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Chinese firm plans US$3.5bn power plant
Editor — September 19, 2012
From : Newzimbabwe.com
CHINA'S Guangdong Bureau of Coal Geology plans to invest $3.5 billion to build a 1,200 megawatt thermal power plant which is expected to help end Zimbabwe's power supply problems.
Zimbabwe currently generates about 1,000 MW of electricity, half of its peak demand, and is battling frequent power cuts which have affected industry and mines.
A delegation from the Chinese company is currently visiting the country to explore opportunities in the power sector and has already met with Mines Minister Obert Mpofu and his Economic Planning counterpart, Tapiwa Mashakada.
"We came here to observe and study the possibility of building a thermal power plant," Mu Yong, a director at the Chinese firm, said. "Our proposed budget is about $3.5 billion for a 120 million watts plant."
The project is expected to create about 2,000 new jobs.
In July, Energy Minister Elton Mangoma told parliament that China Railway International, a subsidiary of China Railway Group and Zimbabwe's state power utility ZESA were planning to jointly run a coal mine that would supply a proposed 1,000 MW thermal power station.
Finance Minister Tendai Biti, meanwhile, has revealed that Harare was negotiating with Beijing for a $350 million loan to expand its Kariba South power station to provide an additional 300 MW of power to the current 750 MW.
China's Sino Hydro is the sole bidder for the Kariba South project.
Early this year, Mangoma also revealed that a French consortium had been granted a licence to build a 2,000 MW thermal power plant in an investment worth about US$3 billion.
The power station will be situated at Binga's Lusulu coal fields which are said to have an estimated 1,2 billion tonnes of coal reserves.
"People are always making inquiries and it is a good thing for our country that we have people willing to invest in this sector. As Government we will always welcome new investment," Mangoma said then.
Meanwhile, the Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) is pressing ahead with feasibility studies for the environmental and social impact of the 1,600-MW Batoka Gorge hydroelectric project on the border of Zimbabwe and Zambia.
ZRA, which is jointly owned by the two countries, has applied for World Bank funding for the US$3 billion Batoka Gorge, to be built on the Zambezi River between Victoria Falls and Lake Victoria.
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Children often ask for things that are not even remotely attainable. Their eyes don't count the cost. They see only the object of their dreams and they dream big.
I was one of those little kids who wanted a pony. I had no idea how much they cost, or how we would provide shelter and food for the animal. I just loved horses and thought a pony would be a dream come true. A Palomino. Perhaps I was influenced by seeing the horses my uncle had on his farm in Allegan, Michigan. Naturally my parents explained more than once how we could not afford a pony or horse, and this was not going to happen. They were soft and kind about it, so my dream was not crushed.
But then Dad did something remarkable. He made a stall in the back of our garage and bought us a donkey. Now is that love or what? "Jack" came to live with us, a surprise to myself, older brother and younger sister. He was a beautiful creature with a darling face and gray toned coat. Gentle, for I did not witness him balking. But then I was only about seven. Dad would put two of us on his back and tether Jack, walk us around by turns. It was dreamy. I loved Jack.
The fun rides we took were short lived. My brother was supposed to feed him and muck out the stall. If I had been older and capable of understanding the work Jack required, I think I would have helped more. I have no recollection of either Michael or Dad caring for Jack. All I knew were those rides.
When Dad saw that this task was not being well done, Jack was given away to a local farmer. Perhaps this was for the best. We lived on the western edge of Grand Rapids in the 1950's—not an ideal place Jack. But I have not forgotten him, not only for the fun and joy he brought but for the sacrifice made to allow him into our lives. I realize now Jack was a token of God's love, demonstrated through the hands of my parents.
What is in your childhood as a token of God's love for you? If that is hard to bring up, what are some ways He's showing His love to you lately? Let us count the ways He loves us—how long would our list be? Why not start one and see? We have all this and Heaven, too if we love Him back.
Interesting! I can't think of one from childhood, but daily God takes care of me, which shows His love.


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BCLC posts record revenue for 2018-19 fiscal year
22 July, 2019 2 min read	daniel-oboyle
The British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC) has posted record revenue of CAD$2.59bn for the 2018-19 fiscal year, an increase of 3.5% from the prior year.
While casino and community gaming – comprising land-based, non-lottery gambling – fell slightly in the fiscal year ended 31 March, 2019, the total for the sector remained above BCLC's projections.
Slot machines remained by far the largest part of BCLC's revenues, contributing $1.40bn, up from $1.37bn last year. Poker also posted an increase in revenue to $23.6m, 18.6% above the budgeted figure of $19.9m.
Table games declined in revenue from $492.7m to $454.1m, but remained over budget, while bingo was under budget, declining to $23.0m.
Meanwhile, lottery and egaming revenue increased from $596.3m in 2017-18 to $686.1m in 2018-19. Lottery income increased from $476.4m to $536.3m, exceeding budget projections by 14.2%. For egaming, revenues increased from $119.9m to $149.8m.
BCLC reported average revenue per capita of $533, up from $510 last year.
Expenditures for casino and community gaming increased to $821.9m, while lottery and egaming costss increased to $222.0m.
Expenditures from capital asset amortization and depreciation also increased, from $68.9m to $69.6m, but these expenditures remained well under the budget figure of $77.6 million.
Those figures meant the corporation posted a record $1.42bn in net income for the fiscal year. $983.5m of that income came from casino and community gaming, while lottery and egaming was responsible for $432.0m =.
"Our increase in net income was achieved despite declines in revenue from labour disputes at five casino and community gaming locations and the changing table game landscape," board chair Peter Kappel and president & chief executive Jim Lightbody said.
"We were able to capitalize on opportunities, including the higher than average number of Lotto Max jackpot rolls, strong slot performance in brick-and-mortar facilities and strategic investments in new product offerings such as Live Casino on PlayNow.com.
"We are proud of our results from this past year and we are committed to the responsible growth of our business. We will continue to work closely with government and make prudent investment decisions while looking for ways to operate our business more efficiently and effectively, in the best interest of British Columbians."
The corporation's target income for 2019-20 will be $1.41bn, slightly below the actual figure achieved in the past fiscal year. For 2020-21, the target income will be $1.43bn.
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I intervene with reluctance in this debate. All my Honourable Friends know very well that I hesitated whether I should take part in it at all, because I thought it was more desirable that we should have a discussion in which Members not of front-bench rank should take a good deal of the time, but I think that it is my duty, having regard to the fact that I have some experience of these matters.
I feel that I ought to say something, from such experience as I have had in the past of the conduct of war in victory and in disaster, about what I think of the present situation and what really ought to be done.
I have heard most of the speech of the right Honourable Gentleman, the Secretary of State for Air, and I should think that the facts which he gave us justify the criticism against the Government and are no defence of the Government.
He said that we had practically no chance of making good in our Norwegian expedition unless we were able to have our air bases there which would enable us to put our fighters into the air bases which would enable us to put our fighters into the air in order to counteract the very destructive effect of the German aeroplanes. But we knew there were no air bases available. We know they were in the hands of the enemy.
The Right Honourable Gentleman admits that. He says that the Government knew beforehand that there were no air bases unless they were captured from the enemy, he even intimates that the object of the Trondheim expedition was to capture an air base. In that case we ought to have had picked men, and not a kind of a scratch team. We ought to have sent the very best man available, especially as we could not send the whole of our force in the first instalment.
The first instalment ought to have been picked men, because the Germans had picked men, as is generally accepted. We sent there, I think, a Territorial Brigade which had not had very much training. They were very young men, but they were the advance party of an expeditionary force which had to accomplish a task upon which the success of the whole force depended.
We ought also to have had combined action between the Army and the Navy. We had neither. We gambled on the chance of getting air bases. We did not take any measures that would guarantee success. This vital expedition, which would have made a vast difference to this country's strategical position, and an infinite difference to her prestige in the world, was made dependent upon this half-prepared, half-baked expeditionary force without any combination at all between the Army and the Navy.
There could not have been a more serious condemnation of the whole action of the Government in respect of Norway. They knew perfectly well that the Germans were preparing for a raid on some adjoining country, probably in the Balkans, and it is a severe condemnation of them that they should have gambled in this way. The right Honourable Gentleman spoke about the gallantry of our men, and were are equally proud of them. It thrills us to read the stories. All the more shame that we should have made fools of them.
Now, the situation is a grave one – I agree with what was said about that by the Prime Minister – and it would be a fatal error on our part not to acknowledge it. In such experience as I have had of war direction I have never tried to minimise the extent of such a disaster. I try to get the facts, because unless you really face the facts you cannot overcome the difficulties and restore the position.
There is no case, in m judgment, for panic. I say that deliberately, after a good deal of reflection, but there is a grave case for pulling ourselves together. We cannot do that unless we tell the country the facts. They must realise the magnitude of our jeopardy. We have two immense Empires federated in the struggle for liberty, the two greatest Empires in the world, the British Empire and the French Empire, with almost inexhaustible resources, but not easily mobilised, not easily roused, especially ours.
You are not going to rouse the British Empire – because you will have to do it not merely in Britain, but throughout the world – to put forth the whole of its strength unless and until you tell it what the facts and realities are of the peril that confronts it. At the cost of unpleasantness, I am going to do that, not with a view to terrifying them or spreading dismay and consternation, but with a view to rousing real action and not sham action as we have had. It is no use saying that the balance of advantage is in our favour, or adding up the number of ships sunk on either side. That kind of petty-cash balance-sheer is not the thing to look at. There are more serious realities than that.
First of all, we are strategically in a very much worse position than we were before. Now see these words, as they pass along, "strategically better", "strategically worse", because victory or defeat may depend upon the application of those two words. The greatest triumph of this extraordinary man Hitler has been that he has succeeded in putting his country into an infinitely better strategical position to wage war than his predecessors did in 1914, and by what he has done now he has increased his own advantages and he has put us into greater jeopardy.
Let us face it like men of British blood. Graver perils than this have been fought through in the past. Let us face it; just look at it, Czecho-Slovakia, that spear-heard, aimed at the heart of Germany, broken. A million of the finest troops in Europe of a very well-educated race of free man, all gone. Such advantage as there is in Czecho-Slovakia, with its great lines of fortifications and its Skoda works, which turned out the finest artillery in the 1914 war are in the hands of Hitler. That is one strategic advantage which we have handed over to the enemy.
You have a Franco-Russian Alliance, negotiated by an old friend of mine, M Barthou, by which Russia was to come to the aid of Czecho-Slovakia if France did. There would come to the aid of Czecho-Slovakia if France did. There would have been a two-front war for Germany. She knows what that means, because she had it before. That door is closed. We sent a third-class clerk to negotiate with the Prime Minister of the greatest country in the world, while Germany sent her Foreign Secretary with a resplendent retinue. That door is closed. Oil in Russian ships is now coming across the Black Sea for the aeroplanes of Germany.
Strategically, that was an immense victory for the Nazi Government.
The third – Rumania. We have tried to form one big syndicate, but Germany has been there starting, not one syndicate, but little syndicates here and there to develop the land, to increase production of work and to give her all sorts of machinery. She has practically got Rumania in her hands; and if she did not have it in her hands a month ago, by this failure in Norway you have handed over Rumania. What else? Spain. I am hoping that my fears about that will not prove true. Now you have Scandinavia and Norway, which were one of the great strategic possibilities of the war, and they are in German hands.
It is no use criticising Sweden. Sweden is now between Germany on the left and Germany on the right. What right have we to criticise the little Powers? We promised to rescue them. We promised to protect them. We never sent an aeroplane to Poland. We were too late in Norway, although we had the warning of ships in the Baltic and barges crammed with troops. They have to think about themselves. They do not want German troops on their soil, and they are definitely frightened, and for good reasons.
It deprives us of a possible opening in that direction. That has gone. It brings the German aeroplanes and submarines 200 miles nearer our coast. It does more than that. There is the opening-up of the Baltic. I venture to say that that will be considered, in regard to the protection of our trade and commerce. it is a grave menace. Strategically, we are infinitely worse off.
With regard to our prestige, can you doubt that that has been impaired? You have only to read the friendly American paper to find out, highly friendly papers that were backing us up through thick and thin, in a country which was pro-Ally. I do not know whether Honourable Members ever listen to the British Broadcasting Corporation's relay of the American commentator, Raymond Gram Swing. He is very remarkable. He gave an account of the change in American opinion. He said that what has happened was a hammer-blow to Americans. They were perfectly dazed. Before that they were convinced that victory was going to be won by the Allies, and they had never any doubt about it. This is the first doubt that has entered their minds, and they said, "It will be up to us to defend democracy".
There is also the fact the state of our preparations five years ago, in 1935. In 1935 a promise of rearmament was made; in 1936 active proposals were submitted to this House and were passed without a Division. The Government said they would commit us to £1,500,000,000. If they had asked for more and had said that it was necessary, then there was no party in this House that would have challenged it. And if any party had challenged it, you had your majority.
Is there anyone in this House who will say that he is satisfied with the speed and efficiency of the preparations in any respect for air, for Army or for Navy? Everybody is disappointed. Everybody knows that whatever was done was done half-heartedly, ineffectively, without drive and unintelligently. For three to four years I thought to myself that the facts with regard to Germany were exaggerated by the First Lord, because the then Prime Minister – not this Prime Minister – said that they were not true. The First Lord, Mr Churchill, was right about it. Then came the war.
The Prime Minister must remember that he has met this formidable foe of ours in peace and in war. He has always been worsted. He is not in a position to put it on the ground of friendship. He has appealed for sacrifice. The nation is prepared for every sacrifice so long as it has leadership, as long as the Government show clearly what they are aiming at and so long as the nation is confident that those who are leading it are doing their best. I say solemnly that the Prime Minister should give an example of sacrifice, because there is nothing which can contribute more to victory in this war than that he should sacrifice the seals of office.


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Milepost 97 Fire now 1,650 acres
Preliminary investigation of the fire indicates the cause is related to an illegal campfire.
Updated: Jul 31, 2019 11:16 AM
Posted By: KEZI Staff
WATCH: Milepost 97 Fire burning in Canyonville
Fire burning near I-5 in Douglas County
WATCH: Crews battle growing Milepost 97 Fire
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CANYONVILLE, Ore. -- The Milepost 97 Fire near Canyonville grew to 1,650 acres by Friday morning, the Douglas Forest Protection Association said. That's up from their last update of 750 acres Thursday night. The fire is 0% contained.
Firefighters are continuing to fight the fire, which spread south and west overnight. It's burning one mile southeast of Canyonville near Interstate 5 southbound. The southbound I-5 off-ramp at Exit 95 (Canyon Creek), located three miles south of Canyonville, was closed Thursday due to the fire and was expected to remain closed. For the latest road conditions, click here.
The fire is actively burning in a old fire scar from the 1980s, where there is a significant amount of standing dead trees with heavy brush beneath them. Officials said the terrain is steep and rocky.
The Oregon Department of Forestry's Incident Management Team 3 has been assigned to assist the DFPA and will be briefed this afternoon. Fire officials said the team will take over command of the fire by Friday evening.
The Douglas County Sheriff's Office issued a Level 3 "Go" evacuation order at about 7:20 Thursday night, which applied to Canyonville residents in the 100 to 300 blocks of Ritchie Road. Local fire departments are providing structural resources and fire protection to the three homes affected.
A Level 2 "Be Set" notice was issued at about 7 p.m., escalating from the Level 1 "Be Ready" notice that was issued at about 3:30 p.m.
"There's been investigators on scene of the fire last night and the preliminary investigation indicates the fire was most likely caused by an illegal campfire," said Kyle Reed with DFPA.
Crews from the Douglas Forest Protective Association and Canyonville -- South Umpqua Fire Department responded to the fire at 10 p.m. on Wednesday. They had containment lines around the bottom half of the fire and continued to work on the fire, which at the time was said to be 25% contained.
Douglas Forest Protective Association officials said fire activity picked up Thursday as temperatures grew hotter. They had five helicopters working on the fire that day. At the time, fire officials said the fire was burning uphill and not toward Canyonville.
Falling trees, rolling rocks and strong winds are presenting challenges to firefighters in their efforts to contain the blaze, and one firefighter was transported to the hospital for a heat-related illness.
The Douglas Forest Protective Association said additional resources were then requested from the Tri-City Rural Fire Department, Riddle Rural Fire Department, Myrtle Creek Rural Fire Department and contract hand crews.
Anyone traveling through the area is asked to drive with caution, as fire equipment and personnel will be working alongside the freeway.
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Up until the Warden at Kern Valley State Prison in Delano, CA spoke these words, I had been feeling relatively comfortable about my visit to the maximum-security prison. His statements, however, quickly snapped me and the 50 or so other entrepreneurs in my group back to reality.
Our group of volunteers had traveled to Kern as part of Hustle 2.0, the brainchild of Cat Hoke. Hoke has spent almost two decades trying to reform the U.S. prison system and improve recidivism rates by teaching life and business skills to inmates to better their future.
After being guided through a series of armed checkpoints, our group entered the gymnasium area where we would be spending the day with the inmates, many of whom are serving life sentences and aren't even eligible for parole.
When we entered, music was blaring. To our profound surprise, we were welcomed by the inmates with a tunnel of high-fives as if taking the field at the Super Bowl. Shortly after sitting down for introductions, we were asked to get up and "bear hug" twenty inmates for three seconds each in less than a minute. This act of personal connection immediately lowered any walls or barriers that our mind or body had built up.
Over the next few hours, we were paired up with inmates for one-to-one exercises. We listened to their life stories and plans for the future, coached them on their business ideas and helped them prepare for interviews if and when they got out of prison. For a bit of levity, we also had a lip-sync contest.
This incredibly powerful and emotional day shifted my perspectives and taught me many important lessons. I'll address the first three in this week's post and cover the final three next week.
1. Culture is Powerful. I write a lot about the power of culture in business, but it wasn't until my visit to Kern that I truly realized just how powerful culture can be. If a program like Hustle 2.0 can completely change the mindset, perspectives and behavior of a group of the most "dangerous" inmates, even creating a positive sub-culture within the prison, then cultural change within any organization is possible. While rules have their time and place, culture and values are profoundly stronger when it comes to creating a set of normalized behaviors and an intentional community.
2. Life is an Uneven Playing Field. Intuitively, I know this, but this realization became so much more evident as story after story unfolded in my discussions with these inmates. One gentleman I spoke with during an exercise on forgiveness shared that his father had tried to kill him when he was seven years old. He also shared that he had not had a visitor in three years; this day was the first time he had felt seen/heard since he could remember.
Another shared that his mother was killed when he was six and that his father went to jail for 20 years when he was seven, at which point he spent ten brutal years in the foster system. He was a brilliant artist with a great attitude and a bright future, but without a support structure or positive influence in his life, he got caught up with the wrong crowd and lost his way.
3. I Need to Judge Less & Seek Understanding More. For one of the exercises, we all lined up along a taped line across from an inmate. We were then asked questions about our lives and childhoods, stepping forward if the answer was true for us or backward from the line if it wasn't. Very clear patterns quickly emerged.
If you grew up in a household with two loving parents, your experience was different than almost 100% of the inmates we met.
If you grew up in a household with more than 20 books, your experience was different than 95% of the inmates.
If your parents ever paid for any college or private school for you, your experience differed from 98% of those incarcerated at Kern.
The vast majority of the inmates we met were also first arrested before age 15 and many where sentenced to 20+ years or life before they were even 18.
This is where compassion and understanding are critical. One's history and context contribute significantly to their reality. It's so easy to judge a person or their situation in the present tense (i.e. this person is guilty for taking a life) without understanding what came before it.
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Shellacking the Saints: What the Bucs need to do in order to beat New Orleans in Week Nine
With the Bucs showing up on primetime for the third time this season, can they show the NFL world that they finally have what it takes to top the Saints?
By Chris Schoenherr@CynicalBucsFan Nov 6, 2020, 7:30am EST
New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara (41) scores a touchdown
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Whew! That Week Eight game sure was a close one, and one I definitely didn't expect. But no matter how close it was, the Bucs still came out with a win and move up to 6-2 on the season.
I know this may be an unexpected feeling for many of you, it definitely is for me. Six wins in only eight weeks? For a stretch there (putting it mildly), Buccaneers fans would have been lucky to get six wins by the end of the season.
Despite the struggles they showed against the New York Giants this past week, they showed that they had what it took to get the job done. Daniel Jones throwing two boneheaded interceptions didn't hurt either.
However, it's time to move on to the Saints. A team that the Bucs have not figured out how to beat in recent years.
The Saints soundly defeated the Buccaneers in Week One, intercepting Tom Brady twice en route to a 34-23 victory. Yet, even looking at the results of that game, I definitely don't think it'll be anything like that come Week Nine.
In the Week One defeat, The Buccaneers made mistake after mistake, throwing interceptions, muffing kicks, blowing coverages, running the wrong routes, committing dumb penalties, etc. Even with the myriad of mistakes, they still only lost by 11 points to a Saints team that has had years to build chemistry.
Cries of the "same ol' Bucs" were heard far and wide, I was definitely saying it too. That was a performance we expected out of the Bucs of old, and that mistake-ridden football continued through the first five weeks of the season.
After the ugly loss against the Bears, the Bucs finally looked in the mirror and realized that they were only beating themselves. Since then, they've played relatively mistake free and that's exactly what they'll need to do against the Saints this Sunday night.
So, what will it take for the Bucs to win at home on Sunday Night Football? Well, as I said, they'll need to limit the mistakes significantly. Outside of that however, they could definitely make a few changes from that Week One script to put themselves in an even better position to win.
Let's take a look at some of the things they can do to take advantage of the Saints on both sides of the ball.
Limit the predictability (running from under center on first down)
The Buccaneers have been picking up the pace on offense as of late, with the exception of the first half of that Giants game of course. While they aren't the No. 1 offense in the league, they still manage to put up the fourth most points per week.
So, what held them back against the Saints in Week One, and during some other times throughout the season? Their rushing attack. While many claim that the Bucs run on first down every single time, that's just not true. However, they do run it on first and 10 quite a bit.
According to Bucsnations' own Evan Winter, the Bucs are top five in this category:
Per SIS, the #GoBucs have the fourth-most rushing attempts on first down (130) and the eighth-most attempts (189) on first and second down in the NFL.
— Evan Winter (@evan_winter) November 4, 2020
While he does qualify it by later adding that they are often playing with leads, against the Saints this season, they ran it on first down often no matter what the score was.
In that game, the Bucs had 22 rushing attempts with their running-backs and gained a pedestrian 71 yards (3.2 yds/carry). It gets even worse when you look and see that out of these 22 carries, 15 came on first down.
On these first down carries, the longest rush was 21 yards, with the second longest being six. Both of which came out of shotgun. On the other 19 runs, all of them went for three yards or less, most of which came under center.
What's even worse is if you removed that 21 yard gain, the Bucs rushing attack would've only averaged 2.3 yards per carry on 21 carries.
When looking at the tape, it's evident that the blocking and backs aren't necessarily at fault here. While there were a few missed blocks, missed reads, or great defensive plays, the Saints just schemed well against the run.
Here's an example of that:
I wanted to show the play from both angles so you can see why this zone run failed from the beginning. When Godwin comes in motion, the defense shifts and the safety comes closer to the box and slides the linebackers towards the short side.
The second that he reads run, the play is dead in its' tracks. Despite there being five blockers to the play side, the Saints have it schemed so that there are six guys to stop the run, giving them a numbers advantage.
Even though the offensive line is able to get on their blocks and hold them well enough, Ronald Jones II doesn't even have time to make a decision when he hits the line as the safety comes through untouched.
There are two holes that he can take, as indicated by the lines on the play, but that is all dead in the water when the safety shoots the lane.
This happened more often than not when the Bucs ran on first down under center and it really put the offense in bad situations on second and third down. The few times they ran it out of the gun, it generally went smoother, which is why I am specifying that they shouldn't come from under center every time they want to run on first.
It becomes predictable and it gives a huge advantage to the defense. Despite the success in play action from the same formations, it doesn't justify the consistent attempts. Even if they don't run it as often, play action will still work since defenders have run reads that they have to work through.
Get the quick passing game going
In last year's second game against the Buccaneers, the Saints ran primarily Cover 2 schemes and attempted to keep everything underneath. In Week One, they primarily ran Cover 1, Cover 3 Match, and some Cover 2 man or zone sprinkled in there.
Despite their zone cover schemes, they still typically had Marshon Lattimore matched man on man with Mike Evans so any throws his way won't be coming between zones.
I'd say that they should definitely try to get him going downfield, especially because it really looked like the Saints couldn't handle him as they committed multiple pass interference penalties against him. On top of this, Evans went into that game with a bad hamstring and will now be playing against the Saints at almost full health.
Outside of Evans though, there are plenty of opportunities to get guys going, especially when the Saints are in man. Receivers like Scotty Miller and Chris Godwin are able to run these quick routes with high rates of success when their defender is matched on them.
The Saints look to be in Cover 2 man here as everyone is matched up and they have two-high safeties over the top. Chris Godwin runs a speed out, breaking at about five yards downfield. Since the slot defender is playing him a little off, Godwin has plenty of room to come down with an easy catch when Brady throws it to the outside.
While Brady did throw a pick-six on a speed out, the coverage on that play had a corner sitting on the out while he had safety help over the top. This means that it was easy for Jenkins to undercut that route because if he misses, there's a guy that can clean it up.
On this play, since the slot is in man, he has to make sure Godwin doesn't come out over the top so he still has to keep him in front of him. This makes these kinds of plays easy pickings.
There were several other quick digs and outs that led to some yards after the catch, especially from Scotty Miller. If they're able to get this quick pass game going, they'll definitely force the Saints to come up in coverage which can lead to opportunities for deeper routes to develop and come open.
While I don't think the Bucs will be content to pick up five yards per play, this allows them to keep the sticks moving while looking for big plays as the opportunities come.
If the Buccaneers are able to keep the chains moving, especially if they stop wasting first downs, it'll be difficult for this Saints defense to stop all the weapons that the Bucs have, especially now that Antonio Brown is in town.
Slow down the screen game
Looking at the film, the Saints offense really didn't do a whole lot to dominate the Week One game as the final score would indicate. Brees only threw for 160 yards and the overall team only averaged 2.4 yards per carry on the ground.
The big difference ended up being the big plays that they allowed, such as the long pass to Jared Cook that Bruce Arians later claimed was a blown coverage. Mitigating mistakes like this will help to keep that offense from connecting on huge downfield plays. However, the Bucs left a bit to be desired when defending the flats (as they have for a good amount of the season).
This difficulty doesn't just present itself on quick passes to the flats, but also on screens, which the Saints love to run now that Brees can't toss it 40 yards on every snap.
Not only do screens do a good job of rendering the pass rush moot, but they also get playmakers in space. With playmakers like Kamara, he doesn't need a lot of space to get working, but he sure does have a ton here:
What hurts the most about this play is that it's a third and long that ends up being converted for an easy touchdown. The Saints do a fantastic job of executing this screen, but even without this execution, the Bucs defense isn't in position to stop this at all.
When Kamara drops down to begin his screen route, Devin White (who looks to be assigned to him) gets cut down by the convoy and there's no one else to stop this from here. Sean Murphy-Bunting isn't going to make this tackle and he's about the only guy on that side of the field that is initially unblocked.
I'm not sure if it's a defensive execution issue or just a great play call, but in either case this is a walk-in touchdown. On plays like this, the defensive line needs to be completely aware of that screen, especially when they have man coverage behind them. This is especially true when playing Brees as the pass rush is not going to get home very often.
Vita Vea (who won't be playing this Sunday) does a good job of noticing it, but is a bit too late when attempting to slow Kamara down before he gets to the outside.
If the Bucs want to win this Sunday night, they HAVE to slow down the Saints screen game and force Brees to drop back and make decisions. Not only will this lead to more mistakes (potentially), but it will also stop the Saints from picking up effortless yards.
The predictability in the run game so far this season has been a limiting factor in terms of how explosive this offense can be, at least in my opinion. With Ali Marpet most likely out in Week Nine due to concussion protocol, it's going to get even uglier for the Bucs running game.
If they're able to shake these tendencies, they'll open themselves up to all kinds of success in the quick passing game and in play action. Like I said before, even if the run game isn't working, play action will still work.
However, the biggest thing that held them back in Week One was mistakes, so even if they exploit the weaknesses on the Saints' defense, they'll need to limit the blunders to keep this game in their reach.
On defense, the Saints employ a vast number of plays that are designed to get playmakers in space. If the Bucs are able to close that space quickly, it'll force them to drop back and rely on the arm of Brees. Even though Brees is a hall-of-fame quarterback, I don't think he has what it takes to single-handedly pick apart this Bucs defense.
With Devin White and Lavonte David, I expect that Alvin Kamara will be limited on some of his touches. However even with both of them in the first matchup, Kamara made big plays. Limiting him through scheme, rather than matchups, will be necessary to slowing him down this week.
While many people place the Bucs above the Saints in these NFL power rankings, they have to prove that they are the better team this weekend, and that will not be an easy task. For the Bucs, the time is now. This is their shot to show the world that they belong in the conversation, rather than playing second fiddle to the long-standing powerhouse that is the New Orleans Saints.
What do you think it'll take to come out of Week Nine at 7-2? How can this team beat the Saints? Let us know in the comments below!
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$65K in marijuana seized in Stokes County
Updated: 9:07 AM EDT Aug 2, 2012
BY THE STOKES NEWS STAFFThe Stokes County Sheriff's Office reported that its narcotics division seized 27 marijuana plants last week from a field in the southeastern portion of the county.The plants have a street value of $65,000, the report said. According to Major Jeff Lemons with the sheriff's office, the plant discovery was the result of a routine fly-over done by the N.C. National Guard and the N.C. Highway Patrol Aerial Unit. The Mayodan Police Department also assisted the sheriff's office with the effort on Tuesday, July 24.Lemons said the marijuana was found in an open field through the woods off of Highway 311 between Walnut Cove and Pine Hall. No arrests have been made in connection with the discovery.The Highway Patrol and National Guard schedule a few aerial eradication projects in Stokes County each year, as they do across the state, according to Lemons. Those skilled in aerial observation can spot marijuana plants fairly easily from the helicopters.The state has a system for calculating the street value of illegal narcotics. Lemons said mature marijuana plants are valued at $2,400 apiece according to the scale.Sheriff Mike Marshall encourages anyone with information about illegal drugs to contact the sheriff's office at 336-593-8787 or Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-8506.Marshall stated in a release: "The public's eye is vital in our effort to combat drugs in making our county a safer place to live."
BY THE STOKES NEWS STAFF
The Stokes County Sheriff's Office reported that its narcotics division seized 27 marijuana plants last week from a field in the southeastern portion of the county.
The plants have a street value of $65,000, the report said. According to Major Jeff Lemons with the sheriff's office, the plant discovery was the result of a routine fly-over done by the N.C. National Guard and the N.C. Highway Patrol Aerial Unit. The Mayodan Police Department also assisted the sheriff's office with the effort on Tuesday, July 24.
Lemons said the marijuana was found in an open field through the woods off of Highway 311 between Walnut Cove and Pine Hall. No arrests have been made in connection with the discovery.
The Highway Patrol and National Guard schedule a few aerial eradication projects in Stokes County each year, as they do across the state, according to Lemons. Those skilled in aerial observation can spot marijuana plants fairly easily from the helicopters.
The state has a system for calculating the street value of illegal narcotics. Lemons said mature marijuana plants are valued at $2,400 apiece according to the scale.
Sheriff Mike Marshall encourages anyone with information about illegal drugs to contact the sheriff's office at 336-593-8787 or Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-8506.
Marshall stated in a release: "The public's eye is vital in our effort to combat drugs in making our county a safer place to live."


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September 19, 1991(1991-09-19) (aged 92)
Afro-Cuban Poetry
European Vanguard
Afrocubanismo Movement
Lydia Cabrera (May 20, 1899 in Havana, Cuba – September 19, 1991 in Miami, Florida) was a Cuban anthropologist.
Cabrera was a Cuban writer and literary activist. She was an authority on Santería and other Afro-Cuban religions. During her lifetime she published over one hundred books; little if any of her work is available in English. Her most important book is El Monte (Spanish: "The Wilderness"), which was the first major anthropological study of Afro-Cuban traditions. Published in 1954, the book became a "bible" for Santeros who practice Santeria, a blend of Catholic teachings and native African religions that evolved among former African slaves in the Caribbean. She donated her research collection to the library of the University of Miami. A section in Guillermo Cabrera Infante's book Tres Tigres Tristes is written under Lydia Cabrera's name, in a comical rendition of her literary voice. She was one of the first writers to recognize and make public the richness of Afro-Cuban culture. She made valuable contributions in the areas of literature, anthropology, and ethnology.
In El Monte, Cabrera fully described the major Afro-Cuban religions: the Regla de Ocha (commonly known as Santeria) and the Ifa' cult, which are both derived from traditional Yoruba religion; and Palo Monte, which originated in Central Africa. Both the literary and anthropological perspectives on Cabrera's work assume that she wrote about mainly oral, practical religions with only an "embryonic" written tradition. She is credited by literary critics for having transformed Afro-Cuban oral narratives into literature, which is, written works of art, while anthropologists rely on her accounts of oral information collected during interviews with santeros, babalaos, or paleros, and on her descriptions of religious ceremonies. There is a dialectical relationship between Afro-Cuban religious writing and Cabrera's work; she used a religious writing tradition that has now internalized her own ethnography.
Born in Havana in 1899 as the youngest of eight siblings, Cabrera came from a Cuban family of social and financial privilege in pre-revolutionary Cuba. Her father, Raimundo Cabrera, was a writer, lawyer, prominent man in society, and an advocate for Cuba's independence. Her mother, Elisa Marcaida Casanova, was a housewife and respected socialite. Her father was also the president of the first Cuban corporation, La Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País, founded in the eighteenth century. He owned a popular literary journal, Cuba y America, where Lydia got her first experience as a writer. At the age of thirteen, Cabrera wrote a weekly anonymous column that appeared in her father's journal. She covered topics relevant to her specific community, such as wedding announcements, childbirths, or obituaries.[1]
The family had many Afro-Cuban servants and child caretakers, through whom young Lydia learned about African folklore, stories, tradition, and religions. Like the majority of wealthy Cubans in the early 1900s, private tutors came to the home of the Cabreras to educate the children. For a short period of time, she attended the private school of Maria Luisa Dolz. At that time it was not socially acceptable for a woman to pursue a high school diploma, so Cabrera finished her secondary education on her own.[2]
By 1927 Cabrera found herself wanting to make money on her own and she wanted to become independent of her family. She moved to Paris to study art and religion at L'Ecole du Louvre [3] She studied drawing and painting in Paris with theatrical Russian exile Alexandra Exter. Cabrera lived in Paris for 11 years and returned home in 1938. After graduating from Ecole du Louvre, she chose not to become an artist as expected. Instead she chose to move back to Cuba to study Afro-Cuban culture, especially their traditions and folklore.
In 1936, while in Paris, she published her first book, "Cuentos Negros".[4]
Involvement in Afrocubanismo and the preservation of Afro-Cuban culture
For almost all of her life, Cabrera possessed a large interest in Afro-Cuban culture. She had been introduced to their folklore at a very young age by her Afro-Cuban nanny and Afro-Cuban seamstress. Three factors influenced her decision to study Afrocubanismo as an adult. The first influence was her experience in Europe, where studying African art became very popular. Secondly she was influenced by her studies in Paris, where she began to see the large influence that African art had on Cuban art. Thirdly she had as a companion Teresa de la Parra, a Venezuelan novelist and socialite whom she met while studying in Europe, and who enjoyed reading Cuban books with her. They often studied about the island together.[5]
With her focus on thoroughly exploring Afro-Cuban culture, she returned to Cuba in 1930. She moved to a ranch, La Quinta San Jose, in the suburb of Havana, Marianao, located just outside the barrio Pogolotti where she conducted most her research on Afro-Cuban culture.[6] Between 1937 and 1948, she published her second book of short stories Por Que...Cuentos negros de Cuba. For this collection, she participated in the culture of the Afro-Cubans and recorded their religious rituals and traditions.
During the late 1950s she continued to publish several books about Afro-Cuban religions, especially focusing on the Abakuás. Being a secret society, the Abakuás were reluctant to talk to her about their religion.[7] Since they did not accept women as members, Cabrera relied on the use of interviews to gain information for her book. It focused on the origins of the group, the myth of Sikaneke, and the hierarchy of its members. Somehow she managed to photograph their sacred drum, which is supposed to remain hidden at all times, to include within her research.[8]
Main work themes
Her career spanned decades before the Revolution, as well as many years after the revolution in Cuba. Although she was never schooled in anthropology, she takes a very anthropological approach to studying her subject matter. The main theme in her work is the focus on to the once-marginalized Afro-Cubans, giving them a respectable identity. Through the use of imagery and storytelling in her work, she seeks to retell the history of the Cuban people through the Afro-Cuban lens.[9] Generally, her work blurs the line between what society has deemed as "fact" and "fiction." [10] She attempts to pose ideas and theories that force one to question what they have been told.In Afro-Cuban Tales = Cuentos Negros De Cuba, She writes, "They dance when they're born, they dance when they die, they dance for killings. They celebrate everything!" (Cabrera 67). Here, she is connecting Afro-Cuban tales with African rituals because it is important to celebrate birth, passage to adulthood, marriage, and death.
Coming to the United States
She left the country in 1960 shortly after the revolution and never returned. She left as an exile, first going to Madrid and later settling in Miami, FL., where she remained the rest of her life. Ms. Cabrera received several honorary doctorate degrees, including one from the University of Miami in 1987. Cabrera describes her stories as "transpositions," but they went much further than a simple retelling. She recreated and altered elements, characters, and themes of African and universal folklore, but she also modified the traditional stories by adding details of Cuban customs of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Toward the last years of her life, Lydia Cabrera worked diligently to edit and publish the many notes she had collected during more than thirty years of research in Cuba.
The real reason why she left is still unknown. Some claim that she left because of the lifestyle the revolution was trying to instill. For many years, Cabrera had stated her dislike for the revolution and socialist-Marxist ideology.[11] Others claim she left because members of the Abakuás were hunting her down since she had made their secret society public.[12] Although the reason why she left is unknown, she never returned and spent the rest of her life living in Miami until her death in September 19, 1991.
↑ Rodríguez-Mangual, E. "Introduction," Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of an Afro-Cuban Cultural Identity. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004: 7.
↑ Rodríguez-Mangual, E. "Introduction," 8.
↑ "Lydia Cabrera," Encyclopedia of Cuba: People, history, culture. Ed. Luis Martinez Fernandez 1st Vol. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2003: 321.
↑ Mallea, Hermes (2011). Great Houses of Havana: A Century of Cuban Style. Monacelli Press. ISBN 9781580932882.
↑ Rodríguez-Mangual, E. "Introduction," 10.
↑ "Lydia Cabrera," 322.
Cuentos negros de Cuba, OCLC 054988800
¿Por qué? Cuentos negros de Cuba
Refranes de negros viejos
Anagó : vocabulario lucumì (el yoruba que se habla en Cuba), OCLC 000833329
La sociedad secreta Abakuá, narrada por viejos adeptos.
Otán iyebiyá: las piedras preciosas, OCLC 000338426
Ayapá : cuentos de Jicotea, OCLC 000676675
La laguna sagrada de San Joaquín
Yemayá y Ochún, OCLC 006368199
Anaforuana: ritual y símbolos de la iniciación en la sociedad secreta Abakuá
Francisco y Francisca: chascarrillos de negros viejos
Itinerarios del Insomnio: Trinidad de Cuba
Reglas de Congo: Palo Monte Mayombe
Koeko iyawó, aprende novicia: pequeño tratado de regla lucumí
Cuentos para adultos niños y retrasados mentales, OCLC 009775722
La Regla Kimbisa del Santo Cristo del Buen Viaje, OCLC 015119327
Páginas Sueltas
Arnedo-Gómez, Miguel. Writing Rumba: The Afrocubanista Movement in Poetry. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 2006: 1–2, 25, 87, 147, 149, 152, 157.
García, Cristina. "Clave 1: Danzon," Cubanismo! New York: Vintage Books, 2002: 54–66.
Luis, William. "Present and Future Antislavery Narratives", Literary Bondage. Austin: University of Texas Press. 1990: 238–248.
"Lydia Cabrera," Encyclopedia of Cuba: People, History, Culture. Ed. Luis Martinez Fernandez 1st Vol. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2003: 321–322.
Maguire, Emily A. Racial Experiments in Cuban Literature and Ethnography. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2011. Print.
Moore, Robin D. "The Minorista Vanguard: Modernism and Afrocubanismo", Nationalizing Blackness: Afrocubansimo and Artistic Revolution in Havana, 1920–1940. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997: 195–200.
Ródriguez-Mangual, Edna M. "Introduction", Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of an Afro-Cuban Cultural Identity. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004: 1–167. OCLC 055105528
Cabrera, Lydia. Afro-Cuban Tales = Cuentos Negros De Cuba. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2004. Print.
Rodriguez-Mangual, Edna M. Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of Afro-Cuban Cultural Identity. North Carolina: University of North Carolina, 2004. Print.
Cannavacciuolo, Margherita. Habitar el margen. Sobre la narrativa de Lydia Cabrera. Sevilla: Renacimiento, 2010.
Lydia Cabrera Papers, 1910-1991 at the Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries
Digital images from the Lydia Cabrera Papers at the Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries
Lydia Cabrera (1899–1999): Recapitulando en la alborada de su centenario (Spanish language link)
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Qassemi: 'Ill-wishers' targeting Tehran-Paris relations
September 1, 2018 - 10:37
Iranian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday dismissed media reports that France has told its diplomats to postpone all non-essential trips to Iran, warning about attempts aimed at undermining relations between the Islamic Republic and European countries, especially France.
Some "ill-wishers and opponents" have targeted "the relations between Iran and Europe, especially Iran and France," Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said, calling for vigilance against such moves, Press TV reported.
On Tuesday, Reuters, citing an internal memo, claimed that France had told its diplomats and Foreign Ministry officials to postpone indefinitely all non-essential travels to Iran over what it called hardening of Tehran's attitude toward France.
"The behavior of the Iranian authorities suggests hardening of their position vis-a-vis our country, as well as some of our allies," Maurice Gourdault-Montagne, the French Foreign Ministry's secretary general, reportedly wrote in the notice dated August 20.
"Given the known security risks... all departmental officers, whether from headquarters or (overseas) posts, are required to defer until further notice, except for urgent work, any travel plans in Iran," Gourdault-Montagne added.
Qassemi said Tehran has received no official words from the French government on the issue, stressing there were no reasons whatsoever for such a move.
He added that the report was in line with a psychological propaganda campaign to negatively affect Tehran-Paris ties.


I'm used to telling school leavers about public relations. But primary school children – that's a new communications challenge for me. Instead, we looked at their first impressions of the university and I asked them to mock up a newsletter about their school.
Their impression of me? Posh – and crazy. The message about public relations: it's involved in impressions management.
Wow Richard – propaganda at the under 12s… are you sure that's allowed?
Precisely why I didn't mention public relations.
'Impressions management'…I think the kids could be onto something!


I don't have much hope for people changing as long as their fundamental motivating desire is to be comfortable.
And yet, if you move past all the nice things people say about wanting to do the right thing and wanting to be someone different, you find, very often what they really mean, is I want to do the right thing and I want to be someone different, as long as I still get to do what I want and be the same person I am right now.
Maybe I shouldn't say they. Maybe I should say me.
Do I really want to change or do I just want the appearance of change? Which do I want more, being comfortable or being holy?
I don't know, but maybe this is why Jesus was so often so straight up.
It's not that he was being rude, obviously, or that he didn't care about the people he was speaking to, he did. It's just that he knew his time was limited, and he needed to help the person get to the core of the issue, and see themselves for who they really were, because he knew that was essential if they ever were going to really be someone different.
Now, obviously long term change is good and it is pleasant. Righteousness is really sweet. But, it's just hard to pursue the path of the righteous if you are started off facing the wrong direction. It's when what I want is to want what God wants most that I am ready to start working on becoming the kind of person He wants me to be.


The PDPA (Personal Data Protection Act) is a data protection law comprises of various rules governing the collection, usage, disclosure and protection of personal data. It recognises the rights of an individual to protect their personal data from misuse, including rights to access and correction of personal data.
As HR practitioners often handle and come across employees and job candidates' personal data, it is critical they understand how the PDPA can affect their work and policies. Thus, HR practitioners needs to review and re-evaluate existing HR polices and processes in order to align with the Act.
Key areas of HR functions include Recruitment & Selection, Benefits and Compensation, Training and Development, Employee Relations, Workplace Safety and Health, Compliance and more will have to ensure compliance of the PDPA, if they collect, use and or share employees'/ potential employees' data.
Though it is essential to utilise these personal data for specific purpose/s, other obligations such as protection and retention must be adhere to. Any breach of the PDPA provision will attract both criminal and or civil action taken against the organisation.
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• 9 key obligations of the PDPA and Do Not Call Provisions.
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• Implication of PDPA and HR function.
• Identify and review HR practices/ processes to ensure compliance.
• Develop internal data protection policies and communication plans.
• Introduction to PDPA, 9 key obligations and DNC registry.
• PDPA exemptions under Schedule 2 of the PDPA.
• Roles and responsibilities of HR Managers and Personal Data Protection Officer.
• How to conduct personal data inventory for HR department and mapping existing processes with PDPA obligations.
• Development of internal data protection policies and conduct staff communication.
• Stricter rules to NRIC - When can we collect, use or disclose NRIC numbers?
• Those training to be in HR profession.
Leslie Lim stands at the forefront of the fastest moving adult education industry. He spent the past five years transforming behaviours and mindset of his participants, providing them with a set of attributes to enhance and excel in their undertakings.
Being an assiduous adult educator, Leslie has championed the significance of continuous learning to his consumer customers; he has been awarded top 10 associate trainers by the Singapore Institute of Retail Studies in year 2014.
Following his passion in adult education, Leslie embarked onto consultancy works and training in Personal Data Protection Act. Leslie conducts PDPA compliance assessment/ training with businesses, review and provides follow up and corrective measures to his clienteles to ensure compliance with the PDPA. Managing PDPA compliance is cross functional, and hence Leslie is familiar with processes of HR, Marketing, Operations, Finance, Administration, IT, Facility & Security.
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Throughout his 9-years tenure with Mobil Oil/ ExxonMobil, Leslie has built a reputation for achieving business objectives, incubating new operational models. Besides meeting sales objectives, he is also primarily responsible for hiring & recruitment, training & development, execution of workplace safety and health policies & procedures and loss prevention system.
Embracing the core values of integrity, innovation, and growth, Leslie is offered the opportunity to move on to the management of Cheers Holding (subsidiary of FairPrice) in 2007. He held the position of Area Manager, where his leadership is further extended to the responsibilities of guidance and supervision of clusters of convenience stores.
Leslie holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in Entrepreneurship and Management. He has also attained the Advance Certificate in Training and Assessment.
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Bangladesh- George Washington University
Topic 1: Racial Discrimination and Employment
The government of Bangladesh is against all forms of racial discrimination and employment. As a country which has a very high tolerance of understanding and accepting people from all different races, the government of Bangladesh is proud to say exists in our country. As representatives of the state of Bangladesh, we would like to reaffirm that discrimination between human beings on the grounds of race, should not be tolerated, and is an obstacle to peace and security among people living in a diverse culture. Therefore, Bangladesh would like to remind its fellow states, that many signed the Convention of the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which included the right to have equal opportunity in employment no matter what race one is. If all of the countries that had signed it practiced the principles put forth in the document, then there would be no problem. Bangladesh most recently, passed an act of tolerance, vowing that discrimination would not tear apart its society and it has worked well in practice. We urge our fellow countries to do the same. It is not just one thing to sign or ratify the CERD, but one needs to have acts/laws that apply to one s own state. Therefore, we recommend that our fellow states look to us for help on how to pass a tolerance act that will be effective. If one does not pass an act or chooses that would not fit. The government of Bangladesh promotes educational programs taking place within the country itself, on culture, to expand understanding of a race or culture. In addition, we strongly recommend that depending on the situation, that each country be evaluated for its discrimination and unfair practices in employment. With a study done on in each country, the committee, can recommend different measures for different countries based on the severity of the situation. Ideally, it would be wonderful to eliminate racial discrimination in the workplace with the same practice in one country as in another. Though, realistically, Bangladesh recognizes that this might not be the case. That is why it suggests to look at each country and then make decisions rather than making a general solution that might not necessarily work.
World Summit on Racism
Topic: Ethnic Discrimination in Africa
Bangladesh: Randi Rothbaum
Bangladesh strongly believes that the World Summit Against Racism would provide another opportunity to consider the measures that would be required to eliminate all forms of racism. It should provide the occasion for a strongly worded declaration and reflect a serious pledge by the international community to translate the goal of eliminating racial discrimination into reality. More importantly we believe that Africa is a prime example of a region in which racial issues still exist.
Even though apartheid in South Africa has been eliminated, there are still key issues and problems with racism in this country. Citizens are still discriminated against politically, and socially by the minorities, the white man in this instance. Also in Zimbabwe s citizens are also faced with racism in the fields of the farms as there is an internal conflict between the black and the white farmer. In Angola, ethnic discrimination by the Unita to the Ovimbundu has lead to the deaths of thousands as a result of jealously and envy.
In order to tackle the complex phenomenon of racism, the problem itself needed to be acknowledged and remedial measures had to be taken at all levels, local, national and international. Regrettably, within the United Nations system the issue of racism had not received the priority attention, which it deserved. The Program of Action of the Third Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination had been improperly implemented owing to insufficient resources; the request made by the General Assembly and the Commission on Human Rights to establish a focal point on racism in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights had yet to be fulfilled. Moreover, attempts to confuse racism with other aspects of discrimination had meant that attention had been diverted from racial discrimination itself. Therefore it is very important that we concentrate on these issues when examining the situation in Africa.
We hope that the conference will lead to more discussion on this topic. IT seems as though funding through mediation should also be an option at this time. Racism is not an issue that should be taken lightly. Bangladesh believes that racism is unacceptable and should not be tolerated under and circumstance. In our own country, we successfully combated this issue, and have shown success. Bangladesh also believes that NGO s should participate in this discussion and help evaluate and alleviate the problem.
Topic: Migrant Rights-The State of Immigrants in Europe
Bangladesh strongly believes that, in this World Summit Against Racism, we should examine the issues of racism faced by immigrants seeking asylum. In almost every country there is a significant immigrant population; hardly any nation now is racially or culturally homogeneous. There is or should be an automatic cross-fertilization of cultures. In some countries, this has happened, but that is rare. More often than not, immigrants are alienated from the mainstream, economically and socially disadvantaged. in reaction, they try to recapture and preserve the cultures of their motherland in an unwelcoming setting; they face a choice between imperfect assimilation or an assertive display of cultural distinctiveness, which casts its dark shadow in the return of racism and xenophobia to countries from which they had withdrawn for a while. Europe is an example of this issue, and one that we should place close attention too, as illegal immigration also threatens the futures of many.
In examining this problem in Europe, we believe that it is important that we concentrate on the issue of racism itself, rather then the problems of unemployment and trafficking of these immigrants. We believe that that is an issue of another branch of the UN. Rather we believe we should concentrate on the hardships of these immigrants feel in there new how. The racism that many of these new immigrants are persecuted because of their race or religion. However, we do not believe that there should be a distinct disadvantage for these citizens, such as tax cuts or extra benefits. Rather we believe that immersement programs should be instilled, and immigrants should be better situated in society. Also education programs should be examined, to make these immigrants be on par with the original inhabitants. But more importantly the idea should be the strive for equality; we hope to reach this goal through programs that make these refugees equal to those in their country of residence.
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Twin Doctor TV's The Globe On Call explores the former Soviet Republic of Latvia, a country that has become a destination of last resort for many in the world suffering from Alcoholism. In Latvia, unique cutting edge treatment approaches not available in many parts of the world and used, often along with long-standing traditional approaches to help alcoholism suffers overcome their dreaded addictions. Join Dr. J and Dr. I on this inspiring journey.


While in Morocco, Dan and I had the unique opportunity to spend the day with a friend of one of Dan's friends. Mhammad Benaboud is a native of Tetouan, a town about an hour's drive from Tangier. He has spent most of his life having a love affair with his native town. And, he has been lucky that his financial circumstances have allowed him to recently pursue one of his great passions, the restoration of various historic homes in the ancient Medina of Tetouan.
He has bought, and is now restoring, about six homes. We tagged along with him on a tour of the homes. It was akin to taking a college course, right on site. The restorations are meticulous. Mhammad is adamant that all work is done using the same materials as the original. The result is a step back in time, a look at how these homes looked hundreds of years ago, when they were first occupied.
The homes we toured were in various stages of restoration. We stepped over a lot of debris and inhaled a lot of plaster dust. While doing so, Mhammad never stopped talking. Ancient Tetouan came to life, as vividly as the stunning Moroccan tiles that lavishly covered floors, walls and fountains of all the homes.
Readers have already read about my experiences with genealogy and, specifically, locating mezuzah tracings in Pinsk, the shtetl in which my father was born. Thoughts of this were not in my mind when we toured one of the homes, almost completed, in the old Jewish quarter of Tetouan Medina. But there, right in front of me, was a mezuzah tracing, on one of the doorways. Then a second tracing, on another doorway. Mhammad had chosen not to fill them in when the renovation was being done. It stopped me in my tracks, again bringing up many of the same feelings I had when I saw the mezuzah tracings in the photos of the building in Pinsk. Here were people who lived and loved and raised families and worshipped, for five hundred years. Then they left, taking their mezuzahs with them, in order to install in their new homes. Almost all of those homes were to be in the newly created state of Israel, about 2500 miles away.
In the last property, a workman was chiseling away at the walls, releasing all of the built up layers of paint and plaster that had accumulated over 500 years. Pieces were everywhere. I looked down at the piles all around me. I stooped down and picked up a piece. I could see the countless layers of paint exposed. It was beautiful and evocative.
After awhile, as we exited the home, Mhammad pulled me aside and told me that he had instructed the worker not to tamper with one area of layers of exposed paint that were in the doorway leading from the main front room. They would remain, so that those who followed us would be able to experience what I had. I thanked him. I don't know if Mhammad will sell the home or keep it and turn it into a restaurant or a bed and breakfast. But I do know that whoever inhabits the space will be able to appreciate what I did, ordinary human lives navigating the centuries.
I am grateful to Mhammad, for understanding. And I will never look at paint the same way again.
lovely lovely. Thank you Renee.
I feel the same way when I see old uninhabited farms in our area. Porches crumbling, roofs caving in, but a long time ago they were teaming with family activity. Kids in the yard and wash on the line. I always feel sad with homes are abandoned. I love what he is doing. Making them useful and happy again.
Yes, I feel the same way about abandoned houses, no matter where they are.
How fortunate you are to have had this experience and how sensitive you are to hear the voices of the past through the debris.
Thanks, Philly. Yes, the gratitude never ends. And the voices always come through loud and clear. I may not understand the language, but I understand the words.
Little pieces of the past in Dan's pocket. What a meaningful keepsake for you to take home with you.
Ah, thank you for these words.
What a lovely post. It made me even more excited about our upcoming trip to Morocco next March.
Hurray! Where in Morocco will you be going?
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Who put the cones out? Ledger Live dissects the GWB lane closure flap
Updated: Mar. 29, 2019, 11:04 p.m. | Published: Dec. 13, 2013, 2:18 p.m.
By Brian Donohue | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
Bridge-gate: The George Washington Bridge lane closure controversy Ledger Live for December 13, 2013 - Ledger Live with Brian Donohue - On today's episode Donohue dissects the controversy sparked when a close ally of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and top appointee at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey ordered bridge operators to close two lanes of the local entrance ramp to the George Washington Bridge. The closures caused traffic bedlam, the resignation of the official, David Wildstein and a pair of investigations into whether the closures were designed to punish town officials in Fort Lee. (Video by Brian Donohue/The Star-Ledger)
The plot continues to thicken in the controversy over the traffic-snarling secret closure of George Washington Bridge local entrance lanes in September.
The explanation that the lane closures were done as part of a traffic study conducted by Port Authority appointee David Wildstein, a close ally of Gov. Chris Christie, have been exposed as just too bizarre to believe by a probe by the state Assembly transportation committee.
And so, an explanation that once seemed utterly ridiculous - that the lanes were closed to create traffic havoc in the town of Fort Lee as some sort of political retribution against the town's Democratic mayor - has actually emerged as the only logical explanation.
There's plenty of hypocrisy to go around. Democrats, a party who for years have loaded the Port Authority with patronage appointees, are suddenly aghast at the specter of possible political meddling at the agency. And Gov. Chris Christie, so quick to verbally bludgeon teachers union officials, school superintendents and anyone else running afoul of his good government standards is sloughing off a boondoggle officials say actually created a threat to public safety.
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The Washington Capitals traded forward Chandler Stephenson to the Vegas Golden Knights for a 2021 fifth-round pick.
WASHINGTON — The Washington Capitals traded forward Chandler Stephenson to the Vegas Golden Knights for a 2021 fifth-round pick.
Washington needed to shed salary and chose Travis Boyd over Stephenson, who they dealt rather than risk losing him on waivers. The teams announced the move Monday night after Vegas played at the New York Rangers.
Stephenson, 25, helped the Capitals win the Stanley Cup in 2018 and is now in his third full NHL season. An excellent player on the defensive end and on the penalty kill, Stephenson has three goals and an assist in 24 games this season.
Vegas president of hockey operations George McPhee was Washington's general manger when it drafted Stephenson in the third round in 2012. He gives the Golden Knights some additional depth as they attempt to make the playoffs for the third time in three seasons of existence.
Winger Carl Hagelin's return from long-term injury prompted the salary cap-strapped Capitals to make a move. Team brass felt Boyd earned the opportunity to stick around in the NHL based on his play since being called up from the minors.
Boyd, 26, has a goal and six assists in 13 games with the Capitals this season.
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The additions of Hagelin, free agent signings Brendan Leipsic, Garnet Hathaway and Richard Panik made Washington feel good enough about its penalty-kill personnel to trade Stephenson, a longtime favourite of coach Todd Reirden for his fundamentally sound play.
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Home /Opinion | Imran Khan: The World Can't Ignore Kashmir. We Are All in Danger.
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Opinion | Imran Khan: The World Can't Ignore Kashmir. We Are All in Danger.
Mr. Modi's guru wrote admiringly in regards to the Final Solution in "We, Our Nationhood Defined," his 1939 guide: "To keep up the purity of the race and its culture, Germany shocked the world by her purging the country of the Semitic Races — the Jews. National pride at its highest has been manifested here. Germany has also shown how well-nigh impossible it is for races and cultures, having differences going to the root, to be assimilated into one united whole, a good lesson for us in Hindustan for us to learn and profit by."
I had hoped that being elected prime minister may lead Mr. Modi to forged apart his outdated methods because the chief minister of the Indian state of Gujarat, when he gained international notoriety for the 2002 pogrom towards native Muslims on his watch and was denied a visa to journey to the United States underneath its International Religious Freedom Act — a listing of visa denials that included associates of Slobodan Milosevic.
Mr. Modi's first time period as prime minister had been marked by lynching of Muslims, Christians and Dalits by extremist Hindu mobs. In Indian-occupied Kashmir, now we have witnessed elevated state violence towards defiant Kashmiris. Pellet-firing shotguns have been launched and aimed on the eyes of younger Kashmiri protesters, blinding a whole lot.
On Aug. 5, in its most brazen and egregious transfer, Mr. Modi's authorities altered the standing of Indian-occupied Kashmir by means of the revocation of Article 370 and 35A of the Indian Constitution. The transfer is illegitimate underneath the Constitution of India, however extra necessary, it's a violation of the United Nations Security Council resolutions on Kashmir and the Shimla Agreement between India and Pakistan.
And Mr. Modi's "New India" selected to do that by imposing a army curfew in Kashmir, imprisoning its inhabitants in their properties and slicing off their telephone, web and tv connections, rendering them with out information of the world or their family members. The siege was adopted by a purge: Thousands of Kashmiris have been arrested and thrown into prisons throughout India. A blood bathtub is feared in Kashmir when the curfew is lifted. Already, Kashmiris popping out in defiance of the curfew are being shot and killed.
If the world does nothing to cease the Indian assault on Kashmir and its folks, there will probably be penalties for the entire world as two nuclear-armed states get ever nearer to a direct army confrontation. India's protection minister has issued a not-so-veiled nuclear menace to Pakistan by saying that the way forward for India's "no first use" coverage on nuclear weapons will "depend on circumstances." Similar statements have been made by Indian leaders periodically. Pakistan has lengthy considered India's "no first use" claims with skepticism.
With the nuclear shadow hovering over South Asia, we understand that Pakistan and India have to maneuver out of a zero-sum mind-set to start dialogue on Kashmir, varied strategic issues and commerce. On Kashmir, the dialogue should embody all stakeholders, particularly the Kashmiris. We have already ready a number of choices that might be labored on whereas honoring the precise to self-determination the Kashmiris have been promised by the Security Council resolutions and India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.
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