NEW YORK (AP) -- The economy is slowly growing, the government's yearly budget deficit falling. But the nation's former top auditor doesn't buy the idea that everything is OK.
David Walker, who for a decade ran the Government Accountability Office, the watchdog group charged with overseeing how the government spends taxpayer money, is as adamant as ever that Washington is out of touch and out of control with the nation's finances.
Next month he'll present a major report for the nonprofit he founded, the Comeback America Initiative, whose purpose is to raise awareness about the federal government's swelling debt. It's a chasm that isn't top of mind for most Americans, he knows. But Walker, 61, wants it to be.
He stocks his pockets with fake trillion-dollar bills to pass around because, as he says, "Washington spends a trillion dollars like it's nothing." He shows up for an interview sporting two pins on his lapel — one for the Sons of the American Revolution, and one that says CPA, in honor of his accounting vocation. "It means I'm a patriot who knows math," he says, "and there's not many of them."
The government estimates the national debt at about $17 trillion, but Walker argues it's closer to $73 trillion, once all the unfunded promises for future Social Security benefits and other obligations are added in. And he envisions a bleak future if the U.S. doesn't stem the financial sinkhole: painful inflation, larger gaps between the rich and the poor, even threats to national security.
He rattles off proposed solutions. Among them: To cut down on health care costs, make hospitals provide more information about pricing. To salvage Social Security, index the retirement age to increases in life expectancy. To bring in more tax revenue, cut down on the exemptions and deductions that disproportionately benefit the wealthy.
CAI will wind down after next month's report on the state of the nation's finances, partly because Walker promised his wife he'd take it easy, partly because he's not sure the Washington establishment — Republicans and Democrats alike — is ready to listen.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Walker also expounded on why the stock market doesn't matter, why the sequester isn't helping and how he got roped into dancing the Harlem Shake. Excerpts have been edited for length and clarity.
Isn't some of your message just scaremongering? You keep comparing the U.S. to Rome?
The Roman republic fell for a lot of reasons. Decline of moral values and political civility at home. Overconfidence and overextended militarily around the world. Fiscal irresponsibility by the central government and inability to control its borders. Does that sound familiar?
We tend to assume that since we're the largest economy, the temporary sole superpower, the longest standing democracy, that we must be No. 1 in most things. And we're not. We're below average on the state of our critical infrastructure. We're below average with regard to health care outcomes, K-12 education, the amount of public resources we're allocating to research and development. We spend over twice per person what other industrialized nations spend on health care and K-12 education and yet we get below-average results. So the answer is not to spend more money. The answer is you've got to dramatically reform the system.
But Washington already cut spending. Automatic spending cuts, or the sequester, kicked in this year, when Republicans and Democrats couldn't work out a budget compromise.
That represents a mindless, across-the-board, one-size-fits-all cut to defense and other discretionary spending, rather than separating the wheat from the chaff in terms of what works and what doesn't work. The three things that drive our structural deficit problems have not been addressed by the president and the Congress. They haven't addressed social insurance problems: Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. They haven't adequately dealt with health care costs. And they haven't modernized our tax system to make it simpler, fairer and to generate more revenues. Until you do that, you're rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
OK. So how bad is it?
Washington has a false sense of security about our nation's finances. We have an aging society. We have longer lifespans. We have relatively fewer workers supporting a growing number of retirees. In 1950, we had about 16 people working for every person drawing Social Security. Today, it's 3 to 1, and by 2035, it's going down to 2 to 1. Every couple will have their own retiree to take care of.
The national debt clock says we have $17 trillion in debt, but the real problem is much bigger. If you look at the total liabilities in unfunded promises that the government has made — for future Social Security, for Medicare, for military and civilian pensions — it's $73 trillion. That's over $250,000 per person. People have a second or third mortgage that they didn't know they had, and no house to back it.
Now the biggest risk that we have fiscally is interest. We're spending (more than $200 billion) a year on interest. The president's own budget projections say we'll be spending (almost) $800 billion on interest (per year) in ten years. And what do you get for interest? Nothing. I say shinola. I'm from the South.
How can you be so negative about the economy? There are lots of signs that things are improving. The stock market is near record highs.
The stock market? I quit believing in the efficiency of markets a long time ago. The stock market is not the appropriate bellwether of the state of the economy. So yeah, the stock market is at a record high but on the other hand, gaps are growing between the haves and have-nots. People on fixed income are getting killed because they can't get a reliable return on investment. Prices are going up faster than what the government tells you because they don't consider food and energy in the index. Last time I checked you can't live without food and energy.
There's a video circulating the Internet of you dancing the Harlem Shake to raise awareness about the debt (with a group similar to CAI called The Can Kicks Back). Did you pick out the curly white wig you wore?
Oh, no no no no no. They asked me to wear it. I'm a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, and there are some very nice Revolutionary War wigs available. That was clearly not one of them.
Do you get invited to many parties in Washington? Because you're kind of a doomsayer.
The difference is I have answers.


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'Designated Survivor' 2×20 Review: To the Shock of No One
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I'm not going to sit here and pretend this episode of Designated Survivor was shocking, no. It was textbook bait and switch, and though they executed it well, anyone who's watched at least one procedural in their lives could have told you that on TV things are never what they seem. The first suspect is never actually the killer.
No, it's usually the person that looks the more innocent.
Also, you did do that shot where you framed the toy car last week, so, I mean, what did you expected, Designated Survivor?
That being said, this was a good episode of a show that I've had to significantly lower my expectations for. It's never been as good as it was the first half of Season 1, and more and more it seems unlikely it can ever get there. But, most times, this is still an entertaining show that probably deserves to see another season.
Even if that means putting up with more of Hannah's erratic emotions.
Because, really, in an episode that allows Kendra and even Emily, in a way, to shine, and come off as logical, intelligent women, the show continues to double down on this ridiculous story-line of Hannah absolutely losing her mind and going crazy for revenge because of …eh …Damian?
I'm sorry, but what?
Look, even if I can believe that in such a short time she truly let down her guard and fell for Damian so wholeheartedly, a dicey probability at best, the rest just doesn't add up. Remember, this is the same Hannah Wells that "killed" Damian once, and she did it because that was the right thing to do, because it meant protecting the President and the country.
And sure, the guy had been sorta helpful at the end, but he was still a bad guy. He'd still betrayed her.
You can imagine how much I rolled my eyes at the final scene. So much eye-rolling. And so much lost potential, too. I'd be 97% more into a Hannah/Aaron romance than I ever was into whatever other romance you've tried on this show.
Including the possible but aborted Tom Kirkman/Andrea Frost one, which I'm really, really glad we didn't get.
Let's be honest here, Andrea Frost's character, though likable, was a little flat. We've got enough sort of flat characters around. We don't need more. If this show is to go on to have a Season 3, we need some actual interesting characters. We need less Andrea Frosts and more Ethan Wests.
And, let's face it, this show is probably going to get a Season 3. You just don't cancel Kiefer, unless the show is actively awful, which this show isn't. At times, this show is still good. It's just, sadly, never great anymore. And that's what Season 1 got us used to.
Other things to note:
I'd love a graphic to explain the ups and downs of the Seth/Emily relationship. Or is that another thing I'm supposed to forget about.
Just like Kirkman's kids.
MIKE, YOU SPEAK. AT LAST.
Chuck, you actually had a story-line. Praise Jesus!
If we solved this, then what's coming in the season finale?
And why is Michael J. Fox still around? Is it just because he's Michael J. Fox? Because that's a good enough reason for me.
Designated Survivor airs Wednesdays at 10/9c on ABC.
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Revealed!!. World Bank and IMF's 4 Steps To Poverty.
The World Bank and IMF's 4 Steps To Rip-Off Poor Nations. Insights by Former employee Joe Stiglitz.
The former chief economist of the World Bank, Joe Stiglitz, was fired recently.
Jim Wolfensen, the then president of the World Bank would not comment on his dismissal. Before Joe Stiglitz was fired he took a large stack of secret documents out of the World Bank.
The Observer, London, Sunday, April 29, 2001.
"It has condemned people to death," the former apparatchik told me. This was like a scene out of Le Carre.
The brilliant old agent comes in from the cold, crosses to our side, and in hours of debriefing, empties his memory of horrors committed in the name of a political ideology he now realizes has gone rotten.
I "debriefed" Stigltiz over several days, at Cambridge University, in a London hotel and finally in Washington in April 2001 during the big confab of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
But instead of chairing the meetings of ministers and central bankers, Stiglitz was kept exiled safely behind the blue police cordons, the same as the nuns carrying a large wooden cross, the Bolivian union leaders, the parents of AIDS victims and the other 'anti-globalization' protesters. The ultimate insider was now on the outside.
In 1999 the World Bank fired Stiglitz.
He was not allowed quiet retirement; US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, I'm told, demanded a public excommunication for Stiglitz' having expressed his first mild dissent from globalization World Bank style.
Here in Washington we completed the last of several hours of exclusive interviews for The Observer and BBC TV's Newsnight about the real, often hidden, workings of the IMF, World Bank, and the bank's 51% owner, the US Treasury.
"confidential," "restricted," and "not otherwise (to be) disclosed without World Bank authorization."
Stiglitz helped translate one from bureaucratise, a "Country Assistance Strategy."
There's an Assistance Strategy for every poorer nation, designed, says the World Bank, after careful in-country investigation. But according to insider Stiglitz, the Bank's staff 'investigation' consists of close inspection of a nation's 5-star hotels. It concludes with the Bank staff meeting some begging, busted finance minister who is handed a 'restructuring agreement' pre-drafted for his 'voluntary' signature (I have a selection of these).
Rather than object to the sell-offs of state industries, he said national leaders - using the World Bank's demands to silence local critics - happily flogged their electricity and water companies.
"You could see their eyes widen" at the prospect of 10% commissions paid to Swiss bank accounts for simply shaving a few billion off the sale price of national assets.
And the US government knew it, charges Stiglitz, at least in the case of the biggest 'briberization' of all, the 1995 Russian sell-off.
"The US Treasury view was this was great as we wanted Yeltsin re-elected. We don't care if it's a corrupt election. We want the money to go to Yeltzin" via kick-backs for his campaign.
In theory, capital market deregulation allows investment capital to flow in and out. Unfortunately, as in Indonesia and Brazil, the money simply flowed out and out. Stiglitz calls this the "Hot Money" cycle. Cash comes in for speculation in real estate and currency, then flees at the first whiff of trouble. A nation's reserves can drain in days, hours.
"The result was predictable," said Stiglitz of the Hot Money tidal waves in Asia and Latin America.
● At this point, the IMF drags the gasping nation to Step Three: Market-Based Pricing, a fancy term for raising prices on food, water and cooking gas.
The IMF riot is painfully predictable.
"down and out, [the IMF] takes advantage and squeezes the last pound of blood out of them. They turn up the heat until, finally, the whole cauldron blows up," as when the IMF eliminated food and fuel subsidies for the poor in Indonesia in 1998.
You'd almost get the impression that the riot is written into the plan. And it is.
What Stiglitz did not know is that, while in the States, BBC and The Observer obtained several documents from inside the World Bank, stamped over with those pesky warnings, "confidential," "restricted," "not to be disclosed."
the "Interim Country Assistance Strategy" for Ecuador, in it the Bank several times states - with cold accuracy - that they expected their plans to spark, "social unrest," to use their bureaucratic term for a nation in flames.
The secret report notes that the plan to make the US dollar Ecuador's currency has pushed 51% of the population below the poverty line. The World Bank "Assistance" plan simply calls for facing down civil strife and suffering with, "political resolve" - and still higher prices.
Stiglitz notes that the IMF and World Bank are not heartless adherents to market economics.
"when the banks need a bail-out, intervention (in the market) is welcome."
The IMF scrounged up tens of billions of dollars to save Indonesia's financiers and, by extension, the US and European banks from which they had borrowed.
A pattern emerges. There are lots of losers in this system but one clear winner: the Western banks and US Treasury, making the big bucks off this crazy new international capital churn. Stiglitz told me about his unhappy meeting, early in his World Bank tenure, with Ethiopia's new president in the nation's first democratic election.
The World Bank and IMF had ordered Ethiopia to divert aid money to its reserve account at the US Treasury, which pays a pitiful 4% return, while the nation borrowed US dollars at 12% to feed its population.
● Now we arrive at Step Four of what the IMF and World Bank call their "poverty reduction strategy": Free Trade.
This is free trade by the rules of the World Trade Organization and World Bank, Stiglitz the insider likens free trade WTO-style to the Opium Wars.
"That too was about opening markets," he said.
As in the 19th century, Europeans and Americans today are kicking down the barriers to sales in Asia, Latin American and Africa, while barricading our own markets against Third World agriculture.
In the Opium Wars, the West used military blockades to force open markets for their unbalanced trade. Today, the World Bank can order a financial blockade just as effective - and sometimes just as deadly.
Stiglitz is particularly emotional over the WTO's intellectual property rights treaty (it goes by the acronym TRIPS, more on that in the next chapters).
It is here, says the economist, that the new global order has "condemned people to death" by imposing impossible tariffs and tributes to pay to pharmaceutical companies for branded medicines.
"They don't care," said the professor of the corporations and bank loans he worked with, "if people live or die."
By the way, don't be confused by the mix in this discussion of the IMF, World Bank and WTO.
They are interchangeable masks of a single governance system. They have locked themselves together by what are unpleasantly called, "triggers." Taking a World Bank loan for a school 'triggers' a requirement to accept every 'conditionality' - they average 111 per nation - laid down by both the World Bank and IMF.
In fact, said Stiglitz the IMF requires nations to accept trade policies more punitive than the official WTO rules.
Stiglitz greatest concern is that World Bank plans, devised in secrecy and driven by an absolutist ideology, are never open for discourse or dissent. Despite the West's push for elections throughout the developing world, the so-called Poverty Reduction Programs "undermine democracy."
And they don't work. Black Africa's productivity under the guiding hand of IMF structural "assistance" has gone to hell in a handbag. Did any nation avoid this fate? Yes, said Stiglitz, identifying Botswana.
"They told the IMF to go packing."
So then I turned on Stiglitz. OK, Mr Smart-Guy Professor, how would you help developing nations?
Stiglitz proposed radical land reform, an attack at the heart of "landlordism," on the usurious rents charged by the propertied oligarchies worldwide, typically 50% of a tenant's crops.
So I had to ask the professor: as you were top economist at the World Bank, why didn't the Bank follow your advice?
"If you challenge [land ownership], that would be a change in the power of the elites. That's not high on their agenda."
Ultimately, what drove him to put his job on the line was the failure of the banks and US Treasury to change course when confronted with the crises - failures and suffering perpetrated by their four-step monetarist mambo.
Every time their free market solutions failed, the IMF simply demanded more free market policies.
"It's a little like the Middle Ages," the insider told me, "When the patient died they would say, "well, he stopped the bloodletting too soon, he still had a little blood in him."
A version of this was first published as "The IMF's Four Steps to Damnation" in The Observer (London) in April and another version in The Big Issue - that's the magazine that the homeless flog on platforms in the London Underground.
"...I find it impossible to respond given the depth and breadth of hearsay and misinformation in [Palast's] report."
Award-winning reporter Palast writes Inside Corporate America for the London Observer.


Here are some pics of a 5/8 shank TPG 32x holder that I made today.
Yes it's ugly, but it gets the job done, which for me isn't very demanding.
Figured I'd show it anyways since it's fun to see photos of little projects!
The insert only sits against one shoulder.
I was considering trimming down one of the sides flush to the side of insert, and bolting on a second shoulder to get the insert to repeat.
On the mill I eyeballed the compound vice to the appropriate angle to cut the shoulder, and then tilted the spindle over by 7 degrees to give it positive back rake and positive side rake, equal for both turning and facing. Hopefully that leaves sufficient relief with the 11 degree TPG.
I was considering making the top clamp come a little closer to the cutting edge, and grinding a concave radius chip breaker on it. Not sure if that would work, but for now I have gotten it done just enough to test it out.
I haven't turned with inserts before, so I'm amazed at how much material it can tear off at high speeds without breaking a sweat.
Second picture, may I respectfully suggest you drill and knock in a pin to the left of the insert to stop the insert moving up the taper.
If it does slide up under aggressive cuts it will deepen the cut, making the cut more aggressive and probably ruining the job.
Nice starter job BTW, thanks for showing it.
It needs a back shoulder to keep insert from pushing back. It looks like you made the seat with a positive angle and that makes the clearance at the tip almost nil from the looks.The leading face should be cleared out and angled with clearance below the cutting edge.The way it is now you couldn't take anything more than a fuzz cut. Just constructive criticism.
OK, after I got past the fascination of being able to use the carbide insert, I went back and redid some of this.
I changed the back/side rake angle to +5 degrees from +7 which was maybe a bit too steep.
That was the first time I used my new pair of right angle blocks to do some compound angles. Kind of fun.
Then I added a front shoulder - kind of a fiddly design but it works. John's idea of knocking in a pin for shoulder would have been a bit simpler.
I still need to make a new clamp that uses a chipbreaker.
I have seen commerical holders that actualy take a little 'plate' inbeween the carbide insert and clamp that acts as a chip braker, so your idea of a chip braker in the clamp could indeed work.
I like the side clamp part too, On my 'commericaly' made cheapo holders (uses tapered screw, no clamp), I can sometimes see the insert rotate ever so slightly in the holder when taking cuts, but I think thats more because the hole/support ledges are in the slightly wrong location. your side clamp part might kinda get in the way of some operations near shoulders.
One thing I notice is on your clamp, the support to the toolholder is RIGHT next to screw, this is a lever remember, so I believe having the support to the toolholder about the same distance as the support to the carbide would provide more clamping force.
I've got a gemstone faceting machine with diamond laps, and I think I could make one of these.
I've got some smaller harbor freight inserts, think they would make a good chip breaker, or would they perform just as poorly in that role?
Yes, you're right. I was thinking of filing down the clamping surface of the clamp so it's a bit more of a wedge shape. But eventually I'll probably move the clamp's ledge back and make a new clamp that's bigger so the screw is closer to being in the middle.
I think it might also be that the point of the clamp is to prevent rotation/movement, And you just need 2 ledges for 'indexing' the insert against.
iv seen some holders that only have a tiny nub to support the 2nd edge.
How about the 2nd ledge being on the left side? comming in from behind the insert.
You could also just buy the chipbrakers from the same places you buy your inserts. a few diffrent holders iirc have them, just buy one and modify it to fit under your clamp.
The tiny little screw that holds most of the carbide inserts on my tools scares me.. yet they take 0.1" deep cuts in steel at 0.01" feed rates (And spue scalding hot chips clear across the shop if I dare run the SFM high enough) without failing.
That looks much better. I made one years ago and welded the rear support instead of a screw. That will work fine now.
Looking at your third picture, the top clamp 'heel' is touching the holder at a point near the bolt. If you machined that bottom area of the clamp such that only the back edge of the heel is touching down, you'll get about double the clamping force on the insert for the same torque on the bolt.
Nicely done. I've thought about making some extra holders for my lathe. Thanks for the inspiration.
Let me add my "nicely done" to the thread. Next question, are you doing this part in tool steel so it can be heat treated? Assuming 5/8 thickness it may hold up to cutting forces, but it has to hold up over time. So I'd keep an eye on it to make sure it's not deforming.
Conga rats on your post becoming an HSM Talk article!
Ryobiguy, one thing to consider is the angle of attack the leading edge will have. If the holder is at a right angle to the work then the insert will be at an obtuse angle to the axis of the work and will tend to pull the cutter into the work. That is not good and will cause an under size cut. To be an effective holder it should hold the insert at a right angle or less to the axis of the work.
I doubt you will have much deformation of the holder if it is not hardened. I have been using a home made holder of CR steel with a triangle insert in a flycutter for years and have seen little if any deformation of the pocket and I take cuts that some consider very heavy if not impossible with no trouble at all on my mill.
Would have been easier to just buy a Valenite tool holder for about $30. I've paid even less for some of them brand new.
A tip for you guys Most of the catalogs for valanite and the other makers of holder have tech drawings of their holders which will help in establishing the proper geometry for your holders. also they sell clamps and separate pieces which have been heat treated etc. you don't want to be penny wise and dollar foolish scrapping several hours of work over a 2.00 clamp.
You could make an eccentric stop held down with an allen screw that would let you adjust the position of the stop.


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Promising weekend for KTM, back in the top 5
Sports / By adminblf / June 30, 2022 June 30, 2022
Brad Binder brought KTM back into the top five at the Assen race, a first since the Portuguese Grand Prix two months ago. A solid performance overall, which reinvigorated the Mattighofen side as they seek to turn the tide of a stagnating championship, notably by improving their qualifications.
The South African, who started from tenth place, managed to jump three positions when the lights went out before reaching fourth place on the fifth lap. Taken over by Maverick Viñales, then on his way to the podium, the KTM rider was able to take advantage of Jorge Martín's slowdown after the arrival of the rain to keep fourth place despite everything until the 20th lap.
The last minutes of the race however reserved a big fight for him, opposing him first to Jack Miller but also to an Aleix Espargaró launched in a comeback that no one seemed to be able to resist. It was with unfeigned admiration that Binder greeted the Spaniard's double overtaking in the last chicane, while he himself ratified the fifth final position, to the detriment of a Miller turkey of the stuffing in this superb fight.
"I'm happy to finish in the top 5, it's been a long time," Binder commented hotly to the official MotoGP website. But more than his positioning in itself, it was the level displayed during this race that allowed him to leave Assen satisfied with his record.
Since Jerez, he had only ranked between seventh and tenth place, but without ever having been able to start higher than 15th. This time, well placed from the first moments, he was able to play his card and finally reached the finish only 2.7 seconds from the winner at the end of one of the tightest races ever in MotoGP. "It's nice. It's been a long time since I've been this close to the lead. Last weekend [au Sachsenring]I was at 15 seconds and here I am at three seconds", he rejoiced.
"It was a good race, I did my best all the way and felt like I was qualifying for 25 laps. It was tough!" he added, having felt like he was delivering an inconsistent performance. "I was losing a lot of time in some places and making up quite a bit in others, so this race kind of felt like a yo-yo. I was losing, I was recovering, I was losing, I was picking up… Yeah, it was hard."
"I was losing a lot of time in turn 5, it took me too long to turn the bike and I was always a bit late getting out of the corner. I was making up time in sector 2, then I was losing a lot in sector 3 and I was catching up again in sector 4."
Binder, whose second best result this season, was above all satisfied with the good impetus given by this Grand Prix, which he hopes will be beneficial for the future. "The team did a great job. The best bike I had of the weekend was the race one. I wasn't happy with how it went in the warm-up, so they made a lot of changes for me and they definitely went in the right direction."
"Hopefully it's something we can build on for the future," he pointed out. "It's great for us to have finished so strong at the halfway mark. What we need to improve on was very clear this weekend, so I think even if we test things that don't always work, it gives us a clear indication of what we need to be faster and what we need to move forward."
Regular Oliveira… in 9th place
Like his teammate, Miguel Oliveira also returned to Q2 for the first time since Portugal, and he took a good eighth position on the starting grid of the Dutch Grand Prix, his second best qualification. at this stage of the season. His race, however, turned out to be radically different, turned upside down on the starting grid by a collision with Joan Mir in which his fairing and brake lever protection were damaged.
Having oscillated between eighth and tenth place once the race started, he finally crossed the finish line in ninth place… a result he obtained for the fourth time in a row!
"It's good to finish in the top 10, but it's always frustrating when you know we could have done better, and I knew we had the speed and the pace to be a bit faster," commented the Portuguese pilot. "I was complaining that I needed to be more consistent, and now I think I'm down to four ninths! That's not the consistency I would like to have. Now we have this break to pull ourselves together and come back stronger. form."
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Dukureh is now making a public appeal to the Obama Administration to update the U.S. FGM/C surveillance data (last available from a rather crude 1997 CDC estimate) as a logical prelude to more aggressive enforcement efforts aimed at eliminating this misogynistic barbarity. Alarmingly, FGM/C has been sanctioned by the mainstream North American Muslim imam-training organization, The Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America.
Hard data, from UNICEF published in 2013 (tabulated below) demonstrate that FGM/C remains overwhelmingly an Islam problem (for its Islamic doctrinal basis, i.e., to reduce a woman's "concupiscence," read here) in Africa, relative to Christianity (or animism).
As Jaha Dukureh's harrowing personal story makes plain, FGM-C—overwhelmingly a problem of African Islam—has now been "imported" into the U.S. Only candid assessment and vigilance unimpeded by see-no-Islam cultural/clitoral relativism can extirpate the abusive practice of FGM/C before it becomes a scourge for hapless U.S. Muslim women immigrants from these African Muslim communities as well.


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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh pays homage to 13 Air Force men of An-32 crash, remains to be sent home
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh paid homage to An-32 plane crash victims in New Delhi on Friday morning. The remains of 13 Indian Air Force personnel were retrieved yesterday from Arunachal Pradesh where the plane crashed earlier this month.
The IAF had recovered bodies of 6 men and mortal remains of seven other personnel who were onboard the An-32 jet which crashed in a remote location in Arunachal Pradesh. The bodies were retrieved 17 days after the plane went missing on June 3.
The rescue team of 17 IAF, Army SF and civilian members continued the operation to retrieve the bodies for days. The team also faced bad weather conditions which led to the suspension of the operations for days.
The Russian origin aircraft went missing in the afternoon of June 3, around 33 minutes after taking off from Jorhat in Assam for Menchuka in Arunachal Pradesh. After 8 days of a massive search operation, the wreckage of the plane was spotted by an IAF chopper at a height of 12,000 feet near Gatte village on the border of Siang and Shi Yomi districts.
The cause of the crash is still not known. The black box of the aircraft has also been damaged extensively during the crash. This may lead to delays in knowing the exact cause of the crash. The remains will now be sent to the families for the last rites.
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CBFVA held its annual General Assembly with Hampton Baptist Church in Hampton, VA, on Friday, Sept. 23rd. This was the first assembly for new Field Coordinator, Terry Maples, who had planned an excellent program. We had a keynote address from Matt Cook, worship led by Michael Cheuk, and a missions lunch with live sharing with the Podgaisky's in Kiev who will be the special focus for our mission partnerships for the coming year including a group who will be going next May to work at the Village of Hope. A record budget was adopted, and our new office administrator was introduced to the group. I am pleased to see how God is working in VA with CBF churches.
Sounds good. The Evergreen Regional meeting (ABC) will be held at Japanese Baptist in a couple of weeks, and we hope to attend. If so, I'll post on it.
Dave Roberts wrote: CBFVA held its annual General Assembly with Hampton Baptist Church in Hampton, VA, on Friday, Sept. 23rd. This was the first assembly for new Field Coordinator, Terry Maples, who had planned an excellent program. We had a keynote address from Matt Cook, worship led by Michael Cheuk, and a missions lunch with live sharing with the Podgaisky's in Kiev who will be the special focus for our mission partnerships for the coming year including a group who will be going next May to work at the Village of Hope. A record budget was adopted, and our new office administrator was introduced to the group. I am pleased to see how God is working in VA with CBF churches.
It sounds like a good meeting! Today I traveled to Des Moines for a service to welcome our new Bishop Laurie Haller. It was a great service of worship, communion and hearing our first sermon from our Bishop. Bishop Haller is our first woman Bishop in the Iowa conference. I'm feeling blessed tonight.
Sometimes, I think one of the greatest missing elements in today's American Christianity is the art of celebration. It's much easier to critique than to acknowledge what is being done well.
Dave, do the churches of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Virginia have much overlap with the Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia and/or the Baptist General Association of Virginia -- that is, in terms of affiliation, being dually affiliated with one of the other state conventions as well as the fellowship?
Rvaughn wrote: Dave, do the churches of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Virginia have much overlap with the Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia and/or the Baptist General Association of Virginia -- that is, in terms of affiliation, being dually affiliated with one of the other state conventions as well as the fellowship?
I am not aware of any churches that are dually aligned both with CBFVA and SBCV. Most CBFVA churches are participants in the BGAV, and the two bodies are able to do some limited work together. Of course, since BGAV churches set their own giving plans, they are able to give to CBF causes through the BGAV as well as SBC causes. There are probably close to 100 of the 300 churches involved with CBFVA who are dually aligned CBF/SBC. I am interim in one now that allows people to choose their mission giving. This is both good and bad, sometimes making their identity less global and more local in nature while allowing the people to have Baptistic freedom. Hope that helps with your question. I can be more specific if you need that information.
Thanks, Dave. I knew CBF churches often dually align with the SBC (e.g. President Carter's church), but wasn't sure how much they tended to dually align with state SBC bodies. Any idea whether that 1/3 alignment with the SBC would hold true across the CBF in areas other than Virginia?
Rvaughn wrote: Thanks, Dave. I knew CBF churches often dually align with the SBC (e.g. President Carter's church), but wasn't sure how much they tended to dually align with state SBC bodies. Any idea whether that 1/3 alignment with the SBC would hold true across the CBF in areas other than Virginia?
I can't really give you statistics outside VA. CBF maintains a software package in Decatur that seeks to keep track of such things, but I don't have that information.
Dave Roberts wrote: Sometimes, I think one of the greatest missing elements in today's American Christianity is the art of celebration. It's much easier to critique than to acknowledge what is being done well.
I think you have a strong point there Dave.
Dave Roberts wrote: I can't really give you statistics outside VA. CBF maintains a software package in Decatur that seeks to keep track of such things, but I don't have that information.
Thanks, Dave. I'm not looking for detailed statistics, but more curious what you had seen in your own experience. When I look up CBF supporting churches in my area (East Texas), the ones I know of are also SBC supporters. But statewide they tend to affiliate with the Baptist General Convention of Texas rather than the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention.
In Virginia, I know of few churches that are in CBFVA who are not in the BGAV. No CBFVA churches, to the best of my knowledge are affiliated with the SBCV group. There may be as many as 100 BGAV churches who are dually aligned with SBCV. With so many different statistical pools, I don't know anyone who has totally analyzed it for overlap and for possible errors.


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There are a number of benefits to arbitrating divorce-related issues rather than litigating them in court. For instance, unlike litigation, arbitration doesn't require one party to file a lawsuit against the other. Furthermore, matters discussed during arbitration are kept private, while court proceedings become a matter of public record. Arbitrations are also known for leading to the resolution of divorce-related issues much more quickly than litigation, which requires many days of hearings. Furthermore, unlike divorce litigation, where a case is overseen by an assigned judge, parties to arbitration have the ability to choose who will act as an arbitrator.
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By Tim Morissette Buying, Selling August 23, 2022
Low Supply vs. Low Demand
Match severely weakened demand due to the sharp rise in mortgage rates with a relentlessly low supply of homes, and the result is a substantial slowdown in housing that still favors sellers.
Even with ultra-low demand, the Orange County housing market lines up in favor of sellers due to the persistent lack of supply.
In the past week there has been a lot of noise about a "housing recession." It was revealed that closed sales plummeted in July. In Southern California, sales were off by 37% compared to 2021. As a result, proclamations from experts across the nation exclaimed that the housing market is officially in a recession. Unfortunately, way too many people will jump to the conclusion that values are going to plummet like they did during the Great Recession. The recession that experts are alluding to is a major drop in sales, fewer purchase and refinance loans, and an overall limited number of transactions for all those involved in the real estate industry. Yet, a recession does not mean that housing is in crisis and that values will plummet. Only two of the last six recessions prompted a drop in home values, the Savings and Loan Scandal of 1991 and the Great Recession, both instigated by the missteps of the housing industry. The other four recessions resulted in an appreciating housing stock.
Every recession is different. During the Great Recession unemployment skyrocketed and housing was a huge "house of cards" built on years of subprime loans, pick-a-payment plans, teaser rate adjustable mortgages, and fraudulent lending practices. It was not a shock that housing values sank. This "recession" will be entirely different. Thus far in 2022, the Orange County housing market has slowed from an Expected Market Time (the time between hammering in the FOR-SALE sign to opening escrow) of 19 days in early March to 65 days today, yet the slowing has stopped. In fact, the market time has dropped by 7 days since climbing to 72 days a month ago. To understand why housing has shifted but is not on the verge of collapse, look no further than to good old-fashioned supply and demand.
On the demand side of the equation (a snapshot of the number of new escrows over the prior month), buyer activity has been muted all year. A premature peak was reached at the end of March with 2,286 pending sales, down 28% from last year's peak of 3,162 pendings. Compared to the 3-year average peak prior to COVID (2017 to 2019) of 2,816, this year was 19% less. Today, demand sits at 1,849, slightly higher than where it stood a month ago at 1,693. Even with the recent rise, today's reading is the lowest level for this time of year since 2007, the start of the Great Recession. The current demand level is typically reserved for the slowest time of the year for real estate, January, with a 3-year average pending sales(2017 to 2019) of 1,551 pending sales, and December, 3-year average of 1,637. The August 3-year average is 2,506 pending sales, 36% higher than today.
Excerpt taken from an article by Steven Thomas.


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Soundtrack: Bobby
Note: Below is a complete playlist of all 21 songs that can be heard in the movie "Bobby". Some of these commercial songs are not included on the official soundtrack album but are used in the movie.
All 21 songs featured in "Bobby":
"Black Is Black" by Los Bravos
Timestamp: 0:06 | Scene: Plays in the kitchen as Jose (Rodríguez) talks to his friend as they sort flowers.
"Tracks of My Tears" by Smokey Robinson
Timestamp: 0:09 | Scene: Cooper (LaBeouf) talks to Jimmy in the cafe about the nude scene in The Graduate. The waitress, Susan, joins the conversation.
"I Was Made to Love Her" by Stevie Wonder
Timestamp: 0:14 | Scene: Miriam (Stone) puts on the radio in her salon. Diane (Lohan) arrives for a manicure and pedicure.
"Mickey's Monkey" by The Miracles
Timestamp: 0:16 | Scene: Some guy stands in front of a yellow bus and tries to get people interested in his new way of voting. Cooper and Jimmy talk about the bus and explain to Wade that they're going to do their own thing in a car.
"Ain't That Peculiar" by Marvin Gaye
Timestamp: 0:20 | Scene: Miriam works on Diane's nails and they talk about love and money.
"Baby, I Love You" by Aretha Franklin
Timestamp: 0:21 | Scene: Diane still in the salon. They talk about the war.
"Spoonful" by Cream
Timestamp: 0:25 | Scene: Fisher (Kutcher) organises drugs as Bobby talks on the TV. Cooper and Jimmy knock on the door and are invited in.
"Season of the Witch" by Donovan
Timestamp: 0:28 | Scene: Fisher talks to Cooper and Jimmy in his hotel room. Diane answers the door to William (Wood).
"Hurdy Gurdy Man" by Donovan
Timestamp: 0:36 | Scene: Fisher puts drugs into sugar cubes as Cooper and Jimmy watch. They all take a cube.
"Come See About Me" by The Supremes
Timestamp: 0:37 | Scene: Jose talks to his friend about the game tickets as they set a table. Wade talks about balloons with Dwayne. Lenka argues with him.
"Love and Light" by Luxurious
Timestamp: 0:42 | Scene: A TV falls from a window. Cooper tries to throw a chair out the window but can't. Instrumental. ---
"Initials" (from "Hair") by Galt MacDermot
Timestamp: 0:43 | Scene: Fisher, Cooper and Jimmy on an LSD trip. Cooper ends up naked, Fisher rides an imaginary motorbike and they see things behind a door.
"There's a Kind of Hush (All Over the World)" by Herman's Hermits
Timestamp: 0:47 | Scene: Miriam brings Paul (Macy) some lunch as he sits at his desk. He complains because it's just a salad.
"Wives and Lovers" by Jack Jones
Timestamp: 0:59 | Scene: Samantha (Hunt) and Jack (Sheen) relax by the pool. Cooper and Jimmy too.
"Tuesday Afternoon (Forever Afternoon)" by The Moody Blues
Timestamp: 1:02 | Scene: Diane kisses William. Virginia (Moore) is escorted into the salon by Paul. Daryl (Slater) catches Lenka sniffing biscuits and gets her a meal.
"Magic Moments" by Perry Como
Timestamp: 1:09 | Scene: Samantha shoe shopping as Jack watches.
"Louie Louie" by The Kingsmen
Timestamp: 1:21 | Scene: Virginia performs live on stage.
"Pata Pata" by Miriam Makeba
Timestamp: 1:24 | Scene: Bobby's supporters congregate. William talks to Diane. Wade talks to Cooper and Jimmy. Wade addresses the crowd.
"Function at the Junction" by Shorty Long
Timestamp: 1:28 | Scene: Jack (Sheen) and Samantha Hunt) discuss a Warhol original painting with Angela (Graham). Dwayne talks to a girl.
"The Sound of Silence" by Simon & Garfunkel
Timestamp: 1:30 | Scene: Most of the characters watch as Bobby speaks. Shots of unrest, war.
"Never Gonna Break My Faith" by Aretha Franklin and Mary J. Blige (Feat. The Boys Choir of Harlem)
The story of the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who was shot in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, in the early morning hours of June 5, 1968, and of twenty-two people in the hotel whose lives were never the same.


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(thing) by Lometa Thu Jan 20 2000 at 18:03:33
A noun pronounced k&-'myü-n&-"kA.
Announcement;publication, official communication or bulletin reporting an event; as,
A communiqué was issued after the summit meeting.
An official report,usually sent in haste such as a, news report, story, account, or write up.
To compare; a public communication ignores the addressee, and hence expects no reply, a communiqué is an official intimation. The first known usage is from 1852, From French communiquer meaning communicated,(to inform). Originally it was a past participle of communiquer "to communicate," from the Latin communicare. In 1920 a communiqué was defined by the American Field Service in France as " the official statement concerning military events at the front, issued daily from Army Headquarters."
Other forms of communique would include the following; bulletin, message, wire, fax, telegram, TelemessageTM, telex, cable, cablegram, notice, order, briefing, instruction.
Some synonyms would be dispatch and despatch. A communique typically includes a date, and often with a place, to, as of a newspaper article story or account.
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The most overlooked and often blatantly ignored album from Dire Straits, Communique's lack of a major hit single doomed it to the bargain bin within three years of its release. Was this, the sophomore effort from Mark Knopfler and associates, really such a failure? Some say that due to its release nine months after Dire Straits' self-titled debut album it was rushed and uninspired. Others have said it is actually the second half of the band's first album as no one can release a double album right off the bat.
Communique is actually a more fluid album than its predecessor. It is steady, where Dire Straits' first album had highs and lows. There isn't a weak song and there isn't anything that blows you off your bar stool. It makes a great companion when driving down the highway very late at night or over endless country roads in search of a destination.
Communique was released in 1979 on Warner Brothers/Phonogram and produced by Jerry Wexler and Barry Beckett. The band lineup consisted of Mark Knopfler on guitar and vocals, David Knopfler on guitar, John Illsley on bass and Pick Withers on drums. According to some stories, specialists were brought in to determine how to sequence the songs for maximum effect, and this may be one of the most important elements of the album. The songs fall into place one after another like a true album, in the days when an album was an album and not just a collection of songs framing a couple of intended hit singles.
Once Upon A Time In The West. The album kicks off with a lonely little bluesy sounding guitar and then kicks it up a notch. There are reasons why it feels good having this dangerous and melancholy band along for the ride on those lonely nights on the quest. You move back and forth between being emotionally contemplative and tapping your fingers and bobbing your head happily on this one.
Some people get a cheap laugh
breaking up the speed limit
Scaring the pedestrians for a minute
Crossing up progress driving on the grass
Leaving just enough for room to pass
News. Brings to mind images of musty old barrooms and lost innocence. No finger tapping or head bobbing here. Keep your eyes on the road, for the mind may wander. Listening to the words, it seems to be the story of an outlaw from the Old West stuck in modern day times unable to relate to life as we know it. Or maybe that thought is planted in our heads after the opening track.
He's says it's a shame
You know it may be a game
But I won't play to lose
He sticks to his guns
He take the road as it comes
It takes the shine off his shoes
He's too fast to stop
He take it over the top
He make a line in the news
Where Do You Think You're Going?
Think about the end of the line. Imagine or remember those shady moments where a relationship was coming to a less than amicable ending and you were trying to hold on. You cross the line and lose touch with your rational mind. You've given up on trying to play the good cards and keep things together for the right reasons. You don't even know what you're saying any longer. Picture the woman packed and ready to leave and the frustrated man slumped down in the sofa with a beer rambling about why she's making a mistake.
Don't you know it's dark outside?
Don't you care about my pride?
And now I'm sick of joking
You know I like you to be free
So where do you think you're going?
I think you better go with me girl
Communique.
I've always seen this song as connected to the previous tune. It seems to be about the same guy, but some months after the departure of the lady friend. Or it could be, as someone once told me, a tongue-in-cheek statement from Mark Knopfler about his lack of statements to the press about the new album. It is another reflective toe tapping song that will bring your attention back to the road ahead and remind you to turn on your windshield wipers. It is starting to drizzle a little.
And now the rumors are flying
Speculation rising
Say that he's been trying someone else's wife
Somebody at the airport
Somebody on the phone
Says he's at the station and he's coming on the noon
Then we get the story a serious breeze
And a photograph taken in the hall
You don't have to worry with the previous release
Right now, he's saying nothing at all
But in the communique you know he's gonna come clean
Think what he say, say what he mean
Lady Writer. Released as the single from the album, it failed to perform as strongly on the charts as Sultans of Swing from the first album. While that is seen as the standard of success, the decades of overplay have turned Sultans into a parody of itself. This song, while forgotten by many, tells a most interesting tale. It is the story of a man watching a woman writer on television who looks a lot like his former lover. Ever notice when you unwillingly break out of a relationship you start to see him or her in other people? Maybe it is just me. Anyway, the quirk is that this lady writer on the television is intelligent and knowledgeable. The singer muses about how the resemblance is only skin deep. His former lover, well she could barely write her name.
Lady writer on the TV
She knew all about history
You couldn't hardly write your name
I think I want it just the same
Angel of Mercy.
Has our hero reached the crossroads? Have we been talking about the same disheartened fellow throughout the entire album? Angel of Mercy puts a new spin on the running theme. We've gone deep into the struggles of the melancholy but strong willed and hopelessly misguided hero and now he wants something. Is the angel in question a vision or is she a real entity? It isn't hard to imagine our hero sitting there in a bar with the saxophone in the background deciding that he's had enough of regret and wanting one night of unattached passion to liberate him. I've always had a strange theory that this is where our leading man dies and our focus drifts elsewhere.
Angel of Mercy angel delight
Give me my reward in heaven tonight
And if I give up my sword won't you give me the right
Angel of Mercy give me heaven tonight
Well if you cross your heart and spit
And swear upon the grave of your mother
You got to get in the hit
Tell me that I'm your all night lover
Portobello Belle.
On a personal level this song creeps me out because it contains slightly twisted versions of the names of the two great loves of my life. This is also remembered by many as the best song on the album and a live version was featured on the Brothers In Arms best of collection.
We've stepped away from the anti-hero that seems to have found his way into the past few songs and we're now talking about a lovely young lass who thinks she is tough enough to take on any trouble that comes her way. Is she really or is she just trying to convince herself of this?
Bella donna's on the high street
Her breasts upon the offbeat
And the stalls are just the side shows
Victoriana's old clothes
Yeah she got the skirt so tight now
She wanna travel light now
She wanna tear up all her roots now
She got the turn-up on the boots now
She thinks she's tough
She ain't no English rose
But the blind singer
He's seen enough and he knows
He do a song about a long gone Irish girl
But I got one for you, my portobello belle
Single-Handed Sailor
The last two songs on the album have an almost ambient feel to them. It may just be my preoccupation with death, but I tend to envision this song as the passage on the river. Perhaps something on the level of crossing the river Styx alone not knowing what might be found on the other side. Of course, we all interpret things as we envision them and I've never believed in assigning single interpretations to any songs. They are better when seen through our own ears.
He's upon the bridge on the self same night
The mariner of dry dock land
Two in the morning, but there is one green light
And the man on the barge of sand
She's gonna slip away below him
Away from the things he's done
But he just shouts "Hey man, what do you call this thing?"
He could have said "Pride of London"
On the night when the lazy wind is a-wailing
Around the Cutty Sark
Yeah the single handed sailor goes sailing
Sailing away in the dark
Follow Me Home.
Waves being used as a musical instrument add to the peculiar flavor of the last song on the album. Unless you have an uncommon view of going out with a bang, the album does not go out with one. The general melancholy feel of the album, where hope mingles with despair and we dance in the eye of the stagnating hurricane, leads us to this inevitable conclusion. There is no happy Hollywood ending. There is a distant feeling of surrender mixed with a different kind of empowerment. Our singer wants the woman to follow him home, but we're pretty sure wherever they are isn't the kind of home we know. We are all strangers here, but we have found an odd kind of peace. This is a requiem.
Well I don't need no priest
But I love all of the people
Yes I share the feast
So drink up my wine
Yes and the song in my bones
I know the way
I can see by the moonlight
Clear as the day
Now come on woman, come follow me home
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Words and music copyright Mark Knopfler
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Speak of compassion first, then argue if you must Open Door Historically informed performance George Washington's 1792 State of the Union Address
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Warsaw Uprising Door to Door Complaints of a Convenience Store Clerk Once Upon a Time in the West
Le Petomane bulletin board Slough Pamphleteer
Dispatch Despatch Bulletin Announcement
Borsuk-Ulam Theorem
Aquatic Ape Theory
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Web Comics - A Brief Description
Created Oct 7, 2004 | Updated Nov 18, 2010
Comics are a big part of our culture. Whether you prefer Manga, American Graphic Novels, or the funny pages, it is quite possible that you read at least one regularly. But the comics for sale in the world of dead trees have had a new rival for a while now: comics published on the internet. What this means is that instead of being sold in issues or as a part of newspapers, internet comic strips are published on their creator's website, as often or as seldom as that creator wishes (although the most popular ones do have a daily or semi-daily schedule). Mostly they are free, although there are exceptions, as discussed later.
Just as their paper counterparts, internet comics are a diverse bunch covering a vast range of subjects. But since they have evolved in a certain environment, there are features that can be compared. The pros and cons of the digital medium are slightly more than this article can chew, but there are some big differences between traditional comic media and the new - many of which will be described here.
The most obvious visual difference is that internet comics have no limitation on size or layout. Being digital, there is no need to take the cost of paper or the demands of newspaper layouts into consideration.
Referred to as the Infinite Canvas, this phenomenon means that the artists may publish their work in whatever format they please. Although squares are by far the most popular shape, they are by no means the only one available. Comics drawn as a series of circles, triangles and stars are certainly not unheard of. More common variations are simply larger panels, or asymmetric pages. The point is that the author of an internet comic is free to create whatever layout he or she prefers, as opposed to having a standard shape to fit their images into.
Jokes on this theme are of course common, and fifty-foot panels abound. But mostly this just means that each individual artist is freer to explore their own unique style.
As touched upon above, a main difference between internet comics and traditional ones is that the artist often has complete creative control in the former. Generally there is no syndicate to please and no backing money to keep coming. While this means most internet comic artists do have to work at a loss, it does mean that they can work as they please. They can draw whatever they choose, and make whatever point they want. Or just draw boots. It's up to them.
The internet, with its world-wide market, is a playground for aspiring artists who might otherwise never have had a chance to find an audience for their work. This is not because what they make is low-quality, but because frequently it does not have direct commercial potential. However, the internet is also a great place to develop whatever skills one has. Internet audiences are more forgiving than those who buy comics in a shop, and many an internet artist, now supplying beautiful work to devoted fans, started out with little or no artistic skills whatever. Since most internet comic strips provide free access to their entire archive of past strips, this can be easily verified. Almost all of the internet comics available show signs of development - even if the quality was okay to begin with.
The flipside of this is that there is a lot of substandard work out there. But, unlike comics that you have to pay for, on the internet you are largely free to browse and read what you like. This means that everyone can find something that suits them, and that most artists can find a following with which to share their work. That brings us to the next difference.
The readers of internet comics have direct access to the creators of what they read.
Think about that again. If a reader has something to say, they can usually just send an e-mail. Most artists even provide forums where their readers can talk about their work, or just get to know each other. Many comics spawn online communities, with a culture all of their own. The artists can take part in discussions with their fans and react to criticism, as well as sharing trade secrets and personal stories. Some fans get to know the creator of their favourite comic well, and get to share in the ups and downs in the lives of each other. Announcements of good fortune are likely to cause general jubilation, while admittance of tragedies big and small can cause everyone to offer sympathy and support. This level of interaction between fans, and between fans and artists, is unheard of in the traditional comic media.
Another advantage of this is that the artist can receive the opinions of his fans directly. He can see if a particular move went down well almost as soon as a comic strip hits the net, and he can share his plans and ask for criticism. No one says he or she has to listen, but the option is there, and often fans do have an impact.
There is of course one main drawback to this form of publishing: money. Since most of these comics are free, money is made through the sale of merchandise, advertising, or from donations from fans. Very seldom can an artist make a living from this, although there are exceptions (see below).
Along with its sister sites, Modern Tales operates a business model which offers readers the option to subscribe to 25-30 comics for a monthly charge (usually not much). While many claim that this violates the whole 'point' of internet comics, the fact remains that the site provides artists with a relatively steady income and reasonable working conditions - along with offering readers a selection of the best the internet has to offer, since these comics must uphold a certain standard. Another attempt at solving the money problem is to offer comics for free, but on such a scale that significant advertising and sponsorship deals are attracted to the fold. Keenspot is one such phenomenon. The Keenspot community is a collection of the most popular comics on the internet. The comics here are still free, but since more comics means more readers, they are more lucrative for advertisers. Individual artists also offer such merchandise as T-shirts and books (see below), but the main thing is the comics themselves. The case remains that since very few internet comic artists make much money from their work, it is largely a labour of love.
Funnily enough, a company exists that turns internet comics into printed books. Plan 9 is an internet publishing company that caters for fans of online comics by publishing their favourites in book format. The irony involved in this is too much for the author of this article to tease out, but nevertheless it proves that it is possible to make money from publishing something that is also offered for free. The books often contain additional material, such as extra stories, bonus drawings and the like, and a great amount of work is put into them. The results are usually good, so this certainly appears to be a positive development.
Here are a couple of strictly subjective recommendations. However, there are enough comics out there to choose from, so don't limit yourself - go and find some that you like.
College Roomies From Hell!!! - This comic has gathered a rather large following and is the ultimate in the bizarre. It follows the misadventures of six college students and has, as stated in the newbie introduction, a tendency to grow on you - like evil mould. Featuring such elements as freaky super-powers, resident devil-worshippers, possessed appliances and more weirdness than you can shake a rocket-launcher at, the main attraction is that you never know where it will end.
Clan of the Cats - A classic adventure comic, this follows the life of Chelsea Chattan, who one day discovers that she is not only a werepanther, a witch and very, very cursed, but that she is apparently also the subject of a prophesy. Top notch art and a knack for mixing the supernatural with everyday themes are the main reason for this recommendation, since it features both epic hero tales, and stories dealing with Chelsea's family and life away from magic. A strong cast of characters is an added bonus.
Sluggy Freelance - This is a true gem of oddness - more a phenomenon in its own right than a simply a web comic. A testament to its popularity is that this one actually manages to pay the bills for its creator. Featuring a switchblade-wielding mini-lop bunny, assorted demons, a mad inventor with a penchant for exploding giant robots and resident ghost named Beth, it is really a treat to watch the long, involved, and totally incomprehensible storylines unfold before your very eyes.
Bruno the Bandit - Think Robin Hood with cell phones. And without Robin Hood. This is the most topical of the ones shown here, occasionally centring entire storylines on the issue of the day. On the other hand, the brilliant use of anachronisms, and the great art and dialogue in them are themselves worth a peek, and the author is not above sending sense and sanity into merry oblivion. Be warned though, puns galore. To be avoided by anyone with cracked ribs.
Graphic Smash - If you don't mind paying for your pleasure, try this Modern Tales sister site, which focuses on action and adventure. There are many gems here, including Digger, a chronicle of the adventures of a talking wombat. Or should that be pickaxe-wielding smart-alecky wombat? Anyway, the price is something like three dollars a month, and you get thirty-something comics, with anything from Westerns to space adventure, and from serious to really, really goofy.
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this is a diagnostic test for first year classes.It contains a variety of activities dealing with grammar,phonology and writing.of course in the algerian educational system.hope it will be benificial.
an exam paper which might be helpful for teachers who are preparing their students for the baccalaureat exam.Engoy it.
an exam speaking about: The rock star Sting who has joined environmentalists and indigenous people in order to fight against Brazil's project to build a huge dam in the Amazon.
This is a ppt work presented by a group of students . It is about life styles ,especially about traditional clothing in different parts and regions of Algeria.It includes some photos of Algerian traditional dresses.


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DHR Home > Historic Registers > Gloucester (County), VLR Online & National Register Listings
036-0024 Hockley
Photo credit: Mae Tilley/DHR, 2021
Located on the Ware River in Gloucester County's Ware Neck, Hockley is a 41-plus-acre property that contains the core of an 1840s estate. The property also contains significant early-18th- through mid-20th-century archaeological resources of plantation history, and a Woodland Period Native American component that needs further investigation. In addition to the main house, Hockley also features a late-18th-century icehouse and agricultural buildings from the early 1930s. Hockley is notable for the successive owners who resided there from 1897 to 2009. These people include Fannie Johnson Taliaferro, an early proponent of historic preservation and a pioneering member of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (now Preservation Virginia); Dr. Laban Lacy Rice, a nationally published writer, renowned educator, and respected astronomer, who was also president of Cumberland College (now Cumberland University) and founder of both Castle Heights Military Academy for boys and Camp Nakawana, America's largest camp for girls in the 1940s; Lt. Gen. William H. Tunner, who was responsible for planning and implementing the three largest air transport operations in history, including the Berlin Airlift of 1948-49; and Tunner's wife, Margaret Ann Hamilton Tunner, who was an early member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) during World War II. Hockley's period of historical significance extends from circa 1700 through to 1960, two years after it was acquired by the Tunners.


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To some, the idea of committing horrendous acts of violence and cruelty against another human being is repulsive. To others, it is a regrettable occurrence, a last resort but always an option. And for a select few, it's a hobby.
Locations where a horrifying crime or crimes have occurred are known as "haunted" places. They are relatively harmless, miserable, but lacking any real danger. Ghosts can't hurt you, after all.
The same cannot be said for a Revenant. When a person dies in a haunted place, he or she can be resurrected by the spirits inhabiting that physical space and become a paranormal entity with bizarre, lethal superhuman abilities based on the nature of their death. Because of these terrifying powers a Revenant gains upon resurrection, humans struggle to keep them contained in the Mausoleum, a prison designed to contain them and create revenue for scientific research by forcing Revenants to participate in brutal death matches.
Naïve young intern Roman Sheer enters this twisted world searching for a purpose in life, but he soon receives more than he ever expected when a long-time resident, the violent, mentally unstable Revenant number Ten, massacres several employees. But during the incident, Ten unexpectedly spares Roman's life, prompting the Mausoleum director to reassign Roman to his case. Roman soon learns that he shares a complicated past with Ten, one which he mysteriously cannot remember. As he attempts to piece together his own past and learn more about Ten, the other Revenants, and the meaning of their existence, he struggles with his perceptions of morality as he descends into the chaotic world of the undead.
Memoirs of the Mausoleum: Gallows Humor by K.L. Somniate is an intense and dark tale of an undead being and a human, who share a connection that goes beyond common sense. Revenants were once humans, but when they died where ghosts reside, they are resurrected and given powers beyond the control of anyone. The only way to control them is by placing them in a Mausoleum where they are contained to aid scientific research. All the revenants in captivity have to fight death matches for this purpose.
An intern, Roman Sheer, was searching for a purpose in life, so he joined this world. However, he got more than he bargained for when he comes into contact with Revenant 10, the undead being who is uncontrollable and extremely violent. He claimed the lives of several employees but spared Roman. When Roman is assigned Ten's case, he discovers that they have a connection, but there is a catch. Roman cannot remember it. There is a lot more to the world of the undead than meets the eye. Can Roman discover his past and protect his sanity at the same time?
I must make it clear that horror is not really my cup of tea or the genre of my choice. It is way too intimidating for me, but there was something about this novel that grabbed my attention. So I started to read it, and once I started, I could not stop myself. The story is very thrilling and invigorating. You cannot help but be sucked into this twisted world where the writer makes you a part of the team. The word choices, the atmosphere, and the characters were very strong. This is how horror should be written. Definitely a five-star novel!


text: Being a young comedian, Derrick uses his boyish charm and quick wit to connect with audiences all over, but it's his awkwardness that keeps them laughing all through the night, making him a fan favorite wherever he takes the stage. In 2010, Derrick started out with a dream of being a stand up comic, and now he's living that dream. He's made a mark in the comedy industry, such as winning The Stand Up To Cancer Comedy Competition in Huntington WV, and was most recently named a finalist at the Cleveland Comedy Festival. During the 9 years Derrick has been performing stand up, he also completed his bachelor's degree in Professional Golf Management, and a master's degree in science. Now that he is finished with his education he is ready to jump into the comedy scene full time to pursue his dream of becoming a national club and college act.


I wonder, did the bolts loosen first and cause the gear breakage; or did the gear breakage cause the bolts to loosen. Hmm.
I'm really not sure on the ox issue hard to say what went first the more I look at it. I'm going to call ox when I get home and see what they want me to do.
Are the bolts stripped or did they just loosen up?
Locktite if they only loosened.
The bolts are stripped but I think the threads are still in the holes well see what happens.
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What is wrong with that dog?


Two women's Ivy Rugby Conference matches were held in the state of New York this past weekend. The powder blue Lions of Columbia pulled off a huge victory over the traveling Yale Bulldogs in the city that never sleeps, pushing to the top of the Ivy standings. Princeton Women defeated the Big Red on the road in Ithaca.
HANOVER, N.H.– Harvard women's rugby (2-1) suffered its first loss of the season against undefeated Dartmouth, 55-13, on Saturday afternoon at Mignone Field. First-year Sofie Fella and senior Rachael Harkavy added tries for the Crimson in the contest.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Brown women's rugby team defeated West Chester, 38-27, on Saturday afternoon at Marvel Field. Freshman Zy Thomas (Fairfield, Calif.) registered three tries to lead the scoring for the Bears.
HANOVER, N.H. – In a battle between the top two Ivy Rugby and National Intercollegiate Rugby Association (NIRA) teams, it was Dartmouth that came out on top, besting Harvard by a score of 55-13 at Brophy Field Saturday on the team's 40th reunion weekend.
The DRFC traveled down to Cambridge on Saturday to take on Harvard in the latest edition of one of the longest standing rivalries in collegiate rugby.
The Penn Women's Rugby squad traveled Saturday September 15th, 2018 to New York City to play Columbia University. The Quakers from Penn defeated the Lions from Columbia by a score of 56 to 32.
HANOVER, N.H. – The Brown women's rugby team was defeated by Dartmouth, 98-7, on Saturday afternoon at Brophy Field. Freshman Zy Thomas (Fairfield, Calif.) registered a try for the Bears.
HANOVER, N.H. – No. 1 Dartmouth women's rugby had a dominating win over No. 9 Brown in its home opener at Brophy Field on Saturday, taking down the Bears by a score of 98-7. The Big Green improved to 3-0 and had its first Ivy Rugby win, while the Bears dipped to 1-1.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard women's rugby team (2-0) captured its second win of the season by defeating Army West Point (0-1), 28-17, in the team's home opener. Senior Jenny Kronish led the team with a try, two conversions and three field goals. Freshman Sofie Fella and senior Caitlin Weigel added two tries in the victory.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Brown women's rugby team opened the 2018 15s season with a 26-19 victory over Sacred Heart on Saturday afternoon at Marvel Field.


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The Department of Psychology, in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Carolina, is located in Barnwell College, just off the historic Horseshoe. The University of South Carolina is the state's flagship institution and is a comprehensive research university.
The Department of Psychology offers two undergraduate degrees, a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) and a Bachelor of Science (B.S.). Both provide training in the theories and practices of psychology, the scientific method, and opportunities for involvement in research and clinical training. Currently, there are approximately 1,400 undergraduate psychology majors, about 13.5 percent of all of the College's undergraduate majors. The Undergraduate Student Services Office is staffed by an undergraduate coordinator and peer counselors to advise, assist and provide timely information to its majors.
The graduate psychology programs offers the Doctor of Philosophy degree with concentrations in Cognitive and Neural Sciences, Quantitative Psychology, Clinical-Community Psychology and School Psychology. Our program emphasizes training in research to prepare graduates for careers in academia and related settings.
In addition to the four graduate concentrations, the Department of Psychology has developed several research themes. One long-standing research theme is child and family psychology, an area focusing on social, emotional, behavioral and health functioning of children and adolescents, with research on development, etiology, prevention, and treatment in community, family, and school contexts.
A second major research theme centers around cognitive neuroscience. Core researchers in this area use the latest brain science technologies to explore the neural basis of human cognition, utilizing facilities that include several EEG systems, eye tracking systems, electrical and transcranial magnetic stimulation methods, and MRI/fMRI scans. In addition to these two large thematic research areas, there are several areas that partially overlap with the two major themes.
Other research foci in the department include community and multicultural psychology, behavioral neuroscience, children in schools, and health issues and disparities.
Our Place in Columbia
Located in Columbia, the state capital with a metropolitan population of nearly 800,000, the university and its community provide numerous social and cultural benefits which enhance the overall quality of life. These include numerous theaters offering live productions; SEC sports; minor league baseball; one of the nation's top zoos and botanical gardens; many museums; award winning Richland County library; Fort Jackson and its on-base school district, one of the Army's largest training facilities and a site used for research and assessment training of students; and affordable off-campus housing and services.
The mission of the Department of Psychology is to promote and advance the discipline of psychology as a basic and applied science.
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Excellence in scientific research and scholarship recognized nationally and internationally;
Dissemination of psychological knowledge to students at the undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels through high quality instruction, mentoring, advisement, professional development, and achievement of national prominence among graduate programs;
Service to the university, community and profession.
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Etihad Airways has launched a new hand baggage 'Deal Fare' scheme in selected destinations, which enables passengers to purchase lower fares in economy class if no checked baggage is required. The airline's CEO Robin Kamark said the new scheme allows passengers to "select the travel option that best meets their needs". The 'Deal Fare' includes a complimentary carry-on baggage allowance of 7kg and is available on flights between Abu Dhabi and Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and Azerbaijan.
Dubai International Airport again surpassed the eight million passenger milestone in Jul-2018. Passenger numbers in Jul-2018 totalled 8,207,987, up +1.8% compared to 8,065,789 recoded in Jul-2017. Year to date passenger traffic reached 51,947,092 up +1.6% compared to 51,120,057 recorded during the first seven months in 2017. Eastern Europe was the fastest growing region in Jul-2018 in terms of growth rate, with traffic increasing 24.4% year-on-year. The CIS region reported 18.34% growth, with major contributions from the Russian market and destinations such as Bishkek, Baku and Almaty among others. India retained its position as the top destination country with 1,032,302 passengers, followed by Saudi Arabia (583,975 passengers) and the UK (581,557 passengers). London, with 358,201 passengers, topped the list of the most popular destinations served from DXB by traffic volume in July, followed by Kuwait (221,696), Mumbai (209,205) and Riyadh (200,411).
Saudia and Garuda Indonesia have expanded their codeshare agreement to include services operated by both airlines to destinations in Indonesia and Saudi Arabia and services to Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. Both airlines are SkyTeam members. The additional route will open up additional flight options and reduced journey times by flying with the two carriers, in addition to making it even easier for loyalty card members of each respective airline to accrue and redeem miles for future travel.
Emirates Airline's Japan GM Salem Al Marri has said load factor on Dubai-Osaka Kansai service exceeds that of its Tokyo services. Emirates replaced Boeing 777-300ER Dubai-Tokyo Narita service with A380 equipment in 2017 and deployed 777-300ER on Dubai-Tokyo Haneda in summer 2018, with plans to deploy A380 on Dubai-Osaka Kansai service, replacing the 777-300ER, from 28-Oct-2018. Load factor on the three services is averaging around 80%, according to Mr Al Marri. He also said the carrier plans to boost its brand strength in the Japan market to the level of 'lifestyle brand'.
Etihad Airways and payments technology start up Modo have announced a partnership to create "a unique loyalty solution for the airline industry", as part of the FinTech Abu Dhabi Innovation Challenge. The solution will focus on the redemption of Etihad Guest miles and will be showcased in Sep-2018. The solution will include a 'Pay with Miles' widget on the airline's website. Modo provides a cloud based utility to connecting payment systems without requiring changes to the systems and enables consumers to use loyalty points to check out at the point of sale.
ATA Airlines has launched twice weekly Tehran-Kazan service, operating with 180 seat Airbus A320 aircraft. The service will operate until 25-Oct-2018.
Emirates Airline is deploying A380 equipment on one of three daily Dubai-Brisbane frequencies. The remaining frequencies will continue to operate with Boeing 777-300ER equipment.


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Can Wild Foods Save the Amazon?
Virginia Gewin
Scope of Response: State/Province
At Expo Amazonica in Lima, chefs are working to build a taste for traditional Amazonian foods, in an effort to promote biodiversity conservation and slow deforestation. But against a huge global demand for palm oil, growing wild food crops can be difficult for communities struggling to make ends meet. One big question is whether small farmers can create demand for Amazonian cuisine beyond the Amazon?
Traditional knowledge Plant biodiversity Nutrition Agricultural cooperatives Forest preservation Sustainable agriculture Community food systems
Business with social goals Local control/ownership Building distribution systems Establishing social norms
7 hopeful climate stories from around the world
Jonah Busch
Center for Global Development 20 April 2015
Evidence continues to build that humans are contributing to a climate change issue that is nothing but bad news for the planet. Hopeful stories from seven countries, including India, Indonesia, and China, show that efforts to combat climate change might finally be working.
After the Wars, Common Ground in Oregon's Forests
Ben DeJarnette
Investigate West 27 April 2015
Summer in the Northwest presents great risk of wildfires. A pile burning operation, just one facet of the strategy that Oregon has enacted in conserving its forests, clears undergrowth to lessen the risk of megafire.
At a Big Church, a Small Group Health Solution
The New York Times 10 November 2011
The best way to lose weight is to join a small group. Two columns on groups in churches and the workplace – and how to design them so they work.
At a YMCA Near You, a Course for a Diabetic Nation
The New York Times 3 July 2014
We know how to prevent diabetes - but the U.S, medical system, with its twisted priorities, doesn't cover prevention. A new program at the YMCA aims to build structured, effective prevention measures.
Closing the Broccoli Gap
The New York Times 5 June 2015
The lack of access to healthy food has always been a problem for the financially unstable. Food stamps can now be used to buy fresh produce at farmers markets, but greater success could be achieved by getting grocery stores involved.
The Battle to Keep Ho Chi Minh City Above Water
WWNO 22 January 2015
Radio / 5-15 Minutes
Geography and climate change challenge the viability of coastal cities in Vietnam. An architect in Ho Chi Minh City designed green roofs to absorb the rainwater which causes floods.
FDA's 'terrible policy error' blocks simple step to prevent fatal birth defects
JoNel Aleccia
The Seattle Times 11 July 2015
The life-saving vitamin folic acid is added to flour in the United States, but Hispanics tend to eat little flour. Adding folic acid to corn flour would reduce birth defects in Hispanic women in the U.S.
Fruit, Not Fries: Lunchroom Makeovers Nudge Kids Toward Better Choices
Kevin Charles Redmon
NPR 2 April 2013
With child obesity on the rise, public school students have lacked the motivation and access to eat healthy food. Different programs around the country aim to improve student diet in public schools, including Real Eats for Academics and Life in Los Angeles and Cornell's Smarter Lunchrooms Movemen...
Helping Brazil's Poor Heal at Home
The New York Times 11 December 2013
Physical illnesses trigger and exacerbate poverty because costs are too high to treat them. The Associação Saúde Criança in Rio de Janeiro counsels poor, urban families with ill children. Volunteers assist families with food, medicine, vocational training, housing, legal aid, among other services...
Improving School Lunch by Design
Courtney E. Martin
The New York Times 16 October 2013
The San Francisco Unified School District is piloting a collaboration with the design firm IDEO to re-imagine the school food system and help combat childhood obesity by better designing the space and the experience of how children eat, as much as the type of food they consume.
http://www.cgdev.org/blog/7-hopeful-climate-stories-around-globe?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
http://www.invw.org/article/after-the-wars-common-gro-1531?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Investigate West
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/10/at-a-big-church-a-small-group-health-solution?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/03/at-a-ymca-near-you-a-course-for-a-diabetic-nation?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/closing-the-broccoli-gap?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
http://wwno.org/post/delta-blues-part-1-battle-keep-ho-chi-minh-city-above-water?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
WWNO
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/tweak-to-corn-flour-could-help-prevent-fatal-birth-defects-growing-in-3-wash-counties?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/03/29/175710393/fruit-not-fries-lunchroom-makeovers-nudge-kids-toward-better-choices?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
With child obesity on the rise, public school students have lacked the motivation and access to eat healthy food. Different programs around the country aim to improve student diet in public schools, including Real Eats for Academics and Life in Los Angeles and Cornell's Smarter Lunchrooms Movement, by emailing nutrition report cards to parents, presenting the healthy food with aesthetic pleasure, and the arrangement of the food for access.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/11/helping-rios-poor-continue-to-heal-at-home?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Physical illnesses trigger and exacerbate poverty because costs are too high to treat them. The Associação Saúde Criança in Rio de Janeiro counsels poor, urban families with ill children. Volunteers assist families with food, medicine, vocational training, housing, legal aid, among other services that help mothers achieve their personal goals.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/16/rethinking-school-lunch?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
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Indren Naidoo has been named chief executive of Manulife Indonesia, the Jakarta-based arm of Toronto's Manulife Financial Group, which has been growing its already-extensive Asian operations in recent months.
Naidoo, who has been regional CEO for Manulife's Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia operation since 2013, succeeds Chris Bendl, who had been CEO and "president director" of Manulife Indonesia since October 2012, and who has left the company.
It wasn't immediately known who is to take over Naidoo's role as head of the Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia business.
In his new role, Naidoo, an Australian citizen, will oversee and grow the Manulife's Indonesian presence, the company said in a statement on Friday. He was described by Manulife Asia president and CEO Roy Gori as having a "deep understanding of Manulife's business in Asia", which he said would be well-suited to "growing our operations in Indonesia, a key market for Manulife in the region".
Manulife's interest in Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous country, is understandable, according to Naidoo, because of its rapidly-growing middle class and low insurance penetration rate.
During his time as head of the Manulife's Thai, Vietnamese and Cambodian operations, Naidoo helped to secure a long-term exclusive bancassurance deal with Saigon Commercial Bank in Vietnam in 2015, as well as to establish "multiple" bank partnerships in Cambodia, which market Manulife entered in 2012, and oversaw the setting up of a representative office in Myanmar in 2014, Manulife said. Also during his tenure, the number of Manulife agents operating in Vietnam grew to more than 20,000, "a record number for the country", Manulife noted.
Before joining Manulife in 2009, Naidoo worked as a chief financial officer for various other "major" multinational life insurance companies in Asia, according to Manulife, and before this spent more than 12 years with ANZ Banking Group in Australia.
Manulife has had a presence in Indonesia since 1985, making it one of the earliest entrants into the market, and as a company, has had a long history of being active in Asia, particularly Hong Kong. Manulife Indonesia currently looks after more than 2.2 million clients in Indonesia, with a network of more than 10,000 employees and agents working out of 25 Indonesian cities.
It is registered and regulated by Indonesia's Otoritas Jasa Keuangan.
Manulife Financial, which does business in the US as John Hancock, currently has some 34,000 employees, 63,000 agents, and looks after client assets under management and administration of around C$904bn (US$697bn).