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Some Reflections on the UN Guiding Principles on Foreign Debt and Human Rights and the UN Basic Principles on Sovereign Debt Restructuring Processes
24 September 2015 by Cephas Lumina
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Speech pronounced in the Hellenic Parliament on 23rd September 2015 during a public session of the Debt Truth Committee
Madam President,
I have decided to depart slightly from my script because I was struck by what you said a short while ago – that what we do is just as important, if not more important, than what we say.
We are here because those who control the global financial system failed to adhere to the international rule of law. We are here because of their failure to recognise that the economic policies they craft have a direct bearing on the human rights, lives, rights and well-being of the masses for whose benefit they ostensibly adopt these policies. We are here because they failed to heed the cries of those who have borne the brunt of their misguided policies.
I would like to pose a question at the outset: why should we be concerned about sovereign debt Sovereign debt Government debts or debts guaranteed by the government. ? I believe we should be because excessive foreign debt burdens clearly have a negative impact on the realization of human rights in debtor countries and on development. Sovereign debt burdens have an adverse effect on the realization of human rights and development in two main interrelated ways:
by crowding out public investment in essential social services; and
through policy conditionalities attached to debt and debt relief.
When scarce national resources are diverted to the servicing of debt, there is little money left over for governments to fund the provision of essential public services such as education, health, housing, water and sanitation. In these circumstances, several human rights, including the rights to education, health, adequate housing, water and sanitation, food, work and development, are at risk or violated and millions face poorer living conditions.
In addition, the conditions which countries have to meet to secure new loans or to qualify for debt relief often compel further reductions in government spending on basic social services. While these conditionalities are supposedly aimed at promoting economic growth and restoring the debt repayment capacity of indebted countries, studies indicate that they do, in fact, often have a negative impact on the realization of human rights in the longer term and they have contributed to poverty and inequality in many countries that have been constrained to implement them. Conditionalities also significantly undermine national sovereignty and the right to self-determination in that they erode the ability of governments to freely determine and pursue economic and social policies that advance their development agendas as well as the general welfare of their citizens.
In tacit recognition of the challenges that heavy debt burdens pose for countries in terms of fulfilling their human rights obligations and furthering their development, there have been a number of initiatives proposed or taken over the years at the international level to address the debt crisis, including from a human rights perspective.
Since 1990, several proposals have been made by various stakeholders (including civil society, academics and international financial institutions) for an international mechanism for the orderly restructuring of sovereign debt. In 2001, for example, the IMF IMF
http://imf.org 's then Managing Director, Anne Krueger, proposed the establishment of a 'Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanism' to be administered by the IMF. None of these proposals has ever been implemented.
Nevertheless, we can identify four approaches that have been commonly used to deal with sovereign debt repayment difficulties:
The contractual approach as reflected in the use of the so-called 'collective action clauses' in sovereign bonds;
The voluntary approach as reflected in codes of conduct for lenders and borrowers as they enter into negotiations;
The use of creditor-controlled forums such as the Paris and London Clubs to negotiate and restructure or cancel bilateral and commercial debt, respectively; and
Multilateral debt relief initiatives for poor countries, currently, the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Heavily Indebted Poor Countries
HIPC In 1996 the IMF and the World Bank launched an initiative aimed at reducing the debt burden for some 41 heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC), whose total debts amount to about 10% of the Third World Debt. The list includes 33 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The idea at the back of the initiative is as follows: a country on the HIPC list can start an SAP programme of twice three years. At the end of the first stage (first three years) IMF experts assess the 'sustainability' of the country's debt (from medium term projections of the country's balance of payments and of the net present value (NPV) of debt to exports ratio.
If the country's debt is considered "unsustainable", it is eligible for a second stage of reforms at the end of which its debt is made 'sustainable' (that it it is given the financial means necessary to pay back the amounts due). Three years after the beginning of the initiative, only four countries had been deemed eligible for a very slight debt relief (Uganda, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, and Mozambique). Confronted with such poor results and with the Jubilee 2000 campaign (which brought in a petition with over 17 million signatures to the G7 meeting in Cologne in June 1999), the G7 (group of 7 most industrialised countries) and international financial institutions launched an enhanced initiative: "sustainability" criteria have been revised (for instance the value of the debt must only amount to 150% of export revenues instead of 200-250% as was the case before), the second stage in the reforms is not fixed any more: an assiduous pupil can anticipate and be granted debt relief earlier, and thirdly some interim relief can be granted after the first three years of reform.
Simultaneously the IMF and the World Bank change their vocabulary : their loans, which so far had been called, "enhanced structural adjustment facilities" (ESAF), are now called "Growth and Poverty Reduction Facilities" (GPRF) while "Structural Adjustment Policies" are now called "Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper". This paper is drafted by the country requesting assistance with the help of the IMF and the World Bank and the participation of representatives from the civil society.
This enhanced initiative has been largely publicised: the international media announced a 90%, even a 100% cancellation after the Euro-African summit in Cairo (April 2000). Yet on closer examination the HIPC initiative turns out to be yet another delusive manoeuvre which suggests but in no way implements a cancellation of the debt.
List of the 42 Heavily Indebted Poor Countries: Angola, Benin, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoro Islands, Congo, Ivory Coast, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Honduras, Kenya, Laos, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Niger, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, Zambia. (HIPC) Initiative and Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative led by the World Bank World Bank
WB The World Bank was founded as part of the new international monetary system set up at Bretton Woods in 1944. Its capital is provided by member states' contributions and loans on the international money markets. It financed public and private projects in Third World and East European countries.
It consists of several closely associated institutions, among which :
1. The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD, 189 members in 2017), which provides loans in productive sectors such as farming or energy ;
2. The International Development Association (IDA, 159 members in 1997), which provides less advanced countries with long-term loans (35-40 years) at very low interest (1%) ;
3. The International Finance Corporation (IFC), which provides both loan and equity finance for business ventures in developing countries.
As Third World Debt gets worse, the World Bank (along with the IMF) tends to adopt a macro-economic perspective. For instance, it enforces adjustment policies that are intended to balance heavily indebted countries' payments. The World Bank advises those countries that have to undergo the IMF's therapy on such matters as how to reduce budget deficits, round up savings, enduce foreign investors to settle within their borders, or free prices and exchange rates.
and International Monetary Fund (IMF).
None of these approaches, however, has satisfactorily addressed sovereign debt problems, at least not in a fair or enduring fashion.
In this context, I would like to offer some brief reflections on two initiatives adopted by the United Nations which I believe hold real promise in terms of addressing sovereign debt repayment problems in a fair and sustainable manner: the UN Guiding Principles on Foreign Debt and Human Rights [1] (which I am honoured to have written during my tenure as UN Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights) and the UN Basic Principles on Sovereign Debt Restructuring Processes. [2]
The Guiding Principles on Foreign Debt and Human Rights
The Guiding Principles on Foreign Debt and Human Rights were endorsed by the Human Rights Council on 18 July 2012. Their overall purpose is to provide guidance to lenders and sovereign borrowers on how to balance Balance End of year statement of a company's assets (what the company possesses) and liabilities (what it owes). In other words, the assets provide information about how the funds collected by the company have been used; and the liabilities, about the origins of those funds. their contractual obligations relating to debt arrangements on the one hand, with their international legal obligations to respect, protect and fulfil all human rights, on the other hand.
The principles are set out in three main sections. The first sketches the scope of the principles, making it clear that the principles apply to States, international financial institutions and private actors such as organized groups of bondholders. The second section outlines the key human rights principles upon which the Principles are based. These include the primacy of human rights; equality and non-discrimination; progressive realization of human rights; minimum core obligations; non-retrogression; the duty of international cooperation; the shared responsibility of creditors and debtors; and ensuring an independent process of national development. These principles inform the operational principles in the last section.
The operational principles include those on external debt, debt sustainability, national development strategies and resolution of debt-related issues.
The Guiding Principles elaborate various measures that are designed to ensure that States' obligations relating to debt do not undermine human rights. These include the following:
Lenders should ensure that the servicing of new loans does not affect the capacity of the borrowing State to perform its human rights obligations (para. 39);
Lenders should refrain from financing projects that are likely to infringe human rights and, in this regard, they should conduct credible human rights impact assessments or request a human rights institution in the borrower State to conduct such HRIA (paras. 40 and 46);
Creditors should avoid linking policy measures (such as austerity, privatization and structural reform) to loans and debt relief (para. 56);
Suspension of debt payments when a profound change in circumstances beyond the control of the borrower State occurs (para. 58);
Limiting amounts recoverable by litigating holdout creditors to amounts payable Payable A sum of money that one person (debtor) or group of people owes to another (creditor). to other creditors as agreed under an international debt relief mechanism (para. 61);
Prohibiting the sale of debt on the secondary market Secondary market The market where institutional investors resell and purchase financial assets. Thus the secondary market is the market where already existing financial assets are traded. to holdout creditors in order to prevent such creditors (termed "vulture funds Vulture funds
Vulture fund Investment funds who buy, on the secondary markets and at a significant discount, bonds once emitted by countries that are having repayment difficulties, from investors who prefer to cut their losses and take what price they can get in order to unload the risk from their books. The Vulture Funds then pursue the issuing country for the full amount of the debt they have purchased, not hesitating to seek decisions before, usually, British or US courts where the law is favourable to creditors. ") from claiming extortionate profits from indebted countries (para. 62);
Ensuring that debt sustainability assessments take into account the impact of debt on the achievement of human rights and development goals (para. 65);
The need for periodic, transparent and participatory debt audits, the results of which should be publicly disclosed, to assess the loan contraction process, the use of loan funds, the impact on development and realization of human rights, and in particular to inform future decisions on borrowing (paras. 67 and 68);
State monitoring and regulation of external lending and borrowing by the private sector in order to prevent private debt burdens being created which bring financial instability (para. 72); and
Establishment of an independent international debt workout mechanism (para. 84).
This last principle reflects the calls by debt relief campaigners for a credible international sovereign debt work-out mechanism. It is also similar to the initiatives taken by the UN General Assembly to establish an ad hoc committee to explore this subject further and more recently its decision to adopt core principles for sovereign debt restructuring processes.
The Basic Principles on Debt Sovereign Debt Restructuring Processes
As you probably are aware, at its Sixty-Ninth Session on 10 September 2015, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution (A/69/L.84) which essentially proclaims that sovereign debt restructuring processes should be guided by the following nine basic principles:
Sovereignty (that is, States have the right to design their macroeconomic policies, including restructuring their sovereign debt, and this should not be frustrated or impeded by any abusive measures);
Good faith on the part of both the sovereign debtor and its creditors in order to ensure constructive debt restructuring negotiations;
Transparency, which focuses on the need to enhance the accountability of the actors concerned;
Impartiality in relation to the conduct and decisions of all institutions and actors involved in sovereign debt restructuring workouts;
Equitable treatment of creditors and debtors;
Sovereign immunity from the jurisdiction of foreign courts and execution regarding sovereign debt restructurings as a right of States, exceptions to which should be restrictively interpreted.
Legitimacy, which entails respect for the requirements of inclusiveness and the rule of law,
Sustainability, which implies that sovereign debt restructuring should lead to a stable debt situation in the debtor state, preserving creditors' rights while promoting economic growth and sustainable development, reducing economic and social costs, ensuring the stability of the international financial system and respecting human rights; and
Majority restructuring which implies that sovereign debt restructuring arrangements that are approved by a majority of creditors should not be frustrated by other States or a non-representative minority of creditors.
Most of the above basic principles bear a striking similarity to the Guiding Principles on Foreign Debt and Human Rights. [3]
When I began, I expressed the view that both the Guiding Principles on Foreign Debt and Human Rights and the Basic Principles on Sovereign Debt Restructuring Processes represent important initiatives in the quest for a fair and durable solution to sovereign debt problems. But I say so with a degree of caution given the context in which both sets of principles were adopted. Both sets of principles were adopted by vote, rather than consensus. The votes in the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly on the relevant resolutions are broadly reflective of the geo-political voting pattern in the UN where developing countries vote in favour of measures to enhance the fairness of the international financial system and to mitigate the negative impacts of debt burdens on human rights, while the most powerful developed countries often block such measures, arguing that discussions on these measures must only take place within international financial institutions and organisations such as the Paris Club Paris Club This group of lender States was founded in 1956 and specializes in dealing with non-payment by developing countries.
, not the UN. For example, the Guiding Principles were endorsed by the Council by a vote of 31 member states in favour, 11 against and five abstaining. Similarly, the Basic Principles were adopted by a vote of 136 in favour, 6 against and 41 abstaining.
The position of the developed countries is perhaps best summed up by the statement made by the delegation of the United States in the Human Rights Council in 2011:
"[W]e continue to believe that it is incorrect to treat the issue of foreign debt as a human rights problem to be addressed by this Council. Rules other than human rights law are most relevant to the contractual arrangements between States and lenders. There are other international fora which are much better equipped to deal with the questions of foreign debt and debt forgiveness, which are principally economic and technical in nature." [4]
In a similar vein, in explanation of the vote in the General Assembly earlier this month, the European Union (EU) argued that the text of the General Assembly resolution on the Basic Principles contained a number of statements that did not accurately reflect international law or treaties. The EU went on to contend that the IMF is the appropriate institution to host global discussions on the subject.
Supporting the EU position, the United States contended that the resolution had several flaws, including the suggestion of a right of a State to debt restructuring and the threat to contractual obligations. A statutory mechanism for debt restructurings would create uncertainty in financial markets with negative implications for the flow of financial resources to developing countries. In the view of the representative of the United States, the UN was not the appropriate forum for such issues.
It should be noted that Greece - a country which has been experiencing a severe debt crisis and has been constrained to implement a harmful adjustment programme to address its crisis - abstained during the General Assembly vote. This is hardly surprising, however, given that the EU tends to adopt a common position on such issues. For example, on 7 September 2015 (three days before the General Assembly vote) the EU expressed opposition, as a group, to the UN initiative in a document circulated to its member states entitled 'EU common position on the UN draft resolution A/69/L.84 on "basic principles on sovereign debt restructuring processes".' The document emphasized that: 'A split vote would undermine the efforts undertaken so far to establish and maintain a common position on this very sensitive file, which is of major importance for the EU itself, ever more so in the current context' and that '[i]t is important that Member States enter into and follow through on a common position in respect of the IMF and UN contexts and that this position is the basis for internal and external coordination.'
I believe that the position adopted by the powerful developed countries (including the EU as a whole) which seeks to limit discussion of these important issues to forums which they control is untenable for a number of reasons but I will address only two.
Firstly, with regard to the statement by the US in the Council, it is important to underscore that the "rules other than human rights law" and "other international fora which are much better equipped to deal with the questions of foreign debt and debt forgiveness" have to date failed to deliver a fair and enduring solution to the sovereign debt problem. Moreover, the rules alluded to afford no protection for States that experience debt repayment difficulties in much the same way that insolvency laws do for individuals and entities at the national level, nor do the rules recognize or address the unjust circumstances in which some of the debt was incurred.
Secondly, the "other international fora which are much better equipped to deal with the questions of foreign debt and debt forgiveness" (presumably, the international financial institutions and the Paris Club) do not have the requisite expertise to properly factor human rights into their policies and programmes. They also have a credibility problem.
In closing, I share Share A unit of ownership interest in a corporation or financial asset, representing one part of the total capital stock. Its owner (a shareholder) is entitled to receive an equal distribution of any profits distributed (a dividend) and to attend shareholder meetings. the view that the new principles on debt restructuring provide the basis for a fair, balanced and effective process for sovereign debt restructuring through a universal legal mechanism buttressed by the only organisation with sufficiently global legitimacy – the UN.
I want to leave you with the following question to reflect upon: Does the so-called "EU common position" really reflect the wishes and demands for social and economic justice of the ordinary people of Greece and other EU countries who have borne and continue to bear the brunt of high sovereign debt burdens and related adjustment?
[1] See United Nations, Report of the Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights, Cephas Lumina, A/HRC/20/23, Annex: Guiding Principles on foreign debt and human rights.
[2] See United Nations, Basic Principles on Sovereign Debt Restructuring Processes, A/69/L.84, 29 July 2015.
[3] See, A/HRC/20/23, Annex, in particular, paragraphs 23 (the shared responsibility of creditors and debtors), 25 (ensuring an independent process of national development), 29 (transparency), 48 (debt servicing and repayment), 54 (renegotiation and restructuring), 73-75 (national development strategy), and 84 (resolution of debt-related disputes).
[4] See U.S. EOV on Foreign Debt as a Human Rights Problem, Explanation of Vote by the United States of America, Mandate of the independent expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights, UN Human Rights Council, 16th Session, 23 March 2011, available at http://geneva.usmission.gov/2011/03/23/eov-foreign-debt/ (accessed 22/06/11).
Cephas Lumina
Member of the Committee, Professor Lumina is a Research Professor of Public Law at the University of Fort Hare and an Extra-Ordinary Professor of Human Rights Law at the University of Pretoria. He served as the United Nations Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights from 2008 to 2014. In 2013, he produced the United Nations special report on Greece and Human Rights.
Other articles in English by Cephas Lumina (4)
Summary of the 1 March 2016 session at the European Parliament "Restructuring of debt – reconstruction of democracy"
Video: Cephas Lumina: "The Paris Club has no legitimacy"
17 March 2016, by Cephas Lumina
Greek debt audit - Definition of terms
18 June 2015, by Cephas Lumina
Athens : Press Conference Committee for the Truth on the Public Debt
18 May 2015, by Eric Toussaint , Maria Lucia Fattorelli , Yorgos Mitralias , Cephas Lumina , Zoe Konstantopoulou
UN Expert on Debt and Human Rights Mission to Greece - 22-26 April 2013
25 May 2013, by Cephas Lumina
Multinational Corporations and COVID-19: Intellectual property rights vs. human rights
11 September 2021 - Peter Rossman
"Exceptional circumstances can help indebted States"
14 January 2021 - Eric Toussaint
The World Bank, the IMF and the respect of human rights
25 October 2020 - Eric Toussaint
We are not fools! Solidarity with Omar Radi! Freedom!
7 August 2020 - Myriam Bourgy, [fr] ATTAC/CADTM Maroc [en] ATTAC/CADTM Morocco, Pauline Imbach


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In an effort to bolster national spirit, the 2600th anniversary of the founding of the Japanese
Empire was celebrated in 1940. The special dating system (now no longer used) was called the
Imperial Dating System. The first year was 600 BC, the date assigned to the mythical founding of
Japan by Emperor Jimmu.
Celebrations were held around the country. This medal was awarded freely and is fairly common.
A women's version was also issued. See an example below.
The medal is an aluminum/bronze alloy.
OBVERSE: Imperial Mum crest and the Sacred Double Bridge of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.
REVERSE: 'Imperial Year 2600, Imperial Celebration Commemorative Medal, Showa 15 [1940].'
The ribbon, according to Peterson, 'is light violet with eight 1 mm red lines 2.5 mm apart in the
center. The violet represents the great sky, red is for loyalty, and the eight lines symbolize the
motto, ''hakkoichiu'' (the eight parts of the world in one universe) referring to the militarists' dream
of world domination.'
There were more than 200,000 medals struck. The medal was designed by Hata Shokichi, an
instructor at Tokyo Fine Arts Academy. Mr. Hata also designed the prestigious Order of Culture
(Bunka Kunshou).
Pressed cardboard presentation case with original paper wrap.
Women's version with bow ribbon. Note that the case is a different shape
than the men's case in order to accommodate the wider bow of this medal.
The medal itself is identical to the men's medal.
2600th National Foundation
Celebration Commemorative Medal
紀元二千六百年祝典記念章
Chinese-made fake
Scarcity Scale
1 dot is common. 5 is extremely rare.
Given to a Ministry of Finance employee named Yokozawa Jin.
Dated November 10, 1940. Award number 59450.

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Coronavirus death toll in the world: 11 people die outside China
The number of deaths outside mainland China climbed to 11. (Reuters photo)
China on Thursday touted a big drop in new virus infections as proof its epidemic control efforts are working, but the toll grew abroad with deaths in Japan and South Korea. Fatalities in China hit 2,118 as 114 more people died, but health officials reported the lowest number of new cases in nearly a month, including in hardest-hit Hubei province.
More than 74,000 people have been infected by the new coronavirus in China, and hundreds more in over 25 countries. The number of deaths outside mainland China climbed to 11. Japan's toll rose to three as a man and a woman in their 80s who had been aboard a quarantined cruise ship died, while fears there mounted over other passengers who disembarked the Diamond Princess after testing negative.
South Korea reported its first death, and the number of infections in the country nearly doubled Thursday to 104. Iran reported two deaths on Wednesday and three new cases Thursday. Deaths have previously been confirmed in France, the Philippines, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Chinese officials say their drastic containment efforts, including quarantining tens of millions of people in Hubei and restricting movements in cities nationwide, have started to pay off. Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke by phone about the virus with leaders in South Korea and Pakistan, state news agency Xinhua said.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in "chose to call to express sympathies and support" regarding the outbreak, Xinhua said. Xi told him the epidemic's impact on bilateral ties will only be temporary. Xi told Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan that their two countries "are true friends and good brothers," and that combating the virus is his government's top priority.
At a special meeting on the virus with Southeast Asian countries in Laos, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi said results "show that our control efforts are working." Although more than 600 new infections were reported Thursday in Hubei's capital Wuhan, it was the lowest daily tally since late January and well down from the 1,749 new cases the day before.
The national figure has fallen for three straight days. Chinese authorities placed the city of 11 million under quarantine on January 23 and quickly locked down the rest of the province in the days that followed.
Wuhan authorities this week carried out door-to-door checks on residents, with the local Communist Party chief warning that officials would be "held accountable" if any infections were missed. Cities far from the epicentre have limited the number of people who can leave their homes for groceries, while rural villages have sealed off access to outsiders.
In Japan, critics slammed the government's quarantine measures imposed on the Diamond Princess.
The huge vessel moored in Yokohama is the biggest coronavirus cluster outside the Chinese epicentre, with 634 cases confirmed among passengers and crew.
Another 13 people on board the ship were diagnosed with the virus Thursday, Japan's health ministry said. Still, passengers were disembarking after negative tests and having completed a 14-day quarantine period — packing into yellow buses and leaving for stations and airports.
An infectious diseases specialist at Kobe University slammed the quarantine procedures on board as "completely chaotic" in rare criticism from a Japanese academic. "The cruise ship was completely inadequate in terms of infection control," said Kentaro Iwata in videos he has since deleted.
South Korea, meanwhile, announced 51 new cases, with more than 40 in a cluster centred on the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, an entity often seen as a cult. The infections apparently came from a 61-year-old woman who first developed a fever on February 10 and attended at least four services before being diagnosed.
Authorities were investigating whether she visited a hospital where a long-term patient contracted the virus and later died. Beyond Asia, citizen backlash was growing over fears of contagion. Iraq on Thursday clamped down on travel to and from neighbouring Iran, with Iraq's health ministry announcing people in Iran were barred from entering the country "until further notice."
The move came after Iran confirmed three new coronavirus cases following the deaths of two elderly men. And in Ukraine, a crowd clashed with police outside a hospital over government plans to quarantine evacuees from coronavirus-hit China at the site.
Six buses with the evacuees arrived at the medical center in Novi Sanzhary, in the central Poltava region, escorted by police. Angry demonstrators lit fires and pelted the buses with rocks, breaking at least three windows.
Because of the virus outbreak, airlines operating in the Asia-Pacific region stand to lose a combined USD 27.8 billion of revenue, the International Air Transport Association said. This is the first time since 2003 that demand for air travel has declined, IATA CEO Alexandre de Juniac said.


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375 m / Tour duration
14,2 °C / Air temperature
TOUR OF ZBRAŠOV ARAGONITE CAVES - map
Visitors descend to the underground directly from the service building down the stairs through the steep-at-first artificially made tunnel to a depth of about 16 metres. The continuing horizontal passages with special modelling of both the ceiling and side parts unambiguously documents the action of hydrothermal waters and leads to the chasm by a flyover junction of the cave tour. Then you cross the bridge and the route leads you to the first stop in the Assembly Hall, where a remarkable rock block resembles a speaker´s desk. This and the next parts of the caves are already an illustrative exposition of hydrothermal karst. The Doughnut Hall with a memorial tablet of the discoverer Josef Chromý was named after aureate spherical formations on the walls that really resemble doughnuts. In addition to "doughnuts", in the part called "At Anthony" you can see another type of hydrothermal decoration – a conical "geyser" stalagmite. The "Anthony" itself is a stone protrusion in the shape of a small person and it is the one formation in the caves that visitors can touch for luck. Beyond the next staircase a view of the first big space the Gallaš Dome opens. It is named after a native of Hranice – the physician, philanthropist and writer Josef Heřman Agapit Gallaš (1756–1840). When entering the dome you can also look into the shaft-like space of the Prokop Chapel. This cave, as well as the lowest parts of Gallašův dóm, is filled with an invisible "gas lake" with a permanently high concentration of carbon dioxide. Behind Gallašův dóm, at the crossing of corridors called "Waterfall", the walls are decorated with a classic dripstone decoration with sinter coatings and stalactites. Then the labyrinth of passages continues to inaccessible parts of the caves. The cave tour then leads to the Baptistery – an area named after the cavity in the wall created by dripping water. Here, on repositioned "geyser" stalagmites, the original theory of their formation is demonstrated. Water fed through the core of the stalagmite flows out of its top or squirts like a geyser. It was assumed that stalagmites had been formed by growing of calcite layers just in the places where mineral water flowed out of the supply central channel into the cave space. According to this theory the name of the formations, "geyser stalagmites", was also introduced into the speleological terminology. However, so far no active geyser stalagmite has been found in the Zbrašov Caves or in any cave in the world. That is why new theories of the formation of these conical stalagmites still arise. They are mentioned in the chapter about stalactite, stalagmite and mineral fillings.


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The future of smart power could lie in a single solar, storage and communications platform
By Robert Nieminen • March 23, 2018
The future of smart power in a single solar, storage and communications platform (Courtesy Totem Power)
In a 2016 broadcast of NPR's Fresh Air, author and cultural anthropologist Gretchen Bakke characterized America's energy grid as "increasingly unstable, underfunded, and incapable of taking us to a new energy future." Nevertheless, the steady march toward progress continues, and the threat of obsolescence is driving many cities, urban planners, developers, and businesses to invest in the future.
"We happen to be at a moment in time where people are starting to fear that technological obsolescence in the workplace and in cities is a pretty tough place to be and has some real consequences economically for the buildings and the cities that don't have high-speed networking or don't have modern energy," observed Brian Lakamp, founder and CEO of Totem Power. "That's why you're seeing city planners, mayors, and businesses get more aggressive about deploying built environment technology than they ever have been, as far as I can tell." (Note: Some states, such as California, have already passed legislation requiring new buildings to be outfitted with electric vehicle charging ports.)
Identifying significant shifts in transportation, communication, and energy, Lakamp saw an opportunity to solve a problem that innovation imposes on our aging buildings. For example, as millions of electric vehicles begin to flood the market in the years ahead, a major investment in infrastructure will be required to support them. Similarly, as buildings are rewired with higher-gauge electrical cabling to accommodate new energy and communications networks, it's clear that smarter, more flexible solutions are required to meet these ever-increasing demands.
"With the coming of 5G and some of the IoT technologies, electric vehicles and autonomous vehicles, there's a lot that is emerging that needs to change in terms of the way communications networks work and new technology is presented that gets really exciting," Lakamp said. "We're here as a way to deploy that infrastructure in the built environment in a way that can be made beautiful and impactful."
To that end, Lakamp launched Totem, a groundbreaking energy solution that reimagines and redesigns smart utility. The Totem platform combines solar energy and energy storage, WiFi and 4G communications, electric vehicle charging, and smart lighting into a single, powerful product that weaves these capabilities directly into the built environment.
Totem is, at its core, a vertical server rack that's designed to support evolution in technology over time. Its base product deploys over 40 kWh of energy storage that serves as a grid asset and dynamic energy foundation that ensures energy quality and provides critical resilience in the event of broader grid issues. Integrated solar generation, electric vehicle charging, and LED lighting add further capability to each Totem and sophistication to each property's energy assets.
Totem also provides a reliable hub for Wi-Fi, 4G, and 5G cellular services to bring high-speed connectivity to properties and communities. Through its modern connectivity platform, it also presents a key communications gateway for IoT devices on and around properties.
According to a statement from Jeffrey Kenoff, director at architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox, "Totem is one of the first to unite design, infrastructure, and community in a single as well as exquisite platform. It's hard to imagine a major project or public space that it would not transform."
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It's an industrial world out there. Few pristine places are left on Earth, and even there the winds of industry blow. Luckily we have answers.
Obviously sunshine, exercise, a truly healthy diet and a happy mindful kinetic lifestyle are lobby-level, yet illness can begin in the best of us when toxic chemical intake and auto-generated wastes overwhelm the capacity for elimination. In other words the rate of elimination must meet or exceed input…or toxins accumulate. Amalgam fillings, air and water pollution, smoking, eating fish and processed foods, pesticides, battlefield toxins, radiations and drug residues commonly lead to cancers, heart/artery disease, autism, depression, PTSD, candidiasis, viral infections, autoimmune disorders, etc., etc. These conditions can logically and practically be prevented, improved or reversed by expeditious elimination of the offending molecules.
The term "cleanse" usually causes us to think "bowel" cleanse with strong laxatives and dreadful colonics traditionally used to address gross elimination problems. The intestinal tract can become a plumber's nightmare so consider that vitamin C doses exceeding bowel tolerance leave one clean as a whistle in a few hours.
Attention then zooms in on the intestinal floral population, care and feeding of the good guys and starvation of pathogens. This is done by eliminating sugars and processed carbs (gluten/GM grains) and killing yeasts and other bad guys directly with oregano oil or oxygen releasing products.
And then focus on healing the cells lining the intestines that otherwise leak toxins, pathogens, emulsified fats and proteins directly into the bloodstream to source allergies and autoimmune disorders. Cells respond to saturated fats like butter/coconut oil and Omega 3 fats, high fiber leafy greens and green juices w spirulina, intermittent fasting, bone/cartilage soups, raw milks/yogurts, minerals like K, Mn, Se, Zn and Mg, Vitamins C/E and other phyto-antioxidants like curcuminoids, carotenoids, cannabinoids….and regenerate.
"Flush" commonly refers to liver and kidney cleansing. They are targeted with various herbal/olive oil flushes. R-Alpha Lipoic Acid, silymarin, beets, liver and added baking soda for kidneys help restore function. The GMI database holds a laundry list of regenerative aids for these organs.
"Sweating" and sauna raise body temperature, dump wastes and stimulate all biochemical activity, circulation of blood and lymph.
Hot baths of epsom salts or dead sea salts and soaking in ocean water draw-out toxins while infusing alkalizing magnesium; all transdermally.
Sunbathing raises body temperature when photons, at various wavelengths from infra red to ultra violet, penetrate the skin to not only produce Vitamin D, but entrain body frequencies and energize our predominant water fraction. UV and radiant heat make H2O's charge, polarity and conductivity stronger so blood, lymph and other body fluids become thinner. This speeds circulation moving oxygen-rich blood in, waste products out.
Exercise, massage and quick temperature shifts like a sauna followed by plunging into cold water agitate fluids that had become stagnant during periods of inactivity. Hot peppers are also great for enhancing circulation.
Still, in spite of cleanses, flushes and sauna, metals and toxins will remain lodged in body fat, bones, nerve tissues and cell membranes. A double barreled defense is required. First mobilize them…. then chelate them.
Cellular detoxification is initiated when a flood of electrons (using mega-Vitamin C/baking soda) moves materials out of tissues and organs into the bloodstream and on to the kidneys or the intestines to be snatched by chelators. This electron-driven liberation of metals is punctuated by electron-stealing bursts of oxidation ( mega-Vit C generated peroxides, hydrogen peroxide, MMS chlorite, ozone) that disassemble organic poisons, pathogens, fibrin overgrowth and cell debris. Oxidative bursts also spark redox signalling to provoke the release of more in-house antioxidants like SOD and glutathione and awaken other dormant genes to produce protective enzymes.
"Chelate" really just means "to grab or claw-on to" (toxins).
Chelation Therapy generally refers to IV infusions of EDTA, DMSA, DMPS, etc. that rapidly mobilize and attach toxins….and unfortunately vital minerals which must be concurrently resupplied.
The practice has been maligned by conventional medicine in apparent ignorance of the disruption minute quantities of toxins wield upon normal physiology at the molecular level, namely acidity, free radical predation, oxidative stress and inflammation.
Chelation therapy has been used to treat heavy metal poisoning, but is not recognized by the FDA for the treatment of disease. The FDA also refuses to admit the connection between mercury, cadmium, aluminum, etc. and a raft of conditions carelessly caused by our politically protected industries. Fortunately everything you need for personal detoxification is freely available.
Chelation can be accomplished without IVs by employing many common substances such as chlorella, clays, charcoal, shilajit/humates, cilantro and zeolites which bind to toxins along with sulfur compounds in R-Alpha Lipoic Acid, garlic, onions, MSM and NAC.
Proteolytic enzymes like papain, bromelain or nattokinase can help free metals sequestered beneath fibrin films.
The word "DETOX" has long been associated with "drying-out" alcoholics, rehab and addictions. Today it's all about improving inner charge terrain so that cells can get more oxygen, regain functionality and self heal. A wide variety of supplements, physical and psychological treatments come under the detoxification umbrella, and indeed seemingly disconnected approaches all lead to the same goal.
Toxins are foreign molecules (like Al, F, Hg, Pb, etc. and a host of organic poisons), damaged molecules (oxidized/trans fats, protein/fat fragments), metabolic waste products, excessive acids and free-radicals of exogenous (radiations) and endogenous (immune response/inflammation) origins. These molecules must ultimately be transformed and eliminated at the atomic level….or the organism will suffer oxidative stress (inflammation), the root of most every disease.
Hair analysis is invaluable in 1) identifying metal/mineral presence and 2) to monitor the effectiveness of your efforts to evict heavy metals and normalize Mg, Ca, Na and K levels. Many times blood work does not detect the extent of contamination.
Interestingly, younger individuals commonly hold significant metal burdens since this generation has known only higher levels of toxins over the last 20yrs compared to their predecessors.
Once follow-up hair tests report healthy levels in all categories and symptoms magically disappear, you will have certain proof….whether the FDA likes it or not.
These alternative practices and "home remedies" require a bit of skill in use and an understanding of their actions. Things like chicken soup, apple cider vinegar, cayenne, garlic, epsom salts or Vit C/baking soda have specific healing properties when used in appropriate, usually unusually large quantities, taken regularly and in concert. Include as many as needed while focusing on mineral supplementation and the key elements of mobilization and chelation. I prefer detoxing at home over humiliating rectal intrusion or rapid IV chelation, slowly, gently and inexpensively for extended periods. Just me.
Detoxification is a survival strategy and should become a way of life. We have 365 chances a year to get it right, to do something, to take action, to clean our inner environments, to maintain our quality of life and to allow cells to self-heal.
See GMI author page or website for more on toxins, teeth and the redox approach to health and healing.
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Blog | 18th Dec, 2011
Here's to a Christmas without dead fish
By domenica
A little over a year ago, the beach town of Anglesea had dead fish floating down its river.
While some people pointed the finger at the Alcoa's coal power station, which pumps pollutants into the air just behind the town, the explanation for the fish kill seems to be the heavy rain. The long drought had exposed coastal acid sulphate soils in Marshy and Salt Creeks, just upstream of the Anglesea River. The oxygen in the air reacted with the soils to create sulphuric acid, and the sudden arrival of rain sent it downstream into the Anglesea River.
Another possible explanation for dead fish in the Anglesea River is water extraction by Barwon Water, which may have caused groundwater levels to change, contributing to acidification. However the independent review of the fish kill event, released in October, wasn't able to conclude if the extraction had had an impact. As the review by Professor William Maher put it, "current modelling is not sufficient to understand the effects of these activities". We hope that more work is put into improving the modelling soon.
Acid sulphate soils occur naturally, and with a natural pattern of droughts and floods, they don't tend to cause many problems. But this is likely to change in future when climate change makes both long droughts and intense rain events more likely. The problem can also be exacerbated by changes in flow patterns due to river regulation, as has happened in the Murray-Darling Basin at Bottle Bend (near Mildura) and parts of the Edward-Wakool system (near Swan Hill). Prevention of acidity is another example of why we need to return the flows in our rivers to something closer to their natural patterns.
The good news is that the Anglesea River is getting a 24 hour water quality monitoring station, a review of its Estuary Management Plan, a plan for how to manage future incidents and a review of Alcoa's discharge licence. The other good news is that the Anglesea River's looking much healthier this year with further outbreaks of acidity unlikely. Which is good for Anglesea locals, the thousands of holiday goers heading down to the Surf Coast over the summer, and the fish.


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Obama Makes Indefinite Detention and Military Commissions His Own
Prisoners held in indefinite detention at the Guantanamo Bay camp will periodically be reviewed by a board and have a "personal representative" to advocate for them. But the system, similar to what was in effect under the Bush administration, does not bring President Obama closer to shutting Gitmo.
by Dafna Linzer
March 8, 2011, 3:52 p.m. EST
President Obama yesterday formalized indefinite detention for dozens of men held at Guantanamo Bay and announced that the Pentagon would move ahead with military trials for a handful of other detainees.
In an executive order, which we first reported on in June 2009, the White House created a board to periodically review the dangerousness of prisoners being held without charge or trial. The order says the new process will allow detainees -- some in custody for nearly a decade -- to challenge the government's determination that they pose a threat if released.
While the order is new, most of the ideas it contains are not. This is the third time such a board has been created for nearly the same purpose. Two similar processes to review detainee cases were in place during the Bush administration. Like its predecessors, the Obama administration's review process will operate outside the courts and will be subject to no independent review. Also like the Bush White House, the Obama administration alone will choose all members of the review board and appoint a "personal representative" to advocate on behalf of the detainees.
The major difference is that the White House, sidestepping claims that detainees have a right to counsel, will allow them to hire private attorneys The order states that the government will not pay legal fees. While detainees will have access to some evidence against them, the government will choose what evidence to share. The process is meant to be more adversarial than it had been under the Bush administration. Detainees can submit their own evidence to the review board but will be permitted to call only those witnesses the government determines to be reasonable. It is unclear whether a detainee can dismiss his personal representative or how the lawyer and representative will work together. The order allows a detainee to make his case for release once every three years.
Many Guantanamo detainees now have lawyers and are represented in federal court challenges of their detentions. But the standards for the executive order are different. In court proceedings, the detainees have been challenging the lawfulness of their detentions based on the government's evidence. The separate review, created by the executive order, will rely not just on evidence used in court but on additional factors brought in by the Pentagon, which acts as warden of Guantanamo. Though not spelled out in the order, factors could include a detainee's behavior while in custody.
One hour after the executive order was made public, the White House arranged a conference call for reporters with five senior administration officials to discuss it and other aspects of the administration's detention policies. Not one official spoke for the record, and no specifics about the review process were provided.
Asked about the timing of new military commissions, one official would say only that new charges would be brought within a matter of days or weeks.
All five senior officials rebuffed questions on future prosecutions of the suspected plotters in the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, saying they would not discuss individual cases. In November 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that five detainees would be charged in federal court in New York, but that has not happened.
When asked to explain how a decision to move ahead with new trials at Guantanamo was consistent with claims that the administration is closing the facility, the officials said the commissions were consistent with presidential pledges to bring terrorists to justice.
One senior official said that an improved feature of the Obama administration's Periodic Review Boards, or PRBs, was that they would include representatives from different government agencies, as opposed to the Bush administration's review, which was run exclusively by the Defense Department. Under that process, which relied on Administration Review Boards, or ARBs, a detainee's personal representative was also a uniformed member of the U.S. military.
No White House official could say, hours after the order was published, where the personal representative would come from, what the implementing guidelines for the reviews would look like or which agency was charged with drafting the guidelines. A government official who spoke separately confirmed that the representative would come from the military, which is also charged with drafting the review procedures.
The executive order affects only those detainees designated for indefinite detention. The board will also examine whether some cases that had been referred for prosecution are still viable. Currently, 47 of the 172 detainees at Guantanamo have been selected for indefinite detention. The list is secret -- even the detainees do not know they are on it -- and, privately, officials have said the list is likely to grow. About three dozen others could be prosecuted, but it is unclear where.
The executive order will not affect more than 60 detainees who have been cleared for transfer but remain at Guantanamo. Most of those detainees hail from Yemen, a country the Obama White House has said is too unstable to handle transfers.
The order, which was completed last December, aimed to give those facing indefinite detention a possible way out of life in prison without charge or trial. But legislative provisions passed at the end of 2010 will effectively render the review process useless to many of the detainees. Because of the congressional restrictions now in place, a detainee who wins his freedom through the review board may in fact be ineligible for release. Similarly, a detainee who wins his military commission trial or even serves a short sentence could wind up being put on a "releasable" list, but not sent out of Guantanamo.
In a May 2009 speech, Obama first signaled his embrace of indefinite detention and military commission trials. An added review for prisoners held under those conditions was welcome by many human rights activists and experts on detention policy. But there were strong concerns about the White House approach.
Jonathan Hafetz, a law professor at Seton Hall University who has represented a number of detainees, said the review process established in the executive order, "on paper at least, is a significant improvement," over the Bush system. "But if you oppose the type of prolonged, indefinite detention that has come to define Guantanamo (as I do), the order is a mixed blessing at best." Hafetz called the process "Obama's kinder, gentler approach to executive detention."
Benjamin Wittes, of the Brookings Institution, welcomed the added review but worried that the Obama administration was opening itself up to a backlash from congressional Republicans eager for a tougher detention policy.
"This is sound policy of the sort I have been urging for many years. It is also being implemented in exactly the wrong way -- by fiat, rather than by legislation," Wittes said. "I worry that, by doing it this way, the administration will trigger a backlash that will result in much less attractive policy."
Juan Zarate, who served as a counterterrorism adviser to President Bush, noted that the order brings Obama no further toward his stated goal of closing the Guantanamo detention camp. Rather, he said, "it creates a new bureaucratic process that will be challenged, and doesn't help legitimate indefinite detention."
In a statement accompanying the order, Obama said he remained committed to closing the prison, a pledge he made on his first full day in office. That pledge, enshrined in his first executive order, was widely seen as a repudiation of the detention system his predecessor built. But the new order suggests that Obama's original pledge was more about dismantling a facility than a system.
Dafna Linzer
Dafna Linzer was a senior reporter at ProPublica. She is the author of the ongoing series "Shades of Mercy" on racial bias in presidential pardons.
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Meet The All-Female Ethiopian Airline Crew That Broke Gender Barriers With Historic Flight
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Ethiopian Airlines, the national flag carrier of Ethiopia made history recently when it deployed an all-female crew for a special flight from Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria.
The historic airlift, which is the airline's first flight to Nigeria in the hands of an all-female crew, has grabbed headlines across the world, with some people lauding it as a major milestone for the womenfolk.
Under the supervision of Captain Amsale Gualu and First Officer Tigist Kibret, the 13-member crew flew 391 passengers to the Nigerian capital on Boeing B777-300 ER, an exciting journey that took approximately four and a half hours.
Speaking at the reception party in Lagos, the chairperson of the Nigerian House Committee on Aviation Mrs Nkiru Onyejeocha thanked Captain Gualu and the rest of her crew for the successful flight, saying it was enough proof that women can achieve great things when given the chance.
Onyejeocha added that the historic flight is an inspiration to Nigerian women to venture into the aviation sector and have the courage to hold key positions in the lucrative industry.
Speaking at the event, Captain Gualu, who called on women to have passion in what they do, said flying aeroplanes was her childhood dream.
"Since I was a child, I wanted to be a pilot. After my University education, I joined Ethiopian Airlines as a first officer and flew the Fokker 50 and the Boeing B737 and then became a captain," Captain Gualu was quoted by Nigerian news portal This Day.
Since the momentous flight on Saturday, many people have taken to social media to congratulate Ethiopian Airlines, which is the most profitable airline in Africa, for giving women an opportunity to prove their potential.
My girls! thank you for making us all proud and thank you @flyethiopian for being the ambassador of Ethiopian… https://t.co/InsCUZYipH
— ?Tirsit Yetbarek (@tirsity) December 18, 2017
Some are even calling on other airlines, especially in countries and regions with a reputation of clamping down on women's rights to follow suit.
I wish Saudi Arabia would also have all Women airlines. They were pioneers in promoting all women everything but never made all women airlines hospitals etc
— s patel (@mathewbigface) December 18, 2017
Lately, the Ethiopian carrier, which commands the biggest share of the pan-African passenger and cargo network, has been making major changes to its processes, including fully digitizing its operations and providing free Wi-Fi to all customers using its main hub.
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CHINO, CALIF., MARCH 1, 2018 – Cooler Master, an award-winning computer hardware manufacturer, today announces the release of the MasterBox Q300 Series. Size, build potential, portability and modularity are the essential traits of the two-case lineup.
Although both cases fit mATX motherboards, the MasterBox Q300L and MasterBox Q300P are also able to support a full-sized ATX power supply and up to a 240mm front radiator. The lineup provides a platform for builders to create a small and portable gaming rig for LAN use with the power needed to support high-demand gaming sessions.
One of the most interesting parts of the MasterBox Q300 series is the I/O panel, it can be adjusted to a total of six different locations having placement options on the front, top and bottom of both sides of the case. This allows the case to fit into smaller-than-usual spots at home or at the office.
Despite the mATX form factor, the MasterBox Q300 Series can accommodate a standard ATX PSU ensuring that mATX builds will get as much power as needed.
A 28mm space behind the motherboard provides enough room to easily manage the ATX PSU and cleanly route cabling.
As the straightforward option of the series, the MasterBox Q300L is characterized by patterned dust filters on the front and top panel. These patterned dust filters are magnetic and can easily be taken off for easy cleaning.
The case can also stand horizontally or vertically depending on your preference. Once the orientation of the case is decided, move the I/O panel to a convenient spot of your choice.
The added four handles make the MasterBox Q300P easy to carry and transport, proving it to be an ideal case for anyone looking to complete their next LAN build, while the DarkMirror front and top panels give it a distinctive look. Two pre-installed 120mm RGB LED fans behind the front panel and RGB lighting at the top front illuminate the Q300P. One RGB controller is included in the accessory pack. Users can connect the reset button cable and control the RGB lighting directly from the I/O panel if the motherboard does not come with RGB capabilities.
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(Video): viral clip shows Argentina ERUPTING after Lionel Messi scored against Mexico
Harry Dowsett
November 29th 2022, 16:58
A viral video clip captures the exact moment a city in Argentina erupted in joy after Lionel Messi opened the scoring in their vital clash against Mexico.
If ever you doubted the effect football can have on a nation during the World Cup, then look no further than this video. The game was a must-win for Argentina who, after their shock defeat to Saudi Arabia in their opening game, were in danger of being dumped out of the competition in the group stage.
Messi's goal opened the scoring in what was a very tight game, and you can hear exactly how much that meant to every single Argentina fan watching at home…
MORE HERE: Simon Jordan makes BOLD claim about Roberto Martinez and Belgium
The noise in Argentina after Lionel Messi's goal… 😳🔥pic.twitter.com/irAeAVz1Hv
— SPORTbible (@sportbible) November 29, 2022
This could potentially be Messi's last chance to achieve greatness in this competition and guide his nation to the coveted World Cup trophy, and the support he has from his country is clear to see.
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East African Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences
Vol 3 No 1 (2019): East African Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences /
Supplementary Value of Camel's Foot Tree (Piliostigma thonningii) Leaf Meal as a Replacement for Concentrate Mixture on the Performance of Gumuz Sheep Fed Finger Millet Straw Based Diet
Almaz Ayenew Department of Animal Science, Debre Markos University, P.O. Box 269, Debre Markos, Ethiopia
Adugna Tolera School of Animal and Range Science, Hawassa University, College of Agriculture, P.O. Box 5, Hawassa, Ethiopia
Ajebu Nurfeta School of Animal and Range Science, Hawassa University, College of Agriculture, P.O. Box 5, Hawassa, Ethiopia
Getnet Assefa Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR), P.O. Box-2003, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Keywords: Average daily gain, Dry matter, Straw, Substitution
The objective of the experiment was to evaluate the effects of substitution of Camel's foot tree (Piliostigma thonningii (PT)) leaf meal for concentrate mix (CM) on the performances of Gumuz sheep. During the 90 days feeding trial, thirty five yearling male Gumuz sheep with an average initial body weight of 20.21 ± 2.82 kg (mean ± SD) were grouped into seven blocks of five animals, and each animal was randomly assigned to one of the five dietary treatment feeds within a block. The dietary treatments included feeding of ad libitum finger millet straw supplemented with 100% CM (T1); 75% CM + 25% PT (T2); 50% CM + 50% PT (T3), 25% CM + 75% PT (T4) and 100% PT (T5) on dry matter (DM) basis. The supplements were offered at the rate of 300 g DM/day. The total DM and organic matter intakes for T1 were greater (P<0.05) than those sheep fed T4 and T5 diets while T2 and T3 had an intermediate value. The lowest (P<0.05) supplement and CP intakes were recorded for T5. The digestibility of DM, organic matter, crud protein, neutral detergent fiber and acid detergent fiber was similar (P>0.05) up to 50% PT leaf meal substitution level. Sheep fed T5 diet had the lowest (P<0.05) DM and nutrient digestibility. The average daily gain for T1, T2, T3 and T4 was higher (P<0.05) than those consuming T5 diets. The slaughter weight for T1 was higher (P<0.05) than T5 while T2, T3 and T4 had an intermediate values. The hot carcass weight and empty body weight were similar (P > 0.05) among treatments. An increase in proportion of PT leaf meal beyond 75% resulted in BW loss of 19.2 g/d. It was concluded that PT leaves could serve as alternative CP supplement in crop residue based feeding and substitution of concentrate with PT leaf meal beyond 50% had no beneficial role in sheep feeding.
Vol 3 No 1 (2019): East African Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences
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The Des Peres Yearbook: 1938-39
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The 1939 Des Peres yearbook, compiled and published by the students of St. Norbert College, contains a record of activities of the 1938-39 scholastic year at St. Norbert College and St. Norbert High School.
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Li Yugeng, SPE, died 7 November 2012 in Beijing, China. He was 83. He was the founder of SPE's Beijing Section, established in October 1991, and was the section chairman from 1991 to 1995. Under his leadership, other sections were gradually established in China. Li was president of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) subsidiary, Daqing Oilfield, the largest oil field in China, and engaged in operational administration of oilfield production as well as research management. He participated in oilfield development programs and engineering technical decision-making following the Daqing field's discovery. During his time in office, Daqing's annual petroleum production reached 50 million tons (366 million bbl), a rate which it sustained for 10 years. In 1985, the Central Government of China inaugurated its highest award, given to two recipients per year—called The National Science and Technology Progress Award (Special Award), which honors organizations or individuals who make major contributions to the development of the national economy—by presenting it for "The Development of an Oil Field by Water Injection to Maintain Stable and High Long-Term Production in the Daqing Oilfield," as presided over by its leader, Li Yugeng, and others. Li was subsequently promoted to chief engineer at CNPC, where he managed the company's and its subsidiaries' petroleum engineering operations. Before his retirement, he was senior consultant at CNPC and had served in the oil and gas industry for more than 50 years.
In recognition of his contribution in promulgating the ideals of SPE through the establishment of the SPE Beijing Section and his leadership as executive chairman of the 1992 International Meeting on Petroleum Engineering in Beijing, he was awarded the SPE Regional Service Award in 1997. Li was an SPE Century Club member and authored a number of papers. He dedicated his life to the petroleum industry and was at the forefront of industry innovation. As a faithful subscriber, he was still reading JPT even in the last week of his life, as he pondered technological innovations and the energy sector's sustainable development. His dedication will always be fondly remembered.


BRANDON, MS (WLBT) - A traffic stop led to a drug bust on I-20 in Brandon. A woman is now behind bars after officers found six pounds of weed in her car.
Sunday morning an officer pulled over 56-year-old Charlotte Bradshaw of Eureka, California.
The officer noticed marijuana in her car which led to a search, that's when they found the six pounds in the back seat.
Bradshaw was arrested for Possession of a Controlled Substance.
She is currently being held at the Rankin County Jail pending her initial appearance in Brandon Municipal Court on a $50,000 bond.


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2008: 'The Word Around Us'. Disk 1: Tracks 1-9, Powhiri. Tracks 10-12, Murray Gray welcome and introduction. track 12-14, The Curnow Reading, featuring Karlo Mila. Disk 2: Tracks 1-2, Keynote address 'In trouble with the truth', featuring Chris Price. Track 3, "Polynation", featuring Doug Poole, Tusiata Avia, Selina Tusitala Marsh, Karlo Mila, Serie (Cherie) Bardord, Rev. Mua Strickson-Pua, Daren J Kamali, Kathryn Hayward Nathan, and Tim Page. Disk 3: "Polynation" continues. Disk 4:'Warming up - a hot topic', featuring Francesca Price, Gareth Renowden, and Niki Harre. Disk 5: 'China Downunder', featuring Alison Wong, Renee Liang, Mo Zhi Hong and Gilbert Wong. Disk 6 & 7: 'Phone home, Wellington', a tribute to Nigel Cox featuring Fergus Barrowman, Susanna Andrew and David Larsen. Disk 8: 'Offstage', featuring Dr Joanne Drayton and Simon Prast in conversation about Ngaio Marsh. Disk 8: 'Mau moko - mark of life', featuring Ngahuia Te Awekotuku. Disk 9: 'Inhabiting a fictional world', featuring Fiona Kidman and Karen Hay. Disk 10: 'Curmudgeon, noun: churlish or miserly', featuring Hamish Keith and Bob Harvey. Disk 11: 'Homegrown - documenting our popular music', featuring John Dix, Nick Bollinger, Gareth Shute, Ian Morris, and Kim Willoughby. Disk 12: Performance by Stingray, featuring Glen Campbell, Brian Glamuzina, John Thompson, and Brett Neilsen. Disk 13: 'The word around us', featuring Dianne Bardsley and John Reynolds. Disk 14: "Sweet, sour, comic, comic", featuring Janet Charman. Disk 15: 'The night kitchen', featuring Sarah Laing, Karlo Mila and David Larsen. Disk 16: "Poetry off the page', featuring Michelle Leggott and Helen Sword. Disk 17: 'An unlikely love story', featuring Laurence Fearnley and Geoff Walker. Disk 18: 'Inside Peryerland', featuring Peter Peryer and Peter Simpson. Disk 19: 'Images of dignity', featuring Peter Hawes, Pauline Burgwin and Stephen McCurdy. Disk 20: 'Fish of the day', featuring Steve Braunias and Simon Prast. Disk 21, parts 1 & 2: 'From distant villages - a Croatian celebration', featuring Nina Nola, Stephen A Jelicich, George Mihaljevich and John Radford.
Access to sound recordings is available at the West Auckland Research Centre, Waitakere Central Library, Henderson. Not for loan.


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Айо́н — национальное чукотское село в Чаунском районе Чукотского автономного округа России.

Население

Географическое положение
Село расположено в северо-западной части острова Айон Чаунской губы Восточно-Сибирского моря. Расстояние до административного центра района составляет 96 км, до города окружного значения — 705 км.

В трёх километрах юго-восточнее села находится озеро Утиное.

Топоним
Встречающееся в литературе объяснение названия из  'головной мозг' (сходство по внешнему виду) сомнительно. Правдоподобнее из  'оживать' — остров служит местом отдыха и нагула («оживления») оленей.

История
Первое упоминание об острове Айон связывается с именем землепроходца Исая Игнатьева, который в 1646 году высадился на берег и вёл торговлю с местными жителями.
В 1761 году на Айоне побывал известный купец Никита Шалауров, а почти через столетие останавливался на острове со своей экспедицией В. П. Врангель, нанёсший впоследствии остров Айон на карту.
Учитель «Красной яранги» Игнат Тороев в 1933 году организовал здесь товарищество «Энмитагино», которое после войны было преобразовано в колхоз.

Экономика и социальная инфраструктура
Основное занятие местных жителей — оленеводство, морзверобойный и пушной промыслы. Здесь находится подразделение муниципального сельхозпредприятия «Чаунское» (ранее — совхоз-миллионер «Энмитагино»).

В селе есть начальная школа (до 1999 года — неполная средняя школа), детский сад, больница, дом культуры, отделение связи.

С 1941 года действует полярная станция.

Улицы: Иненликея, Островная, Пугачёва, Северная, Школьная.

Юго-западнее, на возвышении, расположено кладбище.
На юго-восток, через озеро Утиное, идёт грунтовая дорога. Строится мост через сток из озера в реку Утатгыр.

Транспорт
Каждый год для завоза запаса продуктов питания, топлива и других материально-технических грузов по льду залива устраивается автозимник. В среднем длина прокладываемой дороги составляет 120 км и зависит от состояния льда в Восточно-Сибирском море. Срок работы зимника составляет около двух месяцев (с начала марта до конца апреля-начала мая).

Пассажирские перевозки осуществляются с райцентром исключительно воздушным путём с помощью вертолёта с периодичностью 1-2 раза в месяц.

Археологические находки
В окрестностях села обнаружены неолитические стоянки, датируемые началом I тыс. до н. э.

Примечания

Топографические карты

Ссылки
 Село на официальном сайте Чаунского муниципального района
 История села Айон

Населённые пункты Чаунского района

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How do you get to Gleneagles Medical Centre?
Car park facilities are available at Gleneagles Medical Centre. Alternative parking is available at the Botanic Gardens.
There is a taxi stand in front of Gleneagles Medical Centre.
Orchard MRT Station is the nearest MRT station. From there you can take a bus or taxi to Gleneagles Medical Centre.
How do you get to our clinic once you reach Glenagles Medical Centre?
After reaching Gleneagles Medical Centre (where the DBS bank is located), proceed to the lift lobby and take a lift to level 7.
Please do not hesitate to call our friendly staff at 6471 1733 if you need assistance.