Only a few hours separate fans from a new Netflix special featuring their favorite funny actress Amy Schumer. That's because her 60-minute comedy show hits the streaming service at midnight on Tuesday, March 19. (Ahh, I can't wait!) In Growing, the pregnant comedian — as the title suggests — will be addressing her difficult pregnancy. Which comes as little surprise. However, it turns out she will also be talking a bit about her significant other. And Amy Schumer's tribute to husband Chris ahead of her Netflix special is basically the sweetest thing.
On Monday, March 18, Schumer took to Instagram to thank everyone involved in the creation of Growing — editors, producers, the cameraperson, hair, makeup, dress staff, and more. She also gave a lengthy and super-sweet shoutout to her husband. (If you remember, she married chef and cookbook author Chris Fischer during a private ceremony in February 2018, according to People.) "Thank you to my husband, Chris who has kept me going during this pregnancy. His willingness and desire to be open with the world about himself and our marriage is courageous and beautiful," the mom-to-be wrote. "He makes me laugh more than anyone and he laughs at me more than anyone. I am more than grateful to have found such an amazing partner and best friend."
I'm shocked. I didn't think this love was out there for me. But it was and it is and I can't wait to spend my life with you and our growing family.
Awwww. But seriously. Isn't that the sweetest thing?
Once he was diagnosed, it dawned on me how funny it was, because all of the characteristics that make it clear that he's on the spectrum are all of the reasons that I fell madly in love with him. That's the truth. He says whatever is on his mind. He keeps it so real. He doesn't care about social norms or what you expect him to say or do.
According to USA Today, Schumer goes on to offer several examples of how Fischer's brain "worked differently." Like how, instead of helping her back on her feet when she fell once, he "kind of froze and became a lighthouse, opening and closing his mouth." Or the fact that he can't lie. Because if Schumer asks him whether she looks good in a new outfit, he might say something like, "You have a lot of other clothes, why don't you wear those?"
Honestly, I'm chomping at the bit to watch Growing. (And I might be contemplating staying up until midnight tonight, just so I can watch it ASAP.) I love Amy Schumer's sense of humor; so I have no doubts the pregnancy material in her Netflix special will be a hoot. It's awesome to me, too, that she speaks so frankly about her husband and his ASD. Because not only is she breaking down the stigma that comes with being neurologically "other" — but she's also sharing the humor in everyday situations with him in a totally respectful way.


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The Fate of Baltazar Garzón Gives a Peek into the Rules that Europe's Self-Proclaimed Humanitarians Use When Pursuing Alleged War Criminals
Even if one thinks what Garzon did was illegal or even unwise, nobody here thinks what he did was evil in any real sense of the word, you would think
writes a commentator on the Volokh Conspiracy (gracias para el Señor Reynolds), regarding the indictment of Baltazar Garzón for exceeding his jurisdiction (in the Spanish judge's investigation of the alleged atrocities committed by Francisco Franco and his allies during the Spanish Civil War and under Franco's subsequent régime).
Nobody thinks it was evil (or appears to be so), but you should at least entertain the thought that it is/was evil, directly or indirectly. To a certain degree, it was/is certainly unjust.
As I wrote some years back, what we are involved with here are the same old double standards of leftists (American or foreign) going berserk over the slightest crime (or misdemeanor) attributed to the right while ignoring completely any crime — or litany of crimes — on the left.
Again and again, the truth eventually reveals how the sequels "of arrests, death, torture, and exile" are often worse under would-be leftist authoritarian régimes than under rightist ones. Stalin, of course, killed far more people than Hitler did, and a recent best-seller (Checas de Madrid by César Vidal) teaches that the Spanish Republicans ran a series of sinister detention centers patterned on the Soviet Checas, which savagely tortured and often slaughtered its prisoners, without the slightest hint of legality; the dead and disappeared in the province of Madrid alone were, in only a couple of years, almost four times as numerous as the victims over 17 years of none other than… Chile's Augusto Pinochet (almost 12,000 in Madrid versus some 3,000 in Chile).
In my book, La Bannière Étalée, I spell out the rules that seem to govern Europe's (self-proclaimed) human rights defenders and its valorous democracy activists for, first of all, seething with indignation and, second, for choosing the targets of these holier-than-thou humanitarians' international arrest warrants.
Be a U.S. leader: George W Bush. Donald Rumsfeld. Bill Clinton. George Bush the elder. Ronald Reagan. Be an American general. Or one of their soldiers (as recently as October 2005, a(nother) Spanish judge delivered an international arrest warrant against three American soldiers whose shots, in April 2003, had killed a Spanish cameraman in Baghdad);
Be a U.S. ally — say, a British prime minister or an Israeli leader, civilian or military;
Be a former dictator or one of his officers, usually rightist and if possible suffering from dementia or senility, and one who, for reasons good or ill, has been an ally of Washington (but the leading criterion is that the offender has to have been out of power for at least 10 years or so — see below).
By contrast, here are the people who, offhand, are not concerned by Europeans' passionate and principled search for "justice".
The general rule is, no European since the Second World War, nor any non-European dictator having sought refuge in Europe (Haiti's Baby Doc is still alive and well in his mansion on France's Riviera, thank you very much), but Baltasar Garzón's search for alleged criminals (albeit, again, rightist-only) from Spain's Civil War is one — obvious — exception to that rule. (For instance, the numerous Nazis who escaped to Spain's very own Costa Brava in the late 1940s do not seem to have had much to worry about in the following six decades…) Note that this European exception to the rule may be precisely the reason Judge Garzón is getting his comeuppance;
No dictator of the left (socialist, communist, etc), nor any enemy of Washington, wherever he is living and whether he is in power or not, nor any of the soldiers who have kept him in power;
And — last but not least — no strongman currently in power, wherever he is on the political spectrum (even if he is an ally of the Americans!). People who never had to worry very much (during their respective lifetimes) about Europe's human rights activists include Fidel Castro, Colonel Qaddafi, Saddam Hussein, and comrades Honecker (who ended up, safe and sound, in… Pinochet's Chile), Brezhnev, Stalin, and Mao.
So here are the conclusions we can draw:
The more a country is democratic (an allegedly false one or a democracy of any other type), the more it will be in the would-be cross-hairs of a European human rights activist;
the more a country is anti-democratic, the more it will be given leeway — as much leeway as possible (often with this type of sentence: "Well, we think that we ought to keep bridges open to such-and-such a leader or such-and-such a country").
Let's not even take into consideration the fact that Europe's desire for justice is entirely subject to the continent's need for commercial business activities. (That would be mean.)
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Founded in April 2018 and headquartered in Manila, Huaren Capital is the first capital institution in the Philippines which originated from the local Chinese community and aimed to reach Chinese in southeast Asia and even all over the world. As the economy and the layered capital market in the Philippines develop rapidly, Huaren Capital has developed into the largest investment institution in the Philippine based on the Chinese community, thanks to the support of all sectors of society. It mainly focuses on industries such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, big data, and Internet of Things. Huaren Capital is appreciated and welcomed by domestic and overseas entrepreneurs for its professional investment attitudes and ideas, creativity and integrity, friendliness and openness, expertise and effectiveness. It is committed to developing to one of the most influential venture capital institutions in the Philippines.
It takes 3 to 7 years to quit the venture-capital market and the stock-and-bond market is with high risks and furious fluctuations. Under such circumstances, Huaren Capital has for the first time introduced a stable and profitable investment model in the Philippines: paying investors interests on a monthly basis and returning them the principal on a yearly basis. Such kind of investment approach makes Huaren Capital quickly stand out from other similar companies. In addition, Huaren Capital also has a variety of high-yield products at different term-length.
Huaren Capital is steadfast in becoming the bridge between investors and the funded companies and is also committed to exploring excellent projects to safeguard the interests of its shareholders. It aims to be the "incubator of entrepreneurs" which fully supports the development of outstanding entrepreneurs and projects. Huaren Capital has a professional investment team full of rich experience and distinctive characteristics. Through establishing the Chinese-Entrepreneurs Club, the Chinese-Investors Club, the Chinese Alliance of Comprehensive Strategic Cooperation, Huaren Capital has formed strategic partnership with many listed companies. Together they bring more profits to the invested companies through building a bridge between the experts and elites from all sectors of society: the government, the financial industry, banking and professional institutions. With the help of Huaren Capital, a large number of enterprises will grow into leaders in various industries in the Philippines which will further promote the development of emerging fields and industries. They will also bring economic and social benefits to local governments and Chinese communities.
Equipped with global perspectives, Huaren Capital is going to set up branches in economic centers in Europe or USA aside from the Manila headquarter.
As always, Huaren Capital will continuously value the spirit of professionalism, reputation and efficiency. It adopts an integrated operation system with five key elements: investment, financing, risk control, management and service. It also actively promotes the practice of specialization, channelization, branding and internationalization. Huaren Capital devotes itself to becoming an outstanding and long-lasting enterprise which is people-oriented, trustworthy, and respectful. It is the most reliable long-term partner of overseas Chinese entrepreneurs and investors given that it strives to gain profits during the process of supporting invested companies and positively contributes to the development of Chinese people around the world.


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Q: PHP: how to specify directory names with PATH_SEPARATOR in open_basedir? On non-Windows systems PHP's PATH_SEPARATOR constant is a colon... unfortunately I have to deal with a running system which has lots of existing virtualhosts and directories with colons in their name (they contain ip address and port in the standard a.b.c.d:p notation).
We do have a new naming scheme without colons in paths but I cannot switch existing virtualhosts overnight. Is it possible somehow to escape the colon or otherwise find a method to specify those directory names in PHP's open_basedir ?
I'd like build Apache VirtualHost configurations with stuff like:
  php_admin_value open_basedir "/w/1.2.3.4:80/www.acme.com/htdocs"

We're currently running PHP-5.3.15 as a module of Apache-2.2.23
EDIT: I do have tried, without success, to escape colons with backslashes.

A: There is a bug report: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53687
Have you tried escaping it, e.g.
php_admin_value open_basedir "/w/1.2.3.4\:80/www.acme.com/htdocs"

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Spitzer Goes on a Cosmic Safari
News Release • March 21st, 2006 • feature06-07 •
Written by Linda Vu
Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have conducted a cosmic safari to seek out a rare galactic species. Their specimens -- clusters of galaxies in the very distant universe -- are few and far between, and have hardly ever been detected beyond a distance of 7 billion light-years from Earth.
To find the clusters, the team carefully sifted through Spitzer infrared pictures and ground-based catalogues; estimated rough distances based on the cluster galaxies' colors; and verified suspicions using a spectrograph instrument at the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii.
Ultimately, the expedition resulted in quite a galactic catch -- the most distant galaxy cluster ever seen, located 9 billion light-years away. This means the cluster lived in an era when the universe was a mere 4.5 billion years old. The universe is believed to be 13.7 billion years old.
"Detecting a galaxy cluster 9 billion light-years away is very exciting," said the study's lead investigator, Dr. Peter Eisenhardt of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "It's really amazing that Spitzer's 85-centimeter telescope can see 9 billion years back in time."
Using the same methods, the astronomers also found three other clusters living between 7 and 9 billion light-years away.
"Spitzer is an excellent instrument for detecting very distant galaxy clusters because they stand out so brightly in the infrared," said co-investigator Dr. Mark Brodwin, also of JPL. "You can think of these distant galaxy cluster surveys as a game of 'Where's Waldo?' With an optical telescope you can spot 'Waldo,' or the distant galaxy clusters, by carefully searching for them amongst a sea of faint galaxies."
"But in the Spitzer data, it's as though Waldo is wearing a bright neon hat and can be easily picked out of the crowd," Brodwin added.
Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally bound structures in the universe. A typical cluster can contain thousands of galaxies and trillions of stars. Because of their huge size and mass, they are relatively rare. For example, if Earth were to represent the entire universe, then countries would be the equivalent of galaxies, and continents would be the galaxy clusters.
Galaxy clusters grow like snowballs, picking up new galaxies from gravitational interactions over billions of years. For this reason, team members say these behemoths should be even rarer in the very distant universe.
"The ultimate goal of this research is to find out when the galaxies in this and other distant clusters formed," said co-investigator Dr. Adam Stanford, of the University of California at Davis. Stanford is the lead author of a paper on the most distant galaxy cluster's discovery, which was published in the December 2005 issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters.
This is the second time Eisenhardt and Stanford have broken the record for capturing the most distant galaxy cluster. Both say they accidentally broke the record in 1997 when they detected a cluster located 8.7 billion light-years away. The discovery was made by a deep survey of a 0.03-degree patch of sky, or an area significantly smaller than a pea held out at arms length, for 30 nights at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona.
"We were lucky in 1997 because we weren't looking for galaxy clusters and found the most distant one ever detected in a very small patch of sky," said Stanford. "Because galaxy clusters are so massive and rare, you typically need to deeply survey a large area of sky to find them."
"With Spitzer's great infrared sensitivity we surveyed more deeply in 90 seconds than we could in hours of exposure in the 1997 observations, and we used this advantage to survey a region 300 times larger," adds Eisenhardt.
The 9 billion-year-old cluster is just one of 25 the team captured on their Spitzer safari. They are currently preparing for more observations this spring at the W.M. Keck Observatory to confirm the distance of additional galaxy clusters from their sample. According to Eisenhardt, some of the clusters awaiting confirmation may be even more distant than the current record holder.
"With Spitzer's sensitivity, it should be possible to detect clusters even farther away, out to 10 billion light-years away," said co-investigator Dr. Anthony Gonzalez, of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Fla. Gonzalez authored a paper in the March 10 issue of the Astrophysical Journal describing the discovery of one the confirmed distant clusters.
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The MommyCon Shoppe started out as the TMD Shoppe in early 2012. What originally started as a retailer of specialty baby carriers from across the globe, quickly transformed into the on-site boutique at MommyCon events. The Shoppe, as it is affectionately known, provides a boutique-like shopping experience at events, and a curated online collection of speciality items from up-and-coming brands, in-house branded clothing, and exclusive merchandise from our partners.
The Shoppe has something for everyone, so take a look around and fall-in-love with our favorite must-have items. You will find everything from baby carriers to cloth diapers to hand-crafted Amber jewelry within our online abode.


The look of the Moon changes rapidly because of the relative positions of Sun and Moon. This is called Lunar Phase. Times of New Moon, 1st Quarter, Full Moon, and Last Quarter are those when the difference between longitudes of Sun and Moon becomes 0 deg., 90 deg., 180 deg., 270 deg., respectively.


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Pakistan's one-trick pony act on Kashmir doesn't resonate at UN: India
11:12 am September 24, 2018
India will be focusing on a multilateral agenda at the high-level UN General Assembly (UNGA) session that begins on Tuesday and let Pakistan be a "one-trick pony" on Kashmir if it wants to, IANS quoted India's Permanent Representative Syed Akbaruddin as saying.
The UN works best on the basis of multilateralism and "India's positions based on partnerships get a great resonance", IANS quoted Syed as saying.
According to the report, he said: "If somebody else would like to be a one-trick pony, it is for them to regurgitate that act. We've handled this act many times in the past and are confident we'll do so again."
"Solo players in a multilateral context have neither a past nor a future" and get "no resonance in such matters", he added.
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that Islamabad would bring up Kashmir at the UNGA and give "unequivocal support to the cause", Radio Pakistan has reported.
Pakistan has been raising Kashmir at all UN forums, regardless of the topic of the meetings.
A newsgatherer IANS quoted Akbaruddin as saying that even when India talks about terrorism, it does not treat it as just a bilateral issue but deals with it in the international context of havoc it wreaks around the world, for example, the Boko Haram in Africa, and terrorist groups elsewhere.
Led by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj at the UN session, India will focus on five topics: reformed multilateralism, climate change action, health, development, and peacekeeping, he said.
"Sushma Swaraj is scheduled to address the UNGA on Saturday at the morning session scheduled to start at 9 a.m. Listed as the fifth speaker, she will likely speak around 7.15 p.m. (India time)," the report said.
Qureshi's speech is set for Saturday's afternoon session, which will give him an opportunity to react to Sushma Swaraj's address, the report added.
If he raises issues relating to India, the nation would have a right of reply which could take place towards the end of that session or Monday's session, said IANS report.
Customarily a junior diplomat exercises the right of reply at the UNGA high-level meeting, IANS reported.
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World churches' head expresses abhorrence at brutality recorded in Bucha, Ukraine; Pope condemns 'sacrilegious war'
Peter Kenny | Monday, April 04 2022
(Photo: Office of the President of Ukraine.)President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits the city of Bucha on April 4, 2022.
After television footage showed mutilated bodies of people in civilian clothes some with their hands bound behind their backs in Bucha, Ukraine, the World Council of Churches head said the reports give stronger indications of grave violations of international law as global outrage grew.
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World Council of Churches acting general secretary Rev. Ioan Sauca, expressed abhorrence at the reported atrocities shown on global television channels and that were reported by the Associated Press and Reuters, calling for full investigation.
Pope Francis had the day before condemned the "sacrilegious war" in Ukraine at an open-air mass in Malta, ahead of a visit to a migrant centre preparing to take refugees fleeing Russia's invasion, AFP reported.
He spoke amid international outrage over the killing of civilians near the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, after officials in Bucha said nearly 300 bodies had been found in mass graves after Russian forces withdrew.
Ukraine's foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba said the horrors seen Bucha, which sits 20 miles (32 kilometers) northwest of Kyiv, were "just the tip of the iceberg" during a news conference in Warsaw with Britian's Foreign Secretary Liz Truss on April 4.
He said: "Ukraine won the battle for Kyiv, but the war goes on. We are preparing for the new large-scale offensive by Russia in eastern Ukraine," Sky News reported.
"They will try to capture more territories in Donetsk and Luhansk region regions.
"They will try to entrench and root themselves in the Kherson region, they will try to capture bleeding Mariupol.
'TIP OF THE ICEBERG'
"What you've seen, the horrors that we've seen in Bucha, are just a tip of the iceberg of all the crimes that have been committed by the Russian army in Ukraine so far.
"And I can tell you that without exaggeration and with great sorrow that the situation in Mariupol is much worse compared to what we've seen in Bucha and other cities, and towns and villages nearby Kyiv."
A Ukrainian official described it as a "scene from a horror movie," after the reported massacre in Bucha, Global News reported.
World Council of Churches' Sauca said, "War is a context inherently conducive to such brutality, which underlines the need for systems of legal accountability to prosecute perpetrators, in order to curb the worst in humanity.
"Moreover, it underscores the urgent necessity of bringing this terrible conflict to an immediate end, for the sake of preventing yet more death, injury and destruction of communities."
Sauca added: "We appeal to those responsible for conceiving, pursuing and supporting this war, to stop the bloodshed and destruction, and to save the lives of all the children, women and men in the way of their ambition."
Russia's defense ministry said on April 3 that its forces did not kill civilians in Bucha after it was retaken by Ukrainian soldiers from Moscow's troops.
"During the time this settlement was under the control of Russian armed forces, not a single local resident suffered from any violent actions," the ministry said in a statement, saying Russia's military delivered 452 tons of humanitarian aid to civilians there.


Omega-6 fatty acids are essential fatty acids which play a crucial role in brain function, as well as normal growth and development.
Like other essential fatty acids, they cannot be created within the human body and must therefore be obtained from the diet.
Most omega-6 fatty acids in the diet come from vegetable oils, such as linoleic acid (LA). Linoleic acid is converted to gamma-linolenic acid (GLA) in the body. It is then further broken down to arachidonic acid (AA). GLA is found in several plant based oils, including evening primrose oil (EPO), borage oil, and black currant seed oil.


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Primož Čučnik, né le  à Ljubljana, est un poète, éditeur et traducteur slovène. Il a publié plusieurs recueils de poésie.

Primož Čučnik étudie la philosophie et la sociologie de la culture à l'université de Ljubljana et travaille au journal littéraire Literatura.

Il remporte le prix Prešeren en 2008 pour Delo in dom et le prix Jenko en 2011 pour Kot dar. En 2012 il remporte le prix Veronika pour Mikado.

Œuvres
Poésie
 Dve zimi (1999)
 Ritem v rôkah (2002)
 Oda na manhatanski aveniji (2003)
 Akordi (2004)
 Nova okna (2005)
 Sekira v medu:izbrane pesmi (2006)
 Delo in dom (2007)
 Kot dar (2010)
 Mikado (2012)

Essai
 Spati na krilu (2008)

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Naissance en juin 1971
Naissance à Ljubljana
Naissance en RS de Slovénie
Étudiant de l'université de Ljubljana
Poète slovène du XXe siècle
Poète slovène du XXIe siècle
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ever gossiped to know better the reality around you?
Tutti fanno gossip ma è difficile ammetterlo perché il pettegolezzo viene visto come una pratica negativa. È davvero così? Apri Telegram, cerca la chatbot e indossa le cuffie. Ora sei pronto per entrare nel labirinto, mentre ascolti dei messaggi vocali. Ad ogni bivio ti viene chiesto di dare un consiglio al narratore e di scegliere la strada corrispondente. Non ti preoccupare se prendi quella sbagliata, puoi sempre tornare indietro. Alla fine del percorso vedrai il gossip sotto una nuova luce.
Gossiping is a common practice but no one admits it, as it is seen as a bad habit. Are you sure about that? Open Telegram, search the chatbot and put on your earphones. You can now access the labyrinth while listening to the vocal messages you receive. When facing a crossroad you are asked for advice by the narrator and to choose the corresponding way. Don't worry if you choose the wrong one, you can always go back. In the end, you will see gossip in a new light.


The Euro Working Group concluded its meeting on Monday night without an agreement on when the Eurozone will release the first tranche of approximately one billion euros to Greece.
This amount of money is the first tranche of approximately €4.8 billion which is owned to Athens according to the debt-relief measures agreed between the country and its creditors a year ago.
The main issue which remains unresolved is the scheme to replace the so-called "Katselis Bill," which protects Greek citizens' primary residences from being foreclosed on by banks.
Eurozone officials have unofficially said that the talks are continuing and there is a likelihood that there will be a positive outcome by the time of the Eurogroup meeting next Friday, April 5.
The Euro Working Group is a preparatory body composed of representatives from the Eurozone member states. It provides assistance to both the Eurogroup and its president in preparing ministers' discussions.
An agreement at this stage would have helped end speculation on whether or not Greece will need a third postponement of the tranche, but as there was no decision on Monday night, the issue will remain open until April 5.


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Compagnie du chemin de fer Lanaudière Inc. (CFL), provides transportation, storage and several unloading sites that accommodate various types of products. The railroad has been in operation since 1992.

Chemin de fer Lanaudière is connected to the Canadian Pacific (CP) and Canadian National (CN) network by the Quebec Gatineau Railway (QGRY). The railroad crosses the Lanaudière region over a distance of  between Joliette and Saint-Félix-de-Valois.  The network includes transhipping sites and offers the possibility of other junctions.

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Black empowered building supplies group, Afrimat Limited, is well positioned to exploit the R74 billion SA building and construction industry through a diverse product range of Mining & Aggregates, readymix concrete and concrete blocks and bricks. With a strong brand presence the group's underlying operations are market dominant in the eastern and western Cape, northern KwaZulu Natal, eastern Free State and Namibia. Afrimat is set to harness its 43-year track record to take the group to the main board of the JSE in early November 2006.
Afrimat brings together two industry specialists founded in 1963 and 1965 respectively - Prima mainly supplies Mining & Aggregates to the Cape construction and road building industries and has smaller readymix and precast operations, and Lancaster is dominant in quarrying and the supply of concrete blocks and bricks in northern KwaZulu Natal and eastern Free State. The merged group has 18 quarries, 12 readymix plants and 8 precast factories in total. In addition 5 mobile crushing and readymix concrete plants offer greater geographical flexibility.
Afrimat complements its supply of building materials with drilling and blasting using a fleet of earthmoving equipment and hydraulic rigs. The group also owns a 120-strong fleet of readymix, tipper and delivery trucks. Its customer base ranges from small cash-paying companies to large multinational construction corporations and parastatals including Spoornet.
Forecast revenue to February 2007 of R471,4 million is expected to yield profit after tax (PAT) of R63,6 million, compared with pro forma revenue of R413,4 million and PAT of R46,7 million, respectively, had the group been merged at February 2006. 2007 headline earnings is forecast at R62,8 million, up from pro forma headline earnings of R47,3 million for 2006.
du Toit and CEO Peter Corbin.
He says that each of Prima and Lancaster meet JSE thresholds to list on the main board of the exchange in its own right. "However, the merger is a logical progression in our long-term vision for a listing as a consolidated group." The Competition Commission has approved the merger.
Van Heerden attributes Afrimat's combined strength to "the well-established brands of our underlying companies in their regions of operation." As an example he cites rural KwaZulu Natal where a precast concrete block has become synonymous with a "Lancast", which supports Afrimat's strategy to maintain the separate branding of Lancaster and Prima for some time going forward.
He adds that good vertical integration is another key advantage, with the majority of Afrimat's raw materials now supplied by the group's own quarries. "Further, a history of consistent profit growth within both Prima and Lancaster and a wide geographic footprint will position Afrimat to capitalise on the buoyancy in the construction market," says van Heerden.
Afrimat's current 21% BEE ownership is critical to the group's prospects. "Our BEE shareholding is ahead of Mining Charter requirements and will optimise our ability to secure national and provincial government contracts," he says. 100% black-owned company Mega Oils, represented on the Afrimat board by Loyiso Dotwana, and broad based black consortium Kwezi Mining whose Gillian Nonhlanhla Jiyane is a non-executive director of the group, make up the 21% stake.
Van Heerden says that positive industry conditions reflect solid prospects for Afrimat. "Non-residential, low-cost residential and civil engineering sectors of the building industry continue to flourish, driving increasing demand for building supplies." This growth is underpinned by estimated government spend on infrastructure and low-cost housing, estimated to reach R400 billion in the medium term, and Spoornet and Eskom upgrade and infrastructure projects.
He says it is intended to grow the group quickly post listing. "There are a number of consolidation opportunities in the market and a listed, black empowered platform makes Afrimat an attractive acquirer." The R75 million new capital intended to be raised for the company before listing will help fund these acquisitions.
The group's directors are currently involved in a pre-listing private placement of 25 million shares at R5 a share. 15 million shares represent R75 million new capital for Afrimat. The 10 million share balance is made up of existing shareholders who have released a small percentage of the shareholdings to facilitate the listing. Following the pre-listing private placement Afrimat is expected to list with a market capitalisation of approximately R600 million.


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Features|Arab Spring: 10 years on
From Egypt to the US: Lessons for activists from the Arab Spring
Whether crossing a bridge in Selma, Alabama in 1965, or in Cairo in 2011, our struggles for justice share much.
Riot police force anti-government protesters back across the Kasr Al Nile Bridge as they attempt to get into Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt on January 28, 2011 [Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images]
By Esam Boraey
Published On 24 Jan 202124 Jan 2021
We stood side by side on the steps of the Iowa State Capitol, our bodies moving in unison as I led hundreds of people in Al-Maghrib prayer – the sunset prayer. We were gathered to protest against President Donald Trump's Muslim travel ban.
As we prayed, I caught the flash of blue and white lights out of the corner of my eye, as several police cars arrived. I felt my body tense instinctively; I was immediately taken back to the memory of my first protest on the streets of Cairo many years earlier. In 2007, I was 21 years old, and instead of hundreds, we were just seven young people protesting against then-President Hosni Mubarak. Our chants were largely ignored by the bustle of the city around us; no one noticed except for the police who swarmed in and started chasing us. Eventually, one officer tackled me to the ground and started kicking me with his steel-toed boots.
It was just my first taste of the pain Egyptian police officers inflict. Over the next few years, their deadly force would touch my life directly, time and time again. That night in Des Moines though, I was shocked to find the police were not there to hurt us but to protect us and our right to fundamental freedoms, as we marched through the streets of the city. It was the first time I had protested against a president and got to sleep in my own bed the same night.
Esam leads Muslim prayer on the steps of the Iowa State Capitol as people gather to protest against President Donald Trump's Muslim travel ban in 2017 [Photo courtesy of Esam Boraey]
From the square to the courtroom
My journey to the United States was not a simple or easy one. In 2007, I got my first job and with it came my first paycheque. I excitedly returned home to my mom and offered to buy her something with my newly earned money. To my surprise, she told me the best gift would not be one purchased in a store, but instead, to get married and start a family – she already had the perfect bride in mind.
That night, I told my friends about my new wedding plans and was met with instant resistance. They told me I was crazy to make plans to bring children into the chaotic world in which we were living. At that time, Egypt was facing unprecedented unemployment, our healthcare system was in tatters and the public education system had fallen apart. My friends told me bringing new life into our country was either ignorant or selfish and I would be wise to avoid it. I found myself at a crossroads – be alone for the rest of my life, never marry and start a family, or do something to change my country for the better.
I spent the next four years building a career in the international human rights sector studying the development of democracy in the Arab world and building contacts within burgeoning grassroots movements as part of a broader strategy to advise decision-makers in the MENA region and abroad.
On January 25, 2011, I was in the streets of Cairo once again, but this time I was protesting not just with a handful of others, as I had before, but with tens of thousands of my countrymen and women. Our chants of "Yuskut Hosni Mubarak, Yuskut, Yuskut Hosni Mubarak", meaning "Down with Hosni Mubarak", echoed through Tahrir Square. The days that followed were some of the most inspiring and moving moments of my life but also some of the most painful.
As we were crossing Qasr Nile Bridge on January 28, I was among the thousands of protesters who suddenly found themselves blockaded from both sides as the police and military moved in on either side of the bridge. We found ourselves with two options: Jump into the Nile River below or proceed directly towards the armed forces in front of us. I grabbed the hand of the man standing next to me and we started running together. As we neared the end of the bridge, I suddenly felt his grip slip from my own. When I turned back I saw the police had shot him. I knelt beside him and moved to try to carry him off the bridge, but he quickly stopped me and in his final words urged me to keep moving forward, whispering: "I lost my life for this cause, make sure it wasn't for nothing and promise me you'll keep fighting." By the end of the 18 days we spent in Tahrir Square, Mubarak was finally overthrown, but the moment was bittersweet as we remembered the hundreds of fellow protesters whose lives had been lost.
Anti-government protesters demonstrate near riot police in Tahrir Square in Cairo on January 25, 2011 [Amr Abdallah/Reuters]
This moment in our history was spontaneous but it was not an accident. For decades, Mubarak's regime ignored signs of failure within the country and refused to adopt strategies to improve the state of affairs. Instead, the president focused on securing his power and passing it down to his youngest son after his departure. He directed the country's resources to security services where they were used to maintain his authority. The situation in Egypt in the years leading up to the revolution made an uprising from the people inevitable. It was never led by one individual or one organisation but was rather a mass mobilisation of the people.
In the weeks before January 25, young Egyptians used social media to spread the word about the protests. The hope was to get a maximum of 10,000 people in the streets for a single day to try and advocate for reform, mainly against police brutality. However, the events that unfolded on January 25 and the violent response from the regime inspired and encouraged more Egyptians in cities across the country to take to the streets in support.
After Mubarak was overthrown, support for democratic freedoms and fundamental human rights was at an all-time high. I joined efforts to co-found Al-Dostour Party, the Constitution Party, which was aimed at advocating for the revolution's principles of justice, freedom and human dignity. I was also working for an international organisation on the ground to support a peaceful transition of power. I even started preparing to stand in the parliamentary election myself.
But by the end of the year, I found myself inside a criminal courtroom and eventually in exile. In December 2011, my office at the International Republican Institute was raided and I was arrested along with several of my colleagues. Our eventual trial came to be known as the "NGO Trial", 43 people were charged, including at least 15 Americans. I was charged and convicted of working for a human rights organisation and taking money from a foreign government in the form of my salary and sentenced to two years in prison. But before I was taken to prison, I was able to flee the country and ended up in Washington, DC.
The parallels
After moving to the US, I quickly immersed myself in American politics and soon found parallels between the struggle for justice in Egypt and the US. I joined the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign in 2015 and experienced another grassroots movement where an outsider was challenging the existing status quo. Much like the activists of the Arab Spring movement, Bernie built his campaign by focusing on the young and disenfranchised. As an outsider, he was initially ignored by much of the corporate media and in turn relied on social media to engage and connect with his supporters. He was never able to secure the Democratic Party nomination but nonetheless, his policies and platforms have taken root in the party and helped shift it dramatically to the left. As part of his team, I witnessed how his policies and popularity grew over the last few years.
Like Bernie, the youth movements for democracy in the Middle East were unable to achieve their ultimate goals, but they clearly changed the face of the region forever. The Arab Spring inspired political candidates and community activists worldwide. Grassroots movements like Black Lives Matter have many principles and techniques in common with their counterparts in the Middle East and North Africa. Both movements were sparked spontaneously in numerous communities in reaction to police brutality. There have even been instances where some BLM activists, like the Dream Defenders, have taken visits to the region, specifically Palestine to learn and strategise together.
Esam celebrates as campaign manager for Connecticut state senator Beth Bye at a 2018 midterm election victory party [Photo courtesy of Esam Boraey]
American political leaders on the left and the right have often expressed support for the Arab Spring. In theory, it closely aligns with the principles of American values and the pursuit of freedom and democracy. However, their follow-through with tangible actions has often fallen short. As global leaders, they are obligated to formulate pragmatic foreign policy based on their own nation's best interests, which tends to mean they continue to back dictators in the region despite their abysmal human rights records. I once had a discussion with a high-ranking government official closely involved in the decision-making process in Washington and he told me it is easier for the US to deal with one dictator abroad than a group of elected officials because negotiating with one strongman is always easier, especially with the lack of accountability an authoritarian regime has compared with the public accountability secured with democratically elected administrations.
History teaches us nothing is perfect. On March 7, 1965, activists and protesters crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, to protest for the right to vote. While they were brutally attacked by the police, this march ended in a significant victory for the African American community in the voting rights battle. It was a parallel situation in Egypt as we crossed Qasr El-Nile in 2011. Decades later, African Americans are still fighting for their rights and struggling against discrimination and racism. Egyptian and other Middle Eastern activists need to learn that it takes time and persistence to win a war.
Martin Luther King, Jr and his wife Coretta Scott King stand with marchers in Selma, Alabama in 1965 as they protest for the right to vote [William Lovelace/Express/Getty Images]
Still hope
Ten years after the Arab Spring, the situation now is not promising, but I am still optimistic.
With Tunisia as a relative exception, no revolution was able to take hold long-term. Civil wars have created humanitarian crises in Yemen, Libya, and Syria leading to a wave of refugees.
Many other countries, like Egypt, witnessed the return of the old regimes or even worse. Most of the region experienced a decline in the fundamental freedoms gained after the Arab Spring. For example, in the immediate years following the revolution in Egypt, freedom of expression was at an all-time high. However, when current President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi came to power in 2014, his regime imprisoned dozens of journalists – the International Press Institute estimates as of 2020, there are some 60 independent journalists held behind bars. Additionally, human rights organisations in the country have suffered from a government crackdown on their right to organise and operate.
Many of the activists and organisers involved in the movement have been killed, imprisoned, or exiled like me. The majority in the region chose security and stability over democracy. But I still have hope.
The exiled members of the movement are building our experience, knowledge, and education abroad, and are ready when the opportunity arises to serve our home countries. Like many others in the diaspora, my love for Egypt is boundless and I will never stop believing in a brighter future for Om El-Donya, Egypt, my homeland.


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How Namely Accelerated Its Sales Contracting Process 85% with Ironclad
By Josiah Tsui
Namely is an HR solution company that processes hundreds of sales contracts quarterly. Here's how the company's Deal Desk partnered with Ironclad to drive an 85% reduction in contracting processing times and 100% adoption from Sales.
Namely has over 500 employees and 1000 customers, and its revenue has grown by over 4000% in the past five years. Scaling a company that quickly puts a strain on business processes.
Namely's rapid growth makes it critical that the company's Deal Desk and contracting teams adopt technology-enabled processes to keep up with—and, ideally, stay ahead of—the pace of Sales, especially at business-critical times like the end of the quarter.
We recently spoke with Namely's Cecile Quesada, Contract Operations Advisor, and the Deal Desk team to see how partnering with Ironclad has enabled them to speed up the sales contracting cycle by 85% while also dramatically decreasing the amount of time Legal spends on administrative tasks.
Sales' reliance on the Deal Desk was Namely's most significant process bottleneck, especially when it came to standard contracts that required Deal Desk administrative help (e.g., moving signature boxes, verifying information from across multiple sources), but not contract review of non-standard terms.
"Our goal is to have our Account Executives be the quarterback of their own deals and not block on other teams," said Cecile. "That wasn't the case before Ironclad, since all contract requests had to go through the Deal Desk, even if they were standard, non-negotiated agreements."
The problem came down to regional coverage and limited Deal Desk resources. Namely has five regional sales offices in the United States that are spread across three time zones, but it only has one Deal Desk. Prior to working with Ironclad, every sales contract that Namely sent out began with Sales emailing a contract request to the Deal Desk. The Deal Desk had to handle up to 100 contracts monthly, each of which took 10-15 minutes to process.
That meant 25 hours of Legal's time each month was spent switching back and forth between Adobe Sign, e-mail, Salesforce, and Slack; gathering the information needed to review and process the contract; and downloading and reuploading forms. Each time there were additional contract edits—a common request when Sales offered discounts or amended contract terms—the Deal Desk had to step in.
Contract administrators may have spent dozens of hours each month on administrative tasks for routine Sales agreements, but Sales actually spent far more time waiting for contracts to be processed, as there was a delay between their contract request and the finished product.
What Namely wanted from a digital contracting solution was a product that automated common Sales contract workflows, integrated seamlessly with existing systems, and enabled each Sales team member to be the quarterback of their own deal.
The Ironclad Self-Service Solution
Before Namely began working with Ironclad, Account Executives at Namely emailed the Deal Desk with all contract requests. That created a dependency in the sales cycle that slowed deals down. Today, Ironclad enables Account Executives to generate their own standard, non-negotiated contracts, review those deals on their own, and send them to prospects for electronic signature.
That process starts from the Quote interface in Salesforce and is as simple as clicking a "Generate Contract" button that forwards the contract kickoff request to Ironclad, which handles document generation, approval routing, and signature collection—all of which can also be monitored in Salesforce via an Ironclad Salesforce Object. Namely still uses the products it used before: Adobe Sign for e-signature, Salesforce for CRM, and a cloud solution for contract storage. The only difference is that Ironclad automates the administrative work of contract generation, review requesting, and signature collection.
The result is that Sales is in the driver's seat when it comes to processing non-negotiated contracts. A few clicks in Salesforce and Ironclad is all it takes to get a deal over the finish line. A process that used to take hours of waiting and 15-20 minutes of Deal Desk time now takes minutes.
The seamless transition from Namely's existing business processes to Ironclad's self-service capabilities has been a result of both product flexibility and a committed implementation team. "Ironclad's ability to fit seamlessly into our tech stack gave us product flexibility," said Cecile, "and our partnership with Ironclad's Legal Engineers helped us configure the product to match the way we work."
Ironclad's impact at Namely has been significant for both Legal and Sales, with one Account Executive calling the roll-out of the Sales workflow "the single best rollout and efficiency gain [they'd] seen in the last 5 years in Sales at Namely." The most significant achievements of the Ironclad and Namely partnership are:
An 85% reduction in time to process non-negotiated deals. Standard Sales deals, or deals without negotiated terms, used to take the Deal Desk 15-20 minutes to process. Now, Namely's Account Executives can generate contracts for standard deals from within Salesforce, monitor the status of those deals in Ironclad, and continue to signature collection, all without blocking on the Deal Desk.
100% adoption from Sales. Says Cecile, "When we implemented Ironclad, we had to get buy-in from Sales. That's why it was important to implement a solution that integrated with Salesforce and our other existing tools. Now that we have buy-in from Sales, we can think about how to make Ironclad work for other teams at the company."
An ongoing partnership. When Namely began working with Ironclad, they were looking for a true partnership, not just software. "It's not just automation you're looking for," said Cecile. "It's working with a team that understands your business and thinks about your success in the long-term. Our Ironclad Legal Engineer didn't stop working with us once the workflows were deployed. He's reached out proactively with ideas for improving adoption and business processes."
Learn how to fast track your contracting processes. For a personal demo of Ironclad's Workflow Designer, go here.
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Josiah Tsui
Josiah is on Ironclad's Product Marketing team. Before Ironclad, he worked at Palantir Technologies and was a researcher at the Harvard Kennedy School. He holds a B.A. and M.A. in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University.