10 very good reasons not to believe Vladimir Putin when he says he's totally not going to invade eastern Ukraine.
Late on Friday afternoon, news broke that Russian President Vladimir Putin had called President Barack Obama at the White House to discuss the possibility of a diplomatic resolution to the crisis in Crimea. The two agreed to dispatch their chief emissaries to talk details about how to diffuse the situation. But while a settlement might now be a possibility, United States and NATO intelligence assessments agree that the likelihood of Russian troops crossing the border into eastern (and possibly northern and southern) Ukraine grows by the hour. So, is this another Putin psych-out? It may well be.
1. The size of troop movements, and the field hospitals.
As of this writing, Russia has amassed as many as 50,000 troops at various points along the Ukrainian border, including in Russian-occupied Crimea. Videos uploaded to the Internet show armored vehicles being taken off flatbed freight trains in Voronezh, a city northeast of Ukraine's Kharkiv, and in Novozybkov, which is 50 miles north of Kiev. (Tanks there are already rolling on the ground, in fact.) The Russians have also moved food, medicine, and spare parts into position, which would not be needed for any short-term military "springtime exercises," as the Defense Ministry now claims is all they're up to. A field hospital has been erected in the Bryansk region, as Voice of America reported: that's just 12 miles away from Ukraine's eastern border, which is now heavily monitored by Russian drones. Furthermore, Moscow has resorted to subterfuge to hide its activities — not a terribly good sign of its sincerity. U.S. signals intelligence has been hindered by old-school tactics, including the use of couriers who deliver messaging from the army's High Command to commanders in the field. A senior U.S. military official told the Wall Street Journal: "They have moved into concealed positions," almost certainly to evade American spy satellites. If Russia wanted to reassure Washington that it was only staging drills, it would broadcast its movements and activities, not conceal them. "We've seen no specific indications that exercises are taking place," said the Pentagon press secretary, Rear Adm. John Kirby, on Thursday. Russia has enough men and firepower to reach the separatist region of Transnistria in Moldova, according to NATO's supreme allied commander Europe, Gen. Philip Breedlove. Meanwhile, Moldova Prime Minister Iurie Leanca sees "provocations" by the illegal statelet-within-a-state as likely. Let's not forget that the last time Russia held an impromptu military "exercise," it invaded and lopped off Crimea.
2. Putin enjoys embarrassing the United States, and especially its current commander-in-chief.
On Feb. 28, Obama warned that "there will be costs for any military intervention in Ukraine" — before high-tailing it to a Democratic National Committee cocktail party at the Washington Hilton. The next day, the world awoke to a Russian invasion of Crimea. "Rarely has a threat from a U.S. president been dismissed as quickly — and comprehensively — as Obama's warning on Friday night," the Washington Post's Scott Wilson reported. And let's look at the laundry list of American desires and warnings the Kremlin has brushed aside: Russia has dramatically increased its arms transfers to Syria since the chemical disarmament deal was struck last fall. It continues to host fugitive NSA spy Edward Snowden. And during the midst of the Maidan protests, Russia's own spies intercepted a phone call between a top U.S. State Department official and the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, then leaked the contents of it to Kremlin-controlled media. Moreover, neither Putin nor his inner circle seem terribly aggravated by the current suite of U.S. or EU sanctions or the blockbuster admission by the Treasury Department that Putin — now a staunch patriotic proponent of the "de-offshoreization" of the Russian economy — personally controls assets in Swiss oil commodities giant Gunvor.
Putin has been written out of his decade-long role as the dark lord of Ukraine's volatile and expensive gas industry. I wonder how that makes him feel. Clearly, he would now prefer the total collapse of Ukrainian state institutions and its market economy to an IMF-facilitated stability. And who better to guarantee a reconstruction effort than conveniently located Russian troops?
4. Putin has seen how reliably the U.S. policy establishment has done his work for him already.
5. Well, seriously, what are we going to do about it?
As Russian armored personnel carriers and paratroopers move into position, John Kerry's spokesperson, Jennifer Psaki, tweeted this: "Watching huge Russian military buildup on #Ukraine's borders: dangerous intimidation #RussiaIsolated." That'll teach 'em. Does the administration not see the futility in accusing Putin of playing by 19th-century rules using 21st-century media he's looking to censor, disrupt, or eventually shut down? How many divisions has the hashtag? Indeed, no one at any senior level in the U.S. government or NATO is contemplating a military response to an invasion of the Ukrainian mainland and the dismemberment of a European country. And Putin knows it. There's not even a bluff he has to call.
6. Listen to what the Kremlin functionaries are saying.
Yesterday, as the United Nations General Assembly voted to reaffirm Ukraine's territorial integrity and sovereignty, Russia's ambassador to that body, Vitaly Churkin, accused the U.S. embassy in Kiev of hosting the real shooters of Maidan demonstrators. Last week, Russia's insane propagandist-in-chief Dmitry Kiselyov took to the airwaves of his brand-new disinformation clearinghouse, Rossiya Segodnya, to remind viewers: "Russia is the only country in the world which is really capable of turning the USA into radioactive ash." Does this sound like a government looking for an "off-ramp" to an imminent confrontation with the West?
7. Russia's military and arms trade relies on Ukraine.
A little-noticed item in Sovershenno Sekretno, a Moscow-based magazine, authored by Vladimir Voronov, appeared in late February making the case for why Russia would indeed mount incursions into Ukraine. The most salient reason given was that, contrary to conventional wisdom that Ukraine's military depends on Russia, the situation is actually the other way around: Russia's military-industrial complex needs Ukraine's manufacturing resources. "It is difficult to overestimate the significance of Motor Sich for our aviation at least because its engines are used in all our helicopters, including the combat ones," Voronov wrote, referring to Ukraine's aircraft engine company. "It also remains the supplier of engines for aircraft used by the Russian Air Force and civilian airlines." The Ukrainian city of Mykolayiv alone hosts three different shipbuilding facilities, without which, Voronov says, "Russian shipbuilders cannot handle the ambitious program of rearming their own fleet." And the Ukrainian state-owned design bureaus Pivdenne and Pivdenmash are also necessary for Moscow's nuclear missile upgrades.
In September 2013, the Washington-based arms watchdog c4ads published a brilliant report called "The Odessa Network," which showed how a serious portion of the global arms trade was being conducted out of Odessa and Oktyabirsk, two Ukrainian port cities that now sandwich Crimea. Oktyabirsk is where the Soviets sent nuclear missiles to Cuba from in 1963, and, as of last year, was "functionally owned by Russia — the port manager is a former Russian a navy captain, and the port owner is a Kremlin-linked oligarch," as authors report Tom Wallace and Farley Mesko wrote. Odessa is home to the shipping companies that handle the logistics for weapons transfers, particularly by Russia's state-owned arms dealer Rosoboronexport which controls 80 percent of the country's arms exports. In the last several years, Rosoboronexport has dispatched Kh-55 cruise missiles to Iran, Pechora-2 SAMs to Eritrea, T-72 tanks to Venezuela and — very likely — other forms of hardware to Bashar al-Assad's Syria from this southeastern city on the Black Sea. Rosoboronexport had $34 billion in weapons contracts as of June 1, 2013, with sales inked with 66 countries.
The company has two other maritime ports through which it likes to ship its materiel to paying customers: St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad. But look at a map and weigh for yourself the differential cost in time, money, and insurance in transporting cargos from those ports to, say, countries stationed along the Mediterranean or the Horn of Africa versus from the Black Sea. With a new pro-American, pro-European government now convened in Kiev, do you really think Putin will allow his Odessa network to be disrupted or cancelled?
8. The Kremlin lies shamefully and farcically.
Putin insists to this day that Assad didn't unleash poison gas in Syria's capital city last August — despite the Kremlin's brokering of a diplomatic accord to dismantle and destroy Assad's poison gas stocks. Putin also insists that there is no Russian military presence in Crimea. Rather, pro-Russian "self-defense" militias — "little green men," as Ukrainians call them* — have somehow assumed total strategic control over a European peninsula the size of Wales, equipped with toys such as the VSS Vintorez sniper rifle, which is only given to elite units in the Russian military. So measure this track record of bare-faced mendacity against assurances given by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel that Russia has no plans for an invasion of east Ukraine. Some 80,000 Russian soldiers could march into Donetsk and Kharkiv tomorrow, and we'd no doubt hear for the first 24 hours that news of such belligerence was a sinister U.S. conspiracy designed to distract attention from Detroit's bankruptcy.
9. Kombinatsiya is very much in evidence now.
Saying that homosexual neo-Nazis financed by the State Department are in charge of Ukraine is one interlocking maneuver. So is releasing compromising or embarrassing phone conversations between European foreign ministers, American diplomats, and Ukrainian opposition figures; embedding FSB and GRU agents in the now-disbanded Ukrainian riot police Berkut or in the still-active Ukrainian security service SBU; egging on pro-Russian mobs to provoke pro-European Ukrainians into acts of violence in Kharkiv and Donetsk is yet another. And turning the lights off on Russia's independent media in the very same week you invade its neighbor is part of the domestic operation.
Putin doesn't want the truth to penetrate his national Potemkin village because the lie needs to be sold complete: the narod (similar to the German volk) must understand that its ethnic kin is under systematic assault from Tallinn to Sevastopol and that, if anything, it's the Americans who are the ones invading another country — Russia. One also sees a bit of kombinatsiya in the incredibly successful boost to Putin's popularity (itself a function of a carefully scripted and acted-out propaganda narrative), which jumped 20 points since the Crimean adventure got underway and now hovers at around 80 percent. If Russia invades eastern or southern Ukraine, that figure will go up even higher because the excuse for protecting the Fatherland and its far-flung and imperiled diaspora has been cultivated in advance.
10. Modernizatsiya isn't just for show.
Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has only been in the job for little over a year and already he's polled as the "most efficient" minister in Dmitry Medvedev's cabinet. His portfolio was also the most scandalized, as Shoigu's immediate predecessor, Anatoly Serdyukov, was sacked in 2013 owing to corruption charges involving Oboronservis, a Defense Ministry-owned real estate firm that appears to have been largely managed by Serdyukov's 33-year-old mistress, who allegedly [source] embezzled hundreds of millions of dollars out of it. (It didn't help Serdyukov's case that his wronged wife is the daughter of Viktor Zubkov, a former prime minister and close confidante of Putin's.) But Shoigu wasted no time in establishing himself as a national hero. He has overseen the largest and most ambitious re-armament and modernization program of the Russian military since the fall of the Soviet Union. As my colleague Andrew Bowen has noted, Moscow plans to spend $773 billion by 2020 equipping the majority of its armed forces with the state-of-the-art weapons such as T-50 fighter jets, Borei-class ballistic missile submarines, and RS-26 inter-continental ballistic missiles. Shoigu is also responsible for expanding the ranks of contract soldiers (kontraktniki) who are seen to be more reliable than conscripts. By 2017, the goal is to have 425,000 kontraktniki trained and ready to deploy (Russia currently has less than half that number).
Plenty of military analysts are skeptical that these blue-sky reforms can ever be realized, but consider the exhibitionism that Shoigu's army and air force have resorted to in the last year. Zapad-2013, another military exercise — this one waged jointly with Belarus — last September, featured as many as 70,000 troops including paratroopers, Spetsnaz (Special Forces), and paramilitary servicemen from the Interior Ministry. It's had "counterterrorism" exercises with India, and a large-scale naval exercise with China. Russia also conducted its own much-vaunted war game in the Far East, with what it claimed was 160,000 troops, 70 ships, 130 aircraft, and 14 separate army brigades, although, as deputy editor of the newspaper Yezhednevny Zhurnal Alexander Golts pointed out at the time, these advertised numbers simply didn't add up. But they really didn't have to: it's the plumage of the fledging modernizatsiya that matters most of all. "The objectives have been achieved, and the exercises have been more than satisfactory so far," Putin declared upon the completion of the Far East exercise. More ominous have been the serial violations of Swedish, Norwegian, Estonian, Japanese, Colombian, American, and Ukrainian airspaces by aircraft that include long-range strategic bombers — the kinds that would, say, reduce a country to radioactive ash.
The Russian armed forces aren't being revamped and expanded and better equipped for showroom purposes; they were being taken out for a test drive. Recall, too, that Putin, who was appalled at the bumbling and bungled 2008 war with Georgia for which he exclusively blames his former marionette, President Medvedev, has yet to have his own uniquely personalized war in well over a decade.
It's been a long time since the scorched-earth campaigns in Chechnya. And the timing couldn't be more right. The U.S. Department of Defense is mired in sequestration blues; the White House is catering to a war-weary and isolationist electorate (which may resent being given what it's asked for), and John Kerry is racking up air miles pursuing phantom "peace" deals around the globe. (He even met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at a Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague on March 24.) Meanwhile, Russia's spending a mint on its own war-making capability, scoring diplomatic victories over Kerry whenever it can, cleverly exploiting the deterioration of traditional U.S. alliances in the Middle East (whether Egypt or Israel), and now looking to ensure that Ukraine — which Putin considers "not even a state" — of the former Soviet "near abroad" doesn't stand a chance of existing without a little help from old friends.
It doesn't bode well, either, that the Kremlin's read-out of Putin's phone call with Obama emphasized the "rampage of extremists" in Kiev and beyond, or the "blockade" of Transnistria. Both are clearly pretexts just waiting for Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
*Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that Putin refers to pro-Russian "self-defense "militias as "little green men." It is Ukrainians that call the militias "little green men," not Putin.
The 11th reason not written about is the fact that Kremlin and Putin have never recognized the existence of a Ukrainian language, history, culture, and heritage irrespective of its geography!!!
This would be a once and for all final attempt to annihilate Ukrainians living in Ukraine and near abroad like in Poland.


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Kate's Review: "It Will End Like This"
Book: "It Will End Like This" by Kyra Leigh
Publishing Info: Delacorte Press, January 2022
Book Description: For fans of The Cheerleaders and Sadie comes a psychological thriller that reminds us that in real life, endings are rarely as neat as happily ever after. A contemporary take on the Lizzie Borden story that explores how grief can cut deep.
Charlotte lost her mother six months ago, and still no one will tell her exactly what happened the day she mysteriously died. They say her heart stopped, but Charlotte knows deep down that there's more to the story.
The only person who gets it is Charlotte's sister, Maddi. Maddi agrees—people's hearts don't just stop. There are too many questions left unanswered for the girls to move on. But their father is moving on. With their mother's personal assistant. And both girls are sure that she's determined to take everything that's theirs away for herself.
Now the only way to get their lives back is for Charlotte and Maddi to decide how this story ends, themselves.
Review: Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an eARC of this novel!
Boy did I think that the timing on this was golden! Around the time that I sat down to start "It Will End Like This" by Kyra Leigh, my favorite podcast was starting their two part series on Lizzie Borden and the Borden Axe Murders. "It Will End Like This" is a YA thriller that takes that story and updates it with modern times and sensibilities, so to me this was going to be the perfect pairing, to my mind.
But I think that it actually worked against the book's favor, at the end of the day. Which is a real bummer, as I was amped for a YA thriller a la "Sadie" or "The Cheerleaders" that tackled a notorious murder mystery. Because "It Will End Like This" fell pretty flat.
I will start with the positive, and that is the very concept of updating the Lizzie Borden tale with YA protagonists and in a modern setting. There are so many aspects of the original tale (at least how it has evolved over time) that have so much storytelling potential: murder! Potential family strife! A freakin' axe! I was really hoping for a creative and engaging update that would put all of these Victorian Themes (and all the mess that comes with that kind of baggage) into a modern lens. Like, that is just teeming with potential!
But there were some glaring missteps with this story that reminded me that a story can't float on potential alone. The first is just a narrative style and set of choices that I didn't like. For one, while we got a lot of Charlotte perspectives, the Maddi chapters were quite limited. I would have liked to have a bit more of an even distribution for their narrations, unreliability between them notwithstanding. Along with that, it's all very disjointed, which is a fair choice to make given that Charlotte (and to some extent Maddi) is slowly losing her faculties due to grief, resentment, and rage. But the execution feels a bit heavy handed as well as too messy, and it makes Charlotte and Maddi rather two dimensional in their depictions.
But for me, the biggest issue is that while this book is inspired by the Borden Axe Murders, it's more inspired by the myths surrounding Lizzie Borden versus the actual case at hand. And this is why my podcast timing probably ruined it for me. This book gives Charlotte and Maddi all the reasons in the world to want their father and stepmother dead, the biggest being that they were clearly having an affair and potentially had something to do with their mother's very recent death. But the real Lizzie Borden had no obvious motive, as her mother had been LONG dead, and there is no reason to think that her father had anything to do with her death. That's the big mystery surrounding these murders at the end of the day: Lizzie Borden as a suspect is hard to believe given lack of substantiated motive (note: I say substantiated because of speculation about a lesbian love affair being found out as a motive. I wouldn't be surprised if this was the case, but I don't know if there is actual evidence to suggest this? And it wasn't even used in this book as a plot point, so…) and some timing issues on the day of the murders (seriously, the timing would have to be insane for her to pull it all off). Buuuuut there is also a difficult argument to be made for some random person to have done it without being noticed by someone! Instead of taking inspiration from a truly puzzling murder mystery, "It Will End Like This" takes the "Lizzie Borden Took An Axe" nursery rhyme and speculation run amok and ran with that narrative. I think that if the final product had been stronger and less confusing, and had I not JUST listened to a breakdown of the actual facts of the case, I could have overlooked this all, but with all of these issues at hand, it was a bit too much to get over.
"The Cheerleaders" and "Sadie" this is not. I was sad that "It Will End Like This" was the disappointment that it was. I will say that it makes me want to go read other adaptations of the story to see what they do with it. I'm just not sure I'm convinced that Lizzie Borden did take that axe, and this book didn't rise up high enough for me to look past that.
Rating 5: A good concept is muddled down by confusing narrative choices and straying a bit from the inspirational event it touts in the description.
"It Will End Like This" is included on the Goodreads list "2022 YA Mysteries and Thrillers".
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Million pound London moped phone robbing gang face trial
A gang of moped raiders armed with hammers, knives and a gun stole £1 million worth of mobile phones and tablets in 17 raids on stores across London, a court heard. The gang of young men allegedly raided Three Mobile shops where they would smash their way in with a battering ram, break into the […]
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A gang of moped raiders armed with hammers, knives and a gun stole £1 million worth of mobile phones and tablets in 17 raids on stores across London, a court heard.
The gang of young men allegedly raided Three Mobile shops where they would smash their way in with a battering ram, break into the stock room and swipe the latest handsets, before escaping on waiting mopeds.
Security guards placed in some stores overnight by the mobile company were brutally attacked by gang members with chairs and hammers, while others grabbed phones and tablets from the store room.
Left Dylan Castano-Lopez and Right – Alfie Kennedy.
In one brazen raid at the Three store in Oxford Street, at 2.40am one of the raiders threatened a member of the public with a gun, while the others smashed their way into the store and stole dozens of devices worth £20,000.
The phones, which were stolen in the early hours of the morning, were then sold to shops in East London from where they would be sold abroad for just below market value.
In just over six months the gang stole phones and tablets worth about £1million, it was said.
Bobby Kennedy, 22 and Chris Costi, 19 are both charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary and conspiracy to rob between May and November last year.
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Three other members of the gang Dylan Castano-Lopez, 19, Alfie Kennedy, 20, brother of Bobby, and Adam Atallah, 21, all previously pleaded guilty to their part in the conspiracy, the jury heard.
Bobby Kennedy, 22.
Opening the case prosecutor Michael Shaw, said: "In the summer of last year, and into the autumn, a group of young men joined in a robbery and burglary spree in London.
"They armed themselves with weapons, knives, hammers, and guns, arriving on mopeds and using crash helmets as a disguise, and smashed their way into mobile phone stores owned by the network Three.
"They smashed their way into the stores' stock rooms taking about £1million worth of mobile phones which they sold to handlers in east London."
Referring to the gang, the prosecutor said: "They are a team of individuals who know each other well and are prepared to use considerable violence when they come across security guards or police officers.
Two gang members are caught on a dashboard-mounted camera trying to flee after a raid in East Ham in September 2016.
"They were prepared to use force and also weapons when the rewards were so large."
The jury were told the stolen phones were sold on to customers across the world wanting the latest handsets.
The prosecutor said: "Phones have been found all round the world, in Bangladesh, Pakistan and they are worth a lot of money out there.
"That is money the defendants didn't work for, instead it was easier to smash their way into the mobile phone stock room and steal them."
The gang repeatedly targeted the same shops after they were restocked by the phone company, including one in Walthamstow which was hit four times.
After a while Three Mobile began to put trackers in their phones in store and also had security guards stay in store overnight.
The prosecutor said: "Threats to shoot people were made repeatedly. Threats of serious violence were also made.
"The message was if you get in the way you will get hurt, threats with hammers, threats with knives, with threats of being shot.
"This is a well organised group of thieves. These are organised professional criminals."
Chris Costi, 19.
The jury were shown CCTV footage from the first burglary in Walthamstow on May 1, last year, at around 5am.
Four burglars used two mopeds and two of the gang were seen smashing their way though the front window, wearing black clothes and crash helmets.
Footage from inside the stock room shows the door smashed off its hinges and two burglars go in and swipe all the phones, with the whole raid taking just over three minutes.
After getting away the raiders would dump the mopeds and then book a cab away from the area.
Within hours after the raids the gang would then meet with two shop owners in East London, who would buy the phones off them, before selling them on to countries around the world.
In another raid at the Wood Green store when police arrived on the scene, two officers were left with cuts when they wrestled with some of the gang , with two arrested at the scene.
CCTV footage from inside one store of another raid showed a security guard, who had tried to hide, being attacked and beaten by the gang, hitting him with a chair.
The jury were also shown dramatic footage from police helicopter of a ten mile chase of four of the gang on two mopeds through the streets of London after the last of the burglaries in October last year.
It was after that raid in Walthamstow and police chase that the Kennedy brothers were arrested alongside Atallah in the early hours of the morning.
Adam Atallah, 21.
The prosecutor: "We say (Bobby) Kennedy, and his mate Costi, are both part of a gang who were burgling premises.
"But it wasn't a simple burglary. These were aggravated burglary, they had weapons with them and that was the tip of the iceberg- he was involved in other serious offences.
"We say they were involved in this conspiracy. This was quite a well organised, sophisticated plan. The offences that you are looking at are the manifestation of that plan.
"If we hadn't caught them they would still doing it now."
Kennedy, of no fixed abode, and Costi, of Hackney, east London, deny one count of conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary, and one count of conspiracy to rob.
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2019 LA Auto Show: Six Star Cars
Last updated: Nov 21, 2019 at 11:25AM
Published on: Nov 15, 2019 by CarGurus Staff
With the 2019 LA Auto Show just a week away, now's the perfect time to take a quick look at some of the new models set to be unveiled in the LA Convention Center. Below we've listed a half-dozen of our favorites, plus be sure to visit the CarGurus Facebook page and CarGurus YouTube channel during the LA Show press days on November 20th and 21st for updates.
Without further ado, here are six cars that have already piqued our interest.
Two things tell you all you need to know about the faith Ford has in its all-new and all-electric SUV. First, there's the name—because you don't call something a Mustang without also inviting intense scrutiny about its heritage, positioning, and performance. Mustang it is, though, albeit with an added "Mach-E" for good measure.
Second is the fact that Ford's opening press surrounding the car hasn't detailed its drivetrain or performance, but simply informed customers that it'll take pre-orders (via a deposit) the moment the live stream of the official unveiling, which will feature Idris Elba, ends on November 17. Now that's confidence.
Among the options for those pre-ordering a car will be to go for a lavish First Edition model, although Ford stresses that "timing will be critical" for anybody looking to secure a vehicle in this spec. Whatever Mustang Mach-E takes your fancy, it's hard not to think that with the right styling and performance, this could be one of the hottest cars to go on sale in 2020.
It is unlikely anybody could come away from a drive in Audi's Q8 and think that what it really needs is more power. However, the imminent arrival of the RS Q8 will provide precisely that, courtesy of Audi Sport's twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter V8. With what is likely to be around 600 hp and 590 lb-ft of torque, the RS Q8 is expected to get from 0-62 mph in just 3.8 seconds and has already lapped the Nürburgring Nordschleife in 7:42:2. That—because we know you're wondering—is a record for a production SUV.
The RS Q8 will be joined in LA by Audi's latest RS 6 Avant, which is making its debut on US soil along with its five-door coupe sibling, the RS 7. Powered by the same V8 as the RS Q8, the RS 6 can get from 0-62 mph in just 3.6 seconds. Having never been offered in the US before, it'll be interesting to see if Audi's muscular estate is as well-received here as it has been with European buyers.
Porsche 911 Manual
The debut of an old-fashioned manual transmission in a car that's already been for sale for almost a year would not be normally deemed newsworthy. But when the car in question is a Porsche 911, things are a little different. To a non-car person the surprise would grow further upon learning that by gaining a manual, the latest 992-generation 911 becomes slower rather than faster; for that, thank the fact that Porsche's dual-clutch automatics now change gear so quickly it's simply not possible to match them when you throw human limbs into the equation. As a guide, Porsche is quoting a 0-60 time of around 4.0 seconds for the 992 Carrera S manual versus 3.3 for the PDK automatic.
However, speed is not everything in a performance car. What some buyers also crave is the tactile interaction that a manual offers, whether it's the weighty feel of the clutch pedal, the precise throw of the shifter, or the joy of a perfectly executed heel-toe downshift. And these are precisely the people Porsche is targeting with the installation of its 7-speed manual in the Carrera S and Carrera 4S versions of the 992. Rumour is these cars—and that gearbox—will be on the stand in LA. Watch this space.
Bollinger B1 and B2
Slab-sided and right-angle rich, the built-in-Detroit, all-electric, all-aluminum, all-black LA Auto Show debuts from relative newcomer Bollinger look less sleek than any other vehicles expected to hit the show floor. The B1 "sport utility truck" promises all-wheel drive, 10 inches of wheel travel, 15 inches of ground clearance, and a 200-mile range despite its 5,000-pound curb weight. With 614 horsepower, 668 pound-feet of torque, and a list of removable parts and off-roading angles reminiscent of the Jeep Wrangler's, we can't help but be intrigued.
The longer B2 electric pickup truck shares the B1's powertrain, weight, range, and most of its removable parts, not to mention its full-length central pass-through, which in the B2's case will accommodate cargo up to 16 feet long. Each of these trucks features air conditioning and 10 110-volt outlets (and we can't help but wonder how those will impact range). At $125,000 each, these vehicles aren't intended for the masses, which is probably fine for now, as Bollinger hasn't found a production partner yet.
MINI Cooper John Cooper Works GP and SE
Featuring enough airflow-managing scoops and bulges to shame a Ferrari in addition to a huge rear wing, the third-generation MINI John Cooper Works GP aims to whet appetites for a limited-edition 3,000-unit high-performance 2020 model. The GP concept and its 301-horsepower turbocharged 2.0-liter 4-cylinder recently lapped the Nürburgring Nordschleife in under 8 minutes, making it the fastest MINI model ever produced. It should reach US showrooms in mid-2020 at a price of $45,750, including an $850 destination fee.
The BMW Group's stand will be busy, also featuring the new MINI Cooper SE, an all-new EV based on the MINI Hardtop 2-door launched in 2014. The SE's electric motor supplies 181 horsepower and 199 lb-ft to the front wheels, getting the car from 0 to 60 in 6.9 seconds on the way to a top speed of 93 mph. We found the Countryman plug-in hybrid expensive but enjoyable and look forward to the arrival of the SE, which should reach dealers in March 2020 at an MSRP of $30,750, including a similar $850 destination fee.
Volkswagen's fleet of ID. electric concept cars will welcome its seventh member at the Petersen Auto Museum November 19th with the world debut of the ID. Space Vizzion crossover concept. VW describes this new vehicle as combining the aerodynamics of a gran turismo with the spaciousness of an SUV in a zero-emissions car with a range of up to 300 miles.
Looking like a long, low, streamlined station wagon, the ID. Space Vizzion, unlike the earlier ID. Vizzion, features a steering wheel and a very large but horizontal digital control panel on the dashboard. Using sustainable interior materials, the cabin features AppleSkin, a vegan alternative to leather that's made with leftovers from apple-juice production. Volkswagen plans to release a production version in late 2021, with different versions available in North America, Europe, and China.
The LA Auto Show opens to the public Friday, November 22nd and will run through Sunday, December 1st. Ticket information and details can be found on the show's website.
For more car news, check out these articles:
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CarGurus' 2018 Top LA Auto Show Cars for Every Lifestyle
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Irish Farming Sector Most Exposed By Brexit Says IFA
Published on Jan 18 2017 11:28 AM in Fresh Produce tagged: Irish Farmers Association / IFA
Brexit negotiations on farm incomes is the biggest threat to Irish farming in half a century said Joe Healy, President of the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) at the recent 62nd annual general meeting....
Brexit negotiations on farm incomes is the biggest threat to Irish farming in half a century said Joe Healy, President of the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) at the recent 62nd annual general meeting.
Joe Healy said that with 40% of our food exports going to the UK, no other member state and no other sector is as exposed in these negotiations.
According to Healy: "Agriculture and food cannot become a battleground between Brussels and London. There are too many farm livelihoods and jobs at stake. Politics cannot be allowed override our fundamental economic interests."
Healy also highlighted that farmers may expect the Taoiseach and the Irish Government to use the strong relationship they have with both EU and UK leaders to influence a constructive approach to these difficult negotiations.
Healy added: "In Brussels, the Commissioner for Agriculture, Phil Hogan, must make the retention of free trade in agriculture and food products between the EU and UK a priority."
He also emphasized that politicians in Dublin and Brussels cannot ignore the ongoing impact of the sterling devaluation. He also suggested direct aid for farmers and other businesses in this sector needs to be considered.
Farmers have taken most of the pain resulting from the weakness of sterling. "Beef farmers took a hit of €150m last year from this alone and mushroom growers saw their margins wiped out. These losses are a direct result of a political decision outside farmers' control and cannot be tolerated," he said.
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Sussex County activist to run for GOP chair
The News Journal reports conservative Sussex County activist Don Ayotte will run for GOP Chairman in April.
He wants to challenge current chair Tom Ross. Ross has not announced whether he would run again. He says he wants to wait until after Thursday's election
Ayotte says the party needs to be unified going into the 2012 elections. He was a supporter of Christine O'Donnell. Ross has been party chair since 2008. He was critical of O'Donnell during her campaign and even after her upset victory of Mike Castle in the race for the U.S. Senate.
Nearly 50,000 potentially lethal doses of fentanyl seized in Wilmington raid
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Pauletta Chanco's current work is about cultivating the relationship between painting and spiritual practice. In the Buddhist teachings that inspire her, there is a beautiful metaphor about clearing the path by sweeping the leaves off of it. Hence, the abstracted leaf forms in her work, which are painted and then painted away. Layered veils of color allude to movement between the sacred and profane, the profound and the concrete, in both areas of practice. Circles remind us of the cyclical nature of life. Areas of darkness speak to making our way through challenging interior landscapes in order to arrive at moments of insight, which is represented by the areas of light coming through in her art.
In a completed new abstract series called "Aprés Fragonard," Pauletta was inspired by a recent trip to Paris. She made multiple visits to the Louvre and Musee d'Orsay to see French Rococo painter and printmaker Jean Honoré Fragonard. It was at the d'Orsay where she viewed a special Fragonard exhibition of bourgeois men having carnal affairs with their maids and domestic help.


Mauser Group, Brühl, Germany, manufacturer of industrial packaging, is increasing its shareholding in its Shanghai based IBC joint venture Fanshun Mauser Shanghai Packaging Co., Ltd. Mauser Holding International GmbH and Shanghai Fanshun Company, Ltd., a leading rigid packaging producer in China, agreed to increase the Mauser stake in their mutual joint venture for IBCs, Fanshun Mauser Shanghai Packaging Co., Ltd., from 32.5 % to 50 %. The agreement has been signed on March 23rd, 2014, in Shanghai during a signing ceremony in the presence of key customers.
As part of the agreement, the IBC production assets of Mauser Packaging (Jiangsu) Co. Ltd. will be transferred to the joint venture. Fanshun Mauser Shanghai Packaging Co., Ltd. will continue to supply the growing Chinese market for high quality IBCs from both locations, Shanghai and JiangYin. Philippe Larretgère has been appointed the general manager of the joint venture and is relocating to Shanghai.
"Consolidating our Chinese IBC activities in the already 2003 established joint venture will allow us to serve the Chinese market more effectively and is another step to expand our presence in China. The renewed joint venture is built on the long-standing friendship with our Chinese partner and will be the platform to further expand IBC related services," says Mauser Group CEO Hans-Peter Schaefer.


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Ghazal Al Saleh (UROP Student)
Ghazal joins us for her UROP project in winter 2023. She is working together with Abbie on the development of novel near-infrared nanothermometers.
Email: galsa100(at)uottawa.ca
Trinity Berube (Volunteer, Physics Student)
Trinity's major is in Physics, but she came to our lab to learn more about materials chemistry and optics of lanthanides. Currently, she studies the photoluminescence of Europium-doped oxides.
Email: tberu092(at)uottawa.ca
Dr. Helliomar Barbosa (Postdoc)
Helliomar came from Brazil to join the group in fall 2022. He is working on aptamer-modified lanthandide-based nanoparticles to unveil microbiota interplay with the gut-brain axis (NFRF-funded project).
Email: H.Barbosa(at)uottawa.ca
Connor Campbell Smith (Honour's Student)
Connor joined the group to learn how to synthesize lanthanide-doped nanoparticles. Since fall, he uses these for his Honour's project studying nano-bio-interactions in zebrafish (collaboration with the Mennigen-Lab).
Email: ccamp159(at)uottawa.ca
Chris Conrad (Graduate Student - Ph.D. Thesis at Tübingen University, Germany)
After having gained first experience in synthesis and spectroscopy of UCNPs in our lab in 2022, Chris is now focusing on theoretical aspects of upconversion under supervision of Prof. Reinhold Fink at Tübingen University, Germany. Looking forward for your next visit at uOttawa, Chris!
Email: chris.conrad(at)uni-tuebingen.de
Akash Dahiya (UROP Student)
Akash joins us for his UROP project in winter 2023. He is working together with Helliomar on aptamer-modified nanoparticles for bioimaging.
Email: adahi092(at)uottawa.ca
Sinedu Dejene (Graduate Student - Ph.D. Thesis)
Sinedu focuses on the synthesis of silica-coated lanthanide-doped nanoparticles and their optical properties, seeking implementation into optoelectronic devices with the Lessard Research Group.
Email: stefe071(at)uottawa.ca
Dr. Christian Homann (Postdoc - Mitacs Fellow)
Christian joined the team in summer 2022 to develop inks based on lanthanide-doped nanoparticle for printing applications with Optech (Montreal).
Email: chomann(at)uottawa.ca
Nan Liu (Graduate Student - Ph.D. Thesis)
Nan started to work on the surface modification of magnetic nanoparticles in September 2017. After having finished her Master's thesis in October 2019, she is now working on her PhD project. Great news in 2020: her project receives funding through the Chinese Scholarship Council.
Email: nliu039(at)uottawa.ca
Hana Mirmajidi (Graduate Student - Ph.D. Thesis)
Hana became a Ph.D. candidate at the lab in fall 2021. She is exploring lanthanide-based nanoparticles for biomedical applications from imaging to sensing.
Email: smirm082(at)uottawa.ca
Sabrina Morin (Honour's Student)
Sabrina joined the group for her Honour's Thesis Project during which she will optimize the silica-shelling of lanthanide-doped nanoparticles.
Email: smori038(at)uottawa.ca
Ryan Nguyen (High School Student - Research Intern)
Ryan joined the group to explore upconverting nanoparticles modified with aptamers for bioimaging and sensing applications.
Abigale Puccini (Graduate Student - M.Sc. Thesis)
Abigale joined the group in September 2021 to tune near-infrared emission properties of lanthanide-doped core/shell nanoparticles obtained by microwave-assisted routes and to apply them in biomedical applications.
Email: apucc043(at)uottawa.ca
Fathi Souissi (Graduate Student - M.Sc. Thesis)
Fathi is co-supervised by Dr. Adina Luican-Mayer and brings together the worlds or lanthanide-based nanoparticles and 2D-materials.
Email: fsoui096(at)uottawa.ca
Alexandre Sylvestre (Undergraduate Summer Volunteer)
Welcome back to the lab, Alexandre, for your second summer of volunteering in the lab, performing photoluminescence specroscopy on upconverting and downshifting nanopowders!
Email: asylv045(at)uottawa.ca
Nikita Panov (M.Sc. 2017 - 2020; Microwave-Assisted Solvothermal Synthesis and Optical Characterization of M(RE)F4 (M – Alkali Metal; RE – Rare-Earth Metal) Nano- and Microscale Particles)
Ilias Halimi (M.Sc. 2017 - 2020; Energy Transfer in Lanthanide-based Nanomaterial)
Nan Liu (M.Sc. 2017 - 2019; Tailoring Crystalline Phase and Surface of Lanthanide-Based Nanoparticles for MRI Applications)
Undergraduate Honours Project Students
Anne-Pascale Murebwayire (September 2021 - April 2022)
Julia Bernard (January - April 2021)
Justin Crawford-Corriveau (January - April 2021)
Natalie Millan (January - April 2021)
Jessica Holmes (September 2020 - April 2021)
Kusuma Virginna Adiningtyas (January - April 2020)
Parrish Evers (September 2019 - April 2020)
Nicholas Gobeil (September 2019 - April 2020)
Tina Sun (September 2019 - April 2020)
Itzel Lopez-Carreon (January - April 2019)
Nathaniel Leslie (January - April 2019)
Faduma Abdirahman (September 2018 - April 2019)
Emma Boase (September 2018 - April 2019)
Fadi Oussta (September 2017 - April 2018)
Qing Qing (Kinna) Zhao (September 2017 - April 2018)
Jeffry Colin (September 2016 - April 2017)
Rebecca Duris (September 2016 - April 2017)
Alex Therien (January - April 2017)
Undergraduate COOP Students
Nathaniel Leslie (Mai - August 2017)
Alex Therien (May - December 2016)
Rayan Ghadieh (May - August 2016)
Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) Students
Adam Omari (May 2021 - March 2022)
Luciana Yu (November 2020 - April 2021)
Yifei Wang (November 2018 - April 2019)
Brad Martire (November 2016 - April 2017)
Kinna Zhao (October 2016 - April 2017)
Nathaniel Leslie (October 2016 - April 2017)
Jamal Al-Refaee (November 2016 - March 2017)
Dr. Deepika Jamwal (February - June 2022; Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute Postdoctoral Fellow from February to March 2022)
Dr. Emille M. Rodrigues (March 2019 - November 2021)
Dr. Riccardo Marin (November 2017 - November 2018)
Alexandre Sylvestre (May - August 2021 and June 2022 - )
Gabrielle Chong Foo Yuen (May - August 2022)
Nihar David (May - August 2021)
Sinedu Dejene (October 2020 - April 2021)
Amanda Friio (January - October 2020)
Nelson Rutajoga (May - August 2019)
Faduma Abdirahman (May - August 2018)
Joelle Machaalni (June - July 2017)
Nathaniel Leslie (May - September 2016)
Fozia Nur (May - August 2016)
Kevin Soro (visiting PhD Student from Université de Strasbourg, France; funding: Canada Research Fund; July 2022)
Chris Conrad (MITACS Globalink Student; graduate student from University of Tübingen, Germany, February - April 2022)
Laura Kelly (RISE Summer Student; undergraduate student from University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada, May - August 2021)
Manjot Grewal (RISE Summer Student & NSERC USRA Scholar; undergraduate student from McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, May - August 2019)
Nabojit Kar (MITACS Globalink Summer Student; undergraduate student from Indian Research Institute of Science and Education, Kolkata, India, May - August 2019)
Camille Laot (Undergraduate Student from Lycée Pierre Gilles de Gennes, Paris, France, October - December 2018)
Steven Maurizio (RISE Summer Student; undergraduate student from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, May - August 2018)
Yacine Mazouzi (Graduate Student from Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, April - August 2017)
Visiting Postdocs & Researchers
Dr. Loic Charbonnière (visiting researcher from Université de Strasbourg, France, July 2022)
Prof. Pawan Khanna (visiting professor from Defence Institute of Advanced Technology, Pune, India, December 2021)
Dr. Isabel Gessner (visiting postdoc from University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, February-April 2019)
Dr. Nicholas Obitte (visiting researcher from University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria, February-March 2019)
Dr. Ute Resch-Genger (visiting researcher from the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Berlin, Germany, December 2018)
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Lil Wayne's focus may have shifted away from music since he picked up a skateboard, but he still keeps pumping out albums. The Young Money chief, who once proclaimed himself the "best rapper alive," delivers his 10th album I Am Not a Human Being II to stores today.
Was he able to deliver a winning sequel? The critics weigh in.
New York Times: He still radiates exuberance and ecstasy and rebelliousness, the hallmarks of his rise to hip-hop's creative and commercial peaks. But the words he puts together don't shock the way they once did.
AP: Overall, Wayne meets expectations for Wayne these days—not saying much (of substance), but giving listeners plenty to talk about.


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Glasgow Orange Walks: Tributes paid to man who died during processions
Officers said the death of the 68-year-old is not being treated as suspicious, and a report has been submitted to the Procurator Fiscal.
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Thousands of people took part in processions which shut down city centre roads and prompted counter-protests. (Image: Robert Perry/PA Wire)
Organisers of the Orange Order marches have paid tribute to a man who died during Glasgow's processions.
Thousands of people took part in processions which shut down city centre roads and prompted counter-protests.
Shortly after the procession began, police were called to Tradeston Street after reports of a 68-year-old man falling ill.
Emergency services attended but he was pronounced dead shortly after.
Officers said the death is not being treated as suspicious, and a report has been submitted to the Procurator Fiscal.
Grand Orange Lodge Scotland has since posted a tribute on its Facebook page reading: "Jim McHarg Grand Master expresses the condolences of the Grand Orange Lodge of Scotland to the family and friends of Brother John Graham District Secretary Port Glasgow District LOL 19 who sadly passed away yesterday during the Glasgow procession."
Up to 800 police officers were deployed to manage the event, which saw marches go through the city centre and past Catholic churches.
Police said they made several arrests after "racist and sectarian singing" took place during Orange walks, which shut streets across Glasgow and led to condemnation of anti-Catholic bigotry.
Grand Orange Lodge Scotland said on social media that no marchers were arrested at the event.
Glasgow City Council said 32 roads in the city had been closed off for the processions until the mid-afternoon.
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Although we never found a suitable unpaved spot to exercise the Raptor, we can testify that this truck makes a delicious everyday companion. Its cabin is so comfortable you never want to climb down from your throne.
For 2017, Ford has re-engineered the aluminum box for use on Super Duty models by upgrading the panel thickness of the box to handle the increased loading requirements of the Super Duty line.
For 2017, Ford offers more flavors of Fusion than Ben and Jerry makes ice cream. At the top of the long list is the all new for 2017 Sport version, with a 325hp, 2.7 liter V6 powering all four wheels. Moving down the range, Ford also offers a turbocharged 2.0 liter inline 4 making 240hp.
The latest offering in Ford's rag top pony car line is a very endearing product. Hot Rodders will love it for its 435hp and bellowing exhaust note. Sun worshippers will give it high grades for its expansive tanning bed.
Every model year sees one manufacturer innovate a new color so scintillating you wonder why no one thought of it before. This year, the tribute goes to Ford for their splendid shade of eye candy called Electric Spice Metallic.
Ford's Escape moves into 2016 largely unchanged. If you are savvy, you will order your Escape with the most powerful engine available in the model range, the 2.0 liter EcoBoost motor, which makes 240hp and a whopping 270lb.-ft. of torque thanks to direct fuel injection and a turbocharger.
This "one ton" Ford is designed for two primary chores in life. The first is toting heavy loads in its gaping cargo bed, which is rated to carry 2,080 pounds (hence the one ton tag). The second is towing a trailer.
Back in the first 1960s heyday of the Mustang, if you saw a button on the dash marked "Shaker" you knew that the ram intake on your hood would open when you pressed that magic button. More cold air meant more horsepower.
Although Ford's latest F-150 may look familiar, its what you can't see that distinguishes it from its predecessors. At just 5,000lb, it's remarkably light for such a large truck. The substitution of aluminum for steel in the cab and body structure has pared curb weight by 700 pounds. As a result, you no longer need a gas swigging V8 under the hood to provide enough punch for acceptable performance.
But the beauty of this Hybrid lies in its virtually undetectable transfer from electric to gasoline mode when underway. Whereas most such combo cars let you know quite clearly and noisily when switching from electric to gas power, the Fusion transfers energy source quietly and seamlessly.
If you relish having the most expensive house on the block, then the Fusion Energi is definitely the Ford you'll want to own. You can buy an entry level Fusion S for just $21,900. An upgraded SE is $23,855. A top level Titanium series Fusion costs $30,500.
Drivers who still consider a car to be a precision tool rather than a blunt appliance will rejoice that Ford is into the second year of production for the sublimely satisfying Fiesta ST.
This extensive portfolio of goodies costs just $25,500, navigation upgrade included. The cabin of the Focus Titanium is so competently organized that you could easily drive this 2,995 lb. compact hatchback across the USA without hesitation or discomfort. Especially compelling are the 17 inch Cooper Zeon RS3-A mud and snow rated tires.
The latest Fiesta is an undeniably handsome design, with its ground hugging snoot, upturned tail, and primly pursed Aston Martin copy grill imbuing it with unexpected flair. The only discordant note in the stylistic aria is struck by the 15 inch SE standard alloy wheels, which are visually swamped by spaciously flared wheel wells.


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Democratic White House candidate Joe Biden on Sunday said replacing Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ahead of the presidential election was a "brutal exercise of power" and called on moderate Republicans to uphold constitutional obligations.
On Saturday, Biden had already argued that he should be the next President of the United States, elected on November 3, to choose the replacement or the replacement of the post left by Ginsburg, who died on Friday in the Supreme Court.
President Donald Trump's drive to replace the judge ahead of the Nov. 3 election is "a brutal exercise of political power," Joe Biden said, speaking in Philadelphia. "It's a question of power. Quite simply, "added Joe Biden.
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English auxiliary verbs are a small set of English verbs, which include the English modal verbs and a few others. Although definitions vary, as generally conceived an auxiliary lacks inherent semantic meaning but instead modifies the meaning of another verb it accompanies. In English, verb forms are often classed as auxiliary on the basis of certain grammatical properties, particularly as regards their syntax. They also participate in subject–auxiliary inversion and negation by the simple addition of not after them.

History of the concept
In English, the adjective auxiliary was "formerly applied to any formative or subordinate elements of language, e.g. prefixes, prepositions." As applied to verbs, its conception was originally rather vague and varied significantly.

Some historical examples
The first English grammar, Pamphlet for Grammar by William Bullokar, published in 1586, does not use the term "auxiliary", but says, All other verbs are called verbs-neuters-un-perfect because they require the infinitive mood of another verb to express their signification of meaning perfectly: and be these, may, can, might or mought, could, would, should, must, ought, and sometimes, will, that being a mere sign of the future tense. (orthography has been modernized)In The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, (1762) the narrator's father explains that "The verbs auxiliary we are concerned in here,..., are, am; was; have; had; do; did; make; made; suffer; shall; should; will; would; can; could; owe; ought; used; or is wont."

Wiseman's grammar from 1764 notes that most verbs cannot be conjugated through all their Moods and Tenses, without one of the following principal Verbs have and be. The first serves to conjugate the rest, by supplying the compound tenses of all Verbs both Regular and Irregular, whether Active, Passive, Neuter, or Impersonal, as may be seen in its own variation, &c. It goes on to include, along with have and be, do, may, can, shall, will as auxiliary verbs.

Fowler's grammar from 1857 has the following to say:AUXILIARY VERBS, or Helping Verbs, perform the same office in the conjugation of principal verbs which inflection does in the classical languages, though even in those languages the substantive verb is sometimes used as a helping verb... The verbs that are always auxiliary to others are, May, can, shall, must ; II. Those that are sometimes auxiliary and sometimes principal verbs are, Will, have, do, be, and let.The central core that each of these agree on are the modal auxiliary verbs may, can, and shall,  with most including also be, do, and have.

Auxiliary verbs as heads
Modern grammars do not differ substantially in the list of auxiliary verbs, though they have refined the concept and often reconceptualized auxiliary verbs as the heads of a verb phrase, rather than as a subordinate element in it. This idea was first put forward by John Ross in 1969.

Many pedagogical grammars maintain the traditional idea that auxiliary verbs are subordinate elements, but many modern grammars such as The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language take auxiliaries to be heads. This is shown in the following tree diagram for the clause I can swim.

The clause has a subject noun phrase I and a head verb phrase, headed by the auxiliary verb can. The VP also has a complement clause, which has a head VP, with the head verb swim.

Auxiliary verbs vs lexical verbs
The list of auxiliary verbs in Modern English, along with their inflected forms, is shown in the following table.

Some linguists consider membership in this syntactic class the defining property for English auxiliary verbs. The chief difference between this syntactic definition of "auxiliary verb" and the traditional definition given in the section above is that the syntactic definition includes forms of the verb be even when used simply as a copular verb (in sentences like I am hungry and It was a cat) where it does not accompany any other verb.
In Modern English, auxiliary verbs are distinguished from lexical verbs by the NICER properties, as shown in the following table.

Negation
Every case of clausal negation requires an auxiliary verb. Up until Middle English, lexical verbs could also participate in clausal negation, so a clause like Lee eats not apples would have been grammatical, but this is not longer possible in Modern English.

Inversion
Although English is a subject–verb–object language, there are cases where a verb comes before the subject. This is called subject-auxiliary inversion because only auxiliary verbs participate in such constructions. Again, in Middle English, lexical verbs were no different, but in Modern English *eats Lee apples is ungrammatical.

Contraction of not
Most English auxiliary verbs – but no lexical verbs – have a negative -n't morpheme. A small number of defective auxiliaries verbs don't take this morpheme. The auxiliary may has traditionally taken this morpheme, but this is now dated. Am becomes ain't only in non-standard English varieties; otherwise it has no negative form. Also, will has an irregular negative won't instead of the expected *willn't and shall has an irregular negative shan't instead of the expected (and now archaic)  *shalln't.

Ellipsis
In a typical case, an auxiliary verb takes a non-finite clause complement. But this can be elided, as in the example above. Lexical verbs taking a non-finite clause complement don't allow this kind of ellipsis.

Rebuttal
When two people are arguing, the second may deny a statement made by the first by using a stressed too or so. For example, having been told that they didn't do their homework, a child may reply I did too. This kind of rebuttal is impossible with lexical verbs.

The case of to
Various linguists, including Geoff Pullum, Paul Postal and Richard Hudson, and Robert Fiengohas have suggested that to in cases like I want to go (not the preposition to) is a special case of an auxiliary verb with no tensed forms. Rodney Huddleston argues against this position in The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, but Robert Levine counters these proposals. BetteLou Los calls Pullum's arguments that to is an auxiliary verb"compelling".

In terms of the NICER properties, examples like it's fine to not go shows that it allows negation. Inversion, contraction of not, and rebuttal would only apply to tensed forms, and to is argued to have none. It does allows ellipsis though: I don't want to, but rebuttal is not possible.

Auxiliaries as helping verbs
An auxiliary is traditionally understood as a verb that "helps" another verb by adding (only) grammatical information to it. On this basis, English auxiliaries include:
forms of the verb do (do, does, did) when used with another verb to form questions, negation, emphasis, etc. (see do-support);
forms of the verb have (have, has, had) when used to express perfect aspect;
forms of the verb be (am, are, is, was, were) when used to express progressive aspect or passive voice;
the modal verbs, used in a variety of meanings, principally relating to modality.

The following are examples of sentences containing the above types of auxiliary verbs:

Do you want tea? – do is an auxiliary accompanying the verb want, used here to form a question.
He had given his all. – had is an auxiliary accompanying the past participle given, expressing perfect aspect.
We are singing. – are is an auxiliary accompanying the present participle singing, expressing progressive aspect.
It was destroyed. – was is an auxiliary accompanying the past participle destroyed, expressing passive voice.
He can do it now. – can is a modal auxiliary accompanying the verb do.

However, the above understanding of auxiliaries is not the only one in the literature, particularly in the case of forms of the verb be, which may be called auxiliary even when not accompanying another verb. Other approaches to defining auxiliary verbs are described below.

Auxiliaries as verbs with special grammatical behavior
A group of English verbs with certain special grammatical (syntactic) properties distinguishes them from other verbs. This group consists mainly of verbs that are auxiliaries in the above sense – verbs that add purely grammatical meaning to other verbs – and thus some authors use the term "auxiliary verb" to denote precisely the verbs in this group. However, not all enumerations of English auxiliary verbs correspond exactly to the group of verbs having these grammatical properties. This group of verbs may also be referred to by other names, such as "special verbs".

Non-indicative and non-finite forms of the same verbs (when performing the same functions) are usually described as auxiliaries too, even though all or most of the distinctive syntactical properties do not apply to them specifically: be (as infinitive, imperative and subjunctive), being and been; when used in the expression of perfect aspect, have (as infinitive), having and had (as past participle).

Sometimes, non-auxiliary uses of have follow auxiliary syntax, as in Have you any ideas? and I haven't a clue. Other lexical verbs do not do this in modern English, although they did so formerly, and such uses as I know not... can be found in archaic English.

Meaning contribution
Forms of the verbs have and be, used as auxiliaries with a main verb's past participle and present participle respectively, express perfect aspect and progressive aspect. When forms of be are used with the past participle, they express passive voice. It is possible to combine any two or all three of these uses:
The room has been being cleaned for the past three hours.
Here the auxiliaries has, been and being (each followed by the appropriate participle type) combine to express perfect and progressive aspect and passive voice.

The auxiliary do (does, did) does not typically contribute any meaning (semantic or grammatical), except when used to add emphasis to an accompanying verb. This is called the emphatic mood in English: An example would be "I do go to work on time every day" (with intonational stress placed on do), compared to "I go to work on time every day." As an auxiliary, do mainly helps form questions, negations, etc., as described in the article on do-support.

Other auxiliaries – the modal verbs – contribute meaning chiefly in the form of modality, although some of them (particularly will and sometimes shall) express future time reference. Their uses are detailed at English modal verbs, and tables summarizing their principal meaning contributions can be found in the articles Modal verb and Auxiliary verb.

For more details on the uses of auxiliaries to express aspect, mood and time reference, see English clause syntax.

Contracted forms

Contractions are a common feature of English, used frequently in ordinary speech. In written English, contractions are used in mostly informal writing and sometimes in formal writing. They usually involve the elision of a vowel – an apostrophe being inserted in its place in written English – possibly accompanied by other changes. Many of these contractions involve auxiliary verbs and their negations, although not all of these have common contractions, and there are also certain other contractions not involving these verbs.

Contractions were first used in speech during the early 17th century and in writing during the mid 17th century when not lost its stress and tone and formed the contraction -n't. Around the same time, contracted auxiliaries were first used. When it was first used, it was limited in writing to only fiction and drama. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the use of contractions in writing spread outside of fiction such as personal letters, journalism, and descriptive texts.

Certain contractions tend to be restricted to less formal speech and very informal writing, such as John'd or Mary'd for "John/Mary would" (compare the personal pronoun forms I'd and you'd, which are much more likely to be encountered in relatively informal writing). This applies in particular to constructions involving consecutive contractions, such as wouldn't've for "would not have".

Contractions in English are generally not mandatory as in some other languages. It is almost always acceptable to use the uncontracted form, although in speech this may seem overly formal. This is often done for emphasis: I am ready! The uncontracted form of an auxiliary or copula must be used in elliptical sentences where its complement is omitted: Who's ready? I am! (not *I'm!).

Some contractions lead to homophony, which sometimes causes errors in writing. Confusion is particularly common between it's (for "it is/has") and the pronoun possessive its, and sometimes similarly between you're and your. For the confusion of have or -'ve with of (as in "" for would have), see Weak and strong forms in English.

Contractions of the type described here should not be confused with abbreviations, such as Ltd. for "Limited (company)". Contraction-like abbreviations, such as int'l for international, are considered abbreviations as their contracted forms cannot be pronounced in speech. Abbreviations also include acronyms and initialisms.

Negative form of am
Although there is no contraction for am not in standard English, there are certain colloquial or dialectal forms that may fill this role. These may be used in declarative sentences, whose standard form contains I am not, and in questions, with standard form am I not? In the declarative case the standard contraction I'm not is available, but this does not apply in questions, where speakers may feel the need for a negative contraction to form the analog of isn't it, aren't they, etc. (see  below).

The following are sometimes used in place of am not in the cases described above:
The contraction ain't may stand for am not, among its other uses. For details see the next section, and the separate article on ain't.
The word amnae for "am not" exists in Scots, and has been borrowed into Scottish English by many speakers.
The contraction amn't (formed in the regular manner of the other negative contractions, as described above) is a standard contraction of am not in some varieties, mainly Hiberno-English (Irish English) and Scottish English. In Hiberno-English the question form (amn't I?) is used more frequently than the declarative I amn't. (The standard I'm not is available as an alternative to I amn't in both Scottish English and Hiberno-English.) An example appears in Oliver St. John Gogarty's impious poem The Ballad of Japing Jesus: "If anyone thinks that I amn't divine, / He gets no free drinks when I'm making the wine". These lines are quoted in James Joyce's Ulysses, which also contains other examples: "Amn't I with you? Amn't I your girl?" (spoken by Cissy Caffrey to Leopold Bloom in Chapter 15).
The contraction aren't, which in standard English represents are not, is a very common means of filling the "amn't gap" in questions: Aren't I lucky to have you around? Some twentieth-century writers described this usage as "illiterate" or awkward; today, however, it is reported to be "almost universal" among speakers of Standard English. Aren't as a contraction for am not developed from one pronunciation of "an't" (which itself developed in part from "amn't"; see the etymology of "ain't" in the following section). In non-rhotic dialects, "aren't" and this pronunciation of "an't" are homophones, and the spelling "aren't I" began to replace "an't I" in the early part of the 20th century, although examples of "aren't I" for "am I not" appear in the first half of the 19th century, as in "St. Martin's Day", from Holland-tide by Gerald Griffin, published in The Ant in 1827: "aren't I listening; and isn't it only the breeze that's blowing the sheets and halliards about?"

There is therefore no completely satisfactory first-person equivalent to aren't you? and isn't it? in standard English. The grammatical am I not? sounds stilted or affected, while aren't I? is grammatically dubious, and ain't I? is considered substandard. Nonetheless, aren't I? is the solution adopted in practice by most speakers.

Other colloquial contractions
Ain't (described in more detail in the article ain't) is a colloquialism and contraction for "am not", "is not", "was not" "are not", "were not" "has not", and "have not". In some dialects "ain't" is also used as a contraction of "do not", "does not", "did not", "cannot/can not", "could not", "will not", "would not" and "should not". The usage of "ain't" is a perennial subject of controversy in English.

"Ain't" has several antecedents in English, corresponding to the various forms of "to be not" and "to have not".

"An't" (sometimes "a'n't") arose from "am not" (via "amn't") and "are not" almost simultaneously. "An't" first appears in print in the work of English Restoration playwrights. In 1695 "an't" was used as a contraction of "am not", and as early as 1696 "an't" was used to mean "are not". "An't" for "is not" may have developed independently from its use for "am not" and "are not". "Isn't" was sometimes written as "in't" or "en't", which could have changed into "an't". "An't" for "is not" may also have filled a gap as an extension of the already-used conjugations for "to be not".

"An't" with a long "a" sound began to be written as "ain't", which first appears in writing in 1749. By the time "ain't" appeared, "an't" was already being used for "am not", "are not", and "is not". "An't" and "ain't" coexisted as written forms well into the nineteenth century.

"Han't" or "ha'n't", an early contraction for "has not" and "have not", developed from the elision of the "s" of "has not" and the "v" of "have not". "Han't" also appeared in the work of English Restoration playwrights. Much like "an't", "han't" was sometimes pronounced with a long "a", yielding "hain't". With H-dropping, the "h" of "han't" or "hain't" gradually disappeared in most dialects, and became "ain't". "Ain't" as a contraction for "has not"/"have not" appeared in print as early as 1819. As with "an't", "hain't" and "ain't" were found together late into the nineteenth century.

Some other colloquial and dialect contractions are described below:
"Bain't" or "bain't", apparently a contraction of "be not", is found in a number of works employing eye dialect, including J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Uncle Silas. It is also found in a ballad written in Newfoundland dialect.
"Don't" is a standard English contraction of "do not". However, for some speakers "don't" also functions colloquially as a contraction of "does not": Emma? She don't live here anymore. This is considered incorrect in standard English.
"Hain't", in addition to being an antecedent of "ain't", is a contraction of "has not" and "have not" in some dialects of English, such as Appalachian English. It is reminiscent of "hae" ("have") in Lowland Scots. In dialects that retain the distinction between "hain't" and "ain't", "hain't" is used for contractions of "to have not" and "ain't" for contractions of "to be not". In other dialects, "hain't" is used either in place of, or interchangeably with "ain't". "Hain't" is seen for example in Chapter 33 of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: I hain't come back—I hain't been GONE. ("Hain't" is to be distinguished from "haint", a slang term for ghost (i.e., a "haunt"), famously used in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird.)

Contractions and inversion

In cases of subject–auxiliary inversion, particularly in the formation of questions, the negative contractions can remain together as a unit and invert with the subject, thus acting as if they were auxiliary verbs in their own right. For example:
He is going. → Is he going? (regular affirmative question formation)
He isn't going. → Isn't he going? (negative question formation; isn't inverts with he)
One alternative is not to use the contraction, in which case only the verb inverts with the subject, while the not remains in place after it:
He is not going. → Is he not going?
Note that the form with isn't he is no longer a simple contraction of the fuller form (which must be is he not, and not *is not he).

Another alternative to contract the auxiliary with the subject, in which case inversion does not occur at all:
He's not going. → He's not going?
Some more examples:
Why haven't you washed? / Why have you not washed?
Can't you sing? / Can you not sing? (the full form cannot is redivided in case of inversion)
Where wouldn't they look for us? / Where would they not look for us?
The contracted forms of the questions are more usual in informal English. They are commonly found in tag questions. For the possibility of using aren't I (or other dialectal alternatives) in place of the uncontracted am I not, see Contractions representing am not above.

The same phenomenon sometimes occurs in the case of negative inversion:
Not only doesn't he smoke, ... / Not only does he not smoke, ...

Notes

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George and Kenny and U.K. Art Envy
The British art world is incredibly envious of Kenny Goss and George Michael's $200-million collection, which features the work of more than 30 British artists -- among them, says here, Grayson Perry, Gavin Turk, Sarah Lucas, Bridget Riley, Gary Hume and others. The couple also owns one of the largest collections of works by Damien Hirst, best known for selling at record prices dead animals dipped in formaldehyde. Reported the U.K.'s Art Newspaper earlier this summer, the couple "recently purchased the artist's Saint Sebastian, Exquisite Pain, a vitrine of a bullock pierced with arrows and preserved in formaldehyde, from White Cube in London."
Today, Gareth Harris, deputy editor of The Art Newspaper, writes in the British Arts & Book Review that Goss and Michael have assembled "a collection that cash-strapped British institutions such as the Tate could only dream of assembling in such a short time." As for the purchase of the Hirst's Saint Sebastian, Goss tells Harris, "Art is about our experiences in life. Everything we buy has a personal resonance. Saint Sebastian was a gay martyr. This work is almost autobiographical for George." To which Harris responds: "Vanity or philanthropy? The jury is still out." --Robert Wilonsky


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Henry Bradley (1845–1923) was a British philologist and editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Henry Bradley may also refer to:

 Henry Bradley (MP), in 1421 MP for Old Sarum
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Vietnam cancelling veterans' ceremony a 'kick in the guts': Australia
Australian Defence Force personnel carry coffins containing the remains of 33 Australian service personnel and dependents, many of whom were casualties of the Vietnam War, during a repatriation ceremony on June 2, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS
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SYDNEY (AFP) - Vietnam cancelled a long-arranged commemoration ceremony for Australian war veterans on Wednesday (Aug 17) in a move Canberra described as "a kick in the guts" that it is seeking to overturn.
More than 1,000 veterans and their families have travelled to Vietnam to mark the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan on Thursday.
"We have been working with the Vietnamese government for over 18 months for this, towards making sure that this commemoration took place in a low-key, dignified and respectful way," Veterans Affairs Minister Dan Tehan said.
"For us to be given such short notice of the cancellation is, to put it in very frank terms, a kick in the guts," he said from Canberra.
The Battle of Long Tan took place on August 18, 1966 and was the most costly single battle fought by Australian soldiers in the Vietnam War.
A force of just 108 Australian soldiers held off an assault by around 2,000 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese fighters.
Seventeen Australians were killed in action and 25 wounded, one of whom later died from his injuries while some 250 Vietnamese fighters perished.
Tehan said he was bitterly disappointed at the decision which he said "should not have occurred".
"My hope is that the Vietnamese government will overturn it," he said, adding that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was hoping to speak to his Vietnamese counterpart on the issue.
As commemorations marking Long Tan began in Australia, Tehan said Canberra had gone out of its way to ensure the Vietnam event was low-key.
"We understand that there are sensitivities still in Vietnam," he told reporters.
Tehan said it appeared the decision was based simply on the sensitivities relating to Long Tan, and did not relate to any other aspect of the relationship between Canberra and Hanoi.
Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs said while the Vietnamese authorities had cancelled the commemoration ceremony for Vietnam Veteran's Day at the Long Tan Cross site on August 18, private access to the site may still be permitted.
Vietnamese authorities in both Hanoi and southern Phuoc Tuy province, where the battle took place, did not respond to requests for comment.
Liam Cochrane, an Austrlaian reporter with ABC covering the anniversary, said Vietnamese police were stopping people accessing a memorial cross on the battlefield on Wednesday.
Australian veteran Peter Taylor, who served in Vietnam in 1969-70 after the Battle of Long Tan and who organises battlefield tours in the region, said the decision came as a shock.
"We've only just found out," he told AFP by phone. "I just can't believe it."
"We do commemorations every year. There are about a thousand Australians who have come out for this one. There's never been a problem before so we're not sure what has happened." He said there was a planned gala dinner on Thursday night for about 600 people, including up to 80 Vietnamese veterans of the battle.
"It's not just the Aussies, there are lots of Vietnamese who come out for these ceremonies. We have a very good relationship with them."