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Posted on October 21, 2022 October 21, 2022 by Noel Ihebuzor
The right choice stands upright,
right before us
light beckons us
so does dark
How will we choose?
To choose dark
to continue to slide back
on the long rung of the ladder of despair
away from light
deeper into debilitating darkness?
Tufia kwa!
Between dark and light,
the choice stands clear;
Choose right!
To choose right is to choose light,
for light is life,
To choose light is to choose to arrest the rot,
to end the decay that destroys and limits us
for light will make us grow and glow, for light is right and is life.
The true voice within each us tells to choose right and live!
The voices of evil, of stasis, ring out loud and rowdy,
trying to seduce and confuse us as they seek to sell other routes, routes that will only further entrap, rout and reduce us.
Let us say no to these voices,
let us resist the lure of such voices and remain obedient to the right voice of reason and choose right this time
so that we may grow, and blossom and glow.
Posted in governance, Politics, Prose
1 It is sad when people and nations choose foolishly and then blame fate or the gods for the consequences of their choices.
2. Experience is the best teacher but Nigerians are resistant to its teaching.
3. Huge traces of masochism must be embedded in the DNA of large portions of our populace when it comes to making political choices.
4. One bitten, twice seduced, thrice perpetually confused!
5. Rational Choice Theory (RCT) can explain anything including the worst forms of irrationality and that is its core flaw!
Posted on September 8, 2022 by Noel Ihebuzor
https://www.pwc.com/ng/en/publications/brain-exports-growing-the-nigerian-economy.html
Interesting write up
Posted on August 6, 2022 by Noel Ihebuzor
Kashim Shettima My Foot https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/08/05/kashim-shettima-my-foot/
A fitting response to a bile driven obituary
Posted on August 4, 2022 August 4, 2022 by Noel Ihebuzor
Everyone's obituary is inevitable.
Chuks Iloegbunam tells Sam Omatseye to cleanse his journalism
Some have called you foolish, dear Sam Omatseye. Others insist that you are plain stupid. There are those who hold you to be beneath contempt. Their howls of execration upon you are in reaction to your August 1, 2022 article entitled Obi-tuary (https://thenationonlineng.net/obi-tuary/). For me, however, you are a dear friend. Our friendship started in the 1980s at Newswatch magazine where both of us practiced journalism before you travelled to the United States for further studies. It continued upon your return and strengthened to the point that, sometimes, you get the producers of your TV Continental programme to connect me to field questions live. Besides, living in different states, we often chat by telephone. I demonstrated our amity again last May when I was in Nigeria's commercial capital for the Lagos International Book Fair. I phoned you and, within the hour, you were at my stand where we spent quality time reminiscing about the good old days and prognosticating on the future of our dear fatherland.
Armed with this handle of friendship, I have just the one advice for you: Be careful. It is in elaboration of this counsel that I write all that you read hereon. Please look back to the time of the Nigeria-Biafra war of 1967 to 1970. You will find that, military or civilian, none of the political actors of that era is still in a position to fight elections today. The final curtain long fell for most of them. Of the lot that remains, some have become vegetables, or are propped up with a suffusion of drugs or would not find their way to the loo unless hired attendants or swearing relatives point it out. Together with the handful that is still blessed with something close to robust health, they have one thing in common. They are seated, restless or restive, in various existential departure halls, clutching fitfully at their boarding passes and waiting for that inevitable voice that cannot be disobeyed, to announce their flights into past tense.
In a broad sense, the departed leave their legacies, good, bad or ugly, for those standing in line and waiting their turns to also check out. What legacies, dear Sam, are you and I feverishly working day and night to leave for those coming in our wake? When you write an article that denigrates the Igbo nation of over 50 million people, and make nonsense of some of those things that mean the most to them, do you really believe that your disposition is justified by the pay and perquisites that accrue to you at Ahmed Bola Tinubu's The Nation newspapers?
This is you: "The Biafran babblers are alive and well. They just swapped icons, rechristened the shrines and rewrote the rites. They left the prophet for a secular priest. They have had a switch of battle gear." This clearly is a perfidious way of sentencing Ndigbo to the status of the bat that is neither bird nor mammal. Their fight for Biafra five decades ago was stopped. Their fight now for democratic integration impels you to call them babblers, i.e., people who are no more than endless talkers of nonsense. One would think that the bat sobriquet aptly becomes your Bola Ahmed Tinubu whose initials provide the BAT acrostic that he wears like a badge. I will sooner return to the BAT.
This, again, is your characterisation of the Igbo: "They can say they have a legitimate tribe and rhetoric. They may pretend to love Nigeria. They may claim to embrace INEC, cling to a political party no one in the police or DSS will harangue."
Isn't this the height of Igbophobia? We may go back in history. Before Tinubu, there were other Yoruba presidential candidates, including Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Chief M. K. O. Abiola, General Olusegun Obasanjo, Chief Gani Fawehinmi and Chief Olu Falae. None of these personages indexed their presidential ambition on stoking inter-tribal animosity between the Yoruba and the Igbo. As a matter of fact, Chief Philip Ezebuilo Umeadi, Igbo and one of the oldest Senior Advocates of Nigeria, was Papa Awolowo's running mate in the 1979 presidential election.
Why does it make sense to you and to your principal that the only route to his vaulting presidential ambition must be one that sunders two ethnic groups that have since before the amalgamation been living together in amity, harmony and peace, two peoples that have always, in peace or in peril, lent each other a helping hand?
At the height of the Western Nigeria political crisis of the mid 1960s that pitted Chief Awolowo against Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola, the former's Action Group (AG) and Dr. M. I. Okpara's National Convention of Nigerian Citizens (NCNC) entered into a coalition that birthed the United Progressives Grand Alliance (UPGA). We have it on Wole Soyinka's authority – see page 73 of his autobiographical You Must Set Forth At Dawn (Bookcraft, Ibadan 2006) that Dr. Okpara lent the then incarcerated Awo a voice by dispatching Mazi Anyogu Elekwachi Ukonu and a complement of seasoned broadcasters that installed a transmitter right inside Awolowo's Ibadan home.
Ndigbo were not a part of Awolowo's treason trial and his imprisonment for ten years. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe even said that he was the one that insisted on Awolowo being imprisoned in Calabar, rather than in Northern Nigeria where the chief feared that poisoning could end his life.
It was not the Igbo that nullified Chief Abiola's victory in the 1993 presidential election. Rather, Ndigbo were in the forefront of the NADECO (National Democratic Coalition) struggle against the gross injustice. At least a third of those that formed the NADECO were Igbo, according to a list in Battlelines: Adventures in Journalism and Politics, Chief Segun Osoba's autobiography published in 2020 by Diamond Publications Limited, Lagos. They included Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe, the late Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu, Okwadike (Dr.) Chukwuemeka Ezeife, Prof Anya O. Anya, Chief Ralph Obioha, Chief Empire Kanu, Chief Michael Anyiam, Chief E. Duru, Chief Vincent Nwizugbo and Dr. Uma Eleazu.
NADECO had an international arm. In the United Kingdom, its meetings were held in the late Raph Uwechue's Africa Books Limited offices in Hammersmith London. Chief Uwechue was Igbo. Dear Sam, I do not know exactly where you were at the time, and I concede that, among Nigerian politicians, there is something known as selective amnesia. If, therefore, your Tinubu, who lived in London for a portion of his exile, does not remember Uwechue's role in NADECO, I am sure that none of General Alani Akinrinade, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi and Professor Sylvester Monye will ever forget. All the Igbo fighters for June 12 were not dissuaded by the fact that their struggle was to actualise the electoral mandate of Chief Abiola, a Yoruba politician. Apart from incarceration, harassment by security operatives and the alienation of exile, some of these men paid heavily in other ways for their commitment to cause of justice. Chief Bobo Nwosisi died in exile in London. Chief Obioha lost his bank, the First African Trust Bank Limited.
In the light of the above, readers would have to judge for themselves whether or not it is right for you, Sam, to say the following of Ndigbo: "They have transferred the temperament of their former master into the new. And they have not spared any incoherence, any lack of finesse, and threats and tantrums, any show of rabid, primitive cants, or any ululations. They have abused, cursed, thrown imprecations. They have hugged lies about their candidate. They have pelted lies about others. They have distorted material. Obi has turned out to be an excuse for even closet Biafrans to betray open emotions about Biafra without being accused of it."
To be sure, your writing is not an aberrant occurrence. On July 17, 2022, an Adedamola Adetayo posted on the Internet an anti-Igbo diatribe in which he said, among other things that "They have a POLITICAL ZIONISM already in play. It is in the thing they deceptively call Obidients. That Movement is going to RALLY the Igbos of Lagos in a way that they haven't ever been rallied. THEY ARE SET TO DETERMINE THE LEADERSHIP OF LAGOS. The priority is to remove Tinubu first. In future they will call the shot. This is what Peter Obi is all about. He has no plans for any Presidency. I can imagine that the ZIONISTS already have their IPOB/UGM all over the places in Lagos, in the Garrisons called Markets, under cover, masquerading as Igbo traders."
Years before this ranting Adedamola Adetayo, John Femi Kusa, who had been a script editor at The Guardian in Lagos, also showed his claws. In March 2019, he published an article on the Internet with this sentence of a title: Okota: The Igbo Question, Jimi Agbaje, Afenifere And The Rest Of Us. In it, he claimed that, "The major problem, in my opinion, is the Igbo penchant to wish to take over another person's land…Lagos was either a colony or a part of Western Nigeria. But because of the generosity of Yorubas and the foresight of their forefathers which made this region the star region in West Africa, the Igbos would like the Yorubaman to believe that LAGOS IS NO MAN'S LAND. Can anyone say that of Benin without eating his pounded yam as raw yam?"
Dear Sam, your Obi-tuary piece is as incendiary as the hateful views of Kusa and Adetayo. Kusa, now well into his 70s will not physically go feeding the Igbo raw yam. But all the vitriol you guys have been pushing against the Igbo is the stuff that leads the M. C. Oluomos into mindless violence and murder and arson and brigandage. You pen pushers of evil are the ones that egg on the rabble into wielding guns and cudgels and massacring innocent people for transient political offices. Is it right to promote this permittivity simply so that Tinubu will attain his wild goose chase of the presidential crown?
Kusa schooled at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, earning a degree in Mass Communication. All through his years in the Igbo country, not once was he molested or denied his citizenship on account of his origin. Did his welcome at Nsukka lead him into believing that the town was a part of the Yoruba country? According to Facebook, the acerbic Adetayo guy schooled at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, and earned a degree there without abuse, let or hindrance. Maybe it got fixed inside his brain that Awka is an extension of Lagos, or that Azikiwe after whom the institution was named was his progenitor.
If there are Ndigbo who say that Lagos is a no man's land, can one Igbo person be put up who simply seized a piece of land in the metropolis and converted it to his use? If Nigerians, including Tinubu's daughters, who have being buying up choice properties in New England, United States, can own houses in Europe, North America, the Middle East and elsewhere, why must it rankle that Ndigbo own property in Lagos? Why must ownership of landed property in one's own country lead to calumniation and physical harm? Is it not too steep a price to pay in order that Tinubu should become Nigeria's president?
The Igbo were not responsible for the recent bloody massacre of congregants inside the St Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State. The Igbo are not among those sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of Afenifere leader Chief Reuben Fasanranti's daughter. The herdsmen marauding, pillaging and plundering Yoruba land, looting, raping women, destroying farmlands and spreading death and destruction are not Igbo. The Igbo man did not kill a soul. He did not contest the governorship of Lagos. He hasn't ever claimed ownership of Iga Idungaran. The Igbo always lived in peace with the Yoruba – until Tinubu surfaced with his divisive politics. Are the vociferous Igbo supporters of Tinubu no longer of the ethnic group because of their partisan predilection?
Sam, informed readers of your articles are aware that your allusions to classical Anglo-Saxon, Greek and Roman mythologies and literary divergences are no more than an egregious attempt at appropriating the intellectual centre circle. Otherwise, you would appreciate the importance of adding depth to your fulminations. Any owner of a book of quotable quotes or a glossary of literary terms can fill their verbiage with citations. But that is no scholarship, my friend. Look at you: "Obi is like Zik, Kanu like Ojukwu. One is a flair, the other a flare." Yet, it doesn't strike you as reasonable to accord some of Zik's aptitude to Peter Obi, a man who earned an honours degree in Philosophy from Nigeria's premier indigenous university that was built by the great Zik of Africa. And Ojukwu is no more than a flare. By impugning him with combustibility, you forget that in January 1967, Ojukwu went to Aburi, Ghana, not with an incendiary device, but with the sole purpose of putting out the smoldering fire that was threatening to become a national conflagration. You forget that it was not Ojukwu but those that reneged on the Aburi Accord that tossed a lit match in an ocean of gasoline.
I agree with those that have invested you with the coronet of a seasoned journalist. Except that your coronation disdains the fact that your brand of perceptive journalism is only seasonal. That explains why it bothers you that "Obi hops from church to church," but means absolutely nothing to you that as Dele Sobowale reported in the Sunday Vanguard of July 10, 2022 "…Bola Tinubu has charged the Supreme Council for Sharia in the country to create a department of political affairs to create political awareness among the faithful towards producing a Muslim President in 2023." Neither do you care a hoot that, as Dr. Sobowale added in the same article "Tinubu has followed up that injunction to the Supreme Council for Sharia, by making secret pledges to expand the reach of Sharia to more Southern States if elected."
Rather, you call Peter Obi a hypocrite. But Mr. Obi gave his date of birth, the name of his parents, the town he hails from, the schools he attended and the businesses he is into. All were found to be correct. Not being at all interested in the truth, you threw Mr. Obi's data out of the window because you must be seen to be frantically propagating a character of disputed age, of unknown pedigree, unascertained genealogy, unsubstantiated name, uncorroborated curriculum vitae, and unverified academic diplomas. You shout from the rooftops that Peter Obi is not fit to govern. But you posit as fit for the presidential palace a specimen of incontinence, tremulous lower extremities, slurred speech, unsteady gait and memory lapses. You cannot be serious, my friend.
Of course, it is your entitlement to advertise even ordure if that captures your fancy, but you may not carry on as though your readers are imbecilic. By raising the Biafran bogey, your intention was clearly to create doubt and apprehension. But your gambit only registered a calamitous failure. Jonathan was President of this country. It didn't obliterate Niger Delta agitation. Buhari is president of this country; those of his people campaigning for the Islamic State haven't thrust their swords in their scabbards. You have a fondness for excoriating Nnamdi Kanu. Excellent! Except that your seasonal flair for journalism has never prompted you into examining the Sunday Igboho phenomenon. You make yourself a laughing stock by encapsulating in ethnic strictures the pan-Nigerian Peter Obi Movement that is youth led. You reckon not one bit that the youths that are sick and tired of the sanguinary dreariness and aridity of your principal's vanishing epoch.
Nonetheless, you cannot contest the truism that, in the last analysis, everything goes and turns round. All metals are bound for the anvil. We are here today – those, like Peter Obi and his equally competent and credible running mate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, that wish to place a new heart in the Nigerian nation; and others like your principal and his paid battalions of blinkered acolytes that, as Pa Ayo Adebanjo finely put it, are only interested in continuing and escalating the rot they inflicted on hapless Nigerians in 2015. Whatever tomorrow brings, you must continue to ruminate over the legacy you will leave for coming generations. Every one of us will have their entrance and their exit, it being a settled fact that obituary's certitude rings true for all comers, not just for Peter Obi as you wantonly asserted.
 Chuks Iloegbunam is the author of the upcoming book on Mr. Peter Obi entitled The Promise of a New Era.
Posted in BIBLICAL EXEGESIS, Religion
Reflecting on the readings of the Fifth Sunday of Easter by Noel Ihebuzor
Happy Sunday. Today is the 5th Sunday of Easter and the Sunday has interesting readings, once one overlooks the rather jarring send back in the choice of the gospel readings to Mundae Thursday!
Interesting readings indeed:
The first reading and the message that evangelisation involves sacrifice, long suffering and team work – quite a difference from the message and practice of prosperity driven Pentecostalism that is now rife in Nigeria;
the second reading from the Book of Revelations with its content that lifts our spirits and fills us with hope with its promise of making all things new – (renewal and its link to positive change) – one prays that this renewal touches our geographic space, a space currently trapped in a suffocating stasis and speedily retrogressing on most indicators!;
and the gospel reading with its message on the centrality of love as the distinguishing characteristic of the true believer/Christian. And any talk of love takes us to 1 Cor 13, 1-13 for its definition, meaning and behavioural implications!
Interesting readings!
Posted on April 20, 2022 by Noel Ihebuzor
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Posted in corruption, Creative writing, hope, disappointment,, Literature, Aesthetics, Politics, Prose, Religion
Purple Hibiscus – a critique of patriarchy and misguided religiosity
Posted on April 11, 2022 October 24, 2022 by Noel Ihebuzor
By Noel Ihebuzor
Purple hibiscus is a tragic tale of lives and family destroyed by the effects of extreme religiosity, a religiosity that strays quite frequently into the irrational and the psychotic. It is also a tale on the dangers of patriarchy, of domestic violence (spousal and GBV) and what could happen when the battered acquiesce for too long in their systematic humiliation. I also see it as a critique of crude and arrogant Catholicism of the type practised in some parishes in Nigeria. The author of the novel, Chimamanda Adichie has certainly amplified that criticism in her recent address to the council of Nigeria's, and thereby called out the church and its leaders on a public platform.
But let us go back to the story and see what it tells us – simply this – a fanatical father infected with extremes of religious belief engages in behaviors which systematically estrange from his family, his own father and his sister. In the end, he is poisoned by his wife who sees murder as the only route to end his reign of terror and her suffering.
Let us look at the characters – Papa, a Catholic and publisher of a newspaper, mama, his subdued wife who he humiliates at will, their two children, Kambili and Jaja, whom Papa terrorises and who live in total fear of his fits of temper and excesses, Aunty Ifeoma, Papa's sister, a lecturer and a beacon of liberalism and radicalism, her two children and finally Papa Nnukwu, Papa's dad and the children's grandfather. Papa Nnukwu practices traditional religion and this reality creates a permanent tension between him and his son. The tension is such as that it stands permanently in the way of any demonstration of any bond of filial loyalty from our super Christian pater familias to his father.
Interwoven in this sad tale and in the lives of the characters are snippets of the social ills of Nigeria, including that of corruption, poor governance, abuse of office, wrong and aggressive policing, the corrupting and corrosive effects of a poorly examined religious life and what could happen when a young girl either falls in love with or fantasizes over her priest. The tension is intense and eventually leads to the tragic ending of the novel. The title of the novel " Purple Hibiscus" is thus at variance with its content.
In the end papa dies from the effects of sustained poisoning by his wife but Jaja takes the rap for his mum. A family is destroyed because of the misguided religiosity of a domineering and aggressive father.
This is a troubling and troubled novel told with sensitivity and tact. One sees in it also the early signs of the author's feminism, a feminism that has since blossomed as can seen in her positions and speeches on several social media platforms. But some questions persist. One of these is this – is papa a rounded character or a flat character? Does his characterization lean towards a single story approach? Remember that Adichie comes against single stories in one of her now famous lectures? What does the reader think?
Fifth Sunday of Lent, first reading with some commentary
Today's first reading says it all for me. There is nothing that God cannot do. Nothing! I survey our current tragedies and aridities, I contemplate the endless twisting and slippery road before us, I examine the wasteland before us, an avoidable wasteland caused by greed, incompetence, lack of vision, emotional aridity and lack of compassion…..yes, I see the suffering these impose on us – the suffocating climate of helplessness and rampaging despondency….and many more negative manifestations of these sad times….and I remember the qualities of our God, the qualities of our God who renews and who converts deserts to greens, who levels mountains and I tell myself, this current mess, these years of mess, these years of hunchback misery, this insecurity, this hopelessness, this bumbling inefficiency, this reign and triumph of arrogance and ignorance… yes, ALL THESE MUST PASS. Join me in a loud MARANATHA!


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Третият състав на Народния съд е образуван с цел да осъди виновниците за Катинското клане и Виницката трагедия.

Състав

Председател
 Борис Лозанов Кьосев

Членове
 Иван Георгиев
 Борис Добрев
 Неделчо Бранев
 Софрони Д. Ставрев
 Магдалина Баръмова
 Стоянка Ангелова Гешкова
 Борис Хаджижелезков
 Ефтим Стоицев Янев
 Алипи Андреев
 Ненчо Нейчев
 Станимир Дончев
 Иван Раденков.

Народен обвинител (прокурор)
 Димитър Вапцаров

Подсъдими
 д-р Марко Антонов Марков
 д-р Георги Минчев Михайлов
 архимандрит Йосиф Диков
 архимандрит Николай Кожухаров
 архимандрит Стефан Николов
 Борис Григоров Коцев

Присъди
 д-р Марко Антонов Марков – невинен
 д-р Георги Минчев Михайлов – невинен
 архимандрит Йосиф Диков – 1 година лишаване от свобода и глоба от 50 000 лева, лишаване от права за две години.
 архимандрит Николай Кожухаров – 5 години строг тъмничен затвор, глоба 100 000 лева, лишаване от права за осем години. Движимото и недвижимото му имущество се отнема в полза на държавата.
 архимандрит Стефан Николов – 3 години строг тъмничен затвор, глоба 100 000 лева и лишаване от права за пет години. Движимото и недвижимото му имущество се отнема в полза на държавата.
 Борис Григоров Коцев – 5 години строг тъмничен затвор, глоба 100 000 лева, лишаване от права за осем години. Движимото и недвижимото му имущество се отнема в полза на държавата.

Източници

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Company: JB Hi-Fi Limited
Brand value: US$447 million
JB Hi-Fi is Australia's largest electronics retailer. It has grown from a single store into a national chain of 184 outlets, with a further 15 in New Zealand. JB also has a strong online presence, and in 2018 was reported to be the country's most-visited e-commerce site by users of desktop computers. The business has been growing despite the pressure faced by many bricks-and-mortar retailers, reporting a 35 percent boost to profits in 2018 thanks to rising sales and a full-year contribution to profits from The Good Guys, a domestic appliance specialist acquired in 2016. JB has announced it is saving AU$8 million per year on recruitment and staff training thanks to its workplace giving program, which has lifted employee engagement and retention. In the past year, JB has launched its own SIM-only mobile phone plans, which run on Telstra's networks. The brand is active on Twitter, and has become an official partner of the Melbourne eSports Open in a three-year deal.

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Leeds Rhinos Women are a rugby league team based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The team is part of the Leeds Rhinos club and plays in the Women's Super League.
The team was formed in September 2017 with the aid of the Leeds Rhinos Foundation. In December 2017 Rhino's forward, Adam Cuthbertson was appointed coach and Lois Forsell was named as captain in March 2018.
In the team's first season, they won the Women's Challenge Cup beating Castleford Tigers 20–14 in the final, at the Halliwell Jones Stadium, on 4 August 2018.
^ "Leeds Rhinos launch women's rugby league team". Yorkshire Evening Post. 21 September 2018. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
^ "Super League winner Adam Cuthbertson to coach York City Knights Ladies' rivals Leeds Rhinos Women". York Evening Press. 4 December 2017. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
^ "Lois Forsell named as first ever captain of Leeds Rhinos Women's team". Yorkshire Evening Post. 8 March 2018. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
^ "Rhinos fightback for the Cup". Rugby Leaguer & League Express (3, 133). 6 August 2018. p. 14.


It's not often we see a sarod maestro in full swing here in rainy Britain, so take the opportunity to experience the energy and skill of Indian legend Ranajit Sengupta, as part of Indian arts celebration, Milapfest. Also performing is Sanjukta Sinha (above), a pioneer in her modernisation of the traditional Indian classical dance form Kathak. Read our Milapfest preview.
With Liverpool Biennial launching their own online journal about the thought, debate and production of the organisation's future, Post-Print Publishing? brings together designers, publishers and artists to discuss how publishing has changed in a post-print world. Keynote speakers include James Bridle, the London based writer and technologist, who will present his research findings on the political implications of network print and how it impacts on framing your writing.
Intriguingly described by the Maryville Times as "the musical equivalent of Viagra", Suzahn Fiering abandons the heat of Tennessee for the comfort of Liverpool's Studio2. Blending her clever jazz compositions with emotionally charged and painfully honest vocals, Fiering's presence means an evening of intimacy and excitement is in store for the rest of us.
You could be forgiven for dismissing Off The Ground's latest production as just another drop in the vast sea of Shakespeare adaptations; to do so would mean missing out on this rather unique take on the Bard's earliest farce. Enthused and invigorated with the new, young talent of the Wirral-based production company's youth theatre, The Comedy of Errors promises to bring the classic play kicking and screaming into the (hopefully) sunny Croxteth country park.
Originally sceptical due to the claims that Aberdeen-born Cameron R. Scott's carvings and sculptures were inspired by a concept so broad and indefinable as "life and human experience", we were quickly won over by the bizarre and enigmatic nature of the artist's intricately detailed and wholly unique pieces. Something different; in a good way.
Culture Now at the Institute of Contemporary Arts provides the opportunity for culture junkies to get to talk to some of the key figures on the contemporary art scene; this week features world renowned artist and curator, Stuart Semple. With exhibitions and artwork gracing galleries from New York to Hong Kong, the 32 year old made a name for himself with his blend of figurative paintings, pop art and installation, such as Happy Clouds, which saw large smiley clouds flood the London skyline. A great opportunity for an insight into how Semple works and sees the world.
Paul Allen, guitarist of legendary English psych rock band – and one of Julian Cope's faves – The Heads, returns for his first show in the city since 1996. This time, it is with Anthropropph, who we're told are "steeped in a rich history of English psych, noise rock and drones", while Allen describes it as "Psych space rock with analogue electronics".
Over the next two weekends, 38 acts are set to descend upon the Kazimier for the second annual Festevol. From DJs to rock, hip hop to pop, FestEvol champions the breadth and depth of the Liverpool scene, showcasing both established and emerging talent, including GIT award winners Baltic Fleet and ones to watch such as All We Are and Bird.
Liverpool Pride is coming, and with it, Gaze in Liverpool; an exhibition exploring modern LGBT sexuality and identity. Showing at the Fallout Factory, it has been created by North West-based arts collective Surface, who describe it as "vibrant and fresh", and features Russell Gregory, Marcus Wemyss, Kate Lynch, Denise O'Sullivan and Nicholas Franklin.
Including storytelling, puppet cabaret, comedy and a Capella singers, Impropriety's Big Day of Fun at the Kazimier Garden looks a perfect way to pass a lazy Sunday. And with entertainment working out at 22p per hour, seriously good value for money, too.


Hello Loveys!!! Heres an OOTD where I am rocking my Rihanna t-shirt! Teamed with a stripey pencil midi skirt from River Island this outfit rocks it! I added a studded bracelet, and with my high black heels and leather jacket I reckon I will be repeating this combo again!


Note! This article is a short and slightly late followup to another short and very late investigation into the origin of the fast inverse square root function published as part of id Software's Quake3 source code release, 19th August 2005. Check out the original for the background to what's being discussed below.
The end of the original linked article above finished off with us opining about the author, saying that the last man we'd probably ever find that'd touched the code is Gary Tarolli, ex SGI, ex 3dfx, now at NVIDIA. After passing by coding luminaries such as John Carmack, Michael Abrash and Terje Mathison, attributing at least some part of it to Gary seemed pretty fitting given his history and contributions to modern 3D graphics, not least the fact he's a seriously good programmer too, and we left it at that.
Thinking that was it, we published and publicised and Slashdot picked it up, giving the piece some very hefty exposure. Exposure enough, it transpires, to have the real author say hello and own up to it. So it's not quite Gary, but rather another Silicon Valley veteran with a name beginning with G. Step forward, Greg Walsh.
Greg's been a veteran of the computing industry since the early 70s, his first big deals being working on Internet and distributed computing technologies since before it was even the Internet, and helping to engineer the first WYSIWYG word processor at Xerox PARC while at Stanford University. Following that, Greg helped found Ardent Computer, whose Wikipedia entry gives you more information on the company and its products than I possibly can.
Developing parallel graphics minicomputers using custom vector processors and then Intel i860 RISC vector processors (used in old NeXT boxes to run the graphics subsystem, as just one of that IC's uses), Ardent became Stardent after Kubota, the company funding Ardent at the time, forced a merger with Stellar, Ardent Computer's biggest competitor.
Ardent's Titan graphics minicomputer was having a hard time reaching its performance claims, and Greg initially engineered the fast 1/sqrt(x) as a means to speed up software running on the computer that couldn't utilise the vector hardware. At the time, Greg was working with Cleve Moler, MathWorks founder and author of MatLab, at Ardent. It's from working with Cleve that Greg got the initial seed of the idea to write the function. Cleve at the time was investigating using N-R iteration for approximation, and Greg also wrote 1/cuberoot(x) for the Titan in the same period using similar (but more complex) methods.
At the same time, Tarolli was also consulting for Kubota, so we get our lightbulb-above-head realisation about its movements into the published source, since Gary was also using it and tweaking it for his own uses at 3dfx, and you can trace 3dfx to id Software via Brian Hook at the very least. The rest, as they say, is history. Gary and Greg would further work together for Accel Graphics (Accel were eventually bought by Evans and Sutherland, yet another company named across these two pieces that you could write an entire 3D-based book about). I'm yet to collect an AccelSTAR of any kind, if anyone with a spare is reading!
So we end up adding Greg to the list of those who have written or touched the code over the years; we can rightfully name Cleve as the inspiration and Greg as the author; and now we can likely put the story to bed. Greg left the 3D game to start a business software company that successfully hit IPO to big fanfare in 1999, Kubota ended up producing add-in 3D boards for DEC workstations (the Denali is mostly a very rare collectors item now) before leaving 3D for good, and Cleve is still at Mathworks as its Chief Scientist and founder.
A big thanks to Greg for saying hello and passing on his information, and big thanks to Slashdot (and Geo for the slashvertising submission) since without the big publicity, Greg might never have seen the original article.
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Pub and Grub: Review of The Montgomery
"We left more than impressed with the food, the surroundings and the music"
Marc Waddington
After finding and turning up at The Montgomery, I was sure I'd been asked to search for the Marlborough.
My girlfriend had told me of a recommendation of a restaurant that did a great lunch, and I'd managed to get the first letter right, but just not the rest of them.
I'd managed to bring us out of our way and to the wrong place, I was convinced. But I was very soon confounded to find that we were at the right place after all.
The Montgomery is surrounded by the idyllic village of Eastham with its Tudor cottages and church spire.
We were initially greeted with the surprise of a keyboard artist crooning Elton John, Frank Sinatra and Billy Joel numbers. Excellent as he was, I was hoping for a table as far away as possible as it was a little on the loud side.
Happily, our table was tucked away at the back.
The menus arrived courtesy of the waiter who extolled the virtues of the fare available with genuine enthusiasm, and we decided to go for the three-course Sunday Service (£14.95).
A pint of Cheshire Gold (£3.30) for me and a fantastic award-winning South African Pinotage (£4.48) for my girlfriend, and we were ready to go.
I was starving, but decided to start slowly with the soup. The leek and potato, served with home-made bread, was thick and creamy and bursting with flavour, and piping hot.
My girlfriend's dish of goats cheese crostini would have stolen the show from most of the options in the presentation stakes.
The goats cheese sat on the crusty toasts surrounded by a riot of reds and greens courtesy of the tomatoes, pea and walnut salad. The cheese was melting and had a subtle flavour that didn't have that acidic tang it sometimes can have.
While I had chosen the beef long before we even got in the car, there wasn't an option for a true vegetarian. But the ever-accommodating waiter told her she could have anything from the main menu (and if it wasn't on there, they could make her anything she wanted, which you can't argue with).
My beef came artfully presented, sat on the mash and roast potatoes and topped with the homemade Yorkshire pudding, with the parsnips, carrots and broccoli adding some colour.
But there was certainly colour in the beef: pink, as requested, and incredibly thickly cut. I've had thinner steaks courtesy of some miserly chefs, but this was generosity to a fault. Were it overdone it would have been like chewing a gym mat, but it was so tender there was no effort to it at all.
If there was one criticism, the roast potatoes weren't crispy enough on the outside.
My girlfriend chose a haloumi salad, a pyramid of cheese and greens, with peppery rocket, romaine and other leaves working with the nuttiness of the grilled haloumi.
While light, it was a substantial portion, but needed the drizzle of thick balsamic she asked for on the side.
I was faltering a bit by now, worried that there would be no room for the dessert. Tough, we'd make room for the rhubarb crumble if it left us on our backs. Especially as it was served with Proper custard (note the capital).
And it was, to use the vernacular sense of the word, Proper.
The crumble was crunchy, but just buttery enough and the rhubarb was tinged with a bite of ginger.
An American (£2.30) was called for, while my lady went for the "interactive hot chocolate" (£2.75) – a DIY affair in which you pour the crushed chocolate flakes into the hot milk and stir it with a chocolate lolly until that melts into it.
We left for a recuperative walk around the village more than impressed with the food, the surroundings and the music.
I'm sure there is a Marlborough somewhere out there, but it's going to struggle to be a patch on the Montgomery.
Food facts:
Where shall we meet? The Montgomery, 47 Stanley Lane, Eastham Village, Wirral, CH62 0AG
What's your number? 0151 328 1151
Pint pullers? Very friendly and clued up
Powder rooms? Spotless
Entertainment? Piano vocalist
On the pull? A family restaurant, so no
Time please? Food served all day


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Q: How do I get resolvconf to regenerate resolv.conf after I change /etc/network/interfaces? After updating /etc/network/interfaces with something very similar to below, how do I get /etc/resolv.conf to update?  I tried (as root) resolver -u, service networking restart but they didn't work. I also fixed the symlink for resolv.conf and tried resolver -u again. Finally in frustration I rebooted, which did fix the problem by rebuilding /etc/resolv.conf.
Ubuntu 12.04, 64bit server, all the latest patches installed.
Example /etc/network/interfaces:
iface eth0 inet static
    address 192.168.3.3
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    gateway 192.168.3.1
    dns-search example.com
    dns-nameservers 192.168.3.45 192.168.8.10

A: For those of you managing your servers remotely you can:

*

*update the dns-nameservers line in /etc/network/interfaces

*# ifdown eth01; ifup eth01
Notice that this has to be on one line divided with ; (the linux command line separator).
You should not even lose your current connection.  The exception is making a typo in the interfaces file.  If this happens ifup will fail and you will have to have physical access or another ethxx connection.

A: service resolvconf restart will regenerate /etc/resolv.conf file without much fuss.

A: Although the manpage isn't installed by default it's documented via the update scripts option, just run:
sudo resolvconf -u

A: Simple answer :
Just install resolvconf. apt install resolvconf
After that, ifup eth0 updates the dns in etc/resolv.conf, according to the  dns-nameservers line in /etc/network/interfaces.

A: service networking restart is not always a reliable way of down-upping all interfaces.
The resolvconf -u command only updates resolv.conf from resolvconf's own database. You need to update the database.
To update the database you have to call resolvconf with the -a or -d option. That happens behind the scenes when you run ifup or ifdown. So, normally, as with any other change to /etc/network/interfaces, to activate changes to the dns-* options you have to ifdown the interface in question and ifup it again. Or you can reboot.
If you want to make changes to an interface without ifdownupping it (perhaps because you are administering the machine remotely and happen to be connected via that interface, natch) then you can achieve the same result by running resolvconf directly from the command line. This requires a bit more knowledge of resolvconf's semantics. Assume the relevant /e/n/i stanza is
iface IIII FFFF static
    address ...
    ...
    dns-nameservers X.X.X.X Y.Y.Y.Y
    dns-search SSSS

where FFFF is an address family ("inet" or "inet6").
To activate these dns-* options you run resolvconf as follows (yes, with newlines in the string piped to resolvconf).
echo "nameserver X.X.X.X
nameserver Y.Y.Y.Y
search SSSS" | sudo resolvconf -a IIII.FFFF

For the stanza given in the question this would be the following.
echo "nameserver 192.168.3.45
nameserver 192.168.8.10
search example.com" | sudo resolvconf -a eth0.inet

Consult the resolvconf(8) manual page and the resolvconf package README file (/usr/share/doc/resolvconf/README.gz) for more information.

A: This answer is similar to the one above but uses the questions example configuration to answer the question.  Plus this explains why both commands are necessary.
Edit /etc/network/interfaces:
iface eth0 inet static
    address 192.168.3.3
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    gateway 192.168.3.1
    dns-search example.com
    dns-nameserver 192.168.3.45
    dns-nameserver 192.168.8.10

These changes will not take place unless you reboot or reload the configuration file:
In order to update the interfaces file live it is necessary to run the following command:
echo "nameserver 192.168.3.45
nameserver 192.168.8.10
search example.com" | sudo resolvconf -a eth0.inet

This allows an update to the interface without a reboot or reloading.
However, the above command changes will be lost after a reboot if the changes in the /etc/network/interfaces are not made.
By the way the last answer from BDenis in this list actually works in place of the last command by parsing the /etc/network/interfaces file and piping those lines into the command sudo resolvconf -a eth0  It's actually half the answer and a really good example of inline sed parsing. If you want to see how it does this just run the first part of the command and watch it parse the /etc/network/interfaces file and spit out all the necessary information you need to run the sudo resolvconf -a eth0 command:
sed 's/#.*$//' /etc/network/interfaces | grep dns- | sed 's/dns-//g'

Notice this would produce the same out put as the command:
echo "nameserver 192.168.3.45
nameserver 192.168.8.10
search example.com"

Provided that the /etc/network/interfaces file is configured with this information:
iface eth0 inet static
    address 192.168.3.3
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    gateway 192.168.3.1
    dns-search example.com
    dns-nameserver 192.168.3.45
    dns-nameserver 192.168.8.10

A: On 18.04, the following works reliably (run as root):
systemctl stop networking
ip address flush dev <device> # just to be safe
systemctl start networking

Important: Make sure you have package resolvconf installed.
It doesn't seem to be by default, and without it some (!) changes from /etc/network/interfaces are silently ignored (e.g. dns-*).

A: On desktop version of Ubuntu 18.04, where there's no service networking, and resolvconf isn't installed by default, I've succeeded in regenerating resolv.conf by restarting network-manager:
sudo service network-manager restart

A: This worked for me:
sed -re '/nameservers|dns-search/ !d' -e 's/dns-nameservers/nameserver/' -e 's/dns-search/search/' /etc/network/interfaces  | resolvconf -a eth0.inet && resolvconf -u

Adjust accordingly.

A: I discovered that if I got rid of the [network] and generateResolvConf = false from /etc/wsl.conf, shutdown, and restarted, then /etc/resolv.conf regenerated without having to do all the reinstall stuff.

A: My config files were perfect.
I restarted all the necessary services.
I told resolveconf to update.
None of this dynamically updated my resolve.conf and gave me access to my local domain's name servers until I performed a "sudo reboot".
On boot up, resolv.conf was updated and I could ping and get access to a domain name on my manually added dns-nameserver.

A: Also you can try this command:
cat /etc/network/interfaces |sed 's/#.*$//'|grep dns-|sed 's/dns-//g'|sudo resolvconf -a eth0.inet

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Finding Franklin
Sherrill Grace will present on the narrative of Sir John Franklin and his ill-fated expedition as part of the Arctic-Wise series at the College.
When Sherrill Grace grew up in Quebec and Ontario, summer wasn't complete without a trip "up North."
Sherrill, Professor Emerita in the Department of English at UBC, recalls the excitement of escapism—leaving the noisy city for the pristine, rolling mountains of the Laurentians or the expansive lakes of Algonquin Park. Even though this is still the vacation routine for many Canadian families, Sherrill notes that behind "going North" to escape it all lies a long history of myth-making.
"But as a child, you're not questioning," she says. "You just grow up with that sense of, 'Oh yes. Now the time has come for me to get back in touch with life, [going] swimming, hiking in the bush, and scratching mosquito bites.'"
Soon enough Sherrill became curious about the actual North—the Arctic—which she had never been to. This curiosity helped inform her work as an interdisciplinary researcher in 20th Century Canadian literature and culture, drama, theatre, film, music, as well as biography and autobiography.
"I thought, 'I'm a Canadianist, but there's a third of the country at least that I haven't been to. Maybe I should start exploring.'"
And with that thought, Sherrill's whole perspective on Canada shifted. She packed her bags and visited Baffin Island in the late 1980s.
"That was it. I fell in love," she says. "It's an impressive, challenging, rigorous, beautiful part of Canada. It's just astonishing—the people, the languages, the landscapes, [and] the history."
There, Sherrill became invested in meeting the Inuit and hearing their stories. Soon after she travelled to the Central and Western Arctic to learn more.
Throughout her travels, though, she couldn't forget about the one ghost story that has pervaded Canadian culture for 170 years.
The captivating myth of Franklin
"The minute you start thinking about the Arctic, Sir John Franklin's name pops up," Sherrill says. "He's become a mythic presence in Canada [and] in the Canadian imagination."
In 1845, explorer Sir John Franklin's mission to find the Northwest Passage ended in disaster. The British naval leader's two ships, the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror, disappeared in what is now Canada's Arctic. The crew, unable to withstand the cold climate, resorted to cannibalism and eventually died.
Since that ill-fated mission, the story has remained unresolved and has captivated Canadians—from pop culture icons like Stan Rogers to politicians on the campaign trail. No matter who talks about the expedition, the same question persists: what actually happened to Franklin and his crew?
Sherrill remembers when historic news hit in 1984. A team of forensic anthropologists, led by the University of Alberta's Owen Beattie, uncovered three frozen British seamen on Beechey Island in the High Arctic. Those sailors were from the Franklin expedition.
"I was watching the news and I was blown away because of [all of the] metaphors and images," Sherrill says.
In particular, she remembers the now iconic image of John Torrington, one of the seamen, who looked as if he was frozen in time.
"Just the visual shock of melting that permafrost away and revealing a recognizable young man… I'm thinking that today, [that image] would go viral!" she says with a laugh.
That notion of iconic imagery inspired Sherrill to dig deeper into the mythology of the expedition. Franklin's mission became part of her nationally and internationally-renowned book Canada and the Idea of North (2001), which explores the northern images and ideas in Canadian popular culture and thought.
Since that book was published, though, a lot has changed.
Discovery and uncertainty
In the summer of 2014, the nation was floored. An expedition led by Parks Canada discovered the wreck of the HMS Erebus.
While a momentous occasion, Sherrill emphasizes that the discovery marks a turning point in the Franklin narrative.
"If next summer they find the Terror, what's going to happen to all of this mystery and mythology, the mystique of Franklin?
"Will there be another Stan Rogers to sing a song about it… or will the ghosts finally be laid [to rest]?"
Sherrill points to the discussion surrounding the HMS Erebus last summer. Several scientists and historians were debating whether the ship should be raised from the ocean floor for further study.
Sherrill still hesitates at this suggestion, citing that, for technical reasons, it's better to leave it unexposed to air. But she also has an incredibly thoughtful concern.
"There are, in my mind, other reasons: respect, mystery, and not indulging in the hubris [that] took Franklin up there in the first place."
Do we have to know everything about everything? Or can we just let things be? Sherrill leaves these as open questions, pausing as she reflects on the history of efforts to recover the ships' wrecks—from the very day they were announced missing.
John Rae, a Scottish doctor, was the first to report the fate of the Franklin Expedition. On the request of Lady Jane Franklin, he trekked to King William Island. Even though he didn't actually get to the island, he did meet with the Inuit and received items from the wreck. He also listened to their account of Franklin and his crew, including how they had tried to help. The whole visit, John treated their perspective with grace and respect.
"[They told him] that the ships went down off the northwest end of King William Island," Sherrill says, "that a group of white men had died and, in the last stages, had resorted to cannibalism."
When John returned to London with that story, both the admiralty and Lady Jane were furious. Then, Lady Jane turned to author Charles Dickens.
In the pursuit to protect the Empire's image, Dickens twisted the truth and portrayed the Inuit—then known as "Eskimos"—as cannibals.
"By publishing this, and by Charles Dickens saying it, this then gets to be the accepted story," Sherrill says. "Franklin's a hero, he really did find the Northwest Passage. He didn't live to come back and tell us because he has and his men were attached a bunch of 'savages' and eaten.
"And so we preserve Franklin as a hero."
If Franklin hadn't refused help from the Inuit, Sherrill says, we might have heard a different tale.
"It was in-built racism and a sense of superiority that contributed very significantly to the disaster."
The North as interdisciplinary
For Sherrill, the issues surrounding Franklin's expedition reveal that the Arctic should be approached in an interdisciplinary way. From urgent concerns of climate change to the preservation of indigenous languages, she stresses that the region is multi-faceted.
"There are political, social, cultural, artistic, scientific, economic, and deeply human issues," Sherrill says. "And that part of Canada doesn't belong to us to tramp all over and exploit. It belongs to us and the people who live there as [a place] to take care of and to preserve, sustainably."
No matter how much academics read or study, though, Sherrill notes that they have to make the same visit that she did years ago.
"Go!" she says with a laugh. "Go and see with your own eyes and experience for yourself. Keep your ears open. Listen. Pay attention to what's around you—to the people, to the natural environment."
That effort, Sherrill states, will encourage a well-rounded approach to understanding and solving the pressing topics of the Canadian Arctic in the 21st century.
"The more you know, the better placed you are to make political, economic, and research decisions about your future."
Sherrill Grace presented her talk, "Re-Thinking Franklin and the Northwest Passage," on Wednesday, September 30, 2015 at 5 p.m.
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Cassandra Nova's fateful attack has the X-Men scrambling in the X-MEN RED #7 preview!
In X-MEN RED #6, Nova telepathically contacted Jean seconds before her attack on Atlantis. Using a very powerful young mutant to inflict the damage, Nova pits the X-Men against the very race they're trying to help. It seems as though writer Tom Taylor and artist Carmen Carnero are prepping the Red team for their biggest fight yet.
The first few pages of the issue don't tell us a whole lot about what's going on. We mostly just see that Nova's plan is seemingly in action. With Atlantis under attack, Jean uses her telekinesis to move Storm and Gentle out of the water and towards safety. She also telepathically warns Namor that Nova plans to attack. Unfortunately, Namor is already well aware of the attack. Outside the palace windows, Atlantis has already begun to fall.
Many feet above the water, the rest of the Red team are trying to steal the cell phone belonging to the Ambassador who Nova killed back in X-MEN RED #1. After they get the phone, Trinary will be able to clear Jean's name, thus allowing them to get back on their anti-hate mission. Without it, Jean remains a wanted criminal.
With just these few pages, X-MEN RED #7 looks to be a very promising installment in one of the best X-titles currently on shelves. We've seen plenty of action in previous issues. Still, I think X-MEN RED #7 will finally give us that battle we're craving. Nova has been essentially telepathically teasing Jean for numerous issues and if we know anything about that feisty redhead it's that she doesn't like to be messed with. While she hasn't shown it yet, I bet we'll be seeing Jean's infamous temper in upcoming issues.
I personally don't think this will be the end of Nova in X-MEN RED. Taylor has put too much exposition into her character to throw it all away after only seven issues. Jean's fight against one of the X-Men's greatest adversaries isn't anywhere near over. However, maybe this issue will mark the first step in Jean's eventual triumph. After all, Nova's reign of terror can't last forever.


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Prepare for your next adventure with a travel credit card. Look forward to no foreign currency conversion fees or ATM withdrawal fees and the convenience of complimentary insurances.
America's love for traveling is well-known. However, organizing your travel money options is crucial for a stress-free holiday. Expenses such as foreign currency conversion fees, ATM withdrawal fees or emergency credit card replacements can be an unexpected strain on your budget. Comparing credit cards designed for overseas purchases can be a wise way to avoid some of these charges.
Here we will compare the travel credit cards available in the market to help you determine which is the right option for your next overseas trip.
What should I consider when using a travel credit card?
What else can I use in addition to my credit card?
What features do I need when choosing a travel credit card?
Most overseas credit cards are provided by Visa, Mastercard or American Express. These types of cards are accepted worldwide, so this will ensure that you can access your cash no matter where you are.
No or low currency conversion fees.
If you try to use U.S. dollars to make a purchase in a foreign currency, you're likely to incur a currency conversion fee. Most credit cards charge as much as 3% on currency conversion fees, though some offer low or no fees on foreign transactions. If you're planning on traveling overseas, this type of card could be of interest.
If you're traveling overseas, travel insurance is a necessary precaution. As the US Government doesn't pay for medical treatment overseas or medical evacuation, so it's good to organize comprehensive medical cover before traveling aboard. If you secure a card with complimentary insurance, this will save you the extra time and cost that comes with searching for extra cover.
In the case that your card is lost, stolen or damaged, you may need to request an emergency card replacement. Travel credit cards often offer low or zero fees to replace your card, which could come in handy if you find yourself in such a bind.
ATM withdrawals and balance check.
Carrying cash while traveling comes with risks, so storing your funds on a card can be of use. However, using a regular card can come at a cost of up to $5 per ATM withdrawal and balance check – which can add up over time. Travel cards, on the other hand, sometimes offer free ATM withdrawals and balance checks which can cut out these extra costs.
What else should I consider when using a travel credit card?
Beware of the dynamic currency conversion.
Dynamic currency conversion (or DCC) is often used by merchants to their own benefit. Merchants will quote the price of an item in USD, however, the dynamic currency conversion used in these transactions does not give the best exchange rate. You can directly withdraw cash in the local currency and pay in it or you can use one of the conversion apps on your smartphone to find if you are getting good exchange rate.
Load your credit card with extra funds.
While your travel card may not charge currency conversion or ATM withdrawal fees, they usually pose high cash advance fees and interest rates. This fee can be up to 2% of the amount with an interest rate as high as 20-21%. As credit cards aren't designed to be used as debit cards, a good option can be to load your card with extra funds before leaving. This means that you can withdraw your loaded funds without incurring a cash advance fee.
Currency fluctuations can have either a positive or negative impact on your balance. If you're worried about losing money due to rate changes, you can exchange your funds to the local currency when it is at a beneficial rate to protect yourself.
What are the relevant fees and charges?
Carefully consider the fees and charges associated with the card before applying. You should also consider any terms and conditions or exclusions and limits associated with complimentary insurances before traveling.
Does your bank know you're traveling overseas?
In case your bank misjudges your overseas transactions as fraudulent activity, you should inform your provider of your travel plans before leaving. Otherwise, you may find that your card is blocked and you no longer have access to your funds while overseas.
Is my card restricted by geographical sanctions?
Some providers place financial sanctions on certain regions. If you're unsure, contact your provider or read the relevant Product Disclosure Statement to confirm whether you can use your card on your next holiday.
Prepare more than one option: What else can I use in addition to my credit card?
If you need to spend in an overseas currency, a prepaid travel card can be a good way to transfer your U.S. dollars into the local currency and access it with convenience. Some benefits you can expect include fixed exchange rate, easy access, multiple currencies and reduced risk of overspending than if you were to use a line of credit.
A debit card can also curb the temptation to overspend, as you're spending your own cash rather than credit. These cards usually don't charge a cash advance or heavy interest rates, which could also lower your costs. However, make sure to confirm whether currency conversion or foreign transaction fees are in place if you're planning to use it overseas.
This is simple and easy to use alternative. There are no extra fees, exchange rates or restricted acceptance. However, carrying cash does come with risks. You should always keep some cash on you and some in a secure place (such as your luggage or hotel safe) to ensure that you're not left without cash in case of an emergency.
While these aren't as widely used today, they are still a popular option among some travelers. If you're looking to lock in exchange rates and have an easy replacement if your funds, a traveler's check could be a good idea. Make sure you'll be able to cash your checks along the way through.
Many countries like Britain, France, China and New Zealand have shifted to chip technology. If your card does not have this, you may need to upgrade your card before leaving.
Have your provider's emergency contact details on hand.
Note your provider's emergency contact number in your wallet, on your phone and anywhere else secure in the case of an emergency.
Bring more than one card with you.
It is always better to have a buffer card which can be used if the main card is stolen or gets lost. This card should be carried in a different wallet or bag which will reduce the chance of losing both cards.
Are there restrictions for withdrawals or purchases?
You need to look at the limits on withdrawals or purchases on your card. Using the card prudently will prevent exceeding these limits and also avoid any unnecessary penalties.
Don't carry a lot of cash.
Travelers should avoid carrying a lot of cash or wearing expensive jewelry. This might attract negative attention and can lead to unpleasant experiences.
Safely store your cards, cash or checks in various secure areas.
Carrying all your cards and cash in a single location or wallet is not advisable. You should distribute these items among your secure belongings. It is better to carry an alternative wallet which can store excess cash and other important items. It is also better not carry the main wallet in your back pocket, but rather somewhere secure that you can see.
It's also important to store your passport securely. If you have a secure place to store it, keeping your passport with you is a good idea as this is your primary legal document as a traveler.
Report any emergency situations immediately.
As mentioned, make sure that you have all of your necessary contact numbers on you. This should include those of your personal emergency contacts, your credit card providers, and your insurance provider. This will ensure that you can get in contact with the relevant people in the chance of an emergency.
Traveling can be an unforgettable experience. However, some of these memories may be less pleasant than others if you fail to organize your travel money options. There's no one ideal travel money option, so it's best to compare your options while considering your travel plans, spending habits and financial situation to choose the right combination for you.
Will I need to meet a criteria to take advantage of travel benefits like complimentary overseas insurance, free currency conversion, etc.?
This will depend on the card. Make sure to read the terms and conditions before applying to understand how you can take advantage of these features. For example, you may only be able to access the complimentary travel insurance if you pay a certain minimum of your travel costs with the card.
Is the complimentary insurance provided on the card sufficient for an overseas trip?
Generally the complimentary insurance cover is quite comprehensive and provides decent coverage for any eventuality. In case you are planning to undertake some special activities like skiing in the Alps or base jumping or other adventurous sports, you might need to get additional coverage. Exclusions, limitations and eligibility requirements will apply – so make sure to review these before applying for the card.
If I'm looking to make a longer trip, how can save on fees and charges with my card?
If a family of four wishes to travel to Europe for a three week trip and has a budget of $10,000, the savings on foreign currency conversion would alone come to $300 or 3% of the total budget. Ten visits to an ATM on a regular card will cost $5 multiplied by 10 = $50. Travel cards generally provide free ATM withdrawals and balance check which should save this cost. Complimentary insurance will also vary according to the length of your trip and where you're visiting, but basic cover often comes around the $200 range. These expenses alone end up costing above $550 which is 5.5% of the total budget. For longer trips, the savings are higher as the price of insurance cover rises. We can say that the savings from a travel card can range from 5% to 10% of the total budget.
There are other benefits like free emergency credit card replacement, easier purchasing options, cover for damage to personal property, cover for unexpected ticket cancellations and more.
What is the length of complimentary travel insurance on travel cards?
The length varies from card to card, but most of the cards provide complimentary insurance cover for a period of three months to six months.


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Manchester law firm announces Irish merger
Mon, 29 Apr 2019 | MERGER
European law firm Fieldfisher has announced that it is pursuing a merger with a top 20 Irish company, McDowell Purcell.
Fieldfisher, which has offices across the UK including Manchester, has expressed excitement about the merger with McDowell Purcell. Led by managing partner JP McDowell, the Irish company has 16 partners and 50 lawyers and has been established for more than 120 years.
According to McDowell Purcell, the firm is a leader in corporate and commercial law, as well as renewable energy, banking, data protection, employment, insolvency, environment and planning.
Fieldfisher added that the new Irish branch of the company was particularly attractive due to the Irish economy, dominated by sectors including technology, media and telecoms (TMT) and finance, both of which are key areas in Fieldfisher's current fields of expertise.
Additionally, Fieldfisher noted that Ireland offers a very good rate of corporate tax - the lowest in the European Union - which means it is an ideal investment opportunity for the European business. Furthermore, the growth of the company's offerings outside of Britain will ensure the firm can continue to deliver at the same level once Brexit comes into force.
"A large percentage of our client base have Irish operations and have used Ireland as their EU HQ when expanding across the EU markets," said Fieldfisher. "We are delighted to welcome McDowell Purcell into the Fieldfisher family. Ireland was the last piece in our international growth strategy and we are now in all the key commercial centres across Europe."
JP McDowell added: "The merger will allow us to provide clients with new product lines and process-efficient services, and to compete more effectively with the global firms that are now establishing a foothold in the Irish legal market."
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Q: Error in Chrome extension - chrome.windows.create I have the following eventPage.js code:
var menuItem = {
    "id": "Wikit",
    "title": "Wikit",
    "contexts": ["selection"]
};

chrome.contextMenus.create(menuItem);

function fixedEncodeURI (str) {
    return encodeURI(str).replace(/%5B/g, '[').replace(/%5D/g, ']');
}

chrome.contextMenus.onClicked.addListener(function(clickData){
    if (clickData.menuItemId == "Wikit" && clickData.selectionText){
        var wikiUrl = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" + fixedEncodeURI(clickData.selectionText);
        var createData = {
            "url": wikiUrl,
            "type": "popup",
            "top": 5,
            "left": 5,
            "width": screen.availWidth/2,
            "height": screen.availHeight/2
        };
        chrome.windows.create(createData, function(){});
    }
});

But get two errors:
Error messages from Chrome
Can anybody tell me what is wrong here?

A: Your first issue is that you likely already created an item with the ID Wikit.
Your second issue is that your width and height values are not integers. Pass this though parseInt first.
e.g.
"width": parseInt(screen.availWidth/2),


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Q: jquery show select options based on parameters I'm trying to create a form with a drop down that performs as follows:

*

*If a hidden field contains no value, show all select options.

*If a value exists in the hidden field, show only items that contain the value.

The hidden value is populated by a parameter.
My code so far is below, which doesn't work. In this example, assume that the hiddendealer input contains the value 'honda', so I would like to only display options with the word 'honda' in.
<select name="dealership-selection" id="dealer">
    <option value="" selected="selected">Please select your dealer</option>
    <option value="Fiat, Location 1">Fiat, Location 1</option>
    <option value="Honda, Location 1">Honda, Location 1</option>
    <option value="Honda, Location 2">Honda, Location 2/option>
    <option value="Kia, Location 1">Kia, Location 1</option>
    <option value="Peugeot, Location 1">Peugeot, Location 1</option>
    <option value="Peugeot, Location 2">Peugeot, Location 2</option>
    <option value="Škoda, Location 1">Škoda, Location 1</option>
</select>

<input type="hidden" name="hiddendealer" value="">

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
EDIT
Sorry, I neglected to mention this is on WordPress, using Contact Form 7 - it's a stripped back version of the select box.

A: AFAIK there are problems with hiding the <option> element in HTML.
I would advice you to create an object with array of options, like
options = {
    honda: [
        { value: 1, text: 'Some text 1' },
        { value: 2 text: 'Some text 2' },
    ],
    kia: [
        { value: 3, text: 'Some text 3' },
        { value: 4 text: 'Some text 4' },
    ]
}

and then write a function that will REDRAW your select box, based on selected dealer (providing the visibleOptions), e.g.:

(function($) {
    $(document).ready(function() {

        var options = {
            honda: [
                { value: 1, text: 'Some text 1' },
                { value: 2, text: 'Some text 2' },
            ],
            kia: [
                { value: 3, text: 'Some text 3' },
                { value: 4, text: 'Some text 4' },
            ]
        };

        function setDealer(dealer) {
            var visibleOptions = options[dealer];
            var place = $('#place');
            place.empty();
            for (var i = 0; i < visibleOptions.length; i++) {
                // Do not forget to escape your data!
                // I am not doing this here, because it is just an example
                place.append(
                    '<option value="' + visibleOptions[i].value + '">'
                      + visibleOptions[i].text +
                    '</option>'
                );
            }
        }

        setDealer('honda');

        $('#dealer').change(function() {
           setDealer($(this).val());
        });
    });
})(jQuery);

Dealer: <select name="dealer" id="dealer">
<option value="honda">Honda</option>
<option value="kia">Kia</option>
</select>
<select name="place" id="place"></select>

A: I think it is better to use filter() method to apply different actions to the options in dependence of their values. I also recommend you to perform case insensitive string comparison using toLowerCase() method. In following example an option will be displayed only if it' value attribute contains specified substring.

$("#dealer").change(function() {
  var search = $("#dealer").val().toLowerCase();
  $("[name=dealership] option")
    .hide()
    .filter(function() {
      var option = $(this).attr('value').toLowerCase();
      return ~option.indexOf(search);
    })
    .show();
});

Dealer
<input id="dealer" type="text">

Dealers
<select name="dealership" id="dealers">
  <option value="" selected="selected">Please select your dealer</option>
  <option value="Fiat, Location 1">Fiat, Location 1</option>
  <option value="Honda, Location 1">Honda, Location 1</option>
  <option value="Honda, Location 2">Honda, Location 2/option>
  <option value="Kia, Location 1">Kia, Location 1</option>
  <option value="Peugeot, Location 1">Peugeot, Location 1</option>
  <option value="Peugeot, Location 2">Peugeot, Location 2</option>
  <option value="Škoda, Location 1">Škoda, Location 1</option>
</select>


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The land of the Incas, an amazing civilization that was able to cope with the wild geography of the region and live in harmony with the elements of nature: the rivers, the sun, the rain, the oceans, the mountains, the dry cold of the Andes and the rugged landscape, reaping the fruits of nature and adapting to different environments.
Part of this ancient civilization still remains in every village and major cities and can be discovered in local traditions. Visiting this places in Peru is like traveling through time to discover the fascinating lives of the Incas, Chancas, Chachapoyas, Mochicas and Wari with their great architecture, arts, festivities, their powerful culture and their energetic people.
Experience Peru and discover the diversity and uniqueness of its landscapes, sounds, colors and flavors; journey back in time to discover ancient civilizations and experience Peru's immense cultural heritage. Relish those countless places and experiences that only truly come to life when you are there in person.
Caral, the first known civilization in the Americas; pre-Hispanic cultures; the Inca Empire, the fusion between Incas and the Hispanic world; Peru and its Western, Eastern and African influences; deserts, mountains, woods, the Amazon and the ocean; exotic landscapes, flora, fauna and great cultural diversity. This is what Peru is all about.
Famous for its cloud forests and exceptional micro-climate, orchid habitat, Andean bears, and cocks-of-the-rocks, the Amazon Province offers the perfect combination of adventure, culture, and archaeology.
Glaciers, lakes, valleys, flora, fauna, beaches, history and the present: Áncash ensures a diverse menu that will impress with its high peaks like the famous Huascaran and hundreds of lakes and lagoons.
Apurímac has all the ingredients of a destination that has nature blessed with hot springs, mountain forests, lakes, flora, fauna, a huge snowy mountain (Ampay), and the deep Apurímac Canyon.
Arequipa is known as the White City for its construction in ashlar, an attractive volcanic stone that is intensified by natural or artificial light.
Expert craftsmen who carry on the tradition of ancient Wari pottery with coveted altarpieces and a string of colonial-style churches and mansions with invaluable paintings and altars, design the contour of this land of historic times and places.
The scene of the Inca Empire's last gasps, Cajamarca offers a noble Andean heartland of sensual landscapes.
Most important commercial route into and out of Peru, featuring old mansions with beautiful balconies, museums, churches and a military fortress that withstood war and pirate attacks.
Cuzco, the historic capital of Peru and a World Heritage site, is a delight for the eyes with its extraordinary historic settings and its archaeological and architectural monuments.
Huancavelica proudly boasts many attractions such as archaeological sites, temples and mansions in the city center.
Populated centuries ago by the "Lauricocha Man" and cultures that left their mark at Kotosh, Huánuco is the soul of the Andes, dressed in jungle.
Ica boasts characteristic dunes and a vast desert etched with enigmatic figures, the Nazca Lines, transformed into fertile fields by ancient cultures: The Paracas and the Nazca.
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Temples, pyramids and cities of mud that have survived the elements: Chan Chan, Huaca del Sol y la Luna, el Brujo are some of the most remarkable destinations in the province of La Libertad.
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Lima is the political, cultural, financial and commercial center of Peru. Although its history as a city began with its Spanish foundation in 1535, it was previously the territory of pre-Inca settlements.
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Pasco is home to a geography full of stark contrasts, where the mountains and the forest form a brotherhood of cold mountains and dense vegetation.
Streets baked by the permanent northern sun, spas and beaches coveted by surfers: Máncora, Colán, Órganos, Vichayito and Cabo Blanco.
An Andean plain dominated by the thoughtful presence of Lake Titicaca, a sacred place for the Incas, inhabited by tens of natural and artificial islands and pre-Hispanic archaeological sites.
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A contrast of deserts and fertile valleys, of coast and mountains, all of which creates the landscape that forms the backdrop to Tacna.
Tumbes is the perfect setting for aquatic sports or just for relaxing.
With landscapes dominated by mighty rivers and waterfalls that are like huge curtains of water covering the mountains until reaching peaceful lagoons, and flora and fauna that never cease to astonish scientists.
Departments of Peru
Peru is a truly a megadiverse country, with 11 ecoregions, and 84 out of the 117 life zones that exist worldwide. Due to its geography, Peru has a truly enormous wealth of landscapes which, at the same time, provide a huge gamut of natural resources. Peru has been traditionally divided into three large regions, according to their altitudes: North, Center and South.
Amazonas Cajamarca La Libertad
Lambayeque Loreto Piura
San Martín Tumbes
Áncash Callao Huánuco
Junín Lima Pasco
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Virus and the migrant
Virus and the migrant: India-Gulf region is second largest migration corridor, must not be blocked
More than 100 countries across the world have reported coronavirus (coronavirus and the migrant) cases. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has cancelled his visit to European countries because of the pandemic. The outbreak has affected people's mobility, both within nations as well as travel across borders. Almost all countries in the Persian Gulf have stopped accepting migrants from India. Nearly 600 fishermen from India are stuck on the coronavirus-hit Kish island in Iran, which has requested the government of India to repatriate them. After the successful repatriation of Indians from the COVID-19 (coronavirus and the migrant) hit areas of China, the extradition of these fishermen could prove to be a major challenge for the Indian government.
The predicament of Indian migrants appears grave in view of the travel restrictions imposed by several West Asian countries. For instance, the Kuwait General Administration of Civil Aviation has suspended all flights to and from India for two weeks. Qatar and Saudi Arabia have imposed temporary travel bans on passengers from India. Indians who want to return to the countries where they work, after the end of the ban period, will require medical certificates from authorised hospitals. This could create more hurdles for the migrants. For instance, Indians passengers planning to return to Kuwait will require medical certificates from hospitals that are recognised by the West Asian country's government. Most government hospitals in the country have their hands full with (coronavirus and the migrant) coronavirus-infected patients and it's not clear if the healthcare institutes recognised by the Kuwait government have facilities to diagnose a COVID-19 (coronavirus and the migrant) infection and if they are equipped with quarantine facilities. The government must take up this issue with the relevant authorities in Kuwait to facilitate the smooth return of Indians after the travel ban is lifted. The list of Indian hospitals recognised by the Kuwait government must be put up on public fora.
Several airlines in the country have cancelled their services to Doha after the Qatar government's travel ban. Due to the high demand for flight services in the India-Gulf corridor, flight fares are likely to increase after the travel ban is lifted. This will add to the financial burden of Indian workers. Airlines should announce free re-booking as part of their corporate social responsibility during this difficult time.
The travel ban has created panic among Indians abroad as well. Social media is rife with discussions about the travel bans imposed by the Indian government. In some cases, the travel restrictions imposed on citizens of European countries such as Germany, France and Italy have been misinterpreted as applying to Indian citizens travelling from such countries to India. It is very important, therefore, to disseminate country-specific advisory notes in regional languages, apart from English, as an effective way to reach Indians abroad and their families in India.
Passengers travelling to India are facing difficulties after their arrival as there is little information about the self-reporting form that must be filled by international passengers. They sometimes have to wait long hours in the airport to acquire this form, fill it and clear immigration. Moreover, there is very little information about the counters in international airports in India that offer this service before passengers proceed to immigration clearance. This must be addressed to avoid overcrowding and chaos in airports.
The India-Gulf region is the second largest migration corridor in the world. It is imperative that governments in the region take measures to ensure that travel restrictions imposed as a result of the COVID-19 (coronavirus and the migrant)outbreak do not affect livelihoods of people and hinder mobility in the long-run.
This article first appeared in the print edition on March 17, 2020 under the title 'Virus and the migrant'. Rajan is professor at Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala and Arokkiaraj is a post-doc Fellow at Leibniz Science Campus, Eastern Europe-Global Area in Leipzig, Germany.
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To complete a momentous weekend in the history of the Sisters of St Joseph in Whanganui, the two busloads of Sisters, both from Whanganui and further afield, were welcomed to Kaiwhaiki Marae on the Sunday afternoon.
The entry of Makareta Tawaroa rsj to the Congregation from this marae has been hugely influential in the Sisters bi-cultural journey and in the links that her membership has opened up with the tangata whenua. The other strong link has been the assistance given the people with teaching in preparation for the annual Hui Aranga, in which earlier Isobel Hepburn rsj and latterly Barbara Cowan rsj have been involved.
After the solemn powhiri, all were invited in to Te Kiritahi, where there was a sharing of our histories and stories ably led by Piri Cribb, a former pupil of Sacred Heart, Morvin Simon and Makareta rsj. Whanganui Sisters shared their stories of connections with the people through the schools and other ministries over the years, and responses of gratitude and admiration were made by Anne Derwin rsj and Colleen Keeble rsj
Rousing singing and actions accompanied all the visitors as they entered the dining room and enjoyed a wonderful meal. The music and entertainment was presented by Taikura, 'the teenagers over 55 years', and went on throughout the meal with great action, warmth and energy.
The poroporoaki at the close of the meal and before departure was made by Barbara Cowan rsj, who spoke with great feeling of the depth of the relationship she had experienced in her involvement with Makareta and with her people. She offered thanks on behalf of all present for the warmth of the welcome all had received.
With a sense of delight Prof Morvin Simon recited a poem he had penned for the occasion entitled "A Thought to Bear…"
Congregational Leader Anne Derwin rsj was called upon to receive a gift from Morvin of a full set of his books giving the history and stories of the Marae on the Whanganui Awa.
With music and song still ringing in their ears all Sisters rejoined the buses and were transported back to the city. This had been a very special way to honour our informal 'fusion' with the people of Nga Paerangi, Kaiwhaiki, over the years, and our formal fusion with The Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
And so we continue to live into Te Kiritahitanga, our Fusion…
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