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The 1907 New York Kindergarten Assoc. No. 522 W. 42nd Street
photo by Alice Lum
The New York City Board of Education, formed in 1853, took its responsibility for educating the city's children seriously. What it did not take seriously, however, was the newly-emerging concept of kindergarten.
In his home country of German, educator Friedrich Froebel had seen that children as young as four or five received enormous benefit from organized classes. By exercising and learning basic colors and shapes and social behavior at this early age, they adjusted and performed better in primary school. The private schools, begun in the 1850s under Froebel's lead, were nearly all conducted in German for German immigrants; and were quaintly called "the children's' garden."
Robert Watson Gilder took up the cause in New York City, helping to organize the New York Kindergarten Association on November 22, 1889. Frustrated with the school officials' opposition to kindergarten, he made his opinions clear to a reporter from The Critic.
"The kindergarten method of instruction, he said, is no longer an experiment, but a practical and established success. "Why was it, then, that in the list of fifty cities of the United States that have a least one kindergarten in connection with their system of public instruction, the name of New York did not appear?"
Gilder promoted the Association saying "Plant a free kindergarten in any quarter of this overcrowded metropolis, and you have begun then and there the work of making better lives, better homes, better citizens, and a better city."
The first kindergarten was opened at No. 351 East 53rd Street on March 10, 1890 with a second opening on October 27 at 63rd Street and First Avenue. The New York Kindergarten Association operated solely on contributions and the first year received $2,334.60 in donations. The Association's Secretary, Daniel S. Remsen noted in his first annual report that "nearly three-quarters of New York's population live in the tenement houses, and when we realize the depth of hardship and demoralization this implies, it will be readily appreciated that the work of saving and educating the children is more important than anything else; for the child will be a man by and by, and experience has proved that unless trained in early life he may be a useless, and even a dangerous, element in society."
Bessie Locke was an aggressive member of the Association, becoming its financial secretary in 1896. She was a brilliant organizer and fund-raiser, unafraid to approach the most intimidating and wealthiest industry titans. One of these would be John D. Archbold, President of Standard Oil of New Jersey.
Archbold was the second most important man in the oil industry after John D. Rockefeller. He generously contributed to public institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of National History, as well as holding a directorship in the St. Christopher's Home and Orphanage. But personal tragedy would change his life and the fate of the New York Kindergarten Association.
On Valentine's Day 1899 the oilman's daughter Frances Dana Archbold was married in St. Bartholomew's Church to Frederick C. Walcott. It was a significant social event, followed by a large reception at the Archbold mansion at No. 20 East 37th Street. The New York Times reported the following day "Mr. and Mrs. Walcott expect to sail on Saturday for Europe."
Four months later the same newspaper published her obituary. The young bride died "in Yokohama, Japan, while on her wedding trip," said The Times.
While the Archbold family was grieving, the New York Kindergarten Association continued to grow. By January 1901 it was supporting 19 kindergartens with an annual expense of $30,000. On December 9 of that year The New York Tribune pleaded the Association's case.
"It touches life at its sources, creates the atmosphere of the home while it does the work of the school, and prevents the appalling moral waste of neglected childhood…Its work ought to be doubled; it is ready to multiply its facilities and extend its service indefinitely."
Between 1901 and 1902 John D. Archbold gave the Association $40,000 to maintain a kindergarten serving 50 children at No. 244 Spring Street, renamed the Frances Dana Walcott Kindergarten. But what was desperately needed was an up-to-date, concentrated headquarters building.
When Bessie Locke approached John D. Archbold in 1905, he agreed to donate a new building in memory of his daughter. On November 5 it was announced that "a substantial fireproof building would be erected to serve as headquarters of the association work."
The five-story Folsom Brothers stables at Nos. 522-524 West 42nd Street in the impoverished and sometimes dangerous Hell's Kitchen neighborhood was purchased as the site. By the time of the annual report the following year, construction had begun.
"The building now being erected for the association at No. 522 West Forty-second street, by the generosity of Mr. John D. Archbold, is a striking evidence of the hold which this work of education among little children and in their homes has taken upon the minds of far-seeing men of affairs. ..It will provide for two and probably three model kindergartens." The planned building included a two-story assembly hall and the integrated headquarters would make explaining the work of the association to potential donors much easier.
"All the work of the association will be under its roof; every visitor will have a chance to see in one place what the kindergarten does, why it does it, and how it does it, while an attractive assembly room will make it possible for the association to bring its friends together," said the report.
Designed by architect Walter Cook, the new headquarters was completed in November 1907. Clad in Flemish-bond red brick with limestone trim, it rose four floors above an ample basement behind a deep light moat. The Outlook said it "combines in an unusual degree solidity, beauty, and adaptation," and The School Journal praised it as "probably the most complete kindergarten building in the world."
Although the cornice has been sheared away and the red brick and limestone are covered in grime, the structure is largely unchanged -- photo by Alice Lum
On the first floor were offices, the assembly room and the "Mothers' Room." Here the parents would drop off their children and pick them up at the close of the day. On the second floor was a kindergarten of two rooms, the staff lunch room, and two rooms of one hundred staff lockers. Two kindergartens, including the Frances Dana Archbold Walcott Kindergarten, were housed on the top floor.
The School Journal noted, "Upon the roof is a garden, where, under the shade of leafy pergolas, the children may enjoy their milk and crackers provided at eleven o'clock."
The pergolas were, indeed, "leafy" when dedication ceremonies were performed on November 22, 1907. Walter Cook revealed afterward that he had had the ivy planted when the building was only about halfway completed "so as to get a good start."
Extra touches include Flemish-bond brickwork, carved limestone details and a handsome iron balcony railing -- photo by Alice Lum
The building at No. 522 West 42nd Street would be a hub of children's activity for decades. In 1911 the Kindergarten Association was experimenting with a new concept. Journalist Niola Greeley-Smith of The Evening World reported on November 29 that "the new idea in kindergartening is that of usefulness to mothers and children at the same time."
Mothers and sisters were invited to the kindergartens here "to help them celebrate the Harvest Festival." The 2,000 children who attended the 42nd Street building had spent weeks cutting out and coloring "miniature apples, pumpkins and ears of corn on which they wrote the invitations," the article said.
The Festival was another means that the Kindergarten Association involved the mothers with their association's efforts. By learning the school's methods the underprivileged women "are led to try some and cooperate with the kindergartner in her efforts to develop the children," reported Greeley-Smith.
Hefty limestone entrance posts and the cast iron fencing survive. The doorway was less fortunate. -- photo by Alice Lum
By the middle of the century, however, kindergarten had become part of the New York City school system structure. In 1951 the New York Kindergarten Association sold the building to investors Webb & Knapp, Inc.
The following year the New York Hotel Trades Council announced the purchase of No. 522 West 42nd Street. Following renovations, the Council and the Hotel Association Insurance Fund planned to occupy the building as union headquarters.
The endeavor was short-lived, however, and early in December 1954 the interdenominational New York Port Society dedicated the building as its new headquarters. Founded in 1818 "to promote religious living among seamen," it now also operated its Mariners Church here.
The former kindergarten building would be transformed again in 1988. That year the New York City Police Department took over the structure to become partial home to the Manhattan South Task Force. Today it sits grimy and somewhat abused, its cornice shorn off and its rooftop pergolas long discarded. But Cook's restrained design still survives in the ornate French railing of the second floor balcony, the handsome cast iron fencing and the monumental limestone entrance posts which, a century ago, saw the comings and goings of untold thousands of impoverished 3- to 6-year olds.
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neighbor January 1, 2017 at 9:06 AM
Images of the exterior of the building were used as the precinct that Maria Bello's character worked out of in the short-lived US version of the UK TV series "Prime Suspect" 2011-2012. As of 2015 it no longer houses the Manhattan South Task Force, instead it houses the NYPD's Strategic Response Group. The painted doors, which were a favorite for tourists to get their pictures taken in front of, are now blocked with movable metal barriers.
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Q: useRef() causes TS2322: Type 'number' is not assignable to type 'undefined' I am trying to use useEffect and useRef() to get the latest value of my counter as well as compare to the previous value so that I know if I need to call the addValues or removeValues function.
I followed the directions here I'm working with Typescript and when I set prevSubjectAddressCounterRef.current = subjectAddressCounter; I get the error TS2322: Type 'number' is not assignable to type 'undefined'.
How can I fix this error and ensure that when I update the count on the state that I am working with the latest value?
Please see the relevant code below.
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A: I believe you need to pass the initial value and define the type of the const because undefined is not equal to number, that's why is throwing the error Type 'number' is not assignable to type 'undefined'. I think it should look like this:
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Q: Why does my book say that "to wear a nice dress" is an error in this sentence?
Ritika decided to get up early (1)/ to wear a nice dress (2)/ and visit her aunt. (3)/ No Error (4).

What is the error in above sentence? My book says (2) is wrong, but I didn't understand.

A: I don't see anything grammatically wrong with the sentence. But there is a logic problem. When the word "to" is used in a construction like this, it means "for the purpose of" or "making possible". So the sentence is saying that Ritika got up early so that she would be able to wear a nice dress, or that she got up early because she wanted to wear a nice dress. It is difficult to see how getting up early is necessary to be able to wear a nice dress.
A better sentence would be, "Ritika decided to get up early and wear a nice dress to visit her aunt."


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Q: TL431 –parasitic capacitor I read this document from ON Semi, it said the optocoupler features a parasitic capacitor, does this Copto can find in the datasheet? I read the VO617A datasheet, but I don't find any capacitor value in the datasheet.

and I see the figure below.

There are my questions:
1.) Can I use this figure to get the parasitic capacitor value?
2.) I try to use this figure to calculate the capacitor value f=1/(2piRL*C), when the RL=100, the C=7.9nF, when the RL=1000, the C=2.65nF. Does that mean the parasitic capacitor is not a constant value?
3.) In the datasheet, the coupling capacitance is Copto?

A: You could try, indeed, to extract the parasitic capacitance from the frequency response you've shown. For instance, if you take a resistance \$R_L\$ close to the one in the controller, assume 10 kohms, then you read the graph from the -3-dB point and infer a cutoff frequency of 3.5 kHz which would roughly imply a capacitance of \$\approx \frac{1}{2\pi\cdot10k\cdot3.5k}=4.5\;nF\$
However, it is rare that the pull-up resistance used in the data-sheet matches what you'll have on the board. Actually, what matters is the equivalent resistance "seen" from the feedback pin and, very often, there is an additional internal divider in the chip. The best is thus to extract this capacitance as excerpted below from my APEC 2018 seminar:

You can use a network analyzer for doing so or a simple oscilloscope will do well as I explained in the seminar. The thing is to recreate the operating conditions of the opto with the selected controller. A dc source adjusts the bias to position the collector voltage at the same nominal level found in an operating board and you inject an ac modulation via the LED. The response observed on the collector will reduce in amplitude as frequency increases and you can determine the 3-dB cutoff frequency. When you have it, you can apply the above formula.
The coupling capacitance you mention, as its name implies, characterizes the parasitic capacitance between the primary and the secondary sides brought by the optocoupler.


FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) - A team of Colorado State University scientists and a syringe of her own stem cells helped Rio get her groove back.
"She saw the barrel, and it was Katy bar the door," said Linda Ghent of her 18-year-old mare's division-winning run earlier this month in the Mile Hi Barrel Horse Association's winter series finale in Castle Rock.
In August 2007, the door to racing had closed on Rio. The stoic animal had shown no gimpiness at all, but when Rio crashed into a barrel during a race in Craig, Ghent knew there was trouble.
Rio had torn the cartilage and connective tissue in her back-right stifle, which functions much like the human knee and is essential to the stops and turns demanded by the sport.
Such injuries are often career-enders for performance animals.
Rather than perform the usual surgery to remove the damage and then hope the scar tissue holds, CSU equine surgeon Laurie Goodrich took the problem to Dr. John Kisiday, a faculty member and bioengineer doing stem-cell research.
Bone marrow was harvested from Rio's sternum with a stout needle, distilled to the stem cells in Kisiday's lab, grown for two weeks in a petri dish and reinjected into the horse.
Rio could have been ready for the barrel course within a year of the treatment, but Ghent kept her out of the arena for two years.
During a checkup this week, Rio - short for Miss Re Olena - galloped with ease across a concrete floor at the CSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital breezeway, not seeming to mind as Goodrich twisted and bent her leg to check for swelling.
"This is cutting-edge stuff," said Ghent A short time later, Goodrich attended to another quarter horse. This one was out cold, flat on its back on a massive padded operating table.
Using a two-chamber needle similar to that used to mix epoxy - with stem cells on one side and a gluelike substance made from the horse's blood on the other - Goodrich delivered the slow but deliberate injection.
Rio was one of the first horses to undergo the treatment at CSU, but hundreds more horses and dogs have since recovered from joint, tendon, ligament and cartilage injuries that might have left them lame.
Success, Goodrich said, depends on the severity of the injury, and her goal is high: getting the animal back to the same level of performance as before.
The work led to a spinoff business for Kisiday. His company, Advanced Regenerative Therapies, collects injured animals' stem cells, grows them and ships them back to veterinarians across the U.S. and Canada.
Kisiday said the procedure for growing human stem cells is the same as techniques for growing animal ones. It is unrelated to the controversial use of embryonic stem cells for biomedical research.
Last year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it will take more study and licensing before the stem-cell treatment used at CSU can be used in humans. Until such work is done, animals are carrying the scientific weight.
The $2,400 treatment seems steep next to the $3,500 Ghent paid for Rio when the horse was 5. But a few years later, as Rio collected prize after prize, Ghent was offered $70,000 for the mare.
It was a small price, she said.
"I want her to run as long as she wants to," Ghent said. "And after that, she'll be a pasture ornament."


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Colorado coach Mike MacIntyre leaves the field after defeating Utah on Nov. 26 in Boulder, Colo. (Photo by Justin Edmonds/Getty Images)
Leadoff: National coach of year has degrees from both Tech, UGA
Tim Tucker, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Good morning. This is Leadoff, today's early buzz in Atlanta sports.
A man with ties to both the Georgia Tech and Georgia football programs has won two national coach-of-the-year awards this month.
Colorado coach Mike MacIntyre, winner of the Walter Camp coach-of-the-year and the Home Depot coach-of-the-year awards, lettered on Tech's football team as a free safety in 1987-88 and started his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Georgia in 1990-91.
The local connections made MacIntyre's visit to Atlanta for last week's College Football Awards show all the more special.
"Coming back and basically being across the street from where I graduated and played is really special," he said, "especially when I drove by (Bobby Dodd Stadium) and saw that. It did bring back a lot of memories and nostalgic-wise is pretty cool."
After graduating from Tech with a bachelor's degree in business management in 1989, MacIntyre was hired by Georgia coach Ray Goff as a graduate assistant.
"I still talk to Ray a couple of times a year," MacIntyre said. "I really appreciate him giving me an opportunity."
MacIntyre earned his master's degree in education from UGA with an emphasis on sports management in 1991.
From there, his career took him to numerous assistant-coaching positions at both the college and NFL levels and to head-coaching positions with San Jose State and, since 2013, Colorado.
MacIntyre this season led Colorado to a 10-3 record and an appearance in the Pac-12 Championship game, where the Buffaloes lost to No. 4-ranked Washington. Colorado had gone 10-27 in his first three seasons, but this year's turnaround didn't catch him by surprise.
"Our expectations really were to win the Pac-12 championship," he said in Atlanta. "Going into fall practice, I felt like we were going to have a good team. I even have it written on the 15th day of my practice notes that we've really got a good football team."
Word should come late this morning on whether commissioners in Collier County, Fla., will pursue negotiations with the Braves to build a $100 million spring-training stadium in a Naples development. Full story here.
Major League Soccer's expansion draft starts at 2 p.m. today. Click here for Doug Roberson's report on the options available for Atlanta United.
On the day after their embarrassing 42-14 home loss to the Falcons, the Los Angeles Rams fired coach Jeff Fisher. Full story here.
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GCredentials

GCredentials — An object containing credentials

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#include <gio/gio.h>

                    GCredentials;
enum                GCredentialsType;
GCredentials *      g_credentials_new                   (void);
gchar *             g_credentials_to_string             (GCredentials *credentials);
gpointer            g_credentials_get_native            (GCredentials *credentials,
                                                         GCredentialsType native_type);
void                g_credentials_set_native            (GCredentials *credentials,
                                                         GCredentialsType native_type,
                                                         gpointer native);
gboolean            g_credentials_is_same_user          (GCredentials *credentials,
                                                         GCredentials *other_credentials,
                                                         GError **error);
uid_t               g_credentials_get_unix_user         (GCredentials *credentials,
                                                         GError **error);
gboolean            g_credentials_set_unix_user         (GCredentials *credentials,
                                                         uid_t uid,
                                                         GError **error);

Object Hierarchy

  GObject
   +----GCredentials

Description

The GCredentials type is a reference-counted wrapper for native
credentials. This information is typically used for identifying,
authenticating and authorizing other processes.

Some operating systems supports looking up the credentials of the
remote peer of a communication endpoint - see e.g.
g_socket_get_credentials().

Some operating systems supports securely sending and receiving
credentials over a Unix Domain Socket, see
GUnixCredentialsMessage, g_unix_connection_send_credentials() and
g_unix_connection_receive_credentials() for details.

On Linux, the native credential type is a struct ucred
- see the
unix(7)
man page for details. This corresponds to
G_CREDENTIALS_TYPE_LINUX_UCRED.

On FreeBSD, the native credential type is a struct cmsgcred.
This corresponds to G_CREDENTIALS_TYPE_FREEBSD_CMSGCRED.

Details

GCredentials

typedef struct _GCredentials GCredentials;

The GCredentials structure contains only private data and
should only be accessed using the provided API.

Since 2.26

enum GCredentialsType

typedef enum
{
  G_CREDENTIALS_TYPE_INVALID,
  G_CREDENTIALS_TYPE_LINUX_UCRED,
  G_CREDENTIALS_TYPE_FREEBSD_CMSGCRED
} GCredentialsType;

Enumeration describing different kinds of native credential types.

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G_CREDENTIALS_TYPE_INVALID

Indicates an invalid native credential type.

G_CREDENTIALS_TYPE_LINUX_UCRED

The native credentials type is a struct ucred.

G_CREDENTIALS_TYPE_FREEBSD_CMSGCRED

The native credentials type is a struct cmsgcred.

Since 2.26

g_credentials_new ()

GCredentials *      g_credentials_new                   (void);

Creates a new GCredentials object with credentials matching the
the current process.

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Returns :

 A GCredentials. Free with g_object_unref().

Since 2.26

g_credentials_to_string ()

gchar *             g_credentials_to_string             (GCredentials *credentials);

Creates a human-readable textual representation of credentials
that can be used in logging and debug messages. The format of the
returned string may change in future GLib release.

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credentials :

A GCredentials object.

Returns :

 A string that should be freed with g_free().

Since 2.26

g_credentials_get_native ()

gpointer            g_credentials_get_native            (GCredentials *credentials,
                                                         GCredentialsType native_type);

Gets a pointer to native credentials of type native_type from
credentials.

It is a programming error (which will cause an warning to be
logged) to use this method if there is no GCredentials support for
the OS or if native_type isn't supported by the OS.

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credentials :

A GCredentials.

native_type :

The type of native credentials to get.

Returns :

 The pointer to native credentials or NULL if the
operation there is no GCredentials support for the OS or if
native_type isn't supported by the OS. Do not free the returned
data, it is owned by credentials.

Since 2.26

g_credentials_set_native ()

void                g_credentials_set_native            (GCredentials *credentials,
                                                         GCredentialsType native_type,
                                                         gpointer native);

Copies the native credentials of type native_type from native
into credentials.

It is a programming error (which will cause an warning to be
logged) to use this method if there is no GCredentials support for
the OS or if native_type isn't supported by the OS.

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credentials :

A GCredentials.

native_type :

The type of native credentials to set.

native :

A pointer to native credentials.

Since 2.26

g_credentials_is_same_user ()

gboolean            g_credentials_is_same_user          (GCredentials *credentials,
                                                         GCredentials *other_credentials,
                                                         GError **error);

Checks if credentials and other_credentials is the same user.

This operation can fail if GCredentials is not supported on the
the OS.

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credentials :

A GCredentials.

other_credentials :

A GCredentials.

error :

Return location for error or NULL.

Returns :

 TRUE if credentials and other_credentials has the same
user, FALSE otherwise or if error is set.

Since 2.26

g_credentials_get_unix_user ()

uid_t               g_credentials_get_unix_user         (GCredentials *credentials,
                                                         GError **error);

Tries to get the UNIX user identifier from credentials. This
method is only available on UNIX platforms.

This operation can fail if GCredentials is not supported on the
OS or if the native credentials type does not contain information
about the UNIX user.

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credentials :

A GCredentials

error :

Return location for error or NULL.

Returns :

 The UNIX user identifier or -1 if error is set.

Since 2.26

g_credentials_set_unix_user ()

gboolean            g_credentials_set_unix_user         (GCredentials *credentials,
                                                         uid_t uid,
                                                         GError **error);

Tries to set the UNIX user identifier on credentials. This method
is only available on UNIX platforms.

This operation can fail if GCredentials is not supported on the
OS or if the native credentials type does not contain information
about the UNIX user.

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credentials :

A GCredentials.

uid :

The UNIX user identifier to set.

error :

Return location for error or NULL.

Returns :

 TRUE if uid was set, FALSE if error is set.

Since 2.26

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Sustainable financial system: Agriculture sector holds the key
Published: September 20, 2016 18:09:06 | Updated: October 23, 2017 10:49:32
Responses by banks and non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) to the policy initiatives related to sustainable banking and finance are inspiring. Notable changes have taken place in terms of greater financial inclusion, higher access to finance, and increased geographical penetration in the last few years. According to the current available information, four in five households in Bangladesh have access to financial services mainly because of improvement in networks of banks and microfinance institutions as well as a booming mobile banking segment. In a major financial inclusion drive, banks have opened a large number of new accounts in the names of small farmers and other rural and urban people of small means at no charge, with nominal initial deposits as low as Taka 10. These accounts are being used by the account-holders for receipt of agricultural input subsidies, social safety net payments etc. besides its use as savings and payments medium. With a view to fostering savings habits and financial literacy among the young, banks have launched 'School Banking' initiatives in schools. So far, almost all scheduled banks have opened a large number of bank accounts for school students. This is basically a joint account between the student and the guardian. ATM cards are also issued for accounts. Banks are not expected to see school banking as a profit-making business. But they hope that many of these students would become their customers in future. It has been performing wonderfully in spreading financial literacy among students and youth. As a whole, the responses of all categories of banks are really inspiring. The Bangladesh Bank is also recognising the contribution of banks in this connection. To bring the unbanked people under the coverage of the formal financial sector, agent banking, an initiative of Bangladesh Bank, is contributing. Through agent banking, the formal banking sector is reaching out to the marginalised people of the society through their agents that provide several banking services to the people locally.
Most of the big organisations like BRAC, Grameen Bank and ASA have their outreach almost all over the country. Having targeted the poverty-stricken segment of people, they have done a great job in providing small-scale financial services to these marginalised people and making them included in the financial system. But the MFIs also have limitations with respect to provision of a wide range of financial services to the customers which a scheduled bank can provide. Agent banking is attempting to ensure access of the marginalised people to several financial services, especially in remote areas using the services of MFIs and others. Agent banking can work wonders in financial inclusion and enhancing financial activity in remote areas.
Use of information and communications technology (ICT) and mobile technology has brought notable positive changes in the area of channelling financial services. By late 2011 and into 2012, two early leaders have emerged with the largest customer bases and agent networks, bKash service and Dutch Bangla Mobile. The bKash service is provided by BRAC Bank in cooperation with its subsidiary bKash. And Dutch Bangla Mobile is a service from Dutch Bangla Bank. Use of ICT in remittance flows has also brought remarkable improvements in the remittance services of banks. Other than the branch networks, a number of banks use online network, mobile network, and money transfer organisations in the process of faster channeling of funds to the rural areas. Alongside using ICT tools and mobile technologies, banks have started using the services of each other's networks/branches and services of MFIs more extensively. Because of the quick adoption of technology, private commercial banks of the country are now dominating the remittance market.
MAINSTREAMING WOMEN IN ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES: For mainstreaming women in economic activities, the Bangladesh Bank (BB) has taken a number of policy initiatives. Every bank has to mandatorily have a separate 'Women Entrepreneur's Dedicated Desk'. Recently, the BB has opened a separate 'Women Entrepreneurs Development Unit' in its head office and branch offices. Banks have been instructed to employ competent officials in that dedicated desk and to train up the officials. The SME department is operating the woman entrepreneurship scheme through which women's empowerment and their participation in business are being ensured. To help women in increasing their contribution to industrialisation, the BB is detecting the hindrances on the way and it has been made mandatory that at least 15 per cent of the credit would be disbursed among women entrepreneurs. Instructions have been given to banks to charge reduced interest rate to women entrepreneurs. Recently, to provide credit to new women entrepreneurs under cottage, micro, and small sectors, each branch of banks and NBFIs has been advised to seek out at least three prospective women entrepreneurs who have not taken any formal loans yet. Banks and NBFIs have also started providing required training to the selected women entrepreneurs as per the instruction of the BB.
Green and energy sustainability has received impetus from banks and NBFIs in several instances. The Bangladesh Bank's initiatives have made significant changes with regard to creation of green governance frameworks in commercial banks and NBFIs. Currently, all banks and NBFIs have environmental policies and Green Banking Cells. Most of the policy documents are replications of the Bangladesh Bank's policy guidelines. Banks have introduced green office guides for their employees and in some banks, there are notable initiatives with regard to savings of paper, water and power etc. The BB has also issued a common reporting format to all the commercial banks to report green banking activities including the extent of carbon footprint in a structured way. Banks and financial institutions now regularly submit a quarterly report to the BB on their performance of green banking activities. It is true that till date the proportion of green financing is insignificant. However, it is a good starting and over the years, financing to green projects/activities has increased covering renewable energy, energy efficiency, fire-burnt brick, solid and liquid waste management, recycling and recyclable products etc. Especially, financing renewable energy initiatives have received tremendous boost. The major areas include financing of solar home systems, solar mini-grid, solar irrigation, and bio-gas. It is inspiring that the UNFCCC issued carbon credit to the IDCOL for its solar home system initiative.
GREEN FINANCING: It is pleasant to observe that most of the clients of green financing are from rural areas. It is particularly noteworthy when very insignificant number of rural clients gets access to banks' credit as a whole. Survey data reveal that three-fourths of the total clients of green financing belong to rural Bangladesh. Rural clients are particularly targeted by banks. Thus, alongside affecting environmental concerns, the interventions are expected to bring notable positive changes in rural livelihood. It indicates that this is one of the crucial ways by which several goals of sustainable and green growth of the country can be attained by offering access to finance and other basic services through improving rural economy and the livelihood of the marginalised people.
There is no doubt that some changes in the financial sector are really inspiring, and have created a good backdrop of designing a sustainable financial system. However, some areas require greater attention to attain a big push towards the desired direction. Many of bank accounts opened by farmers are inactive, and the poor are yet to reach the formal rector financing of the country. Small and micro enterprises need much more support. Small and micro enterprise financing using cluster approach needs support of the policymakers and financial institutions to really boost micro and small enterprises of the country. In environmental risk rating, simply filling up of a checklist will not serve; rather it is necessary to examine the potential impact of any intervention on the demand side i.e. contribution of investment on green growth. In spite of some remarkable change and improvements, several areas of green banking have remained trifling or untouched. Areas like waste management, bio-diversity, green transportation and disaster risk should get due emphasis to obtain required benefits. Disaster risk should be considered a part of environmental risk estimation by the financial institutions. Bangladesh may think of green products in the capital market like 'Green Bond' only after establishing a sound regular bond market in the country. With regard to renewable energy financing, in some instances, there are complaints of under-performance of renewable energy equipment, inadequate maintenance services, undue prices of equipment etc. In some cases, local-level bank management is not found adequately motivated to handle green and inclusive financing. Probably, the most critical area that is yet to find the right path is financing of the agriculture sector. Practically, improvement in agricultural financing is not exciting. There is no doubt that a sustainable financial system cannot be designed for a country like Bangladesh without addressing the agriculture sector of the country adequately. Probably, such financing cannot be ensured without establishing an effective 'Agricultural Commodity Market' in the country. It is also critical to create required environment for offering micro insurance to agriculture and farm sector.
With regard to offering inclusive banking and financial services to the doorstep of the low- income people, in many rural areas, there aren't many banks or institutions. Partnering local-level MFIs with banks/NBFIs to expand financial services to rural areas is one option. At the end, the end user bears the cost. However, direct bank/NBFI lending to the end-users does not seem feasible in some instances. In some cases, using intermediary and partnering organisations offers better outcome. Especially, integrated approach of some MFIs in offering ground level green services is really encouraging and related to the improvement of community livelihood. Practically, a coordinated and integrated approach might be effective.
Dr. Shah Md Ahsan Habib is Professor and Director (Training), Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management (BIBM).


Celebrate "Talk Like a Pirate Day," on Friday, Sept. 19, by participating in a pirate themed online scavenger hunt at the St. Cloud Public Library. Prizes be doubloons, matey. Come and play - or walk the plank.
Love horror books? Love birthdays? Here at the St. Cloud Public Library we're putting our dual loves together in one great program - Adult Story Time Celebrates Stephen King. On Saturday, Sept. 20 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon we'll be reading some of the best of King's short stories in room 268. Be prepared to be scared.
This "How To" workshop led by Master Gardeners will be about soils and how you can improve them by using compost. Learn tips on composting, how to build a compost bin, and what to compost. The workshop will take place on Thursday, Sept. 18 at the St. Cloud Public Library, Room 208 from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
It's the only open mic night for teens by teens. Have something original to say? We want to hear it! Bring your poetry, short story, song, or any other piece of writing to share at the St. Cloud Public Library on Saturday, Sept. 20 from 4:00 to 4:45 p.m. Speak your piece in the Mississippi Community Room.
Come One, Come All ~ Passive Programs Are A Ball!
Saturday, Sept. 13 is National Positive Thinking Day. Who couldn't use an injection of positivity? Please share your positive thoughts with the community by adding them to the Positive Thought Wall in the lobby at St. Cloud Public Library. All ages are welcome to participate.
Teens and pre-teens - get the experience to code like the pros! Participants work with community mentors in the field to learn different types of coding for computer operations. For ages 8 to 18. Those under 13 are encouraged to bring their parents. Class meets in Room 208 at the St. Cloud Public Library on Saturday, Sept. 6 and Sept. 20 from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. The attendance limit is 10 and preregistration is strongly encouraged.


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FC Porto-AC Milan Preview: Facing Our Dragons
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When our Champions League group was drawn, everyone acknowledged that every team in this group was difficult, there were no "easy" matches. However, these matches with Porto seemed like the most realistic for us to hope for a result, particularly given that their wage bill is less than half of ours. But the Dragões eliminated Juventus from the competition last year, in one of the best games of football in recent memory as well as a perfect example of how heart can overcome any other deficit, and thus are not to be underestimated. They are not the only dragons Milan are facing, though. We have a preposterous amount of injuries, and Kessié will be suspended, too. Plus, we have been burned by refereeing, too. Going to the Estádio do Dragão (Dragon's Stadium) in Portugal on Tuesday will see us facing our dragons.
Injuries and referees are our biggest dragons this season
Porto currently sit second in the Portuguese Primeira Liga, unbeaten, just one point behind rivals Benfica. In the Champions League, however, they are third in Group B with one point, having managed a draw vs. Atlético Madrid. Their last match was not so lucky, though, as Liverpool destroyed them 5-1 ahead of the international break. They returned from the break with a vengeance, unleashing a 5-0 victory over third division Sintrense in the Portuguese Cup on Friday.
For that match, Porto manager Sérgio Conceição lined up Marchesin; Manafá, Fábio Cardoso, Marcano, Wendell; Sergio Oliveira, Bruno Costa, Otávio; F. Conceição, Evanilson, and Pepe. As of this writing, he seems to have a complete squad, with Otávio having returned from a hamstring injury after the break.
These dragons don't go down without a fight
In contrast, while Milan also sit in second in Serie A and are unbeaten, Pioli is in a world of hurt when it comes to injuries, literally and figuratively. As of this writing, he is missing:
Maignan (wrist surgery for fracture)
Plizzari (knee surgery for repetitive injury)
Florenzi (knee cartilage surgery)
Theo Hernandez (COVID positive)
Brahim Díaz (COVID positive)
Messias (muscle injury)
Bakayoko (muscle injury)
Ante Rebić (severe ankle sprain)
Kessié (suspension for red card)
There is a slight possibility that Bakayoko could be back on the bench, as he resumed training with the team on Sunday, but keeping in mind his first appearance, that could actually do Milan more harm than good. With new goalkeeper Mirante not having trained all summer, it is impossible to know whether or not Pioli will call him up for this one. We could hope for miraculous COVID negative tests, for Rebić's ankle to miraculously heal, and especially for Maignan to go back in time and have never even been injured, but in reality, we are far more likely to have another player injured while watching Pioli's press conference than we are to get any other players back.
Will our newest dragon-slayer be able to conquer in Portugal?
Speaking of players back, Giroud and Ibrahimović are both back, and even overlapped playing time on Saturday for about five minutes. In contrast, Tatarusanu did nothing to convince me on Saturday. However, he also did nothing in particular to dissuade me, either, so maybe we will be okay. Rumors are that Pioli is considering using Kalulu on the right and putting Calabria on the left while Theo Hernández is out. I would expect Kjaer and Tomori to be in the center of defense, with Tonali and Bennacer as the midfield pairing. Leão and Saelemaekers would make the most sense to me as wingers, but after Castillejo's emotional impact on Saturday, who knows? Daniel Maldini would be my pick to put behind either Ibrahimović or Giroud, but we also know that Pioli loves Krunić, even if he is just back from injury. All of these speculations are based on the hope that none of the players require surgery after some type of freak breakfast-eating accident or something.
I do not usually talk about referees, but after our last match, UEFA was certain to assign one of their very best for this match - German referee Felix Brych. He has 17 years of experience refereeing and is a UEFA elite category referee. Most recently, he refereed the Euro semifinal this summer between Italy and Spain. Hopefully that gives some of you people some faith. More importantly, I hope our players have faith and show him a little more respect, regardless of his performance.
Remember this name
This fixture comes on the heels of an important emotional comeback on Saturday, and we have the consistency of being unbeaten in the league. But our dragons today have multiplied far greater the dragons I originally thought we would be facing. At the bottom of Group B with zero points, this match is a must win for us to have any hope of progressing. This one is also crucial for Porto, though, and one of their best chances of winning as well. The odds are stacked entirely against us with injuries alone, but we also know what this team was able to do the last time we played in Portugal. Let us hope our players have courage that is red like the fire, and black like your fear as they face our dragons on Tuesday.
This post inspired by the music of Imagine Dragons' "Demons"
Champions League Group Stage
FC Porto vs. AC Milan
Tuesday, October 19 • 21:00 CEST (3pm EDT)
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Things are getting a little glitchy this week. We're excited to present our new Beats + Blips Mixtape.
We've curated 10 songs that showcase the microscopic textures that make for innovative beats that can stick in your head for days. Each of these instrumentals are pretty damn catchy, and just might be the perfect pairing for the project your working on.
Take for example, the chill vibes of "Ah" by Courtland Urbano. This instrumental breaks it down with a steady beat composed of Drum Machines, Synthesizer with Ooh's and Ahh's broken into snippets. This is a composition that balances the precise and the minimal in perfect harmony.
The organic meets the electronic in "Intimidated by Silence" by Cars & Trains. Packed with a huge arsenal of instruments including toy piano, glockenspiel and mandolin, the song brings you on a journey to imaginative and microscopic world that you may never want to leave.
Dig the infectious groove in "Kakalak" by Sanford Livingston. There is a heavy funk influence with a modern flare with heavy beats coming in and out. This high energy piece brings in an insane amount textures and melodies that bring a whole of attitude along with them.
Dig the rest of the mixtape HERE.
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Poker Pros Hibernating, Waiting For Games To Return In Las Vegas
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Chris Konvalinka lost his livelihood this month, just like thousands of workers across the Las Vegas Valley.
He doesn't work for a casino, but he works in casinos. Konvalinka is a 21-year-old professional poker player, and he's dealing with the shutdown from the coronavirus pandemic the best way he can.
"I've just been drinking and playing a lot of video games," he said with a laugh. "… Probably just going to try to hibernate for a while."
Konvalinka and his fellow professional "grinders" have made peace with riding out the ups and downs that come with gambling for a living. They're used to having losing months. But the shutdown has been akin to an unprofitable run of cards that they couldn't see coming. They're adjusting by playing more online poker and trying to expand other income streams while living off savings.
Benton Blakeman is at a different stage in his life than Konvalinka. Blakeman, 38, has been a poker pro since 2004, with two stints in Las Vegas, this one starting in 2015. He is married, with a son who is about to turn 9.
"Life's pretty different when you're having to have a virtual birthday party," he said. "It's a really interesting, tough time. Scary in a way. Some people are in a really tough spot."
Blakeman and the other players interviewed for this story make their living in No-limit Hold'em cash games on the Strip. One solution during the shutdown would be to play online, but the transition isn't that easy, they said.
Fewer recreational players play online poker compared to live casino games, even with a recent boost after the shutdown. Blakeman said the skill level required to win in a $2-$5 live game with a $1,000 buy-in might only be good enough to beat a $0.50-$1 online game with a $100 buy-in.
Konvalinka said he plays six tables of $0.50-$1 online simultaneously that in the aggregate amount to a "small" $2-$5 casino game. But beyond the difficulty of the games, he said he just doesn't find online poker appealing and struggles to put in more than 10 hours a week, compared with his normal 40 at casinos.
"Going from playing live $2-$5 at the Wynn to going to playing a dumb, stupid app on my phone, I can't do it. I can't take it seriously," he said. "It doesn't feel like real money. I just torch it off."
Andrew Neeme, 40, went from grinder to online sensation in the poker world as he built a YouTube following (141,000 subscribers) over the past three-plus years by chronicling his adventures in Las Vegas cash games.
That has given him another income stream to draw from with his normal games unavailable. Neeme and Blakeman also offer coaching through their subscription discussion group, the Hand History Lounge. Konvalinka also generates side income through coaching with Solve For Why Academy.
Neeme has started live-streaming his online poker sessions and has created YouTube videos out of the highlights. However, he also said he wants to use the shutdown as a chance to "take a breath" after years of steady content creation.
"There's no excuse not to take a break right now," he said.
Neeme said that if poker players have been responsible in their profession, they should have cash reserves and be in a much better place than the general public to weather the shutdown.
All the poker pros shared concerns about the future. How long will it take before the games return? And when they return, will the recreational players come back so soon after the pandemic?
"It's really hard to predict," Neeme said. "It all depends on what the guidelines are. If they say the risk is pretty far down, then I think people will get right back in there. … But poker games could take a hit and take awhile to revitalize."
Blakeman said he is worried about the future of the ecosystem and that he might have to drop down in stakes and play more hours to maintain his same level of income.
"I'm not enthusiastic about going back and just playing with people who play for a living and hoping that one or two tourists show up," he said.
Konvalinka, who said he "felt overwhelming despair" when he drove down an empty Strip last week, said he tries to maintain a positive outlook that live poker will return sooner rather than later.
"I think the casinos will open and the poker rooms will open. Even if that's not what's going to happen, I just choose to believe that," he said. "What productive thing can possibly happen from expecting the worst?"
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"Guns and drugs," the broker's wife said. "And it makes you wonder, doesn't it? Two men, traveling together, and sharing a cabin."
Her husband asked her what that was supposed to mean. She said it was just something to take into account.
In their own cabin, Julia said, "I'm still trying to figure it out. Was she suggesting they're gay? And what would that have to do with them both getting sick at the same time?"
Keller shrugged. "Beats me. AIDS, maybe?"
"I suppose. 'Two men sharing a cabin.' I don't know if you saw the look she got when she said that, but the schoolmarms didn't appreciate the implication. Given that they're two women sharing a cabin."
"And they're annoyed because they're lesbians?"
"Or they're not lesbians, and that's why they're annoyed. At the implication."
"The world's a complicated place," Keller said.
The lounge chair Keller selected gave him a good view of the block of four staterooms, one of which housed Carmody and his strawberry blonde. He sat down, put his legs up, and set about the business of anointing himself with suntan lotion. It boasted a high SPF number, and he found himself wondering if there was any point to the whole process. Wouldn't it be simpler to skip the lotion and stay in your cabin? Wouldn't you come out about the same?
Earlier, Keller had checked the listings, and found that Mr. Aldredge Smith and Mr. John Westin had occupied a cabin one flight below. That was unfortunate, because if their removal to a hospital in Nassau had left a Sun Deck stateroom vacant, Keller might have used it as a base of operations.
Keller hadn't thought to pack a bathing suit, but the shipboard shop had been happy to sell him one. It was black, and not too skimpily cut, but he still felt conspicuous in it, though less so than if he'd stretched out on the lounge chair in long pants and a shirt. And the sun felt good, and the ship had set sail shortly after lunch for Virgin Gorda, wherever that was, and Keller found its motion soothing. All he had to do was lie there and relax and keep his eyes open.
The third requirement turned out to be impossible. Your eyes are closed, he realized at one point, and told himself he'd have to do something about it, but by then it was too late. His mind had found a corridor to explore, and he drifted right off…
And came to abruptly. There was no sudden noise, and no one jostled his lounge chair or walked past it to block the sun. He wondered later if it might simply have been an unconscious awareness of her presence that did it, because when he opened his eyes there she was, not ten yards away from him, Ms. Va-va-voom herself, sitting sidesaddle on a lounge chair of her own, and applying coconut-scented suntan oil to those portions of her anatomy not covered by the scarlet bikini.
Which was to say almost all of her.
She took her time oiling her golden-brown skin, and it seemed to Keller that she was caressing herself as much as she was protecting it from the sun. He didn't want to stare at her, but seemed incapable of averting his eyes, and the next thing he knew she was looking right back at him.
He looked away, but it was as if he could see her no matter where his eyes were turned. He looked her way again, and she was still gazing at him, with an expression on her face that was not quite a smile, although it was definitely headed in that direction.
Then she turned her eyes from him, and swung her legs up onto the lounge chair, and worked the controls to lower the back into a horizontal position. She was still sitting up, and Keller watched as she put her hands behind her back, uncoupled the bikini top, and removed it altogether.
She couldn't have exposed her breasts to him for more than a couple of seconds, but they were longer seconds than most. Then she was lying facedown on the lounge chair.
Had anyone else seen what Keller had seen? He looked around and saw no one who gave any evidence of having witnessed the performance. Had it been for his benefit? Or had he merely chanced to be present when a free-spirited creature displayed her charms without thinking twice about it?
Her head was turned to one side, resting on her arm, and facing toward Keller. Her eyes were closed. And she was smiling.
Go back to his cabin? Go to the bar for a drink, or the lounge for a cup of coffee? Find his way to the library and pick out something to read?
Or wait for her to give up on the sun and return to her cabin, so that he could see which one it was?
Keller closed his eyes to give the matter some thought, and once again the combination of sun and waves carried him off. He didn't doze for long, but when he opened his eyes he saw that the girl had changed position. She was lying on her back now, and was once again wearing the bikini top.
And she was no longer alone. On the lounge chair just beyond hers, wearing knee-length Bermuda shorts and a loose-fitting shirt with a palm tree on it, sat Carmody himself. His feet were bare—a pair of pink flip-flops rested at the foot of his chair—and from the knees down the man was fish-belly white, while from the knees up he was pretty much invisible, with the shirt and the shorts and his sunglasses and his pink cotton sun hat covering up most of him.
The contrast between the two of them, dramatic enough in the dining room, was far greater beneath the sun. Earlier he'd looked old enough to be her father, or perhaps her father's older brother; now you'd be more apt to cast him as her dead grandfather.
She was lying down. Carmody's chair was in what the airlines call the full upright position, and he sat there looking like a man waiting for his number to be called. Then, after a few moments, he reached out and rested a hand on his companion's shoulder. Keller thought that was a tender gesture until the hand moved lower and slipped inside a cup of the bikini halter.
Keller looked away, willing the old goat to keep his hands to himself, and when he looked their way again it was as if his wish had been Carmody's command. Both the man's hands were now resting on the arms of his own lounge chair.
Well, that was better. On the other hand, a little more touchy-feely and they might get up and return to their cabin, and Keller could note its number. And he wished that would happen sooner rather than later, as there was a limit to how much sun he could handle.
But how much sun could Carmody take? Not too much on those pale white legs, so…
Hell. Keller watched as Carmody picked up his towel and draped it carefully over his feet and lower legs. Taking the sun without taking the sun, he thought. Wonderful.
Time to give up and get out of the sun himself? Wait, Carmody was saying something.
"Carina? You don't want to get too much sun, honey."
"Feels so good," she replied, so softly that Keller could barely make out the words.
"I can think of something else that'll feel good. Time to go inside, Carina."
"Give me a few more minutes, Mickey. You go. I'll be there by the time you're out of the shower."
"You and the sun," Carmody said.
"Makes me warm. You like me warm, don't you, Mickey?"
The man answered by leaning over to cop another feel, and Carina contrived to show her appreciation by squirming a little on the lounge chair. Then Carmody slipped his feet into his flip-flops, told her not to be too long, and stood up.
Keller gave him a head start. He got to his feet, and out of the corner of his eye he thought he saw Carina glancing at him. He didn't turn to check, but took off in Carmody's wake.
He followed the man around the pool and over to the four cabins. Carmody led him to one of two on the far side, so if he'd stayed where he was he'd only have been able to halve the possibilities from four to two, but now he was half a dozen steps behind the man by the time he'd used his key card to let himself into number 501.
The door closed, and Keller moved in front of it. His immediate mission had been one of reconnaissance, and it had paid off, but did he have to stop there? If he knocked, Carmody would open the door. And once he did, he was there to be taken.
Keller's swimsuit had a pocket, but all it held was his own key card. No garrote, no HandyMan, no pills or powders. All he had were his two hands, but if he needed more than that to cope with Michael Carmody he was in the wrong business.
He looked in both directions, and there was nobody around. How soon would the girl come back? Could he dispatch Carmody in time to be out of the room before she made her appearance?
If not, well, that would be bad luck all around, especially for her. Keller preferred to avoid that sort of situation, but sometimes you couldn't, and he had learned to do what had to be done.
He knocked on the door, listened for footsteps.
And didn't hear any. No, of course not, the son of a bitch was taking his shower. He wouldn't be able to hear Keller knocking, or if he did he wouldn't feel the need to cut short his shower to go see who it was.
Knock again? He was about to, but now there was someone in view, a maid pushing a service cart. And when she passed there would be somebody else, and sooner or later the girl would show up, and Keller would have to wait for a better time.
Maybe it was time to check out the library, see if he could find something to read. First, though, he'd get his own shower.
Mickey, he thought. Mickey and Carina. Well, the afternoon hadn't been a total loss. He now knew which cabin they occupied. And, though he couldn't see what good it did him, he knew what they called each other.
Julia had made a new friend during the afternoon, and worked things out so that the two couples could share a table for four at dinner. They were Atlantans, though both had grown up in the Midwest. The husband, Roy, said he had the perfect job. He worked for an insurance company, but he didn't sell anything, or weasel out of paying claims, or sit at a desk and crunch numbers. Instead he flew around the country and met with groups of insurance agents, explaining why they should push his company's policies instead of the competition's.
"I buy the pizza, I buy the doughnuts, I've always got the latest jokes, and whenever I show up everybody's glad to see me. I swear it never feels like I'm working."
"He works very hard," said his wife, who was called Myrt, which Keller figured had to be short for Myrtle. "On and off planes all the time."
"The planes are fine," Roy said. "It's the blankety-blank airports. But don't get me started."
Nobody did, and the subject shifted to the two men who'd left the ship, and whom everybody had taken to calling Smith and Wesson, and who were assumed to be very dangerous men. Mafia torpedoes, the consensus seemed to be, no doubt dispatched to kill one of the passengers, or even a crew member.
"It could be anyone," Myrt said darkly. "The captain looks perfectly decent, but he could have gambling debts."
"Are we playing Pick the Victim?" her husband wondered. "My candidate's Foxy Grandpa. Oh, you know who I mean. The dirty old man with the hot redhead."
"Gambling debts, Roy?"
"Hell, who needs a motive? I'd kill him myself if I thought it'd get me a shot at her."
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A Eurasian jigsaw: BRI and INSTC interconnectivity will complete the puzzle
Shrugging off western obstacles, Eurasia's ambitious connectivity projects helmed by China and Russia are now progressing deep into Asia's Heartland
SAMARKAND – Interconnecting Inner Eurasia is an exercise in Taoist equilibrium: adding piece by piece, patiently, to a gigantic jigsaw puzzle. It takes time, skill, vision, and of course major breakthroughs.
A key piece was added to the puzzle recently in Uzbekistan, bolstering the links between the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the International North South Transportation Corridor (INSTC).
The Mirzoyoyev government in Tashkent is deeply engaged in turbo-driving yet another Central Asian transportation corridor: a China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan-Afghanistan railway.
That was at the center of a meeting between the chairman of the board of Temir Yullari – the Uzbek national railways – and his counterparts in Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan, as well as managers of the Chinese Wakhan Corridor logistics company.
In terms of the complex intersection of Xinjiang with Central and South Asia, this is as groundbreaking as it gets, as part of what I call the War of Economic Corridors.
The Uzbeks have pragmatically spun the new corridor as essential to cargo transport under low tariffs – but that goes way beyond mere trade calculations.
Imagine, in practice, cargo containers coming by train from Kashgar in Xinjiang to Osh in Kyrgyzstan and then to Hairatan in Afghanistan. Annual volume is planned to reach 60,000 containers in the first year alone.
That would be crucial to develop Afghanistan's productive trade – away from the "aid" obsession of the US occupation. Afghan products will finally be able to be easily exported to Central Asian neighbors and also China, for instance to the bustling Kashgar market.
And that stabilizing factor would bolster the Taliban's coffers, now that the leadership in Kabul is very much interested in buying Russian oil, gas and wheat under vastly attractive discounts.
How to get Afghanistan back in the game
There's also the possibility of spinning off a road project from this railway that would cross the ultra-strategic Wakhan corridor – something that Beijing has already been contemplating for a few years.
The Wakhan is shared by northern Afghanistan and the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region of Tajikistan: a long, barren, spectacular geological strip, advancing all the way to Xinjiang.
By now it's clear not only to Kabul, but also to members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), that the humiliated Americans will not restitute the billions of dollars 'confiscated' from the Afghan Central Bank's reserves – something that would at least mitigate Afghanistan's current, dire economic crisis and imminent mass famine.
So Plan B is to bolster the – for the moment devastated – Afghan supply and trade chains. Russia will be in charge of security for the whole Central-South Asian crossroads. China will provide the bulk of the financing. And that's where the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan-Afghanistan railway fits in.
China sees a road across the Wakhan – a very complicated proposition – as an extra BRI corridor, linking to the China-repaved Pamir highway in Tajikistan and China-rebuilt Kyrgyzstan roads.
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) has already built an 80 km access road from the Chinese stretch of the Karakoram Highway – before it reaches the Pakistan border – to a mountain pass in the Wakhan, currently only available for cars and jeeps.
The next Chinese move would be to proceed further on down that road by 450 km, all the way to Fayzabad, the provincial capital of Afghan Badakhshan. That would constitute the roadside back-up corridor to the China-Central Asia-Afghanistan railway.
The key point is that the Chinese, as much as the Uzbeks, fully understand the extremely strategic location of Afghanistan: not only as a Central/South Asian crossroads, connecting to key ocean ports in Pakistan and Iran (Karachi, Gwadar, Chabahar) and to the Caspian Sea via Turkmenistan, but also helping landlocked Uzbekistan to connect to markets in South Asia.
That's all part of the BRI corridor maze; and at the same time interlocks with the INSTC because of the key role of Iran (itself increasingly linked with Russia).
Tehran is already engaged in building a railway to Herat, in western Afghanistan (it already rebuilt the road). Then we will have Afghanistan inbuilt in both BRI (as part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, CPEC) and the INSTC, giving momentum to yet another project: a Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Tajikistan (TAT) railway, to be linked to Iran and thus the INSTC.
From the Karakoram to Pakafuz
The Karakoram highway – the northern part of which was rebuilt by the Chinese – may sooner or later get a railway sister. The Chinese have been thinking about it since 2014.
By 2016, a railway from the China-Pakistan border to Gilgit, in the northern areas and then further down to Peshawar, was enshrined as part of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) blueprint. But then nothing happened: the railway is not included in the 2017-2030 CPEC Long Term Plan.
That may eventually happen in the next decade: the engineering and logistics are an enormous challenge, as they were for the building of the Karakoram highway.
And then there's the "follow the money" angle. The top two Chinese banks financing BRI – and thus CPEC – projects are the China Development Bank and the Export Import Bank. Even before Covid they were already toning down their loans. And with Covid, they now have to balance foreign projects with domestic loans for the Chinese economy.
The connectivity priority instead shifted to the Pakistan-Afghanistan-Uzbekistan (Pakafuz) railway.
The key stretch of Pakafuz links Peshawar (the capital of the tribal areas) to Kabul. When it's finished, we'll see Pakafuz directly interacting with the upcoming China-Central Asia-Afghanistan railway: a new BRI maze directly connected with the INSTC.
All of the above developments reveal their true complexity when we see they are simultaneously inserted into the interaction of BRI and the INSTC and the harmonization between BRI and the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU).
Essentially, in geopolitical and geoeconomic terms, the relation between BRI and EAEU projects allows Russia and China to cooperate across Eurasia while avoiding a race to reach a dominant position in the Heartland.
For instance, both Beijing and Moscow agree on the supreme need to stabilize Afghanistan and help it to run a sustainable economy.
In parallel, some important BRI members – like Uzbekistan – are not members of the EAEU, but that is compensated by their membership in the SCO. At the same time, the BRI-EAEU entente facilitates economic cooperation between EAEU members such as Kyrgyzstan and China.
Beijing de facto got full approval from Moscow to invest in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia, all EAEU members. A future currency or basket of currencies bypassing the US dollar is being jointly discussed between the EAEU – led by Sergei Glazyev – and China.
China focuses on Central/West Asia
There's no question that the proxy war in Ukraine between the US and Russia has been creating serious problems for BRI expansion. After all, the US war on Russia is also a war against BRI.
The top three BRI corridors from Xinjiang to Europe are the New Eurasian Land Bridge, the China-Central Asia-West Asia Economic Corridor, and the China-Russia-Mongolia Economic Corridor.
The New Eurasian Land Bridge uses the Trans-Siberian and a second link through Xinjiang-Kazakhstan (via the dry land port of Khorgos) and then Russia. The corridor via Mongolia is in fact two corridors: one from Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei to Inner Mongolia and then Russia; and the other from Dalian and Shenyang and then to Chita in Russia, near the Chinese border.
As it stands, the Chinese are not using Land Bridge and the Mongolian corridor as much as before, mainly because of western sanctions on Russia. The current BRI emphasis is via Central Asia and West Asia, with one branch then bisecting toward the Persian Gulf and on the Mediterranean.
And this is where we see another – highly complex – level of intersection quickly developing: how the increasing importance for China of Central Asia and West Asia mixes with the increasing importance of the INSTC for both Russia and Iran in their trade with India.
Call it the friendly vector of the War of Transportation Corridors.
The hardcore vector – real war – is already being deployed by the usual suspects. They are predictably bent on destabilizing and/or smashing any node of BRI/INSTC/EAEU/SCO Eurasia integration, by any means necessary: be it in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Balochistan, the Central Asian "stans" or Xinjiang.
As far as the major Eurasian actors are concerned, that's bound to be an Anglo-American train to nowhere.
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