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Open letter to the EU Ambassador to South Africa on copyright laws
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Published on 11 May 2020
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Association for Progressive Communications and International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
To the EU Ambassador to South Africa
Ms. Riina Kionka, Riina.KIONKA@eeas.europa.eu
We are writing to you in connection with the letter you addressed to Dr Cassius Reginald Lubisi on 20 March 2020, concerning the Copyright Bill that currently awaits the signature of President Ramaphosa, following its approval by Parliament.
As you may know, stakeholders across South Africa have being waiting for many years for the update of the country's copyright laws. With the last reform having taken place 40 years ago, there is a pressing need to bring laws into the digital age, as well as to address the significant problems around the governance of rightholder organisations set out by the Farlam Commission.
The resulting bill achieves many of these goals. It improves the situation of creators by ensuring more effective oversight of collecting societies and introducing reversion rights – steps which align closely with measures taken in the European Union itself – and introduces the concept of a 'making available right' to support publishers.
It also gives South Africa's teachers, learners, researchers and librarians new possibilities to use works which they have lawfully accessed, without of course doing harm to the legitimate interest of rightholders. These measures too simply reflect common practices elsewhere, notably in many of the world's most innovative countries. Furthermore, the bill will make the necessary changes for South Africa to benefit from the provisions of the Marrakesh Treaty, and so for people with print disabilities to enjoy equal access to information.
It is also worth noting that the EU and South Africa's Dept. of Science and Technology (now Science and Innovation) have been involved for a number of years in an Open Science Dialogue - see the 2019 report at http://www.eresearch.uct.ac.za/eresearch/news/sa-eu-open-science-dialogu... in the Bill would enhance research and innovation, and would facilitate open access and open science programmes as envisaged by this cooperative project.
Given the work of your Mission to promote education and inclusion in South Africa, we believe that these are goals we share with you. It is therefore disappointing that your letter seeks to delay the entry into force of this law, a move that would slow the achievement of our common objectives. It does so on the basis of unfounded claims made by particular lobbies, rather than any clear evidence.
In particular, and as highlighted above, it is also incorrect to suggest that the draft bill is inconsistent with international law. The combination of a flexible, principles-based exception to copyright with additional specific exceptions has long existed in the United States, and is being adopted in a number of other countries without challenge. The possibility for users to disapply terms of contracts that remove rights given them under law is an idea that has been much strengthened in European law thanks to the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive.
Furthermore, and far from leading to uncertainty, the new laws will rather create welcome clarity by ensuring that the law will adapt better to technological change in future. South Africa's judiciary – we hope you will agree – also has the capacity to implement the new laws.
Finally, and despite the claims of some, the proposed law makes it clear that the impact of uses on markets and the interests of rightholders must be central to assessments of fairness.
As you will know through your work, South Africa faces major challenges in tackling inequality and promoting inclusion. The proposed copyright law is designed to contribute to this effort by broadening possibilities for education, research and access to information for people with disabilities, helping strengthen our country as a solid long-term partner for the European Union, including its researchers and businesses.
Many of the provisions in the proposed copyright law would have been extremely helpful during the current Covid 19-related lockdown in South Africa. For example, educational institutions have had to transfer material and courses online in a very short period; a scenario that would have been extremely well-served by the fair use provision in the proposed legislation.
I hope, therefore, that you will be able to reconsider your letter of 20 March, and rather offer encouragement for legislation that will contribute to South Africa's equitable development, and the objectives of your own mission.
Association for Progressive Communications
International Federation of Library Associations
Koliwe Majama, APC – koliwe@apc.org
Stephen Wyber, IFLA - stephen.wyber@ifla.org
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Ursula von der Leyen, Commission President, ec-president-vdl@ec.europa.eu
Thierry Breton, Internal Market Commissioner, cab-breton-contact@ec.europa.eu
Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice-President for 'a Europe Fit for the Digital Age', margrethe-vestager-contact@ec.europa.eu
Phil Hogan, Trade Commissioner, cab-hogan-contact@ec.europa.eu
Jutta Urpilainen, International Partnerships Commissioner, cab-urpilainencontact@ec.europa.eu;
Maroš Šefčovič, Interinstitutional Relations and Foresight Commissioner, cab-sefcoviccontact@ec.europa.eu.
APC - the Association for Progressive Communications is an international network of civil society organisations founded in 1990 dedicated to empowering and supporting people working for peace, human rights, development and protection of the environment, through the strategic use of information and communication technologies (ICTs).
IFLA – the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions – is the global organisation for libraries, with members in over 150 countries worldwide. With a missionto inspire, engage, enable and connect the global library field, it works both to build the capacity of libraries of all types to serve users, and to strengthen the voice of libraries worldwide.


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Then we noticed a 12-foot tall stack of old radios and more funky-looking metal and wood sculptures that we couldn't really identify. What is this place? We passed it during a drive though Franconia, Minnesota, and were intrigued enough to stop on our return and see what it was all about.
We found out that despite some of the weird-looking installations, the outdoor sculpture park was created with a serious purpose. Located in the scenic St. Croix River Valley, Franconia Sculpture Park is a nonprofit arts organization with an active artist residency and community arts scene.
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Franconia Sculpture Park is definitely accessible: It's free to the public and open from dawn to dusk 365 days a year. Visitors can wander over 43 acres of mowed land and gravel paths (or ride in a golf cart) and explore more than 100 ever-changing large-scale sculptures.
With only about 45 minutes to explore the park, we covered as much of the open space as we could—and wished we had a couple of hours to dally among the fanciful creations. Many families were enjoying the sculptures on that summer Saturday, especially since a lot of the pieces are kid-friendly--meaning it's okay to touch, climb, and slide on them. Adults are also encouraged to find their inner child and have a bit of fun exploring the premises and art works.
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Episode 299. We have a spoiler-filled conversation of Avengers: Infinity War.
Their main discussion is about how humans are the cause for the spreading of fake news. Something we already knew.
The latest Infinity War trailer and motion poster have been released.


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New Student Housing Company
ALISO VIEJO, Calif.--Patrick Nelson, president and CEO of Nelson Brothers (NB), has launched a new student housing company, Nelson Partners.
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Nelson Partners already manages over $400 million in assets and has already acquired two new offerings near Western Washington University and University of Northern Colorado.
"With Paula Platt, our executive VP of operations, bringing over 20 years of experience in the industry, Shane Stone serving as our new CFO, and the addition of eight new members to our national sales team, we have hit the ground running." Patrick said. "The future is brighter than it has ever been, and we are so incredibly excited by the opportunities that are now available to Nelson Partners."
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For the last several years the church that I have served since 1986 has provided a month's Sabbatical leave every year. There have been years that I've not been in the position to take advantage of this gracious provision and a couple where the Sabbatical had to be cut short due to circumstances beyond my control. But on those occasions when I have been able to withdraw from a full month of my pastoral responsibilities, the benefits have been measurable.
A Sabbatical is not a vacation, though it does provide an opportunity for rest and rejuvenation. Typically, I have a study and writing agenda for the month. That is true again this year. I plan to do some targeted reading and planning as well as some research and writing on a project related to the role of the church in discipleship. I also have some fun days marked on the schedule and look forward to spending some unhurried time with family.
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If your church has never provided a Sabbatical leave for your pastor, why not consider it? Here is good article by Matt Schmucker that provides some helpful guidelines to start the conversation.
If the Lord brings me to mind during the next several weeks, please pray that I will redeem this time for the good of my own soul and the benefit of the kingdom and the church I serve.


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Martinez Accepts Invitation To Become Denver Manager Of Safety
Filed Under:Manager Of Safety, Michael Hancock
Justice Alex J. Martinez will be Denver's Manager of Safety starting Nov. 1 (credit: CBS)
DENVER (CBS4)- Colorado Supreme Court Justice Alex J. Martinez will step away from the state's highest court to serve as Denver's Manager of Safety.
"The Manager of Safety is one of the most important positions in my Cabinet, particularly at a time when we must restore public trust and confidence in Denver's safety agencies," Denver Mayor Michael Hancock said. "Justice Martinez brings the highest level of integrity, a deep commitment to fairness and justice, and a well-earned level of respect from the legal and public-safety communities. I am grateful he has agreed to serve the citizens of Denver in this capacity."
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"I am thankful to Mayor Hancock for this opportunity and for his understanding to make the transition in a way that minimizes the impact on the Colorado Supreme Court," Justice Martinez said. "For over 25 years, I have worked to ensure the rightful application of the law and a high-level of safety for the people of Colorado, and I look forward to continuing my work within this new and challenging position."
During this time of transition, Martinez will assist in the search for a new police chief for the City.
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MICHIGAN BUSINESS
Ilitches make it official: Chris in line to lead family business empire
Mike and Marian remain in "relatively" good health
JC Reindl, and Brent Snavely
Mike and Marian Ilitch on Thursday announced a future succession plan for their Detroit-based pizza, sports and entertainment empires that says their youngest son, Christopher Ilitch, will eventually replace them in their respective roles.
The announcement contained few surprise, as Christopher Ilitch, the sixth of Mike and Marian's seven children, has been at the helm of the family's holding corporation — Ilitch Holdings — for more than a decade. He and his sister, Denise Ilitch, were once copresidents of Ilitch Holdings until she resigned from the family business in 2004 after a chilly estrangement with her brother and mother.
"As our health is relatively good, we thought that disclosing our plans now would help provide continued stability," Marian Ilitch, 83, vice chairman of Ilitch Holdings, said in a released statement.
Mike Ilitch, 86, the chairman, said in the release: "Early on, Marian and I decided that we wanted every one of our businesses to remain family owned. Through careful long-term planning, which continues, I'm pleased to say that all of our businesses, including the sports teams, will remain 100% Ilitch-family owned."
A proud Mike Ilitch says he is just a part of the community
For now, Mike Ilitch will continue to run the Detroit Tigers and the Detroit Red Wings. And Marian Ilitch will keep running MotorCity Casino Hotel.
Yet over time, Christopher Ilitch, 50, is to succeed his parents in their current roles. His current title is president and CEO of Ilitch Holdings.
The announcement didn't specify how Christopher Ilitch would take over at the casino and stay in compliance with Major League Baseball rules that prohibit interests in gambling enterprises while owning a team. However, it did emphasize that the elder Ilitches will ensure that their succession plans comply with all regulations governing professional baseball and hockey and casino ownership.
"Chris has done an outstanding job, and under his leadership, we have seen sustained growth and success," Mike Ilitch said.
Mike and Marian Ilitch cofounded Little Caesars Pizza in 1959 and bought the Red Wings in 1982. Mike Ilitch bought the Tigers in 1992.


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Tag: Constitutional Carry
Committee Vote Scheduled for Constitutional Carry
Posted by Owen at 0925, 16 Sep 1717 | 0 Comments
Firearms, Politics - WisconsinConstitutional Carry
It's good to see some progress.
A state Senate committee vote has been scheduled for Tuesday (Sept. 19) on a bill — Senate Bill 169 — that, as introduced, would repeal Wisconsin's state "gun-free school zones" statute.
The Senate Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety included the SB 169, also known as the permit-less carry bill, as the final item in its public notice of an executive session (i.e., a committee vote on the bill) for Tuesday, Sept. 19 at 10:00 a.m. in Room 411 South, State Capitol.
Committee Considers Civil Rights Bill
Posted by Owen at 1212, 31 May 1717 | 1 Comment
Pass it!
Any person living or traveling in Wisconsin could carry a concealed weapon without a license under a bill Republican lawmakers on Wednesday urged a legislative committee to advance.
The bill, authored by Rep. Mary Felzkowski, R-Irma, and Sen. David Craig, R-Big Bend, also would eliminate current state-mandated training to carry hidden weapons and allow Wisconsin residents with a license to carry a concealed weapon to bring firearms into schools unless school officials post signs prohibiting them.
The bill repeals the state's gun-free school zone law and reduces the penalties for violating school rules banning guns from a felony offense to a misdemeanor or fine.
Craig and Felzkowski told the committee before a packed hearing expected to last hours that the legislation strengthens Wisconsin residents' constitutional right to keep firearms especially for self-defense. Felzkowski emphasized an important aspect of the bill would allow law-abiding citizens who can carry weapons openly to now "throw a sweater on."
"Right now I can go to Gander Mountain and buy (a handgun) and strap it to my hip — what I cannot legally do is throw a sweater on," Felzkowski said. "That's what we change."
First, this is a pure civil rights issue. Keeping and bearing arms is one of the civil rights actually guaranteed by both our state and federal constitutions. There is no rational argument to continue allowing government to curtail that right in this manner.
Second, this is a practical matter to clean up the state law where it conflicts with federal law – and with other state laws, for that matter.
I'm sure this hearing will go on for far too long and the same old tired arguments that were trotted out against concealed carry will be flogged again. All of those arguments have been discredited by reality. And there are already 14 other states that already have a form of Constitutional Carry. Wisconsin is hardly being a pioneer in this regard. Let's get this done.
Taking back our civil rights
Posted by Owen at 0901, 4 Apr 1717 | 0 Comments
Firearms, Politics - WisconsinColumn, Constitutional Carry, West Bend Daily News
My column for the West Bend Daily News is online. Here you go:
Shortly after the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, James Madison, whom John Adams labeled the "father of the Constitution," began the arduous task of defending the intricate document signed by his fellow conventioneers and advocating for the state Legislatures to ratify it. The birth of a new nation was not to be had without some painful moments.
One of the immediate and most forceful attacks on the new Constitution came from his fellow Virginian, Richard Henry Lee. Lee was a powerful politician, forceful orator and fierce advocate for liberty. It was Lee who had called for the original resolution to break from Britain at the Second Continental Congress in 1776. But Lee turned his political prowess against the fledgling Constitution because he was fearful of the strong central government it created.
In order to retard the power of the new federal government, Lee proposed a declaration of rights that was to include the freedom of religion and the press. Madison was flabbergasted by the proposal because it was, in his mind, utterly unnecessary. The Constitution was firmly secured to the foundation that all power and rights rested in the People except for those few specific powers ceded to the government as enumerated in the Constitution. It was a bedrock enlightenment philosophical concept as articulated by the likes of Thomas Paine and John Locke.
Madison initially saw danger in what became the Bill of Rights because to enumerate specific individual rights to be protected by the Constitution would lead some to think that those rights not specifically enumerated for protection are within the power of government to restrict or rescind. This is why the 10th Amendment became a catch-all for rights not listed.
Madison eventually came around to support and author the Bill of Rights as a practical necessity to assure skittish state legislators and secure their support for ratifying the Constitution, but Madison's fears were prescient. The natural momentum of government is to expand its power and our federal government has often run roughshod over natural rights not enumerated in the Constitution, as amended. But our government has also not been shy about trampling those rights that are singled out for protection.
That is not to say that all rights are absolute. It is the appropriate function of government to intervene and set boundaries when one right rubs up against another. For example, it is undeniably my right to speak out and protest against my government. But the government can, and should, deny that right to me if I try to do it on another citizen's private property. The government can, and should, also restrict certain rights in a more systematic way when there is a substantial or pressing government interest to do so. But the standard for what constitutes a "substantial government interest" is, and should be, extraordinarily high.
Since the ratification of our Constitution, the right to keep and bear arms, as enumerated in the Second Amendment, has been steadily eroded thanks to fear, ignorance, and opportunistic politicians. For the first several decades, this right was rarely restricted. People regularly carried firearms either openly or concealed.
During Reconstruction after the Civil War, a wave of restrictions to the Second Amendment swept over the South as a means for the federal government to maintain order and, as white southerners regained
control of their state legislatures, to suppress black Americans. Subsequent waves of government restrictions of the Second Amendment came as politicians took advantage of various opportunities to disarm the public. New York City required its citizens to obtain a license to carry a concealed firearm in 1911 after a brazen murder-suicide in broad daylight. Mayor Daley ordered that all firearms in Chicago be registered in 1968.
All of these restrictions of the Second Amendment grew out of fear, hate, ignorance, and complacency without anything that could rationally be called a "substantial government interest." A couple of decades ago, Americans began to take back their Second Amendment rights with the steady loosening of gun laws in states and the universal legalization of concealed carry. Despite the lamentations of opponents, the evidence is clear that the public did not suffer any negative consequences of this movement. In fact, the data points to several possible benefits like lower crime. The nation's most crime-ridden bastions remain those with the strictest remaining gun control laws.
The next progression in reclaiming our Second Amendment rights is the passage of what has been termed "Constitutional Carry," and it has been introduced in Wisconsin. Constitutional Carry is simply the return to how our Second Amendment was originally conceived and how it was enforced for most of the first century of our nation's history. Free Americans who have not committed a serious crime and who are mentally competent would be free to own and carry a firearm in any manner they so choose. All of the other restrictions, like respecting private property rights, would remain in place.
Opponents of Constitutional Carry rest their arguments in the same irrational fear and hate as those who opposed concealed carry. "It will be like the Wild West with blood in the streets," etc. But history and facts disprove their arguments. As of right now, 12 other states already have Constitutional Carry. One of them, Vermont, has had Constitutional Carry since the Constitution was ratified in 1791. Alaska has had it for 23 years. Liberal New Hampshire and Conservative North Dakota both passed Constitutional Carry earlier this year.
None of the states that have Constitutional Carry have experienced any ill effects. The reason is simple and is the same reason why there has been nothing but positive effects since concealed carry was passed six years ago in Wisconsin: concealed carry or Constitutional Carry only really applies to good, law-abiding people. Much to our collective lament, the bad people already practice Constitutional Carry.
We should never allow our government to restrict any of our civil rights without a rigorous debate and an imminently justifiable cause for doing so. And when we have foolishly allowed our government to restrict our civil rights without just cause, we should take every opportunity to take back our rights. Wisconsin should return to Constitutional Carry.
Senator Craig Supports Constitutional Carry
Culture, Firearms, Politics - WisconsinConstitutional Carry, David Craig
At a base level, the law would give citizens easier access to their constitutional rights, Craig said.
"This is a constitutional right, this is a fundamental right laid out by the Second Amendment," he said. "Government should be examining that to determine and make sure people aren't infringed of their rights.
Giving citizens access to those constitutional rights has panned out well in the past, he said. Already, Wisconsinites do not need a permit or training to carry a gun openly.
"In Wisconsin you can open carry (without a permit)," he said. "Are there any ill consequences of that in Wisconsin of any measurable amount? No, there's not."
Permitless concealed carry is already happening in 12 states, Craig said, ranging in ideology from Missouri to "Bernie Sanders' own home state of Vermont."
"What makes Wisconsinites any different?" he said. "And if other states are doing this without ill effect, and we've had the level of permitless carry in Wisconsin without ill effect, why would we not break down that barrier?"
Look for my column on Tuesday :)
Local Legislators Sign On To Constitutional Carry
Posted by Owen at 0743, 29 Mar 1717 | 1 Comment
This bill is quickly gaining momentum.
The Right to Carry Act introduced Tuesday morning would do away with licensing and training requirements to carry a concealed weapon and lower the age requirement to own a gun, and has support of politicians in the State Legislature from throughout the county.
The bill is co-authored by area legislators Sen. Duey Stroebel, Rep. Dan Knodl, Rep. Bob Gannon, Rep. Rob Brooks and Rep. Jesse Kremer. Wisconsin would be the 13th state to allow concealed carry without a permit, and information sent out with the bill indicates the new legislation will restore constitutional rights.
"It doesn't go as far as some states have gone," Gannon said. Another 20 states are working on similar laws, he added.
Knodl said people shouldn't have to pay for their Second Amendment right.
Constitutional Carry Introduced in Wisconsin
Posted by Owen at 0841, 28 Mar 1717 | 0 Comments
Yes, yes, and more yes.
Jay Weber has a good FAQ about the bill being introduced today to bring Constitutional Carry to Wisconsin. Essentially, it would allow people to carry a weapon without a permit. 14 states – some very liberal and some very conservative – already have Constitutional Carry and haven't had any problems with it. The reason is simple… bad guys already carry weapons whether the law allows it or not. The only thing restrictions do is prevent law-abiding folks from doing the same thing.
This is the kind of serious reform I was looking for in this legislature. From a political point of view, this comes at a good time for state Republicans. The national Republicans have severely damaged the Republican brand and frustrated the base with their failure to repeal Obamacare. If state Republicans want to avoid what us likely a Democratic landslide in 2018, they need to demonstrate that they can move important and substantial conservative legislation. This is a good steep in that direction. (Repealing the state income tax would be another good step)
Let's get it done.
Kansas Becomes a Constitutional Carry State
Firearms, Law, PoliticsConstitutional Carry
It's good to see the expansion of liberty.
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback on Thursday signed a bill allowing Kansans to carry concealed weapons without a permit or training starting this summer.
The new law will go into effect on July 1, and will make Kansas the sixth "constitutional carry" state, allowing Kansans 21 and older to carry concealed weapons without a permit, the Kansas City Star reported Thursday.
And Ohio maybe next.
Ohioans could carry concealed firearms without a permit if a bill introduced in the Statehouse Tuesday becomes law.
The state would join Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Kansas, Vermont and Wyoming with "constitutional carry," the term used by proponents of nearly unrestricted gun laws.
The proposed law would allow anyone 21 or older to carry any firearm not banned by state or federal law without a permit. The bill would also prohibit law enforcement from searching and detaining otherwise law-abiding citizens based solely on the possession of a firearm.
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Philadelphia Eagles Look Promising in Open Training Camp
Josh Collins
On August 3rd, the Philadelphia Eagles hosted an open training camp that gave fans and the media a look into the 2019 Eagles roster. As open training camps like these show off first and second team lineups, they arguably give more insight into rosters than early preseason games where starters are rested. This training camp helped to confirm some early expectations for certain players for the upcoming season as well as display unexpected growth in others.
This training camp produced a large amount of standouts on the Eagles roster. One of the most surprising of these standouts was third-year running back Donnel Pumphrey. Pumphrey was selected by the Eagles in the fourth round of 2017 NFL Draft but never played a snap that season due to injury. After being waived by the Eagles and spending part of the 2018 season on the Lions' practice squad, Pumphrey has returned to the Eagles practice squad and has been fighting for a roster spot.
In this training camp, Pumphrey appeared to have put on more muscle and was making quick cuts in between the tackles. Pumphrey made impressive runs in the 7 on 7 drills and will hope to make the roster as the Eagles 4th or 5th running back.
Along with Pumphrey, the rest of the Eagles running backs also played very well. 2019 second-round pick Miles Sanders has lived up to expectations so far and made several nice plays including a deep run along the sidelines which would've been a touchdown.
Additionally, Jordan Howard appeared quicker than last year and was able to easily break away through the line. For a running back team that will be led by two players that weren't on the roster last year (Howard and Sanders), it is promising to see them already showing such talent in early-August.
The biggest standouts in the Eagles receiving game was Zach Ertz (per usual) and Desean Jackson. After returning to Philadelphia via a trade during the off-season, Jackson has re-established the Eagles deep threat. This was apparent from a 50 yard touchdown that Wentz threw to Jackson.
Jackson may turn out to be the Eagles' best off-season pickup as he is still one of the fastest receivers in the league, and he is able to stretch out the field. Jackson's skill-set will be complementary to Zach Ertz who regularly runs short and mid-ranged routes. Because of this, Ertz will have less defensive pressure on him and will continue to be Carson Wentz' favorite target.
While some players stood out during this training camp, others looked shaky and inconsistent. Carson Wentz was initially off-target with some of his throws but was able to recover later in the practice with a nice red zone target to JJ Arcega-Whiteside and a deep pass to Desean Jackson.
Also, Alshon Jeffrey did not look very good towards the beginning of practice and dropped several catches. Jeffrey was able to catch a nice touchdown pass from Wentz later in practice, but this was not a good overall showing from Jeffrey.
The Eagles depth at QB was evidently much weaker than it was last year due to the loss of Nick Foles. Additionally, back-up QBs Cody Kessler and Clayton Thorson had weak performances and were off-target with many of their throws. Nate Sudfeld had the best performance of the Eagles' back-up QBs, but he did not impress.
Going into the regular season, the Eagles possess a roster that contains talent and potential. While some players need to work on becoming more consistent, others are already making great strides in their game. If Wentz can stay healthy and return to being an MVP candidate, the Eagles will have one of the best offenses in the league with depth at running back, wide receiver, and tight end.
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KARACHI – The Sindh government on Thursday appointed Samir Mir Sheikh as special assistant to chief minister Murad Ali Shah.
According to the details, the Sindh government extended its cabinet by eight members as Sheikh, Arbab Lutfullah, Nadir Magsi, Ajiz Jakhrani, Riaz Shah Shirazi, Jam Madad Ali, Qasim Soomro and Brigadier (retired) Haris were inducted.
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Thirimanne believes power hitting not central to success
There is, however, at least one player involved in this year's ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2019 who disagrees with the view that power hitting is integral to a strong limited-overs team.
When asked if he was worried at the lack of recognised hard-hitting batsmen in the Sri Lankan squad, Lahiru Thirimanne told the ICC, "I think before the 2014 T20 World Cup, people were saying the same thing. People were saying we needed to work on our power hitting but we ended up winning the World Cup at the end of the day."
In the final of that tournament, Sri Lanka chased 131 with relative ease, thanks largely to an unbeaten 52 by Kumar Sangakkarra. They only once scored more than 170 in the tournament, when they racked up 189/4 against England, a total England chased down with two balls to spare thanks largely to a mammoth 116* from Alex Hales.
Rather than rely on batsmen making big scores, Sri Lanka relied upon their bowlers to defend whatever score they could muster, a strategy exemplified by their final group game, where having stumbled their way to 119 all out, Rangana Herath produced an outstanding spell of 5/3 as New Zealand fell to 60 all out.
That was T20, the domain of the most aggressive batsmen, the hardest-hitting batsmen, the sloggers. And yet even there, Sri Lanka managed to win despite a side that many thought would not be able to score quickly enough to compete. Fifty-over cricket – where there is so much more room for the serene, the watchful, and the patient – surely lends itself more to this philosophy. Thirimanne certainly believes so.
"You have 50 overs, it's a long game. You have 300 balls to work on your game, it's a long game I believe," he said. When asked if he had worked on any new shots to try to increase his own scoring rate, he replied, "Not really, because I stick to my game plan … But if the opportunities are there, I will play different shots."
The 2014 World T20 is not the only past tournament from which the former Sri Lanka captain is looking to draw inspiration. He was six years old when Sri Lanka won the 1996 World Cup, and he remembers watching it with his family. "At that time also, we were not that good before the World Cup, we lost some matches, but in the World Cup, we played really well and won," he pointed out.
The records going into the 1996 and 2019 World Cups are somewhat different. Since Sri Lanka's tour of South Africa, they have lost 13 of their last 15 completed ODIs, with one of those wins coming against Scotland. In comparison, of their 15 games before the 1996 World Cup, Sri Lanka had won seven.
That World Cup success for Sri Lanka also marked the start of the now almost universal tactic of aggressive batting in the early overs of the innings, with their openers Sanath Jayasuriya and Romesh Kaluwitharana using the approach to great effect; a striking difference to Thirimanne and his opening partner, captain Dimuth Karunaratne, both of whom have career strike rates in the low-70s.
Thirimanne was somewhat of a surprise inclusion in the Sri Lankan squad, having not played an ODI since December 2017, until the side's 35-run DLS victory against Scotland in May 2019. He was not surprised at his inclusion though. "I was in the Test side five or six months ago, so it was not that hard [to get in the squad].
"But we had a domestic tournament about a month ago, so I had a chance to perform well there and get into the team. It was a good tournament for me because even though I played the last World Cup, and everyone thought I can somehow contribute to the team in this World Cup, I was lucky I had a chance to perform well in the domestic season and get into the team."
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S-Class, INS TANIN (S-71) or INS RAHAV (S-73)
by D. v. Nieuwenhuijzen » Wed Dec 13, 2017 8:46 pm
S-Class (Fourth Group)
Israel's first submarines were ex-Royal Navy S-Class submarines which entered service in 1958. The Israeli navy operated two boats, S-71 INS TANIN (ex-HMS SPRINGER) and S-73 INS RAHAV (ex-HMS SANGUINE) until the late 1960s. Built in the final days of WW2, they had undergone a modest modernization after the war involving the fitting of a folding snort mast to allow charging of the batteries whilst the boat was submerged, and better sonar. All the same these boats were essentially WW2 era types largely obsolete even before they entered Israeli service.
HMS SPRINGER (P 264)
Built by Cammell Laird & Co. Ltd. Birkenhead, laid down:8 May 1944, launched:14 May 1945, commissioned:2 August 1945. Displacement: 814-872 tons surfaced, 990 tons submerged. Length:217' (66.14 m.)
Beam:23' 6" (7.16 m.) Draught:11' (3.35m.) diesel/electric 1900/1300 hp. 14.75 kn. surfaced, 8 knots submerged
Complement:48 officers and men.
Armament:6 × forward 21" (533 mm.) torpedo tubes, one aft, 13 torpedoes, 1-3"(76mm.) gun, 1-20 mm. canon., 3-.303 calibre machine guns.
Sold to Israeli Navy on 9 October 1958, renamed TANIN, fate: scrapped in 1972.
HMS SANGUINE (P 266)
Same details as HMS SPRINGER, built by Cammell Laird & Co. Ltd. Birkenhead, laid down:10 January 1944, launched:15 February 1945, commissioned:13 May 1945, sold to Israeli Navy in March 1958, renamed RAHAV, fate: cannibalised for spares for TANIN in 1968, broken up at Haifa in 1969.
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If you were interested in my last blog post on plant learning and memory, have a read of this article I wrote on the topic for Aeon Magazine, which was published today. I didn't choose the title (I think "mind" has popular connotations related to consciousness that I would want to avoid) but the body of the essay and the subsequent discussion (a comments section that actually opts for reflection and reasoned dialogue!) get at some important issues in thinking about how to theorise plant learning.
How does a legume learn?
Greetings phytophilosophy enthusiasts! Today marks the beginning of National Science Week here in Australia so I'll be sharing a little plant science with you.
To begin with, I want to have a look at how plants learn. Learn? I hear you thinking, is that really something plants can do at all? If you're anything like me, the concept of behavioural learning is something you might have wandered into while studying for introductory psychology exams, or perhaps stumbled upon after googling whether it's possible to train your cat to open doors. At any rate, you might have thought, learning is surely something only animals are capable of – I mean, doesn't learning require a brain? To the surprise of many though, recent research answers this question with a resounding no! While we might not generally think to associate learning with plants, we now know that plants are nonetheless out there associatively learning! However, the rigorous scientific study of plant learning is relatively new; plant physiologists have been interested in the topic for decades but robust demonstration of behavioural learning in plants has only occurred in the last few years. So, if you haven't come across plant learning before, don't worry – you aren't too far behind the cutting-edge science!
Before we examine what learning looks like in plants, let's take a step back: what is learning, anyway? At core, learning is a process whereby particular experiences lead to lasting changes in behaviour or knowledge. Some forms of learning, such as social learning, observational learning, and the kind of learning that comes about through activities such as play, require particularly complex kinds of nervous systems and social organisation. Other types of learning are more ubiquitous, and inform the basic ways that organisms interface with the world around them. For any organism born into an environment that varies from place to place or changes over time, the capacity to learn which things around them are dangerous, safe, nutritious, and so on – basically anything that relates to surviving and thriving – is an advantage. Given how this ability is likely to affect reproductive success, it is not surprising that many different sorts of organisms can learn – including plants!
One of the most basic kinds of learning, non-associative learning, was first studied in the giant sea slug Aplysia californica, work which later earned neuroscientist Eric Kandel his Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Aplysia has an involuntary reflex known as the gill and siphon withdrawal reflex (GSWR) – when stimulated by a curious neuroscientist or exposed to some other environmental disturbance, Aplysia's siphon and gill retract defensively, as shown in the diagram below. If a harmless stimulus is repeatedly presented to Aplysia, there is a gradual decrease in GSWR for that stimulus, which is known as habituation. Habituation learning is useful so that organisms do not continuously respond to all the things they repeatedly encounter in their environments. Rather, they can ignore innocuous stimuli and put their time and energy to better use, foraging for food, looking for mates, or writing blogs.
Notwithstanding, if an organism suddenly encounters a different stimulus, it still wants to be responsive in case of danger. True habituation, then, needs to be stimulus-specific rather than just a general unresponsiveness. When a new stimulus is introduced and the organism starts responding to the novel stimulus as it did before habituation (so in the Aplysia case, responds with the GSWR), this is called dishabituation. Dishabituation distinguishes genuine learning from other kinds of changes in responsivity, such as that due to fatigue.
This sort of learning, then, basically occurs in environments where an organism must learn to ignore innocuous stimuli. In contrast, if our benign neuroscientist takes a sinister turn and repeatedly administers a harmful stimulus (such as an electric shock) to Aplysia, instead of a decrease we see a learned increase in responsiveness to the noxious and also neutral stimuli over time. This other type of behavioural learning is known as sensitisation.
So how does all this relate to plants? In 2014, biologist Monica Gagliano and colleagues put a little plant known as Mimosa pudica, the sensitive plant, to the test to see whether it could learn. The plant is so-named because, like our shy sea slug Aplysia, when stimulated, Mimosa's little leaflets close up defensively (see picture).
Gagliano's research group was not the first to apply behavioural learning paradigms to plants or to Mimosa particularly, but earlier studies were not always well-controlled and findings were inconsistent. The rigour and comprehensiveness of this recent study make it the first to conclusively demonstrate true habituation (to dropping) and dishabituation (to shaking) in the plant. Mimosa plants learn that dropping is harmless and therefore do es not require a folding response, while still maintaining their capacity for responsiveness upon introduction of a novel, unexpected stimulus.
Moreover, these researchers found that not only did Mimosa plants display habituation learning, but that they did so in a context-sensitive way. Plants use their leaves to gather the sunlight they need to produce energy through photosynthesis. Therefore, in low-light environments, where this resource is scarce, there is a greater potential cost to a plant if it responds unnecessarily (leaf closure reduces the rate of photosynthesis by about 40%). By testing plants in both high and low light conditions, Gagliano's team demonstrated that Mimosa plants learn faster in (low-light) environments where it the potential consequences are greater. Even when plants were initially germinated in high-light environments then transferred to a low-light context they displayed habituation much more rapidly than they had previously. It doesn't take them long to learn and adapt!
Plants then, certainly seem capable of the simple sorts of non-associative learning that have previously been studied in animals like Aplysia. But what about more complex learning? Most animals are also capable of what is known as associative learning, which involves learning associations between different sorts of stimuli. No doubt many of you will at some stage have come across Pavlov's famous experiments with dogs that demonstrate a kind of associative learning called classical conditioning. Meat powder naturally causes dogs to salivate. In Pavlov's experiments, dogs that heard a bell paired with the presentation of meat powder eventually began to salivate when hearing the bell alone, even when meat powder was no longer present.
More generally then, in classical conditioning, organisms make associations that cause them to generalise their usual response to a stimulus onto a neutral stimulus with which it is paired. While the neutral stimulus would not usually elicit that sort of response, after an organism learns the association between the stimulus that would usually generate the response and the neutral one, the neutral stimulus alone becomes enough to elicit a response. Classical conditioning is important for organisms because it underlies the ability to make behavioural choices based on predicted outcomes. For instance, if a bell predicts when and where food will appear, it is adaptive to respond to the bell because it is a reliable predictor of reward.
In a study published late last year (2016), Gagliano and colleagues demonstrated that plants are capable of this sort of associative learning too. Moreover, they demonstrated this not with unusual, fast-moving plants like Mimosa, but this time with rather ordinary garden pea plants (Pisum sativum). One of the challenges of applying behavioural learning paradigms developed for animals to plants is in figuring out experimental designs that use environmental signals and plant responses that are ecologically relevant and can test the things we want them to. In this experiment the researchers used a Y-maze as shown in the picture. Plants learned that air movement in one arm of the Y-maze (caused by a fan) predicted subsequent light availability (in one experimental condition the fan was in the same arm as the light and in the other the opposite arm – plants were capable of learning either).
When seedlings in the test condition were examined for growth direction at the crucial junction of the Y-maze, they demonstrated a robust conditioned response to the fan. In contrast, plants in the control condition demonstrated only the innate blue light trophic response. This learning also turned out to be dependent upon signals relating to time of day – learning about light foraging cues occurred reliably only during subjective "day time" for the plant (which was manipulated experimentally). This makes sense as under usual conditions this would be when light might be available to plants and therefore the time to be looking out for cues that could predict its availability and location – attempting to do so at other times might incur too hefty an energetic cost.
Plants, it seems, are smarter than we thought – they certainly display a pretty robust capacity to learn! What, then, does the current state of research into plant learning look like? The short answer is that it's still very early days. This is an exciting time in the field as there are still so many questions! In the absence of neurons, what sorts of mechanisms enable this sort of learning in plants? How is information stored? Did the capacity for learning evolve several times in different lineages, or was it present before the point of evolutionary divergence? What sorts of directions will this research travel in? How can we improve, extend, and diversify our experiments? How can we foster cross-pollination between the fields of comparative psychology and plant biology? What sorts of things can plants learn? Does the capacity for learning vary across different members of the plant kingdom as it does with animals? To what extent do other non-neural organisms also display the capacity to learn?
Over the next few decades no doubt this research programme will expand and develop in unanticipated ways to answer some of these questions. In the meantime, it is uniquely exciting watching little pea seedlings in my garden emerging this season – as I spend my time learning about them, I wonder what they are learning about, too!
Hi phytophilosophers – given my increased teaching and other responsibilities this semester I unfortunately haven't had a lot of time recently for this blog! I will be back writing eventually, but in the meantime, if any of you are in Adelaide and enjoy thinking about plants and philosophy, feel free to come along this Wednesday evening to my talk on the topic of metaphor use and conceptual reform in the plant sciences. All welcome – there are drinks and nibbles, doors at 7pm, talk starts about 7.30pm.
Hope you've all had a nice weekend and Mothers' Day!
This week we're usual time, usual place: Napier 210, doors @ 7pm. Laura Ruggles is presenting this week on some of her awesome research. She is a current PhD candidate in philosophy here at Adelaide and some of you may remember her as our former Philosophy Club president.
PLANT BEHAVIOUR AND INTELLIGENCE: ANTHROPOCENTRIC METAPHORS OR A CALL FOR CONCEPTUAL CHANGE (OR BOTH!)?
that brush past my eager face.
from gathering armies of cloud.
heavy drops break through the leafy fortress.
but no forest stillness breaks.
mine the sole indrawn breath.
This poem was written a while ago after getting caught in a storm in a Queensland rainforest. I had been recently reading a little on electroculture, the practice of stimulating growth in plants through the application of various types of electricity. There was a flurry of research activity on the topic back in the early 1900s, with contradictory findings. We know now that plants seem to use the electrostatic fields that often accompany thunderstorms as an early signal that allows them to prepare for and make the best use of the coming rain. This is perhaps not of greatest use in already damp rainforests, but in other places, because of the time it takes to synthesise new proteins, chlorophyll and so on, if plants are to make best use of the available water they need to respond and prepare in advance of its actually permeating the soil. Electrostatic activity is a good predictor of a coming storm that allows them to prepare in this manner, which is probably why in some contexts we see increased growth after mild electrostimulation of regularly watered plants.
Goldsworthy, A. (2006). 'Effects of Electrical and Electromagnetic Fields on Plants and Related Topics' (Ch. 11) in A.G. Volkov (Ed.) Plant Electrophysiology: Theory and Methods. Springer, Berlin.


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Some women are renting boyfriends in China for the Chinese New Year celebration. They are doing this for avoiding pressure of being single at the mega celebration where everyone enjoys with their partners. Similarly, here is woman describing her search and story for a rental boyfriend. She wants to rent a boyfriend to take her parents home for the Chinese New Year.
She search on the internet and says so many options are there. If I am lucky, I will find someone that is not so weird. Li Chenxi doesn't want to be labeled a sheng nu or a leftover woman because she is 27 and still she is a single. Sheng nu is not a positive word. In Chinese society, it is just feels like someone has been abandoned. Some girl has been abandoned. Obviously it is not a good feeling of being abandoned. A fake rental boyfriend costs about $150 a day, with extra charges for a kiss on the cheeks or for a cuddle.
She call a person for the job and talk about him and she asked him, are you seriously thinking about this? I am afraid my mom will keep pushing me to get married. So I will bring someone, whoever he is, to calm her down. She starts planning with her rental boyfriend about the meeting with her family with him. She asks him how old are you? He said he is 24 years old. She said I am 27 years old and asked him that he would tell her parents that he is 27 and he agreed. Then she said since we have dated for such a long time, why have I not told my mom about you? Can we say it is because you are becoming more mature? So I decided to tell her now and he agreed and says yes we could say that.
Finally Chenxi decided to take her rental boyfriend Sean, to her home. But still she is worried her mom won't believe the lie. Her mother believed on lie but she says Sean is not good for her as he is too young and not looking a reliable and Chenxi returned to Beijing with bad feeling of lying to her parents.
Who loses if Obamacare is repealed? There have been thousands of questions about Obamacare. What is it and how many people use it? Who will be affected by the dismissal if it is closed? You have most likely heard some of the confusion online or firsthand. Different people respond it differently on a question when asked from people in US streets. Do you support Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act? A lady says I am not biggest fan of Obama, so I don't support him in the Obama things that he is got going on.
So first of all it must be clear that what Obamacare is? Obamacare is just a nickname for the Affordable Care Act. They are the same thing and more than 20 million people rely on it to get healthcare they could not get anywhere else. The more than twice number of people is living in the New York City and more than Georgia and New Jersey combined. Now that we have cleared that up, here what you need to know about a possible repeal, if the Republicans get their way, 18 million people will lose their insurance in the first year. That number jumps to 27 million if they eliminate Medicaid eligibility and subsidies for insurance purchased through marketplaces. Any by 2026, 32 million people could be without health insurance.
CEO of Zuckerberg SF General Hospital, Dr. Susan Ehrlich says, it is hard to imagine taking all of that away. Before the Affordable Care Act that is before January 2014, almost 40% of our patients were uninsured and so now only about 17% of our patients are insured. Many patients with preexisting conditions rely on the Affordable Care Act.
A cancer patient – Jeff Jeans says, I was a Republican and I have worked for the Reagan and Bush campaigns. At 49 I was given 6 weeks to live with a very curable type of cancer. Thanks for the Affordable Care Act, I am standing here today alive. Obamacare requires that all health insurance companies, regardless if you have a preexisting condition or not. Though these protections are repealed, 1 in 4 Americans under that age of 65 might have difficulties getting health insurance.
Bikes are being made with plants. Founder of Ghana Bamboo Bikes Initiative – Bernice Dapaah says, we are harvesting bamboo of production and we have all the components. When you look at the seat tube, all the sized that we want we can get it from the bamboo. The frame is complete recyclable, and for each bamboo plant used, the team plants ten more.
Bernice Dapaah is changing the face of transport in Ghana, by making bike out of bamboo. When I was in the college, I decided to see how best I can do something after school, especially using our local raw materials to do. Bernice is making a green from of transport even more eco-friendly. She already has trained and employed more than 35 young people, some of them disabled.
They are doing nice with nice designs like custoem made bikes. They write fancy names, very attractive names. Wbe are creating employment for them, so we are so happy about the social impact that the bamboo bike is making. The income is not only benefitting her employees. She is donating bikes to the local community. The idea of we even going backl, donating bicycle for kids that walk miles from their home though the bamboo bike production is really amazing.
How ingenious! Lightweight, renewable, non-polluting, community based. All wonderful outcomes from a single simple idea. Well done! We should encourage more people like this lady throughout the world instead of the exploitative, polluting multi nationals who are tax evaders. She may not be on a history book, she might not be a billionaire of a brand everyone knows, but she's making a change in her community, she's doing the best she can with the things in her surroundings, she's being successful and loving of her work. I'd love to be someone like this in the near future.
This woman is training to be Pakistan's first female bomb squad member. Rafia Qaseem Baig is a constable in Pakistan's KPK province police and she wants to break gender barriers. She is telling her dedication and support from people from her department, her colleagues, society and nation.
She says, when I put on this bomb suit, it's weight make me realize what I have to do to serve the Pakistani people and what I have to do to bring peace and security here. So this is the responsibility that falls on my shoulders and to fulfill it, I have to keep myself ready. My only aim was to give a message to the world Pakistani woman are just as courageous and powerful as Pakistani men, to bring peace and help humanity.
I don't feel that when I put on this suit and go dispose of an IED that I will die and become a martyr. Our religion teaches us about peacc, safety and serving humanity. And this creed of our religion is what compels me to do this job. This is a brilliant force because quite a few of our soldier have sacrificed their valuable lives for the security of this country and our society. Whatever our obligation is to maintain peace and security, we will do it.
At least 15 bomb squad members have been died since in 1986. But Rafia is not afraid. She hops we will be an example and a role model for other women to join up. Dedicating and devoting such pretty faces at utter risk for fight against terrorism to safeguard prettier faces. The world must now clearly know how much Pakistan as a country and nation is serious about fight against terrorism. She is a brave soul hopefully shell do a lot help clear the harm from everyone with the rest of a team made of women as well bless them.
A make up tutorial to hide domestic violence and a Moroccan channel broadcasted it on its morning show on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. In the special beauty segment a beautician teach how a woman can hide signs of violence on her body. They use a lady with fake marks on her face like she was beaten up. The makeup artist used to explain about the makeup art with taking her as example.
Beauty Presenter – Lilia Mouline presented her advice on a woman with fake bruises. It's a subject we should not talk about at all but unfortunately that's what it is. After the beating, this part is still sensitive, so don't press. After that we take orange – corrector. We will put it on the part that is a bit blue. We put it on the corner of the eye, which is the part that gets the darkest.
You should use foundation with yellow in it. If you use the white one, your red punch marks will always show. If you are at work and have stuff to do, the foundation won't disappear and the punch mark won't start to show. So I hope we gave solution to women who need advice. We gave you beauty tips so that you can go on with your lives.
The sparked a controversy in the country and cause the channel to apologize twice, saying the segment was completely inappropriate given the sensitivity and the gravity of the subject. The issue was taken to social media where people criticized it by writing against the channels show. Ikram Benchrif says violence against women is a bit ugly but it is not bad with foundation. Diplome Harvard wrote what they did with their women's show is typical of our society, when we can't solve a problem, we put make up on it. One wrote how to hide a dead body, next in the show.
Can you find the difference between articles whether they are real of not? A Standford University study asked middle schoolers to determine if links on Slate's homepage were ads or articles. They picked a real article and a sponsored ad, where it was clearly mentioned statement Sponsored Content. More than 80% thought that displaying ads are real article, despite the word sponsored.
A link was used to an IBM ad that was designed to look like a real article. Sarah Mcgrew – Standford University says, we were so surprised by how much students struggled. Even adults struggle to identify sponsored content, which is may be why it's increasing in prevalence. If you arrive at a site that you don't recognize or you get emailed something that you do not know that who is behind this information. Just asking that question alone would help a lot of people out.
A lot of student responses went on and on about how much evidence was provided by that post, which in fact did not provide any. With a fake news becoming a political fighting term, the need for media literacy is growing. Libraries and education organizations are responding with new curricula.
High school students assessed the credibility of the image, Fukushima Nuclear Flowers. This is what happens when flowers get nuclear birth defects. Less than 20% of them questioned the source.
A severe drought has gripped Bolivia. Taps have run dry from forced rationing and residents line up day and night for water. The capital's three main water supplies are almost dry. The country relies on the Andean Glaciers for water. They have shrunk between 30 to 50% since the 1970s. Some are project to disappear by 2030. The destruction of rainforest to expand agriculture land is making situation worse.
Juana Limachi – area resident says that they are very worried. All they can do is pray to God for it to rain. Lakes and dams have evaporated. Thousands of people lost their livelihoods when Bolivia's second largest lake completely dried up. Opposition Lawmaker – Jimena Costa says, the government has given hundreds of thousands of farmers authorization to deforest and contaminate the air with these fires.
Bolivian President – Evo Morales apologized. In this regard he himself release and official apologize and in his statement he says unfortunately, the water control authority and the EPSAS – Public Social Company of Water and Heath never warned us. They never alerted us. I am not trying to lay blame. We are guilty.
Half the country is suffering from a lack of water. Climate change aside, Bolivia has one of the highest fertility rates in Latam. Perhaps we should stop victimizing ourselves and address the real issue: overpopulation. Climate change aside, Bolivia has one of the highest fertility rates in Latam. Perhaps we should stop victimizing ourselves and address the real issue: overpopulation. You don't need to consume like Americans to destroy your environment. You just need enough people.
News of cool umbrella has become viral on the social media, as it is a revolution in the history of the umbrella. The company has designed this umbrella especially for the people, who are going to perform HAJJ. It is observed that the temperature of the Middle East is rising with every passing year. The weather forecast department has claimed that this rise in the temperature would remain like this for the next 12 years. To perform Hajj in these hot days was not so easy. So, this cool umbrella is one of the great things for the people, who are going the Middle East.
This cool umbrella has great features in its structure. As it is also known as the solar powered umbrella due to its solar power panels, which are fitted on the outer skin of the umbrella. In fact, this umbrella is not only for the people, who are going to perform Hajj nowadays, it is useful for everyone. The umbrella is the basic need of every person, who often moves outside an office.
This cool umbrella is really cool due to its awesome features. The built in fan on the inner side of the umbrella, two USB ports and one port to charge the mobile phone, a torchlight to see the path in the dark streets and a complete GPS system. These are the features which make this gadget a very cool gadget. This umbrella is going to be very famous for everyone who uses the umbrella.
This Saudi and Palestinian company created this gadget and till now, this is available only in the Saudi Arab. But very soon it will be available everywhere. The name of the company is knowledge based and they hope that their gadget is going to be viral in the whole world. Everyone will be using this cool umbrella in the coming time.
The Very cool news came in this so hot season about the solar power umbrella. It was a really a great news for the people, who often go out in the very hot season of the summer. Umbrellas are in demand from very long time. This is from one of the basic necessities of the man. It is not only used in the rain. It is more often used in the days of peak hot summer season. There was a great need in the design of basic umbrella so; it was a revolution in the history of the umbrella.
They did not modify the design of the umbrella, but did great changes and added very cool features in the basic design of the umbrella. The umbrella of today is now powered by solar energy. On the top of the umbrella, there are some panels fix in the skin of the umbrella. These panels are solar panels. They energy from the sun and store this solar energy in the handle of the umbrella. The need of a powerful fan arises here and the company also offered the solution of this problem too.
The company fitted a built in fan on the inner side of the solar power umbrella. This small but, powerful fan gives a cool breeze to the person who is under this solar power umbrella. This fan used the power which is being stored in the handle of the umbrella.
This solar power umbrella gets the energy from the sun, stores this energy in the handle and fan is operated with this stored energy. Another awesome feature of this solar powered umbrella is the built-in mobiles phone charger pin and two USB ports. These ports can also be used to charge the mobile phone.
One greater feature of this umbrella is the torch light, which is fixed at the end of the handle of this solar power umbrella.
This video is about the astonishing shape of trees in this world. Really, these astonishing trees are present in many of the places. These trees have adopted a shape in a very strange way that by looking to their shape, nobody can think that they are natural in shape. These are found in different countries of the world. These trees are the wonders of the world. Some of them have adopted the shape of the mushroom and some have adopted the shape of a chair. They are quite naturally in their shape. The government of these countries is taking special care of these trees because these trees are the asset for their country and are becoming a raise in the economy through the visitors.
Some of the trees are found in very strange places. They often become the sign of horror for the visitors of these places. People of those countries even do not go near these trees. They also have some very horrible shapes. Some of the trees have adopted the shape an animal. It looks like an animal is standing alone by bowing its head towards the earth. It looks very beautiful and innocent. One of these trees has adopted the shape of a woman, who is sitting by raising her hands up to the sky. It is looking very amazing and astonishing that how the shape came into existence. But this has happened and there is no reason behind the adoption of the shape of these trees.
One more thing is that, somewhere, there is a single tree in this astonishing shape, but, at some places, there is a forest of these astonishing trees. The forest is full of trees with very amazing and strange shapes. Every tree in the forest has been adopted a different and amazing shape. People often visit these forest to see the masterpiece of their God.
The video about the mystery of the world trade center was revealed by the group of engineers. This group of engineers was involved in the planning and development team of the world trade center. In the incident of world trade center, two planes hit the world trade center. There were three buildings in the area of world trade center. Out of these three buildings, two went down due to the attack and one went down after the attack. According to the engineers, these buildings went down not due to the planned attack, but due to the bombs.
The group of engineers identified the truth that these buildings were destroyed by the planted bombs in the building. These engineers were the planners and developers of the construction of world trade center. They stated that if the plan attacked the buildings, only the affected part of the building should by destroyed, not the whole building. These engineers also denied the report in which it was said that these buildings were destroyed due to plane hitting. As these buildings were specially designed to cater this type of situation, it was impossible for them to destroy by the plan attacks.
To get the more destruction and causalities, the government of the America planted the bombs in the buildings. Due to these planted bombs in the specific parts of the buildings, the buildings were destroyed and maximum casualties were achieved. The group of engineers claimed that the government of America was involved in the whole planning and the world trade center incident was pre-planned by the government of America. The government destroyed these towers for their purposes. The members of this group of engineers are increasing very rapidly and they all believe that this building was destroyed by the government of America.


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Wolfsberger AC 3-3 Ludogorets
Wolfsberger AC vs Ludogorets Head 2 Head
Wolfsberger AC Last Games
0 + - 0 - - - - 0 - + + 0 - - 0 + + - 0 + - + + + + + + - + + 0
Bohemians 1905
SCR Altach 1
Admira Wacker 3 1
Ludogorets Last Games
0 + + + 0 ? + ? - + + + + 0 - + + - + + - + + + - + - - + + + 0 - -
Wisla Plock
CSKA-Sofia 8 1
Ludogorets 4
1PFL
Pirin Blagoevgrad 3
FC Midtjylland 3
GRF
Lokomotiv Sofia 2
Arda Kardzhali 1
CSKA-Sofia 3
Crvena Zvezda 4
CSKA 1948 1
Ludogorets 1 1
Wolfsberger AC Results
Ludogorets Results
Wolfsberger AC Goals
Ludogorets Goals
Wolfsberger AC Strength
Ludogorets Strength
Wolfsberger AC Goals (Last 30 games)
Ludogorets Goals (Last 30 games)
Wolfsberger AC Scorers (Last 15 games)
Tai Baribo 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 7
Eliel Peretz 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 4
Thorsten Rocher 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Matthaeus Taferner 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Cheikhou Dieng 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 3
Michael Liendl 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 3
Dario Vizinger 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 3
Dominik Baumgartner 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Christopher Wernitznig 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Amar Dedic 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Augustine Boakye 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Amadou Dante 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Adis Jasic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
David Gugganig 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
Ludogorets Scorers (Last 15 games)
Pieros Sotiriou 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 2 0 0 0 8
Kiril Despodov 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 4
Jordan Ikoko 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 3
Alex Santana 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Mavis Tchibota 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2
Josue 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Higinio Marin 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Elvis Manu 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Show 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Bernard Tekpetey 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Igor Plastun 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Christian Gomis 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Olivier Verdon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
Cauly Oliveira Souza 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
Wolfsberger AC Bad Boys (Last 30 games)
Ludogorets Bad Boys (Last 30 games)
Wolfsberger AC 2.00 1.67 1.94 1.73 1.63
Ludogorets 0.83 0.83 0.69 0.74 1.50
Wolfsberger AC vs Ludogorets
Wolfsberger AC Stats
Leading players in the last 15 matches in all tournaments: Tai Baribo (7), Eliel Peretz (4), Thorsten Rocher (3), Matthaeus Taferner (3), Cheikhou Dieng (3), Michael Liendl (3), Dario Vizinger (3).
Ludogorets Stats
The team scored 13 points when playing away in 10 last matches, with the following results 4 wins, 1 draw и 5 losses. The difference between scored and conceded goals is 17-17. The average number of goals is 1.7. The average number of cards in 10 last matches is 2.
Leading players in the last 15 matches in all tournaments: Pieros Sotiriou (8), Kiril Despodov (4), Jordan Ikoko (3), Alex Santana (2), Mavis Tchibota (2), Josue (1), Higinio Marin (1).
7 October 2021, 17:48 goal.com The 30-year-old is backed to rediscover his scoring form against The Warriors during the international week 28 September 2021, 23:22 sportsmole.co.uk After both failing to win their opening game, Braga and FC Midtjylland will square off on Thursday in the second round of fixtures of the Europa League group stage. 28 September 2021, 19:56 sportsmole.co.uk Ludogorets Razgrad will welcome Red Star Belgrade to Bulgaria on Thursday, in the second round of fixtures in the Europa League group stage. 16 September 2021, 05:00 sportsmole.co.uk Midtjylland vs. Ludogorets (Thursday, 5.45pm) In the opening round of fixtures in this year's Europa League, FC Midtjylland will play host to Ludogorets Razgrad on Thursday. 14 September 2021, 22:54 sportsmole.co.uk In the opening round of fixtures in this year's Europa League, FC Midtjylland will play host to Ludogorets Razgrad on Thursday. 24 August 2021, 05:05 sportsmole.co.uk Ferencvaros vs. Young Boys (Tuesday, 8.00pm) Seeking to overturn a 3-2 deficit from the first leg of their Champions League playoff tie, Ferencvaros welcome Young Boys to the Groupama Arena for Tuesday's make-or-break clash. 22 August 2021, 10:48 sportsmole.co.uk Seeking to somehow bounce back from a 2-0 first-leg defeat in the Champions League playoff round, Ludogorets Razgrad welcome Malmo to the Huvepharma Arena for the second leg on Tuesday evening. 18 August 2021, 05:00 sportsmole.co.uk Young Boys vs. Ferencvaros (Wednesday, 8.00pm) With one final hurdle to navigate in the Champions League qualifying rounds, Young Boys welcome Ferencvaros to the Wankdorf Stadium for the first leg of their playoff tie on Wednesday night. 17 August 2021, 09:33 sportsmole.co.uk Following respective exits from the preliminary rounds of the Champions League, Olympiacos and Slovan Bratislava lock horns on Thursday evening in the first leg of their Europa League playoff tie. 16 August 2021, 10:08 sportsmole.co.uk Seeking a first Champions League group stage appearance since the 2015-16 season, Malmo welcome Ludogorets Razgrad to the Eleda Stadion for the first leg of their playoff tie. 9 August 2021, 13:37 talksport.com Rangers will be looking to keep their Champions League hopes alive when they welcome Malmo to Ibrox this week. 8 August 2021, 10:31 sportsmole.co.uk Level at 1-1 from the first leg of their Champions League third qualifying round contest, Ludogorets Razgrad and Olympiacos will lock horns in the second leg of the tie in Bulgaria on Tuesday night. 3 August 2021, 13:25 sportsmole.co.uk Now forced to lock horns for a spot in the Europa League playoff round, NS Mura and FK Zalgiris prepare for battle in the first leg of their third-round qualifying tie at the Fazanerija on Thursday. 2 August 2021, 12:50 sportsmole.co.uk Celtic are on course to play AZ Alkmaar in the Europa League play-offs. 1 August 2021, 17:07 sportsmole.co.uk Olympiacos will be looking to secure a first-leg advantage in their Champions League third qualifying round contest when they host Ludogorets Razgrad on Tuesday night. 28 July 2021, 05:00 sportsmole.co.uk Neftchi Baku vs. Olympiacos (Wednesday, 6.00pm) After a narrow first-leg win, Olympiacos travel east seeking a place in the third round of the Champions League qualifiers, when they meet Neftchi Baku on Wednesday. 26 July 2021, 20:10 sportsmole.co.uk Slovenian minnows NS Mura will be hoping to cause an upset and progress from the second qualifying round of the Champions League when they travel to Ludogorets Razgrad for their second-leg tie on Wednesday night. 26 July 2021, 12:37 sportsmole.co.uk After a narrow first-leg win, Olympiacos travel east seeking a place in the third round of the Champions League qualifiers, when they meet Neftchi Baku on Wednesday. 19 July 2021, 20:10 sportsmole.co.uk Re-born from the ashes of financial ruin only nine years ago, tiny NS Mura continue their fairytale journey in the Champions League on Wednesday, as they meet Ludogorets Razgrad in the second qualifying round. 19 July 2021, 15:06 sportsmole.co.uk Greek champions Olympiacos get their quest for a spot in the Champions League group stage underway on Wednesday night, as they welcome Azeri outsiders Neftchi Baku to the Karaiskakis Stadium. 14 July 2021, 11:21 mirror.co.uk Jose Mourinho has tipped Dane Scarlett to star for England by the time the Euros roll around in 2024. Scarlett was handed his Tottenham debut by Mourinho last season, coming on for Lucas Moura in a Europa League clash with Ludogoretz. 11 July 2021, 07:51 leaguelane.com Soligorsk have been on a good run lately, but they failed to rise up to the occasion in the first leg. Ludogorets have a 1-0 lead in aggregate now, and they will try their best to make it count. 11 July 2021, 07:46 leaguelane.com Linfield vs Zalgiris UEFA Champions League Qualifications, Date: Tuesday, 13 July 2021 Kick-off 19:45 UK/ 20:45 CET Venue: Windsor Park. 16 May 2021, 11:57 marca.com Juventus and Celtic had won nine in a row, while Sporting end 19-year wait 5 May 2021, 19:24 goal.com The 23-year-old speaks of his hopes of playing for the Black Stars again after four years 5 May 2021, 14:54 goal.com Following the victory over Beroe, the Eagles have now won the Bulgarian elite division title for the tenth consecutive season 25 February 2021, 11:11 sportsmole.co.uk Tottenham boss Jose Mourinho is revelling in the selection headache Dele Alli 's return to form is giving him. Alli was marginalised by the Spurs boss for the first half of the season and was primed to leave during the January transfer window before the club blocked a move to Paris St Germain. 24 February 2021, 21:34 sportsmole.co.uk Jose Mourinho says it is "amazing" to have Dele Alli back to his best after he scored a brilliant overhead kick and set up two goals in Tottenham's 4-0 Europa League win over Wolfsberger. 24 February 2021, 19:35 sportsmole.co.uk Dele Alli proved he has his mojo back as he scored a stunning overhead kick and provided two assists to send Tottenham through to the Europa League last 16 in a 4-0 second-leg win over Wolfsberger. 23 February 2021, 20:03 sportsmole.co.uk Wolfsberger coach Ferdinand Feldhofer concedes his side have little chance of progressing past Tottenham in the last 32 of the Europa League.