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Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Grew 35 Per Cent in Third Quarter 2010; Smartphone Sales Increased 96 Per Cent
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Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totalled 417 million units in the third quarter of 2010, a 35 per cent increase from the third quarter of 2009, according to Gartner, Inc. Smartphone sales grew 96 per cent from the third quarter last year, and smartphones accounted for 19.3 per cent of overall mobile phone sales in the third quarter of 2010.
"This is the third consecutive double-digit increase in sales year-on-year, indicating that consumer demand is healthy," said Carolina Milanesi, research vice president at Gartner. "This quarter saw Apple and Android drive record smartphone sales. Apple's share of the smartphone market surpassed Research In Motion (RIM) in North America to put it second behind Android while Android volumes also grew rapidly making it the No. 2 operating system worldwide."
Although the top three worldwide mobile device manufacturers Nokia, Samsung and LG remained the same - albeit with reduced market share - the third quarter saw Apple rise into the top five manufacturers, surpassing RIM for fourth place (see Table 1).
In addition to strong growth of smartphone sales in mature markets, increasing sales of white-box products in some emerging regions drove sales of mobile phones upward once again. "In the third quarter, white-box manufacturers continued to expand their reach outside of China into markets such as India, Russia, Africa and Latin America," said Ms Milanesi. "We firmly believe this phenomenon will not be short-lived as we still see a continued need for non-3G devices. Although we have seen acceleration in sales this quarter, we expect an even bigger volume in the fourth quarter of 2010."
The rise of white-box manufacturers from Asia has also helped the 'Others' section, as a proportion of overall sales, increasing its market share to 33.0 per cent in the third quarter of 2010. "This is having a profound effect on the top five mobile handset manufacturers' combined share that dropped from 83 per cent in the third quarter of 2009 to 66.9 per cent in the third quarter of 2010," said Ms Milanesi.
In the third quarter of 2010, Nokia sold 110.4 million units into the channel. Its volume sales were slightly lower than expected due to shortages of components, such as camera modules and displays, which restricted availability of lower cost devices. Demand for its lower end products was met through some destocking in inventory volume that helped Nokia in its sell through volume reach 117.5 million units. This resulted in a market share decline of 8.5 percentage points from the third quarter of 2009. But shortages of low-end devices also encouraged many consumers to buy a more expensive product. Combined with favourable currency exchange rates, this meant Nokia's financial results were better than expected.
Samsung had a strong third quarter, as mobile phone sales reached 71.7 million handsets in the third quarter of 2010, up 18.2 per cent from the third quarter of 2009. However, its market share experienced a slight decline to 17.2 per cent in the third quarter of 2010. Samsung's smartphone market share reached 10 per cent in the third quarter of 2010. Samsung sold close to 1 million bada devices in the third quarter of 2010, and 6.6 million Android phones, making Samsung the top Android seller.
LG sold 27.5 million mobile devices in the third quarter of 2010, as its global market share dropped to 6.6 per cent. LG's strengths in stylish midtier devices are becoming less relevant in mature markets that are moving increasingly toward smartphones, and this is translating directly into market share. LG lacks a flagship smartphone; its devices tend to be affordable midtier devices that lack hardware or software innovation, priced at the low end of communication service provider (CSP) partners' ranges.
Apple delivered a stellar performance in the third quarter of 2010, selling 13.5 million units. It could have sold more but for its ongoing supply constraints and is now in fourth place worldwide. The iPhone is sold in 89 countries through 166 CSPs. Apple's sales in Europe, Asia and Japan, more than doubled from the third quarter of 2009 and sales in Western Europe delivered Apple the third spot in the regional ranking. While Apple remains focused on consumers, enterprise adoption of the iPhone and iPad has grown.
RIM sold 11.9 million devices to end users in the third quarter of 2010, and its global share of the smartphone market fell to 14.8 per cent. RIM's share of the overall North American market declined to 11.2 per cent in the third quarter of 2010, from 12.7 per cent in the third quarter of 2009. RIM lost its leading smartphone market position to Apple. As well as the effect of the iPhone 4, new Android devices like the Motorola Droid X, Samsung Galaxy S and HTC Incredible and Evo also reduced RIM's market share. But new devices like the BlackBerry Torch helped to maintain RIM's unit sale momentum in the US due to AT&T's promotional campaigns.
The third quarter of 2010 produced record sales of more than 81 million communication devices based on open operating systems (smartphones). Android accounted for 25.5 per cent of worldwide smartphone sales, making it the No. 2 operating system (OS). It was particularly dominant in North America.
Gartner estimates Android phones accounted for 75 per cent to 80 per cent of Verizon Wireless's smartphone trade in the third quarter of 2010. Manufacturers such as Samsung continued to launch high-end devices like the Galaxy S. But manufacturers also launched Android devices at lower prices to target different consumer segments. For example, ZTE launched a sub-£100 Android phone with Orange in the prepay UK market. For its part, Google is maintaining a fast pace of OS updates. Each version brings new features and polish to Android, and the level of innovation is a major differentiator.
Apple performed extremely well thanks to the iPhone 4. Relationships with multiple CSPs gave Apple wider channel reach internationally, and the strong ecosystem around iTunes and the App Store continued to help Apple dominate. Apple's share of the smartphone market surpassed RIM in North America to put it second behind Android. In Western Europe, iPhone sales doubled year-on-year, making Apple the third-largest vendor behind Nokia and Samsung in the overall devices market.
"Smartphone OS providers have entered a period of accelerated platform evolution, stimulated by more regular product releases, new platform entrants and new device types," said Roberta Cozza, principal research analyst at Gartner. "Any platform that fails to innovate quickly - either through a vibrant multi-player ecosystem or clear vision of a single controlling entity - will lose developers, manufacturers, potential partners and ultimately users."
What's Ahead
For 2010, Gartner now expects overall devices sales to show over 30 per cent year-on-year growth fuelled by white-box manufacturers. The impact of media tablets on mobile device sales will be tested in 2011. Gartner forecasts that media tablets (such as the Apple iPad) will reach 54.8 million units in 2011.
"Apple's dramatic expansion of iOS with the iPad and the continuing success of the iPod Touch are important sales achievements in their own right. But more importantly they contribute to the strength of Apple's ecosystem and the iPhone in a way that smartphone-only manufacturers cannot compete with," Ms Milanesi said. "To a developer, the iPod Touch and iPhone (and to a lesser extent the iPad) are effectively the same device and a single market opportunity. While Android is increasingly available on media tablets and media players like the Galaxy Player, it lags far behind iOS's multi-device presence. Apple claims it is activating around 275,000 iOS devices per day on average - that's a compelling market for any developer. And developers' applications in turn attract users."
Additional information is in the Gartner report "Competitive Landscape: Mobile Devices, Worldwide, 3Q10." The report is available on Gartner's website at http://www.gartner.com/....
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Miller Zell research indicates that while 65% of customers are now making lists prior to entering the retail store, 60% of those same shoppers will make brand decisions inside of the store.
Read the full article which looks at such questions as: Where does shopper marketing begin? Where does it in turn end and category management begin? What about brand management?


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Q: Retrieve data dynamically from Mysql into php page I need to display data from mysql database dynamically into the html format below. Since I am new to php, I want to know how can I do this using php. The data should be in the template as in the html code.
HTML code:

          Company Name:

          <input class = "form-control" style = "background:#FAFAFA; border-style:none; box-shadow: inset 0px 0px 0px 0px;" type = "text" name = "company_name"

           Date of Audit:

          <input class = "form-control" style = "background:#FAFAFA; border-style:none; box-shadow: inset 0px 0px 0px 0px;" type = "date" name = "audit_date">

          Time:

          <input class = "form-control" style = "background:#FAFAFA; border-style:none; box-shadow: inset 0px 0px 0px 0px;" type = "text" name = "audit_time">

            Status:

          <input class = "form-control" style = "background:#FAFAFA; border-style:none; box-shadow: inset 0px 0px 0px 0px;" type = "text" name = "audit_status">

          View Risks

            View Report

PHP code :
<?php
    $username = "root";
    $password = "";
    $hostname = "localhost";
    $dbhandle = mysql_connect($hostname, $username, $password) or die("cannot connect to database");
    $selected = mysql_select_db("audit", $dbhandle);
    $strQuery = "SELECT * FROM audit_process";

    $retval = mysql_query($strQuery, $dbhandle);

    if (!$retval) {
        die('Could not get data: ' . mysql_error());
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A: So you will need a while loop, and you would do something like this :

<?php
    while($r = mysql_fetch_array($retval)): ?> // end php and show html

    Company Name:
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    <?php endwhile;?>

and then just echo $r['columnname'] to position you want inside of while, example:
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We bought 25 lbs worth of Hatch chiles at the grocery store's roasting party. Back in Texas, and even in Washington, the grocery stores we frequented sold them just about every weekend in August, but here in Cali, I had to do a little research and find the one Sunday that a grocery store near us would be hosting a roasting party because I really didn't want to drive to Pasadena (although I would have) for my fix. We missed Hatch chile season last year because we were in the midst of making final preparations for our big move. That might be why when we were asked 10lbs or 25lbs, we said 25. After packing all of our chiles for freezing, we realized 10lbs would have been plenty.
The benefit to the excessive number of chiles we bought is that basically every meal we ate from breakfast to dinner contained Hatch chiles in some way shape or form, and amazingly we aren't sick of them yet. Good thing, because our freezer is jam packed.
We replaced the jalapeño for Hatch chile in our favorite queso recipe (using white American cheese) and we added chopped Hatch chiles to our standard guacamole. Both are perfect Mexican side dished with just a hint of Hatch chile, if you aren't quite as obsessed with the flavors as we are! Be prepared for lots more Hatch chiles in your face!


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Ka'anapali makes TripAdvisor's list of best beaches in the world
Posted by Staff Writer on Thursday, March 28th, 2019 at 1:12pm
For yet another year in a row, Maui's famous Ka'anapali Beach has made the list of the top 25 beaches across the globe.
Each year, TripAdvisor ranks beaches across the globe that its millions of users visit on their travels. The white sands and azure waters of Ka'anapali Beach stacked up at No. 14 on the planet, among other world-class vacation destinations like Cuba, Brazil, Greece, Australia, Cyprus and the Seychelles.
With 3 miles of white sand and water so clear it looks like glass, it's no surprise that Ka'anapali Beach frequently ranks among the nation and world's best beach. The resort located on the beach was the first of its kind planned in Hawai'i, which has since become a model for the rest of the globe.
Perhaps the most famous attraction on the beach, however, is the cliff diving ceremony held off the beach's most northern cliff every evening around sunset. At Pu'u Keka'a, also known as Black Rock, a cliff diver lights torches that ascend the cliff, only before jumping off the edge himself. During the day, the spot is often crowded by gutsy tourists and locals who want to jump off its edge to the water below.
You can see why Ka'anapali made TripAdvisor's list. The travel review website also ranked beaches across the U.S., a list on which Ka'anapli came in second to Clearwater Beach in Florida.
But Ka'anapali wasn't the only Hawai'i beach to make that list. Hapuna Beach State Recreation Area on Hawai'i Island's northwest shore ranked No. 7, while Poipu Beach Park on Kaua'i came it at No. 13. Another Maui beach, Wailea Beach, made No. 17 on the list, and Waikiki got No. 20. Last but not least, Manini'owali Beach, also known as Kua Bay in Kailua-Kona, came in at No. 22.
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Marx and Engels published their Communist Manifesto in London in 1848 and European immigrants brought this philosophy of covetousness to America. Marxism was not immediately embraced so concealed itself in college faculty cloakrooms where it incubated for generations. Over the last century, collectivists re-billed this ideology of envy as liberalism and progressivism before latching onto democraticsocialism. Today, leftists openly champion government as the great equalizer for the lazy, the ignorant, the timid and the talentless by promising them the bounty produced by the ambitious, the smart, the bold and the talented. Because journalism is a product of these institutes of higher indoctrination, the mainstream news has become socialist propaganda and here is proof.
This past weekend, two completely fabricated news stories were billed as truth. The first lie was President Trump advising counsel Cohen to perjure himself before Congress. In the second, the media launched an all-out character assassination on a polite, smiling, Covington Catholic High School teenager from Kentucky. The once honorable profession of journalism is dead and beside a handful of outliers, you can believe nothing they say, write or broadcast. I may pen a weekly op-ed column, but I am not a journalist, I am a veterinarian. Trust me, I'm a doctor.
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$450,000 – Laceration of Fingers
Award Amount: $450,000
Jones Act – Severe Laceration of Fingers
Amount of settlement: $450,000
Injuries alleged: Severe laceration of index, middle and ring fingers of right hand
Name of case: Plaintiff v. North Cape Fisheries, Inc.
Court/case#: U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington, No. C01-958-R
Tried before judge or jury: N/A (settlement)
Attorney for plaintiff: David F. Anderson, Latti & Anderson LLP, Boston
Attorney for defendant: Withheld
On February 7, 2001, the plaintiff was employed as a member of the crew of the F/V NORTH CAPE. The plaintiff alleged that he was ordered back to work after informing the captain that he was sick. In the process of sharpening a blade of a piece of machinery the plaintiff's index, middle and ring fingers of his right hand were severely amputated. The plaintiff was airlifted off the vessel and ambulanced to a hospital in Seattle where his fingers were re-attached.
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Campaign donations surge as frac-sand mining explodes
May 28, 2013 By Jackie Johnson
There's been a 2,100 percent increase in campaign donations for Wisconsin elections in the last six years from sand mining interests. That's according to a new report from the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. The group's Mike McCabe says donors can get away with such dramatic increases because nobody's watching.
"There's no question that this industry is operating right now with very little supervision, very little oversight, very little community involvement, very little public input involved." McCabe says, "They're able to get permits, they're able to operate — and operate as they please — with very few eyes watching them and they want to keep it that way."
Legislation would create more local control in the permitting process; it would bring awareness to frac-sand mining and take public input. "And of course that legislation is being fought ferociously by these mining interests," McCabe says, "so that's what's at stake here, as well. I think that goes a long way to explain why there's been this sudden dramatic infusion of campaign dollars into Wisconsin elections."
The frac sand mining and natural gas industries gave $758,000 since 2007 to political candidates. Contributions have grown to $414,000 in 2012 from $19,000 in 2007 when only a handful of frac-sand mines were operating in the Badger State, according to the report released last week.
The Department of Natural Resources struggles to keep up with the growth in frac-sand mines. McCabe notes the agency has said they need at least ten people to monitor the activity. "So, that's gonna be one of the big issues, is whether there will be adequate oversight and regulation of this activity. Right now it's basically the Wild West when it comes to frac-sand mining."
Governor Scott Walker had proposed in his budget two additional inspectors. The Legislature's Joint Finance Committee approved that request last week.
McCabe says, "Both parties have become very addicted to this money game." He says the governor received the most contributions at $520,000, but it's really flowing to all the people who have the power to control the agenda.
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European Private Equity – Who Has the Money, and Where is it Going?
By Torstein Jakobsen | November 13, 2019
Whether you are a private investor, sell-side analyst, or portfolio manager, no one is unaffected by the booming private equity (PE) sector. With PE firms popping up across the globe, we are seeing more money, investments, and transactions taking place in this investment class. With more than $335 billion (estimated dry powder* according to Preqin) available from 5,031 European PE firms, we wanted to take an in-depth look at the current situation in Europe and analyze the current trends.
In the chart below, we can see the current number of investors, aggregated AUM in USD, and estimated dry powder based on PE firm location across the seven largest European countries. We also include the estimated percentage of dry powder currently available in each country. The UK has by far the biggest investor base with 1,060 different firms representing over 20% of the firms in the European region and $967 billion in AUM representing 52% of the European total. Sweden and the Netherlands have slightly more dry powder available percentage-wise compared to the other countries, while Switzerland has much more AUM spread across a small number of firms. We would expect to see increased buy-side transactions from Sweden and the Netherlands compared to the other countries.
PE firms continue to raise more capital in more funds, seeing an increased number of fund openings from the low point of 2009 until the peak of 2017, with buyout and later stage being the driving fund types. 2017 really stands out with close to $250 billion raised, mainly focused on buyout and later stage investments.
Investments and Sectors
When looking at where investments from European PE firms take place, the standout country is France. 9,300 transactions into French portfolio companies have taken place since 2008, representing over 20% of all transactions; this despite the fact that the available French PE firms AUM only represents one-third of that of the UK. A considerable amount of investment has also been made into the United States, with just under 3,500 transactions targeting American companies. The UK and Germany also represent a large part of the investment universe, with each representing over 10% of the total number of transactions.
The overwhelming majority of transactions being made by European PE firms since 2008 have been in the Technology Services sector—a real standout compared to any other sector both in terms of entries and exit transactions. However, the most interesting data point is that there is a lot more investment than divestment taking place. Since 2008, 46,055 investments have taken place while only 24,589 divestments have occurred. None of the top 10 sectors has had more divestment than investment, clearly showing that we will be seeing a lot more exits take place in the years ahead and that the industry will be ramping up both the acquisitions and divestments within their funds.
Investor Strategy
The main investor strategies applied from European investors are seed and early stage, and since we are looking at volume total rather than the aggregated sum of investments, this is the logical outcome. However, we are seeing very clear growth since 2008 with the different entry strategies all growing at a similar pace. There were slightly fewer transactions in 2017 and 2018 following the record year of 2016.
We see the same growth trend when we look at the exit strategies, with most transactions being private trade sales followed by secondaries and public trade sales. The number of bankruptcies has declined significantly from the mid-2010s while the number of IPOs has remained pretty stable.
With more European PE firms raising more capital in more funds than ever before, we now look at how they are performing compared to their individual benchmarks. Between 2008 and 2016, the most crowded fund types—buyout and later stage funds—have both beaten their benchmark; however, buyout funds have had both a higher absolute and relative return to the benchmark compared to later stage funds. Leveraged buyouts and fund of funds have both underperformed compared to the benchmark, but the real standout data point is that the other fund category has performed significantly better, with an overperformance of 2.4% compared to the benchmark.
With a growing number of firms raising funds, reaching a record $247 billion in 2017, and with over $335 billion in dry powder currently sitting on the sidelines ready to be invested, everything points to increased activity from European PE firms going forward. The number of new investments made in the last three years shows no lack in appetite for the PE firms finding suitable investment opportunities.
*Dry powder refers to the amount of cash reserves or liquid assets that private equity firms have on hand to make investments.
Sebastian Segerstrom also contributed to this article.
Torstein Jakobsen
Account Executive, Nordic Sales
Torstein joined FactSet in 2017 and is based in London.
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Dem Franchize Boyz est un groupe de hip-hop américain, originaire d'Atlanta, en Géorgie. Il dénombre trois albums studio,  publié en 2004,  en 2005, et  en 2008, tous ayant atteint les classements musicaux américains. Le groupe annonce sa séparation en 2009 sur son compte Twitter.

Biographie
Le groupe est signé au label Universal Records en 2004. Universal publie leur premier album homonyme le 14 septembre la même année qui atteindra la  des R&B Albums, la  du Billboard 200, et la première place des Top Heatseekers. Le single extrait de l'album, , atteindra également les classements musicaux américains. Le remix des Dem Franchize Boyz de leur chanson  est simplement ré-intitulé  en collaboration avec Dupri, Bow Wow, et Da Brat, et atteint le classement  R&B.

En 2005, le producteur Jermaine Dupri signe les Dem Franchize Boyz à son label So So Def après les avoir transféré de Arista Records à Virgin Records.  So So Def publie leur deuxième album, , le , puis les singles  et  qui atteindront les classements musicaux.  est l'une des nombreuses chansons snap popularisées en 2006, en parallèle notamment à  de D4L, et  de David Banner. En 2006, Parlae et huit autres individus sont arrêtés pour détention illégale de drogues, d'armes à feu, et de  en liquide dans son studio à Atlanta. En 2007, Pimpin est arrêté pour excès de vitesse ; le rappeur roulait sous stupéfiant et est ensuite incarcéré en cellule de dégrisement.

Les Dem Franchize Boyz collaborent avec Korn pour la production d'un mash-up de  et  intitulé . Ils participent également au single  de la chanteuse Monica. Ils publient leur troisième album,  au label Koch Records le .

En 2009, un message officiel du groupe sur Twitter annonce sa séparation, sans aucune raison apparente.

Discographie

Albums studio
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 2005 :
 2008 :

Singles
 2004 :
 2005 :  (avec Jermaine Dupri, Da Brat et Bow Wow)
 2006 :  (avec Peanut et Charlay)
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 2006 :  (Monica avec Dem Franchize Boyz)
 2008 :
 2008 :  (avec Mannie Fresh)
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Groupe américain de hip-hop
Groupe de gangsta rap
Groupe de rap hardcore
Groupe de Dirty South
Groupe de crunk
Groupe musical formé en 2004
Groupe musical allemand des années 2000
Groupe musical d'Atlanta
Artiste d'Universal Records

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Ahpolov Alexander Alihanovich
He was born at 29 May 1956 in the city of Ardon, Ardon district, North Ossetian ASSR.
Education – high.
He graduated from A. A. Zhdanov Leningrad State University (1983). Educated specialty "political economy".
Speaks English.
10.09.1973-29.04.1974 - Ardon Mechanical Repair Plant Food Ministry RSFSR, turner apprentice, second-class turner.
15.05.1974-11.05.1976 - Military service in the Soviet Army.
09.08.1976-22.09.1977 - Ardon Mechanical Repair Plant WFP RSFSR, second-class turner, third-class turner.
02.12.1977-01.08.1978 - Leningrad State University of A. A. Zhdanov, student of the preparatory department.
01.09.1978-18.09.1983 - Leningrad State University of A. A. Zhdanov, student.
20.12.1983-04.02.1985 - Ardon district association «Selhoztehnika" North Ossetian ASSR, economist.
05.02.1985-22.02.1994 - Ardon Mechanical Repair Plant North Ossetian ASSR, Head of division, Deputy Director.
23.02.1994-19.09.1997- The administration of local self-government Ardon District Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Head of Department, Deputy Head of the local self-government, the head of the financial department.
27.09.1997-08.11.1999- Taxes and Levies Governance Agency of North Ossetian-Alania Republic, head of the governance.
22.11.2001-30.04.2004- Finance Ministry of Russian Federation, head of department, head of the department – board member.
05.05.2004-20.10.2004- The Federal Service for Financial and Budgetary Supervision, temporarily Acting Deputy Head of the Federal Service for Financial and Budget Supervision, Deputy Head of the Federal Service for Financial and Budget Supervision.
21.10.2004- until now- Finance Ministry of Russian Federation, Administrative department director.
Alexander Ahpolov is well known as a henchman from Ossetian clan in the higher echelons of the Russian government. Starting his carrier in 1983 in economic sphere as an economist of Ardon district association «Agricultural machinery», in 1997 he already has been appointed to the head of the department – Republic of North Ossetia – Alania deputy minister of finance, then the first deputy of the ministry of finance. In 1999 Ahpolov receives a post of the head of Taxes and Levies Governance Agency of North Ossetian-Alania Republic. On this position Ahpolov actively contacted the North Ossetian vodka manufacturers, who almost did not pay taxes to the federal budget.
"Rospres.com". 03.08.2009.
The most interesting thing is that almost all alcohol industry enterprises in North Ossetia are privately owned. Through a balanced alcohol policy, the government of the republic has trained a major player in the Russian vodka market – JSC (Join-stock company) "Istok". The owners of "Istok" realized in time that they have been actually subjected to the amnesty, and began investing millions of dollars in manufacturing, advertising and marketing. As a result, according to the Head of MHC of the republic Alexander Ahpolov, more than half of liquor industry enterprises of the country are now under the control of this company, which continues to work actively in other regions of Russia.
"Rossiyskaya gazeta" 23.10.2001
On Saturday in North Ossetia in a car accident died the Minister for Taxes and Duties of the Republic Uruzbek Kusov. Uruzbek Kusov became a Tax minister of North Ossetia recently, replacing Alexander Ahpolov, who stepped on the rise and was appointed head of the Control - Audit Office of the Russian Finance Ministry.
"Kommersant 11.03.2002
Ahpolov unexpected appointment in the Ministry of Finance in 2001, associated to the fact that he represents the interests of the former supernumerary advisor of Alexei Kudrin, Otari Margania. Margania known for his participating in the scandal with "Alrosa" Investment group. Ahpolov met Margania in St. Petersburg, where he was a student at Leningrad State University of AA Zhdanov, who graduated with a degree in "political economy" in 1978 -1983 years.
"Compromat.ru" 25.03.2008
In 2001-2004 Ahpolov held the positions of Head of the Department of State Financial Control and Deputy Head of the Federal Service for Financial and Budget Supervision. In this capacity, he oversaw the northern delivery and apartments allocation in the Defence Ministry, which is still considered to be one of the most corrupt and non-transparent budget spending items.
Since 2004, Alexander Ahpolov headed Administrative Department of the Ministry of Finance, the most closed structure for external control of the Ministry.
After joining the Ministry of Finance Alexander Ahpolov was appointed a member of the Supervisory Board of "ALROSA".
"Rospres.com" 03.08.2009
President of Yakutia yet signed the protocol on the fate of the property of the former PNA "Yakutalmaz".
It is known that the initiator of draining information about the signed protocol to Interfax first, and then the "Vedomosti" newspaper was Alexander Alihanovich Ahpolov -Director of the Administrative Department of the Ministry of Finance of Russian Federation. "It's known on Ahpolov that he represents the interests of the former supernumerary adviser of Kudrin, Otari Margania. At the parliamentary hearings "On the legislative provision of the precious metals and precious stones market in Russian Federation" in the Federation Council on November 24 the official read out his report due to Kudrin illness (an operation to remove appendicitis). Not every officer will entrust such an important statement.
"Sahanews" 13.12.2005
At the disposal of editorial office was influential transcript of telephone conversations of the influential Yakut diamond miners and their friends in Moscow. The man's voice resembles the head of "Alrosa" Alexander Nichiporuk (N.) and a man's voice resembles Alexander Ahpolov (A.)
H: How is the visit to Leonidovich?
A: Nothing, continuous abuse.
H: Abuse, yes, but what to abuse for?
A: Of course, well, that's because of the plan adjustment, stared to asking questions as to why do I see this for the first time? Why are this and that to me? Why with you? And so on and so forth.
H: You overlaid these, what is the name?
A: Of course, he said, that I did not do dick that I do not know at all.
N: Hey, if anything, I will invite you to the company to an important position, if you get fired, ha ha.
A: Ha ha ha.
H: Well, the main thing that Leonidovich with Leontyevich do not give positions
A: They mustn't.
N: We have one main goal, to choose, and then we'll tear any cat apart, fuck.
A: Well, and tomorrow it will be necessary, as Medvedev will be, this question will be needed, sort of, here.
H: Okay.
A: What does it mean to soften, so I have the impression that from a certain point.
A: Medvedev began to act out back, so here.
H: So they recruited him.
A: Well, something like that, yes.
Full capture of the diamond monopoly, more than 50% of shares owned by the state, has been made possible also because "grown and matured" Margania protégés in the Russian government. It is about his faithful protégé - current chief of administrative Treasury Alexander Ahpolov, his deputy Andrei Glinov and the head of Assay Office Alexander Markin. Ahpolov is the curator of "ALROSA" from the government; also the trio enters the governing bodies of the company. Currently Ahpolov headed the Strategic Planning Committee of the Supervisory council «ALROSA», Glinov is included in the audit board of "ALROSA"; Markin is the chairman of "ALROSA" major "daughter" board of directors - "Diamond World".
With the advent of Fyodor Andreyev to "ALROSA" company funds almost openly began to leave in England for uncomplicated scheme.
During the 2008 crisis, bank KIT Finance "busted". Thanks to the efforts of Otar Margania authorities, instead of initiating a case to the credit institution management, spend 135 billion rubles of budget funds for his salvation. Some of that money has been successfully "allocated" by Margania and his "sons". Then the president of KIT-Finance Alexander Vinokourov has focused on his TV channel "Dozhd", and became a conspicuous character of protests. And his deputy at KIT Finance Sergei Grechishkin moved to London, where he created the Management Company Alcantara Asset Management LLP (address: One Warwick Row, London, SW1E 5ER, UK, phone +44 207 808 7102). In the birth of this structure participated Fedor Andreev (he died in 2015 at the age of 48 years) and Otar Margania.
"Infoliks" 01.02.2016
Grechishkin was a vice-president of the "KIT Finance" bank, which formed a huge financial "hole" and on which salvation the government has spent 135 billion rubles. Then Grechishkin moved to London, where he became an official sponsor of Navalny FBK. Sergei also organized rallies "for fair elections" in London, appeared in the Western media, sharply criticized president Vladimir Putin and Russian government, and so on... Otar Margania and the head of the administrative department of the Ministry of Finance Alexander Ahpolov are familiar with Grechishkin for a long time and they are his "senior partners" on a various projects. In particular, Margania and Ahpolov control financial flows of "ALROSA" state company and send them on their own directions. At one time, the diamond money was properly flowing to English fund, Alcantara Asset Management LLP, belonging to Grechishkin.
A striking example of input the right people in the "gold-vertical" can be considered ascension of Alexander Markin as the alternates, and then as the heads to the Assay Office at the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. Placed under the supervision of Otar Margania under the caring wing of a director of the administrative department of the Ministry of Finance Alexander Ahpolov, he was integrated into the "golden vertical". Office of the current "head of precious metals" Markin descends on the brakes all claims and verifies, that were kindled by cooperatives, who passed the ore, and later by the security forces. Theft of precious metals in this "control" has grown to dozens of tons.
"Nasha Versia" 28.12.2015
Russian Ministry of Finance expects, that about 25 tons of gold will be sold from Gokhran. This statement was made by the head of the department of the Ministry of Finance, which oversees circulation of precious metals and stones in Russia, Alexander Ahpolov. "We plan to sell, but not 40-50 tons, somewhere around 25 tons," - he said.
According to Ahpolov, it is possible that gold will be sold on the internal market. "Maybe we will not sell in the foreign market, but how can we not sell at all, if there is a presidential decree and a sales plan, approved by order of the government?" - Said the representative of the Ministry of Finance.
Ahpolov added that the volume of gold sales is still under discussion. "We plan to sell, but not 40-50 tons, somewhere around 25 tons," - he said.
"Interfacs" 29.10.2009
And here is another meeting of a man, whose voice resembles Kyrgyz emissary with a man, whose voice is like the voice of the head of Finance Department Alexander Ahpolov - this time, June 25, 2012, but in Simferopol. Interlocutor again requires more gold from Russia. For the needs of Hodja (devoted to conversations call between themselves a former till August 2014 Turkey Prime Minister Recep Erdogan, which now has become the head of the country). Characteristic phrases from the talk about gold in Simferopol, lined on the Web.
Emissary of the Turks:
- Hodja do not have enough.
A Russian character:
- Well, Hodja should be cool a bit... We have our Otar as our Hodja ... Volodya, Dima change, but Otar always ...
- What message?
- The needed volume of gold will be presented ... It is necessary to include other plants for more ... While Andrew is working objectively give the right ... It's all so much for you ... Tons...
As you can see, the gold flow out of Russia is not the first and only all increases. We will try to understand where the precious metal gets in the end.
Event interrelation forces us to take a closer look at Turkey, where the flow of smuggled precious metal goes.
Prior to the deterioration of relations with this country in the gold flows to the shores of the Bosphorus could be viewed merely as a crime.
Recently, the character, familiar to us, seems to have been cheered up by the Turkish side, preparing for a confrontation with Russia.
"Race" began with the fact that on 24 September 2015, Simferopol, which has already become Russian, some Turk came to a secret meeting with a man whose voice sounds like the voice of Alexander Ahpolov of the Ministry of Finance. And the voice of the Turk was similar like to peas to the voice of Osman Atalay, vice-chairman of the fund, IHH (İnsan Hak ve Hürriyetleri ve İnsani Yardım Vakfı), registered in Istanbul.
We will inform those, who do not know about the fund, that as early as 2010, the European Jewish Congress demanded from the EU leadership to bring it to the list of terrorist organizations. Fund is under the control of certain Bilal, mentioned in the leaks of Simferopol talks with Turk (open secret - the son of the current president of the Turkish Nejmeddin Bilal Erdogan).
Ahpolov does not hide the fact that while working in the Ministry of Finance he became the owner of the property value for more than $ 5 million.
Not having worked for two years in Moscow, Ahpolov became the owner of the estate on Rubloyvka. In June 2003, the eternal official acquired three adjacent land plots (12 acres, 6 acres and 2 acres) in the village Buzaevo Odintsovo District. It is easy to calculate that the purchase of 20 acres was to be $ 800 thousand to the official. Seller (the contract is registered in the IUF 01.07.2003 for №50-01 / 20-48 / 2003-123.1) acted as Joint-Stock Company "Agricultural complex" Gorki-2 ", which belonged then and belongs now to Andrew Klinovsky - son-in-law of former Prime Minister and opposition leader Mikhail Kasyanov.
In 2011 and 2012 Alexander Ahpolov decides that it is time to officially register the numerous buildings that have already been on plots for a long time. As a result, the official Ahpolov registered a residential building area of 496.3 square meters (this is a big brick mansion, registration rights number 50-50-96 / 075 / 2011-398), a guest house with an area of 108.8 square meters (a smaller cottage, registration rights number 50-50-96 / 075 / 2011-399), as well as some non-residential premises, one floor of which - is underground (probably a bunker or storage for the money).
Looking at the real estate agency websites, you may find that now, in times of crisis, an area of 15 acres in Buzaevo with buildings like Ahpolov have, sold for about $ 4 million. An official have more land, and the houses are more interesting, accordingly, his estate is more expensive. October 19, 2012 Ahpolov becomes the owner (registration rights number 77-77-20 / 139 / 2012-350) of a flat area of 142.8 square meters (or Penthouse, or 2-level apartment) in a house on the street №7 Krasnaya Presnya, right to the next door to the White House. The cost of apartments in this luxury complex starts at $ 1.2 million, and Ahpolov housing "pull" somewhere in the $ 1.8-2 million.


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U.S. Wind Power Market Stifled in 2004
Wind energy projects totaling more than 2,000 megawatts (MW) in capacity – enough to power more than half a million American homes – are awaiting the expected renewal of a major federal tax incentive, according to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) said in its quarterly U.S. market outlook.
Washington DC – August 19, 2004 [SolarAccess.com] Wind energy projects totaling more than 2,000 megawatts (MW) in capacity – enough to power more than half a million American homes – are awaiting the expected renewal of a major federal tax incentive, according to the American Wind Energy Association's (AWEA) quarterly U.S. market outlook. New projects in the pipeline amount to more than $2 billion in business, said AWEA executive director Randall Swisher. Those businesses are ready to provide millions of dollars of badly-needed tax revenues and hundreds of skilled jobs to rural counties around the nation, once Congress renews the wind energy production tax credit (PTC). Swisher pointed to the Colorado Green Wind Project, a large wind farm installed last year in eastern Colorado, as an example of the benefits that wind energy development can bring to rural areas. In rural Prowers County, population and jobs had been falling for years. Since the Colorado Green Wind Project was built, a chain reaction of economic development has added jobs, royalty payments for the property owners, and sharply-increased local and county tax revenues. The project is providing clean power for approximately 52,000 average American households. Many companies, large and small, were involved in the construction, from the building of access roads, the pouring of foundations, to the electrical infrastructure for the project. At the height of construction, nearly 400 workers from across the country came to the area to build the project, boosting income for many local businesses such as motels and restaurants. Owners of the property where the turbines are located will receive between $3,000 and $6,000 annually for each of the projects 108 turbines. The project has created 15-20 ongoing, full-time well-paying local jobs. County sales tax revenues jumped 62 percent in one year, from $95,000 to $154,450. The tax base increased by 29 percent, resulting in annual increases of: $917,000 for the school district general fund; $203,000 for the school district bond fund; $189,000 to the Prowers medical center; and $764,000 to the county general fund. The wind industry installed a near-record 1,687 megawatts (MW) in 2003, but most new wind energy projects are on hold this year because of the uncertainty created by the Federal delay in renewing the tax incentive, AWEA said. The industry has installed less than 30 MW of new capacity so far this year, and the trade group said it doesnt expect more than 350 MW total in new projects by the end of the year. The chart at the link below provides some specific examples of wind projects stalled due to the expiration of the PTC. Each of these projects could produce economic and environmental benefits in their communities – and these listed are a fraction of the projects ready to go forward. If the wind industry were to consistently grow at a rate of 18 percent per year, AWEA said, six percent of the nations electricity could be generated by wind power by the year 2020, resulting in over $100 billion of investment. Over the last five years, U.S. wind capacity has expanded at an annual average rate of 28 percent, showing that the supply chain can ramp up quickly to meet the nations power needs. Without a PTC extension, however, the U.S. will likely see very few new installations this year.
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Sat 15th September
Tottenham 1 2 Liverpool FT
B'mouth 4 2 Leicester FT
Chelsea 4 1 Cardiff FT
Huddsf'ld 0 1 C Palace FT
Man City 3 0 Fulham FT
Newcastle 1 2 Arsenal FT
Watford 1 2 Man Utd FT
Manchester City vs Fulham
3:00pm Saturday 15th September
Etihad Stadium (Att: 53307)
Man City 3
L Sané (2),D Silva (21),R Sterling (47)
Man City vs Fulham
Premier League 3:00pm Saturday 15th September Etihad Stadium (Att: 53307)
Manchester City v Fulham preview: Raheem Sterling available for City
Last Updated: 15/09/18 8:38am
Raheem Sterling missed England's recent matches against Spain and Switzerland
Raheem Sterling will be fit for Manchester City when they host Fulham in the Premier League on Saturday.
Sterling withdrew from England's matches against Spain and Switzerland due to a back injury.
However, Pep Guardiola says he is fully recovered, and also spoke about talks over a new contract for the 23-year-old.
"It is well known we are delighted with him and we would like it to continue," said Guardiola. "He is fit for the weekend. In the last day he has been better."
City have won three of four games in the Premier League this season, only dropping points in a 1-1 draw at Wolves.
Joe Hart says he has a good relationship with Pep Guardiola
Newly-promoted Fulham have scored six goals in their last two matches, beating Burnley 4-2 and then drawing 2-2 at Brighton, having led 2-0.
Manager Slavisa Jokanovic is relishing the chance for his side to face the champions.
"We were fighting for this kind of chance, and we must be ready for the fight, we must be ready for everything we're going to find there.
Watch a preview of the weekend's action
"We must be ready to work off the ball, we must show humility and solidarity, and try and be at our highest level to have the opportunity to hurt them."
Kevin De Bruyne remains unavailable for Manchester City as he recovers from a knee injury.
Fulham must again do without captain Tom Cairney as he continues his recovery from a foot injury suffered against
Burnley before the international break.
Midfielder Neeskens Kebano (ankle) and defender Tim Ream (thigh) are also not yet available.
Merson's predictions
Fulham boss Slavisa Jokanovic looks ahead to the trip to Manchester City
Opta stats
Manchester City are unbeaten in their last 10 Premier League encounters with Fulham (W7 D3 L0), winning each of the last five in a row.
Manchester City haven't lost a Premier League home game against a newly-promoted team since losing 2-0 to Reading in February 2007. City have won 29 and drawn four since that defeat in 2007.
The last newly-promoted team to defeat a Pep Guardiola side in league competition were Real Sociedad in April 2011, while he was with Barcelona. Manchester City have lost just two of their 40 Premier League games at the Etihad under Pep Guardiola (W29 D9 L2), with both defeats coming against fellow 'big six' sides (Chelsea in 2016 & Man Utd in 2018).
There have been 16 goals scored in the four Premier League matches involving Fulham this season (7 scored, 9 conceded) - the joint-highest total in the division alongside Arsenal.
Manchester City forward Sergio Aguero has scored 27 goals in 34 Premier League appearances against newly promoted teams, including 12 goals in his last 11.
Merson's prediction
Nothing but a home win here - it will be a case of 'how many?' I watched Fulham at Brighton. It's very nice to pass the ball around at the back when you're 2-0 up but come on? If they defended properly, they'd have won that game. It's alright to play 'total football' but there's a time and a place. If they try and play like that at Manchester City, then they'll get hammered.
PAUL PREDICTS: 4-0 (12/1 with Sky Bet)


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Posted on March 2, 2019	by shmoover
The cumulative, intended effect of the ritual is to revive our belief in the good intentions of our entire political class, and of our own innocence. Just as they ensure that we won't be disturbed by outliers, they assure us that innocent Eden is both safe and honorable. Together, they reaffirm our denial with the implied message that nothing is wrong, that our fear – which they exploit at every possible opportunity – is ungrounded. "Whomever you vote for, the King will be here," they seem to tell us, "…Everything is under control." Thus, they invite us to share the fiction that, despite our fears, democracy will survive, and there will be a peaceful, cooperative transition when the next king-figure is anointed.
Is the system broken or has it been working quite well? This is not an "either-or" choice; it's both. However, the fact that fewer and fewer of us have been willing to expect anything more than flowery phrases from these con-men – only half of us vote at all, and many of the rest of us have been choosing the "lesser of two evils" our entire lives – is, I think, a source of concern to the kingmakers and gatekeepers. It indicates, in mythological terms, that the holes in the fabric of the myth of innocence are growing. All the more need, then, for them to create another opportunistic ritual: the next war to protect "freedom" in Iran or Venezuela.
Nicholas Maduro is only the latest in a long tradition of Third World leaders whom the U.S. has labeled as the face of evil. As I wrote in Chapter Eight of my book:
Around 1985, the Other became more personal when television identified many charismatic Third World villains. After the first generation (Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro) came Muammar Gadaffy, Idi Amin, Yasser Arafat, Ayatollah Khomeini, Manuel Noriega, Kim Il Sung, Slobodan Milosevic, Hugo Chavez, Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden…
Note three themes here. First, U.S. propaganda attacks were often timed to impact (or obscure) domestic issues. Second, only Milosevic was white (but Slavic). Third, several of these men had previously worked for the U.S. Back in 1932, Roosevelt had said of Nicaragua's Anastacio Somoza, "He's an S.O.B., but he's our S.O.B.!" It is as if the U.S. keeps them on ice, allowing them to quietly do their work until it needs to reveal them as the Devil's latest incarnation. Then they become expendable, or, as with Bin Laden, even more valuable as fugitives, hiding in caves and bazaars, plotting more evil.
None of this is to advise you to stay home on Election Day 2020. If you choose to support the Democratic nominee, go ahead, especially if you live in a contested state. But do so with eyes wide open, as a practical decision to support the centrist (regardless of how he or she defines himself) over the outright fascist.
Idealization says more about our own psychological projections than it does about the candidates. When, after one of these debates, you hear yourself say (about either candidate), "He seems like a nice enough guy; I just don't agree with his positions," know that the ritual has been successful. The "nice guy" has proven that he can play the role if called upon; he has passed the audition.
That audition has been primarily for the edification of that part of the population that still holds to the naïve, liberal view that the debates might actually provide some input into a system with authentic choices. The Republican base, however, is not – and for a long time has not been – so innocent. They know perfectly well what scoundrels their leaders are, and they don't care, as long as such leaders play the game of tweaking the noses of the east coast intelligentsia who have been telling them how to live. That Trump – He's no racist, but he says what he means!
In 2016, Trump effectively reversed the "nice guy" rule. Apparently, quite a few people of the evangelical persuasion perceived quite correctly – they weren't stupid – that he was a liar, braggart, misogynist and serial marriage cheat, and concluded that "He's a bastard, but I agree with his policies." For them, he passed the same audition, which had been defined primarily by fear, racism and xenophobia.
After two years of unparalleled corruption, scandals, contempt for the Constitution, war threats, climate denial, permission to hate, tax cuts for the mega-rich – and normalization by the media – they still support him. Indeed, in a mass epidemic of cognitive dissonance, many are convinced that he has been sent by God.
Is there any other explanation for their willingness to tolerate such a blatantly insincere gesture as his hugging of the sacred totem fetish? I mean, really, even this accomplished con-man couldn't keep from smirking. Don't matter none. He is their Divine King, and because of him, they – not unlike their liberal opponents with their Russiagate meta-narrative – can proclaim their innocence.
On the other hand, as Chomsky has said, "If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged." Amanda Marcotte suggests another explanation for Trump's enduring popularity among his base:
In truth, Republicans have been priming their voters for decades to accept, defend and even adore a shameless criminal in the White House…First, Republicans normalized the idea that all politicians are corrupt by electing a series of deeply corrupt politicians themselves. Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush have all been warm-up acts to Trump…Second, (they) trained their base to think of investigations as bad-faith political power grabs…They are now thoroughly primed to interpret the investigations into Trump's very real corruption as nothing more than Democrats seeking revenge…
That's why polls that measure whether Republican voters "believe" Trump is telling the truth are somewhat beside the point. The real problem is that they don't believe it matters whether Trump is a criminal…if it helps their team win.
So: in 2019-2020 we have a Republican base that isn't simply unashamed but proud of its criminal leadership. We have a Democratic base that still thinks everyone is playing by the same rules, that logical argument will convince others. We have a Democratic leadership that participates in these rituals of innocence as long as the corporate money flow lasts. And we have the other fifty percent of the population who, like those Honduran peasants, don't vote because they see no reason to. Finally, we have media – print and social – that serve the same wealthy class who fund these two political parties by marginalizing progressive voices.
In the next round of presidential debates – our seasonal, contrived rituals – watch as most Democrats studiously avoid any mention of the military budget and our imperial wars, especially in Venezuela and Palestine. For the time being, it will still be the children of other nations who are sacrificed. But the group – we – will remain vigilant, prepared for those conditions when the next opportunistic rituals of sacrifice and regeneration become necessary. Then, once again, it will be our children (well, not really ours, unless we live in the crossover states or in urban ghettos) who will be asked to enter the fire to glorify their parents.
Perhaps I'm being too cynical; I hope so. Perhaps it serves no purpose to simply point out our failures without offering an alternative vision. Perhaps it does serve a deeper purpose to point out that these are not failures; that the system continues to run smoothly for the one percent. And certainly, there has been much good news since the 2018 election, especially in the fact that Republicans are obsessed with demonizing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. They just can't stop talking about her, and the Green New Deal has become the kind of meme or positive frame that George Lakoff has been asking the Democrats to come up with for years.
But the fact that the Democratic leadership have dug in their heels to marginalize her, Bernie Sanders and other progressives indicates that the fix is still in, that the next election cycle will conclude with more rituals of denial and self-congratulation. In other words, the great shift in mythological thinking that is necessary for a transition to a sustainable world has yet to manifest.
What will it take to change things? Really change things? Certainly, the passing of the Mitch McConnells of the world – and the Diane Feinsteins – is absolutely necessary. Could this millionaire warmonger have stated the generational divide – not just that, but her absolute contempt for children – any more clearly? Let's thank her for clarifying that, in case anyone thinks she has anything worthwhile to offer.
Significant demographic changes are right around the corner. America is getting darker and younger, less individualistic, more communitarian, more critical of this death culture. Death culture? Is that too strong a phrase? As I wrote in Chapter Eight, nearly fifty years ago the social critic Phillip Slater was appalled by the carnage Americans were inflicting upon the Vietnamese:
…obsession with the body count, rather than control of territory, became an end in itself. General Westmoreland set the tone when he smugly dismissed civilian casualties: "It does deprive the enemy of the population, doesn't it?" With this kind of permission coming from the top, massacres became commonplace, as they had been in Korea and would continue to be, wherever the U.S. would oppose dark-skinned people. Phillip Slater argues, "This transfer of killing from a means to an end in itself constitutes a practical definition of genocide." He asks, "Do Americans hate life? Has there ever been a people who have destroyed so many living things?"
The three great Athenian playwrights – Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides – were, after Homer, the storytellers of their culture. Sophocles said that he wrote about how people might be, while Euripides (author of The Bacchae) wrote about how people really are.
I don't think that a culture can rebirth itself until it has fully acknowledged what has no longer been serving it, and what needs to die. We will not be fully able to imagine new stories until enough of us realize – like alcoholics – that we have hit bottom. This is why I must continue to write about who we are and leave the imagination of who we might be to more optimistic voices.
It may still be possible for significant change to occur through elections – may it be so. But without addressing a much more profound level, the causes of our condition – the vast well of grief and self-contempt at the core of the white American psyche – we condemn ourselves, and the Earth, to more of the same.
The new story of Who We Are is waiting for enough of us to call it forth. We are capable of creating new public rituals that affirm the values of community without sacrificing our children. The old knowledge is still in our bones. Our indigenous souls remember. At this point in history, perhaps only poets can write about who we might be. It might be about remembering who we once were:
The Ancient Ones
From the beginning, we have been with you.
We are the ancient ones and we remember.
We remember the time when there was only Love,
The time when all breathing was one.
We remember the seed of your being
Planted in the belly of the vast, black night.
We remember the red cave of deep slumber.
The time of forgetting,
The sound of your breath, the pulse of your heart.
We remember the force of your longing for life,
The cries of your birth bringing you forth.
We are the Ancient Ones and we have waited and watched.
You say that you cannot remember that time
That you have no memory of us.
You say that you cannot hear our voices
That our touch no longer moves you.
You say there can be no return,
That something is lost, that there is only silence.
We say the time of waiting is over.
We say the silence has been broken.
We say there can be no forgetting now.
We say listen.
We are the bones of your grandmother's grandmothers.
We have returned now.
We say you cannot forget us now
We say we are with you and you are us.
Remember. Remember.
— Patricia Reis


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