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Inxaxheba Quartett
Submitted by Sören on Thu, 12/01/2016 - 21:10
African Suite No. 16.
For Recorder Quartet.
Score and Four Parts.
First and Third movement: ATTB Second Movement: TBGK
In 2010 I wrote the song "Tell Me, What is Happiness?" for the 10th show of my a cappella group LaLeLu. From the very beginning I wanted to use the melody as a theme for my new African suite for recorders. Five years later I put this idea into realisation, but sadly my father had just passed away after a long period of suffering, and so the first movement, that expresses happiness, is followed by a second movement, that conveys about deep sadness, but also consoles. My father - he was an author - has always been a role model for me with his incredible creativity, productivity and boldness. The last movement Phaphazela (start to fly) illustrates his bubbling energy and also the unrestrained joy, that is so often inherent in African music.
Inxaxheba is Xhosa and means opportunity, chance, possibility. Sören Kierkegaard, the Danish philosopher and founder of existentialism, to whom I owe my name, talked about the passion of opportunity. The possibility to design and project our existence into the future, and live and realize this projection, is the real object of our passion. The opportunity gives us hope, and hope is the currency of happiness.
I would like to thank the Flanders Recorder Quartet and Saskia Coolen for their wonderful world premiere they gave of Inxaxheba in Antwerp in April 2016 and for recording the piece for their latest CD with an incredible amount of love and dedication. I also wish to thank Ulrich Lorscheider from AEOLUS label for his patience and his brilliant studio and recording management. I also wish to thank everyone for allowing me to be part of the process.
Here you can see a video of the premiere in Antwerp, the first movement in the quintet version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTm9HrBhZMg
First movement: Tell me what happiness is
Second movement: The Big Sorrow
Third movement: Start to fly
LaLeLu: Sag mir, was Glück ist (Tell me, what is happiness?)
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Today involves some shopping 🙂 and a big meal with extended family (ack – more eating!!) Then it's one more day of fun before heading home to face the unpacking of the suitcases and the repacking of the Christmas decorations. Think I'd better enjoy myself while I can!!!
Sounds like fun! 😀 I love cuddling with my nieces and eating great food! Trying not to eat too much before dh gets home from his deployment. LOL! Have a great time!
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Fixed bug causing crashes between levels after Level 3.
This app is very similar to the receptive language testing I have seen, in that there are images presented and the user has to select the one described. Pros are that the images are pleasant, the reinforcement is good, and the teacher console is really great. Some of the questions are a bit odd, ie "which doesn't have legs?" with choices of a skirt, cup, and hat. One other reviewer had a similar comment. Generally, the questions are good and get more difficult as you move from labeling to categorizing, etc. I think the price is a bit high vs other apps for parents for home use, but it would certainly get its value for use with teachers or therapists using with multiple kids.
Enhancement idea: One thing that would be great would be to be able to exclude certain images from the tokens for kids who have problems with particular images. My son, for example, didn't like the bear and wanted to quit the game every time it came up in random token mode. We could have selected only one token to use, but it would be better to just be able to exclude one or more tokens.
My son with autism LOVES this app. However, we were both confused about questions on level 6 that ask to select images with a head or neck which displays a hammer, hoe, and an animal. The animal choice is wrong, but misleading. Keep up the good work!
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Biografia
Studia letteratura all'Università statale di Baku. Dal 1983 al 1985 viene arruolato nell'esercito sovietico. Dal 1990 ha lavorato per diversi quotidiani azeri. Nel 1995 ha fondato il giornale letterario Kompas e nel 1996 l'agenzia di informazione Velvet.

Negli anni '90, molti dei suoi volumi narrativi furono pubblicati a Baku. La sua nuova divisione e molte delle sue storie sono apparse su editori e riviste letterarie di San Pietroburgo e Saratov. Dal 1998 vive in Germania. Qui ha studiato Filologia slava, Teatro e Studi cinematografici presso le Università di Magonza, Università di Giessen e Università di Francoforte. Dal 2000 lavora come scrittore e pubblicista freelance.

Diversi articoli di Aslanov sono stati pubblicati sulla rivista Frankfurter Rundschau, sui giornali Frankfurter Neue Presse, sul Die Tageszeitung, sul Salzburger Nachrichten, sul Thüringer Allgemeine, e sulla la voce popolare, dello Schweriner Volkszeitung. Il 2007 ha pubblicato per la casa editrice berlinese Wostok Aslanovs. Nel 2012 pubblica in ritardo il suo romanzo, "Sui campi di cotone" .

Opere
 "Sui campi di cotone". Radio bavarese. Monaco 2004
"Sui campi di cotone". Casa editrice Vostok. Berlino 2007.
"Alexander con il croissant". Narrativa. Rivista letteraria; Driesch il 7/10/2011, Casa editrice Driesch (Austria).
"La strada sbagliata attraverso la guerra". Narrativa. Rivista di letteratura Driesch del 9/4/2012, Casa editrice Driesch (Austria).
"La colonna in ritardo". Romanzo sulla guerra sovietico-afgana e le atrocità compiute all'interno dell'esercito russo. Casa editrice Wostok, Berlino 2012.
 "La quarantesima stanza". Narrativa. Rivista di letteratura Driesch 13/4/2013, Casa editrice Driesch (Austria).
"Una lunga strada. Il destino della famiglia afgana Ermani". Narrativa. La rivista letteraria Matrix 2/2014, Casa editrice Pop, Ludwigsburg 2014.
"Alexander con il croissant", antologia, editore Engelmann, Casa editrice Größenwahn, Francoforte 2015
"Il Re Serpente", antologia, editore Engelmann, Casa editrice Größenwahn, Francoforte 2014
"Kondrati Ryleyev". Estratto dal romanzo storico Decembrists. Kogge - antologia Himmerod 2015, edito da Małgorzata Ploszewska.
"La storia di Diaus. Dopo il Mahabharata". Dal ciclo, esseri umani e dei Kogge - antologia Himmerod 2015, edito da Małgorzata Ploszewska.
"Il Libro delle fiabe". Casa editrice Größenwahn, Francoforte 2016

Premi
Promozione cinematografica dell'Assia per la sceneggiatura dell'operatore di Diana (insieme a Felix Lenz).  Marzo 2011
Borsa di studio di lavoro della Literaturgesellschaft Hessen. Aprile 2016. [3]

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Collegamenti esterni

 http://wortesschatz.de

 http://wostok.de/literatur/

 http://groessenwahn-verlag.de/an-welche-maerchen-glauben-sie/

 https://faustkultur.de/3017-0-Gespraech-mit-Vougar-Aslanov.html

 https://www.deutsche-gesellschaft-ev.de/images/pdf/2018/2018-eu-Brest/DG---Brest-Litowsk-Tagung-2018---Flyer---WEB2.pdf

 https://www.libreriauniversitaria.it/bucher-author_aslanov+vougar-vougar_aslanov.htm

Studenti dell'Università Statale di Baku

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Q: Dehn surgery on handlebody Assume $V$ is a handlebody and $C$ be a simple closed curve contained in the interior of $V$.
As Sam said, there exists some simple closed curve such that every dehn surgery along it produces a handlebody. So I assume $C$ can not be isotopic to a simple closed curve in $\partial V$.
Obviously, trivial dehn surgery along $C$ produces a handlebody. So My question is:
Is there a different dehn surgery along $C$ which produces a handlebody?
Can we classify all the dehn surgery along $C$ which produce handlebodies?

A: There's an extensive literature on this and more general questions.
First, let's consider a more precise formulation of the question.
Let $H$ be a handlebody, and let $K\subset H$ be a knot. Let's
assume that $\partial H \subset H-K$ is incompressible. Otherwise,
$H=H_0 \natural H_1$ the boundary connect sum of two handlebodies,
such that $K\subset H_0$, and $\partial H_0 \subset H_0-K$ is
incompressible. Then a surgery on $K$ makes $H$ a handlebody if
and only if the corresponding surgery makes $H_0$ a handlebody.
Thus, one may reduce to considering the case that $K$ is diskbusting.
With this reformulation of the question, the case that $K$ is
a core curve corresponds to when $H$ is a solid torus, and $K$ is
a core curve (since this is the only case in which a core curve is
diskbusting). So assume that $K$ is not a core curve. If $K$
is isotopic into $\partial H$, then there are infinitely many surgeries
which yield $H$. In this case, there is an annulus going between the
knot and $\partial H$. The surgery slopes which intersect the annulus
slope once give back $H$. Surgery along the annular slope gives
a manifold containing an incompressible surface, by Jaco's lemma.
If the intersection with the annulus slope is $>1$, then the manifold
has incompressible boundary by Theorem 2.4.3 of the cyclic surgery paper.
A result of Wu implies that for knots $K$ which
are not isotopic into the boundary, the distance between boundary-reducible
surgeries is at most one, and therefore there are at most two non-trivial
surgeries which may yield a handlebody.
In the case that $H$ is a solid torus, it was proved by Berge
and Gabai that $K$ must be a 1-bridge braid, and a complete description
was given. There is a famous example (the Berge link) which yields 3 solid torus surgeries,
which shows that Wu's estimate is sharp (there is a 3-fold symmetry permuting
the slopes).
Wu has further results on the case of 1-bridge knots in handlebodies.
Added: Frigerio, Martelli and Petronio show that there are 1-bridge
knots in handlebodies with three handlebody fillings (including the trivial one),
generalizing the example of the Berge link to higher genus boundary, and showing
that Wu's theorem is sharp in general. It seems to be an open question whether
all such examples are 1-bridge (see discussion in another of Wu's papers).

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Before 1935, Australia did not have any toad species of its own. What the country did have however, was a major beetle problem. Two species of beetles in particular, French's Cane Beetle and the Greyback Cane Beetle, were in the process of decimating the northeastern state of Queensland's sugar cane crops. The beetle's larvae were eating the roots of the sugar cane and stunting, if not killing, the plants. The anticipated solution to this quickly escalating problem came in the form of the cane toad. After first hearing about the amphibians in 1933 at a conference in the Caribbean, growers successfully lobbied to have the cane toads imported to battle and hopefully destroy the beetles and save the crops.
The plan backfired completely and absolutely. As it turns out, cane toads cannot jump very high, only about two feet actually , so they did not eat the beetles that for the most part lived in the upper stalks of cane plants. Instead of going after the beetles, as growers had planned, the cane toads began going after everything else in sight--insects, bird's eggs and even native frogs. And because the toads are poisonous, they began to kill would-be predators. The toll on native species has been immense.
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Teen injured in shooting near Perry High School, 4 detained
Posted February 28, 2018 RabbleVID
Pittsburgh Police say a 17-year-old was taken to the hospital in serious condition after being shot near Perry High School. Shots were fired shortly before 8 a.m. Thursday at Baytree Street and Perrysville Avenue in Perry North.
The teen walked into the school with a gunshot wound to the hip and was treated by the school nurse until paramedics arrived.
Three male minors fled the scene on foot but have been taken into custody. A fourth was found near a set of steps.
A firearm was located nearby, but it is unclear if it was the same one used in the shooting.
Perry High School was placed on lockdown but it is now lifted.
KDKA reports that no one has been charged at this time.
School officials changed the time for Friday's football game between Perry and Westinghouse from an evening game to an afternoon game as a safety measure. No fans will be allowed in the stadium.
⟵Former Cherry HS teacher accused of sex with student stands trial
Man arrested in connection to shooting scare near IUP campus⟶
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By MARK ALEXANDER January 12, 2022 in Left Biden/Harris Regime
"Two-thirds of deaths are people with six or more comorbidities."
They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." —Benjamin Franklin (1759)
Rhetorical question: Do you think the majority of Americans are going to be, shall I say politely, "agitated" when they finally awaken to the reality that Joe Biden's unconstitutional and draconian vaxxing mandates have been primarily a leftist political charade to indoctrinate and condition citizens that they must submit to the Democrats' power and control agenda?
Of course, you are likely already fully aware of this administration's agenda and political machinations to contain the ChiCom Virus pandemic threat. But many of the Left's legions of "sheeple," whose lives and children's lives continue to be unnecessarily turned upside down by mandates and school closures, are now starting to figure it out.
How much damage has this agenda done to kids? This week, a joint declaration by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the Children's Hospital Association has declared a "national state of emergency in children's mental health." The damage has been devastating.
For the record, Democrats are artful masters of the BIG Lie, and there has been no bigger and more consequential political lie in our nation's history than the collaborative promotion of fear and angst being perpetuated by the Democrat Party and its Leftmedia propagandists.
Unfortunately, much of the government mandate damage has already been done.
Some of the best and brightest young military Patriots devoted to Liberty, those who have abided by their oaths "to support and defend" our Constitution, have already been purged after refusing to submit to Biden's mandate. The same is true among the other ranks of federal employees. Indeed, that has been the administration's mandate objective — to remove loyal and faithful Patriots whom Biden and his delusional leftists label "extremists."
In the last week, there have been admissions by the most powerful of Biden's COVID pandemic commissars — admissions that have cast a bright light on the adulteration of official pandemic counts, and on the Demos' underlying agenda.
It started with the nation's highest-paid bureaucrat, the Beltway troll Anthony Fauci, who for the first time has declared a newfound concern for the economic impact of his quarantine mandates: "There is the danger that there will be so many people who are being isolated … that you could have a major negative impact on our ability to keep society running." Where was that fundamental concern 22 months ago?
Then, responding to the administration's awakening that parents are fed up with their kids being locked out of schools, Fauci made a shocking admission regarding hospital counts for children — who we already know are at virtually no risk for hospitalization, much less death — in order to unwind teacher union objections. In an amazing statement, Fauci declared: "If you look at the children who are hospitalized, many of them are hospitalized with COVID as opposed to because of COVID. If a child goes in the hospital, they automatically get tested for COVID. And they get counted as a COVID-hospitalized individual when, in fact, they may go in for a broken leg or appendicitis or something like that. So it's overcounting the number of children who are, quote, 'hospitalized with COVID,' as opposed to because of COVID."
This confession was shocking because, notably, all adults are also tested upon hospital admission, and likewise, as we have suggested repeatedly, the number of adult admissions because of COVID versus with COVID, as well as the number of deaths, has been inaccurate. The question, then, is this: What are the actual numbers of hospitalizations and deaths of all ages with COVID versus because of COVID? In fact, in New York this week, health officials announced almost 50% of their "COVID hospitalizations" are not because of COVID.
The truth about those numbers has a direct bearing on all the masking and vaxxing mandates, emerging proposals for vaccination passports, and, most important, the reported efficacy of vaccines based on hospitalization and death data that we now know is highly suspect. Arguably, vaccines benefit those with significant comorbidity factors, but how about those who have no such factors?
It is abundantly clear, despite Demo state governors and mayors issuing child vaccination mandates, that 99.999% are NOT at risk of serious illness or death because of COVID.
The fake hospitalization numbers being reported by the Leftmedia even made their way into SCOTUS deliberations regarding Biden's disastrous vaxxing mandates.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, even after Fauci's "clarification," still erroneously claimed, "We have hospitals that are almost at full capacity with people severely ill on ventilators." Wrong. She further falsely asserted, "We have over 100,000 children, which we've never had before, in serious condition and many on ventilators." Wrong again.
That false claim was so far off the mark that CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky had to publicly correct Sotomayor, and it even prompted The Washington Post "fact-checker" to give her its worst rating, four Pinocchios. In fact, there are fewer than 3,500 children in hospitals with COVID.
That is what happens when a Supreme Court justice and her brainwashed young clerks get their information from CNN and MSNBC. So, the future of individual Liberty in regard to the SCOTUS decision on Biden's mandates is resting on the uninformed opinions of Sonia Sotomayor? It appears so.
A key question we have asked repeatedly over the last 18 months about the CDC's hospitalization and death counts of those with COVID versus dying because of COVID was queried this week by Fox News host Bret Baier, who asked Walensky, "How many of the 836,000 deaths in the U.S. linked to COVID are from COVID or how many are with COVID?"
Not denying this was an important distinction related to comorbidity factors, Walensky dodged the question, saying, "Those data will be forthcoming."
Right. I can tell you I have searched deep within the CDC website for the last year, and that comorbidity death distinction data is nowhere to be found. There are lists of comorbidity factors, but no cumulative data on how, or how many of, those factors are attributable to deaths.
Of course, Walensky refused to give a straight answer for the same reason that data is not plain on the CDC website — if she answered the question accurately, raising legitimate questions about comorbidities, that would call into question the Demos' underlying government power-play agenda.
Flustered when pressed for an answer, Walensky claimed, "We have ever-evolving science with an ever-evolving variant."
Well, OK, take your time.
Maybe the CDC will provide an answer after Fauci is finished evaluating his latest transgender monkey study.
Confirming some other key data points, Walensky admitted what everyone already knows: "Our vaccines are working exceptionally well … but what they can't do anymore is prevent transmission."
However, then the CDC director inadvertently elevated the question about comorbidities again by noting data indicating those factors in the deaths of people who have been vaccinated.
According to Walensky: "The overwhelming number of deaths, over 75%, occurred in people who had at least four comorbidities. So really these are people who were unwell to begin with."
In other words, 75% those who died with as opposed to because of COVID had "at least four comorbidities."
So when will she get back to us with an answer to the question about comorbidities as a factor of those unvaccinated death counts? Again, it is clear that vaccines benefit those with significant comorbidity factors, but release the data so the uninformed, like Sotomayor, can make better informed decisions.
To that end, former Trump administration COVID adviser Dr. Scott Atlas noted that, actually, "Two-thirds of deaths are people with six or more comorbidities." And as an example of CDC misinformation, he added: "Yet the message was out there that anybody with hypertension, high blood pressure was at high risk for COVID. That was false. … This was an intentional inculcation of fear in the American public. This should never happen again. … The truth will prevail. And hopefully we're starting to see that now with these admissions about hospitalizations and deaths being mis-categorized."
One reason the CDC does not make this data readily accessible is because it does not want people to decide they are not high risk, and therefore choose not to get vaccinated. In other words, paternalistic bureaucrats think you are such an idiotic adolescent that you can't be trusted with your own decisions regarding this vaccine.
Moreover, given the Demos' politicization of the CDC, that data is concealed because it would call into question Biden's power and control agenda, i.e., Fauci's permanent pandemic — you know, the little man who was instrumental in the ChiCom development of COVID.
There is no question that the ChiCom Virus is a very bad bug, but there is also no question that Democrat politicos at the federal, state, and local levels have used the pandemic as fodder for their statist power agenda. That would include Biden's so-called "voting rights" bill, a.k.a. the Demos' bulk-mail ballot fraud. They hope to use the pandemic as reason to perpetuate mailing ballots to millions of unauthenticated voters, as California and seven other states now do.
The bottom line: Joe Biden clearly did not "shut down the virus" as advertised, though his administration has grossly overstated the numbers. As for Biden's assertion back during the 2020 election when the CDC reported 220,000 deaths — "Anyone who is responsible for that many deaths should not remain President of the United States" — political analyst Rich Lowry asks, "When does Trump get his apology?"
As for his latest lie that he would provide "free testing," Biden's blame-shifting solution for failing to ramp up test production months ago — if that wasn't a planned failure to keep the fear and chaos going strong — is to force insurers to pay for tests … if folks can find one.
One thing the Democrats have demonstrated — the Red Chinese need not invade the U.S. to severely cripple our strength as an adversary.
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Hiring for Culture Fit – Making the Case for Why It Matters
Hiring for culture fit is decidedly on the outs these days with a number of recent articles questioning the practice. Some suggest that corporate culture is too dynamic to be captured and codified let alone selected against, while others have argued that skills, experiences and competencies matter far more in hiring decisions. One Globe and Mail article, titled 'Tech's Obsession with Cultural fit feeds its diversity problem' argues that screening for culture fit is often little more than fitting for office lifestyle which often 'beats out industry knowledge and technical skills' when making hiring decisions. In other words, culture fit is code for likeability which is code for being one of 'us' which has the effect of inhibiting diversity in the workplace. In his estimation, firms 'sacrifice diversity for the sake of harmony'.
The article then makes the case that diverse teams outperform homogenous teams, and that diversity gives rise to creativity. Rather than focus on culture fit, he argues that firms should focus on 'mindsets for growth', agile thinking, a global outlook and the ability to work across different economic sectors. The writer states 'smart managers know to hire based on where they expect to be in 6 months time, and workers with these approaches are able to adapt and develop as a company grows'.
Let me start by saying that I believe firms should strive for greater diversity in hiring. It is the right thing to do, adds richness to a company, and likely has to be consciously pursued to overcome whatever hiring biases may exist. Also, it has to be acknowledged that it is no small measure to quantify corporate culture and to hire for it. Corporate culture is often aspirational, a work in progress, fuzzy and can vary across and within an organization. All of this said however, addressing the challenge of greater workplace diversity by suggesting that firms abandon hiring for 'fit' is overly simplistic and dare I say, wrong.
Corporate culture is the tangled web of values, beliefs, written and unwritten rules and actions that shape the personality and behaviors of a company. It is how things really work in a company, what gets rewarded, punished and ignored. It is what a firm's leadership pays attention to, measures, controls as well as the assumptions which underlie them. It is the metrics of success, how people are treated, how decisions are made, how scarce resources are allocated, who gets promoted, and how a firm deals with adversity. People who thrive in one corporate culture often do not thrive in another. For example, many people who work at Ottawa-based tech darling Shopify might find similar roles at Canada Post's head office, but a few kilometers away, to be, let's just say less than a perfect fit.
We have many clients with very strong values about how people are to be treated, involved in the business, and managed. While they hire for appropriate experience and skills, they pay particular attention to 'how' people do what they do. They highly value collaboration. Fit matters to them and they are careful to select employees with an attention to not only whether they have the skills, experience and motivation to succeed but their attitudes, values, level of empathy and emotional intelligence.
In start-ups, hiring for culture fit often means aligning candidate attributes to the founder who, brilliant that he or she may be, is often 'special' in other ways. These individuals dominate the culture of their companies. Spanning the spectrum from professional managers to micromanagers to explosive personalities, 'fitting in' has little to do with foosball tables and latte machines and everything to do with the ability to be a supporting actor in a one-person production. Ignoring this invariably leads to hiring mistakes.
Finally, suggesting that firms should instead hire for attributes such as mindsets for growth, agile thinking and a global outlook is laying the foundation for hiring people who will fit into environments that value this. You are still back to hiring for fit, just redefining the variables. Oh, and good luck screening objectively for those attributes in most companies.
Hiring should always incorporate an understanding of what an organization values. The problem for most organizations is not the idea of hiring for fit but rather having clarity around the attributes that comprise fit and then having a standardized means by which to assess them. Behavioral questions are awkward, and gut feel is difficult to suppress.
After establishing experience and skill levels, poke and probe candidates about what environments they have most enjoyed in the past and why, which supervisors they have most enjoyed (and why). Look for evidence of adaptability, how or if they have adjusted in the past to different environments. Focus on accomplishments and how these were undertaken, obstacles, and how they were overcome. Remember that motivation matters (it is not only can they do the job but will they do the job)...look for unmet needs, drive, determination, resilience. All of these can be probed for and used to make assessments as to whether someone seems good or is good.


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Turkish Airlines profits in Africa, where others fear to fly
NAIROBI, Sept 12 (Reuters) – When Turkish Airlines opened a direct daily route to a war-ravaged African failed state plagued by Islamist militants, industry insiders were sceptical.
Not anymore.
"Somalia is one of our most profitable destinations worldwide," Mustafa Ozkahraman, Kenya country manager for Turkish Airlines, told Reuters in an interview. "Because we are the only (international airline). The first and the only one."
The Istanbul-based carrier is replicating the move across Africa, expanding to destinations shunned by others. The move comes as political unrest at home last year pushed the airline into the red for the first time in 17 years.
In 2011, Turkish Airlines flew to 14 African cities. By the end of this year, it will operate 52 routes from Istanbul across Africa, after launching a route to Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone.
From January to June, just under a tenth of total passenger and cargo revenues came from Africa, according to results for the first half of 2017 that showed a net loss of $434 million.
Rival Emirates has less than 30 routes. Last year, the Dubai-based airline cut one African flight and reduced the frequency of several others.
It cited weak economic conditions in Africa, where many countries dependent on revenues from commodities exports have seen economic growth fall below population growth.
But Turkish Airlines, which is 49 percent state-owned, is bullish on Africa, a continent of 1 billion people.
Ozkahraman denied the growing ties between Ankara and many African states drove the airline's strategy.
"A lot of people would think our flights to Somalia were not business-related," he said. "(But) we do the feasibility and we have to believe the route will be profitable, either now or imminently."
He declined to give a specific breakdown on profits for African flights, but said routes like the daily flight on a wide-body jet from the Nigerian city of Lagos were critical to the airline's bottom line.
Despite challenges like poor security or electricity cuts at some airports, such flights feed passengers into Turkish Airline's hub, making routes like Istanbul to London profitable.
"You have to have those destinations to make your hub busy and your profitable destinations more profitable," he said.
Last year the company posted a net loss for the first time since 2000, after a demand slump caused by political turmoil and militant attacks at home. Ozkahraman said some of the shortfall was also due to new planes – 210 have been ordered, he said.
Load factors – a measure of how full planes are – are over 70 percent on many African routes, just below the airline's global average of 80 percent, he added.
The wide network means that, unlike Ethiopian Airlines, Turkish does not partner with smaller African carriers notorious for poor service.
It opened a business class lounge in Nairobi's airport in July 2016, its second international lounge after Moscow. British Airlines and Emirates began renting the Nairobi lounge for their business class travellers earlier this year, Ozkahraman said. (Editing by Katharine Houreld and Mark Potter).
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Tax season is officially upon us. With less than a month to go before taxes are due in, this is around the time of the year when many people who put off doing their taxes before now – especially those waiting for notoriously late 1099s – start to stress out. Tax season isn't just stressful because tax filing is a headache, but for a lot of people, worries extend beyond the paperwork. Will you get the amount back that you are expecting to? Will you have to pay in far more than you're expecting to? Do your deductions properly align with your records? What will happen if you make a mistake? These worries and plenty of others haunt many people around this time of the year and for addicts, stress can easily lead to alcohol or drug use. Knowing how to deal with the particular kind of stress that tax season brings can help you to prepare and your protect yourself from a senseless, stress-induced relapse. So consider some of the following tips if you're feeling number-crunching weight.
You don't have to face tax season alone! Go to a professional for help with your taxes and you can usually write off the preparation fees in the coming year. It's important to know what's within your skill set. Just because you know how to file your own taxes doesn't mean that you should. It might take you far longer than it takes someone else and you might wonder if you're making vital mistakes. An accountant who prepares taxes for a living know how to spot errors and can help ensure that your taxes are filed quickly and properly.
Instead of thinking about the process, begin the process.
We often build things up to be more than they are mentally. The amount of stress many of us feel about taxes is usually inappropriate, but it feels extreme because we haven't yet started the process of filing our taxes yet. Instead, we spend our time pacing and thinking about what a pain it is. The next time you catch yourself thinking like this, force yourself to act on your stress rather than just sit there and listen to it.
Sometimes taxes seem so daunting because, in fact, they are! Self-employed taxpayers have especially difficult tax filing on their hands, usually involving multiple streams of income and a wide variety of deductions. If you fall into this category, try taking your tax thoughts one month at a time. Start with January 2014 focus on your records from that month. What did you spend? What did you earn? Once January is behind you, it's that much easier to move on and into February.
It's easier said than done, of course, but you do need to compartmentalize your tasks and thoughts. Once you've done the work on your taxes in a day that you set out to do, turn off the tax stress. Exercise, meditate, take a long walk or a bath – do whatever it takes to silence your inner stress. Everything really will be alright.