MEPs say the EU needs a coordinated response on a range of fronts in order to tackle the financial crisis and limit its impact on economic growth, jobs and small businesses. In a resolution on last week's EU summit, they also call for measures to improve financial supervision and look at issues from climate change to the Caucasus. The resolution was adopted with 499 votes in favour, 130 against and 67 abstentions.
Parliament stresses the importance of a coordinated macroeconomic response to resuscitate global growth, without undermining the principles of the stability and growth pact. MEPs also want to see coordinated action to restore confidence in the financial markets.
The crisis, says the resolution, has implications beyond financial markets: for business viability, jobs, personal finance and SMEs. Parliament stresses the paramount importance of ongoing access to credit for citizens and SMEs and of investments in EU infrastructure to avoid a dramatic downturn in growth and employment.
It therefore supports measure to return liquidity to the markets, and the rapid reaction of the Commission in applying state aid rules on measures taken to rescue financial institutions. When public money is spent in this way, say MEPs, it must be accompanied by public oversight, improvements in governance, limitations on remuneration, strong accountability to public authorities and investment strategies for the real economy.
MEPs welcome the setting up by the Commission of a high-level group to consider the future supervisory architecture for EU financial services, but they criticise the lack of Parliamentary involvement in the Commission's "financial crisis cell".


The Supreme Court refused Monday to hear an appeal by a former FBI translator of Middle Eastern languages who asserted that she was terminated for trying to expose ineptitude and espionage within the bureau's translation section.
Two lower federal courts dismissed her lawsuit for retaliatory termination, accepting the federal government's argument that the case could not proceed without revealing state secrets. Under the so-called state secrets privilege, recognized by the Supreme Court 50 years ago, a lawsuit must be dismissed when there is no alternative to protect national security.
In her appeal, the translator, Sibel Edmonds, who was represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, argued that the lower courts misapplied the privilege in dismissing her lawsuit before discovery and without making a sufficient effort to consider evidence that was not privileged.
Edmonds also challenged the exclusion of the public and the press from the courtroom in which the District of Columbia U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard her appeal in April.
The appeals court ordered the courtroom closed even though the government informed the judges the previous week that it was "prepared to argue this case publicly, in an open courtroom." A transcript of the argument was released later.
Harper's Magazine is an intellectual hothouse that tends to grow its own. The magazine will announce Tuesday that Roger D. Hodge, 38, will succeed Lewis H. Lapham as editor in April, and Hodge is no exception. After being turned down for an internship in 1996, he got a call back a few days later and has remained planted at the magazine since, holding a variety of jobs, most recently serving as deputy editor.
Then again, Hodge was born and raised in Del Rio, Texas, and as the son of a rancher knows his way around cattle, sheep and a gun. The family spread is now a hunting ground, and Hodge's gimlet eye extends beyond raw copy to the scope of a rifle.
"I'm a very good shot; at least I was when I was a kid," Hodge said Monday, sitting in Lupa restaurant in Manhattan. John R. MacArthur, president and publisher of Harper's, said he was happy both that the new editor of the magazine comes from within and that he grew up as an outsider to Manhattan publishing life.
"We have had many talented people here that have gone on to edit other magazines, and I have thought for a long time that Roger was a keeper and that we should make sure that we hang on to him," MacArthur said.


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WASHINGTON -- The Census Bureau gave us another reminder Thursday of the importance of manufacturing to Indiana.
Announcing a new tool that allows the public to analyze the business patterns of the nation's 435 congressional districts, the agency noted that the health care sector is the top employer in a majority of districts.
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In Indiana, however, that's only the case in three of the state's nine districts. Manufacturers employ the most people in all but the 1st, 5th and 7th Districts.
When measured by payroll instead of numbers of employees, manufacturing beats out health care in the 1st District as well.
Hoosier factory workers are taking a hit, though, with the recently announced closures of Carrier Corp.'s Indianapolis plant and United Technologies Electronic Control's Huntington factory.
Politicians ask for meeting with Carrier
Carrier's decision to build air conditioning units in Mexico instead of Indianapolis got the attention of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump who said in a debate he would impose a tax on the air conditioners if Carrier brings them into the United States for sale.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has also expressed support for the workers.
Contact Maureen Groppe at mgroppe@gannett.com or @mgroppe on Twitter.

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It's Time to Hold Iran Regime Leaders Accountable for 'Crime Against Humanity'
By Ali Safavi, originally published in Townhall.com, January 24, 2021
The preamble of the Rome Statute, a treaty that established the International Criminal Court (ICC), says that all peoples are united by common bonds, forming a "delicate mosaic" that may be "shattered at any time." It adds that there are grave crimes committed that "threaten the peace, security and well-being of the world." Such crimes must not go unpunished and the impunity for the perpetrators must end so that further crimes can be prevented.
According to Amnesty International, "certain crimes are so serious that they amount to an offence against the whole of humanity and therefore all states have a responsibility to bring those responsible to justice."
The 1988 massacre in Iran is one such example. Starting in the summer of that year, at least 30,000 civilian political prisoners were summarily executed by the theocracy. Many international organizations, including Amnesty, have described it as a "crime against humanity." The bodies of the victims were dumped into secret mass graves and families are, to this day, banned from mourning their loved ones. Those who defy the ban are arrested and even themselves executed.
The fact that the regime continues to withhold information about this atrocity while trying to erase the evidence for the past 33 years – by bulldozing mass graves or building structure on top of them, for example – renders the 1988 massacre "an ongoing" crime against humanity.
One of the many individuals involved in this crime against humanity is now in detention in Sweden. Arrested shortly after arriving in Sweden for a visit in 2019, Hamid Noury is now poised to face trial this year under universal jurisdiction. It will be the first time ever that an Iranian regime official faces justice for the 1988 massacre.
In the 1980s, owing to his willingness to show brutality, Noury quickly climbed the ranks, starting from an ordinary agent of the suppressive Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and later becoming an assistant prosecutor working in Tehran's notorious Evin prison as well as the Gohardasht prison in the nearby city of Karaj.
In that capacity, Noury is accused of taking numerous political prisoners to their executions. At times, according to eyewitness accounts, he would hang people personally.
The majority of the victims were members of the main opposition Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). After begrudgingly accepting a ceasefire with Iraq in 1988, the regime felt weak and vulnerable by a long unpatriotic eight-year war that had exponentially increased a sense of popular resentment and hatred toward it. The economy was in free fall and the opposition was growing stronger by the day.
To preserve his hold on power, supreme leader Khomeini issued a religious decree, a fatwa, ordering that political prisoners who refuse to denounce MEK, the most organized opposition against the clerical establishment, are deemed "enemies of Islam" and must be "eliminated immediately." Even prisoners who had finished their sentences were executed.
Hossein Ali Montazeri, then the designated heir to Khomeini, described the gut-wrenching massacre as the "biggest crime committed in the history of the Islamic Republic."
Torturers like Noury played an instrumental role on the ground. In addition to torturing and harassing prisoners and their families, many witnesses say that he gleefully called out the names of prisoners in the "death hall" on numerous occasions and transported the blindfolded dissidents to their eventual mass executions. He was in such a hurry to kill that sometimes he would execute people by mistake.
In 2020, MEK members who were personally in prison at the time and witnessed Noury's crimes provided first-hand accounts of their experience to Swedish authorities preparing to prosecute Noury this year. These horrifying and detailed accounts uncover a large-scale crime against humanity that must not go unpunished.
Noury may well be prosecuted. But there are more significant players that must face justice, including the regime's supreme leader Khamenei and president Hassan Rouhani, as well as the sitting "justice minister" Alireza Avayie, and the judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi, among many more. The latter two were members of the death commission in 1988, and now hold the highest judicial positions in the regime.
An international investigation into the 1988 massacre is long overdue, something that was recently urged by top United Nations human rights experts, including the special rapporteur for Iran.
The United States and the European Union, parties to the Rome Statute, signatories of the Convention against Torture, and the UN Security Council, can and should commission such an investigation. The case should ultimately make its way to international tribunals for broader and long overdue investigations and trials.
It is time to hold Iranian regime officials accountable. The European Union's abysmal silence in this regard is morally reprehensible and politically akin to the appeasement of Hitler in the 1930s. Further inaction with respect to the 1988 massacre would certainly encourage more evil and threaten global peace and security.
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Militant outfits Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) recruited and used children in Jammu and Kashmir during clashes with government forces last year, according to a UN report.
The annual report of the UN Secretary General on Children and Armed Conflict, covering the January-December 2017 period, said globally, over 10,000 children were killed or maimed in conflict last year while more than 8,000 were recruited or used as combatants.
The report covers 20 countries, including war-torn Syria, Afghanistan, and Yemen and also the situation in India, the Philippines and Nigeria.
On the situation in India, the report of UNSG Antonio Guterres said children continued to be affected by incidents of violence between armed groups and the government forces, particularly in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and during tensions in Jammu and Kashmir.
Noting "grave violations", it said "three incidents of recruitment and use of children by the two terror outfits were reported in Jammu and Kashmir during clashes with the security forces".
"One case was attributed to Jaish-e-Mohammed and two to Hizbul Mujahideen," the report said, adding that "unverified" reports also indicate use of children as informants and spies by the government forces.
The UN said it continued to receive reports of recruitment and use of children, including by the Naxalites, particularly in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand. "Naxalites reportedly resorted to the use of a lottery system to conscript children in Jharkhand," it said, adding children continued to be killed and injured during operations of security forces against armed groups.
Citing government data, the report said 188 civilians were killed in Naxal-affected regions, but no disaggregated data on children were available.
In March this year, a 15-year-old boy was killed during clash between the forces and Lashkar-e-Taiba militants in Padgampora village of Pulwama district.
Guterres asked the Indian government to put in place measures to hold perpetrators of child recruitment and use to account and engage with the UN to end and prevent violations against children.
In Jharkhand, the report said, suspected Naxalites attacked a school in Khunti district, partially destroying it. With regard to military use, the occupation of over 20 schools was documented by the Central Reserve Police Force in Srinagar, Kashmir, in April.
"Increased tensions in Jammu and Kashmir reportedly also led to closure of school for varying periods, including in Rajouri (65) and Poonch (76) districts," it said.


GMO Group claims to be coming out with next-generation 7nm ASIC technology.
This past week the Japanese internet firm, GMO Group announced the company is planning to join the bitcoin mining industry. One notable piece of information in the company's statements revealed the new mining operation would utilize, "cutting-edge 7nm process technology for chips to be used in the mining process." GMO Group further details they have an "alliance partner" with a semiconductor design company. At the moment, 7nm semiconductor chips are not produced commercially, but many firms have announced they are planning on producing these chips in the very near future. There's a good probability that 10nm and 7nm products may be widely manufactured by Q1 of 2018. Companies like Samsung, Intel, TSMC, and Globalfoundries are all racing towards the goal of creating 7nm chips in mass production. In the bitcoin mining world, specifically the application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) industry, the current semiconductor chips used right now are between 16-14nm.
Andreas Antonopoulos says ASIC semiconductor improvements is good for decentralization.
Samsung, IBM, and Globalfoundries 7nm taped-out semiconductor chip.
The 7nm chip will not only transform the bitcoin mining sector but really will revolutionize the entire computer industry with a four-fold efficiency. 7nm semiconductors are very small but contain a 20+ billion transistors that will enable many devices to perform more complex computations. There could be a chance a mining company happens to partner with a company like Samsung who is investing billions towards manufacturing 10nm and 7nm chips. In fact, the company has formed an alliance with IBM and Globalfoundries to research and develop these 7nm chips so partnerships are not uncommon.
Samsung has been making headlines this year for leading the way towards more efficient microchips.
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Mining pool monopolies, faster chips and topics like the ASIC Boost patent has created a lot of mining centralization debates over the past two years. Miners who were once regarded as protectors of the Bitcoin network has later been considered monopolistic entities. Over the past few months, as the scaling debate intensified, mining optimization has been deemed unfavorable and the drama has escalated to talks of changing Bitcoin's proof-of-work. However, this month Ledger Journal published a paper written by Nicola Dimitri that explains that fear involved with mining centralization is misleading. The paper discusses the subject analyzing mining game theory and other topics like whether or not 51% attacks are truly a threat. Dimitri further details that bitcoin mining's "incentive structure naturally prevents the formation of a monopoly," and further details that mining is more profitable with fewer pools actively mining.
[Bitcoin] mining activity seems to be intrinsically monopoly-proof, in the sense that if only two miners were to be active, their profits would always be positive regardless of the marginal cost of the opponent. For this reason, none of the two could exclude the other by cutting down his own costs, unless activities other than bitcoin mining would have a higher rate of return.
It will be interesting if GMO manages to produce 7nm chipsets in their mining machines as the semiconductor chips will be significantly smaller, and more efficient than the 16nm versions predominantly used today. The company further states it will be manufacturing the 7nm boards for resale as well, which will bring the next generation mining chips to the general public and competing mining pools. If the Japanese firm kept the chips a secret, with the industry standard currently set at 16nm, GMO Group's proprietary chips could basically wipe competition off the map if they don't have the same technology. Further, the 7nm chip will be getting closer to the possible ceiling of Moore's Law, which brings extreme production difficulty for 5nm builds and then semiconductors will drop to an even smaller design that will be even harder to procure. What do you think about 7nm chips coming to the bitcoin mining industry? Let us know in the comments below.
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José Francisco Fernández is Senior Lecturer in English literature at the University of Almería. He has edited two books on the short story in English and is co-editor of Irish Landscapes (University of Almería, 2003). His publications include the collective volumes Contemporary Debates on the Short Story (Bern: Peter Lang, 2007) and Distancias cortas. El relato breve en Gran Bretaña, Irlanda y Estados Unidos (Oviedo: Septem, 2010). He has recently edited the collected stories by Margaret Drabble (Penguin, 2011). His most recent work focuses on the narrative prose of Samuel Beckett and his reception in Spain, including "A Long Time Coming: The Critical Response to Samuel Beckett in Spain and in Portugal" (The International Reception of Samuel Beckett. New York: Continuum, 2009) and "'Echo's Bones': Samuel Beckett's Lost Story of Afterlife" (Journal of the Short Story in English, Spring 2009). He has also translated two novels by Samuel Beckett, Sueño con mujeres que ni fu ni fa, together with Miguel Martínez Lage (Tusquets, 2011), and Mercier y Camier (Confluencias, 2013).


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LONDON — Rows of sweating, fidgety college-bound students sit waiting to collect their diplomas, half listening to the platitudes offered by principals and head teachers while their parents sigh with a mixture of pride and relief. It's high school graduation season.
A century ago a high school diploma was both a certificate of academic prowess and a ticket to a good job, but in today's competitive global market employers expect much more — as, increasingly, do universities. And where once upon a time every student in a given country worked for the same credential — a diploma in the United States, a baccalaureate in France, O-levels or A-levels in Britain — secondary school students, and their parents, now face a bewildering landscape of choices.


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Many governments feel the attraction of controlling document production themselves — independence, security and economics, to name a few. In many cases these efforts to switch to a 'make' model fail in the face of inexperience and hesitations about implementing and operating the factory. They instead revert to the 'buy' method, procuring blank documents from a third party.
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Sunliner's Switch has obviously been designed to produce a budget-trimming motorhome – however that doesn't mean that any of the Sunliner essentials have been left out.
For the motive power, a tried and trusty workhorse – the Fiat Ducato – is used as a base vehicle. The Multijet 160 model is powered by a 115.5kW turbo-diesel motor, and drives through a six-speed AMT (automated manual) gearbox, something that certainly gives the Switch plenty of grunt, given that it has a wet tare weight of just 3340kg. Instead of the Ducato chassis, the Switch comes with an Al-Ko chassis that has a maximum load of 4490kg, thus providing a generous load capacity.
Like all Sunliner motorhomes, the Switch doesn't have a frame. Instead, the body is built using fiberglass composite walls based on a steel chassis. Sunliner's trademark top and bottom fiberglass mouldings at the rear remove the boxy motorhome look that is often a characteristic. Indeed, the B-class non-Luton Peak style of body gives the Switch a very streamlined look.
Seitz hopper windows are used all round, along with a Camec triple-locker security door. External bin storage is fairly limited: in addition to the offside bin (for two 4.5kg gas cylinders), there is just one bin at the rear nearside that, unusually, is sealed off from the rest of the under-bed area where it is located.
At seven metres long, the Switch is a length that gives designers plenty of latitude with the interior layout, while still providing a motorhome that isn't difficult to drive – especially as it comes with large external mirrors and a reversing camera.
Inside the Switch, the layout has a mid-section entry door, with bed and bathroom to the rear, and the nearside kitchen and offside dinette to the front. Included are the Ducato fitted swiveling seats, and although they don't quite fit into the general design, they are still useful to have nonetheless.
Although the Switch very much has the Sunliner décor, in keeping with the more budget emphasis of the motorhome, it is done in a simpler style, while still maintaining some of the Sunliner essentials, such as LED lighting, a comprehensive control panel over the entry door and a bit of class about the general interior look. Generous window space all-round, plus a large, central roof hatch and a roof-mounted, Aircommand Cormorant air conditioner, both allow plenty of light and ventilation.
In order to include a bathroom that has a separate shower cubicle and cassette toilet, the Sunliner design team has fitted both the bathroom and the bed into the rear area, meaning the 1880mm x 1346mm double bed occupies the nearside corner area and the bathroom takes up the offside space. The bed has windows in both the side and rear walls, and is designed so that neither occupant has to climb over the other to get in or out.
Under the mattress, the bed base can be lifted to get to the storage area underneath. It is not all empty space: in addition to the 100ah house battery and Truma 14-litre hot water heater, part of the under-bed area is taken up by the external bin.
The bathroom layout design includes a separate vanity wash basin and both a shaving cabinet and shelves for storage. Outside, between the bathroom and the dinette, is a wardrobe area with both hanging space and shelves.
In a design like this, it's not surprising that the kitchen bench area has been a bit squeezed. Most of the bench top space is taken up by a stainless steel, Dometic three-burner cooktop and sink combo unit, but that means no sink drainer and no grill. Adjoining the cooktop/sink unit is a Thetford 128-litre three-way fridge, the top of which can be used for locating the flat-screen TV, given the proximity of both a power point and antenna connection. General kitchen storage consists of several different sized drawers below the bench level, with overhead lockers above. Also set in the overhead locker area above the fridge is a Sanyo microwave oven.


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Hello Bif Bang Pow! lovers of all creeds and wizarding schools, Lenzi here again, with a major scoop for ya. Well, several major scoops, to be precise. We've been good enough to sneak some of the artwork which will feature on our brand new retro action figures for 2010 to several different websites out there in the net-er-verse. Tomorrow morning, everyone's going to cyberspacely join hands and unleash the beauty at the same time. So, if you wanna be the coolest kid on the block and get a dose of Bif Bang Power to take you into the weekend, then get to bed early tonight so you can be the first one up and at 'em tomorrow. The participating sites are: Action Figure Insider, The Mego Museum, The Mantis Eye Experiment, Dread Central, Idle Hands, and Wizard World.
If this works, it could be the biggest media event since Live Aid. Or Shatner selling his kidney stone on ebay, or somewhere very in between. Tune in tomorrow, folks, and tell us what ya think!
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Against a backdrop of war and poverty, Out of the Ashes traces the extraordinary journey of a team of young Afghan men as they chase a seemingly impossible dream ¨C shedding new light on a nation beyond burqas, bombs, drugs and devastation.
The film follows the Afghan cricket team in their quest against the odds to qualify for the World Cup. It follows the squad over two years as they go from playing in their shalwar-kameezes on rubble pitches to batting their way around the globe and up the international league tables.
At a time when headlines from Afghanistan are dominated by news of death and corruption, the film reveals a more human side to this beleaguered country which has endured three decades of war and occupation.
With unrestricted behind-the-scenes access at international matches, the film follows the ups and downs of their epic journey. We track the team as they travel the globe ¨C eating fish and chips in Jersey, watching tango dancers in Argentina and swimming in the sea for the first time off the coast of Tanzania. Witty, touching and nail-biting to the end, Out of the Ashes is a compelling story of triumph over adversity.
"A documentary that's amusing, affecting and life-affirming"
"One of the most fascinating cricketing films you will see... remarkable"