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AMD's AMDelight, The Golden Arches Get Served, Tesla Terminates Targets
by Joseph Hargett | January 3, 2022
AMD: All My Dogs? Always Make Dinner? Anyway, More Dollars!
Woke up quick at about noon, just thought that I had to be on Wall Street soon…
Wait, are we really starting out 2022 with … *checks notes* … Eazy-E?
As I tell my kids, Great Ones: "You get what you get, and you don't throw a fit." Oddly enough, I think that sentiment will sum up 2022's market pretty well.
I mean, we're looking at interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve, tightening U.S. monetary policy, year three of the pandemic, supply chain constraints, the "Great Resignation," and inflation, inflation, inflation.
Oh, the huge manatee!
I kid, but the concerns are real — and where we end up at the end of 2022 is anyone's guess at this point.
But that won't stop me from predicting the future! No sir!
In fact, each day this week, I'm going to give you one of my top four investment picks for 2022! And we're starting right now with Advanced Micro Devices (Nasdaq: AMD).
2022 Great Stuff Pick: Advanced Micro Devices
Great Ones, Goldman Sachs listed AMD as one of its "top picks" for 2022. That's cute.
All you old-school readers may remember that back on June 18, 2019, I recommended AMD as a big-time play in the semiconductor sector. Since then, AMD is up a whopping 413%!
Congratulations to all of you who got in the first time I recommended AMD!
If you didn't get in back in 2019, you have another chance right now. Analysts are predicting a big year for semiconductor stocks, with sales expected to rise another 9% this year and top $600 billion for the first time ever.
That's 9% growth on top of the 26% growth semiconductor sales saw in 2021 … and that's with the chip supply chain crunch.
Now, you're going to start hearing about "demand normalization" and "unusually adverse climatic events" when it comes to the semiconductor sector. I say these concerns are bollocks. We live in a digital society that constantly demands more chips … much like your Uncle Karl slamming Coors Lights while watching Sunday football.
What's more, we're looking at massively pent-up semiconductor demand due to supply chain issues and the pandemic. Demand normalization won't happen until supply chains are clear and the chips are flowing freer than the spice!
I can't rule out "unusually adverse climatic events," but then … no one can. It is what it is, and you can't spend your investing life working about such things constantly.
What I can tell you is that AMD will continue to expand its semiconductor empire. And it will continue taking ground from rival Intel (Nasdaq: INTC).
AMD is the current gold standard in processing power, whether that's for AI, data centers, desktops, laptops … you name it, AMD makes it.
And it does so better and cheaper than Intel.
"Intel inside" is out. AMD everywhere is the new hotness. Even Tesla (Nasdaq: TSLA) has ditched Intel for AMD, putting Ryzen chips in Model Ys, Model Ss and Model Xs.
If it weren't for the semiconductor supply crunch, AMD just might already be everywhere. As this laughable chip logjam clears, expect AMD to ramp up and take full advantage of pent-up demand.
In fact, there's really only one competitor that AMD needs to fear … and we'll talk about it tomorrow. (Email me at GreatStuffToday@BanyanHill.com if you think you know.)
The bottom line is that AMD's bottom line continues to grow by an average of 54% year over year.
Last year, analysts projected AMD stock to rise by just 20% … but it actually gained more than 50% in 2021. And Wall Street's setting the same limp target of 20% growth again this year. Blah blah blah…
I'm not buying it. I wouldn't be surprised if AMD closed above $200 this year. And so, with Wall Street once again underestimating this semiconductor juggernaut, I'm reiterating AMD as a buy for 2022.
This rally ain't over. Buy AMD.
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Good: McDonald's Pays The Piper
Piper Sandler is banking on New Year's resolutioners falling off their dieting diatribes quicker than I snoozed my Monday morning alarm after the holiday break.
The investment bank just upgraded McDonald's' (NYSE: MCD) golden arches from neutral to overweight, saying the fast-food fraternizer is well-positioned to profit from people's "elevated demand for chicken and hamburger offerings."
Personally, I wonder what god those offerings are going to … but then again, it's best not to ask too many questions when it comes to McDonald's and its mysterious finger foods. (Chicken McNuggets are probably not made from real chicken, and that's a hill I'm willing to die on … while munching on some spicy nugs, of course.)
Piper Sandler went on to say that McDonald's is uniquely positioned to "leverage its size, scale operational capabilities and ongoing investments" to combat the ongoing supply chain kerfuffle and rising food costs facing the broader fast-food industry.
Still, analysts remain cautious on Mickey D's might. After climbing a little more than a percent in the wee early-morning trading hours, MCD stock melted like a McFlurry in August and lost nearly all its gains.
Mmmm, McDonald's ice cream…
Stop it, you! I refuse to give in to the fast-food frenzy this early into the new year, although that new Chipotle (NYSE: CMG) "chorizo that's not chorizo" bowl does sound pretty good … if you close your eyes.
Better: China's EV Delivery Spree
This morning, a slew of Chinese electric vehicle (EV) makers reported their December deliveries. All the big names were in attendance, including XPeng (NYSE: XPEV), Li Auto (Nasdaq: LI) and onetime Great Stuff Picks portfolio pal Nio (NYSE: NIO).
Of the three, XPeng delivered the most vehicles in December, clocking in at 16,000 units. Total deliveries reached 98,155 for the year, up 263% compared to 2020.
Li Auto took second place, delivering 14,087 units in December, not to mention 90,491 vehicles throughout all of 2021 — a 177% increase from the year prior.
And then there was Nio. After we said goodbye to Nio stock on December 15, the Chinese automaker proved yet again it wasn't The One that we wanted: Deliveries missed the mark in December by several hundred units and came in lower than Nio's November shipments.
Still, it's not all bad for the Nio nation. While the company didn't set any records last month, it still managed to deliver more than 167,000 vehicles to date — which is more than either XPeng or Li Auto churned out.
Furthermore, Nio might have a workaround to China's new EV subsidies tapering, which is being cut by 30% and will fall to zero by the end of 2022.
Not only did Nio tell its customers it'd absorb the difference between the old and new subsidies if buyers put down a deposit before the stroke of midnight on December 31, 2021, but its swappable batteries make certain Nio EVs exempt from subsidy cutoffs.
Despite this, U.S. investors should tread carefully with Chinese stocks going forward … especially when it comes to EVs.
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, the SEC is cracking down on foreign companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges, specifically when it comes to information sharing. If there's one thing the Chinese government hates more than anything, it's sharing information. As a result, there's a good chance that many Chinese stocks will soon delist from U.S. exchanges … including Nio, XPeng and Li Auto.
The bottom line here is that while December delivery numbers were strong — and year-end deliveries even stronger — it might be a long time before Chinese EV stocks and their investors receive positive news like this again.
So, best to celebrate with the celebrating's good … or something like that.
Best: Tesla Torpedoes Its Target
You didn't actually think we were done talking about EV makers today, did you? Oh, nay nay! Not to be outdone by China's delivery demonstration, Tesla (Nasdaq: TSLA) reported fourth-quarter deliveries that decimated its previous record.
The Tesla terminator shipped 308,600 vehicles in the fourth quarter, bringing its total number of deliveries to 936,172 in 2021. For context, that's 87% higher than Tesla's delivery rate in 2020.
Looking ahead, Elon Musk said he wants to increase Tesla's vehicle sales to $20 million annually over the next nine years, which is no small feat for a company that just became profitable last year.
I'm not saying this figure isn't feasible … this is Tesla we're talking about, after all … but TSLA investors will get a better feel for how realistic this goal is once the company announces fourth-quarter earnings in the coming weeks.
Either way, TSLA stock is already off to the races in the new year, climbing more than 10% on today's positive deliveries announcement. In fact, it's almost like Tesla didn't even recall half a million cars last week due to safety issues … but I guess that's just the magic the Musk man has over today's market.
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All you longtime Great Stuff Picks clearly investors know that AMD ain't foolin' — and it's already sending Intel back to schoolin'.
But get ready to see just how much of Intel's lunch AMD is really eating in today's Chart of the Week. Here's a snapshot of AMD's increasing dominance over the past decade:
Well, well, well. Isn't this just exactly what I said like, five minutes ago? (I know y'all didn't just skim on over our AMD adventure up above…)
For the past few years, Intel's production guffaws have been an open goal for AMD, and it shows in the former's fall from computing grace. AMD's CPU market share has jumped from the low 20% range up toward the 40% mark, just in the past few years.
As of 2021's third quarter, Intel had 60.5% of the global chip distribution, with AMD making up the other 39.3%.
If you line up when Great Stuff Picks first recommended y'all buy the stock in June of 2019, you can see that the timing couldn't be better, as AMD started to pick up all the slack that Intel dropped.
Intel's higher market share is currently buoyed by its lead in the server shebang — but like I said, even that lead is shrinking faster than George Costanza after a cold swim.
I didn't need that visual. Thanks, Mr. Great Stuff…
Remember how I told you that AMD's EPYC line of data-center-specific chips was quickly catching up to Intel's supposed "prowess?" Yeah, about that…
While Intel's content with merely arguing over the nuances of nanometers to make its earnings look halfway decent, AMD is out here growing earnings, raising revenue guidance left and right and boosting its production capabilities — the chip shortage notwithstanding.
Instead of fixing its perennial production problems, Intel is cutting off Mobileye to spite its face (or something along those lines). So, when you have AMD firing on all cylinders, plus Intel losing its grasp on chip customers, you get a rosy market share picture like the one above.
If you still … still … haven't bought into AMD yet, today's chart should show you just how much room AMD has left to grow. Well, that and how much room Intel has left to fall.
Are you all in on AMD? Or do you think Team Blue has a few surprises up its sleeve for Lisa Su and co.? Let me know what you think about the great AMD versus Intel debate over at GreatStuffToday@BanyanHill.com.
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Q: C++ Issue with file open and file output #include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <string>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <cmath>

using namespace std;
int main()
{
    string inFile;
    ifstream inData;
    ofstream outData;
    string outFile;
    string fullName;
    string fileName;
    string courseCode;
    char answer;

    cout << "Are you creating a new file? y/n" << endl;
    cin >> answer;

    if(answer == 'n')
    {
    cout << "Enter the name of your file." << endl;
    cin >> inFile;
    inData.open(inFile.c_str());
    inData >> fileName;
    cout << fileName << endl;
    }
    else if(answer == 'y')
    {
    cout << "Enter the name of your file." << endl;
    cin >> outFile;
    outData.open(outFile.c_str());
    cout << "What is your full name?" << endl;
    getline(cin, fullName);
    outData << fullName;
    cout << "What is the code for your class?" << endl;
    getline(cin, courseCode);
    outData << courseCode;

    }

    return 0;
}

I am attempting to create a program that can either open files already present, or create a new file that reads name, course code, course information, and professor. This is a project and I am VERY new to coding. I've attempted to research this via the forums but I can't find an exact replica of my problem.
My question is, when I attempt to run this program, there is no pause between "What is your full name" and "What is the code for this course?", so there is only one reply. What ends up happening is after you hit 'y' and then input a new file name (example: 'test.txt') it asks BOTH questions at once, so there is only one chance to input data before the file terminates. What am I doing wrong?
EDIT:
cout << "Enter the name of your file." << endl;
cin >> outFile;
outData.open(outFile.c_str());
cout << "What is your full name?" << endl;
cin.ignore (200, '\n');
getline(cin, fullName);
outData << fullName << endl;
cout << "What is the code for your class?" << endl;
getline(cin, courseCode);
outData << courseCode << endl;
cout << "What is the name of the course?" << endl;
getline(cin, courseName);
outData << courseName << endl;

This seems to work, and correctly stores the data in the file, but if I do it the way dark told me...
cout << "Enter the name of your file." << endl;
cin >> outFile;
outData.open(outFile.c_str());
cout << "What is your full name?" << endl;
cin.ignore (200, '\n');
getline(cin, fullName);
outData << fullName << endl;
cout << "What is the code for your class?" << endl;
cin.ignore (200, '\n');
getline(cin, courseCode);
outData << courseCode << endl;
cout << "What is the name of the course?" << endl;
cin.ignore (200, '\n');
getline(cin, courseName);
outData << courseName << endl;

Then it seems to cut off the rest of the data. Thoughts, Dark?

A: Take another string variable say string x; and use following modification:
getline(cin >> x, fullName);
getline(cin >> x, courseCode);

It should resolve your problem.
Output:
./a.out
Are you creating a new file? y/n
y
Enter the name of your file.
HELLO
What is your full name?
NO Need
What is the code for your class?
I dont know

A: Here
Adding cin.ignore your original code should resolve the issue.
your question might be, what is cin.ignore ,
istream& ignore (streamsize n = 1, int delim = EOF);

ignore - Extracts characters from the input sequence/stream and discards them, until either n characters have been extracted, or one compares equal to delim.
how to decide what size and which delimiter? - This basically depends on your requirement, size - i will prefer to use max std::numeric_limits<std::streamsize>::max() its value is streamsize: 9223372036854775807 - delimiter can be anything, space,new line, comma, semi colon, anything depends on code.
I hope it resolves your issue :)
Modified part of your code
cout << "Enter the name of your file." << endl;
cin >> outFile;
cin.ignore (std::numeric_limits<std::streamsize>::max(), '\n');

OUTPUT:
$ g++ cpp2.cpp ; ./a.out
Are you creating a new file? y/n
y
Enter the name of your file.
HH
What is your full name?
Why do you Need?
What is the code for your class?
Not necessary!

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Tuesday 25th June 2019 17:53 EDT
The bruising election campaign over, the victor was magnanimous, understood that peace hath her victories, no less renowned than war, political as much as military. Democracy thrives, the nation thrives, when the people appreciate that what divides them comes second to what unites them in common purpose for the public good.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi rose to the occasion and stretched out a hand to the routed Opposition, inviting them to speak out boldly on issues great and small, irrespective of their numbers in parliament.
Addressing the press on the eve of the first session of the new parliament, he emphasised the role of the Opposition in a parliamentary democracy. ' The Opposition need not bother about their numbers. I hope they speak actively and participate in the proceedings of the House.' He was particularly happy, he said, at the large numbers of women MPs in the House.
As he entered the Lok Sabha, the Prime Minister went around Opposition benches greeting senior leaders, who responded appropriately to the gesture. Hopefully this could herald constructive sessions of vigorous debate and none of the unruly scenes of the past (Hindu, Statesman June 18).
Exchanged greetings: PM, Rahul Gandhi
Prime Minister Modi tweeted birthday greetings to Congress President Rahul Gandhi, who had turned 49.'Best wishes to Shri Rahul Gandhi on his birthday. May he be blessed with good health and a long life,' said the PM.
Gandhi responded appropriately: ' Thank you for your greetings Narendra Modiji. I appreciate them.' (Hindu, June 20).
Shillong as Presidential Retreat
India's President has two official residences outside New Delhi's Rashtrapati Bhavan, one at Mashorba, Shimla, the other at Bolarum, Hyderabad. Now, Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma has proposed that Shillong could provide a third Presidential retreat. 'As the erstwhile capital of the north-eastern region, Shillong would be an ideal place for the President to stay for two weeks annually,' he said. It would send out a message of inclusiveness, an assertion of the Centre's perception of its importance to the country's mainstream (Hindu, June 18).
Om Birla, new Speaker
Om Birla, two-term BJP MP from Rajasthan will be the Speaker of the Lok Sabha, following his nomination by the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance at the centre (Hindu, June 20).
Adhir Chowdhury to lead CongressMPs
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, a former Congress chief in West Bengal is to lead the party in the Lok Sabha. His first step was support for Om Birla as Speaker of the House (Hindu, June 19).
Mamata in the wars
West Bengal's embattled Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, has been in the wars these past few months. Alleged BJP conspiracies to topple her government, continuing violence across the state between here TMC and BJP cadres has reached alarming levels. Her standoff with junior doctors of government hospitals in Kolkata, appears to have abated following talks and an assurance of police protection from mob violence, as was recently the case.
Self-inflicted wounds
The Chief Minister's manic speeches and behaviour has damaged the Trinamool Congress (TMC), the party she founded and rode to power in 2011. Today it is fragmented, with sizeable TMC numbers from the State Legislative Assembly and district councils switching loyalties to the opposition BJP. She would do well to take stock of the situation and make a measured response before her cause is hopelessly lost (Hindu, June 17; Times of India, June 19).
Owner of Pulwana car killed
Two Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists, including a member of a suicide squad whose car was used for the terror attack on Pulwana in February, were killed by security forces Anantnag, Kashmir, a week ago (Hindu, June 19).
Army's new border battle groups
The Indian Army is set to raise new integrated border battle groups on the Pakistan and Chinese borders designed to strike hard and quickly in keeping with its war doctrine. Army sources said the 'lethal and agile' battle groups had been 'test-bedded and exercised in war games' held last month, which saw the participation of a strike corps and a holding corps under the aegis of the Western Command headquartered at Panchkula's Chandimandir (Times of India, June 20).
Indo-Russian meeting
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar met with visiting Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Trutnev last week in New Delhi. They discussed ways to strengthen ties between their two nations, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Vladivostok for the Eastern Economic Forum, where the Indian Premier will be the Chief Guest. (Hindu, June 20).
Pakistan on World Bank, IMF watch list
Pakistan has failed to complete 25 of the 27 action points given by the international funding watchdog FATF [Financial Action Task Force] on money laundering, the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and European Union are among multilateral organisations monitoring Pakistan's actions to combat jihadi terrorism effectively (Times of India, June 18).
IndiGo order for CFM engines
IndiGo, India's low cost and largest airline has jettisoned its Pratt & Whitney engines for its aircraft with a $20 billion order for CFM International LEAP 1-A engines to power 280 Airbus-320 NEO and Airbus A-321 aircraft. The Pratt & Whitney engines have been facing problems for a while. IndiGo's latest order includes spare engines and an overhaul support system.
'We are pleased to partner with CFM for our next batch of Airbus A 320 Neo and A 321 Neo aircraft,' said Riyaz Peer Mohammed, Chief Aircraft Acquisition and Financing Officer. The LEAP engine has logged nearly five million engine flight hours in less than three years of commercial service (Business Line, June 18).
India in top four Amazon Fashion
Amazon Fashion India has made it to the four largest businesses on the company's global market, along with the US, Europe and Japan. This milestone has been achieved in five years, said Arun Sirdeshmukh, Business Head, Amazon Fashion India. 'We exited 2017 as the single largest fashion destination to become the fastest growing online fashion marketplace in the country. Through 2018 till now – with indicators such as site traffic, business brands, new customer acquisitions and third party traffic monitoring sources – Amazon Fashion continues to be the single largest fashion destination and the fastest growing online fashion marketplace...' he concluded (Business Line, June 18).
Expected surge for pharma industry
The Indian pharmaceutical industry expects to treble its revenue to $120-$139 billion by the next decade, from the current $38, according to a report released last week by the All-India Pharmaceutical Alliance (IPA). The report included research collaboration from McKinsey & Co. The report stated: ' The stakeholders need to work on becoming the the world's largest and most-reliable drugs supplier to grow to $120-130 billion by 2030.' (Business Line, June 20).
Muslim leaders for tougher response to Muslim crime
Muslim community leaders in West Bengal have called on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to take a tougher line in police handling of Muslim criminals. Pointing to recent incidents of Muslim criminality, they wrote thus to the Chief Minister: 'We are grieved and embarrassed. Bring the assailants to book not just in two instances but in every single instance, where Muslims were involved. They should not be allowed to get away because they happen to be Muslims (as is the growing perception). This will send out a message that members of one community are not shielded or appeased (as most people believe),' the letter states.
Psychologist Zahid Ganjee, one of the signatories, said: 'I hope the letter will spark a conversation, even a debate, and then something good will come out of it. We are losing our primary identity as citizens of this country and state,' (Times of India, June 20).
Dhawan out, Pant in
Opening batsman Shikhar Dhawan, having broken a thumb batting against Australia in the current ODI World Cup in England, has been ruled out for further participation in the tournament. His replacement, Risabh Pant, hopefully, will get an opportunity to exhibit his extraordinary gifts. His exclusion from the original 15, was described by former English Test captain, Michael Vaughan as 'insane.'
Indian selectors, protectors of mediocrity as an endangered species, prefer to keep faith journeymen. Without Pant, India will be diminished; with Pant, they can climb the heights.
India won a thriller by the skin of their teeth against Afghanistan, prevailing in the final over, thanks to Shami's hat-trick, by a mere 11 runs: 213 runs to India's 224 for 8. Pacemen Bumrah and Shami made the critical breakthroughs. The Afghans came close to causing the tournament's biggest upset.
The Indian batting, except for the luminous Virat Kohli, were a sorry sight, stumbling and bewildered by the wiles of the Afghan spinners. Touted icon Mahindra Singh Dhoni, a passive pharaoh poking, prodding, and leading inevitably to a loss of momentum in the Indian innings. Sachin Tendulkar, sharply critical, dismissed the Dhoni-Kedav Jadhav dawdle as unacceptable. Still a capable keeper with the gloves, Dhoni's batting has long lost its lustre. Better to lose with Dhoni, than win without him eh? There is something rotten in the state of Denmark.


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One thing doesn't exclude the other
27 Apr — 1 Sep 2019 at the Galleria Continua in San Gimignano, Italy
One thing doesn't exclude the other. Courtesy of Galleria Continua
Galleria Continua is delighted to present "Una cosa non esclude l'altra – One thing doesn't exclude the other", an exhibition which brings together two personal shows: those of Michelangelo Pistoletto and Pascale Marthine Tayou. It represents a creative dialogue, treading a path which weaves together differences and oppositions, and explores the coexistence of humanity and otherness. Addressing Tayou, Pistoletto declares: "As one and one make three, I am happy to be doing this exhibition with you." If we take as our point of departure Pistoletto's main focus as an artist, the exploration of 'creative duality', this phrase captures the symbolic significance of the show: that of bringing into contact two seemingly distant elements in order to give rise to a uniting third force. Tayou, whose art has a very global approach, mixing cultures and a variety of geographical stimuli, replies: "Thank you, I am happy with this exhibition, and since I am hugely impatient I will arrive early for the appointment so as not to miss this unique occasion!"
Michelangelo Pistoletto and Pascale Marthine Tayou both create art which is open to dialogue and exchange. Their works are testament to a process of continual evolution and expansion, aimed at refreshing the point of contact between the artistic experience and the external world. A dialogue – in the case of Pistoletto's multi-disciplinary practice – in which multiple voices take part, as his aesthetic is based on a form of relationship and participation which goes beyond the confines of the work. Tayou's work on the other hand seeks to redefine postcolonial issues via the European experience, and to reflect on questions such as immigration, the role of the individual, and national and cultural identity.
The show opens with one of Pistoletto's most emblematic works: "Grande sfera di giornali – Progetto per un museo" (Large sphere of newspapers - Project for a museum). The first sphere was created by the artist in 1966 and was rolled through the streets of Turin in December 1967, a performance known as "Scultura da passeggio" (Walking sculpture). The newspapers that Pistoletto used to make that first sphere carried reports of the troubles rocking Italy at the end of the Sixties. At the time Pistoletto made a model, which was then built for the first time at the 1976 Venice Biennale. On the occasion of the show in San Gimignano, Pistoletto creates a new sphere, more than three metres in diameter, covered with papers from all over the world and bearing witness to the current events of our time. Hanging on the walls in the same room are a series of LED writings by Pascale Marthine Tayou, sketching out the concept of the global village as the stage upon which the daily confluence of our lives takes place.
In Tayou's work, his interest in materials and their significance predominates. For this exhibition he uses rusted nails with different coloured heads as his contribution to a dialogue with Pistoletto's "Rotazione dei corpi" (Rotation of bodies). The work comprises two transparent sheets upon which a portion of the universe is reproduced. By moving these two elements, the point around which all the stars of the universe rotate can be continually changed. For the two artists, no unique centre of the universe exists; rather, every point is the centre. In the same way, each individual is the centre of society.
Pascale Marthine Tayou's work is intentionally mobile and always closely tied to the idea of the journey and the encounter of the self with the other. For him, the traveller represents not only a literal circumstance but also a psychological condition, capable of subverting our social relations and political, economic and social systems. In the exhibition this idea meets "Il cesto dello Zoo" (1969) a wicker basket used in some shows of Lo Zoo, a multidisciplinary group formed by Michelangelo Pistoletto and Maria Pioppi together with people from other artistic disciplines: music, literature, theater, visual arts. Between 1968 and 1970, Lo Zoo created a series of shows in squares, discos, breweries, theaters and galleries conceived as creative collaborations and a form of communication not mediated by objects. The dialogue between the two artists continues with a series of hanging or suspended sculptures and of works arising from gestures, actions, videos and texts, before reaching its conclusion in the parterre. Here, a study of Pistoletto's past works highlights the interrelation between art and life, mirrors extend space in a continual present, and simultaneously show us our reflection and everything that surrounds us. Tayou presents a gravitydefying forest whilst blown-glass Poupées (Dolls) drift around the space. "Una cosa non esclude l'altra." Michelangelo Pistoletto was born in Biella in 1933. In 1962, he made the Quadri specchianti (Mirror paintings), for which he soon received international recognition. Between 1965 and 1966 he produced Oggetti in meno (Minus objects), considered fundamental to the birth of Arte Povera. In the Nineties, he founded the Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto in Biella, to bring art into active relation with diverse spheres of society with the aim of inspiring and producing responsible social change. In 2003 he won the Venice Biennale's Golden Lion for Lifelong Achievement. In 2004 the University of Turin awarded him a laurea honoris causa in Political Science, and the artist announced the most recent phase of his work, Terzo Paradiso (Third Paradise).
In 2007, in Jerusalem, he received the Wolf Foundation Prize in the Arts, "for his constantly inventive career as an artist, educator and activist whose restless intelligence has created prescient forms of art that contribute to fresh understanding of the world." In 2011 he was the artistic director of Evento 2011 in Bordeaux. In 2013 the Louvre in Paris hosted his personal exhibition Michelangelo Pistoletto, année un – le paradis sur terre. In this same year he received the Praemium Imperiale for painting, in Tokyo. In 2014 the symbol of the Terzo Paradiso was installed in the hall of the headquarters of the Council of the European Union in Bruxelles for the period of the Italian Presidency of the European Council. In May 2015 he received a degree honoris causa from the Universidad de las Artes of Havana in Cuba. In the same year he realized a large-scale work called Rebirth, situated in the park of the Palais des Nations in Geneva, headquarters of the UN. In November 2016 he held a large retrospective show at the Havana's Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, dedicated to past and present works. In 2017 he took part in the 57th Venice Biennial with "One and One Make Three", a collateral event at the Basilica di San Giorgio. Of particular note in 2018 was his South America tour, among the most important shows of which were those that took place in Lima and Santiago de Chile. His works can be found in the most important modern and contemporary art museums around the world.
Pascale Marthine Tayou (Nkongsamba, Cameroon, 1966) lives and works in Ghent, Belgium. He has been known internationally since the Nineties, and in particular following his presence at Documenta 11 (2002) and the Venice Biennial (2005 and 2009). He has participated in numerous international exhibitions and in artistic events such as the Dakar Biennial (2018), the 5th Lubumbashi Biennial, Hangar Picha (2017), the PARCours Biennial – PARKunst (2016), the Cairo Triennial (2015), the Turin Triennial (2008), and Biennials in Gwangiu (1997-1999), Santa Fe (1997), Sydney (1997), Havana (1997-2006), Liverpool (1999), Berlin (2001), San Paolo (2002), Munster (2003), Istanbul (2003) and Lyons (2002-2005). The artist has presented personal shows in the following galleries: Macro (Rome, 2004 - 2012), S.M.A.K. (Ghent, Belgium, 2004), MARTa Herford (Herford, Germany, 2005), Milton Keynes Gallery (Milton Keynes, Great Britain, 2007), Malmo Konsthall (Malmo, Sweden, 2010), Mudam (Luxembourg, 2011), La Villette (Paris, France, 2012), KUB (Bregenz, Austria, 2014), Fowler Museum (Los Angeles, USA, 2014), Serpentine Gallery (London, Great Britain, 2015), Bozar (Brussels, 2015), Musée de l'Homme (Paris, France, 2015), CAC Malaga (Malaga, Spain, 2016), Varberg Kunsthal (Varberg, Svezia, 2017), IFA (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen), (Berlin, Germany, 2017), Mu.ZEE, (Oostende, Belgium, 2018). His works form part of the collections of prestigious international institutions such as the Pompidou Centre, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Mudam, ARKEN Museo d'Arte Moderna, SMAK, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Kunsthaus Bregenz, the Abu Dhabi Guggenheim Museum, Tate Modern, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, MAC Lyon, MACRO (Museum of Contemporary Art Rome), National Gallery of Victoria and the Salama Bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation.
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This is the story of the late Rui Carvalho; a former businessman, who in pursuit of medical aid for his young daughter sold his businesses and became a white Sangoma (traditional doctor) in South Africa.
Rui was the founder of Herbal Africa, a herbal capsule and tincture range of high quality herbal supplements made with potent ingredients that were created using ancient knowledge and modern day scientific studies.
1. How did you end up in the bush (wild, untouched areas of Africa)?
I approached Dr M. Raivoso, a Pulmonologist, who at that time was the Vice Minister of health and was in charge of the Maputo Hospital in Mozambique. His specialisation is ailments of the lungs, asthma in particular.
When I approached him, he said he could not help my daughter because my daughter was getting the best treatment possible in South Africa. There was nothing else he could do, but he knew of someone that could help my daughter.
That was strange, because as a Medical Doctor and furthermore a specialist, he was telling a friend and a patient that he could not help, but knew of someone else that could help. So, he was the one who introduced me to an Inyanga (a traditional doctor, medicine man of South East Africa). That Traditional doctor gave me a herbal treatment for asthma for my daughter.
My daughter at that time was 3 years old. Soon after taking the treatment, I noticed that my daughter was not having any asthma attacks. She is 20 now and has not had an asthma attack since.
I decided to go to the bush and learn what they were doing. If they can help my daughter, how many people can I help?
There was an interesting episode just before I went to the bush. My daughter was being observed by a medical doctor in Johannesburg. And one fine day I went to see her.
The doctor looked at me and asked me how my daughter was doing. I said, "my daughter is fine". The doctor replied that she noticed that I was not buying any more medication for my daughter. I replied: "she hasn't had another asthma attack and she does not need any more medication".
She said that that was very strange, and asked , "What happened?" I told her that I gave her herbal medication and it stopped. This doctor then accused me of child neglect.
This was an insult. She could not fix my daughter, therefore nobody else can. That philosophy is wrong. They (orthodox medicine) do not have that power, nobody gave them that power. I am doing the best for my child.
2. And your daughter is now fine and fully handled?
She never had another asthma attack! We used to carry oxygen tanks, drugs and nebulisers wherever we went. No more! She runs, she plays sports at school. She is a fine young lady.
Furthermore, Dr M. Raivoso in a public interview on television, admitted that 96% of his patients never ever had another asthma attack after taking this herbal medicine given by that traditional doctor. That is a medical doctor, and a specialist on top of it. I rest my case. It is his own words, not my words. I was just lucky enough to experience them.
3. And you left behind everything? Your business career, everything?
I basically closed down everything, sold what I could, packed my bags and went to the bush.
4. How long were you there?
On and off for 4 years. I had a family in South Africa so I had to keep travelling between Mozambique and South Africa. I had a lot of responsibilities, a lot of clients that really wanted to deal with me as a consultant. That gave me income.
5. Why are African medicines the medicine of your choice?
Well, for many reasons. First of all, I was born in Africa. I believe in Africa. African medicines are in reality, the most tested and tried medicines in the world.
Let me explain. If we consider that the cradle of mankind is in Africa and the use of herbs is as old as mankind itself, it stands to reason that African medicines are the most tested and tried medicines in the world.
The only problem with African medicines is that the knowledge of their use been passed down between teacher and student orally. So it is an oral art, it is not written down. It was just passed between people. Additionally, very little scientific work has been done on African herbs.
Scientifically speaking, when I started working with the CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research), it soon came to my attention that when you take an African herb and compare it to its counterpart in Asia, South America or Europe, you find that the African herb generally has a wider diversity of actives, and those actives are more concentrated in the African version.
This is the case with the African Hibiscus. The African Cucumis is another example and so it goes on. There are many examples.
South Africa has many ecosystems and alone has one tenth of the world's flora (one tenth of the World's Flora occurs in SA). If you look at it, I mean the floral kingdoms such as the one in the Cape, the Savanna, semi deserts and tropical forests, South Africa is very rich. It is abundant in the diversity of plants. What an opportunity! There is much to study!
6. How many plants are still not investigated fully which could be used by humanity as a medicine or as a supplement?
In reality we have barely started working. There is new information coming out all the time.
Once you start investigating the actives within a plant, all of a sudden there are a few more different uses that come up because the actives don't lie and we know the actives in that plant have got different uses and applications.
So from one plant, you find many applications and we and science, are finding new applications all the time. For example the African Ginger which is known to have antibiotic activity, which is a lot stronger than the Asian version, has a new patent on it for asthma. There is a new patent. The CSIR has just patented the actives and the methology how to make the actives useful as a treatment for asthma.
The number of plants range in thousands, approximately 3000 medicinal plants is the estimated number.
7. How many medicinal plants were given by Africa to the world in your opinion?
Less than 20. We unfortunately are only making use of a few, the very few that help Europeans. For example: Pelargonium sidoids, Devil's Claw, Helychrysum and Hibiscus. These are the examples that have been widely used throughout Europe, but there are other ones.
Yes, Aloe. Not only in Europe, but also in America and Japan.
The Aloe from Africa was planted in Japan. They used it as walls in their gardens. After the second world war, they used it on radiation patients. The Americans picked it up from there and started their research based on the treatment that the Japanese were using. But the origin is African.
We've got a couple of thousand different medicinal plants that could be used and their value as medicine and as nutrition is second to none. If you look at the Momordica Balsamina, it is highly nutritious. It has been investigated by the United Nations as famine food. Taking it one step further, the Baobab is already being exported and there is nothing that compares to the Baobab. These are just two fine examples of the nutritional value that these plants have got in them and what they can offer to mankind.
8. Out of 3000 medicinal plants less than 20 are used worldwide, so the potential is huge!?
We really have not touched the potential. We often, between ourselves, speak of painkillers, we speak about anti-parasiticals, plants that help with asthma, plants that help with so many things. I believe there could be a couple of them that might even help with Altzheimers. I have been testing some actives which seem to show, seem to show, some activity against Altzheimers.
9. What are the top products which have extremely beneficial effects?
For example, the Chinese are my biggest clients today for the diabetes product. The beautiful thing about this product is it is unlike drugs, it takes away the damage caused by diabetes itself. In other words, diabetes damages and destroys your end organs. These herbs not only bring the sugar level down, but also the damage caused by the disease is minimised and more often than not, reversed. What comes to mind for example is the loss of eyesight. I get a lot of patients that actually were booked for operations, because they were losing their eyesight. They started taking the medication and guess what? All of a sudden they can see properly again. So, that is the beautiful thing about these products.
Another example: if we look at the Chinese again, they suffer from asthma because of the high pollution levels in China. We do not sell many asthma products in South Africa, but we sell a lot overseas.
We have got excellent products. The herbal product for haemorrhoids is very, very good. We have excellent herbal products for high blood pressure, stress, aches and pains. I have already mentioned diabetes. The herbal product for asthma is excellent. The natural antibiotic is second to none and good for immune deficiencies and other conditions like thrush.
In South Africa the most used products are for haemorrhoids and gonorrhoea. That is the South African market. In our neighbouring countries, the product for HIV does well (Namibia, up in Kenya and Mozambique). We have packages leaving for Namibia all the time.
10. What are the arrangements with the local authorities where the plant is growing?
We have arrangements with everybody in the whole, including some Royals.
And everybody benefits. We are not here to exploit and take away without giving anything back to the community. The community understands that sustainable harvesting creates employment. They stand to gain a lot of foreign exchange.
Herbal Africa's uniqueness lies in its capacity to enhance African herbal medicines with technology and science in order to provide affordable, effective and safe medicines.


I have now discovered that other authors have encountered similar language oddities with amazon. Just because a foreign language book is somehow on the site does not mean it should "officially" be there and so authors run the risk of amazon's quality team suppressing it.
Since being instructed to "unpublish" my book, other Russian translators have told me that amazon is unlikely to have much of an audience in Russia and so I should explore alternative, especially local, options. Nevertheless, I know that Russian books do exist on amazon and since I already use their system why don't they let me join those other authors? Amazon have told me that they will inform me if things change in the future, but I think it is a shame that they still seem to be overlooking major foreign languages (Russian is a working languages of the UN!) when it is possible to publish in various lesser known ones.


Welcome to our new series called "Image of the Day." we pick seemingly random but totally awesome pictured found across the interwebs and share them with you here on Techtronica.
Today we chose an image that captures a great part of American history. A man and his son look on as the first space shuttle launch occurs. Then in the image on the right, the same two (now 30+ years older) observe as the space shuttle launches for the last time.) And thus ends another chapter in American history.
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Roswell UFO Controversy
Roswell UFO Controversy: Former Air Force Officer Says Gen. Ramey Lied To Cover Up Space Ship Crash
The Roswell UFO controversy may be 64 years old, but it shows no sign of heading into retirement.
One thing we know for sure: On July 8, 1947, the front page of the Roswell Daily Record proclaimed that a flying saucer had been captured by the Roswell Army Air Field.
The U.S. Air Force had issued a press release that day stating that a flying saucer had been "captured," and photos were released of soldiers examining metallic-looking objects, presumably pieces of a crashed balloon.
Then the controversy began. At a press conference later that day in Ft. Worth, Texas, Air Force Brig. Gen. Roger Ramey essentially recanted the entire story, announcing instead that the debris was simply pieces of a fallen weather balloon.
Speculation of what really happened has never truly ended. George Filer, a retired Air Force intelligence officer, told The Huffington Post that he believes Ramey was forced to lie about the Roswell incident.
And, in news that will come as a shock even to ardent UFO researches, he told The Huffington Post in an exclusive interview that Ramey's wife told him he was "embarrassed about having to lie about the weather balloon."
WATCH FILER DISCUSS A CRASHED UFO AND ALIEN THAT WAS SHOT AT FT. DIX IN N.J.Story continues below
Over his 20-year career, Filer regularly briefed generals and congressmen about a wide range of security issues, including UFO sightings, up through the Vietnam War.
"It is my opinion that President Truman was there [at Fort Worth] and that he made the decision that it should be held at the highest levels," Filer said.
"The reason I believe that is that I had talked with Mrs. Ramey. She would never admit that she knew anything about aliens, but she did say that [her husband] was very embarrassed about having to lie about the weather balloon -- he was very upset about that."
"She also admitted that they became good friends with the Trumans," Filer added. "My point is: How does a one-star general become a good friend with the president of the United States?"
None of this comes as a surprise to former nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman. He's the original civilian investigator of the Roswell UFO incident and the most outspoken scientist who believes there is overwhelming evidence that alien spacecrafts are visiting Earth. He, too, has talked with Mrs. Ramey.
"From talking to her, I had no reason to believe A) that she knew intimate details about Roswell or any other such event; or B) that she made up this story because it is consistent with a man of reasonable character who followed orders as one would certainly have expected him to," Friedman said.
Both Filer and Friedman -- the military man and the scientist -- said they believe the Roswell UFO was an alien spacecraft, that Earth is currently visited by extraterrestrials and that only individuals with very specific "need to know" credentials have access to this information. Both are speaking at next week's MUFON Symposium in Irvine, Calif.
"We are being visited on a regular basis -- probably for thousands of years -- by aliens from other planets," Filer said. "Their technology is much more advanced than what we have. Even though we don't like to think of ourselves in this way, in a lot of ways, we're primitive compared to them."
New wrinkles are constantly being added to the Roswell conspiracy theory. Author Annie Jacobsen unveiled a whopper this year in her book "Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base," that alleged the alien spaceship crash was actually a hoax contrived by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and Nazi scientist Josef Mengele. There was no crash, according to Jacobsen, but the Communist dictator and "the Angel of Death" allegedly sent children surgically altered to look like aliens to Roswell in a remote-controlled craft to frighten Americans.
Friedman echoed Filer's sentiment. "People need to recognize that the real situation about where we fit in the scheme of things is very different from the way it's been portrayed," Friedman said. "In my view of what's going on, there are loads of civilizations out there all over the place, and that we are not very significant.
"[The aliens] would instantly recognize that we don't qualify for membership in a galactic federation because we're such a primitive society whose major activity is obviously tribal warfare."
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PUBG Mobile India can be launched soon in India, read full news
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Recently, APK links for downloading PUBG Mobile India were given on the official website. This has been confirmed by the users of PUBG Mobile. According to the users, the APK file of the PUBG Mobile India game was available on the official website for some time. According to him, the website showed two options. One option had a link to the Google Play Store listing of the game while the other option had an APK link to download the game.
Users said, "This APK link was available on the website for some time. Two options were given on the website. The first link opened on the Google Play store as soon as the link went. On the other hand, clicking on the second link, the Facebook of this game coming Page open.
The government of India imposed a ban on this game
Let us tell you that after the ban on PUBG mobile game, the Indian government had blocked the official website of PUBG mobile. The Government of India had banned the Battle Royal Game along with many other Chinese apps this year. The government said that the banned Chinese apps are a threat to national security.
The government of India is concerned about the safety of players
To launch the game again in India, PUBG Corporation will first have to address all the concerns of the Indian government. Recently, KUBFTON, the parent corporation of PUBG Mobile, agreed with Microsoft Azure to host PUBG games. So to receive. According to reports, PUBG Corporation is working towards reducing the Chinese connection for which the game was banned by the Government of India. At the time of the official announcement of PUBG Mobile India, the company said that the privacy and security of Indian players is its top priority.
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Steve has lived and worked in North West Wales for most of his life. His career as an artist began well over forty five years ago. During the late 1960s and early 1970s he worked as a labourer and musician in North Wales travelling further afield regularly to play in the folk clubs and underground music venues of that time.
He became literate in Welsh while a student at the University of Lampeter, and following graduation he married and returned to Bangor before settling in the village of Rhiwlas , in the former slate-quarrying area around Bethesda in Snowdonia, where he has lived for over 35 years.
Steve began to make his mark in Welsh literary circles in the early 1980s with the publication of his first volume of poetry, Noethni (Nakedness) and the release of his first collection of songs, Viva la Revolución Galesa. This located him as part of a group of self-styled 'unofficial poets' who challenged the then poetic establishment in Welsh-speaking Wales.
A second and equally well-received volume of poetry, Jazz yn y Nos (Jazz in the night), was to follow, but Steve began to turn more and more towards his songs and music as a medium of artistic expression. The greatest influence on his work has always been and continues to be the blues. His poet's sensibility is very much evident in his song-writing, as is the influence of jazz, folk and rock. He has released 9 albums of his original compositions since 1983 – among them Cyfalaf a Chyfaddawd (Capital and Compromise) (1985), Croendenau (Thin-skinned) (1992), Y Canol Llonydd Distaw (The Still, Quiet Centre) (1996), Iawn (Fine) (1999) and Moelyci (2007).
Steve's 9th album, Moelyci, released in 2007 (named after the mountain above the village of Rhiwlas) was 6 years in the making and is considered one the high points of his career so far. The spring of 2011 saw the release of Ffoaduriaid' (Refugees) (SAIN SCD 2633) (the title means "Refugees") a comprehensive retrospective collection of Steve's music featuring seven albums and various individual tracks released by Steve between 1984 a 1999.
Steve writes and performs exclusively in the Welsh language, and his work is now being discovered and appreciated much further beyond Wales.


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Q: In VB.Net 2008, bound Combo Box doesn't update on move to specific record I could use some direction as I'm totally stumped on this...
In VB.Net 2008, I have a form with a data binding source called TblComplaintBindingSource. While it had more fields, the two I'm concerned with are lComplaintID (integer and key for the table) and lPersonID which is a key to the Person table.  I have set up a combo box that uses another data binding source QryPersonComboBindingSource.  On my form, I have a combo box cmbPerson defined as:
    Me.cmbPerson = New System.Windows.Forms.ComboBox
    Me.cmbPerson.DataBindings.Add(New System.Windows.Forms.Binding("SelectedValue",Me.TblComplaintBindingSource, "lPersonID", True))
    Me.cmbPerson.DataSource = Me.QryPersonComboBindingSource
    Me.cmbPerson.DisplayMember = "FullName"
    Me.cmbPerson.DropDownStyle = System.Windows.Forms.ComboBoxStyle.DropDownList
    Me.cmbPerson.FormattingEnabled = True
    Me.cmbPerson.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(138, 24)
    Me.cmbPerson.Name = "cmbPerson"
    Me.cmbPerson.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(415, 21)
    Me.cmbPerson.TabIndex = 0
    Me.cmbPerson.ValueMember = "lPersonID"

This works fine when I open a record or use the BindingNavigator to move through records, the selected value in the cmbPerson displays correctly.
HOWEVER, when I try to open the form and hop to a specific record (by lComplaintID) as a result of a search, the cmbPerson combo box remains stubbornly blank.  Here's my code for jumping to the specific record:
Public Sub OpenSpecificRecord(ByVal vintComplaintID As Integer, ByVal Filter As String)
    If Filter = "" Then
        Me.TblComplaintBindingSource.RemoveFilter()
        Me.TblComplaintBindingSource.Filter = "lComplaintID=" & vintComplaintID.ToString()
    Else
        Me.TblComplaintBindingSource.Filter = Filter
    End If
    Me.TblComplaintBindingSource.Find("lComplaintID", vintComplaintID)

    Me.TblComplaintBindingSource.ResetCurrentItem()
    Me.QryPersonComboBindingSource.ResetCurrentItem()

This is what the current iteration of the code looks like - I've tried all sorts of tricks to update the SelectedValue of Me.cmbPerson and it stubbornly remains blank.
Any suggestions of where to go?  This is a pretty standard thing I'm trying to do and for the life of me, I have no idea why it doesn't want to update or how to bend it to my will.
Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide!


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Our Elites Won't Learn
By: José Niño
Can America's self-styled foreign policy experts be expected to learn from the failures of the latest misadventure in Afghanistan? If history is an indicator, there's little reason to believe the foreign policy blob will learn the error of their ways.
The horrific events of 9/11 inevitably brought the U.S. back to Afghanistan, but this time with a full-fledged military force. To say this military venture was a boondoggle would be an understatement. The financial costs of the U.S.' twenty-year Afghan conflict have been staggering, with estimates from Brown University's Cost of War Project pointing to $2.3 trillion spent in this war effort. Over twenty-four hundred American service members lost their lives along with seventy-one thousand Afghan civilians during the war.
From funding the mujahideen in Afghanistan to arming the so-called moderate rebels in Syria, constantly putting the figurative Vladimir Lenin in a train car to St. Petersburg is not a viable grand strategy for U.S. foreign policy. This type of geopolitical trickery creates a multitude of unintended consequences that are detrimental to U.S. security in the long term.
Thinking through the second- and third-order effects of interventions has never been a strong suit of the DC blob. The cold, hard truth is that the high–time preference nature of the present-day political order clouds the judgment of policymakers and does not allow them to see how their interventions could blow up in their faces in the long term.
It's anyone's guess how Afghanistan will shape up politically in the near future. It remains to be seen if the Taliban government will carry out massive reprisals against individuals and groups who cooperated with the U.S. puppet government. Due to the fractious nature of Afghan politics, some form of civil war breaking out in the country is not out of the question. Knowing U.S. foreign policy inclinations all too well, it's no stretch to imagine the U.S. later taking the side of "moderate" rebels in such a hypothetical scenario—the same way the U.S. has during the Syrian Civil War. Even when military expeditions look like they're concluding, the U.S. security establishment always finds ways to reinsert itself in conflict zones.
Much to the dismay of anyone who desires a more restrained foreign policy, failing forward is par for the course in DC foreign policy circles. No kind of punishment or demotion of those who prosecuted the bungled wars of the past few decades should be expected.
Until there's a new foreign policy class informed by an outlook of restraint, the permutations of interventionism will persist throughout DC political circles. Calamity awaits those who persist in pursuing imperial delusions.
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T-80UE-1 (1:35)
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StuG E-100 (1:35)
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T-62 Model 1962 (1:72)
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MLRS, E-100 StuG, and T-62
By Tat Baqui on Saturday, September 30, 2017 - 01:33 PM UTC
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Rooikat (1:35)
Trumpeter shares built-up photos and other details of its kit.
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The latest figure releases from Trumpeter feature Iraqi tank crew as well as Soviet infantry during the Afghan War.
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THAAD Interceptor (1:35)
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Nearly 300,000 signatures handed to No 10 over undemocratic voter ID plans
Photograph: Tolga Akmen.
Josiah Mortimer, Head of Communications
Posted on the 9th September 2021
Voter ID
Campaign groups handed in nearly 300,000 petition signatures to 10 Downing Street on Tuesday, calling for the government to scrap plans to ban those without ID from voting.
The petition delivery took place as Parliament debated the controversial Elections Bill in its second reading in the Commons.
#HandsOffOurVote, the Electoral Reform Society, Fair Vote, 38 Degrees and MyLifeMySay all joined together to oppose the voter ID plans, which could see more than two million people who lack photo ID locked out of the ballot box. And those are the government's figures – not ours.
Polling by YouGov for Hands Off Our Vote showed that five percent of disabled people don't have the ID required, while people in the North of England are seven times less likely to have photo ID than Londoners.
Councils will be required to offer special voter ID to people ahead of elections – but with more than 300 over-stretched councils operating the scheme, we're deeply concerned about long delays and a postcode lottery in access to democracy.
Jack McAteer, a co-founder of grassroots voting rights group #HandsOffOurVote, said: "We believe that the government should make voting easier, not harder. Many people in the UK simply don't have photo ID and it's not free. This is going to create obstacles for many many already disenfranchised groups, including BAME voters, disabled people, homeless people, and the elderly."
The ERS' Dr Jess Garland said mandatory ID was "the biggest change to voting in generations," which "poses a huge risk to democratic equality."
There is no evidence to justify the government's heavy-handed ID plan, which could disenfranchise voters on an industrial scale.
At the bill's second reading in the Commons on Tuesday, Conservative MP David Davis vowed to try and remove the ID requirements at report stage. "This voter ID scheme is an illiberal idea in pursuit of a non-existent problem," Mr Davis said – a point the Conservative chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee said he had a 'great deal of sympathy' with.
It's vital that all MPs and peers listen to the concerns being raised, stand up for the right to vote, ensure ministers stop and rethink this dangerous legislation.
Thank you to the 56,000 of you who signed our ERS petition – now with No 10 – calling for the ID plans to be scrapped.
We're now working hard with other civil society groups to pause this bill, and secure urgent amendments that protect the right to vote. Can you support our efforts?
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There ceremony was held in the Council Chamber in Uckfield Civic Centre. Beryl Venables announced the winners and the trophies were presented by Brighter Uckfield chairman Ian Smith.
Winners of the Brighter Uckfield Best Garden Competition with their awards.
Judge Dee Russell spent three weeks visiting the gardens of entrants and was thanked for judging, encouraging the entrants, and taking photographs of their gardens.
Her comments included "Breath-taking, a joy to visit; Beautifully designed and full of interest and colour; The colour packed a punch; Very impressive and really has the wow factor; A pleasure to visit." Read all her comments below.
Uckfield Chamber of Commerce was thanked for funding new trophies for the competition. Ian Smith said Brighter Uckfield hoped to replace more of them next year.
Beautifully designed and full of interest and colour – pots of all shapes and sizes with plants spilling over their edges.
It made the judge smile with the delightful quirky ideas and mature, healthy, abundance of colour. A worthy winner. Congratulations Annie and Paul.
Annie Lock accepts the trophy for best front garden from Ian Smith, chairman of Brighter Uckfield.
Judge's pictures of the Best Front Garden.
Breath-taking, a joy to visit. The garden is a real challenge as it's so steep, but terraced with railway sleepers and steps.
Though north facing and part shielded by a tree, it's full of roses, campanulas, anenomes, hibiscus, lilies, dahlias and sweet peas. There's a small pond and waterfall, and seating area. A triumph in challenging garden conditions, Pauline.
Pauline Brown accepts the trophy for Best Back Garden.
Judge's pictures of the Best Back Garden.
As soon as I parked close by, I knew which garden I was to judge as the colour packs a punch. Hydrangeas and roses with bright summer bedding – all a delight. Congratulations Fiona.
Judge's pictures of the Best Small Front Garden. Fiona Barallon was unable to attend the ceremony to collect her trophy.
A lovely flat garden with a beautiful curved brick wall giving shelter and character and ideal for climbing plants. All the heucheras are like a patchwork qulit. Overall it is very impressive and really has the wow factor. Congratulations Georgie.
Georgie Dorrington with her trophie and certificate for winning Best Small Back Garden.
Judge's pictures of the Best Small Back Garden.
A lovely garden on different levels. The old pond, filled in, is now a lush bog garden. There's a rose arch, seating area, birtd bath and feeder and cottage garden plants. A pleasure to visit. Well done, John.
John Forster after receiving his prize for highly commended small back garden.
Another terraced garden because of the gradient. Full of colour and interest, magnolia, wisteria, red robin, mock orange, fuchsias, roses and lavender. The judge admires this daily when dog walking. Well done, Christine.
Christine Fogden accepts her award for Highly Commended Small Back Garden.
Started only last May this small new garden, full of memories from past gardens is already very colourful. There's honeysuckle, roses, campanula, lupins, hollyhocks and irises to name just a few. What a delightful garden in a short time. Congratulations Geoffrey.
Geoffrey Forster winner of Best New Garden with Brighter Uckfield chairman Ian Smith.
Judges pictures of the Best New Garden.
This special garden was made from an unused wasteland full of litter purchased from Uckfield Town Council and divided into plots which retain the original former hospital walls. Alistair's garden is full of intrest with fruit, vegetables and flowers, a shed, waterbutt and a chair on which to sit and enjoy this unusual garden.
Judge's pictures of the Most Unusual Garden. Alistair Sandell was unavailable to collect his award.
This front garden has been covered in membrane, then shingle, pebbles and rocks and has an array of pots full of colourful flowers, some bought, some rescued, and giving a lovely welcome as you approach.
Prize for Best Container Garden goes to Val Bray.
Judge's pictures of Val Bray's Best Container Garden.
If it's not recycled, upcycled or quirky, then it doesn't belong in this garden. The long garden has been divided into rooms and is full of great ideas. All your hard work in revamping has paid off. Well done Robin and Daphne.
Robin and Daphne Hewlett accept their trophy for Best Revamped Garden.
An arch takes you from Robert's very attractive garden to his well maintained and very productive vegetable garden – lettuce, rocket, parsnips, beetroot, radishes, broadbeans, peas, runner beans, sweetcorn, courgettes, and fruit, pears, plum raspberries, tayberries, blueberries, gooseberries, blackberries, strawberries, and rhubarb, and greenhouse, tomatoes and cucumbers. Wow. Congratulations Robert.
Robert Crozier accepts his trophy for Best Vegetable Garden.
Judge's pictures of Best Vegetable Plot.
The judge said this was a truly lovely garden to visit and very well thought out. It's packed with plants including tomatoes and peppers, a banana plant, a tree fern, olive tree, clematis, lilies and irises. There are wildlife-friendly plants. Every corner is used, everything is healthy. Congratulations Julie.
Julie Eiloart with her trophy for Overall Best Garden.
Judge's pictures of the Best Overall Garden.
What was an overgrown unsightly area is now maturing into a well-loved and tended centre of this community. It's packed with colour and scents, and with its benches provides a beautiful oasis in which to sit. Congratulations to those involved.
Betty Fairbrass accepts a trophy for Best Community Garden on behalf of Keld Close residents.
Judge's pictures of the Best Community Garden.
This is a lovely garden for the residents. It has a large pond with irises and water lilies, residents' own patio gardens and balconies, mature trees and bushes with pots full of colour.
Money from raffles pays for the plants and residents also contribute their ideas and take pride in their garden. Thank you Anita.
The award for Best Communal Garden goes to Shaftsbury Court.
This riverside area has been revamped by Gary to provide an attractive, tranquil place for residents to sit. It's full of colour with flowerbeds, shrubs, and pots. Congratulations Gary on all you've achieved and I know the residents appreciate.
Gary Nokes accepts the award for Best Revamped Communal Garden on behalf of Millington Court.
Judge's pictures of the Best Revamped Communal Garden.
Linda Hallett has done an amazing job over many years on this almost impossible, very sloping, large and inaccessible site beside the church. It's a lovely colourful bank of mature perennials. What perseverance and dedication. Congratulations Linda.
Linda Hallett accepts the award for Best Church Garden on behalf of Cornerstone Church.
Rocks Park Primary School has a wonderful area where they grow vegetables, fruits, and flowers, and an orchard with apple trees.
Children learn to sow the seeds, tend the plants and harvest them. It's been an excellent projet over many years and deserves to win.
School governor David Brown accepts a trophy on behalf of Rocks Park Primary School for Best School Garden.
As always, bright, well-chosen, well-tended plants filling and over-spilling the containers, baskets and window boxes that welcome you to this small friendly pub. Congratulations again Helen.
James Dell and Helen Bromwich of the Brickmakers Arms accept the award for Best Pub Garden.
Judges pictures of the Best Pub Garden.
Here the forecourt has been made very colourful and attractive with weeping cherry trees, lavenders and hebe, fuchsias, and grasses with a slate dressing suppressing weeds. It's a very good example of how a car park can be made attractive.
Richard Thorne, of Thorne Civil Engineers, accepts a trophy for Best Commercial Garden.
Judge's pictures of the Best Commercial Garden.


(SPOT.ph) After more than a century on U.S. soil, the Balangiga Bells are finally coming home on Tuesday, December 11. President Rodrigo R. Duterte is expected to formally receive these items through a handover ceremony at the Philippine Air Force Grandstand, Villamor Airbase in Pasay City. This was after U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis officially announced on November 15 at the F. E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming that the historic and religious relics would be returned to the Balangiga Church in Eastern Samar.
The three bells were first mentioned by Duterte in his State of the Nation Address on July 24, 2017. "They are ours. They belong to the Philippines. They are part of our national heritage. Isauli naman ninyo. Masakit 'yan sa amin," he said, addressing the United States. The church bells were taken as war trophies by American soldiers after the 1901 Balangiga Massacre, an incident that held different meanings for the opposing countries during the Philippine-American War.
The two bells were shipped from Wyoming to Philadelphia where they went through restoration.
For the U.S. Army, it was the worst defeat after the townspeople organized a surprise attack during a funeral mass at the dawn of September 28, 1901. The church bell rang as a signal for Filipino fighters dressed in women's clothes to grab their bolos from the coffins and enter the enemy's garrison. The casualty rate was at more than 50%.
For Filipinos, it was one of the most tragic moments in our history as Brig. Gen. Jacob Smith declared that the "interior of Samar must be made a howling wilderness" with the order to "kill everyone over the age of 10." Maj. Littleton W. T. Waller, who was under Smith's command, was later nicknamed the "Butcher of Samar." Both Smith and Waller were court-martialed for violating military discipline, though the former was only forced to retire and the latter was acquitted. The Balangiga Bells were taken by the 9th U.S. Infantry Regiment as war booty. Two bronze bells were put on display at the at F. E. Warren Air Force Base (former Fort D. A. Russell) while the third was kept at a U.S. military museum in Camp Cloud, South Korea.
Numerous attempts have been made in the past to recover the bells, including a request by noted historian Fr. Horacio dela Costa in 1975. He wrote to the 13th Air Force in Clark Air Base to look into the return of the bells, citing the Franciscan Order in the Philippines' ownership as indicated by the Franciscan emblems engraved on the bronze structures. In the '90s, former President Fidel V. Ramos was told by the U.S. government that the bells' return to the Philippines would entail an Act of Congress.
U.S. war veterans were also sympathetic to the Philippines' cause. In fact, a couple of retired U.S. Navy captains organized "Bells of Hope," which not only looked into the process of returning the Balangiga Bells but also successfully turned over the San Pedro Bell taken by American troops from Bauang, La Union.
During the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Plus meeting in Clark, Pampanga in October 2017, Philippine Ambassador to the U.S. Babe Romualdez made the same request to Mattis. Incidentally, the Veterans Memorial Physical Integrity Act of 1998, which barred the U.S. president from transferring any "veteran memorial objects" to a foreign country, expired on September 30, 2017.
The return of the bells to their rightful place is not only a success story for those who fought for their homecoming, but also a symbol of Filipino bravery and unity in the past and present.
UPDATE (December 10, 5 p.m.): Malacañang announced on Monday afternoon that the arrival rites will proceed on December 11, but the president would not be present.


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SHCY Conference, Feature
4-Jul-2019
Teenagers: The Rise of Youth Culture in New Zealand By Chris Brickell
The Keynote Address at SHCY's 2019 Conference, "Encounters and Exchanges" hosted at Australian Catholic University in Sydney, Australia.
Young people led deeply contradictory lives in New Zealand at and after the turn of the century. This presentation maps out aspects of this complexity in relation to bodies, sociability and freedom. It begins with James Belich's concept of the 'tight society' before considering how written and visual records reveal a youth culture that was simultaneously controlled, coalescing and liberalising in the decades before the Second World War. This is both a short prehistory of the idea of the New Zealand teenager and an exploration of the ways new norms and technologies – including the camera – helped to shape and reflect a sophisticated set of social changes.
To learn more about Chris's book, Teenagers: The Rise of Youth Culture in New Zealand, or to purchase it, please visit here.
About Chris Brickell
Professor Chris Brickell is Head of the Sociology, Gender Studies and Criminology Programme at Otago University, New Zealand. He has written extensively on the history of sexuality in New Zealand, including the award-winning Mates and Lovers: A History of Gay New Zealand (Random House, 2008). More recently he published Teenagers: The Rise of Youth History in New Zealand (Auckland University Press, 2017). Chris has a particular interest in visual history and in documents that tell of the construction of identities in everyday life.
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This feature is part of the SHCY Commentary series, in which SHCY members provide written contributions on various academic topics pertaining to the history of childhood and youth.