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RFE/RL Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine Report Vol. 3, No. 36, 25 September 2001
A Survey of Developments in Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine by the Regional Specialists of RFE/RL's Newsline Team
IS YUSHCHENKO'S OUR UKRAINE KUCHMA'S 'POLITICAL PROJECT'? Kyiv-based political analyst Volodymyr Polokhalo, editor in chief of the "Politychna dumka" (Political Thought) magazine, said last week that the Our Ukraine election bloc (see "RFE/RL Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine Report," 24 July 2001) of former Premier Viktor Yushchenko is a "political project" of President Leonid Kuchma's administration, Interfax reported.
"From the very beginning, [Yushchenko] has been acting according to his formulations -- which, possibly, were voiced awkwardly but quite openly -- to the effect that any actions on his part should be coordinated with the president, as between a son and a father. This means that [Yushchenko] accepts the president's world outlook and the steps he takes in any situation.... There is no evidence that Viktor Yushchenko is an independent, self-sufficient political player," Polokhalo noted.
Polokhalo added that the presidential administration has taken every measure to prevent Our Ukraine from including forces that are in opposition to Kuchma. According to Polokhalo, neither the antiKuchma National Salvation forum nor its individual representatives have any chance of joining Our Ukraine.
"The political regime is interested in creating such blocs and such political players that are not interested in real competition and have no ideological differences that would bring this competition about," the 20 September "Den" newspaper quoted Polokhalo as saying. According to Polokhalo, Yushchenko's Our Ukraine is one vivid illustration of this thesis. Another illustration, Polokhalo added, is the planned bloc that journalists have dubbed "Tundra" -- it reportedly will consist of the Labor Party, the Party of Regions, the Popular Democratic Party, and the Agrarian Party, whose combined acronym in the vernacular sounds close to "tundra."
Yushchenko, in his turn, denies that his bloc is steered by the presidential administration. But he does not conceal that he consults his political steps with Kuchma and would prefer not to call Our Ukraine an opposition force.
In an interview with the 11 September "Stolichnye novosti" Yushchenko glibly said: "My attitude toward Leonid Danylovych [Kuchma] has been and remains honest. Neither I nor Our Ukraine are under the president's control.... I hope the that Leonid Danylovych's attitude to the bloc will be the same as our bloc's attitude toward him. Today, I am confident that the president needs constructive criticism from a bloc with a patriotic stand much more than radicalism. This criticism from our bloc is not personal criticism of the president. I will respect the president because he is the symbol of my state. Without respecting the president I will not get marks as an intelligent and educated man. This is reality and it speaks for itself. People from my bloc often say that I consult the president too much. But I would like to consult him even more. Not because the bloc's policy is under his control, but because the president plays a special role in Ukraine. It is not going easily for him now or for the country. Any bloc gets marks rather than loses them from communications with the authorities."
The parliamentary caucuses of the Ukrainian Popular Rukh, the Popular Rukh of Ukraine, the Reforms and Order Party, and ReformsCongress on 19 September announced the creation of the Our Ukraine group in the Ukrainian parliament to represent the Our Ukraine election coalition headed by Yushchenko. But it is unclear what other political parties will be in Our Ukraine. Ukrainian media reported last week that Yushchenko would like the Party of Regions led by State Tax Administration head Mykola Azarov to join Our Ukraine, in an effort to get leverage in Ukraine's eastern oblasts. But Azarov reportedly answered that Our Ukraine would be better served by joining the Party of Regions in the Tundra bloc.
RFE/RL Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine Report is prepared by Jan Maksymiuk on the basis of a variety of sources including reporting by "RFE/RL Newsline" and RFE/RL's broadcast services. It is distributed every Tuesday.
...PREPARES TO HINDER INFLOW OF AFGHAN REFUGEES... Lukashenka told journalists that the Belarusian authorities are preparing to counteract a possible huge influx of Afghan refugees should the U.S. conduct retaliatory strikes in Afghanistan. "You are aware of this illegal migration, and that we have been detaining hosts of people on the Polish border, deporting them -- but they keep coming there. As of today, there are about 100,000 such migrants in Belarus. Thank God, they still behave decently. But their number can increase. So we are preparing to thwart the influx of illegal migrants here, but Western Europe should understand that they will not escape this surge. A road, a wide road through Belarus, Ukraine, and the Baltic countries has already been paved," Belarusian Television quoted him as saying. JM
UKRAINE OPENS AIRSPACE TO U.S. MILITARY CARGO FLIGHTS. Ukraine's Council of National Security and Defense (RNBO) has agreed to allow the U.S. military overflight rights to the country's airspace, Interfax reported on 24 September, quoting deputy parliamentary speaker Viktor Medvedchuk. Medvedchuk said the decision was made at Washington's request. According to Medvedchuk, the RNBO decision will by confirmed by a presidential decree and does not require parliamentary approval. RNBO head Yevhen Marchuk said Washington has assured Kyiv that U.S. planes flying over Ukraine will not be carrying weapons of mass destruction, military aircraft, helicopters, tanks, or heavy artillery, since flights with such cargos must be approved by the Ukrainian parliament. UNIAN reported that leaders of parliamentary caucuses met with President Leonid Kuchma on 24 September and assured the president of their support for the RNBO decision regarding U.S. flights over Ukraine. JM
UNATTENDED NUCLEAR-WASTE STORAGE FOUND IN UKRAINE. An unattended nuclear-waste storage facility has been found near Zhytomyr, central Ukraine, UNIAN reported on 24 September, quoting the local newspaper "Misto." In the article entitled "Nuclear Bomb Near Zhytomyr," the newspaper reported that unknown people found a concrete well with wooden boxes cast in concrete. The boxes contained steel blocks marked as radioactive substance. Each steel block emits from 0.017 to 1.2 milliroentgens per hour, while the maximal permissible emission level is 0.03 milliroentgens per hour. The newspaper said a Soviet army unit that stored nuclear warheads was previously deployed at the site. The newspaper added that Ukraine's Security Service has instructed the local authorities to urgently isolate the radiation sources. JM


Gear up as singer-songwriter Manta Sidhu takes centre stage with a bunch of new tunes that she has been penning over since the last couple of months.
The Manta Sidhu Ensemble is a collaboration between some exquisite musicians, who have come together to play songs written by Manta, a Delhi based singer and songwriter. Versatile musical elements merging in a carefree environment, yet standing vulnerable in all their rawness – the music is for those with a taste for the easy-listening experience.


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Glenn Carter - The Lead Kimono
Glenn Carter - Noch: The Volume of Man
Glenn Carter - Flowers for Morris (Limited Edition Print)
Glenn Carter - Stir Paddle No. 19
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(SOLD) Glenn Carter - Gesture 23
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'A Universal Primitive' - The physical act of initiation, 'A Not Knowing', provokes a process of intuitive exploration of the poetic junctions between control and phenomena.
This wide open practice is based on the recognition of 'The Natural' or 'Primitive' as an approach to a spirit-realized form emanating from the energy within the matter found and an exchange with the subconscious-physical being of the initiator.
The interchange, combined directions and the assembled results of parts and process expose and evolve into a being/object of a deeper power, physicality and uncommon contemplative visual language.
The intent of this object process is to evoke a greater harmonic within the viewer/object interchange experience, the work being ultimately completed through the viewer's unique exchange with the artwork. The viewer/object experience becomes as a continuum of the phenomenological process of the originally initiated act and informs an ongoing perceptual redefining of the object/event.
MORE ABOUT GLENN
Glenn's work has been exhibited extensively throughout California and is held in the collections of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, the Triton Museum in Santa Clara, the Monterey Museum of Art, the Museum of Art and History Santa Cruz County in Santa Cruz, the Yosemite Museum in Yosemite. Glenn was born in San Francisco, California, and he lives and works in Santa Cruz, California.
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Is Our Twitter Myopia Setting Up A Crash?
I may be branded as a heretic or just plain ignorant, but is the flood of all things Twitter setting us up for a crash? Let me set this up right first. I have been one of those few people calling for Twitter to become infrastructure. I have even built an application, YackTrack.com, partially based… Read More Is Our Twitter Myopia Setting Up A Crash?
Is Usable Discovery The Holy Grail?
Over the past few days we have seen Twitter get criticized heavily over the #fixreplies fiasco. Much of the complaining was due to the communication of the changes, or the lack of timely communication. However, there was another large group of voices that used the @replies as a way of discovering other interesting users. This… Read More Is Usable Discovery The Holy Grail?


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An overview of the wide range of events that UBC offers McCombs students.
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VIP Speaker Series
At VIPs, C-suite executives are invited to speak with McCombs students about their experiences and offer career-oriented advice.
Past VIP Speakers
find out about some of our past VIP speakers
Ruth Porat
The current SVP & CEO at Google. Came and spoke to McCombs in February 2020.
Chairman & CEO of the Walt Disney Company. Came and spoke to McCombs in April 2020.
The current CEO of ExxonMobil. Came and spoke to McCombs in February 2020.
Message from Ibbi Sheikh
Ibbi currently serves as our VIP Chair for 2020-2021
The VIP Speaker Series at The University of Texas at Austin is one of the nation's foremost executive speaker series. An event dedicated to highlighting the views, insights, and perspectives of accomplished and inspiring business leaders, students are given the opportunity to learn from some of the most prominent speakers in modern business and nonprofit operations ... Our previous speakers have ranged from business titans in the world of finance to nonprofit visionaries. Industry spread is a major focus of the VIP Speaker Series ensuring students from every corner of UT Austin are able to appreciate our speakers.
TALKs Speakers
TALKs are presentations by current University of Texas professors and faculty about the latest trends in their industries and work experiences.
Past TALKs Speakers
find out about some of our past TALKs speakers
Dr. Kristie Loescher
Dr. Loescher is a Senior Lecturer in the McCombs School of Business. She came and spoke about the American healthcare system.
Doug McMahon M.D.
Doug McMahon came and spoke to McCombs about about the sustainability of energy in the United States and international.
Dr. Andrew Whinston
Dr. Whinston came and spoke about the future of cryptocurrency. He is the co-author or co-editor of 23+ books and 250+ articles.
Message from Aniket Matharasi
Aniket currently serves as our TALKs Chair for 2020-2021
TALKs is one of the coolest events ... at all of UT. At a school like UT, we are lucky to learn from such great professors in the classroom. However, there's often a disconnect between classroom learning and real-world application. TALKs aims to bring in speakers, both academic and professional, to share research or expertise on a topic to take learning even further out of the classroom ... TALKs helps students from every school at UT learn more about an interdisciplinary topic they are passionate about from experts in the field.
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GopherCentral Library: Random Facts - You've been ordering food in restaurants all wrong.
Random Facts - You've been ordering food in restaurants all wrong.
Modern English borrows from a lot of different languages, and sometimes those foreign words lose some of their original meaning in translation.
Food and dining, for example, borrows heavily from French, and some of the words don't mean to us what they mean over there.
In French cuisine, an "entree" is a dish served before the main course, in other words, an appetizer.
In French, "le plat principal" is the main (or principal) course.
"un aperitif" is a pre-dinner cocktail.
"un digestif" is your after-dinner drink.


Enter the tunnels of Stryker's Island in Batman's super-flexible Knightcrawler to take on the evil Parademons!
Drive or flip into crawl mode to climb obstacles and walls. Fire the rapid shooters and leap out of the cockpit. Dodge the Parademons' stud shooters and fight back with the Batarang.
Whoosh—here comes The Flash™ with his Power Blasts! Together, you must win the battle for the precious Mother Box!
This LEGO building set's ideal for ages seven and up.


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package org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.ilm.action;

import org.elasticsearch.action.ActionRequestValidationException;
import org.elasticsearch.action.ActionType;
import org.elasticsearch.action.IndicesRequest;
import org.elasticsearch.action.support.IndicesOptions;
import org.elasticsearch.action.support.master.AcknowledgedRequest;
import org.elasticsearch.action.support.master.AcknowledgedResponse;
import org.elasticsearch.common.Strings;
import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamInput;
import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamOutput;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Objects;

public class RetryAction extends ActionType<AcknowledgedResponse> {
    public static final RetryAction INSTANCE = new RetryAction();
    public static final String NAME = "indices:admin/ilm/retry";

    protected RetryAction() {
        super(NAME, AcknowledgedResponse::readFrom);
    }

    public static class Request extends AcknowledgedRequest<Request> implements IndicesRequest.Replaceable {
        private String[] indices = Strings.EMPTY_ARRAY;
        private IndicesOptions indicesOptions = IndicesOptions.strictExpandOpen();

        public Request(String... indices) {
            this.indices = indices;
        }

        public Request(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
            super(in);
            this.indices = in.readStringArray();
            this.indicesOptions = IndicesOptions.readIndicesOptions(in);
        }

        public Request() {
        }

        @Override
        public Request indices(String... indices) {
            this.indices = indices;
            return this;
        }

        @Override
        public String[] indices() {
            return indices;
        }

        @Override
        public IndicesOptions indicesOptions() {
            return indicesOptions;
        }

        public Request indicesOptions(IndicesOptions indicesOptions) {
            this.indicesOptions = indicesOptions;
            return this;
        }

        @Override
        public ActionRequestValidationException validate() {
            return null;
        }

        @Override
        public void writeTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
            super.writeTo(out);
            out.writeStringArray(indices);
            indicesOptions.writeIndicesOptions(out);
        }

        @Override
        public int hashCode() {
            return Objects.hash(Arrays.hashCode(indices), indicesOptions);
        }

        @Override
        public boolean equals(Object obj) {
            if (obj == null) {
                return false;
            }
            if (obj.getClass() != getClass()) {
                return false;
            }
            Request other = (Request) obj;
            return Objects.deepEquals(indices, other.indices)
                && Objects.equals(indicesOptions, other.indicesOptions);
        }

    }
}

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