa Haftar, who controls the east of the oil-rich country, and the head of the UN-backed government Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj will hold discussions under the auspices of French President Emmanuel Macron.
Tuesday's talks, which were first reported by France's Journal du Dimanche newspaper on Sunday, would be the second between Sarraj and Haftar in the space of three months after they met in Abu Dhabi in May.
Sarraj this month laid out a new political roadmap for his violence-wracked country, including the scheduling of presidential and parliamentary elections in March 2018.
Political rivalry and fighting between militias have hampered Libya's recovery from the chaos that followed the 2011 uprising that toppled and longtime dictator Moamer Kadhafi, who was killed in the aftermath.
Sarraj's Government of National Accord has been struggling to assert its authority since it began work in Tripoli in March 2016. Haftar's rival administration based in the remote east has refused to recognise it.
Western intelligence services fear that Islamic State jihadists are capitalising on the chaos to set up bases in Libya as they are chased from their former strongholds in Iraq and Syria.
Libya has also become the main springboard for migrants seeking to reach the EU by sailing to Italy in often flimsy and overloaded boats.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told Le Monde newspaper in June that Libya was "a priority" for the new French president and said there were "a security risk because of the trafficking of all kinds, including humans" from Libya.
"In consultation with all its partners, France intends to show its support for the efforts to build a political compromise, under the aegis of the United Nations, which unites… all the different Libyan actors," Monday's statement from the Elysee Palace said.
"The challenge is to build a state capable of meeting the basic needs of Libyans and endowed with a regular unified army under the authority of the civil power.
"It is necessary for the control of Libyan territory and its borders, to fight terrorist groups and arms and migrant traffickers, but also with a view to a return to a stable institutional life."
Turkey lambastes France for backing 'illegitimate warlord' in Libya
'I'll smash my accusers': Sarkozy comes out fighting over corruption charges
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy vowed to clear his name on Thursday after being charged for financing his 2007 election campaign with money from late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi, but admitted he was "finished" in politics.
French former president Nicolas Sarkozy speaking during an interview with TF1 on March 22nd. Photo: AFP PHOTO / TF1
"It might take me one, two, 10 years but I'll smash this group (of accusers) and will restore my honour," he said during an emotion-charged prime-time television interview on Friday evening. "I don't plan to give an inch!"
Having already stepped back from a front-line public role in 2016 after he failed with a bid to run again for president, Sarkozy told his interviewer on the TF1 channel that for himself "politics is finished".
In an defiant half-hour performance that saw him shake with indignation at times, Sarkozy frequently referred to his accusers from Kadhafi's regime as "sinister", "liars" and a "group of killers".
"If you had told me that I would have problems because of Kadhafi, I would have said: 'What are you smoking?'" Sarkozy said at one point, claiming that investigators had not found a single piece of evidence against him.
The 63-year-old, who served as French leader from 2007 to 2012, was charged with corruption, illegal campaign financing and concealment of Libyan public money on Thursday evening after two days of questioning in police custody.
Sarkozy charged with corruption over alleged Gaddafi financing
Ex-French President Nicolas Sarkozy hauled in by police for grilling… once again
Under the French system, charging a suspect means that investigators believe they have strong and corroborated evidence against them, but the defendant can appeal and the case can still be dropped before a trial.
The allegations that Sarkozy took money from Kadhafi — whom he welcomed to Paris in 2007 but then helped to topple in 2011 — are the most serious out of several investigations that have dogged him since he left office.
"I am hurt deeply as a person, not for me, for my country," Sarkozy said in his concluding remarks on the TF1 channel. "You can't drag people into the mud because some killers wanted to do it. I can't let them get away with it."
Earlier in a statement released to Le Figaro newspaper, Sarkozy said he had been "living the hell of this slander since March 11, 2011," when the first allegations against him emerged via Kadhafi's son, Seif al-Islam.
He went as far as to blame "the controversy launched by Kadhafi and his henchmen" for his failure to win re-election in 2012, when Francois Hollande, a Socialist, took the presidency.
Suitcases of cash?
Since 2013, investigators have been looking into claims by several figures in Kadhafi's ousted regime that Sarkozy's campaign received cash from the dictator.
In 2011, as NATO-backed forces were preparing to drive Kadhafi out of power, Seif al-Islam told the Euronews network that Sarkozy must "give back the money he took from Libya to finance his electoral campaign".
Sarkozy has dismissed the allegations as the rantings of vindictive Kadhafi loyalists who were furious over the French-led military intervention that helped end Kadhafi's 41-year rule and ultimately led to his death.
He has also unsuccessfully sued the investigative website Mediapart for publishing a document allegedly signed by Libya's intelligence chief showing that Kadhafi agreed to give Sarkozy up to 50 million euros ($62 million). The courts have ruled it can be used as evidence.
Franco-Lebanese businessman Ziad Takieddine also claims to have delivered three suitcases stuffed with a total of five million euros ($6.15 million) to Sarkozy and his chief of staff in 2006 and 2007.
Sarkozy lashed out at the arms broker in his television interview and in his statement, arguing his account contained inconsistencies and accusing him of having "highly suspect characteristics and a questionable past".
The legal investigation is also looking into a 500,000-euro foreign cash transfer to Sarkozy's former chief of staff Claude Gueant and the 2009 sale of a luxury villa to a Libyan investment fund.
Le Monde newspaper further reported that other former regime officials have stepped forward alleging illicit financing.
First ex-president in custody
In 2014, Sarkozy became the first former French president to be taken into police custody, over a separate inquiry into claims he tried to interfere in another legal investigation against him.
But he is not the first ex-president to be charged with corruption — his predecessor Jacques Chirac was given a two-year suspended sentence in 2011 for embezzlement and misuse of public funds during his time as mayor of Paris.
Sarkozy is already charged in two separate cases, one relating to fake invoices devised to mask overspending on his failed 2012 campaign and another for alleged influence peddling.
France urges war-torn Libya to act on UN peace plan


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Risteárd de Tiúit
Risteárd de Tiúit (anglicised as Richard Tuite) (ob. 1210) was a member of Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke's Irish invasion force, and Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. His part in the original invasion is acknowledged in The Song of Dermot and the Earl, which recorded his grant of land in the western part of Meath (present-day Westmeath and Longford) under the authority of Hugh de Lacy in Trim.[1]
He built one of the largest Motte and Bailey settlements in Ireland at Granard Motte in 1199. His death, while Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, is recorded in Athlone by the Annals of the Four Masters under the year 1210 and his remains lie today in Abbeylara's Cistercian abbey. He was granted the feudal barony of Moyashel.
Risteárd de Tiúit had two sons who survived him, Risteárd 'Dubh' de Tiúit, the eldest son and heir to the title and lands, and Muiris. Lodge's Peerage says that it was this Risteárd, Risteárd Dubh, who established the monastery at Granard about 1210 and at this time Risteárd Dubh already held the manors of Kilalton and Demar, and was enfeoffed in that of Kilstir in Meath. Muiris became Lord of Jordanstown and had four sons who survived him, Tomás (Thomas), Piaras, Matthew and Ruairí (Roger).[2] Sir Risteárd de Tiúit held lands at Ballyloughloe in 1342, when he was arrested on suspicion of treason.[3]
De Tiúit is also the ancestor of those who bear the de Tiúit/ Tuite surname. He is variously recorded as Tiúit, Diúit and Tuit. Numerous placenames in Meath (Tuiterath), Cavan (Droim Thiúit/ Drumyouth), Westmeath (Tuitestown in Fore; Tuitestown in Moyashel and Magheradernon, and Ballysallagh Tuite), Kilkenny (Baile an Tiúigh Thoir/ Tuitestown and Baile an Tiúigh Beag/ Tuitestown Little) and elsewhere are named after him and his descendants. The surname may be from the Eure region of Normandy where the root, Tuit (generally spelled Thuit as a single or first element), indicates a clearing in a wooded area and represents the local development of the Old Norse word thveit (also written þveit), but sometimes from Old Danish thwēt, brought by the Scandinavians when they settled in Normandy[4] and is similar to English Thwaite also from Old Norse or Old Danish.
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↑ La Chanson Dermot e le Conte: 'De huge de laci vus conterai, Cum il feffa ses baruns, Cheualers, serianz e garsunz. Chastelknoc tut premer donat, A huge tŷrel, kil tant amat; E chastel brec, solum lescrit, A barun willame le petit, Macherueran alter si, E la tere de rathkeuni; Le cantref pus de hadhnorkur, A meiler, qui ert de grant valur, Donad huge de laci, Al bon meiler le fiz herui; A gilbert de nangle en fin, Donat tut makerigalin; A iocelin donat le nouan, E la tere de ardbrechan: Li vn ert fiz, li alter pere, Solum le dit de la mere; A richard tuit ensement, Donad riche feffement'. This extract from Maurice Regan's La Chanson Dermot e le Conte or 'The Song of Diarmaid and the Earl', written circa 1225AD and the most famous literary introduction to the Norman invasion translates thus: 'Of Hugh de Lacy I shall tell you, How he enfeoffed his barons, Knights, sergeants and retainers Castleknock in the first place he gave To Hugh Tyrrell, whom he loved so much; And the Castle Brack, according to the writing, To baron William le Petit, Magheradernon likewise And the land of Rathkenny; The cantred of Ardnorcher then To Meiler, who was of great worth, Gave Hugh de Lacy- To the good Meiler Fitz Henry; To Gilbert de Nangle, moreover, He gave the whole of Morgallion; To jocelin he gave the Navan, And the land of Ardbraccan, (The one was son, the other father, according to the statement of the mother); To Richard Tuite likewise He gave a rich fief', The Song of Dermot and the Earl: An old French Poem about the coming of the Normans to Ireland (From the Carew Manuscript No 596 in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth Palace), ed. & trans. Goddard Henry Orpen (Clarendon Press, 1892, reprinted 1994)]
↑ John Lodge, Peerage of Ireland, Volume 3, 1789, pages 25-28
↑ Otway-Ruthven, A.J History of Medieval Ireland Barnes and Noble reissue 1993 p. 258
↑ Åse Kari H. Wagner, Les noms de lieux issus de l'implantation scandinave en Normandie : le cas des noms en -tuit, in Les fondations scandinaves en occident et les débuts du duché de Normandie, actes publiés sous la direction de Pierre Bauduin.
Frame, Robin (2012). Colonial Ireland, 1169-1369 (Second edition. ed.). Dublin: Four Courts. ISBN 978-1-84682-322-0.
Mullaly, Evelyn, ed. (2002). The deeds of the Normans in Ireland : La geste des engleis en Yrlande ; a new edition of the chronicle formerly known as The song of Dermot and the Earl. Dublin: Four Courts. ISBN 1-85182-643-2.
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Construction Sector of Indonesia Feels Impact of Economic Challenges
Indonesia's construction industry, which accounts for about ten percent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP), is experiencing turbulent times as the sector is impacted upon by three issues, namely higher minimum wages, higher subsidized fuel prices as well as the depreciating rupiah (against the US dollar). Concerns have arisen that a number of projects cannot be finished due to these issues. Moreover, companies may feel forced to dimiss workers in order to keep a healthy financial balance sheet.
Official Joint Ministerial Statement of 2013 APEC Finance Ministers' Meeting
Finance Ministers of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies convened its 20th annual meeting in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, on 19 and 20 September 2013 under the Chairmanship of Dr. Muhamad Chatib Basri, Indonesia's Finance Minister. The meeting was attended by various delegates, including the President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Managing Director of the World Bank Group, and the Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Growth of Indonesia's Foreign Debt Slows Down Conform Economic Trend
Growth of Indonesia's foreign debt has slowed down in July 2013 according to data from Indonesia's central bank (Bank Indonesia). Total foreign debt in July 2013 stood at USD $259.54 billion, a 7.3 percent increase compared to the same month in 2012. In June 2013, the year on year growth had been 8 percent. Bank Indonesia stated that it considers Indonesia's current foreign debt situation - both in the private and public sector - as healthy. Growth has slowed down as a consequence of the slowing national economy.
DBS Group: Indonesia's Economic Growth Expected to Reach 5.8% in 2013
Singapore-based DBS Group, a leading financial services group in Asia, expects Indonesia's gross domestic product (GDP) growth to reach 5.8 percent in 2013, while it forecasts growth of 6.0 percent in 2014. This year, Indonesia has to cope with ups and downs due to several domestic and foreign factors. According to the institution, two issues stand out as being significantly influential this year. These are the government's decision to increase prices of subsidized fuels in late June and the country's sharply depreciating rupiah.
Fitch Ratings: Slower Growth in Indonesia's Property Sector
Fitch Ratings, the global rating agency, expects slower growth in Indonesia's property sector for the next 12 months. However, for the longer term, the institution still maintains a positive outlook as Indonesia is characterized by high urbanization, a rapidly expanding middle class and low mortgage rates. Since the revival in 2011, the average selling price of Indonesia's residential properties increased by about 30 percent year-on-year, particularly in the Greater Jakarta area.
Optimizing Indonesia's Economic Potential: Early Childhood Education
In the past decade Indonesia experienced economic growth, reduced poverty, and continued progress towards many of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). However, for the poor families in Indonesia, national economic improvements have brought only modest gains in both health and education. Poverty and the lack of related opportunities continue to challenge the development, school readiness, as well as educational progress of many Indonesian children, according to the World Bank.
IMF Downgrades Indonesia's Economic Growth in 2013 to 5.25%
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects the economy of Indonesia to expand by 5.25 percent in 2013, which is considerably lower than the IMF's earlier forecast. In its World Economic Outlook, released in April 2013, the institution set economic growth of Indonesia at 6.3 percent. However, after emerging markets were hit by large capital outflows when the Federal Reserve began to speculate about an end to its quantitative easing program (QE3), Indonesia's GDP growth assumptions were quickly revised downwards.
Statistics Indonesia Expects an August Inflation Rate of Below 2%
Apart from Indonesia's current account deficit, another indicator that is closely watched by the investor community is the country's inflation rate. After subsidized fuel prices were raised in late-June, inflation soared to 8.61 percent in July (YoY), weakening people's purchasing power (as domestic consumption accounts for about 55 percent of economic growth), thus eroding economic growth, investments and the currency. On Monday (02/09), Statistics Indonesia will release the official August inflation rate.
Central Bank of Indonesia Raises its Benchmark Interest Rate to 7%
Indonesia's central bank (Bank Indonesia) decided to raise its benchmark interest rate (BI rate) by 50 basis points to 7.0 percent on Thursday (29/08) in order to support the weakening rupiah amid slowing global economic growth. The rupiah has been on a long losing streak and has fallen to its lowest level against the US dollar in four years. The BI rate had already been raised in June and July from a historically low 5.75 percent to 6.50 percent. Today, an extra meeting was scheduled to discuss policy measures.
Indonesia's Banking Sector Has No Difficulty Facing Economic Turmoil
Indonesia's banking sector is expected to have no difficulties in coping with current financial turmoil in Indonesia's economy. The country's banking industry is much stronger and healthier now than when the crisis in 1997-1998 or 2008 erupted. There have been reports that a few small banks have used the central bank's overnight lending facility, but various stress tests indicate that the banking sector is strong. Gross non performing loans per June 2013 have been kept below1.9 percent, which is significantly lower compared to previous periods.
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Update Indonesian Economy: Economic Growth and Financial Stability
Despite rising concerns about the slowing pace of the Indonesian economy, the deputy minister of Finance Bambang Brodjonegoro reminded investors that Indonesia's economic growth in the third quarter of 2013 still constitutes one of the highest growth rates around the globe. Economic expansion in Q3-2013 slid to 5.6% in Southeast Asia's largest economy. With the exception of China (7.8% GDP growth in Q3-2013), Indonesia's growth continues to outpace growth in other emerging markets, such as Brazil (3.3%) and Turkey (4%).
Market Update: IPOs on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2013
Five more new public listings are expected on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) in the remainder of 2013 despite the current less rosy macroeconomic environment in Indonesia. The companies that are expected to conduct their initial public offering (IPO) are Indomobil Multi Jasa, Dwi Aneka Jaya Kemasindo, Blue Bird, Soechi Lines, and Sawit Sumbermas Sarana. So far this year, 26 Indonesian companies went public on the IDX. At the start of the year, the IDX targeted for at least 30 new listings in 2013.
Bank Indonesia Raises Benchmark Interest Rate (BI Rate) to 7.50%
Bank Indonesia decided to raise the BI rate by 25 bps to the level of 7.50 percent, with the Lending Facility rate and Deposit Facility rate raised to 7.50 percent and 5.75 percent respectively. This policy was taken in light of the persistently large current account deficit amid widespread global uncertainty. Therefore, the decision was taken in order to ensure that the current account deficit is reduced to a more sound level and inflation in 2014 returns to around 4.5±1 percent, thereby supporting sustainable economic growth.
Indonesian Economic and Financial Update: Challenges in October
ICRA Indonesia, an independent credit rating agency and subsidiary of ICRA Ltd. (associate of Moody's Investors Service), publishes a monthly newsletter which provides an update on the financial and economic developments in Indonesia of the last month. In the October 2013 edition, a number of important issues that are monitored include Indonesia's inflation rate, the trade balance, the current account deficit, the IDR rupiah exchange rate, and gross domestic product (GDP) growth. Below is an excerpt:
Analysis of Indonesia's 5.62% Economic Growth Rate (GDP) in Q3-2013
Indonesia will most likely not meet its original GDP growth target of 6.3 percent (stipulated in the 2013 State Budget). Yesterday (06/11), it was announced by Statistics Indonesia that Indonesia's GDP growth figure in the third quarter of 2013 was recorded at 5.62 percent (year-on-year, yoy), the weakest quarterly growth figure since 2009 when the global financial crisis impacted on Southeast Asia's largest economy. In 2013, Indonesia feels the global impact again, in combination with domestic factors.
Analysis of Indonesia's October Inflation and September Trade Deficit
Indonesia's October inflation rate was well-received by investors. On Friday (01/11), Statistics Indonesia (BPS) announced that the country's inflation in October 2013 grew 0.09 percent. Easing inflation was mainly due to falling prices of raw foods and clothes. Year-on-year (yoy), however, Indonesia's inflation is still high at 8.32 percent, although showing a moderating trend from 8.40 percent (yoy) in September 2013 and 8.79 percent (yoy) in August 2013. Inflation had skyrocketed after subsidized fuel prices were raised by an average 33 percent in June.
Agreement Bank Indonesia and the Indonesian Financial Services Authority
Today (18/10), the Governor of Bank Indonesia and the Chairman of the Indonesian Financial Services Authority (OJK) signed an agreement concerning "cooperation and coordination to support task implementation at Bank Indonesia and OJK". The agreement forms a basis for expediting and optimising coordination between both organisations in terms of their function, task and authority in light of the upcoming transfer of the banking regulation and supervision function from Bank Indonesia to OJK on 31 December 2013.
Economic Update Indonesia: Interest Rate, Inflation, GDP and Trade Balance
Bank Indonesia's Board of Governors decided to hold the BI Rate at a level of 7.25 percent, with rates on the Lending Facility and Deposit Facility held respectively at 7.25 percent and 5.50 percent. Bank Indonesia will continue to monitor global and domestic developments and further synergise the monetary and macroprudential policy mix in order to ensure that inflationary pressures remain under control, that rupiah exchange rate stability is maintained according to its fundamentals and the current account deficit is reduced to a sustainable level.
IMF Direct Forum: How Emerging Markets Can Get Their Groove Back
After a decade of high growth and a swift rebound after the collapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers, emerging markets are seeing slowing growth. Their average growth is now 1½ percentage points lower than in 2010 and 2011. This is a widespread phenomenon: growth has been slowing in roughly three out of four emerging markets. This share is remarkably high; in the past, such synchronized and persistent slowdowns typically have only occurred during acute crises.
Indonesia's Consumer Confidence Rises Slightly in September 2013
The Consumer Confidence Index of Indonesia rose 0.9 percent in September 2013 after having fallen 8.4 percent in the previous month. In September, the index rose because Indonesian consumers are more confident about prospects of the Indonesian economy, while concerns about the increase of certain food prices eased. Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa, chief economist at the Danareksa Research Insititute, said that in September 77.4 percent of consumers were concerned about rising food prices, down from 82.5 percent in August.
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After I have done that part, I have nice quality content, custom text based on search query + some images (images are search results) on URLs like:
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but, if you add "/" at the you will get same page, but another URL, which will met conditions to be indexable too. So, I need way to put "noindex" tag in case if it is that duplicate URL, URL with "/" at the end, because I have no option to create canonicial URL. For that I need something to check for "/".

A: After the question's update, I think that you need to set the canonical URL:
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And your problem with duplicated content is fixed.

A: You'll need to hook onto the search query through pre_get_posts. The following snippet will search for / in the query.
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Yorba Linda plane crash: 4 victims killed inside home identified
By Veronica Miracle
Yorba Linda plane crash: 4 victims killed inside home ID'd
YORBA LINDA, Calif. (KABC) -- Four people who were killed when a small plane crashed into a Yorba Linda home were identified Wednesday.
They were identified as Roy Lee Anderson, 85, of Yorba Linda; Dahlia Marlies Leber Anderson, 68, of Yorba Linda; Stacie Norene Leber, 48, of Corona; and Donald Paul Elliott, 58, of Norco.
MORE: What we know about the NTSB investigation into the Yorba Linda plane crash
Roy and Dahlia were husband and wife, while Stacie was their daughter and Donald was one of their sons-in-law.
All four, including two other family members, were having a Super Bowl party at the residence on Sunday when around 2 p.m., a small twin-engine Cessna smashed into the home on Canyon Drive, causing a massive fire to ignite.
Elliott's wife and his son had escaped from the inferno and suffered burns.
The family released a statement Wednesday after the identities were released.
"We are devastated by our loss of our family members who will be greatly missed. Our family bond is tight and each member lost in this tragedy represents more than just one role within our family. We lost parents, grandparents, great-parents, spouses, sisters, brothers, aunts and uncles. The home lost was a beacon for so many family and friends where many celebrations were held.
"We want to thank our extended family and friends who have provided amazing support, kindness and compassion. It takes a village.
"We are grateful to the neighbors and first-responders who put themselves in harm's way in the moments immediately following the crash, as well as the various city and county agencies who have worked so tirelessly since the incident to provide us with assistance and answers.
"We would like to thank the local city fire departments, Orange County Fire Authority, local law enforcement, Trauma Intervention Programs, Inc, Orange County Sheriff's Department Coroner Division, UCI Medical Center, the National Transportation Safety Board, Yorba Linda personnel, and surrounding communities.
"As we deal with the reality that lies ahead, we ask that the news media please respect our privacy during this extremely difficult time."
Authorities said the aircraft had climbed about 7,800 feet before it made a sudden decline toward the ground. Video footage from witnesses showed the plane falling through clouds and then bursting into flames midair.
The pilot, identified as 75-year-old Antonio Pastini, was also killed in the crash.
Pastini was initially identified as a former Chicago police officer, but it was later determined he was carrying false credentials and a badge that was reported lost in 1978.
In another development, a friend of Pastini's said he was close friends with Dennis Hoff, the late owner of the brothel The Bunny Ranch. Pastini's daughter said her father lived in Nevada and was a restaurant owner.
The friend, Charlie Abowd, also said that Pastini often brought up that he was a retired Chicago police officer.
A vigil for the victims will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Glenknoll Elementary School.
The investigation is ongoing.
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The Absence of Islam in Arab Spring
Written by Mohammad Hashim Kamali
The Arab uprising is still unfolding and uncertainties exist that may yet be clarified in the course of time. But one question that arises is over the relative absence of Islam in what has been seen so far.
Islam has been closely aligned with most of the reform movements in the Arab world during the independence and post-independence periods. Two other themes that have also featured, with varying degrees of consistency, are Arab nationalism (qawmiyyah Arabiyyah) and, for a brief period in the era of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, socialism........ Download the full article in pdf attachment (below)
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RTA letting trucks destroy our Blue Mountains
Noisy by day, nightmarish by night: Mt Victoria residents (Blue Mountains)
near this 24-hour Caltex service station are being disturbed round-the-clock
by truck drivers parking on their doorstops.
[Source: Blue Mountains Gazette, 20040924]
As alternating Labor and Liberal governments ignore rail investment across Australia and instead encourage and invest hundreds of million of our taxes in bigger roads for truck freight, regional highways are being transformed into noisy and dangerous trucking expressways.
Year on year, the regional Great Western Highway over the Blue Mountains for instance, has seen a steady increase in the number, size and frequency of trucks using it for long-distance linehaul. Produce, fuel, sand, soil, cement, grain, steel, concrete pipes, shipping containers are getting carted by road, some from as far away as Darwin and Perth, over the highway that runs through Blue Mountains towns and villages. There are many different speed zones to ensure the safety of local road users. All of these freight types could be carted by rail, which for the most part runs alongside the highway, but is mostly only used by passenger trains. The only commodity still banned is uranium but with federal Labor recently allowing uranium sales to India to resume, is it only matter of time before radioactive uranium is carted through Blue Mountains towns and villages?
There are commuters, school zones, buses, cyclists, pedestrian crossings and increasingly 19 metre B-double trucks hurtling along the same highway driven by 'trip-rate' pay incentives. Tail-gating is an all too frequently noted dangerous habit of many of these truck drivers, yet the NRMA suggests that "you try not to let the size of the vehicle intimidate you". (Karen Fittall, NRMA's 'Open Road' magazine, September/October 2005, ^http://www.mynrma.com.au/cps/rde/xchg/mynrma/hs.xsl/heavy_going.htm).
Trucks behaving badly Pacific Highway (and Great Western Highway)
Somehow the Transport Workers Union has allowed the hourly rate to go out the window in favour of the employer's convenient fixed cost 'trip rate'. So to a truck driver it's more trips for more money based on commercial incentive arrangements. This incentive structure has become the motivation driving faster trucks and therefore more dangerous trucks to push and exceed speed limits. Across the Blue Mountains, both Great Western Highway and Bell Line of Road, highway signposted speed limits are systemically unenforced.
Where's the speed governor? Where are the road patrols?
At the time of Bob Debus MP as NSW Labor Member for Blue Mountains (1981 – 1988, then again 1995 – 2007), then federal Labor member for Macquarie (2007 – 2009), the once prohibited B-double trucks surreptitiously started using the Great Western Highway. How was this allowed? Now 19 metre B-doubles are at such frequency along the highway as to be standard, but there has been no local community consultation nor local community approval. It has been an undemocratic impost. What is stopping 26 metre B-doubles creeping in?
Exhaust Brake Noise is Rife!
Many trucks drivers on the highway apply their noisy engine brakes (engine compression braking) because they are told it saves on the cost of brake pads. Engine brakes in heavy vehicles are auxiliary brakes installed as important backup safety braking to reduce the load on service brakes on a steep descent. But many truck drivers have then engaged automatically so they kick in as soon as the driver takes his foot of the accelerator pedal. (This Editor holds a Class 'HC' Heavy Vehicle Drivers Licence, so is aware of this lazy habit).
Many truck engine brakes are noisy and the 'bark' characteristic of the noise reverberates considerably at night. Truck drivers selfishly use these even as they drive through Blue Mountains towns and villages. So 24 hours a day, often in the wee small hours, these exhaust brakes can be heard reverberating for miles around, keeping many Blue Mountains residents awake.
The police do nothing – they say it's not their job. The Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) does nothing, except put up tokenistic signs – 'Trucks – limit engine braking', which is flatly ignored and not enforced. The Blue Mountains Council does nothing – it say it's not it's job, even though it accepts operating as an agency for the RTA at Katoomba.
Possibly the most ignored sign on a highway
One sign means the RTA can avoid the cost of enforcement
while pretending to and meet its local government development guidelines
– on paper.
So truck owners apparently save on the cost of renewing their brakes, but selfishly at the expense of Blue Mountains residents trying to get a good night's sleep. This editor lives a kilometre from the highway yet almost nightly hears some lousy trucker's exhaust brakes as it moans up to the red lights outside Council chambers. Selfish bastards they are! I bet there's been complaints, but typically none of these agencies has done squat about it.
Dodgy Truck Rest Area
Big linehaul trucks are destroying the Blue Mountains. Not only by their noise and dangerous speeds, but intimidating tail-gating to keep schedule and parking day and night outside residents homes.
At Mount Victoria in the Blue Mountains, the RTA and Blue Mountains Council approved of 24-hour Caltex Service Station and allowing truck drivers to use the adjacent highway shoulder to park and sleep. The shoulder was even widened to accommodate and encourage its use as a dodgy heavy vehicle rest area.
Since December 2003, Caltex at Mount Victoria was somehow allowed to become a round-the-clock operation with drivers of passing trucks, semi-trailers and B-doubles using the road shoulders to park their vehicles, often directly in front of residents' front doors.
Local residents have complained to their members of parliament about the constant truck noise, of truck drivers leaving their rubbish by the side of the road and some even using front yards as a toilet – urinating and defecating!
In 2004, Liberal MP Duncan Gay, then Shadow Roads Minister, met with local community representatives at Mount Victoria, confirming that:
"The RTA, who are responsible for fatigue management need to provide proper rest points"
Now in 2011, with the Liberal Coalition in power, still nothing has been done. With speed being the main cause of at least half the recorded crashes, and the NRMA confirming a need for increased enforcement of heavy vehicle speed limits, Duncan Gay back in 2004 also advocated the installation of two new speed cameras 'to convince motorists to take more care.' Nup, not yet done either!
Then NSW Liberal Party Shadow Minster Duncan Gay (centre)
meeting Blue Mountains community representatives at Mount Victoria in 2004.
All care and no responsibility.
(Source: Blue Mountains Gazette)
The RTA, while headlong enthusiastic about channelling hundreds of millions into capital works widening sections of the highway, highway maintenance and traffic enforcement has always been the RTA's unsexy Cinderella. Fatigue is one of the biggest causes of crashes for heavy vehicle drivers and the RTA is the delegated authority responsible for overseeing heavy vehicle driver fatigue management on New South Wales roads. This necessarily includes providing for the necessary rest facilities.
Suitable rest areas are important for heavy vehicle drivers to take long and short rest breaks, use amenities and check loads and vehicles. Heavy vehicle drivers must conform to fatigue management legislation that specifies strict resting requirements. In order to fulfil these requirements they require suitable rest area facilities that are regularly spaced along key freight routes. (Source: ^http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/heavyvehicles/safety/hvfatigue/index.html)
RTA reneging on its duty to provide suitable Rest Areas
On 29th September 2008, Australia's National Transport Commission (NTC) introduced new Heavy Vehicle Driver Fatigue laws national-wide. This came about as a consequence of many crashes involving heavy vehicles on designated national freight routes and fatigue identified as a key cause. The Audit of Rest Areas against National Guidelines (Austroads 2006) had found that many rest areas on freight routes across Australia (many in NSW) were deficient in being suitable to provide for appropriate rest breaks to address driver fatigue. One of the key freight routes is Great Western Highway /Mitchell Highway (Nepean River to Dubbo).
The NTC Guidelines for Major Heavy Vehicle Rest Areas includes the following principles:
Sites generally at no more than 100km intervals. Geographical and other physical constraints may require a range between 80 and 120km with the maximum limit generally being 120km.
Sites are to be provided on both sides of the road on those parts of the network that have high levels of demand, while those with lower levels of demand will not require provision on both sides of the road.
Sites are to be well signposted for heavy vehicle drivers and have suitable access for ingress and egress.
Sites are to have designated hard stand parking for heavy vehicles and an appropriate number of parking spaces dependent on demand.
Sites are to meet the basic needs of heavy vehicle drivers including provision of sealed pavements particularly for ingress and egress lanes/ramps, at least one toilet on each site, shade, shelter, rubbish bins and tables and chairs.
[Read More: ^http://www.ntc.gov.au/, access section under 'Safety & Compliance' tab]
The RTA restated these two years later in its public document 'RTA Strategy for Major Heavy Vehicle Rest Areas on Key Rural Freight Routes in NSW, January 2010'.
A RTA model heavy vehicle rest area
'Station creek' rest area north of Karuah, Pacific Highway, NSW
A RTA dodgy heavy vehicle rest area
'Mount Victoria' outside resident properties #45-47, #49, #51, #143, #147, #151.
RTA dodgy (unconscionable) heavy vehicle rest area in front of residents' homes
The RTA is obligated to provide for a Major Heavy Vehicle Rest Areas along the Great Western Highway accessible from each side of the highway at the intervals and with minimum standard of facilities as prescribed under the 2008 NTC Guidelines. Similarly, heavy vehicle drivers are required to have breaks at the frequencies, duration and under such conditions as prescribed under the 2008 Heavy Vehicle Driver Fatigue laws, basically to ensure that they 'fit for duty' and not too tired to drive safely. In NSW this is law under the Road Transport (General) Regulation 2005, which in relation to trucks applies to trucks with a Gross Vehicle Mass of 12 tonnes. Under the regulation, Basic Fatigue Management, starts with a solo driver required to have a 15 minute 'stationary rest' after no more than 6 hours and 15 minutes at work, driving or otherwise. Longer work shifts have increasing rest break requirements. 'Stationary rest' is defined as rest time that the driver spends out of the heavy vehicle or in an approved sleeper berth of a stationary regulated heavy vehicle.
However, along the Great Western Highway, which the RTA deems to be a 'key rural freight route', the entire route of 200 km between outer Sydney (Penrith) and Orange provides no current rest area facilities, either westbound or eastbound that meet the 2008 NTC Guidelines. There should be two sites at no more than 100km apart, and on both sides of the highway, not just one side, with suitable access for ingress and egress. The sites should have stand parking for heavy vehicles and an appropriate number of parking spaces dependent on demand, as well as offering drivers a toilet, shade, shelter, rubbish bins and tables and chairs.
But the RTA simply doesn't care. The RTA is prepared to ignore the problem of fatigue, to configure exemptions to avoid legalities and otherwise spend millions on the more politically sexy capital works upgrades. Three years after the NTC Guidelines, and many crashes later (involving heavy vehicles), the RTA has spent hundred of millions widening the Great Western Highway into a trucking expressway for bigger and more trucks to use, but has provided no facilities to address heavy vehicle driver fatigue. So the RTA is telling truck drivers to take proper breaks, but providing them with stuff all places to properly have a break. The RTA is negligent. It is also sly at claiming private enterprise facilities as its delivery of rest areas.
So the RTA is not just negligent. It is unethical.
No heavy vehicle facilities provide by the RTA for 200 km between Penrith and Orange
Along the Great Western Highway freight route between Penrith and Orange, a distance of over 200 km, the RTA provides no dedicated rest areas for heavy vehicles to the NTC Guidelines. The only RTA-built rest area is an unshaded paved vehicle check area just west of Faulconbridge with no facilities except two rubbish bins.
Only private enterprises are providing any form of adequate rest facility eastbound between Orange and Penrith that is accessible by heavy vehicles – the BP Service Station at Mount Lambie and the Caltex Service Station at Mount Victoria, but neither provide space for a heavy vehicle to park so the driver can sleep. The only heavy vehicle rest facility between westbound between Penrith and Orange is the Shell Service Station at Yetholm where there is ample off road parking, a roadside restaurant, toilets and an adjoining motor inn, but this is a commercial operation, not one provided by the RTA.
The RTA is thus contributory in culpability for heavy vehicle crashes due to driver fatigue along the Great Western Highway.
The RTA map below (which can be viewed full size by the link provided) shows the Great Western Highway from Penrith to Bathurst, with only two rest stops ('Driver Reviver' sites in yellow) – one at Glenbrook (westbound only), and one at Faulconbridge (eastbound only). Neither are any more than roadside parking areas without facilities – big of the RTA!
(View full size map with legend, click here)
RTA's key rural freight route supposed 'rest area'
for Heavy Vehicles at Faulconbridge – westbound access only.
(Photo by Editor 20111019, free in public domain)
No toilets
No shelter
No tables
Two bins, but who empties them and how often?
Not signposted as 'Rest Area' but as 'Vehicle Checking Area' I wonder why? (see next zoom photo)
RTA key rural freight route truck stop Faulconbridge
Not signposted as 'Rest Area' but as 'Vehicle Checking Area'
Back to the January 2010 'RTA Strategy for Major Heavy Vehicle Rest Areas on Key Rural Freight Routes in NSW', the RTA lists the facilities available or not available for heavy vehicle drivers along the Great Western Highway between Penrith and Orange in two tables – one Westbound (p.19), one Eastbound (p.20).
Read 'RTA Strategy for Major Heavy Vehicle Rest Areas on Key Rural Freight Routes in NSW, January 2010'.
Westbound (south side of highway)
(Click to enlarge table)
RTA Official Excuse:
'Victoria Pass Parking Area' is nothing but a widened road shoulder outside the Caltex Service Station at Mount Victoria outside residents homes. There is no shade or shelter. The Caltex Service Station provides for refuelling/vehicle inspection, but no place for drivers to sleep in the vehicles.
At the time of writing, there are no current facilities at River Lett Hill – the statement of there being 'a rest area…on both sides of the road including a toilet' is false and misleading.
At the time of writing, the Raglan Service Centre (Shell) is currently closed and is under construction as a BP service station. It is to be a private facility, not provided by the RTA.
RTA: "No existing rest area meets or can be upgraded to meet the required 10 parking spaces in one site in this section (due to existing site constraints). The recommendation is for heavy vehicles to utilise and upgrade existing rest areas, in the interim, with the RTA investigating the potential, to construct in the long term, a major rest area as part of the Great Western Highway upgrade – Mount Victoria to Lithgow project."
Ed: Given this will cost about $1 billion, it is unlikely to be funded or built any time soon, and so is a poor excuse by the RTA for doing nothing.
Eastbound (north side of the highway)
There is no heavy vehicle facility between Orange and Bathurst. The RTA's mention of upgrading the Larra Lee rest area is a proposal only, just to fill in space in the table to mask its failure to provide a facility.
'Raglan Service Centre'
At the time of writing the 'Raglan Service Centre is closed. It was a Shell Service Station for heavy vehicles. It is currently under construction as a BP Service Station, but it is not a facilty provided by the RTA. The RTA's branding of this facility as a 'Raglan Service Centre' is deceptive and misleading.
Caltex Service Station at Mount Victoria
The only facility that the RTA mentions is "Parking bay east of Mount Victoria (existing). Food, toilet, shade, shelter provided at adjacent service station".
This false and misleading. The facilities are not that of the RTA. The only service offered by the Caltex Service Station for heavy vehicles is refueling, vehicle inspection, a roadside cafe and toilet. There is no shade or shelter either on the Caltex site or along the road shoulders. The "parking bay" is the road shoulder. What a deceptive fabrication!
RTA's excuse for perpetuating its Dodgy Rest Area at Mount Victoria
Standard Politic Tactic #1: Blame lack of Federal Government – will sit well with NSW Roads and Transport Minister of the day
RTA:
'Implementation of the RTA's Strategy for Major Heavy Vehicle Rest Areas on Key Rural Freight Routes in NSW is largely dependent on the availability of funding from the Federal Government.
The Federal Government's 2008/09 Budget outlined that the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government would provide $70 million across Australia over four years to fund a range of heavy vehicle safety initiatives. This funding is being allocated under the Heavy Vehicle Safety and Productivity Program (HVSPP) in two rounds with Round 1 covering 2008/09 – 2009/10 (complete) and Round 2 covering 2010/11 and 2011/12 (current). Under the HVSPP Guidelines a key consideration in allocating the funding is the extent to which state and territory governments commit to match the Federal Government's funding contribution.
As part of Round 1 of the HVSPP, on 8 May 2009 the Federal Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government and the then State Minister for Roads announced $16M (50% Federal and 50% State) for NSW. Of this, $15M is currently being spent on 6 new rest areas and 22 rest area upgrades with the balance on bridge assessments for higher masses. In Round 1, NSW received 26.6% of $30 million available.
In applying the principles set in the RTA's Guidelines for Provision of Major Heavy Vehicle Rest Areas a summary of needs across key rural freight routes in NSW is outlined in Table 2. Currently, on these routes 101 rest areas qualify as major heavy vehicle rest areas and 76 sites have been identified for enhancement. A total of 61 existing rest areas have been identified for upgrade to qualify as a major heavy vehicle rest area and 15 sites identified for new heavy vehicle rest areas. The strategic cost ($2009) to undertake required works that are not anticipated to be delivered as part of a major infrastructure proposal is estimated at around $50 to 60 million.
Delivery of works at all 76 identified sites is significantly higher than this strategic estimate.'
So what is the RTA's ultimate excuse:
'The RTA investigating the potential, in the long term, for a major rest area as part of the Great Western Highway upgrade – Mount Victoria to Lithgow.'
(Ed: Given the $1 billion pre-blowout estimate, the RTA can focus on its more sexy capital works highway upgrades)..
Meanwhile, back at sleepless Mount Victoria, the Blue Mountains Council was told that the real estate profession had refused to place a valuation on the homes because of the problem and that the homes had been 'effectively rendered worthless'.
[Source: 'Mt Vic's truck dilemma', by Len Ashworth, Lithgow Mercury, Tuesday 20081125]
Tags: Austroads 2006, blue mountains, Blue Mountains Council, Bob Debus, Caltex, Dodgy Truck Rest Area, Duncan Gay, engine brakes, engine braking, fatigue management, Great Western Highway, highway noise, January 2010, key rural freight route, Major Heavy Vehicle Rest Areas, Mount Victoria, National Transport Commission, NTC Guidelines, Rest Area, Roads and Traffic Authority, RTA, RTA Strategy for Major Heavy Vehicle Rest Areas on Key Rural Freight Routes in NSW, stationary rest, truck engine braking, truck noise, trucking expressway, trucks
This entry was posted on Saturday, December 24th, 2011	and is filed under Blue Mountains (AU), Threats from Road Making.
One Response to "RTA letting trucks destroy our Blue Mountains"
January 23rd, 2013 at 10:14 pm
Hi Great writing I feel compression braking causes a lot of problems. I've noticed coming into woollongong and on the m5 there are Noise Cameras. Would I lobby the RTA for that. Do you know of any action groups for controlling truck noise and building cycle tracks?


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Its products also comprise RingCentral Contact Center, a collaborative contact center solution that delivers omni-channel; RingCentral Glip, a team messaging and collaboration solution that allows a range of teams to stay connected through various modes of communication through an integration with RingCentral Office; and RingCentral Meetings, a collaborative meetings solution that offers web meetings, video conferencing, and screen sharing. In addition, the company offers RingCentral Engage Digital, a digital customer engagement platform that allows enterprises to interact with their customers; RingCentral Engage Voice, a cloud-based outbound/blended customer engagement platform for midsize and enterprise companies; and RingCentral Live Reports, an add-on for RingCentral Office customers to gather real-time information.
RingCentral Inc. (NYSE: RNG) recently announced that its unified communications platform including team messaging, video meetings, and cloud phone system will now be available in Germany with a new datacenter in Frankfurt, and a new office in Hamburg, Germany.
According to the release, as RingCentral continues its global expansion efforts, Germany remains a key strategic location for the company. The new datacenter will also give users access to local phone numbers and emergency services in compliance with local laws and regulations. RingCentral will offer customers local data storage, the ability to register endpoints in-country, and keep voice and video call media local. The new datacenter will also give users access to local phone numbers and emergency services in compliance with local laws and regulation. All team messaging, voicemails, audio and video recordings, call logs, faxes and analytics data will also be stored locally.
The context for this announcement is a bit of a bid, with shares acting well over the past five days, up about 5% in that timeframe.
RingCentral Inc. (NYSE: RNG) managed to rope in revenues totaling $278M in overall sales during the company's most recently reported quarterly financial data — a figure that represents a rate of top line growth of 29.2%, as compared to year-ago data in comparable terms. In addition, the company has a strong balance sheet, with cash levels far exceeding current liabilities ($773.8M against $371.1M).
SC Holdings Corp (OTC PINK: SCNG), also known as Strattners, is a publicly traded small-cap conglomerate and parent company of the Strattner portfolio of brands and subsidiaries. The company manages multiple alternative asset classes, including private equity, convertibles, credit, and hedge funds. The action for the company now is mostly about Strattner Financial's key subsidiary, Strattner Technologies LLC, which is quickly moving into an emerging leadership role in the satellite-based communications space.
Strattner Technologies LLC also recently signed a contract with satellite phone manufacturer AdvanceTC Limited (OTC:ATCLF) to service and commercialize up to one million phones via the Strattner.Space platform. AdvanceTCs android based satellite-smartphone Xplore 7 is a FCC/SIRIM certified rugged satellite-smartphone with 4G LTE, satellite messaging and emergency button device which received authorization by the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 2019.
SC Holdings Corp (OTC PINK: SCNG), which owns Strattner Financial Group, and its subsidiary, Strattner Technologies, just recently announced, along with Pareteum Corporation (Nasdaq:TEUM), a global cloud communications platform company, that the two have partnered to launch the Strattner Voice brand, a GSM cellular network complementing its satellite communications network Strattner.Space.
According to the release, Strattner Technologies will utilize Pareteum's Experience Cloud platform to enter the mobile communications market with the mission to reconnect Americans with their friends, family and business associates both in the US and across the world, in these pandemic times. Strattner is bridging the gap between cellular and satellite networks on a single smartphone device. Strattner.Space, the Satellite communications division of the company, has strategically combined with Strattner Cellular division to bring this product solution to market.
David Blunk, CTO of Strattner Group stated, "We are very excited about the opportunity to go to market with a unified cellular solution that integrates rural market coverage on satellite technology."
SC Holdings Corp (OTC PINK: SCNG) recently reported that assets under management in its wholly owned private funds TBS Equities Fund LLC and TBS Capital LP increased 192% from $2,328,582 to $6,812,000 attributable to a growing securities portfolio. The company continues to line up key deals to commercially expand in the sat-com space.
Zoom Video Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: ZM) bills itself as a company that provides a video-first communications platform that delivers changes how people interact primarily in the Americas, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. It connects people through frictionless video, voice, chat, and content sharing.
The company's cloud-native platform enables face-to-face video experiences and connects users across various devices and locations in a single meeting. It serves education, entertainment/media, enterprise infrastructure, finance, healthcare, manufacturing, non-profit/not for profit and social impact, retail/consumer products, and software/Internet industries, as well as individuals.
Zoom Video Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: ZM) and Lumen Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: LUMN) just recently announced that the companies will partner allowing Lumen to offer Zoom as part of its Unified Communications and Collaboration Suite. Lumen will deliver enhanced services around Zoom's best-in-class video-first unified communications platform to their large and growing base of customers across the globe.
According to the release, Zoom and Lumen will partner to provide enhanced delivery, customer success, and managed services to companies using Zoom, to deliver an outstanding enterprise experience throughout the customer lifecycle. Additionally, the Lumen network will allow it to deliver an enhanced quality experience, as well as combining its embedded network security with Zoom's built-in security features to proactively protect customers using the combined services.
While this is a clear factor, it has been incorporated into a trading tape characterized by a pretty dominant offer, which hasn't been the type of action ZM shareholders really want to see. In total, over the past five days, shares of the stock have dropped by roughly -6% on above average trading volume. All in all, not a particularly friendly tape, but one that may ultimately present some new opportunities.
Zoom Video Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: ZM) pulled in sales of $663.5M in its last reported quarterly financials, representing top line growth of 355%. In addition, the company has a strong balance sheet, with cash levels far exceeding current liabilities ($1.8B against $1.3B).
Steve Sandifer


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Qatar MotoGP: Valentino Rossi happy to race on Monday
Published: 13 April 2009 Updated: 24 November 2014
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Rossi is happy that the delayed Qatar MotoGP race will go ahead
Reigning world champion Valentino Rossi has said he is happy that the delayed Qatar MotoGP race will go ahead after last night's rain cancellation.
The opening round of the 2009 season was postponed after torrential rain battered the floodlit Losail International Circuit just moments before the start of the race.
With glare from the floodlights causing visibility issues, the riders had a pre-race agreement that they would not compete in the event of rain.
Several meetings took place to thrash out an alternative and the 22-lap race will now go ahead tonight (Monday) starting at 7pm UK time.
And Fiat Yamaha rider Rossi said: "This is a real disappointment because we were fired up to race and it was so close to the start! After the rain stopped the 125 race we thought we had escaped because the track then dried but then the rain came down even harder just in time for MotoGP.
"It's so unlucky because you don't expect this in the desert. After six months without racing and after two days of practice and so much work by everyone it's very frustrating and this is why it was important to take the decision to race tomorrow.
"It will be strange because I don't think there's ever been a Monday race! It will also be hard to wait another day, and the pressure will be more, but I am happy that we will get the chance to ride.
"Of course now we have to keep our fingers crossed for the weather tomorrow, but the forecast says it will be ok.
"The other important thing is that something is done to clean the track, because it will be very dirty after this. Maybe we should all have a race with the hire cars in the morning!"
By Matthew Birt


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Eglantina Kume (ur. 21 stycznia 1950 w Durrësie) – albańska aktorka i montażystka.

Życiorys
Po ukończeniu szkoły średniej w rodzinnym mieście studiowała aktorstwo w Instytucie Sztuk w Tiranie. Jeszcze w szkole średniej została zauważona przez reżysera Dhimitra Anagnostiego, dzięki czemu dostała małą rolę w filmie Cichy pojedynek. Wkrótce potem otrzymała główną rolę w filmie Zwycięstwo nad śmiercią.
W sześciu filmach zajmowała się montażem. Ostatnim filmem w jej dorobku był Vetmi (1990). W 1991 r. wraz z rodziną wyemigrowała do Grecji i podjęła pracę w jednym z ateńskich kin.

Współpracuje z wydawanym w Grecji czasopismem "Egnatia". Pisze także opowiadania, publikowane w albańskich czasopismach literackich.

Role filmowe
 1967: Duel i Heshtur
 1967: Ngadhjenim mbi vdekjen jako Mira Korani
 1970: Lugina e pushkatarëve jako nauczycielka
 1972: Yjet e neteve te gjata jako panna młoda
 1977: Zemrat, qe nuk plaken jako nauczycielka Donika
 1987: Binaret
 1990: Vetmi

Przypisy

Bibliografia

Albańskie aktorki filmowe
Albańscy prozaicy
Albańscy montażyści filmowi
Ludzie urodzeni w Durrës
Urodzeni w 1950
Absolwenci Uniwersytetu Sztuk w Tiranie

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The greatest birthday gift in history
Seram Neken *
Besides pronouncing awards for excellent players, the Manipur government may also be enthusiastic and sincere in the make-up and maintenance of proper sports infrastructure in the nook and corner of the state in order to hunt the talented. Percentage cuts and favouritism in construction of sports infrastructure and procurement of equipment (if there is any) is a thing of shame on the part of errant leaders, bureaucrats and work agencies of the state. The celebration of Mary Kom and Laishram Devendro's feats will never be meaningful unless there is sincerity, commitment and strong will in creating proper infrastructure and grooming young talents.
Twin sons - Rechungvar and Khupneivar have become inimitable kids who received the greatest birthday gift from their mother in history. It's on their birthday that Mary Kom pounced back her world-number-5 opponent Karolina Michalczuk of Poland out of the Olympic ring and brings fame to the home state. To her lucky twins, it is a greatest birthday gift from their strongest mother. The Magnificent Mary and Chhota Tyson Laishram Devendra of Manipur have become the gold medal hopefuls of India in the London 2012. Manipur will shine this August amid celebrations of power, fame and win.
August remains a heartrending month the world over. Amid emotions of joys over reunion and pangs of separation, of bondage and liberation, of love and war, of sacrifices and rebellions, the eight month of the year has been unique among its counterparts. For the far-off and segregated hill region of Asia called Manipur, August 2012 will be a month of celebrations. Enmity, hatred, jealousy, corruption, favouritism and narrow mindedness will fade away from the minds of Manipuris, when they celebrate the true bravery, patriotism and perseverance of the two great Olympians - Magnificent Mary and the pocket-sized dynamo Devendro. The duo can be termed as greatest patriots of the nation, who truly uphold the age-old heroism and courage of Manipuris.
With increasing crimes involving civilians during the last few months, people of Manipur anticipated the notorious usual protests during this August. Undesirable events disturbing the peace and order of the state have risen during the past few weeks, thereby causing panic among the public. In the last week of July, a newspaper hawker was assaulted and robbed by persons suspected to be police commandos in Thoubal district of Manipur.
The case of Irungbam Irabanta who has been untraceable since May 26 last and allegedly in the custody of NSCN (IM) is also a pending case inviting big protests during this month. Gunning down of suspected militants in an alleged encounter at Lamdeng Khunou Chingmei village in Imphal West late on 30th July is also a cause of public outcry, as the family claims innocence of the victim.
Threat to state media for dictating publication or otherwise of its news item by an underground group is also a burning issue in the way of a free media. These and many other crimes in the state have apparently posed a hurdle in making a peaceful August this year. However, winning celebrations of the two great boxers of the state will sideline all kinds of negative emotions.
August is a mixture of joys and tears. On 13th August 1891, Manipur patriots - Bir Tikendrajit and Thangal General were hanged on charges of waging war against the British. And again on the 14th of August 55years later, Manipur regained its lost independence in 1947. The Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki still remember the quaver felt on the 6th and 9th of August 1945.
Although India celebrates its liberation on 15th August 1947, the pangs of separation between Hindus and Muslims still persist in the patriotic Indian minds. Manipuris usually experience tragedies in this month, as the great "Hunger Marchers' Day" took place on 27th August 1965 leading to formation of the All Manipur Students' Union as the first apex body of students. Many nations celebrate their independence days during August throughout the world. Many others observe anniversaries to remember their deaths, calamities and tragedies.
For Manipur and for India at large, August 2012 marks the triumph. Mary Kom belonging to one of the smallest communities of the composite Manipuri nation (Kom community) will hopefully demonstrate the inherent talent as a Manipuri. Similarly Laishram Devendro will confidently show off the potent strength of his race. The patriotic Manipuri forefathers who fought against the mighty British for the independence of their motherland will be satisfied enough to see the feats of their two boxer kids from the heaven. These two tiny postures with their magnificent skill and strength will preserve the age-old strength of the Manipuris from times immemorial. Mary and Devendro are really the true patriots of the nation.
Sports bring peace, discipline and friendship. It gives no room for favouritism and unfairness. Political leaders and concerned bureaucrats of Manipur state, while celebrating the victory of their players, should always remember the distance the state's players walked from the poor and dirty Khuman Lampak sports complex to the well equipped London Olympic Rings. Excellence requires infrastructure and nourishment in addition to the courage of the sports-persons. Corruption, bribery and percentage deduction in construction of sports infrastructure are a great curse. Those powers in this mission will automatically be embarrassed in the face of excellent players of the state who bring laurels for the nation.
The government, in addition to pronouncing awards for excellent players, may also put thoughts in making sports infrastructure in the nook and corner of Manipur in order to hunt the talented. Percentage cuts and favouritism in construction of sports infrastructure and procurement of equipment (if there is any) is a thing of shame on the part of errant leaders, bureaucrats and work agencies of the state. The celebration of sports feats will never be meaningful unless there is sincerity, commitment and strong will in grooming sports-persons.
* Seram Neken wrote this article for Hueiyen Lanpao (English Edition) in his column "The voiceless speaks"
This article was posted on August 07 2012.


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Non-Registered Critics: Erik Blair
Postponed - ROCK OF AGES
Rock of Ages Hollywood is like seeing your favorite band at a local drinking spot. After its wild, "let's put on a show" start, the grown-up Broadway debut, the sanitized film, and the over-produced Vegas blowout, Rock of Ages has finally come home. Like a rock star who has had a few ups and downs, Rock of Ages has found its next groove. A little older, perhaps. A little wiser. A better venue. But still the same old music, the same old style and just as much damn fun to sing along with as it was when you first heard it. Long live Rock of Ages, and I hope its concert plays for audiences at The Bourbon Room for a long time to come.
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Romeo and Juliet in Hell
Romeo and Juliet in Hell offers a delightfully dark comedic tale. It blasts from joke to joke with a bravery that becomes infectious and without any shame for its absurd premise. On one level, the show is simply interested in giving an audience an enjoyable hour of entertainment and it does that quite well.
Fallen Saints: Salem
Fallen Saints: Salem tells a horrible tale in a very good way. The production is a great Halloween-themed event that will appeal to those who relish witches, fear or paranoia. Fallen Saints: Salem has some great moments of terror and theatrical frights that will raise goose bumps. Force of Nature has once again created an October tale of horror that will please those looking for a dark night out.
Stranger Things 2: The Musical Tribute
With heavy synth and endlessly catchy melodies, the songs capture the nostalgia and emotional points in the show. I honestly wish they had a cast-recorded album available for purchase...
Stranger Things 2: The Musical Tribute is a phenomenal production put on by clear fans of the show. The actors never overdo the characters we've come to know and love; instead, they present their own, lived-in versions that we can also root for. The big narrative moments are hit on, in addition to some new, smaller and emotional moments that really add to the overall characters. Stranger Things 2doesn't need to be a big-budget, special-effects driven show; it is a nuanced and sweet reminder of the series at large.
Rock Band Murder Mystery
Rock Band Murder Mystery certainly has its fun moments. Getting to pretend to be a rock star in a great location with a bunch of other people has a certain charm that made the experience fun and goofy and amusing. I am glad that I chose to go. I simply wish that the mystery had been something we had to crack, and that we could win or lose when we tried to solve it. At least in our group, we all came to the same conclusion without any confusion, which ultimately made the entire experience a little underwhelming. That being said, I am glad to see LARPs continue to influence immersive entertainment in even more blended ways.
Ascend: When Myths Fall, Heroes Rise
... it creates one of the most enjoyable family-friendly productions that I've seen so far in both Fringe and Los Angeles.
...I truly enjoyed Ascend. With aspects of both LARP and gaming included in its mix, Ascend shows how effectively you can blend multiple different styles of experience and still have a workable, exciting immersive event. I sincerely hope the creators re-work the few small issues and mount this production again in the future. I would be happy to step into the world once more and try my luck with a different god or goddess any time.
Town Brawl
I found Town Brawl to be a very refreshing change of pace to most of the immersive productions that happen at Fringe and in Los Angeles in general. It was bright and cheery, smart and funny, and it was an enjoyable hour living through a satirized version of far worse hours that I've lived through in real life. It gives us darkly funny characters and bizarrely terrible situations that are sadly likely to have happened in real life somewhere in this country. It reminds us of both how stupid politics can be and how wonderful humans themselves are – even in the midst of their petty complaints and shortsighted thinking. I really hope that Town Brawl extends beyond Fringe as I can envision a version of this show that is even sharper and funnier – and I would gladly return to see it one more time if that happens.
Vote for Murder!
Overall, I found Vote for Murder to be a great experience. The premise was familiar but fun. The acting was top-notch with a cast that handled the improvisational nature of the show solidly. I love the fact that it was an actual game and that the solution changes from performance to performance (just like the old board game). And I love the fact that you can return to experience the event again (although I wonder if the puzzles are different from night to night. I hope so; otherwise the return value would be far less worthwhile). What you don't need to wonder about is whether this is a show worth seeing. It is 100% an enjoyable, exciting and fun night.
Pit of Goblins
Generating appropriate horror in a theatrical setting can be very, very hard. For most of Pit of Goblins, that underlying sense of impending horrible things looms very large in just the right way. Combining that horror with some excellent characters and sharp comedy equates into a show that is enjoyable and dark, funny and ghoulish, all at the same time.
sweet-sour - ...read full review
In Another Room
E3WProductions' 2018 version of In Another Room grants audience members that beautiful moment when narrative, design and talent all combine into something transcendent. It is rare to have a production that captures all three elements to such precision. In Another Room is one such rare and shining example.
Radiant Vermin
RADIANT VERMIN is a tale both dark and comic, both fantastic and intimate. It speaks to the idea of what someone will do for their family and what someone will do for their greed. This production illuminates those themes with style and grace and creates a stellar first production for a company that I hope to see more from very soon. Right now, you should go see this production as fast as you can because it's a great production of a truly terrible story and the equitably despicable characters within it.


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Rälla is een dorp in de gemeente Borgholm in het landschap en eiland Öland en de provincie Kalmar län in Zweden. De plaats had in 205 440 inwoners. De oppervlakte is 80 hectare.

De plaats is vanwege haar ligging nabij Kalmar vooral een forensenplaats.

Plaats op Öland


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What crisis? Swiss watch makers eye record 2012
Baselworldwatch
The world's biggest watch fair is set to open in an optimistic mood, with Swiss watchmakers -- the industry's barometer -- expecting 2012 demand to beat 2011's, when exports hit a record.
"The watchmaking sector is probably a unique case," said Jacques Duchene, who heads the exhibitors' committee of the Baselworld fair, which opens Thursday.
A day ahead of the show, Francois Thiebaud, who heads the Swiss exhibitors' committee, said that "if exports reach between 20 and 25 billion francs in 2012, we would be satisfied."
Swiss exports reached a record 19.3 billion francs $21.1 billion) in 2011, soaring 19.2 percent from a year earlier.
Thiebaud said that the pace of growth was likely to be slower than in 2011, adding that "if growth approaches two digits, that would be good."
Demand in January was encouraging and February "looks good" thanks to Chinese New Year, he said, adding that even if the global economic outlook appeared tough, "the potential of Swiss watchmaking is still there."
"There are still good markets, notably in Asia and emerging countries," he added.
These markets have helped the sector resist consecutive economic crises, which have hit developed markets the hardest.
Swiss exports to Asia alone exceeded 10 billion francs in 2011, just over half of the year's revenues.
According to the company Digital Luxury Group, China has become the biggest market for the luxury watch industry, topping US demand.
Thanks to Asian appetite, Swiss giant Swatch posted record sales of 7.1 billion francs in 2011 and saw a 18.1percent jump in net profit to 1.3 billion francs.
The Bienne-based giant, owner of numerous brands such as Omega and Tissot, said 2012 had got off to a similarly good start with double-digit growth in January in February, although for the full year the figure is expected to even out to between five and 10 percent.
Some 1,815 exhibitors, including leading brands Rolex, Chopard and Omega, from 41 countries are showcasing their latest creations at the Baselworld fair.
A highlight of this year's event is Swiss brand Hublot's $5 million watch — the show's most expensive and encrusted with 1,282 diamonds, including six stones which are more than three carats each.
It took over 14 months of work to mount the diamonds — totalling 140 carats — on the white gold watch strap, said the firm.
Hublot chairman Jean-Claude Biver believes that it would be hard to make a more expensive watch than that.
"It will be more difficult to go further because the surface of the watch is limited," he explained.
About 100,000 visitors are expected at the show which opens to the public Thursday and closes on March 15th.
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