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Sir Stirling Moss: his life and career remembered in ten amazing facts
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To mark the death of the British Formula One legend earlier this month, we take a look back at his incredible career
The world lost one of its greatest ever sports stars this month when Sir Stirling Moss passed away aged 90. Here, we pay tribute to the motor-racing legend by recalling some of his career highs and lows.
In April, the motor-racing world said goodbye to a legend when Sir Stirling Moss passed away following a long illness. He was 90 years old.
Often referred to as "the greatest driver never to win the F1 World Championship", the Londoner racked up an impressive catalogue of achievements before his career was prematurely ended in 1962 following a horror crash at Goodwood.
But Moss will also be remembered for the glamour that he brought to the sport off the circuit. As three-time F1 World Champion Jackie Stewart once told BBC Radio 5 Live: "He walked like a racing driver should walk, he talked like a racing driver, he looked like a racing driver, and he set a standard that I think has been unmatched since he retired."
In honour of the great man, here we look back at his incredible life and career in ten fascinating facts…
1. Birth of an F1 legend
Born in 1929, Moss received his very first car – an Austin 7 – from his father at the tender age of nine. Moss Snr. reportedly opposed his son's subsequent desire to become a motor racer, however, and wanted him to become a dentist.
2. An extraordinary record
Moss's illustrious career saw him finish victorious in 212 of the 529 races he entered across multiple categories. In 1955, he became the first British driver to win the British Grand Prix, securing the crown at Aintree. Although Moss never won a Formula One World Championship, he was runner-up four times and third on three occasions. He held the record as the English driver with the most F1 Grand Prix victories (16) until Nigel Mansell overtook him in 1991.
Watch some of Sir Stirling Moss's most exhilarating moments
3. Best of British
Over the course of his career, Moss is reported to have driven no fewer than 84 different makes of car. He made no secret of his love for home-built machines, though, once stating that it was "better to lose honourably in a British car than win in a foreign one".
4. Ladies' man
Moss spoke openly about his passion for the opposite sex, and once famously boasted that he could keep "one eye on the track, another on the gauges and still...spot a pretty girl in the crowd". He walked down the aisle three times, tying the knot with his third wife, Lady Susie Moss (pictured), in 1980. They remained married until his death.
5. High-tech home
In 1961, Moss purchased a bomb-damaged plot of land in London's swanky Mayfair district for £5,000. He subsequently spent a reported £25,000 on building a five-storey home and filling it with the latest tech. This included an electro-hydraulic dining table that was able to descend from the kitchen on one floor to the dining room on the floor below, mirrored windows and a carbon-fibre lift built for him by the Williams F1 team. Perhaps unsurprisingly considering his love of gadgets, Moss made a brief cameo appearance in the 1967 James Bond spoof Casino Royale.
6. Recognised by the BBC
Also in 1961, Moss was crowned BBC Sports Personality of the Year – the first Formula One driver to be awarded the accolade. He took pole position ahead of boxer Billy Walker and tennis star Angela Mortimer.
7. Horror crash
Moss once said: "With driving a motor car, the danger is a very necessary ingredient. Like if you're cooking, you need salt. You can cook without salt, but it doesn't have the flavour." However, he almost lost his life after a horror crash at Goodwood on Easter Monday 1962. Incredibly, though he emerged from his mangled Lotus with a crushed cheekbone, a displaced eye socket, broken limbs and deep bruising to his brain, he somehow survived. The accident signalled the end of his career, however, and shortly after his recovery, he retired from professional racing aged just 32.
8. The legend lives on
The F1 icon continued to race competitively long after his retirement from the big time. Indeed, in 2011 he qualified for the Le Mans Legends event at the age of 81 – just months after he'd fallen 30 feet down a lift shaft at his Mayfair home, breaking both his ankles and damaging his vertebrae.
Watch Sir Stirling Moss square off against current F1 star Lewis Hamilton at Monza
9. A career in TV
In the twilight years of his life, Moss took on a new challenge, narrating the British-made children's animated TV series Roary the Racing Car. "Roary's a great little character," he told ABC Radio Perth at the time. "I've never done anything like this, other than the voiceover for commercials, and I've found it quite exciting. It's been terrific fun and my grandchildren love it."
10. Sir Stirling Moss: 1929-2020
Moss died at his home in Mayfair on 12 April, four years after suffering a serious chest infection while on holiday in Singapore – an illness that left him hospitalised for 134 days. He is survived by his wife Susie and two children. Susie, who was by his side at the time of his passing, later reported that her husband had died peacefully. "It was one lap too many," she said. "He died as he lived – looking wonderful."
Watch Sir Stirling Moss as he appears on BBC's This Is Your Life in 1959
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An amazing tale of Chavez simply mocking the Rules of law
Last year,
the General Prosecutor accused five people
of being behind the assassination of prosecutor Danilo Anderson: Banker Nelson
Mezerhane, journalist Patricia Poleo, a retired General from Plaza Altamira, a
reporter of Cuban origin named Romani and surprisingly, an active General Jaime
Escalante in charge of the military regional command called CORE I and
reportedly very close to Chavez.
All of
these people were jailed on the basis of the testimony of a single man, the so
called �super
witness� Giovanny Vazquez, who claimed that he had been at a meeting with
all of them where the assassination was planned. Vazquez was soon discredited
as a witness when it was learned he was not a psychiatrist like he claimed, he
was an expert forger, had been a paramilitary and was actually in jail when the
meeting had supposedly taken place. For months, the Prosecutor General would not
admit any of this until a couple of months ago he admitted
Vazquez had �deceived him�.
the lawyers of Poleo, who is in the US and Mezerhane who was freed on his own
recognizance in December asked that the case against them be dropped, but the
prosecutor General has refused to so far, saying he has other evidence that
confirms Vazquez� testimony. This week, Mezerhane�s lawyers denounced that some
of the files in the case had been forged, prompting an investigation. But the charges
against all five accused remain in effect.
Now, as we
say in Spanish, you can be either with God or the Devil, but not with both. Of
Vazquez� testimony has been confirmed then the five people charged were
involved, if it is not then all five should be exonerated. But what I find
amazing is that this week, on Hugo
Chavez� personal orders, General Escalante was reinstated in his position,
even as the Prosecutor General continues to accuse him of being involved with
the assassination of Anderson.
Chavez is not only making a mockery of Justice and the Rules of Law in Venezuela, but
openly laughing and mocking those that he has put in charge of that same judicial
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They all had a single party by Teodoro Petkoff
They all had a single party by Teodoro Petkoff in Tal Cual
The only two political offers of the candidate of continuity which are
truly new are those of his �unique party of the revolution� and his indefinite reelection.
The rest is a broken record of eight years of failure. More of the same. In the
case of the �unique party� one has to beware. It would seem to be an idea aimed
to regroup the archipelago that surrounds the continuity candidate in a single
block and, supposedly, unite it. In the �revolutionary� nest of cockroaches the
proposal has awakened mistrust, fears and suspicions. Not only in the little
ones, but even-or specially in- Chavez� MVR, because it is thought, not without
a reason, that the whole purpose is to liquidate diversity, not to accept small
differences, internally among the supporters of the candidate of continuity,
who from now on, he thinks, he could subject his co militants to an iron
discipline, making them obey the only voice of command: his. �Commander in
Chief, tell us what to do!� this is what they expect to hear from now on. But
if among his supporters the idea is seeing with reserve, the rest of
Venezuelans have even more reasons to be concerned. The dynamics of �unique
parties� have led, in very well known historical cases, from the suppression of
debate internally within the party to the suppression of political debate at a
national scale. Once the unique organization is created, the next step was to
declare him interpreter and custodian of the interests of the Nation and deny
the right of existence to other political forces with the argument that, by
definition, they would be representatives of the �enemy�, which for our case
will be Yankee imperialism. From the �unique party of the revolution� we would
go to the �unique party of the country�, that is, to a single party in the
country. Much like it was in the former Soviet Union.
In Nazi Germany, in fascist Italy,
in Franco�s Spain and�in
Fidel�s Cuba.
Speculation? History is there and those that say, that those who do not learn
from history are condemned to repeat it, are absolutely correct.
Street Vendor Arbitrage in Venezuela
Market forces can be very powerful indeed. As acknowledged by
president Ch�vez a few nights ago in an interview, his Government has
been using trial and error, looking for solutions to problems in the
last eight years and while errors and mistakes have been made, he
thinks that his Government now has the �bull by the horns�. Or so he
thinks.
The problem is that the Government seems to ignore market forces and
creates distortions on top of distortions, which ignore the basic
principles of economics and how human beings react to opportunities.
When the Government created its supermarket network Mercal, it was
supposed to be a way of delivering cheaper goods to the poor. Mercal
could obviously sell goods cheaper than anyone. It paid no custom duty,
it received all of the currency it wanted at the official rate of
exchange, it was handled by military at all levels so it only had to
pay labor for a reduced non-military workforce. Finally, it was not for
profit and thus would pay no taxes.
Later, the Government established price controls for certain
foodstuffs and they applied to a large fraction of the products sold by
Mercal. As inflation drove prices up, the Government allowed controlled
prices to increase only slowly or not at all, creating a huge
discrepancy between controlled prices and free market prices. Thus, the
Government had to start subsidizing many of these products in order to
keep prices down. For many products, it was or is impossible for local
producers to even compete with Mercal subsidized prices. This has
basically become a trap; foodstuff prices are up 19.9% since May so
that in the face of the election, the Government does not want to
approve any increase of controlled prices and has to spend more money
on subsidizing these products.
But market forces have now intervened in the form of the huge work
force of street vendors, estimated to be 300,000 in Caracas alone. They
simply go to Mercal, buy as much as they are allowed to and go and sell
the products in the streets at market prices, thus creating what we can
call �Street Vendor Arbitrage�. The differences are huge and so are the
profits of the street vendors. A kilo of powdered milk, for example,
that sells at Mercal for Bs. 4,700 (US$2.18 at the official rate of
exchange) goes for Bs. 15,000 (US$ 6.97) from the street vendors, wheat
flower, Bs. 1000 at Mercal goes for Bs. 2,500 in the streets, sugar Bs.
740 at Mercal, Bs. 3,000 in the streets and so on. Of course, you can�t
always find all the products at either Mercal or informal markets, with
sugar, milk and some vegetables being in short supply regularly.
The Government�s solution to this problem is typical: Next week a
decree will be issued prohibiting the sale of Mercal products by anyone
but Mercal vendors and the National Guard will receive instructions to
begin inspecting street vendors and allowing the guards to confiscate
the goods from anyone trying to sell Mercal products. Of course, all
this will just give more work to the National Guard, which in turn is
likely to charge a fee not to bother street vendors directly from the
vendors or the street vendors will create an early warning
communications system that will allow them to run or hide their
products anytime the National Guards comes nearby.
What�s next? Undercover cops to supervise the corruption of the National Guard? Who will supervise them?
A new, gentler and surprising Chavez?
All of a sudden we have a new and gentler Chavez, improved and ready to admit errors, because now he has the bull by the "horns" and wants to continue "trying solutions" rather than relying on experts. He gets a rabbit out of the hat saying 70% of the people think things have improved.Of course, in the end, he can't help it and says those that oppose him are the candidates of imperialism. Maybe they are the candidate of knowledge, expertise and not simple trial and error, even if he think he is like Edison trying to innovate on social and economic matters. That analogy alone shows he has no clue.
Why the milder Chavez?.Can he be worried? He seems to admit the polls are something like Chavez 45%, Rosales/Rausseo 35%, even if he says his vote intention is above 60%. I guess he did not pay complete attention to the explanation they gave him, but there sure was one.
of Interior and Justice Chacon hold
a press conference in Barquisimeto where he tells the �people� not believe
any �new� mermaid songs from anyone (Rosales obviously) offering to solve the
crime problem, that this needs long term plans, they did not do it on 50 years
and � we will show the country��
Well, is
this blah, blah, blah or what? To begin with 8 of the 50 years he talks about are Chavez� own, during
which crime has tripled, so I don�t think Chacon or Chavez and his
administration has much to �show� or deserves another chance to show anything. Rosales
at least could say that he has only been Governor for five years and his state
occupies one of the last five places in the country in terms of the crime rate.
–And speaking
of crime, an Italian woman on her honey moon is
killed at the archipelago of �los Roques� one of the most spectacular tourist
locations in the country. Her husband is severely injured as they were violently
assaulted inside of the bed and breakfast where they were staying. The National
Guard decides not to allow any flights or boats in and out of the islands until
they find the culprits.
If this crime
is like most crimes in the country, which never get solved, some of these
tourists may be eligible to vote in the 2012 Presidential election. What happens
to tourists scheduled to leave? Those scheduled to arrive? How could the criminals
feel so safe to attack in such a small and isolated place? All of this and the tourism
fair starts this weekend at the grounds of the La Carlota airport of Caracas.
about those funny guys
at 7-11 dropping 2,100 gas stations from the CITGO network because they did
not like what Chavez said at the UN? The spokeswoman for the company said "Regardless
of politics, we sympathize with many Americans' concern over derogatory
comments about our country and its leadership recently made by Venezuela's
president Hugo Chavez,"
Jeez, does
Chavez understand these are market forces at work? The problem is that PDVSA
dropped 1,800 stations in July already and it appears as if these are 2,100 new ones, since they
are defined as their �independent� network. Imagine that, having a 7-11 in your
tank! I thought the hot dogs were quite good actually. Let� see, we are no
longer friends with the US, Peru, Mexico,
and now 7-11. Whose next, India?
Get in line, please!
What Baduell did not say today, even if we could not understand it all
Although I
may have found it too coincidental that the Prosecutor�s office brought charges
against a former officer of the investigative police on
Monday for a massacre that took place twenty years ago, maybe I should consider
it a coincidence with important symbolic consequences and Minister of Defense Baduell
should consider the implications of that case to his personal future. Maybe not
today, or next week, or in the next ten years, but his irresponsible actions
may come back to haunt him one day and may even lead to his imprisonment.
Today�s
press conference by Baduell was as confusing as it was long. You the news are
as confusing as the bits and pieces I caught of the press conference. I thought
I had heard that there were 18 military officers involved of which 8 were in
prison, while Globovision seems
to indicate that there are 34 involved in the two massacres. However, Unionradio
says that the eight in jail have nothing to do with La Paragua, while Globovision
says they are all related to that case.
It�s sort
of strange why lately all high ranking military, the best of the best that get
three stars and have been promoted to Minister are so hard to understand. Remember
Lucas Rincon, the man that said �We asked for his resignation, which he accepted�
saying the clearest words he ever said that fateful night of April 11th.
2002 or former General and Minister of Defense Garcia Carneiro, who should have
always had an interpreter for us to understand what he said. Baduell is
similar, convoluted, barely opens his mouth as he speaks. Why is this? Is it
that Chavez picks them so that he will have no competition or reflects a new
style in Venezuela�s
now more incompetent military?
In any
case, Baduell seemed to say, in my opinion, that there are 34 members of the
military being investigated for the two cases, of which eight are in detention
and this part of a military operation that began on Thursday. This seems to be
consistent with what I heard and some
of the versions in the media.
Baduell has not answered iany of this:
–Why was
the National Guard kicked out of Bolivar state and replaced with the Army, isn�t
that a contradiction in terms of their functionality and roles? Was it the gold
or some more �strategic� reason?
Baduell was not the liar at his press conference in Bolivar state, when he said
�The miners had an armed confrontation with the Army�, who was?
–Who told
Baduell that the helicopters never touched the ground?
Baduell that the military personnel never shot from the air?
Baduell there were only four dead?
–Who did
not tell Baduell that some of the dead had been shot on the back of their neck?
–Who gave
the Governor of Bolivar State, retired General Francisco Rangel his version? Was
it Baduell?
This all sounds
like a cover up, the more they speak on it, the more confusing, contradictory
and convoluted it gets.
I think that Baduells' political ambitions may have died this week, it may have indeed been symbolic that the old massacre was rveived this week. Fortunately,
under the new Constitution, human rights cases never prescribe.
Did you
know that Gral. Raul Baduell?
I will not
The fallacies of the Revolution or The revolution in fallacies by Marino Gonzalez
Don't forget to read in vcrisis the translation of the article The revolution in fallacies by Marino Gonzalez. Gonzalez who is a medical doctor with a Ph.D. in Public Health, blasts the Government's health policies and uses statistics to do it, but none shocked me more than:
"According to the Government itself, the Barrio Adentro mission should
take care of 60% of the population. This implies taking care of at
least 300,000 pregnant women a year to insure adequate prenatal control
and birth without complications. In the three years of Barrio Adentro
only 2,500 births have been taken care of."
Imagine that, while our hospitals are falling apart. What a ripoff these guys are!
Damage Control on the massacre, but no punishment on cover up?
damage control on the part of the Government, which in the end only complicates
matters:
–Chavez recognizes
there was �excessive use of weapons� and cynically begins talking about the
human rights record of the Government as if Fort Mara,
Puente El Llaguno, Plaza Altamira (twice) and many others had occurred in some
other era. Maybe someone should show him the video of the song by Panaminian Ruben Blades Prohibido Olvidar.
We are still waiting for those guilty of Fort Mara
to be charged. (In fact Chavez said one day it was a media scandal and the surviving
soldier had light injuries, he died that night). Chavez admits that there was
no confrontation.
–Chacon says
there were �only� six people dead, in a slip of a tongue, which may have meant,
thanks God there were only six.
Velasquez takes the Government to task, saying
that the Government first denied the event ha taken place, then it said there
was a confrontations between miners, then the Minister said it was a confrontation
between the military and the miners and now the President admits there was �excessive
use of weapons� and expresses doubts about the version of a confrontation. Velasquez
ratifies that there are ten people dead, in contrast with Chacon�s �only six�
version. Who is right?
–The Brazilian Foreign Ministry office announces that it has asked the Venezuelan Government for "detailed information" on the event, as some of the "seven" dead are Brazilian, introducing a new number for the deaths as well as a new monkey wrench into the affair.
The problem is that the law in the whole Bolivar mining region has become the Law of the Jungle as the military tries to enrich itslef (What else is new?) at the expense of the miners. There continued to be reports that a lot of gold owned by the miners is missing and that there are some miners that have yet to be found.
From a punlic relations point of view, the
problem at this time is that the President and the Minister of the Interior and
Justice are giving versions which are exactly the opposite of what both the
Minister of Defense, General Ivan Baduell and the Governor of Bolivar State,
retired General Francisco Rangel Gomez have said, not once but three times, falling into a trap of too many contradictions.
Will they
then punish only some lowly soldiers for the massacre and not the high ranking
Government officials for trying to cover the massacre three times, as well as covering up what the source of the conflict is?
What happened at La Paragua and Maripa: Massacres or confrontations?
Friday when I heard former Causa R Presidential candidate Andres Velasquez, vehemently denounce a
massacre by the Venezuelan military in a mining area in Bolivar state, I
decided that I had to mention it somehow, mostly because I have always respected
Velasquez and if he was making such a string statement, there had to be some
truth to the whole thing. Little did I know that the whole thing would escalate
so fast and that so far, the witnesses interviewed on TV have ratified
Velasquez� statements.
is confusing. The miners claim that military in helicopters rappelled down from
them and when they touched down, they started shooting. Two of the miners were
reportedly forced to kneel down and executed, while the survivors were told to
run and were shot dead. Reports are confusing. Velasquez first said there were five
dead, the Government then said there were four dead and now there are reports
that the bodies of two Indians have now been found in the town of Maripa, victims of a
separate military action about a day earlier. (The two towns are about 100
miles from each other). The inhabitants of Maripa burned down the house of the
Mayor and say about 100 miners escaped into the mountains, after the Army took
their gold food and instruments away.
Minister of Defense Baduel said that the deaths
occurred in a confrontation between the military and the miners, when the military
tried to protect the environment. This version was denied
by the miners today, who noted that initially the Operational Theater #5 of the
Army even denied that they had been near the area and it was only when they
realized there was a witness that the story changed. There were
protests today and Velasquez is now charging that the military tried to
cover up what they did. The inhabitants of the town of La Paragua have blocked all access to it and
are demanding the presence of Hugo Chavez himself �because it seems he has distances
himself from the realities of the country�. One of the leaders of the miners said
it was the Army that massacred the workers and said the new Russian helicopters
were used, saying that the statements by the Minister of Defense are simply
lies.
Meanwhile, the Governor of Bolivar state made
statements that agreed with those of the Minister of Defense saying that
the deaths occurred during a confrontation. Curiously, the timeline he gives
for the events disagrees with that of Andres Velasquez who on Saturday morning
was already warning of what happened and that the miners were ready to block
the town. Governor Rangel Gomez, a retired General, said that at noon on
Saturday they knew about the problem, while Velasquez had denounced it much
earlier, but apparently the military did not know there was a survivor. (Globovision
posted it at noon, but it was shown on TV much earlier)
After the silence on Sunday (except for Baduell�s quick
explanation that it was a confrontation after a denial that the Army had
anything to do with it), today, the Prosecutor, Chavez
MVR and yes, belatedly
the People�s Ombudsman, who was too concerned about the problem the Minister of
Foreign Relations had at New York�s Kennedy airport and only said something
this afternoon after the miners
asked for his intervention.
to one of the miners �there is a confrontation between the National Guard
and the Army for the control of the mines, which are a scholarship for them
with the extortions and the smuggling of gasoline, it would seems they are
fighting for the area�
Reportedly, the Army wants the miners to leave the area,
despite the fact that it is not the area covered under an older agreement to
protect the sources of rivers and brooks in the area. The miners decided to
march back to their town and were then attacked by the Army. Coincidentally, the same had happened in Maripa just hours earlier.
Curiously, in the middle of the day, the Prosecutor�s
office gave a press conference to
announce they would be charging an officer of the investigative police
for a massacre which took place 22 years ago in 1986, while this case, an apparent attempt at cover up,
involving murder and corruption, seems to be gathering a life of its own, as
Government officials contradict each other, even as they are trying to confirm
each other�s stories, which are changing as fast as the size of the story itself .
Pop quiz on Venezuelan politics
After four years of blogging about Venezuelan politics, I think it is about time I give my readers a pop quiz to check whether you are paying attention or not:
Only question (ten points):
After a long weekend of protests, murders and abuses, who did the People's Ombudsman (Called the People's Defender in Spanish) came out and express his concern for first:
a) The voters whose rights are being violated by the fingerprint machines
b) The miners massacred in La Paragua, apparently by the military
c) Minister of Foreign Relations Nicolas Maduro
d) The more than one hundred killed in homicides in Caracas this weekend
e) The housing protesters
Well, all of your who said c) got it right. Greman Mundarain was quick to defend Maduro and even went as far as talk about Maduro's human rights as if he would recognize one. Fortunately, he did not mention Maduros' "wife"
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Q: Role to hostname mapping with Ansible Pull I have used Ansible in the regular push-mode with an inventory where there are several groups. I have "workstations" and "servers" and some other stuff.
Now with ansible-pull I have rolled out a cron job to the "workstations" which pull a git repository and then apply the localhost.yml to themselves. This works fine, but I would like to have different roles mapped to the different groups.
My only idea is to roll out different cron jobs to the different machines and have a workstations.yml playbook and so on.
Is it sensible to let Ansible find out (with inventory or a variable) which group the host belongs to? I think one could define a dictionary of lists with the hostnames. And then I do this:
- role: workstation
  when: ansible_hostname in inventory['workstations']
- role: laptop
  when: ansible_hostname in inventory['laptops']

Is that a good solution or should I rather do something better?

A: By default ansible-pull appends -l localhost,node-name,127.0.0.1 parameter when calling ansible-playbook.
This way you can have inventory:
[workstations]
node1
[laptops]
node2

and playbook local.yml:
- hosts: all
  roles:
    - generic
- hosts: workstations
  roles:
    - workstation
- hosts: laptops
  roles:
    - laptop

Because of -l only generic+laptops play will be applied to node2 and generic+workstations to node1. Plays not related to current node will be skipped with

skipping: no hosts matched

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Sir Isaac Newton and the New Haredim
By: Prof. Yedidia Z. Stern
Recent years have seen the development of the phenomenon of the "New Haredim." An integral part of Haredi society, modern ultra-Orthodox Jews are completely loyal to the values of the Haredi community and fully accept rabbinic authority. At the same time, however, they are willing to go beyond the walls of their self-imposed ghetto, to get an education and a profession, and to join Israeli society. This is a significant phenomenon, which has been growing rapidly in recent years. Currently, some 7,000 ultra-Orthodox students are enrolled in Israeli institutions of higher education, an increase of 250% in just five years. The combination of "ultra-Orthodox" and "college education" has become possible.
This phenomenon, however, is new and fragile and its future is not guaranteed. The conservative forces within the Haredi community are opposed to it, and are seeking ways to reinforce the "walls of holiness." The High Court of Justice gave them a boost when it struck down the Tal Law, the arrangement that had exempted Haredim from compulsory military service, which triggered renewed calls for separatism. What began as a supportive tailwind, however, has become a raging tornado, as the Knesset is currently debating a conscription law that might send thousands of ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers to jail. I have previously warned that "the Supreme Court decision may turn out to be a historic mistake: It may reverse the current trend of integration in Israeli society that has begun to emerge among the Haredi community and nip that change in the bud."See: In the Aftermath of the Tal Law on this site. Unfortunately, this warning is being fulfilled before our very eyes.
In response to the Peri Committee's threats of criminal sanctions against Haredi draft dogers, ultra-Orthodox extremists embarked on a successful campaign that dubbed Haredi soldiers "Hardakim" (an acronym for Haredim Kalei Daat that is similar to the Hebrew words for germs or insects), deeming them "weak minded" or "frivolous" Haredim. The geometric progression of growth in ultra-Orthodox conscription rates found in the last few years stopped, and there are even rumors—which the IDF denies—that Haredi conscription in the past year has declined. Moreover, if until recently ultra-Orthodox men reported to army recruitment centers following receipt of their first draft notice at age 17, hundreds of Haredim are now ignoring their notices—running the risk of arrest—as per the instructions of their rabbis. Similarly, in the realm of higher education, one of the largest ultra-Orthodox colleges has reported that for the first time in a decade, there has been a drop in demand for admission in the coming year.
The results of last week's municipal elections in Israel illustrate this downturn. Seven years ago, the "New Haredim" established a political movement called "Tov," which advocates Haredi integration in society and the workforce. In 2008, "Tov" was the surprise of the local elections, when its representative won places on the city councils of two ultra-Orthodox communities despite the efforts of Haredi rabbis and politicos to steamroll the "internal uprising." In the five years since then, the New Haredim gained support, leading to expectations that "Tov" would be very successful in the 2013 elections and that the tectonic changes sizzling beneath Haredi society would be firmly established in the political public sphere. But the party suffered a stinging defeat, failing dismally in all the locales where it ran. "Tov" was wiped out. Instead, in the mayoral race in Jerusalem, a significant share of ultra-Orthodox voters voted for an extremist rabbi who rejects all compromise and his representative is likely to serve as deputy mayor of the capital.
And here is where Isaac Newton comes into play. Newton's third law of motion stipulates that every action has an equal and opposite reaction; that is, any time one object exerts force on another, it will encounter a force of equal intensity in the opposite direction. Although Newton's laws of motion relate to physical objects, they can explain the relationship between the ultra-Orthodox and the State of Israel. When the Court, the media, and Israel's political parties attempt to overpower the Haredim by means of an overly aggressive move, it is to be expected that there will be an equally aggressive response in the form of steadfast refusal to cooperate. This is what we are beginning to see. As individuals, the new ultra-Orthodox want to get an education and to make a decent living, and tens of thousands of them wish to escape from the humiliating cycle of poverty. But when they perceive the environment as hostile and see the new government arrangements as an attack on their ultra-Orthodox identity, they immediately pull back, don conservative armor, and withdraw into their familiar ghetto.
The Knesset must wake up and reconsider its decision. It must not abandon the goal of equality in sharing the burden of military service, but it must find ways of achieving this goal that do not involve criminal sanctions. The damage caused by such sanctions far outweighs their benefit. It is vital to encourage the trends of change in Haredi society by economic mechanisms while protecting the human dignity of ultra-Orthodox Jews and their communities. One does not have to be Newton to understand this.
Yedidia Z. Stern is Vice President of Research of the Israel Democracy Institute and a Professor of Law at Bar-Ilan University.
This article was originally published in Hebrew in Yedioth Ahronoth on October 30, 2013.
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Lawsuit seeks to close GCC Energy's King II coal mine
Conservation groups say more thorough water study will show excavation unsafe
By Jonathan Romeo County & environment reporter
Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020 2:07 PM
Updated: Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020 10:39 PM
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A lawsuit seeks to close GCC Energy's King II mine, arguing the mine's operation is adversely affecting water quality.
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A lawsuit was filed Tuesday by conservation groups calling for GCC Energy's King II coal mine to comply with a stricter water protection rule, a move the groups say will lead to the closure of the mine in western La Plata County.
GCC Energy has operated the coal mine near Hesperus since 2007, but in preparation for its coal reserves to run out, it asked the Bureau of Land Management in 2018 for an expansion of its underground workings that would extend the life of the mine for 20 years.
The BLM granted the expansion in June 2020, but it doesn't become official until the Department of Interior's Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement signs off, which is pending.
If the expansion is ultimately approved, the King II mine, southwest of Durango, would increase by 2,462 acres, essentially doubling the underground workings of the mine and opening access to an additional 9.5 million tons of coal.
The lawsuit, however, filed against the U.S. government and Department of Interior, calls for the expansion process to stop until GCC Energy more intensively looks at its impact on water quality in the region. Ultimately, the groups believe the analysis will show the mine cannot operate safely.
The lawsuit was filed by two nonprofits: Southwest Advocates, a group of residents who live near the mine, and the Citizens for Constitutional Integrity.
Jared Pettinato, an attorney representing the groups, said Congress in 2017 used an unconstitutional means to roll back the Obama administration's Stream Protection Rule, which GCC Energy should now abide by.
The rule sought to address coal mining's impact on water by enacting stricter regulations, such as requiring increased water-quality monitoring and conducting more thorough baseline assessments of potential impacts to the ecosystem.
The rule, however, was opposed by mining companies and incoming President Donald Trump, who vowed to revive the industry. In February 2017, the Republican-held Congress used the Congressional Review Act to repeal it.
Pettinato said King II puts residents' nearby wells at risk because the mine sprays water onto the coal face, which mixes the water with toxic mining chemicals and then seeps into the groundwater.
And he said the groups believe GCC Energy is taking more water than it is allotted, exacerbating issues on the La Plata River, an already over-allocated, low-flow stream.
"Every drop of water is important," he said. "If they had applied that new rule, it would have required a more intense analysis for monitoring pollutants."
Indeed, the issue over water as it pertains to the King II mine was a recurring concern during the expansion process the past few years.
The King II coal mine is located in western La Plata County, where available water is scarce. The main waterway, the La Plata River, is a relatively low-flow stream, and most residents rely on spotty groundwater aquifers.
GCC Energy uses a substantial amount of water, about 60 acre-feet a year (about 30 Olympic pools), leased from local rancher Dan Huntington, which is then stored in a reservoir on-site.
GCC Energy maintains groundwater wells for monitoring, but La Plata County officials say there hasn't been a comprehensive study on potential impacts to the La Plata River.
La Plata County commissioners in 2019 sent a letter to the BLM urging more attention to water issues, with commissioners calling for a robust study on how mine operations may affect adjacent wells or runoff into the La Plata River.
"When it comes to the doubling of an existing mine ... I think we want to have a much better understanding of the impacts ... on the hydrology system," Commissioner Gwen Lachelt said at the time.
Cynthia Roebuck, executive director of Southwest Advocates, said the group has more than 20 members who live in the area and have concerns with the King II mine.
"They are not just residents on County Road 120 (where the mine is located), they are people who live in that area and are affected by the La Plata River watershed," Roebuck said.
The long-term impacts to the La Plata River watershed from GCC Energy's expansion needs to be evaluated, Roebuck said, especially as the mine opens new veins and potentially alters groundwater flows.
"It's never been done," she said of a comprehensive study. "This (the lawsuit) was another way to try to ... get someone to stop and really look at the environmental impacts of the mine."
A spokesman with BLM said the agency does not comment on active litigation.
At public hearings in 2019, BLM staff members said King II's impact on water quality is minimal because the mine is above the water table and has little interaction with groundwater.
At the time the BLM approved the expansion, the agency said it analyzed the potential impacts in an environmental assessment and determined a "finding of no significant impact," which means a larger analysis was not required.
A spokeswoman with GCC Energy said the company had no comment because it is not a defendant in the lawsuit.
"GCC Energy remains committed to being a good neighbor and business leader in La Plata County," she said.
GCC Energy officials have said in the past most of the water it purchases from Huntington is used for dust control and does not leave the site.
Most of the coal extracted at King II goes to GCC Energy's parent company – Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua, a multimillion-dollar international cement manufacturer based in Chihuahua, Mexico – for use in cement production.
Since the company took over the King II mine, it has produced an average of about 700,000 tons of coal per year.
Pettinato said the conservation groups want GCC Energy to go back and analyze its impact to water quality under the more protective rule before any expansion is granted. He said it's likely a more thorough analysis will show a more serious impact, and likely lead to the closure of the mine.
The conservation groups' lawsuit also seeks to reinstate 14 other protections for the environment, labor, education, privacy, consumers, and public health and safety, Pettinato said.
The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court and was assigned to Judge Marcia S. Krieger.
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seeds. i've written about seeds a number of times this past year. and things related to seeds. seeds are the beginning of things. they contain the wonderful possibility of life, sustenance, beauty and even of freedom. i've always been a seed saver. when i was a kid it was fun to collect seeds to play with-to make things with. i remember having great fun collecting nasturtium seeds- so plentiful and easy to gather. all sizes, shapes and colors. string them, glue them, count them, eat them, plant them. seeds.
edible nigella seeds from the summer garden.
now i have mentioned once or twice before that silk moth eggs are called seeds by the Japanese. and they do look like seeds. i have a fair collection myself in the butter compartment of the fridge. i wonder if and when i will have a chance to raise silkworms this year?
of course i will grow indigo again, in fact it is already growing! seeds that dropped while collecting the flower stems have already sprouted in this mild climate of ours. we had some nice soft rain that coaxed them… i gave away most of my extra indigo seeds -i like to send them out into the hands of those who take the indigo workshops. i wonder how many will plant them?
I am also growing something new this year- madder. i will be experimenting with it. with combining madder and indigo. i thought it might be about time to add a second color to the natural dyescape of my studio. i'm not one to try anything and everything- i like to delve into things fairly deep and that means taking my time with it and not rushing. madder grows rather slowly and it will take couple of years for it to mature to the point where it can be harvested. honestly, i wonder if i will even get to that point with it. but i have some madder root here now that i have purchased and watching some grow will only add to my knowledge base. i was intrigued by madder several years ago when on the silk study tour we visited a natural dyer who showed me his experiments with it and some madder he had grown. he planted a seed in me that started me wondering. it's taken a while to germinate… i wonder what new things will come of this.
seeds are a good way of spreading wonder i think. that is what i intend to continue with this year. spreading wonder and planting seeds in small ways. there's a lot to wonder about. may the ground be fertile!
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Bei den Leichtathletik-Weltmeisterschaften 2009 in Berlin schied er über 200 Meter im Viertelfinale aus. 2012 gehörte er zu der kanadischen Stafette, die bei den Olympischen Spielen in London im Finale der 4-mal-100-Meter-Staffel auf dem dritten Platz einlief. Jedoch wurden die Kanadier disqualifiziert, nachdem es sich herausgestellt hatte, dass ihr dritter Läufer Jared Connaughton seine Bahn überschritten hatte.

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Jurassic World has blockbuster opening weekend at Franklin Institute [photos]
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The Tyrannosaurus Rex emerges at the Jurassic World exhibit at the Franklin Institute. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
What beats out King Tut, Star Wars, and dissected human bodies preserved in plastic?
Dinosaurs.
"Jurassic World," the museum exhibition, opened on Thanksgiving weekend at the Franklin Institute. It was the biggest opening weekend in the Institute's 192-year history.
Thirteen thousand kids and their parents went to the Franklin Institute over the weekend to see the immersive exhibition that re-creates the fictional narrative of "Jurassic World" – the movie – about an island resort theme park populated with biologically engineered dinosaurs. The museum exhibition features theatrical lighting and dramatic music, even a narrative arc full of suspense and conflict – just like the movie.
The dinosaurs move and roar by sophisticated animatronics making them as life-like as possible. They were created by Creature Technology, the Australian company that created the popular "Walking With Dinosaurs" arena show.
"The important pieces for us were to have a real-world experience, like you're in Jurassic World," said Tom Zaller, president of Imagine Exhibitions, which produced the traveling show. "To put you in that place, use these amazing dinosaurs, and use the best science available to us right now."
To get the best current dinosaur science, Zaller tapped the same paleontologist who consulted on the Jurassic Park films – Dr Jack Horner. Despite the exhibition's emphasis on spectacle, he said he was able to pack in more real science than the movie had.
Like, did you know the stegosaurus keeps a reservoir of sugar in its hip for when its nervous system needs an extra boost of energy? Some modern birds still have that in their biology. And, the Tyrannosaurus Rex shares certain qualities with the modern shark: both continuously regenerate teeth.
But dinosaur science is not settled. Although they went extinct millions of years ago, Horner says dinosaurs are still changing.
"What we think they looked like 10 years ago is very different from what we think they look like now," said Horner. "10 years from now they will have a better look. Based on research we have right now, dinosaurs will be a lot more colorful and a lot more feathery."
Horner said it is appropriate that the exhibition should have its North American premiere in Philadelphia. The first dinosaur skeleton was assembled, in 1856, at the Academy of Natural Science, across the street from the Franklin Institute.
The exhibition also shares something with the movie: theatrical license. The animatronic dinosaurs have been ratcheted up a notch to make them appear more dramatic and scary, just like in the film.
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The play, produced by Philly's InterAct Theatre, follows an interracial gay couple amid the protest movement, raising important questions about allyship.
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The U.S. has two more chilly matchups in the next week and can move to the verge of a berth with victories at Canada and against Honduras at St. Paul, Minnesota.
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12.30pm, Thursday 3rd August 2017
Emmanuel Bach, violin
Jenny Stern, piano
Venue: Leatherhead Methodist Church
Parking: Swan Centre Multi-Storey or Church Street
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Friedrich 'Fritz' Kreisler (1875-1962)
Variations on a Theme by Corelli,
in the Style of Tartini (1910)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Sonata 8 in G, Op 30 No 3 (1803)
1 Allegro assai
2 Tempo di minuetto, ma molto moderato e grazioso (in Eb major)
3 Allegro vivace
Joseph Yulyevich Achron (1886-1943)
Hebrew Melody Op 33
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
from Incidental Music for Belshazzar's Feast Op 51
3 Nocturne
Henryk Wieniawski (1835-1880)
Polonaise de Concert No 1 in D, Op 4
Concert Duration: 40-45 minutes
Free Concert, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee will be available after the concert.
Emmanuel Bach
Emmanuel Bach has performed as a soloist and chamber musician at venues including Wigmore Hall, St Martin-in-the Fields and St James's Piccadilly. He was a prizewinner at the 2017 ROSL String Competition, and Mirecourt International Violin Competition 2016. He has performed concertos by Brahms, Bruch, Lalo, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky and others.
Recently, he played in a live-streamed masterclass conducted by Maxim Vengerov, on the Brahms Violin Concerto. He is a selected artist on the Countess of Munster Recital scheme 2017-18.
As a chamber musician, Emmanuel was a Fellow on the Norfolk Festival 2016 (USA) working with the Artis, Brentano, and Emerson String Quartets. From 2013-15, he held a Leverhulme Fellowship at the Pro Corda Chamber Music Academy. He recently performed with the Bach String Quartet on BBC Radio 3's Music Day.
He has benefitted from masterclasses with musicians including Miriam Fried, Dong-Suk Kang, Shlomo Mintz, Maxim Vengerov, Peter Herresthal and Hugh Maguire. He studied with Natasha Boyarsky, reading Music at Magdalen College, Oxford, taking a Masters at the Royal College of Music. He is taking the Artist Diploma in Performance at the Royal College of Music, with Radu Blidar, supported by the HR Taylor Trust. Emmanuel is grateful for support from the English-Speaking Union, RCM, and Countess of Munster Musical Trust.
Jenny Stern
South African born pianist Jenny Stern has performed widely as a soloist, chamber musician and accompanist. She made her debut playing Mozart's Piano Concerto K450, with the conductor Alberto Bolet.
Following studies at the Royal College of Music in London with Lamar Crowson, she completed a Masters in South Africa with Isabella Stengel, winning the prestigious Emma Smith Overseas Scholarship for further study abroad. Major performances include acclaimed radio broadcasts of concertos by Rachmaninoff, Mozart and Grieg, with the orchestras of Cape Town, Natal and Bloemfontein.
Recent performances have included duo recitals at Wigmore Hall, St Martin-in-the-Fields and other UK venues. Jenny has been invited to give masterclasses at venues including Dartington Summer School of Music and the Euro Music Academy in Vienna. As a teacher, she holds posts at Eton College and the Junior Department of the Royal College of Music.
you can enjoy a similar Concert at Home by clicking through the videos or recordings below:
Emmanuel and Jenny begin their concert with a forthright piece that states clearly this is the opening to a fine violin concert. This is Kreisler's Variations on a theme by Corelli, in the style of Tartini.
The performer on this recording is David Oistrakh and the pianist is Frida Bauer:
The main work of our concert is Beethoven's Violin Sonata No 8 Op 30. It was tempting to stay with Oistrakh for this but I have instead chosen a recording by Anne-Sophie Mutter and Lambert Orkis:
The evocative Hebrew Melody by Joseph Achron is played here by Josef Hassid in a recording from 1940. The accompanist is another phenomenal 20th century talent, Gerald Moore.
I must admit Josef Hassid was not a name I knew. Here's a comment from Fritz Kreisler that perhaps gives a little context: Hassid was noted for his intense vibrato and temperament, causing Fritz Kreisler to say
"A Heifetz violinist comes around every 100 years, a Hassid every 200."
Hassid's other recordings could make for an enjoyable evening of youtube searches !
I make no apology for returning to David Oistrakh for our next recording. It is the Nocturne Op 51 No 3 from Sibelius' music for Belshazzar's Feast. Frida Bauer is at the piano here too:
For our closing work, Wieniawski's Polonaise, let's have two choices. In the recording on the right, by Aaron Rosand, with the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, you can follow the score for the violin part, noting perhaps how often he is playing 4 notes together, and how quickly the changes to pizzicato happen.
On the left is a Pinchas Zukerman recording from TVR Cultural - the former Romanian state TV channel. Don't worry that the recording starts behind Zukerman, you will soon see him and his violin more clearly.
That was a truly magnificent finish to a virtuoso concert ! But if you are ready for just a little more . . .
This week's bonus item is Midnight Bells arranged by Kreisler (Heuberger). It comes from the Emmanuel Bach CD - BACH TO THE FUTURE - a superb selection of violin miniatures, including Heifetz arrangements.
The recital was recorded in Brooklyn Theatre, Pretoria, South Africa, in August 2015.
Emmanuel's accompanist was again Jenny Stern.
We hope you have enjoyed your Concert at Home.
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Documentary: The Nuclear Powered Plane From The Cold War
Ben Branch January 5, 2020
Reading time: about 2 minutes.
This short film by the team at Real Engineering provides an 11 minute, information packed speed run through the history of America's Cold War nuclear powered planes.
Early in the Cold War both the United States and the Soviet Union researched and experimented with nuclear powered planes, most commonly with engines that heated air with nuclear fission rather than burning jet fuel. The potential benefits of such an aircraft would be significant, they could theoretically stay airborne for weeks or more at a time and thinner air containing less oxygen at higher altitudes wouldn't be a concern, other than the aerodynamic factor of course.
In fact the most significant limiting factor to these designs was typically the human element. People need to drink water and eat food, meaning any long-term airborne missions would likely have their duration limited by people rather than fuel.
The other issue with humans is our inability to deal with large amounts of radiation – requiring the nuclear power generator to be shielded with tons of lead or water tanks.
The obvious downside to nuclear powered planes is the unfortunate propensity for planes to occasionally crash, oftentimes in high speed fireballs with debris blown far and wide. This would be made multiple orders of magnitude worse with a nuclear core showering radiation out of any crash site.
By the 1960s the improvements in ICBMs and the advent of nuclear submarines saw the nuclear powered plane projects (mostly) mothballed. Much of the engineering that went into their design has been declassified over the years, allowing a detailed look into how the planes and their engines were designed.
If you'd like to read more about nuclear powered planes you can click here, we've included a second documentary below that dives into a little more history and detail.
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All Employees: Manufacturing: Non-Durable Goods: Pharmaceutical and Medicine Manufacturing in North Carolina (SMU37000003232540001SA)
Nov 2021: 23.69114 | Thousands of Persons | Monthly | Updated: Dec 17, 2021
Nov 2021: 23.69114 (+ more)
Nov 2021: 23.69114
Oct 2021: 23.71568
Sep 2021: 23.65072
Aug 2021: 23.64343
Jul 2021: 23.69160
Seasonally Adjusted
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Release: State and Metro Area Employment, Hours, and Earnings
Units: Thousands of Persons, Seasonally Adjusted
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis seasonally adjusts this series by using the 'statsmodel' library from Python with default parameter settings. The package uses the U.S. Bureau of the Census X-13ARIMA-SEATS Seasonal Adjustment Program. More information on the 'statsmodel' X-13ARIMA-SEATS package can be found here. More information on X-13ARIMA-SEATS can be found here.
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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, All Employees: Manufacturing: Non-Durable Goods: Pharmaceutical and Medicine Manufacturing in North Carolina [SMU37000003232540001SA], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SMU37000003232540001SA, January 20, 2022.
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The question was whether Amarula contained marula liquor alone, or whether the popular drink is spirit- or wine-based.
The company's dilemma arises from a four-year dispute with the South African Revenue Service (SARS) as to the excise duty due on Amarula.
Originally 14 liqueurs were involved in a difference of opinion with SARS.
The matter ultimately landed in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, where a decision against Distell Group [JSE:DST] was given last week. The company now has to pay the tax authority R28m in arrear excise duty.
Over the past couple of days wine journalists have busied themselves not so much with the excise duty due for the liqueur, but with Distell's attempt to keep secret the composition of its successful drink.
From the correspondence between Distell's legal team and the office of the Public Prosecutor in Pretoria, it appears that on more than one occasion Distell asked for Amarula be kept out of court case.
In correspondence from the Office of the Public Prosecutor dated December 17 2010 it is alleged that Distell, in a letter dated June 12 2009, had again requested that Amarula not form part of the legal action.
The Public Prosecutor's letter goes on to say that this request was based on the fact that consumers would regard any public litigation involving Amarula Cream as negative, and this would lead to huge losses, both locally and internationally.
The letter says that for Distell to appeal successfully against SARS's determination of the new excise category for the product, the company will have to prove that Amarula Cream is neither a liqueur nor a spirit-based product, but a wine-based aperitif.
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Cardiovascular implantable electronic devices, chiefly implantable cardiac pacemakers and implantable cardioverter–defibrillators, are used to treat a variety of electrical cardiac defects, including bradyarrhythmia, ventricular tachycardia and fibrillation; they are also used in patients with complete heart block.7,8 It is estimated that 3 million people globally, including more than 500?000 individuals in North America, have implantable cardiac pacemakers.8 The use of such devices has significantly reduced mortality rates among patients with a history of life-threatening ventricular arrhythmia,7 and they are becoming more commonplace in the general population.
Figure 1: Implanted cardiac pacemaker.
Figure 2: Implanted cardioverter–defibrillator (ICD).
The inconsistency of the supporting evidence makes it difficult to offer authoritative guidelines on the use of ultrasonic dental devices for patients with cardiovascular implantable electronic devices. We suggest a practical, conservative approach to using such equipment in this patient population. All patients who have an implantable cardiac pacemaker or cardioverter–defibrillator should be encouraged to carry the manufacturer's identification card with them at all times. Oral health care providers should document the following in the patient's record: manufacturer of the device, model number, serial number, date of implantation and mode of operation.14 Caution should be exercised when operating ultrasonic equipment and battery-operated curing lights near dental patients or health care workers who have cardiovascular implantable electronic devices.8 Based on the current evidence, it is recommended that use of magnetostrictive ultrasonic equipment be avoided on or near individuals with implantable cardiac pacemakers or cardioverter–defibrillators.6 At this time, piezoelectric equipment appears to have no substantial effects on these devices.1,6 Further in vivo clinical trials are warranted to determine the precise effect of ultrasonic dental equipment on cardiovascular implantable electronic devices.
Dr. Stoopler is an associate professor and director of the postdoctoral oral medicine program, department of oral medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Sia is a resident in the department of oral medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Kuperstein is an assistant professor and director of the oral diagnosis, emergency and radiology clinics, University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Acknowledgements: Permission to reproduce Figures 1 and 2 granted by St. Jude Medical, Inc.
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Forget tariffs, tech will be the key battleground in trade war
Asia	/ 10-05-18 / by Finbarr Bermingham
US-China trade truce: Don't get too excited
Chinese export growth may see short-term boost as trade war restarts
Global manufacturing growth plumbs new depths amid trade tensions
Standard Chartered finds new blockchain partner for supply chain finance in China
Unlikely winners and losers emerge from US-China spat
Economists at National Australia Bank (NAB) have downplayed the impact of trade tariffs between the US and China, saying instead that the key battleground will be technology and intellectual property (IP).
Tariff barriers may "shave a few percentage points off global GDP" in the very worst case scenario, but are relatively immaterial in the grand scheme of things, Christy Tan, head of markets for Asia at NAB, told a press conference in Hong Kong yesterday.
"The trade deficit and US$200bn [to be cut off the US trade deficit] by 2020 is just a number. At the end of the day, if China is not buying from the US, it's buying from Brazil, or South Korea, for instance. If the US is not buying from China, it's not going to just manufacture locally, it will shift its demand to India, Sri Lanka, etc. The key issue is technology and IP."
China is looking to increase its role as an important player in tech industries such as electric vehicles and artificial intelligence (AI).
President Xi Jinping has clearly laid out plans for China to become a leader in innovation, spearheaded by the "Made In China 2025" initiative to upgrade the country's industry. It's been described by the Council on Foreign Relations as "the real existential threat to US technological leadership", but according to Tan, it is "not up for negotiation".
Meanwhile, the US has long harboured concerns over China's alleged IP theft, as well as its heavy government support for such industries.
Dinny McMahon, a fellow at the MarcoPolo programme of the Paulson Institute and author of the recent book China's Great Wall Of Debt, tells GTR that China will replicate the heavy subsidies it applied to traditional industries in the technology space over the coming years.
"China's vision of how it becomes a rich nation, how it builds new drivers of growth, is a big bet on new industries: robotics, electric vehicles, semiconductors. It wants a forced march to become a global leader in those industries, and that requires the same techniques it applied to heavy industries in the past," he says.
These opposing stances appear to place the superpowers on a path for further collisions.
The US has already hit Chinese smartphone maker ZTE with paralysing sanctions, barring it from importing from US companies. As a result, China's second-largest telecoms company has this week been forced to halt major operations, after being banned from purchasing the Google Android software and Qualcomm chips on which it depends.
ZTE was penalised after breaking the terms of previous sanctions laid on after it was found to be shipping goods to Iran and North Korea, then subsequently lying about it.
Huawei, China's largest smartphone company, appears to be next in the US' crosshairs. AT&T and Verizon have already dropped plans to sell Huawei phones, amid allegations of stolen IP, while it is also alleged to be under investigation for flouting US sanctions on Iran.
The US government has also blocked the sale of a number of US companies to Chinese buyers, including the proposed takeover of Moneygram by Alibaba-owned Ant Financial.
If further sanctions are handed down, Tan expects an immediate retaliation.
"China responded immediately [to ZTE sanctions], by hiking the tariffs on sorghum by 178.6%. China is making its presence felt, sending the message clearly that if you hit tech and IP, there will be retaliation where it hurts quite badly, the US agri sector. Steel and aluminium are small issues in the grand scheme of things. Tech and IP is something that is going to be long drawn," she says.
As it stands, tit for tat tariffs have seen the US government place levies on products ranging from washers and solar panels to aluminium and steel. In addition to the whopping levy on sorghum, a cereal used in livestock feed, China has retaliated with tariffs on products such as fruits, nuts and frozen pig parts.
In high-level trade negotiations which are set to resume next week, the US is demanding that China cut its trade surplus with the US by more than US$200bn – the logic of which was questioned by NAB analysts at the briefing.
"It's hard to frame a trade negotiation in that way, trying to put a numerical value on reducing your bilateral trade deficit. They are pretty meaningless things, they're a consequence of savings and investment decisions by thousands of people. So the idea that you can make it some numerical number by lowering it by US$200bn is not an economic reality. No economist would frame it like that," said Peter Jolly, global head of research.
Tags: Alibaba, Ant Financial, Christy Tan, Dinny McMahon, Huawei, moneyGram, National Australia Bank (NAB), Paulson Institute, Peter Jolly, Trade War, US-China trade war, ZTE


There may be no on-screen friendship better than that of Jay & Silent Bob. Well, today the fellas are back, this time around as we get a look at The Untold Story of Jay and Silent Bob. The fellas have been in a number of films, comic books, and TV shows and are real-life childhood friends.
Kevin and Jason made their first debut in Smith's first feature, the indie classic Clerks, and have gone on to appear in all of Smith's films. Word on the e-streets is that another Jay and Silent Bob movie is on the way and thanks to Looper we get a look at the beginning and influence of the duo. Check out the footage below and speak your thoughts on it after the jump. Keep it locked for more from Jay & Silent Bob coming soon.


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