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[Archive Material] — Turkmenistan-Azerbaijan Caspian Dispute – The Legal Position
Saturday, 06 July 2013 By Admin
This report was initially published in September 2009. It is being reproduced here for record.
Turkmenistan-Azerbaijan Caspian Dispute – The Legal Position
nCa Report by Tariq Saeedi
Caspian is a matchless body of water, brimming with all kinds of legal questions..
One of the most contested questions in Caspian is the division of the seabed among the littoral states. The talks between Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan broke down last month after Azerbaijan suddenly changed its stance from conciliation to confrontation.
The point of divergence is: How to draw the median line, dividing the shelf in a satisfactory manner between Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan.
At the heart of this question are at least three major oil and gas fields. The way the median line is drawn will determine the legal ownership of these fields.
This is a matter of law. One way to deal with it is through bilateral and multilateral consultations. Another way is to submit the case to a competent court of law, a duly constituted tribunal or any other body of arbitration or reconciliation that enjoys the trust of all the parties of the dispute
Trying a legal case through the court of media, and frolicking recklessly in speculations, are happy and exciting pastimes but their only real outcome is that they complicate the task of the negotiating teams of both sides.
The mangy cats of the fringe media that feed from the dustbin of grants aimed at creating instability in Central Asia and Caucasus, contributed their teeth-and-claws-for-hire without knowing or understanding the issue.
Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan have both maintained composure and dignity. The phone talks between the presidents of the two countries on 3 September resulted in their agreeing to meet, probably twice, this month.
In addition, four of the five heads of Caspian states will meet in Aktau (Kazakhstan) on 13 September to formulate a joint strategy to iron out some of the spiky questions related to Caspian.
Meanwhile, there is the need to look at some legal aspects of division of the Caspian shelf between Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan, and determine as to whose position is tenable under the existing laws.
Both sides seem to lean to some extent on the UNCLOS (UN Convention on the Law of the Sea) to formulate their positions. There is a clear understanding that since the distance between their shorelines is less than 400 nautical miles (about 740 km), the conventional limits of EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone) cannot be applied, and therefore a median line should be drawn to mark the share of each side.
Azerbaijan wants to take the tip of Absheron peninsula, the semi-submerged bump of land jutting into the sea, as the cardinal point. Turkmenistan says that Caspian is a confined environment, and fairness and commonsense demand that the median line be drawn right through the middle of the sea, equidistant at all points from the main shoreline. Taking the Absheron peninsula into account will distort the median line and violate the principle of proportionality and equitable division.
The application of commonsense – a commodity no so common these days – should be the first step toward establishing the ownership of the disputed fields. Logically, the fields should belong to the country that is nearer to them:
Disputed Fields
Distance from Turkmenistan Distance from Azerbaijan
Name in Turkmenistan Name in Azerbaijan
Serdar Kyapaz 98 km 175 km
Omar (Hazar) Azeri 120 km 154 km
Osman Chirag 134 131
Just by looking at the distance from the shoreline of each side, one can see right away that two of the three fields belong to Turkmenistan. The third field – Osman/Chirag – is near the middle and could possibly be a candidate for legal hairsplitting.
However, there are no signs that Azerbaijan is willing to accept this commonsensical approach.
In order to go deeper into the issue, one needs to look at the arguments presented by the Azeri side.
The Azeri side says that the fields in question were developed and managed during the Soviet time by them and therefore they have the ownership right for historical reasons.
This claim has no legal legs.
The organization that managed these fields in Soviet era was called CaspMor NeftGaz (Caspian Sea Oil and Gas). The name itself explains that the organization was related to management of Caspian resources in soviet territory, without assigning any exclusive ownership to Azerbaijan as a component republic of the union.
The reason that CaspMor was based in Baku is rooted in the simple fact that there were, at that time, more oil and gas specialists in Baku than Kranovodsk (now Turkmenbashy) because Baku was into oil business since Nobel's times. This was purely an administrative arrangement, and hardly any court of law can be expected to accept it as a proof of ownership. Had the intention been to show the ownership of Azerbaijan, the name would have been AzMor instead of CaspMor.
Azerbaijan also says that the tender for exploitation of the fields in question was announced in January 1991 jointly by the USSR ministry of oil and gas industry and the council of ministers of Azerbaijan. The text of the tender says, in part, "[F]our giant oil and gas fields have been discovered in the deep-water section of Azerbaijan in the Caspian Sea."
This argument must pass some legal tests before being considered in a court of law:
Does the text of a hastily and carelessly drafted tender notice constitute a legal instrument for dividing the seabed, keeping in view the fact that none of the treaties or internal laws of the USSR assigned any territorial water limits to the component republics surrounding the Caspian?
Was the ministry of oil and gas of the Soviet Union a competent authority to assign territorial limits to the component republics when such decisions were always taken by the politburo or presidium?
Should we ignore the established international practice that the right to exploit a hydrocarbon field can, by no means, be interpreted as the right to ownership of that field?
An honest answer to these questions will point in the right direction.
This sums up the pitiably thin portfolio of Azeri arguments for ownership of the disputed fields except for the unreasonable stand that the Absheron peninsula, a bird's beak that suddenly juts out from an otherwise evenly fractured coastline, should be taken into account when drawing the median line; and we will take care of that too in a minute.
UNCLOS is the only comprehensive legal instrument for dealing with these kinds of disputes. However, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan are not a party to UNCLOS simply because they are not sure whether they are sitting at the shore of a sea or a lake.
Nevertheless, article 289 of UNCLOS leaves a trapdoor for anyone wanting to use the several platforms for dispute-resolution it provides.
In trying to ascertain Turkmenistan's ownership of the fields in question, we should first deal with the concept of continental shelf.
The UN Conference on the Law of the Sea 1958, and subsequently the UNCLOS, describe the continental shelf as "the seabed and subsoil of the submarine areas adjacent to the coast but outside the area of the territorial sea, to a depth of 200 meters, or, beyond that limit, to where the depth of the superjacent waters admits of the exploitation of the natural resources of the said areas."
When trying to use the concept of continental shelf in the present case, we need to miniaturize the scale because we are talking of Caspian, a comparatively small body of water, neither truly sea nor a legitimate lake.
By looking at the depth of water every hundred meters from the water's edge on both sides, we can see that the continental shelf of Turkmenistan extends nearly two-third of the distance to the opposite shore whereas the Azeri continental shelf ends abruptly except for its northern segment.
The concept of the continental shelf is also linked to the various limits a country can claim for different kinds of rights.
UNCLOS recognizes the right of the coastal nations to claim up to 12 nautical miles of water as territorial sea and up to 200 nautical miles as EEZ. In case of a larger continental shelf, the EEZ can be extended up to 350 nautical miles under certain conditions.
TerritorialSea An area of sea/ocean immediately touching the coastline where the coastal country has full jurisdiction Up to 12 nautical miles from the baseline
Contiguous Zone An area of sea/ocean beyond the territorial sea where the coastal country can exercise some police and other powers Up to 24 nautical miles from the baseline
Continental Shelf A natural extension of the landmass of the country, gradually sloping down under water, usually up to a depth of 200 meters Up to 200 nautical miles, in certain cases up to 350 nautical miles
Exclusive Economic Zone An area marked in parallel from the main shoreline where the coastal country has exclusive right over exploitation of natural and mineral resources Up to 200 nautical miles from the shoreline
Part VI of UNCLOS (articles 76 to 84) deals with the definition and division of the continental shelf, and management of EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone).
Para 3 of article 76 explains:
3. The continental margin comprises the submerged prolongation of the land mass of the coastal State, and consists of the seabed and subsoil of the shelf, the slope and the rise. It does not include the deep ocean floor with its oceanic ridges or the subsoil thereof.
Without insisting that the concept of continental shelf should be the sole determinant for division of Caspian bed between Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan, we would like to underline that it must weigh prominently when considering other arguments.
EEZ is the area where a coastal nation has the right to exploit all kinds of biological, natural and mineral resources, including hydrocarbon resources.
Article 74 of UNCLOS is the entry point for dealing with the question of delimitation of EEZ between the states with opposite or adjacent coasts.
Here is the text of article 74:
1. The delimitation of the exclusive economic zone between States with opposite or adjacent coasts shall be effected by agreement on the basis of international law, as referred to in Article 38 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice, in order to achieve an equitable solution.
2. If no agreement can be reached within a reasonable period of time, the States concerned shall resort to the procedures provided for in Part XV.
3. Pending agreement as provided for in paragraph 1, the States concerned, in a spirit of understanding and cooperation, shall make every effort to enter into provisional arrangements of a practical nature and, during this transitional period, not to jeopardize or hamper the reaching of the final agreement. Such arrangements shall be without prejudice to the final delimitation.
4. Where there is an agreement in force between the States concerned, questions relating to the delimitation of the exclusive economic zone shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of that agreement.
This article is closely linked to article 83 that deals with the delimitation of the continental shelf between the states with opposite or adjacent coasts.
1. The delimitation of the continental shelf between States with opposite or adjacent coasts shall be effected by agreement on the basis of international law, as referred to in Article 38 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice, in order to achieve an equitable solution.
4. Where there is an agreement in force between the States concerned, questions relating to the delimitation of the continental shelf shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of that agreement.
We have highlighted the term 'equitable solution' in bold Italics in both the articles for the sake of emphasis.
Taken together with the nature of the continental shelf, the principle of equitable solution strengthens Turkmenistan's case for ownership of the fields in question because Turkmen coastline is considerably longer than the Azeri side. We will stop short of mentioning the exact length of each coastline because hardly any survey charts can be relied on now since the level of water in Caspian has risen by more than two meters during the last thirty years. However, no one can dispute the fact that Turkmenistan's coastline is longer that Azerbaijan.
Turkmenistan has refrained from pressing this point out of a sense of good neighbourly feelings for all the Caspian states. Nonetheless, a court of law will give due weight to the difference in the length of shoreline.
Precedence in somewhat similar cases shows that the courts tend to prefer the principle of equitable solution over the equidistance rule. Equidistance rule is the method of drawing a median line that is equidistant at all points from both shorelines.
The North Sea Continental Shelf Cases of 1969 compelled the International Court of Justice to opine that overriding consideration in maritime boundary delimitation belongs to equitable results so that each side receives approximately the share of maritime space that is roughly proportional to the length of its coastline. It has been shown case after case that that in confined waters strict adherence to equidistance rule produces inequitable results.
That is why Absheron peninsula cannot be taken into account when drawing the median line. It will distort the median line and violate the principle of equitable solution. This takes care of all the arguments of the Azeri side for its ownership of fields.
The provisions of UNCLOS tend to support the position of Turkmenistan. The question to ask is, how does UNCLOS apply to Caspian when its legal status is still undecided?
Frankly speaking, it doesn't, on its own.
There are two conduits for connecting UNCLOS with the Caspian question.
The first one is to lean on article 122 of UNCLOS that says:
Enclosed or Semi-Enclosed Seas
For the purposes of this Convention, "enclosed or semi-enclosed sea" means a gulf, basin or sea surrounded by two or more States and connected to another sea or the ocean by a narrow outlet or consisting entirely or primarily of the territorial seas and exclusive economic zones of two or more coastal States.
In order to use this article as a boathook to secure Caspian with UNCLOS, one would need to agree that Volga-Don canal system makes Caspian 'connected to another sea.'
It depends on both sides whether they would like to use this option or not.
In case Azerbaijan agrees to consider Caspian as an 'enclosed or semi-enclosed sea,' it would have a hard time explaining as to why it violated almost all the guidelines provided by UNCLOS for countries sharing such a body of water.
Article 123 of UNCLOS says, in part: "States bordering an enclosed or semi-enclosed sea should cooperate with each other in the exercise of their rights and in the performance of their duties under this Convention."
The other possibility is to use the principles of UNCLOS without acceding to it. It is a solid alternative because regardless of the eventual outcome – whether Caspian is a sea or a lake – the principles of division would be nearly the same.
Several lakes around the world have been divided between the sharing countries on the principles almost in line with UNCLOS. Some examples are: Lake Malawi (between Malawi and Mozambique), Lake Victoria (between Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda), Lake Geneva (between France and Switzerland) and Lake Titicaca (between Bolivia and Peru).
To sum it up, we would like to say that the proximity of most of the disputed fields to Turkmenistan, the principle of equitable solution, the international preference to ignore aberrations such as Absheron peninsula in drawing the median line, when taken together, all support Turkmenistan's claim for ownership of these fields.
Nevertheless, it appears that the Azeri side planned early on exploiting the fields that were not rightfully theirs. Clause 2 of article 11 of the constitution of Azerbaijan says: Internal waters of the Azerbaijan Republic, sector of the Caspian Sea (lake) belonging to the Azerbaijan Republic, air space over the Azerbaijan Republic are integral parts of the territory of the Azerbaijan Republic.
There are two points worth noting in this text. The first is that in describing Caspian as Sea, putting lake in bracket as alternative definition, Azerbaijan, at some level, recognizes Caspian as a sea and would have known the implications of exploiting the fields it did not own.
The other point is that inclusion of 'sector of the Caspian Sea (lake) belonging to the AzerbaijanRepublic' puts the constitutional perimeters ahead of legal realities, a kind of fig leave to cover the extralegal exploitation that was already underway.
The current strategy of Azerbaijan seems to keep siphoning off as much of oil and gas as possible before agreeing to any legal settlement.
While the law is on Turkmenistan's side, some other factors are not.
UNCLOS is a direct offspring of Truman Proclamation.
The underwater resources were historically treated as a common property until the discovery of offshore oil and the arrival of technology to drill it cost economically.
In 1945, President Harry S Truman, responding to pressure from the domestic oil companies, unilaterally extended the United States jurisdiction over all the natural resources, including the oil and gas resources, on that nation's continental shelf.
After the WWII, the frenzy to claim ever larger portions of territorial waters by many nations created alarm. On 1 November 1967, ambassador of Malta to the United Nations, Arvid Pardo, called forcefully for "an effective international regime over the seabed and the ocean floor beyond a clearly defined national jurisdiction. . . . It is the only alternative by which we can hope to avoid the escalating tension that will be inevitable if the present situation is allowed to continue."
It took more than 15 years and combined effort of 160 sovereign states to put together the legal instrument that we know as UNCLOS today.
One cannot ignore the fact that oil majors were the root cause for need of UNCLOS.
Those same multinationals are present in Azerbaijan in large numbers and many of them are deeply involved in some of the disputed fields. They would bend over backward in their effort to protect their own interests and as the perceptions stand today, they might consider that handing of possession to the rightful owner, i.e. Turkmenistan will, will damage their interests.
We would like to mention that for two important reasons it is important for the multinationals to support the just position of Turkmenistan:
In all likelihood, Turkmenistan will not disturb the existing contracts if and when it gets the ownership of the fields in question. The multinationals have no reason to worry on this account. On the other hand, it would actually be highly be beneficial for them because they would get a ready-made entry into Turkmenistan.
The oil reserves in Azerbaijan are on their last legs. Turkmenistan has huge oil and gas reserves and most of them are still untapped. If the western oil majors do some correct thinking at this stage, they would be secure in Caspian for the next several decades.
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Паппа аль помодоро (Pappa al pomodoro) — блюдо тосканской кухни, густой хлебный суп. В состав блюда входят томаты (само его название переводится как «каша из помидоров»), чеснок, оливковое масло, базилик, хлеб (традиционно — чёрствый или остатки трапезы), а также репчатый лук и чёрный перец.

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Паппа аль помодоро — блюдо, достаточно типичное для тосканской кухни, в которой популярным компонентом многих рецептов (таких, как, к примеру, панцанелла и риболлита) выступает чёрствый хлеб. Принято относить эту категорию блюд к простой, «деревенской» пище.

Принято считать, что блюдо имеет весьма древнее происхождение. Однако серьёзную популярность, вышедшую далеко за пределы Тосканы, оно получило в 1912 году, с выходом романа Луиджи Бертелли «Il Giornalino di Gian Burrasca» и особенно с его телеэкранизацией 1964 года (в русском переводе — «Дневник Джанни Урагани»). В сериале дебютировала как актриса будущая кино- и поп-рок-звезда Рита Павоне; в её исполнении стала хитом песня «Viva la Pappa col Pomodoro!» («Да здравствует суп с помидорами!»), музыку к которой написал Нино Рота. Любопытно, что в русском переводе песни (автор — Юлий Ким) смысл и содержание резко изменилось, что видно и по названию «Люблю я макароны» (первый и наиболее известный исполнитель — Эмиль Горовец; в дальнейшем получившую большую популярность песню исполняли многие советские певцы, в том числе Андрей Макаревич).

Приготовление
В классическом рецепте помидоры бланшируются, обдаются холодной водой и очищаются от шкурки. Современная рецептура допускает и использование консервированных резаных томатов в собственном соку. Чеснок поджаривается на оливковом масле на сковороде, после чего к нему добавляются томаты, вода/бульон, соль, чёрный перец и базилик. В заключение в сотейник добавляется хлеб (слегка размоченный после обрезания корок или в виде крошек или даже поджаренный). Современные рецепты часто предусматривают блендеризацию супа перед подачей. При подаче в тарелку в качестве украшения кладут листики базилика и сухарики.

Существует много альтернативных рецептов блюда. К примеру, при приготовлении можно добавить белого вина, а при подаче — посыпать тёртым пармезаном. В более пикантных версиях супа для большей остроты добавляется перец чили.

Паппа аль помодоро можно подавать горячим, тёплым или холодным. Блюдо также использовать как соус: к примеру, к рубленым котлетам, тефтелям или фрикаделькам.

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Итальянские супы
Тосканская кухня
Блюда из томатов
Овощные супы
Хлебные супы

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Great review. NVIDIA seems to be pushing really hard recently. Ati has kind of taken the backseat to them.
No. NVIDIA aren't pushing hard enough.
The 9800 GTX is basically an 8800 GTS 512.
9800 is not even close to the advancement we should've seen. Really in a lot of ways Nvidia has backtracked on the 8800GTX. Everything new since then is just cheaper more efficient parts. No real new and more powerful series. I guess they're planning something big for a new series though to waste the 9000 series name instead of just going 8900GTX like it should be.


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Mit der Rechtsöffnung wird im Schweizer Rechtssystem im Betreibungsverfahren der vom Schuldner erhobene Rechtsvorschlag beseitigt, sodass die Betreibung (Zwangsvollstreckung) weitergeführt werden kann.

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Falls die Forderung unmittelbar auf einem Gerichtsurteil oder einem Urteil gleichgestellten Titel beruht, so kann der Gläubiger in einem vereinfachten Verfahren beim Richter gemäß  SchKG direkt die definitive Rechtsöffnung beantragen. Dagegen kann der Schuldner nur vorgehen, wenn er die Tilgung oder Stundung der Schuld durch Urkunden beweisen kann oder die Forderung bereits verjährt ist.

Ist eine öffentliche Urkunde oder eine unterschriftliche Schuldanerkennung (bspw. ein Vertrag) vorhanden, so kann ebenfalls in einem vereinfachten Verfahren die provisorische Rechtsöffnung im Sinne von  SchKG beantragt werden. Wird die provisorische Rechtsöffnung erteilt, so hat der Schuldner 20 Tage Zeit, in einem ordentlichen Prozess auf Aberkennung der Forderung klagen.

Ist weder ein definitiver, noch ein provisorischer Rechtsöffnungstitel vorhanden, so muss der Gläubiger seinen Anspruch in einem ordentlichen Verfahren geltend machen und gleichzeitig vom Gericht die Beseitigung des Rechtsvorschlages beantragen ( SchKG).

Gemäß der Schweizer Gesetzgebung ist die Rechtsöffnung der erste Moment, in dem im Betreibungsverfahren Beweise vorgelegt werden müssen. Der Gläubiger kann grundlos die Betreibung einleiten (auch wenn es gar keine Schuld gibt) und der Schuldner kann auch gegen eine an sich rechtmässige Forderung den Rechtsvorschlag erheben.

Über die Rechtsöffnung wird in einem kontradiktorischen Verfahren entschieden. Die Zuständigkeit liegt beim Gericht am Betreibungsort. Die Gerichtskosten für das Rechtsöffnungsverfahren sind zwischen 40.- und 2'000.- Franken.

Rezeption in Liechtenstein

Übersicht
Die Bestimmungen über die Rechtsöffnung wurden in Liechtenstein teilweise rezipiert (RSO). Dabei wurden jedoch lediglich die Bestimmungen über die provisorische Rechtsöffnung aus dem schweizerischen Recht übernommen und adaptiert. Durch die nur teilweise Übernahme und Adaptierung wurde in Liechtenstein eine eigene Form der provisorischen Rechtsöffnung geschaffen.

Diese Bestimmungen über die Rechtsordnung werden nach der (nicht unstrittigen) Spruchpraxis der liechtensteinischen Gerichte teilweise durch die liechtensteinische Exekutionsordnung ergänzt.

Rechtswirkung des Rechtsöffnungsverfahrens in Liechtenstein
Die Entscheidung über die Rechtsöffnung hat nur vorläufigen Charakter. Es wird darüber entschieden, ob der im Schuldentriebverfahren (auch Zahlbefehlverfahren oder Mahnverfahren genannt – Art 577 ff ZPO) erhobene Widerspruch aufgehoben werden kann oder nicht.

Anerkennung von Urteilen in Liechtenstein
Einer der wichtigsten Bereiche des liechtensteinischen Rechtsöffnungsverfahrens bildet die Anerkennung von ausländischen Urteilen und den damit verbundenen Rechtsfolgen in Liechtenstein. Ausländische Urteile sind gemäß Art 49 Abs. 2 und 50 RSO grundsätzlich als öffentliche Urkunden und damit als Grundlage für den Rechtsöffnungstitel geeignet. Das liechtensteinische Recht ist im Zusammenhang mit der Anerkennung und Vollstreckung ausländischer Entscheidungen sehr restriktiv. Im Rahmen der Rechtsöffnung (bestehen) bescheidene Möglichkeiten, (…) auch ausländische Erkenntnisse zur Erleichterung des Verfahrens heranzuziehen.

Verfahrensablauf zur Anerkennung ausländischer Urteile
 Ausfertigung eines Urteils durch ein ausländisches Gericht,
 Beantragung eines Zahlbefehls, gestützt auf dieses ausländische Urteil in Liechtenstein,
 Ausstellung eines bedingten Zahlbefehls durch das liechtensteinische Landgericht,
 Möglichkeit des Widerspruchs gegen den Zahlbefehl durch den Verpflichteten (daher bedingter Zahlbefehl),
 Beantragung der Rechtsöffnung auf Grundlage des ausländischen Urteils,
 Das liechtensteinische Gericht klärt in einem raschen, summarischen Verfahren, ob der Anspruch auf Grundlage der vorhandenen Urkunden (ausländisches Urteil) gegeben ist oder nicht,
 liegen die Voraussetzungen vor, wird ein vollstreckbarer Titel (Exekutionsordnung) vom Landgericht erlassen,
 Der Verpflichtete kann gegen den vollstreckbaren Titel binnen 14 Tagen eine Aberkennungsklage einleiten (Art 51 Abs. 4 RSO)
Wird die Aberkennungsklage (Art 1 Bst. d EO) erhoben, wird das Verfahren in der Sache selbst in Liechtenstein nochmals durchgeführt, wobei wieder in allen drei Instanzen verhandelt werden kann.

Kritik am Rechtsöffnungsverfahren
Die Rezeption des Rechtsöffnungsverfahrens und die Anwendung innerhalb des liechtensteinischen Zivilprozessrechtes ist auch auf erhebliche Kritik gestoßen. So hat das liechtensteinische Obergericht im Beschluss 7 Rö 2002.3-36 vom 22. August 2002, Pkt. II. ausgeführt: Ergänzend ist zu bemerken, dass die Zulassung des Rechtsöffnungsverfahrens für ausländische Urteil(e) gemäß Art 49 ff RSO als gesetzgeberische Fehlleistung zu bezeichnen ist und zwar unabhängig davon, ob die Gegenseitigkeit bei Erlass des Gesetzes verlangt war oder nicht. Weiters im selben Beschluss, Pkt. II: Der Weg über das Rechtsöffnungsverfahren zum (ordentlichen) Aberkennungsprozess ist eine prozessökonomisch unsinnige Lösung.

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Realtor picture captioned "this going to be an issue?"
I wanted to get some opinions on this.
Of course it's an issue, access to panel blocked.
and the panel on the right is Federal Pacific Stablok btw.
Plumbing pipes in front of electrical panel needs to Removed and repaired immediately by a qualified trades person's .
Relocate and replace the panel.
Just do the inspection and note no access to the panel because of the pipe.
Thanks everyone. I saw this and had to post it. At least I'm training this Realtor a bit.
There should be 1 square meter ( 3 Sq Ft)of clear space in front of the panel, at least in my neck of the woods.


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The Weir – The Lowry, Salford
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Writer: Conor McPherson
Director: Adele Thomas
Reviewer: Jim Gillespie
20 years since its first performance at the Royal Court Theatre, English Touring Theatre in a co-production with Colchester's Mercury Theatre bring their own take on Conor McPherson's drama to The Lowry in Salford.
The play is set in rural Ireland, and the Irishness of its cosmology underpins the entire production. Paganism, catholicism, superstition and rational argument collide in the "craic", the bluster and banter of the locals in Brendan's bar. The pub reeks of beer and quiet desperation, cigarette smoke and longing, and the deep and shallow connections through which people touch one another's lives.
Brash bachelor Jack, and his lugubrious pal Jim are regulars at Brendan's. Local entrepreneur Finbar is making a special visit to introduce Valerie to the town. She is down from Dublin, has just taken over a house in the village, and Finbar is giving her the full tour of its eccentricities. Brendan's bar has plenty of these on offer, and as the pints and shorts are downed, a series of stories are told. Some might be classified as "fairy stories", some as "ghost stories", but some are "real life" stories that create an intense link between friends and strangers – and audience – that carry a powerful narrative and emotional charge. Not through the display of emotion, always underplayed, but from the power of the stories.
Valerie is a woman in exclusively male territory; especially so in rural Ireland. She unintentionally becomes the catalyst for much of the chemistry between the men. She has her own reasons for seeking isolation, a place of peace and quiet. But the fragile veils between the real and unreal, the known and unknown worlds, that the characters evoke in their storytelling, echo her own deeply-felt experience of tragic loss.
One by one the stories are told. The wind whining outside. Occasionally the strain of a violin adds poignancy or eerieness to a key moment. The feeble lights of the bar fade and listeners are wrapt by the unfolding tales. Subtle shifts in positioning and lighting create focus on key players, bringing a breathless suspense to the performance.
If it were all about the stories that the charcters bring to their brief encounter in Brendan's Bar it would be no more than a jig-a-jig version of The Canterbury Tales. But the interaction of the characters is also well-observed. Their banter arcs and falls, waxes and wanes, as the evening takes its course.
The set is small, so it would be easy to describe the bar room setting as intimate. The intimacy is created not only by the set, but by the sense of a hostile world outside the hearth of the pub, and the sharing of experience, of stories, with others.
There are other dynamics at play: The gulf between urban sophistication and rural grittiness; the sense of love lost, and of life unlived; the hollowness of success and the loneliness of failure; the importance of simple rituals in bonding people together: "Cheers!"
The cast are impeccable, and all performances are subtle and nuanced. Sean Murray's 'Jack' provides the emotional energy to the piece, until Natalie Radmall-Quirke trumps him with her own backstory. Louis Dempsey as Finbar portrays the small town entrepreneur with repellant poise and believable vulnerability. John O'Dowd's Jim is a brooding humble presence, still waters personified. Sam O'Mahony, as the unambitious barman Brendan, is a voice of beleaguered reason throughout.
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Huck Finn Research Essay, Research Paper
Overview of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is likely Mark Twain? s most well-known and celebrated novel. It was written in 1885 and banned by the Concord, Massachusetts Library that same twelvemonth because of? unsmooth linguistic communication? . Even though it was written so long ago it still remains a authoritative today. Mark Twain? s manner, literary devices, sarcasm, and dialect all contributed to its success.
In the beginning of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck is presented a big sum of money. This causes his delinquent life style to alter drastically. Huck gets and instruction and a place to populate in with a caring adult female. One would believe that Huck would be satisfied. However, he wasn? T because he wanted his old lifestyle back. When Huck? s rummy male parent returns, he is unhappy with Huck. He feels that no boy should populate better than his male parent. He tries to take Huck? s money, but fails repeatedly. He so takes Huck and brings him to a cabin on the outskirts of town. Huck tries to get away but can non. He so stages his ain snatch and slaying, and takes a raft to the Mississippi River. He meets up with a runaway slave, Jim, when they decide to go forth the country. They both escape large jobs and go on their route to freedom.
In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, uses many different literary devices, including? existent? linguistic communication, enunciation and sarcasm. Twain? s manner is simple and conveys his thoughts in a boylike temper. The book is slightly of an sarcasm in itself because of this manner. He gives his complex observations on society through the eyes and through the address of a immature male child out for escapade. He besides pays close attending to detail in traffics with the different countries down the river, particularly in address and duologue. ? Real? linguistic communication is the manner the characters talk, of the clip period that people truly spoke. Twain wrote his novel this manner and it was more effectual because one can larn to understand the characters. Enunciation is the pick and usage of words in address and authorship. Twain tells the narrative through Huck Finn and his enunciation is typical of the southern address of a immature male child during that clip and country. ? This ulterior book, Huckleberry Finn, has the great advantage of being written in autobiographical signifier? ( T.S. Perry, 2 ) . The enunciation is really informal. This makes the enunciation simple and easy to understand with humourous differences between this composing manner and other more formal 1s. Much of the descriptions and imagination is humourous in this manner. Twain besides uses a batch of sarcasm. Twain? s besides pays close attending to the enunciation of the address of the assorted people from the assorted countries down the river. The composing manner in this book is non formal, but merely the address of a immature male child. He used the idiom of a immature southern male child. Mark Twain was a maestro of sarcasm, which is a type of wit to do merriment of something, which is truly non amusing. He uses this throughout The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. For illustration, in chapter 8, Huck? s male parent was intoxicated and chased Huck around in a locked log cabin with a knife stating Huck that he was traveling to kill him. Couple elaborated this scene as a gag with Huck outrunning his rummy and clumsy male parent.
Bondage is likely the most of import subject and 1 that has be
en debated the most frequently since Huck Finn was foremost published. Mark Twain himself was opposed to slavery and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn can be seen as a fresh screening why bondage is incorrect. Twain utilizations Jim, a slave who is one of the chief characters, as a manner of demoing the human side of a slave. Everything about Jim is presented through emotions. For illustration, Jim runs off because Miss Watson was traveling to sell him and divide him from his household. Jim is seeking to go free so he can purchase his family's freedom. Jim takes attention of Huck and protects him on their journey downriver. Therefore Mark Twain's intent is to do the reader feel understanding for Jim and choler against the society that would harm him. Another chief subject of the novel is the struggle between civilisation and "natural life." Huck represents natural life through his freedom of spirit, his barbarian ways, and his desire to get away from civilisation. He was brought up without any regulations and has a strong opposition to anything that might educate him. This struggle is introduced in the first chapter when Widow Douglas tries to coerce Huck to have on new apparels and analyze the Bible. Throughout the novel, Twain seems to propose that the barbarian manner of life is better. The subject of award besides appears in the novel. This subject is introduced in the 2nd chapter when Tom believes that there is a great trade of award associated with being robbers. This subject besides occurs throughout the remainder of the book. Tom and Huck both become actual robbers at the terminal of the novel. They both want to steal Jim out of bondage and while making this they act honest. Therefore honor, and moving in a manner to gain award, becomes an of import subject in this novel.
Most critics think The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a great work of literature. ? The narrative of Huck Finn will likely stand as the best of Mark Twain & # 8217 ; s strictly fictional Hagiographas? ( Paine, 1 ) . ? Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has one of the most superb and unusual gap lines in American literature: & # 8220 ; You don & # 8217 ; t know about me, without you have read a book by the name of & # 8216 ; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, & # 8217 ; but that don & # 8217 ; t matter. & # 8221 ; ( Zwick, 1 ) Besides most critics agree that it is a controversial piece of literature and some people even consider it to be racialist. ? If Mark Twain was alive today, he would likely be looking at libraries and in on-line confab suites during Banned Books Week to discourse the destiny of his ain books? ( Zwick, 2 ) .
In decision, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a authoritative piece of literature, which people will be reading in old ages to come. Mark Twain is a superb writer and his simple manner and immature southern boy point of position contributed to the success of this novel.
? The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. ? Online Literature Library. 29 June 1999. Knowledge Matters Ltd. 10 December 2000.
Cavendish, Marshall. ? American Classics. ? Great Writers of the English Language, V.7. 1989.
? Huckleberry Finn Spark Notes. ? SparkNotes. 14 December 2000. I-Terf. 10 December 2000.
Paine, Albert. ? Huck Finn Comes Into His Own. ? About.com. 12 December 2000.
Perry, T.S. ? Century Reviews. ? 10 December 2000. Reviews of Huckleberry Finn.
Zwick, Jim. ? Banned Books and American Culture. ? 14 December 2000. About.com. 10 December 2000.
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Donoghue, Emma. 1995. Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801. Harper Perennial, New York. ISBN 0-06-017261-4
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A study of emotional, romantic, and sexual relationships between women in the English "long 18th century." A foundational work in the field.
Chapter 6: What Joys Are These?
The sex chapter!
Here Donoghue considers the literature that addresses sexual activity between women. In contrast to some claims, there are a number of home-grown English texts in this period that address non-penetrative sexual activities between women, and during the 18th century there seems to have been a regular dialog between French and English writing in this vein, with works in one language rapidly appearing in translation in the other. The majority, to be sure, are written by men, and it can be difficult to distinguish to what extent they represent typical sexual practices of the time as opposed to male fantasies. When these texts are studied today, the lesbian material is often glossed over or ignored, adding to the impression that little, if any, actual sex was occurring. Donoghue approaches the material by way of several groupings: an older experienced woman attempting to seduce an innocent younger one, sexual activity presented as "frolicsome exploration", the use of lesbian activities as an initiation preparing a young woman for marriage (or at least for heterosex), and sexual activity involving dildoes.
Seducing Innocence
In the first motif, the young woman typically escapes with her innocence intact, if not her ignorance, from the attentions of a knowledgeable and predatory seducer. Often there is a running tension between the victim being portrayed as entirely unaware of what her seducer intends, and a sense of peril or guilt that requires an understanding of the possibilities.
In the classic gothic novel Pamela the title character, having fought off the advances of her male employer, finds herself the uneasy subject of similar attentions by her employer's housekeeper Mrs. Jewkes while the two travel together. A running stream of physical compliments and casual embraces and kisses leave Pamela simultaneously claiming ignorance that another woman might be a sexual danger, while reacting to these otherwise friendly attentions with revulsion. Also interesting is that Mrs. Jewkes is described in a way that implies a specific orientation toward women, with one contemporary commenter on the novel noting "There are…too many who assume the Characters of Women of Mrs. Jewkes's Cast. I mean Lovers of their own sex." That is, the writer perceives that there is a "type" of woman who love women, and other women without the innate inclination can "assume the character" of this type.
The sexual shenanigans in Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1782), in its original French or in English translation, focus mostly on heterosexual seduction and revenge, but there is a running thread where the Marchioness de Merteuil contemplates taking the innocent Cecile on as a "pupil" in love, taking advantage of opportunities to embrace her and expressing jealousy of the man she is setting up to seduce Cecile. Cecile, in her turn, expresses an attraction to the Marchioness that goes beyond innocent friendship, though she falls short of expressing a passionate response.
Previously mentioned has been the Memoirs of the Count de Grammont in which the "mannish" Mistress Hobart is presented in increasingly derisory terms as a predator on the young maids on honor who come under her care. In a series of three courtships, she is shown losing the object of her affections to men who are, when it comes down to it, equally or more predatory to herself. The third attempt is told in the greatest detail. She works on Mrs Temple's love of praise and flattery (as well as her fondness for sweets, by which Temple is framed as childlike in her desires). Taking advantage of the need to change clothing and bathe after the two have gone riding together, Hobart embraces and undresses her but they are interrupted by the intrusion of a servant. Others put a word in Mrs. Temple's ear about Hobart's inclinations and reputation and the next time Hobart tries to take advantage of her, she responds as to a sexual assault.
Though the previous two stories don't seem to take the activity much past kissing and embraces, Diderot's novel La Religieuse (1796) takes things further, though Susan, the object of the predatory Mother Superior's attention, goes beyond all believability in maintaining her ignorance of the sexual nature of those attentions. At the same time, her seducer seems bent on inducing some recognition or response from Susan, not merely taking advantage of her position for her own gratification.
When Susan is accused of having a "suspicious intimacy" with another nun and of enjoying improper desires, she protests that she doesn't even understand what they could be talking about. It is after that incident (which primes the reader for the topic) that she comes under the authority of the Mother Superior who immediately fastens on Susan as her new favorite, giving her compliments and caresses and undressing her. Susan's protestations of innocence/ignorance are undermined by the way she uses her influence over the Mother Superior to win concession and favors for others, by offering and allowing kisses and caresses.
There are two scenes (censored in the English translation) where a shared erotic encounter involving kissing bosoms and "squeezing all over the body" results in orgasmic swooning of both parties…which Susan still fails to recognize as sexual in nature. It isn't until the Mother Superior is strongly pressuring Susanto admit her own erotic awareness that Susan finally recognizes an encounter together in bed as something in the category of sin. There follows much angst and finally a realization, at which point Susan flees the convent and immediately comes to a bad end.
Foolery from woman to woman
Texts that show sexual activity between women as more mutual often frame it as "play" that must ultimately be abandoned as unfulfilling or simply as preparation for heterosexual enjoyment. A typical example is Satyra Sotadica which takes the form of dialogues between two cousins: the married, experienced Tullia and the initially betrothed (later married) and innocent Octavia. At first, Tullia introduces Octavia to tribadism as a diverting pleasure to be enjoyed when men are not available or for fear of pregnancy. Although the practice is presented in contradictory terms as both orgasmic and unsatisfying, unnatural but universal, Tullia notes that, having herself been initiated in the practice in the context of an earlier friendship, she's grown to prefer it to sex with her husband. They move on to manual stimulation and eventually to an even wider variety of "deviant" sexual practices that include their husbands as well.
A similar set of dialogues between two sexually involved nuns (Venus dans la Cloître 1683) is less daring, never going much beyond deep kissing and manual stimulation, but generally devolving into conversation rather than moving on to climax. (The more experienced of the two nuns also has male lovers.) A more exclusive sexual passion between women is described in the orientalist text The Indiscreet Toys in which a Sultan uses a magic ring that causes women's vulvas to tell their own stories. To his surprise, two of the women of his court passionately desire each other and at the end of the narrative he "left them to entertain each other."
The most famous of the "initiation" genre is Cleland's Fanny Hill (1749) in which the sexual initiation of young Fanny by her fellow inmates at the brothel is among the tamer sexual activities in the book. Beginning with kissing and embracing, then "squeezing all over", there is detailed description of caresses on the breasts and genitals, followed by digital stimulation to orgasm. But all this is in service to Fanny's incipient career as a prostitute and she is portrayed as eagerly moving on to men.
The dildo tribe
Some writers seemed to feel that sex between women required a penis substitute, although the contexts where this motif appears generally downplay any emotional relationship between the women and focus on the dildo simply as a sex toy. There is also a strong theme in this genre of women finding the dildo inadequate or at least less satisfying than a man. In the Restoration play Sodom or the Quintessence of Debauchery, when the men of the court turn to homosexual pleasures, the ladies turn to using dildoes on each other in frustration. In the anonymous A New Atalantis for the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty-Eight a sexually voracious woman is served by her French dildo-wielding maid who, on proving inadequate to the challenge, brings in a willing footman to finish the job more organically.
Another variant that centers desire among women even when introducing a man into the scenario involves the motif of a man disguising himself as a woman to gain access to an exclusively lesbian woman who then, on pretense of using a dildo, has heterosex with her. These stories are often self-contradictory regarding whether the substitution is unnoticeable or whether men provide more pleasure.
Something more of a genuine romantic relationship between the women appears in A Treatise of Hermaphrodites (1718) where two young Italian women, having lost their suitors to death, set up a house together as inseparable companions and take turns pleasuring each other with a strap-on dildo. This idyllic life, however, is interrupted by a male suitor who, in order to gain access to their closed circle, disguises himself as a woman and seduces the object of his affection, after which he is revealed and she takes off with him.
A rather more lighthearted look at sex toys comes in the doggerel verse Monsieur Thing's Origin: or, Seignior D---o's Adventures in Britain, detailing the trials and tribulations of a French dildo's visit to London. The poem, while sympathetic towards single women (or unsatisfied wives) who use the device, is more hostile toward those engaging in same-sex activities.
Two Orgies
Group sex among women was not at all a common motif in this period, but adaptations of Juvenal's Sixth Satire, which details a competition of tribadry between the ladies and courtesans of Rome, provide varying levels of detail in how such a thing might be imagined.
A thrilling joy, 'till then unknown
The chapter finishes with what may be the most positive portrayal of overt sexual desire between women: the anonymous poem An Epistle from Signora F_a to a Lady (1727) which offers praise and pleas from the author to her beloved, pledging devotion and faithfulness, and expressing a love that culminated in "that happy day when melting in each other's arms we lay. With velvet kiss your humid lips I press'd, and rode triumphant on your panting breast."
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sexual techniques
sexual/romantic desire
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Event / person:
The Academy of Women (L'Academie des dames) (Nicolas Chorier)
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (John Cleland)
Dangerous Liaisons (Pierre Choderlos de Laclos)
La Religieuse (Denis Diderot)
Memoirs of the Life of Count de Grammont (Antoine Hamilton)
Satyra Sotadica (Johannes Meursius)
Tractatus de Hermaphroditus or a Treatise of Hermaphrodites (Giles Jacob)
The New Atalantis (Mary Delarivier Manley)
Monsieur Thing's Origin or Seignor D---o's Adventures in Britain
Pamela (Samuel Richardson)
Venus dans le Cloître (Abbe du Prat)
Sodom or the Quintessence of Debauchery (John Wilmot)
An Epistle from SIgnora F-a to a Lady
Chapter 1: Female Hermaphrodites
Chapter 2: Female Husbands
Chapter 3: The Breeches Part
Chapter 4: A Sincere and Tender Passion
Chapter 5: The Truest Friends
Chapter 7: Communities
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Q: The 'Open' button is missing in our Android app We have recently upgraded our apps so they are in line with Android 12 (API level 31) and built with Flutter version 2.8.1.
Google recently approved our apps, yet when we 'Update' the app, the previous version is removed from devices and in the Play store. The remaining button option is 'Uninstall'. There isn't an 'Open' button any longer (see screenshot 1).
This is occurring across 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 Android versions. All our apps have GooglePay enabled.
1. Missing 'Open' button
Steps we have taken:

*

*How our versioning appears in the stores (see screenshot 2)

*Included activity in our App Manifest

*Contacted Google Support who advised the bullet point above, which we already had in our App Manifest. Any answers or even comments to point us in the right direction will be great. Thanks!

2. Versioning
File AppManifest.xml
Is there something incorrect within our AppManifest.xml file?
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="<BOUNDLE ID>">
    <!-- io.flutter.app.FlutterApplication is an android.app.Application that
         calls FlutterMain.startInitialization(this); in its onCreate method.
         In most cases you can leave this as-is, but you if you want to provide
         additional functionality it is fine to subclass or reimplement
         FlutterApplication and put your custom class here. -->
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

    <!-- commenting this out as i don;t think we;re using it and google asks us why we're requesting it.
     it's for seeing what apps are installed on someones phone
     not sure if needed for web views perhaps?
     -->
    <!-- <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES"/> -->

    <application
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher">
        <activity
            android:name=".MainActivity"
            android:exported="true"
            android:launchMode="singleTop"
            android:theme="@style/LaunchTheme"
            android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden|keyboard|screenSize|locale|layoutDirection|fontScale|screenLayout|density|uiMode"
            android:hardwareAccelerated="true"
            android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize">
            <!-- This keeps the window background of the activity showing
                 until Flutter renders its first frame. It can be removed if
                 there is no splash screen (such as the default splash screen
                 defined in @style/LaunchTheme). -->
            <meta-data
                android:name="io.flutter.embedding.android.SplashScreenDrawable"
                android:resource="@drawable/launch_background" />
              <meta-data
                android:name="com.google.android.gms.wallet.api.enabled"
                android:value="true" />
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
                <data
                    android:scheme="stripesdk"
                    android:host="3ds.stripesdk.io" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
        <activity
            android:name="com.yalantis.ucrop.UCropActivity"
            android:screenOrientation="portrait"
            android:theme="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar"/>
    </application>
    <meta-data
        android:name="flutterEmbedding"
        android:value="2" />
</manifest>

A: This happens only when you have a debug version of your app on the phone.
Try opening the app from a device that you've never used for development or testing and you will not face this issue.

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Sahlgrenska University Hospital aims to be a driving force in the development of artificial intelligence in healthcare. Chalmers has complementary expertise. A joint research agenda will give the hospital and Chalmers the ability to develop the high-tech healthcare of tomorrow.
If we wish to take on the challenges that a growing and ageing population pose to healthcare, we must take help from new technology to make changes to working methods. Artificial intelligence (AI) has great potential to be put into practical use in the healthcare sector.
Chalmers AI Research Centre (CHAIR) was formed at the start of the year, and conducts research in areas such as autonomous vehicles, industry 4.0, and e-health. Chair and Sahlgrenska University Hospital have entered into a strategic research cooperation on AI in healthcare. The hospital benefits from the AI expertise found at Chalmers, while Chalmers benefits from the university hospital's medical expertise.
"Chalmers has a long tradition of successful collaboration with Sahlgrenska University Hospital, and the research cooperation in AI will strengthen this greatly. Through the AI collaboration, we will achieve exciting new results that are important not only to both partners, but also to society in general," says Ivica Crnkovic, Director of Chalmers AI Research Centre.
Sahlgrenska University Hospital is an arena for outstanding research, and a number of development projects currently being conducted at the hospital use AI as support for areas such as diagnosis. The research cooperation now opens up new opportunities in the digital transition that the healthcare sector is facing.
"We need to advance our positions in artificial intelligence. At the hospital, we have very good collaborations with both academia and the business world, where new areas of collaboration pave the way for great progress in this field. AI is an important tool that will ultimately enable us to offer high-quality healthcare to everyone who needs it. Our collaboration with Chair is a big step in the right direction," says Ann-Marie Wennberg, Hospital Director of Sahlgrenska University Hospital.
Chalmers AI Research Centre is a competence centre aimed at increasing Chalmers' expertise and excellence in artificial intelligence in partnership with industry and society.
Sahlgrenska University Hospital works in close collaboration with a number of innovation platforms, such as AI Innovation of Sweden and Medtech West. They also work in close collaboration with Sahlgrenska Academy and Sahlgrenska Science Park, to name a few.
The partners (Chalmers and SU) have drafted a letter of intent aimed at entering into a research cooperation. An application has also been submitted to the Regional Development unit of Region Västra Götaland to seek support for the project. The formal research cooperation agreement has not yet been signed.
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Climate Change Deniers Are Embracing QAnon to Gain Followers
"It's the scariest thing I've ever encountered."
By Jeremy Deaton
This story originally appeared in Nexus Media and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.
Naomi Seibt was supposed to be the right's answer to Greta Thunberg — a charismatic, blonde, German teen who would challenge climate science, like a comic book nemesis who is endowed with the same powers and abilities as her foe. Her conservative backers at the Heartland Institute billed her as a much needed voice of reason. Seibt, now 20, earned coverage in The Washington Post and The Guardian for rebuffing climate advocates, and she built a small following online.
But Seibt never reached the heights of fame or influence that Thunberg had achieved. After her debut at the start of this year, she began to drift from the spotlight. That changed in May when she doubled down on her wholesale rejection of facts, giving credence to QAnon, a far-right conspiratorial movement claiming that Donald Trump is trying to stop a satanic cabal of pedophiles made up of liberal elites. A new analysis shows that Seibt saw a spike in new Twitter followers after repeatedly referencing QAnon.
"After her initial intro, Seibt's star faded very quickly," said Michael Khoo, an advisor to Friends of the Earth. "When she started talking about Qanon, she started to gain a lot more traction. And that's the dynamic that has a long-term danger to us."
Khoo oversaw a recent analysis of climate denial online undertaken by the firm Graphika. It found that climate deniers, like Seibt, have begun sharing content related to QAnon in recent months. Khoo believes that climate deniers are vying for the support of QAnon believers, and that if they succeed, it could pose a serious threat to the goals of the climate movement.
In August, Seibt posted a YouTube video about child trafficking that suggested online furniture retailer Wayfair may have named certain items after missing children, a nod to spurious claims from QAnon supporters that Wayfair is selling cabinets with the missing children contained therein. This is patently false, but Seibt treats it with undue seriousness.
"Just because some of the claims about these issues are made by a certain movement that you might not consider credible — namely, the QAnon movement — that shouldn't deter you from looking into the evidence anyway," she said at the start of the video. "As of right now, I don't consider myself an active part of the QAnon movement, but I am on the side, watching and evaluating for myself what I think is verifiable and what, to me, seems too far out there."
Khoo said Seibt is one example of an alarming trend among climate change deniers. Since a QAnon account said in May that the Paris Agreement is a scam, the online community of deniers has been tweeting more about QAnon, according to the analysis.
"People who lead conspiratorial movements, such as anti-vaxxers and COVID denialists, have latched onto QAnon because they see the QAnon community as a ripe audience to believe their nonsense, and they're correct," said Travis View, a journalist and conspiracy theory researcher who co-hosts the podcast QAnon Anonymous.
Even some elected officials, most notably President Trump, have lent some support to QAnon, though usually with the same caveats offered by Seibt, who told DeSmog blog that, while she is not part of the QAnon movement, she believes it is "a positive contribution to the global political discourse."
In May, FBI agents in Phoenix issued an intelligence bulletin warning that conspiracy theories, including QAnon, "very likely motivate some domestic extremists to commit criminal, sometimes violent activity." In July, the counter-terrorism center at West Point published an article naming QAnon a potential security threat.
Online, QAnon supporters have helped spread misinformation about climate change, including a recent claim that wildfires in the western United States were caused by antifa activists, View said. The notion that disasters like wildfires or the pandemic must have been planned is characteristic of QAnon adherents, he said.
"People say that QAnon is a conspiracy theory. That undersells it. It's not like believing there are UFOs in Area 51 or that Bigfoot lives in Oregon," View said. "This is an all-encompassing worldview, and it's an extremist belief that you are a digital soldier fighting evil, and that by posting and meme-ing, you can revolutionarily change the world."
Currently, two in 10 Americans, including four in 10 Republicans, say that QAnon is a "somewhat good" or "very good" thing for the country, according to Pew Research. Some 81 current or former congressional candidates have in some way promoted QAnon, according to Media Matters.
Khoo worries that, if Joe Biden manages to win in November and Democrats take control of Congress, QAnon supporters will help stymie efforts to pass major climate change legislation needed to avoid catastrophic warming.
"My greatest fear is that if we have a rare moment to take real action on climate change, they could be the foot soldiers that stop that," Khoo said. "It's the scariest thing I've ever encountered."
View said the social media companies have a critical role to play in stemming disinformation, whether it relates to QAnon or climate change denial, but that these companies — Facebook, in particular — have largely failed in that duty.
Though Facebook removed hundreds of QAnon accounts last month, in other ways it has allowed disinformation to proliferate, especially when it comes to climate change. It has permitted users, in some cases, to promote opinion pieces that include false claims about climate change, and it has failed to take down disinformation, much less remove repeat offenders, Khoo said. This has created an opening for figures like Seibt.
To help address the spread of climate denial, Facebook recently created the Climate Science Information Center, which will educate users about climate change. But green groups, including Friends of the Earth, the Sierra Club, the Union of Concerned Scientists and Greenpeace called on Facebook to do more.
"Climate deniers are an easy group to define — we gave Facebook the list," they said in a statement. "Just as Facebook has taken responsibility for its own carbon emissions, it must take responsibility to stop climate deniers from spreading disinformation on its platform."
This is especially urgent as deniers grow cozier with QAnon, Khoo said, adding, "They need to put the spotlight on this group of known climate deniers, and give them a very short leash, where it's two strikes and they are off the platform."
The fact that tech companies have done so little to rein in conspiracy theories is perhaps the best evidence that an elite cabal actually isn't manipulating global affairs.
"If the worlds of media and academia and technology and politics all came together, the most powerful people in all of these realms, and decided that this was something worth addressing, and took serious action to help stem it, they could," View said. "I just don't think they're going to."
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Sirocco est un film français réalisé par Jacques Séverac et sorti en 1931.

Synopsis

Fiche technique
 Titre : Sirocco
 Autre titre : La Rose du souk
 Réalisation : Jacques Séverac
 Scénario : Jacques Séverac
 Photographie : Jimmy Berliet et Jean Isnard
 Musique : Henri Bullérian
 Société de production : Gallia Films Productions
 Pays de production :
 Durée :
 Date de sortie : France -

Distribution
 Pierre Geay
 Leila Atouna
 Omar Ben Saadi
 Abslem Ben El Kebir

À propos du film
Dans leur ouvrage Histoire de la France coloniale, Gilbert Meynier et Jacques Thobie précisent que La Rose du souk - « rebaptisé Sirocco pour le public français » - est dû à la collaboration de Jacques Séverac et de Mohammed Mammeri, ajoutant qu'il s'agit du premier film parlant arabe.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
 Jean Barreyre, Pour vous, , 24 décembre 1931,
 Pierre Boulanger, Le Cinéma colonial, de L'Atlantide à Lawrence d'Arabie (chapitre IV : « Roses des souks et fleurs de harem »), préface de Guy Hennebelle, Cinéma 2000/Seghers, 1975

Liens externes

Film français sorti en 1931
Film d'aventure français
Film français en noir et blanc
Film tourné à Marrakech