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Playable Characters, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Specialists
Kerk "Ajax" Rossouw
For the character in Call of Duty: Ghosts, see Alex V. "Ajax" Johnson.
Kerk Rossouw
Alias(es) Ajax
Appears in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
Affiliations Black Ops
Birth April 12th, 2017, South Africa (age 26, as of 2043)
Weapon Any weapon obtained by the player
Equipment Ballistic Shield, 9-Bang
Voice Actor Stelio Savante
"Your bucks are good - It's as good as done."
— Kerk "Ajax" Rossouw
Kerk "Ajax" Rossouw[1] is a playable Specialist in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 multiplayer.
Biography Edit
"Kerk's urban combat expertise was hard-won, fighting in the streets and alleys of the shanty towns that sprang up on the outskirts of Johannesburg in the early 2020's.
Increasing desertification had displaced millions of individuals as the continents' farmlands collapsed, creating brutally policed slums where the strongest gangs got the pick of the aid handouts while warring amongst themselves - and with the riot police who guarded the convoys distributing food and medical supplies.
When Van Graan, a self-styled warlord took over Kerk's gang, he fled, eventually establishing a militia of his own; one dedicated to looking after the needs of the people, rather than crushing them in its own self-interests.
Rossouw and his soldiers fund their operation by selling their services to the highest bidder."
— Official Biography
Special Issue Edit
"Breach enemy entrenchments and clear a path for your team through strategic use of the Ballistic Shield and powerful 9-Bang stun grenades."
Specialist Weapon: Ballistic Shield - Durable transforming defensive shield with a built-in machine pistol.
Specialist Equipment: 9-Bang - Tactical grenade that flashes and stuns. Can be cooked to detonate multiple times.
"Breach and clear."
— Selecting Ajax.
"Stack up, wait for my go."
"Good Flash!"
— Successfully stunning 2 or more enemies with a 9 bang.
"They're blind, take 'em out."
"Not a scratch on me."
— Killing enemies with a Ballistic Shied without taking damage.
"Use your shield, Domkop."
— Killing an enemy Ajax.
"You gotta be kidding me!"
— Upon encountering enemy Ajax using his Ballistic shield while using one for himself.
Blackout Edit
Ajax can be unlocked as a playable character in Blackout. To unlock him, the player must acquire pieces of Destroyed Armor Plating from Death Stashes of deceased enemies, and must finish a game with a total of three of them in the player's inventory.
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TEI's international president, Robert L. Howren (BlueLinx Corp.), welcomed more than 600 attendees to the 68th Midyear Conference, "Transforming the Tax Function: From Tax Reform to the Digital Economy." The conference was held March 25–28 at the Grand Hyatt Washington.
Thirty chapter leaders from around the world met Monday morning, March 26, to brainstorm and to share some of their experiences over the past year.
The honorable David J. Kautter, acting commissioner, Internal Revenue Service, offered the keynote address and updated attendees on the state of the IRS.
Sandhya K. Edupuganty, chair of TEI's federal tax committee (Texas Instruments Inc.), moderates the "Effective Tax Internal Controls—Design & Maintenance—Best Practices" session with speakers from ADP, Longview, and True Partners Consulting LLC.
At Tuesday night's safari-themed reception, attendees were treated to a menu featuring African fare, including this braai (barbecue).
Attendees had many opportunities to visit with TEI's sponsors. The Institute is grateful for the support of all 46 sponsors.
TEI's marketing team took advantage of record attendance to capture video testimonials for the website and future marketing campaigns.
Also part of the Tuesday evening reception, a traditional African dance and drum team gave a short performance.
Tuesday's lunch program, "Examining Diversity and Inclusion: An Opportunity, Not an Issue," featured (from left) Yvonne M. Metcalfe (Ernst & Young LLP), Cassandra Calvert (Fortive), Don J. Rath (Synopsys), Also part of the Tuesday evening reception, a traditional African dance and drum team gave a short performance. Jacqueline Welch (Freddie Mac), and Wayne A. Hamilton (Walmart).


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Climate Common Sense is not a sceptical site but a non-believer's site .Global warming and cooling are natural phenomena and carbon dioxide is a lovely gas vital to plant growth. Global Warming has stopped and Climate Change ( I call it Weather) is the new manufactured bogeyman. This website will present a realist view on the Climate Change debate.
"It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong." Richard P. Feynman
Ideology Over-riding Law!
In Nazi Germany , early in the Nazi rule a blind eye was turned to the smashing of Jewish shops and inflicting injury on the owners in complete disregard to the laws at the time because anti-Semitism was implicitly encouraged by the Government . In a re-run of history Melanie Philips in the WSJ writes of the laws being broken with impunity in the name of Global Warming Activism and anti-semitism in the UK , and a legal let-off for electoral bullying by the Black Panther movement in the US.
In both Britain and America, ideological prejudices are coming to undermine the rule of law. In a number of incidents, people who have committed criminal acts have been acquitted or had their cases dismissed purely because they represent a politically correct cause or belong to a "powerless" victim group.
An English jury decided in September 2008 that causing more than £35,000 of damage to a coal-fired power station was justified as a protest against man-made global warming. The jury at Maidstone Crown Court cleared six Greenpeace activists of criminal damage after they argued that they had a '"lawful excuse" to trash property at Kingsnorth power station in Kent to prevent even greater harm caused by climate change.
The jurors arrived at this decision having sat through a propaganda barrage by prominent advocates of the man-made global warming theory, including the pioneer green evangelist James Hansen and the environmental campaigner and newly elected Tory MP Zac Goldsmith. The court case was thus effectively turned into a platform for tendentious ideological propaganda, which appears not only to have been endorsed by the jurors but to have persuaded them that it even justified destroying someone's property.
In a similar English case last month at Hove Crown Court, seven activists were acquitted after causing £180,000 in damage to an arms factory owned by a company that sold military equipment to Israel, when they argued they were seeking to prevent "Israeli war crimes" against Palestinians.
The activists had broken into the factory at night, having previously videotaped interviews declaring their intention to smash it up. Yet with hostility to the Jewish state now at white-hot levels in Britain, such otherwise criminal activity is deemed to be justified by a jury if it is committed in the cause of damaging Israeli interests.
Even the judge in this case, George Bathurst-Norman, appears to have agreed. In his summing-up, he instructed the jury that "you may well think that hell on earth would not be an understatement of what the Gazans suffered in that time." He also highlighted the testimony to the court by Caroline Lucas, a Green member of Parliament, who argued that supposedly "all democratic paths had been exhausted" before the activists had embarked upon their action. What "democratic paths"? Israel was trying to prevent Hamas—considered a terrorist organization even by Her Majesty's government—from firing rockets at Israeli civilians.
Whatever one's view of that conflict, it is a political opinion. It surely should have nothing to do with the exercise of English law designed to protect people's property against criminal damage. It really has come to something when a British judge appears to be encouraging a jury to excuse criminal activity because he sympathizes with the political motive behind it. Thus the impartial administration of justice is now giving way in Britain to bias, bigotry and ideology.
Something very similar is happening in America, too. In May, the U.S. Justice Department suddenly dismissed a voter-intimidation case against members of the New Black Panther Party. Dressed in black uniforms and jackboots, with one of them menacingly tapping a baton, they stood at the entrance of a Philadelphia polling booth on the day Barack Obama was elected president, hurling threats and insults at people turning up to vote, such as "white devils" or "You're about to be ruled by the black man, cracker."
It seems that Nazi Brownshirts have today been replaced by Greenshirts , Black Panthers and a myriad of left-wing activist groups who it seems, are above the law.. Where will the line be drawn - attacks on coal stations are OK so what about an attack on nuclear power stations ,a pet Greenie hate or on British military establishments for prosecuting the war in Afghanistan. Lack of respect for the rule of law is the beginnning of the end for a society ,especially when it is encouraged by the judiciary itself. The gift that Britain has given many of us in the world is the Westminster system with the separation of the enforcement of the law from political interference , a gift it is now denying it's own people.
Posted by Baron at 3:02 PM
Otter July 7, 2010 at 7:37 PM
The line will only be drawn when cities are burning, and the more Intelligent populace finally has enough and begins to fight back. It will be a series of wars across the globe like no one has seen before.
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India's data usage per smartphone to double by 2024
By Asiaville Desk • 20/06/2019 at 4:29PM
5G subscriptions are expected to become available in 2022 and will represent 6 per cent of mobile subscriptions at the end of 2024 in India.
The India region, which includes Nepal and Bhutan, has the highest average data usage at 9.8 gigabytes (GB) per month in 2018 and this figure is expected to double by the end of 2024.
This growth in the monthly data usage, according to the just released Ericsson Mobility Report, is because of the increased number of LTE (4G) subscriptions, the attractive data plans offered by service providers and the increasing video viewing habits of youth.
In the India region, GSM/EDGE-only remained the dominant technology in 2018, accounting for 47 per cent of mobile subscriptions at the end of the year.
However, the country experienced strong growth in LTE-subscriptions over the last couple of years and, at the end of 2018, it accounted for 38 per cent of the mobile subscriptions.
As the march towards more advanced technologies continues in India, LTE is expected to account for 82 per cent of mobile subscriptions by the end of 2024.
India awaits 5G
The report noted that Indian smartphone users are willing to pay more than 66 per cent premium for futuristic 5G services.
India is on the verge of starting 5G trials. The Digital Communications Commission, the highest decision-making body in the Telecom Department, has recently cleared spectrum allocation norms for 5G trials in India.
5G subscriptions are expected to become available in 2022 and will represent 6 per cent of mobile subscriptions by the end of 2024—globally, this figure is expected to rise to 35 per cent.
It also predicted that total smartphone subscriptions in the region will reach 1.1 billion by 2024, growing at 11 per cent compound annual growth rate (CAGR).
The total mobile broadband subscriptions in India are expected to grow at a CAGR of 13 per cent from about 610 million in 2018 to 1.25 billion in 2024.
The data usage in North America and Western Europe, meanwhile, is expected to grow to 39 GB/month and 32 GB/ month respectively.


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Peter Youngren
Peter Youngren received the call to World Evangelism at the age of fifteen. Still a teenager he began preaching in small chapels and mission houses. Then in 1973, at Bible College in the USA, God spoke to him in a five-hour vision in a chapel service. While tears streamed down his face he saw the outline of the continents of the world appear one by one as on a map. There were no rivers, mountains or fields in the map. Each continent appeared with wall-to-wall people. Their faces were sad, desperate and hopeless, without God and without hope. Then those same continents appeared again. A wind of the Holy Spirit swept over each one. The people's faces turned before him to joy - radiant joy. The vision was repeated several times. The sense of God's holiness was powerful. Peter kept whispering, "God you are holy, thank you for cleansing me with your fire."
Peter took hold of the vision and began to live and act with the urgency of GOSPEL ADVANCEMENT gripping his heart and mind. Jesus words in Matthew 24:14 propelled him forward to conduct unprecedented evangelistic efforts on every continent.
In 1976 Peter founded World Impact Ministries, and has since conducted Gospel Festivals that have drawn up to 600,000 people in one service. Millions have received Jesus and follow up material. Hundreds of thousands of pastors have received training through the Seminars, and have taken what they receive back to their churches.
As founder of World Impact Ministries, Celebration Bible College, Way of Peace and the Celebration Churches in Toronto, Hamilton and Niagara, Canada, Peter is committed to equipping believers to fulfill their purpose before the return of Jesus Christ.
The following is the 10 Point Plan for Global Gospel Advancement that God has put on Peter's heart to accomplish.
1. Friendship Festivals:
Huge soul-winning campaigns held throughout the world, with a strong focus on nations and people groups that are "unreached". Crowds of 50,000 to 600,000 people regularly gather in a single service.
2. Pastors & Leaders Seminars:
Seminars for pastors and church leaders run concurrent with each Friendship Festival. The focus is on training pastors and leaders to advance the Gospel in their own region.
3. Television/Media:
"Celebrating Life with Jesus" is seen daily on television and internet web sites throughout the world. The Good News is spread through media to an ever increasing audience.
4. Follow Up For New Believers:
"Salvation - God's Gift to You" has been distributed to over 12 million new believers in multiple languages. Other follow up efforts include follow up meetings among locally organized churches.
5. Bible Schools:
Celebration Bible College (formerly World Impact Bible Institute) was established in 1988. To date, more than 3,000 students from over 30 nations have been trained to advance the Gospel. Campuses are located in North America, West Africa, East Africa, India and Asia.
6. Literature & Resources Distribution:
Peter Youngren is the author of over 20 books and study manuals that have been translated into numerous languages.
7. Missionaries:
The commissioning of full-time, overseas field missionaries takes place on an annual basis. Missionaries have been sent to Kenya, Indonesia, Gambia, Thailand, Papua New Guinea, Ethiopia, Croatia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Philippines and Guatemala.
8. Prayer Center:
Prayer is an integral part of every ministry aspect. Thousands of prayer requests are received weekly via the phone, mail and email from every continent.
9. Humanitarian Effort:
Destitute orphans, who would otherwise be without hope, receive support and tender loving care at orphanages sponsored by World Impact Ministries.
This support includes education, food and housing.
10. Personal Ministry to Partners:
Peter Youngren has a strong covenant commitment to his partners. He has carefully instructed all staff about God's blessing upon partners who participate in the Great Commission. Strategically placed offices in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia minister to partners through literature, videos and prayer.
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Updated: Office Live Workspace, Hotmail, Windows Live Translator
While none of the updates are in the "mind-blowing" category, three Live services have announce updates this week. First up, Office Live:
We have good news
We have taken all of the findings and with the help of the Office and Windows teams come up with a solution that closely delivers on our primary goal – to make integration as seamless as possible. We can now present to you a single package available as a single download, the "Office Live Update 1.1" which:
Installs the necessary performance updates so that we don't make roundtrips, and makes the network stacks "smart" so they do the right thing for OLW
Installs the Windows Live Sign-in Assistant that ensures that logging into the browser essentially logs you in to Office, so you don't get prompted again and again
Installs the new Office Live Add-in v1.1 which shows who you are logged in as right there in the menu flyout.
We have made this available in all our new international languages, too. Let us know how this works for you, as we are still working on further improvements. And, as always, we thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback because it really helps us get better.
Hotmail has been updated, too:
You can check out how snappy the classic version is when you try the following things:
Read messages in your inbox
Delete and move messages
Read messages in different folders
Check for new messages by clicking on your inbox or other folder
The classic version works the same, and looks the same, but now it is more like the full version, updating what you see on the screen without reloading the whole page.
In future releases, you'll see more about how we're making the classic version faster and also adding features to it.
The classic version works for a huge range of browsers: Internet Explorer 6+, Firefox 2.0+, Safari 2.0+, and other modern browsers.
Pulling in messages from other accounts
If you're a paid user, we're making it easier for you to add a non-Hotmail account! Paid users will see a link in their inbox that says "Add an e-mail account." If you click that link, we make it easy to pull in messages from your other accounts outside of Hotmail. You can add a POP3 account this way. This feature has been in MSN Hotmail and Windows Live Hotmail for years, but now we're able to automatically set up many POP3 accounts even if you don't know your POP server settings.
And improvements to Windows Live Translator, as well:
English to Spanish general domain system deployed on live site
Our team is constantly working to improve our translation quality. As you know, some of our general domain systems are powered by third party systems, while we develop our own technology for these languages. This month we rolled out our own English to Spanish general domain system, which significantly beat our quality bar. Spanish is our highest traffic language, so we're really excited about improving this system for our Spanish users. Check it out!
Link to Encarta dictionary
Have a word that may have multiple translations in another language? Take the example of "boot" – this could mean a shoe, or a verb talking about starting up your computer. The Encarta dictionary allows you to look up a word and short phrase and offer you multiple translations. In addition to the different variations of "boot" in Spanish around the globe, it also offers an alphabetical list of similar words to help you pick out which version you meant.
Translation quality varies widely depending on the content being translated, and the training data we have used to train our engine. Help us improve the system by letting us know where we are doing well, and where we need improvement, by rating our translations. This will help us learn where we need to focus on improvements. This feature is located just below the translated text on the left.
Report offensive translations
Machine translation is an imperfect process – and it doesn't always catch inadvertently offensive translations! Help us improve the system by reporting any offensive translations that you see.
You can read more about the updates by following the links.
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11 Seals Are Trapped In Shallow Water At This Tiny Aquarium In Oregon
"It's smaller than a swimming pool that you would see in somebody's backyard" 💔
By Elizabeth Claire Alberts
Michelle Seidelman couldn't get over how small the tank was — and inside were 11 fully grown harbor seals.
"I was absolutely shocked by the size," Seidelman, who works as an animal welfare advocate, told The Dodo. "I would roughly say that at the widest part was maybe 8 feet, and the narrowest part maybe 5 feet. I would estimate the depth of the aquarium to be 2 and a half feet of water. It's smaller than a swimming pool that you would see in somebody's backyard."
In July, Seidelman, who also volunteers for Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, visited Seaside Aquarium in Seaside, Oregon, which claims to be the oldest private aquarium on the West Coast, after hearing reports of their resident seals living in poor conditions. What she discovered there was worse than she initially imagined.
"When I came into the aquarium, the first thing I observed is that it is exceedingly loud," she said. "It is a very small space, and it is not insulated, and the sound is incredibly loud. And immediately, I was offered to purchase fish to feed the harbor seals for $2 a plate."
Michelle Seidelman
There are currently 11 harbor seals at Seaside Aquarium, and they all seemed desperate for the fish, Seidelman observed — but they had to compete with each other to get it.
"They're in a situation where they're begging for food," Seidelman said. "As soon as they see anybody walk in with a white carton, they start hitting their chests with their fins and clapping. There's aggression going on, because obviously they're trying to get fish over the other ones. Some of them are passive and didn't, but I'd say there were definitely three who were very assertive about doing tricks and getting noticed."
Seidelman explained that she spoke with an aquarium employee, who told her the seals' main food source during the summer were these handouts.
"When she said that, I was shocked, because there was no way they could monitor who is being fed properly and who isn't," Seidelman said.
On the aquarium's website, each seal has an individual biography that includes a birth date, which suggests that the seals were all born in captivity, although it's not clear where the seals were born and raised. Seidelman found it incredibly sad that the ocean was nearby — it was so close, the seals could probably hear the waves crashing into the beach and even see the water through the window.
"They have broken spirits," Seidelman said. "These are not what harbor seals are in the wild. I've seen them a lot in the wild, and this is not a representation of who and what they are. They're sad, broken animals."
View of the local beach from the aquarium window | Michelle Seidelman
Curiously enough, many images on Seaside Aquarium's Facebook page are seals and other animals living in the wild, and the facility promotes its participation in the Marine Mammal Stranding Network, which helps stranded seals get back into the ocean. But the seals inside the aquarium live in stark contrast to their wild counterparts.
There are other animals at Seaside Aquarium as well, including many species of fish, who don't look to be in good condition, Seidelman said. There's also an octopus being kept inside a small tank with no source of enrichment.
"Octopuses are quite intelligent, and it seemed to me that this octopus spent his entire time in search and panic to get out," Seidelman said. "He just moved his tentacles the entire time, looking for a way out of the top, a way out of the bottom, just everywhere. Just up and down and everywhere, definitely seeking a crevasse to get out of. I'd say he had maybe 3 feet of water, and a 2-by-2 concrete square."
Seidelman isn't the only one worried about the animals at Seaside Aquarium — Elizabeth Hogan, program manager for oceans and wildlife at World Animal Protection (WAP), believes that the seals' living conditions are completely inadequate.
"Several supporters have expressed their concern for the animals housed at this facility," Hogan told The Dodo. "It's distressing to see wild animals like harbor seals confined to small spaces for the duration of their lives, just a few feet from their natural ocean habitat, which is rich in biodiversity. The images of the enclosure at this facility raise cause for concern in the extremely limited space and depth provided to these mammals … [who] in the wild would dive, hunt and exhibit much greater control over their social interactions than they can possibly do in a barren concrete tank."
Naomi Rose, a marine mammal scientist at the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), has similar concerns for the harbor seals at Seaside Aquarium.
"It does look horrible," Rose told The Dodo. "Long, narrow tanks like this for pinnipeds are like kennels with 'runs' at dog shelters — possibly suitable for general living, although understood to not be ideal for the dogs' long-term welfare, but dogs might be taken out periodically for walks and/or time in larger enclosures — captive seals will live in these enclosures 24/7 and as a wild species, they are far wider-ranging than domesticated dogs."
But unfortunately, not much can be done to help these seals on a legal basis, Rose explained, since the tank at Seaside Aquarium is technically legal under current federal animal welfare regulations.
"Unless Oregon wants to adopt stronger regulations under state law, the only way to change things is to pressure the facility itself through consumer actions," Rose said.
When The Dodo contacted Seaside Aquarium, they explained that the seals have an additional pool and resting area for night sleeping.
"These areas are available all the time," a spokesperson for Seaside Aquarium told The Dodo. "However the seals choose to spend the majority of their day in the public viewing pool."
"Everyone who works for the aquarium or is associated with the aquarium cares deeply about our seals," the spokesperson added. "We respect them as living creatures of our Earth and take seriously the responsibility we have for their care and well-being. We are governed by the USDA and the standards and regulations they set for all facilities housing marine mammals. We are inspected twice annually, without notice. We have a trained vet who makes monthly check-ups."
A visitor to the aquarium, who only wanted to be identified as "Christine," said that staff refused to show her the second pool when she requested to see it.
A photo taken at the aquarium in the 50s that was posted on their website in 2012 Seaside Aquarium
"I was told it's not open to the public, employees only," Christine told The Dodo. "I can't imagine it's much bigger than the day pool because the building itself is rather small."
"And, of course the seals prefer to be in the front tank, that's where the food is," Christine added. "An employee there actually told me they don't even feed the seals in the summer. She said there is no need since they get hordes of tourists all day long that buy tray after tray of fish to feed the seals."
Seidelman also wasn't able to see this second pool when she visited the aquarium, and similar to Christina, she believes the pool couldn't be very large based on the building's small size.
When The Dodo requested photos and dimensions of the second pool, Seaside Aquarium did not respond.
"Clearly, these seals are not candidates to be reintroduced into the wild because they're captive-bred, but their situation is totally inhumane, and they need to be ... given the proper amount of space, nutrition, enrichment," Seidelman said. "In my ideal situation, I would see all of those animals removed, and that aquarium shut down. They need to be moved into a situation to where there's some enrichment, and to where there's some more space for them to swim, and the ability to not be dominated by others … being fed separately and monitored so everybody is getting proper nutrition."
To help improve living conditions for captive animals like the seals at Seaside Aquarium, you can make a donation to the Animal Welfare Institute or World Animal Protection.


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▪ Bosc, a popular dessert pear, is always brown; when ripe, the stem starts to shrivel.
▪ Forelle, a petite sweet pear, starts green and turns yellow as it ripens with flecks of bright red.
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A Chinese father became furious when he caught his son skipping school for several days, so he stripped the boy to his underwear in front of a crowd, tied him to a tree and whipped him.
The boy, 9, from Nanchong, in southwest China's Sichuan Province was playing truant and also did not return home the night before.
In the morning, the father discovered his walking on the street. The boy tried to run, but his father managed to grab the boy, strip him, tie him to the tree and gave him a beating.
Lin Gang, who took a photo of the scene, said the temperature was about 40 degrees Fahrenheit (5 degrees Celsius) when the child was disciplined.
A crowd gathered around, but with some interference and persuasion, the father soon stopped and took him away.
According to the Daily Mail, corporal punishment of the kind administered to the Nanchong boy is authorized in the country, but there are law provisions to prevent excessive child abuse.
In China, the father's "strict discipline" is a welcomed example of what parents should do to their children if they misbehave.
The Global Initiative to End Corporal Punishment referred to a 2010 study, which notes that half of girls and three in five boys in China went through "mild" corporal punishment in the past month, including spanking, hitting or slapping.
A further 10 percent of girls and 15 percent of boys reported experiencing extreme corporal punishment. This includes hitting or slapping on the face, head, or ears or being repeatedly beaten with an implement.


New TechCube residents Winterwell Associates talk us through their biggest product, 'Sodash' and why they moved to TechCube. Winterwell Associates are a data mining company and Sodash has been running for 18 months and now has some very big clients. Sodash is a program that can sift through and analyse social media and pick out what is relevant to the particular client.


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Q: Does fragment onCreateView need to account for restore? This is really a two questions pertaining to lifecycle.
1) In Fragment.onCreateView(LayoutInflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle), all of the examples I've seen simply use the LayoutInflater to inflate a View, and return it. If this is part of a Restore though, i.e. non-null Bundle, shouldn't the restoration of the view hierarchy be handled by the system? Should I instead be calling container.findViewById() or trying to pull the view out of the Bundle or something (for the purposes of pulling out references to subviews)?
2) In general, do any of the Fragment lifecycle callbacks need to worry about saving/restoring the state of its view hierarchy, even implicitly by calling super.onXXX()? Or is that all handled uplevel by the owning Activity when it calls super.onCreate(Bundle)?

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*Although the framework is responsible for re-creating the Fragment itself, the view hierarchy must be recreated manually. Views cannot survive the destruction of their Activity (plus, since onCreateView() has your implementation, you could conditionally inflate another layout or do different things -- that's why it has to run every time). The Bundle contains information put there by onSaveInstanceState(), but the old views are not part of it.

*If the view ids match between the old and new layout, then the state should be automatically restored (via the super calls). Views override their own onSaveInstanceState() for this. If you save your custom state in the fragment's onSaveInstanceState(), then you're also responsible for restoring it.

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Sociable Lapwings breed in northern and central Kazakhstan and south-central Russia, dispersing through Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey and Egypt, to key wintering sites in Israel, Eritrea, Sudan and Pakistan and north-west India. There are two migration routes, one west and one east, and birds are faithful to their route. However, they mingle on the breeding grounds. The map below shows the routes of three tagged birds, highlighting the two main migration paths.
The species has suffered a very rapid decline and range contraction. In northern Kazakhstan, a decline of 40% during 1930-1960, was followed by a further halving of numbers during 1960-1987. Fieldwork has shown the population to be larger than once feared. Surveys in 2006 in Kazakhstan counted 376 breeding pairs in an area of 145,000 km2.
Extrapolating this population density across the breeding range yields a possible total population size of 5,600 breeding pairs, i.e. 11,200 mature individuals; but work is continuing in order to refine this estimate. A satellite-tagged bird from central Kazakhstan was located in Turkey in October 2007 in a flock of 3,200 individuals, even larger than the total of simultaneous counts of over 1,500, maybe as high as 2,000, in northern Syria and 1,000 individuals in south-eastern Turkey in March 2007.


This project involved remodelling the existing Prep School and refurbishing the existing Sports Hall.
The Prep School required extra accommodation. Daylighting and artificial lighting in the existing buildings was poor. The Sports Hall was energy-inefficient. It was inadequately insulated, and the communication facilities were in need of updating. IT facilities were required.
The insertion of a new-build wedge between the two existing buildings – housing a Hall, Library and Foyer space – solves the circulation and access problems and effectively links the two existing buildings. The energy rating of all buildings is being dramatically improved.
New openings in existing walls will considerably improve daylighting of the interior of the buildings.
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I am changing my work direction.
I have dropped my online column for EContent and may even stop writing print articles in 2009.
I was 72 a few weeks ago and plan to focus the rest of my life on work I started back in the 1960's - cosmology and philosophy.
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DIRTY LAUNDRY: The real reason behind Ahn Jae Hyun and Goo Hye Sun's breakup
September 6, 2019 Divine Sanchez
Breakup season is here!!! Here's the real reason behind Ahn Jae Hyun and Goo Hye Sun's brewing divorce!
Most of our fav K-pop couples are on breakup season. So Lee Sung Kyung and Nam Joo Hyuk of the 'Weighlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo' broke up in 2017. While our Song-Song couple, Song Joong-ki and Song Hye-kyo, from the 'Descendants of the Sun' recently filed for divorce.
So who's next? Apparently, Ahn Jae Hyun and Goo Hye Sun are also taking their relationship on a vacay very soon.
Their romance started budding on the set of 'Blood', a Korean fiction series about vampires. The couple started out as the drama's lead couple and continued their relationship off-screen. They even got married in 2016 and most of us thought they were on the road to forever, seeing also they've got a steady relationship among others. But, alas, we were wrong.
In August, Goo Hye Sun rocked the world with the news of Ahn Jae-hyun, her husband of three years, wanted a divorce. And gurl, we were shookt!
If you to know more juicy deets, of course, we gotchu!
Goo Hye-Sun 'controlling'?
According to Dispatch, a Korean entertainment news agency, friends of the actor, Ahn Jae Hyun, said that Goo Hye Sun was very "controlling" and "obsessing" over her husband. They said: "She always suspected Ahn Jae Hyun (of cheating on her)."
"Ahn Jae Hyun may have liked going out for drinks – and he never made any mistakes when it came to women. He's simply not the type. Yet when Goo Hye Sun called him and told him to return home immediately, he would get up and leave."
Even more, Hye-Sun would always video-call her husband when he's out and would always ask who's he with. But isn't it natural for a wife to worry about her husband?
If you want to find out more details, Dispatch released a years-worth of text messages between the couple, catch it here! You can see how the love-hate relationship between these two.
Cheating incident?
But we may just have a clue as to why the 'Boys Over Flowers' actress was acting like this. According to Goo Hye-Sun, Ahn Jae-hyun allegedly had an extramarital affair with his co-star, OhYeon So, in the ongoing K-drama, 'People with Flaws'. She took it to Instagram to make the accusations against them.
She said: "The exact reason for why we are divorcing is because of Ahn Jae Hyun's extramarital affair. A drama actress he is currently filming with and having an affair with came to our house so many times, I was confused and wondered if I could still trust him."
"I was heartbroken to realize that someone who wouldn't message me or call me properly would be smiling and laughing as he sent KakaoTalk messages with that actress. So I still need time to sort out my own feelings. I have pictures from his computer after our marriage of him eating late night snacks with an actress at a hotel, both wearing gowns. I'll submit it to the court as evidence."
Goo Hye-Sun even revealed text messages between her and Ahn Jae Hyun with her saying she's completely lost all her trust.
AJH: I'll stay here until the end of the drama.
GHS: Can you change your behavior then?
AJH: What behavior?
GHS: Text me what you are doing and who you are with from the moment you wake up until you sleep.
AJH: I understand. Okay.
GHS: Focus on your acting and let me know about things because I am feeling nervous.
GHS: Why aren't you saying anything?
AJH: I'm just reading the script right now.
GHS: Who are you with?
AJH: I'm in Cheongdam by myself.
GHS: You said you would tell me if you went somewhere else.
AJH: I got here earlier. When you texted me earlier.
GHS: Don't forget to text me.
GHS: This is because I can't trust you anymore. I hope you do your best.
AJH: Okay I got it.
Ahn Jae Hyun has still yet to make a comment regarding the matter. But as of now, even though Hye-Sun's revealing her husband's alleged cheating incident, she still disagrees with the divorce. What will happen to our 'Blood' couple? The way things are right now, it's unlikely that the two will get back together. But still, we're literally crying because of this news. Aren't you?
Do you think this is the real reason behind Jae Hyun and Goo Hye Sun's breakup? Share us your thoughts on the comments down below! Or hit us up on our Facebook or Twitter @UDoUPh.


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New Pharmacy, Same Result: Seventh Circuit Holds That Objective Reasonableness Dooms "Usual and Customary" Pricing Case
Scott D. Stein, Brenna E. Jenny and Matt Bergs
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On April 5, 2022, in a 2-1 decision, the Seventh Circuit applied the precedent it set in United States ex. rel. Schutte v. SuperValu Inc., 9 F.4th 455 (7th Cir. 2021) (discussed here) and found once again that a defendant retail pharmacy did not act with "reckless disregard" under the False Claims Act ("FCA") by interpreting Medicare Part D and Medicaid "usual and customary" price requirements as allowing it to charge those programs its retail cash prices rather than prices offered through discount programs. United States ex rel. Proctor v. Safeway, Inc., No. 20-3425, 2022 WL 1012256 (7th Cir. Apr. 5, 2022).
As in SuperValu, the Seventh Circuit's decision was premised on the standard for "reckless disregard" established by the Supreme Court in Safeco Insurance Co. of America v. Burr, 551 U.S. 47 (2007). Under Safeco, a defendant interpreting an ambiguous statute or regulation does not act with reckless disregard if: (1) the interpretation was "objectively reasonable"; and (2) "authoritative guidance" did not warn the defendant away from that interpretation. Safeco, 551 U.S. at 70. Accordingly, the Seventh Circuit first considered whether the defendant's interpretation of Medicare Part D and Medicaid's "usual and customary" price requirements as allowing the charging of retail chase prices rather than discount program prices was "objectively reasonable." The court readily concluded that as to both the defendant's competitor pricing-matching discount program (the same type of discount program at issue in Supervalu) and its enrollment-based discount club program. Notably, the court came to that conclusion with respect to the latter program even after noting that, "with the benefit of hindsight," the program could be viewed as an attempt to circumvent the "usual and customary" price requirements.
The Seventh Circuit then considered whether "the only relevant guidance relator . . . identified," the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Manual (the "Manual"), was "authoritative guidance" that would have warned the defendant away from its interpretation. The court found that the Manual was "insufficiently specific" as to the defendant's competitor-price matching discount program but that it was "specific enough to put [the defendant] on notice that it should have reported its [discount]-club prices as its U&C prices." Nevertheless, the court found that, despite the Manual's specificity, the guidance was not sufficiently authoritative because: (1) it was contained in a "single footnote in a fifty-seven page chapter of the voluminous [Manual]"; and (2) "the footnote went in and out of the Manual during the relevant time period." The defendant argued that the Manual was also not "authoritative guidance" because it was not "binding," i.e., issued through notice-and-comment rulemaking or binding administrative adjudications, but the Seventh Circuit opted to leave the question of "whether agency guidance must always be binding to satisfy Safeco's scienter standard" for another day.
The dissent was written by the same judge who wrote the dissent in SuperValu and contains many of the same arguments, including that the majority effectively "create[d] a safe harbor for deliberate or reckless fraudsters whose lawyers can concoct a post hoc legal rationale that can pass a laugh test." Similar arguments were also raised by the dissent in a recent Fourth Circuit decision reviewing a defendant's interpretation of the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program's "best price" requirements (discussed here).
The Seventh Circuit's decision can be found here.
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September 2022 Fourth Circuit En Banc Vacates Application of Safeco to FCA Cases
The Fourth Circuit, evenly divided while sitting en banc, recently unwound a panel decision finding that Safeco's "reckless disregard" standard applies to the False Claims Act ("FCA").
In January 2022, a panel of the Fourth Circuit held, joining every other circuit to have considered the issue, that when allegations of false claims are premised on violations of ambiguous laws or regulations, the defendant's scienter is properly assessed using the standard for "reckless disregard" established by the Supreme Court in Safeco Insurance Company of America v. Burr, 551 U.S. 47 (2007). Under Safeco, courts ask whether a defendant's interpretation of the ambiguous law or regulation at issue was objectively reasonable and whether authoritative guidance might have warned the defendant away from that interpretation. As discussed here, applying Safeco, the panel affirmed the district court's dismissal of the case.
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January 2022 Fourth Circuit Applies Safeco to FCA Claims, Accuses CMS of "Maintaining Strategic Ambiguity" Around Medicaid Drug Rebate Program Requirements
In a recent 2-1 decision, the Fourth Circuit joined every other circuit to have considered the issue in applying Safeco's "reckless disregard" standard to legally false FCA claims based on alleged violations of ambiguous laws and regulations. Under Safeco, courts ask whether a defendant's interpretation of the ambiguous law or regulation at issue was objectively reasonable and whether authoritative guidance might have warned the defendant away from that interpretation. The Fourth Circuit found that the Safeco standard "duly ensures that defendants must be put on notice before facing liability for allegedly failing to comply with complex legal requirements. Without such notice, defendants are not likely to receive due process."
September 2021 District Court Rejects Anti-Kickback Statute Claim Due to "Conclusory" Assertions of Unlawful Intent
A court in the District of Maryland recently dismissed a declined qui tam action in which the relator, a bariatric surgeon, alleged that two medical device companies violated the AKS by providing surgeons with free advertising in exchange for physicians using the companies' LAP-BAND medical devices in bariatric surgeries. See United States ex rel. Fitzer v. Allergan, Inc., et al., 1:17-cv-00668-SAG (D. Md. Sept. 10, 2021). The court's decision granting defendants' motions to dismiss is notable in its refusal to allow relator to proceed based on conclusory allegations that the defendants knew they were acting in violation of the AKS.
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The 3rd EU assistance package for Moldova approved – the amount and programmes to which the budget support is directed
Maria Dulgher
On October 31st, the European Commission has approved a new disbursement of about €25 million, that representing assistance to the budget of the Republic of Moldova in order to support the Moldovan government in delivering key reforms in the areas of policing, fight against corruption and money laundering, agriculture, as well as rural development, according to a press release of the European Commission.
"Today's assistance package – the fourth since July – demonstrates the EU's strong and continued commitment to the reform path of Moldova. It should be seen as recognition of the sustained efforts made by the Moldovan government to address problems within vital areas such as justice and the rule of law for the benefit of the Moldovan people. The EU stands ready to further assist this important process conditional to tangible results, especially on the much-awaited justice reform," Johannes Hahn, Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, declared.
The previous payments were made as following:
in July (€14,54 million)
in October (€14,35 million)
the first instalment of Macro-Financial Assistance (€30 million).
The amount of €24.85 million corresponds to budget support disbursements under two programmes:
Support to Police reform: particularly, for modernisation of police structures, women participation in the police force, pilot community policing projects, strengthening the rapid-reaction capacities of its intervention teams to emergency calls and reducing the intervention time, building new anti-corruption units within the police to actively promote and implement the principles of zero tolerance to corruption;
ENPARD Moldova – Support to Agriculture and Rural Development: namely, for enhancing the competitiveness of Moldovan agri-food sector by supporting farm investment, creation of producer groups and helping agri-food establishments trade with the EU, helping agricultural producers to comply with international and EU quality standards on food safety and supporting rural development initiatives, initiated at the local level.
According to the platform of EU-funded technical assistance projects in the Republic of Moldova, eu4moldova.md, our country is the largest beneficiary of EU aid per capita in the European neighbourhood, which means that the European Union invested €619 851 649 in the Republic of Moldova until this moment.
The experts believe that in the absence of DCFTA (Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area), the Moldova's state budget would have lost over 7 billion lei in revenues, and the private sector would have lost at least 320 million euros in investments in fixed capital, according to a report issued by the Expert-Group representatives and the Institute for European Policies and Reforms.
Still, the potential offered by the EU-Moldova Association Agreement has not yet been fully reached, as a lot is still to be done, especially when it comes to functioning of democratic institutions and strengthening the rule of law and the independence of justice.
"The prevention and combating of high-level corruption has been mainly characterised by selective justice practices or by lack of finality, despite the consolidation of the normative and institutional framework by creating the Anti-corruption Prosecutor's Office and by reforming the integrity system. Efforts aimed at police reform were recorded, being also supported by our development partners. However, the depoliticization of law institutions remains an arrearage. Corruption is still perceived as the main problem of the society. […] All of these have affected the EU-Moldova dialogue, including the use of the full support from the European Union," the Expert-Group report showed.
Photo: ec.europa.eu
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The Government of Moldova led by Ion Chicu was criticised for the proposal of Ministry of Finance, made after the draft state budget for 2020 was made public, to oblige multinational digital companies such as Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon, Netflix or Airbnb to register legal entities in Moldova and pay VAT on the revenues they earn from Moldovan users.
However, "going alone against the companies that rake in colossal revenues by any standards can undermine the efficiency of the whole enterprise and even affect our relationship with the United States," it is opinated in a study, which has Vladislav Kaim, the member of the UNCTAD Youth Network and a master student in Economics at Lund University, as the author.
According to the Ministry of Finance estimations, such measures of taxation would bring additional 100 million lei in the state budget. Still, the experts community, political opposition and public reacted rather sceptically and, as a result, the Government had to postpone the entering of the decision in force from 1 January to 1 April, as it is mentioned in the study.
In the context of a union-wide digital services tax, which is aimed to be implemented by the EU in 2020, but also the disagreements between countries with different interests, "Moldova as a small market with no current stake in the future of digital economy even more so cannot afford to act unilaterally," claimed Kaim.
"The presence of Google, Facebook and other digital giants in the life of Moldovans is ubiquitous. Thus, it is the duty of the government to make sure that our citizens get a fair deal from it, but unilateral measures imposed by a small and one of the poorest countries in Europe against the behemoths who thrive on effects of scale an global reach have a very limited potential of achieving that. Their potential impact on our relationship with the US should also be considered."
The expert suggested two more strategies for the Moldovan government to choose from, instead of going alone against digital giants without leverage. First, to delay the adoption of the new tax until January 1, 2021, until the EU would establish a permanent solution. "Thus, the Moldovan digital taxation regime will match the one of the biggest single market in the world, which can generate beneficial spillover effects in other spheres – for example, a faster obtaining of the GDPR adequacy decision," Vladislav Kaim claimed.
In case the executive wants to adopt a more proactive and regional strategy, it could come up with an initiative of a joint Eastern Partnership task force on digital taxation, comprised of representatives of the ministries of economy, fiscal bodies and antitrust regulators. "Aiming for an EaP wide digital service tax in coordination with the processes in the EU will likely be supported by the office of Margrethe Vestager, the vice-president of the European Commission whose mandate lies in this sphere," specified the author of the study.
The study was produced within the project "Fostering the Adoption and Implementation of Key Reforms", implemented with the support of National Endowment for Democracy and Watch Dog Moldova.
Photo: DAMIEN MEYER/AFP/Getty Images
The experts from the Expert-Grup Independent Analytical Centre have given the forecasts for the Moldovan economy in the year 2020. According to them, the bank fraud will still affect the economy of the Republic of Moldova in 2020, along with this year's presidential elections and the adopted budgetary policy.
In 2020, the biggest challenge for the economy of the Republic of Moldova will represent the expansionary budgetary policy, which includes a budget deficit of over 3% of GDP and has unclear funding sources.
The analysts emphasised that the risk is related to the increased amount of the possible loans taken by the Government from the commercial banks. "Before elections, governments usually focus on increased budgetary spending with unclear financial coverage and this year is no exception. In the context of worsening relations with development partners, including with the International Monetary Fund, the Government could more intensely resort to domestic loans taken from commercial banks. This will hit the economy again because the banks will prefer to credit the Government rather than the real sector, affecting the investment activity and the economic growth," stated the Executive Director of the Expert-Grup Centre, Adrian Lupuşor, for Ziarul de Gardă.
Another important challenge is the electoral context, namely the presidential elections that create a high level of uncertainty and instability, the Expert-Grup representatives said. "That is the main fear of an investor, especially in such countries as Moldova. This means that during the election period the level of uncertainty is high and it is risky for someone to invest. This affects the activity of the enterprises, the creation of jobs and the general economic growth. […] These factors create risks for the macro-financial stabilisation," Lupușor said.
The Moldovan bank fraud scandal, which occurred in 2014, will still affect the economic development of the country in 2020. "In 2018, the Republic of Moldova experienced a shameful evolution in investigations related to the bank fraud. Now that we have a new leadership in the General Prosecutor's Office, we have certain expectations again," the expert claimed.
Still, experts of the centre said that there are no premises for a possible crisis in the foreign exchange market of the Republic of Moldova, even though there will be certain trends with pressures on the national currency in the new year. "They are about reducing exports, remittances, foreign assistance and foreign direct investment. All of it will put pressure on the balance of payments, because the main sources that ensure the inflow of foreign currency in the country will be affected. Still, the National Bank has sufficient foreign exchange reserves to avoid excessive fluctuations in the exchange rate and to face the economic challenges mentioned above," explained Lupușor.
The Expert-Grup Independent Analytical Centre noted, in a press release, that among the most important challenges for 2020 are the planned budget deficit for 2020, a low capacity to implement public investments with external financing, supplying the country with natural gas, ensuring the legal and decision independence of the National Bank, investigating fraud in the banking sector, but also the worrying developments in the labour market.
Photo: expert-grup.org
The Republic of Moldova is a former soviet country, having tight commercial relationships established with all countries forming the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) – a regional intergovernmental organisation of ten post-Soviet republics in Europe and Asia, that formed after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
On the other hand, Moldova signed the Association Agreement with the European Union in June 2014 and has benefited from a preferential trade within the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) with the EU, that meaning reduced or eliminated tariffs for goods, increased services market and better investment conditions, as the official website of the European Commission states.
Statistical data and newly signed trade agreements are often publicly mentioned when wishing to emphasise one or another relationship as the most strategic one for the Republic of Moldova. But how is it in reality?
Moldova and the EU
On December 19th, 2019, the Council of the EU has formally endorsed an agreement granting Moldovan farmers and SMEs additional preferential export opportunities to the EU, following the agreement signed between the EU and the previous government led by Maia Sandu, to broaden the degree of trade liberalisation for specific agricultural products under the DCFTA, according to a statement of the European Commission.
The agreement provided that the Republic of Moldova will be granted additional duty-free tariff rate quotas to export table grapes (of double the current amount) and plums (of a 50% increase on the current volume), as well as a new duty-free quota for cherries (of 1.500 tonnes). The EU exporters will also gain additional duty-free access to the Moldovan market.
Moreover, the thresholds triggering the anti-circumvention mechanism (a mechanism that provides for the possibility of reintroducing the customs duty when imports of certain agricultural products and processed agricultural products exceed a given threshold) for wheat, barley, maize, sugar and processed cereals have also been raised, taking into account the trade patterns over the last few years.
Generally, the Association Agreement between the EU and the Republic of Moldova provides Moldova with a framework for boosting trade and economic growth through improved access to the EU market and mechanisms for aligning its trade-related laws and regulations to EU's standards.
According to the official statistics of the European Commission, the Moldova's exports to the EU grew by 62% between 2014 and 2018. Between 2017 and 2018, it increased by 16%, from €1.6 billion to €1.9 billion.
source: ec.europa.eu
The European Union is Moldova's biggest trade partner, as around 70% of its exports are sent to the EU, followed by Russia (8%) and Belarus (3%). Key EU imports from Moldova are mainly machinery and appliances, vegetable products, textiles and textile articles and base metals.
Moldova and the CIS
Russia is one of the most important eastern partners for the Republic of Moldova. Usually, the good news about the export of Moldovan products to this country come from the president of the Republic of Moldova, Igor Dodon. This December, he already made 2 announcements regarding the extension of fruit and vegetable exporters' list who are allowed to export on the Russian market starting the next year. First, the list was extended from 130 to over 350 Moldovan companies, and then 150-200 other companies obtained such permission recently.
"It was agreed to extend the list of categories of goods that are exported to the Russian market without customs duties for another five product categories: beef, sunflower seeds, sugar, ethyl alcohol and furniture from January 1st, 2020. I mention that so far the export taxes for five categories have been excluded: vegetables; apples, pears and fresh quinces; apricots, cherries and sour cherries; canned vegetables; wines," informed Dodon on his Facebook page.
Additionally, the Minister of Agriculture asked the Russian profile institutions to inspect 33 wineries and four canning companies from Moldova, in order to grant them access to the Russian market. All in all, the Russian Federation will issue 16,000 transport authorisations for Moldovan carriers in the next year.
A prohibition of export for Moldovan companies was set up after a decision of the Government of the Russian Federation, on December 29th, 2018, which forbid to import Ukrainian products and products transiting Ukraine, including those from Moldova.
At the begging of 2019, Russian customs authorities forbid to import large quantities of goods produced in the Republic of Moldova and the Transnistrian region.
The Russian portal Regnum.ru was writing, at that time, that the majority of Moldovan exporting companies affected by the Russian Government decision are precisely those for which, in the following half of 2019, Russia cancelled the import duties, such as producers of fresh and preserved fruits and vegetables, as well as wine products. According to the Russian publication, the measure to support Moldovan businesses was an act of political support of the Moldovan president, Igor Dodon, in the upcoming parliamentary elections, which became possible after a meeting between Dodon and the Russian president.
Nowadays, more and more companies from Moldova are granted gradually back access to the Russian market, President Dodon announcing that every time on his page or at press conferences. Let's not forget that Moldova expects new presidential elections in 2020.
All in all, the statistics of the CIS presented a total export value of $416 million in 2018, as compared to $463 million in 2017. From January to September 2019, Moldova's exports to CIS countries amounted $301.8 million, that decreasing by 1.6% as compared to the same period in 2018.
source: cisstat.com
When looking at the whole picture, it can be observed that in 2006, the Moldovan exports to the EU countries exceeded for the first time the exports to the CIS countries, the difference between the exports to the two destinations starting to be bigger and bigger, as the National Bureau of Statistics of Moldova (NBS) displays.
Data source: statbank.statistica.md
Still, the most important trading partners for Moldova remained such European countries as Romania – 42.54% ($ 792.137 million) of the total exports to the EU countries, Italy – 16,62% ($ 309.606 million) of the total exports to the EU countries and Germany – 11.81% ($ 219.902 million) of the total exports to the EU countries, as well as such CIS countries as Russia, the exports to which represented 52.55% ($ 218.571 million) of the total volume of exports to the CIS countries in 2018.
Photo: statistica.gov.md
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American artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor returns to James Cohan Gallery for her third solo gallery exhibition. Entitled Foreclosed, this exhibition opens on May 7th and runs through June 19th, 2010. Taylor has become well-known for reinvigorating the Renaissance craft of marquetry, or intarsia wood inlay, a medium once made popular during the unprecedented age of luxury of Louis XIV's Court of Versailles. By choosing a medium that is typically associated with wealth and power to portray dystopian scenes of everyday life, Taylor creates a tension between the luxurious connotations of the material and a certain abjectness of the subject matter.
In Foreclosed, Alison Elizabeth Taylor turns to architecture and interior space to reveal the pathos of lives dispossessed by the recent economic disaster and to explore the human impact of the short-sighted policies and greed that triggered millions of foreclosures. Visiting her childhood home of Las Vegas, Nevada, Taylor watched first-hand how an explosive housing market has fallen prey to the bubble-bust phenomena that has become common across the country.
Throughout this new body of work, the viewer experiences an architectural space not through its contents but through its voids. The images in this new body of work focus on the marks, holes, and removals found in derelict homes that have been vandalized in connection with their foreclosure. Taylor's research process included climbing through broken windows and documenting the interiors of foreclosed properties. She explains, "I create works based on the damage I've seen: punched and kicked out holes in drywall, shotgun blasts from inside a house thru the exterior wall, broken doors, windows, stolen pipes and copper wire, taps left on to flood, angry graffiti, stripped interiors, and in one case a hole in the back of the house that squatters had made with a pickaxe, a sort of back door where they could come and go unseen by neighbors." These markings become evidence of the emotional havoc experienced by those removed from these properties. Taylor thus explores the feelings of frustration and loss of power still tangible in these abandoned physical spaces.
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SECOND -- Frederick is joined by David Yoon (aka the YOONICORN) of the hit manga webcomic, SPOON with James and Jason Ford, the twin brothers of the incredibly cool podcast, the WOMBMATES. This expansive and VERY FUN (these guys rock--and have a great attitude towards classic American comics as well as the INDY COMICS scene) talk goes over the set-up for AFTERNOON WEB-X as we discuss the business of webcomics and what makes series like COMATOSE by Wally Nguyen and WANTED DEAD OR DEAD by Mariel Villareal have such impact in this digital age.


The Project is for the provision and the delivery of multiple social housing units in the Newry Development Area delineated in Annex A of the MOI (which can be obtained by contacting the contact identified above) by means of design and build. Participants must provide the land, design, construction and ensure completion of the scheme for Apex in accordance with the DfC Housing Association Guide; Client's Requirements and statutory body requirements.
(ii) have an exclusive arrangement with the landowner enabling the transfer of the site to Apex, with clear non-encumbered title, to submit proposals for the provision of social housing on the site.
The Project is for the provision of the delivery of multiple social housing units in the Newry Development Area delineated in Annex A of the MOI (which can be obtained by contacting the contact identified above) by means of design and build. Participants must provide the land, design, construction and ensure completion of the scheme for Apex in accordance with the DfC Housing Association Guide; Client's Requirements and statutory body requirements.
(ii) have an exclusive arrangement with the landowner enabling the transfer of the site to Apex, with clear non-encumbered title, to submit proposals for the provision of social housing on the site. Apex anticipates that the minimum size of development which it will consider as part of the evaluation is 10 units, however, it reserves, at its sole discretion, the right to contract with a Developer in respect of a site with fewer units.
Developers should note that the maximum size of development that it is envisaged will be eligible for DfC funding is 350 units. While there may be some limited tolerance above this number, any tenders proposing a development with a number of units in excess of 110% of this number will be rejected and not considered as part of the evaluation.
The duration of the contract will depend on time taken to achieve satisfaction of conditions necessary to deliver the scheme including DfC approval and planning permission, as well as expected build time for the scheme.As such the duration included in II.2.7) is an estimate only. The actual contract duration is likely to vary from these estimates depending on the specifics of the scheme proposed.


The NZDRA Central Nationals, held at Masterton Motorplex over December 9–10, represented a jump straight into the deep end of the 2017–18 season. With 172 cars entered and clear skies above Masterton, a solid event was on the cards, and that's what was delivered. In addition, Bob Wilton had advised a $5000 cash reward to any door car that managed to crack a five-second pass, and although the competition wasn't heavy — with just Barry Plumpton, Nigel Dixon, and the Dobson boys shooting it out — a five was a pretty big ask.
Nigel Dixon qualified first, with a 6.32s at 226.83mph, followed by Barry Plumpton's nitrous-snorting mountain-motored Camaro which ran a 6.46s at 214.04mph. Trailing behind were Prestney and Dobson, still trying to sort out the Pontiac Grand Am's new combo and running an 8.65s at 179.55mph. Unfortunately, nobody would be claiming the prize this time, and the qualifying times represented the best for this bunch.
Top Alcohol had six cars entered, with the number one qualifier being Bert King with a 6.07s at 223.37mph, followed by Dwane Garrett's 6.78s at 133.14mph. Simon Fowke's '57 Chev funny car, all the way from down south, claimed a 7.12s at 200.01mph.
Unfortunately for the Garrett car, a collapsed front supercharger bearing blew the burst panel out, causing a fair bit of body damage.
The Top Alcohol finals came down to Paul Davison against Bert King — a great race, with both in the low six-second zone, and Bert King taking it out through his 6.19s at 220.64mph against 6.37s at 221.23mph.
Dave Gauld qualified with a 7.19s at 187mph. He's obviously got the wild antics calmed down, as the car was running pretty straight.
Super Sedan once again had a large field, and the number one qualifier once again was Blue Thunder Racing — long, hard burnouts, and nice, straight runs with a best of 7.80 at 172.48mph.
Brent Whittingham sat behind him in his nitrous-snorting Camaro, getting ever so close to that magic seven with a best of 8.08s at 165.36mph. Though he never quite got a seven, he did end up taking the win in the large Super Sedan field.
Rex Duckett was getting a bit outta control in this burnout, although a best of 7.55 at 182.22mph was certainly on the money! He ended up taking out the Super Stock class, with a 7.60s at 182.15mph.
Eight competed in Supercharged Outlaws, including Kendall Smith's 'Green Go' dragster with a 7.57s at 173.32mph followed by Mark Gapp's '41 Willys, which ran a 7.78s at 162.70mph.
Finals came down to the two of them, and Mark must have seen Kendall red-light his 7.65-second pass, as he cruised to the win with a lazy 9.26-second quarter.
The Bates guys were getting a handle on the Vauxhall's new engine combo, and long burnouts followed by wheels-up launches make for an exciting car to watch.
Another exciting watch is Sue Gray's 'Mad Cow' machine. She refuses to put wheelie bars on, which is good for photographers and the crowd!
Modified was won by Bruce Riddick, who also took away the award for Best Appearing Crew and Car.
Gary Sinkinson's tough, wheel-standing El Camino is something car to watch! Running a best of 10.55s at 124.03mph on the day with a methanol injected 427ci small block, you just wait till he hits the nitrous!
John Shepherd sure has his hands full trying to tame his front-engined dragster!
A big congratulations must also go to Zach Sayer, who has finally found the nine-second zone after working hard over the winter months, with a 9.85s at 136.74mph. Remember, Zach is in a wheelchair and uses hand controls to get down the strip.
The next competition meeting at Masterton Motorplex will be the Dragstalgia and Masterton Motorplex 20th Anniversary event, on the weekend of January 6–7.