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Crime Pays? Sweden to Integrate Former Jihadists by Giving Social Benefits
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The Swedish government can no longer ignore the fact that its unpopular immigration policies are quickly pushing its public towards the "right" end of the political spectrum, Swedish newspaper Fria Tider reported.
As of late, Scandinavia could easily be Europe's main jihadist recruitment center, as more and more Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish citizens are traveling to the Middle East to join the Islamic jihad as members of terrorist organizations. Oftentimes, these people come back to their home countries to "rest" or even worse, to recruit new jihadists. The situation is particularly bad in Sweden, where such recruiting "agencies" have spread all over the country, the newspaper said.
To tackle the problem, the Swedish government responded with a strategy of reintegrating former jihadist-returnees. According to this program, jihadist fighters who are now back in Sweden will receive a number of social benefits, including low-cost housing and help with finding employment. Needless to say, this has caused anger and resentment from the rest of Swedish public, Fria Tider said.
Members of the Swedish Democrats, a far-right populist political party, proposed another strategy that is becoming ever-more popular.
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Sweden Investigating 40 Suspected Jihadi Fighters Returning From Syria
"If it was the will of Swedish Democrats, these people will never return to Sweden. And those who are involved in recruitment and training of future jihadists must be expelled from the country and deprived of citizenship," the Swedish Democrats' political secretary Pontus Andersson told Fria Tider.
Considering that the far-right party is gaining popularity, one could expect that soon the country will finally get rid of former terrorists. When that happens one could only guess where these "Nordic" jihadists will go, the Swedish newspaper concluded.
Two Swedes Return From Jihadist Captivity
Europe's New Hotbed of Extremism: Spain 'in the Eye of the Storm of Jihad'
EU Underestimates Number of Westerners Fighting for Jihad
Rose-Colored Glasses Off: ISIL Kills European Jihadists - Escaped Prisoner
Le Jihad: Nearly Half of European Jihadis in ISIL are French Nationals
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[EDITORIALS]Enforce new labor law
More than 110,000 illegal foreign workers went into hiding because the government will soon start a crackdown, disturbing the labor market. Most of the workers have stayed in Korea for more than four years, and thus were left out of the new program arranged by the government for persons who had been here for less than that length of time. Some manufacturing industries that depend on those illegal foreign workers are ready to continue employing them despite the threats of fines.
Small manufacturers are suffering from severe labor shortage because Koreans don't want low-paying factory jobs. Times are hard for them, but the government should stay the course and enforce the law. If it loosens the rules or offers a blanket amnesty, as some people suggest, Korea would be a paradise for illegal workers. The government's plan to stabilize the supply of foreign labor according to industry demand, through the employment permission program, would go up in smoke.
Despite complaints by small manufacturers, the government has to take a wider point of view. If it overlooks the illegal presence to solve the short-term problem, there will be tremendous national cost later because our industry structure will not be reformed.
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For now, at least, the government should enforce the law efficiently. There must be good cooperation among the Labor Ministry, the prosecutors and police and the immigration authorities. Shelters for foreign workers, which can now house only 1,000 persons, should be expanded greatly.
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Hi, my name is Lisa Gawlas and I feel that sharing my story is important for many reasons. The main one is to show I am no different than anyone else on the face of this planet... well not really anyway. The majority of my life was hard and painful and I suffered many physical and emotional effects due to that part of my life.
However, the one thing that saved my life (in more ways than one) is the very thing I teach now to anyone who is truly interested in helping themselves... I learned to develop myself spiritually. I am now a very gifted psychic (I prefer the word Spiritual Reader tho) and I am an excellent teacher for those interested in Spiritual Development. I suffer 0 depression and have healed my ulcers and have been totally and completely healthy (both physically and emotionally) now for 8+ years.
My childhood was not very pleasant. I was born to a mother who preferred money and men over child rearing. My father left long before I was born. I spent time in and out of foster homes and group homes until finally reaching an age the courts decided I could be emancipated (declared a legal adult) at age 16.
I gave birth to my first child when I was 20 years old and my last child when I was 28 years old. My children were the very best teachers anyone could have ever asked for. I am so grateful that they loved me so much (in spirit) that they agreed to come into my highly dysfunctional earth life so that I may learn the many lessons that comes with being a parent.... and the struggle to be the best parent (vessel of love) a person could be.
For the better part of my life, I was angry, bitter, depressed and questioned the validity of God at every turn. As a child I could not understand what I had done so wrong to have this very lonely and painful life. I grew to hate the concept of God. He seemed to be one more element in my life that echoed worthlessness within myself.
The first time I tried to commit suicide I was 13 years old, the last time was when I was 38. The history of my life seemed to be like an angry ocean... crashing down around me at every turn. No matter how many times I picked myself up and steadied my feet, there always seemed to be another wave waiting to crash down around me.
I had an experience on 11/11/00 that was so powerful... so life changing that I feel the need to share it with you. In June of that year I had yet one more wave tear my life apart. I was severely depressed. So depressed I didn't leave my house for 3 months.
a letter on each square as well as numbers, yes, no, and good-bye. I bought a 69 cent plastic pudding cup from K-Mart as the plachette (the thing you use to move around the board).
As I was driving home with the contents that would soon make up my homemade Ouija Board I realized there was a full moon outside. I told my sons girlfriend this should work well since there is a full moon (where that statement came from I have no idea).
I sent my youngest child (then 10) to her room at 7:30 pm and told her to stay there. I was not sure what to expect and didn't want her to know what I was doing.
The book said we needed to concentrate. It also said we need to ask simple questions when opening the board. It never said anything about protection before starting this event, or what may come of it.
I placed a small tape recorder next to me so that I may capture anything that was needed for later review. I started asking the question "Is there anyone here". I repeated this statement several times with nothing happening. I realized that doing it this way (as the book instructed) was going to take too long. So I decided to incorporate the first two questions (from the book) in one sentence "if there is anyone here please tell me your name".
After about the 3rd or 4th time of repeating this question our little pudding cup that our fingers were resting upon moved about 3 inches! We both quickly removed our fingers from this cup...completely startled and blaming each other for moving the cup.
After we composed ourselves we put the cup back in the center of my kitchen table (which was serving as the board itself) and started the question over again. This cup immediately moved to the letter C then A then D E E it took a pause then moved to J I L L. The name of this person was Jill Cadee.
I asked many a question. Found out she lived in Iceland in the 1600's (the dates were exact but my memory doesn't recall the dates now). She died when she was 22 years old (and the dates she gave us added up correctly. She said she had 4 children and a husband who died in a fire and later she died on a boat in a storm on the ocean.
The information seemed to come without effort. We had almost no concentration between us. We were smoking cigarettes while using this board... taking our fingers off and putting them back on the pudding cup... but it never interfered with the communication that was coming thru. This cup moved fluidly and without delay.
All of this information came in the course of about 2.5 hours. I now had to stop and go get my son from work. The book also didn't mention anything about closing down a board either. All of this I learned after words.
When my son got home we were telling him in detail all the incredible events that were happening on the kitchen table. He was not impressed... actually became a little nervous. I retrieved the tape recorder to play it back for him and was amazed at what happened on this tape. When me and his girlfriend were simply talking to each other...the tape played normally. When Jill was present and giving us information you could hear a twang in the tape, and it would skip in parts.... but only when we were talking directly to Jill.
We assured him nothing scary was happening... this was actually fun and exciting. This was soon to change. Something very strange happened when the three of us sat down to use this board together. Instead of the loving energy that we could feel coming from Jill, the board seemed to get very dark... very heavy.
It started spelling out the words "fero die... and fire die" over and over again. At one point it spelled out the word Evil and as the word evil was being spelled out a rather large spark emanated on the wall just behind my son traveled down the wall across my dining room floor into the living room and blew out the light that was on the table in the living room.
From somewhere deep inside of me, from a place I can't even tell you where... I instantly raised up my hands in the air and yelled "There will be no evil across my table". Instantly the energy left. But now we were scared. What on earth happened. To this day I have no idea.
I don't know why, but the event didn't scare me, but it did get me angry. I wanted Jill back! After we calmed ourselves down and changed the light bulb in the lamp, we went back to calling on Jill.
Jill came back and started talking to us. My son had a question for her. For the last 6 months or so my television started to turn off and on by itself. I even had it sent out and the off and on switch replaced, but it didn't stop it. The lights would go off and on by themselves. Even my washer would turn off in mid cycle and start up again later. So he had asked if she had been with us the last 6 months. It is in this reply that I knew that me, nor either of the kids had anything to do with moving that plastic pudding cup. She said no, she was with us for the last 5 years. My jaw dropped. In my calculations of 5 years that would have put us in PA and I asked her... since PA and she said no, since Florida. I stopped and thought a moment... ohh my goodness, 5 years ago I was in Florida. That is when I got divorced and then moved to PA.
This quickly turned the conversation from her incarnation to why on earth was she hanging out with us. About a prior to this Ouija session I had seen what looked like a young girl from olden times (I could see her clothing and her face quite clearly) as I was driving home from work. She appeared in my car where the passenger side windshield meets the passenger door. She was so clear to me and only lasted a few seconds... but that image remains vividly with me even today.
I asked her if that was her that I had seen in the corner of my car. Her reply was rather surprising. She spelled out "protect you crash". My son broke down and started crying, which of course started me crying. I then asked her why she was with me all this time. She spelled out "Because he loves you". I was surprised at that answer... but now was hmmm challenging. I am not sure if I was challenging her or the incredible information that was coming out... or myself even. But I became almost mocking... saying out loud... ohh someone loves me, how nice... who is it that loves me. Inside of me I was sure the answer that was going to come out was God. And it was all I thought about as I kept saying sarcastically who loves me... (truly expecting her to spell out God because that is what was in my mind)... I was humbled beyond belief when she spelled out Jesus. I cried.
Jill said it was now time to rest. I didn't want to rest... I didn't want this to end. But she said good-bye and that was the end of our Ouija Session. It never worked again. I tried many times after that for a couple weeks... but got nothing but stillness from it.
These 8 hours irrevocably changed my life forever.
I needed to get back in touch with this energy named Jill and find out why she said she was hanging out with me because Jesus loved me. I went on the computer and started looking for other ways to contact spirit... and eventually found information on meditation.
Little did I realize that meditation would be the single most difficult thing I would ever try to do for myself. Talk about a mind that was totally and completely out of my own control! Until the moment I started to attempt to quite my mind, I never realized how busy I was thinking (and most of the time stressing) about nothing. Well nothing that really mattered.
My mind was so habitual with its thought patterns I would be in a whole session of self talk with myself for 10 minutes before I realized I wasn't even focusing on breathing any longer. I would get so angry and frustrated with myself I would have to stop the meditation attempt and return later when my (out of control) emotions calmed down. I do want to stress a very positive point here... I NEVER GAVE UP!
Because I quit my (severely negative, emotionally crippling) job and had lots of free time (but no money) on my hands... you could find me trying to meditate up to 5 times a day. I eventually found my bathtub to be the place where I would not fall asleep or concentrate on the traffic going by. I was by far the cleanest human being around (smile).
2 months and many variations of meditations later... I was starting to get control of my reckless mind. I could focus on my breath with feeling and vision. I was starting to receive very primitive pictures in my mind... altho for years I was clueless what these pictures represented. I would like to share two of these experiences... and explain what I came to learn of their symbolism.
The first image that I ever received spontaneously was of what looked like a pencil drawing of a rather simple eye. It would float in from my right side and float across to my left side, disappear then reappear on my right side and start all over again.
I also found a picture on the Internet of this simple looking eye that for at least a week seem to be the focus of my meditation... much to my surprise it was exactly the same symbol the Egyptians used to represent the Sun God Ra. Being a forever child of the sun... this made perfect sense to me when I seen it... and for the first time I felt some validation into the legitimacy of what I was experiencing (however simple) in meditation.
Altho the deepest desire inside of me was to commune with that spirit named Jill Cadee, this was not happening at all. I was simply getting pencil drawings and (what I later came to realize) small glimpses of past life memories. At this point tho, I didn't care... something was happening. I wasn't forcing it, I didn't even try to get these images... I simply would breath in light until I was glowing... then events came naturally... I was officially addicted to meditation.
I kept up my 3-5 times a day meditation but without the frustration of the first several months. My meditations would last from 30 minutes up to 2 hours at a time.
Then something new was introduced into my rather simple meditation world... a new pencil drawing! I would have a female face, profile view float in from my right side and a male profile face come into view from the left side... they would float inward at the same time, meet in the middle, kiss... I would watch a heart float up from the kiss then the images disappeared and the imagery started all over again.
I now realized I was being shown the balancing of my masculine and feminine energies and the union that was taking place within me... and I didn't even know it at the time. This led to the most powerful experience I would have for over a year... the opening of my heart chakra!
I did not realize how much healing I was doing with myself as I meditated. I was definitely getting pretty good at focus... this was better than watching any TV show... I was emotionally involved at all times... I didn't even mind when these emotions evoked crying sessions within the meditation.
So here I am, well into a month of meditation with focus and clarity that was getting better with each meditation session... but still no contact from Jill.
I decided to purchase a tape set from one of my favorite mediums... John Edward, which including contacting your spiritual guides. During the process of learning meditation, I also learned via the Internet of spirit guides (which I never heard of prior to this stage of my life).
I decided to do something really different in my meditation. I would start every session breathing in white light... I now wanted to explore different avenues to see what would happen (if anything). I created a little place in my meditative world. I was on the beach at the oceans edge (my favorite place in the whole world) with the sun streaming in on me as I lay on a lounge chair just at the breaking of the waves.
I decided instead of breathing in white light, I was going to breath in the sunlight that was streaming down on me. The sun seemed to be a ready participant, but equally had a mind of its own. When I would start to breath in, the sunlight would enter at my solar plexus area. I was baffled by this and no matter what I tried, this was always the entry point of the sun light. I decided to go with the flow... and the feeling was incredible! I was in sun light heaven here! After about a week of hanging out on my ethereal beach and drinking in gallons of sun light, I seen something move out of the corner of my meditative eye. As I turned to look I was aghast as I realized it was a tiger! I wasn't sure if I should be excited or scared... but being overly excited about this new development in my meditation... I had to explore this in more depth.
I came to learn the tiger is my totem animal. The spirit of the tiger has been with me all my life and over the next several weeks taught me a great deal about healing and dealing with life on a day to day basis (of course I didn't realize this at the time).
The tiger eventually introduced a donkey into our continual interaction in meditation. Even today, as I see a donkey in my physical world, my heart becomes so full of love and gratitude for this creature. The donkey was instrumental in helping me to learn to balance very heavy loads (stresses in life) with grace.
Not once in those times did I realize what they were teaching me or how important any of this "playing" that we were doing would be to me for the rest of my life... I was just so excited to have all this happening... and I let them lead the way at every moment.
And then... something amazing happened. One day after our ritual of playing in a riverside stream... (which I later realized was teaching me to wash myself of stress from my day) my tiger took me to a house on the other side of this stream (until this moment, we never went on the other side of the stream). This house was resembled a log cabin except it was done in stone. It was small and simple and something deep inside of me was soooooo excited to be there. I went to the door and knocked... and beamed with love and joy as my spiritual guides (including Jill) opened the door!
As I entered the cabin there were two distinct energies in there, one was the familiar Jill and the other was a young man named Ramus. I learned that Ramus was the guide that had been with me my entire life (since birth). Both of these energies appeared to be very young, both about appearing (body wise) to be in their 20's. In those days, I didn't think twice about this age thing I was just so excited to be there with something happening... the very thing I wanted was happening... communion with my spiritual guides. Little did I realize how much "credibility" they were putting into my consciousness about our young people. I do not ever look at someone in their 20's and think they are anything less (wisdom wise) than me, quite the opposite really! And I work with a lot of young people with my spiritual development course.
I would go back to this cabin every day, talking to both Jill and Ramus, and listening. I wish I could remember our conversations now, but sadly 5 years and thousands of meditations later, so much has been forgotten on a conscious level. However, the lessons are etched in all I do, say, and feel.
The evolution and transformation of who I Am, who I truly Am, could have never foreseen in those moments, at least not by me. There was a complete stripping down of the personality which was a gradual progression that happened over time, slowly but completely. The various parts of my personality was addressed in many of the meditations. The repetitive behavior that no longer served my purpose was transformed into positive behaviors. However, the progress was so gradual I never really knew what was happening on a cellular level, I just was so excited to have help in my life and with some of the most patient creatures in the universe.
There came a time, maybe about 5 months after I was in deep communion with my spiritual team that I could feel the shift inside of myself. I could feel that something had changed. I am not sure even how to describe this change. I started this path with 5001 questions. Every new experience evoked at least 100 more new questions from me. The demand I ensued for validation of all that was happening in my meditations was insistent and well challenging at best. Then all of a sudden, seemingly out of the blue... I wanted to ask a question, but even before I formulated it in my head, the answer was already there within me. Not from my interactions from my spiritual team, but just laying there within me.
I no longer remember the time frame, but two very distinct interactions happened that I want to mention. Both were life changing for me. I know I have mentioned this one at least once somewhere else on this site as well as in my book, and I am going to mention it again because it was so powerful, so transforming, and so important for all to do that I must talk about it here, again.
I wish I could relate in detail the mess I was as a human. I was truly an emotional mess. As I started to get deep into meditation and healing and confronting various aspects of me, I became even more of a mess. Everything was bubbling to the surface and affecting me. I prayed... no I demanded help from the universe. Begging, pleading, and threatening to quit if someone didn't help me (smile). It was in these moments of deep stress, high confusion, and feeling more lost than found did the Blessed Mother come to me. Since the details of this exchange are elsewhere on this site and in my book, I will simply touch on the importance of what she asked me to do, "lay down ALL your beliefs so you can be filled with the truth of spirit". To imagine the enormity of this request, take a moment, think about everything you believe... everything you believe about yourself, life, religion, god, your family, your work, every aspect of who you are and what you perceive to be the truth, and try to forget it all. Not only forget it all, but wipe it completely out of your mind as if it was never there to begin with.
I wanted so much to please her... this huge icon that was here in my meditation helping me.... me, little ole dysfunctional Lisa. For 3 days straight, every moment of each of those days I tried to figure out how to get rid of all my beliefs. I did, however, realize how much was actually "beliefs" as opposed to truths (very very different in vibration). I couldn't do it, I was clueless how. These beliefs were so deeply engrained in me... made up the very skin that covered me, how do you just let all that go?
Feeling like a failure, I called on her thru meditation on the 3rd day, and simply told her I don't know how to lay down all my beliefs and begged her to help me. I will never know what she did or how, I really don't care to know either, but she did something. In the moment I begged her to help me... I felt it. It felt like someone took a gutting knife, inserted it into my guts and pulled everything out of me. EVERYTHING! It was not painful, but it was the strangest feeling I had ever experienced. I have no words in my vocabulary to even start to describe what happened or the feelings of it. When I got out of meditation I feel so empty. Like there was nothing inside of me. I was just a hollow shell of a woman, with nothing there. No emotion, no feelings, no connections to the memories that were within me. What is really strange as I look back, even the teachings of my church... were gone. The crippling teachings of my Catholicism that kept me in a place of dysfunction and dependence and fear... gone, all gone. Everything I thought was me, was now gone.
Of course this created a whole new set of questions on my part (smile). Who am I? I really no longer new. I started to demand (which was my nature back then, and to a degree, still is today) to know who I am and why is the universe helping me like this. I would get so upset that I no longer knew who I was, I would sit in meditation and just cry asking for them to please tell me who I am. I really didn't know anymore. They always came back with the same loving, assuring voice... you will know one day. Well that didn't help me in that moment!! I really could be my own worst enemy. Several years and thousands of hours of meditation later... I started to understand who I Am. Funny, now that doesn't even matter anymore. What matters is what I can do to help others in their time of need.
My life irrevocably changed forever because I learned how to meditate. I learned how to travel the doorways of information that is available to anyone who wants to learn. Both within themselves as well as the multi-verse that we live within.
It is my deepest desire to help anyone who is just tired of life always being a struggle, or health seeming to elude them... to learn how to be well in every way. There really is a better way!! Please read about the Spiritual Development Course I offer, if you put in the work, I guarantee it will transform your life!!
With love and (com)passion to all.


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Canada requiring unfavourable coronavirus assessments for worldwide air vacationers
Canada would require passengers searching for to board worldwide flights into the nation to present their airline proof of a unfavourable coronavirus check, along with coming into an already present, necessary 14-day quarantine on arrival.
The brand new rule, which the federal government introduced on Thursday, will take impact on Jan. 7 and would require proof of a unfavourable PCR check taken within the earlier 72 hours. PCR assessments have to be despatched to a lab and may take a number of days to course of, not like the speedy antigen check, which supplies a end in about 30 minutes.
The nation stays closed to most international nationals coming into for nonessential functions, however it's tightening its already strict entry protocols as components of the nation, together with Ontario, Quebec and Alberta, grapple with an alarming enhance in virus instances and deaths.
After a comparatively calm summer season, instances and deaths in Canada have been on the rise all through the autumn, in line with a New York Occasions database. Greater than 15,000 individuals have died from the virus for the reason that begin of the pandemic, and 573,000 instances have been reported.
As of Jan. 7, the one passengers not required to point out a unfavourable PCR check to board a Canada-bound worldwide flight will likely be kids beneath the age of 5, passengers whose planes are stopping solely to refuel, and airline crew members and emergency medical staff.
Flights from the UK, the place a extra contagious variant of the virus was not too long ago detected, had been suspended as of Dec. 23 and can stay so till Jan. 6. Nonetheless, a pair in Ontario with no identified journey historical past had been discovered to be contaminated with the brand new variant final week.
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Vietnam has reported a case of the variant first found in Britain, making it the 34th nation to determine the variant inside its borders. The well being ministry stated the case was recognized in a 44-year-old lady who had returned to Vietnam from Britain, Reuters reported. She quarantined upon arrival in Vietnam and examined optimistic on Dec. 24.
After days of record-setting coronavirus tallies in Tokyo, town's governor, Yuriko Koike, requested Japan's central authorities on Saturday to declare a nationwide state of emergency for the primary time since April, as a part of a broader effort to induce residents to remain residence as a lot as potential. Tokyo reported a document 1,337 new infections on Thursday, and the nation has reported a day by day common of almost three,000 instances over the previous week.
Dealing with broad criticism, the federal government of the Netherlands on Saturday stated it might velocity up its lagging vaccination course of and supply the primary photographs to frontline well being care staff sooner than its deliberate begin of subsequent Friday. The brand new begin date is predicted to be introduced on Monday. Most European nations began vaccinations final week. Regardless of being in lockdown since Dec. 14, the nation's an infection price has solely not too long ago gone down, and solely barely, leaving it nonetheless among the many highest in Europe, with a median of 51 instances per 100,000 individuals over the previous two weeks.
Brazil's pandemic dying toll — the world's second-highest — is approaching 200,000, as of Saturday. Solely the US has recorded extra deaths, with almost 350,000. Brazil has reported round 7.6 million instances, and Minas Gerais leads all Brazilian states in new ones, with a day by day common of almost four,000 over the previous week.
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Zimbabwe will shutter nonessential companies for a month and prolong a 6 p.m. to six a.m. curfew, its info secretary, Nick Mangwana, stated on Saturday. The measures additionally embody restrictions on journey between cities and a 30-day ban on gatherings equivalent to weddings and church providers. Within the span of every week, the nation has recorded 1,342 new instances and 29 new deaths, its highest to date, Mr. Mangwana stated.
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Q: Installing PostgreSQL 9.2 with Chef postgresql I am struggling to get PostgreSQL 9.2 installed with the Opscode postgresql cookbook on a Vagrant VM (Ubuntu 12.04) .
This is the my recipe:
node.set['postgresql']['version']             = "9.2"
node.set['postgresql']['enable_pgdg_apt']     = true
node.set['postgresql']['password']            = {postgres: "pwd"}
node.set['postgresql']['server']['packages']  = ["postgresql-9.2"]

include_recipe "postgresql::apt_pgdg_postgresql"
include_recipe "postgresql::server"
include_recipe "database"

The run results in the following:
[2013-05-23T11:00:52+00:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::EnclosingDirectoryDoesNotExist:
template[/etc/postgresql/9.2/main/postgresql.conf] (postgresql::server line 60) had an error:
Chef::Exceptions::EnclosingDirectoryDoesNotExist: Parent directory /etc/postgresql/9.2/main does not exist.

I am using the latest 3.0.0 version of the poostgresql cookbook.
Rerunning everything from scratch with a clean VM (vagrant destroy, up, etc) gives this error:
[2013-05-23T11:16:37+00:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::EnclosingDirectoryDoesNotExist:
template[/etc/postgresql/9.1/main/postgresql.conf] (postgresql::server line 60) had an error:
Chef::Exceptions::EnclosingDirectoryDoesNotExist: Parent directory /etc/postgresql/9.1/main does not exist.

Suddenly we don't even have the right version.

A: Here's what finally fixed it for me:

*

*run update-alternatives --remove postmaster.1.gz /usr/share/postgresql/9.1/man/man1/postmaster.1.gz

*Use the conf below.
Snip:
postgresql: {
    enable_pgdg_apt: true,
    dir: "/etc/postgresql/9.2/main",
    config: {
        data_directory: "/var/lib/postgresql/9.2/main",
        hba_file: "/etc/postgresql/9.2/main/pg_hba.conf",
        ident_file: "/etc/postgresql/9.2/main/pg_ident.conf",
        external_pid_file: "/var/run/postgresql/9.2-main.pid",
        ssl_key_file: "/etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key",
        ssl_cert_file: "/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem",
    },
    client: {
        packages: ["postgresql-client-9.2",],
    },
    server: {
        packages: ["postgresql-9.2", "postgresql-server-dev-9.2"],
    },
    contrib: {
        packages: ["postgresql-contrib-9.2"],
    },
    password: {
      postgres: 'postgres'
    },
    pg_hba: [
      {type: 'local', db: 'all', user: 'all', addr: nil, method: 'trust'},
      {type: 'host', db: 'all', user: 'all', addr: '127.0.0.1/32', method: 'trust'},
      {type: 'host', db: 'all', user: 'all', addr: '::1/128', method: 'trust'}
    ],
    version: "9.2",
},

A: I was able to fix this by setting the directory:
node.set['postgresql']['dir'] = "/var/lib/postgresql/9.2/main"

Looks like this is the same issue: http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-2113

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The Deadly Six featured in latest Sonic Lost World trailer, game delayed one week for America
September 23, 2013 by Barry
SEGA has offered up sort of a "choose-your-own-adventure" trailer which allows viewers to select each member of the Deadly Six and in turn view a short preview of the boss battles featured in Sonic Lost World. The trailer, seen above, highlights the various battles Sonic will take part in to reach whatever end boss Sonic Team has in store for players. Interestingly, it appears that the game will have sub-bosses and main bosses, sort of a throwback to Sonic 3 & Knuckles. Eagle eyed viewers will notice that certain elements of boss battles carry over to background elements seen in later stages. Nice touch.
Unfortunately, there is some bad news. Fans have noticed that the American version of the trailer pushed the game's release date back from October 22nd to the 29th.
Sonic Lost World Gamescom trailer details 2-player modes and more! UPDATED Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed gets a release date and a new trailer Sonic Lost World Wii U and 3DS box art and plot points revealed New Sonic Lost World screens reveal Miiverse functions, game map, and more! Sonic Lost World Wii U software update is a real game changer!
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11 responses to "The Deadly Six featured in latest Sonic Lost World trailer, game delayed one week for America"
Th3AntiGuardian says:
The game looks awesome, and I'm very excited for the NiGHTS DLC! Not sure if I'm going to try the main story first, or jump right "Into Dreams" IF its available from the beginning. As far as the Deadly Six go, I'm reserving my opinion of them; not exactly characters that I'm excited about. As long as the bosses are a bit longer or more challenging than the ones in Colors, I'm good.
I'm playing this game in Japanese, i can't stand the horrible English voices or dialogue. I don't care if I cant understand Japanese, better then sitting through a world of torture like I did in Sonic Colors cutscenes.
The Japanese trailers give this game a much more serious vibe then the English ones do. There's none of that voice chip annoyance in the Japanese version, the Japanese version has a completely different script it seems.
Barry the Nomad says:
I don't dislike the English voices, in fact since Sonic Colors I really enjoy them. However, I do prefer to play in Japanese. Ever since SA1 I've played the Sonic games in Japanese, and now it's really cool that Sonic and Eggman still have the same voice actors as they did in 1998. Really helps the the continuity from an auditory standpoint.
What was wrong with the Sonic Colors cutscenes? They were entertaining.
watch this, make sure annotations are on so you can see the translations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgUxgPAzV9Y
now watch this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0gda8JG4Jw&feature=player_detailpage#t=60
it just feels forced for the sake of trying to be funny, i can't stand it. The Japanese cutscenes make much more sense.
cube_b3 says:
I see what you mean.
Ben the bit of dialogue both cut scenes share if tonally different. I don't mind it though, given how flimsy and peripheral the story in Sonic is I think it is good that the dialogue is edgy. Even if it feels forced when compared to the native source.
Eh? How do you know that the beginning part wasn't just cut from that Japanese Youtube vid?
Otherwise I don't see much of a difference.
Are you sure that's not just the translator of that video doing a very basic translation? Who provided the translation for it, exactly?
Regardless, the script of Sonic Lost World, as with the past couple Sonic games, was written by Westerners, so the English script is the native source. Japan is the one who got it translated into their language.
If its anything like past games, while Japanese language will be available, the subtitles will follow the English script.
I'd imagine so, I don't see why they'd change the script up.
I'm so glad 3D arena style boss battles are back. I've missed that.


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Toronto Raptors pick up option on OG Anunoby's contract
Toronto Raptors' OG Anunoby, left, makes his way around Oshae Brissett during an intra-squad scrimmage at the Raptors training camp practice in Quebec City, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot
Published Friday, October 4, 2019 2:41PM EDT
TORONTO -- The Toronto Raptors have exercised the fourth-year team option on the rookie-scale contract of OG Anunoby.
The forward is now signed through the 2020-21 season.
Picked 23rd overall by the Raptors out of Indiana in 2017, the six-foot-eight, 232-pound Anunoby is averaging 6.4 points, 2.7 rebounds and 20.1 minutes while shooting .351 (140-for-399) from three-point range in 141 career regular-season games.
Anunoby did not play in the playoffs last season after undergoing an emergency appendectomy.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 4, 2019.
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Despite current lower crude oil prices, most companies in the oil and gas industry plan to invest the same amount or more in digital technologies, according to a new survey by Accenture Plc (NYSE:ACN) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) released at the Microsoft Global Energy Forum 2015. Survey respondents included international oil companies (IOCs), national oil companies (NOCs), independents and oilfield services firms.
Shares of Microsoft closed yesterday at $42.635 . MSFT has a 1-year high of $50.05 and a 1-year low of $38.51. The stock's 50-day moving average is $41.91 and its 200-day moving average is $44.61.
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NABCO Jobs Better Than Sitting At Home – Bawumia
June 11, 2018 today 0 Comment NABCO
Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has defended government's logic behind the controversial introduction of the Nation Builders Corps, saying the NABCO jobs were introduced to keep unemployed graduates from idling at home.
Government launched the programme in May, this year, to address the country's graduate unemployment challenge.
Countless jobless nurses, unenthused about the terms of engagement, have been up in arms nationwide in demand for sustainable and well-paying jobs instead.
Touring the Upper East region at the weekend to observe the Month of Ramadan with Muslims and to interact with some traditional authorities, the Vice President expressed hope the would-be NABCO employees would find permanent jobs after their contracts had ended.
His tour coincided with the final Unity Walk of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Volta region. Whilst former President John Dramani Mahama was lashing out at the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) from the south, Dr. Bawumia was jabbing back at the main opposition party from the north.
"He (President Akufo-Addo) has been able to introduce a new programme for jobs called the Nation Builders Corps where we are hiring a hundred thousand graduates this year without jobs. So, Navrongo, for example, I'm sure will not get less than 400 graduates. They will start work in August, this year. Some of them will go into GRA (Ghana Revenue Authority).
"Some of them will go into Agric Extension. Some of them will go into different private enterprises. By the grace of God, by the time their turn is over, they will get permanent jobs. We think it is better for them to work than to stay at home, which is why the Nations Builders Corps is coming in. He (the President) has done so much in 18 months that many other governments were not able to do in 8 years," he stated in a meeting with members of the Navrongo Traditional Council.
NPP Government inherited a 'bone' Economy
Addressing the Bawku Traditional Council later on Saturday, the Vice President posited the current government inherited an economy the erstwhile handlers had chopped down to a 'bone'.
"Bawku Naba, the President assumed office 18 months ago, and it was under difficult circumstances. If you would remember, he told us all the meat was finished; it was only left with the bone. And we came and met the bone. Nana Akufo-Addo has made a lot of promises. By the grace of God, after 18 months in office, Nana Akufo-Addo has shown himself to be a man of his word.
"He said he would bring free SHS. He has brought free SHS. The free SHS is helping a lot of our farmers. Many people thought it was not possible. But by the grace of God, we have made it possible. We also promised to restore [the] Teacher Trainee Allowance. And Nana Akufo-Addo has restored the Teacher Trainee Allowance. He promised to restore the Nursing Trainee Allowance. And we have restored the Nursing Trainee Allowance," Dr. Bawumia said.
He also mentioned the reduction of electricity tariffs, the provision of fertilisers and seeds to farmers under the Planting for Food and Jobs Policy, the establishment of the Zongo Development Fund to help out Muslim-occupied ghettos in the country, the launch of the NABCO jobs as well as the creation of 80,000 more jobs at the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) among the campaign promises he said the NPP Government had fulfilled to justify the trust Ghanaians reposed in the party at the 2016 general elections.
The Vice President was accompanied by the Upper East Regional Minister, Rockson Ayine Bukari, the Upper East Regional Chairman of the NPP, Lawyer Anthony Namoo, and the Minister for Inner City and Zongo Development, Alhaji Boniface Abubakar Saddique, among other government officials.
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Marc Jacobs, Diet Coke
After Karl Lagerfeld and Jean Paul Gaultier, Marc Jacobs will be the new creative director for Diet Coke with a provocative and sexy campaign
After Karl Lagerfeld and Jean Paul Gaultier, Marc Jacobs will be the new creative director for Diet Coke. The drink turns 30 years and will be task of Jacobs to redesign the famous silvery cans and the bottles, in a limited edition that will be available in 11 countries.
For the campaign "Sparlinkg Together For 30 Years" was also filmed a commercial that reflects the most famous advertising of Diet Coke from 1996. Do you remember the bored secretaries, at 11.30, would meet at the window of their office to admire the builders across the street, half-naked, intent on drinking their Diet Coke? This time, on the same notes of "I Just Wanna Make Love To You" by Etta James, a group of three girls come across one of those snapshots' machine at the station: the developed pictures, are, as then, so exciting and (apparently only the opening of the tent), the girls realize that it's Marc Jacobs.
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Blue Jays' Carter still remembered as World Series hero
Kevin Oklobzija
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As the guy who hit one of the only two walk-off, World Series-winning home runs in Major League Baseball history, Joe Carter will forever be a hero in Toronto.
His Game 6 blast in the bottom of the ninth off Philadelphia Phillies reliever Mitch Williams created an instant state of delirium in SkyDome and gave the Blue Jays their second consecutive championship.
It's a moment baseball won't forget.
"People spark the memory," Carter said the other day, "especially in Toronto and anywhere in Canada, really. One of the first things they tell me, and it's everyone, is where they were and what they were doing at the time.
"People were at wedding receptions; they were in a back room watching the game and the bride was waiting in the other room so the reception could start. Or they'll say, 'I'd like you to meet my son, Carter.' "
Time doesn't dull the luster, either.
"But what I didn't realize," Carter said, "was that SkyDome held 371,000 people."
Indeed, born out of one of the most famous hits in baseball history are some pretty good fish stories. The "I was at the game" stories well outnumber 52,195 seats sold for the game.
Carter may hear one or two tales on Sunday afternoon when he visits Frontier Field and throws out the first pitch before the Rochester Red Wings play the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders. He's signing autographs (on photos and baseballs, not on bats or jerseys) from 12:30 to 1:15 p.m., and again from 1:30 to 2:25 p.m.
What some of the fans may not know: that walk-off home run would never have happened had Carter made a different decision during the off-season.
He became a free agent after helping the Blue Jays win the World Series in 1992, and he was considering just two offers for 1993: one was to stay with Toronto and the other, even better package, was made by the Kansas City Royals. His wife, Diana, was from Kansas City, Kansas, and they were already making the area their off-season home.
He said he never thought about going to the New York Yankees.
"Back then, everyone would say they were interested in the Yankees so they could drive the price up (in contract negotiations with other teams)," Carter, 56, said. "That was the bargaining chip. That's not the way I do business. For me, it was between two teams."
He said he relied on his faith in God to point him in the right direction between the Royals and Jays.
"It was something my wife and I prayed about and Kansas City's offer was probably a little better," Carter recalled. "I went to bed one night and I had a dream.
"I saw myself walking with Devon White (his Blue Jays teammate in 1992) to a stadium and I was dribbling a basketball. Why I had a basketball, I don't know, but it was pitch black when we walked in and the scoreboard said, 'Welcome to SkyDome.' "
That was sign No. 1.
No. 2 came when he awoke.
"My wife said, 'Have you looked out the window?' So I did. There were blue jays all over my backyard. You see them sometimes (in Kansas City), but not very often."
Now you know how he decided to re-sign with Toronto.
"I kid you not," Carter said.
The native of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was the second overall pick in the 1981 draft by the Chicago Cubs and spent 16 seasons in the big leagues with the Cubs, Cleveland, San Diego, Toronto, Baltimore and San Francisco. He played six years for the Indians and seven with the Jays, during which he was an All-Star five times.
He finished his career with 396 homers, 1,445 RBIs and a .259 average. But his lasting mark is the walk-off homer, just as it is for 1960 World Series hero Bill Mazeroski of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
"In the history of the game it's only happened twice," Carter said. "That is phenomenal. I'm very proud of that moment.
"Bill Mazeroski had that title for 33 years, since 1960, the year I was born. It's been 23 years since mine, so I figure I have at least 10 more years to hold that."
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The matchup: Doubleheader. Red Wings vs. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (Triple-A affiliate of the New York Yankees).
Time/place: 1:35 p.m. Sunday/Frontier Field. Gates open at 12:30 p.m.
Tickets: $9, $11.50, $13.
Two games: Sunday's 2 games will both be seven innings.
Radio: WHTK-AM (1280).
Wings postponed
Saturday's game against Scranton/Wilkes-Barre was postponed by rain and lightning.
The game will be played as part of a doubleheader on Sunday starting at 1:35 p.m.


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Va. TV Weatherman Fired Over Nude Photo
ROANOKE, Va. � A TV weatherman was fired after his nude photo was posted on the Internet.
The NBC affiliate WSLS-TV fired meteorologist Jamey Singleton on Thursday after a frontal nude shot of him getting out of the shower was posted on someone else's MySpace.com site.
The photo broke the morals code in Singleton's contract, the station's interim general manager, Shane Moreland, said in a statement.
Singleton, 28, who was retained earlier this year after admitting he was a recovering heroin addict, said he didn't blame the station.
"What shocks and what offends � that's really up to them," Singleton told The Roanoke Times. "I can't blame them if ... after everything that's happened they said, 'That's the straw that broke the camel's back.'"
Singleton said the photo was taken a few months ago by a former friend who posted it Tuesday. He said he notified MySpace when he heard it was posted and the picture was removed within an hour, but it had already been e-mailed to several of his co-workers, including Moreland.
MySpace Discovery
Lawyers are mining social networks for nuggets of evidence
By Stephanie Ward
Friends, enemies, potential employers�and now even attorneys�may be checking out your MySpace page. MySpace and other social networking sites on the Internet can be caches of evidence.
"A few years ago, lawyers would call and say they had no idea what [MySpace] was," says Jeff Fischbach, a Chatsworth, Calif., forensic examiner, "but now everybody keeps talking about it."
Criminal defense lawyers use social networking sites the most, usually to investigate witnesses, according to Fischbach.
"It's a tool that is out there," says Eugene, Ore., lawyer Laura Fine, who found evidence on the Net while she represented a teenager accused of forcible rape.
The witness told police that she would never willingly have had sex, according to Fine, but her page on MySpace said something different.
"She talked about parties, drinking and 'getting some,' " Fine says.
The page also displayed provocative photos of the young woman, according to Fine, and a lascivious screen name.
The page was meant to be private, but lawyer Fine viewed it over the shoulder of another witness, who gained access through a MySpace group he and the girl belonged to.
The girl's parents would not allow the lawyer to interview her, but Fine says she found out what she needed to know from the site. She also got a good sense of how the young woman would present to a grand jury.
Based on what she read, Fine called the girl as a witness, and ultimately the grand jury dismissed the charge.
"What you put on MySpace, essentially, becomes public consumption. There's no right of privacy," says John Wesley Hall Jr., a Little Rock, Ark., criminal defense lawyer who writes extensively on evidence issues.
Besides looking for information on witnesses, Hall investigates clients through various personal Web pages.
"I'd rather know where the land mines are so I don't walk into one," he says.
Prosecutors, Hall adds, generally don't use online networking sites as much.
Often, that's because they end up with better evidence obtained through search warrants, says Clinton Parish, a Yolo County, Calif., deputy district attorney.
A POST ISN'T PROOF
Parish is prosecuting a case in which police say they found information about marijuana sales on a MySpace page. Police used the page, which included images of the suspect, his girlfriend and his car, to get a search warrant, Parish says. Rajneel Kumar was arrested and charged with felony possession for sale of methamphetamine and marijuana.
But proving Kumar wrote the text detailing his business or posted pictures of his alleged marijuana plants may be difficult. Evidence seized during the search warrant could prove more effective in the prosecution, Parish says.
Fischbach predicts that as lawyers become more familiar with networking sites, prosecutors will use them more frequently.
"It would be really wise if every attorney [did an Internet search for] all the individuals involved in a case, just so they know what they're up against," Fischbach says.
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One of my favorite new tools is to look up my defendants on myspace. On a recent probation revocation hearing, the defendant testified that the reason she wasn't paying any of the probation fees, fines, court costs, etc. was because it was completely IMPOSSIBLE for her to find a job. I found that really interesting, because on her myspace page under "Employment", she wrote "2 Lazy 2 Work!!" Hmmmm.....
We also had a recent case where a defendant was charged with POM. Her myspace page was set to "private", so we couldn't look at it....however, she had posted comments on her friends' pages that we looked at, including comments like "I smoked out all weekend", etc. Great stuff to show the defense attorney.
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Oregon town abuzz over mayor's MySpace lingerie shots
ARLINGTON, Ore. � Some residents of this small town wish their mayor felt like she had something to hide.
Mayor Carmen Kontur-Gronquist created a stir with her MySpace page, where at one time anyone could see photos of her on one of the town's fire engines, clad only in a black bra and panties.
Now only the 42-year-old mayor's friends have access to the page, but some people in this eastern Oregon community of about 500 are still upset.
Resident Lorena Woods said the photos reflect poorly on Arlington, especially since she was photographed on the fire truck. "This isn't the way we want our city to be portrayed," she said.
Kontur-Gronquist, who is also the fire department's executive secretary, said the photos were taken before she was elected mayor three years ago, and she saw no reason to remove them from the Internet after taking office.
She told the (Pendleton) East Oregonian that she did nothing wrong and those who are offended need to get over it.
"That's my personal life," she said. "It has nothing to do with my mayor's position."
She added, "There's a lot of officials that have a personal life, and you have people in this community who have nothing better to do than scrape up stuff like this."
Councilman Jeff Bufton said he's heard a lot of negative comments about the pictures, but declined to say whether the council plans to address the topic.
Imagine what will be available on the internet when today's kids run for president.
I mostly use MySpace to just look into people once a case looks like it is going to jury, etc. I have a case with A LOT of players, some co-defendants, some witnesses, some just involved that I really want to check out. I'll enter their names into MySpace and sometimes I find them, other times I don't. I just like to see what they have on their page--swearing, drug references, clean cut, etc. The problem that I've had lately is that a lot of the pages are private so you have to send a request to get access. I'm very new to using the whole MySpace thing, but I would LOVE to hear more. I'd just like to learn how to nagivate the website and know my options for getting into peoples pages that are private without having to send them a request. It might be nice to include something on doing subpoenas for the material. I will probably miss the conference, but I'd love to have your materials emailed to me if you get a chance.
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The presentation was done some time ago. If you contact TDCAA, they may have the materials and can e-mail them to you. I'm doing an updated presentation in Baton Rouge next month if you are in the area.
You are right, though, that access by law enforcement to the site has gone down with members going more toward "private" pages. But, many people still don't make their page private.
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20 minutes later (the time it took me to get through the Terms of Service and the privacy information) I finally signed up. The process is really simple: You specify a username, password and email address. After that you can give some optional information about you: Firstname, lastname, ZIP-code (only for people who live in the USA) and your birthday. Then you get an email with an activation key for verifying your information and activating your account. As a last (more or less optional step) you can add 5 sites right away to your digest.
Adding sites is also easy. You don't have to search the RSS feed for yourself on the site but simply to specifify any URL of the website and then Kinja will search the site for the feed itself. It takes some seconds but those sites I've tried were added successfully to your socalled favorites. The problem with the favorites is, that you can't make categories for them. So all your websites are listed in one big category which is then used to create your personal "digest".
Importing a feedlist is supposed to be quite simple: Export your feedlist from your current RSS aggregator as OPML file and import it with 2 clicks in Kinja (http://kinja.com/import.knj). I've tried it with a small OPML file holding only 5 feeds in 2 folders. Importing succeeded and all feeds were added to this single one category on Kinja. The export also works more or less, but some of the exported feeds don't have a xmlUrl attribute.
The digest thing wouldn't be all that bad if I had found a way to mark entries as read. This way you have to remember yourself what entries you've already read which IMO makes the whole thing useless. There is also no way to make only specific favorites public. You only have the choice between making your whole list public or hide it as a whole.
Considering these things Kinja has still a long way to go until it can compete with services like Bloglines or Gregaire. I simply don't know if the current concept of the system is really usable :-( Sure, it is nice to read the digest of other people but without any useful structure or marking system I'm not sure what anyone would gain for creating his/her own digest.
Right before hitting the submit button I also did a small search on technorati and feedster about kinja and found a nice post by Jeffry Zeldman complaining about a fake-user probably set up by the developer team (probably for testing purpose or something).
I'm currently not sure if I will keep my account on kinja and for how long. I'm quite interested in how long they will be around and if they add some (useful) features, but I'll probably not use it for my daily weblog reading.


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South Africa to embrace off-grid generation
Africa's richest nation will resort to allowing industry to generate its own power, to relieve pressure on beleaguered state utility Eskom amid load-shedding crisis
Is South Africa heading to a gas-powered future?
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South Africa eyes industrial boost through IRP
Energy minister Gwede Mantashe outlines the benefits expected from the country's Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) 2019 beyond energy security
Priming the pump
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South Africa's offshore sector finally makes some waves
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South Africa imposes licensing restrictions
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Global warming: Now for the hard part
Global leaders agreed – yet again – that reaching a new climate deal is crucial to fight global warming. But will there be action to give substance to the talk?
The Durban summit produced an unexpectedly strong commitment among participants to reach a global climate-change agreement. But there is no guarantee a pact will materialise and present measures do little to convince that China and the world's other big polluters are managing to successfully combat carbon emissions.
Negotiators at the UN-backed meeting in South Africa said they would start work on a new legally binding climate deal, to be effective by 2020, which, crucially, will require developing as well as developed countries to reduce carbon emissions significantly. Just getting the US, China, India and other big emitters to consider an all-embracing pact has been heralded as a huge achievement, given the discord that characterised the run-up to the summit.
The dispute centred on the long-running debate over who should pay most to tackle man-made climate change. Poorer, industrialising countries are eager that developed countries, responsible for most emissions so far, should shoulder the bulk of the cost, while the US and others argue that today's big developing-world polluters should pay their way.
But despite the optimism, the measures to be included in a global agreement have yet to be thrashed out, leaving open the possibility that it could yet yield a diluted and toothless final text. And whatever its strength, if there is to be a treaty in place by 2020, its content must be agreed by 2015. History suggests that this will not be easy.
"Negotiators at the Bali conference in 2007 set a deadline of the 2009 Copenhagen summit to reach an agreement. That did not deliver on the full original aspirations and there is a risk that will happen again," said Carina Heimdal, editor, Crediting mechanisms and emerging carbon markets, at consultancy Thomson Reuters Point Carbon. "An agreement may be reached in 2015, but it may not be very meaningful in terms of reducing emissions globally," she added.
Many climate scientists continue to stress that action taken after 2020, however tough, may be too late to prevent a dangerous rise in global temperatures.
Emissions still on rise
What is clear is that, if the countries where emissions are increasing fastest – China, India and other industrialising countries – are to rein in that growth, they must increase their efforts substantially.
China has embarked on a series of emissions-curbing measures, increasing renewable energy use and paving the way for the launch of local carbon trading markets. It recently ordered seven provinces and cities to set caps on greenhouse-gas emissions in readiness. The government said it will reduce carbon intensity – the amount of carbon dioxide produced per unit of GDP growth – by 17% in the 2011-15 period and by 40-45% from 2005 levels by 2020. But such targets may make only a small impact on global warming.
"The target is intensity based, so the effect depends on how fast the Chinese economy grows. Even if they meet the intensity targets, China's emissions would still double by 2020 [on 2005 levels]," said Heimdal.
China is still building coal-fired power plants at a rapid rate, contributing to a 10.4% carbon emissions rise in 2010, says BP. With the country's coal consumption growing by more than 10% in the first nine months of 2011 over the same period in 2010, there is little sign that China is weaning itself off the most polluting of fossil fuels.
In the International Energy Agency's (IEA) World Energy Outlook 2011, it forecasts that, even if China implemented the green policies it had promised at that point – under the agency's new policies outlook (NPO) – the amount of electricity generated from coal was likely to rise to more than 5,200 terawatt hours (TWh), almost double the 2009 level and more than half of all power generated. India's output from coal was forecast to increase by more than 2.75 times in the same period to around 1,430 TWh.
But there are signs that the countries likely to be the world's largest future emitters are hastening efforts to alter their energy mix. Both China and India have said they will invest heavily in building nuclear and gas-fired power capacity in a bid to cut down carbon emissions – and, in the case of nuclear, reduce increasingly costly energy imports.
A government official told China Daily in December that the country plans to add around 300 gigawatts (GW) of nuclear capacity, to the existing 40 GW over the next 20 years – around three times higher than the IEA's NPO forecast for 2030. That could cost $125 billion a year, but if achieved in conjunction with a huge renewable-energy expansion could make a big dent in emissions growth: how much would depend on the rate at which energy consumption increases.
Some tangible measures also come out of Durban. The establishment of a Green Climate Fund of up to $100 billion from rich countries to help developing nations adopt tougher emissions measures was agreed. Exactly where the finance was coming from was not.
Private-sector funding and market-based mechanisms to finance a programme on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation – crucial because trees absorb carbon dioxide – were agreed to in principle. But again, the details have yet to be finalised and such measures could take years to implement.
So little came out of Durban to oblige countries, developed or industrialising, to act on emissions cuts before 2020, other than, perhaps, a strengthened shared belief that more should be done, faster.
The summit did agree to extend 2005's Kyoto Protocol – which set emissions targets for industrialised countries – into a second commitment period in 2013-17. But that does not come with more ambitious targets and still excludes the US, which never ratified Kyoto, and countries that have since pulled out, including Japan, Russia, and, in December, Canada. EU countries remain the developed nations with the most ambitious climate-change measures and targets in place.
The Kyoto extension ensures the UN's clean development mechanism (CDM) remains in place. The CDM allows polluters from industrialised countries to earn tradable carbon credits by financing clean-energy projects in the developing world.
A plan to include carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in the CDM also won support at Durban, but the slow speed with which the technology is being proved and developed makes this a largely token gesture. "There's limited project potential for CCS projects under the CDM, but it's still a positive signal," Heimdal said.
Canada's cold feet
Withdrawing from Kyoto in December, the Canadian government argued that, having failed to cut emissions as pledged by 6% below 1990 levels (they rose by 30%), Canada would have been forced to buy billions of dollars of compensatory emissions permits that it couldn't afford. But analysts note that, given compliance committee's lack of legal powers, Canada could have missed its targets, not bought compensatory permits and still avoided financial penalty.
In mid-January, a Canadian law professor launched a lawsuit against the government questioning the legality of the withdrawal, which highlights the potential for a loosely formulated agreement to lack credibility – something those drawing up the new climate-change agreement must avoid.
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Map: Libya's conflict
This regularly updated map shows the ongoing conflict among rival factions seeking control of the territory and oil of Libya