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POM. Ters, if you could perhaps start by giving me a bit of background on yourself, your wife, just your family, your children, where you live and what you do and what members of the family do?
TS. You will notice I've still got a proper German name. My ancestors, my great-grandfather was a missionary in Natal in the middle of the last century, 1850's, 1860s he came to South Africa but my grandfather's house was already Afrikaans speaking. He was a teacher in the Cape in what we call Klein Drakenstein and my father grew up as an Afrikaner. My uncles also made their marks as siding with the Afrikaner people in SA.
. I'm an Accountant. I was practising as an Auditor my whole life, for 50 years. I'm retired now. I married an Afrikaans lady. We had five children. She died from cancer about 20 years ago.
POM. Your wife?
TS. My wife yes. I've remarried and I'm 18 years married now again. Actually all our children are out of the house. Two of my boys are engineers and one of my daughters is a teacher, she's a qualified teacher and the other one is a qualified nurse, a university degree. My youngest son has become a forester. He's just left my house yesterday afternoon for George where the college is. He's completing his course now there as a forestry diploma student. So that is more or less my background.
. I grew up here near Johannesburg in Heidelberg where my father was a teacher and I worked first in Springs there on the East Rand and then later after three years in Pretoria where I worked over 40 years and practised as an Accountant. I'm still a registered Accountant and I still do books, I'm doing the books of the party here on a part time basis.
POM. Were any of your grandparents or grand uncles involved in the Boer War in any way?
TS. My own mother was in a concentration camp. She was taken in an ordinary open truck to a concentration camp. My father's people were in the Cape.
POM. So they escaped it.
TS. Yes, my father was too young still. He longed for coming to help the Afrikaner, the Boer people, but he was too young still.
POM. Did your mother have bitter memories of that?
TS. No, no, it was not for a long time. We haven't got that side of it.
POM. When you were growing up as a young Afrikaner did you have resentment towards the British for what they had put the Afrikaner people through?
TS. Oh yes very definitely. We still have resentments but I think it's not that we do not like individuals, it's more a difference in culture and especially up to 1961 we had the grudge against them that they were more faithful to England than to SA. We are very aware of the fact that the English built up an empire to supply raw materials to their own industries. Especially my uncle, he was in parliament, he wasn't an MP, he was in as a visitor in the parliament when they decided to make ISCOR. ISCOR is our big steel factory. It's Industrial Steel Corporation of SA. That was opposed very heftily by the English speaking people, that's where most strife came from, that the English people were more faithful to England than to SA.
POM. They wanted to exploit SA on behalf of England?
TS. And they exploited SA and we have only got one country and that is SA you see.
POM. Would you say when you were growing up and when you began working, when you were an accountant, what kind of interest did you have in politics? Was it just a passing interest?
TS. No, as a high school student already I was with a group of friends, scholars with myself, who took an interest in politics and who formed more or less little societies to advance. I was fairly active in politics since my school days.
POM. Now you would have been active on behalf of the National Party?
TS. Yes for many years. In 1933, somewhere there, the NP made a pact with the South African Party, the SAP, they formed what they called the United Party with Jan Smuts on the side of the SAP, which was more or less the English speaking people and General Hertzog was the leader of the NP. Then Dr Malan broke away, he said, "No we're not going with that." And my father was also one of them that said no. He was only a teacher, he wasn't active in politics, but he said no he's not going with the UP. We were, I would say, Malanites or NP people, today's NP people since then. So I grew up with the United Party having absolute control, a two thirds majority, but we were in the opposition.
POM. And of course they came to power in 1948.
TS. We came to power in 1948.
POM. Just turning to today. What made you change from being a member of the NP to being a member of the Conservative Party? Were you active as a member of the NP or were you just a member?
TS. I was fairly active. By saying active I never had the idea of going for a public position but I was always working when there was an election and I was always serving on local committees, the management committees of the party and I was a member of various committees, dependent on where I lived, and up to a certain stage, 1971/72 somewhere there, and then I said no, I don't like the direction they're taking. Actually I put up quite a fight myself, I knew the ministers, I knew my MP and I wrote to him and I visited him and we discussed this is wrong or that is wrong, and he arranged with me for a meeting with Dr Connie Mulder who was a minister at that stage. There was no problem, that was all before the problems, and he promised me things and they never happened. So at that stage I resigned from the NP.
POM. What kind of problems were you having at that point?
TS. They started integrating, especially sports, and I consider sport as being a social activity. I was very much against integrating social activities. You see we had the idea, our whole apartheid thoughts are developing. In those years we just thought of keeping them apart and later on Dr Verwoerd came up and said we must give them their own governments. These days we realise that where a man is living and working you cannot keep rights away from him permanently so we are absolutely now for separate states, a place where the black man can govern himself, the various black nations can govern themselves and we want a place where we as a white nation can govern ourselves too, you see. But in those days we were still thinking of just keeping them separate but working together and even staying more or less not even very far from each other.
POM. When you resigned from the NP in 1972 there wasn't a Conservative Party at that point was there?
TS. No. In those days we were still fighting to try and get things right within the NP. Jaap Marais, the HNP � (he's actually Jacobus, it's also a shortened name, a nickname), they are more or less extreme people and he resigned and he formed another party. But I knew him personally and also his people that followed him. I didn't like them. And also their principles are too extreme, it's not practical.
POM. Like what?
TS. Like oppressing the blacks all the time, permanently. Like having only Afrikaans as an official language. Those were more or less the two main points that they were working on and keeping the blacks out of everything and I couldn't go with that. Then for quite a number of years I said I'm a person without a political relation, I haven't got a political home.
POM. When an election would come would you vote in the election?
TS. Well we would vote for Jaap Marais' party, for the HNP when there was an opportunity. It depended. Then at a later stage � you see the people who are now the CP were in those years still trying to get the direction of the NP and I had very much sympathy with that because a split is a very bad thing. We are realising it today, it's happening with us that our families are split. My one daughter is completely NP.
POM. I was going to ask you that. If you take your five children, what route would they have taken?
TS. My eldest son is with us, my second son is with us, my daughter is with us. It's only my one daughter. They've got more or less, they don't exactly have my ideas. My younger son that left yesterday he's more or less, he says the nation doesn't matter, what you call the 'volk', we make a difference between a nation and a people and they're separate people but they're not governing themselves. A nation means a people which is governing itself, but we call people that are not governing themselves a volk. So we have about ten very different black volk, nations, in SA. We talk of a black man in general but that's wrong. There's a bigger difference between a Zulu and a Xhosa than there is between a Zulu and a white man, for instance. That's what I've heard said, people that have made a study of it. In other words we have the different volk. What was my point?
POM. We were talking about the difference, like one daughter supports the NP and you were talking about your son who went to college.
TS. He says, no, the white man must be the superior, must be the governing people, not the Afrikaner volk, but that's a minor difference. So they've got their ideas, but most are with me except, as I said, my one daughter and my son-in-law. They are very strong on the other side.
POM. Do you have arguments about this?
TS. Well I've been talking nicely to my daughter. No, we just don't talk about these things. They're very nice people but we just don't talk. There's already heart-sore strife between our own people on this matter because it's split up our church, it's split up everything.
POM. Now you were a member of the Dutch Reformed Church were you?
TS. Yes, but I also left the DRC because of their liberal direction at that stage.
POM. They changed a couple of years ago?
TS. Yes, and even before that I was at loggerheads with them. If you want to go in that direction I will give you my ideas on that. You see I believe that the DRC was an exclusive church just for the Afrikaner and it's preaching was deep into the culture of the Afrikaner and you will have noticed that after the 2nd World War the Afrikaner was more or less stronger than any other nation against this wave of permissiveness. I argued that that is because our church is our own church. It comes into the culture, it's a portion of our living. It's not just a general organisation.
POM. It's not just a church for white people in general, it's a church for Afrikaners?
TS. It was a church only for white people and mainly only for Afrikaners and so it has its influence burnt into the culture of the people and it had its strength there. Even before the political split I was fighting my church because they were opening up and they were generalising and they were losing strength.
POM. When you say 'opening up' what do you mean?
TS. Bringing in blacks, bringing in other people and not being exclusive, taking the attitude that they may not be exclusive, which I denied. Then I said, no, I cannot take part in the church breaking down its power, its influence, and I stopped giving donations to the church even before the new church was formed. But then this lately with that one article they brought out, constitution more or less, they took sides in politics and then it was finished with me.
POM. What church are you a member of now?
TS. I'm a member of the Afrikaanse Protestantse Kerk. The Afrikaans Protestant Church.
POM. Are many of its ministers drawn from ministers who left the DRC when it came out against apartheid?
TS. Yes. We have three Afrikaans churches here, the Dutch Reformed and what we call the Gerevormeerde Enkele � the Single Reform Church, just the Reformed Church, what we call the Doppers, and then we have the Reformed Church. I wouldn't know how to translate that in English but what we call the Gerevormeerde Kerk and the Gevormde Kerk. You more or less get that? We've got three churches but this new Afrikaans Protestant Church draws from all three churches.
POM. How many members? Is it a fast growing church?
TS. It's a fast growing church. We have in Pretoria already, it's just three years old a few weeks ago, beginning of July we celebrated it's third birthday, it's three years old. According to a report from the Synod the total income over the country was over seven million rand already. We have over 200 congregations over the country already. Everywhere there are small groups and they are at the stage of starting to build or buy churches.
POM. Would most people who attend the Afrikaans Protestant Church be supporters of the Conservative Party or would they be drawn from Afrikaners in general?
TS. No, Afrikaners in general more or less. Politics doesn't play a role there, but mainly it would be supporters of the CP.
POM. What distinction would you make between the APC and the DRC?
TS. Just the matter that their policy is to have their doors open for everybody, the DRC. Their policy is a liberal policy. They even go beyond the bible as far as I'm concerned. They do not apply the bible properly at certain points, especially to liberalise. This whole idea today of advocating your horizontal things, the relations between people instead of relations between a man and God, that is our main difference. But more or less they are absolutely liberalising. We are bringing back � it's more or less the external habits we have of our ministers when they go into the pulpit they are properly dressed with a black coat they put around them. What do you call it in English?
POM. I know what you mean.
TS. And our church council members wear white ties and the parson also, but in the DRC they've abolished that, they dress up in anything and they're absolutely liberalising.
POM. The Afrikaans Protestant Church would be open only to Afrikaners or to people in general?
TS. Well it's white people, it's definitely only white. We say that it's a Christian church for Afrikaners.
POM. Is the church in favour of apartheid and the homelands policy?
TS. I don't know that they have expressed themselves, the church councils, even the Central Council have expressed themselves on that point but its membership is definitely limited to white people siding themselves with the Afrikaner. There's no doubt about that.
POM. What do you think is happening now with the releasing of Mandela, the unbanning of the SACP?
TS. You see they are abolishing apartheid. We went quite far on abolishing apartheid and I think that's the main drawback that the money powers of the world have in trying to rule the whole world.
POM. Sorry, could you say that for me again? They're trying to abolish apartheid?
TS. Basically I think that this whole move was started (I'm afraid my English is not so good, I'm looking for words), the big money powers of the world that try and rule the whole world, they want to get the whole world in their power.
POM. Like the United States?
TS. In the United States.
POM. Would that be one of the money powers?
TS. Well I don't know exactly but I think United States, England, even in Europe these people more or less have a sort of, I've never studied it properly, but they have more or less a sort of an association. They're trying to control the whole world, to rule the whole world and by doing so they want to break down all nationalism, all religion. They want to make the people neutral people, especially nationalism and religion, even morality they want to break down that. Our success, I think that our success in SA to build each nation, each nation group and to give them their rights was the major thing that stopped these people, and if that could go out to the whole world then that's why they have murdered Verwoerd and the next man Vorster he wasn't up against it, he wasn't giving his life, he drew back but he didn't want to be a complete traitor.
. Now by doing that, by not giving each nation, our people, our Afrikaans people could never survive. We're only one out of ten more or less in SA. We can only survive if we can group together as a nation and that's our main outlook and they are trying to make it even. That means only one thing to us and that is that the blacks are going to rule.
POM. So do you think De Klerk is moving in a direction where blacks are going to rule?
TS. We cannot see that anything else could happen.
POM. What would you say to black people who would say, "We don't belong to ten separate nations, we regard ourselves as all belonging to the same nation"?
TS. Yes they are advocating that a lot but if you talk to a black man on his own and even he will tell you when you start, "No, I'm just a black man, I'm an international black man. I'm not even a South African." That he will tell you, but if you talk to him you'll soon see that his priorities come out. Ask him where his children go to school and you will notice if he's a Tswana they will go to a Tswana school or if he's a Zulu they'll go to a Zulu school. You will very soon see in his heart he remains a Tswana or a Zulu.
POM. But they don't have any choice where they go to school do they? I mean they have to go to a school designated �
TS. No, they have more or less, it's not officially sorted but he sends his child to where most of his people are you see.
POM. Most of his people, but does he not have to do that according to the law? Doesn't a Zulu have to send his child to Zulu school?
TS. No I don't think so. There's no compulsory education for the blacks yet. We've not developed to that stage yet. We're near that but we have not developed that. He sends his child to the school where he likes.
POM. So black family doesn't have to send its child to any school if they don't wish to?
TS. No. No it's not compulsory.
POM. So you think that the present government is moving towards - ?
TS. Yes they are absolutely demoralising our whole set up.
POM. What do you think would happen if that did happen? What are you afraid of if that were to happen? What are your fears?
TS. You see we're working on another basis at the moment. We're not so ready, we know that's going to happen and we are trying to form a society of our own to get a place of our own. You see being a strong people and the country being uninhabited when we got into the inland of SA we spread and we were able to govern the whole SA but things have developed that we are realising now that the time has come that we cannot control the whole of SA but we want to get a portion of SA now as a white country where we are a majority of whites or we have practically no blacks, a majority of whites, especially white Afrikaners and where we can declare ourselves independent as a country and rule ourselves.
POM. I'll talk to you about that in a moment, but going back to the question I'd asked you � what would be your fears if tomorrow morning there were a black government? What are you afraid would happen to you?
TS. Well not much, no I won't be very scared. No. We will more or less carry on as we are but that won't be the sort of living we would prefer. If the suburb where we're living starts getting mixed, the values of our property would fall of course.
POM. Do you think that's likely? Most blacks would still live in the townships wouldn't they?
TS. No, it's quite likely, it's quite likely that it can happen because it is happening to a certain extent already. You get where we live three or four people in a house, they live 30, 40 in the same house and they buy a house next door to you and they live there, 30, 40 people there and you've got to live here next to them and then another man won't buy my place. I think that's quite temporary because in the end you will find other blacks that will buy your place if you want to move, so it will be temporary and then you will get your money back again.
POM. So on a practical level you don't think that it would make very much difference to your life if in fact there was black majority rule?
TS. Yes. Another thing that will happen, that we expect, is that our language will be abolished as a legal language in SA and we're fighting that. Our actual life, our way of living and eating and sleeping and dressing, I don't think that will change a lot.
POM. Let's talk about this white homeland, white Afrikaans country.
TS. Yes.
POM. How do you see that? Most people would say that's impractical. That's the reaction I get from a lot of people I talk to, they say it can't happen.
TS. Well in the first place it will take a long time and it will take a lot of hard work and suffering but I don't think it's completely impractical.
POM. How would you see it happening?
TS. Over a number of years one will club together by propaganda in a certain area and build it up. We, as being westerners or white people, have the ability to build a country from its absolute nothing. We've done that in our history, we've done that a few times already. We will have to do it again but that will take quite a number of generations. It's not going to happen in one day.
POM. Well, if you look at the future?
TS. I will only see the start of it.
POM. But you see black majority rule coming in the short term? Do you see you see black majority rule happening in the next four or five years?
TS. Yes, well if things go on like this, definitely.
POM. So even at that point then you still have to continue your campaign and your efforts to get a white homeland, in other words the fight wouldn't stop?
TS. No.
POM. A couple of things, De Klerk has said that before any new dispensation is agreed to he will put the matter before the white electorate. Do you think he will do that?
TS. He will do that in a way that doesn't compel him to act according to it. He will give us a referendum but my idea is that when he runs a referendum he'll lose it today.
POM. He would lose it?
TS. Amongst the whites, he will lose it. But then he will say that a referendum has got no legal power in our whole constitution system so he can still do what he likes and he will say, well that's a small portion of the inhabitants and I'm not taking notice of it.
POM. What if he did put a referendum before the white electorate and what if a majority of whites actually voted for it? Where would that leave you?
TS. We'll still have to continue our whole idea of working for the survival of the Afrikaans people.
POM. So you make a difference between the white people and the Afrikaans people?
TS. Yes we do, we do. But we talk about it, the Afrikaans people and those that want to side with us. We have a large section of English people. I've got English speaking friends. We cannot come together on our social functions, they won't come to our Afrikaans cultural functions and we won't go to their English cultural functions. We don't go to the same church but we do believe in the same God, we've got the same bible that we work with and we will collaborate but we will not come together because they've got a different culture. But we've got these English people they're just as true to SA as we are. SA is their place, not England any more. I can give you people in Johannesburg here that have that attitude. We can collaborate with them but we still think they are a different people from the Afrikaner people.
POM. What other distinctions would you make? One is language, one is religion, one is cultural events, are there any other?
TS. No, sports we will do together, business we will do together. There's no doubt about that.
POM. Just another question, I know these questions are only speculation but they're interesting questions because I can come back in a year's time and ask you the same question again and see if you answer the same or if you're changing.
TS. You can try me.
POM. What if there was an election among the white electorate and the CP secured less than 50% of the Afrikaans vote, where would that leave you?
TS. We will still work for the people that want to remain an Afrikaans nation.
POM. No matter what happens?
TS. Apart from what happens.
POM. Would you work within the system? Would you work according to constitutional means?
TS. We will have to comply with the laws of the country, we're still complying with the laws of the country.
POM. At what point do you see the Afrikaans people being compelled to mount what would be tantamount to an armed struggle on their own behalf or do you ever see that happening?
TS. Yes, at a stage where we are more or less organised and we can with a certain amount of success defend a certain piece of the country. Then of course we will go to armed struggle if we are threatened there but we're very far from that. At the moment there's no sense in shooting a person here or shooting a person there, we're too spread, we're far from each other and what are you doing it for? We can't, unless we take the government but it's even a question of if we take the government today by force or by revolution what are you going to do with this country? There's so much wrong with the country that you cannot right it.
POM. When you talk to your neighbours and other members, just ordinary members, of the CP, again I want to go back to this question of fears, what are they afraid would happen to them if black majority rule were to occur?
TS. In the first place for 300 years now we have conserved our white skins, our western descent. That's the main thing. Actually we didn't want it but it has happened like that that we have formed a new nation which did not happen in South America or in North America. In North America it's forming, you are being quite different from the English people really to a certain extent, but in SA we're a very clear new nation not only from European people but from English people, from French people, we formed a very clear nation with a very definite new language which did not happen in Australia or in South America. That's happened. We want to conserve that and our own people have, over the 300 plus years that we've been here, conserved that white descent absolutely positively all the way. We've got no right to abolish that but with our laws being abolished at the moment we are bound to become a mixed nation and a mixed nation is even worse than a true black nation. If you have the true Zulus on their own, they're a lovely people, or just a few miles from here the Tswana in Bophuthatswana, I've watched those and helped them. I've been working there and helped them a lot.
POM. Where do you work there?
TS. As an Accountant, helping them in their businesses there. You can go and look at the development they've got there, it's absolutely astonishing, and they are driving out the non-Tswana blacks. We've got to take them here. They are forming what we think of forming for the Afrikaans people, for the white Afrikaans people, they have been forming and they have it for the Tswanas. So we say why can't we have it for the white people also?
POM. Again, getting back to what Afrikaners might be afraid of if there were a black government.
TS. In the first place we're afraid of becoming a mixed nation, a very low quality mixed nation. That's what we want to preserve, we want to preserve our white descent. Then what we're also afraid of is losing our language as an official language. Then also the whole country degrading to a third world. We've built up a first world, as you've seen for yourself here, I think we live at the level of the first world. I don't know whether you agree or not with me, but we more or less have a first world level and we will definitely be going down to a third world country. Go and have a look at Namibia, South West Africa. Go and have a look at Zimbabwe. We knew Zimbabwe when it was ruled by the white people and go and have a look at Zimbabwe now. You will be becoming a third world country and we do not want that. We want to remain, even if it's only in a small portion of SA.
POM. Would Afrikaners be prepared to accept a lower standard of living initially in their own homeland?
TS. I think so.
POM. Do you see this as a geographical area, like one geographical area?
TS. I've got an open mind on where exactly, there are different societies that have different ideas, are working on that, what we call growth points.
POM. Could you give me some of the ones that are suggested?
TS. You see the Orania Werkers, that's a society here, they've got growth points here in Eastern Transvaal at Morgenzon. I'm chairman of a housing company that's built flats there. Then Morgenzon, and they want to take it down to more or less Port Elizabeth or just west of PE, Mossel Bay, something like that. They've started also a growth point there. But it's going to take generations. The AWB has got another idea of going to Natal, north of Durban up to Richards Bay, St Lucia and coming through to Transvaal here, making that a portion. Dr Carel Boschoff he's got the idea, which I like very much, which is the western parts around the Orange River. There were studies made during the rule of Dr Verwoerd, his father-in-law, on the development of a fifth growth area which has only started with the building of the Verwoerd Dam and the other big dam, there are two big dams which were built to control the Orange River. That whole area up to the western coast can be developed from that.
POM. This is a rather sparse area at the moment?
TS. It's a sparse area at the moment. You see we find that here in the PWV it would be impossible to sort out the various nations.
POM. Would you see it, if that were to happen, that whatever government is in the rest of SA would compensate you for leaving and provide some of the money for the infrastructure?
TS. At the moment I think we will have to do it for ourselves under the existing laws. I've got ideas myself. In our company law we've got provision for what we call a share block company and I'm actually running an old age home here on that basis. I'm chairman of the board.
POM. How does that work?
TS. You buy a unit and you've got to buy the shares you but you don't get transfer of the unit, it doesn't become your absolute property, you buy the right, the lifelong right to live there, to use it, and you also must get a share and you must be able to vote according to the law in the company.
POM. So they're shareholders and rather than occupiers.
TS. Yes, but you do it under a contract and the contract says whom you may bring in there and who you may not and the contract says also that the moment you die the unit will be bought back from your estate or when you leave the unit will be bought back, you can get your money back and you can even get an increase in value back. But you have the lifelong right of that estate but it's controlled by a board in which you have a vote. Now you can arrange that thing so that you can make your ideas of keeping out blacks compulsory and you can also do that on a big property. You can give persons, one can erect this factory and another one that factory and the other one can farm, so you can build a society under the existing laws and that's my own idea. Then at a certain stage, when you are a strong society, you can say, well now we want independence. That's my idea but that's not going to happen in my life, it might happen in my grandchildren's life.
POM. Is there an understanding among members of the party and voters that this securing of an independent state is going to take a long time, it's not going to happen overnight?
TS. Yes, yes, oh yes. You see we were on our way with �
POM. So basically then they know, do you think they know that there's going to be majority rule and even while there is majority rule they will still continue the task of - ?
TS. Yes, because the black man if he lives here and he works here he's got to have his rights here and he's got to be able to vote. The main thing why we have so many strikes and crossing the law, disobedience of the law by the blacks is because they hate the white man's law. They won't side up with any white man because they want their own laws, it's inherent. The whole bible is on it, the bible talks of peoples and their own peoples and God giving each people its own territory. That's got to happen for the blacks also. We've done that for the Tswanas here. We're busy, the Zulus refused independence because they've got an idea of ruling the whole country, but they will have to fight the Tswanas. I don't think the Indians would like to be under the rule of the Zulus. The Indians are also a portion of our country, they should also have their country with their own laws which they long for.
. A member of my family has been a professor at the University of the North, the black university here outside Pietersburg, I don't know whether you know of it? It's quite a large university for blacks.
POM. Is this a close relative?
TS. Not very close, it's the brother of a daughter-in-law of mine. We visited him there and he said their main problem was that the different peoples, all blacks, it was a black university, never collaborated. They have their student committees and a Tswana will not vote for a Zulu.
POM. What is the name of the university?
TS. University of the North.
POM. Where is it located?
TS. It's located outside Pietersburg, or east of Pietersburg, it's located there. The idea was, that's one of the ideas, you've also got a university for the coloured people, the University of the Western Cape, more or less on the same basis. But you have white professors and black professors. White professors teaching them with the idea that they eventually withdraw and it's completely black professors. The main drawback there was that the different peoples in the blacks they never wanted to collaborate but they only collaborate on one thing and that is on ousting the white people but once they've got the white people out they start fighting amongst themselves.
. You've seen that whole thing over the whole of Africa. These African states that liberated themselves they simply went for the smaller peoples that are not ruling the strongest people here. You see that in Zimbabwe a lot, the Shonas are the ruling majority and the other nation, there are two peoples there, they get murdered and they get suppressed.
POM. Coming back to SA, what do you think is going to happen in the next year? There are two scenarios, one is that the government will have more talks with the ANC and then bring other political parties into the talks and that they will try to reach some consensus on what to do when they draw up a new constitution. The other is that there will be an election for a Constituent Assembly along Namibian lines that will draw up a constitution. What do you think is going to happen if you look at the next twelve months?
TS. We're just watching it more or less from the outside. We're very interested in seeing De Klerk promising that the rights of the whites will not be abolished. On the other hand we've seen it that the black people, especially the ANC who are the leaders at the moment, don't want to give away, don't want to compromise to the slightest extent. They completely want a one man one vote government with no restrictions. What we believe is that any reserves for other peoples, like the white people, built in is only a bit of paper that's absolutely useless. We're watching it because he's been promising us that we will not lose our rights. On the other hand we cannot see him gaining any agreement with the blacks without giving up everything, so we're just watching what's going to happen.
POM. When do you expect black majority rule to happen by?
TS. I think it will be quite a while still, four or five years but it can't be much longer, then something will have to happen. Something will have to happen you see. At the moment it's not clear to us what will happen but the moment he concedes to one man one vote it's finished with white rule. That we've got to realise, it's completely finished with white rule.
POM. What's your opinion of Nelson Mandela?
TS. Well he's a crook, he's a murderer. There's no doubt about that.
POM. Yet here he travels the world and is received as an international statesman.
TS. I think the world is sick to accept a man like that. I can't believe that the leading people in any country are so ignorant because we're not so ignorant on what's happening in America, we're not so ignorant on what's happening in Ireland. We know more or less what's happening there and they should also know what's happening here and to elevate a man like that, that's been murdering and who's not abolished it yet, he still writes on his bombings and all that type of thing and he still goes for sanctions against SA even while talking with us and we think it's the most arrogant actions you can have. There's no doubt about it.
POM. What about De Klerk? What's your opinion of him?
TS. Well he's a complete traitor to the Afrikaans people. There's no doubt about it. He's a complete traitor. You see also PW Botha is now out of politics and we've said we don't want him back, he's a traitor. We just don't want him back, he must just stay quiet now and live the end of his life.
POM. I think that's what he's going to do.
TS. And we just don't want him back because he's been a traitor.
POM. And the ANC?
TS. You see the ANC is not a South African organisation. We realise that the ANC is more or less an organisation which has been built on the aspirations of the black people to become independent peoples. We are in sympathy with the black peoples to become independent peoples but they must also have sympathy with our aspirations to become a people and they built themselves over the whole country and they've become a very strong world-wide organisation. Their head office is not in SA, Mandela is not their leader, he's only a vice leader, a sub-leader working in SA. In other words it's imperialism for them to want to rule SA if they want to through their organisers. The problem is that the black peoples are very easily influenced and they more or less on this basis bring together quite a few nations but the moment the white people are out of the way they will fight amongst themselves.
POM. Who do you think controls the ANC? Who is Mandela answerable to?
TS. Well they've got their head bodies in Lusaka and they're more or less devoted to the communists but that's a sub-matter. They more or less are communists. Where those people get their instructions from, I think the world-wide money powers they make use of them, they make use of this situation and they more or less guide them but I haven't had time to read these things.
POM. When you think of yourself do you think of yourself as an Afrikaner first and then a South African or a South African who happens to be an Afrikaner?
TS. Well I'm in the first place an Afrikaner but I've got no other country than SA because our roots are here. We are Afrikaners because we came to SA. Once you go to another country you cannot stay an Afrikaner.
POM. Thank you very much for taking all this time. During your life how have you formed your opinions of blacks? Through observing them or reading about them or what?
TS. Yes, we have been living more or less amongst them or with them my whole life since I was a child.
POM. Didn't they live in townships then?
TS. Yes they lived in townships but they worked for us and even their youngsters came and worked for us. We played with some of our own age, one would play, but there was always that difference you see.
POM. How did your opinion of them form?
TS. We saw them as proper people. We never hated a black. We were brought up to respect an older black in the same way as we respected white people but we were always aware of the big difference. When I was a child the black people were still very much behind, they were still very, very undeveloped. I remember, for instance, saying to a friend of mine, "Look at that black man, that kaffir, he wears shoes." It was an exceptional thing to see a black man wearing shoes in the late twenties. Another thing was that I remember the black women coming with big basins of wild fruit, blackberries and strawberries, no, not a strawberry it's called another one, there were two kinds which we knew well, they came with that and my mother used to barter with them for old clothes. She bought it from them for old clothes. We were used, up to when I was already working, if you have an old pair of trousers you give it to a black man and he's absolutely very glad to accept it. Today you can't give an old pair of trousers to a black man, he will rather give it to you. They have developed.
POM. What do you see as the differences now between blacks and whites?
TS. It's a major development difference. It's a completely major background difference. They've got a completely different culture and outlook than we have.
POM. What would you say are the main differences in outlook?
TS. They think, definitely they speak a different language, they have different habits. They have a different attitude towards work and their whole background is completely different. How can I explain it to you. You see, you must remember that the blacks they have a major struggle, they've got a bigger struggle than we have because that background is so far behind. They were a nomadic, hunting people. They never had any architecture, they never had any seafaring. They never had any written language. They only had a speaking language. Now it's us whites that have taught them to put their language in writing. So they've got to work from that side and they've got to exist in an over-populated world on a small portion where they can't hunt and move from one place to the other any longer. You've got the same thing in the east, there in the Nepal mountains where these tribes used to move from one place to the other. They've also got to adjust themselves. These people have got a major problem and we've got to help them. We've got to help the black people but we want to help them to build their own and in the meantime we want to build our own also and remain a white people. Our main point is remaining a white people, by white I mean a western cultured people. You must build a Negro people, their peoples, they've got their backgrounds also and they are people on their own also the same way as the difference is between a Xhosa and a Zulu. A Xhosa will never want to become a Zulu and a Zulu will never want to become a Xhosa even if they're both black people and their development is more or less the same.
POM. Thank you. I think we should stop there if that's OK. That's terrific, a good start.


Last October 2017, I received a devastating news.
One of my church brothers passed away.
My heart is broken after I learned about his passing. My former church/choir friends went to say our last respects, and celebrate his short and sweet life, and his legacy as a church servant, choir member, engineer, brother and friend.
I remember having a chat with him before on being in our respective MADZ Et Al choirs (he is a member of Manila Chamber Singers and I am part of Coro De San Sebastian), on our being the first members of Lagablab ng Espiritu Santo Chorale, and on the MADZ itself. we last saw each other was during the MADZ' last concert before they went on tour last year, he was still working (on a saturday!) when we had a chat on what's going on with our lives. Little did I know that it was the last.
Months later after his passing, I got an invite for the MCS' concert. it was a tribute concert for their comrade, my church brother, Kuya Emon.
Another Sky – MCS' tribute concert for Raymond Caunca.
I have known MCS for years since CDSS had joined their yearly Colors of Worship concert. this is actually my first time to watch them.
MCS has done this beautifully. very song in their lineup corresponds to their loving memories with him – song that they last rehearsed, songs that are arranged for his solo, songs that he personally loved. Songs that his family loved the most that gave them peace.
MCS is his second home. and he is well loved.
He is their leader, tour manager, tenor, friend and brother. a part of their family.
Their gesture of love, this wonderful tribute is something that touches me. Ate karren (Kuya's brother) told me they were surprised that this tribute concert will be this big, I can imagine how much they were overwhelmed by this gesture of love from the group.
So thank you MCS, for letting me experience this kind of love.
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Album Review: Mike Shinoda - Post Traumatic - GENRE IS DEAD!
This definition of the psychological concept of "Catharsis" (as defined by Europe's first rock star Aristotle) perfectly describes Mike Shinoda's new solo album Post Traumatic. As the title suggests, the record's central theme is Shinoda's very personal post traumatic experience after the tragic death of his bandmate, Linkin Park's lead singer, Chester Bennington. The 16 tracks on the record describe Shinoda's journey from a place of utter despair to the beginning of a new chapter in his life. It makes sense that Post Traumatic is the first release under Mike Shinoda's own name after recording as Fort Minor for over a decade. Post Traumatic describes an act of extreme personal growth. A rebirth.
The album's first track is fittingly called "Place To Start." In the lyrics of the song, Shinoda asks "Did somebody else define me?/ Can I put the past behind me?" – an indication of the inner emotional turmoil. But fast forward, a day before the release of Post Traumatic, Mike has answered these questions himself. The melancholic track is a great opener to the record. It gives the listener the chance to emotionally prepare for this journey.
"Place To Start" is followed by the tracks "Over Again" and "Watching As I Fall," two songs that channel the anger Shinoda has felt during the aftermath of Bennington's death. The lyrics are very straight-forward, so it gives the listener a good impression of how hard it can be to pick up the pieces after a tragedy. All three songs were already released on the Post Traumatic EP on January 25th.
"When a loved one passes away, many people, myself included, describe the feeling as 'being lost at sea.' There's a feeling of lack of direction and lack of control.
After the first four tracks all related to Chester Bennington's passing, Mike Shinoda almost breaks down the fourth wall with the next tune "About You." In it, he sings about the fear that no matter which songs he's going to release in the future, they will automatically be interpreted as creative outlets to deal with the death of his bandmate. If the listener actually listens to the lyrics, it will cause him to realize that this song is the beginning of a new chapter and they have to adapt their approach of the next tracks accordingly. The song is a radio-friendly hip-hop number featuring the great vocals of blackbear.
The following half of Post Traumatic has a more diverse sound to it. The variety in style demonstrates Shinoda's talent and affinity to all genres of music. While the first half of the album is incredibly precious due to its emotional content, it's the second half that intrigues me more. The lyrics are still raw and show emotional depth, but the music is more hopeful, almost inviting to see the world from a different, better, angle now. It shows what we can expect from the artist "Mike Shinoda" in the future and especially what he has to offer. I think many of the songs will surprise the audience.
"Ghosts" is an infectious danceable and uplifting tune. Its video was released last week and features the funny characters "Boris" and "Miss Oatmeal," a statement to show that it's important to laugh again after the months of grief.
I made a sock puppet video because it took me months to feel like I deserved to have fun. So I celebrated it, and I have no regrets. I wanted to make you guys smile.
You deserve to smile. You deserve to have fun. You deserve to live.
"Ghosts" is followed by two incredibly strong tracks which feature some great artists. "Make It Up As I Go" features guest vocals by Illinois singer and songwriter K.Flay. Her voice has a very unique sound to it. It's somewhat gritty and rough, which immediately captured my attention. Its beat is again very danceable and radio friendly. I can see myself dancing to this on a warm summer night with a big glass of Caipirinha.
"Lift Off," featuring Chino Moreno and Machine Gun Kelly, starts with a precious melody played on the piano, but then Shinoda starts rapping and the melody is joined by a beat. The way his vocals enter the song causes an amazing clash of styles. The combination of the piano and the rough rap parts makes the song's sound so interesting. It's reminiscent of Jay-Z's "Empire State Of Mind" and we all know how that one ended.
While "IOU" isn't very accessible, it's quite refreshing because of this very reason. All in all, Post Traumatic, is strikingly radio friendly, so a little roughness feels good.
The album continues with two absolute bangers. "Running From My Shadow" featuring Grandson is definitely one of the top tracks on it. Grandson's verse is the special ingredient, giving the track some more spice. The song is followed by "World's On Fire", an atmospheric track directed at the person who gives Shinoda the support he needs to go on when the rest of his world comes crashing down.
The music sadly lacks the strength of the song's message, but with all the great tunes on Post Traumatic this doesn't really matter at all. The album is a journey and I really hope that all the kids out there listen to it front to back at least once. You just have to experience it in full to really get to the depth of it.
Unfortunately, the album has one weakness: its sheer length. Many of the songs deal with heavy personal topics which is amazing, but listening to all 16 tracks is very draining. Maybe though that is exactly what Shinoda wanted. Grief is not easy. Grief is a long process and even though the record ends on a hopeful note, Shinoda's journey is far from over. It would almost feel wrong to get a perfectly assembled 12-track album. Go out, buy the record, listen to it with your friends or alone on your headphones. But listen to it and go through all the emotions. It's exhausting but also the best feeling ever.
Mike Shinoda's Post Traumatic is released on Friday, June 15th via Warner Bros. Music.
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Central need schemas and response to trauma : is sexual identity a variable?
This study explored the relationship between life events and central need schemas(i.e. basic assumptions about oneself and the world). The hypotheses tested were 1) people who have experienced traumatic stress will have more negative or disrupted schemas in areas of central need than those who haven't experienced traumatic stress, 2) the schemas of lesbian women, gay men, and bisexual men and women who have not experienced significant traumatic stress differ from those of heterosexual men and women who have not experienced significant traumatic stress, and 3) one's sexual identity is a variable in how one responds to traumatic stress. Results did not support the first or third hypotheses. However, support was found for the second hypothesis. Lack of support for two of the hypotheses is believed to be due to the specific data analysis used for the study A discussion of the results and suggestions for future research are then presented.


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A little less conversation, a little more action, please: The EU and the TRIPS Waiver
by Justus Dreyling
by Spencer D'Avis under CC BY 4.0 International
Two weeks after the United States declared support for a temporary waiver on intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines, the EU is still struggling to agree on a joint position. Germany where BioNTech – one of the leading mRNA vaccine developers – is headquartered is leading opposition against the so-called TRIPS Waiver. The fact that many EU member states are reluctant to consider this instrument may prolong the COVID-19 pandemic.
An unexpected ally
The TRIPS Waiver initially put forward by India and South Africa would allow WTO members to temporarily suspend intellectual property protections to make diagnostics, therapies, and vaccines more widely available and more affordable. TRIPS stands for the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, which is a core treaty of the World Trade Organization. Wikimedia Deutschland supports the TRIPS Waiver.
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The truth is out there: 8 steps to tackle disinformation in the EU
by Naphsica Papanicolaou
The Artist's Father, Reading a Newspaper by Albert Engström, in Public Domain
In the context of dangers magnified by the spread of disinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic and the mixed results produced by the voluntary Code of Practice on Disinformation, the European Commission called for input from stakeholders on this topic. It is as much a fight for trustworthy knowledge, as it is against false online disinformation. This struggle is hardwired into the Wikimedia movement, starting with the very first Wikipedia entry.
Wikimedia community in search for truth
Unbalanced exposure of citizens to misleading or fabricated information is a major challenge for Europe and the world today. There is no technical or financial magic bullet: all actors in the digital and political ecosystem must work to implement concrete and coherent actions to improve access to trustworthy information sources and contain the spread of online disinformation. We need an array of cascading long-term policies and actions.
Wikimedia communities have always worked towards creating credible and reliable sources of information and have always sought to recognise and limit the spread of unreliable sources and non-factual information. Specific attention and community rules exist across the projects on estimating which sources are reliable and can be used on Wikipedia, for instance.
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TERREG adopted without a final vote – what to expect and what it means
by Anna Mazgal
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The Regulation on addressing the dissemination of terrorist content online (TERREG) has been adopted without a final vote thanks to a peculiarity in European Parliament procedure. The dangers of content filtering, over-policing of content by state and private actors, and the cross-border prerogatives for governments will now become law without a final stamp from the elected representatives of the European citizens.
What happened (and what didn't)
A Plenary debate had been scheduled to discuss the draft legislation one last time. However, the voting list released for the Terrorist Content Regulation specified it would be approved without a final vote. A text that goes into so-called "second reading" – as the file in question was – is considered "approved without vote", unless one of the political groups expressly requests a plenary vote. None of them did, so TERREG is considered as passed.
UPDATE: TERREG was published in the Official Journal of the EU on May 17th 2021. It enters into force 20 days from publication (June 7th 2021). It will apply from June 7th 2022.
On April 20th, LIBE adopted what is now the final text with 52 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) in favour of the draft legislation, including the Dutch MEP Sophia in 't Veld, a powerhouse in privacy and fundamental rights debates in the European Parliament. The 14 votes rejecting it came from members of the Greens with the TERREG Shadow Rapporteur Patrick Breyer at the helm, and the Left.
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How the DSA can help Wikipedia – or at least not hurt it
by EU Policy Team
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The Digital Services Act is probably the most consequential dossier of the current EU legislative term. It will most likely become a formative set of rules on content moderation for the internet. It also means that it will shape the way Wikipedia and its sister projects operate. One can only hope that the DSA doesn't try to fix what isn't broken, specifically our community-based content moderation model. What are the scenarios?
A quick history of recent platform liability legislation
One of the reasons why the DSA became a thing, is the growing conviction that online intermediaries – from social media, through various user-generated content hosting platforms, to online marketplaces – will not fix the problems with illegal content through voluntary actions. In the previous legislative term we saw two proposals to change the responsibilities and liability of platforms. The focus was on types of content: copyrighted material (in the infamous Directive in Copyright in the Digital Single Market) and so-called terrorist content (in the Regulation on Dissemination of Terrorist content Online, or TERREG, with its final vote on April 28).
The topical focus has its limitations, such as the number of legal regimes one platform would need to conform to simultaneously. This time around, the European Commission wants to impose rules on platforms that would cover all sorts of an intermediaries, content and services.
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What happens in Geneva shouldn't stay in Geneva: Wikimedia and international copyright negotiations
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The fight over the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market has highlighted that European copyright rules affect the operation of Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects. The global-level regulatory framework is equally important, and that fight takes place in Geneva, at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). This is why Wikimedia Deutschland and the Free Knowledge Advocacy Group are committed to increasing transparency around WIPO negotiations on international copyright law, and shaping WIPO-level policy outcomes. This blog post is the prelude to an introductory series into the topic.
WIPO: What it is and why it matters
Intellectual property law is often considered an arcane matter, which is best left to lawyers. However, intellectual property law in general and copyright in particular have enormous economic and social implications, as they govern access to knowledge. Copyright specifically determines under what conditions creative works, such as textbooks and other educational materials as well as large portions of the world's cultural heritage, can be accessed and used. This also applies to how users may incorporate sources and illustrations on Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, etc.
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E-Evidence: trilogues kick off on safeguards vs. efficiency
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The Regulation on European production and preservation orders for electronic evidence in criminal matters (E-Evidence) aims to create clear rules on how a judicial authority in one Member State can request electronic evidence from a service provider in another Member State. One such use case would be requesting user data from a platform in another EU country during an investigation. We wrote about our main issues in the past.
What Wikimedia worries about
At Wikimedia we were originally worried mainly about a new data category – access data. This would mean that prosecutors would be able to demand information such as IP addresses, date and time of use, and the "interface" accessed, without judicial oversight. In the Wikipedia context, however, this information would also reveal which articles a user has read and which images she has looked at.
The second aspect we care about is whether the service provider's hosting country's authority will have the right to intervene in some cases where fundamental rights of its citizens are concerned. We know that unfortunately not all EU Member States have good rule of law records, which calls for safeguards at least against potential systemic abuse. Again, knowing which Wikipedia articles or which Wikimedia Commons images someone opened is information that should be hard to get and only in rare and well justified cases.
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Sanctioning the giants – will the internet be better with the Digital Markets Act?
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Many would agree that the issues plaguing the online ecosystem are too many to fix for one act of law. So the European Commission drafted two legislative proposals: the long expected Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA). Will the DMA prove to be an adequate instrument in the efforts to improve competition in the digital market? Or is it a missed chance to fix structural problems in access to information and knowledge?
The rogues are rogue because we let them
It was not a secret that a regulatory push in the realm of competition was considered by the European Commission. First, because of the multiple probes into practices by big tech, which have been launched by the EC in recent years. Second, because Margrethe Vestager, the Commissioner for Competition and EU's Executive Vice-President responsible for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age had said so. Third and finally, because it is enough to look at a handful of internet companies which, rather than competing on the market, create global markets of their own, to see that some sort of intervention could benefit users and businesses alike.
The European Union offers a unique environment, where regulating a market influences all 27 Member States and almost 448 million people. Therefore, even globally operating companies will accept a legislative "offer" imposed across the federated part of the continent, even if it is tough on them.
UPDATE: we submitted feedback to the EC consultations on DMA
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Dear MEPs, say NO to terrorist Content Regulation
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We have the date of the final TERREG vote – it will happen during the Plenary of the European Parliament, on April 28. The MEPs will be presented with a regulation that is too blurry, too broad, and that infringes too much on our right to express political views and to access information. Together with EDRi, Access Now, Civil Liberties Union for Europe and over 60 other organisations, we urge the MEPs to stand on the right side of history and reject this proposal.
In the open letter, 60+ human rights organisations and journalist federations cite the danger of content filtering, the overpolicing of content by state and private actors, and the cross-border prerogatives as main reasons why the proposal should be rejected.
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E-Evidence: Let's Keep Reader Data Well Protected!
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A new EU regulation aims to streamline the process by which a prosecutor from one EU Member State can request electronic evidence from a server in another Member State. As current procedures are messy, this is necessary. But the current proposal would also mean that prosecutors could request data about who has read which Wikipedia article without judicial oversight and without a possibility for the country's authority that hosts the platform to intervene in case of fundamental rights breaches. That is worrisome!
The Wikimedia Foundation gathers very little about the users and editors on its projects, including Wikipedia. This is how the Wikimedia movement can ensure that everyone is really free to speak their mind and, for instance, share information that may be critical of a government in the country they live in. However, the Foundation's servers do record the IP addresses of users who have accessed Wikipedia, and the individual articles they have viewed. In accordance with the Wikimedia community's support for strong privacy protections, the Foundation keeps this information for a few months as part of the way its servers function before it is deleted. Allowing access to these IP addresses and the articles that the users behind those IP addresses have read — without judicial oversight — is the issue with the European Commission and Council proposals for an E-Evidence Regulation.
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TERREG: trilogue brings compromise in final weeks of German Presidency
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Perhaps it was it the perspective of "losing face" by transferring this hot potato of a proposal to the next Presidency that created the pain point to press with the hosts of the negotiations. The European Parliament delegation managed to get quite a few of the issues they wanted ironed out and there will be no more trilogue on the proposal for the terrorist content regulation.
We bring you an update on what is the final outcome of the negotiations, what happens next, and a bit of a summary of what it means for us Wikimedians and for the world at large.
Successes and problems
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TNO is a Dutch independent contract research organization, one of the major ones in Europe. Based on its expertise and research in technological, policy, business and social innovation, TNO connects people and knowledge in order to create innovations which strengthen the competition position of companies and societal welfare. With a staff of approximately 3000 and an annual turnover of 565 million Euros, TNO is carrying out research in order to achieve impact on five themes addressing the Societal Challenges: Industry; Healthy Living; Defence, Safety & Security; Urbanisation; Energy. TNO functions as an intermediary between basic research organisations and industry. By translating scientific knowledge into practical applications, TNO contributes to the innovation capacity of businesses and government.
TNO is involved in many international projects (about 30% of the market turnover), including EU-funded collaborations (Technology Platforms, Horizon 2020, KIC's ). In the theme of Industry applied research is carried out for a wide range of industrial branches, including ICT. The focus is on innovation in the areas of high-tech systems and materials, manufacturing, the sustainable chemical industry, space applications and information society, represented by the Program Networked Information. The following Research lines are followed with Networked Information: Technical Robust infrastructure, Quality & reliability, Big Data Evolution, Media & Content Delivery, Creative Industries, Information Enabled Empowerment, Privacy & e-Identity, Embedded Systems.
In the research group of Networks, main activities around media technologies focus on research and development for media production and delivery, in collaboration with Dutch and European telecom operators, broadcasters and service providers. The group is highly active in international standardisation, including MPEG, HbbTV, DVB and IETF. The research group has participated in many successful collaborative projects, including the EU-funded projects FascinatE, WebinOS, HBB-NEXT, STEER and EXPERIMEDIA, and currently leads the ITEA3 project MOS2S, on media orchestration. In 2014, the group participated in three real-world field trials, co-located with the 2014 World Rowing championships in Amsterdam and the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.


There is a small village on Scotland's border with England. Thousands of people travel to it every St Valentine's Day. Some people get married there and many couples go through mock wedding ceremonies to "renew their marriage vows". This village, Gretna Green, is sometimes called Britain's wedding capital.
Its romantic reputation began 250 years ago. In 1754, English Parliament passed a law banning young people under the age of twenty – one to get married without their parents' permission. In Scotland, however, this law did not apply. Traditionally, a man and a woman over the age of sixteen could get married by declaring themselves husband and wife in front of two witnesses.
So, young couples under 21 flee to Scotland. And the first village on the Scottish side of the border was Gretna Green. Early Gretna runaways got married in the local Blacksmith's Shop. Gretna's blacksmith was the most important person in the village and Scotland's marriage law allowed any responsible adult to conduct wedding ceremonies.
The ceremony was short and simple. The young people were asked their names and addresses, asked if they were single and if they were both there of their own free will. On their "yes" answers, blacksmith filled out the certificate and proceeded to the heart of the ceremony including the groom placing a ring on his bride's left hand, and an admonition, "What God joins together let no man put asunder." Then he declared the couple husband and wife.
The weddings in Gretna Green became so popular that the blacksmith could no longer satisfy the demand on his own and the village had to get more "priests". And if a couple had come unaccompanied, the witnesses were quickly found. One of the last "priests", Richard Rennison, married 5,147 couples in the Blacksmith's Shop! Couples have been delivered to the anvil by all kinds of transport: lorry, fire engine, horseback. Sometimes the wedding parties arrive on motorbikes dressed in black leather. And traditional kilts for Scottish bride-grooms are still popular.
Weddings for St Valentine's Day have to be booked three months in advance.


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Michael Mind Project war ein deutsches DJ- und Produzentenduo im Bereich der House- und Dance-Musik, das aus Jens Kindervater und Frank Sanders bestand.

Karriere

Anfänge und Produktion
Die beiden Produzenten aus Gräfendorf legten anfangs unter dem Pseudonym "Michael Mind" auf. Ab Ende 2009 veröffentlichen sie ihre Singles als "Michael Mind Project". Bis zu ihrer Auflösung standen sie beim deutschen Dance-Label Kontor Records unter Vertrag. Für die visuelle Darstellung des Projektes und Videos wurde das Projekt vom Illustrator Bastian Sobtzick, der durch seine Arbeiten für Callejon, Heaven Shall Burn, Apocalyptica, und Rammstein bekannt ist, unterstützt. Neben der Veröffentlichung eigener Singles trat das Duo auch als Remixer und Produzenten für andere Interpreten in Erscheinung.

2007: Erste Erfolge
Das Michael Mind Project wurde, durch die Idee den Manfred Mann's Earth Band-Klassiker Blinded by the Light in einer Dance-Version zu covern, ins Leben gerufen. Aufgrund des Erfolgs der Disco Boys mit einem anderen Hit der Manfred Mann's Earth Band, For You, wurde zunächst von einer Realisierung des Projekts Abstand genommen. Doch nach der positiven Resonanz des Produzententeams "Sunloverz" (Frank Sanders und Bernd Johnen) wurde der Track schließlich dann doch von beiden gemeinsam fertig produziert. Blinded by the Light konnte über mehrere Wochen Platz 1 der Dancechart behaupten und erreichte auch die Top-20 der deutschen Single-Charts sowie Rang 51 in Österreich.

Im August 2007 erschien die Nachfolge-Single, Ride Like the Wind, eine neue Version des 1980er Hits von Christopher Cross. Sie war insgesamt 7 Wochen in den deutschen Charts vertreten und konnte bis auf Platz 65 vordringen.

Am 19. Oktober 2007 veröffentlichten sie ihre erste Kompilation, die sie für Kontor Record mixten. Hierauf sind verschiedene Club-Hits von Künstlern aus der ganzen Welt zu finden.

2008–2010: Debüt-Album My Mind
Im Jahre 2008 erschien erneut ein Remake. Diesmal coverten sie den Song Show Me Love, der ursprünglich von Robin S. stammt. Er wurde zu einer ihrer erfolgreichsten Titel und erreichte hohe Chartplatzierungen in Deutschland und Österreich.

Im Oktober desselben Jahres veröffentlichten sie ihr Debütalbum. Es trägt den Titel My Mind und enthält neben allen bisher erschienenen Titeln einige wenige Eigenkompositionen und Coverversionen. Das Album konnte jedoch keine Chartplatzierungen erreichen und war deshalb eher weniger populär.

Ihre erste Single im Jahre 2009 trägt den Namen Baker Street und enthält den Gesang und Saxophon-Part des gleichnamigen Lieds von Gerry Rafferty aus dem Jahre 1978. Auch dieser Song war in den Top-100 vieler Länder vertreten. Ihre höchste Platzierung erreichten sie in Frankreich mit Platz 11.

Ihre zweite Single im Jahr 2009 trägt den Titel Love's Gonna Get You. Sie erschien im Mai 2009, konnte aber erst im Juni die Charts erreichen. Es ist eine weitere Coverversion. Das Original stammt von Bizarre Inc aus dem Jahr 1992. Hier wirkte erstmals die Sängerin Caroline von Brünken mit, die seitdem etliche Lieder für das Michael Mind Project sang.

Am 28. August 2009 wurde die Single Gotta Let You Go veröffentlicht. Dieser Titel ist wieder eine Coverversion. Er erschien erstmals 1994 von Dominica. Dieser Song konnte sich nur in den deutschen Charts platzieren. Bei diesem Song wirkte der Rapper Old Silverback mit, der auch bis heute bei vielen Songs die Rap-Parts übernimmt.

Umbenennung in "Michael Mind Project"
Zur Veröffentlichung der Single How Does It Feel im Jahre am 27. November 2009 wurde "Michael Mind" in "Michael Mind Project" umbenannt. Mit dem Zusatz "Project" sollte der Fantasiename betont werden, denn durch die Ähnlichkeit eines Solo-Projekts-Pseudonym und dem wenigen Erscheinen von Sanders auf CD-Covern oder bei Auftritten, wurde davon ausgegangen, dass Michael Mind ein Solo-Projekt ist. How Does It Feel war der erste Vorbote des 2013 erschienenen Albums State of Mind. Der Titel hielt sich vorerst drei Wochen in den Deutschen Single-Charts, stieg aber 2010 wieder ein. Ihre Top-Platzierung war Rang 67.

Feel Your Body erschien am 16. April 2010. Hier wirkte neben den Rap-Einlagen von Old Silberback erstmals die Sängerin Caroline Von Brünken mit. Auch diese Single war 4 Wochen in den Charts und erreichte Platz 67. Der Song ist die erste Eigenkomposition.

Mit dem Titel Delirious präsentierte das Aachener Produzenten-Duo im Jahre 2010 erneut eine Eigenkomposition als Single. An der Produktion beteiligt waren die US-Amerikanerin Many Ventrice (auch bekannt durch ihre Songs mit Ian Carey, Rick Ross feat. Kanye West), welche die Lead-Vocals sang und Carlprit (auch bekannt durch Cascadas Evacuate the Dancefloor), welche die Rap-Teile übernahm. Das Singlepaket umfasst neun verschiedene Mixes, welche unter anderem der deutsche DJ Homeaffairs und der französische DJ Chris Kaeser beisteuerten.

Hook Her Up erschien am 19. November 2010 und enthält wieder Vocals von Caroline Von Brünken und Old Silverback. Der Song wurde allerdings nur als Promo-Single herausgebracht und erschien nur digital. Diese und die Single Delirios veröffentlichten sie, aufgrund einer kurzen Trennung von Kontor Records ohne Plattenlabel.

2011
Am 6. Mai 2011 wurde Ready or Not als Single veröffentlicht. Ready or Not stieg bis auf Platz 55 der Deutschen Charts, wo er 3 Wochen verweilte. Ebenso wurde die Single in Deutschland zum offiziellen Fußball-Song der Frauenfußball-Weltmeisterschaft.

Die Single Rio de Janeiro erschien am 4. November 2011. Der Song erreichte im September 2011 die Top-60 der deutschen Single-Charts.

2012: Erste Erfolge in der Schweiz mit Feeling So Blue

Im Februar veröffentlichte der amerikanischen Sänger Jason Derulo den Song Breathing als Single, der vom Michael Mind Project produziert und geremixt wurde.

Im Sommer 2012 erschien die Single Feeling So Blue, bei welcher Dante Thomas als Gastmusiker mitwirkte. Der Song benutzt einen Sample des 1999er Hits Blue (Da Ba Dee). Feeling So Blue wurde auf der Kontor Top of the Clubs Vol. 55 - Kompilation vorgestellt. Die Single konnte sich in der oberen Hälfte der Deutschen, Österreichischen und Schweizer Charts platzieren.

Am 14. September 2012 erschien die nächste Single mit Dante Thomas. Der Song trägt den Namen Nothing Lasts Forever und wurde wieder auf einer Kontor-Kompilation vorgestellt. Auch dieser Song wurde zu einem großen Hit. In Deutschland konnte die Single für drei Wochen Platz 40 erreichen. In Österreich stieg der Song bis auf Rang 34 und in der Schweiz bis auf Platz 26.

2013: zweites Album State of Mind
Ihre 15. Single Antiheroes erschien am 7. Dezember 2012. Die Stimme des Songs lieferte Andreas Öhrn. Der Song stieg bis auf Platz 78 der Deutschen und Platz 64 der Österreichischen Charts. Zudem gaben sie in einem Preview des Songs bekannt, dass sie ein Album veröffentlichen werden.

Am 4. Januar 2013 veröffentlichten sie ihr zweites Album State of Mind. Dieses Studioalbum wurde im Gegensatz zu My Mind ein großer Erfolg. Das Album stieg bereits eine Woche nach der Veröffentlichung in die Top 100 von Deutschland und Österreich. Gleichzeitig erschien die Single Give Me Love, die zusammen mit Birk Storm aufgenommen wurde. Jedoch konnte die Single keine Chartplatzierung erreichen.

Am 15. März 2013 veröffentlichten sie mit Unbreakable ihre nächste Single. Das Musikvideo dazu wurde in L.A. gedreht. Gleichzeitig mit Unbreakable erschien eine neue Version des Songs Razorblade, zusammen mit X-Factor-Kandidatin Lisa Aberer. Beide Veröffentlichungen konnten keinen Charteintritt erlangen.

Am 28. Juni 2013 erschien die neue Single mit dem Titel One More Round in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Rapper TomE, bekannt durch DJ Antoines Single Bella Vita und dem Kanadischen Sänger Raghav, der durch Singles wie So Confused oder Angel Eyes Bekanntheit erlangt hat. Es war die erste Single, die nicht auf dem Album State of Mind enthalten ist. Bereits nach einer Woche stieg der Song in die Deutschen, Österreichischen und Schweizer Single-Charts ein. Besonders in der Schweiz entwickelte sich der Track zu einem Hit.

2014: Show Me Love (Official Festival Mix) und Ignite
Im März des Jahres 2014 veröffentlichte das Duo einen neuen Remix des Songs Show Me Love von Robin S aus dem Jahre 1993. Bereits im Jahre 2008 landeten sie mit einer Neuaufnahme des Liedes einen Hit. Auf ihrem 2013 veröffentlichten Album State of Mind war eine 2k13-Version von Show Me Love vorhanden, mit der sie hoch in den Dance-Charts vertreten waren. Nun mixten sie das Lied im Big-Room-Stil neu ab. Verglichen wird der Stil dieses Remixes mit den Club-Hits Animals von Martin Garrix oder Tsunami von Dvbbs und Borgeous. Erstmals vorhanden war der Track auf der Kontor Top of the Clubs Vol. 62. Das Label Kontor Records stellte das Lied bereits eine Woche vor der offiziellen Veröffentlichung auf iTunes zum Download bereit. Bereits kurz nach dem Einstieg erreichte das Lied auch die offiziellen Single-Charts und konnte eine erstmalige Platzierung in den Schweizer Charts verbuchen.

Nachdem sie für das The Russ-Festival den Song Supabæss produzierten, der ähnlich wie Show Me Love dem Big-Room-Stil entsprach, gab das Duo Ende Mai 2014 bekannt, dass am 4. Juli 2014 ein neuer Track mit dem Namen Ignite erscheinen wird. Bereits am 19. Juni 2014 wurde das Lied auf der Kontor Kompilation Kontor Top of the Clubs Vol. 63 auf iTunes zum Verkauf freigegeben. Gesungen wird das Lied von Andreas Öhrn, dem Sänger des schwedischen Musikprojekt Gravitonas. Öhrn wirkte bereits bei der Single Antiheroes des Michael Mind Projects mit. Ende des Jahres 2014 produzierten und mixten sie das Lied Scared der britischen Sängerin Amanda Wilson. Der Track erschien am 23. Oktober 2014 über Kontor Records.

Seit Anfang 2015 ist es um das Projekt sehr still geworden. Grund dafür war unter anderem die Gründung des Projekts M-22 von Sanders gemeinsam mit Matt James und dessen Erfolg mit der Single Good To Be Loved. Dennoch erschien am 7. August 2015 ein Zusammenschnitt ihrer größten Hits als sogenannter Megamix. Darunter waren die Lieder Blinded by the Lights, Baker Street und Feeling so Blue. Dieser wurde auf der Kontor Summer Jam 2015 zum Download freigegeben und stieg auch hoch die deutschen iTunes-Charts ein. Kurz darauf wurde offiziell die Trennung des Duos bekanntgegeben. Als Grund wurden Streitigkeiten genannt.

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Weblinks
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 Michael Mind bei Discogs.com

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Profile: Marcel Vis
Personal background
By now I'm 40 yrs old, divorced, father of two lovely kids (4 and 7 yrs old).
I work as Delphi-programmer to get the bills paid.
For fun I watch a lot of horrormovies, read a lot of book.
I love fantasy, and thriller. At present I'm reading The Magican by R.E. Feist.
I plan to read the complete series. It's just a great book.
I have read almost everything by Stephen King.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I do think E.T. exists.
IMHO it's just plain arrogant to think Earth is the only planet where live is possible. I also think it could be a hell of job to find E.T. because nobody can tell for certain where or what to look for, but that E.T. exists... Yes.
I hope we'll discover something during my lifetime, but if it would take some longer that would be fine aswell. The way humans will discover E.T. is a bit of a blur to me. I hope the initial contact will be thru the SETI-program, so be can carefully try to make contact from our site.
The discovery could be dangerous, because we don't know who or what we're dealing with, but I hope E.T. is looking for us aswell, so we can exchange knowledge.
We should not send a beacon into space. Mainly for the reason that we don't know what we're dealing with. If E.T. does exist and he/she want to be found then we'll know it soon enough. After finding it's signal we can see what to do next. Send a return signal or ignore it. But that would be a choice that can be made after the first signal(s) is/are discovered.
I hope my participation in the SETI@home program will help to discover a signal. Even if it means just filtering out all 'bad' data. This way the search can be completed in a shorter amount of time.
I also like to help, because in this way we are working as humans together. No differences, but everyone is working on the same goal.
I hope the project will be a success eventually.
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Parafia św. Wojciecha w Starym Wiśniczu – parafia rzymskokatolicka, znajdująca się w diecezji tarnowskiej, w dekanacie Lipnica Murowana.

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El Aeropuerto de Southampton  es el vigésimo aeropuerto más grande del Reino Unido, localizado en Eastleigh cerca de Southampton.

El aeropuerto de Southampton es operada por BAA, que es también su propietaria, que también posee y opera otros seis aeropuertos en el Reino Unido, incluyendo los tres aeropuertos más concurridos que sirven a Londres, y es a su vez pertenencia de un consorcio internacional liderado por la española Ferrovial.

El aeropuerto manejó 1.965.686 pasajeros durante 2007, un 2,8% de incremento con respecto a 2006 cuando se manejaron 1.912.979. El aeropuerto de Southampton tiene una licencia de aeródromo de uso público de la CAA (Número P690) que permite vuelos de transporte público o instrucción de vuelo.

Historia
La pista del aeropuerto está construido, según se dice, sobre los restos de una villa romana.

De acuerdo con el autor de historia local John Edgar Mann en el Libro de Stoneham la conexión entre el lugar y la aviación data de 1910 cuando el pionero Eric Moon utilizando los prados de la granja de North Stoneham efectuó un despegue y un aterrizaje en el lugar con su monoplano, Moonbeam Mk II.

Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, cuando los efectivos de la Armada de los Estados Unidos llegó en 1917, comenzaron a trabajar en la construcción de hangares. En el momento máximo de presencia americana, unos 4.000 oficiales y soldados fueron ubicados en tiendas de campaña y barracones a lo largo del ferrocarril adyacente de la línea de Londres a Southampton.

Después de la guerra, el lugar se convirtió en lugar de acogida de refugiados, principalmente rusos, que estaban ansiosos por viajar a América desde el puerto de Southampton. Las compañías navieras Cunard y White Star Line (la compañía de navegación oceánica a vapor) junto con el Canadian Pacific Railway. En 1921 los hangares fueron convertidos en dormitorios, cocinas y comedores.

En 1932 la Corporación de Southampton adquirió el lugar y lo renombró como "Aeropuerto Internacional de Southampton". En 1935 parte de su espacio fue utilizado por la flota de la RAF y fue conocida brevemente como RAF Eastleigh antes de convertirse en RAF Southampton en 1936. La base militar fue transferida a la comandancia de la Armada en 1939 y renombrado como HMS Raven, y utilizó mucho de su tiempo en un trabajo de entrenamiento de tierra y aire para la Royal Navy. Fue transferido a posesión civil en abril de 1946.

Durante los 50 el principal pilar de negocio del aeropuerto fue el del servicio ferry de cruce de coches del canal operado por Silver City Airways usando aviones Bristol Freighter y Superfreighter. En 1965 se construyó una nueva pista de hormigón, abierta al tráfico en 1966, permitiendo la operación de aeronaves más grandes.

En 1936 Supermarine abrió una instalación de prueba de vuelo en el lugar, siguiendo de cerca desde después de la apertura de la factoría Cunliffe-Owen Aircraft en el final sur de la pista. Ambas compañías cerraron más tarde sus operaciones en Southampton, Supermarine movió sus actividades de vuelo a Chilbolton, y Cunliffe-Owen vendió su factoría a Ford. Esta continúa todavía en uso, aunque ahora está situada fuera del aeródromo debido a la apertura de la autopista M27 en 1983. El autogiro de De la Cierva alquiló partes de la planta de Cunliffe-Owen que comenzaron en 1946, y tuvo que moverse a otro lugar cuando la planta fue vendida a Ford. Continuaron sus operaciones en el aeródromo hasta 1960.

nueva millitaries en operaciones desde 3 de mayo de 2012.

Nueva terminal este operación desde 3 de mayo de 1992.

Aeropuerto Internacional de Libmanan este operación desde 1 de mayo de 2012 este inaugurado en 3/2/12, replica de exinticion Aeropuerto de Southampton.

Nueva cargueros terminal en 2009.

Conexión con el Spitfire

En 1936 las primeras pruebas de vuelo del Supermarine Spitfire fueron efectuadas en el aeropuerto, se efectuó una celebración en 2004 con una escultura a tamaño real del K5054, el prototipo del Spitfire, en la entrada del aeropuerto.

El 5 de marzo de 2006 a las 16:30 UTV, cinco Spitfires restaurados despegaron desde el aeropuerto de Southampton para conmemorar el 70 aniversario del primer vuelo del Spitfire a la misma que se efectuaron en 1936.

Hay planes, apoyados por el consistorio local, para renombrar el aeropuerto en recuerdo de R. J. Mitchell, diseñador del Spitfire. Sin embargo, la decisión de cambiar de nombre al aeropuerto depende de BAA.

MetroFly este movada hub en operación en 1 de mayo de 2012.

Aerolíneas y destinos

Estadísticas

Pista
El aeropuerto de Southampton tiene una pista, orientada 02/20. La pista tiene un sistema de aterrizaje por instrumentos (ILS) instalado para la aproximación de los aviones desde el norte.

Transporte terrestre
El aeropuerto de Southampton cuenta con una estación de tren, Aeropuerto de Southampton (Parkway), en la línea principal del suroeste de Londres Waterloo y Winchester a Southampton, Bournemouth y Poole, con servicios rápidos y frecuentes a estos lugares.
El aeropuerto está localizado también cerca de la unión entre las autopistas M3 motorway y M27 motorway, permitiendo fáciles accesos viales a Southampton, Winchester, Bournemouth, Portsmouth y lugares intermedios.

Incidentes
 El 10 de junio de 1990, el vuelo 5390 de British Airways sufrió una descompresión explosiva mientras volaba de Birmingham a Málaga, España. El piloto Tim Lancaster fue succionado y quedó con medio cuerpo fuera de la cabina, el copiloto Alastair Atchison fue capaz de hacer aterrizar el avión de forma segura en Southampton sin tener que lamentar víctimas mortales.
 El 26 de mayo de 1993, una Cessna 550 Citation II aterrizó con un viento en cola de 15 nudos, cuando el manual de operaciones recomienda un máximo de 10 nudos en cola para que el aterrizaje resulte seguro, cuyo resultado fue una distancia de aterrizaje mayor que la que tiene la pista del aeropuerto. El avión se salió de la pista 20 atravesando la valla del perímetro y metiéndose en la autopista M27 donde colisionó con dos coches y comenzó a arder. Los dos tripulantes resultaron heridos leves por la metralla soltada, y los tres ocupantes de los coches también resultaron heridos leves. El avión quedó destruido.

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Página del aeropuerto de Southampton en la página oficial de la BAA.

Hampshire
Bases de la Royal Air Force en Inglaterra
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Canada wants to keep federal data within national borders
Wed 3 Aug 2016
Canada has released its latest federal cloud adoption strategy, now available for public comment, which includes policy concerning the storing of sensitive government information on Canadian citizens within national borders.
The newly-published Government of Canada Cloud Adoption Strategy requires that only data which the government has categorised as 'unclassified', or harmless to national and personal security, will be allowed outside of the country. This information will still be subject to strict encryption rules.
The new strategy, which has been in development over the last year, stipulates that all personal data stored by the government on Canadian citizens, such as social insurance numbers and critical federal information, must be stored in Canada-based data centres in order to retain 'sovereign control'.
According to the proposal document, the Canadian government's national IT department has already started buying cloud capacity, capable of processing 'unclassified' data. By 2017, it is expected that Shared Services Canada will have purchased even greater cloud capacity for handling 'sensitive' information, but not for data marked as 'secret' or 'top secret'.
The new guidelines come after two years of federal discussions in Canada about driving cloud adoption, cutting data centre costs and optimising IT infrastructure. The consultations have involved participants from over 60 industry organisations.
The strategy aims to allow government bodies to only pay for the cloud capacity they require. This management will be the responsibility of the individual departments and organisations, which will choose the 'right cloud' strategy for their specific business context. This could utilise secure public clouds, private clouds, and/or the government's existing systems.
'The Government of Canada's (GC) IT landscape reflects the past five decades of IT evolution, comprising tailored solutions, commercially acquired solutions, legacy solutions and much more. Given such diversity, a one-cloud-fits-all solution will not serve all needs,' the document notes. 'Instead, the GC will adopt a right cloud strategy that will enable CIOs to have a number of cloud- and non-cloud deployment models to choose from.'
The proposal argues that the ability to match solutions to a particular business operation, and the variety of IT solutions to be made available, will ensure a wider migration to the cloud across the Canadian public sector.
Canada Cloud Data Centre news


Kyn Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotechnology company advancing research into new immunometabolic therapies for treating cancer, announced it has entered into a global strategic collaboration with Celgene Corporation.
The goal of the collaboration is to develop novel immuno-oncology therapies through uniting Kyn's immuno-oncology expertise and pipeline with Celgene's capabilities for developing and commercializing medicines in areas of high unmet medical need. The collaboration begins with an upfront payment and an equity investment by Celgene, which receives exclusive options to license Kyn's aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) antagonist program and its kynurenine-degrading enzyme program.


The experience of the home buying company. Ensure that home buyers understand the process of buying a home and nothing seems new to the company. For these to happen the home buyer should not have joined the real estate industry recently.
Know who else will be involved in the business. There are several brokers in real estate and you can easily confuse them to home buyers. Real estate agent is not bad to involve when you want to sell my house fast but remember you will have to pay them at the end of the sale. The house buyers that have nothing to do with realtors.
Consider the notoriety of the home buyer. When you are looking for the home buyer you should look for the buyer that has a good reputation in home buying. You can consult from your friends and neighbors the company they prefer when selling a house. It's not about buying but also ensure you ask about the experience the house seller has with the buyer.
Then consider the amount given by the home buyer for the house. No matter the reason for selling the house whether its unwanted property or divorce issues you should aim for the better sale of the house. Therefore you should compare the offers provided by different home buyers so that you will take the buyer with the best price for your house. Make sure that you have requested a professional to value your house before you start taking offers from the buyers so that you can know where your house ranges.
Determine the demands of the buyer for the house. A portion of the home buyers want new and house that is in good looks because they don't do repair for themselves thus you will be forced to do the necessary to make your house attractive. This process of house renovation can be expensive and time consuming more so if you are in need of cash or you are limited on time. Fortunately, there are home buyers that buy your house the way it is without having to renovate it.
Consider the duration of time it will take before closing the business. The home buyer that has the repute of closing the process quickly is the best to choose when you want to sell the house quickly. The source of the money is very important because cash home buyers can make the process be fast.