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Man Caught On Camera Going On Racist Rant, Harassing Elk Grove Teen
by Anna Giles May 29, 2019 at 5:15 pm
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ELK GROVE (CBS13) — An Elk Grove teenager posted a video to her Twitter account showing a man going off on a racist rant as she sat in her car at a popular park.
In the video, the man refuses to leave her alone and questions her immigration status. This happened last week in the parking lot at Laguna Community Park.
The teen in the video said this all started when the man came over and asked if she was his Uber. When she said no, things escalated.
In the video, the man uses expletives to question why the girl is there and goes on to claim she's not a U.S. citizen.
The girl repeatedly asks him to leave, he told her no, and that she doesn't belong here.
I talked with the teen via text, she says before she started recording, this man came over and asked her if she was his Uber. When she said no, he became heated and verbally abusive. @CBSSacramento https://t.co/F9APa4992A
— Anna Giles (@AnnaGilesTV) May 29, 2019
"As a parent, and someone in this community, obviously that behavior is appalling," said Jason Jimenez with Elk Grove Police.
Jimenez said the department talked with the teenager's family about this. Jimenez said police have had issues with this man before, but wouldn't elaborate.
"We would suggest to people that are in incidents like that to quickly call us," he said.
The man was not arrested and can't be charged with anything in this situation. Jimenez said an arrest would require some form of violence such as property damage or assault.
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The harassment seen here is shocking to local mom Alicia Reynhea.
"I was just there over the weekend and if someone were to every approach my son like that, I would be heated," she said.
Elk Grove police said the man was harassing other people the same day this video was taken, but they are unsure if that was also racially motivated.
(Warning: The video does have some explicit language.)
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Saving money and finding ways to get the family together for some quality recreation time are two of the most important tasks a parent takes on, and no doubt two of the most challenging ones.
During the winter season, this job is particularly difficult since there are fewer options of fun things to do, especially out-of-doors activities. One popular choice is joining a local community family ski and snowboard club. And when you can't find an existing club in your area, you can start your own by reaching out to other families you know.
"Club-style" recreation has some distinct advantages; larger groups of people (typically 15 or more) can get discounted rates at ski areas and save as much as one-third off the retail gate prices. Club trips also mean you make several trips in a season; if parents and/or kids are learning snow sports for the first time there's a real learning benefit to getting on the mountain multiple times and practicing what was taught in a lesson. The best reason to get involved with a club is for socialization; kids will make new friends and they will develop bonds tied to their common snow sport interest.
New Jersey is located in a perfect place for skiing and snowboarding. There are a number of ski areas that can be easily traveled to in about one hour. Shawnee Mountain Ski Area in the Pocono Mountains is easily accessed from Interstate 80 and just 10 minutes from the highway. Their claim to fame is that they cater to families. They have a well-staffed ski and snowboard school, contemporary rental shop and lots of lodge seating and food outlets.
"Hmmmm … snow time with the kids and hot chocolate by the fireplace; sounds like fun.
Shawnee has a club program that offers an assortment of packages that can include ski or snowboard rental equipment and lessons. Families can "mix and match" packages depending on what they need. Club packages offer a 5-visit deal and are relatively inexpensive when one considers the retail cost of snow sports. A full ski or snowboard package that includes lift ticket, equipment and a one hour lesson on a Sunday afternoon package can be purchased for $225.00; that's $45.00 for everything. Sunday afternoon is described as "Great for Family Groups" because you can start at 1:00 PM and stay till 9:00 PM. Most families stick around till 6:00 or 7:00 PM and then head home so kids (and parents) can get to bed before work and school on Monday. It's likely some of the kids won't make it out of the parking lot before their eyes are closed.
Winter doesn't have to be a long season that drags on while you wait for the snow to melt and spring to arrive. Adding a fun activity that all family members can do together gives parents and kids something to look forward to each week throughout the winter months. Skiing and snowboarding as a family also creates a shared connection between parents and kids and siblings too.
Like Christmas, winter can sneak up on us quickly so it's never too early to start doing your research. Is there a snow sports club in your area? Check with the local recreation department and look at your community newspapers. If you can't find an existing club, start your own. We all know two or three other families who would love to try the idea. And check out Shawnee Mountain's club program and don't be afraid to ask for help.


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Analysing two recent key reports issued in the UK regarding the 2011 NATO assault on Libya, former president, Thabo Mbeki, argues that regime change in Libya was always the objective of western countries, and the protection of civilians was not as relevant as claimed. He continues by arguing for a stronger anti-imperialist role that African countries should play in confronting powerful western states.
Twice, in less than a decade, the UK has been involved in two wars of aggression which have caused grave disasters in countries of the South. The first of these was the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, followed eight years later, in 2011, by the NATO aggression against Libya. The first took place under a Labour Party government, led by Prime Minister Tony Blair. The second took place under a Conservative Party-led government, headed by Prime Minister David Cameron.
Recently, in a period of just over two months, the UK published two reports which discussed these two wars of aggression. The first, published on 6 July, is 'The Report of the Iraq Inquiry' (the Chilcot Report), released by a committee of inquiry chaired by Sir John Chilcot. The second, published 14 September, is 'Libya: Examination of intervention and collapse and the UK's future policy options' (HCFAC Report), prepared by the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, and chaired by Conservative MP Crispin Blunt.
These important reports tell a story that is radically different from the misleading propaganda which the UK governments had sought to implant in the public mind, both in the UK and globally, to justify actions which practically amounted to crimes against humanity. In both Iraq and Libya, the UK governments presented themselves as knights in shining armour whose military intervention would bring democracy and human rights to peoples who had suffered for decades under brutal dictatorships. Accordingly, they sought to achieve popular acclaim throughout the world as the liberators to whom all humanity owed a debt of immense gratitude.
However, they also needed additional arguments to justify their acts of aggression. In the case of Iraq, the UK government argued that the Iraqi government possessed weapons of mass destruction which posed a present and immediate security threat to the UK and the peoples of the world, and that these weapons had to be eliminated. The UK claimed it had firm intelligence that these were biological and chemical weapons and that Iraq would develop nuclear weapons, all of which weapons could also fall into the hands of terrorist groups.
In the case of Libya, the UK made strong assertions that the Libyan government, led by the late Muammar Gaddafi, was about to conduct a frightful massacre of large numbers of Libyan civilians to perpetuate itself in power. Supported by a resolution of the UN Security Council, it joined various NATO member states and some Arab Gulf states to conduct a sustained military campaign against the Libyan government on the pretext that it was carrying out a noble Responsibility to Protect (R2P) large numbers of innocent civilians.
In this article I will discuss the matter of the war against Libya and, among others, draw attention to the important findings of the HCFAC Report. But first we must reflect briefly on the findings in the Chilcot Report concerning the war of aggression against Iraq.
The UK Government, thus, with its leading US partner, went to war against Iraq on the basis of a complete fabrication. Iraq neither had weapons of mass destruction nor did it pose any security threat to the UK or anybody else. The UK government had promised the people of Iraq peace, democracy, human rights and prosperity. Instead, its military intervention brought longlasting suffering to the Iraqi people, including continuing war, instability and further impoverishment.
The intervention affected the entire Middle East region negatively, and resulted in an increased threat to international peace and security, including through the emergence of the terrorist Islamic State group (IS), which has developed into a genuine global security threat.
Let us now look at the war of aggression against Libya. Mass demonstrations started in Tunisia in December 2010. These resulted in the overthrow in January 2011 of the government led by President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. The related mass uprising in Egypt started in January 2011, leading to the overthrow, a month later, of the government led by President Hosni Mubarak.
Similar demonstrations started in the city of Benghazi in Eastern Libya on 15 February 2011, and developed into an armed uprising. The Libyan government launched its counter-offensive against this armed uprising in March 2011 and quickly advanced towards Benghazi.
On 12 March 2011 the League of Arab States (LAS) called on the UN Security Council (UNSC) to impose a 'no-fly zone' over Libya. The UNSC adopted Resolution 1973 five days later on 17 March, immediately imposing a 'no-fly zone' and calling on member states to 'use all necessary measures' to protect the civilians whom both the LAS and the UNSC claimed faced massacre by the armed forces of the Libyan government.
Western countries, led by France, the UK and the USA, started bombing Libya on 19 March, two days after the adoption of Resolution 1973. Ultimately, a National Transitional Council (NTC) emerged as the alternative authority to the government of Libya. The UN recognised this NTC as Libya's governing authority on 16 September, 2011. By the end of August 2011, the combined and sustained military offensive by NATO, the Arab League and the Libyan militia had largely placed control of Tripoli and other cities in the hands of the NTC.
Finally, Gaddafi was captured and assassinated by his armed opponents on 20 October 2011. The NTC declared victory on 23 October and NATO officially ended its deceptively named 'Operation Unified Protector' on 31 October 2011, seven months after it had started its bombing campaign.
The chilling scare that was used to justify the adoption of Resolution 1973 was that the Government of Libya, led by Muammar Gaddafi, was about to massacre countless numbers of civilians especially in Benghazi, where the anti-government demonstrations had started.
Libya was one of the important member states of the African Union (AU), one of the five, including Egypt, Algeria, Nigeria and South Africa, which were levied a higher subscription than other member states to finance the budget of the Union. It was therefore inevitable that the AU would take steps to help resolve the conflict in Libya which started in February 2011.
On 23 February 2011, eight days after the start of demonstrations in Benghazi, the AU Peace and Security Council (AU PSC) adopted a decision calling for respect for the rights of the people of Libya to 'democracy, political reform, justice and socio-economic development', and condemned 'the indiscriminate and excessive use of force and lethal weapons against peaceful protesters'. It also resolved to send 'a mission of Council to Libya to assess the situation on the ground'. Unfortunately, this did not take place.
On 10 March, almost three weeks after its 23 February meeting, the AU PSC decided to constitute a five-nation 'AU Ad Hoc High Level Committee on Libya', made up of African heads of state and government, mandated to intervene to resolve the Libyan conflict. The committee was directed to 'facilitate an inclusive dialogue among the Libyan parties on the appropriate reforms', which would lead to the peaceful resolution of the Libyan crisis. The AU PSC also expressed its 'rejection of any foreign military intervention, whatever its form'.
A mere week later the UN Security Council adopted its Resolution 1973, which prescribed exactly the 'foreign military intervention' which Africa had rejected. One of the immediate consequences of this was that the UN refused to allow the AU Ad Hoc Committee to visit Tripoli and Benghazi on 18 and 19 March 2011 to promote a peaceful resolution of the Libyan crisis, precisely to reduce the loss of human lives while promoting democratic rule in Libya. This meant that had the African peacemakers flown to Libya to carry out their mission, they stood the danger of their planes being shot down by NATO forces.
This was despite the fact that the UNSC was fully aware of the decisions which had been taken by the AU PSC on 10 March, a full seven days before the adoption of Resolution 1973. Indeed, Resolution 1973 itself said that it 'took note' of 'the communiqué of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union of 10 March, 2011 which established an ad hoc High-Level Committee on Libya.' This Resolution also took note of the 12 March decisions of the Arab League calling for a 'no-fly zone' and proceeded to refer to the Arab League as one of the inter-state institutions the UNSC expected to implement its Resolution. It made no similar reference to the African Union.
Indeed, the coalition of aggression against Libya made it a point constantly to mention the Arab League as some kind of mandating power for its actions and took great care never to mention the African Union as a player in terms of resolving the Libyan conflict. For instance, in a 15 April 2011 Joint Letter the principal sponsors of the aggression against Libya, French President Sarkozy, British Prime Minister Cameron and US President Obama, wrote: 'We must never forget the reasons why the international community was obliged to act in the first place. As Libya descended into chaos with Colonel Gaddafi attacking his own people, the Arab League called for action. The Libyan opposition called for help. And the people of Libya looked to the world in their hour of need.' They consciously excluded all mention of the African Union decisions taken specifically to help the people of Libya peacefully to resolve their differences.
'Nobody knows how many Libyans will be killed and injured as a result of the on-going civil war in that country and the evolving military intervention of the West, which has unquestionably evolved into support for the armed insurrection in Libya to achieve the objective of regime change.
By contrast, in his 21 March 2011 speech at the House of Commons, Cameron said: 'In Iraq, we had been prepared to go into a country, to knock over its government and put something else in its place – that is not the approach we are taking here (with regard to Libya).' Here Cameron made a solemn commitment to the people of the UK that the UK and NATO military intervention in Libya had nothing to do with regime change, as had been the case when the US, the UK and others invaded Iraq.
I quoted earlier from the joint letter which Sarkozy, Cameron and Obama published on 15 April 2011 in three newspapers – The Times of London, the International Herald Tribune and the French Le Figaro. This was only three weeks after Cameron had addressed the UK House of Commons.
This is a glaring and unashamed example of double-speak.
In the letter, Sarkozy, Cameron and Obama wrote that they had not intervened in Libya 'to remove Gaddafi by force'; yet in the same letter they said, 'Colonel Gaddafi must go, and go for good'.
The joint letter was published exactly three weeks after Cameron had told the House of Commons that, unlike in Iraq in 2003, NATO and its Arab League partners were not pursuing any objective in Libya 'to knock over its government and put something else in its place'.
The UK House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee (HCFAC) had to consider all the foregoing when it conducted its inquiry and prepared its Report on 'Libya: Examination of intervention and collapse and the United Kingdom's future policy options'. Long before the HCFAC began its work on Libya in 2015, there were others who commented on some of the matters it considered.
Similar observations had been made on 14 April 2011 by Professor Alan K Kuperman, writing in The Boston Globe. In an article headed 'False pretense for war in Libya', he said: 'Evidence is now in that President Barack Obama grossly exaggerated the humanitarian threat to justify military action in Libya. The president claimed that intervention was necessary to prevent a 'bloodbath'' in Benghazi, Libya's second-largest city and last rebel stronghold.
The ICG Report also said: 'The prospect for Libya, but also North Africa as a whole, is increasingly ominous, unless some way can be found to induce the two sides in the armed conflict to negotiate a compromise allowing for an orderly transition to a post-Qaddafi, post-Jamahiriya state that has legitimacy in the eyes of the Libyan people. A political breakthrough is by far the best way out of the costly situation created by the military impasse.
'To insist that, ultimately, [Qadhdhafi] can have no role in the post-Jamahiriya political order is one thing, and almost certainly reflects the opinion of a majority of Libyans as well as of the outside world. But to insist that he must go now, as the precondition for any negotiation, including that of a ceasefire, is to render a ceasefire all but impossible and so to maximise the prospect of continued armed conflict.
In 2011 there were many throughout the world, including those who considered themselves genuine friends of the Libyan people, who did not believe the 'dissident' voices of those such as the ICG and Kuperman. These, like the coalition of aggression against Libya, had elected to ignore the earnest African demand to '(reject) any foreign military intervention (in Libya), whatever its form'.
The UK HCFAC made its own determination relating to many of the matters which had been raised by the African Union and others, including the ICG and Kuperman. It decided that the scary story of the impending massacre of unarmed civilians in Benghazi and elsewhere, told to justify the adoption of UNSC Resolution 1973 and the subsequent NATO and Arab League aggression against Libya, had no foundation.
'The disparity between male and female casualties (after the Government had restored its authority in Tripoli) suggested that Gaddafi regime forces targeted male combatants in a civil war and did not indiscriminately attack civilians. More widely, Muammar Gaddafi's 40-year record of appalling human rights abuses did not include large-scale attacks on Libyan civilians.
In other words, in the view of US intelligence, the military intervention by NATO and its Arab League partners was based on very scanty intelligence.
Thus, the HCFAC determined that the propagation of the fabrication by Prime Minister Cameron and the UK Government that there was a dire and immediate threat to civilians, which justified the military intervention, was based on a number of negative factors.
One of these was that the UK had limited understanding of Libyan reality, with 'the UK's understanding of Libya before February 2011 (being) constrained by both resources and the lack of in-country networks for UK diplomats and others to draw on'. Another was that the UK government did not make a proper analysis of the Libyan rebellion. Yet another is that it did not verify the threat to civilians actually posed by the Libyan government.
The UK government happily accepted the false assertions made by Libyan emigrés and Arab Gulf countries about the massacre of civilians by the Gaddafi government, despite the self-serving nature of these assertions by people and governments which were hostile to that regime. It selectively used particular elements of what Gaddafi said, deliberately took these at face value, and used what was mere rhetoric to justify its invasion of Libya. It failed to identify the Islamist terrorist element involved in the armed uprising against the Libyan government. It willingly accepted the lead given by France, at all times ready to react to developments manipulated by France, without setting its own strategic goals.
The HCFAC says that, altogether, the strategy of the UK government was 'founded on erroneous assumptions and an incomplete understanding of the evidence'. It also exposes the bare lie that France led the offensive to intervene in Libya because of its serious, well-meaning and passionate concern to protect innocent civilians who stood the danger of being massacred by the Gaddafi government.
None of the French objectives explained by French intelligence officers, and known to Hillary Clinton, and therefore to President Obama and the US government, had anything to do with protecting Libyan civilians. They were focused on promoting French imperial interests in Africa, consistent with the historic neocolonial French policy of Francafrique. This explains why the USA went along with the French proposal, supported by the UK, to commit an act of aggression against Libya.
Sarkozy and Cameron sought US support because they knew they could not get the UN Security Council resolution they needed without this support. They also knew that they could not use NATO in the aggression against Libya without the agreement of the USA. In practice, despite the repeated claims that the USA accepted the leadership of France and the UK with regard to the aggression against Libya, the fact is that the USA led the NATO military offensive.
It is true that the US government was not particularly in favour of the military intervention against Libya. Among others this led to the open division on the matter between the US State and Defense Departments, led by Secretaries Clinton and Robert Gates respectively, with Clinton in favour of the intervention, which Gates opposed. In the end, Clinton won the battle. This was because the State Department understood the reality that France was determined to intervene in Libya to promote its imperial interests in Africa. This would not serve the strategic interests of the US with regard to increasing its own influence in Africa, necessarily against France in certain instances.
The US State Department, and Clinton, understood that the only way in which the USA could promote its own interests would be to join the inevitable aggression against Libya, thus asserting its own imperial leadership in practical ways and thereby subverting the French strategic objectives which Sidney Blumenthal had explained to Clinton. It was in this context that Clinton sought to take US ownership of the outcome of the aggression against Libya when, in a very distasteful display of celebration of the death of the despised, she said of the assassination of Muammar Gaddafi, 'We came, we saw, he died!', and burst out in a macabre instance of merriment.
As part of the scaremongering to justify both the adoption of Resolution 1973 and the subsequent NATO and Arab League aggression against Libya, much was made of the use of murderous 'African mercenaries' by the Gaddafi regime.
This was exactly the point which the British MP, Jeremy Corbyn, had made when he said 'caution' was necessary before rushing to support the insurrectionists in Benghazi whose 'politics, aims, ambitions, or anything else' were not known. The reality, therefore, is that the HCFAC suggests that so determined were the UK and its NATO and Arab League allies to defeat the Gaddafi government as their strategic enemy that they were ready to cooperate with what it calls 'militant Islamist elements', the IS group which has played a major role in the destabilisation of Libya and the African countries in the Sahel.
Naturally, the HCFAC also addresses the important question of the impact of the NATO aggression on the quality of life of the Libyan people.
'The United Nations ranked Libya as the world's 94th most advanced country in its 2015 index of human development, a decline [of 41 positions] from 53rd place in 2010.
'The combination of coalition airpower with the supply of arms, intelligence and personnel to the rebels guaranteed the military defeat of the Gaddafi regime. On 20 March 2011, for example, Muammar Gaddafi's forces retreated some 40 miles from Benghazi following attacks by French aircraft. If the primary object of the coalition intervention was the urgent need to protect civilians in Benghazi, then this objective was achieved in less than 24 hours [given that the NATO bombing campaign had started on 19 March].
'The combat performance of rebel ground forces was enhanced by personnel and intelligence provided by states such as the UK, France, Turkey, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. For example, Lord Richards told us that the UK "had a few people embedded" with the rebel forces.
Perhaps, for understandable domestic political reasons, the HCFAC chose not to embarrass Dr Fox by pointing out that what Lord Richards understood as a 'coherent strategy based on protecting civilians and pausing [military actions] to explore political options' collapsed when Cameron appended his name to the infamous Joint Letter of 15 April 2011 which said that 'Colonel Gaddafi must go, and go for good'.
Exactly because many of us in Africa and others in the world did not abandon the 'political engagement' which the HCFAC says was possible, but was not sought by the UK Government and its allies, during the course of the war in 2011 we supported an initiative to end the war through negotiations among the Libyans. The government of Libya, led by Muammar Gaddafi, the NTC and the traditional leaders had agreed that a senior retired European statesperson, well-known to all Libyans, and supported by former African heads of state and government, should convene them to negotiate an end to the war and agree on the future of Libya.
The European statesperson asked me to engage the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, to get UN approval for the suggested non-governmental intervention, as agreed by all Libyan players, so that these principal Libyan stakeholders could engage one another in negotiations to end the war and determine the future of their country. We needed this UN approval because by then the UN Secretary General had already appointed a Special Envoy, Abdel-Elah Al-Khatib, with the task to facilitate negotiations among Libyan stakeholders. However, these Libyan stakeholders preferred the non-governmental intervention I mentioned. For his part, the European statesperson, and ourselves as former African heads of state and government, wanted to assure the UN that as the non-governmental intervention we would do everything necessary to cooperate with the UN Special Envoy. Accordingly, I did indeed engage the UN Secretary General. Naturally, he had to discuss our proposal with various member states of the UN to authorise him to convey to us the UN approval. The UN approval we sought never came!
Thus did a genuine and very serious effort to put in place an inclusive Libyan process to end the war in Libya perish even before it was born, killed by those in the UN who were never interested to allow the Libyan people to determine their destiny.
It therefore did not surprise me that the HCFAC has posed the critically important question about 'why NATO conducted air operations across Libya between April and October 2011 when it had secured the protection of civilians in Benghazi in March 2011'. The answer, of course, is that the argument that had been used to justify the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1973, and therefore launch the NATO aggression, was nothing more than a deceitful manoeuvre used to hide the real intention of the sponsors of this resolution. The real goal was to effect regime change in Libya in the interests of the western powers which pushed for Resolution 1973, whose strategic goals had absolutely nothing to do either with protecting Libyan civilians or bringing democracy, human rights and prosperity to the Libyan people.
This is why then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton could not hide her feeling of triumph when she openly celebrated the very repulsive and brutal assassination of Muammar Gaddafi by breaking out in hearty laughter saying, 'We came, we saw, he died'.
What is the coherent story which emerges from these two important reports prepared by authorised UK institutions to assess the involvement of the UK in the two disastrous military adventures in Iraq from 2003, and Libya in 2011? These – "The Iraq Inquiry" conducted under the leadership of Sir John Chilcot, published on 6 July 2016, and the "Libya: Examination of intervention and collapse and the United Kingdom's future policy options", prepared by the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by Crispin Blunt, MP, and published on 14 September 2016 – tell a story of a Labour government, led by Tony Blair, and a later Conservative government, led by David Cameron, which argued for and involved themselves in wars of choice in countries of the South, in Iraq and Libya.
Both these wars were launched and waged on the basis of absolute falsehoods which had no factual basis, confirming the correctness of the proposition that the western governments, and perhaps others as well, are ready as a matter of policy to rely on the propagation of lies to achieve their strategic objectives. Practical reality confirmed that the bulk of the mass media in these western countries stands ready to join these governments to communicate such lies. This reality also confirmed the global influence of this western media as much of the media in the rest of the world, including the countries of the South, parroted the false narrative communicated by their western counterparts.
Supported by the mass media, two UK governments went to war in Iraq and Libya despite the contrary opinion and opposition of the majority of the population they claimed to represent. In both instances, the UK and other western governments concerned launched wars of aggression against countries of the South to assert their hegemony in terms of determining the shape of the global order in all its elements.
In this regard, these western governments picked on governments of the South which they viewed as standing out in terms of setting a bad example as openly and consistently defiant rebels against such western hegemony. In this regard, they made certain that they exploited the wrong actions of these governments of the South to demonise them in their own countries and regions and globally, as the very representatives of everything that is evil and universally unacceptable. Accordingly, whatever the protestations of the western governments, the wars they would wage against the targeted countries of the South would pursue the central objective of regime change.
Experience has also shown that even in instances where it might not be necessary and possible to wage war, the western countries will use all other means to achieve such regime change. In the two instances at issue, the South African government, democratically elected as the representative of the masses of our people, also fortuitously serving, at the time, as a spokesperson of the peoples of the South, openly opposed the 2003 war against Iraq. Among other interventions intended to help avoid this war, it sent to Iraq a team specialised on the matter of eliminating weapons of mass destruction to assist the Iraqi government unit charged with the task to cooperate with UN weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix. Its task was to help ensure that the Iraqis worked honestly with the UN weapons inspectors to enable these inspectors properly to determine whether Iraq had these weapons of mass destruction.
After its visit to Iraq, this South African government team reported to the UN, through the UN Secretary General, that it was convinced that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Blix admitted publicly that the visit to Iraq by the South African team had, at least, helped to improve the cooperation of the Iraqis with the UN inspectors. However, many years later, in 2011, the South African government prevaricated with regard to the war against Libya.
In the instance of Iraq, the western governments concerned made certain that the views of the South African government did not get any significant global public exposure. In the instance of Libya, these governments made certain that the views of the peoples of Africa, as represented by the African Union, also did not get any significant global public exposure. Rather, they used the wrong positions taken by the three African governments which served on the UN Security Council at the time – South Africa, Nigeria and Gabon – to delegitimise the view of the African Union, on the basis that these three had voted in favour of Resolution 1973, which, most unfortunately, they did.
The western governments therefore argued that these three African governments were as legitimate a representative of African opinion as was the African Union. This served as a flimsy justification to exclude the AU as a legitimate player in terms of the resolution of the conflict in Libya. Even when, as private citizens, we engaged the UN Secretary General to encourage an intervention, acting together with a former European statesperson, by then a prominent non-governmental leader, to help peacefully to resolve the conflict in Libya, the western governments ensured that this initiative died on the vine. All this confirmed that the imperialist impulse which had informed the political attitude of many western ruling groups to perpetuate their neocolonialist hegemony over Africa had not disappeared.
The Chilcot and HCFAC reports confirm that the UK political establishment, regardless of political party affiliation, continues to share the objective to ensure that the UK remains part of the conglomerate of the western global hegemon. The reports tell an instructive story of what the UK political establishment is ready and willing to do to make certain that it is not excluded as a member of this global hegemonic power, thus communicating an important message about the contemporary exercise of imperialist power. That message is that while the individual western powers have competing interests with regard to Africa, and will act to promote those interests in conflict with one another, they will also act in concert when they believe that any of our countries constitutes a threat to their shared objective of ensuring that all of Africa accepts their neocolonialist diktat.
The HCFAC Report about the 2011 invasion of Libya by the common western military formation, NATO, illustrates this reality in graphic terms. Thus did the individual imperial interests of the western countries with regard to Africa, as explained in some detail by the HCFAC concerning the French selfish national interests, get overtaken by the larger objective to eliminate a common threat posed by Muammar Gaddafi's Libya. Despite its many wrong interventions in Africa, which many of us as Africans opposed in a sustained and principled struggle, Gaddafi's Libya fought in its own way for the genuine independence of Africa, determined to use the relatively considerable resources it had accumulated as an important oil-producing country with a small population.
It was for this reason, interpreted by the Sarkozy government as a threat to French control of Francophone Africa, that major western countries came to the conclusion that Gaddafi's Libya constituted a shared threat to the western countries as it was setting a bad example in terms of putting on the agenda the possibility for Africa truly to exercise its right to self-determination. This was what gave the possibility for these western countries to unite around the false proposition of a non-existent threat against Libyan civilians, thus to authorise the NATO aggression against the common enemy of the western powers, Muammar Gaddafi's Libyan government.
All this makes the vitally important statement that as Africans we owe it to ourselves clearly to understand what it means for us to determine our destiny, consistent with our hard-won right to self-determination which, through our own struggles, has been inscribed in international law as an inalienable right of all nations, big and small. This firmly places on our agenda as Africans, and other peoples of the South, the task that we have an absolute obligation to be vigilant at all times to ensure that we rely on ourselves and the masses of our people to guarantee our right to self-determination.
The UN Security Council Resolution 1973 and the subsequent NATO war of aggression against an African country, Libya, expressly sought to make the regressive and anti-African statement that as Africans we are grossly mistaken in our belief that we enjoy an inalienable right to self-determination and have any possibility to exercise this right. This is the central reason why the UN Security Council deliberately ignored the decisions taken by the AU PSC on 10 March 2011, which established a High Level Ad-Hoc Committee to mediate a peaceful resolution of the conflict in Libya and spoke strongly against any foreign military intervention to end this conflict.
It was exactly for the same reason that, together with the UN Security Council, the western sponsors of Resolution 1973 – France, the UK and the US, and NATO – emphasised that their decision to attack the Libyan government had been authorised by the Arab League, an organisation from which Libya had extricated itself. It was to make the statement that the African opinion had no standing even with regard to the most important African issues.
As Africans we have to understand that this is part of the deliberate and systemic reality in the contemporary system of power relations, that in the current geopolitical setting the major western powers hold the view that Africa, given its enormous reservoir of natural resources and its potential as a power bloc, if and when it acts in unity, cannot be left alone to determine its destiny. This must be understood within the context of the virulent contradiction and competition between western powers and especially China with regard to both these natural resources and the global balance of power.
The African intelligentsia and the continent's progressive movement have a shared and urgent obligation properly to analyse, understand and speak openly about the domestic and international challenges Africa faces as it pursues its struggle to achieve its progressive transformation, whose objectives include the achievement of both African unity and Africa's renaissance. Thus will we, having accepted the positions of this intelligentsia and progressive movement, give real meaning to what Africa seeks to achieve in the context of the agreed AU Agenda 2063.
Central to this must be the understanding that nothing in this Agenda 2063 can be achieved and have any meaning unless it is based on a real exercise by ourselves as Africans of our right to self-determination. Thus must the broad African leadership, in all its echelons, understand that the struggle continues to defend this right and ensure both the equality of all nations in the ordering of international affairs and respect for the rule of international law.
It will only be through the conscious pursuit of these objectives by the organised political and other formations of the African people and the African masses themselves that it will be possible for us to make the assertion without which it is impossible to inspire these masses to engage in the necessary sustained struggle: that the struggle continues, and victory is certain!
Syria's downing of a Turkish fighter jet - who's the winner?
The sixteen month long Syrian uprising hit a critical juncture last Friday, 22 June, when Syria downed an unarmed Turkish F4 Phantom plane. An enraged Turkey maintained the plane was shot down in international airspace after it had only momentarily, and accidentally, strayed into Syrian territory while on a training sortie. Syria, which immediately admitted it had shot down the plane, countered that the plane had been gunned down over Syrian territory and that its forces had acted to protect its sovereignty. Although the incident has potentially changed the rules of engagement between Turkey and Syria, it is by no means a game changer for either.
The next war? Will the Lebanese-Israeli border be the spark that ignites a region-wide conflict?
In an important and alarming report to the United Nations Security Council early July, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that an increase in tensions between Lebanon and Israel could lead to a new war with potentially devastating consequences for the entire region.
The UN chief cited dozens of instances when the two antagonists - Israel and Hizbullah - almost broke out into war, and accused them of violating the 2006 ceasefire resolution that ended the 34-day July war in 2006. While Hizbullah continued to maintain "a substantial military capacity", Ban said, Israel continued to violate the ceasefire by conducting daily flights over Lebanon, and refused to withdraw from the disputed border village of Ghajar.
Air strikesaimed at the Libya Dawn militia in recent months could further escalate and regionalise the conflict in Libya. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is widely reported as having launched the air strikes, but the bombings seem to be part of increasing intervention in Libya by various regional powers in spite of their calls for non-intervention. If allowed to continue, the involvement of the UAE, Egypt and Qatar, in pursuit of their own interests, could provoke a full-scale civil war in Libya, and prevent Libyans from finding political solutions to the current impasse.


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Hong Kong protests: who gets too close to Beijing
Hong Kong's police cracked down on democratization activists on Sunday. It's a taste of what to expect from Beijing.
Policemen firing tear gas into a railroad station, firing rubber bullets into fleeing demonstrators at close range in a subway tunnel, beating people like crazy: These are pictures of Hong Kong's security forces' toughest and most dangerous confrontation with the democracy movement so far. Policemen who pretended to be protesters were said to have mixed into the crowd and arrested. Since the protests started in June, the authorities have arrested more than 600 people.
Touching is a photo that goes around on social media since Sunday. It shows a lying on the floor young woman bleeding from her right eye. According to protesters, she has been hit by a police bullet, her injured eye is said to have gone blind. Undoubtedly, there are those among the Hong Kong protesters who are prone to dangerous violence. According to police, security forces were bombed with incendiary devices in two cases on Sunday, according to which one official was injured. That must not be overlooked. But what is happening in the port city is a foretaste of authoritarianism from Beijing.
Many of the demonstrators are very young, they want to defend freedom, political as well as individual, for example freedom of expression and the press in the city. Their minimum requirement was that Hong Kong's prime minister, Carrie Lam, permanently withdraw a bill that would allow the Special Administrative Region to extradite suspects to China.
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So far, this template is suspended - but actually the demonstrators demand Lams complete withdrawal. These protests have become broader in the past few weeks against the Hong Kong government and its police crackdown. A temporary highlight is the sit-in at the local airport, due to which all flights were canceled on Monday.
Many Hong Kong citizens are afraid of the authoritarian regime of the Chinese Communist Party and demand democratic reforms. For example, an electoral law that does not favor politicians close to Beijing in the first place. Or an official investigation of excessive police violence. It also means that now organized bats beat on protesters - without being prevented by the police. China experts believe that they come from the local mafia and are mobilized by Chinese Communist Party leaders.
The CP state is anti-democratic
What we see in Hong Kong today is a glimpse of what happens when you deal with the rulers in Beijing. Hong Kong authorities and police in the end are doing what China's rulers want them to do, and Sunday's violence indicates how the Communist Party is handling demonstrators. If the same thing happened in China on the mainland as it did in its Special Administrative Region, the security forces would strike harder and faster. No one has to make any illusions about that. The true face of the CP state is anti-democratic.
Regrettable is the restraint in the democratic part of the world. The Hong Kong democracy movement has received little public approval from the policies of these countries. In the case of Iran, for example, would we be so cautious when policemen in Tehran were trivializing democracy activists? Probably not. The UN Security Council would be involved and sanctions would be discussed. But the China of the Communist Party is handled with kid gloves, because it has become an economic colossus.
Hong Kong is therefore also an indication of how the future of all those states and societies, which in any way come under the curators of the authoritarian CCP of China. Beijing-friendly countries should consider how far they get involved with it.
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Q: access hash with hashes I have this hash with hashses.
I would like to iterate only the value of '0'.
$VAR1 = {
  '1' => {
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  },
  '0' => {
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The only way I can access it is by creating two foreach my $key (keys(%myhash)) loops:
Can I use:
foreach my $key (keys(%myhash{0}))  ## does not work

or directly access the values somehow?
Thanks

A: First of all, if you are using consecutive integers as keys to a hash then it is likely that you should be using an array instead.
The value of the hash corresponding to key 0 is $dhcpoffers{0} because it is a scalar value. %dhcpoffers{0} is just a syntax error.
You need
for my $key (keys %{ $dhcpoffers{0} }) { ... }

or, if you prefer
my $offer_0 = $dhcpoffers{0};
for my $key (keys %$offer_0) { ... }

Since version 14 of Perl 5, keys will accept a hash reference, so you may be able to write the much cleaner
for my $key (keys $dhcpoffers{0}) { ... }

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Just a short thought for this Shabbat.
Penance. Personal sacrifice for a loved one or a specific cause. Thanks. Introspection. Honoring a pledge made by a parent or loved one.
There are many reasons why one might choose to make a special vow to Gd, to become a nazir. Some become a nazir for life from their pledge, others have a limited time of service.
It's an interesting concept. One that most of us take for granted. Yet there are probably times on our lives when we have made such pledges to Gd, either without realizing it, or with no real intention of keeping it.
As we dwell on parashat Naso, it's a good time to take stock of the pledges you've made in your own life. How are you doing at keeping them? No one expects us to be perfect, but if we've a pledge or two that has so far turned out to be a lemon, maybe now is a chance to think about setting that right. Pledge really is good for dusting, isn't it?


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TAKING SAFEGUARDING ONLINE
In today's world, safeguarding children and young people applies as much online as it does face-to-face.
Part of the role of The FA as the game's governing body is to offer guidance. We're constantly looking to provide a supportive framework around everyone who participates in football, whatever their role.
This guidance role clearly extends to the use of digital platforms in a football context. Such platforms include websites, email, mobile messaging and use of social media sites such as Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and Twitter.
Of course, these technologies have huge benefits. For example, it's so much easier nowadays for a team or club to let its players know the times of training sessions, meet-ups and match venues. However, we have to recognise that digital platforms can be misused, with increased risks to children and young people.
Football takes these risks extremely seriously. It's with this in mind that a series of guidance notes have been developed, all listed below.
It's essential that everyone involved in our great game makes informed decisions about how they use the internet, social media, mobile phone and email communications – particularly when children and young people are involved.
Safeguarding in the digital world
Read the latest guidance to ensure children and young people have a safe and enjoyable football experience.
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We're backing Play Safe
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Sports bodies grappling with governance issues
Game ON! with BENEDICT TEMBO
GOVERNANCE was a key issue of the previous board of the National Sports Council of Zambia (NSCZ), whose mandate expired last year, and it is not difficult to see why, especially when one sees what goes on in a number of organisations spearheading various sports disciplines – the pit-falls and setbacks are too much to bear.
A few weeks ago, I stressed that there is need for sports associations and federations to be innovative in their approach to raising funds as opposed to merely writing letters which usually do not even get to the intended offices.
In the last four months or more, the NSCZ has had to tackle matters of internal strife and bad management with some cases where some executive committees have been dissolved and others directed to go for fresh elections.
There have been cases involving the Chess Federation of Zambia (CFZ), Zambia Cricket Union (ZCU) and Zambia Table Tennis Federation (ZTTA), which have seen officials at each other's throats forcing the mother sports body to step in and bring sanity.
The case of CFZ, being the more recent, saw president Ericho Nshikokola slap indefinite suspensions on general secretary Chanda Nsakanya, tournaments director Aaron Banda and, ironically, disciplinary committee chairperson Moses Kalapizya.
In reviewing the matter, NSCZ declared the action by Nshikokola null and void, hence the suspension of the trio were lifted.
As for table tennis, the executive was dissolved for allegedly staying in office beyond its mandated period and although an interim committee was put in place to organise elections, nothing has happened as long-serving Charles Chenda took the matter to court.
Chenda has been at the helm of table-tennis almost the same period as Elias Mpondela at the Zambia Amateur Athletics Association.
These are a few examples of internal wrangles bordering on accusations and counter-accusations, a situation that is not only healthy for sports development but also something that was spoken against by Minister of Sports Moses Mawere shortly after he assumed office.
A question that begs is, how long will this go on, especially for the likes of ZCU, whose executives always seem to exit through petitions?
ZCU has hardly been stable since Rasheed Patel left the scene.
The NSCZ, in its half-baked state, therefore, has a lot of housekeeping work to be done by ensuring its affiliates adhere to the statutes contained in their constitutions.
Half-baked in the sense that the seven board members appointed by the minister are yet to be announced and come on board to join their elected colleagues, though assurance has been given that the process has reached an advance stage.
The legal and disciplinary committee of NSCZ should apply some preventive maintenance measures by reviewing constitutions with a view to tightening screws where ambiguity appears.
It should also be policy that good governance is a must, with punitive sanctions to apply to those who choose to mismanage sports.
Consultations way to go
Last week, Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) president Andrew Kamanga met Super Division clubs to explain Barclays Cup sponsorship structure.
At the end of the meeting, clubs that were represented were satisfied with the explanations, especially that Barclays Bank Zambia, sponsors of the country's only silverware, were represented.
By bringing the sponsor and clubs to the table, Kamanga yet again demonstrated his unflinching desire to remain transparent and accountable in the management of football, especially the Barclays Cup by asking the sponsor to give a break down.
Barclays head for marketing and corporate relations Mato Shimabale outlined the prize money and other expenses.
This is a first in the history of the competition.
Both FAZ and Barclays took note of the clubs' concerns and all the parties left the meeting fully satisfied.
Had such a meeting been held earlier before the launch of the 2017 competition, Power Dynamos, who have roused a storm in the Barclays Cup, would probably not have pulled out?
Barclays Bank has staked K2.3 million in the soccer championship, with a paltry K605,000 being prize money. Winners will get K350,000 over three matches.
Runners-up will receive K180,000 while man of the match gets K5,000 in each match.
The player and coach-of-the-tournament will pocket K15,000 each while participating clubs are entitled to K2,000 each as a contribution towards their transportation costs.
FAZ will get K300,000 while organising the nine matches costs K213,195.
It is by far more lucrative than the MTN league which offers the winners K250,000 for winning the Super Division.
Surprisingly, a staggering K1,181,805 is the budget for branding.
Why should branding get more money than what clubs, players and coaches will receive collectively?
This is food for thought for clubs.
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This truck is bullshit. Rich Brooks has his own custom F150, a marriage of "the toughest truck" now bearing "the toughest coach's name," according to Paul MIller Ford of Lexington's website. The whole thing appears to be done in a paintkkake of blue, white, and more blue, and will feature Brooks' signature on the tailgate and door panels.
The Les Miles Swamp Buggy (with eight sets of truck nuts,) the JoePa Lincoln Town Car All-White Edition, and the Mack Brown Convertible Stretch Caddy with Longhorns as Hood Ornament will all be soon to follow, we're sure. Oh, and The Lane Kiffin Power Wheels Set, too. NO LANE NOT THAT FAST!!!
(Add: the Frank Spaziani "WarioKart," a roofless SmartCar with racing tires and increased turn radius for tight Boston parking jobs.)
T. Boone Pickens, honorary UGA Bulldog today. T. Boone Pickens pulls Bill Young out of the DC spot in Miami, presumably for his work on the fine Kansas defenses of recent years and not for his work on the crumbly, flaky tastiness of this year's Hurricanes. Randy Shannon, now operating without an offensive or defensive coordinator, makes a quick triangulation and notices Miami alum Willie Martinez sitting at Georgia, where he can be gotten reasonably cheap thanks to a lackluster 2008 and Georgia fans' eternal case of the grumbles re: his zone schemes. Willie Martinez then becomes the leading candidate to replace Young. T. Boone Pickens earns an honorary degree from Georgia, and we're all full circle back where we started now.
"Um, that? It just didn't happen." Mike Sherman was going to build the Aggie offense around Mike Goodson, but...um...yeah.
At his season-ending press conference, Aggies coach Mike Sherman hardly wanted to discuss why Goodson wouldn't be back, and why a year ago Sherman had said he wanted to build the offense around Goodson.
"We wanted to, but we didn't," said Sherman, whose first team finished 4-8. "We tried to, but it just didn't happen."
It's all part of a piece paralleling Goodson and Dante Hall, a parallel hinting that Goodson's attitude was TEH BUTTSTANK at A&M and that he'll be a steal in the draft. But does he have his own day at ESPN? Pizza for EVERYBODY!!! (HT: BON's Bevo's Daily Roundup.)
Low low low low low low low. Syracuse's former offensive coordinator is working as a graduate assistant at Tennessee. It's bad. This bad:
Browning, who was a part-time coach at North Carolina State from 1980-81 when UT defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin was head coach there, must be accepted into a graduate program before he can officially begin work as a graduate assistant with the Vols.
Syracuse football: it's like getting AIDS in your career. On the upside, he can get that forensic anthropology degree he's always wanted to get, and work hands on with real, decomposing bodies at the Body Farm, all of which would be more life-affirming than whatever happened to Mitch Browning at Syracuse under GERG.
Pete Carroll, Twitterer. Pete Carroll has joined the world of micro-blogging. Will report when the first #winforever tag occurs.


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Noticeable hospitality and high-class child care await families in the Kinderhotel Stegerhof with quality in all departments. Personal service, the traditional house, which radiates coziness and the various adventure and recreational offers for the whole family characterize the unique charm of the family-run Kinderhotel. Families stay in comfortable ambience in harmony with nature and enjoy the all round feel-good full board in our hotel and find the time to take a deep breath.
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We spotted these buckled-up beauties at Micah Cameron's house. The former women's wear director at Hudson's Bay is now a work-from-home shop owner that makes good use of these YSL boots when's she on-the-clock and off.
We're so lucky we don't have to run ourselves ragged spotting trends on the runways or on the street. We've seen the best must-haves in the closets of our real and chic moms who make achieving fab personal style their way of life. Whether they are artists, stylists, designers or shop owners, these moms know a good thing when they see it. Here are the essentials we've seen on repeat from one closet to the next. Best of all, they're all modern basics that will last more than one season because as these women know, true style lasts forever.
Every magazine will list their seasonal top trends but what's more important for us and the real moms we feature are season-less essentials that we can invest in and know that we can wear for a long time coming because it will always make an impression. Whether high, mid- or low-heeled, an ankle boot with a stylish buckle (note, we're talking about just one or two buckles), will become your go-to boot. We promise.
Gina Edwards is a celebrity nail pro and when she's busy travelling as the brand ambassador for Kiss Nail products, she's packs these YSL boots for press events and photo ops.
We know you agreed to go to your friend's new restaurant-slash-gallery-slash-wine-bar-opening and all of a sudden you have to be there in less than an hour…and you're still not ready to go because the baby won't eat or your meeting went too late. Don't sweat it. Mix your favourite jeans or pencil skirt with a go-to tee-shirt, your buckled booties (see, we told you they would come in handy) and some statement jewelry. You don't need to own a lot. Just a few pieces that always make you feel happy and ready for anything.
A bucket bag with a cross-body strap is a game-changer for busy moms who want to be hands-free but need a sack that will pack up her work must-haves and snacks for their wee ones. This kind of all-purpose bag that's made to last is always better than spending on a collection of meh bags that will never be equal in luxury or style.
Catriona Smart is a PR pro and lifestyle blogger who can't live without her rom Mansur Gavriel bag that's pared down and sophisticated so it can match any mood or outfit from her walk-in closet.
So many of our moms are always at work, on their feet or moving around boxes of their own brand of clothing, perfume, skincare, accessories or even artwork. While sock-like trainers are great for commuting, something sturdier with a thicker and firmer sole will hold up to stepping into puddles with littles or styling a decor shoot with the chance something might drop on your toes.
Miriam Zittell matches her favourite Vans with a cropped men's shirt from J. Crew that she snipped herself, because you know, that's what a former fashion designer turned Moroccan rug pro is want to do.
When I got my very first job at a fashion magazine, my editor said if you see something three times, then it's a trend. Well, we've spotted this fashion staple at stylist's house, a fashion buyer's closet and a cool shop owner's foyer. Let's just say, it's a thing.
A leather moto jacket from Rudsak is a mainstay for Alicia McNamara, the on-set wardrobe stylist for ET Canada. So versatile, you can wear it to the gas station, the grocery store or even a gala.


The Lloyd's Register Foundation, the leading UK charity supporting engineering-related research and education worldwide, today launched its Foresight review of big data and announced a conditional grant offer of £10 million over five years to support research by the Alan Turing Institute on engineering applications of big data.
The Foundation's Foresight review of big data: towards data-centric engineering looks forward at how developments in the area of big data might impact the safety and performance of the engineering assets and infrastructure on which modern society relies, such as energy, transportation and shipping.
The report draws on the findings of an international expert advisory panel led by Prof Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Southampton and Chairman of the Open Data Institute.
Prof Richard Clegg, Managing Director of the Lloyd's Register Foundation said: "Our report concludes that within the next five to 10 years we are going to witness step changes in sensor technology, data-driven intelligent systems, computer science and algorithms for data analysis, impacting all aspects of the business life-cycle - from design to manufacturing, maintenance to decommissioning.
Technology road-mapping: collaborating with the research community to forecast technology developments in data-centric engineering and plan and co-ordinate efforts.
Design for data: recognising that embedded sensors, intelligent systems and data management will form part of engineering design requirements.
Codes and standards: as more data is generated, collected, transmitted, stored and manipulated by engineering systems, there is a need for assurance of the quality, traceability, security and integrity of that data.
Data analytics: developing algorithms and mathematical models for data analysis, helping make informed decisions to enhance the safety, reliability and performance of assets and infrastructure.
In support of these objectives, the Foundation has offered a conditional grant of £10 million over five years to the Alan Turing Institute for the purpose of supporting its research in the engineering applications of big data. The outputs and benefits would be aimed at enhancing the safety, reliability and performance of the major infrastructure on which modern society relies, in line with the Foundation's charitable aims.
UK Chancellor George Osborne confirmed in his autumn statement that the Alan Turing Institute, named in honour of the wartime code breaker, will be headquartered at The British Library in London.
The UK government has committed a total of £42 million to March 2020 to help fund the new internationally-recognised institute to lead research, education and knowledge transfer in the data sciences. The Institute will provide a national centre to promote advanced research and translational work in the application of data science.
The Foundation is a global charity so international collaboration and engagement is critical. The Foundation recognises the Institute will fulfil a role at the centre of an international network, collaborating with other world-leading centres.
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is responsible for delivering the £42 million Institute and realising its ambition. Prof Philip Nelson, CEO of the EPSRC said: "We warmly welcome the Foundation's generous grant offer.
"The Alan Turing Institute is set to be another great example of collaborative work. It will help support further data science research in areas in which we have already invested and for which the UK has an excellent pedigree.
Speaking at the launch of the Foundation's big data report, Prof Sir Mark Walport, Government Chief Scientific Adviser said "The Lloyd's Register Foundation has today shone a spotlight on how big data is increasingly central to the design and management of the engineered world. Their £10 million grant offer to the Alan Turing Institute will build knowledge and skills that will not only make that engineered world a safer one, but will also support growth and public service provision."
Download: Foresight review of big data.


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Q: Identify transformation that turns images to the Dark Side Working on a new method to detect linear objects in images, I have found a transformation that turns the images into a spooky tangled network. My theory is that the transformed image shows the main paths of spatial coherence.
Is this kind of analysis already done in other field of image processing or with another application?
I show an example with a satellite image of a forest area:

I have experience with image operations to identify features in images, like edges or straight lines, but I have never seen anything like this.
The method is based on several wavelet-transforms around each pixel, considering lines in all directions and selecting the angle with maximum convolution value. This operation results in two numbers per pixel: the maximum convolution and its corresponding angle, similar to the magnitude and phase of the Fourier analysis. In the above example, the convolution map is shown with its extreme values scaled to a gray map.
As suggested in the comments by @user1118321, I have compared the transformation with a Sobel filter:

Sobel operator approximates the spatial derivatives of the image in each pixel. Using the classical 3x3 kernel, a first order approximation of the gradient vector is obtained that is typically used to highlight edges. My filter uses an arbitrary kernel size (32x32 in the above example) but does not approximate the spatial derivatives of any order. The image is convoluted against linear kernels that can be interpreted as local Hough transforms as pointed out in the comments by @Meisam. Selecting the kernel with maximum convolution value, the image is locally approximated as a line in the corresponding direction.
This hypothesis answers part of my question but the precise meaning of the paths present in the filtered image is still open. The paths seem to connect certain regions of the image, maybe spatially coherent or maybe just a visual artifact from the superposition of the local Hough transforms.

A: I asked the question on Image.sc Forum and Gabriel responded with a technique called two-dimensional matched filters and a scientific paper from the late 80s.
Chaudhuri et al. Detection of blood vessels in retinal images using two-dimensional matched filters. IEEE Trans Medical Imaging 1989, 8(3): 263-269 (pdf)
In this work, kernels with different orientations are used to identify smooth edges in retinal images. In my case, I wanted to identify blurred lines so I used circular kernels containing a line with different orientations.

Gabriel also took the time to process my example image using two-dimensional matched filters with similar results.


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The NHADA is pleased to feature Gary Briggs as Dealer of the Month for May 2019. Gary bought his first antique at age 7 (at 25 cent bamboo stand) and he's been hooked ever since. Gary's mom, Pat Briggs, was a collector throughout Gary's youth and like most collectors, when the house got full she opened a shop which she still maintains today after 45 years. Gary credits a number of people who mentored his interest in antiques and the business. Besides his mom, Gary was a frequent customer of Jean Tudhope's shop when he was in college at the University of Vermont ("she dealt in just about everything I loved!'). Auctioneer George Clement was also an influence as Gary attended all of Clement's auctions in his teens and 20s where he and his mom actively bought. Gary was lucky to be a guest and customer (with his mom) on many occasions at venerable Vermont dealer Harold Penniman's home. "Harold would open a drawer in an early chest and it would be jam packed full of historical Staffordshire". Gary credits Harold to this day for his passion of loading drawers of furniture in his house with treasures to someday be unearthed. Gary's high school history teacher, Paul Chouinard, was an avid collector and dealer and included field trips to Shelburne Museum which left a lasting impression on Gary. Gary also credits Maine Antique Digest for spiriting his passion on a monthly basis.
Gary maintains an open shop, across the street from his mom's in Lunenburg, Vermont in the state's Northeast Kingdom region. Gary was the manager of the Sugar Hill Antique show for a number of years and currently exhibits annually at the Woodsville Antique Show and the Vermont Antique Dealer's Association Show at Stratton Mountain. He also has space at Thos. Bartlett Antiques in Chichester, NH. His and his mom's shops are open whenever their home, which is most of the time. Gary is also the co-owner of Aunt Sadie's Candles, one of the country's leading manufacturers of scented candles. In his words, "candles pay the bills and support my antique passion!"
When asked what he deals in, Gary often responds "I deal in stupid antiques!" He is a collector of folk signage, miniature and full-size paddles, St. Johnsbury, Vermont blue decorated stonewared, Old Man of the Mountain memorabilia, the works of outsider Canadian folk artist Ewald Rentz and dog-themed antiques. Past collections included one of the country's best vintage table cloth assemblages which he sold in a 125-lot Ebay sale 3 years ago which was reported on in Antiques and the Arts Weekly. The sale of his collection of St. Johnsbury stoneware amassed in his teens footed the bill for his college education at the University of Vermont. When we emailed Gary for this feature he had just completed a 2-day sale of a massive antique tool collection that he and his mom had recently purchased. Gary is a member of both the Vermont and New Hampshire Antique Dealers Association. In Gary's words, "I often feel way out of the league of some of the country's most amazing dealers who belong to VADA and NHADA, but I'm happy they let me tag along!". Gary maintains (in his words "badly") a Facebook page for his shop Twin Oak Antiques and can be reached at gbriggs@auntsadiesinc.com or by calling 802-892-5267.
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-VSI hosts projects in Ireland with our partners from community, voluntary, non-profit organizations and services. VSI recruits adult volunteers for these projects. The projects include providing summer and activity camps for children in an accommodation centre for asylum seekers and supporting young people and teenagers with disabilities on residential projects. All these projects take place at the premises of our partner organizations. All our volunteers are 18 years and over.
-We deliver workshops and provide information to young people, some of whom are under the age of 18. These take place at locations other than VSI for example the premises of youth organizations, at schools/colleges or in libraries.
-We meet with young people at our offices, including teenagers some of whom are under the age of 18.
Our Child Protection Policy and Procedures describe the measures we have in place for the safe recruitment and selection of staff and volunteers.
VSI ensures that our staff, volunteers and interns are vetted by the National Garda Vetting Bureau; offers of employment/position are dependent on this.
VSI responds to allegations abuse or misconduct against staff/volunteers of a child involved with VSI in accordance with the Children First Act 2015 and Tusla Guidelines.
Staff/volunteers working with VSI complete Tusla's E Learning Module.
Staff and volunteers are trained and have agreed to VSI's Child Protection Policy which requires them to report any concerns they have, using the incident report form. Any reports are dealt with by the DLP. IN these instance the Children First Guidelines will be applied.
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Season chicken with ¾ tsp (4 mL) salt and pepper. Heat oil in a Dutch oven on medium heat. Brown chicken in batches, 8 to 10 min. per batch. Transfer chicken to plate.
Stir carrot, onion, red pepper and garlic in Dutch oven 5 min., until softened. Stir in paprika. Sprinkle on 3 tbsp (45 mL) flour; stirring about 2 min. Slowly stir in broth until sauce is smooth; bring to a boil. Return chicken to pan. Reduce heat to medium-low.
Cook 30 to 35 min., partially covered. Stir occasionally, until sauce is thickened and chicken is cooked through. Skim fat from sauce. Remove Dutch oven from heat and stir in sour cream.
Meanwhile, to make dumplings, bring large saucepan of salted water to a boil. In large bowl, stir together remaining 1 cup (250 mL) flour, baking powder and remaining ¼ tsp (1 mL) salt. Using pastry-blender or 2 knives, cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse meal. Use a fork to stir in milk just until a sticky dough forms. Drop dough by 12 heaping tablespoons into boiling water. Cook 4 to 6 min. until dumplings are plump and tender. Transfer dumplings with slotted spoon to 6 serving dishes and serve with chicken. Garnish with parsley to serve.
Tip: Add hot smoked paprika for a spicy kick.


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Q: Почему WebView не слушается веса? В разметке должны отображаться две (SVG) картинки и WebView. Для оптимального отображения каждый из них помещён в свой LinearLayout. Для каждой из картинок задан вес в 40%, для WebView - оставшиеся 20% (всего 100%).
Но при портретной ориентации (визуально) картинки занимают процентов 90, и  WebView - 10 (полоской где-то внизу экрана). А при горизонтальной ориентации возникает картина с точностью до -наоборот, на 90 процентов раздвигается WebView и 10 оставляет на две картинки.
Загадочно! Как, вообще, можно жёстко привязать элементы к месту в разметке?
Может что-то посоветуете?
Я "грешу" на WebView потому, что если в разметке оставить две картинки, то они делят строго экран поровну и в любой ориентации и на любом разрешении ведут себя как паиньки.
Код портретной разметки:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="@drawable/fon"
android:baselineAligned="false"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:weightSum="1" >

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_gravity="start"
    android:layout_weight="0.40"
    android:gravity="start"
    android:orientation="horizontal" >

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/aboutImageOne"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="center"
        android:contentDescription="@string/about_image" />
</LinearLayout>

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_weight="0.40"
    android:orientation="horizontal" >

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/aboutImageTwo"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="center"
        android:contentDescription="@string/about_image" />
</LinearLayout>

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_gravity="end"
    android:layout_weight="0.20"
    android:gravity="end"
    android:orientation="horizontal" >

    <WebView
        android:id="@+id/webView"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="center" />
</LinearLayout>

</LinearLayout>

Код горизонтальной разметки:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="@drawable/fon"
android:baselineAligned="false"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:weightSum="1" >

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_gravity="left"
    android:layout_weight="0.40"
    android:gravity="left"
    android:orientation="horizontal" >

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/aboutImageOne"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="center"
        android:contentDescription="@string/about_image" />
</LinearLayout>

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_weight="0.40"
    android:orientation="horizontal" >

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/aboutImageTwo"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="center"
        android:contentDescription="@string/about_image" />
</LinearLayout>

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_gravity="end"
    android:layout_weight="0.20"
    android:gravity="end"
    android:orientation="horizontal" >

    <WebView
        android:id="@+id/webView"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="center" />
</LinearLayout>

</LinearLayout>

A: у элементов, у которых выставлен вес, нужно выставлять размерность, за которую отвечает вес в 0dp. Иначе вес не окажет эффекта.