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Corruption is a very high risk for companies operating in Mali. Corruption in public procurement, in the settlement of commercial disputes, and petty corruption are common obstacles for investors. Mali is one of the world's poorest countries and is currently recovering from a multidimensional political, security and economic crisis, which is not yet overcome in parts of the country, particularly in the north. Key anti-corruption laws include the Penal Code and the Law on the Prevention and Repression of Illicit Enrichment, which prohibits active and passive corruption, mostly in the public sector. The maximum punishment for corruption offenses is 20 years' imprisonment or fines, but the anti-corruption provisions are poorly enforced. Mali has ratified the United Nations Convention against Corruption.
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There is a very high risk of corruption in the judicial system, especially through bribery and influence peddling in courts (HRR 2014). Businesses report that irregular payments or bribes to obtain favorable decisions are commonly exchanged (GCR 2015-2016). The judiciary lacks resources and professional training and operates slowly and inefficiently (BTI 2016). Judges are sometimes absent from their assigned areas for as long as months (HRR 2014). Businesses find the legal framework inefficient in challenging regulations or in settling disputes (GCR 2015-2016).
The constitution provides for an independent judiciary, but in real,ity the institution is subject to the influence of the executive (HRR 2014). In most rural areas, disputes are typically handled by traditional authorities (such as local chiefs) (FitW 2015). Dispute resolution processes can take several years, and companies should note the risk of demands for payments to facilitate the legal process (ICS 2015). Enforcing a contract takes, on average, 620 days and is more costly than elsewhere in the region (DB 2016).
Corruption in the police force is a very high risk for businesses operating in Mali, with extortion at checkpoints being particularly problematic. In addition, petty corruption among police officers is endemic (OSAC, Aug. 2015). Drivers, businesspeople and residents report that armed groups and government security forces make extortion demands (HRW, Apr. 2015). Receipts are rarely provided, and failure to pay results in beating, detention and delays; the amount asked for typically ranges between CFA 5,000 to 10,000 (USD 8.30 to 16.60) at each major checkpoint (HRW, Apr. 2015).
The police has the responsibility for urban areas, while in rural areas gendarmeries are active (HRR 2014). Aside from corruption, lawlessness and insecurity are major obstacles to business (HRW, Apr. 2015). Armed groups and government security forces often act with impunity, and mechanisms to punish abuse are ineffective (HRW, Apr. 2015; HRR 2014). Businesses demonstrate a low trust in the reliability of police forces and cite business costs due to crime and violence (GCR 2015-2016). Around half of surveyed Malians perceive most of the police to be corrupt (Afrobarometer, Nov. 2015)
Corruption is a high risk for businesses acquiring public licenses, permits or utilities. Businesses report that irregular payments in relation to public utilities commonly occur (GCR 2015-2016). Eighteen percent of Malian survey respondents have paid a bribe or provided a favor in order to obtain public services in the past 12 months (TI, Dec. 2015). There is a stark difference in the availability of public services between rural and urban areas (Afrobarometer, Nov. 2014). Starting a business takes just 8.5 days but is very costly (DB 2016).
Corruption is a high risk in the land administration. Property rights are well defined in principle, but corruption in the Malian bureaucracy negatively affects property rights' implementation in practice (BTI 2016). This includes corrupt practices raising the transaction costs connected to obtaining a legal title and diverging concepts of ownership between nomads and the sedentary population that leads to frequent clashes between these two groups (BTI 2016). Registering property is faster but a little more costly than elsewhere in the region (DB 2016).
Customary practices in the awarding of land titles encourage speculation and fraudulent practices that, in turn, result in the arbitrary attribution of land and make it possible for private individuals or officials to monopolize government properties (IMF, July 2015). Companies should be aware of the risks of money laundering in Mali's real estate sector, which can be attributed to the fact that real estate developers, who are the main players in the construction industry, are not formally subject to the Anti-Money Laundering law and, accordingly, have no familiarity with due diligence measures (IMF, July 2015).
There is a very high risk of encountering corruption in Mali's tax administration. Companies report that bribes in connection with annual tax payments are commonplace (GCR 2015-2016). The total tax rate on profits is 48.3 per cent (DB 2016); however, when registering at local tax offices, tax officials frequently offer lower tax rates in return for bribes or gifts (BBC, Mar. 2015). The vast majority of surveyed Malians believe tax officials to be involved in corruption (AB, Mar. 2014).
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There is a very high risk of corruption when interacting with Mali's customs authorities: Irregular payments are common when importing and exporting goods (GETR 2014). Companies should note that fraud (through the use of import licenses that create preferential rules for individual companies) is widespread (BTI 2016). Porous borders and political instability allow for illicit trade across Mali, which over time established a network of corruption and collusion between smugglers, custom officials, and the security apparatus (Global Initiative, Apr. 2015). Higher value illicit commodities, in particular, require a great degree of protection by smugglers; this is facilitated by violence, corruption, and complicity with the high-level state officials (Global Initiative, Apr. 2015).
There is a very high risk of encountering corruption in Mali's public procurement sector. Irregular payments or bribes in connection with the awarding of public contracts or licenses are common (GCR 2015-2016). Businesses operating in Mali report that favoritism in the decisions of government officials are common and that public funds are often diverted (GCR 2015-2016).
The Office of the Auditor General (Bureau du Verificatuer General [BVG]) has uncovered various cases of large-scale corruption. In a 2012 report, the Auditor General announced that USD 20 million in public funds had been embezzled, and in a 2013 report the number increased to USD 100 million (ICS 2015). Following the 2013 BVG report, the government submitted approximately 100 cases to the Ministry of Justice, all of which still await judicial action (ICS 2015). In 2011, the anti-corruption prosecutor announced that around USD 15 million of embezzled public funds were recovered, but no prosecutions were made (ICS 2015). Similarly, inspectors from the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria uncovered cases of embezzlement of public and donor funds at the Ministry of Health, leading to the prosecution of several high-ranking health ministry officials (ICS 2015). Companies are strongly recommended to use a specialized due diligence tool on public procurement to mitigate corruption risks associated with public procurement in Mali.
There are no reports of corruption available in the sector, but the high levels of corruption in other sectors are likely to impact the natural resource industries, as well. Gold makes up 60 percent of exports, followed by cotton (ICS 2015), and is primarily extracted by international companies but also by some small-scale operators (BTI 2016). Mali is a compliant member of the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative.
Mali's legal framework pertaining to corruption is inadequate, and enforcement is weak (BTI 2016). The Penal Code (CPM) (in French) criminalizes active and passive corruption. Bribery of domestic public officials is illegal, but bribery of foreign public officials and officials of public international organizations is not illegal (IMF, July 2015). Embezzlement by public officials is a criminal offense, while embezzlement in the private sector is not criminalized (IMF, July 2015). The CPM further prohibits abuse of functions, but the offense of favoritism is limited to government procurement. For corruption offenses, the CPM provides prison sentences of up to 20 years, work in the public interest, and/or a fine (IMF, July 2015).
The Law on the Prevention and Repression of Illicit Enrichment (in French) forbids illicit enrichment but fails to adequately define the offense and contains a number of loopholes, such as the exclusion of parliamentarians from the obligation to report their assets and from the possibility of being prosecuted (IMF, Jul. 2015). Mali is not a party to the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery but has ratified the United Nations Convention against Corruption.
Civil society in Mali is heterogeneous and active in various regions (HRR 2014). Although freedom of speech is guaranteed by law, it has been restricted in recent years (FitW 2015). Recent domestic conflicts led to media self-censorship and economic difficulties, limiting news coverage (FotP 2015). The situation in the capital and in the south is normalizing again, but serious challenges to freedom of information and expression remain in the north (FitW 2015). With the financial help of various donor countries, Mali's civil society network is rapidly expanding (BTI 2016). At under 3 percent, internet penetration is one of the lowest in West Africa (FitW 2015).
Bertelsmann Foundation: Bertelsmann Transformation Index 2016.
World Bank: Doing Business 2016.
World Economic Forum: Global Competitiveness Report 2015-2016.
US Department of State: Investment Climate Statement 2015.
Freedom House: Freedom of the Press 2015.
Freedom House: Freedom in the World 2015.
Transparency International: People and corruption: Africa survey 2015 – Global Corruption Barometer, 1 December 2015.
Afrobarometer: AD56: Police corruption in Africa undermines trust, but support for law enforcement remains strong, 2 November 2015.
Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC): "Mali 2015 Crime and Safety Report," 5 August 2015.
International Monetary Fund: Mali: Technical Assistance Report- Anti-Corruption and Anti-Money laundering, July 2015.
Human Rights Watch: "Mali: Lawlessness, Abuses Imperil Population," 14 April 2015.
Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime: Fixing a fractured state? Breaking the cycles of crime, conflict and corruption in Mali and Sahel, April 2015.
BBC: "The country where you can choose your tax rate," 17 March 2015.
US Department of State: Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 2014.
World Economic Forum: The Global Enabling Trade Report 2014.
Afrobarometer: AD3: Developing Africa's infrastructure: The rough road to better services, 14 November 2014.
Afrobarometer: Africa's willing taxpayers thwarted by opaque tax systems, corruption, 5 March 2014.
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"BLOCK OUT", a comical physical game show format created by Nippon TV and Red Arrow Studios, licensed to Zense Entertainment, Thailand.
Having recently announced the action-packed new gameshow format, Beat the Rooms, Nippon TV announced today that the format they developed together with Red Arrow Studios entitled Block Out has been licensed to Zense Entertainment, a leading Thailand-based production company. Block Out, a comical physical game show, will start airing this July on Thailand's Channel 7 on their 17:15-18:00 slot (Monday to Friday, everyday) with more than 100 episodes currently planned.
"My formats team and I are delighted to have Zense Entertainment, a young and very promising production company, produce the Thai version of our super exciting game show, Block Out. This format was born from a segment of our popular show "Pharaoh!"; it is developed and distributed by Nippon TV, in association with Red Arrow Studios, who we co-developed our latest format "Beat the Rooms!". "Pharaoh!" is enjoying its 5th season on Hunan TV, China, and had also been adapted in other countries as well. Block Outtakes the best laughter and action essence from "Pharaoh!" and is sure to make Thai audience laugh every night of the week. We will provide our best services in making sure Zense Entertainment creates a hit show for Channel 7."
It is such an honor for us to have a chance collaborating with Nippon TV, Japan's giant television company, in bringing its Block Out TV format alive. This is an exciting moment for us as this is such a fun filled quiz show format incorporating an innovative physical game structure with high tension and entertainment at its core. Zense Entertainment, with our top class creative team, will make it a big hit show here in Thailand.
In each episode of Block Out, two teams of four players are battling each other in a variety of amusing physical games, combining trivia, strategy, chance and mostly- countless epic falls. Each team plays on a separate wall which ends in a dark, endless pit. There are five rounds in this game, each round will reward the winning-team with points which will be converted into centimetres. The teams' goal is to reach the final with the most centimetres. The five rounds include "Pop-Ups," "Peek-A-Boo," "Russian Roulette," "Crossover," and "The Drop Out."


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Plunging Oil Prices Trigger Economic Downturn in Fracking Boom Town
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Jan. 03, 2015 10:21AM EST Energy
When fracking and horizontal drilling made the oil embedded in North Dakota's underground Bakken shale formation accessible for extraction, it touched off something akin to a gold rush in the state.
With affluence dependent on fracking for oil, North Dakota is vulnerable to oil price fluctuations.
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Oil production has grown 600 percent in the last decade. Small towns, called "man camps," have sprouted with growing populations of oil field workers, bringing both increased economic activity and employment and increased crime and social problems such as sexual assaults. But plummeting oil prices have the potential to upend all that in ways that are hard to predict.
Williston, North Dakota, which is in the heart of the boom, grew from 13,000 to more than double today, which meant major invests in housing and infrastructure. The city is currently $300 million in debt and four years behind in paying off that debt, and plunging oil prices could impact its ability to do so. Williston Mayor Howard Krug talked to Peter O'Dowd of NPR's Here and Now about the challenges his town faces.
"We got real big real quick," admitted Krug, saying that Williston's population could actually be as high as 37,000 and eventually grow to 60,000. He said that the city's housing stock has grown from 5,000 to 10,000 units since 2006 and that another 5,000 units are needed.
Asked how Williston would cope if oil prices continue to stay low or even decline, he said, "Oil prices can go even lower and we'll still be OK here. It will just take us longer to pay for our infrastructure needs. I am optimistic that oil prices are going to go back up. As long as it doesn't stay down for a long period of time, we should be just fine here in western North Dakota."
"Let's say prices do stay lower?" O'Dowd asked. "What sort of tough decisions will you have to make as mayor?"
"The state of North Dakota has enough money to make Williston whole right now," said Krug, referring to its billion-dollar surplus thanks to the shale oil boom. "Also we're doing things internally to watch where that oil price goes so if we need to collect some more taxes on user fees and those kind of things that's the things we'll do. If we have to make the hard choices of cutting back on personnel or projects that would benefit Williston, then we'll just spread them out."
But just in case that fracking thing doesn't pan out, Krug touted the area's agriculture.
"We have some of the most fertile farm land in the entire world. We're number one in lentils. We're number one in durum."
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Finding one's place in a utopian beach community on Florida's northwest coast By Megan Padilla
Here in Alys Beach, on the coast of Florida's panhandle, the sun is so intense that even on a mid-September day my husband, David, and I wait until early evening before crossing over the pristine dunes with our infant daughter, Ailigh. The dusk light is a watercolor play of pinks and indigos washing over a reflective canvas of fine quartz particles, ground away from the Appalachian Mountains during the Ice Age and carried by the Apalachicola River into the Gulf.
I remember my first glimpse of the town as I drove along Highway 30A, just west of Panama City Beach. A cluster of whitewashed walls and peaked roofs eased into view. Photo by: Jon Whittle.
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David dips Ailigh's feet into the frothy white waves, eliciting excited babble; her soft dimpled legs instinctively reach for the ground until her bare feet feel sand for the first time. Florida is our home, and this "first" could have happened at any number of beaches. Yet it is no accident that we chose this one. I've pictured bringing my family here since before we were three.
My husband and I live 400 miles south of Alys Beach, in Orlando. As longtime New Yorkers who had moved to Florida for a job rather than for its virtues, we've spent an inordinate amount of time researching, discussing and imagining our idealized future home. We've envisioned a place with urban elements where we can be part of a community of creative, energetic, open-minded people while living more in tune with nature; a place where our child can play freely outdoors, and her education can effortlessly expand beyond the classroom. After my first visit to Alys Beach and its neighboring communities — known collectively as the Beaches of South Walton — for a magazine assignment in 2008, I wondered if I'd found that place.
I remember my first glimpse of the town as I drove along Highway 30A, just west of Panama City Beach. A cluster of whitewashed walls and peaked roofs eased into view. Against a cloudless sky, Alys Beach was a sparkling oasis that reminded me at once of Morocco, Bermuda, the Mediterranean coast and Latin America — remnants of my traveling days, before family gave home life more appeal than the road.
Walking along the beautiful, and also water-permeable, cobbled pathways, I peek through the occasional decorative cutout or gap in the wooden and iron doors that lead into private courtyards. Photo by: Jon Whittle.
But what really drew me was how Alys Beach's master plan, designed by Andrés Duany of the Miami-based architectural firm DPZ (Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co.), emphasized both community and a sustainable relationship with this fragile slice of Florida's eco-systems. Duany is a co-founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism, which promotes high-density, mixed-use, walkable and ecologically sustainable towns. Alys Beach is one of four New Urbanist communities along 30A, where the movement got its start in 1981 just up the road at Seaside. There, an alluring collection of shops, restaurants and pastel-colored cottages with vast front porches are all connected by lanes and pathways designed for pedestrians, not cars. Seaside set the blueprint for a beach town built away from the beach, protecting the dunes. Alys Beach, like all of the towns along 30A, followed that lead. One of the things that really attracted me to the area is the custodial role its residents play in protecting nature.
The more I learned about Alys Beach, the more I liked it. Not least appealing was the fact that the community consists solely of green-
certified structures that are fortified to withstand hurricanes. The town, bookended by its precious beach and dunes to the south and 22 acres of preserved wetlands to the north, is committed to sustainability and is meant to be standing, alongside its untouched natural habitats, hundreds of years from now — a testament to the vision of the town founder, Jason Comer, whose family bought these 158 acres in 1977 and collaborated with DPZ in the design of the present-day community.
My life has been full since that first visit, including a round-trip move to California and back, and the much-anticipated birth of our daughter. Now, once again, I've come to Alys Beach as a guest, but this time it feels different. I'm with my family, and we're pretending the lavish house to which we hold the key is ours, enjoying the sound the heavy wooden door makes as it thunks closed against the iron latch. The home's open-air entryway leads to a courtyard, where covered settees piled with pillows, containers planted with palms and the soothing sound of water from a wall fountain make a convincing argument for lingering outside. French doors on three sides of the courtyard open into the living room, kitchen and master suite. The fourth side is a wall that is shared with the house next door. Density is key to New Urbanism.
Before settling in, I suggest we explore the town; I remember enough about it to play tour guide for David. On our walk we encounter a tropical soundscape of frogs, trickling fountains and an allée of softly rustling weaver's bamboo off the main pedestrian path. I'm struck by the unfolding landscape of tough native species and other plants adapted to salt, wind and drought — a green-on-green palette that for me is the true essence of Florida.
A private, poolside cabana at nightfall in the central complex, Caliza. Photo by: Jon Whittle.
Walking along the beautiful, and also water-permeable, cobbled pathways, I peek through the occasional decorative cutout or gap in the wooden and iron doors that lead into private courtyards. A pair of white Scotties float on royal-blue pool rafts in one; a woman sits cross-legged, reading, in a chair beside a fountain in another. This choice of seclusion is a defining characteristic that sets Alys Beach apart from other New Urbanist towns. Here, there are no front porches on which to drink lemonade and gab with the neighbors. Instead, families enjoy private outdoor space in the form of courtyards modeled after the patio homes in the city of Antigua, Guatemala.
I am reminded of the house built by my great-grandfather in San Juan de los Lagos in Jalisco, Mexico. During my first and only visit there, in 1999, I spent an emotional day retracing my roots, stitching together details of my past as told to me by a stream of relatives whom I'd never met before. Perhaps it is the weight of this memory that makes me feel like I've already found a home here in Alys Beach.
Near the end of the pedestrian path, we come to the Fire Pit Green and sit in a couple of white Adirondack chairs. This is just one of many pocket parks in Alys Beach, enticing civic spaces where neighbors can interact with one other. As we explore, the parks reveal themselves — sometimes openly, sometimes coyly — as a string of garden moments that invite us to pause on a bench or chair or, one of my favorite spots, on face-to-face seats built into a retaining wall beneath the lacy shade of a willow tree. These thoughtful green spaces provide quiet complements to Alys Beach's central built feature: an architecturally magnificent complex called Caliza that comprises pools, lounge areas, a bar and a restaurant, all surrounded by plantings that provide structure, color, shade and a connection to the surrounding environment.
Returning to the Fire Pit Green, I'm hoping I'll catch sight of Ann Hartley, a kindred spirit I'd met on my earlier visit who lives just off the town green. Ann and her husband, George, were two of Alys Beach's first fulltime residents and have become well known in the Beaches of South Walton as the owners of three restaurants (including George's, the only eatery in Alys Beach). It was Ann, partly, who got me dreaming about living in Alys Beach. When I met her, I was impressed by her and George's fearlessness. "Girl, we're just crazy people," Ann said to me, before going on to tell me the story of how they'd picked up and left Dallas with their three kids in tow and plunked the family down in nearby Seagrove, looking for a place where it didn't matter what kind of car you drove or where you spent your vacation. "If you ever need a push," Ann said, "call me." It's an offer I still keep in my back pocket.
Summer's daily storm strides in, so we give up on seeing Ann for now and race back to our house as rain begins to fall. We climb the stairs and watch the show from the balcony. Sheets of water and flashes of lightning fill the space between the heavy gray sky and the golden oak scrub covering the untouched swath of land to the west. The thunder shakes the walls, but we feel protected in our cocoonlike house. Watching the storm, we engage in our favorite pastime pondering the road ahead.
The weather moves out, leaving behind the scent of pine needles and sand, and a coolness in the air. David and I gather up our baby and walk to the beach. Perhaps, one day, she'll call this place home and be able to say, "This was the first beach I ever stood on."


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Raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and New Castle County, Delaware, Biden studied at the University of Delaware before earning his law degree from Syracuse University in 1968. He was elected a New Castle County Councillor in 1970 and became the sixth-youngest senator in American history when he was elected to the U. S. Senate from Delaware in 1972, at the age of 29. Biden was a longtime member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and eventually became its chairman. He opposed the Gulf War in 1991 and supported expanding the NATO alliance into Eastern Europe and its intervention in the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. He supported the resolution authorizing the Iraq War in 2002, and later opposed the surge of U. S. troops in 2007. He also chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1987 to 1995, dealing with drug policy, crime prevention, and civil liberties issues; led the effort to pass the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and the Violence Against Women Act; and oversaw six U. S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings, including the contentious hearings for Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 and again in 2008.
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In 1933, Nazi students at more than 30 German universities pillaged libraries in search of books they considered to be "un-German." Among the literary and political writings they threw into the flames were the works of Erich Maria Remarque.
We count the weeks no more. It was winter when I came up, and when the shells exploded the frozen clods of earth were just as dangerous as the fragments. Now the trees are green again. Our life alternates between billets and the front. We have almost grown accustomed to it; war is a cause of death like cancer and tuberculosis, like influenza and dysentery. The deaths are merely more frequent, more varied and terrible.
—Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front), 1929
Fire Oath
"Fire oaths" were statements to be read as books were tossed to the flames. The German Student Association sent out a circular containing these statements before the book burnings. The fire oaths then accompanied the burning of works written by the individual authors named in the statements.
Against literary betrayal of the soldiers of the World War
For the education of the nation in the spirit of standing to battle
Works Burned
All works published before May 1933
Among the first books singled out for banning or burning in Nazi Germany were volumes that championed pacifism and anti-militarism. No other work represented these tenets more forcibly than All Quiet on the Western Front by German author Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970). Translated into dozens of languages, with sales exceeding 3.5 million in the first two years in Germany alone, the novel was made into a classic Hollywood film.
Although Remarque was himself a World War I veteran wounded in action, his realistic novel provoked a separate "fire oath," which branded the story of a young German soldier killed during World War I "a literary betrayal of the soldiers of the world war." Vilified by German nationalists and Nazis, particularly after the film appeared in 1930, Remarque left Germany for Switzerland in 1932 and immigrated to the United States in 1939.
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This week, while working across China on a series of new development projects, major green economic initiatives are front page news. Back in the US, domestic development community struggles with financial market challenges, along with the cost/value assessment of new green building technologies and materials. China's aggressive development expansion marches on with rapid advancement in sustainable building. The pace of this shift in China is fueled by government policy, subsidies and private business growth, based on continued domestic market development.
Increasing focus on incentives for carbon emission reduction and green energy technologies are not just impacting the direction of industries in China, but rippling across the globe. With the help of government subsidies and a pricing strategy set at below cost, Suntech, China's biggest solar panel manufacturer, has been gaining global market share while driving down costs. This year they are on track to overtake Germany's largest supplier, and move into the second place spot globally, behind the US's First Solar.
This week's headline news quoted China's director-general of climate change, for the first time giving a time frame for a decline in greenhouse gas emissions – 2050. Green initiatives and consumer preferences from smaller car engines to energy-saving light bulb technology are shifting major markets already.
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Spouse Joanna Gomez
Full Name Alexander Hidalgo Santos
Born June 10, 1970 (age 45) (1970-06-10) Davao City, Philippines
Occupation TV Anchor, Reporter, Journalist, Host, Radio Commentator, News Director
Employer Aliw Broadcasting Corporation 2014-presentABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation 1993-2014
Children Juan AlejandroJoaquin AlbertoJavier Alfonzo
Education Holy Cross of Davao College, Ateneo de Davao University
TV shows TV Patrol, Umagang Kay Ganda, TV Patrol Weekend
Awards PMPC Star Awards for TV Best morning show Host
Nominations PMPC Star Awards for TV Best Male Newscaster
Similar People Bernadette Sembrano, Pinky Webb, Winnie Cordero, Anthony Taberna, Julius Babao
Alexander Hidalgo Santos (born June 10, 1970 in Davao City), professionally known as Alex Santos, is a Filipino field reporter who is currently a News Anchor for PTV 4, news director for DWIZ, and a former newscaster and television host for ABS-CBN and DZMM.
Television career
Santos graduated elementary and high school from Holy Cross of Davao College, a private, Catholic institution in Davao City. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the Ateneo de Davao University.
Santos began his career as a television reporter and newsreader with TV Patrol Southern Mindanao (previously known as TV Patrol Mindanao) from 1993 to 1996. He also hosted a local variety show Alas Kwatro of ABS-CBN Davao. In 1996, he transferred to Metro Manila to become a news editor for regional affiliates of ABS-CBN Corporation's Sarimanok News Network (now ANC, the ABS-CBN News Channel), a position he held until 2006.
In 1998, Santos has been started his career as sportscaster and courtside reporter of the newly formed Metropolitan Basketball Association (a regional-professional basketball league), first as a sideline reporter during the MBA's maiden season in 1998, and later as a play-by-play commentator in 1999. The MBA has been produced by ABS-CBN Sports and covered on Studio 23.
At DZMM, he anchored the weekday edition of Radyo Patrol Balita: Alas Kuwatro also with Bernadette Sembrano (replaced Jasmin Romero in 2011) and All Aboard! Pinoy Abroad! with Maresciel Yao.
He began anchoring TV Patrol Weekend alongside Bernadette Sembrano on July 8, 2006, and in 2007 became a presenter on the morning show Umagang Kay Ganda. From 2009, he was one of the co-hosts XXX: Exklusibong, Explosibong, Exposé before being replaced by Anthony Taberna in 2010.
A year after, he left ABS-CBN, now a news director at DWIZ 882 kHz and a news anchor of PTV.
He is married to Joanna Gomez-Santos, Vice President for TV Production Operations of ABS-CBN Corporation, and together they have three sons: Juan Alejandro (Juancho), Joaquin Alberto (Joaquin) and Javier Alfonzo (Javi).
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Hadrosauriformes es un clado de dinosaurios ornitópodos iguanodontianos, que vivieron desde el Cretácico inferior hasta el Cretácico superior (hace aproximadamente 133 y 65 de años, desde el Hauteriviense hasta el Berriasiense), en lo que hoy es Asia, Europa, África y América.

Descripción

Son los más avanzados de los ornitópodos, estando entre ellos los más grandes. Fueron cuadrúpedos pero podían correr en 2 patas, los dedos se convirtieron en cascos para mejorar la tracción. Sus cráneos presentaban un importante aparato masticador, con un pico córneo para arrancar la vegetación, una batería de dientes atrás y fuertes músculos masticadores.

Sistemática

Hadrosauriformes se define como el clado más inclusivo que contiene al Iguanodon bernissartensis (Boulenger, 1881) y al Parasaurolophus walkeri (Parks, 1922).

Taxonomía

 Clado Hadrosauriformes
 Lurdusaurus
 Lanzhousaurus
 Mantellisaurus
 Proa
 Familia Iguanodontidae
 Superfamilia Hadrosauroidea

Enlaces externos

 Ficha y estado en Taxon Search

Ornithopoda

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Q: Member "push" is not available in struct ... memory outside of storage Below is the contract:
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later

pragma solidity 0.6.12;
// Contracts
pragma experimental ABIEncoderV2;

contract test{
    mapping(address => address) public managers;

    struct tokenInfo{
      address token;
      uint256 decimals;
      uint256 amount;
  }

   struct recordInfo{
       uint time;
       tokenInfo[] tokens;
   }

   mapping(address => mapping(uint => recordInfo)) public record_List;

    function claim(address pool) public {
        address manager = address(0);
        require(managers[pool] != manager,"claim is not manager"); // this `require` is necessary, if delete it, cannot compile, why?
         //record
         recordInfo storage record; // claim `storage`, compile succeed
         delete record.time;
         delete record.tokens;
         record.time = block.timestamp;
        for( uint i = 0;i < 2;i++){
            uint balance;
            tokenInfo memory token;
            token.token = address(0);
            token.amount = balance;
            token.decimals = 18;
            record.tokens.push(token);
        }
        record_List[pool][2] = record;
    }
}

then I change the recordInfo storage record to recordInfo memory record;, the contract cannot compile in the remix
   function claim(address pool) public {
        address manager = address(0);
        require(managers[pool] != manager,"claim is not manager"); // this `require` is necessary, if delete it, cannot compile, why?
         //record
         recordInfo memory record; // claim `memory`, cannot compile
         delete record.time;
         delete record.tokens;
         record.time = block.timestamp;
        for( uint i = 0;i < 2;i++){
            uint balance;
            tokenInfo memory token;
            token.token = address(0);
            token.amount = balance;
            token.decimals = 18;
            record.tokens.push(token);
        }
        record_List[pool][2] = record;
    }

and here is the error msg :
from solidity:
tests/testuint.sol:38:13: TypeError: Member "push" is not available in struct test.tokenInfo memory[] memory outside of storage.
            record.tokens.push(token);
            ^----------------^

*

*Why claimed storage here okay instead of  memory?
can here claim it to memory?

*If storage is used, why need the require?

A:
Why claimed storage here okay instead of memory?

This happened because push() method can use only for object memorized in storage. Thus, for object stored in memory you can only insert data specifying index.
More information about this topic on documentation.

Can here claim it to memory?

No, you cannot claim it changing storage position from storage to memory, because of all records are stored into storage space and you cannot update or delete their data if you change memory position.

If storage is used, why need the require?

I think that it's a bug about compiler 0.6. Thus, if you try to change Solidity compiler from 0.6 to 0.8, the issues will show itself. Irrespective of this, the compiler say you that the record (declared into claim() method) don't point to any data present into record_List mapping. In a simple words, it wasn't initialized. In your case, you can consider to retrieve a specific element from record_List mapping and then you do delete and update operations.
An example:
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
pragma solidity 0.6.12;
// Contracts
pragma experimental ABIEncoderV2;

contract test{
    mapping(address => address) public managers;

    struct tokenInfo{
      address token;
      uint256 decimals;
      uint256 amount;
  }

   struct recordInfo{
       uint time;
       tokenInfo[] tokens;
   }

   mapping(address => mapping(uint => recordInfo)) public record_List;

    function claim(address pool, uint idRecord) public {
        address manager = address(0);
        require(managers[pool] != manager,"claim is not manager");
        // NOTE: I retrieve a specific element from record_List mapping using pool and idRecord parameters for querying the mapping
        recordInfo storage record = record_List[pool][idRecord];
        delete record.time;
        delete record.tokens;
        record.time = block.timestamp;
        for( uint i = 0;i < 2;i++){
            uint balance;
            tokenInfo memory token;
            token.token = address(0);
            token.amount = balance;
            token.decimals = 18;
            record.tokens.push(token);
        }
        record_List[pool][2] = record;
    }
}


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Homepage Military AviationAGM-88G AARGM-ER successfully engages moving maritime target on 4th flight test
AGM-88G AARGM-ER successfully engages moving maritime target on 4th flight test
The US Navy launched the AGM-88G AARGM-ER from an F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft successfully engaging an operationally-representative, moving maritime target.
Northrop Grumman has completed the fourth successful flight test of its AGM-88G Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile Extended Range (AARGM-ER). The US Navy launched the missile from an F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft on Nov. 30, 2022 at the Point Mugu Sea Range off the coast of southern California, successfully engaging an operationally-representative, moving maritime target.
"AARGM-ER's performance during testing continues to validate the missile's ability to detect, identify, locate and effectively engage critical air-defense targets from an extended range," said CAPT. Alex Dutko, Navy Program Manager for Direct and Time Sensitive Strike (PMA-242), in a company news release. "This test proved the systems' ability to engage moving maritime targets, a vital capability supporting our Navy's ability to control sea lanes during conflict. Congratulations to the government/industry team for their continual focus on delivering this crucial capability to our warfighters."
Northrop Grumman is currently under contract to deliver production units of AARGM-ER to support Initial Operational Capability fielding within the next two years. Northrop Grumman has received a low-rate initial production contract for the first and second lots of AARGM-ER.
AARGM-ER leverages existing AARGM sensors, electronics and digital models with the addition of a new high-performance air vehicle, solid rocket motor and advanced warhead to provide vital counter-air-defense capability for US Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps warfighters.
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"The necessity for a reliable, standoff, survivable weapon continues to grow as our adversaries' threat systems become longer range and more lethal," said Gordon Turner, vice president, advanced weapons, Northrop Grumman. "AARGM-ER continues to demonstrate the ability to affordably meet mission requirements and safeguard those protecting our country."
The AGM-88G AARGM-ER is being integrated on the F/A-18E/F and EA-18G, and will also be compatible for integration on the F-35A/B/C.
The original AGM-88E AARGM is a medium-range air-to-ground missile employed for Suppression and/or Destruction of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD/DEAD). An ACAT IC Cooperative program with the Italian Air Force, the AARGM system is an upgrade and compliment to the AGM-88 High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM).
AARGM baseline capabilities include an expanded target set, counter-shutdown capability, advanced signals processing for improved detection and locating, geographic specificity providing aircrew the opportunity to define missile-impact zones and impact-avoidance zones, and a weapon impact-assessment broadcast capability providing for battle damage assessment cueing.
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Gourmet chefs, exquisite menus and wines from top-notch winemakers: this is what all epicures and wine lovers can experience in the spring month May in the Hotel & Spa Larimar. Larimar guests and also gourmets from the region will have the chance to get spoiled with first-class delights by special guest gourmet chefs. To accompany the menus, first-rate wines from top winemakers' vineyards in Austria will be served.
As a prelude to every gourmet evening you will enjoy an aperitif together with the chefs at 5:30 pm. You can have a look into the show kitchen where the menu of the evening is presented to you. Also, take the chance to look over our chefs' shoulders where you can discover one or the other of the chefs' kitchen secrets. At about 6:00 pm you will take your seats in the Larimar Restaurant where the first of six courses with an ideally paired wine will be served.
When the gourmet dinner is over you can let the evening fade out with one or the other wine from the Larimar vinothek and meet the winemakers in person. Learn interesting things about the work of the winemakers in their yards and cellars and the particularities of the different wine regions.
Our guest chefs cook their menus together with the well coordinated team round the Larimar chef de cuisine Reinhard Puchmayer. Since 2007 the Larimar gourmet and vitality cuisine is awarded with the "Grüne Haube".
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is it possible in FileUltimate to move the temporary upload folder to a different path instead of \App_Data\UploadTemp?
Yes (at least in FileVista, don't know about the other products): Just go to the "Administration" Page, choose "Application settings" (Button in top left corner), and go to the second Tab (Folder Browsing). There's a location setting for temporary files.
I guess you are talking about ExampleFileSelector which is a helper component only used in example projects. There is ExampleFileSelector.UploadFolder property which you can change, the default value is ~/App_Data/Uploads. Other than that there is no GleamTech component which uses the one you said \App_Data\UploadTemp as the default value, so it must be something else in your project.
sorry I tagged the post but did not explicit said what component i was talking about.


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Butterfield: Hoping to upset the odds
By SFC Media Fri 06 Apr	Chelsea v Saints
Photo by James Bridle | Danny Butterfield
Under-18s coach Danny Butterfield is pleased to have a full squad fit and ready for selection, as Saints travel to table toppers Chelsea tomorrow morning.
Butterfield's side make the trip to Cobham with a nine game unbeaten record in tact, while their London counterparts are undefeated at home for the past two-and-a-half seasons.
Relishing the opportunity to play against one of the countries top youth teams, Butterfield is mindful of Chelsea's quality, but will take confidence from the earlier 4-0 victory over the Blues at Staplewood.
"We've got a relatively strong squad to chose from, so we're looking forward to it," he said.
"Chelsea have a great record, three years unbeaten at home, and they're a very strong team. Full of internationals.
"It will be very tough, but we're the only team in the country this season to beat them. We go there with the belief that we're capable of getting a result.
"The lads performed really well on the day [during the victory over Chelsea at Staplewood]. I'm sure that they can take confidence from that, but it'll be a different breed at their place.
"They're all playing individually well, and there's no reason why that unbeaten run cannot be extended. We're hoping for it to continue, but mindful of the calibre of opposition."
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The manager looks ahead to Tuesday night's match at Selhurst Park.
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Thunderbastard Competitors Key To Success
With the women's Thunderbastard at Chapter 148: Start Spreading The News… now just days away, we spoke to each of the competitors to get their thoughts and plans on the signature PROGRESS Wrestling match.
"This ThunderBastard is filled with some of the best wrestlers this country has to offer, and for that reason I feel honoured to be apart of it. But this isn't just a match I'm happy to be in, it's a match that I have a legacy in. I am the only winner of the Thunderbastard match, and I will be entering, with my whole spirit, to continue to build my legacy.
I have always put my trust in my own hands and I have proven twice before that I am enough. This time is no different. I have a strength that lies deeper than blood and bone, and the world is on my journey to see that." Kanji
"PROGRESS management are finally seeing how undeniable The Villainess is, I'm a formidable threat to anyone in this division and they all know nobody can rip there opponents apart limb by limb than me, and those that doubt that I'll show them exactly how much of a threat come January 22nd.
Oh, and Lana has nothing to worry about, I respect her too much to pretend this isn't a massive opportunity but with that key firmly in the Lana Austin Experience. We have an advantage over everyone who dares to step to Lana. I know the plan and I know my destiny!" Skye Smitson
"Winning the Thunderbastard means I am one step closer to winning the PROGRESS Women's Championship, and cements my place in the history books for PROGRESS. I'm already there as the winner of the Revelations of a Divine Love tournament, but to be a double tournament winner would be so much sweeter. Also, I believe I would be the ONLY woman to do that.
I've changed my mind set for 2023 so the other woman need to be careful." Rhio
"The last time I set foot in a PROGRESS ring, I was competing for the women's title.
To me, nothing has changed. I look at this Thunderbastard match and I see five other talented and hungry women. But there is one thing they are not. They are not inevitable.
I promise you, with that key in hand, Lana Austin is on a countdown, it's only a matter of time until PROGRESS is inevitable." Dani Luna
"The Thunderbastard is just a great excuse to fight more people in less time, perfect place to put the entire women's decision on notice.
My strategy is the same as it always is, head down, run as hard as I can and take as many people to Hell with me." Raven Creed
"The odds are against me in this match, but that doesn't mean I won't overcome the impossible.
I'm used to a challenge and I'm sure I'll come out on top" Millie McKenzie
"I watched Rhio go on and win tournaments, I watched Kanji on and win the PROGRESS title, I've watched Giselle win the title and I watched Lana win the title… It's my fu*king turn now.
Keys open doors, for some they'll always remain locked, but for me? This is key will open every door for me. That key's mine and on Sunday I intend to take it." Lizzy Evo
Who do you think will win? Find out this Sunday at the Electric Ballroom, Camden, when the Thunderbastard takes place at Chapter 148: Start Spreading The News….
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Always remember to be understanding because as we get older we tend to be very set in our ways and this means being stubborn at times. If the person you are caring for is being very stubborn and it is not a big issue, let it go. If the stubbornness is over something that is not negotiable it's much easier to handle and you'll have much less stress when you know to expect it.
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In honor of Throwback Thursday, another Lil Wayne track has been released from the vault.
As StreetRunner explained, Wayne's rhymes appeared on "That's Not Love" off Fabolous' The S.O.U.L. Tape and "That's Not Luv" by Trae Tha Truth.
Listen to "That's Not Luv" below.


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Green Line Service Advisory: Bus shuttles replace trains between Hawthorne/Lennox and Mariposa this Saturday
by Lily Allen , October 21, 2015
UPDATE: Work has been completed early, and trains will run regular service to all Green Line stations on Sunday. For real-time service updates, follow us on Twitter at @metrolosangeles or @metrolaalerts.
Bus shuttles are set to replace trains this weekend on the Metro Green Line between Hawthorne/Lennox and Mariposa Station. From Friday, Oct. 23 after 9 p.m. through Sunday, Oct. 25, close
of service, all eastbound trains departing Redondo Beach will return west at Mariposa, and the last stop for westbound trains out of Norwalk will be Hawthrone/Lennox. Aviation/LAX Station will be closed. Customers traveling between Mariposa, Aviation/LAX and Hawthorne/Lennox will need to board supplementary Metro Bus shuttles in order to do so.
Green Line weekend service levels will be as follows: on Friday, trains will run every 20 minutes. The last, complete, westbound trips serving all stations on Friday evening will depart Norwalk Station at 7:54 p.m., 8:12 p.m., and 8:30. The last, complete, eastbound trips will depart Redondo Beach Station at 8 p.m., 8:20, and 8:39. (Please note, all times are subject to work-related delays.)
On Saturday and Sunday, trains will arrive every 15 minutes until 8:30 p.m., then every 20 minutes through close of service. A total of 10 buses, scheduled to arrive approximately every 10 minutes, will be in place to shuttle customers between the three affected stations.
While we realize this departure from regularly scheduled Green Line service will be a hassle for some, it's also pretty exciting for those who are following the progress of The Crenshaw/LAX Transit Project (for a map, scroll to the bottom of this article). The project–which will connect the Green and Expo Lines via Aviation/LAX and Expo/Crenshaw Station–has been moving steadily along since its groundbreaking on January 21, 2014. This weekend's bus shuttles will allow workers to access the tracks at Aviation/LAX Station, where they will be installing a safety barrier to separate Green Line tracks/trains from the future construction crews who will be building out the Crenshaw/LAX light rail from Aviation/LAX Station.
Metro personnel will be on hand, and happy to lend assistance, at Hawthorne/Lennox, Aviation/LAX and Mariposa Station throughout the weekend. For transit news and real-time service updates, follow us on Twitter at @metrolosangeles or @metrolaalerts. Finally, we'd like to thank all Green Line customers for their patience and understanding this weekend. To learn more about the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Project, click here.
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Dombrot-le-Sec és un municipi francès, situat al departament dels Vosges i a la regió del Gran Est. L'any 2007 tenia 354 habitants.

Demografia

Població
El 2007 la població de fet de Dombrot-le-Sec era de 354 persones. Hi havia 149 famílies, de les quals 41 eren unipersonals (19 homes vivint sols i 22 dones vivint soles), 49 parelles sense fills, 52 parelles amb fills i 7 famílies monoparentals amb fills.

La població ha evolucionat segons el següent gràfic:

Habitants censats

Habitatges
El 2007 hi havia 165 habitatges, 152 eren l'habitatge principal de la família, 4 eren segones residències i 9 estaven desocupats. 147 eren cases i 18 eren apartaments. Dels 152 habitatges principals, 133 estaven ocupats pels seus propietaris, 17 estaven llogats i ocupats pels llogaters i 3 estaven cedits a títol gratuït; 1 tenia dues cambres, 12 en tenien tres, 36 en tenien quatre i 104 en tenien cinc o més. 127 habitatges disposaven pel capbaix d'una plaça de pàrquing. A 58 habitatges hi havia un automòbil i a 82 n'hi havia dos o més.

Piràmide de població
La piràmide de població per edats i sexe el 2009 era:

Economia
El 2007 la població en edat de treballar era de 226 persones, 167 eren actives i 59 eren inactives. De les 167 persones actives 150 estaven ocupades (79 homes i 71 dones) i 17 estaven aturades (6 homes i 11 dones). De les 59 persones inactives 29 estaven jubilades, 10 estaven estudiant i 20 estaven classificades com a «altres inactius».

Ingressos
El 2009 a Dombrot-le-Sec hi havia 162 unitats fiscals que integraven 385,5 persones, la mediana anual d'ingressos fiscals per persona era de 18.091 €.

Activitats econòmiques
Dels 10 establiments que hi havia el 2007, 1 era d'una empresa de fabricació d'altres productes industrials, 5 d'empreses de construcció, 1 d'una empresa de comerç i reparació d'automòbils, 1 d'una empresa d'hostatgeria i restauració, 1 d'una empresa financera i 1 d'una empresa de serveis.

Dels 6 establiments de servei als particulars que hi havia el 2009, 2 eren fusteries, 1 lampisteria, 2 electricistes i 1 restaurant.

L'únic establiment comercial que hi havia el 2009 era una botiga d'equipament de la llar.

L'any 2000 a Dombrot-le-Sec hi havia 21 explotacions agrícoles que ocupaven un total de 1.470 hectàrees.

Equipaments sanitaris i escolars
El 2009 hi havia una escola elemental integrada dins d'un grup escolar amb les comunes properes formant una escola dispersa.

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

Referències

 Résumé statistique Fitxa resum de dades estadístiques de Dombrot-le-Sec a l'INSEE.
 Évolution et structure de la population Fitxa amb el detall de dades de Dombrot-le-Sec a l'INSEE
 France par commune  Dades detallades de tots els municipis de França accessibles a partir del mapa.

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Wright Savers
They were ex-fishermen mostly, but to say they'd chosen a safer life ashore would be a lie.
The Surfmen of the 19th century United States Life Saving Service were the forerunners of today's US Coast Guard, a service that's still renowned for helping aviators in need.
History's first ground crew
A hundred years ago, those brave men lived in windswept stations along the worst stretches of the Atlantic coast, having abandoned the rhythms of a fishing life for one of constant readiness, putting to sea only when conditions were at their worst.
'The Indispensable Men' of the Kill Devil Hills USLS Station (L to R) Jesse Ward, Tom Beachman, unknown, John Daniels and Will Dough. (Courtesy USCG History Office)
They saved the lives of many sailors. But in 1903, for the first time ever, they came to the aid of aviation too.
Orville and Wilbur Wright would conquer the air with ingenuity, determination, and patience. But they couldn't have done it without the men of the Kill Devil Hills Life Saving Station – history's first ground crew.
It was one of them, Surfman John T. Daniels, who took that most famous aviation photo of all.
Wilbur had set up a heavy Korona-V glass-plate camera on December 17th, 1903 and, when everything else was ready, asked Daniels to squeeze the rubber shutter-release bulb as the Flyer reach the end of its launch rail. As ever, Daniels happily did as his visitor from Ohio asked.
That first flight at Kill Devil Hills, NC. Photographer? Surfman John T Daniels. (Library of Congress)
A hospitable people
When the Wrights first went searching for a location with small hills, open beaches and strong, steady winds, the US Weather Bureau suggested Kitty Hawk, NC. So the brothers wrote to the local postmaster, who assured them the sands around Kill Devil Hills were exactly what they wanted – windy, wide and clear.
The Tate family of Kitty Hawk Post Office. William J Tate seated and Mrs Tate standing (I think). Presumably the little girls are their daughters Pauline and Irene, who would soon be wearing dresses made of Wright Glider linen. (via USCG History Office)
That was one William J Tate (whose wife was officially the postmaster/mistress at Kitty Hawk). He wrote the Wrights:
"If you decide to try your machine here & come, I will take pleasure in doing all I can for your convenience & success & pleasure, & I assure you you will find a hospitable people when you come among us."
The brothers duly arrived at his door on the morning of September 13, 1900 and Tate made them welcome. Soon, Orville and Wilbur were assembling a glider on the Tates' front lawn and using Mrs Tate's sewing machine to stitch the last of the fabric covering.
More than 1,000 experiments
They then flew the craft as a kite over the Kill Devil Hills, four miles south of Kitty Hawk. The conditions were everything they'd hoped for, and they were obviously delighted by the friendly support and enforced discretion of the isolated community.
The Kitty Hawk locals were rather less impressed. Tate would later recall:
"The mental attitude of the natives toward the Wrights was that they were a simple pair of harmless cranks that were wasting their time at a fool attempt to do something that was impossible. The chief argument against their success could be heard at the stores and post office, and ran something like this: 'God didn't intend man to fly. If He did He would have given him a set of wings on his shoulders. No, siree, nobody need not try to do what God didn't intend for him to do.'
"I recall, not once, but many times, that when I cited the fact that other things as wonderful had been accomplished, I was quickly told that I was a 'darned sight crazier than the Wrights were'."
The Wright brothers' 1902 camp and their much improved, man-lifting glider. The Wrights had realised the key to safe flight wasn't technology, but training. (Library of Congress)
Still, it was a friendly relationship and the 'harmless cranks' left their glider behind when they went back to Ohio. Orville would later write to Tate:
"As I remember, when we came back to Kitty Hawk in 1901, Irene and Pauline were wearing dresses made from the sateen wing coverings of our first machine."
Having learned much from the successes and failures of their 1900 experiments, the Wrights returned to Kitty Hawk in 1901 and 1902, bringing ever-larger and more refined gliders and building a semi-permanent shed to protect them at big Kill Devil Hill.
By the end of 1901 they'd uncovered the many shortcomings of the aeronautical knowledge they'd been using. By 1902, they'd built a larger and more advanced glider – one that would, at last, be able to lift them into the air.
And that year, through more than 1,000 experiments, they taught themselves to fly.
A priceless friendship
The Wrights' 1903 camp. They lived in the smaller 1902 shed, and built the Flyer in the larger hangar. (Library of Congress)
When the Wrights returned to North Carolina in September 1903, they were ready to fly a powered machine. While they waited for it to arrive, they set about putting their old shed in order and building a new, larger one next to it.
Inevitably, natural hospitality and curiosity brought Surfman Adam Etheridge calling. He visited the Wrights' camp with his wife and child, opening a priceless friendship between the brothers and the crew of the Kill Devil Hills Life Saving Station.
The keeper in charge was Captain Jesse Etheridge Ward. A native of the Outer Banks, he was born on nearby Roanoke Island in 1856 and worked as a fisherman until he joined the service in 1880. He and his station crew – Surfmen Will S. Dough, Adam D. Etheridge, Bob L. Wescott, John T. Daniels, Tom Beacham, and "Uncle Benny" O'Neal – were as intrigued as anyone by the 'cranks from Ohio'. On their lonely stretch of coast, Wilbur and Orville were about the only entertainment going.
Keeper In Charge 'Captain' Jesse Etheridge Ward, whose support would be an invaluable element in the Wright Brothers' success. (Courtesy USCG History Office)
As the Wrights demonstrated their growing proficiency and, more importantly, a constant kindness and respect toward the locals, they earned the friendship of the Life Savers. Captain Ward agreed to help where he could, and cleared his crew to provide assistance whenever duty allowed.
Soon the Surfmen were an integral part of the preparations for powered flight. Etheridge would report:
"We really helped around there hauling timber and carrying mail out to them each day… When we got through cleaning up around the [Life Saving] station some of us would take the mail out to them, staying around and helping around until maybe near dinner time. In pretty weather we would be out there while they were gliding, watching them.
"Then after they began to assemble the [powered flying] machine in the house they would let us in and we began to become interested in carrying the mail just to look on and see what they were doing. They did not mind us at all because they knew where we were from and knew us…"
The Life Savers also went to collect or buy food for the brothers, who would sometimes invite them to dine. According to the Life Savers, the Wrights were both excellent cooks.
Hardy assistants
By November, the Wright brothers had come to count on their hardy assistants from the Kill Devil Hills Life Saving Station. They started hanging a red flag from the workshop roof when they wanted help, and any available Life Saver would happily oblige. The Surfmen aided in the assembly of that first Wright Flyer, along with carrying the machine, launch rail and other equipment to and from the camp.
As their date with history approached, Wilbur and Orville suffered several frustrating setbacks. Most serious was the continual failure of their propeller shafts. Eventually, on November 28th, Orville took the old shafts back to Dayton to make a pair of replacements from solid tool steel. Captain Ward ferried the aeronaut (and the broken shafts) across to the the mainland in his launch.
Orville returned with the new shafts late on Friday, December the 11th and the machine was ready by the next afternoon. However that Saturday was uncharacteristically calm and no flights were attempted.
To their friends and ground crew
Before the abortive flight of December 14th, 1903, on the slope of the Big Kill Devil Hill. The boys and dog fled when Wilbur started the Flyer's motor. (Library of Congress)
"Monday, December 14, was a beautiful day," Orville wrote later, "but there was not enough wind to enable a start to be made from the level ground about camp. We therefore decided to attempt a flight from the side of the big Kill Devil Hill."
The brothers hung out the red flag and before long Daniels, Westcott, Beacham and Dough had arrived to help set everything up on the hillside some 400 metres away. Two local boys and their dog also turned up to watch.
Wilbur and Orville tossed a coin to see who might become history's first powered pilot. Wilbur won. But with the calm air the Flyer was unable to gain enough airspeed on the launch rail – it rose sharply, stalled and crashed left-wing down onto the sand. Wilbur cut the engine and climbed out unhurt, but the Flyer was finished for the day.
They repaired the damage on the 15th, but the 16th again proved too calm for flying.
Wilbur contemplates the broken front skid and foreplane after his December 14th crash. (Library of Congress)
The 17th dawned cold and clear, with a steady 22 knot wind blowing off the sea. Again, the Wright brothers hung out a signal to their friends and ground crew at the Life Saving Station. Adam Etheridge, John Daniels and Will Dough were off-duty that morning and promptly answered the call.
Meanwhile, Bob Wescott, who was on duty at the station and preparing the midday meal, ran to the top of the lookout tower to follow events through a spyglass. He became such an engrossed witness to history that he forgot about his pancakes, and they were burned black!
'Laugh and holler and clap'
Ever fair-minded, the Wrights knew it was Orville's turn to take the controls after Wilbur's failed attempt on the 14th. Once the men had helped set everything up and the motor was started, the pair shook hands.
One Surfman noted how "…they held on to each other's hand, sort o' like two folks parting who weren't sure they'd ever see one another again."
While Orville climbed into the pilot's cradle, Wilbur set up the camera and told Daniels when and how to take the hoped-for photo. He then shouted for the other Surfmen "not to look too sad, but to …laugh and holler and clap… and try to cheer Orville up when he started", before going to steady the Flyer's wingtip for takeoff.
At 10:35 that morning, as the wind blew and Wescott's pancakes burned, Orville and the Wright Flyer lifted into the air after a shorter-than-expected run and flew, under control, for an historic 120 yards. With a recorded head-wind of 35 feet per second, the brothers claimed an air distance of 540 feet.
Profiles of the first flights. It's easy to see why the Wrights felt the fourth and longest flight represented true success. (US National Park Service)
All rushed to save it
The Surfmen then helped bring the Flyer back to the rail for a second flight. At 11.20, Wilbur took off and covered 175 yards against a slightly lesser wind. By 11.40, the men had everything ready for Orville to fly again. This time, after 15 seconds and 200 yards, a sudden gust tested all the skill he'd learned from flying their gliders, and he was (barely) able to bring the machine down in one piece.
The damaged Flyer after Wilbur's 852-foot triumph on December 17th, 1903. Click for an enlarged view to see the broken foreplane strut. (Library of Congress)
Again, the Surfmen helped bring the Flyer back to the launch point. Right on noon, Wilbur took off and flew for a total of 852 feet over 59 seconds, before pitching down hard onto the sand. Despite damage to the foreplane support, this flight convinced the Wrights of their success and they expected to have the machine repaired for further flights in a day or two.
The Kitty Hawk wind, though, had other ideas. A sudden gust lifted the machine and they all rushed to save it. Wilbur grabbed the front, while Orville and John Daniels got hold of the wing supports from behind. As the Flyer continued to lift, both Wilbur and Orville were forced to let go.
But John Daniels had been trained as a Surfman. He held on.
"I found myself caught in them wires," he remembered later, "and the machine blowing across the beach heading for the ocean, landing first on one end and then on the other, rolling over and over, and me getting more tangled up in it all the time. I tell you, I was plumb scared."
Orville recorded that Daniels was thrown head over heels inside the machine, and got badly bruised as he fell against the framework, chain guides and motor. Luckily he wasn't more seriously injured, but the Flyer was finished.
The Life Savers now helped Wilbur and Orville carry the tangled wreck back to the shed, where they spent the next few days crating it up and despatching it back to Dayton to be repaired over the winter.
First flight markers at the Wright Brothers National Memorial, NC. (readontheroad | flickr.com CC BY-NC 2.0)
Those tough Outerbanksmen
The 1902 photograph that the Wrights presented to their indispensable ground crew of Kill Devil Hills Life Saving Station at the end of 1903. (Courtesy USCG History Office)
The Wright Brothers were enormously grateful to those tough Outerbanksmen who helped them make history. Before they left that winter, they presented the Life Savers with a photo of themselves in front of their Kill Devil Hills Station, along with leftover equipment from the camp and five dollars toward a Christmas dinner. They also presented a Wright bicycle to John T Daniels, who used it to patrol the lonely beaches around Kitty Hawk for years.
The Wrights received more help from their friends when they returned to the remote discretion of Kitty Hawk in 1905, and again in 1908 to test their prototype two-man Flyer for the US Army.
Although time has forgotten them – and quite unjustly, I might add – those tough, brave forerunners of the Coastguard were lionised by the press during early anniversaries of December 17th, 1903.
Postmaster (or, more correctly, Postmistress' spouse) William Tate helped place historic markers around the site for the 25th Anniversary celebrations in 1928. And, in December 1953, the stalwart John T Daniels overcame a lifelong fear of flying to join another aviation pioneer, Coast Guard Helicopter Pilot #2 Lieutenant Stewart Graham, above the newly re-designated Wright Brothers National Memorial.
He made the flight in a US Coastguard Helicopter. . . Wilbur and Orville Wright would certainly have approved.
A fitting flypast – USCG MH-60 Jayhawks out of Air Station Elizabeth City, NC, pass over Wright Brothers National Memorial in March 2016, to mark the (official) centenary of USCG aviation. (USCG Photo)
I am deeply indebted to Scott Price, Deputy Historian, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, DC, for his original article on the surfmen of the Outer Banks, and for his permission to draw on his research for this article.
Please visit the USCG History site to read more.
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4 thoughts on "Wright Savers"
Ron Rapp says:
See, this is why I love Airscape: you connect the dots in a way I've never seen.
I knew about John T. Daniels being the world's most underappreciated photog, but never would have associated the success of the Wrights with the U.S. Coast Guard.
airscapemag says:
I know. Amazing aspect of history, right? All kudos to Scott Price at the USCG HO.
Fascinating post! I'm not sure why I put off reading it for so long. 😛
Could I request a blog post about the Alberto Santos-Dumont first in flight claim and why the Brazilians think he was the first in flight?
Thanks for the feedback Hannah. There is one article about Santos Dumont here (https://airscapemag.com/2016/04/03/santos-dumont/) but that is more about his ballooning… He was certainly a fascinating character. He's generally credited with the first successful powered flight in Europe in 1906, which he managed without reference to the Wright brothers. Other uncontrolled hops had been made before, and his was barely controlled, but there you are. Exactly why the Brazilians want to believe he made the first flight anywhere will need a little more investigation…
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Pastoraltheologie mit Göttinger Predigtmeditationen. Monatsschrift für Wissenschaft und Praxis in Kirche und Gesellschaft. (GPM) ist der Titel einer theologischen Zeitschrift. Seit 1918 wird sie von Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht in Göttingen verlegt. Sie erscheint monatlich und feierte im Januar 2011 ihr hundertjähriges Bestehen.

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Q: How do I create a function that takes binary as input and generates certain Cartesian coordinates based on the binary value and index? Given an input such as 00111011, I would like to generate a set of Cartesian coordinates such as:
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I can easily write a computer program that does it, but I was curious if it's possible to write a mathematical function that does the same thing.
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Maybe something like this:
Let $B$ be a binary string such as 001111011. Let $i \in \mathbb{Z}$. Let $B_i$ represent the value of the string at index $i$.  We want to define a function $f:B\to\mathbb{N}\times \mathbb{N}$.
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