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Greenpeace activists at the headquarters of Oreo. Greenpeace is calling on Mondelez the makers of Oreo, to stop buying dirty palm oil from Wilmar, the largest dirty palm oil producer.
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The Greenpeace thermal airship A.E. Bates flies over the San Francisco Bay area near a facility where palm oil trader IOI imports its palm oil in the San Francisco Bay area.
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The crew of the Greenpeace ship MV Esperanza occupied the tanker for 24 hours. The ship, carrying 27,000 metric tonnes of crude palm oil for the Wilmar Company, was held up from departing to its destination Rotterdam, Netherlands.
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Colgate-Palmolive promised to cut business ties with controversial supplier IOI who were caught destroying forests in violation with its commitments to not do so. The pressure we placed on these companies saw Colgate-Palmolive join more than a dozen other companies in terminating business with IOI until it changes its practices!
Colgate-Palmolive promised to stop sourcing dirty palm oil
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HSBC committed to breaking its links to palm oil companies destroying forests! This came about because of the phenomenal pressure placed HSBC. Over 200,000 people around world signed a petition, which was delivered to the head offices in Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur. Tens of thousands wrote emails directly to the CEO, and volunteers campaigned outside high street branches in Australia, France, and the UK.
HSBC committed to stop financing dirty palm oil
Using the power of public pressure, hundreds of thousands of Greenpeace supporters took action against Mars, Mondelez, Procter & Gamble and Wilmar International. We made showed the world who is responsible for rainforest destruction and got the biggest brands on the planet to agree to end deforestation – an incredible result!
Big brands stopped logging.
Wilmar International published a detailed action plan to monitor all of its suppliers in hopes to eliminate deforestation from its supply chain! Prompted by an intensive global campaign by Greenpeace over 1.3 million incredible supporters signed the Greenpeace petition calling for an end to deforestation for palm oil, getting us one step closer to changing the rest of the industry for good!
Wilmar published a plan to eliminate deforestation from its supply chain
What is palm oil?
The palm oil is a vegetable oil made out of the fruit of the palm oil tree. We can produce two types of oil from it: the palm oil is extracted from the flesh and the palm kernel oil from the kernel. The main difference between them is their percentage of saturated fat.
Nowadays you find palm oil in 40% to 50% of household products in Australia, it is present in food, cosmetics, hygiene products or even bio fuel. Big companies love to use it in their production due to the numerous perceived benefits: low cost, high density farming (requires relatively low amounts of land) and it preserves well. Overall, palm oil is currently the cheapest vegetable oil and hence helps companies create competitively priced products.
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Where does palm oil come from?
To answer this global demand of palm oil from global corporations, some countries have become big palm oil producers. Some of the biggest producers are Thailand, Colombia, Nigeria, Malaysia but the biggest producer of crude palm oil in the world is Indonesia, with 15 million hectares of land licensed for palm oil development.
Why is palm oil so bad then?
The palm oil produced in unsustainable way, also called dirty palm, has a disastrous impact on the environment. Indeed, to answer the increasing global demand, palm oil companies are logging forested areas to clear land for more palm oil plantations. The Borneo and Sumatra islands, that possess precious ecosystems, are unfortunately the most impacted. In Indonesia only, this is a forested area as big as football pitch that is lost every 25 seconds.
On top of that, the deforestation of the indonesian rainforest by palm oil companies leads to serious threats, here are the main ones:
Palm oil plantation help poachers and animals smugglers.
The roads created to carry away palm oil from the plantations give straight access into the heart of the rainforest. Before that, poachers had no other choice than making their way through very dense forested areas. No they can reach the precious wildlife through those new roads.
Deforestation is fueling climate change.
The fires combined with the forest undergrowth are releasing huge quantity of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere fueling global warming.
Deforestation is also generating severe fires.
As a cheap way to clear land, the future planting areas are set on fire. The peat soil present in most of these lands is highly flammable, and localized fires can quickly spread and get out of control. Because of the smoke generated by these fires, local population are facing dramatic health concerns: among others, we report there were 100,000 premature deaths that have been caused in late 2015.
The forest undergrowth is endangering a precious and rich ecosystem.
Because of the loss of their habitat, many species are at stake including the now critically endangered orangutan and the Sumatran tiger. Indigenous people living in the forest are also chased away from their home.
Which companies are fueling deforestation?
The palm oil industry is not the only responsible for destroying the Indonesia rainforest. Big companies that have chosen to buy the dirty palm oil are responsible too. Indeed, a report from Greenpeace shows that this demand from corporations including Nestlé, Colgate-Palmolive, Unilever and Mondelez has led to clear an area twice as big as SIngapour, and in less than three years only!
Wilmar, the world's largest palm oil trader is also to blame as the company is buying from 18 of the 25 palm oil suppliers that are responsible for most of the deforested areas.
Palm oil needs to be produced in a sustainable way and huge corporations must source a product that follow responsible agricultural practices - that would protect the forests, the wildlife and the local communities.
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Why Mayor Rob Ford's gravy train has hit a dead end: Cohn
By Martin Regg CohnOntario Politics Columnist
Tue., June 25, 2013timer3 min. read
All aboard for the Gravy Train!
Destination: Queen's Park.
The Gravy Train made an unscheduled stop with an unexpected passenger aboard late Monday: Mayor Rob Ford on a last-minute milk run.
Outside the treasury building, a small crowd gathered to watch Ford debarking, barking, braying, baying and bullying. Showing up for a showdown with Finance Minister Charles Sousa, he bellowed his latest demand.
Pass the gravy!
What better way to change the channel — and channel your anger — while you're being besieged by the media for alleged substance abuse? Time to rally Ford Nation against grave abuses by Queen's Park, which is supposedly shortchanging the city on gravy.
It's a Ford fantasy. As much as the mayor revels in the role of taxfighter, his latest campaign to maintain transfer payments from another level of government won't rouse Torontonians to the barricades.
Taxpayers don't care how rival governments divvy the gravy among themselves: Anti-Ontario tirades never helped Ford's predecessor, David Miller, at budget time. Nor have anti-Ottawa crusades ever helped Ontario secure higher transfer payments from Ford's family friend, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty.
Inter-governmental transfers are too down in the weeds for any upright citizen to track. Bottom line, this isn't about transfer payments, it's anger transference.
"It's disgusting," Ford raged after Monday's meeting with Sousa. "I'm furious."
Ever the victim, he described himself, heroically, in the third person.
"They found out that Mayor Ford can turn this city around, but obviously these people can't, and I'm getting punished for it."
Never mind the numbers, this is a political play by Ford. He is now holding social programs hostage to his grandstanding — vowing to slash vital housing and hostel services unless the province hands over cash, because the mayor won't back down from his own plan to cut his own taxes.
Once upon a government, when the Mike Harris Tories downloaded social services upon Toronto (with Rob Ford's father, Douglas, serving faithfully as a backbench MPP), the cash-strapped city got temporary compensation. After 2003, when the Dalton McGuinty Liberals started uploading those services back, it was always understood the financial transfers weren't forever.
Now that Toronto is coming out ahead financially, it's time to wind down the compensation, Sousa says. Not so, counters Ford, who wants the gravy to keep flowing.
The mayor is being a predictably apoplectic hypocrite: He knows that today's Tory opposition — the very party his father Douglas once served, and that his big brother Doug (now a councillor) aspires to join in the next provincial election — would cease uploading municipal services, burdening Toronto's finances far more.
Yet Ford persists with his posturing, demanding an extra helping of gravy because he is addicted to the substance. It allows him to live in a hallucinatory world where he can cut local taxes and then demand, with a straight face, that Queen's Park make up the difference.
You may have seen this movie before. You may even have read this column before. Two years ago, Ford asked McGuinty for an extra $365 million to cover TTC costs, after first promising to cut the vehicle registration fee and the land transfer tax.
Toronto won additional taxing powers in 2006 precisely so that it wouldn't remain a dependency of the province. Instead, Ford gave up hundreds of millions in revenues with his misguided tax cuts and a property tax freeze upon winning power.
Now the taxfighter has discovered that cutting taxes comes at a price. Tempting as it is for a populist politician like Ford to pass the buck — by giving money back to taxpayers — it's tougher to persuade another level of government to do the dirty work of raising tax revenue on his behalf.
At the end of the day there is only one taxpayer bankrolling both levels of government, as Ford and Sousa know well enough. Playing a shell game won't fool anyone — not Ford Nation, and not the 6.6 million taxpayers of Ontario.
They all know there is no such thing as a free ride on the Gravy Train. If Ford won't pay his own way — by maintaining his own tax base — he'll soon discover the milk run to Queen's Park is a dead end.
Martin Regg Cohn's provincial affairs column appears Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. mcohn@thestar.ca , twitter.com/reggcohn.

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30 JANUARY 2019 (Toronto, ON) – After a whirlwind year, JUNO and Canadian Country Music Award winners James Barker Band are excited to release their energetic new single "Keep It Simple" today through Universal Music Canada, the country's leading music company. Listen to the "Keep It Simple"here.
This highly anticipated track is released off the heels of a monumental past year. In 2018, the James Barker Band headlined a national tour; performing in 22 cities across the country and played major music festivals throughout North America, including direct support to Keith Urban on his arena tour. The James Barker Band kick off 2019 playing the prestigious Country To Country (C2C) Festival in the United Kingdom as part of a highly coveted lineup and currently the only Canadian act on the bill. The band have also announced two dates at the Kee To Bala July 19 and 20 among a list of exciting Canadian summer festivals. Stay tuned to more show announcements on the James Barker Band website.
With over 60 Million total streams to date, the James Barker Band have taken the country music scene by storm. Since the release of their debut EP "Game On" (April 2017) the band's success has been unstoppable, with their first five singles reaching the top-10 on Canadian country radio and also achieving gold-certified status. The James Barker Band has had the most spun song by a Canadian artist on Canadian country radio in both 2017 and 2018. "Game On" was awarded "Country Album of the Year" at the 2018 JUNO awards. Their first #1 Canadian country radio hit "Chills" also reached #46 on the American Billboard Country Chart, they are the first domestically signed act to do so. The band have made history with the SOCAN Songwriter Prize nomination for their song "Chills", which is the first ever country music nomination for this prestigious all-genre award. This record-breaking single was also awarded "Single of the Year" and "Best Selling Canadian Single" at the 2018 Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) Awards.


I just remembered a sort of weird thing. For those who don't know, I'm in Canada. You can order almost any American item, and find most of them in stores too, but now and then you run into a brick wall. For various reasons (some dumb, some logical), you just can't get certain things shipped to Canada.
The one that's really annoyed me in the past is that Blue Diamond Almonds only sell a limited amount of their flavours in Canada – basically just the boring ones. I've tried the fancier ones while visiting the US, and I love them, especially toasted coconut and salt and vinegar. I think just due to bad luck, the only businesses that ship these to Canada charge a ridiculous amount, so you would wind up paying maybe triple the correct price, or more.
Luckily, I found a place in Mississauga that lets you buy stuff on American websites, and enter an address in Niagara Falls, USA. This company receives the packages, then drives them to to Canada, and you go pick them up and pay an extra fee. I've used this to buy a dozen cans of almonds a couple of times now, and it's so nice. I think the fee was $7 or $10, and in the end, I wound up paying less than if I bought almonds (even the plain flavors) in a local store.
So I've gotten way off course here with the almond talk. Listen, I like almonds, and I love flavoured almonds. I think I've somehow become desensitized to them a little now, but the first few times that I bought the toasted coconut ones, I just couldn't control myself, they were the greatest thing I'd ever tasted. I brought a couple of cans home from the US a couple of times, and I'd tell myself that I'd only eat a few per day, and make them last for a while, but then I'd open a can and demolish it in a day. Maybe two days. It was exhilarating. Maybe exhilarating is just slightly too strong a word. It was good. They tasted so good. I loved the taste. Such a nice taste.
Sorry, I got off track again, let me get back to this tidbit. The last time I went to this cross-border place, I could see into the back, and there were hundreds of packages there. This place is doing a lot of business, and I got really curious about what everyone is bringing in. I mean, I'd guess that I'm probably the only guy importing dozens of almonds cans on a regular basis, but who knows!
I asked the guy who worked there what people brought, but I was pretty sure he'd just say it was random, so I worded it sort of like "Heeey, I know it's probably kind of random, but what do most people bring in, are there certain things that are really popular?" I was surprised when he listed the two most popular items, without even pausing: Car tires, and Funko Pops.I understand the car tires. I don't know anything about it, but there are a lot of items like that which cost way less in the US, and I understand people shipping them in. But Funko Pops?
If you sat me in a room and told me I couldn't leave until I listed the 5000 most popular import products at this place, there's zero chance I'd include Funko Pops. You could stick a Funko Pop on the desk so that I remembered they existed, and I still wouldn't list them. Even if I got really stuck at product number 4998 or something, and I noticed the Funko Pops posters you'd put all around the room, I know I wouldn't list it, it's too dumb. I'd just go "What's with this guy who locked me in this room, why did he put all the Funko Pops posters all over? This guy is a huge spaz". I mean of course you're a spaz if you lock me in a room and make me list 5000 things, unless you're some sort of university researcher or something. Anyhow Funko Pops. How about that. It's weird.


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Yogi Govt launches unprecedented crackdown against opposition leaders headed to Lakhimpur, many arrested
After the arrest of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Akhilesh Yadav earlier today, at least 25 protesting leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party in the state capital Lucknow have been arrested by the police. Eight people including four farmers and three BJP workers have died in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence in Uttar Pradesh.
Gaon Connection
| Updated: October 4th, 2021
Aam Aadmi Party leaders arrested in Lucknow. Pic: By arrangement
The Uttar Pradesh government today on October 4 launched an unprecedented crackdown against opposition leaders headed to the site of the Lakhimpur deaths, arresting or detaining Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav, Congress Party leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Aam Aadmi Party leader Sanjay Singh, Bahujan Samaj Party members Satish Chandra Mishra and Shivpal Singh Yadav.
"She [Priyanka Gandhi Vadra] was arrested early in the morning at around 5am. She was only thirty-forty kilometres from the clash site. Dipendra Hudda [MP from the Indian National Congress], Dhiraj Gurjar ji [AICC National Secretary], her personal assistant, and Ajay Kumar Lallu ji [President of the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee] were also arrested," Noida-based Pankhudi Pathak, social media department, Congress, told Gaon Connection.
"They are not allowing anyone to reach Sitapur or Lakhimpur now. Many of our party workers have been arrested at Lucknow and Sitapur borders," she added.
Also Read: Lakhimpur Kheri: Akhilesh Yadav and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, two key opposition leaders, arrested; AAP's Sanjay Singh detained
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra tweeted a video in which she said: "The way farmers are being mowed down, I do not have words for that. For many months, farmers have been raising their voice. The government is not listening to them. Whatever happened shows that this government is doing politics to finish farmers."
भाजपा सरकार किसानों को कुचलने की राजनीति कर रही है, किसानों को खत्म करने की राजनीति कर रही है। pic.twitter.com/51R5Kmt41B
— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) October 4, 2021
The Congress party leader went on to add: "I have stepped out to meet families of victims. What wrong have I done? You are stopping me, my car, why are you doing that?"
The Indian National Congress has demanded immediate dismissal of Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra and arrest of his son who has been named in FIR by UP Police.
Congress demands immediate dismissal of Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra and arrest of his son who has been named in FIR by UP Police after death of eight people, including four farmers, in violent clashes in #Lakhimpur Kheri
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) October 4, 2021
Lakhimpur Kheri clashes
Reportedly, the driver of the car carrying Union Minister Mishra's son mowed down a group of farmers in Tikunia, Lakhimpur Kheri yesterday, October 3. However, the minister has denied the presence of his son at the incident. "My son was not present at the place of Lakhimpur Kheri incident; have video evidence," he was quoted as saying.
The minister also said that stones were pelted on BJP workers' car which overturned and two persons came under it and died. The minister claimed that BJP workers were lynched after this.
An FIR has been registered against the Union Minister's son, Ahish Mishra, for allegedly running a car over protesting farmers at the clash site in Lakhimpur Kheri.
Four farmers have died and more than a dozen injured. Photo: Gaon Connection
Yesterday's violent clashes have turned into a political drama with several politicians trying to reach Lakhimpur Kheri. However, the Yogi government has launched an unprecedented crackdown against the opposition leaders.
Also Read: Lakhimpur Kheri violence leaves 8 dead; how clashes took a political turn
Akhilesh Yadav arrested
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav was today on October 4 arrested by the Uttar Pradesh police from outside his residence in state capital Lucknow where he staged a protest after being stopped from visiting Lakhimpur Kheri.
Samajwadi Party chief @yadavakhilesh has been arrested by the UP police from outside his residence in #Lucknow where he staged a protest after being stopped from visiting #Lakhimpur_Kheri. Eight people, including four farmers and three BJP workers, have died in the violence. pic.twitter.com/RLZT7JzDfz
— Gaon Connection English (@GaonConnectionE) October 4, 2021
Yadav has demanded Rs 20 million ex gratia for the families of deceased farmers. "₹ 2 crore should be given to the farmers who have lost their lives. Their families should be given government jobs," said the Samajwadi Party chief while protesting outside his home in Lucknow's Vikramaditya Marg. He was later arrested by the UP Police.
AAP leader detained
Meanwhile, the national spokesperson for the Aam Aadmi Party Sanjay Singh has been detained. "He [Sanjay Singh] was detained last night at 2:30 am. He has been detained in Biswa (near Sitapur) in a guest house. Nobody is allowed to meet him," Vaibhav Prakash, state president, social media department, AAP, told Gaon Connection.
योगी जी की सरकार में, किसानों की मौत पर शोक संवेदना व्यक्त करना अपराध है।
मैं लखीमपुर के रास्ते मे हूँ और मुझे रात के 2:30 बजे सीतापुर के बिसवां में भारी पुलिस बल लगाकर रोक लिया।
SDM तहसीलदार इंस्पेक्टर सब मौजूद हैं लेकिन कोई मेरा अपराध बताने को तैयार नहीं – @SanjayAzadSln pic.twitter.com/0L1vjrSUPS
— Aam Aadmi Party- Uttar Pradesh (@AAPUttarPradesh) October 4, 2021
"Twenty five to thirty protesting leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party in Lucknow have been arrested by the police. Women Wing state president Neelem Yadav was also arrested," he added.
Aam Aadmi Party members arrested in Lucknow. Pic: By arrangement
Further, Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Jayant Choudhary's car was today seen breaking a police barricade and heading towards the clash site in Lakhimpur Kheri.
Meanwhile, UP Additional Chief Secretary Awanish Awasthi has asked Lucknow airport not to allow Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhjinder S Randhawa to land at the airport.
"The government of Uttar Pradesh is issuing a decree not to allow me to come to the state. Have civil rights been suspended in Uttar Pradesh? If Section 144 is in Lakhimpur, then why is the dictatorial government stopping you from landing in Lucknow?" Chattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel tweeted.
धारा 144 लखीमपुर में लगी है, फिर लखनऊ आने से क्यों रोका जा रहा है? pic.twitter.com/9q2TLEwTPE
— Bhupesh Baghel (@bhupeshbaghel) October 4, 2021
The violence is the worst conflagration in the year-old face off between farmers and India's government over the three contentious farm laws.
Meanwhile, in a statement released yesterday Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has termed the Lakhimpur incident "unfortunate". The state government will go into depth and expose elements involved in the incident and will take strict action against them, said the press statement.
क्षेत्र के सभी लोगों से अपील है कि वे किसी के बहकावे में न आएं व मौके पर शान्ति-व्यवस्था कायम रखने में अपना योगदान दें। किसी प्रकार के निष्कर्ष पर पहुंचने से पहले मौके पर हो रही जांच तथा कार्यवाही का इन्तजार करें।
— Yogi Adityanath (@myogiadityanath) October 3, 2021
The state government has decided to give a government job and Rs 4.5 million to the families of every person who died in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence. Union Minister Ajay Mishra, father of the accused, has demanded Rs 5 million ex gratia to families of each deceased BJP worker.
Also Read: UP govt to give Rs 45 lakh and govt job to the families of every person who died in Lakhimpur Kheri violence


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The Woman Who Urged Her Boyfriend To Kill Himself Is Being Sued For $4.2 Million By His Mom
Michelle Carter, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for her role in encouraging 18-year-old Conrad Roy to kill himself, is facing a wrongful death lawsuit filed by his mother.
Posted on August 4, 2017, at 6:10 p.m. ET
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The mother of a man who killed himself at the urging of his girlfriend over text messages has filed a wrongful death lawsuit for $4.2 million.
Conrad Roy, 18, killed himself on July 12, 2014, after being encouraged to do so by his girlfriend, Michelle Carter. Then 17, Carter wanted Roy to die so she could play the part of the grieving girlfriend and gain attention from her peers, prosecutors argued.
She was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, and on Thursday, she was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison. Her sentence is on hold pending the outcome of her appeal.
Carter is also now in the midst of a civil case related to Roy's death. Lynn Roy, his mother, filed a wrongful death lawsuit in July, according to court records. She is seeking $4.2 million in damages from Carter for her son's death, the Associated Press reported.
Eric Goldman, an attorney for the Roy family, told MassLive.com any money won in the suit will go to some kind of memorial.
"The family would obviously rather have their son back," Goldman said. "What the Roys are looking to do is somehow memorialize Conrad."
The Woman Who Urged Her Boyfriend To Kill Himself Has Been Sentenced To 2 And A Half Years In Prison
It Looks Like The Woman Accused Of Urging Her Boyfriend To Kill Himself Stole A Quote From "Glee"


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Ciphertext
Ciphertext is a scary story about someone who keeps receiving mysterious text messages on their phone. The text messages contain what appear to be random numbers.
One night, just as I was getting ready to go to bed, I received a text message on my cell phone. It was sent from an unknown number and when I opened it, I found that it contained no words at all, just three numbers: "444"
I assumed someone had simply sent me the text message by mistake, so I just ignored it and went to sleep.
However, the next night, at exactly the same time, I received another message from the same unknown number.
This time, the message contained the number "9".
Every night, I began to receive a new message and each time, it was just another random number. It was starting to get creepy.
This is the series of numbers I received:
"444", "9", "444", "555", "555", "55", "444", "555", "555", "999", "666"…
There was one number for each day.
"What is this?" I wondered. "Is it a phone number? A street address? An ID number?"
I spent a long time thinking about it, but I couldn't figure out what it meant. I even tried asking my friends, but none of them had any ideas. After all, it seemed like the numbers had no meaning. At that point, I just dismissed it as a prank.
However, one day when I was at work, I was looking at my cell phone and one of my co-workers came up behind me. He was an older man and his name was Mr. Tanaka.
"What are you looking at?" he asked.
I told him about the strange text messages I had been receiving every night.
"Oh… maybe it's a ciphertext," he laughed. "I like this kind of mystery. Can I see all the numbers?"
I wrote the numbers down on a piece of paper and handed it to him.
"Well, this is a very mysterious cipher indeed," he said. "OK… Let me think about it for a while."
Mr. Tanaka had been working at the company for about 20 years. He was a very smart man and was very good at his job. If anyone could solve the mystery, I was sure it would be him.
When work finished at 5PM, Mr. Tanaka came back to my desk. He had a very serious look on his face.
"About that cryptic code you gave me earlier…" he said.
"Did you decipher it?" I asked.
"Oh, I managed to solve it," he replied, "but maybe it's better to change your phone number today…"
"Why?" I asked in surprise. "What did it mean?"
"Well, if I'm correct, then the next number you receive will be 88, but if it is, it will be very bad…"
"What is it?" I demanded. "Just tell me!"
"I'll tell you later," he replied, with a solemn look. "But if the next number is 88, then I want you to change your mobile number. Can you promise me this?"
"OK, fine," I said. "If the next number is 88, I'll change my number. Happy now?"
"Thank you," said Mr. Tanaka as he left.
That night, when I returned home from work, I cooked dinner for myself and then went to bed. All of a sudden, my phone started buzzing. I received another text message.
When I opened it, I saw the number "88", just as Mr. Tanaka had predicted.
The next morning, before I went to work, I stopped off at a mobile phone shop and had them change my number. Although it was rather troublesome, I had promised Mr. Tanaka that I would do it. I was going to have to call all my friends and give them my new number.
When I got to work, Mr. Tanaka was waiting for me at my desk.
"You were right," I said. "I received another text message last night. It was 88."
"So, did you change your number?" he asked.
"Yes, I did," I said. "So can you tell me the meaning of the cipher now?"
Mr. Tanaka quietly explained the meaning of the ciphertext and when I understood it, I started shaking with fear.
Who could have sent the text messages? Why would they send them to me? Had I done something to deserve it?
I was really scared.
You see, the numbers in the text messages had the following meaning:
On older cell phones, there used to be letters printed on the keypad. When you were writing a text message, you would have to type out each letter using the number keys. Each time you pressed one of the number keys, it would cycle through the letters.
In other words, if you wanted to type "A" you would hit the number "2" once, for "B" you would hit "2" twice and for "C" you would hit "2" three times.
Mr. Tanaka figured out that the ciphertext was based on this method. The numbers corresponded to letters on the cell phone keypad.
"444", "9", "444", "555", "555", "55", "444", "555", "555", "999", "666", "88"
"I", "W", "I", "L", "L", "K", "I", "L", "L", "Y", "O", "U"
"I will kill you"
After I changed my mobile phone number, I didn't receive any other text messages like that… but I still wonder what would have happened to me if I hadn't changed it… Would the anonymous sender have made good on his threat?
Brynn says:
i will kill you is kinda predictable
Good story, would've been better if the text message was something a bit more creepier
DemonicQueenzilla says:
Carlos Rivera says:
Nice one..!!
MackeyMoo22 says:
8 44 2 8 9 2 7777 2 9 7777 666 6 33
T h a t w a s a w s o m e
see what i did?
thalmina09 says:
Did anyone here read the story "Okamuro"? It creeped me out so much (i know its not real, but it's still creepy. Pls tell me I'm not the only one.
Pixel says:
The creepy thing is I searched up a keypad like that and the message checks out, it does say that.
Kawaiian says:
Holy fuzzbutts I got a text like that! it said 'I'm here now' I'm sure it's a spam
Princess Of The Dead says:
Not sure what the Tanaka Cowboy thing is, but my child Gundham Tanaka came to my mind
terror beauty says:
I WILL KILL YOU…That's it? I thought the letters contained some really creepy message and there was a serious reason he should change his number.This story disappointed me.it's just simple as that.
HorrorFanGirl says:
I'd like to know what happens if she didn't change her number, 6/10 ciphertexts
xCytrexYT says:
Cowboy Tanaka solved the mystery. Jee jee.
What_goes_at_night says:
So true Anonymous but then i guess there wouldn't be the mystery and what would be the point of the story but i get your point.
Cool story though.
DemonicPrincess says:
Hmmm interesting but I'm still scared about the other stories and how something will get me 😱
I don't understand why… The kikkers have to convery tgeir messages in the form of such numbers… Can't they say it straight.
iiM3RL1N says:
All I can think about now is the "Cowboy Tanaka" meme
Dark_Destroyer says:
Kinda seems like the killer could of still made good on his threat, I mean he/she knew his number so what else might the person have known? Figured the code would be like that anyway….
dark sentinel says:
hey sfk,since everyone here is referring u as a single person,i wud just like 2 know if u r actually a one man organization or a group of ppl.no need 2 tell if it's a private thing
jenn3985 says:
Brilliant Story! 10/10 Unknown Numbers!
Wonderkill says:
So finally, Sfk made a story out of riddles ,of secret numbers and I got them. Thank you Sfk.
brilliant.but as sfk had already written many mind teasers of this type,it was a bit predictable.but still if he had said he would kill the narrator then what is the use of changing the cell phone after receiving the entire message?hope u write more stories sfk.and quick.


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Mr. Tyree has served on our board of directors since June 2012. During the last fourteen years, Mr. Tyree has held numerous executive positions at Abbott Laboratories, including Corporate Vice President Pharmaceutical and Nutritional Products Group Business Development, Senior Vice President Global Nutrition and Executive Vice President Global Pharmaceuticals. He retired as President Abbott Biotechnology Ventures on March 31, 2012. Prior to joining Abbott, Mr. Tyree was the President of SUGEN, Inc., a biotechnology company focused on oncology. Earlier in his career, Mr. Tyree held management positions in Bristol-Myers Squibb, Pfizer and Abbott. Over his entire career, he was a four time expatriate living and working over six years in Latin America and seven years in Japan. Mr. Tyree is a member of the Advisory Board of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (BOOTH), a member of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and co-chairman of the Global Health Policy Roundtable. Mr. Tyree also serves as a director for a number of privately held companies. Mr. Tyree earned Bachelor's Degrees in Psychology and Forensic Studies and a Master's Degree in Business Administration from Indiana University.


Identify the concept of Impostor Syndrome, how it affects you, and how to eliminate or manage it.
The importance of authenticity and storytelling in brand development and best practices for implementing it.
Skills for identifying the best strategies for customizing communications with your potential clients and investors.
Leading the workshop is Polsky mentor and best-selling author Jennifer Bridgeforth. With over 25 years in sales and marketing development and management, she founded The JBE/Phoenix Group, a consultancy firm that specializes in marketing, sales, and personal development. She has worked with companies like Procter & Gamble, United Airlines, and Royal Caribbean Cruises, and has also been featured for her business and human relations strategy work on CNN, iHeart Radio, WGN News, and many more.


Whenever you're on a road trip in the Sunshine State, do you stop at the nearest burger chain or drive-thru or do you try to seek out the hidden gems? Sure, it takes a little longer to do the latter, but we think it's totally worth every minute. This little burger place is one of those awesome landmarks that locals would insist you give a try.
Andy's Drive-In & Igloo is located at 703 3rd St SW in the heart of Winter Haven. This classic burger joint has been here since 1951, which is pretty obvious from the moment you walk through the door.
From the retro decor and architecture to the unbelievably low prices, Andy's is totally stuck in the past (and that's a good thing). The menu has everything from fried seafood baskets to chicken sandwiches, but the star of the show is clearly the burger.
There are four sizes of burger to choose from, ranging from regular to half-pound patties, but the most popular is the 1/3-pound burger called the Steakette. The burgers are fresh, never frozen, and charbroiled to perfection.
Try to save room for dessert, because Andy's is almost as famous for its sweet treats as it is for its burgers.
Andy's Igloo makes incredible sundaes, banana splits, cones, and some of the world's best milkshakes.
The best time to visit Andy's is before or after the lunch rush or before the dinner rush, because we're not kidding when we say it's a local favorite, and it does get busy.
Now that you know where to go and what to order, we hope you'll pass by the burger chains and make a trip to Andy's Drive-In & Igloo for a delicious meal and a blast from the past.
Have you ever eat at Andy's Drive-In & Igloo in Winter Haven? What's your favorite old-fashioned diner or burger joint in Florida?


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Life is strange is a choice-based storytelling game which tells the story of Max Caulfield. She is an 18 year old high school girl attending on Blackwell Academy where she is an aspiring photography student. By a magical reason she gained the ability to travel back in time and this is the key element how you go through her stories. …
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The vanishing of Ethan Carter tells a story about a detective who visits an abandoned mining village after being inspired by a letter from a boy named Ethan. While he's stepping in the world of Ethan, he discovers traces of recent murder that just happened and having paranormal senses, he can see how the deaths have happened by solving the pieces of …
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Orcs Must Die Unchained
Orcs Must die Unchained is the latest addition to the series making it a trilogy. Currently in open béta, the game is a third person strategy game where you fight off hordes of enemies by placing traps and finishing off the rest with your hero. This might sound like orcs must die 1 and 2 but this one is different. …
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TERA is a 3D fantasy-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Bluehole Studio and released in Europe since 2012. TERA is known for its fast-paced action combat system which you have to aim your attacks to enemies while dodging their hits at the same time, position yourself right and time combos carefully to deal the best damage to …
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Saint's Row 4
Every single Saints Row game took it to a new level. From standard GTA style game where you needed to earn respect to play missions to a full alien invasion with spaceships in saints row 4. What is the next level? Well.. It's hell! The leader of the Saints is kidnapped to marry the daughter of the devil himself. Ascend …
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Borderlands: The Presequel is the third edition to the Borderlands saga. Instead of picking up where Borderlands 2 left off, they chose to fill in the story between Borderlands 1 and 2. A unique way of completing the trilogy. They also did the great thing of combing all the borderlands 2 DLC with The Presequel to one complete game for …
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Hive is originally a tabletop board game designed by John Yianni in 2001 and published by Gen42. The team from BlueLine Game Studios has created a computer game from this award-winning board game. The game can be bought via Steam. It is an abstract strategy turn-based game for two players with different hexagonal shaped pieces. You use these pieces to create …
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Khet 2.0 is a turn-based strategy board game, available on steam for your pc or mac. It is the digital version of a real life board game with the same name. The game in a way resembles chess. You always play 1v1, against the computer, someone online, or someone else on the same pc / mac. The pieces move around …
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Bridge Constructor Playground is a game where you have to build bridges (as you might have suspected). After you have build your bridge cars or trucks are crossing it to test it out. There are different materials you can use, which have different pricetags. Every level comes with different challenges (like only using $3000 to complete your bridge). To complete …
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WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump hauled in more than $650,000 in campaign donations for Rep. Claudia Tenney and House Republicans when he visited Utica in August, according to new disclosure reports.
Trump headlined a private fundraiser Aug. 13 at the Hotel Utica where tickets sold for up to $15,000 per person.
All told, 18 individual donors paid $15,000 or more to qualify for the top-tier tickets that entitled buyers to a private roundtable, reception and photo with Trump, according to reports Tenney's campaign filed Monday with the Federal Election Commission.
The disclosure reports offer the first public glimpse into who attended the reception and how much they paid for access to the president.
Theresa Suits of Cortland was the single largest donor, paying $100,000 on Aug. 15, the records show. Suits is listed as a homemaker. She is married to Frank H. Suits, president and CEO of Suite-Kote Corp., a multi-state paving company.
Frank Suits hosted an event at his Cortland company this summer with Tenney and Ivanka Trump to tout the Republican legislation that overhauled the U.S. tax code.
Three people donated $30,000: William J. Sandbrook, of Dallas, Texas, chief executive officer of U.S. Concrete; Sherry Xue Li, CEO of Thompson Education Center in Oyster Bay; and Barbara Wakeman, listed as a homemaker from Cockeysville, Md.
The list of those who donated $15,000 included Ed Cox, chairman of the New York Republican Party; David Flaum, a Rochester real estate developer; James Ranalli, CEO of United Auto Supply in Syracuse; Harry Sargeant, an investor from Delray Beach, Fla.; Monica Kowalsky, owner of Empire Recycling in Utica; and Rita Scharman, owner of Scharman Propane Gas in Bouckville.
Tenney's campaign received less than half of the cash donated at the event after expenses and giving a cut to the national campaign committee for House Republicans, the reports show.
Tenney's joint fundraising committee -- the Tenney Victory Fund -- distributed $210,000 on Aug. 31 to the National Republican Congressional Committee, which supports GOP House candidates, the records show.
The Tenney Victory Fund paid $57,432 to the Republican National Committee in Washington, D.C., for an expense listed as travel. The RNC reimburses the government for Trump's travel on Air Force One to political events. Tenney's campaign confirmed the payment reimbursed travel costs for the president and his staff.
The fund also paid $22,400 to the Hotel Utica for its banquet space and catering, the records show.
After other expenses, Tenney ended up with $152,412 in net proceeds from the event that she transferred to her principal campaign committee, Claudia Tenney for Congress, according to the FEC records.
Tenney also transferred $126,240 to Tenacious PAC, a political action committee that the first-term congresswoman uses to donate money to other Republican members of Congress to help their campaigns, the records show.
The first-term congresswoman is considered one of the 10 most vulnerable House Republicans this year, with political analysts rating her race against Democrat Anthony Brindisi of Utica as a toss-up.
Brindisi, a state Assemblyman, hosted his own "people-powered" fundraiser for $10 per ticket at the same time Trump met with the big donors in Utica.
About 750 people attended Brindisi's fundraiser at Chesterfield Restaurant in Utica. Some people gave a little extra - allowing Brindisi to raise about $41,000 at his event.
Even with the boost from Trump, Tenney still had less cash on hand in her campaign account than Brindisi at the end of the quarter on Sept. 30, FEC records show.
Brindisi raised more than $1.4 million during the quarter, leaving with him with about $840,000 for the final month of the campaign.
Tenney's congressional campaign raised $771,000 for the quarter that ended Sept. 30. She had about $769,000 remaining in the bank.
Who is funding Republican Claudia Tenney in NY's 22nd Congressional District?


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As part of its 'invisible horse' initiative and in the run up to Mother's Day, World Horse Welfare is highlighting the far-reaching implications of irresponsible breeding on the mares, foals and the charity's resources.
Many of the 300-plus horses and ponies who come into World Horse Welfare's care each year have a lengthy period of rehabilitation ahead of them before they are ready to be rehomed, but for the mares arriving in foal this time period is significantly extended.
Rehabilitation of an average horse arriving in a World Horse Welfare Rescue and Rehoming Centre costs around £5,000 but when that horse is either carrying a foal or has recently given birth to one this cost can be significantly higher.
Many of the mares who come into World Horse Welfare's Rescue and Rehoming Centres are underweight and struggling to survive even without the huge burden of carrying or feeding a foal. Often the energy and nutrition they have put into caring for their foal leaves the mares with nothing for themselves and sadly in some of the worst cases the mare simply does not make it.
Buzz and Bee came into World Horse Welfare's Glenda Spooner Farm in early June 2015 after Field Officer, Phil Jones was alerted to a mare and foal on a common in south Wales who were reportedly in a very poor state. Phil visited the same day as a matter of urgency and found Buzz very underweight and struggling to feed her foal Bee, who was less than two months old. The attending vet stated that neither pony could be left on the common and they were taken straight to the veterinary clinic for emergency treatment before moving to Glenda Spooner Farm when they were strong enough.
Despite our investigations and a call for Buzz and Bee's owner to come forward, no one was found. Thankfully, Buzz and Bee were found in the nick of time and as a result of the dedicated care they received from the team at Glenda Spooner Farm they both made a full recovery.
"Whilst both Buzz and Bee are now healthy and have put on weight, the journey to rehabilitate Buzz ready for rehoming is a much longer one than a lot of the horses and ponies World Horse Welfare takes into our centres.
Bee is just one of the youngsters featured in World Horse Welfare's latest fundraising appeal which also includes Huckleberry – the star of a recent BBC Countryfile programme – and Dash, the lovable young foal found abandoned and emaciated towards the end of summer 2015. The appeal highlights the appalling neglect suffered by some mares and foals, and the strain they can place on the charity's resources, with many youngsters coming into World Horse Welfare's Rescue and Rehoming Centres every year who require care, handling and education.


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Kairos.Net
==========

A .NET Wrapper for the Kairos.io Facial Recognition API written in C#.

### License: MIT

### About Kairos.io
For more information and to register for an API key, visit http://kairos.com/.

This library allows you to interact with the Kairos API for secured cloud-based facial recognition capabilities.

Install via [nuget](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Kairos.Net/) (recommended), or download the latest build from [here](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/faxedhead/kairos-net/artifacts/Kairos.Net/bin.zip).

### Usage
The .NET library allows you to detect, enroll and recognize a face or faces from an image located on the internet.

### Enroll a user

    Kairos.API.KairosClient client = new Kairos.API.KairosClient();

    // Set your credentials
    client.ApplicationID = "your_app_id";
    client.ApplicationKey = "your_app_key";

    // Enroll a user
    var response = client.Enroll("http://localhost/myimage.jpg", "myuserid");

### Recognize a user

    Kairos.API.KairosClient client = new Kairos.API.KairosClient();

    // Set your credentials
    client.ApplicationID = "your_app_id";
    client.ApplicationKey = "your_app_key";

    // Attempt user recognition
    var recognizeResponse = client.Recognize("http://localhost/myimage.jpg");

    // Get the recognized user ID
    var userID = recognizeResponse.Images[0].Candidates.First().Key;

### Detect faces

    Kairos.API.KairosClient client = new Kairos.API.KairosClient();

    // Set your credentials
    client.ApplicationID = "your_app_id";
    client.ApplicationKey = "your_app_key";

    // Detect the face(s)
    var detectResponse = client.Detect("http://wellness.18signals.com/kairos.jpg");

    // Get the image and information on the first recognized face
    var detectedImage = detectResponse.Images[0];
    var face = detectedImage.Faces[0];

### Meta

Thanks to Cole Calistra, Brian Brackeen, Humberto Lee, and Dan McGrath.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Unicorn Crafted Education: Etc, etc, etc.
We have had such a fabulous holiday break- getting out and seeing more of Perth. We finally visited the Art Gallery and museum- we'd been around the cultural precinct a few times, but not to any of the galleries. We wandered around all the museum displays but the crystal and historic displays were the ones that were most appreciated. I also loved the section that used to be part of the library, it was very beautiful with it's spiral staircases up to the bookcases.
The art gallery has a visiting exhibit from the Victoria and Albert museum (which is closed til 2014 apparently). There was some stunning pieces in there, and I particularly liked the guitar on display, which was covered in engraved mother of purl, tortoiseshell and ivory. There were some amazing religious items too, like a tiny prayer book covered in emeralds. The art gallery was also holding a lego building session, in white lego blocks, to promote the exhibit. The kids really enjoyed that, and there were some fabulous models.
We also headed to the Royal show, which we found quite similar to Adelaide's but different too. There was significantly less in the craft entries, which we found interesting, since we usually enter that Adelaide show, and will likely put entries in the Perth show next year. We loved the way that there is a ferris wheel right in the arena, and the way the arena felt much more prominent- we felt this was due to it's central placing. There were some great historic displays, and we all enjoyed watching a telegram being sent and received, and the blacksmiths hard at work. We finished the evening with the fireworks, which were the best I'd seen in quite a while.
The kid's circus teacher had a show on during the holidays too, so we attended that, as well as hanging round for a circus class. We also got to Northbridge Piazza a couple of times,for the movie sessions there. We really enjoyed watching the movie, but felt it was better on a weekday, when there was less people heading out to the pubs and clubs in Northbridge. Other than that we headed out to another Organic shop, which was a fun outing, but in terms of servicing our needs for food, its selection was rather limited. And finally over this last weekend Willow and Gabriel and Damien got out to a talk about Wedge-tail Eagles- which they all enjoyed, and Arden and I discovered that there was an aeroplane show on whilst we were there, so we all went back for a look the following day. It was a great break, and I felt really refreshed for getting back into some more structured work today- particularly after making some yummy food yesterday, such as scotch eggs.
The kids also did lots of playing and creating, with Willow designing and knitting me a purse, Gabriel making lots of maps, and Arden getting involved with lots of cooking, but I suspect one of the highlights for them would have been discovering some really good toy shops!
Plus I almost forgot we visited the beach finally- Cottesloe- and found these cute tiles to lead us there from the train.


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Innovation in Tourism
Media Release: Tourism Tribe runner-up in Queensland Tourism Industry Council's Innovation in Tourism Awards on World Tourism Day 2016
MEDIA RELEASE: Tourism Tribe Awarded for Innovation in Tourism
For immediate release: Wednesday 28 September, 2016
Online tourism hub, Tourism Tribe, has been recognised by Queensland's peak industry body for tourism, the Queensland Tourism Industry Council (QTIC), as runner up in the annual 2016 QTIC Prize for Innovation in Tourism, announced on Tuesday.
The digital support service was awarded for its online learning hub, a platform that bridges the gap between consumer digital trends and the use of technology, brings a community of like-minded people together and assists managers to improve their tourism businesses through online and offline support and resources.
Minister Kate Jones and Liz Ward
Prize recipients were announced on World Tourism Day, Tuesday 27 September, by Queensland Tourism Minister Kate Jones. CEO of Digital Coaching International, Liz Ward said she was thrilled to have Tourism Tribe recognised as an innovative leader in shaping the future of the tourism industry.
"Tourism Tribe provides an urgently needed new approach to industry e-enablement through a global community platform," said Ms Ward. "In just over 12 months since launching we've seen unprecedented demand among tourism operators to upskill and adopt digital technologies to improve their business.
"Through this innovative online platform we've created a single place to learn and get help that is customised for the tourism industry. Services are accessed in a supported environment, where members can engage with each other and trusted experts to benefit from their experience," she said.
Now in its fourth year, the QTIC Prize for Innovation in Tourism recognises micro and small to medium sized Queensland tourism enterprises that have demonstrated outstanding effort in innovation of products, services and processes in Queensland. Gold Coast-based Newbook eManagement Technology, a cloud based Reservation System, took out the winning title.
For more information about Tourism Tribe, visit www.tourismtribe.com
Media Contact: Liz Ward, CEO Digital Coaching International liz@ digitalcoachinginternational. com +61 7 3103 7994
Liz Ward
Liz is one of the founders behind Tourism Tribe and is a committed advocate for innovation in marketing. She is a recognised expert in strategy with 25 years of experience working with large and small businesses, specialising in business strategy and digital transformation. As a coach, Liz has a great mind for big-picture thinking, helping tourism operators to get a clear scope of their objectives, their ideal customers and their opportunities. It's no wonder that she is so highly sought after as a presenter, mentor and workshop trainer. Clients value Liz's extensive experience in educating on the customer path to purchase and strategies and tactics to be successful at each stage of the purchase cycle and most recently in pivoting your business in a crisis.


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Can any samba band play my favourite song?
Professional samba bands will often take requests, but you will need to give them plenty of notice. Please also keep in mind that samba bands may ask for an small additional fee to prepare songs that aren't already on their song list. You can view the samba band's song list on their Encore profile.
How much time do samba bands take to set up?
Your samba band will usually arrive about an hour or so before their performance begins to set up and get settled before they start playing. To avoid any delays, make sure the performance space is ready for the samba band prior to their arrival.
PLI stands for Public Liability Insurance. This insurance covers damage to another person or their property (it is also known as third party insurance). As many of our samba bands are members of the Musician's Union, they are already covered by PLI up to £10 million. PAT stands for portable appliance testing. Most of our samba bands will already have a PAT inspection certificate for their musical equipment/PA system, which they can provide to your venue if they need it.


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The story of portraiture and photography in Saint-Louis, Senegal
There has been increasing interest to unearth and understand Africa's photographic history in recent years. Whether this is driven by the growing treasure trove of black and white images from the continent resurfacing; a need to dispel myths about what Africa is and is not; or a growing interest in photography for storytelling purposes in the Instagram-obsessed age, this journey promises to be an interesting one.
The latest treasure to be revealed on that journey is the Saint-Louis Photography Museum in Saint-Louis, Senegal, which opened last November. The museum hopes to eventually build an extensive collection of historic portraits, but has started off with the impressive personal collection of its founder, Amadou Diaw, a Senegalese businessman and founder of Groupe ISM, one of the region's most respected business schools. The striking collection, mostly dating from 1930 to 1950, highlights the country's rich and deep photography tradition.
Many of the most well-known photographs from West Africa were captured by Malick Sidibe, an internationally renowned photographer from Mali who captured iconic black and white images of the region in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. Sidibe died in April 2016. But the history of photography in West Africa stretches further back. It begins in the coastal town of Saint-Louis in the north of Senegal, where a photo camera, believed to be the first to be used in West Africa (link in French), was sent by the French Minister of Marine and Colonies in 1863.
Saint-Louis was a leading urban center established by French traders in the 17th century. To maintain their stronghold, French colonists relied heavily on the establishment of a metis (mixed race) society. This society was born out of a union of French traders or soldiers (who usually had their own families in France) marrying local women (usually of a high class) to further their business interests. These women and their female descendants, known locally as the Signares, are an important part of Saint-Louis' culture and history.
To read the full article, please follow this link to Quartz.
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Q: Google Maps Android API very slow to download and display map image I am using the default Google Maps example out of android studio, slightly modified to fit my project and when moving down the road the map tiles are very slow to load, sometimes don't populate the map until the marker is almost up against the blank aria then it loads all the streets up ahead and your good to drive another few blocks.
I have a GPS service running in the background which sends a location data broadcast to my receiver to update the marker and pan the map to the new location. It is when the map pans to this location that it is not updating the image properly.
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First picture is when it is auto updating the map, second is when I touched it and moved the map a bit then it fills in properly.

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Roman Doll, 2nd century CE, ivory, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome.
Toys and particularly dolls are important artifacts of childhood. Although there are very few writings that describe how Roman children played with their toys, dolls have traditionally been useful tools to prepare girls for their future roles.
This doll was found in the sarcophagus of an eight year old Roman girl. She was likely from an affluent family because she had a tomb and the doll was made of ivory. There are several things to note that may indicate how the doll was used: joints in the arms and legs allowed movement of the limbs. This indicates that the play involved some movement if only posing. This doll's hair resembles a style worn by Faustina the Elder who died in 141 CE suggesting the age of the doll. The ankle modeling suggests shoes, which indicates that the doll was dressed.


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Kathy Dean May 7, 2020 Education
When Hope Cain stood on the pitcher's mound during her four-year softball career at the University of Mobile, "I knew my teammates always had my back. When I stood on the mound, I knew everyone behind me was there to work as a team and allow us to succeed as a team," she said.
Her team of University of Mobile faculty, coaches and staff had her back, as well. The softball standout from Hartselle, Alabama, was accepted to two medical schools and offered an $80,000 scholarship. When she starts this fall at the University of Alabama-Birmingham School of Medicine, it's because the support of professors like Dr. Randy Craig helped her realize her true passion – to become a physician.
"The University of Mobile has allowed me to follow my dream of playing college softball, strengthen my faith, and help me understand what I was called to do in my life," she said.
A member of the UM Class of 2020, Cain earned a Bachelor of Science in pre-health biology. The Christian university in Mobile, Alabama, is one of the few in the nation where undergraduate students like Cain can have hands-on learning experiences in a nationally accredited cadaver lab. UM students have as much as two full semesters of training on actual human specimens – a tremendous benefit for students heading to medical school.
They also have small classes with professors like Craig, professor of biology and chair of the Department of Natural Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences. A veterinary surgeon with over three decades of experience, Craig continues to perform complex surgeries that students are invited to observe.
Whether pre-health students are aimed at careers as physicians, dentists, pharmacists, veterinarians or researchers, the university's faculty and curriculum will prepare them accordingly, Craig said.
A softball standout who was named the softball scholar-athlete of the year for the SSAC and honorable mention All-American for the NAIA for the 2019 season, Cain took advantage of the opportunities a small campus offers for students to become involved in a variety of activities. During her college career she was a peer leader, tutor, member of Beta Chi, served on the Student Leadership Council, and was president of the university's chapter of Alpha Chi National Honor Society.
She said attending the University of Mobile helped her further understand how to treat people with the Christ-like attitude that her parents had taught her.
"I also believe that by going to a Christian school, I have received a greater understanding and appreciation of how detailed and the perfect way that God created all of us. When I practice medicine, I want to remember that it is God who gave me and my fellow doctors the abilities we have, and that He is the ultimate healer and physician," Cain said.
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Guliái-Borísovka  es un jútor del raión de Zernograd del óblast de Rostov de Rusia. Está situado en la orilla izquierda del río Elbuzd, afluente del río Kagalnik, 25 km al suroeste de Zernograd y 76 km al sureste de Rostov del Don, la capital del óblast.

Es cabeza del municipio Guliái-Borísovskoye, al que también pertenecen Bakinski, Boldinovka, Bolshiye Elbúzdovskiye, Záimishche, Zarechni, Irínovka, Kosenko, Kugoyeiski, Léninka, Nizhnekugoyeiski, Nóvaya Poliana, Novoaleksándrovski, Novoivánovka y Oktiábrskoye.

Historia
La localidad fue fundada en 1858 por orden del sótnik Borís Podzéiev. Su nombre deriva del de su fundador y significa Fiestea, Borísovka, el llamamiento con el que, según la leyenda, cada año otoño inauguraba la fiesta de fin de la recolecta de la cosecha el sótnik. A principios del siglo XX tenía 3 956 habitantes. Hasta 1920 formaba parte del otdel de Novocherkask del óblast del Voysko del Don.

Personalidades
Vasili Statsenko (1922-1967), militar soviético, Héroe de la Unión Soviética.

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Russia's war in Ukraine pushes China to reorient Arctic plans
May 13, 2022 Mia Bennett 0
As Russia is frozen out of its own backyard, for China to realize its visions for polar and global development, it may literally go above and beyond Moscow.
This post first appeared in a special issue of Diplomaatia released with the Lennart Meri Conference in Tallinn, Estonia, which I am currently attending (13-15 May 2022).
When China joined the Arctic Council as an observer in 2013, few could have anticipated how much the world would change in the next decade. While the applications of China and four other Asian states – Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and India – were being decided, Barack Obama was still president of the United States. His secretary of state, John Kerry, stayed up late into the night to convince his counterparts, particularly from Russia and Canada, to admit them. His efforts worked, promising to expand international cooperation on a region deeply vulnerable to climate change.
Yet now, the camaraderie of the meeting, where John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, shared a microphone while discussing cooperation on Syria, seems to be from an entirely different geopolitical era. Less than a year later, Russia invaded Crimea, eliciting Western sanctions that pushed the Kremlin to pivot to the east. Then, in 2016, Brexit sent shock waves through Europe, as did the election of Donald Trump in the U.S. At the Arctic Council ministerial held in Finland in 2019, Trump's secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, declared that China's claims of being a "near-Arctic state" entitled it to "exactly nothing."
While the Trump administration tightened the screws on China, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the country cutting off foreign travel for the past two and a half years. This self-imposed isolation has slowed progress on brick-and-mortar projects associated with President Xi Jinping's Belt and Road Initiative, a multi-trillion dollar global infrastructure and development blueprint launched in 2013. In place of railways, ports, and bridges, Beijing has shifted its attention to the "Digital Silk Road," which comprises telecommunications networks, subsea cables, satellites, and smart cities. China's quarantining has also curtailed the diplomatic and scientific cooperation that many imagined (or feared) would transpire following the country's admission as an Arctic Council observer.
Yet even during the pandemic, it seemed China could count on one constant in the Arctic: Russia. While the Kremlin was contending with sanctions, China was finding one Beijing-backed project after another in the western Arctic blocked or cancelled, from plans to build civilian airports in Greenland to 5G in Sweden. Pushed closer together by their isolation from the West, Russia and Chinese officials floated plans for transforming the Northern Sea Route, Russia's Arctic shipping passage, into a more expansive "Polar Silk Road" to shorten sailing times between Europe and Asia. Arctic trade routes were formally included in the BRI in 2017.
Burgeoning relations between Russia and China culminated in major investments in projects like the Yamal Liquefied Natural Gas and its follow-on, Arctic-2 LNG, along with two 30-year agreements to export gas from Siberia to China. Then, in February 2022, following their meeting at the Beijing Winter Olympics' opening ceremony, Xi and Vladimir Putin issued a joint statement expressing that the two countries "agreed to continue consistently intensifying practical cooperation for the sustainable development of the Arctic" and called upon all countries cooperate in the "development and use of Arctic routes."
Twenty days after Russia and China's profession of a friendship with "no limits," however, the former empire invaded Ukraine. By early March, the Arctic Council – chaired by Russia until May 2023 – announced a "pause" on cooperation, with devastating consequences for cross-border work on the environment, climate change, and Indigenous Peoples. In response to Russia's intensified isolation within a region where it remains dominant but which it badly needs funding to develop, in April 2022, Putin stated, "under the ruling circumstances, we must more actively engage in Arctic cooperation with countries and alliances from outside the region." He likely had a view towards China and India – the two major countries which abstained from a United Nations resolution "deploring" Russian aggresion.
As Ukraine suffers horrific violence and Russia weathers global condemnation, Beijing is waiting on the sidelines to divine whether collaboration with Russia will undermine its broader plans for Arctic and global development. State-owned oil companies are avoiding new contracts for Russian oil out of fear of being seen as Kremlin supporters. Chinese buyers are also reducing Russian coal imports, much of which comes from the Arctic. With Western corporations pulling out of Russia and ceasing sales of crucial technologies to develop Arctic fossil fuels, China may perceive opportunities. But Beijing has been warned by U.S. President Joe Biden of the "consequences" of undermining Western sanctions.
To overcome these trenchant geopolitics, China may seek a more self-sufficient path to realizing its four goals in the region outlined in its 2018 Arctic Policy: to understand, protect, and develop the Arctic and participate in the region's governance. These aims were reiterated by Gao Feng, China's Special Representative for Arctic Affairs, in a speech in Beijing in late March. Whereas previously, China might have pursued these four goals in cooperation with Arctic states or at least Russia, it may now go it alone. This would align with Chinese plans to become a "technological great power" and boost its scientific self-reliance. In the Arctic, this manifests in China launching polar-observing satellites, developing ice-class vessels, and improving access to the global commons of the Central Arctic Ocean and outer space. By orbiting above the planet, satellites can provide data about the cryosphere, from ship locations to sea ice conditions.
Parallels between China's strategic and scientific reorientation in the Arctic exist in the BRI, which, too, is digitizing frontiers. From Southeast Asia to Africa and South America, China seeks to build fiber optic cables and export space-based services like Beidou satellite navigation. Until the invasion of Ukraine, the number of trains trundling the revitalized railways between China and Europe – many of them via Russia – had been increasing. As these dwindle and as Russia is frozen out of its own backyard, for China to realize its visions for polar and global development, it may literally go above and beyond Moscow.
Tags: Belt and Road Initiative Polar Silk Road Ukraine war
Categories: Geopolitics
Author: Mia Bennett
Mia Bennett is an assistant professor in the University of Washington's Department of Geography. She researches the politics of infrastructure development in the Arctic by combining fieldwork and critical remote sensing.
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