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Pristina throw: the stolen victory of Russia
"Lord, have mercy! Lord, have mercy!" - the words of Serbian folk songs, prayers sounded at the concert in honor of the delegation of the Russian paratroopers in the mining town of Ugljevik in the East of Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
A group of officers-paratroopers from Russia led by the former chief of staff VDV the General-Lieutenant Nikolay Starikovym came here to celebrate the 14 anniversary of the legendary March airborne battalion in Kosovo. In June 1999, the news stirred the world – Russian troops in front of NATO's avant-garde seized the Slatina airport is a key facility in Kosovo. The Serbs took heart. Marsh landing battalion many Russians caused a sense of pride for the country and the army.
After 14 years this date in Russia almost not noticed, except for a pair of media reports. "Didn't notice" her and in Belgrade, where today, more and more looking toward the West. But the humble 18-thousand Ugljevik, where ten years ago was the headquarters of a brigade of Russian peacekeepers, our paratroopers remember and love. "Serbia alive, while Russia lives," the essence of this memory were the words of the same song, performed by the Serbian girls...
The Russian delegation met the Chairman of the "Serbian-Russian Alliance" Savo Cvetinovic, in the past one of heads of the Serbian police, now a postal worker. Together with officers of the airborne troops, he restored peace and order to the troubled land of Republika Srpska. Loyalty oath, patriotism and Pro-Russian orientation and cost him his high position and career in the police. Too inconvenient it was for proteges from the international community, the "guards" of the IPTF (international police), too honest, too is the Russian peacekeepers.
Cvetinovic is one of those who doesn't change his views depending on the situation. Now such people are in short supply in Serbia, and in Russia. Russian paratroopers for him the most welcome guests ever.
Service at the security entity
The acute phase of the conflict in the Balkans has been extinguished. Gradually scar the wounds are in the past the heroes and traitors of the war that erupted in the debris of Yugoslavia and an ice rink which crossed the destinies of living people, on families, friendships, and the former unity of the peoples. The grass is overgrown the road and the skeletons of burned and abandoned houses. Yugoslavia is no more, and, as they say themselves, the Serbs will be no more. The reasons of disintegration of the country was much stronger and more effective than those of scrapie, Schiavi Yugoslavia since Tito. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbs, Muslims and Croats were divided into entities, separated in their territories, on opposite sides of the line of disengagement by the international community.
The refugees settled in new houses, moving housewarming even the graves of their ancestors. Now towns and villages with mixed population in Bosnia and Herzegovina is much less, although the former demarcation line Serbian villages are still interspersed with Muslim. In the 90s, when there were fights, shoot with the dominant heights roads local Serbs fleeing from snipers, along roads installed plywood boards and hung on the ropes, pieces of cloth and blankets, closing their view.
To the South, 600 km South-East of the Ugljevik – Kosovo field, the Serbs to a historic place in the 90-ies of the 20 century turned into the pain of the Serbian people. The defeat in the battle with the Ottomans seven centuries ago overlapped the tragedy of the genocide of Serbs 2000s.
...Memory inexorably takes us back to those days of the 90s when Bosnia and Herzegovina were imposed by foreign military contingents. The political leadership of the countries of the world, destroying, as he imagined, "the last Bastion of communism in Europe", "rip" and tore to pieces on religious and national grounds, the territory of the former Yugoslavia, initiating one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 20th century. All this, of course, in the name of democracy and justice. The end justifies the means...
The Serbs were left with less and less living space. Legalization of new reality became the Dayton agreement in December ' 94.
Peacekeeping airborne division of Russia was carrying at the time of the service in the Republika Srpska, which, according to many of its inhabitants, ensured public safety and prevented further clashes. The task is to separate the conflicting sides, to confiscate weapons, to establish a peaceful life. In fact, side box our troopers have served the U.S. military. What was unusual was that potential opponents, many years preparing to fight each other, served a peacekeeping mission in a single organizational structure of the multinational division "North", when representing their countries in the region.
"We were enemies, but met with each other on the battlefield, but as peacekeepers, - says General Nikolai Staskov. - Unusual conditions, given our training. Here learned to communicate in a peaceful manner. Gradually established cooperation, although initially it was not easy".
Ex-chief of staff of the airborne troops of Russia Nikolai Staskov on the location of the headquarters of the Russian peacekeepers brigade in Ugljevik, Republic of Srpska with the delegation of the Russian paratroopers
A division of the American Ranger is located in the headquarters of a brigade of airborne forces of Russia, officers of the Russian group interaction in the interests of Russian peacekeepers perform tasks on the basis of the American "Eagle" in Tuzla.
The attitude of the population towards the peacekeepers was specific Americans, here, to put it mildly, not loved, and the Russians saw the brotherly protection. Public confidence in our military, carrying military posts, patrolling the area of responsibility, according to Nicholas Staskova, then played a major role in the normalization of the situation. Has ceased to sound, the gunshots, the explosions, people gradually returned to civilian life: "the Impact of friendship of the Russian and Serbian peoples, which is a constant value".
The fact that the team of Russian paratroopers is firmly established in the Republika Srpska, in addition to deploying staff, units, and posts another task force, independently analyze information and transmitted it to Russia, not liked by the American command, demanding unconditional submission. "Partners" constantly complained to Moscow on the initiative of commanders of the Russian troops. For example, General Staskova Western media accused almost in the collapse of the Dayton accords, calling it "a gun without a fuse".
From the history
In January of 1996 for participation in peacekeeping operations of the multinational force in Bosnia and Herzegovina was directed separate airborne brigade of 1,500 soldiers.
In the night of 11 to 12 June 1999, the battalion of the Russian paratroopers for several hours made a dashing throw from Bosnia to Kosovo, capturing strategically important object – the Slatina airfield and ahead of the armored columns of NATO troops. After that, in accordance with UN security Council resolution No. 1244 on the basis of the decree of the President of Russia and in accordance with signed by the Ministers of defence of the Russian Federation and the USA 18.06.1999 in Helsinki "Agreed points of Russian participation in KFOR forces", it was decided decidedto hold direction in Kosovo of the military contingent of the Russian armed forces number 3616 people.
The airborne troops of Russia on the territory of the former Yugoslavia, alongside NATO, has participated in two peacekeeping operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Kosovo. In the big Marines controlled the territory with the total area – 1750 km2. Alsaproject controlled the line of disengagement – 75 km Units housed in 3 basic areas (2 on the territory of the Republic of Srpska Ugljevik and Surf, 1 – on the territory of Federation of BiH – Simin-Han).
Bombs-real and psychological
...The time was vague – it was preparation of the NATO aggression against Yugoslavia, which was followed by the Kosovo events. In the spring of 1999, NATO bombers lined up in military echelons to conduct (think of the term!) "humanitarian bombing" infrastructure Great Serbia just above the base area of the Russian brigade. To the border only 30 km away. less
Air once the carousel spun straight into the sky above the Ugljevik when a Yugoslavian MiG took an unequal battle with two of the newest American fighters, was shot down and leaving a trail of smoke started to go away toward Serbia. The Serbian pilot was able to eject. Him, wounded, picked up by local residents, and providing medical aid, ferried across the border with Serbia. But on the ground for several days scoured the search group of the American contingent, with the objective to take captive the downed pilot captive.
Leaflet for servicemen of the FRY in KOSOVO, spread by NATO aircraft in March-June 1999, Signed illustration: "Thousands of bombs...in obedience to the will of the entire world, will continuously pour on your unit". Signed on the back: "Warning aircraft the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: LEAVE KOSOVO! NATO uses against units of the armed forces of the FRY in KOSOVO and Metohija B-52 bombers, armed 225-kg bombs MK-82. One B-52 can carry up to 50 bombs! These aircraft will fly until then, until you cease your brutality, and will not expel you from KOSOVO and Metohija. If you want to survive and again to see their families, drop the weapon"
At this time the entire population of Bosnia and Herzegovina, including the Republika Srpska, were subjected to vigorous psychological influence from the West. These places have become a kind of testing ground for "running in" of new information technologies and their further use in other regions of the world. Thousands of American specialists in psychological warfare launched work, creating media, connecting local television and radio stations, organizing "talk show", distributing fliers, etc. officers of the psychological warfare from the Russian brigade was opposed to this stream, creating other background information in the Serbian media, and often, according to the Americans, won in these duels in the air, on the screens and pages of Newspapers.
With the intensification of operations to oust the Serbs from Kosovo in addition to bombs, rockets and shells on Serbian troops and civilian targets from the air rained down leaflets with threats to bomb indefinitely. Processing of consciousness of the military people and the population did not stop not for a minute. We can say that in the Balkans, NATO forces win in the information sphere, as the damage from the air of the Yugoslav army in Kosovo, was minimal.
Here, in practice, worked out strategy and tactics, tested methods and means of information warfare.
On the scale of operations, NATO demonstrated by the fact that – one day suddenly the wind changed, and one and a half million leaflets dropped on Serbia, carried on the territory of neighbouring Hungary. Paper rain fell on the heads of young Hungarians. The leaflets were written: "Thousands of bombs...in obedience to the will of the entire world, will continuously pour on your unit... Alert the armed forces the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: leave Kosovo! NATO uses against units of the armed forces of the FRY in Kosovo and Metohija B-52 bombers, armed 225-kg bombs MK-82. One B-52 can carry up to 50 bombs! ...These aircraft will fly until then, until you cease your brutality, and will not expel you from Kosovo and Metohija. If you want to survive and again to see their families, drop your weapons..."
...But we cannot say that in this confrontation, Yugoslavia was doomed. Yes, in Belgrade methodical strokes had been the headquarters building of the military and civilian infrastructure, and social facilities. Cruise missiles and "smart" bombs hit the objects that are marked "blinking lights", placed American agents. But the Yugoslav army did not incur those losses that are expected in Washington and Brussels. Military units of Serbs successfully maneuvered, used masking and heat traps for NATO missiles. The defences have gradually learned to deal with air targets, shooting down the "invisible" F-117 "Stealth" and "Mirages". The army maintains the backbone and fighting ability... But systematic information-psychological treatment of Serbs have borne fruit –the official Belgrade accepted the conditions of the ultimatum of the international community. Kosovo along with Albanian forces was occupied by the Americans, the British and their allies. Requirements of Moscow to bring Russia into the format of the operation in Kosovo to stop the genocide of the Serbian population were ignored. Under these conditions, the Russian General staff and the staff of the airborne forces was made adventurous at first glance, and risky decision – the advance team composed of a separate airborne battalion to make semiotically March into the heart of Kosovo, ahead of the start moving across Serbian territory by NATO units to capture military airport Slatina and to ensure the landing of the main forces of the Russian peacekeeping contingent. It is significant that this plan was not even President Yeltsin, who will report about the operation after its completion. The cover has justified itself by 100% – at least, westernized environment of the President of Russia was completely in the dark, unable to present him a situation in the right thing and disrupt the throw parachute battalion.
"March I dream at night"
It looked like a picture from another life – the flowers on the armor, Serbian girls kissing Russian soldiers, violent glee. A battalion of Russian paratroopers throw took positions on Slatina airfield in Kosovo. As war was prepared and carried out this March? With these questions began a conversation with a direct participant of the described events, the commander of the Russian airborne battalion, nominated in Kosovo, Colonel Sergei Pavlov.
- NATO aircraft over our camp lined up in order of battle and left for Belgrade. We continued to patrol his area of responsibility, carried out peacekeeping tasks in the framework of the given mandate. There was no hint that could move. But to be honest – I had a premonition. The feeling often helps me, failed, and then. I suddenly felt that frisson of events in which we will be active participants, though personally I like to replace the remained two months.
Usually during this period, any commander not particularly zealous in the service. And I have just the opposite. The people said, "What are the battalion commander found, because it is time to relax and prepare for the rotation?"
In may we completed the technology transfer for the summer operating period. To this question I came very seriously and harshly asked with subordinates, with an emphasis on the quality of translation. Eventually it became a guarantor of success.
In preparation for the March 700 km we were given just 8 hours! More time constraints in my memory, no one was even in the Navy. Can someone repeat what failed us then? The big question. I'm not sure.
That night we had to remove three posts. People were deep in the mountains, the connection was poor. While conveyed, while duplicated, until we got confused and we got all, the time has gone. People passed on the feeling that's something big going on. The tension was universal, but was afraid to, I haven't seen.
... The time has come "H" and our column was set in motion When... was given to the military order, we realized that after an hour of us going. Are our sensations? How to react to this country, which is on his knees? God forbid, will be a failure... We were not afraid for himself, for his own skin. There was a feeling of huge responsibility, because excuses then will not. How to look people in the eye – why didn't, didn't? And always fear for people. God forbid...
The March took place without any losses. People then realized that my strictness has paid off – during the March, not out of service any piece of equipment the Task was completed. But I was blamed for excessive rigidity and insistence, said that it would be softer. The truth was on my side. Now I sleep soundly, knowing that no mother, no wife curses me... We all brought without loss, a task carried out without clashes. Then I crossed myself and said, "Thank God, all are alive."
- Was there danger on the route? As events unfolded?
- Out passage provided at a high level. So we never say that all was done I and General Rybkin. The decision was made there, and we only performed qualitatively. We almost "flew" surskie towns. Police patrols and border guards have provided a "green corridor". We have conducted exploration work on five points.
I assumed that something would be. An hour or two or three has passed, and someone could be returned to life, NATO could have landed landing landing method. What does it cost? After all, we were confronted by a huge machine of NATO. Of course, we prepared for the unexpected, up to the clashes. We had a full pack. But the hope was the surprise – went in on Sunday right on the highway, although I know that was an option for movement in the mountains. We "flew" along the way. Then I learned that the American command decided to land the Rangers, to organize an ambush and detain us in any way. Allegedly, on Board BTA with the SWAT team gets a balloon , hurt someone, and this idea fell through. Maybe they were smart enough to avoid clashes. But to us it was not very fun.
Soldiers and officers were awarded for this March?
- You're the first journalist who asks about awards of soldiers and officers. But this is a big problem. Everyone is interested in only one thing – who gave the order to March? And what my business who gave? I ordered my supervisor, and I have no right to ask questions, who in the upper echelons decided. It's not my business, because we got orders and went to execute it.
I know that not all awarded. Established the medal "Participant forced March, the Bosnia-Kosovo". Someone said, but I do know that two of my Deputy didn't get it. Don't know why. Five years ago I had a meeting in Ivanovo with my Deputy for educational Affairs Evgeny Morozov and chief of staff of the battalion Vadim Polynom left without medals. Laughter, and only. I say: "Commander, how's that?". What can I do? Was ready his medal to give, but we had two...
But I do know that these awards were given to those who in the March had not participated. All of our premium structure, those who sit in the headquarters, were out of out to find and award all the participants of the March. Two years after the March came the soldiers from the village in the Ryazan region and said that in the village all his teasing, they say, hang noodles that participants in the March in Kosovo, and no medals. I had to call back to human bodies and to demand...
For me personally the rewards are not important, I say it without affectation. The best reward is that I have kept fighters, which was responsible for... to wean people away from such modifications was very difficult... Experience shows that loss – revocable and irrevocable – not all combat. A huge percentage loss on sloppiness, due to carelessness, negligent handling of weapons, hindsight. We're in those circumstances, have avoided this, we have not had a single injury.
- The media has to read about the different "heroes" March on Kosovo...
Ten years in a row to me in Ryazan went the journalists and then the media has published another well-known name. Turned out that I was unwittingly as if erased from history. Immediately triggered the Russian mentality – me ceased to come and ask questions. There are a lot of evaluations of new versions, conjectures, but I am...
- When I came in Kosovo, and who faced?
- In 1.00-1.30 am gone Pristina – all the people in the streets. They got out late. When they were out of town, he heard Ivan call from Moscow. The column was stopped. General Rybkin someone had a long talk on the phone, then we have convinced him that I needed to go about six miles and complete the task.
We had to take the airport by 5.00 am. By this time he had to leave the Serbian unit of the armed forces and the approach of the English team. We are ahead of her for half an hour. The scouts reported that on the approach of division of the liberation Army of Kosovo (AOK). We managed to take positions and were ready for battle. Seized the runway, locked its armoured vehicles, cleared the main avenues of approach, blocked the highway to Macedonia, equipped positions on the perimeter. Trenches and revetments for armored vehicles dug in the rock of three days.
...A half hour as settled, with one of the posts reported that were approached by the British intelligence. The British stopped within sight and just "stunned" after seeing our Marines. Drove the English General, spoke on "Esperanto" - broken English. "Who are you? What are you doing here? Here we must be," he heard about these words. I had to reply that it was too late for that here – the position of the Russian troops. The General was conducted to the headquarters of our General. Collision was not...
Serbian girls kiss the battalion commander Sergey Pavlova after 14 years after the legendary throw to Prishtina. In Russia, many do not know their heroes in person
- Sergey, the question on the merits – that the battalion of the airborne forces were doing in Kosovo?
- Yugoslavia was bombed, the NATO force has solved the problem of Kosovo and Metohija – the disputed territory with ethnic and religious conflict. Not for me to give a political evaluation of the rights of Milosevic, when he introduced troops there or not, and someone who started cutting. Politicians and historians will understand. But the West acted here, demonstratively ignoring Russia. The day Chernomyrdin met with Albright, but in the end Kosovo began to divide into zones of responsibility without Russia.
Then it was decided to go to Kosovo alone. Our battalion was the vanguard – a military formation that captures the boundary, area, district and provides the approach of the main forces. We had to ensure the landing of our main force at the airport. However, for a number of reasons the troops landed, and the Russian peacekeeping contingent has arrived in another way. The main thing that we managed – Russia took part in the fate of the Kosovo Serbs. Initially it was enough to prevent the genocide which they created the Albanians. This was our mission. What happened next is well known, but not for us to judge. I, anyway, don't want to give political assessments. But as a person I'm very sad... Now, 14 years later, we communicate with the Serbs, and they give us a lesson of patriotism, love to the earth people, love to Russia.
What happened in Kosovo in those days?
- We saw that created the Kosovo liberation Army. They burned and bombed churches, massacred the Serbs. The airfield is off limits, because he knew that will receive repulse. And on the dairy plant in Pristina have repeatedly tried to penetrate, provoked. We took custody of this area, thus many Serbs were saved from punishment. Albanians showed offensive gestures, captured the Serb, put a knife to his throat and in front of us was trying to cut. And the open fire we had no right. The soldiers ran out, became a human shield, dragged, took people. All this was done under video cameras. Pure provocation...
- However, whether that would be enough multiple shots to the situation blew up?
- First, what came up to us the British, became a deterrent. Our military leaders wisely – ran them to the airport, gave them a place to sleep. But to us constantly there were threats.
We have received intelligence from which directions to expect the attack, as they could, masked, restricted all movement, we were warned that there are Albanian snipers that was tasked to take our paratroopers prisoner, to kill, to slaughter, as we personally warned the chief of the General Staff, General Kvashnin. But some people were intelligent enough not to climb. We organized day and night combat duty.
The soldiers – well done, no sloppiness or slackness. People really were ready. We had experienced contractors, good officers.
...Don't forget the picture in the first days after the March. Lying on the parapet of the trench one 37-year-old soldier is an experienced warrior and listening to. "What are you listening?" - "Fly or not". I like the movies say "don't worry, they'll fly of course."
Provoke us all the time – allowed the cattle right on our position, but we knew that animals were not shepherds, and scouts. Drove them away, there are different techniques. The main thing in that situation was not to break, not to provoke the shooting. Near our position was located the warehouse of fuel and lubricants. The Kosovars robbed him, took out fuel on tractors, constantly provoking the soldiers.
When the sea and in the air began to arrive with our main forces became much easier, the tension subsided. Us a good effort. We were met by the troops sent to sectors, while they were on duty at the airport.
14 years have passed and I can't forget. Marsh in front of me from the first second to the last. Was responsible almost for everything, and still can't forget this feeling of responsibility. Such pressure in life I no longer had. Remember – training "races" on the highway, stabbed the woman, the tears of women and the elderly... It's the most vivid impression in life.
March on Kosovo I dream, and will dream for the rest of my days. I continue to command at night... we did basically everything right – completed the task, saved people and vehicles...
Abduction: hole political shopping bags
The battalion commander Sergey Pavlov – a man of the old school, educated, correct and succinct. Now he teaches at the Ryazan higher airborne command school named for army General V. F. Margelov. Students often asked him to tell about the March.
...Definitely rapid March of the airborne troops at Pristina in June 1999 can be called a small victory for Russia. And ensure that it was not an armchair successes of diplomacy and not even the strong-willed blows with his fist on the table, and the simple landing of a battalion commander and his subordinates.
However, as often happens in such cases, victory has many fathers, but defeat is an orphan. With astonishment in the Navy later learned about many heroes of this legendary March, which in it or were not involved at all, or had, to put it mildly, very, very indirect relation. Some of them still sit in the state Duma, held positions in the Executive branch. Although in fairness it should be noted that the manner to sculpt fake "heroes" went from the meticulous to the "sensationalism" of the media, often do not bother to install and give the people the truth.
They say the success of the operation to take the paratroopers to the airfield in Slatina was released three gold medals. Allegedly, awarded to politicians and important chiefs. "Paratroopers don't need gold, he assured me in the Union of paratroopers of Russia". But all the soldiers and officers who took part in the events of 14 years ago, should be acknowledged by the state". But even an ordinary commemorative medals got.
For veterans of those events is just a pleasant trifle, which may even remember only once a year, putting on awards ceremonies. The Marines decided not to flaunt awards. But if the command orders to arrive when you order – you could see the iconostasis! And yet...
But this is only one side of the coin. The other side is that brave, in Russian Udaloy roll of the troops was not completely supported in the political arena. Yes, the Russian peacekeeping contingent has for several years faithfully served in Bosnia and Kosovo, representing a sample execution of the peacekeeping mission.
But facts are stubborn things – the Kosovo Serbs lost their Homeland. Those tens of thousands that remained in the province, still write letters to the Kremlin with a request to take them into Russian citizenship, because they turned away in Belgrade. In Kosovo looted dozens of Orthodox monasteries ruined and burned hundreds of churches. The population is mostly left those places. But Russia, with all its breadth and abundance of resources are unable to confront this shaft, are unable to become an obstacle in the way of injustice and outright evil. Although in the end of 1999 the command of the Russian brigade, stationed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, informed Moscow about a favorable moment for the establishment in the Balkans of Russian military bases. This call was not heeded, and the history is known, does not tolerate the subjunctive mood...
Today the reality is that the mental gap between Serbia and Russia is increasing. The older generation, especially those who remember the days of the USSR and Yugoslavia, communicated and worked together with peacekeepers from Russia, still feel an invisible connection with the Russian world, cherish it and are afraid to interrupt. But the younger generation in Belgrade does not know the Russian language, far from glorious and tragic pages of our common history. Young people, and in the cities of Russia, infected by the "disease of consumerism" in which matters of spirit and identity do not matter.
Many Serbs, Serbia and Republika Srpska of Bosnia and Herzegovina have already been deployed to the West. In relations with Russia local elite sees a primarily economic interest, that is, just business. Other areas – cultural and spiritual issues of the common faith in the best case only and declared on the backburner. Serbs learn to survive without Russia, although the decision to lay a gas pipeline "South stream" through Serbia met with great enthusiasm and anticipation of great change for the better. As the joke here, let the "better the Russians will shut off the gas than let the Germans".
With all the warmth and sincerity met and collaborated with the delegation of the airborne troops of Russia Serbian activist and public servant, the President of the Republika Srpska Miodrag Dodik, regularly conducting operational meetings with representatives of Gazprom, and have not found time to chat with members of the legendary throw on Kosovo. Probably, priorities and preferences have changed ...
"...Russia is gradually squeezed from the Balkans. For a variety of reasons. Long-term efforts of the Russian peacekeepers is vain. The Balkans have shifted to full Europe, flirting with the US. On the eve of the NATO aggression, the Serbs liked to repeat: "with Russia is 200 million, we are brothers"... - that's the opinion of one of the officers in the Marines peacekeeping contingent. - We will never forget how welcomed us Serbs. So during WWII the Russians met liberated from the Nazis of Europe. Such things are not forgotten, never... Recently read a comment online: "We then wiped the nose of NATO. They really was frightened, but as always – betrayed us... betrayed. Military betrayed the Serbs -- And therefore do not respect us...". To realize that the truth in this is – hurt and bitter. But it's not our fault. We did everything we could. And for the power it still hurt, a lot. Still..."
Ugljevik – Banja Luka – Moscow
Leaflet in Serbian and Albanian population of KOSOVO, prepared and distributed by unknown persons in April-may 1999: IS WANTED dead or embalmed BILLY CLINTON is a very dangerous criminal, a thief-recidivist, sexually preoccupied, although, actually, is quite helpless in the sexual relation of man, this protrasi Albanians vow to liberate Kosovo. The bounty: 45 million dollars in his pocket (or the f-117 Black hawk in good condition and without pilot). Available information you may send to the address: the Kosovo liberation Army, NATO, Brussels, the Great Albania. Note: the leaflet is written in Serbo-Croatian language, but using transcription, reproducing Albanian pronunciation
Residents of the capital of Republika Srpska Banja Luka greeted the delegation of the Russian airborne troops with a banner
Colonel Sergey Pavlov - the commander of the battalion that committed the March into Kosovo and occupied the airport Slatina. Now associate Professor, Ryazan higher airborne command school named for army General V. F. Margelov
Colonel, Hero of Russia Alexander Margelov talks with Russian volunteer who fought in the Balkans, Sergey Suhareva
Beret, vest and order Margelov transferred to the legendary General Ratko Mladic, who is in jail in the Hague, his son Darko
Zoltan Dani commanded the defence of Yugoslavia, tells how in March 1999, brought down an aircraft"invisible" F-117A "Stealth"
Russian paratroopers lay a wreath at the memorial on the site of the concentration camp Jasenovac, where during the Second world war, the Croatian ustaše tortured about 700 thousand people
The delegation of the Union of paratroopers of Russia at a conference dedicated to 14th anniversary of the March on Pristina, in the town of Ugljevik, Republic of Srpska
Yuri Kitten, photo by the author
Source: http://zavtra.ru/content/view/prishtinskij-brosok/
Tags: assessment , Russia , NATO , Balkans


The Referrals Committee, N.B. Wachman (in the Chair), Philip McLernon and Robert Dore met in the Turf Club, The Curragh, Co. Kildare on Tuesday, 10th November 2015 to consider a report from IMIM Hospitaldelmar in Barcelona, Spain regarding the fact that a sample of urine taken from Shane Brian Kelly, rider, during in-competition testing on 13th August 2015 at Leopardstown Racecourse, Co Dublin, was found to contain benzoylecgonine and ecgonine methyl esther (metabolites of cocaine). Under the Rules of Racing and Irish National Hunt Steeplechase Rules, cocaine is a banned substance because it acts as a stimulant on the central nervous system with addictive and hallucinogenic properties and is prohibited in-competition pursuant to the World Anti-Doping Agency Prohibited List International Standard as adopted by the Turf Club. Shane Brian Kelly requested that the 'B' sample also be analysed. The analysis of the 'B' sample was carried out on 14th October 2015 and it confirmed the results of the 'A' sample.
Evidence was heard from Dr Thomas Barragry, Pharmacologist, Dr Adrian McGoldrick, Senior Turf Club Medical Officer, Michael O'Callaghan (Shane Brian Kelly's Master) and Shane Brian Kelly. The Committee also considered a written character reference for Mr Kelly from Ruaidhri Tierney, Authorised Riders Agent.
In his evidence Dr Thomas Barragry said that cocaine is a naturally occurring substance. It is a stimulant which suppresses appetite and releases adrenalin. He said that an overdose of cocaine can lead to a brain hemorrhage or a heart attack. It is hallucinogenic and addictive. It can lead to an artificial sense of euphoria and can affect riding ability.
In his evidence Dr Adrian McGoldrick updated the committee on discussions he had with Mr Kelly on the sample result.
In his evidence Michael O'Callaghan said Shane Brian Kelly had been working for him for the past year and was a huge part of his operation. He said he was a hard worker and very reliable.
In his evidence Shane Brian Kelly accepted the findings and agreed that he was in breach of the rule.
Having considered the evidence the Referrals Committee found that Shane Brian Kelly was in breach of Rule 277 and imposed a two year suspension on him holding a license with effect from 24th November 2015. However, they suspended the last year of the penalty on condition that the balance thereof could be activated immediately by any Referrals Committee which found at any future time that Mr Kelly had committed a further doping offence during the period of suspension, together with such further penalty in respect of the future offence as might be appropriate. They further ordered that Shane Brian Kelly submits to a program of random drug testing for the next two years, at the direction and discretion of the Turf Club Medical Officer.
In light of Mr Kelly's circumstances, the manner in which he had met the case and the imposition of a period of suspension, the Committee did not order him to pay any costs.
The case was presented by Conal Boyce, Solicitor, Naas, Co. Kildare. Shane Kelly was represented by Andrew Coonan, Coonan Cawley, Solicitors, Naas, Co. Kildare.


Public Justice announced Gary Gwilliam, Randall E. Strauss, and Robert J. Schwartz of Gwilliam Ivary Chiosso Cavalli & Brewer are finalists for the 2016 Trial Lawyer of the year award.
The five finalist cases for Public Justice's Trial Lawyer of the Year Award include landmark cases dealing with workers' rights, the horrifying consequences of product defects, financial institution funding of terrorism, and civil rights.
In 2008, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California was taken over by a private company, Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC. LLNS is an LLC dominated by Bechtel Corporation and the University of California. LLNS promised to save the Federal Government $50 million annually. In May of that year, LLNS fired more than 400 of the lab's most senior workers, including many top scientists and researchers. According the San Francisco Chronicle, they were given one hour to pack up all their belongings and return their badges before they were 'perp-walked' out of the lab. Fired at the height of the 2008 recession, many of those laid off experienced foreclosures, bankruptcies, divorces, depression, and physical symptoms as a direct result of their termination.
130 of these workers filed a consolidated action against the laboratory in May 2009, contending that LLNS' promise to save the Department of Energy $50 million annually was contingent upon firing many of the laboratory's oldest and most experienced workers. This stood in direct violation of existing layoff policies that dictated employees should be laid off in reverse order of seniority; the average seniority of those laid off was nearly 20 years.
The team litigated the case for more than seven years in a process that was continually delayed by stalling tactics by the laboratory counsel. Undeterred, counsel for the plaintiffs put in over 25,000 hours in the case, although the defense firm had 200 times the number of lawyers as Gwilliam Ivary Chiosso Cavalli & Brewer.
Despite all of the setbacks and delay tactics, the team won a $2.73 million jury verdict for past and future economic loss on claims of breach of contract, and breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing for five test plaintiffs as part of a two-phase trial. The team was then able to negotiate a $37.25 million settlement for 129 of the 130 plaintiffs-the equivalent of over three years' salary for each plaintiff. The defense insisted the settlement be confidential. Plaintiffs' counsel refused to agree to confidentiality, arguing the public had a right to know how its tax dollars are being spent.
The Andrews case sheds light on how the George W. Bush administration's decision to privatize a national security laboratory had devastating impacts on workers and the nation's safety, as decades of knowledge and experience left the lab as a result of the layoffs. The case affected all workers at the Lawrence Livermore lab and approximately 10,000 workers at its sister lab in Los Alamos by establishing standards under which permanent employees can be laid off, hopefully ensuring that no other injustice like this can ever happen at those laboratories again.
Team: Gary Gwilliam, Randall E. Strauss, and Robert J. Schwartz of Gwilliam, Ivary, Chiosso, Cavalli & Brewer in Oakland, Calif.; and Omar Habbas of Habbas & Associates in San Jose, Calif.


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By James Stevenson
The New Yorker, December 26, 1977 P. 22
Talk story about early morning visit to Hunts Point, produce market, on the desolate shoreline of the southeast Bronx. Describes the area, surrounded by high fences of corrugated steel topped with barbed wire with guard booths blocking the entrance. Outside the fence, there were a few prostitutes standing, and signs announcing businesses. Visits Moshman's Garrison Bakery where a few customers were sitting at the tables. Tells about conversations overheard.
Published in the print edition of the December 26, 1977, issue.
More:BakeriesBronxChristmasCredit CardsHunts Point Market
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Learn the Confectioners' secrets for how to make Spun Sugar Pops this Valentine?€?s Day. Follow the easy instructions, and watch your bubbly hot sugar cool to glass threads. Enchant your sweet children with clouds of candy floss. Their eyes will twinkle with delight as the sugar crackles on their sweetheart lips. This spun sugar recipe is uncomplicated, and requires only a few pieces of equipment. Leave me a comment in the section below.
Thanks to Gesine Bullock-Prado and her candy book Sugar Baby: Confections, Candy Cakes. Her recipe was the inspiration for my pops.
Lay two silicone mats on your counter to create a work space.
You might want to spread newspaper on the floor around your work space to catch any sticky sugar that could fall.
Set out (8) 8" sticks near your mat.
Pull out a ball whisk or decapitate an old whisk that you can dedicate to this purpose.
Mise en place your basic equipment.
Measure into a medium saucepan the sugar, corn syrup, water, and salt. Set aside.
Set near the stove the raspberry extract and pink food colouring.
Over medium heat, stir the sugar/water mixture until the sugar dissolves.
As the sugar heats up, you see it begin to caramelize the sugar closest to the pan. Distribute the heat by swirling the pan. This does an adequate job.
Heat the syrup to 320F/160C.
Keep a close eye on the temperature. 320ºF is hot enough.
When the instant the temperature reaches 320??F/160??C, remove the syrup from the heat and whisk in the food colour and raspberry extract.
Add pink food color to get a rich shade.
You might find many recipes that recommend you pour the hot sugar into a shallow glass bowl or ceramic dish to encourage it to cool. I find this technique cools the sugar far too fast. It becomes overly thick and sticky to work with and it's difficult to reheat.
Cool the hot sugar by pouring it into a shallow dish.
I prefer at this point to leave the sugar in the saucepan because it will give you more control as it cools. Yes, it might continue to cook a little by leaving it in the pan, but having it in the saucepan makes it much easier to reheat when it gets too thick and sticky.
Now that your sugar is bubbly hot and very liquid, dip you whisk into the syrup stir and lift it straight up about 1 foot/30 centimeters. At this point the sugar will be too liquid to hold onto the tines of the whisk and make threads.
Continue gently stirring and lifting the whisk. With time, you'll see the syrup begin to thicken and hold onto the whisk.
Continue further stirring and lifting straight up and the syrup will begin to pour off and cool into threads before it melts back into the hot sugar.
When you feel the temperature has stabilized and producing threads easily, interrupt the stream of cooled sugar with your stick and spin it around a tightly. This creates the foundation for your Sugar Pop.
Get the pop started by tightly winding the threads around the stick.
Continue dipping the whisk in the sugar and lifting it high to produce the threads and wrap them very loose and delicate around your stick until you feel your pop is the size that's right for you.
Twirl the sugar threads into a cloud.
Over the course of you making your eight pops, your sugar will probably become too cool, and sticky. Warming it will loosen the sugar. If you've kept your sugar in the saucepan, simply return it to the heat and stir with your whisk until it becomes liquid again. No need to measure the temperature further.
As you finish each pop, while it's still warm, shape it with your hand. The sugar will be sufficiently cool and it won't burn.
Gently shape the warm sugar.
Repeat with all eight sticks and store them upright in a glass, flower vase or a piece of styrofoam. This will keep the cloud shape intact.
Three pops done. Working on the fourth.


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Q: Concatenate select rows into one row without space in R (using forloop) I'm trying to concatenate multiple rows into one.
Each row, it is either start with ">Gene Identifier" or Sequence information

>Zfyve21|ENSMUSG00000021286|ENSMUST00000021714
  GCGGGCGGGGCGGGGTGGCGCCTTGTGTGGGCTCAGCGCGGGCGGTGGCGTGAGGGGCTC
  AGGCGGAGA
>Laptm4a|ENSMUSG00000020585|ENSMUST00000020909
  GCAGTGACAAAGACAACGTGGCGAAAGACAGCGCCAAAAATCTCCGTGCCCGCTGTCTGC
  CACCAACTCCGTCTTGTTTCACCCTTCTCCTCCTTGCGGAGCTCGTCTGGGAGACGGTGA
  ATTACCGAGTTACCCTCAATTCCTACAGCCCCCGACAGCGAGCCCAGCCACGCGCACCGC
  GGTCAAACAGCGCCGGAGAGAGTTGAACTTTTGATTGGGCGTGATCTGTTTCAATCTCCA
  CATCTTCTCCAATCAGAAGCCAGGTAGCCCGGCCTTCCGCTCTTCGTTGGTCTGT

Here I just put two genes, but there are hundreds of genes following this.
Basically I will just leave the gene identifier as this, but I want to concatenate sequences only when it is separated into multiple rows.
Therefore, the final results should look like this:
The sequences were concatenated and combined into one row, without any space inbetween.

>Zfyve21|ENSMUSG00000021286|ENSMUST00000021714
  GCGGGCGGGGCGGGGTGGCGCCTTGTGTGGGCTCAGCGCGGGCGGTGGCGTGAGGGGCTCAGGCGGAGA
>Laptm4a|ENSMUSG00000020585|ENSMUST00000020909
  GCAGTGACAAAGACAACGTGGCGAAAGACAGCGCCAAAAATCTCCGTGCCCGCTGTCTGCCACCAACTCCGTCTTGTTTCACCCTTCTCCTCCTTGCGGAGCTCGTCTGGGAGACGGTGAATTACCGAGTTACCCTCAATTCCTACAGCCCCCGACAGCGAGCCCAGCCACGCGCACCGCGGTCAAACAGCGCCGGAGAGAGTTGAACTTTTGATTGGGCGTGATCTGTTTCAATCTCCACATCTTCTCCAATCAGAAGCCAGGTAGCCCGGCCTTCCGCTCTTCGTTGGTCTGT

By using "paste" function in R, I was able to achieve this manually.
i.e. paste(dat[2,1], dat[3,1], sep="")
However, I have a list of hundreads of gene, so I need a way to concatenate rows automatically.
I was thinking forloop, basically, if the row starts from ">", skip it, but if it is not start from ">", concatenate.
But I'm not expert in bioinformatics/R, it is hard for me to actually generate a script to achieve it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

A: Something happened when I pasted this into the answer box to concatenate the data lines but they were separate in my R session so this should work:
Lines <-
readLines(textConnection(">*>Zfyve21|ENSMUSG00000021286|ENSMUST00000021714
GCGGGCGGGGCGGGGTGGCGCCTTGTGTGGGCTCAGCGCGGGCGGTGGCGTGAGGGGCTCAGGCGGAGA*

>*>Laptm4a|ENSMUSG00000020585|ENSMUST00000020909
GCAGTGACAAAGACAACGTGGCGAAAGACAGCGCCAAAAATCTCCGTGCCCGCTGTCTGCCACCAACTCCGTCTTGTTTCACCCTTCTCCTCCTTGCGGAGCTCGTCTGGGAGACGGTGAATTACCGAGTTACCCTCAATTCCTACAGCCCCCGACAGCGAGCCCAGCCACGCGCACCGCGGTCAAACAGCGCCGGAGAGAGTTGAACTTTTGATTGGGCGTGATCTGTTTCAATCTCCACATCTTCTCCAATCAGAAGCCAGGTAGCCCGGCCTTCCGCTCTTCGTTGGTCTGT*
"))

 geneIdx <- grepl("\\|", Lines)
  grp <- cumsum(geneIdx)
 grp
#[1] 1 1 1 2 2 2

 tapply(Lines, grp, FUN=function(x) c(x[1], paste(x[-1], collapse="") ) )
#----------------------
$`1`
[1] ">*>Zfyve21|ENSMUSG00000021286|ENSMUST00000021714"
[2] "GCGGGCGGGGCGGGGTGGCGCCTTGTGTGGGCTCAGCGCGGGCGGTGGCGTGAGGGGCTCAGGCGGAGA*"

$`2`
[1] ">*>Laptm4a|ENSMUSG00000020585|ENSMUST00000020909"
[2] "GCAGTGACAAAGACAACGTGGCGAAAGACAGCGCCAAAAATCTCCGTGCCCGCTGTCTGCCACCAACTCCGTCTTGTTTCACCCTTCTCCTCCTTGCGGAGCTCGTCTGGGAGACGGTGAATTACCGAGTTACCCTCAATTCCTACAGCCCCCGACAGCGAGCCCAGCCACGCGCACCGCGGTCAAACAGCGCCGGAGAGAGTTGAACTTTTGATTGGGCGTGATCTGTTTCAATCTCCACATCTTCTCCAATCAGAAGCCAGGTAGCCCGGCCTTCCGCTCTTCGTTGGTCTGT*"

A: Would regular expressions do the trick? The regular expression below deletes newlines (\\n) not followed by > ((?!>) being a negative lookahead).
text <-">Zfyve21|ENSMUSG00000021286|ENSMUST00000021714
GCGGGCGGGGCGGGGTGGCGCCTTGTGTGGGCTCAGCGCGGGCGGTGGCGTGAGGGGCTC
AGGCGGAGA

>Laptm4a|ENSMUSG00000020585|ENSMUST00000020909
GCAGTGACAAAGACAACGTGGCGAAAGACAGCGCCAAAAATCTCCGTGCCCGCTGTCTGC
CACCAACTCCGTCTTGTTTCACCCTTCTCCTCCTTGCGGAGCTCGTCTGGGAGACGGTGA
ATTACCGAGTTACCCTCAATTCCTACAGCCCCCGACAGCGAGCCCAGCCACGCGCACCGC
GGTCAAACAGCGCCGGAGAGAGTTGAACTTTTGATTGGGCGTGATCTGTTTCAATCTCCA
CATCTTCTCCAATCAGAAGCCAGGTAGCCCGGCCTTCCGCTCTTCGTTGGTCTGT"

cat(text)

cat(gsub("\\n(?!>)", "", text, perl=TRUE))

Result
>Zfyve21|ENSMUSG00000021286|ENSMUST00000021714GCGGGCGGGGCGGGGTGGCGCCTTGTGTGGGCTCAGCGCGGGCGGTGGCGTGAGGGGCTCAGGCGGAGA
>Laptm4a|ENSMUSG00000020585|ENSMUST00000020909GCAGTGACAAAGACAACGTGGCGAAAGACAGCGCCAAAAATCTCCGTGCCCGCTGTCTGCCACCAACTCCGTCTTGTTTCACCCTTCTCCTCCTTGCGGAGCTCGTCTGGGAGACGGTGAATTACCGAGTTACCCTCAATTCCTACAGCCCCCGACAGCGAGCCCAGCCACGCGCACCGCGGTCAAACAGCGCCGGAGAGAGTTGAACTTTTGATTGGGCGTGATCTGTTTCAATCTCCACATCTTCTCCAATCAGAAGCCAGGTAGCCCGGCCTTCCGCTCTTCGTTGGTCTGT

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Condylostylus astequinus är en tvåvingeart som först beskrevs av Jacques-Marie-Frangile Bigot 1888.  Condylostylus astequinus ingår i släktet Condylostylus och familjen styltflugor. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Pics of 870 Marine?
Would like to check out this beauty.
Feedback for this model would be very helpful also.
Try Remingtons website, they have a decent pic. There also may be one in the shotgun picture thread.
I've got some pictures of mine, but I can't find the damn cable to upload the pictures to my laptop. When I find the cable I'll post them.


7 X sheets of the latest flowers and rose temporary metallic tattoos. There are over 75+ designs in black, gold, silver, blue, and red, and come in a variety of both small and large temporary tattoos.
This flower set has designs including hibiscuses, roses, mandalas, bracelets, arm bands, and much more.


The healthcare study area in VIVES offers a wide range of high-quality professional Bachelor's programmes within the broad context of the healthcare and welfare sector. We train students with a strong theoretical and scientific basis, tested against relevant professional practice situations. The emphasis is not only on the development of professional knowledge, but also on the development of competencies.
We realise this ambition through a stimulating learning and living environment with (international) lecturers who are experts in their field, but also by creatively challenging students on their talents! By means of a well-considered mix of didactic methods, students actively and independently develop - coached by teachers - general and profession-specific competences. Internship experiences help to broaden, broaden and deepen the view of professional practice.
Numerous opportunities to move on to further education also offer students opportunities to professionalise even further. But above all, we want to be a warm university of applied sciences, where courses are organised in relatively small campuses and where there is close contact between students and lecturers.


There is our favourite airline, Qantas. The airline's senior engineers are threatening strike action over work hours and pay. Qantas said that it will still be flying without its engineers.
Yes indeed, given the airline's appalling record in recent times, I thought the airlines did not have any engineers.
Qantas promises that all passengers will reach their destination, on the back of a bicycle.
BA has just announced the sacking of 1200 staff. This will be the scenario. "Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls". "I am your pilot, hostie, engineer, and mother of all during this flight from London to Athens". "After I have taken the aircraft into the air and put it on auto-pilot, I shall provide drinks, we hope". "Please note that after landing at Athens Airport, you may pick up your luggage, in Rome"."Thank you for flying with me and have a nice day".
British Airways, the troubled UK airline, and Iberia, Spain's also financially troubled airline, have agreed to a $7 billion merger. So now we shall two financially troubled airlines all rolled into one. It will certainly make things easier for the liquidators, or undertakers, should the combined airline fail. I have a suggested name for the new airline. "Spanish Fly"


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East Orange Centennial Celebration 1963
East Orange came into existence in 1863 after splitting from Orange. In 1963 the city celebrated its first 100 years.
Abraham Lincoln was president when East Orange was formed. In 1864 the majority of voters in East Orange voted for Lincoln rather than his opponent, General George McClellan, a resident of West Orange:
"East Orange, however, was staunchly Union, and Republican. It gave Lincoln 354 votes to 109 for neighbor McClellan. This despite the fact that New Jersey was one of the three Northern states to go for McClellan." (from the East Orange History Timeline)
Below: 2nd from left, Mayor James W Kelly, Jr.
photos courtesy of former Stockton student Edith Dim who is in the photos
Franklin Hose Company No. 3
John Alexander Tenney: In Memorium
Eastern Hose Co. No. 2
Zane Grey in East Orange


Assistant Principal Teri Madill running with the kids during a previous Panther Run. Lori Themar photos.
Students, teachers and supporters at Riverview's Collins Elementary School will take to the track later this month to raise funds for new computers.
The school's Parent Teacher Association hopes to raise enough money to replace computers that, while they may have been top of the line when the school opened, are now technological relics.
The event is set for Friday, Feb. 27, at the school in Panther Trace. Organizers will welcome donations of water and snacks for children after the run. The public can also help by sponsoring youngsters who take part in the run.
Madill is a top contender for the open principal's seat at Collins. The county is expected to make a decision soon on the new principal.
Hoping to buy 30 new computers at $879 each, organizers are aiming to raise $20,000 to $25,000 at the event. Buttressed by a fall fundraiser that raised enough to buy 14 new computers, organizers hope the Fun Run will cover the cost of the remaining 16 computers.
After the Fun Run, "anything extra we have will all go back to the school," said Lori Themar, PTA president.
Last year's run raised $25,000 and helped build a shaded outdoor area for children.
This is the third Collins' Panther Run, a PTA-sponsored event that has become the main fundraiser for the school.
While there are some Bay-area companies that will help schools organize fun runs, they also take a whopping 40 percent of the funds raised as a fee, like traditional catalog fundraising companies.
"We thought to ourselves, 'we can do that and give 100 percent of the money raised back to the school,'" Themar said.
It's no small task organizing the event. PTA board members, who are unpaid volunteers, usually spend 25 to 35 hours a week working on the event in the months leading up to the Panther Run. School supporters also have the satisfaction of knowing all the funds raised go to the school.
Two weeks before the Panther Run, students solicit donations from friends, family and neighbors for the event, competing for prizes based on the amount of money they raise.
On the big day, the PTA provides a Panther Run T-shirt for each student running. The PTA also solicits local businesses to advertise on the shirts to cover the cost of the 1,200 shirts needed for students, teachers and staff. Among this year's sponsors are Senior Helpers, PDQ, PROtential Sports and Elmira's Wildlife Sanctuary.
"It is a really fun day to get the kids moving and have them be an active part of raising funds for their school," Themar said.
Collins Elementary, which has more military families than any other Hillsborough County elementary school, also does a large Veterans Day celebration: More than 1,000 students sing songs in honor of veterans.
Last year, the school started a Wall of Honor. Students brought in a picture of a relative in uniform. The photo salute is currently on display in a glass case in the school's front office.


The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC yesterday said it had written to the Southern Africa Development Community.
The National Arts Council of Zimbabwe (NACZ) has approached the Government seeking conferment of national.
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — One of Zimbabwe and Africa's most iconic musicians, Oliver Mtukudzi, died.


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Gedung Wani is een bestuurslaag in het regentschap Ogan Komering Ulu Selatan van de provincie Zuid-Sumatra, Indonesië. Gedung Wani telt 2883 inwoners (volkstelling 2010).

Plaats in Zuid-Sumatra


Emmett Herschel Harris, age 86 of Goodlettsville, passed away on August 28, 2017 in the comfort of his home.
He was born on March 14, 1931 to the late Harvey and Nora Harris.
Mr. Harris was a lifelong member of Union Hill Baptist Church and worked for 31 years at DuPont.
He was a good man to his friends and a loving husband and uncle. He and Carolyn enjoyed cruising to Alaska and the Caribbean's numerous times, including visiting Hawaii seven times. They visited 33 States, but enjoyed camping and fishing close to home.
In addition to his parents, Mr. Harris is preceded in death by his siblings, Harvey F. Harris, Salley Smith and William H. Harris.
He is survived by his beloved and devoted wife of 64 years, Carolyn Harris; brother, Charles Richard Harris; nephews, Kevin Lee Phelan, Troy Hall (Andrea Elaine) Phelan, Jeffery Clay Phelan; great-nephew, Walter Frank Phelan.
A Life Celebration will be held on Thursday, August 31 at 12pm in the Chapel of Cole and Garrett Funeral Home, burial will follow at Spring Hill Cemetery in Madison. The family will receive friends on Wednesday, August 30 from 4-8pm then again on Thursday from 11:00am until the time of service.
Herschel has been a wonderful neighbor for forty-five years and our family will certainly miss him. Our thoughts, love, and prayers are with Carolyn and his family.


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Sleeping Puppies on a Mat
House of Fabergé
(Russian, 1842-1918)
Russia, St. Petersburg, late 19th-early 20th Century
Agate, chalcedony
Overall: 2.9 x 11.7 x 9.9 cm (1 1/8 x 4 5/8 x 3 7/8 in.)
The India Early Minshall Collection 1966.451
211 Fabergé
Fabergé's artisans used multiple types of stone to make each puppy unique. Even the little rug they are sleeping on is made of stone.
In creating luxurious accessories for a desk or tabletop, Fabergé often used native hardstones such as multicolored agate and jasper, green nephrite, pink rhodonite, and rock crystal found in the Ural Mountains of western Russia. By paying careful attention to the unique colors and textures of the stones, Fabergé and his craftsmen brought them to life, turning milky agate into a begging poodle or brown and black jasper into these sleeping puppies. The use of native materials also promoted Russian nationalism, which appealed greatly to the tsar and his family.
Peter Carl Faberge (1846-1922) took over the House of Faberge in 1870 from his father Carl Gustav Faberge who had founded the firm in 1842. Until 1881, the firm manufactured primarily jewelry for Saint Petersburg's aristocrats and wealthy elite. In 1885 the firm was awarded the coveted imperial warrant as goldsmith to the tsar and began to produce elaborate presentation Easter eggs as a gift for the tsarina from her husband every year. They also produced luxurious accessories, jewelry, and hardstone sculptures. At one point, Faberge employed over 300 workers including 22 workmasters who oversaw the production of the firm's jewelry and precious objects. A branch of the firm opened in Moscow in 1887, specializing in neo-Russian and pan-Slavic motifs in jewelry, silver, and enamel. Other branches followed in Kiev, London, and Odessa as well as new premises in Saint Petersburg. At the onset of the Russian Revolution, Peter Carl Faberge fled the country to Paris then Switzerland, where he died in 1922. His firm was nationalized by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
India Early Minshall [1885–1965], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
Hawley, Henry H. Fabergé and His Contemporaries: The India Early Minshall Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967. Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 64-5, cat. 28. ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org
Habsburg, Géza von, and David Park Curry. Fabergé in America. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1996. Mentioned and reproduce: p. 108, cat. 85. ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org
Fabergé, Peter Carl, and Deborah E. Horowitz. The Fabergé Menagerie. London: Philip Wilson Pub, 2003. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 125, cat. 59. ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org
Harrison, Stephen, Emmanuel Ducamp, and Jeannine J. Falino. Artistic Luxury: Fabergé Tiffany Lalique. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 185, cat. 85. ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org
The India Early Minshall Collection: Faberge and his Contemporaries. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 15, 1967-January 21, 1968).
Year in Review: 1967. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967).
Fabergé in America. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (February 12-May 5, 1996); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (organizer) (May 25-July 28, 1996); Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (August 24-November 2, 1996); New Orleans Museum of Art (December 7, 1996-February 8, 1997); The Cleveland Museum of Art (March 12-May 11, 1997).
Fabergé's Menagerie: The Animal Creations of the Fabergé Workshop. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD (organizer) (February 14-July 27, 2003); Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (October 12, 2003-January 4, 2004); Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (February 8-May 2, 2004).
Artistic Luxury: Fabergé Tiffany Lalique . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2008-January 18, 2009); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (February 7-May 31, 2009).
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Jew of the Week
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Jew of the Week: Deni Avdija
The NBA's Next Big Star?
Deni Avdija
(Credit: Maccabi.co.il)
Deni Avdija (b. 2001) was born in Kibbutz Beit Zera in Israel to a Serbian-Muslim father and an Israeli-Jewish mother. His father was a professional basketball player who had moved to Israel to play for Ramat HaSharon, and then several other clubs. The elder Avdija fell in love with the country and people, and settled in Israel permanently. Deni grew up playing basketball, too, and joined the youth club of Maccabi Tel Aviv when he was 12. At just 16, he signed with Maccabi's senior team, making him the youngest player ever in the Israeli Basketball Premier League. He went on to win three championships with the team. In the last season, he was the league MVP—setting another record as the youngest player ever to win that prize. He was also the MVP at the European Basketball Without Borders tournament in 2018, and the MVP at the NBA's Basketball Without Borders Global Camp last year. Avdija earned yet another MVP at the Under-20 FIBA European Championships last year, when he led Israel's team to the gold. (Though he is eligible to play for Serbia, he has chosen to represent his birth country Israel on the international stage.) After spending a few months with the IDF this past year while basketball was on hold due to COVID, he was drafted by the NBA's Washington Wizards and signed a rookie contract. He made his NBA debut in a preseason game against the Brooklyn Nets, making a huge splash with 15 points and 2 assists, and going 100% in field goals and threes. The announcer at the game called him the "Mensch off the Bench", to go along with his other title, "the Israeli sensation". Some predict he may become the NBA's next big star. Avdija recently did a public menorah-lighting during Chanukah. He hopes to highlight his proud heritage in the NBA, and to show all "the great things about Israel".
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When sheep have no leader, they huddle together and imitate each other out of fear. And I'm not talking about sheep.
– Rabbi Aharon Feldman
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Jew of the Week: Yossi Cohen
The Real James Bond
Yosef Meir Cohen (b. 1961) was born in Jerusalem to a religious-Zionist family with deep roots in the ancient city. He is a 9th-generation Israeli, and his ancestors were among the founders of the Mea Shearim neighbourhood, one of the first outside Jerusalem's Old City walls. Cohen grew up studying in yeshivas and was a member of the Bnei Akiva religious-Zionist youth movement. After completing his military service in the IDF as a paratrooper, he spent some time studying in London. Returning to Israel in 1982, he joined the Mossad and quickly made a name for himself. He was the only religious officer in the Mossad at the time, and originally worked as a spy recruiter and handler. Over the years, he also led a number of daring spy missions which are, of course, all classified. Cohen was awarded the Israel Defense Prize, given to those distinguished individuals who are recognized for playing an instrumental role in keeping the Jewish State safe. By 2011, Cohen had risen to deputy director of the Mossad. Two years later, he was appointed Netanyahu's national security advisor. In 2016, he took over Israel's top spy job, becoming Mossad's director. His task was to clean up the organization, restore its prestige (after some high-profile failures) and, most importantly, end the threat from Iran. It was Cohen who oversaw the stunning 2018 operation to raid Tehran's nuclear archives. And it was Cohen who oversaw last week's devastating assassination of Iran's nuclear chief. Back in 2016, he similarly took out Hamas' terror chief in a complex operation in Tunisia. Over the past four years, Cohen has transformed the Mossad into, by some counts, the world's second-largest intelligence agency (after the CIA). He presides over a network of an estimated 7000 agents. Meanwhile, thanks to Cohen's diplomatic wisdom and his fluency in English, French, and Arabic, he has also served as Netanyahu's chief negotiator, and was behind the Abraham Accords that brought peace between Israel, the UAE, and Bahrain. He is working to bring more peace agreements with neighbouring countries, including Oman and Saudi Arabia. Last year, The Jerusalem Post ranked Cohen as the most influential Jew in the world. Netanyahu has said that he believes Cohen alone to be capable of leading the nation in the future. Despite being a grandfather, Cohen still runs marathons. All of this, combined with his gracefulness and charm, is the reason he has been described as Israel's James Bond.
The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.
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Jew of the Week: Raphael Mechoulam
"Godfather of THC"
Raphael Mechoulam
Raphael Mechoulam (b. 1930) was born in Bulgaria to a wealthy Sephardic-Jewish family. The family was forced to flee the country due to rampant anti-Semitism, ultimately surviving the Holocaust and settling in Israel in 1949. During his IDF service, Mechoulam worked as a chemical engineer and helped to develop insecticides. Falling in love with scientific research, he continued to study chemistry after his military service, earned his Master's from the Hebrew University, then his PhD from the Weizmann Institute. After studies at the Rockefeller Institute in New York, Mechoulam returned to Israel to teach at both of his former universities. His primary field of research is cannabis. In fact, it was Mechoulam who first discovered, isolated, and synthesized THC, the primary active ingredient in cannabis. He would later discover and synthesize other important cannabinoids (a term he coined). Mechoulam was one of the pioneers of medicinal cannabis, and has said that medicinal cannabis could probably replace "ten to twenty percent of all pharmaceuticals". More recently, he discovered endocannabinoids—molecules similar to THC that are naturally produced by the body, playing a key role in immunity and in regulating human emotions. All in all, Mechoulam published over 350 scientific papers. In 2016, he received a lifetime achievement award at Harvard's School of Medicine. He was also the subject of an eye-opening documentary called The Scientist. Now a nonagenarian, Mechoulam continues to do research at his Jerusalem lab.
Jewish time sees us as travellers on the road to a destination not yet reached; wayfarers on a journey begun by our ancestors, to be continued by our children.
– Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, z"l
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Preparation. It's at the heart of the Art of War. The idea that knowledge is power, that careful and cold-eyed examination of your relative strengths and weaknesses and those of your competitors are what have made this a critical source of wisdom for military and corporate strategists for centuries. But how well does it hold up in the digital age? What lessons can the digital strategist glean from it? And has the disruptive power of digital change rendered the teachings of Sun Tzu meaningless today?
Sun was a general, strategist and philosopher who lived in China in the late Sixth Century BC. Sun Tzu is traditionally credited as the author of The Art of War, a widely influential work of military strategy that has affected both Western and Eastern philosophy.
It presents a philosophy of war for managing conflicts and winning battles and is accepted as a masterpiece on strategy.
I don't think that anyone can dispute the idea that preparation still matters. This sits at the heart of the work of the strategist, especially given the complexity of the environment we navigate. But in digital media, there is often a rush to execution where a premium is placed on knowledge of the medium. In other words, it is deemed enough to know tactically how to manipulate digital platforms and channels. If you need any evidence of this look for organizations where digital functions report into IT.
The Art of War reminds us that self awareness and a deep understanding of the competitive landscape are critical to victory. In fact, Sun Tzu basically states that victory is not possible without understanding your opponent. Now ask yourself, when was the last time you invested considerable time, effort or resources in understanding your competitors, their strengths and tactics and modifying your positioning relative to theirs? But this is a point Sun returns to time and again. This understanding of your opponent guides not just your strategy, but also your tactical decisions. He writes that 'When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them. If united, separate them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise'.
This is the first lesson we can apply to our work as digital strategists. Knowledge of the medium is good. Knowledge of self is better. Knowledge of the competition is best.
The Art of War goes beyond the idea of careful preparation. It puts forward the ideas of serenity and inscrutability, both concepts that are at the heart of Taoist thought. We have previously explored the importance of calmness as a key attribute of the digital strategist, and it is heartening to hear it echoed across the ages as a virtue. I particularly like that Sun Tzu advises to use your enemy's intemperance against him, to goad him into rash action, or as he wrote 'If your opponent is of choleric temper, irritate him'.
But this idea of inscrutability is interesting. Sun Tzu writes extensively of the need for deception and subtlety. He writes that you must 'appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak' and to 'let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt'. How does this apply to us, given the fact that our work is available online for all to see and that our entire industry is about promoting your capabilities to your prospects? I believe the key lesson here is to be subtle and swift, to not telegraph your intentions but rather to unveil them quickly and to always stay on the move. Through speed and subtlety, you keep your opponent off balance and make them play to your strengths. As Sun Tzu wrote, 'Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate'. We have explored this idea of formlessness and subtlety previously when we talked about what it means as a strategist to 'be water'.
Sun Tzu also explores the idea of strategy that is based on relative resources. He writes that 'He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces'. This is interesting to digital strategists since we often take a pretty standard approach to our work, regardless of resources. Understanding your competitive landscape helps you recognize where they are deeply invested and not only tells you where to focus, but also what to avoid. We often look at what the competition is doing and emulate their tactics. But this idea of truly differentiating your strategy and channels, of applying a blue ocean strategy to what you do is the path to success. Find the gap, go deep and become dominant in that channel. Let your competitor then take note of this and have them come to where you are strong. In the meantime, identify other gaps and move on to exploit them faster that the competition.
Preparation. Inscrutability. Subtlety. Speed. Differentiation. These concepts are as relevant to the digital strategist as they have been to our forbearers. We would do well to apply the lessons of a true strategic thinker. As Sun Tzu famously wrote, 'Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat'.
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With one day of racing behind them, competitors in the 45th BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival rolled right into today's race, the Scrub Island Invitational – a 12NM upwind ride for the CSA Cruising, Bareboat, and Multihull fleets, and a 17NM course for the CSA-Racing fleet. Conditions were again breezier than expected with 22 knots from the east and bumpy seas for the 10am start.
Located off the north east end of Tortola, Scrub Island is a new race destination for this year's Spring Festival.
A private resort island with classic Caribbean white sand beaches and docks at the ready was a welcome sight for racegoers who, on arrival, didn't waste any time stripping down to bathing suits and finding their way to the pool-side bar.
SPOOKIE, the TP52 owned by Steve and Heidi Benjamin (USA), took first in CSA-Racing class, followed by Quokka – Performance Yacht Racing, the Grand Soleil 43 skippered by Christian Reynolds (GBR), and in third place, Northern Child, the Swan 51 skippered by Eric Bos (GBR).
Renato Faria (BRA) helmed his Dufour 500 Ventaneiro 3 to another first place today, in the CSA-Cruising class, all the while claiming his boat really isn't that fast, it's his fabulous crew.
Windward Spirit, the Jeanneau 54DS skippered by Serge Bisson (CAN) took second in the CSA-Cruising class, and Sam of Hamble, a Sigma 38 helmed by Peter Hopps (GBR), took third.
First place in the multihull division was Slow Motion, skippered by Werner Puche (GER), while the Outremer 51 Ten Directions, skippered by Glenn Davis (USA), took second. Puche and his family - wife Erena and sons Leon (11) and Robert (9), who are just learning to sail, are having a blast in the BVI.
Taking another win today in CSA-Bareboat was Warvor, helmed by Willem Ellemeet (NLD). This group of seven friends celebrated their win with a bottle of champagne on the dock on arrival at Scrub Island.
Mary Jewell, the Sunsail 50 skippered by Larry Caillouet (USA), took second in CSA-Bareboat, while ACTIFORCE-Ivoire (NLD), a Moorings 51, skippered by Willem Klomp, took third place in class.
Looking out to the start of the Regatta on Friday, Warwick Dunnett (USA), skipper of the Beneteau Oceanis 50 JogFund, is grateful for the practice racing over the past two days.
Thursday is an official lay-day but there'll be plenty happening at Nanny Cay, host for the Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival, with the Maritime Heritage Day featuring VP Banks 3rd Annual Tortola Sloop Spring Challenge - traditional Virgin Islands sloops competing for prizes and honours - starting at 11am, and presentation of the Sloop Awards following racing. The Regatta Skipper's Meeting is at 5:30pm. The Mt Gay Welcome party kicks off 5-7pm, with live music – the MJ Blues Band - until midnight.
The BVI Sailing Festival Round Tortola Race for the Nanny Cay Cup and Nanny Cay Challenge started promptly at 9:30 on Tuesday morning in seas a little rougher than normal due to last week's high winds, and an easterly breeze of 18+ knots. The trimaran Triple Jack, owned by Richard Wooldridge and Steve Davis (BVI), charged off the start to an early lead in the CSA-Multihull class, making its way around the island in corrected time of 3:46:38, taking first place overall in the 2016 Nanny Cay Cup. Their elapsed time of 3:19:30 was not enough, however, to break the current multihull record for the Nanny Cay Challenge of 2:33:40 which they set on April 30, 2015, nonetheless spirits were still high on the custom-design trimaran.
Penalized by an over early in the start of the CSA Racing Class was not enough to hold back TP52 SPOOKIE, owned by Steve and Heidi Benjamin (USA), from taking first in class in the Nanny Cay Cup in corrected time of 3:48:43.
Most significantly, however, SPOOKIE broke the Monohull Nanny Cay Challenge record in an elapsed time of 3:08:43, a whopping 21 minutes off the previous record of 03:29:44, set in March 2013 by Peter Corr's Aiyana, an Alia 82. With a new record under his belt, Steve Benjamin, SPOOKIE's skipper, was one happy guy when his boat pulled into the dock after a fantastic ride around Tortola.
The team will certainly enjoy their Nanny Cay Challenge prize: a jeroboam of "Drappier" champagne, sponsored by Tico, a BVI distributor, dinner for 15 crew at Peg Legs restaurant at Nanny Cay, and a donation of $250 to benefit BVI youth sailing, which the team has generously matched.
In the Racing class, John Bamberger's Canadian Farr 45 Spitfire was also over early at the start, having to return to the line along with SPOOKIE, while the remainder of the 11-strong fleet took off in a tight bunch. TP52 Team Magnitude – Conviction, skippered by Doug Baker (USA) initially took the lead before being caught by SPOOKIE and finishing second in class. Quokka-Performance Yacht Charters, the Grand Soleil 43 skippered by Christian Reynolds, took third.
Renato Faria (BRA) steered his Dufour 500 Ventaneiro 3, to an early lead and first place in the CSA Cruising Class, while Warvor, the Sunsail 44i skippered by Willem Ellemeet (NED) took first in CSA Bareboat.
Life couldn't be more perfect for the crews of 54 boats competing in Tuesday's Nanny Cay Cup (Round Tortola Race) with the breeze forecast in the upper teens for the first race day of the 45th BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival. Registration opened at noon today under blue sunny skies, the famed BVI trades keeping the heat at bay.
The Nanny Cay Cup not only sets the scene for a week of great racing with spectacular views of Tortola throughout the 31-nautical mile race, additionally, the teams can also race for the Nanny Cay Challenge - a perpetual challenge for the fastest mono and catamaran record around the island.
For racers to set a new elapsed time as they make the circumnavigation, starting and finishing at Nanny Cay, they must beat current records: Monohull record (3hrs 29mins 44secs) set at the 2013 Sailing Festival by Peter Corr's Aiyana, an Alia 82; Multihull record (2hrs 33mins 40secs) set in 2015 by BVI's Triple Jack, the trimaran owned by Richard Wooldridge and Steve Davis.
The Challenge has fantastic awards up for grabs if a team breaks either of the current records: a jeroboam of "Drappier" champagne, sponsored by Tico, dinner for 15 crew, and a suggestion to donate $250 towards a BVI charity of choice.
Spookie, winner of the 2015 Nanny Cay Cup, a Carkeek HP40 owned by Steve and Heidi Benjamin from Norwalk, CT (USA), is back with high hopes to retain the Cup. They are psyched to put their best effort into taking the monohull Challenge record. Racing with them is Olympic silver medalist Peter Holmberg, one of the Caribbean's best known sailors who may help them set that record. Either way, the 15-strong Spookie crew loves the sailing conditions, scenery and atmosphere at Spring Regatta, especially when it's snowing back home.
Possibly the youngest sailors in Tuesday's fleet are Leon (11) and Robert Puche (10), all the way from Berlin, Germany. Their dad Werner will be skippering the Leopard 48 Slow Motion, which he bought 18 months ago to keep based in Tortola so they can enjoy events like Spring Regatta. "We're really looking forward to racing here and are only disappointed in that we have to leave early as the kids have to be back in school next week," Werner said. This is the first time for the family to be at the BVI Spring Regatta.
More first timers, Renato Faria, from Brazil, will be racing his Dufour 500 Ventaneiro 3, with friends from Brazil and Germany. A harbor pilot from Rio de Janeiro, Faria is used to sailing various Olympic class boats so he's not sure how racing Ventaneiro 3 will work out. "She's really a cruiser, but we'll try to race with her - we're looking forward to the best racing in the Caribbean and will keep the boat here to cruise and race in the future."
Team Slovakia, on board Arthur, a Beneteau First 40, have been in town for a few days now, taking time to soak up the beaches and a few cocktails while getting to know their way around the prevailing conditions. The group of seven friends are under the tutelage of Spring Regatta veteran Chris "Jacko" Jackson, owner's rep for Arthur. "This is a great regatta for these guys," Jackson said, "Everything's in one location, it's a two-minute walk to the parties from the boat, flat water and great sailing - what more could they want?"
Bob Phillips, Regatta Chairman, has chaired the BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival for 19 years so has a pretty good idea how conditions may shape up tomorrow. "We're looking at 15-20, pretty usual trade winds, maybe a little higher than normal. Of more importance is the direction - usually it's from the east which means a dead beat for the first part of the race...may not be record breaking conditions but it'll be close!"
Registration opens Monday at Nanny Cay, Tortola, British Virgin Islands, for some 110 boats and crews in the 45th BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival. The buzz is building shore-side, with the event Village under construction and docks filling up.
Lucy Jones, owner of the Swan 51 Northern Child & the Beneteau First 40 Southern Child, is back for her 7th BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival with two new race charter crews: a group of 24 from the company Samsin has chartered Northern Child & will race 12 guests on, 12 off, throughout the week. Tony Mac & his Team McFly have chartered the First 40.
Bamberger bought Spitfire in England last year and transferred her to the Caribbean a few weeks ago to participate in the Caribbean 600, and now this week, the BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival.
Christian Reynolds, a director of Performance Yacht Racing, is no stranger to the event, here for his 6th. One aspect of the event he welcomes is that the BVI Spring Regatta offers up some flat water racing, unlike other Caribbean racing. "The Sailing Festival is the "fun racing" and the Regatta is more serious – that mix is good, not to mention, it's stunning here," Reynolds says.


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Josey Jewell Alex Singleton Todd Bowles Bradley Chubb Damarea Crockett Ahmad Gardner Brett Rypien Melvin Gordon Tim Patrick Russell Wilson Breece Hall Quinnen Williams Baron Browning Latavius Murray Aaron Patrick Robert Saleh NFL Playoffs NFL football Football Professional football Athlete health Athlete injuries Sports
Denver Broncos Los Angeles Chargers New York Jets Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Jets-Broncos matchup pits two of the league's best defenses
By The Associated Press - Oct. 21, 2022 06:01 PM EDT
Los Angeles Chargers linebacker Drue Tranquill (49) sacks Denver Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson (3) during the second half of an NFL football game, Monday, Oct. 17, 2022, in Inglewood, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
NEW YORK JETS (4-2) at DENVER (2-4)
Sunday, 4:05 p.m. EDT, CBS
OPENING LINE: Broncos by 1½, according to FanDuel Sportsbook.
AGAINST THE SPREAD: Jets 4-2, Broncos 2-4.
SERIES RECORD: Broncos lead 22-16-1.
LAST MEETING: Broncos beat Jets 26-0 on Sept. 26, 2021, in Denver.
LAST WEEK: Jets beat Packers 27-10; Broncos lost to Chargers 19-16 in overtime.
JETS OFFENSE: OVERALL (17), RUSH (18), PASS (13), SCORING (10).
JETS DEFENSE: OVERALL (9), RUSH (12), PASS (12), SCORING (17).
BRONCOS OFFENSE: OVERALL (22), RUSH (19), PASS (21), SCORING (32).
BRONCOS DEFENSE: OVERALL (3), RUSH (13), PASS (5), SCORING (4).
TURNOVER DIFFERENTIAL: Jets plus-1, Broncos even.
JETS PLAYER TO WATCH: RB Breece Hall. The rookie second-rounder continues to establish himself as a key playmaker in New York's offense. He's coming off rushing for a career-best 116 yards at Green Bay, but will face a tough test in Denver's defense. Hall leads the Jets with 391 yards rushing and three TDs on 76 attempts. He also is tied for third on the team with 19 receptions.
BRONCOS PLAYER TO WATCH: RB Melvin Gordon. He was benched early in the loss to the Chargers on Monday night after carrying three times for 8 yards and he seemed disengaged on the sideline as Latavius Murray averaged 4.4 yards a carry in his Denver debut. A day later, Gordon retweeted a bunch of suggestions that the Broncos trade him. But coach Nathaniel Hackett and Gordon met to clear things and Hackett declared Gordon his starter against the Jets.
KEY MATCHUP: Jets DL Quinnen Williams vs. Denver's porous offensive line and suspect special teams protection.
KEY INJURIES: Jets rookie DE Jermaine Johnson (ankle) didn't practice all week and coach Robert Saleh said he would miss a second straight game. ... Broncos QB Russell Wilson is dealing with a pulled hamstring, his second injury in two weeks. He also had an injection recently to relieve discomfort near his throwing shoulder. Wilson said he hopes to play, but he was limping after the game Monday night and was carted to the team bus. He was listed as questionable to play Sunday after being limited in practice all week. ... OLB Aaron Patrick last week became the fifth Broncos player to tear an ACL, joining Tim Patrick, Javonte Williams, Damarea Crockett and Ronald Darby.
SERIES NOTES: The Broncos have won seven of their past nine games against the Jets. The only time these teams met in the playoffs came in the 1998 AFC championship game. The Broncos trailed 10-0, but scored 20 third-quarter points on their way to a second straight Super Bowl title.
STATS AND STUFF: The Jets are looking for their first 5-2 start since 2010, when they went 11-5 under Rex Ryan and made it to the AFC championship game. ... A victory would give New York its first four-game winning streak since 2015, when it won five straight but missed the playoffs with a 10-6 mark under Todd Bowles. ... The Jets have outscored opponents 68-20 in the fourth quarter, the largest scoring margin in that period in the NFL. The 68 points in the fourth also lead the league. ... New York's five fourth-quarter takeaways are the most in the NFL. ... Hall is the 17th rookie since the merger in 1970 to have at least one 100-yard rushing game and 100-yard receiving performance in his first season. He joins Pittsburgh's Najee Harris (2021), Tampa Bay's Warrick Dunn (1997) and Kansas City's Joe Delaney (1981) as the only rookies to accomplish the feat in their first six games. ... After throwing two interceptions in his season debut at Pittsburgh on Oct. 2, Zach Wilson has no turnovers in his two games since. ... According to TruMedia and Next Gen Stats, DT Quinnen Williams leads all interior defensive linemen with five sacks this season. He had two last week at Green Bay, to go along with three tackles, a forced fumble, two QB hits, a tackle for loss and a blocked field goal — resulting in being selected the AFC defensive player of the week. ... Rookie CB Sauce Gardner joined Atlanta's Desmond Trufant as the only players since 2000 with at least one pass defensed in each of their first six NFL games. Gardner, who has eight passes defensed, has allowed one reception for 6 yards in 40 coverage snaps in man coverage. ... QB Russell Wilson is off to a slow start in Denver with five TD passes and 20 sacks. That puts him on pace for 14 TD passes and 57 sacks, both of which would be career worsts. ... If Wilson can't go, expect Brett Rypien to get his second NFL start. His first was a 37-28 win over the Jets on Oct. 1, 2020, at the Meadowlands. ... RB Latavius Murray, who led the Broncos with 66 rushing yards in his Denver debut last week, had two TD runs in his previous game against the Jets on Oct. 21, 2018, with the Vikings. ... Rookie TE Greg Dulcich had 44 yards receiving and a TD catch in his first career game last week. ... ILB Alex Singleton had 21 tackles last week, including 19 solo, in place of Josey Jewell, who was inactive with a knee injury. His 21 tackles were the most in the NFL since Kwon Alexander had that many for the Buccaneers in 2016. ... For the second time this season, CB Patrick Surtain II didn't have a single pass thrown his way last week. ... OLB Bradley Chubb had 2½ sacks against the Jets on Oct. 1, 2020, helping the Broncos win 37-28. ... OLB Baron Browning had two tackles for loss, a sack, two pass breakups and his first career interception and fumble recovery last week.
FANTASY TIP: Wise bet to go with either team's dominant defense in this one.
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package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy;

import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.objectinspector.LazyUnionObjectInspector;

/**
 * LazyObject for storing a union. The field of a union can be primitive or
 * non-primitive.
 *
 */
public class LazyUnion extends LazyNonPrimitive<LazyUnionObjectInspector> {
  /**
   * Whether the data is already parsed or not.
   */
  private boolean parsed;

  /**
   * The start position of union field. Only valid when the data is parsed.
   */
  private int startPosition;

  /**
   * The object of the union.
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  private Object field;

  /**
   * Tag of the Union
   */
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  /**
   * Whether init() has been called on the field or not.
   */
  private boolean fieldInited = false;

  /**
   * Whether the field has been set or not
   * */
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  /**
   * Construct a LazyUnion object with the ObjectInspector.
   */
  public LazyUnion(LazyUnionObjectInspector oi) {
    super(oi);
  }

  // exceptional use case for avro
  public LazyUnion(LazyUnionObjectInspector oi, byte tag, Object field) {
    super(oi);
    this.field = field;
    this.tag = tag;
    fieldSet = true;
  }

  /**
   * Set the row data for this LazyUnion.
   *
   * @see LazyObject#init(ByteArrayRef, int, int)
   */
  @Override
  public void init(ByteArrayRef bytes, int start, int length) {
    super.init(bytes, start, length);
    parsed = false;
  }

  /**
   * Parse the byte[] and fill each field.
   */
  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  private void parse() {

    byte separator = oi.getSeparator();
    boolean isEscaped = oi.isEscaped();
    byte escapeChar = oi.getEscapeChar();
    boolean tagStarted = false;
    boolean tagParsed = false;
    int tagStart = -1;
    int tagEnd = -1;

    int unionByteEnd = start + length;
    int fieldByteEnd = start;
    byte[] bytes = this.bytes.getData();
    // Go through all bytes in the byte[]
    while (fieldByteEnd < unionByteEnd) {
      if (bytes[fieldByteEnd] != separator) {
        if (isEscaped && bytes[fieldByteEnd] == escapeChar
            && fieldByteEnd + 1 < unionByteEnd) {
          // ignore the char after escape_char
          fieldByteEnd += 1;
        } else {
          if (!tagStarted) {
            tagStart = fieldByteEnd;
            tagStarted = true;
          }
        }
      } else { // (bytes[fieldByteEnd] == separator)
        if (!tagParsed) {
          // Reached the end of the tag
          tagEnd = fieldByteEnd - 1;
          startPosition = fieldByteEnd + 1;
          tagParsed = true;
        }
      }
      fieldByteEnd++;
    }

    tag = LazyByte.parseByte(bytes, tagStart, (tagEnd - tagStart) + 1);
    field = LazyFactory.createLazyObject(oi.getObjectInspectors().get(tag));
    fieldInited = false;
    parsed = true;
  }

  /**
   * Get the field out of the row without checking parsed.
   *
   * @return The value of the field
   */
  @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
  private Object uncheckedGetField() {
    LazyObject field = (LazyObject) this.field;
    if (fieldInited) {
      return field.getObject();
    }
    fieldInited = true;

    int fieldStart = startPosition;
    int fieldLength = start + length - startPosition;
    if (isNull(oi.getNullSequence(), bytes, fieldStart, fieldLength)) {
      field.setNull();
    } else {
      field.init(bytes, fieldStart, fieldLength);
    }
    return field.getObject();
  }

  /**
   * Get the field out of the union.
   *
   * @return The field as a LazyObject
   */
  public Object getField() {
    if (fieldSet) {
      return field;
    }

    if (!parsed) {
      parse();
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    return uncheckedGetField();
  }

  /**
   * Get the tag of the union
   *
   * @return The tag byte
   */
  public byte getTag() {
    if (fieldSet) {
      return tag;
    }

    if (!parsed) {
      parse();
    }
    return tag;
  }
}

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