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Magazine nº 55
Article: Reinventing SENER.
Interview: A better SENER. SENER Group's CEO, Jorge Unda, and the President of SENER, Jorge Sendagorta.
Tribune: In memory of Enrique de Sendagorta.
Technology: Helicon plasma thruster.
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Newsletter SENER News nº1
Article: The technological leap at Noor Ouarzazate III.
Technology: BepiColombo, a satellite with the participation of the SENER Group companies; contracts at airports in Spain, Ireland and Portugal; low-emission biomass power plant in Puertollano, Spain; engineering for a 1,200 passenger vessel for Tanzania.
The 2019 annual report contains the most relevant information about the activities undertaken in the three areas of the SENER Group this year. This publication includes information on the company's progress and its prospects for the future.
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DTA - Rotary Actuators product range
The highly vertical integration of activities involved in the design and manufacture of DTA actuators allows SENER Aeroespacial to offer its clients the option to adapt the products to their specifications with a short turnaround time.[+]
AI-based ventilation control system for metro networks
Transit systems in the age of Covid-19 are missing riders, confidence and money. How an intelligently controlled ventilation can help Metro Systems from crisis to revival?
A significantly more intelligent ventilation not only reduce energy consumption but also helps reduce the risk of Covid-19 proliferation and improves passenger comfort.[+]
RESPIRA® - Artificial Intelligence to control and improve Ventilation Systems
RESPIRA® is an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based ventilation system, developed by SENER, that improves the comfort, quality air and energy efficiency in underground transport networks and large scale infrastructures.[+]
80 new hospitals
120 large hospitals refurbishings
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Helping Metro Systems from Crisis to Revival
Proven in the Metro Barcelona and now available in America, the AI-based ventilation system #RESPIRA® is designed to help you get the most out of your existing systems. Thanks to the real-time monitoring of variables such as temperature, humidity, air quality and energy consumption, RESPIRA® uses Machine Learning tools to implement a dynamic algorithm for predicting environmental conditions and establishes the optimum ventilation strategy in metro networks.
Intelligent ventilation: Presentation of the RESPIRA® system
Designed and patented by SENER, RESPIRA® uses artificial intelligence and a dynamic algorithm to predict and control environmental conditions in underground transport networks and large scale infrastructures that enables the implementation of an optimal ventilation strategy.[+]
Kathu Solar Park
In CSP, SENER is a world leader in innovative and sustainable solutions. With a portfolio of 29 solar thermal plants, the majority turnkey projects representing 2,060 MW in South Africa, Morocco, Spain and USA, it also develops proprietary technology and carries out operation and maintenance.[+]
ATHENA mission and mechanisms designed by SENER
SENER is going to implement several innovations to overcome the project's many challenges, which include: the huge loads induced during launch, due to the considerable mass of the mirror; damping and shock attenuation during the launch. [+]
Jorge Sendagorta's Speech at IIE Honorary Member
Speech from Jorge Sendagorta, SENER President, during the award ceremony of the Honorary Member's medal from the Spanish Institute of Engineering (IIE), on November 13, 2018[+]


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The site lets users set up their own pages with graphics and diagrams that display real-time updates of sports scores.
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Concern as UK set to end European Arrest Warrant participation
Rachel Woods MLA commented on the UK government announcement that the UK will not participate in the European Arrest Warrant (EWA) after Brexit.
Rachel Woods MLA said: "The European Arrest Warrant has been a very sharp and useful tool for law enforcement across Europe, particularly for the PSNI and An Garda Siochána.
"Since coming into effect in 2004, the EWA has been used to extradite 1,000 fugitives to the UK, while British authorities have sent 10,000 criminal suspects to EU countries.
"The EWA is particularly important here in Northern Ireland because of the frequent cross-border engagements betweenAn Garda Síochánaand the PSNI. It's fair to say that fugitives across Europe have slept badly in their beds because of the EWA.
"There have been indications that the UK and Irish governments might establish a similar process for cross border extradition. However, there are serious questions marks over when that arrangement can be put into and whether it can operate as effectively as the EWA.
"Justice Minister Naomi Long appeared before the Justice Committee yesterday (Thursday 27 February) and discussed the future of the EWA. I will continue to engage with the Minister through the Committee on yet another bad Brexit outcome for Northern Ireland."

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In the past few years Ingo Schrader designed and realized different construction projects for Messe Frankfurt, including the North Gate, which has been awarded several architectural prizes, plus various guard houses. Although mainly involving smaller scale construction projects, the resulting buildings represent precise interventions, serving to enhance Messe Frankfurt's identity and corporate culture. The architect used Allplan Architecture for the design and implementation planning across all work phases. But he also made effective use of Allplan to create presentation documents and as an internal design check. The scope of the projects includes new constructions and modifications and also interior work for the trade fair's existing building stock. Mobile shelters, a bus right of way, new guard houses and the conversion of foyer areas were amongst the many construction tasks.
Structural design: Bollinger + Grohmann Ingenieure, Frankfurt a. M.
North Gate is the main gate to the exhibition site. It concerns a highly conspicuous oval steel roof which protects the guard house below and controlled access zone against the wind and elements. The roof membrane, or covering, consists of polyurethane-coated veneer timber. The roof's visual presence is based on its exposed site on a bridge and its delicate construction. Almost 600 square metres of roof space with a total weight of 110 tons are supported by four steel columns, each with a triangular base area. The parametrically designed, innovative supporting structure made of flat steel louvres evokes natural, evolved structures and the irregular position of the column shows the flow of force. This irregular support structure with many steal beams with different shapes and sizes proved to be a challenge for the design. An assessment and review of these support structures using section cuts was practically impossible.
Ingo Schrader developed a family of buildings in different sizes as part of the work carried out on the North Gate. Specifically, to give the small guard houses a presence in the midst of the large-size exhibition architecture. For they are on the border between public space and exhibition site and thus constitute the initial contact between the trade fair and its visitors and exhibitors. Following functional and urban planning analyses the architect selected a triangular outline. The constructive base is made up of a steel skeleton with mounted aluminium façade. The red colour tone of the façades corresponds with the trade fair's corporate colour. The guard houses provide space for one to four workstations. Common characteristics, such as the triangular plan, identical sill and fascia heights, similar window formats and colour and materiality of the façade reveal their "family" attributes. Thanks to their conspicuous colour the guard houses on the exhibition site are visible from afar and denote strategically important intersections such as, for example, the entrance gates.
> Allplan Architecture is universally deployable for all work phases and project types thanks to its great functionality.
> The integrated interfaces enable smooth data exchange with external specialist planners.
> Powerful tools for 3D modeling and rendering provide many design check and presentation options.
In accordance with the initial sketches and conceptual thoughts Ingo Schrade used Allplan Architecture in the design stage already in order to create 3D models which were used to refine and verify the concept. In order to demonstrate situations in detail to other project participants or discuss variants with the client, the firm used digital sketches or renderings in the course of further planning. Allplan Architecture helped the architect to think through his design from a three-dimensional point of view and check details such as transitions, walkways and corner constructions. The 3D model meant that the architect was able to view his design as a volumetric element in an integrated and holistic way. Allplan Architecture assisted him in this process, from design to implementation, as a powerful tool and supported the integrated working method. This is characterized by intensive communication and a lively data exchange with other project participants.
In particular, in the case of the oval roof on the North Gate the architect did not want to dispense with a 3D working method. The irregular support structure resulted in many different sizes of steel beams and complex situations. It was not possible to assess or check these using 2D planning documents. In order to solve this problem the 3D model of the steel constructor was scanned in Allplan Architecture and could subsequently be verified in 3D view. Screenshots of different angles were then created and annotated. These documents were used for corrections directed at the steel constructor. The end result: a building which would appear to have tuned out quite simply amidst all the complex requirements: functional and at the same time aesthetic, with depth effect at second glance and its own identity.
Ingo Schrader studied architecture at the Technical University in Braunschweig and at the IUAV (Istituto Universitario di Architettura Venezia) in Venice. Between 1992 and 1995 he was in charge of the office of Prof. O. M. Ungers in Frankfurt am Main, where he opened his own practice in 1995. He subsequently relocated to Berlin in 2007. The practice works largely for commercial and public clients. Areas of work range from construction work on existing buildings to Corporate Architecture right through to designs for furnishings and exhibition organization. As well as his practical work as an architect Ingo Schrader taught at the MSA (Münster School of Architecture). As part of the 15th Architecture Bienniale in Venice in 2016 he participated in the exhibition entitled "Time Space Existence".
Ingo Schrader's architecture demonstrates a clear and scaled back styling and develops specific solutions from each task and the conditions of the location. What are at first glance minimalist buildings have presence thanks to their proportions, materiality and detail.


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Mobility, Empowerment and Precarity in African Migration (International Field)
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Jessica Luffman AndersonGeorge Washington University
Lindsay E. BayhamUniversity of California / Berkeley
Morgan L.C. BuckCity University of New York (CUNY) / Graduate Center
Kankonde Peter BukasaUniversity of the Witwatersrand
ODETTE MURARAUniversity of the Western Cape
Lucy E. OdigieAmerican University
Stephen Robert PentzUniversity of Witswatersrand
Shanna ScherbinskeUniversity of Washington
Derek SheridanBrown University
Kathryn F. TakabvirwaStanford University
Yiying WangGeorge Mason University
Beth Iams WellmanYale University
Open to doctoral students based at universities within the U.S. and first-year doctoral students based at universities in Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
May 19 – 24, 2013 in Washington, D.C.
September 25 – 29, 2013 in Johannesburg, South Africa
This field focuses on migration as a form of individual and collective empowerment in contexts of economic and physical precarity. Examining movements primarily within and from Africa, it considers mobility as both a response to and transforming agent of acute socio-political and economic uncertainty in sending and receiving sites. Whereas predominant framings of displacement underscore disempowerment, our premise is that whatever its motivation—ecological uncertainty, violence, poverty, or persecution—human mobility fundamentally represents an 'empowerment strategy' through which people actively work to ameliorate their condition. Mobility from and within situations of precarity can transform opportunity structures, redistribute resources across time and space, and generate new meanings that are both intended and unforeseen. The consequences are often far reaching, not only for migrants, but also for dependents left behind and for those with whom they live near and interact where they settle.
This field is a direct response to a literature on African migration and displacement which conceptualizes movement almost exclusively as a 'rupture' that disconnects people from broader socioeconomic and political processes and objectives. While our field draws from research on transnationalism, integration/incorporation, and labor migration, it embeds these processes and patterns within environments characterized by on-going violence, harassment, social fluidity and economic uncertainty. Such precarious contexts may include urban or rural Africa, or more broadly the diasporas within which undocumented and socio-economically marginalized African migrants live. At root here are questions of how migrants mobilize at the individual and collective levels to negotiate and transform these conditions towards their initial or emerging objectives.
We invite applications from students who wish to investigate how migrants transform political, economic, social and/or cultural fields of power and relations. We are especially interested in projects that explore how migrants mobilize through family and community networks, political organizations and unions, alliances between themselves and with natives, and other forms of organization. Such research can focus on how migrant activism intersects spheres of social and institutional regulation on multiple levels, taking into account: inter-ethnic and racial identities; nationalisms, class, gender, and inter-generational relations; national and local policies and political power structures; relations between markets and polities; public debates about ethnic and racial diversity and the politics of memory; or other aspects of markets and polities affected by migrant empowerment. Through workshop discussions we will explore how recognizing mutually generative relationship between mobility and power can provide grounds for a critical re-interrogation of concepts useful in understanding mobility, empowerment, and transformation, such as identity, place, community, law, social capital, and power.
Africa provides the backdrop that informs much of the organizers' own empirical research and we seek participants whose work focuses primarily on mobility in and from Africa or on comparative research referencing African cases. We seek projects based on the collection or analysis of empirical data, especially those that include both qualitative and quantitative research methods. Although we anticipate that the disciplines most relevant to this seminar will be sociology, political science, anthropology, history, and geography we welcome the perspectives of other social science and humanities disciplines. Priority will be given to projects that marshal either cross-national comparisons or single case studies that are cast against a broader empirical literature, in order to speak innovatively and critically to theoretical debates and themes that draw attention from a multi-disciplinary audience.
Jessica Luffman Anderson
George Washington University, Political Science
Navigating Kenya's local ownership debate: Understanding interests and tactics among Somali refugees
States increasingly invoke local ownership, a value championed by aid agencies, and carry out policies contrary to the interests and preferences of humanitarian and protection organizations. The tension between the interests of local owners and international interveners has become more pronounced in stronger African states, such as Kenya. And yet, the beneficiaries in these contexts are not 'locals' – they are refugees. Local owners exercise their agency to determine the fate of yet another population. This reality, and how refugees navigate it, has been eclipsed by the local ownership literature to date. This gap leads to several, related questions: What are the effects for Somali migrants of the local ownership debate and competing NGO and state interests in Kenya? How do refugees recast or engage with this relationship; what are their own tactics and priorities? And finally, are there normative gaps this case might highlight in the existing local ownership literature?
Lindsay E. Bayham
University of California / Berkeley, Sociology
Friends in Far Places: Migration Networks, Perceived Social Support, and Economic Resilience Strategies in Ghana
My research project examines how widespread migration affects the perceived social support networks and economic resilience strategies of relatives and friends remaining in a host country. Focusing on the individual as a site of social transformation, I ask how widespread migration affects "left behind" individuals' perceptions of wealth distribution and social support, and examine how these perceptions affect individuals' actual resilience strategies in times of economic hardship. Using Ghana—a country with a long history of emigration and well-developed migrant networks—as a case study, I will compare perceptions of wealth and resilience among Ghanaians with and without migrant connections, using social network analysis, cognitive social network mapping, and economic transactions diaries to compare perceived social support networks with actual exchanges of support. To contextualize my data, I will also analyze broadly circulating narratives of migration to assess how these narratives may affect individual strategies of resilience.
Morgan L.C. Buck
City University of New York (CUNY) / Graduate Center, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Mobile Landscapes: Migration, Social Reproduction, and Peri-Urban Space in Ghana, 1980–present
The unprecedented explosion of informal settlements is perhaps the most pressing issue facing Africa and the global South today. From the UN to scholars and popular writers around the world, the overlap between peri-urban space and contemporary urban informality has been established as central to what now is undoubtedly a definitive moment in urban development around the world. A great deal of recent scholarship in Africa has focused on the proliferation of informal settlements, particularly in peri-urban space surrounding rapidly-expanding urban centers. As conditions of informality, precarity, and crisis continue to sweep the continent, these studies are poised to be increasingly relevant over the next decades. Despite many studies offering a great deal of insight into this phenomenon, the vast majority of accounts of both informality of peri-urban settlement remain largely descriptive, overlooking the ways in which these unprecedented transformations are linked to larger processes of economic restructuring, particularly in rural areas. Through the politically engaged study of social reproduction and the production of space in rural migrant communities living in informal settlements in peri-urban Ghana, I aim to produce a critical geography of rural and urban development in postcolonial Africa. Using a range of archival, ethnographic, and spatial methods, I will enable deeper understandings of the day-to-day practices, provisions, and livelihoods of the people and communities that contribute to the production of peri-urban space. I thus aim to contribute to an alternative narrative, historically and politically nuanced, of the development and persistence of both informal settlement and peri-urban life.
Kankonde Peter Bukasa
University of the Witwatersrand, Social Sciences
The Business of Integration: Migration, Xenophobia, and Migrants' Pentecostal Churches' Legitimating Strategies in Post-Apartheid South Africa
This study investigates, the legitimating strategies employed by migrant religious organizations and leaders in order to gain and maintain local membership and ensure the survival and social reproduction of their churches. Existing research on xenophobia, migrants' integration, migrants' disempowerment, their survival strategies in host settings, social capital, etc, tend all to focus on human individual migrants. None has examined how organizations created by migrants are able to survive and manage to attract local members in societies where migrants themselves face open hostility like South Africa. This is the intended scholarly contribution of this project. This work differs from existing studies in that I approach religious organizations not as neutral social spaces where social phenomena take place, but as dynamic organizational entities that can act independently of their individual members to mobilize legitimacy, resources and thus contribute to integration and social cohesion. In doing so, they make themselves compelling to local populations irrespective of negative stereotypes against migrants. Due to the constant reshaping of its fragmented social fabric resulting from the apartheid legacy and high rates of human mobility, South Africa makes a strong and interesting case study as generating legitimacy and authority in such society is difficult for any organization where new arrivals enter cites with few shared institutions or stable social configurations.
ODETTE MURARA
University of the Western Cape, Anthropology and Sociology
Negotiating Differences and Belonging: Experiences of Great Lakes region migrants in Cape Town, South Africa.
This study explores the experiences of Great Lakes region migrants in Cape Town, South Africa, particularly on the ways in which they negotiate with and their differences away from 'home'. The study specifically focuses on Rwandans, Congolese from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundians.The logic in selection of this group is partly because of their shared history and ethinicities which are of particular interest as to how they negotiate them in South Africa. The assumption is that migrants find difficulties in engaging with their differences among themselves and with locals which might pose threats to and of belonging, inclusion and exclusion . Therefore the question which guides this research is , how do such migrants understudy deal with such differences in an fragmented migrant community. The proposed study employs qualitative research methodology through ethnographic tools such as life histories, and 'deep-hanging out' in their social spaces.
Lucy E. Odigie
American University, Communications
Voices from the margin: Analyzing the role of Digital Communication in creating spaces of Empowerment, Identity & Community for W. African immigrant Domestic Workers
West African domestic workers in New York City exemplify the situation of precarity faced by many African immigrants; their combined status as black immigrants, isolated domestic workers and women leave them vulnerable to discrimination, alienation and exploitation. Despite this narrative of disempowerment, preliminary research reveals that these women are developing creative empowerment strategies using new digital communication. My study focuses on the digital communication as a tool in the empowerment strategy of West African domestic workers in New York City. The study seeks to map, at the micro-level, the ways in which immigrants are using digital technology in culturally and socially oriented ways to improve their working and living conditions. Objectives of the study are to (1) identify and document the digital spaces created by the W. African domestic workers and (2) analyze the role that the digital spaces are playing in this particular community perception of identity, community, and empowerment.
Stephen Robert Pentz
University of Witswatersrand, Anthropology
Healing the Divide: migration, urbanity and traditional African healing
Traditional African healers across Africa see themselves as belonging to distinct intellectual traditions that, despite the misnomer in the word 'traditional', are constantly undergoing critique, modification and change as healers engage with the demands of modernity. Moreover, 'traditional' healing offers an entry point into the South African economy for many foreign African migrants, and as such, foreign yet familiar forms of healing intersect with local understandings of affliction, health and wellbeing. The research intends to explore how traditional African forms of healing from outside South Africa makes claims to legitimacy, authenticity and autochthony within Johannesburg's urban, pluralist health environment. It seeks to understand the nature of the relationship between local forms of healing and healing from outside South Africa. Lastly, within the context of new policies around the re-engineering of primary healthcare and the NHI, it will explore how traditional African healing intersects and intertwines with biomedical norms of care
Shanna Scherbinske
University of Washington, Anthropology
Mapping Transnational Communities: Somali Communities in Kenya and Seattle
Since the 1991 collapse of Somalia's central government, millions have fled the country. Some remain at refugee camps in Kenya, while others have spread across the globe. Dominant framings depict refugees purely as victims, as passive, disempowered, apolitical recipients of charity, but this characterization fails to recognize both the varied factors that drive migration and the many ways in which refugees respond to these pressures. This project explores strategies that transnational Somali communities deploy in their quests to secure their own livelihoods, and the way(s) in which these connections shape their lives. It is particularly concerned with inter-generational relationships, both within communities here in the US and with communities in Kenya. It is situated in Seattle, Washington and is a collaborative, community-driven project.
Derek Sheridan
Brown University, Anthropology
Intersecting Precarities?: The life-trajectories, networks and micro-politics of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in Kampala
Over the last decade, tens of thousands of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs have settled in towns across Africa. Popular discourses about these migrants turn on whether they empower local consumers or undermine the livelihood of local traders. Their presence complicates dominant assumptions about China in Africa because many of these migrants have come to Africa are themselves in precarious economic positions in the context of the Chinese economy, placing them in a fraught relationship with local actors. In the context of recent claims about the "isolation" of Chinese migrants and increasing tensions with their host society, my project will be an extended ethnographic study of a community of Chinese traders and shopkeepers in Kampala, tracing their life histories and trajectories, networks and relationships with other Chinese and Ugandans, the mediation of these relationships and links between the micro-politics of these encounters and both Chinese and Ugandan understandings of "China-in-Africa".
Kathryn F. Takabvirwa
Stanford University, Anthropology
Points of Contact: Roadblocks and Documents in Zimbabwean Migration
The Zimbabwean and South African states seek to control the movement of Zimbabweans and by extension, the goods and vehicles they travel with between the two countries, through documents and policing and through roadblocks. Taking roadblocks and documents as both techniques of control, and sites of contact between the migrant and the state, my work examines the exchanges that occur around these. It looks at the ways Zimbabweans 'work' and work around the systems, and the meaning-making involved in these exchanges and circumventions. It moves away from the state-centric and policy-directed approaches that characterize much of the literature on Zimbabwean migration in South Africa, and brings the roadblock in to be studied with passports, permits and IDs. My study attempts at an ethnographic study of migrant agentive practices, and their perceptions. In so doing, it seeks to contribute to understandings of migrants' experience of and response to precarity.
Yiying Wang
George Mason University, Public Policy
Empowerment of African Migrants and Its Implication on Regional Development--A Comparative Study of Washington Metropolitan Area and Pearl Riverl Delta
Africa as the world's least developed continent has witnessed increasing labor emigration since its independence. While descriptive statistics on African migration trend is available, few studies have addressed questions including, what is the rationale behind Africans' choices of destinations? What resources do African migrants mobilize to empower themselves? What are the implications of African migrants on regional labor market structure and economic development? This comparative case study uses both quantitative and qualitative research methods to answer these questions. Focusing on two regions—Washington Metropolitan Area and Pearl River Delta—that are in two biggest yet different economies, this study will collect primary data through survey methods. Investigation will be complemented by statistical analysis and mapping based on ACS and BLS datasets. This research has high intellectual merit since it covers a niche topic will generate primary data. It also underscores salience of immigration and labor policies and in global economy.
Beth Iams Wellman
Yale University, Political Science
South to South: Migration and Citizenship in Developing Democracies
Current scholarship conceives of transnational migration as primarily a South-to-North phenomenon, focusing on migration to "Global Cities" of North America and Europe. This approach not only fails to consider transnational urban migration within the Global South, but also limits analysis of immigrant politics to within the host country, overlooking political linkages back home. My dissertation asks: how do attachments to home nations and engagement with host nations shape immigrant citizenship? I argue the interaction of sending and receiving countries' citizenship policies, combined with the context of informality, are generating new possibilities for immigrant citizenship. I use ethnography, survey data, and an original dataset of African countries' citizenship policies to compare the experiences of African diasporas living in urban South Africa. This study will shed light on the contemporary challenges of citizenship and integration for other developing democracies that also serve as migration destinations, including Kenya, India and Mexico.


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Q: MySQL prepared statement with bulk insert I have a module which allows admins to add some users (maybe multiple) to a group.
PHP
$user_id  = $_POST["user_id"]; //this can be an array
$group_id = $_POST["group_id"];

$sql = "INSERT IGNORE INTO users_groups (user_id, group_id)
        VALUES ($user_id[0],$group_id)";

for ( $i = 1; $i < count($user_id); $i++)
{
    $sql .= ", ($user_id[$i],$group_id)"
}

As you can see the sql-query depends on how much users the admin has selected.
How can I use this code with prepared statements because the post-variables come from a user (SQL injections...)
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I have two selectboxes:

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*one for the user selection (multiple selection is possible -> array): $_POST["user_id"]

*one for the group selection (only one selection is possible): $_POST["group_id"]
And now I want a prepared SQL statement for inserting user_id and group_id to the many-to-many-table (users_groups). The problem is that the number of values which have to be inserted can change (depending how much users the admin has selected in the selectbox).
I want to change the prepared query depending on how much users the admin has selected.
For example:

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*the admin selected two users -> sql: INSERT IGNORE INTO users_groups (user_id, group_id) VALUES ($user_id[0],$group_id), ($user_id[1],$group_id)

*the admin selected four users -> sql: INSERT IGNORE INTO users_groups (user_id, group_id) VALUES ($user_id[0],$group_id), ($user_id[1],$group_id), ($user_id[2],$group_id), ($user_id[3],$group_id)
My question: How can I do this automaticaly and with prepared sql statements because I dont want to have like 10 times if(count($user_id) == number) {...?
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If I would do this manually the code would look like this:
$sql = $db->prepare("INSERT IGNORE INTO users_groups (user_id, group_id) VALUES (?, ?)");
$sql->bind_param('ii', $user_id[0], $group_id);

UPDATE 3
To check whether there are only integers in the post variables:
$user_id = filter_input_array(INPUT_POST, 'user_id', FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT);
$user_id = abs($user_id);

$group_id = filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'group_id', FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT);
$group_id = abs($group_id);

A: To create the SQL statement, you can use this to generate as many placeholders as you will need for all of your user_id values.
$user_ids  = $_POST["user_id"]; //this can be an array
$group_id = $_POST["group_id"];
$placeholders = implode(', ', array_fill(0, count($user_ids), "(?, ?)"));
$sql = "INSERT IGNORE INTO users_groups (user_id, group_id) VALUES $placeholders";

Then to bind the values, if you are using pdo, something like this should work:
$stmt = $pdo->prepare($sql);
$i = 1;
foreach ($user_ids as $user_id) {
    $stmt->bindValue($i++, $user_id);
    $stmt->bindValue($i++, $group_id);
}

Or if you are using mysqli, you could try this approach using reflection (taken from a user note in the php docs here) the note does state that this needs PHP 5.3+, which hopefully you do have.
$stmt = $mysqli->prepare($sql);
$values[] = str_repeat('ii', count($user_ids));
foreach ($user_ids as $user_id) {
    $values[] = $user_id;
    $values[] = $group_id;
}
$ref = new ReflectionClass('mysqli_stmt');
$method = $ref->getMethod("bind_param");
$method->invokeArgs($stmt, $values);
$stmt->execute();

Or, because I'm stubborn and the thing from the php docs user note doesn't seem to work, which after reading more I don't see how it could work, considering the php doc for ReflectionMethod::invokeArgs specifically says

Note: If the function has arguments that need to be references, then they must be references in the passed argument list.

then using call_user_func_array could possibly work.
$stmt = $mysqli->prepare($sql);
$type = str_repeat('ii', count($user_ids));
foreach ($user_ids as $user_id) {
    $values[] = $user_id;
    $values[] = $group_id;
}
foreach ($values as $key => $value) {
    $value_references[$key] = &$values[$key];
}
call_user_func_array('mysqli_stmt_bind_param',
    array_merge(array($stmt, $type), $value_references));

But what a pain. I really like pdo.

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Injury Control & Violence Billion dollar mining company hasn't paid fine for safety violations in 2010 deaths of two workers
June 21, 2012 Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH 4Comment
It's been almost two years since Daniel Noel, 47, and Joel Schorr, 38, went to work at Barrick Goldstrike's Meikle mine near Elko, Nevada, but never made it back home to their families. They were fatally crushed on August 12, 2010 in a mine shaft by tons of falling aggregate and pipe. As I wrote last year, management at this mine — an operation owned by the largest gold producer in the world, with a stock market value of tens of billions of dollars — had jerry-rigged a reset button with a broom handle and failed to replace missing clamp bolts and load-bearing plates on the aggregate carrying pipe system, factors directly contributing to the workers' deaths.
Investigators with the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) examined the circumstances leading to the fatal incident. They issued five high-severity citations that were accompanied with this language:
Management engaged in aggravated conduct constituting more than ordinary negligence… This violation is an unwarrantable failure to comply with a mandatory standard.
The t0tal monetary penalty assessed for those violations was $447,600. Those fines are yet to be paid because Barrick Gold has challenged the citations. The case is pending before the (independent of MSHA) Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, an agency mired in a backlog of about 17,000 cases.
One could say I shouldn't harp on Barrick for failing to pay the $447,600 fine because the company hasn't had "its day in court." What bugs me about this example is Barrick Gold's huge PR machine touting the firm's ethics and responsibility to local and global communities. Their 100+ page annual "Corporate Responsibility" reports contain feel-good stories about Barrick employees providing warm clothing to children in Alaska and building homes in rural Peruvian towns. In the section about safety, Barrick says the same thing as most other companies:
"Nothing is more important to Barrick than the safety, health and well-being of our workers and their families."
In its 2010 report, the year that Daniel Noel, 47, and Joel Schorr, 38, were killed on the job, Barrick's Responsibility Report noted:
"Barrick has a strong safety culture. …Sadly, however, six employees lost their lives at two operations this year. Any fatality on the job is one too many and is a tragic reminder of the need for continual vigilance in the workplace."
There was no explanation in the glossy report for gross operational and safety deficiencies that caused the deaths at the Meikle mine.
In its 2011 Responsibility Report —the year MSHA issued the citations and assessed the $447,600 penalty —Barrick Gold indicated:
"…we received 568 regulatory actions at 15 sites, including citations for noise control, ground instability,and lack of safety barriers. …Fines were received for a small number of these regulatory actions; in 2011 we received a total of $689,000 in fines at five properties."
The glossy Barrick Responsibility Report fails to mention that the company has yet to pay the $447,600 penalty assessed for the violations related to the death of Daniel Noel, 47, and Joel Schorr, 38. I guess it's one thing to write about being a responsible company, and quite another to actually take responsibility for your actions.
P.S. I'm not sure how Barrick came up with regulatory fines only at "five properties." At their U.S. operations alone, I counted penalties assessed at eight operations. Barrick has mining facilities in 12 countries.
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Paula Aldous says:
I am posting a letter I sent to Barrick Gold and to several news affiliates. Why does no one care about these two men and their families? Did they mean NOTHING? The fines assessed are a paltry sanction for negligence.
I am writing in reference to the MSHA Report faulting Mine Managers at the Meikle Mine in Carlin, Nevada for the death of two miners that appeared online at foxnews.com on November 8, 2011.
One of the miners was my baby brother, Joel Ethan Schorr. Let me tell you how his death has impacted his wife and children. Ethan had just purchased a home a month or so prior to his death at work. Being responsible he signed up for credit life that would pay off the house if something happened to him. Something did happen to him, but because the policy had not been effect for a full 30 days prior to his death….the insurance company would not pay off his house. Did I mention my brother has five children ages 9, 10, 12, 13, and 17? He was supporting his wife in finishing her college degree; therefore she did not work at the time of his death.
My brother's accident occurred at 1:10 am on August 12, 2010. His wife was contacted at approximately 7:00 am by mine personnel. When my family notified me I contacted law enforcement in Elko to determine the extent of the accident. I drove to Elko when I learned through those channels that the situation appeared grim. Meanwhile, the mine arranged to have my sister and mother and the other miner's families flown into Elko.
When everyone arrived, Barrick staff briefed us and told us they would give us updates on the rescue mission about every four hours or sooner if, there was breaking news. They assured us everything that could be done, was being done, and reminded us repeatedly that the men were trapped in a "ventilation" shaft. Hope sprang eternal for two families.
This went on for several days. Finally, my mother had a meltdown and begged MSHA personnel hysterically to tell her the truth about her baby. After conferring with Barrick personnel it was confirmed both men were dead. Why put a family through that when it is apparent from reading the MSHA report that staff knew IMMEDIATELY the two miners couldn't possibly have survived? Is torture part of the Liaison job description to work for Barrick Gold?
Several mine personnel were tasked with caring for the two families while we waited secluded at an Elko Hotel. Those people should be commended. Hotel staff were kind and gracious to us as well. My family will be forever grateful to the women from Barrick Gold who did their level best to make us as comfortable as possible during the rescue, and ultimately the recovery mission. The community of Elko as a whole comforted us and assisted us in any way. The clothing stores gave us a discount for memorial service clothing for the children. Local law enforcement and businesses pitched in and provided a birthday party for my nephew. All in all, the people in Elko were AMAZING, wherever we went.
Barrick Gold moved quickly in offering to provide three years worth of continuing health insurance coverage for the widows and children. Of course, the lump sum check issued for the insurance premiums did not cover the cost of premiums plus inflation for the three years and now, merely 15 months later…the money is depleted and the cost of the insurance rivals a house payment.
The best part is that Nevada is a "No Fault" state, so even if the employer is responsible for the negligent death of an employee….the family CANNOT sue for the wrongful death of their family member. Of course, the manufacturer of the Aggregate Delivery System can be sued, but NOT the employer who installed and failed to maintain the equipment and safety devices per the manufacturer's instruction. A failure that led to certain death for employee's on the job. Accidental death insurance pays a lump sum to the beneficiaries equal to the employee's yearly salary not including overtime. Since the resulting deaths were job related, the figure doubles. I now know the definition of double indemnity. Heck of a way to learn it…and…I wouldn't advise it as a learning tool.
Meanwhile, it took over six months for the families to receive the partial remains of their loved ones. Six months in which DNA samples were taken from family members and from the deceased's tooth and hair brushes to identify whose body parts were whose. Six months watching; waiting; and sorting through the devastation left behind because management DIDN'T take the time to make the workplace the safest environment possible for their employees. Six months to obtain death certificates so the families could start receiving survivor benefits. Six months for children to bury their fathers and have some closure. Six months for spouses, siblings, and parents to try and make sense of a tragedy.
During the initial month or so after the accident, Barrick Gold personnel were attentive and helpful. But time passed and everything went back to business as usual. Usual that is for everyone BUT the families mourning the loss of their loved ones. Loved ones they still hadn't been able to bury. Loved ones whose remains were still being located by sifting through debris with cadaver dogs. Oh…and could we get ANOTHER DNA sample for comparison and identification purposes, please, grieving family?
Fifteen months it has taken for the investigation to be completed. With the results being……DRUM ROLL, please………"management engaged in AGGRAVATED conduct constituting MORE than ordinary negligence by FAILING to take the necessary actions KNOWING that there were safety defects present. This violation is an UNWARRANTED failure to comply with MANDATORY standard." Not in one instance, but in a total of six instances! While accidents happen, negligence by definition is the failure to act in a reasonable manner, leading to injury or harm to others. Labeling the conduct aggravated implies behavior criminal in nature, usually involving injury. Most criminal behavior results in legal consequences and usually restitution of some kind. Interesting what the consequences and restitution will be in a "No Fault" state that is primarily supported by Barrick Gold of North America.
The President of Barrick Gold of North America, Greg Lang, stated "Nothing can compensate for the impact that the loss of Dan Noel and Ethan Schorr has had on loved ones and everyone who knew them, and our thoughts and prayers remain with their families."
Mr. Lang….thoughts and prayers don't provide health insurance coverage….they don't provide the income lost to the widows and children….they don't pay the bills and they don't replace a son's longing to have his Dad take him fishing, or a daughter's heartache because her Father won't be there to walk her down the aisle. A wife and family's loneliness and aching for the person they loved. My brother's family was packed and waiting to leave on vacation to Papa and Grammy Schorr's when Daddy got home from work. Five children with their suitcases packed fighting over "shotgun" and the window seats, arrangements made for friends to care for the family pet so they could hit the road when Daddy arrived. Put yourself in their shoes.
I am hurt and offended, as are my entire family and the Noel family, that the world was allowed to pray and witness with the West Virginia miners and their families; with the miners trapped in Chile and their families; and yet again when a miner went missing in northern Idaho; all mining accidents, which made national news. Were those men more important that Dan Noel and Ethan Schorr? Did our families not deserve to have the nation hoping and praying for our men? To think that in Chile, even their PRESIDENT came to assist in rescue efforts and attempted to aid his people, but that in Nevada, MOST people weren't even aware two miners were missing. Even more intriguing, was that CNN ran a crawler the day of the accident stating "two miners missing in Nevada" but nothing more was publicized.
The most discouraging part of all this…is that one of the richest companies in the world, will be fined $60 to $220,000 per violation for an approximate total of a maximum of $1,320,000.00, which ultimately represents what the government thinks a dead miner is worth. An amount Barrick Gold of North America earns in 15 minutes of mining, each fiscal year thanks to historically high gold prices. An amount that should have been cheerfully given to each family….not to replace the lives lost….but to simply say, "We at Barrick Gold are sorry." Instead, the families are left in limbo and reminded at every turn that while the employer IS responsible for the loss of life, there is no consequence that can be brought forth as punishment, or in retribution for their aggravated conduct.
Finally, I was raised to believe that saying you're sorry means you don't do it AGAIN! To Mr. Lang….I say "my thoughts and prayers are that your company does the RIGHT thing. In addition, that being "sorry" for Barrick Gold means they make sure no other families suffer as ours has……that the company learns from its mistakes and makes the work environment in ALL mines as safe as humanly possible. This was not an ACCIDENT…it was AGGRAVATED NEGLIGENCE. Please, please Mr. Lang, no short cuts; no bypassing safety; no tolerance for bending the rules to keep production up; and no more KNOWING CONDUCT, costing a life!
Paula L. Aldous
Grieving Sister of Joel "Ethan" Schorr
Miner Joe says:
Ms. Monforton, DrPH, MPH: for an educated woman I am a little surprised you would end your complaint with this sentence:
" I guess it's one thing to write about being a responsible company, and quite another to actually take responsibility for your actions."
What actual responsibility would you have the company take for their actions? In your post I get the impression that you directly associate paying a fine with taking responsibility. I, as a miner, am offended by that. You actually believe that giving our government half a million dollars is the same as taking responsibility for the death of two miners? How absurd.
The responsibility should be directed at the miners families. Ms. Aldous makes the point above, if the company is indeed sorry about the deaths of their employees, why don't they show it with some health insurance for the families and some money to get them started in a new, unwanted, and unanticipated stage of their lives.
As for MSHA; MSHA is a government organization. It's structure is bureaucratic, it's decisions byzantine. Do not be fooled into thinking you know the details of an accident by reading a report from MSHA.
It is tragic that these men died. It's stupid that these men died if indeed someone bypassed safety mechanisms and shut off valves, and criminal if someone failed to install the proper bolts. Why are those responsible for those actions, which are immediately responsible for the deaths, not being held accountable? Who was the miner who decided to bypass the cutoff system? Who was the supervisor who decided not to double check that all the bolts and brackets had been installed correctly? Or even worse, the supervisor who saw that the safety mechanisms were bypassed and the bolts were not installed and did nothing? Those are the men responsible.
As for Ms. Aldous' feeling that the world does not care about her brothers death, I am sorry. Its the nature of the world that only a family grieves the loss of a loved one. Its the same when a Soldier dies anonymously in Afghanistan, Or when a trucker is killed on a lonely highway. It's sad. But it's also the natural cycle of our world.
It's important to keep this argument in perspective. Miners know that they work in a dangerous environment. They know that they may be killed while doing their job. They know they may lose a limb. The same as a Soldier knows he may be killed by an enemy, or by an explosion. It doesn't take the pain from the family, but the miner knows. He is doing a job because he can get more money doing that than anything else. He accepts the danger because he is able to provide a better life for his family.
There are arguments for what the company should be held accountable for, but please keep the arguments in the realm of reality and the context of other dangerous professions. The government fines will not prevent deaths. The government fines will not support the families grieving lost loved ones. The government will only prevent mining companies from opening mines and providing good jobs for miners. The government fines will only prevent mining companies from paying money to the families of the deceased. If you are going to protest, please do so in a way that actually makes things better. Government does not make this, or any situation, better.
My condolences to the families of the deceased. Your loss and pain cannot be talked away, legislated away, paid away, or regulated away. May God be with you.
Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH says:
Miner Joe,
Thanks for you comment. Like it or not, one of the ways an organization and/or an individual is held accountable for their violations of the law (whether it someone who speeds on the Interstate, or a mine operator who fails to ensure a coal mine is properly rock-dusted) is with a monetary penalty. If I had my wish, employers who knowingly violate mine safety regulations that kill or seriously injury a worker should serve jail time. But until jail time is part of the OSHA law or the MSHA law, I'll accept that the monetary penalty is the next best thing.
I respectfully disagree that workers should just accept that there are just some "dangerous occupations." Anyone who studies accident investigation reports will quickly see that the vast majority of fatal incidents occur because of failures to identify and correct hazards. There may be some industries where hazards are routinely created as part of the industrial process, and if so, that much more attention much be devoted to finding and fixing them.
You are entitled to your opinion, I just have a different one. There is plenty of empirical data demonstrating that inspections and fines have changed work practices and have saved lives.
Finally, I certainly know that MSHA's accident investigation report is not the only source of information about the incident that killed Mr. Schorr and Mr. Noel. As I noted in a previous blog post about this incident, I did not only want MSHA's version of the story. I made a specific request to Barrick for their investigation report, a document that is required by the Mine Act, and one that is supposed to be made available "to interested parties." This is the response I received from Barrick on 11/14/11: "Barrick's internal reports regarding such cases are under legal privilege and are not released publicly. Sorry we couldn't be of more assistance in this case."
Elaine E. Noel says:
To Whom I May Concern,
My name is Elaine Noel. My husband's name is Donald Noel. Our first born son is Daniel P. Noel, and he has two brothers, Dwayne Noel and Dean Noel.
My first born Daniel P. Noel worked for your company at BARRICK GOLDSTRIKE MINES INC.MEIKLE MINES.
On August 12,2010 you and your company TOOK MY SON DANNY'S LIFE due to High Negligence on your part.
I say your part, because you as a multi billion dollar corporation are the ones who are responsible for the people that you hire, and your corporation are the ones who are supposed to make sure that the men you hire are doing their job and doing it with the utmost safety in mind, no cutting corners or waiting to fix something the correct way just to save a buck. You have inspections in place for a reason, not just to ignore them when they find something that needs to be corrected, or to find ways to get around an alarm so that it won't hold up production.
My son was a good man and a good son, brother, father and husband. Now, because of you, my grandson Danny will grow up without his fathers' love guidance and teachings as will his son Anthony.
My son was a very loving, thoughtful, and caring young man who made people laugh, and he always helped his friends when they needed help.
I find it so very hard to wake up each morning knowing that I will never be able to hear his voice (he would call 2-3 times a week sometimes 4) just to see how his mom & dad and brother Dean were. I will never be able to hug him and tell him how much I love him. He used to come to Tucson to go hunting and visit—-I will never be able to cook for him again. He would call his brother Dean (who is very sick) and try to cheer him up and joke with him. His brother will never hear his voice again.
Danny loved NASCAR and would call his dad to find out who won, and they would discuss the race when it was over and joke and laugh—his father will never hear his voice again.
It took SIX MONTHS to the day for us to get my son's remains back, because YOUR MULTI BILLION DOLLAR CORPORATION, I REPEAT MULTI BILLION DOLLAR CORPORATION, didn't want to PAY FOR STAT DNA TESTING, because you already spent a lot of money on the two families, and you didn't want to spend a lot more as was told to us by the Coroners Office. We could have had him back in three weeks after they gathered his remains. Do you know the heartache and the pain and suffering that you have put BOTH families through??? Or should I ask DO YOU CARE??? Let me give you a small account of it—Dan's remains were in the morgue during his son's birthday, his father's birthday, his two brother' birthdays, and his mom's birthday, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. Can you even imagine what it was like thinking your sons' remains are in a heap in some COLD, dark MORGUE while you are trying, and I repeat TRYING, to somewhat celebrate these Holidays? Then it took a REDICULOUS 15 MONTHS for us to finally get the accident report from MSHA, only to find out how much negligence there was on the part of your MULTI BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY. This all could have been prevented if only your money hungry cravings were not so overwhelming that you forgot about the MINERS' SAFTEY. I SAY HOW DARE YOU!
I have lost a son who would always make me laugh and was always so thoughtful and who had so many friends. He loved life and he lived it to the fullest, but he had so much more to offer. He wanted to teach his son Danny to hunt and go snowmobiling, fishing and to teach him how to be an upstanding young man but because of your High Negligence and disregard for safety this will never happen. I pray that you don't have any children that are working in that mine because let me tell you, this is something that you never want to go through nor do you want to put YOUR FAMILY through. I don't sleep well at all. I have nightmares about how he was crushed to death and wonder if he suffered. There isn't a day that goes by that I don's cry for him. There is an emptiness, a hole in my hear that aches so much and it doesn't go away. I fact, as the days go by it is getting worse. We didn't even have the chance to say good bye. I writhe this letter in the hopes that all of Danny's and Ethan's fellow workers see this or hear about it and DO NOT SIGN ANYTHING from the mine if anything should happen to them at ANY BARRICK MINES, as representatives from the company will be there acting like they are there for the Family when in reality they are there only to make sure that no party can SUE them for their negligence, THIS INCLUDES WORKMAN'S COMP OR ANY TYPE OF INSURANCE. I mean you must wait and get a lawyer first to go over everything so that all will be taken care of the right way. Our son's life is worth way more than just a $60,000 truck. What I would like to say to Barricks' President and higher-ups is this, "I want you to tell me what your child's life or maybe your brother's or dad's life is worth to you, then take that number and multiply it by INFINITY. I am sure you can't come up with a number. Well that's what my sons' life is worth to me. Yet you think his life was only worth a $60,000 dollar truck. I SAY SHAME ON YOU!!! How do you sleep at night? By the way, since the Memorial, not one of the people from BARRICK has ever checke3d on his wife or other immediate family members, which include (even though YOU don't think so) his mom, dad, and his brothers
As far as we are concerned as per the MSAH report Barrick is guilty of the MURDER of Daniel Noel and Ethan Schorr and they are getting away with it.
Please know that the thoughts and feelings I have shared with you in this letter also represent the thinking of Danny's entire family, who are forever grieving.
The Noel Family
I tried to get this printed in the Elko Daily Free Press before the seconed Anniversary of Danny being in Heaven. My husband talked to Jeff Mullins editor of the paper. The publisher of the Elko paper who is also the publisher of the Times News in Idaho John Pfeifer got back to my husband and said he had to varifiy some things that I wrote and my husband Don said he can get all the facts from the MSHA report on the internet and that everything I wrote was fact. This conversation was on the 9th., I even E-mailed another letter on the 15th. to Jeff Mullins and John Pfeifer asking if they treat all their customers like this or was it just that my story was insignificant. Needless to say we still haven't heard from them.


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Damon Albarn recalls missed opportunities to collaborate with David Bowie, Prince and more
Damon Albarn has reflected in a new interview on the missed opportunities he's had to collaborate with a host of stars during his career.
The Blur frontman was speaking ahead of Gorillaz's double-header of gigs at London's The O2 this week, which were held in honour of NHS workers.
Speaking to The Herald, Albarn was asked about the many collaborations he's enjoyed throughout this career, and reflected on some of the big names he's missed out on working with.
"Dr. Dre, Prince and Kendrick Lamar … I missed all three of those. All my fault. Which is quite a lot of people to miss," he said.
Albarn previously spoke in 2018 about turning down an offer to play with Prince, saying "it's one of those 'could've-beens'. I've got a few of those".
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Albarn then recalled the time when David Bowie asked him and Ray Davies "to make an album with him" (which he previously spoke about in 2012).
"It was actually a serious thing we were going to do," he said. "[Bowie] summonsed me when he was playing in Switzerland into the labyrinth of his backstage and I went to see him and he said, 'Well, we're going to do this, but if this tour keeps doing as well as it is then I'm going to carry on touring.'"
The tour continued, Albarn added, "and that's why there's no album": "I regret that one. I just imagine what that might have sounded like."
Albarn, who will release his new solo album 'The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows' in November, will perform at End Of The Road Festival next month.
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Retiring to Cyprus
Cyprus is a popular retirement destination for Britons in search of Mediterranean sun and possible tax advantages. The book and website, 'Retiring To Europe', provides essential information for those thinking of retiring to the island.
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There are various tax issues Britons face when moving to Cyprus. With specialist advice from an adviser with a good understanding of both jurisdictions, you can make your money work for you, protect it against foreign taxes and make the most of the opportunities available.
Some Cypriot taxes sound the same as taxes in the UK but are calculated differently. And in some cases, what is tax-free in the UK is not tax-free in Cyprus.
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According to Numbeo, the cost of living in Cyprus is around 24% lower than in the UK (excluding rent). Rent in Cyprus is 61% lower than in the UK. Property prices are up to 65% cheaper.
Cyprus was hit hard in 2013 when its banking system collapsed. The country was forced to borrow €10bn from the EU, European Central Bank and IMF, there were queues for cashpoints from dawn and savers' bank accounts were raided to help pay back the state's debts.
But in March 2016, Cyprus exited its bailout programme and no longer needs financial support. Its banking system is now on firmer ground, unemployment has dropped and the economy is growing again.
The property market has taken a turn for the better too. House price falls are decelerating and sales were dramatically up in 2016 compared to previous years. Prices, however, are still around 30% lower than pre-crisis levels and there are currently about 5,000 sales a year compared with 18,000 a year in 2002-2007.
In common with much of the rest of western Europe, public and private sector healthcare services coexist relatively efficiently, allowing patients to cherry-pick consultations and surgical procedures as they prefer.
Most doctors, nurses and support staff in Cyprus speak English, but difficulties in communication can still arise, especially when a complicated procedure is being explained. If in doubt, patients should ask for help with translation.
If you are considering private healthcare, AXA International quote €6,100 per person per annum for a comprehensive cover policy with no excess and inclusive of taxes, based on a couple who are aged 65 and in good health.
State healthcare is inexpensive and sometimes even free for EU citizens. Emergency medical care is free to all citizens and expats alike, but routine doctor and hospital appointments are often chargeable and with inpatient and outpatient care, there is likely to be a fee.
Since 2013, nominal charges have been introduced for treatment for most Cypriot citizens and permanent expat residents. For those who do not hold a medical card, some charges will be higher.
State healthcare is available to anybody paying into the Cypriot social security system, but may also be available to those in receipt of a UK state pension, long-term contribution based incapacity benefit or bereavement allowance. In order to qualify it will be necessary to apply for a S1 form (certificate of entitlement) from the UK Pension Service.
• You can find much more information on retiring to Cyprus and other European destinations by going to www.retiringtoeurope.com. There you can download the complete 276-page guide.
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Posted inFree, Nation, News
How dire projections, grim images dashed Trump's Easter plan
by The Associated Press March 31, 2020
In this March 24, 2020, photo, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Briefing Room in Washington, as Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, listens. Credit: Alex Brandon | AP
WASHINGTON — The two doctors spread out their charts on the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office.
The projections were grim: Even if the U.S. were to continue to do what it was doing, keeping the economy closed and most Americans in their homes, the coronavirus could leave 100,000 to 200,000 people dead and millions infected. And the totals would be far worse if the nation reopened.
Those stark predictions grew even more tangible and harrowing when paired with televised images of body bags lined up at a New York City hospital not far from where President Donald Trump grew up in Queens.
The confluence of dire warnings and tragic images served to move the Republican president off his hopes for an Easter rebirth for the nation's economy.
But while Trump sided with the White House doctors over its economists, at least for now, the decision shed light on a West Wing beset with divisions and a commander in chief torn between an instinct to embrace the image of a wartime president fighting an invisible enemy and the desire to protect the nation's bottom line as he barrels into a bruising reelection fight.
The abrupt change in Trump's tone was startling: Easter was no longer going to be the sunrise after blackest night. Instead, it could be the darkest moment before dawn.
"We're thinking that around Easter that's going to be your spike. That's going to be the highest point we think, and then it's going to start coming down from there," Trump said Monday on "Fox & Friends." "The worst that can happen is you do it too early and all of a sudden it comes back. That makes it more difficult."
The bleak forecasts were carried into the Oval Office by Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx, who displayed to Trump projections that, on the low end, could yield 100,000 American deaths from COVID-19. One model showed that deaths could have soared past 2 million had there been no mitigation measures.
"We showed him the data. He looked at the data. He got it right away. It was a pretty clear picture," Fauci told CNN on Monday. "Dr. Debbie Birx and I went into the Oval Office and leaned over the desk and said, 'Here are the data, take a look.' He just shook his head and said, 'I guess we got to do it.'"
But as is often the case with Trump, it also took the power of images to prompt him to act.
Over the weekend, the death count in New York City skyrocketed, the silence of the city's empty streets shattered only by ambulance sirens. Makeshift medical tents were hastily erected in Central Park. And hospitals, including Elmhurst Medical Center in Queens, not far from Trump's childhood home, were so overwhelmed that patients were lying in hallways and corpses stowed in refrigerated trucks.
"This is essentially in my community, in Queens, Queens, New York," Trump said. "I've seen things that I've never seen before."
Aides likened Trump's emotional response to his reaction to the 2017 pictures of dead Syrian children that prompted him to give the order for the first air strike of his presidency. Trump also invoked some friends — he did not identify them — who he said are battling the virus.
"I have some friends that are unbelievably sick," he said Monday in a Rose Garden press conference. "We thought they were going in for a mild stay and in one case, he's unconscious — in a coma."
The weekend decision also revealed the sharp divides among those advising Trump, both inside and outside the West Wing.
For weeks, those in the White House who warned that the doctors' strict recommendations would cripple the economy — and Trump's reelection chances — had the president's ear and pushed him toward the idea of restarting business in the states where infections were low.
Trump's decision to extend national guidelines to clamp down on activity left them disappointed.
Stephen Moore, a former Trump adviser who had been pushing the administration publicly and privately to roll back restrictions in places with low infection rates, said the economic impact would grow worse every day that the shutdown continues, with more bankruptcies and more jobs lost. He had urged Trump to begin to reopen in places like Idaho, Iowa and Nebraska, far from the infection hot spots.
But Trump was swayed by arguments that the fiscal pain would be worse if the economy was reopened and then forced to be shut again.
As in the early, chaotic days of his administration, Trump's White House has become increasingly siloed in recent weeks, with different working groups functioning separately and sometimes in competition. Members of Trump's coronavirus task force, led by Vice President Mike Pence and including Fauci and Birx, did not know that Trump would be floating the idea of a quarantine of the New York area over the weekend — and then quickly moved to walk him back, according to three administration officials not authorized to publicly discuss private conversations.
The president is getting conflicting advice from outside the White House as well.
While some Republican governors, like Henry McMaster of South Carolina, have urged the president to reopen the economy, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida considered banning travelers from hot spots like New York from entering his state, which experts believe is poised to see a surge in coronavirus cases.
After speaking with DeSantis, Trump mused to reporters Saturday about a quarantine of New York, as well as parts of New Jersey and Connecticut, blindsiding their governors and raising questions about federal authority.
Even if the measure was unenforceable, Trump thought it could be a signal to supporters elsewhere that he was walling off a virus hot zone comprised of three Democratic states. But Fauci and other advisers persuaded him that it would accomplish little except ignite worry.
Like forecasts for a monster hurricane, the pandemic projection models can disagree with one another. But the coronavirus models all agree that this outbreak and its consequences are extremely serious.
Birx singled out one by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington in Seattle, suggesting it's close to how government experts see things. That model forecasts predicts more than 82,000 total U.S. deaths through early August, with the highest number of daily deaths — an estimated 2,271 — occurring April 15.
That would be three days after Easter.
Tagged: coronavirus, national news, white house


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