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UFOs of the depths: OSNIs or the mystery of extraterrestrial submarines
An unidentified submerged object (OSNI) is an unidentified object submerged in water. Hundreds of times over the past few years, large fleets of ships and planes have been deployed to remote parts of the world to search for, and even sometimes destroy, mysterious submarines that apparently belong to no nation. known.
These ghost submarines have been sighted by entire crews of ships and aircraft, and have been tracked on radar and sonar. On several occasions they were "trapped" in creeks, fjords and rivers, but they always managed to escape their pursuers.
Eyewitness descriptions indicate that these strange underwater craft are considerably larger than any American or Soviet atomic submarine. Their surfaces and superstructures are perfectly smooth, and they have no visible hatches, holes or equipment.
And what's even more incredible is that there are now a number of well-authenticated sightings in which the objects not only surfaced but rose into the air and departed like giant airships. !
"Captain Nemo is alive!" A retired naval officer from Silver Spring, Maryland recently laughed while referring to the fictional captain of Jules Verne's super submarine.
"I saw one of these craft during World War II, in the North Atlantic. We were on an anti-submarine mission near Greenland when we came across the biggest submarine I've ever seen. He was on the surface. We thought it was a Nazi sub, maybe a new secret weapon, and all of our destroyer's guns opened. »
"It had a big, smooth glass control tower, so we knew it wasn't a whale. As soon as our shells started falling around it, it took off…and it traveled faster than any submarine. It passed the horizon in a few minutes. We couldn't catch him. »
Although these submarines have been sighted in all parts of the world, they have a curious tendency to linger above the Arctic Circle, near Scandinavian countries, in dangerous waters full of icebergs.
An interesting incident occurred in a remote fjord 100 km inland in Norway. The Norwegian Navy, aided by NATO ships and aircraft, failed to capture the mysterious submarine.
A fisherman named Mons Langetig was standing on the shore of the Sog nefjorden near Vangsnes, Norway, on the afternoon of November 12, 1973, when he was startled to see what looked like an undulating periscope on the surface of the water. That night, the Vangsnes ferry's radar detected an unexpected anomaly. Other sailors saw the huge dark object and assumed it was a whale, although it was unusual for a whale to be so far inland.
Within a week, ten sightings of the craft were reported and a Norwegian defense unit detected a large metal object moving through the fjord. The Trondheim warship sailed up the waterway and made sonar contact with the object. The Norwegian Defense Command has officially announced the presence of an unidentified foreign submarine. Other ships and equipment have been dispatched to the area.
"We cannot engage in guesswork," Defense Minister Johann Kleppe told reporters. "We have to stick to the facts. And these are that a foreign submarine is in Norwegian waters. This fact is based on visual and technical information. »
The entrance to the fjord is 200 meters deep and the entire waterway is lined with high mountains. There is nothing of military significance in the area and so there was no reason for a foreign "spy" submarine to be there, Norwegian newspapers pointed out.
However, ships from the NATO fleet were at the time carrying out military exercises in Norwegian waters, so it was speculated that the submarine could be a Russian craft spying on the maneuvers. But Norway was then engaged in delicate diplomatic negotiations with the Soviet Union, and it would have been foolish for the Russians or any other Iron Curtain country to jeopardize these negotiations by openly violating Norwegian territorial waters.
The presence of the submarine has become a major political issue in Norway, with the press and public demanding action. Norway not only sent its entire navy, 30 warships and submarines, to the fjord to investigate, but elements of the NATO fleet, including American and British ships and helicopters, were rushed to the scene.
The submarine's location was pinpointed using sonar and the fleet cut off all possible escape routes. Depth charges are systematically dropped throughout the area in order to force the submarine to head for the surface. Norwegian authorities boasted that the submarine could not escape and that the mystery would soon be solved.
"It is our duty to defend our country," Norwegian General HF Zeiner-Gundersen announced, "and to hunt any ship or submarine that hides in our waters. We can't help it if it belongs to a great nation. »
Despite the tight net of warships in the Sognefjorden, the submarine appears to have escaped around November 23. That evening, witnesses on a branch of the fjord, Lusterfjorden, said they saw "a large dark object moving near the surface for seven minutes before disappearing".
Almost simultaneously, a warship in the Aurlandsfjorden, another branch of the main fjord, reportedly detected a large object on its instruments. And a 14-year-old boy, Martin Nielsen, told authorities he saw "six rockets" coming straight out of the water and disappearing into thin air. "These could be signals for people on the shore," a Norwegian newspaper suggested.
That night, high in the nearly accessible ice-covered mountains near Aurlandsfjorden, a series of red and green lights flashed. Norwegian military commanders began talking about "light phenomena", including a mysterious "helicopter" that did not belong to the fleet.
On the evening of November 24, the fleet made a massive attempt to bombard the waters and force the submarine to the surface. Suddenly, it's total chaos, because all the electronic devices of all the ships are out of order. Radio communications between ships have become impossible and radar and sonar equipment has become useless!
This was the last great "battle". On November 27, the Norwegian government announced that the submarine had disappeared.
"I am sorry to say that we were unable to bring the submarine to the surface and identify it," Minister Kleppe told the Norwegian public during a television special. A heavy cloak of security fell over the whole embarrassing operation and the Norwegian and NATO fleet left the fjord empty-handed.
The huge submarine had escaped into the open sea, 100 km away. Four frigates, a torpedo boat and other ships guarding the entrance to the fjord never came into contact with the fleeing submarine.
In the Soviet Union, the government newspaper Izvestia called the case a "witch hunt" and categorically denied that the submarine belonged to a Soviet bloc country.
A week after the Great Norwegian Submarine Scare ended, witnesses along Hardangerfjorden, 15 km south of Sognefjorden, reported seeing a periscope and control tower in the water. Embarrassed, the Norwegian authorities declare that they will launch a new search for the object.
On December 7 and again on December 9, fishermen in the Disko Bay region of Greenland reported seeing a mysterious submarine at the bottom of a fjord. Denmark has dispatched a warship with a helicopter to the area.
Maybe the Norwegians and Danes should have consulted the Swedish authorities, because the Swedes have been hunting ghost submarines for years! On September 12, 1969, one of these objects frightened Swedish authors by appearing in a "restricted military zone" near Stockholm.
The Swedish ships approached and boasted that they had trapped the submarine. This one fled. But a year later, on November 12, 1970, he returned. Once again the Swedish fleet approached, and once again the submarine disappeared.
On August 24, 1962, a "mysterious submarine" alarmed the citizens of Gottland, an island off the coast of Sweden. Swedish navy ships rushed to the island, located the submarine using their electronic equipment and strewn depth charges in the area, but the sub managed to elude them .
but he escaped them.
The history of these mysterious underwater vehicles goes back much further. In the 1920s there was a periodic fear of submarines. The popular theory at the time was that they were renegade German submarines, remnants of the First World War. Of course, submarines then, like those of today, required considerable logistical support in terms of fuel, food and supplies. 36 0 SAGA
It is highly unlikely that a war submarine will be able to remain operational for very long after being deprived of such support.
Scandinavian researchers such as Jan-Ove Sundberg and Ake Franzen of the Riks organizationen UFO Sverige have sifted through old press files and pieced together events from the 1930s that are now forgotten. Beginning in 1933, Sweden, Norway and Finland were overwhelmed by a wave of "ghost plane" sightings that awoke authorities in those countries and led to similar massive hunts and investigations. than the submarine hunt of November 1972.
The regions visited by the ghost hunters were far to the north, mostly above the polar circle, snowy, mountainous and very sparsely populated. Day after day, and night after night during the winter of 1933-34, ghost fighters flew over the regular roads, flying in all weathers and openly challenging the small Swedish air force. Some of the phantom fighters were described as plain-looking planes, painted gray, with no visible identification number…
…or badges. Some were multi-engine aircraft. They often flew in groups of three or four in the treetops above towns and villages, while many people reported receiving strange signals on their radios. And a number of mysterious and unidentified ships have been sighted in the freezing Arctic waters.
There were all sorts of theories and speculations, but none matched all the facts. The Soviet Union had no real air force at the time and little aircraft industry. Hitler had just come to power in Germany and had not yet been armed to rebuild the Luftwaffe.
In any event, it would have been utterly foolish for a foreign power to risk military flights over Scandinavian countries, as an accident could have triggered a new world war.
Swedish authorities were particularly concerned that the ghost planes kept returning to restricted military areas, maneuvering over forts and naval stations and, incidentally, visiting the very places that became the sites of the mysterious searches for submarines. sailors 30 years later.
These ghost planes operated throughout the 1930s (they were also seen over England, France, and even New York City). After one repeatedly flew over a fort in Boden, Sweden in 1937, an official government hearing was held.
The Swedish Minister of Defense stressed that thorough investigations had been carried out, special searchlights and listening devices had been installed in the observation areas and that all results had been negative. In September, "unknown planes" repeatedly circled the Swedish naval facility at Karls krona. A mysterious submarine will appear in Karlskrona in 1970.
These submarines have been frequent visitors to the waters around Scotland and England, as have ghost planes. On February 12, 1965, four witnesses reported seeing a 'ghost plane' plunging into the sea near Minehead on the North Devon coast. "The plane was so unusual that it caught our attention," said a witness.
"There was something abnormal about him. It didn't seem to be distinct, but had a misty appearance, when there was no fog or mist. He was coming from behind some trees. Then he literally disappeared before our eyes. The strangest thing is that it made no noise and didn't seem to have a motor. But it was certainly not a glider".
RAF ships and helicopters searched the area but found no trace of the object.
Another major submarine search took place in Argentina in February 1960. After reliable witnesses reported seeing the strange giant metal cigar slicing through the waters of the Gulf of San Matias and the Gulf of Nuevo, the Argentine Navy has sent a large force of ships and aircraft to the area – which, by the way, was near the Antarctic Circle.
For two weeks, naval forces dropped depth charges and probed the Nuevo Gulf with sonar. They detected not one, but two submarines. The objects remained underwater, and although Argentine authorities believed they had trapped them in the gulf, they eventually disappeared.
A local resident was quoted by retired British Consulate officer Gordon Creighton as saying: "It is absolutely certain that in the depths of San Matias Gulf there is a flying saucer base. These events are known to everyone in a large part of Patagonia, where we regularly and very often hear about the Martians. »
In 1965, the mysterious submarines appeared around Australia and New Zealand, prompting a massive search by the Royal Australian Navy. In January of that year, an airline pilot reported seeing a long metallic object, 'not in the shape of a normal submarine', in shallow water at the far end of the harbor from Kaipara, New Zealand. He circled it and noted that it had no superstructure but appeared to have a hatch on top. Navy investigators found nothing and said the water was too shallow for a submarine.
Four months later, three different underwater sightings were reported in five days near Brisbane, Australia. The objects were at least 100 feet long with small structures mounted on their stems. In June, a private pilot, MC Adams, and a television cameraman, Les Hendy, saw five "mysterious objects" floating in the water about 250km north of Brisbane. Generally, a curtain of silence fell on the Australian Navy after it looked into these incidents.
On July 30, 1967, at midnight, a luminous underwater object startled the crew of an explosive-laden freighter, the Naviero, off the coast of Brazil. Captain Julian Ardanza reports: "We clearly saw a strange body to starboard of the forward castle. It was 30 meters (90 feet) long…". The object was seen submerged with a resplendent, sharp outline and rare blue and white luminosity. Our ship maintained its speed. The object increased its speed and turned to port under our feet. Then he appeared very quickly. It was like it was a submarine…. I have no idea what kind of ship it was. »
Argentina, Brazil and most South American countries have experienced repeated waves of UFOs over the past 20 years. Argentina has also produced a number of mystery aircraft reports. These objects, like Scandinavian ghost planes, look like conventional planes, but are usually gray or black, have no markings or insignia (a violation of international law), and often hover in treetops. in an eerie silence.
Floating and submerged UFOs have frequently been seen in South America. On June 27, 1970, at 11:40 a.m., eight witnesses observed a disc-shaped object on the water off Leblon, a suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It measured about 18 feet in diameter and was topped with a transparent dome.
Two crew members, "thick and quite small", dressed in shiny coveralls, were clearly seen working on top of the object. The object remained visible for about half an hour, then it skimmed the surface of the sea for 100 meters and rose into the air. One of the witnesses, Dona Maria Nazare, said she could see the two occupants seated inside the dome when the disc flew away. This was one of the best of the few daylight sightings of "hard" (solid machine) type objects.
In March 1966, an Argentine farmer named Carlos Corosan claimed to have seen a strange cigar-shaped flying machine plunging into the Atlantic near Deseado, below the Gulf of San Jorge.
The device was grey-black and perfectly smooth, without any visible marks, windows or appendages. When he first saw it, Corosan said it was "speeding" through the air, making a noise like a car's engine sputtering. It started making explosive sounds and crashed into the sea. "It wasn't floating at all," Corosan told investigators. "It just hit the water with a huge splash and sank quickly. »
There are now hundreds of reports of flying objects plunging into bodies of water and disappearing. . Some of these stories are quite confusing.
A bus driver in Walthamstow, England swears he saw a silver cigar-shaped object fall from the sky and crash into the River Lea. As it descended, the object severed telephone lines and cut a deep gash in the towpath that runs along the river. But when the police dredged the river, they discovered that it was only one meter deep!
Scandinavian authorities have dredged many remote lakes in northern Sweden after witnesses said they saw something splashing on them from the sky. In 1968, a massive military and scientific research team was sent to Andersviksberg, Da Lama, to search the bottom of Lake Uppramen for any trace of the thing that had made a gigantic hole in the ice – a hole which covered several square kilometres! Their efforts were in vain.
A majority of all reported UFO sightings are LDLCs (lights in the sky). The USAF called them "winding night lights". Many of these LDLCs are likely natural phenomena, fireballs and meteors, and even the normal lights of high-flying aircraft, confused by overzealous witnesses. No astronomer or scientist has actually attempted to study and classify these LDLCs and until such classification is undertaken, ufologists will continue to face a hopeless tangle of unidentified but possibly identifiable aerial lights. .
A very small percentage of all known sightings are of apparently real, solid machines, usually disc-shaped or cigar-shaped. These sightings form the heart of the flying saucer mystery.
Interestingly, almost all of these rare "real" sightings take place near or over bodies of water – lakes, rivers, fjords, oceans. In another era, the frequent appearance of strange objects and beings around water gave rise to the myth of the "water sprite". Fairies and pixies were often seen around lakes and rivers, occasionally collecting water in containers, just as the little extraterrestrials in modern flying saucer cases have been reported collecting water with buckets and hoses.
Interestingly, while inland cases of UFO landings are most often by solitary individuals, sightings on water are often reported by entire ship crews and logbook documentation is complete and accurate, especially where sonar and radar are involved, which often happens.
Sightings on the water are therefore a body of evidence that deserves very serious consideration, and the investigation of these occurrences is more a matter for the US Navy than the Air Force.
There have been plenty of clues over the years that the Navy is, in fact, more concerned with UFOs than the USAF When Royal Australian Air Force officers investigated the flying saucer landings in 1966, they admitted that they used instruments and techniques developed by the United States Navy. And it was the Office of Naval Research (ONR) that played a pivotal role in the famous Jessup-Allende affair in the 1950s. (Carlos Allende submitted some very interesting UFO-related documents to astrophysicist Morris K. Jessup through the ONR).
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After a UFO chased his plane in 1954, Secretary of the Navy Dan Kimbel ordered the ONR to launch its own flying saucer investigation.
The late Ivan T. Sanderson, a famous zoologist and one of the world's foremost investigators of the unexplained, had served in the British Navy's Secret Service in the Caribbean during World War II. He saw and reported so many unusual objects in the water and in the air that his superiors eventually asked him to ignore them.
Later, Sanderson spent a lot of time collecting and cataloging sightings in the water. He developed an elaborate theory suggesting that all true UFOs were probably based in the world's oceans and originated from another planet.
One of Anderson's favorite cases occurred in 1963 in the Atlantic, several hundred miles from Puerto Rico. A group of warships were engaged in a military exercise when their sonar detected a moving underwater object.
Several ships and planes all pointed to the same "thing" with their equipment. All reported that the object was moving at the incredible speed of 150 knots. They tracked him for four days, and at times he dived to a staggering depth of 8,220 meters. So regardless, it outperformed any known submarine or fish.
In addition to all of this extraordinary evidence, there have been dozens of accidents at sea in which ships have been badly damaged when they unexpectedly collided with metal objects in the open sea. Freedom was maimed when it rammed 'a submarine on the surface' off the coast of Scotland on February 3, 1965. A thorough check revealed no known submarines were operating there at the time .
Another trawler, the Silveroe, struck an unknown object "which may have been a submarine" along the Baltic coast of Sweden in November 1969. In February 1970, two different vessels collided with objects under -sailors in the Mediterranean. A Tunisian tanker, the Tabarka, and the Italian liner Angelino Lauro. Both suffered damage when they collided with mysterious underwater craft.
If we ignore the saucer stories and focus on the mysterious planes and submarines, we find that there is plenty of evidence that someone is operating a clandestine air force and navy on this planet, and this since many decades.
Mysterious planes were observed around the world between 1909 and 1914, when very few primitive man-made planes existed. And these planes had such limited capabilities that they could not be responsible for these sightings. Mystery ships and submarines have been active since the 1920s, if not longer. Very little foreign news from Greenland and Scandinavia reached scholars in the 19th century.
The patterns indicated by the published data could be located somewhere in the remote wastelands of the Arctic Circle. These bases could be underwater. There could even be a network of underwater tunnels or channels in the various deep fjords of Scandinavia, which would explain the ability of submarines to evade their pursuers and reappear unexpectedly in nearby fjords.
According to one theory, ghost-spotting in the 1930s was a logistical operation in which fuel, food and building materials were flown in from Europe to northern Scandinavia. Somewhere among the inaccessible mountains and fjords, great bases were being built by a mysterious but well-funded organization.
Ghost planes, flying saucers and submarines are stored there. Staff could be easily recruited or even kidnapped. Hundreds of thousands of people inexplicably disappear every year on this planet. Some of them could end up in these bases, suffering from amnesia, their past having been erased.
Witnesses scattered across Canada, South America and the Pacific have continually reported unexpected encounters with men wearing military-style uniforms (but no known type of uniform) in areas where UFOs and mysterious submarines were seen. Could they be members of this strange secret navy?
Today, the armed services of several nations have had many experiences with these objects and, most likely, with the personnel associated with these objects. The US Navy has repeatedly chased ghost submarines from Florida to Maine and along the California coast. Yet information about these incidents is more closely guarded than flying saucer reports. Officials are very tense about these incidents and they might even be worried.
"After thinking about the matter for a long time, writes Ivan Sanderson, I have been forced to admit that the authorities – and I use the expression collectively – know no more than the huffs or anyone else , and they're just scared. There's nothing management dreads more than having to admit they don't know what's going on, or what anything or everything is; admit that they have no answers or remedies. »
A group of UFO enthusiasts have long argued that beings from another planet are quietly preparing to invade and take over Earth. Arctic bases could be part of their preparation, according to this theory. Another group, led by Wisconsin editor Ray Palmer, has observed UFO activity in the Arctic and Antarctica for years, claiming that flying saucers originated from holes at the poles. Whole generations of officials in Norway and Sweden must have fallen into confused, and perhaps frightened, silence.
The US Navy is still silent. But, somewhere in the vast oceans of the world, there are certainly submarines that can move faster and dive deeper than anything the United States or other countries have. There are planes that can dive into water and turn into submarines. And there are ordinary, air-breathing Earthlings aboard these objects. What are their allegiances? Why are they hiding from us? And what are they really up to?
By John Keel, SAGA Magazine
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Nick Brook, record label worker and Black Country Socialist Party member
"90% of UK venues and festivals face closure" warned a report from the Music Venue Trust in June. Like many other service industries, the live music business has been left on a cliff edge by the onset of Covid-19 and cancellation of events throughout the prime spring and summer period.
Most of the musicians and other workers in live music who put their labour into generating the industry's £1.1 billion annual turnover have been left in a precarious situation. With many of us in the original 'gig economy' carrying out a variety of one-off and irregular jobs to earn a living, accessing financial support has been difficult. There are anxious waits to receive grants for the self-employed from central government and national arts councils.
Belatedly, the government has announced a £1.6 billion rescue package for the entire culture sector. This is welcome, although it is not clear how much of this funding will make its way to the small arts organisations and arts workers who most need it.
And really, the sector needed this kind of additional funding even before venues closed and box office takings collapsed. In reality, far more will be necessary as social distancing and reduced incomes continue to hit audience numbers and other sources of money.
Fewer jobs
As any professional musician will tell you, the job might have its enjoyable sides, but it is work all the same. For the jobbing musician it's still possible to scratch out a living, though this has been getting harder for several years due to the number of potential gigs drying up.
During the 2010s, 35% of dedicated live music venues shut their doors. Many were victim to rising rents, and property developers reasoning their locations could be more profitable if converted into overpriced flats.
Further difficulties have been created by an increasing share of major venues becoming concentrated in the hands of a small number of large entertainment conglomerates, in particular Live Nation.
As well as controlling several large music festivals, Live Nation has a majority share of medium-to-large venues in the UK through ownership of Academy Music Group. It has a virtual monopoly in cities such as Birmingham, where it operates both the Academy on Bristol Street and the Institute in Digbeth.
At the more genteel end of the spectrum, local authority and not-for-profit arts centres and theatres previously provided a network for more niche genres such as folk and jazz. They were also the only places in many small towns with a stage, proper PA system, and lights.
Since 2010 in particular, councils passing on government cuts, and reductions to other public funding, have meant that many have either had to close, or take a more 'commercial' approach in programming. Touring musicians are forced to absorb much more of the overhead costs and financial risk of performances.
Poverty pay
Having secured a gig, there's the question of pay. The average musician earns £9,000 less than the median annual wage.
As of 2020, the Musicians' Union-recommended rate for a pub or club gig of up to three hours, including breaks, is £128. Even this is more aspiration than the going rate, with around half of that being the norm for many.
If £60 sounds like good pay for standing on a stage and playing for a bit, consider a typical working day for a musician. Travelling to a gig for two hours, setting up for an hour, playing for three hours, then another two hours of packing down and travelling home, sometime after midnight.
Never mind putting on a show and giving a good performance no matter whether you're under the weather, just broke up with your partner, or are just having an off day.
And even that fee is only per gig. It doesn't account for the hours of solo practice needed to reach and stay at a professional level, let alone rehearsals with bandmates, time writing material, and purchasing and maintaining professional-quality instruments and gear.
Alongside musicians, at any gig from The Dog and Duck through to Wembley Stadium there are others working to make the performance possible - from bouncers to sound engineers to bar staff.
In the case of arena shows, thousands of people pay £50-plus per ticket. The small army of workers required to set up and staff the venue can be paid reasonably. The band and crew can be properly fed and accommodated, and pay the rent back home. The promoter and management can take a cut. Everyone walks away in profit.
But when planning a tour playing to crowds of a few hundred a night, the numbers stack up much less comfortably. That's even with a slimmed-down road crew of one person fulfilling the roles of van driver, roadie, and agony aunt!
And the further down the food chain you go, the more likely the band themselves are going to have to personally take on the financial risks from gigs. They'll receive a percentage of ticket sales after promotional and overhead costs.
With income from live performance drying up - possibly for the remainder of 2020, or even beyond - record sales and streaming have been placed in the spotlight. Only modest amounts are earned, even by relatively successful musicians. A debate has kicked off on social media under the #BrokenRecord and #FixStreaming hashtags.
Alternative income
For the first 15 years of this millennium, the recorded music industry seemed to be in terminal decline. This was put down to the internet allowing people to download music for free through 'pirate' sites. Just over ten years ago, Spotify and other streaming services emerged as the 'saviour' of the record business - growing to around 60% of industry revenues worldwide today.
Streaming services generate steady revenue through advertising and subscription payments. They were therefore able to agree deals with the big labels and publishers who control the rights to your favourite tunes, to pay them a set amount based on the number of plays.
These deals were negotiated on a label-by-label basis. That meant the four majors - now three due to EMI's collapse - were able to negotiate better rates, plus big shareholdings in the case of Spotify. This was due to owning the best-known songs by the best-known artists. Smaller labels had to fight over the scraps.
The major streaming services pay between £3 and £6 to the label controlling a given song per 1,000 plays. This provides a steady income from hits that manage to get into the tens of millions of plays.
In true 'rentier' capitalist style, streaming also favours major labels for controlling classic songs from years or decades ago. Songs that are perennially popular, or enjoy a resurgence thanks to being featured on film or TV, or when a star dies, and so on.
However, for artists working in specialist genres that by and large aren't going to be million-streamers, the picture is less rosy. Pre-streaming they would have made a large portion of their CD sales direct to fans at gigs, paying back the debt to their label, and earning ready money on top. Now this source of income has tailed off, thanks to their fanbase streaming their music, but not at a big enough volume to make a significant dent in their overdraft.
And despite the ongoing shift away from selling physical CDs, cassettes and records, and the rolling out of streaming services to more and more countries across the globe, the balance sheet of many streaming companies looks sketchy at best.
Spotify is the market leader. Unlike Apple, Google and Amazon's music offers, it's the only major service that doesn't have a large, profitable parent company to piggyback on.
Spotify is yet to make an annual profit more than a decade after launching. In this respect, it is similar to many other 'platform' companies that have been stock market darlings, from Netflix to WeWork to Uber.
And like other platform companies, the shift from physical to digital consumption is a classic example of how capitalism uses new technology to reduce the overall amount it pays to workers in any sector.
In the days before the internet took off, to get a piece of music from the studio into consumers' homes would take pressing plants to manufacture the CDs or vinyl, then distribution networks of drivers and warehouses, on to the staff in record shops. Streaming has eliminated the need for these labour costs, while AI has replaced much of the admin required in administering royalties.
But many record deals are still factoring them in to give artists a meagre royalty rate. And even then, only once the cost of making the album, plus any advance paid to the artist when they first signed their deal, has been repaid in full.
In response to this, many artists are moving to 'label services' deals. The artist shoulders the upfront costs of making an album, then the label helps release and promote it, on the basis of shared risk and reward, and the artist retaining full ownership of the recordings.
But the ready money and name recognition to make this work favours established acts. It makes it harder for performers from a working-class background in particular to launch their careers.
There is still teaching, of course. It's true that the majority of full-time musicians do some form of teaching, either contracted to an educational body or independently, to provide a reliable source of income.
However, over the last decade, local authority music services responsible for providing teaching in schools have been semi-privatised and starved of funding. Meanwhile, many schools are taking music out of the curriculum in response to the Tories' stultifying focus on 'core' subjects.
There is a new income source: crowdfunding. In recent years, crowdfunding around a specific album release, or in the form of ongoing subscriptions, has provided a useful income stream for many bands and performers. It is less dependent on traditional gatekeepers.
However, it isn't without risks. Musicians and fans are forced to place their trust in platforms that, like a lot of tech start-ups, operate on a shaky financial model. In 2019, crowdfunding site Pledgemusic went bankrupt, leaving many artists and fans alike out of pocket.
More crucially, successful crowdfunding needs an artist to have existing fans willing to buy into the music. It is difficult or impossible for those just starting out.
So could a 'universal basic income' targeted at musicians allow us the time and freedom to create?
In a market economy, blanket payments to artists would be taken into account by engagers and publishers, and much or all of the gain would end up offset by cuts to rates or extra charges. Capitalist governments would also not be willing to take the money for it from their big business mates, so would set it at unliveable rates and use it to cut benefits even further.
Nonetheless, an element of income support existed in the 2000s with the 'New Deal for Musicians'. Unemployed musicians could get a top-up to their dole money for access to recording and rehearsal studios.
Socialist programme
But rather than paying musicians to sit at home waiting for the phone to ring, a much better approach would be to fund abundant opportunities to create and perform, paid at a living rate. Our aim should be full employment for all workers, including all musicians who are able to perform to a professional standard.
In education, for example, every child should have the opportunity - like private school students have for many years - to learn a musical instrument, whether that's classical oboe, rock guitar, or electronic music software.
And for those musicians who prefer not to teach, public funds could make other opportunities available, such as free performances in shopping centres, libraries, and workplace canteens to bring music to the masses.
These two schemes could provide a basic level of income for musicians, with the opportunity to take enough hours to add up to a full-time job - or mix and match with recording, touring, and non-musical work.
Music, and the arts more generally, will only survive the coronavirus pandemic in any kind of healthy state if there is massive public investment. The Tories have poured hundreds of billions into airlines and other sectors. Arts workers and venues need bailouts too.
Any shortfall in income - due to the lockdown, and social distancing when venues reopen - must be underwritten by public funds. Subsidise the maintenance of existing programming, and reverse austerity to expand funding to all parts of the arts.
A permanent subsidy to the shortfall between income from tickets and refreshment, and core production costs, would allow small venues to take more risks in programming. And restoring funding to local councils and other public bodies, under the democratic oversight of workers, audiences and artists, could support more diverse local projects, and cheap or free rehearsal and performance facilities.
Nationalising the banks and finance sector would provide more than enough resources to pay for these schemes and a general reversal of austerity. The giant record labels, as well as monopoly venue chains like Live Nation, should also be nationalised under democratic workers' control and management.
As part of a democratic, socialist plan for the economy, the state could then advance loans, cheap or interest-free, for the upfront costs of all levels of recording and performance project. This would be unlike conventional recording deals today, where the major labels act as inefficient money-lenders, and demand a large slice of future earnings once the original debt is paid back.
Streaming is a thorny question for a lot of musicians. However, technology isn't inherently good or bad - the question is which class controls it.
To make streaming work for musicians and songwriters, a first step would be to nationalise the 40-plus streaming platforms, to prevent duplication delivering an essentially identical product, with the savings in overheads passed on to creators. Democratic control by artists, audiences and the trade union movement could level the playing field for smaller acts.
And in the ongoing debates about the state of the music business, there's an elephant in the room. The biggest challenge to the music industry over the last 30 years isn't the rise of the internet, or other forms of entertainment. Rather it's the fact that the average worker now has less disposable income and free time.
One of the biggest positive changes for those working in music under socialism would be decent pay and a reduced working week for all. This would allow working-class people to go to more gigs, explore new bands and producers, purchase merchandise, and enjoy the flowering of culture that follows any revolutionary movement.
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
Get up, stand up - don't give up the fight!
Union fight to save musicians' livelihoods
Cardiff East Socialist Party: Saving the music industry from pandemic and austerity
Cardiff West Socialist Party: Saving the music industry from pandemic and austerity
Engage for Change Hull - trade union youth festival goes online
Austerity:
TUSC appeals for widest possible anti-austerity socialist unity for May elections
Southampton People's budget Building an alternative to Tory and Labour austerity
The fight for Hackney's children's centres continues
People's Budgets - a socialist answer to cruel cuts
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CBS today announced the 20 legendary winners of SURVIVOR who will return to compete against each other on the 40th season of the Emmy Award-winning series SURVIVOR. The special two-hour premiere airs Wednesday, Feb. 12 (8:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Emmy Award winner Jeff Probst hosts.
The 20th anniversary edition of the groundbreaking series, themed WINNERS AT WAR, unites the most memorable, heroic and celebrated champions from the past two decades in the biggest battle in the show's history, as the series' best strategists of all time fight to earn the title of Sole Survivor again.
These returning masterminds will compete in epic challenges, face the return of Edge of Extinction, which gives voted-out players a second shot to win, and tackle a brand new layer of the game with the introduction of fire tokens. Fire tokens will serve as currency on the island and add more complexity to the already intense battle. The new twist allows players to use the tokens to buy advantages to help players stay in the game or get themselves back in the game. Additionally, the winner of this historic season will be awarded $2 million, the largest prize in reality show history.
"To celebrate and honor this momentous 20-year milestone, we created the biggest battle in SURVIVOR history!" said executive producer and host Jeff Probst. "For the first time ever, 20 winners, who have masterfully proven they can outwit, outplay and outlast in this game, will face off to determine who is the greatest player of all time!"
SURVIVOR premiered May 31, 2000 and ultimately changed the television landscape. Since the first group of castaways were marooned on the beaches of Borneo 20 years ago, the game has evolved and adapted. Almost 600 castaways have played the game and only 38 were crowned with the title of Sole Survivor, with Sandra Diaz-Twine being the only castaway to earn the title on two separate seasons. The winners from the early seasons will need to adjust their strategy to use new elements, such as immunity idols and rewards that didn't exist when they first played.
The series films in the Mamanuca Islands in Fiji.
The following are the 20 returning winners competing in "Winners at War":
Adam Klein (28)
Winner of "Millennials vs. Gen-X" (2016)
Hometown: Burlingame, CA
Current Residence: Los Angeles
Occupation: Keynote Speaker and Host
Amber Mariano (40)
Winner of "All-Stars" (2004)
Hometown: Beaver, PA
Current Residence: Pensacola, FL
Occupation: Director of Marketing and Communications
Ben Driebergen (36)
Winner of "Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers" (2017)
Hometown: Boise, ID
Current Residence: Boise, ID
Occupation: Real estate/stay at home dad
Danni Boatwright (43)
Winner of "Guatemala" (2005)
Hometown: Tonganoxie, KS
Current Residence: Shawnee, KS
Occupation: Owner of Sideline Chic
Denise Stapley (48)
Winner of "Philippines" (2012)
Hometown: Marion, Iowa
Current Residence: Marion, Iowa
Occupation: LMHC, & AASECT Certified Sex Therapist
Ethan Zohn (45)
Winner of "Africa" (2001)
Hometown: Lexington, MA
Current Residence: Hillsborough, NH
Occupation: Social Entrepreneur and Keynote Speaker
Jeremy Collins (41)
Winner of "Second Chance" (2015)
Hometown: Cambridge, MA
Current Residence: Foxboro, MA
Occupation: Firefighter
Kim Spradlin-Wolfe (36)
Winner of "One World" (2012)
Current Residence: San Antonio, Texas
Occupation: Interior Designer
Michele Fitzgerald (29)
Winner of "Kaôh Rōng" (2016)
Hometown: Freehold, NJ
Current Residence: Hoboken, NJ
Occupation: Business Development Manager
Natalie Anderson (33)
Winner of "San Juan del Sur" (2014)
Hometown: Colombo, Sri Lanka
Current Residence: Edgewater, NJ
Occupation: CrossFit Trainer
Nick Wilson (28)
Winner of "David vs. Goliath" (2018)
Hometown: Williamsburg, KY
Current Residence: Williamsburg, KY
Occupation: Attorney
Parvati Shallow (36)
Winner of "Fans vs. Favorites" (2008)
Hometown: Atlanta
Occupation: Yoga teacher, Life Coach, and Speaker
Rob Mariano (43)
Winner of "Redemption Island" (2011)
Hometown: Boston, MA
Occupation: Construction
Sandra Diaz-Twine (44)
Winner of "Pearl Islands" (2003) & "Heroes vs. Villains" (2010)
Hometown: Stamford, CT
Current Residence: Riverview. FL
Occupation: Case Manager at a Law Firm
Sarah Lacina (34)
Winner of "Game Changers" (2017)
Hometown: Muscatine, Iowa
Current Residence: Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Occupation: Police Officer
Sophie Georgina Clarke (29)
Winner of "South Pacific" (2011)
Hometown: Willsboro, NY
Current Residence: Santa Monica, CA
Occupation: Healthcare Consultant
Anthony "Tony" Vlachos (45)
Winner of "Cagayan" (2014)
Hometown: Jersey City, NJ
Current Residence: Allendale, NJ
Tyson Apostol (39)
Winner of "Blood vs. Water" (2013)
Hometown: Lindon, Utah
Current Residence: Mesa, AZ
Occupation: Son, husband, father, friend.
Wendell Holland (35)
Winner of "Ghost Island" (2018)
Hometown: Philadelphia
Current Residence: Philadelphia
Occupation: Furniture Designer
Yul Kwon (44)
Winner of "Cook Islands" (2006)
Hometown: Concord, CA
Current Residence: Los Altos, CA
Occupation: Product Management
SURVIVOR is hosted by Emmy Award-winning host Jeff Probst and produced by S.E.G. Holdco., LLC. Mark Burnett, Jeff Probst and Matt Van Wagenen are executive producers.
As previously announced, one week prior to the SURVIVOR premiere, a one-hour retrospective special,SURVIVOR AT 40: GREATEST MOMENTS AND PLAYERS, will air Wednesday, Feb. 5 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. The special will revisit some of the greatest moments and memorable players in SURVIVOR history, feature new interviews with favorite castaways and reveal a sneak peek at SURVIVOR: WINNERS AT WAR. Jeff Probst and Matt Van Wagenen are the executive producers.
The 40th installment of the groundbreaking series coincides with its 20-year anniversary. For more information on the previous seasons of SURVIVOR, please log on to www.cbs.com/survivor
cast announcementsCBSSurvivor


We got up early this morning. Pete grumbled some about this. At the time, the sun was shining brightly. All I could think was that I wanted to get out on the trail ASAP. Early means good weather and less road traffic to contend with.
After breakfast, Pete and I took Tinni and Tyra for a walk on Siggi's Trail before he left for work. I then did my body awareness lessons. I went longer than usual, an hour a half. The work is actually very meditational. I feel better physically and mentally afterwards. And I know that both I and the horse that I'm riding will have an easier time of it if I do this.
So I didn't get going until noon, which was later than I anticipated. It was as late as I'd dare head out for Buffalo Mine Road.
It was an excellent ride. Raudi is slow, and I am impatient with her, and this I regret. But she's getting in increasingly better shape and trotting far more than previously. And her heart rate is going down.
The high point of our ride was on a trail I call Bonnie and Dale's turnoff, after the couple who used to own this chunk of land. The trail is in a forested area, and it winds around birch trees. The greenery in this area seems iridescent. I did this trail yesterday, and found the route leading to the Moose Meadows Cutoff. Today I somehow got off trail. However, Raudi knew exactly where to go. She took it upon herself to wind through the narrow trees, very carefully, and get us back on trail. All I could think is, what a horse.
And as we continued on, I thought some about how far we've come together.
I ended yesterday's dispatch saying that I didn't think originally that she'd end up being a trail horse. This is true. At the time, she was small, orange, and even then had a mind of her own. Walking her was difficult until about a year ago. She's been really good this year.
I was the first to saddle and bridle her, the first to ride her, and the first to take her out on the trails. I was, early on, fearful about being on trails, and particularly about going down hills. I did come off a number of times, but less and less so.
Pete used to say that in time she'd be as good a riding horse as Tinni. I doubted this because when she was young she was a bit more reactive. I have to say that Raudi has now surpassed Tinni in terms of his abilities. She has his common sense; the one difference is that she's more consistent with her gaits. He has always pretty much paced, while she trots, canters, tolts, and paces. She mainly paces when she's tired. The pace is really hard to sit and isn't an inefficient gait.
I have never asked her to do the flying pace. We would both benefit from having some training from an instructor who knows about Icelandic horse gait training. I don't know if this will ever materialize. No matter, we are continuing to do what we are doing quite well.
On the ride home it started to rain. It is now early evening, and I think we are going to get a major downpour. I'm glad now that I got out early.


She's tall and slender, beautiful and just a little naughty.
The makers of 42 Below vodka are proud to introduce South Gin, the very first gin made in New Zealand.
She is, of course, the result of very fine breeding. Grain neutral spirit, twice distilled, washed in spring water then distilled again.
But it's her essence that sets her apart. Running through her veins are the natural extracts of nine botanicals - all taken from the real thing. Juniper berries make her what she is. Coriander seed lifts her. The citrusy essence of lemon and orange make her linger on the tongue. Her muskiness is derived from Angelica leaves, Gentian and Orris Root. A forestal freshness comes from New Zealand Native Manuka berries and Kawa Kawa leaves.
In short, she's a complicated, hedonistic blend of deliciousness.
South Gin is a refreshing gin compared to all others, my regular is Tangueray but after having South I have a new preference, although it will be far and few between since it is unavailable in South Carolina at this time.
This gin is produced far away, but now it´s very close to me. You will appreciate its special taste, which you won´t find in any other gin. So try it, when you are looking for a new experience.


Since 1991, quinidine gluconate, a class 1a anti-arrhythmic agent, has been the only parenteral antimalarial available for use in the United States (1). It is indicated for the treatment of patients with life-threatening Plasmodium falciparum malaria (2), including those who cannot tolerate oral therapy, have high-grade parasitemia, or have complications (e.g., cerebral malaria or acute renal failure) (3,4).
Before an acute need arises, hospital drug services should consider maintaining or adding quinidine gluconate to formularies or should be able to immediately locate a nearby source.
Pharmacists and clinicians requiring quinidine gluconate in hospitals in which an immediate source cannot be located should contact their local or regional distributor to request quinidine gluconate.
In clinical settings in which the need for the drug is more acute than can be met by the local or regional distributor, pharmacists and clinicians should contact Eli Lilly Company, telephone, (800) 821-0538 to arrange a rapid shipment of the drug. This telephone number, or an alternate number given to callers, is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
If further assistance is needed in obtaining quinidine gluconate or in managing patients with malaria, contact CDC's malaria hotline, (770) 488-7788 (Monday--Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. eastern standard time). After business hours, weekends, and holidays, contact CDC's security station, telephone, (404) 639-2888 and ask to have the on-call person for malaria questions paged.
Quinidine gluconate intravenous should be administered in a monitored setting. Prolongation of the QT interval as indicated by an electrocardiogram, ventricular arrhythmia, hypotension, and hypoglycemia can result from the use of this drug at treatment doses.
Quinidine gluconate for malaria is administered as an initial intravenous loading dose of 10 mg/kg salt (equivalent to 6.25 mg/kg quinidine base) infused over 1--2 hours. Quinidine gluconate is administered subsequently as a continuous infusion of 20 µg/kg/min quinidine gluconate salt (equivalent to 12.5 µg/kg/min quinidine base) (2).
An alternative regimen is an intravenous loading dose of 24 mg/kg quinidine salt (equivalent to 15 mg/kg quinidine base) infused over 4 hours, followed by a maintenance infusion of 12 mg/kg of quinidine gluconate salt (equivalent to 7.5 mg/kg quinidine base) infused over 4 hours every 8 hours, starting 8 hours after the loading dose (2). These regimens have been shown to be effective with or without concomitant exchange transfusion (2).
The risk for serious ventricular arrhythmia associated with quinidine is increased by bradycardia, hypokalemia, and hypomagnesemia (2). When determining whether a patient should receive a bolus dose, previous administration of other drugs that can prolong the QT interval (e.g., quinine, halofantrine, and mefloquine) should be considered.
No alternatives to quinidine exist for patients in the United States who require intravenous therapy for malaria. Acute cardiac events can be minimized by careful calculation of the loading dose and infusion rate. Consulting a cardiologist may be helpful when attempting to resume infusion in the patient who has experienced QT prolongation or hypotension associated with intravenous quinidine infusion.
Consulting a physician with experience in treating malaria is advised.
CDC. Treatment with quinidine gluconate of persons with severe Plasmodium falciparum infection: discontinuation of parenteral quinine from CDC drug service. MMWR 1991;40(no. RR-4):21--3.
Quinidine gluconate injection [package insert]. Indianapolis, Indiana: Eli Lilly Company, February 2000.
Zucker JR, Campbell CC. Malaria: principles of prevention and treatment. Infect Dis Clin No Am 1993;7:547--67.
Miller KD, Greenberg AE, Campbell CC. Treatment of severe malaria in the United States with a continuous infusion of quinidine gluconate and exchange transfusion. N Engl J Med 1989;321:65--70.
Rosenthal PJ, Petersen C, Geertsma FR, et al. Availability of intravenous quinidine for falciparum malaria [Letter]. N Engl J Med 1996;335:138.
Humar A, Sharma S, Zoutman D, et al. Fatal falciparum malaria in Canadian travelers. Can Med Assoc J 1997;156:1165--7.
CDC. Availability of parenteral quinidine gluconate for treatment of severe or complicated malaria. MMWR 1996;45:494--5.


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Q: PHP thinks an existing user isn't existing in my table I am trying to test if a user is existing in a database table. Very basic and without any encryption. For some reason, PHP always drops the message, that the user got inserted, but I inserted a row with a name called "Tom" and tested to "register" with the same name. PHP still drops the message that it got inserted (it doesn't do anything but checks for the user row).
Here's the Code:
$con = new MySQLi("localhost", "tom", "DBdb123#", "db");
if ($con) {
    $user = $_POST["login"];
    $sql = "SELECT user FROM user where user = " . $user;

    if ($sql < 1) {
        echo "Benutzer angelegt.";
    } else {
        echo "Benutzer existiert bereits.";
    }
}

And here's the proof that the user already exists:

I guess my if-query is wrong, but I coulnd't imagine how to do it right then..

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package com.google.cloud.dataproc.v1.samples;

// [START dataproc_v1_generated_autoscalingpolicyserviceclient_deleteautoscalingpolicy_sync]
import com.google.cloud.dataproc.v1.AutoscalingPolicyName;
import com.google.cloud.dataproc.v1.AutoscalingPolicyServiceClient;
import com.google.cloud.dataproc.v1.DeleteAutoscalingPolicyRequest;
import com.google.protobuf.Empty;

public class SyncDeleteAutoscalingPolicy {

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    syncDeleteAutoscalingPolicy();
  }

  public static void syncDeleteAutoscalingPolicy() throws Exception {
    // This snippet has been automatically generated and should be regarded as a code template only.
    // It will require modifications to work:
    // - It may require correct/in-range values for request initialization.
    // - It may require specifying regional endpoints when creating the service client as shown in
    // https://cloud.google.com/java/docs/setup#configure_endpoints_for_the_client_library
    try (AutoscalingPolicyServiceClient autoscalingPolicyServiceClient =
        AutoscalingPolicyServiceClient.create()) {
      DeleteAutoscalingPolicyRequest request =
          DeleteAutoscalingPolicyRequest.newBuilder()
              .setName(
                  AutoscalingPolicyName.ofProjectLocationAutoscalingPolicyName(
                          "[PROJECT]", "[LOCATION]", "[AUTOSCALING_POLICY]")
                      .toString())
              .build();
      autoscalingPolicyServiceClient.deleteAutoscalingPolicy(request);
    }
  }
}
// [END dataproc_v1_generated_autoscalingpolicyserviceclient_deleteautoscalingpolicy_sync]

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NFL Week 18: Titans-Jaguars game flexed to Saturday night with AFC South title on the line
January 1, 2023, 11:52 p.m. ·2 min read
A division will be decided on Saturday night after all.
The NFL revealed part of its Week 18 schedule on Sunday following the Pittsburgh Steelers' win over the Baltimore Ravens.
The Jacksonville Jaguars will host the Tennessee Titans on Saturday night to conclude a doubleheader this coming weekend. The winner of that game will win the AFC South and earn a spot in the postseason, where the victor will host a game over wild-card weekend.
Saturday's game will follow the Kansas City Chiefs' contest at the Las Vegas Raiders. Both games will be on ESPN.
The Titans enter Saturday's game on a six-game losing streak. If the Jaguars win, they'll claim the division for the first time since 2017.The rest of the Week 18 schedule will drop on Monday night. All remaining games will be played on Sunday.
The Titans enter the regular-season finale on a six-game losing skid. They most recently fell to the Dallas Cowboys on Thursday night. Joshua Dobbs will likely start at quarterback for the Titans in Jacksonville. He made his first start this season after replacing the injured Ryan Tannehill.
The Jaguars rolled past the Houston Texans on Sunday, 31-3, in their fourth straight win and fifth in six games. The Jaguars haven't won the AFC South since 2017, which was the last time they reached the playoffs.
The Chiefs have already clinched the AFC West headed into their Saturday matchup at Allegiant Stadium. They narrowly beat the Denver Broncos on Sunday, 27-24. The Chiefs can still take the top seed in the AFC with a win in Week 18 and a Bills loss either on Monday night or next week against the New England Patriots.
Trevor Lawrence and the Jaguars will attempt to clinch the AFC South on Saturday night. (AP/David J. Phillip)
Dinwiddie scores 36, Mavs top Suns 99-95 after Doncic hurt
PHOENIX (AP) — Spencer Dinwiddie scored a season-high 36 points, Dorian Finney-Smith added 18 points and 12 rebounds, and the Dallas Mavericks beat the Phoenix Suns 99-95 on Thursday night despite losing All-Star guard Luka Doncic to a sprained ankle early in the game. Dinwiddie's hot shooting helped the Mavs thrive without Doncic, who limped to the locker room early in the first quarter and didn't return. The veteran guard shot 10 of 18 from the field, including 5 of 6 on 3-pointers. He also ma
How the Raptors stifled Domantas Sabonis in win over Kings
On the latest episode of "Strictly Hoops", C.J. Miles and Amit Mann discuss the schemes and strategy behind the Raptors limiting Kings center Domantas Sabonis to 9 points while forcing a career-high 9 turnovers. Full episode is on the "Raptors Over Everything" podcast feed.
The Bruins' path to becoming the best team in NHL history
The Bruins are on pace for an NHL record 66 wins and 140 points.
Rookie goalie Jaxson Stauber in form as Blackhawks dump Flames 5-1
CALGARY — Chicago Blackhawks rookie goalie Jaxson Stauber is playing like a veteran even though he's just two games into his NHL career. Stauber made 34 stops for his second straight win and 13 different players contributed a point as the Blackhawks beat the Calgary Flames 5-1 on Thursday. "Looks really solid and calm in there," said Chicago coach Luke Richardson. "They're a big team and they get to the net and they're trying to get secondary chances. He just makes a save and even if there's som
Canada's Frédérique Turgeon, Alexis Guimond ski to bronze medals at Para alpine worlds
Canada picked up its first two medals of the Para alpine world championships on Wednesday with podium finishes in both the women's and men's standing downhill races in Espot, Spain. Frédérique Turgeon captured bronze in the women's standing race for her first medal since suffering a leg injury in a downhill training crash at the Beijing Paralympics last year. The 23-year-old from Candiac, Que., finished with a time of 56.64 seconds, while Germany's Anna-Maria Rieder won gold (55.35) ahead of Fra


Home > Business And Marketing > What Is A Mobile Website?
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Coronavirus: Why We Should Be Sceptical About the Benevolence of Billionaires
22 June 2020 29 November 2020 Politics
The coronavirus pandemic has produced a surge in philanthropic giving from some of the world's wealthiest people. Bill Gates and Melinda Gates, longstanding champions of global health, have committed funds to research the disease and manufacture a vaccine when one becomes available.
Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter, has pledged US$1 billion (£816 million) for "global COVID-19 relief". Then there are Jack Ma, Li Ka-Shing, George Soros, Giorgio Armani and Jeff Bezos – other examples of billionaires giving staggering amounts of money to help alleviate the suffering caused by this global crisis. It is not surprising that they have enjoyed widespread praise and acclaim.
Indeed, it is well deserved. But the situation also illustrates a profound imbalance in society.
Consider for a moment whether you would agree to be a slave. Let's say a kindly benefactor offered you a better standard of living than that which you currently enjoy, or can realistically aspire to, and credibly promises to treat you very well. The only condition is that they would own you.
Would you accept the offer? My suspicion is that most people would not.
Slavery is incontrovertibly wrong, though it is important to understand why. The depictions we see in popular culture often emphasise the cruelty and exploitation. These are terrible, but they are not at the core of what's wrong with owning another person.
If they were, then we would not have a problem with the idea of a kindly benefactor. The real problem with slavery lies in its structure as a social relationship, specifically with the distribution of power.
Philosophers like Philip Pettit have spent the past few decades putting forward a conception of liberty that uses slavery as the archetype of "unfreedom". Unlike Thomas Hobbes or Isaiah Berlin, he doesn't think of freedom as the absence of interference, but the absence of arbitrary interference.
Pettit argues that the problem with slavery is not that the slave is interfered with in a cruel or exploitative way, but simply that their owner has the capacity to interfere in their choices at will. Well treated slaves may be in an enviable condition compared with abused slaves, but they still have no control over an owner's power to interfere. This is what it means to be dominated.
Even in circumstances where an owner is benevolent, the slave will be aware that their choices are based on the master's tacit permission. And if we are worried about domination, we must worry about billionaire philanthropy.
This becomes acute in times of crisis, because it leaves matters of life and death in the hands of a few powerful individuals who lack any constraints on their power other than their own conscience. Freedom is at risk when the imbalance of wealth and power is so stark. How healthy can it be that so many people in the world are utterly dependent on the generosity of billionaires?
The provision of healthcare for millions of people rests on their goodwill and nothing else. They choose what to give, how to give it and who to give it to. They establish large organisations that have a profound influence on public bodies.
The Gates Foundation, for example, is the largest funder of the World Health Organization after the United States. The Gates foundation's influence shapes the global health agenda in a way that has been already been described as a "cartel". Now that Donald Trump appears set to stop American funding for the WHO, the foundation will be even more important. Indeed, it has already committed an additional US$150 million.
Power and influence: the Gates foundation example
This crisis has laid bare the raw power of the state as millions of people have been forced into quarantine and isolation. Even in such times of crisis, we try to minimize that arbitrary power through checks and balances, the rule of law, and democracy. Yet few seem concerned about the power of private organisations. These are organisations that are as powerful as some states, but lack constraints and accountability.
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In short, too many people in the world have to rely on the generosity of philanthropists – it's a stark illustration of the gap between the very rich and the very poor, and the lack of freedom the very poor have.
These are not trivial issues. They will decide who lives and dies.
I do not think that most billionaire philanthropists have bad intentions, quite the opposite in fact, but that's irrelevant. As I argue in my recent book Global Poverty, Injustice and Resistance, domination is a structural relationship. It is about the distribution of power between human beings.
If someone has the power to arbitrarily interfere in your choices, then you are not free. It does not matter if that interference is benevolent or malevolent or indeed if they choose not to interfere. It is about the capacity to arbitrarily interfere and nothing else.
You might say that the world is a better place for having billionaire philanthropists in it. That is true, but it is not enough. No one with such power can be above scrutiny.
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In A Theory of Justice, the political philosopher John Rawls claimed that moral progress was made when people stopped killing captives in war and enslaved them instead. He is correct – it is better to be a slave than a corpse. But that does not mean anyone should be content with being a slave.
Once the COVID-19 pandemic has passed, we will take time to mourn our dead and celebrate everyone who helped save lives, including people like Bill and Melinda Gates. But then we should ask why so many lives depended upon the munificence of billionaires rather than transparent, accountable and adequately funded public agencies.
We should ask why we don't have stronger international organisations that are not beholden to wealthy states or persons. We should ask why billionaires are allowed to endow immensely wealthy, tax-protected philanthropic trusts, rather than paying more taxes. We must ask why health was treated as a privilege, not a right.
Gwilym David Blunt, Lecturer in International Politics, City, University of London
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The Impossible Knife of Memory
Author(s): Laurie Halse Anderson
For the past five years Hayley Kincain and her father, Andy, have been on the road, never staying long in one place as he struggles to escape the demons that have tortured him since his return from Iraq. Now they are back in town where he grew up so Hayley can go to a proper school. Perhaps, for the first time, Hayley can have a normal life, put aside her own painful memories, even have a relationship with Finn, the hot guy who obviously likes her but is hiding secrets of his own. Will being back home help Andy's PTSD, or will his terrible memories drag him to the edge of hell, and drugs push him over? The Impossible Knife of Memory is Laurie Halse Anderson at her finest: compelling, surprising, and impossible to put down.
"Anderson's novels . . . speak for the still-silent among us, and force all of us to acknowledge the real and painful truths that are too dangerous to ignore." —New York Times
"The Impossible Knife of Memory isn't always an easy read-Anderson's gritty, authentic look at PTSD is by turns painful and heartbreaking-but it's an important one." —Entertainment Weekly
"Andy comes home from the war in Iraq honored for his service, and haunted by it. The war still goes on inside of him and threatens to make Hayley another causality. Laurie Halse Anderson is one of the best known writers of literature for young adults and children in the world. " —Scott Simon, NPR Weekend Edition
"Laurie Halse Anderson has been lauded and awarded for her ability to channel the teenage mind (and heart) dealing with tough issues. In The Impossible Knife of Memory, she takes on PTSD through the story of a girl coping with her troubled veteran dad." —Family Circle
"At turns heartbreaking, at turns funny, the narrative in this book is so spot on I wanted to give Hayley my phone number so she would have a friend in times of crisis. Seriously—does ANYONE write troubled teen characters with the realism, grace, and soul of Laurie Halse Anderson?" —Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of The Storyteller
"Laurie Halse Anderson serves the families of veterans with the same honor, dignity, and respect that the veterans, who serve us, deserve. With her trademark hope, humor, and heart-breaking realism, Laurie Halse Anderson has given us a roadmap to heal. She is a treasure." —Stephen Chobsky, New York Times bestselling author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Laurie Halse Anderson is the author of several books for young adults including the New York Times bestselling novel Speak. She is the recipient of the prestigious ALAN Award (2008), which honours those who have made outstanding contributions to the field of adolescent literature. Laurie Halse Anderson lives in northern New York State with her husband.
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Brittney Griner 'looked fantastic,' was eager to talk, special envoy says
WBNA star Brittney Griner "looked great" and "seemed to be doing just fine" on her flight home to the US after being held in a Russian prison for an agonizing 10 months — but wasn't interested in any alone time, eagerly talking to everyone aboard, a US hostage affairs official said Sunday.
Special Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger Carstens recounted the poignant moment when he met Griner on the tarmac in the United Arab Emirates to accompany her back to the US.
"I said, 'Britney, my name is Ambassador Roger Carstens. I'm with the US Department of State. And on behalf of the President of the United States Joe Biden and Secretary of State Tony Blinkem, I'm here to take you home,'" the envoy told host Dana Bashon on CNN's "State of the Union."
"And at that moment I think that every person realizes that it's going to happen, it's setting in; certainly Brittney felt that way."
Griner, 32, was freed in a prisoner swap with international arms dealer Viktor Bout on Thursday after being busted at a Moscow airport with cannabis oil.
The Phoenix Mercury center was sent to a penal colony in Mordovia, Russia while the US negotiated her release with the warring nation.
Brittney Griner "looked great" on her flight home to the US after being held in a Russian prison for 10 months.
Russian Federal Security Service via AP
After her ordeal, Carstens thought the hoopster would want to spend the long flight home deep in thought, but Griner had other ideas.
"When she finally got on to the US plane, I said 'Brittney, you must have been through a lot over the last ten months. Here's your seat, feel free to decompress, we'll give you your space.'
"And she said, 'Oh no. I've been in prison for 10 months now listening to Russian. I want to talk. But first of all, who are these guys?'"
"It's one of those rare moments you can celebrate a victory."
Roger Carstens, the US Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs, describes his experience meeting Brittney Griner after she was released from a Russian prison. @CNNSotu #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/akGGmhtuSG
— CNN (@CNN) December 11, 2022
"And she moved right past me and went to every member on that crew, looked them in the eyes, shook their hands, asked about them, got their names, making a personal connection with them," Carstens recalled.
"She looks great. I mean, she was full of energy, looked fantastic. She's in Port Sam Houston right now undergoing some medical evaluations, but she seems to be just fine," he said.
Griner has not yet spoken publicly about the resolution or her time behind bars.
Carstens said as soon as the plane took off, he shifted his focus to thinking about how the US can retrieve Paul Whelan, a former Marine who was accused of espionage by the Russians in 2018.
WNBA star Brittney Griner deplanes at Kelly Field in San Antonio following her release.
Whelan, 52, told the network last week he was "greatly disappointed that more has not been done" four years since he was imprisoned.
"I was arrested for a crime that never occurred," Whelan told CNN from his penal colony. "I don't understand why I'm still sitting here."
Carstens was tight-lipped on the plan to rescue Whelan, claiming he had to keep his negotiation cards close to the vest.
"I talked to him on Friday, the day after the swap, and here's what I told him: I said, 'Paul, you have the commitment of this president; the president's focused, the secretary of state's focused, I'm certainly focused, and we're going to bring you home," Carstens said.
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Lead-contaminated water is a serious environmental concern that has recently proved to be disastrous when left untreated.
Tokyo: Scientists have identified a type ofmoss that can efficiently absorb a large amount of lead, providing a green alternative for decontaminating polluted water and soil.
Compounding the problem, the typical way to remove lead or other heavy metals from water requires fossil fuels and a tremendous amount of energy.
As an alternative to these typical processes, phytoremediation is a method that uses photosynthesizing organisms to clean up soil or water contamination.
Researchers from RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan began their search for a phytoremediation-based removal method by looking at F hygrometrica, a moss that is known to grow well in sites contaminated with metals like copper, zinc, and lead.
"We found that the moss can function as an excellent lead absorbent when in the protonema stage of development," said Misao Itouga, first author of the study published in the journal PLOS One.
"This valuable ability means that moss protonema will likely make exceptional wastewater cleaners in mining and chemical industries," Itouga said.
To characterise the metal-absorbing ability of the moss, the team first prepared solutions with varying concentrations of 15 different metals and exposed them to F hygrometrica protonema.
After 22 hours of exposure, mass-spectrometer analysis showed that the moss cells had absorbed lead up to 74 per cent of their dry weight, which is quite high and much higher than any of the other metals.
Knowing where the lead accumulates is important for understanding how it occurs and for developing the most efficient phytoremediation.
Analysis showed that within the moss protonema cells, more that 85 per cent of the lead had accumulated in the cell walls, with smaller amounts being found in organelle membranes and inside the chloroplasts where photosynthesis occurs.
Focusing on the cell walls, the team found that they absorbed lead even after being removed from living moss.
This means that there is something special about the cell walls of this species of moss that allows them to thrive in environments that are toxic to other plants.
Analysis with two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance indicated that polygalacturonic acid in the cell walls was responsible for absorbing the lead.
"We compared F hygrometrica data with those from land plants and seaweeds and found that the presence of polygalacturonic acid in the cell wall is one of the characteristics that separated this type of moss from other plants," said Itouga.
"Our findings show that F hygrometrica is a useful bio- material for recovering lead from aqueous solutions, and will contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations, specifically the Life on Land goal," said Hitoshi Sakakibara, from CSRS.


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Junior co-captain Madeline Raster and the Crimson reached the second round of the WNIT last season (Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard women's basketball team has been selected third in the Ivy League Preseason poll, selected by the media, the conference announced Wednesday. The Crimson finished the 2016-17 season with an 8-6 record in the Ancient Eight, trailing Princeton (9-5) and Penn (13-1).
Last season marked the 11th season that the Crimson finished in the top three in the Ivy League standings, dating all the way back to the 2006-07 season.
Harvard earned 98 points in the preseason poll, trailing Princeton who was picked second with 120 points and Penn who earned 129 points in first. The Quakers received 12 first-place votes and the Tigers garnered five.
Last season, the Crimson went 21-9, making it to the second round of the WNIT after a win in the first round against New Hampshire. The WNIT appearance marked the seventh time in the past nine years, and the program's 13th appearance in the postseason, the most of any other Ivy League team.
For the 2017-18 season, the Crimson will return senior co-captain Kirby Porter, who started 27 games a year ago. The team will also return junior co-captain Madeline Raster, who scored 10.6 ppg and averaged 4.8 rpg. The Crimson welcomed five freshmen to the team this fall.
The 2017-18 season kicks off against in Orono, Maine for the Maine Tip-Off Tournament against Dayton on Nov. 10th at 8 p.m. Harvard will host its first home game Nov. 15, welcoming Siena to the renovated Lavietes Pavilion at 7 p.m.


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Located close to the vibrant city of Birmingham, Toby Carvery Quinton will allow you to relax, sleep, and dine in true comfort.
This bed and breakfast hotel in Quinton offers the best value accommodation without compromising on quality, allowing you to enjoy a comfortable night's sleep and a traditional carvery in cosy surroundings.
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Ash Hollow State Park is located along Highway 26, just over 3 miles southeast of Lewellen. Ash Hollow Creek bisects the rugged canyon, and is lined with a variety of trees. Native American tribes lived in the canyon for centuries, leaving behind a wealth of artifacts. Starting around 1841, early settlers, following the nearby North Platte River valley west, had to descend the infamous Windlass Hill. Because of the steepness, accidents sometimes occurred. The settlers found a good place to camp at the bottom of the hill, with a major spring available to water livestock. The 1,000-acre state park has a historical interpretive center and several hiking trails.
The nation's longest non-motorized trail, the American Discovery Trail passes through Ash Hollow State Park, coming into the park from Lake McConaughy to the east, passing by the deep ruts of the old Oregon Trail on Windlass Hill. From there, the trail heads south on county roads to Big Springs, Colorado.
Placard for an old school at the state park.


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