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Unite and Divide
Posted on September 1, 2019 by wirralleaks
As we said – It was never gonna happen…
We proudly present this contribution from a much respected local political insider who a) has never given us a bum steer and b) has an opinion we value.
Never have we ever wanted to get up off our sunbed and raise a glass to this coruscating analysis of local politics:
So, Tony Norbury won't be allowed to lose his seat to a teenage Green Party member next May, he has been told by Wirral Labour that he is not a fit and proper person to represent Labour, as an elected local representative.
Kathy and Alan Runswick, Dave Brennan and Paul Davies ( who now control Wirral Labour) are Unite, they are not Labour let alone Corbynites, they just used Corbyn for their own political advantage. They have got their man in Birkenhead now, Mick , and the next part of the plan is to replace Angela Eagle in Wallasey with Margaret Greenwood as Wirral West is going to be hard to defend. This was ALWAYS about Unite taking control and "Tight Pants" was a well meaning if useful fool for them. He agitated against Phil Davies and Frank Field and allowed Mick "man of the people" Whitley to stroll in and take Birkenhead.
The word is Whitless intends to get Norbury, John Maher, Cllr Bird and everybody else associated with him out the party as they have served their purpose. Mick is backing defeated ex cllr Angie Davies for Prenton next year and is making friendly noises to the old controlling right wingers as he needs them to campaign for him, why else did the Runswick's et al allow Claughton Cllr George Davies onto the panel and not Comrade Norbury, weird aye!
Anyway there is no route back for him as in truth Labour are going to lose at least two seats next May and maybe as many as four and they are very unlikely to win Rock Ferry or Pensby. Labour are finished on Wirral for local elections, the council is likely to adopt a "committee system" to replace the current "Strong Leader Model" they currently have which will make it impossible for Labour to control Wirral as they have for the last decade. That's fine by Unite as they only ever cared about the parliamentary seats, condemning the residents of Wirral to a failing a council is just "collateral damage" as far as they are concerned.
The sad part is the same union controlling tactics that allowed Frank Field to become MP back in 79 are what has been used 40 years later!! If you create slate voting monkeys who obediently follow somebody's list then this is what happens, it's also how you end up with Jared O'Mara and Fiona Onasanya as (disgraced) Labour MPs.
Labour is so broken now that Britain faces a decade of right wing governance but rest assured that Mick, Margaret and Dan (Carden) will be shouting very loudly about how terrible things are for "their communities", though luckily for them it won't be personally that bad as £80,000 a year will at least lessen the burden of austerity to their families. How is it that each of these Unite stooges, NONE OF WHOM LIVE IN THEIR RESPECTIVE CONSTITUENCIES, were able to be presented as the "local choice"?
Anyway I don't expect We will hear or see much of Cllr Tony "tight pants" Norbury again so we should wish him good luck with his future and hope he enjoys his remaining time as a socialist representative
Posted in Uncategorized	| Tagged Alan Runswick, Angela Eagle, Angie Davies, Cllr Angela Davies, Cllr Tony Norbury, Dan Carden, Dave Brennan, Kathy Runswick, Margaret Greenwood, Mick Whitley, Paul Davies, Strong Leader Model, Unite, Whitless	| 15 Replies
EXCLUSIVE : The runners and riders in the race to be the next MP for Birkenhead
Red silks all the way in a two horse race?
16th February 2019 could be the most the most significant date in Birkenhead's political history in the last 40 years. Birkenhead Constituency Labour Party (CLP) have started the process of finding a replacement for Frank Field – the man who has been the town's MP since 1979 – and this Saturday will see a special meeting take place where a Selection Committee will vote on who will be the parliamentary candidate at the next General Election.
So let's have a look at who is in the running for £77k (plus expenses) prize that comes with being first past the post:
Whilst we understand that Frank Field is a non-runner following his withdrawal of the Labour whip and can no longer be considered a candidate we just hope that someone has checked the rule book when it comes to running for selection- just in case there's a Steward's Enquiry when the result is announced. We say this as a journalist at New Statesman recently wrote this :
Therefore assuming that Field is out of the race who are jockeying for position to be riding high as the Labour candidate in one of the safest seats in the UK ?
Well first off in stall 1 and running in the 'Maomentum ' colours is Tony 'Tight Fit' Norbury, local councillor for Prenton and scion of the so-called Wirral 'hard left'. He has a favourite's chance due to his 'comrade' John Maher and that latter's control of the Birkenhead CLP and consequently the make up of the Selection Committee. Under these circumstances Norbury would appear to be the front runner…
However in stall 2 running Norbury close will be Mick Whitley in the Unite colours . We recently introduced you to him here and reported
Mr Whitley, formerly a long-standing convener at the Vauxhall car plant in nearby Ellesmere Port, was born in the area and is the former north-west regional secretary of the Unite union.
He has gained the support of Momentum, which holds a powerful presence in north-west England, while left-wing MPs such as John McDonnell, Rebecca Long-Bailey and Dan Carden have voiced their support.
The local branches of Unite, FBU, RMT, BFAWU and Aslef have also formally endorsed Mr Whitley's candidacy.
Thus far ,despite living in Wirral (but not in Birkenhead?), Whitley has, up until now, not had a local political (or media) profile. However now that Unite's Regional Political Officer,Alison Spencer Scragg, is running his campaign (and pulling the reins) Whitley has taken a sudden interest in turning up at food banks,demos and picket lines and making sure he's seen to be doing so on his Twitter account which was only set up in November 2018…
Jez 'n' Mick
Finally, in stall 3 we have the token filly in the race. Theresa 'I'm not Tony or Mick' Griffin is running in the colours of the EU flag/Unison/GMB. The clock is ticking on MEP Griffin as she looks like being out of a job by the end of next month unless Brexit is halted or delayed. Fresh from her defeat in the selection in Walton in 2017 we predict Theresa will again aim to be the token woman on the shortlist and hope that following her defeat she may make it third time lucky and actually win in Liverpool Riverside when their trigger ballot happens and current Labour incumbent Louise Ellman is ousted. Consequently Griffin's half-hearted attempt to become the next MP for Birkenhead has thus far amounted to nothing more than taking a sudden interest in Birkenhead's flyovers :
Thus a Labour insider sums up the current selection process situation for us as follows :
There will also be several local also rans who will no doubt throw their caps into the ring but in truth the members of Birkenhead CLP will have a choice between Tony Norbury or Mick Whitley, which will be akin to them being asked if they would like to be stabbed or burned to death. Ah thank God for a new and kinder politics……
Posted in Uncategorized	| Tagged Birkenhead CLP, Cllr Tony Norbury, Dan Carden, EU, Frank Field, GMB, Jennie Formby, Jeremy Corbyn, John Maher, John McDonnell, Louise Ellman, Mick Whitley, Momentum, New Statesman, Nick Brown, Rebecca Long-Bailey, Theresa Griffin MEP, Unison, Unite	| 11 Replies
The Twelve Days of Christmas : Day Three – Go Yellow
We'd like to thank the Rail,Maritime & Transport (RMT) Union for the little stick of rock that found itself in this year's Christmas stocking. How thoughtful of them to match the colour of the confectionary to not only the livery of Merseytravel but in solidarity with les gilets jaunes and the current colour of rebellion.
Now we haven't always seen eye to eye with unions (and Unison in particular) but we're quite happy to support righteous and concerted causes such as the Cammell Laird 'Turning the Tide on Casualisation' action organised by GMB and Unite and the RMT campaign to maintain guards on the trains.
What we're not so happy to report is former Wirral Council spin doctor Emma Degg gegging in on the latter situation and squarely blaming the disruption to Northern train services on 'strike action' :
Emma Degg, Chief Executive of the North West Business Leadership Team (NWBLT): "We welcome this proactive initiative on the part of Northern to seek to resolve the ongoing strike action that has caused so much damage to our region's economy. We hope both sides can work together to deliver the much-needed improvements that are planned to our railways in 2019."
Full story : Employers and passenger groups back independent inquiry to resolve RMT dispute at Northern
We're not usually concerned with what comes out of Degg's mouth but we have to say we doff our cap to this consummate player with the great connections – making her a mover and a shaker in the North West, commenting on matters of regional significance and from what we hear, still harbouring political ambitions. But then you know what they say – you can't keep a good woman down (insert own joke here).
Unfortunately, from our perspective , the people running the show are the appeasers who are given a platform to appeal for reasonableness and wanting everything to be as nice and pleasant and comfortable as their own existence without acknowledging that some people's lives are brutal and tough and their livelihoods are at the whim of so-called 'leaders' .
Dare we a suggest that those who lack the political and personal guile to 'succeed' as 'leaders' need to be a bit more Gallic in their outlook and and be more like les gilets jaunes – a little less civil, a little less servile , a little less obedient…
Posted in Uncategorized	| Tagged Cammell Laird, Emma Degg, GMB, Keep The Guards On The Trains, Mersytravel, North West Business Leadership Team, NWBLT, RMT, Turning the Tide on Casualisation, Unison, Unite	| 6 Replies
Christmas Cheer for Cammell Laird Workers
Pic : Ross Quinn, Unite
Very welcome news that the 291 planned redundancies for Cammell Laird workers have been rescinded just before Christmas.
However the fact that a 'task force' has been set up by Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson to save shipyard jobs raises yet more questions about the role of Birkenhead MP Frank Field and his failure to publicly support the recent strike action. It is interesting to note that also on the 'task force' is Wirral Council 'leader' Cllr Phil 'Power Boy Pip' Davies. We understand Pip even made an appearance on the picket line although it was in the aftermath of high profile political and public support for strikers.
We have to say as an observer of local politics and local media that recent events have been a PR disaster for Cammell Laird's current management and particularly CEO John Syvret who had to publicly apologise for claiming that strikers were "pandering to negative stereotypes of Merseyside" . But then Syvret was given the platform to make such claims in the local media without initially any discussion of why strike action was considered to be necessary by unions. This was not just about redundancies but about the ongoing spectre of 'casualisation' which is something that the local media seems to have belatedly acknowledged in the wake of widespread public and political support.
There may have been a Christmas truce declared in this particular battle but the war against employment practices which undermine workers rights continues…
Posted in Uncategorized	| Tagged Cammell Laird, Casualisation, Cllr Phil Davies, Frank Field, John Syvret, Mayor Joe Anderson, Power Boy Pip, Ross Quinn, Task force, Unite	| 5 Replies
Frank Field's Casual Approach to Casualisation
The mainstream local press are keeping a very low profile on this week's local ongoing strike action at Cammell Laird . More significantly the 'Independent' Labour MP in who's constituency the shipyard has been a significant source of employment has been conspicuous by his silence.
As we reported in our The 'Casualisation' of Cammell Laird story which followed a leak from Wirral South Constituency Labour Party (CLP) meeting which was asked to support the now striking workers "Turning the Tide on Casualisation " campaign :
You'd think that the "Turning the tide on Casualisation" campaign would be right up neighbouring MP Frank Field's street wouldn't you? And indeed as part of Field's relentless media presence he has obviously made sure that Cammell Laird gets a mention. A recent press release can be found on his blog here
However whilst securing shipbuilding orders are indeed one way of securing jobs at Cammell Laird you will note that the main thrust of the Unions campaign is the possible use of non-Unionised(?), cheaper labour accessed via an agency thereby undermining local workers rights ,pay and conditions and the potential cause of future redundancies. Once again you would think this would be meat and potatoes for Field. We'd certainly expect him to be raising questions about who's behind this mysterious agency – we certainly have and the information we've has opened up some interesting lines of enquiry.
Perhaps it could be both impolitic and impolite for Field to mention such matters when Cammell Laird is a major contributor (along with Wirral Council taxpayers) to Frank Field's pet project 'Feeding Birkenhead' ?
Subsequently it was left to Dan Carden , MP for Liverpool Walton to raise the matter in the House of Commons
The proposed redundancy of nearly 300 highly skilled workers at Cammell Laird, including some of my constituents, will cause untold hardship to those affected. We must take a stand against these unnecessary job cuts and turn the tide against casualisation. pic.twitter.com/nbuAiNEhCQ
— Dan Carden MP (@DanCardenMP) November 24, 2018
Meanwhile on the same day the MP for Birkenhead was raising this important matter :
Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many
applications he has received from local authorities for funding to
implement their Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan; and how
many of those applications were (a) successful and received the funding
in full and (b) unsuccessful.
No wonder Labour List reports :
The solidarity and support from local Labour Party members has been exemplary. It was particularly moving to watch the enormous support from local activists and Labour members as the workers walked out for the first time on Friday. Delegates to Labour's North West Regional conference raised £250 towards the fighting fund, and Unite members at BAE donated £3,000. The latter sends a significant message of worker solidarity to the two employers, since it is BAE that has a teaming agreement to build the aforementioned Royal Navy ships with Cammell Laird.
The workers have received support from many Labour MPs, with Justin Madders and Dan Carden raising the issue in the chamber and visiting the picket line. As for the local MP for Birkenhead, Frank Field – he is nowhere to be seen. Long thought to have been in cahoots with Cammell Laird management in opposition to workers taking action at the site, Field has come under fire from local supporters for 'regurgitating' the company line.
Posted in Uncategorized	| Tagged Cammell Laird, Casuualisation, Dan Carden, Frank Field, GMB, Justin Madders, Turming the tide on casualisation, Unite	| 6 Replies
The 'Casualisation' of Cammell Laird
SPOILER ALERT for those attending tonight's Wirral South Constituency Labour Party (CLP) meeting
We have received a copy of an Emergency Motion about Cammell Laird shipyard which we fully endorse and would like to share especially as we are currently joining the dots on a current investigation involving the shipyard.
Birkenhead's MP Frank Field is battling to safeguard jobs at Cammell Laird by supporting the yard's bids for two major shipbuilding orders – one from the Ministry of Defence and the other from Merseytravel…
Frank comments: 'In the shipbuilding industry, the sure-fire way of being able to safeguard jobs is to keep bidding for and winning major orders. Cammell Laird is a world leader in shipbuilding and I am determined to ensure it has a fighting chance of securing these two orders. The yard's longstanding technical credibility and expertise, as well as its unique capabilities of driving innovation and upskilling the workforce, go hand in hand with its vital role in supporting small and medium sized businesses across our region.'
Meanwhile we encourage our readers to support this campaign and sign the petition:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save-jobs-at-cammell-lairds
Posted in Uncategorized	| Tagged Camell Laird, Casualisation, Feeding Birkenhead, Frank Field, GMB, Merseytravel, Ministry of Defence, Peel Ports, Unite, Wirral Council, Wirral South CLP	| 4 Replies
The Sorry Story of The Lauries : Chapter Two
We knew we were opening a can of worms – or tapeworms as we're talking about parasites here – when we delved into 'The Sorry Story of The Lauries' :
https://wirralleaks.wordpress.com/2016/11/12/the-sorry-story-of-the-lauries/
This has been reinforced by a couple of people who've been in touch to tell us about the dubious machinations of the indivisible Wirral Council / Wirral Chamber of Commerce connection which is basically shaping up to be a Paula Basnett Family Benefit Society and/or a safe space for Wirral Council failures (at our expense).
Our first correspondent tells us :
I having just read your piece on the Lauries centre it confirms what everyone knew that the Lauries name was poached in order to receive building grant. In 2011 work started on a so called Craven Street/Paterson Steet regeneration scheme. It quickly deteriorated into chaos and the work done shambolic. I soon came into conflict with the architect ( his credentials are suspect) and Wirral Council who put me on to Councillor Kenny who seemed cowed by the builders and architects and did not put forward anyone's complaints at the meetings held in the Methodist Hall. Wirral Council eventually signed off the bad workmanship against my wishes even though Councillor Kenny was well informed of the damage and unfinished work to my home. I have tried to go to arbitration in order to get the work finished on the grounds that my home has been devalued by thousands in comparison to similar homes in the area . I also attempting to put together a complaint to the Ombudsman regarding Frank Field and Unite union.
Whilst we implore you to support the gallant Philip Barton's ' Retake the Lauries' Crowdfund campaign below can we just say that the response so far is indicative of the apathy that infects the insular peninsula when it comes to local politics and therefore it seems the local electorate is ripe for the picking when it comes to picking up the tab!
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/RetakeTheLauriesLtd?utm_id=1&utm_term=zQQ2nGpMV
The Lauries Community Centre in Claughton Road, Birkenhead, was built in 2003 using millions of pounds of tax-payers money secured from European Union and UK Government regeneration funds. It was a community-led project designed to provide much-needed community space in what is one of the most socially and economically deprived wards in England.
A company limited by guarantee, The Lauries Limited, was incorporated to run the centre, with public accountability assured by the inclusion as directors of two elected Ward Councillors. This company has members who elect between 5 and 11 directors at each annual general meeting to run the centre, which is leased from Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council for a peppercorn rent.
However, on 31 May 2015, all of the existing directors resigned and were replaced by two private business people who are not publicly accountable. Local residents were concerned to find recently that the building is no longer open to the public and it appears that The Lauries Limited is not being operated in accordance with its own articles of association – not least because there are now only two directors rather than the minimum of five.
This campaign seeks to re-establish public accountability for the running of this much-needed community centre in what is one of the most deprived parts of England and to restore control of the appointment of directors of The Lauries Limited to members of the company.
We are likely to encounter resolute resistance from the two directors of the company and need to establish a fighting fund to pay the substantial anticipated legal costs that we are likely to incur in wrestling control away from the current directors and bringing the company and the community centre back into democratic community control.
Posted in Uncategorized	| Tagged Cllr Brian Kenny, Crowdfund, Frank Field, Local Government Ombudsman, Paula Basnett, Philip Barton, Retake the Lauries, The Lauries, Unite, Wirral Chamber of Commerce, Wirral Council	| 5 Replies


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HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining, LLC v. Renewable Fuels Association, 594 U.S. ___ (2021), was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with exemptions from blending requirements for small refineries set by the Renewable Fuel Standard program. The case dealt with the statutory interpretation of the congressional language for extending the exemption, if this allowed a lapse in the exemption or not. In a 6–3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that by the majority's interpretation of the law, the congressional law did allow for refineries to seek extensions after their exemption period had lapsed.

Background
Congress established the Renewable Fuel Standard program as part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to promotion the production of renewable fuels. The program, managed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), requires oil refineries to blend in renewable fuels, such as ethanol, into their products produced from fossil fuels. The amount to blend increased each year. As the program progressed, Congress recognized that the blending requirements created potentially disproportionate economic hardships for smaller refineries, those that produced less than 75,000 barrels per year, and created a temporary exemption in the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 for smaller refineries lasting through 2010. Congress instructed the Department of Energy (DOE) to study if there were disproportionate impacts of this blending requirements on the smaller refineries from which then the EPA could then grant extensions to the original exemption for smaller refiners. DOE did conclude that such hardships did exist, leading the EPA to begin issuing extensions of the original exemption, requiring the refinery to annually reapply for further extensions.

The case at hand involves three small refineries who had either failed to file for an extension in 2011, or failed to renew their extension with the EPA: HollyFrontier Woods Cross Refining LLC, HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining LLC, and Wynnewood Refining Company. After their exemption period has expired, the three refineries separately sought a new extension to the exemption from the EPA, which the EPA granted. As more exemptions were being passed during the Trump administration, the EPA's decisions to allow for these three refineries to have disrupted extended exemptions was challenged in court by several renewable fuels associations. The associations argued that the congressional language around the Renewable Fuels Program meant that once a small refinery's exemption extension had expired, the exemption could no longer be prolonged.   The refineries argued that the language of the law suggested an extension may be applied for "at any time", and did not require a continuous exemption period. The consolidated suit was brought directly to the Tenth Circuit, where the court overturned the EPA's decision, stating the agency exceeded its authority, and agreed with the renewable fuel associations' assertion that by interpretation of "extension", there had to be an exemption to extend in place already.

Supreme Court
The refineries petitioned to the Supreme Court to review the Tenth Circuit's ruling, and the case was granted certiorari in January 2021. Oral hearing were held on April 27, 2021.

The Court issued its decision on June 25, 2021. In a 6–3 decision, the Supreme Court reversed the Tenth Circuit's ruling, and concluded a refinery that had allowed their exemption period to lapse can still apply to extend to re-continue the exemption period. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Stephen Breyer, and Brett Kavanaugh joined. Gorsuch wrote on the majority's statutory interpretation of the congressional language used to reach this decision. First, Gorsuch stated that Congress had not defined "extension" in context of the Renewable Fuels Program, so they turned to the word's ordinary meaning, and that if Congress wanted a more restrictive meaning of "extension", they would have included such language in the law. Gorsuch wrote that their interpretation was "entirely natural -- and consistent with ordinary usage -- to seek an 'extension' of time even after some lapse," similar to seeking "an extension for a term paper after the deadline has passed." Second, the majority had considered the arguments put forth by the associates as to why an alternative interpretation could be read into the passed congressional language, but deemed that if that was the intent that Congress had, there was language that should have been included in the bill to indicate that. Gorsuch wrote that nothing in the law "commands a continuity requirement" as the associations asserted. Finally, Gorsuch relied on the Chevron deference in that in absence of other standing language from Congress, that the EPA's interpretation of the congressional language have priority.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote a dissent joined by Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. Barrett argued that the majority's interpretation of the ordinary meaning of "extension" was incorrect, and that it was implied that this required the continuous exemption period to be in place to extend.

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Rio 2016: Kiribati weightlifter dances to highlight climate change
David Katoatau, who lost his home in Pacific nation to extreme weather, draws cheers as he uses trademark moves 'to tell people about Kiribati before it sinks'
Mon 15 Aug 2016 20.59 EDT Last modified on Wed 14 Feb 2018 12.14 EST
David Katoatau of Kiribati dances during the Men's 105kg Group B Weightlifting event in Rio. Photograph: Tom Pennington/Getty Images
A weightlifter who lost his family's house in a cyclone danced off stage at the Rio Olympics on Tuesday to raise awareness of the threat climate change poses to his remote Pacific nation.
David Katoatau got more cheers than any other lifter, including a Brazilian, throughout the men's 105kg B Group.
Pacific nations beg for help for islanders when 'calamity' of climate change hits
Katoatau's dances became a trademark of his victory in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland two years ago. That was the first gold medal in any global sporting event for his island nation of Kiribati.
He was also a social media sensation for his dancing as Kiribati's flag bearer at the Rio Games' opening ceremony.
Kiribati, located in the central Pacific, is suffering "extreme coastal erosion not just of the beaches but also of the land" according to its government.
Dancing weightlifter entertains at Rio Olympics
Some scientists have predicted a catastrophic effect on Kiribati's 21 inhabited islands.
"Most people don't know where Kiribati is," Katoatau told Reuters. "I want people to know more about us so I use weightlifting, and my dancing, to show the world.
"I wrote an open letter to the world last year to tell people about all the homes lost to rising sea levels. I don't know how many years it will be before it sinks."
That letter was distributed at a Commonwealth Games Federation meeting by Katoatau's coach, Paul Coffa.
"We don't have the resources to save ourselves," Katoatau said. Kiribati also lacks the resources for basic sports facilities.
"There was no gym when I started training as a boy, and there is no gym now," said Katoatau, 32.
"I trained on the beach in the open sun. The bar would become too hot to touch so I had to train at six in the morning."
David Katoatau of Kiribati dances off the weightlifting platform. Photograph: Stoyan Nenov/Reuters
Katoatau moved to the Oceania Weightlifting Institute when he was 16 and has been coached by Coffa since then. He now lives and trains at the Institute in Noumea, New Caledonia in the South Pacific.
He has a coaching certificate and intends to team up with Coffa when his lifting days are over. His next target, though, is defending his Commonwealth title in Gold Coast, Australia, in 2018.
He won a state reward of A$11,000 ($8,400) for his Commonwealth gold and used it to build a home for his parents on Tarawa atoll, the most populated of Kiribati's more than 30 atolls and islands. The house was destroyed in a cyclone soon after its construction, he said.
"We have built another one, but it's close to the sea so there is always a worry."
Katoatau, who finished 15th in his 2008 Olympic debut, came in sixth in the B Group with 349kg, 1kg more than his Commonwealth Games effort.
He made his first five lifts but failed with the last one. He kissed the bar and danced off stage regardless, to the cheers of the crowd. "I'll be dancing again tonight," he said.

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State Company Demands 50% in Major Oil Deal
By Julie Tolkacheva
Dec. 14 1994 00:00
One of the largest potential foreign investments in Russia's energy sector, the Timan-Pechora project, has hit a snag over a local company's demand to take a 50 percent stake, company officials said Monday.
Negotiations came to a standstill late Friday as state oil exploration company Arkhangelskgeologiya refused to drop its claim to an equity stake in the Timan Pechora Company L.L.C., a joint venture set up earlier this year to exploit the oilfields, said Tom Hazen, president of the Timan-Pechora Company.
In an interview Tuesday, Hazen called Arkhangelskgeologiya's proposal "outrageous" and said it was "totally unacceptable" for the company.
Arkhangelskgeologiya's demand, if realized, would mean that the four Western oil giants that established the Timan-Pechora Company -- Texaco, Amoco, Exxon and Norsk Hydro -- would be left with less than 25 percent of revenues.
"Some Russian company must participate in the project," said Yury Tyustkin, deputy general director of Arkhangelskgeologiya, in a telephone interview from the company's headquarters in Arkhangelsk. "We are not some kind of Indonesia or Angola -- we don't need to give such a project entirely to foreigners."
The breakdown of negotiations comes on the eve of a visit by U.S. Vice President Al Gore, who some observers expected would finalize the Timan-Pechora deal this week during a meeting with Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin.
The project -- worth up to $15 billion over the next 10 to 12 years -- would be one of the largest ever in the former Soviet Union, along with the $20 billion Tengizchevroil venture in Kazakhstan and the $10 billion Sakhalin-2 oil and gas deal signed between Russia and a Western consortium earlier this year.
The Sakhalin deal, however, is on hold until the Russian parliament passes a law on production sharing, while Russian control of key oil pipelines has handicapped the Chevron project.
The Timan-Pechora Company and the Russian government have been in talks on the project since April, but the question about Arkhangelskgeologiya's stake only appeared five weeks ago, Hazen said. According to Tyustkin, Arkhangelskgeologiya has already been guaranteed 15 percent of the whole investment as the main contractor on the project, with the exclusive right to drill 45 wells. Under a preliminary agreement on profit-sharing, reached by the Western consortium and the Russian government in November, Russia would get more than 50 percent of cash inflow from exports.
A 50 percent equity stake in the Timan-Pechora Company would bring Arkhangelskgeologiya half of the remaining revenues, said Tyustkin. At present, Texaco and Exxon each have a 30 percent stake in the Timan-Pechora Company, while Amoco and Norsk Hydro split the remaining 40 percent.
Hazen said Arkhangelskgeologiya simply does not have enough money to cover its share of the $10 billion to $15 billion investment that he estimated the project will require over the next 10 to 12 years.
"We do not think they have enough finance qualification," Hazen said, adding that the Timan-Pechora Company had already sunk $50 million into the project. "We have no interest on behalf of our shareholders" to give Arkhangelskgeologiya an equity stake.
Tyustkin, however, was more optimistic about his company's ability to finance its share of the deal.
"Neither Arkhangelskgeologiya nor the consortium have the money," he said. "But once the Timan-Pechora Company obtains a license to develop oilfields, it will get a bank loan."
The government has not yet granted the Timan-Pechora Company a license to develop the projected 400 million tons of oil deposited in the region. Arkhangelskgeologiya only has a license to do geological research.
Tyustkin said Arkhangelskgeologiya's proposal to take an equity stake had the support of the local administration, which stands to reap extra tax revenues if the Russian company becomes a partner in the Timan-Pechora Company.


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Those are beauties. Would you mind posting who makes these and where you find your exotic wood?
Which pistol do you have in mind for that set Ray?
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LOL...I was thinking the Bruin or Valor so we're on the same page. Those will look great on a pistol with a black finish. I can't wait to see the other sets that Bob's working on.


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Younghoon David Kim, Chairman of Daesung Group inaugurated as Chair of the World Energy Council
- The first Korean elected to head the world's largest independent network of global energy leaders
- A new leadership model is expected to lead the grand transition of the energy sector
Daesung Group Chairman Younghoon David Kim has been inaugurated as Chair of the World Energy Council (WEC), an international energy leaders' organization, commencing a three-year term. Kim is the first Korean and the second Asian to lead the Council as Chair. He served for 6 years as Vice Chair for Asia-Pacific and South Asia from 2005, and in 2013, he was elected as Co-chair.
Jean-Marie Dauger, a former Executive Vice-Chair at Engie – a France-based global energy player, will serve as Co-chair for the next 3 years. Kim's predecessor, Marie-Jose Nadeau, was appointed as an honorary chair of the Council. The inaugural ceremony was held on 13th October at the 23rd Istanbul World Energy Congress.
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The World Energy Council holds a triennial global event, the 'World Energy Congress', as well as its 'World Energy Leaders' Summits' one to two times per year. With international events and regional gatherings, the Council offers opportunities for leaders to discuss regional and global energy issues and actively seek solutions for upcoming challenges. The Council informs global, national and regional energy strategies by publishing authoritative studies and working through its extensive member network to facilitate the dialogue that creates energy policy. Independent and inclusive, the WEC's work covers all nations and the complete energy spectrum – from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources.
"We are seeing a steady paradigm shift from a carbon-based economy powered by the combustion of fossil fuels to one based on new sources of energy and new modes of power generation," Kim said in his inaugural speech. "Now, what this industry sorely needs are visionaries who have the whole picture in their sights. We need to seek out and to support the future Michael Faradays toiling in the labs or workshops from Nairobi to New York."
Under the theme "Embracing New Frontiers," the 23rd World Energy Congress took place in Istanbul between 9 and 13 October. It featured 250 top level speakers including heads of states - President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin and President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as well as leaders of global energy giants such as Bob Dudley, CEO of BP and Amin Nasser, the CEO of Saudi Aramco. During the four-day program, sessions focused on not only the current challenges the sector faces, but also the future and how the energy industry may equip itself to respond. A consistent theme was how to balance the energy trilemma – energy security, energy equity, and environmental sustainability. WEC also released its 'World Energy Scenarios to 2060' which features three scenarios that describe very different visions of what our future may hold.
Younghoon David Kim, the newly elected Chair of the World Energy Council
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Q: Image to data uri without base64 I have image as base64 data URI but want to convert it to Data URI without base64 (in my case image size doesn't matter) - how to do it? This is what I try so far

let imgB64="Qk3KAAAAAAAAAD4AAAAoAAAAHQAAACMAAAABAAEAAAAAAIwAAADDDgAAww4AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP///wD//f/4//B/+P/tv/j/nc/4/n3z+P39/fjx+Px45uUzuJddz8h3vd/wd73f8He93/BvvN/wX78f8D+f3/BOZz/wdfr/8Hv9//B7+f/we+X/8Hvd//B73f/we93/8GTd/nBfUniQP4+m6L/f3tjP396489/eeP3f2fj+X9f4/5/P+P/Pv/j/8n/4//3/+A";

let imgStr=atob(imgB64);                                 // decode base 64 to str
let bytes=Uint8Array.from(imgStr, c => c.charCodeAt(0)); // string to bytes

picB64.src='data:image;base64,'+imgB64                      // this works

pic.src='data:image;text/plain,'+encodeURIComponent(bytes); // this not work :(

This works

This not works

Here is example showing that this is possible (probably partially broken but works)

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src=data:image;text/plain,BMv%0A%00%00%00%00%00%00x%00%00%00(%00%00%00%40%00%00%00%40%00%00%00%01%00%04%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%C3%84%0E%00%00%C3%84%0E%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%2B%C2%81%C3%BC%00%08%1F%C3%8D%00%08Zr%00%C3%BC%C3%BA%C3%BC%00%5E%5E%5E%00%119%C2%B9%00%08%C2%93%0B%00%C2%AB%C2%AB%C2%AB%00%00%C3%BF%00%00%00%C3%BF%00%00%00%C3%BF%C3%BC%00%C3%BC%C3%BF%C2%AB%00%C2%AB%C3%BF%00%00%00%C3%BF%00%00%00%C3%BF%00%00%00%00%00%02%00%03%01%03%00%01%01%02%03%03%03%02%03%03%02%00%03%01%01%01%03%03%03%02%03%01%02%02%01%02%01%00%00%00%01%03%00%00%02%00%02%01%02%00%02%01%03%03%01%01%02%01%01%02%00%01%02%02%03%00%01%02%03%00%01%01%01%01%03%01%02%01%01%02%03%02%02%03%00%00%00%02%01%01%02%01%02%01%00%03%00%02%02%03%01%03%01%02%02%02%02%00%01%01%02%00%00%03%00%02%01%01%03%03%03%03%01%03%02%01%00%00%01%02%02%01%00%00%01%03%03%00%00%00%03%00%01%01%01%01%01%02%00%02%00%03%03%03%00%02%02%03%01%02%01%02%00%01%01%03%02%01%02%00%00%00%00%00%01%00%01%02%02%01%01%03%03%02%02%02%01%02%03%02%00%00%03%00%03%00%01%03%01%01%02%02%03%02%03%03%03%02%03%03%02%01%03%02%03%01%00%02%03%03%00%02%02%01%02%02%01%02%02%03%03%01%00%01%03%03%03%01%01%01%01%01%00%03%02%00%00%00%02%01%01%02%00%02%02%01%02%03%03%00%03%02%00%02%02%01%00%03%00%00%03%01%03%03%01%02%00%02%03%01%01%01%03%00%00%03%02%03%00%01%02%03%03%02%03%02%02%01%01%01%00%03%03%03%03%01%02%03%02%03%00%00%01%01%01%00%02%00%02%01%03%01%00%02%02%03%02%01%02%01%01%01%01%03%00%01%03%03%00%03%02%01%02%00%01%01%01%00%00%03%01%00%03%01%01%01%01%02%01%02%00%03%03%00%00%01%00%00%03%02%03%02%00%03%02%03%03%01%03%00%01%01%00%01%01%02%00%00%02%02%01%00%00%00%03%02%00%02%02%00%02%03%03%01%02%01%01%00%01%00%03%03%00%01%01%00%03%01%03%01%02%01%00%02%01%01%01%00%02%02%03%02%01%00%00%00%03%02%00%03%00%00%00%02%03%00%00%01%03%02%01%02%02%03%01%00%00%01%01%02%03%03%03%00%01%00%01%00%03%02%02%02%00%00%03%02%02%03%00%00%02%02%01%03%01%02%01%02%03%03%03%01%00%01%02%02%01%02%03%00%03%01%03%01%02%00%01%00%03%03%03%02%01%01%02%03%03%01%01%02%03%01%01%03%02%01%01%01%00%01%00%00%03%01%00%02%02%03%02%00%02%01%03%00%00%02%02%03%03%01%02%00%00%00%03%01%03%02%02%01%02%02%03%03%03%01%01%00%00%03%03%01%00%01%03%03%02%03%03%02%00%02%00%02%00%02%00%02%00%00%01%01%00%02%03%03%03%01%00%01%03%01%01%00%03%02%02%00%02%02%02%01%00%00%02%01%03%02%01%01%00%03%02%01%01%01%02%02%02%02%02%00%01%01%02%00%00%03%02%02%00%02%03%00%01%00%01%03%01%02%03%02%00%03%01%01%00%03%00%03%02%02%03%00%03%01%03%02%01%02%00%01%01%02%00%00%00%02%03%03%01%03%03%02%01%01%01%00%02%01%01%01%01%03%01%02%01%02%03%01%02%02%02%00%02%01%00%00%01%00%02%00%00%02%00%00%01%03%01%02%02%01%03%01%03%02%02%03%00%02%03%03%01%00%03%00%00%01%03%03%03%02%01%02%00%01%03%02%02%02%01%00%02%03%01%01%02%02%01%02%03%03%01%00%01%02%03%00%00%02%02%02%03%01%03%02%03%03%00%00%02%01%02%00%00%01%03%02%00%01%01%01%01%00%01%01%00%00%02%02%02%03%00%02%00%00%01%01%01%01%03%03%01%03%01%03%03%02%03%01%00%03%02%01%01%00%03%03%03%01%00%02%01%02%03%01%02%03%03%01%00%01%03%02%00%00%03%01%03%03%02%03%01%02%02%00%00%03%02%03%00%03%03%02%00%01%03%03%03%00%01%00%00%00%03%02%00%02%01%01%03%01%01%01%01%01%02%02%00%00%00%01%02%00%03%01%03%03%03%03%01%00%01%03%02%00%02%00%00%02%00%02%00%02%01%03%03%01%02%01%02%01%03%00%03%01%00%03%01%03%03%02%03%01%01%01%00%03%03%03%01%03%03%01%01%01%03%01%03%02%00%02%00%01%02%00%03%02%01%00%00%01%02%01%00%02%02%01%00%01%03%01%03%01%03%00%02%02%02%01%00%03%02%01%02%03%02%00%00%02%03%01%01%01%01%00%03%03%02%03%03%02%01%00%01%03%01%01%00%00%03%00%03%03%01%00%02%02%01%00%02%02%02%00%02%00%01%03%02%01%02%01%01%03%01%01%02%01%00%00%00%02%02%03%01%02%01%02%03%01%02%03%01%00%02%02%01%02%03%00%03%01%01%00%01%00%00%03%03%03%00%02%03%01%01%00%03%02%01%02%02%00%00%01%02%02%02%03%02%00%02%00%01%00%03%02%02%03%01%01%01%03%03%03%03%02%02%02%01%01%02%01%02%00%00%00%02%00%01%02%00%00%02%02%02%02%01%02%02%02%02%01%03%03%01%01%01%00%03%03%00%00%00%01%01%02%00%00%00%03%01%00%01%03%03%01%03%02%02%02%01%00%00%03%00%03%00%01%01%02%03%02%03%02%01%01%01%01%00%02%03%03%03%03%03%01%00%01%03%03%01%02%01%01%01%02%02%00%03%00%01%00%00%02%01%02%02%00%00%00%00%02%00%03%01%01%01%00%01%03%02%01%00%03%02%02%00%01%02%03%03%02%03%01%02%00%02%01%01%03%01%00%01%03%01%02%00%02%00%03%03%00%02%03%00%02%02%01%01%00%02%03%01%03%03%03%00%00%00%01%00%00%00%03%03%02%00%01%03%03%00%03%02%03%02%03%02%03%03%03%00%00%01%03%00%01%00%02%00%03%00%00%00%01%03%01%02%00%03%03%00%02%03%00%03%01%02%02%02%03%03%01%01%01%01%01%01%00%00%03%03%01%01%00%01%03%00%02%02%00%00%01%01%01%00%00%02%03%00%01%02%03%00%03%02%02%03%01%02%03%02%01%01%02%01%00%00%01%01%01%00%02%02%00%02%00%00%02%01%00%02%03%00%00%01%01%02%02%02%00%02%03%03%00%02%02%00%03%01%03%03%01%00%01%03%03%03%03%01%01%03%02%03%00%00%01%02%03%01%02%02%02%03%03%03%02%03%02%01%01%02%03%03%03%02%00%03%00%02%00%02%01%02%03%02%00%00%01%02%03%03%02%03%00%01%00%02%03%03%03%02%03%01%00%00%01%00%00%01%03%02%03%00%02%02%00%02%03%00%02%03%01%00%01%03%03%02%02%02%01%03%02%03%00%00%01%03%01%00%03%01%01%03%02%00%01%03%03%01%02%01%03%00%01%01%01%02%02%01%02%00%01%03%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A: It's definitely possible to render image without base64 encoding.
Here is it:

//function for convert byte array to hex
function toHexString(byteArray) {
  return Array.from(byteArray, function(byte) {
    return ('0' + (byte & 0xFF).toString(16)).slice(-2);
  }).join('%')
}

//image in base64
var imgB64="Qk3KAAAAAAAAAD4AAAAoAAAAHQAAACMAAAABAAEAAAAAAIwAAADDDgAAww4AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP///wD//f/4//B/+P/tv/j/nc/4/n3z+P39/fjx+Px45uUzuJddz8h3vd/wd73f8He93/BvvN/wX78f8D+f3/BOZz/wdfr/8Hv9//B7+f/we+X/8Hvd//B73f/we93/8GTd/nBfUniQP4+m6L/f3tjP396489/eeP3f2fj+X9f4/5/P+P/Pv/j/8n/4//3/+A";

//base64 to string
var imgStr=atob(imgB64);

//make byte array
var bytes=Uint8Array.from(imgStr, c => c.charCodeAt(0));

//transform input array into hex array
var hexBytes = "data:image,%" + toHexString(bytes);

//set image to element
document.getElementById("pic").src = hexBytes;

    <title>Sample</title>

A: Unfortunately, the content of a data-uri is either textual or base64 encoded binary data.
From MDN Data URLs

Data URLs are composed of four parts: a prefix (data:), a MIME type indicating the type of data, an optional base64 token if non-textual, and the data itself:
data:[<mediatype>][;base64],<data>
The mediatype is a MIME type string, such as 'image/jpeg' for a JPEG image file. If omitted, defaults to text/plain;charset=US-ASCII
If the data is textual, you can simply embed the text (using the appropriate entities or escapes based on the enclosing document's type). Otherwise, you can specify base64 to embed base64-encoded binary data. You can find more info on MIME types here and here.

To use binary data with a data-uri requires binary data be base64 encoded. Sorry
UPDATE
It seems that you have come across a "work-around", although this allows you to use url encoded text within the data-uri, it is goung to be even larger than the base64 encoding.
Base 64 encodes 3 bytes on binary data in to 4 bytes of ASCII. Resulting in a (approximately) 33% increase in size. URL Encoding a single byte will result in 3 characters resulting in a 200% increase in size.
This increase in size is exactly what you are trying to avoid though.

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Trevor Stewart serves as principal clarinetist of the Wichita Symphony Orchestra
and the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas, with whom he was featured as a soloist in 2013. He has performed with the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra, the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra, newEar Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, the Missouri Symphony, the Fort Smith Symphony, the Conway Symphony Orchestra, and the Interlochen Philharmonic.
He earned a Master of Music degree in Clarinet Performance and an Artist's Certificate at the Conservatory of Music and Dance of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he studied with Jane Carl. He held the Clarinet Fellowship in the UMKC Conservatory Graduate Fellowship Woodwind Quintet and served as the Graduate Teaching Assistant for the clarinet studio. Stewart graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith, where he studied clarinet with David Carter.
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Dhruv Bhatt (Gujarati: ધ્રુવ ભટ્ટ) is a Gujarati language novelist and poet from Gujarat, India.

Life
Dhruv Bhatt was born on 8 May 1947 in Ningala village of Bhavnagar State (now Bhavnagar district, Gujarat) to Prabodhray Bhatt and Harisuta Bhatt. He studied at various places, standard 1 to 4 at Jafrabad and Matriculation from Keshod. After studying commerce for two years, he left further studying in 1972 and joined Gujarat Machine Manufacturers as Sales Supervisor.  He voluntary retired and started writing career.

He married Divya Bhatt. His son Devavrat is born in 1976 while his daughter, Shivani, in 1980.

Works
He has written a teen novel, Khovayelu Nagar (1984). His Agnikanya (1988) is a novel centered on Draupadi of epic Mahabharata. He received recognition for his novels, Samudrantike (1993) and Tattvamasi (1998). His other novels are Atarapi (2001), Karnalok (2005), Akoopar (2011), Lovely Pan House (2012) and Timirpanthi (2015). Gay Tena Geet (2003) and Shrunvantu are poetry collections.

Samudrantike is a novel on seafaring off the coast of Saurashtra. He travelled from Gopinath to Dwarka via Mahuva, Jafarabad, Diu and Somnath and its experience formed the novel in autobiographical style. The novel is translated into English by Vinod Meghani in 2001 as Oceanside Blues.

Tattvamasi is centered on protagonist working in a tribal village on the banks of Narmada river.

Adaptation
His novel Akoopar has been adapted into a play directed by Aditi Desai. Tattvamasi was adapted into the 2018 Gujarati film Reva.

Recognition
He received Darshak Foundation Award in 2005. He also received awards from Gujarati Sahitya Parishad for Gay Tena Geet and from Gujarat Sahitya Akademi for Atarapi and Karnalok.

He won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2002 for his novel Tattvamasi (1998).

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External links

1947 births
Gujarati-language writers
Indian male novelists
Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Gujarati
Living people
20th-century Indian novelists
Novelists from Gujarat
People from Bhavnagar district
Indian male poets
20th-century Indian poets
Poets from Gujarat
20th-century Indian male writers


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import * as uuid from 'uuid/v4';

import BaseCtrl from './base';
import Study from '../models/study';
import Session from '../models/session';
import gdrive from '../services/gdrive';

// TODO study routes require admin access
export default class StudyCtrl extends BaseCtrl {
  model = Study;
  sessionModel = Session;

  insert = (req, res) => {
    // generate unique token for session creation
    req.body.token = uuid();

    const obj = new this.model(req.body);
    obj.save((err, item) => {
      // 11000 is the code for duplicate key error
      if (err && err.code === 11000) {
        res.sendStatus(400);
      }
      if (err) {
        return console.error(err);
      }
      res.status(200).json(item);
    });
  };

  // Delete by id
  delete = (req, res) => {
    // TODO how to handle one of the cascade delete jobs failing
    let study;

    this.model.findOne({ _id: req.params.id })
      .then((data) => {
        if (!data) {
          throw "study doesn't exist";
        }
        study = data;

        return data.remove();
      })
      .then(() => {
        return this.sessionModel.remove({ study: study.study });
      })
      .then(() => {
        return gdrive.unLink(['eLab', study.study]);
      })
      .then(() => {
        res.sendStatus(200);
      })
      .catch((err) => {
        console.error(err);
        res.status(500).send({ message: 'cascade delete failed.' })
      });

  }

}

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While there has been a high degree of secrecy surrounding the base, I am unsure that it houses the legendary secrets that some people like to claim. The development of new military aircraft and weapons merits just as much a high level of secrecy for national security reasons. However, I think because of the mystery and security surrounding the site, many people like to believe that there is much more going on than meets the eye.
Area 51 is by far just a myth that the government wants you to believe in so they can gain more power and control over you. There is absolutely no such thing as aliens nor is the CIA really putting on any form of research in this specific area.
Interesting post. Going to have to agree with Ryan on this as well. I wouldn't be surprised if many of the "ufo" sightings are just us humans testing out the new technology we're developing.
I don't see why the government hiding something from us is so far out of the question. As I get older, I learn to trust them less and less. Now I'm not sure if what they are hiding at Area 51 is something out of this world or not, but there is definitely something they don't want us knowing.


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Reviews	• NYC • Off-Broadway	Published 11 May 2018
Review: The Birds at St. Ann's Warehouse
St. Ann's Warehouse ⋄ 2nd - 13th May 2018
Ran Xia reviews the US premiere of Nikos Karathanos' update.
Nikos Karathanos' production of The Birds. Photo: Teddy Wolff
Two middle-aged men from Thebes, exhausted and disheveled, trail into the woods to live amongst the feathered inhabitants of the clouds. They have been dissatisfied by their earthly existence, and seek to go a few echelons up on the Maslow hierarchy of needs: something alternative. You know how it goes.
It's a story as old as humanity, across every culture: human's pursuit of a higher level of existence.
Nikos Karathanos' massive ensemble hails from Athens and brings to American audiences an aviary in its original tongue. The production infuses Aristophanes' ancient texts with an energy that's both present and timeless: in spite of the language barriers, the message is accessible, or at least up to a point.
We are introduced to the pair of humans, Pisthetaerus (Karathanos, the director himself steps into this role that's a proxy for the audience) and Eulpides (Aris Servetalis) as they stumble into the playing space in a manner that's not unlike the luckless duo in Waiting for Godot. They're looking for Epops (Christos Loulis), the apparent leader of the bird folks, as well as the first human who departed civilization. But before they can be connected with the main event, Woodpecker (Michalis Sarantis) greets them. Sarantis' excellent comedic timing and physical dexterity transforms him into a marvelous presence and eases us into the rhythm of the piece: everything in exaggeration yet natural.
Of course, the birds wouldn't simply accept the two strangers as their own without protest. Many a debate arises as Epops attempts to delegate between the humans and the birds, being the representative of both worlds. The clash between the two forces reaches a crescendo when the swarm of birds strips Epops of his attire, leaving him bare and in human form once again.
Karathanos' interpretation of The Birds sticks closely to the original plot: the winged aboriginals of the mountaintop (signified by an illuminated cloud) ultimately accept the newcomers, and together they decide to build a city halfway between Thebes and the gods in the sky. Soon enough, more humans see the appeal and follow suit, which is too bad for the gods, for it means they are no longer receiving sacrifices and libations from the city. The gods are hungry, or, to adhere to the thoroughly modern aesthetics of the production, the gods are hangry.
The aesthetics are not the only thoroughly modern, and indeed current aspect of the production. This tale from the Theban woods becomes increasingly and hauntingly an American allegory. The way our bird-folks want to distinguish their city is by building a wall to ward off "the others." This innocent inanimate object, this supposedly neutral concept, has become a loaded one in Trump America. And when Iris arrives as Zeus' daughter and messenger to announce the gods' fury, it almost becomes a political commentary on the ineffectiveness of the wall. "I see a round wall," she says, "but the top and the bottom are both wide open so it never occurs to me to find a door." Indeed, when has a wall ever prevented a revolution?
However, one of the most disturbing moments also happens at Iris' intrusion. Pisthetaerus, now wielding more power than ever, attacks and insults the proxy from the gods until she's stripped, drenched in filth, flopping around like a bird shot down from the clouds.
What's disappointing, or to say the least, hasty, about what could have been a maniacal wild ride for all the best reasons, was the ex-machina resolution. The gods enter after much anxiety on the part of the birds, and instead of a revolt, we see them being accepted with ease, as the new, utopian society continues into a joyous dance party.
It left me confused, having to constantly recalibrate and re-evaluate just what the birds as well as the gods stand for in this updated tale of ages.
Nevertheless, the production is a magnificent work of beauty. It's the kind of show that will transport you into the world it creates in a sincere and visceral way. The cast's evocative performances will resonate with you and bring out something primal: you can somehow understand their guttural birdcalls and decipher all of their emotions that cannot be translated into any human languages.
After all, this is also a play about nature and humans' awe in nature. The show's inclusive cast is a true testament to that as well: it's noteworthy to point out that there are visibly disabled actors amongst the cast, whose beauty is celebrated as much as, if not more than the rest.
Aristophanes' The Birds was never a simple story to begin with, and it will continue to spark much debate, philosophically and politically. Karathanos' version is an ambitious attack on the text and a beautifully crafted piece of theatre. It is so specifically Greek that it becomes universal, and the importance of language becomes almost minimal as we absorb the story through its superb physical movements.
The Birds runs to May 13, 2018. More production info can be found here.
Ran Xia is an interdisciplinary theater artist. Her works have been produced at IRT (Pomegrenade), HERE, Dixon Place, The Brick ([ai]), The Wild Project, The Tank (Echo; Siren, also directed Independent Study, The Tallest Man in the World, etc.). A frequent collaborator of Exquisite Corpse Co. (audio/visual installation Echo at the Memory House, on Governors Island), a current Resident Director at The Flea, and a resident artist at Access Theater. Assistant Directing credits include: The Great Leap (by Lauren Yee, Dir. Taibi Magar at the Atlantic Theater), and Refrigerated Dreams by Carrie Mae Weems, Nona Hendryx, Francesca Harper, and Niegel Smith at Joe's Pub.
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Review: The Birds at St. Ann's Warehouse Show Info
Produced by Onassis Cultural Center New York
Directed by Nikos Karathanos
Written by Arisophanes, adapted by Nikos Karathanos and Yiannis Asteris
Cast includes Amalia Bennett, Kostas Berikopoulos, Konstantinos Bibis, Maria Diakopanagiotou, Vasiliki Driva, Haris Frangoulis, Galini Hatzipaschali, Nikos Karathanos, Emily Koliandri, Ektor Liatsos, Christos Loulis, Grigoria Metheniti, Foivos Rimenas, Michalis Sarantis, Aris Servetalis, Giannis Sevdikalis, Elena Topalidou, Marisha Triantafyllidou, Aggelos Triantafillou. Musicians: Sofia Efkleidou, Michalis Katachanas, Dimitris Klonis, Vasilis Panagiotopoulos, Dimitris Tigka
Running Time 2 hours


He keeps on asking me for a date; how thirsty can one guy be?
Often slang is used within a certain group or in a certain area. Young people's slang is different from old people's slang; the slang of New York is different from the slang of California and so on.
Slang differs from Jargon in that the latter tends to be technical and describing something for which there is no other word; slang on the other hand is often a substitute word or phrase often used to hide the real world from an outsider or to claim membership of a certain group.
Thus criminals use slang so the police can't understand them; teenage gangs use slang to recognize each other and so that parents won't understand, etc.
Although not all slang is taboo, a lot of people regard it as somehow substandard or poor English.
Should slang be taught in class? Different teachers have different opinions; one issue is that slang changes much, much faster than mainstream language and the slang known and used by a teacher is often from a different era than the slang the students are likely to encounter. And speaking "wrong" slang marks out a person from the crowd.
Perhaps the best approach is to teach the meaning and usage of a particular piece of slang as it arises in class or if the students are likely to be exposed to slang at all. Classroom time can be more profitably used teaching English the students will need rather than English they may never use or which may be out of date.
So if you come across slang with your class in, say, a music video then by all means teach it, but we'd suggest not having a single lesson on slang per se.
However, slang shouldn't be confused with idiom which is part and parcel of everyday language and should be included in the classroom.
The video shows a clip from the Horrible Histories television show where some Tudor slang is used to present the news. It is unintelligible to modern ears, sounding like a different language to English entirely.
NB the video is followed by a short sketch on spelling in Tudor times which is also quite interesting!


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City receives grant for sewer line along Martin Luther King Boulevard
The city has received $500,000 in Community Block Development Grant money toward construction of a new sewer line along Martin Luther King Boulevard.
The project, which will require a $176,000 match in city dollars, will replace the sewer line between Mendenhall and 21 st streets. The sewer lines there are 6- to 8-inch lines, Legislative and Community Development Director Claire Burroughes said, and the new line will be 18 inches.
One purpose of CDBG dollars is to aid with improvements in low- to moderate-income areas. Without CDBG money, sewer line improvements would have been a much larger challenge, said Burroughes, who presented the request to the Community Development Council in Albuquerque two months ago.
"I am delighted," Commissioner Fidel Madrid said in a release from the city. "This infrastructure expansion has been needed on the west side of town for many years."
City Engineer Justin Howalt said the city hopes to start work by late summer or early fall, depending on when it can draw money. Burroughes said it's tough to tell when that date will be, because CDBG decisions have been announced in April during previous years.
Burroughes said the sewer line, similar to one along Humphrey Road, will help development around District 3. The area included in the sewer line improvement is 70 percent residential and 30 percent business, Burroughes said.
She added the ultimate goal would be to extend the line to Llano Estacado Boulevard.
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It's hot! Here in Seattle, not many of us have air-conditioning. We usually don't need it. But when we do… This is our 3rd or 4th day of temperature in the 90s, and the heat wave will continue through Thursday. People flock to coffee shops, malls and movie theaters to stay cool. We eat massive amounts of ice cream and popsicles, and drink gallons of ice water and cold drinks.
Thankfully, the nights are cooler. Put a fan in front of the open window, and a comfortable rest is guaranteed.
I am grateful to have slept well, especially over the past few days. On Friday, my editor asked that I cut 1,500 words from the book I turned in several weeks ago. The book ran long, and I'm lucky she didn't want me to cut more! Still, paring down was a challenge. Not wanting to take away from the story in any way, I combed through the manuscript , carefully cutting phrases and words, and sometimes full sentences.
The end result? Not bad. I sent the shorter manuscript off today. Now I can focus on other things–just in time for the heat wave to break.


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Tiếng Anh lớp 8 - Unit 3 - B. Vocabulary & Grammar
Drag and drop to complete the sentences below.
1. The Yao people use ideograms of Chinese origin to write their 1.1 .
2. The Museum of Ethnology has a huge 1.2 of items of cultural importance from different ethnic groups in Viet Nam.
3. The Thai have their own language, and they also have their own 1.3 .
4. If you are interested in ethnic minority culture, you should really go to one of the 1.4 in the northern mountainous regions.
5. The Viet people have many traditional 1.5 : weaving, carpentry, embroidery ... and their products are famous everywhere.
6. The schools in this region have done much to help children of 1.6 .
7. Mua sap is a 1.7 dance of Muong people in the North West.
8. Five-coloured sticky rice is a 1.8 in many parts of Viet Nam.
Fill in the blank with suitable question words.
1. - 2.1 of your parents will go to the meeting? - My mother will.
2. - 2.2 colour is the symbol of luck for the Hoa people? - Red (is).
3. - 2.3 is a 'long house' of the Ede people? - About 150 metres long.
4. - 2.4 plays a more important role in a Giarai family? - Women (do).
5. - 2.5 is the Hoa Ban Festival of the Thai people held? - In Lunar February.
6. - 2.6 do the Odu people live? - Mainly in Nghe An Province.
7. - 2.7 is it from the centre to the Museum of Ethnology? - It's about seven kilometres.
8. - 2.8 is this khan pieu (shawl)? - Sorry, it's not for sale.
Fill each blank with 'a', 'an', or 'the' to complete the following passage.
Y Moan was the greatest pop singer of the Ede ethnic group in Dak Lak Province. He was born in 1957 and died in 2010. He was called ' 3.1 aanthe singer of the great woods'. He is famous for singing songs about 3.2 theaan Central Highlands and the ethnic people there. In addition, he made 3.3 anathe important contribution, through his singing and his own songs, to making the Central Highlands well-known to millions of people both inside and outside 3.4 anathe country. He not only sang but also composed songs about the Central Highlands. He received 3.5 theaan lot of prizes and awards for his achievements in music. In 2010 he was given the title 'People's Artist', 3.6 anthea highest honour by the State for artists.
Choose the word that is different from the rest.
Sedang
thin soup
No one is able to explain the _____ of the old customs.
There are always regional _____ in every country.
differs
_____ of your two sisters is studying in Australia?
Although there are cultural _____ between ethnic groups, they still keep the identity of their own culture.
The 54 ethnic peoples of Viet Nam are _____, but they live peacefully.
Which _____ of our country would you most like to live in?
Most ethnic minority peoples are good _____ farming techniques.
Chaul Chnam Thmey is the biggest _____ of the Khmer people.
Fill each blank with a suitable word to complete the passage.
Hoang Ngoc Linh is a member of the Tay ethnic group in a mountainous 18.1 in Bac Giang Province. She was born in 2003, and she goes to Cam Dan Lower Secondary School. In her class there are several students from other ethnic 18.2 such as the Nung, the Cao Lan (Sanchay) and all of them get on very well. Like her classmates, she prefers to wear 18.3 Kinh's clothes, and she wears a uniform when she goes to school. Linh loves to 18.4 cartoons on TV and to play with her dolls. She can speak some words of the Tay 18.5 . At school, she is popular with her teachers and friends as she is a nice girl. She is good at maths and English. Her dream is to become 18.6 English teacher when she grows up.


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2016: A Spaced-out Political Oddity
The Movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" was on TV recently and it was noticeable in this odd political season of 2016, the close relationship between what the two humans on the space craft experienced compared with what HAL, the computer interface system, was telling them about what they saw and heard taking place during their voyage, and how these events can be compared with actions of the Obama administration.
The humans saw what they thought was a computer error occurring, but HAL, the computer's human input/output communications system, insisted that the 9000 Series Computer had never made a mistake and never had an error. This sounded strangely like the Obama administration stating that it will be the most transparent administration the nation has ever had, and then we learn of them making secret nuclear deals with the Iranian Mullahs; opening up our borders to all who want to illegally enter, while simultaneously claiming that more illegal border crossers had been sent back home than ever before; getting an American agent killed with their Fast and Furious scheme which attempted to blame our constitution for deaths with rifles that were legally sold in America; promising Obamacare would allow all Americans to keep their plan, keep their doctor, and would save them $2500 a year; and other underhanded if not illegal acts committed by the current administration.
HAL then kills one of the astronauts and insults the intelligence of the surviving crew member by claiming that it could not determine what caused his death due to lack of sufficient data on the subject. Sounds kind of like a multi-pronged, multi-month FBI investigation into Hillary's time as Secretary of State being ended by the Obama administration with a claimed lack of proof that she did anything wrong.
If we can for one minute associate HAL with our big, bloated government which claims perfection in all things yet makes one decision after another that either limits the liberties of American citizens or gets patriotic Americans killed, there is a lesson to learn from this movie. The HALs of the world, in this instance, the Obama administration and its enormous and intrusive government, have forgotten that the mission of the United States is liberty and freedom and not the leftist, freakish desires of the Obama administration. They are subverting the mission defined by the constitution and in the process they are destroying the nation. Presidential administrations are supposed to maintain the nation as founded, not change or destroy it.
The FBI has been investigating Hillary for months on suspicion of money and influence peddling and government security violations while she was Secretary of State, but HAL/Obama tells us he doesn't believe any security violations were committed; Bill Clinton meets secretly with Obama's Attorney General (Loretta Lynch) at an airport in Phoenix; then Mrs. Lynch announces, in a carefully worded statement, that she is prepared to accept the advice of the FBI director as to the next step to take on Hillary's email investigation; then Hillary states that, if elected president, she will retain Mrs. Lynch as her Attorney General; then James Comey, the Director of the FBI, forgives Hillary and halts the investigation, but only after properly listing each of the crimes the investigation found she was guilty of and finally labels her as being Grossly Negligent.
HAL in the form of Obama is trying to take over your life and the lives of future American citizens, and time has almost run out to save ourselves and our nation from a president who swore to "fundamentally transform America", and he's almost completed his sinister task.
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Aga Khan Master Musicians
with Professor Ted Levin, Wu Man and Abbos Kosimov
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The Aga Khan Music Initiative was launched by His Highness the Aga Khan to support talented musicians and music educators working to preserve, transmit and develop their musical heritage in contemporary forms. Prior to their Hop@Home performance, artists from the Initiative, including award-winning pipa player Wu Man and Doira player and ambassador of Uzbek culture Abbos Kosimov, will discuss their unique program and artistry. They are joined by Dartmouth's Professor of Music Ted Levin who moderates the discussion.
About Wu Man
The Hop is thrilled to welcome back Wu Man who enchanted us with her performance Wu Man and Friends: A Night in the Gardens of the Tang Dynasty last winter. For more than ten years in the 1960s and '70s, the doors of universities and conservatories across China were closed as the government suppressed political and cultural expression during the Cultural Revolution. But in 1978, when the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing reopened its doors, 13-year-old Wu Man was ready to audition and embrace the cultural heritage that had been absent from her early childhood. Now, four decades later, Wu has become the world's premier pipa virtuoso, regarded for "[changing] the history of the instrument" (Boston Globe) by not only revitalizing its role in traditional music but by giving her lute-like instrument a place in contemporary music as well. Her adventurous spirit has led to collaborations across artistic disciplines, allowing her to reach wider audiences as she works to cross cultural and musical borders. Her efforts were recognized when she was named Musical America's 2013 "Instrumentalist of the Year," marking the first time this prestigious award has been bestowed on a player of a non-Western instrument.
About Abbos Kosimov
Abbos Kosimov was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan to a highly musical family. In 1991, he won second prize in Central Asia and Kazakhstan's Competition of Percussive Instruments. He has recorded independently as well as with R&B singer Steve Wonder and with Zakir Hussain for the soundtrack of Alonzo King's LINES Ballet piece A Thousand and One Nights. In 1994, Abbos established his own "Abbos" school where he taught the most talented youth of his country to play doyra. In 2001, in honor of the 10th anniversary of Uzbekistan's Independence Abbos was awarded with a medal and given the illustrious title of Honored artists of Uzbekistan by the president Uzbekistan. When asked about doira, Abbos said: "Uzbek culture and national identity is deeply rooted in its music and dance traditions. As such, doira has grown with the country over time and evolved to play a deeper role in reflecting Uzbek history, religion, heritage, and cultural traditions…Doira is my life and I cannot live without it."
This event is part of a joint project in collaboration with the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, which together form the national museum of Asian art at the Smithsonian, and the Aga Khan Museum.
Wu Man photo: Call The Shots Photography
Abbos Kosimov photo: courtesy of the artist


Google Chrome has been arrived now since while..!
And war of browsers is continue with added competitor. End users are going to benefit from this as they will get better user experience as an end result of all these browser competition. So as the outcome we as end users will get feature rich, friendly, fast and secure browsing experience from most of the browsers as all of them will try to raise the bar.
This post covers some performance improvement tips by showing merits or demerits of various coding practices in PHP. While developing small websites or projects which are not meant to be maintained for longer period of time it's okey it we don't care about all this performance improvement and so on. But while we are into the development of some product or project which are going to be maintained for longer period of time then it is required that we take care of small things from the beginning. Initially we may feel that benefits are not drastic but when we have large amount of user base then all small and minor things matters.


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Einat Wilf (en ), née le  à Jérusalem, est une femme politique israélienne. Wilf est membre de la  Knesset de janvier 2010 à janvier 2013 et fait partie du Parti indépendance.

Wilf suit ses études au très prestigieux lycée de l'université hébraïque de Jérusalem. Elle fait son service militaire au sein de l'unité 8200, une unité de l'armée israélienne responsable du renseignement électronique. Elle quitte ensuite le pays pour obtenir un Bachelor of Arts de l'université Harvard, puis un MBA de l'Institut européen d'administration des affaires et un doctorat en sciences politiques du Wolfson College de l'université de Cambridge.

En 2007, elle se présente à la présidence du Congrès juif mondial mais retire sa candidature avant le vote.

Wilf se présente sur la liste du Parti travailliste lors des élections législatives de 2009. Elle est la première non-élue mais lorsque le député travailliste Ophir Pines-Paz prend sa retraite politique en janvier 2010, elle prend son siège et devient membre de la  Knesset.

En janvier 2011, elle quitte le Parti travailliste et rejoint le Parti indépendance que vient de créer Ehoud Barak.

En décembre 2012, Indépendance décide de ne pas présenter de liste aux élections à la  Knesset et par conséquent Wilf ne se présente pas.

En août 2013, elle rejoint le conseil d'orientation de l'association NGO Monitor qui souhaite lutter contre les associations anti-israéliennes.

Einat Wilf est mariée depuis 2007 au journaliste allemand Richard Gutjahr.
Le journaliste n'étant pas juif, Wilf est critiquée pour ce choix.

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  Fiche sur le site de la Knesset

Naissance en décembre 1970
Naissance à Jérusalem
Personnalité du Parti travailliste (Israël)
Personnalité du Parti indépendance
Femme politique israélienne
Membre de la Knesset
Étudiant de l'université Harvard
Élève de l'Institut européen d'administration des affaires
Étudiant de l'université de Cambridge
Étudiant de Wolfson College (Cambridge)


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Ollabelle - Ollabelle - DMZ/Columbia
Ollabelle is a six piece New York based band that draws on gospel, blues, R&B, folk, rock and jazz. Formed as a side project of singer-songwriters and musicians from New York that played informally at a Sunday night gospel show at a club, 9C, located in the East Village, the band was signed by T-Bone Burnett to his label, DNZ records.
Fronted by lead vocalist Amy Helm (her dad is Levon Helm of The Band), the band combines original songs with traditional gospel and blues covers. Additional members of the band include bassist Byron Isaacs, dummer Tony Leone, singer/guitarist Fiona McBain, keyboardist Glenn Patshca, and guitarist/producer and multi-instrumentalist Jimi Zhivago.
Named for country singer Ola Belle Reed, Ollabelle's debut is a soulful and honest recasting of past musical traditions played with confidence. For fans of The Staple Singers, Ry Cooder, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Norah Jones, even "Exile On Main Street"-era Rolling Stones, highlights include "Soul Of A Man," "Get Back Temptation," "Jesus On The Mainline," and "Elijah Rock." Uplifting and inspirational, Ollabelle's debut is tasty soul food for the mind, the heart, and the booty.
Written by Bruce Warren
1.Before This Time - 2:18
2.Soul of a Man - 3:59
3.Elijah Rock - 5:23
4.Jesus on the Mainline - 4:43
5.Get Back Temptation - 2:50
6.I Am Waiting - 4:15
7.Two Steps - 3:53
8.No More My Lawd - 4:41
9.Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus - 4:23
10.The Storms Are on the Ocean - 3:25
11.John the Revelator - 4:09
12.I'm Willing to Run All the Way - 5:54
13.I Don't Want to Be That Man - 5:04
14.All Is Well - 4:53
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