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Monday, August 5, 2002, Chandigarh, India
H I M A C H A L P R A D E S H
Sukh Ram to take Gachli issue to NDA
Shimla, August 4
Outraged by the "unceremonious" removal of its vice-president, Mr Chaman Lal Gachli, from the chairmanship of the State Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Corporation, the Himachal Vikas Congress has for the first time decided to bypass Mr P.K. Dhumal, Chief Minister, and take matters to the NDA.
Cong: tribal areas being neglected
Kangra, August 4
The Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee secretary and former Chief Parliamentary Secretary, Mr Thakur Singh Bharmourie, today criticised the Central and the state governments for their "stepmotherly" attitude towards the tribal areas of Himachal Pradesh.
IRB cover for Himachal Pradesh
Chamba, August 4
The Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister, Prof Prem Kumar Dhumal, today emphasised on the need of utmost vigilance as he feared infiltration of militants from Jammu and Kashmir.
MC for probe into waste management project
The Shimla Municipal Corporation has urged the government to order a high-level inquiry into the NORAD (Norwegian Agency for Development) aided Integrated Waste Management Project at Darni Ka Bageecha, here, to fix the criminal liability for the alleged irregularities and lapses in the implementation of the scheme, which has become defunct even before its formal inauguration.
HP medical officers threaten agitation
Cong for all-party meeting on drought
Work on irrigation project soon
SC, ST Corpn vice-chief removed
NDA govt blamed for anti-employee steps
Govt to conduct special girdawari
Financial crisis grips Shimla MC
Kainthla files complaint against Virbhadra
Virbhadra tells Dhumal to focus on dry spell
CM: adopt new road strategy for HP
MIS bears fruit for growers
The Market Intervention Scheme (MIS) under which apple and other fruits are procured at the minimum support price to sustain market price, has gone a long way in ensuring remunerative returns to fruit growers of the state.
Action plan sought for fruit growers
Mr Narender Bragta, Horticulture Minister, has asked officers of the Horticulture Department to prepare a time-bound action plan for helping the drought-affected fruit growers.
Drug manufacturers seek 30 pc reservation
Solan, August 4
The Himachal Pradesh Government was adopting double standards — one of for the manufacturers allopathic drugs and another for those manufacturing ayurvedic drugs — in the matter of purchase of medicines for the government-run health institutions in the state.
Dhumal urged to give 27 pc quota to BCs
Widespread rain in HP
Monsoon remained active in parts of Himachal Pradesh as moderate rain lashed mid and lower hills in the state today. Shimla and the surrounding areas were pounded by rain since early this morning. The capital town was shrouded in a thick fog which reduced visibility to a few metres and forced vehicular traffic to move at a snail's pace with headlights on.
Minjar fair concludes
The week-long historic Minjar fair of Chamba concluded here today amidst the performance of traditional and religious rituals and festivities. About one lakh people hailing from different parts within and outside Himachal Pradesh, including tourists from neighbouring states, participated in the fair.
Tibetans resent China's interference
The Tibetan Government-in-exile has deplored the yet another attempt of the Chinese Government to seek international legitimacy for the 13-year-old boy allegedly foisted on the Tibetan people as the 11th Panchan Lama by holding a high-level meeting of Chinese premier Rongji on July 31.
Baner project to save temple
Dharamsala, August 4
The Congress MLA from Nagrota Bagwan, Mr G.S. Bali, said today that funds would be arranged for the beautification of Chamunda temple and to ensure pilgrims coming here were provided all basic facilities. Mr Bali was addressing villagers of the area after laying the foundation stone of Rs 10 lakh Baner Right Bank Flood Protection project.
Rs 11.52 cr for rural water scheme
The union ministry of Rural Development has released Rs 52.93 crore for drinking water in the rural areas of Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Haryana and Punjab under the centrally-sponsored Accelerated Rural Water Supply Programme (ARWSP) for the current financial year.
Raising NPA of veterinary teachers flayed
The Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University Teachers Association has criticised Dr Tej Partap and Vice-Chancellor Chaudhary Sarwan Kumar Himachal Pradesh Agriculture University Palampur for granting "undue" pay enhancement to certain veterinary teachers and not settling demands of other teachers giving shortage of funds as the reason.
Rs 20 lakh to be spent on hospital building
PPR is contagious
Tributes paid to Y.S. Parmar
Head Constable shoots self
The closed door meeting of the party's top brass held here under the chairmanship of Mr Sukh Ram, decided to set up a five-member committee to apprise Mr A.B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, Mr L.K. Advani, Deputy Prime Minister, and Mr Goerge Fernandes, convener of the NDA, of the "happenings" in the state. The committee will be headed by Mr Sukh Ram and have Mr Anil Sharma and Dr D.R. Shandil, both Members of Parliament, Mr Vijay Joshi, working president of the party, and Dr R.L. Markandy, Animal Husbandry Minister, as members.
The issue will not be confined just to the removal of Mr Gachli. The committee would also bring to the notice of the BJP high command the "disastrous" policies being implemented by the Dhumal government in the state. It would include the proposed move to create a new district, which, the party felt, would spell doom for the fund-starved state. The main grouse of the party is that the Chief Minister had not consulted it at all on such an important issue.
The party had earlier disassociated itself from such "anti-people" policies of the government as power tariff hike and imposition of hospital charges. The committee will take up all these issues with the central leadership of the party and take a decision regarding the continuation of alliance keeping in view its response.
The committee members will go to Delhi later this week and submit their report to the party after meeting NDA leaders. The report will be put up before the state executive, to be held subsequently, to decide on the withdrawal of support of the Dhumal government. Although withdrawal of support will not have any impact on the BJP-led government, which has already secured a majority in the House, it would give shape to new political equations in the state on the eve of the Assembly poll.
The party has decided to approach the NDA in view of the impending election of the Vice-President. As the Opposition has decided to support the Congress nominee, the NDA requires each and every vote to ensure the victory of its candidate, Mr Bhairon Singh Shekhawat. The HVC has two MPs and in a close contest, its votes matter.
The Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee secretary and former Chief Parliamentary Secretary, Mr Thakur Singh Bharmourie, today criticised the Central and the state governments for their "stepmotherly" attitude towards the tribal areas of Himachal Pradesh. He said roads in these areas were in bad shape despite tall claims of road development by the government.
Addressing a press conference here, he said during a 15-day tour to Kinnaur, Lahaul-Spiti and the Pangi vally, he found that the condition of the roads from Bhawnagar to Kaza, and Kaza to Koksar via Kunjum pass, a state highway, was so bad that it was dangerous to travel on these roads, which had adversely affected tourism in the state. He expressed shock over the deteriorating condition of the Udiapur-Kalan road, connecting the state with Jammu and Kashmir via Kishtawar.
He criticised the move of the government to create new districts in the state. He alleged that Mr Dhumal was running the government by raising loans to the tune of Rs 1300 crore. He said 40,000 daily wage earners which included 500 from the Pangi belt alone, were sacked during the past four years for want of funds and the government was thinking of creating new districts at this juncture.
He lamented that despite drought in the tribal areas, neither subsidised fodder, nor subsidised food was distributed there to provide succour to the affected people.
He alleged that the BJP was misleading Gaddis and Gujjars on the ST status issue.
Mr Bharmourie said a herbal garden was to be developed at Kansar nullah in the Pangi valley, but to "derive political mileage" Mr Mohan Lal, Minister for Ayurveda, laid the foundation stone last month at Sural Batori, 7 km away from the site, which was surprising. He said Mr Tusli Ram, MLA Bharmour, was also present on the occasion.
The Chief Minister was speaking on the occasion of 87th distribution function of the Shaheed Parivar Fund organised by the Hind Samachar Group of Newspaper, Jalandhar, at the local Dayananda Math.
The Chief Minister said an Indian Reserve Battalion (IRB) comprising 625 jawans had been created with an assistance of the Central Government and added that the Centre had already assured to bear the expenditure of security cover to Himachal Pradesh.
The Chief Minister announced a cash reward of Rs 21,000 to Mr Sham Singh, the youngest survivor of Kalaban Satrundi massacre which occurred in August 1998.
The Chief Minister said the people were inexorably contributing to Shaheed Parivar Fund, which was providing succor to needy and bereaved families.
Earlier, speaking on the occasion, Mr Kishori Lal announced an assistance of Rs 25,000 from his discretionary fund for the bereaved families of Kalaban Satrundi carnage. Mr G.S. Bali, MLA from Nagrota Bagwan, also announced an assistance of Rs 10,000 for these families.
Mr Mohan Lal, Ayurvedic Minister said the Chief Minister had already provided Rs 1.30 lakh to each of the surviving families of the Kalaban-Satrundi massacre and Rs 25,000 to each of the families of six persons abducted by the ultras as well as employment to the members of these families.
The Shaheed Parivar Fund distributed Rs 6 lakh among 40 families of the massacre.
Mr Vijay Kumar Chopra, Chief Editor, Hind Samachar Group of Newspapers, a local MLA, Mr Harsh Mahajan, Mr Tulsi Ram, Bharmour MLA, Mr Ganesh Dutt, Chairman, Housing Board, BJP leaders, Malvika Pathania and Ms Renu Chadha, were also present on the occasion.
Rakesh Lohumi
The move is significant in view of the visit of a NORAD team here later this week for reviewing the progress of various schemes funded by it.
The corporation has also sought directions from the government to initiate action against Larson and Toubro limited, which executed the project, by invoking penal provisions incorporated in the agreement with the firm. In a letter to the Secretary, Urban Development, it pointed out that the company not only failed to implement the project as per the terms laid down in the agreement but also did not take the remedial measures suggested by it from time to time to overcome the problems being encountered because of faulty design and wrong site selection.
As per the agreement, the corporation could recover the entire cost of the project in case of its failure. Further, it was the responsibility of the company to work out the feasibility and prepare a detailed project report, based on authentic date after carrying out proper scientific and engineering investigations. The project was assigned on a turnkey basis and the company was required to operate it for a period of five years after completion. The Municipal Corporation was to supply garbage for processing for which the company was required to pay royalty at the rate of Rs 22.50 lakh per annum for 100 tonnes of garbage per day. In case the quantity of garbage fell short, the amount of royalty would be reduced accordingly.
The Rs 7-crore project was made operational by the company on a trial basis on December 12, last year, but the processing of garbage to produce manure could not be effectively started due to technical problems. Subsequently, the project suffered extensive damage due to faulty channelisation of the nullah on which it was set up. Data pertaining to the discharge in the nullah, like the highest flood level, had to be collected before finalising the design, but this exercise was not undertaken. The project was located over the nullah after diverting its flow through two narrow hume pipes, which were insufficient to carry its massive discharge during rains. The remedial measures suggested by the corporation to rectify this major flaw in the design were not taken up. As a result, the project suffered extensive damage even during the moderate pre-monsoon showers in June.
The corporation has been regularly supplying garbage for the project since December. However, most of the 14,000 tonnes of garbage supplied still last month was dumped at the project site and only a fraction of it has been bio-converted to produce a meagre 50 tonnes of manure. As per the project design, the conversion rate into manure is 20 per cent and, as such, at least 800 tonnes of manure should have been produced.
The total cost of the bio-conversion plant was Rs 3.35 crore and so far, the corporation has paid Rs 2.78 crore to the company and the remaining amount is to be adjusted against excise duty.
Mr A.N. Sharma, Municipal Corporation Commissioner, said the corporation was still keen to make the project functional. It has suggested to the company to relocate the segregation unit and the processing plant at the same site along the approach road to the project. This would help allow the free flow of water in the nullah, which has been obstructed by the plant. Besides, the tonnes of garbage dumped at the project site has to be shifted to some other suitable site still the plant was made functional.
During the past four years as many as 1,44,751 tonnes of fruits have been procured, benefiting growers to the tune of Rs 60 crore. Almost all major fruits namely and other citrus fruits like orange, malta, kinnow and galgal and mango have been covered under the scheme.
The support price for apple and mango has been enhanced from Rs 3.75 per kg to Rs 4 per kg this year. Fruit collection centres have already been set up in different mango and apple growing areas of the state. In all about 260 centres for the procurement of processing grade apples will be set up during the season. So far 55 centres have become functional and 92 more such centres will be opened in the mid-altitude apple growing areas from the second week of this month.
The use of the alternative packaging materials like cartons and plastic crates is being promoted to wooden boxes. As against 36.41 lakh cartons distributed in 1997-98, 77.68 lakh cartons were supplied in 2000-2001. The subsidy on the cartons has been extended to flowers, mango and strawberry over the past three years. During the past four year 2.14 crore cartons have been supplied to the fruit growers and on which Rs 21.08 crore has been given as subsidy. A transport subsidy of Rs 76.54 lakh has been given for the import of 1.15 crore wooden boxes made of eucalyptus from the adjoining states. In addition, 1,90,439 plastic crates have also been supplied to the farmers on subsidised rates under a scheme sponsored by the National Horticulture Board Central Government.
The state government has also decided to give subsidy on various types of cartons being manufactured by the state-owned factory, Agro-Industrial Packaging India Ltd. (AIPIL), as well as by private parties so that fruit growers could get quality cartons in adequate quantity at reasonable.
Like previous years, the state government has also decided to give subsidy at source on telescopic apple and kinnow cartons and 10 kg apple Kulu carton, pear, peach and mango cartons by the AIPIL at the rate of Rs 10 and Rs 5 per carton, respectively. The subsidy on such cartons being manufactured by private corrugators is being given at the rate of Rs 8 and Rs 4 per carton, respectively. Besides, the subsidy on strawberry cartons, plum and almond cartons manufactured by the AIPIL and private corrugators is being given at the rate of Rs 3, Rs 1.50 and Re one per carton, respectively. The maximum limit of subsidy on the packing cases of fruits is Rs 12,000 per orchardist.
The government has also decided to give transport subsidy on the import of eucalyptus and poplar from the neighbouring states. Under this scheme, a subsidy of Rs 10 per quintal on the import of geltus is being given. A maximum subsidy limit of Rs 1000 per truck has been fixed for Shimla, Mandi, Kulu, Chamba, Kinnaur and Lahaul-Spiti districts whereas the rate is Rs 5 per quintal on the import of geltus with a maximum subsidy limit of Rs 500 per truck for Solan, Sirmour, Bilaspur, Una, Hamirpur and Kangra districts.
Reviewing the drought situation at a meeting of field officers Mr Narender Bragtasaid drought had created extraordinary conditions which would not only, reduce production this year, but would also have an adverse impact on new as well as old fruit plantations which could affect the next year's crop too.
He directed the department to create special cells at the directorate and district levels for assessing and reviewing the losses due to drought and to serve as a helpline to the fruit growers for providing the necessary financial and technical assistance.
Earlier, Dr R.P. Sharma, Director of Horticulture, informed about the progress achieved in the implementation of different horitculture programmes during the last year. He said in all 7,541 hectares of additional area was brought under fruits taking the total area under fruits to approximately 2.23 lakh hectares, over 22.35 lakh fruit plants were supplied to the farmers and 56,189 farmers were trained in various aspects of horticulture. Significant progress had been made in the diversification of horiticulture and 180 hectares had been brought under floriculture.
Mushroom production in the state had reached an all-time light of 3,227 tonnes.
Mr K.K. Gupta, Special Secretary Horticulture, emphasised the importance of the induction of the latest technology in the horticulture production programmes for improving the productivity and quality of the fruit crops.
While the manufacturers of allopathic drugs with an annual turnover of less than Rs 1 crore were barred, according to the current drug purchase policy, from participating in government tenders, there existed a reservation of 50 per cent for ayurvedic drugs manufacturers.
These facts were highlighted at a press conference jointly convened by the Vice-President and General Secretary of the Himachal Pradesh. Small Scale Drugs Manufacturers Association, Mr H. S. Sethi, and Mr V. K. Gupta, respectively, here last evening.
They urged for at least 30 per cent reservation in government purchases on the plea that small drug manufacturers were unable to compete with multinationals.
They said the rationable behind the policy governing the purchase of allopathic drugs, which was introduced by the then Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, Mr Shanta Kumar, was that the small-scale drug manufacturers did not have the requisite wherewithal to maintain the desired standards. Unofficially, this class of drug manufacturers were also accused of securing a large chunk of government business and thus reaping in sizeable profits, by bribing the Chief Medical Officers who allegedly turned a blind eye towards the quality of drugs being supplied.
The purchase of allopathic drugs had been handed over to the State Civil Supplies Corporation which floated open tenders but barred those having turnover of less than Rs 1 crore per annum. It is alleged that certain powerful BJP functionaries had vested interests in some ayurvedic drug manufacturing concerns.
Chandigarh, August 4
The Himachal Pradesh Backward Classes Welfare Association, Chandigarh, at a meeting here today, criticised the Himachal Government for not granting 27 per cent reservation to the backward classes despite the fact that the BJP had promised in its election manifesto to do so.
Punjab, Haryana, UP and Chandigarh have already implemented this reservation policy, Mr Gian Chand Chowdhary, general secretary of the association, said.
Mr Chowdhary, urged HP Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal to implement this reservation policy.
Monsoon remained active in parts of Himachal Pradesh as moderate rain lashed mid and lower hills in the state today.
Shimla and the surrounding areas were pounded by rain since early this morning. The capital town was shrouded in a thick fog which reduced visibility to a few metres and forced vehicular traffic to move at a snail's pace with headlights on.
According to a report, the Kangra valley experienced heavy rain since last night, dropping the temperature considerably and bringing the long dry spell to an end.
Dharamsala, Palampur, Mallan, Nagrota Bagwan, Dehra, Jwalaji and Nurpur also had rain. Rivers in some districts were in spate. However, no loss of life or property was reported.
A report from Mandi said heavy rain broke the month-long dry spell in the region. Reports of rain were also received from Kumarhatti and Hamirpur.
The week-long historic Minjar fair of Chamba concluded here today amidst the performance of traditional and religious rituals and festivities.
About one lakh people hailing from different parts within and outside Himachal Pradesh, including tourists from neighbouring states, participated in the fair. The immersion of golden 'minjars' (top blossom of the maize plant) with coconuts in the Ravi by the Himachal Chief Minister, Prof Prem Kumar Dhumal, who was the chief guest, marked the end of the fair.
The festival symbolises the blossoms of the maize crop, which is the main crop and staple diet in this alpine terrain. People pray to their Gods to seek blessings for a good harvest. Men, women and children adorn themselves with the sacred golden tassel of 'minjars' on their colourful costumes in the fair pray to the rain God Varuna for timely rain and a bumper crop. Earlier, a shobha yatra, starting from the Akhand Chandi Palace, passed through the main markets of the town and converged on the right bank of the Ravi for the immersion ceremony.
The town's deity, Lord Raghuvira, was carried in a palanquin accompanied by other local deities and the insignias of God Manimahesh, Lakshmi Narayan and Charpat Nath. Mr Kishori Lal, Industries Minister, Mr Mohan Lal, State Ayurveda Minister, Mr Harsh Mahajan, local MLA, Mr Tulsi Ram, MLA from Bharmour, Mr G.S. Bali, MLA Nagrota Bagwan, Mr Ganesh Dutt, Chairman, Housing Board, Mr Rahul Anand, Deputy Commissioner took part in the procession.
In a statement issued here last evening a spokesman of the Tibetan Government-in-exile, Mr Thubten Samphel, said Beijing wrongly believed that its control over Tibet's spiritual figures would ensure loyality of the Tibetan people. He said Beijing was trying to imprint the image of this boy in the mind of the world community by constantly parading him as the Panchan Lama.
He said China's interference in Tibetan affairs and its rejection and the removal of their Panchan Lama Gedhun Chockyi Nyima had promoted an angry response from the Tibetans.
The Congress MLA from Nagrota Bagwan, Mr G.S. Bali, said today that funds would be arranged for the beautification of Chamunda temple and to ensure pilgrims coming here were provided all basic facilities. Mr Bali was addressing villagers of the area after laying the foundation stone of Rs 10 lakh Baner Right Bank Flood Protection project. Funds for this had been arranged by him from Ms Rena Chaudhary, Lok Sabha member.
He said due to continuous erosion of its banks by the Baner river, the temple complex was facing danger. The project would not only help prevent further erosion but also provide pilgrims with space to relax and enjoy the beauty of the area, he added.
Mr Bali said a similar work near the cremation ghats would be started soon and for this another Rs 10 lakh had been arranged from MPs belonging to other states.
The union ministry of Rural Development has released Rs 52.93 crore for drinking water in the rural areas of Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Haryana and Punjab under the centrally-sponsored Accelerated Rural Water Supply Programme (ARWSP) for the current financial year. Of this Himachal Pradesh will receive Rs 11.52 crore.
The state had to cover 693 "not covered" and 5,000 partially-covered habitations in addition to 350 schools. The Centre has so far released Rs 28.17 crore to the state during 2002-03 under the ARWSP. Besides, the state also gets the first instalment of Rs 1.68 crore for planning and development of 50 watershed projects for implementation under the Drought-Prone Areas Programme (DPAP) in Bilaspur, Solan and Una distrcts. Kinnaur district has been given Rs 1.58 crore for planning and development of the watershed projects.
In a written statement issued by HPAUTA secretary, Dr S.P. Sharma, the executive committee of the association took a serious view of "sluggish" attitude of university administration in respect of UGC arrears of the teachers of this university while teachers of other two universities of state had already been paid the arrears. It is alleged that the funds received for this purpose by the university were diverted to meet insignificant commitments. The HPAUTA has also condemned the Vice-Chancellor for granting increase in the NPA to some veterinary teachers when the same had been refused from all levels.
The Rs 60 lakh eye hospital being constructed by the Local Lions Club will become partially functional from the next month with the completion of its main hall.
Stating this at a function of the club, here today, Mr Subhash Batra, district governor, said Rs 20 lakh would be spent on the project during the current year on building and construction equipment for the hospital would be supplied by the International Lions Club.
He said the club had launched the "sight for blind" programme under which 3,000 intraocular operations were performed this year. Meanwhile, Mr Ravi Sud and Mr Ajit Kumar Nanda were installed as president and secretary of the club, respectively.
Dharmasala, August 4
Scientists of Chaudhary Sarwan Kumar Himachal Pradesh Agriculture University, Palampur have advised sheep and goat owners to be aware of peste des petitis ruminants disease, commonly known as PPR in their animals.
PPR is highly contagious disease in which most animals die within 5 to 10 days. High temperature, loss of appetite, profuse nasal discharge, signs of pneumonia and respiratory distress are the symptoms of this disease. Necrotic lesions appear in the lips, gums, dental pad, palate and tongue. Diarrhoea and dehydration are followed by death.
Warm tributes were paid to Dr Y.S. Parmar, the first Chief Minister of the state also known as "architect of Himachal Pradesh" on his 96th birth anniversary today.
Several functions were held to mark the occasion. Mr P.K.Dhumal, Chief Minister, his cabinet colleagues, leader of the opposition, Virbhadra Singh, Mr Sohan Lal, Mayor of the Shimla Municipal Corporation and other leaders garlanded the statue of Dr Parmar on the Ridge.
The Chief Minister also released a book entitled "Speakers Also Speak", compiled by the Vidhan Sabha secretariat. The book contains speeches of the Speakers of Himachal Vidhan Sabha on various occasions.
Head Constable Darshan Singh of the Solan police allegedly committed suicide today by shooting himself in the head with his 0.303 service gun.
According to the S.P., Mr S.H.Z. Zaidi, he appeared to be in a depressed state of mind.
The Inspector-General Law and Order, Mr Kashmir Singh Rana, rushed from Shimla to the scene of the incident here upon receipt of information. The body has been sent for a post-mortem to the Zonal Hospital.
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Canada's Iraq war mission extended
Since September 11, 2001, Canada has consistently been expanding its foreign military and police presence in Central and West Asia under U.S. and NATO command. While openly participating in the invasion of Afghanistan, the Chrétien Liberal government would not openly join the "Coalition of the Willing" and provide more than a handful of troops for the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, despite having provided troops, warships and jets during the previous U.S. invasion of Iraq – the Persian Gulf War. The Trudeau government has now taken up the challenge to provide an air of legitimacy for Canada's ongoing military actions in Iraq and their expansion. On June 29, the Trudeau government announced that its mission in Iraq would be extended for two more years and that the mission would be "adjusted." This is a far cry from its election claim that it would end Canada's combat mission in Iraq, giving the impression that it was against foreign military escalation. Shortly after being elected, the Trudeau government launched a new mission in the Middle East, focusing on Iraq and neighbouring countries such as Jordan and Lebanon.
The Canadian Press reports that Canada's Chief of the Defence Staff Jonathan Vance is being given greater "flexibility" to decide what types of forces to deploy into the region, to a maximum of 850 military personnel. The presence of 200 special forces in Iraq has been publicly announced, as well as Canadian planes that provide refueling and reconnaissance for U.S. bombing raids. Vance's "flexibility" is actually aimed at meeting U.S. demands rather than being decided by the Canadian government. Flexibility may also mean giving Vance more powers to decide what these forces will do and under whose command. In March he told a House of Commons Committee that Canadian soldiers can shoot to kill if they determine "hostile intent" and then used weasel words to try to make this synonymous with self-defence. Aggressive actions by Canadian soldiers indicate they have already been given approval to shoot whomever they decide and then claim "hostile intent." Canada is also said to be adding a military transport aircraft to the mission, and estimates the overall cost of the new two-year mission at about $378 million. It is not specified who will use this transport aircraft or what will be transported, however this is no doubt being put at the disposal of the U.S.
The CBC reports that Canada's Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland has also authorized the expansion of the Canadian policing mission in Iraq. The RCMP-led police force is currently made up of four officers in Iraq and will be ramped up to 20 within the year according to reports. It will be made up of provincial and municipal police officers under RCMP command. To put a progressive veneer over Canada's escalating involvement in U.S.-led aggression in Iraq, the government claims the emphasis will be on recruiting female officers. Left unsaid once again is that the ultimate authority and control over Canada's mission is with the U.S.
"We know that Canada can, has and will continue to do important work in our efforts in northern Iraq," Trudeau said. "Canada has a strong role to play as part of the international coalition against terrorism." What Trudeau fails to mention is Canadians' longstanding opposition to participating in a military mission in Iraq at the behest of the United States, which destroyed the country in the first place.
Despite the changes, Minister of Defence Harjit Sajjan said the military would continue to operate within the confines of its previous "advise-and-assist" mandate. This mandate has been a fraud as Canadian troops have from the beginning been involved in direct combat, as evidenced by the gloating of Canada's Prime Minister over the accuracy of Canadian snipers, one of whom is said to have killed someone deemed an ISIS fighter from 3.5 km away.
Source: TML Weekly, September 23, 2017 – No. 29. Sightly edited by TS.
Filed under Canada, West Asia (Middle East)
Tagged as Canada - Department of National Defence (DND), Canada - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, Canadian Forces, Canadian Forces - Operation Impact (against Syria & Iraq), Justin Trudeau Government, RCMP, U.S. Coalition against Iraq & Syria, War in Iraq
2 responses to "Canada's Iraq war mission extended"
P.G.
"While openly participating in the invasion of Afghanistan, the Chrétien Liberal government would not provide troops for the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, despite having done so during the previous U.S. invasions of Iraq."
Sorry, but you're wrong:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/pm-says-it-s-possible-canadian-soldiers-in-iraq-1.367559
https://yvesengler.com/2013/03/29/for-sale-a-bridge-in-moose-jaw/
http://coat.ncf.ca/articles/Natynczyk_Iraq.htm
http://coat.ncf.ca/articles/Canada_Iraq.htm
http://coat.ncf.ca/P4C/65/65.htm
http://coat.ncf.ca/mideast/WikiLeaksIraq.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20141214124059/https://fr-ca.actualites.yahoo.com/blogues/la-chronique-de-normand-lester/la-guerre-secrète-du-canada-en-irak-chrétien-145216256.html
Tony Seed
Thanks for this. It should be that the Chretien Liberals would not openly participate in the so-called "Coalition of the Willing…"
Second, the article does not deal with Canadian involvement in Kurdistan, which is having a referendum on independence on Monday. This will be subject of a future article.
On Cretien's position, see https://tonyseed.wordpress.com/2003/03/18/canadas-announcement-that-it-will-not-participate-in-u-s-military-action/

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Thirty-five years ago this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published the first report of the disease that would later be known as AIDS. Back then, in 1981, I was 25, newly out and deeply in love. My doctor had discovered that I had swollen lymph nodes and had recently read an article about gay men with this symptom and a new disease then called GRID, gay-related immune deficiency. But I wasn't worried: That was a gay white man's disease on the coasts – New York and San Francisco. It was a disease that struck guys who partied hard and had lots and lots of sexual partners. I didn't think it had anything to do with me, living with Chris in Chicago.
But several years later, after Chris had died, along with dozens of other friends – and I'd been given a death sentence several times — I understood just how wrong I was.
As the AIDS epidemic turns 35, I celebrate my 60th birthday, knowing that I wasn't supposed to survive. I've lived with HIV for most of my life, and never expected to make it to 30, much less 60. Eventually I have come to understand that the only way to save my life and the lives of those I love has been to get involved aggressively in activism and policy work to fight this disease and advocate for health care in general.
We're at a decisive moment in the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The remarkable advances that we've made in the past decade have given us diagnostic, surveillance, treatment and prevention tools we never could have imagined. But every year 50,000 Americans contract the virus – nearly half of them black — and thousands still die from the disease.
Now that I've made my 60th trip around the sun in a world where HIV/AIDS has taken hold and won't let go, I want to use my past as a motivational tool, to protect our future. As I remember the most difficult days of the epidemic and reflect on how far we've come, I urge you to also understand how close we are to turning the tide – for good.
I came out in 1980. I was engaged to be married to my college sweetheart, and then I met a man named Chris Brownlie. Everything changed. I would call it love at first sight, if there were such a thing. The week after I met him, I gave my mother the book "Loving Someone Gay." Within a month, I had broken up with my fiancée, and Chris and I moved in together.
Our time together was short-lived. By 1986 Chris had been diagnosed with AIDS and was very sick. We assumed I had contracted the virus as well, and my diagnosis was confirmed in 1987. At that point, Chris and I and most of our friends were living day by day, sometimes minute by minute, trying not to die. We were using a kind of arithmetic of survival: If I don't die today, then I'll deal with the pneumocystis attack that's preventing you from breathing. If I'm alive the day after we can cope with the fact that you may be going blind.
In 1989, Chris passed away in my arms. I didn't have time, and I didn't want to process my grief. Things were so catastrophic that I felt like if I let myself understand the depth of what was going on, I would never, ever come out of it. For me, the solution was to work. In 1993 I became director of policy and planning for AIDS Project Los Angeles and also the AIDS coordinator for the city of L.A. My goal was to be as exhausted as possible at the end of each day, so I would fall into bed and be too tired to dream.
In those days, we didn't think the plague would go on for so long—maybe a few months, a year. I thought, "The government will fix this. They aren't going to just let us die." But eventually we all realized no, they are; they aren't sending the boats back for us. So I threw myself into fighting AIDS.
Soon, it became obvious that I couldn't keep up that pace. In 1996, I contracted pneumocystis pneumonia and was given less than 24 hours to live. I was very weak, and could barely breathe. I was in the hospital, in intensive care, a tube down my throat. My blood count was dangerously low, and my T cells had dropped to nearly 0.
But then something miraculous happened. The doctors started me on protease inhibitors, the new drug "cocktail" that had been approved for treating AIDS a few months earlier. That medication saved my life – and went on to make the disease "manageable" instead of deadly for millions of others.
But not for the vast majority of Black people. For all the talk about the epidemic being over, for most African-Americans it was as if the cocktails didn't exist. Yes, there were improvements, but the degree of change in Black communities relative to white communities was striking and shocking. In fact, 1996 the year AIDS "ended," Blacks accounted for a larger proportion of AIDS cases (41%) than whites for the first time since the start of the epidemic.
I founded the Black AIDS Institute in 1999 because I was terrified that Black communities were being left behind. We were not getting information about prevention and treatment, and no one was focusing on the unique determinants of health that impact our communities. I wanted to create a space that looked at the disease through a Black lens and where the focus was squarely on us – where we mattered.
And we have made progress. Black America came together to address HIV/AIDS in our communities. Whereas in the first 15 years, there was little effort to confront the disease, today almost all of the major Black civil rights organizations have an AIDS plan and/or a national HIV/AIDS coordinator. Politicians, media organizations, celebrities and churches stepped up to talk about the disease and how to fight it. And individuals took responsibility for their own health through testing and treatment and began to care for themselves and their loved ones.
But it is not over. African Americans remain the racial/ethnic group most affected by HIV in the United States. The latest statistics note that 44 percent of new HIV diagnosis are among African Americans though we comprise only 12 percent of the population. And according to new government data, if current rates persist, one out of every two Black men who have sex with men will become infected with HIV over their lifetimes. The disease has put down roots in the South, which has the least resources but the highest stigma.
Still, we can protect our future; ending HIV may not be easy, but it is simple.
1. Know your status. That should be the starting point for everyone.
2. Provide treatment for people who are HIV positive. Treatment works two ways: First, it stops the sickness and then dying of those who are living with the virus. Second, treatment functions as prevention; you can't get infected by someone who can't transmit the virus.
3. We must make sure that those who are at risk of being infected have the prevention tools they need. These include: condoms; abstinence for those for whom it makes sense; and biomedical interventions like PrEP, the medication that stops the spread of the virus.
We have the power to end the AIDS epidemic. The tragedy will be if we can do it, but don't.
As told to Linda Villarosa, who runs the journalism program at City College in Harlem and writes frequently about health and social issues. You can follow her on Twitter.
This article is a collaboration between EBONY.com and the Black AIDS Institute to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS in the Black community. Read our previous articles here.
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Selzo () ist eine russische kreisfreie Stadt mit  Einwohnern (Stand ) in der Oblast Brjansk im Südwesten Zentralrusslands.

Geographie und Klima
Selzo liegt im Westen des Landes etwa 80 Kilometer östlich der ukrainischen Grenze am Fluss Desna. Die östlich angrenzende Oblasthauptstadt Brjansk ist 22 km entfernt. Weitere nahe gelegene Städte sind Fokino (22 km nordöstlich), Djatkowo (30 km nordöstlich) und Schukowka (30 km nordwestlich).

Das Klima in der Stadt ist gemäßigt kontinental mit einer mittleren Jahrestemperatur von 4,7 °C und einer Jahresniederschlagsmenge von 610 mm. Der kälteste Monat ist Januar mit einem Temperaturmittel von −8,8 °C, der wärmste ist Juli mit 18 °C.

Geschichte
Nach der Fertigstellung der Eisenbahnlinie Smolensk–Brjansk im Jahre 1868 wurde Selzo 1876 als Siedlungspunkt an der gleichnamigen Bahnstation gegründet. In den 1880er-Jahren entstanden im Ort mit einigen Holzverarbeitungs- und Seifenfabriken die ersten Industriebetriebe. Ein rasches Bevölkerungswachstum wies Selzo in den 1920er- und 1930er-Jahren wegen der Landflucht großer Teile der Dorfbevölkerung in den Zeiten der Kollektivierung. Der rasche Aufbau stadtähnlicher Wohnviertel führte dazu, dass Selzo 1938 zu einer Siedlung städtischen Typs wurde.

1939 wurde in Selzo eine Artilleriemunitionsfabrik erbaut. Diese bestand jedoch nicht lange in Selzo, denn vom Oktober 1941 bis September 1943 war der Ort während des Zweiten Weltkrieges von der deutschen Wehrmacht besetzt. Zuvor wurde die Munitionsfabrik von hier nach Nischni Tagil und Kopeisk evakuiert.

In den Nachkriegsjahren wurde die Stadt nach und nach wiederaufgebaut mit neuen Wohnvierteln und öffentlichen Einrichtungen. Im Jahr 1990 wurde Selzo zur Stadt erklärt.

Bevölkerungsentwicklung

Anmerkung: Volkszählungsdaten

Wirtschaft und Infrastruktur
Hauptwirtschaftszweige des Ortes sind Holzverarbeitung und Chemieindustrie, außerdem gibt es ein Milchwerk und Abfüllanlagen für Mineralwasser, das nahe der Stadt aus Quellen gewonnen wird.

Selzo hat einen Bahnhof an der Eisenbahnstrecke Brjansk–Roslawl–Smolensk. In der Stadt gibt es eine Kunstschule, fünf Bibliotheken und einen Kulturpalast.

Söhne und Töchter der Stadt

 Alexander Fedotenkow (* 1959), Vizeadmiral
 Waleri Gopin (* 1964), Handballspieler und -trainer
 Witali Loschtschakow (* 1967), Fußballspieler
 Matwei Petrow (* 1990), Turner

Weblinks
 Offizielle Webseite der Stadt (russisch)
 Stadtwebsite seltso-city.ru (russisch)
 Selzo auf mojgorod.ru (russisch)

Einzelnachweise

Ort in der Oblast Brjansk
Ort an der Desna
Stadtrechtsverleihung 1990

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Llorgozana (Logrezana in Spanish) is one of 12 parishes (administrative divisions) in Carreño, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

The parroquia is  in size, with a population of 391 (INE 2007).  The postal code is 33438.

Culture
 Castle of la Barrera en Castiello
 Palace of los Carreño-Alas
 Church of Santa María la Real de Llorgozana
 Chapel of del Espíritu Santu  in Castiello
 House of Busto Valdés
 House of Fernández Porley in El Fundial
 House of Muñiz de Pola o de Solís Carreño in Posada
 Edifice of les Escueles de Llorgozana

Villages and hamlets
 Cabovilla
 Castiello
 El Cantu
 El Cardusu
 El Fundial
 El Lloral
 El Monte
 El Pedregal
 Fontefría
 L'Arena
 La Barca
 La Barrera
 La Cavada
 La Granda
 La Llegua
 La Machina
 La Menudina
 Llantero
 Los Tayos
 Posada
 Sebades

References

Parishes in Carreño


Two Dutch coal plants have taken a hit to their book value for the second time in two years, in a warning sign for would-be coal investors.
The Maasvlakte 3 plant was worth €700m at the end of 2016, owner Uniper's annual report showed, less than half its €1.5bn value at the beginning of the year – its first full year of operations. Its construction cost was €1.7bn.
Engie also wrote €168m off its Netherlands conventional power generation assets, of which its Maasvlakte coal plant is the most substantial.
Opened in 2015, the plants are among the most efficient in Europe, but have been caught out by market and political shifts. Falling EU electricity demand, surging renewable generation and a court order for the Netherlands to make deeper carbon cuts have undermined their profitability.
Energy consultant Gerard Wynn, who picked out the data buried in the financial results, said they cast "new doubt on the wisdom of planned new coal power plants by utilities in Poland, the Western Balkans and Germany".
Eurelectric, the industry body for EU power generators, acknowledged the new market reality in a statement last week. Its members, with the exception of those in Poland and Greece, did not intend to invest in new coal plants after 2020, it said.
Uniper is continuing to build a coal power station in Datteln, Germany, however. It will generate supply district heating as well as power and may benefit from a mooted scheme to pay conventional generators for being available to back up renewables.


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UFC 272 live blog: Kevin Holland vs. Alex Oliveira
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It's been a long, long time since Alexander Volkanovski has been a betting underdog. The reigning UFC featherweight champion has been one of the most dominant forces in MMA since joining the UFC in 2016, racking up a 12-0 record and four defenses of his 145-pound belt en route to becoming the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the sport. Naturally, he's been the betting favorite for the majority of that run. But that will change on Feb. 12 when Volkanovski vaults up to 155 pounds to challenge UFC lightweight champion Islam Makhachev for two-division glory in the main event of UFC 284.
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After taking a week off, the UFC is back and, for the first time in 2023, so is Bellator! UFC Vegas 68 takes place late on Saturday and is headlined by a heavyweight title between Derrick Lewis and Sergey Spivak. But before that, all-time great Fedor Emelianenko makes the final walk of his career, challenging Ryan Bader for the heavyweight title at Bellator 290. As always, the No Bets Barred boys are back, covering all the best betting angles for both cards.
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Angel Martin has created a new and exciting module for the hp41c. It provides emulation for the hp16 "Computer Scientist" calculator. It is freely available, and you can burn it on one of the available systems for that (the Clonix family and others), or in your hp41CL if you happen to have the serial module. By the way, it will become part of any new HP41CL modules, since Systemyde is now programming it as a standard module in the system.
It makes use of the #4 library too, so you will have to include it in your hp41 memory in some way (in Systemyde's HP41CL module, we usually enter it in page 4, by POKEing the alpha string "804040–8120"). Be aware that Angel has recently made some improvements on the #4 library, so you need to load it too, if you were using a previous version of it.
Enough about setting it up. What this emulation module does? Well, all kind of base conversions between binary, octal, decimal and hexadecimal numbers. It makes full use of the alphanumeric 24-character register in the hp41, and is able to manage up to 64-bit decimal numbers (equivalent to 8 bytes or 16 hexadecimal numbers). It is also able to perform all kind of operations with these odd-base numbers, including rotation, carry, sign change, logical operations like AND, OR, XOR, etc.
It is true that the utility of such machines has diminished in our current world of increasingly high level programming languages - Swift couldn't be farther from assembler code. But there will be occasions when you will have to descend to what is in the processor register, more so when you're dealing with hardware at low level - and then you need to be able to know in advance how the system would react.
In the next days I will try to get a handle to this wonderful new module. Angel said that there were several things that come in addition to the original feature set of th HP16c, and that we would be in for some surprises. Let's see!!


Deepalaya established over 1,000 women's self-help groups to fight gender discrimination. They use Collect, our mobile data collection tool, to conduct thorough impact assessments, covering 12,000 women across 84 villages.
Gender discrimination is rampant in the Mewat district of Haryana, where women often aren't given a say in family decisions and education is a distant dream.
To combat this, Deepalaya created a comprehensive Self-Help Group (SHG) program. They started with just 3 SHGs in 5 villages, reaching a total of 48 women. 12 years later, the same program now reaches out 12,000 women in 1,000 SHGs across 84 villages.
However, this rapid growth made it difficult for Deepalaya to assess the effectiveness and impact of its SHGs.
Deepalaya partnered with SocialCops to conduct a thorough impact assessment study. They used Collect, our mobile data collection app, to collect data on both the basic condition of each SHG and its deeper financial, educational, social, gender, and cultural impacts.
With everything from simple subjective questions to complex tabular questions, collecting comprehensive data was no problem.
Our simple web dashboard made creating a form as easy as writing an email. Admins could build a custom survey in no time.
Admins could set rules on numerical questions, geographic boundaries on GPS points, selection limits for multiple choice questions, and more.
Layers of skip logic made each form quicker and easier. Admins can choose to link together multiple questions, or even link entire forms.
With 12,000 women to monitor, Deepalaya had to move quickly. Features like local language capability and an intuitive UI/UX made learning Collect a breeze.
Mewat is prone to terrible service. Collected data was continuously saved to phones' local storage, then synced when internet was available.
Monitoring made it easy for Deepalaya to consistently track data from each self-help group and monitor their impact.
Deepalaya captured the GPS location of every survey to keep an eye on their field workers and ensure that incoming data was authentic.
We have been working in the microfinancing sector to empower women for 35 years. Yet we have always struggled to understand our impact. Now we can track every single woman in our program every day.
Monitor your impact from the ground up with Collect.


All of the guardsmen are working under command of state authorities.
In New Jersey, a training mission started a fire at the Warren Grove Training Range in the Pine Barrens. An Air Guard F-16 conducting a close air support training mission dispensed flares that started a fire in the scrub pine forest. While range safety personnel were on the site immediately, the fire jumped a county road and a state road and has burned roughly 13,500 acres, New Jersey Guard officials said.
Conditions on the ground are perfect for fires: low humidity, high wind and no rain for 20 days. New Jersey guardsmen in Blackhawk helicopters are cooperating with state forest officials and dropping water on the blaze, which has damaged about four dozen homes, officials said.
In Florida, 110 National Guardsmen are supporting firefighting efforts in Flagler County. This includes guardsmen from South Carolina, and Georgia. In Southeast Georgia, 41 guardsmen are supporting operations, officials said.
Georgia National Guard aircraft have flown 289.4 hours, delivering more than 2,500 buckets, each filled with 2,000 gallons of water onto hotspots. Guardsmen have also dumped more than 200 buckets, each filled with 700 gallons,on the flames. In Georgia,two CH-47 helicopters and a UH-60 helicopter are supporting the effort, officials said, adding that guardsmen are also providing some ground support.
In Minnesota, two Air National Guard servicemembers are supporting firefighting efforts in Grand Marais, officials said.


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Jan Boner (ur. 1516, zm. 15 września 1562) – burgrabia krakowski
(1550), wielkorządca krakowski (1552), kasztelan oświęcimski (1546), kasztelan biecki (1555), kasztelan chełmski (1552), starosta rabsztyński i spiski.

Był synem Seweryna Bonera, bankiera królewskiego Bony Sforza i Zygmunta I Starego i burgrabiego krakowskiego, oraz Zofii Bethmanówny (zm. 1532). Miał brata Stanisława (1517–1560), siostrę Zofię – dziedziczkę fortuny, której majątek z ręką oddaną Janowi Firlejowi (1521-1574), późniejszemu sekretarzowi królewskiemu, trafił do Firlejów oraz dwóch braci przyrodnich Seweryna i Jakuba Fryderyka (zm. 1585). Odebrał staranne wykształcenie wysłany przez ojca w podróż po Europie odwiedził Francję, Rzym, Neapol, Norymbergę i Fryburg Bryzgowijski, zapoznał się z ideami i wyznawcami Jana Kalwina, sam zostając jego wyznawcą. Został przywódcą małopolskich kalwinów, na potrzeby zgromadzenia oddając ogród położony w Krakowie za Bramą Mikołajską.

Po śmierci Piotra Kmity w 1553 został jego następcą na stanowisku kapitana spiskiego. W 1552 uzyskał miejsce w Senacie Rzeczypospolitej. Rozbudował wybudowany przez ojca pałac w Balicach. Kamienicę Bonerowską wzbogacił o zachowaną do dziś renesansową attykę.

W 1549 poślubił Katarzynę Tęczyńską (zm. 1566) córkę kasztelana chełmskiego Jana Tęczyńskiego. Zmarł bezpotomnie, został pochowany rodowej kaplicy protestanckich Bonerów w kościele w Kromołowie (obecna dzielnica Zawiercia) koło Ogrodzieńca. Spoczywa w niej wraz z przyrodnimi braćmi Sewerynem i Jakubem Fryderykiem.

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 Krystyna Pieradzka, "Jan Boner" W: Polski Słownik Biograficzny. T.II, zeszyt 4 Kraków, 1936.
 Marian Hanik, Trzy pokolenia z rodu Bonerów, wyd. COIT, Kraków 1985.

Jan Boner
Burgrabiowie krakowscy
Kasztelanowie bieccy
Kasztelanowie chełmscy
Kasztelanowie oświęcimscy
Senatorowie świeccy I Rzeczypospolitej
Senatorowie za panowania Zygmunta I Starego
Senatorowie za panowania Zygmunta II Augusta
Starostowie spiscy
Szlachta Korony Królestwa Polskiego
Właściciele Balic
Zmarli w 1562


At Tingdal Nursery we strive to offer products that are suitable for today's modern homes and meet the requirements of design-conscious customers and amateur botanists – outdoors as well as indoors.
InDoor is a concept that stands for durable green plants, primarily Peperomia. The plants must be contemporary in form and colour and give florists and consumers a multitude of options for easy use. In addition to Peperomia, we also offer Sedum, Senecio and Pilea Peperomioides. From August 2015 we also offers Monstera and Philodendron 'Super Atom'.
OutDoor is primarily a series of Pelargonium grandiflorum Tip Top for which we have developed several new cultivars through many years of breeding work. Other interesting offers in spring 2015 include Garden Cosmos, Chocolate Cosmos, Petunia and Calibrachoa.


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Kathleen Grace, Ph.D
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After the V.C. Summer Iceberg – Which lifeboat is safe?
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As the South Carolina General Assembly moves ever closer to receiving a report from the state Department of Administration on the future of Santee Cooper, the South Carolina Public Service Authority, it is time for a basic review of the current state of affairs with this state agency and the options available for its future.
As the chart adjacent indicates, this paper's chapters will focus on the current situation at Santee Cooper post-V.C. Summer collapse, the responses of Santee Cooper to the crisis, and the options available to the legislature based on H.4287.
Of all the options put forth to date, only the sale of Santee Cooper has the potential to reduce or eliminate the enormous future costs to be borne by the ratepayers and provide the ability to protect ratepayers in the future.
Santee Cooper faces:
A mountain of debt with only ratepayers to turn to, even after funds received from Toshiba in the bankruptcy settlement.
A complicated federal and state legal situation with exposure to broad class-action plaintiff claims.
A generation fleet whose dominant base load assets—the Winyah and Cross coal-fired plants and the one-third interest in the V.C. Summer Unit 1 nuclear plant—produce power at go-forward total costs well above market value. Then there's the environmental issue with coal.
A balance sheet, that if reconfigured to IOU standards, shows the utility is technically if not fiscally "insolvent"—having much more debt than the value of its functional, used-and-useful assets, which is made possible only by its self-regulation.
In response, Santee Cooper has proposed a host of maneuvers and questionable plans which do not reduce the debt burden significantly, will probably increase costs, and will continue to spend ratepayer funds at an alarming rate.
The legislature has set a menu of three options for the future of Santee Cooper. Self-help will yield more of the same, outside management has not worked in similar circumstances. Neither self-help or new management will eliminate the requirement for Santee Cooper to charge its customers for not only the remaining roughly $4 billion in principal value of V.C. Summer 2 and 3 debt outstanding as of today, but over double that amount over time as the interest on that debt is also being charged to customers.
Only a sale will allow for the write-down of financial and operational costs of V.C. Summer 2&3 out of the rate base, which is ultimately necessary for ratepayer relief and taxpayer protection.
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The Sassoon family is making a comeback to its Iberian Peninsula and Greek roots
December 06 21:45 2021
J. Sassoon Financial Group, the Sassoon family's investment and merchant banking arm is launching its Fintech Bank in Europe to build a digital incubator based a financial bridge between Israel and Southern Europe
New York – J. Sassoon Financial Group, is launching its fintech bank in Europe in collaboration with a UK based fintech bank, the Connecticut based investment advisory and merchant banking firm is building its platform and awaiting regulatory approval, the firm's fintech bank J. Sassoon Bank will only focus on SMEs in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Israel.
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The new fintech will in addition to regular banking services such as business accounts, and money management accounts, will also offer trade finance, business finance, project finance and other financing products that the bank will offer on its blockchain platform. J. Sassoon Bank will seek to collaborate and engage with multilateral guarantee agencies both in the U.S., EU and agency members of the World Bank to offer loan securitization products, such as credit insurance, letters of credit, currency and political risk insurance etc…
The majority of the bank's depositors will be from those EU countries under its EU license; however, they will be able to offer financing to firms both within the EU as well as in other regions outside of the EU. Initially the bank will be working on building its loan and investment portfolio in Israel as it is the only market outside of the EU the bank initially intends to focus on, with the expectations of adding other markets as the bank grows in places such as Africa, and South and Central America.
Meanwhile, J. Sassoon Financial Group's board has recently learned of market rumors circulating that the firm had allegedly engaged in a collaborative agreement with Greek investment firm, Solidus Securities. J. Sassoon Group does not know where these rumors have come from or how they were started, but the U.S. investment banking firm categorically denies and refutes the existence of any affiliation, contractual relationship or collaboration agreements with Solidus Securities and has no such existing or pending agreements with any company in Greece at this time.
The firm is currently engaged in exploratory discussions related to opportunities in Cyprus and in Israel and is looking forward to launching its fintech platform to assist startups and small businesses in countries like Portugal, Spain and Italy. J. Sassoon Bank will also seek to build a digital incubator where Israeli tech experts can collaborate and provide coaching and advice to startups and small tech companies in these European markets as part of the services and products the fintech bank will be offering.New York, November 28, 2021
J. Sassoon Financial Group, is launching its fintech bank in Europe in collaboration with a UK based fintech bank, the Connecticut based investment advisory and merchant banking firm is building its platform and awaiting regulatory approval, the firm's fintech bank J. Sassoon Bank will only focus on SMEs in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Israel.
The firm is currently engaged in exploratory discussions related to opportunities in Cyprus and in Israel and is looking forward to launching its fintech platform to assist startups and small businesses in countries like Portugal, Spain and Italy. J. Sassoon Bank will also seek to build a digital incubator where Israeli tech experts can collaborate and provide coaching and advice to startups and small tech companies in these European markets as part of the services and products the fintech bank will be offering.
About J. Sassoon Group
J. Sassoon Financial Group is a family legacy, New York based private equity, investment advisory and merchant banking firm, owned by the Sassoon family through the Sassoon Family Continuation Trust. The firm is a rebrand of Sassoon & Co established in 1921, and a successor to an over five-hundred-year trading and merchant banking legacy, Sassoon Frères & Co, established 1512 in Constantinople. The firm's primary focus is on investment advisory, corporate, trade, and project finance and private equity investments with an emphasis on emerging and developing markets.
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Our Cast
Mark Strano ("Chet", Co-screenwriter, Producer )
Mark starred in the short film Housebroken (TO's director Wade Gasque) which has played dozens of film festivals worldwide including Frameline (SF), Outfest (LA), Newfest (NY), Skeive Filmer (Oslo) and was released on DVD/VOD/iTunes by Strand Releasing in June 2014. He has been in several indie features including lead roles in the creature feature Lizard Boy, Guest House Films' Out To Kill, and the 90's dramedy Come Together. LA theater credits include Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things as Philip and the 30th anniversary revival of Gemini as Francis. Mark has written, starred in and directed several original web series and the short film House Guests which was the inspiration for his script to TO. A graduate of Marymount Manhattan College's BFA acting program, Mark spent his years in NYC at a talent agency, casting for theatre and scoring independent films including Here! TV's Fixing Frank. Upon moving to LA, Mark managed screenwriters for Acuna Entertainment (The Great Buck Howard) before returning to his first love, acting. www.markstranoactor.tumblr.com
Frankie Valenti aka Johnny Hazzard ("Todd")
Frankie has built a business around his alter-ego, Johnny Hazzard. Entrepreneur, actor, and one of the top selling adult film stars in the last 10 years, he has thousands of fans following his re-invention out of the adult film industry through Twitter, Facebook and his own website www.johnnyhazzard.tumblr.com. Frankie was a series regular on Here! TV's The Lair and appeared in 21 episodes of Season 1 & 2. Johnny Hazzard was awarded best actor at the Grabby's for starring in the adult feature epic The Wrong Side of the Tracks Part 1 & 2. As a model, Frankie has been featured in various print ads and coffee table books, but most notably was the muse for Boy George's clothing line, B-Rude.
Gregory Marcel ("Brandon")
Gregory was a series regular on ABC's Mind Games, with Steve Zahn and Christian Slater, playing the role of Miles Hood. His other television credits include Up All Night, Anger Management, The Mentalist, Criminal Minds, Law & Order, The Event, and Jimmy Kimmel Live. Film credits include The Good Shepherd, Sun Kissed, and The Fall. He has studied in Siberia, taught flying trapeze, and co-wrote and produced the award winning web series Infinity Strategists. Gregory holds a BFA in Acting from Rutgers University.
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Little Known Black History Fact: Ronald McNair
Erica L. Taylor, The Tom Joyner Morning Show
Ronald McNair was a black astronaut and NASA mission specialist who was part of the space shuttle Challenger crew in 1986. McNair was a highly trained doctor of physics who received his Ph.D from MIT. After receiving a number of fellowships, McNair dedicated his studies to CO2 lasers and even the study of science within the martial arts. The Lake City, South Carolina native was a 5th degree black belt and an accomplished saxophonist. A father of two, Ron McNair was a graduate of North Carolina A & T and a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Incorporated.
In 1984, McNair took his first historical flight in space. He was the first to operate the Canadian arm to position EVA crewman around Challenger's payload bay. McNair had received countless awards and fellowships, including being named a Presidential Scholar (1967-1971), a Ford Foundation Fellow (1971-1974), a National Fellowship Fund Fellow (1974-1975), a NATO Fellow (1975); winner of Omega Psi Phi Scholar of the Year Award (1975), Los Angeles Public School Systems Service Commendation (1979), Distinguished Alumni Award (1979), National Society of Black Professional Engineers Distinguished National Scientist Award (1979), Friend of Freedom Award (1981), Who's Who Among Black Americans (1980), an AAU Karate Gold Medal (1976), five Regional Black Belt Karate Championships, and numerous proclamations and achievement awards.
After studying in France at the Ecole Dete Theorique de Physique, Les Houches, France, McNair published papers on the lasers and molecular spectroscopy.
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PPG Aerospace Expands Sealants Production Capacity
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"This is a significant expansion for Shildon and positions us well for expected growth of aerospace sealants in Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa," Lambourne said. "The added capacity expands PPG's global sealants manufacturing footprint, complementing the sealants product line made at Mojave, Calif."
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On Christmas morning I awoke early, and as is my custom sat silent by the fire for a time. One cat rubbing my ankles, the other still sleeping on the couch, the darkness slowly easing toward light.
When the day had come in full, I could see that it was snowing, not hard, but not soft, either. Steady. Certain. I did chores, ate two eggs fried, drank coffee, and tiled the mudroom floor in my usual fashion, which means eschewing spacers in favor of a squinted-eye approximation of the gaps between individual tiles. Chasing the cats off the fresh-set tiles until exasperation won over and I pushed them outside into the snow, falling harder now.
I finished the tiling, filled the cookstove firebox, and skied, straight uphill to the height of our land, then traversing the sugarwoods, feeling in love with the solemn beauty of the forest in winter, the rangy limbs of the maples dark against the lidded sky, wind-driven snow adhered to the rough bark of their trunks. The air was cold, but I was not, and so continued through the woods until I could sense that the light had reversed its journey, now easing toward dark. I bee-lined for the mountain road, and skied its unplowed shoulder toward home, face into the wind, past the old church, then the town hall, and over the bridge where the Jamaicans didn't die.
Chores again, cleared our drive and those of my small plow route, then drove a dozen miles to Melvin's to help with the feeding out and bedding down of his small herd. Enjoying driving through the new snow, the storm winding down but not yet finished, the heater on high, the truck in four wheel drive, steady and sure on the slick roads. At Melvin's I fed the cows, peeling armfuls of hay off a first cut round bale for the heifers, then from a bale of second cut for his 14 milkers. Christmas music on the radio. The air thick with the sweet smell of fermented hay and cow itself. Melvin going about the pre-milking routine he's gone about for the majority of his nearly 70 years. Almost 70 years old and putting 14 cows in the tank; I guess that's what retirement looks like when retirement's not an option. Or not much of one, anyway. The snow still falling outside, both of us absorbed in the rhythm of our work and not talking much, the cows shifting in their stanchions, watching me pass with something between wariness and anticipation.
Back home, the fire's gone out. I light it again, the house so quiet I can hear the flames from upstairs in bed, where I lie reading until I'm too tired to carry on.
In the solitude of life without family around, it is amazing to see the breadth of one single day's achievement, both practical and spiritual. Thank you Ben!
Thanks, Kent. Best to you and yours.
Thanks Ben. Such a wonderful reminder that a fulfilling and satisfying day can just be filled with common tasks.
I'll never retire. Partially because I can't afford to and partially because I can't not be doing something. Maybe I'll quit when I'm too tired to carry on. Pretty much the way it is. Or will be.
Sounds like a little bit of a boring day. At least nothing bad happened!
Now that you mention it, yeah, I guess it was pretty boring.
Now that he's 29, "working for the man," he admitted recently he now knows what i meant by the phrase.
Boring is where we bump up against ourselves. Which is worth a lot.
Having had a stroke 2 1/2 weeks ago, I long, not for excitement, but for the simple, ordinary tasks that I have taken for granted for so long. Your day sounds like bliss, and I hope that I will recover sufficiently to keep going, like Melvin. There is so much joy to be found in mindfulness of the ordinary. Thank you for the way you remind me of this every time I read here.
I love what you say Cally. So true!
Sorry to hear about your stroke, Cally. I'm wishing for you as speedy and complete a recovery as possible. Thank you for reading.
Thanks, Emanuel. Hope you're feeling better.
I really like your stories about living in rural Vermont, as they remind me, to some degree, of the time when I was growing up just across the Connecticut River in New Hampshire. I think that it is nice of you to take time out of your busy schedule to help farmer Churchill with his chores.
You wouldn't think a woodstove makes any noise, but it does. After a day of toddler chitter-chatter, the creaking of the stove and the whirring of the fan spinning on top is quiet music to my ears. Beautiful view you've got up there on the hill.
Hello Ben. I am again reminded here of how similar our lives our. Different in many ways, of course, but similar at the core. Which is to say earthbound, earthheld, earth our home and shared inheritance.
You mean you didn't wake up and worship money? You and Pip got your heads on straight.
Just curious, but is the entire church painted red, or just the back side?
A red church made reminded me of High Plains Drifter, when they painted the whole town red.
It's just the back side. The rest is yellowish, trimmed in red, like the steeple. I wonder why… maybe they ran out of yellow paint.
It sounds like an utterly fulfilling day to me. Peaceful, simple, satisfying. Connected. And I can feel the place through your words as much as through that wonderful photo. Thank you Ben.