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Interview with Nitin Prasad, Managing Director, Shell Lubricants India
Managing Director, Shell Lubricants India
Company Description: Shell Lubricants India is a 100pc subsidiary of Shell. With corporate office in Gurgaon and 6 regional offices Shell Lubricants India employs around 400 people across the board. The Indian arm of the multinational firm sells its lubes through a network of 250 distributors across the country in high-street, franchisee workshops, independent workshops etc. Shell Lubricants has set up a Customer Service Centre (CSC) in Chennai in 2008 for an effective lubricants supply chain. Since 1997, Shell India has been manufacturing its lubricants at its blending plant at Taloja, near Mumbai. In India, Shell Lubricants has entered marketing alliances with companies like Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai, Mahindra & Mahindra, Skoda, Ford, Wartsila, Same and Thermax. Shell is also the largest and most diversified international investor in India's energy sector, with nearly US$1 billion already invested.
You have held several positions of responsibility within Shell. How exciting and challenging is it for you to head the India operations?
All my positions were actually very rewarding. At Shell, we strongly believe in people and more importantly about leadership development. So one of the big things that we do, as an organisation, is that we ensure that people have roles and responsibilities that are stretched. We also develop individuals in areas with leadership attributes. For example: one of the big things that is really important in an organisation is managing operations. That was what my last role was all about. We were moving 5 or 6 billion tonnes of product all across Asia Pacific and Middle East. I was also responsible for the operational startup of a multi-billion dollar facility in Jurong Island and Bukom Island in Singapore. It was a very exciting stint to be involved in building such a massive facility there and it has its own set of unique challenges. I enjoyed all my roles in Shell and this is (heading Indian operations) the next step to take up another challenging role and an exciting opportunity.
How important is the Indian market among BRIC nations for Shell when it comes to contributions to global operations?
The answer is that the Indian market is very important. Shell is investing quite heavily in India. It is clearly one of our key focus markets, specifically for lubricant even though other sectors are equally important. If you look at our operations here, we have a manpower strength of 2,500-3,000 on the ground across the range of various opportunities. We have invested over US$ 1 billion in this country and we are investing even beyond that across different options. I think we are already the most diversified firm in the oil and gas industry in India. Specifically for lubricants, the BRIC nations are very important. If you look at China as an example, we are considered one of the leading players here for lubricants. In India also, we have a similar aspiration to reach that level.
Shell is renowned globally to make 3,000 different lubricants to meet customer needs across a wide range of applications. Do you have plans to gradually bring all your products here? Or would you consider churning out India-specific products?
The answer is yes to both. But you must understand that across the range of 3,000 lubes that we are selling globally, there are some products which are country-specific. There may be some lubes which are OEM-specific for the country to operate in. So we won't bring in those products unless there is a particular materiality of scale of business over here. So what we do is that we have a constant evaluation on an annual or six-monthly basis to take a look at our portfolio and decide on what lubricants we want to bring in. Today, we feel that we are covering around 90pc of the market. We will be introducing more grades this year and we will cover about 95pc of the domestic lubricant market. There are some grades that are too specialised and too low-volume that we will evaluate on a strategic basis. In terms of India-specific products, we always have specific grades. For example: we work very closely with our OEMs like Maruti Suzuki and Tata Motors. For Tata Motors, we are working on a co-engineering basis to evaluate new lubricants for them. So those are the kind of opportunities that may exist. There are also vehicles that are unique to India and for them we have introduced lubricants that are only available in our portfolio.
What about exporting lubricants from India?
We are actually looking at exporting some lubricants out of the country. We move into a few countries in terms of their local or regional needs. We have a network of blending units across all the Asia-Pacific nations and Europe. So some of our lubricants come in from Canada, Europe, etc to India. What we like to do is take a look at what the optimal point is to manufacture a specific lubricant based on scale and capacity. It may be possible that it (the lubes) is not available in that country itself but is centralised in one spot. It's more economical for us to then ship it across the globe (from that spot) but manufacture in that specific location. From India, we generally consider shipping out our products to SAARC nations, Middle East et al. There are of course constraints in terms of shipping out lubricants from India. We do have a tax structure in terms of manufacturing in India itself. The excise duty levied here does make us a bit less competitive as compared to other nations in terms of providing a regional export hub.
So do you support free trade agreements with other countries?
As I mentioned earlier, we have a network of plants and have products that are imported directly. We import base oil to create our finished lubricants. We also bring in finished lubricants. So from our perspective, it's advantageous if there is a free trade agreement that is available across various countries. If we have well-defined FTAs with various countries, it would be an easier basis for us to export from here. Honestly, the answer is that the government knows the best in these cases. We look forward to seeing more from them.
Globally, Shell Lubricants has five lubricants research and development centres in the UK, Germany, France, the US and Japan. How crucial will be your upcoming Indian centre at Bangalore? Will it be contributing to your global operations too?
Absolutely! It will contribute to our global operations. I think the important point to understand is that being part of the Fortune 500 Group, technology is in our DNA. It's one of the biggest things that we are focusing on. Infact, as a Shell Group, it is touted to be the most innovative and competitive company in this (lubricants) industry. We have invested quite a handsome amount for the R&D centre in Bangalore. We have just announced that we are going to expand that facility and have acquired a new land for the same. Bangalore will be one of the three central hubs for the group level technology development. The exact investment amount is confidential. But what I can tell you is that we invest over US$1 billion in R&D globally every year and Bangalore will be one of the central locations for the same. The very same amount has been invested by Shell India across its operations, including R&D. We are having about 800 people in that facility which will be growing substantially for the next five years. Specifically, what we are looking at is how the Bangalore unit supports not only the rest of the globe but also in areas where it can help the domestic market. We have some options that we are exploring. We will make an announcement on that front later on.
Shell's worldwide portfolio of lubricant brands includes Shell Helix, Shell Advance, Shell Rimula etc. It also owns a portfolio of car care products and Jiffy Lube services. But in India you have earmarked only a handful of them? Is there any specific reason?
This is the same question in terms of 3,000 products in our global portfolio. We used to have 'Pennzoil' portfolio in the country. We are continuing to have that. However, we would like to transition to the 'Shell' portfolio that we have today. As far as rolling 'Jiffy Lube' as a service is concerned, it depends on the maturity in the country. If you look at the car industry here, it's largely centrailsed around the franchised workshops. So we need the car parc to reach a certain age wherein the consumers would be moving beyond the franchised workshops and are looking for top quality service before a 'Jiffy Lube' type service makes sense. We certainly have several competitors who are there in the marketplace and are looking at various options in terms of servicing. But you still find them to be more oriented towards full service workshops rather than a fast lube service. So this is the question of governmental maturity in the industry and when the industry is going to be ready for a service like that. There are a number of cars that are beyond the franchised workshops in the aftermarket. That is certainly a big focus for us. That's why we continue to launch an increasing set of products that offer benefits to the consumer. We have a number of promotions, schemes and marketing programmes that communicate these benefits to the consumers. And we continue to drive that through our distribution channel. We will work on improving our distribution channel and will then ultimately work closely with the mechanics on the ground and retailers to position our products.
How important is the automotive aftermarket for Shell India? What strategies do you have to enhance your presence in that space?
It is very important. I think what is important for Shell India is to be involved with the car parc throughout the lifecycle of the car. So we work very closely with the OEMs when the car is at the production line. We work very closely with them at the franchised workshop space. One of the big areas that we focus at the workshops is to make sure that our lubricants are lowering the total cost of ownership for the OEMs and its customers. And we use technology specifically for that.
What are the benefits derived from your partnership with Ferrari in Formula One racing?
Our association with Ferrari is over 60 years old. And there are a number of benefits that we derive out of it. Formula One is all about raw speed, power, engine performance, etc. It is not only the question of heat and power, but also about gearshifts and engine life of the vehicle. We partner incredibly closely with Ferrari to work on fuels and lubricants that can give them a performance edge on the track. Infact, we are the only company that has a track lab that is available right next to the Ferrari pit. We are constantly monitoring the fuels and lubricants that are being used at the race itself. We develop and formulate specific lubricants and fuels for them. The important part of this association is the level of understanding that we have gathered from developing these products under extreme performance conditions. It gives us the information and data to then be able to develop lubricants for our regular customers that are based on the knowledge that we develop there (for F1). For example, our 'Helix Ultra' is based on the technology that we have developed along with Ferrari. But now we have made it available for our consumers. So that is one clear tangible benefit that we get out of this strong association. There are of course other intangible benefits too. Ferrari is a well-known and well-recognised brand and we certainly benefit from having a co-branded relationship with them. While the Shell brand is known very well in some countries, similar is the case with Ferrari in other countries. I think what works for us there is that both companies are well understood as the pioneers in their fields. And there is a lot of synergy between the Ferrari brand and the Shell brand.
Going forward, are you confident of bagging new clients in India?Unfortunately, I can't share the details as they are very confidential and are under negotiations. But just take a look at some of the companies, in terms of servicing, that account for 55-65pc of the passenger car market. It tells you that we have a proposition that is attractive to the OEMs. Firstly, the technological benefits that we are bringing to them are outstanding. The second thing is lowering their total cost of ownership. We work very closely with the OEMs to improve the service level that they can deliver to their customers. Some have a very strong proposition for the market-leading OEMs which will appeal to others (new OEMs) too.
What is the size of the Indian lubricant market? How much does the automotive segment account for?
It is estimated at around 2-2.5 billion litres per annum. It is evenly split between automotive and industrial lubricants. Both sectors are equally important for us.
Lastly, do you foresee a lot of growth in India in the next few years in your line of business?
We of course foresee a lot of growth in our line of business. We have been in the Indian market since 1993 and have been operating as a wholly-owned entity since 2008. We have been growing very strongly on a year-on-year basis. We are proud to say that we have been growing at double digits every year for the last couple of years. We plan to continue that trend. We expect to see that level of growth coming through different areas. We do invest quite heavily in the country. And the expectation is that we want to see return on those investments. We would like to see 'Shell' as a brand that is not only widely known in the marketplace, but is also widely preferred amongst our buyers. And on the back of that, we want to widely establish ourselves as a technology leader in the marketplace. We are investing quite heavily for that at our Bangalore unit and also in some of our other areas of ours. We aim to be recognised by our partners and customers as a technology leader. We believe that if we get the brand and the technology right, our business and sales will grow on the back of that.
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Q: list item in new line using for loop in tkinter GUI when I run following code in python 3.6, I got output in a window where text "first line, second line etc......" written in curly braces. My question is how can I get this text without curly braces. Thanks
from tkinter import *

lst = ['First line', 'Second line', 'Third line', 'Fourth line', 'Fifth line']

TT = Tk()
TT.title("")

def new_line() :
        result2 = []
        for i in range(len(lst)):
            result2.append(lst[i]+'\n')
        label2.configure(text=result2)

label1 = Label(TT, text = 'values in new line :', bg='blue', fg='yellow', font = "Times 16 bold") #, height='10')
label1.grid(row=12, column=0, padx=8, pady=8)

label2 = Label(TT, justify=LEFT, bg='blue', fg='yellow', font = "Times 16 bold")
label2.grid(row=12, column=1, padx=8, pady=8)

new_line()

TT.maxsize()

TT.mainloop()

A: In addition to the solution provided to you through the comment, you can convert result2 to a string called, for example, text, and use the latter one as your label's text instead:
def new_line() :
   result2 = []
   for i in range(len(lst)):
       result2.append(lst[i]+'\n')
       text = ''.join(result2) # added this line
       label2.configure(text=text) # modified here

Demo:

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Q: Anonymous struct with ANSI C I want to know if it is possible to declare anonymous structs in ANSI C. The code I have is:
struct A
{
    int x;
};

struct B
{
    struct A;
    int y;
};

When I compile it I get:
warning: declaration does not declare anything
I have read that the flag -fms-extensions does the trick, it however only works on windows systems as it produces:
warning: anonymous structs are a Microsoft extension [-Wmicrosoft]
Is there any ANSI equivalent extension that I can use?

A: A trick to get almost this feature in ANSI C is to use an appropriate macro:
struct A {
    int x;
};

struct B {
    struct A A_;
    int y;
};

#define bx A_.x

Then you can simply do
struct B foo, *bar;

foo.bx;
bar->bx;

In C11 though, anonymous structures are supported and you can simply do
struct B {
    struct {
        int x;
    };

    int y;
}

but sadly not
struct A {
    int x;
};

struct B
{
    struct A;
    int y;
};

As the anonymous structure has to be declared inside the structure it is anonymous to.
See this answer for more details on anonymous members in C11.

A: Its possible to declare anonymous struct and union. The ISO C11 added this feature and GCC allows it as an extension.
C11 section §6.7.2.1 para 13:

An unnamed member whose type specifier is a structure specifier with no tag is called an anonymous structure; an unnamed member whose type specifier is a union specifier with no tag is called an anonymous union. The members of an anonymous structure or union are considered to be members of the containing structure or union. This applies recursively if the containing structure or union is also anonymous.
19 The following illustrates anonymous structures and unions:

struct v {
    union { // anonymous union
          struct { int i, j; }; // anonymous structure
          struct { long k, l; } w;
    };
    int m;
} v1;

v1.i = 2;   // valid
v1.k = 3;   // invalid: inner structure is not anonymous
v1.w.k = 5; // valid

Now b can be accessed by just using foo.b.

A: You want something like this i suppose:
struct B {
    struct {
        int x;
    } A;
    int y;
};

And you could do:
struct B b;
b.A.x = 5;
printf( "%d\n", b.A.x );


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Oshawa Mayor Dan Carter is asking DRPS for help in the downtown amidst increasing criminal behaviour.
By Chris Jones/The Oshawa Express
Oshawa Mayor Dan Carter was in front of the Police Services Board recently pleading for assistance in his city's downtown.
Speaking to the Durham Regional Police Services (DRPS) Board urging its members to help the needs and challenges of unsheltered individuals, as well as criminal activity in Oshawa's downtown, Carter asked for a few things.
He asked the board to consider adding more police funding, increased foot patrols, and stronger partnerships in the downtown core.
Carter's reasoning for asking for help was simple: Oshawa is home to the majority of Durham's homeless population.
"The board may not be aware of this, but I can say with confidence the City of Oshawa welcomes 80 per cent of the unsheltered population [in Durham]," says Carter. "Since March, we've seen people from as far away as Hamilton, as far out as Trenton, and as high as Minden coming to our community and seeking services."
He says these individuals are not only unsheltered, but many are also dealing with addictions and mental health issues.
"They are struggling to be able to find the pathway forward," he says.
However, with these individuals has come an increase in criminal behaviour, according to Carter.
"We have a criminal element that wants to take advantage of those individuals that are the most vulnerable in our community," he says. "What I want to say is that at no time will I ever support anyone coming into our community to victimize any of our residents, citizens or visitors."
He adds the increase in criminal activity became exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Carter says he has received many letters, phone calls and texts from seniors and families, stating the criminal activity is overtaking parks, trails, walkways, businesses, and downtown.
Letters have come from businesses such as Oshawa Public Libraries, the Greater Oshawa Chamber of Commerce, and the Oshawa Senior Community Centres (OSCC 55+).
Sandra Black, the executive director of OSCC 55+, writes about what they've seen in Memorial Park.
"Over the past year or two and more so in the last few months, we have seen an increase in incidents involving drug transactions, vagrancy, damage to our private property and trespassing," writes Black.
She goes on to say seniors don't feel safe in Memorial Park, and it is causing them to stay away from OSCC 55+.
Other letters express similar sentiments, with Oshawa Public Libraries CEO Frances Newman adding there are issues with public intoxication, drug use, verbal harassment, and other illegal activities in the downtown core.
Carter addresses these letters by saying criminal activity in the community cannot be tolerated anymore.
"We're blessed to have a great division right here in Oshawa, but they also need the resources and support to be able to make sure that we're not reactive policing, but proactive policing," he says.
In total, Carter tells the board he has three requests: dedicated and appropriate resources for a Durham Region Anti-Violence Strategy; the continuation of foot patrols in downtown Oshawa; and he asks for DRPS to join with the Downtown Business Improvement Area (BIA) in starting a CCTV program downtown.
Interim Police Chief Todd Rollauer responded to Carter's pleas by saying he will see how DRPS can assist.
"I certainly support working with the BIA and the City of Oshawa," says Rollauer. "I understand there are potentially over 100 cameras in the Oshawa area, and will see what support mechanism we have to solve crime in the downtown area."
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Children learn about local salmon at the viewing area overlooking the fish fence on the Colquitz Creek.
There's plenty fishy about these creek restoration efforts!
Saanich staff, community volunteers continue enhancing salmon spawning waterways
Whether you're keen to improve threatened salmon stocks or are simply passionate about protecting your local environment, you have many reasons to support efforts to restore local waterways – and various ways to do it, right in your own backyard!
Restoration of the creek beds and riparian areas is vital to improving local salmon returns, explains Rick Hatch, Saanich Parks assistant supervisor of natural areas.
"It's all about fish habitat," Rick says, pointing to current working areas around Copley Park East, for example, where urban development has stripped away the natural vegetation. "It's a natural area, but it looks manmade because there's so little original material left."
Bank stabilization and re-introduction of vegetation, spawning gravel, rocks, stumps and other naturally occurring elements encourage spawning salmon to return, which in turn supports wild fish stocks.
While numbers fluctuate for various reasons, including hot, dry summers and predation on returning salmon, the 2016 fish count recorded 1,100 fish returning to Colquitz Creek!
Creek restoration continues
Work has largely focused on the three main streams running through Saanich: Douglas Creek, in Mt. Douglas Park, Colquitz Creek, from Cuthbert Holmes Park to Elk/Beaver Lakes, and Swan Creek, in the Interurban/Viaduct area.
A stretch of about 900 metres of Douglas Creek was restored between 2012 and 2016, and they're currently restoring about 100m each year of Colquitz Creek.
Biologist Dave Clough has been instrumental in guiding Saanich Parks' restoration work, supported by Saanich Public Works staff and volunteers, including community groups such as the Friends of Mt. Douglas Park, the Friends of Swan Creek and the Peninsula Streams Society.
Saanich's Pulling Together volunteers are also vital to restoration efforts, removing invasive species and readying the parks for new native plants that support the health of the creeks, Rick says, noting it's also a great opportunity for school groups, Scout and Guide groups and others to get involved in their community.
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In addition to volunteering, residents and park users can also support the fish habitat by respecting restoration efforts. "If you see fencing and signage saying that we're trying to restore that area, respect that and stay on the trail," Rick says, noting that it's important to keep dogs away from the sensitive areas too.
To provide park users with a good look at the creek without damaging the ecosystem, Saanich has built three viewing platforms – one at the fish fence in Cuthbert Holmes Park behind Montana's restaurant, one at Mann Avenue, and another at Eastridge Crescent. "You can watch the fish come up the stream – it's a great way to support that 'Natural Intelligence,' as we encourage residents to build their knowledge of nature, parks and how to improve our environment."
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UWO works to improve inclusivity
Joseph Schulz, News writer
UW Oshkosh can become more inclusive to students from all backgrounds, but it will take diligence and a personal commitment to having a diverse and inclusive environment, said a UW Oshkosh administrator.
Sylvia Carey-Butler, associate vice chancellor for academic support of inclusive excellence, outlined the five pillars of the Inclusive Excellence program during a Nov. 19 listening session with students: curriculum and research, environmental/campus climate, faculty and staff, human resources and students.
"Those are the overarching things, but we're getting at more nuanced issues under each of those topics and what we need to do in building a plan that addresses those things," she said.
Carey-Butler said administrators are working to make campus more inclusive through procedures such as compliance training in new hires.
"Administrators are thinking about how we interact with each other, who we bring on campus to educate, the campus and ourselves," Carey-Butler said. "It's a personal commitment to having a diverse and inclusive environment."
She said getting student feedback is important because students are the campus' main consumers.
"If we're making decisions but we're not including students in those discussions, then we might have a great idea, but we could have a better idea with having student voices," Carey-Butler said.
Oshkosh Student Association President Ronisha Howard said the University cares about student opinions and making the campus more inclusive.
"Chancellor Leavitt is looking at ways to retain students currently on campus," Howard said. "It's a process; I believe they're working on that now."
Student representative of the Inclusive Excellence Committee Alina Xiong said UWO can improve its inclusivity by incorporating diversity training into its curriculum.
"I definitely think there are a lot of groups that are left out," Xiong said. "I think students of color need more support, … but people in power, faculty members, we need their support. We need them to show us they care."
Carey-Butler said that it is important for students to understand others from different backgrounds because we live in a diverse global society.
"If we are admitting, educating and graduating students, we need to prepare them for a world that reflects that diversity," Carey-Butler said. "If the institution doesn't reflect that diversity, then how can we prepare students to have those experiences and tools to live in a diverse world?"
Xiong said she believes that the administrators care about making campus more inclusive, but because it's such a broad issue, it's difficult for them to address.
"They know things are missing and we need to work on things; I just think it's a little too big," Xiong said. "I know for a fact that they are aware that it is going on."
Carey-Butler said the University is working on strategic enrollment management, a process designed to help recruit and retain students from a variety of backgrounds.
"We have developed the framework where we can look at how we can increase enrollment and how we can make this a more viable campus for students, which is why we're addressing international students, transfer students and commuter students," Carey-Butler said.
Howard said UWO has improved in terms of inclusiveness since she came to the campus in 2014.
"I think now they have better tools and more faculty that are more aware," Howard said. "There's more openness around the youth that's here today than it was back then, being more accepting of things like LGBTQ, minority students and students with different economic status."
Xiong said despite the improvements made by the University, she has faced racial discrimination on campus.
"As a music student, I used to take voice lessons because I was unable to pronounce vowels the way my professor wanted me to, [so] he automatically assumed I was Chinese," Xiong said. "He asked, 'Well, what do you speak? Mandarin?' I explained that I speak Hmong."
Carey-Butler said everyone has to continuously work to fight racism in our society.
"I think a lot of people said that after we had our first African-American president we were done, we were where we needed to be," Carey-Butler said. "We have to be diligent, we have to focus on it and continue to work on it because all that it takes is someone with an ideology that's narrow to change the environment."
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Points Toward the Presidency: Newt Gingrich
January 31, 2022 January 23, 2012 by ttravis
Editor's Note: With his unexpected win in South Carolina last Saturday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich just rocketed to the center of the Republican stage. Guest blogger Kelsey Harclerode's examination of Rick Perry's record on drugs drove him out of the race last Thursday. What effect will her withering gaze have on the newly resurgent Newt?
Photo (and Shaky Hands) of the Author
I have something to admit…Newt Gingrich and I are practically inseparable. You see, we attended mass together at the Basilica of the National Shrine of Immaculate Conception and now we are BFF. Points readers can rest assured that I am definitely most qualified to write this profile (and of course there is no conflict of interest!). Below I present not merely my own personal knowledge of the candidate, but a carefully researched brief on a bevy of drug policies that former House Speaker Gingrich has sponsored, supported– and then opposed.
Is Gingrich a flip-flopper on drug issues the way he is on religious affiliation? A few flashbacks may help us answer that question: in 1981, Gingrich co-sponsored a bill with Representative Barney Frank that attempted to legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes. The bill failed, but Gingrich continued to publicly support medical marijuana in a 1982 open letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association(JAMA), which praised that organization for discussing weed's medical benefits and lambasted outdated federal policy that "deprives [patients] of medical supervision and denies them access to a regulated medical substance."
Alive--and Totally Baked-- in the 1970s
Gingrich's support for marijuana did not end with medical uses, either, but extended into the recreational realm. In 1995, he not only admitted to smoking marijuana during his college days, but (unlike the chastened Rick Santorum) also praised the pleasures of pot, stating that smoking "was a sign we were alive and in graduate school in that era."
But if dedicated support for an issue (whether revolutionary or not) is usually a commendable aspect in Washington, we can hardly call Newt a weed warrior. He not only reversed his position but— based on a conversation he had with parents concerned that legal medical marijuana would suggest to their children that smoking pot was acceptable—he did the wildest 180 imaginable. In 1995 (the same year he praised the euphoric dimensions of pot smoking), then House Speaker Gingrich suggested that drug smugglers should face the death penalty because "If you import a commercial quantity of illegal drugs it is because you have made the personal decision that you are prepared to get rich by destroying our children." One year later, he introduced H.R. 4170, the Drug Importer Death Penalty Act, which demanded that any individual caught bringing two ounces or more of marijuana into the United States face a life sentence or the death penalty. (No comment from Newt yet on a recent study that found that the legalization of medical marijuana did not increase teen use.) On the 2012 campaign trail, Gingrich has stood by his 1996 bill and gone so far as to praise the "draconian" laws in Singapore, where possession of just over a pound of marijuana earns you the label "drug-trafficker" and a quick ticket to death by hanging.
Amsterdam: Bad Role Model
His explained his now unambiguous opposition to legalization in a 2009 speech in Florida, where he argued that "Every place drugs are legalized, the net effect is more people on welfare, more people who are dependent, more people with bad health care outcomes, fewer people who are able workers able to pay attention on the job, and a drain of money into illegality, because immediately behind legalized marijuana comes cocaine and heroin." Gingrich has further explained that policy around marijuana, whether medicinal or recreational, should be constructed at the federal level because of the potential interstate transport of the drug.
Singapore: Good Role Model
During the same interview in which he admired Singapore's drug laws, Gingrich expounded on his current belief that America needs a more aggressive drug policy. He expressed his support for the War on Drugs, for stiffer economic penalties for drug offenses, and for more—much more—drug testing. In fact, he emphatically supported testing every individual who sought federal aid: "unemployment compensation, food stamps, you name it." (No mention of Pell Grant or Fulbright Fellowship recipients, but the Financial Aid Office should probably get ready!)
This hardline stance builds on a 2009 interview on The O'Reilly Factor, where Gingrich stated that if he were President, he would end American "funding" of Mexican drug cartels by establishing a permanent and larger border patrol that would effectively embargo their trade. The need for a stronger border is made clear in a Gingrich quote in Senator Marco Rubio's 100 Innovative Ideas for Florida's Future: "fueled by the global nature of the drug trade, gangs are increasingly international operations. With the infrastructure in place to move and distribute drugs across the border, the danger exists that they will use their network to, for the right price, traffic terrorists and weapons into the country." In other words, being anti-drug is no longer just about the children, it's about the terrorists.
While he was Speaker of the House, Gingrich not only reversed his position on medical marijuana, he also worked to ensure that Clinton-supported needle exchange funding did not see the light of the day. Expressing his disgust with the program (or maybe thinking back to those grad school days when he was really "alive"?), the former Speaker commented, "What's a little heroin or cocaine among friends?" But despite his opposition to harm reduction and his boundless enthusiasm for execution, Gingrich has voiced support for alternative sentencing in lieu of imprisonment for non-violent drug offenses. Earlier this primary season, he explained that he is not for locking up every drug user, but instead believes we should find ways to sanction those that are addicted and provide them with medical assistance, such as detox programs. (What's a little buprenorphine among friends?)
This zigging and zagging across policy stances should make for interesting talking points if Gingrich continues to do well in the primaries. And seeing that he just beat apparent front runner Mitt Romney in South Carolina, and that every Republican winner there since 1980 has gone on to win the nomination, the possibility of Gingrich-Obama showdown just got a lot more plausible.
Position on the Points Inhale-Scale:
He will ask you for marijuana and then kill you.
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Amazing. I knew he was a so-called idea man, but I had no idea those ideas were so frequently in opposition to each other. One might wonder if his thoughts on drugs resemble this thoughts on marriage?
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Tenth of December includes stories published in various magazines between 1995 and 2009. One of the stories, "Home," was a 2011 Bram Stoker Award finalist. The book was selected as one of the 10 Best Books of 2013 by the editors of the New York Times Book Review. It won the 2013 Story Prize for short-story collections, the inaugural (2014) Folio Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Award.


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DIR=$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )
export PATH=/opt/bin:/opt/etc/vault/scripts:$PATH

. $DIR/utils/functions
. $DIR/utils/env_defaults
. /etc/profile.d/vault.sh

export PATH=/opt/bin:/opt/etc/vault/scripts:$PATH

CLUSTER_ID=$1
COMPONENTS="etcd-server kube-apiserver"

if [ -z "$CLUSTER_ID" ];
then
  exit1 "A unique Kubernetes cluster id is required."
fi

# Etcd CA. Etcd and apiserver's cert should be signed by the same CA.
create_pki() {
    pki_name=$1
    $DIR/create_ca.sh $CLUSTER_ID/pki/$pki_name
}
create_pki_role_etcd_client() {
    vault write $CLUSTER_ID/pki/etcd-server/roles/etcd-server \
        allow_domains="cluster.local,$ROUTE53_ZONE_NAME,$CLUSTER_INTERNAL_ZONE" \
        allow_subdomains=true \
        allow_any_name=true \
        ttl=87600h0m0s
    vault read $CLUSTER_ID/pki/etcd-server/roles/etcd-server
}

create_pki_role_kube_apiserver() {
    vault write $CLUSTER_ID/pki/kube-apiserver/roles/kube-apiserver \
        allowed_domains="kubelet,serviceaccounts-cluster-admin,kube-proxy,admin,kube-apiserver,kubernetes.default,cluster.local,$ROUTE53_ZONE_NAME,$CLUSTER_INTERNAL_ZONE" \
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        allow_subdomains=false \
        allow_any_name=true \
        allow_ip_sans="true" \
        allow_localhost="true" \
        ttl=87600h0m0s
    vault read $CLUSTER_ID/pki/kube-apiserver/roles/kube-apiserver
}

# Cert role's issue police
create_role_policy() {
    pki_name=$1
    role_name=$2
    cat <<EOT | vault policy write $CLUSTER_ID/pki/$pki_name/$role_name -
path "$CLUSTER_ID/pki/$pki_name/issue/$role_name" {
policy = "write"
}
path "secret/$CLUSTER_ID/config/*" {
policy = "read"
}
EOT
}

# Provided each machine with a Vault token that can be renewed indefinitely.
# This token is only granted the policies that it requires.
create_auth_role() {
  vault write auth/token/roles/kube-$CLUSTER_ID \
  period="4200h" \
  orphan=true \
  allowed_policies="$CLUSTER_ID/pki/etcd-server/etcd-server,$CLUSTER_ID/pki/kube-apiserver/kube-apiserver,secret/$CLUSTER_ID/config"
}
create_auth_token() {
  token_path=$1
  token_name=$2
  # check if the token already created and uploaded to the bucket
  echo "s3get.sh ${VAULT_TOKEN_BUCKET} pki-tokens/$token_name $TMPDIR/$token_name"
  s3get.sh ${VAULT_TOKEN_BUCKET} pki-tokens/$token_name $TMPDIR/$token_name
  if [[ -s "$TMPDIR/$token_name" ]] && vault token lookup $(cat $TMPDIR/$token_name) > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
    echo "Token $token already exist. Renew token"
    vault token renew $(cat $TMPDIR/$token_name)
  else
    token=$(vault token create \
      -format json \
      -policy="$CLUSTER_ID/$token_path" \
      -role="kube-$CLUSTER_ID"  | jq -r '.auth.client_token' | tee $TMPDIR/$token_name)
    if [ -n "$token" ]; then
        s3put.sh ${VAULT_TOKEN_BUCKET} pki-tokens $TMPDIR/$token_name
    fi
  fi
  #shred -z $TMPDIR/token
}

create_pki etcd-server
create_pki_role_etcd_client
create_role_policy etcd-server etcd-server
create_pki kube-apiserver
create_pki_role_kube_apiserver
create_role_policy kube-apiserver kube-apiserver

# Create role and associated polices
create_auth_role
create_auth_token pki/etcd-server/etcd-server etcd-server
create_auth_token pki/kube-apiserver/kube-apiserver kube-apiserver

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•50 Films That Should Come Out On Blu-ray Now!
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If you haven't been to the George Eastman House, we're guessing you've at least heard of it. For many of you, Kodak was a household name. We had Kodak cameras, used Kodak film, and maybe even had a parent or relative (or three!) who worked for Kodak.
But what we might not know is that the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, which opened to the public in 1949, is the world's oldest photography museum and has one of the world's oldest film archives! According to their website they "strive to inspire widespread recognition of how the media we collect, preserve, and understand broaden and enrich life."
George Eastman called this Colonial Revival mansion home from 1905 to 1932.
When it was built there were greenhouses, 10.5 acres of workable farmland, stables, barns, pastures, and gardens.
And it doesn't matter what season you go, the museum and gardens are open year round! If you get a chance, go over the holidays and you'll enjoy it beautifully decorated.
Our city was a hub of innovation, and entrepreneur, George Eastman, was a huge contributor. Though he wasn't the inventor of photography, he did invent flexible film, the film roll and holder, and many other things. 32 patents total! And, his cameras brought photography to the masses in 1888 with the Kodak camera and in 1900 with the $1 Brownie camera.
And we have yet to even touch on Dryden Theatre, the theatre inside of the Eastman House used to showcase the incredible films which are held in the museum... but that my friends, is a story for another day!
Whether you take a guided tour, or set out on your own, you're sure to learn and enjoy every minute here.


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Earworm of the Afternoon -- You Are My Face
Over at the Daily Banter, Bob Cesca gave his (much better written) angle on my little conspiracy theory from earlier in the week:
Why wouldn't Junior talk about what he "bagged" on the trip? It makes sense to ask, especially given his history of clandestine meetings with, say, Russians. And why would it be a problem for Junior if at least one Secret Service agent tagged along on such a mundane hunting trip?
Hell, at the end of the day, it might've been just what it appeared to be. Occam's Razor would lead us to that conclusion. But the absence of a requisite entourage of federal agents adds a layer of suspicion, given how his Secret Service protection was reinstated days later without explanation. Naturally, then, we have no choice but to wonder whether Junior met with someone more nefarious than a big ass moose that he summarily executed just to watch it die -- someone who the Secret Service might object to on numerous grounds. And if he met with someone on the trip, was that person's name spelled with Cyrillic characters?
Yes, so maybe Junior was really hunting moose. But also squirrel! An artist's rendition (credit to Andy Marlette at the Pensacola News Journal):
At the advice of TenGrain, I looked into the whereabouts of the Russian attendees of DJT, Paul Manafort, and Jared Kushner's June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower, where they discussed "adoption," to see where they might have been last week.
One of those attendees was Russian pop star and friend of the Trump family, Emin Agalarov. When I Googled him, I found this article, hot off the presses from Mother Jones:
The Embassy of Azerbaijan is touting a meeting last week between the country's president, Ilham Aliyev, and President Donald Trump. In fact, while Aliyev may have merely posed for a photograph with the president and their wives while attending a reception Trump hosted at the outset of the UN's General Assembly, the photo is valuable for Aliyev—and awkward for Trump.
It's not just that Aliyev is jailing journalists while deflecting accusations of vote-rigging, kleptocracy, and international bribery. (Leaders who do that sort of thing don't seem to faze Trump.) It's also that Aliyev himself has multiple connections to Trump's own scandals.
Aliyev's daughter, Leyla Aliyeva, who posted a picture of the presidents on her Instagram account shortly before drawing mockery for making faces and taking selfies while her father delivered a speech on genocide, is the ex-wife of Emin Agalarov, the pop singer son of Aras Agalarov, a billionaire Russian real estate magnate.
The timing of this is almost surely a coincidence, but the Trumps never seem to be far from corrupt Russians.
Bottom line on this: At this point, I feel like everything with these fuckers has to be looked at through a #TrumpRussia lens until proven otherwise. It pissed me off that the New York Times (with which I've made my displeasure known many times) made it a personal interest story -- "Oh, he disappeared without the Secret Service and no one knew where he was... how interesting and funny it was moose hunting!" Fuck that. We're beyond presuming innocence, because every time I give the Trumps the benefit of the doubt, it turns out to be undeserved.
For the love of all that is holy, I hope Bob Mueller had this fucker tailed last week.
UPDATE (10/1/2017, 11:36 AM EST): Welcome, C&L readers! @ me on Twitter at @tgconsolidation if you have thoughts on this...
Earworm of the Afternoon -- Hotel Rio
So, as the story goes, Fontange Fuhrer (TM Ari) Junior ditched his Secret Service protection for privacy reasons:
Donald Trump Jr. had his Secret Service protection restored this week after briefly giving up the protection for a hunting trip in the Canadian wilderness.
The New York Times reported last week that Trump Jr. was ditching his security detail for unknown reasons, but noted Trump Jr. was seeking more privacy.
For a few days, nobody knew where he was. He's now turned back up and has his security detail back. But where was he?
It turns out, according to a reporter for New York Times Magazine, that Trump Jr. was leaving the Secret Service behind so he could be alone during a hunting trip in Canada's Yukon Territory. The reporter, Luke Dittrich, spotted Trump Jr. at the airport in Yukon's capital city after receiving a tip from a friend, and detailed his exchange with him in an article published on Wednesday.
I don't know if anyone's noted this yet, but the Yukon Territory is not just remote; from the porch of his hunting lodge, Junior Dunce could see Sarah Palin on her porch watching Russia.
I'd put better than even money on the "hunting trip" being something much more sinister.
Posted by Jason at 1:17 AM
In 1951, a philosopher named Eric Hoffer published a book on extremism entitled The True Believer. I'd never heard of it until recently, but somehow had made a close personal connection to this particular title (I can't go into it, but it's weird). I'd been given a copy of the book a couple of months back. I finally got around to reading it this weekend on an airplane. The True Believer was written in the wake of the Holocaust and during some of the worst of Stalin's atrocities, and Hoffer wrote it with that in mind. But of course history repeats itself, or rhymes, or whatever, and I was going to share a couple of quotes I thought were apropos yesterday, but didn't get around to it. Anyway, here's one:
The traitor is usually a fanatic -- radical or reactionary -- who goes over to the enemy in order to hasten the downfall of a world he loathes. Most of the traitors in the Second World War came from the extreme right. "There seems to be a thin line between violent, extreme nationalism and treason."
Sounds about right.
Here's where this gets freaky. Yesterday, I picked up the book I really wanted to read (though I of course wish it didn't have to exist), What Happened -- Hillary Clinton's post-mortem on the election (and a lot more). I began reading it tonight, and found that I wasn't the only one that found the book relevant. From page 10, where Hillary gives some context to the America in which she campaigned in 2016:
I hadn't been blind to the power of this anger. During the campaign, Bill and I both went back and reread The True Believer, Eric Hoffer's 1951 exploration of the psychology behind fanaticism and mass movements, and I shared it with my senior staff. On the campaign trail, I offered ideas that I believed would address many of the underlying causes of discontent and help make life better for all Americans, But I couldn't -- and wouldn't -- compete to stoke people's rage and resentment. I think that's dangerous. It helps leaders who want to take advantage of that rage to hurt people rather than help them. Besides, it's just not how I'm wired.
Maybe that's why Trump was now delivering the inaugural address and I was sitting in the crowd.
She understood the ugliness she was up against. It took the aforementioned right-wing treason to put it over the top.
Back to Hoffer:
The fanatic who personifies this phase is usually an unattractive human type. He is ruthless, self-righteous, credulous, disputatious, petty, and rude."
Remind you of anyone?
Earworm of the Afternoon -- Black Capricorn Day
Emboldening White Collar Criminals
In 2002, hot on the heels of the most aggressive deregulatory moves in fifteen years, the Bush Administration opened the doors for egregious risk taking and poor bookkeeping by three large corporations: Enron, Tyco, and WorldCom. While the CEOs were punished with fines and brief jail time, the deregulation continued on for years -- until everything came crashing down in 2007.
Jump ahead another decade and here we are in 2017 with the broadest financial scandal in history, one that brings back memories of Enron. The Equifax data breach affected 143 million American consumers -- largely because someone thought it would be a good idea to set the username and password for the network admin to: admin, admin respectively.
But sloppy security only scratches at the surface. Apparently Equifax had been hacked twice, with the most recent hack coming in March 2017, nearly six months prior to their news release. What took them so long to announce the hack? Equifax executives were busy dumping $1.8 million in their stock holdings:
It's the stock sales by several executives that are likely to get the most scrutiny in light of the new timeline. On Aug. 1 and Aug. 2, regulatory filings show that three senior Equifax executives sold shares worth almost $1.8 million, with none of the filings listing the transactions as being part of scheduled 10b5-1 trading plans. Equifax's Chief Financial Officer John Gamble sold shares worth $946,374; Joseph Loughran, president of U.S. information solutions, exercised options to dispose of stock worth $584,099; and Rodolfo Ploder, president of workforce solutions, sold $250,458 of stock.
Ahead of announcing #EquifaxBreach in which 143M people's info was exposed, #Equifax execs shamelessly dumped stock. Stock price down 13%+.
— Daily Comb Over (@tgcCombover) September 7, 2017
And from today's Twitter Moment: DOJ looking into Equifax stock sales before hack made public
They all need to be jailed for this. It's clear they postponed the announcement long enough so they could dump all their holdings. #Equifax https://t.co/ya4cSmU7Yt
— Daily Comb Over (@tgcCombover) September 18, 2017
This goes beyond insider trading. Doing the math, those three executives sold out 143,000,000 people to avoid losing $235,000 in stock value.
Should America Have Elected Hillary Clinton By a Landslide?
If you can watch that interview and still say no, fuck you.
Earworm of the Afternoon -- Lift
I just undertook a relatively spontaneous week to detox from a number of things... I did a three day news cleanse (no food), a six day overall nutrition cleanse (no non-plant-based and few processed foods), a five day liver cleanse (no alcohol), and a week-long brain cleanse (no politics, and especially, no Trump!).
I pulled it off somehow, but in the same way I came back from those cleanses somehow not craving meat, cheese, carbs, fat, and alcohol, I find myself today returning to the internet with still very little desire to read or watch anything about politics and can't even look at Trump's face. We'll see if I can ease my way back into it, and if I can't, I might turn this blog back into its original topic -- the consolidation of industry, money, and power in this country, which did get some attention a week or so ago.
After getting back to the news late last night, the only thing that stood out to me (beyond the hurricanes) was Ta-Nahisi Coates' latest piece for the Atlantic on race relations:
In a recent New Yorker article, a former Russian military officer pointed out that interference in an election could succeed only where "necessary conditions" and an "existing background" were present. In America, that "existing background" was a persistent racism, and the "necessary condition" was a black president. The two related factors hobbled America's ability to safeguard its electoral system. As late as July 2016, a majority of Republican voters doubted that Barack Obama had been born in the United States, which is to say they did not view him as a legitimate president. Republican politicians acted accordingly, infamously denying his final Supreme Court nominee a hearing and then, fatefully, refusing to work with the administration to defend the country against the Russian attack. Before the election, Obama found no takers among Republicans for a bipartisan response, and Obama himself, underestimating Trump and thus underestimating the power of whiteness, believed the Republican nominee too objectionable to actually win. In this Obama was, tragically, wrong. And so the most powerful country in the world has handed over all its affairs—the prosperity of its entire economy; the security of its 300 million citizens; the purity of its water, the viability of its air, the safety of its food; the future of its vast system of education; the soundness of its national highways, airways, and railways; the apocalyptic potential of its nuclear arsenal—to a carnival barker who introduced the phrase grab 'em by the pussy into the national lexicon. It is as if the white tribe united in demonstration to say, "If a black man can be president, then any white man—no matter how fallen—can be president." And in that perverse way, the democratic dreams of Jefferson and Jackson were fulfilled.
The American tragedy now being wrought is larger than most imagine and will not end with Trump. In recent times, whiteness as an overt political tactic has been restrained by a kind of cordiality that held that its overt invocation would scare off "moderate" whites. This has proved to be only half true at best. Trump's legacy will be exposing the patina of decency for what it is and revealing just how much a demagogue can get away with. It does not take much to imagine another politician, wiser in the ways of Washington and better schooled in the methodology of governance—and now liberated from the pretense of antiracist civility—doing a much more effective job than Trump.
Coates is right -- Trump's "appeal" (as it were) has been to white resentment, and his voters love it. Racism is still rampant, and today it's more apparent than it had been in a couple of decades.
However, I'm not 100% discouraged -- 10 months ago, we came 70,000-odd votes from electing a Democrat for the third term in a row since the '40s. The Obama presidency was an incredible success, and without Republican cheating that involved serious treachery, some missteps by the FBI, and/or voter suppression, Hillary Clinton is in the White House, with a mandate to build on Obama's accomplishments. Frankly, we were within reach of having as many as eight Democratic terms in the White House in a row. During that span since 1992, each Democrat that has won has done so fairly easily:
1992: Clinton by 5.8 million votes and 202 electoral votes
2008: Obama by 9.5 million votes and 192 electoral votes
2012: Obama by 5 million and 126 electoral votes
While not so for the Republicans:
2000: Bush *lost* the popular vote and won by 5 electoral votes
2004: Bush by 3 million votes and 35 electoral votes
2016: Trump *lost* the popular vote by 2.9 million votes and won by 77 electoral votes (and many of those states when to him by tiny margins)
Prior to 1992, Reagan-Reagan-Bush slaughtered their Democratic opponents. So, while he Republicans have gotten very openly racist again and it certainly helps them among whites, they're still trending downwards at the presidential level to the point that when they do win, it's always controversial (and two of those three elections were definitely stolen and a third very suspicious).
When Democratic Presidents have been elected since 1992, they stayed in office relatively easily for two terms. Both Clinton and Obama won reelection by at least 5 million votes. They entered office popular, endured insidious beatdowns by the Republicans that hurt their approval ratings for a stretch of their presidency, but left office fairly popular (and in Obama's case, much more shortly after).
Republicans lose their shine within months of the beginning of their terms (Bush was in the low 40s on September 10, 2001, and Trump is historically unpopular for someone this early.
Additionally, two of those narrow three Republican "wins" happened on the back of a sudden spike in a political environmental factor favoring them. 2004 was really a war year and also would've gone against Bush if it weren't for the groundswell against gay marriage (yes, that was really a thing!) because of anti-gay marriage legislation on the ballots in many states. In 2016, the Comey letter torpedoed Clinton unexpectedly for two weeks. It's been said by Nate Silver and others that Clinton would've won had the election been held on October 25th. I'd also assert that if the election had been held on November 25th (which is an egregious counterfactual because that wasn't a Tuesday, but it works rhetorically), she would've won, as well. The Comey "retraction" happened on November 6th and never got time to register with voters.
Nothing in particular happened at the last minute to tilt Clinton to reelection in 1996 or Obama in 2012, and the 1992 and 2008 recessions turned elections that were already leaning towards the Democrat into a Democratic landslide.
The trend appears to be in our favor. The problem is, that unlike in in many other countries (and a number of U.S. states), we lack the ability for the to recall a President at the popular level. The end result is that the length of a President's term has no ability to correlate with a President's long-term job performance and a premium is placed more on the equivalent of a political insulin spike rather than keeping the populace properly fed (both literally and figuratively) over a longer span of time. To use a metaphor that's morbidly apropos, the odds of a Republican hurricane to make landfall on the U.S. are less likely than a nice spell of Democratic sunny days, but the citizens on the coast get the exact length of time to rebuild their homes as the hurricane does to destroy them. That's not a recipe for much, if any, new construction. Or, in the real world, constructiveness. It's a wonder we ever make any progress at all. It would be really helpful if we could shorten the length of those storms. 2020 and 2024 will tell us whether our political oceans are cooling (going "blue") or warming (going "red"). If we had a way to fix our impulsive mistakes in the middle of a term, I think we'd be far better off. I'd posit that there'd be a good chance Trump would be recalled if there were a recall election held today.
In the meantime, I find myself wondering whether, as one person who values his sanity, I should ride this out in the storm cellar with less awareness of what's going on in the rest of the world, or whether I should stay above ground trying to scream for someone to save me ("Barack? Mr. Comey? Mr. Mueller? Frau Merkel?") while watching the debris fly dangerously close to my brain...
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Nyamalebe landless farmers association members, totaling to over 2300 say they applied for the land as required by the law and government granted them occupancy before anyone else.
Mr. Kabera James, the association chairman says that they started staying on the land in the year 2012. The membership of association is comprised of internally displaced communities from different areas like Buduuda and Northern Uganda due to natural disasters and wars. .
"We do have papers detailing how we came to occupy this land that was divided into six villages that include Jerusalem, Kanaan and Kololo among others, so it is not true that we are settling on the land illegally".
The secretary of the association, Joseph Walekula says many people were forced out and out of the over 2300 people, 2000, have already been forced out.
"People were forced to sign forms to vacate the area in just three days and if one refused, they would go without anything" Mr. Walekula said.
"Huts were burnt down, schools and churches brought down, this is so unfortunate. This was done by police and many would come disguised in civilian clothes". He emphasized.
Walekula says all this was done by Agillis and partners, a 100% subsidiary of Joseph Initiative limited, which is a foreign Company funded by UK's Department For International Development (DFID).
The residents now appeal to the same government to find alternative land for resettlement or compensate them.
The resident's outburst comes at the time when cases of land evictions are at peak with many people losing land to both foreign and local businessmen and women.
They were speaking during a media briefing organized by Witnessradio.org to launch the first ever land evictions land portal in Uganda; www.landevictionsinUganda.witnessradio.org .
The portal using open data technologies with reports from anyone in Uganda will be able to track, investigate and document land evictions across in order to facilitate processes geared towards attaining good land governance and secure land rights for vulnerable communities in Uganda.
"Uganda as a country has what it takes to protect land rights for all but our preliminary collected data which is being analyzed suggests that a number of evicted smallholder farmers from their land by 2017 could be higher than 2 million and the problem is likely to escalate as there is no sign indicating that evictions will come to an end soon" Said Mr. Wokulira Geoffrey Ssebaggala, the Executive Director, Witnessradio.org.
He further said that in all the 120 eviction cases that have been analyzed and featuring on the portal, none meets the minimum standard on forced evictions set by the United Nations and African Union with about half of the total evicted farmers believed not to have gotten alternative land to earn a living.


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Bishop Bruskewitz to turn 75
July 17th, 2010, Promulgated by Mike
Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of the Diocese of Lincoln (Nebraska) will turn 75 on September 6, at which time Canon Law requires him to submit his resignation to Pope Benedict XVI.
With that milestone approaching the Lincoln Journal Star has published a profile piece on the Bishop.
According to the story,
At times, Bruskewitz's reign over the 136 churches in the 23,844 square miles of the Lincoln Diocese across southern Nebraska has been controversial. But it's always clear and direct.
His detractors paint a portrait of a devout but stubborn man with unyielding orthodoxy and ultra-conservative views of God's word and expectations of the Catholic Church.
His supporters extol those very same traits as his virtues.
Bishop Bruskewitz' understanding of his duty with respect to Church teaching could not be clearer.
In the midst of political debates over abortion, birth control, homosexuality and immigration, the bishop has never wavered in his interpretation or opinion on traditional church teachings. And when it comes to issues of morality, Bruskewitz is clear – there is no wiggle room.
"I think the truth must be proclaimed and not relativized," he said.
Some issues leave room for negotiation. But matters of truth have only two options: true or false, Bruskewitz said.
"I don't think that it's being arrogant. I think it is being kind and charitable to speak the truth, and that is an important part of what a bishop has to do," he said.
"And just as we would not beat a child who mistakenly concludes 2 + 2 = 7, we must correct people's errors and point out the correct answer.
"I hope to catechize people and instruct people in the best way we can," he said. "I am certainly not a know-it-all. And I try to convey to people God's revelation and teaching of the church, insofar of its possession of revelation of God."
As for the distinction of having what some consider the most conservative diocese in the country, Bruskewitz said the Catholic Church is inherently conservative.
"Its duty is to conserve and preserve unmutilated, undiluted, unchanged the doctrine of Christ that has come down to us through the centuries, and not to vary or change what has been bestowed upon us," Bruskewitz said, quoting the words of Pope Paul VI.
"I think a certain measure of ecclesiastical church order and discipline are important to have an orderly worship of God and an orderly affirmant of what God wants for us," Bruskewitz said.
"And, I believe that it is necessary to exercise the responsibilities that are given to a bishop. If I don't exercise those responsibilities, someone else will – someone who is not authorized to do so.
"So that is why I – we – have this reputation. But I don't think it's anything other than what I see my duty to be and what a bishop's duty to be."
The same newspaper has also published a collection of statistical data related to the Bishop. These stats include …
Born: Sept. 6, 1935
Ordained: July 17, 1960
Consecrated bishop: May 13, 1992 …
Diocesan accomplishments:
Added four parishes: North American Martyrs and Cristo Rey in Lincoln, Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton parish in North Platte, and Saint Katharine Drexel Church in Franklin.
Built four Catholic Schools: North American Martyrs School, Lincoln; St. Vincent de Paul School, Seward; All Saints School, Holdrege; St. Michael's School in Cheney will open in fall 2011.
Re-instituted daily Mass for Catholic school students.
Ordained 67 priests in the Lincoln Diocese and 27 priests for other religious orders.
Under his leadership, three diocesan priests are now bishops. Several priests work in the Vatican. Three are military chaplains who will serve in Iraq by year's end.
Opened St. Gregory the Great Seminary in Seward in 1998. The college-level seminary trains priests to serve in the Lincoln Diocese.
Brought Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary to Denton in 1999. The English-speaking seminary of the Priestly Order of Saint Peter, seminarians from all over the world are trained in the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church.
Helped complete the English translation of the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, a question-and-answer summary of the Catholic religious instruction.
All this in a period of 18 years in a diocese of approximately 95,000 Catholics!
Full stats here.
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5 Responses to "Bishop Bruskewitz to turn 75"
jetscubs86 says:
This man is a SAINT. What a contrast to what we see in our diocese. I would like to see a side by side statistical table that compares the diocese of Rochester with the diocese of Lincoln. I hope and pray that our next bishop will be like Bishop Bruskewitz. I wonder if Bishop Clark's aware of how well the diocese of Lincoln is doing. He probably thinks his diocese is doing well.
Bernie says:
The U.S. needs a hundred bishops like Bruskewitz. I hope we get one the next time around.
the Catholic Church is inherently conservative
Joe of St Therese says:
I don't think his resignation will be accpeted for a while 😉
Susan Mary says:
Let's pray hard that his resignation is delayed, or one of his auxiliary bishops is promoted instead. I have been disappointed in some of the recent Vatican appointments of bishops.


Level one feedback is more commonly known as the survey you take at the end of a training program.
Some trainers derisively call these surveys "smile sheets" because they are often used for nothing more than confirming everyone had a great time. I must admit I haven't always put a lot of stock in them.
But I leaned heavily on level one feedback for a recent project.
My first full-length training video, Customer Service Foundations, launched on Lynda.com in 2014 and has garnered more than 2.4 million views. In late 2017, I was approached by the company and given the opportunity to update the course with a new version.
Here's what I did and how you can apply the same lessons to your next training project.
Kirkpatrick defines level one specifically as "the degree to which participants find the training favorable, engaging and relevant to their jobs." You can watch a short primer on the Kirkpatrick model here.
There's not a ton to be gained from level one evaluations in terms of actual learning. I know plenty of examples where participants had a great time in training only to go back to work and do absolutely nothing with it.
The real value is in product development.
If participants like your training programs, find them engaging, and believe they are relevant, they are more likely to tell other people about their favorable experience. That becomes helpful word-of-mouth marketing.
So yes, a level one evaluation is really a customer service survey.
Theme #1: The course is too long.
You have to be a bit of a detective when analyzing survey comments. That last part of the comment made me suspect the participant was more interested in getting credit for watching the entire course than they were in learning new skills.
It's good to follow-up on surveys and have a conversation with a sample group of participants. You will often get a lot more insight this way.
I talked to a lot of people who were watching my videos and discovered many watched the entire 1 hour 57 minute course from start to finish. The course is divided into short segments that are less than 5 minutes each, yet people just plowed all the way through.
I can see how that would be boring.
The target audience for this course is new and inexperienced professionals. Even the title, Customer Service Foundations, implies this.
Some people, like this one, were really upset because they were mandated to take a course they didn't feel they needed. Other comments revealed people didn't clearly understand the course focused on the basics and was not intended to share more advanced skills.
This one was a real challenge for two reasons. First, people tended to want more information on different topics. The second challenge was you can only squeeze so much content into one course. I really had to think about this one.
Notice I compared happy and unhappy participants for each of these themes. This provided some important context that told me, in general, people who didn't like the course were either taking the wrong course or taking the right course the wrong way.
It's essential to use participant feedback to improve your course. The challenge is to make improvements without breaking the elements that people really like.
For example, if I added more detail in all the areas people requested (theme #3), the course would be even longer, which probably wouldn't go over well for the people who felt it was already too long (theme #1).
I was able to shorten the new course by 25 percent.
The new course kicks off with a welcome video and then moves to a short how-to video that explains who should watch the course and how to use it. It also explains that there are other courses available for people who want to take a deeper dive into specific topics.
I also created an "Additional Resources" guide that participants could download which contained resources to explore specific topics in greater detail. The resources included books, blogs, podcasts, and even other training videos.
I've also created my own ongoing campaign to educate customer service leaders and employees on the best way to use these videos.
You can gain a lot from those level one training surveys if you think of your training participants as customers. Take a close look at their feedback and use it to make improvements.
To help you get started, I'm offering to review your current level one training evaluation at no cost or obligation. I really just want to help.
Email your evaluation form and your current evaluation plan to me at jeff [at] toistersolutions [dot] com.
That's it! I will review your evaluation form and plan and send you some feedback within one week.


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Most of us have heard of psychic readings such as tarot cards, crystal gazing, tea leaf interpretation and rune castings. However, a picture reading may not make this list. Although this may be a lesser-known form of psychic divination, it can be just as powerful and reliable as other methods. This makes a great deal of sense, for a picture of yourself can very literally say a thousand words. PsychicWorld is pleased to be able to offer an online picture reading that is carried out by trained professionals to all of our clients. To appreciate the benefits that a picture reading can offer, let us take a look at some of the principles behind this art.
How Exactly do Picture Readings Work?
As the name already hints, the first thing that a client will do is upload a photograph of themselves to a psychic. This psychic then meditates on the picture in question. Depending upon certain visual features, the professional can often tell a great deal about your character, your traits, your strengths and things that you may need to work on. This is also a great way to find answers to specific questions about your life. Common topics include (but are absolutely not limited to) love, phobias, your future, a career path or a current relationship.
However, there is another important aspect to an online picture reading that should never be overlooked. Many psychics are also able to interpret your aura during a picture reading. Why is this an added benefit? The color and strength of your aura can uncover a great deal about your emotional state. There are seven different layers; each one of these will correspond with a different aspect of your nature. Some examples are your emotional blocks, your spirituality and your connection to the "divine". In essence, such picture readings can help to provide you with the insight and clarity that are necessary to make positive changes within your life. There have even been times when a psychic identified an illness long before it was confirmed by a physician! These are only some of the benefits offered by an online picture reading.
Why Select an Online Picture Reading?
We should first realize that many local psychics do not offer picture readings; this is a highly specialized field. So, it can be tough to find someone in your area with these skills. Secondly, virtual picture readings enable you to be in a comfortable position within your home. You will be more open and receptive to the interpretations that are offered. As our qualified psychics are available 24 hours a day, a sudden question can be addressed when it is required the most.
We are proud to offer only the most highly trained and professional psychics in the industry. They have undergone a thorough testing process that enables us to be fully confident in the services that they offer. Our aim is to provide you with quality, reliability and accuracy. Still, we also wish that our clients are as comfortable as possible during their experience. This is when "people skills" come into play. Not only is our staff highly trained, but these men and women are also very friendly. This is important, for an online picture reading is often a very personal experience. If you are receptive of the information provided, it is more likely that you are able to take our advice seriously and begin to make proactive changes in your life.
At PsychicWorld, we believe that it should always be easy for you to access our insight when you need it the most. Our registration process is therefore quick and simple. After you have entered in your personal details and a confirmation email has been sent across, you can purchase credits and immediately being your specialized picture reading. There is simply no need to present a complicated platform to our customers. So, the registration is as clear as the picture readings themselves!
Whether you have just experienced a major life event or you require advice on a current situation, this type of psychic reading can be the perfect solution. Please feel free to register at your convenience to experience the amazing results that can be offered.


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Jon Voight urges Americans to rise: 'It's not over, the truths of justice will prevail'
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Award-winning actor and strong Trump supporter Jon Voight, on Jan. 9, 2020. (@Jon Voight/Twitter)
In an encouraging and optimistic tone, Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight on Saturday, Jan. 9, sent out an uplifting message to Americans as the nation is facing tumultuous times.
"My fellow Americans, we shall not weep, but let us give thanks to President Trump for his four years of hard work and love for America," Voight said. "Let us not put our heads down, let us rise and look to a better future. Let us praise God, let us understand his plan is far greater."
Voight went on to address the attack at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, which mainstream media and politicians have tried to paint the president and his supporters as agitators and accused them of inciting the violence.
"I know all are disappointed, but this violence is not who we are," he continued, "We're love, respect, honor. The ones who destroyed will be accountable, but the ones who truly wanted to share love and respect will be heard."
"Let us put aside our differences and let America grow. Let her stand again with pride, and we as a nation will hold on to the love that President Trump shared with us all," Voight concluded. "It's not over. The truths of justice will prevail, for God's glory shall as well. Love to you."
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— Jon Voight (@jonvoight) January 9, 2021
In an unprecedented move, Twitter along with other Big Tech platforms indefinitely suspended the president's access after the unrest, cutting off the key line of communication between the president and his over 75 million supporters.
Meanwhile, Democrats in the House and some Republicans rushed to lay the blame on the president, pushing efforts to impeach him for a second time.
In a video message addressing the nation on Thursday morning, President Trump condemned the "violence" and "lawlessness" of the attack on the Capitol and promised to ensure an orderly transition of power to the upcoming administration.
"And to all of my wonderful supporters. I know you are disappointed, but I also want you to know that our incredible journey is only just beginning," the president added.
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Dry Branch Baptist Church will hold a missionary service 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4, featuring a family that served in East Africa for 30 years.
The Waynesboro Church of God will hold Homecoming services 10:45 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 30.
The Byrd Family of Augusta will be guest performers.
The Rev. Matthew Wigley is pastor.
First Presbyterian Church of Waynesboro will hold its annual Missions Conference Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 6 and 7.
The theme is "Declare His Glory Among the Nations," and the conference will begin with a 10 a.m. brunch on Saturday in the fellowship hall. There will be 11 a.m. worship services each day, and the conference will conclude with a covered dish dinner.
Reports will be given by Ron and Gayle Clegg, Jon and Janelle Beane and Clarke and Rita Holtsberry.
The Burke Black Churches will celebrate their anniversary 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 30, at Watkinsville Baptist Church.
The Rev. Peter Sparks, pastor of Watkinsville, will be guest pastor.
The Rev. J. J. Smith is president.
Smith Chapel AME Smith Chapel AME Zion Church will hold its annual camp meeting Monday-Wednesday, Oct. 1-3, at 7:30 nightly.
The Rev. William Patterson will be guest pastor.
Churches include, Monday, Oct. 1 - Cochran Grove, Ebenezer, Daniel Grove, Thankful, Wesley Chapel, Watkinsville and Beechbranch; Tuesday, Oct. 2 - Mills Grove, Oak Grove, St. Mary, New Springfield, Live River, Dalton, Phillip Grove and St. Paul; and Wednesday, Oct. 3 - Givens Grove, Fellowship, Johnson Grove, Mt. Zion AME of Augusta, Pleasant Grove, Jones Chapel, Noah's Ark and Allen Chapel.
Noah Ebenezer Central Baptist Association will meet 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 29, at Jones Grove Baptist Church in Midville.
The Rev. James Strowbridge will serve as moderator.
The Rev. Melvin Habersham is pastor.
Shechinah Worship Ministries will hold a family conference 6- 9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 28, and 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29.
Lonnie and Loretta Johnson are pastors.
Westminster Presbyterian Church will celebrate the Civil Rights Movement in song 4-6 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 30, at the John I. Blackburn Worship Center.
Refreshments will be served. The public is invited.


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Seven Corners Restaurant at Crowne Plaza Manila Galleria being a buffet destination for those who love steaks and lobsters is not a secret. This month of January, Seven Corners Restaurant will be adding yet another premium item in its dinner buffet spread through its Maguro Nights promotion.
For only P2,500++, dinner guests at Seven Corners Restaurant can feast on fresh tuna, along side the premium items already available at the spread. A whole tuna is on display at the Japanese section where freshly carved tuna is served a la minute.
The best way to enjoy fresh tuna is by eating it raw, as in tuna sashimi. I usually prefer salmon over tuna sashimi, but when served fresh, tuna sashimi can taste as sweet as fresh salmon. That's the quality you can expect here at the Maguro Nights at Seven Corners.
If you are not into eating raw fish, you can have a slab of tuna grilled at the grilling station. I had my tuna pan-seared seasoned only with salt and pepper, and used it as a topping for my spicy seafood pesto.
Other ways to enjoy fresh tuna is to make Kinilaw na Tuna wherein cubed tuna is marinated in a vinegar and calamansi mixture and seasoned with minced ginger, red onion, salt, ground black pepper, and chopped red chilies to taste. You can also have chunks of tuna cooked with your pasta or noodle soup. The options are endless.
Combine your Maguro Nights experience with a relaxing Staycation at Crowne Plaza Manila Galleria (Check Room Rates). The hotel has a total of 263 spacious rooms and suites. The lead-in guestroom category is luxuriously spacious at 40sqm.