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Évariste Ndayishimiye (født 1968) er en burundisk politiker, der har fungeret som præsident for Burundi siden 18. juni 2020. Han blev involveret i oprørernes Nationalt Råd for Forsvar af Demokratiet – Styrker for Forsvar af Demokratiet (Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie - Forces pour la Défense de la Démocratie, CNDD-FDD) under den burundiske borgerkrig og avancerede i dets milits. Ved afslutningen af krigen trådte han ind i den burundiske hær og havde en række politiske embeder under præsident Pierre Nkurunziza. Nkurunziza støttede Ndayishimiye som sin efterfølger forud for præsidentvalget i 2020, som han vandt med stort flertal.

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Évariste Ndayishimiye blev født i 1968 i Giheta, Gitega-provinsen i Burundi. Han skal efter sigende være "glødende" katolik. Han begyndte at studere i jura ved Universitetet i Burundi (UB) og studerede stadig i 1995, da hutu-studerende blev massakreret som en del af den etniske vold, der fulgte den burundiske borgerkrig (1993-2005). Han flygtede og sluttede sig til den moderate oprørsbevægelse Nationalt Råd for Forsvar af Demokratiet – Styrker for Forsvar af Demokratiet ( Conseil National Pour la Défense de la Démocratie - Forces pour la Défense de la Démocratie, CNDD–FDD), der hovedsageligt fik støtte fra etniske hutuer. Han avancerede i graderne i gruppen under borgerkrigen og endte med at lede dets milits og militære aktiviteter. Han fik kaldenavnet "Neva".

En række aftaler i 2003 banede vejen for CNDD–FDD til at gå ind i national politik som et politisk parti. Ndayishimiye blev stedfortrædende stabschef for burundiske hær. I 2005 kom CNDD–FDD til magten under ledelse af Pierre Nkurunziza, hvis baggrund var lignende, og som også var flygtet fra UB i 1995. Ndayishimiye tjente som indenrigsminister og minister for offentlig sikkerhed 2006-2007 før han blev personlig militærrådgiver (chef de cabinet militaire) for Nkurunziza. Han havde denne post indtil 2014. Ved siden af sit embede studerede han på Wisdom University of Africa og fik en grad i 2014. Han var også formand for Burundis olympiske komite i det meste af denne periode.

Efter voksende opposition meddelte Nkurunziza i 2018 at han ikke ville stille op til en fjerde periode som præsident i 2020. Ndayishimiye var den kandidat, som han udpegede som sin afløser i CNDD–FDD og blev anset for at være en "nær allieret". Det var blevet rapporteret at Nkurunziza "ønskede at lede landet bag kulisserne" ved at bruge Ndayishimiye som en marionethersker efter sin fratræden. Imidlertid blev det også bemærket, at Ndayishimiye muligvis var valgt som et kompromis mellem Nkurunziza og andre CNDD–FDD "generaler", der var fast besluttet på at sikre, at en borgerkrigsveteran bevarede kontrollen. Ndayishimiye var ikke forbundet med de værste overgreb under Nkurunziza og blev rapporteret at være den mest "åbne" og "ærlige" kandidat i CNDD–FDD.

Ndayishimiye vandt præsidentvalget i maj 2020 med 68 procent af de afgivne stemmer. Men valgets retfærdighed blev bredt betvivlet af opppositionsgrupper, og det fandt sted midt i COVID-19-pandemien i Burundi. Nkurunziza døde uventet den 8. juni 2020, og da Ndayishimiye allerede havde vundet valget, fremskyndede forfatningsdomstolen hans indsættelse som præsident. Han blev præsident ved en ceremoni i Gitega 18. juni 2020, to måneder før oprindeligt planlagt.

Præsident
Ndayishimiye begyndte sin syvårige præsidentperiode 18. juni 2020 og annoncerede sit første kabinet 28. juni 2020. Han reducerede antallet af ministre fra 21 til 15 og nominerede hovedsageligt tidligere regime-hardlinere til at indtage nøglepositioner.

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Eksterne henvisninger

Burundis præsidenter
Nuværende statsoverhoveder

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Dear Theo - when to ask about salary and other queries!
Discussion in 'Independent' started by sunshine23, May 3, 2011.
Dear Theo, I hope you enjoyed all the bank holidays.
I applied for a job (slight promotion) at the end of March, and have only now been invited for interview. This is obviously annoying as I have missed my notice period at my current independent school. The first query I have is should I inform this school at interview that I have missed my notice deadline so may only be able to start in Jan or it may reflect in my reference?
They have also not advertised the salary. When is the best time to discuss salary? Is it better to wait and discuss it if I am offered the job, or at the interview? I am not very good at etiquette!
Oh well done for that!
Now go to the JobSeekers Forum and open the interview advice clickables inside the Welcome thread.
Q1 No, don´t tell them, unless you want them to drop you now, which they might. They should (a) have thought about this (b) got their act together. When they actually see you and decide that you are the one, they may be willing to wait. I was always willing to wait for an exceptional candidate rather than take second best. Or they may try and persuade your Head to relaese you early, who may well mention it in his reference anyway, as you say.
Q2 When they bring it up . . . At offer time if not before. Make sure that you know what your salary in current school will be in September so that you have a baseline.


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At a Distance but Far from Safe: Canada's Lessons from the Warsaw Security Forum
Image credit: Warsaw Security Forum Twitter
POLICY PERSPECTIVE
by Roger Hilton
CGAI Fellow
With a groundswell of conflicts engulfing the world, it is easy for Canadians to assume our geographical location will render us immune. Although the concept of splendid isolation might have served the British Empire well after the Congress of Vienna in 1815, its legitimate application to Canada's national security strategy today is limited. As events like the savage murder of Jamal Khashoggi or America's abandonment of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty have confirmed, today's security landscape is a shattered version of its former self. National threats are no longer bound by distance or rules. Furthermore, the ongoing diminishment of multilateralism and gradual erosion of an international rules-based order are shifting toward a setting of resurgent state actors competing for dwindling strategic spaces. This fierce competition has injected new levels of potential escalation at contested areas with actors eager to project hubris through their awesome arsenals. When combining these features with the proliferation of advanced weaponized technology, today's global security environment offers a dearth of predictability and stability. Against this backdrop, Canadians would do well to take stock of the outcomes of the recent Warsaw Security Forum (WSF). With such a concentration of thematic experts and authorities at the WSF, there are many lessons to be observed when assessing Canada's future national security strategy and priorities.
As the leading conference in Central and Eastern Europe on matters pertaining to security and military affairs, as well as transatlantic co-operation, the WSF is one of the premier gatherings of its type. Now in its fifth year, the 2018 edition did not disappoint. With over 1,200 participants, including 20 ministerial-level delegations, engaged in 50 conference sessions on all aspects of international security, the results of these discussions and debates were sorely needed in the search for a strategy to guarantee a safer future. The status of the conference also mirrors the country - Poland has become modern and influential. Like the skyline of Warsaw that is scattered with a plethora of skyscrapers which have swallowed the residual elements of the communist era like the Palace of Culture, the WSF reflects the prominence of Poland's newfound input on both European and Euro-Atlantic issues. In addition, the WSF also served to celebrate the close bilateral relations with neighbouring Lithuania, who remains stolid against Russia's aggression on NATO's eastern front.
In anticipation of the 2018 WSF, the Polish government made waves in the fall for introducing the idea of stationing a permanent American military presence on its territory. The so-called "Fort Trump" – much to the satisfaction of the current American president – was received with mixed reviews. In addition to many members of NATO questioning its utility, Russia complained that it was a clear violation of the 1997 NATO-Russia Founding Act. After two intense days of plenary sessions, breakout sessions, side conversations and night-owl sessions, two major outcomes materialized with a collection of secondary issues to watch.
Above all, the return and acceptance of a great power dynamic to the international system emerged as the driving issue of the conference. After a decade of state preoccupation about defending against radicalized non-state actors engaging in terrorist activity, the calculus of national security policy-makers has changed. Since 2014, the use of force to change borders in Europe or the artificial terraforming of islands in Asia has extinguished any debate as to the new international pacing threats. The impact of this systemic transformation has reverberated throughout capitals, dramatically influencing national policy in the global commons regarding arms procurement as well as personnel recruitment. Unsurprisingly, both Russia and China dominated the conversation, but for divergent reasons.
While the Cold War might be over, there is little reason to believe that the West is no longer engaged in an ideological struggle with Moscow. Today, the exportation of corruption has replaced communism as the chief ideological element the Kremlin disseminates as it continues to behave like a nationalized mafia. In this 21st century battle of values, Kyiv has overtaken Berlin as the epicentre of struggle. Furthermore, prominent figures like former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and former Austrian finance minister Hans Jörg Schelling act as Russian surrogates through their work at Gazprom, tempting the resolve of law-abiding and reform-minded Europeans. The recent mega-scandal involving Denmark's biggest bank, Danske Bank, and its Estonian branch admitting to money-laundering €200 billion out of Russia is proof of this practice. This feature plays into President Vladimir Putin's greater strategy to erode the legitimacy of rules by infecting Western banks and institutions with ill-gotten gains. If the question of whether the West is at war in one way or another with Russia was ever in dispute, former Russia State Duma member Ilya Ponomarev, the only member not to vote in favour of annexing Crimea, resoundingly confirmed this war footing. He pleaded with the audience and its leaders to snap out of our complacency. The recent execution of NATO's exercise Trident Juncture 2018 (TRJE18), and deployment of 50,000 troops from 31 NATO and partner countries was a timely message demonstrating unity and deterrence. Canada continues to contribute to this process and to the Alliance by sending a contingency of approximately 2,000 personnel to TRJE18.
Although less visible and blunt in action, Beijing's global aspiration for influence was no less a cause for Western concern, according to experts at the WSF. Unlike Russia, which is working to redefine the international system and replace it with a model grounded on reserved spheres of influences akin to a Yalta 2.0, China sees merit in maintaining the current system. Its paramount rise over the last decades lends credence to Beijing's assessment and policy choices. Instead, it was argued that President Xi Jinping would prefer to continue China's ad hoc participation in the rules-based system and engage within it only when it serves the national interest. Similar to Russia, China has also chosen to inject impotency into the rules-based order by adopting tainted and suspect institutional practices. Its use of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank as a vehicle to degrade international lending standards is a prime example of this initiative. With the bank lowering its lending threshold to attract debtors, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has in turn been forced to respond by doing the same to keep pace. The participation of Western institutions in the race to the bottom is the exact outcome coveted by Beijing, which hopes to blur the line between liberal democracies and autocratic regimes. In the most alarming of statements at the WSF, retired Lt.-Gen. Ben Hodges, former commander of the U.S. Army in Europe, speculated that based on the worsening relations between China and America, war in the future was not to be discounted: "The United States needs a very strong European pillar. I think in 15 years — it's not inevitable — but it is a very strong likelihood that we will be at war with China." His comments came with his call for European allies to assume more responsibility to combat a revanchist Russia due to America's renewed attention on defending its interests in the Pacific.
A noteworthy observation out of the WSF was the constantly evolving status of relations between Moscow and Beijing. While many Sino-Russian experts assess this relationship as a product of convenience that continues to blossom, a more nuanced appraisal produces an alternative perspective. Consider that at the most recent Vostok exercises, the exclusive Russian naval segment in the Pacific was shadowed at a distance by a Chinese-flagged intelligence-gathering ship. Based on the longstanding suspiciousness of each capital's motives, it would be naive to categorize this incident as isolated. As their interaction will continue to be marked by a veneer of trust, NATO can gain much advantage from their unity, albeit not perfect, in the event of a crisis.
Figure 1: A map illustrating the proposed route of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Northwest Russia to Northeast Germany. (Source: The Guardian)
The second major outcome was NATO's precarious state. Former secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen captured this sentiment by declaring that "NATO seems to be militarily strengthened, but politically weakened." The latter was especially concerning given that Russia would aggressively pursue any perceived political vulnerability to divide the Alliance. The fulcrum of the Kremlin's strategy to divide members is today organized around the highly controversial Nord Stream 2 gas project. Despite repeated warnings from many Central and Nordic European states for Germany to reconsider its decision to greenlight the project, there seems to be little appetite among the political establishment in Berlin to abandon it. While it was argued that its implementation would contradict the EU's Third Energy Package and even potentially result in sanctions from the U.S. Congress, a greater issue at stake is a litmus test of how Germany intends to treat its EU and NATO partners. With German Chancellor Angela Merkel set to stand down in 2021, an amicable resolution to this dispute is unlikely, thus sowing more internal division among NATO and EU members.
A natural extension of this energy security quagmire is the West's relationship with Ukraine. If Nord Stream 2 is implemented, Ukraine has more to lose than any other country. According to 2017 figures, the current transit fees that Ukraine receives for connecting Russian gas to Europe are equivalent to the Ministry of Defence's budget of US$3 billion. Compounding the depletion of funds are the years of broken promises and slow reforms by the Poroshenko government that have tested Western political patience. Combined with the Kremlin's ability to ramp up conflict intensity in the east and use the country as a Petri dish for cyber-attacks, Russia is betting that "Ukraine fatigue" will eventually lead to the West abandoning its commitment to the country. With upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections set to take place in 2019 and the Russian blockade in the Sea of Azov, the chances of future progress in Ukraine remain stalled.
Against the backdrop of these outcomes, Canada should look to integrate the lessons learned from the WSF to bolster its security and those of its allies. In the tussle of great powers, Canada's position has never been to tilt the balance of power. Instead, it should continue to assume an oversized complementary role and contribute to policies that fit Canadians' strength and military competencies. The extension of Canada's mission in NATO's enhanced forward presence (eFP) in Latvia until 2023 as well as its "train the trainer" mission in Iraq are signs of this acute alignment of policy and capabilities. Furthermore, Canada has shown its willingness to engage in a potential flashpoint area by expanding the CAF's footprint in Central and Eastern Europe. The deployment of CAF personnel at the Multinational Corps Northeast in Szczecin, Poland and the Multinational Division Northeast Headquarters in Elbląg, Poland, as well as at the Joint Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defence Centre in Vyškov, Czechia, confirm Canada's unwavering commitment to defend NATO allies. Even more room to expand its presence is feasible at the NATO Force Integration Unit in Bratislava, Slovakia. The sum of these deployments will not only add valuable experience to CAF personnel, but more critically will foster political and military relationships with the host nations. This by extension contributes to Alliance unity and reinforces political cohesion, an imperative that Rasmussen echoed.
Whenever possible, Ottawa must support Kyiv to further its democratic ambitions and self-protection. Initiatives like the Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program or Operation UNIFIER, which have trained more than 8,760 Ukrainian soldiers, are testaments to this political fraternity that must continue. When it comes to pressuring Russia, Canada could choose to enforce the Magnitsky Act or bring greater international visibility to the plight of 93 Ukrainian political prisoners held in Russia and in occupied Crimea. However, due to the sensitive nature of Nord Stream 2 as a predominantly European issue, Canada should keep its distance when choosing to insert itself and yield to the European Commission's Directorate-General for Energy. Any foreign and unnecessary involvement in continental matters is likely to be poorly received in Berlin and might inadvertently advance the project, especially with the advent of a new chancellor.
With China's economy cooling amid a trade war with America, Canada must resist the temptation to closer ally itself with China to resolve its own trade disagreements. Despite the legitimate grievance Ottawa has regarding farcical steel and aluminum quotas, Beijing is looking to exploit this frustration. Consequently, allying with China in terms of trade practices promotion against America would be short-sighted and hurt Canada in the long run. As a viable alternative, Canada's invitation to 12 like-minded trading partners to review the current state of international trade to spark reform and build consensus for maintaining respect for rules-based trade must be persistently pursued. Finally, to combat the free flow of illicit funds into Canadian financial institutions, the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) must remain vigilant in overseeing and reviewing suspicious transactions involving national institutions. As the Danske Bank case confirmed, even the most respectable of institutions can fall victim to greed. Possible areas in which to build deterrence include applying corporate fines for FINTRAC violations as a set percentage of earnings and criminally prosecuting upper management aggressively.
When surveying the global landscape of threats, Canadians would do well to anchor their perception of security based on the wisdom of NATO's former deputy supreme allied commander Europe, Richard Shirreff. When discussing the fragility of peace at a plenary WSF session, he remarked with surprise that people assume the default setting of the international system is peace. The litany of current conflict episodes around the world has resoundingly disproved this assumption. Underlining this is that while Canada might be blessed with a certain level of isolation, its citizens cannot continue to take their security for granted. As the WSF has confirmed, the next conflict could be found around the corner and materialize out of nothing. Splendid isolation will help but not prevent compromised security. To ensure prolonged stability and prosperity, Canadians and the government must continue to work at this process and aid those who need it most. Although uncomfortable to fathom and by no means imminent, one day it could be us calling out for help.
Roger Hilton is a Non-Resident Academic Fellow at the Institute for Security Policy at Kiel University, Deputy Secretary-General of the Youth Atlantic Treaty Association (YATA) and Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. He is a 2016 graduate of the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna and holds a Masters Degree in Advanced International Studies, as well as a 2013 foreign policy certificate from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO). Roger has previous experience with the delegation of the Kingdom of Belgium at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). In addition, he has worked at the Office of the State Minister of Georgia for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration in Tbilisi, as well as the Estonian Atlantic Treaty Association in Tallinn. He was a member of the 2016 Riga Conference Future Leader Forum. Roger's research focuses on transatlantic affairs and the post-Soviet Sphere, where his work has been featured in the Center for International Maritime Security, Review of European & Transatlantic Affairs, and Atlantic Voices. To date he has visited half of the former Soviet Republics including the breakaway region of Transnistria as well the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
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In just 10 years time, first-time buyers may face having to save up £45,000 for a deposit on a house if they have any chance of getting their foot on the housing ladder.
Sales and letting company KIS has estimated that the typical North East house will cost £187,000 by 2020; £230,000 by 2025; and £278,000 by 2030. If a general deposit is considered 20%, this would mean buyers having to find down-payments of £37,400 by 2020, £46,000 by 2025, and £55,000 by 2030.Deposits in other parts of the country may be required to be even higher.
This comes after different research from commercial and accountant company PwC showed that more than half of 20 to 39 year olds will be renting from private landlords by 2025. This would mean that UK owner occupation would fall to 60%, which would be a fall of 10% since the 2008 financial crisis.
"A lot of the comment on these figures has concluded that more people are renting because they can't afford to buy. While there is of course more than an element of truth in that, what often goes overlooked it a more profound cultural change which is seeing more and more people choosing to rent, something completely commonplace on the continent.
"It's important to remember though that despite these trends and coming interest rate rises PwC are still predicting that record numbers of people will be owning their own home outright in a decade. 10.6m compared to 8.4 million today.
"The private rented sector will grow and grow in the next ten years – but this is far from the same thing as the death of owner-occupation".
As the cost of fixed rate mortgages continues to ride higher and higher a number of people have taken to transferring from fixed to variable rate to grab the small savings on offer. But are these savings for real at the end of the day? Is it really time to jump between fixed and variable?
Are first time buyers returning to the UK property market?


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Day 353: 'The Least Despicable, the Meanest and the Ugliest' 2018
June 18, 2018 June 19, 2018 - by Philip Powers
Monday 18 June 2018 11.44pm
'The Least Despicable, the Meanest and the Ugliest' 2018
Top 100 Films –
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is equal #59 with 7 other films: La grande illusion (1937), Gertrud (1964), Blow Up (1966), The Conformist (1970), Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972), A Woman Under the Influence (1974) and Blue Velvet (1986) in the 2012 BFI Directors Poll
I watched The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) tonight. It lived up to its title. It was all of those things. Plus, it was quite beautiful in many ways and quite revolutionary – you see what I did there? – civil war! – in making everyone, an ever-so-slightly different shade of mean, nasty and unreliable.
The last four weeks of films have almost all been films about greed, power and corruption. When you break a film down into its most basic elements its not surprising that almost all films are about just three things. 1. Greed/Money 2. Power/Control/Corruption 3. Love/Sex, while celebrating the beauty of the male and female actors who are lovingly photographed, equally, in black & white and colour, in 1.33:1, 1.66:1, 1.85:1 and Cinemascope (2.35:1).
When you come across a title that just sound right, the last thing you need to do is change the film, just to make it fit the title. The title of this very good Sergio Leone film is one of the most famous of all time, known across the entire globe. It's trite and wise at the same time, and it summarizes most of what we see in films: heroes, villains and people who do terrible things, awful things, ghastly things.
But, if it hadn't already been taken in 1966 by this Spaghetti western, it would have been an appropriate title for the film, Shoah, the Hebrew word for destruction. Shoah is by definition a mixture of the bad that people can do, the good that people can do, and the ugliest things people can do. And in between those three attitudes are many shades.
In Shoah there are good Polish people and selfish Poles. There are despicable Germans, mean Germans and Germans who were caught up in the politics of their country. Such was the secrecy surrounding the way Hitler went about collecting Jews, concentrated in several places, that many Germans would not have known the extent of Hitler's madness. To some extent, other people who were part of Hitler's war would have known some things and could have guessed at other things.
There's a person in Shoah, Second Era, Part Two, who I really felt for. Glassler was a bureaucrat, who was put into a situation of seniority and asked to handle tasks that came down from the Fuhrer. He was appalled by what he saw in the Warsaw ghetto. He felt sickened by it. To such an extent that he only went into the ghetto when he couldn't avoid it because it was too awful to witness. He says he was 28 at the time. The director, Lanzmann, tells him he was thirty, and a mature man. Glassler says he graduated with his law-degree at 27 and at 28 he was made deputy to the Commissioner, Aueswald.
In between learning what Hitler's Final Solution was for the Jews in 1942 and the interview with Lanzmann in the late-1970s/early-1980s, a lot of information about what really happened to the European Jews was not widely known at the time. People who were civil servants, pushing paper from here to there, didn't necessarily know the implications. I don't believe that the extent of the extermination of the Jews in the death camps was known to all of the people that had a hand in the paperwork.
With the document for a 'special train' rather than make eight pieces of paper, the same message was sent to the station masters at the eight stations the train with the Jews passed through. The document wasn't even labelled secret because (conjecture by Raul Hilberg) it would have drawn more attention to it if it said 'secret' than not saying 'secret'. Also, why make eight different documents when you can just send one document to eight people. So they just made one document.
Even within the German army there would have been soldiers who were just out of their teens who were following the orders they were given. They weren't all like the merciless SS who beat Jews to death in the Warsaw ghetto or the Death Camps. The commandants weren't necessarily as vicious and inhuman, as Goebbels, Himmler, and Hitler. Again it is shades of grey.
When I see a film like Shoah I have the instinctive reaction that this is one of the worst acts of man against man, but I don't jump to the conclusion and accept that all Germans (and Polish) people were part of this ugly conspiracy to rid Europe of the entire Jewish race. The Polish people, for one, were invaded and occupied. What were they meant to do, commit suicide like Adam Czerniakow, President of the Jewish Council, rather than continue to do what their job required of them?
What I didn't realize was that the Jews in the camps who were responsible for the 'Work Detail' were helping get people into the gas chambers and had the responsiblity of taking the corpses out; or were responsible for taking the dead Jews out of the gas vans and taking them to the ovens, and then disposing of the bones in the body that hadn't been reduced to dust. Should they have all committed suicide, so that they weren't unwilling hands, nonetheless working for Commandants who were working for Hitler? Should everyone who suspected that the Jews shipped to Treblinka and Auschwitz and Belzec and Sobibor, just refused and been imprisoned themselves or also be killed?
As good as Shoah is, and as important as Shoah is, this incredible document of what happened, through Lanzmann's dedication and unflagging energy, shows more than anything, that everyone who did what they did, as bad as it was, was human. Of course, some were literally raised (through the Hitler Youth) to be ruthless killers and some were convinced by the Nationalism of Hitler's charismatic speeches that the Nazis were uniting Europe rather than invading it and taking it over.
Any of this may be quoted out of context to say that I don't hold the Nazis accountable for their atrocities, but it isn't true. The film Shoah, shows that there are many ways of looking at the same events and, remarkably, Claude Lanzmann was able to extract people's stories through walking into interview situations as if he was naive, and had no idea of what these people had actually done.
I even feel for Oberhauser, who pulls beers, and refuses to talk to Lanzmann. If you read in history about what happened to Oberhauser after 1945, all the trials and imprisonment he endured, the man you see behind a bar, refusing to talk about something that he was knowingly part of, is understandable. Maybe all of the people like Oberhauser, from that rank upwards should have been put to death, or at least spent the rest of their life in prison. But, Shoah, is not about – well, mostly not, other than Franz Glassler – accusing people of the behaviour that they or their government approved – but letting people tell their story in their own way, with their own voice, with their own emotions bubbling away just beneath the surface. Imagine what would have been going through Oberhauser's mind behind the bar pulling beers, when Lanzmann and a film crew turned up to interrogate him. He'd already served a few terms in jail for his crimes, and here they were, more people, wanting to break him down into pieces, with behaviour by the filmmakers which was quite intimidating.
I don't have a strong feeling one way or the other about the death penalty – actually, I do, but that's another story – so kill those convicted of war crimes or imprison them for life, but recognise that whenever the years between 1939 and 1945 are brought to their attention, yet again, they will be feeling something on the inside that is almost certainly painful to them.
I thought I was going to write about a Sergio Leone western just now, not about Shoah again. I suppose the fact that I spent four or five hours today making more notes and observations about the 9½ hours of Shoah, in my notes section of my 100greatesfilmsever folder, means that the impact of the film is still deeply within me.
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Future faces five other lists: a March 8 alliance; a tie-up of the Free Patriotic Movement and Al-Jamaa al-Islamiya; a list backed by former Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi; and two independent slates, one all women, the other all men.
So if Karami's list fails to take two seats, he is likely to lose out personally.
The FPM-LDP-SSNP list is likely to take between three and five seats, according to observers.
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GMO Wheat May Turn Off Human Genes
Scientists in Australia are raising a warning about a new genetically modified (GM) wheat that could be a trigger to significant health issues when eaten by humans.
Jack Heinemann, a University of Canterbury professor, has released results of research into this wheat, which has been developed by Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO). In a press conference, Heinemann said that certain molecules in the wheat could potentially turn certain genes off. This appears to be an unintended consequence of molecules that should be turning certain wheat genes off. However, these molecules actually match some human genes, and the simple act of eating the wheat may introduce these molecules into our bodies – and into our cells.
Other scientists agree with Heinemann's results. Judy Carmen, a professor at Flinders University, said that the particular genes affected by the wheat result in a certain enzyme not working. She went on to say that children who do not have this enzyme working will die around the age of five years.
Both Carmen and Heinemann said that they are unaware of any review of this type of wheat by CSIRO; however, both researchers are recommending specific studies be undertaken before this wheat (or products made from it) arrive on store shelves.
Safe Food Foundation's director, Scott Kinnear, further said that long term research into the effects of the wheat should be done – particularly chronic toxicological feeding studies (in which animals are fed the crop as a significant part of their diet for a number of years, rather than the typically short feeding studies that generally last no more than a few weeks.)
Heinemann said any lifetime feed studies should look at the level of exposure that humans would have, and should also include other exposure routes, like inhalation.
Heinemann and Carmen went further with their recommendations, and stated that consumers should not be eating this wheat until these kinds of studies are done and the evidence is positive.
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Complex neck surgery for medullary thyroid cancer restores health and hope
Pope "Mac" McCorkle thought his severe bouts of diarrhea were a symptom of irritable bowel syndrome, but soon learned it signaled medullary thyroid cancer. After undergoing complex neck surgery to remove the rare thyroid cancer, McCorkle is doing great. "The change in my quality of life was immediate," he said. "I may have dodged a bullet, thanks to Dr. Esclamado."
Severe diarrhea sign of rare thyroid cancer
Mac McCorkle of Durham couldn't understand why he was feeling so rundown during meetings or after playing tennis in the fall of 2010. He had severe bouts of diarrhea, but thought they were a sign of irritable bowel syndrome.
"I was feeling incredibly tired and old and beat up," said McCorkle, now 60, and a professor who runs the masters program at the Duke-Sanford School of Public Policy.
In early 2012, McCorkle went to see a gastroenterologist who spotted swelling in his neck. "I hadn't noticed anything but the doctor said, 'do you have trouble tying a tie?' He sent me to Dr. Esclamado." The next week McCorkle learned he had medullary thyroid cancer.
Rare thyroid cancer causes high calcitonin levels
Medullary thyroid cancer comprises less than 10 percent of thyroid cancers. It starts in cells that release a protein called calcitonin into the blood stream. Abnormally high calcitonin causes diarrhea, which can be mistaken as a sign of irritable bowel syndrome, explained Dr. Ramon Esclamado, MD, a head and neck surgeon at Duke. "It's pretty rare for medullary thyroid cancer to be the first thing that comes to mind."
"To get a diagnosis of advanced cancer on a Monday morning after playing three sets of tennis on Sunday afternoon was shocking," McCorkle said. "But Ray's quiet confidence gave me the hope I needed."
Watch McCorkle talk about his experience with the rare form of cancer.
Don't ignore neck lumps
Lumps in the neck that don't go away within two weeks should not be ignored. "People tend to think you shouldn't worry if you have a lump in your neck and it doesn't give you symptoms," said Esclamado, who is chief of the division of head and neck surgery at Duke. But that's exactly what should cause concern. "Ninety percent of persistent lumps in the neck in an adult, particularly if it is only on one side, are some type of tumor, and need to be evaluated by a head and neck surgeon."
McCorkle's swollen neck was due to the tumor on his thyroid, as well as enlarged lymph nodes in both sides of his neck. He was lucky that was as far as his cancer had spread. Abnormally high calcitonin levels are often an indication that cancer has spread beyond the thyroid and neck to other parts of the body. "When calcitonin levels are as high as his were, the literature suggests the medullary thyroid cancer is not curable and surgical treatment can never get the calcitonin down to zero," Esclamado said.
Complex neck surgery removes cancer with few side effects
Esclamado carefully removed McCorkle's thyroid (technically known as a thyroidectomy), as well as lymph nodes along his windpipe and esophagus which surrounded most of his parathyroid glands. The cancer had also spread to many lymph nodes in both sides of his neck. The complex procedure requires a high degree of skill and expertise to navigate the area and remove all of the cancer in lymph nodes without causing any cosmetic deformity, permanent skin numbness or injury to nerves that control voice, speech, swallowing, and shoulder movement.
"The surgeon has to be very familiar not only with thyroidectomy, but also with the different variations of neck dissection that preserve important non-lymph node bearing structures while removing all the cancer in the neck," Esclamado said. Thanks to surgical advances in the field of head and neck surgery, "we can often get the cancer out and leave the patient with very few, if any, side effects from the neck surgery. This is important not only in medullary thyroid cancer, but also in papillary thyroid cancer which is the most common form of thyroid cancer and frequently spreads to lymph nodes in the neck."
Dramatic quality of life improvement
After a short hospital stay, McCorkle underwent radiation after surgery because the cancer spread in the lymph nodes was extensive. He was back to hitting tennis balls, and teaching in the Fall of 2012. Now, more than three years since completing treatment, McCorkle's calcitonin levels remain undetectable.
"Since his calcitonin is zero, this is an excellent indicator that he is cancer-free," said Esclamado. "His only side effect is the need for calcium and Vitamin D supplementation because his single remaining parathyroid gland does not produce enough hormone to sustain his calcium levels in a normal range. I am thankful he is doing well."
McCorkle is thankful too. "I'm extremely grateful," he said. "My quality of life has improved dramatically. I feel better than I did five years ago, that's for sure."
"You never know what's going to happen in the future, and technically I'm high risk because it was advanced," he added. "But I may have dodged a bullet thanks to Dr. Esclamado. Some doctors may not have been as aggressive as he was. My family and I have two words to describe Ray – our hero!"
The McCorkle family expressed their appreciation in words as well as action through a generous financial gift to the Division of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences Research Fund.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Police were called Wednesday to the Amazon fulfillment center on Jacksonville's Northside to investigate a threat made by a man against an employee, authorities said.
An aggravated stalking warrant was issued for Ronald Jones in connection with the Amazon threat, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.
Officers responded about 7 a.m. Wednesday to the fulfillment center on Pecan Park Road near the Jacksonville International Airport.
According to an Amazon spokesperson, the fulfillment center was locked down momentarily while the Sheriff's Office conducted a search and confirmed there was no threat to the building.
"The fulfillment center was released to site leadership and operations have resumed," a statement from the Amazon spokesperson reads, in part.
According to the JSO incident report, the threat was made by the suspect against an unnamed employee of Amazon. The report states the man said he was on the way to Amazon with a gun to kill her.
The employee told police that the man texted her, stating he was in a black truck with tinted windows and saying, "You will pay for this and I know where you live and work," the police report says.
The report also notes that he has made repeated deaths threats against her, one time saying he would also kill her children. He said he would kill himself or make JSO kill him, according to the police report.
The Sheriff's Office said officers went to the Shannon Ridge apartments, 11 miles away from the fulfillment center, because they pinged his phone. Police said they talked to the man via the woman's phone, and he said if the woman did not come out and talk to him at Amazon, he would kill himself in the parking lot.
He was not seen at the Amazon fulfillment center, according to police.
Jones, 51, pleaded no contest in an assault on a woman last year. A warrant for his arrest was issued in October for violating probation, according to court documents.
The Amazon spokesperson said the investigation remains active.
"The safety of our employees is our top priority," the Amazon spokesperson's statement notes.


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Kara Walker To Create Next Hyundai Commission At Tate Modern
11 March 2019 / Art Categories Announcement, Art News / Art Tags Hyundai Commission, Kara Walker, Tate Modern / / / / /
The African American Artist Kara Walker has been selected to create the next annual Hyundai Commission at Tate Modern. Walker is renowned for her candid explorations of race, gender, sexuality and violence, from drawings, prints, murals, shadow puppets and projections to large-scale sculptural installations. Her new site-specific work for the Turbine Hall will be open to the public from 2 October 2019 to 5 April 2020.
Kara Walker fearlessly tackles some of the most complex issues we face today – Frances Morris, Director, Tate Modern
New York-based artist Kara Walker is perhaps best known for her use of black cut-paper silhouetted figures, often referencing the history of slavery and the antebellum South in the US through provocative and elaborate installations. Her works have featured prominently in exhibitions around the world since the mid-1990s. Her first large-scale public commission opened in the derelict Domino Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn in 2014 and powerfully addressed the history of sugar production. Over 10 metres high and 23 metres long, A Subtlety was a monumental sculpture of a sphinx-like figure, covered in sugar and surrounded by smaller figures made of toffee, brown sugar and molasses.
Kara Walker, Norma, 2015, graphite on paper, 30.9 x 38.1 cm, , 12 1/8 x 15 in, Courtesy Kara Walker, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York and Victoria Miro, London © Kara Walker
She has since designed and directed a production of Vincenzo Bellini's Norma for the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015, and most recently she created The Katastwóf Karavan 2017, a musical installation as part of the Prospect.4 triennial in New Orleans. Taking the form of a calliope (a steam-powered organ) set inside a steel wagon and encircled by silhouetted figures, the work was used in a series of live performances as well as programmed to play songs related to African-American experience.
Frances Morris, Director, Tate Modern said: 'Kara Walker fearlessly tackles some of the most complex issues we face today. Her work addresses history and identity with a powerful directness, but also with great understanding, nuance and wit. Seeing her respond to the industrial scale of the Turbine Hall – and the wider context of London and British history – is a hugely exciting proposition.'
Wonhong Cho, Executive Vice President, Hyundai Motor said: 'We look forward to the fifth Hyundai Commission by Kara Walker, known for her explorations of history, culture, race and identity, and to the new ways in which she will engage audiences in the Turbine Hall. In partnership with organizations across the globe, Hyundai Motor will continue to invite international audiences to unique creative experiences.'
Kara Walker At The Broad in LA Photo © Artlyst 2019
Since Tate Modern opened in 2000, the Turbine Hall has hosted some of the world's most memorable and acclaimed works of contemporary art, reaching an audience of millions each year. The way artists have interpreted this vast industrial space has revolutionised public perceptions of contemporary art in the twenty-first century. The annual Hyundai Commission gives artists an opportunity to create new work for this unique context. The commissions are made possible by the long-term partnership between Tate and Hyundai Motor, confirmed until 2025 as part of the longest initial commitment from a corporate sponsor in Tate's history.
Hyundai Commission 2019 will be curated by Clara Kim, The Daskalopoulos Senior Curator, International Art (Africa, Asia & Middle East) and Priyesh Mistry, Assistant Curator, International Art. It will be accompanied by a new book from Tate Publishing.
Kara Walker was born in Stockton, California in 1969 and was raised in Atlanta, Georgia. Her work is represented in major museum collections across the USA and Europe and she has received numerous awards, including the MacArthur Foundation Achievement Award and the Eileen Harris Norton Fellowship. She is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is the Tepper Chair in Visual Arts at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. A major survey exhibition of her work opened at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 2007 and travelled to Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and the Museum of Modern Art in Fort Worth. Other solo shows of her work have been held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, Camden Arts Centre in London and Metropolitan Arts Center (MAC) in Belfast.
KARA WALKER THE KATASTWÓF KARAVAN, 2017 COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND SIKKEMA JENKINS & CO., NEW YORK PHOTO: JASON WYCHE
Hyundai Motor has been supporting art initiatives driven by long-term partnerships with global museums―the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA), Tate Modern and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) since 2013. The aim is to support the development of the global art scene and contribute to the establishment of a sustainable art environment, delivering inspiration and unique experiences to the world. Hyundai extended the partnership with global media group, Bloomberg and launched a new series, ART+TECHNOLOGY, which connects the international audience with artists exploring the convergence of art and technology. Also, Hyundai has been a major sponsor for the Korean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2015, 2017 and the 20th and 21st Biennale of Sydney.


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You can order 2 courses for $26.90 or 4 for $45.90 or al la carte. There are the usual breads and share platters but as we only wanted something light we decided on one course only. Two of us had the salt and pepper squid, which was delicious, tender and very tasty, piled on a lovely salad with a very lovely home made dressing which was on the Starter menu, but could be served as a main. It was a sizeable portion so very worthwhile at $23. One of us enjoyed the Papardelle allo Scoglio, which was full of mussels, prawn, squid, scallops and very tasty and good value at $27. Our last luncher had the Schiaffettoni al Doppio Ragu $22, which was large pasta tubes with a slow cooked ragu made with pork, veal and beef. This was the least liked of the mains as it was thought to lack full flavour.
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Zeelley Moon Music
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Zeelley Moon is a British band formed in Buckinghamshire, headed by Pat Molesworth.
The most recent line-up consists of Pat Molesworth (Piano, Keyboards and vocals), Tony Dodd (Bass), Tony Dubinski (guitars), and Nobby Birch (drums). Previous members include Geoff Bolam (Guitars), Andy Whitaker (Bass), and Manna Ash (Drums), Chris Garner (Bass), Terry Finn (Drums), plus various guest backing vocalists.
The band have performed live many times though currently spending more time in the studio, having released their first album in 2017 which received critical acclaim, enthusiastic reviews and continues to sell across the UK, US, Europe and around the world.
Being an independent band, distribution is through CD baby and their own website.
Although they're not a progressive Rock band, the first album received critical acclaim from the progressive rock community. The album itself has been described as multi-genre.
Many independent radio shows have featured songs by Zeelley Moon and the album made Garry Foster's top ten albums of 2017 (Garry Foster 101.8 wcr fm)
Pat started writing songs and themes in his teens.
In 2006 Pat joined Chris Garner (Bass), Terry Finn (Drums) and Geoff Bolam (Guitar) to form a house band for events organised by Chris & Terry and gigged around outer London.
In 2008 they recorded a live album with the help of Derik Timms of Snakes Alive Music.
They continued to perform regularly at various venues and festivals Bucks, Berks, Herts and London until their last live performance in 2009 at Boxmoor Music Festival.
Shortly after this Pat left the band.
In 2010 Pat reformed Zeelley Moon with Geoff Bolam (Guitars), Manna Ash (Drums) and Andy Whitaker (Bass) and again performed live.
In 2011 they recorded three tracks: Smile, Feel so Real and Designer Crime at Area 18 Studios in West London. Not released, they were to become part of the next album, although recording didn't resume until 2015.
In 2012 Pat met with Tony Dodd, Tony Dubinski and Nobby Birch and the current line up of Zeelley Moon was formed.
In 2013 rehearsals started and they went on to perform live again.
2015 saw the start of new recordings at Area 18 Studios, West London.
The last live band performances were summer 2016 before Pat moved to Wales.
Pat continued to work on the album with contributions mostly from the band but also drafting in various musicians and it was completed in July 2017.
At the time of writing, work is in progress for a second album that's been referred to as 'ZM2'.


Western individualism has delayed scientific recognition of the essentially social nature of consciousness – or at least of the human mind and brain. Milestone publications (in ethology, primatology and cognitive science), dealing with theory of mind, Machiavellian intelligence, the social brain and mirror neurones, demonstrate that the origin of consciousness needs to be understood in a social context. This is reinforced by classic theorists in social psychology and cultural and social anthropology, like Dilthey, Baldwin, Cooley, Mead and Goffman. The contributors to this volume, including Robert Turner, Nalini Ambady, Corrado Sinigaglia, Chris Knight, Colwyn Trevarthen, Maya Gratier, Michael Apter, Joan Chiao and Imants Baruss, introduce some of these anthropological themes into consciousness studies.


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It looked for a long time as if the Elon University men's soccer team's game against Radford University was going to follow an all-too-familiar script.
Once the Highlanders scored, every Phoenix fan wondered if the team's dormant offense, which has struggled all year to find the back of the net, was going to be able to find the equalizer.
As it turned out, the Phoenix found the goal it desperately needed in the 64th minute when sophomore midfielder Rett Webb put away his rebound to tie the score. When neither the Phoenix nor the Highlanders found a second goal, Elon escaped with its second tie on the young season.
The Highlanders jumped on top in the 28th minute, as senior midfielder Krzystof Nalborski slotted a free kick from 25 yards out past Elon senior goalkeeper Nathan Dean for his first goal of the season.
But it was not enough to get the Highlanders their third win of the season, as Webb salvaged the tie for the Phoenix.
The tie moves the Phoenix to 3-2-2 on the season, while the Highlanders moved to 2-2-2.
The Phoenix returns on the pitch on Friday, Sept. 26 against Coastal Carolina University. That match is scheduled for a 7 p.m. start.


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Vietnam, Laos border guards hold joint patrol
by PV23 July 2017 Last updated at 17:48 PM
An exchange programme was organised in Moc Chau district on July 22 to highlight the close ties in Vietnam-Laos border areas (Photo: VNA)
VTV.vn - A joint patrol between the border guard forces of Vietnam and Laos was held at Border Marker 255 on the shared border on July 23 as part of the first Vietnam-Laos border friendship exchange in Vietnam's northern Son La province.
The joint patrol, carried out by the border guard forces at Long Sap border gate in Son La and Company 214 in Huaphanh, Laos, was witnessed by Deputy Minister of Defence Senior Lieutenant General Be Xuan Truong and his Lao counterpart Lieutenant General On Si-Sen Suc.
The construction of Marker 255 started in 2011 and finished on 2012. The marker was intended to dedicate to a shared border of peace, friendship, and stability between the two countries.
The joint border patrol between Vietnam and Laos takes place on a regular basis to protect the border markers at grass-root levels, examine border lines and immediately handle criminal offences, and improve mutual understanding between the two sides. It also aims to prevent cross-border criminal activities, such as illegal exits and entries, trafficking, illegal fishing, drug smuggling and more.
The two deputy defence ministers also co-chaired the ceremony to launch a friendship border medical station in Bo Sap village which was constructed by people from Bo Sap village of Moc Chau district, and Muong village in Laos.
It is expected to help strengthen solidarity and special friendship between the two nations' border guards and people.
In addition, an exchange programme was organised in Moc Chau district on July 22 to highlight the Vietnam-Laos close ties at the border. It was the first of its kind held in the Vietnam-Laos shared border in the hope to enhance solidarity and the long-standing relations between the two governments and people.
The programme featured music performances by Vietnamese and Lao artists.
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Wow! You've been drawing a lot lately, LOL. Great pics, Steph!
I really like the Vicky running after Omochao sketch. Lots of detail in the background, and great action in the pic, with a "sense" of movement occurring. Good job!
They all look so sad.
More food....err I mean more fanarts on the table.
Looks like you've been very "productive" (I don't like using that word in art) in the last months, Steph!
All these sketches are quite interesting and very well done. Good work and keep posting!
Here some others then I didn't mentionned yet.
Nice stuff you got there Steph! I especially like Sailor Jup ramming her opponent on the glass pane, and Tootie throwing her keys at Timmy (love his eyes on that pic).
Also, congrats on the 36K hits!
Here a little fanart flood.


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Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 1 now available on Steam
PC gamers who were upset upon hearing news of Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth's delay on Steam can now celebrate, as the RPG has released. The delay wasn't very long, thankfully (only a day, in fact), and now RPG and Neptunia fans can experience the Vita title in full 1080p.
In addition, gamers will be able to enjoy a 50% discount for the first week of release, dropping the game's price to a mere $14.99. The system requirements can be found on the official Steam page here. Here are the game's story and key features, as Idea Factory presented them via the press release:
In the world of Gamindustri, four goddesses known as CPUs battled for supremacy in the War of the Guardians. One of the CPUs – Neptune – was defeated by the others and banished from the heavens. In her fall from grace, her memories were lost but a mysterious book reveals itself to Neptune with knowledge of all of Gaminudstri's history. Joined by Compa, IF, and the sentient book known as Histoire, Neptune embarks on an extraordinary journey across four different nations on a quest to save the entire world!
Console Wars on PC! Previously only available on console, now you can immerse yourself in the zany JRPG madness of the Hyperdimension Neptunia series for the first time on PC!
Fresh to Hi-def! Major graphical updates let you savor the true power of these Goddesses in 1080p!
Three's Company! Battle with up to 3 characters on the field, with 3 more as support. Use them to perform special attacks, or swap them out at any time!
Gamindustri's your Oyster! Use "Plans" to customize the game – change up enemy difficulty, dungeon treasures, and more!
Wield the Power! Craft unique equipment imbued with one or more abilities!
Duel in Dual Audio! Experience the game in either Japanese or English audio.


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Dell and Red Hat's OpenStack Partnership Deepens
With OpenStack Icehouse Here, Database-as-a-Service Tech Draws Attention
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Leading Linux Players Rapidly Shift Their Emphasis to the Cloud
Red Hat Announces Several Enterprise OpenStack Deployments
Dell has unveiled a series of upgrades and announcements focused on the datacenter this week, and is deepening its cloud computing ties with Red Hat, as the firms focus on OpenStack. Dell and Red Hat recently announced that Dell will effectively become an OEM for Red Hat's Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform by selling systems that run the platform. Dell has also joined the Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network as an Alliance Partner.
At the Dell Enterprise Forum EMEA in Frankfurt, Germany and the Red Hat Summit in San Francisco this week, officials from the two companies announced further plans to team up on OpenStack initiatives focused on IT departments, and agreements to deliver cloud-based test environments for mobile and analytics apps.
Dell has issued a release on many of its datacenter and IT initiatives, seen here. "IT leaders are facing the challenge of balancing costs with the need to provide bleeding-edge IT services to ensure businesses do not risk losing customers, revenue or productivity. The fact of the matter is handling an increased traffic of any kind puts strain on a data center – and many solutions currently in the market only address parts of the problem," said Marius Haas, chief commercial officer and president, Enterprise Solutions, Dell, in the announcement. "By leveraging organic and inorganic intellectual property, Dell is accelerating the delivery of its enterprise vision and providing businesses with a unique workload acceleration solution that helps increase agility and be more responsive to their customers."
Red Hat and Dell are also in the news this week as Red Hat announced that CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Technical Account Management services to provide a reliable and stable platform for mission-critical applications. The infrastructure for CERN's platform is comprised of physical two-socket servers and is virtualized using Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization on Dell PowerEdge M610 servers (with Intel Nehalem or Ivy Bridge processors with between 96 GB and 256 GB RAM per server) and a Brocade FC8 SAN with a NetApp data storage system.
We're likely to see Dell and Red Hat team up even more closely on OpenStack solutions going forward. Dell wants to shift its business model away from low margin PCs and be more of a player in the services and support arena, especially for cloud computing. And, Red Hat is making ever bigger bets on OpenStack.
Back in December, when Dell and Red Hat announced their OpenStack initiatives, Paul Cormier, President, Products and Technologies, Red Hat, said: "Our collaboration with Dell keeps getting better and today's announcement to co-engineer OpenStack solutions marks a significant milestone for both companies and customers. Just as we successfully collaborated with Dell to establish Red Hat Enterprise Linux as an enterprise industry standard, we're now extending our collaboration to help establish Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform as the standard for open private cloud in the enterprise. Dell and Red Hat are committed to jointly developing and delivering enterprise-grade OpenStack offerings to help customers pursue private cloud today, and advanced computing models in the future."


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Adventureland Will Open for the Season in Mid-May [PHOTOS]
Courtlin Published: April 8, 2022
Adventureland Park, Facebook
Iowa's favorite theme park is getting ready to open for the 2022 season!
According to a new Facebook post, Adventureland Park will officially open their gates to the public on Saturday, May 14th. If you're a season passholder, you'll be able to visit the park even sooner! There is a special Season Passholder Preview coming up on Saturday and Sunday, May 7th and 8th, and the post promises "special perks and surprises."
If you're hoping to visit Adventure Bay, you'll have to wait a little bit longer. The official opening date for the water park is Saturday, May 28th, which is Memorial Day weekend. There's an exclusive Season Passholder Day coming up on Friday, May 27th from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
A lot of exciting changes, additions, and updates have been taking place at Adventureland these past few months. Back in December, it was revealed that the park was sold to Palace Entertainment, one of the "top operators of amusement parks in the world," and with the new ownership comes new rides! We reported last fall that there are eight new rides expected to open in 2022, with two additional ones coming in 2023. But, to make room for the new attractions, we have to say goodbye to three older ones: Lighthouse, Falling Star, and Lady Luck. A new ride called The Lighthouse is replacing Lighthouse, Leap Frogs is replacing Lady Luck, and other new family rides include Warhawks, Bernie's Swing, The Revolution, Circus Balloons, The Clipper, Rockin' Rainbow, and Speedway Racers. Here are a few photos that Adventureland has posted on social media:
Season passes and single day admission tickets are on-sale now online. You can get more information on both options HERE.
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