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Balochistan has become "The Black Hole" for the students, lawyers, doctors, human rights defenders, journalists and especially political activists who differs from the narrative of the government. All the organs of the state including media are under the control of security forces. The security establishment in the name of national security and counter-terrorism has suspended the fundamental human rights of the citizens especially in Balochistan. This narrative of the state has developed an undeclared emergency domestically, precisely because of exercising the power of derogation in pretext to avoid to implement the fundamental rights which are enshrined in the Constitution of Pakistan and in the international instruments namely Universal Declaration of the Human Rights, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) which Pakistan is a signatory.
The gravity of human rights violations is in its alarming position. There are consistent patterns of gross and reliably attested violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms occurring in Balochistan. The security forces are involved in genocide, ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Balochistan.
In 2017, enforced disappearances, extrajudicial executions and brutal military operations were continued in all over Balochistan. From January to December, security forces carried out 516 military operations across Balochistan and Baloch Human Rights Organization (BHRO) has received 2114 enforced disappearance cases, abducted by military forces in raids and military operations from Balochistan and Sindh. 545 people were extrajudicially executed in which 129 people were killed by forces during military operations, 40 people were tortured and executed in the custody of forces. 92 mutilated bodies were also recovered from different areas of Balochistan. 234 people were also released in this year. Majority of them were abducted by forces during raids and operations and are released after few days of abduction.
Due to the weak judicial system and threats from forces, families of enforced disappeared persons didn't file cases and in the majority of cases, police denied filing cases against security forces.
Mainstream media didn't cover a single incident despite many protest demonstrations in Karachi and Quetta for the safe recovery of forcibly disappeared persons. In the last months of 2017, the press club refused to provide space to Baloch Human Rights Organization for conducting press conferences in press club of Karachi and Quetta.
Before going through the details of incidents of human rights violations, it is pertinent to mention that the statistics and details which BHRO has compiled are comprised of 20-25% of total incidents due to blockage of communication means and security risks which our activists are facing in Balochistan.
Baloch Human Rights Organization will soon publish its annual booklet with all the details of the incidents of human rights violations, committed by state forces in 2017. We are publishing some of these details with a request that national and international media and human rights organizations should visit Balochistan in order to understand the real situation and publish a neutral report so that the violations of human rights could be stopped which are occurring in Balochistan on daily basis.
In the month of January, during different operations, 455 people were abducted from all over Balochistan, in which 250 people were abducted from district Dera Bugti and Naseerabad only. 38 people were also extrajudicially executed. During the military operation in Dera Bugti, 18 people were killed by security forces which continued for 2 days from January 7 to January 9. On January 15, 2017, forces surrounded Alandoor, a village in District Kech and raided houses of Nasir, Abdul Karim and Muhammad Ali. Forces looted all the valuables of houses and burned down the house of Nasir. The forces also shot Asad s/o Muhammad Ali in cold blood. He was a peasant and worked on daily wages. After killing him forces placed a gun beside his body and took his pictures.
On January 27, 2017, Frontier Corps raided Shaal Language Centre, an English teaching centre and abduct two teachers, Amjid s/o Basham and Barkat s/o Basham. Both are brothers and residents of Absar, district Kech. Their whereabouts are still unknown.
In the month of February, 200 people were forcefully disappeared, abducted by forces from different areas of Balochistan, 42 people were killed in separate incidents.
On February 20, a mass grave was recovered from Dera Bugti in which remains of the body of 4 people found. The remains of the body of a woman were also recovered from the mass grave. All four of them were abducted by forces before while the body was totally decomposed and were beyond recognition. On the same day in another incident in Jhao, district Awaran, 4 mutilated bodies were recovered in which 2 were identified as Umer and Mussa. Both were resident of Jhao and were abducted by forces on January 19, 2017.
240 people were forcefully disappeared in the month of March 2017 while 28 people were extrajudicially executed. On March 6, 2017, forces conducted a heavy military operation in Murmasi, Tank Bandoki and other areas of Mashkay where forces burned down the houses of residents and abducted 16 women with them. They were released after 8 days of illegal detention. Forces also carried out military operations in Dasht where many people were abducted. Nazir Ghulam Rasool, a labour by profession and father of 10 months old infant's dead body was found dumped in Dasht, district Kech. He was abducted from his home during a military operation on February 28, 2017.
A bullet-riddled body was also recovered on March 11 who is later identified as Qasim Hasil, a teacher by profession. He was abducted by forces from his home a day before on March 10, 2017. Security forces also forcefully evacuated Murad Jan and Kuch villages in district Awaran and in the meantime threatened residents of Hassan Goth to migrate. Thousands of people in Balochistan on the route of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) are compelled to leave their settlements and migrate. The internally displaced persons are living miserable lives due to lack of rehabilitation program. Muhammad Noor s/o Shay Muhammad migrated from Kohado Jhao to Uthal, district Lasbela due to military operations of forces on daily basis. On March 26, forces abducted him from Uthal and on March 28, 2017, his mutilated body was recovered.
In the same way, in the month of April, 120 people were forcibly disappeared while 24 people were extrajudicially executed. The custodial killing of enforced disappeared persons has caused serious trauma to the families. Forces abduct them, detain them illegally for an unknown period of time, shot them and claim that they were killed in an encounter. 6 mutilated bodies were recovered in the month of April and all of them were already in the custody of forces for years.
On April 27, 2017, 5 mutilated bodies of previously abducted person were recovered. they were identified as Baitullah, Asif, Sabir, Majid and Jasim. Baitullah was abducted by forces on June 17, 2015, from Tump. He was affiliated with Baloch National Movement (BNM) and a teacher by profession. He remained disappeared until the Frontier Corps claimed that he was killed in an encounter.
Asif Anwar Ali was 26 years old and a tailor by profession. He was abducted by plainclothes agents and rangers in a raid in the house he was staying in Gulshan-e-Mazdoor, Karachi. He was not presented in any court since then.
Sabir Ghulam Muhammad was abducted on November 16, 2016, from his hometown in Mand, district Kech.
Majid Abdul Majeed, a 20 years old labour was abducted on February 2nd from the industrial city of Balochistan, Hub Chowki. He is a resident of Lablan Mand, district Kech.
Jasim Rahim was a shopkeeper and was resident of Gomazi. He was picked up forces from his shop in Tump.
The people of Balochistan are facing multiple problems due to the apathy of government and silence of human rights organizations. 70% residents of Dasht, district Kech are compelled to leave their houses and migrated. In the month of May, forces have burned down many houses in Dasht Jan Muhammad Bazar and Sholeeg. Hundreds of residents were compelled to live under the open sky in extreme weather after demolishing their houses by forces. In the month of May, 87 people were forcefully disappeared while 66 people died, in which 26 people died in Mastung bomb blast, 21 people were killed by forces, 6 beyond recognition bodies were found and 13 people were killed in enmity and other unknown reasons.
In the Month of June, Baloch Human Rights Organization received 200 cases of enforced disappearances, abducted by security forces from different areas of Balochistan. 14 people are targeted and killed including 3 people from Hazara community. Other than these, 12 people were killed by security forces during an operation in Mastung. None of them was identified. Three mutilated bodies were also found. Collectively 37 people were killed in the month of June in Balochistan.
In the month of July, 96 people are forcefully disappeared, abducted by security forces during military operations. 56 people are extrajudicially executed in which 9 people were extra-judicially killed by forces, 22 people died in bomb blasts, target killing and in enmity, whereas, 5 beyond recognizable mutilated bodies were also recovered.
In Quetta, many people were arrested by forces in a massive military operation while their details were not published in media. In Balochistan, Frontier Corps, a Para-military force having police authorities abducts people and shift them to unknown detention centres where they are subjected to inhumane torture. Neither the enforced disappeared Baloch people are presented in the court nor they were charged and allow hiring lawyers to defend themselves.
On July 29, forces started a military operation in Kolwah and surround Kenichi village of Kolwah where they gathered all the residents of the village, set ablaze all the houses and abduct 4 political activists namely Sadiq Soben, Shakir Yar Muhammad his brother Hasil Yar Muhammad and Majeed Razai. Their bullet-riddled bodies were later handed over to local authorities.
In the month of August, forces abduct 138 people from all over Balochistan while 91 people were extrajudicially executed in Balochistan, instead of respecting human rights, indiscriminate operations of forces are extremely affecting women. Forces during operations are not only violating the dignity of houses, torturing women and children but due to indiscriminate firing, tragic incidents of casualties of women and children are increasing day by day. Even after many appeals and reports from human rights activists and organizations, the government is silent and not holding forces accountable for extrajudicial executions of women and children. Due to lack of attention and interest of Government, forces are committing such incidents repeatedly.
On August 16, military forces surrounded Shahrag, a village in district Harnai, accompanied by helicopters and blocked all the communication
means. In helicopters shelling, 5 women
and infants namely Minu Bibi, Jafar, Bibi Makhmal, Khat Khatoon and Bibi Bano died and 4 got injured. Minu Bibi was 5
days old infant. All of them belong to the family of Yar Mohamamd
Chalghari. Other than these, 6 men also died. They were identified as Kalo, Limo, 3 sons of Washu, Dilwash s/o Washu,
Afzal s/o Washu, Rahmdil s/o Washu and Bangul s/o Haji Banzu. Washu's another son Sabzal was abducted by forces a year ago. Since then no one heard from him.
Shams Khatoon d/o Yousaf died in aerial bombardment of forces on a house in Keelkor, district Panjgur on August 17. Other than this, 2 women got injured in forces' firing in Harnai, Balochistan.
On August 22, forces conducted 9 days long military operation in Jat,
Kolwah, district Kech and surrounding areas. During the operation, forces
looted all the valuables of houses, civilians were tortured while 2 people Ghani
s/o Ali Bakhsh and Khalid Baloch were killed. Both were resident of Nokjo, Mashkay.
45 people were extrajudicially executed while 116 people were forcefully disappeared in September.
On September 3rd, four mutilated bodies were found in Harnai. Three of them were identified as Mistaag s/o Moldad, Johndo s/o Dostain and Bangar Marri. They were abducted by security forces from Shahrag during a military operation on July 24, 2017.
On September, 4 decomposed bodies were recovered from Balochistan. 2 were recovered from Dera Bugti while other 2 were recovered from Panjgur. Due to the apathy of government towards Balochistan and lack of medical facilities, the bodies were buried without collecting DNA for identification. On September 19, 2 mutilated bodies were recovered from Loop, District Dera Bugti. The bodies were later shifted to hospital for identification. However, the bodies being in unrecognizable conditions were buried in the local graveyard without collecting any DNA samples.
Humraz s/o Ishaq was abducted by forces from Siyah Gazzi, district Awaran on September 20. His mutilated dead body was found the next day. He was ill-treated and his body
bears several signs of torture.
Sabzal s/o Sardo was abducted by security forces from Dandar Kolwah along with many other people on September 20. His bullet-riddled body was found on September, 29 while the whereabouts of other abductees are still unknown.
On September 26, 2 bodies were recovered from the mountainous area of Khudabadan, District Panjgur. The bodies were too old and totally decomposed to be recognized by face. These bodies were too buried in the local graveyard.
Abdullah s/o Shahdad and Amjid s/o Gwahram were arrested
during a raid of security forces from Rodbun, District Kech. After few hours gun shots were heard and both were killed in cold blood. Abdullah was a driver in Bahrain and returned on September 15 to attend his brother's marriage ceremony. He is the father of three kids.
Waleed s/o Wali Mohammad, Irshad s/o Mujeeb and Amir s/o Jalil were abducted by forces during a raid on their house in Rodbun, District Kech on September 25. All three of them were cousins. Within an hour of their abduction, they were shot and their bullet-riddled bodies were found under the Rodbun Bridge.
In the month of October, 149 people were forcefully disappeared, abducted by forces while 18 people were killed. On October 28, Intelligence agents and Sindh Rangers raided the house of Nawaz Atta Baloch, Information Secretary of Baloch Human Rights Organization in Karachi and abducted him. In a follow up raid, forces abduct 8 other students namely Abid s/o Ashraf,
Farhad s/o Anwar,
Sajjad s/o Yar Jan, Ulfat s/o Altaf,
Aftab s/o Muhammad Younis,
Rawat s/o Taj Muhammad,
Muhammad Arif s/o Muhammad Younis, Ilyas s/o Faiz Muhammad. Aftab is 8 years old while Ulfat is 13 years old. Their whereabouts are still unknown. Even after several protest and demonstration from Baloch Human Rights Organization and appeal from their families, the forces neither produced them in any court nor are
they providing any information about their safety and well-being.
In the month of November, forces abduct 116 people from different areas of Balochistan while 28 people were killed in which 5 unrecognizable mutilated bodies are also recovered.
In November, a total number of 9 students from Balochistan were abducted by forces from Balochistan and Karachi. On November 15, 2017, Sindh Rangers and secret agents of intelligence agencies abducted Baloch Student Organization-Azad's General Secretary Sanaullah Baloch, 2 central committee member, Hassam and Naseer Ahmed and an activist of Baloch National Movement Rafique from Karachi. Their whereabouts are still unknown.
On November 20, 2017, another student from Balochistan, Sageer Ahmed s/o Ghulam Qadir was abducted by forces from Karachi University campus. Sageer Ahmed is a student of Political Science at Karachi University. According to the eyewitnesses, Sageer Ahmed was grabbed by plain clothed persons as soon he enters the VS Canteen after finishing his exam papers. He was thrown in a white Toyota Corolla car and took him away.
In the month of December, forces abducted 197 people in different military operations. 48 people were killed. On December 2, 2017, forces carried out a heavy military operation in Raghay, district Washuk and abducted more than 60 people, mostly women and children and shifted them to military barracks. 6 people died in the aerial bombardment in this operation. Due to blockage of communication means, the actual number of casualties is still unknown. On December 16 forces abduct 37 people from Dasht, district Kech and after few days 20 people were released while 17 are still in the custody of forces.
Due to the silence of international human rights institutions and international media, security forces are committing crimes against humanity with all impunity. Pakistan, being elected member of United Nation's Human Rights Council, should be bound to fulfil its responsibilities and respect the human rights laws and human rights of the people of Balochistan.
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Q: Copy input from user and put it on screen I have been going through The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie and am at Character Input and Output, specifically on File Copying. The example in the book
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
    int c;

    c = getchar();

    while (c != EOF)
    {
        putchar(c);

        c = getchar();
    }

return 0;
}

works perfectly.
But I decided to put my own spin on things and rewrite it a bit:
#define <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
    int c;

    printf("Please enter a digit: ");
    c = getchar();

    while (c != EOF)
    {
        printf("The digit entered was: ");
        putchar(c);

        printf("Please enter a digit: ");
        c = getchar();
    }

return 0;
}

After compiling and executing, the result of my code is:
Please enter a digit: 9
The digit entered was: 9Please enter a digit: The digit entered was:
Please enter a digit: *cursor is here*

The input should be:
Please enter a digit: 9
The digit entered was: 9

Please enter a digit: *the cursor should be here*

Also, I have a little problem understanding EOF. It would be great if someone could help me with these issues.
Thank you!

A: Most 'terminals' do not send keyboard input to the program 'one key at at time'.  Rather, the terminal will wait for the enter key, and then send all keys pressed (up to that point) to the target program.  Hence, the question code suffers from getting newlines \n as input, as well as digits.
The code below throws away all non-digit values (but also allows for the EOF value):
#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>

int main(void)
   {
   int c;

   do {
      c=0;
      /* Get user input */
      printf("Please enter a digit: ");
      while(!isdigit(c) && EOF != c)
         c = getchar();

      /* Produce output. */
      if(c == EOF)
         printf("\n");
      else
         printf("The digit entered was: %c\n", c);
      } while (c != EOF);

   return 0;
   }

Compile the above (Linux GCC example: gcc -Wall -o test *.c)
Then execute: (Linux example: ./test)
Please enter a digit: 5
The digit entered was: 5
Please enter a digit: 6
The digit entered was: 6
Please enter a digit: <CTRL-D>

<CTRL-D> usually generates an EOF condition.

A: Because the ENTER value "\n" (ASCII value 10) will be get by
getchar(c);

so it will do second time of
printf("The digit entered was: ");
printf("Please enter a digit: ");

A: Well, it's the trouble about the new-line character that you feed the standard input with while handing your piece into the console screen.
Let me ask you this:
With the code that you have said to work perfectly, you probably have tried some input like "Hello!" let's say, or maybe just a single character like "9" as in your example. You have typed down 'H' then 'e' then 'l' ... then '!' and then hit the enter-key, or just '9' and then hit the enter-key.
After that, you had the following on your screen:
Hello!
Hello!
_

The last underscore there is for indicating the flashing cursor. My question is: Why is it there? Why is it not right next to the last '!'?
Same story with the 9, this would be the things on your screen:
9
9
_

Well, here's why: It is because your programme has printed one more character that you cannot see directly, a new-line character '\n'. Proof: If it hadn't printed that, the underscore would flash next to the '!' or '9'.
When you hit your enter-key, you feed the standard input with a new-line character '\n' in addition to whatever you had typed down so far in that session. Standard input gets fed with all that and getchar(); consumes them one by one.
In your code which doesn't work as you had expected, you feed the standard input with '9' '\n', getchar(); first gets the '9' and then '\n', and then it looks for more, but there isn't any more. Only then (when there isn't more) it asks from you for more.
And that's the story...
To get what you were expecting, you should do something else, I won't tell you that directly, it's a good exercise. I can hint you that you should be using another while loop within the one you already have with a condition checking for a '\n' encounter.
EOF is just a special character, or rather a value indicating a special case of being at the End Of File. For standard input, I guess it can be issued with the CTRL + D key combination on Linux, it is CTRL + Z on Windows. Using that combination and then hitting enter should get you out of that outer loop.

A: You're being tripped up by a trailing newline in your input; when you type 9 and hit Enter, the input stream that your code reads from will contain the encodings for two characters, the 9 and a newline (in ASCII, it would be the sequence of values [57,10]) .  Here's how it breaks down:

*

*Code prompts you to enter a digit

*You type 9 and hit Enter

*Input stream now contains the characters {'9', '\n'};

*getchar returns the next available character from the input stream, which is '9'

*'9' is not equal to EOF, so you print the digit and prompt for the next character

*getchar returns the next available character from the input stream, which is '\n'

*'\n' is not equal to EOF, so you print the character and prompt for the next character

*The input stream is now empty, so getchar blocks until you type something else.

You can fix this relatively easily:
#include <ctype.h>
...
while (c != EOF)
{
    printf("The digit entered was: ");
    putchar(c);

    printf("Please enter a digit: ");
    do
    {
      c = getchar();
    } while ( isspace( c ));
}

That last little do loop will read characters from the input stream until it sees something that isn't a newline or other whitespace character.  You can add an additional check to make sure the character entered really was a digit [0-9]:
while (c != EOF)
{
    printf("The digit entered was: ");
    putchar(c);

    do
    {
      printf("Please enter a digit: ");
      do
      {
        c = getchar();
      } while ( isspace( c ));

      if ( !isdigit( c ))
        printf( "%c is not a digit!\n" );

    } while ( !isdigit( c ));
}

Now, something to be aware of; what you're storing in c is not the value 9, but the encoding for the character '9', which in ASCII is the integer value 57.  If you want to store the value 9 in c, you'll have to do something different.

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Q: Qualcomm Atheros - Slow/Not connecting on Ubuntu, but works in Win 10 I have a Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 network driver.
I am having very slow Wifi on my Linux OS but it works fine on Windows 10. When I use an ethernet cable everything works, but WiFi is slow and sometimes just doesn't connect.
Can anyone guide me on how I can fix this?
Here is some more information about my Driver:
Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [168c:003e] (rev 20)

Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [105b:e08e]

Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+

Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx+

Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 35
Region 0: Memory at d1400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ath10k_pci
Kernel modules: ath10k_pci

A: Alright what you could do is try adding a line to your config
sudo su
echo "options ath9k nohwcrypt=1" >> /etc/modprobe.d/ath9k.conf

Then reboot your pc to see if this helped.
If this did not fix your speed issue I have another trick you could use.
Force disable the 802.11n protocol.
While the protocol is supposed to provide better speed with newer routers.
Most modern day routers actually do not use this protocol which can cause issues.
Open the terminal and use the following command:
sudo rmmod iwlwif
sudo modprobe iwlwifi 11n_disable=1

Now try reconnecting to the net if this did not fix the issue then oh well but if it did then to make the change permanent issue these commands.
sudo su
echo "options iwlwifi 11n_disable=1" >> /etc/modprobe.d/iwlwifi.conf

Hopefully this will have fixed your issue and if not I have one last thing you could do and that is to disable ipv6 while I am not sure your provider has ipv6 support sometimes this can cause issue with certain routers and ISP's to test if this is the issue
sudo su
echo "#disable ipv6" >> /etc/sysctl.conf
echo "net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1" >> /etc/sysctl.conf
echo "net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1" >> /etc/sysctl.conf
echo "net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1" >> /etc/sysctl.conf

For any of the above just sudo gedit 'the filename and location' such as
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/ath9k.conf

Then fine the line which was added and remove it.
The second solution I provided a way to test to see if it helps before making it permanent so you wont need to do any manual edits to undo it unless you choose to do the step that makes the change permanent.
If nothing I provided helped please comment get back to me etc.


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I think what I love about white is how minimalist it is!


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Maidstone photos that will transport you back to the 1990s
Somehow this decade feels like yesterday and a distant memory all at the same time
Luke WeirTrending Writer
Brian Harvey from the pop group 'East 17' performing during a summer music festival in Maidstone
From the clothes we wore to the games we played, it's hard to believe how many aspects of our lives have changed since the 1990s.
Life has moved on at a rapid pace with the increased presence of smartphones, online alternatives and social media altering the landscape of how we approach day-to-day life.
READ MORE: Stunning aerial tour of Maidstone shows many decades of change
New Labour was coming to power with Tony Blair becoming Prime Minister in 1997, the Spice Girls became pop culture icons and film classics Jurassic Park, The Shawshank Redemption and Pulp Fiction were released.
As for Maidstone, until 1998, the Sharps toffee factory (later part of Cadbury Trebor Basset), was in central Maidstone and provided a significant source of employment.
Plenty of development has taken place in the 22 years since the county welcomed in the new millennium, including Fremlin Walk and the riverside Lockmeadow Centre.
Our search through the archives uncovered these photos which were all taken in this particular 10-year span of goings-on in Maidstone.
What memories of Maidstone in the '90s do you have? Let us know in the comments!
For beautiful, historic images from the past have a look at memorylane.co.uk/ and see what you can discover.
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Labour leader Tony Blair arriving by helicopter before making a key speech at the Federation of Small Businesses conference in Maidstone
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The Hot Air Balloon and Vintage Car weekend at Leeds Castle, near Maidstone, in 1999. The annual balloon fiesta officially got under way with a wide selection of animated balloons
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Lucy Rae Tamulericius from Queenborough with actor Brian Blessed during a production of Peter Pan
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Flags flew at half mast outside the Headquarters of the Queen's Gurkha Engineers, from where the two soldiers that were killed in Kosovo were stationed
American jazz and cabaret singer Salena Jones pictured in Maidstone
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Tony Blair (centre) and John Prescott (right) flanked by photographers as they embarked on their National Election campaign at Maidstone
Actress Julie Davis, who played one of the Larkins' daughters in the Darling Buds of May five years prior, was rehearsing for a role in the musical Chicago being staged by students at Mid Kent College, where she was studying for a National Diploma in the Performing Arts
Childhood sweethearts Paul Tappenden and Trish Tait started dating when they they were 15, although that finished when Trish's family returned to the USA. The pair married other partners but their marriages broke up and they tracked each other down. Finally the couple were wed at the Archbishop's Palace in Maidstone
The Kent air ambulance coming in to land at the scene of an accident on the M20, between Maidstone and Ashford
DCI David Stevens, leader of the Russell murder hunt, and Pauline Smith, who helped Josie Russell after the murder of her mother and sister, at a news conference in Maidstone following the conviction of Michael Stone for the killings
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View of empty outdoor stage at Leeds Castle set up ready for orchestra performance

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Business and Economic News Update: Thursday, 6th July, 2017
July 6, 20170700
Investors showing interest in power distribution networks —Fashola
The Ministry of Power, Works and Housing has received lots of proposals from investors who are interested in providing funds for the expansion of power distribution networks across the country, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has said.
Nigeria's electricity distribution networks are managed by 11 distribution companies, who on many occasions have complained of paucity of funds required to efficiently run the systems.
Ashaka Cement quits NSE
Ashaka Cement Plc has voluntarily delisted from the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) for violation of the exchange free float deficiency provision of 20 per cent. The company announced its voluntary withdrawal in a statement posted on NSE website by the company's directors.
"The Board of Directors of Ashaka Cement Plc has opted for a voluntarily delisting of the company from the NSE in violation of the Exchange's Free Float Deficiency provision of 20 per cent,'' the statement read in part. It stated that Lafarge Africa Plc currently holds 84.97 per cent of Ashaka Cement, bringing the free float that was tradable on the NSE to 15.03 per cent.
Poor implementation threatens government's credit ratings, investors' trust
The long years of misappropriation of public finance and non-transparent implementation of borrowed funds in Nigeria are now threatening sovereign credit rating and trust of institutional investors. The development has made the regional financial and development institutions to show preference for private sector lending, even when the Federal Government scampers for funds.
Besides, while a paltry sum, compared to huge lending to the private sector operators would be lent to government, such facility would also be subject to private sector participation and monitoring, rather than entirely a support for public good.
FG to borrow N450bn via bonds in Q3
The Federal Government is planning to borrow between N360bn and N450bn via sovereign bonds maturing between five and 20 years in the third quarter, the Debt Management Office has said.
The DMO said on Wednesday that it would auction between N90bn and N120bn in the five-year note and between N135bn and N165bn in the 10-year and 20-year debt between July and September.
Government pledges to increase capital market visibility in global arena
The Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Capital Market, Senator Festus Ogwuma, has assured that on-going review of the Investment and Securities (ISA) Act, on demutualisation of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), and other bills aimed at enhancing globalisation of the capital market would be accorded priority by the National Assembly.
Besides, he also said the Bill to expand the scope of operations of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers (CIS), to serve as the hub of all professional associations in Nigeria would be passed very soon.
UNIDO to empower 500,000 Nigerian SMEs with skills
The United Nations Industrial Development Organisation is set to empower over 500,000 Small and Medium Enterprises, especially operators in the non-oil sector, with adequate skills to enhance their operations and contribute significantly to the nation's Gross Domestic Product in the next two years.
The Chief Technical Adviser, Investment Promotion Division, United Nations Industrial Development Organisation, Mr. Stanislaw Pigon, said for the Nigerian economy to be competitive, the non-oil sector must be equipped with adequate investment and training in technology.
Preparing for Standardised Derivatives Market
Derivative instruments always come with controversies. Many analysts and pundits claim that derivatives increase systemic risk and blame it for the economic recession of 2007 to 2009, when credit-default swaps in the derivatives market incurred massive losses that sent the United States(U.S) and in fact the global, financial system into a meltdown.
NACCIMA seeks single-digit interest rate
The Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture has expressed concerns over the high interest rates in the country, which have remained in double digits.
According to the association, this is a major source of concern to the private sector. The National President, NACCIMA, Chief Alaba Lawson, gave the indication during a courtesy visit to the Punch Place, headquarters of Punch Nigeria Limited, in Ogun State on Wednesday.
FSDH Merchant Bank Raises N14.40bn via Commercial Paper
FSDH Merchant Bank Limited said it successfully raised N14.40 billion from its Series 3 and Series 4 Commercial Papers (CPs) issuance. Collectively, Series 3 and 4 represent FSDH Merchant Bank's second issuance under its N30 Billion CP Programme established in 2016.
In a statement yesterday, it revealed that Stanbic IBTC Capital Limited acted as Lead Arranger/Dealer while United Capital Plc and FSDH MB acted in the capacity of co-arrangers/dealers, and FSDH MB as issuing, calculation and paying agent.
FG unveils new gas policy, to create single regulator
The Ministry of Petroleum Resources on Wednesday announced the approval of the National Gas Policy by the Federal Executive Council and stated that the development would give rise to the establishment of a single independent petroleum regulatory authority.
Currently, the policy and regulatory institutions overseeing the oil and gas industry in the country are the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Department of Petroleum Resources, Nigeria Content Development and Monitoring Board, Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency and the Petroleum Equalisation Fund.
CBN Goes Tough with e-Fraudsters, to Unveil Watch-list
As part of efforts towards ensuring financial stability, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), in collaboration with the Bankers Committee, has put in place a Framework on Watch-list for the Nigerian Financial system. The move is to address the increasing incidence of frauds and other unethical practices with a view to engendering public confidence in the financial system.
Nipco's Mobil Oil takeover bid offer extended
The proposed mandatory takeover bid offer period by Nipco Investment Limited of 3.23 per cent equity stake representing 11,644,544 ordinary shares of 50 kobo each in Mobil Oil Nigeria Plc (held by qualifying shareholders), has been extended.
Further to the earlier closure date announced for the submission of completed acceptance form(s), Cordros Capital in a filing with the Nigerian Stock Exchange on Wednesday, informed dealing member firms that the Securities and Exchange Commission had granted a formal approval towards the extension of the closing date for the MTO from June 29, 2017 to Jury 27, 2017.
Mortgage Financing: APCON Eyes N13bn Earmarked for Civil Servants
The newly inaugurated Chairman of the Radio, Television, Theatre and Arts Workers Union of Nigeria (RATTAWU), APCON chapter, Ahmed Yelwa, has promised members of staff of the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON), of easy access to the Federal Civil Servants Mortgage Refinancing scheme.
Yelwa, who spoke during the chapter's inauguration, emphasised that the struggle for better condition of service was a continuous one in the life of public servant.
LASACO's profit rises by 183%
LASACO Assurance Plc on Wednesday announced that its profit before tax rose by 183 per cent in the 2016 financial period.
The Chairman of the company, Mrs. Aderinola Disu, during the company's 37th Annual General Meeting in Lagos, said, "Profit before tax for the year increased by 183 per cent from N404m achieved in 2015 to N1.14bn in 2016.
No Dividend as Seven-Up Records N11bn Full Year Loss
Shareholders of Seven-Up Bottling Company Plc will be without dividend as the company has recorded a loss of N10.7 billion for the year ended March 31, 2017. The shareholders had received a dividend of N1.60 per share for the year ended March 31, 2016, when the company posted a profit after tax of N3.34 billion.
However, this time around, Seven-Up Bottling Company has recorded a negative bottom-line. The company posted a revenue of 108.227 billion in 2017, up by 26 per cent from N85.6 billion in 2016.
Sovereign Trust Insurance profit drops by 89.65%, equities slide
Sovereign Trust Insurance Plc has reported a full-year (2016) pre-tax profit of N45m. This represents 89.65 per cent drop compared to N430.5m reported in 2015. Its full-year net premium income stood at N3.92bn for 2016 compared to N3.93bn reported a year ago
The insurer said no dividend was proposed in respect of the current year. Meanwhile, the Nigerian Stock Exchange market capitalisation dropped by N36bn to N11.133tn from N11.169tn at the close of trading on the bourse's floor on Wednesday.
BPE: FG to Divest 20% of Its Shares in Privatised Companies on Stock Exchange
The federal government will sell up to 20 per cent of its shares in some of the companies it has partially privatised on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), to allow Nigerians own shares in them, the Director General of Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Mr. Alex Okoh, has disclosed.
Okoh said the government's share divestment programme would mostly affect privatised firms in the petrochemical sector of Nigeria.
Nigerian Equities Market Update: NSEASI Recorded third Red Day in July
Nigerian Equities Market Update: Weak Recovery; NSEASI Added 16Bpts
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Republican Senator Lindsey Graham will face a challenge in 2020 as Democrat Jaime Harrison launched a presidential-like announcement that he is seeking to challenge the GOP star for his South Carolina Senate seat.
The current Democratic National Committee associate chair and counselor shared an ad Friday that showed the candidate's South Carolina story and attacked Sen. Graham.
"Today, I'm announcing that I'm forming an exploratory committee to run for United States Senate and in the coming months I'll be traveling to every corner of our state meeting with you, listening to you and, most importantly, leaning form you," Harrison says in the ad.
Harrison first announced his campaign at an event for the popular political podcast Pod Save America Thursday night.
"It is time for Lindsey Graham to come home," Harrison told the cheering crowd.
The Democrat said that there are problems in his state, such as poor water quality and closing rural hospitals, that the current senator is ignoring.
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La Unión Democrática de Soldados (UDS) fue una asociación clandestina española que se extendió por los cuarteles en los estertores del Franquismo y duró hasta principios de los años 80. Tenía como principal objetivo la mejora de la situación de los soldados rasos, reclutados para cumplir el servicio militar obligatorio, y que vivían en condiciones pésimas en la mayoría de los cuarteles. La UDS estaba impulsada por la Joven Guardia Roja (JGR), la organización juvenil del Partido del Trabajo (PTE) a la izquierda del Partido Comunista.

Desarrollo
El movimiento tenía un órgano de expresión, el Soldado, una serie de octavillas grapadas que se repartían a mano y en las que se denunciaban los casos más graves, los casos de soldados detenidos y cómo actuar para defender los  derechos de la tropa ante los abusos de los mandos. Además de la defensa de los soldados, el movimiento pretendía conformar un frente de soldados frente al fascismo y el continuismo del régimen. Entre los logros conseguidos estuvieron los pases de pernocta, permisos para salir del cuartel los fines de semana, lo que ayudó a la expansión del movimiento.

La UDS se extendió con rapidez por todas las provincias. Durante 1976 y 1977 fue habitual ver a soldados de uniforme portando pancartas de la UDS en las manifestaciones. Para organizar las reuniones, que contaban con numerosa afluencia, era necesario que los soldados al salir del cuartel se dirigiesen a los pisos alquilados para cambiarse de ropa y asistir a la iglesia o lugar donde se celebrase la reunión; al terminar, aquellos que dormían en el cuartel, tenían que volver a los pisos a cambiarse nuevamente de ropa.

Uno de los fundadores fue Fernando Luengo, del PTE. Cuando el Ejército descubrió las actividades de la UDS, registró los cuarteles para encontrar pruebas. Fueron detenidos, además de Luengo, los soldados Alfredo Pérez Pérez, Javier Corcuero Crespo y los cabos Gerardo Cantero Fernández y Primitivo Vaquero Cuartero, y se les hizo un consejo de guerra por sedición. Otros detenidos fueron Miguel Castillo y Jesús Zabalza, que permanecieron en la cárcel de Pamplona,  el cabo de artillería Fernando Moreno, Fede Zaragoza en Madrid y más soldados del cuartel de Jaca. Las detenciones y el posterior consejo de guerra provocaron protestas en Jerez de la Frontera. El entonces alcalde de la ciudad, Pedro Pacheco, telegrafió al  capitán general Merry Gordon), y hubo un  encierro en la iglesia de San Francisco por parte de dirigentes del PTA y JGR, con un comunicado de apoyo de siete entidades vecinales de Jerez.

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Bogota, Colombia and Washington, DC, September 27, 2011 - Darby Overseas Investments, Ltd. ("Darby"), the private equity arm of Franklin Templeton Investments, announced that Darby Latin American Mezzanine Fund II ("DLAMF II") completed an investment in Datapoint de Colombia SAS ("Datapoint"), a leading information technology (IT) hardware distributor and service provider in the country. Transaction details were not disclosed.
Richard Frank Jr., Darby's Principal responsible for DLAMF II, commented, "We are very pleased to have concluded this investment in Datapoint as it reinforces Darby's longstanding commitment to investing in the region and specifically in Colombia. We are attracted to Datapoint because of its strong industry leadership, successful track record of providing high quality service and the favorable outlook for the sector."
Jorge Eduardo Gomez Botero, Datapoint's Chairman and CEO, commented "Darby's investment will improve Datapoint's competitive advantage, particularly at a time when sourcing new capital is extremely difficult. The mezzanine financing we received will be used to develop existing and new services oriented to new technologies like cloud computing and to strengthen the core activities of Datapoint."
The investment in Datapoint adds to Darby's long history of successful investments in Latin America and follows the success of the Darby Latin American Mezzanine Fund I with 12 investments, all of which have been realized. Darby has played a pioneering role in bringing mezzanine—a hybrid of both debt and equity—to emerging market regions, initially Latin America, then to Asia and most recently to Central and Southeastern Europe. Currently, DLAMF II is the only dedicated mezzanine provider on a regional basis in Latin America.


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The best reactions to Sarah Palin's split with Fox News
The former vice presidential candidate "parts ways" with Fox news, and the Internet reacts accordingly
Check out this article! https://www.salon.com/2013/01/25/the_best_reactions_to_sarah_palins_split_with_fox_news/
Jillian Rayfield
January 26, 2013 3:49AM (UTC)
On Friday, Fox News announced that it has "parted ways" with Sarah Palin and will not renew her contract as a contributor.
The New York Times reports:
It was unclear whether the parting was Ms. Palin's choice. Bill Shine, an executive vice president at Fox, said in a statement, "We have thoroughly enjoyed our association with Governor Palin. We wish her the best in her future endeavors."
As of last week, Ms. Palin remained in negotiations with Fox News about a new contract. Her original contract with the network started in January 2010 and ended this month.
Twitter, as expected, was delighted:
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Fired for expressing diverse ideas by non-diverse diversity apparatchik
By Ethel C. Fenig
Shades of last century's Aldous Huxley's Brave New World with its caste structure and indoctrination and Big Brother punishing thoughtcrime through sweet-sounding Newspeak.
As posted here a few days ago, Google's white female V.P. and chief diversity and inclusion officer, People Operations, fired a white engineer for expressing diverse thoughts about gender, ethnicity, and race in engineering that didn't meet Google's standards for diversity and inclusiveness. She explained:
Part of building an open, inclusive environment means fostering a culture in which those with alternative views, including different political views, feel safe sharing their opinions. But that discourse needs to work alongside the principles of equal employment found in our Code of Conduct, policies, and anti-discrimination laws.
Perhaps it wasn't her fault; an oppressive male, Google's CEO, made her do it. But he's a man "of color." And an immigrant. That's diverse. How could he do it?
Pichai, 43, was born in Tamil Nadu, India. After completing his undergraduate degree in metallurgical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, he came to the United States to study at Stanford University – the alma mater of the Google founders and so many other early Googlers.
Whoops! Wrong color and ethnicity for politically correct victimhood, as his background is over-represented in high tech, so he too must adhere to doubletalk groupspeak, justifying his actions.
First, let me say that we strongly support the right of Googlers to express themselves and much of what was in that memo is fair to debate, regardless of whether a majority of Googlers disagree with it. However, portions of the memo violate our Code of Conduct and cross the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace.
Well, then, can this politically correct diversity attitude be traced to Google's founders, oppressive white males Larry Page and Sergey Brin, in search of social justice compensation? Well, they both have minority backgrounds and heritage – Jewish – and Brin is also a legal immigrant from Russia.
Whoops again! Wrong religion and ethnicity for politically correct diversity victimhood, so they too have been silent about this incident.
Maybe oppressive white male fired Google engineer James Damore was on to something. According to the American Society for Engineering Education:
Continuing a trend of the past several years, women represented a larger percentage of Master's and Doctoral students in 2015 than the year before. They also earned a larger share of graduate than of Bachelor's degrees. Females were awarded 19.9 percent of all Bachelor's degrees awarded by an engineering program in 2015 and made up 21.4 percent of undergraduates enrolled in engineering. They received 25.2 percent of Master's degrees and 23.1 percent of doctoral degrees in 2015. Women represented 24.1 percent of students studying for a Master's degree in 2015 and 26.2 percent of those pursuing a doctorate. Faculty The number of tenured and tenure-track faculty increased from the prior year to 26,839. The number of full professors reached 13,111 as of the fall of 2014, only slightly less than the combined total of associate and assistant professors – 7,459 and 6,269, respectively. Women increased their representation in faculty ranks to 15.7 percent, a more than 4 percent gain since 2006. African Americans stayed at the same percentage as last year, 2.5 percent, having gained only a 0.1 percent share since 2006. Hispanics also stayed at the same percentage as last year, 3.9 percent, a 0.6 percent gain since 2006. The proportion of Asians grew to 26.3 percent of all engineering faculty in 2015.
In other words, while increasing, the number of females and politically correct minorities going into engineering does not correlate with their percentage of the population. Oh, dear – maybe many of them have other interests, talents, and ideas for careers than their politically correct betters demand.
And Google does understand that different, uh, demographics do have different interests. Here is Google's advice on target advertising (h/t: PJ Media):
Add demographic targeting to an ad group
With demographic targeting in AdWords, you can reach customers who're likely to be within the demographic groups that you choose. For example, if your business caters to a specific set of customers within a particular group, you can show your ads to customers according to their gender, age group, parental status, or household income.
About demographic targeting
With demographic targeting in AdWords, you can reach a specific set of potential customers who are likely to be within a particular age range, gender, parental status, or household income. For instance, if you run a fitness studio exclusively for women, demographic targeting could help you avoid showing your ads to men.
Keep in mind that demographic targeting is an option to narrow your targeting. In other words, it helps prevent people outside of the your chosen demographics from seeing your ads.
That's different, isn't it? Because they're politically correct. And diverse. And inclusive.
Perhaps the diversity engineers will turn their attention to the National Basketball Association.
The NBA, where today nearly 75 percent of the players are black, originally had no black players. Zero. It's a complicated piece of sports history[.]
I don't think they will.
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Recession Fears and Trade War Tension Causes Heavy Sell Offs
By Dale Gillham | Published 12 August 2019
Last week was an unforgiving week for shareholders as escalation of the trade war intensified, and fears of a global recessions panicked investors, resulting in a heavy sell off of shares. So what caused this massive sell off?
It was partly due to President Trump announcing a further 10 percent tariff on the remaining $300 billion in Chinese imports coming into the US starting in September this year. As a consequence, the falls were a reaction to the tariffs for US companies dealing with China and what the Chinese may do in response to Trumps announcement.
The president also accused China of currency manipulation, which is what I would refer to as the pot calling the kettle black. Following the announcement that the US would be imposing more tariffs, China announced it would cease to purchase farmed goods, which sent stocks further into the red.
In addition, the Fed Chairman, Jerome Powell, indicated that they may impose further rate cuts after cutting rates for the first time in ten years earlier this year, which had investors worried about a slowing economy and a potential global recession.
In my opinion, a global recession is unlikely, and the more people talk about it, the less likely it is to occur although that said, recessions are normally good for the stock market. My advice for investors right now is to stay calm and narrow your focus. Rather than being concerned about global economies, it is far better to concentrate on your own portfolio. If your stocks are going up, then stick with them and have an exit strategy in place in case they start to go down.
Now let's take a look at how companies performed during reporting season.
Winners and losers during reporting season
Despite an overall positive earnings season, it was not enough to stop stocks falling heavily last week.
While Walt Disney reported record sales, it missed earnings estimates coming in at $1.35 a share, which was below analysts' expectations of $1.76. Initially, it was expected that the $70 billion acquisition of Fox would impact earnings by around 35 percent, however, it actually ended up closer 60 percent.
Further concerns over the future outlook of Disney also had speculators worried with the stock down just over 2 per cent for the week. I like Disney, and believe they will do well in the coming years, so keep an eye on this stock.
HSBC also beat expectations after reporting earnings this week with second quarter profits up 4 percent to $6.2 billion due to increasing revenue and expense reductions. Initiatives to increase its market share in both the UK and China, and offloading unprofitable operations continue to be the main focus for the company moving forward.
Despite the markets downturn, Linde a multinational chemical company beat analyst expectations with profit and sales topping estimates. Linde also raised full year guidance for the second time this year, with its shares up over 2 percent for the week.
Uber reported for the second time since becoming a listed public company with revenues of $3.16 billion and losses of $5.2 billion. Ubers stock price was only down slightly, however, I anticipate that the stock will see continued downward pressure in the foreseeable future.
Once again, Kraft Heinz failed to file its financial results and its future is not looking bright as its shares have been down around 73 percent since February 2017. Right now, I believe there is further downside, which could see the stock trade down to around $9.70 in the coming months before it finds support.
Now let's look at the S&P 500 Index and this stocks of interest for the week. Watch the video to find out more.
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"Marlowe Would Be Proud": On "The Annotated Big Sleep"
Written by adminon October 11, 2018
He first played Marlowe in 1975 in Farewell, My Lovely, when he was in his late 50s; he was 60 by the time he made The Big Sleep, and he doesn't look a youthful 60. Information about the city's population and ethnic makeup is fascinating. But he was not modest about his talents or his ambitions. She figures the peeper can get her some dough," is anybody's guess. The film I saw, however, wasn't the 1946 Bogart-Bacall classic (which I'd only heard about), it was the 1978 remake directed by Michael Winner and set improbably, unconvincingly, in England. It was a rainy afternoon in London and I needed to kill a couple of hours, so I went to see a showing of The Big Sleep. I immediately read The Big Sleep (1939), his first novel, and then the rest of the oeuvre, and I've been increasingly hooked ever since. I found myself more intrigued by the background information than by the editors' close reading of the text, which sometimes feels like they're breathing over your shoulder and making arch remarks, telling you how to read (for example, "Carmen is back to her default between the kitten and the tiger — for now"), but no doubt some readers will feel the opposite way. They tell us that the "1920s and early '30s saw no fewer than ten new terms for 'homosexual' recorded," including "queer." We also learn that, as a result of prohibition, gay and lesbian subcultures had become more accepted in select quarters, while still remaining hidden. They show, despite Clive James's insistence to the contrary, that Chandler's writing improved very rapidly indeed in the six years between the publication of his first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot" (1933), and The Big Sleep (1939). More than nine out of every ten you see have been there less than fifteen years. Did I wonder what a jerkin was, or a chiseller, or a bookplate? Norton & Company, runs a list of annotated volumes that includes The Annotated Little Women (2015), The Annotated Peter Pan (2011), and The Annotated Wizard of Oz (2000). Marlowe would be proud. The book has Le Corbusier as sole designer of the chaise longue basculante: these days Charlotte Perriand is usually given her due as co-designer. He knew that his hero's name might evoke Christopher Marlowe for some readers, but certainly not for all. For instance, Marlowe's description of himself on the novel's first page, "I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it," is army slang — "neat, clean, shaved and sober" means ready for inspection. But here's the question: when I read The Big Sleep for the first time (or subsequently, for that matter), was there much in there that I didn't understand? ¤
Raymond Chandler would have understood the dichotomy and might have reveled in the contradictions as they applied to his own work. There's a subgenre of annotation that seeks not to explain evident difficulties, but to show the complications in apparently uncomplicated texts. For what it's worth, I only found one error, maybe half an error. The film is universally despised. It's the equivalent of $400 in today's money, which sounds a tidy sum, although considering what Marlowe has to go through to earn his money, it's not altogether unreasonable. Martin Gardner is the boss here. It's well known that quite a few people who met Chandler assumed he was gay, but that raises more questions than it answers, and there's certainly no evidence that he ever had any sexual relationships with men. The annotations make much of the geographical and topographical background to the novel, describing Laurel Canyon, the Pacific Coast Highway, Franklin Avenue, and noting landmarks such as the Sunset Towers and Bullocks on Wilshire. ¤
The fact is, it's rare, if ever, that we read a book and understand every single word, every literary allusion, every local or historical reference, just as we don't understand every single thing we encounter as we go about our lives. They're very swell legs"? Roger Ebert said it "feels kind of embalmed," although plot-wise it's strangely faithful to the novel, and the cast is fantastic — Jimmy Stewart, Candy Clark, Richard Boone, Oliver Reed, with Robert Mitchum as Philip Marlowe. It's not hard to imagine that Japanese readers might find something of the noble, tarnished samurai in Marlowe, though what they make of a line like, "She has to blow and she's shatting on her uppers. Weisenburger's A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel (1988) is a great help in understanding much abstruse material in Thomas Pynchon's 1973 masterwork; although, when I laid hands on the compendium (a good decade after I'd first read the novel), I was thrilled to find that he'd got various things wrong, including not knowing the English meaning of "minge." And this is one of the joys of annotated volumes: seeing what the editors did and didn't explain. Pico Iyer, in his essay "The Mystery of Influence" (2002), says of Marlowe, "Of all the great figures of the twentieth century, he seems one of the most durable, in part because he travels so well and so widely." And he tells us that Haruki Murakami began his career by translating Chandler into kanji and katakana scripts. Was I puzzled by the terms "hot toddy" and "got the wind up"? I had my degree in literature, and I had read not a single word by Chandler. But as becomes obvious to anyone who's tried to walk in Marlowe's footsteps (something I did when I first started living in Los Angeles), one of Chandler's skills was to blend a detailed real city with one of his own invention. W. I was hooked, and went back to the source. I wish some of them were bigger, especially the maps, and I wish some of those pulp covers were in color, but you can't have everything. Seidman) close at hand. A couple of them are still alive, if Wikipedia is to be believed. Later, in a description of Marlowe's apartment, we read he has "an advertising calendar showing the Quints rolling around on a sky-blue floor, in pink dresses." I had never thought to wonder who the "Quints" were, but we're told these are the Dionne quintuplets, identical French-Canadian girls born in 1934, the first quintuplets to survive past infancy. You could argue that if Chandler's genius could shine through that dreadful adaptation, then it's pretty much unassailable. K. OCTOBER 11, 2018
I CAME LATE TO Raymond Chandler, and I don't know if it was in the best or worst possible way. Top-notch sleuthing. Do these works need annotation? I've never been sure whether Marlowe's homophobia (as Chandler wouldn't have called it) was his own, or Chandler's, or simply something that pulp readers would have expected from a tough guy detective. I do buy, eagerly, the book's analysis of the instances where Chandler "cannibalized" his own early stories and incorporated them in the novel. The earliest version of Chandler's detective is named Mallory, as in Thomas Malory, the author of Le Morte d'Arthur (1485), but maybe he came to think that was going too far. Did I feel the need to reach for the dictionary and look up "swell" when Marlowe says to Vivian Sternwood, "I don't mind your showing me your legs. The book's bibliography is lengthy without being exhibitionistic, and the editors have even managed to track down a treatise on "the lost art of walking," by one Geoff Nicholson, that contains a short section about Chandler. Some of this background comes into the "who'd have thought it?" category. He'd had an English classical education at London's Dulwich College, which contained Marlowe House. And I'm not talking about plot matters such as who killed the chauffeur, or why the cute but borderline-insane murderess isn't prosecuted, but rather matters of fact and vocabulary. And shine through it did. Steven C. These are well chosen and very useful. We also learn that between 1920 and 1930, 30,000 Filipinos migrated to California. His latest novel, The Miranda, is out now. I don't quite buy that, but then, I don't have to. The Annotated Big Sleep, with a short but excellent foreword by Jonathan Lethem, will eventually join them. In 1939, the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration authored a book titled California: A Guide to the Golden State. The book quotes the journalist Garet Garrett (not his birth name), who visited the city in 1930 and wrote,
you have to begin with the singular fact that in a population of a million and a quarter, every other person you see has been there less than five years. ¤
Geoff Nicholson is a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Review of Books. In writing for a pulp audience, he knew he was slumming, inhabiting the less respected and less examined districts of the city of words. Joyce would have been delighted. So yes, being told that Geiger's bookshop is on Hollywood Boulevard by the corner of Las Palmas seems utterly precise, but Stanley Rose, who had a bookstore at more or less that location, isn't much of a model for Geiger: you'd find Rose hanging out in his store talking with Hollywood literati rather than taking nude photographs of drugged heiresses. They were known as dandies and sharp dressers, which explains Marlowe's line to Carmen Sternwood that she's "[c]ute as a Filipino on Saturday night." I guess this is a racial slur, but as these things go it seems quite gentle. There are some revelations relating to Marlowe himself — details that are easy to miss or simply skim over. His publisher, W. Somehow they cope. The editors also raise the possibility that when Vivian Sternwood, wearing a "mannish shirt and tie," says to Marlowe, "I was beginning to think perhaps you worked in bed, like Marcel Proust," she may be accusing him of being gay. In a 1949 letter to Hardwick Moseley, Chandler wrote, "The aim is not essentially different from the aim of Greek tragedy, but we are dealing with a public that is only semi-literate and we have to make an art of a language they can understand." His invocation of Grecian heights strikes me as going way too far. There's also an interesting consideration of Marlowe's daily rate — $25 plus expenses, which some clients find a bit pricey. Still, the annotations are interesting in themselves. In it, they called Los Angeles the "fifth largest Mexican city in the world" (a distinction that nowadays belongs to Chicago). Many have read James Joyce's Ulysses (1922) with a map of Dublin, Ireland, and a copy of Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses (1988, by Don Gifford with Robert J. Having annotated Lewis Carroll's Alice volumes (and declared Carroll to be sexually "innocent"), he went on to annotate books by G. Mitchum has always seemed to me the perfect Marlowe, and far more believably tough and insolent than Humphrey Bogart; I just wish he'd played the part 20 years earlier. I consider myself an enthusiast rather than an expert or a scholar, although there's a shelf in my office heavy with Chandler-related volumes: the letters, the biographies, the notebooks, and various Los Angeles–related items that include Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles (1987), Chandlertown: The Los Angeles of Philip Marlowe (1983), and Tailing Philip Marlowe: Three Tours of Los Angeles — Based on the Work of Raymond Chandler (2003). If the common reader happily misses a few references, we tend to take it for granted that the best literary works will require explanations, glosses, and readers' guides. Honestly, I did not — but Owen Hill, Pamela Jackson, and Anthony Dean Rizzuto, the three editors of The Annotated Big Sleep, certainly think that all those things I've listed are worthy of explanation, which, I think, raises the question of who reads The Big Sleep and who those annotators think reads The Big Sleep. Did the words parquetry, stucco, or croupier seem unfamiliar? And, of course, with fiction it gets harder depending on the age of the work and our cultural distance from its milieu. The editors, inevitably, and reasonably enough, wade into the inscrutable and contested sexuality of Chandler and Marlowe. In a piece on John Updike's Rabbit Is Rich (1981), Martin Amis writes, "Like its predecessors, the novel is crammed with allusive topicalities; in a few years' time it will probably read like a Ben Jonson comedy." I imagine there may be readers of that essay who could use a little annotation explaining the nature of Ben Jonson's comedies. The book is illustrated with dozens of images, book and magazine covers, movie stills, maps, period photographs. Once you were breaking the law by drinking illegally in clubs and speakeasies, you were less likely to cut up rough about seeing some same sex couple and a drag act or two. ¤
No doubt the "semi-literate" public will not be rushing to read The Annotated Big Sleep, but for the rest of us, there's a huge amount to enjoy in the book. For instance, we're told that in the 1930s, Los Angeles had 300 casinos and over 40 newspapers; hard to say which of those numbers is more surprising. The question is moot, since there's clearly a market and an audience; and if we've learned anything in the last several decades, it's that scholarship can be applied to popular, or even low, culture, just as successfully as it can be applied to high art. I don't think many of us regard 1930s Hollywood as the center of Jewish life in Los Angeles. After I'd read that General Sternwood was propped up in "a huge canopied bed like the one Henry the Eighth died in," did I feel the urge to check the date of Henry VIII's death? Chesterton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), and Ernest Thayer's "Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic — Sung in the Year 1888" (1888). And it doesn't stop at high literature. At other times, Chandler simply made up the names of streets; Laverne Terrace and Alta Brea, for example, sound completely authentic, but you won't find them on any map.
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Case study: How I did a luxury Tokyo trip of a lifetime for less than US$1000 (Part 1)
A case study in using points for a luxury trip to Tokyo
In this three-part series, Sydney-based Ricardo outlines how he accumulated points to book a premium cabin flight on Singapore Airlines and stay at five different hotels in Tokyo.
Ricardo's case study
Part 1: About me and how I accumulate points
Part 2: How I used points for my Singapore Airlines flight
Part 3: How I redeemed points for my hotels in Tokyo
Why do I use points?
I've always dreamt of being able to travel the world in style and staying at luxury hotels but like most people, I just couldn't afford it. That is, until I found out about the wonderful world of points and miles redemptions about three years ago.
Frequent flyer points, when used to maximum value, allow you to fly like this without breaking the bank
Since then I've been to 48 countries (and counting), enjoyed some of the most sought-after airline seats and stayed at some of the top hotel brands in the world, all for a fraction of the retail price.
'Is it really possible?', my stunned friends often ask me. Yes, it is, and I want to show you how.
Tokyo is my favourite city in the world and growing up playing Japanese games and watching Samurai movies, I had always dreamed about visiting. And after watching Lost in Translation more times than I can count, I made it my life's mission to one day stay at the Park Hyatt Tokyo, have a drink at that rooftop bar and swim in their rooftop pool à la Bill Murray.
I'm obsessed with Tokyo's skyline at night
And while I had the opportunity of visiting Japan once before a few years earlier as a broke student flying Economy Class and staying at bedbug-infested hostels, I promised myself that the next time I was in town, I'd stay in style.
With that in mind, I had two goals for this one-week trip: fly Singapore Airlines' A380 fabled Suites Class and stay at both the Park Hyatt and the newer Andaz Tokyo.
The view I dreamed about having from my room at the Park Hyatt Tokyo, thanks to Scarlett Johansson
However, since I'm a Hilton Diamond member and had saved a sizeable amount of Hilton Honors points, I decided I'd stay at and review the three major Hilton properties in Tokyo as well: Hilton Shinjuku, Conrad Tokyo and Hilton Tokyo Odaiba.
Being a Hilton Diamond member gets you free room upgrades and breakfast as well as lounge access and late check-outs.
My goal? To achieve all of this on a budget of less than US$1000 (~AU$1400).
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Accumulating the points
As it's often the case, credit card sign-up bonuses are the fastest way of accumulating points. Since I was based in the US at the time, I had access to a different portfolio of cards that are not all available in the Australian market, however, there are Australian equivalents which are sometimes offering much higher sign-up bonuses than their American counterparts—who said Aussies don't have access to the best offers?
I used my American Express Platinum card sign-up bonus to pay for my flight
So I applied for the American Express Platinum Card, netting 100,000 American Express Membership Rewards points, enough to cover my flight and then some.
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I could also transfer my American Express Membership Rewards points to Hilton Honors, which would cover a big portion of my Hilton stays.
I recommend people to carry cards that earn flexible points currencies such as the American Express Explorer and Citi Prestige, which don't tie you to a single airline and are both transfer partners of Singapore's KrisFlyer program, making premium class redemptions with them much easier and faster.
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Case study: How I did a luxury Tokyo trip of a lifetime for less than US$1000 (Part 1) was last modified: June 30th, 2021 by Ricardo Mansur
Planning a big trip with points and miles takes time and dedication but nothing gives me a more rewarding feeling than knowing I'm flying in a premium class for next to nothing!
In the next part, I'll detail exactly how I went about researching and booking my flight.
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Ricardo proudly considers himself a world citizen, having traveled to nearly 50 countries and being constantly fascinated by different cultures and traditions. He values experiences over materialism and lives out of a single suitcase so he's always ready for the next journey. He's currently living and studying in Sydney.
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Laois pool cue assault trio pay compensation with more to come
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Three Portlaoise men involved in an attack on two other men in a local pub, in which one of the injured parties was struck around the head with a pool cue, have paid further compensation at Portlaoise Circuit Court.
Before the court was Hayden Delaney, 23 of 203 St Brigids Place, Portlaoise, charged with violent disorder; Patrick Delaney , 20, of 169 St Brigids Place, Portlaoise, charged with violent disorder and section 3 assault; and Adam Keogh, 25, of 37 St Brigids Place, charged with violent disorder, two section 3 assaults, and production of an article in the course of a dispute.
Adam Keogh has been given a suspended prison sentence for his part in the offence.
All of the charges relate to an incident at The Office Bar, Portlaoise, on February 25, 2018.
When the evidence was first heard in March last, Garda Kevin O'Sullivan gave evidence that on that date, two men were playing pool on the premises. The three accused were also present and they had a lot of drink taken.
"Things became rambunctious," said Garda O'Sullivan, explaining that one of the accused interfered with the pool game and events kicked off.
During the incident, Adam Keogh hit one of the injured parties, a Kieran O'Riordan, with a pool cue before he punched the other injured party. Hayden Delaney was grappling with Mr O'Riordan on the ground, and both Patrick Delaney and Keogh kicked Mr O'Riordan while he was on the ground.
Mr O'Riordan was semi-unconscious when the gardaí arrived and suffered injuries to his head and chest. He had a 7.5" laceration to his forehead, which required nine stitches.
Garda O'Sullivan said that Hayden Delaney was "the instigator and antagoniser" on the night.
Patrick Delaney paid a total of €1,200 compensation in March and his case was adjourned to June for a further €2,300.
Hayden Delaney paid €400 compensation and was directed to pay a total of €2,000 to Mr O'Riordan and €500 to the other injured party. And Adam Keogh paid €1,000 compensation and was directed to pay a total of €8,000.
When the case returned to the circuit court recently, defence for Adam Keogh, Ms Louise Troy said that the accused had €1,000 compensation.
Defence for Patrick Delaney, Ms Geraldine Fitzpatrick said her client had €2,080 in court, which was slightly shy of the €2,300 he was to have.
And defence for Hayden Delaney, Mr Rory Hannify, said his client had €500 in court, which was a shortfall from the €1,100 he was meant to have.
Judge Johnson adjourned the case of Patrick Delaney to July 5 for him to pay a further €220, and Hayden Delaney to the same date to pay €600.
He warned Hayden Delaney to either have the €600 by that date or have his bags packed to go to jail.
In the case of Adam Keogh, who Judge Johnson described as the most culpable of the three, the judge imposed a three-year sentence suspended for ten years on certain conditions: the accused must enter into a peace bond for ten years; he must remain under probation supervision for 18 months; he must abstain from drink and drugs and provide urinalysis; he completes residential treatment and engages with training and employment; and he pays a further €8,000 compensation through weekly installments of €50.


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