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To Benjamin Franklin from John Barry, 10 March 1781
From John Barry
ALS: American Philosophical Society
Isle of Groix off L'Orient March 10th. 1781.
I have the Honor to inform your Excellency of my safe arrival in this place, with Colonel Laurens who doth me the favour to be the bearer of this, and who can give you a particular Account of our Affairs in America,— with respect to the Alliance which I have the Honor to Command.— My Particular Orders is to wait here four or five weeks should there be any public Stores offered in that time, I am to take on board as much as Convenient and proceed with them to Philad. and to Convoy any Public Ship or Ships that may have Public Stores on board.— Should there be no Ships for me to Convoy and the Stores that I have on board, (if any) be of little Value, in that Case I am to proceed on a Cruize.— In all those Cases it is requisite for me to Clean and fit my Ship immediately for Sea therefore should be glad to Know who I am to Apply too here for what I shall want, as in all probability Mr. Palphray who was appointed Consul, and who I was Addressed to for Supplies, is either lost or taken.—
Be Assured Sir, the Ship Alliance is a fine Ship and the Honble. Continental Congress expects great things from her, but in some measure they are prevented from it by being obliged to Clean her bottom so often and I can assure your Excellency that it will Cost in this Place one third as much to Clean her as it will to Copper her and every time she is Cleaned in America it will Cost full as much besides the hauling Ships along side of Wharfs, the pilfering & Stealing out of them Amount to double the sum.—
I should be glad if your Excellency would weigh this matter seriously and if a Copper bottom can be obtained, it will be rendering the Continent a vast service7 and will much Oblige Your humble servant.
His Excellency Doctor Franklin
Addressed: His Excellency Benja. Franklin Esqr. / Minister plenipotentiary at the Court / of Versailles / Paris
Endorsed: Capt Barry Alliance
Notation: Capt. Barry Mar. 10. 81
7. BF had previously rejected appeals by both Landais and Jones to sheath the hull of the Alliance with copper: XXVIII, 620–1, 634; XXIX, 41; XXXI, 482, 499.
"To Benjamin Franklin from John Barry, 10 March 1781," Founders Online, National Archives, accessed April 11, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-34-02-0338. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 34, November 16, 1780, through April 30, 1781, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998, pp. 437–438.]
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Liu Kuo-sung: A Modern Master Who Found the Future in the Past
By Stephanie Bailey | Singapore, 25 January 2023
Exhibition view: Liu Kuo-sung: Experimentation as Method, National Gallery Singapore (13 January–26 November 2023). Courtesy National Gallery Singapore. Photo: Joseph Nair, Memphis West Pictures.
There have been a few moments in Liu Kuo-sung's life when his artistic direction took a decisive turn. Among them was his arrival at the fine arts department at National Taiwan Normal University, following his studentship at the Nanjing National Revolutionary Army Orphan School, which relocated to Taiwan in 1949.
Studying Chinese painting under Pu Hsin-Yu and Huang Junbi and Western painting under Liao Chi-Chun, who encouraged Liu's artistic tenacity, and Chu Teh-Chun, who was renowned for merging Eastern and Western techniques, Liu soon established himself as a rebel with a cause.
Liu Kuo-sung, Self-Portrait (1956). Ink and colour on paper. Exhibition view: Liu Kuo-sung: Experimentation as Method, National Gallery Singapore (13 January–26 November 2023). Courtesy National Gallery Singapore. Photo: Joseph Nair, Memphis West Pictures.
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In his second year, he abandoned Chinese painting, believing Western painting—and Abstract Expressionism, in particular—to be more representative of life than the rote forms of repetition he encountered in his ink-and-brush training.
In 1956, the year he graduated, Liu co-founded the Fifth Moon Group to create a space for modernism that was untethered to the traditionalist demands of state-sponsored nationalism in Taiwan, and engaged with artistic developments in the Western world.
As Liu began exploring the synergies between East and West, concluding that artists strove for freedom no matter where they came from, he realised that he need only look to Chinese art history to seek out the radicalism he admired in the Western avantgarde.
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He learned that some of Abstract Expressionism's leading figures—Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Antoni Tapies, and Cy Twombly—had been deeply influenced by the calligraphic lines of ink art, with Mark Tobey in particular studying Chinese calligraphy in the 1930s.
Liu Kuo-sung, Dance of the Black Ink (1963). Ink on paper. 47 x 85 cm. Gift of The Liu Kuo-sung Foundation. Collection of National Gallery Singapore.
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With that in mind, Liu Kuo-sung: Experimentation as Method at the National Gallery Singapore (13 January–26 November 2023), opens with a work that marked a seismic shift in Liu's artistic path.
Dance of the Black Ink, created in 1963, represents a rediscovery of ink's capacity for expression. A thick, black brushstroke ripples from the left side of the paper like a filament, until a staccato pause is marked by a short gap where the brush was lifted.
Liu Kuo-sung. Mountain Fire (1979). Ink and colour on paper. 28.5 x 84.1 cm. Gift of The Liu Kuo-sung Foundation. Collection of National Gallery Singapore.
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Invoking the feibai (flying white) technique that speaks to the negative spaces created by intentional yet spontaneous strokes, the line soon picks up with a snaking curl that transitions into a series of jagged oscillations moving towards the top-right corner.
The painting's title speaks to Liu's engagement with kuangcao, which literally translates to 'mad grass', referring to an expressive cursive script in Chinese calligraphy that matured in the Tang dynasty.
Liu Kuo-sung, Green Mist (1971). Mixed media on paper. 90 cm x 59 cm. Gift of the Liu Kuo-sung Foundation. Collection of National Gallery Singapore.
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By the time Liu made this work, he had come face-to-face with ancient Chinese ink painting for the first time. In 1961, he was struck by Northern Song dynasty painter Fan Kuan's monumental landscape, Travelers Amid Mountains and Streams, which he saw in the National Palace Museum's collection in Taipei.
There, he later encountered a publication depicting Southern Song dynasty painter Liang Kai's Immortal in Splashed Ink, which the artist apparently painted while drunk, using broad, free-form strokes with minimal definition.
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From these encounters, Liu understood the interplay between East and West, and indeed the concepts of abstraction, figuration, and minimalism, was more than a one-sided narrative.
By his estimation, Chinese painting had preceded Expressionism—whether in Europe or the United States—by centuries. Yet, in the 20th century, he observed, it was the Abstract Expressionists who pushed the legacy of ink into the future. So Liu reversed focus and turned to history to inform his desire to modernise his craft.
Liu Kuo-sung, The Composition of Distance no.15 (1971). Ink and colour on paper. 111.5 x 57.5 cm. Gift of The Liu Kuo-sung Foundation. Collection of National Gallery Singapore.
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What followed was Liu's iconic space paintings, which perfectly balanced the two artistic poles between which he had trained: a response to the 1968 Apollo 8 mission that yielded Earthrise, an iconic colour photograph of the world viewed beyond the surface of the moon.
Moved by the magnitude of this planetary vision, Liu created Which is Earth? (1969). The mixed-media scroll depicts a large, solitary circle containing a tempest of broad ink strokes, which hovers over the moon's curved landscape rendered with equally exuberant marks below.
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Now part of the Phoenix Art Museum collection, Which is Earth? is the first in Liu's Space paintings, which connect the tenets of shan shui painting (literally: 'mountain water')—and its abstraction of an earthly totality through the depiction of natural landscapes—with the 20th-century's planetary awakening.
At National Gallery Singapore, Which is Earth? No. 2 (1969) is presented alongside a January 1969 LIFE magazine cover showing a colour image of earth alongside a double-page spread of the Earthrise photograph.
Liu Kuo-sung, Moon Walk (1969). Ink and acrylic with collage on paper. 59 x 85 cm. Private collection.
Completing this historic presentation is Moon Walk, which Liu created in 1969 to commemorate Buzz Aldrin's iconic leap for mankind. Liu pasted the image of the Apollo 11 astronaut's moon walk onto a painting whose black marks and white contours build a landscape that perfectly matches its source image, as a large purple orb holds court over a gradated violet sky.
It is perhaps Liu's appreciation of change that best describes his unceasing journey into ink painting's future.
Considering the striking contrasts between colours, textures, and shapes that tapped into the currents of Pop art and hard-edge abstraction at the time, Liu's cosmic ink works, which often employ collage to create sharper delineations between circle and gradated ground, were revelatory.
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The diamond-shaped ink-on-paper Green Moon (1972), for instance, features a forest green sky from which a chrysoprase crescent hangs like a cradle over a curved lime plane; while Red Sun (2015) shows a solid ruby circle at the centre of a turquoise ground that undulates with subtle grey ink swirls.
Throughout the decades, Liu's space paintings grew into multi-panel compositions with phases of the moon, sun, or earth, rendered as cycles. BRICS (2017), for instance, shows five gold suns forming a cyclical curve over a golden, umber sky that meets the rounded edge of a land mass rendered in characteristic textures of black and white.
Liu Kuo-sung, Coming (2014). Ink and colour on paper. 84.5 x 398 cm. Gift of The Liu Kuo-sung Foundation. Collection of National Gallery Singapore.
These paintings combine several techniques that Liu pioneered in the 1960s—among them, the invention of his coarse paper in 1963, typified by a fibre-rich top layer. Liu paints this paper with black ink before pulling at its seams to create negative white 'strokes', resulting in compositions that are infused with the sculptural volume of a natural terrain.
Other techniques can be seen in works like Revolving Moon (2015), where seven pastel blue moons curve in a line across a sky that moves from dark to light cerulean, before meeting a liquid-like ground that fades into a blurred horizon, creating the impression of an aerial view.
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That fluid effect has its own showcase in Experimentation as Method, in a section focusing on paintings that emulate bodies of water, notably the jewel-toned lakes of the UNESCO heritage site, Jiuzhaigou National Park. Liu visited this network of valleys in Sichuan province that form part of the Min Mountains range, linking the Tibetan Plateau and Sichuan Basin, in the early 2000s, and resolved to find a way to articulate its ineffable grandeur.
In the Midst of a Beautiful Spring (2008) is a large, landscape-format work on paper whose emerald, sapphire, and garnet tones mingle in intricate ripples, their edges forming rich internal bleeds that convalesce around cleanly delineated negative spaces that open out to a downward fade.
Liu Kuo-sung, In the Midst of a Beautiful Spring (2008). Ink and colour on paper. 92 x 232.5 cm. Gift of The Liu Kuo-sung Foundation. Collection of National Gallery Singapore.
The painting was created with a technique that drew from Liu's time as a teaching assistant in the architecture department at Tainan Cheng Kung University—an appointment he received in 1959 after being rejected by, according to his account, all the art departments in Taiwan due to his antagonistic stance towards the teaching of Chinese painting.
Struck by the department's debates surrounding the use of reinforced cement to imitate dougong—an interlocking way of building without screws, glue, or nails—and the idea that one must stay true to the essence of materials, Liu questioned his use of oil paint to achieve the fluidity of ink wash.
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Beyond inventing his own paper, which built on early oil experiments involving canvases primed with plaster to create texture and volume, Liu began experimenting with architectural tracing paper, which he utilised to create his Jiuzhaigou works. What emerged was a form of mono-printing, where ink and watercolour are applied to a moist sheet before brushing another sheet on top, or painting a top sheet that bleeds into a sheet below.
Liu's printing yields unique patterns, with air pockets and presses creating soft bubbles and swirls. In Cold Night in Shanghai (2010), wisps of grey-scale ink circulate over a flat, swimming-pool blue.
Liu Kuo-sung, The Meaning Ineffable (1984). Ink and colour on paper. 105 x 71.2 cm. Collection of The Liu Kuo-sung Foundation.
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Earlier experiments with water rubbing produced other impressions of fluidity. By pressing paper into ink compositions created in water, Liu produced breathtaking abstractions that tap into the naturally expressive spontaneity of liquid.
Liu developed this form of marbling after arriving in Hong Kong, where he was appointed Chairman of the Fine Arts Department at the Chinese University in 1972. He became a leading figure in Hong Kong's New Ink Painting movement, introducing the first-ever curriculum for modern ink painting, which explored Eastern and Western techniques, art histories, and critical theories.
Liu understood the interplay between East and West, and indeed the concepts of abstraction, figuration, and minimalism, as more than a one-sided narrative.
In Hong Kong, Liu taught his students to 'be different first, develop [their] own style and ... perfect it later. Then the world is very open.'1 While that openness defines Liu's innovative spirit, it likewise anchors his practice to the heart of shan shui painting: to express the world's profound natural beauty through the depiction of its landscapes as all-encompassing physical and emotional experiences.
That essence is most palpable in the final section of Liu's exhibition in Singapore, titled 'Lying Down on Water, Mountains Rising and Falling', which features large-scale paintings created following a visit to Mount Everest in 2000, at the age of 68.
Moved by the views he encountered, Liu did not notice the two-and-a-half hours spent at high altitude. The experience cost him the hearing in his left ear; the acceptance of which seems to feed into sweeping landscapes awash with white mists that recall the rapid fluctuations between light and dark he witnessed at the top of the world.
Liu Kuo-sung, Snowscapes Reaching Beyond the Clouds (2020). Ink and colour on paper. 187.5 x 385.5 cm. Collection of The Liu Kuo-sung Foundation.
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'I really experienced what the realm of forgetfulness was like,' Liu recalled during a talk at National Gallery Singapore in 2018.2 'The clouds kept moving, the mountain kept changing, and it was so beautiful.'
Now a lucid and upright nonagenarian who speaks emphatically about a practice that has never stopped evolving—many works in Experimentation as Method were painted as recently as 2020—it is perhaps Liu's appreciation of change that best describes his unceasing journey into ink painting's future.
Liu Kuo-sung standing in his exhibition, Liu Kuo-sung: Experimentation as Method at National Gallery Singapore (13 January–26 November 2023). Courtesy National Gallery Singapore. Photo: Joseph Nair, Memphis West Pictures.
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That journey recalls artist aaajiao's assertion that contemporary China lacks a prevailing theory of modernity, resulting in a fetishisation of Sinofuturism. The term refers to the enmeshment of technology and culture in 21st-century China, which artist and writer Gary Zhexi Zhang describes as an idea that 'orbits around a Euro-American planet'.3
'What is at stake in Sinofuturism—as a dream, a nightmare or an impending reality—is not only the decentring of Euro-American cultural hegemony, but also the narrative of futurity as a historical (modern) aesthetic,' Zhang writes. It is a narrative that Liu Kuo-sung reclaimed decades ago. —[O]
1 Andrew Dembina, 'Ink Artist Liu Kuo Sung fuses East and West', Prestige, 18 May 2017.
2 Liu Kuo-sung and Cai Heng, 'New Moons, Liu Kuo-Sung', Youtube, National Gallery Singapore, 8 September 2018.
3 Gary Zhexi Zhang, 'Where Next? Imagining the Dawn of the "Chinese century"', Frieze, 22 April 2017.
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Community relations, conflict resolution and prevention. An exploration with special reference to the Muslim community in Bradford.
Hendrick, Diane Theresa (2010-07-13)
A major threat in present political climate is identity group conflict as shown in such disparate cases as former Yugoslavia, Rwanda , Northern Ireland and the rise in racism and xenophobia in Europe. Conflict Resolution theory has addressed itself to intervention in existing conflict situations either by third parties or the conflicting parties themselves but conflict prevention has been a relatively neglected area. This thesis takes a case study of relations between the Muslim and white majority communities in Bradford where underlying tensions occasionally erupt into conflicts which have national ramifications and sometimes international dimensions. Within this situation there is scope for conflict resolution work but also conflict prevention work. Reference is made to Northern Ireland where identity group conflict has been longstanding and where community relations approaches have ben tried and tested over a period of fifteen to twenty yeas. The community relations work already being undertaken in Bradford is explored along with where and how this needs to be strengthened. An action research project was undertaken to bring together young members of the Muslims and white majority communities in an attempt to assess the usefulness of workshop based approaches in improving inter-group relations and transmitting skills of conflict handling to the participants.


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I'm trying to come up with an equation to maximize profits given the parameters below. Like every maximum problem I'm certain I need to find the derivative and find the maximum.
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Segons el cens del 2000, Edgemoor tenia 5.992 habitants, 2.507 habitatges, i 1.566 famílies. La densitat de població era de 1.271,2 habitants/km².

Dels 2.507 habitatges en un 32,7% hi vivien nens de menys de 18 anys, en un 38,1% hi vivien parelles casades, en un 19,5% dones solteres, i en un 37,5% no eren unitats familiars. En el 31,8% dels habitatges hi vivien persones soles el 9,2% de les quals corresponia a persones de 65 anys o més que vivien soles. El nombre mitjà de persones vivint en cada habitatge era de 2,38 i el nombre mitjà de persones que vivien en cada família era de 3,02.

Per edats la població es repartia de la següent manera: un 28,2% tenia menys de 18 anys, un 6,9% entre 18 i 24, un 32,5% entre 25 i 44, un 21,5% de 45 a 60 i un 10,9% 65 anys o més.

L'edat mediana era de 35 anys. Per cada 100 dones de 18 o més anys hi havia 79,3 homes.

La renda mediana per habitatge era de 39.931 $ i la renda mediana per família de 45.903 $. Els homes tenien una renda mediana de 36.957 $ mentre que les dones 29.675 $. La renda per capita de la població era de 22.081 $. Aproximadament el 13,4% de les famílies i el 15% de la població estaven per davall del llindar de pobresa.

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Hepatopulmonary Syndrome (HPS) is a rare abnormality of the lung which is caused by liver disease. Although not all patients with liver disease get this lung abnormality, patients who do have it can become short of breath and have low oxygen levels.
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Hepatopulmonary syndrome is a pulmonary complication of liver disease which affects 5-32% of cirrhotics1. It is defined by a triad of features:
Liver dysfunction or portal hypertension
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The pathophysiology of HPS remains unclear and it is unknown why some patients with liver disease develop IPVDs while others do not. Hypoxemia in HPS is primarily due to diffusion limitation and ventilation-perfusion mismatch caused by the presence of IPVDs1.
Dyspnea at rest or upon exertion is the predominant symptom of HPS. This usually develops after years of liver disease, but can also be seen as the presenting complaint in patients with previously undiagnosed liver disease2. A more specific finding is that of platypnea-orthodeoxia – breathlessness and worsening hypoxemia experienced in the upright position that is improved in the supine position5. Patients may also exhibit cyanosis and/or digital clubbing.
Liver transplantation (LT) is the only known effective therapy for HPS, with significant improvement in oxygenation observed in the majority of survivors within one year of transplantation3. Long-term ambulatory oxygen therapy is the mainstay of supportive therapy for HPS, and there may also be a role for pre-and post-operative pulmonary rehabilitation.
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Video Transcript: In a healthy person, red blood cells pass through the small blood vessels in the lungs, picking up oxygen from the air inside the lungs. This oxygen is then able to travel to supply the rest of the body. In hepatopulmonary syndrome the small blood vessels in the lungs become dilated or wider and the oxygen is no longer able to reach all the red blood cells within the vessel. This means that less oxygen is absorbed from the lungs.
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HPS is not limited to patients with severe liver dysfunction; in fact, many patients with moderate to severe HPS have comparatively well preserved hepatic function¹. While the majority of patients initially present with features of their liver disease, a minority will present with pulmonary complaints, as noted above.
As such, any patient presenting with features of liver disease or portal hypertension who complains of progressive dyspnea (reported in 95% of HPS patients) with abnormal pulse oximetry (SaO2 ≤ 97% ) should be referred for further pulmonary evaluation6.
A more specific complaint is that of platypnea – breathlessness experienced in the upright position which is improved in the supine position. This in turn correlates to the objective finding of orthodeoxia, a drop of ≥ 4mmHg in PaO2 or ≥ 5% in saturation when moving from the supine to the standing position, occurring in as many as 88% of HPS patients5.
Other clinical manifestations of HPS include:
Cyanosis (positive predictive value of 100%)2
Digital clubbing (positive predictive value of 78%)
Spider angiomata (positive predictive value of 21%)
It is important to note that chest x-ray and thoracic CT scanning are often unremarkable in HPS; a lack of radiographic abnormalities is not sufficient evidence to rule out HPS.
After pulmonary evaluation, any patient with a PaO2 < 80 mmHg and/or alveolar-arterial oxygen gradient (AaDO2) > 15 mmHg that cannot be fully explained by other diagnoses should be referred for a diagnostic workup for possible HPS4.
Rodriguez-Roisin R, Krowka MJ: Hepatopulmonary syndrome–a liver-induced lung vascular disorder. New England Journal of Medicine 2008;358(22):2378-2387.
Fallon MB, Abrams GA: Pulmonary dysfunction in chronic liver disease. Hepatology 2000;32(4 Pt 1):859-865.
Iyer VN, Swanson KL, Cartin-Ceba R, Dierkhising RA, Rosen CB, Heimbach JK, et al. Hepatopulmonary syndrome: favorable outcomes in the MELD exception era. Hepatology 2013;57(6):2427-35.
Rodriguez-Roisin R, Krowka MJ, Herve P, Fallon MB, ERS Task Force Pulmonary-Hepatic Vascular Disorders (PHD) Scientific Committee. Pulmonary-Hepatic vascular Disorders (PHD). [Review] [281 refs]. European Respiratory Journal 2004;24(5):861-880.
Krowka MJ, Dickson ER, Cortese DA: Hepatopulmonary syndrome. Clinical observations and lack of therapeutic response to somatostatin analogue. Chest 1993;104(2):515-521.
Abrams GA, Sanders MK, Fallon MB: Utility of pulse oximetry in the detection of arterial hypoxemia in liver transplant candidates. Liver Transplantation 2002;8(4):391-396.
Krowka, M. J., Fallon, M. B., Kawut, S. M., Fuhrmann, V., Heimbach, J. K., Ramsay, M. A., … & Sokol, R. J. (2016). International Liver Transplant Society practice guidelines: diagnosis and management of hepatopulmonary syndrome and portopulmonary hypertension. Transplantation, 100(7), 1440-1452.
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Royal London analysis shows potentially unsustainable Income Withdrawal rates Royal London analysis shows potentially unsustainable Income Withdrawal rates
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Corporate PR Specialist – Long Term Savings
Latest data analysing the behaviour of income drawdown customers using Royal London's Drawdown Governance Service shows that the average income withdrawal for all customers is 6.2% of the fund value, net of fees.
A heat map developed by Royal London to assess the sustainability of different withdrawal rates over different terms, shows that over a 15 year term a 6% withdrawal rate is highly sustainable. However as the term increases, a 6% withdrawal rate does quickly become unsustainable.
Over two thirds, (67%) of Royal London's income drawdown customers, are aged between 60 and 69 years of age and the average fund value at the time of the analysis was £94,800. If these customers were to continue to withdraw income at over 6% per annum, 15 years later at age 75 to 84 they could find that their fund is not sufficient to meet their future income needs. They will potentially have to rely on any other savings they have available to fund future income needs such as long term care costs. This is why retirement planning advice is so important and not a 'one size fits all' process.
The table shows a breakdown of Royal London customer data as at 31 December 2016:
Age Customer Spread Average Fund Average Income %
55-59 17.2% £95,000 6.6%
75+ 1.4% £77,200 8.1%
The analysis also showed that the vast majority of customers (75%) initially took their tax free cash and then started taking a regular income some years later. However, there is a small but increasing number of drawdown customers who are starting to take an income from the outset. At the start of 2016, when the Service was being piloted, 19% of customers were taking an income immediately, and by the end of 2016 this figure had risen to 25%.
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Identifying any emerging trends is important in the early days of pension freedoms as there remain concerns that people could potentially run out of money. The evidence suggests that, with the benefit of impartial financial advice, this is not likely to happen."
Lorna continued:
"The analysis also shows that the vast majority of customers are taking a fixed rate of income which means they are not making any allowance for inflation. This might be ok while we have low inflation rates but the latest data from the Bank of England* shows inflation is above the government's target rate and one of the risks that advisers may well need to discuss with their clients at their next review.
"The increase in the number of customers taking income from the outset is interesting and we'll monitor this to establish whether this is a new trend that is replicated across the industry."
Advisers looking for more details on the Royal London Drawdown Governance Service should speak to their normal Royal London contact or go to http://adviser.royallondon.com/drawdowngovernance.
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More details on Royal London's income drawdown plan are available from financial advisers or online at http://adviser.royallondon.com/incomerelease
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Categorising the sustainability scores into different bands can help clients to understand what good and bad levels of withdrawal look like. For example, Royal London believes a score of 85% or more is highly sustainable, because it means that 85% of the time the customer will achieve this level of income or more and then 15% of the time the customer may achieve less income.
Over all terms, a withdrawal rate of 4% is reasonably sustainable and over a 15 year term a 6% withdrawal rate is highly sustainable. As the term increases beyond 15 years a 6% withdrawal rate quickly becomes unsustainable. This is useful to show how term and income withdrawal rates impact sustainability and can be a good starting point for discussions.
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German "godparents" visiting Anura College – big surprise for Malki!
Although there are school holidays because of the Singhalese and Tamil New Year's celebrations, visitors from Germany arrived at school to meet their scholarship child, her mother and little brother.
Both sides seemed to be quite excited, but when meeting, there was relief and much happiness. Even two of the English teachers and the Venerable High Priest welcomed the guests.
They were accompanied by our board member Vindya and her husband Thomas who happened to come to Anura College as well. And a former student, Ridmi Hansana, sponsored by the German association's vice president, came to help and take some pictures. She was lucky enough to spend three months in Germany from last October till January, and is learning German at the Goethe-Institute in Colombo. She is looking forward to welcoming her "godmother" in Matara again in July and travelling back with her to Germany, where a traineeship is waiting for her that might be extended if everything works out well.
Malki had received some photographs of her sponsor family before, but now they are here for real. She welcomed the guests, according to tradition, by handing over some betel leaves and bowing to their feet, thus showing thankfulness and appreciation. Of course, there were some presents from Germany, and communication was supported by the two English teachers and Vindya and Ridmi who are quite good at speaking German.
Even the Venerable High Priest welcomed the guests, no matter whether their roots are German or Singhalese. The visitors were shown around the school premises, seeing the school buildings donated by the German Friendship Association. Of course, the atmosphere would have been even livelier if hundreds of school children had been around.
Anyway, it was a wonderful experience for the guests– and Malki felt more than happy to be one of the few scholarship students who can meet their German "godparents" in reality. This will certainly be a great motivation to make use of their support, to be ambitious and hard working and build up a good future. Good luck!
Freundeskreis Neuwied – Matara e.V.


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Fox News' Jesse Watters said female journalists trade sex for scoops
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Fox News' Jesse Watters sparked a wave of backlash after he claimed female journalists trade sex for scoops 'all the time'
Fox News' Jesse Watters said in a recent episode of "The Five" that female journalists sleep with sources for a scoop "all the time."
Backlash ensued on Twitter and among advocacy groups for women in media, who told Jeremy Barr of The Hollywood Reporter that Watters' comments are harmful and disrespectful.
Watters' comments come in response to the upcoming movie, "Richard Jewell," which depicts a female journalist trading sex for information.
The movie is based on a true story, but critics said the movie takes "dramatic license" with this portrayal.
Fox News' Jesse Watters elicited backlash after claiming that it's common for female journalists to trade sex for a scoop.
He made the comments on Wednesday's episode of the daily talk show "The Five" in response to the controversy surrounding the upcoming movie "Richard Jewell," which depicts a female journalist sleeping with a source to get information for a story, Jeremy Barr reported for The Hollywood Reporter.
Female journalists sleep with sources "all the time," Watters said, citing the romantic relationship New York Times' reporter Ali Watkins had with a top government staffer while reporting on national security.
"So, it happens a lot, and it happens a lot in movies and TV shows," Watters added.
When co-host Juan Williams took issue with the comment, Watters replied: "I don't say most women reporters. Male reporters could do it, too. I'm just saying it happens. I'm saying it's happened many times in the past."
It fueled a wave of backlash among advocacy groups for women in media, who expressed their disgust to Barr by deeming Watters' comments "misogynistic" and "an insult," calling Watters himself a "gaslighting gasbag."
"In reality, women journalists are more likely to be sexually harassed by their sources and face verbal abuse and threats online," Carolyn McGourty Supple, co-founder of group Press Forward, told Barr. "This is what drives female journalists around the world to leave the field when they are already underrepresented in the press."
Watters' comments also took Twitter by storm, where current and former female journalists shared their outrage. "This is a really disgusting, baseless charge, and one Fox should denounce for the sake of its own female reporters," tweeted conservative CNN anchor S.E. Cupp.
This is a really disgusting, baseless charge, and one Fox should denounce for the sake of its own female reporters. https://t.co/ICdIZHNKsY via @mediaite
— S.E. Cupp (@secupp) December 12, 2019
CNN veteran Carol Costello also shared her thoughts on the matter.
Fox News Host Jesse Watters: Female Reporters Sleep With Sources 'All the Time' – says guy who could not report his way out of the proverbial paper bag. https://t.co/gRsEzlyEHQ
— Carol Costello (@CarolC) December 12, 2019
As did those who don't work in the media industry.
Jesse Watters is a liar and he knows it. It does not "happen all the time" that female journalists sleep with sources for scoops. That bullshit belief has been perpetuated since the dawn of time to delegitimize the work of women. Jesse is a shitty person and he's shit at his job.
— Sergio Síano (@siano4progress) December 14, 2019
@JesseBWatters Yes, all female journalists sleep with sources because you know of one instance. What a razor sharp reporter you are, said no one ever.
— Beth Levine (@BethLevine75) December 13, 2019
"Richard Jewell," which is based on the true story of Kathy Scrugg's Centennial Olympic Park bombing investigation, has been slammed by critics for its portrayal of female journalists.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper, which employed Scruggs before her death in 2001, accused the film of taking "dramatic license," maintaining that there was no evidence of an affair between Scruggs and an FBI source, reported Brent Lang for Variety. They asked Warner Bros., the producers of the film, to include a disclaimer.
Warner Bros. called the newspapers' claims "baseless" and defended its portrayal. So, too, did Olivia Wilde, who played the female reporter in question. In a series of tweets, she said she understood it to be a pre-existing romantic relationship, not a transactional exchange of sex for information.
"Contrary to a swath of recent headlines, I do not believe that Kathy 'traded sex for tips,'" Wilde wrote "Nothing in my research suggested she did so, and it was never my intention to suggest she had. That would be an appalling and misogynistic dismissal of the difficult work she did."
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Staff from Nottingham's Park Plaza Hotel have come to the rescue at a Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust's largest nature reserve after vandals destroyed a number of Cricket Bat Willow trees planted to help generate income for the charity's conservation work.
In January last year vandals snapped a number of specially chosen willow trees at Idle Valley Nature Reserve near Retford which had been planted with a view to them being turned into cricket bats. The tree planting project in spring 2016 had been funded by Park Plaza Hotels & Resorts' through its "Save Tomorrow's Trees Today" Corporate Social Responsibility initiative.
When the company heard about the vandalism they immediately agreed to fund replacement trees but it was too late in the season to replant them. Now, thanks to the company's generosity and their staff's efforts, the trees have been replanted in a less accessible location.
Staff from the City Centre Hotel assisted the Trust's Northern Reserve Officer Graham Bowden with the replanting of the specially grown and selected trees the at Idle Valley Nature Reserve earlier this month and it is now hoped that they will grow into a valuable crop.
As a charity it is important for us to look for ways to generate income to invest in our work and we were delighted that Park Plaza saw the benefit of this exciting project. Whilst it's a shame that we've not been able to replant the trees sooner it's great that thanks to the company's support we're now back on track.
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Ms Angeliki GKEREKOU
PA.SO.K
GR - 10021 - Athens
a.gkerekou@parlament.gr
Working language: English
In the political groups
Member: Socialist Group from 27/01/2014 to 22/06/2014
In the Assembly
from 27/01/2014 to 22/06/2014	Substitute-Greece
In the committee(s) and sub-committee(s)
Full Member: Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 27/01/2014 to 22/06/2014)
Full Member: Sub-Committee on Gender Equality (from 29/01/2014 to 22/06/2014)
Full Member: Sub-Committee on Culture, Diversity and Heritage (from 29/01/2014 to 22/06/2014)
Alternate of Ms Olga-Nantia VALAVANI (Full Member): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 07/04/2014 to 22/06/2014)
Alternate of Ms Eirini DOUROU (Full Member): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 27/01/2014 to 06/04/2014)
Alternate of Ms Foteini PIPILI (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Media and Information Society (from 29/01/2014 to 22/06/2014)
Reports and committee opinions
Motions, Written Declarations, Questions
25/04/2014 | Doc. 13411 | Written declaration The imperative need to avoid the counter reform on Abortion in Spain which breaches women's human rights 05/02/2014 | Doc. 13424 | Motion for a resolution The need for a citizenship income 05/02/2014 | Doc. 13426 | Motion for a resolution Morocco: meeting new migration and asylum challenges 04/02/2014 | Doc. 13419 | Motion for a resolution Investigation of the incidents in Farmakonisi and Lampedusa 30/01/2014 | Doc. 13411 | Written declaration The imperative need to avoid the counter reform on Abortion in Spain which breaches women's human rights
Votes on adopted texts
30/01/2014 | Doc. 13368, vote on the draft text for resolution Stepping up action against global inequalities: Europe's contribution to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) process 30/01/2014 | Doc. 13362, vote on the draft text for resolution Climate change: a framework for a global agreement in 2015 30/01/2014 | Doc. 13366, vote on the draft text for resolution Energy diversification as a fundamental contribution to sustainable development


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Q: Rest controller test with @WebMvcTest, Could not instantiate JAXBContext for PagedResources I have some tests that were failing with Error creating bean with name 'entityManagerFactory' this answer solved it for me https://stackoverflow.com/a/47504698/6945345 but broke my Controller test with Could not instantiate JAXBContext for class [class org.springframework.hateoas.PagedResources]: Implementation of JAXB-API has not been found on module path or classpath. This is because I think @WebMvcTest does not pick up the JAXB-API. What should I do to resolve this the best way?
The controller test class that is given the exception:
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@WebMvcTest(BiodiversityController.class)
@Import(SpecieResourceAssembler.class)
public class BiodiversityControllerTest {

    @MockBean
    private SpecieService specieService;

    @Autowired
    private MockMvc mockMvc;

    @Autowired
    private SpecieResourceAssembler specieResourceAssembler;

    @Before
    public void setup() {
        mockMvc = MockMvcBuilders.standaloneSetup(new BiodiversityController(specieService, specieResourceAssembler))
            .setCustomArgumentResolvers(new PageableHandlerMethodArgumentResolver())
            .build();
    }

    @Test
    public void getAllSpecies_ShouldReturnSpecies() throws Exception {
        PageRequest pageRequest = PageRequest.of(0, 20);
        given(specieService.getAllSpecies(pageRequest)).willReturn(new PageImpl<>(
            Collections.singletonList(createAnimaliaOrestias()), pageRequest, 1));

        mockMvc.perform(MockMvcRequestBuilders.get("/species?page=0&size=20"))
            .andExpect(status().isOk())
            .andExpect(jsonPath("$.content", hasSize(1)))
            .andExpect(jsonPath("$.content.[0].name").value(NAME_ORESTIAS));

        verify(specieService).getAllSpecies(pageRequest);
    }
}

My pom dependencies with the jaxb-api
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    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-rest</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-hateoas</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.flywaydb</groupId>
        <artifactId>flyway-core</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
        <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-configuration-processor</artifactId>
        <optional>true</optional>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.postgresql</groupId>
        <artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax.xml.bind</groupId>
        <artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId>
        <version>2.3.0</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

A: If you use Java 9 or higher you need to add the following  VM options to start tests/application
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Out of Many, One?
by John Stoehr December 10, 2008
On Nov. 21, the city's Office of Cultural Affairs sent out an e-mail that promoted holiday programs staged by the Big Three: the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, the Charleston Ballet Theatre, and Charleston Stage.
Each is facing tens of thousands of dollars in fund-raising shortfalls. Charleston Stage needs $200,000 by season's end. The CSO is facing the worst financial forecast: an anticipated million-dollar deficit. If it cannot meet its payroll, officials have said the CSO may be forced into bankruptcy.
So the city's cultural agency stepped in, figuring it could help get the word out. The thinking was that better promotion might improve ticket sales, or what arts nonprofits call "earned income," and therefore help offset declines.
But good intentions sometimes yield unintended results.
Keely Enright, director of the Village Playhouse in Mt. Pleasant, replied to the e-mail, accusing the Office of Cultural Affairs of preferential treatment.
"What about the many other nonprofit arts organizations also trying to attract an audience for their holiday programming???" Enright wrote. "This is getting to be UNBELIEVABLE. It would seem more than ever, with times as difficult as they are for EVERYONE, that the city would be advocating for ALL its nonprofits EQUALLY."
Enright's reply led to an article in The Post and Courier reporting that small theater groups feel excluded from a larger effort to promote holiday programming. For some, ticket sales have dropped by as much as 30 percent. More significantly, small theater groups feel excluded from a grant request made on behalf of the Big Three for as much as $250,000.
"The truth is all the performing arts groups are in trouble, and we need to find creative ways that are inclusive, not exclusive," Sharon Graci, artistic director of PURE Theatre and president of the League of Charleston Theatres, told the P&C.
The grant request was made by George Stevens, president of the Coastal Community Foundation, which manages millions of dollars of assets for regional charities and philanthropists. Stevens requested the money from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, a nonprofit based in Chicago and the Lowcountry whose aims are land conservation and artistic vitality.
Part of the Donnelley grant, the P&C said in reports and editorials, would be used to pay for promotion of holiday programming on TV, radio, and the internet. But on Friday, talk of holiday programming appeared to come to an end.
That's when Donnelley essentially said no to the grant request, but promised to "continue the conversation" by forming an ad hoc committee to explore the next step in aiding Charleston's troubled arts organizations.
It's likely the holidays will be over by the time this ad hoc committee figures out the next step. Donnelly's board members are scattered across the country, and its board meetings are scheduled two years in advance.
But the result might bring a new focus to a development taking shape, one that in the end may eclipse worries about who's included and who's not.
That development is this: the possibility of the creation of an arts council.
Or an "arts alliance" or "arts coalition." It doesn't have a name yet. Right now, it's just an idea being floated by Stevens and Ellen Dressler Moryl, director of the city's Office of Cultural Affairs. Though it's only talk at this point, the idea is quickly gaining traction. This harsh financial climate demands new ideas, and fast.
An arts council, as envisioned by Stevens and Moryl, would handle the business side of the arts — such as marketing, development, and promotion — while leaving the art to the artists. It would reduce the cost of running fund-raising campaigns while improving quality and expanding ticket sales. Like the Coastal Community Foundation, it would be a trustworthy and politically neutral clearinghouse that connects potential donors with nonprofits in need of support.
"The same dollar that goes to fund-raising would work for more than one organization," Stevens tells City Paper. "There's no sense in separate offices doing the same work when an arts council can do one job for the benefit of many."
"You should never let a crisis go to waste," Stevens continues.
"Perhaps we'll finally get the endowment for the arts that we've always needed," Moryl told City Paper. "We never intended to leave anyone out."
The Donnelley grant, when and if it's approved, would likely become the seed money for an arts council. Since the P&C report about small theaters feeling excluded, Stevens and Moryl have been more conscious of appearing inclusive. On Monday, they spoke at the board meeting of the League of Charleston Theatres about the feasibility of an arts council and what the League's role might be.
It was a positive sign, says Emily Wilhoit, League director, and the first real step toward creating an inclusive administrative organization. But time will tell.
"I'm interested, but I'm more interested in doing it right," Wilhoit says. "We need a model of success and right now we don't have one."


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Technology giants join forces to battle tech support phone scams
Google, Facebook, Twitter and AOL have joined forces to stamp out fake tech support services where customers are fooled into calling bogus technical support lines, where they are encouraged, not to fix their comptuer, but to install malware - or give away details crucial for identity theft.
Rob Waugh	 18 May 2014 - 02:03PM
Google, Facebook, Twitter and AOL have joined forces to stamp out fake tech support services where customers are fooled into calling bogus technical support lines, where they are encouraged, not to fix their comptuer, but to install malware – or give away details crucial for identity theft.
PC Advisor reports that the new organization, TrustInAds, found more than 4,000 suspicious advertiser accounts linked to 2,400 "tech support" websites.
"Among the legitimate online ads offering valuable tech support services to consumers are some from bad actors attempting to prey on unsuspecting internet users," said Rob Haralson, Executive Director of TrustInAds.org.
"These bad actors, often highly sophisticated, go to great lengths to hide under the radar from the manual reviews and automated filtering technologies used to catch fraudulent ads." The move comes in the wake of a Senate report on malicious advertising, which advised that technology giants should take a more active role in preventing it, as reported by We Live Security here.
Although the numbers of such scams were small, compared to other internet threats, the impact was large, Harrison said. "These scam advertisers were often presenting themselves as official representatives of companies of the products for which the users were needing support, and having them download and install special software as the initial step to solving their issue. The downloaded program – unbeknownst to the user – contained malicious software with viruses, spyware, adware, keystroke loggers and other harmful applications."
ESET's David Harley reports on a wide variety of these damaging scams – and says that the criminals are using more sophisticated techniques, as in this 2014 scam reported here, where Harley says the scammers pretend to be Netflix, rather than Microsoft, and use a dual technique where the victim is encouraged to download Netflix "Support Software" and speak to a Microsoft Certified Techniciian.
"These miscreants are trying harder than ever," says Harley.
The new organization, TrustinAds, has a dedicated page with information on how to easily report tech support scams and other forms of malicious advertising to AOL, Facebook, Google and Twitter's platforms.
Trust in Ads aims to publish regular reports warning advertising networks and government representatives about new scams, in regular Bad Ads Trend Alerts, published freely online as PDF files. A Bad Trend Alert dealing with tech support scams can be found here. It provides a very basic guide to how such scams work and offers (good) advice such as: "Never give your password over the phone. No legitimate company will ever ask you to provide your password to your account over the phone. Be suspicious when asked to download software. At no point should you be required to download a piece of software from a third-party tech support provider in order to solve your issue."
ESET's Harley has written extensively about such scams for We Live Security – his accounts of the various techniques used offer a deeper understanding of tech support scammers and their work.
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Le Parti al-Badil al-Hadari (en français : Parti de l'alternative civilisationnelle) est un ancien parti politique marocain d'idéologie islamiste créé en 2002. Le parti aurait été dissous le  à la suite de l'affaire Belliraj, sans qu'il en existe une trace officielle.

Histoire

Création

Fondé en 2002 par Mustapha Moatassim, le parti n'a pu obtenir le récépissé du dépôt qu'en 2005. Ceci a empêché le parti de participer aux élections législatives de 2002. Lors des législatives de 2007, le parti a obtenu  (0,3 %) et aucun siège. Il n'a obtenu plus de 1 % des voix que dans 7 des 31 circonscriptions où il se présentait.

Dissolution du parti
À la suite d'arrestations des cadres dirigeants du parti supposés impliqués dans l'affaire Belliraj, le premier ministre de l'époque, Abbas El Fassi, a annoncé le mercredi , la dissolution du parti.

Un câble diplomatique américaine du  publié sur WikiLeaks précise toutefois que  (la plupart des politiciens arrêtés étaient généralement vus comme des modérés, qui avaient des contacts avec l'ambassade) et un peu plus loin que  (quand nous les avons rencontrés au printemps 2007, le ton de leur discours était modéré, sans aucun indice d'extrémisme, et ils avaient la réputation d'être gauchistes-islamistes) et que  (l'AMDH, une ONG d'extrême gauche de défense des droits de l'homme, qui a traditionnellement des relations fraîches avec les partis politiques islamistes, a critiqué l'arrestation des politiciens par le gouvernement matocain, appelant à leur libération, et dénonçant l'interdiction du Parti al-Badil al-Hadari).

Le , Mustapha Moatassim, fondateur d'al-Badil al-Hadari, a déposé une demande de lever le gel du parti au chef du gouvernement Abdelilah Benkirane.

En réalité, il n'y a jamais eu "dissolution" mais "gel": "il n'en [de dissolution] existe aucune trace dans le bulletin officiel, et aucun procès-verbal du tribunal administratif n'a été émis, conformément à la loi sur les partis politiques", "d'après la cour d'appel de Rabat, aucune preuve n'existe pour confirmer la décision de dissolution, et donc juridiquement parlant, le parti n'a pas été interdit".

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Voir aussi

Liens internes
 Abdelkader Belliraj
 Politique du Maroc

Liens externes
  Site web officiel

Ancien parti politique au Maroc
Parti politique fondé en 2002
Parti politique disparu en 2008
Parti politique musulman