Yup, it's true. It was a sad day when Emily Taylor confirmed that she was indeed leaving Daybreak. When John Smedley's tweet popped up outing Taylor's move to Canada, I was in the middle of chatting with friends and fellow EverQuest II players. We were stunned. We know that the industry can be fickle, but Taylor had been a staple on the EQII scene. Known as "Domino," she'd been in integral part of the Norrath crafting scene; she was responsible for penning many of the crafting signature quest lines as well as developing other parts of crafting, events, and housing. She was also well admired and appreciated by the community. Her loss would really be felt.
When we first read that tweet, our thoughts went to, oh no, what happened? followed very quickly by what's going to happen? After the rough time Daybreak has had since the split from Sony (multiple layoffs, game closures galore, and clandestine management changes along with staff resignations), we understandably wondered if we were witnessing a step toward impeding disaster — a sentiment shared by other fans of the franchise. The uncertainty of the news was laid to rest when Taylor herself announced that yes, she was leaving. She informed players that her move was of a personal nature (she wants to shovel more snow?!) instead of any thing related to the studio. She also assured us that there were plenty of devs at Daybreak still working on the games — moreso, in fact, than when the name changed.
I'm sure I wasn't alone in feeling some relief hearing that; I'd felt some pangs of worry in my heart for EQII, one of my all-time favorite games. I'll admit that I still have some trepidation, but who wouldn't after the last couple years? Still, hearing that Taylor's departure wasn't due to trouble at Daybreak was a positive, even while hearing about her departure was a negative. As she wandered off into the next phase of her career, I caught Taylor to talk a little bit about her time at Daybreak. Here's what she shared.
Massively OP: What was your first memory of starting to work at SOE?
Emily Taylor: When SOE hired me I had been working in Sydney, Australia, for the past 7 years. I jumped at the opportunity to relocate and join the team in San Diego to work on EQ2 tradeskills, but it's a very long flight between Sydney and San Diego. So I brought along a little notebook and spent quite a while on the flight writing a loooong list of things that I wanted to fix about the tradeskill system once I got there. Several years later, I came across that notebook again and it was really interesting to read through it. Many of the items I had indeed addressed, and of the items I hadn't, I now had a much better understanding of why the fix I'd wanted wasn't possible or didn't actually make sense. It was very satisfying to see how much I'd cleaned up from that super early list!
What has been your favorite project you worked on at SOE/Daybreak?
Pretty much everything I've done for EverQuest II is my favourite project! It's really hard to pick just one thing. I think one of the high points is probably the "Shipwrecked!" questline featuring Raffik, he's just such a likeable character and I've really enjoyed seeing how players fell in love with him. Implementing Tinkerfest was a big one too though; that's based on a player-run event that started before EQ2 even existed on the original EverQuest roleplay server of Firiona Vie. A group of mad gnome roleplayers calling themselves the "dread gnome pirates" got together and decided to throw an annual festival of all things gnomish, ran contests and player "quests", and generally tried to crash Steamfont Mountains by setting off tinkered fireworks. It was held for several years in a row with raid guilds donating prizes and was a ton of fun, so being able to make it into an "official" part of EQ2's calendar events was super cool also. Some of the quest NPCs and merchants in the EQ2 Tinkerfest event are named after the gnome characters who created the original. What would you call your proudest accomplishment while at SOE/Daybreak?
Again, hard to choose just one thing of all the good memories, but I think I did play a big role in turning the player housing part of the game into the rich and complex system it is now, and I was largely responsible for the idea of prestige housing. I originally proposed "custom homes" (what we now call prestige homes) in 2007, intended to be rewards from the Legends of Norrath game. They were eventually implemented as marketplace items in 2011, the first ones using the original zone ideas that I'd highlighted in 2007, and they are now a huge part of the player housing experience.
Fans are definitely going to miss you — especially all the crafters in Norrath! Do you know who will be taking over those quest-creation duties for the crafters? Will we continue to see crafting signature quest lines?
I try to avoid questions that require me to predict the future! So I'll just say there are some very talented designers on the EQ2 team, they care very much about our crafting community, and I don't doubt they'll continue to support all of EQ2′s players to the best of their ability.
If you could direct players to experience one thing in EverQuest and EverQuest II, what would it be? Feel free to sneak in an Easter egg of info that players might find in the game!
For me as a player, it's always been the player communities that have made these games special, even above the fun content. So it's hard for me to point to one thing in the game and say "do it". Rather, I'd suggest finding a fun guild that matches your preferred playstyle and social experience, and whatever you end up doing with friends will be fun! There is great game content all over, as well as plenty of rich lore and many entertaining little easter eggs to find at every level and in every expansion (the "oil in your eyes" guy in Steamfont always makes me laugh). I can name many zones in both games that I've enjoyed the heck out of and have fond memories of, but when you get right down to it, it's the people who were there with me that meant the most and created the best experiences.
On your Twitter you have shared many strange comments and conversations you have #overheardintheoffice. What is the most surprising thing you have done/learned/seen while working for the studio?
Those who don't follow you on Twitter may not have realized that your leaving was a personal decision to return to your native country and wasn't indicative of the state of Daybreak. After the change to Daybreak, the layoffs, and game closings, fans have understandably been anxious about the fate of EverQuest and EverQuest II. Some worried that your departure, as one of the more familiar and long-term devs, was a sign of impending disaster. How would you address those concerns?
I think it's normal to worry about a thing you love and be scared by changes, whether that thing is a game, a relationship, or even a government. I've been working with EQ2 for almost 10 years now and for over 9 of those years EVERY time a dev left the team or staffing changed at SOE/Daybreak, there have ALWAYS been people convinced that it signaled impending disaster. It hasn't yet, and it certainly won't with me going. Possibly there will be some slimmer people in the office, as I'll no longer be bringing in baked goods, but that's probably a good thing overall! While I am one of the more visible devs on social media, it doesn't actually mean I do any more work or am any more important than devs who prefer to stay a little more quiet. On the contrary, there are so many very talented and dedicated devs on ALL the game teams who prefer to focus on doing their jobs that I'm not at all worried. (And let's be clear, talking to players and being visible on social media is NOT in a dev's job description, that's what the community team is for; the devs are there to make the game.) So I'm very sad to leave Daybreak and EQ2, but I'm excited to go home to Canada after so long away. I'm looking forward to enjoying Daybreak games as a player once again, and I expect to be able to do that for a good long time still to come!
Related to that, the loss of yet another long-term, familiar face brought up the question, "Who's left?" to some fans. Although newer devs are also great for the games, there is some reassurance of stability that comes with knowing that veterans who are intimately familiar with Norrath and have have been part of a sizeable chunk of the development over the years are still involved. After so many departures in the franchise, and without necessarily naming devs who prefer to work out of the public eye, can you tell us how many devs who've been working on the games for many years are still involved?
It seems like long ago now, but when I was hired in 2007, I *was* one of the "new" devs and far from being one of the original launch team. I didn't contribute content until expansion 4 (the original Kunark) so the fact that I'm considered a "veteran" by some just shows how much perspectives change over time! I still feel like a newbie too a lot of the time, especially when I look at the team I'm leaving behind and realize how many of them were on EQ2 before I joined and are continuing on after I leave. Doing a quick mental tally, I'm pretty sure the team still has more people who were on the team from before I joined than folks who were hired after me.
On a related note, this week I met a new hire on H1Z1 who'd heard I was leaving, and he mentioned how impressed he is that so many people are like me and have been here 5, 10, 15, even more years. He pointed out how uncommon that is in careers these days, and how he'd never seen that before in the other game companies he's worked for, where average turnover is every 3-4 years. I think Daybreak is very lucky to have so many long-term veterans who are so passionate about the games they work on that they can't imagine wanting to work anywhere else. Those veterans are also great at bringing newer hires quickly up to speed with the lore and learned experiences of those games too, so everyone benefits from their experience.
Can you share a favorite memory about working at SOE/Daybreak?
One day when I looked up a walk-through of one of my quests on a fan site, and saw that someone had commented "slow down and read the dialog, it's worth reading, seriously hilarious." That made me feel as if I'd done a good job writing the quest, and also reassured me it's worthwhile to spend a little time throwing in some jokes and details in the quest dialog. Sure, a lot of people just skip past without paying attention, but for those who do read the details, I like to try and make it worth their while! Every now and then someone links to a list of EQ2 "Easter eggs" and jokes, and I've never seen one that has even a quarter of the little hidden references that I know are in there.
What's the difference in the business culture from the last 2 years of SOE vs. the first couple at Daybreak?
Each game team is fairly self-contained in terms of culture and how they like to structure the work and planning etc., so at my level it hasn't felt as if there's much difference. Holly "Windstalker" has overseen the EverQuest franchise for years and kept it running smoothly and happily, and the game teams have always tried to make EQ and EQ2 the best we can, and that doesn't change.
Besides baking for all your coworkers, what will you miss the most?
Hanging out with those same coworkers, many of whom I now consider good friends, and being able to use EQ2 questlines to tell memorable stories or create crazy situations to make people laugh. Like a goblin mishearing an instruction and decorating Kerafyrm's tomb with Frostfell candy canes. Or tricking players into using a recipe book by Bertoxxulous to infect a series of plagues onto a poor NPC. Or sending ridiculously misspelled emails from a ratonga child. Or creating tinkered items that launch flying cephalopods from a cannon. Etc. If I made some people smile, I did good in the world.
If you could have changed one thing at SOE/Daybreak, what would it have been, and why?
Will we find some Domino-created work in the unannounced-but-anticipated 2017 expansion?
No, it's too early in the planning cycle for me to be slipping in design content this early. Right now the zone geometry won't even be complete, and the main NPC characters and lore detail planning may still be changing. But everything I've done for the past 9+ years is well documented for the team, and I'm confident that whatever is in the next expansion will be made with love and care. I look forward to playing through it as a player again. It's not as much fun playing through quests you wrote yourself, because you always know what's going to happen!
Can fans expect to see and experience your handiwork again in your new job, or have you moved into a different realm?
I'll be in a production role as of next month so I won't be directly creating content, but I'll wait until I've actually started that job before talking any more about it. I'm sure I have a steep learning curve ahead of me, and I'm looking forward to it!
Thank you so much for your time! We're wishing you well in all your future endeavors, and we hope to see more of you soon.
They are hiring more people, sure, but literally none of the spots are specific to EQ1 or EQ2.
Things? He's bes not a things but a mighty pirate! And captains of the Far Seas! But I agree, he's one of my favorite NPCs. Letting Domino continue to work on EQ2 even when she was the Landmark producer was a great decision.


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Can't reserve ordinances that have been shared with the temple?
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March 7, 2020 edited September 28, 2020 in Suggest an Idea
Justin Masters said: I'm sure someone else has asked this, but I've never been good at finding anything in the getsatisfaction system.
But I was in the temple tonight, whipped out a couple of cards in my wallet, and discovered one was already done, one was reserved with the temple and not printed, and I found that I couldn't reserve it. Luckily I had an unreserved card that I had forgotten I had put into my wallet, and so I used that (old card, but the ordinance WAS recorded).
But... I thought that if something was shared with the temple system, someone COULD reserve it. Or is that ONLY through ordinance ready? Or is there still a barrier between temple districts and reachable people reserved with a different temple district?
Just wondering....
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Jordi Kloosterboer said: It's an upcoming feature. Not allowed right now.
Justin Masters said: The ability to reach into a "Shared with the temple" pool and pull out a name? (Isn't that an available pool option from the Ordinances Ready button?)
Why, yes.. yes it is.
https://www.familysearch.org/help/sal...
Where does Ordinances Ready get names?
The Ordinance Ready feature helps you find names easily for your next temple trip. The names provided may be from your own family, or *they may be names that other Church members have shared with the temple.*
(emphasis mine)
Later on that same page it says:
- Your family names that you shared with the temple. These are names that you reserved in Family Tree and then shared with the temple. They are on your family names list. As long as a temple has not yet printed a shared name, the Ordinances Ready feature can unshare the name so you can print the card.
- Names of people who are related to you that have been shared with the temple by someone else. These names are in your tree and were reserved by someone else and then shared by that other person with the temple.
- Names not related to you that have been shared with the temple. If no ordinances are available from other sources, Ordinances Ready will retrieve available ordinances that have been submitted to the temple by any patron. These ordinances from temple inventory will be provided in the same order they were submitted to the temple. You can perform ordinances for these individuals to whom you may or may not have a direct relationship.
Justin Masters said: Just seems odd you can't manually do what Ordinances Ready appears to do.
Jeff Wiseman said: I believe things work like this (please correct me if I'm wrong somewhere):
It used to be that each temple had a "pipe" for names. When someone shared a name with the temple, they put it into one end of the "pipe" for the temple who's district they lived in. When a temple wanted to provide names for ANY patrons that didn't bring their own names to the temple, the temple would pull those needed names out of the other end of the "pipe". If the temple was a small one where most patrons brought their own names, names that had been submitted to the pipe could end up sitting in the pipe for a long time.
Recently this system was upgraded so that now there is only ONE shared pipe feeding ALL temples. When a temple needs names to give out, they pull from the common pipe. This way names are not delayed by being held up in districts where most patrons bring their own names.
In all of these cases, when the temple took any of those names from the pipe and distributed them to patrons needing names, it was all done completely independent of whether or not the patron was related to the name given to them by the temple.
However, some people have been wanting to get names that are already in the pipe (i.e., shared with the temple) for people that they are specifically related to, and take them to the temple. This capability is currently being added to the existing system, but at present it is only partly implemented.
Currently, Ordinances Ready will look specifically for your relatives that have been placed in the pipe as part of its searching sequence. So you CAN pull names that you are related to from the shared pipe, but you are significantly limited to the few choices that Ordinances Ready gives you. Also, those names you select are given a "temporary reserve" for you. That means you only get 90 days in which to do the work before your reservation is removed.
At present, the only way that you can randomly go in and personally reserve a relative to take to the temple when that name has already been shared with the temple (i.e., by being placed into the temple "pipe"), is to contact the help desk and see if they will put it on a "temporary reserve" for you. We are still waiting for the ability where a person can go into FS and perform this operation for their self.
Note that the term "temporary reservation" is my own terminology since the word "reserve" has multiple meanings the way FS uses it. Remember that any name that is already shared with the temple, is ALREADY "reserved" by someone else. When you are given the name by the temple to do the work, it does NOT really remove the original reservation of the person that shared it with the temple.
Essentially the temple system has just given you the right to do the temple work for a name with a 90 day expiration date.
Justin Masters said: Thank you for that very thorough explanation.
To your last comments, I'm really torn on the idea that a name of the submitter is still connected to a name that is shared with the templei admire their willingness to collect names to share with the temple, and am sympathetic towards those that are single and cannot do work for people of the opposite gender, but I guess I see it as, if you share it with the intention that you ate not going to do it yourself, then let it go.
There shouldn't be any strings attached that keep others from doing the work.
I just checked the my contributions portion on the mobile app and there's no scoring for temple submissions, so I don't see a gamification factor being encouraged or promoted.
And the Far report only shows one submission per year, regardless of volume, but I don't think that detail is known by the general membership, and I don't want to even assume that this is a motivation. But I am a little disappointed when I see people who are picking up names and immediately sharing them with the temple, and it locks those names out from family members who want to do them. As a high counselor in our stake role me, it's really hard to promote work for our ancestors to our kids when they hit ordinances ready and get no ancestors or relatives. (They want their children to have their hearts turned to their forefathers.)
My own wife has a very strong bias towards serving only her family members, and doesn't like the idea when I suggest she could be helping others in need, and she responds with her service to her family is what she's doing and that's okay.
As I re read conference tasks from last Oct, I was struck by the talk on Saturday morning regarding our receptivity to personal revelation and the prompting of the Holy Ghost increases when our focus of prayers and efforts are directed towards serving others.
(sorry for the overtly religious tangent. My intent is to "equalize" or "neutralize" the bias towards holding on to names that are collectively shared with the temple vs withholding that opportunity for others to serve the people whose names we perform ordinances for.
(I don't think I clearly made that case, in any regards.
Thank you again for your detailed explanation Jeff!
Jeff Wiseman said: Justin,
We are evolving from a system that had many limitations to one that has fewer limitations. Remember, originally when you submitted a name to the temple, that was it. The work would be done by someone potentially not even related. It was in the system and you wouldn't get it back.
Now with the FS website, after you have shared a name with the temple, if you later wanted to, you could retrieve that name and do the temple work yourself. The issue, of course was that no relatives could selectively access that name for temple work.
With Ordinances Ready you can now retrieve the name of a relative that someone else has shared with the temple so that you can do the temple work yourself. Your ability to choose exactly which name is quite limited of course. This is partly because of the intended use of Ordinances Ready.
Please note that because of this capability built into the tool, when our youth "hit Ordinances Ready and get no ancestors or relatives", it is NOT because names of their relatives have been shared with the temple. It is because those names:
- are not entered into the FT yet
- already have their temple work done
- do not have enough information identified
- are being hoarded on someone's reserve list
The first 3 items are resolved by the youth learning to do the research work prior to going to the temple. The last item (which IS a problem) has only been addressed by the reduction of the reserved names period to 2 years or by contacting FS help desk to get names released to you.
We know that this direction is being further pursued at this time. Eventually anyone should be able to do the temple work for any relative that has been shared with the temple. So in the near future, the problem of people being "locked out" of doing the work for a relative that was shared with the temple will no longer exist.
Having the name of the original reserver and submitter to the temple associated with a name really should not be a concern IMHO. When someone is given a "temporary reserve" on a temple-shared name so that they can do the temple work, it overrides the original reserver's rights to do anything on that person until the temporary reserve expires (90 days). At that time it returns to the temple queue under the original reserver's name.
I really like this. As many others do, I do the research and then fully vet all the information on my names. Once a sufficient amount of properly sourced data is provided, I reserve and then share that name with the temple since this is the fastest way to get the work done. It also is a flag that all of the preparatory work on the name research is completed.
Since I reserved the name originally, I can track to see that the work happens. I personally don't care who does the temple work as long as it gets done. If another relative wants to do it, great! They can get at it through ordinances ready, and eventually they can directly get a temporary reserve on it themselves. In the meantime they could contact the help desk or even message me directly. If they do not get around to it and it expires, I can then go in and un-share the name to do the temple work myself if I want.
So I'm not concerned at all about the sharing with temple issues as the current issues are in the very process of being resolved.
And one last item regarding name hoarding...
I find it difficult to believe that people are actually collecting 200-300 thousand names of legitimately sourced and vetted records THAT ARE OF THEIR OWN RELATIVES. Something really wrong is happening there as we are only supposed to be reserving names of our own relatives.
I am not sure what else could be done about the reserved name hoarding that exists. We have heard of some cases where some … [truncated]
Justin Masters said: Thanks Jeff.
A couple of points...
to your last paragraph... Ordinances Ready seems to short circuit the need for any research for taking names. That said, we'll run out of names in 5-4-3... :-)
I agree that people should be trained to do the analysis. The church is expending a LOT of effort to make it easier for newbies to be able to do the work, and watching one of the keynote speeches from Rootstech, there's a LOT of effort going into putting together memories and stories and making ancestors "come to life". It's not the first time I've seen/heard references to getting out of the youth's way and watching them excel. But I wonder if this is an 80/20 rule kind of problem where a tremendous amount of effort is going to be invested in trying to make it simpler for many people to help them avoid the tougher research efforts, which may not be possible to get away from.
I'm really digressing here now.... I listened to another keynote speech, which also included a talk by the myheritage CEO. From a webinar from the family history fanatics referring to the same speech, they were REALLY excited (look it up, I made a BIG note about how excited one of the hosts was. particularly as I was listening to it at 2X speed while driving down the road at 1.2X. LOL)
The point they were making was that with the release of a HUGE amount of city directories, it was not making it easier to have "continuous research linkages" that (with a little machine language) make it very possible to almost have your family history... ummm (searching for the right word here) temporal path (place/time) mapped out, with Census records being a "check" or "waypoint". A netherlands site I saw today seemed to be trying to do the same thing with their marriage certificates multi-generationally in creating family trees...
I'm rambling, and it's 3:33 am... need to go to bed.
Bottom line... thank you!
BTW, I had a long discussion with a familysearch developer yesterday, and a brief conversation with a manager the day before, and they're really exploring some interesting options with machine learning to enhance the ease at matching records to people. (blathering again...) Having studied some of the legal and liability issues assigned to machine learning, and comparing it to decision-making in record matching, there's an interesting conundrum in trying to reverse-engineer a "bad choice", or "less-than-optimal choice". For instance, an autonomous vehicle gets in an accident (or makes a decision resulting in an accident). Trying to assign liability or determine who is at fault could be difficult when the past "learning" could have influenced a present or future decision. How does one "debug" this? The present efforts have been to "reset" them and start over. (You may have heard of machine language systems turned on to the internet to learn to communicate and picking up all the most vile and foul-mouthed characteristics of others in their communications, even though there are certainly good people out there. It appeared to follow a "consensus" in what is acceptable language and adopted it.
Made me think of this funny video I saw a reference to in a blog today... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgRoi...

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By: Michael Horton
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Executive Summary: Despite early claims of victory by the Ethiopian government, its war against the Tigray based Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF) shows no signs of ending. Instead, the TPLF, which is a capable and well-armed force, could launch a protracted guerrilla war. Such a war has the potential to spread well-beyond the Tigray region and even Ethiopia.
On November 28, Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali declared victory in his government's three- week-long war against the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF) (al-Jazeera, November 28). Abiy's declaration followed the seizure by federal troops of Mekelle, which is the capital city of Ethiopia's Tigray region (Nazret, November 28; Ethiopian News Agency, December 3). The fight for Mekelle, a city of over a half a million, was quickly concluded as TPLF troops carried out a strategic withdrawal from the city. The TPLF, which commands at least 100,000 fighters and possesses an abundance of heavy weaponry, could have fought to retain control of what has long been their seat of power. [1] Instead, they chose to retreat to the surrounding mountains.
This strategic retreat and the TPLF's long and storied history as skilled guerrilla fighters does not bode well for Prime Minister Abiy's hasty declaration of victory. Until 2018, the TPLF was the dominant political power in Ethiopia and has governed much of the Tigray region since its rise to prominence in the late 1970s. The armed forces loyal to the TPLF include many of Ethiopia's most experienced and well-trained officers, NCOs, and enlisted men and women. The TPLF, which oversaw Ethiopia's brutally efficient internal security service during its time as the country's preeminent political party (1991-2018), can also draw on hundreds of well-trained intelligence officers and agents.
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The speed of Abiy's reforms over the last three years has been nothing short of stunning. The refusal of the TPLF to join the newly formed Prosperity Party in late 2019 was a proverbial shot across the bow. In October 2020, the TPLF leadership denied the Abiy-led government's right to rule stating that Abiy's postponement of the August 2020 elections due to COVID-19 violated the constitution (Africa News, June 24; The Reporter May 9). The TPLF held its own regional elections in September of 2020 in the Tigray region (al-Jazeera, September 9; The East African, September 9). The central government in Addis Ababa ruled the election null and void (al-Jazeera, October 19).
While many of the Abiy government's reforms are laudable, an undercurrent of fear runs alongside them. Many politicians within not only the TPLF, but also within other regional and ethnic political parties worry about the re-centralization of political power at the expense of regional level authority.
These fears were already pervasive in Tigray in September 2019, with many members of the TPLF and the armed forces it commands actively preparing for armed conflict with the national government. During this author's trip to the Tigray region in September 2019, the tension in what were then TPLF controlled cites of Adwa, Mekelle and Axum was palpable. In the countryside, many communities—those that were able—were setting aside extra stores of grain to guard against shortages arising from a war that many thought imminent.
War and Legitimacy
Over the course of 2019 and into 2020, relations between the federal government and the TPLF steadily deteriorated. Open conflict began on November 4 when military forces loyal to the TPLF launched a preemptive attack on the Ethiopian National Defense Force's (ENDF) Northern Command Headquarters near Tigray's capital city of Mekelle (TRT World, December 3). TPLF forces rapidly overran the command headquarters and a number of minor outposts. However, ENDF units, which were prepositioned in preparation for such a conflict, launched successful counter-attacks on multiple fronts within 24 hours of the assault. Within hours ENDF mechanized units seized control of most of Route 1, a major road that connects Mekelle with points north and south, thereby cutting off the city. [4]
The outbreak of hostilities did not come as a surprise to Abiy's government. Preparations for war by both the ENDF and the TPLF have been underway for months in the case of the former, and likely for much of the last year in the case of the latter. "Prime Minister Abiy and Debretsion Gebremichael (leader of the TPLF and president of the Tigray region) backed each other into a corner," explained an Ethiopia-based analyst and former security official. "By moving slower with his reforms, especially with political reforms, Abiy could have achieved more and avoided war," the same analyst explained. "Abiy put the old guard of the TPLF in a position where the only option left for them was to revert to what brought them to power in the first place: war." [5]
The TPLF, which formed in 1975, grew from a few cells of no more than two hundred men and women into a highly capable political and military organization that would lead the effort to overthrow the Mengitsu regime in May 1991. [6] TPLF leaders combined political acumen with a sophisticated military strategy that embraced guerrilla warfare whilst also preparing and training its fighters to engage in traditional battles involving artillery and tanks. Simultaneously, the TPLF developed an extensive countrywide network of intelligence assets that helped its leaders to liaise with other groups battling the Derg and to coordinate attacks on regime targets.
Despite internecine fighting with rival groups like the Marxist-Leninist League of Tigray (MLLT) and the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF), the TPLF retained and enhanced its role as Ethiopia's preeminent rebel group. In 1988, the TPLF helped found the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), the political coalition that dominated Ethiopian politics from the overthrow of Mengitsu in 1991 until its displacement in 2019 by the Prosperity Party.
The TPLF's role within the EPRDF government was, for much of the last three decades, out of all proportion to the size of the population of Tigray. Tigrayans only make up six percent of Ethiopia's population of 110 million. The TPLF long justified the disproportionate size of its role in government by pointing to the fact that TPLF fighters made up the largest contingent of those forces that opposed the Derg and battled Eritrea.
"Tigrayans and the TPLF view themselves as Ethiopia's liberators from the Derg and as its defenders against outside enemies like the Eritreans," a former member of the TPLF explained. "It is this position as Ethiopia's liberators and defenders that the TPLF use to justify their power. They will fight to retain what they view as their hard-earned right to govern—at least in Tigray."
Cycles of Violence: Igniting Ethiopia's Ethnic and Inter-Religious Tinderbox
At a minimum, the TPLF wants to retain control of the Tigray region. Abiy's proposed reforms to Ethiopia's ethnic based federal system are viewed as a direct threat to the TPLF and to what many in the party and Tigray region see as de facto independence. These reforms which aim to weaken Ethiopia's ethnically based federalism in favor of a pan-nationalist framework are also viewed as a threat to self-determination by other ethnic political parties. The TPLF has long enjoyed a free hand within Tigray where, under the federal system, it is charged with most administrative decisions and affairs. Additionally, the TPLF maintains control of regional police, security services, and militias.
Beyond retaining control of the Tigray region, it is unclear what the TPLF's ultimate goal might be. The current Ethiopian Constitution, ratified in 1995, guarantees the right of self-determination—and even the right to secede—to every nation and people in Ethiopia. [7] The Abiy government's declaration of the September 2020 Tigrayan elections as illegal and the suspension of the disbursement of federal funds to the region have both been viewed by the TPLF as attacks on regional autonomy (Ethiopia Insight, October 19).
The measures taken by the Abiy government, while possibly justified, will stoke resentment among Tigrayans. If these actions are followed by punitive military campaigns and ethnic profiling, the TPLF will have no shortage of support for what could be a long and costly war. Unfortunately, incidents of ethnic based violence by the TPLF, the Abiy government, the Ethiopian National Defense Force, and regional militias are already being reported.
TPLF-linked militias are accused of attacking day laborers who belong to the major ethnic Amhara group in the town of May Cadera with machetes. Unverified reports suggest that over 600 civilians were killed in the attack. [8] The attack follows reports of Tigrayans living outside of the Tigray region being imprisoned, fired from their jobs, and expelled from ethnically mixed communities in major cities. [9] Some reports indicate that militias consisting of ethnic Amharas, known as the Fano, are fighting against the TPLF in southern Tigray. If such ethnic based attacks persist and worsen, the war in Tigray will spread beyond the region's borders. The TPLF possesses the ability to launch retaliatory attacks on targets outside of Tigray and indeed, as evidenced by rocket attacks on the Eritrean capital of Asmara on November 14 and 27, outside of Ethiopia (al-Jazeera, November 29). [10] Ethnically-driven attacks by any of the warring parties could lead to spiraling violence. The Abiy government has previously accused the TPLF of stoking ethnic tensions in other parts of Ethiopia like Oromia, a regional state of the country, in a bid to destabilize Abiy's government. [11]
Map of Ethiopia's ethnically based regional states (source: Wikimedia Commons)
Ethiopia is a tinderbox of ethnic tensions. A rebellion in Tigray and a heavy-handed response by the Abiy government could ignite tensions in other areas like the Oromia regional state, the ethnically Somali regional state in the Ogaden area, the Afar region, and the Gambella region. In the case of Oromia, inter-communal and inter-religious violence have already resulted in hundreds of dead and the internal displacement of thousands. Many of these areas, like most of Ethiopia, are underdeveloped and have derived limited benefit from Ethiopia's recent economic boom. Most of the gains from the boom remain concentrated among Ethiopia's elite (with Tigrayans still representing many of these elite stakeholders) in the national capital of Addis Ababa. While Ethiopia, like many African countries, has not suffered much of an impact from the coronavirus pandemic, the economic fallout from international efforts to combat the virus are taking a serious toll on the Ethiopian economy. A slowing economy and reduced international investment as well as rising food prices will further exacerbate ethnic and inter-religious tensions.
While many Ethiopians view the TPLF negatively due to its former primacy in national politics, others are sympathetic to the TPLF's claim that it is defending regional autonomy. During the 1980s, the TPLF proved adept at building ties with other ethnically based political and rebel groups. [12] The TPLF will pursue a similar strategy if it fights a protracted war in Tigray. The leadership of the TPLF will build on its relations with other political and rebel groups in a bid to combat the Abiy government. Harsh responses by Ethiopia's security services and military to local protests and/or armed factions will feed existing cycles of violence and start new ones.
Regional Implications
Ethiopia is the preeminent military and economic power in the Horn of Africa. Any serious instability in Ethiopia will impact neighboring countries and the broader region. The war in Tigray is already in danger of destabilizing parts of Kassala state in eastern Sudan which now hosts an estimated 50,000 refugees from Tigray. [13] The Tigray region itself was already home to over 100,000 Eritrean refugees.
The TPLF, which has twice fired rockets into Eritrea, claims that Eritrean troops are aiding Abiy's war against them. TPLF leaders accuse the Eritrean Army of operating deep within Ethiopia's northern border, something that U.S. officials have seemingly confirmed (al-Ahram, December 2). [14] The presence of Eritrean troops on Ethiopian territory could easily revive old and long-standing tensions over border areas.
Further afield, Ethiopia has withdrawn large numbers of troops from the ethnically Somali Ogaden to bolster its efforts in Tigray (Somali Affairs, November 3). These units police Ethiopia's long border with Somalia and periodically operate within Somalia where they aid that country's fight against al-Shabaab. The Ogaden is also home to the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), which has fought for the right of self-determination for the ethnic Somalis who inhabit the region. The ONLF declared a unilateral ceasefire in 2018 and recently called for all parties in the war in Tigray to negotiate. However, the ONLF, like other rebel groups active in Ethiopia, may take advantage of opportunities arising from a weakened Abiy government.
If the war persists, it has the potential to attract outside powers with an interest in aiding stability in Ethiopia or, conversely, instability. Instability can be easily encouraged through the covert provision of aid and arms to Ethiopia's armed rebel groups. One need only look at the civil war in Yemen, where at least six outside powers are involved, to see how such events could play out in Ethiopia. Even at this early stage in the war in Tigray, there are unconfirmed reports that in addition to Eritrea, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is involved, at least at a low level, in the conflict. [15]
Barring deft and realistic negotiations between the warring parties, the TPLF leadership, or at least factions within the leadership, may launch a long and costly guerrilla war. The TPLF has the means and knowledge to fight a war that could persist—at least on a low level—for years. While the Ethiopian military is capable and well-equipped, it will struggle to contain an insurgency in Tigray's mountainous terrain. If the Ethiopian military engages in ethnically driven attacks on suspected supporters of the TPLF, the insurgency will only grow and spread. A lengthy war in Tigray will seep into other Ethiopian regions and may attract the benign and malevolent interest of multiple outside powers.
[1] Estimates of TPLF troop strength range as high as 250,000. It is difficult to assess actual troop strength due to the presence of a large number of informal militias loyal to the TPLF. A more accurate and conservative estimate of the number of men and women in formal and informal fighting forces loyal to the TPLF is 100,000 to 125,000.
[2] Author interview with former government official, September 2019.
[3] The Derg, meaning committee or council, was officially called the Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia.
[4] Author interview with multiple Ethiopia based analysts, December 2020.
[5] Author interview with former Ethiopia based security official, December 2020.
[6] See: John Young, Peasant Revolution in Ethiopia: The Tigray People's Liberation Front, 1975-1991 (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
[7] See: https://ethiopianembassy.be/wp-content/uploads/Constitution-of-the-FDRE.pdf
[8] See: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/11/ethiopia-investigation-reveals-evidence-that-scores-of-civilians-were-killed-in-massacre-in-tigray-state/
[9] See: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/2018/03/28/the-unenviable-situation-of-tigreans-in-ethiopia/
[10] The TPLF is known to possess BM-21 rocket systems. However, the range on these systems, even with upgrades, is not long enough for the rockets to reach Asmara from Tigrayan territory. Therefore the TPLF's arsenal may include some other typed of system such as the Chinese manufactured PHL-03 or the Russian made BM-30. Alternatively, the TPLF may have launched the rockets from within Eritrean territory.
[11] See: https://qz.com/africa/1936138/how-ethiopias-ethnic-power-politics-led-to-tigray-conflict/
[12] See: Jenny Hammond, Fire from the Ashes: A Chronicle of the Revolution in Tigray, Ethiopia, 1975-1991 (Red Sea Press, 1998).
[13] See: https://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/unifeed/asset/2586/2586069/
[14] See: https://www.reuters.com/article/ethiopia-conflict-eritrea/exclusive-u-s-thinks-eritrea-has-joined-ethiopian-war-diplomats-say-idUSKBN28I1OX
[15] The UAE has close military to military ties with the ENDF and with the Eritrean government and army. The UAE operates a base in the Eritrean town of Assab where it has based drones and aircraft for use in its war in Yemen. See: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/rest-of-world/2020/11/19/are-emirati-armed-drones-supporting-ethiopia-from-an-eritrean-air-base/
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Living shorelines: Recovery, restoration, and resiliency after Hurricane Sandy
May 29, 2018 Jeff Tabar
Using the natural environment helps our coasts endure and thrive in the face of severe weather, flooding, and climate change
The East Coast of the United States, known for its beauty as a scenic destination for residents, visitors, and wildlife alike, has emerged from the impacts of 2012's Hurricane Sandy with a new approach to tackling protection through resiliency. Devastating weather-related events like Sandy, along with the storms and hurricanes that have followed, have put a spotlight on our shorelines for opportunities to not only rebuild but to fortify our coasts through a holistic approach to better serve as our first line of a defense.
With Hurricane Season nearly upon us (extending from June 1 to November 30 for the Atlantic), it's a great opportunity to focus on ways we can reduce flood and storm impacts using nature-based solutions. For coastal engineers like me, it's also an opportune time to examine how emerging resiliency tactics like living shorelines are helping protect the East Coast from future weather-related events.
An aerial image of the Prime Hook Restoration Project, where beach/dune replenishment is helping restore this tidal marsh habitat.
My colleagues and I have collaborated with many local communities, as well as state and federal agencies, to implement uniquely selected resilient-design features in several projects along the coast. The mission: restore and reinforce our coastline using elements that will naturally complement and fortify the local environment.
_q_tweetable:The mission: restore and reinforce our coastline using elements that will naturally complement and fortify the local environment._q_Living shoreline approaches often include a hybrid of environmental and man-made features, including a variety of structural and natural materials such as wetland plants, submerged aquatic vegetation, shellfish reefs, coir fiber logs, sand fill, and stone. For example, an "ideal" living shoreline in many tidal areas contains a succession of natural features that would normally be found in undisturbed ecosystems.
Of course, these elements vary greatly based on the location and ecology of a specific shoreline. Even along the coast of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, we have utilized varying tactics when working with living shorelines for reinforcement.
Strengthening Staten Island
The south shore of Staten Island has a long history of coastal erosion and was one of the hardest hit areas in the metro New York City when Hurricane Sandy came ashore.
As part of its New York Rising Plan, the state launched a series of storm recovery and resilience initiatives. One of these, the Tottenville Living Shoreline Protection Project calls for the design and construction of a multi-tiered living shoreline system to reduce wave impacts and coastal erosion along this residential and commercial neighborhood.
Led by our NYC Landscape Architecture studio, the team is truly interdisciplinary, bringing together landscape architects, coastal engineers, ecologists, structural engineers, and stormwater engineers. The team is working in concert with the community to design a shoreline plan that builds resiliency against major storms. It includes:
Wetland enhancement
Eco-revetments
Hardened dune systems
Shoreline plantings
Maritime forest restorations
Earthen berms
It's important to note that these tactics are designed as a risk-reduction strategy. This approach aims to reduce the impacts of coastal flooding and shoreline erosion, restore and enhance ecosystems, and increase social resilience by improving waterfront access.
Marsh creation and sidecast dredging activity at the Prime Hook Restoration Project in Delaware.
Protecting Prime Hook
Further south, the restoration of the Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge along Delaware Bay, one of the largest tidal marsh restoration projects in the eastern United States, has been recently completed.
Here, Hurricane Sandy opened a new breach in the barrier island and wreaked havoc on the 10,000-acre tidal marsh/barrier beach ecosystem. The storm destroyed this sensitive habitat for migratory birds, fish, and other wildlife, further degrading this already battered wetlands area.
By engineering in a way that complements—rather than opposes—nature, our team focused on reestablishing a critical habitat in a way that will support the ongoing rejuvenation of the wetlands ecosystem.
Our work on this project includes placing approximately 1.1 million cubic yards of sand from an offshore borrow area along the shoreline. We reconstructed a 40-foot-wide dune, 150-foot beach berm, and back-bay marsh platform.
The marsh restoration portion of the project included dredging 30 miles of conveyance channels and "thin layer" disposal of 600,000 cubic yards of sediment to help manage and restore the flow of tidal currents. Through our work in the refuge, managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, we have helped establish ecosystems to give the habitat strength to endure, adapt, and thrive in the face of future storms.
A living shoreline was created along Phoenix Park and the Camden County Municipal Utilities Authority wastewater treatment facility in New Jersey to promote resiliency and improve water quality, among other benefits.
Nurturing nature in Camden
While many think of living shorelines as existing environments where damaged habitats are being restored, there is also great opportunity to introduce new natural features to heavily impacted areas of shoreline. Take our work in South Camden, New Jersey, as an example.
This project includes the creation of a living shoreline along Phoenix Park and the Camden County Municipal Utilities Authority wastewater treatment facility. The goal of the project is to develop an innovative living shoreline along the Delaware River that will achieve shore stabilization, create estuary habitat, introduce flora and fauna, promote resiliency, and improve water quality.
Nature-based solutions at work
From New England to the Southeast, many communities are embracing nature-based solutions to work with natural ecosystems in protecting and strengthening our resiliency network of shorelines. As we prepare for this hurricane season, we look forward to studying how these strengthened shorelines will continue to naturally evolve and thrive.
As a coastal and civil engineer, Jeff Tabar brings forth creative solutions to complex engineering problems every day. Right now, Jeff is leading the largest post-Hurricane Sandy recovery and resiliency project to restore critical marsh and coastal property in the Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge.
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Shaw excellent for Manchester United against CSKA Moscow
Photo: Matt Janzer @wikimedia commons
Written on 12th December 2017 . Posted in Sport
Manchester United left back Luke Shaw has recently been linked with a move away from the club in a swap deal with Spurs' Danny Rose. There is a five-year age gap between the two: Shaw is aged 22 while Rose is aged 27. Swapping one for the other would surely seem ludicrous from United's point of view, especially after watching Shaw's impressive display against CSKA Moscow in the UEFA Champions League.
In his first start for 219 days, Shaw picked up a well deserved man of the match award for his efforts in United's 2-1 win over their Russian opponents. In his last start against Swansea City at the end of April 2017, Shaw only managed to complete ten minutes of the game before being substituted with a muscle injury. In many ways, his last start summed up his three and a bit seasons at United so far. Since Shaw signed for United in the summer of 2014, his career has been stop-start due to injuries.
He may now, however, have reached the light at the end of the tunnel. Shaw's positive and energetic performance against CSKA Moscow showed that he has what it takes to fill the boots of Patrice Evra. When fans' favourite Evra left United for Juventus in 2014 (the same year Shaw arrived) the young Southampton full-back was the obvious choice to replace the former club captain.
A young English player with all the attributes to become one of the finest left backs the Premier League has ever seen chose to play his football at Old Trafford. The hefty £30 million price tag may have seemed a lot at the time but if he were to give them 12 years of high quality service as fellow English defender Rio Ferdinand did between 2002 and 2014, then splashing out on Shaw would be a wise investment.
While his early career at United hasn't quite hit the heights of Ferdinand's, he certainly has time to redeem himself. Before he suffered a horrific double leg break against PSV Eindhoven at the Phillips Stadion in September 2015, he had already established himself as the first-choice left-back for United and England at just 19-years-old. Before the comparisons between he and Rose existed, Shaw was in front of his fellow left back in the England pecking order and playing for the country's biggest and most decorated club.
This is a remarkable feat especially considering that when Rose was 19-years of age he was out on-loan at Sunderland. A year earlier, the current Spurs and England full-back was on loan at Bristol City in the Championship while at 18 Shaw was a fully established Premier League full back for Southampton, a team in the top half of the table. He was also selected to go to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil where he earned a cap and played in the 0-0 draw against Costa Rica.
Against CSKA Moscow, Shaw showed exactly why United paid so much money for him at such a young age and why he represents the future of the club. "He [Shaw] was really dangerous. He was deserving that opportunity for a long time and is going to get more because his performance was really positive. He had great intensity in his game, it was no surprise that after minute 80 he was feeling the consequences of that intensity. It is normal for his first match of the season." Jose Mourinho reflected on the incredible performance of Shaw to the BBC and vowed he would give his left back more game time.
Everything about Shaw's display was fantastic. His energy running forward, desire to get back and composure on the ball was there for all to see and it is such qualities that will keep him in Mourinho's thoughts ahead of the busy Christmas schedule. He may have even had a goal but he was denied by a smart save from Russian goalkeeper and CSKA Moscow captain Igor Akinfeev.
Shaw made five clearances in the first half, more than any other United player. Despite CSKA's goal coming from a move down their right-hand side, Shaw's defensive contribution was more than up to the standard Mourinho expected of him. As a left-wing back, Shaw looked up to the task — a task his former boss Louis van Gaal questioned that he was capable of when he questioned his fitness in pre-season ahead of the 2014/15 season.
In the second half, the 22-year-old continued to impress before he pulled up with cramp ten minutes from time. Shaw, though, showed courage as he played on and completed his first full match since April. In the last match he completed against Anderlecht in the UEFA Europa League quarter-final, Shaw showed similar determination to carry on. He played until the end of extra-time after Mourinho planned to substitute him at the end of 90 minutes.
As well as undoubted talent, Shaw possesses sheer strength and determination to keep getting back up after he's been continuously knocked down and respond to criticism in the right way. This is something Rose doesn't have. After hardly featuring for Spurs throughout 2017 due to injury and the impressive form of Ben Davies, the man from Leeds questioned the direction of his current club in the summer transfer window and hinted that he wanted to leave North London.
In contrast, Shaw has kept his feet firmly on the ground at Old Trafford despite being in the darkest of places and missing so much football since he made the switch from Southampton in 2014. For Mourinho, there really is no need to spend £40-50 million on a left-back who is five years older, weaker minded and quite frankly no better than the one he already has.
With the right help and support, Shaw can still go on to follow in the footsteps of former United left-backs Evra and Denis Irwin and become a club legend.
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import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;

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public class NameTest {

    @Test
    public void isValidName() {
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Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel
Village council rejects alleged plan to rename road after Akwa Ibom governor
byCletus Ukpong
An embarrassing controversy is brewing between the Uyo Village Council and the Transition Chairman of the Uyo Local Government Area, Mfon Ben, over an alleged plan to rename a road in the area after the State Governor, Udom Emmanuel.
The village council, in a letter dated November 27 and addressed to Mr. Ben, said they had a "privileged information" about Mr. Ben's plan to rename the Uyo Village Road.
The letter was widely publicised in the local media.
The letter, signed by the Uyo Village Head, Aniedi Okon, and co-signed by 18 chiefs representing the different families in the village, reads in parts, "Uyo village indigenes frowns at this development and hereby warn you to desist from this act.
"Note that the Uyo Village Road is the only legacy named after the host community. We, therefore, vow to protect this our identity with all our might," the village said.
The village said they were, however, not against the naming of a road after the governor, but that their concern was for that particular road which they described as "our pride and identity".
The chairman of the local government area, Mr. Ben, accused the council of acting based on "false and speculative information".
Mr. Ben, a lawyer, did not however expressly deny the allegation in a response he sent to the village council.
He also accused the community leaders of "acting a politically motivated script" which he said has put a question mark on the integrity of the chiefs.
"We request that you confirm your information on street-naming from the Council and take steps to correct your publication(s) in the media," the chairman said.
Charles Udoh, the state Commissioner for Information, told PREMIUM TIMES, Friday, that he was not aware of the controversy. "I'm from Uyo. If there was such a plan to name a road after the governor I would have been in the picture," he said.
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Russia has seized three Ukrainian naval vessels and opened fire on others in the Kerch Strait. Ukraine is considering declaring martial law in order to reinforce its control over territory, but eastern Ukraine remains in the hands of separatists that favor Russia. The Kerch Strait is an important access route for Ukraine to its eastern territories, and shutting down the Strait will diminish Ukraine's ability to regain control from the rebels. The UN Security Council is scheduled to meet on the crisis today. Other European states are very concerned about the possibility of this crisis escalating, but the US has yet to make an official statement on the matter. The Russians accuse Ukraine of provoking the attack, and there is little question that the government of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has been quite adamant about Ukrainian rights. It seems unlikely that Ukraine would choose to provoke a crisis in the Black Sea where it is seriously outgunned. International law clearly favors the Ukrainian position on the right of free passage through the Strait:
"Ukrainian Navy ships were using their freedom of navigation guaranteed under articles 17, 38 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and article 2 of the agreement between Russia and Ukraine on cooperation on use of the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait. Under the quoted articles, they are allowed to pass the Kerch Strait at any time taking into account safety of navigation is secured. Russia blatantly violated all mentioned articles.
President Trump has dismissed his own Administration's climate report that was issued last Friday. According to The Hill: "'Yeah, I don't believe it,' Trump told reporters as he left the White House for a campaign rally for Sen. Cindy Hyde Smith (R) in Mississippi, when asked about the predictions of economic devastation." His comment raises an interesting question. The report was mandated by the Congress and released according to that law. But Trump has now issued a report that he considers to be not true. Science Alert has an excellent article that summarizes the report in good detail, although it is hard to summarize a 1600 page study.
ABC News has a very well-documented article on the arms deal with Saudi Arabia which conflicts with the assertions made by US President Trump on its monetary value. President Trump has stated that the arms deal amounted to about $450 billion. According to documents seen by ABC, the number is much smaller:
"Since the deal was signed by Mattis and bin Salman in Riyadh, there has been minimal activity toward purchasing the defense equipment and arms laid out in the arms agreements and signed. According to the Department of Defense, of the original $110 billion, Saudi Arabia has signed Letters of Offer and Acceptance valued at around $14.5 billion for equipment, including helicopters, tanks, ships, weapons and training.
"The memo of intent, seen by ABC News in a photograph and verified by a former White House official and first reported by the Washington Post last year, shows billion dollar price tags for what appear to be at vague deals far from being inked. Many of the details about the quantity and types of defense weapons to be purchased are not listed and are slated to be delivered after 2022 or have a 'to be determined' delivery dates and quantities."
President Trump also asserts that the arms deal will create 500,000 new jobs, but that figure conflicts with the State Department's own assertion that "tens of thousands" new jobs would be created:
"In short, 500,000 jobs Trump keeps bringing up is at least three to five times higher than what one could expect from the Saudi deal, given the estimates from the companies themselves, plus the most generous use of the indirect multiplier.
"By its own math, the U.S. State Department said in May 2017 that the Saudi deal could support 'tens of thousands of new jobs in the United States.'"
The Saudi arms deal yields far fewer benefits to the US than President Trump assumes.
Posted November 26, 2018 by vferraro1971 in World Politics


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Jack Roth Buys Oklahoma State Horseshoeing School
By Chelsea Moskow posted on February 18, 2019 | Posted in Business Practices, Education
Jack Roth, owner of Oklahoma Horseshoeing School (OHS) in Purcell, Okla., has acquired Oklahoma State Horseshoeing School (OSHS) in Ardmore, Okla.
Roth, a member of the International Equine Veterinarian Hall Of Fame, was looking to expand when he asked long-time friend and competitor Marcella Kester if she was interested in selling OSHS in the fall of 2018.
"The transition has been seamless," Roth told American Farriers Journal. "I've always admired what the Kesters do, strong competitors."
Kester over OSHS after her husband Reggie Kester passed away in 2008. Roth says the sale will give her a chance to retire and enjoy her grandchildren. Kester is excited to watch her granddaughter play college basketball and to watch her great-grandchildren grow up. The Kester family remains active in OSHS, as well as in their store, American Farrier Supplies.
"The school was like a child that grew up with us," she told American Farriers Journal. "It was really important to us to do a good job and improve it all the time. We had two kids who were raised there, and all our grandkids were raised there. Jack didn't try to change anything, kept everything the same. I think that's very respectful of Jack."
Roth felt there was something to learn from how the Kesters' store was operated, and he acquired American Farrier Supplies in addition to the school. Reggie's son Regan remains the head farrier instructor while Reggie's granddaughter Kash remains in charge of office operations.
"Reggie Kester was my competitor for a long time," Roth says. "We were the same age. Reggie passed a few years back, and Marcella was running the school. We've always been close friends, and one day I just asked if she'd be willing to sell it. She said yeah, so we did it."
Roth began his interest in farriery young by shoeing horses and wanted to start his own horseshoeing school. He began OHS in 1973 in Stillwater, Okla., but he was then accepted into the Oklahoma State University College of Veterinary Medicine. Throughout college, he worked as a farrier until he graduated in 1977. The school took off after his graduation, now one of the oldest horseshoeing schools in the U.S. Since its beginnings, the school has moved a few times, and Purcell Farrier Supply has been added to provide the students, as well as local farriers, with tools. Recently, Roth has introduced a mobile app where farriers within an 80-mile radius can order from the store and have their items shipped to their house.
Roth is still in charge of OHS and runs the school much like that of a drill sergeant, he says. Students work 6 days a week in either a 6-, 8- or 12-week course, including holidays. The mission statement for his school is, "No frills craftsmanship and horsemanship." The curriculum for OSHS will stay the same, with the 6-week course remaining in Reggie's vision.
"That's the way Reggie Kester set it up years ago, and he wanted 6 weeks of strongly supervised students putting on keg shoes. And I like it that way," says Roth.
The Kesters built OSHS by hand in 1975 on 5 acres of their land. Reggie taught all the classes, and Marcella filled in if Reggie had to run into town. Reggie taught her horseshoeing skills, and she learned bookkeeping on the job before going to school for it years later. For many years, she cooked homemade lunches for everyone at the school and the office.
"Our office is treated like you're coming into someone's home," Marcella says. The warm, welcoming atmosphere is something that truly appealed to Roth.
The purchase of OSHS came about as Roth was thinking about his future. He had been open to expanding, but he wasn't going to pick up any old school. It had to have the right atmosphere to it, he says. And the Kesters' school has just what he was looking for. The school has an open and welcoming ambiance, but don't think it's as laidback as it feels. The students aren't afraid of hard work, which always appealed to Roth's "hardcore" work ethic.
"They're doing a nice job," Roth says of OSHS. "I'm plum satisfied. They're good people."
In addition to his purchase of the school and the new app for his farrier store, Roth will be introducing his hoof shape templates for those making handmade shoes. Form follows function, he says. The templates will be available for purchase through his store, Purcell Farrier Supply. Roth is often coming up with new ideas, including his 3-unit vending machine at Remington Park Racing Casino in Oklahoma City.
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We challenge AIM pipeline approval
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Riverkeeper and a coalition of ten organization and a dozen individuals in four states filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging approval of the Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) Project natural gas pipeline expansion by federal regulators. More
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using Assets;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace HexTbs.Battle.Unit.Weapons
{
   public abstract class BWeapon
   {
      public int Range { get; protected set; }
      public int Accuracy { get; protected set; }
      public int FirePower { get; protected set; }
      public int Penetration { get; protected set; }
      public int ShotsAmount { get; protected set; }
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   }
}


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