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Shell, bio-bean and coffee-drinkers collaborate to help power London's buses
Shell and bio-bean are helping to power some of London's buses using a biofuel made partly from waste coffee grounds, a development that has triggered renewed challenge to Nigerian beneficiaries of Shell's LiveWIRE programme to join in the innovative search for bright energy ideas. This latest Shell-bio-bean collaboration is part of Shell's #makethefuture energy relay, which supports entrepreneurs turning bright energy innovations into a positive impact for communities around the world.
Managing Director, The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) and Country Chair, Shell Companies in Nigeria, Mr. Osagie Okunbor, says he is excited about emerging energy ideas through innovations and collaborations supported by Shell's LiveWIRE programme, and sees the potential of smart energy ideas being developed in Nigeria.
"By continuing the conversation on providing a wider, more sustainable mix of energy resources for the world's growing population, Shell is provoking thoughts on tomorrow's solution, and I see the potential for a replication of the bio-bean technology in Nigeria where more than 275 million cups of coffee are consumed in a year," he said. "It is an indication that by rethinking our approach to waste, we can create smarter cities and a brighter future for our country."
The bio-bean inventor, Arthur Kay, is a recipient of Shell's LiveWIRE Innovation Award, which supports young entrepreneurs with pioneering ideas to create a brighter energy future. He described the bio-bean technology as "the fuel of choice for households looking for a high-performance, sustainable way to heat their homes – and now, with the support of Shell, bio-bean and Argent Energy have created thousands of litres of coffee-derived B20 biodiesel which will help power London buses for the first time."
In its 14-year history in Nigeria, Shell's LiveWIRE has produced hundreds of entrepreneurs who benefited from business training and start-up grants, making them employers of labour. Three of the past beneficiaries were recently nominated for the 2017 Shell group Top 10 Innovators award where two of them -- Precious Adeho, owner of Emobella Engineering Nig Ltd, and Atalor Ngozi Deborah of De-rahbs Energy Services won in the merit category.
Nigeria has also benefited from innovations and inventions from Shell's LiveWIRE with the building of Africa's first human and solar powered football pitch at the Federal College of Education (Technical), Akoka, Lagos, unveiled in 2015 in collaboration with global music star, Akon. The pitch uses Pavegen tiles invented by young British entrepreneur and Shell LiveWIRE beneficiary, Laurence Kemball-Cook, to convert power from footsteps into renewable that lights the pitch at night.
Over the years, SPDC has supported students from Nigeria universities to participate in the global Shell Eco-Marathon, a global competition that sees students design ultra-efficient cars, and challenges them to see which can travel furthest on one litre of fuel.
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A big thank you to all the musicians involved in the Stockholm gigs – Brian Kramer, Dan MacFarlane, Bjorn Lundqvist, Lisa Phinney, Mats Qwarfordt and Lisen Elwin. A big thank you to Stampen and Izzy Young for having us play, Neil MacFarlane for his wonderful photos and Lisa Phinney for being such a generous host. To quote Brian Kramer's latest release, we came 'Full Circle' playing together for the first time since recording the album. It was special to have Lisen Elwin join us on cello for the gig at Stampen, a venue rich in atmosphere with all sorts of weird and wonderful objects hanging from the ceiling.
Playing at the Izzy Young Folklore Center felt as if we'd travelled back in time 50 years to an original folk club – an all acoustic experience, surrounded by records and books, with a superb audience.
Just over a year has passed since I left Stockholm, Sweden to return to Jersey, the little Island in the English Channel. A lot has happened since and I've started building a different life.
I've had my heart broken, I've found new affinities with the kind of musicians I want to work with, I've released an album, walked the sea's edge in buffeting winds.
And now, after 14 months absence I'm returning to launch my album which was produced and recorded in Stockholm with Brian Kramer, accompanied by my new bandmate Dan MacFarlane (piano, guitar).
Come and share my pleasure at returning to Stockholm and let the album, 'The Other Country', speak for itself.
Björn Lundqvist (bass), Mats Qwarfordt (harmonica), Lisen Paula Schultz (cello), Lisa Phinney (backing vocals) and of course Brian Kramer.
I look forward to meeting old and new friends.
Esther Rose Parkes launched her debut album The Other Country on 30 November 2013 to a select audience of about sixty fans and friends upstairs at The Green Rooster, Jersey, with a show that was spellbinding. Some of the most interesting musicians from the Channel Islands' alternative music scene played their parts. Ukaladeez impressed with a set that was in equal parts comedic, alluring and musically audacious. Their version of Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out was exquisite. With a stunning switching of the mood Falenizza Horsepower performed a compressed set of their very loud and heavy prog rock. Monika Sawicka, Chris Herbert, Linda Rose Parkes, Dan MacFarlane, Naomi West and Esther's record producer and guitarist Brian Kramer were Esther's band for the night as she presented live album tracks and more. Using a strategy of shuffling various duos and trios, Esther and friends' hour-long performance continuously shifted in character and perspective. It added up to a show of such effective design that audience members could lose themselves in the artistic showcase of consummate performance skills. Dave Findlay did a first-rate job with the sound. Eva Köhler charmingly managed front of house and designed tickets. Pawel Puchala and his team at The Green Rooster were the perfect hosts.
I always seem to have inhabited a place between countries.
Because of my bicultural background I've never belonged anywhere and have always been in search of that place of belonging.
This set of songs is very much about that journey.
The Other Country was recorded over five days in Stockholm in November 2012 with blues musician Brian Kramer acting as both producer and guitarist.
It was a really magical experience. We agreed it would be an album with a live feel, a concept duet album. Most songs are me, the guitar and another instrument, with more instruments on some other tracks.
lyrical folk with some blues and soul influences.
Although Esther has been playing for many years, she is only now releasing her debut after recording an album with an American studio in 2008 which for contractual reasons she was unable to release. It took a while to recover from that disappointment.
I moved to Sweden and that was where it became clear that the album wasn't going to be releasable – it was a case of letting go. I had a really creative period, especially in that first year and it was really just about getting back into writing and being inspired by the place. The experience had put me off releasing any music so I just threw myself into songwriting.
After three years in Sweden I knew it wasn't a home. The winters are tough and I'd had enough. Ultimately Jersey is my true spiritual home, although I wasn't born here. My grandparents have been here since 1949 and I always visited as a child.
After going away and developing as an artist I'm incredibly appreciative of what Jersey has given me, especially in terms of landscapes and inspiration – this is a place that I know will always inspire me to write, and the most important thing for an artist is to be in a place that inspires them to be creative.
I like the musical community here. There are really good, talented people.


Exclusive Oracle customers could soon be the beneficiaries of an unlimited, all-you-can-eat licence for its core database, with the giant understood to be readying a deal that would grant use of its database in perpetuity at a flat rate.
Oracle's prospective licence is being referred to as the Perpetual User License Agreement (PULA).
Whatever the nomenclature, the deal differs to the existing Unlimited License Agreement that runs for a limited time, between one to five years typically.
At the end of an Unlimited License Agreement term customers count what they've used and reach settlement with Oracle for under or over use. But the licence in the works at Oracle blows away any time limitations.
Rather, the user will pay a fee – calculated by Oracle estimated on the size of your estate – for each year of unlimited deployment for database and options.
The only apparent requirement is that the customer follows through and commits to using Oracle's software instead of that of rivals.
Oracle did not respond to request for a comment about the new licence. However, one source told The Reg Oracle is responding to aggressive competition from Postgres and others.
The proposed model would allow customers to plan their spending on Oracle's software and to transfer it from a capital to an operational expense.
It would cut the up-front hurdle of capex and eliminate the potential for nasty surprises, such as when Oracle claims you've used more than you were entitled to following an audit.
The idea for Oracle's licence is believed to have come from those who've joined the company from its nimbler cloud rival Salesforce. It's not clear when the new licences will show up in Oracle's official price list although one Register source reckoned it could be within a month.
Qualifying customers are those deemed either "large" or with a "significant" investment in Oracle.
An unlimited, all-you-can-use, flat licence based on an estimate would be a major departure for Oracle. It seems it's actually willing to give up on accurate measures of what customers are consuming and to trade that for an estimate.
This is a big change for a firm famed for its efficient licence compliance business, whose raison d'etre is to make sure customers are paying what's owed.
Another major factor is the fact that Oracle would allow customers to shift the burden of paying for its software into a predictable open line item – precisely the move achieved by Software-as-a-Service firms like Salesforce and reckoned to have helped them.
The new model would be used to kick-start Oracle's core business. The firm (again) missed analyst expectations in June, reporting a 5.4 per cent drop in revenue to $10.71bn in its fourth quarter, with a drop in net income of 24.4 per cent to $2.76bn.
And it's software like the database that's proving the millstone.
Software accounts for 73.1 per cent of Oracle's business and sales of new software licences fell 16 per cent to $3.14bn in the quarter.
The driving factor seems to be a growing realisation that in turning to database rivals, Oracle risks losing vital customers and key accounts forever.


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Adam Gallagher is the managing editor for Public Affairs and Communications at the U.S. Institute of Peace.
Most recently he was an editorial manager at the International Foundation for Electoral Systems and was previously with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's Middle East Program. Gallagher has also worked as an analyst and writer at a defense consultancy monitoring local and international media reporting on Afghanistan. He has been an accredited election observer in Tunisia (2014), Burma (2015) and Liberia (2017).
His writing on U.S. politics, foreign policy and international relations has appeared in the Washington Post, the Hill, the National Interest, World Politics Review, the American Prospect, Small Wars Journal, the Diplomat, the Huffington Post, International Policy Digest, and for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Urban History Association, among other outlets.
He has a bachelor's degree in political science and philosophy from Ohio Northern University and a master's degree in international relations from George Mason University.
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Publications By Adam
Five Myths About Protest Movements
By: Maria J. Stephan; Adam Gallagher
This year saw protests across the globe, as citizens bridled under what they consider the tyranny of their governments. From Iraq to Zimbabwe, Hong Kong to Chile, demonstrators even in places with ample surveillance and retributive regimes have worked to make their voices heard. But alongside these movements, misconceptions about how they work persist—and plague our understanding of their goals, their methods and their outcomes.
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Tunisia's transition has unfinished business. Can Ennahda lead the way?
By: Adam Gallagher
Fresh off a busy election season, Prime Minister-designate Habib Jemli is in the process of forming Tunisia's next government. That government will have the daunting task of addressing Tunisians' deep disenchantment with the political class and its failures to live up to the promise of the 2010-2011 uprising that led to the overthrow of longtime dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. "The big problems confronting Tunisians have not been given enough importance" from the country's political parties, said Abdelfattah Mourou, the first presidential candidate of the Ennahda party, during an interview at USIP.
In Libya, Peace is Possible if Foreign Interference Ends
If foreign powers ceased their involvement in Libya, the country's protracted civil war could come quickly to an end, said Mohamed Syala, the foreign minister of the Government of National (GNA), in an interview with the U.S. Institute of Peace. The role of outside powers in Libya's conflict has garnered renewed international attention in recent weeks as Russia has ramped up its support for Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar's forces.
Conflict Analysis & Prevention; Global Policy
To Protect Afghan Women's Rights, U.S. Must Remain Engaged
It's been over a year since the U.S., led by Amb. Zalmay Khalilzad, opened talks with the Taliban aimed at ending the 18-year war. Over that year, Afghan women have demanded a seat at the negotiating table, worried that the hard-won gains made over the last two decades could be in jeopardy. Even with the peace process stalled, "it is vital that the U.S. remain engaged" to ensure that Afghan women's rights are protected, said Rep. Martha Roby (R-AL) last week at the U.S. Institute of Peace's latest Bipartisan Congressional Dialogue.
Gender; Democracy & Governance
Tunisians Show Support for Democracy, Disillusionment with Ruling Elite
The surprise results of Tunisia's first-round presidential election gave a clear message to the country's political establishment: Tunisians want change and they want it now. Neither of the two winning candidates set to face off in the second round have ever held political office nor are affiliated with the political parties that have led Tunisia's transition. Many of the issues that sparked the uprising eight years ago—like corruption and unemployment—continue to bedevil the North African nation. Yet the first-round vote demonstrates that Tunisians aren't willing to give up on democracy and want new leaders.
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Each year Veterans Day is held on November 11th in the United States and celebrates the sacrifices that our veterans of the armed forces have made throughout the years. At Arlington National Cemetery in Washington D.C., a ceremony starting with laying a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldiers followed by a parade and other activities to honor our fallen brothers and sisters who have made the ultimate sacrifice as well as those that survived the hardships of war and put themselves in harm's way for the betterment and protection of our way of life.
You may be asking yourself what does all of this have to do with a business blog, and it may seem out of place in a place where you have come to read business and marketing articles. I say to you that it has everything to do with business and marketing because we live in a free society where we have the freedom of getting up each morning and going to our offices and conducting business that affords us a comfortable lifestyle. This life that we have created for ourselves, the businesses we have worked hard to build and the commerce that we participate in each and every day would not be possible had it not been for the sacrifices that were made on our behalf. Whether you live in the United States, the United Kingdom, or any other free democratic society, somewhere at sometime a sacrifice was made which has allowed you to be free, allowed you to participate in this capitalistic society we have created.
So I ask you to take a moment today in the midst of your wheeling and dealing and to pause for a moment and to thank those that have sacrificed so much, those that have given up their freedom, their life in order to allow you to have the life you have. Let's not forget those that have given so much in order to protect our way of life and granting us the freedom to conduct business and live the life we live.


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The Top Robots of 2010
By Elizabeth Fish
PCWorld	 Dec 30, 2010 1:01 pm PST
We've worried about robots steadily taking human jobs and even creating themselves without human intervention. Robots even grew their own brains and were out to, er, punch us. But none of this block the path for some great robotic creations in 2010, including both scientific and homemade inventions. So here are just a few of GeekTech's robotic highlights of the last year.
Medical Robots
Robots in medicine have been pretty incredible this year. First up, there was OctoMag, the tiny robot that could remove blood clots from eye vessels, thus allowing patients to avoid having to endure a traditional eye surgery. This robot is also pretty basic–it's made mainly out of five tightly coiled springs. The only catch is that it has to be inserted up the patient's nose. Gross. Watch the video to see how the robot works.
And for the first time ever, in 2010 a surgical procedure was performed entirely by robots. The incredible feat happened at McGill University Health Centre in Canada, for a prostatectomy. Although there were technically surgeons in control behind the scenes, the robots were still performing the surgery rather than human hands.
Walking Robots
From a Chumby to a floppy drive concept design, plenty of items have sprouted robotic legs–they have even helped wheelchair users walk again. But the most fascinating is the Ranger Robot, a four-legged creation that broke a record for the distance a robot could walk before its battery died. Ranger managed to wander a whole 14.3 miles (25 kilometers) before it collapsed–1.5 miles further than the previous record holder. The university students behind Ranger are working on extending the Ranger Robot's range even further so t can run a marathon (26.2 miles), so watch this space. Watch Ranger walk gracefully into the record books in the video.
Nosy Robots
2010 also saw some interesting robots made purely to snoop around. One Japanese estate agent uses a robot to check out foundations of potentially dangerous buildings without sending a human under. The robot can send video to those above as well as jump over obstacles. Imagine what else it could possibly find under floorboards…
The best, though, was a Wi-Fi-sniffing robot called the W.A.S.P. Made in a garage by two guys, W.A.S.P (Wi-Fi Aerial Surveillance Platform) essentially sneaked around the neighborhood to find insecure Wi-Fi connections and then leech them, sending the signal back to the controller for their own use. That's pretty sneaky, but could also be used for more honest means such as teaching people why they should secure their networks.
Life-Like Robots
Even more robots with human characteristics appeared this year. Nao robots learnt how to dance in sync with each other: Watch the video to see 20 of them perform a synchronized routine.
The most (eerily) impressive was Simon, a robot that learned how to do things as he was taught them. Simon, a product of the Georgia Institute of Technology's Socially Intelligent Machines lab, was made using simple algorithms as part of a project designed to prove that programming a robot to do certain tasks didn't have to be difficult for individuals, as well as how robots in the home could be in future.
Fun Robots
[Photo: Travis7s on Instructables]
A common sight this year was robots built usinf Lego Mindstorm NXT and Arduino kits. One robot, the Nerf Tank, was even made out of a child's toy.
The coolest example of homemade fun has to be the Lego 3D Scanner. To use the scanner, you'd place an object on the machine's two flat surfaces. The laser traces the object, and a Webcam picks up the laser-tracing, sending it to 3D modeling software on a PC. Awesome.
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Many months before Joanna's short escape, I stayed at a friend's empty house in Buffalo, and visited my mother at the nursing home every day for a week. Each day I dropped down deeper inside her world. On my second visit, we retreated to her shared room. Her roommate wasn't there. Beside Joanna's single bed stood the last surviving piece of the bedroom set she'd inherited from her mother, an antique dresser topped with a bevelled-edged mirror in a curving walnut frame. I'd arranged for this to be used instead of the bland dresser issued with the room. There was a brass keyhole in the top drawer, but if there had ever been a corresponding key, it had been lost years ago.
Joanna sat on her bed and examined a wall-mounted fluorescent light fixture, running her fingertips over the bubbled texture of its yellowed plastic shade. She gestured toward it, invited me to appreciate its enigmatic power. "I like this," she said.
I faced her in a chair I'd dragged in from the TV area across from the elevators. I'd positioned a meal tray so that it was between us, an improvised work space. I'd covered its surface with an array of coloured markers and two pages torn from a sketchbook.
When I'd visited the day before, there hadn't been any photos on her side of the room, but now I noticed she had found and propped up three pictures on her dresser. There was a framed photo of my son, Levi, that I'd given her for Christmas four years earlier, when he was a newborn, and there were two loose snapshots. One was of the base of the Eiffel Tower, which Joanna had taken during our weekend trip to Paris together in 1994. The other photo was of me.
I picked up this last picture and studied it. I'm sitting by myself on the blue-and-green floral couch in our living room in suburban Detroit. I'm probably fifteen years old. I'm wearing a baggy acrylic sweater and my hair is pulled back against my head on the sides, a big puff of curled bangs clawing at my eyebrows. Everything in this photo now looked ugly to me: my clothes, the pink walls behind me, the purple calico print tablecloth on the side table, that awful couch, the ruffled muslin curtains my grandmother had made for us, just like the ones in her own house.
Joanna leaned forward, her soft, plump arm touching mine, and she too looked at the photo in my hands.
"You're my beautiful baby," she said. I kissed her cheek.
The room was dark. I crossed to the window over her roommate's bed and pulled the fraying cord to raise the blinds. I sat down on the edge of the mattress and looked out through a tangle of bare tree branches to the street below.
Joanna had followed me over, and she stood behind me as we looked out the window silently for a moment. Then she pointed across the street and said, "You see that thing there . . . "
"I'm not sure what you're pointing at, the houses or the cars parked on the street?"
Her dark brows drew together. "I don't know," she said, and turned away from the window.
We settled back on her side of the room, sitting again with the meal tray I'd set up between us. I used the little speaker on my phone to stream the Beatles record she owned when I was little, back when we lived with my grandparents. It was the only record she had salvaged from the two years she lived in California before I was born.
"What colour marker do you want to use first?" I asked her. She hesitated and then pointed to purple, looking back up at me for reassurance. "Oh, that's a great choice," I said.
My mother held the marker awkwardly, looking down at it uncertainly.
"Here, I'm going to draw a circle on the page like this, and you can colour it in," I said as I drew a wobbly round blob. "Oh, you're doing such a good job," she said.
After some hesitation, she slowly started to make short purple strokes along the inside of the circle. I continued to praise her as I drew a cluster of triangles and dots on my own page. After a while, she stopped moving her hand to watch mine.
"Yours is so beautiful," she said.
"So is yours," I told her, but I couldn't redirect her attention back to her own page. "Here, we'll draw this together," I told her, putting my own drawing away in my bag.
My phone played one of the Beatles' many hits from the year she went to see the band play Olympia Stadium in Detroit with her girlfriends. That was the year she turned fifteen. She'd told me about that show, how she couldn't hear a single note they sang, the music drowned out by the sounds of the girls screaming around her. We sang along—"She loves you and you know that can't be bad"—as our heads bent toward each other over the purple ring Joanna had made in the centre of the page. I added a black dot in the middle of the ring, then drew round petals around the perimeter, making a psychedelic flower with a cartoonish eye at its centre.
"Oh, that's nice," she said.
I continued to draw on her page, asking her to choose colours for me. "We'll do this together," I said again. "We're collaborating."
I adjusted my sense of time as we sang and I drew, listening to the whole double album with the door shut. We dropped out of time and space. We were the only two people in the world. We were alone at the bottom of an ocean.
Someone knocked and the door opened. It was John, a man I'd met the day before in front of the nurses' station, beside the TV. He had told me he loved me as he shook my hand. He had the red face, bright-blue eyes and silver brush cut I associate with Midwestern football coaches. Like Joanna, he was wearing loose-fitting elastic-waist pants and fuzzy socks with no-slip strips. No shoes.
"Oh, hi!" he said, lighting up as he saw me. "What are you girls doing?"
"Oh, we're just spending time together," I said lightly, and looked back down at the drawing.
"I told you yesterday that I loved you," he said.
This guy, I thought, and kept drawing.
"This is my baby," my mother said, her hand on my arm. "Isn't she beautiful?"
"Yes, I told you that yesterday," John said. He turned his square body to me again. His eyes glinted in the flat fluorescent light. "Can I kiss you?" He was blocking the door.
"Nope," I said with a big smile.
He smiled too. "Okay, I won't do anything you don't want. But I love to see you. Why don't you visit more?"
I winced. "I live in Canada," I told him.
"Oh," he said, satisfied. "When are you coming back?"
"Soon," I said. "I'll be back soon."
"Okay, you come see me. I love your mother, but I really love seeing you." He winked. "I'll leave you girls alone now."
Joanna and I returned to our own zone again, but the spell was soon broken by screams on the other side of the door. My mother was not disturbed; she seemed to not hear the noise at all. I pretended I needed to go to the bathroom as an excuse to open the door and look out . . .
"You can just go to this one in here," Joanna said, pointing to the bathroom between her room and the one next door.
"Um, okay, I just want to—" I poked my head out. I could hear a fight, but I couldn't see a thing. "It's okay, I'm fine," I said, pulling my head in and shutting the door again.
When I opened the door an hour later to walk to the elevator with my mother, a woman of indeterminate age sat on the floor in front of me. This is a horror movie, I thought; this is the nineteenth century. The previous year, when Joanna had first moved from a nice assisted-living facility into this rundown nursing home, the only thing she'd said to me was, "There are a lot of people suffering here." She had always been sensitive to the pain of those around her. Not long after this, she lost the ability to speak in complete, coherent sentences.
Her current home was the only place that would take her when the assisted-living facility pushed her out of their system—a system I'd chosen for their well-maintained buildings, for their reputation for keeping residents in their care after savings ran out and they transitioned to Medicaid. But my mother's diagnosis of frontal-lobe dementia had made her an unattractive resident. Inappropriate was the word they used when they first approached me about finding her a new place to live. "She's an inappropriate resident."
I opened the door from our pocket of calm and saw a woman whose hands were wrapped around the doorknob of the room across the hall from us. The woman was hunched down on the floor with her knees pressed to her chest, the weight of her small, wiry body hanging from her grip on the doorknob. Our eyes locked and she began to sob. As my mother and I passed her, she stood up and followed us, asking for help, trying to get my attention. Joanna muttered, "Just ignore her," as we inched sideways, gripping each other's forearms, toward the elevator.
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POLITICO NOW Blog
Kyl suggests Benghazi 'cover-up'
By JUANA SUMMERS
Sen. Jon Kyl, (R-Ariz.) suggests the Obama administration orchestrated a "cover-up" of the events that led to the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that left U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans dead.
"There are three questions that have to be answered," Kyl said in an interview aired Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union," appearing on a panel with three other retiring senators. "Why weren't the warnings about the need for security heeded? Why weren't the requests for help during the ted attack answered and why did the administration think it had to cover up all the things that occurred before by putting out to the American people a narrative that I think will turn out to be absolutely false?"
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), agreed, saying that more than 10 days after the deadly attack, "top level people" were disseminating incorrect information.
"I am very concerned about the fact that on Sept. 11 this happened, and on Sept. 20, the Senate was given a classified briefing and they were still, the top level people were still telling us the same thing. They were telling us things that we knew, that we even saw in the press were not correct information," she said. "Now, Benghazi was a consulate. it wasn't a full embassy. I think if we have learned one thing, it is that maybe we should close consulates and give the full protection to our ambassadors who were willing to risk this kind of upheaval, so i do think we need to go into this in depth. I think this if there were military people trying to get in and they were being told no, no, no repeatedly we need to fix that."
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Saving Hingol National Park
July 29, 2006 by KO
!http://offroadpakistan.com/pictures/hingol_river_jan_06/DSCN0598-thumb.jpg! The ugly head of Pakistani politics and corruption rears its head once again: The Pakistan Air Force and Suparco are trying to "acquire land":http://www.dawn.com/2006/07/26/top18.htm in the Hingol National Park. The Hingol National Park is the largest National Park in Pakistan, and is one of three globally significant national parks in Pakistan, as selected by the "Global Environment Facility":http://www.gefweb.org/.
The Pakistan Air Force has already destroyed one National park, now they are gunning for another one. The IUCN sadly reports on the Maslakh wildlife sanctuary after the PAF moved in: *"All flagships wildlife species have been eliminated from the area".*
Dawn did a "front page expose":http://www.dawn.com/2006/07/26/top18.htm on the PAF's attempt to take over the hingol national park:
bq.. "The PAF is asking for land from the Hingol National Park because it got away with acquiring land from the Maslakh wildlife sanctuary in the Pishin district," says Tahir Rasheed, national project manager of the Sustainable Use Specialist Group-Central Asia, an NGO involved in habitat and species conservation projects.
p. The whole approach is a fiasco from step one. The Hingol National Park comes under the control of the federal government, and not the provincial govt. Operating completely illegally, the PAF approached the Baluchistan govt. and surveyed the national park, and even approached the few local inhabitants asking them to relocate elsewhere for a token sum.
There are educated people in the PAF, so they must be aware that they cannot "buy" National park land. It's a land grab, plain and simple. The Director of Public Relations, PAF, Air Commodore Sarfraz Ahmad Khan, "says":http://www.dawn.com/2006/07/27/nat21.htm: "Pakistan Air Force has put up a proposal to the Government of Balochistan for acquisition of a piece of land to establish weapons trial range for JF-17 project." The Air Force seems to have forgotten that it already has a number of weapons trial ranges around the country. The JF-17 is not some super plane that it needs 80,000 acres to test out its weapons, nor does Pakistan have the planes or weaponery to require multiple firing ranges around the country.
After Pakistan ratified the "Convention on Biological Diversity":http://www.biodiv.org/default.shtml, the "Global Environment Facility":http://www.gefweb.org/ (GEF) through the World Bank provided funding of 26.8 million US dollars to Pakistan to work in three globally significant areas for its important biodiversity: Machiara National Park in AJK, Hingol National Park in Balochistan and Chitral Gol National Park in NWFP.
This is where catch 22 comes in: reality is stranger than the truth. While the World Bank is spending "26.8 million US dollars funding conservation projects":http://www.gefweb.org/Outreach/outreach-PUblications/Project_factsheet/Pakistan-prot-3-bd-wb-eng.pdf in the Hingol National Park, the Pakistan Air Force is trying to destroy it.
The armed forces already "control about 12 million acres, constituting about 12 per cent of total state land":http://newsline.com.pk/NewsJul2006/cover1jul2006.htm. That is a staggering figure. The military has become addicted to cheap land, and like any druggie keeps lurching out grabbing more and more, damn the consequences to itself and the rest of Pakistan.
!http://offroadpakistan.com/pictures/hingol_2005/DSC08221-thumb.jpg! Forgotten in all the noise is the fact that one of Hindusm's holiest site is located in the Hingol National Park. This is a potential tourist hot spot if managed carefully, as for millions of people this is a must visit pilgramage site. Sustained and managed eco-tourism would provide a much needed boost to the local economy, as well as improve Pakistan's image considerable, along with promoting friendlier ties with India. After partition the Pakistan govt. had declared it a prohibited area for residents of India but devotees residing in Pakistan and other foreign countries go on pilgramage to Hinglaj regularly. Recently, Jaswant Singh visited Hinglaj in Jan 2006, but sadly, it still remains a no-go area for Indians.
Once the Pakistan Airforce is through with the park, all these concerns will be moot – the animals dead and the shrine bombed to smithreens.
h4. news reports
_listed by date_
* "Newsline: The New Land Barons?":http://www.newsline.com.pk/NewsJul2006/cover1jul2006.htm
* "Dawn July 26, 2006: PAF swoops on Hingol National Park":http://www.dawn.com/2006/07/26/top18.htm
* "Dawn Editorial, July 27, 2006":http://www.dawn.com/2006/07/27/ed.htm#3
* "Dawn July 27, 2006: PAF clarifies position on Hingol Park":http://www.dawn.com/2006/07/27/nat21.htm
* "The News August 7, 2006: Carving out pieces of a national park":http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=18853
h4. other, related resources
* "Convention on Biological Diversity":http://www.biodiv.org/default.shtml
* "Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency":http://www.environment.gov.pk/
* "IUCN: Balochistan Conservation Strategy":http://www.bcs.iucnp.org/
* "GEF Programme in Pakistan":http://www.gefpak.gov.pk/
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2 thoughts on "Saving Hingol National Park"
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It is sad that the preservation of wildlife is not a consideration for the PAF. I am sure that they can identify other areas to accomodate their needs. However as is typical of South Asian political entities, whether in Pakistan or India, the rule of law or civilized norms of behaviour is not applicable to them.
Kashif Zia
Why our ARMY , AIR FORCE are involving in land grabbing, they already grabbing all beautiful places of Karachi specially khadajee fall, now thier step reaches the most beautiful beautiful beaches of Baluchistan. Why they are not going to MUREE to captured it.


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Q: Invalid identifier in pivot table Here is my query:
SELECT NVL(REVENUE,0), OUTNO, MONTH_NAME FROM
        (
         SELECT ROUND((RETURNDATE-STARTDATE)*DAILYRATE) AS REVENUE,
                OUTNO,
                EXTRACT(MONTH FROM RETURNDATE)AS MONTH_NAME
         FROM   RAGREEMENT LEFT JOIN VEHICLE ON
                RAGREEMENT.LICENSENO=VEHICLE.LICENSENO
                AND EXTRACT(YEAR FROM RETURNDATE)=EXTRACT(YEAR FROM SYSDATE)-1
        )
PIVOT (
   SUM(REVENUE)
   FOR OUTNO IN (1,2,3,4,5,6,-1 AS TOTAL)
  )
ORDER BY MONTH_NAME;

and here is the error
SELECT NVL(REVENUE,0), OUTNO, MONTH_NAME FROM
                   *
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00904: "OUTNO": invalid identifier

I fail to understand why this happens when SELECT *  works perfectly

A: What comes out from a pivot is a whole new set of columns names, and for each one of those new columns, you will need an NVL() or COALESCE(). This is because a completely new "matrix" is formed and many positions in this can be null. You cannot overcome this by using NVL() in the inner subquery.
Assuming you want months as columns your query might look more like this:
SELECT
   OUTNO
 , NVL('M1', 0)
 , NVL('M2', 0)
 , NVL('M3', 0)
 , NVL('M4', 0)
 , NVL('M5', 0)
 , NVL('M6', 0)
 , NVL('M7', 0)
 , NVL('M8', 0)
 , NVL('M9', 0)
 , NVL('M10', 0)
 , NVL('M11', 0)
 , NVL('M12', 0)
FROM (
     SELECT
            ROUND((RETURNDATE - STARTDATE) * DAILYRATE) AS REVENUE
          , OUTNO
          , 'M' || EXTRACT(MONTH FROM RETURNDATE) AS MONTH_NAME
     FROM RAGREEMENT
     LEFT JOIN VEHICLE ON RAGREEMENT.LICENSENO = VEHICLE.LICENSENO
         AND EXTRACT(YEAR FROM RETURNDATE) = EXTRACT(YEAR FROM SYSDATE) - 1
     )
PIVOT(
      SUM(REVENUE)
      FOR MONTH_NAME IN ('M1','M2','M3','M4','M5','M6','M7','M8','M9','M10','M11','M12')
     )
ORDER BY OUTNO;

This line produces the new columns:
      FOR MONTH_NAME IN ('M1','M2','M3','M4','M5','M6','M7','M8','M9','M10','M11','M12')

and it is each one of these you will need to "fix" for nulls in the select clause.
To put OUTNO values into columns requires a similar pattern but you need to know what the distinct set of values will be from that originating column. This MIGHT be 1,2,3,4,5,6,-1 but I wasn't certain.
nb: I prefixed 'M' in columns headings as many systems object to numbers as heading names.

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Good grief, my house is a wreck. (Of course messy house usually means happy creative me.) Watercolors and gesso are still sloshing about after Wednesday's abstract flower project. I'm experimenting with gesso as a sort of "blending agent", giving watercolor pigments a different quality and moving them about the page. Everything dries fairly quickly so I have to work fast, which helps me get out of my head a little more.
After stepping back from this page I wasn't crazy about the composition, so I chopped the whole thing up! (Thought I might use the happy bits for Artist Trading Cards.) It turns out the pieces made a nice mosaic. Wouldn't this be a pretty grouping of hand painted tiles? I'm not sure if that's possible...it's just a thought.
I must have been in a choppin' kind of mood yesterday because on a whim I got eight inches of hair cut off! No one's around to take my picture this morning so I took a goofy self portrait to show you. I am a new woman!
This weekend is shaping up to be a fun one. The weather should be just about perfect for the Art Walk in town and lots of gardening will happen at our place. I want to plant plenty of pretty things to sketch and paint over the summer. Anything fun going on at your place this weekend? I hope it's a good one!
Beautiful..love the color palette and lines and expressiveness...I love nature pieces...totally gorgeous and inspiring! Wonderful work! and beautiful self-portrait!
Beautiful colours and interesting technique. The chopped up work is awesome.
That is the great thing about paper, easy cropping!! Beautiful flowers. I love the way you toned down the colors. And your selfie is great!! 8 inches is a lot. I was just thinking I should do the same... I don't know if I'm ready, but I love your haircut!!
It's a wonderful piece you've made. It gave the painting a whole new focus and interest. What a great idea!
Gorgeous colors! and love the painting and mosaic with the pods...it is fun to cut things up to make new art isn't it? great haircut too! happy PPF!
Your artwork and hair look beautiful!! Very pretty..great haircut! Thanks for sharing!
I love the hair!!! Perfect for Spring. I bet it is light and bouncy. Can't wait to see :-) And the art, as always... fresh, alive and inspirational. Big Hugs!
Beautiful little flowers and I adore the cut up collage look, very artsy. And your hair looks gorgeous!
Hello Janice, wow this has ended up looking so great! What a super idea to cut it up and put together differently, I love this! You're looking great, it always feels so good to get your hair done!
Your poppy seed pods are beautiful! And I do like the picture of yourself!
Great haircut Janice. I love how you have experimented with watercolor and gesso. Great collage of the paintings.
You look soooo beautiful. My house is a wee bit too clean...must go and create. I've been super busy preparing for my online class that starts May 8th that I'm finding little time to create for me. I trust there is a time for everything. Have a creative weekend!


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Last Thursday answered one question from which many more flow. Over the months ahead, as we reshape our relationships with European countries and the rest of the world, I will continue to do what is in the best interests of all the people I represent as well as our great country.
My immediate priority is to seek answers to the questions many local people have asked me. Their questions include – how will the promises made by the Brexiteers be delivered: replacing all the funding secured for Cornwall via the EU until 2020 and paying our farmers "at least as much as they get paid now"; improving the lot of our local fishermen & women and replacing the EU funding that our universities currently get for vital medical and other research. We currently get out more than we pay into EU research funds. And finally how will immigration be reduced without creating staff shortages, particularly in our local NHS.
The organisations representing the backbone of our local economy, small businesses, wanted to remain in the European Union as they understood the benefits. So I will be doing everything I can to ensure that our local small businesses can maintain fair access to the EU – the largest free market in the world.
At the same time, I will not be distracted from delivering the pledges I made when I was reelected just over a year ago – especially those concerning the most disadvantaged in our society – to improve their life chances.
Most importantly of all, I will be fighting for a tolerant and big hearted, united Great Britain. Now is the time for us all to come together. Together we have important work to do – to deliver the security and prosperity we all want to see for our family, our community and our nation.
Published by the West Briton on June 30th 2016
Posted on June 30, 2016 by sarahnewton.	Posted in Uncategorized
Fighting for Our Democracy & Freedom
Thank you for the messages of support that I have received since Jo Cox MP was murdered last week. Most MPs I know are like Jo – well motivated and working constructively with constituents, whatever their political views, to bring the positive changes we all want to see.
Democracy depends on informed, engaged citizens and reasoned argument. Given that most public meetings I attend these days have some very loud and shouty people trying to drown out reasoned debate, it is not surprising that most people don't get involved in publicly discussing our big issues. More and more go online and social media has become a vast echo chamber, often spreading misinformation.
From the far left and the far right of the spectrum of political thinking there are people seeking to drown out reasoned debate, including by casting doubt about the motivations of those holding different opinions than their own, often denigrating them as 'rich', part of 'the establishment' or 'elite'.
I have long felt we take democracy and our society based on freedom and tolerance for granted at our peril. Every generation has to fight again for our hard won freedoms, for hope not hate, for a peaceful and tolerant society.
This is a wake up call and we all need to work much harder to understand and confront the hate that seems to have led to the politically motivated killing of a democratically elected representative and the threats to so many more. These threats are not just to the individual MPs but to our way of life and our democracy.
We have to think more critically about where the line is between dangerous incitement and acceptable expressions of anger or alienation. I believe Britain is a tolerant, big hearted nation. The responsibility for keeping it that way belongs to all of us.
Published in the West Briton on 23rd June 2016
Fisheries: Facts not Fantasy by Richard Benyon
I am not surprised that the Brexit campaign have made fisheries their poster boy. The failures of the old Common Fisheries Policy are an easy hit. It was not the EU's finest hour. But a closer look shows the weakness of the highly simplistic arguments and downright inaccuracies of the 'leave' campaign.
They would have us believe that if only we could throw off the shackles of EU mismanagement and bureaucracy our brave fisherfolk can harvest plentiful seas freed of pesky foreigners. No. Not true.
Most of the comments I have heard about the evils of the CFP tend to come from the mouths of those unaware of recent significant reforms in fishery management. Reforms that were promoted by British Ministers and officials and agreed unanimously by all EU countries. A British Government successfully leading a popular reform agenda in Brussels. Under these reforms European waters will no longer be micromanaged from Brussels. Fisheries will be (are, in some areas already) managed by countries that fish a particular sea basin. Fishermen and scientists will be in control of saying what quantities of each stock can be harvested. The ghastly practice of throwing away perfectly edible fish is banned for most species and all countries in Europe are signed up to a legal requirement to fish sustainably. As I told the Prime Minister after the successful conclusion of our reform negotiations in 2011, "you see, you can reform the EU'.
As Fisheries Minister I sometimes had to remind people that beyond our inshore waters there are relatively few species that hang around in one part of the sea. They might spawn in one country's waters and shoal in another's. Fish operate in ecosystems not according to lines on maps. In the case of North Sea Herring for example, most of the juveniles live in the south east corner around the German bight, whereas the adults tend to congregate around the Shetland Isles prior to spawning at various sites along the British coast. Cod are found throughout the North Sea but prefer spawning along the border between UK and Norwegian waters. This is important when you consider the complex network of bilateral arrangements that would have to be agreed if we left the EU.
Never mind "Project Fear", "Project Fact" is needed here. The UK exports 45% of its catch. 80% of that quantity goes to EU countries. For example 90% of fish landed in Ramsgate are sold in the Boulogne Fish Market – for 15% more in value than they would get at home. When you visit North East Scotland you see vast European registered refrigerated trucks driving south and many don't stop until they reach France or Spain. UK fishing vessels fish in the waters of other EU countries. In addition to wider sovereign waters fishing rights UK fishermen have rights within the 6-12 mile limit of four other member states: Ireland, Germany, France and the Netherlands. For example trawlers out of Brixham exploit the valuable scallop stocks in the Baie de Seine. Trawlers out of Peterhead fish in Dutch and German waters. Many of the foreign vessels fishing in UK waters do so because the companies that own them bought from UK fishermen and with them the right to fish. It is important to note that the UK is allocated about 30% of the EU's total catch even though it has only 13% of the total sea area (ie the UK EEZ compared to the entire EU EEZ, but not including territorial waters).
In a post Brexit world what would "taking back control of our fisheries" really mean? Some suggest it would mean an end to quotas. No. Quotas would still be needed to regulate the quantity of fish landed. Would it mean an end to regulations on net sizes and engine emissions? Well, perhaps if a truly ignorant Government was elected that did not care a damn about the health of our seas, our environment or the future economic value of fisheries and the communities they support.
I have been a vocal critic of the pre reform CFP but it is simplistic to blame it for all the woes of the fishing industry. Professor Callum Roberts of York University has produced a graph of cod stocks in the North Sea. It shows a steep decline since the late 19th century. There are only two periods when cod stocks rose: 1914-1918 and 1939-1945. I'll leave you to work that one out. There is not even a blip in the descending line at the time the UK joined the CFP. The truth is that our technical ability to harvest fish on an industrial scale has improved every decade and successive Governments' ability to regulate the industry effectively has always been behind the curve. The absurd centralised nature of the CFP just made the problem worse – as did sea temperature rise, acidification and other environmental factors.
The ironic fact is that the "leave" campaign's use of fisheries to support their case has come at a time when the future is starting to look bright for our fishing industry. Certain stocks are rising. North Sea cod has been one of the success stories of reformed EU management, showing strong recovery in the last few years and now approaching a healthy stock size for the first time in decades. Other stocks show signs of improvement. Our commitment with our EU partners to manage our fisheries to Maximum Sustainable Yield will deliver the increased biomass of fish that has so long been wished for. "Leave" offers our fishing industry only uncertainty and a myopic view of how to manage a complex environment. As Professor Roberts puts it, "The stocks of many species in UK waters have improved considerably with the reform of the CFP. The signs are positive".
Richard Benyon is MP for Newbury and was Minister for the Natural Environment and Fisheries from 2010-2013
How do we share the economic recovery more equally across all of society?
There is a pressing question here in Britain that's posing a real dilemma to politicians: how do we share the economic recovery more equally across all of society?
So much is made in the media of the expanding super-rich and their houses and yachts, when for the vast majority just owning their own small home is a big challenge.
The quiet insistence that this inequality be comprehensively addressed can only grow as anger about it festers.
For some of us lifelong Conservatives, it is also prompting a painful question. Is the free market we cherish and nurture distributing its spoils in a morally defensible way?
Capitalism is supposed to cascade wealth down, so why does it seem to be cascading up?
To make my point, the typical FTSE company chief executive now makes 183 times more than their average employee, and some take home even more.
But it hasn't always been like this. The ratio of FTSE 100 chiefs' pay to that of average workers has jumped significantly since the millennium turned. In 1998 the multiple was only (if 'only' can be the right word) 47 times. And these 'average' employees are themselves typically paid up to four times what the office cleaners get.
These chief executives are, of course, few in number. They would argue they do a skilled job and the companies they run would add that if they didn't pay so much, they couldn't hire the top talent to drive companies forward to create jobs and prosperity.
It's also true that under capitalism, over the long term, we've almost all got much richer. Capitalism has delivered us technology and medical breakthroughs that were only fantasies to our predecessors.
Of course, this is all well and good, but now society rightly finds grotesque such disparities of income so lavishly displayed. People simply won't stand for it and all politicians, are going to have to take that as a given.
So, what to do to address this dilemma? Well, since 2010 there has been some progress in closing the gap. We saw a reduction in inequality in the wake of the financial crisis, driven by large income falls at the top.
More encouragingly, we have seen a recent return to wage rises and, crucially, faster earnings growth of the lowest incomes. These earnings increases, combined with swift rises in employment, have meant income gains for the bottom outpacing the top. The new National Living Wage is also something that will start to improve the situation over the long term.
But the ratio of typical workers' pay to chief executives in most large companies and some public sector organisations is still difficult to explain by market forces alone.
And it's not something unique to Britain. In America, the average CEO makes 354 times more money than the average employee. In Germany, CEOs make a comparatively reasonable 147 times more money than workers.
I don't know how people in those countries feel about the situation, but I hope Britain may soon be a beacon of hope when it comes to excessive executive pay.
The recent news that BP shareholders voted against the huge pay rise of their CEO is welcome and builds on the so called "Shareholder Spring" of 2012 where a number of large British firms were similarly challenged about pay.
Back in 2014 Vince Cable gave shareholders more power over executive pay. I firmly believe it's time the Government revisited shareholder power and gave them more tools to help them exercise it.
Requiring all FTSE 100 companies to report on top-to-bottom as well as top-to-median earners' pay scales would be a good start, and lead to transparency that has been lacking.
When large employers were asked to tackle another type of inequality, that of gender pay gaps, a similar approach was used and is beginning to have a good effect.
So this CEO/employee pay inequality is a bellwether of how things should not be because the high skills, high pay economy opportunities must be open to all.
It makes it clear we must shape future growth so that the vast majority see their living standards rise in line with the nation's economic growth because that is vital to delivering a One Nation Conservative government.
Published in The Western Morning News on 16th June 2016
How We Vote Really Matters
How we vote next Thursday really matters. It matters not just for us but for our children and grandchildren. Some of my older constituents have discussed their vote with the younger generation of their families and will vote according to their wishes. They know it's about their futures.
But it's about older people's futures too. We all want well-funded pensions and public services like the NHS and police. To raise the taxes to pay for vital public services we need a strong economy, with well paid jobs for local people. Small businesses in Cornwall have worked really hard through the recession to secure and create jobs here. All the credible, independent expert organisations on the economy, including the Cornwall Chamber of Commerce representing local businesses, say we are better off in the EU.
We are patriotic people who love our country and the emotive language of Leave – declaring UK Independence Day – is stirring stuff. Like you, I am worried about the huge challenges we face, including defending our hard won freedoms, controlling immigration, tackling climate change, building a strong economy and fair society for ourselves and our children.
As your local MP, my job is to do everything that I can to help people get on in life. It's clear to me that local families are better off in the EU and they can't afford the consequences of us leaving the EU.
Remember, as the EU changes, we all decide how. It is the British Parliament that decides if Turkey or another country joins the EU. You will decide, in automatic referendums, matters such as the UK joining the Euro or an EU Army.
We are Great Britain not little England. We must continue our important job of reforming the EU from within making our membership work for the UK.
On Sunday, like many people, I will be joining communal celebrations of the Queen's birthday. Sixty – five years ago in 1951, the year before the Queen ascended to the throne, after prolonged negotiations, a group of European statesmen from six nations dreamed a dream originally proposed by Winston Churchill in 1946 that conflict between European nations could be forever eliminated.
Since that time, twelve separate Treaties have been arduously negotiated and twenty – eight nations have joined what has become the European Union, each sacrificing some national sovereignty in exchange for the substantial benefits of the single market and the strength and security of unity.
The voluntary bringing together of twenty – eight nations each with different languages and cultures, is a unique achievement in world history which deserves to be celebrated, particularly since an essential condition of membership is the acceptance of democratic laws, values and freedoms.
It is clearly acknowledged that further reforms are necessary but it does enable interaction and debate to take place between member nations and for co-operation and constructive compromise.
If we leave the EU, it will still be there, going its own way without us. Throughout history we have ended up getting involved in Europe's problems, better we remain and help shape our joint destiny.
The world is facing many serious problems that may seem insoluble, but since they have been caused by human action we must believe they can be mitigated by us.
The Prime Minister has negotiated the extraordinary right for us to opt out of any further agreements towards closer union. We can enjoy the best of both worlds – we can have security and prosperity, which comes being a member of the EU, and we can retain our present level of national sovereignty which amounts to 90% of our existing laws.
Published by West Briton.
Posted on June 9, 2016 by sarahnewton.	Posted in Uncategorized
SMEs to be hit hard by Brexit says Cornwall's only Remain MP
Cornwall's only MP in favour of Britain remaining in the EU believes South West SMEs could be hit the hardest in the advent of a Brexit vote.
Sarah Newton, the Conservative MP for Truro and Falmouth, believes that while the EU needs serious and profound reforms, the UK is better off staying in the EU club than going it alone.
The MP, who is currently serving her second term, said the EU was far from perfect but had been beneficial for Cornwall.
Mrs Newton, whose parents ran a small holiday park on the outskirts of Falmouth, said she was familiar with the woes and worries of SMEs.
She insisted: "It's vital that SMEs down here have access to the largest single market in the world, especially in the farming, leisure, tourism and food and drink sectors.
"These sectors have benefited from huge investment from the EU.
"Businesses need certainty and the uncertainty that would be caused by Brexit would be hugely detrimental especially as each sector of activity would have to renegotiate access to the single market."
The MP said the South West had benefited from £700m of EU funding over the past few years and was scheduled to receive another £700m by 2020.
Mrs Newton added: "Most economists agree there would be a massive economic shock to the system if we left the EU.
"If we do then the UK will go back into recession.
"SMEs in Cornwall have worked hard through the recent recession to make themselves leaner and more efficient and more competitive.
"They can't afford to see the UK get plunged back into another recession right now. That's why Britain needs to continue trading with the largest single market in the world."
She added: "People complain about red tape and regulations but these have enabled all countries to be on a level playing field across Europe.
"If we leave, rather than having one set of regulations, we might have to renegotiate trading terms with all 27 other EU countries separately. That could lead to more red tape and regulations not less.
"If we leave we'll still have to abide by their rules if we want to trade but we won't be able to improve the system or implement the reforms that need to be done.
"Next year the UK is scheduled to have the presidency of the EU. If we leave that won't happen and we will have missed a huge opportunity to take the lead."
Mrs Newton believes farming, tourism and healthcare sectors would be the most seriously hit by Brexit as all three sectors employ a large number of EU workers whether in fields picking daffodils, fruits and veg or at Treliske hospital where many are employed as nurses and doctors.
The Truro and Falmouth MP said that what the Prime Minister has proposed, which would see EU migrants only being able to claim benefits in the UK if they have worked and paid into the system for a number of years, represents a fair system.
Similar schemes already exist in other EU countries like France where non-French people need to work for at least six months full time to qualify for free healthcare and other benefits.
Mrs Newton said: "My family and I lived in Milan for four years. It is an opportunity that exists for all EU citizens at the moment.
"We can all live and work in each other's countries. This enriches us all, helps us share ideas and promotes greater cooperation between us all.
"I don't want to see this opportunity closed to my children and grandchildren if we leave the EU."
Written by Kate Langston for the The Herald, June 6th 2016


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Sale: 406 / Modern Art, June 08. 2013 in Munich Lot 97
Zwölf Muster für die Fenster von Jerusalem, 1964.
€ 90,000 / $ 105,300
€ 115,900 / $ 135.603
Zwölf Muster für die Fenster von Jerusalem. 1964.
12 Lithograph in colors, lithographed by Charles Sorlier.
Sorlier CS 12-23. Signed and with Roman numbers. Each signed and inscribed "Ch. Sorlier grav." in stone. Verso typographically titled and inscribed. Each copy from an edition of LXXV. On wove paper by Arches (with watermark). Up to 61,5 x 46,3 cm (24,2 x 18,2 in). Sheet each: 74 x 53 cm (29,2 x 20,9 in).
Charles Sorlier executed these lithographic interpretations after the windows by Marc Chagall for the synagogue of the Medical University Clinic Hadassah in Jerusalem (Israel). They show the twelve tribes of Israel. Printed by Mourlot Paris.
Chagall spends his student days at first in Witebsk, then at the academy of Petersburg under Leon Bakst, who points out Cézanne, van Gogh and Gauguin to him. The place of these influences is taken by cubist and Fauvistic tendencies, which Chagall incorporates more and more into his work from 1914 on, when he stays in Paris for four years. Chagall develops his very own style - his motifs being comprised of an unreal combination of symbolic pictures, which consist of Jewish-religious childhood experiences and Russian folk art combined with dream-like elements and the influence of the modern art discovered in Paris - only after his return to Russia. In 1919 he founds an art school in Witebsk and becomes its principal. That same year he takes over the décor and costumes of the Jewish theatre in Moscow. In 1922 Chagall leaves Russia for good and returns to France, with a stop in Berlin, where the first graphic papers and etchings for his autobiography 'My Life' emerge. Arriving in Paris in 1923, Chagall makes the acquaintance of the art trader Vollard, who commissions the illustration of Gogol's book 'Die toten Seelen'. After 100 more etchings for La Fontaine's 'fables' the bible illustrations start to develop in 1930; 105 sheets all together. Extensive trips take the artist to Palestine, Egypt, the Netherlands, England and Spain. In 1941 Chagall flees to the USA, where he lives the following six years. In this time he designs the stage sets for ballet performances of Tschaikowski ('Aleko') and Strawinsky ('Feuervogel'). After a big exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1946 the artist returns to France in 1950.
A few large commissions interrupt his quiet life in Vence: Chagall designs glass windows for several public buildings, e.g. the cathedral of Metz (1958), the synagogue of the Hadassah-university clinic near Jerusalem (1960) or the house of the United Nations in New York (1964). He also gets the commission for a ceiling fresco for the opera of Paris. When it is finished in 1964, Chagall starts some wall paintings at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, which are christened in 1967. Beyond that, the extensive work of Chagall includes the areas of ceramics and plastic art, at which the artist tries his hands from 1950 on.
In 1985 Marc Chagall died in his adopted home Saint-Paul-de-Vence on the Côte d'Azur. [CB].
Marc Chagall Biography
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L'Écho, 1961
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Q: OpenCV python error (-215) photo found 50% of time Using Opencv 3.1.0-dev, python 2.7.3 running through OS X terminal
I am running images through a stitching program I made and it works great. I use argparse to make it so I only have to pass a folder location and it will use all the photos in that folder to stitch. I had two test images and it worked great and made some other examples in different folders and with different numbers of images and worked but I am now running into an issue where I get this error:
img1 =  cv2.resize(cv2.imread(os.path.join(path,imagesToStitch[0]),1),imageSize)
cv2.error: /Users/chrisradford/opencv/modules/imgproc/src/imgwarp.cpp:3490: error: (-215) ssize.width > 0 && ssize.height > 0 in function resize.

Here is my code:
import os
import cv2
import argparse
from StitchingMaster import Stitcher

#initalize objects
stitcher = Stitcher()
ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
ap.add_argument("-1", "--first", required=True)
args = vars(ap.parse_args())
#Define variables
imageSize = (1800,1200)                     #size of image to be passed      to stitcher
showMatches = False                         #True if wish to see   matches; False otherwise
keypoints = []
descriptors = []
resultImageSize = (1200,900)                #Size of final image to be displated and saved
imagesToStitch = os.listdir(args["first"])  #list of images in folder
path = os.path.abspath(args["first"])       #Folder path

#----Base Case[0-1]----#
if len(imagesToStitch) < 2:
    print "Not enough images to stitch"
    quit()
#----Base Case[2]----#
else:
    img1 =  cv2.resize(cv2.imread(os.path.join(path,imagesToStitch[0]),1),imageSize)
    img2 = cv2.resize(cv2.imread(os.path.join(path,imagesToStitch[1]),1),imageSize)
    #result = stitched image
    (result,keypoints,descriptors) = stitcher.stitch([img1,img2],showMatches,keypoints,descriptors)

The error appears right after the
else:
    img1 = cv2.resize....

I made another program that both opened the image at that location and resized it and it worked fine. Could it be the naming convention of the folder that gets messed up when I use os.path.abspath() and os.listdir()?
Any help greatly appreciated.

A: Upon further analysis I was able to determine that the issues was with:
os.listdir(args["first"])

This function also picks up hidden files.  Since I am running on OS X it also picked up the hidden file called:
.DS_Store

To solve I created a simple for loop checker that removes any such file that started with a "." from my list.
 for files in fileList:
     if not files.startswith('.'):
         imagesToStitch.append(files)


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There's a couple of pics of RU in this batch that turned out pretty good.
Last Saturday RU and I walked from our house to downtown and then up and over to northwest, which is a pretty good distance, at least the route we took. I bet it was over 6 miles. We checked out a few art shows that were still pulling in folks on their last weekend. We took the bus home. Waiting at the stop I tried to get shots or RU jumping and I think this is her in mid-air.
RU just finished her month long silent meditation retreat. It's a big deal. Maybe the most intense experience in a journey she's been on ever since I've known her. I feel lucky to know that part of her. Ru's always shared that part with me, even if I've not completely understood because I'm not a practitioner myself. It's really not my journey to talk about though. It's RU's and I want to respect that. But what I can can say is that I got to talk to RU, after a month of not talking to her at all, and wow, that was the best part of my day.