Previous reconstruction efforts in Yemen following conflict or natural disaster have suffered from lack of coordination with and unrealistic expectations from international donors, as well as the Yemeni government's limited capacity for aid absorption and project implementation; as a result, there was little tangible long-term impact.
In light of lessons learned from similar post-conflict contexts and Yemen's own history of reconstruction efforts, this policy brief proposes an institutional structure for a future reconstruction process in Yemen: a permanent, independent, public reconstruction authority that empowers and coordinates the work of local reconstruction offices, established at the local level in areas affected by conflict or natural disasters. This proposal does not arise only from these lessons learned, but also from the immediate need for such an institution to begin planning and implementing reconstruction work to the greatest extent possible.
This reconstruction authority should have a clear mandate to manage all tasks required in reconstruction following the current conflict, but also future crises. Its board of directors should include a range of stakeholders and should be chaired by a deputy prime minister for reconstruction to ensure it has the highest level of support. It should take an inclusive, multi-level, mixed institutional approach, have a clear long-term plan for building state capacity, and establish its own monitoring and evaluation unit to demonstrate a commitment to transparency. Most importantly, it should establish a clear framework for working closely with all stakeholders.
The current conflict in Yemen follows decades of political and economic turmoil. Any future reconstruction efforts will face a daunting task. For example, World Bank estimates from 10 cities in Yemen revealed a quarter of the road network was partially or fully destroyed as of 2016, with power production halved and half of all water, sewage and sanitation infrastructure damaged. With the intensification of the conflict since, it is expected that current levels of destruction are far greater.
In early 2017 the United Nations also declared Yemen the site of the world's worst humanitarian crisis; as of April 2018, roughly 22.2 million Yemenis were in need of humanitarian assistance, including 8.4 million at risk of starvation. The country's gross domestic product declined an estimated 47.1 percent from 2015 to 2017, while 40 percent of households have reported the loss of their primary income source. Most public services have been suspended, leaving 16 million people without access to safe water and 16.4 million with limited or no access to healthcare.
There is little sign of the conflict ending soon. Nevertheless, stakeholders concerned with establishing lasting peace in Yemen must urgently begin laying the groundwork for a comprehensive reconstruction framework to implement in the eventual aftermath of fighting. Experience has shown that it is never too early to begin planning for reconstruction.
The first section provides an account of Yemen's own history of post-crisis recovery efforts.
The second section proposes a new institutional model for reconstruction: an independent reconstruction authority that establishes transparent mechanisms for coordination and accountability among all stakeholders.
The policy brief seeks to identify how to ensure the proper flow of funds and the timely completion and overall quality of post-war reconstruction projects. Beyond this, however, it emphasizes the importance of national ownership – meaning the inclusion and buy-in of all Yemeni stakeholders. Such an inclusive framework builds Yemen's capacity to meet the basic needs and rights of its own people, thereby putting the country on the path toward lasting recovery.
Yemen has had numerous experiences with reconstruction efforts, given its decades-long history of poverty, natural disasters, and conflict. In recent decades, several natural disasters have hit Yemen. The 1982 earthquake in Dhamar killed up to an estimated 2,500 people and injured a further 1,500, with US$2 billion in losses. Although the independent Executive Office for Reconstruction, created following the earthquake, delivered thousands of earthquake-reinforced housing units, most of these remain uninhabited even today, due to their cultural unsuitability. The reconstruction office was also ineffective due to a limited capacity for coordination or monitoring. The 2008 flood in Hadramawt and al-Mahra caused an estimated US$1.6 billion in damage. The Hadramawt and al-Mahra Reconstruction Fund succeeded in engaging local stakeholders. However, it lacked any coordination mechanism or monitoring framework. Despite having resources, it lacked effectiveness: it struggled to utilize the US$210 million it was allocated, spending only 70 percent of its total available funding.
Yemen has also seen years of chronic unrest. Recurring conflict in Sa'ada governorate from 2004-2010 killed hundreds and wounded thousands more, while causing an estimated US$600 million in damages. The Sa'ada Reconstruction Fund had a US$55 million budget allocated from the Yemeni government. The fund neglected public infrastructure at the expense of rebuilding private properties and faced widespread accusations of "reconstruction bias," directing rebuilding efforts to areas based on personal affiliations rather than need. The occupation of Abyan governorate by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and associated fighting in 2011-2012 left damage estimated at US$580 million. The Abyan Reconstruction Fund was allocated US$46.5 million. It did little to absorb this funding and quickly developed a reputation for mismanagement, corruption, and embezzlement. The fund's evaluation report estimated US$4.2 million of fraudulent costs and a further US$1.4 million reported as compensation for 'ghost' beneficiaries.
At the demand of international donors, and following 2011 protests against then-President Ali Abdullah Saleh, the Yemeni government established the Executive Bureau in 2012 to build state capacity. However, it did not have the political power necessary to overcome resistance from ministries who viewed it as competition. When Houthi fighters seized Sana'a in late 2014, the Executive Bureau's ability to function was further curtailed. Despite later attempts to revive it, the Bureau's World Bank funding expired in mid-2015; as the security situation deteriorated, funding for the Bureau was withdrawn.
Yemen also has examples of innovative initiatives for delivering public services, though not in a post-conflict context. Since the mid-1990s, semi-autonomous agencies have operated parallel to the central government to deliver public services in rural areas. The Public Works Project, the Social Welfare Fund, and the Social Fund for Development provide models for effective, efficient, and transparent services provision in Yemen. They have a carefully designed legal mandate that provides sufficient autonomy while having a well-defined relationship with the government. However, they are designed to be only short-term alternatives; there is no clear strategy for how they might be permanently integrated into the government.
As mentioned above, previous Yemeni reconstruction efforts have shown an inability to absorb aid or to implement projects effectively. Past reconstruction initiatives thus do not provide a successful model for future reconstruction, particularly given that the current war's destructiveness far outstrips that of past disasters or conflicts. However, there is the potential to build on the existing institutional blueprint of the Executive Bureau and, similarly, to initiate reconstruction interventions through local models that already have community buy-in, national reach, and a professional workforce: the Social Fund for Development, the Public Work Projects, and the Social Welfare Fund.
This paper proposes a way forward for reconstruction in Yemen through creating a proactive institutional framework to deal with the aftermath of the current war as well as future crises. This requires the establishment of a permanent independent Public Reconstruction Authority (PRA) operating to empower and coordinate the work of local reconstruction offices, created at the local level in areas affected by the conflict or natural disasters.
The mandate of the authority should be to manage all the tasks required in reconstruction: current and future post-conflict or disaster reconstruction planning; policy design; funding and fundraising; and coordinating with all stakeholders. The mandate should also include the tasks required for a transparent process: monitoring and evaluation; reporting; and overseeing strategic national projects.
Be a public, independent authority.
Be established by a presidential decree that specifies its mission, authority, and responsibilities. It should have its own protocols for procurement, personnel, and payroll.
Have a board of directors that includes a range of stakeholders: representatives from the donor community (both from within the Gulf Cooperation Council and from among international donors); representatives from the cabinet; and representation from the private sector, in addition to the executive director of the reconstruction authority. The board should be chaired by a deputy prime minister to ensure it has the highest level of support. The responsibilities of the board should be clearly and strictly limited to strategic-level direction, ensuring that the executive management of the reconstruction authority has the flexibility to implement reconstruction plans effectively.
Set up local reconstruction offices that act as hubs to manage operations at the local level. The public authority will delegate power to these reconstruction offices, which are proposed to be established in Aden, Sana'a, Sa'ada and Taiz. These decentralized local offices will be mandated with the overall design and planning of the reconstruction effort at the local level. The authority should also be able, in the event of a crisis, to create additional local offices in other areas affected by conflict or natural disaster.
Follow a competitive, merit-based, transparent process for the recruitment of its executive director and all staff. The reconstruction authority's board (upon nomination of the executive director following the same competitive, merit-based, and transparent process) should appoint the directors of local offices. The same recruitment process should be followed to staff of local offices to deliver efficient and rapid reconstruction work.
Adopt a mixed institutional approach. Any reconstruction framework must include key Yemeni stakeholders: the national government, local NGOs, the private sector, and arm's-length government institutions such as the Social Fund for Development (SFD), the Public Works Project and others. Because it is impractical to rely solely on a weakened central government for immediate post-conflict reconstruction throughout all of Yemen, the central government should only be involved in strategic planning. In the immediate post-conflict years, the focus must be to implement small projects primarily in affected communities but also across all of Yemen. Focusing on the needs of affected areas need not mean ignoring the rest of the country – particularly if perceived favoritism leads to anger against the state. Efforts should further be devoted to the needs and development of women, youth, and marginalized groups.
Establish a pool fund for all donors. This fund can be co-managed by the reconstruction authority and an international or regional development bank acting as a trustee. Such a fund could have a separate account, independent of the government budget, for the collection and disbursement of donor funds. This account should be held in a commercial bank approved by the reconstruction authority board; it should also be routinely audited by an independent organization according to the international auditing standards.
Establish its own monitoring and evaluation unit. This unit can operate in conjunction with the monitoring and evaluation entities that already exist in the Yemeni government, such as the Central Organization for Control and Auditing; the Supreme National Authority for Combating Corruption; and the Supreme Judicial Council. In creating its own monitoring and evaluation unit, the reconstruction authority declares its aim to be accountable and transparent while maintaining a degree of national ownership over reconstruction.
Develop a long-term strategic plan to restore, consolidate, and prioritize reconstruction funding from Yemeni sources. External funding can be expected to be ample in the short term, but may decline in the medium to long term. Such policies will ensure sufficient funds for long-term reconstruction efforts as external funding declines.
Coordinate closely with the Yemeni government at all levels. Each level of government should have a clearly specified scope of involvement: local authorities should work in collaboration with local offices and be able to propose projects, while the public reconstruction authority should work with the central government on national-level strategic planning. The cabinet should provide the Yemeni government's share of funding and in-kind contributions. The line ministries should continue to deliver ongoing public services, submit data related to planned projects, and sustainably manage completed reconstruction projects. In turn, the reconstruction authority should provide the central government with technical advice, ensuring the government's ability to maintain and sustain completed projects. Relations between local reconstruction offices and local authorities should follow the same pattern.
Demonstrate to international partners a commitment to transparency and efficacy. Having donor representatives on the board of the reconstruction authority signals a true partnership between Yemen and the donor community. A formal compact can be signed between the government and international donors with the following aims: to clarify the roles of international partners; to identify a mechanism for compliance; to encourage donors to deliver funding over both short and long-term horizons; to outline government commitments, and ensure the national ownership of the reconstruction program.
Include the private sector in the reconstruction process: private actors can fund, supply, and implement reconstruction efforts. The reconstruction authority should build capacity for strong public-private partnerships, issue competitive bids for projects, and source locally as much as possible for procurement needs.
Treat local non-governmental organizations and local communities as important partners in reconstruction. No one knows better a local community's needs than the members of the community itself; they have expertise in what works best in their community. These communities can offer an important channel for information on the reconstruction progress. NGOs may provide an important link to social groups particularly affected by the conflict, bringing the needs and concerns of those groups into the reconstruction process and monitoring the implementation of reconstruction projects. They may also facilitate consultations with local communities, women, youth, and marginalized groups. Meanwhile, universities, think tanks, consultancies, and business associations can provide a source of independent professional proposals, evaluations, and advice.
Reconstruction in Yemen must follow a model that responds to the realities on the ground, builds state capacity, ensures transparency, and coordinates efficiently. It must foster trust not only among donors but among Yemeni political actors and citizens at large. It must coordinate well with international donors while maintaining Yemeni ownership of reconstruction. Focusing efforts not only on affected areas but the Yemeni population as a whole will provide basic services and create job opportunities across regions. People are less likely to return to conflict if they are constructively occupied, earn an income and can plan for the future. They are also more likely to support the peace process if they experience increased well-being, see an improvement in public services, and hear of successful development projects. As such, an institutional model for reconstruction that emphasizes national ownership, transparency, and inclusiveness will have the best chance to consolidate peace in the long term.
Khaled Hamid is a development economist and chartered accountant. He has worked as a policy specialist for the Government of Yemen's Executive Bureau for the Acceleration of Aid Absorption & Support for Policy Reforms, and conducted research programs for the leading INGOs in Yemen, including UNDP, WB, DFID, CARE, and OXFAM. Hamid has held various positions in the Research and Statistics Department of Central Bank of Yemen, including analyst, economist and deputy director, and is currently the director general of the Banking Deposits Insurance Corporation in Yemen. Hamid holds a master's degree in Economic Policy from the Center for Development Economics at Williams College, Massachusetts, US, which he earned through the Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program. He also holds a bachelor's degree in accounting and auditing.


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Major general or major-general is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. A major general is a high-ranking officer, normally subordinate to the rank of lieutenant general and senior to the ranks of brigadier and brigadier general. Where relevant, major general has a NATO code of OF-7, and is considered to be a two-star rank.[1] A major general in most armies commands a division, however in some countries he commands a brigade.
In some instances, such as in Estonia, the highest rank currently in use is that of major general.
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Main article: Major general (Australia)
In the old Austro-Hungarian Army, the major general was called a generalmajor.[2] Today's Austrian Federal Army still uses the same term.
See also: Canadian Forces ranks and insignia
In the Canadian Armed Forces, the rank of major-general (MGen) (major-général or Mgén in French) is an Army or Air Force rank equal to a rear-admiral of the Royal Canadian Navy. A major-general is a general officer, the equivalent of a naval flag officer. A major-general is senior to a brigadier-general or commodore, and junior to a lieutenant-general or vice-admiral. Prior to 1968, the Air Force used the rank of air vice-marshal instead.
The rank insignia for a major-general is two gold maple leaves beneath crossed sword and baton, all surmounted by St. Edward's Crown. It is worn on the shoulder straps of the service dress tunic, and on slip-ons on other uniforms. The service dress tunic also features a wide strip of gold braid around the cuff. On the visor of the service cap are two rows of gold oak leaves.
Major-generals are initially addressed as "general" and name, as are all general officers; thereafter by subordinates as "sir" or "ma'am" as applicable in English or "mon général" in French. Major-generals are normally entitled to staff cars.
In the Estonian military, the major general rank is called kindralmajor.
The Finnish military equivalent is kenraalimajuri in Finnish, or generalmajor in Swedish.
The French equivalent to the rank of major general is général de division.
In the French military, major général is not a rank but an appointment conferred on some generals, usually of général de corps d'armée rank, acting as head of staff of a branch of service. This should not be confused with the chief of staff, who is usually a général d'armée, and the true commander of each service. The position of major général can be considered the equivalent of a deputy chief of Staff. There are five major generals: the Major General of the Armies, head of the General Staff, the Major General of the Army, the Major General of the Navy, the Major General of the Gendarmerie and the Major General of the Air Force.Major-General(General en Chef d'Armee)the Marquis de la Lafayette, is a prominent example of a Major-General holding the same equivalent rank in both the newly created United States and in Ancien-Regime France.
Historically, the French army had some sergent-majors généraux, also called sergents de bataille, whose task was to prepare the disposition of the army on the field before a battle. These sergents-majors généraux became a new rank, the maréchal de camp (not the same as a field marshal, in the French Army from antiquity called a Maréchal de France), which was the equivalent of the rank of major general. However, the term of major général was not forgotten and used to describe the appointment of armies chiefs of staff. One well-known French major général was Marshal Louis Alexandre Berthier, Major General of Napoléon's Grande armée.
The German Army and Luftwaffe refer to the rank as Generalmajor (OF-7) until 1945. Prior to 1955, the rank of Generalleutnant (OF-8) was used to define a division commander, whereas Generalmajor was a brigade commander. With the remilitarization of Germany in 1955 with West Germany's admission to NATO, Germany adopted the rank structure of the U.S. with the authority of the three lower ranks being moved up one level and the rank of Brigadegeneral (brigadier general, OF-6) added below them. The rank of Generaloberst (OF-9, Colonel general) was no longer used. The change was likely made to avoid confusion over relative rank in NATO forces.
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The Nationale Volksarmee of the German Democratic Republic continued the use Generalmajor (OF-6), short GenMaj, (en Major general) as the lowest general officer rank (one-star rank), followed by Generalleutnant (OF-7), Generaloberst (OF-8), Armeegeneral (OF-9), and finally Marshal of the German Democratic Republic until reunification 1990. The Konteradmiral (OF-6), short KAdm (en: Rear admiral) was equivalent to the Generalmajor.
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The Hungarian Defence Force (Hungarian: Magyar Honvédség) refer to the rank as vezérőrnagy.
In the Iranian Army and Air Force, the ranks above colonel are respectively sartip dovom (second brigadier general with no equivalent in other countries), sartip (brigadier general), sarlashkar (major general), sepahbod (lieutenant general), and arteshbod (general)
In the Irish Defence Forces, there are two major generals. They are Deputy Chiefs of Staff with separate responsibility for operations (DCOS Ops) and support (DCOS Sp).
Major general in the Indian Army is equivalent to rear admiral in the Indian Navy and air vice marshal in the Indian Air Force and is the lowest of the general officer ranks, ranking higher than a brigadier and lower than a lieutenant general.
In the Israel Defence Forces, a major general is called an aluf and is the second highest rank, only outranked by rav aluf (lieutenant general or general), who is also the Chief of Staff.
In Italy, the equivalent of major general is the army rank of generale di divisione. In the army the generale di divisione is the commander of a division or as other duties in the various national or international staff, in the Carabinieri or Guardia di Finanza. He/she is usually the commander of the units in a zone of the country.
The rank of sojang is also used in North Korea, where it is the lowest general officer and flag officer rank, equivalent to a one-star general. The North Korean equivalent to a two-star General is jungjang, which roughly translates as lieutenant general.
In South Korea, the rank of major general is known as sojang (Korean language: 소장
Hanja
少將).
In the New Zealand Army, major-general is the rank held by the Chief of Army (formerly the Chief of General Staff). The more senior rank of lieutenant-general is reserved for when an army officer holds the position of Chief of Defence Force, who commands all New Zealand's armed forces. This position is subject to rotation between the heads of the air force, army, and navy.
In the Norwegian Army, the Royal Norwegian Air Force and the Norwegian Home Guard, generalmajor is the lowest general officer, equivalent to kontreadmiral in the Royal Norwegian Navy.
Major general in the Pakistan Army is equivalent to rear admiral in the Pakistan Navy and air vice marshal in the Pakistan Air Force and is the lowest of the general officer ranks, ranking between brigadier and lieutenant general. The Pakistan Army has two female major generals.
Main article: Generał brygady
Generał brygady (Polish pronunciation: [ɡɛˈnɛraw brɨˈɡadɨ], literally General of a brigade, abbreviated gen. bryg.) is the lowest grade for generals in the Polish Army (both in the Land Forces and in the Polish Air Force). Depending on the context, it is equivalent to either the modern grade of Major general, or the grade of Brigadier General (mostly in historical context).
The rank of major-general was reintroduced in the Portuguese Army, Air Force and National Republican Guard in 1999 in place of the former rank of brigadier. It was previously used in the Army, from 1862–1864. It is equivalent to contra-almirante in the Portuguese Navy.
In Somalia, Major General is used within the Somali Armed Forces (SAF) for the highest-ranking military official.[3]
In Sweden, the rank of generalmajor (Genmj) is used in the Army, the Amphibious Corps and the Air Force. It is the equivalent to konteramiral in the navy. It is typically held by the Inspector Generals of the three service branches and the head of the Swedish Military Intelligence and Security Service.
In Thailand, the rank of Major General is called Pon-tree "พลตรี" for Royal Thai Army, which is equivalent to Real Admiral (Pon-reu-tree "พลเรือตรี") for Royal Thai Navy and Air Vice Marshal (Pon-akat-tree "พลอากาศตรี") for Royal Thai Air Force.
The Turkish Army and Turkish Air Force refer to the rank as tümgeneral. The Turkish Navy equivalent is tümamiral. The name is derived from tümen, the Turkish word for a military division (tümen itself is an older Turkish word meaning "10,000"). Thus, linguistically, it is similar to the French equivalent for a major general, général de division.
Main article: Major-general (United Kingdom)
In the British Army and Royal Marines, major-general ranks below lieutenant-general and above brigadier, and is thus the lowest of the general officer ranks, although always considered equivalent to major-general in other countries. Divisions are usually commanded by major-generals and they also hold a variety of staff positions. The professional head of the Royal Marines currently holds the rank of major-general.
From 1 April 1918 to 31 July 1919, the Royal Air Force maintained the rank of major-general. It was superseded by the rank of air vice-marshal on the following day.
Major-general is equivalent to rear admiral in the Royal Navy and air vice-marshal in the Royal Air Force.
Main article: Major general (United States)
In the United States Army, a major general commands a division of 10,000–20,000 soldiers and is capable of fully independent field operation.
In Vietnam, the rank of major general is known as thiếu tướng. It is used in the army and the air force. It is the equivalent to chuẩn Đô đốc in the Navy.
The rank of thiếu tướng is the lowest general officer and flag officer rank, equivalent to a one-star general and admiral. In the Vietnamese People's Army, a major general commands a corps of 30,000–40,000 soldiers and is capable of fully independent field operation.
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Fictional references
Major-General Stanley is the "modern major general" from Gilbert and Sullivan's 1879 comic operetta, The Pirates of Penzance. Stanley is a satire of the aristocratic, learned officers in the British Army of the day. He sings the immortal "Major-General's Song" ("I am the very model of a modern major-general, I've information vegetable, animal and mineral...")
In the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1, the commanding officer of Stargate Command from seasons 1 to 7 is Major General George Hammond (played by Don S. Davis). From season 9, the position is taken up by Major General Hank Landry.
Bartholomew Bandy, the air ace from Donald Jack's Bandy Papers series, ends the First World War as a major general at the age of only 26.
In the anime movie Robotech II: The Sentinels, the lead character, Rick Hunter, holds the rank of major general.
Con artist Private Harry Frigg, played by Academy Award-winning actor Paul Newman, is promoted overnight to major general in the 1968 war comedy, The Secret War of Harry Frigg.
The third Judge Advocate General of the show JAG (1995–2005) is a major general: Major General Gordon "Biff" Cresswell, USMC, portrayed by David Andrews.
The U.S. Army forces sent to occupy Brooklyn, New York in The Siege are commanded by Major General William Deveraux, portrayed by Bruce Willis.
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↑ In countries that do not maintain the rank of brigadier general, including much of Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth, major general is the lowest of the general-officer ranks. Note, however, if the rank of brigadier is used, although brigadiers are not classed as "generals", they are of equal rank to brigadier generals, and are still considered to be a one-star rank. If neither of the ranks of brigadier or brigadier general (or an equivalent rank) are used, the major general is still considered a two-star rank (independent of how many stars there actually are in the insignia), and that armed force simply has no one-star rank.
↑ Bowden & Tarbox, p 24. The authors write that FML (field-marshal-lieutenant) is the same as lieutenant-general and general-feldwachtmeister the same as major-general. But they list no equivalent rank to brigadier-general. Nevertheless, the page cited is an excellent source of Austro-Hungarian ranks.
↑ Somalia: A Country Study – Army Ranks and Insignia
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Boatner, Mark M., III. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: David McKay, 1959. ISBN 0-679-50013-8.
Bowden, Scotty & Tarbox, Charlie. Armies on the Danube 1809. Arlington, TX: Empire Games Press, 1980. OCLC 6649795.
Foote, Shelby. The Civil War: A Narrative. Vol. 2. New York: Random House, 1986. ISBN 0-394-74621-X.
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I have to say Lloydwaters have an exceptionally nice window display at the moment! Lloydwaters is the jewel in Great Dunmow's crown; a unique & stylish department store which they rightly claim is packed full of "things they love & things you will need"…& currently sporting a gorgeous petrol blue Cademuir roman blind.
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Black Bean and Quinoa Enchilada Zucchini Boats-if you like enchiladas, you will LOVE this healthy zucchini version. It is one of our family's favorite meals.
Stop what you are doing, grab your pile of zucchini, and make these Black Bean and Quinoa Enchilada Zucchini Boats. I made these zucchini boats for dinner last week and they were a home run. All of my boys devoured the boats.
Josh loves enchiladas, so I knew he would love them, but I was a little worried about the younger boys. You never know what they will eat. Well, I told them they were enchilada zucchini BOATS and they immediately dug in. Of course, they started pretending that their boats were racing and that they were going fishing, but that didn't bug me. I love their little imaginations and I loved that they were eating a healthy, vegetable loaded dinner without whining. SCORE!
I love this recipe because it uses up a ton of zucchini. I used seven medium zucchini to make two 9×13 pans. You may think that sounds like a lot, but trust me, you are going to want a lot of this dish. It is SO good.
If you don't need a lot, you can halve the recipe, but I highly recommend making the whole recipe. You can eat leftovers, freeze a pan, or give a pan to a friend. I gave one pan to my friend and she text me that night to tell me that her kids LOVED the recipe. YAY!
To make the zucchini boats, you hollow out the zucchini and stuff them with a tasty black bean and quinoa mixture. Add enchilada sauce, shredded cheese, and bake until bubbly!
Remove from the oven and DIVE in! You will be instantly blown away by the deliciousness.
This recipe reminds me of our Black Bean and Quinoa Enchilada Bake, which is the most popular recipe on our site, so if you love that one, I bet you will love this one too!
Put Black Bean and Quinoa Enchilada Zucchini Boats on your dinner menu ASAP. This recipe perfect for zucchini season and sure to become a family favorite.
If you are looking for more zucchini recipes, check out our favorite zucchini recipes here.
These easy enchilada zucchini boats are guaranteed to be a family favorite meal! Add them to your dinner menu ASAP!
Using a small spoon, hollow out the center of the zucchini halves, leaving 1/4-inch thick shell on each half. Chop the scooped out zucchini flesh and set aside 1 cup to use in the filling. Drop zucchini halves in boiling water and cook 1 minute. Remove from water and set aside.
In a large skillet, heat the olive oil over medium-high heat. Add the onion and cook until translucent, about 4-5 minutes.
Squeeze the 1 cup of zucchini filling in a paper towel to remove excess moisture. Stir in the zucchini, garlic, red pepper, corn, chili powder, cumin, lime juice, and cilantro. Cook for 2-3 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in the black beans and quinoa. Season with salt and black pepper, to taste. Stir in 1/2 cup of the shredded cheese and 1/2 cup of the enchilada sauce.
Spray two 9x13 baking dishes with nonstick cooking spray. Drizzle a little bit of the enchilada sauce at the bottom of each pan. Place the hollowed out zucchini cut side up in the dish. Using a spoon, fill the zucchini equally with the black bean and quinoa filling, pressing firmly so it stays in the zucchini. Drizzle the remaining enchilada sauce over the filled zucchini. Sprinkle the remaining cheese evenly over the top.
Cover with foil and bake for 30 minutes. Remove the foil and bake for 5 more minutes or until cheese is melted and zucchini is cooked through. Serve warm.
Note-you can halve this recipe. This recipe reheats and freezes well.
Just looking at them makes me hungry! Really yummy!
Such a great family meal!
What a great vegetarian dinner!!
Just another reason to hop on board with the zucchini trend!!
So good! There has been so much great zucchini this year! This will be perfect for me to use up what I have left!
I would like to add this dish in my meal, because of so attractive look and it must be a tasty one.
Quinoa Enchilada Zucchini looking delicious !! I can't wait to make it now.
Hi! If I'm going to freeze this should I cook it first and then freeze or freeze it uncooked?
Going to try this tonight, yet I have one question, will this work with yellow squash? I"m going to try both, yet I have more yellow squash than green.
Sure, you can use yellow squash. Enjoy!
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HomeQuick Review: GOLDEN by Marcus Thompson (Atria)
Quick Review: GOLDEN by Marcus Thompson (Atria)
August 31, 2020 Civilian Reader ReviewAtria, Basketball, Biography, Golden, Golden State Warriors, Marcus Thompson, NBA, Non-Fiction, Simon & Schuster, Sports, Steph Curry
An interesting biography of an unexpected basketball talent
The inside story of Steph Curry, the greatest shooter basketball has ever seen.
Golden is the first book to provide an all-access look at Steph Curry and the team that has fueled Dub Nation — by longtime Warriors beat reporter and Bay Area News Group sports columnist Marcus Thompson, the go-to expert on all things Golden State.
A lifelong Warriors fan turned insider Thompson is uniquely qualified to tell the definitive story of a singular talent, pulling back the curtain on the crazy work ethic and on-court intensity that make Curry great — and the emphasis on family and faith that keeps him grounded.
Combining the competitive grit and fun-loving spirit of his mother with the mild demeanor, easy charm, and sharp shooting of his father, former NBA player Dell Curry, Steph Curry derives support and strength from his close-knit kin and his commitment to Christianity. This hard-working, wholesome image however is both a blessing and curse in a League of big personalities. Thompson unravels the complicated underpinnings of the Steph Curry hate with a nuanced analysis of how class and complexion come into play when a child with an NBA pedigree becomes the face of a sport traditionally honed on inner-city black top and dominated by the less privileged.
With unprecedented access, Thompson draws from exclusive interviews with Steph Curry, his family, his teammates, Coach Steve Kerr, and the Warriors owners to bring readers inside the locker room and courtside with this remarkable athlete and man.
With the NBA season back and in full swing, I found myself in the mood to read about some of the various basketball books I've picked up over the years. Steph Curry and the Warriors were a juggernaut in recent years, which naturally led to the publication of a few books about the team and its stars. Originally published in 2017, I decided it was well-passed time for me to read Golden. It's an interesting book, let down only by its subject.
How to review this biography? This is a bit of an issue with Golden. Thompson is a very good writer, and he clearly knows and loves basketball and the Warriors. (He currently writes for The Athletic, and is a long-time resident of and journalist in the Bay Area.) He uses certain key games and playoff/finals series to craft an arc of Steph Curry's career and rise to superstardom. All of them are examples of good basketball writing/journalism. In between, Thompson provides some details and/or examination of Curry's career and life.
The accounts of the games and series are interesting. However, it turns out that Steph Curry isn't really that interesting a subject to read about. (I had a similar experience reading this as I do books about Bruce Springsteen: the subject is a phenomenal talent, but the biography's a bit dull and through no fault of the author.)
Steph Curry is still rather young, of course, but he's achieved so much already — the many shooting records, the back-to-back MVP awards (one unanimous), the championships. By all measure, he is a golden boy. While this is not something to sneer at, nor dismiss, it doesn't make him an especially gripping subject. Sure, a book about Denis Rodman would probably be more interesting and packed with gossip, anecdotes, and shenanigans. The "unprecedented access" doesn't really bring up much in the way of revelations. (A single profile by Carvell Wallace provided almost as much insight into the player.) Thompson provides some good analysis and theories about what drives Curry, as well as solid analysis of his game, his evolution as a player, and more.
The book ends on a hopeful and positive note. I just think it needed a bit more — maybe some more interviews with Curry, or perhaps more input from his teammates, opponents, etc. Certain aspects of Curry's work are dealt with only in passing — he's active in the battle against malaria, but we don't get any more than that statement. The book felt a little unbalanced. The accounts of games and series were long and detailed (not to mention stat-packed), but the analysis and story between were much thinner. Some of the most interesting portions of the book weren't about Curry. The most interesting anecdote can be found in the caption for a photo of Curry and Obama (what Michelle Obama told Curry to say to the President during golf). These details could have made the book more engaging and interesting.
So, I'd say Golden is a must read for Golden State Warriors fans, and also anyone who is interested in a player who has helped reshape the modern NBA (for good or ill, depending on your preferences). For more casual fans, however, it might not be as gripping. I found it quite interesting, but I think I just wanted a bit more depth to the portrait. Thompson does a very good job, but maybe Curry biographies need to be held off until he's further along in his career? The author's follow-up book, KD, is also out now and I'll be reading and reviewing it very soon — I imagine that one is more interesting because Kevin Durant is a generally more interesting person.
If you're looking for a more general, and more recent book about the Warriors, I'd recommend Ethan Sherwood Strauss's The Victory Machine. I would also highly recommend Andre Iguodala & Carvell Wallace's The Sixth Man (which I'll be reviewing later this week).
Marcus Thompson's Golden is out now, published by Atria Books in North America and Authentic Media in the UK.
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The Goessel girls basketball team came home from Wakefield with a 37-36 loss Friday.
The Bluebirds trailed 9-6 at the end of the first quarter and trailed 17-9 at halftime.
Goessel still trailed 28-20 at the end of three quarters and then began to close the gap for the final surge of the game.
As the game neared the end, the Bluebirds trailed by 3 points. Goessel had the ball and called timeout, but had more than half the length of the court to go in three seconds. Jessica Harvey caught a pass and prepared to launch a long shot at the buzzer, but was fouled by a Wakefield player. Harvey stepped to the line and sank the first two free throws but missed the third to get the Bluebirds within a point for a final score of 37-36.
Alex Hiebert led the Bluebirds with 10 points. Harvey scored 7 points with 4 steals. Johanna Hoffman scored 5 points and 4 assists, Shanna Klassen scored 5 points with 8 rebounds and 4 assists, and D'Ambra Kruger scored 5 points. Aimee Flaming scored 2 points and Jennifer Van Horn scored 2 points to go along with 3 blocks.
On Dec. 14, the Bluebird girls hit better than 50 percent from the free-throw line, but Moundridge's defense prevented them from taking shots. Goessel's only point in the first quarter came from a Klassen free throw. The Wildcats built a 14-1 lead at the end of the first quarter and the Bluebird deficit just got worse.
Four 3-pointers for the Bluebirds described the offense in the second and third quarters with Aimee Flaming, Harvey, Johanna Hoffman, and Kruger each making one. Klassen finished the scoring for the Bluebirds with 6 fourth-quarter points as the Bluebirds went to the locker room with a loss, 52-21.
Klassen led the team with 8 points, 4 rebounds, 2 steals, and 2 assists. Harvey, Flaming, Kruger, and Hoffman each scored 3 and Alex Hiebert 1.
The Goessel girls are now 1-5 overall and 0-1 in the Wheat State League.


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De Kock appointed as South Africa captain for a one-day series from England
South Africa named Wicketkeeper Quentin de Kock as captain of the team, resting for a one-day series against world champions England.
According to a foreign news agency, AFP reports, South Africa has given rest to captain Faf du Plessis and fast bowler Kagiso Rabada for a three-match series beginning on February 4.
Selector Linda Zondi said not choosing Faf du Plessis on the team does not mean the end of her one-day career.
"We decided to give Faf du Plessis and Rabada a rest in this series because both have played a lot of cricket," he said.
Linda Zondi said the appointment of De Kook as captain is part of an alternative leadership plan for the World Cup 2023.
He said that after the one-day series against England, there will be a different team selection for the T20, followed by the T20 and one-day series against Australia.
De Kock has previously led South Africa in one-day and Twenty20 matches.
South Africa Cricket Acting Director Graham Smith said that De Kock is one of the best wicketkeeper batsmen in the world and we are confident that the new leadership role will make him a cricketer.
Other players, including new batsman Jenni Mann Milan, have also been added to the squad for the World Champion series, with Ngidi returning.
The South African team will be comprised of these players for the one-day series.
Quentin de Cooke (captain), Temba Boma, Borne Fortune, Beaver Hendrix, Reza Hendrix, Sisanda Magala, Jenni Mann Milan, David Miller, Andela Falkvane, Lungi Ngidi, Tabriz Solaris, Lotto Spell, Reese van der Dusen and All-rounder June Exams included.
The one-day series between South Africa and England will begin in Cape Town on February 4, the second match will be played in Durban on February 7 and the third match in Johannesburg on February 9.
The Twenty20 series between England and South Africa starts on February 12 and three matches will be played.
The Test series between England and South Africa is ongoing, with England leading 1-2, while the last match of the series starts on January 24.
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IQIYI (NASDAQ:IQ) Frequently Asked Questions
What is IQIYI's stock symbol?
IQIYI trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "IQ."
How were IQIYI's earnings last quarter?
IQIYI Inc (NASDAQ:IQ) announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, November, 6th. The company reported ($5.04) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of ($0.74) by $4.30. The business earned $7.40 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $7.23 billion. IQIYI had a negative return on equity of 72.51% and a negative net margin of 39.47%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 7.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned ($0.62) EPS. View IQIYI's Earnings History.
When is IQIYI's next earnings date?
IQIYI is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 20th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for IQIYI.
What price target have analysts set for IQ?
14 brokerages have issued 1-year price objectives for IQIYI's shares. Their forecasts range from $14.00 to $24.00. On average, they anticipate IQIYI's share price to reach $20.13 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 15.8%. View Analyst Price Targets for IQIYI.
What is the consensus analysts' recommendation for IQIYI?
14 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for IQIYI in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 7 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for IQIYI.
Has IQIYI been receiving favorable news coverage?
Headlines about IQ stock have trended somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. IQIYI earned a news sentiment score of 1.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news articles about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term. View News Stories for IQIYI.
Are investors shorting IQIYI?
IQIYI saw a drop in short interest in the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 40,830,000 shares, a drop of 6.2% from the December 15th total of 43,540,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 6,090,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 6.7 days. Approximately 12.9% of the company's stock are short sold. View IQIYI's Current Options Chain.
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Some companies that are related to IQIYI include ADIDAS AG/S (ADDYY), Las Vegas Sands (LVS), Marriott International (MAR), SANDS CHINA Ltd/ADR (SCHYY), NINTENDO LTD/ADR (NTDOY), Activision Blizzard (ATVI), ORIENTAL LD CO/ADR (OLCLY), VF (VFC), Electronic Arts (EA), Sirius XM (SIRI), Lululemon Athletica (LULU), Hilton Hotels (HLT), TAL Education Group (TAL), Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL) and Carnival (CCL).
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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other IQIYI investors own include Alibaba Group (BABA), NVIDIA (NVDA), JD.Com (JD), Square (SQ), Micron Technology (MU), TENCENT HOLDING/ADR (TCEHY), Baidu (BIDU), Shopify (SHOP), Netflix (NFLX) and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
Who are IQIYI's key executives?
IQIYI's management team includes the folowing people:
Dr. Tim Gong Yu, Founder, CEO & Director (Age 50)
Mr. Xiaodong Wang, Chief Financial Officer (Age 44)
Mr. Wenfeng Liu, Chief Technology Officer (Age 41)
Ms. Dahlia Wei, Director of Investor Relations
Ms. Xiangjun Wang, Chief Marketing Officer (Age 41)
When did IQIYI IPO?
(IQ) raised $2.3 billion in an initial public offering (IPO) on Thursday, March 29th 2018. The company issued 125,000,000 shares at $17.00-$19.00 per share. Goldman Sachs (Asia), Credit Suisse and BofA Merrill Lynch served as the underwriters for the IPO and China Renaissance, Citigroup and UBS Investment Bank were co-managers.
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IQIYI has a market capitalization of $17.34 billion and generates $3.63 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $-1,324,960,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($2.47) on an earnings per share basis. IQIYI employs 8,577 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About IQIYI.
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IQIYI's mailing address is 9/F IQIYI INNOVATION BUILDING NO.2 HAIDIAN NORTH STREET HAIDIAN, BEIJING F4, 100080. The company can be reached via phone at 86-10-6267-7171 or via email at [email protected]
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That fetching hotel by the sea got a chef: The search started in March, and finally the Hotel Del's 1500 Ocean installed Robert Hohmann as chef de cuisine. He's recently from Bottega Ristorante (he was chef de cuisine under powerhouse Michael Chiarello). His CV includes notable support roles at Bouchon Bistro and Per Se (from another chef powerhouse, Thomas Keller) and Del Posto (that Bastianich and Batali New York spot).
Chef Jonathan Wills comes from the JW Marriott Desert Springs, takes over Arterra's reins. The former Arterra chef, Tony Miller, is making a delicious Mexican chocolate ice cream and more in his new chef de cuisine role at Kitchen 4140, under Kurt Metzger. Read more about Kitchen 4140 here.
Did we mention Sessions Public is taking a double-boss approach to its kitchen? Dustin Beckner (who's worked at Alex Stratta and Todd English restaurants) teams with Jasa Joseph (who worked under New York-based "Top Chef" Sam Talbot). They're the gastropub's executive chefs, plural.
We're anxious to see what changes the CIA-educated chef Colin Murray will make now that he's in charge of Brooklyn Girl (Tyler Thrasher is out). We've heard they're looking for sous chef support.
Congrats to Chad White for his new Counterpoint chef gig, his follow-up to a brief episode at Brian Malarkey's Gabardine. Read a backgrounder on that here.
Speaking of Kitchen 4140, that restaurant's sous chef, Luis Aguirre, is moonlighting as chef for the upcoming Bay Park 65-seater Luce. That gastropub will do pizzas, charcuterie, fish, casual fare and NOT Italian. It's a sister to Tony D'Amato's Baci Ristorante next door. Aguirre worked also at Leroy's Kitchen in Coronado and ran that lime Monster Mobile food truck.
Baja California Sur chef Drew Deckman opened Deckmans en el Mogor--a summer, outdoor restaurant down at Mogor Badan winery, in Valle de Guadalupe. Open 1-7pm daily. Read more about Valle de Guadalupe here.
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Amanda is a passionate advocate for human rights, non-human welfare, and sustainability. Her journey started while she was an undergraduate in college, when she first learned about factory farming through the non-profit Mercy For Animals. Once her eyes were opened to the the truth, she knew there was no turning back. Her last semester of her undergraduate degree at Marymount Manhattan College, Amanda took an internship at Mercy For Animals and decided to apply to a graduate school program that would further her mission to help non-human animals.
In 2010, Amanda was accepted in the Anthrozoology Master of Science program at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY. After two wonderful years learning about human-animal relationships, Amanda received her Anthrozoology degree and started working for Catskill Animal Sanctuary in Saugerties, NY. Her time spent with the rescued farmed animals was nothing short of life changing.
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Carlo Galli is Nestlé's Technical Manager of Water Resources.
In his work, he is in charge of making sure that Nestlé's worldwide operations are water-sustainable; not an easy task, taking in count the fact that it takes a lot of water to make food.
In this episode, we focus on sustainable water management. Idan has a candid conversation about water, coffee, industrial practices, sustainable value-chain and social responsibilities with the man whose job is to make sure that the biggest food & beverage company in the world (in 2017, according to Forbes) is leading a healthily sustainable lifestyle.
The interview was recorded in March 2018, during the 8th World Water Forum, in Brasilia.
Waterline had a studio there, as part of the Israeli pavilion at WWF8 Expo.


SIMON Long's late winner gave Shirley an impressive win over Sutton United last week ahead of another tough game against Ajax tomorrow.
During a dull first half that saw both teams fail to get their usual passing game moving, Shirley took an early lead.
Long's right sided cross was met by Mike Mountford who fired in the opener. Both teams struggled to break each other down but on 36 minutes Sutton drew level.
A low 30-yard drive hit the foot of Brown's right hand post, and when the ball came back into play the Sutton striker tapped in to level the scores.
A revitalised Shirley started the second half with more vigour and were unlucky not to re-take the lead through Mountford and Long.
However with time running out Long burst past three defenders and slotted home the winner which moved Shirley up to fourth in the table.


3-room terraced house 60 m2, on the upper ground floor. Simple furnishings: living room with 1 double sofabed and TV. Exit to the veranda. 1 double bedroom with 1 x 2 bunk beds, 1 double bed. 1 double bedroom with 1 double bed. Kitchenette (4 hot plates, oven, freezer, electric coffee machine). Shower/bidet/WC. Terrace roofed, roofed, garden 60 m2. Terrace furniture, barbecue. Facilities: washing machine, mosquito net. Reserved parking space n 2 (fenced). Please note: 2 pets/ dogs allowed. TV only IT. Private entrance.
Child friendly, beautiful holiday development Golfo di Follonica. Outside the resort Campiglia Marittima, in a sunny position, 200 m from the sea, direct access to the beach. For shared use: property (fenced). Private: garden. Terrace, garden furniture. In the complex: restaurant, bar, shopping facilities. Parking (for 2 cars) on the premises. Railway station 13 km, sandy beach 200 m. Nearby attractions: Campiglia 10 km, Populonia 20 km, San Vincenzo 20 km, Castagneto Carducci 35 km. Please note: suitable for families. The photograph shows a typical example. There are more similar properties for rent in this same residence. the restaurant, bar and mini-market are open only during the high season. Opening dates and times may vary.


Join our monthly Saturday work party before the "Second Sunday" in Graham, WA. Come have access to enjoy the Preserve in all of its beautiful fall colors while helping to maintain and restore its ecological health! Trail work and maintenance will continue on the prairie, oak, and Douglas fir habitat trails, as well as the boardwalk, creek, and forested wetland trails. All ages and abilities are welcome, and no experience is necessary. Invite your friends, coworkers, and family to come outside and restore this beautiful Preserve!


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Man shot, killed at central Tacoma convenience store; another man detained
By Rob Mackay
TACOMA -- A man was shot and killed at a central Tacoma convenience store Monday night, Tacoma police spokeswoman Loretta Cool said.
She said the shooting involved two men in their 20s who both had guns, and that the shooting occurred at about 6:30 p.m. in the 2700 block of South 12th Street.
"One was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead," Cool said. "The other stayed at the scene."
Cool said that the other man has been detained, and the police are not looking for anyone else.
No other details were immediately released.
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In preparation for the distribution by Irish Water of water charges refund cheques banks (*) have liaised with the national utility to help ensure that these cheques are credited to people's accounts as quickly and efficiently as possible. This has involved a series of meetings between the banks and Irish Water under the auspices of BPFI, as well as contact between individual banks and the utility on bank-specific matters.
These meetings have proved helpful in facilitating a smooth refund programme: (a) in providing banks with an understanding of Irish Water's cheque issuing process, the volumes involved and relevant capacity constraints; and (b) in informing Irish Water about the processes around cheque lodgement and clearing, anti-money laundering procedures and system capacity.
Preparations have been made by banks to receive and process cheque lodgements as and when cheques are issued by Irish Water.
Customers are advised to note that it is the practice of banks to decline cheques which are presented for payment six months or later than the date on which the cheque is written.
Should customers wish to donate to charity part or all of the proceeds of their water charges refund cheque, banks will facilitate customer instructions – provided in the normal way – to make such payments on their behalf to charities of their choice. This will constitute a separate banking transaction. Again the means by which this can be facilitated may well vary between one bank and another.
Banks and Irish Water are fully conscious of the additional demands which the issuing and processing of extra large volumes of cheques give rise to on top of the normal course of business – particularly so in the run-up to the busy Christmas period. In these circumstances banks are focused on making the process as quick and efficient as possible for their customers.
For further information see Frequently Asked Questions on the Irish Water website here.


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'Finally, I made it': Newest Americans celebrate citizenship
Saturday Jul 2, 2011 3:15 AM
By Becky Bratu, msnbc.com
NEW YORK – A tense silence came over the wood-paneled courtroom as about 160 naturalization petitioners and their guests awaited the arrival of federal District Judge Barbara S. Jones.
They were all minutes away from becoming U.S. citizens, the culmination of an immigration process that can take several years.
Sitting in the front row and wearing the red, white and blue dress uniform of the U.S. Marine Corps, 23-year-old David Wen Riccardi-Zhu watched the door that led to the judge's quarters. Half-Chinese, half-Italian, he was about to be the first one in his family to become a U.S. citizen. Born in Naples, Italy, Riccardi-Zhu moved to New York with his parents and brother 16 years ago.
"I've been waiting for this for so long," he said, adding that he was particularly excited about voting for the first time.
The crowd stood as Judge Jones entered the room. Right hands were raised and a chorus of voices began reciting the Oath of Allegiance.
From a war-torn land
A week ago, 32-year-old Nazia Hadle was one of these voices.
Born in Afghanistan, Hadle became an American citizen, joining thousands naturalized all over the country this week, ahead of Independence Day.
"Finally, I made it," she said.
For Hadle there is no looking back to her life in war-torn Afghanistan. While her homeland is still reeling from the terrorist attack this week on a hotel in Kabul, she is looking forward to bringing her children, Sarah, 7, and Yusef, 1, to see the Independence Day fireworks in Manhattan.
In 1999, Hadle fled her town in northern Afghanistan, where she taught English, to escape the war she had known her whole life. She was granted asylum in the U.S., and in 2006 she became a permanent resident.
That was two years after she learned her father had died in Afghanistan, and her remaining relatives had moved to Canada.
"Now I got nothing (in Afghanistan)," Hadle said. "And there's always war."
Long haul to citizenship
According to federal statistics, more than 675,000 citizens were naturalized in fiscal year 2010. U.S. citizenship law requires foreign nationals to live in the U.S. legally for five years, pass an interview, a citizenship test and a background check to become Americans.
With help from her daughter and an immigration counselor at Brooklyn's Catholic Migration Office, Hadle submitted her application in December.
"I love the freedom here," she said, "although I don't get 100 percent freedom." Since 9/11, Hadle said, she's noticed people are more likely to have a negative reaction when they hear she's an Afghan.
And Frederik Stefani, the immigration counselor who assisted Hadle with her case, said the security clearance for naturalization applications submitted by Afghans as well as citizens of various Middle Eastern nations tends to take longer than for other foreign nationals.
Now, as her Afghan husband prepares his own citizenship application, Hadle hopes her new status will help. The new American wants to one day resume her teaching career.
'Waited a long time for this day'
"I know that many of you have waited a long time for this day," Judge Jones told the newly minted citizens standing in the lower Manhattan courthouse on Friday. "You are the new blood that strengthens and invigorates this country."
The right hands were raised again, this time to the heart, as the chorus recited the Pledge of Allegiance. Standing to the right of Riccardi-Zhu, a Russian-born woman who's lived in the U.S. for 15 years wiped a tear from the corner of her right eye.
The ceremony over, each new citizen walked to the front of the courtroom to receive a certificate confirming their new status. An elderly man stopped to read the paper and smiled. As people exited the courtroom, a courthouse employee congratulated them in various languages. Even the ladies' restroom was abuzz with excitement, as a bathroom attendant congratulated a woman.
"I got my citizenship 32 years ago," the attendant said in Spanish. "Citizenship is a very good thing."
Eric Grigorian / Polaris
More than 8,000 people take the oath this week in Los Angeles to become new U.S. citizens.


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Stratus ztC Edge Platform Named as an AVEVA Edge Computing Infrastructure Solution
Stratus Joins with AVEVA on Edge to Enterprise Initiative, Building on 10-year Strategic Relationship
MAYNARD, Mass. — September 9, 2019 — Stratus Technologies, a global leader in simplified, protected, autonomous edge computing solutions, today announced its Stratus® ztC™ Edge solution has been chosen as an edge computing infrastructure solution by AVEVA, a global leader in engineering and industrial software.
For more than ten years, Stratus and AVEVA have offered an ecosystem of hardware and software platforms for industrial customers going through digital transformation. Today, the two companies are working together to bring AVEVA's Edge to Enterprise initiative and the benefits of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and advanced analytics to industrial companies worldwide.
AVEVA's Edge to Enterprise initiative provides edge-to-cloud integration and advanced visualization tools along with seamless access to advanced applications and powerful analytics. The strategic partnership with Stratus means that customers can now access highly reliable, continuously available edge computing solutions as they modernize and automate their industrial environments.
Stratus' ztC Edge is a rugged, secure, highly-automated industrial computing system that protects and delivers business critical applications quickly, reliably, and efficiently in distributed, under-resourced locations. Stratus' ftServer, a continuously available failure prevention system, has been supporting AVEVA customers at the edge for a number of years, helping companies maximize revenue, quality and productivity. Additionally, Stratus has aligned product integrations with existing AVEVA solutions, including System Platform, InTouch HMI and InTouch Edge HMI bringing added security, simplicity and peace of mind to joint customers, while eliminating the threat of unplanned downtime and financial and reputational risk.
"With Stratus, we're able to expand on our Edge to Enterprise initiative by aligning our existing offerings with innovative edge technologies like Stratus' ztC Edge," said Fabio Terezinho, director of product development and services for InTouch Edge HMI at AVEVA. "Together, we're able to provide a best-in-class service for our industrial end-users who require the continuous monitoring and real-time analytic capabilities that edge solutions offer."
"We are excited to continue to work closely with AVEVA to deliver operational advantages at the edge for industrial companies," said Jason Dietrich, chief revenue officer at Stratus. "Building on our work with AVEVA for more than a decade, we are developing unique solutions for specific needs in industrial environments. Together, we are providing edge solutions that make the journey towards digitization seamless for end-users."
Showcasing its simplified, protected, autonomous edge computing solutions, Stratus will be participating in this year's AVEVA World Summit. Taking place in Singapore on September 16 – 18 2019, the theme of this year's summit is Accelerate Innovation: Transform Your Digital Future.
AVEVA is a global leader in engineering and industrial software driving digital transformation across the entire asset and operations life cycle of capital-intensive industries. The company's engineering, planning and operations, asset performance, and monitoring and control solutions deliver proven results to over 16,000 customers across the globe. Its customers are supported by the largest industrial software ecosystem, including 4,200 partners and 5,700 certified developers. AVEVA is headquartered in Cambridge, UK, with over 4,400 employees at 80 locations in over 40 countries. Learn more about AVEVA at www.aveva.com.
About Stratus Technologies
Stratus takes the complexity out of unplanned downtime no matter the environment or industry. We enable global Fortune 500 companies and small-to-medium sized businesses in a wide range of industries, along with our growing partner and distributor network, to securely deliver information to applications at the Edge, cloud and data center so they can turn this data into actionable information – all while minimizing their financial and reputational risk. We bring operations and IT together to unlock the potential of digital transformation and enable our customers to improve the quality of life for people and communities – and we've been protecting these business critical environments for nearly 40 years. For more information, please visit www.stratus.com or follow on Twitter @StratusAlwaysOn.
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Welcome to Episode 9 of WTF (Win The Future) Theatre, "If You Like Your Healthcare Plan…" well, you know.
Following the Great American Shutdown of 2013, Cody and Skylar have finally ventured out of their Seattle condo to restock their *ahem* supplies, and go back to work.
So, to recap: If you like your plan, but can't keep your plan, blame the Big Greedy Insurance Companies.
This message was brought to you in part by the Valkarie and O-BS (Operation Blame-Shifting). MOTUS has more details.
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Home / USA:Trump checks-out of his job
USA:Trump checks-out of his job
By Dr. Kumar David
The inevitability of Trump's departure and the promise that covid-19 vaccines will be on offer within weeks has let loose euphoria in America not seen since the lifting of prohibition 97 years ago almost to the day - 5 December 1933. The Dow briefly pierced the 30,000-point ceiling, women and the elderly exposed to heightened domestic violence at the hands of cooped up bar-less men espied light at the end of a tunnel, and millions of Anthony Fauci defying asymptomatic youth took to the skies to go home for Thanksgiving to infect their grandparents. ("The young in one another's arms; those dying generations at their song; caught in sensual music all neglect, monuments of unageing intellect"). But there is a dark side. There is some way to go before distribution and mass administration of vaccines become reality and science though pleased with the results so far remains cautious about the duration of immunity. And no vaccine can protect against reckless prancing of a hara-kiri besotted populace. In the interim, President Reject Donald Trump has all but ceased to function and all the institutions of state except perhaps the military are liaising with President Elect Joseph Biden's team.
Challenges to Joseph Biden
This piece is not about covid-19 but an equally virulent plague. Rednecks and fascistic heavies gearing up for a counterattack in response to Trump's calls to arms, literally by tweeting "we must overturn the results of the election" and other incendiary interventions. Trump has checked out of his current job, he rarely makes a public appearance, declines to take questions when he does, and refuses to intercede in burning issues like the explosive spread of the pandemic, the economy, foreign policy, or China. Instead he has taken to stirring up a counterattack on the election results and mobilising his semi-fascist troops. Mobilisation rallies have been scheduled by team-Trump in Georgia, Arizona and elsewhere though Trump's participation remains to be confirmed. The attack on the incoming administration is centred on: Castigating Biden's nominees as an Obama third-term team; saying Bidden retreats from US interests under the cloak of rebuilding international relations; is soft on China-trade and will let China get away with stealing American jobs; his accommodative policies in the guise of climate change harm the economy and let foreign polluters off the leash ('Who is John Kerry? Obama's Foreign Policy Tsar who sold out to Iran, now he will sell out America to US-hating Greens'). The thrust overall is that instead of putting America First, team-Biden will let others exploit America.
This will resonate with the rejected-dejected white working-class and a majority of poor less educated whites across a swathe of mid-western 'red-states'. The Trump Base can disintegrate if and only if the underlying material problems that sustain it are resolved. Biden is putting together a squeaky clean elitist all-liberal cricket team to engage in no-holds-barred mud wrestling with the muck of Trump rabble. No amount of evangelical preaching that "we are all one", unity, "I will be President for all", love, compassion, mother's milk and apple-pie can substitute for livelihood-problem solving. Old Joe will stumble unless he wakes up to reality. He poured cold water on the idea of nominating Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders to his Cabinet, suggesting that he would like to keep them in the Senate to carry forward his agenda. He even claimed, quite untruthfully, that there is significant progressive representation in his cabinet already; but he did add that nothing is off the table yet.
Biden's thus far yahapalana appointments
From senior appointments thus far, it is clear that Biden wishes for a yahapalana, (good-governance) administration; liberal not radical. Trump's conspiracy in collaboration with Senate Republican leaders Mitch McConnell and Lindsay Graham and media types Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity was to execute a palace-coup but this came undone when public, media and business pressure mounted on Emily Murphy, Chair of the General Services Office to release transition funds to the President Elect after Michigan and Pennsylvania certified Biden victories. Then in Georgia, Biden scored a third win in a third count. But Trump is selfish, petulant and a vengeful liar. Until his political coffin is sealed and riveted down at noon on 20 January 2021 just about anything is possible.
Musing on Biden's leadership team and its prospects can benefit from reflection on the previous Sri Lankan yahapalana experience. Despite the chasm in wealth and historical experience between Lanka and the US there are useable parallels. Some common features are that in both diehard populism with racist overtones is entrenched, and in both there is deep resentment of the well-to-do classes (Washington Swamp, Colombo 7 elite) who have it all while working-people sink. A third factor is nationalism and xenophobia; fourth America suffered a loutish president, in Lanka a suave and avuncular former leader and his near canonised brother prevailed, in both cases these populists have a grip on sections of the mass mind.
Now a there is new parallel; Biden's Administration-in-gestation and a hypothetically perfect-yahapalana have a common kernel. True, Biden is of working-class origin with an earned a BA - double major in history and political science and minor in English; Wikipedia says he was rated a C student. He also has a JD (doctorate by coursework). His stutter was an obstacle but it and personal tragedy endeared him to ordinary people. But his team as announced so far, consists of high-flying ideological liberals and liberals-in-economic-theory (the former pledge loyalty to justice, equality before the law, freedom of speech and religion, and racial parity, while the latter stand for free-markets and business-friendly policies). A former Fed Chair who defied Trump, Janet Yellen (Brown and Yale) is likely to be Treasury Secretary (Finance Minister), Antony Blinken (Harvard and Columbia) an Obama-era liberal will get State (Foreign Ministry), Cuban-American Alejandro Mayorkas (Loyola and Berkeley) will head Homeland Security and John Kerry, well known as Obama's Secretary of State is climate-Tsar with cabinet ranking. All are policy wonks with a mission to rebuild, at home and abroad, the America that Trump wrecked. Non-Cabinet postings are also significant. Two able women, Avril Hains (Johns Hopkins and U of Chicago) will be Director of National Intelligence and distinguished black Linda Greenfield (U of Wisconsin-Madison) will be UN Ambassador. Jake Sullivan (Yale) will be National Security Advisor. If you look up their CVs you will see that this is a team with a strong intellectual, liberal or liberal-economic bent – better for a University Liberal Arts Faculty than a Cabinet maybe.
There is a wealth more of liberal talent waiting in the wings; Susan Rice, Pete Buttigieg, Vivek Murthy, Andrew Yang, Sally Yates, too many to name. On the left we have Bernie Sanders (Political Science, Chicago and a "mediocre student" in his own words) potentially for the Labour portfolio, and Elizabeth Warren (BSc Huston, hooray a scientist at last and a JD from Rutgers Law School) fit for any portfolio. However so far, both seem a bridge too far to the left for Biden to cross. So, Biden's team may be all-liberal without a daub of red or radical. Thereby hangs a tale: Will this team deliver; will it be able to carry through a programme of economic and social restructuring to mollify not just the baying wolves of the Trump Base but all of less privileged America? Markets are cheering the choice of Ms Yellen instead of Ms Warren; America's political and military allies heave a sigh of relief that the choice of Obama-era Blinken spells the end of a crank President who put alliances in jeopardy; Greens the world over celebrate the return of America to climate sense. This is what the liberals can and will deliver.
Where liberalism will fail
But there are critical issues on which liberalism will fall short as yahapalana did and opened the flood gates for the return of the Rajapaksas. The poorer three quarters of the populace be it in the US or Lanka have problems yahapalana-type liberal economics is not designed to address. Indeed, that's why a Trump Base emerged in the first place and why a neo-fascist-populist option may storm back in four years. The plain truth is that while in January 2015 in Lanka, and today in America, the middle-classes, liberal intellectuals and the left hail the defeat of ugly autocracy and the affirmation of democratic values, the lower orders of society, the majority is driven by the need to feed families not by the bliss of liberal democracy. The Bidden team without added radical colouration does not inspire confidence that it lives on the same planet as rust-belt workers facing loss of livelihood - with prospects now further wrecked by covid-19 - or Midwest rural people who have lost hope in a capitalist economy networked into globalism. There is no hope in the eyes of the 74 million who voted for Trump that a business as usual America, unless it restructures profoundly, can salvage their lives.
One does applaud the return of decency, diversity and political discipline to the US. One is relieved the institutions of American democracy held up against the most brutal attack they suffered since the Civil War 160 years ago. However, none of that will save America now, unless livelihood issues and the social cancer of race rooted in the country's soul are confronted frontally. I fear that a liberal-democratic Biden Administration which shuts out radicals and eschews a transformative programme will fall short on economic restructuring and state direction, job creation, a public option in healthcare, free or subsidised university education and raising taxes on the well to do to pay for some of this. The failure of numerous liberal democratic governments studs the contemporary global landscape. ***


I'm unsure if the 2019 Race is more suitable than the ex demo 2018 Fox race they have currently. Commencal said the sprung rear shock is better for riders over 100kg. I'm 105 kg. What do you think? also the rear mech is different?
I would tend to agree with them that coil shocks will handle the weight and hard impacts better over time. Coil shocks tend to have better small bump sensitivity as well.
For the price difference, i think you could go with either option... If you decide the '18 air shock isn't working out, you can buy a replacement coil shock and have spent about what you would have for the '19. And if you sell the air shock, than you've come out a head.
Also have you looked at the '18 Essential? It's spec'd similarly to the '19 Race... but has a regular cassette so replacement is cheaper than SRAM EX1 - the EX1 is a spendy cassette to replace and jump between gears is greater, although they're designed to last longer.
How do you guys go with the thought of ordering online and not been able to demo/try the bike first?
Does Commencal have a return policy if you aren't satisfied with the product.?
They do offer returns, i was a little unsure. But they have a good reputation and the spec is extremely good for the price. Emails have been responsed to very quickly. And the reviews are very good.
Depending where you live, demoing a bike can be limited. I would have to travel 200km and I would still be limited to bikes that they have not what I like.
Ordering online is not for everybody for a couple of different reasons but if you know exactly what you want and you don't have to run to the LBS with everything then it might be a good choice. You can get much more for your money.
Do your research on the bike, on the brand's customer service, ask questions and decide... they all have return policies so it's not that scary.
A good place for demoing many ebike is the Leasure Lakes demo days at Cannock Chase.
There tends to be loads of brands there most have ebikes you can take for a spin on the demo loop (Which is the section of the dog from tackaroo to birches valley).
It is 23rd-24th March 2019. there is usually a cost of less than £20 which a good percentage goes to charity. This enables you to demo as many bikes as you like throught the day. At the last demo day specialised, haibike, cube, orange, cannondale were there with ebikes, there were probably more but thats all I can remember off the top of my head.
an interesting point is that Haibike have said that they will have there new flyon with the TQ motor doing the demo events before its launch, so I am expecting this to be there to.
I had a two friends who've rode Levo's and several Meta Powers and told me how much better the Meta Power was. I knew the geometry would work well for me (reach, top tube). Plus the price and specs were hard to beat. Also Shimano's reputation for quality set me at ease. They typically don't release a product unless it's been exhaustively tested. Unlike other brands that rush things to market.
I wanted the extra travel of the 27. I just think a 29 wheel up front will make it even more capable. Little slacker and more rollover.
Raising the front significantly can mess up the balance of the bike but of course, if you have the parts try it you cannot lose.
I put a 170mm air spring shaft in mine and it affected the climbing negatively even with lowering the stem. I'll probably put the 160 back as I don't need the longer travel I just wanted to get the new 2019 debonair spring and at the time the 170 was in stock where I ordered from. Now I got the 160 too so I will see.
Hey Tamas, what made you swap from a Canyon to Commencal?
My Canyon bikes were not ebikes, I had two Strive (still have one) and a Nerve 29.
When Commencal announced the Meta Power in summer 2017 it was love at first sight... and Canyon came out with the Spectral ON after I already had the Meta. I would still pick the Commencal from the two I just like the Meta's look a little bit more.