TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SMART AIRPORT PARKING LTD.
Please read the terms and conditions carefully. Any complaints or questions should be submitted as detailed in these terms and conditions.
The Company shall represent Smart Airport Parking Ltd.
`Vehicle` shall indicate the Vehicle which is received by Smart Airport Parking Ltd from the customers.
The Smart Airport Parking Ltd driver is engaged to meet the Customers and take their cars to and from the airport and Park in compounds.
We do not keep credit card and share customer details with any 3rd party.
The company will admit the responsibility in case of any damage, loss or theft of any vehicle of the customer which occur when the same vehicle is proved and it can be proved this loss is occurred by their negligence that are reported before the car is driven away from the airport towards the parking compound.
We will only be responsible where we are at fault.
We can move vehicles to a secured parking site we choose within the areas.
The Company will not take the responsibility for the loss of car due to natural hazards at the open-air parking operations and the company will not liable for the windscreen or glass damage.
The company will not accept the liability of any damage that is occurred due to any mechanical and electrical failure to the vehicles that are under the responsibility of the company. Company will bit liable for the damaged or punctured tyres in case if it is proved that this is occurred due to the negligence.
The Company does not accept responsibility for any damage or loss to the Vehicle caused by lack of maintenance, neglect on the owners behalf, or servicing and maintenance not to the manufacturer`s required standards, however caused.
If you park for longer or shorter period of time, we will charge you the full day price that applies at the time. But we will consider your vehicle to have been abandoned if you do not claim it at the end of your booking period. We may then make preparations for the removal to get our cost. As a last option this may mean selling your car.
The Company will not be accountable, if the Customer loses their return instructions or informs a third party of their password, and this is presented to the Company by a third party who uses it to illegally take the delivery of the Vehicle.
The Customer will not accept the responsibility for the Vehicles that are left with the Company utterly at the owner`s risk whilst stored in the safe parking compound.
It is an advice for the customers to remove all your belongings from the vehicle. In case you intend to leave variables in the Vehicle inform the driver who will fill a form with you and issue a receipt.
Customers are recommended to permit sufficient journey time to reach at Luton Airport at our parking compound at the time of the meeting. The Customer must ensure they contact Smart Airport Parking Ltd and advise the Company upon arrival on telephone numbers provided at the time of booking. A minimum of 10 minutes' notice is required for your car to be delivered.
Smart Airport Parking Ltd cannot be held responsible for any costs or inconvenience incurred when not following the instructions provided by the Company.
If due to any cause the Customer misses their flight they must contact Smart Airport Parking Ltd instantly. At certain times the Company may not have drivers on shift and so will return the Vehicle as soon as is practically possible.
Customers are advised to inform us, if their flight is delayed or canceled.
It is not a responsibility of the company for costs or inconvenience incurred by the Customer due to returning on any day or time other than that on the booking form. On special days (some Bank Holidays etc.) the amenities of Smart Airport Parking Ltd is limited. On these occasions the Company might charge an additional fee for car delivery.
It is also a duty of the customers to must notify Smart Airport Parking in case of any flight is delayed or coming earlier than expected time otherwise a penalty of £10 will be incurred.
Customers must adhere to any instructions given by the Company staff or agents. The Company keeps the right to decline parking services to any persons who, in their view, are causing, or may cause a risk for the Company staff to verbal or physical violence.
Booking, Confirmations, Amendments, Prices and Cancellations.
A confirmation of Booking does not entitle the Customer, unless otherwise specified, to priority over other Customers. The Customer`s password must be retained as identification of the right to drive away the Vehicle on return, since Due to the absence of satisfactory identification, the Company take the right not to discharge the Vehicle of the customer.
Once the Company has accepted the booking request an email confirmation will be sent to the email address provided by the Customer. It is the Customer`s responsibility to ensure the correct E-mail address has been given. It is the Customer`s responsibility to ensure this email is received. Should you fail to receive the said E-Mail you must contact the Company within 24 hours. Credit/debit card transactions will only be processed once the email confirmation has been sent.
Prices may be varied from time to time and whilst every effort will be made not to change prices during a period when they have been expressed to be valid, the Company has a right to alter the prices of the services whether or not it notify of its intention to do so.
It is a policy of our company that booking may be cancelled at any time by the customer after confirmation and before the date for which the service has been kept, subject to a sliding scale of cancellation charges that will be applied. If the booking fee was paid by credit card / debit card, the booking fee of £2.00 will not be refunded.
If a booking was made 6 days prior to departure and then cancelled 5 days prior to departure a charge of 50% of the value of the booking will be lost and retained by the Company, if cancelled within 24hrs, customer will refunded full amount minus £10 administration fee.
It is the Customer`s accountability to check the Vehicle for damage upon return. Claims cannot be considered once the Vehicle has been returned to the Customer and the Company's representative has left the return location. Should the Vehicle suffer loss whilst in the care of Smart Airport Parking Ltd, or should any possessions be missing from the Vehicle whilst it is in Smart Airport Parking Ltd care, the representative should be informed immediately of the occurrence. Written notice, via email only, containing full details of the occurrence should be provided to our Customer Service Manager. An investigation into an incident can commence but not be concluded until written notice has been received.
There is no claim for damage or loss will be entered into, whatsoever, if a written complaint is not received within 7 days from the collection of the Vehicle. Before submitting a claim to the Company, Customers are required to check Condition No 2 and to please themselves that the subject matter of their claim falls within the Company`s area of accountability. Failure to comply with the above procedure may prejudice the Customer's position and it should be noted that our Report Form makes no representations as to the Company`s liability.
The Customer must make sure that, before leaving the Vehicle with the Company that it is in a roadworthy condition, taxed and holds a current MOT certificate valid for the duration of the booking if applicable. The Company reserves the right to move the Vehicle, within or outside the Car Parks, by driving, or otherwise to such extent as the Company may in their discretion think necessary for the efficient arrangement of its parking facilities at the Car Parks, or in emergencies or to avoid accidents or obstructions. Ignition keys and any alarm and immobiliser codes to the Vehicle must therefore be left in the Vehicle at the time of handing it over to Smart Airport Parking Ltd driver. It will be necessary in the exercise of the rights conferred upon the Company under this condition, for the driver to have the right to drive or otherwise take the Vehicle on to the public highway. The Smart Airport Parking Ltd drivers are fully insured by the Company for this purpose. The Vehicle will be moved to the storage compound as soon as is feasible. The maximum distance travelled is 10 miles. On occasion the Vehicle may be moved to a different compound when operationally necessary.
The Vehicle will be checked for damage upon arrival, the Company does not record minor damage i.e. stone chips, scuffs, scratches of less than 6 inches, dents smaller than a 3 inch diameter or interior damage. If the weather conditions, bad light, dirty Vehicle etc. prevent a full body inspection, then Smart Airport Parking Ltd accept no liability for this car. The Customer must notify the Company's driver of any special driving attachments or car features such as disabled driver controls, key codes, immobiliser, special starting instructions etc. as the Company will not accept any liability for damage resulting from driver`s lack of familiarity with them.
Every Vehicle in the Car Parking compounds or being serviced by the Company is subject to a lien for all charges due or accruing from the Customer to the Company, and a general lien for all and any monies due from the Customers to the Company such liens to be in existence whenever the Vehicle is in the Car Parks, notwithstanding that it may from time to time have been removed. If the said lien is not satisfied by the payment, within 28 days of notice given by the Company of its intention to sell the Vehicle in default of payment, the Company may sell the Vehicle by auction or otherwise and the proceeds of sale may be applied in and towards satisfaction of all sums owing to the Company by the Customer together with the expenses of the sale, and in connection with such sale the Company shall be entitled to charge reasonable garage charges in respect of the period during which the Vehicle is in the possession of the Company. Any balance of purchase price remaining after satisfaction of such sums shall be held by the Company on behalf of the registered owner of the Vehicle. Notice of intention aforesaid shall be deemed to have been properly and sufficiently given by the sending of written notice by prepaid post, addressed to the registered owner at his known address, whether or not the same is actually received.
Every person who enters into a contract with the Company for the parking of a vehicle in the Car Parks does soon behalf of themselves and all other Customers that are having any proprietary, possessory or other monetary or material attention in the vehicle before handing over to the company.
Smart Airport Parking can only reimburse the customers only when a serious breach of service contract has occurred e.g. a customer has been waiting for more than 1 hour after the first contact with the office. Due to any of the reason, the company is happy to refund the full meet and greet charges but not parking fee.


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The government's first comprehensive review in 15 years of domestically bred working dogs warns that the United States remains dangerously short of this frontline defense against terrorist attacks and for critical security tasks, such as sniffer bombs and the prohibition of narcotics.
The federal government, according to the US Navy's Naval Post Graduate School, "faces a chronic shortage of qualified national-breed working dogs for use by both the Department of Defense and other federal agencies." As adversaries, both peer and near-peer, become more adept at circumventing detection systems, the need for working dogs has steadily increased to address security vulnerabilities.
"The lack of a robust domestic supply of working dogs creates increased supply chain risk and may threaten the ability of departments and agencies that use working dogs to remain ready if supply to foreign markets is disputed or discontinued for an extended period," said the small-noted 157-page completed report.
The problem has plagued Capitol Hill for several years. In 2017, Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., succinctly summarized the pressing need to fix the security deficit. "I don't think the public understands how scarce this resource is," said Rogers, who serves on the Homeland Security Committee, "and how critically important it is to our national security."
The issue is slowly beginning to receive the high level attention it deserves. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, drafted a measure in the annual Defense Authorization Bill that supports the evaluation of the outlines of a defense program. national military working dog breeding.
"I was surprised to learn from the Air Force that the vast majority of our working dogs are actually born and bred in Europe, which increases costs and puts us in competition with other countries," said said Blumenthal.
One of the reasons for the shortage of working dogs bred in the country for these vital roles is familiar to most government contractors: an impenetrable bureaucracy and a lack of transparency.
Many domestic dog breeders have the ability to produce exceptional working dogs, the report said, but the government's "onerous procurement process discourages vendors from supplying dogs to the government sector of the market. The non-standard requirements, the rating system, and most importantly, the uncertainty of future government demand for working dogs make it difficult for sellers to continue doing business with the government.
While electronics generally defines high tech, sensing technology is an outlier: no man-made technology can come close to the sensing abilities of highly trained and bred dogs.
This is certainly true when you consider the range of security roles these dogs perform. They are also used to detect smuggled people, narcotics, currency, firearms, electronic devices, chemicals associated with weapons of mass destruction and are used in search and rescue missions. They are employed in facilities, public buildings and communities across the country.
The United States rarely, if ever, cedes critical national security obligations to foreign manufacturers. From fighter jets to submarines to tanks, the default goes to US suppliers. But of the dogs that protect millions of people every year, about 93 percent come from foreign sellers or domestic sellers who import foreign-bred dogs, according to the report.
The federal government currently maintains approximately 5,000 working dogs in four departments – the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Justice and State. But only 7% is raised domestically and the rest is imported from Europe, according to the report. Another estimated 5,000 working dogs are deployed to local law enforcement and private facilities, with a similarly low percentage high nationally.
The best dogs tend to be retained for use in Europe, where they are bred. And the United States finds itself in a position to compete with its military counterparts, Russia and China, for the same dogs in the same markets.
The supply of competent working dogs from foreign sources continues to tighten. The threat of terrorism and the resulting demand for working dogs in Europe and around the world means that there is a growing shortage of even low-quality foreign dogs available to protect the United States.
The Department of Defense maintains a modest breeding program at its kennels at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, far from sufficient to meet domestic demand.
Farmers, researchers and government agencies are committed to closing this safety gap. Additionally, the Biden administration has underscored a renewed commitment to made-in-the-U.S. goods and services in federal government procurement. That's why a top priority for the new administration and congressional defense committees should be to implement a less complicated procurement process.
"Although working dogs and their acquisition do not usually make the headlines, their importance should not be underestimated," the report summarizes. "Despite continued and rapid advances in technology, working dogs remain a vital and irreplaceable asset to national security."
Let's hope Congress and the new administration are listening.
Goffe is vice president of government relations for the American Kennel Club.
Editor's Note: This is an editorial and as such the views expressed are those of the author. If you would like to respond, or if you would like to submit your own op-ed, please contact Military Times Editor-in-Chief Howard Altman, haltman@militarytimes.com.

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Emergence of fluoroquinolone-resistant Streptococcus pyogenes in Japan by a point mutation leading to a new amino acid substitution
Kazuaki Arai, Yoichi Hirakata, Hisakazu Yano, Hajime Kanamori, Shiro Endo, Ayako Hirotani, Yuko Abe, Mitsuaki Nagasawa, Miho Kitagawa, Tetsuji Aoyagi, Masumitsu Hatta, Mitsuhiro Yamada, Katsushi Nishimaki, Yoko Takayama, Natsuo Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Kunishima, Mitsuo Kaku
Central Clinical Facilities
MED - Medical Sciences
Objectives: Streptococcus pyogenes causes various diseases in humans. While the prevalence of fluoroquinolone-resistant S. pyogenes isolates has been increasing since 2000 in the USA and Europe, it has remained very low in Japan. We isolated a fluoroquinolone-resistant S. pyogenes strain and analysed its genetics. Methods: TU-296, a strain of S. pyogenes resistant to levofloxacin (MIC 16 mg/L), was isolated from the throat of a patient in their thirties with pharyngitis in autumn 2007. We carried out susceptibility tests for various antimicrobial agents and PCR analysis of the genes gyrA, gyrB, parC and parE in the quinolone resistance-determining region, followed by sequencing of the PCR products to find mutation(s) and the resulting amino acid substitution(s). We then sequenced the PCR product of the emm gene and determined the emm genotype. Results: S. pyogenes TU-296 was found to have the following mutations and amino acid substitutions: adenine 476 to cytosine in gyrA and cytosine 367 to thymine in parC, resulting in Glu-85→Ala in GyrA and Ser-79→Phe in ParC. The genotype of the isolate was emm11. Conclusions: Amino acid substitutions in fluoroquinolone-resistant S. pyogenes have already been reported from Europe and the USA, including Ser-81→Phe or Tyr and Met-99→Leu in GyrA, as well as Ser-79→Phe, Tyr or Ala and others in ParC. Numerous point mutations were found in parC and parE of S. pyogenes TU-296. In addition, a new amino acid substitution was detected (Glu-85→Ala in GyrA). To our knowledge, there have been no previous reports of this substitution in a clinical isolate of S. pyogenes.
dkq477
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkq477
Published - 2011 Mar
Group A Streptococcus
GyrA
S. dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis
Substitution of amino acid
10.1093/jac/dkq477
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Arai, K., Hirakata, Y., Yano, H., Kanamori, H., Endo, S., Hirotani, A., Abe, Y., Nagasawa, M., Kitagawa, M., Aoyagi, T., Hatta, M., Yamada, M., Nishimaki, K., Takayama, Y., Yamamoto, N., Kunishima, H., & Kaku, M. (2011). Emergence of fluoroquinolone-resistant Streptococcus pyogenes in Japan by a point mutation leading to a new amino acid substitution. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 66(3), 494-498. [dkq477]. https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkq477
Emergence of fluoroquinolone-resistant Streptococcus pyogenes in Japan by a point mutation leading to a new amino acid substitution. / Arai, Kazuaki; Hirakata, Yoichi; Yano, Hisakazu; Kanamori, Hajime; Endo, Shiro; Hirotani, Ayako; Abe, Yuko; Nagasawa, Mitsuaki; Kitagawa, Miho; Aoyagi, Tetsuji; Hatta, Masumitsu; Yamada, Mitsuhiro; Nishimaki, Katsushi; Takayama, Yoko; Yamamoto, Natsuo; Kunishima, Hiroyuki; Kaku, Mitsuo.
In: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Vol. 66, No. 3, dkq477, 03.2011, p. 494-498.
Arai, K, Hirakata, Y, Yano, H, Kanamori, H, Endo, S, Hirotani, A, Abe, Y, Nagasawa, M, Kitagawa, M, Aoyagi, T, Hatta, M, Yamada, M, Nishimaki, K, Takayama, Y, Yamamoto, N, Kunishima, H & Kaku, M 2011, 'Emergence of fluoroquinolone-resistant Streptococcus pyogenes in Japan by a point mutation leading to a new amino acid substitution', Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, vol. 66, no. 3, dkq477, pp. 494-498. https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkq477
Arai K, Hirakata Y, Yano H, Kanamori H, Endo S, Hirotani A et al. Emergence of fluoroquinolone-resistant Streptococcus pyogenes in Japan by a point mutation leading to a new amino acid substitution. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 2011 Mar;66(3):494-498. dkq477. https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkq477
Arai, Kazuaki ; Hirakata, Yoichi ; Yano, Hisakazu ; Kanamori, Hajime ; Endo, Shiro ; Hirotani, Ayako ; Abe, Yuko ; Nagasawa, Mitsuaki ; Kitagawa, Miho ; Aoyagi, Tetsuji ; Hatta, Masumitsu ; Yamada, Mitsuhiro ; Nishimaki, Katsushi ; Takayama, Yoko ; Yamamoto, Natsuo ; Kunishima, Hiroyuki ; Kaku, Mitsuo. / Emergence of fluoroquinolone-resistant Streptococcus pyogenes in Japan by a point mutation leading to a new amino acid substitution. In: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 2011 ; Vol. 66, No. 3. pp. 494-498.
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AU - Kaku, Mitsuo
N1 - Funding Information: This work was supported by Tohoku University and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan.
N2 - Objectives: Streptococcus pyogenes causes various diseases in humans. While the prevalence of fluoroquinolone-resistant S. pyogenes isolates has been increasing since 2000 in the USA and Europe, it has remained very low in Japan. We isolated a fluoroquinolone-resistant S. pyogenes strain and analysed its genetics. Methods: TU-296, a strain of S. pyogenes resistant to levofloxacin (MIC 16 mg/L), was isolated from the throat of a patient in their thirties with pharyngitis in autumn 2007. We carried out susceptibility tests for various antimicrobial agents and PCR analysis of the genes gyrA, gyrB, parC and parE in the quinolone resistance-determining region, followed by sequencing of the PCR products to find mutation(s) and the resulting amino acid substitution(s). We then sequenced the PCR product of the emm gene and determined the emm genotype. Results: S. pyogenes TU-296 was found to have the following mutations and amino acid substitutions: adenine 476 to cytosine in gyrA and cytosine 367 to thymine in parC, resulting in Glu-85→Ala in GyrA and Ser-79→Phe in ParC. The genotype of the isolate was emm11. Conclusions: Amino acid substitutions in fluoroquinolone-resistant S. pyogenes have already been reported from Europe and the USA, including Ser-81→Phe or Tyr and Met-99→Leu in GyrA, as well as Ser-79→Phe, Tyr or Ala and others in ParC. Numerous point mutations were found in parC and parE of S. pyogenes TU-296. In addition, a new amino acid substitution was detected (Glu-85→Ala in GyrA). To our knowledge, there have been no previous reports of this substitution in a clinical isolate of S. pyogenes.
AB - Objectives: Streptococcus pyogenes causes various diseases in humans. While the prevalence of fluoroquinolone-resistant S. pyogenes isolates has been increasing since 2000 in the USA and Europe, it has remained very low in Japan. We isolated a fluoroquinolone-resistant S. pyogenes strain and analysed its genetics. Methods: TU-296, a strain of S. pyogenes resistant to levofloxacin (MIC 16 mg/L), was isolated from the throat of a patient in their thirties with pharyngitis in autumn 2007. We carried out susceptibility tests for various antimicrobial agents and PCR analysis of the genes gyrA, gyrB, parC and parE in the quinolone resistance-determining region, followed by sequencing of the PCR products to find mutation(s) and the resulting amino acid substitution(s). We then sequenced the PCR product of the emm gene and determined the emm genotype. Results: S. pyogenes TU-296 was found to have the following mutations and amino acid substitutions: adenine 476 to cytosine in gyrA and cytosine 367 to thymine in parC, resulting in Glu-85→Ala in GyrA and Ser-79→Phe in ParC. The genotype of the isolate was emm11. Conclusions: Amino acid substitutions in fluoroquinolone-resistant S. pyogenes have already been reported from Europe and the USA, including Ser-81→Phe or Tyr and Met-99→Leu in GyrA, as well as Ser-79→Phe, Tyr or Ala and others in ParC. Numerous point mutations were found in parC and parE of S. pyogenes TU-296. In addition, a new amino acid substitution was detected (Glu-85→Ala in GyrA). To our knowledge, there have been no previous reports of this substitution in a clinical isolate of S. pyogenes.
KW - Group A Streptococcus
KW - GyrA
KW - ParC
KW - S. dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis
KW - Substitution of amino acid
U2 - 10.1093/jac/dkq477
DO - 10.1093/jac/dkq477
JO - Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
JF - Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
M1 - dkq477


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Britain's young divers have secured four medals across the first half of the World Junior Diving Championships in Montreal, with four days of competition still to come.
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The Quackery of Equality: That Free People Are Not Equal in Economic Terms Is Not to Be Lamented
First published in The Freeman • Volume: 45 • Issue: 12 and reposted here with the kind permission of Mr. Reed. See the original post here… Support FEE here…
"Free people are not equal, and equal people are not free."
I wish I could remember who first said that. It ought to rank as one of the great truths of all time, and one that is fraught with profound meaning.
Equality before the law—that is, being judged innocent or guilty based on whether or not you committed the crime, not on what color, sex, or creed you represent—is a noble ideal and not at issue here. The "equalness" to which the statement above refers pertains to economic income or material wealth.
Put another way, then, the statement might read, "Free people will earn different incomes. Where people have the same income, they cannot be free."
Economic equality in a free society is a mirage that redistributionists envision and too often, are willing to shed both blood and treasure to accomplish. But free people are different people, so it should not come as a surprise that they earn different incomes. Our talents and abilities are not identical. We don't all work as hard. And even if we all were magically made equal in wealth tonight, we'd be unequal in the morning because some of us would spend it and some of us would save it.
To produce even a rough measure of economic equality, governments must issue the following orders and back them up with firing squads and prisons: "Don't excel or work harder than the next guy, don't come up with any new ideas, don't take any risks, and don't do anything differently from what you did yesterday." In other words, don't be human.
The fact that free people are not equal in economic terms is not to be lamented. It is, rather, a cause for rejoicing. Economic inequality, when it derives from the voluntary interaction of creative individuals and not from political power, testifies to the fact that people are being themselves, each putting his uniqueness to work in ways that are fulfilling to himself and of value to others. As the French would say in a different context, Vive la difference!
People obsessed with economic equality—egalitarianism, to employ the more clinical term—do strange things. They become envious of others. They covet. They divide society into two piles: villains and victims. They spend far more time dragging someone else down than they do pulling themselves up. They're not fun to be around.
And if they make it to a legislature, they can do real harm. Then they not only call the cops, they are the cops.
Examples of injurious laws motivated by egalitarian sentiments are, of course, legion. They form the blueprint of the modern welfare state's redistributive apparatus. A particularly classic case was the 1990 hike in excise taxes on boats, aircraft, and jewelry. The sponsors of the bill in Congress presumed that only rich people buy boats, aircraft, and jewelry. Taxing those objects would teach the rich a lesson, help narrow the gap between the proverbial "haves" and "have-nots," and raise a projected $31 million in new revenues for the federal Treasury in 1991.
What really occurred was much different. A subsequent study by economists for the Joint Economic Committee of Congress showed that the rich did not line up by the flock to be sheared: total revenue from the new taxes in 1991 was only $16.6 million. Especially hard-hit was the boating industry, where a total of 7,600 jobs were wiped out. In the aircraft industry, 1,470 people were pink-slipped. And in jewelry manufacturing, 330 joined the jobless ranks just so congressmen could salve their egalitarian consciences.
Those lost jobs, the study revealed, prompted a $24.2 million outlay for unemployment benefits. That's right—$16.6 million came in, $24.2 million went out, for a net loss to the deficit-ridden Treasury of $7.6 million. To advance the cause of economic equality by a punitive measure, Congress succeeded in nothing more than making almost all of us a little bit poorer.
To the rabid egalitarian, however, intentions count for everything and consequences mean little. It's more important to pontificate and assail than it is to produce results that are constructive or that even live up to the stated objective. Getting Congress to undo the damage it does with quackery like this is always a daunting challenge.
Last July, economic inequality made the headlines again with the publication of a study by New York University economist Edward Wolff. The latest in a long line of screeds that purport to show that free markets are making the rich richer and the poor poorer, Wolff's work was celebrated in the mainstream media. "The most telling finding," the author wrote, "is that the share of marketable net worth held by the top 1 percent, which had fallen by 10 percentage points between 1945 and 1976, rose to 39 percent in 1989, compared with 34 percent in 1983." Those at the bottom end of the income scale, meanwhile, saw their wealth erode over the period—if the Wolff study is to be believed.
Upon close and dispassionate inspection, however, it turns out that the study didn't tell the whole story, if indeed it told any of it. Not only did Wolff employ a very narrow measure that inherently exaggerates wealth disparity, he also ignored the mobility of individuals up and down the income scale. An editorial in the August 28, 1995, Investor's Business Daily laid it out straight: "Different people make up 'the wealthy' from year to year. The latest data from income-tax returns . . . show that most of 1979's top-earning 20 percent had fallen to a lower income bracket by 1988."
Of those who made up the bottom 20 percent in 1979, just 14.2 percent were still there in 1988. Some 20.7 percent had moved up one bracket, while 35 percent had moved up two, 25.3 percent had moved up three, and 14.7 percent had joined the top-earning 20 percent.
If economic inequality is an ailment, punishing effort and success is no cure in any event. Coercive measures that aim to redistribute wealth prompt the smart or politically well-connected "haves" to seek refuge in havens here or abroad, while the hapless "have-nots" bear the full brunt of economic decline. A more productive expenditure of time would be to work to erase the mass of intrusive government that assures that the "have-nots" are also the "can-nots."
This economic equality thing is not compassion. When it's just an idea, it's bunk. When it's public policy, it's quackery writ large.


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Seasonal changes in Florida tangelos, Volumes 1205-1215
Por Paul Lewis Harding, Milliard B. Sunday, Paul Lee Davis
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PLATE I.—Typical fruits of the Orlando, Minneola, Thornton, and Seminole tangelos.
Plate II. United States Department of Agriculture standards for determining the
color of Tangelo rind.
solids and a minimum solids-to-acid ratio of 10.50 to 1.
This study is a part of a broad program of research aimed at improving market efficiency, and expanding markets for farm products.
Description of Orlando, Thornton, Minneola, and Seminole Tangelos and Their Rootstocks
Tangelo varieties vary widely in tree and fruit characteristics. The trees are vigorous, usually attaining standard orange tree size. However, it is mainly the fruit characteristics that interest the grower, shipper, and consumer. The different lands of tangelo fruits vary considerably in size, shape, color of rind and flesh, flavor, and date of maturation. Webber (21) points out that in general, tangelo trees produce fruits about the size of the common sweet orange. The fruits exhibit a tendency to be slightly drawn out at the stem end or necked. Tangelo fruits are usually highly colored—the Orlando, Minneola, and Seminole, bright orange; Thornton, bright yellow. They are aromatic, richly flavored, sprightly acid, only slightly bitter, and very juicy. The rind is usually smooth or slightly bumpy, thin, comparatively loose and easily removable like that of the tangerine.
The Orlando tangelo (formerly known as "Lake") is the result of the cross, Bowen grapefruit X Dancv tangerine, with the latter as the pollen parent (17, 18,21). Orlando is one of the earliest maturing tangelos and harvesting usually begins in early November. However, prime eating quality is not reached until January. The fruit is attractive, highly colored, deep orange to almost tangerine red, and has a thin rind, which is slightly pebbly but not rough. They are about the size of tangerines, the average diameter being from 2%e to 3%6 inches. The
to 12 seeds (plate I).
The Thornton tangelo is believed to be a result of crosses between tangerine and grapefruit (16, 17). It dates back to crosses made by Swingle and Webber in 1897-98 at Eustis, Fla. Swingle, Robinson, and Savage state that "the original records of the group of hybrids giving rise to the Thornton tangelo were lost, so that the pollen parent is not definitely known. As many of the sister hybrids show unmistakable tangerine characteristics, however, it is safe to say that this fruit is a tangelo with grapefruit the known seed parent" (17).
The fruit attain prime eating quality in January and February, although harvesting begins in December. The Thornton is unusual in appearance in that the rind is soft and thick, somewhat wrinkled and pebbly, and the color of the rind and flesh is yellow orange. The fruits range in size from about 2%6 to 3%6 inches and are flattened at the blossom end and slightly tapered at the stem end. Seeds range in number from 10 to 25 per fruit (plate I).
The Minneola tangelo is the result of a cross in which the Bowen grapefruit was pollinated with pollen from the Dancy tangerine (17, 21). The fruit reaches prime eating quality in January and February, although harvesting begins in December. The Minneola is probably the most attractive of the tangelos, and when fully ripe the color of the rind is deep reddish orange. The fruits are medium large in size and range from 2%6 to 3%6 inches in diameter or larger. They are somewhat flattened at the blossom end, and the stem end of the fruit is slightly raised but does not form a distinct nipple. The fruit contains 7 to 12 small seeds closely grouped at the center (plate I).
The Seminole tangelo, like the Orlando and Minneola, is a result of crosses between Bowen grapetangerine (17, 21). The fruit reaches prime eating quality in February or March, although harvesting begins in January. This is one of the most attractive of the tangelo fruits, and in general appearance it is more like a highly colored orange. Fruit size averages from about 2%6 to 3$fe inches in diameter. The rind is thin, smooth, and glossy with a tendency to crease. Seeds are numerous, 20 or more, short, plump, and closely grouped at the center (plate I). The flavor of the juice is tart and sprightly which accounts for the late marketability.
Tangelos have been grown chiefly on sour orange {Citrus Aurantium) rootstock. However, because of the susceptibility of sour orange to the virus disease tristeza, this rootstock is losing favor. In recent years there has been fairly largescale planting of tangelos on rootstocks of Cleopatra tangerine (C. reticulata, referred to hereafter as Cleopatra), rough lemon (C. Limon), and sweet orange (C. sinensis). Rusk Citrange (Poncirus trifoliata X Citrus sinensis, referred to hereafter as Rusk) rootstock is also used in a limited way in Florida.
During the 5 months, October through February, marked physical and chemical changes occur in the fruit. Tangelos, like oranges and grapefruit, do not improve in palatability after harvest. Since they contain practically no starch, they do not undergo marked changes in composition after being picked from the tree, as do apples, pears, mangos, and bananas. The degree of maturity of tangelos at the time of harvest is the most important factor determining their eating quality. They owe their sweetness to natural sugars contained when they are picked and it can readily be understood that they should not be harvested until they are ripe. 11 is recognized that other factors, such as weather conditions, soils, fer
dusting, may also affect eating quality. Some observations regarding the effect of rainfall were made in connection with this investigation.
Selection of Plots and Samples
The varieties studied were the commercially important ones—Orlando, Thornton, Minneola, and Seminole. The commercial groves used for fruit sampling were selected to represent average tangelo plantings in Florida. They were located in the central and ridge districts on sandy soils relatively low in organic matter, and in the west coast Bradenton-Terra Ceia districts, where the soils have a relatively higher organic matter content. In each of these districts the tangelos in the plots were on the following rootstocks. Six different groves of Orlando tangelos were on rough lemon, 10 on sour orange, 4 on Cleopatra, 3 on Rusk, and 1 on sweet lemon. Three different groves of Thornton tangelos were on rough lemon, and three on Cleopatra. Two different groves of Minneola tangelos were on rough lemon, three on sour orange, two on Cleopatra, and one on sweet orange. Three different Seminole tangelo groves were on sour orange and one on Cleopatra.
The sample groves ranged in age from 5 to approximately 25 years. Most of them were mature but none were considered old for citrus trees. All the groves were in good condition and had received normal culture, fertilizer, and spray treatments. The trees showed no evidence of deficiency disorders. The location of the plots, variety, kinds of rootstock, age of the trees, and the seasons of investigations are given in table 1.
The tests were started the first week in October and continued until January or February, at which time
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some of the fruit was showing signs of senescence as indicated by creasing, puffiness, separation of the flesh from the rind, drying out of segments, and dropping from the trees.
Samples consisting of at least 125 fruits were picked from each plot at intervals of about 4 weeks. Care was taken to pick fruits from only the regular bloom and the fruits were selected to be representative of various parts of the
trees since some of the chemical constituents vary with location of the fruit on the tree (11, 15). Immediately after being picked the samples were taken to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Horticultural Field Station at Orlando, Fla., and placed in storage at 32° F. They were tested as promptly thereafter as was feasible. The sampling continued through four marketing seasons 1952-53 to 1955
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Ah, I wrote one of these John, but it took me forever. Still, I loved working out what is, as you say, fiendishly difficult mechanics. Cynthia and I talked about doing this form over the Internet before we both launched into it. She introduced me to this particular Celtic form. At the time Nick Moore, Cynthia, and I were experimenting with different sonnet forms when the Irish Droigneach came up.
You did better than I did with my effort here. You managed to end with the same phrase or word. I got everything right but that. I have to go back to the form and try again one of these days. I hate to ignore the command in your last sentence.
This poem is wonderful too. It seems entirely appropriate, visiting the idea of the music of the spheres. The idea is an ancient one of course, which underlies the sense of the poem, the medieval idea of proportion in the movements of the sun, moon, and stars.
I think you're right too, our inner self listens for this ancient music, hearing from inside the cave of our fears and insecurities. The challenge is to find our poise while still listening and feeling the proportion that arises out of celestial movements, feeling, of course, the mystery and immenseness of the universe.
What I miss about Cynthia most is her willingness to challenge the limits of form while writing such magnificent poetry. She had the ability to make the nearly impossible seem almost classic in its directness and power. I will owe you for Song of Paper for the rest of my life, you and Deborah Bennison.
I just love to see this from you. Bravo! Bravo!
Thank you Tom – it's nice to hear from you, and good to be reminded of the links you and Nick and others enjoyed with Cynthia. And as you say, she had a most ingenious talent for rising to the challenge of poetic forms. I'm glad you find the use of the form appropriate in my poem here – thank you. The musicality of it gave me 'music' as the starting point and led on from there.
It has long fascinated me how poetry spans the vast distance between uncompromisingly rigid form and no form at all. An allegory for life, no?
I like that suggestion Yonason – yes!
I have had my dreadful attempts at this form all over my desk since Cynthia's poem appeared. Well done on yours, John. It works!
The hidden ingredients are black coffee and aspirin, Bruce!
Bruce, the secret is to dedicate a couple of days to the effort and then cross out most of the lines you write. I loved doing this, but didn't do as well as either Cynthia or John.
I really like the alliteration of 'unquiet' & 'insecure' – stressed syllables beginning with same sound emphasizes rhyme of meanings.
But in the next to the last line you have only alliteration for the 's' in sublime, which gives an unnatural emphasis to an unstessed syllable.
The Kandinskian "soul or inner ear" is fresh & one of the rare non-sarcastic uses of 'soul' that doesn't disturb me.
You are right about the weak alliteration in the penultimate line and you've prompted me to rethink it. If I can improve the line I shall edit it. Thank you for your frankness – I appreciate your close reading and helpful criticism.
I came across this form many, many years ago and never knew its name. I must have missed Cynthia's explanation and challenge (before I found her blog perhaps). I have never attempted this and am in awe at your achievement. Each re-reading brings more detail and delight – surely one of the great plusses about using complex forms.
That's very kind of you Hilary. I wouldn't usually start by choosing a form and then trying to employ it (substance before form I say!) but this was an exception. I found that the multiplicity of rules forced me to scour the lexicon for words that would comply, and that almost drove the meaning. Quite a tussle!
I have to have a go at this.
It would be interesting to merge this with the Villanelle to make it even stricter. Maybe it'd be best to have only one repeated line at the end of each quatrain, which would trouble you with a single trisyllabic word you'd have to find 3 other rhymes for. But I suppose a Villanelle in the quatrain rather than in terza rima, would provide some buoyancy.
It would however give you your final line(s), of course.
I think creating new verse forms is something I have to consider. I haven't done it, more focusing on my motifs & tones. But I have been doing this years. When I am back in England with my Princeton Encyclopaedia of Poetry & Poetics, I will be doing a bit of this.
& a fine effort John. If I were you I'd have kept at trying to make the trisyllables work, as the best rhyme pairing has to be "archetypes" & "anchorites" not only working at the sonic level, but performing exquisitely at the functioning level too. Are we anchored by archetypes, you bet we are.
Check my blog this weekend as I will post my droigneach. I have it written, but I need to tamp & tame what I have. It is looking pretty good I think, but can't hurt to sit on it till the weekend. I'd really like to know your thoughts on it, so check in this weekend. I will post something short on my process, including the original message by Cynthia, which I dug out the internet.
I will. And I think it's rather pleasing that in the process we are all remembering Cynthia around the second anniversary of her death.
She seems to have been popular & influential. I have followed the blog she kept & will read through in time & may when I am back in England attempt to get my hands on one of her books.
As you say, this is a fiendish form. Kudos for even diving into it let alone pulling off a piece so well written!
Thank you. Never again I think!
Sometimes I think that constraining your words to fit a specified format can drive you to do something quite unexpected, perhaps out of your comfort zone – a good idea – but this is a particularly tricky one to attempt! I always struggle with rhyme, so I admire those who can find rhymes that are subtle, like these. Perhaps the reason for this form is that it reads aloud so beautifully – if you haven't tried that yet, do!
Hello Kalila, and thank you. I believe this form is originally Gaelic, not a language I speak, and I wonder whether there are more rhyming opportunities in Gaelic. Certainly when you try to work out a droigneach you quickly discover the intense musicality of the form.
I hope we may find new poems from you in the near future btw.
I can't help smiling over Cynthia's challenge, the humour in it, and the way it teases us still. I'm sure you must have felt her presence somehow as you sipped black coffee in your struggle to complete 'Under an Ancient Sky'. Sure she'd have approved your poem too as a worthy droigneach voicing our primitive wonder at the cosmos.
Think I'll stick to writing haibuns though!
Thanks Paul. How right you are about Cynthia's humour and yes I certainly had her presence in mind as I laboured to meet her challenge! Nice to hear from you!
A real tour de force! It's not a form I'd come across before.
Thanks Stephen. I would not normally start out by selecting a poetic form and seeing what could be done with it – that's back to front – but as you see there were particular reasons on this occasion.
I would like to think so, Betty. Thank you!
I loved your offering here, John, sort of in honor of our dear Cynthia! Thank you for your friendship and your words.
Hello Julie. It was thinking about the anniversary of Cynthia's death that took me back to the early draft of this poem so it was posted in memory of Cynthia.
I'm glad you 'tinkered', because I like your poem a lot, John. And I also wouldn't call it tinkering when one must write creatively in such an exacting form!
Thank you Cynthia – how kind of you to say so!
This is wonderful, John, as always. And I still remember my own drawn-out contests with this pitiless form; it was a long tinme ago now, and I blush to confess I've felt no great yearning to return to the field of battle. But I'm extremely glad you did, and prevailed so magnificently: an inspiring and impressive piece. N.


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Deaths amongst migrant arrivals to Europe remain high
Posted on March 27, 2021 by Grant Montgomery
The number of migrants and asylum-seekers who reached Europe in 2020 is the lowest it has been in the past decade, according to a report by the United Nations migration agency. But deaths and disappearances on sea routes remain alarmingly high with only a small fraction of bodies recovered and victims identified.
Of the 93,000 people who entered Europe irregularly last year, roughly 92% did so via the Western, Central and Eastern Mediterranean Sea, as well as through the Atlantic Ocean off West Africa to Spain's Canary Islands, often on unseaworthy boats.
The International Organization for Migration's Missing Migrants Project has confirmed the death or disappearances of nearly 2,300 people last year. This number is higher than in 2019 and slightly lower than in 2018.
After a decade of war, the plight of Syrian refugees is only getting worse
Ten years ago, protesters clamoring for political reform in Syria took to the streets, hoping for change. Instead, there has only been ruin and chaos.
The past decade has shattered the nation and scattered its people. More than half of the population was forced to flee.
"The United Nations stopped counting the dead in 2016 at 400,000. Six million Syrians fled their homeland, escaping across its borders into neighboring countries," writes correspondent Liz Sly. "Five million are still stranded, barely surviving in substandard conditions. A million climbed into flimsy boats to cross the Mediterranean to Europe."
Even as foreign humanitarian aid dwindles, millions still languish in limbo in countries bordering Syria, living on the margins of the societies hosting them but too afraid of the grim fate that may await should they try to return. And conditions are only getting worse. "Poverty and food insecurity are on the rise, school enrollment and access to health care are shrinking, and the COVID-19 pandemic has wiped out much of the informal work that refugees rely on," noted a recent report from the U.N.'s refugee agency. "People are at a breaking point," said UNHCR senior communications adviser Rula Amin. While "the attention of the world has shifted from the Syria crisis and people tend to think that maybe it has become easier, with every passing year, it becomes more difficult, not easier for Syrian refugees."
[Washington Post]
Nations wrangle over COVID vaccine patents
The richer members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) blocked a push by over 80 developing countries to waive patent rights in an effort to boost production of COVID-19 vaccines for poor nations.
South Africa and India renewed their bid to waive rules of the WTO's Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) agreement, a move that could allow generic or other manufacturers to make more vaccines. South Africa argued the current system does not work, pointing to the failure to secure life-saving medicines during the HIV/AIDS pandemic that had cost at least 11 million African lives.
The proposal was backed by dozens of largely developing countries at the WTO. Medecins Sans Frontieres in October had also put together a letter signed by over 375 civil society organizations supporting the waiver.
The proposal was opposed by Western countries, including Britain, Switzerland, EU nations and the United States, which have large domestic pharmaceutical industries.
[Reuters]
Countries call on drug companies to share vaccine know-how
Posted on March 3, 2021 by Grant Montgomery
In an industrial neighborhood on the outskirts of Bangladesh's largest city lies a factory with gleaming new equipment imported from Germany, its immaculate hallways lined with hermetically sealed rooms. It is operating at just a quarter of its capacity. It is one of three factories that The Associated Press found on three continents whose owners say they could start producing hundreds of millions of COVID-19 vaccines on short notice if only they had the blueprints and technical know-how.
But that knowledge belongs to the large pharmaceutical companies who produce the first three vaccines authorized by countries including Britain, the European Union and the U.S.—Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca.
Across Africa and Southeast Asia, governments and aid groups, as well as the WHO, are calling on pharmaceutical companies to share this patent information more broadly to meet a yawning global shortfall in a pandemic that already has claimed nearly 2.5 million lives. Pharmaceutical companies that took taxpayer money from the U.S. or Europe to develop inoculations at unprecedented speed say they are negotiating contracts and exclusive licensing deals with producers on a case-by-case basis because they need to protect their intellectual property and ensure safety.
Critics say this piecemeal approach is just too slow at a time of urgent need to stop the virus before it mutates into even deadlier forms.
[Associated Press]
US seeks return to UN human rights body
Posted on February 25, 2021 by Grant Montgomery
The United States will seek election to the U.N. Human Rights Council later this year, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday, marking the Biden administration's latest international re-engagement.
Under former President Donald Trump's more isolationist approach, Washington quit the council in 2018 but the Biden government has already returned as an observer.
"I'm pleased to announce the United States will seek election to the Human Rights Council for the 2022-24 term," Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the council by video. "We humbly ask for the support of all U.N. member states in our bid to return to a seat in this body."
Blinken, addressing the council by recorded video, also said that President Joseph Biden's administration would work to eliminate what he called the Geneva forum's "disproportionate focus" on U.S. ally Israel. The council, set up in 2006, has a stand-alone item on the Palestinian territories on its agenda every session, the only issue with such treatment, which both Democratic and Republican administrations have opposed. It routinely adopts resolutions condemning alleged violations by Israel in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
Global vaccine inequality
As the coronavirus pandemic rages, WTO representatives have periodically gathered around a virtual table and clashed over how to more equitably increase global access to vaccines.
On one side are the United States and other mainly wealthy Western democracies, where the major pharmaceutical companies developing key vaccines and related medical technologies are based. They want to maintain the status quo, in which the trade secrets of their vaccines—i.e. intellectual property—remain in their hands to preserve profits and the incentive for future development.
On the other side are South Africa and India, leading the charge on behalf of the vast number of countries without any—or a limited supply of—vaccine doses and other equipment for fighting the virus. They argue that the rest of the world cannot keep waiting for the lifesaving shots, which Western countries have monopolized by buying up existing supplies and pre-purchasing future rounds.
Given the gravity of the global public health crisis, the latter camp wants to resort to an emergency waiver mechanism, whereby the intellectual property rights for making vaccines and related medical supplies would be temporarily suspended, which would lead to production and distribution ramping up more equitably in factories worldwide.
U.S. to resettle more child refugees fleeing violence
As part of its overhaul of U.S. refugee policy, the Biden administration is planning to offer humanitarian refuge to more children fleeing violence around the world, according to a government report. "Given European countries' limited resettlement slots, the United States will be a key-partner to increase resettlement for URMs," the report said, using the acronym for unaccompanied refugee minors.
The commitment is part of the Biden administration's efforts to rebuild the country's long-standing refugee program, which was gutted under former President Donald Trump. The Biden administration's report to Congress noted that this pause in the resettlement of unaccompanied refugee minors comes "just as the global need increases," noting the plight of minors from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other African countries plagued by conflict and political instability.
Founded in the 1980s, the U.S. Unaccompanied Refugee Minors Program has been a relatively small initiative, but it remains the only one in the world designed specifically for refugee children who can't be resettled with their parents. More than 13,000 children have been resettled under the program, according to the Office of Refugee Resettlement. The program places refugee children in foster homes across the U.S., connects them with social workers and provides them financial support, as well as educational, legal and recreational services. All refugees receive medical and health examinations before being resettled in the U.S.
Advocates welcomed the Biden administration's plan, saying refugee children around the world are facing life and death situations. "These children are the most vulnerable of the vulnerable," Ashley Feasley, the director of policy at the Migration Refugee Services branch of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, told CBS News. "These are children in refugee camps or in urban refugee situations who don't have parents or guardians or even extended family who can suitably care for them."
Feasley's group and the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service are calling on the Biden administration to allocate 1% of all refugee spots to unaccompanied children. This would translate to 625 spots if the administration follows through on its proposal to institute a 62,500-person ceiling for the current fiscal year, and 1,250 spots during fiscal year 2022, when Mr. Biden has pledged to set a goal of resettling up to 125,000 refugees.
After President Barack Obama set an ambitious goal in 2016 of admitting 110,000 refugees, President Trump slashed the annual refugee cap every subsequent year, setting a historically low 15,000-person ceiling before leaving office. Trump also narrowed who could be eligible for resettlement.
[CBS News]
US President Biden set to announce major foreign policy shifts
Posted on February 4, 2021 by Grant Montgomery
President Joe Biden is expected to announce an end to all American support for offensive operations in Yemen, and will appoint an envoy to focus on the long-standing conflict.
The President "will talk about the United States playing a more active and engaged role" in ending the war, according to National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan.
Biden is also expected to announce his intention to increase the number of refugees admitted into the United States after years of historical lows under the Trump administration, and fulfill a campaign promise in doing so, two sources familiar with the plans told CNN.
The President is anticipated to use a speech not only to unveil policy changes, fulfill campaign promises and reverse Trump administration policies, but also to reassert US global leadership and realign foreign policy.
Biden has spoken by phone to more than a half-dozen foreign counterparts since taking office, while his Secretary of State Antony Blinken has been working the phones intensely to do outreach to his counterparts around the world.
A source close to both men has said that they are aware that there is serious repair work to be done after four years of the Trump administration left allies wary and bruised — and uncertain about how reliable an ally the US will be in future.
"There's a real sense among allies is, 'How long can we count on them?'" said this source. "We have to address that."
[CNN]
PlayStation 5 launch gets more coverage than 10 humanitarian crises combined
Humanitarian crises are largely swept aside by other relatively trivial news:
-The launch of PlayStation 5 received 26 times more news attention than 10 humanitarian crises combined in 2020, according to a Care International report.
-The Eurovision song contest and Kanye West's bid for the US presidency each received 10 times more online news attention than the humanitarian crises in question, the report also found.
The report points to violence and conflict in Burundi, CAR and Mali; hunger and drought in Madagascar and Zambia, and poverty and climate concerns in Malawi. Only one country in Europe – Ukraine – featured on Care's list, where about 5 million people needed humanitarian aid last year and women hired out their wombs for money. Food insecurity in Guatemala, conflict in Pakistan and hunger and earthquakes in Papua New Guinea also saw these nations make the ranking.
The lack of media coverage adds to existing burdens for these 10 countries in crisis, including the effects of pandemic restrictions and the growing impact of climate change, said Care's humanitarian advocacy coordinator and UN representative Delphine Pinault.
"Covid-19 has shown us that humanitarian crises can occur anywhere, but for so many people, especially women and girls, Covid-19 is just another threat on top of what they must face already," said Pinault. "We must not be silent while the world ignores crises that started long before Covid-19 and yet still have not been addressed."
An estimated 235 million people globally are expected to need humanitarian aid this year, an increase of 40% from 2020, according to data from the UN.
Care is urging governments to allow journalists better access to report "forgotten crisis" stories, and calling on global media to amplify the voices of women and girls and to partner with smaller, more local organizations to pay attention to news on the ground.
"When a crisis doesn't make headlines, it often doesn't receive sufficient humanitarian funding, either," the report warns. "The publication of Care's neglected crises report is therefore a call to action to the humanitarian and donor community to not turn a blind eye."
[The Guardian]
COVID-19 has exacerbated inequalities that already existed
Posted on December 18, 2020 by Grant Montgomery
In May 2019, when MacKenzie Scott, the former wife of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, signed the Giving Pledge—a commitment by some of the world's wealthiest couples and individuals to give away their fortunes—she made an additional vow to swiftly dispense of her billions: "I won't wait," she wrote.
Based on the past 18 months, we should take her at her word. The nature and rapid pace of Scott's giving are nearly unheard-of in the philanthropic world.
"She's disrupting the norms around billionaire philanthropy by moving quickly, not creating a private foundation for her great-grandchildren to give the money away," says Chuck Collins, director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies.
Still, Scott is accumulating wealth faster than she can give it away. Her fortune, totaling $60.9 billion, has grown by $23.8 billion this year, making her the world's 18th richest person.
The COVID-19 crisis, as we well know, has exacerbated inequalities that already existed. Scott is one of the few beneficiaries of the pandemic to acknowledge—even indirectly—this ugly truth; that she's gotten richer because of a crisis that's devastated so many.
She says as much in her Medium post: "This pandemic has been a wrecking ball in the lives of Americans already struggling. Economic losses and health outcomes alike have been worse for women, for people of color, and for people living in poverty. Meanwhile, it has substantially increased the wealth of billionaires."
Scott could let her money do all the talking, but she seems determined insert herself into the conversation about mass wealth and inequality.
[Fortune]


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variables can be passed as extra arguments to re.Scan.  These
variables are filled in with regular expression sub-matches.  The
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Question: Do you think that in this age of virtual presentations, teleconfrences, and other streams of electronic communication, that business travel — in which a person from one company physically travels to meet with people from another — could become obsolete?
I don't think that face to face business travel will ever become obsolete or at least I hope not! There are pros and cons to replacing actual travel with technology. I would much rather do a teleconference with some people rather than take time away from my family and red eye it from coast to coast just for a 3 hour meeting.
Technology can save tons of time and money when used effectively. Some situations however cannot be replicated by phone, computer or video… there is something about seeing someone face to face and interacting with them that gives you that little personal touch. It helps me build a rapport and can give me an edge when I need or want something from someone in the future. Face time can also help you learn how to better deal with those who you may not otherwise get along with very well over the phone or on a teleconference… after all, not everything comes out the way it was intended when filtered through email, phone or video.
I must say that a lot of what used to require travel now doesn't because of technology. I am often tasked with setting up training videos, webinars, teleconferences etc… rather than hopping a flight and doing a face to face. This cuts out on my ability to take in new sights… but like I said before sometimes that's OK especially when the reason for travel is humdrum and takes away from other things I could be doing. Business travel will always exist for the same reasons pleasure travel will… The virtual is never as good as the real thing; besides we don't want to end up like Arnold in Total Recall do we?
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Teens charged in separate armed robbery, attempted murder cases, Orleans D.A. says
BY RAMON ANTONIO VARGAS | Staff writer
Ramon Antonio Vargas
An Orleans Parish grand jury on Thursday handed up an indictment charging a 16-year-old boy as an adult in the gunpoint robbery of a 72-year-old man who was delivering newspapers in the Upper 9th Ward last month.
In another case, grand jurors indicted two teens as adults in connection with a triple shooting at a New Orleans East church fair. None of the defendants have been arraigned.
Dwayne Fortenberry faces a charge of armed robbery in a hold-up reported in the 2100 block of Gallier Street about 8:45 a.m. on Dec. 1, District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro's office said in a statement. He would receive between 10 years and 99 years in prison in convicted.
Two teens plead guilty to kidnapping woman in Gentilly while fleeing scene of car crash
Two teens pleaded guilty Tuesday to kidnapping a woman as they tried to escape the scene of a car crash in Gentilly in December.
Criminal District Court Judge Karen Herman set Fortenberry's bail at $50,000. He had pleaded guilty in April to abducting a New Orleans woman at gunpoint and forcing her to drive them to the 9th Ward after they crashed a vehicle near the University of New Orleans in December 2018, according to the statement from Cannizzaro's office.
Cannizzaro's office said the victim in the case had pleaded for leniency for Fortenberry, saying he seemed remorseful to her. Fortenberry was able to plead guilty to a reduced charge of simple — rather than aggravated — kidnapping, and he received five years' probation.
Meanwhile, in the shooting case, 17-year-old Joquan Clark and 15-year-old Ivan Wright face three charges each of attempted murder. The case dates back to the night of Nov. 16, when gunfire erupted in the parking lot of City Church in the 13100 block of Interstate 10 Service Road.
A 14-year-old boy was hit in the right thigh, a 15-year-old girl was hit in the left side, and a 16-year-old boy was wounded in the right leg.
Witness accounts, surveillance video and social media bragging led authorities to charge Clark and Wright, who face between 10 and 50 years in prison upon conviction, Cannizzaro's office said. Clark and Wright, whose bail was set at $150,000 each, are also suspected of trying to shoot one of the victims in the case months earlier.
Teens went to church fair to shoot a boy, wounding him and 2 others: NOPD
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import io.apiman.gateway.test.junit.GatewayRestTestPlan;
import io.apiman.gateway.test.junit.GatewayRestTestSystemProperties;
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import org.junit.runner.RunWith;

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@RunWith(GatewayRestTester.class)
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YOU ARE HERE:Home » Science/Tech » iPhone X: The Newest Smartphone Technology
iPhone X: The Newest Smartphone Technology
Enoch Tseng — December 19, 2017
On June 29, 2007, Steve Jobs released a new product that shocked the modern society- the iPhone.
This revolutionary device changed the way people would interact with one another. This new cell phone had a never before seen multi-touch screen, a connection to the internet, and the ability to listen to music, just like an iPod!
Now, over a decade later, the Apple company is releasing their new anniversary phone: the iPhone X.
Despite its cheesy name (Apple has repeatedly stated that the product is pronounced the "iPhone Ten," and not the "iPhone Ex"), the new iPhone is different from anything Apple has ever created before. With a flashy edge-to-edge OLED display, a new A11 processing chip, Face ID, new AR features and more, many critics are hailing it the best phone of 2017.
But is it really worth it?
With a plethora of new features, it seems like a no-brainer that the iPhone is worth it. However, with a staggering starting price of $1,000 USD, it might be tough to make the decision to switch to the new iPhone.
Even if you do have the ability to pay the price for a new phone, perhaps you would rather buy another phone, the Galaxy S8/Note 8.
Both of Samsung's new and highly popular cell phones also offer some of Apple's elusive features, such as an edge-to-edge OLED display and a Snapdragon 835 core processor chip. Some consumers might even prefer the Galaxy S8 or Note 8 for keeping vital features that Apple has put on the chopping block. Apple has infamously removed the headphone jack from the iPhone 7, while Samsung has continuously kept t on all of its devices. Also on the new iPhone X, Apple has now removed the key feature of Touch ID from the device, while opting for the new Face ID. Like the headphone jack, Samsung has still included fingerprint-unlock in the Galaxy S8 and note 8.
But, much like the iPhone X, the costs for the Galaxy S8 and Note 8 are pretty hefty. The Galaxy S8 starts at a price of $699.95, while the Note 8 starts at $949.99, similar to the cost of the iPhone X.
A second possible competitor to the iPhone X could be the newly released Google Pixel 2.
While not as flashy as the iPhone X or the Galaxy S8/Note 8 (many critics say the Pixel 2 has a "dated design"), the Pixel 2's main selling point is its highly rated camera and software. The Pixel 2 currently has the best camera out of any cell phone on the market, and is strong enough to even rival professional digital cameras. Along with the new Android Oreo software, the Pixel 2 could be very enticing to potential phone buyers. With a price tag of $649, similar to the Galaxy S8, this new Google phone is certainly an option to consider.
All in all, the iPhone X is still the iPhone X. While some may dislike the odd design, with a strange cutout for the camera at the top of the display, Apple products and new iPhones always define the tech industry. While people may be sad about losing Touch ID, the new Face ID feature might pique the interests of others. The flashy new edge-to-edge OLED display, wireless charging, and water resistance seem promising as well. With a $1000 price tag and several competitors to choose from though, is the new iPhone really worth it? Of course, the choice is yours.
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Retired: This product has been replaced by the SparkFun Power Cell - LiPo Charger/Booster. This page is for your reference only.
Description: The PowerCell board is a single cell LiPo boost converter (to 3.3V and 5V) and micro-USB charger in one. The board comes with a JST connector for a single cell LiPo battery, a micro-USB connector for the 5V charge input, and selectable 3.3V and 5V ouput pins (labeled 'out'). There are also two charge pins broken out (labeled 'charge'), so you can use another 5V power source to charge the batteries, if you don't have a micro-USB cable .
The micro-USB charger uses the MCP73831 and allows you to charge 3.7V LiPo cells at a rate of 500mA.
The boost converter is based on the TPS61200 from TI and has solder jumper selectable 5V and 3.3V output, and an under voltage protection of 2.6V.
Note: This board does not have reverse polarity protection, so please be sure to recognize the polarity of your connections!