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Red Hat Expands Footprint In Telecommunications Industry
Red Hat announces participation in European Community OPUCE project for next-generation service delivery platform and extends telecommunications offering with JBoss middleware
RALEIGH, N.C — 19. Oktober 2006 —
Red Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, today announced that the company is dramatically widening its reach in the global telecommunications industry as evidenced by the company's participation in the European Community Open Platform for User-Centric Service Creation and Execution (OPUCE) project and the extension and integration of Red Hat and JBoss telecommunications solutions.
RED HAT PARTICIPATES IN OPUCE
Red Hat continues to grow as a high-value player in the global telecommunications industry. Along with other leading telecommunications companies, Red Hat has announced its participation in OPUCE, a European Community Framework Program's Sixth Framework Program (FP6) project designed to deliver the next-generation telecommunication service delivery platform (SDP) for use across the EU. Red Hat and JEMS experts will be responsible for building an open source ecosystem around OPUCE and bringing direct expertise on how to build open source communities and support mission-critical environments based on open source software.
OPUCE will produce an open service infrastructure that enables easy service creation and deployment in heterogeneous environments. It will allow services to be accessed in a seamless way by a multitude of devices connected via different networks and makes open source central to building out next-generation telecommunications infrastructure. End users will benefit from enriched service variety and relevance, and service providers will discover eased service creation and the opportunity to expand service offerings.
"Red Hat continues to leverage the complete open source platform to evolve as an infrastructure and solution provider for the telecommunications industry," said Tim Yeaton, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and General Manger of Enterprise Solutions, Red Hat. "Projects like OPUCE enable us to demonstrate the virtues of open platforms and the open source development model while, at the same time, provide us with unique perspective of how telecommunications infrastructure and solutions will be defined and deployed in the future."
"We are pleased to include Red Hat as a member of OPUCE. Red Hat's reputation as an open source innovator and track record of high performance in mission-critical enterprise and telecommunications environments make it an ideal partner for next-generation telecommunications infrastructure," said Antonio Sánchez, Project Manager, Telefonica. "With its recent acquisition of JBoss, Red Hat is even better positioned to participate in the development of next-generation telecommunications middleware and service delivery platform capabilities."
RED HAT'S TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLATFORM
Integrated Red Hat and JBoss solutions have become the platform of choice for mission-critical applications in enterprises and telecommunications operators worldwide. As a logical extension of Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a carrier-grade operating system, JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS) has emerged as the market-leading middleware suite for telecommunications by simplifying development of Enterprise Java applications and enabling telecommunications companies to accelerate time-to-market with flexible, cost-effective solutions. Leading telecommunications operators, equipment manufactures and ISVs worldwide continue to choose open platforms based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JEMS over costly proprietary alternatives.
Red Hat envisions JEMS to emerge as a core technology for the next-generation SDP market, and will look to leverage its current and growing ecosystem of OEM, NEP and ISV partners to drive feature road-maps and commercialization. JEMS runs on a variety of platforms, and is optimized for deployment on industry-standard software and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Red Hat works with leading NEPs, ISVs and operators to define requirements and ensure that Red Hat Enterprise Linux can be deployed in carrier-grade settings. Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been tested and hardened across thousands of enterprise and telecommunications environments, and it provides the stability, predictability and track record required by the industry. Operators and equipment providers actively participate in the planning and definition of future versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and verify that it meets the performance, reliability and security requirements of the industry. Operators also rely on Red Hat's hardware and software certification program to provide the level of structure, process and infrastructure required to support the telecommunications ecosystem.
Red Hat's value to telecommunications companies also extends beyond the partner ecosystem and the capabilities of the platform. Linux is Free Open Source Software (FOSS), based on the GNU Public License (GPL), which provides customers with the assurance that the source for their platform will always be freely available. This ensures that the customer cannot be locked-in to one platform or driven to a particular architecture by closed binary dependencies.
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What is Waardenburg Syndrome?
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By Gillian May, MSNUpdated: May 10, 2019
Waardenburg syndrome is a group of genetic conditions that cause hearing loss and pigmentation changes to eyes, hair, and skin. The pattern and degree to which individuals are affected varies greatly. In recent years, researchers identified several genetic types of this syndrome. Each type has a different pattern of symptoms.
Waardenburg syndrome is a genetic condition inherited from one parent. The parent may be affected by the mutated gene, or just a carrier. The pattern of inheritance differs based on the type of gene mutation. It is common for several siblings to have the syndrome, but the signs may present in different ways.
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Mutations in several genes cause Waardenburg syndrome. These genes are involved in the development of pigment-producing cells called melanocytes. Not only do these cells influence the pigment in skin, hair, and eyes; they are also involved in the functions of the inner ear.
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In Waardenburg syndrome type 1, hearing loss is less common, but wide-spaced eyes are more common. Type 2 is the most common type, characterized by different colored irises and permanent hearing loss. In type 3, hearing loss is progressive, and there may be changes in skin pigmentation and abnormalities in the upper limbs. Type 4 has all the above characteristics but also may include intestinal conditions such as Hirschsprung disease.
Signs and symptoms of Waardenburg syndrome vary according to type. They include changes in eye color such as strikingly blue eyes or two different color irises. Also common to many types are premature greying of the hair or a lock of grey hair -- poliosis. Hearing loss in differing patterns is also common. Type 1 can cause a cleft lip and type 3 may include abnormalities of the arms. Many people with Waardenburg syndrome have wide-spaced eyes, a low hairline, and eyebrows that meet in the middle. Type 4 is associated with intestinal problems.
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The frequency of Waardenburg syndrome differs according to type. Type 1 and 2 are most frequent, whereas type 3 and 4 are rare. The overall incidence is about 1 in 50,000 people. In 2002, there were only 48 cases of type 4. In schools for the deaf, about 1 out of 30 students will have Waardenburg syndrome.
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Diagnosing Waardenburg syndrome usually starts with examining the symptoms of hearing loss and pigment changes. Since these are the most visible signs, parents often seek diagnosis based on these physical manifestations. A doctor will then refer the child for genetic and other testing to rule out related conditions.
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There is no treatment for Waardenburg syndrome. Managing the condition focuses mostly on treating the symptoms. Hearing loss is usually the symptom of most practical importance, and the management depends on the specific way in which it affects each individual. Specialists may come on board to treat other physical, intestinal, or neurological symptoms. Some physical signs can be treated cosmetically, if required.
Long-Term Support
Focusing on long-term support is the best way to manage Waardenburg syndrome. There are many ways to live well with hearing loss, and it depends on whether it's a hearing deficit versus complete hearing loss. Children with total hearing loss are often taught sign language. In the case of type 4, a gastroenterologist can help patients manage intestinal issues.
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Relation to Other Mammals
There are cases of ferrets that have Waardenburg syndrome. Ferrets with a white stripe down the back or white panda-like pattern stretching from the nose downward often have the syndrome. The majority are deaf with wide spaced eyes and flattened skulls. Also, some cats that are all white and have blue eyes are also deaf, but research has yet to reveal whether they have Waardenburg syndrome.
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History and Pop Culture
Waardenburg syndrome is named after Dutch ophthalmologist Petrus Johannes Waardenburg. He found and described the syndrome in 1951, though he mostly described type 1. Swiss ophthalmologist David Klien also made contributions to the knowledge and descriptions of Waardenburg syndrome types. An episode of the TV show Bones featured a character with Waardenburg syndrome. Several novels have major characters with this syndrome including Reconstructing Amelia, Closer Than You Think, and Shock. Also, popular vlogger Stef Sanjati has Waardenburg syndrome.
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We got an inside look at the lives of Anne Vallot-Basker and Ana Gayol-Cintron, two seniors at Marymount High School in New York.
Interviewed by Georgina Grant and Paula Sison.
Anne: I usually wake up at 6:30, dress, and eat breakfast, I always end up running late no matter how early I leave, so I try to leave my house between 7:15 and 7:30. I take the bus and subway to school and hope everything runs on time. Run to wherever I'm meeting or have my advisory period because I'm always running in right at 8:00 because we have to be in our designated meeting spot at eight. That's a new addition; last year it was 8:15. After that, I just go class to class, and then, depending on the day, I'll either have sports after school or Model UN.
Ana: For me, it's almost the same thing, and then you go home and do homework until God knows what hour. Sometimes, if you really wanted to, you could really work all night, but we try not to do that. Mine is the same as Anne's minus the sports, but I have other clubs and stuff.
Anne: Eight – there are six main classes: English, History, Science, Math, Foreign Language, Ethics (half a course), which is a religious course and only meets half the time.
Ana: And some people choose to take a second language, an arts class, or Marymount Singers.
Do you have free periods?
Anne: Yes. I probably have two free periods a day.
What is your uniform like?
Ana: Plaid skirt for the winter uniform, and blue cord skirt for the spring and the fall. And we're allowed to wear for tops: pink, black, navy blue, regular blue, white, and gray, as well as sweaters.
Anne: And sneakers are the newest addition as of maybe two weeks ago. Before, we could only wear blue, black, or brown ballet flats with knee high socks, ankle socks, or tights, so sneakers are a pretty exciting addition for us.
Are teachers strict about skirt length?
Ana: Every Friday, seniors get free dress, but it has to be very appropriate.
Anne: No studs, no leggings, no denim.
Ana: It's basically called business casual.
Anne: It's nice to have that freedom, but it is restrictive in what we can wear.
What does your school offer for lunch?
Ana: We're a very small building right now, the Middle School has a full-fledged lunch, but for the Upper School, we have a little salad bar. Most people go out or they bring their own lunch. I mean it's not something that we can complain about because we are close to places like Dean and Deluca, which is a high-end deli.
Anne: It gets expensive to buy lunch, so you either bring lunch from home or take advantage of the salad bar, which is a new addition. It's really nice.
Ana: We can go out for lunch, and seniors can go off for 90 minutes, at most, during our frees.
What are your favorite student activities?
Ana: I think we both can say Model UN.
Anne: I enjoy field hockey a lot. We're both on Model UN and we've both been on it since freshman year. I really like it a lot, but I might have to put field hockey a little bit higher than Model UN.
Ana: For me, that's Mock Trial. Mock Trial is my thing — I love it! And we have the Met Club this year, which just came out and my friend and I are the presidents of, and basically we go to the Met every Friday and see a new exhibit. It's kind of a leisure activity because we to the Met sometimes for classes, but you have to take notes and it's rigorous, but we kind of made this for people to enjoy art and walk around. That's a new addition we have to take advantage of the opportunities we have being so close to the Met.
Do you have Spirit Week?
Ana: We used to! We probably will have it this year. We have a weird one. There's no Spirit stick. We have one where we dress as our teachers. It's a week where you do silly things.
Anne: We have pajama day, which always gets weird anyway. We have teacher day, where you dress as a teacher and then the teachers dress how they used to dress in high school. You can wear your athletic uniform to school one day.
How do you meet boys?
Ana: Well, freshmen year, our PALS, which is our Peer Assistant Leaders (they're seniors and juniors for the ninth grade, kind of mentors), they had a mixer with an all-boys school next to us. It was at this sushi place and it was a complete fail, but it was a good try. Another place to meet boys is the play.
Anne: I went to an all-girls school before this as well, but I try to find boys outside of the school setting, like there's this guy in my building who goes to the school Ana was talking about across the street. They introduce us to their friends, and we introduce them to our friends.
Ana: Through Model UN, too.
What are your dances like?
Ana: I think in our generation things have changed a lot when it comes to dating, and it's very indirect and with social media things have changed with meeting boys, so when it comes to dancing, I don't think you can really meet someone on the genuine level.
Anne: No, you really can't.
Do you ever get to wear free dress?
Anne: We have Denim days. So on your birthday you get to wear free dress, and then on Denim Days you pay five dollars for Zimbabwe and you can wear blue jeans, but you have to wear a uniform shirt.
Ana: We have one for Sandy this Friday. We had one for Zimbabwe last Friday.
Do you go on field trips? If so, where?
Ana: It depends on the class. I know, in atmospheric science we had something planned, but because of Sandy, things are kind of messed up. In my art history class, we were going to go to the MOMA. Again, Sandy messed up that plan. And the Holocaust Museum — that's a senior trip.
Ana: We have retreats, which are a grade bonding experience.
Anne: We went to a mosque in ninth grade.
Do you have Spring Break trips?
Anne: Yes. Marymount Singers has a trip to San Francisco and L.A. We do summer trips. Spring break trips are generally for Singers. In June, there are usually two trips: one goes out of the country, and one is a service trip inside the country. This year the trip is to Turkey.
Do you have school masses?
Anne: I'm actually a Eucharistic minister so I participate in most masses in one way or another. We probably have Mass about once every two months. We have Mass of the Holy Spirit, Founder's Day Mass, Ash Wednesday, All Saint's Day, Lessons and Carols, which is our big Christmas celebration.
Ana: Lessons and Carols is not a Mass but it's in a church.
Do you have Big Sisters/Little Sisters?
Ana: Yes, ours are Kindergartners and we've had them since ninth grade. When you go to Mass, you take your little sister with you. There will be special events throughout the year where it will be Big Sister/Little Sister bonding, and there will be a time designated for an outing. One year, we went in the park to look for leaves for a collage.
Anne: Yeah, we usually have two or three events a year, where we do some kind of fun half-day activities with them.
Do you need to get community service hours? If so, how many?
Ana: In the sophomore year, it was required to get 40 hours. It is encouraged to volunteer. A lot of girls volunteer without community service hours.
Anne: And the service trip of course is the perfect chance to volunteer.
Are sports a big deal? What's the big emphasis at your school?
Anne: I wouldn't say they're a big deal. I participate in them- I'm a three-season varsity athlete, but they're not emphasized as much as other things are. We're not one of those schools where we have our own fields. We're getting our own field, though.
There's a sense of community that's emphasized- the Big Sister/Little Program that we have.
Ana: We have assemblies every Friday. Last Friday, it was kind of a stress reliever where we sang karaoke to a popular song. Community is probably the most emphasized thing here, right now.
Anne: We have a mascot — Rory. We're the lions.
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Palaces, manors and town halls in Croatia
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The rectangular Sponza Palace with an inner courtyard was built in a mixed Gothic and Renaissance style between 1516 and 1522 by Paskoje Miličević Mihov. Its name is derived from the Latin word 'spongia', the spot where rainwater was collected. The loggia and sculptures were crafted by the brothers Andrijić and other stonecutters. The palace has served a variety of public functions, including as a custo ...
Founded: 1516-1522 | Location: Dubrovnik, Croatia
Rector's Palace
One of the most significant monuments of profane architecture on the Croatian coast is the Rector"s Palace, former administrative centre of the Dubrovnik Republic. Its style is basically Gothic, with the Renaissance and Baroque reconstructions. In the 15th century the Palace was destroyed twice in gunpowder explosions. Restored by Onofrio della Cava in the late Gothic style after the first explosion in 1435, the Pal ...
Founded: 15th century | Location: Dubrovnik, Croatia
Considered to be one of the most imposing Roman ruins, Diocletian's palace is certainly the main attraction of the city of Split. The ruins of palace, built between the late 3rd and the early 4th centuries A.D., can be found throughout the city. Today the remains of the palace are part of the historic core of Split, which in 1979 was listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. While it is referred to as a 'palac ...
Founded: 4th century AD | Location: Split, Croatia
Pula Communal Palace
The Communal Palace is situated at the northern end of the main square of the old part of the City of Pula, called the Forum Square. The spot occupied by the Palace has been used for the public buildings since Ancient Rome, when the place was used as a part of a triade of Roman temples, of which today only the Temple of Augustus remains. The eastern of these temples, called the Temple of Diana, was used as a rudimenta ...
Founded: 1296 | Location: Pula, Croatia
Luznica Manor
It is believed that the Lužnica manor was built at the beginning of the 18th century. Since 1791 the estate was the owned by Rauch noble family. They soon had the manor renovated and further expanded. At the end of 19th century, Marija Jurić Zagorka, lived in the manor from the age of 3 until 10 years, as her father was estate manager for the Rauch family. She later became one of the most prominent Croatian writers of ...
Founded: c. 1791 | Location: Lužnica, Croatia
Pejacevic Palace
Pejačević Palace one of several castles owned by the members of Pejačević noble family in the croatian region of Slavonia. It was built in 1800-1804 in Classicism and late Baroque style.
Founded: 1800 | Location: Virovitica, Croatia
Novi Dvori
Novi Dvori of Zaprešić is a feudal estate consisting of a manor house, an old granary renovated into a museum, a circular threshing machine, a neo-gothic chapel and the Jelačić family tomb. According to a document dated in 1852, the Novi Dvori manor was first constructed in 1611 as an ordinary one story manor house mostly made of wood. This initial 17th century concept of a manor, consisted of what is today a western ...
Founded: c. 1611 | Location: Zaprešić, Croatia
Eltz Manor
In 1736, Philipp Karl von Eltz-Kempenich (1665–1743), the Archchancellor of the Holy Roman Empire and Prince-Archbishop of Mainz, purchased a Vukovar manor in Syrmia, in the eastern Kingdom of Slavonia, then part of the Habsburg Monarchy ruled by Emperor Charles VI. The palace was originally built between 1749 and 1751 by the Archchancellor"s descendants of the German Catholic noble House of Eltz and ...
Founded: 1749 | Location: Vukovar, Croatia
Pejačević Castle is one of several country houses owned by the members of the Pejačević noble family in the region of Slavonia. According to the sign located on the, facade above the entrance, the manor was built by count Sigismund Pejačević in 1801, with the actual construction beginning somewhere around 1796. The Retfala Estate was acquired by the Pejačević Counts as a grant by the then Austrian Em ...
Founded: 1796-1801 | Location: Osijek, Croatia


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Ever had a Super Tuscan? Ever wondered what the hell that means? In short, the term can be attributed to the media and the origin of that term can be attributed to the rebels. And being a Star Wars fan, I love the rebels.
Just south of the bustling city of Florence are the Chianti hills. A bucolic landscape of green buttes spotted with cypress trees and ancient hill towns with names like Radda, Castellina, Gaiole and Greve. In and around these towns are vineyards growing the famous Sangiovese grape, along with other native varieties such as Canaiolo, Colorino and Ciliegiolo. This is not only where the story of Chianti wine begins but also that of the "Super Tuscan."
From the rise of the Medici family in the 15th century, to 1960's post World War II Italy the wines of this region – known as the Conca D'Oro (Golden Shell) – were held in the highest regard. The British, who have been frequenting these undulating hills for years since the middle ages, call it Chiantishire.
Historically, Chinati had always been a blend of the natives grapes of the region, with the Canaiolo grape taking the lion's share. Then along came a man by the name of Barone Bettino Ricasoli who, after a decade of experimentation, decided that Sangiovese was best as the majority grape in the blend, as it had more aromatics and vigor, allowing Canaiolo and other native grapes to play minority roles, adding color and tannin. The historic Chianti blend we all know was born.
By the 1960's, when the Italians saw that the appellation system (AOC) the French had created thirty years earlier was a runaway success, they decided to follow suit creating their own appellation system entitled the DOC (Denominazione di origine controllata), a direct translation of the France's AOC (appellation d'origine contrôlée) meaning controlled designation of origin. This nationwide system was a way to control the quality of wine by putting rules in place within a designated area so that from vintage to vintage, even though weather patterns change, there were guidelines to aid in maintaining the legacy of a wine region controlling everything from the makeup of the blend to harvest yields and alcohol levels.
In 1967 Chianti was awarded it's own DOC and because the Barone Ricasoli blend was the most used at the time, this was the blend that made it into law. But there was a snag, the Ricasoli blend allowed up to 20% of white wine to be added. Enter the catalyst for the rebel alliance.
The Rebel Alliance Forms
As the DOC in Chianti gained in popularity on the international market, winemakers looking to get more bang for their buck by increasing volume utilized the 20% white rule to the fullest. The result was a significant drop in the quality of the wine and by the mid 70's Chianti's international reputation began to dwindle. By 1975 certain winemakers were fed up with these rules and began going out on their own, making whatever they wanted, thereby eschewing the DOC laws in order to make better quality wine. But to make wine outside the DOC guidelines meant forcing that wine to be labelled Vino Da Tavola (table wine), the lowest of the low rung on the designation ladder.
But the rebels did not back down and when the American press came to taste these unlawful wines that were causing such a stir, they fell in love with them immediately. They were full bodied and French barrique aged (the norm was a different kind of oak from Slavonia) with more intensity and absent of any white wine. In fact, some of them used Bordeaux grapes such as Cabernet Sauvignon as the framework for the blend, causing many members of the press to compare them to great Bordeaux. This created a common misconception that a Super Tuscan is always a Bordeaux style blend, but this is not the case. For example, on my wine list at In Vino I have a wine made from 100% Ciliegiolo, one of the original native grapes in the Chianti blend.
The press ran back to the states to write about these wines but couldn't bring themselves to call these amazing bottles Vino Da Tavola. They were more than that. So they used a term that they had heard being bandied about among these rebel winemakers, Super Tuscan. Wine made outside the law, but commanding a presence unseen since the Great War.
By the 1980's the Super Tuscan phenomenon was at an all time high on the international market with wealthy Americans buying them up left and right as they catered to the intense oaky, high alcohol national palate of the time. In 1984 Chianti bowed to this success and rewrote it's wine laws, doing away with the allowance of any white wine and adding another letter to the the DOC acronym, G, for Garantita, DOCG. These more restrictive rules began the rebirth of good Chianti wine over time.
But even with this new DOCG in place the Super Tuscan idea would not let up, so in 1992, partly in response to this popularity, the government created yet another acronym, IGT, Indicazione Geografica Tipica, which was in a way a direct reflection on France's Vin de Pays or Country wines. A designation allowing for experimentation, as long as the grapes came from the area the wine was being made. And so it came to pass that from then on Super Tuscans were to be dubbed IGT, and most still are to this day.
There are some of these trailblazers though that have since been awarded their own DOC, especially in Bolgheri where it is said the first Super Tuscan was made by Tenuta San Guido called Sassicaia, a blend of mostly Cabernet Sauvignon. Both Bolgheri and the Sassicaia estate have a received DOC status.
So to drink a Super Tuscan is to drink a wine made in Tuscany that uses the IGT label. It doesn't follow the traditional DOCG rules, but still uses grapes grown in the Tuscan region.
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A planned Russian high-speed railway line could be cut short due to funding and may not reach its final destination of Kazan in Russia's Tatarstan, business daily newspaper Kommersant reports.
Construction of the costly project is planned to begin later this year. However, the report says that the railway's funding is a problem and the project cannot continue without a grant of 700 billion rubles ($10.34 billion). The net present value (NPV) of the railway is profoundly negative – minus 642 billion rubles ($9.47 billion). So far, there is no decision on allocating funds, but, according to experts, other methods of state support would be even more expensive.
Currently, the investment program of Russian Railways until 2025 includes just the Moscow-Vladimir section, which is expected to receive $2.9 billion. The total cost of the construction amounts to $6.2 billion), and the need for financing reaches $7.2 billion, Kommersant wrote.
In addition to Russian Railways' funding, plans are in store to use investments from international strategists $767.3 million and other investors $1.07 billion), as well as money from a bond placement worth $1.47 billion, and $911.53 million from loans.
A source told the newspaper that the Ministry of Transportation supports allocating the grant. According to him, Russian Railways believes that the project is impossible without state support.
Infralex partner Maxim Chernigovsky told the newspaper that instead of a grant, a concession grantor payment at the operational stage could be possible, but the grant would be allocated only once.


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The NCTSN: Raising the Standard of Care for Traumatized Children and Their Families
This month, BRYCS continues its focus on health and mental health in refugee children and their families (see last month's Spotlight on holistic health) by highlighting the work of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN). [1]
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network
In 2001, in recognition of the impact of traumatic events on the nation's children and youth, the U.S. Congress passed the Donald J. Cohen National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative establishing the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN). Under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the NCTSN now encompasses 54 centers around the United States, coordinated by the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress (NCCTS) at UCLA and Duke University. The NCTSN mission is to raise the standard of care and improve access to services for traumatized children, their families, and communities throughout the United States. The NCTSN has organized several task forces staffed by member agencies that focus on special issues, such as child welfare, service integration, and refugees. This month's Spotlight and Sidebar highlight the work of those NCTSN members serving refugee children and their families. [2]
The NCTSN's Refugee Trauma Task Force's Publications
In 2003, The Refugee Trauma Task Force published its Review of Child and Adolescent Refugee Mental Health ([White Paper I], Lustig, et al.) that provided an overview of the available literature. According to this literature, multiple traumas endured by refugee children included, "…direct exposure to war time violence, including combat experience, displacement and loss of home, malnutrition, separation from caregivers, detention and torture and a multitude of other traumatic circumstances affecting the children's health, mental health, and general well-being," and are linked to symptoms such as, "…anxiety, recurring nightmares, insomnia, secondary enuresis, introversion, anxiety and depressive symptoms, relationship problems, behavioral problems, academic difficulties, anorexia, and somatic (physical) problems." [3]
This paper also noted a lack of access to mental health services for refugee children. Barriers are similar to those for all children, but are most likely compounded for refugees due to cultural and linguistic barriers. As noted in last month's Spotlight, conceptions of health, illness, and healing may be quite different for refugees and have led to creative approaches to addressing mental health issues that may increase engagement and effectiveness for these populations.
Just this year, the National Child Traumatic Stress Network's Refugee Trauma Task Force published Mental Health Interventions for Refugee Children in Resettlement: White Paper II (Birman, et al., 2005). This paper reviews a range of interventions described in the literature, and provides information regarding the documented effectiveness of these interventions. Although this field is just beginning to build a literature on "evidence-based practice" (interventions that have been demonstrated to be effective according to scientific principles), there is enough evidence to point practitioners in general directions.
This paper emphasizes the importance of comprehensive services that address children's mental health within the context of their family, school, and community. These services range from prevention to programs that address mental health and trauma more directly. Approaches to mental health services reviewed in this paper include (1) trauma-informed treatments, such as school-based cognitive-behavioral therapy (see the Los Angeles Unified School District's successful program for one example); parenting interventions for mothers; and art/expressive therapies; (2) strategies for increasing access and engagement in services, such as basing services in medical clinics or the schools; (3) increasing cultural competence through training mainstream service providers, using ethnically/linguistically matched professionals and paraprofessionals, and ethnic specific community-based health clinics (see last months Spotlight); and (4) integrating prevention services as part of or in addition to treatment through psychosocial approaches, including family-and-community-strengthening programs.
Another unique and useful product from the NCTSN's Refugee Trauma Task Force is Children of War: A Video for Educators, which can be used to inform educators about the experiences of refugee children using a powerful medium: children telling their own stories. See the description below for more information, including how to order this video and the accompanying Resource Guide.
SUMMARY: Refugee-Related Resources from the NCTSN
For Practitioners and Program Managers
Lustig, et. al. (2003). Review of Child and Adolescent Refugee Mental Health: A White Paper from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network's Refugee Trauma Task Force.
Analyzes recent empirical studies of mental health problems affecting refugees, with a focus on child and adolescent populations in the United States. Health care professionals seeking to provide treatment and support to these populations get information about: (1) the phases of the refugee experience, from preflight to resettlement; (2) stressors affecting refugee children, including preflight exposure to combat, separation from caregivers and traumas of life in refugee or detention camps, and the sense of loss associated with migration and stigma attached to their refugee status; (3) ways in which children attempt to cope with war and political violence and to protect themselves from the dangers and deprivations commonly experienced in refugee camps; (4) ways in which both acculturation and parental well-being can be protective factors against the stress of resettlement; (5) stress reactions and pathological outcomes, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression; (6) physical health and its impact on stress and vice versa; and (7) interventions that focus on the individual or the family, are school-based, or focus on culturally relevant healing. Clinicians trained to treat traumatized refugee children must be sensitive to cultural variations in experiences of symptoms as well as culturally sanctioned approaches to treatment.
Birman, et.al. (2005). Mental Health Interventions for Refugee Children in Resettlement: White Paper II. National Child Traumatic Stress Network's Refugee Trauma Task Force.
Argues for the necessity, and outlines the characteristics, of a comprehensive mental health services model for making mental health interventions with refugee children. Providers of mental health services to traumatized refugee children get information about: (1) mental health issues for refugee children in resettlement, including previous exposure to trauma, stresses of resettlement, and barriers to receiving services; (2) the importance of culturally competent and comprehensive mental health and social services; (3) research and analysis to date concerning the effectiveness of comprehensive services for children, including strategies involving trauma-informed treatments for children, psycho-educational and parenting interventions for mothers, and art and expressive therapy; (4) strategies to improve access to care and engagement in services; (5) approaches to cultural competence, including enhancing cultural awareness and sensitivity of mainstream providers, using ethnically matched professionals and paraprofessionals, and offering services in culture-specific clinics or centers; and (6) interventions designed to address the stresses of resettlement, including case management and preventive interventions. A focus on studying existing practices with refugee children can serve the long-term goal of developing evidence-based interventions for traumatized refugees.
Children of War: A Video for Educators
A number of NCTSN member organizations address Refugee Trauma. A collaborative work group composed of representatives of more than 10 organizations serving refugee/immigrant children developed CHILDREN OF WAR: A VIDEO FOR EDUCATORS. The video is a moving, 30-minute program depicting the experiences of refugee children in America. It opens with highlights from the play Children of War, in which a group of refugee youth from around the world present their stories in their own words. The program goes on to document the consequences of refugee trauma and focuses on ways that these traumatic experiences affect children in American schools. This information is also relevant to mental health providers and emergency management planners.
This video was created to inform school personnel about the often unrecognized lives of many youth in their schools. The purpose of the video is to define the importance of exposure to war and displacement and to describe the effects of this trauma exposure on school behavior, academic performance, and school violence. CHILDREN OF WAR: A VIDEO FOR EDUCATORS also may be educational for those who set up emergency management systems in states and local communities as well as those who provide mental health services in a variety of settings.
An accompanying Resource Guide contains discussion questions, suggests ways that teachers and administrators can help refugee/immigrant children in their schools, and provides avenues to additional resource materials. The practical suggestions listed in the Resource Guide will also be useful to those responsible for planning community responses to disasters.
Contact Judy Holland, National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, judy.holland@duke.edu to obtain a copy of the video. The CHILDREN OF WAR resource guide may be downloaded online.
Resources available through the BRYCS Clearinghouse:
Resilience:
Resilience in Child Refugees: An Historical Study. This article provides historical research on Child Refugees in Australia (during the late 30's and early 40's) emphasizing their ability to cope with separation, loss, and trauma.
Resilience in Unaccompanied Minors from the North of Somalia. Contains a literature review on unaccompanied children and discusses the notion of resilience protection, which can mitigate the effects of traumatic events and multiple separations.
Cultural Competence:
EthnoMed: Ethnic Medicine Information from Harborview Medical Center (Web site) This Web site contains information about the cultural beliefs of, and pertinent medical issues surrounding, recent immigrants and refugees in the United States. Based at the University of Washington's Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Also housed on this site are patient education materials in languages including English, Amharic, Cambodian, Khmer, Oromo, Somali, Spanish, Vietnamese, Chinese, Russian, Tagalog, Korean, and Tigrinya.
CulturedMed (Web site) This Web site contains information on diverse health beliefs of different cultures, well as cross cultural interactions between providers and patients in an effort to promote cultural competence.
Non-Western Concepts of Mental Health. "This discussion guide examines non-western concepts of mental health specifically from Mozambique and Angola. It looks at the ways in which mental health and illness can be understood outside the framework of western biomedical paradigms." – Publishers Description
APA Guidelines for Providers of Psychological Services to Ethnic, Linguistic, and Culturally Diverse Populations. These guidelines are designed to provide suggestions to psychologists in working with ethnic, linguistic, and culturally diverse populations
Children, Families, and Workers: Facing Trauma in Child Welfare. "In this issue of Best Practice/Next Practice we have set ourselves a challenging task: connecting the effects of September 11 to child welfare populations and presenting strategies to improve practice with families affected by trauma." – Publisher's description
For Program Managers
Understanding the Psychosocial Needs of Refugee Children and Adolescents. "This discussion guide assesses the psychosocial model with reference to displaced and war-affected children and adolescents. The author reviews critical issues and special needs arising from children's experiences, and discusses how psychosocial programming can meet these needs." – Publisher's Description
Considerations in Planning Psychosocial Programs. The papers present a conceptual framework for psychosocial intervention in regions affected by conflict and seek to apply this framework to issues of practice.
Directory of Services and Resources for Survivors of Torture. This directory will help torture survivors locate the services and resources that are available to them.
Tips for Teachers During Times of Trauma. This guide for teachers in times of trauma was updated after the events of September 11, 2001–the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. These traumatic events could cause refugees to experience trauma or become re-traumatized. For many refugees, their English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) programs are the places where they will find their primary, in-depth contact with Americans with whom they can feel safe and where they can ask questions.
Mental Health of Refugee Children: A Guide for the ESL Teacher. Provides guidance to English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers about the challenges facing newly resettled refugee children in the United States.
Mental Health and the ESL Classroom: A Guide for Teachers Working with Refugees. This manual guides English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) teachers by outlining the complex burdens that refugee students carry and setting out concrete steps that ESL teachers can take in order to turn their classrooms into effective and welcoming teaching and learning environments. (ERIC No. ED467256)
The Handbook of Frequently Asked Questions Following Traumatic Events: Violence, Disasters, or Terrorism. Provides guidance to parents, teachers, clinicians, and other caregivers in talking to children who have been exposed to traumatic events. In times of crisis, children require special attention so that they can develop the skills needed to become resilient enough to deal with and overcome traumatic experiences.
1 Much of the information and text for this Spotlight is drawn from a recent article in Dialogue 3-17-05, an NCTSN publication, reprinted here with permission of the primary author, Judy Holland, of the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress. This article is now available on the SAMHSA DTAC Web site: http://www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/dtac
2 See the list of NCTSN centers serving refugee children and their families.
3 Birman, et.al. (2005). Mental Health Interventions for Refugee Children in Resettlement: White Paper II. National Child Traumatic Stress Network's Refugee Trauma Task Force.
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When did you start working at Graywolf? What was your initial position?
I started working at Graywolf in September 1997, as a part-time administrative assistant.
Do you remember the first GW book you read?
I took a class on the contemporary American short story in college, and my professor recommended the old Graywolf annuals (which weren't so old then). I remember checking Graywolf Annual 2: Short Stories by Women out of the library and browsing through it. I think that was probably the first. The first book Graywolf book I remember reading after starting at Graywolf was our reissue of William Maxwell's lovely book of essays, The Outermost Dream.
Is it harder or easier to edit a book you really love?
I think this has become less difficult for me over time and with experience.I know that I made some missteps early on when I was trying to edit books I loved - it was hard to see beyond the love. Luckily I had expert editors and generous mentors like our publisher Fiona McCrae and former executive editor Anne Czarniecki to watch and learn from.
If there is such a thing as a typical workday what does it look like?
There isn't really a typical workday, which is part of what makes my job fun. Some days I spend huge swaths of time on production projects - cleaning up manuscripts or page proofs after they've been reviewed by a copyeditor or proofreader and the author. Other times I get to spend a whole day at home reading and editing. More often the days are filled with meetings with my colleagues and with managing a lot little tasks, mostly via email.
Two long-time favorites are The Great Gatsby and Crossing to Safety.
How often do people say to you, "I've got this idea for a book..."
Not that often, actually, unless I'm in a situation like a conference where I've invited that kind of conversation. I feel like that used to happen to me a lot more. Now when people find out that I work in publishing they want to know what I think about ebooks and the future.
You travel to lots of other places for book shows/fairs. What's your favorite place you've visited?
Good question. I love traveling anywhere new, and most places are pretty interesting to visit at least once. I don't know if it's a new favorite, exactly, and this probably isn't an answer you were expecting, but I went to Detroit for the first time last summer, for a conference, and was completely fascinated. The arts scene there is tight knit and energized (and energizing), and I found the streetscapes beautiful and haunting. The city surprised me. In some odd way, it reminded me of Berlin, which is probably my favorite place that I've been on Graywolf business. They're places that don't hide all their scars, and where interesting and unpredictable things seem to be happening. I'd like to go back to both.
And I always like visiting New York, for all of the obvious reasons related to books. And food.
Is most of your communication with authors now done over e-mail? How has that(or has not) changed the relationship?
A lot of the more day-to-day communication happens via email, but for me the primary editorial work usually happens via pencil on paper and editorial letters. I don't really know how email has changed the relationship, to be honest. I end up talking to most of our authors - even if I'm just managing production and art direction for their books, not actually their editor - on the phone at some point in the process.
What is one thing you do for work, with some regularity, that you never would have guessed you'd be doing?
I never in a million years would have pictured myself going to the book fairs in Frankfurt and London as a rights director and pitching books to foreign editors. And, not only that, actually preferring that role to being an editor on the receiving end of the pitch. I also never thought I'd read manuscripts on an e-reader.


Matana Roberts has released two albums recently: Live In London (Central Control, 2011) and Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens De Couleurs Libre (Constellation, 2011). In this interview, Roberts talks about her Chicago roots and the mentorship of Fred Anderson; how she combined her musical practice with her passion for genealogy; and why working on your sound means being willing to take the slow road. Learn more at matanaroberts.com.
Tracks used in this episode: (from Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens De Couleur Libres) Rise; Pov Piti; Song For Eulalie; Kersaia; Libation for Mr. Brown – Bid Em In; (from Live In London) My Sister; Exchange.


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The Tab meets NottsStandsWithHK
The group is campaigning against the Hong Kong Government's controversial actions.
After nearly 23 weeks of protests, many feel that despite concessions being made by the Hong Kong government, action is still needed. We spoke to a group of Nottingham students who are taking actions into their own hands. NottsStandsWithHK are protestesting, organising a campaign of resistance and putting pressure on Universities and the government.
The group leaders have requested to remain anonymous.
What does your group stand for and what type of members do you have?
As a group we stand for and solidarity to the Hong Kong movement which is happening in Hong Kong right now. Initially the movement solely demanded the withdrawal of the extradition bill but following an escalation in the severity of policing tactics against demonstrators, the objective of the movement has been requesting the following five demands:
What do you hope to achieve?
Complete withdrawal of the extradition bill from the legislative process
Retraction of the 'riot' characterisation
Release and exoneration of arrested protesters
Establishment of an independent commission of inquiry into police conduct and use of force during the protests
Resignation of Chief Executive Carrie Lam and the implementation of universal suffrage for Legislative Council and Chief Executive elections.
What kind of people make up your group, and how many member sdo you have?
We, as a group, consist mostly students and young adults, but there are also Hong Kong immigrants who live in Nottingham participated in our demonstrations.
There are around 20 members who are the main organisers for demos and around 150 members in the NottsStandWithHK telegram group, which is a messaging app that provide a channel allowing members to involve in discussion anonymously.
The NottsStandWithHK group ultimately wants to achieve eight demands:
We demand that the British government make a clear and unequivocal statement that China has contravened the Sino-British Joint Declaration from 1984 and that, as such, it is in breach of international law.
We demand, as a minimum , the assurances given in the Sino-British agreement to the Hong Kong people:
a. Freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of travel, of movement, of correspondence, of strike, of choice of occupation, of academic research and of religious belief.
b. The autonomy of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR).
We condemn:
a. The police repression in Hong Kong and the invocation of riot charges on street protestors.
b. The threats by companies, in compliance with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime, of dismissal or any punishment on workers in order to silence political dissent.
An end to the training of and provision of equipment to the Hong Kong police by the British government, institutions and companies;
Active solidarity with workers sacked for their support for the democracy movement and demand their reinstatement. We call for international action against companies using this form of 'white terror' to intimidate their staff.
We demand freedom of movement between Hong Kong and the UK:
With the full rights for all moving here to have the same rights as any other British national (rights to vote, work etc);
This right should be respected for those arrested, detained or convicted in the course of the democratic movement in Hong Kong.
In UK universities, we call on staff, student and workers unions to join us in demanding:
Freedom of speech for both Hong Kong and mainland Chinese students studying at British universities;
No toleration of any individual or organisation which incites or organises intimidation on any Hong Kong or mainland Chinese student;
No facilities to be granted to agencies such as Confucius Institutes (CI) or China Student and Scholars Associations (CSSA) both of which rely on CCP patronage.
We call on financial, travel and political sanctions against those (especially British nationals) responsible for the repression in Hong Kong.
We call for an ethical foreign policy in relation to mainland China and Hong Kong, prohibiting the sale of UK-manufactured lethal and so-called 'non-lethal' weapons as well as dual use technology.
By protesting in Nottingham, are you hoping to raise awareness of what's happening? Or force the council to act?
Demonstrations in Nottingham not only want to raise awareness of what's happening in Hong Kong right now, we also hope that voters can vote for those who are willing to help and give assistance to Hong Kongers so that they can put stress onto the parliament.
Do you work with other groups and university societies?
The NottsStandWithHK has also actively communicated with similar voluntarily groups in other cities such as Birmingham and Sheffield, we have yet organised any cooperate events but we are looking forward to host one in the near future.
Do you think student bodies have a responsibility to Hong Kong students?
We believe, not only student bodies, have a responsibility to Hong Kong students as the suppression from the Hong Kong government or Chinese government have violated the basic human right, and the freedom of speech and protests, which are some core values in western countries.
The University of Nottingham, has strong connections with Mainland China, with a large Chinese Student disporia, a chinese campus. Meaning Mainland China financially supports the University significantly. Do you think the University's strong relationship has led them to shy away from addressing the issues facing Hong Kong?
We have noticed that The University of Nottingham does have strong connection with the Chinese government. The University has not yet responded regarding the current situation and we know it is a rather controversial issue. However we as a group will not back down as we strongly believe what we are doing have reasonable grounds and expressing our wills and opinions through peaceful protests are absolutely legal therefore the University do not have any valid reasons to stop us doing so.
If anyone wants to be involved with your actions how can they do so?
For anyone wants to join our action please follow our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/NottsStandsWithHK/ , or Instagram page : https://www.instagram.com/nottsstandwithhk/ .


Aipate usually unearths the good songs which could have, otherwise, not crossed your stereo range. We have a new song we feel you should listen to and it is titled "Dance". It is the debut single by Melbourne-based, Australian outfit, Montbello. It is an instrumental-backed soul ham that features powerful vocals that will quickly grip your heart.
Lyrically, "Dance" offers a heartfelt composition that will be received well by the soul fans. It was written by Montebello's Paolo Familiari as a heartfelt dedication to his wife. Listen to the song below via Soundcloud and stay on Aipate to catch the news (and features) of their next releases.
[Update] The song now has a live-performance video to accompany it. Watch below via YouTube.


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My son is taking a dance class. Because he's an Ericksen. Which means he's cursed.
Let me explain. Ericksens, at least my strand of Ericksen, are not athletic. It's a curse. It's not for lack of trying, but it's true. And it's for one simple reason: We have the coordination of a baby elephant riding a bicycle on a sheet of ice.
And so my wife decided our 4-year-old-son should take a dance class. The specific kind of dance taught in this class is ballet. There are currently 12 ballet classes at our city's park district. Each class is open to ten children, ages 4-6. In sum, there are roughly 90 children taking the dance classes. Of course, both boys and girls are welcome to participate in the class, but out of the 90 children in Morton Grove's Park District Dance Class there are 89 girls.
That tells me something about American culture. Boys don't take dance class. Boys play football and baseball and (sometimes) soccer.
Boys hit and kick things.
And Gavin will love it. This may sound strange, but I mean it in the best possible way: Gavin has no shame. He's free from shame and so can freely do the thing he loves to do, which is dance.
Notice the spiritual dimension of that quote. It culminates in "live like it's heaven on earth." I'll risk sounding a little dramatic here: that's what I experience as I witness Gavin's excitement for Dance Class.
The word breaks down like this: The Greek prefix peri can mean "around, about, or near." The ending, choresis, comes from the Greek word choreia, which means to dance.
Because it's so academic, instead of saying God is Perichoresis, in public I prefer to say, "God is Dancing. God always has been Dancing. And God always will be Dancing." As Princeton theologian Daniel Migliore says, God is "united in an exquisite divine dance" (Faith Seeking Understanding, 79).
The point of God's Dance is that God is infinite Joy – without a trace of shame.
If he sticks with Dance Class, Gavin will likely experience shame from other boys. They will scapegoat him as they unite against him and tease him. But shame never comes from the God-Who-Dances. It comes from us. So, when the boys tease him, it won't be because they are necessarily "bad" kids; it will be because they haven't experienced the Dance.
But Gavin has. And I'll keep encouraging him to participate in Dance Class and continue to learn the Dance of Joy.
I don't know if he'll ever overcome the Ericksen curse, but I do know the Dance is making him more graceful.
That's the ballet step he learned on Saturday. It's called the "tendu." Yeah. My boy can tendu. Cuz he's awesome.


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"I tend to personally go for impressionistic styles of music. I find them a little bit more stimulating, more interesting over a longer period of time. Really to try to pin them down is a mistake. Like 'Indian Symmer Sky' - that song is, I think, autobiographical, in a sense, of the band, but I wouldn't even attempt to try to analyze it or come up with a sort of one-liner that tells you exactly what that song is." - The Edge, 1985
The 'seven towers' referred to in the song 'Running To Stand Still' are seven 18 floor tower block buildings central to the development which developed a serious heroin problem over the years in Ireland.


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Kayman Sankar (3 June 1926 – 11 February 2014) was a Guyanese businessman, philanthropist, and member of parliament. He helped to establish the rice industry on the Essequibo coast, and rose from a labourer to "Guyana's most successful rice farmer".

Sankar was born at Cornelia Ida, on the western bank of the Demerara River (in what was then British Guiana, but is now in Guyana's Essequibo Islands-West Demerara region). He was the oldest of five children born to Dukhnee and Sewsankar Boodhoo, both of East Indian extraction. Owing to his family's poverty and his mother's illness, he discontinued his education at the age of nine, initially selling milk and later working as a labourer on the sugarcane fields at Cornelia Ida, where his jobs included weeding, cutting, loading, and manually fertilising the fields with manure. Nicknamed "Polo" as a young man for a perceived resemblance to actor Eddie Polo, Sankar eventually saved enough to purchase two acres at Windsor Forest, having supplemented his income by making jewellery and driving a taxi. By 1956, he was farming on Essequibo's Atlantic coast, at Bounty Hall, Dunkeld, and Perth (all now in the Pomeroon-Supenaam region). Sankar subsequently went into partnership with his brother and nephew, purchasing uncleared land between Dunkeld and Perth. He had earlier travelled as far west as the Pomeroon River, searching for land suitable for rice cultivation.

Despite initial failures, in 1966 Sankar was able to purchase  at Hamptoncourtpolder with his first rice crop harvested two years later. The land was expanded further in 1975, when Kayman Sankar & Co. Ltd. (KSC) was first registered, with rice mills, a rice sheller, and a length grader installed in 1984. The Hampton Court facility was later further expanded to include drying facilities (replacing the earlier method of sun-drying), and increased storage, with Sankar eventually becoming Guyana's largest miller, exporting rice to other Caribbean countries and the European Union. He later expanded his business interests beyond rice, with KSC and another company, Kayman Sankar Investments Ltd. (KSIL) eventually combining to form the Kayman Sankar Group of Companies (KSG). In 1986, Sankar was nominated to sit in Guyana's National Assembly as a member of the People's National Congress (PNC), filling a casual vacancy left by Bissoondai Beniprashad-Rayman. He served until the 1992 election (which he did not contest), and was known as an advocate for the interests of rice farmers and other agricultural workers.

A keen cricket enthusiast, Sankar was the inaugural president of the Essequibo Cricket Board, an affiliate of the Guyana Cricket Board. He sponsored local players and tournaments, and also established the Kayman Sankar Cricket Ground in Hampton Court, which often hosted the Essequibo cricket team and also several matches for the Guyanese national side. He was a noted philanthropist, and often helped poorer workers fund marriage ceremonies and funerals. Sankar died at his Hampton Court residence in February 2014, aged 87. He and his wife, Seraji (née Ramnauth, known as Mavis or Mae), had wed in Cornelia Ida in January 1945, when he was 17 and she was 13, in a coupling arranged by Seraji's aunt. The couple, who lived apart for the first two years of their marriage, had two daughters, Sita and Sattie, and a son, Beni, who played first-class cricket for Essequibo and later took over the running of KSG. Sankar was a devout Sanātanī Hindu throughout his life, and paid for several overseas swamis to visit Guyana.

See also
 Rice production in Guyana

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1926 births
2014 deaths
Businesspeople in agriculture
Guyanese businesspeople
Guyanese cricket administrators
Guyanese Hindus
Indo-Guyanese people
Guyanese philanthropists
People from Essequibo Islands-West Demerara
People's National Congress (Guyana) politicians
Members of the National Assembly (Guyana)
20th-century philanthropists

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Committee Programme & Annual Report for 2006; President's Letter on SANDF Deployment to DRC
Chairperson: Mr S Montsitsi (ANC)
Draft Committee Programme for first quarter of 2007.
Committee Annual Report 2006
Letter by the President on SANDF deployment to the DRC
Audio Recording of the Meeting
The Committee discussed its First Term Programme, its 2006 Annual Report and its Report on the letter from the President on deployment of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to the DRC. Certain amendments were proposed to the First Term Programme. However the Committee could not adopt those documents because they could not reach a quorum.
Committee First Term Programme
Ms D Seadimo (ANC) proposed that on 9 March the committee should include another topic, instead of only discussing and preparing for public hearings. She also proposed that the meeting of 16 March should be scheduled for another day and use that time for strategic planning.
The Chair reminded the Committee that Ms Seadimo's proposition could not be formally by the Committee, but was just a recommendation which the Committee would discuss at its next meeting.
He noted that the Committee was unable to adopt the Programme because it was not quorate.
Committee 2006 Annual Report
Ms P Daniels (ANC) noted that the Report indicated an expenditure of R3 315.36 on catering, and questioned whether that was the only Committee expenditure for 2006.
The Chair replied that the budget statement did not reflect the true expenditure because traveling expenses were not recorded. He asked the Committee Secretary to explain the budget report.
Mr J Ramrock (Committee Secretary) explained that Parliament announced last year that it did not have funds available for Committee travel expenses. That was the reason why it was not recorded in the Committee's Annual Report. He also added that during the course of the previous year Parliament suddenly announced that it did in fact have money, which the Committee used for its traveling on its oversight visits. Thus those oversight visit expenses did not form part of the Committee's initial budget allocation. Lastly, he informed the Committee that he had just been informed that the traveling expenses would be deducted from the Committee's budget surplus.
Ms Seadimo proposed that the surplus should be use to buy diaries or blazers for Members, as was done by other Portfolio Committees.
Mr Z Ntuli (ANC) disagreed with the inclusion of the NCACC (National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC) as an entity which falls under the oversight of the Committee.
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The Chair responded that the issues raised would be taken up with Parliament. He noted that the Committee was unable to adopt its Annual Report because it was not quorate.
Ms Seadimo complained that the Committee had not received the letter on 18 October 2006 as indicated in letter, but were in fact seeing it for the first time today. There was thus insufficient time for proper consideration of the letter. by Parliament.
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Remembering Ring
Books & the Arts
December 4, 2000 Issue
By Roger Kahn
The quiet grace of Ring Lardner Jr., who died the other week at 85, seemed at odds with these noisy, thumping times. I cannot imagine Ring playing Oprah or composing one of those terribly earnest essays, "writers on writing," that keep bubbling to the surface of the New York Times. He was rightly celebrated
Last week's issue featured an obituary written by Nation publisher Victor Navasky in the immediate aftermath of Lardner's death. We thought readers might appreciate this additional cultural perspective, both Hollywood and non-, from a colleague.
for personal and political courage but underestimated, it seems to me, as a protean writer who was incapable of composing an awkward sentence. It ran against Ring's nature to raise his voice. Lesser writers, who shouted, drew more acclaim, or anyway more attention.
The obituaries celebrated his two Academy Awards but made less of other achievements. Ring's novel,The Ecstasy of Owen Muir, begun in 1950 while he was serving his now-famous prison sentence for contempt of Congress, drew a transatlantic fan letter from Sean O'Casey. Ring felt sufficiently pleased to have the longhand note framed under glass, which he then slipped into a shirt drawer. He was not about advertisements for himself. In 1976 he published The Lardners: My Family Remembered. Garson Kanin commented, "In the American aristocracy of achievement, the Lardners are among the bluest of blue bloods. In Ring Lardner, Jr. they have found a chronicler worthy of his subject. The Lardners is a moving, comical, patriotic book."
The progenitor was, of course, Ring Lardner Sr., the great short-story writer, who sired four sons, each of whom wrote exceedingly well. James Lardner was killed during the Spanish Civil War; David died covering the siege of Aachen during World War II; a heart attack killed John in 1960, when he was 47. Add Ring's prison term to the necrology and you would not have what immediately looks to be the makings of a "moving, comical" book. But The Lardners was that and more because of Ring Jr.'s touch and slant and his overview of what E.E. Cummings called "this busy monster, manunkind."
From time to time, Ring published splendid essays. The one form he avoided was the short story. He wrote, "I did not want to undertake any enterprise that bore the risk of inviting comparison with my father or the appearance of trading on his reputation."
We became close in the days following the death of John Lardner, who was, quite simply, the best sports columnist I have read. I set about preparing a collection, The World of John Lardner, and Ring, my volunteer collaborator, found an unfinished serio-humorous "History of Drinking in America." He organized random pages with great skill. Reading them I learned that the favorite drink of the Continentals, shivering at Valley Forge, was a Pennsylvania rye called Old Monongahela. George Washington called it "stinking stuff." At headquarters the general sipped Madeira wine.
A year or so later, with the blacklist still raging, I picked up Ring for lunch at the Chateau Marmont, an unusual apartment hotel on Sunset Boulevard near Hollywood. Outside the building, a fifty-foot statue of a cowgirl, clad in boots and a bikini, rotated on the ball of one foot, advertising a Las Vegas hotel. I asked the room clerk for Mr. Robert Leonard. Ring was writing some forgotten movie, but could not then work under his own name. "Robert Leonard" matched the initials on his briefcase.
This was a pleasant November day, but the blinds above Ring's portable typewriter were drawn. When I asked why, he opened them. His desk sat facing the bikinied cowgirl, bust-high. Every eighteen seconds those giant breasts came spinning round. "Makes it hard to work," Ring said and closed the blinds.
The Saturday Evening Post was reinventing itself during the 1960s, on the way to dying quite a glorious death, and with my weighty title there, editor at large, I urged Clay Blair, who ran things, to solicit a piece from Ring about the blacklist. Ring responded with a touching, sometimes very funny story that he called "The Great American Brain Robbery." He explained, "With all these pseudonyms, I work as much as ever. But the producers now pay me about a tenth of what they did when I was allowed to write under my own name."
Clay Blair lived far right of center, but Ring's story conquered him, and he said, "Marvelous. Just one thing. He doesn't say whether he was a member of the Communist Party. Ask him to put that in the story."
"I won't do that, Clay."
"He chose jail, rather than answer that question."
"Then, if he still won't, will he tell us why he won't?"
Ring composed a powerful passage.
The impulse to resist assaults on freedom of thought has motivated witnesses who could have answered no to the Communist question as well as many, like myself, whose factual response would have been yes. I was at that time a member of the Communist party, in whose ranks I found some of the most thoughtful, witty and generally stimulating men and women in Hollywood, I also encountered a number of bores and unstable characters…. My political activity had already begun to dwindle at the time [Congressman J. Parnell] Thomas popped the question, and his only effect on my affiliation was to prolong it until the case was finally lost. At that point I could and did terminate my membership without confusing the act, in my own or anyone else's head, with the quite distinct struggle for the right to embrace any belief or set of beliefs to which my mind and conscience directed me.
These words drove a silver stake into the black heart of the blacklist.
Ring won his first Oscar for Woman of the Year in 1942, and when he won his second, for M*A*S*H in 1970, numbers of his friends responded with cheering and tears of joy. The ceremony took place early in 1971, and Ring accepted the statuette with a brief speech. "At long last a pattern has been established in my life. At the end of every twenty-eight years I get one of these. So I will see you all again in 1999."
Indeed. Early in the 1990s I lobbied a producer who had bought film rights to my book The Boys of Summer, to engage Ring for the screenplay. Ring, close to 80, worked tirelessly. A screenplay is a fictive work, and Ring moved a few days and episodes about for dramatic purposes. His scenario ended with the Brooklyn Dodgers winning the 1955 World Series from the Yankees and my account of that ballgame landing my byline on the front page of the New York Herald Tribune. The sports editor is congratulating me on a coherent piece when the telephone rings: My father has fallen dead on a street in Brooklyn; I am to proceed to Kings County Hospital and identify his body.
As I, or the character bearing my name, move toward the morgue, I bump into two beer-drunk Dodgers fans. One says, "What's the matter with him?" The other says, "He's sober. That's the matter with him." The body is there. It is my father's body. Beer drunks behind us, my mother and I embrace. Fin.
I can only begin to suggest all that Ring's scene implies. I would start with the point that winning the World Series is not the most important thing on earth, or even in Brooklyn. I was always careful not to embarrass Ring with praise, but here I blurted out, "This is the best bleeping screenplay I've ever read, Ringgold. Oscar III may come true in '99."
"Curious," Ring said. "I seem to have had the same thought myself."
The blacklisting bounders were now dead, but a new generation of Hollywood hounds refused to shoot Ring Lardner's scenario. The grounds: "a father-son angle" was not commercial. "It worked in Hamlet," Ring said, but to unhearing ears. And then we were talking about Ring writing a screenplay for a book I published in 1999 about Jack Dempsey and the Roaring Twenties. "Have to cut it back a bit," Ring said. "Following your text would give us the first billion-dollar picture."
Years ago, the critic Clifton Fadiman wrote that Ring Lardner Sr. was an unconscious artist and that his power proceeded from his hatred of the characters he created. Ring told me: "If my father hated anyone or anything, it was a critic like Fadiman. Unconscious artist? My father knew perfectly well how good he was and–better than anyone else–how hard it was to be that good."
Ring Jr. knew the very same thing about himself. Or so I believe. Yeats writes, "The intellect of man is forced to choose/perfection of the life, or of the work." As well as anyone in our time, my suddenly late friend Ring Lardner came pretty damn close to achieving perfection in both.
Roger Kahn Roger Kahn is the author of The Boys of Summer (HarperCollins). His most recent work, The Head Game: Baseball Seen From the Pitcher's Mound, has been published by Harcourt.