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Mayfly week: A brief history of fishing flies
tags: Fishing, Guest Authors, Mayfly
by freshwaterblog
Mayfly: © Stan Maddams, Specially Commended National Insect Week 2008
Guest author: Dr Peter Barnard, formerly an entomologist from The Natural History Museum, London, examines the fascinating historical links between natural flies (including the mayfly) and fisherman's artificial imitations, and wonders just how good the imitations have to be (article first published in 2004 in the British Journal of Entomology and Natural History, vol. 17, pp 1-9).
As a professional entomologist with a lifetime's interest in freshwater insects I have always been fascinated by those species that are imitated by the artificial flies of anglers. Recently I became interested in the history of these fishing flies and, having begun to investigate how much we know of early artificial flies, I wondered just how good these imitations really need to be. It soon became clear that this question has exercised fishermen for a long time, and that the debate continues today!
Ancient Egyptian tomb paintings include several pictures of people fishing with rod and line, though it is not clear what bait they may be using. One such picture has a fly hovering over the water next to the fisherman, but its presence may be accidental. The first written record of flyfishing seems to be by the Roman author Claudius Aelianus (known as Aelian) in his work On The Nature of Animals, ca 200 AD, where he describes speckled fish (which must be native trout) in Macedonian streams feeding on flies that hover above the river, said to be the colour of a wasp and humming like a bee! These sound most like hoverflies, but later authors have speculated on whether they could have been some kind of mayflies. But the local Greek fishermen were said to have made artificial flies by tying red wool round a hook and attaching two red feathers, and these are described as irresistible to the trout.
The St Albans Treatyse
Fig 1: First page of The Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle (1496)
Although we have to assume that flyfishing continued in some form in several European countries there is the usual gap in the written word until the Middle Ages. But in 1496 a book called The Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle (i.e. with a hook) was published in St Albans, of which an original manuscript exists. The first page of the printed book shows a remarkably modern-looking fisherman (Fig. 1) but sadly there are very few illustrations, one notable exception being a drawing of many different sizes of hooks which, in the days before tackle-shops appeared, had to be hand-made.
But most important from our point of view is that the Treatyse contains the descriptions of twelve patterns of artificial flies, including details of how to tie them using different colours of wool, feathers and silk thread. Unfortunately the flies are not illustrated and it is difficult to follow the tying instructions, though several modern fishermen have made intelligent reconstructions. All are what would be considered as simple patterns nowadays, and some of their names such as "Stone Fly" and "Dun Fly" are similar to those of modern forms, but from an entomological viewpoint it is frustrating that we cannot be sure which natural flies they were imitating. The book was so popular that it was reprinted many times over the next century, and was later combined with other works to form the Book of Hawking, Hunting and Fishing
The first picture of a fly
No new fishing books were published for over a century, from 1496 to the end of sixteenth century. Then in 1620 appeared The Secrets of Angling by William Lawson containing just one picture of a fly, unfortunately such a crude illustration that we cannot tell whether it is an artificial or a natural, but at least it is the first published illustration of a fishing fly. Perhaps we should not be too hard on Lawson, because many books at that time contained very crude figures which do not necessarily reflect the quality of the original drawings. A good example is the first book on entomology published in Britain, Thomas Moffet's Theatrum Insectorum (1634). It contains very crude woodcuts of insects, not at all easy to recognise to species level, yet the original manuscript of Moffet's book, which still exists in the British Library, contains the original artist's watercolour paintings. These demonstrate that the standard of observation and quality of painting were actually very high, and were not done justice by the woodcuts, which were no doubt made as cheaply as possible to keep printing costs low.
A little later in the seventeenth century appeared The Art of Angling by Thomas Barker (1651) containing descriptions of fishing flies, but again with no pictures. This book was based largely on the Treatyse of 1496, with just a few new fly patterns, still of a very simple kind. Over the next few decades a handful of other fishing books were published, again with simple fly types, and with little original content. But in 1653 came a milestone, a book that everyone has heard of, Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler. This became one of the most reprinted books of all time, yet its popularity is hard to explain. Walton seemed to know little about fishing, especially about flyfishing, yet he had a best-seller on its hands. He quotes unlikely tales from various sources without questioning their truth. But the book remains a very entertaining read even today and is still in print, having gone through over 400 editions and reprints.
The artificial flies described by Walton are something of a disappointment, as he quotes the same names as the 1496 Treatyse, written 150 years before! However, he also describes many natural insects, including several kinds of caddisfly larvae which are easily recognisable. But, rather tantalisingly, he does not link these larvae with the adults (in fact he believed that caddisfly larvae gave rise to mayflies!), and so there is still no link between natural and artificial flies. In the fifth edition of The Compleat Angler (1676), a second section was added by Charles Cotton on fishing for trout or grayling, which included more about flyfishing. The two authors seemed an unlikely pair in many ways: Izaak Walton was a pillar of the church, from an upper-class family, whereas Cotton was fond of the high life and was the author of some rather bawdy poems (though they seem rather tame today). But the two became lifelong friends and continued to fish together. Cotton was a less entertaining author, but a far better fisherman than Walton.
Tackle makers appear
We continue to be frustrated by the lack of illustrations in angling books until in 1662 The Experienc'd Angler by Robert Venables appeared. Venables was a colonel in the Roundhead army during the Civil War but in his later life he had the leisure time to write a book about fishing, and on the title page are a couple of tied flies, crude but recognisable as such. Up until this time anglers had to tie their own flies and, with the lack of published patterns, they presumably tried to match whatever flies they saw on their local river. But by 1700, in the back pages of a book called The Angler's Vade-Mecum by James Chetham, we find the advertisement of a fishing tackle maker in London, specifically mentioning artificial flies for sale, and by the middle of the eighteenth century such adverts were common. Also by 1700 books were beginning to contain more pictures of artificial flies, together with the natural flies, both adults and larvae, although the naturals and artificials were never linked together.
Probably the most important book on fishing in the eighteenth century was The Art of Angling by Richard Bowlker (1774). This pocket-sized work contains descriptions of thirty artificial flies, all well illustrated, and was quickly followed by A Concise Treatise on the Art of Angling by Thomas Best (1787), which again had good illustrations of artificials, but still there was the frustration of not knowing which real flies they were imitating. As well as general angling books we begin to see specialised flyfishing works, such as the The Flyfisher's Guide by George Bainbridge (1816). This had the promising subtitle "Illustrated by colour plates representing upwards of 40 of the most useful flies, accurately copied from nature": it certainly had good plates of artificials, plus plates of natural flies, but again they were not linked to each other.
Fig. 2 Plate from Salmonia by Humphrey Davey (1828)
Most of us think of Sir Humphrey Davy as the famous physicist and inventor (of the miners' safety lamp, for example) and as President of the Royal Society. But he was also a keen fisherman, although he wrote nothing on the subject until the last year of life and dictated a book called Salmonia on his deathbed in 1828. At first sight it looks like the answer to our entomological frustration, because it illustrates artificials and naturals side by side (Fig. 2), but sadly Davy failed to name any of the flies, just describing their appearance, and saying "I have not, however, the knowledge, or if I had, have not the time, to go through the lists of these interesting little animals". So even by around 1830 there was still no link between well-established patterns of artificial flies and the natural insects, which by this time were also becoming well known and described in detail.
Alfred Ronalds
Fig. 3 Plate from Fly-fisher's Entomology by Alfred Ronalds (1836)
Then, at last, the breakthrough came. In 1836 appeared Alfred Ronalds' Fly-fisher's Entomology the first book to combine entomology and fishing, at least in the title. Ronalds illustrated 47 natural flies, and combined them with their artificials on the same plate (Fig. 3). He named the artificials, and also named the natural insects on which they were based: he not only described how to fish with the artificials, but also described the life-histories of the naturals. This was the first bridge between the two disciplines of angling and entomology, and a measure of success is that this book, first published in 1836, went through twelve editions, with the last one as late as 1921, basically unchanged and with the same colour plates. It is worth noting that Ronalds' insect collection, on which he based these plates, still exists in the Hope Department, University of Oxford.
Ronalds' book had a considerable effect on other angling authors. Two different directions of flyfishing began at this time: the attempt to match natural insects as closely as possible, and another school which took fly-tying to an art in its own right. So in 1847 we have a book called A Handbook of Angling by Edward Fitzgibbon, published under the pseudonym of "Ephemera" which contains what today would be called fancy flies. Many of these large, complex, brightly coloured flies were used for salmon, some even for sea-fishing. In an unpublished journal written in 1843, A.J. Lane illustrates a fearsome multiple-hooked pike "fly", but of course pike, and indeed sea-fish, do not normally eat natural flies. Lane even suggests that one of the most successful pike flies is an imitation of a sand-martin! It may be preferable to call these creations artificial lures, rather than flies, as it is probably the bright colours and the way the fly is fished that attract the fish, rather than a resemblance to any real fly.
Fig. 4 Plate from The Scientific Angler by David Foster (1882)
Returning to the school of good imitations of natural flies, in a book called The Scientific Angler by David Foster (1882) we find plates (Fig. 4) which follow the tradition of Ronalds (1836). All the flies are named and we also see larvae, including the hairy caterpillar of a moth. These, called Palmers, had been known as far back as Izaak Walton's time, yet it is not clear which caterpillar they imitate (possibly some that drop into the water accidentally) but they seem successful as fishing flies.
Halford and Skues
At the end of the nineteenth century we come to one of the great names in flyfishing literature, Frederic Halford. He wrote several books, but the most significant to the entomologist is Dry Fly Entomology, published in 1897. He benefited from the excellent entomological work that had been published in the late nineteenth century, e.g. R. McLachlan on caddisflies and the Rev. A.E. Eaton on mayflies. Halford's book included 100 best patterns of tied flies, each with a highly complex set of instructions for tying them. Precise materials and colours were specified, for example the fly called Tup's Indispensable uses fur that for the right colour and consistency must be taken from the scrotal sac of a ram! The natural flies were much better illustrated than in previous angling books, showing complete life-cycles, though only in black and white figures (Fig. 5).
Fig. 5 Plate from The Dry-fly Fisherman's Entomology, by Martin Mosely (1921)
After Halford's book there grew up enormously heated discussions about the merits of dry-fly fishing (i.e. using floating flies), wet-flies, and nymph-fishing. Halford reckoned that you could not imitate nymphs because you could not copy their movement, but he met his match in the shape of another well-known author, George Skues, who disagreed with almost everything Halford said. This is not the place to go into such arguments about different fishing methods, but clearly much depended on what the fish could actually see. Could they see colours, could they see fine details on a fly, did they see rising nymphs directly or reflected in the surface film ? One man, Francis Ward, decided to test some theories, and built himself an observation pond from which he could see just above and just below the water surface. He decided that "even the most gaudy fly, seen against the surface of the water, merely appears a grey iridescent silhouette, and for this reason I do not think that the colour of the fly matters if the size be right for the condition of the water and the fly be fished so as to suggest life". This led to more controversy, with the formidable Skues joining battle again, and in some ways this argument still rages today.
Getting back on our entomological track, another important book appeared in 1921, Martin Mosely's Dry-fly Fisherman's Entomology. Mosely was a well-known fisherman, who also worked at The Natural History Museum in London for many years on the taxonomy of caddisflies, and his collection is still there. He felt that Halford's monochrome illustrations of natural flies were unsatisfactory, so he produced this book with colour plates as a pocket-sized supplement to Halford. The illustrations are rather small though of good quality. But for much of the first half of the twentieth century anglers were presented with a rather indifferent succession of books on freshwater insects, starting with The Trout Fly by Leonard West (1912). West proudly proclaims at the bottom of his plates, "drawn by Leonard West from nature", but one has to doubt his powers of observation as all the wings are figured upside down, though this does not prevent the book from fetching high prices on the second-hand market! Similar books include Charles Wauton's Troutfisher's Entomology (1930) in which the illustrations are scarcely recognisable, and another pocket book The Fly-Fisher's Flies by Roger Woolley (1933), in which it is claimed that "anglers will find they are able to tell almost at a glance what natural fly is on the water": in fact the line-drawings are not really up to the job.
Thankfully things improved again after the 2nd world war, with the introduction of the famous New Naturalist series of books, of which one of the earliest was An Angler's Entomology by J.R Harris, published in 1952. Harris was a good angler and a good entomologist, and this was one of the first freshwater insect books to rely on colour photos, all taken from living or freshly killed specimens, though it has to be said that some plates were less successful. However, the text was the best to date, setting new standards for succeeding publications, and also had distribution maps. Slightly later, Lake flies and their imitation by C.F. Walker (1960) went back to using paintings rather than photos, and harked back to the Ronalds' tradition of putting naturals and artificials on same page. In recent years we have seen excellent identification guides to freshwater insects with top-quality photos or paintings. The variety of artificial flies now available commercially is staggering, with several hundred named patterns. The demand for more realistic imitations has led to some incredibly accurate copies of both adults and larvae of freshwater insects.
Whether the accuracy of the artificial, or its presentation to the fish, is more important, is the subject of constant discussion amongst flyfishermen. But I suggest that accurate fly-tying is the result of careful observation by the angler, and such an observant angler, who understands freshwater life, is sure to be more successful.
This is of course a very brief travel through the history of fishing; for those who want to study the subject in more detail I would highly recommend Andrew Herd's book The Fly (The Medlar Press, 2001).
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Svenska fönster AB är ett företag med säte i Edsbyn, Ovanåkers kommun. År 2022 hade företaget 825 anställda i kommunen och var således den största privata arbetsgivaren. Svenska fönster AB står bakom varumärken som Traryd fönster, SP Fönster och snickarappen Svenska Fönster. Bolaget  bildades 1957 och omsatte 1,4 miljarder kronor 2021.

Historia
År 1935 bildade Otto Pettersson företaget som kom att bli Traryd Fönster med inspiration från sin tid i USA. Firma Olmats & Persson som dels tillverkade fönster och portar men också sysslade med allmän snickeriproduktion bildades 1946 och den nuvarande fabriken i Edsbyn började byggas 1962. Den har därefter byggts ut i omgångar och omfattade 2022 cirka  kvadratmeter under tak. Firma Olmats & Persson bytte namn 1975 till SP Snickerier, detta ändrades senare till SP Fönster. Traryd Fönster och SP Fönster slogs samman 1997 i det nya Svenska Fönster AB i syftet att "skapa en konkurrenskraftig och resursstark aktör på den svenska fönstermarknaden". År 1999 hade Svenska Fönster, som ägdes av Nobia, 400 anställda och en omsättning på 387 miljoner kronor och resultatet före skatt var 22 miljoner kronor.

Den danska koncernen VKR, grundare av Velux takfönster, köpte alla aktier i Svenska Fönster AB år 2000. År 2002 flyttades produktionen av Traryd Fönster från Småland till Edsbyn där de tillverkas i samma fabrik som SP Fönster. Fem år senare invigdes huvudkontoret i anslutning till fabriken i Edsbyn och 2008 började man arbeta på ett nytt arbetssätt genom implementerade av Emendoarbetet, ett arbetssätt som bygger på Lean-strategin. Samma år startades en ny komplementfabrik i Flygstaden, Söderhamn.

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Birgit's post about finding a perfume for the autumn season and her subsequent post about Ormonde Jayne Woman sent me rummaging through my samples and decants looking for my perfect autumn scent.
Let me back up a moment. Autumn is my favorite season with all of the red, orange and yellow foliage. I simply cannot get enough of it. Every year I set out with my camera to get the best shots of trees and bushes bursting with color one last time before the dreaded winter sets in. Last year I discovered Feminité du Bois and declared that I had found my autumn perfume, and as the seasons moved along I kept using Feminité du Bois because it is suitable year round. Right. Now what?
I sifted through my stash looking for something that would evoke the colors of the season. The roses are giving us their last blossoms of the year and then it hit me – a rose perfume. As much as I love Lady Vengeance and Portrait of a Lady, I tend to wear these two perfumes in the heat because of the patchouli. Then I came across the generous sample of Rouge Avignon that a dear friend gave to me during our sweltering summer. In the heat I liked Rouge Avignon well enough and decided to try it again this past week.
Gingerly opening up the bottle, I had a quick sniff. I sprayed once then twice and was immediately hit with the smell of roses infused with raspberry. Raspberries? It was such a gorgeous opening that I sprayed lavishly.
This is a deliciously dark concoction that sends me into squeals of joy. The woody notes mixed with the rose transports me to a wooded path hidden above pristine gardens which are being kissed one last time by the sun's warmth giving off the scent of roses and fallen leaves slowly dying. Walking further along the path I come across bursts of yellow and orange set against the backdrop of a crystal blue sky.
This is what I am talking about, what I am searching for in an autumn perfume. Three or four hours of walking in the woods has left me exhilarated and believe it or not fully energized. I smell my wrists again, breathing in deeply and am now lying down in a bed of leaves with the memory of roses in the background.
This is a gorgeous perfume created by Pierre Guillaume. If you fancy a dark rose perfume with a soft drydown give this one a try – you will not regret it.
This entry was posted in By Sandra, Floral, Fragrance Reviews, Fruity, Photography, Rose and tagged Autumn, Fall, Fragrance, fruity-floral, Perfume, Phaedon, Photography, Pierre Guillaume, Review, Rose. Bookmark the permalink.
Gorgeous pictures. Spot on review.
It is thanks to you that I found such a beauty! Thanks.
You painted the perfect fall picture.
Thank you Vanessa. I love autumn.
What a lovely review! I really must try this range. Ho interesting that it's energising, so many of these more autumnal perfumes (eg feminite de bois) are just the opposite.
Phaedon has a couple of perfumes that I love. It is a matter of opinion with the energising aspect. For instance I find Feminite du Bois very energising. Hope you can find some to try.
I love Avignon – I keep saying that should I be forced to move to France (my husband is French…), it would be Avignon. A lively city with lots of culture, young people and atmosphere.
I've never heard about Phaedon's A. Rouge, and while the top notes don't call after me, the heart and base ones are very much mine. So, now I only have to find a source for A.R.
BTW, Sandra, your description of autumn is really wonderful – so why I only get the grey, rainy, windy part of that gorgeous season ?!
Thanks a bunch i.a., CQ !
First of all you are right – Avignon is gorgeous – one of my favorite cities in France. Many fond memories there. Birgit has a point – you probably work too much. When i was working I found autumn dreary and grey. Then I stopped working and discovered that Vienna has a lovely fall season too.
Any time! Are you free tomorrow morning by any chance? I'll email you!
Thanks! Aren't the colors stunning?
Gorgeous review, Sandra. I love autumn too with all its wonderful colours and aromas.
A dark, raspberry rose sounds divine and if PG is behind it, that's good enough for me. Thanks for telling us about it.
I love Tabac Rouge from this brand!
I will make sure to try it next time I see the brand. Thanks for the tip!
This sounds amazing! I have been wanting a rose perfume!!
Luckyscent carries the line – and they sell samples. Just saying. 🙂 Hope you can try it soon.
I just placed a sample order with Luckyscent! I am anxious to receive it!
Great review! I too love Rouge Avignon-so much so I bought a full bottle a couple of weeks ago!I love dark roses as well.I have Portrait of a Lady,Une Rose,Incense Rose,Paestum Rose,Inner Sanctum,and Lyric for Men among others.I find some similarities between Rouge Avignon and Tom Ford's Noir de Noir which I also own,mainly in the rose and dark cocoa combo.Rouge Avignon differs in the pronounced dark raspberry note as you perfectly describe it and I also detect the Ylang Ylang note weaving in and out.It's masterfully blended and the scent melts beautifully into a drydown of the Autumnal notes of sandalwood.musk,and amber.Even at the very end a ghostly note of ashy rose persists.Your pics and descriptions of the colored leaves evoke a perfect synaesthetic description of the drydown.In Fall there is a death in Nature, but it is a beautiful dying.This perfume represents that to me.I wore it the first time at a reenactment of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow at Philipsburg Manor in Sleepy Hollow.It bloomed beautifully in the crisp October air and matched perfectly with the spooky nature of the event.Thanks for sharing your review!
I love many of the rose perfumes you mentioned! I also agree with you in the way you describe autumn. Have you tried Rose di Siwa or Rose Barbare? I also like them in autumn.
What a lovely review, you make the perfume sound almost irresistible (and I do like a dark rose), I am off to track this one down!
I do hope you like it. It is a wonderful addition to my fall wardrobe.
I have been enjoying the raspberry note in Aftelier Secret Garden lately, and I love PG's take on rose in Brulure de Rose, say, also with cocoa. And I am a card carrying ylangoholic. 🙂 So all in all, am very hopeful I might like this one…thanks for the heads up!
Autumn is also my favorite time of year and as I write this I am enveloped in the fragrant warmth of the Feminite du Bois that I bought with you in Vienna. I love it so much and since you and I have similar taste in perfume I think I will definitely have to try Rouge Avignon. As far as I'm concerned, a girl NEVER has too many rose fragrances!
A couple of weeks ago, I stopped by the Scent Bar and did a rose "sniffathon" which left me weak in the knees and wishing I would win Lotto.
One non-rose scent that I loved (and nice for cooler temps) was Anne Plitska (sorry I have no accent for the e). Hard to describe but fruity, spicey and woody. You might like it!
Take care and hope y'all are well and happy!


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Цупер () — деревня в Майском сельсовете Жлобинского района Гомельской области Белоруссии.

На севере и западе граничит с лесом.

География

Расположение
В 11 км на северо-восток от районного центра и железнодорожной станции Жлобин, 104 км от Гомеля.

Гидрография
На реке Цуперка (приток реки Днепр).

Транспортная сеть
Транспортные связи по просёлочной, а затем автомобильной дороге Бобруйск — Гомель. Планировка состоит из короткой прямолинейной, широтной улицы, застроенной неплотно деревянными усадьбами.

История
По письменным источникам известна с XIX века как деревня в Городецкой волости Рогачёвского уезда Могилёвской губернии. Согласно ревизии 1858 года во владении помещика Турчанинова, который купил деревню в 1857 году у помещика Малиновского. С 1880 года действовали мельница, хлебозапасный магазин. Согласно переписи 1897 года находились школа грамоты, хлебозапасный магазин, мельница, 2 кузницы. После 1909 года разделилась на две деревни: Старый Цупер и Новый Цупер, но в начале 1920-х годов они опять объединены в один населённый пункт.

В 1934 году организован колхоз. Во время Великой Отечественной войны в ноябре 1943 года оккупанты сожгли 73 двора и убили 70 жителей. Освобождена 24 февраля 1944 года. На фронтах и в партизанской борьбе погибли 80 жителей, в память о погибших в 1967 году на южной окраине установлена скульптура солдата. Согласно переписи 1959 года в составе колхоза «Ленинец» (центр — деревня Антоновка). Находится санаторий «Пралеска»("Подснежник" - рус.).

Население

Численность
 2004 год — 21 хозяйство, 39 жителей.

Динамика
 1858 год — 22 двора, 175 жителей.
 1897 год — 58 дворов, 339 жителей (согласно переписи).
 1909 год — 65 дворов, 467 жителей.
 1925 год — 80 дворов.
 1940 год — 292 жителя.
 1959 год — 179 жителей (согласно переписи).
 2004 год — 21 хозяйство, 39 жителей.

Известные уроженцы
 М. П. Скриганов — контр-адмирал.

Литература
 Гарады і вёскі Беларусі: Энцыклапедыя. Т.1, кн.1. Гомельская вобласць/С. В. Марцэлеў; Рэдкалегія: Г. П. Пашкоў (галоўны рэдактар) і інш. — Мн.: БелЭн, 2004. 632с.: іл. Тыраж 4000 экз. ISBN 985-11-0303-9 ISBN 985-11-0302-0

См. также

 Городские посёлки Белоруссии
 Города Белоруссии

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Населённые пункты Жлобинского района


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COMMENT: Uzbek government preparing to privatise some of its industrial crown jewels
The Almalyk mining company, one of the biggest companies in the country, has been provisionally listed for privatisation
By Fiezullah Saidov in Tashkent February 29, 2020
Uzbek reform rhetoric is moving to a practical phase withlarge-scale privatization strategy prepared by the State Asset Management Agency (SAMA).
It intends to sell 100% in 1,117 companies, mostly state-owned banks, bazaars, enterprises of oil and gas sector, cooking oil companies and alcohol producers.
However, the partial privatization list includes some of the crown jewels of Uzbek industry, such as nation's biggest gold mine, the Navoi Mining and the diversified minging company, Almalyk Mining.
Also on the list is the state-owned telecom's monopolist Uzbektelecom, the national carrier Uzbekistan Airways, the state-owned oil and gas company Uzbekneftegaz, the mobile operator Coscom and more.
The state is keeping a few cards in its hand and certain companies will not be privatized, such as Uzbekistan Railways, the strategically important National Bank for Foreign Economic Activities and banks that have social projects such as AgroBank, UzAvtoSanoat.
However, the initial privatisation list has enough of the really valuable company on it to generate real interest from strategic international investors to make the auctions highly attractive and get the ball rolling.
In addition to the privatisation list, there is another more modest list where SAMA is hoping to attract strategic investors to make foreign direct investments in the companies under a public private partnership structure. These are mostly social enterprises.
There is also a long list of state-owned companies that will simply be liquidated, sold for their a real estate, or be incorporated from purely state bodies.
Uzbekistan, unlike Russia and Kazakhstan and other ex-Soviet Republics, did not go through the large-scale privatization of the 90's and held on to most of its crown jewels, especially enterprises that employed a lot of people. In this sense the former president Islam Kairmov soften the blow of the collapse of the Soviet Union by maintaining in part the Soviet system of large enterprises that provided not just employment but many of the social needs of society like housing, schooling and health care. The new government of Uzbek president Shavkat Mirziyoyev intends to start the long overdue process of privatisation and taking the government out of the economy.
This is change of mindset. Previously competition was viewed as a waste of resources and valuable hard currency. That led to Uzbek industries and the finance sector to lag its neighbours' for about 20 years.
Independently, of SAMA's reform efforts, banks have embarked upon a large scale transformation process, where IFC, EBRD and other development banks and advisory firms helping the banks to introduce modern banking organizational structures, centralizing operations and making them client centric. Indeed amongst the first steps taken towards privatisation has been the liberalisation of the rules on foreigners owning the share of banks that was put in place last year.
The recently announced privatization strategy should also kick start the introduction of these modern management methods in the country's crown jewels and other industrial and service companies in the country with the help of strategic or financial investors.
The privatisation programme will take time to implement as the government still simply lacks enough qualified or experienced personal to make the reforms happen as fast as the president would like, but the process is now clearly moving off the drawing board and into a practical phase.
Fiezullah Saidov is the CEO of Uzbekistan Equity Fund and a banking sector consultant for the IFC. He can be contacted here.
ING reviews the main macroeconomic forecasts for Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and Serbia. While the resurgence of coronavirus infections has dashed hopes for a rapid V-shaped recovery, 2021 should still be a good year.
According to the Rating Group's first public opinion poll of 2021, just over half of Ukrainians surveyed (52%) believe that the new year will be better than the one before.
The global economy starts 2021 with record amounts of debt that will slow the recovery and could destabilise some countries, the Institute of International Finance warned.
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Joe Biden seems to be getting the band back together, drawing heavily on veterans of the Obama administration for his foreign policy team. In many ways that is a good thing after four years of erratic decision-making and malign neglect.

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Belle & Sebastian: The Life Pursuit
There is a lot of hype surrounding Belle & Sebastian's newest, The Life Pursuit. It's the New and Improved Belle & Sebastian! They're a whole new band! They've really turned a corner! While I won't argue with claims that this is a fantastic album—it is; go buy it—there is an underlying, perhaps unconscious negativity to these many reviews, and it has everything to do with their critically impervious album, If You're Feeling Sinister.
David M. Goldstein at Coke Machine Glow spells it out explicitly when he diagnoses B&S with having Violent Femmes Syndrome. "Stuart Murdoch need only ask the likes of Gordon Gano," he says; "achieving perfection on your first go-round is a special kind of hell." Murdoch & Co. are at the mercy of the critics: they will never escape the shadow of their breakout album. And that's too bad, because The Life Pursuit is stellar. On that, it seems most critics can agree. "It's their best album since Sinister!" But there I must part ways: The Life Pursuit is their best album since their last one, Dear Catastrophe Waitress. While I nearly weep at the idea of Gordon Gano's Sisyphean battle to pop his sun-obliterating blister, I take umbrage at the easy impulse to lump B&S into the same funk.
The standard take on Belle & Sebastian, as you will no doubt read in every single review of this album, the last album, and every album to come, is that they were brilliant out of the docks, sank to progressively unsalvageable depths with their three subsequent releases, and have lately managed to cork the leak and keep whoever was left—fans and bandmembers alike—inside the boat. Somehow their two most recent albums are great—but with the caveat that you must already be a fan to appreciate them correctly. Woe to the youngster who mistakenly starts with The Life Pursuit: you just won't get it. You'll hear this polished, erudite, eminently hummable pop, and you just won't understand. All those references to twee, all those remarks on Murdoch's wit—right over your head, sorry.
Two years ago I would have agreed with Goldstein tagging B&S as a latter-day Violent Femmes. I had completely written them off, and took all those reviews of DCW—"their best album since Sinister!"—with a shaker of salt. But when I finally heard it, it captivated me. Two years later and I still listen to it all the time. There's not a bad song on the disk. Unlike The Boy with the Arab Strap, which was a flawed carbon copy of Sinister, and Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant, which sounds like a bunch of kids fantastically bored with themselves, the band that showed up to record Dear Catastrophe Waitress was reinvigorated and ready to pop. It was unmistakably Belle & Sebastian, but it didn't sound like it owed anything to Sinister. They'd grown.
The album was rightly hailed as a comeback. Yet on the occasion of The Life Pursuit, both Pitchfork and Coke Machine Glow retroactively invoke the "transitional" damnation to DCW: "As enjoyable as much of Dear Catastrophe Waitress was, it suffered from having the distinct feeling of a transitional record," says Golstein; "The Life Pursuit's lavishness renders the burgeoning bubblegum of 2003's Trevor Horn-produced Dear Catastrophe Waitress merely transitional," says Pitchfork's Marc Hogan. I don't know about you, but whenever I see nearly identical critiques—especially when they're wrong—my PR-radar goes way up. Where's the press release for this album?
[Here it is, from Matador's website: "The decision to partner up with producer Trevor Horn for the last record (Dear Catastrophe Waitress) was a clear statement of intent—'Think we're lo-fi underachievers? Think again—we're working with the guy who does Tatu.' What is now clear—with producer Tony Hoffer back at the helm—is that DCW was but a stop on the way. And what that album started, The Life Pursuit delivers in spades."]
When DCW came out two years ago, it was roundly hailed as their best work since Sinister. Now, what do you know—hand me that ad copy, please—The Life Pursuit is their best since Sinister! I can't begrudge anyone for liking The Life Pursuit more than DCW—it is a great album, by all means—but it shouldn't necessarily mean that DCW somehow loses its own luster as a result. Where is it written that Belle & Sebastian may only have two good albums at a time?
And so we return to the Violent Femmes Syndrome. Goldstein makes the explicit connection, but I would argue that nearly every other critic, consciously or not, is implicitly agreeing by treating Belle & Sebastian not as skilled songwriters with a sound unmistakably their own, but as a group in a constant scramble to match their moment of fluke genius seven years back.
Nothing wrong with loving Sinister the most, of course, nor with hoping that this or the next one will be the best period, not the best since. But I think it's unfair to hold them so rigidly against that album. Elliott Smith's second, self-titled album was his best, but that album wasn't invoked as the barometer of any that followed. He made enough strong showings to be respected as an artist, not a one-trick pony. All the idolatry of Sinister would have you believe that there's only one way to enter Belle & Sebastian, but this simply isn't true. The uninitiated could surely appreciate the group if they discovered them through their newest or through DCW. In other words, this is a band that remains relevant, one that you shouldn't feel like you missed the boat on, shouldn't feel guilty about returning to, shouldn't be intimidated by the mythology bestowed on Sinister.
If The Life Pursuit proves anything, it's that Belle & Sebastian can make two great records in a row and can evolve at the same time—something they've never proven before. In a just world, it should be enough to toss out the Violent Femmes references altogether and start treating their entire oeuvre with more admiration. If they keep it up, If You're Feeling Sinister won't seem like the legendary acme; Fold Your Hands and Storytelling will be the legendary depths. This is a band that has had a few missteps, but they've certainly found their footing and are cutting a path worth following.
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In reality, the young earth model makes many predictions about future discoveries. For example, the claim that the entire universe is less than 10,000 years old predicts that we will eventually discover a method by which light from distant galaxies could reach earth within that time frame. Now, you may be of the opinion that such a method could not possibly exist, but that is beside the point. The fact is that the discovery of such a method is a prediction of the young earth model. And there are other predictions as well such as the prediction that the universe will be proven to have had a beginning or that we will discover a method by which the layers of the earth could have formed rapidly or that evidence will be found of men living with dinosaurs. These are all predictions of the young earth creationist model, and one of the most controversial predictions of this model is the prediction that dinosaur fossils will be found to have things in them that could not have lasted for millions of years.
In 2005, Mary Schweitzer made a discovery that has sparked a frenzy of additional findings confirming the prediction that dinosaur fossils will be found to have things in them that could not have lasted for millions of years. Ms. Schweitzer's discovery was featured on the program "60 Minutes," and you can watch a short clip of that program in this video:
As you can see, the discovery which Ms. Schweitzer made was the discovery of soft tissue within the fossilized bones of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. And this was not a single, isolated incident. The video clip shows her finding similar soft tissue in the bones of a supposedly 80 million year old hadrosaur as well. Soft tissue has also been found in a "70 million year old" mosasaur, a "150 million year old" archaeopteryx, a "190 million year old" sauropod embryo, a triceratops horn and more. Ever since Ms. Schweitzer's discovery, scientists have been finding dinosaur soft tissue in just about every fossil that they examine for its presence.
Of course, the discovery of so much soft tissue poses a problem for the old earth model. According to a 2007 article by Ms. Schweitzer, "The presence of original molecular components is not predicted for fossils older than a million years," and a 2008 article in the journal Science explained that collagen could not be expected to last more than 700,000 years even when preserved at near freezing temperatures. This implies that the existence of these soft tissues contradicts the old earth model, and the old earth community began searching for ways to explain how soft tissue could survive for millions of years.
The most recent attempt at an explanation is Ms. Schweitzer's 2013 paper claiming that high concentrations of iron would allow these tissues to last much longer than previously thought possible. There are several problems with Ms. Schweitzer's proposal such as the fact that some of the fossils found to have soft tissue were found in sediments that did not have high iron concentrations. But perhaps the most conclusive evidence that fossils containing soft tissue are less than one million years old is the presence of carbon 14 in those tissues. Ms. Schweitzer's suggestion that the presence of iron explains the existence of soft tissue in ancient fossils does not account for the fact that these fossils also contain measurable amounts of carbon 14 which decays at a steady rate regardless of the presence of iron.
In 2006, Bob Enyart of Real Science Radio offered Ms. Schweitzer's boss, paleontologist Jack Horner, a $23,000 dollar grant to his museum if he would submit the T. Rex fossil containing soft tissue to an independent lab for a blind test of the amount of carbon 14 in that fossil. Mr. Horner stated in a recorded conversation that he would not accept the offer because he was afraid that the test might embolden young earth creationists.
Then, in 2012, Thomas Seiler gave a presentation to the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in which he documented his findings of measurable carbon 14 in 8 different dinosaur fossils. When the organizers of the AGU conference realized the implications of Mr. Seiler's discoveries, they promptly deleted all reference to his presentation from their website. Those visiting their site today will find that presentation #5 is missing from the list of abstracts. Thankfully a screenshot of the original list of abstracts was captured by a group of young earth creationists before it was deleted, and it can be readily found online. A video of Mr. Seiler's presentation is also available, and you can watch it in this clip:
With the combined evidence of the existence of soft tissue in dinosaur fossils and the presence of carbon 14 in dinosaur fossils, it is abundantly clear that these fossils were formed mere thousands of years ago and not 50 or more million years ago as old earth geologists claim.


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Fifty or more reported killed, dead around Mexico
The review Proceso counted 30 presumed victims of crime around Mexico for 14 March, including seven gunned down in an eatery in the Caribbean resort of Cancún and 10 that included gunmen killed or found dead in incidents in the north-western state of Sinaloa. The victims of the day included: four gunmen killed by troops in a shootout in the district of Sinaloa de Leyva in Sinaloa, a body found floating in a canal in Navolato in Sinaloa, a body found half-buried in coastal Mazatlán in Sinaloa, and seven shot dead in an eatery in Cancún. These included three trade unionists representing taxi drivers who appeared to be the targets of a gun attack that killed four other customers, Proceso reported. On 15 March police killed two gunmen who opened fire on a patrol on a road between Tala and San Isidro Mazatepec in the western state of Jalisco, while a body was found in Estado de México and three were found dead or killed in shootouts in the north-eastern state of Tamaulipas, Excelsior reported on 16 March. These were among 19 Proceso counted as victims of crime from late 14 through 15 March. Others were: two found shot in the head in the north-eastern city of Ciudad Victoria, with hands and feet tied and a message by them from the Zetas cartel to the rival Gulf Cartel, three suspects killed in a shootout with police in the east-coast city of Veracruz and a woman shot and killed while travelling on one of the Mexican capital's main roads, the Circuito Interior. Gunmen on a motorbike stopped her car in an apparent ambush or robbery, shortly after she and the car's driver withdrew money from a cash dispenser; the driver was injured in the shooting, Proceso reported. The 19 apparently did not include a suspected gangster shot dead by troops in the western state of Michoacán early on 15 March. The victim, identified as Dionisio Loya Plancarte, a presumed senior member of the cartel Caballeros Templarios, was one of five or more thought killed in a shootout between gunmen and the army in the district of Apatzingán. Authorities had yet to confirm the number and identities of the dead; one or more soldiers may have died, Proceso reported.
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Angry Canadian grocery shoppers are leading a movement to boycott American-made products after President Donald Trump levied aluminum and steel tariffs on the country and threatened to impose auto tariffs on the nation, the Wall Street Journal reported.
On June 1, Canada was slapped with a 25 percent tariff on steel and 10 percent tariff on aluminum. Canada retaliated on the U.S. by imposing tariffs on popular food products, including orange juice, ketchup, and yogurt.
Stalled trade negotiations with Canada, Mexico, and the European Union triggered the tariffs against its trading partners.
Are Canadian products available for boycotters?
Canada is the U.S.'s top export market and takes in 18 percent of all U.S. goods that are sold abroad, according to the Journal.
Also, experts estimate about 40 to 60 percent of all food sitting on Canadian grocery store shelves come from the U.S. which makes it makes it difficult to forgo American products altogether.
"I'll swear up and down something is 100 percent Canadian," Beth Mouratidis of Barrie, Ontario, told the Journal. She curates a list of Canadian food and household products, along with other items.
For instance, many consumers are opting for Canadian-manufactured French's ketchup over American-made Heinz ketchup. But the U.S. and Canada also have closely linked production chains that make it more challenging to determine whether a product is American or Canadian.
For example, Mouratidis told the Journal she was convinced Old Dutch chips were all-Canadian but later found out that Old Dutch Foods Ltd. is a subsidiary of Minnesota-based Old Dutch Foods Inc.
Canadian manufacturers, such as Ontario-based Kawartha Dairy Ltd., have also seen interest in their products increase in recent months.
"People sort of feel that we're getting a raw deal from the U.S. and we have to stick up for ourselves," Tom Legere, marketing manager at Kawartha, told the Journal.
Has it impacted Canada's economy?
Exports of goods to Canada were up by nearly 4 percent in June over the same period last year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. But when compared with the previous month on a seasonally adjusted basis they were down 1.2 percent.
Canada's non-U.S. exports increased 8.7 percent in June to a record $13.6 billion, according to Statistics Canada.
However, travelers aren't boycotting the United States. Canadian car trips across the border were up nearly 13 percent in June over last year during the same month.


Online payments platform PayPal is launching its first Slack bot, allowing users to send money between PayPal accounts without leaving a Slack conversation, the firm announced on Tuesday morning.
The new bot is available to install from the Slack App Directory. The chat bot will allow Slack users to send money to colleagues by typing commands similar to "/PayPal send $5 to @Dave." It's available to Slack users in Canada, the U.S., Australia, and the U.K.
PayPal says that person-to-person payments is one of its most used features, processing $41 billion in volume during 2014 across PayPal Holdings businesses PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom. PayPal has been making efforts to integrate its service into numerous web platforms including voice-activated payments with Apple's Siri, a tie-in with Microsoft Outlook, and a bot on Facebook Messenger launched last October. PayPal's Messenger bot enables capabilities to track receipts and access transactions in addition to payments. Though the Messenger integration is limited to the U.S. region for now.
The peer-to-peer payments space has been heating up over the past year. PayPal's own Venmo app exists for that purpose, and other similar service launches include Snapchat's payments, Square Cash, and Google Wallet. The trend is more advanced in Asia, where WeChat integrated services including mobile and in-store payments.
Slack currently has an estimated 5 million users and just launched its Enterprise Grid edition to appeal to larger companies. PayPal says it has about 192 million users worldwide.
PayPal declined to do an interview about the service with IT World Canada.


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Grameenphone Introduces a New e-learning Portal
Grameenphone has launched an e-learning platform called "Grameenphone Academy" to assist the digital future ahead of the fourth industrial revolution. Executive Chairman of the National Skills Development Authority (NSDA) Dulal Krishna Saha was the chief guest at the platform's opening ceremony.
The platform offers courses in partnership with Telenor and Cisco that focuses on training Bangladesh's massive young generation to prepare them for the future job market. The courses are based on career, start-up business, developing core skills, and a lot more for 4IR.
Through the "GP Explorers" program, Grameenphone has been helping university students to develop their skills for the last two years. Now GP Academy comes with a broad vision of spreading this mission all over the country.
The GP Academy offers supplemental classroom-based academic knowledge that will shape young minds for the next phase of their career through its "Career Launchpad program," which is designed to fill the gaps between academic knowledge and the professional world by providing industry-specific practical skills.
Dulal Krishna Saha, executive chairman (secretary) of the NSDA, expressed full support for this unique initiative and stated, "I am glad to see Grameenphone's participation in supporting the critically important field of growing skills through their technology and creativity."
Cecilie Heuch, EVP and chief people and sustainability officer of Telenor, also emphasized the academy's potential. She said, "Developing future talents is essential for constructing a sustainable future. Today, I am thrilled to be a part of the launch of the "Grameenphone Academy" in partnership with Telenor and Cisco. I believe and hope that our combined efforts with credible global partners will play a crucial role in improving digital skills among the youth of Bangladesh, speeding digitalization, and building a globally competitive workforce."
Also, the CEO of Grameephone shared his goal of unlocking the genuine potential of Bangladeshi youth. He said," Through our many upskilling platforms, we have endeavored to equip young people with essential digital skills. In continuation of our series of efforts to equip children with future-ready skills, I am hopeful that GP Academy, in partnership with Telenor and Cisco, will unlock the potential of youth via transformative skills that will help Bangladesh become a smart nation."
Fakhruddin Ahmed, General manager of Cisco, Bangladesh, was also present at this launching event and said," It is a step towards realigning the existing talent with emerging technologies, making them more cyber smart, and ultimately enabling better job opportunities and futureproofing the youth of Bangladesh for the digital world." The event took place on Wednesday at GP House, Dhaka.
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Lawmaker Warns Paris Against Following US Lead
A lawmaker warned France not to go along with the US hostile stance toward Iran.
"If France is seeking to expand its relations with Iran, it should adopt an independent policy and avoid tying its Iran relations to the US interests because it would benefit neither Iran nor France," Akbar Ranjbarzadeh said in a Tuesday talk with ICANA.
Ranjbarzadeh was commenting on accusations by French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian a day earlier that Iran is not respecting part of a UN resolution that calls on it to refrain from work on nuclear-capable ballistic missiles.
Speaking on arrival at a European foreign ministers meeting in Brussels, Le Drian also said the 28 ministers would reiterate their concerns over Iran's allegedly destabilizing activities in Yemen, Lebanon and Syria, Reuters reported.
"We will also have the opportunity of underlining our firmness on Iran's compliance with United Nations Resolution 2231, which limits access to ballistic capacity and which Iran does not respect," Le Drian claimed.
Under the UN resolution enshrining the 2015 nuclear deal with Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States, Iran is "called upon" to refrain from work on ballistic missiles designed to deliver nuclear weapons for up to 8 years.
Tehran argues the resolution's language on the ban does not make it binding and insists it has and will never seek nuclear-capable missiles.
Le Drian on Sunday said he would travel to Iran in March and that France had begun talks with Tehran to discuss its missile program and regional activities.
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But Iran's foreign ministry spokesman on Monday dismissed the suggestion of talks on either issue.
"If there is such a quote [from the French foreign minister] that we held talks, we deny it. We have not had any negotiations about our missile and defense capabilities and will not talk about these issues with others," Bahram Qasemi said.
With US President Donald Trump warning of a last chance for "the worst deal ever negotiated", Britain, France and Germany have reportedly begun talks on a plan to satisfy him by addressing Iran's ballistic missile tests and its regional influence while preserving the 2015 accord.
"The French foreign minister is not familiar with Iranian society yet," Qasemi said. "Iran has proved that it would not change course under pressure."
"We should surely discuss Iran's influence in the region because it has been a positive one and everyone has benefited from it. Without Iran's influence, terrorists [would have] captured Damascus and Baghdad," he said.
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Russia's Deadly Campaign
Michael Lucas's new documentary, Campaign of Hate, features gays and lesbians in frank interviews about the state of their safety and the tide of antigay politics and cultural attitudes in today's Russia
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May 16 2014 2:07 PM EDT
Over the last couple of years, Michael Lucas, best known as the east coast king of gay porn (but also an occasional commentary contributor to Advocate.com and Out.com) took an especially timely series of trips to Russia, his home country.
In advance of the Sochi Olympic Winter Games, Lucas interviewed and filmed LGBT activists and journalists, commentators and regular Russian citizens, on their experiences living in a country that actively harasses and criminalizes the lives of gays and lesbians. The interview were for a documentary, now out, called Campaign of Hate: Russia and Gay Propaganda, directed by Lucas and Scott Stern.
The interviews are timely given the world's focus on Russia's systematic attacks on queer people. The country has anti– "gay propaganda" laws, criminalizing anything positive said about LGBTs. Gays and lesbians are prevented from adopting children, and legislation threatened to have children of gay parents forcibly removed from their parents' custody. Rather than dispel the lies that pedophilia is the same thing as homosexuality, the dominant political strain of thought is to encourage the conflation, and the antigay politicians gain currency with the uneducated masses for decrying so-called gay child-rapists. Young queer people are tortured on camera and the footage is distributed online; the thuggish perpetrators act with impugnity.
He interviews Anton Krasovsky, the Russian journalist who was fired after coming out on television. He interviews lesbian journalist Elena Kostyuchenko who describes a two-hour conversation with an antigay bigot who threatened violence, and in which she made some inroads. When Lucas asserts that she cannot possibly have conversations with each and every antigay person for two hours, she replies tirelessly: "No I can, actually, and I do it." He also speaks with Masha Gesen, the writer who, with her wife and children, left Moscow under threat of the take-away-your-kids legislation.
Perhaps Lucas's most shocking interview is with Vitaly Milonov, the politician who introduced the antigay law. He told Lucas that homosexuality is a disease. Given Lucas's work in gay porn, their very meeting is a puzzle, and Milonov's insistence that gays are a virus that targets morality, is the personification of rejection of gays and lesbians' dignity and humanity.
These are the kinds of attitudes that Russian LGBT activists are attempting to confront head-on, like in this planned protest in 13 cities this Saturday, in defiance of state sanctioned oppression.
This is not Lucas's first documentary. Undressing Israel was undoubtedly sunnier than Campaign of Hate. That documentary showcased Israel as an oasis of LGBT rights in the Middle East, and it was a love letter to a nation Lucas, who is Jewish, holds dear. Conversely Campaign of Hate isn't exactly a break-up letter. Lucas has already renounced his Russian citizenship. This film isn't Lucas walking away from Russia, but a clear-eyed, unsentimental look at a country that demonize LGBTs in a concerted, violent, and dangerous way for political gain.
Campaign of Hate: Russia and Gay Propaganda is available on iTunes and DVD copies can be purchased at Amazon.com.
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The 2019 Oscars is officially off to the races, this time without an official emcee presiding over the annual ceremony. So since The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences typically relies on their hand-picked host to kick off the festivities, Sunday night's opening number was met with much anticipation.
And with Queen and Adam Lambertin the driver's seat, it did not disappoint! As the curtain rose inside Hollywood's Dolby Theatre, the classic rock 'n' roll group (who has been fronted by the American Idol alum since 2011) brought attendees to their feet as they performed a medley of hits featured in Bohemian Rhapsody.
From "We Will Rock You" to "We Are the Champions," it's safe to say there's never been an Academy Awards opener quite as electrifying. And yes, Jennifer Lopez, Lady Gagaand Glenn Close knew every word.
Rami Malek portrayed the late frontman Freddie Mercury in the critically-acclaimed film, which is nominated for five awards, including Best Picture.
Prior to their performance, Lambert caught up with E! News on the red carpet and called the opportunity "mind blowing."
"I'm so honored to be here," he gushed. "It's surreal. I lived in Los Angeles for 17 years and to open the Oscars, I never would have dreamed this is possible."
Adam continued, "Queen and I have been working together for about six years. We've been traveling all over the world and we are performing this song in celebration of Bohemian Rhapsody and all of its nominations.... Everybody in the audience tonight worked really hard in their arts and in their craft and they all deserve to be here. So we're all celebrating together."
Comedian Kevin Hart was initially set to host the Oscars, but he pulled out of the gig after past homophobic comments he made resurfaced online. The controversy cast a shadow over the ceremony, and weeks ago The Academy announced the Oscars would go on without a host for the first time in 30 years.
Keep checking back to E! News throughout the evening for our complete Oscars coverage!


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Q: notarization rejects my app with: The signature of the binary is invalid I'm trying to codesign/notarize an existing app on macOS 10.15 / XCode 12.4.
This is my workflow:

*

*as my app is Qt-based, I'm using this Recipe OSX Code-Signing Qt to fix the app-bundle;

*sign with codesign -vvv --force --options runtime --deep --sign "Developer ID Application: ..." --entitlements myApp.entitlements myApp.app

*package the .app with zip -rqy

*upload it to notarization with xcrun altool --notarize-app ...
This is the notarization log:
{
  "logFormatVersion": 1,
  "jobId": "b864c16d-d8dc-464e-aa4f-c2eea5ff6ac4",
  "status": "Invalid",
  "statusSummary": "Archive contains critical validation errors",
  "statusCode": 4000,
  "archiveFilename": "myApp-signed.zip",
  "uploadDate": "2022-07-18T12:25:04Z",
  "sha256": "c324a9ba88dbbaf0e5c325b48c2c22744886d68d450835b0724c7c70258784c2",
  "ticketContents": null,
  "issues": [
    {
      "severity": "error",
      "code": null,
      "path": "myApp-signed.zip/myApp.app/Contents/MacOS/myApp",
      "message": "The signature of the binary is invalid.",
      "docUrl": null,
      "architecture": "x86_64"
    }
  ]
}

but if I look at the signature of that file which is still in the status as when it was uploaded to notarization:
$ codesign -dvv myApp.app/Contents/MacOS/myApp
Executable=/path/to/myApp.app/Contents/MacOS/myApp
Identifier=com.myapp
Format=app bundle with Mach-O thin (x86_64)
CodeDirectory v=20500 size=1580 flags=0x10000(runtime) hashes=40+5 location=embedded
Signature size=8977
Authority=Developer ID Application: My Name (ID)
Authority=Developer ID Certification Authority
Authority=Apple Root CA
Timestamp=18 Jul 2022 at 15:09:09
Info.plist entries=10
TeamIdentifier=6RVQYWZ74B
Runtime Version=11.1.0
Sealed Resources version=2 rules=13 files=4529
Internal requirements count=1 size=192

(additionally, after codesign/altool the app won't start anymore, but this is a different issue)
What is the problem with the main executable of my app?

A: Another thing that might cause "The signature of the binary is invalid": I had an Info.plist file that had Windows line endings. When I changed to unix line endings, the notarization succeeded. Took me a while to figure out what was wrong...

A: My problem was that I signed .app with Installer signature. I needed to use App signature

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ST. LOUIS, June 6, 2018 – Convenience is the new currency among consumers looking for faster, easier, always-accessible services to conform to their daily lives. As a result, the economy's next big evolution may impact how tens of millions of people get their prescription drugs. That's the vision of Express Scripts (NASDAQ: ESRX), which today announced a strategic investment in MedAvail, a leading healthcare technology company behind self-service pharmacy centers.
This pilot is beginning in Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona, where six MedCenters are now available in a variety of locations including grocery stores, pharmacies and medical clinics, with total of 15 to be deployed by the end of 2018. Express Scripts members living in these areas -- and customers of the Inside RxSM prescription savings program that provides discounts on medications to people who are uninsured or underinsured -- can choose to fill their medication at one of these MedCenters. Over the course of the next year, we will expand access to MedCenters in several states, including additional locations in Arizona and new locations in Illinois, to thousands of Express Scripts members.


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After Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez allegedly resigned in April, 2002 the "New York Times" declared, "Democracy is no longer threatened by a would-be dictator." The U.S. media, following the Bush Administration's lead, praised the shift in power and sidestepped the fact that Venezuela's democratically elected President was ousted by a military coup. Was this simply an exception to the rule of U.S. support for democratic governments around the world? Or is Washington's disregard for democracy so systemic that its own electoral process suffers? Florida's 2000 election was fraught with technical errors and voter fraud. In any other country, the UN would have sent in election monitors. The hard evidence of this American-style coup was all over the foreign press, but largely ignored in the U.S.


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OKa1 – polskie oznaczenie na PKP lekkiego parowozu tendrzaka łotewskiej serii Tk, produkcji niemieckiej i łotewskiej, budowanej w latach 1928–1934. Po roku 1945 eksploatowany również na PKP; był to jedyny w Polsce parowóz z jedną osią napędną.

Historia
W 1928 roku zarząd kolei łotewskich złożył zamówienie na skonstruowanie lekkich i ekonomicznych tendrzaków do obsługi ruchu podmiejskiego. Ogółem zakupiono 20 sztuk, z czego pierwsze trzy zbudowane były w Niemczech (nry 231-233 w zakładach Hohenzollern w Düsseldorfie). Testy okazały się pomyślne, dlatego w 1931 roku zamówiono kolejne sześć w zakładach niemieckich (234-236 – Krupp i 237-239 – Henschel), przy tym montaż i części takie, jak budka maszynisty i skrzynie wodne wykonywały łotewskie zakłady Fēnikss w Rydze. Wprowadzono w nich niewielkie ulepszenia w stosunku do pierwszej partii. W latach 1933–1934 zbudowano ostatnie 11 lokomotyw w łotewskich warsztatach kolejowych: 6 w TFD w Dyneburgu (240-242, 248-250) i 5 w TFL w Lipawie (243-247). Stanowiły one alternatywę dla wagonów spalinowych na mniej uczęszczanych szlakach osobowych. Parowozy normalnie były początkowo przystosowane do toru szerokości 1524 mm, lecz posiadały także wymienne osie o standardowym rozstawie 1435 mm.

Eksploatacja
Lokomotywy były przydzielone do lokomotywowni w Šķirotava, Jełgawie, Dyneburgu, Rezekne i Krustpils. We wrześniu 1940 roku, po przyłączeniu Łotwy do ZSRR, parowozy zostały przejęte przez koleje radzieckie. Podczas wojny część parowozów została zdobyta przez Niemców, 5 z nich zostało ponownie przejęte przez wojska radzieckie i po wojnie w ZSRR znajdowało się 12 parowozów tej serii. Wycofano je w latach 50., kilka przekazano do przemysłu.

Po roku 1945 na PKP znalazły się dwa parowozy Tk: nr 235 (oznaczony jako OKa1-1) oraz nr 242 (oznaczony jako TKa-242). Oka1-1 został wycofany z ruchu w 1969, a wcześniej prowadził pociągi służbowe w rejonie stacji rozrządowej Łazy. Parowóz TKa-242 pracował do roku 1957 w lokomotywowni w Kutnie. Dla celów muzealnych pozostawiono lokomotywę OKa1-1, która obecnie znajduje się w Muzeum Kolejnictwa w Warszawie.

Trzy lokomotywy po wojnie znalazły się na kolejach zachodnioniemieckich (wycofane z końcem 1951 roku), a jedna na kolejach wschodnioniemieckich. Pozostałe dwie zaginęły podczas wojny.

Opis
Tendrzak o układzie osi 1A1, na parę przegrzaną. Oś wiodąca i oś napędowa były zamocowane sztywno w ostoi, oś podtrzymująca z tyłu była na półwózku Bissela (układ odwrotny, niż najczęściej spotykany). Lokomotywy serii Tk posiadały pneumatyczny mechanizm pozwalający na zmniejszenie obciążenia tylnej osi tocznej i zwiększenie o 50% obciążenia osi napędnej podczas rozbiegu lokomotywy. Masa przyczepna i jednocześnie nacisk na oś napędową wynosiły 15,4 T, a maksymalny nacisk na oś 17,3 T.

Lokomotywa miała kocioł z 55 płomieniówkami o średnicy 39,5/44,5 mm (powierzchnia ogrzewalna 20,5 m²) oraz 26 płomienicami o średnicy 100,5/108 mm (powierzchnia ogrzewalna 24,6 m²). Całkowita powierzchnia ogrzewalna (od strony ognia) wahała się od 49,3 do 51,2 m². Kocioł był wyposażony w przegrzewacz o powierzchni 21,8 m².

Silnik dwucylindrowy bliźniaczy, o średnicy cylindra 320 mm i skoku tłoka 520 mm. Rozrząd Walschaertsa.

Do serii Tk na Łotwie były ponadto zaliczone dwie inne lokomotywy (tendrzaki): Tk-226 o układzie osi C i Tk-227 o układzie osi B. Łotewskie lokomotywy serii Tk należy odróżniać od litewskiej serii lokomotyw Tk.

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 Toms Altbergs, Latvijas dzelzceļu lokomotīves, Ryga, 2005, ,
 Toms Altbergs, The Latvian Tk tanks, "Locomotives International" nr 101,
 Witalij A. Rakow, Łokomotiwy otieczestwiennych żeleznych dorog 1845-1955, Moskwa 1995,  (ros.)

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Billionaire owner loves Cup and G-strings
Magic Circle's owner Marwan Koukash will strip to a g-string if his horse wins the Melbourne Cup.
Flamboyant British billionaire racehorse owner Dr Marwan Koukash has an extra incentive to win this year's Melbourne Cup: he desperately wants to accept the trophy in his G-string.
The self-proclaimed "crazy owner" loves every part of the build-up to the Cup, whether it's the annual parade in front of thousands of people or the attention he's getting over his promise to strip.
"It's fantastic, a fantastic experience," he said after Monday's parade.
"You'd have to be an absolute miserable bastard not to enjoy it.
"I've been enjoying every minute of being in Melbourne."
Dr Koukash is very confident his horse Magic Circle will win the Cup and just as determined to celebrate in a way no owner has before.
"It's the best race in the world," he told the crowd at Federation Square.
"It's not only the race that stops Melbourne or Australia. It stops the world."
Then he showed off a bright pink G-string, modelling it over his jeans.
"That's the lace that's going to stop the nation."
Dr Koukash rejects any suggestion he's all talk and no action, after not following through with his threat to collect the Chester Cup wearing only a tie when Magic Circle gave him a fourth win in the big British handicap in May.
Charlie Fellowes thinks Dr Koukash won't get the opportunity to strip, playing down Magic Circle's win in the Chester race over the English trainer's Cup contender A Prince of Arran.
"I don't think you're going to have to worry about the G-string."
That only emboldened Dr Koukash.
"If your horse wins I'll strip absolutely naked."
Fellowes, who hopes to become the first British trainer to win the Melbourne Cup, described the parade experience as unbelievable.
"When I was told you're doing a parade I thought there would be like five people lining the road, cheering with a flag or two. Maybe some friends or something," he said.
"I didn't realise they'd be three or four deep. It's unreal.
"We don't have this in England. So to come out here, have a runner in the race aged 32, five years into my training career, is a huge thrill."
UK-based Thady Gosden described his first experience in Melbourne for the Cup as surreal.
"I've never seen anything like it to be perfectly honest," said the 23-year-old, a junior assistant trainer to his father John who has Muntahaa in the race.
"It's almost like when a football team at home wins the Premier League and they have a parade through the streets, it's a similar type of thing to that.
"The amount of public interest in the whole event is dumbfounding really."


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Child burial fees axed by the Government
Carolyn Harris, MP for Swansea East, lost her son Martin in a car accident in 1989 and the cost of burying him prompted her to campaign for the Government to help grieving parents.
As a result, the Government has announced a Children's Funeral Fund which will pay for the costs of children's burials and cremations in England, which can exceed £3,000.
This will bring England in line with Wales on the issue.
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The move will see every local authority waiving burial and cremation fees for children and the Government paying the bill.
Ms Harris said: "I celebrated last year when the Welsh Government gave me the Children's Funeral Fund, I've celebrated when every local authority right across this country has done this.
"But at last, after so much pressure and so much time, families right across the United Kingdom can know that if they're ever in that terrible, terrible position when they lose a child, that there will now be a pot of money available to make sure that child has a dignified and respectful funeral."
Prime Minister Theresa May said: "No parent should ever have to endure the unbearable loss of a child – a loss that no amount of time will ever truly heal.
"But in the raw pain of immediate loss, it cannot be right that grieving parents should have to worry about how to meet the funeral costs for a child they hoped to see grow into adulthood.
Every year an estimated 4,350 children die under the age of 18 and grieving parents can face thousands in council fees for burial or cremation costs.
The PM has intervened to establish a Funeral Fund for grieving parents who have lost their child: https://t.co/fcX5S3YbLm
— UK Prime Minister (@10DowningStreet) March 31, 2018
"In the darkest moment of any parent's life there is little light – but there can be support."
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the move was "very welcome and wonderful news".
"This is a simple piece of dignity for bereaved families across the country, secured through tenacious campaigning by Labour's Carolyn Harris who tirelessly kept up the pressure when the Government was dragging its feet," he said.
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Same Plaintiff Files New Complaint to Force SEC to Act on Rulemaking Petition Regarding Political Contributions
By Steve Quinlivan | February 8, 2016
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia recently dismissed Stephen M. Silberstein's complaint to mandate the SEC to adopt rules regarding disclosure of political contributions. Among other things, the Court found that a claim under § 706(1) of the Administrative Procedures Act can proceed only where a plaintiff asserts that an agency failed to take a discrete agency action that it is required to take. The SEC did not deny the petition; it merely failed to respond to it. Since the SEC did not deny the petition and the plaintiff did not assert that the SEC "failed to act in response to a clear legal duty," it followed that the plaintiff failed to state a valid APA claim upon which relief can be granted.
Not to be deterred, Mr. Silberstein has filed a complaint seeking a writ of mandamus. Mr. Silberstein seeks to require the SEC to act immediately on his rulemaking petition and issue an explanation of its decision to grant or deny the petition that will permit further judicial review.
According to Mr. Silberstein, the Administrative Procedure Act grants to all interested persons "the right to petition for the issuance, amendment, or repeal of a rule." 5 U.S.C. § 553(e). The APA places a corresponding duty on agencies receiving such petitions to respond "within a reasonable time." 5 U.S.C. § 555(b). If an agency fails to respond to a petition, a reviewing court may "compel agency action unlawfully withheld or unreasonably delayed." 5 U.S.C. § 706(i).
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Spirit Airlines Begins Cancellations in Preparation for Strike
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Spirit Airlines earlier this week vowed to fly with the help of other carriers, even if its pilots go on strike. But now there are reports the airline is cutting flights as a strike looms.
The Associated Press is reporting Spirit pilots are threatening to walk out at 12:01 a.m., Saturday morning. Both sides have indicated they'd like to make a deal before that time.
The Florida-based airline began canceling some weekend flights and has been contacting customers to help them with alternate travel plans, AP said. A reservations agent told the AP that all weekend flights out of Spirit's Fort Lauderdale hub had been "suspended."
The dispute with the pilots is over issues including pay. The Spirit pilots say they are paid less than competitors.
"We are looking for pay parity," Sean Creed, a Spirit captain and the head of the Air Line Pilots Association, told AP. He added that many management pilots have promised not to cross the picket line.
Negotiations are ongoing in Washington, and are being overseen by the National Mediation Board.
The carrier flies about 150 flights per day, including from the eastern U.S. to the Caribbean. The privately held airline was also in the news recently when it announced it would start charging $45 for carry-on bags beginning Aug. 1.
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