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AUGUST 31, 2017 Updated September 4, 2017
Suzanne McFadden
Suzanne McFadden is the editor of LockerRoom, dedicated to women's sport.
A family's funds drained for the love of a dog
Suzanne McFadden tells the heart-wrenching story of a family's love - and expensive battle - for a dog saved from India's streets.
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See the "Save Rave" fundraiser on Givealittle
Rave was the lucky one. When Samar Jit found him, he was the only puppy of eight in his litter still alive, sluggishly crawling over his mother's body.
The puppy's mother, an Indian street dog, had been sheltering her litter near the entranceway to Jit's apartment building in Thane, a satellite city of Mumbai.
"She was the apartment watchman's best friend. But a stray hater poisoned her, and she died," Jit explains. "The puppies drank her poisoned milk, and they died too. All except for Rave, the plumpest of the litter. When I found him he was listless, but still alive."
So began the heart-rending tale of a man so devoted to his canine companions that he has spent more than two years - and more than $40,000 - trying to bring them to a new life in New Zealand. And it's a story far from over.
In a city where as many as 400,000 stray dogs roam the streets, why did a young internet marketer choose this sickly little puppy to take home to his small apartment? Especially when Jit already had a dog - an abandoned puppy named Floyd he had also rescued from the streets.
"It was obvious that we couldn't leave [Rave] there, because we knew he would die," Jit says.
"I took the puppy home, but I didn't name him. I looked after him night and day, but it became obvious there was something wrong. I fed him six times a day, and the food went right through him." The poison had affected the puppy too, and it would take years of care and ongoing medication for Rave to become a healthy dog.
Named after Jit's favourite music, Floyd and Rave became almost inseparable. Rave, the youngest, was the alpha male, constantly teasing Floyd. "Rave has grown up into a playful, lovable, intelligent dog, with a zest for life that only one who's come so close to death can have," Jit says.
In 2015, Jit decided to move to New Zealand from India with his wife Aparna - to study and work, and be closer to Jit's father Sri, who's lived in Auckland for 15 years. There was never any question the dogs would come too.
"My dogs didn't ask to be adopted. They would probably have survived somehow on the streets of India. But we took responsibility when we picked them up. They're like our kids now, and we would do that for our kids, right?" he says.
So Jit and his family borrowed money and took out a mortgage on his mother's house in India – to cover his relocation and university fees, and to pay for Floyd and Rave to join him in New Zealand.
Two years later, only one of the dogs is now in Auckland. Floyd made it through the meticulous quarantine process, and now lives with his "dad" in Mangere.
But Rave's journey has been much more complicated. For 19 months, he remained in a Singapore boarding kennel, waiting to come to New Zealand. And when he finally arrived, his stay was fleeting.
Now the dog is back in Singapore; his future uncertain.
If you name him, you're keeping him
Jit grew up in the South Indian city of Chennai with a menagerie: cats, dogs, squirrels; even a cow in the house. "As a kid, animals were my best friends – to play with, to sit and talk to when my parents were busy," he recalls. "Animals never get complicated, they remain like innocent little children till the day they die."
He respected the dogs who ruled the roost at his mother's family homestead in Kerala. One of the bitches died saving Jit 's grandfather from an attacking snake.
Jit also befriended street dogs. "The strays would follow us, especially on our way home from school. We'd buy a little biscuit and feed them on the way," he says.
At home today in south Auckland, 39-year-old Jit and Floyd, now 10, play tug-of-war with an old towel. The copper-coated Floyd, described as a Carolina breed, looks like a young fawn without the spots.
Floyd is happy here. "He swam for the first time in his life, in the Orakei Basin," Jit says. "He never got on with dogs in India, but he has made so many dog friends here in New Zealand."
He was an anxious, fretful dog from the day Jit found the six-month-old puppy at a Mumbai shopping centre, encircled by strays.
"He had a collar on, and he was pretty clean - not dusty and muddy like other stray dogs. He looked lost and scared, like he was searching for his master. We knew that he wouldn't survive on the streets," Jit says.
A local vet recognised the puppy and phoned his owner, who quickly hung up on him. "It was obvious then the dog had been abandoned," says Jit.
He took him home, but didn't give him a name: "Because once you name him, you're not going to let him go." But after weeks of trying to re-home the pup, Jit relented, naming him after Pink Floyd.
A year later, Floyd was joined by Rave, a mongrel with floppy beagle ears and a curly street-dog tail. The poison from his mother's milk damaged his pancreas, and today he still needs daily medication to digest food. But Rave was far from meek.
"Rave is the naughty one, and Floyd is the goody two-shoes," Jit explains. If Rave steals food, Floyd howls with concern. "Rave is very confident – he sees me as a parent – where Floyd still has that abandonment anxiety."
For the short period that Rave was in Auckland – in a quarantine kennel - Floyd madly sniffed Rave's scent whenever Jit and his family returned from visits.
He wasn't the only one confused and disappointed when Rave didn't come home.
Pariah dog rescues
Around 30 million stray dogs roam the streets of India. Their growing number is an ongoing dilemma in a nation where rabies is of epidemic proportions. According to the World Health Organisation, one-third of the world's human rabies deaths occur in India – most of them children bitten by infected dogs.
It has been illegal to kill dogs in India since 2001, when the government introduced the Animal Birth Control legislation. It's mostly animal welfare organisations who sterilise and vaccinate street dogs.
But there's a growing trend of India's "pariah" dogs being saved by offshore dog-lovers, especially in Canada. "A lot of people who visit India end up rescuing animals from the sad conditions that they are in, and adopting the animals themselves," says Aditi Nair, chair of the Pet Owners and Animal Lovers Foundation (PAL) in Thane.
"The street dog adapts easily to any environment - they make very good pets. They're also highly trainable and so loving and loyal. They also don't fall sick very often, saving a lot on vet bills."
It's hard to know if many Indian dogs have come to New Zealand. Cats and dogs aren't imported here directly from India, because of rabies.
Pets must live in a country approved by New Zealand for at least six months before they can enter. They must have a veterinary certificate proving they are free from organisms considered biosecurity risks – including rabies and heartworm.
Singapore is an approved country, and last year 53 of the 4216 dogs imported into New Zealand came from there, according to Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) figures.
Jit and his wife sought a better life in Auckland, where she could work as a nurse and he could study for a marketing degree. He has since graduated from AUT, and works as a search engine marketing specialist for an Auckland digital agency.
Leaving the dogs in India was never considered. "There was no doubt in my mind: we would borrow, we would mortgage the house, do whatever it takes to take them along," he says.
After three months of having the dogs microchipped, blood tested and cleared for importation, Jit, Aparna and the two dogs left for Singapore. Floyd and Rave went to a dog boarder, who would follow the strict quarantine guidelines. When Jit left them, he expected to be reunited with both dogs in Auckland six months later.
After seven months, Floyd flew to New Zealand, alone. Rave had tested positive for heartworm (Dirofilaria immitis) – a parasite spread to dogs through a mosquito's bite. The adult worm lives in the heart of the infected dog, releasing larvae into its bloodstream. The worms can damage the heart and lungs, and cause heart failure.
The disease does not exist in New Zealand, but MPI says there are mosquitos here capable of transmitting the heartworm larvae to other dogs.
Rave was most likely bitten by an infected mosquito in Singapore. After six months of treatment, Rave tested positive again. Following another round of medication, Jit had Rave's blood sent to a lab in India for testing - trying to save money as his bills grew. The dog tested negative, and was finally cleared to travel to New Zealand in May this year – 19 months after entering quarantine.
The story hasn't ended
When the long-awaited day came, Jit was a nervous wreck when he went with his parents to the Qualified Pet Services quarantine facility in Takanini, south of Auckland. Jit worried that the dog wouldn't remember him; his fears were unfounded.
Rave howled and cried when he saw his owner – leaping into his arms, placing his paws around Jit's neck, licking his face. "I'm so sorry," Jit repeated to the dog, over and over. "Just a few more days."
But just days into his Auckland quarantine, Rave was re-tested for heartworm; the MPI informing Jit that India was not an approved country for blood-testing. This time, the first test was inconclusive after the blood haemolysed (when blood cells rupture); the next test, though, was clearly positive.
An adult heartworm can live in a dog for five to seven years. "We strongly suspect that Rave has not been clear of heartworm since the first diagnosis in early 2016," a MPI spokesperson told Newsroom.
Jit found out his dog should have received heartworm prevention medication before he left Singapore. The consequences of this oversight was shattering for Jit's family.
"We were told the dog would have to be sent back to Singapore, or destroyed," he recalls. The latter option was immediately spurned. "We are determined that Rave should come home whatever it costs, however much time it takes. He's not a young dog, but he must live his last years with us."
Three weeks after he arrived in Auckland, nine-year-old Rave flew back to Singapore. Jit flew with him, to ensure his dog settled into new quarantine lodgings with a family overseeing his treatment. They send Jit photos and videos daily.
Jit says MPI assured him that Rave can return to New Zealand once he tests negative for heartworm. Last week the dog had his first round of treatment. In about a month's time, he will be tested again. "I'm just praying that this time, nothing goes wrong," Jit says.
Until Rave was sent back to Singapore, Jit had spent around $32,000 bringing the dogs to New Zealand. He estimates the next chapter in Rave's journey – including flights, boarding, tests and treatment - will rack up another $25,000.
"Financially, I'm pretty screwed," he says. He has borrowed more money, called on business friends for donations, and started a "Save Rave" fundraiser on Givealittle.
There have been emotional costs too. "Everybody in the house has suffered because of it," Jit says. "I almost decided to drop the whole idea and go back [to India]."
If they can't be reunited in New Zealand, Jit will find another way. "One of the options I've had in mind is to go back and stay in India until Rave dies. He is my baby. The dogs are everything to me."


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Blackfacts.com - What Can I Do with A Black Studies Major? Five Hundred Answers Provided by Robert Fikes, Jr.
In the 1971 Woody Allen film, "Bananas," a fellow employee asks Allen's character, "What would you have been if you finished school?" Allen's character answers, "I was in the black studies program. By now I could have been black." Allen's attempted humorous jab at early black studies majors stands in sharp contrast to Robert Fikes' 2015 compilation of more than 500 African American majors and their current occupations which now include a number of prominent physicians, attorneys, scientists, actors, artists, writers, entrepreneurs, rabbis, government officials, university presidents, and a Pulitizer Prize winner. These folks certainly learned that a black studies degree guarantees more than just learning to be "black." In fact, a number of the people listed are not African American. Fikes' introductory commentary and the entire list of over 500 prominent and successful black studies graduates appears below.
The interdisciplinary field of Blacks Studies—alternatively called African American Studies, Afro-American Studies, Africana Studies, Pan African Studies, or Black World Studies, depending on the school where it is offered---is a relative newcomer on the academic scene and its proponents have had to defend its theoretical underpinnings and practicality, something which the traditional liberal arts fields are also challenged to do but not to the same extent. Since the establishment of the nation's first Black Studies department in 1968 at San Francisco State University, and despite the wide acceptance and institutionalization of Black Studies in academia, there still remains the nagging question about its ability to produce outstanding citizens equal in quality to individuals who as undergraduates majored in, say, history or English or art. Black Studies has now been around long enough to notice its handiwork: men and women constructively contributing to society, employed in a wide variety of professions.


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Professor Edward Kirumira
Advisory Board Chair
B.A. (Mak), MA (Exeter), PhD (Copenhagen/Harvard)
School of social sciences, Makerere University
P.O. Box 7062 Kampala, Uganda
Tel: +256 414 545040; Mobile +256 752 767 439
Fax: +256 414 530185
E-mail: ekirumira@ss.mak.ac.ug
Prof. Edward K. Kirumira is the Principal of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Makerere University. He was the Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences since 2003 for eight years and before that was the Head of Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, for five years.
Prof. Edward K. Kirumira trained at Makerere University, Exeter University (UK), the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and the University of Copenhagen Denmark in collaboration with Harvard University USA. Prof. Kirumiraspecialised in Population and Reproductive Health with extensive research work in HIV/AIDS, emergent diseases and international health issues, family relationships, health seeking behaviour, poverty and rural development studies. He is a Professor of Sociology.
At University level, Prof. Kirumira has served as a member of Makerere University Senate and varied sub-committees of Senate including Quality Assurance, Academic Programmes and Library Committee. He has also served on the University Council and Vice Chancellor and Deputy Vice Chancellors' Search Committees. He was a member of the Steering Committee for Sida/SAREC Programme Support to Makerere University between October 2002 to October 2010. Between 2005 to August 2006 he served as a member of the Makerere University HIV/AIDS Policy Development Committee. And the Chair, Makerere University NUFU Programmes Assessment Committee from 2006 to date. From July 2009 to September 2010, Prof Kirumira served as Chair, The Makerere-MazruianaOrganising Committee (charged with the establishment of a Chair and Endowment Fund and the East African Ali A. Mazrui Centre for Global Studies).
He is a founder member and chair of the Programme for African New Generation of Academics (PANGeA) network currently involving Makerere University, Stellenbosch University, University of Nairobi, Dar es Salaam University, University of Malawi and University of Botswana.
He is a member, Board of Directors (representing Makerere University) on the Makerere University Private Sector Forum. He is also a member, NORHED Institutional Development Committee for the new Norwegian support programme proposal.
At National and International level, Prof Kirumira is a member of the Partnership Committee for HIV&AIDS, Malaria and TB National Response of the Uganda AIDS Commission; Government Representative, Board of Governors Uganda Management Institute (UMI); and member of the UMI Appointments Board and Quality Assurance Committee. He is the Government Representative, Board of Governors Makerere College School – and Chairman Finance & Planning Committee.
Prof. Kirumira is the Treasurer, Uganda National Academy of Sciences (UNAS), UNAS Fellow and Council member, and Chairperson of the Uganda National Academy of Sciences Forum on Health and Nutrition. He chairs the Resource Mobilization and Planning Committee of Uganda Central Coordinating Mechanism for the Global Fund for HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria country programme and has offered technical advisory role to national, regional and international bodies.
Mr. James Ssembatya Kaboggoza
Senior consultant on children's issues
Mobile +256 752 642 079
E-mail: kaboggozass@gmail.com
Mr. Kaboggoza Ssembatya James is currently Assistant Commissioner in charge of children affairs in the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development. He has over 30 years experience in child protection programming, social sector planning and management, child rights training, project planning and management, social policy analysis and orphans and other vulnerable children programming. He holds a honors degree of Makerere University in social work social administration and a post graduate diploma from Victoria University, Canada in youth and children studies.
Mr. Kaboggoza has also been involved in various research projects related to child protection; violence against children, situational analysis of OVC, situational analysis of the elderly persons and people with disability, child poverty analysis, and assessment of the implementation of the UN convention on the rights of children and other international instruments on children which have been ratified by Uganda.
Dr. Lindsay Stark
B.A. (OC), MA (CU), PhD (CU)
60 Haven Avenue, B-4 Suite 432
New York , NY 100032
Fax: +212-342-5222
E-mail: Is2302@columbia.edu85
Dr. Lindsay Stark is an Associate Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health in Columbia University's Program on Forced Migration and Health. She has over a decade of experience leading applied research on protection of women and children in humanitarian settings. Dr. Stark's particular area of expertise is measuring sensitive and difficult-to-measure social phenomenon. Dr. Stark has led assessment and evaluation projects in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. She has also helped pioneer the development of new methodologies such as the Neighborhood Method to assess incidence of human rights violations, a Participatory Ranking Method that has been included in a recent World Health Organization assessment toolkit, and the Child Protection Rapid Assessment in Emergencies Toolkit developed by the global Child Protection Working Group. Dr. Stark is the author of multiple publications on the rehabilitation and resiliency of former child soldiers and survivors of sexual violence, and previously served as the Director of Research and Curriculum at the Center on Child Protection, a teaching and research center jointly established by Columbia University, the University of Indonesia, UNICEF and the Government of Indonesia. Dr. Stark currently serves as Principal Investigator and Executive Director of the Child Protection in Crisis (CPC) Learning Network, a consortium of agencies and academic institutions that work together on global learning associated with children in disaster and war settings.
Mr. Patrick Onyango
Country Director, TPO-Uganda
TPO-Uganda P. O. Box 21646 Kampala, Uganda Tel: +256 414 510256; Mobile +256 772794806 Fax: +212-342-5222
E-mail: ponyango@tpoug.org
Mr Onyango is a Development Worker and presently the Country Director of TPO Uganda. Mr. Onyango possesses a Master of Science in International Development from University of Bristol, UK; a Post graduate Diploma in Monitoring and Evaluation Methods from University of Stellenbosch in South Africa and a post graduate Diploma in Humanitarian Action and Conflict from Oxford Brookes University, UK.
Mr. Onyango brings to AfriChild high level strategic management experience in the NGO sector. A board member on several local boards, he is also active on global boards such as; an Advisory Board member of the CPC Learning Network at Columbia University; a Steering Committee Member of the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance in Washington DC and an International Editorial Board Member of the intervention journal published by War Trauma Foundation, Netherlands.
Mr. Onyango's recent interests in the child protection sector cut across; strengthening formal and informal CP systems, practice oriented evidence building and developing a professional child protection work force. As a practitioner, Mr. Onyango brings to the AfriChild Centre close to 20 years of experience designing and delivering a broad range of interventions that protect children from abuse and exploitation and improve their livelihoods. These linkages will further provide AfriChild an opportunity to engage with civil society in further inquiry of promising practices, learning and developing an evidence base on what works for children.
Mr. Simba Machingaidze
National Director, ChildFund International-Uganda
Plot 71/72 Namirembe Road
Tel: +256 414 271513; Mobile +256 701666602
E-mail: smachingaidze@uganda.childfund.org
Simba is currently the national Director of ChildFund International in Uganda. He has over 23 years of international development experience having also worked for Plan International for many years. With 15 years as a national director in a variety of countries including, Togo, Malawi, El Salvador and Zimbabwe, he therefore has quite a rich experience in program development and management at community, national, regional and international level.
Simba has led country programs through periods of political turmoil, such as Togo under Eyadema in the 1990s, natural disasters such as floods and earthquakes, and most recently political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe. Simba also holds a varied educational background, he holds a Master's of Science in Social and Economic Statistics from George Washington University, USA, a Bachelor of Science in Geography and Economics, from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, as well as a diplomas in Demography and Human Resources Management.
Dr. Diego Angemi
Chief, Social Policy and Evaluation UNICEF, Kampala
UNICEF, Kampala Plot 9 George Street Tel: +256 414 545040; Mobile +256 752 767 439 Fax: +256 414 530185 E-mail: dangemi@unicef.org
Diego brings over 14 years of diverse experience in research and development in economics, including poverty monitoring and analysis, budget policy and evaluation, aid effectiveness and public financial management with international agencies and government institutions in Uganda, Malawi, Laos, Vietnam and Bangladesh.
Diego is a seasoned economist holding a doctorate, masters and bachelor's degrees in Economics.
Dr. Fred M. Ssewamala
B.A. (Hons), Makerere University (Uganda); M.S.W., Ph.D., Washington University (St. Louis).
1255 Amsterdam Avenue office 1122 New York, NY 100027 USA Tel: (212)-851-2250 E-mail: fs2114@columbia.edu
Director International Center for Child Health and Asset Development, Associate Professor of Social Work and International Affairs; Columbia University
Dr. Fred Ssewamala is an Associate Professor of Social Work and International Affairs at Columbia School of Social Work; Director of Columbia University International Center for Child Health and Asset Development; a Global Thought Fellow with Columbia University; and a former Senior Research Fellow with New America Foundation. Dr. Ssewamala has several years of practice in the International Social Development field. His practice experience includes serving at the Red Cross (Uganda), where he acted in several programmatic positions related to designing projects and programs for poverty alleviation and community development, and at Justine Petersen Housing and Reinvestment Corporation a 501(c) (3) Missouri (USA) not-for-profit corporation that assists low-to-moderate income individuals and families become homeowners, access financial institutions, start their own micro-businesses, and accumulate assets.
His current research on Africa is funded by a consortium of organizations, including the National Institute of Health, the MasterCard Foundation, and New America Foundation. This research focuses on asset-ownership development, financial management, and creating life options through economic empowerment and innovative financial inclusion models for Orphaned and Vulnerable Children (OVC) in sub-Saharan Africa. Professor Ssewamala is also currently researching the acceptability and feasibility of economic empowerment interventions in poor African immigrant communities in the urban U.S.


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Audiobooks > Mystery & Detective > Women Sleuths > The Penguin Who Knew Too Much
Download The Penguin Who Knew Too Much Audiobook
Author: Donna Andrews Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Publisher: Dreamscape Audio Length: 7.25 hours Series:The Meg Langslow Mysteries Release Date: February 2017 Format: Unabridged Audiobook Delivery: Instant Download ISBN: 9781520065816
Maybe there are people in Antarctica with penguins in their basements, but in Virginia? Finding a body down there is somewhat more likely for Meg. Explaining the penguins' presence is easy; Meg's dad volunteered to take care of the birds until the future of the bankrupt local zoo could be determined. But identifying the body in the basement proves a harder task. Meg and Michael have been planning to elope to avoid the elaborate wedding their mothers have begun to organize; a plan that's threatened by both the murder investigation and the carnival of animals. The only way to set things right, Meg decides, is to identify both their uninvited visitor and the killer who put him in their basement.
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Donna Andrews is the author of the Meg Langslow mystery series and the Turing Hopper series, as well as other works. She has won the Agatha, Barry, and Anthony awards, a Romantic Times award for best first novel, and four Lefty Awards and two Toby Bromberg Awards for funniest mysteries.
Bernadette Dunne is the winner of more than a dozen AudioFile Earphones Awards and has twice been nominated for the prestigious Audie Award. She studied at the Royal National Theatre in London and the Studio Theater in Washington, DC, and has appeared at the Kennedy Center and off Broadway.


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L'équipe d'Ukraine espoirs de football est constituée par une sélection des meilleurs joueurs ukrainiens de moins de  sous l'égide de la Fédération d'Ukraine de football. L'âge limite pour jouer en espoirs est de  à la date du début des phases éliminatoires d'un championnat d'Europe.

Après la chute de l'Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques en 1991, l'équipe d'Ukraine de football joua son premier match officiel en avril 1992. Les espoirs jouèrent leurs premiers matchs officiels en 1994 en vue de la qualification pour le Championnat d'Europe de football espoirs de 1996.

Le meilleur résultat des espoirs ukrainiens est une place de vice-champion d'Europe lors du Championnat d'Europe de football Espoirs 2006, finale perdue 3-0 contre les Pays-Bas.

Parcours au Championnat d'Europe espoirs

 1996 : Non qualifié
 1998 : Non qualifié
 2000 : Non qualifié
 2002 : Non qualifié
 2004 : Non qualifié
 2006 : Finaliste
 2007 : Non qualifié
 2009 : Non qualifié
 2011 :  tour 2013 : Non qualifié 2015 : Non qualifié (barrages) 2017 : Non qualifié 2019 : Non qualifié 2021 : Non qualifié''

Effectif actuel
Les joueurs suivants ont été appelés pour disputer deux matchs amicaux contre la  Slovaquie les 23 et 27 septembre 2022.

Gardiens
 Anatoliy Trubin
 Kiril Fesyun

Défenseurs
 Oleksiy Sych
 Maksym Talovyerov
 Oleksandr Syrota
 Oleksandr Drambayev
 Anton Bol

Milieux
 Artem Bondarenko
 Heorhiy Sudakov
 Oleksandr Nazarenko
 Dmytro Kryskiv
 Ivan Zhelizko
 Mykola Mykhaylenko
 Volodymyr Brazhko
 Oleh Ocheretko
 Yehor Yarmolyuk

Attaquants
 Mykola Kukharevych
 Bohdan Viunnyk
 Danylo Sikan
 Vladyslav Vanat

Palmarès
 Championnat d'Europe : finaliste en 2006

Les sélectionneurs
  Volodymyr Muntian (1992-1994)
  Viktor Kolotov (1995)
  Oleksandr Ishchenko (1996-1997)
  Viktor Kolotov (1998-1999)
  Vladimir Onischenko (1999-2001)
  Anatoliy Kroshchenko (2002)
  Pavel Yakovenko (2002-2004)
  Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko (2004-2007)
  Volodymyr Muntian (2008)
  Pavel Yakovenko (2008-2012)
  Serhiy Kovalets (2013-2015)
  Oleksandr Holovko (2015-2018)
  Rouslan Rotan (2019- )

Références

Voir aussi
 Championnat d'Europe de football Espoirs 2006
 Équipe d'Ukraine de football

Ukraine
Equipe espoirs

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I know it is only January and we are likely to get blizzards and frosty mornings for at least another 2 months, but this weekend has been filled with the promise of things to come. The sun has shone and the birds are singing. Bulbs are popping up and my lawn is filled with crocuses (I didn't take a picture as it is also filled with holes where Bodie had a go at digging them up!). I did take a picture of these though. I love the smell when they open up, and it always reminds me of my Grandma.
I am sat here by the fire with a glass of wine (having completed the biggest pile of ironing I've ever seen), while the girls are diligently tidying their bedrooms and Andy is in the kitchen cooking Pheasant with Chorizo and Butter Beans from yesterday's Guardian. Bliss. Actually the girls are arguing over who is most responsible for the mess, and if they spent as much time tidying as they have bickering the whole house would be immaculate, but that's just a small point! Other than that it is bliss!
I am still loving my new job, and will be really sad when the woman I am covering for comes back. I lost 3lbs in the first week, and could do with her staying off until I have lost 2 stone, but that may take a while! I am really feeling a sense of achievement and purpose at the end of every day and I am surprising myself at how organised I am. I am not usually very organised and life tends to be a bit chaotic and haphazard, but I do generally like that way of living. I am enjoying the structure now though and knowing what is happening when. The house is a bit of a pickle and I am missing popping into town for coffee with friends or time in my sewing room, but it is a small price to pay and I am having to go to the pub in the evening with friends instead! Shame!
I went too a car boot this morning with my friend Sophie (who wasn't put off by our last visit, which was her first ever). It was quite disappointing today though as there were almost too many sellers and we lost the will to live about half way round. Some of the things I liked were hugely expensive too - including a small tin of buttons and sewing bits and bobs for £10 I bought one twice the size filled with masses of stuff for £2 a few weeks ago, so I left it there. I did get a few treasures, but not my usual stash, but we had fun nevertheless.
I know I am excited about Spring, but this tablecloth was too good to pass up, especially at 20p!
One for Grace - our very own naturalist (or naturist as she said she wanted to be when she grows up! I think she meant naturalist).
You can't tell from my awful picture, but this dish is a really pretty shade of green, and I love the shape of it. I also picked up some linens and a cut glass candlestick. So, not a total disaster.
I came home from work on Friday to find a parcel from Cath Kidston on my doorstep containing a toadstool pincushion. I was rather surprised, as I hadn't ordered it, but it turns out it was part of my Christmas present from my Aunt, which was delayed in the post. It goes with my lovely knitting bag which arrived before Christmas, and is now keeping my current project safe (an iPod cover in the green wool you can see popping out of the top). It is taking a while as I am too tired in the evenings and am not quite at the stage where I can do it whilst watching TV! I will get there in the end though!
I seem to be having a bit of a rush on Cath Kidston stuff at the moment. Aside from the knitting bag I also received this enormous travel bag from my parents, which I am looking forward to using when we go on holiday to Northumberland in 3 weeks time. My sister gave me some toiletries also for Christmas, and I treated myself to this writing set as I love writing letters, despite the advent of email, and nice writing paper is hard to come by.
My lovely friend Sophie went to the Cath Kidston outlet at Bicester a week or so ago, and brought these delights back for me too, so I have been well and truly spoilt. I feel guilty about liking CK stuff as I do think it is overpriced, and I do generally prefer things that are genuinely old, but I just can't help it. She does do things that are out of the ordinary, and the colours are bright and cheerful. Now we have a shop here in Cheltenham it is much more visible though, and she does seem to be taking over the world! I do like my gardening gloves, and they look good hanging by the back door ready for action!
Well, again I must apologise for not checking out your blogs. I know Jess at Lobster and Swan tagged me and I am trying (and failing) to think of 7 things that you don't know about me, but I will save that for another time. I have got over 500 entries to check out on Bloglines, and I feel bad for not replying to all your lovely comments, but blogging is one of the things to fall by the wayside at the moment. I promise that when this job ends (maybe at half term) I will leave long, thought-provoking messages on each and every one of your blogs! I also haven't forgotten about the pay it forward, but again it has been put on the back burner for a while. Sorry. Please forgive me and stick with me - as some bloke said in some film "I'll be back"!
Just thought I'd say a quick hello. I haven't had time or energy for photos and anything creative, but I wanted to thank you all for your kind messages. I am having a ball at school and will be very sad when it comes to an end (it is probably only for this half term). The girls are really enjoying going to school early and helping sharpen the pencils, and keep being sent to my classroom by their teachers to show me work they've done. They are so enthusiastic and helpful, especially Grace who is dressed by 7.45 every morning and gives us a running commentary of how many minutes we have left until we need to leave the house. I am popping home for 15 minutes at lunchtime to feed Bodie and let him out, so it is just as well I only live a few minutes from the school.
The children in the class are all lovely (it is hard to find an unlovely 4 or 5 year old), and I feel I have made a good start to the job. No one has been sick, although several have fallen over, and I have even coped single handedly with 2 wet play lunchtimes. I am coming home every day feeling tired but happy, and I am even managing to keep the girls fed and clothed. I was in bed and asleep by 9.30 on Friday though!
Hope you are all having a good week. Sorry I haven't made it to your blogs this weekend to catch up on you all, but will try to fit it in one night this week.
Good evening everyone. I hope you have all had a lovely restful weekend after all of the excesses of the last few weeks. I am in a mild panic about starting work properly tomorrow, so I thought I'd blog to take my mind off it! I shadowed the reception class TA on Friday and she is very organised and in control, but I think I will have to put my own (badly organised and not at all in control) stamp on the job for the next few weeks. I have been volunteering in the class for 1 day a week for the last 3 years so it isn't a total learning curve, but it will be a shock to the system. The most important thing is that I have established where the sick bags are and the nearest path to the sink just in case any of the little darlings come down with this terrible D&V bug that is shutting down the country.
I have actually had quite a productive weekend for once. Andy and Bodie went to help out with our friend Greg's night orienteering competition in the Forest of Dean, and was away all day, and the girls spent hours playing upstairs with their new toys - only popping down occasionally for refreshments, which meant that I could take down the Christmas tree and have a good clean through. I love putting the decorations up, but as soon as New Year is over I can't wait to get them down again. The house looked so tidy, and once the girls were in bed I sat in front of the fire just looking at how calm and relaxing it was. Just as well really. They've all been at home today so it is trashed again now, but it was nice while it lasted.
Sophie and I went to a car boot sale this morning, and it was Sophie's first ever visit to one. I think she will be back, although we have very different tastes and she was fairly tickled by some of my purchases...particularly this one.
I have been after a rug for our sitting room for ages, but they all seem too heavy, or the wrong colour, or too oriental in style. This one however was perfect. The duck egg blue matches the sofa and the red and green match the chair and curtains. The fact that it was £4 also helped me make up my mind! The fact that it is a little grubby and threadbare only adds to the charm in my opinion. Andy let out a huge sigh when I came home, but knows better than to get involved! As you can see, at least Bodie has taken to it. I also got a powder blue enamel saucepan (which I forgot to take a photo of) and a huge cream enamel bin with 'Dog' on the front which is perfect for Bodie's dog food (once it has been cleaned!).
A very kind lady gave me this magazine as she didn't have any change and I only had a £5 note. I love the picture on the front, and I am looking forward to reading it later.
I also topped up my growing collection of vintage treasures for my website. Andy spent a happy afternoon playing with the pop up light tent, and took some great photos for me, and I have just created a new Vintage category on my website and uploaded some of the bits and bobs. There are some tins, and some glass and china items. I have heaps more to do, and this is just a start, but please tell me what you think (and feel free to order too!). I just wanted to get a few new things on there as I am going to struggle to do much else new for the next few weeks. My website link is in the sidebar on the left. Alternatively, click here. Don't forget that all UK orders get free P&P.
Damn, I have just realised I have missed Sense and Sensibility. I can always catch it on replay, but I like the thought of snuggling up on a Sunday night with a period drama and a cuppa under the blanket. I did enjoy it last week, but I have a real soft spot for the Emma Thompson film version (despite having her in it) - not least because my Aunt sang the soundtrack. Did any of you watch Oliver Twist? I was so disappointed that it was on every night - there was no chance I could catch every episode over Christmas. Sunday night is the rightful place for period drama!
Well, I'd better go and get clothes ready for tomorrow and plan the week's meals. Wish me luck for tomorrow (well actually, wish it for my 2 poor, soon to be neglected children, and the 29 children in Reception!). Thank you all for your Happy New Year messages and words of encouragement - you are a lovely bunch!
I hope you all had a lovely festive season. I can't believe after all that planning and anticipation that it is all finished. I did enjoy the planning, preparation and cooking, and spent a happy hour or two decorating my cake on Christmas Eve.
We had such a lovely time. Christmas was spent here with Andy's parents, and then the day after they left we went to stay with my parents near Loughborough. My sister was there for part of it, but then left on New Years Eve for a romantic evening with her boyfriend (oh to be at that stage of a relationship!), and my Aunt, Uncle and cousin were over from Australia. We spent New Years Eve with them, my Grandma and some family friends and had a really great evening. Every year I promise that I am not going to start crying as Jools Holland counts down to midnight, but every year I fail and sob like a baby! My mum does it too - I'm a chip of the old block.
On New Years Day we went for a lovely but very muddy walk with my parents and some friends, and then went to the most amazing pub for lunch. We came home yesterday evening, so today is going to be spent finding homes for all our new toys, and ironing! The girls went back to school today, and for the first time ever I had to wake Grace up. She is a really early riser normally but today she was buried under her duvet snoring at 8.00!
To stay on top of the washing at all times!
There are many more, but the ones above are the ones I wanted to publish so that I have even more of an incentive to crack on with them!
I may not be blogging much for the next few weeks as I have got myself a job. As from tomorrow I will be working full time as a teaching assistant in the Reception class I currently help out in while the usual assistant has an operation. It could be for 6-8 weeks, and I can't wait. I have been thinking for a while about becoming a TA as I can't quite face the thought of doing a PGCE and becoming a teacher just yet. I am slightly worried that the girls may not get fed or clothed, and I have no idea how I will cope with full time - it is 8 years since I worked more than 2 days a week. Therefore blogging, crafting and my website will be taking a back seat for a few weeks. I will be back in proper operation after half term, all being well.
I had some lovely gifts, and will try to take photos to show you at the weekend. The girls had the Playmobil Victorian Mansion for Christmas - it used to belong to my best friend's children who are now well in their teens, but every bit looks brand new. Even the hundreds of flowers in the window boxes are all still there. Grace and Ruth have spent hours with it already, and I had great fun setting it all up on Christmas Eve. I just need to find somewhere to put it as it is in the middle of our dining table at the mo, and makes eating a bit of a struggle!
I'll leave you with a picture of my sister and my children with their other new toys!
I'll be checking up on you all soon, but please don't be offended if it isn't as often. I'll be back to normal soon!


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Evan Emory case sparks anonymous group to 'consider' recall campaign against Tony Tague
Updated Jan 21, 2019; Posted Feb 24, 2011
By John S. Hausman | jhausman@mlive.com
Tony Tague
A so-far anonymous group says it is "considering" a campaign to recall Muskegon County Prosecutor Tony Tague, sparked sparked by the case of a 21-year-old Ravenna man charged with making child pornography because of an edited video he posted on YouTube of himself appearing to sing a sexually obscene song to Ravenna first-grade students.
Tague calls the potential recall group — whoever it is — probably "misinformed," motivated by a mistaken belief that Evan Emory will get a 20-year prison sentence if convicted. State sentencing guidelines would not allow a sentence anywhere near that strict, Tague said.
Although the law concerning child-porn production carries a maximum possible sentence of 20 years, that doesn't mean someone convicted of it necessarily gets a sentence that long. Actual sentencing is determined by state guidelines, which differ case to case depending on an individual defendant's circumstances. Emory has no prior criminal history.
The recall group did not respond to a Chronicle e-mail request Wednesday for an interview — with a list of questions that included the identity of the group's leaders — except to say "we will be in touch."
Evan Emory
As of 3 p.m. Thursday, no one had filed a petition with the Muskegon County clerk's office regarding the alleged recall attempt. The group would need to file with the clerk before a recall attempt could officially occur.
The anonymous news release said the group "may be on the verge of moving forward with a campaign" based on positive response to its Facebook page and "some e-mails sent out."
Emory's attorney, Terry J. Nolan, contacted Wednesday, said he knew nothing about the potential campaign and didn't know who was behind it.
A Kalamazoo TV station reported Thursday on what it called the "recall effort," without a mention of talking to anyone connected with the effort, and The Associated Press picked up the TV story.
A "Recall Tony Tague" Facebook "cause" page as of 4:20 p.m. Thursday had 213 followers — known as "likes" in Facebook terminology — including news organizations. "Liking" a Facebook cause does not always imply support; it can also be a way of keeping tabs on what members of a group are posting.
Emory was charged last week with making child sexually abusive material — child porn — based on a provision in the law that covers those who make it "appear" that children were sexually abused.
The video was made Jan. 12 when Emory visited Ravenna's Beechau Elementary School first-grade classroom and sang two kid-themed songs to the children with the approval of the teacher, authorities said.
But without the knowledge of the teacher or school officials, Emory then sang a raunchy, sexual song after the classroom emptied. He edited the video at his home to make it appear he's singing the provocative song about having sex and doing sexual things while the camera pans the audience of children, smiling and giggling.
The lyrics — intercut with closeups of individual children laughing or making faces — include "I want to stick my index finger in your anus," "see how long it takes to make your panties mine" and "I'll add some foreplay in just for fun," to quote some of the tamer lines.
Tague, contacted for comment Thursday about the potential recall campaign, said he believes the Facebook page was started by a relative of Emory's. "It is not unusual for families of (defendants) to be upset when their relative is charged with a crime," Tague said.
"I am certain that Mr. Emory's supporters would prefer a prosecutor who does not charge people that exploit children," Tague said. "But I will not be deterred in my efforts to protect the children of Muskegon County by misinformed supporters of Mr. Emory.
"The focus appears to be that they believe that Mr. Emory is facing 20 years in prison (the maximum possible sentence), and that that is my intent in charging Mr. Emory," Tague said. "They clearly do not understand the law or the criminal justice system.
"The more likely result, based on the sentencing guidelines, will be that a judge will determine what is an appropriate consequence for Mr. Emory's exploitation of children — which most likely will be probation, community service, or possibly jail time," Tague said.
"That will be a decision made by a judge, and I am confident it will be an appropriate response to Mr. Emory's inappropriate actions."
Heather Lynn Peters and Eric Gaertner contributed to this story.


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Home History Matheus Nascimento: Real Madrid-linked teen star dubbed 'the Brazilian Cavani'
Matheus Nascimento: Real Madrid-linked teen star dubbed 'the Brazilian Cavani'
It is hard not to think that football is changing.
Teams that previously played in lower divisions are now doing battle in the knockout stages of the Champions League and Copa Libertadores, while traditional clubs struggle to make ends meet and risk relegation.
Of those in the latter category, some try to assemble cheap and competitive teams, while others dream of a sale to an outside investor to reinvigorate their fortunes – as has been the case for Botafogo, who were recently purchased by John Textor, the American business executive who is also a co-owner of Crystal Palace.
But before any investor injected money into the Rio de Janeiro outfit, Botafogo were already hopeful of a brighter future because of Matheus Nascimento.
'O Glorioso' is one of the most traditional clubs in Brazil, and has a hall of fame that includes Brazil legends Garrincha, Nilton Santos and Jairzinho.
They have not, however, won a national title since 1995, and have been relegated three times since the turn of the century, accumulating more than R$1 billion (£131.5m/$180m) in debt in the process.
Such a scenario is not traditionally conducive to bringing through talented teenagers from the club's academy, but 17-year-old Nascimento has been charged with rebuilding Botafogo.
Because of his long hair and tall stature, Nascimento has long been referred to as 'the Brazilian Cavani' and the Manchester United striker is one of his great idols.
Indeed, Botafogo even tried to organise a meeting between the pair while Cavani was in Brazil playing for Uruguay at the Copa America.
But the similarities do not begin and end with Nascimento's physical appearance.
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Certainly, Nascimento's greatest strength is his movement while playing as a centre-forward, with the teenager able to use his body to open space for himself to finish chances like few others of his age.
His technique and coolness in front of goal are also impressive, but he has also drawn attention for the way he is willing to leave the penalty area to try to create opportunities for others in the ilk of a traditional No.10.
A no-frills footballer, Nascimento was first spotted by scouts in 2015 at a soccer school put on by Botafogo in Niteroi, one of the richest cities in Brazil.
Nascimento's family never planned for their son to become a professional footballer, and instead just wanted the boy to have fun. His talent, though, was never going to go unnoticed.
Enrolled into Botafogo's academy, it did not take long for the club to realise they had a potential star on their hands, even if Nascimento's overall demeanour did not suggest as much.
"He is a very calm boy, very homely," his mother, Katyane, told UOL in 2019. "We talk a lot with him and he deals very well with everything that has been happening.
"He is a very smart boy who just likes to play football and games."
After a short while, Nascimento began to attract attention. Frequently called up by to the Brazil age-group teams, both clubs from Europe and agents began circling in a bid to potentially move him out of South America.
That is when Botafogo created a career plan for their teenage prodigy.
"Botafogo sees Matheus Nascimento as an asset. He is a boy who has been standing out for the club and who has been a starter and top scorer for the Brazil youth sides," Tiano Gomes, general manager of Botafogo's academy, toldUOL.
"He is a high-potential athlete, but he has a long way to go. We need to be calm, obeying the athlete's natural development."
That process led to Nascimento making his professional debut in September 2020 against Corinthians, stepping off the bench for the final 10 minutes of the Serie A clash.
Botafogo's relegation to the second division was confirmed soon after, and Nascimento was able to put together a run of starts in the top flight before the end of the season as the club prepared itself for the 2021 campaign.
Despite playing for the worst team in the league, Nascimento rarely put a foot wrong, and many expected him to play a major role at Estadio Nilton Santos over the past 12 months.
Botafogo, though, insisted that the forward follow the plan laid out for him, and he instead made just three league appearances in the past season, though he did train regularly with the first-team squad, with his specific programme tailored towards him building up his strength and physique.
It is now felt that he is truly to make his mark on the world of men's football in 2022, with Botafogo back in Serie A having secured promotion in November.
"Enderson (Moreira, Botafogo's manager) loves the player, he thinks he's above average," Eduardo Freeland, the club's football director, told Globo Esporte when asked about Nascimento in December 2021.
"We discussed a lot when it would be best for him to play for the Under-20s, and when it would be better for him to stay with the first team. We treated this year as a transition."
The insistence that Nascimento follow the plan laid out for him even led to Botafogo rejecting a €23 million (£19m/$26m) offer from an unnamed European club for the youngster in May 2021.
Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid have both been cited as potentially interested parties, but it is likely there are plenty of other clubs keen on bringing Nascimento to Europe, even if it means paying closer to his €50m (£42m/$57m) release clause.
Botafogo's main focus now is ensuring they get a fair price for the youngster by allowing him to show what he can do on a weekly basis among the professionals, which in turn should put them on a much firmer financial footing.
Dubbed 'the saviour of the homeland', Matheus Nascimento is out to write a new page in Botafogo's 'Glorioso' history on the pitch, before potentially keeping them afloat off it.
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The team at Airbond have been chosen to win the Made in Wales Manufacturing Innovation Award. The company was selected by a panel of judges from the Welsh manufacturing industry. We are thrilled to have won this award which is an important recognition of the hard work and innovation Airbond has delivered over the last […]
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Composites fibre and textiles splicing experts, Airbond, has increased the limits of normal splicers by a factor of 10 while at the same time enabling huge waste reduction. It is doubling its product range with the launch of 12 new splicers for the composites and textiles industries, including models focused on waste recovery. There are […]
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Airbond Splicers today (23 October 2019) announced the official presentation of a prestigious Queen's Award for Innovation 2019. The presentation was made at Airbond's Pontypool base by Lord Lieutenant of Gwent – Brigadier Robert Aitken CBE. Managing Director, Graham Waters said: "It's been a great day for us. We're very proud to receive this award. […]
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Airbond, the experts in the science of fibre splicing and its applications, is celebrating securing its second Queen's Award for Innovation – the UK's highest accolade for business success – this time, for its new patented, splicing technology. The company is also introducing a ground-breaking development in splicing which will be demonstrated at the show. […]


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Smoke gets in your eye (and it's an eyeful)
November 18, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.
They can put all the warnings in the world on a pack of cigarettes. They can charge 20 bucks a pack. And some people still will smoke.
The latest idea from the Food and Drug Administration is to plaster cigarette packs with large, gross pictures of dead bodies and dissected, diseased lungs.
Interesting concept. Might scare away a few recreational users.
But wait a minute. Let's remember that the written warnings on cigarette packs have gotten bigger and bigger. And scarier and scarier. Plus, the price of a pack has skyrocketed over the past few decades. And yes, it's true, smoking is way down over the period. Still, there are millions of people, who can't or won't fight their dependence on nicotine, who will continue to smoke.
They are addicts. They can't help what they do. Even grotesque pictures will not stop them.
Really, it's the rest of us, who don't smoke, who will suffer. We will see these shocking, morbid cigarette packs, lined up on the wall behind the counter at the drug store, when we stop in to buy antacids or something, and we'll get sick to our stomachs.
We'll need those antacids right away.
Here's the absolute truth. The government could demand that cigarette packs be wired to administer strong electric shocks when opened, and people still would buy cigarettes. The government could require that cigarette cartons be loaded with exploding dye packs, and smokers still would tear into them. The government could force tobacco companies to make cigarettes smell and taste like skunk, and addicts still would light up.
Addicts are addicts.
And, excuse me, why is it that cigarettes are being picked on here?
Similar futile strategies could be applied to the sale and use of other habit-forming products. For example, pictures of grimy winos, lying in the gutter with paper bag-wrapped containers of booze clutched in their filthy fingers, could be the new labels on bottles of fine wine and liquor. People still are going to buy that stuff.
Lotto tickets and packs of playing cards could be plastered with photos of destitute down-and-outers who have squandered all their money on gambling. People still will buy lotto tickets and playing cards.
What about sex addiction? Viagra could carry illustrations that show a house full of screaming children, a warning of the possible results of one's careless actions. People still will buy Viagra.
Medical marijuana? It could come in canisters with labels that show graphic pictures of Keith Richards, and people still will line up to buy.
OK, there's one thing that might work.
At least for me.
Boxes of doughnuts could be required to have a panel of mirror glass on top. You'd pick up the box and you'd see yourself. And there would be a sticker that says, "Here's how you already look, chubbo. Are you sure you need another box of doughnuts?"
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The Smarter Grid
10 Jan 2019 | 17:00 GMT
China's State Grid Corp Crushes Power Transmission Records
State Grid's 1.1 million volt DC line pushes power from Xinjiang to eastern megacities over 3000 kilometers to the east
By Peter Fairley
Photo: TBEA
China's TBEA set up manufacturing in Xinjiang to ease delivery of the giant transformers State Grid required, seen here.
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China's primary grid operator has energized its biggest and most powerful line yet, a 1.1-million-volt direct current (DC) behemoth that crushes world records for voltage, distance and power.
The new ultra-high voltage DC (UHVDC) line built by Beijing-based State Grid Corporation of China can transmit up to 12 gigawatts. That is enough to power 50 million Chinese households, according to a statement issued in Chinese by State Grid last week, and 50 percent more than most of the 800-kilovolt UHVDC lines that State Grid has built over the past decade.
The new 1100-kv UHVDC line absorbs the grid's alternating current at an AC/DC converter station near the capitol of Xinjiang—China's vast northwestern territory—and sends DC power to a second converter station in Anhui province in eastern China. That 3,293 kilometer run extends power transmission's distance record by over 900 kms.
State Grid dubs it the "Power Silk Road" in its statement because it follows the eponymous ancient route's path through northwest China's Hexi Corridor and can replace the equivalent of 25,000 coal trains' worth of coal-fired generation in China's heavily polluted eastern cities. In addition to battling air pollution, it could also deliver a hefty reduction in greenhouse gas emissions if State Grid prioritizes export of the northwest's abundant solar and wind power.
Jin Zhang, a senior engineer and deputy division head in State Grid's DC transmission project department, told IEEE Spectrum during interviews in Beijing last year that State Grid began developing 1100-kv UHVDC technology more than a decade ago. They recognized, he said, that China would need to transfer power farther over distances that would incur large losses on 800-kv lines.
Early risk-benefit studies identified 1100-kv as the optimal next step, said Zhang, in part because of the big AC transformers that mediate between the converter stations and the surrounding AC grids. Installing a smaller number of large transformers is most cost-effective, he said, but for a 1200-kv converter station such transformers might be impossible to deliver from factories.
TBEA's transformer prepped to hit the road in Xinjiang in June 2018.
The transformers at State Grid's newly-energized 1100-kv converter stations are movable, but they are hardly small. Zurich-based ABB, which provided some of the new line's components along with Munich-based Siemens and a number of Chinese suppliers, says transformers it built for State Grid's project weigh 800 metric tons, and stretch to 37 meters in length. One of State Grid's domestic suppliers, TBEA, set up UHV transformer manufacturing in Xinjiang to minimize transport costs.
Supersizing was also required for other 1100-kv components, such as power lines and transmission towers, to manage the system's unprecedented electromagnetic fields. Magnus Callavik, general manager of Beijing-based ABB Sifang Power System Co., a joint venture that provided one set of AC/DC converters for the new line, says the 300-kv jump from 800-kv required a "completely new" design.
"It sounds like you're only adding an incremental part," Callavik said. "But it's very challenging for insulation design, structure and weight of the whole design, [plus] system aspects such as how you integrate with the transformer and other systems."
Photo: ABB
Bushings to safely convey 12 gigawatts of DC power through walls at the world's first 1100-kv converter stations.
Zhang pointed to the bushings that carry DC power between each station's electronic converters, housed indoors, and the UHVDC transmission lines outside. The bushings keep electricity from flashing over to the converter halls' walls. With the step up from 800-kV, Zhang said they grew by half a meter to roughly 1.3 meters in diameter and from under 20 meters in length to over 30 meters. "Higher voltage means higher impulse levels, mainly during switching. So we need longer air clearances," said Zhang.
UHVDC technology is seen by Chinese president Xi Jinping as a key technology for his "Belt and Road" international development program. And at the UN's 2015 Sustainable Development Summit Xi proposed the construction of intercontinental power links to massively scale-up cross-border sharing of renewable energy.
But UHVDC also has an important role to play domestically, where Xi has promised to turn China's skies blue again. Specifically, Xi has committed to ending rampant wastage of renewable power generation, whereby wind, solar and hydro power plants are deliberately shut off due to grid capacity and stability limits or to simply make room for coal-fired generation.
State Grid's new 1100-kv line could help reduce renewable energy curtailment because Xinjiang's wind and solar power plants are among China's largest and also the country's most heavily curtailed. More than one-fifth of Xinjiang's solar generating potential and one-quarter of its wind power was squandered in 2017, according to Chinese government statistics. Sending that power to eastern China instead of wasting it would help State Grid meet Xi's promise to shrink curtailment to less than 5 percent in all regions by 2020.
State Grid is working hard to meet that goal, according to Zhang. While 12-gigawatts of new coal power generation was planned along with State Grid's 1100-kv UHVDC project, Zhang told Spectrum that many of the anticipated plants were cancelled. "At least more than half will be renewable power," he said of the power exports the new line will carry.
One more question hangs over the impact of State Grid's 1100-kv technology: whether its massive power flows can be safely integrated with China's congested eastern grids. Challenges associated with absorbing power injected by big DC lines led to the break-up of China's southern grid in 2016. State Grid is counting on another major UHV innovation — its growing network of 1000-kv AC lines — to solve that problem.
This post was updated on 15 January.
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Say Anything... is a 1989 American teen romantic comedy drama film written and directed by Cameron Crowe (in his feature directorial debut). The film follows the romance between Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack), an average student, and Diane Court (Ione Skye), the class valedictorian, immediately after their graduation from high school.

Say Anything... was theatrically released in the United States on April 14, 1989, by 20th Century Fox. The film received positive reviews from critics. In 2002, Entertainment Weekly ranked Say Anything... as the greatest modern movie romance, and it was ranked number 11 on Entertainment Weekly list of the 50 best high school movies.

Plot
At the end of their senior year of high school, noble underachiever Lloyd Dobler falls for valedictorian Diane Court and plans to ask her out, though they belong to different social groups.

Lloyd's parents are stationed in Germany for the Army, so he lives with his sister Constance, a single mother, and has no plans yet for his future. Diane comes from a sheltered academic upbringing, living with her doting divorced father Jim, who owns the retirement home where she works. She will take up a prestigious fellowship in England at the end of the summer.

Lloyd offers to take Diane to their graduation party. She agrees, to everyone's surprise. Their next "date" is a dinner at Diane's, where Lloyd fails to impress Jim, and the Internal Revenue Service informs the latter he is under scrutiny.

Diane introduces Lloyd to the retirement home residents and he teaches her to drive her manual transmission Ford Tempo graduation gift. They grow closer and become intimate, to her father's concern. Lloyd's musician best friend Corey, who has never gotten over her cheating ex-boyfriend, Joe, warns him to take care of Diane.

Jim urges Diane to break up with Lloyd, feeling he is not an appropriate match, and suggests she give Lloyd a pen as a parting gift. Worried about her father, Diane tells Lloyd she wants to stop seeing him and concentrate on her studies, giving him the pen. Devastated, he seeks advice from Corey, who tells him to "be a man". Meanwhile, Jim discovers his credit cards are declined as the investigation drags on.

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Diane finds the cash concealed at home and confronts Jim, who tells her he took it to give her financial independence. Jim feels justified in doing so as he provided better care of his residents than their families. Distraught, she reconciles with Lloyd at his kickboxing gym.

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Cast

 John Cusack as Lloyd Dobler
 Ione Skye as Diane Court
 John Mahoney as Jim Court
 Lili Taylor as Corey Flood
 Amy Brooks as D.C.
 Pamela Adlon as Rebecca
 Jason Gould as Mike Cameron
 Loren Dean as Joe
 Polly Platt as Mrs. Flood
 Bebe Neuwirth as Mrs. Evans
 Jeremy Piven as Mark
 Eric Stoltz as Vahlere
 Kim Walker as Sheila
 Chynna Phillips as Mimi
 Joan Cusack as Constance Dobler (uncredited)
 Philip Baker Hall as IRS Boss
 Joanna Frank as Mrs. Kerwin
 John Hillner as Court's Attorney
 Dan Castellaneta as Diane's teacher (uncredited)
 Lois Chiles as Diane's mother (uncredited)

Jennifer Connelly and Ione Skye vied for the role of Diane Court, but Skye was cast. Robert Downey Jr. was offered the role of Lloyd Dobler, but turned it down. Christian Slater and Kirk Cameron were also considered for the role. Dick Van Dyke and Richard Dreyfuss were considered for the role of Jim Court.

Soundtrack
AllMusic wrote that the soundtrack, like the film, is "much smarter than the standard teen fare of the era." The soundtrack consists of these songs:

Critical reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 98% based on 47 reviews, with an average rating of 8.10/10. The website's consensus reads, "One of the definitive Generation X movies, Say Anything is equally funny and heartfelt—and it established John Cusack as an icon for left-of-center types everywhere." On Metacritic the film has a score of 85 based on reviews from 18 critics, indicating "Universal acclaim". Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade B+ on scale of A to F.

Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert called Say Anything... "one of the best films of the year—a film that is really about something, that cares deeply about the issues it contains—and yet it also works wonderfully as a funny, warmhearted romantic comedy." He later included it in his 2002 Great Movie list, writing, "Say Anything exists entirely in a real world, is not a fantasy or a pious parable, has characters who we sort of recognize, and is directed with care for the human feelings involved."

The film also had detractors. Variety called it a "half-baked love story, full of good intentions but uneven in the telling." But, the review also said the film's "[a]ppealing tale of an undirected army brat proving himself worthy of the most exceptional girl in high school elicits a few laughs, plenty of smiles and some genuine feeling." In a mixed review, Caryn James of The New York Times wrote:
[The film] resembles a first-rate production of a children's story. Its sense of parents and the summer after high school is myopic, presented totally from the teenagers' point of view. Yet its melodrama—Will Dad go to prison? Will Diane go to England?—distorts that perspective, so the film doesn't have much to offer an actual adult, not even a sense of what it's truly like to be just out of high school these days. The film is all charming performances and grace notes, but there are plenty of worse things to be.

Cultural influence
The film features one of the most culturally recognizable scenes in American movie history, in which John Cusack holds a boombox above his head outside Diane's bedroom window to let her know that he has not given up on her. Crowe and producer James L. Brooks believed the scene could become a hallmark of the movie, though Crowe found it difficult to film because Cusack felt it was "too passive". The scene was first scored with Fishbone's "Question of Life", but after viewing the scene, Crowe opted to replace it with Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" to better fit the mood that he wished to convey. Gabriel initially turned down Crowe because he confused the film with another film in production at the time, a John Belushi biography called Wired.

"That scene is like Romeo under the trellis," said Crowe reminiscing about the iconic scene. "But I have this feeling when I watch it that it's filled with double emotion – both with the story and the actors, whose own trepidation bleeds in."

Canceled TV series
A television series based on the movie was planned by NBC and 20th Century Fox, but producers Aaron Kaplan and Justin Adler did not know that Crowe had not approved of the project. When they found out his views, the show was dropped.

References

External links

 Say Anything...' says so much", Los Angeles Times, October 25, 2009.

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American romantic comedy-drama films
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Films produced by James L. Brooks
Films scored by Anne Dudley
Films scored by Richard Gibbs
Films set in Seattle
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1980s American films
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London-based Karhoo, in its submission to the Greater London Authority's (GLA) investigation into taxis and private-hire vehicles (PHVs), has claimed that taxis are likely to dwindle and potentially disappear.
The headlines of large increases in PHVs in London, and claims of this causing congestion, have obscured what is really happening, the company said.
With drivers' wages continuing to decline and the number of PHV operators reducing, Karhoo stated that more needs to be done to ensure the system works better for drivers, passengers and operators – most of whom are smaller companies. This could include expanding the role of taxis and PHV through technology.
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Karhoo's response said: "The inability to thrive appears to be impacting all sizes of business in all geographies across London. Widespread reports from operators in all sectors concerning the difficulty of recruiting PHV drivers underlines this notion.
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