The United States on March 21 imposed new sanctions on two Chinese shipping companies which the U.S. Treasury Department said helped North Korea evade sanctions.
But on Friday, President Donald Trump in a tweet walked back the decision after North Korea removed its representatives from the inter-Korean liaison office in Gaeseong, North Korea just North of the truce village at Panmunmom in the Demilitarized Zone.
Images captured by U.S. reconnaissance satellites have shown Chinese ships trading oil with North Korean vessels.
Sanctions imposed in the wake of Pyongyang's nuclear weapons and ballistic missile tests through 2017 include a cap on the Kim Jong-Un regime's imports of refined petroleum and a ban on its exports of coal.
The Treasury Department announced it is sanctioning Dalian Haibo International Freight Co. Ltd. and Liaoning Danxing International Forwarding Co. Ltd.
Treasury also said it is updating its advisory on North Korea's illicit shipping practices to name dozens more vessels suspected of exporting North Korean coal or engaging in ship-to-ship transfers of refined petroleum.
Dalian Haibo provided goods and services to or in support of Paeksol Trading Corp., a North Korean entity previously sanctioned for engaging in metal or coal trade and possibly providing revenue to the Pyongyang regime, the Treasury Department said.
Liaoning Danxing operated in the transportation industry in North Korea and "routinely used deceptive practices" that helped North Korean procurement officials in the European Union to purchase goods for the regime, the department said.
The sanctions freeze the companies' property and interests in the U.S. and its property and interests which are in control of U.S. citizens.
Treasury said North Korean ports received at least 263 tanker deliveries last year of refined petroleum via illicit ship-to-ship transfers.
If these tankers were full, North Korea would have imported 3.78 million barrels, or more than 7.5 times the amount permitted under the U.N.-imposed cap of 500,000 barrels a year.
The Treasury Department also named 71 more vessels, in addition to the 24 listed last year, that are believed to be capable of engaging in or have already engaged in ship-to-ship transfers of refined petroleum, or thought to have exported North Korean coal.
Treasury also marked the southern South Korean cities of Busan, Yeosu and Gwangyang on a graphic illustrating the ports of call before and after the ship-to-ship transfers of refined petroleum.
The department said North Korea has used a variety of deceptive shipping practices, including disabling or manipulating the internationally accepted Automatic Identification System; physically altering vessels; transferring cargo from ship to ship at sea, rather than in port; and falsifying cargo and vessel documents.
"Treasury will continue to enforce our sanctions, and we are making it explicitly clear that shipping companies employing deceptive tactics to mask illicit trade with North Korea expose themselves to great risk," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said.
Soon after the new sanctions were announced, North Korea withdrew its officials from the inter-Korean liaison office, according to the unification ministry.
On March 22, "the North Korean officials notified the South of the decision to withdraw from the office, citing instructions from their superiors," the Ministry of Unification said in a statement.
The two Koreas established the communications office in Gaeseong, North Korea, last September, to boost reconciliation.
The ministry urged the North to send back its officials as early as possible, saying that staff from the South will remain there. The North did not respond, only saying that it would discuss the details of the decision in the future.


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Fundamentals of Ecclesiology
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This is a major work on the theology of Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, by a highly regarded German theologian, priest and writer. Since his election to the Papacy, Ratzinger's theology, and in particular his ecclesiology (theology of the Church), has been in the limelight of theological and ecumenical discussions.
This important work studies in detail Ratzinger's ecclesiology in the light of Vatican II, against the ongoing debate about what Vatican II really meant to say about the life of the Church, its liturgy, its worship, its doctrine, its pastoral mission, and more. Has his theology of the Church changed since Vatican II, or has it continued to develop consistently? Is the Catholic Church one church among many churches? Is she the object of hope or a historical reality?
Ratzinger the theologian figures centrally in this investigation, not as the former Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, but as a thinker and as a writer.
Learn more about Pope Benedict! Visit the Works of Benedict XVI
Conciliar Octet
By: Fr. Aidan Nichols O.P.
By: Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
The Glory of the Lord, Vol. 1 (2nd Ed)
By: Fr. Hans Urs Von Balthasar
God Sent His Son
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JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. -- Brig. Gen. Dennis P. LeMaster assumed command of Regional Health Command-Pacific in mid-2018. His previous assignment was as the commanding general, Regional Health Command-Europe. Recently, the Public Affairs Office had an opportunity to sit down with LeMaster for an interview. Below are the questions asked of the CG and his responses.
Q1: You assumed command of Regional Health Command-Pacific earlier this year. What is your overall assessment of the region so far?
LeMaster: I am impressed with the professionalism and commitment of our team, particularly in the delivery and quality of care across the region.
Q2: What would you say are the region's greatest capabilities that contribute to the military health care mission?
LeMaster: Regional Health Command-Pacific is Army Medicine's largest geographic region, spanning the entire Indo-Pacific basin. We ensure our nation fields healthy and ready Soldiers, and we take care of our military Families. In terms of our national strategy, our readiness, global health engagements and relationships with allied and partner nations are all critical to providing international stability. It's about taking care of humanity and all nations, all armies, which reflects positively on our military and nation as a whole.
Q3: As the commanding general, what are your top three priorities?
LeMaster: The readiness of our military members; delivering health care that excels across access, quality, safety and satisfaction; and preparing this region for the transition of the National Defense Authorization Act's section 702, which aligns military treatment facilities under the Defense Health Agency.
Q4: The Chief of Staff of the Army's number one priority is readiness. Can you talk a little bit about the importance of readiness as our military positions itself for a multi-domain battle environment?
LeMaster: We need to field formations that are fully manned with human beings who are at their best physically, emotionally, intellectually and spiritually.
With multi-domain battle, we talk about near-peer conflict, and it is important to note that we are not going to have some of the luxuries we had before in previous conflicts. This includes air supremacy and the ability to evacuate casualties via air ambulance as quickly as in conflicts over the past 50 years. This affects evacuation timing, hospitalization capability, equipment and training, particularly around holding trauma patients forward a little longer until we have windows of opportunity to evacuate them.
A combat support hospital takes days to set up and days to tear down. We need to look at placing smaller and lighter, hospitalization nodes, on the battlefield that are independently mobile, so that they are dispersed and survivable.
Q5: You are triple-hatted as the RHC-P CG, United States Army Pacific (USARPAC) surgeon, and the Puget Sound Military Health System (MHS) market manager. What would you say is the common thread that connects all three to one common goal?
As commanding general for Regional Health Command-Pacific, I focus on delivery of care. The Market Manager ensures the efficient use of the joint service medical resources, so our patients can access care when they need it, in the most efficient way possible, and at the best cost. If a Sailor from Naval Hospital Bremerton can't get an appointment in that hospital, can they be seen at Madigan Army Medical Center, a half-hour away? Or, can they access care in the local network provided by a managed care support contractor? We synchronize and pull those elements together.
Q6: The entire MHS is currently undergoing a total reorganization, which means a lot of changes are on the horizon. What message would you like to send to the RHC-P team about the future of the region?
LeMaster: Our routine work will continue. How we are organized will change. How money flows will change, but there is still a requirement to do the basics of health care delivery. Patients are the focus of our formation, regardless of how our hospitals are aligned.
Q7: As our nation continues to develop relationships with Asian nations, what do you see as RHC-P's strategic role in the Indo-Asia region?
LeMaster: We have a unique ability to use the influence of medicine to establish relationships worldwide. Health care is about taking care of humanity no matter what nation you're from. We have an interest in assisting other countries in developing their medical forces, so they can take care of their nation, their people, and promote a higher quality of life.
Q8: As the commanding general, what is the best part of your job?
LeMaster: The mission and the people I work with. This is a high-performing organization. Everyone has a sense of purpose. No matter where I travel throughout this region, there is an enthusiastic energy. It is totally motivating.
Q9: What is the one thing you want the region to know about your leadership style?
LeMaster: I believe in empowering the team to get the work done. Each of us takes care of our part of the Army, our own sphere. If we do that, we will advance the larger interest of the region, of Army medicine, of the Military Health System, toward taking care of our patients and improving the readiness of our forces.


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Statement re: Bombshell Advocate Report that Rep. Abraham Broke Signature Campaign Promise to Donate Salary
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See below for a statement on The Advocate's bombshell report that Representative Ralph Abraham broke his signature campaign promise; that as a man of means, he'd donate his congressional salary to St. Jude's, which cares for sick children, and the Independence Fund, which assists seriously wounded military veterans. Not only did Rep. Abraham promise to donate his salary, he said that "It should be an honor and a privilege to serve your country and NOT a paid position."
READ THE ADVOCATE'S STORY HERE
"We still have a lot to learn about Representative Abraham's broken promise to St. Jude's, the Independence Fund, and the people of the 5th congressional district. Did he ever keep his promise to donate his entire salary, or was he breaking it from day one? Why didn't he tell his constituents when he decided he wasn't going to donate his salary? It might be weeks before we have all the answers. But one thing is immediately clear: Representative Abraham, one of the wealthiest members of Congress, has shamefully broken a promise to give hundreds of thousands of dollars to organizations that care for sick children and disabled veterans, and then tried to hide that broken promise. That's not the kind of person Louisiana needs as Governor," said Eric Holl, spokesman for Victory 2019, the 2019 Louisiana Democratic Coordinated Campaign.
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Artistic: Ocala Symphony
Florida's Ocala Symphony Orchestra has announced the appointment of MATTHEW WARDELL as music director and conductor, effective with the 2009-10 season. He is currently associate conductor of the University of Florida Symphony Orchestra and assistant conductor of the Gainesville (Fla.) Chamber Orchestra. Wardell holds a bachelor's degree from the University of North Florida in his native Jacksonville, and will graduate in December with a master's degree in orchestral conducting from the University of North Florida. He has also pursued conducting studies at Salzburg College in Austria; with Keith Lockhart, music director of the Boston Pops and the Utah Symphony; and with Michael Jinbo at the Pierre Monteux School in Hancock, Maine.
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G-series instances will be available in US West, UK South, Japan East, Europe East, Canada Central, and more regions. You can build Hadoop, Spark, Hive, LLAP, Kafka, Storm, and HBase solutions with the G-series. You can use the G-series to run machine learning and HPC workloads in HDInsight clusters.
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"I started at the school at 2005 with my oldest son and haven't left! He graduated from KinderFun and then my next son started Bumblebees. The teachers have been beyond wonderful and I've really enjoyed my time in the classroom. I felt the 3s program to be the perfect classroom as an introduction to school. We have made lifelong friends here at My First School."
"My First School is a wonderful place for children to learn and grow. The teachers are so warm and caring with the children and the parents. My daughter is always excited to tell me all about the exciting activities she did at school, such as painting, sand play, story time, music, dancing and playing in the gym. One thing I really like is that the teachers give each family a calendar at the beginning of every month outlining the upcoming activities and themes planned. It really helps parents stay involved with their child's education. I am very happy with our experience at My First School and look forward to next year!"


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Winter Jam 2019 to begin January 11 in Florida
Christian Music's Top Tour Unveils 360º Center Stage
The Winter Jam Tour Spectacular, Christian music's largest annual tour, is ready to kick off it's annual tour in Jacksonville, Florida on January 11, 2019 at the Veterans Memorial Arena. Revealing a history-making tour first, Winter Jam will be presented on a 360º "in the round" center stage, showcasing a diverse lineup helmed by supergroup Newsboys United. The 2019 lineup includes high-profile artists Danny Gokey, Mandisa, Rend Collective, LEDGER, Newsong, Hollyn and Adam Agee in addition to Pre-Jam Party artists Dan Bremnes, Ty Brasel and Manic Drive.
Winter Jam is scheduled to hit a total of 44 cities, making stops at Atlanta's State Farm Arena; Kansas City's Sprint Center; PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh; Cincinnati's U.S. Bank Arena; Bridgestone Arena in Nashville; and Norfolk, Virginia's Scope Arena, among numerous other top venues, before concluding March 31 at Cleveland's Wolstein Center.
"I've been extremely excited to tell people about this year's lineup," said NewSong founding member and Winter Jam creator Eddie Carswell. "Not only are we thrilled to tour with several artists who've never been part of Winter Jam before, but we can't wait to be back on the road with some of our closest friends. It's going to be fun!"
"We're looking forward to having a 360º stage for the first time," Carswell adds. "It's something we've dreamed about and now it's a reality for us and the fans. This setup will offer better views, more seating and surround sound. More than anything, I'm just ready to see how God is going to use all the artists, songs and speakers to draw people to Himself. He's the reason we do this every year!"
The Winter Jam 2019 Tour Spectacular is produced by Premier Productions and sponsored in part by ChildFund, Liberty University, Samaritan Ministries, Xtreme Conferences, Camp Electric, Premier Vacations & Events, Texas TransEastern and Wayne E. Bailey Produce.
Created and hosted by one of Christian music's most influential bands, NewSong, Winter Jam exploded from a single show in 1995 to become the genre's benchmark tour. Throughout two decades, Winter Jam has helped provide a powerful platform for the Gospel in major arenas nationwide, consistently showcasing Christian music's biggest artists.
In 2018, Winter Jam was crowned the top first quarter music tour in the world. Landing at #2 on Pollstar's "2018 1Q YTD Worldwide Ticket Sales Top 100 Tours" chart, the Winter Jam 2018 Tour Spectacular took the top spot of all music tours, following #1 outing "Disney On Ice." Also in 2018, Winter Jam hit a total of 46 cities across the country from January through March, boasting 17 sold-out shows.
Admission into Winter Jam is only $15 at the door, with Jam Nation passes available at 2019.jamtour.com/jam-nation.
For further information, visit jamtour.com. Follow Winter Jam on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
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United Way Hands On, Points of Light and The Starbucks Foundation Launch Innovative Service Model in Birmingham
United Way Hands On, formerly Hands On Birmingham, in partnership with Points of Light and The Starbucks Foundation, was selected to participate in an innovative service model inspired by national service.
Following a successful six-month pilot last year, the full-scale program will expand to seven new markets, reaching 20 cities and engaging 100 Starbucks partners (employees), including Fellows in Birmingham. The program is designed to provide needed day-to-day support to local nonprofit organizations while providing an opportunity for Starbucks partners to pursue their personal passion for getting involved in their communities.
"We are honored that our involvement and impact in community service has helped Starbucks choose Birmingham as one of its new markets for their Fellows Program," said Benga Harrison, Director, United Way Hands On, the volunteer center for Central Alabama."It's exciting that we will have this resource of motivated Starbucks employees who are ready to serve and inspire others. The ripple effect of the Starbucks Foundation Service Fellows program will be a model for our community."
During their service term, the fellows will work part-time for Points of Light, expanding the capacity United Way Hands On and our community partners to meet our missions, while continuing to work part time at Starbucks. This experience plays an important role in exposing the fellows to future civic and community engagement opportunities while expanding their professional skills and experiences.
Following an application process that kicked off this week, the first group of 50 Starbucks partners will be selected as Service Fellows, to begin in September with sector education and organizational onboarding, and their service terms will run from October 2019 through March 2020. The second group of Service Fellows will serve April through October 2020.


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What: All Issues : Government Checks on Corporate Power : (H.R. 658) On an amendment that would have established a special rule-making committee within the Federal Aviation Administration to recommend regulations ensuring that aircrafts are properly equipped with technology that maintains pilot visibility when "dense, continuous smoke is present in the cockpit of the aircraft." (The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has regulatory authority over all civil aviation in the United States.) (2011 house Roll Call 210)
(H.R. 658) On an amendment that would have established a special rule-making committee within the Federal Aviation Administration to recommend regulations ensuring that aircrafts are properly equipped with technology that maintains pilot visibility when "dense, continuous smoke is present in the cockpit of the aircraft." (The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has regulatory authority over all civil aviation in the United States.)
house Roll Call 210 Mar 31, 2011
This was a vote on an amendment by Rep. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) that would have established a special rule-making committee within the Federal Aviation Administration to recommend regulations ensuring that aircrafts are properly equipped with technology that maintains pilot visibility when "dense, continuous smoke is present in the cockpit of the aircraft." (The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has regulatory authority over all civil aviation in the United States.) This amendment was offered to legislation authorizing annual funding for the Federal Aviation Administration, and limiting the ability of federal aviation and railroad workers to form unions.
Hirono urged support for her amendment: "The basic idea of this amendment is to ensure the safety of the traveling public and those whose job it is to get them safely to their destinations, and my amendment has to do with smoke in the cockpit…. the FAA's Information for Operators Bulletin released October 6, 2010… noted that they receive over 900 reports a year of smoke or fumes in the cabin or cockpit. An average of 900 incidents in 365 days does not seem to me to be a rare occurrence. I believe that our national response to this issue has been inadequate. We need a comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of the issue and real-action next steps to protect our pilots and passengers. Therefore, I believe that my amendment is reasonable, logical, does not cost money, and it takes us toward resolving this issue."
Rep. Tom Petri (R-WI) opposed the amendment: "We have checked with the people we as citizens pay at the FAA to develop expertise in this area, and they advise us that current safety standards are sufficient to meet the risk posed by cockpit smoke. According to our contacts, the FAA additionally believes that the existing…standards for cockpit ventilation effectively eliminate the unsafe conditions associated with smoke in the flight deck. Their current regulations require manufacturers to demonstrate that continuously generated cockpit smoke can be evacuated within 3 minutes to levels such that the residual smoke does not distract the flight crew or interfere with flight operations."
The House rejected this amendment by a vote of 174-241. Voting "yea" were 172 Democrats and 2 Republicans. 228 Republicans and 13 Democrats voted "nay." As a result, the House rejected an amendment that would have established a special rule-making committee within the Federal Aviation Administration to recommend regulations ensuring that aircrafts are properly equipped with technology that maintains pilot visibility when "dense, continuous smoke is present in the cockpit of the aircraft."
GOVERNMENT CHECKS ON CORPORATE POWER — Aviation Industry


You will depart from La Paz city towards Tiwanaku, where you will visit the remnants of a magnificient and enigmatic pre-colombian culture's capital.
You will tour the ceramics museum to get an idea of the timeline of this civilization and see the pieces found at this site. Then you will go to the Lithic Museum where the precisely sculpted great monoliths are exhibited. You will pass on to the archeological complex with its enormous, perfectly cut and engraved stone constructions that were once part of the temples.
After this visit, you will travel to Copacabana and have trout for lunch on the shores of Lake Titicaca. In Copacabana, you will visit the Basilica and see the paintings of the story of Tito Yupanqui, the sculptor of the 'Virgin of Copacabana', which is venerated by the indigenous and the spanish since the 16th century.
You will board a boat to the Sun Island (Isla del Sol), which is the biggest and most sacred of Lake Titicaca. The Incas made pilgrimages here from Cuzco. From the island, you will have spetacular views of the andean mountains contrasting with the deep blue waters of the lake. You will visit the ruins of Pilkokaina, where the sun-priests lived, the Stairs of the Inca, the fountain and the gardens, all located on the south part of the island.
In the afternoon, you will visit the attractions on northern part of the Sun Island: the sacred stone from where the founders of the Inca Empire are said to have emerged and the Chinkana labyrinth.
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After visitng this smaller island, you will return to La Paz.


Just as it appeared Wynn Resorts was making positive changes to the company's culture by adding three prominent women to its Board of Directors, its largest shareholder demanded that one of the directors conducting the company's internal investigation to be immediately fired.
Elaine Wynn, co-founder and biggest shareholder of casino operator Wynn Resorts Monday urged shareholders to join her in withholding votes from director candidate John Hagenbuch at the company's annual meeting scheduled for May 16, she wrote in an open letter.
She questioned the lack of oversight and independence demonstrated by the current board.
She argued that the company needed to reform the company's governance.
"This is the same board that announced only two months ago, with a "collective heavy heart", the "resignation of our founder, CEO and friend, Steve Wynn," she wrote, referring to her ex-husband who was ousted after revelations in the Wall Street Journal of yearslong sexual abuse of employees.
"Several longstanding legacy directors still wield significant influence at the company," she wrote.


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Swarm inks radio broadcast deal with Dickey Broadcasting Company
ATLANTA, GA – Dickey Broadcasting Company and the Georgia Swarm Pro Lacrosse team have officially signed a one-year deal to deliver the first-ever professional lacrosse radio broadcasts in the state of Georgia.
Dickey Broadcasting Company is now the official flagship station of the Georgia Swarm, and all home games throughout the 2017-2018 season will air live on 1230AM/106.3FM The Fan 2, and streaming online or your smart phone at 1230thefan2.com. The partnership will give local fans the ability to listen to the Swarm on a regular basis.
"We've seen great results in partnering with 680 The Fan, and adding live broadcasts of Swarm home games on The Fan 2 (1230AM/106.3FM) will only increase our footprint in the metro Atlanta area," Swarm Co-Owner and President Andy Arlotta said. "We've really enjoyed working with the management staff and on-air talent of 680 The Fan, and their support during our championship season was instrumental in our success. Our partnership continues to evolve and this broadcast deal is exciting not only for the Swarm, but also for fans wanting to follow this championship team more closely."
"680 The Fan is proud to announce this partnership with The World Champion Georgia Swarm," said David Dickey, president of Dickey Broadcasting Company. "We love this team: from the coaches, players and all the way up to ownership. This is a first class organization that we believe aligns well with our brands. The Fan 2 (1230AM/106.3FM) is growing and so is the Swarm. They've already brought home a championship so we're excited to continue to build off that. The lacrosse fan/consumer weaves nicely into our demographic, and we're optimistic about the growth in Atlanta of lacrosse both with the Swarm and youth/high school."
About Georgia Swarm:
The Georgia Swarm Pro Lacrosse team is a member of the National Lacrosse League (NLL), which is North America's professional indoor lacrosse league featuring the best players in the world. In 2017, the Swarm became NLL World Champions after a historic 17-5 season. Founded in 1986, the NLL ranks third in average attendance for professional indoor sports worldwide behind only the NHL and NBA. The league is comprised of 11 franchises across the U.S. and Canada and the 2017-18 NLL season marks the league's 32nd year. The Swarm competes in an 18-game regular season schedule from December to April, and plays their home games at Harrah's Cherokee Casino Field at Infinite Energy Arena (Duluth). Georgia's 2017-18 Home Opener is set for Saturday, Dec. 30 against the Rochester Knighthawks at 7:05 p.m. and the team will also raise its Championship Banner that evening.
About Dickey Broadcasting Company:
Dickey Broadcasting Company has been based in Atlanta for the past 24 years. The company has owned and operated radio stations for over 50 years, and is credited with launching sports-talk in Atlanta over 24 years ago. Dickey Broadcasting Company is associated with other Atlanta-based media company Modern Luxury Media.
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Banking on Africa: The Bitcoin Revolution
As the world races to lead the way in blockchain technology, could Africa have an advantage? This documentary follows the journey of Bitcoin pioneers as the continent seeks to leverage cryptocurrency to leapfrog standing world economic powers.
Director: Tamarin Gerriety
Actors: Alakanani Itireleng, Bheki Mahlobo, Dawie Roodt, Gj van Rooyen, Lorien Gamaroff, Louis Nel, Riccardo Spagni Fluffy Pony, Simon Dingle, Sonya Kuhnel, William Frentzen
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Richard William Richards (14 February 1890 – 29 January 1934) was a Welsh footballer who played in various forward positions in the Football League for Wolverhampton Wanderers, West Ham United and Fulham, and internationally for Wales.

Career

Richards was born in Glyn Ceiriog and played non-league football for Bronygarth, Chirk and Oswestry United before moving to Wolverhampton Wanderers.

During his time at Wolves, Richards played 88 League games either side of World War I, scoring 22 goals. He gained five caps for Wales while with the club, scoring in a 2–1 win against England during the 1919–20 British Home Championship.

He joined West Ham United in 1922 for a fee of £300. Initially joining as an outside-left, he was moved to the opposite flank to accommodate Jimmy Ruffell. The 1922–23 season saw Richards make 34 Second Division appearances. He also made 10 cup appearances for the club, including the 1923 FA Cup Final loss to Bolton Wanderers. The following season, after promotion to the First Division, Richards made a further ten appearances, including a single FA Cup appearance that saw the Hammers bow out of the competition to Second Division Leeds United. Richards picked up more international caps, playing at inside-left, at the 1923–24 British Home Championship, which saw victories for Wales against all three other teams.

In 1924, after 53 appearances for West Ham, Richards left for Fulham. He made 24 appearances for the west London club, scoring twice, but his time there was hampered by injury. He went on to play for Welsh teams, Mold, where he gained the last of 9 caps, and Colwyn Bay United, where he finished his career. He then went to work for an electricity company in Cheshire. During this time, he sustained a back injury which led to his death, at the age of 42.

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Boutique capitalism: "Lefty" Hooligan, "What's Left?", June 2021
I'd gotten high on marijuana, hashish, LSD, MDA, cocaine, amphetamine, barbiturates, heroin, jimson weed, nitrous oxide, peyote, mescaline and psilocybin by 1972 living in Ventura, California. But I still hadn't gotten drunk. I didn't start drinking alcohol with any frequency until late 1974, over a year after I turned 21 and had already moved to Santa Cruz to attend UCSC. But in the spring of 1972 I didn't like booze. I didn't like people who drank instead of getting stoned, and I hated loud bar scenes. So I was jealous and miffed when a friend regaled me with the news that "Hey, I was drinking at John's At The Beach and John Lennon just showed up, jumped on stage and played 'Norwegian Wood'." And I was seriously annoyed to learn that Lennon returned two days later to play another brief set, this time backed by a few local musicians. Continue reading →
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Breathing Together: "What's Left?" November 2015, MRR #390
With the outbreak of isms, like socialism, anarchism, imperialism or communism, sunspots start to multiply on the face of the golden orb. God refuses to enlighten the Reds! Scientists forecast an increase in sunspots due to the arrival of the beatniks and pacifists from certain countries such as Italy, France and Scandinavia!
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I was into the Thor Heyerdahl/Kon-Tiki saga when I was as a kid in the 1950s and early 1960s. For those interested, Heyerdahl was a Norwegian adventurer with an Indiana Jones flair who, as a sailor, fought the Nazi occupation of Norway during the second World War. After the war, with a background in science—ethnography, biology, and geography—and as a proponent of cultural diffusionism to account for the spread of human civilizations, Heyerdahl famously built a large raft out of balsa reeds from Peru's Lake Titicaca and sailed it from the western coast of South America to the French Polynesian island atoll of Raroia in 1947. His idea behind the Kon-Tiki raft and expedition was to demonstrate that ancient peoples could have made long, arduous sea voyages, using the primitive technologies of their day and creating contacts between diverse, widely separated cultures. The subject of a number of documentary books and films as well as re-creations, not to mention a variety of fictionalized depictions, Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki experiment did demonstrate one thing quite clearly:
Just because something can be done doesn't mean that it was done.
There is little support in the scientific community for Heyerdahl's theory that cultural ideas let alone trade goods, let alone people, made the journey from pre-Columbian South America to Polynesia. Anthropologists in particular are dubious about the notion that ancestors of the Incas colonized the Polynesian islands. His various projects were exciting, spectacular, and attention-grabbing, which tended to confuse the issue between what could have happened, and what did happen. It's a variant of the false scenario fallacy, and its common.
Right-wing videographer and "journalist" James O'Keefe made a name for himself by selectively editing videos he secretly filmed in order to supposedly demonstrate that certain public individuals and organizations were knowingly promoting falsehoods, if not engaged in out-and-out fraud and crime. More recently, O'Keefe is involved in a cottage industry that tries to prove that various bad things can happen, without demonstrating that said bad things actually did happen. So, he demonstrates that voter fraud is quite easy to commit, or that someone dressed as Osama bin Laden can easily sneak across the US/Mexico border, without actually proving that rampant voter fraud or al-Qaeda infiltration have ever occurred. Critics of left-wing film maker Michael Moore have accused him of doing much the same thing with films like Fahrenheit 9/11, in which selective editing, humorous juxtaposition, and bald inference are used to suggest that the Bush Jr administration knew more than they were letting on about the lead-up, commission, and aftermath of the 9/11 Twin Tower terrorist attacks.
Showing that something can be done, without proving that it was actually done, is the stock-in-trade of conspiracy theorists everywhere. Take the Apollo moon landings. It's quite easy to lay out how such lunar expeditions and landings could have been faked, without really confirming that the landings were actually falsified. Again, harking back to my youth in the 1960s, I spent way too much time worrying about who assassinated JFK—all the theories from the KGB and the Cubans to the Mafia and the CIA—without coming to any sound conclusions as to who actually did the deed. I'm certain that there's more to the Kennedy assassination then what has been revealed, although I'm also certain I'll never ever know the whole truth. There are left-wing and right-wing conspiracy theories, but by and large conspiracy theories transcend left-right political categories in pursuing their flights of paranoia. In addition, conspiracy theories often prove interchangeable with regard to their underlying structure and raison d'être, with that infamous international conspiracy for world domination trope easily substituting any number of key conspirators, from the Jews to the Freemasons, the Illuminati, Bolshevik communism, international bankers, the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg Group, the international bourgeoisie, alien reptilian overlords, etc, etc, etc.
Historian David Hackett Wallace once identified an informal historical fallacy he called the furtive fallacy, which "is the erroneous idea that facts of special significance are dark and dirty things and that history itself is a story of causes mostly insidious and results mostly invidious. It begins with the premise the reality is a sordid, secret thing; and that history happens on the back stairs a little after midnight, or else in a smoke-filled room, or a perfumed boudoir, or an executive penthouse or somewhere in the inner sanctum of the Vatican, or the Kremlin, or the Reich Chancellery, or the Pentagon. […] In an extreme form, the furtive fallacy is not merely an intellectual error but a mental illness which is commonly called paranoia." (Historians' Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought) The idea that certain historical events or facts are necessarily sinister, and part of some secret conspiracy, is contested by former MRR columnist and ex-shitworker Jeff Bale who argued that historians frequently underestimate the influence in politics of secret societies, vanguard parties, intelligence agencies, underground cabals, etc. due to the very nature and organizational methods of such clandestine groupings. Thus, groups like the P-2 Masonic Lodge and al-Qaeda on the right and Lenin's Bolshevik Party and the guerrilla VietMinh on the left actually did engage in conspiracies to one degree or another.
In the realm of conspiracy, resolving the distinction between what can be done and what was done often muddles matters. (A related topic, the often violent rupture between how conspiracy theorists view reality, and reality itself, is beyond the scope of this column.) In particular, determining the perimeters of what was done is a sometimes a daunting task. Consider the Bolsheviks once again. The Bolshevik Party was a straight-up, clandestine vanguard party of professional revolutionaries, and so conspiracy was part of its MO. The Bolsheviks participated in the 1905 as well as the February 1917 Russian Revolutions, and actively, secretly organized the armed Red Guard putsch central to the October 1917 Revolution. It is even well documented that a member of the Bolshevik central committee, a number of high-ranking party members, and a fair percentage of the rank-and-file membership had been secretly agents of the Okhrana, the Czarist secret police, in a conspiracy within a conspiracy. But I am not convinced, from the historical evidence, that the Bolsheviks were inadvertent double agents of Czarism, or that they engineered the Russian Revolution from the get-go, or that they were pulling the strings to an international Communist conspiracy as far back as 1789. And to argue that the Bolsheviks were part of some worldwide Jewish conspiracy masterminded by the Elders of Zion is sheer lunacy.
Me, I tend to fall on the anti-conspiracy side of things whenever analyzing history or current events. Back in the day, when my friends and I were 60s New Leftie wannabe revolutionaries trying to figure out our politics but still barely scraping together the change for our next lid of bad weed, we joked that our checks from Moscow seemed interminably delayed in the mail. Indeed, the international Communist conspiracy has been a central hysterical trope on the right in one form or another, serviceable in all sorts of situations, gradations and permutations. Decades later, when I got to know some ex-Maoist types who'd been around the fractious New Communist Movement in the 70s, I learned that the joke for them was their checks from Beijing never seemed to arrive. Nowadays, the rightwing canard is that progressives and Leftists in this country are being funded, and hence controlled, by George Soros.
That's Central Committee General Secretary Comrade Soros to you.
In a less flippant take, a common lefty conspiracy theory has it that the CIA imported heroin in the 1970s and that the FBI manufactured crack in the 1980s in order to specifically crush the Black Power/Black Liberation movements and to more generally suppress Black people in America. I don't doubt that the proliferation of heroin and crack did, in fact, accomplish these things, but more as an afterthought rather than as a purposeful conspiracy. I think that the international drug trade is powered by a number of players with a variety of motives; everything from the good old-fashioned profit motive to drugs-for-arms type geopolitics, with plenty of opportunity and opportunism to go around.
And yes, there are conspiracies all the time in capitalism, everything from knowingly manufacturing and selling dangerous products to lobbyists secretly buying the votes of politicians. But by and large capitalists are pretty up-front about what they intend to do with their wealth and power. They organize quite openly in business associations and political parties, proudly found schools of economics and think tanks, and put forth their plans for running state and economy freely in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. When neoliberalism came to power in the late 1970s/early 1980s, the elections of Thatcher in England and Reagan in the United States were preceded by a neoliberal onslaught of propaganda and activism openly calling for, among other things, deregulating and financializing the economy, rolling back the welfare state, crushing organized labor, and privatizing the public realm. Neoliberalism proceeded to do just that with the election of the Republican president Reagan, coming to fruition under the Democratic president Clinton with the ratification of NAFTA and the abolition of welfare. There has been little hidden, or clandestine, or conspiratorial about the capitalist ruling class's open class warfare against the rest of society carried out under neoliberalism.
Acknowledging the existence of a social class with common interests based on ownership of the economic means of production, even recognizing that the social class in question attempts to run things through owning most of society's wealth and property, is not the same as tossing around dubious conspiracy theories. But I'll leave the basic Marxism 101 for a future column. I'll conclude with a quote from Zbigniew Brzeziński, that: "History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy."
(Copy editing by K Raketz.)
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ACS President Calls on All Americans to Resist Attorney General's Efforts to Subvert Democracy and Rule of Law
Contact: Nancy Rodriguez media@acslaw.org
Washington, D.C. – American Constitution Society President Russ Feingold released the following statement regarding U.S. Attorney General William Barr.
"With his statements last night at the Hillsdale College event, and his actions throughout his tenure, Attorney General William Barr has cemented his place among the very worst and most destructive Cabinet officials in U.S. history. His efforts to subvert our democracy and the rule of law must be resisted by each of us who embraces our Constitution and the values it enshrines. Today -- on Constitution Day – and every day we must resolve to defend our founding document and the hope of human flourishing it embodies against all threats, foreign and domestic.
The bill of particulars against Attorney General Barr is so long and damning that it calls to mind that against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. He has acted as President Trump's fixer in criminal cases involving the President's other cronies, including Roger Stone and Michael Flynn. He has launched a bizarre and unfounded 'criminal' investigation against government officials, with the clear intent of helping the President in the upcoming elections, leading widely respected Department of Justice officials to resign in protest. He has lied, repeatedly and outrageously, about the integrity of our election systems in general, and mail ballot systems in particular, in order to undermine our democracy and boost the political fortunes of his patron, the President.
And now, in his remarks last night, Attorney General Barr offers a vision of his office and of federal law enforcement that takes much from the darkest periods of American history and from any number of foreign police states, and nothing at all from the best traditions of this nation and the Department of Justice. By asserting and celebrating in this manner his power to intervene in all matters regarding federal law enforcement, Attorney General Barr firmly aligns himself with the very worst actors in the Department of Justice's history, including those responsible for the Palmer Raids of the post-World War I Red Scare and the Hoover-led FBI's vendetta against Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
And so we must resist him and the dark traditions for which he stands. You have the power to do so. Please do not shrink from this moment.
Defend democracy. If you are a lawyer, protect the rights of others to vote. If you feel comfortable doing so, serve as a poll worker so that the vote can be counted quickly and accurately. Explain the stakes of this moment to your friends and family.
The American Constitution Society can connect you with and provide you with resources regarding each of these opportunities to defend our democracy. We stand in solidarity with you and all our allies in the struggle for justice. Together, we will prevail."


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I'm curious to find out what Geoexpat members' net worths are.
Please feel free to include all your assets - cash, fixed income, equities, properties (inc primary place of residence), funds, derivatives etc.
For your properties, pls just include the equity portion (ie exclude the outstanding mortgage amount).
how about making a poll so we can vote anonymous?
I think most members will prefer to keep this a secret. Better make a poll.
EDIT: How do I make this poll private?
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I've voted on your poll just to make you feel better about yourself.
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i chose wrong one...thought it said $5 .... not $5M.
it seems OP has read through the "How To Retire Early " thread with $$ signs in his eyes. Which is sad because it contains so much more.
Apart from satisfying your own curiosity, can you explain what the broader purpose of this discussion? From my experience, comparing yourself with other people (on any measure, but especially financially) rarely has a pretty end.
As Morrison pointed out, our previous discussions in this general area have sought to avoid direct comparisons while offering helpful ideas for readers whatever their financial status.
The case of some members posting their actual net worth on a previous thread needs to be seen in context. The intention there was to help other readers determine for themselves - on a profoundly practical basis - how much money they would need to have amassed to be able to retire. The revelation of his actual net worth by this poster met with the predictable barrage of criticism and cynicism. But as I said at the time, the discussion it generated proved immensely helpful for many people.
Can you think of some way to redirect this thread to achieve a higher goal than mere comparisons?
I included in my valuation my evaluation of the dipper TM internet brand identity, representing as it does all that people aspire to in terms of an internet identity. I'm expecting to be bought out by Google at any time. Soon you will no longer be Googling but Dippling and all my hard work posting on here will have been worth it.


You might think we're complaining because our App, Stealthy, went from 2nd place in the last two rewards cycles (Alpha and December) to 13th place in the recent January rewards. However, even the math in the App Mining white paper suggests that a drop this big should be improbable in a single review cycle (see: Step 4: Function F of the App Mining).
There are serious problems with each of the App Mining Rewards program reviewers and the overall numbers. We shine a light on these issues below, hoping to make the App Mining Rewards system more than a gameable popularity contest plagued by incorrect incentive structures.
Votes on Democracy Earth are supposed to be from a select group of individuals as described on p. 11 of the Blockstack Token White Paper (https://blockstack.com/tokenpaper.pdf). Unfortunately that's not happening.
All those ID's belong to Dan Healy, the developer of Hermes Chat.
One reason why Stealthy might have seen a reduction in the number of Democracy Earth votes (shown below) is that voters could not find it in the list of Apps to vote on.
That's because Stealthy appeared at the very bottom of a list of 46 apps so you had to scroll down for days if you were interested in casting a vote for it. Worse still, the list is lazy loaded, meaning that if you were smart enough to just search for Stealthy, you wouldn't find it.
Democracy Earth has indicated that the page order is randomized, but based on what trigger?
In all of our uses of the page after keeping it open or closing it and reloading, Stealthy continues to be on the bottom. This means that Stealthy and possibly other Apps are effectively invisible, especially given the lazy loading behavior, requiring an inordinate amount of effort by voters.
There's also the unofficial way that @bodymindarts pointed out during the mining rewards alpha run, where you buy 90 votes for a bargain–$5: Some initial thoughts on the App Mining Program .
This data shows that nobody is inspecting the mining results and checking to see if they make sense. It's very strange that Blockstack would accept this data for an App that won their decentralized Chat Bounty), is featured in every Blockstack presentation, website, blog, fund, app.co, etc., and has been developed for 14 months?
Stealthy is mobile first with a minimalist onboarding and login process–the testers were never directed to our website with links to our github, medium, twitter, news articles, FAQ's and a variety of other information about what the app is. The users in our review videos didn't understand anything about the app, Blockstack, decentralized technology, or blockchain. They were directed to the Android App store, where they ignored the description we had about our technology and skipped right into the App.
Three of our eight testers complained of not being able to upload a file. We were baffled until we realized that the instructions below from TryMyUI had confused them–Stealthy does not have a file upload feature.
The totality of the TryMyUI results calls into question their ability to properly evaluate communication Apps or understand what they are evaluating. None of the other communication apps are on mobile or feature push notifications–very strange for top performing communications tools.
Clearly Blockstack needs to improve their process and attention to detail in the simple data entry and computation of the App Mining Rewards.
The negative score currently assigned to Stealthy for January is averaged into future scores, affecting Stealthy's ability to compete fairly, reclaim higher rankings, and fund our development. While there are many issues with these App Mining Rewards, at a minimum,we believe Stealthy should be re-reviewed by the Product Hunt and TryMyUI reviewers. These re-reviews should, address the problems we've outlined: transparency, technical failures from Blockstack, poor instructions, and tester guidance.
To date App Mining Rewards have heavily awarded two Apps that appeared 2 months ago (Zinc, SpringRole) that only use Blockstack Authentication. These Apps do not use the multitude of other Blockstack features, failing to push the platform further. How does this get Blockstack to the 1M users milestone or improve Blockstack's storage, cryptography, and mobile platform features?
The integrity of the Blockstack App Mining Rewards system is compromised. If we don't address these critical issues and properly align the incentives for app developers, Blockstack will continue to lose great Apps that add value to the platform (like Misthos). Ultimately Blockstack could end up being a graveyard of crummy gambling Apps, like other platforms.
Blockstack as a platform for app developers is only as good as the applications being built. Our goal since Day 1 has been to build a company around our product and help Blockstack towards the Milestone 2 goal. We've had to customize a lot of code to make a working, production-ready application. Others have had to do the same. Generally, we've been happy to do so because we knew Blockstack was supporting that. Unless things change with App Mining, we don't see how we can feel supported enough to continue building on Blockstack. We want to work together to figure out a path forward that works for everyone.
It appears that we failed to give fully accurate information behind the numbers used in the ranking process related to TryMyUI.
The numbers used in the rankings are the 'trimmed mean', not the actual mean. They eliminated the highest and lowest scores to control for outliers, and then computed the mean from the middle 6 scores. They felt (and I personally agree) that this results in a more accurate figure.
If you uncheck the top and bottom scores for your user list when viewing the ALF score, the numbers should add up to what you see in our spreadsheet.
Obviously there is much more to comment about here, but I wanted to share this information first.
I have thoughts on all of this, but that someone was able to vote for their own app and it counted is EXTREMELY problematic. I'm sure the fact that someone who shouldn't vote was able to can be corrected via code and bug fixes on DE's end. But the fact that Blockstack did not catch a completely fraudulent vote is not only disappointing personally but frightening from a company/mission perspective.
I am proud of what Graphite has done and I'm happy with the results I've seen personally, but I cannot participate in something that can be gamed. I expect a response to this specific issue soon. Very soon.
Yep, Democracy Earth made an upgrade to the platform that resulted in a bug which was quickly escalated and fixed (as in @benoror post). After the problem was fixed, all non-whitelisted votes were removed.
We have verified the voters line by line several times , and can confirm that votes were only counted from whitelisted stack holders . Zero unverified or self-voting submissions made it to App Mining calculations.
Thanks for the quick response @Gina! Are you suggesting that Dan Healy is a token holder? Or are you saying that the conclusions Prabhaav has drawn are incorrect?
I see the 1000 votes from the user critic in the DE vote. As has been the case for everyone else on the platform (I think), that username is tied back to a Blockstack username. A quick search for that username, reveals the profile Prabhaav posted. That profile is part of a keychain that is owned by the Hermes app developer.
I really hope I'm wrong. I hope Prabhaav is wrong.
We can confirm that the only votes that were counted were associated with accounts of verified, whitelisted token holders. We can't disclose the identities of these token holders.
There may be a world where any developer can convince any token holder to vote a certain way. This will remain true as App Mining is decentralized further and token holders are just Stacks addresses with no identity information linked to them. You can't practically enforce the alternative — where an entity is in the position of enforcing the "purity" of tokenholders' votes. There are no easy solutions to this problem. However, the problem becomes smaller and smaller with more participation in App Mining from token holders.
Also, you do not want me or Blockstack PBC to have the power to revoke/cancel a valid token holder's vote in a decentralized system.
There is an open community meeting around App Mining tomorrow and we should discuss these topics.
P.S: I'll comment on the other points shortly.
First of all, your feedback is appreciated!
Gaia integration being compulsory. Everyone agrees it should be there. It's a question of timing and implementation. Let's do it thoughtfully.
Hermes appears buggy, and wouldn't be surprised if most apps have bugs after they've passed initial review (e.g. works for some installations, not for others), a spot check of the TryMyUI video shows people successfully using the app. Maybe the app owner needs to update Blockstack.js to resolve the bug issue, and also needs to better maintain the app. There are more solutions and we should usher those in.
Product Hunt popularity contest: Let's discuss this on the App Miner community call tomorrow, there are some potential solutions to proactively address this, however it has not been exploited to my knowledge.
We want to work together to figure out a path forward that works for everyone as well. This is an ongoing experiment and are grateful for your feedback — its really helpful.
I don't mean to hijack all of Prabhaav's points with this but I need someone to unequivocally tell me that "critic" the DE voter is not "critic.id". No one has said that yet. Because those votes were absolutely counted and it's a pretty odd coincidence that a voter gets allocated votes, drops all the votes on one app at the same time, and just so happens to have a DE username that matches a Blockstack ID of the developer that benefited from the vote.
Justin, right on the same page with you.
Here's what we know for a fact at this moment: The user "critic" on Democracy Earth is tied to an investor who has been fully KYC'd as a part of the token sale and is not the creator of the app that benefited from the votes (completely different person, name and all). The above being said, the user who signed in to Democracy Earth either logged in with critic.id (the beneficiary app creator) or changed their username to critic . After logging in they confirmed their email address as that of the KYC'd investor.
These are the facts we know right now and are investigating further as to how this could have happened.
The fact that TryMyUI users were given incorrect instructions and there were bugs related to Blockstack affected our PH scoring.
What is the resolution for that? Are you asking us to carry forward a negative score due to no mistake on our part?
I'm going to continue the conversation in the forum because A) I and others, I imagine, won't be able to make the conference call, and B) it's important that anyone be able to see this discussion.
The problem with thoughtful consideration of how to introduce the Gaia storage requirement is that there are already apps on board that don't use it. So you'll put yourself in the position of telling those apps to add storage after the fact or grandfather them in.
I struggle with this point a lot because part of the reason a handful of apps participated in the alpha run in October was to provide feedback to help this process going forward. I mentioned this back then. Others did as well. I eventually even wrote a forum post about it. Now we're deep into apps making significant money without putting in the work to use Blockstack's core feature. As much as decentralized identity is cool, it's not Blockstack's important feature.
I've asked a few times about the progress toward Milestone 2's goal of 1million users. If that goal is fueled by bringing on a bunch of apps that add Blockstack auth, I do not want to be part of that.


IITA-Zambia hosted a visit by a high-level Swiss delegation led by His Excellency Mr Arthur Mattli, Swiss Ambassador to Zambia and the East Africa Region, on 29 November. He was accompanied by a team from the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC) Office for Southern Africa based at the Embassy of Switzerland in Harare, Zimbabwe composed of Ms Brigitte Oederlin, Deputy Director, SDC, and Mr Bulisani L. Ncube, Senior Regional Programme Officer, Food Security, and Agriculture Program, SDC.
David Chikoye with other Southern Africa Hub colleagues briefing the Swiss delegation.
The Swiss delegation was received by IITA-Zambia scientists and staff led by David Chikoye, IITA Regional Director for Southern Africa, as well as members of the Zambia Youth Agripreneurs (ZYA).
The visit was intended to familiarize the SDC with IITA's activities and projects in the region, particularly in areas related to SDC's policies such as improving household nutrition, water management, climate-smart agriculture/climate services for agriculture, and youth involvement.
"First, I would like to congratulate IITA on your 50th anniversary. There are but a few international research centers in the world that have reached this milestone," said Ambassador Mattli at the start of the visit. "This visit is part of the SDC's multi-country exploratory mission in southern Africa to see how we can work with partners in the region in the context of our Food Security and Agriculture Program," he explained.
"We wanted to know what IITA could offer with regard to these priority thematic areas," Ms Oederlin reiterated, briefly summarizing the objective of their visit.
In response, Chikoye briefed the Swiss delegation on IITA's past and ongoing research activities and projects in the region, specifically relating them to SDC's identified priority areas. "We have a strong portfolio of projects and programs in southern Africa that fits perfectly with SDC's policies," he said. He expounded on this by making a presentation about IITA and our work in the region, which was supplemented by presentations by Pheneas Ntawuruhunga (on soybean and cassava research), Juliet Akello (on nutrition and food safety), and Cynthia Chibebe (on the Zambia Youth Agripreneurs program).
The Q&A that followed the presentations raised some very important focal areas on which to establish a possible formal partnership between IITA and SDC. These included mitigating climate-induced shocks to farmers through agricultural interventions, seed systems, food and nutrition science, food safety, and gender and youth in agriculture and agribusiness.
After the discussions, the Swiss delegation were given a tour of the SARAH campus, during which they were shown the cassava field trials, mechanized irrigation system, and the ZYA-operated cassava processing center and vegetable plots.
At the end of the visit, Ambassador Mattli handed Chikoye a symbolic parting gift—a pen. "On behalf of the Swiss Embassy and the SDC, I would like to thank you, your staff, and the youth for hosting us here today. We learned a lot about IITA and the good work that you are doing in the region. Please receive this pen as a symbol of our future partnership and we look forward to signing many agreements between IITA and the SDC," he concluded.


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St. Patrick's Day is kind of a big deal around my place. So, here are my tools for the day. Since there's way more here than I can use today, I'll be pulling from these all week.
Some of my very generous Christmas gifts. A very NockCo Christmas to me!
My wife gets me! 🙂 She got me the Goulet Pen notebook sampler set for my birthday. What an awesome gift for a pen and notebook snob!
The set includes 6 mini notebooks from Apica, Banditapple, Clairfontaine, Rhodia, and Midori.
I'm still rather new to the discovery of all the premium paper that fountain pen users love. It wasn't long ago that I thought Moleskine was the best paper available. This is a great way to try 5 brands of high quality paper to see what you enjoy.
And OOOOO the paper! The paper in every one of these notebooks is amazing. I'm going to have a great time sampling each of these notebooks. It's going to be a challenge deciding which of these to buy in every available size – BUT I'M UP TO THE CHALLENGE!
Thank you Goulet Pens and the wife!
Hey, friends of awesome! Today I'm sharing a few deals I stumbled upon this week. I love getting awesome tools at an awesome price, don't you? I'd love to hear if you are able to catch any of these deals. Let us know in the comments.
Ticonderoga Renew Pencils made from wood scraps. I love the visible wood joints on these pencils.
On clearance in store at Office Max: $1. Comparison price: Ticonderoga Renew at Amazon – $3.99. Online at Office Max – $3.99.
Staedtler allXWrite Woodless pencils. These pencils are made entirely from graphite. Thy look supper cool.
On clearance in store and website at Staples – $1.49.
On clearance in store at CVS – $3.99. Comparison price: Vaultz Pencil Box with Combination Lock at Amazon – $12.52.
On clearance in store at Office Max: $1.
On clearance in store at Office Max: $3. Comparison price: Ticonderoga Golf Pencil 72ct at Amazon – $11.99. Office Max online – $11.99.
But this is not a review of Field Notes Unexposed. This is a recommended pen and pencil pairing for each of the six notebooks in this edition. Pairing the right coffee with your food makes all the difference. Likewise, finding the right pen or pencil for each of these distinctive notebooks will expand your joy.
Johnny Gamber has paired his Field Notes Unexposed with neon wopex pencils. It's amazing how closely the color of the wopex pencils matches the color of the Field Notes Unexposed. So closely, in fact, that I am certain laying these pencils on an Unexposed cover would guarantee that I would never find it again. The pencil would blend completely into the cover. WOPEX CAMOUFLAGE!
Instead, I recommend pairing a pen/pencil with the font color on each journal. No camouflage, and a beautiful accent.
Sliver really looks good with this blue.
Field Notes Unexposed should be paired with a bright coffee, such as Land of a Thousand Hills Muraho Morning.
*Does anyone have an extra yellow FNU?


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La manganese perossidasi è un enzima appartenente alla classe delle ossidoreduttasi, che catalizza la seguente reazione:
2 Mn(II) + 2 H+ + H2O2  2 Mn(III) + 2 H2O
L'enzima è una emeproteina coinvolta nella degradazione ossidativa della lignina nei basidiomiceti della carie bianca.

Bibliografia

EC 1.11.1


Why Does Snap Invite Class A Shareholders to ITS AGM? — Lateral Capital Management, Inc.
Why Does Snap Invite Class A Shareholders to ITS AGM?
Assuming there are enough voting shareholders to meet an AGM quorum, why does the Snap Board of Directors invite the non-voting Class A shareholders? Seems like a token gesture and while the prospectus makes a big deal of the invitation it does not explain why the gesture is made.
A compelling case could be made that the best thing for non-voting SNAP shareholders would be to do away with the pretence of holding an AGM and distribute the AGM cost savings to Class A shareholders in the form of a dividend.


Online communication, especially through social media, constitutes a powerful tool for terrorist organisations to gain global visibility and reach new audiences, recruit, and obtain financial support. The rapid identification and removal of online terror content can help curb this virtual contagion. On many occasions, the perpetrators of terrorist attacks were nationals of the countries they attacked, or people who have migrated and resided in those countries for a long time. Moreover, almost one third of arrestees for terrorist offences in 2016 were 25 years old or younger (Te-Sat, 2017). Building resilient communities and stronger social ties may also play an important role in reducing the risk of radicalisation, especially of young people, helping neutralise the appeal of terrorist propaganda.


What could FED interest rate rise have on exchange rates?
Today it's widely expected that the US Federal Reserve will raise interest rates in the USA, the first major western economy to do so since the financial crisis of 2008. What affect could it have on exchange rates if they do? What might happen if they don't? I'll look at several scenarios in today's post, and also ways you can protect against the rate moving against you.
What will happen to exchange rates if the FED raise rates?
Logic would dictate that if they do raise rates, the USD would strengthen and rates would drop further. This is because the higher return would attract investors to the USD. However this may not be the case…. the last time they raised rates 10 years ago, the Dollar actually weakened against Sterling over a 2 year period, so this shows that it's not a given the USD will gain strength. It could be that the fact is already well priced into the market, and so if there are no surprises it may not have an effect on the rate. Also, there is a small chance they won't raise rates at all, and if this happens it would shock the market, weakening the Dollar and pushing rates back up again.
It's likely to be a volatile currency pair over the next 24 hours, but there are ways you can protect against the markets moving against you. Also, as the decision comes at 7pm when UK markets are closed, you should take steps to cover your position. You can use 'Stop Loss' and 'Limit Orders' to automatically secure a rate if it drops below a pre-agreed level, or rises to a particular target you're looking for. Alternatively you can remove your exposure completely by locking in a rate in advance of the decision. Even if your funds aren't ready, you can still fix a rate using a 'Forward Contract' if you have 10% of the total you want to convert.
Everyone's individual requirements are different of course, so if you have USD to buy or sell, and would like a quote from me or simply discuss your options, contact me today for a free consultation and get a quote to compare with your bank or existing broker.
GBP/EUR could also be affected today, as if investment is driven towards the US Dollar, then the Euro could weaken pushing Sterling/Euro up again after the recent drop. There's no way to predict what will happen of course, but there are various tools you can use to ensure you don't get a worse rate than is necessary.
If you need to get the best possible rates to buy or sell Euros, then contact me for a chat about what I can offer you. I provide exceptional rates of exchange for all major currency pairs, and getting a quote from me could save you thousands of Pounds. If you're buying or selling property abroad, or a business that needs to convert currency or pay for goods overseas, then get in touch. It's free, there's no obligation, and I usually have no problem at all providing significantly better rates than available through other sources.
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I just released mrepo 0.8.6 with RHEL 4.7's RHN/up2date code included which makes mrepo work on other distributions without requiring to copy those libraries.
Support for RHEL5 and CentOS-5.
Added YaST Online Update support.
Added fuseiso support (root access no longer needed).
Added unionfs support to merge ISOs to a single tree.
Caching of directory indexes to prevent regenerating repositories.


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Q: tellg returning negative value after using getline and seekg I am needing to parse through a text file and output the vowels within this textfile line by line into a separate file. This all needs to be done using one filestream at a time.
I open the input stream using fstream ios:: in & ios::binary, read in one line using getline, clear & close that stream then open my output fstream using ios::out & ios::app, find the vowels and output them one by one as they are found. Then close output stream and open the input stream. Done using seekg to put the file at the end of the prior line in hopes that getline will read in the consecutive line.
fstream a(fileName, ios::in | ios::binary | ios::ate);
    string OF = "vowels_" + fileName;
    while (count < size && count != -1) {
        count = a.tellg();
        a.close();
        fstream b(OF, ios::out| ios::app);
        for (int i = 0; i < line.length(); i++) {
            if (line.at(i) == '\n'){b << '\n';}
            if (line.at(i) == 'a' || line.at(i) == 'e' || line.at(i) == 'i' || line.at(i) == 'o' || line.at(i) == 'u') {
                b << line.at(i); vowels+= line.at(i);
            }
        }
        if(vowels.empty()){b << endl;}
        if (line.empty()){b << endl;}
        b.close();
        fstream a(fileName, ios::in | ios::binary | ios::ate);
    }

A: fstream a(fileName, ios::in | ios::binary | ios::ate); at the end of the loop does not re-initialize a, it creates a new fstream.
When you get to the start of the next iteration, a is closed.
You are overcomplicating this.
Work line by line in text mode, keep track of how many lines you've read, and skip over that many lines on each iteration.
Something like this:
size_t skip_lines = 0;
while (true)
{
    std::string line;
    {
        ifstream in(fileName);
        size_t lines = 0;
        while (lines < skip_lines && std::getline(in, line))
        {
            lines++;
        }
        if (!std::getline(in, line))
        {
            break;
        }
    }
    skip_lines += 1;
    ofstream out(OF, ios::append);
    for (auto it: line)
    {
        if (is_vowel(it)) // Define 'is_vowel' elsewhere.
        {
            out << it;
        }
    }
    out << '\n';
}

A: Normally, you would use a different approach. You would simply open both input and output files and then do the task in one shot.
But, obviously, the task is, to have only one stream open at the same time. And maybe, it should teach you how to use tellg and seekg functions.
And one of the most important things that you need to do: Please always check the return value of each function call. For read functions, this is an absolute must.
Then, handle potential errors, or states.
You can and should also use those return values for the control logic in your program.
What you should additionally know is, that, if stream variables go out of scope, they will automatically close the associated file. Please make use of this property.
Then, the solution: We need to set up a variable with the current file position. At the beginning, this is 0. Then we read data and, store the new file position after reading. We can close now the source file, because, we know the position of the next characters to read. So, close the file, and do the "vowel"-work. Simply check, if a character is a vowel, and then write it to the destination file.
Do this, until we get any kind of error of "EOF" (end of file).
A potential solution is shown below. I put many comments in the file for easier understanding.
Please see:
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>

const std::string sourceFileName{ "test.txt" };

int main() {

    // Define the filename for the destination file
    std::string destinationFileName = "vowel_" + sourceFileName;

    // Here we will store the current file position
    std::ifstream::pos_type readPosition{};

    // We will use a boolean variable to indicate, how long we want to read
    bool continueToRead{ true };

    // Read the source file in a while loop
    while (continueToRead) {

        // Open the source file for reading
        std::ifstream sourceFileStream{ sourceFileName };

        // Check, if the file could be opened.
        // This calls the "bool" function of the stream, to check, if everything is OK
        if (sourceFileStream) {

            // Source file could be opened. Set the file read pointer to the last known position
            if (not sourceFileStream.seekg(readPosition)) {
                // If thís did not work (end of file or something)
                continueToRead = false;
            }
            else {
                // Read one line and check, if that worked.
                std::string line{};
                if (std::getline(sourceFileStream, line)) {

                    // Now we need to store the current file position for the next loop run
                    readPosition = sourceFileStream.tellg();

                    // Because, we want to have only one file stream open at a time,
                    // we will now close the input file stream
                    sourceFileStream.close();

                    // We may need to write to the output file. Open this now and check,
                    // if it could be opened. Set file pointer to end with "app"
                    std::ofstream destinationFileStream(destinationFileName, std::ios::app);

                    // Now iterate over the source line string and write vowels, if necessary
                    for (const char c : line) {
                        // check, if c is a vowel
                        if ((c == 'a') or (c == 'e') or (c == 'i') or (c == 'o') or (c == 'u')
                            or (c == 'A') or (c == 'E') or (c == 'I') or (c == 'O') or (c == 'U')) {

                            // Write vowel to destination file
                            destinationFileStream << c;
                        }
                    }
                    // Write final newline character
                    destinationFileStream << std::endl;

                    // Here the destinationFileStream will go out of scope and closed automatically
                }
                else {
                    // Could not read data. Stop loop
                    continueToRead = false;
                }
            }
        }
        else {
            // Source file could not be opened.
            std::cout << "\nError: Could not open source file '" << sourceFileName << "'\n\n";
            continueToRead = false;
        }
    }
}

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Eginity | I own an electric vehicle and have always visualized a future where I can go to the store or an office complex and charge my car. I've wondered, however, how would I be charged for the electricity I consume. Is Smart technology the solution?
I own an electric vehicle and have always visualized a future where I can go to the store or an office complex and charge my car. I've wondered, however, how would I be charged for the electricity I consume. Is Smart technology the solution?
Eginity shares in this vision and is actually in early-stage discussions on how to make a downtown community one of the first in the nation to have deployed infrastructure for electric vehicles. In this eco-system an electric vehicle owner would likely use a smart card provided by the electric company to turn on an EON Platform enabled charging station. Charging time would be recorded and reported to the power company who could then add your charging time to your current utility bill or, if you were not a residential client, send you a bill on a monthly or quarterly basis.