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China Tries to Disrupt Tibetan Parliamentary Elections
Tibetans abroad vote to elect the members of the Central Tibetan Administration. The CCP mobilizes its spies, and asks friendly governments to harass voters.
Incumbent Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay cast his vote in the 2021 Sikyong and 17th Tibetan parliamentary elections at Gangchen Kyisong, Dharamshala, 3 January 2021. (Photo/Tenzin Jigme/CTA)
In 2011, the Dalai Lama moved to transform the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) into a full-blown democratic government. Tibetans who are able to register and vote—currently, those residing abroad, hopefully one day those in Tibet too—elect 45 members of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile (TPiE). The president of the CTA, called Sikyong, is also elected directly by Tibetans abroad.
The TPiE includes ten members from each of the old Tibetan provinces—U-Tsang, Dhotoe, and Dhomey—; two for each of the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism—Gelug, Nyingma, Kagyu, and Sakya— and two for the pre-Buddhist Bön religious community; five from the diaspora outside India, Nepal, and Bhutan, i.e., from Europe, the Americas, Australia-New Zealand, and the Asian countries not part of the Indian subcontinent.
The Sikyong can remain in charge for a maximum of two terms. This means that the current Sikyong, the highly respected Harvard scholar Lobsang Sangay, cannot seek a third term. Sangay will be remembered for his activity in the United States, which led to the passage and signature by President Trump of the Tibet Policy and Support Act (TPSA) and 2020. The TPSA provides inter alia that the United States will oppose any attempt by China and the CCP to choose the next Dalai Lama and claim he is the reincarnation of the current one, will impose sanctions on the Chinese officers involved, and will only accept a Dalai Lama recognized by the Tibetan Buddhist community and its elected political representatives.
The first round of the Tibetan elections has been completed, and results will be announced on February 8. The second round will be on April 11, and the TPiE will gather on May 14 and elect its head.
In India and other countries, the elections went on smoothly. However, in several countries Tibetans reported to Bitter Winter that they do have evidence that Chinese spies tried to watch the process and note the names of those who voted.
The most serious disruption of the elections happened in Nepal, after a Chinese high-level delegation visited the Himalayan country on December 27, allegedly to help resolving problems between the different factions of the local Communist Party.
After this visit, the Nepalese police tried to prevent the elections by confiscating the ballots and arresting five Tibetans, including a journalist of Radio Free Asia.
Clearly, whoever wins, the elections deliver a powerful message in favor of democracy and freedom, which the CCP cannot tolerate.
Democracy Freedom、Tibet

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Fights break out as more migrants arrive on Greek island
WATCH ABOVE: Turmoil in the Middle East and Africa is prompting thousands of people to leave to Europe. Many of the migrants are arriving in Greece. It's putting pressure on the bankrupt country's ability to address the crisis. On Wednesday the EU once again said it stands ready to help – but will it? Emily Elias reports.
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KOS, Greece – Fights broke out among migrants on the Greek island of Kos Tuesday, where overwhelmed authorities are struggling to contain increasing numbers of people arriving clandestinely on rubber dinghies from the nearby Turkish shore.
Hundreds of protesting migrants demanding quick registration began blocking the main coastal road in the island's main town, staging a sit-in.
"We want papers, we want to eat!" they chanted.
Hundreds of people arrive on Greece's eastern Aegean islands daily, many after fleeing conflict in Syria and Afghanistan. Authorities, locals and charity groups are struggling to provide registration, food and shelter to the new arrivals, many of whom are children.
Many of those on Kos, a popular tourist destination, had been camping in the main town's parks and squares.
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An attempt to have them relocated to a stadium for registration degenerated, with fights breaking out among some of the roughly 1,500 people gathered in a long, crowded queue in the stadium.
Police, who had a force of just a handful of officers to maintain control and carry out the registration, tried to impose order on the crowd by spraying the jostling migrants with fire extinguishers and using batons. Hundreds fled in panic.
Similar protests and tension have occurred on several of the islands bearing the brunt of the migrant influx in recent weeks, including Lesbos, where the majority of new arrivals land.
Greece's coast guard said they had rescued 329 migrants in seven separate search and rescue incidents in the 24 hours from Monday morning off the coast of Lesbos and Kos.
Those figures do not include the hundreds more who reach shore themselves in their inflatable dinghies from Turkey, making their own way to the islands' main towns for registration.
Greece has been overwhelmed by the number of migrants arriving, with at least 124,000 people reaching the eastern islands in the first seven months of this year alone. The figure represents a staggering 750 per cent increase on the same period last year, according to figures from the United Nations' refugee agency, the UNHCR.
In all, Greek police said Monday that 156,726 migrants had been arrested for entering or remaining in the country illegally from January through July 2015, compared to 32,070 for the same months in 2014.
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Mayor John Tory says controversial pick-up artist Roosh V has 'no place' in Toronto
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WATCH ABOVE: Toronto Mayor John Tory is joining a chorus of voices demanding the cancellation of a planned weekend show by a controversial American pick-up artist who goes by the name Roosh V. Caryn Lieberman has the story.
TORONTO —; Toronto Mayor John Tory is speaking out against anti-feminist blogger and controversial pick-up artist Daryush Valizadeh, a.k.a. Roosh V., saying that his "hate speech" has "no place in our city."
"[email protected] doesn't reflect the values of Toronto and his statements about women are demeaning and unacceptable," Tory tweeted late Monday. "His hate speech [has] no place in our city and should have no platform here either."
While free speech is the law in this country, promoting violence against women is wrong. #topoli
— John Tory (@JohnTory) August 11, 2015
Valizadeh responded to Mayor Tory on 广州蒲友 saying he "doesn't promote violence, harassment, or hate against any group."
Mr. Mayor, my speech doesn't promote violence, harassment, or hate against any group. You were lied to about me. https://t.co/VaafBwREsa — Roosh (@rooshv) August 11, 2015
Tory's comments echo those of City Councillor Norm Kelly, who asked Toronto venues not to let Valizadeh use their spaces ahead of an event planned for Aug. 15.
"Urging all venue locations in Toronto to deny @rooshv the opportunity to use their space," Kelly tweeted on Monday. "He and his views are not welcome in Toronto."
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Kelly added that "@rooshv's 'take' on life is worthless garbage masquerading as provocative insight."
Urging all venue locations in Toronto to deny @rooshv the opportunity to use their space. He and his views are not welcome in Toronto.
— Norm Kelly (@norm) August 10, 2015
[email protected]'s 'take' on life is worthless garbage masquerading as provocative insight. — Norm Kelly (@norm) August 10, 2015
Kelly told Global News on Tuesday that he previously did not know about Valizadeh, but once he learned more about him he was "appalled by how vulgar and stupid and creepy his arguments are."
"It's one thing to have an argument provocatively presented, as long as there's information there that you can learn from. There's nothing there, this is just raw, base BS coming from this guy and frankly it's not worth our time and attention but he has been brought to our attention so we'll comment on him," he said.
"Every time he's been asked, 'Where are you going to speak?' He refuses to answer. Now that may suggest that he doesn't have a place or if he does he doesn't want to reveal it because if it was revealed now, the owner … may withdraw the opportunity."
Kelly said Valizadeh "doesn't reflect Canadian values and certainly not the values of the city of Toronto."
"I was getting creamed last night in the 广州蒲友verse —; accused of censoring him —; and I wasn't and others aren't," he said.
"What we're doing though is setting off alarm bells. So we're exercising free speech just saying to people, 'Look it, this is what the guy's like and you don't want to be associated with him if you have rooms to rent to this guy. And if he does get a room and he does speak then it's up to the authorities to judge for themselves whether he's transgressed Canadian law."
Valizadeh, runs the controversial website Return of Kings and his personal blog where he has advocated for the legalization of rape on private property, among other offensive statements.
Toronto is the final stop of his world speaking tour titled "The State of Man" that "deconstructs the problems men face today" and helps them "improve their intimate relationships with women."
Toronto criminal lawyer Daniel Brown said that although it's not possible to prevent Valizadeh from entering the country, he could be charged with hate speech against women.
"In the last six months the law has changed where previously only certain types of identifiable groups were protected by hate speech," he said.
"Among those groups before women weren't protected, now the laws have changed to protect women as well as an identifiable group who can be protected by the hate speech laws."
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His scheduled stop in Toronto comes after an appearance in Montreal over the weekend where he had to find another venue for his lecture after protesters discovered the first location.
Mayor Denis Coderre and provincial Justice Minister Stephanie Vallee also spoke out against Valizadeh's statements saying they constitute hate speech against women.
A Change苏州美甲纹绣培训 petition had been created to keep Valizadeh from entering Canada, amassing more than 41,000 signatures.
In a video posted to YouTube on Saturday night, two women are seen throwing drinks at him as a crowd of people surrounds him. The group then follows him, screaming and cursing, until he is ushered inside a building.
Montreal police confirmed to Global News on Tuesday that they are investigating the incident at the event on Saturday, but would not confirm that it involved Valizadeh.
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Ahead of the Toronto lecture Valizadeh writes: "Judging by the radical feminists that claim Toronto as their home, I made sure to schedule Toronto as my last lecture stop, just in case I don't make it out in one piece."
The venue for the event has not been revealed publicly, and will be listed one day before the event.
With files from Caryn Lieberman and Adam Miller
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Vancouver gamer shares $6.6 million prize after winning international Esports championship
WATCH: Humans are capable of amazing achievement – sometimes in the most likely of pursuits. A Vancouver man is giving parents across the country a headache because of what he's just done. He plays video games, sometimes for 10 hours a day. And it's paid off big time. Robin Gill reports.
Twenty-two-year-old Kurtis Ling from Vancouver and his team Evil Genius earned a multi-million dollar prize after winning a video game championship in Seattle.
Beating out dozens of gamers during the week-long International Dota 2 Championships, Ling and his team took home a $6.6 million prize.
Ling, also known as Aui_2000, is ranked as Canada's highest paid professional gamer, and the 13th highest paid gamer in the world. He earns a living playing video games, winning competitions around the world, and earning tens, even hundreds of thousands of dollars at tournaments.
"Its my passion, my hobby – it's still something I really enjoy doing, " says Ling. "That it's apparently turned into my job now too, is great for me."
The former UBC student decided to leave school in his third year to be a professional gamer.
"I just decided to take a year off to try to pursue gaming full time. Monetarily … it made a lot more sense to try to go professional in gaming than it did to complete my degree," he told The Ubyssey back in March.
Gaming goals
Ling is part of the Esports scene that has exploded in the past couple of years. Multi-player video game tournaments, also known as Esports, have become a global sensation that attracts thousands of spectators to live events held at arenas and other venues around the world.
WATCH: It might seem like vindication for the millions of young people who spend countless hours playing video games. A Vancouver twenty-something recently turned his skills into a million dollar payday. But as Julia Foy reports, his advice to aspiring gamers might surprise you
Ling first started playing Dota 2′s predecessor, DotA, in grade 9. His was introduced to competitive gaming by joining UBC's Starcraft Club when he started university in 2010.
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Talking about his early days as a competitive gamer, Ling recalls that the highest prize pool tournament he competed in with DotA back in 2010 was $500 for first place.
Sponsors for Esports tournaments include corporate titans such as Coca-Cola and McDonald's. Prize money for these competitions are set in the millions of dollars, as eSports increasingly resembles traditional sporting events with live events attracting tens of thousands of spectators, professional commentators providing play-by-play and analysis. The tournaments are even livestreamed to millions of viewers.
The total prize pool for the International Dota 2 Championships was a staggering $18.4 million. Evil Geniuses beat team CDEC from China, who still walked away with $2.8 million.
Each of the four members of the Evil Geniuses, including Ling, are now millionaires, having won the international championship.
When asked what it felt like to win, an ecstatic Ling said, "It's still really surreal for me. We aim for this tournament all year round, and winning it is the goal for every single one of us as gamers. To have achieved that goal is just amazing."
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One in five American children and adolescents has unhealthy cholesterol levels, according to American health officials. The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) examined cholesterol levels in children and adolescents aged six to 19 from 2011 to 2014.
Teenagers were the most concerning: nearly 27 per cent of 16- to 19-year-olds had the worst cholesterol levels.
There are two kinds of cholesterol – low-density lipoprotein (LDL or "bad") and high-density lipoprotein (HDL or "good").
Unhealthy levels of LDL are a key risk factor for heart disease and stroke when this cholesterol joins with fats and other substances to build up in the inner walls of arteries. The arteries can become clogged and narrow, and blood flow is reduced.
HDL carries harmful cholesterol away from the arteries and helps protect from heart attack and stroke.
Health officials are concerned as younger and younger Americans and Canadians are showing high LDL cholesterol levels.
Also worrisome in the study was low levels of HDL or "good" cholesterol. HDL cholesterol helps to remove bad cholesterol, so not having it increases the risk of heart attack and stroke.
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The authors write, "one out of five children and adolescents (21 per cent) had at least one abnormal cholesterol measure (high total cholesterol, low HDL cholesterol, or high non-HDL cholesterol)."
Dr. Julie Brothers, a preventive cardiologist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, spoke with NBC News on how to prevent or manage cholesterol levels in youth.
"I look at things like what they are drinking throughout the day. The majority are drinking a lot of sugar drinks," she said.
Cutting back on sugary drinks can help, she's found. So can adding exercise.
"The sugary drinks are a huge thing," she said. "Then I work on fibre."
The Heart and Stroke Foundation offers these tips for lowering and maintaining healthy cholesterol levels:
If you have high cholesterol, you can get your numbers back on track by being active (30 to 60 minutes most days), achieving and maintaining a healthy body weight, becoming smoke-free and making some dietary changes.
Eat a healthy, balanced diet of whole, minimally processed food.
This includes fruits and vegetables, whole grains and protein from a variety of sources (eg. beans and lentils, nuts, lower-fat dairy and alternatives, lean meats, and fish). Minimally processed foods are foods with only small changes to their original form and have no nutrients removed (e.g. brown rice, bagged carrots, frozen fruits and vegetables).
Limit your intake of highly processed foods.
These foods are a major source of saturated fat in the Canadian diet. Saturated fat is one risk factor for bad (LDL) blood cholesterol levels. Highly processed foods have many ingredients, are usually in a package and need little preparation.
Limit serving sizes of lean meat and poultry to two to three servings per day (a serving is 75 g or 2 ½ oz, about the size of a deck of cards)Choose fatty fish such as salmon, mackerel, sardines or trout at least twice a week.Include meat alternatives such as legumes or soy protein substitutes as part of your weekly meal plan.Limit your whole eggs to no more than two per week. Replace a whole egg with two egg whites in baking.Use non-hydrogenated margarine and oils such as canola or olive oil. Reduce the amount of solid fats used in cooking such as butter or lard.Buy foods with little or no trans fat.Select lower fat food items including milk products.Include vegetables and fruit at each meal and snack.Select whole grain products most often.
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The "most hated" man in America, Martin Shkreli, bought an elusive Wu-Tang clan album for US$2 million on Wednesday. (The New York rap collective revealed last year that it had recorded only one copy of a 31-track double-album entitled "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin," kept in a vault with a leather-bound 174-page lyric book, waiting for a buyer.)
Shortly after news spread of the pharmaceutical tycoon's buy, an alleged "clause" in the contract agreement appeared on the internet — which has been revealed as a hoax — that stated "Wu-Tang Clan and/or actor Bill Murray" have the legal right to "plan and attempt to execute one (1) heist or caper to steal back 'Once Upon a Time in Shaolin,' which, if successful, would return all ownership rights to the seller."
The clause was crafted in jest out of the general public consensus about Shkreli's character, and was an attempt to inject humour into the situation. It turns out the internet en masse is none too pleased that Shkreli has $2 million to spend on the special album.
Wu-Tang member RZA even poked a bit of fun at Shkreli on 广州蒲友:
I wish you would. https://t.co/Lbk9Vgzuse
— Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) December 11, 2015
Shkreli joked (sort of) about honouring the hoax clause:
I would honor the proposed Bill Murray & WTC amendment to the album purchase agreement. Just know, I am not the one to steal on.
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The 32-year-old executive teased Wu-Tang Clan fans about his purchase, writing on 广州蒲友 that he "may play something special."
The agreement forbade Shkreli from reselling "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin" but gave him the right to stream it for free online.
The entrepreneur is best known to the public after his company, Turing Pharmaceuticals, in September decided to raise the price of Daraprim, a drug used to treat HIV-positive people, from $13.50 to $750.
"No one — including Martin Shkreli — should have the power to price-gouge American families," Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton said at the time, with Republican candidate and fellow tycoon Donald Trump calling Shkreli "a spoiled brat."
One of Shkreli's favorite ways of self-expression is a livestream of himself on YouTube, in which he speaks about chemical molecules or surfs dating sites.
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"It's good because people get to see what I'm like, and most people are like, 'Oh, you're not as bad as I thought'," he said in November.
The Wu-Tang Clan — which has fashioned itself as socially conscious, despite frequent feuds with other rappers — found itself on the defensive after Shkreli was revealed as the buyer.
"The sale of 'Once Upon a Time in Shaolin' was agreed upon in May, well before Martin Skhreli's (sic) business practices came to light," RZA, generally seen as the leader of the ensemble, said in a statement.
"We decided to give a significant portion of the proceeds to charity."
With files from The Associated Press
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The Royal Grenada Police Force say they believe the body found Friday morning is that of missing Linnea Veinotte based on information received during the course of their investigation.
But they also warned in a release late Friday that they had not positively identified the body, and that has to be done before they give final confirmation.
"The police will continue to work speedily to resolve this matter and will keep the public informed accordingly," the release stated.
But on Friday afternoon, the university Veinotte worked for offered condolences to her family.
"It is with great sadness that I'm sharing with you some tragic news concerning Dr. Linnea Vienotte," St. George's University president G. Richard Olds writes in a 苏州美甲纹绣培训 post.
"Dr. Vienotte's body has been found."
The statement issued by the president of St. George's University to the family of Linnea Vienotte.
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It was shortly after 11 a.m. Friday morning that Supt. Sylvan McIntyre confirmed to Global News a body had been found.
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McIntyre said the person of interest in Veinotte's case, Akim Frank, turned himself in overnight Thursday. He was wanted for questioning in Veinotte's case and remains in police custody.
Police said Frank surrendered without incident.
Veinotte went missing after going for a run in Coral Crescent., Lance aux Epines, Grenada, Sunday morning. The 36-year-old mother of two was born in New Denmark, N.B.
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WASHINGTON – There have been at least 241 reports of close encounters between drones and manned aircraft that meet the government's definition of a near midair collision, including 28 in which pilots manoeuvred to get out of the way, according to a report released Friday.
Ninety of the close encounters involved drones and commercial jets, the majority of which had the capacity to carry 50 people or more.
Two aircraft must fly within 500 feet of each to meet the Federal Aviation Administration's definition of a near midair collision. In 51 of the incidents, the drone-to-aircraft proximity was 50 feet or less, according to the report by Bard College's Center for the Study of the Drone in Annandale-On-Hudson, New York.
The report is based on an analysis of government records detailing 921 incidents involving drones and manned aircraft between Dec. 17, 2013, and Sept. 12, 2015. Researchers cautioned that when flying at high speeds it can be difficult for a pilot to judge the distance between themselves and another object.
The majority of the incidents, 64.5 per cent, were sightings of drones in the vicinity of other aircraft with no immediate threat of collision.
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The FAA has previously released data on reports of drone sightings, but the Bard report is the first comprehensive analysis of the sightings by researchers outside the aviation community. Its findings are likely to fuel more debate over how much of a threat drones are to manned aircraft as the government struggles with how to reap the benefits of unmanned aircraft without undermining safety.
Most of the sightings analyzed in the report occurred within 5 miles of an airport and at altitudes higher than 400 feet even though the FAA prohibits flying most drones near airports or over 400 feet.
The locations with the most incidents were New York/Newark, New Jersey, 86; Los Angeles, 39; Miami, 24; Chicago, 20; Boston, 20; San Jose, 19; Washington, DC, 19; Atlanta, 17; Seattle, 17; San Diego, 14; Orlando, 13; Houston, 12; Portland, Oregon, 12; Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, 11, and Denver, 10.
There have been no confirmed collisions between drones and manned aircraft in the U.S. thus far. Government and industry officials have expressed concern that if a drone – much like a bird – is sucked into an aircraft engine, smashes a cockpit windshield or damages a critical aircraft surface area, it could cause an air crash.
"With sufficient speed, bird strikes have been known to penetrate the cockpit," the report said. "It's entirely possible, then, that a drone could also break through into a cockpit, potentially causing serious harm to the pilots or other occupants."
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Helicopter blades are considered especially vulnerable. Thirty-eight of the near collisions identified by researchers involved helicopters.
Aircraft engine manufacturers currently test the ability of engines to withstand bird strikes by firing dead birds at the engines at high velocities. The FAA hasn't yet said when it will require engine makers to conduct tests with drones, but officials have unofficially acknowledged they are working on the issue, the report said.
The report cited research by engineers at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, that used data on bird strikes to create computer simulations of drones striking planes in order to identify the riskiest impact locations. They concluded that hobby drones weighing between 2 and 6 pounds "can potentially cause critical damage."
The FAA is in the process of finalizing rules for the use of commercial drones weighing less than 5 pounds. The agency is also expected to shortly issue rules requiring the registration of small drones, including those used by hobbyists, in an effort to help create a "culture of responsibility" among drone operators. The agency is trying to get the registration rules in place before Christmas.
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NATO appears to be on a collision course with Russia as the Western military alliance expands, and Moscow warns of grave consequences to that expansion.
The latest example came last week, after the small Balkan country of Montenegro was offered membership in NATO.
"The continuing expansion of NATO and the military infrastructure of NATO to the east cannot fail to lead to actions in response from the east – that is, from Russia," said a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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While NATO maintains it exists only for defensive purposes, Russia has long objected to expansion close to its borders. Montenegro will be NATO's 29th member, including former republics of the Soviet Union: Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia.
Russia's Foreign Ministry said last month Montenegro's addition to NATO would be "another blow to European security and to relations between Russia and NATO."
However, much of NATO's recent expansion appears to be tied to rising aggression from Putin's government, starting with the invasion of Georgia in 2008, and annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula last year.
"What I think he wants, what he likes, is destabilized states close to him that he can draw into his orbit and make part of a new sort of Russian empire," says University of Toronto Russia expert Randall Hansen.
Russia has been building up military forces along its eastern borders, and earlier this year, Putin announced the addition of 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles to his country's nuclear stockpile.
"Well, I absolutely believe it's a credible threat," says Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, Commander of the United States Army's European forces. "I mean, Russia has told Denmark, Romania, Sweden, that they are nuclear targets if they display any sort of a ballistic missile defence."
In response to threats from Russia, NATO turned what was planned as a routine military exercise in Europe last month into a major show of force. "Trident Juncture" was expanded from 10,000 troops to 36,000 after Russia invaded Crimea.
"Nobody here wants a conflict with Russia, but in order to make sure that doesn't happen, there has to be a demonstrated deterrent capability," Hodges told 16×9.
Canada sent more than a thousand troops to participate in "Trident Juncture". But NATO also announced this year it is tripling its Response Force to 40,000 troops, including a high readiness force code named "Spearhead", which can be deployed to Eastern Europe within 48 hours. Canada has also committed staff officers to help run new NATO headquarters in six member countries, including Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, where it's feared Russia could invade next.
"This nuclear saber-rattling of Russia is unjustified. It's destabilizing and it's dangerous," said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in June. "This is something which we are addressing, and it's also one of the reasons we are now increasing the readiness and preparedness of our forces."
"It's absolutely right that NATO is building up troops," Hansen told 16×9. "NATO's the easy part. If Putin moves on the Baltic States militarily, we will be at war."
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HALIFAX – Catching a glimpse of a bobcat in Nova Scotia is quite unique, so imagine being able to be get video of one walking along the side of the road from just 20 feet away.
That's just what videographer Cory McGraw caught on camera this week in Nine Mile River.
Bobcats are not uncommon in the province, but the mammals are rarely spotted and there is hardly ever video taken of them.
"Seeing a cat up that close is a bit on the unusual side," said Andrew Hebda, zoologist with the Nova Scotia Museum.
Unlike the lynx, bobcats aren't endangered, but Hebda says the mammals are sly and very rarely spotted. Making an encounter like the one we had even more memorable.
"You can see it was concentrated on feed but it knew you were there, it was staring right at you and poking out at you from beyond the grass so that shows you that animal has not been habituated to people," Hebda told Global News.
The Department of Natural Resources records all bobcat sightings in the province.
"Some years, it's as low as 10. The last two, it was around 20," said Michael Boudreau, Human-Wildlife Conflict Biologist with DNR.
Boudreau says seeing a bobcat out in broad daylight is a little unusual.
"They don't typically like to be around people, so when there's a lot of activity they'll kind of stay in the shadows or use low activity to go and use that same area."
There are only about 20 recorded sightings of bobcats in Nova Scotia annually, most of which occur during February and March.
WATCH: Rare, up-close footage of a bobcat prowling in tall grass near Nine Mile River in Nova Scotia.
It's believed the bobcat in this video is young and may have been searching for food.
Last year's harsh winter was devastating for bobcats and other predators. Hope for Wildlife took in eight starving bobcats suffering in the harsh conditions, something they have never seen before.
They say it's too soon to see how this winter will be for the cats.
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5 challenges faced by Syrian refugees arriving in Canada
OTTAWA – The first government flight dispatched to bring Syrian refugees directly to Canada left on Thursday carrying about 160 people to Toronto. They are the vanguard of 25,000 expected by the end of February.
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Here's a look at five challenges the newcomers will face:
Getting to know Canada
Normally, refugees are given detailed orientation sessions abroad before they board flights to Canada. The programs are run by the International Organization for Migration and cover everything from how to dress for winter to making a household budget. But the nature of this programs means very little of that is happening before the refugees arrive in Canada and they'll have to learn as they go. In the case of the first flights, all the Syrians have private sponsors who will be responsible for much of the teaching.
Canada getting to know them
In the case of refugees who have private sponsors, they've likely been in touch in recent weeks. Many exchange photos and videos and the sponsors also have a case file on their new charges that gives details such as ages, education and sometimes religion.
READ MORE: Ontario sponsors cheer arrival of Syrian refugee families at Toronto airport
But in the case of government-sponsored refugees, the government has statistics and basic information, but not much else. The language barrier – many will only speak Arabic – will be one of the first hurdles to overcome.
Again, private sponsors are responsible for finding suitable accommodation for the refugees they bring in. Many rent apartments or houses and cover that cost at least for the first year. But in the case of government-assisted refugees, the hunt is now on for thousands of shelter spaces. Some landlords and real estate companies have offered space at reduced rates. In the very short term, some refugees may find themselves living in military barracks until more permanent homes are available.
Members of groups who are sponsoring two Syrian refugee families hold up signs welcoming their charges as they wait for the families to arrive at Toronto\'s Pearson Airport, on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015.
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As with most new immigrants, employment is likely to be top of mind for many Syrians. And like other newcomers, they'll be up against barriers including getting credentials recognized by regulatory bodies in Canada. The Canadian Labour Congress and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce are working on a campaign to encourage employers to hire a Syrian refugee. There are concerns that this may be difficult in places with already high unemployment.
READ MORE: As Canada welcomes Syrians, other refugees still lack health care
Health clinics are bracing for the arrival of many new patients, some with complex health requirements that are part of the reason they've been selected for resettlement to Canada. As permanent residents, the Syrians will be entitled to a range of health-care coverage from medication to mental-health services. Mental health in particular is a matter of concern – many people have escaped traumatic situations that they are still grappling with.
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John Sopko's war: The watchdog of waste
History will note that Afghanistan was the longest, and one of the most expensive, wars in modern history. Also, arguably, one of the most futile, since the Taliban seems fully intact and the Islamic State group are making important inroads, now that the West has handed the fight over to the Afghan military.
Fourteen years of fighting, thousands of military casualties, civilian deaths higher than ever this year, and possibly as much as $1 trillion spent. The numbers are staggeringly depressing.
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And then you meet John Sopko, and the news gets even more surreal. Sopko is the watchdog of Afghanistan "rebuilding." His full title is U.S. Special Inspector General of Afghanistan Reconstruction, and his job is to make sense of the numbers, and report on waste, incompetence and corruption.
Here are some of the things that keep Sopko awake nights:
The United States sent 16 military transport planes worth $390 million to Kabul where they sat on the tarmac for more than a year, before they were torn apart for scrap metal, and sold for six cents a pound, or $32,000. The reason: The Afghans had no use for them.A $43-million natural gas filling station was built in the country's far north. It was never used because there was no demand for the fuel.The Marine Corps built a $36-million warehouse that never warehoused anything.The U.S. spent $8.4 billion on counter-narcotics programs in Afghanistan over the years, yet there are today a half million acres of opium fields under production.
The stories of epic waste multiply. So who's being held to account?
"I dare you to find anybody who's been fired in Afghanistan for losing the taxpayers millions of dollars," Sopko told correspondent Mellissa Fung, as she was researching a story for 16×9.
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Canada spent more than $18 billion on its combat mission in Afghanistan, and another $2 billion or so in development projects—much of that on schools, health centres and women's programs. But we have no independent auditor, such as Sopko, for those projects so it's not known how we stand in the waste index.
However, there have been some questions raised about the claims made for new schools and school attendance in Afghanistan. As Sopko tells it, Afghanistan's president , its CEO, the minister of education, parliamentarians and others have all talked about so-called "ghost students, ghost schools, ghost clinics even." With all this Western money sloshing about, there's a good chance somebody has been cooking the books.
"The Afghans know about the ghost workers or ghost students or whatever," Sopko said. "The Afghans see the bridges that fall down. They see the clinics in which there are no doctors. The Afghans know what's going on."
READ MORE: Losing Afghanistan: Kabul Diary
Sopko, who reports to the U.S. Congress, is carefully vague on the question of where incompetence ends and corruption begins. He allows his listeners to draw their own conclusions. But what he does say is that the Western coalition has built in Afghanistan an economy that Afghans simply cannot afford.
"We never really thought about sustainability," he says. "This is the cruelest joke played on the Afghans. You give them a building or a clinic or a road or a highway or a program that they don't have the money or technical capabilities or political will to actually finish or sustain."
Or the ability to protect. When the Taliban swept into the provincial capital of Kunduz in late September, they routed Afghan army units and destroyed schools, clinics and other infrastructure built with Western money. With a resurgent Taliban sweeping through the country, what does this mean for the future of schools and other reconstruction projects in Afghanistan, Sopko asks? The prospects are not good.
It's something that countries like Canada and the U.S. need to consider carefully when thinking about foreign policy objectives, he says, because Afghanistan is "a little petri dish of reconstruction for the future."
Sopko has one more story that illustrates the folly of reconstruction during an active shooting war: the Kajaki Dam in southern Afghanistan. He calls it "the longest public works project in the history of the world"— begun in 1950 and meant to provide power to the important city of Kandahar.
"Now here's the dirty little secret about Kajaki," he says, "Even after we finish it, we still gotta get the power from the dam to the city. That goes through the terrorist [Taliban] controlled territory. Up until now, the only reason they're not blowing up pylons is because the insurgency gets part of their electricity from it."
It's a story only Kafka could have imagined: A hydroelectric project, financed by Western money, that is only sustained because the enemy draws power from it. That, in a nutshell, is the absurdity of Afghanistan.
16×9's "Losing Afghanistan" airs Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015 at 7pm.
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Ford, Volkswagen to unveil new electric models in 2016
DEARBORN, Mich. – Ford Motor Co. says it will introduce 13 new electrified vehicles worldwide by 2020, including an updated Focus sedan that will go on sale late next year.
The new Focus will have fast-charging capability and an estimated 100-mile range, up from 76 miles in the current electric Focus.
Ford also plans to introduce the Mondeo hybrid sedan and the C-Max Energi plug-in hybrid in China next year.
Ford currently sells electric, hybrid and plug-in hybrid versions of its Focus, Fusion, C-Max and Lincoln MKZ sedans. Ford CEO Mark Fields says the company wants 40 per cent of its global offerings to come in electric versions by 2020, up from 13 per cent now.
Ford says it will spend an additional $4.5 billion to meet its electrification goals by 2020.
Meanwhile, Volkswagen is also set to unveil an all-electric concept car at the Consumer Electronic Show in January.
According to a press release from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), the electric vehicle will be unveiled January 5 when Volkswagen passenger cars CEO Herbert Diess delivers a keynote speech focused on how electric vehicles are driving the automotive business.
The concept car is said to "illustrate the synergy between the Internet of Things and the automotive industry."
Focusing on electric might be a good PR move for VW – the company is still reeling from the fallout of cheating on U.S. emissions tests.
In September, the company admitted it had installed software designed to defeat tests for nitrogen oxide emissions for four-cylinder diesel engines on 11 million cars worldwide, including almost 500,000 in the U.S. It has already set aside 6.7 billion euros ($7.4 billion) to cover the costs of recalling those vehicles – and analysts expect the emissions scandal to cost the company much more than that.
Here's how much an electric car will cost you in Canada:
The BMW i3, which has a range of 130-160 km per charge, starts at CAD$45,300.
The Ford Focus Electric, which has a range of 122 km per charge, starts at CAD$31,249.
The Nissan LEAF, which has a range of 135 km per charge, starts at CAD$31,998.
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The Smart fortwo electric drive, which has a range of 426 km per charge, starts at CAD$102,620.
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The Chevrolet Spark, which has a range of 131 km per charge, will be available in 2016.
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The Mitsubishi i-MiEV, which has a range of 155 km per charge, starts at CAD$27,998.
The Smart fortwo electric drive, which has a range of 110 km per charge, starts at CAD$27,280.
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The Kia Soul, which has a range of 150 km per charge, starts at CAD$34,995.
– With files from Global News
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Willow Smith releases surprise album, 'Ardipithecus'
Fresh on the heels of her brother Jaden Smith announcing that he's coming out with a book of philosophical essays, Willow Smith has released a surprise music album entitled "Ardipithecus."
The first single, "F Q-C #8," (pronounced "frequency") is a moody, sparse song, difficult to define in any specific genre.
Willow is credited as the sole songwriter on 14 of the 15 tracks, and sole producer on 10 of them. Willow's older brother Trey Smith (Will Smith's first-born son) also had a hand in the creation of three tracks on the album.
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In an email to The Fader, Willow explained the title of her album, as well as her intentions with her new music:
"Ardipithecus Ramidus is the scientific name of the first hominid bones found on earth. I wanted to name my musical compilation after it because, while I was making these songs I was in such a transitional state. Digging deep in the soil of my heart and finding bits and pieces of my ancient self that tell stories, which end up being the lyrics to the songs. 'Ardipithecus' is my first album in my entire career and it makes me feel so blessed to be able to share my evolution with the LightEaters as I continue excavating my inner worlds…"
"I have an ongoing list of 'F Q-C' songs," she continued. "These songs were created through characters I have developed within my mind."
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It sounds like there's more to come from the 15-year-old. She's come a long way since "Whip My Hair."
Take a listen to the first single (and watch the video), "F Q-C #8," above.
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Q: SignalR and sql dependency only on insert I use signalR and SQL Dependency for real time notification in asp.net mvc 5.2
I implement SignalR from this link
http://venkatbaggu.com/signalr-database-update-notifications-asp-net-mvc-usiing-sql-dependency/

no I have one problem , in this scenario on any change on table , SQL dependency run and return record,I want just on insert in table SQL dependency fired and return record,
because in this table I update a bit filed for read notification on user read notification in panel, when I update the filed SQL dependency fired,
how I can defined SQL dependency just for insert in table?
thank you for your help
i use this code
 public IEnumerable<Messages> GetAllMessages()
        {
            var messages = new List<Messages>();
            using (var connection = new SqlConnection(_connString))
            {
                connection.Open();
                using (var command = new SqlCommand(@"SELECT [Id],[Player_Id], [Message] FROM [dbo].[Notification] WHERE [Player_Id] = " + PlayerLogin.userId + " AND PlayerIsRed = 0", connection))
                {
                    command.Notification = null;

                    var dependency = new SqlDependency(command);
                    dependency.OnChange += new OnChangeEventHandler(dependency_OnChange);

                    if (connection.State == ConnectionState.Closed)
                        connection.Open();

                    var reader = command.ExecuteReader();

                    while (reader.Read())
                    {
                        messages.Add(item: new Messages { Id = (int)reader["Id"], Message = (string)reader["Message"], Player_Id = (int)reader["Player_Id"] });
                    }
                }

            }
            return messages;
        }

A: You can use your SqlDependency function something like that:-
     void sqlDep_OnChange(object sender, SqlNotificationEventArgs e)
            {
                if (e.Type == SqlNotificationType.Change && e.Info==SqlNotificationInfo.Insert)
                {
                    // your code
                }
            }

A: You cannot directly limit the type of data changes that SqlDependency notifies about. The filter suggested by Sunil will work, but there is another work around to only getting notified of inserts: triggers.
You could put an insert trigger on the table you want notified about, and have the trigger insert a record on another table, such as PlayerNotification, and then point your SqlDependency query to PlayerNotification.
CREATE TRIGGER [dbo].[NotificationTrigger] ON [dbo].[Notification]
FOR INSERT
AS
BEGIN
    INSERT INTO
        [dbo].[PlayerNotification] (
              [Id], [Player_Id], [Message] )
    SELECT DISTINCT
          [Id], [Player_Id], [Message]
    FROM
        Inserted i
END

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ReplayTV to debut "ultra" DVR
Oregon - Less than nine months after pulling out of the consumer market, digital video recording (DVR) company ReplayTV is planning a major comeback with a revolutionary new product reports Reuters.
ReplayTV is planning a post-Labor Day introduction of a souped-up DVR that could store as much as 320 hours of TV programming and send programs by email to other DVRs. It may also allow users to copy photo files from a PC to the DVR.
The Oregon-based company may once again fuel controversy among advertisers with a function that automatically eliminates commercials during the recording of programs. The previous version of ReplayTV included a button enabling viewers to fast forward through commercials 30 seconds at a time, sparking angry reactions from networks and their advertisers.
According to Replay, which was sold to digital audio device company Sonicblue in February for $120 million, no final decisions have been made about the components of the new product. Company is providing demos to media outlets under embargo and preparing to do the same with investors, including many TV networks and entertainment companies, once plans are finalized.
News of the new product was revealed by Replay in a recent email survey to visitors to the ReplayTV.com Web site. Recipients of the email survey were asked not to forward the message.
Survey describes in detail the new product and asks respondents how much they would be willing to pay for it. Pricing proposals in the survey range from a model with 40 hours of storage capacity that could retail for $699 to a 320-hour model that might sell for $1,999.
Current DVRs from Replay, TiVo, Microsoft and EchoStar that store from nine to 60 hours of programming range in price from $200-$900 and offer various options such as built-in satellite receivers and Internet connections. There are fewer than a half-million DVR devices in consumer homes.
According to the email survey, the product could work with a standard dial-up phone modem for a monthly fee of $4.95 or a broadband Internet connection using an Ethernet home network at no monthly charge. The broadband connection is required for sending TV programs by email.
Last December Replay announced that it was pulling its planned public stock offering and withdrawing from the consumer electronics market in favor of licensing its technology to cable, satellite and Internet companies to use as a component in other devices. A source at Replay said that under Sonicblue, Replay is returning to its original consumer electronics product strategy while continuing to license the technology.
Many major media companies invested in Replay in 1999 and 2000, including News Corp., Time Warner, the Walt Disney Co., NBC, Showtime Networks and what was then Universal's parent, Seagram. Other entertainment company investors in Replay include Sega Enterprises, Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures, satellite broadcaster EchoStar Communications, Tribune, Liberty Media Group and cablers Adelphia Communications, Shaw Communications, Rogers Communications and Comcast.
Also investing in Replay were high-speed cable modem service Excite+Home and consumer electronics and set-top box manufacturers Scientific-Atlanta, Matsushita's Panasonic brand, Sharp Electronics and Matsushita Kotobuki Electronics Industries.
Network execs didn't want to talk on the record about Replay's plans until they're officially announced. But privately, most seemed unconcerned about the company's latest advances -- for now.
For example, some officials believe the networks will be able to outwit Replay's anti-commercial device.
``There is no scheme to differentiate between programs and commercials that is not defeatable,'' one senior network exec said.
While Replay has not spelled out to network honchos how it plans to zap commercials, network types believe the company will likely try to have its machine read certain codes networks currently embed in signals that indicate a commercial break is coming up. If that's the case, ``As soon as (Replay introduces its machine), we would stop doing that,'' an exec said.
As for the emailing of programs, execs aren't sure whether such an action would be different from a consumer sending a videotape to a friend.
``It's one thing to pass along a video. It's something else to let one person pass along a program to hundreds of people at once,'' a network insider said. ``That could be a violation of our copyright.''
Webheads point to Replay's past business failures and the relatively slow penetration rate of digital recorders as a reason for their current lack of concern.
``Everyone said the VCR would kill network TV,'' one exec said. ``I don't think people are shivering over this.''


Full day is dedicated for vists and explore local and traditional handcrafts; olive oils, clothes as well as drive through the mountain range of Djurdjura 2300m from sea level. Traditional Lunch at locals.
Dinner and stay at your hotel.
We finish our stays among the kabyles to head back to Algiers.lunch at local restaurant.
And afternoon free at leisure.
Dinner and stay at you hotel.
Again back to the history and roman ruins this Full-day is Excursion to the most beautifully situated ancient Roman city of Tipaza, located between the Mountains and the sea. And depending on time we may also drive you to Cherchell for more Roman ruins and history to finish you journey.
After breakfast, departure to airport for your flight.


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The Maker Movement to be Featured on White House Hangout Tomorrow
March 27, 2013, 11:53 am PDT
President Barack Obama gets down on his hands and knees as he looks at the inner workings of a robot that plays soccer, built by a team from Blue Bell, Pa., as he tours science projects on display in the State Dining Room of the White House. President Obama hosted the White House Science Fair for winners of a broad range of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) competitions. October 18, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
The maker movement will be the subject of a special Google+ Hangout on Air tomorrow, March 28, at noon PST/3pm EST. The hangout will be hosted by White House innovation advisor Tom Kalil and guests will include Dale Dougherty, founder and publisher of MAKE, Tara Tiger Brown of the Los Angeles Makerspace, Super Awesome Sylvia, Saul Griffith, co-founder of Otherlab; and Venkatesh Prasad of Ford.
According to the White House, President Obama believes we need to give more young people the ability to become makers. At the launch of his Educate To Innovate campaign to improve STEM education the President said, "I want us all to think about new and creative ways to engage young people in science and engineering, whether it's science festivals, robotics competitions, fairs that encourage young people to create and build and invent—to be makers of things, not just consumers of things."
The maker movement can also promote innovation in manufacturing, one of President Obama's top priorities, the White House said.
During the hangout, Kalil and his guests will discuss the elements of an "all hands on deck" effort to promote making. The hangout is part of a series of White House conversations with administration officials.
Watch the hangout at WhiteHouse.gov or tune in to the White House's Google+ page or YouTube channel. You can also join the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #WHHangout.


if the Tank dies, it's the healers fault.
Something strange happened last night, Curator was pulled of me. I was not happy with smokee at that moment, but looking back, what happened is logical.
You see, I have been in this fight multiple times now, and because dps needs to kill the flares first, I could always steadily build up threat without going full. In the past that meant that the DPS couldn't actually fire a shot at Curator outside the last 6 seconds from Evocation. So thread was really never a problem. But as I said, last night, Curator was pulled of me, and looking back, I think the flares were killed that quickly that DPS was actually able to fire 1 or 2 shots at Curator between flares. So I am partly to blame for loosing aggro, and next time, I will tank him in my (uncrittable) SpellDamage-gear. And probably using One complete Mana-Injector/Kara-run.
There is off course no excuse, DPS should never draw aggro of the tank, period. Invisibility/Shatter/Feign Death/etc. should be used as often as possible (especially if we are going for Void Reaver). Do not wait until you get aggro, because then you are to late, just use it every time the CD is over.
But luckily your Tank gets aggro back in time, by charging the mob...charging??? where is that in my spellbook??? I am a tankadin, I generate aggro, because I am being hit (reflective damage). That's why I generate a high TPS on fast-hitting mobs (Romeo/Prince). But if the Mob is not hitting me... no TPS. I also have a strange 'Taunt'. It has a 30-yard range, but it has a CD of 15 seconds, and it actually targets the player instead of the mob, pulling up to three mobs from target player.


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All hail Jacob Zuma! In the war on corruption, the man from Nkandla has won
Breaking the institutions was the first step. The second step was to hijack the concepts of legality to pull the wool over citizens' eyes.
Give the man a Bell's. Or rather, because he doesn't touch alcohol, give him his beloved orange juice. Cheers to former president Jacob Zuma. He has won. Zuma and his many supporters in the ANC leadership and elsewhere have won the battle he has waged for more than 15 years to make corruption unpunishable in SA.
In fact, they have won two great victories. The first victory has been to render the institutions that are supposed to bring the corrupt to justice totally useless. On Thursday, prosecutions boss Shamila Batohi admitted, for the second time in a week, that "there's very few [in the National Prosecuting Authority] that have these skills to investigate very complex corruption matters".
The second victory has been to hijack and subvert the language of the law to suit themselves and their cronies. The "radical economic transformation" crew now use the words "innocent until proven guilty" to game the law, to clothe themselves in the coats of innocence and victimhood, while they continue with their looting.
Let me explain. The ANC recently announced that it had decided to reinstate two Limpopo officials implicated in the VBS Mutual Bank heist. The party's deputy chairperson in the province, Florence Radzilani, and provincial treasurer Danny Msiza are back in their jobs despite being directly implicated in the illegal deposit of municipal funds with the bank, in direct contravention of the law. Radzilani – the former mayor of the Vhembe municipality – is named in WhatsApp messages as having asked for a bigger bribe than what she had allegedly received (R300,000 as a "Christmas" gift) from the bank's directors.
Now, two crimes were committed here. First, the Municipal Finance Management Act is clear that depositing money with a mutual bank is unlawful. The ANC does not need a court of law to tell it this. All ANC officials who participated in this illegal act should have been fired by now. Not a single one has.
In announcing the decision to reinstate the two, ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule said: "These comrades have not been charged by anybody in terms of the allegations, they were mentioned in reports like many comrades were mentioned in reports. You can't charge people because of allegations."
Did money from the Vhembe municipality make its way into VBS accounts? Yes. Who is responsible for a breach of a law that every single municipal politician and manager knows? Radzilani and other ANC municipal deployees. You don't have to wait for the courts to reach this conclusion. What happened to lawful and ethical conduct?
The crime is not confined to Vhembe, Radzilani and Msiza. It is national. According to the Hawks, 20 municipalities deposited nearly R3.5bn with VBS. It's all gone down the drain. One would think the ANC would be outraged at this. Instead, it is using – conveniently – the "innocent until proven guilty" card.
This card has worked for Zuma. He has used it consistently since 2003. Despite losing numerous times, he is still trying every legal tactic in the book to not face a judge.
That is not his main gambit, though. Zuma knows that no one can prove him guilty. The reason for that is simple. There is no institution to investigate the cases against him properly and take them through an arduous court process. He broke these institutions. Remember that it was the ANC that came back from the Zuma victory in Polokwane in December 2007 and immediately disbanded the Scorpions in one of the swiftest actions the party has ever taken. In just three months the ANC's parliamentarians had succeeded in destroying the crime-fighting unit.
That is why, last week, Batohi said: "We are now short in trying to rebuild this country. If we don't address these serious capacity issues in key agencies like the DPCI [Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, better known as the Hawks], we are not going to win this battle."
Breaking the institutions was the first step. The second step was to then hijack the concepts of legality to pull the wool over citizens' eyes. After all, who is against the principle "innocent until proven guilty"? If we did not have this principle SA would be a jungle. It would be a country of lynching and shootings, of mob justice, of no rule of law. So we are all for "innocent until proven guilty", right?
But what does it mean when there is no chance ever of proving any connected person's guilt? Those who are accused then sit and enjoy their loot while the cases against them disappear and die while they shout that they are "innocent until proven guilty". It's neat.
The point was exquisitely made by constitutional law scholar Prof Pierre de Vos back in 2006, when he wrote: "I have long thought that the use of the 'innocent until proven guilty' argument is a complete perversion of the constitution. On one level, yes, Mr Zuma has not been convicted of any crime and he is thus not a criminal … Mr Zuma is innocent until proven guilty and this means he cannot be put in jail.
"But this does not mean that the rest of us must suspend all our faculties and pretend we have no opinion and no common sense view about Jacob Zuma and thus cannot make any moral or political judgment about a man whose friend and financial adviser has just been sentenced by a second court to 15 years in prison because of his … relationship with Zuma. That is really a perversion of the notion of innocent until proven guilty, trying to export the principle (now becoming a slogan) from the legal arena where it is [a] fundamentally important principle, into the political and ethical arena."
Zuma has won. And the ANC he has so effectively hijacked now illustrates – with the decision on the Limpopo officials and others – that it knows he has won. Not even the ANC's current president can stop the party's runaway corruption.
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67% of you are okay with this whole Disney/Star Wars thing.
The poll results from November are in!
I wasn't at all surprised to see the majority of you guys are on the Disney Star Wars bandwagon, the general consensus being that Disney cannot possibly screw things up more than George Lucas already has. You see that look on his face above? That is not the look of man who's confident about this creative decisions.
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Cruise Britain needed a new website and put the project out to tender. iprogress pitched for the project and were successful in winning the contract.
The website needed to accommodate major cruise ship ports across Britain in a unique and user friendly way. To achieve this iprogress developed a website using the WordPress open source content management system. A bespoke responsive theme was designed and developed to meet the requirements.
The site needed to include an interactive map that clearly displayed all the cruise ports across Britain. To achieve this we used the Google Maps API and created a system where the website administrator could add points to the map and associate them with a port.
Each port and service provider would have its own page on the site which detailed important information such as contact details, location, facilities and capacity for cruise vessels.
The site is responsive and works across multiple platforms such as smart phones and tablets.
Since the launch of the website iprogress have continued to support and develop Cruise Britain. This included a new port distance calculator which allows users to find the distance between two ports in nautical miles. We created a table in a database that could be used as a lookup. We then wired in a simple form with 2 selects allowing the user to select a starting point and a destination.
Cruise Britain also required email marketing to inform members of upcoming conferences and news events. We simply created a way of creating the emails and wired this into the website so that they could be created and previewed before sending. We were also asked to design and print Gatefold brochures for conferences to help promote CruiseBritain and the website.
CruiseBritain is delighted with the new website designed and developed for us by iprogress. The interpretation of the brief was excellent and the team at iprogress worked with us to identify key areas and advise on good practice. They were also endlessly patient in explaining technical things to the non-technical person! Our new online presence provides an excellent profile for Britain as a cruise destination and for all our members.
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To get the best from this recipe you need to slash the lamb shanks a few times to allow the spices to penetrate.
Like all lamb shanks meals this one needs a long cooking time to tenderise the meat.
1. Blend together the ginger, garlic and the 4 tablespoons of water.
2. Put the inner pot on a medium heat and add 4 tablespoons of vegetable oil.
3. Add the lamb shanks and brown all over 2 at a time. Then put them to one side while you prepare the sauce to cook them in.
4. Put the cardamom, bay leaves, cloves, peppercorn and cinnamon in the inner pot and stir for 30 seconds.
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8. Slowly add the rest of the yogurt and the tin of tomatoes stirring as it is added. Cook for 3 minutes.
9. Place the shanks into the sauce making sure that they are cover. If the sauce does not cover them add a little water.


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Basque Country obtains €1.7M from the EU for two urban regeneration pilots
These pilot models of urban regeneration are expected to be replicated first in a fortnight of Basque municipalities and later in other parts of Europe
The European Commission will provide 1.7 million euros for the Opengela project, a new project funded under the Horizon 2020 Innovation and Research Programme in which ZABALA participates as a partner for two urban regeneration pilots.
Opengela is a project that will create an office in Otxarkoaga (Bilbao) and Txonta (Éibar), which will act as a one-stop shop. It will attend to the neighbourhood throughout the process of refurbishment of the buildings: from paperwork to the relationship with guilds in the works or to apply for financial aid. This model is expected to be replicated first in fifteen Basque municipalities and later in other parts of Europe.
The final objective of the project is to propitiate an integral rehabilitation of the buildings in the oldest neighbourhoods or those with the greatest needs in the Basque Country, as well as greater energy efficiency, with universal accessibility and the incorporation of minimum fire protection and safety systems. All of this has a social dimension, that is, "focusing on people and neighbourhoods, making them part of the process", explains Ignacio de la Puerta, director of Territorial Planning, Urban Planning and Urban Regeneration of the Department of the Environment, Territorial Planning and Housing of the Basque Government, which is leading the project.
Opengela has received funding from the Horizon 2020 programme for the next three years, a budget that covers 100% of the total cost.
Urban regeneration of 500 homes in Otxarkoaga and Txonta
In Otxarkoaga, action will be taken on five buildings that add up to 16 portals with a total of 240 dwellings. The office that will house the one-stop shop will be installed in the former BBK kindergarten. From there, other actions will also be undertaken, such as the remodelling of the old shopping centre and the launch of entrepreneurial initiatives in premises that are now empty.
In the district of Txonta, in Éibar, the rehabilitation of the old buildings with criteria of energy efficiency and accessibility is also planned. The pilot project will begin with the rehabilitation of 221 houses with 17 portals. It tries to give priority to the participation of the people living in the neighbourhood.
In order to carry out these pilot experiences for the Department of the Environment, Territorial Planning and Housing of the Basque Government, it is accompanied by eight other partners: the local planning societies of the two municipalities (Viviendas Municipales de Bilbao and the Guipuzcoa Debegesa), as well as the Ente Vasco de la Energía (EVE), three consultancy firms specialising in financing (GNE Finance), European affairs (ZABALA) and communication (Gabineteseis), and also two European organisations based in Brussels: the Federation of Agencies and Regions for Energy and the Environment (Fedarene) and the European Federation of Public, Cooperative and Social Housing (Housing Europe).
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HomeMilitary AviationF-16 Carried Out "Show Of Force" Over Hasakah As ISIS Members Tried To Escape From Syrian Prison
F-16 Carried Out "Show Of Force" Over Hasakah As ISIS Members Tried To Escape From Syrian Prison
March 31, 2020 Military Aviation, Syria, Troubled Areas
A composite image showing the "show of force". (Image courtesy of @obretix).
A fast and low flyby is a way flex muscles and intimidate those on the ground.
An interesting new clip has emerged from Syria: it shows an F-16 Fighting Falcon (or "Viper", as the type is dubbed in the fighter pilots community), almost certainly a U.S. one, carrying out a low and fast pass over the northeastern city of Hasakah, where several Islamic State militants had tried to escape from a Syrian prison during what has been called a "detention facility uprising".
The prison is run by the US-backed Kurdish Syrian Forces (SDF) that said the riot was quelled by Monday Mar. 30 night, more than 24 hours after prisoners inside smashed doors, broke down walls and took over at least one wing of the prison.
Berxwedan jiyane :D pic.twitter.com/x7jMqgossj
— Ernesto Dep☀ (@zagros8880) March 30, 2020
The video has been geolocated: although the Central Prison is 2 km to the northwest of the place where the video was shot, according to some sources there's a detention facility in the school building visible in the video where foreign fighters were held.
geolocation of an F-16 flying low level over Hasaka https://t.co/tkB2PaocL1 pic.twitter.com/UbPuWBI48t
— Samir (@obretix) March 30, 2020
Another image taken from another location shows the F-16 releasing flares to counter possible MANPADS (Man Portable Air Defense Systems) IR-guided missiles: this is not a real sign of existing threats detected in the area, as combat aircraft flying inside contested airspace or inside the envelope of shoulder-fired missiles may precautionally release countermeasures
#USA aircraft flying low over the industrial prison in #Hasakah. Local sources say that the #YPG #PKK are still trying to storm the prison and the situation is still not under control. What a memorable scene, PKK cannot control or storm a prison without intense air support.😂🤟 https://t.co/JsRS1wtJvp pic.twitter.com/a7NoI8iokH
— Adam Hasakah (@AdamhasakahAdam) March 30, 2020
Although many consider the low and fast flyby a "show of force" (SOF) is worth remembering that this should be considered a "show of presence" (SOP): the first usually implies the use of weapons or warning gun shots (not directly on the target but in its vicinity), the second is normally carried out to scare someone off with noise. But it's not a rule:
"For sure, what we can say is that a SOF is called when there is the need for borderline "kinematic" missions that may include release of flares or even warning shots," says our contributor and combat pilot Alex "Gonzo" Olivares, who's flown the Tornado in combat. "During a reconnaissance mission over Afghanistan, I was called to carry out an immediate SOP / SOF in favor of some ground troops that were under attack. On that occasion the purpose was to show the insurgents that the troops could have had the support of the air component so we released flares and also used the afterburner."
"Dealing with SOF/SOP what I can say is that the doctrine is very broad and the way these are performed depend very heavily on the rules of engagement (ROE) of the coalition but also and above all on the scenario: for example the tactics may change if the flyby has to take place as part of a crisis scenario or during peacetime ops. In addition, a Show Of Force is usually ordered to bolster and reassure friendly forces. Moreover these flybys are military in nature but often serve both diplomatic and military purposes: they may even influence other governments or political-military organizations to refrain from belligerent acts."
Whatever, the purpose is to disperse or intimidate the enemy. These shows are usually carried out by one aircraft, with the other one providing air cover and armed overwatch. The presence of a wingman is important as his/her role is to spot potential threats (for instance the plume of a SAM – Surface to Air Missile) and radio instructions so that the other aircraft, flying low, within the envelope of SAMs, MANPADS and small arms, can visually detect them, release flares and avoid the incoming missile or flak (anti-aircraft fire).
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In an uncharacteristic media release by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. EC-130H Compass Call electronic warfare aircraft have been reported as active in support of anti-ISIL operations in Iraq. The EC-130H Compass Call is a […]
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492nd FS Deployment Video Shows F-15E Strike Eagle Flying Low Over strategic U.S. military outpost in Syria
The 492nd FS OIR (Operation Inherent Resolve) 2020 video includes an interesting low pass over al-Tanf garrison in Syria. In October 2020, the 492nd Fighter Squadron "Bolars", belonging to the 48th FW based at RAF […]


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Q: Alternatives to WinForms app data storage - many problems with SqlCE I am struggling to make a SqlCE local database to work in my winforms project.
I`m used to work with web app, this is my first desktop app, and after understand a lot of tricks like when you insert data in your local database while debugging, the data goes to a magic database inside bin/debug folder - that I would never wonder by myself - and from yesterday to now, I launch my project again, and guess what the new trick? The database got lost ¬¬ !!
Suddenly my project can't recognize its own path to the database and it throws me an error: "The path is not from a legal form", I SWEAR I didn't move the mouse from yesterday when it was working from now.
Anyway, SqlCE gave me a lot of headaches already, I'm doing this project as a favor to a bookstore inside a charity house and I'd like this project gets only one weekend - it already didn't.
So, as I don`t have a big amount of data to store, what would be the alternatives to store this data without a .sdf file?

A: If you want to stay with SQL I would recommend SQLite. Small, lightweight and results are placed in a single file.
http://sqlite.org/