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Bill Geitner
Title: Head Men's Basketball Coach
Email: geitnerw@easternct.edu
Year: 17th Season / 275-171
Previous College: Hamilton College '87
As his 16th season unfolded in 2017/18, Bill Geitner moved to the head of the class in terms of length of service by a head coach in the 78-year history of the men's basketball program.
Already having coached and won more games than any of the previous nine coaches prior to the 2017/18 season, Geitner passed the late, legendary Francis E. Geissler in terms of years coached when the Warriors tipped off against Dean College in the opening round of the Ted Coghlin Memorial Tournament at WPI.
In addition to having coached more games overall than any other head coach in program history, Geitner has coached well over half (224 of 412) of the team's regular-season games in the 32-year history of the Little East Conference. His regular-season (143) and post-season (15) win totals, and regular-season (6) and tournament (3) titles in Little East play also top the all-time Eastern coaching chart.
Eastern has won five straight LEC regular-season titles -- the most since UMass Dartmouth claimed its seventh in a row in 1997/98. With an LEC tournament title in 2018/19, Eastern would match UMass Dartmouth (1993-95) as the only institution to win as many as three straight men's titles.
In 2017/18, Geitner was voted LEC Coach-of-the-Year for the sixth time in the last nine seasons after leading the Warriors to a 13-1 conference regular-season mark -- their fourth season of two or less conference regular-season losses in the last six seasons. Last year's team set a program record with 26 victories and its winning percentage of 86.7 was the highest since 1942/43.
In the last nine years, Eastern has won 197 games with a 74.1 winning percentage, averaging 21.9 victories per season. The Warriors have won at least 20 games in eight of those nine seasons and have qualified for post-season play eight times.
In the LEC regular season, Eastern is 95-17 (84.8) over the last nine years, winning at least ten of 14 games each year. In those nine years, Eastern has averaged 10.6 wins in a 14-game season. In one three-year stretch, the Warriors were 39-3 in LEC regular-season play and posted the only perfect 14-0 season since the conference went to a 14-game format in 1997/98. The Warriors have gone unbeaten at home in conference regular-season play the last five seasons and have won 38 LEC regular-season home games in a row over the last six years.
In 2016/17, the Warriors re-gained the 20-win plateau (21-9) after a brief one-year absence. En route to that plateau, Geitner led the Warriors to their seventh 20-win season in eight years, their fourth straight LEC regular-season title (fifth in six years), second LEC tournament title under his watch, and seventh post-season appearance in eight years. In 2016/17, the Warriors never lost as many as two straight games once the calendar turned to December, cobbled together a nine-game win streak at mid-season, and came from 13 points back to trim Keene State College, 72-70, in the LEC tournament championship game at Geissler Gym.
Geitner, the tenth coach in program history, took over as the program's winningest coach with his second win of 2014/15, which occured when the Warriors won their own Eastern Tip-Off Tournament title with a 74-53 win over Colby College. Two weeks later, Geitner moved to the head of Eastern's all-time coaching class in games coached, when the Warriors won the University of Rochester Thanksgiving Invitational in the eighth game of the season, the 339th in Geitner's Eastern coaching career.
Until 2009/10, the program had managed only two seasons of at least 20 victories in its history. That year, Geitner guided the Warriors to the first of six straight 20-win campaigns.
In 2011/12, Geitner performed a feat that had not been done with the men's basketball program in nearly 20 years: he led the Warriors to two NCAA tournament victories and a berth in the NCAA Division III Sweet 16. After winning the program's first Little East Conference tournament title since 2000, Geitner orchestrated a run through the NCAA tournament which included a regional championship with victories over Medaille College and in double overtime, a buzzer-beating triumph over host SUNY Oswego.
In 2012/13, even though the Warriors attained the 20-win plateau for the fourth straight season (22-8) , they were unable to reach that monumental feat of the previous season. Instead, they "settled" for the next best thing by completing an unprecedented run through the ECAC New England Tournament that resulted in the program's first championship in that tournament. Moreover, it was the University's first ECAC title of any sorts in 11 years -- first by a men's program in 39 seasons.
For his then-program-record 24-win season in 2011/12, Geitner was named NABC Northeast Region and LEC Coach-of-the-Year. With Eastern picked for a share of fourth in the LEC pre-season poll, Geitner led the Warriors to their first regular-season conference title in the 26-year history of the championship and a program-record (to that point) 11 wins in 14 conference contests. The program's overall 80.0 winning percentage was the program's highest since 1969/70.
In 2010/11, Geitner directed the club to a second straight 20-win season and a second straight No. 1 seed in the ECAC tournament. The 21 wins in 2010/11 tied the program season record for wins, but stood up for less than a year.
In 2009/10, Geitner enjoyed a breakthrough season with the program, leading the Warriors to the third 20-win season in program' history and the No.1 seed in the ECAC New England Division III Tournament.
The Fullton, NY native was named the tenth head coach in Eastern Connecticut State University men's basketball history in the summer of 2002.
In his first season at Eastern in 2002/03, Geitner inherited only six letterwinners and no seniors, but the Warriors came within a bucket of upsetting third-seeded Keene State College on its home court in the opening round of the LEC tournament. Picked to finish sixth in the conference coaches' pre-season poll prior to his second season, Eastern shared third place, winning eight of 14 regular-season conference games. On the final day of the regular season last year, Eastern avenged an earlier double-digit loss to Rhode Island College to shock the eventual LEC tournament champion.
Before accepting his current assignment, Geitner had been an assistant at five different institutions, most recently at Division I Loyola College in Maryland.
While Geitner has coached at all three college levels, he spent nine years as an assistant coach at three Division III institutions after lettering four seasons at Division III Hamilton College in Clinton, NY, from 1983 through 1987."At heart, I'm a Division III person," says Geitner, whose Division III coaching resume includes six years (1991-97) at the University of Rochester, NY, two (1989-91) at Hamilton, and one (1988-89) at Hobart College in Geneva, NY. "I played at the Division III level and enjoyed the atmosphere. I can relate to student-athletes at that level, because I've gone through what they're being asked to go through."
Geitner holds a B.A. in Government from Hamilton and earned his M.S. in Administration from the University of Rochester in 1997.
Geitner and wife Sheri (Harrod) have two children, Annika Christine, 18, and Brian Emil,16, and reside in Tolland.
EASTERN MEN'S BASKETBALL IN 16 YEARS UNDER HEAD COACH BILL GEITNER
ALL LEC
R- S
LEC Trnmt
Year GP W L Pct. W L Place Seed W L Result
2017/18# 30 26 4 .867 13 1 1st 1st 3 0 CHAMPION
2015/16 27 18 9 .667 11 3 1st 1st 1 1 L, Semis
2014/15# 28 22 6 .786 13 1 1st 1st 1 1 L, Semis
2013/14# 30 23 7 .767 14 0 1st 1st 1 1 L, Final
2012/13+$ 30 22 8 .733 12 2 2nd 2nd 1 1 L,Semis
2010/11+ 31 21 10 .677 10 4 3rd 3rd 2 1 L, Final
2009/10+ 30 20 10 .667 9 5 t-2nd 3rd 1 1 L, Semis
2008/09 26 12 14 .462 6 8 t-5th 5th 0 1 L,1st Round
2006/07 26 15 11 .577 7 7 5th 5th 0 1 L,1st Round
2005/06 26 9 17 .346 3 11 t-7th 7th 0 1 L,1st Round
2003/04 26 14 12 .540 8 6 t-3rd 3rd 0 1 L,1st Round
2002/03 26 7 19 .270 5 9 t-5th 6th 0 1 L,1st Round
275 171 .617 143
.638 15
#-NCAA tournament +-ECAC tournament ($-champion)
Sat, 02/23 | Men's Basketball at Keene St. L, 72-69 (Final) RC | BX | V
Fri, 02/22 | Men's Basketball vs. Mass.-Dartmouth W, 79-74 (Final) RC | BX | R | V
Wed, 02/13 | Men's Basketball at Castleton W, 99-60 (Final) RC | BX | V
Sat, 02/09 | Men's Basketball vs. Western Conn. St. W, 92-76 (Final) RC | BX | V


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Jenkins v. Immedia, Inc.
FRANKLYN A. JENKINS, Plaintiff,
IMMEDIA, INC., a Minnesota corporation, Defendant. Judge Christine M. Arguello
ORDER DENYING MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT
Christine M. Arguello, United States District Judge.
Before the Court are two motions: Plaintiff Franklyn Jenkin's Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. # 306) and Defendant Immedia, Inc.'s Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. # 319). Having thoroughly reviewed the briefing, pertinent exhibits, and applicable law, the Court denies both motions.
This Court recited the factual and procedural background of this dispute in its October 27, 2017 Order Granting Plaintiff's Motion for Reconsideration (Doc. # 268), which is incorporated herein. Accordingly, this Order will reiterate only what is necessary to address the competing Motions for Summary Judgment.[1]
Plaintiff asserts five claims against Defendant: (1) negligence; (2) failure to warn; (3) negligence per se; (4) negligent misrepresentation; and (5) vicarious liability. (Doc. # 134 at 20-27.) On October 1, 2018, Plaintiff filed his Motion for Summary Judgment "As to Liability." (Doc. # 306.) Plaintiff argues that he is entitled to a legal ruling by the Court that Defendant had and undertook to assume a duty of care and that such a ruling "resolve[s] the issue of [Defendant's] tort liability." (Id. at 1.) It appears to the Court that Plaintiff only seeks summary judgment on his negligence claim; he only identifies the elements of that claim and does not refer to his other claims against Defendant. See (id. at 6.) Defendant responded in opposition to Plaintiff's summary judgment motion on November 15, 2018, contending that "Plaintiff bore the duty to ensure that the load on his trailer was sufficiently secured." (Doc. # 320 at 1.) Plaintiff replied on November 29, 2016. (Doc. # 326.)
Defendant filed its Motion for Summary Judgment on November 15, 2018. (Doc. # 319.) Defendant seeks summary on all the claims, which "all require a duty, " and it disputes "the existence of a duty" and causation. (Id. at 2-3.) Plaintiff filed his Response on November 29, 2018, first asking the Court to strike Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment as an improper second summary judgment motion and then arguing that Minnesota law gave rise to Defendant's duties. See generally (id.) Defendant replied in support of its Motion for Summary Judgment on December 13, 2018.
II. MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT
Summary judgment is warranted when the movant shows that there is no genuine dispute as to any material fact and the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. Turnkey Sols. Corp. v. Hewlett Packard Enter. Co., No. 15-cv-01541-CMA-CBS, 2017 WL 3425140, at *2 (D. Colo. Aug. 9, 2017). A fact is "material" if it is essential to the proper disposition of the claim under the relevant substantive law. Id. A -dispute is "genuine" if the evidence is such that it might lead a reasonable jury to return a verdict for the nonmoving party. Id. When reviewing motions for summary judgment, a court must view the evidence in the light most favorable to the non-moving party. Id. However, conclusory statements based merely on conjecture, speculation, or subjective belief do not constitute competent summary judgment evidence. Id.
Upon review of the parties' filings and the evidence referenced therein, the Court determines that genuine issues of material fact preclude the Court from entering summary judgment in favor of either party on the existence of a duty. In short, whether Defendant owed a duty of care to Plaintiff depends on the role Defendant performed in the loading and unloading of the cargo. See Spence v. ESAB Group, Inc., 623 F.3d 212, 219 (3rd Cir. 2010). The parties vociferously dispute Defendant's involvement in the loading and unloading of the cargo. For example, Plaintiff argues in his Motion for Summary Judgment that Defendant's "affirmative undertakings, " such as signing the Bill of Lading, "not packaging the tables or removing the wheels, " and "allowing unloading in violation of its own procedures, " imposed on Defendant a duty to act with reasonable care. (Doc. # 306 at 8-9.) In response to that argument, Defendant contends that there is no evidence the Bill of Lading played into Plaintiffs decision-making at the time the cargo was loaded onto his trailer, that it (Defendant) was not involved with packaging the tables or developing a plan to package the tables, and that its internal policies and procedures cited by Plaintiff did not apply to the circumstances at hand. (Doc. # 320 at 16-18.) Accordingly, neither party is entitled to summary judgment on the existence of a duty.
For the foregoing reasons, the Court ORDERS as follows:
1. Plaintiffs Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. # 306) is ...

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» Photos Taken on 17 May 1943
B-17F "Mary Ruth - Memories of Mobile" and the 401st Bomb Squadron flying toward the German U-boat pens at Lorient, France, May 17 1943. This photo was taken from B-17 "Memphis Belle" on her last combat sortie. Cruiser USS Portland as seen off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California after overhaul, 17 May 1943. German woman being awarded the Cross of Honor of the German Mother, 17 May 1943; note League of German Girls members present Stage singer Josephine Baker singing the American national anthem before an African-American US Army band directed by Technical Sergeant Frank W. Weiss, Municipal Theater, Oran, Algeria, 17 May 1943
US Army anti-aircraft gun crew manning their 3-inch M3 AA gun at New Fighter Strip, Dobodura, New Guinea, 17 May 1943
Claire Chennault at his desk with other officers, 1940s
"Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue."
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, 16 Mar 1945


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Sound Frame Equips Lord of the Drinks Kolkata with JBL Professional Networked Audio System
Published 19th October, 2020
Lord of the Drinks' Kolkata, outfitted with a complete HARMAN Professional audio system by Sound Frame
Sound Frame has outfitted Lord of the Drinks' Kolkata with a complete HARMAN Professional audio system to provide exceptional audio quality and coverage for patrons.
With 12 outlets across India, Lord of the Drinks is one of the most highly rated nightclubs in the Country. Located in the South City Mall, Lord of the Drinks Kolkata is a new fine dining lounge and bar that becomes a high-energy nightclub in the evenings. With ceilings stretching over 24 feet above its patrons, it's the tallest bar in Kolkata. Lord of the Drinks hired Sound Frame to install a state-of-the-art sound system that wouldn't distract from the aesthetics of the elegant design.
It was imperative that Sound Frame worked around the height of the space as well as an elevated DJ booth and bar seating. They also had to ensure that the sound system would not obstruct important decorative elements on the walls, a request from the designer of the space. To accomplish this, Sound Frame worked within the space restrictions and negotiated with the Lord of the Drinks' designer to situate the sound system. They were able to carve out space in the smoke lounge for the main front of house subwoofers and loudspeakers were set in place via a steel-rope suspension method rather than traditional wall mounts.
Four AM7215/95 loudspeakers provide even, balanced coverage throughout the main dining area. Two ASB6128 subwoofers provide additional low-end support for powerful bass. Two EON615/230 PA speakers were selected for their portable size and Bluetooth control
"The client requested a versatile solution that could deliver superior sound through the venue," said Milind Raorane, Electro-Acoustic Design Consultant, Sound Frame. "The JBL Professional networked audio system we installed ensures class-leading tonal quality, power response and sustainability. This dynamic setup provides the clarity and volume required in full-house scenarios."
Sound Frame installed four AM7215/95 loudspeakers to provide even, balanced coverage throughout the main dining area. Two ASB6128 subwoofers provide additional low-end support for powerful bass. Two EON615/230 PA speakers were selected for their portable size and Bluetooth control. A Crown-DCI Amplification system consisting of two GDCI4X1250N-U-IN power amplifiers and one GDCI2X2400N-U-IN DriveCore series amplifier, chosen for their versatility and compact size, was also installed. These were tuned with a BSS-BLU100 DSP 12x8 signal processor with BLU link and a DBX260V Drive Rack loudspeaker management system.
"We were initially going to have another solution," said Amit Bajoria, Owner, Lord of the Drinks Kolkata. "However, we then met the team from HARMAN Professional Solutions who suggested the new JBL Professional AE Series speakers, which we ultimately chose. I am very happy with the sound system and its performance. We get loud and clear output from the speakers, and the subwoofers are amazing."


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package org.onlab.packet.dhcp;

import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
import org.onlab.packet.DHCP6;
import org.onlab.packet.DeserializationException;
import org.onlab.packet.Deserializer;

import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Objects;

/**
 * DHCPv6 Identity Association for Prefix Delegation Option.
 * Based on RFC-3633
 */
public final class Dhcp6IaPdOption extends Dhcp6Option {
    public static final int DEFAULT_LEN = 12;
    private int iaId;
    private int t1;
    private int t2;
    private List<Dhcp6Option> options;

    @Override
    public short getCode() {
        return DHCP6.OptionCode.IA_PD.value();
    }

    @Override
    public short getLength() {
        return (short) (DEFAULT_LEN + options.stream()
                        .mapToInt(opt -> (int) opt.getLength() + Dhcp6Option.DEFAULT_LEN)
                        .sum());

    }

    /**
     * Gets Identity Association ID.
     * The unique identifier for this IA_PD; the IAID must
     * be unique among the identifiers for all of this
     * requesting router's IA_PDs.
     *
     * @return the Identity Association ID
     */
    public int getIaId() {
        return iaId;
    }

    /**
     * Sets Identity Association ID.
     *
     * @param iaId the Identity Association ID.
     */
    public void setIaId(int iaId) {
        this.iaId = iaId;
    }

    /**
     * Gets time 1.
     * The time at which the requesting router should
     * contact the delegating router from which the
     * prefixes in the IA_PD were obtained to extend the
     * lifetimes of the prefixes delegated to the IA_PD;
     * T1 is a time duration relative to the current time
     * expressed in units of seconds.
     *
     * @return the value of time 1
     */
    public int getT1() {
        return t1;
    }

    /**
     * Sets time 1.
     *
     * @param t1 the value of time 1
     */
    public void setT1(int t1) {
        this.t1 = t1;
    }

    /**
     * Gets time 2.
     * The time at which the requesting router should
     * contact any available delegating router to extend
     * the lifetimes of the prefixes assigned to the
     * IA_PD; T2 is a time duration relative to the
     * current time expressed in units of seconds.
     *
     * @return the value of time 2
     */
    public int getT2() {
        return t2;
    }

    /**
     * Sets time 2.
     *
     * @param t2 the value of time 2
     */
    public void setT2(int t2) {
        this.t2 = t2;
    }

    /**
     * Gets sub-options.
     *
     * @return sub-options of this option
     */
    public List<Dhcp6Option> getOptions() {
        return options;
    }

    /**
     * Sets sub-options.
     *
     * @param options the sub-options of this option
     */
    public void setOptions(List<Dhcp6Option> options) {
        this.options = options;
    }

    /**
     * Default constructor.
     */
    public Dhcp6IaPdOption() {
    }

    /**
     * Constructs a DHCPv6 IA PD option with DHCPv6 option.
     *
     * @param dhcp6Option the DHCPv6 option
     */
    public Dhcp6IaPdOption(Dhcp6Option dhcp6Option) {
        super(dhcp6Option);
    }

    /**
     * Gets deserializer.
     *
     * @return the deserializer
     */
    public static Deserializer<Dhcp6Option> deserializer() {
        return (data, offset, length) -> {
            Dhcp6Option dhcp6Option =
                    Dhcp6Option.deserializer().deserialize(data, offset, length);
            if (dhcp6Option.getLength() < DEFAULT_LEN) {
                throw new DeserializationException("Invalid IA PD option data");
            }
            Dhcp6IaPdOption iaPdOption = new Dhcp6IaPdOption(dhcp6Option);
            byte[] optionData = iaPdOption.getData();
            ByteBuffer bb = ByteBuffer.wrap(optionData);
            iaPdOption.iaId = bb.getInt();
            iaPdOption.t1 = bb.getInt();
            iaPdOption.t2 = bb.getInt();

            iaPdOption.options = Lists.newArrayList();
            while (bb.remaining() >= Dhcp6Option.DEFAULT_LEN) {
                Dhcp6Option option;
                ByteBuffer optByteBuffer = ByteBuffer.wrap(optionData,
                                                           bb.position(),
                                                           optionData.length - bb.position());
                short code = optByteBuffer.getShort();
                short len = optByteBuffer.getShort();
                int optLen = UNSIGNED_SHORT_MASK & len;
                byte[] subOptData = new byte[Dhcp6Option.DEFAULT_LEN + optLen];
                bb.get(subOptData);

                // TODO: put more sub-options?
                if (code == DHCP6.OptionCode.IAPREFIX.value()) {
                    option = Dhcp6IaPrefixOption.deserializer()
                            .deserialize(subOptData, 0, subOptData.length);
                } else {
                    option = Dhcp6Option.deserializer()
                            .deserialize(subOptData, 0, subOptData.length);
                }
                iaPdOption.options.add(option);
            }
            return iaPdOption;
        };
    }

    @Override
    public byte[] serialize() {
        int payloadLen = DEFAULT_LEN + options.stream()
                .mapToInt(opt -> (int) opt.getLength() + Dhcp6Option.DEFAULT_LEN)
                .sum();
        int len = Dhcp6Option.DEFAULT_LEN + payloadLen;
        ByteBuffer bb = ByteBuffer.allocate(len);
        bb.putShort(DHCP6.OptionCode.IA_PD.value());
        bb.putShort((short) payloadLen);
        bb.putInt(iaId);
        bb.putInt(t1);
        bb.putInt(t2);

        options.stream().map(Dhcp6Option::serialize).forEach(bb::put);
        return bb.array();
    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
        return 31 * super.hashCode() + Objects.hash(iaId, t1, t2, options);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(Object obj) {
        if (this == obj) {
            return true;
        }
        if (obj == null || getClass() != obj.getClass()) {
            return false;
        }
        if (!super.equals(obj)) {
            return false;
        }
        final Dhcp6IaPdOption other = (Dhcp6IaPdOption) obj;
        return Objects.equals(this.iaId, other.iaId)
                && Objects.equals(this.t1, other.t1)
                && Objects.equals(this.t2, other.t2)
                && Objects.equals(this.options, other.options);
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return getToStringHelper()
                .add("iaId", iaId)
                .add("t1", t1)
                .add("t2", t2)
                .add("options", options)
                .toString();
    }
}

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Archive for british tv
Downtown Abbey
Posted in Americans watching British TV, British Shows on American TV with tags bates, bbc, bleak house, brideshead revisited, british tv, coronation street, dallas, downton abbey, eastenders, groucho marx, heartbeat, itv, jersey shore, maggie smith, oliver hardy, pbs, period drama, rebecca, risk, the royal, upstairs downstairs on July 24, 2012 by Tom Steward
No wonder Americans think we still live in castles. Thanks to one of Britain's most popular TV exports to America, the nation would be forgiven for assuming that the downtown areas of our cities look like the grounds of stately homes. Being as British and American accents differ, or that we 'have an accent' as I'm more readily informed here, G and I'm sure others were led to believe that the 'Downton' in Downton Abbey was not a place but a direction. The downtowns of US cities are comparable to the restaurant, nightlife and shopping quarters of UK city centres and high streets. If it really was Downtown Abbey, Central London would be some sort of class-system role-play theme park where in order to get lunch visitors would have to adorn Edwardian clothing playing either the aristocracy or servants and compete to see which side could repress more of their pasts.
Carson da Butler
Downton is in fact the fictional Yorkshire-based setting of Julian Fellowes' (the egg-shaped man who apologises for aristocratic misdeeds on UK talk shows) and Gareth Neame's ITV Sunday-night period drama series Downton Abbey. It's clear from very early on that things tend to come to Downton rather than the other way around; people, cars, war, Spanish flu. It seems that 1912 to 1919 in British history was just people arriving at doors. Unlike most geographically-fixed locations for TV shows, like Jersey Shore,which seem able to go virtually anywhere in the world, DA probably won't venture further than that the post office in the village where the servants receive blackmail letters. When war 'came to Downton Abbey' it went by so fast that it seemed to have actually been fought in the grounds of the building, like a game of Risk gone awry.
War has come to Downton Abbey
One of the most pleasing aspects of the programme is that it is unashamedly soap opera. The BBC's adaptation of Dickens' Bleak House in 2005 tried to show viewers how period drama could work as soap opera by flagging up similarities between serialised 19th Century novels and modern-day soaps, putting each episode on twice-weekly like Eastenders or Coronation Street. DAonly runs at 8 or 9 episodes per season but its eccentric storylines delivered in intimate conversations between paired characters which then cyclically wind around a single location like a tape spool leave a distinctly soapy residue. It seems it's not just the form but the content of soap opera that works in period costume. G likens DA to the 'Telenovela', continuing dramas on TV in Latin American countries which have much of the melodrama and contrivance of soaps but have shorter runs that end definitively.
Just like Downton
For lovers of classic British TV, movies and books there's not much new here. At times it feels like an infomercial for a Greatest Hits album of historical great house stories-isn't this Upstairs Downstairs?-that's just Mrs Danvers from Rebecca-didn't they do that in Brideshead Revisited?-but not available in the shops, just illegal download in the US. For many in America, however, DA seemed new and different. Maybe it was the absence of a certain stuffiness in British period drama that can be off-putting to lay viewers. DA in contrast is jokey, emotionally engaging and accessible. Perhaps it taps into the same demand for stories of wealth and status that brought Dallas back to TV, with added topical pleasures of seeing the rich dragged into the mud of reality through war, inter-class marriage and scandal. Or could it be that Americans are more comfortable with us as things of the past?
Whatever the source of DA's appeal, it has a novelty currency in the US that British TV viewers wouldn't necessarily see. Sunday-night, period-set serials are ten-a-penny/a dime-a-dozen (delete as appropriate) in the UK and I'd say Downton Abbey succeeds by virtue of the quality of its performances, dialogue and loving ridiculousness of storyline which sets it apart from never-classic fare like 60s-set rural emergency services dramas Heartbeat and The Royal. Propping up the first two qualities with a cane she'd-use-if-she-had-to is Maggie Smith's Dowager Countess. Maggie may be bribing the script editor as she's been given enough witticisms, barbs, jibes, punchlines and put-downs to make Groucho Marx seem politely reserved, delivering them with a 'who me' innocence that befits the roundest eyes in showbusiness. As a measure of the third there is Bates (Brendan Coyle), the unluckiest man to have lived in the existence of the world, dinosaurs inclusive. With a slight shift in tone, he could be Oliver Hardy.
Watching Telly with Americans
Posted in American TV (General), American TV Shows, Americans watching British TV with tags americans watching british tv, bbc, british tv, byker grove, channel 4, come dine with me, geordie shore, itv, itv2, jersey shore, keeping up with the kardashians, return to oz, simon cowell, the apprentice, the real housewives of orange county, the x-factor, uk tv shows, worzel gummidge on August 11, 2011 by Tom Steward
Over the past few weeks I've had a taste of my own media medicine. I've been watching British TV with an American and absorbing rather than catapulting those oh-so-clever anthropological field notes about the bizarre idiosyncracies of a national TV culture. And what's even more humbling is that I've been doing it with someone far, far better at it and more succinctly expressive than me (see-that sentence only needed one 'far'). G stayed with me in July and from time to time we embarked on the daunting prospect of sitting down to watch British TV. I say 'daunting' because I want G to move here next year, and it felt like the onscreen lack of Real Housewives after their most recent divorces and Kardashians sporting the previous week's surgical alterations might set back the emigration propaganda campaign several ages. G found a lot of British culture in catch-up mode, especially when it came to fashion, so finding programmes on TV we had watched together in the states months before weren't too much of a surprise for her, though it was pleasantly for me. I thought we were at least three or four years behind. Turns out we are on the meat (great drama, comedy and reality) but not on the gristle (celeb fucking and shitcoms)-thanks ITV2!
Keeping up with the Kardashians...barely.
But we had a bigger problem than an out-of-date hat. British TV was 'weird', 'so weird' and 'weird'. For G, it was as if Britons had collectively decided to substitute a working TV set in the corner of the room for a 19th Century ventriloquist dummy with its mouth sprung to repeatedly gawp the word 'Mummy'. I vigorously protested this as a case of cultural alienation but didn't exactly have the backing of the TV stations themselves, who throughout the month defected to G's side by broadcasting footage of old men arguing with Simon Cowell about the existence of a Worzel Gummidge musical before Pertwee-lisping through pop hits or swapping their tried-and-tested flagship mobile spectacle reality shows for season finales where half, quarter and minus wits get berated in four rooms by several regional accents. Round One to G.
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And Round Two to her as well. It was through G that I realised something that had never before occurred to me; that American TV, even the rough stuff, is by and large far more innocent and sanitary (I mean this more than sanitized-you'll see why when I tell you what show made me realise) than British TV. What was the breakthrough programme? Why-eye, Geordie Shore, the Return-to-Oz style dark sequel to Byker Grove. An identically-designed British re-make of MTV reality hit Jersey Shore, it eschews the likeably harmless original premise of laughing at mutantly muscled, beboobed and tanned buffoons for an exponentially grotty and lewd indoor dogging video and creepily crass cock-size discussion show. All the lovably hare-brained schemes and dopey catchphrases of the original sunk sewage-like into ruthless dirty-dicks campaigns of professional fornication and fuck-punctuated verbal cesspools. I initially thought this was just censorship differences but it's also about our predilections as a nation for sleazy Sodom-and-Gomorrah docs set in seventh circles like Ibiza and late-night town centres. Why we want these on TV baffles me just as much as why we want them in reality. G said all that in one word: 'nasty'.
Byker Grove was never like this...
Some of G's confusion derived from how British TV was scheduled and broken down. She found the advert breaks interminably long, which at first I refused to accept from an American, until I realised that US TV commercial interludes are short but frequent, and just because UK TV is covertly irritating in its spread of adverts doesn't mean it's any better, worse in its sneakiness possibly. US TV timings are rigorously routinised-all programmes begin on an hour or half-hour. We're far more casual with our timings, at least on terrestrial TV-a 10-minute documentary on bees here, a 10 no 12 minute news spot there, oh look, there's an independently-made short film that's exactly 3 minutes long for some reason. I can see how it would irritate someone brought up on regimented TV time, but I was left feeling rather proud of our irregular randomness.
There were some notable successes. G was an instant addict of Come Dine with Me, proving that it is a faultless universal formula (something like 'Idiot + House + Cooking x4=Compulsive Sneering') and that the world is brought together by its response to the show's contestants with the global chant 'Where do they get these people?'.
U.S. Auto Know Better (Volume 2)
Posted in British Shows on American TV with tags american tv, british tv, cars, diagnosis murder, dick van dyke, fifth gear, mexico, nigel bruce, tijuana, top gear on March 29, 2011 by Tom Steward
While you're enjoying the not-at-all tiresome spectacle of Dick Van Dyke dicking (or dyking) around on roller-skates as part of a major police murder investigation which he has no right to be involved in anyway, I thought I'd do a follow-up to my last blog about Top Gear. This one contains hard evidence of how this 'Series of Unfortunate Bellends' catches up with you when you're an Englishman in the New World, in places you would never possibly expect. It also shows that Top Gear can be prime cultural capital to have in certain situations befacing a border-crossing Briton in and around the US, but only if used judiciously. To the best of my recollection, this is a transcript of a conversation between me and an agent at the border between the Mexico and the USA, having just come back from Tijuana:
(Tom walks up to checkpoint, passport in hand. Agent checks passport)
Agent: So, Top Gear or Fifth Gear?
Tom: Errr, hum, pum, well. Top Gear, I suppose.
Agent: Ah, you like the comedy, huh?
Tom: It's certainly got that.
Despite my surprise, which evidently turned me into some sort of bumbling British huffer-puffer character in a 40s film played by Nigel Bruce, I couldn't believe my luck. Instead of tricksy questions about where I'd been, what I'd done, and why the hell I was bothering them, I was being asked about television, something which I have professional expertise in. But this was a double-edged sword. I was about to get ahead of myself.
(Agent winds up 'interview'. Tom begins to shuffle away)
Tom: They're changing Top Gear, you know.
Agent: Visibly Alarmed What?!
Tom: They think it's gotten too comic, so they'll be less sitcom stuff in it.
Agent: Oh no.
At this point, I'm cursing my own stupidity. Here I had a border agent in the palm of my hand for merely being from the same country as 'When Bigots Stage Accidents' and I blow it! Couldn't just leave it at a few innocuous exchanges, could I? No, I had to provide a production tidbit to bow out on, and then risk an angry border agent who's just lost his favourite TV show shooting the messenger with extreme prejudice by detaining me forever. He didn't, and I was on my way. But I'm sure the blow was lightened for him somewhat when this happened mere weeks later:
U.S. Auto Know Better
Posted in British Shows on American TV with tags american tv, bbc, benny hill, bfi, british tv, clarkson books, fox news, james may, jeremy clarkson, kirk and spock, richard hammond, spock and bones, terry and june, the cannonball run, top gear, top gear usa on March 25, 2011 by Tom Steward
There's a British show you can't avoid when watching TV with Americans, and it's not for want of trying. Not only is it mis-representing what British telly is all about, it's also drastically underselling us as a people. The American's televisual window into the British psyche used to be Benny Hill, where Britons were shown to be highly sexist though only moderately successful at defiling women but prepared to go that extra mile to make it happen. Now we're seen the world over for a whole host of bigotries, thanks to this programme, and for an array of approaches to bigotry. Yes, I'm talking about Top Gear (or 'I've got a car, have you got a car?' which I have renamed it in honour of the two lines that can substitute for any dialogue in the show). This car review programme has been around on British TV since the late 1970s, but has in the last decade splintered injudiciously into a barn-based talk show, a sub-Terry and June sitcom of endless campsite misunderstandings, and a version of The Cannonball Run without the debonair wit. Whereas host Jeremy Clarkson once saved his idioctavely (somewhere between idiotic and provocative) opinions on politics and news for column inches, he now puts them more and more in the show, and has even recruited a couple of crapprentices, James May and Richard Hammond, to one day be as hateful to the world as he is.
Disgracefully, Top Gear is consistently the most popular and beloved programme on British screens, and has proved to be the BBC's most profitable export around the globe, particularly in the US market. What is even more baffling about the show's international popularity is that Clarkson, May and Hammond (the Kirk, Spock and Bones of prejudice) are majorly responsible for its success. American audiences prefer to see the UK hosts rather than having a native re-make, which would normally be how to translate it overseas. The British establishment of TV academics seem resolved to resist explaining the global popularity of Top Gear. At a conference two years ago, a member of the editorial board for the 'BFI TV Classics' book range said outright that they would not commission a monograph on the show because 'we didn't want another book about Jeremy Clarkson'. Now I wouldn't want to feed into Clarkson's publishing empire either, but finding out what makes Top Gear so coveted might tell us something about what viewers are like across different nationalities, if only to force us to recognise our bad habits and change them immediately.
People wanted more than one volume...look at yourselves!
But there's a few things I've learnt from talking to Americans about Top Gear that helped me to understand its appeal in the US a little more. While watching the show with a friend in San Francisco, I asked why Americans were still so taken with the BBC version and remained lukewarm towards Top Gear USA, the US re-make. My friend told me she liked how the programme lambasted some of the major car companies in the US, and thought that this would be impossible to do on a US network show, where the same companies would most likely provide the advertising consideration. So maybe the cult of Clarkson, May and Hammond is not solely responsible for its success in the US. Maybe it's also the vicarious and anarchic thrill of a programme breaking free of the dependence of advertising and loyalty to sponsors which has characterised American television since the 1950s. My friend openly admitted to finding the slapdick (my term) comedy of the three hosts hilarious, commenting that 'we don't have people like Clarkson on American TV'. 'Fox News' I thought, but didn't say.
Nevertheless, the hosts' freedom from corporate affiliations goes against an industry where hosts, especially on daytime TV, will suddenly starting doing a promotional spot in the middle of the show. Because it so freely flouts the commercial conventions of American television, and the presenters challenge the notion of an US TV host as a corporate spokesman, I can see how the programme would appeal to Americans on the left of the political spectrum, especially those who believe in and thirst for a non-commercial alternative to heavily sponsored and company-loyal TV. For UK viewers, the hosts are outwardly known as right-wing bigots, the competition to get products featured (positively or negatively) on the show is fierce between car companies, and the commercial-free, independent BBC is accused of promoting consumer capitalism. Something has clearly been lost in the translation.
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Bernard-Augustin Conroy (April 23, 1882 – January 26, 1949) was a Canadian physician and politician.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Conroy was educated at the Sarsfield School, Loyola College and McGill University. He became a physician in 1906 and was employed by the Canada Steamship Lines. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Montréal–Sainte-Anne in 1919. A Liberal, he did not run in 1923.

From 1922 to 1949, he was the Chief of Medicine for the Montreal Police.

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HALF-BROTHERS embark on a haphazard road trip to the bright lights of Blackpool in director Jason Wingard's bittersweet and multicultural buddy comedy.
Co-written by David Isaac, Eaten By Lions purrs gently for 95 minutes with a couple of uproarious interludes that play to the strengths of Britain's Got Talent finalist Jack Carroll, who pokes fun at his cerebral palsy in his stand-up routines.
He delivers some cracking one-liners in his feature film debut to co-star and foil Antonio Aakeel who maintains his poker face as Carroll delivers risque material with precision timing.
Various facets of the Lancashire coast provide picture postcard backdrops to the characters' emotional turmoil including the arresting image of two people kissing as fireworks explode over the criss-crossing red arches of the pleasure beach's Big One steel rollercoaster.
Thankfully, Wingard's picture is a gentler ride.
Omar (Aakeel) and Pete (Carroll) are orphaned at a young age when their parents' romantic hot air balloon getaway crash-lands in the lion enclosure of a safari park. The boys' grandmother (Stephanie Fayerman) takes them in and encourages Omar and Pete to look out for each other.
When she eventually dies, the half-siblings are condemned to the questionable care of their acid-tongued aunt Ellen (Vicki Pepperdine) and her henpecked husband Ken (Kevin Eldon).
They propose adopting Pete but not Omar because, in Ellen's words: 'You're not our side'.
Omar's quest for an identity leads to a bumbling man child called Irfan (Asim Chaudhry), who runs the first Pakistani and Indian gift shop in Blackpool.
Irfan offers a feeble explanation about the one-night stand that led to his son's birth but Omar craves acceptance and love, not pitiful excuses.
Eaten By Lions is threaded with the same earthy humour as East Is East, albeit with fewer belly laughs and a narrower focus on the power dynamics within Irfan's dysfunctional family.
The script periodically stumbles, but winning on-screen chemistry between Aakeel and Carroll cajoles Wingard's picture back to its feet.


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Kali said that Miles would say, "get up, eat jelly" all the time to her. I can imagine him fixating on that line, a weird line in a great song by Bauhaus. I think I heard him say it once or twice. I am sure I asked him what it meant, and I am pretty sure his response was, "get up, eat jelly." I did not understand but that's not the point.


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Callum McManaman will miss the European Under-21 Championships this summer after Wigan boss Roberto Martinez confirmed the forward is likely to be out for three months with an ankle injury.
McManaman was the star of the Latics' FA Cup triumph last Saturday and was rewarded for his excellent form over the last few months of the season with a first call-up to Stuart Pearce's England squad for the tournament in Israel next month.
But the 22-year-old damaged ankle ligaments in Tuesday's 4-1 defeat by Arsenal, which condemned the Latics to relegation, and, although he will not need an operation, he is now in a race against time to be fit for the start of next season.
Martinez said: "It's good news because we expected the worst but good news means he's going to be out for the best part of three months, but he doesn't need surgery and that's really positive.
"But probably that puts him out of the under-21s, which is a real shame because he really deserved to finish the season with that experience.
"Callum is disappointed but it's such a joy to see him playing his football. It's a joy for everyone. For me he's been one of the sparks of the season, and not just at Wigan. He's a real diamond of English football. He's got no reason to feel down at all."
Speculation remains rife over the future of Martinez and several of his players, with McManaman and midfielder James McCarthy having been linked with Premier League clubs.
Martinez, who is one of the favourites to succeed David Moyes at Everton, insists he will not think about his future until meeting chairman Dave Whelan on Monday but, whether he stays or not, he has urged McManaman not to leave the DW Stadium.
The Wigan boss said: "If one player needs to stay at the club and become an important part of this football club, it's Callum. He's been a phenomenal player for us but he's someone who, at 22, needs to work on certain aspects to become the player he can be.
"He will be a top, top player, and probably the next 10 months are vital for him to be perfect in the programme that he has to fulfil. Probably, the Championship, for him to play week in, week out and have an important role, it will be the perfect challenge for him."


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Transcript The 1972 season marked Houston's 27th year in intercollegiate football. The Cougars' election into the Southwest Conference in 1971 was a dream-come-true for Head Coach Bill Yeoman and his staff. Houston has been a member of three other conferences since 1946: The Lone Star Conference, 1946-48; the Gulf Coast Conference, 1949-50; and the Missouri Valley Conference from 1951-60. The Cougars were independent from I960 to 1970. Head Football Coach Bill Yeoman For the past I I years, Bill Yeoman's mic- dle name has been "success.'' His Cougai : have consistently been among the to i teams in total offense. In 1968 the Cougar set an all-time NCAA record for total offense, averaging 562 yards per game. Yeoman came to Houston in 1961 after an eight year stint at Michigan State University as Duffy Daughtery's top assistant He has been nominated for "Coach of the Year" four times by the Football Writers of America Association. Yeoman confers with Flanker Stanley. 186


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DEARBORN, Mich. – As Fourth of July approaches, Dearborn residents are reminded to follow state and local laws regarding the purchase and use of fireworks, as well as to exercise extreme caution.
Yesterday, it has been reported by several citizens living in East Dearborn of a car passing between residential houses between 1AM and 2AM throwing some sort of illegal firework that caused a large explosion, shaking houses, triggering car alarms, waking neighbors, and scaring children.
Last week, as I was on my way to catch an Amtrak train to Ann Arbor, I noticed something peculiar at the Dingell Transit Center in Dearborn. Lined up in front of the train station was a row of Zagster bikes, similar to the ones used by quicken loans employees in Downtown Detroit.
Dearborn residents are encouraged to call 313-943-3030 to anonymously report unsafe or illegal fireworks activity in their neighborhood, or to call 9-1-1 if there is a dangerous or emergency situation.
Another fatal accident in Dearborn. The cycle of dangerous driving continues. May they Rest In Peace. Our condolences to the family.
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Stephen Colbert had a stern message for those Americans who want to move to Canada after Donald Trump was elected president.
But before that, he opened Wednesday's taping of "The Late Show" by saying what he thought Americans really needed to do over the real-estate mogul's presidential term.
"I just want to say freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, First Amendment," he said. "The most important things we can do together. Don't stop speaking up, don't stop speaking your mind, don't ever be cowed by whatever happens in the next four years."
As much as he's in a fighting spirit now, Colbert acknowledged that he didn't sleep well and described the shock he felt after Trump was elected.
"We have to accept that Donald Trump will be the 45th president of the United States," the host said, as the audience moaned. "No, I get that feeling completely. I just had to say it one more time. I just want to keep saying it until I can say it without throwing up in my mouth a little bit. It feels like a little bit of a dream state. All day I've had to remind myself this isn't a dream. I'm not on a peyote trip on the hunt of the great deer. This is real."
Even before the presidential election, many Americans said they would move to Canada if Trump were elected. Many were pretty serious about researching the move — enough to crash Canada's immigration website on Tuesday night. But Colbert had strong words for those people.
"I can understand why Canada is so attractive," Colbert said. "You've got the free healthcare and a prime minister who looks like the prince from 'Tangled.' But listen up, everybody out there who's saying, 'I'm gonna move to Canada': You don't get to flee when things get rough here. Being an American citizen is like family. You're in it whether you like it or not."


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Karlo Thopia (ur. 1331, zm. 1388) – książę Albanii w latach 1368-1383 i ponownie 1385-1387.

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Ród Thopia należał do najpotężniejszych w andegaweńskim Królestwie Albanii. W wyniku rozpadu carstwa Stefana Duszana Karlo Thopia opanował większość ziem dzisiejszej centralnej Albanii. Karol był synem Marii d'Aquino, córki Roberta I, dzięki czemu jego andegaweńscy krewni uznawali go za hrabiego Albanii. W 1368 roku w porozumieniu z Wenecjanami zdobył należące do Andegawenów Durazzo. Ogłosił się wtedy księciem Albanii. W 1369 utracił Durazzo w wyniku ataku Ludwika z Évreux. W 1383 roku ponownie je przejął. W 1385 roku miasto wpadło w ręce Balšy II. Karol wezwał na pomoc wojska osmańskie i dzięki nim pokonał Serbów pod Sawrą. Durazzo ponownie znalazło się pod kontrolą Albańczyków. Karlo był rzymskim katolikiem, utrzymywał dobre kontakty z papiestwem. Około 1370 roku poślubił Wojsławę Balšić. Ich dziećmi byli:
 Jerzy Thopia, Pan Durazzo, żonaty z Teodorą Branković
 Helena Thopia, żona Wenecjanina Marco Barbadigo i następnie Konstantyna Balšica
 Wojsława Thopia
Karl miał też dwoje dzieci z innych nieznanych związków:
 Maria, żona Filippo di Maramonte
 Niketa Thopia
W 1388 roku zmarł Karol i przekazał swe władztwo synowi Jerzemu.

Bibliografia
 Jerzy Hauziński, Jan Leśny, Historia Albanii, Wrocław: Ossolineum 1992.

Władcy Albanii
Urodzeni w XIV wieku
Zmarli w 1388


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Al Shabaab's insurgency and Somalian "imbroglio" in Horn of Africa
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Al Shabaab, as an insurgent terrorist outfit, has primarily been operating from Somalia in the Horn of Africa. The merger of Al Shabaab with Al Qaeda, a multinational terrorist organisation, in 2012 has enhanced its strength. After completing twenty years of its existence in April 2020, it is showing no signs of waning. Al Shabaab's endeavours to consolidate its hold over the parts of southern and central Somalia and extract taxes from people is weakening the hold of Federal Government of Somalia (FGS), established in 2012, like reported by eurasiareview.com.
Moreover, on 28th December, 2019 Al Shabaab bombed checkpoint near Mogadishu leaving 85 people dead which included Somalian forces as well as Turkish engineers. Likewise, on January 6, 2020 Somalia based terrorist outfit assaulted Kenyan military base near Lamu where one American serviceman died in Kenya. Their target was Manda Bay on the coastline of Kenya which is a forward reconnaissance base of the USA. It is also a home to parts of USA's 475th Air Expeditionary Air Base squadron which is used for drone warfare against Al Shabaab. The base also has helped in training, assisting and enabling strategies of the USA's African allies to combat terror. Al Shabaab viewed the Manda Bay attack as a retaliatory measure against the American attempt to designate Jerusalem as Israel's capital. The attack, it was claimed, was carried out under the guidance and leadership Al Qaeda. In spite of such attacks, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) had shown concern in February 2020 about Somalia's prospective milestone elections in later 2020. Evidently, such attacks need to be placed in perspective in light of strategic location of the region that has involved major powers and the possibilities of stable political regime in Somalia in the midst of the growing menace of Al Shabaab's terrorist activities.
Northeast African states including Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, South Sudan, Djibouti and Kenya broadly constitute geo strategic region of the Horn of Africa. In fact, the Bab el Mandeb strait between Arabia and Africa connects the Red sea with the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. Since the area links the Suez Canal via the red sea to Mediterranean Ocean as well as the Indian Ocean, it has been a major international waterway. Some of the most significant world powers such as Britain, prior to its withdrawal from the east of Suez in 1967, the USA, former Soviet Union and France have enjoyed naval presence in the region. Besides, in the pursuit of enhancing its presence in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) China has opened up its military base in Djibouti since 2017. The Chinese embassy is functional in Somalia from 2014. Furthermore, tensions erupting within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) inevitably have found their expression in strife torn Somalia, a country with the longest coastline in the region. Consequently, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is trying to befriend Somaliland and semi-autonomous area of Putland while Qatar, along with Turkey, is backing Somalian FGS. In Somaliland and Putland the Al Shabaab has tried to unsettle the control of the FGS, albeit unsuccessfully. In essence, all the external powers have to constantly negotiate with various intra-regional conflicts to nurture local allies and ensure their durable presence. The conflicts in the region have stemmed primarily from the lack of acceptance of the territorial boundaries drawn by the colonial powers. Some of the trends in the region such as aspiration to constitute 'Greater Somalia', by integrating its British, French and Italian parts, Somalia-Ethiopia war over the Ogaden region during 1977-78, the independence Eritrea (1993) and South Sudan (2011) from Ethiopia and Sudan, respectively, after prolonged civil wars could be viewed in this light. Similarly building viable polities has often been a challenge in the region.
Somalia has been grappling to establish a politically stable regime since the fall of Said Barre regime in 1991. Neither the USA led multinational intervention in the 1990s under the aegis of the United Nations (UN) nor roughly twenty conferences that were organised by the African Union (AU), the UN and the European Union (EU) to establish peace in Somalia, after the withdrawal of the UN in 1995, have led to any concrete results on ground. However, Somalia had internationally funded Transitional Federal Government (TFG) since 2004. There was a tussle to capture power between the USA backed TFG, local militia, on one hand and Islamic Courts Union (ICU), on the other. Eventually, the ICU that united several groups of Islamic persuasions including Al Shabaab, was saddled in power in 2006 for a short while.
The ICU's challenge to TFG was short lived because the agenda of bringing political stability in Somalia has often been hijacked by the external powers. Ethiopia, a predominantly Christian country, backed by the USA could oust the ICU from power in December 2006. The ICU regime was ousted because of its alleged connections with the USA designated terrorist organizations such as Al Qaeda. Subsequently, Ethiopia, Uganda, Burundi, Kenya and Djibouti contributed to the AU force under the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) in January 2007 that has been assisting Federal Government in countering the well spread out activities of the terrorist outfits. Evidently, the governance in Somalia has had to crisscross through awkward moments as the Federal Government backed by Ethiopia, AU and the USA had to struggle to establish its legitimacy from Somalian capital Mogadishu to peripheral regions. In fact, Ethiopian invasion had proved to be a rallying point for Al Shabaab which essentially means youth. The Al Shabaab also is principally opposed to western backed government and has been committed to the law of Sharia. In the pursuit of building an Islamic state, it has persistently attacked the Federal Government and its allies.
Apart from the earlier mentioned attacks of December 2019 and January 2020, some of the other prominent attacks of Al Shabaab could be stated thus. Al Shabaab's attack in Kampala (Uganda) in 2010 left 74 dead. In 2013 its attack on shopping Mall in Nairobi (Kenya) killed 67 people. After the infamous bombing of the American embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998 by Al Qaeda, it was Al Shabaab that launched a major attack in the city of Garissa in Kenya in 2015 causing 147 causalities. Further, Al Shabaab was increasingly deploying sophisticated and improvised technical devices in its operations. On 15 October, 2017 in one of its most deadly attacks through double truck bombing Al Shabaab killed about 320 people. Evidently, through fear psychosis it has held Federal Government to ransom.
However, while responding to destabilising pressures the FGS, in its turn, has earned some legitimacy through peaceful transition of power in 2017 elections and by announcing National Development Plan (NDP) towards building political stability and ensuring economic recovery amidst several stiff challenges. For instance, in 2015 and 2016 the economy registered growth of 5 and 7 percent respectively but by 2019 it was less than 3 percent. The rate of poverty according to 2019 surveys is as high as 69 percent with substantial number youth still unemployed. The aid from developed world coupled with the funds from Somalian diaspora have proved inadequate to improve conditions of debt ridden, impoverished and drought prone economy. Somalia has the sixth highest displaced population in the world out of which more than two and half million live in Kenya which is a frequent target of Al Shabaab's assaults. While handling developmental problems, the FGS has to deal with over 150 active armed groups of clan militias along with dispersed terrorist outfits like Al Shabaab that are relying on all the possible means to run their operations.
In fact, apart from getting support through Al Qaeda and its affiliates, Al Shabaab has traded contraband sugar across Kenya. It has also earned hefty amounts from illicitly traded charcoal since 2012, in spite of the UN ban on the charcoal exports. In addition, funds have come from piracy, kidnapping, extortion, local business and farmers. However, terrorism need not be conflated with piracy because the latter is a self-propelling business in itself and a separate area of investigation.
After 9/11, as the USA declared Global War on Terror (GoWT), Al Shabaab began to arrest the international attention. During 2001-05 the USA worked with local militias to capture suspected Al Qaeda members in Mogadishu. Without declaring war on Somalia formally, the USA has militarily engaged in Somalia and expanded its operations under Trump administration. From 2007-14 it conducted in between 15 to 21 drone strikes but in 2018 alone the figure of these drone strikes rose to 46 killing 326 people, including some civilians. Since the USA also endorses the notion of African solutions to African problems, it has trained roughly 22000 Somali forces that are a part of AMISOM. It has contracted private security firms that pay for soldiers from France, South Africa and Scandinavia. In December 2017, the Trump administration suspended much of the arms aid to Somalia over corruption involving inability of Somalia to account for items such as food, fuels and weapons. As for India, Somalia is a distant maritime neighbour and good deal of its trade passes through the Gulf of Aden. Indian cargo ships need protection from pirates as well as terrorist organisations. Since 2008, Indian navy has been engaged in countering piracy on the Somalian coast. As a major power in the IOR and the Indo-Pacific region India has to be watchful of the activities of important powers that are operating in the region.
In substance, Al Shabaab's insurgency and Somalian imbroglio have prompted the African states within the AMISOM and major external powers such as the USA, France, China, Turkey, the U.A.E. and Qatar to defend their stakes in the Horn of Africa. Although the FGS has earned a measure of success in its quest to stabilise the situation, owing to persistent attacks from Al Shabaab the prospects of peace and stability still appear fragile.


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Members of the American Postal Workers Union got fired up for the opening of collective bargaining with a raucous rally on the evening before negotiations began, promising intense member engagement across the country.It wasn't just a packed room of APWU leaders and supporters who participated. In fact, the rally was streamed liveonline to thousands on both the APWU website and on YouTube, and many members viewed it at "watch parties" organized for the event.
APWU President and lead negotiator Mark Dimondstein said a threat by the White House to privatize the U.S. Postal Service as part of a wholesale reorganization and downsizing of the federal government has served to raise the stakes not only for postal workers, but for everyone. "Now we're also bargaining for the American people, to preserve regular mail and package services at an affordable cost to 157 million addresses every day," he said.
APWU Secretary-Treasurer Liz Powell introduced a series of fiery speakers – from Tefere Gebre, Executive Vice President of the AFL-CIO, to Elise Bryant, President of the Coalition of Labor Union Women, who led the delegation in songs and chants. Rep. Alma Adams (D-N.C.) vowed to fight postal service privatization, as did Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in a letter read to the gathering.
The room cheered when Vance Zimmerman, APWU's Industrial Relations Director and chief spokesman for the bargaining team, gave opening remarks before sharing a video featuring APWU members who spoke of their pride in their work, their union, and their common belief that obtaining a good contract now is important for all members and their families. The video was a compilation of video clips, shot on cell phones, and submitted by members from coast-to-coast and from all crafts.
With the rally livestreamed, postal workers and allies across the country could also watch as Texas prairie populist Jim Hightower delivered his pokes at privatizers with a serious appeal to organize the people to fight postal privatization. United Mine Workers Secretary-Treasurer Levi Allen thundered the words of Mother Jones, "I'm not a humanitarian. I'm a hell-raiser," drawing whoops and hollers from the crowd.
The solidarity was heartening. Officers of the National Association of Letter Carriers and the National Postal Mail Handlers Union said they would joinAPWU at the bargaining opener, and pledges of support were delivered in person by leaders of other unions and coalitions, including the NAACP, Jobs with Justice and the A. Philip Randolph Institute. Larry Cohen, former president of the Communications Workers of America, promised to mobilize his new group, Our Revolution, building on the issues of the Bernie Sanders political campaign.
The crowd gets fired up and ready to go!
Longtime friends of APWU, Arlene Holt-Baker, the former Executive Vice President of the AFL-CIO, and Bill Lucy, former Secretary-Treasurer of AFSCME and founder of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU), joined in to add their support. And current CBTU President Terry Melvin, also Secretary-Treasurer of the New York State AFL-CIO and an ordained minister, gave an inspirational speech that had everyone on their feet, ready to fight for a good contract.


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Hitachi Rail bags €867mn contract to deliver digital signalling system for Italian rail network
Maria Rose Posted on: 2022-11-25 07:05:00 Viewer: 1,510 Comments: 0 Country: Italy City: Pistoia
Pistoia, Italy (Urban Transport News): Hitachi Rail has been awarded a contract worth €867 million, as the leader of a consortium, to design and deliver European Rail Transport Management System (ERTMS) digital signalling on a 1,885 km of the Italian rail network.
The new contract covers central and northern Italy - including the lines of Emilia Romagna, Tuscany, Piedmont, Lombardy, Liguria, Veneto and the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia regions and it is part of a 2.7 billion euro tender issued by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (FS Group) for the construction of ERTMS throughout the national territory. This is the last piece of the technological projects financed by the PNRR which will involve a total of approx 4,800 km of railway lines.
"We are delighted to receive this award, which will allow us to roll out advanced digital signalling technology across an additional 1,885 km of Italy's rail network. ERTMS technology will deliver huge benefits to passengers by boosting reliability, punctuality and frequency - and will ultimately enable us to achieve our aim of seamless European rail travel," said Michele Fracchiolla, Executive Director, Europe & Australia – LoB Rail Control Hitachi Rail.
The contract, awarded by RFI follows the award of a €500 million framework agreement to Hitachi Rail for the design and implementation of ERTMS digital signalling on 700 km of rail lines across Italy in November 2021.
ERTMS is the most advanced system for the digital control of railways, allowing more trains to use the lines while improving speed and reliability. The technology will allow trains from neighbouring European countries to operate on Italian lines without interruption, with the aim of creating one seamless rail system throughout Europe. ERTMS is already in use on Italy's high-speed rail lines, with the benefits now being extended to regional lines.
The technology includes a radio system enabling communication between the train and the track, as well as automatic activation of emergency brakes in case of danger or if trains exceed the track's speed limit. By regulating speed, acceleration and braking, the technology enables trains to travel across the network in more efficiently and thereby reduces energy consumptions and reduces the railway's carbon footprint.
Hitachi Rail is a global industry leader in digital signalling and is the first provider to introduce ERTMS technology in Europe – in the UK, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and France – and in the highly competitive markets of China and India.
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Maria Rose is an Independent Technology Journalist in London, United Kingdom. She is currently working with Urban Transport News as Special Correspondent in International News Division.


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Philippine economy to grow above 7 pct this year -- NEDA
MANILA -- The Philippines is set to grow above the government target of 6-7 percent this year, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said today.
On the sidelines of the 14th Global Development Network Annual Conference, NEDA Director-General and Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Arsenio Balisacan said the country's gross domestic product (GDP) growth may outperform the target given that it has already expanded at a rate of 7.8 percent in the first quarter.
The second quarter looks "good" as economic fundamentals remain intact, Baliscan said.
In April and May, inflation decelerated to 2.6 percent or lower than the 3-5 percent target for the year. Manufacturing in April grew 10.3 percent.
Agriculture, however, would remain a sore spot as climate change has shifted the planting season, dampening the April jobs market.
"But for the full year, a delay in the planting in one quarter means a gain in the following quarters," Balisacan said.
He said the growth drivers for the rest of the year would be manufacturing, construction, investments, and services, especially tourism.


A home court advantage made the impressive performance of the women's tennis team that much more satisfying this weekend at the Cornell Invitational. Placing in all three brackets, the Red showed that it is a force to be reckoned with this upcoming season. Yet it was not necessarily the spirit of Homecoming that drove the women to success.
Junior Christine Ordway won the A flight titles in singles and doubles, facing teammates in both finals. Defeating Young in the singles final, 6-4, 6-1, Ordway demonstrated composure indicative of the two years of experience she has gained as a college athlete.
Ordway also won the A doubles title with teammate freshman Gabby Sullivan, topping Young and freshman Sara Perelman in a close match, 8-5. Sullivan took the A singles back draw against the New Jersey Institute of Technology's Monica Graff in one of the many matches of the invitational ending in a tiebreak, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5), 11-9.
As there are no seniors on the team this year, the responsibility of leading the women falls not only to the juniors, but to the sophomores as well.
"I've just tried to show them it's important to cheer for everyone no matter if you're winning or losing; you have to think of the team before you think of yourself," Young said.
Her words definitely resonated with the freshmen, considering it was not only the team's veterans who gave such impressive performances during the first match of the season, but many of the newcomers as well. The Red's freshmen won the Top-3 spots in the B singles bracket, with Lauren Frazier beating teammate Nina Turudic, 6-2, 5-7, 10-7, in a tight final tiebreaker. Perelman came back from a set down to defeat Binghamton's Marina Bykoxskaya, 0-6, 6-2, 10-6, for the third place spot, while junior Sarah O'Neil finished fourth in the championship portion of the bracket.
Freshman Courtney Malinchak did not disappoint in her first career match for Cornell, earning second place in the C flight singles after losing, 6-1, 6-3, to Buffalo's Tarama Markovic. Junior Kristen Kohagen took third place with a win over Binghamton's Jen Fridman, 7-5, 6-1. Another freshman, Rosemary Li, won the C singles consolation with a commanding straight-set victory score against Missy Edelblum of Binghamton. Li teamed up with O'Neil in the B doubles bracket, placing second after an 8-1 defeat versus Edelblum and partner Jill Santos. In the consolation game of the same bracket, Kohagen and Malinchak finished first with an 8-3 win over Carolina Zannota and Megan Guidry of NJIT.
The Red delivered a strong performance on Homecoming and is currently gearing up for its match next weekend at The Cissie Leary Invitational in Philadelphia, Pa.


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Snowden asks people to avoid Google Allo over privacy concerns
Google Allo Messaging app announced at I/O 2016 is facing criticism over privacy concerns. (Source: AP)
Days after Google announced its new Allo messaging app at the annual I/O 2016 conference, the yet-to-launch messaging app is already under criticism over privacy concerns.
Allo is a new text-based messaging app, and Google's hopeful challenger to more-established players like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Snapchat. Allo will be powered by Google's new and upcoming AI chatbot Google Assistant, and will even let users book a restaurant, send automated replies to their friends.
But Allo is facing critcism over the 'end-to-end' encryption feature, which is not enabled across the app by default. The feature is only available in the Incognito mode. NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has criticised Google Allo app on Twitter, and said Google's decision to disable end-to-end encryption was dangerous. He asked people to avoid using the app, and his tweet has been re-tweeted over 8000 times on the site.
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Snowden's comment comes in the backdrop of a controversy around a blogpost published by a Google engineer Thai Duong, who tried to explain why end-to-end encryption was not enabled by default and allay privacy fears around the app.
The blogpost has since then been re-edited, and while a cache of the original is available on Bing here, it no longer mentions Duong as a Google engineer, but as "someone from outside the team who consulted on security for Allo."
The original post read, "I'm one of the engineers in charge of the end-to-end encryption feature in Google Allo. This post (and everything else in this blog) is solely my personal opinion, as I don't speak for my employer."
Now it says, "This post is solely my personal opinion, as someone from outside the team who consulted on security for Allo."
Interestingly his original post also mentions that he wishes end-to-end encryption was the default setting on the Allo across the board, a paragraph that also been removed.
In the original post, Duong wrong, "I wish it's the default (because it's my feature haha :), but even if it is not default all is not lost. I can't promise anything now, but I'm pushing for a setting where users can opt out of cleartext messaging. Basically with one touch you can tell Allo that you want to "Always chat in incognito mode going forward," and from that moment on all your messages will be end-to-end encrypted and auto-deleted. You can still interact with the AI, but only if you explicitly invoke it, so you don't have to give up everything for your privacy gain."
That paragraph is now gone, and it's a point that Snowden has picked up.
In the new blogpost, Duong says he has erased the paragraph about making end-to-end encryption as default because "it's not cool to publicly discuss or to speculate the intent or future plans for the features of my employer's products, even if it's just my personal opinion." The new blogpost is available here.
Google Allo app relies on the Google Assistant for its chatbot.
A point Duong was making in the blog was that end-to-end encryption by itself doesn't really mean much for privacy, and end-to-end encryption without 'disappearing messages' means nothing. In Google Allo, messages in the Incognito mode will disappear after sometime and won't be saved anywhere, neither the device or Google's servers.
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Duoung's point is while a third-party or man-in-the-middle attack might not be possible in end-to-end encrypted apps like say WhatsApp, given that messages don't disappear means they are still up for getting read.
The post also points out Google's AI chatbot will be able to read users messages in the default mode, and the messages are temporarily stored in Google's servers. The blogpost reads, "Allo clients talk to Google servers using QUIC or TLS 1.2. When messages are temporarily stored on our servers waiting for delivery they are also encrypted, and will be deleted as soon as they're delivered."
He also downplays the NSA fear to some extent and quoting a study from Simply Secure, adding that for most users "what matters the most is not whether the NSA can read their messages, but the physical security of their devices, blocking unwanted people, and being able to delete messages already sent to other people."
While Google has not publicly commented on the privacy issues with Allo, the controversy over Duong's blogpost won't do much to boost the yet-to-be launched app's public image. Also as this post on Ars Technica points out Duong has a provide track record in cyber-security, so the fact that he changed his post raises questions.
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Sheoak Hill Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located on the Eyre Peninsula in the gazetted locality of Miltalie about  north-west of Cowell.

The conservation park consists of two areas of land in the cadastral unit of the Hundred of James which separated by a road connecting the town centres of Cowell in the south-east and Kimba in the north-west.   The land on the south-western  side of the road which consists of sections 49, 50 and 51, was constituted as a conservation park on 30 November 1978.  The land on the north-eastern side of the road which is described in cadastral terms as "allotment 100 of Deposited Plan No. 38006" was dedicated as a conservation reserve known as the Sheoak Hill Conservation Reserve in 11 November 1993. On 6 September 2012, the land within the conservation reserve was added to the conservation park.  As of 2014, access permitted under the state's Mining Act 1971 only applied to the land formerly in the conservation reserve.

As of 2014, it and three adjacent conservation parks were described by their managing authority as  follows: These parks (sic) are dominated by relatively undisturbed mallee forest, and woodland associations with a Melaleuca shrub understorey.  They provide important habitat for Malleefowl populations and contain significant species including Gilbert's Whistler, Bentham's Goodenia and the Six-nerve Spine-bush which are listed as rare under the National Parks and Wildlife Act.

The conservation park is classified as an IUCN Category IA protected area.

See also
Protected areas of South Australia

References

External links
Entry for the Sheoak Hill Conservation Park and Sheoak Hill Conservation Reserve on the Protected Planet website

Conservation parks of South Australia
Protected areas established in 1978
1978 establishments in Australia
Eyre Peninsula