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Franchise Tax Board provides Guidance on the Single Sales Factor Election
On behalf of Law Office of Williams & Associates, P.C. | Mar 26, 2012 | FTB
The California Franchise Tax Board (FTB), recently released Legal Guidance Division 2012-03-02 where it addressed the following question:
Can a taxpayer make a valid single sales factor (SSF) election and also report tax computed without the election in order to avoid the large corporate understatement penalty (LCUP) in the event the taxpayer is later determined to be ineligible to use the SSF formula?
First, it might be helpful to briefly remind taxpayers about the FTB's single sales factor, which became effective January 1, 2011. The single sales factor election requires taxpayers to choose between a single-sales factor and a three-factor formula (double-weighting sales) based on the costs-of performance sourcing method. Essentially, the single sales factor election provides taxpayers an annual opportunity to evaluate whether such an election will reduce income apportionment to California and thus lower California tax liability.
Under California Revenue and Taxation Code Section 25137;
Taxpayers that do not elect to apportion income via a single-sales-factor apportionment formula will be required to use California's three-factor apportionment formula (consisting of a payroll factor, a property factor, and a double-weighted sales factor), and they must source receipts from sales "other than sales of tangible personal property" using California's longstanding preponderance costs-of-performance method; and
Taxpayers that elect to apportion income via a single-sales-factor apportionment formula will be required to source receipts from "sales other than sales of tangible personal property" using California's new market sourcing provisions.
If the taxpayer elects to use the singles sales factor, then the tax determined under that method will be used as the tax-base for determining the large corporate understatement penalty (LCUP). The taxpayer cannot avoid the LCUP by also reporting the amount of tax computed without the election. The LCUP is based on tax reported on the latest filed tax return, measured against the future understatement of tax as determined by the FTB. This base amount of tax will be the amount shown on the last return filed.
A taxpayer cannot, therefore, determine its apportioned income for the same taxable year under both the SSF formula election and the three-factor formula in order to avoid the LCUP in the event the taxpayer is later determined to be ineligible to use the SSF formula.
The FTB will only recognize one tax base for measuring tax understatements with regard to the LCUP. If, however, the taxpayer subsequently amends an original tax return before the extended due date, then the tax shown on the amended return will serve as the penalty base.

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Mitesh Patel, Negosentro | In many ways, 2017 was an exciting year when it comes to mobile apps development and marketing. Mobile apps graduated from being an optional investment to a necessity and now companies cannot simply afford to lose on sizable revenue generated by them. The number of free apps downloaded stands at mind-boggling 254 billion, which is enough to ring some bells. An important question to be asked here is that how is mobile app marketing shape up in the year 2018? Here is a detailed look at the trends to watch out for.
Homes, automobiles, retail and much about everything else is going smart. Wonder how this is being made possible? Then simply look around you. Zillions of apps are promising home security, making our vehicles safer, revolutionizing retail in spectacular ways and making us healthier. Internet of Things has arrived for sure and is here to stay. We will be hearing more about the same in the coming year when smarter apps will be made available.
An important point to note here is the introduction of Android Things by Google to capitalize on the rise of the Internet of Things. Smartphone app developers will be challenged in the coming year to keep up with the trends and keep innovating with respect to Internet of things.
It is estimated that IoT will grow up to $661.74 billion by 2021, up from $157.05 billion at a staggering Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 33.3%. What does that indicate? It simply points towards the fact that IoT based mobile apps will be most sought after in the coming times.
Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages is another trend to watch out for. It leads to faster loading of web content on mobile devices thereby leading to better user experience (UX). In a way, this has essentially changed the way we access internet for the better.
Long bank queues are a passe and mobile payment is in. Make payments for services, purchase products and do a lot more just with your smartphone. All you need to have is the right applications to do that. Just fire the app and make payment for utility bills or to purchase any product under the sun from the likes of Amazon and others in a flash. M-commerce is expected to grow by leaps and bounds in the coming days and better be prepared for the same.
Are Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality Apps only for entertainment or gaming purpose? Well, you need to think again as these apps are all set to cross the threshold and venture into our daily lives pretty soon. The AR and VR apps have a stupendous potential to do much more than that and are capable of catering to many other industry sectors as well. In fact, health-care, engineering, retail, real estate and education sectors have already making use of such apps.
This technology can be used pretty well for providing requisite training to the employees with minimum fuss.
Then there is the hugely popular niche of on-demand apps that are expected to stay strong throughout 2018. Our lives are being made much more convenient with each passing day thanks to these apps which includes Taxi services, Food Ordering services, Cleaning and Laundry and associated Beauty services.
Big industries are not lagging behind in embracing high end technology by promoting enterprise applications. The culture of 'Bring Your Own Device' is being accepted the world over, thereby accelerating use of the same. While this approach helps in cost saving for the industries, it provides a big impetus to the app development process as well. Needless to say, this is a win-win situation for everyone involved in the process.
Why are cloud based storage apps such as Dropbox and Google Drive becoming increasingly popular these days? This is mainly because these let you enjoy storage benefits without having to actually store files on your device. In addition, you can upload them from one device and access it on the other with ease. It is predicted that more and more apps will be cloud driven in the coming days.
Cloud based apps are expected to control more than 90% of mobile internet traffic in the near future, as per Cisco VNI Global Mobile Forecast (2015-2020). This sector is going to witness a mind-boggling compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 60%.
We are witnessing interesting trends in mobile app development and 2018 is expected to be no different. Keep watching this space for more on mobile app development, latest trends and much more.


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Currently, social media is no longer just a social network but has been transformed into a media business. By utilizing social media appropriately can be one of the media of promotion and good communication for a company and its consumer. In this case, public relations can make social media as a medium to establish relationships and communication with consumers. In addition, public relations can also make social media as a media education about its products to consumers. Through communication in social media, product owners shall know what products or services are needed and what consumers want.
Then, how should public relations manage relationships with customers in social media?
In communicating and interacting with followers use the principles of giving, giving, and giving. Give them useful content in the form of information, inspiration, tips related to your brand, "the more you give, the more you get." The more you give, then your followers will give their loyalty and trust to your brand.
The communication you do must be two-way, where every comment, feedback, and vent from the followers must be responded interactively.
An important function of communication besides conversation is listening because in the realm of social media we have to do conversation and listening proportionally. By continuously following updates or postings from followers, we show that we care about them. This concern is a tremendous capital to build relationships with consumers.
In addition, being public relations must also know and understand the chat style on each media, even we must also be willing to imitate so as not to impress less up-date. For example, chat styles in Kaskus are different from Instagram or Twitter.
Focus Group Discussion – Pentingkah Pengaplikasian Etika Dalam Penggunaan Media Sosial?


a.	Be wise in choosing what to believe on Social Media because politicians can manipulate you into thinking one thing when in fact what they mean is the opposite.
b.	Social media tools including Twitter, Facebook and YouTube have dramatically changed the way political campaigns are run and how we interact with our elected officials. These websites have made politicians more accessible and allowing campaigns to carefully craft and customize their candidates' images.
c.	It is very important to understand how important our role is as active Social Media users to our friends, family, and followers. What we retweet or repost is read by our closest and most important people in our lives, so we should make it worthwhile.
d.	This thesis aims to find out how much impact Social Media has on Politics in the 21st century and how it affects people's opinions.
II.	There are a variety of ways in which Social Media is used by politicians to give the right impression on voters so it can benefit their public image.


Yes, this year, I get to watch the grass poke up. It happens in such a short time frame. Winter subsides and Spring engages. Dates do not matter. Weather patterns and alignments of planets and sun and moon matter. They are ready. The wood is ready. The animals are ready.
Bright blue bird and stark red jay flew through the land. They are ready. Goose honked in chorus headed for more northerly climes.
The dogwood and plum and pear are the first to leave winter and spring leaf. This year, I fenced around them to protect young shoots from hungry deer. Sorry, guys and gals. You did not leave anything for me last year. Animals only share in cartoons.
There is my favorite tufted titmouse. An odd name for a pretty songbird.
This time is about me coming alive also. Winter has been hard. Many deaths and sicknesses and tramas have hit over the years. This one was stout. Friends are suffering. That strains me in my late and early prayers.
Work in the community has been tough. There are changes. Old war horses have given up vision and are headed out to pasture. Gaps in the wall are not good. They did not train adequate replacement. They did not instill vision in another generation. Not good. Work in the community and culture will struggle.
New business is taking every thought I can think. Turning the double nickel, I am pressed to reinvent myself and everything I do. Entrepreneurs should be young of body, soul, and mind. That is not an age thing. It is a Spring thing.
Isaiah said it best. Young men will lack and suffer hunger. The lion will struggle. Those that get a postiive expectation of good and grace of the Lord will never be like that. They will walk and not faint. They will run and not be weary. They will mount up with wings as eagles. They will be strong and verdant even in their old chrononlogical age according to another writer. Let me at em.
Events happen whether time is good or bad. Earthquakes are results of living in a world cursed to die. Tsunamis come when preaction turns into now action. Cause and effect come whether good or bad underlies world decisions. Pressure brings pain. Hope brings determination. All of this is true no matter the state of evil.
Middle east regimes were destined to eventually fail. Despotism does. It cannot last forever. Weakness comes into the leadership and structure. People see it and move to defeat. Hopefully, the next regime is not as destructive. At least in the beginning they won't be that way.
The earthquake was going to happen. Plates shift. It is a physical phenomenon.
This world is cursed. It is destined to fall and fail. We can not prevent that.
We can remember that the Father is in charge.
We can remember that good prevails over evil.
We can remember that blessing overcomes cursing.
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Sitting at the lake recently, the beauty of balance impressed.
A downy woodpecker and chickadee ate on either side of a seed block for some minutes. Just a few minutes before two downy woodpeckers fought for space on the same block. As long as the chickadee and the woodpecker maintained opposite sides of the block, there was never a spat.
A foot away, several types of birds shared a feeder. Limited spaces meant they queued in other trees and took turns coming and going. It was as if someone engineered the eating.
Interspersed in all of this a tufted titmouse would fly to a spot on one tree, move to another tree, go to the seedblock, extract a seed with hull, fly out to a selected spot and then fly off. This exact sequence with the exact same spots in trees was repeated about every ten minutes.
Below the scene small birds picked up any seeds or thistle dropped and feasted. They were endless motion along the ground.
This was quiet a choreographed show. The precision and planning and cooperation was exquisite.
Why do we not live that way?
Why do humankind fight for rights and privilege instead of dancing the dance in harmony?
Several birds of odd variety and sizes all cooperate. A common flicker, four times the size of any of these other birds, ate some 20 feet away of bugs under branches. Other than the hawks overhead looking for bird supper at the dinner table, no one bothered the other for more than a wing flap. Of course, that is the balance and the way of hawks. It is their queue.
How good and pleasant it is when same folks dwell together in unity.


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Q: Spring Boot Unit test pre-initialization before @Configuration I have a SpringBootTest where I need to initialize some stuff before the Spring @Configuration classes are processed. My data sources are loaded from JNDI, so I need to initialize the JNDI context before it processes the @Configuration class that contains my data source configuration. How can I accomplish this? I tried by using the setUp method in my unit test, but that doesn't work.

A: I wound up doing something similar to what's posted here: http://en.newinstance.it/2009/03/27/mocking-jndi/
Yeah, it's a little unorthodox to "mock" JNDI, but I wanted a true unit test where if JNDI were available and the data sources were under JNDI, my code was able to pull the data sources out and use them appropriately.

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The Arts in Twickenham
TW1&2 Articles / September 1, 2020 September 15, 2020
GCSE students taking English Literature next year are allowed to drop poetry, over concerns that schools won't be able to cover all areas of the curriculum because of the coronavirus pandemic.
I feel it is a mistake to consider poetry dispensable, so as we say goodbye to Seamus Heaney, T.S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath and Benjamin Zephaniah, I walk through Twickenham to remind myself of the associations with poetry that I have built up here, as a resident for nearly twenty years.
Beside Marble Hill House is Montpelier Row, a row of Georgian houses that were built in the 18th century by King George II, as a retreat from London. Alfred Lord Tennyson was a resident at No.15, between 1851 and 1853.
South End House, on Montpelier Row, was where Walter de la Mare lived from 1940 until his death, in 1956. In Twickenham, Alexander Pope's name is ubiquitous: Pope is buried in St Mary's Church! Marble Hill Park made me think of John Donne's famous poem on heartbreak, 'Twickenham Garden'. Donne (1572-1631) visited Twickenham often to see the Countess of Bedford and was inspired to write the lines: 'The spider Love which… can convert manna to gall'.
Donne's inventive wordplay reminds us that, for a generation raised on clever Hip Hop lyrics, the consolations of poetry are more important than ever.
Dr Richard Mills is Senior Lecturer in Literature and Popular Culture at St Mary's University, Twickenham.
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Posts Tagged 'continued destruction'
And the "ceasefire" continuous.
Al-Jazeera: Syrian forces killed 66 people Monday, activists say (April 23)
Regime forces killed at least 28 civilians with heavy gunfire in the central city of Hama on Monday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. (April 23)
"Déjà Failed!
Another monitoring mission, another set of people from all over the world making excuses, trying to explain the unexplainable and getting frustrated and fired upon to boot. When will the world follow a plan that makes sense. To the world we say: Give us what we need to get the mission accomplished, not what you need to feel good about yourselves."
Ammar Abduhamid a liberal democracy activist
To really show the absurdity of this UN "ceasefire" and their observers:
Two UN observers come under sniper fire from Assad's forces in Homs April 21 and had to take cover and the civilian population protected the UN observers. The same civilian population that these UN observers were supposed to "protect"
That what I call a ceasefire a la UN!
I therefore suggest to the UN Security Council a new resolution with a "new" UN observation team that will "protect and observe the first team of observers".
There are many videos showing this, here are two:
04/21/12 Assad's Snipers shoot at UN Monitors in Homs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ININuKv5N5w&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYxawA7ShMk&feature=youtu.be
And here is a news story about it:
UN delegation of the 'terrified' in Syria
http://arabnews.com/opinion/columns/article615427.ece
"We saw the Free Syrian Army (FSA) protecting the Blue Berets, particularly in Homs, where the head of the observer mission, Col. Ahmed Himmiche, was present."
"A YouTube video-clip has appeared showing the international monitors being targeted and shot at by forces belonging to the tyrant of Damascus, whilst members of the FSA formed a human barrier to protect them as they were beset by panic. Indeed this video-clip shows one FSA member protecting one of the international monitors from gunfire, reassuring him by saying "don't be afraid!" Of course, anybody who views this YouTube video-clip understand the extent of the irony inherent in this situation, and as the saying goes, the worst disaster is the one that brings laughter, particularly when we are looking at a UN monitoring delegation transform into a delegation of the "terrified."
This represents a clear insult from the Assad regime toward the UN and international community, particularly as the targeting of this delegation took place on the same day that the UN Security Council took the decision to send more monitors to Syria! So after all of this, can we say that there is any expected benefit from sending international monitors to Syria? There can be no doubt that this is completely out of the question.
Assad's shelling of Homs, Deraa, Hama and other cities is ongoing, and Syrian people are being killed on a daily basis, so after all of this how can we say that the delegation of international monitors will play an effective role, or confirm Assad's compliance with the Annan initiative? The targeting of the international observers, and their being subject to gunfire in Homs, means that Assad has taken aim at Annan's initiative, and this means that we cannot rely on this initiative, or wait another three months — which is the timeframe provided for the observer mission by the UN initiative — for Assad did not even wait a few days for his forces to fire upon the delegation of the "terrified."
What is funny is that Washington is claiming that its patience has run out, and that it will not renew the observer mission in 90-days, in other words Washington has already begun to negotiate — from today — about renewing the observer mission, which should end in 3 months! This is the true definition of absurdity, whilst it also makes light of the Syrian blood that has been shed non-stop over the past 12 months, particularly as this delegation of the "terrified" — on Friday — refused to monitor the scene, despite the huge anti-Assad demonstrations taking place, with the head of the observer mission saying that his team would not undertake any field trips for fear that "our presence is used for escalation."
Is this a joke? Must the FSA now also protect the international delegation of the "terrified" from the Assad forces? It is clear that the international delegation of the "terrified" will not accelerate or delay anything in Syria, particularly at their current level, therefore the Emir of Qatar was right when he said that the Annan initiative has only a 3 percent chance of success!
What everybody must be aware of is the fact that Assad only understands the language of force; anything other than this is nothing more than a license to kill, a waste of time and a deepening of the Syrian crisis."
And these UN observers WILL NOT "OBSERVE" on Fridays when most of the protests are! Another glorious example of this great UN "ceasefire".
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/21/world/middleeast/syrian-protesters-mock-cease-fire-and-united-nations-observers.html?_r=3&partner=rss&emc=rss
"Col. Ahmed Himmiche, the Moroccan officer heading the advance team of United Nations observers in Syria, was quoted as telling reporters in Damascus that they would avoid Friday patrols, a statement that confirmed suspicions of many who have experienced the brunt of government oppression that the mission would be toothless. "We don't want to be used as a tool for escalating the situation," he said.
Those remarks were met with some disbelief, particularly in Damascus, where antigovernment protesters said they faced arrest, bullets, tear gas and a wide deployment of government security forces trying to suppress their demonstrations — all violations of the supposed cease-fire plan. One point of the six-point peace plan negotiated under United Nations auspices is that Syrians be allowed to demonstrate freely.
"I have no hope in the monitors; if they don't tour on Fridays, why did they come to Syria?" said Yaser, 30, a protester in Jober, not far from downtown Damascus, where an attack by government thugs wounded demonstrators. "For us nothing is changed — we are demonstrating, the Assad forces are killing and the monitors are watching." Demonstrators in Homs, which has endured more than two months of shelling, were more sarcastic. At the beginning of every video from a demonstration, someone off camera held up a piece of paper indicating the place and the date. One from Homs on Friday in Arabic and slightly mangled English read: "Dear Observer. We are waiting. Note: Homs is a city in Syria (can u come please?").
Abu Omar, 28, an activist reached by telephone, said sardonically that perhaps the Syrian government no longer considered the city part of the country since it evidently had no intention of respecting the cease-fire there or of withdrawing its forces, as the peace plan specifies. "Tanks are still deployed in every corner of the city, and checkpoints are everywhere," he said. "So what is the meaning of this cease-fire?"
And of course, the shelling continues as usual during this "ceasefire":
Just two out of many videos showing this continued destruction:
Syria, Homs city: Violent Shelling on Khaldiyeh area by the regime army
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uZ5JWvufVlI
04/20/12 Syria Homs shelled despite ceasefire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGv-lHKPAyA&feature=player_embedded
Satellite images reveal ruined deserted Homs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUC_8airD6E&feature=player_embedded
"Government forces' continued shelling of the Syrian city of Homs has left some neighbourhoods unrecognisable.
Satellite images taken this Mach reveal a deserted city centre, destroyed areas and heavy deployment of tanks across the city.
This contracts to the images shot in August, which showed a busy city of around a million. The latest imagery, commissioned by Al Jazeera, provides a snapshot of what appears to be an increasingly dire situation. "
Remember that in Part 1 I wrote "But for the most part, most of the army stays out of this. They have "defected in place" And one example I gave was from Golan:
"From division level down to battalions and brigades level. Entire units from commander down defy orders from the General Staff in Damascus to fight the rebels without crossing the lines to the opposition. To keep the spreading passive mutiny, Assad keeps the defiant units supplied in their barracks with funds and food.
Another example of this passive mutiny by the Syrian army, was when the five Syrian divisions stationed on Syria's Golan border with Israel and its frontier with South Lebanon; were told by their commanders in beginning of March to ignore orders from Damascus to join the crackdown on rebels because their mission was "to defend the Syrian homeland from external threats" – another form of "defection in place."
Well it seems that the situation has gotten worse, according to Israeli sources. Since Assad now have diverted food and supplies from these army units to his militia:
"The wretched plight of the troops manning Syrian defense divisions defending the Golan border and Mt.Hermon was clearly visible from lookout points on the Israeli side in the last two days. The regular water and food supplies to their bases, the backbone of Syria's defense lines against Israel, were stopped and redirected to the units fighting anti-Assad rebels in other parts of the country. Large groups of armed soldiers have gone AWOL to hunt for food. For the first time in years, some have approached the border fence. They don't ask Israeli soldiers for food, but parcels thrown across the fence vanish in a trice.
The 5th Division posted in the Golan town of Quneitra has suffered the largest number of desertions, estimated at more than 1,500 officers and men, around 15 percent of the full complement. But hundreds of dropouts occur daily from the 15th, 9th and 7th Divisions stationed in central and southern Golan.
The district commands have meanwhile lost control of the Syrian-Israeli border deployment. Military facilities are deserted with no one to guard against trespassers. Gangs, local and from across Syria's eastern borders with Jordan and Iraq, were quick to realize the bases are unguarded and have begun stripping them of equipment and looting everything they can lay hands on."
"For them the palaces, for us the coffins."
And it seems that slowly the disaffection with Assad is growing among his main internal support the Alawites:
Disaffection, fear growing among Syria's Alawites
http://www.thenational.ae/news/world/middle-east/disaffection-fear-growing-among-syrias-alawites#full
"DAMASCUS // In the Alawite heartlands of Latakia and the mountainous rural hinterlands surrounding the city, the regime of President Bashar Al Assad still commands overwhelming support, buttressed by patronage networks and deeply entrenched fears of sectarian bloodshed.
But activists in the region say there are signs disaffection with Al Assad family rule is slowly spreading among those outside of privileged elite circles, a discord encapsulated in a new slogan, increasingly heard among ordinary Alawites: "For them the palaces, for us the coffins."
"People are saying, 'how long will we have to bear this', more and more army families are wondering what they are sacrificing their children for, they are starting to say 'where are the martyrs from the Assad family?'," said an Alawite activist from Latakia, a once bustling port and tourist resort on Syria's verdant Mediterranean coastline.
Another influential Alawite opposition figure from a village in the Alawite mountains said dissent had become more pronounced since January, when an elderly Alawite widow buried her son, a soldier killed in the uprising. She had lost her husband and father in conflicts during the 1970s and 1980s under the former president Hafez Al Assad.
"She stood at the funeral and said: 'You Assads have taken my whole family, and all for nothing,'" the activist said. "People sympathised with her. Since then there have been similar sentiments at other funerals – not all of them, but some of them, people are becoming angry, the pressure is rising."
Nonetheless even opposition figures in the region acknowledge most of Syria's Alawites – members of the same obscure Shiite sect as Mr Al Assad and his ruling faction – continue to side with the regime.
"Ninety per cent of the Alawite community in Latakia and the villages support Assad, either because they have direct interests with the regime or because they are terrified," said a leading Alawite dissident.
"Alawites believe they are facing a jihad by Sunni extremists who are coming to chop off their heads, they are really sacred of that."
"The regime has convinced the minorities it is their protector and it has succeeded in neutralising the Alawites though fear, through linking their destiny to the regime's," said a Christian protester from Latakia city.
"For that reason, the majority [in Latakia] are not involved in the revolution, while they are in many other places, if you go to Hama you have no doubt the revolution will win, but in Latakia it is like a different world compared to the rest of Syria," he said.
Demonstrations, typically involving 100 to 150 young protesters and lasting up to 15 minutes, have stubbornly persisted in Latakia city, although they are confined to a few neighbourhoods and outlying villages, all where Sunnis are in the majority.
To keep public protests at that low level, security forces have been deployed in strength throughout much of the city. Activists say it takes just minutes for dozens of security cars to arrive at the scene of any dissent.
The Ramel neighbourhood, an impoverished Sunni ghetto that was assaulted by security units in August, remains sealed off by heavily fortified checkpoints.
In the heart of Latakia, the school where Hafez Al Assad was educated has been shut down and garrisoned by the army, with hundreds of soldiers and plainclothes security officers on hand to prevent it – or the statue of the former president standing on a plinth outside – from being defaced by opposition activists.
While the regime needs to hold Damascus and Aleppo if it is to remain in power, Latakia, as an unofficial capital for Syria's Alawites, is just as important.
"The regime hasn't reached the point where it feels it is losing in Latakia yet, but it is not comfortable. It is working hard to keep the control it has," said a local doctor who has been supporting protests.
A protest organiser from the city, a 40-year-old engineer, said the opposition was similarly working hard to keep going under immense pressure, including widespread detentions and pervasive surveillance of activists.
"We were weakened by the arrests but we have reorganised and adapted," he said.
As with other parts of Syria, numerous activists in Latakia confirmed an increasing tendency among anti-regime groups to favour taking up weapons, and they reported growing activity by the Free Syrian Army, including raids made from rural areas into the heart of the city to help soldiers trying to defect.
"The regime is weakening slowly, it is breaking up like an iceberg," said another grassroots activist in the region. "But as it has become harder to have peaceful demonstrations, the armed opposition has become stronger and everyone is saying the same thing now – a peaceful uprising alone is not going to topple this regime."
A protester from Ramel, a 23-year-old Sunni, said he would stop peaceful demonstrations and join the armed opposition if it were being supplied with weapons from the West or Arab states.
"It is our right to carry arms and to defend ourselves, don't blame us if that is what we do," said the protester, whose father and brothers have been arrested and held for months and who was himself detained for 50 days. "We want any foreign air force over the skies of Syria to protect us from this regime, let them bomb the presidential palace, we would make a pact with the devil if he could help us get rid of the regime."
"In the beginning I used to say there was no way a civil war could happen here, that the Syrian people would not do that but after one year, we cannot keep saying the same thing. What we saw in Homs [sectarian violence] is a worry because we have the same mix of sects here in Latakia," the Christian activist said.
The young Sunni protester echoed that alarm. "I'm afraid of a civil war with the Alawites," he said. "They have been fooled by the regime into taking its side and when the regime feels it has reached its end they will murder a lot of people in Latakia, there will be a lot of violence."
A seasoned Alawite dissident gave an equally bleak assessment of the region's, and Syria's, immediate prospects. "We will be dragged into a civil war by this regime, it will be like the Balkans, it will be Bosnia all over again."
There is a lot to be said about the Arab League and what is has done or mostly not done in the region. This post thou are about what the Arab League has done or not done regarding the civilian uprising inSyria.
A short background and timeline:
On November 3 2011, the Syrian government accepted an Arab League peace plan to halt its crackdown on protesters. The ceasefire quickly broke down, as government forces continued their suppression of protests. From 2 to12 November 2011, more than 250 people were killed.
The peace plan – to allow foreign observers from the Arab League to monitor Syria's progress in removing troops from protest areas, free political prisoners and negotiate with dissidents.
On December 19, Syria agreed to the Arab League peace plan, agreeing to let observers into the country.
On December 26, 67Arab League monitors arrive in Syria.
On January 22 2012 Saudi Arabia withdraws from the Syrian observers mission.
On January 24 Gulf Arab states announce that they are withdrawing from the Arab League's observer mission in Syria.
On January 28 The Arab League suspends the monitoring mission due to "the critical deterioration of the situation" .
Arab League suspends Syria mission as violence rages
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/28/us-syria-idUSTRE8041A820120128
"Reuters) – The Arab League suspended its monitoring mission in Syria on Saturday because of worsening violence, a move Damascus said was an attempt to draw foreign intervention as it struggles to quell a 10-month revolt against President Bashar al-Assad's rule.
The Arab League took the decision days after calling, unsuccessfully, for Assad to step down and make way for a government of national unity. It will take an Arab peace plan to the U.N. Security Council next week.
"Given the critical deterioration of the situation in Syria and the continued use of violence … it has been decided to immediately stop the work of the Arab League's mission to Syria pending presention of the issue to the league's council," Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby said in a statement."
UN resolution proposal
On January 31, the Arab League asked the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution, based on the League's action plan for Syria, including a call for Assad to step down. Yet, on February 4, the resolution was vetoed by China and Russia.
Eventually, a non-binding resolution by the UN General Assembly was endorsed, with China and Russia voting against. The UN General Assembly resolution has no legal force, unlike the UN Security Council.
So the as always very "helpful" Russians and Chinese even voted against a non-binding resolution by the UN General Assembly. Just to show who is in control. They could have abstained but they didn't want to "risk" anything.
So much for the Arab League peace plan.
"Arab observers- All the claims about Syria are lies. We saw nothing"
And who in their wisdom did the Arab League chose to lead the mission and obsevers in Syria?
The Sudanese general Mustafa al-Dabi.
Just a short reminder here that the Assad regime and Sudanese president Omar Hassan Ahmad Al-Bashir are "buddies". And general Mustafa al-Dabi has been very close and loyal to president Al-Bashir
A short background general's Dabi's career:
1989 – Chief of military intelligence
1995- Chief of Sudan's foreign intelligence agency
1996 – Deputy chief of General Staff
2000 – Ambassador to Qatar
2005 – Commissioner of security arrangements in Darfur ceasefire monitoring committee
Syria mission a diplomatic coup for Sudan
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16349870
"This has dismayed human rights groups, with Amnesty International warning that it could threaten the credibility of the entire mission.
"The Arab League's decision to appoint as the head of the observer mission a Sudanese general on whose watch severe human rights violations were committed in Sudan risks undermining the League's efforts so far and seriously calls into question the mission's credibility," it said in a statement.
Gen Dabi served as head of the Sudanese directorate of military intelligence when Mr Bashir seized power in a coup in 1989 – a period marked by "arbitrary arrest and detention, enforced disappearance and torture", Amnesty says.
Syrian opposition activists say they have little faith in the Arab League's initiative His name was also linked with the summary trials and execution of 28 army officers who mounted a failed coup attempt against Mr Bashir in April 1990, an anti-government Sudanese news site, Alrakoba, reports."
Syrian opposition groups have also expressed concern about Gen Dabi's strong military background.
"He won't be neutral, and would sympathise with those in similar positions, thus it won't be surprising if he supports and sympathises with the Syrian regime and its henchmen who are committing crimes against humanity round the clock in Syria," said the head of the Syrian League, Abd-al-Karim al-Rayhawi."
Activists alarmed over Sudanese head of Syria mission
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/28/us-syria-monitors-dabi-idUSTRE7BQ1DO20111228
"(Reuters) – The choice of a Sudanese general to head an Arab League mission in Syria has alarmed opposition activists who say Sudan's own defiance of a war crimes tribunal means the monitors probably won't recommend strong action against Syria's Bashar al-Assad.
But some critics of Khartoum say it is all but impossible to imagine a Sudanese general ever recommending strong outside intervention, much less an international tribunal, to respond to human rights abuses in a fellow Arab state.
Eric Reeves, a professor at Smith College in Massachusetts, who studies Sudan and has written strong criticisms of its government, said the choice of a Sudanese general was a sign the Arab League might not want its monitors to produce findings that would force it to take stronger action.
"There is a broader question of why you would pick someone to lead this investigation … when he is part of an army that is guilty of precisely the sort of crimes that are being investigated in Syria," Reeves said.
"I think a Sudanese general would be one of the least likely people in the world to acknowledge these findings even if they are right there before him… It doesn't make any sense unless you want to shape the finding. They want it shaped in ways that will minimize the obligation to do more than they already have."
Syrian opposition activists are reluctant to publicly criticize a monitoring mission in which they have invested high hopes. But several have privately voiced concern over whether a Sudanese military man would be willing or able to take a hard stance towards Assad."
Amnesty International said Sudan's military intelligence, at the time Dabi led it, "was responsible for the arbitrary arrest and detention, enforced disappearance, and torture or other ill-treatment of numerous people in Sudan."
"The Arab League's decision to appoint as the head of the observer mission a Sudanese general on whose watch severe human rights violations were committed in Sudan risks undermining the League's efforts so far and seriously calls into question the mission's credibility."
"Jehanne Henry, Sudan researcher at New York-based Human Rights Watch, said that as head of Sudan's military intelligence in the 1990s, Dabi "certainly would have been in a position to know what the security services were doing at that time."
"As we and others have documented in reports from that period, the security services were implicated in serious human rights violations such as the arbitrary arrest and detention of political activists and their ill treatment and torture.…"
She said rebel leaders had accused Dabi of violations in Darfur, although Dabi was not one of the figures Human Rights Watch had linked to specific abuse documented in its research.
"He obviously does not fit the profile as a human rights monitor," she added."
"But that will not be enough to persuade rights groups. Omer Ismail from the Enough Project, an anti-genocide campaign organized by the influential U.S. think-tank the Center for American Progress, said the choice of Dabi was "perplexing."
"Instead of heading a team entrusted with a probe of alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity by Syria, the general should be investigated by the ICC for evidence of similar crimes in Sudan," Ismail said in a statement.
"When he served as Sudan's former head of Military Intelligence, and when he oversaw implementation of the Darfur Security Arrangement, alleged war crimes including genocide were committed on his watch."
And his direct involvement in the Darfur genocide by the Arab Janjaweed:
(In Darfur the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court says the army carried out war crimes and the United Nations says 300,000 people may have died. Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has been indicted by the Hague-based International Criminal Court for genocide and crimes against humanity.)
The World's Worst Human Rights Observer.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/12/27/the_worlds_worst_human_rights_observer
"As Arab League monitors work to expose President Bashar al-Assad's crackdown, the head of the mission is a Sudanese general accused of creating the fearsome "janjaweed," which was responsible for the worst atrocities during the Darfur genocide.
"I am going to Homs," insisted Sudanese Gen. Mohammad Ahmed Mustafa al-Dabi, the head of the Arab League observer mission, telling reporters that so far the Assad regime had been "very cooperative."
But Dabi may be the unlikeliest leader of a humanitarian mission the world has ever seen. He is a staunch loyalist of Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for genocide and crimes against humanity for his government's policies in Darfur. And Dabi's own record in the restive Sudanese region, where he stands accused of presiding over the creation of the feared Arab militias known as the "janjaweed," is enough to make any human rights activist blanch.
Dabi's involvement in Darfur began in 1999, four years before the region would explode in the violence that Secretary of State Colin Powell labeled as "genocide." Darfur was descending into war between the Arab and Masalit communities — the same fault line that would widen into a bloodier interethnic war in a few years' time. As the situation escalated out of control, Bashir sent Dabi to Darfur to restore order.
According to Julie Flint and Alex De Waal's Darfur: A New History of a Long War, Dabi arrived in Geneina, the capital of West Darfur, on Feb. 9, 1999, with two helicopter gunships and 120 soldiers. He would stay until the end of June. During this time, he would make an enemy of the Masalit governor of West Sudan. Flint and De Waal write:
Governor Ibrahim Yahya describes the period as 'the beginning of the organization of the Janjawiid', with [Arab] militia leaders like Hamid Dawai and Shineibat receiving money from the government for the first time. 'The army would search and disarm villages, and two days later the Janjawiid would go in. They would attack and loot from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m., only ten minutes away from the army. By this process all of Dar Masalit was burned.'
Yahya's account was supported five years later by a commander of the Sudan Liberation Army, a rebel organization movement in the region. "[T]hings changed in 1999," he told Flint and De Waal. "The PDF [Popular Defense Forces, a government militia] ended and the Janjawiid came; the Janjawiid occupied all PDF places."
"[T]he army command finds the militia useful and fearsome in equal measure," De Waal said. "So al-Dabi's regularization of the Arab militia served both to rein them in, but also to legitimize their activities and retain them as a future strike force."
Dabi's role in Darfuris only one episode in a decades-long career that has been spent protecting the interests of Bashir's regime. He has regularly been trusted with authority over the regime's most sensitive portfolios: The day Bashir took power in a coup in 1989, he was promoted to head of military intelligence. In August 1995, after protesters at Khartoum University rattled the regime, Dabi became head of Sudan's foreign intelligence agency — pushing aside a loyalist of Hassan al-Turabi, the hard-line Islamist cleric who helped Bashir rise to power but would be pushed aside several years later. And as civil war ravaged south Sudan, Dabi was tasked from 1996 to 1999 as chief of Sudan's military operations. "
Doesn't this sound like the prefect qualifications for leading a mission observing human rights violations?
And after this "promising" selection what happened during this mission? Well, surprise, surprise:
Arab League observers see 'nothing frightening' in Syria hotspot
http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/28/9762725-arab-league-observers-see-nothing-frightening-in-syria-hotspot
"Campaigners expressed alarm Wednesday after Arab League observers in Syriasaid they saw "nothing frightening" during a visit to Homs, the city activists say is the epicenter of nine months of deadly clashes with government forces.
"Some places looked a bit of a mess but there was nothing frightening," Sudanese General Mustafa al-Dabi, the chief of the monitoring contingent, told Reuters by telephone fromDamascus.
"The situation seemed reassuring so far," he added after his team's short visit to the city of one million people, Syria's third largest.
Head of Syria monitors says 'nothing frightening' in Homs
http://maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=448397
"Yesterday was quiet and there were no clashes. We did not see tanks but we did see some armoured vehicles."
Who could have guessed??
And these astute observations was done during the most brutal onslaught against Homs by the Assad forces.
But not all was as blind as the head of the mission:
Arab League observer quits, slams Syria war crimes
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iOopJQLs2bnTmk3TRzytK_NIKcXg?docId=CNG.0fe739f1f49df34b937ed993417cb269.721
"An Arab League observer in unrest-swept Syria said Wednesday he has quit the mission, accusing the regime of committing a series of war crimes against its people and of duping his colleagues.
"I withdrew from the Arab observers mission because I found myself serving the regime, and not part of an independent observer group," Anwar Malek told the Doha-based news channel Al-Jazeera.
The Syrian regime is playing "dirty," charged the Algerian observer. "It even began killing its supporters to convince the Arab observers that it is carrying out its duties and to gain their sympathy."
"The mission was a farce and the observers have been fooled. The regime orchestrated it and fabricated most of what we saw to stop the Arab League from taking action against the regime," Malek said.
"What I saw was a humanitarian disaster. The regime isn't committing one war crime but a series of crimes against its people," he said. "Children are killed and they are starved and terrorised."
But an official at the Cairo-based Arab League dismissed Malek's accusations, saying they were all unfounded because he was bedridden and was never in the field.
"He was ill and bedridden at his Syria hotel. So how could he make those claims?" said the unnamed official.
The observer who said he spent 15 days in the flashpoint central city of Homs said it must be declared a "disaster" zone. "I saw charred and skinned bodies that had been tortured," said Malek.
Soldiers "attempting to flee or defect were executed," said Malek. "I saw three bodies of executed soldiers. They were shot from the back."
In the interview, Malek said that there had been "an assassination attempt on Monday as we were being taken by car from Homs to Damascus" via the restive Baba Amro district where the mission came under gunfire.
Malek accused the Syrian regime of plotting the attack on the road "controlled by the army and pro-regime 'shabiha' militiamen.
Also on Monday, two Kuwaiti army officers in the observer mission were "slightly hurt" in an attack by "unidentified protesters," the Gulf state's defence ministry has reported.
The observers were attacked while heading to the coastal city of Latakia, said the ministry.
Malek accused the Syrian regime of sending "spies and intelligence officers with our team to act as drivers and minders to get our information, and as soon as we left an area they attacked people."
On the detainees, he said that "none of the real prisoners on the lists of detainees the opposition has provided us with have been released."
Aparently he was on another planet than the Sudanese general Mustafa al-Dabi.
But of course he was just hallucinating in his hotelroom as the official at the Cairo-based Arab League HQ said when he dismissed Malek's accusations, saying they were all unfounded because he was bedridden and was never in the field.
Good job Arab League!
Observing the Observers
The Arab League's monitoring mission in Syria has been a miserable failure, and no international white knight is waiting in the wings. Syrians are on their own.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/09/observing_the_observers
"In December, after months of stalling and facing enforced sanctions, the Syrian regime finally seemed to buckle under pressure from the Arab League and agreed to sign a "protocol" ostensibly aimed at quelling the uprising. The agreement called for the regime to remove heavy artillery from urban areas, halt the use of force against civilians, release all political prisoners, and allow independent media into the country. Late last month, an advance team of 15 Arab League observers arrived in Syria on a one-month mission to monitor the regime's compliance with the protocol. They have since increased to 153 observers; that number still falls far below the 500 observers that was part of the original agreement.
"Observe" is a banal word sucked of accountability, responsibility, action — a fitting way to describe an Arab League mission. Monitoring abuses of power is a function one would not expect from the Arab League, which, let's face it, represents mostly dictatorships and absolute monarchies that have less-than-stellar human rights records. But observing Syria is an activity we have all become complicit in — observing the meetings, agreements, conferences, opposition groups forming and reforming, while Syrians are killed every day.
These discussions, devoid of action, build a cruel barrier between ruthless international power games and innocent people who are being played. This is why the Syrian people suspiciously view the Arab League as a protector of the regime and by extension its brutality.
The observers' arrival changed the rules of the game. The regime sends spies to take pictures of the protesters who dare speak to the observers. Before every excursion, the streets are secured in any way necessary, by bullets or arrests (for the safety of the observers or to preserve what's left of the regime's tarnished image?). The streets of Deraa have to be scrubbed clean of its people, silencing their voices and erasing any sign of dissent, to present an image of control, safely guarded by snipers lurking on rooftops.
(You can se a video here on what was going on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX8lBxEy7z4&feature=share )
"When the observers first arrived, the people were extremely optimistic," he tells me. "On the first day the team met with the mayor, so we couldn't do anything. The second day, we invited them to a protest at a martyr's funeral. They said, 'We don't have cars for transportation.' We asked, 'How could the team of observers not have cars?' So we postponed the protest. The third day, we asked them to come and observe the protest, but the regime took them somewhere else. Their work is not even at 1 percent. Nothing is happening. They aren't gathering testimonies from the families. They are witnessing the snipers and the army on the streets. They see this with their own eyes. A stranger walking in the streets would know."
So far, the regime has freed 3,500 prisoners, but an estimated 30,000 more still remain imprisoned, and according to Syrian activists, 5,700 people have been detained since the Arab League mission began. One week before the observers arrived, the regime escalated the crackdown, killing at least 250 people in four days. Since then, the casualties have gone down to an average of a couple of dozen people a day, according to numbers tallied by various human rights groups and local coordination committees.
The Arab League mission has been declared a failure for multiple reasons: the insufficient number of observers to cover all the "hot spots"; the questionable integrity of the head of the mission, Sudanese Lt. Gen. Mohammed Ahmed Mustafa al-Dabi; and the observers' heavily monitored movement by security forces, which limits their ability to "observe." As Qatar's prime minister and head of the Arab League committee on Syria, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, admitted last week, "There are mistakes, but we went there not to stop the killing, but to monitor." He cited the Arab League's inexperience with leading this type of mission as one of the main concerns."
"One of the most important shifts in the revolution during the Arab League mission has been its coverage, not by the media but by citizen journalists. Protesters who have been filming demonstrations and atrocities for months have turned their lens to film the observers filming the regime's atrocities. Their powerful YouTube clips feature the monitors in their bright orange vests surrounded by the sounds of gunfire, confronted with dead bodies of children, and bombarded by protesters' complaints and grievances. Observing the observers has emerged as the people's powerful media weapon against the regime and its propaganda.
(The video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9FG8gGUAqI)
Khaled Abu Salah, a prominent activist in Homseven confronted Dabi. "Our problem is not with you as individuals," he told him. "Our problem is with the protocol itself. The first article of the protocol is 'stop the killing.' When 15 people die in one day while you're here, then what have we benefited from your presence?" (The Russian Foreign Ministry later said Dabi's remarks about the situation inSyria were "reassuring." He has since claimed the statement as "unfounded and not true.")
"On Sunday, Arab League ministers met in Cairoto discuss the mission's progress. Opposition groups and activists hoped the league would admit the mission's failure to stop the continuing violence and refer Syria's case to the U.N. Security Council. Instead, Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby confirmed the mission would carry on as planned. Another Arab League meeting has been scheduled for Jan. 19 to re-evaluate the observers' progress. On the rejection of any kind of assistance from the United Nations, Elaraby said, "We do not live in an ideal world, and there is no country in the world that is willing to use force."
"Turning a strategically blind eye has become the norm to Syrians. Once again, the headlines tell the same story: "Arab League Asks Syria to Halt Violence" on a day when activists claim 26 people were killed, and the Syrian regime insists, observed or not, it's going to be bloody business as usual. "
"Instead of seeing reality, observers watch movies by the regime"
Arab League observers in Syria labelled a farce
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2011/s3399762.htm
"Human rights activists now fear the Arab League mission is turning into a farce, as shootings and killings take place almost under the observers' noses in places like Homs, Hama and other trouble spots.
There are also questions about the head of the mission – a Sudanese general who is himself accused of human rights abuses."
"Local witnesses claim tanks had been removed from the streets just ahead of the mission's arrival only to be hidden nearby, where they could supposedly be redeployed as soon as the monitors were gone.
Soazig Dollet from the organisation Reporters Without Borders says the Syrian regime is simply exploiting the observers' visit for its own ends.
(Soazig Dollet speaking)
"This visit is totally biased," she says. "It's a farce. The Syrian regime is making a mockery of respecting the Arab League agreement by accepting the presence of observers."
She also claims that Syrian authorities are engaged in an elaborate game to show the observers what they want to see.
"Some prisons in Homs were emptied and detainees transferred to other places," she says. "Fake armed soldiers were shown to observers in order to demonstrate that the Syrian resistance is an armed one. It is armed, but that is not the only kind of resistance. It's obvious that it has all been staged for the observers of the Arab League."
And the final humiliation.
To recapitulate:
After having Assad making a mockery of the Arab League peace plan. And their observers mission in Syriaa total failure. The Arab League took the same peace plan to the UN Security Council only to be vetoed by the as always helpful Russians and Chinese. And to REALLY rub it in the Russians and Chinese even voted against a non-binding resolution by the UN General Assembly.
So what did the humiliated Arab League do after that? Eehhh… they went to one of the powers behind their humiliation, Russia, and literally "begged" the Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov for ANY kind of a deal.
So in the end the Arab League got a new, even more watered-down deal dictated to them by Russia, which then became the UN/Annan peace plan. And as a result got even more humiliated.
Because when they tried (Qatar) to make some amends to the total sellout, as they well know, they were literally repriminded by Lavrov like naughty/misbehaving school children.
"Lavrov lords it over the Arab League foreign ministers
Assad's victory has therefore vindicated Putin and awarded Russia a political and military achievement on a scale that has eluded Moscow for many years. Putin proved he could win over an Arab country to Russian influence, shut doors to the Obama administration's interference and wind up calling the shots in Damascus. The Russian Foreign Minister arrived in Caro Saturday, March 10, ready collect kudos..
It was strange to see Lavrov sitting in a place of honor at the 22-member Arab League foreign ministers' meeting Saturday, March, 10. Stranger still, they let him talk the Arab ministers down and dictate Russia's five-point plan for the Arab world to follow for resolving the Syrian crisis.
It called for a complete cease-fire, monitoring procedures, no foreign interference, humanitarian aid supplies and "firm support" for international envoy Kofi Annan's mission to promote dialogue between the government and opposition.
Russia will be there for Iran at nuclear talks too
Aware of the true situation in Syria the Arab foreign ministers bowed to the Russian plan although it was clearly tilted in Assad's favor.
And when the Qatari prime minister and foreign minister Sheikh Hamad Jassim bin Jabr al-Thani tried later to undo some of the damage by demanding military intervention to stop the bloodletting in Syria after he had despaired of a Libyan-style Western-Arab operation, he was publicly rebuked from New York by Lavrov.
Arriving there to meet US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Russian foreign minister said: "I was amazed …that while I was in the air my colleague, with whom we agreed on these principles, the prime minister and foreign minister of Qatar, called publicly for dispatching Arab or international forces to Syria. It absolutely contradicts what we agreed on and announced publicly."
Lavrov's tone strikingly demonstrated Moscow's utter confidence in its ability to dictate the course of events in the Arab world in contrast to Washington's withdrawal from the scene.
Not exactly one of the proudest moments in the Arab Leagues history. And as usual the ones paying the price the people of Syria.
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CLOVER -- Not much will change under the school district's proposed budget for 2009-10, now that Gov. Mark Sanford has lost his battle to refuse $700 million in federal stimulus money.
The district will see approximately $1.3 million of that sum next school year, according to Assistant Superintendent Ken Love. The infusion averts a potential disaster, and no staff cuts will have to be made.
But even with the stimulus funding the district will see less money from state and federal sources than the 2008-09 school year because state law sets the funding baseline for all districts at the 2006-07 level, Love said.
"That's three years of increases that don't count," he said.


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Now, if you'll allow me a moment of self-assurance, I took a lot of really good photos on the west coast. When I first did a quick run through my pictures, looking for photos that really stood out as gallery-worthy, I ended up with about eighty, and that was being conservative. Obviously, since I had a grand total of 48 gallery-worthy photos since I first got my own camera, I had to shrink that number down a bit for these gems I've been posting this week.


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FaZe Clan will go public in a SPAC merger valuing the gaming organization at around $1 billion
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FaZe Clan at a "Call of Duty League Finals" esports event in Miami.
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FaZe Clan will go public in a SPAC merger that values the gaming organization at about $1 billion.
The group will tie-up with B.Riley Principal 150 Merger Corp., with plans to list in 2022.
FaZe Clan centers around competitive esports teams that play titles like "Fortnite Battle" and "Call of Duty."
FaZe Clan will go public in a deal with a special purpose acquisition company, valuing the Los Angeles-based gaming group at roughly $1 billion.
FaZe Clan will reach the equity market in the first quarter of 2022 through a deal with B.Riley Principal 150 Merger Corp., the New York-based SPAC said Monday in a statement.
The combined company is expected to have an implied equity valuation of about $1 billion, which includes nearly $275 million in cash on the entity's balance sheet. The stock will be listed on the Nasdaq.
FaZe Clan was established in 2010 and centers around competitive esports teams that play titles like "Fortnite Battle," "Call of Duty," and "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds," or "PUBG: Battlegrounds."
More than 350 million people follow the group across its social platforms and through its string of content creators and personalities.
Recent partners include DC Comics, McDonald's, and Doritos, which are brands trying to reach the organization's audience of 13- to 34-year-olds, said B.Riley Principal.
"FaZe Clan, sitting at the forefront of the creator economy, with deep roots in gaming and youth culture, is poised to become the leading digital content platform created for and by Gen Z and millennials," said the SPAC.
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Baritone Nikolay Borchev began his career at a very young age as a principal at the Bavarian State Opera. After several seasons in Munich, he spent two seasons as a member of the Vienna State Opera. With both companies he sang numerous main roles of his Fach including 'Papageno'/ "Die Zauberflöte", 'Guglielmo'/"Così fan tutte" and 'Figaro'/"Il Barbiere di Siviglia". An exceptional musician, he developed an extensive repertoire within just a few years and, thanks to his vocal and artistic qualities as well as his compelling stage presence, has established himself as a regular guest of the world's most important operatic, concert and recital venues.
Nikolay Borchev has appeared at London's Royal Opera House Covent Garden as 'Guglielmo' (Sir Colin Davis) and as 'Harlekin'/"Ariadne auf Naxos"; at Carnegie Hall New York as 'Apollo'/"Apollo e Dafne" (Jonathan Cohen); at the Opéra Comique Paris as 'Aeneas'/"Dido and Aeneas" (William Christie); at the Hamburg State Opera as 'Figaro'; at the State Opera Berlin as 'Eginhard' in Telemann's "Emma and Eginhard" (René Jacobs); at the Frankfurt Oper as 'Dandini'/"La Cenerentola" and 'Spielmann'/"Die Königskinder" (Sebastian Weigle with CD production); at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as 'Figaro'; at Brussel's Théâtre de la Monnaie in the world première of Benoît Mernier's "Frühlingserwachen", as 'Ulisse'/"Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria", as 'Papageno', as Dandini' as well as as 'Passaglio' in a new production of Gassmnn's "L'opera seria" (René Jacobs); in the title role of Monteverdi's Orfeo, 'Mercurio'/"La Calisto", 'Jeletzki'/" Pikovaya Dama" and 'Lurcanio'/" Ariodante" at Theater Basel; in the title role of "Yevgenij Onegin" at the State Theatre Stuttgart; as 'Conte'/"Le nozze di Figaro" and 'posa'/"Don Carlo" at Theater Sankt Gallen; at Düsseldorf's Deutsche Oper am Rhein as 'Orfeo' and 'Guglielmo'; at Cologne Opera as 'Marcello'/"La Bohème", Kris Kelvin' in Glanert's "Solaris", 'Fieramosca' in Berlioz's "Benvenuto Cellini" and as 'Stolzius'/"Die Soldaten (Francois-Xavier Roth); as 'Marcello' at the Opera Leipzig and in Riga, as 'Don Giovanni' at the Opéra du Rhin Strasbourg; in Spain's Teatro Real Madrid as 'Mercurio'/"La Calisto", at the Ópera de Bilbao as 'Donald'/" Billy Budd", and at the Palau de les Arts Valencia as 'Harlekin'; at the opera houses of Lille and Dijon as 'Nardo'/"La finta giardiniera" (Emanuelle Haïm); at Vienna's Theater an der Wien in Ullmann's "Der Kaiser von Atlantis"; as 'Malatesta'/"Don Pasquale" at the Glyndebourne Festival (conducted by Enrique Mazzola and staged by Mariame Clément which was commercially released on DVD); as well as in the festivals of Weimar in Hanns Eisler's "Deutsche Sinfonie"; at Schwetzingen SWR Festival as 'Pluto' in Josef Martin Kraus' "Proserpina"; at the Rheingau Music Festival; at the Salzburg Festival in Händel's "Das Alexanderfest" (René Jacobs); the Ruhrtriennale; and at the Baden-Baden Festival as 'Harlekin' (Christian Thielemann; released on DVD) and as 'Albert'/"Werther" (Bertrand de Billy). Further credits include, amongst others, 'Schneidebart'/"The silent woman", 'Prosdocimo'/"Il Turco in Italia" and 'Der Liebende' at the world-premiere of Nikolaus Brass' "Die Vorübergehenden" at the Bavarian State Opera (Paolo Arrivabeni); the role of 'Morald' in Wagner's "Die Feen" at the Opera Leipzig; as 'Dandini'/"La Cenerentola" at the Opéra de Lyon (Stefano Montanaro); and the role of 'Danilo' in Léhar's "Merry Widow" at the Staatsoperette Dresden.
Nikolay Borchev is also a highly sought-after concert singer and recitalist. He has been featured with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Munich, in "Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln"; the Balthasar-Neumann Ensemble as 'Orfeo' (Thomas Hengelbrock); the Freiburger Barockorchester in "Don Giovanni "(commercially released on CD and DVD, René Jacobs); the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; the Capella Augustina in Haydn's "Il ritorno di Tobia"; the Museumsorchester Frankfurt in "Carmina Burana" and "Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln"; the NPS Amsterdam in "Orlando Paladino"; with the London Mozart Players; the Chamber Orchestra of Munich; the Radio Symphony Orchestra of the Saarland in Saint-Saëns "Oratorio de Noël"; the RSO Berlin and as Apollo in Händel's "Apollo e Dafne" with the Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle; the Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie (Frank Beermann); with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra (Jeffrey Tate); with the Tshaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, with the Dresdner Musikfestspiele, with the Warsaw Philharmonic, with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York, with the Munich Bachchor in Bach's "Matthäus-Passion" (Hans-Jörg Albrecht) and with the Deutsche Symphonie Orchester in a concert version Bohuslav Martinů's opera "Ariane", in the role of 'Thesée' (Martyn Brabbins), amongst others.
His participation in a semi-staged, crossover production of Rossini's "La Petite Messe Solennelle" with the dance company Nico and the Navigator, with performances at the Weimar Festival, in Berlin, Dijon as well as in Paris has been of special interest and was highly acclaimed.
Further highlights included his successful role-debut as 'Pélleas'/"Pélleas et Mélisande" with the Niederösterreichische Tonkünstler under the baton of Jun Märkl at Vienna's Musikverein". He recently gave his debut at Concertgebouw Amsterdam in "Das Paradies und die Peri" with the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, conducted by Markus Stenz and in Rossini's "La petite sollennele" under Leonardo Garcia Alarcón.
His recital repertoire is extensive, and encompasses cycles by Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Mahler and Wolf, as well as songs by Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky and Grieg. He sang Schubert's "Die Winterreise" (commercially released on CD) at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, where has also been the object of an "Artist's Portrait" with numerous concerts, recitals and gala performances. With Wolfram Rieger he presented a recital at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels. He is a regular guest of Vilabertran's Schubertiade, and has given recitals at Dortmund's Konzerthaus, at the festival of Weimar and the Brühler Schlosskonzerte. Additional recitals have taken him regularly to the Music at Menlo Festival in Atherton, California; to Spain's Gran Canaria; and as far as Taiwan.
Current and future projects include "Dido & Aeneas" with Sasha Waltz at the Staatsoper Berlin and in Shanghai, his role-debut as 'Fritz'/"Die tote Stadt" at La Monnaie Brussels, his return to the Opéra de Lyon as 'Conte', to the Munich State Opera as 'Barbier'/"The silent woman" and to the Semperoper Dresden as 'olivier'/"Capriccio" (Christian Thielemann). He will return to the Chamber Music Society of New York as well as to the Bachakademie Stuttgart, will have a recital at Oxford Lieder Festival as well as at the Schubert Club in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Nikolay Borchev was born in Pinsk, Belarus, and started his musical education at age seven years with piano, flute and organ. At sixteen he began studying singing at Moscow's Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Pavel Lisitisan and Maria Ariya and later continued his studies in Berlin at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" under the guidance of Heinz Reeh, Júlia Várady and Wolfram Rieger. He was a prize winner at numerous international vocal competitions.
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Acting President Sonya Stephens announced in an email to the Mount Holyoke College community on Wednesday, March 21 that Kijua Sanders-McMurtry had been appointed the College's first vice president for Equity and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer.
Sanders-McMurtry will be joining Mount Holyoke College on Aug. 6 from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, where she has served as the associate vice president and dean for community diversity since July 2016.
The Chief Diversity Officer role is new to Mount Holyoke, and will allow her to have flexibility in her approach to developing programming and training for faculty, students and staff.
Mosby explained that the need for a Chief Diversity Officer on campus stemmed from three major developments that have taken place over the past few years: conversions starting as peer institutions have signed on diversity officers, feedback from the BOOM! conference and looking at past efforts by the College to enhance diversity and inclusion.
An executive search was held to find those best suited to Mount Holyoke's environment and whose skills would best contribute to the community. Databases of people already known to the College were combed, extensive networking took place and recommendations were received all by the search committee until they had narrowed the long list down to seven candidates.
First interviews were held with these seven people and the search committee discussed who they wanted to come to campus to meet with different campus constituents. From there, four were selected to come to campus and gave presentations to the community. After assessing feedback from faculty, staff, students and college officers, the search committee submitted their recommendations to Acting President Sonya Stephens, who approved the decision.
The involved selection process is something that stood out to Sanders-McMurtry. "I was inspired by the fact that it was apparent that the campus community worked in tandem with one another, but in particular that the movement was led by students who believed deeply in the need for a Chief Diversity Officer at the executive level," she said.


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PREMISE | Academy Award winner J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) plays Howard Silk, a low-level wonk at the Office of Interchange in Berlin who one day is abruptly introduced to his "other" — the Howard Silk from a top-secret parallel world. A highly skilled spy, Howard "Prime" has covertly traveled to our side to track an assassin named Baldwin, but to stick around and complete his mission, "our" kindly, meek Howard must take his stone-cold, dickish doppelganger's place over there.
The question of which Howard better maintains his cover while interacting with familiar-yet-different friends, foes and family is a nail-biter, to be sure, but also demanding your undivided attention (this is not a laundry-folding show!) is the hunt for a mole at the the Office of Interchange — especially once we the viewer become first to discover who it is.
Across the board, this cast is fantastic. In addition to Simmons and his nuanced differentiation of the two Howards, you have Olivia Williams (Dollhouse) as their wives Emily; Sara Serraiocco as the enigmatic Baldwin and Nazanin Boniadi (Homeland) as her handler (pictured right); and Harry Lloyd (Manhattan) as our Howard's on-the-edge supervisor. And that's not to mention Stephen Rea (The Crying Game), Richard Schiff (The Good Doctor) and Sarah Bolger (Mayans MC).
WORTH YOUR TIME IF YOU ENJOY… | A science-fiction thriller that hovers close enough to reality that you can just about touch it. Fringe's own take on parallel worlds and differing doppelgangers. Accents.
YOU SHOULD PROBABLY ALSO KNOW… | Much of Season 1 was filmed on location in and around Berlin, making the city around which everyone gets to scampering and skulking a gritty, grey character unto itself.
IS IT COMING BACK? | It was never not! The series' original order was for two 10-episode seasons, the second of which premieres Sunday, Dec. 9 at 9/8c.
WHERE CAN I WATCH IT? | Season 1 is available via the Starz app (Episode 1 is free), Amazon Prime and iTunes.
Watch trailers for Season 1 (as well as Season 2) below, then hit the comments to let us know if you'll tune in — or if you're already a fan!


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I'm back this week with a bit of a messy vlog. I've shot tons of footage but most it ended up shaky or far too loud, so I've amassed a collection of footage from when I went bowling! Disclaimer: Amanda and I are both garbage, and if you'd like to see someone fail at bowling then you've come to the right place!
We went to a bowling place in Takadanobaba, and it only cost us about 1400 yen for 3 games and the rental shoes. All in all, I say it was a pretty good deal!
I never know what to write on these vlog posts, but as always I hope you enjoy the video.
And here are a few unedited shots from our day out!