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Armenians in China organize Genocide centennial events
April 27, 2015 by administrator
The Armenian Community of China organized a landmark series of cultural and artistic events in cities across China, to mark the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide. These events, held in Beijing, Nanjing and Shanghai during the weekend of April 24-25, shared the Armenian history, art and culture with the Chinese people on a historic occasion.
The highlight of the weekend was the main gathering in Nanjing,which was chosen in solidarity with China, as it was in Nanjing that Japanese troops massacred hundreds of thousands of Chinese during the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937. As with the Armenian Genocide, it is an event that still goes unrecognized by its perpetrators.
In the Exhibition Hall of the Art Institute of Nanjing, celebrated Armenian painter Sevada Grigoryan presented his collection entitled "Awakening." The opening ceremony started with the sounds of Duduk, Vahe Der-Hovakimian performed Dle Yaman, which is considered to be the symbol of the Armenian Genocide In parallel, Michael Hayrapetyan, a talented pianist and associate professor at the Moscow University of Art and Culture, performed at the Concert Hall of the Nanjing Institute of Art. His musical piece, "The Secrets of Armenia," was inspired by the work of classical Armenian composers.
"It is a big honor to share our musical history with our Chinese friends," said Hayrapetyan, who resides in China and regularly performs for Chinese audiences.
The musical performance was followed by an evening of remembrance, during which Chinese and Armenian guests shared their family histories. The documentary "The River Ran Red" by Mickayel Hakobian, which was recently translated into Chinese for the first time, was shown to the attendees.
"It was a very touching evening and reinforced the solidarity between the Armenian and Chinese," said Lee Yen, a resident of Nanjing.
One day before, on April 24 an Armenian cultural evening, dedicated to the remembrance of the Armenian Genocide, was held in the prestigious Bund area of Shanghai. An audience of both Chinese and Armenian attendees enjoyed a performance of classical music and Armenian dance, as well as an art exhibition of works by Chinese students inspired by the events of the Armenian Genocide.
"Our goal was to share with our Chinese friends our rich artistic history, while highlighting the common threads of our two ancient cultures," said Astghik Poghosyan, an accomplished Armenian violinist. Poghosyan has studied in China for five years and regularly performs on Chinese television. The evening concluded with a candle lighting ceremony in remembrance of the 1.5 million Armenians who were systematically massacred by the Ottoman Turks in 1915.
That same night the Embassy of the Republic of Armenia in Beijing hosted renowned documentary filmmaker Ruben Giney, a resident of China since 2004. Giney presented his latest award-winning documentary, entitled "Andin: Armenian Journey Chronicles." The film recounts the long history of Armenians in China and the historical links between the two civilizations.
"China has welcomed Armenians for hundreds of years," said Henri Arslanian, President of the Armenian community of China. "There are many similarities between our nations and cultures. We wanted to share a taste of Armenian culture, as a way to thank our Chinese friends for welcoming us to their country."
The Armenian Community of China, also known as ChinaHay, has been growing tremendously in recent years. Its members mainly live in the cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong.
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Greece: One Port, Two Worlds: China Seeks Dominance in Athens Harbor
April 9, 2015 by administrator
By Alexander Smoltczyk
A Chinese executive with shipping company Cosco has helped transform part of Athen's Port of Piraeus into a success story. The multinational firm now has a controversial plan to acquire the whole facility and put it on track to join the ranks of Hamburg and Rotterdam. report spiegel
One could argue that China's long path to Piraeus, Greece, began on April 27, 1961. It's the day Mao Zedong founded the communist state's first freight company, the China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO). The Great Leap Forward, Mao's plan for industrialization, had proven to be a disaster at the time, leaving millions dead or starving. With Cosco, China had its eyes on overseas markets.
Almost 54 years later, the company is steering toward a major prize in Greece. After lengthy wavering, the Greek government– comprised of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, his far-left Syriza party and the right-wing populist Independent Greeks — has announced it will be selling the majority of its share in Athens' Piraeus Port Authority. So far, Cosco is the most promising bidder.
Throughout, Fu Cheng Qui, or "Captain Fu," as the chief executive of Cosco's Piraeus subsidiary is called by those who know him, will be closely monitoring the bidding process. Fu has already been in Piraeus for a long time with the company, and he is determined to stay. He has placed the bid on behalf of his company and has little doubt it will be accepted.
In his position, 65-year-old Fu is the guardian of China's gateway to Europe. He may soon control the container piers, cruise-ship terminals and ferry quays of Greece's biggest port.
"The government has changed four times since I have been in Greece," Fu says. "They all always talk a lot. But what counts? Actions count. Actions! Only actions!"
On the way to the cargo port, a small sign indicates a fork in the road — with one route leading to OLP and the other to PCT. Each to a different world. Pier I belongs to the primarily Greek state-owned OLP port authority. These days, though, most trucks take the other route, to PCT, to pier II and pier III, which is run by Piraeus Container Terminal, a subsidiary of Cosco.
"Just look," Fu says as he steps up to the window. Then the show begins. On Pier II, 11 container gantry cranes are in constant, powerful movement. All are new and made in China. Trucks move across the ground at an interval of only minutes.
Two Worlds Side by Side
A few hundred meters away, on Pier I, the dock is vacant, no ship has arrived.
So far, the Greeks and the Chinese have shared processing responsibilities for the containers of MSC, the large shipping company. But business has collapsed. Since MSC and Maersk, the two market leaders, began their 2M Alliance in January, all of the company's containers are loaded by Cosco on Pier II. "The largest ships happen to be very large," says Fu. "And we are simply twice as fast. We can now complete 36 container movements per hour, and time is money. Look, Pier I is almost empty. That's very sad."
In 2008, Cosco took over the license to operate Pier II for 30 years at a cost of €490 million ($532 million). They were later given another five years, as well as permission to build a third terminal.
Former Greek Shipping Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis claimed that the partial privatization of the Athens port had "turned out to be one of the most important and profitable investments of the past few years."
In the span of four years, Cosco has quadrupled container traffic, to just under 3 million units a year. If all goes well, annual capacity will be expanded to 6.2 million containers in 2016. Together with Pier I, that would put it in the same league as Europe's largest ports in Hamburg, Antwerp and Rotterdam.
The former state-owned terminal — where harbor unions formerly ruled and ancient diesel-powered pallet trucks once drove around — has been turned into a highly profitable business.
Piraeus has become the story of two worlds — that of the turbo capitalism of the successors to Mao Zedong on the one side, and a market economy that can move as slowly as a Socialist one on the other. Some people see the port as a symbol of the country's future. It's an image that is a horrific one for many, including a large portion of Syriza voters.
'Cosco Go Home'
Fu has decorated his office, which is located high above the piers, in the spirit of friendship between the people. There are olive branches and peonies, a terracotta warrior and a Poseidon statue as well as models of the Parthenon and the Imperial Palace, all placed harmoniously, side by side. "We are two old cultures," he says. "We have a good relationship with Pier I. We aren't enemies. I have a ship master's certificate, and I know that if a ship sails too fast, its mast breaks."
When Fu wanted to take over Pier II in October 2009, he was welcomed to Athens by a banner emblazoned with the words "Cosco Go Home!" The Dockworkers' Union claimed that the port was going to be taken away from the Greek people and went on a six-week strike. Some of the protesters from the time are now part of the government.
Fu was himself once a member of the Red Guard. During the Cultural Revolution, back in the 1960s, he "of course" brandished the Little Red Book: "Long live Chairman Mao! Long, long live." He can still recite it quite well.
The manager is no stranger to these kinds of protests. "You know, I worked for 15 years in Naples, and know what strikes are. I am a Socialist," says Fu. Does he find that word funny now? No, he says, "I can understand the workers completely. But unfortunately the workers didn't understand us at first."
Fu claims everybody thought he would bring in his own longshoremen, pilots and fitters from China. "I told them, no, this is your company. We are only coming with seven managers." All construction contracts went to Greek companies, he says. "In five years, Cosco hasn't sent a single euro back to China. Everything is being invested! New loading bridges, electric jacking systems!"
At the time, Cosco had bid far higher than market value. Every year, the company transfers approximately €30 million to the Greeks. The Athenian port authority earns more from the concession fee than from its own freight business. With the completion of the 19-meter-deep (62-foot-deep) deep-water port at Pier III, and the modernization of the crane system, Cosco will have invested half a billion euros.
China's Foothold in Europe
But China is thinking far into the future. Piraeus is the closest port in the northern Mediterranean to the Suez Canal. From here, it can conquer the EU domestic market. Recently, three freight trains began leaving the port each week. "Those are peanuts, of course," Fu says. "But it's only the beginning."
When Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang visited the port in June, Piraeus was described as China's gateway to Europe: China's exports could reach Germany, Hungary and Austria "between seven and 11 days" faster, he said. Huawei, the electronics conglomerate, has already opened a logistics center right at the port.
Fu says it wouldn't be a major disaster for the company if Greece were to leave the euro zone. "We are part of the CKYHE shipping alliance," he explains. "We have holdings in ports in Genoa and Port Said, inside and outside of the euro zone." A Grexit would largely pose an accounting problem — at least initially.
Currently, around 1,200 Greeks work for Cosco. The company doesn't need to pay union wages, there is no corporate training and the crane-operations staff has been reduced.
Jobs are now awarded by an agency instead of the unions. A port worker earns about €1,200 per month, which is above average for Greece, but only one-third of what wages used to me.
When asked about the unions, Fu describes them as being "superfluous!" "Every employee is like the member of a family," he says. "Everybody works with respect for the other. We listen to what our employees say and react to it. The company is like a family. We are all brothers. Everybody is happy."
That's nice. But the firings, the labor disputes, the claims that employees don't even have the time to use the bathroom? "Nonsense," Fu says, before returning to the issue of principles.
"The union leaders promise their members more money for less work," he says. "How is that supposed to work? If you want a higher salary you first need to work hard. Not lie on the beach and drink beer. Learn from the Germans! Work hard, never be lazy and always work seriously. Hard work — happy life."
Political Resistance
That wasn't exactly Syriza's campaign platform. The week before last, Deputy Greek Prime Minister Giannis Dragasakis traveled to China and declared that his government still wants to privatize the majority of the Piraeus Port Authority. The bidding process could be complete within weeks, he said.
But a short while later, Deputy Shipping Minister Theodoros Dritsas contradicted him. Strategically important property of the state may not be privatized, he said.
"It is difficult to get a clear image. It is all — political," Fu says, as if spitting out the word. "We can just wait and drink tea. Or coffee. In any case, I want to have this share," he says. "In the spirit of friendship between our two countries."
The market value of the Piraeus Port Authority currently stands at about €270 million. The passenger business and the car ferries to the Greek islands are especially lucrative. With its 18 million passengers, Piraeus is the biggest passenger port in Europe. If it is privatized, people are expecting a sale price significantly higher than its market value. Tsipras' Syriza party itself cited a figure of €500 million to its creditors.
Aside from Cosco, which is considered the front runner, port operators from Denmark, the Philippines, the United States and the United Arab Emirates have expressed interest. If Cosco prevails, Piraeus would then be completely in Chinese hands.
Of course, back in 2008, Alexis Tsipras stood behind the protesting dock workers, with their "Cosco Go Home" message. As prime minister, though, he has to do everything he can to make Fu feel at home.
It's one of the many dilemmas faced by Tsipras. He would like to make himself less dependent on the European Union by bringing China into Greece as an investor. But the Chinese in no way share the leftist and radical views of the Syriza government. Instead they follow Captain Fu's dictum of "Hard work — happy life." The more China invests, it seems, the more likely it will become that Greece's social gains start to crumble.
A New Monopoly
A few hundred meters from Fu's new world is the office of the Union of Dockworkers, headed by Nick Georgiou. He looks like a man who's carried a lot of sacks, fought lots of battles and smoked too many cigarettes. He's also a man who wouldn't describe the conditions at Pier II as being one big happy family.
Georgiou speaks of work accidents that have been covered up, a lack of emergency vehicles, neo-Nazi members of the Golden Dawn making themselves at home on the Chinese side of the pier. But he blames the troika as being the true culprits. "The EU has wanted to push through the liberalization with the port workers," he says. "Cosco is merely the means to an end." Since the Chinese began running the port, the wages in the Greek-run part have gone down as well.
For his part, Georgiou doesn't want to accept that his company, the Piraeus Port Authority, derived one-third of its income over the past year from rental fees paid by Cosco. He takes a long drag of his cigarette, before adding, "Piraeus was partly privatized back then in order to break up a monopoly. Now the rest is also supposed to be sold. Then we'll have a monopoly again, but a Chinese one."
Just offshore, you can see the southern tip of the Salamina Island in the haze. Fu has announced that he wants to have a repair yard built there, along several kilometers of coastline.
The ancient Greek name of the island is Salamis. This is where the biggest naval battle in Antiquity was fought between Greeks and Persians — in what would become a central event in the history of European civilization and for the power relations between the West and the East.
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Armenia President holds talks in China
President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, who is on a state visit to China, on Wednesday met with President Xi Jinping.
At the end of the meeting, and as a result of the talks, the two presidents signed a joint declaration on further development and deepening of Armenia-China friendly relations of cooperation.
The parties also signed more than a dozen documents with respect to the development and strengthening of bilateral cooperation between the two countries in several domains.
Prior to his talk with Xi Jinping, however, President Sargsyan was hosted by the Beijing No.2 High School. This learning institution is considered one of the largest and technically best-equipped schools in the Chinese capital city, and it also engaged in international cooperation projects, including student exchange programs with a number of countries.
The Armenian President toured the learning facility and, subsequently, signed the school guestbook.
"I am confident that our two peoples, which have a millennia-old history, will develop and strengthen their ties and cooperation in a climate of friendship and peace," Serzh Sargsyan specifically wrote in the guestbook.
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China arrests 10 Turks for supplying fake passports to ethnic Uighurs Report
January 14, 2015 by administrator
Heavily armed Chinese paramilitary policemen march in Urumqi. (Photo: AP, Ng Han Guan)
Police in Shanghai have arrested 10 Turkish nationals suspected of supplying fake passports to ethnic Uighurs from China's far-western region of Xinjiang who were described as "terror suspects" by state media.
Hundreds of people have been killed in resource-rich Xinjiang, strategically located on the borders of central Asia, in violence in the past two years between the Muslim Uighur people who call the region home and ethnic majority Han Chinese.
Another 11 people, including nine Xinjiang "terror suspects", were also detained in November while trying to leave China after paying 60,000 yuan ($9,700) for altered Turkish passports, the state-run Global Times newspaper reported.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei did not elaborate on the case but told a news conference on Wednesday the report was "extremely accurate".
"Fighting illegal immigration is a common desire of the international community and is the Chinese government's consistent position as well as what (the government) advocates. We are willing to cooperate closely with the international community of this issue," he said.
The Turkish embassy in Beijing did not respond to requests for information about the case.
The paper said "terrorism-related audio and video materials were found among the suspects and that some had been bound for Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan."
In October, Malaysian authorities detained 155 Uighurs in Kuala Lumpur who were carrying Turkish passports suspected to be fake.
Separately, authorities in Xinjiang announced that people buying fireworks for Chinese New Year would have to register using their ID cards, the China Daily reported late on Tuesday.
The move was meant to prevent "terrorists" from obtaining raw materials to make explosives, it quoted Li Jianghui, an official with Xinjiang's work safety department, as saying.
Fireworks shops must record the variety and number of products bought by each customer, he said.
China blames "Islamist militants" from Xinjiang for attacks elsewhere in China, including Beijing. Exiled Uighur groups and human rights activists say the government's repressive policies in Xinjiang, including controls on Islam, have provoked unrest.
A group of "mobsters" on Monday tried to set off an explosive device in a business district of Xinjiang, prompting police to shoot dead six of them, local authorities said.
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China, Armenian Historical ritual in Guangzhou
China Armenian community, after long years for the first time on December 14 in Guangzhou, came together for a ceremony at the Armenian Church.
Guangzhou, Shanghai, Nanjing, Hong Kong and dozens of Armenians coming from other cities, was held in observance of the Bishops Haygaz Najaryan directed.
Australia and New Zealand Armenian Church Bishop, India and the entire Far East Armenian Pope Envoy Archbishop Najary that, after the last decades over the last rites performed by the Armenian community in China, China and the happiness of making ritual met the Armenians serves as the home of Hong Kong heard expressed.
At the beginning of the 19th century until the middle of the 20th century, Harbin, in cities such as Shanghai and Hong Kong, had a small but lively Armenian community. During this period, there was an Armenian church in Harbin and Shanghai, China was the center of the Armenian community. The majority of Armenians in China, in 1950, leaving the country moved to America or the Soviet Armenia.
According to Jack & Julia Maxima Hong Kong figures of the Armenian Center, today there are about 500 Armenians in China and Hong Kong.
Armenian victims of the Communist revolution in China
Armenian community in China, though very small, Armenians have a long history in this country. The first Armenians who live in China, Tsarist East China Railway began construction in 1898 by a few people in Russia was selected to run the building. The first settlements while others were Harbin.
Armenian Relief Association in 1910, established the Armenian Shanghai Club, a center was created for the Armenian immigrants in the region. Central, the invention of the Armenian community in time, wedding, turned into a social hut where activities such as baptism. In 1923, 400 Armenians living in the city of Harbin in northern China, and founded the first Armenian church in the region. Many Armenians living in the country, after the Chinese People's Revolution in 1949, he left here and Shanghai Armenian Club was transformed into private ownership. The Armenian church in Harbin, was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution that Mao Zedong launched in the 1960s.
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China slams Turkey for offer to shelter Uighurs
BEIJING – Reuters
A motorcyclist and child ride against wind and snow in Balikun, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. Turkey has offered to shelter around 200 Uighurs found in a human-smuggling camp in Thailand, irking the Chinese government. REUTERS Photo
China has lashed out at Turkey for offering shelter to roughly 200 Uighurs from the western Chinese region of Xinjiang who were rescued from a human-smuggling camp in Thailand.
Thai police found the group in March and Chinese officials identified "dozens" of them as Uighurs, a Muslim people from Xinjiang who speak a Turkic language. Many Uighurs chafe at government curbs on their culture and religion.
Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency on Nov. 26 reported a request by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu for Thailand to send the Uighurs there, a move that angered China, which views their move to Thailand as "illegal immigration."
Turkey asked 'not to meddle'
Asked for a response on Turkey's offer, China's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the case was a matter for China and Thailand and "the relevant country" should stop interfering.
"We urge the relevant country to immediately stop meddling in placement work for the relevant case, be cautious with words and actions and not send out mistaken signals that connive in, and even support, illegal immigration activities," Hua said in a faxed statement to Reuters.
"Illegal immigration activities disrupt the normal orderly flow of people internationally, harm the interests of the international community, and can harm security of the relevant countries and regions," Hua added.
Small numbers of Uighurs trickling out of China to Southeast Asia are believed to go overland into Laos or Myanmar, before going to Thailand and elsewhere.
Turkey is home to thousands of Uighurs who have fled Xinjiang since the Chinese Communists took over the region in 1949. It has projected itself as a stable Muslim democracy, a key player at a time of turmoil and unrest in the Middle East.
"I brought the issue to the notice of the Thai foreign minister in New York and the Chinese foreign minister in Beijing as well, and told them Turkey wants to shelter those Uighurs," Anadolu Agency cited Foreign Minister Çavuşoğlu as saying.
In the past two years, hundreds of people have been killed in unrest in Xinjiang, prompting a crackdown by authorities.
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7 medals for Armenia at the 2nd Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing (China)
A great performance for Armenia who won 7 medals (2 gold, 2 silver and 3 bronze) at the second Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing (China), the closing ceremonies were held on
August 28. The two gold medals were the work of Armenian weightlifters Hagop Mkrdtchian (77 kg) and Simon Martirosyan (85 kg) who were Olympic champions Youth. Hratchya Babayan (10m rifle shooting) and the wrestler Zaven Mikaelian (58 kg Greco-Roman wrestling) were runners-up. Nareg Manassian (boxing, 81 kg), Sarkis Hovsepian (76 kg freestyle) and Vaghinag Matevossian (76 kg freestyle) captured bronze medals.
Krikor Amirzayan
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Russia, China agree currency swaps to cut dependence on U.S. dollar
The Russian and Chinese central banks have agreed a draft currency swap agreement, which will allow them to increase trade in domestic currencies and cut the dependence on the U.S. dollar in bilateral payments, RT reported.
"The draft document between the Central Bank of Russia and the People's Bank of China on national currency swaps has been agreed by the parties," and is at the stage of formal approval procedures, ITAR-TASS quotes the Russian regulator's office.
The Russian Central Bank is not giving precise details on the size of the currency swaps, nor when it will be launched. It says this will depend on demand.
According to the bank, the agreement will serve as an additional instrument for ensuring international financial stability. Also, it will offer the possibility to obtain liquidity in critical situations.
"The agreement will stimulate further development of direct trade in yuan and rubles on the domestic foreign exchange markets of Russia and China," the Russian regulator said.
Currently, over 75 percent of payments in Russia-China trade settlements are made in U.S. dollars, according to Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper.
In early July, the Central Bank's chairwoman Elvira Nabiullina said Moscow and Beijing were close to reaching an agreement on conducting swap operations in national currencies to boost trade. The deal was later discussed during her trip to China.
President Vladimir Putin, during his visit to Shanghai in May, said cooperation between Russian and Chinese banks was growing, and the two sides were set to continue developing the financial infrastructure.
"Work is underway to increase the amount of mutual payments in national currencies, and we intend to consider new financial instruments," Putin said after talks with President Xi Jinping.
Later on, during his meeting with leading international news agencies on the sidelines of the St Petersburg's economic forum, Putin said that Russia and China had made "the first modest steps" in using national currencies in international settlements. He added that the two countries were going to continue exploring opportunities for working together.
A currency swap is widely used and allows simultaneously exchanging a specific amount of one currency for another currency with two different settlement dates.
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China, Iran and Russia: Restructuring the global order
Powerful countries are alarmed by the threats against Russia as they see themselves as potential future targets.
By: Seyed Mohammad Marandi Al Jazeera,
At the Fourth Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) that opens May 20 in Shanghai, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will meet with both Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Among other things, the summit will underscore how rising non-Western powers are playing ever more prominent roles on the global stage. However, Western elites remain stuck in a time warp, wherein the United States and its European partners are the imperial masters of all they survey.
In this regard, it is an interesting coincidence how mainstream Western media outlets consistently produce narratives that are almost indistinguishable from official government statements regarding countries and leaders with dissimilar worldviews from their Western counterparts. For instance, we repeatedly hear about the democratically elected "dictators" in Venezuela, yet we are assured that friendly dictators are "moderate reformers".
Another fascinating coincidence is that Western human rights organisations pursue initiatives and policies closely aligned with those of their own governments. When the US accused the Syrian government of using chemical weapons against its own people – notwithstanding noteworthy evidence to the contrary and despite the fact that it was fine as far as Washington was concerned when former Iraqi president Saddam Hossein attacked Iran with chemical weapons – some human rights advocates stood shoulder to shoulder with President Barack Obama in advocating "shock and awe" in Damascus for humanitarian purposes.
Contrary to what Saudi Princess Basmah Bint Saud states, Amnesty International's soft spot for Saudi Arabia may be linked to more than just oil – for this renowned organisation is a true believer in promoting human rights through liberal imperialism. Until recently, Amnesty USA was led by a former senior US government official who is a leading "humanitarian interventionist".
On the side-lines of the 2012 NATO summit in Chicago, Amnesty International campaigned for NATO's continued occupation of Afghanistan under the rubric, "keep the progress going"; Amnesty's shadow summit for Afghan women was graced with the presence of none other than former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright known for commenting that over half million dead Iraqi children as a result of sanctions "was worth it".
Generous doses of hypocrisy
It is refreshing to see such consensus at all levels of public discourse in the "Free World". It seems that there is general agreement among European and North American elites that Western objectives are well-intentioned, even if highly generous doses of hypocrisy are administered on the way. Hence, the British foreign secretary, speaking on behalf of the so called Friends of Syria, just days ago welcomed "the fact that preparations for the presidential elections on May 25 are proceeding well" in violence-stricken Ukraine where roughly half the country rejects the Kiev-based coup regime.
Then, literally a minute later (and with a straight face), he condemned the "Assad regime's unilateral plan to hold illegitimate presidential elections on June 3. We say in our communique that this mocks the innocent lives lost in the conflict". Apparently there has been no significant loss of innocent life as a result of illegal cross border support for extremists and al-Qaeda affiliates in Syria over the last three years.
It is also remarkable that any perceived rival to Western power can almost immediately be compared to Adolf Hitler without raising many eyebrows. Benjamin Netanyahu and other Zionist advocates can repeatedly threaten the Iranian people with military strikes, yet simultaneously promote the false logic that the Islamic Republic wishes to create a holocaust by allegedly denying the Holocaust (whatever that means).
In recent weeks, we have once again returned to 1939 as the bizarre Hitler analogy is now being used to describe Putin. The irony here is that the right wing neo-Nazi groups within the pro-Western Kiev regime consider themselves as the Russian president's greatest foes. Indeed, for some, al-Nusra Front, Islamic Front in Syria or Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant analogy would be somewhat more appropriate to describe the Ukrainian political party, Right Sector.
Former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser was another one of many Hitlers in Western political discourse. When in 1956, he nationalised the Suez Canal, then British Prime Minister Anthony Eden viewed his actions as an insult to the British Empire. However, the "Suez moment" was a classic case of overreach for a rapidly declining empire that politicians in the US today should ponder.
Winner-take-all worldview
Their winner-take-all worldview, which has already resulted in widespread inequality and relative economic decline in the US, has also, since 2001, conditioned a series of "moments" whereby Washington's arrogant zero-sum mentality has produced one strategic failure after another.
Obama's pivot to Asia is viewed with scepticism, as the US already has more than it can handle in Ukraine, west Asia and North Africa. The real Asia pivot is driven by rapidly rising economies, especially China, as countries with major oil and gas reserves such as Russia, Iran and Iraq are already turning eastward.
The US government is caught in a web of self-deception if it believes that its declining global influence has gone unnoticed among the world's rising powers. Obama's pivot to Asia is viewed with scepticism, as the US already has more than it can handle in Ukraine, west Asia and North Africa. The real Asia pivot is driven by rapidly rising economies, especially China, as countries with major oil and gas reserves such as Russia, Iran and Iraq are already turning eastward.
In a 2012 report that some consider to be too conservative in its prognostications, the US multinational investment banking firm Goldman Sachs projects that by 2050 the US will be the only Western power among the top five global economies, with an economy much smaller than China's. In addition, the World Bank predicts that the US dollar will lose its current global dominance in roughly a decade.
Ironically, instead of attempting to build new bridges and forging new partnerships to stall their declining global status as the balance of power shifts away from Europe and North America, Western governments unwisely antagonise key powers. Spying on the Brazilian president does not help, denying a visa to the next Indian prime minister can spell trouble ahead, giving strong warnings to China can raise tensions – but threatening Russia with economic warfare may prove to be a game changer.
Of course, the US and its allies have already engaged in inhuman economic warfare against ordinary citizens of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The US has targeted the Iranian banking sector as well as the central bank and has threatened Iran's trading partners with punitive sanctions if they do not abide by US laws.
Many countries have protested against these US imperial dictates, but have so far largely abided by US demands in order to avoid its aggressive behaviour. However, with threats now being made against the Russian Federation, alarm bells have begun ringing, as powerful countries see themselves as potential future targets. Economic warfare against another major power will force emerging economic powerhouses to seriously think about the future of global financial and communications systems as well as the immediate need to enhance cooperation and to restructure the global political and economic order.
During the CICA Summit in Shanghai, Presidents Xi Jinping, Rouhani and Putin definitely have a lot to talk about.
Seyed Mohammad Marandi is professor of North American Studies and dean of the Faculty of World Studies at the University of Tehran.
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Russia-China ties at highest level in history – Putin
RT Russia-China cooperation has reached its highest level ever, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said in an interview with Chinese media on the eve of his visit to Shanghai, where a record package of documents is expected to be signed by the two nations.
Below is the full transcript of the Russian president's interview with Chinese Central Television, Xinhua news agency, China News Service, The People's Daily, China Radio International, and Phoenix Television.
Question: What are your expectations concerning the upcoming visit to China? What results do you expect from the Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia in Shanghai?
Vladimir Putin: I am always happy to visit hospitable China. It is a pleasure to see how our neighbour is transforming right before our eyes. Shanghai is a vivid illustration of this.
Establishing closer ties with the People's Republic of China – our trusted friend – is Russia's unconditional foreign policy priority.
Now Russia-China cooperation is advancing to a new stage of comprehensive partnership and strategic interaction. It would not be wrong to say that it has reached the highest level in all its centuries-long history.
I am looking forward to a new meeting with President of China Xi Jinping, with whom I have good working and personal relations. We will discuss how previous agreements are being implemented and outline new objectives for the future. I am sure that the upcoming talks will give a powerful impetus to further strengthening of bilateral cooperation in all areas and deeper coordination in the international arena. The summit's results and future plans will be reflected in the Joint Statement by the Heads of State and a strong package of documents expected to be signed during the visit.
Russia and China have actively advocated establishing a new security and sustainable development architecture in the Asia-Pacific. It should be based on the principles of equality, respect for international law, indivisibility of security, non-use of force or threat of force. Today this task is becoming increasingly important. The forthcoming Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) serves to contribute to addressing this task.
CICA is a well-established cooperation mechanism. It has been successfully working in such spheres as security, new challenges and threats, economy, environmental protection and humanitarian issues, all of which are important for the region.
Russia has taken an active part in CICA's activities. In mid-April 2014, members of the Conference approved the Statute of the CICA Business Council sponsored by Russia. I am confident that the launch of the Council will enhance practical ties between business communities of the Asian countries.
At the upcoming summit, the Secretariats of CICA and SCO are expected to sign a Memorandum of Understanding. That would serve as another step towards shaping a framework of partnerships between this region's organisations and forums.
Q: China is consistently making progress towards the "Chinese dream", i.e. a great national rebirth. Russia has also set a goal of restoring a powerful state. How, in your opinion, could our countries interact and help each other in fulfilling these tasks? What areas can be prioritised in this regard?
VP: Promotion of friendly and good-neighbourly partnership relations is fully consistent with the interests of both Russia and China. We do not have any political issues left which could impede the enhancement of our comprehensive cooperation.
Through joint efforts, we have established a truly exemplary collaboration, which should become a model for major world powers.
It is based on respect for the fundamental interests of each other and efficient work for the benefit of the peoples of our two countries.
Russia and China successfully cooperate in the international arena and closely coordinate their steps to address international challenges and crises. Our positions on the main global and regional issues are similar or even identical.
It is encouraging that both sides are willing to further deepen their cooperation. Both Moscow and Beijing are well aware that our countries have not exhausted their potentials. We have a way to go. The priority areas of collaboration at the current stage include the expansion of economic ties and cooperation in science and high-technology sector. Such pooling of capacities is very helpful in fulfilling the tasks of domestic development of our countries.
Q: Cooperation between China and Russia has been steadily increasing, but uncertainties in global economy persist. The emerging markets are faced with new challenges and slowdown of economic growth. How can our two countries help each other to counter these challenges? How can we ensure steady increase of mutual trade and reciprocal investments?
VP: In the context of turbulent global economy, the strengthening of mutually beneficial trade and economic ties, as well as the increase of investment flows between Russia and China are of paramount importance. This is not just a crucial element of socioeconomic development of our countries, but a contribution to the efforts aimed at stabilising the entire global market.
Today, Russia firmly places China at the top of its foreign trade partners.
In 2013, the volume of bilateral trade was close to $90 billion, which is far from being the limit. We will try to increase trade turnover to $100 billion by 2015 and up to $200 billion by 2020.
Our countries successfully cooperate in the energy sector. We steadily move towards the establishment of a strategic energy alliance. A large‑scale project worth over $60 billion is underway to supply China with crude oil via the Skovorodino-Mohe pipeline.
The arrangements on export of Russian natural gas to China have been nearly finalised. Their implementation will help Russia to diversify pipeline routes for natural gas supply, and our Chinese partners to alleviate the concerns related to energy deficit and environmental security through the use of "clean" fuel.
At the same time, we are working actively to reduce dependence of bilateral trade on external market conditions. Therefore, in order to develop trade and economic cooperation we pay particular attention to the breakthrough areas such as higher energy efficiency, environmental protection, production of drugs and medical equipment, developing new information technologies, as well as nuclear energy and outer space.
We implement a list of joint projects in 40 priority areas with total investments of about $20 billion.
These areas include civil aircraft industry. An agreement has been reached on joint design of a wide-body long-range aircraft. In the future we will develop a heavy helicopter. I am sure that our companies can manufacture and supply competitive products to the world markets.
We also intend to actively develop investment cooperation, the scope of which obviously does not meet real capacities and needs of our countries yet. We have examples of successful projects. I would like to note the participation of Chinese capital in the reconstruction of an airport in the Kaluga Region and building of plants for production of automotive parts and construction materials in that Russian constituent entity.
To our mind, there are many other promising areas for investments. We can point to different branches of machine engineering, processing of agricultural products, mining operations, and development of transport and energy infrastructure.
We must also strengthen financial cooperation and protect ourselves from exchange-rate fluctuations among the world's major currencies. Therefore, we are now considering how to increase mutual settlements in national currencies.
Q: Russia has recently announced the creation of a special economic zone in Vladivostok. What could, in your view, be the role of China in its creation and in the development of the Russian Far East as a whole?
VP: Accelerated socioeconomic development of Siberia and the Far East is one of Russia's key national priorities for the 21st century. We are now implementing a whole package of programmes to modernise and upgrade transport, energy and social infrastructure in these regions.
We are aiming at the creation of special areas of advanced economic development with an investment-friendly environment.
Competitive conditions for launching export-oriented enterprises in non-primary sectors have been created.
In the areas of advanced development, new companies will enjoy some substantial benefits. These are tax holidays with respect to a number of taxes and reduced insurance premium rates; liberalisation of the customs regime, including free customs zones; special rules for access to land and for connecting to infrastructure facilities.
Today, the relevant federal law is being finalised. Development institutions are being created and promising centres are being selected. One of them will probably be established in Vladivostok on Russky Island where the APEC 2012 Summit took place.
Obviously, we are interested in Chinese businessmen making use of these opportunities and becoming one of the leaders here, since both Russia and China will benefit from an accelerated development of the Russian Far East.
It is important not to limit our relations to trade. It is essential to establish strong technological and industrial alliances; attract investments to the infrastructure and energy sectors; to jointly promote scientific research and humanitarian contacts; lay a solid foundation for a sustainable long-term development of our trade and economic relations. And the Russian Far East can and must become a natural venue for the said efforts.
Q: How would you rate the present level of cooperation between our countries in the humanitarian sphere and its prospects? Which projects within the framework of reciprocal theme years (national, language, tourism, youth exchanges) have impressed you most?
VP: The humanitarian contacts between Russia and China are in keeping with the steady development of the whole complex of strategic partnership relations between our countries. At the moment, their level is as high as never before. The major projects of national, language and tourism theme years in which millions of our citizens participated, have played a significant role in that.
It is noteworthy that a number of events are now being carried out on a regular basis. These are festivals of culture, film weeks, youth sports games, student festivals, camps for schoolchildren and students, fora for university principals, exhibitions of educational services and many other events.
An intergovernmental project of the Russia-China Youth Friendly Exchanges Years planned for 2014–2015 was launched this March. The performance of the recently created Russian-Chinese philharmonic youth orchestra, headed by the artistic director and principal conductor of the Mariinsky Theatre Valery Gergiev, has become a highlight of the theme years' launch in St Petersburg.
Of course, we are not going to settle down. The mutual interest of youth in history, culture and traditions of the peoples of China and Russia is increasing. It is an objective process, and we are committed to fully supporting it in the future.
Q: In 2015, our countries will celebrate the 70th anniversary of Victory over fascism. What is the impact of joint Russian-Chinese efforts to oppose the attempts aimed at challenging the results of World War II?
VP: It is true that the attempts to rewrite and distort history are becoming more frequent.
Four years ago Russia and China adopted a Joint Statement on the 65th Anniversary of Victory in the Second World War.
We share an idea that it is unacceptable to revise the results of the war, as the consequences will be extremely grave.
It is clearly evident from the tragic events currently unfolding in Ukraine, where violent neo-Nazis are waging a real campaign of terror against civilians.
I would like to express my gratitude to our Chinese friends for cherishing the memory of thousands of our compatriots, who sacrificed their lives to liberate Northeast China from invaders.
Next year we will hold a range of joint events to mark the 70th anniversary of Victory both in the bilateral and the SCO format. During these events, youth will be in the focus of our work.
We will certainly continue to oppose attempts to falsify history, heroize fascists and their accomplices, blacken the memory and reputation of heroic liberators.
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It's been ticking down the seconds to nuclear apocalypse for three-quarters of a century, but it's not so helpful when it comes to climate change.
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Since 1947, the Doomsday Clock has ticked away the minutes toward—or away from—annihilation. Each year, researchers at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists decide where the hands on the iconic graphic will fall—the closer they are to midnight, the closer it appears we are to some doomsday event that could end humankind. For the past two years, they've set the clock at 100 seconds to midnight. Then on January 24 2023 this was revised down to 90 seconds to midnight, suggesting the world is closer to catastrophe right now than at any other point in the last 76 years.
Originally intended to convey how close the world is to nuclear war, the Doomsday Clock has expanded its remit in recent years. Since 2007, the researchers responsible for setting the clock have also considered climate change, as well as any human-made threats that might spark a global catastrophe. In 2020, the Bulletin's Science and Security Board cited increased nuclear tensions and a failure to address climate change as the main reasons why the Doomsday Clock's hands were set so close to midnight.
Nuclear war and climate change are two huge, complex topics that the Doomsday Clock has to distil into a single graphic. It's a lot of heavy lifting for a metaphor born in an era when annual global emissions were just 13 percent of today's levels and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change didn't even exist. Lumping together these two risks—and all the other ways mankind could mess up the planet—blurs the meaning of one of our most powerful symbols. Maybe it's time to wind back the dial on the world's most famous clock face.
One of the difficulties with representing climate change and nuclear war in the same graphic is that the two risks play out on totally different timescales. A ticking clock does a good job of representing how close we are to catastrophe right now, but each extra kilogram of carbon dioxide we emit into the atmosphere is setting the stage for a disaster at some undefined point in the future. "Each year you continue to emit carbon dioxide more bad stuff is baked into the system," says Raymond Pierrehumbert, a physics professor at the University of Oxford and one of the members of the Science and Security Board that sets the Doomsday Clock.
The risk of nuclear disaster tends to shift in more discrete steps. In 1991 the Doomsday Clock stood at 17 minutes to midnight—beyond the original 15-minute scale of the design. It was the furthest from the apocalypse the clock had ever been, thanks to the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty and the disintegration of the Soviet Union. "The setting of the Bulletin Clock reflects our optimism that we are entering a new era," wrote the Bulletin's scientists at the time of the announcement.
It's hard to draw such clear lines with climate change. On one hand, the world is facing a more secure future than if governments had taken no action on climate change. According to Climate Action Tracker, current policies have us on track for around 2.7 degrees Celsius of warming by 2100. This level of warming will have devastating consequences, but it's better than the situation we were facing in 2013 when existing policies had the world on track for 3.7 degrees of warming. Landmarks like the Paris Agreement and the US Inflation Reduction Act show that meaningful action on climate change is possible.
But at the same time, annual carbon emissions are still rising. While the future is looking better, right now things are still getting worse. This presents a conundrum for the scientists who set the Doomsday Clock. Do they go on future pledges, or the situation right now?
"In my view, and in the view of a lot of us, every year that we continue to emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere the needle should click a little bit forward to doomsday," says Pierrehumbert. But there's only so many times you can move the minute hand closer to midnight. Adding more increments would increase the Doomsday Clock's nuance, but setting the clock at 99.4 seconds to midnight doesn't exactly have the punch that its original designers were aiming for.
Counting down to midnight is an intuitive way to think about nuclear war. Either the world is at nuclear war, or it's not. There is nuance here—a tactical nuclear weapon, for example, is not the same as a full-scale nuclear war—but at a very broad level, nuclear war as the original Bulletin scientists thought of it was a fairly binary state of affairs. Climate change is much more nuanced. Most scientists agree that there is no clear cliff edge of disaster when it comes to climate warming. Instead, there is a slow ratcheting of global catastrophes as well as an increased likelihood of climate tipping points, where certain climate systems alter suddenly and irreversibly.
These high-impact, low-probability events are poorly understood, but they're not the only ways that climate change can have a severe effect on the planet. As existential risk researcher Luke Kemp has noted, a much warmer world is less resilient to other kinds of catastrophic risks. It's harder to imagine humanity bouncing back from a terrible pandemic or a nuclear war in a world with catastrophic levels of warming. Climate change isn't only a doomsday risk in itself—it's a risk multiplier that increases our vulnerability to all kinds of events.
"If you were starting from scratch, you might think for climate you'd have something more like a thermometer," says Pierrehumbert. But even that metaphor has its drawbacks. Would the temperature represent warming now, or what we have in store for the future? And is there a temperature equivalent to midnight—a real point of no return? Pierrehumbert suggests that warming that would make the world uninhabitable for about half of humans could be considered a climate doomsday-like event. We're not on track for anywhere near this amount of warming, but as Pierrehumbert points out, as long as there are fossil fuels left to burn, the risk of climate change never completely goes away.
One downside of the clock metaphor, regardless of the threat being considered, is that it makes us concentrate a little too much on the here and now. "The clock isn't really meant to say how risky a nuclear war is this year," says Pierrehumbert. It's meant to be an assessment of the fundamental state of risks that could take decades to play out. These are already complex, and climate change is like a multiplier to these risks—add it into the mix and everything else just becomes that little bit more uncertain and chaotic over long periods of time.
Where does all this leave the Doomsday Clock? It remains a powerful reminder that self-inflicted disaster is never far away. But it also undercuts the complexity of climate change and the way that risks spread across time and bleed into one another. Viewed from a time when we face a multitude of possible catastrophes—pandemics, rogue AI, and a rapidly warming planet—the Doomsday Clock is a warning from a much simpler era.
Updated 1-24-2023 10:30 am ET: This story was updated to reflect the movement of the Doomsday Clock's hands on January 24 2023.
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Erie Harbor is a waterfront complex located in the South Wedge neighborhood. It features mixed-income apartments and townhouses for rent.
The River Clubhouse includes a professionally-equipped fitness and cardio center and a Great Room with a riverfront terrace and fire pit for entertaining. The Premier Suites were designed with contemporary upscale decor and have imported Italian porcelain tile, stainless steel appliances, and a waterfront balcony or patio for each unit. The Midrise Building has an underground garage, rooftop terrace with fire pit, and onsite laundry facilities. Erie Harbor also offer high-speed Internet from Greenlight Networks.
Conifer LLC is also the owner of The Hamilton Apartments next door. Both Erie Harbor and the Hamilton are located on the site of the former River Park Commons, which was demolished in 2009.
Zagster has 2 bike racks at the development.
Although South Wedge residents and businesses welcomed the redevelopment of the riverfront site, the Erie Harbor's "colorful, cutting-edge, post-industrial design," when first revealed in late 2010, was met with some resistance and even a petition as being a poor fit for the Wedge's vintage character. One critic compared Erie Harbor to an Iraqi prison, while others took to calling it "Eerie Harbor" and planned to oppose it. On the other hand, Bob Boyd, Director of the South Wedge Planning Committee, argued that the Wedge is known for its eclectic architecture.
Erie Harbor Enhancement Project (2012)
The Erie Harbor apartment complex had been constructed as part of an overall Erie Harbor Enhancement Project, a collaborative effort between the City of Rochester, Conifer Realty, and M&T Bank. A second phase of the project was announced in October 2012, promising additional improvements to the adjacent Genesee Gateway Park, including enhanced pedestrian access to the park and a new 12-acre promenade. 1
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2012-07-07 09:10:15 Not sure why people were so angry about the design. I love it. It's playful and unique in Rochester. Both Erie and Hamilton are in their own space with nothing surrounding them except a bridge, the river, a large empty lot, and the street, so I'm not seeing how they "clash" with anything. —EileenF
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NBA Rumors: Hawks Should Consider Trading For DeMar DeRozan, Per 'Air Alamo'
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A new report suggests that the Atlanta Hawks — a team that ranks in the bottom three of the Eastern Conference despite the presence of point guard Trae Young and other up-and-coming stars — could jumpstart their offense and improve their prospects if they trade for San Antonio Spurs shooting guard DeMar DeRozan.
On Wednesday, Fansided blog Air Alamo took a look at how things currently stand for the Spurs — who are now in 12th place in the Western Conference with a 9-14 record — and DeRozan, who has played well for the team since he was acquired from the Toronto Raptors in the summer of 2018. Despite his "solid" numbers, the publication wrote that the 30-year-old guard's lack of three-point shooting is not a good fit for teams hoping to win a championship, with the Spurs' "mediocre" record providing further proof that he needs to be traded.
As further noted, several teams have been linked to DeRozan in recent weeks, including the Detroit Pistons, Houston Rockets, Orlando Magic, Sacramento Kings, and even the Raptors. While the Hawks haven't been mentioned so far, Air Alamo suggested that they may be a good fit for the four-time All-Star, given how the team has dropped to a 6-19 record in the aftermath of big man John Collins' 25-game suspension, thus leaving them without a reliable second option on offense.
"For Atlanta, the move for DeRozan is pretty simple," the publication continued. "The Hawks rank 23rd in offensive rating and most nights have been exclusively the Trae Young show. But, the injection of a veteran scorer would immediately alleviate the immense offensive burden Young has had to shoulder during Collins' absence."
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As further explained, DeRozan's aversion to shooting from beyond the arc might not be a problem for the Hawks, as Young is one of the NBA's more prolific three-point marksmen and Collins is a good outside shooter for a big man. Air Alamo added that the Spurs guard could also provide some much-needed experience to a team with an extremely youthful core, one that also features rookie wingmen Cam Reddish and De'Andre Hunter and second-year shooting guard Kevin Huerter.
Despite the promise shown thus far by Reddish, Hunter, and Huerter, Air Alamo suggested that the Hawks could acquire DeRozan by offering one of those youngsters and a future second-round draft pick, as well as a veteran with an expiring contract — either Allen Crabbe, Chandler Parsons, or Evan Turner — to match salaries. However, the outlet warned that all of the three young players recommended as trade chips have their share of weaknesses at this point in their careers, making them risky acquisitions for San Antonio.


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The Steering group
Sue Ablett, Festival Chair
A great reader and passionate supporter of Evesham. Led successful Bell Tower Appeal and also chaired the Evesham Cyclefest for its first two years. Has considerable experience of fundraising and event management, not to mention a boundless amount of energy! Totally passionate about Evesham Festival of Words!
Stan Brotherton, Treasurer
Born and bred in Evesham, and keen to promote all that the town has to offer, Stan is a published local historian.
Joyce Davey
Joyce has lived in Evesham for over 40 years. She is a former Mayoress and has served as a school governor in a local school. She is currently an active member of Hampton WI, Evesham Rotary Club and Evesham Methodist Church, as well as being part of the Evesham Street Pastors team, and is now an active volunteer for the Festival.
Galen Bartholomew
Galen was brought up in Evesham and returned to Evesham in retirement after a career in contracting and education management. Galen is delighted to work for and serve organisations connected with the town and county of his birth. Galen is also a Governor of St Richard's Hospice in Worcester and a school governor.
Noelle Chambers
Noelle has lived in Evesham for 30 years. A retired Chartered Librarian, she has worked in schools, colleges and public libraries, and has been a school governor, a reader for the Talking Newspapers for the Blind, and a fundraiser for the Adventure Playground. An avid reader and crossword solver, she is delighted to be part of the Evesham Festival of Words.
Angela Fitch
Involved in PR and writing in her professional life. Entered the Short Story Competition in 2014 and 2015, and shortlisted in both years. Keen to improve her writing skills, but also contribute, particularly her PR experience, to the Festival.
Published as a poet, short story writer and novelist. She also creates books aimed at helping other writers. She is a Writing Magazine Creative Writing Tutor and also runs her own brand of writing workshops.
Steve works as Marketing and Events Officer for Wychavon District Council, a really useful facilitating role which greatly helps the Steering Group.
Lynne Powell
The Editor of Cotswold and Vale Magazine, has own PR company. Loves Evesham, loves reading, keen to promote Evesham as a visitor destination. An 'ideas person', able to help with publicity.
Diana Raphael
Better known as 'Mrs Evesham', very involved in many aspects of town life – Town Councillor for 30 years, Evesham and Schools in Bloom, President of Wychavon Festival of Brass, Town Guide, runs Angling Festival. Has kept a diary since the 1960s. Would love to write a book.
Helen Yendall
Helen is a short story writer and course tutor. Not only has she has run a number of workshops for the Festival, but she is also in charge of the Festival twitter account.
Michael Collie
TV journalist who presents for BBC News. Has a regular Sunday breakfast show on BBC Hereford and Worcester Radio.
"It was Rudyard Kipling who said that words are the most powerful drug used by mankind. If that is the case, I look forward to us all getting very high indeed with the excellent programme that will be on offer at the Evesham Festival of Words."
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Alistair McGowan
A local lad, impressionist, stand-up comic, actor and writer.
"I am delighted to add my support to this exciting new Evesham Festival. Already a great programme is being lined up – it really does include something for everyone. This event will be another exciting addition to the range of Festivals already on offer in Evesham."
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BETA TEST, starring Arrow's Manu Bennett, will be hitting theatres on July 22.
The movie is from producer/writer/director Nicholas Gyeney, and produced by Mirror Images LTD.
BETA TEST is a sci-fi action thriller thats' been described as a "a cross between the intimate suspense of Die Hard and the 21st century chaos of Gamer." It is a suspenseful thought-provoking journey of greed, revenge, and the power of the video game in the 21st century. The film's storyline revolves around Max Troy, a Seattle-based video game champion and game tester who is about to test the latest game sensation from global video game juggernaut, Sentinel. As Max begins his procedural dissection of the game, he begins to realize this new game is not like any other. As Max completes new tasks, events in the real world begin to mirror them. Soon, Max uncovers a deep-rooted conspiracy from within the walls of Sentinel, which leads him to discover that the game's protagonist, Orson Creed, is a real man, in the real world. If Max can somehow join forces with Creed, together they may have a chance at unraveling this conspiracy before the tasks in the game escalate and overwhelm their city.
BETA TEST stars Arrow and alum Manu Bennett, alongside Larenz Tate, who has appeared in groundbreaking films such as Menace II Society, Dead Presidents, and Crash, Yuji Okumoto (Karate Kid Part II, Inception, The Game), and Linden Ashby (Mortal Kombat, Teen Wolf, Wyatt Earp).
Larenz Tate in a scene from "Beta Test"
BETA TEST will be released in approximately 15 select US theaters via AMC on July 22nd.
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Dr. Hayes is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine, the Associate Director of the Neuroimaging Research for Veterans Center at VA Boston Healthcare System, and a core faculty member of the BU Memory Disorders Research Center. Dr. Hayes graduated from Skidmore College (Biology, Psychology) and completed his doctoral work in Clinical Psychology (Neuropsychology) and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Arizona. He completed an NRSA-funded cognitive neuroscience-clinical neuropsychology postdoctoral fellowship in the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University and the Bryan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at Duke University Medical Center. His research interests include the examination of the neural correlates of human memory, studying age-related cognitive and neural-decline, and identification of factors (physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness, etc) that mitigate cognitive and neural decline. A licensed psychologist, Dr. Hayes clinical interests include neuropsychological assessment of age-related neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, microvascular disease, and frontotemporal dementia, as well as amnesia.
Palombo DJ, Hayes SM, Reid AG, Verfaellie M. Hippocampal contributions to value-based learning: Converging evidence from fMRI and amnesia. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2019 Feb 14.View Related Profiles.
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Hayes SM, Salat DH, Forman DE, Sperling RA, Verfaellie M. Cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with white matter integrity in aging. Ann Clin Transl Neurol. 2015 Jun; 2(6):688-98.View Related Profiles.
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Alosco ML, Spitznagel MB, Cohen R, Sweet LH, Hayes SM, Josephson R, Hughes J, Gunstad J. Decreases in daily physical activity predict acute decline in attention and executive function in heart failure. J Card Fail. 2015 Apr; 21(4):339-46.View Related Profiles.
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Hayes SM, Forman DE, Verfaellie M. Cardiorespiratory Fitness Is Associated With Cognitive Performance in Older But Not Younger Adults. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2016 May; 71(3):474-82.View Related Profiles.
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Daselaar SM, Iyengar V, Davis SW, Eklund K, Hayes SM, Cabeza RE. Less wiring, more firing: low-performing older adults compensate for impaired white matter with greater neural activity. Cereb Cortex. 2015 Apr; 25(4):983-90. PMID: 24152545; PMCID: PMC4366614; DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht289;.
Hayes SM, Salat DH, Verfaellie M. Default network connectivity in medial temporal lobe amnesia. J Neurosci. 2012 Oct 17; 32(42):14622-9.View Related Profiles.
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Hayes SM, Verfaellie M. The impact of fluency on explicit memory tasks in amnesia. Cogn Neurosci. 2012; 3(3-4):216-7.View Related Profiles.
Hayes SM, Buchler N, Stokes J, Kragel J, Cabeza R. Neural correlates of confidence during item recognition and source memory retrieval: evidence for both dual-process and strength memory theories. J Cogn Neurosci. 2011 Dec; 23(12):3959-71. PMID: 21736454; PMCID: PMC3521503; DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00086;.
Hayes SM, Baena E, Truong TK, Cabeza R. Neural mechanisms of context effects on face recognition: automatic binding and context shift decrements. J Cogn Neurosci. 2010 Nov; 22(11):2541-54. PMID: 19925208; PMCID: PMC3167197; DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21379;.
Ritchey M, Bessette-Symons B, Hayes SM, Cabeza R. Emotion processing in the aging brain is modulated by semantic elaboration. Neuropsychologia. 2011 Mar; 49(4):640-50. PMID: 20869375; PMCID: PMC3042541; DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.09.009;.
Daselaar SM, Prince SE, Dennis NA, Hayes SM, Kim H, Cabeza R. Posterior midline and ventral parietal activity is associated with retrieval success and encoding failure. Front Hum Neurosci. 2009; 3:13. PMID: 19680466; PMCID: PMC2726033; DOI: 10.3389/neuro.09.013.2009;.
Dennis NA, Hayes SM, Prince SE, Madden DJ, Huettel SA, Cabeza R. Effects of aging on the neural correlates of successful item and source memory encoding. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 2008 Jul; 34(4):791-808. PMID: 18605869; PMCID: PMC2752883; DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.34.4.791;.
Ryan L, Cox C, Hayes SM, Nadel L. Hippocampal activation during episodic and semantic memory retrieval: comparing category production and category cued recall. Neuropsychologia. 2008; 46(8):2109-21. PMID: 18420234; PMCID: PMC2482601; DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.02.030;.
Hayes SM, Nadel L, Ryan L. The effect of scene context on episodic object recognition: parahippocampal cortex mediates memory encoding and retrieval success. Hippocampus. 2007; 17(9):873-89. PMID: 17604348; PMCID: PMC3615418.
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Joseph John Paul McKee (born 31 October 1992 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish footballer who plays as a midfielder for Dumbarton.

McKee has previously played for Livingston, Burnley, Bolton Wanderers, Greenock Morton, Carlisle United, Falkirk and Queen of the South.

Club career

Early career
McKee started his career in the youth team of Dundee United in 2000 at the age of seven. He spent five years at Tannadice Park and progressed well at the club but left in 2005 due to unhappiness and joined Livingston. He settled well into life at Almondvale, as he knew youth teammate Robert Snodgrass as they went to the same school, St Mungo's Academy in Glasgow. McKee had a successful season for the under-19s in the 2008–09 season scoring 13 goals in 17 starts as they won the league title for the second consecutive season. He signed full-time for the club in October 2008, and went with the first team squad on a training tour to Italy playing against Parma Reserves. In March 2009 he was part of the squad for the Scottish Division One matches against St Johnstone and Queen of the South. In the summer of 2009, Livingston went into administration and faced demotion to the Scottish Division Three. He made his debut for Livingston on 1 August 2009 in the Scottish League Cup in a 3–0 defeat to Albion Rovers, replacing Michael Torrance in the second half. He then played in the first league game of the season, a 2–0 win over Montrose, coming on as a second-half substitute for Anthony McParland.

Burnley
Burnley manager Owen Coyle brought McKee to Turf Moor in August 2009 and signed a two-year scholarship after training with the club in the summer. Burnley had to play Livingston in a pre-season friendly at Almondvale as part of the deal, and also pay a five-figure sum when he signed a professional contract. He played primarily in the youth team in his first season at the club, but did feature in six games in the Premier Reserve League scoring one goal against Bolton Wanderers. In the 2010–11 season he was top scorer for the youth team and also featured regularly in the reserve side. In June 2011, he signed his first professional contract with the club on a one-year deal after the end of his scholarship. He was involved with the first team in the 2011–12 pre-season games and played in his first game for the Clarets in a 0–0 draw with Oldham Athletic, coming on in the last minute for Ross Wallace. He was given the squad number 34 during pre-season. On 9 August 2011, McKee was named on the bench in a 6–3 win over Burton Albion in the Football League Cup first round. However, he was an unused substitute.

In April 2012, it announced that McKee was released at the end of his Contract by Burnley.

St Mirren (Loan spell)
On 23 August 2011, he joined Scottish Premier League club St Mirren on a four-month loan until January 2012. He made his debut for the club on 28 August 2011 in a 2–0 home defeat to Celtic, where he came on as a late substitute for Nigel Hasselbaink. Having made two appearances for St Mirren, McKee loan spell with the club ended, but manager Danny Lennon hopes that he will become a better player.

Bolton Wanderers
On 3 July, McKee tweeted that he had signed for Bolton Wanderers, reuniting with former Burnley manager, Owen Coyle. This was confirmed a day later by Bolton's official Twitter page and McKee was given number 35.

McKee was released by then Bolton boss Dougie Freedman at the end of the 2012–13 season, having made no appearance or even on the substitute bench in his Bolton career.

Greenock Morton
In May 2013, McKee joined Scottish club Greenock Morton, playing in the Scottish Championship. McKee signed a contract extension until summer 2015 in September 2013.

Carlisle United
McKee left Morton on a Bosman free transfer to join English side Carlisle United. He scored his first goal for Carlisle in an EFL Trophy tie against Fleetwood Town on 9 November 2016.

Falkirk
On transfer deadline day, 31 January 2017, McKee signed a 6-month deal to move back north to Falkirk, teaming up with long time friend Charlie Harris who was in the U23 squad as a physio. McKee commented "It was an easy decision. To come back up north and see Charlie clinched the deal". In November 2017 he received a four-match SFA ban for 'excessive misconduct' for his part in an incident involving Dunfermline's Dean Shiels during a match between the rival clubs two months previously.

Dumbarton
After leaving Falkirk and spending time with Dundalk McKee signed for Scottish League One club Dumbarton in July 2019. He enjoyed a successful season at the Rock, registering 15 assists and two goals before leaving the club at the end of his contract in July 2020.

Queen of the South
On 24 August 2020, McKee signed for Queen of the South until 31 May 2021.

Dumbarton
After only one season at the Dumfries club, McKee returned to Dumbarton on a two-year deal in June 2021.

International
McKee has represented Scotland at under-16, under-17 and under-19 level. He was first called up to Scotland U19 squad in May 2011 for the two friendlies away to Denmark. He started in the first friendly on 10 May in Copenhagen, playing 70 minutes as Scotland lost 3–2. He was a substitute for the game two days later in Ballerup in another defeat, coming on in the second half for Rory McKenzie.

Career statistics

Honours
Greenock Morton
Scottish League One: Winners 2014–15

See also
St Mirren F.C. season 2011–12
Greenock Morton F.C. season 2013–14 | 2014–15 | 2015–16

References

External links

1989 births
Living people
Scottish footballers
Association football midfielders
Livingston F.C. players
Burnley F.C. players
St Mirren F.C. players
Bolton Wanderers F.C. players
Scottish Football League players
Scottish Premier League players
Greenock Morton F.C. players
Scotland youth international footballers
Scottish Professional Football League players
Dundee United F.C. players
Carlisle United F.C. players
Falkirk F.C. players
Dundalk F.C. players
Queen of the South F.C. players
Dumbarton F.C. players


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Parrots, hummingbirds, and songbirds, along with humans, are among a small number of animal groups to display vocal learning. We are studying the brain structures used when learning and producing vocalizations. Similarities in the brains of these three groups may reveal constraints on the evolution of brain structures necessary for vocal learning.
This image shows comparable vocal and auditory brain areas among vocal learning birds and humans. Left hemispheres are shown, as that is the dominant side for human language. Yellow regions andblack arrows indicate proposed posterior vocal pathways; red regions and white arrows indicate proposed anterior vocal pathways; dashed lines show connections between the two vocal pathways; light blue regions indicate auditory regions. For simplification, not all connections are shown. The anatomical boundries drawn for the human brin regions involved in vocal and auditory processing should be interpreted conservatively and for heuristic purposes only. Human brain lesions and brain imaging studies do not allow one to determine functional anatomical boundries with high resolution. Scale bar: ~7 mm. From Jarvis, Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci 1026: 749-777 (2004).
Vocal learning, the substrate of human language, is a very rare trait. It is known to be present in only 6 groups of animals: 3 groups of birds (parrots, songbirds, and hummingbirds) and 3 groups of mammals (bats, cetaceans[whales/dolphins], and humans). All other groups of animals are thought to produce genetically innate vocalizations. To understand this concept, it is important to distinguish vocal learning from auditory learning. Auditory learning is the ability to make sound associations, such as a dog learning how to respond to the sound "sit". All vertebrates have auditory learning. Vocal learning is the ability to imitate sounds that you hear, such as a human or a parrot imitating the sound "sit". Currently only vocal learners have been found to have forebrain regions dedicated to vocal learning and production of these learned vocalizations. Vocal non-learners only have been found to have non-forebrain vocal regions responsible for the production of innate vocalizations.
The objective of this project, a collaboration between Dr. Jarvis' lab at Duke University and Dr. Mello's lab at The Rockefeller University, is to determine how the vocal learning behavioral trait and associated brain structures evolved. We utilize vocalizing-driven gene expression to identify vocal brain structures in vocal learning and vocal non-learning species. To date, we have used this approach in 3 vocal learners – songbirds, parrots, and hummingbirds. We have found that they each contain 7 very similar brain structures. If according to the current dominant hypothesis, vocal learning evolved independently in all 6 vocal learning groups within the past 65 million years, then the striking similarities in brain structures of at least the 3 avian groups suggest that there a strong epigenetic constraints on how vocal learning can evolve. We are now determining if this hypothesis is correct, or if there really was a common ancestor with vocal learning, and other groups lost them through evolution. Above, click on the group name to find out about the latest results.


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Q: How to add filters such as _limit to strapi controller When I fist http://localhost:1338/course-series/2 I get
{
  name: 'example two',
  courses: [/*array of data*/],
}

I wanted to get just the courses, so I change the course-series/controllers/course-series.js to:
const { sanitizeEntity } = require("strapi-utils");
module.exports = {
    async findOne(ctx) {
        const { id } = ctx.params
        const entity = await strapi.services["course-series"].findOne({id});
        return sanitizeEntity(entity.courses, { model: strapi.models["course-series"] });
      },
};

I works exactly how I wanted, I just get the courses. But I also want to be able to do this:
http://localhost:1338/course-series/2?_start=0&_limit=3
So instead of getting all the courses, I want to get 2. With the above code, it doesn't work. What is missing?

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Athens: The Hellenic Competition Commission has fined six wholesale luxury cosmetics brands nearly €19 million for collusion to fix resale and discount prices with retailers.
Estee Lauder's Greek branch was fined €5.4 million, while the subsidiaries of L'Oreal and Christian Dior received fines of €2.6 and €1.8 million respectively. Three Greek companies were also among the six fined.
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L'Oréal Hellas and Greek cosmetics firm Sarantis have both announced their intentions to appeal.