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ORD VHA Directive, Handbooks, and Program Guides -- 1200 series
NOTE: Directives and Handbooks are available for download on the VHA Publications website.
Program Guides can be downloaded below.
Veterans Health Administration Research and Development Program
This Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Directive provides an overview of Research and Development policies and procedures.
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Directive 1200.01
Research and Development Committee Handbook
This Veterans Health Administration (VHA) directive outlines the requirement that every VA facility engaged in research establish a Research and Development (R&D) Committee.
Research Business Operations
This Handbook has been replaced by VHA Directive 1200.02 - Research Business Operations, 10P9 - Research and Development.
VHA Handbook 1200.02 Technical Amendment (September 6, 2017) Description of Technical Amendment
Program Guide 1200.03
Centralized Positions of Research Scientists, GS-14 and Above
As of October 15, 2020, Handbook 1200.03 has been replaced with this Program Guide. This Program Guide replaces all prior official ORD guidance.
Research Career Development Program Guide
As of August 5, 2019, the Office of Research and Development Career Development Program Handbook (VHA Handbook 1200.04) has been replaced with this Program Guide. This Program Guide replaces all prior official VA-ORD guidance for the Career Development Program.
Requirements for the Protection of Human Subjects in Research
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is one of seventeen Federal departments and agencies that have agreed to follow the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects (Common Rule), effective June 18, 1991 (56 Federal Register (FR) 28001). This policy is incorporated in title 38 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 16. This Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Handbook defines the procedures for implementing 38 CFR Part 16 and other applicable Federal requirements for the protection of human subjects, and defines changes to the Human Research Protection Program accreditation policy.
Control of Hazardous Agents in VA Research Laboratories
This Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Handbook establishes policy and procedures related to select agents and toxins.
Use of Animals in Research
This VHA Handbook sets forth the principles and procedures that govern research, testing, and teaching activities involving laboratory animals in the VA.
VHA Directive 1200.08
Safety of Personnel and Security of Laboratories Involved in VA Research, 10X2 - Research and Development
RESCISSION: VHA Handbook 1200.08, Safety of Personnel Engaged in Research, dated March 6, 2009; VHA Directive 2005-003, Requirements for Submittal and Approval of Biosafety Level-3 (BSL-3) Research Laboratory Construction and Renovation, dated January 19, 2005; and VHA Handbook 1200.06, Control of Hazardous Agents in VA Research Laboratories, dated October 21, 2005, are rescinded.
Use of Data and Data Repositories in VHA Research
This Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Handbook establishes the procedures for the use of data for VHA research purposes, the storage of VHA research data, and the development of VHA research data repositories.
Program Guide 1200.15: Eligibility for VA Research Support
As of July 13, 2018, the Office of Research and Development Handbook Eligibility for VA Research Support (1200.15) has been replaced with this Program Guide. This Program Guide replaces all prior official ORD guidance on Eligibility for VA Research Support.
Program Guide 1200.16: Off-site Research
As of August 2, 2018, the Office of Research and Development Handbook Off-site Research (1200.16) has been replaced with this Program Guide. This Program Guide replaces all prior official ORD guidance on Off-site Research.
1200.16-Template
Partial Offsite Waiver Request Template
Template document for Partial Offsite Waiver requests.
VA Nonprofit Research and Education Corporations
This Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Handbook provides procedures and instructions governing Nonprofit Research and Education Corporations (NPC) created pursuant to title 38 §§ 7361 through 7366, United States Code (U.S.C.).
This Handbook has been rescinded. Please refer to VHA Directive 1200.18: Determination of Rights for Inventions and Discoveries.
Presentation of Research Results
This Veterans Health Administration (VHA) directive establishes the policy, assigns responsibilities, and specifies authority for ensuring that the contributions of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to research are appropriately acknowledged and publicly disclosed.
VHA Handbook 1200.19, dated July 10, 2014, is rescinded.
Program Guide: Research Career Scientist
This Office of Research & Development (ORD) Program Guide provides guidelines for the Research Career Scientist (RCS) Program for the Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development (BLR&D), Clinical Sciences Research and Development (CSR&D), Health Services Research and Development (HSR&D), and Rehabilitation Research and Development (RR&D) Services. This Program Guide replaces prior "Handbooks" (as of March 15, 2016). Other relevant documents for the RCS program may include Request for Applications (RFAs), Frequently Asked Questions etc., available on the VA ORD website.
Program Guide: VHA Operations Activities That May Constitute Research
This Veterans Health Administration (VHA) program guide establishes criteria for determining whether a VHA operations activity constitutes research. It also establishes procedures for verifying and documenting the non-research status of certain operations activities prior to publication of findings outside the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development (BLR&D) and Clinical Science Research and Development (CSR&D) Services Merit Review Award Program
This Program Guide establishes procedures for the Merit Review Award Program for the Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development (BLR&D) and Clinical Science Research and Development (CSR&D) Services of the Office of Research and Development (ORD).
BLRD/CSRD
Program Guide 1202.05: William S. Middelton Award
As of April 3, 2019, VHA Handbook 1202.05, William S. Middleton Award Procedural Handbook, dated July 17, 2014 has been rescinded and replaced with this Program Guide. This Program Guide replaces all prior official Office of Research and Development (ORD) guidance regarding the William S. Middleton Award.
Program Guide 1202.07 John B. Barnwell Award
As of November 20, 2018, the John B. Barnwell Award Handbook (1202.07) has been replaced with this Program Guide. This Program Guide replaces all prior official ORD guidance for the John B. Barnwell Award.
Program Guide 1203.00: Rehabilitation Research and Development
As of May 14, 2020, the Rehabilitation Research and Development Service (RR&D) Directive 1203.00, has been replaced with this Program Guide. This Program Guide replaces all prior official ORD guidance to the RR&D Program.
Program Guide 1203.01: Rehabilitation Research and Development Scientific Review Program
As of February 13, 2017, the Rehabilitation Research and Development Scientific Review Program Handbook (VHA Handbook 1203.01) has been replaced with this Program Guide. This Program Guide replaces all prior official ORD guidance for the Rehabilitation Research and Development Scientific Review Program.
Program Guide 1203.04: Rehabilitation Researchand Development Center Awards and Research Enhancement Award Programs
As of February 13, 2017, the Rehabilitation Research and Development Centers Handbook (VHA Handbook 1203.04) has been replaced with this Program Guide. This Program Guide replaces all prior official VA-ORD guidance for Rehabilitation Research and Development Center Awards and Research Enhancement Award Programs.
Paul B. Magnuson Award for Outstanding Achievement in RR&D
This Program Guide announces programmatic procedures for the Paul B. Magnuson Award for Outstanding Achievement in RR&D.
Program Guide 1204.01: Health Services Research and Development
As of January 1, 2017, the Health Services Research and Development (HSRD) Merit Review Award Program Directive (1204), Handbook (1204.01) and Operational Procedures (1204.05) have been replaced with this HSR&D Program Guide. This Program Guide replaces all prior official ORD guidance to the Health Services Research and Development Program.
HSRD
Health Services Research and Development (HSR&D) Centers
This Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Handbook defines Health Services Research and Development Service's (HSR&D) procedures that establish and govern HSR&D Centers and conference support.
Program Guide 1204.04 Under Secretary Award for Outstanding Achievement in Health Services Research
As of August 2, 2018, the Under Secretary's Award for Outstanding Achievement in Health Services Research (VHA Handbook 1204.04) has been replaced with this HSR&D Program Guide.
Program Guide 1205
VHA Cooperative Studies Program: Program Guide 1205
As of April 5, 2019, the VHA Cooperative Studies Program Directive (VHA Directive 1205) and Cooperative Studies Program (CSP) Study Initiation and Management Processes (VHA Handbook 1205.01) have been replaced with this Program Guide.
Cooperative Studies Program (CSP) Study Initiation and Management Processes
This Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Handbook provides guidance for the initiation and management of Cooperative Studies Program (CSP) activities.
Use of a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA)
This Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Directive provides policy on mandatory use of Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs).
Updated/Reviewed: 10/19/20


Renault is displaying a number of electric concept cars at the Frankfurt Motor Show, in addition to low CO2 versions of current models.
The Renault-Nissan Alliance is working on a range of all-electric powertrains. The four concept cars on display at Frankfurt provide a preview of Renault's forthcoming range of electric vehicles.
There will be a variety of 'zero emission' vehicles with continuous outputs of between 15 and 70kW (20-95hp). The Renault Z.E. range will be launched from 2011 in the form of the Fluence Z.E. and a Kangoo Z.E .
In terms of what you can buy today, two sub-100g/km versions of current models which are due for release soon are the Twingo dCi 85, with 94g/km of CO2 and the Clio dCi 90 with 99g/km of CO2.
Renault has also developed a new six-speed dual-clutch transmission (DCT) which delivers a standard of fuel consumption and CO2 emissions performance markedly better than those compared with conventional automatic transmissions (a gain of up to 17 per cent, i.e. a saving of approximately 30g/km).
This DCT will be introduced in the first quarter of 2010, initially available on 1.5 dCi 110 DPF diesel versions of the Mégane range. With this automatic transmission, the Mégane Hatch will emit just 119g of CO2/km and be the first automatic model to qualify for the Renault eco² signature.
These reductions in CO2 emissions have been obtained thanks to various engine and vehicle design evolutions including longer ratios for all gears; less engine and transmission friction thanks to low-viscosity lubricants; work on the geometry and finish of bottom-end and timing components. These developments will be extended to all Euro 5-compliant 1.5 dCi engines.
* latest-generation automatic transmissions boasting fuel consumption and emissions comparable with those of manual gearboxes.


Bowdenisms: Are you ready for some Footbaaaaall?
Are you ready for some Footbaaaaall?
For those of you who are worried that it's all baby talk and kitchen construction around the Bowden household, fear not! For Fall has arrived, and with it comes a time honored tradition- Fantasy Football.
help me tolerate Dustin's incessant football viewing, but I've really gotten into it. It does get me interested in more games and players, but it also satisfies my competitive urge, gives me one more online forum to waste time on, and allows me to expand my smack-talk skills.
One of the best parts of being in multiple leagues though, is seeing the difference in how a guys' and girls' league function. The "Battle" league only has two girls out of twelve participants, and the online draft is always full of sexual innuendo, inappropriate comments about people's mothers, and highly-informed snarky comments about player picks that I only occasionally understand. And when Dustin hosted the "WCW" live draft a couple weeks ago, our house was a den of testosterone...nothing but banana pepper pizza, and beer as far as the eye could see. The guys were camped out in front of their computers, cheat sheets, and magazines, and each round was held to a strict time limit, inclusive of an alarm for slow-pokes.
The girls league on the other hand, is a little more "loosey-goosey". We held our live draft last week and as always, it was a mixture of mock-seriousness, and complete girlie ridiculousness. And it is different....Our first year, we found out one of our girls was pregnant because she declined the customary first round toast. The next year we we were heckled by the pizza delivery guy who could NOT get over a group of girls participating in FFB. And we've been known to embrace the football theme in our own way- opting for cute football field table cloth for the snacks, or even a cake in the shape of a stadium!
"I should probably draft Eli Manning because he's so cute!"
"Are you drafting all Ravens?" "No...[pause]...but only because my husband told me not to."
"I have to leave early...can you draft for me? Here's my strategy: Don't draft anyone from Cleveland or Cincinnati."
"I'm going to try to collect all the Williams"
"Oooh, Mark Sanchez...I've had my eye on him since college."
"Who did you draft? Emmanuel Lewis?" "Um no. That's the little black kid from Webster."
Yes, we are clearly forces to be reckoned with.
And so begins our season....week one is almost wrapped, and I've not only lost both of my games, but I also may have incorrectly predicted the winner of every single matchup in my girls league. I wish you better luck...Unless you're in my league, and then I hope you choke on a Tostito. Not fatally. Just enough to keep you from stealing any of the good free agents. Not that I would know who they are.
You are so funny, Courtney. I'm in my third fantasy year and not to brag (but why not?) last year I went all the way to the Superbowl before losing.
This year I'm out to avenge my loss. Consider me whoever played against the team that won the real Superbowl last year. As if I remember.
Have a great fantasy season!
I may or may not have choked on a Tostito laughing at your jokes...and those quotes are too much.
speaking of that coed league with all the nastiness ... you ever going to pay that entry fee or did all that money go to chiffon and lace for the nursery?


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Plateau State Governor Simon Bako Lalong has congratulated Director General of the Industrial Training Fund (ITF), Sir Joseph Ari on his 62nd birthday.
Governor Lalong in a goodwill message said Sir Joseph Ari is an accomplished professional whose impact has been felt in the Nigerian media space as well as in administration and corporate governance over the years.
He said the celebrant has been consistent in his drive for excellence, service and patriotism in all the various assignments he has handled at both State and federal levels.
The Governor commended Sir Joseph Ari for his efforts in turning around the ITF by ensuring that it carries put its core mandate of training requisite manpower needed for Nigeria's development.
This he said has given many youths, women and men skills that have led to the creation of jobs, poverty eradication and emergence of entrepreneurs that are making impact in various sectors.
Lalong also described Joseph Ari as a reliable supporter of the Rescue Administration who has added value and used his office to support the human capital development agenda of the Government through strategic partnership as well as actively participating in political activities.
Lalong while wishing Sir Joseph Ari more years of good health, God's protection and divine wisdom, urged him to continue to carry out his philanthropic and charity works as well as his commitment to religious obligations that he is well known for as a Knight of the Catholic Church.
He also advised him to continue to mentor more youths in the act of service, resilience and excellence.


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After a very big year, Te Karehana Gardiner-Toi aka Teeks is performing with the APO and facing the challenge of a debut album.
As Te Karehana Gardiner-Toi walked off stage at the Silver Scroll awards in Auckland in October, he couldn't shake the feeling he'd underperformed, let his nerves get the better of him, not quite hit the notes the way he wanted.
He'd walked off while the lights were still down, while pianist Nick Dow and the Ngā Tūmanako kapa haka group were still on the stage, while the last booming lines of Te Ahi Kai Pō resounded around Spark Arena.
So he missed the standing ovation he had earned for probably the most powerful Kiwi musical moment of 2018. The applause was both for his emotionally charged performance and for the song (co-written by Ria Hall, Te Ori Paki and Tiki Taane) about an 1864 battle in Tauranga in which more than 100 Māori died at the hands of British soldiers. Hall and her co-writers won the Maioha Award for best song in te reo Māori.
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"I didn't find out until after that people had stood up," the soul singer better known as Teeks says. "I kind of missed the whole thing. And even though Ria was sitting quite close to me, all she said on the night was, 'I can't speak to you right now.'" Teeks deadpans her reaction as meaning, "I must have done an okay job".
A few months later, Teeks remains almost bafflingly humble about a performance that had the same emotional punch as, say, Adele's version of Someone Like You at the Brits in 2011. He says simply that he'd been terrified to sing in front of "a stadium full of songwriters".
This promises to be an important year for the 25-year-old emerging talent, who is performing with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra at their Session Series in March. It has been 18 months since his Grapefruit Skies EP impressed with its rich, pure vocals and its intensely personal lyrics. Amazingly, he didn't come to soul music until after high school, but he still had the connections to record at New York's Bunker Room studios.
Teeks is promising his debut album will arrive this year. And he's slowly learning what it is to be a full-time songwriter carving out the right material.
"I have friends who can write a song a day about anything, and I'd love to say I've written 50 songs and will just cut them down for an album – but I'm not like that," he says. "As with the EP, it's still the same. I find it easier to write a song when I'm able to connect with it on a personal level. I feel like my strongest stuff will come when I'm on my own. I need that isolation, that bubble."
There's already evidence that, even for an artist who admits he sometimes struggles to fill an entire set with his own material, his writing is bearing fruit.
A new song, Without You, was road-tested at The Great Escape festival in the UK last May and he's "definitely keen" to try more new songs when he performs at Womad in New Plymouth in March.
In fact, Womad – and the idea of how his new music will sound live – is playing an increasingly important role in the emergence of this debut album.
"With the songs I'm writing, I always picture how they will change in a live setting," he says.
"I feel those are the values I hold intrinsically, and having grown up Māori and performance being part of my culture – even with the kapa haka behind me at the Scrolls – there's an emotion in everything you do, in every line you sing, every action and having that specific way of holding yourself on stage.
"Because kapa haka performance has always been a spiritual thing for me, I take that with me when I perform in a contemporary setting as well. That's just how I grew up and who I am."
Teeks will perform at Womad New Zealand 2019 in the TSB Bowl of Brooklands, New Plymouth, March 15-17. Session Series with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Auckland, March 28.
This article was first published in the January 19, 2019 issue of the New Zealand Listener.
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The A508 is a short A-class road for north–south journeys in central and south central England, forming the route from Market Harborough in Leicestershire, via Northampton, to Old Stratford, just outside Milton Keynes (and the Buckinghamshire border).

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The road begins in the centre of Market Harborough and crosses into Northamptonshire just outside the town.  Crossing the A14 at Kelmarsh, it continues on through the centre of Northampton, merging with the A5199 as it enters the town. Through Northampton the road repeatedly switches between being a dual carriageway and a single carriageway. South of the town centre, it route-shares with the A45 between Wooton and the M1 at junction 15.

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Regaining its identity south of the M1 junction, it continues through Roade, Grafton Regis and rural south Northamptonshire, ending in a five-way roundabout with the A5 and the A422 and a local road into Old Stratford, a Northamptonshire village just across the River Great Ouse from Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire). , a bypass is being built around Roade as part of enabling works for the rail freight interchange under construction between Roade and the M1.

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Polish fondness for Italian food goes back many hundreds of years, at least since the early 16th century when Italian princess Bona Sforza came to Krakow to marry into the Polish royal family, and on the way transform Polish cuisine.
Nowadays Italian restaurants in Poland are outnumbered only by Polish ones. Whether it's a full a la carte meal of the finest that Italy can offer, a quick and simple pasta dish, or the tasty crusty convenience of a pizza, Warsaw offers something for every taste and wallet.


This website reflects both my personal and academic interests. I follow topics such as human and animal rights, social responsibility, movements against discrimination and intolerance, digital privacy, free software, tech news, cycling, urban mobility, climate change, biodiversity, sustainability, among many others. I am a keen off-road cyclist and prefer to cycle to work. I teach at the Bragança Campus of the Federal University of Pará (UFPA). See my academic profile on ResearchGate (English) and at UFPA (Portuguese) or visit my Curriculum Lattes (English and Portuguese). All photos on this site were taken by me, unless otherwise indicated.
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This was really the best image I could find of their many new plates bundled all together, and there are definitely a few missing nevertheless you can see they have been quite busy!
The last few weeks have seen several new additions including this adorable golfer plate. See the tees? How cute is that!
Next up just in time for a little summer sizzler is this cute cute cute barbecue cookout plate! I can't tell you how much I love this one! There is also another plate called Hunter's Life. Despite my best efforts I couldn't get one decent picture of it from the website, but you can find it here. And guess what released today? A new beach themed plate!


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If your ISP implements a transparent DNS proxy it is very important that you use one of the methods on the dns leak fix page to ensure that when you are connected to the VPN, there is no chance of your requests being intercepted.


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We tend to freak out at the thought of going more than a few days sans shampoo (and always reach for the dry shampoo bottle in between). But there are women (and men) across the country abiding by a "no poo" principle, meaning they've eschewed shampoo entirely. Yes, no shampoo at all.
One woman, Jaquelyn Baers, hasn't used shampoo for five years. So we just had to talk to her and get the scoop on HuffPost Live: How does she keep her hair clean? What does it look like? And why did she ditch shampoo in the first place?
Baers, who runs a blog called LittleOwlCrunchyMomma, first blogged about her life sans shampoo in 2012. She expressed concern for the "paraben, phthalates, petroleum byproducts, and other dangerous toxic chemicals" in the average shampoo, an unpronounceable cocktail of mysterious ingredients she'd never think to ingest -- so why would she put them on her hair?
So she moved on to "the more expensive, more 'organic,' more 'natural' shampoos for ten to fifteen dollars." But those, she said on HuffPost Live, got expensive. Seeking alternatives, "I came across using baking soda and apple cider vinegar," Baers said, and gave that a go. "But it wasn't working for me -- it was making hair dry, and greasy, and back and forth."
So she just stopped with everything. And she's not the only one. Hanna Brooks Olsen, a writer who went sans shampoo for six months, told HuffPost Live that she was also prompted to ditch shampoo after reaching disturbing research on the chemical ingredients in shampoo, particularly sodium lauryl sulfate, "that are really pretty questionable."
The results? "My hair was really shiny, it grew way faster and it just looked awesome." The only issue, she says, is that going on and off shampoo usually comes with an adjustment period in which your hair doesn't look great -- "rough patch," as Olsen describes it. "It's kind of a weird, awkward hair puberty."
Would you try it? Watch the clips to hear from the women who did, and catch the full segment on HuffPost Live.


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San Francisco, We Have a Problem
Seema Mehta and Phil Willon at LAT:
California Democrats overwhelmingly decided not to endorse Sen. Dianne Feinstein this weekend, an embarrassing rebuke of a party icon who has represented California in the Senate for a quarter-century.
Nearly two-thirds of the party's delegates voted against backing her campaign for a fifth full term, a reflection of the dissonance between an increasingly liberal state party and the moderation and pragmatism that have been hallmarks of Feinstein's political career.
The lack of support could simply be a speed bump on Feinstein's path to reelection in November. But many Democrats gathered in San Diego for their annual convention said they were looking for a flamethrower who would more aggressively confront President Trump and viewed Feinstein as a creature of the nation's capital who has lost touch with her California roots.
Feinstein's opponent, state Senate leader Kevin de León of Los Angeles, won 54% of the delegates' votes Saturday, just shy of the 60% needed to secure the endorsement. Feinstein received 37%.
"I have never seen her ever at a convention until she finally realized, 'I've got a challenge on my hands,'" said Mark Gonzalez, chairman of the Los Angeles County Democratic Party. "People are frustrated…. She's the most senior member and we value that, but as the most senior member, you've got to give it to Trump. She has the power to challenge him, and she doesn't always do that."
Scott Shafer at NPR:
Before U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein could finish her speech at the California Democratic Party convention Saturday, the music began playing to indicate she had used her allotted time.
She kept talking. The music got louder. "I guess my time is up," Feinstein conceded as what sounded like a 1940s movie score continued playing.
Without missing a beat, supporters of her opponent, state Sen. Kevin de León echoed her statement in a chant: "Your time is up! Your time is up!" — a not-so-subtle reference to Feinstein's 25 years in the U.S. Senate.
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Pipeline tells the story of Nya (Karen Pittman), an inner-city public high school teacher, who is committed to her students but desperate to give her only son Omari opportunities they'll never have. When a controversial incident at his upstate private school threatens to get him expelled, Nya must confront his rage and her own choices as a parent. With profound compassion and lyricism, Obie-winning playwright Dominique Morisseau's Pipeline brings an urgent conversation powerfully to the fore. This Lincoln Center Theater production directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz tells the deeply moving story of a mother's struggle to see her son as a whole human being and give him a future without turning her back on the community that made him who he is.
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Experts Urge Citizens To Hold Gvt To Account As Zim's Debt Balloons To US$19 Billion
Mthuli Ncube
EXPERTS have called for the mobilisation of key stakeholders to hold authorities to account as a strategy to curtail Zimbabwe's surging debt.
The call comes at a time when Zimbabwe's ballooning consolidated public sector debt has reached US$19,03 billion representing a 68,1% ratio to the Gross Domestic Product, according to the latest International Monetary Fund (IMF) report.
Official records also show that six of the 16 SADC member states, including Zimbabwe and Angola, had already exceeded the public debt to gross national income (GNI) ratio target of 60% as far back as 2019 with some of the countries declared to be in danger of debt distress by the IMF and the World Bank.
Countries like Zambia and Mozambique registered the worst performance with a debt to GNI ratio of 119,3% cent and 135,7% respectively.
Further research indicates that the SADC region spends an estimated US $21,1 billion annually in external public debt repayments, thereby compromising welfare expenditure.
The emergence of the Covid19 pandemic as contained in a July 2021 SADC paper prompted economic growth in the region to contract by 4,8% in 2020 lower than the growth of 2,1% recorded in 2019.
The region's annual inflation increased to an average of 49, 6% in 2020 from 16,4% in 2019, largely due to heightened inflationary pressures in Zimbabwe.
Interestingly, the regional bloc observed that the average regional inflation excluding Zimbabwe averaged 6,4%.
The developments further compromised Zimbabwe's and the SADC region's capacity to settle the outstanding external debts.
Speaking to NewZimbabwe.com Business at the two days long Zimbabwe Public Debt Indaba which ended in Harare Wednesday, regional debt experts underscored that the challenges currently bedevilling Zimbabwe are synonymous across the region.
Zimbabwe Coalition of Debt and Development (ZIMCODD) chairperson, Mukasiri Sibanda debt affects citizen's real-life issues.
"They have far reaching implications as they affect basic human rights like maternal health care. Students at various universities and colleges are having challenges to pay for their fees. Talk about shortages of water and all the challenges all revolves around how development financing is taking place," he said.
He said the challenges faced by Zimbabwe and Africa as a whole, have both local and a global dimension due to the broken global finance system.
"Countries like Zimbabwe cannot get out of this situation alone as they need a global solution.
"The missing link in most of these issues is lack of political will hence the need to rally everyone to understand why it is important for us to mobilise and create such sufficient political will for the government to take action when it comes to sustainable debt management," he added.
Zambia based Southern African Social Forum regional coordinator; Gershom Kabaso bemoaned the lack of debt management policy implementation.
"We have just come to the conclusion that like the case of Zimbabwe, most of the SADC regional countries, documentation in terms of the Public Finance Management Acts as well as management of the strategies in place are following a similar pattern of not being implemented accordingly," he said.
He said the root cause of this debt crisis which is choking these nations can be traced towards poor enforcement of the regulatory requirements, underscoring that if the region's Finance Ministers were consistent such problems could now be a thing of the past.
"So, it is against such a background we urged the region's parliamentarians and key stakeholders to put in place measures to ensure the enforcement of Debt Management regulations to ensure compliance. That alone can improve the situation being experienced in the Southern Africa region. There is a need to improve the local mobilisation of resources to properly apply taxation that will improve the revenue situation in Southern Africa," he said.
Malawi Economic Justice Network regional coordinator, Mike Banda bemoaned the fact that throughout the region, finance ministers have a tendency of playing around with the Finance Management Acts and other debt management instruments.
"What is surprising is that there are very sweet- and high-sounding debt management strategies which are unfortunately not being implemented. Such debt management strategies which we must be adhering to are just not being abided by," he said.
He said most of the countries in the region are well above the recommended Debt to GDP ratios, a situation he said forces huge sums of money to be spent on servicing debts at the expense of welfare expenditure.
Banda called on the region's stakeholders to join hands in fighting such devices.
"A worrisome trend we are seeing in the region is the limited capacity of parliamentarians to contribute meaningfully to such issues due to incapacitation.
"We continue to question why developments like debt assumptions continue to take place right in the presence of these MPs and this begs the question on where do we draw the lines between their competencies and the quality of decisions being reached.
"It is indeed a regional and global challenge which needs us to work together as stakeholders in tackling," he said.
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Læraðr es un árbol de la mitología nórdica que permanece en lo alto del Valhalla y su follaje alimenta al ciervo Eikþyrnir y a la cabra Heiðrún. A veces se ha identificado con Yggdrasil. Aparece descrito en Grímnismál (cap. 25 y 26) y Gylfaginning (cap. 39).

Etimología
El significado de Læraðr / Léraðr no está aclarado. Una opción de læ es "daño" o "traición" y se podría traducir como "el que preparó la traición", una referencia al relato de Odín sacrificado y colgado en el árbol Yggdrasil. Otra lectura sería *hléradr, cuyo primer componente sería "refugio" y se podría traducir como "donador de protección".

Teorías
John Lindow identifica Læraðr con Yggdrasil pues «está localizado en la residencia de Odín, que es el centro del cosmos».<ref>Lindow, John. 2002. Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs]. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515382-0.</ref> Otro argumento es que Yggdrasil también aloja muchas criaturas como la ardilla Ratatoskr, cuatro ciervos, serpientes y el dragón Níðhöggr. Snorri Sturluson también menciona que Hvergelmir se sitúa bajo Yggdrasil.

 Referencias

 Bibliografía
 Orchard, Andy (1997). Dictionary of Norse Myth and Legend. Orion Publishing Group, Cassell. ISBN 0-304-34520-2
 Simek, Rudolf (1996). Dictionary of Northern Mythology. Trad. by Angela Hall. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer. ISBN 0-85991-513-1.
 Thorpe, Benjamin (trad.). 1866. Edda Sæmundar Hinns Froða: The Edda Of Sæmund The Learned. London: Trübner & Co.
 Brodeur, Arthur Gilchrist (trad.). 1916. Snorri Sturluson: The Prose Edda.'' New York: The American-Scandinavian Foundation.

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Odette/Odile in Swan Lake (with ENB), Nikiya in La Bayadere, Marie in Nutcracker, Swan Lake Pas de trois, Aurora in Sleeping Beauty, title role in Malakhov's Cinderella, solo role in Balanchine'sBallet Imperial, and roles in modern works by Uwe Scholz and Christian Spuck.
Gold medal at the Moscow International Ballet Competition 2001.
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Junior Prize at the Nagoya (Japan) International Ballet Competition 2002.


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That report will be a part of the State of the Art report, a document that will give a general overview of domestic violence among marginalised groups in the partner countries using all the review and data collected.
During the partners' meeting that will take place in Palermo at the beginning of October 2013, CESIE will present the first results.


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Q: Weak Net Convergence and Approximate Identities I am reading through the text "Complete Normed Algebras" by J.J. Bonsall and J. Duncan.
Let $ A $ be a normed algebra.
Definition: A weak left approximate identity for $ A $ is a net $ \{ e(\lambda) \}_{\lambda \in \Lambda} $ such that $ f(e(\lambda)x) \to f(x) $ for every $ x \in X $ and for every $ f \in X^* $.
Proposition 2 (p.58):  Let $ A $ contain a bounded set $ U $ such that, given $ x \in A $, $ \epsilon > 0 $, there exists $ u \in U $ with $ \| x - ux \| < \epsilon $.  Then $ A $ has a bounded left approximate identity.
Proposition 4 (p. 59): If $ A $ has a bounded weak left approximate identity then $ A $ has a bounded left approximate identity.
Proof: Let $ \{ e(\lambda) \}_{\lambda \in \Lambda} $ be a weak left approximate identity for $ A $ and let $ U $ be the convex hull of $ \{ e(\lambda) : \lambda \in \Lambda \} $.  Since $ e(\lambda)x \to x $ in the weak topology on $ A $ there exists $ u \in U $ such that $ \| x - ux \| < \epsilon $.  Apply Proposition 2.
My question:

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*To apply proposition 2 I need to verify that the set $ U $ in proposition 4 is bounded.  Since $ \{ e(\lambda) \}_{\lambda \in \Lambda} $ is a bounded left-approximate identity this means that there exists an $ M > 0 $ such that $ \| e(\lambda) \| \leq M $ for every $ \lambda \in \Lambda $.  If $ U $ is the convex hull of $ \{ e(\lambda) : \lambda \in \Lambda $ then why is it true that $ U $ is bounded?  My idea is, let $ u \in U $.  Then $ u $ is a finite convex combination of points in $ \{ e(\lambda) : \lambda \in \Lambda \} $ so there exists $ \lambda_1, \lambda_2, ..., \lambda_n \in \Lambda $ and $ 0 \leq \alpha_1, \alpha_2, ..., \alpha_n \leq 1 $ with $ \sum_{k=1}^{n} \alpha_k = 1 $ such that $ u = \sum_{k=1}^{n} \alpha_k e(\lambda_k) $.  So $ \| u \| \leq \sum_{k=1}^{n} \alpha_k \| e(\lambda_k) \| \leq M $.  Is this correct?

*Why does there exist a $ u \in U $ such that $ \| x - ux \| < \epsilon $?  What property of convergence in the weak topology is being used here?  I am not familiar with the weak topology in regards to nets.
Thanks!

A: For $1$ you are correct.  Another way to observe this to recall that the convex hull of a set is the intersection of all convex supersets.  Since the ball $B$ of radius $M$ at $0$ contains $\{ e(\lambda) : \lambda \in \Lambda \}$ and is convex, $B$ also contains its convex hull, namely $U$.
For $2$, $x$ is in the weak closure of $\{e(\lambda)x:\lambda\in\Lambda\}$, hence is in the weak closure of its convex hull.  But for convex sets the weak closure and norm closure coincide, so we have $x$ in the norm closure of $Ux=\{ux:u\in U\}$.

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Will Wilkinson of "The Week" uses Toronto, where 47% of the population was born outside of North America, as a wonderful example to counter the fears of Anglo-Saxon's that dilution of the WASP strain will wreak havoc in all of North America.
In his 2004 book 'Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity,' the late Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington warned that "the United States of America will suffer the fate of Sparta and Rome," should its founding Anglo-Protestant culture continue to wane. Commenting sympathetically on Huntington's argument, conservative writer John O'Sullivan asserts that if traditional patterns of national life are "removed or destroyed, then anomie, despair, and disintegration tend to be among the consequences." So we must take care to protect our precious cultural patrimony from the acid of "denationalizing" economic and cultural globalization. We must keep outsiders out.
I remember John O'Sullivan from our days contributing to Margaret Thatcher's speeches, in her successful run for the British Conservative Party leadership in 1975.
Even then, we all recognized that there was an unhappy marriage between the libertarian economists (who included me), who supported Maggie for her desire to get the country's public purse in good order, and the social conservatives (who included John), who wanted to keep the UK white, God-fearing and firmly rooted in the Victorian Era.
The fact is that, after the rush of immigrants from East Africa and the Caribbean, during the Sixties and Seventies, the focus shifted to the Asian Sub-Continent – Pakistan, India and, most recently, Hong Kong.
All we tend to hear about, on this side of the Atlantic, is how discontented second and third generation radical British Muslims, primarily originating from Pakistan, have become some of the most harmful of the followers of Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
Yet overall, the influx of immigrants has added great richness and diversity to Britain's country. We have descendants from the West Indies running for us in the Olympics; Asian descendants in our Cricket team; successful Asian millionaires grace the benches of the House of Lords; and curry, not fish-and-chips is now the most beloved national dish.
There is nothing wrong with this. Any student of British history will know that there is no singular British racial strain. Over the centuries, we were invaded many times, and forcibly or otherwise, room was always found for the new conquerors – don't ask me why, but none of 'em ever wanted to go home!
Indeed, the very nomenclature 'Anglo-Saxon' is made up of two different groups: the Saxons and the Angles, both invaders; both absorbed into British cultural heritage.
It is, therefore, something of a cruel irony for Brits or Yanks to hold on so desperately to a racial strain which represents the very epitome of foreigner.
America has nothing to fear from new immigration. They want to come here to succeed, not to live on welfare. Our national heritage is more than strong enough to absorb the new cultures of Asia and Central America, and then to grow and blossom with their input.
I pity John and all those seeming cynics who feel that good was only ever in the past, and who fear whatever the future may have to bring.
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Is it fair to equate the potential decision by President Obama not to prosecute those responsible for torture in the Bush Administration with President Ford's pardoning of President Nixon?
In 1974, America had, in the previous eleven years, been shaken by the assassinations of John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King.
We had suffered the long nightmare of Vietnam; the horror of the illegal incursion into Cambodia, and all the atrocities that followed; culminating in the same of our final retreat from Saigon.
To cap all this, we then had to suffer the indignity of a criminal President, getting caught, wriggling, lying, sacrificing his staff, and then finally achieving historical stature as the only President to resign his office.
America was baying for blood. It wanted Richard Nixon's scalp. Not just for Watergate. But for the war crimes committed in Vietnam and Cambodia. And for the reign of domestic terror and surveillance he had overseen in the US itself.
So, yes. I see an equivalence between those times and the period we find ourselves in today, where many in America want George Bush and his cohorts to pay a visible and terrible price for what has been done in the name of the War on Terror and the War in Iraq and Afghanistan, and for the many abuses of power he perpetrated on US soil.
The question once again is: will the price to be paid be more terrible for the American people than it will be for Bush and his cronies?
Make no mistake, once we start down this path, it can only end with Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld, among many others, standing trial for war crimes.
What will that do for the American psyche and for our standing around the world? Is there not a better way – as, in fact, I argue in the first article to bear this title?
Back in 1974, President Ford took a momentous decision. I believe it was the right one. and it cost him his Presidency. He determined that the nation had suffered enough. That it would cause more trauma to put a President on trial that it would cause to hold him legally accountable for his alleged crimes.
I strongly believe that, by making this decision, President Ford began the process of healing the nation's spirit. This continued under Jimmy Carter, and even under Ronald Reagan.
Whatever one may think of his policies, Reagan's grandfatherly demeanor helped to restore our faith in ourselves and our stature around the world.
Our nation has just been through another nightmare. I'm guessing that many of those calling for prosecution now did not experience the similar nightmare of the Seventies, and may, therefore, not see the advantages of restoring spirit over the short-term retribution of legal proceedings. But I do. And I'm hoping that President Obama will, too.
The assassinations of two Kennedy's and a King. The unseemly retreat from Vietnam. The resignation of Nixon. And, more importantly, his subsequent pardon.
Presidential pardons are beginning to develop a life of their own. Just when we thought the tabloid history of Clinton's Presidency might have reached its apex with Monica, along came his weird pardon of Marc Rich, fugitive tax-dodger and oil-sales middleman for Iraq.
Even Bush, at the end, managed to surprise us with some of the folks he did not pardon, including 'Scooter' Libby (who, coincidentally, had advised Denise Rich to approach Clinton to pardon her former husband).
Notwithstanding the historical magnitude of the challenges facing President Obama, and the magnificence (yes, I'm biased), and some might add munificence, of his response, could it be that his young Presidency might yet be defined by a decision not to bring legal sanction against any of the players involved in the torture saga?
Would such a decision have the same impact on his chances of re-election, as it did with Ford's pardon of President Nixon? And might it permanently taint his Presidential legacy?
Contrary to what you might think might be the answer to this impressive build-up, my view is that, even if it costs him the Presidency and his legacy, Obama should stick to his current stance that we admit mistakes, and move on.
Yes, the American people deserve accountability. Certainly, we must prove to the world that we believe in justice. But before I give my opinion on the sort of accountability and justice that might work best, there are other points to consider.
I have been involved in the political process, at the highest level – in the UK. I stress the political process, as distinct from the elective or government processes. I mean, being a part of the machine that, day after day, week after week, year after year, has to consider, warplan, forecast, spin and control the political fall-out of decisions made by political leaders.
It is something I now refuse to be a part of. Why? Because it corrupts. It always corrupts. Not because people are bad, or less good. But because the very nature of the job requires a 'corruption' of the thought process.
Your contribution is not what is best, in a given situation, for the country, or a policy, leave alone the world at large. Your job is to decide what is best for the leader you serve. And that viewpoint is always cast on the assumption that what is best for your leader is, in fact, what is best for everyone else.
How can that not be the case? You just spent one, two, six years, whatever, producing scenario after speech after TV ad stating, as Papal Authority, that the nation, the world, and at least half the galaxy depends, for its continued sanity, on electing your man. Not a policy. Your man. Not an Administration. Your man.
Your guy is the Administration. He is the national security. He is the best interest of the nation. Whatever he is. He is all of that.
That is a natural result of being a political operative at the highest level. It is an inevitable consequence. And it requires inhuman effort to resist its seduction. That's why I now limit my role in the political arena (aside from running for office itself) to the less dangerous waters of political communication.
Now, it is my opinion that, in the highly-charged atmosphere after 9-11, everyone in Government, from Karl Rove to the person who opened the jail cell doors at Guantanamo was, by emotional investment, a political operative. And anything they did should be judged and sanctioned within the context of the political process.
I'll cut through all the crap that will now undoubtedly occupy our nation's hungry press for the best part of however long it is to come.
I'll accept as a given that there were innumerable instances of CIA Officers exceeding the limits of the legal advice given about torture. I'll accept as a given that those perpetrating such illegal excess knew they were doing it.
I'll accept that those who gave the legal advice did so in the certain knowledge that the advice was given in bad faith, in the also certain knowledge that the acts supposedly being given legal sanction were, in fact, wholly illegal.
My position remains the same. There should be no legal prosecution. The appropriate forum is not the legal or military one, but the political one.
Every single person who was involved in these activities, legal or illegal, did so with the knowledge that they were carrying out the wishes of their President. Therefore, all of these activities fall within the political process. The buck resides not with the protagonists, but with the President, and with the President alone.
That is a function of working for a President. You don't blame the operatives. You blame the President, or you blame the system. Or, if you really want to get existential, you blame humanity.
The time for blaming the President was when he was in office. And don't give me bull that Congress, et al, did not know what was going on. Either they did, in which case they are as much to blame. Or they didn't, in which case, they need to beef up their investigative techniques, or we need to change the system of checks and balances.
In my opinion, there should be a statute of limitations on actions committed during an Administration, by that Administration. And that statute should end when the Administration is over.
I do not go as far as Nixon and say that an illegal act committed by a President and those who serve him is not illegal. But I do say that the time for bringing charges for the illegality is while the Administration is in office.
We create a boiler-room situation in Presidential operations, where we know there is a better than evens chance operatives are going to step over the line. We then wait until its all over, and then we nab 'em. This is not only unfair. It's unreal. And it's going to result in repetition – over and over and over. And what's more, it's going to lead to political retaliation when the next lot get into office.
This could result in paralysis in Governmental decision-making, which, for example, in the intelligence or military arenas, could be fatal. No. I say Government operatives are all part of the political process. We nab 'em during their time in office. If we don't or can't, then when the political process brings the Adminstration to an end, that also is an end to any witch-hunt.
As to the rest of the world looking for accountability. What about balancing that ambition with concern for those who may watch with horror as we eat our own?
Like it or not, we are the only superpower in the world today. The only true military strong man. Good people, running important allies, look to us for support. Very often, it is that friendship alone which keeps the wolves at bat. Or the absolute certainty, in the minds of those wolves, that we will be steadfast, strong and discrete in our positions.
What happens when we say to the world's villains, you can count on us to keep you at bay. Well, unless we're mean, by mistake. When we'll back off. Or, we think we might have been mean. So, could you hang on, while we have a bit of an investigate to see…oops…you were right, sorry.
Or, even worse. We decide that we need to reveal everything that might have happened. And maybe, inadvertently, we let slip the name of a secret foreign ally. Or, that ally thinks we might slip up?
Balance against the deserved plaudits we might get from the world's media for being transparent, the sense of trust that we might lose among the leadership of our allies. Allies who might then have to choose compromise with their unacceptable enemies, over a relationship with a now erstwhile champion.
We have a system for electing our leaders to do a job that is pretty clearly defined. We have a system of checks and balances. If it doesn't work, change it. But when their period of office is over, we don't second guess the decisions made.
It was a political process that put those leaders in place. It is political process that shapes the context in which decisions are made. It should be the political process that judges those decisions – not a legal process. It should be political sanctions that punish any offenders – not criminal prosecution. And the ultimate political sanction is electoral defeat. The Republicans just suffered that.
Now, that does not mean that is an end to political justice.
President Obama has released documentation. I'm not sure I'm fully in support of voluntarily releasing documents from a previous Administration, but I can see his rationale for so doing coming from a desire to move on expeditiously.
I might now go further, and suggest a Presidential Commission, along the lines of the 9-11 Commission. But only within the proviso that there is to be no prosecution; only revelation, which does not disturb the future functioning of our Government, nor harm our genuine national security interests. Exposure on its own should be the only sanction against wrong-doing.
When I was undertaking the private investigation which led to my book (http://www.lulu.com/content/384105), I tried on several occasions to make contact with senior levels of British Intelligence.
I wanted them to understand that I appreciated that it might never be possible for the truth of my friend's death to become public. But I did at least want private and discrete reparation for his family, since my friend had died as a consequence of unofficial actions approved by the then Prime Minister of Great Britain.
There is much that even a Presidential Commission may not be able to publish. But part of its remit could be private recommendations for discrete reparations to injured parties.
Then again, we could even hold our noses, and follow the lead of Gordon Brown and the Northern Ireland, and simply give a set sum to all those who were held or interrogated.
There will be unbelievable pressure on President Obama to give in, and allow sanctions to be brought against acts of the previous Administration.
I believe that if he succumbs, or worse, does a Henry II, and looks the other way, as Knights slay the modern equivalent of Thomas a Becket, then it may seriously damage the ability of future Governments to receive confidential advice, make and execute sensitive policy, and govern effectively. And further, it may do more damage to our standing around the world than the original acts of torture.
Even if it is perceived now as a failing, to be ranked along with Ford's pardon of Nixon, I believe that history will show that Obama will have made the right decision if he sticks with his first instincts simply to admit mistakes, and move on.
Goldman Sachs: Financier of Terror?
Have Goldman Sachs in the US and the Royal Bank of Scotland in the UK been shown favored treatment by their respective Governments because they are the clandestine, Government-sanctioned financiers and launderers of top-secret and officially-deniable aspects of the US/UK War on Terror?
What follows is based on the 20-year research and investigation that forms the basis of my book, "Dead Men Don't Eat Lunch": http://www.lulu.com/content/384105.
Beginning in the Second World War, financial trading circles in New York and London forged behind-the-scenes alliances with intelligence agencies and shadier figures from the international criminal world to help to finance and organize special operations against the Japanese and Germans.
This unholy cabal continued during the Cold War, reaching its apex in the Eighties, when vast sums of money were literally looted from industry and financial houses and banks around the world, and shoveled into Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in a successful bid to buy off communism.
Forget all the talk about Velvet Revolutions and Gorbachev and Yeltsin. The Wall came down and the Soviet Union split up because hundreds and thousands of communist officials had quite simply been bribed to stand aside when the time came.
The intention was to allow for activity that Bush and Reagan deemed necessary to meet their foreign policy goals, without the need for oversight by Congress: arms sales to Iran; hostage negotiation in the Lebanon; support of the Contra's; the secret war in Afghanistan; and so on.
As part of this circumvention of Congressional oversight, Margaret Thatcher, then Prime Minister of Great Britain, pimped out her funds-starved military and intelligence services to do the 'wet' work for 'The Enterprise.' From arranging assassinations in the Lebanon to shipping arms into Afghanistan and shooting down Soviet Hind helicopters.
Obviously, since 'The Enterprise' did not officially exist, funding had to be arranged through nefarious means. Thus it was that 'The Enterprise' became a criminal trading organization, with the Vice President of the United States at its head.
Drugs from Central America to the West Coast; drugs from The Lebanon to the East Coast (and the bomb which brought down Pan Am Flight 103 – bearing several senior CIA officers and a suitcase they thought was filled with drugs, but which had been replaced by a bomb provided by Ahmed Jibril, General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command, at the behest of Iran, through Syria, in retaliation for the downing of an Iranian commercial airliner by the USS Vincennes, in 1988).
Arms to Iran. Arms to the Contras. Money to the Contras from Saudi Arabia. The IRA using their bases in Northern Ireland to do deals with Palestinians for arms, while allowing drugs to be shipped through Northern Ireland in return. Everyone and their auntie selling arms to the Iranians and the Iraqis, in contravention of UN sanctions. Got a headache yet?
What happened in the Eighties was that, led by the US and the UK, all sorts of semi-official Government agencies, criminals and terrorists found that it was in their interest to set up an unofficial international trading network to allow for the unobserved exchange of all manner of illicit products and services: hostages, arms, drugs, cash, you name it. In my book, I give this network the rather cute, if unoriginal, name: InTerNet (International Terror Network).
Of course, all of this activity needed careful arranging by people steeped in the execution of clandestine operations: intelligence agencies. It required funding by those who understood it. And it required Governments to look the other way, usually in return for a pice of the action.
What you found at the end of the Eighties was a series of scandals involving financial institutions that had become involved in this underhand activity, as financiers and money-launderers: BCCI and BNL, to name but two. Yet there were others. Those that were exposed were those that were 'let go.' Investigators were getting too close to the truth, so there were sacrificial lambs.
One of the larger British institutions which was heavily involved, the Royal Bank of Scotland, is still being protected. There are regular features in the UK press as to why RBS is being shown favored treatment in the UK's version of the bank bail-out. This is the reason.
Well-known figures on both sides of the Atlantic were also sacrificed, in order to hide the wider network and its continuing profitable activities: former Chancellor Kohl in Germany; former Italian Prime Ministers Giulio Andreotti and Bettino Craxi, again, to name but a few. Never forgetting, of course, Oliver North in the US.
This deadly trading game led to the death of Princess Diana. Her boyfriend, Dodi, was the son of a notorious arms dealer, Mohammed al Fayed, who also owned the Ritz Hotel, in Paris.
In a bid to unseat the then Conservative Government of Great Britain, which had refused Mohammed British citizenship, Mohammed had threatened to reveal the dirty arms deals of the Conservative Government, and the secret commissions that had been paid to senior Conservative politicians.
The trouble was that revelation would have involved naming the secret Arabian arms middlemen, the details of whom Mohammed knew because the deals had been arranged in his hotel.
Not liking that sort of attention, the arms middlemen arranged to send Mohammed a message he could not ignore. In time-honored Middle-Eastern fasion, they decided to kill the person Mohammed loved the most. His son. And threw Di into the bargain to underline how untouchable they were.
The closest all of this has got to revelation in Great Britain is an investigation by "The Guardian" newspaper into arms deals by British Aerospace and the Saudi Arabians, in particular. As hard as they have tried, the investigators at the newspaper have been unable to tie commissions paid by the Saudis to any British politician.
My research has uncovered the money trail to those politicians. But, being as my resources involve one man and a dog – without the dog – I have been unable as yet to confirm the information to the necessary satisfaction of law enforcement and newspapers – although both have shown support and interest.
What I will say is keep your eye on Peter Mandelson, the new Commerce Secretary for Gordon Brown. On Geoffrey Robinson, former Paymaster General under Tony Blair. And on Alan Duncan, Shadow Leader of the House of Commons, on David Cameron's Conservative team.
But I'm getting a little distracted here. To get back on course. When communism collapsed, and when the lucrative Iran-Iraq War ended, when Saddam was blunted by the First Gulf War, InTerNet became dormant, although it did not completely disband.
Attention focused in the Nineties on providing security for mineral operations in Africa and oil drilling in the Caucasus. Then came 9/11 and the clandestine War on Terror. InTerNet was back in business, with a vengeance.
In the late Eighties, when I was painstakingly piecing together my research, I went a-looking for large holes in financial institutions. At the moment, we have some of the largest holes seen in history. Of course, that of itself means nothing.
What I also looked for was those financial institutions with holes that seemed to be under the protection of their Government. This again brought me back (in the Eighties) to BCCI and BNL.
BCCI were in deep financial trouble, long before the UK Government finally closed them in the early Nineties. Later, it was determined that the UK Government had deliberately held off action against BCCI, not least because they were using certain informants and triple agent clients of the bank (including the notorious Palestinian terrorist, Abu Nidal) to monitor the activities of InTerNet.
Which brings me to two articles, that I read to day, that suggested we are once again seeing tell-tale financial holes in institutions, which may well be being protected by the US and UK Governments.
One article talked about Lehman Brothers being in possession of large amounts of uranium, in which commodity it had been trading. I wondered why on earth a Wall Street financial house would be trading in a nuclear building block. Others had already been wondering why Lehman had been allowed to fail. I have begun to wonder if Lehman is a modern sacrificial lamb? did it know too much? Did it have assets that were too 'toxic,' in more ways than one?
Then, I read an article wondering why Goldman Sachs had been shown preferential treatment by the US Government (much like RBS had been shown favored treatment by the UK Government). Much was written about the connections Goldman has with Robert Rubin (Treasury Secretary under Clinton), Henry Paulson (Treasury Secretary under George Bush the Younger) and Tim Geitner (Obama's Treasury Secretary).
What I'm beginning to wonder is if this is, in fact, because Goldman is the current chief financier and launderer of the US end of the revived InTerNet?
Does our new President know about all of this? One of my sources told me of the weekend when John Major, the new British Prime minister, was told by his Government's 'Gray Men' of the unsavory activities of his Government and country – back in 1990.
John was horrified. It began a reaction on his part, honorable man that he is, that led to three separate commissions, investigating arms sales to Iraq, political fund-raising and political donations by corporations. Those investigations, in turn, led to clandestine action to undermine his influence, which was the primary cause of his General Election defeat in 1997.
I explain in some detail in my book my circumstantial reasoning for believing that much the same conversation was held with Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. They proved to be less honorable, and in my informed opinion, they did a 'dirty deal' with their own intelligence agencies, whereby they agreed to give their intelligence agencies and military a free hand to continue their funded support for American adventures, in return for those same intelligence agencies not undermining them, in the same way they undermined John Major.
I suspect President Obama knows all of this. We will have to wait and see what history says of his reaction.
Newsweek leads with an article suggesting that the number of people saying that religion can answer all or most of the problems in the US today has fallen dramatically in the past few years.
Leaving aside the obvious cheap funnies, this goes all the way back to the founding days, when those who came over on the first little wooden ships were pretty much split between fundamentalist Puritans, seeking a New World to allow for the expression of their strict Protestant religious views, and a bunch of wayward adveturers, looking to make a buck.
This is what led to the ideal of a separation of church and state. It was less to do with some high-minded philosophy about the dangers of religion interfering with the state, and much more to do with the fact that Mammon wanted to be left the heck alone, and the fundamentalists had already fled one society of religious oppression, and wanted to be sure that it was not replacing it with another. Less accommodation, and more a balance of mutual terror. And it is why we enjoy today the cultural dichotomy of "God Bless America" living alongside Las Vegas and Larry Flynt.
The creative tension, even societal schizophrenia, that has existed between the two opposite national character traits, has defined us as a society ever since. There is a constant jostling for influence between the desire to be moral and the freedom to earn money any which way that we can. It's why we have the expression "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" in the Declaration of Independence, and the phrase "one nation, under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. It's why Oliver North took a Bible to Tehran, while selling TOW missiles to Iran's Islamic leaders.
Religion found itself on the rise in the Eighties, in response to permissive social reforms of the Sixties and the economic difficulties of the Seventies. People from all sorts of different social backgrounds, who might previously have been on opposite sides of the political divide on economic matters (conservative Southerners and blue-collar Northerners), suddenly found themselves beating the same drum on issues such as abortion and gay marriage.
Those beating the drum loudest, of course, were the Christian Right. The Evangelicals. The Southern Baptists. They probably had their greatest victory, not in the Eighties, with Reagan, but with Bush in 2004. Then, even with a still doddery economy, and a deeply unpopular war, they helped to underpin a close Election win for Bush. I remember telling my disappointed Catholic and liberal uncle that the remedy in 2008 lay not in winning back the Democratic Party from the political cynics, but in winning back the Catholic Party from the religious cynics.
I believe that what we are seeing now is a reaction against the meddling of the Christian Right in the past couple of decades. A realization that the Bible calls as much for social justice as moral adherence. This began to be seen in 2006, saw further expression in 2008, and deepens every day with growing disenchantment with supposedly caring religious types who call for the failure of a President whom most see as one who is trying to help the nation.
So, I'm not surprised by the Newsweek poll. But, I further believe there is a danger embedded in the poll which activist progressives ignore at their peril – whether the peril is morally altruisitic or politically expedient.
I sense that people generally are fed up with the problems of society and the solutions being cast in any sort of religious context. If we spend too much time wrapping up the activism of President Obama in the moral cloak of the religious and moral calling of Jesus, then, if that activism is less than miraculous, we may be setting up the legacy of Obama for further religious backlash down the road.
By all means, allow our own religious and moral beliefs to inform our own personal desire to help. But let's mirror the separation of church and state in our own efforts. Let's leave religion out of governmental good works. I remember a friend telling me how, as an avowed atheist, she happily worked alongside Republicans and Christian Evangelicals in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, because everyone agreed to leave their political manifesto's and Bibles at home.
In this way, religion can be allowed to re-discover its natural and separated role in society, and ordinary folks are left to judge the activism of their Government on its merits, and not by some blind adherence to an irrelevant moral belief – a confusion between practicality and religion that we observe and fear in societies like those of Iran and Northern Ireland.


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Description: Terrestrial or epiphytic plants.
Leaves simple, usually small, with a single vein, often scale-like; leaves that bear sporangia in their axils (sporophylls) either similar to the sterile leaves and arranged in fertile zones on the aerial stems, or modified and aggregated into cone-like strobili.
Spores of one kind only.
Distribution and occurrence: World: 4 genera, > 381 species, pantropical to southern temperate regions. Australia: 4 genera, 22 species, all States, chiefly from Qld to Tas.
It is now generally accepted that the family Lycopodiaceae contains four genera, following Xllgard (1987, 1989). Two new genera (Lycopodiella and Huperzia) are now included in this revised treatment, as well as the following name changes.


Welcome to Practitioner Research in Higher Education. The aim of the publication is to disseminate and debate practitioner research and evaluation in higher education. In the first paper Bloxham, Cerevkova and Waddelove describe and critically evaluate the development of an embedded personal development planning (PDP) process within a first year undergraduate module in Law. This useful case study demonstrates the benefits of fully integrating PDP within a taught module. It also highlights the need to develop understanding of reflective writing amongst staff and students and shows how modifying the use of their virtual learning environment is moving the programme towards an eportfolio approach.
An introduction to volume one issue one of this journal.


Not sure if anyone will be able to answer me on this one but thought I would try. I am looking to hike from bunes beach to horseid beach by way of the Helvetestinden. I know that you can summit the Helvetestinden from Bunes beach and it is a well documented hike. However from the searches I have done and from images I can not tell if one is able to go down the opposite side of the ridge towards horseid beach from anywhere on the path up the Helvetestinden. The maps seem to imply that it would be possible but just curious to see if anyone has ever hiked Bunes to Helvetestinden and could give me any information about the possibilities of going down the other side of the ridge towards horseid.
There is already few posts about this subject on the Forum. Once again the answer is NO. It is highly dangerous many rock falls and steep drop and far too many deadly accidents for the one which have tried in the past last years.
Thank you so much for your response, apologies as I searched the forum but must have missed the previous post about this topic. We definitely wont be attempting based on your advice. If I can ask a follow up question regarding the ferry it would really help. My understanding is that during the summer weeks the ferry runs Monday to Friday by taking the following route - Reine then to Vindstad, then to Kirkefjord and then back to Reine. My understanding is based on the Reinefjorden website.
Then as you suggest taking the ferry from Vindstad to Kirkefjord is the best way. I just want to make sure my understanding is correct that the ferry goes from Vindstad to Kirkefjord and not just straight from Vindstad back to Reine. Hopefully my question makes sense - basically just want to make sure the ferry goes between these two stops and not just back and forth (separately) from these spots to Reine.
Thanks again for your response it is much appreciated.
If you look closely at the ferry timetable from week 26 to week 33 (Summer) you will notice that the morning ferries (08h00, 10h00 and 11h00) go from Reine to Vindstad, then to Kjerkfjord and back to Reine, while the afternoon ferry goes from Reine(15h00) to Kjerkfjord(15h20), then to Vindstad(15h30) and back to Reine(16h00).
In addition to this, and only on demand you can ask to be stopped in "Forsfjord" (between Reine and Vindstad) and in "Rostad" (between Kjerkfjord and Reine). You will have to pay extra for those special stops.
That was what I thought but just wanted to confirm - thank you very much for your answers as they have made planning my trip so much more efficient.
Hi David, thank you and Magdalena for making the wonderful Lofoten island guide. I found this thread on the other way around ferry and checked the timetable. But for some reason I couldn't read that the ferry is making a full loop in the timetable available. Has anything changed?
We want to hike your 11 day trek the other way around.
How can we be sure we can take a ferry from Vindstad to Kjekrfjorden?