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Amazon must check for trade mark violations: EU court adviser
Foo Yun Chee
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.S. online retail giant Amazon is not liable for unwittingly stocking trade mark infringing goods for third-party sellers, but should be diligent in checking whether products are legal, an adviser to Europe's top court said on Thursday.
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Amazon is seen at the company logistics centre in Boves, France, August 8, 2018. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol/File Photo
The adviser was giving his opinion on a case that pits Amazon against U.S. cosmetics company Coty.
The dispute is one of the many battles between luxury goods companies seeking to preserve their exclusivity and branding and online platforms such as Amazon and eBay fighting against online sales curbs.
It also raises the question of the scope of online platforms' responsibility for products sold, or content transmitted, on their sites.
The opinion from Manuel Campos Sanchez-Bordona, advocate general at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), came in a case involving Coty's German subsidiary, which took Amazon to a German court for stocking Coty's Davidoff perfume for third party sellers.
Coty said such practices violate its trade mark rights and that Amazon should be liable for stocking trade mark infringing goods. The German court subsequently sought guidance from the CJEU.
Companies which are not aware of trade mark infringements cannot be held responsible for storing such products for third party sellers, Campos Sanchez-Bordona said.
However, if they are actively involved in distributing the goods and if they operate a scheme like Amazon's, then they should show diligence in checking the legality of goods sold on their platforms, he said.
Under a scheme called "Fulfilled by Amazon", the U.S. online retail giant stores and delivers goods for third-party sellers, one of the key features of its business model.
Companies cannot simply absolve themselves of responsibility and should be aware that without this control, they can serve as a channel for the sale of illegal, counterfeit, stolen or unethical products, Campos Sanchez-Bordona said.
Amazon said it took steps to combat illegal products on its platform.
"Amazon continues to invest heavily in fighting bad actors on our store and is committed to driving counterfeits to zero. Courts have ruled in our favor in the first two instances of this proceeding, and we are now awaiting preliminary legal clarification from the CJEU," the company said.
The Luxembourg-based court, which follows such non-binding recommendations in the majority of cases, would normally give a ruling in the next two to four months.
Coty did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The case is C-567/18 Coty Germany.
Reporting by Foo Yun Chee; Editing by Philip Blenkinsop and Mark Potter


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Q: How to get all the months from the last paid date in MySql? I need to get the all the months from the last_payment_Date for the user from that table for processing purposing.
As of now i am using this query..
SELECT `Name`, `Acc_No` FROM `user_table_details` where
month(`last_payment_Date`)!=month(CURDATE())

Example : if a user Sam is paid on 12-05-2014, then i need all the months from, JUN, JULY, AUG, SEP, OCT to till month  - to display it for that user as "payment pending for the months". Is it possible through MySql Query?
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Rejoice, fans of The Martian: Resourceful thinking and clever jerry-rigging on the Red Planet can indeed salvage a disaster, even when it comes to robots. Despite being about 140 million miles away from the Curiosity rover, NASA scientists have successfully tested the rover's drill for the first time since it broke using a new improvised method tested here on Earth.
If you haven't been keeping up with the latest on Curiosity, it's currently exploring Vera Rubin Ridge in the heart of Gale Crater, where it's already discovered evidence that Mars could have supported life in the past (as well as some really interesting rock formations that could point to a continued hydrological cycle).
But here's the deal: the part of the rover's apparatus that extended little stabilizers to center its drill broke back in 2016, meaning that it could still extend its drill bit, but not precisely.
In the field of extraterrestrial scientific studies, an uncontrolled drill is not ideal. Curiosity's drill has remained unused since 2016, all while researchers and technicians tried to find a solution.
"We're now drilling on Mars more like the way you do at home. Humans are pretty good at re-centering the drill, almost without thinking about it. Programming Curiosity to do this by itself was challenging—especially when it wasn't designed to do that."
A force sensor aboard the rover helped to monitor how hard the drill was being pressed into the soil, and after the first trial run, Curiosity successfully bored a half-inch hole in the Martian surface.
Just like in The Martian, however, things get more complicated from here: because the drill is now permanently extended, the rover can't use the apparatus designed to funnel the rock powder to the two onboard labs it uses to analyze samples.
Now it has to learn how to manually sprinkle the rock powder it collects directly into those mini-labs, which are called SAM (Sample Analysis at Mars) and CheMin (Chemistry and Mineralology).
Sure, all this is pretty technical, but if Matt Damon growing potatoes can be cool, then reprogramming a Martian rover on the fly is approaching rockstar levels of cool.


The U/R Delver list is strange, 2 MD ancient grudge without green mana ?
Wouldn't those be abrades ?
So, has your testing been conclusive ?
It seems that only powered white lists have shown results lately, maybe colorless is no longer fit for the metagame ?
@Brass-Man I'd be very interested in some feedback on your tests, if you had time to do some. Do you have enough gas to beat mentor ?
@Serracollector I juste LOVE grim flayer as a card. Could you please share your current list ? Thanks !


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Also check out Dondria new joint featuring Yo Gotti called: Going Down.


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Tax Increase Alerts
KCTA calls on Grand Rapids city leaders to avoid the appearance of impropriety
Today the Kent County Taxpayers Alliance called on Grand Rapids city leaders to take a stand against the appearance of impropriety in regards to the upcoming city income tax increase election on May 6. According to an article in the Grand Rapids Press, the campaign urging a "yes" vote is largely funded by private companies that appear set to gain significant revenue from the city if the tax increase passes.
"We believe that the Grand Rapids city commission should stand up and show that they reject any appearance of impropriety by passing a resolution barring any company that contributes to their tax increase campaign from bidding on city projects that result from the tax increase," said Eric Larson, spokesperson of the Kent County Taxpayers Alliance.
Of the over $23,000 that the "yes" campaign has raised, nearly two thirds was raised from companies that appear to stand to directly benefit from the city's proposed spending plan, including construction, lobbying, and engineering firms.
"Millions of dollars of spending is on the line," said Larson, "and it's only right for city leaders to distance themselves from appearing to reward those who donate to political campaigns. Taxpayers need to be confident that the process isn't corrupted."
KCTA also notes that City Commissioner Walt Gutowski, who owns Swift Printing and voted in favor of putting the issue on the ballot, is directly and personally benefiting from the "yes" campaign. More than $6,500 has been spent with his company for campaign materials by those favoring passage of the tax increase.
New Poll Shows Grand Rapids Tax Increases Face Steep Climb and Land Bank Lacks Public Support
The Kent County Taxpayers Alliance (KCTA) commissioned a survey with JD Consulting from June 1-3 which found that there is little support for the proposed tax increases in the city of Grand Rapids. In a phone survey of likely off-year election voters in the city of Grand Rapids, 52.4% of respondents opposed raising taxes to pay for increased funding of pools with only 26.8% support and 20.8% without an opinion. The results show that if city officials and supporters hope to pass the measure, they will have to significantly turn out their supporters, convince opponents, and most of those who are unsure. KCTA does not intend to take a position on the proposed tax increase.
In addition, KCTA sought to determine the support for the Kent County Land Bank Authority and its activities with citizens in Grand Rapids and two suburban cities. KCTA first asked the question, "Do you agree or disagree with the following statement, Government should not offer what private businesses can provide?" 56.4% agreed that government should not and 43.6% disagreed and felt government should provide services in competition with private businesses. The second question asked if people supported the taxpayer-funded Land Bank acquiring properties directly from the city or if they should first go to auction and the highest bidder. The results were broken down separately for Grand Rapids, Walker, and Grandville. Support for the auction process in Grand Rapids was 47.4% versus 31.5% supporting direct acquisition by the KCLBA and 21.1% with no opinion. The cities of Walker and Grandville had similar results with 73% and 75% support for the auctions respectively versus 24% and 22% for direct acquisition and 3% and 4% with no opinion.
The results of the polling on the Land Bank show a clear understanding from the people in those three cities to allow for an auction process and equal opportunity of acquiring property for everyone. The results did not specifically ask the question of whether the Land Bank served a vital role in the county. Said KCTA spokesman Eric Larson, "The polling results tell us what we primarily already knew. People want a fair process to allow equal opportunity for the purchase of tax foreclosed property to allow small entrepreneurs, large developers, and non-profits to revitalize these lots. There is clearly very little concern from those outside of Grand Rapids of problems with undeveloped or foreclosed lots not being utilized in their communities. We have been very pleased with the restrictions that the county commission has put on the auction process with the Land Bank but are concerned still that cities like Grand Rapids could hand over property at minimum bid prices and end up hurting their bottom line since the property would not generate nearly as much tax revenue as it would if a private individual purchased it. Hopefully, cities and townships will be at least very judicious in handing over real estate to the Land Bank."
KCTA to Oppose Wyoming Public Schools' August Abusive Tax Election
The Kent County Taxpayers Alliance today announced that it will oppose Wyoming Public Schools' abusive tax election in August of this year. The Wyoming Schools' millage increase attempt on May 7th was defeated at the polls, yet the school district will attempt to get voters to pass the very same tax increase in August of this year.
Such rapid-fire elections, scheduled in an attempt to get voters to pass an issue that was already defeated, are a waste of taxpayer dollars and are referred to by KCTA as abusive elections.
"Wyoming Public Schools tried an abusive election in 2011, when their attempt at a tax increase failed in May of that year," said Jeff Steinport, spokesperson for KCTA. "The district returned to voters in August of the same year, just three months later, and it was defeated even more resoundingly. (58-42% and then 63-37%)"
The Kent County Taxpayers Alliance successfully engaged in a get out the vote effort for the August 2011 election in Wyoming to inform voters of the school district's abusive election tactics.
Wyoming Public Schools' superintendent Thomas Reeder is quoted as saying that he wants true representation of the public at the next election. "This begs the question," said Steinport, "If the district's leadership wants maximum participation by the public, it should have chosen November, for its tax increase election in the first place.
"If the government school leaders were honest, they would recognize the folly of their argument. Godfrey Lee Schools only had 6% turnout, were those positive results invalid? And if the Wyoming millage question had passed, would the board have voted to re-ask the question with only 11% turnout? The decision by the school board to rerun the election shows a total disregard and almost contempt for those who took the time to vote. They are clearly not interested in the democratic process."
KCTA also successfully fought an abusive tax election held by Grand Rapids Community College in August of 2007, just three months after the same tax issue was defeated in May of that year.
Get Out the Vote Effort Organized to Oppose Wyoming School Millage
The Kent County Taxpayers Alliance, a local non-partisan taxpayer's advocacy group, began its get-out-the-vote effort opposing the second attempt to pass a Wyoming School millage tax increase. The millage request for 0.5 mils assessed for ten years in a sinking fund is identical to the request put before the voters on May 3rd of this year.
KCTA did not oppose the millage in May but will work to defeat the request on its second attempt this August 2nd. Said KCTA spokesman Eric Larson, "We are so disappointed in the actions of the Wyoming School Board to bring before the voters an identical tax increase request that voters soundly rejected by 16% only three months ago. Our mission is to promote transparency, government efficiency, and good governance. Asking the people of Wyoming, who pay some of the highest property taxes in Kent County, for a rejected tax increase again is a clear abuse of government power.
"We find it ludicrous that the school board chose to hold an election to re-request a tax increase that will cost the taxpayers over $9000 when those same voters definitively said 'no' in May. We believe no means no. Unfortunately, many government officials think no means maybe. In order to protect taxpayers we will begin an extensive get-out-the-vote effort before the election so that Wyoming citizens realize there is an election. We can only hope, if the measure fails again, the government will accept the will of the people after this election."
KCTA Questions Second Wyoming School Millage Request
The Kent County Taxpayers Alliance, a local non-partisan taxpayer's advocacy group, announced its disappointment in the Wyoming school district's decision to ask for the same millage increase this August that failed in the recent May election. The Wyoming school district is asking for a 0.5 mill increase in property taxes for ten years in a proposal that failed on May 3rd by a 58-42% margin.
KCTA spokesman Eric Larson said, "Our disappointment and opposition to the Wyoming school district millage request is the same today as it was to Grand Rapids Community College (GRCC)'s request in 2007. After a narrow defeat in May of 2007, GRCC officials said the voters didn't understand their tax request so they reran the millage only three months later. We helped defeat the GRCC millage then and we will seriously consider actively opposing this request. Ordinarily, we do not get involved in single municipality or school district millage requests but we may make an exception this time."
"We are opposed to governments that continue asking the same question again and again until they get the result they want. Wyoming's school officials should show respect for the voters and accept their defeat."
"We find it insulting that the school officials insinuate the 'no' voters were voting against the bus millage and were unaware that the Wyoming school district question was a separate tax request. If the government believes you are intelligent enough to vote yes or no they need to accept the results." Continued Larson, "Placing this issue on the ballot again is fiscally improper as a special election is being called in Wyoming to ask just this question. It is this sort of abuse of the taxpayers that we are committed to exposing and fighting."
Earth Week Analysis Shows Rapid's Buses Contribute More to Pollution than SUVs
In time for Earth Week, an analysis of the The Rapid's 2009 services determined that the bus system contributed over seven millions pounds of extra carbon dioxide to the environment than would have been produced if all of The Rapid's bus passengers had been transported in cars. This startling calculation, independently verified, shows that because of the low ridership on Rapid buses, combined with the low gas mileage of the Rapid's large buses,The Rapid does not in any way reduce pollution.
In fact, the analysis shows that the buses produce even more carbon dioxide than people who use SUVs. The production of carbon dioxide with vehicles is entirely dependent with the amount of fuel consumed. The comparison is made by determining the average amount of fuel used to transport one passenger one mile and then comparing the different modes of transportation.
A senior fellow specializing in transportation policy at the Cato Institute, Randal O'Toole independently verified the calculations made by the Kent County Taxpayers Alliance. KCTA has been the lead opposition group to the upcoming May 3rd 31% bus tax increase. The group has gotten several prominent elected officials to oppose the millage including a Kentwood city commissioner, three county commissioners, and two local state legislators.
KCTA spokesman Eric Larson had this to say about the new findings, "One of the signature missions of a public transit system is to conserve resources and move people around town efficiently and quickly, while reducing pollution. The analysis today simply points out what we have been saying for months now: the buses are not full enough. Not only is it costly but it contributes to pollution and wastes fuel. Clearly, The Rapid fails to deliver these which is why we have been advocating a 'no' vote until they begin running the bus system sensibly."
"Our analysis shows that their van service delivers on that promise to protect the environment," continued Larson. "It consumes less fuel and moves people around town inexpensively. Unfortunately, the van service is a miniscule portion of The Rapid system. Instead, The Rapid touts its hybrid buses which are still worse than SUVs because their average fuel mileage is only 0.68 mpg better than the conventional buses. As stewards of tax dollars, we can only hope The Rapid takes an inward look at its operations and rethinks the way it operates."
The Rapid's buses produced 25,079,872 pounds of carbon dioxide annually which was 40% more than if the people had been transported using passenger cars. Had all of those riders instead used passenger cars or SUVs, they would have produced 17,754,939 and 18,360,146 pounds of carbon dioxide respectively. Part of the explanation for the large discrepancy is the fact that automobiles' fuel efficiency has improved dramatically over the last forty years while bus efficiency has actually diminished.
To view the full report along with supporting calculations and links to source data, please see the posting at the ITP Watch web site.
Kent County Taxpayers Alliance Launches New "ITP Watch" Web Site
Today, the Kent County Taxpayers Alliance is launching a new project called ITP Watch. We aim to shine the light on the finances and operations of the Interurban Transit Partnership / The Rapid bus transit system. The ITP continues to lack transparency. ITP Watch will make available the information that ITP doesn't want taxpayers to have access to: budgets, operational reports, and other data showing the lack of efficiency of The Rapid system.

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But, for a better analogy, we must go back to the American slave system, a thoroughly capitalist enterprise that reduced human beings to units of labor and sale. The Corrections Corporation of America's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission read very much like the documents of a slave-trader. Investors are warned that profits would go down if the demand for prisoners declines. That is, if the world's largest police state shrinks, so does the corporate bottom line. Dangers to profitability include "relaxation of enforcement efforts, leniency in conviction or parole standards and sentencing practices or through the decriminalization of certain activities that are currently proscribed by our criminal laws." The corporation spells it out: "any changes with respect to drugs and controlled substances or illegal immigration could affect the number of persons arrested, convicted, and sentenced, thereby potentially reducing demand for correctional facilities to house them." At the Corrections Corporation of America, human freedom is a dirty word.
via Private Prison Corporations Are Modern Day Slave Traders | | AlterNet.


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Why Don't the Japanese Give Priority to the Elderly on Public Transportation?
If you have come to Japan, you'd be overwhelmed by the respectful manner of the Japanese. But when riding public transportation such as bullet trains or buses, it's not hard to see young people sitting on the seats while there are some elderly standing. So of course this will lead you to doubt why these respectful and polite people don't give up their seats for those who are older than them?
In most countries, showing respect and priority for the elderly is considered as a good sign of having manners in young people. But if you spend enough time in Japan chatting with elderly people, you'll see it's not just about being polite, it's about handling appropriate social skills!
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After one and a half years in Japan, where I got to spend a lot of time chatting with elderly while waiting for the bus, I realized the Japanese elderly are also very open-minded and friendly. I asked my neighbor – (an elderly lady who is also my landlord) about what I saw when I used public transportation and she explained that whenever she get on the bus and someone offers her a seat, she would come up with the thought: "Ah~ Am I becoming so old that I need a young man to give me priority?" This would remind her, "You're getting old!" Also, she was sure that there are many other people in the same situation. I myself once suffered the same awkwardness when I offered my seat to a woman and her children in the bus, but the result was, no matter how much she kept saying thank you to me, she resisted sitting on that seat.
Recently, a Japanese friend just told me: "Even if you have the good will of offering your seat, it doesn't mean other people have to accept that kindness of yours". There are some people who are afraid they will cause you "inconvenience or trouble" or simply "don't want to receive your pity". As a matter of fact, because Japan is a country which has a growing population of the elderly, their perspective on giving priority to "elderly" somehow different from most other Asia countries.
With Japanese people who don't want to be seen as "elderly" or "causing trouble for others", if you insist to offer them a seat, then the best thing to do, according to my experience, is to pretend that you're about to get off the bus at the next stop. Just stand up and walk toward to the bus exit, or to another cabin (if you're on the train). Just stand up and leave the empty seat, if people see that empty seat and if they are willing to sit, they'll go directly and take the seat themselves.
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This is very true offering seat makes them think they're so old and they don't want it, most especially the women in Philippines we call lola to old lady even it's not our grandma but here don't ever use that word or else you well live very bad image on their mind you should call them "Oneesan"
Yes, it's true.. and most people call you ate or kuya even if they basically look older than you – it's offending…
it is what we call in the Philippines as "RESPECT"
Nobody ask about your bloodyhell philipines
damn you! watch your words..
yeah right! its japan we're talking here. not any other country!!!!
its true that philippines is a bloody hell :D
I agree lol
One Piece says:
Philippines a bloody hell? You're most definitely referring to Manila, the capital city. Life in the provinces are worlds away better than the one you'd find in Manila. Manilenos shit all over their city, they're the foremost reason it is now a literal hell hole. They just don't give a shit about our capital city, it's depressing.
pagbigyan na at iba2 nman tlga tyo ng pag iisip at pananaw. ano nman kung ano pa itawag sten oh sa bansa naten ng mga yan, dna importante un, ang importante ay mahalaga. ???
Sat says:
Nobody asked you to budge into their discussion about Philippines either. And given that they are comparing the same situation in a different setting, it's not out of context.
It seems you don't our country,you cannot even spell it right!
I love everything about Japan but saying foul words about my country makes me cringe and go back from the past(WWII) to see what bloodybloodyhell looks to you~
MissR says:
With all due respect to you sir/maam, it seems to me that you don't get the subject of discussion: however, let me enlighten you that we're talking about "RESPECT" here, which i don't know if you have or you just have some ill feelings towards our country(i really can't judge you since i don't know you, just sayin'). But saying that our country is "bloodyhell" is a reflection of what your country taught you. Just a piece of advise, maybe you know this phrase "Do not do unto others what you do not want to do unto you…" or else ipaDu30 kita dyan!!! :D ;)
With all due respect to you sir/ma'am, it seems to me that you don't know the subject of discussion; however, let me enlighten you. We're talking about "RESPECT" here, which I don't personally know if you possess(and I really can't judge you since I don't know you). But saying that our country is "bl**dyh*ll" as you did, just showed us what your country taught you. A piece of advise to you sir/ma'am, maybe you know this phrase "Do not do unto others what you do not want to do unto you.." or else ipaDu30 kita dyan. :)
francis dedumo (@francisdedumo) says:
Are you trying to be an a******???
What's offensive about showing respect? You're probably just insecure of your age that's why you don't want to be called ate or kuya, lol.
Very well said onepiece. I wont argue on that one. . . Haha
Never "oba-chan" haha
Qʋɛɛи Sɛℓɛиɛ says:
Jun 1, 2016 at 9:57 PM
Yeah I see a lot of youths here call their elders "tita" or "lola" even if they're not related. I know they mean well and it's the norm here but I still can't bring myself to do the same because it's my habit to put myself into other people's shoes before interacting with them. Hence, I'm always the weirdo for calling people "miss" or "sir" like I'm no native. D:
They value pride and honor
wheres the honor in being selfish???
dellpage says:
I wouldn't say that. I'm sure there are as many bad people in Japan as there are in your country.
The sign of seat preference, clearly indiactes to preferred group, not like in India, where seats are reserved to woman, beyond any logic.i wonder,why a teenage or a full grown lady, have the right to ask a guy to vacate seat as its reserve for them.Thats why we r indian.
rurouni says:
the chances of being eve teased while you are sitting in the bus is far lesser than when you are standing in India. i think thats why women get priority in India
Margaret Bruce says:
Hope I can visit Japan!
i like jap elderly. in singapore, it seemed that it is criminal if you dont give up your seat to the elderly. Everyone start taking photos and upload to fb to shame this person. This behaviour is on the rising trend in singapore.
Ohmyohmy says:
The elderly people in singapore has thicker skin than those in japan. Or maybe they are so selfish that they think of themselves of outmost priority because they are older. Other than that taking photos and posted those in fb for that purpose is so ridiculous for a developed country…
Reserve seat or not, you want my seat, you ask. (Unless you're like really old or obviously pregnant)
djjd says:
yes! i agree! huhu
that's one reason (from many) why I love Japan…
knoll says:
the most discipline people I have ever seen !!
minmachen says:
ours apple eaten and now enjoy yours !
oh no! i did this several times when I went to Japan last year :( now I know…
Peejay says:
Filipinos will see this differently. They will bash a person if that person doesn't give up the seat to an elderly or to a woman with child.
yes because they love to bash. they see the bad in you
Freesia says:
Some Filipinos are in born bashers they see all the wrong things you've done. I'm a Filipino as well and I'm afraid to post anything on social media.
its a shame not to offer seats to elderly but how about taking pictures without permission? its more criminal and unethical
haiyanSurvivor says:
In the Philippines, we show respect to elderlies in two manners. For rich elderlies we simply call them with their given names or in many instances with prefixes such as Sir or Madam, e.g., Korina or Madam Korina. For the not-rich elderlies, media broadcasters call elderlies by their names with emphasis on prefixes ranging from Nanay to Lola, depends on the facial looks and degree of hardship, e.g. Nanay Koring or Lola Koring or Aling Koring.
Wow. So elitist in that manner.
yes you're right maybe japanese elderly cant accept that they are getting old hehehe peace :) all people in this world will going to be old anyway .. :)
Anonymous Coward says:
Personally, I give up my seat for someone who really needs it. Very old people, pregnant woman, someone carrying a baby, or disable person qualifies. It's simply about consideration.
Women and strong old people don't qualify. :-)
Ronz d'Juke Balaoeg says:
Same in Russia, one elderly woman in a metro rail was really angry that we did not give up our seat to her…but japanese culture is really odd but impressive….
well atleast give priority to the pregrant lady and disabled person,
amor825 says:
Mi says:
The older you become the more your body gets to be frail and weak its biology so whether the elderly admit it or not they need to be more careful and the younger ones owe it to their elders to treat them with respect just as how they treat their own parents.
this is pride
I love Japanese culture, but on that particular case they are really disrespectful. I see pregnant women all the time trying to seat and nobody gives up the seat. One tune I saw a teenager even cut off a pregnant lady that was about to seat, seating in front of her. Being pregnant in the public transportation in Japan is the best tranquilizer. People See your belly and instantly fall asleep.
Seems some people praised and appreciated this, because those people just don't want to give up their seats or give way to the elderly, simply forgetting the Japanese logic behind.
This is true. When we had our family vacation in Osaka last year, we went to a Skiing resort and we rode a train going up to the mountain. I forgot how they call it. I offered my seat to a lady with her 3 year old son, I guess. But she kindly decline my offer and instead asked me where we are from and when I responded "We are from Manila, Philippines", she smiled and said "Oh Philippines…beautiful!"
Sulesin says:
In the North Caucasus, old age is not considered than terrible. This honor and respect. Therefore custom required give place the elder. Elder recognize their status as well as its youngest. No one is ashamed of his age. The modern "culture" satirizes of old age.
That may be true, but I don't think the young people are sitting there thinking "Oh no, I shouldn't offer this elderly person a seat because even though she is 80 years old she will be offended and feel like she's old."
Admittedly, I don't get up for someone just because they have a few gray hairs, but I will make way for OLD people to sit down, and yet I've never seen a Japanese person do it. And the old people are happy to accept, and I don't think they're only accepting because I'm a foreigner. I've been rejected with a "daijoubu, daijoubu" once or twice, but they still smile and are thankful for the offer. I've seen young people here snag seats from Moms holding young babies before they could sit down here. I'm not saying that Japanese people are more inconsiderate than other cultures, but I think that they worry about themselves first just like everyone else, and that they are not as honor-centered and 'omotenashi'-having as they advertise themselves to be.
JW McCabe (@writingjwmccabe) says:
I was in Japan and I offered my seat to a woman clearly in her 80's and she smiled at me and refused as well. Then she patted me on the head and said:Shinsetsuna kokoro ( which I think means kind heart) a gent next to me informed me that Japanese elderly may be offended if a Japanese person does it but usually will not be offended if a Westerner offers. I waved as I left the train and she gave me a little head bow. It was sweet..
I think Japanese are just like any other people. Actually Japanese traditions highly emphasizes in respecting the elderly. And it is actually very rude when teens and young people see the utterly old people stand up in the trains while pretending like not seeing anything. This matter is not just for elderly, but I have seen it very common for pregnant and nursing women with their babies who suffer from being in the middle of the train, and it is unbelievable how they are ignored.
ajsdojo says:
This article is such nonsense. There is some truth in it, yes. But the whole argument falls down when you spend any length of time in Tokyo and you see people not giving their seat up for pregnant women, let alone the elderly.
Japan really is a wonderful country, but we don't have to start making excuses for the downsides.
As a British man living in Tokyo for the last 5 years I can safely say the young and worst still the middle aged Japanese business man have terrible manners on trains. Not everyone, obviously, but an obnoxious majority.
If it's not making the infirm, elderly and pregnant stand.
It's stretching out on the already mini seats.
Or there are the people who can't work their smart phone without elbowing the person next to them.
Lets not forget the chikkans who operate in plain view on the trains, groping young women, to which no-one so much as raises a voice to help.
Yes some older people don't want your seat. But you don't know until you ask them. As someone brought up to give my seat to the elderly, pregnant etc. I always offer. If they say no thank you, I sit back down. But an unsurprising majority are grateful to sit.
So I call bullshit on this article.
Please let's not ignore and bury our problems Tokyo.
quintusking says:
From what I see, this article is not encouraging us not to offer seat to the elderly, nor is it defending those young people. It is simply examining and discussing the possible causes of such a phenomena. Are you native Japanese?
Vicryl says:
For your question, I think it was obviously stated that they are not native. Now, at this point in the article, true, it lets you in on a little something about how things go there.
But admit it or not, you might just end up asking yourself, "So what? What am I gonna do about it when I get there?". If you haven't noticed it yet, this is more or less a tourism site, built to promote the country to those interested in checking out the place. And since "checking out the place" entails making actions, I suppose it obviously leads to some decision-making especially with matters such as when to offer seats in the transpo or some other scenario.
So forgive us if we have to make up our minds on this issue, but we'd rather work on actions rather than play with our thoughts in the corner.
I don't know how true this article is about being offended with an offered seat, but I've been living and working in Japan for almost 10 years and see how disrespectful most of the commuters can be. I always offer my seat to the elderly, pregnant and anyone else I feel deserves the seat more than I do. It's disgusting how ppl instantly pretend to fall asleep or not see those who need the seat. And yes, cutting in front or rushing ahead happens. Now that I'm pregnant I experience it myself and as much as I feel the Japanese are well mannered, in this instance they aren't. I could be squashed in a rush hour train standing at the priority seats area with my bulging 8+ months belly and maybe 20% of the time I get offered a seat. It's just about personal moral values and common sense of civic consciousness that is lacking.
It seems subways and trains bring out the worst in people. Typically its n urban setting that brings about more aggressive
suk2014 says:
Feb 29, 2016 at 1:52 AM
Its nothing wrong from me even for Japan, Philiphines, Singapore or whatever. Every country have their own culture codes. All you just need is respect each other. For me that offering the sit respect or direspect are on that place culture. If Japan consider as offering the sit is disrespect so just accept it. If Singapore see consider not offering the sit is disrespect also you need to accept. That why in this world there is a word called diversity. And you need to learn so much about that diversity to bring another word called respect. Im proud being Asian because Asian have a variety of culture.
And i hope that I can learn all of culture each country.
Meh. I've offered my seat to older people frequently here in Japan and they've taken it most of the time. When an 80 year old woman gets on the train, it's common courtesy to not make her stand. No one gets up. Hardly anyone notices her. Regardless of the mindset , when someone is really too old, human decency is to get up.
Guala Nejo says:
There will always someone here who love to talk/compare it to philipines. Its not wrong but its quite annoying. I mean we're talking about japan not Phillipines. Im sorry if i spell that one wrong lol
not true- i have offered my seat to elderly, pregnant women and those with small kids–for many many times- at first they might refuse it but after i say *daijoubu- it's ok in japanese*, they would take it.
Unusual as when i was last in Japan seats were given up to elderly sure they don't refer to older people whom don't consider themselves old enough to require the seat? wondering if this is reflective of that 35% of the population is over 65 years old…… But when i was there i given up hand rails because "obviously" at 6.1″ that i didn't need it, it wasn't a stretch to grab the top of the rail… i find that article very inaccurate i will have to watch more carefully to observe this since I'm back over there in 3 months.
sameoldterry says:
I've been in Kansai Area for 8 days, each day travelled by either subway, train or buss and gave my seat to elders or pregnant women at least once every day, none rejected my offer. Most thanked me and took the seat. I've also seen japanese people doing this for other japanese people… so idk, it's either the culture changing (as it should, as someone stated previously, it's biology and wether old people believe it or not, their bodies ARE older, weaker and more fragile so it's only obvious that the younger ones give them their seats, it's simply being respectful), either that aspect is not so popular around Kyoto, Osaka and Nara.
In Korea whenever I got up to give my seat to a grandma on the bus the bus driver would get on the microphone to "thank our foreign friend for his kindness". That was about 20 years ago, things might have changed since then.
riverofmarch says:
12 years ago while i was on the bus going to church i offered a seat to a drunk elderly man ,instead of thanking me(wich i do not expect ) hurled words against me , kept on mumbling words mostly i do not understand , that day on until today i refrain from offering seats again.
Maybe the youngsters should not occupy the priority seats in the first place. Sometimes pregnant women are not offered seats, I find this quite inhuman.
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A sheep in the Eastern Cape has given birth to a lamb so deformed, it resembles a human being.
The Eastern Cape Department of Rural Development and Agrarian Reform has confirmed the authenticity of the pictures saying it was of a deformed stillborn lamb in the Lady Frere area.
Dr Lubabalo Mrwebi the department's Chief Director of Veterinary Services said it was not uncommon for pregnant animals to be infected by viruses early in their pregnancy.
"We call on the local community not to panic over this deformed lamb. We can confirm that this deformed lamb is not a progeny of sheep ovum and a human sperm.
"Virus infections in early stages of pregnancy may infect the foetus and lead to the development of malformations in the growing foetus. It is likely that this is what happened to the Lady Frere sheep," Mrwebi said.
"The gestation period for a sheep is five months.This means that this particular sheep conceived in late December 2016 or early January 2017, which was warm with plentiful rainfall in the Chris Hani district, conditions which are favourable to the proliferation of mosquitoes and midges known to be the vectors of viruses that cause such diseases such as the Rift Valley Fever (RVF)."
He said it was "fair to assume" the animal was infected by the RFV virus.
"The resultant circulation of the virus in the blood found its way through the maternal blood into the uterus and the foetus, which was at a very critical stage of development," Mrwebi said.
"The infected foetus then, as a result, failed to form properly, leading to the deformity that it became."
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"The department's veterinary officials will conduct a postmortem on this deformed lamb and its results will be communicated to the public by the department once complete," Mrwebi said.
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Mrwebi said the department's officials were "enlightening" livestock farmers about the incident.
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PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay in Washington. Bob McChesney and Victor Pickard, both media scholars, have edited a new book, a collection of essays about the state of journalism in America. The book is titled Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It. And here's an introduction to the book. As the basis for self-government is an informed citizenry, and as the fourth estate, as the institution with primary responsibility for making an informed citizenry possible, the existential crisis for news media is in fact an existential crisis for self-government. Now joining us to talk about the book is Bob McChesney. Thanks for joining us, Bob.
ROBERT MCCHESNEY, COFOUNDER, FREE PRESS: My pleasure, Paul.
JAY: Give us some context. First of all, why did you feel the need to produce the book? And what were its main findings?
MCCHESNEY: Well, the need to produce the book is in the title. We're seeing a collapse of journalism as it's been understood, going back, really, a century in the United States, and it's really a worldwide phenomenon. All of this concentrates in the United States, where the number of working reporters today, the amount of resources that are dedicated to journalism on a per capita basis, are well below what they were ten years ago, and arguably as much as only 50 percent of what they were 25 years ago. At the same time, we've seen a skyrocketing in money for public relations and spin, so that we now have a ratio of basically four public relations officers for every working journalist. And 30 or 40 years ago, the ratio was more like one to one. And this has produced, as you said in the introduction, an existential crisis. We have much of governance in this country that's no longer covered. There is huge swaths of government, relations between the government and business, government and policy, that are no longer being reported upon at all. At the same time, government is still making extraordinarily important decisions that shape our future and shape our lives. And that's the nature of this crisis, which is really unprecedented in American history–was enough that we thought that we needed to have a book that came together to address it. Now, I've written my own book with John Nichols on this subject called The Death and Life of American Journalism. But in the process of doing that book, I discovered there is a lot of people writing about this who have a lot of interesting things to say, and it was breaking research. So we wanted to collect, Victor Pickard and I, about two or three dozen of the best pieces, put them together in one book, so there'd be a way for people to see the range of analysis and a range of solutions. And that was the purpose of the book, to get material that otherwise people wouldn't see, and to get ideas into print immediately, during this crisis, not put ourselves in a situation where these'll filter into journal articles and books and they'll be accessible four or five, six years from now. We thought the crisis was such that people need to see this material immediately.
JAY: This issue of the rise of public relations as opposed to journalism is something [that] doesn't get talked about very much. But I know when I go to journalism schools to speak, I often ask, you know, how many people in this journalism class actually want to go into journalism, and more than half the class is planning to go into PR and communications, another quarter of the class wants to go into sports reporting, and, you know, sometimes in a class of 30 or 40 kids you wind up with six or seven actually planning to go into journalism.
MCCHESNEY: It's an absolute crisis. You really hit it right there in a nutshell. And the tragedy is, in my experience, there is still an enormous number of young people who want to be journalists, who want to do great work, but there aren't jobs for them. So some of those kids you talk to who are going into public relations or some other field are just reading the market tea leaves and understand there are no jobs for them and there are jobs in public relations. But we've seen a real crisis in our journalism schools in responding to this issue, 'cause one of the articles in the book deals specifically with the fact that with only a handful of important exceptions, most of the journalism schools in this country have their head in the sand about this crisis and are either wilfully going along with it and sort of aiding and abetting the elimination of journalism and its replacement by spin and public relations or they're just ignoring it and pretending they're still living in 1975.
JAY: From the articles you collected and the other work you've been doing, what solutions have excited you? What seems original, fresh?
MCCHESNEY: Well, the work I've done has been very pointed in one area, and the work I've done both with Victor and then with John Nichols in my own book. And that points to the fact that we have to understand journalism as a public good, not as a private good. And as a public good, that means the market can never give us sufficient resources to have a credible, independent, competitive free press. It will require public subsidies. And in our research–and it's in this book as well–what we discovered is that the American free press system, the American journalism system, from the very beginning, was based on enormous public subsidies, which were largely unknown to most Americans or underappreciated to scholars. And these subsidies built up our free press in the 19th century–postal and printing subsidies. And we need to return to that sort of vision of subsidizing a free and independent press today, 'cause it's clear the market will not do a sufficient job. Now, while we make that argument in the book, that's not the argument of the book. We wanted in this book to have a range of opinions. And the book includes an essay, for example, by Matt Welch from the libertarian publication Reason, who thinks that we're completely wrong, and much of his ten pages is a critique of our argument and why he thinks that's flawed. It also includes a number of people who aren't interested in government subsidies, who are skeptical of them, but instead are interested in finding new ways to do digital journalism, online journalism, and finding new business models that might work. And then there are a handful of people who share my view and have different proposals, from you could have public money support journalism, would not allow any form of government censorship or control over the content. So we've really got a full range in the book. And the principle behind the book is to get the debate going. The principle behind the book is that for the last five years, when the crisis of journalism has accelerated, the problem we've had in the United States has been that there's a knee-jerk response. So the government can't do anything. The government is the enemy. And the logic of it is if capitalists, if corporations can't make money doing journalism, then we just can't have journalism. You know, just roll up the carpet and see if we can get another king to take over. And that struck me as absurd, and that strikes me as absurd to this day. The point of this book is to show the real traditions of American history, about how journalism developed, and try to get out tangibly real policy solutions, real possible solutions, so we can have a credible journalism and have a serious discussion about it [incompr.] name-calling, but based on evidence and core values that we all share.
JAY: One of the issues facing or did face government recently was the takeover of NBC by Comcast, the whole increased consolidation of ownership of media. What's your assessment of the decision they made?
MCCHESNEY: Well, it was a horrible decision, it was indefensible, and it exemplifies the great corruption in Washington today on media policy-making, where you have enormous lobbies, like General Electric and Comcast, two of the largest companies in the world, two companies whose wealth is based preponderantly on government-granted monopoly licenses and on government contracts–they're not free-market companies in the textbook sense of the term–they basically bought a merger that makes no sense from the public interest. It makes no sense in terms of market logic, either. It decreases competition. And these weren't companies that were going out of business; these were companies that are both highly profitable. All it does is it gives them much more monopoly power. And as we've argued in our book, and [incompr.] I think the research demonstrates, when you allow fewer and fewer companies to dominate journalism who are motivated first and foremost, if not exclusively, by the maximization of profit in the near term, what you see almost always is a cutback in the number of working journalists. They find it very profitable to shrink newsrooms. It makes a lot more money in the near term. And they really aren't in a position to give a darn what that means for society. That's not their mission. Their mission is to take care of Comcast and to take care of NBC.
JAY: The attempts to build alternative, independent forms of media, which The Real News is one–and for full transparency I should tell everyone Bob is on our advisory committee and has been right from the very beginning of this project–none of us have gotten to scale. When we started this a few years ago, you know, we thought hitting 50,000 people at $10 a month, you know, would sort of be achievable within two or three years, and we haven't, to be honest with everybody. You know, we certainly have monthly donors and we don't accept government funding and corporate underwriting and all of that, but we haven't gotten to the kind of scale by now that we would have hoped to. What do you think are–what's blocking us–not just us, The Real News, but some of the other independent media organizations as well? No one's been able to get a real public buy-in for just giving small amounts of money every month and get to a scale that can start competing with mainstream media.
MCCHESNEY: The reason you're having so much trouble isn't the quality of the product. I'm a huge fan of Real News. And there's a number of other independent media in the same boat who are doing phenomenal work that are desperate to get people to donate money so they can continue to do their work. But the reason you're having troubles–and other media are in the exact same boat–is that journalism's a public good. It's not inherently a private undertaking. And the problem is that it's never been profitable for anyone. In the first 75 years of American history, the only reason we had a great press system was that those postal subsidies by the government and printing subsidies gave us a press that was probably ten times larger than it would have been otherwise. They were extraordinary subsidies. For the last 100 years or 125 years in the United States and in most of the world, we've had the illusion that news media and journalism was a profitable undertaking because advertising provided between 60 or 50 or 60 to 100 percent of the revenues for news media, and that made it very lucrative and profitable. But the problem with that was it was a fluke, it was a coincidence, because the advertisers have no interest in journalism per se. They only supported news media to the extent it helped them with their commercial aims. And now that advertisers have better solutions than supporting journalism, they're jumping ship, and the percentage of the budget or revenue base that goes to journalism today that comes from advertising is plummeting, and we're back standing in the stark truth, which is journalism just isn't a very lucrative area for capitalists to make money in, especially [incompr.] advertising [incompr.] It never has been. And the problem has been, for those like Real News and all the other wonderful independent radio, TV, online news media, they're all competing, then, for a very small group of people to donate–relatively small group of people to donate to. It's not like you're the only one with a tin cup, Paul Jay. You know, there's a number of them out there, and they all deserve to get it. And the people who are trying to support this really don't have the funds to do it, and they never have. It's no discredit to any side of this equation. That's why in rational societies, like the United States has been in the past, you institute huge public policies without any government strings attached to spawn and subsidize media to do competitive independent journalism. And that's how it's done in a democratic society, in my view, and I think that's the solution we have to go to here. And I think we have to find ways to make it easier for The Real News Network and all the great independent media to have the resources to hire journalists, to pay journalists, and to cover stories that need to be covered. You know, I often talk to people who say, well, you know what? You're talking about Bob McChesney with subsidies and government policies and breaking up media mergers and helping newsworkers to have unions and all these sort of things. These [incompr.] take years of hard work lobbying politicians and organizing. And, you know, that's all great, but what do we do right now? And we can't wait five or ten years for these solutions. In the meantime we've got wars, we've got economic crises, we have environmental collapse. We need real journalism right away, right now. And then the solution to that's obvious, and it's Real News Network, it's the whole array of independent news media that are out there with talented people doing great work. Right now, without anyone's permission, you can cut a check, you can make a donation to Real News or any independent media, and that money will be spent wisely and it will go very, very far.
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Making it clear that the Opposition parties will take up the Lakhimpur Kheri incident, floor leaders pressed for the sacking of Union minister Ajay Mishra whose son is the prime accused in the violence. Senior Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjuna Kharge demanded a law to guarantee MSP. He also said the government should give financial compensation to victims of Covid-19 as well as the farm agitation. V Vijaysai Reddy of the YSR Congress demanded the expansion of the MSP basket to cover marine and poultry products. He also sought caste census. State wants Centre to ban passengers from S Africa C H E TA N A B E L A G E R E @ Bengaluru WITH fears of the Omicron variant of Covid looming, the state government has requested the Centre to impose a travel ban on passengers coming from South Africa, Hong Kong and Botswana. Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Sunday said that the state could announce any restrictions on Christmas and New Year celebrations after watching the Covid situation. "A new strain of Covid has surfaced abroad, which is mainly seen in South Africa, Hong Kong and Botswana. European nations have imposed restrictions and World Health Organisation too has raised an alarm," Bommai said. Cops use spade to remove remains of man on road E X P R E S S N E W S S E R V I C E @ Bengaluru IN a horrific hit-and-run case, the body of a man who was fatally knocked down by a speeding vehicle on Nelamangala Highway was run over by several vehicles on Sunday. The body had been crushed to such an extent that the police had to use a spade to remove the remains from the road. They could only recover the victim's trousers, patches of skin and one ear that was intact. The traffic police said that the accident near Rayarapalya might have occurred in the early hours of Sunday and the drivers did not notice the body on the road as it was dark. The headlights could only pick up disheveled clothes as the body had been crushed beyond recognition, they added. The stretch of highway where the accident occurred lacks adequate streetlights for about 2 km and there are no P5 CCTV cameras installed too. Reiterating that there are no Omicron cases in the state, he said action is being taken to contain the spurt of Covid clusters. It is noticed that most of these cases are among paramedical staff and students arriving from Kerala, he added. "To contain the spread, strict surveillance, including testing and seeking RTPCR negative reports, is being followed in Dakshina Kannada, Kodagu Chamarajanagar and Mysuru districts bordering Kerala. Those arriving from Kerala will be allowed only with an RTPCR negative report. It is also mandatory for them to have a double dose of vaccination," he said. CONTINUED ON: P3 THE Bengaluru city police denied permission to a show by stand-up comedian Munawar Faruqui, triggering a controversy. While Faruqui hinted that he would quit holding his shows, the police defended their action, saying they only gave a "suggestion" to the organisers to call off the show and did not "force" them to do so. The show -- 'Dongri to Nowhere' -- by Gujarat-based Faruqui was scheduled to be held at Good Shepherd's auditorium on Museum Road at 5 pm on Sunday . Over 600 tickets had been sold. But the Hindu Janajagruthi Samiti wrote to Bengaluru Police A healthcare worker collects swab samples for Covid testing at a government school in Bengaluru on Sunday | ASHISHKRISHNA HP NATIONWIDE NOV 27 NOV 28 KARNATAKA NOV 27 NOV 28 Fresh cases 8,318 Recoveries 10,967 Deaths 465 Fresh cases Recoveries Deaths 8,774 9,481 621 322 176 3 315 236 2 Commissioner Kamal Pant on Saturday, seeking cancellation of the show, alleging that Faruqui has a history of hurting the sentiments of Hindus by making derogatory remarks against Hindu religion, deities and Union Home Minister Amit Shah. The right-wing organisation had also threatened to stage protests if permission was granted. L a t e r o n S a t u r d ay, Ashoknagar Police Inspector Mallesh B Bolethin, under whose jurisdiction the venue falls, wrote to the organisers — Vishesh Dhuria and Sidharth Das of New Delhi-based Curtain Call Events — suggesting that they canCONTINUED ON: P5 cel the show. A year later, 2 Covid victims' bodies lie in morgue, forgotten DOWNPOUR DEVASTATION The Cooum river overflows and blocks the road near Maduravoyal, following heavy rain, in Chennai on Sunday | MARTIN LOUIS HEALTH RISK Number of anaemic kids, women up in last 5 yrs Anaemia in Karnataka BMI BELOW NORMAL 17.2% 14.3% OVERWEIGHT OR OBESE (BMI =25.0 KG/M2) 30.1% 30.9% ANAEMIC IN 15-49 AGE GROUP WOMEN 47.8% MEN 19.6% Children aged 6-59 months who are anaemic 65.5% E X P R E S S N E W S S E R V I C E @ Bengaluru NOTWITHSTANDING numerous initiatives to provide nutritious food, anaemia continues to be a major health problem among women and children in Karnataka. In fact, the numbers went up in the last few years to a high of 48% among women and 66% among children aged 6 to 59 months. The latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-5 shows an increase of 3 per cent among women and 5 per cent among children, compared to the last NFHS-4 survey in 2015-16. While better access to healthcare TMC HAS IN LOK SABHA, COMPARED WITH 53 MPs OF CONGRESS Landslide BJP win in Tripura civic polls P R A S A N TA M A Z U M D A R @ Guwahati THE ruling BJP in Tripura swept the civic elections on Sunday, capturing power in all 20 urban local bodies (ULBs). The elections were held against the backdrop of sporadic incidents of political violence. The CPI(M) and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) had accused of BJP of assault and intimidation of their workers. Of the total 334 seats, the BJP won 329. It had won 112 seats in seven E X P R E S S N E W S S E R V I C E @ New Delhi EXPRESS READ BENGALURU: In a shocking case of negligence, two bodies of Covid-19 victims were found in the mortuary of ESI Hospital, Rajajinagar, more than a year after the deaths took place. Muniraju (62) from KP Agrahara and Durga (40) from Chamarajpet had succumbed to the virus, and their bodies were stored in the old mortuary freezer since July 2020 | P3 22 MPs ULBs unopposed earlier. Three seats went to the CPI(M) and one each to the TMC and the TIPRA Motha. That the BJP was serious about the polls was evident from Prime Minister Narendra Modi taking to Twitter to congratulate people and party workers on the success. The TMC was optimistic about its success in the Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC) but the BJP won all its 51 seats. "People of Agartala have shown abundant confidence in the double engine government led by Hon'ble Prime Minister Shri @ Narendra Modi ji," Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb tweeted. The TMC had viewed the polls as its launch pad to make inroads into the Bengali-majority state. Its defeat comes days after it became Meghalaya's main opposition through a political coup that saw 12 of the 17 Congress MLAs defecting to it. TMC's Abhishek Banerjee said it was exceptional for a party with negligible presence to to get over 20% vote share in the polls. Test norms for fliers revised Faruqui's show cancelled after B'luru police letter E X P R E S S N E W S S E R V I C E @ Bengaluru ■ The Trinamool has burnt bridges with the Congress as it has opened its door to rebels so as to realise its national ambition "We will reach out to all like-minded parties, whether it is the Samajwadi Party or BJD, for a stronger Opposition front. Nobody is untouchable for us," said a TMC MP | P7 facilities could be one of the reasons for the increase in the numbers, it is a serious cause of concern. "In children, it can cause stunting and make them more prone to other infections," said Dr Sylvia Karpagam, public health doctor and researcher. "It can also affect concentration among children. If it is more predominant among Adivasi and Dalit children, who have already been labelled as slow learners, it can lead to a huge consequence as they cannot concentrate and start with a disadvantage," she said. As many as 67.1% of rural children are anaemic comP5 pared to 62.8% in urban areas. WITH the highly infectious Omicron variant of the coronavirus being detected in at least two more countries on Sunday the Centre decided to re, view its decision on resuming commercial foreign flights. Before Omicron surfaced, it had reportedly planned to resume full international travel from December 15. And now, new guidelines from the health ministry state that passengers travelling from or transiting through "at risk" countries will have to take a RT-PCR test on arrival in India and will be required to wait for the results before leaving the airport or taking a connecting flight. Five per cent of travellers from other countries in each flight will be randomly tested at the airport. The "at-risk" countries are Euro- Catching the bug in time South Africa didn't wait for gene sequencing to spot the variant, as it used a RT-PCR test with a gene kit that can show a result of a undetectable S-gene target — a marker for Omicron. India doesn't have the kit yet, but it can begin manufacturing quickly, says scientist Anurag Agrawal | P7 pean nations, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Brazil, Bangladesh, Botswana, China, Mauritius, New Zealand, Zimbabwe, Singapore, Hong Kong and Israel. On Sunday, in an urgent meeting chaired by Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla, the government issued a slew of directions to states for ramping up testing-surveillance meas- ures and health facilities, asking them focus on intensive containment, monitoring of hotspots and increased vaccination coverage. The meeting follows a high-level review by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday . For their part, states began to retighten Covid restrictions and trace people who arrived from abroad, especially from 'at risk' nations in the last one month. Though no Omicron cases have been recorded in India yet, confirmed or suspected cases have emerged in Europe, Israel and Hong Kong — just days after it was first detected in South Africa. The Netherlands confirmed 13 cases, Australia two and the UK one on Sunday . In a drastic move, Israel barred entry to foreigners and Morocco suspended all incoming air travel. P12
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The new Grand Paris metro lines, together the Grand Paris Express, have created an infrastructure project of unprecedented magnitude: 200km of new track, of which 90 percent is under ground, with four new lines, one extension, 68 new stations, fully automated rolling stock, all for a 35 billion euro investment.
Currently Germany's ICE fleet (the InterCity Express fleet) has free wifi on all its trains. Now Deutsche Bahn says it will equip all of its InterCity trains 1 and 2 with free wifi as well. These upgrades will be complete by the end of 2021 and will use multi-provider technology to provide the best-possible coverage.
CRRC has signed a contract with Australian logistics company for 264 narrow gauge coal hopper cars. Shipped in two batches of 132 cars each, CRRC has already dispatched the first set. It will then ship the second batch in 2020.
The Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn GmbH has ordered 23 Siemens Desiro HC trains. 21 of them will be six-car trains, while two of them will be four-car trains. Siemens will commence delivery in summer 2022. The ODEG was able to place this order following its winning bid to operate the Elbe-Spree franchises in January 2019.
Alstom will deliver 13 Coradia Polyvalent 'Régiolis' trains to the French region of Occitanie. Since 2014 the region has ordered 33 of these trains. This current order therefore brings the total up to 46. Alstom says this contract is worth 330 million euros (370 million USD). The four-car trains will either be electric or dual mode.
United Wagon Company will deliver 400 articulated tank cars to Texol Group in Kazakhstan. Once in service, the tank cars will transport liquefied petroleum gas. The tank cars in question are model no. 15-9541-01. The cars have a boiler volume of 163.1 cubic metres and payload capacity of 90t. They are 24m long.
Stadler has won its biggest contract in the United States to date. It is to supply 127 trains for the Atlanta metro, where they will serve the city's airport. The two-car trains will enter service in 2023. Each train will comprise 128 seats along with plenty of standing room and luggage space, which is vital for such an airport link.
Alstom will equip both the Pune and Mumbai metros with its signalling and train control solutions. In both cases it will install its Urbalis 400 CBTC system. Alstom will equip lines 2A, 2B and 7 of the Mumbai Metro and lines 1 and 2 of the Pune Metro. These contracts have a combined value of 90 million euros (101 million USD).
Deutsche Bahn's supervisory board met last week, during which it discussed the sale of DB Arriva. Based in the United Kingdom, Arriva generated a turnover of 5.44 billion euros (6.12 billion USD) in 2018. The management board is to keep the supervisory board up to date about the sales progress.


Struggling Indianapolis-based oil company Calumet Specialty Products Partners announced Tuesday that it has sold its interest in a $430 million refinery that it co-developed in North Dakota.
Indianapolis-based Calumet Specialty Products Partners reported a quarterly loss of $67.7 million Thursday morning as revenue took a nosedive. The company said it might divest some of its assets, including an underperforming $430 million refinery that opened a year ago.
Shares in Indianapolis-based Calumet Specialty Products Partners fell 30 percent in after-hours trading Friday and dropped another 53 percent Monday morning.
Calumet's stock price has fallen so far that the annual dividend yield is a whopping 28 percent—one of the highest in the country.
Shares in Calumet Specialty Products Partners closed at $12.30 each Wednesday, down 12.6 percent on the day and 38 percent since the beginning of the year.
The shale boom is threatening to ruin a renaissance in small refineries, known as teapots, before it even begins.
Developers of a recently completed $430 million diesel refinery near Dickinson, North Dakota, are delaying plans for a second factory in the Minot area of the state.
Calumet Specialty Products Partners LP took a loss of nearly $49 million in the third quarter as sales fell 32 percent from the same quarter of 2014.
Timothy Go was most recently vice president of operations at Wichita, Kansas-based Flint Hills Resources LP, a subsidiary of Koch Industries Inc.
Calumet Specialty Products Partners LP turned in a moneymaking second quarter, rebounding from a loss in the same period of 2014, the company reported Wednesday morning.


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Were Biffy Clyro inspired by Pearl Jam? Of course, according to Ben Johnston
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During a recent interview to Biffy Clyro, the drummer Ben Johnston talked about the huge influence Pearl Jam had on his band.
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During a recent interview with rockol.it, Ben Johnston referred to Pearl Jam as one of the bands that inspired Biffy Clyro to be a rock band up to nowadays.
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