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Bellingham Airport Installs Electric Vehicle Charging Stations for Travelers, Employees
Bellingham International Airport now offers electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in its main airport parking lot. Travelers reserve an EV parking space online at www.flyBLIparking.com and pay an $11.40 reservation fee plus applicable parking charge. Reserving gives drivers the certainty that a charging station will be available to them once they arrive. The reservation fee is the same regardless of how many days a vehicle is in the lot.
Initially, three charging stations will be available to travelers through the online reservation program, and a fourth station will be available to airport employees to encourage carbon neutral commuting. Additional charging stations will be added if demand exceeds the four currently available charging stations.
"We are dedicated to improving the passenger experience. Travelers and employees alike have requested electric charging options at the airport, and we are pleased to be able to add this service," said Port of Bellingham Commissioner Michael Shepard.
The charging stations are located across the street from the commercial terminal on the south side of the airport's main parking lot. Upon entering the lot, drivers should follow signs to the charging stations. Travelers do not need to create an account in order to use the airport's Clipper Creek brand charging stations. Additional information about the charging stations and the online reservation platform are available at www.flyBLIparking.com. Employees do not need to use the online reservation system. Instead, they must purchase an annual employee parking pass from the airport, then use the dedicated employee charging station on a first come, first served basis.
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Stem cells have generated a lot of excitement among the researchers, clinicians and the public alike. Various types of stem cells are being evaluated for their regenerative potential. Marginal benefit resulting by transplanting autologus stem cells (deemed to be absolutely safe) in various clinical conditions has been proposed to be a growth factor effect rather than true regeneration. In contrast, various pre-clinical studies have been undertaken, using differentiated cells from embryonic stem cells or induced pluripotent stem cells have shown promise, functional improvement and no signs of teratoma formation. The scientists are not in a rush to reach the clinic but a handful of clinical studies have shown promise. This book is a collection of studies/reviews, beginning with an introduction to the pluripotent stem cells and covering various aspects like derivation, differentiation, ethics, etc., and hence would provide insight into the recent standing on the pluripotent stem cells biology. The chapters have been categorized into three sections, covering subjects ranging from the generation of pluripotent stem cells and various means of their derivation from embryonic as well as adult tissues, the mechanistic understanding of pluripotency and narrating the potential therapeutic implications of these in vitro generated cells in various diseases, in addition to the associated pros and cons in the same.


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Second bid to build flats on closed Flintshire pub site
Developers, who had a previous application turned down, want to knock down the New Inn in Sandycroft and replace it with 12 apartments
Gary Porter
The closed New Inn pub, Sandycroft, could be demolished to make way for new homes (Image: Google)
Fresh plans have been put forward to demolish a Flintshire public house and build 12 apartments in its place.
Developers want to knock down the redundant New Inn pub on Station Road, Sandycroft, and replace it with one and two bedroom homes.
JWG Developments Ltd previously had a planning application for a three storey building rejected by councillors in December last year, despite officers recommending the plans for approval.
Concerns were raised about the height of the development and overlooking nearby properties, as well as the safety of residents in the event of a flood.
In its latest application, the developers have reduced the size of the proposed building to two storeys.
It states: "The previous application was considered to be out of character with the street scene and general area on the specific basis that it was, in part, three storeys in height.
"This proposal is a maximum of two storeys in height, In redesigning the proposed development in this manner, the concern expressed in relation to character within the previous proposal has been directly addressed.
"Natural Resources Wales (NRW) were consulted in relation to the previous application. Whilst they noted that the site was identified as lying within an area considered to be at risk from flooding, they did not recommend that the application be refused.
"To the contrary they recommended the imposition of two conditions requiring the preparation of a flood plan and the residents signing up to the NRW flood warning service.
"It would appear that the approach of members in relation to the previous application was in conflict with the advice of NRW.
"Whereas the public house has its main accommodation at ground floor level, the application proposal proposes that all residential accommodation should be at first floor level, well above the assessed flood levels."
The proposed development would provide eight one-bedroom apartments, four with two bedrooms, and a total of 24 undercroft car parking spaces.
The New Inn has been closed for around two years and was unsuccessfully marketed for 12 months prior to being purchased by the current owners.
The public has until September 10 to have its say on the application.

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Lookers to sell parts division to Alliance Automotive for £120m
10/08/2016 in Acquisitions and deals
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Lookers has entered into a conditional agreement to sell its parts business to Automotive Alliance for £120 million.
The acquisition is expected to be completed before the end of October and includes Lookers' parts distribution brands BTN Turbo, FPS and Apec Braking.
Alliance Automotive is part of Alliance Automotive Group, a European distributor of automotive and commercial vehicle parts to the automotive aftermarket.
Andy Bruce, Lookers chief executive, said the sale would allow the dealer group to focus on what it does best and he confirmed it will help fund more acquisitions for the group.
Neil Davis, the managing director of parts and a director of Lookers, will remain with the parts division under Alliance Automotive's ownership and will leave the Lookers board.
Bruce said: "The board believes this conditional agreement is in the best interest of shareholders.
"The offer from Alliance Automotive is an attractive one and will enable us to focus on what we do best; buying and selling cars, and adding value through acquisitions. We are already at advanced stages of negotiation on the acquisitions of two premium-branded car dealership businesses and hope to make further announcements on these in the coming weeks."
In the year to December 31, 2015, Lookers' parts division generated sales of £218.8m, underlying operating profit of £12.6m and gross assets of £155.7m.
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The study, published in the British Journal of General Practice, analysed records from 7,800 general practices – 96 per cent of practices in England – and the NHS GP Patient Survey. The Survey measures patients' satisfaction with their GP and GP practice and is a component of the NHS Quality Outcomes Framework that informs GP's pay-for-performance.
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Designed by two architects for their retirement, this compound is sited on a bluff overlooking the Connecticut River, and comprises an extensive list of features including: a guesthouse, greenhouse, orchard, ballet studio, wood-working shop, root cellar, and secret passage within the main house.
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Built partially atop the foundations of a pre-existing house that the owners razed, it is integrated with both the river and unique life experiences of the owners including the small love affairs they each have with far-away places. The house has a "sense of place" felt with the whole body and all its senses. Freedom of movement was paramount, so indoors and outdoors became one, and doors were minimized.
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Microsoft has finally released Internet Explorer version 7 and while I've downloaded it, I'm not quite ready to go there. I suppose for now I'll wait until my automatic update tells me I should.
I've read about toolbars not working and sites that use Ajax are slow. While I do think it's strange that IE7 executes things slower than IE6, these aren't really the issues that are preventing me from moving my IE7 install from a virtual machine over my primary IE6 install.
I use FireFox. Aside from development, I haven't used IE as my primary browser in years. I use IE strictly for developing websites.
IE6 is not going away very soon and will continue to be more of a headache than IE7. IE7's implementation of CSS has proved to be close enough to FireFox/Safari/Opera that I know I won't spend much time on it. I'll spend my time making things work in IE6. It's just plain easier and faster to test in IE6 if it's still the main IE on my machine.
My clients and their users aren't going to rush out to upgrade. While smaller clients may upgrade, larger ones won't be in such a hurry.
I cannot run IE6 and IE7 simultaneously on my machine without having one loaded in Virtual PC (or related virtual machine). I really think Microsoft makes things difficult for web developers by not making it straightforward to do this. Sure there are hacks to get them to both load, but I've tried these and just don't trust them like I would a clean install.


At a time in which not only Dubai but the world is looking for more sustainable alternatives in architecture to face climate change, the SouK is conceived. By reinventing the traditional linear market place [Souk: Arabic sūq, from Aramaic šuqā, street, market, from Akkadian sūqu, street, from sâqu, to be narrow] as a one-kilometer pier, a public promenade is projected into the sea to benefit from the relationship with water (cooling and tidal power) and sun energy. The building consists of two public decks embracing a raised slab-pier allocating retail, hotel and parking facilities. The SouK aims to become an alternative for future developments at the region considering the imminent global warming, a prototype of social and environmental sustainability at the desert.


The euro weakened moderately against major peers yesterday in response to weaker than expected manufacturing data sets and comments from the European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi. Both German and French manufacturing data were worse than expected with the French figures showing contraction and the German figures showing less growth than expected. Draghi disclosed that he was prepared to implement another Long-term refinancing operation – which essentially means another spate of lending to the banks of the Eurozone – in order to maintain current monetary policy. Such an operation, if implemented, would have a negative effect on the single currency. However, the market reaction was moderate as Draghi remained very non-committal and the single currency did not depreciate as much as it could have done. This morning important German business climate data is due to be released giving an update on the pace of recovery in the Eurozone's largest economy. Call your trader now to see how investors react to the data.


Since its inception in 1990, BCFS has blended research and conservation to ensure sustainable management and utilisation of the Budongo Forest Reserve as a model for tropical rain forest management.
We aim to continue generating world-class scientific research on primates and topical forest ecology as well as diversifying our research programme to encompass other biological taxa, and to use this information to support policy development, conservation action and sustainable resource management.
In 2007 BCFS was registered as a Ugandan NGO. It is now recognised among the conservation fraternity in Uganda.BCFS works closely with Makerere University's School of Forestry, Environmental and Geographical Sciences as well as the College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Bio-Security. We offer research facilities for staff and students from various Ugandan and international universities. We also offer internship opportunities for university students studying Forestry, Conservation Biology and Wildlife Veterinary Medicine. In addition to these links with academia, BCFS collaborates with statutory institutions such as the National Forest Authority and Uganda Wildlife Authority to promote conservation initiatives and the Uganda National Council for Science and Technology to undertake various research and long-term monitoring projects.
We welcome scientists and students from any institution to be part of this research programme. In addition, we are strengthening our community conservation programme by working with village farmers along the forest edge on projects aimed at improving their livelihoods while conserving the forest resource base. These projects include environmental education for adults and school children, integrated eco-health, farm income generating activities that minimise dependence on forest resources, and mitigation of human-wildlife conflict and bush meat hunting.
In 2011 BCFS opened its refurbished and purpose-equipped field laboratory at Sonso. The laboratory has enhanced our capacity to conduct effective wildlife disease diagnosis as well as provide training facilities for wildlife veterinarians in Uganda.
In recent years the habituation of the Waibira chimpanzee community, east of the famous Sonso community studied since 1990, has been undertaken. The habituation of a second community offers us opportunities to host more researchers as well as develop insights into inter-community chimpanzee interactions, and to conduct comparative studies.
In 2013, BCFS established a partnership with the Earthwatch Institute which engages volunteers to participate in our research and conservation activities. Earthwatch volunteers have assisted in investigations to determine whether changes in climate and/or insect pollinators are responsible for the reduction in the number of fruiting trees, and the implications of reduced tree fruiting in the area on the conflict between fruit-eating wildlife and humans. In addition the volunteers enjoy the unique experience of observing wild primates. We hope this successful partnership will continue into the future.
The work of BCFS depends on funding from outside sources. We are fortunate to receive gnerous and regular funding from the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland(RZSS) for our core operations of running the field station The ARCUS Foundation, US Fish and Wildlife Resources, and AZA Ape Tag provided support to establish the chimpanzee disease and health monitoring programme. For many years Oakland Zoo has funded our snare removal and community education programmes. Our primate research is made possible by grants from the BBSRC, Leverhulme Trust, Fyssen Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation, European Research Council, and the Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund. To all these bodies and many others that have supported us in the past we extend our grateful thanks.


Making the decision to have a child- it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body. - Elizabeth StoneI have felt this way since we had our first child. It is such an honor for me, as an artist, to create a portrait of what your child is like at this time in their little, precious life. Portraits hung on the walls of your home create a sense of self esteem and honor for your child. Don't wait too long, it is like the"they" say. They grow in what seems to be a blink of an eye. Treasure it with a beautiful portrait from Studio T Photography in Winter Park Florida.


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Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group (IMF/WBG), Prague, September 2000
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Workshops on selected topics will provide a unique and valuable opportunity for pri-vate sector leaders, high-level government delegations and senior officials from the international monetary fund and the world bank group, other development agencies,and heads of nongovernmental organizations to share knowledge on and experiences with best practices in key areas of concern and activity. The focus is on specific international monetary fund and world bank group products, reports and services. Staff will be available to answer questions and discuss their work in these important areas. Workshops are open to all registered annual meetings participants. Seating is limited and on a first-come, first-served basis.
Workshop COMMUNITY-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT
Community-driven development can be an important element of poverty reduction strategies, by achieving immediate and lasting results at the "grass-roots level". Community-driven development has the potential to make allocation of resources more responsive to the needs of the poor, to lead to more sustainable outcomes, and to increase the power of poor communities to interact with government, the private sector, and civil society. While many local successes have been achieved, they have not been multiplied, replicated on the scale required. Against this backdrop, the main objective of the seminar will be to explore sustainable ways to take community-driven development to scale, by fostering partnerships between communities, the private sector, local governments, and civil society.
What are the links between community-driven approaches and poverty reduction?
What are the options of the institutional and organizational arrangements needed for creating the proper incentives to scale up community-driven development, including the necessary mechanisms for decentralization, and macro policies and legal frameworks?
What are the mechanisms for sustainable financing of community-driven programs?
How can community-driven development be used more effectively as a main element of the World Bank's poverty reduction strategy?
What lessons have been learned from experience?
Workshop THE COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK (CDF): LONG-TERM SUSTAINABLE POVERTY REDUCTION UNDER COUNTRY LEADERSHIP
The Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF) builds on the lessons of development experience. It is anchored on four key principles: developing a long-term, comprehensive policy framework through a process of national consultations; building stronger country ownership of the development agenda; promoting more effective partnerships; and advancing a sharper focus on development outcomes. Since its introduction in January, 1999, implementation of the CDF concept and principles has been monitored in the following 12 countries: Bolivia, Côte d'Ivoire, the Dominican Republic, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Morocco, Romania, Uganda, Vietnam, and West Bank and Gaza. The workshop will gather development policy makers to focus on: What are the lessons from the pilot and non-pilot countries implementing the CDF approach?
What are the challenges ahead?
How can we move forward?
What is the wider applicability of the CDF approach to other countries including the implications for the practices and procedures of development agencies and developing country governments?
Workshop SMALL STATES: ENHANCING EFFECTIVENESS OF DONOR ASSISTANCE
Small developing countries (loosely identified as those developing countries with 1.5 million people or less) face special challenges in the global economy. Limited capacity, undiversified production, susceptibility to natural disasters and environmental change, and, in some cases, remoteness and isolation are some of the characteristics that make small states and economies particularly vulnerable. At the Development Committee meeting in April 2000, ministers welcomed the Commonwealth Secretariat/ World Bank Joint Task Force report, Small States: Meeting Challenges in the Global Economy. This report discussed the special circumstances of small states and recommended that such circumstances be taken into account in the programs of the multilateral trade, finance, and development organizations such as the World Bank Group, International Monetary Fund, Regional Development Banks, World Trade Organization, United Nations Development Programme, and others. This workshop will be of interest to the representatives of small states.
What is the international development community doing to follow up in the priority areas identified in the task force report?
How can the multilateral institutions and other donors harmonize their policies and procedures to reduce the demands on small states' scarce institutional capacity and more proactively address the needs of the small states?
Workshop FINANCIAL SYSTEM STABILITY: ASSESSMENT AND POLICY RESPONSES
Recent episodes of financial system crises resulted in serious disruptions of financial intermediation and resource allocation, adverse effects on macro-economic policies and performance, loss of output and wealth, and negative spillover effects for the international community. As a result, a renewed interest has emerged in identifying the factors that make financial systems more resilient to domestic and external shocks and contribute to financial system stability. Moreover, consensus on the need to strengthen the assessment and monitoring of conditions and performance of financial systems grew at a fast pace and it is, by now, well established. The session will focus on the key conditions for financial stability and will take stock of current efforts by the international community and by national authorities to strengthen the assessment and monitoring of financial systems.
What key conditions are required to make financial systems more resilient to adverse shocks and foster financial system stability?
What lessons and challenges in assessing financial system risks and vulnerabilities have emerged in recent years, including assessing observance of international standards, codes, and good practices?
What tools are available to assess financial systems?
Workshop PROMOTING WOMEN IN BUSINESS AND THE ECONOMY: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE BOTTOM LINE AND FOR DEVELOPMENT
New evidence from a World Bank Policy Research Report on gender and development shows that gender equality fosters economic growth and poverty reduction. Likewise, in the private sector, the experience of several major corporations shows that gender equality in the workplace is good for the bottom line. Given the new evidence presented in the Policy Research Report, this workshop will further explore the links to gender equality both in the private sector and in terms of poverty reduction. The authors of the Policy Research Report will highlight their main findings, and panelists from government and the private sector will discuss steps that development community donors and business should take – or avoid – to ensure the promotion of women and growth of national economies and private enterprises. This workshop is aimed at decision-makers in both the public and private sectors with an interest in promoting diversity, empowering key client groups, and ensuring growth.
What is the rationale for gender equality in economic development and in the private sector?
What do we know about the benefits and costs of gender equality for the bottom line and for development?
What lessons can be drawn from the development community's experiences in terms of promoting gender equality?
What are specific steps that corporations can take to promote women that will also improve their competitive advantage, and empower key client groups?
Workshop CORPORATE GOVERNANCE:THE USE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR THE PROTECTION OF SHAREHOLDERS RIGHTS
Corporate governance has worldwide importance. The corporation has a vital role to play in promoting economic development, and social progress. After the recent global financial crises that unleashed unprecedented volatility in markets and led to currency adjustments, defaults and capital flight with the brunt borne by the poor, reform on governance can no longer be viewed as a national or local issue only. Globalization has brought the need for international efforts to ensure that growth is sustained and shared. On June 21, 1999, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the World Bank to sponsor the Global Corporate Governance Forum and to cooperate on establishing a range of corporate governance roundtables. The workshop will present the developments that have taken place in this domain since the signing of the MOU followed. A panel discussion will then follow on the use of information technology for the protection of shareholders' rights.
What has happened since the signature of the MOU between the World Bank and the OECD?
How can information technology be used to pro-tect shareholders rights, for example, allowing shareholders to vote by e-mail?
Workshop AFRICA IN THE 21 ST CENTURY
Contrary to popular belief, Africa's economic performance has improved in the second half of the 1990s. This workshop will review Africa's achievements and priority areas for action as it moves into the new century. These include improving governance and preventing conflict, investing in people, accelerating economic diversification, and developing more effective aid relationships. The workshop will be based on a collaborative research report involving the World Bank, the African Development Bank, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, the African Economic Research Consortium, and the Global Coalition for Africa.
What are the next steps toward accelerated growth and poverty reduction?
Can Africa claim the 21 st century?
Workshop COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND AND THE WORLD BANK IN POSTCONFLICT COUNTRIES: THE CASE OF EAST TIMOR
East Timor – the first state of the 21 st century – is moving rapidly from near-destruction to a phase of reconstruction and development. The pace of this change crucially depends on the availability of indigenous institutional capacity, which is scarce and which takes time to build. The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have been part of the process and are assisting East Timor to reach the path of sustainable development. The workshop will focus on: How can the Bretton Woods institutions together with the United Nations and the international community at large assist East Timor to handle its own development?
What lessons have been learned so far from the collaboration effort to rebuild East Timor?
Are these lessons applicable to other postconflict situations?
Workshop UNLOCKING THE HIDDEN VALUE OF FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DATA IN SPREADSHEETS
Spreadsheets are here to stay as powerful and easy-to-use tools for analyzing financial and economic data. But when vital corporate or institutional time series data become locked within a tangled web of incomprehensible spreadsheets, data sharing is thwarted, efficiency plummets, and data integrity becomes questionable. In this session, the presenters will demonstrate and discuss how a low-cost solution to this widespread problem was implemented in two central banks within a few months' time. The seminar is aimed toward senior officials interested in financial and economic data management issues including organization-wide data sharing, advanced data analyses, and more transparent data publication.
Are there proven solutions to this difficult problem that don't involve a multiyear, multimillion dollar data warehousing project or mass revolt among analysts?
Can staff continue to take advantage of the familiarity, convenience and power of spreadsheets, while linking their spreadsheets to a well-structured, back-end database?
How can this same technology be used to augment the analytical capabilities of Excel to include standard time-series techniques, such as potential output estimation, seasonal adjustment and basic forecasting, all of which can aid economic analysis and policy formulation?
What is required to apply this solution, that has proved to be so effective in these two central banks, in other organizations?
Workshop DEVELOPING POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES – SOME EARLY LESSONS AND EXPERIENCES
This workshop will include senior policymakers from countries taking part in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers program. Donors and non-governmental representatives will discuss the experiences to date. Bank and Fund staff will respond to questions on a series of emerging issues.
Has the process of participation and consensus building influenced the content and quality of strategies?
Have participatory processes been designed to be inclusive without undermining democratic institutions?
Has the process succeeded in achieving greater donor collaboration? Is there a "best practice"?
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Architecture of space
July 01, 2006 / Jim Meredith
The shuttle launch was cancelled today due to weather.
This launch was for a mission called "pedestrian" in its importance. It was an odd term for what now to many seems like a very "normal" occurrence, but yet to me each time seems like such an extraordinary event. The distillation of the launch news in the press cannot, of course, recall at each event all of the impressive engineering that makes this possible. But today's cancellation news made me recall nonetheless the pride that was still resonating, in an AE firm I had joined 20 years ago, for their design still years earlier of the shuttle launch pad, and especially the system that floods the area with water to cool it after the enormous "controlled explosion" that lifts this enormous ship into space.
It caused me to google the Vehicle Assembly Building. This is the place where the space ship is put together, and then rolled out on an extraordinary cart to the launch pad. I don't know when this place was built, but since then we've had other visions of space architecture developing in movies and other media, celebrating the special as well as the mundane in an imagined future of space exploration, space colonization, and earthbound urban development with the technology of space in place.
Most of these images are so much more interesting as architecture than the VAB. The VAB, symmetrical, practical, and branded seems unimaginative, uninspiring, and "pedestrian."
So this is the point of this blog. I do not yet know how much exposure these posts get, but I invite those of you who find me to offer your nominations for an architecture of inspiration---space for space, so to speak.
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Hard Truths that Adopted Children May Face in Transracial Adoption.
What it's like to live in a predominately white community when you are not white.
Rachel Galbraith June 26, 2016
As a white woman, rarely do I walk into a situation and find myself the minority—unless, of course, you count the fact that I am married to a Filipino man, with a large Filipino family. In extended family pictures and at large Filipino gatherings, I am one of only a few white people there. But still, all that is required of me is to walk outside, and suddenly, I'm back in the majority. It's something I take for granted. In general conversation or when I walk into a store or an office building, I am not "representative of or speaking for all white people," I am simply speaking for myself. People don't approach me for "education" on all things white. The thought of that happening to me seems ludicrous, doesn't it?
But for black people who live in mostly white communities, this is the case. As Kwyn Townsend Riley so eloquently describes in her poem, PWI 10 Commandments, this is what it's like to be black (and, more specific to Riley's poem, a black woman) in a PWI (Predominantly White Institution.) As a mother who has adopted transracially, her poem speaks volumes about the sorts of experiences my son will have as a black child entering the educational system.
She begins by discussing the idea that as a person of color, people are intrigued by her hair. Strangers and friends alike will touch it without permission and not think twice about invading her personal space. They will ask endless questions about it and wonder how she "makes it stay that way." Black hair is compared to all sorts of things: Chia Pets and Barbies being the two Riley names specifically.
Black people are suddenly the "experts" on "all things African." They will be asked for lessons on twerking, Ebonics, and hip-hop. It will be automatically assumed that they know about these things because of the color of their skin. Never mind the fact that like all people, black people have personal interests and areas of expertise, and for some, twerking, Ebonics, and hip-hop are just as foreign to them as they are to anyone else. It sounds laughable, but for black people attending a PWI, it's a daily reality.
Riley speaks of cringing when the calendar changes to February and Black History Month ensues. The one person of color will be put in the spotlight during every history lesson, stared at, and used as examples when the topic of desegregating the education system comes into play. Imagine flipping the script, being the minority (whether that be racial, religious, or whatever), and having the entire awkward lesson focused on you. How uncomfortable would that make you feel—especially if that lesson was being slightly changed, and the facts slightly altered, to make the others in the room feel more comfortable with it?
A person of color will find themselves alone if they choose to tackle the subject of the Black Lives Matter movement, and find themselves having to choose whether or not to speak out for those of their race who have been inhumanely and unjustly treated by the police and the judicial system. It's hard to remain silent, yet painful to speak out. It's a burden and a responsibility that they bear alone.
Riley describes the entire, never-ending experience of being a black person in a sea of whiteness by saying, "You will be exhausted, angry, vengeful . . . courageous."
Courageous. That word stood out to me. Among the frustrations, the anger, the violations of personal space, our children need to learn to be courageous. They need to learn to stand up for themselves, and for each other—and in a world where you feel different, that can be frightening.
It is eye-opening, isn't it? For those of us who are white, these are things we have never experienced, and that we most likely haven't really even thought about. How are we going to prepare our transracially adopted children for these types of occurrences if they aren't on our radar?
If questions like this haven't been on your mind, it is time that they are. As black children of white parents, our children are at a disadvantage if we don't recognize what life is going to be like for them if or when they enter a predominantly white institution: school, work, or social situations all apply.
For some, the answer is to move to a more diverse area or school district, so their child isn't alone. For others, the answer is to reach out to the black community and develop deeper friendships, so their children will have racial mirrors and feel confident in who they are and more comfortable addressing the daily questions that will come. For all of us, it means having difficult discussions about race and inequality and the world we live in. We have to prepare our black children for the world they will enter, and as white parents, we can't do it alone. We need to listen to the real-life experiences of people like Kwyn Townsend Riley, who have been there. We need to listen and learn from people who know.
You can watch Ms. Riley's powerful delivery of her poem: PWI 10 Commandments here.
Rachel Galbraith
Rachel Galbraith is a busy mother of five children, one of whom was adopted at birth. She has a Bachelors Degree in social work, and has worked as a medical social worker, specializing in the field of women and children. She was privileged to play a small role in the adoptions that often took place on her hospital unit. Writing has become her own personal form of therapy, and she is excited to combine it with her love of adoption. In her free time, she has a love-hate relationship with distance running. She readily admits to doing it only so she can eat chocolate chip cookies for breakfast.
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On 21 December, we sent an open letter to Labour Party NEC asking them to convene a special conference on Labour Brexit policy in early January. It was signed by 250 Party members in just 36 hours. In fact, it proved so popular we've had to convert it into a petition.
If you'd like Labour to lead on calling for a public vote with an option to stay in the EU, please sign the petition by completing a few simple details below.
We will submit the petition in time for the NEC meeting on 29 January. So, PLEASE COMPLETE THE FORM NOW! And then share it with other sympathetic Labour members and groups.
As Labour Party members, we call on the Labour Party NEC to convene a special conference, as soon as possible and by the end of February at the latest, to clarify and adjust the Party's policy on Brexit.
We believe the situation has changed radically and quickly since Party policy on Brexit was agreed at Conference in September. We now know the Government is highly unlikely to get their proposed Brexit deal through Parliament, whenever it is eventually resubmitted, and that Parliament is deadlocked with no apparent majority for any specific arrangement for leaving the EU. Having become the first government ever to be found in contempt of Parliament, this abysmal Tory Government is continuing to treat Parliament with contempt and is doing everything it can to delay the "meaningful vote" on their proposed deal in order to run down the clock with the threat of a catastrophe No Deal hanging over people's heads. At the same time, despite the Labour Party leadership's best efforts, it is highly unlikely that we will be able to force a general election before 29 March 2019. Therefore, unless something changes, the UK will crash out of the EU on 29 March 2019 with No Deal bringing catastrophe to the country and even greater suffering to the least well-off.
We believe that this situation, less than three months away from the deadline, constitutes a national emergency. Therefore, Labour needs to move quickly to clarify our position on a public vote.
Given the dramatic change in circumstances, the growing prospect of a catastrophic No Deal, and the views of the large majority of Party members (in one recent poll, 89% of members support a public vote), it is essential that Party members have the opportunity to decide on a new course of action.
As Jeremy Corbyn said when he became leader, "one firm commitment that I make to people who join our Labour Party is that you have the final say in deciding on the policies of our party". We would like him to stick to that commitment.
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Captain of the Japanese Ship that Spilled Tonnes of Oil off the Coast of Mauritius Arrested
Sunil Kumar Nandeshwar, a 58-year-old Indian man, was charged with endangering safe navigation, police said. He has not yet commented. Mr Nandeshwar made an appearance in the district court in the capital Port Louis to hear the charges. He will be held in a police cell until he returns to court on 25 August. Police said crew members questioned as part of their investigation informed them there had been a birthday party on the ship the day it ran aground. Another theory being investigated is that the ship navigated close to the shore in order to pick up WiFi signal, the BBC's Yasine Mohabuth, in Port Louis, reports. The MV Wakashio ran aground on a coral reef, Pointe d'Esny, on 25 July while carrying 4,000 tonnes of fuel oil, causing an ecological emergency. The rear part remains stranded on the reef with about 90 tonnes of the fuel believed to be on board. Rough seas have made it too risky to remove the remaining oil from the ship, the national crisis committee has said.
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1. The name Shkede (Šķēde) is associated worldwide with the tragic events which took place in December 1941 affecting the Jews of Liepaja as well as those of Bikernieki and Rumbula. Here on the Baltic Sea coast, the centuries old Jewish Community of Liepaja was virtually wiped out.
2. During World War II mass executions took place in Shkede (Šķēde) which included Jews, Soviet prisoners of war and other civilians following the Nazi policy of mass annihilation of civilians in Liepaja during the German occupation. The cold west winds blowing through the bleak coastal sand dunes at Shkede (Šķēde) have revealed traces of terrifying events, namely the mortal remains of thousands of genocide victims.
3. In the 1950s, an obelisk was erected in the sand dunes of Shkede (Šķēde) with the engraving "In memory of 19,000 Soviet patriots of Liepaja", dedicated to the innocent victims of the World War II. This took place in Soviet times and followed the decision of the LSSR NKVD Authorized Representative and the Extraordinary State Commission of Inquiry.
4. The idea of commemorating for all time those Jews who died in the sand dunes of Shkede (Šķēde) was the initiative of the Open Public Foundation "Liepaja Jewish Heritage", also known as the Liepaja Jewish Heritage Foundation, when a competition was launched. Participants were given the challenge of designing a Memorial in the sand dunes of Shkede (Šķēde) which would take the form of an artistic structure of solid architectural and environmental design in conformity with the canons of Judaism regarding memorial sites.
It would also serve as a place where visitors could reflect on the tragedy that befell the innocent women, children and elderly who were slaughtered only because they were Jews.
5. The winner of the competition was Raimonds Gabalinsh (Gabaliņš), an artist and sculptor from Liepaja with his project "Kaddish". The Memorial is a horizontal Menorah created from cut fieldstone from Kurzeme. The flames are symbolized by large granite steles (slabs) with carved Hebrew inscriptions. The total area of the Memorial covers 4120 square metres. A single granite stele alone weighs 7 tons.
6. The poetic texts have been taken from the "Lamentations of Jeremiah" and include authentic translations into English, Latvian and Russian.
7. The project was endorsed by the Latvian President, the Cabinet of Ministers, the Liepaja City Council, the Liepaja Jewish survivors and their descendants from around the world, by Latvian and foreign public activists and public officials, the Jewish Community Council of Latvia and the Liepaja Jewish Religious Community.
8. Historians, building contractors, office staff, museum employees, environment experts and quantity surveyors were all involved in bringing this project to fruition.
9. The Memorial construction project was headed by one of the founders of the Foundation – Sergey Zaharjin in co-operation with Yakov Berlin, architect Raimonds Gabalinsh (Gabaliņš), Ilana Ivanova, Rosalia Sukhar and Edward Kaplan. It was dedicated on 04 June 2005 in the presence of the Israeli Ambassador to Latvia, numerous dignitaries and Holocaust survivors.
1. "The Righteous among the Nations Alley" is a symbol of deep respect to the lasting and eternal memory of those who rose to defend Jews during times of persecution and great tragedy.
2. 26 Gentiles from Liepaja have received the honorific distinction of "Righteous Among the Nations", acknowledging and rewarding human heroism and the victory of good over evil. Each individual (in certain cases posthumously) has received a medal and certificate of honour, their names immortalized in Yad Vashem on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem.
3. 2014 saw the celebration of the 215th anniversary of the founding of the Liepaja Jewish Community, 25 years since its revival and the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Liepaja Jewish Heritage Foundation.
4. The Jewish Survivors of Liepaja, their children and grandchildren as well as members of the Liepaja Jewish Community are aware that the post-World War II revival of Jewish life would not have been possible without the heroic intervention of these courageous Gentiles who risked their own lives and those of their relatives to save Jewish citizens from certain death. Their courage also helped to save, not just lives but the Jewish way of life and traditions.
5. In keeping with the Yad Vashem tradition, the Liepaja Jewish Heritage Foundation and the Liepaja Jewish Community took the decision to create an Alley of the Righteous among the Nations" at Shkede. The Alley was dedicated during the World Reunion of Liepaja (Libau) Jewry on 9 July 2014 in the presence of the Israeli Ambassador to Latvia, other representatives of the Diplomatic corps, officials of the Liepaja City Council and members of the Liepaja public.
6. The Alley is located at the entrance to the Holocaust Memorial in Shkede. 26 thuyas (blue spruce trees) were planted, each one in honour of one of Liepaja's Righteous Gentiles and each with its own granite stele with the individual's name engraved on it.
7. The awareness of the fine line between life and death which the potential victims and their courageous rescuers trod was the philosophical reason behind the choice of location for the Righteous among the Nations Alley. Leading to the unmarked graves of Holocaust victims, there stand today symbols of hope honouring those courageous people who, despite the risk to their own lives, the lives of their families and sometimes their children, provided rescue and shelter to Liepaja Jews during World War II.


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With a growing global population and a finite amount of arable land, feeding those increasing number of mouths will present many challenges in the years ahead. Maximizing crop yields with the use of fertilizers will be crucial, and potash will play an important role in helping those plants grow by aiding in the development of strong root systems as well as in the retention of water.
Few countries have a greater need for potash than Brazil. The South American giant is currently the third-largest global importer of potash, with more than 90% of its supply coming from other nations.
Potash consumption in Brazil is, in fact, forecast to grow from 8.1 million tonnes to 9.7 million tonnes by 2015, with the Brazilian government targeting to reduce imported potash dependency from 91% to 60% during the next five years.
With the country's only producing mine, Taquari-Vassouras in Sergipe, expected to be depleted by 2016, Brazil's Amazonas Potash Basin may provide much of the nation's future supply.
Vancouver-based Pacific Potash Corp (TSX: V.PP), led by venture capital veteran Balbir Johal and former Brazil Potash chief geologist André Costa P.Geo., is one of a handful of companies looking to develop the Basin. The company represents the sole public potash play in the Amazonas Potash Basin. The properties are situated approximately 20 and 40 kilometres from Petrobas' Arari and Fazendinha historic deposits, which are estimated to contain 1.1 billion tonnes of potash.
Pacific Potash's ambitions were given a boost by a company announcement on October 29, 2013, that it has entered into a $10 million non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (M.O.U) with a Chinese State Owned Enterprise (S.O.E). It involves a Convertible Debenture financing exercisable at a price of $0.37 per common share, bearing 5% interest and maturing two years from the date of issuance fully convertible into common shares of the company.
"We expect this $10 million financing agreement to be finalised in the next 60 days. We already have a group of Chinese investors who are committed to growing the company with us in Brazil, so there is great synergy in this potential partnership," said Pacific Potash Executive Co-Chairman and Director Balbir Johal.
The group of Chinese investors he is referring to is CapitalAsia, which represent both a cornerstone investor in Pacific Potash's project and a strategic advisor. The firm has in place a non-binding M.O.U in place with Pacific Potash that sets out the initial terms and conditions for entering into a formal off-take agreement at such time as Pacific Potash's Amazonas Potash Project goes into commercial production. Their expertise and advice to Pacific Potash was instrumental in the forging of the new relationship with the Chinese S.O.E.
Upon completion of this financing Pacific Potash will have raised a total of CDN $16.35 million year to date, $12 million of which will be used to complete a fully permitted drill program, consisting of up to six exploration holes with each reaching a true depth of approximately 1400 metres. The program of course will be lead by local Brazilian, Andre Costa, whose resume also includes extensive potash work for the Saskatchewan Geological Survey and Northrim Exploration LTD.
Pacific Potash's Amazonas Potash Project is across the river from the city of Itacoatiara, which has the second largest soybean export terminal in Brazil. Currently soybean barges return to the southern farm belts empty. This offers a potential back hauling synergy to deliver potash directly to domestic Brazilian markets.
With direct access to waterways and no lengthy rail haul requirements, Pacific Potash's logistical cost savings are estimated to be up to $167 per ton. This logistical cost advantage, similarity to Saskatchewan's deposits and Brazil's insatiable apatite for the commodity allows for several viable economic potash project in this region of Brazil. This comes at a time when companies operating in historic potash basins are struggling to develop new economic deposits due to lack of infrastructure and increased shipping costs. Pacific Potash's exploration is targeting potash occurrences amenable to solution mining, which provides benefits such as substantially reducing overall Cap-Ex, increasing scalability, shorter time frames to production and limiting environmental impact.


BOSSIER CITY, La. – The Louisiana National Guard's 156th Army Band, 139th Regional Support Group, spent the weekend traveling around the state to support community Veterans Day events, Nov. 5-6.
On Saturday, the unit spent the afternoon in Natchitoches attending Northwestern State University's Military Appreciation Day and participating in the pre-game show for the Demons' football game against the University of Central Arkansas. The 156th Soldiers were also recognized on the field for their service during their recent deployment to Iraq with the 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team.
On Sunday, the band travelled to Port Allen to march in the sixth annual West Baton Rouge Parish Veterans Parade. The band played a selection of patriotic music for appreciative parade-goers along the 1.3 mile route from Rivault Park to the Port Allen Courthouse.
Although the 156th is based in Bossier City, their mission is to support and represent the Louisiana National Guard throughout the state.


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The COL Thomas H. Williams Awards is presented to the Student-Athlete that has maintained the Highest G.P.A. while attending Marion Military Institute.
Zachary Neumann finished with a perfect 4.0 GPA for 4 semesters, taking classes like Physics, Chemistry, and Anatomy & Physiology. He has been the starting 2nd baseman for two years and has signed a scholarship to San Francisco State University to play baseball.
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Malaysia Airlines Plane Shot Down Over Ukraine: U.S. Official; 298 on Board Included 3 Infants
Posted 8:26 AM, July 17, 2014, by CNN Wire, Glen Walker, Mary Beth McDade and Steve Kuzj, Updated at 05:30PM, July 17, 2014
A Malaysia Airlines passenger jet crashed in a rebel-controlled area of eastern Ukraine on Thursday, prompting swift accusations from Ukrainian officials that "terrorists" shot down the aircraft.
A man walks on July 17, 2014, among the wreckage of the Malaysian airliner after it crashed near the town of Shaktarsk in rebel-held east Ukraine. (Credit: Alexander KHUDOTEPLY/AFP/Getty Images)
The United States has concluded a missile shot down the Malaysia airlines plane, but hasn't pinpointed who was responsible, a senior U.S. official told CNN's Barbara Starr.
The Boeing 777 with 298 people aboard fell from the sky near the town of Torez in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, officials said. A top Ukrainian official said the plane, which was on the way from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was flying at about 10,000 meters (nearly 33,000 feet) when the missile hit.
A picture taken on July 17, 2014, shows wreckage of the Malaysian Airlines plane carrying 295 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur after it crashed, in rebel-held east Ukraine. Pro-Russian rebels fighting central Kiev authorities claimed on Thursday that the Malaysian airline that crashed in Ukraine had been shot down by a Ukrainian jet. (Credit: DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images)
LINK: Airline details nationalities of passengers and crew
A radar system saw a surface-to-air missile system turn on and track an aircraft right before the plane went down, the senior U.S. official said. A second system saw a heat signature at the time the airliner was hit, the official said. The United States is analyzing the trajectory of the missile to try to learn where the attack came from.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said the plane never made a distress call.
He called for an international team to have full access to the crash site.
"We must and we will find out precisely what happened to this flight. No stone will be left unturned," he said.
"If it transpires that the plane was indeed shot down, we insist that the perpetrators must swiftly be brought to justice," Najib said.
Ukrainian officials maintained that pro-Russian separatists were behind the crash, which sent the jet falling from the sky in a fireball with a trail of black smoke.
Another image of the wreckage. (Credit: DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images)
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Ukraine's military campaign against the separatists was to blame.
"This tragedy would not have happened, if there had been peace on that land, or in any case, if military operations in southeastern Ukraine had not been renewed," Putin said in televised remarks. "And without a doubt the government of the territory on which it happened bears responsibility for this frightening tragedy."
Ukraine's state security chief accused two Russian military intelligence officers of involvement and said they must be punished for their "crime."
This map outlines the intended (blue) and actual (red) flight path of Malaysia Airlines flight 17. The flight crashed in eastern Ukraine Thursday, July 17, 2014. (Credit: CNN)
Valentyn Nalyvaichenko said he based his allegation on intercepts of phone conversations between the two officers. "Now you know who carried out this crime. We will do everything for the Russian military who carried out this crime to be punished," he told journalists.
Emergency crews scrambled to what witnesses described as a staggering scene of death and utter destruction.
"People said the plane kind of exploded in the air, and that everything rained down in bits and pieces, the plane itself, the people inside," said Noah Sneider, an American freelance journalist who interviewed witnesses at the scene.
Charred wreckage stretched for kilometers, he said. Stunned rescue workers and rebel fighters combed the area, Sneider said, planting sticks with white cotton ribbons where they find bodies in the fields.
A family member cries as she receives the news of the ill fated flight MH17 on the phone on July 18, 2014 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Air Malaysia flight MH17 travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur has crashed on the Ukraine/Russia border near the town of Shaktersk. The Boeing 777 was carrying 280 passengers and 15 crew. (Credit: Rahman Roslan/Getty Images)
"As you walk through the fields, you see a man with his cracked iPhone sticking out of his pocket. You see sort of people's clothing everywhere. Most of it's kind of ripped off by the air. There's some suitcases and stuff in a pile by the road," Sneider said.
There were many bodies left to be found as night fell, he said, and people were trying to figure out what to do next.
Locals in the rural area trying to help were overwhelmed, he said. Firemen who rushed to put out the flames found they had a hose with holes in it, spraying water everywhere, he said.
"One man said to me, 'Nothing's happened in this village for 30 years, and now this,'" Sneider said.
As details emerge, accusations fly
Details -- and accusations -- quickly poured in about Thursday's crash, which came the same week that Ukrainian officials said a Russian fighter shot down a Ukrainian military transport plane while the aircraft was in Ukrainian airspace.
Anton Gerashchenko, adviser to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, said in a Facebook post that "terrorists" fired on the plane operating a Buk surface-to-air missile system.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko described the crash as a "terrorist action."
"We do not exclude that the plane was shot down and confirm that the Ukraine Armed Forces did not fire at any targets in the sky," Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said, according to his website.
Firm details about what happened remained scarce.
Vice President of Malaysia Airlines Europe Huib Gorter told reporters that the 15 crew members on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 were all Malaysian nationals.
He gave a breakdown of the known nationalities of the 280 passengers: 154 were Dutch, 27 were Australians, 23 were Malaysians, 11 were Indonesian, six were from the United Kingdom, four were from Germany; four were from Belgium, three were from the Philippines and one was Canadian. Authorities were still trying to determine the nationalities of the other passengers.
As news broke of the crash, Malaysia Airlines confirmed in a tweet that it lost contact with Flight 17 and that the jet's last known position was over Ukrainian airspace.
CNN's Richard Quest, an aviation expert, said that it would be "extremely unusual" for an airliner at nearly 33,000 feet to be shot down. From the ground, one could simply look up and tell whether a plane was a commercial aircraft.
"It looks like a commercial aircraft, it squawks a commercial aircraft. So something is absolutely appalling that's gone on here," he said.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said that Ukraine's president had accepted an offer of U.S. experts to help investigate the crash.
"They will be on their way rapidly to see if we can get to the bottom of this," he said.
Biden said the plane was apparently shot down, adding "not an accident, blown out of the sky."
Russia-Ukraine dispute
The route the Malaysian plane was on, between Kuala Lumpur and the Netherlands, is a common one, CNN aviation safety consultant Mary Schiavo said Thursday. She said that the plane was flying over a troubled area and that close communication with air traffic controllers would be a key necessity.
Torez is in a rebel-held area.
In hostile or disputed areas, "any alteration from your course, and you can have a problem," Schiavo said.
Tensions have been high between Ukraine and Russia since street protests forced former pro-Moscow President Viktor Yanukovych from power in February. Russia subsequently annexed Ukraine's southeastern Crimea region, and a pro-Russian separatist rebellion has been raging in Ukraine's eastern Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
Ukrainian forces have been struggling to quell the separatist unrest. Ukraine's government has accused Russia of allowing weapons and military equipment, including tanks, to cross the border illegally into the hands of pro-Russian separatists.
The Pentagon said Wednesday that Russia now has 12,000 troops on the border with Ukraine, as well as some heavy weapons. The troop numbers had fallen to about 1,000 previously from a high of an estimated 40,000 forces earlier this year.
On Thursday, CNN reported that Ukrainian officials said a Russian fighter shot down a Ukrainian jet Wednesday as the jet flew in Ukrainian airspace.
Tensions are high over that incident, separate from the breaking news of the Malaysian flight Thursday.
Three months ago, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration prohibited U.S. airlines from flying in areas not far from where Flight 17 reportedly crashed Thursday. "Due to the potential for conflicting air traffic control instructions from Ukrainian and Russian authorities and for the related potential misidentification of civil aircraft, United States flight operations are prohibited until further notice in the airspace over Crimea, the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov," the FAA said in April. Thursday's plane crash reportedly was in eastern Ukraine, scores of miles north-northeast of the Sea of Azov.
On Thursday, French transportation official Frederic Cuvillier ordered that French airlines avoid Ukrainian airspace until the cause of Thursday's Malaysia Airlines crash is known, the French Transportation Ministry said in a news release.
Putin expresses condolences
Putin "expressed deep condolences" to Malaysia's Prime Minister over the crash, a post Thursday on the Kremlin's website said. He "asked to pass the most sincere word of condolences and support to families and relatives of (the crash) victims," the post said.
Near the end of a phone call Thursday morning with President Obama, Putin noted to the President the early reports of a downed passenger jet near the Russia-Ukraine border, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said.
Obama directed his staff to be in touch with senior Ukrainian officials, Earnest said.
Later Thursday, Obama said the crash "looks like it may be a terrible tragedy" and he said efforts were underway to determine if any Americans were aboard.
Poroshenko said he has expressed condolences to Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte about the crash.
Airline's troubles
Thursday's crash marks the second time this year that Malaysia Airlines has faced an incident involving a downed plane.
On March 8, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared. That Boeing 777 had 239 people on board. Searchers have found no trace of 370 or its passengers, despite extensive search efforts.
Flight 370 probably flew into the southern Indian Ocean on autopilot with an unresponsive crew, Australian authorities said last month.
During the early phase of the search for Flight 370, aircraft and ships scoured vast stretches of the surface of the southern Indian Ocean but found no debris.
Pings initially thought to be from the missing plane's flight recorders led to a concentrated underwater search that turned up nothing.
A new underwater search, farther south, will be broadly in an area where planes and vessels had already looked for debris on the surface of the water. It is expected to begin in August.
The first Boeing 777 entered service in June 1985, and the airplane has flown almost five million flights, accumulating more than 18 million flight hours, according to Boeing's web site. The plane is capable to flying up to 43,100 feet.
Aviation experts cautioned against jumping to conclusions about Thursday's crash at this early stage.
But all agreed that a massive investigation should be launched, involving parties not involved in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia,
The families of people on board will demand a transparent international investigation, and so will the global community, Quest said.
CNN aviation analyst and pilot Miles O'Brien said he thinks it would be difficult to mistake the plane for a military or hostile aircraft.
"A civilian airliner at that level, at that flight path, would be very difficult to mistake for something that has hostile intent," he said.
The wreckage path, O'Brien said, will reveal a lot. If a plane breaks up in midair, which is likely what would happen in a missile strike, there would be a large swath of wreckage, he said, but if it breaks down due to mechanical failure, the debris field would be more concentrated.
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Presence of Israel-Funded Hate Group PJTN in South Africa Needs to be Resisted
by Iqbal Jassat | Oct 14, 2020 | Breaking News, MRN articles, MRN Views, World News |
Islamophobia as a world-wide phenomena has become increasingly menacing in many parts of Europe and in the United States.
As it grows its tentacles with direct, bold and active participation of white supremacists, neoconservatives, likudniks and fascists, Islamophobia has increasingly become weaponized by Israel.
Used as a political tool to discredit Palestine's freedom struggle as well as the global solidarity movement which campaigns to boycott Israel under the banner of BDS, the settler colonial regime has spared no effort in funding and spearheading Islamophobes.
And many who naively believe that South Africa is immune from deliberate and calculated fueling of hate, suspicion and mistrust by Israeli-funded agents, would be wrong.
Latest revelations in a Jewish media platform Forward, make startling disclosures about Israel's pernicious role in funding and promoting groups for a variety of goals in defence of the Zionist project.
Of particular relevance for South Africa is a Christian Zionist group known as PJTN – "Proclaiming Justice to the Nations".
Headed by an ardent supporter of Israel, Laurie Cardoza-Moore, it is based outside Nashville, USA and was the driving force behind the Tennessee legislature becoming in April 2015 the first state to pass a resolution condemning BDS, and successfully lobbied other states to pass anti-BDS laws.
PJTN is also identified as the group backing a new bill that seeks to change Tennessee's civil rights code to define antisemitism in a way that includes anti-Zionism.
However of particular relevance to South Africa given that PJTN's
founder and president, Laurie Cardoza-Moore, is known for her incendiary Islamophobic rhetoric, is the footprint she is busy establishing here.
An alarming development indeed and ought to be prioritised for monitoring by the authorities especially the Human Rights Commission (HRC).
The revelations contained in Forward's report explain that America's SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center) has listed the Israeli-funded PJTN as an anti-Muslim hate group (alongside KKK and Nazis). This was followed later by Amazon which removed the group from its charity donation program as part of a purge of extremist organizations.
Equally shocking to discover that despite this history, the report says Israel approved a payment of $40,000 on Jan. 8, 2020 to "Laune Cardza Moore" with the subject line "Support for the organization PJTN for the event: Our Shared Biblical Connection to the Holy Land."
The South African connection that's in the public domain and confirmed by Forward is that PJTN has hosted events with the same title during November 2019 at churches in Johannesburg and Cape Town.
That Israel has a direct official history of affiliation with PJTN and its notorious Islamophobic founder Laurie Cardoza-Moore is not in dispute. But that it has been operating under the radar for a considerable period in South Africa, ought to be of concern, not only to the intelligence and security cluster, but also to Palestine solidarity movements.
Apart from PJTN having opened its first chapter in South Africa, it's important to note that the Johannesburg event was co-sponsored by the South African Zionist Federation (SAZF) and Cape Town by International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, according to the report.
Forward goes on to claim that Rev Kenneth Meshoe of the ACDP appeared in a 2016 anti-BDS documentary called "Boycott This!" produced by Cardoza-Moore of PJTN. This film was screened by her at the "Shared Biblical Connection" events in South Africa.
Notwithstanding America's shameful unconditional support for Israel, it is to the credit of the SPLC for having the guts to probe and blacklist the PJTN as a hate group.
Significant too that Amazon has dropped PJTN from its funding platform and in a general statement to the JNS said that according to their policy, "organizations that engage in, support, encourage or promote intolerance, hate, terrorism, violence, money laundering or other illegal activities are not eligible."
Yet Laurie Cardoza-Moore and her Israeli-funded PJTN, which I need to reiterate is listed in the USA as an " anti-Muslim hate group" is operating in South Africa in pursuit of Israel's goals.
If Yotam Gidron, author of "Israel in Africa" is correct in his assessment that South Africa is one of Israel's top public diplomacy targets, one cannot be complacent nor ignore the threat to solidarity activism in support of Palestine's freedom struggle by those such as Cardoza-Moore who spearhead hate-filled agendas on behalf of the settler colonial regime.
The ANC-led government has to be particularly mindful of sinister foreign-funded moves to build a Christian Evangelical base as in America to counter and undermine its human rights-based approach to Palestine.
Islamophobia is a disgusting manifestation of hatred for Islam and Muslims. And much more menacing when weaponised by Israel to silence and intimidate resistance.
South Africa has no choice but to confront it.
Iqbal Jassat
Exec Member: Media Review Network
Iqbal Jassat is an acclaimed writer, analyst and commentator and one of the founder members of MRN. His analysis is featured regularly in mainstream and alternate media outlets around the world.
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