From September 29 to October 1, 2017, Shangri-La Plaza's Grand Atrium will be transformed into a modern-day cellar as Marketplace by Rustan's presents The World of Wine Fair.
Premium wine selections from different regions around the world are highlighted as well as bringing in the wine masters coming in from Australia, France, Spain, and Argentina.
Know more about wine, understand how wine is made, know more about the wine industry, and other important bits about wine by attending the series of talks during the 3-day wine fair.
Other guest sommeliers are Graham Cranswick from Cranswick Winery, Same Mete from Robert Oatley Vineyards, and Michael Rogers from Wines Overland.
The World of Wine event has a special curated wine list that features quality choices from the rarest bottles in the world to vintage wines that you can avail at the best value. Choice wines with only a few bottles left in the market such as the 2010 Chateau Leoville-Las Cases Saint Julien 2 Cru Classe, the 1994 Chateau Leoville-Las Cases Saint Julien 2 Cru Classe, the 2003 Chateau Nenin Pomerol, the 2004 Clos du Marquis Saint Julien, and the 2008 Clos du Masquis Saint Julien will be exclusively sold at the event only.
During the launch, the guests were treated to a special raffle of several rare wines, and the top prize goes to Ms. Kimiko Miyamoto who won a rare 1924 bottle of Chateau Brane-Cantenac (more stories on www.thekitchengoddess.blogspot.com/stay tuned!).
Aside from the special prices, those attending the event will also be given a 10% discount on featured bottles of wine, a 15% discount for purchases of 6 bottles or more, and a chance to win a grand raffle prize of a trip to France and an overnight stay at Chateau Lamothe de Haux for those with receipts of P5,000 and above.


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Q: resize2fs fails on "Scanning inode table" I consistently receive this exact error when attempting to shrink a partition on my system. This partition houses xubuntu, which has been giving me some strange errors about the disk on boot which I will add to my answer ASAP (see edit)
Screenshot to preserve original formatting of gparted output, followed by the raw text:

GParted 0.26.1 --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-resize

Libparted 3.2

Shrink /dev/sda8 from 186.22 GiB to 52.14 GiB  00:00:15    ( ERROR )

calibrate /dev/sda8  00:00:02    ( SUCCESS )

path: /dev/sda8 (partition)
start: 569604096
end: 960141311
size: 390537216 (186.22 GiB)
check file system on /dev/sda8 for errors and (if possible) fix them  00:00:10    ( SUCCESS )

e2fsck -f -y -v -C 0 /dev/sda8  00:00:10    ( SUCCESS )

Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information

344770 inodes used (2.82%, out of 12206080)
697 non-contiguous files (0.2%)
437 non-contiguous directories (0.1%)
# of inodes with ind/dind/tind blocks: 0/0/0
Extent depth histogram: 285823/147
5381900 blocks used (11.02%, out of 48817152)
0 bad blocks
1 large file

250061 regular files
30196 directories
55 character device files
25 block device files
1 fifo
12 links
64422 symbolic links (58710 fast symbolic links)
1 socket
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344773 files
e2fsck 1.43.1 (08-Jun-2016)
shrink file system  00:00:03    ( ERROR )

resize2fs -p /dev/sda8 54675456K  00:00:03    ( ERROR )

Resizing the filesystem on /dev/sda8 to 13668864 (4k) blocks.
Begin pass 3 (max = 1490)
Scanning inode table XXX-------------------------------------
resize2fs 1.43.1 (08-Jun-2016)
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EDIT: Did some searching, boot errors seem to be associated with a misconfigured swap, will deal with that later.

A: I got the same error with GParted 0.26.1-5 (which had resize2fs 1.43.1), when trying to shrink an ext4 partition.
I succeeded with an old version of resize2fs (1.42.8).
You can use the old Parted Magic iso (2013.08.01, the last free version).

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"This Is Our Youth". Written by Kenneth Lonergan; directed by Lewis D. Wheeler; presented by the Gloucester Stage Company at 267 E. Main St., Gloucester. Wed-Sundays through August 25th. For additional details, visit www.gloucesterstage.com.
Set in 1982 at the beginning of the Reagan Era, the entire play takes place over two days at the Upper West Side apartment of Dennis Zeigler, a narcissistic kid with wealthy parents who pay for his apartment with the understanding that he'll go to college after he "finds himself." His parents are products of the sixties – Dad is a successful and famous artist and Mom is a tireless and committed social worker – which for all their good intentions doesn't necessarily make for good parenting. His friend (and whipping boy) Warren Straub shows up at his door in a jam: his physically abusive Dad has grown tired of his pot-smoking slacker ways and thrown him out, and as a parting shot, Warren has stolen $15,000 dollars from his Dad's (apparently) shady business dealings.
Warren is a brilliant study in uncomfortableness and a life being lived with zero self-esteem and the patterns of the life-long relationship between the two boys is immediately revealed. Dennis launches into a scathing rant about Warren's worthlessness right from the start, and Warren apparently has a case of built-in hero worship that has him seeking the approval that he'll never get – from Dennis or his Dad – so he just absorbs the abuse like sponge. The common link between the boys is their around-the-clock pot smoking and drug abuse. So when boredom inevitably sets in (almost immediately) Dennis hatches a plot that will not only allow Warren to safely return the money to his Dad and avoid another beating, but allow for a tidy profit for him and Warren. It involves scoring an ounce of cocaine and distributing it, which for a number of reasons isn't exactly as safe an investment as say, 10-year Treasury Bonds. The second layer of the anti-boredom plot is (of course) the chicks – these are nineteen year old boys – namely Dennis's girlfriend Valerie and her friend Jessica Goldman, whom Warren is seriously smitten with.
While Dennis goes to score the coke, Jessica and Warren begin a mating dance that is both realistic and grossly awkward. While Dennis and Warren are rudderless stoners, Jessica actually has something of a direction in life, living with her Mom and going to school for fashion design. The two start off badly but then Warren begins to show what an intelligent and thoughtful human being he can be when he's not fending off blows from the likes of his Dad or Dennis, and we get a glimpse of what he could be like if he would grow up a bit.
All of the characters in this study of confused post high-school kids are well fleshed out and the acting performances are uniformly terrific. Alex Pollock is nothing short of brilliant. His portrayal of Warren is often painful to watch, particularly under the relentless bullying of Dennis, but his portrayal of the aimless stoner kid bears no resemblance to the kids of "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" or "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure". He is also a gifted physical actor which he puts to use as he shuffle/floats around the room trying to keep a safe distance between himself and those that would get too close. Jimi Stanton pulls off the self-delusional and rage-filled Dennis fairly effortlessly, even when he goes into a wild-eyed self-assessment rant towards the end of the production. And Amanda Collins is perfectly and appropriately confused and bewildered as a young woman who is just entering adulthood should be under the circumstances.
This production really nails the eighties, too, from the costuming to the use of musical cuts from the era, to the nonchalant cocaine use. The set (Jimmy's apartment) is letter perfect and quite frankly looks like my apartment from a similar time period. And the drug dealing behavior is spot on, as the hapless boys (and I don't really mean young men, either, despite the fact that they're 19-20 years old) think they have the solution that never usually works out very well. This is another fine production by the Gloucester Stage Company and is truly worth the trip up north to see.


I'm not really someone who enters into giveaways often. I do recognize the irony of the fact that I write for a blog that holds a few giveaways a year. I'm so thankful you guys enter them because if there were a bunch of Polly's out there, our giveaways would be a total flop.
Anyway, I love supporting my momprenuer friends and their hard work so I set aside my jaded attitude towards giveaways and entered into a Noonday giveaway that my friend Sara had put together at her fall launch party. If you don't know what Noonday is, you can read up on the company and the trunk show I hosted a while back.
I knew my chances were slim, but I was secretly really really hoping to win this one. Reason is, I love Noonday jewelry AND it was for over $500 worth of it. I mean, wow. Anyway, there were various ways to enter and I did as many as I could–of course trying to play it cool like I wasn't trying TOO hard to get more entries.
Sara did an excellent job building up anticipation of the giveaway announcement so I was keeping a close eye on Facebook the morning of but also fully prepared to deal with disappointment.
I quickly fumbled over to her Facebook page and watched the video announcement of her daughter drawing a piece of paper out of a bowl and reading my name. MY NAME!
I squealed with excitement (accidentally startling my drowsy baby).
I didn't waste much time on going on my shopping spree. Want to see what I got??
It was the most fun package I've gotten in the mail in a LONG time.
Yea for Noonday!!!!!! I love what they sell, how they sell it, and WHY they sell it!!!
Oh my goodness! How exciting! This is how we all feel when we enter your giveaways!


Had the opportunity to play Pathfinder Adventures at Escapist Expo, and it was immediately obvious why this game is going to do well, but it was equally obvious why I probably won't be picking it up.
I won't delve too deep into the mechanics, but the gist of it is that you have a pathfinder character represented by some core stats and a deck of cards, which includes things like spells, items, allies and so on. You go on adventures which involved exploring locations, each of which has a deck full of monsters, challenges and opportunities for loot.
This is all pretty straightforward, but what makes it such a potent idea is that it's built around an idea of character persistence. That is, once you build your character deck, you keep it, and you end up marking up your character card as you gain experience.
This is a super powerful gimmick. The idea of a character represented by a deck of cards has been a grail of RPG design for years, and this is a strong swing at it. Yes, the game is more about the trappings of an RPG than an actual RPG, but that's not intrinsically bad. But that idea of personal ownership (and the implicit portability) is really, really compelling as a player.
I pretty much expect it to rock out based on that. Owning your character deck and bringing it to the night's adventure is fun and compelling.
But it's also what throws me a bit, because it suggests a very curious ownership model. See, the core box (which weighs in at a non-trivial $60) contains the cards required for the core set of a characters and enough cards for a campaign (expansions contain new campaigns). When cards go to a character, they are taken out of the box (effectively) and put into the character's personal deck.
Now, I can totally se this working in the arrangement I had in my 20s, where one box would get bought for the group, people could take out their own decks, and we'd play with the same people out of that set. Nowadays, my playing is more erratic, and I'm uncertain that the prospect of maintaining a deck for players who only show up rarely (and removing those cards from circulation) holds much appeal. This gets weirder still in convention scenarios or cases of multiple boxes (something which makes playing from the game library a strange experience) where cards changing hands might be odd.
All of which is to say that the game intrigues me, but the $60 buy in is high for something that seems slightly awkward with my schedule and style. But I completely see the appeal for other folks.
That said, I also considered buying a box for entirely unrelated reasons – the character sheets look a lot like Cortex Plus characters, and some part of me wondered if I could use them in a more freeform way (using the monster and obstacle cards dynamically) to run something like fantasy Leverage.
Sadly, it was not to be. The cards as written really depend upon the specifics of deck manipulation for their moxie. and pulling them out of that context removes most of the advantages of doing something other than just faking it. But it has planted in my mind the idea of building those decks myself, just for my own fun, so that's something.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Cards on October 6, 2013 by Rob Donoghue.
Paizo has printable character sheets you can use to track decks. Not as elegant as just keeping the decks, but more practical for situations like yours.
I've had the same problem with the newest Warhammer RPG, in which all the attacks and special abilities are represented by cards. You can write them down, but they're designed to be flipped to indicate that they're on cooldown or to change stances. Whenever a new player shows up, you have to decide whether a previous player is ever going to play again so you can put his cards back in the options for the new player. Also makes it hard to add any house-ruled effects, and takes forever to set up for a session (getting all the GM cards and tokens placed for easy access).
From the side of an RPG (vs. the Pathfinder game which is more of a deck building game), it seems to be a pretty effective way to monetize for more than the core book and resist piracy. FFG, though, seems to have pulled back on the cards for Warhammer (they eventually released a no-card core book). Edge of Empire, AFAIK, is just special dice without any other premium cards and tokens. So I wonder if the increased monetization per player is countered by scaring off people due to the high cost of entry.


15/08/2015 · wikiHow is a wiki similar to Wikipedia, which means that many of our articles are written collaboratively. To create this article, volunteer authors worked to edit and improve it over time.... Step 5: After your shared folder appears, you can begin sharing files back and forth using ES File Explorer. ES File Explorer isn't the only way to share files over Wi-Fi, but it's a popular utility that you're likely to have on your Android device anyway, so you'd might as well give it a try.
To create a shared folder, just click on the "shares" tab in the web interface, then click the "create share" button. You can name the new folder and add users' email addresses from there.
Advanced Sharing Settings; Click Save changes to complete the task. Wrapping things up. Public folder is a great way for home users to share files with other users in the same computer and over the network, but it's an option that most of the time is overlooked.
17/04/2018 · To create a file share on a server cluster, follow these steps: Note The information in this article is also valid for the Windows 2000 Cluster service.
You also can share a file or folder directly from the OneDrive folders on your computer. Right-click the item to share, and click Share a OneDrive Link.
In this quick video I walk you through the steps of setting up an SMB 3 file share in Azure Storage. There is no VM needed! This is a great way to share files and store backups.


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239 F. 2d 850 - Orken v. United States
239 F2d 850 Orken v. United States
Herman L. ORKEN and Jeannette B. Orken, Joint Administrators, Appellants,
UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.
No. 12836.
United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.
Ellis K. Macham, Chattanooga, Tenn., (Wilkerson, Meacham & Abshire, Kefauver, Duggan & McDonald, Chattanooga, Tenn., of counsel), for appellants.
Lester S. Jayson, Washington, D. C. (George Cochran Doub, Asst. Atty. Gen., Melvin Richter, Washington, D. C., John C. Crawford, Jr., U. S. Atty., Chattanooga, Tenn., on the brief), for appellee.
Before MARTIN, McALLISTER and MILLER, Circuit Judges.
In this action, brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act [28 U.S.C., §§ 1346, 2671 et seq.], the district court sustained the motion of the defendant United States for summary judgment.
The appellants, joint administrators of the estate of Major Orken — a medical officer on active duty with the United States Air Force serving as Commanding Officer of an Air Force dispensary on the Island of Guam — brought the action to recover damages for death by wrongful act. The Major had been assigned to and was occupying with his wife and two children quarters suitable for a married officer at the Air Force Base located on Government property. He and his wife and their two children died as the result of an accident which occurred at 6:45 o'clock on the morning of December 17, 1953. The accident was occasioned by a plane's crashing into the dwelling occupied by the officer and his family. At the time of the fatal crash, Major Orken and his family apparently were still asleep.
The issue is whether the joint administrators of Major Orken can recover under the Federal Tort Claims Act in the circumstances of the case, in the face of the decision of the Supreme Court in Feres v. United States of America, 340 U.S. 135, 136, 71 S.Ct. 153, 95 L.Ed. 152, wherein recovery was denied in a case where a Lieutenant quartered in barracks was killed as the result of injuries sustained through the negligence of a fellow soldier.
In a carefully considered and well-reasoned opinion, United States District Judge Darr held the Feres case to be controlling and found no differentiation in principle between the Feres case and the instant one. Compare United States v. United Services Automobile Ass'n, 8 Cir., 238 F.2d 364. We concur in Judge Darr's reasoning and upon that basis affirm the judgment of the district court.

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Biografia
Oltre che attore e sceneggiatore, è stato anche segretario di edizione, aiuto-regista e aiuto-scenografo.

Come attore ha ricoperto il ruolo del Sor Pietro (amico del protagonista Michele, Massimo Troisi) nel film di Ettore Scola Che ora è, ed è stato attivo anche in televisione.

Filmografia

Attore

Cinema
La città prigioniera, regia di Joseph Anthony (1962)
La noia, regia di Damiano Damiani (1963)
Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa..., regia di Luchino Visconti (1965, non accreditato)
Il figlio della sepolta viva, regia di Luciano Ercoli (1974)
L'appuntamento, regia di Giuliano Biagetti (1977)
L'Italia in pigiama, regia di Guido Guerrasio (1977)
Ho fatto splash, regia di Maurizio Nichetti (1980)
Bim bum bam regia di Aurelio Chiesa (1981)
Arrivano i miei, regia di Nini Salerno (1982)
Vacanze in America, regia di Carlo Vanzina (1984)
Amici miei - Atto IIIº, regia di Nanni Loy (1985)
Sposerò Simon Le Bon, regia di Carlo Cotti (1986)
I giorni del commissario Ambrosio, regia di Sergio Corbucci (1988)
Delitti e profumi, regia di Vittorio De Sisti (1988)
Che ora è, regia di Ettore Scola (1989)
Cominciò tutto per caso, regia di Umberto Marino (1993)
S.P.Q.R. 2000 e 1/2 anni fa, regia di Carlo Vanzina (1994)
Papà dice messa, regia di Renato Pozzetto (1996)

Televisione
Il piccolo Archimede, regia di Gianni Amelio film TV (1978)
Vita coi figli, regia di Dino Risi - miniserie TV (1991)
L'ispettore Sarti, serie TV (1991)

Sceneggiatore
I criminali della galassia (1965)
Il pianeta errante (1966, accreditato come Ralph Moody)
I diafanoidi vengono da Marte (1966)
La morte viene dal pianeta Aytin (1967, accreditato come Renato Rossetti)

Aiuto regista
La bidonata (1977)
Un dollaro per 7 vigliacchi (1968)
...4 ...3 ...2 ...1 ...morte (1967)

Segretario di edizione
Troppo per vivere... poco per morire (1967)
I quattro dell'Ave Maria (1968)
Il dolce corpo di Deborah (1968)
E Dio disse a Caino (1970)

Assistente scenografo
Baba Yaga, regia di Corrado Farina (1973)

Prosa televisiva Rai
Giocondo Zappaterra, regia di Luigi Di Gianni, trasmessa il 6 gennaio 1965.

Doppiatori italiani
 Carlo Alighiero in I giorni del commissario Ambrosio
 Fiorenzo Fiorentini in Che ora è

Collegamenti esterni

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The Great Lakes Are Making The Climate Change Freaks ANGRY
by Jeff Dunetz | Aug 14, 2015 | Climate
Maybe this is why Al Gore is considering a presidential run, according to the climate change theorists the water levels of the great lakes are supposed to be going down, but they are going up much to the chagrin of the global warming freaks
"Faster than ever before." That's how one headline from the Weather Channel described current changes in Great Lakes water levels (see video below). But the article itself acknowledged that Lakes Huron and Michigan, which come together in the Straits of Mackinac and so are considered one lake by hydrologists, actually rose faster 65 years ago. So why did the headline writer call the current rise "faster than ever before?"
Those who believe in the climate change hypothesis have been blaming below-average Great Lakes water levels on warming. "Although the period from 1999 to 2013 set fewer records than previous low-water spells, it was repeatedly portrayed by environmentalists and their media allies as clear evidence of climate change."
But in the second half of 2013 their claims started to get all wet as the water began to rise but as they usually do instead of recognizing the truth–that their claims were nonsense, the climate change freaks now said the increase was evidence of an "extreme weather phenomenon" caused (of course) by global warming.
Never mind that 65 years ago this body of water displayed an even faster rise.
"What we are saying is that the water level increase on Lake Michigan-Huron beginning January 2013 through 2014 is rivaled only by the increase that occurred between January 1950 and December 1951," said Keith Kompoltowicz, chief of watershed hydrology for the Army Corps of Engineers in Detroit. "The criteria we're using for comparison are increases over a 24-month period."
The 1950-51 increase was slightly greater than the recent increase, yet media accounts create the impression that the latter was unique. Some articles that have since been removed from the Internet said precisely that. Others, like the one cited above, tried to have it both ways, suggesting the recent rise was unique while acknowledging the earlier rise was bigger.
[Of course] Some who promote man-made global warming focus on what they refer to as the unprecedented 15-year period of lower-than-average Great Lakes water levels.
First, the recent low levels prevailed for 14 years, not 15. More importantly, the "precedents" are all confined within the narrow 98-year period during which the Army Corps of Engineers has been taking measurements. This period includes just three distinct low-water-level episodes.
The United States Geological Survey, which studies the geological evidence of water level changes going back millennia, says the swings were far more extreme in the distant past than in recent centuries.
Yes it's true that the 2013-2014 increase was the largest recorded for Lake Superior over a 24-month period EVER (during the past 98 years since there have been records taken). Its just like the claims about CO2 . CO2 is at its highest levels in 13 centuries and the earth hasn't warmed in over 18 and a half years. But approximately 12,750 years ago before big cars and coal plants CO2 levels were higher than today. And during some past ice ages CO2 levels were up to 20x today's. And the earth didn't warm then.
But the climate change enthusiasts will always change the measuring stick to match their hypothesis, instead of changing their hypothesis to match what is really happening.


For a blog that's meant to be all about living a more inspiring life I was feeling rather uninspired today. So there I was, sat on the sofa downloading photo editing apps to make my Instagram pics look even more awesome, instead of writing some sort of 'how to get the life you want' blog post, when I had a brainwave (it happens occasionally).
I Googled some lines that make you want to stop waiting for something good to happen and start making something good happen (this could be a quotable line too surely?), overlaid this on to a few of my own photos and created some mega-motivational, poster-style graphics. You're welcome.
So what have we learnt today? Sometimes just allowing yourself to run away with your imagination can lead to something productive, its called 'being creative'. So don't let anyone ever tell you you're procrastinating, unless of course you actually are. In that case just get on with it. Clear as mud? Thought so… again, you're welcome.
So today I quit my job. With no other job to go to. Sounds crazy, right?
I thought about my personal life and my career and I decided I want the freedom to travel, to learn and to make my own money at a time that suits me. After all, I don't have anyone else I'm responsible for so I may as well make the most of it. So I'm going to freelance!
So now the countdown has begun as I have until the New Year to find myself some interesting projects to work on. Hopefully I'll start 2016 with a bang – and that's not banging my head against the nearest wall.
'Freelance'; this gets added to my list of words I like – it's very 'free' after all.
View from my room in Andratx, Mallorca.
Holidays that come along at just the right time can be life changing.
They don't have to be particularly eventful, in fact, sometimes its the sheer stillness of a holiday that can bring about new prospects.
My holiday in Mallorca was relaxing; I read three books, I ate bread every day (sometimes several times a day, which I never do at home), and had an afternoon nap every day, just like a Nana.
It was lovely, and I was seemingly serene from the outside, but inside I was fighting a constant battle in my head, playing over imaginary conversations in my head.
I was at a crossroads. I had to make an important career/life decision, which unfortunately I can't talk about just yet.
– What am I good at?
– What do I want to learn?
– What do I enjoy in life?
– Where do I want to be in five years time?
– What's still waiting in my bucket list and are they achievable at the rate I'm going at career-wise and personal life-wise?
Sometimes its good to give yourself a personal review, after all you only get one life so its important you get the most out of it. YOLO and all that jazz.
So I say dream, at every stage in life, and who can blame me with holiday vistas like these?
Monday morning motivation… for real people.
I am not a morning person. For a long time my alarm has been set to 6.30am on a weekday – and yes this is torturous in case you were wondering, especially in the winter when it is dark and it feels super weird getting up. I definitely do not make the most of my mornings on a weekday. I'll hit snooze repeatedly until I know I only have enough time to literally put clothes on and brush my teeth… maybe brush my hair? Therefore there's certainly no cool outfits, contoured makeup or breakfast of any kind (which just happens to be my favourite meal of the day – but, you get the struggle).
On a weekend I have a lot more motivation (obviously – weekends are FUN), but I can get up around 8am and plan out my day. However, I also often spend weekends hungover; which means I can also wake up disorientated and confused as to which day it is before quickly realising I have a splitting headache and then the McDonalds breakfast cravings kick in. I'm over-sharing now, so I'll get to the point.
I imagine someone like Taylor Swift is our morning person on the right in this graphic. She would make you blueberry pancakes and a freshly squeezed green juice as she skipped across the kitchen with her 'red lips and rosy cheeks'. "Want some sugar on top?" "No thanks Taylor, that's enough to last a lifetime." This would all happen before I've even remembered the passcode to unlock my phone so I can start scrolling Instagram… *drops phone on to face*.


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Home>Articles>The Abundance Choice, Part 12: Numbers Don't Lie
A freeway sign urges residents to conserve water amid a severe drought. (Photo: F Armstrong Photography/Shutterstock)
The Abundance Choice, Part 12: Numbers Don't Lie
Wind, solar, geothermal, and tidal power will not be sufficient to replace existing electricity generation in California
By Edward Ring, June 7, 2022 2:30 am
Scope insensitivity happens whenever a statistic has huge emotional impact but in reality has little relevance to the issues and challenges it purports to illuminate.
It is scope insensitivity that makes conscientious Californians willing to put a bucket in their shower. They believe that by faithfully capturing some of that shower water that otherwise goes down the drain, and painstakingly reusing that water to fill their toilet tank, or water some houseplants, they're going to help manage water scarcity in California.
This is well intentioned but ridiculous. Imagine if 40 million Californians saved a gallon of water from their daily shower every day, never missing a day, as if every Californian would ever do such a thing. That would amount to 44,836 acre feet per year, which equates to one-half of one percent of California's average annual urban water consumption. And water going down the drain in California's homes is already either reused, or could be with investment in upgraded wastewater treatment plants.
Examples of scope insensitivity abound. On a grander scale, consider the previously mentioned impact of the proposed Huntington Beach desalination plant, which if they ever built it, would release 55 million gallons of brine into the ocean every day. That seems like a terrifying amount of brine, even though desalination brine is merely somewhat saltier seawater. But the California current sweeps an estimated 250 trillion gallons per day of ocean water past the west coast. The Huntington Beach desalination plant's projected 55 million gallons of daily brine represents roughly one five-millionth of the water moved by natural current along the coast each day.
In both of these examples, two causes of scope insensitivity can be identified. The first is the unit. If you express a quantity using a smaller unit of measure, you can come up with a bigger number. So instead of saying 169 acre feet, why not say 55 million gallons? An eight digit number sounds far more impressive than a three digit number. The second cause of scope insensitivity is when there is a lack of relevant context. Putting something into an honest context is to offer a relevant denominator.
In the example of the bathtub bucket, for example, the numerator is 40 million gallons per day, and the unit is gallons. A numerator that would put this into a genuinely informative context would be acre feet per year, i.e., 44,836 acre feet per year. One can then assign a relevant denominator, which is all urban water consumption per year, i.e., 7.7 million acre feet per year. If the goal is to make an impact on urban water consumption by convincing 40 million Californians to perform this daily exercise, then Californians deserve to understand whether or not it will actually make any difference.
Instead, the type of context one typically gets is "enough water to fill 61 Olympic sized swimming pools every day, which emphasizes the message – this is a lot of water. But that comparison is just replacing one numerator, buckets in showers, with another, big swimming pools. There is no denominator. There is no context.
Combatting scope insensitivity ought to be a top priority for objective journalists, but thanks to either bias, innumeracy, or both, they rarely bother. And thanks to America's decision to join with Liberia and Myanmar to remain the only three nations in the entire world that retain the Imperial System of weights and measures, even if you try, it's not easy to intuitively perceive proportions and easily make meaningful comparisons between small and large, between numerator and denominator.
America's Confusing Choice of Units to Measure Water Volume
Using the metric system, it is much easier to develop an intuitive grasp of how much impact a change in some small unit will have on a big unit. Everything is based on the decimal system:
Ten millimeters equals a centimeter.
Ten centimeters equals a decimeter.
Ten decimeters, or 100 centimeters, equals a meter.
One thousand meters equals a kilometer.
For area, it is equally straightforward.
A square that is one hundred meters per side is a hectare.
A square that is one thousand meters per side is a square kilometer.
As for water volume, the metric system is also straightforward:
A one millimeter cube is a microliter.
A cubic centimeter is a milliliter.
A cubic decimeter is a liter.
A cubic meter is a kiloliter, and that volume of water is a metric ton.
And one billion cubic meters is a cubic kilometer.
That's about all you have to know. The rest follows logically. Learning the metric system may not be a cakewalk, but how much more numeric aptitude does one require to understand the imperial system? Without a decimal based system of measurements, how many people can possibly make intuitive comparisons between large and small units? Consider this summary of the imperial system:
Three teaspoons are a tablespoon. Two tablespoons make an ounce. Eight ounces make a cup, and sixteen ounces make a quart, which is also a pound. Four quarts make a gallon. It takes 7.48052 gallons to equal a cubic foot, and a foot is twelve inches, and inches are typically divided into eighths and sixteenths. An acre is 208.71 feet on a side, and a mile is 5,280 feet.
Are you kidding? The imperial system of weights and measures is an archaic joke, and all it does today is make it harder to overcome scope insensitivity. Back in the 1970s the United States was on the verge of adopting the metric system with the Metric Conversion Act of 1975. But conversion was voluntary, and it never took off. It would be harder now, because today's ubiquitous and powerful computational tools make it far easier for engineers to use these byzantine measurements. But ordinary people who want to figure out what's going on with American water infrastructure are among the losers.
Even if Americans used the metric system, it still would not be easy to put data in context. Even if weights and measures were all using the decimal system, there would still be units of time which must always be taken into account. Units of time, for example, require a year to be divided into approximately 365.25 days, a fractional inconvenience that is nonnegotiable. Perhaps hours and minutes could have been put into the decimal system, but like Esperanto, that's probably not going to happen.
So here are some helpful flow conversions:
One cubic foot per second is 724 acre feet per year.
One gallon per minute is 1.6 acre feet per year.
One million gallons per day is 1,121 acre feet per year.
And here are some useful volume conversions:
One million acre feet is 1.23 cubic kilometers.
One trillion gallons is 3.1 million acre feet.
Rather than belabor these conversions, the interested reader may download this WATER CONVERSIONS SPREADSHEET. Instructions are on the spreadsheet. If you mess it up just download a fresh one. There are two tabs, one for flow conversions and one for volume conversions. Any journalist or analyst writing about water policy may find this useful, if not indispensable.
Without Abundant Energy, Water Abundance is Impossible
As we have seen, where there is water, there is energy, and no discussion of optimal water policies can ignore units of energy. Without water, there is no hydroelectric power, and without electricity, water cannot be pumped anywhere, not through treatment filters, nor over mountains and into taps. And since electric energy must be generated, i.e., converted, from some raw fuel, whether it's photons, or mechanical, or chemical, or combustible, we can't ignore other units of energy. For that matter, since environmentalists are concerned that most of the current forms of energy in the world are unsustainable and dangerous, we have to consider overall global energy production. Can we produce enough sustainable energy in the world to produce abundant water?
That question will generate as many answers as there are experts to ask, and an attempt will be made to address it in a later chapter. For now, let's focus on California. Here again, we must overcome scope insensitivity. To do that, let's establish the denominator: Total energy consumed in California. To get an idea of how complex the process is of getting from raw energy sources—fossil fuels, nuclear, hydro, wind and solar—to actual electrons running appliances or furnaces heating homes, Lawrence Livermore Labs and the U.S. Department of Energy have produced a flow chart that merits close study.
While there is a lot to digest in this energy flow chart, it offers valuable insight even without bombarding the observer with numbers. On the left, source fuel inputs are depicted, with the thickness of the lines (not the boxes) denoting the relative quantities of each fuel. Because electricity is not a source fuel, but has to be manufactured either using solar photons, or a fuel cell, or using a generator turned by wind, water, or fossil fuel, the box "Electricity Generation" shows up in the center left of the flow chart, in order to aggregate and redirect the quantities of source fuels that were converted into electricity. Further to the right, four boxes are used to aggregate and categorize what sectors make use of the various fuels including electricity, they are "Residential," "Commercial," "Industrial," and "Transportation."
It is immediately obvious that solar (yellow line) and wind energy (purple line) currently contribute an insignificant share of the total. Moreover, the method used by the study's authors to estimate the amount of solar energy contributed to the grid greatly overstates the actual amount. Their error was to take the amount of actual solar electricity generated in 2018, 27.5 gigawatt-hours which converts to 93 TBTU (trillion British thermal units), and improperly inflate it.
Instead of recognizing that photovoltaic power generation is directly transmitted to the grid without significant loss, the amount of solar power shown in the yellow box on the upper right of the flow chart declares 382 TBTUs of energy flowed into the grid. The reason for this error, based on a flawed assumption that is explained in the footnotes on the flow chart (which I confirmed with an electricity grid expert at the California Department of Energy), was to assume that solar power is subject to the same conversion inefficiencies as burning fossil fuel.
The implications of this are interesting. Out of 7,404 TBTUs (adjusted for the error, 7,115 TBTUs) of raw source fuels consumed, only 93 TBTUs came from solar electricity; that's 1.3 percent. That means Californians are a long way off from entering the solar electric age.
And yet the fact that solar electricity loses very little power when going from photovoltaic power to the grid to an EV battery to an engine is an encouraging fact. Electric transmission losses are about 5 percent, with another 10 percent lost in a modern onboard battery's charge/discharge cycle and the electric motor's conversion of electrons into traction. Compare this to the average natural gas power plant, which can only achieve efficiencies of around 42 percent, or a gasoline powered automobile, which at best can achieve efficiencies of 35 percent.
The consequences of energy inefficiency—the amount of source fuel inputs that are lost to excess heat and friction—are seen on the far right of the flow chart, in the box "rejected energy," which is twice as much as the box "energy services." Of the estimated 7,404 TBTU of source fuel consumed by Californians in 2018, 4,907 TBTUs were wasted, and only half that much was enjoyed by Californians in the form of lighting, heating and air-conditioning, vehicular traction, and so on. By how much could Californians reduce the amount of fuel input, while keeping level or increasing their actual energy services, if they went totally electric?
Understanding Units of Energy
Anyone who has spent enough time reading the publications and reports that tout a clean energy future sees the marketing images: windmills presiding benignly over green pastures, solar panels glinting in the sunlight, row after row, set against a scenic horizon. But how many of California's politicians, much less the marketing consultants and graphic artists who are selling this dream, have actually tried to parse gigawatt-years into quadrillion British thermal units? It's not tough math. But it's awfully tedious.
The first variable to understand is quadrillion BTUs. A BTU, or British thermal unit, is a measurement of energy typically used by economists. It is the amount of energy required to heat one pound of water by one degree Fahrenheit. Economists refer to the total energy consumption of entire states and nations in "Quad BTUs," which refers to 1 quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) BTUs. California, in 2019, consumed 7.8 Quad BTUs of energy (up five percent from 2018). Another common term is TBTU, which stands for "trillion British thermal units" (1,000 TBTUs equals 1 Quad BTU).
The second variable to understand is gigawatt-years, discussed in previous chapters, which is a measurement unit used to measure large amounts of electricity. A gigawatt-year is the amount of electric energy that would be produced by a one gigawatt power plant, operating continuously for one year. Economists, energy planners, and utility executives typically prefer to report terawatt-hours, probably since most consumers understand kilowatt-hours. But gigawatt-years is a more useful measurement of electric power.
Conceptually, these units of energy measurement are all convertible. Which is to say that one Quad BTU is equivalent to 33.4 gigawatt-years, and one gigawatt-year is equivalent to 8.8 terawatt-hours. For all units of energy, from horsepower to joules, to kilowatt-hours to British thermal units, or cubic feet of natural gas to barrels of oil, there are conversion constants that allow any unit of one form of energy to be expressed using units of another form of energy. Understanding how BTUs of natural gas or gasoline convert into electricity is necessary in order to estimate how much electricity is required to eliminate natural gas or gasoline.
Another essential energy concept is conversion efficiency. If every form of energy converted into another form of energy with 100 percent efficiency, the conversion constants would be all that was ever needed. But as previously noted, natural gas converts into electricity in a modern power plant at about 42 percent efficiency. Gasoline converts into traction in modern automobiles at around a 35 percent efficiency. And solar electricity can be delivered through the grid to an EV and converted into traction at up to 85 percent efficiency.
How Much More Electricity Would California Need to Go 100 Percent Electric?
Returning to the question of how much fuel input can be reduced while retaining the same amount of energy services, note that on the NREL flowchart, 7.4 QBTUs (quadrillion BTUs) of raw energy is input, while only 2.5 QBTUs of energy is actually utilized. This is an overall efficiency of 34 percent. If the entire energy input were electrical, at an overall efficiency of 80 percent, you would only have to come up with 3.2 QBTUs of electric power input. Since 33.4 gigawatt-years is equal to one quadrillion BTUs, it would take just over 100 gigawatt-years of electricity, i.e., on average a continuous generation of 100 gigawatts into California's grid, for the state to go all-electric. How those 100 gigawatts would be generated, of course, is the trillion dollar question.
To bring all of this back to California's water future, and to combat scope insensitivity, here are a few connections between water and energy in the state. The following chart shows the additional generating capacity that would be necessary for California to run 100 percent of its economy on electricity. The chart also shows how much additional electricity would be required to produce and supply 1.0 million acre feet of additional water under three scenarios – via aqueduct, via desalination, and via wastewater reuse.
The data to prepare this chart is documented in the chapters preceding this one, with the exception of the "minimum gigawatt output for California to go 100 percent electric." As discussed, that figure, 100 gigawatts, roughly corresponds to 3.0 quadrillion BTUs, which is slightly more than the 2.5 QBTUs California used in 2018. It implies over 80 percent efficiency in transmission, storage and use of electricity, as well as zero growth in absolute energy consumption. This assumes extraordinary engineering achievements as well as aggressive energy conservation programs. It is therefore the absolute minimum amount of electricity required for California to go 100 percent electric.
Much more on what it would take to accomplish this can be found in a 2022 California Policy Center Report "Examining California's Renewable Energy Plan." Foes of scope insensitivity are particularly encouraged to wallow in the overwhelming facts in that report, they lead to only one logical conclusion – wind, solar, geothermal, and tidal power will not be sufficient to replace existing electricity generation in California, much less nearly double it to usher in an all electric age.
How Much Electricity Would it Take for California to Have Abundant Water?
More to the point, however, are the figures on the second set of rows on the above chart, which show how much electricity it would take to produce more water in California. To transport 1.0 million acre feet via aqueduct, assuming the torrential storms that tomorrow will bring are captured above or below ground, 390 megawatts of continuous power for a year would be required – using the California Aqueduct as the example – or 3.4 terawatt hours. Treating 1.0 MAF of municipal wastewater has the most efficient energy cost at 150 megawatts of continuous power for a year, or 1.3 terawatt-hours. Energy costs for delivering treated wastewater are minimal if the upgraded treatment plant is close to the existing treatment plant, and if those are in-turn near the groundwater storage aquifers. With this favorable topography, expect an energy cost of 40 megawatts of continuous power for a year, or 0.4 terawatt-hours, to deliver 1.0 MAF from treatment plant to aquifer. With an unfavorable topography, expect the energy cost to be twice that much or more.
Which brings us to desalination, which is produced at an energy cost slightly higher than the California Aqueduct. Depending on the delivery topography, desalination can use a lot of energy, as the worst case scenario depicts. But to suggest this eliminates desalination as a viable option is a failure of imagination. If Californians desalinated one million acre feet of seawater per year, and at the same time doubled their electricity generating capacity – which the state legislature is committed to doing – that scale of desalination would only consume one-half of one percent percent of the total energy produced in the state. And those numbers rely on an unfavorable delivery scenario, as well as a magnitude of desalination development that even its wildest proponents have not suggested. Desalination, in a state where energy and water are ultimately rendered abundant and cheap through technological innovation and massive infrastructure investments, can be an essential part of a resilient water supply portfolio.
To summarize: California's average electricity consumption is 57 gigawatts. Very best case, to convert all end user energy to electric – transportation, heating, everything – would require California's grid to expand its capacity to deliver on average just over 100 gigawatts. Using electricity to deliver an additional million acre feet per year via the California aqueduct would consume 400 megawatts of continuous power, roughly the same as the amount necessary to desalinate one million acre feet of seawater; 400 megawatts is 0.4 percent of 100 gigawatts. Therefore to deliver five million acre feet of new water in either of these manners would only consume two percent of 100 gigawatts.
The energy cost to reuse wastewater is less than half that, i.e., about 150 megawatts of continuous power per million acre feet per year. In the case of desalination and wastewater reuse, energy is also required to deliver the water, but because these facilities are typically located near municipal groundwater basins or municipal water systems, the required delivery energy is unlikely to ever require more than half-again as much power, i.e., no more than 75 megawatts of continuous power per million acre feet per year; depending on the topography, potentially much less. Water pumped via aqueducts will typically develop enough pressure as it is pumped over the hills from inland sources and then piped downward into coastal cities to not require additional power for final delivery to consumers.
Anyone who has waded through this entire assault on scope insensitivity is to be commended. The fact that the top-down totals regarding the key financial and quantitative denominators of water and energy in California had to be painstakingly and inadequately compiled in this report, instead of being widely available, is a shortcoming of California's water agencies, especially at the state level. Informed estimates for these variables – how much power it takes to produce and distribute water, and how much these projects cost – need to be at the fingertips of every elected official in the state. The figures produced here should be available from more authoritative sources, in formats that are equally if not more accessible to non-experts. Journalists can be forgiven for not successfully navigating the numerical realities that must inform energy and water policy, but they cannot be forgiven if they don't try.
The conventional wisdom in California has been that we must conserve water, as if that is all it's going to take. If you examine the quantitative facts, with appropriate sensitivity to scope and scale, the conventional wisdom is proven wrong and must be challenged. Conservation is an important part of the solution to water scarcity, but it cannot possibly be enough. Numbers don't lie.
Edward Ring
Edward Ring is a contributing editor and senior fellow with the California Policy Center, which he co-founded in 2013 and served as its first president. The California Policy Center is an educational non-profit focused on public policies that aim to improve California's democracy and economy. He is also a senior fellow of the Center for American Greatness. Ring is the author of two books: "Fixing California - Abundance, Pragmatism, Optimism" (2021), and "The Abundance Choice - Our Fight for More Water in California" (2022).
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2 thoughts on "The Abundance Choice, Part 12: Numbers Don't Lie"
Clark Frentzen says:
Great article. Enjoyed some c larity on the water supply vs energy requirements.
CriticalDfence9 says:
Wow…. THANK YOU for such a DETAILED explanation – this is technical stuff, and the average Californian (and our illustrious "leaders" such as Scott "Show me your" Wiener cannot digest it and make any sense of it, obviously…
One paragraph stood out to me, as VITAL to understand in context and BLOWS THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS' objections to desalinization plants RIGHT OUT OF THE WATER (no pun intended) :
"consider the previously mentioned impact of the proposed Huntington Beach desalination plant, which if they ever built it, would release 55 million gallons of brine into the ocean every day. That seems like a terrifying amount of brine, even though desalination brine is merely somewhat saltier seawater. But the California current sweeps an estimated 250 trillion gallons per day of ocean water past the west coast. The Huntington Beach desalination plant's projected 55 million gallons of daily brine represents roughly one five-millionth of the water moved by natural current along the coast each day."
The brine-water byproducts are LITERALLY a "drop in the bucket" of the Pacific Ocean's volume and current flows… and they shoot these down without ANY regard to the scope and magnitude of what is so eloquently presented here….
Again – these people are driven by their EMOTIONS and COMPLETELY DEVOID of any logic or sense of scale and the Earth's immense abilities to compensate… and you'll notice that they NEVER correlate any of their emotionally-overwrought bleating about "climate change" to solar influences on currents and ocean oscillations of warm and cool pools or currents… that would require them to ACTUALLY "follow the science" which none of them took in school, because "science and math are hard"….


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Paul Rudd recalls sleeping on a dumpster mattress and waking up 'covered in red bumps' during the early days of his career
Paul Rudd appeared on "Late Night With Seth Meyers" this week.
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Paul Rudd appeared as a guest on Thursday's episode of "Late Night with Seth Meyers."
Rudd shared details about living in Los Angeles when he began his acting career.
He recalled living in a "bad" apartment and dumpster diving for a mattress.
Paul Rudd recalled his early days as a struggling actor in Los Angeles.
During a Thursday appearance on "Late Night with Seth Meyers," the "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" actor discussed his work on early projects and what his career was like in his early 20s.
"I had no money. I was living with a couple of buddies. My car was terrible — it would always break down," Rudd, 52, said. "I think back to my roommate, Bo, who more often than not would have to drive me to work because my car was always in the shop."
Meyers admitted that he'd spent his early days in some "gnarly" Los Angeles apartments, to which Rudd agreed and remembered his living situations with Bo.
"He lived in an apartment complex so bad...but he let me stay in his apartment because I didn't even have the money to get an apartment," Rudd said, adding that he slept on towels in the kitchen.
Rudd said he eventually got enough money to rent his own apartment within the complex.
"I didn't really have much furniture, and I found a mattress out by the dumpster," Rudd said. "And I thought, 'Sweet! Free mattress!'"
Rudd continued: "I just took it up to my room, and then I slept on it, and then the next morning I woke up covered in red bumps."
"How's that for the sexiest man alive?" Rudd added.
Despite the rough start, Rudd got his breakout role as Josh in the 1995 film "Clueless" and later starred as Dave Paris alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in "Romeo+Juliet."
More recently, he's broken into the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Scott Lang in "Ant-Man."
People magazine named Rudd 2021's Sexiest Man Alive this month. He told the outlet that his wife was "stupefied."
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Borrower Assignment & Assumption and Amendment Agreement, dated as of January 17, 2019, by and among Genpact International, LLC (formerly Genpact International, Inc.), as the assignor, Genpact USA, Inc., as the assignee, Genpact Global Holdings (Bermuda) Limited, Genpact Luxembourg S. r.l., the Company, the lenders party thereto and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as administrative agent
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Exhibit 10.26
EXECUTION VERSION
BORROWER ASSIGNMENT & ASSUMPTION AND AMENDMENT AGREEMENT
This ASSIGNMENT & ASSUMPTION AND AMENDMENT AGREEMENT (this "Assignment and Amendment"), dated as of January 17, 2019, is by and among GENPACT INTERNATIONAL, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (formerly Genpact International, Inc., a Delaware corporation), as assignor (the "Assignor"), GENPACT USA, INC., a Delaware corporation, as assignee (the "Assignee"), Genpact Global Holdings (Bermuda) Limited, an exempted company limited by shares organized under the laws of Bermuda (the "Bermuda Borrower"), Genpact Luxembourg S.à r.l., a société à responsabilité limitée organized under the laws of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (the "Luxembourg Borrower"), Genpact Limited, an exempted company limited by shares organized under the laws of Bermuda ("Holdings"), the LENDERS party hereto (the "Lenders") and WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Administrative Agent (the "Administrative Agent").
WHEREAS, the Assignor has entered into that certain Amended & Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of August 9, 2018 (as amended, restated, extended, supplemented or otherwise modified in writing from time to time, the "Credit Agreement"; capitalized terms used herein and not defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in the Credit Agreement), by and among the Assignor, the Bermuda Borrower, the Luxembourg Borrower, Holdings, the lenders party thereto and the Administrative Agent;
WHEREAS, (a) pursuant to that certain Accession Supplement No. 1, dated as of November 27, 2018, by and between the Assignee and the Administrative Agent, the Assignee became a Guarantor under the Guarantee Agreement and (b) pursuant to that certain Accession Supplement No. 2, dated as of November 27, 2018, by and between Genpact (UK) Limited, a company registered in England and Wales ("Genpact UK"), and the Administrative Agent, Genpact UK became a Guarantor under the Guarantee Agreement;
WHEREAS, Holdings has completed a restructuring transaction pursuant to which (a) the Assignor transferred certain of its assets and liabilities to Genpact UK, (b) the Luxembourg Borrower formed and incorporated the Assignee on October 30, 2018, (c) the Luxembourg Borrower contributed all of the Equity Interests of the Assignor to the Assignee pursuant to that certain Contribution and Assignment Agreement, dated as of November 30, 2018, by and between the Luxembourg Borrower and the Assignee, (d) the Assignor distributed certain of its assets and liabilities to the Assignee pursuant to that certain Stock Redemption Agreement, dated as of November 30, 2018, by and between the Assignee and the Assignor and (e) the Assignee sold all of the Equity Interests of the Assignor to Genpact UK (the foregoing transactions described in clauses (a) through (e), the "Restructuring");
WHEREAS, in connection with the Restructuring, the Assignor has agreed to assign to the Assignee all of its rights, interests, duties, obligations and liabilities in, to and under the Credit Agreement and each other Loan Document;
WHEREAS, in connection with the Restructuring, the Assignee desires to accept the assignment of all of the Assignor's rights, interests, duties, obligations and liabilities in, to and under the Credit Agreement and each other Loan Document;
WHEREAS, the Assignor has requested that the Administrative Agent and the Lenders release the Assignor from all of its obligations under the Credit Agreement and each other Loan Document;
WHEREAS, in connection with the Restructuring, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders have requested to amend Section 9.02(b)(vii) of the Credit Agreement to designate Genpact UK as a permanent Guarantor under the Guarantee Agreement; and
WHEREAS, in satisfaction of Sections 9.02(b) and 9.04(a) of the Credit Agreement, the Administrative Agent and each Lender are willing to consent to this Assignment and Amendment on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and of other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:
1.Assignment of Credit Agreement and the Other Loan Documents. Effective as of the Assignment and Amendment Effective Date, the Assignor hereby absolutely assigns, transfers and conveys to the Assignee all of its rights, interests, duties, obligations and liabilities in, to and under the Credit Agreement and each other Loan Document.
2.Assumption of Credit Agreement and the Other Loan Documents. Effective as of the Assignment and Amendment Effective Date, the Assignee hereby absolutely accepts the assignment described in Section 1 hereof and assumes all of the rights, interests, duties, obligations and liabilities of the Assignor in, to and under the Credit Agreement and each other applicable Loan Document to the same extent as if the Assignee had executed the Credit Agreement and each other applicable Loan Document as the "Domestic Borrower". The Assignee hereby ratifies, as of the Assignment and Amendment Effective Date, and agrees to be bound by the terms and provisions of the Credit Agreement and each other applicable Loan Document as the "Domestic Borrower" and accepts all of the Assignor's rights, interests, duties, obligations and liabilities thereunder. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing terms of this Section 2, the Assignee hereby (a) acknowledges, agrees and confirms that (i) by its execution of this Assignment and Amendment, the Assignee shall be deemed to be a party to the Credit Agreement and each other applicable Loan Document and the "Domestic Borrower" for all purposes of the Credit Agreement and each other Loan Document, (ii) the Assignee shall have all of the obligations of the "Domestic Borrower" thereunder as if it had executed the Credit Agreement and each applicable Loan Document and (iii) this Assignment and Amendment shall be deemed a "Loan Document" for all purposes of the Credit Agreement and each other Loan Document, (b) agrees to be bound as the "Domestic Borrower" by the affirmative and negative covenants set forth in Articles V and VI of the Credit Agreement and (c) promises to pay to the Lenders and the Administrative Agent all Obligations of the "Domestic Borrower" outstanding at, or incurred on or after, the Assignment and Amendment Effective Date, all in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents.
3.Release. The Administrative Agent and each of the Lenders confirm that, from and after the Assignment and Amendment Effective Date, automatically and without any action on the part of any Person, (a) the Assignor is released and forever discharged from any duties, obligations and liabilities as the "Domestic Borrower" or otherwise under the Credit Agreement and each other Loan Document, (b) the Assignor shall cease to be a party to the Credit Agreement and each other
Loan Document and (c) the Assignor shall be released from the payment and performance of any and all obligations of the "Domestic Borrower" or otherwise under the Loan Documents and from all other obligations and liabilities of the "Domestic Borrower" or the "Borrowers" or otherwise under each Loan Document, in each case as if it were never a party thereto. For the avoidance of doubt, upon such assignment of the obligations of the Assignor hereunder, the Assignor shall no longer constitute a Loan Party for any purpose. The release contained herein is intended to be final and binding upon the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns. Each party agrees to cooperate in good faith and to execute such further documents as may be necessary to effect the provisions of this Assignment and Amendment.
4. Amendment to Credit Agreement. Effective as of the Assignment and Amendment Effective Date:
(a) Section 8(i) of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:
"(i) The Lenders irrevocably agree that any Loan Party (other than the Borrowers and, in the case of clause (ii), Holdings and/or Genpact (UK) Limited) shall be automatically released from its applicable obligations under the Guarantee Agreement and each other Loan Document (i) if such Person ceases to be a Subsidiary as a result of a transaction permitted hereunder or (ii) if otherwise requested by the Borrowers and no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom."
(b) Section 9.02(b)(vii) of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:
"(vii) except in connection with a transaction permitted under this Agreement, release either of Holdings or Genpact (UK) Limited from its obligations under the Guarantee Agreement, without the written consent of each Lender;"
5. Representations and Warranties. The Assignee represents and warrants to the Administrative Agent and each of the Lenders that:
(a) Immediately after giving effect to this Assignment and Amendment, the representations and warranties of the Assignee, as the "Domestic Borrower" under the Credit Agreement, set forth in Article III of the Credit Agreement (other than Sections 3.04(b) and 3.05 therein) shall be true and correct in all material respects (except to the extent that any representation and warranty is qualified by materiality, in which case they shall be true and correct in all respects) on and as of the date hereof, except where any representation and warranty is expressly made as of a specific earlier date, such representation and warranty shall be true in all material respects (except to the extent that any representation and warranty is qualified by materiality, in which case they shall be true and correct in all respects) as of any such earlier date; and
(b) At the time of and immediately after giving effect to this Assignment and Amendment, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.
6. Conditions Precedent to Effectiveness. This Assignment and Amendment shall become effective (the date of such effectiveness, the "Assignment and Amendment Effective Date") upon the satisfaction of the following conditions:
(a) This Assignment and Amendment shall have been executed and delivered by each of the parties hereto;
(b) The Administrative Agent (or its counsel) shall have received such customary documents and certificates as the Administrative Agent or its counsel may reasonably request relating to the organization, existence and good standing of the Assignee, the authorization of entry into this Assignment and Amendment and any other legal matters relating to the Assignee or this Assignment and Amendment, all in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and its counsel;
(c) The Administrative Agent (or its counsel) shall have received such incumbency certificates and/or other certificates of Authorized Representatives of the Assignee as the Administrative Agent may reasonably require evidencing the identity, authority and capacity of each Authorized Representative thereof authorized to act as an Authorized Representative in connection with this Assignment and Amendment and the other Loan Documents to which the Assignee is a party or is to be a party;
(d) The Administrative Agent (or its counsel) shall have received, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, a certificate signed by an authorized officer of the Assignee certifying that the representations and warranties specified in Section 5 of this Assignment and Amendment are true and correct; and
(e) (i) Each Finance Party shall have received such documents and other information with respect to the Assignee (as such Finance Party may have requested through the Administrative Agent at least five (5) Business Days prior to the Assignment and Amendment Effective Date) required under any applicable "know your customer" and/or anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the PATRIOT Act, in connection with this Assignment and Amendment and (ii) to the extent that the Assignee qualifies as a "legal entity customer" under the Beneficial Ownership Regulation, at least five (5) Business Days prior to the Assignment and Amendment Effective Date, any Lender that has requested, in a written notice to the Assignee at least ten (10) Business Days prior to the Assignment and Amendment Effective Date, a Beneficial Ownership Certification in relation to the Assignee shall have received such Beneficial Ownership Certification (provided that, upon the execution and delivery by such Lender of its signature page to this Assignment and Amendment, the condition set forth in this clause (ii) shall be deemed to be satisfied).
(f) The Administrative Agent shall have received, on behalf of itself and the Lenders, an opinion from Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, counsel to the Loan Parties, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(g) Prior to or substantially concurrently with the occurrence of the Assignment and Amendment Effective Date, the Borrowers shall have reimbursed or paid, to the extent invoiced at least two (2) Business Days prior to the Assignment and Amendment Effective Date, all
reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent in connection with this Assignment and Amendment.
7.Reaffirmation of Guarantors. Holdings, on behalf of itself and each other Guarantor, (i) reaffirms all of the obligations and covenants of each Guarantor under the Guarantee Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which such Guarantor is a party, (ii) reaffirms each Guarantor's guarantee of the Obligations pursuant to the Guarantee Agreement and (iii) agrees that each Guarantor's respective obligations shall not be reduced or limited by the execution and delivery of this Assignment and Amendment and that the Guarantee Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which such Guarantor is a party shall continue to be in full force and effect.
8.No Modifications; No Novation. Except as expressly provided for herein, nothing contained in this Assignment and Amendment shall amend or modify, or be deemed to amend or modify, the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document. This Assignment and Amendment shall not constitute a novation of the Credit Agreement or the other Loan Documents.
9.Governing Law, Waiver of Jury Trial, etc. The provisions of the Credit Agreement regarding governing law, jurisdiction, consent to service of process and waiver of jury trial as set forth in Sections 9.09 and 9.10 therein are incorporated herein mutatis mutandis.
10.Counterparts. This Assignment and Amendment may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto on different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Assignment and Amendment by facsimile, pdf or other electronic transmission shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Assignment and Amendment.
11. Binding Nature. This Assignment and Amendment shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns.
[Signature Pages Follow]
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed this Assignment and Amendment as of the date set forth above.
GENPACT INTERNATIONAL, LLC,
as the Assignor
By:/s/ Thomas D. Scholtes
Name: Thomas D. Scholtes
Title: Vice President & Assistant Secretary
[Borrower Assignment & Assumption and Amendment Agreement]
GENPACT USA, INC.,
as the Assignee and the Domestic Borrower
Title: Vice President & Secretary
GENPACT GLOBAL HOLDINGS (BERMUDA) LIMITED, as the Bermuda Borrower
GENPACT LUXEMBOURG S.À R.L.,
as the Luxembourg Borrower
By:/s/ Lucinda Full
Name: Lucinda Full
Title: Class A Manager
By:/s/ Harald Charbon
Name: Harald Charbon
Title: Class B Manager
GENPACT LIMITED, as Holdings
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Administrative Agent
By:/s/ Kyle R. Holtz
Name: Kyle R. Holtz
LENDER:
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND BANKING GROUP LIMITED,
as a Lender
By:/s/ Robert Grillo
Name: Robert Grillo
THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LIMITED,
By:/s/ James Hua
Name: James Hua
Title: Senior Vice President
For institutions that require a second signature:
By:/s/ Kitty Sin
Name: Kitty Sin
Bank of America, N.A.,
By:/s/ Jenny Lam
Name: Jenny Lam
Title: Vice President
Citibank, N.A.,
By:/s/ Siddarth Bansai
Name: Siddarth Bansai
Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank,
By:/s/ Sebastien Pietryk
Name: Sebastien Pietryk
Title: Managing Director
By:/s/ Dorina Luk
Name: Dorina Luk
HUA NAN COMMERCIAL BANK, LTD.,
NEW YORK AGENCY
By:/s/ I-Chin Fang
Name: I-CHIN FANG
Title: GENERAL MANAGER
THE HUNTINGTON NATIONAL BANK,
By:/s/ Phil Adresen
Name: Phil Adresen
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.,
By:/s/ Tasvir Hasan
Name: Tasvir Hasan
Title: Executive Director
Land Bank of Taiwan Los Angeles Branch,
By:/s/ Kuang Wei Chang
Name: Kuang Wei Chang
Title: VP & General Manager
MIZUHO BANK, LTD.,
By:/s/ Raymond Ventura
Name: Raymond Ventura
Morgan Stanley Bank, N.A.,
By:/s/ Emanuel Ma
Name: Emanuel Ma
Title: Authorized Signatory
BANCO DE SABADELL, S.A., MIAMI BRANCH,
By:/s/ Enrique Castillo
Name: Enrique Castillo
Title: Head of Corporate Banking
State Bank of India, New York,
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Name: Niraj Kumar Panda
Title: VP and Head (CMC)
TD Bank, N.A.,
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Name: Todd Antico
WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION,
By:/s/ Mike Williams
Name: Mike Williams
Title: Head of Debt Products, Asia
By:/s/ Graham Curd
Name: Graham Curd
Title: Head of Legal, Asia
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Jebsen & Jessen wins Country Star of the Year
The honour was awarded by the ASEAN Business Awards for our contributions in Malaysia
We are proud to announce that Jebsen & Jessen Group was awarded the Country Star of the Year for our work and contributions in Malaysia at the ASEAN Business Awards (ABA) 2020 – a prestigious international-level event held annually by the ASEAN Business Advisory Council (ASEAN BAC) since 2007.
The ABA 2020 brings meaningful recognition for ASEAN enterprises and entrepreneurs that have resolutely overcome challenges of the ongoing pandemic to reach outstanding achievements and made significant contributions to the stability of the economy. We are honoured to receive the award and this recognition holds very special meaning especially in this challenging year.
Despite what has been a tough and unpredictable year due to the pandemic, our incredible teams were able to overcome challenges, create new business opportunities, and achieve sustained growth throughout the year. We deeply appreciate and value the efforts of everyone in the Jebsen & Jessen Family who made this possible.
"This recognition from the ASEAN Business Awards Council reaffirms Jebsen & Jessen's position as a regional business leader and diversified industrial conglomerate with deep roots in the region, providing high-quality products and services," said our Chairman Heinrich Jessen. "We've certainly come a long way and we pledge to continue to work hard and strive to deliver promises to our customers."
Our colleagues in Malaysia and our other regional offices truly deserve this recognition for all of their hard work, alongside valuable support from our partners and customers that have given us their utmost support. This award serves as an even greater motivation to fulfill our mission of giving back to the community as we strengthen our efforts in ensuring sustainable and environmentally conscious business practices in the future. We remain committed to our core purpose in providing world-class products and value-adding solutions to our partners and customers as we seek to enhance our businesses throughout the ASEAN region and on a global scale.
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Elsevier and the Friedrich-Althoff Consortium Collaborate to Create "Archive of Berlin" as a Basis for a Common Research Infrastructure
Agreement between Elsevier and the three key universities of Berlin and the Charité creates a common literature infrastructure to strengthen Berlin as a central research location
Berlin, April 28, 2015
Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, has announced its collaboration with Berlin's Charité, the Humboldt University (Humboldt-Universität), the Free University of Berlin (Freie Universität) and the Technical University of Berlin (Technische Universität), all part of the Friedrich-Althoff Consortium, to create a comprehensive digital scientific literature infrastructure, "Archive of Berlin", aimed to further strengthen Berlin as a central location for research.
Through the agreement, all four universities will have access to ScienceDirect, granting them access to more than 2000 scientific publications of Elsevier. As part of the agreement, all participants can decide for which titles they would like to purchase permanent archival rights for once the contract has ended. A new and particularly interesting aspect of the contract is the option of combining these access rights into a shared access archive.
This customized agreement takes into consideration the needs of all four institutions and simultaneously fulfills the Friedrich-Althoff Consortium's objectives. This consortium unites scientific institutions within the region of Berlin/Brandenburg in order to provide their users with scientific information from electronic publications online.
"We are very proud to be working together with the universities of Berlin and the Charité, supporting them in developing such a comprehensive digital archive – an initiative that is unique to Germany and one which will further advance research," said Jörg Limberg, VP Europe, Research Solutions, Elsevier. "The creation of an 'Archive of Berlin' is a milestone that has the potential to be expanded in the future - even beyond the borders of Berlin. At the same time, it is an example of how we always aim to offer customized solutions for institutes and universities."
Harald Boersma
Director Corporate Relations Elsevier
h.boersma@elsevier.com


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Donaghamoyne ace Cora Courtney in action for Monaghan against Nicole Feery of Westmeath during the Lidl Ladies Football National League Division 1 Round 6 match between Monaghan and Westmeath at St Tiernach's Park in Clones, Monaghan. Picture by Philip Fitzpatrick/Sportsfile.
ULSTER champions Donaghmoyne renew old acquaintances with Foxrock Cabinteely for the third time in four years tomorrow hoping to book their place next month's All-Ireland senior club final.
On the previous two occasions the sides have met – at this semi-final stage in 2015 and a year later in the final – Donaghmoyne have emerged victorious but with home advantage in Bray for Fox-Cab it will need their biggest game of the season to date if they are to inflict yet another defeat on the Dublin and Leinster champions.
Both sides are littered with stars and although there have been a few changes in personnel, but not many, there is not much Francie Coleman and Ann Marie Burns don't know about Fox-Cab and vice-versa for Pat Ring and Peter Clarke.
Sinéad Goldrick, Niamh Collins, Amy Connolly, Hannah O'Neill, Emma McDonagh and Tarah O'Sullivan are all All-Ireland Senior championship winners with Dublin while captain Amy Ring is another former Dublin star.
Also in their ranks is Ireland under 17 soccer international Roisin McGovern, who scored 2-1 after coming off the bench in their Leinster final win over Sarsfields, their fourth successive provincial title the day after Donaghmoyne regained their Ulster crown to bring their total to an incredible 11 titles in 15 years.
Surprisingly, the last Dublin club team to win the Dolores Tyrell Cup was Ballyboden St Enda's in 2005 and just two have reached finals since – Foxrock Cabinteely two years ago and Na Fianna back in 2011.
Donaghmoyne are aiming for an eighth All-Ireland final – only Ballymacarby of Waterford and Mayo's Carnacon have been in more finals and of those two, only Carnacon, last year's champions, continue to be competitive – but captain Cora Courtney knows that, especially after losing their Ulster and All-Ireland titles with defeat to St Macartans last year, nothing is a given.
After defeating Glenfin in the Ulster final, Courtney remarked how the feeling of losing, which they experienced against St Macartans stays with them more than the euphoria of winning and although they have won the All-Ireland club title on five occasions, they still feel the hurt of losing two.
"Tasting Ulster success again and celebrating makes you want more. When you get to this stage with only three or four weeks left of the season you want to go all the way and we would love to win another title. We have lost two semi-finals before so we will not take our minds off this match first," she said.
Against Glenfin, Donaghmoyne were very impressive. Cathriona McConnell hit nine points of her side's 1-15 to 1-8 victory, while 16-year-old Eimear Traynor's first half goal was crucial at a time when Glenfin were on top. In the second half after seeing their three point half time lead cut back to a single point upped their performance reeling off seven unanswered points to open up a gap too big for Glenfin to claw back. Courtney knows they need to take that performance and more with them tomorrow.
"Each game we seem to be improving as a team and getting more confident in our play. Our ball retention and shots off improved on other days so these along with a high work rate is needed on Sunday.
The winner will face either Mourneabbey of Cork, who have lost three of the last four finals, or Galway's Kilkerrin/Clonberne who knocked out defending champions Carnacon in the Connacht final.
A WINNING habit is hard to break and for Ulster intermediate club champions Emmet Og now that they have tasted success they want more.
They are one step away from an All-Ireland final – just British champions Dunedin Connollys of Edinburgh stand in their way - and while captain Nicole Rooney has said what the Monaghan champions have achieved this year has gone beyond expectations, they don't want it to end yet.
"We never expected to get out of Monaghan so to be Ulster champions was totally unexpected but it is an absolute dream. When you win one trophy, it is hard not to think about winning more as that is what you want to do," said the 20-year-old.
While Emmet Og formed only a few years ago and have, Dunedin Connollys have been here before going all the way to the All-Ireland intermediate final in 2013 before losing out to Na Gaeil of Kerry, a defeat they avenged in the All-Ireland quarter-final two weeks ago, winning 2-11 to 2-9.
The majority of the Dunedin team has changed a lot from five years ago. With a lot of underage work being done in the club, there are a few natives now breaking through onto the senior team, which is made up mostly of southern Gaels studying and working in the Scottish capital, but also includes Donegal and Gortahork native and their captain Karen Feeney while another player Caoilfhionn Deeney used to play for Wicklow and has also represented Scotland on an inter-county level.
They may have caused a shock on the outside by winning their British provincial title this year but a fourth in six years does not hide the fact this is a side capable of producing the goods.
Emmet Og and Kinawley served up a thrilling Ulster final with the victors needing an Ellen McCarron injury time winning point to seal victory by the narrowest of margins. While McCarron, with her Monaghan inter-county experience, will be on Dunedin's radar, the likes of 15-year-old Fearne Monaghan, centre half back Chloe McBride who scored 1-1 in the final and the experience of Marion McCarville and Laura Boylan, who has also played for Monaghan, will be key to Emmet Og success.
"What we have achieved in few short years after amalgating the two clubs – Eire Og and Aghabog – has been amazing but we have worked hard and we have found what works for us," said the e-Commerce student in Galway. She along with teammate Orla Reilly, makes the trek from uni back home during the week for trainings in the lead up to crunch games like this one.
"It shortens thejourney travelling with Orla. A lot of our team-mates are in a similar positions so a lot of work is done on our own during the week before then coming together twice at the weekend.
The other semi-final takes place tomorrow between St Brendan's Ballygar (Galway) and Clontarf (Dublin).
TRILLICK captain Cathy Donnelly will tell her team-mates to have no regrets when the Tyrone and Ulster champions take on Cork and Munster counterparts Glanmire tomorrow afternoon for a place in the All-Ireland junior club final.
After coming through a tough provincial final against Cavan side Lavey two weeks' ago, winning 0-6 to 0-4 to collect their first piece of Ulster silverware, the ante is upped once more in the form of Glanmire. The have blazed a trail in both their county and provincial championships to date on top of their recent their All-Ireland quarter-final 5-21 to 1-1 win over Roger Casements (Coventry) in Birmingham.
They are on their travels again from East Cork and at this level and stage of the competition what opposing teams know and can find out about each other is limited, and while Donnelly says managers Don Goodwin, Iggy Gallagher and Bernie Kelly have done some homework, they are not going to get too hung up on the opposition.
"Any team from Cork is going to be hard to beat. We have looked at their previous results and they have put up some big scores and where they have come from but at the same time, we have to concentrate on ourselves too," said Donnelly. "There were a few things we have worked on after the final where we felt we could have did better and we have concentrated too on what we did well.
Donnelly was player-of-the-match in the Ulster final against Lavey and as one of the older and more experienced team members she knows that opportunities like reaching an All-Ireland final do not come about too often.
"It is a huge opportunity," says the centre half back who has put her wedding preparations to one side for the moment, despite the 'big day' to finance Charlie only being a couple of weeks away. "We have a lot of younger players on our team who have now won a county and Ulster title and there are older players who have waited 15 years to win something as huge as a provincial title.
The other side of the draw sees Carlow and Leinster champions Old Leighlin face Sligo and Connacht winners Tourlestrane.


Government says it has received reports that the UPND is mobilising youths across the country in case it's leader Hakainde Hichilema is summoned to answer queries on the riots that occurred on the Copperbelt on Monday.
Minister of Home Affairs Stephen Kampyongo says government is aware of the UPND schemes and has urged the opposition party and its leadership not to panic.
Mr. Kampyongo however says investigations in what caused the riot in Kitwe are still ongoing and that the Police command is on alert in case of any outbreak of violence.
He has told ZNBC news in an interview that when people are called for investigations no one should stand in the way.
And Mr. Kampyongo says he will on Friday issue a ministerial statement in parliament over the riots.
Mr Kampyongo has advised people that are bent on instigating hooliganism and trouble that they should be mindful of the fact that such activities led to xenophobia and genocide.
what kampyongo should know is that their is a limit to which people can be pushed before they react, some react quickly some wait until they are pressed against the wall but as of now people's patience has reached a level where PF has to be careful hence they bring out something that they will fail to quench, count yourselves against the masses, do you think that if the masses react you will be able to quell anything, you should be very careful what you do going forward because their is massive suffering in this country and that alone is receipt for danger, Saddam,Gadaffi, Mobutu, Amin, Zuma, Kaunda, Mugabe, all these were oppressive leaders who thought they had power in perpetuity, but when the time comes it comes with blessings from the most high, even in biblical stories we have once great leaders who latter went into oblivion some very shamefully, so what makes you so special that you should feel immortal in terms of your stupid leadership, time is knocking and very soon you shall be on your heels running in different directions, Gaddaffi hid in a ditch if you remember but he had many palaces. Saddam hid in a hole but he had many palaces, so you tumpyongo why should you think you are a special case???, learn from history and be humble.
Useless! no wander Sata called his pf ministers useless. Now one of those ministers is a visionless president. What is disheartening is that after such a man declares that he has no vision for the country, normal people who call themselves patriots went ahead and voted for him. What a shame of a country!


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