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As Wildfires Worsen, Berkeley Students and Alumni Team Up with First Responders to Solve Information Challenges
Staff Sgt. Richard Glover, 163d Attack Wing IT Specialist, shows burn areas to Staff Sgt. Jamel Seales (sitting) and Staff Sgt. Shawn Blue (background) at the wing's Hap Arnold Center at March Air Reserve Base, California. The center is one of several wing assets activated to support ongoing wildland firefighting efforts in Northern California. Airmen will work at the center around the clock to support CAL FIRE and other agencies. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Crystal Housman)
At the beginning of summer, the University of California brought together scientists and faculty from across the UC system for a symposium series to tackle one of the biggest threats to the state: wildfires. With expertise in forest ecology, climate change, and drought, panelists shared how innovations in understanding and modeling fire behavior and other risk factors affect our ability to prepare for, battle, and recover from ever-more-destructive blazes.
"We know fires are going to happen every year, but when and where? Why? How large?" asked Theresa Maldonado, the UC's vice president of research and innovation. "Can we make predictions accurately, understand the complexity of these events, and develop science-informed strategies and solutions?"
Over the last few months, four teams of Cal students and alums have been developing tools for providing real-time fire perimeters, live on-the-ground conditions, and the ability for disparate agencies to submit vital information in one place.
Before the teams — Perimeter, WICS, FireTrace, and Keep It Simple (KIS) Fire View — enrolled in the SkyDeck HotDesk program, a UC Berkeley accelerator, they were finalists in the Beat the Blaze hackathon; Perimeter and WICS won the event. Beat the Blaze was hosted by the National Security Innovation Network (NSIN), a program office under the U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering that connects new communities of innovators, academia, and early-stage ventures together to solve national security problems.
Perimeter CEO Bailey Farren co-founded the company as a Berkeley undergrad after she and her family had to evacuate the Tubbs Fire in Santa Rosa. (Credit: Benjamin Farren)
"I feel very strongly about Berkeley students getting involved early in startups that are truly working to make the world a better place and to leverage technology for social good," says Bailey Farren, founder and CEO of Perimeter. "And I think NSIN and Berkeley, as well as the other collaborating universities, did a phenomenal job hosting a hackathon with so many resources to really be a launching pad for so much impact in the public-safety space."
The virtual Beat the Blaze competition, one of several hackathons NSIN operates, garnered over 450 entrants looking to tackle a truly important challenge posed by the California Air National Guard's 163d Attack Wing and Hap Arnold Innovation Center: How might we increase the information-sharing capacity and capabilities between the National Guard and civilian emergency-response agencies during wildfire operations?
"There's civilian data, there's military data, there's Army data and Air Force data — all on different networks, all with different formats, and people like to use what they like to use," says Lt. Col. Michael Baird, director of operations for the 163d Operations Support Squadron. "How do we have that data interact together better and have it talk to each other?"
Participants coalesced into teams and spent dozens of hours talking to frontline responders, the National Guard, and other NSIN mentors and partners about these challenges. Hackathon evaluators winnowed 32 ideas into 10 finalists who pitched their ideas to expert judges from the fire and tech industries and the military. Three winners secured $15,000 contracts with the National Guard to continue developing their solutions.
"Berkeley is a school that has a culture of social impact. Disaster response and humanitarian assistance are very near and dear to the hearts of most Berkeley students and people associated with Berkeley," says Kaitie Penry, the NSIN program director at Berkeley.
"If you're a Berkeley student, you are living in one of the most wildfire-prone states in the country," adds Kedar Pavgi, NSIN's program manager for its Hacks program. "You're living day-by-day with the outcomes of wildfires and their impact on people's lives."
The challenge for firefighting agencies has never been greater. Last year, over 4 million acres burned in nearly 10,000 fires, forcing evacuation orders on hundreds of thousands of people — all in California. Seven of the most destructive fires in state history have occurred since 2015, including the 2018 Camp Fire that killed 85 people in the town of Paradise. In 2020, blazes across the West Coast caused over $16 billion in damage, and this is nothing to say of toxic air quality and firefighters who have been lost in the course of battling these infernos. Between climate change and worsening droughts, the need for information sharing on the frontlines has never been more important.
"When you send this out to people, you're always worried about, 'Do they understand the problem? Do they understand what we're actually trying to look for?'" says Lt. Col. Baird. "But all the solutions that came in were all very applicable, and it was very hard to come down with the three winners."
Perimeter is a mobile platform where first responders can input and share information about an incident in real time, information which can be made accessible to the public as responders see fit. (Credit: Perimeter)
Perimeter: rooted in real-life experience
It's personal for Bailey Farren. The 2019 Berkeley grad's father is a firefighter and her mother is a paramedic. In 2017, the family had to evacuate their Santa Rosa home to escape the Tubbs Fire, which destroyed thousands of structures and killed at least 23 people. As an undergrad, she and fellow Golden Bear Noah Wu founded Perimeter, a mobile platform where first responders can input and share information about an incident in real time, information which can be made accessible to the public as responders see fit. They attracted more Berkeley alumni as they built out their platform. Entering Beat the Blaze felt like a no-brainer.
"We were able to connect with so many industry experts that we hadn't been able to work with in the past," Farren says. "It really clarified a lot of the context around the work we're doing and many of the more nuanced struggles and opportunities that exist in this space."
A key feature is Perimeter's saving newly inputted information for users with limited or no cell service. Many of today's incident-response tools "have been primarily designed as heavy-weight software for decision-makers working with a desktop device and constant connectivity," Farren told judges on Beat the Blaze's Pitch Day. With Perimeter, all levels of incidence response can access vital information.
FireTrace: the power of machine learning
In December, Ross Luo graduated with a master's in electrical engineering and computer science, with a research focus on artificial intelligence in humanitarian assistance and disaster response. He and his friends, most of whom grew up in California and went to Berkeley, knew the impact of the state's wildfires. "I told them, 'Hey, this is a great opportunity to take our technical backgrounds and try to make a difference in firefighting in California.'"
Through interviews with first responders, they developed Beat the Blaze finalist FireTrace, which takes existing terrain data and aerial imagery of fires from drones to make a constantly updating map for firefighters out in the field. Using machine learning, FireTrace continually improves its understanding of what the boundary of a fire looks like.
"We had to go to office hours every day and talk to different people to really dial in on the problem," says Luo, who now works on deep-learning frameworks at Nvidia. "That way you get an optimal problem–solution match because you're actually talking to people who have problems on the ground. This is a good opportunity to talk to many of them and come up with a solution that solves many of their problems at the same time."
KIS Fire View: removing barriers to adoption
Such tech solutions are a whole lot faster for agencies than relying on static maps tacked up onto boards.
KIS Fire View, another top-10 Beat the Blaze finalist, would also track live fire perimeters, as well as provide the locations of fire vehicles and up-to-date road conditions. Sukh Singh, executive director of The Curiosity Foundation, who entered with recently graduated Berkeley grad students and his Foundation partner, thought it would be hard to update this all-important puzzle piece in real time.
"From speaking to the fire chief, he was like, 'Real time? Right now, I wait a whole day. Fifteen minutes would be phenomenal,'" he recalls. "For the graduate students on the team who were AI specialists, they had the hugest sigh of relief. Fifteen minutes is like infinity for them."
Singh and his teammates wanted to create a tool that was as easily adoptable as possible; they found out from dozermen and other front-line firefighters that they didn't want to have to learn complex new systems (and lose valuable time in the field doing so). So, they designed KIS Fire View as a one-stop-shop digital map that would update every 15 minutes with the live fire perimeter using drone imagery, stream data from the Office of Emergency Services to locate all responding fire vehicles, and incorporate traffic conditions from Google.
"To me, it was a really fantastic learning experience," he says. "Speaking to all the fire services as well as all the people from the National Guard and FEMA was hugely educational for both me and the graduate-student team I worked with."
WICS: faster firefighting funds
Shreyas Krishnaswamy, an electrical engineering and computer science undergrad, was interested in applying CS and tech to huge problems like climate change. He had participated in hackathons with his high school friends before, and they were all interested in sustainability. After he saw a College of Engineering email mentioning Beat the Blaze, Krishnaswamy called them up. "We got the gang back together," he says.
In talking to stakeholders during the hackathon, they learned that local and state agencies can, in some cases, file papers with the federal government once a fire has started to get most of their firefighting costs covered via the Fire Management Assistance Grant, but they coordinate this through a patchwork of communications.
"The main problem is that it costs time on the front end for people at the local level, the state level, and the federal level to synchronize and get the information to wherever it needs to go to," Krishnaswamy says. If information gets lost in translation, it can delay the FMAG's approval.
Their solution, Wildfire InfoComm Service (WICS), provides a single tool where every agency involved in this process can sign in and provide their information for easy submission to the feds. A quick approval, Krishnaswamy points out, reduces the burden in the back of officials' heads about whether they will have to shoulder all the firefighting costs.
Despite only beginning to learn about FMAGs during their stakeholder interviews and expecting the hackathon to be an all-student affair, the Berkeley–UC Irvine–King's College London team developed a solution that beat out established tech companies to join the three-team winner's circle.
Going beyond the concept and out into the field
Since the competition, WICS, KIS Fire View, and Perimeter have continued working with Beat the Blaze mentor and judge Thomas Azwell, a Berkeley environmental scientist building a disaster lab to focus on wildfire technology.
Additionally, Kaitie Penry, the NSIN university program director at Berkeley, introduced WICS, KIS Fire View, and FireTrace to SkyDeck, a UC Berkeley accelerator, where the teams continue to receive mentoring and guidance, including from NSIN stakeholders they met at Beat the Blaze. Perimeter was readmitted to the program after a stint there a year and a half ago.
Singh says the KIS Fire View team was about to shelve their project after the competition. "Because [Penry] was willing to push it and give us the resources to make that possible," he says, "I think she's totally the catalyst who ended up pushing us forward to be like, 'Yeah, we can probably pull this off.'"
Without access to some of the data and relationships KIS Fire View had enjoyed during the competition, Singh's team is pivoting to focus more on an army of hillside cameras across the state that monitor the environment for smoke and fire; an eventual web app could drastically reduce the number of camera feeds that agencies have to monitor. Singh says Marin County, whose disaster-response officials he had already been in contact with, is interested in the project, and he can see businesses like fire-country wineries wanting to get in on a system that can prepare them for the worst.
The WICS team, meanwhile, hopes to field test its system in August or September as it continues to compile subject-matter expertise from contacts as far-flung as Washington state, Colorado, and North Dakota. And the FireTrace squad is working with the National Guard to receive data on which to train its AI model.
With two extra years of development under its belt, Perimeter has already been developing and testing its platform with the Palo Alto Office of Emergency Services and recently closed $1.2 million of early-round investment funding. "Some of the major opportunities that are presented by having this contract is really being able to have a continued dialogue with the stakeholders that sponsored Beat the Blaze," Farren says.
Each team acknowledged that, at the end of the day, it all came down to helping those very stakeholders.
"Even if this tool's able to detect one fire early and prevent one disaster, that's absolutely worth it," Singh says. "To be able to build something that might be able to help with that side of things and potentially save just one or two people or save someone's home, that's really exciting."
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Federal regulators have modified the Volcker Rule to alter a provision that would have forced banks to divest an entire class of investments.
Proposed by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, the Volcker Rule – part of the Dodd-Frank Act – aims to restrict U.S. banks from making certain kinds of speculative investments that don't benefit their customers. Specifically, the rule targets proprietary trading by commercial banks where deposits are used to trade on the bank's own accounts.
But facing litigation from several financial institutions, federal banking regulators have approved a compromise reworking a controversial provision of the rule that basically would have forced banks to unload a type of investment once considered standard.
The thinking was that banks shouldn't be able to hold hybrid investments like collateral debt obligations backed by trust-preferred securities, a common formula for creating tax-exempt debt in the 1990s and early 2000s. But the American Bankers Associated cited a clear case of unintended consequences – namely, that forcing banks to sell off certain securities, and preventing them from buying them, rendered the securities close to worthless.
In a Dec. 24 lawsuit aimed at keeping federal regulators out of the CDO/TruPS pool, the association charged that the Volcker Rule would hit more than 200 community banks with an estimated capital loss of 4.2 percent – some $600 million that would "vanish overnight," according to the suit.
To avoid this potentially crippling banking industry body blow, five federal regulatory agencies announced a Jan. 14 Volcker compromise: Banks could keep these pooled investments as long as half or more were issued by other institutions with up to $15 billion in assets.
"It resolved the problem for banks that own them right now," said Chris Cole, senior regulatory counsel for Washington-based industry watchdog Independent Community Bankers of America. "They can keep them."
But some bankers are complaining that the compromise falls short of the blanket approval they'd hoped for. Securities issued by banks and insurance companies with more than $15 billion in assets, for instance, are still on the no-fly list.
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Surprisingly this actress was born to a family where most of them were entitled in the entertainment industry. Her father's name is John Drew Barrymore, who was one of the renowned actors in his times. Similarly, her mother's name is Jaid Mako, who is also a respectable actress.
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We all know how Barrymore looks, right? She is an extremely beautiful chubby lady who has to undergo diets to get that bikini look. However, Drew does not complain about her look, if she wants some curvy figure, then she totally gets it.
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Unlike other celebrity childhood, Drew's was more fun, which paid back to her very harshly. To be precise, she was a regular on Studio 54, which is a nightclub. She got into partying and was negatively famous in the media. Hence at the age of 13, she was in rehab.
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For 18 months, Barrymorewas kept in an institution for being mentally ill. By 14, she had already attempted suicide. During that time, singer David Crosby and his wife were a great help for her and kept her for three months. He also said that "needed to be around some people that were committed to sobriety."
Later Drew described this moment of her life wholeheartedly in her autobiography Little Girl Lost. Lastly, at the age of 15, she was back in her own apartment.
How Old Is Drew Barrymore?- Age, Height, and Body Measurement
This enthusiastic model was born on February 22, 1975. In 2020 she is 45 years old and falls under the sun sign of Pisces. Despite being in her 40's, there is no sign of aging in her appearance. In fact, she is turning more beautiful day by day.
Drew Barrymore is 45 years old.
She stands tall at a small height of 5 feet 4 inches. Not to mention, she has maintained her body weight up to 126 pounds, translating to 57 kg in general. Her vital statistics measure about 37-27-35 in or 94-68.5-89 cm.
To sum up, the looks Drew blessed to have long natural blonde hair along with a pair of blue eyes. The most distinct feature of this actress is her charismatic smile and gleaming eyes.
Unlike any other celebrity in the industry, she stepped into the industry when she was 11 months old. She was cast in a dog food commercial. She made her debut in the 1980's movie Altered States and later appeared in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
She was No. 1 in People's annual 100 Most Beautiful People in 2007. She also became the face of Gucci. During that time, Drew became the most famous child actor and won a Young Artist Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Soon in 1984, she was cast in Stephen King's novel titled Firestarter. Along with she was in Cat's Eye, See You in the Morning, Far From Home, Poison Ivy, Wishful Thinking, My Date With Drew, How to Be Single, Skipped Parts, Best Men, The Stand-in, See You in the Morning, Freddy Got Fingered, babes in Toyland to name few.
In addition to this, Barrymore was featured in Doppelganger, Titan A.E., Far From Home, The Amy Fisher Story, Curious George, Wayne's World 2, Home Fries, Lucky You, Inrreconsible Differences, Everybody's Fine, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Everyone Says I Love You, Guncrazy, Grey Gardens, Riding in Cars with Boys, Miss You Already, amongst others.
Who Is The Husband of Drew Barrymore? Are They Divorced?
Interestingly in the year 2011, she started dating Will Kopelman. Within a year, they got engaged on January 5, 2012, and walked down the aisle on June 2, 2012. The couple was happy to have each other.
Drew gave birth to her first daughter Olive Barrymore in September 2014. Eventually, her second son Frankie Barrymore Kopelman was born in April 2014. For this actress, their relationship was like a dream come true. It is a miracle and a blessing.
Drew Barrymore with her daughter
Unfortunately, their relationship did not last as long as they had anticipated. Hence in 2016, they decided to part there was in 2016. She reveals that her divorce was like a nightmare. Surprisingly her ex-husband found her active in a dating app after some days of their split.
Later she revealed that it was her fantasy to go on a blind date, and she could never deactivate herself from the app and is still active. In addition to this, Will is not the only one she has married.
At the tender age of 19, she was a son in love with a bartender that she shared vows with him. He was a Los Angeles bar owner named Jeremy Thomas, who was 32 years old at that time. Even though their legal marriage only lasted for six weeks and finalized the divorce on February 18, 1995.
On a clear note, she has dated a handsome man in the entertainment industry. Some of them are Billy Idol, Eric Erlandsome, Edward Norton, Jane Pratt, Luke Wilson, Henry Thomas, Tom Green, Sam Rockwell, Fabrizio Moretti, Hugh Grant, Spike Jonze, Justin Long to name few.
Among all, she rose to prominence for her role in 50 First Dates, The Wedding Singer, Blended, Never Been Kissed, Ever After, etc.
What Is The Net Worth of Drew Barrymore?
Undoubtedly this model, actress, the producer has maintained her pocket tight for several years. In 2020 it is suggested that Drew Barrymore has a staggering net worth of $125 million. That is all thanks to her hard work, passion, and determination.
There are various parts in her career where she was showered with money. Speaking of which, a liable source reported that she took $500,00 for Donnie Darko and $250,000 for Confession of a Dangerous Mind.
Drew Barrymore sits on a net worth of $120 million.
In addition to this, in 1995, Drew was provided with $1.5 million for her appearance in Mad Love. Moving on, $3 million was transferred into her account for Ever After. Talking about Charlie's Angel franchise along, Barrymore was paid $9 million and $14 million for the sequel.
It was in 2007 when she earned her highest amount of $15 million. Moreover, in 2018 this 45 years old model sold her home located in Hollywood Hills for $16.5 million. In 2019, she purchased a house of 5,600 sq—foot on the beach of Hamptons, which is worth $5.5 million.
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Configuring a Raspberry Pi as wireless access point (WAP) is pretty great since it allows setting up a local network without internet access, for example for safe smartphone remote controls.
Here is the tutorial for setting up a WAP with a Wifi dongle and Raspbian Wheezy: WAP on Wheezy.
at the end of the file with X.Y.Z being the same as in the old tutorial.
Additionally, enabling autologin is not required anymore since it is the default for Raspbian Jessie.
Special thanks to Ian Nichols for the help!
I followed the guide and I got the AP working (It gives a right IP to my tablet according to the ip range set in dhcpd.conf subnet section).
The problem is that the wlan0 doesn't forward ipv4 packets to the eth0 of my Rpi3.
Is there something else I could check?
Peter, very good question: i'm having the same issue. I only have a crude solution that works for me, but requires manually bringing down interfaces with ifdown from time to time.
Stackoverflow offers some help in that direction.
If you find a clean solution, please let me know!
i'm really interested in you solution, but i can't replicate your result, sadly.
sudo iptables-restore < /etc/iptables.ipv4.nat run. Do you see anything in my iptables that could prevent this from working? Thanks for the effort and sorry for the late reply, anyways!
just a question: what if I already have a DHCP server on my lan? Still need I to setup a DHCP for the Rpi3?
Yes, if you want to have clients that can connect to it without further configuration.
Thanks for the guide! One question though, why do you have 192.168.1.50/24 and not 192.168.1.0/24 in the dhcpcd.conf?
Hi, i always use .50 as custom IP for better memorisation. .0 as final cipher may be problematic for some routers.
Do you have any idea how many devices could successfully connect at once?
Sorry but no; would be interest in this, too. HypRiot is and clustering OS for the RPi, that may be interesting for you.


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Top 10 Reasons 2015 was a Memorable Year at U-Haul
Every year is a moving year at U-Haul. Hopefully, we were able to make your year a little more efficient and economical by helping you or a fellow do-it-yourselfer minimize the hassle of moving.
Yet 2015 was no ordinary year. In fact, it was quite extraordinary. There were many reasons why the past 12 months carved out a place in our hearts … though we've whittled it to 10 for the sake of this list.
Without further ado, here is our countdown of what made 2015 memorable at U-Haul:
U-Haul became the Official Trailer and Propane of PIR
10. U-Haul became the Official Trailer and Propane of Phoenix International Raceway, venturing into the realm of NASCAR to educate a target audience on trailer and propane safety. The campaign was embraced by racing fans and trailer owners from across the country. U-Haul provided discounted on-site propane while reminding customers it has been the largest U.S. retailer of propane for decades.
9. Our sustainability initiatives gained traction, from our takeoff of dozens of adaptive reuse projects to reduce blight and lower communities' carbon footprints while meeting the demand for new U-Haul stores, to helping environmentally conscious organizations protect and create green spaces – including the planting of 12,500 trees with The Conservation Fund through the aid of U-Haul customer donations.
8. U-Haul furthered its hardline stance against distracted driving by partnering with Project Yellow Light to stop the epidemic of texting while driving among youths. Additional U-Haul safe-driving initiatives included a free online defensive driving course, sponsorship of the annual NOYS (National Organizations for Youth Safety) conference and a clear safety message at our many safe-trailering exhibitions. U-Haul is back on board with PYL for 2016.
U-Haul Executive VP Sam Shoen was named to the AMERCO Board of Directors
7. Sam Shoen, Executive Vice President and U-Box Project Manager, was named the eighth member of the AMERCO Board of Directors. Sam is son to AMERCO President and CEO Edward "Joe" Shoen and grandson to U-Haul founders L.S. "Sam" Shoen and Anna Mary Carty Shoen. Sam's U-Haul roots date to 1990 when he joined the family business. He has excelled in many positions while putting his stamp on the Company.
6. The launch of myuhaulstory.com at the onset of 2015 offered U-Haul a new storytelling forum where we have spent the year sharing news about our wonderful people, products and partners; our role in the community; our history; and our presence in the media. The website was used as the centerpiece for the release of our annual U-Haul migration trends reports.
5. Building on a longstanding relationship with the American Red Cross, U-Haul became an official Red Cross Disaster Responder. That partnership was put to use when U-Haul trucks and storage were used to assist in disaster relief efforts throughout the wildfires in the Pacific Northwest and northern California. Beyond the Red Cross, we initiate our own community relief efforts when flooding, tornados and other disasters strike by offering 30 days of self-storage to affected residents when possible. Free storage was extended to residents of at least 20 states following disasters in 2015.
4. Our new 26-foot trucks began rolling off the U-Haul Tech Center assembly line in the fall. Anchored by the Ford Super Duty F-650, this gleaming new "JH" looks the part of powerful behemoth but drives like a van – it's smoother than you could imagine. For families with four or more bedrooms to pack, these state-of-the-art trucks will be popular rentals come next moving season.
U-Haul pioneer Hap Carty at Ridgefield Heritage Day
3. U-Haul eclipsed 20,000 locations in North America between its owned-and-operated stores and its neighborhood dealer network, which is 18,000-plus strong and continues to expand as U-Haul aims to bring the convenience of closer locations to more neighborhoods. While many of our dealers are fairly new to the network, others like Hicks & Hicks Automotive have been doing this for a long time.
2. Seventy years in business is some feat, especially when you're talking about a fledging operation that began in a milk house in 1945 and sprouted into the industry leader in do-it-yourself moving and self-storage. U-Haul celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2015 by serving as the main attraction at Ridgefield Heritage Day in the small Washington town where the Carty ranch was site of the first trailers built.
1. Our customers. Without you, there is no U-Haul. Thank you. We pledge to continue striving to meet our primary service objective of providing a better and better product and service to more and more people at a lower and lower cost in the years to come. Happy New Year, everyone.
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Tuesday, January 22, George Oppong Weah was sworn in as the 24th president of Liberia. It was historic, being the first political transition between two democratically-elected governments in the country in 44 years.
While promising no quick fixes but steady progress in addressing his country's problems, Weah told the cheering crowd in Monrovia, the country's capital that "today is a feeling like no other." However, in the immediate for President Weah is to fight corruption in his country and pay its workers "a living wage."
Also is to reposition education and healthcare and create jobs for the unemployed in the country.
Born on October 1. 1966 in a slum of Monrovia, Weah emerged a successful professional football player, winning African Footballer of the Year, European Footballer of the Year and World Footballer of the Year in a trot–the only African professional footballer to have done so.
The newest of African Heads of States told BBC that observers should look beyond him as a successful professional footballer but as a human being who strives to be excellent, adding that with the help of Liberian people, "I will be successful."
Many people in the West African country that have survived two ghastly civil wars believe strongly that the hope and future of the country would be better assured with Weah's leadership.
This would not end up misplaced if President Weah buckles down to tackle widespread poverty in a country of less than five million people where 63 per cent of the population lives below the poverty line with corruption described as "endemic and permeating most of the society," by Transparency International.
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It could be recalled that Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Weah's predecessor made similar pronouncements against corruption in the country upon assumption of power in 2006. Sirleaf promised to fight corruption which she described as a "major public enemy," but 12 years later, the country ranked 90 out of 176 countries in Transparency International's 2016 corruption perception index.
Sirleaf earned high marks in nepotism for appointing her son, Charles as the governor of the Liberian Central Bank. Charles Sirleaf was later indicted for breaching asset declaration rules.
She also chose another of her son Robert as chief executive of the National Oil Company of Liberia. She made her third son, Fombah, head of the country's national security agency, charged with superintending the country's internal security. Accusation of expropriation of funds against Fombah later emerged.
The orchestration of the investigation panel by President Sirleaf forced Justice Christiana Tah, the country's Justice Minister to resign in October 2014, in protest, leveling an accusation of interference against Sirleaf. She did not bother much with critics' worry that she appointed three of her sons into critical positions in her government.
In driving the programmes he has earmarked for his government, President Weah must be mindful of the fact that many divisive utterances in the presidential electioneering tended to open the scars of the country's brutal civil war and as such don't lose sight of pursuing an enduring reconciliation initiatives.
Clearly, not much in concrete terms had been done towards giving life to the recommendations of the country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission launched in 2005, following the end of the civil war in 2003.
Many of the young people who fought in the country's long-drawn civil war are still jobless and angry at the lack of economic opportunities for them.
The United Nations states that more than 60 per cent of Liberia's population is made up of young people with youth unemployment estimated to be as high as 85 per cent. This is in the face of a population growth rate of 2.7 per cent.
The ravages of the civil war on the country's infrastructure are indeed, still visible and present. The gruesome civil war raged for 14 years (1989 and 2003), leaving about 250,000 people dead. Following the devastation, most citizens still do not have access to electricity, while power cuts are commonplace occurrences in the country's major cities and towns.
Those who access electricity do so at a prohibitive cost, leaving many of the citizens to rather prefer running power generators. If Weah completes the reconstruction of the Coffee Hydro Dam–which is Sirleaf's flagship project–it will only add about 22 megawatts of electricity to the country's national grid.
Teenage pregnancies, gang crimes, poverty, youth delinquency, all of which spilled from the war still dominate the Liberian society. Health and education are decrepit with over 50 per cent of the country's schools and hospitals destroyed in the war.
President Weah's Liberia is one of the world's poorest countries, ranked 177 out of 188 in the UN Development Index. This places the new president in no enviable position and gives him more than a handful of problems.
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Last year, TesseracT vocalist Daniel Tompkins unleashed his stunning solo debut, Castles. Essentially, it took the template of TesseracT's most soothing and atmospheric passages and added a bit more electronic flair, pop/rock accessibility, and attractively idiosyncratic nuance. Thus, it shed additional light on Tompkins' artistic palette while also containing familiar links to his home band. Of course, part of the charm of Castles was its malleability, which follow-up Ruins totally capitalizes on. Comprised almost entirely of reworked tracks from that first record, Ruins is an equally enjoyable—yet decidedly different—sequence that offers refreshingly inventive and valuable new takes on that material. If you're a fan of Tompkins' work, you'll almost certainly dig this one as well.
Castles itself ended with bonus reinterpretations of some of its main tracks, so Tompkins' was already revising his first collection as he was making and releasing it. Thus, the gimmick of Ruins, while very satisfying, isn't too surprising. In particular, the new LP is billed as a darker and more aggressive rendition of Castles' seven songs, with a new piece—"The Gift"—capping it off. (Perhaps most notably in that respect is the use of both clean and guttural vocal styles here.) Along the way, he's aided by rising guitarist Plini, Trivium frontman/guitarist Matt Heafy, and producer Paul Ortiz (aka Chimp Spanner, with whom Tompkins plays in '80s progressive synth-pop band ZETA).
A track-by-track comparison between Castles and Ruins would likely be too tedious, so suffice it to say that virtually every piece justifies the use of a new title to indicate that it should be viewed as a new composition. Specifically, opener "Wounded Wings" is markedly changed from its first form as "Black the Sun." Whereas that one was significantly moody and sparse—making the most of its emptiness and vocal harmonies for maximum emotion and ethereality—"Wounded Wings" cleverly balances light and heavy elements from the start by placing the chorus and percussion before the verses. Tompkins' voice isn't quite as pronounced, either, and there's a greater emphasis on affective electric guitar work throughout.
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Likewise, Castles starter "Saved"—a deeply digitalized and instantly appealing confessional—has transformed into the full-bodied "Empty Vows." There's still some robotic production thrown in, but it's warmer now and better entwined within the more prevalent use of traditional djent instrumentation and hostility. Beyond that, Castles' broodingly vacant closer, "Telegraph," is now the hypnotically aggressive penultimate composition, "A Dark Kind of Angel." In an admittedly reductive sense, much of Ruins feels like an adrenaline-fueled remake of its predecessor—in all the best ways. Plus, its original ending statement, "The Gift" (featuring Heafy), is the most TesseracT-like in terms of embodying the quintet's beloved pattern of intersecting melodies, cyclical guitar riffs, chilling ambiance, and in-your-face rhythms. It's also downright demonic at times, which helps separate it from both Castles and TesseracT's modern aesthetic.
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Ruins does precisely what an album of its kind should do: honor the crucial elements of its forebearer amidst adding enough distinguishing features to come across as its own thing. Tompkins already had a great arsenal of songs to work with, and the ways in which he and his collaborators finely tune them for renewed purposes are breathtaking each and every time. Granted, it's not enough to make Ruins seem like a true sophomore effort (hopefully, that'll come sooner rather than later); instead, the LP is a comparably worthwhile and representative journey that's best thought of as a companion to Castles. After all, each record's self-contained greatness is heightened by the other's variances, so it's best to consider them as a joined display of Tompkins' abilities and potential.
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Irish couple vows to go to jail rather than pay fine for attending Mass during lockdown
'God's law was more important to me than Man's.'
Joe and Ann Ryan
Thu May 5, 2022
DONAMON, Ireland (LifeSiteNews) – A Catholic couple has said that they would rather go to jail than pay a fine for breaking COVID-19 restrictions by going to Mass.
Catholic couple Jim Ryan, 64, and his wife Ann, 59, broke COVID-19 regulations on Palm Sunday, March 28, 2021, by driving over 5 km from their home.
In April, the couple was charged for this alleged offense by Judge Raymond Finnegan at Cavan District Court. According to Independant.ie, the judge ruled that they must each pay a €300 fine.
"I will go to jail before I pay it. I would rather go to jail, without a shadow of a doubt," Jim, a retired firefighter, reported. "I have no intention of paying them a fine for me going to Mass – for doing what I have done my whole life."
Up until this point, the couple has led a law-abiding and quiet life in their stone cottage bordering a railway line in Donamon.
"We're 64 and 59 years old," said Ann, a retired nurse, and "have never had any convictions, are quiet-living people and are not affiliated to any organizations."
"We're just ordinary Joe Soaps – but with one difference, we honor God and we believe in God," Anne continued.
The couple struggled to be able to attend in-person Mass because of the COVID-19 restrictions. "On one occasion, we went to a church near here and we actually got thrown out," said Jim.
"The priest was filming a Mass to put on Facebook and when we saw it was on we went in," he recalled. "But the priest came down to me and said we had to get out of the church."
"For the sake of keeping the peace, I left the church, but that was the state we were in," Jim continued.
'The guards were waiting for us'
In March 2021, Fr. P.J. Hughes announced that he would celebrate Mass on the Feast of Palm Sunday at Our Lady of Lourdes in Mullahoran, County Cavan. This Mass would be open to everyone.
This decision was in contradiction to the Level 5 restriction which closed places of worship. "I will exercise my constitutional right even though people are complaining," Fr. Hughes said while acknowledging that this was contrary to his bishop's directives.
"We are committing a grave mistake by rejecting our Lord and God Jesus Christ by staying away because government officials say we must," Fr. Hughes said in the lead-up to Palm Sunday.
News of this decision reached local media and several checkpoints were set up on the way to the church. "We read online that Fr. Hughes was saying mass at Mullahoran church and that he was going to turn no-one away," recalled Jim.
"This was Psalm Sunday … the day Jesus rode into Nazareth on a donkey knowing the terrible torture and death he was facing and He kept going for our sins," he continued.
"Going to mass that Sunday was extremely important to us," Jim explained. "Ann had just gone through a life-saving medical procedure and we wanted to say thank you to God."
Accordingly, Jim and Ann determined to travel 70 km to attend this Mass on this major Catholic feast. On the road, they were stopped at a checkpoint by an officer, Barry Mulligan, who instructed them not to continue to the church.
However, the couple continued their journey and participated in "an absolutely beautiful mass." When it finished, Jim recalled, "the guards were waiting for us."
The guards "took all the registration numbers and, I'd say afterwards, they contacted the different checkpoints and gave them the list of the cars."
This April, the couple were called to court to face their charges. Immediately after being charged, the couple filed an appeal.
Jim explained that the restrictions violated their basic rights, saying, "Article 44 of the constitution says that we have the right to practice our religion in public."
"It also says in Article 15 that the Dáil cannot impose a law that goes against the constitution – and this law did," he continued.
Additionally, Anne said she chose to obey God's law above man's. "I decided on that morning that I was going to honor one of the ten commandments," she said, "which was to honor the Sabbath Day."
"On the balance of things, God's law was more important to me than Man's," Ann said, adding, "Man's law is fallible. God's is not."
Outside the court house, Jim told the Anglo-Celt, "Fr. P.J. Hughes, is a very honorable man, and a true priest, who has honored his vocation."
"The judge said in there that that wasn't our local church," he explained. "It was our local church because it was the nearest church to us that was open. All the rest of them were closed and in defiance of the constitution."
Ireland has had some of the most strict lockdowns and COVID related restrictions, as the country has drifted further and further from Catholicism.


What are the top Public Administration Programs in Cheyenne, WY?
Cheyenne has a general population of 53,011 and an overall student population of 5,117. Approximately 4,905 of Cheyenne's students are enrolled in schools that offer public administration programs.
Cheyenne's largest public administration school is Laramie County Community College. Approximately 1 students graduated in 2010 from Laramie County Community College with credentials in public administration.
In 2010, 1 students graduated with a public administration degree in Cheyenne. If you decide to attend one of Cheyenne's public administration schools, you can expect to pay an average of $11,560 per year in instate tuition and $14,824 per year in out of state tuition.
In addition to tuition costs, plan on spending an average of $1,066 for public administration related books and supplies each year. And if you live on campus at one of the Cheyenne-based public administration schools, you will have an added expense of $6,832 per year, on average, for room and board. Students who live at home can cut this cost down to approximately $5,134.
Many public administration graduates choose to work as public administration professionals after graduation. If you choose to follow that path and remain in Cheyenne, your job prospects are not very good. In 2010, 1 out of every 7 public administration professionals in Wyoming were working in the greater Cheyenne area. By the year 2018, the number of public administration professionals is expected to increase by 2% in Cheyenne. This projected change is faster than the projected nationwide trend for public administration professionals.


Liverpool and Chelsea will meet in what promises to be one of the EPL's most exciting matches this season.
The infographic below highlights some of the main economic indicators of both clubs including their total revenue for the 2015-16 season broken down by matchday, TV broadcasting and commercial revenue according to the latest Deloitte Money League Report.
Liverpool earn an estimated 75 million euros annually from the kit and shirt sponsorship agreements with New Balance and Standard Chartered while Chelsea earn 95.5 million annually from the sponsorship agreements with Adidas and Yokohama Tyres. It is worth noting that as of next season the Blues will earn substantially more from their kit deal as they have agreed to a deal worth approximately 70 million euros annually with Nike.
This year´s Deloitte Money League Report which looks at the numbers from 2015/16 season ranked Chelsea and Liverpool as the eighth and ninth highest revenue earning clubs in world football respectively. Chelsea earned 447.4 million euros last year while Liverpool earned 403.8 million euros.
According to Total Sportek, it is reported that Jurgen Klopp earns 8.2 million euros per season to lead Liverpool while Antonio Conte takes in an approximate 7.5 million euros annually at Stamford Bridge.


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The frenetic streets of Ho Chi Minh City, Photo Credit: Sanjoy Ghosh
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Remembering Vitenam's erstwhile capital, Saigon, in Ho Chi Minh City
Kai Friese
July 01 , 2014
My ticket says Ho Chi Minh City but my suitcase is going straight to Saigon: the IATA call sign for Tan Son Nhat airport is still SGN. It's a pleasing felicity. I'm going to Vietnam for the first time but my baggage is mostly a peculiar kind of nostalgia. And as the plane drops from the clouds to circle over the extravagant bends and loops of the Saigon river, glittering in the bright light of noon, I know that I will be constantly reminded that in this city, the past really is another country.
Yes, I'm old enough to remember the collapse of the Republic of Vietnam and the dramatic fall of its capital. And not just from Hollywood's cinematic reprise. I followed these events in real time, in print. Which is why my temporal lobe keeps up its insistent jingle: "Khe Sanh, Da Nang, Cam Ranh, Napalm," it goes. "Viet Nam Cong Hoa." And why it copy-edits with such cracked insistence: the airport should be Tan Son Nhut. Not Nhat! It used to be an American airbase.
It doesn't help that I'm arriving in early February, in the last days before Tet, the Vietnamese 'Chinese New Year'. The Year of the Pig is ending, the Rat approaches. But forty years ago, in February 1968, at the dawn of the Year of the Monkey, the Viet Cong launched a massive offensive across the length and breadth (in this serpentine country it's mostly length) of South Vietnam. It would be crushed with tremendous bloodshed. But it was a defeat that laid the spores of the Communist victory, seven years later, in April 1975, the Year of the Rabbit.
I'm a Rabbit myself, in case you're wondering, from 1963. When you've been hopping around as long as I have, History gets personal. And so does Geography. Visiting Calcutta for the first time, in the early 1980s, I can remember savouring the sense that I was on the edge of another subcontinent, one that stretched from the Ganges Delta to the Mekong Delta. India Extra Gangem. All geography is fantasy, but my own construction of Indochina has an appealingly romantic aesthetic, of post-colonial torpor, peeling paint and creaky louvered shutters. The tropical verdure, the Graham Greenery. He is baggage too, of course. Lurking in my knapsack is a 1955 first edition of The Quiet American (with the grey, chatai-patterned dust jacket). A time bomb I procured long ago on Free School Street. Still unread.
A bumpy landing brings me back to 2008, and I disembark to the global trill of reactivated Nokias. Half an hour later, I'm sweeping through the streets of Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) in a Japanese van, fighting the panicky apprehension that unlike me, the city may have moved on. I wind up in the heart of Bui Vien street, the city's backpacker alley, a disconcerting facsimile of Paharganj — not my favourite neighbourhood back home. The hotel itself is cheap, clean and cheerful. It's also about fifteen feet wide and eleven — yes, eleven — storeys high. Trying not to think about it, I hit the streets to get my bearings. The temperature is reassuringly tropical, particularly after the intemperate chill of New Delhi this year. There is a Calcuttan languor to lanes but as I wander on to the thoroughfares, the city seems to rise from its siesta and soon I'm facing HCMC's legendary torrents of two-wheelers ("four million motorcycle!" a xe om or motorcycle-taxi man tells me proudly). There is a technique to crossing the roads, which I will soon master: ten percent courage and ninety percent trust.
That said, HCMC is a delightfully easy city to roam. The downtown District 1 where I am staying is entirely walkable, and xe om pillion rides are immediately and cheaply available. But I prefer the iconic cyclo trishaws. They may have lapsed into a tourist novelty, with corresponding prices, but I am happy to be taken for a ride.
I settle into a pleasant rhythm, rising early, walking out to have a hot glass of the dark, buttery Ca phe sua nong (filter coffee with condensed milk), at a pavement stall. Then, a morning round of sightseeing, back for a siesta, and out again on foot in the sociable cool of the evening, in search of a scenic perch for dinner or a drink. At this civilised pace the city reveals itself with an endearing formality. It's like getting to know a charming and slightly disreputable aunt — the one they all talk about.
And everything they said was true. God knows, this fallen capital has a past, and she flaunts it with roguish flamboyance. The town is encrusted with Belle Epoque townhouses, Third Empire mansions and Palladian galleons, whose custard-washed façades flake and crack like bad makeup. The avenues are fraying seams of colonial elegance, lined with stately, ageing trees, festooned with scarlet banners. Flags of convenience, they survive because they are so easily ignored by everyone — including the Communists themselves.
In a city that has seen so many pants-down surrenders — the French, the Americans, the Southern republic — it's plain that Saigon is still her own mistress. The broader boulevards, remorselessly commercial, are emblazoned with all the gigantic slogans of globalisation. It's really only in the former Presidential Palace that I feel the presence of that Old Time Socialism. Now called the Reunification Palace, the building is a coolly accomplished piece of architectural modernism: the suave cold war capitalism of the sixties and seventies, and its flirtation with praetorian regimes. But some genius apparatchik deserves the Order of Lenin for the brainwave of preserving the palace — its throne rooms and banquet halls, casinos and war rooms — frozen in that moment of triumph and emasculation, on the thirtieth of April, 1975. Apparently they still use it for state banquets.
The palace really gives me the chills but I storm all five floors and the labyrinthine basement bunkers in ten minutes flat. I'm even quicker at the nearby War Remnants Museum, and at the now innocuous Pho Binh noodle shop — a secret Viet Cong HQ in the Tet Offensive. Here I interrupt the proprietor at his lunch but he graciously shows me pictures of his father, Ngo Toai, who died three years ago, a decorated Hero of the Revolution, and I inscribe my hasty gratitude in the Visitors Book. Outside, I interrupt my cyclo driver's cigarette break again. It's a widespread nugget of tourist apocrypha that HCMC's cyclo men are mostly South Vietnamese ARVN veterans, reduced to this profession by the justice of the victors. I know I'm not doing the old pedal pusher any favours, but he's the reason for my hurry.
One night, on the roof of the Rex hotel (once a favourite of US officers, I'm told), I watch the incredible tableau of joyriding crowds pouring down the Boulevard of Nguyen Hue, their headlamps a twinkling river of light. There's an utterly intoxicating air of optimism, freedom, independence and, well, shopping. The low-testosterone putter of all those small engines is transformed into the confident throb of the swarm. It's a cliché of Vietnamese resilience, this collective mojo. But it's also the roar of peace.
Of course I can't join it, I can only watch. The perfumes of Tet are tinged with the lingering poignance of that book. The Quiet American is a slender novel, with a thrillerish plot, but this is not one of Greene's 'entertainments'. The story of the ageing English journalist Fowler and his fatal rivalry with the American, Alden Pyle, for possession of the young courtesan Phuong, is charged with a presentiment of the worthlessly prolonged end of imperialism. And for me at least, by Fowler's voice, thick with the quiet panic of masculine middle-age. It begins on a February evening just after Tet. "Inside my room the tree I had set up weeks ago for the Chinese New Year had shed most of its blossoms. They had fallen between the keys of my typewriter. I picked them out."
I spent a lot of time picking blossoms in his footsteps. "One is not jealous of the dead," Fowler says, but visiting Greene's room (# 214) on the second floor of the Continental Hotel on Dong Khoi, the old Rue Catinat, I'm…emerald with envy. Still, I can afford a beer and a riverfront vista at his chosen bar on top of the gleaming Hotel Majestic. Here, the ceiling fans still croak above a ruinously restored façade. A wedding cake today, in Greene's time it was fluid with balconies, still poised at the tipping point between Art Nouveau and just plain Gaudi.
Roaming the Chinatown district of Cholon, my cyclo guide Hai promised to show me the location of the 'House of 500 Women' where the Quiet American himself had reacted with the same naïve horror as I had on the kerb of Le Lai, when a young woman on a scooter tapped me on the shoulder and whispered in my ear. Her girlfriend, riding pillion, nodded encouragingly. "No, thanks, I already have a room," I blustered, prompting her to bellow: "YOU PHAC ME HOTEL ONE HOUR!" '"It's terrible. I wouldn't have believed..."' Alden Pyle said 'with sad awe'. '"They were so pretty."' They really were. But when we reached Cholon's central bazaar, Hai gave up the chase. And then he proffered another frisson, in consolation, I suppose. It was a laminated picture of his younger self in uniform. "1969," he said. "American army."
Even travel writers get the blues.
On the crossing at the end of Bui Vien, there is a modest tower crowned with the ultimate brand of my generation: "Perfect USA," it says. Down on the street the old cyclo men murmur "Marywanna?" But for me, in this city, Time is the drug, whispered at every corner.
Returning to my room, I sit by the second-floor window, watching wandering troupes of lion-dancers chase the Year of the Pig back home. And I finish reading The Quiet American. But at 2am my dreams of 1950s Saigon are shattered by a blast of karaoke singalong from the bistro down the street. "Byee byee"...Don McLean's raucous wake for the 1960s, the decade that will not shut up. "Noisy Americans!" I want to shout, only, they sound like Aussies. Burying my head in a pillow, I summon a gentler lullaby. The soft-spoken Michael Stipe hums another American elegy in my ear. "Twentieth Century, go to sleep."
There are no direct flights from India to Ho Chi Minh City, but you could pick a flight that has a stopover in Bangkok (from approx. `30,000).
It is best to stay in District 1, or in 'Backpacker Central', the Pham Ngu Lao area. The An An hotel (from $40; +84-8-38378087, anan.vn) on Bui Vien Street, is fine and reasonable. Among the high-end options there's a clutch of nostalgic favourites in the colonial centre of town, including the Continental (from $115; 38299201, continentalhotel.com) and the Majestic (from $148; 38295517, majesticsaigon.com.vn).
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Mohamed Salah congratulates Sadio Mane after winning Africa's best player
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Mohamed Salah has congratulated his Liverpool teammate Sadio Mane after emerging as the new Africa Footballer of the Year.
The Senegalese striker who finished in the final three podiums in the last two years behind Salah, finally scooped the accolade for the first time.
Salah was not in attendance for the ceremony in his homeland but he was quick to honour the 27-year-old striker.
The former AS Roma striker took to his Instagram handle and said: "Congrats bro."
Mane was in superb form last season, scoring 30 goals in all competitions for Liverpool and helping them win the Champions League.
The former Southampton striker is already up and running for the Reds this season, scoring 15 goals and are on course for their first Premier League title in over 30 years.
Mane came fourth behind Cristiano Ronaldo, Virgil van Dijk and Lionel Messi in the 2019 Ballon d'Or accolade.
And after he was handed the CAF 2019 best men's player award he said: "I am really happy and at the same time really proud to win this award.
"I would like to thank my family, especially my uncle who is here today, without forgetting all the Egyptian people as well and of course my national team coach Aliou Cisse, my teammates with the national team and the staff at the Federation.
"I also thank Liverpool Football Club, my teammates, the staff and everybody there.
"It is a big day for me.. I don't really know how to say it but I would love to thank all the Senegalese people.
"They have been with me all the time and they push me to do better.
"Also the people from my village.. I have come very far, Bambali is a very small village and I am sure they are watching on the TV.
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"I am really happy and very proud to win this."
Meanwhile, Legit.ng had earlier reported that CAF 2019 Awards saw former South Africa's women's national team coach Desiree Ellis went home with the best women's coach award.
The former Bayana Bayana captain beat Alain Djeumfa of Cameroon and ex-Super Falcons gaffer Thomas Dennerby to clinch the accolade.
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Published on Sun, Jul 13, 2003
By HARVEY SCHWARTZ All Photos & text © by Harvey Schwartz
Have you ever dreamed of piloting your own GT racecar along empty stretches of highways at speed, then surgically cutting through the toughest twisting and curving roads? Well, you will soon be able to fulfill your fantasy in the upcoming Mosler MT900S and Photon that should soon be certified 'street legal' in all 50-states of America.
If you watch sports car racing in person or on TV you probably have seen the Mosler name because the 'race track-ready' version MT900R has been tearing up the tracks for the past several years while competing in the GT category of the Rolex Sports Car Series. The MT900R debuted at Grand-Am's 2001 Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona as fastest GT qualifier. In 2002 Prospective Racing's MT900R entry was on the GT pole in 6 of 10 races. This year MT900Rs are also successfully competing in Europe, Australia and Asia. The MT900S and Photon road cars could be twins as they share exterior styling, powertrains, underpinnings, carbon fiber with aluminum honeycomb tub, and chrome-moly front/rear subframes. Differences between the two versions include a Hewland 6-speed gearbox, lightweight BBS magnesium wheels, titanium springs, carbon fiber bucket seat, and carbon fiber bodywork for the MT900 Photon, while the MT900S version has fiberglass body panels, a Porsche 6-speed transaxle or optional Hewland, Sparco EVO bucket seats, and HRE cast aluminum wheels. The difference in price between the two is about $50,000.00 with the Photon priced at $209,000.00, and the Rosso Barchetta painted MT900S that I tested, starting at $159,000.00 Warren Mosler's new MT900 sports coupe seems perfectly positioned to do for the Mosler carmaker's reputation what the velvet glove did for the iron fist. Mosler's bare-knuckled Consuliers, Intruders and Raptors were so dominant wherever they raced in the late '80s and '90s that they were banned from competition. Their road-going siblings have achieved collector status ever since. When Mosler and endurance racing legend Tommy Morrison teamed up in late 2000 to build the MT900, they gave themselves just three months to construct a racing version and only three years to prepare a fully certified road car. They have achieved their goal with the help of famed car designer Rod Tremme who used CAD-CAM computer programming to design the car. The initial run of cars will be built in Albany, Georgia-in the same facility where Morrison constructed championship Corvette and Camaro racecars through the '80s and '90s. A new, more modern 12,000sq.ft. facility will soon be used to manufacture both Photon models.
Let's take a closer look at the Mosler MT900S and get to know what makes it one of the best performing sports car in the world. The exterior shape is very imposing with long, sleek and sexy racecar lines. All body panels are manufactured from the highest grade of fiberglass and carbon fiber, with the hood, rear deck, louvers and bumpers manufactured in-house by Mosler. The front is very low, enhancing downforce, and is highlighted with 4-high-intensity lamps and turn signals, a center air-intake and brake cooling intakes. The front brakes are further cooled down with heat extracting slits over the flared fenders. On top of the hood are a series of slits to further aid engine cooling. Mounted on the rear of the roof is an air intake channeling air directly to the LS6 V8 engine. The best view is from the side showing it's low, sleek shape and deeply scalloped intakes. The S version comes with a choice of a CORSA or Borla free- flowing exhaust system, which add approximately 25hp to the LS6 engine. On the S version massive amounts of air is channeled into the engine through the deep side intakes into filters to stop any water from entering. The air is then channeled via twin tubes, to a Mosler custom built carbon fiber air box that sits in front of the engine's intake. The rear fascia gets Corvette quad-oval lamps, and centered just below are 4-large, round exhaust tips. The big carbon fiber fixed wing is a $6,000.00 option and looks great on the rear of the car. Completing all of the great racecar looks are high-performing Pirelli P Zero tires, P255/40ZR19in. up front, and P295/40ZR20in. tires in the rear. These great performing tires are wrapped around beautiful HRE 19X10in. front, and 20X11in. rear, 5-spoke, cast aluminum wheels.
Under the skin is an aerospace-inspired, composite monocoque of carbon fiber with aluminum honeycomb Tub, manufactured by Teklam Inc. of California. A GM 'factory crate' LS6 V8 engine, with Mosler custom manufactured headers, is mounted midship and rated at 435hp at 6,150rpm and 362lb.ft. of torque at 6,150rpm. The torque is transferred to the rear wheels via the smooth and quick shifting Porsche 6-speed transaxle taken from the 911, or the optional Hewland sequential 6-speed shifter that is standard on the Photon. The suspension is a racecar bred, double-wishbone setup front and rear. It is highlighted up front with individual, unequal-length control arms, two-way adjustable coil-over Penske shocks and adjustable roll bar, while the rear features individual, unequal-length control arms with a toe control link, two-way adjustable coil-over Penske shocks and adjustable roll bar. Braking is excellent with a choice of 13in.Wilwood or Brembo vented/slotted rotors at each wheel and clamped with 6-piston calipers up front, and 4-piston calipers in the rear. The brake bias can be changed by simply twisting a knob in the cockpit. No ABS is available. You enter the cockpit by easy opening Ford GT40 like scissor doors. Watch your head as you have to negotiate a large sill to drop into the deeply cut Sparco EVO bucket seats that are very comfortable. Once you are in place, the cockpit feels quite roomy for an exotic car, and you'll quickly notice lots of carbon fiber on the dashboard and center console. The instrument cluster is straight ahead and easy to see through the tilting, MOMO leather wrapped steering wheel. The instrument cluster features a big, centered, 8,000rpm tachometer with LED readouts just below for mph, oil pressure, engine temperature and fuel on board. Bright LED lights warn of any system failure. Just to the right is a carbon fiber box-shaped stack with aluminum faced lettering and slide controls for the powerful AC/Heater and air-flow direction through the 4-interior air-ducts. Light controls and wiper blade speed control stalks are mounted on the steering column. Other amenities include thick carpeting, power windows/door locks taken from the C5 Corvette, a Sony AN-FM Audio System, and an interior light. Similar to the GT40 scissor doors, the rear section easily lifts up with pneumatic shocks to reveal a storage space of about 7.9cu.ft.
Vision from the front is excellent but the rear vision through the carbon fiber louvers is horrible. Taking care of this potential problem are large, aero-styled, power-remote controlled, dual-side mirrors taken from the C-5 Corvette that give excellent visibility of the rear from the sides. Buckle up the standard 3-point safety belts, (4 and 5-point belts are optional), and get ready for the ride of your life. Turn the ignition key on and the quad- exhausts give the Mosler the sound of an extremely angry Corvette, but sweet music to the ears of the enthusiast. Once you get used to the tempermental racecar like clutch, the Porsche 6-speed or Hewland gearbox makes the Mosler MT900S fun to drive. The rack & pinion steering system makes handling the Mosler MT900S easy but stay aware at all times. Power is immediate, pinning you back into the seat each time you up-shift. Weighing just 2200lbs. without fuel, Mosler say's that the MT900S will get to 60mph from a standstill in a heartbeat-quickening 3.2sec., and speed through the 1/4mi. in just 11.22sec. at 124.60mph. The Mosler MT900S does 0-100mph-0 in 10.98sec., and the standing mile in 31sec. at 153.2sec. Braking is also incredible with 60mph to 0 in just 100ft. and 100mph to 0 in just 275ft. These are all racecar type specs and make this road going sports car very special indeed. Handling is razor sharp and in evidence with an incredible speed of 74.7mph through the 600ft. slalom course. Top speed for the MT900S is 165mph. On the racetrack the Mosler MT900S exhibits loads of grip, yet has enough thrust to get sideways on the exit of most corners, and the big brakes work very well to quickly slow the car as you approach each turn. On the road the Mosler MT900S ride is firm but not harsh or bone jarring, even though the car is geared more toward 'weekend-warrior' track use so I would recommend that you have another vehicle for your daily driving needs. The razor sharp response also means this is not a car for the 'wrist-steerer', talking on the cell phone. You need to keep all your attention at the task at hand, keeping the Mosler on the road, especially when you are in traffic.
The new Mosler MT900S is a fantastic high-performing sports car, fun and very exciting to drive. Morrison and Mosler have 50-years of specialty car building experience between them. Their common bond: a fetish for weight reduction in the crusade for maximum performance and endurance. They have accomplished their goal. Questions and Ordering Information, please contact Corvette Mike by phone at 714-630-0700, fax 714-630-0777 or by e-mail to www.corvettemike.com
For more photos from Harvey Schwartz please visit www.autofotos.com COPYRIGHT:2003:HARVEY SCHWARTZ
Engine: Chevy Corvette LS6, all-aluminum OHV V8 Displacement: 346cu.in./5665cc. Drive configuration: mid-engine, rear-wheel drive Body: advanced composite carbon fiber/honeycomb tub Length: 189in. Width: 79in. Height: 43.5in. S/42.25in. Race ready Photon Weight: 2200lbs. S/1980lbs. race ready Photon Weight distribution: 38.5% front/61.5% rear Fuel capacity: 21 gallons S/26.4 gallons race ready Photon Warranty: 24-months/24,000 mile limited factory backed warranty