Young people play a crucial role in the growth and sustainability of the domestic and international economy, yet the rate of youth unemployment is rising steadily on a global scale. Promoting and fostering opportunities for youth entrepreneurship should play a role in a broader and more comprehensive youth unemployment policy, in order to address unemployment, increase labour market participation, and facilitate the creation of quality jobs.
Research has indicated that youth unemployment has major negative impacts both on young people themselves, and on the broader economy. Compared to their adult counterparts, young people continue to face a disadvantageous labour market. Young people who initially experience unemployment upon entering the labour market are at an increased risk of remaining unemployed long term, which results in negative outcomes and impacts for the economic climate at a local, domestic, and global level. Labour market prospects have increasingly worsened for young people in almost every region of the world since the beginning of the economic and financial crisis in 2008, and despite a gradual acceleration of economic growth in the medium-term, these prospects are not expected to improve.
Youth unemployment across the globe has seen the financial crisis transform into a wide-reaching social issue too. It has been identified that the increasing rates of unemployment for young people, combined with longer periods of job search, have resulted in a significant increase in the number of young people who are not engaged in employment or in education since 2008. This increased number of young people who are neither engaged in employment, nor in education or training (NEET) indicates that the current economy is failing to create sustainable employment opportunities for a significant proportion of young people.
It has been demonstrated that there is a close correlation between the condition of the economy and the number of young people who are considered NEET, which indicates that economic structures and labour market prospects can have significant influences on the situations, decisions and attitudes of unemployed young people. However, it should not be assumed that all young people who are NEET are vulnerable, marginalised, or passive contenders in the labour market. Many young people who are NEET display a positive attitude to work and study, or have completed study and are actively seeking employment. Research indicates that empowering young people to create jobs for themselves and other young people through entrepreneurship can promote economic dynamism, innovation, and resilience. It is therefore crucial to consider policy reforms that focus on innovative ways to improve the skills and fulfil the potential of young people, while simultaneously creating better quality jobs to further enhance sustainable economic growth.
The issue of youth unemployment is currently high on the global political agenda, which generates an opportunity to analyse strategies and policies that are being implemented to various degrees of success throughout the world, and to identify opportunities for these to be replicated or amended for similar domestic economies. The G20 can play a crucial role in harnessing this window of opportunity through the three I's identified by the 2015 Turkish Presidency: Inclusiveness, Implementation, and Investment for Growth, and ensuring that the key outcomes and recommendations from the Australian Presidency are actioned. The 2014 G20 Leaders' Communiqué identified higher annual growth rates as a key priority for each member and observer country, and this was identified as essential in addressing the enduringly high unemployment rates. The Key Outcomes identified as part of the G20 Brisbane Summit 2014 also highlighted the importance of entrepreneurship and innovation through Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) as creators of jobs and labour market participation. This research aims to develop and maintain accountability between the G20 host countries to ensure tangible outcomes are delivered.
Young people are often among the first casualties when it comes to economic crises, and this has been clearly demonstrated in the aftermath of the 2008-2009 Global Financial Crisis (GFC). This period saw an unprecedented increase in the rates of youth unemployment on a global scale, and since then these rates have continued to increase steadily. Although the repercussions of the GFC had wide-reaching impacts across the entire economy, young people continue to face significant economic, social, and health disadvantages. Young people remain almost three times more likely than adults to be unemployed, and are increasingly employed in transient, non-standard jobs including temporary employment and casual positions. During times of economic recession or crisis, young people tend to be disproportionately disadvantaged in the labour market, which can largely be attributed to a lack of skills and experience. Research indicates that the age at which young people are transitioning into full time employment has continued to increase after the GFC, and the duration of unemployment has also risen to an average of six months or more for one-third of unemployed young people.
Changes in the economy and the subsequent reorientation of production and services across the globe have resulted in the transformation or disappearance of many traditional employers and fields of employment. During times of economic recession or crisis, young people tend to be disproportionately disadvantaged in the labour market, which can largely be attributed to a lack of skills and experience. Research indicates even possessing tertiary education qualifications does not necessarily improve the employability of a young person, because they are not deemed to have sufficient practical skills or work experience which employers consider invaluable.
Youth unemployment is a significant issue on a global scale, with labour market prospects worsening in almost every region in the world. Across the globe, approximately 74.5 million young people aged between 15-24 years were unemployed in 2013 – a figure that increased by over 700,000 compared to the previous year. Further evidence indicates that over 620 million young people worldwide are considered NEET. This has resulted in an endemic global youth unemployment issue, which now impacts some of the most highly developed economies as well developing countries. Regions including the Middle East, Central and South-Eastern Europe, South-East Asia and the Pacific, and North Africa have all recorded substantial increases in their youth unemployment rates. Further to unacceptably high youth unemployment rates, the proportion of young people who are NEET has also risen significantly in many countries since the beginning of the GFC in 2008. The rising numbers of young people among those NEET are a cause of concern because it indicates that there are increasing rates of young people who are not improving their future employability through learning skills or gaining experience through employment.
It appears that the youth unemployment crisis is being exacerbated by the mismatch between tertiary graduate degrees and labour market needs, which indicates a disparity between formal education processes and the needs of the contemporary economy. This mismatch results in economies that are unable to utilise the full potential of young people who are attempting to enter the labour market, which constrains productivity and economic growth, and contributes to the rising numbers of young people who are NEET.
Employers have also identified that young people who have graduated from formal education with tertiary qualifications tend to lack the experiential knowledge and training that is critical to developing 'soft' skills and attributes necessary in the labour market. Completing secondary or even tertiary education does not guarantee that a young person will transition into the labour market, as many employers identify a poor match between the skills learned at school, and the skills necessary for entering the labour market.
The G20 plays a critical role in addressing the global youth unemployment crisis, as it provides an opportunity for member countries to work together to develop an integrated, collective approach to overcoming barriers to youth employment. Youth unemployment is becoming an increasingly prominent issue for the global economy, which indicates that it is an important aspect for the G20 to consider in policy discussions. The Turkish Presidency has identified youth unemployment as a priority area to be addressed, as part of a broader focus on increasing employment to strengthen the global recovery and lift the potential of the economy. The G20 provides a forum for countries to collaborate and develop policies that will facilitate the robust and efficient growth of the global economy, thus creating an environment where higher numbers of jobs are available which will subsequently decrease youth unemployment rates as well as unemployment rates in general.
During the Australian Presidency in 2014, each member country unveiled their respective Employment Plans – almost all of which identified youth unemployment, or young people considered NEET, as key challenges to be addressed. These Employment Plans also identified a number of policy proposals to be implemented, and the 2015 G20 Turkey plays a critical role in providing informal accountability between countries. It also provides an opportunity to analyse and evaluate which countries are seeing decreased youth unemployment rates, and identify how policies and strategies may be tailored to other countries.
High rates of youth unemployment can have serious negative long-term effects on young people, and are likely to become more serious the longer the unemployment crisis continues. Extensive research indicates that young people who experience unemployment and difficulty entering the labour market in their early 20s could continue to experience the negative impacts on their employment and earnings prospects up to two decades later. Early experiences of unemployment can also lead to the risk of future long-term unemployment or unstable employment, resulting in ongoing issues for young people into adulthood.
Sustained, meaningful employment is an important aspect of maintaining mental health and increasing life satisfaction. Young people who are unemployed are at a greater risk of experiencing negative, long lasting impacts on their lives. Unemployment can have negative impacts on the physical and mental health and general wellbeing of young people, as a result of economic deprivation and stress related to uncertainty or instability of employment. Social isolation, social exclusion, and marginalisation are also increased risks for young people who are unemployed. Significant correlations have been established between unemployment and a number of psychosocial wellbeing indicators, which demonstrates that people who are unemployed experience decreased life satisfaction compared to people who have stable full time employment.
Unemployment and the subsequent economic hardship for unemployed individuals can also have far-reaching impacts on social cohesion within broader society. In the current economic climate, unemployment is having a disproportionate impact on young people and generating higher risks of marginalisation and social exclusion. Productive, sustainable employment is important for the social and economic development of young people, and negative experiences upon trying to enter the labour market can have adverse, long-lasting impacts on the individual and the economy.
Due to the increasingly high unemployment rates leading to longer periods of job searching, many young people become frustrated and discouraged with their lack of employment prospects, therefore becoming caught in a cycle of unemployment and labour market exclusion. This cycle is further perpetuated when young people find themselves among the NEET group, where they are neither able to improve their employability prospects through developing skills and gaining experience, nor are they engaged in education.
Many young people who are unemployed possess the knowledge, skills, and capabilities to participate and succeed in the labour market, but are met with barriers due to their age and lack of experience. One potential way to increase youth participation in the labour market and decrease numbers of young people who are considered NEET, is through facilitating opportunities for youth entrepreneurship. Although it is unlikely to completely overcome barriers to youth employment single-handedly and cannot act as a 'quick-fix', entrepreneurship is considered a key element of economic growth and job creation, and should form part of broader and more comprehensive youth unemployment policies in order to address unemployment and increase labour market participation.
Increasingly high rates of youth unemployment indicate that a policy overhaul is required, in order to create an economic environment conducive to building the capacity of young people to move into entrepreneurship. Policies focused on encouraging entrepreneurship lead to job creation, increased innovation, and help the labour market to remain responsive to changing economic landscapes. Encouraging young people into entrepreneurship, through starting their own small businesses or being involved in start-ups, provides a number of opportunities to the not only to the young person themselves, but also to the broader economy.
The current economy is failing to provide adequate employment opportunities and stability for many young people, which has seen a significant increase in the number of young people who are currently considered NEET, despite the fact that they have completed tertiary education or are actively seeking employment. Increasingly high rates of youth unemployment indicate that a policy overhaul is required, in order to create an economic environment conducive to building the capacity of young people to move into entrepreneurship. This would be particularly beneficial for young people who are NEET, but possess a positive attitude towards work, and have completed their secondary or tertiary education and are actively seeking entry into the labour market.
Young people can play a significant role in developing a resilient economy, if they are supported in their innovation and enterprise endeavours. Investing in young people to develop innovative and enterprising solutions to youth unemployment and broader economic and social issues will provide opportunities to create a flexible, responsive economy and labour market.
Economic research indicates that the most effective productivity growth is largely driven by innovation, and by creating an economic environment conducive to market experimentation. This includes accepting the risk of failure, and recognising that even failure will potentially result in invaluable learning and skill development. In terms of economic competitiveness, Australia fares quite well in terms of global rankings. However, Australia needs to continue developing a resilient economy that can withstand global shocks, and this is achievable through continuing to encourage and facilitate innovation and market diversity.
Australian statistics indicate that as well as increasingly high rates of youth unemployment, young people are experiencing higher rates of underemployment and precarious casual employment. This contributes to the difficulties that young people experience when attempting to enter the labour market on a full-time basis, as they do not have the opportunity to develop and acquire the skills and experience that increase their future employability. Young people are therefore at an increased risk of social exclusion and marginalisation, which can have long-term impacts on their physical and mental wellbeing.
Domestic governments can develop and implement a number of policies and strategies in order to encourage young people into entrepreneurship. Simplifying administrative procedures and regulations associated with business start-up and registration is a positive step towards reducing the barriers to young people starting their own businesses, and should be included in any policies surrounding entrepreneurship in general. It is also crucial to recognise the relevance of including adequate entrepreneurship curriculum at all levels of education, in order to ensure young people are developing the necessary skills and knowledge to participate and engage in the labour market as entrepreneurs. However, entrepreneurship skills can also be developed outside of the classroom and the formal education system, through collaborative approaches involving community organisations and established businesses to provide mentoring and support networks for young entrepreneurs.
Difficulty providing initial capital and obtaining adequate finance is also a significant barrier to young people. Governments can develop and implement policies to overcome these financial barriers through traditional approaches such as grant schemes or micro-loans, or through more contemporary means such as crowd-funding campaigns which would expand the range of financial options available while tapping into more private sources of funding.
The Australian government must develop and implement policies that emphasise social investment, equality, labour market integration and empowerment in order to address the issue of youth unemployment. It is also of critical importance to recognise the changing landscape and structure of Australian industries, and ensure that young people are being adequately prepared for the economy of the future.
Youth unemployment rates are increasingly high across the global economy, indicating that this is a significant issue that is challenging governments worldwide. The G20 therefore plays a critical role in addressing youth unemployment, through developing and implementing innovative solutions at both a domestic level for individual countries, and at an international level. The G20 provides an opportunity to ensure that real action is implemented to start addressing youth unemployment on a global scale. Countries that form the G20 have a unique opportunity to work together and learn from each other, by identifying successful approaches to addressing youth unemployment and adapting these policies at a domestic level.
A wealth of research suggests that early experiences of unemployment, NEET or difficulty entering the labour market can have long lasting adverse effects on young people and on the broader community. It is therefore essential for governments to ensure policies are developed and implemented to support young people into the labour market, where they can gain the experience and training necessary to increase their future employability.
Promoting and fostering opportunities for youth entrepreneurship has been identified as a vehicle for addressing youth unemployment, and should therefore form part of a broader youth unemployment policy to facilitate job creation and labour market participation for young people. Youth unemployment policy should be founded in empowering young people to create jobs for themselves and their peers, using entrepreneurship as tool for economic innovation and resilience.


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Cobra Kai Overview
This Karate Kid sequel series picks up 30 years after the events of the 1984 All Valley Karate Tournament and finds Johnny Lawrence on the hunt for redemption by reopening the infamous Cobra Kai karate dojo. This reignites his old rivalry with the successful Daniel LaRusso, who has been working to maintain the balance in his life without mentor Mr. Miyagi.
Who Stars in Cobra Kai
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I watched the whole first season. I loved it. Good drama and story line. I cant wait for season 2 to see how this story continues.
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I was a little nervous when the show first aired, but after watching the first season I got hooked...! It had some laughs and plenty of action. It was gritty in comparison to the film sequel. Series 2 started drawing the sand lines, so to speak, as we see there is no right or wrong, but a grey area. Then season 3 got even better! And the final episode...I was in awe! The two epic fight scenes; one with Miyagi-do students and former Cobra Kai students fighting side by side against Cobra Kai students, and the one with Lawrence vs Kreese then LaRusso vs Kreese. The whole itself brought back some very familiar faces from the Karate Kid series - bringing together old and new generations. I can't wait to see how it concludes!
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Quite bad. The fact that this is getting so much attention at the moment seems crazy to me. I've watched the first two seasons (with my GF) and I have to say that this whole thing is pretty embarrassing. I kind of enjoyed the first few episodes, because I thought it was being very tongue in cheek, but as the show progressed I started to realise it's just a bit shit. Shame.
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I didn't have many expectations going into this show, or at least, I didn't have high expectations. The ones I did have were that of a fun low budget trip down memory lane. But this is so much more than that. The production values are great, the casting is great, the plot, the writing, the tone, the pacing, acting, soundtrack. It's all great start to finish and it has what Mr. Miyagi taught us, balance. It seems to hit so many right notes without pushing anything too far, the comedy is just right, the emotional moments, just right, the cheese, the action, just right. It also does a great job of leaving the viewer to decide who the real heroes and villains are because unlike the movies nothing here is black and white. If you've seen the films, you will really enjoy this. If you haven't, you'll probably really enjoy it anyway. It stands on it's own and feels modern, but as a continuity, 30 years later, it does this masterfully and very respectfully to its past and its source without heavily relying on it.
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Thugs OF Hindostan
Big And Boring
Talk of waking up after the ship has sailed. Hollywood is tiring of the Pirates Of The Caribbean franchise (which went on for far too long, considering its origins as an amusement park ride), and a filmmaker in Mumbai suddenly gets inspired. Vijay Krishna Acharya's Thugs Of Hindostan gets Aamir Khan to play a Jack Sparrow type and hopes the rest will fall into place.
It's not as though one expects historical or geographical authenticity from a commercial Bollywood film, but some accuracy would have helped. First of all, in a film with Thugs in the title, there is very little Thugee. There is a band of merry men and some women under Khudabaksh Jahaazi aka Azaad, (Amitabh Bachchan), who want independence from British rule, but they are not Thugs.
The film opens in 1795, when the stone-faced devils from the British East India company kill rajas and steal kingdoms. One such is snatched from Zafira's (Fatia Sana Shaikh) family, and she is saved by Azaad so that he can teach her how to use a bow and arrow. Eleven years later, a crook who calls himself Firangi Mallah (Aamir Khan) rides in on a donkey and gives the red-uniformed tax collectors in the employ of the Brits a tough time.
But he is a kind of double agent, who collects from both sides, so when John Clive (Lloyd Owen) wants him to spy on Azaad, he plays one against the other, with his quick thinking and glib tongue. He also acquires a sidekick (Mohammad Zeeshan Ayyub) who serves no useful purpose, and between intrigues, gets the time to shake a leg with a sexy dancer Suraiya (Katrina Kaif), who wears very tiny costumes and does some Sheela Ki Jawaani kind of moves when they were not even invented.
Firangi, who wears a lot of jewellery and a top hat, wins the heart of Azaad, and they much buddy stuff, but the Brits keep interrupting. They are the kind of caricature 'gora' fools who speak to each other in Hindi, seat a scruffy spy at the head of a table and watch him eat, and celebrate Dussehra with the natives. Pity, no cricket!
There is plenty of storming of ships, swinging on ropes, sword fights and shootouts, but not a minute of excitement or an iota of thrills, as characters dressed in grungy chic costumes, odd headgear and tattoos, rush about looking for a lost plot with loud background music. Only Aamir Khan, with his twinkling eyes and dazzling smile, looks like he is having fun—at least he gets some witty lines. This is the kind of film that could drive Amitabh Bachchan into retirement!
Oh, and btw, was the hawk that glides around the rebel camp, picked from Guru Dutt's pirate adventure Baaz (1953)? Sixty-five years ago, they could swagger and swashbuckle better than these folk with a huge budget and expensive CGI at their disposal.


Yuka and I got married about thirteen years ago. We had a long distance relationship with Yuka living in Japan while I was living in San Francisco. After more than two and a half years of emails and "instant chats" we finally got married. Yuka came to live with me in SF. At that time we had no idea at all that we would one day be living in Japan!
We began our international student ministry in Tucson Arizona while attending the Japanese Christian Community of Tucson. It was more than a lot of fun; that was where we found our calling! God kept drawing us deeper and deeper into ministry and before we knew it He had us securely in His grasp. We began to suspect, even back then, that we would eventually move to Japan.
about three years later were accepted into the Japanese Evangelical Missionary Society. We had moved back to San Francisco and we were deeply involved in an international student outreach to Japanese students. Then things in Japan suddenly changed. In March of 2011 an earthquake and devastating tsunami struck Japan. The Fukushima Daichi nuculear plant was severely damaged and for fear of safety, mission agencies began pulling missionaries out of Japan. Our hearts burned with an eagerness to go and in September of 2011 the door finally opened and we came to Japan.
I have gone to the north of Japan on some short-term ministry teams but our primary ministry continues to be with university students. You can see more about that in the Japan Ministry section of this web site. We are currently ministering at Jlodge, a coffee shop ministry to university students at Tokai University.
The fellowship we have started at Jlodge is a very simple expression of the Body of Christ and our goal is to disciple people from wherever they are in their spiritual journey into a mature, loving faith in Jesus.


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Jeep 33 of the Toronto Islands
The Toronto Islands are an L-shaped archipelago of islands, a 10-minute ferry ride from downtown Toronto, which provide protection for Toronto's harbor from the wind and waves of Lake Ontario. In the early part of the 20th century the islands were home to thousands of residents, but much of the area is now parkland. There are also a couple of yacht clubs, the Toronto Island Airport, a small amusement park, and a year-round community of about 250 small cottages laid out on narrow streets open only to pedestrian and bicycle traffic.
This faded, unidentified old photo found by Rene Lemieux in Québec, was posted on CJ3B.info for several years before it was finally identified by Greg Steffler, Toronto firefighter #546. Greg said, "I recognised that blurry picture as Pumper 33 which was stationed at the old Ward's Island fire station from approximately 1946 to 1968 when it was replaced by a newer Willys pickup, also equipped to fight fires on the remote Toronto Islands. These lightweight vehicles were required to negotiate the many lightly built bridges that linked the numerous islands, as well as traversing the beach areas."
When my family visited Toronto in 2003, we decided to take the ferry over to Ward's Island, to try and see if there was any evidence remaining of the old CJ-2A fire engine. We were lucky enough to be able to walk right onto the ferry; on hot days in the summer it's not uncommon to have to wait an hour or more to get onto one of the several boats travelling back and forth. This ferry is flying the Toronto flag and the Canadian flag.
One of the first vehicles we saw on the island, and in fact one of the few vehicles on the Toronto Islands larger than a golf cart, was a YJ Wrangler used by Toronto Public Works to plow snow from the narrow roads. But there was no sign of the Jeep we really wanted to find.
Greg Steffler did manage to dig up some better archival photos of Jeep 33. Greg would like to know what happened to the Jeep too: "Jeeps have been a part of our family since my Dad brought home a late 40's CJ-2A to plow snow and gravel as part of our family business in the mid sixties. At 15 I taught myself about repairing vehicles when I purchased my own Willys from a local farmer. It was so easy and so much fun to work on. If only I could locate that old island pumper today."
Jeep 33 is seen here in 1961, with its companion full-size pumper, a 1937 Ford/Bickle, in front of the old Station 33 at 84 Cibola Avenue on Wards Island. See also an earlier photo of the pair of apparatus in their Island Station Temporary Quarters (100K JPEG) prior to the completion of the station.
We ran into Martin Lister at his house on Ward's Island, and he tipped us off to the fact that the old fire station is now home to the Island Canoe Club. Walking over toward Centre Island we found it, but the only sign of its former role was an old extinguisher cart (180K JPEG) rusting in the bushes.
Alan Craig, Deputy Chief of Toronto EMS, has provided more details on Jeep 33: "The 1947 Jeep pumper was a conversion probably done by American Marsh in Stratford, judging by the pump."
Jan Morrison points out that it was likely a product of Sterling Machine & Mfg. in Owen Sound, Ontario. Between 1945 and 1950 they produced fire trucks for Canadian customers using designs licensed from American Fire Apparatus Company of Battle Creek, Michigan. The trucks were marked Sterling Machine & Mfg., but were identical to those produced by AFA in Michigan for the US market. The parent company American Marsh Pumps opened a Canadian division and manufacturing facility near Stratford in 1951. It was called American Marsh Pumps Canada Ltd., and starting with the 1951 model year, they produced AFA trucks in Canada.
Alan Craig continues: "The truck was brought back to the city side in 1968 when the ex-Forest Hill Willys pickup went out to the island. The Jeep was then assigned to the Motor Shops on Ordinance Street as a service truck for the mechanics. It was a regular presence until the late 1970's when it went to auction. The 'No.33' lettering was still visible on the side of the rear panels.
"Interestingly, the Jeep's predecessor was an Indian motorcycle. The Indian company did quite a few conversions for brush firefighting, placing fire equipment in what would normally be a sidecar."
The New Truck
It's not clear why the TFD felt that the CJ-2A was ready for retirement in 1968, but in that year they replaced it with the Willys pickup. Greg says, "This second Willys was acquired from the old Forest Hill fire department when it was amalgamated into the City of Toronto circa 1967."
See also a front view photo (120K JPEG). According to captions on the archival photos, the truck had been bought by Forest Hill for plowing snow in 1954, and after Forest Hill was annexed it became 33 Jeep in March 1968. It appears to have been outfitted with a large gas-powered pump, as well as a rear step and handrail for carrying firefighters.
The Willys had suction hose for drafting from the lake which was never too far away, but doesn't appear to have had have a booster tank or hose reel for quick response to fires in the small structures around the islands.
Ken Buchanan took this photograph of the truck in 1979, shortly before it too was retired. Ken says, "It had a 250 GPM pump, and it ended up in the Niagara area at a car lot and was sold to persons unknown."
The Willys pickup was replaced by a 1982 3-man closed-cab Chevrolet/Pierreville mini-pumper. I took this photo of that truck still in service at the new Station 33, as we continued our stroll around the islands.
The new fire station is a beauty, and tall enough for modern apparatus, but we found a full-size pumper and a small aerial unit squeezed into the two bays along with the mini-pumper, and a van parked outside.
Isaac Mazer told us in 2010 that "TFS replaced the '82 mini-pumper with a new Ford F-550 mini-pumper. The van was replaced by a 03'/'04 Ford Econoline XL and the full-size pumper was replaced with a former Scarborough '97 E-One Quint."
We crossed the bridge onto Centre Island, and had a laugh when we found yet another fire station there. This one is called "Centreville Fire Station No. 1" and is part of the amusement park. Four old-fashioned vehicles carry children around a track as they happily ring the bells.
We rode the Sky Ride chair lift which provides a bird's eye view of that part of the islands, but we didn't find any more clues about Jeep 33. So we hopped on the ferry for the trip back to downtown Toronto, where we caught the Blue Jays at the Skydome.
Thanks to Alan Craig, Ken Buchanan, Rene Lemieux and Greg Steffler. -- Derek Redmond
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An open-door prison, which unites squatters, homeless people and drug dealers under one roof.
Located in the district of Durrës, not far from the train and bus station, the abandoned prison has always had the purpose of impressing travelers who arrived for the first time at this point in Podgorica. The prison faces directly onto the street, where you can easily enter it by going through the gate. In the inner courtyard you may experience difficulties due to the grass and brambles that rage everywhere.
Jusovaca was founded by the Turkish conquerors in the mid-nineteenth century as a prison and training camp for Turkish soldiers stationed in Podgorica.
In 1878, the Congress of Berlin put an end to Ottoman rule in Montenegro and the country became independent. Despite this, the prison maintained its original use. It is said that its inmates were mostly small criminals and smugglers of tobacco (tobacco which was very well supplied by Montenegro).
The transformation of Jusovaca from "unimportant" prison to a serious correctional structure began with the two world wars, when the city of Podgorica was brought to its knees. When Montenegro fell under the Austro-Hungarian occupation in World War I, many Montenegrin patriots suddenly found themselves behind bars in Jusovaca.
In World War II, Montenegro was conquered for the first time by fascist Italy and shortly after by Nazi Germany. This led to a surge in national rates of incarceration. In those same years a female structure was built, separated from the rest of the prison, in order to provide new cells for the 1500/2000 possible and future prisoners. Former prisoners, many of whom ended up being executed or tortured for the crimes committed, described the inhumane conditions of life suffered in these units.
The decline of Jusovaca began in the 1960s. The change in the political atmosphere and the opening of the new Spuz prison in Podgorica forced the old prison to finally close in the 1980s. After this the buildings served as homes for the families of former prison guards, who at that time would have to face early retirement and an uncertain future.
If they ever asked me the question "have you ever gone to jail", now I could answer "certainly, twice. One in Thailand and the other in Montenegro ".
I venture into the prison at ten o'clock in the morning, when the sun is not yet high in the sky and the clouds still bring a little 'shadow to those still deserted streets of a capital that, in my opinion, shows no sign of life .
The first floor has completely collapsed. I limit myself to going up to the landing to take a sneak peek, without stepping into any of the rotten and burned girders.
The garden is accessible from the back but up to a certain point, where weeds and brambles allow it. As evidence of the female prison, there are nothing left but four walls and some beams.
The corridors and cells on the right side of the structure can be visited. The light enters faint and almost blurred, filtered by the grilles and the metal bars that together with the front door close the room on either side. Where the land has been excavated it means restoration work have been started, but never finished.
In the front garden I can witness the life of some homeless family, with strollers, toy bikes, chairs and tables laid out with trash. All under the tiny shadow of a vineyard.
Following some footsteps left by the waste, I end up entering their "home". A rotten smell spreads across all the rooms. Pursuing it, it involuntarily brings me in front of the carcass of a cat smashed on the floor. On the sides of the atrium, two rooms full to the edge of garbage.
Behind me I find myself face to face with a doll without any identity, with hair that reaches up to the tips of the feet. It turns on itself, hanging with a plastic thread from the head to the nail fixed to the wall. In the other two rooms the situation is repeated, albeit with different furniture and furnishings.
Feeling not very comfortable, I hasten to return to that desolate space from which I came about forty minutes ago. In the open air, in the middle of the street, strangely I feel less observed than when I was inside the walls.


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2014 Elite Athlete Bios
July 27, 2014 | Jason Wolfe | Wolfe PR
World-Class Athlete Bios
(Course Record: Gilbert Okari, Kenya, 27:28 – 2003)
Bib#: 1
Best 10K: 27:01
Of note: The defending champion and an Olympic bronze medalist at 10,000m, Micah has utilized his track speed to win the TD Beach to Beacon in two of the past three years – 28:03 in 2013 and 27:47 in 2011. He once ran 27:01 in a 10K road race to set a world record and finished second (2:10:27) in his marathon debut at the 2013 Boston Marathon.
Ben True
Best 10K: 27:41 (track)
Of note: A race favorite, Ben is set to make triumphant return to his native Maine. He last ran the TD Beach to Beacon in 2009, when he shattered the Maine Resident course record (29:10) and placed 10th overall. The former All-American at Greely High School and Dartmouth College has seen his professional career grow ever since. He turned heads last August when he battled TD Beach to Beacon champ Micah Kogo to the finish at the 2013 Falmouth Road Race to place second, which capped off a year in which he placed sixth at the World Cross Country Championships – the highest finish for an American since 1995 – and narrowly missed making the U.S. team for the World Championships by finishing fourth in both the 5000m and 10,000m at the USA Track & Field Championships. Ben won the 2014 USA 15K Championship at the Gate River Run for the second year in a row, and in May set a PB 13:02.74 to win the 5,000m at the Payton Jordan Invitational at Stanford. He has a PB 27:41.17 at 10,000m.
Meb Keflezighi
Of note: Meb rode a wave of emotion to win the 2014 B.A.A. Boston Marathon (2:08:37) to become the first American to win at Boston since 1983. At 38, he was the race's oldest male winner since 1930. Meb is the first American man in history to win the New York and Boston marathons and an Olympic medal – he won silver at the 2004 Olympics in Athens. He also placed 4th at 2012 London Games. His impressive sub-28:00 at the 2007 TD Beach to Beacon (27:58) was good enough for fourth in a strong field – the highest ever placing for an American man in Cape Elizabeth. He placed 5th in the race last year.
Patrick Makau
Of note: Patrick is a former world record holder in the marathon (2:03:38) and two-time Berlin Marathon champ whose 58:52 half marathon in 2009 is one of the fastest ever. He ran a PB 27:27 10K in Berlin in 2007.
Bedan Karoki Muchiri
Best 10K: 26:52.36 (track)
Of note: Bedan is a Japan-based Kenyan who finished fifth at 10,000m at the 2012 London Olympics and recorded an impressive sub-27 on the track at the Prefontaine Classic in May (26:52.36).
Sam Chelanga
Of note: An All-American middle distance runner at Liberty University, Sam holds the NCAA record for the 10,000m (27:08.49), set in 2010. Born in Kenya, he moved to the U.S. on a sports scholarship and won the 2009 (course record 28:41.3) and 2010 NCAA Men's Cross Country Championship, the 11th two-time champ in NCAA history. He won the 2013 Manchester (CT) Road Race and in January placed second at 5000m in a PB 13:04.35 at the BU Multi-Team Meet behind Galen Rupp, who set a new American indoor record.
Emmanuel Bett
Of note: A late-blooming elite athlete who made his professional debut in 2010, Emmanuel displayed blazing track speed in 2012 by recording the fastest 10,000m in the world for the year – 26:51.16.
Afawerki Berhane Hidru
Country: Eritrea
Of note: A bronze medalist at the 2014 African Cross Championships, the gifted teen arrived on American soil for the first time earlier this year and so far has chalked up a win at the Bolder Boulder 10K, a 4th at Bay to Breakers and 10th in his half marathon debut (1:02:02) at the Rock n Roll San Diego Half Marathon.
Fernando Cabada
Bib#: 10
Best 10K: 28:25:62 (track)
Of note: Fernando is the former holder of the 25K American Record (1:14.21) and ran a PB 2:11:53 to finish 7th at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Marathon trials.
Chris Solinsky
Of note: Chris is the former American 10,000m record holder with a time of 26:59.60 in 2010, which also made him the first non-African to break the 27-minute barrier at that distance on the track. He also ran a sub-13 (12:55.53) in 2010 at 5,000m, at that time the second fastest American ever in that event. But more recently, the former University of Wisconsin standout (five NCAA track titles, 14-time All-American) has battled injuries and setbacks. He is now healthy as he transitions to the marathon, with his sights set on making the 2016 Olympic team.
Of note: Michael placed 4th at the 2012 USA Half Marathon Championships in PB 1:03. He ran collegiately at the University of Louisville.
Taylor Gilland
Bib#:13
Of note: A former University of Virginia track standout who now works 80-hour weeks in finance in Boston, Taylor has rekindled his running career, recording his first sub-4 mile (3:58.77) in the mile run at BU Multi-Team Meet in February. He is a member of Alberto Salazar's racing team.
Stephen Kipkosgei-Kibet
Of note: Runner up (28:01) at 2012 TD Beach to Beacon, Stephen also set a PB 27:52 to place 4th at the 2010 TD Beach to Beacon. His half marathon PR of 58:54 ranks him in the top 10 all-time for the distance.
Mike Popejoy
Of note: Based in Somerville, Mass., Mike was the first American, and sixth overall, at Stratton Faxon Half Marathon in June (1:06:37). Ran collegiately at Notre Dame.
Country: Ethiopia
Of note: Markos is a former track standout (3rd in 3000m at 2004 IAAF World Championships) who has made a successful transition into road racing. In 2011, he set a course record (2:06:35) to win the L.A. Marathon in his marathon debut, then followed up with a PB 2:04:54 at the Dubai Marathon in 2012. He took second at the 2012 Honolulu Marathon.
(Course Record: Lineth Chepkurai, Kenya, 30:59 – 2010)
Joyce Chepkirui
Bib#: 100
Of note: Joyce is in peak form, winning gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games on Tuesday (July 29) at 10,000m. She won the 2013 TD Beach to Beacon (31:23) still smarting from her exclusion from Kenyan national team at IAAF World Championships and took it out on field, setting the pace and maintaining a lead throughout. The win propelled the African Cross Country champ to a plethora of victories last fall, including a personal best 30:37 at the 2013 ASICS Grand 10 in Berlin, the fastest-ever 10K on German soil. In April, she set her personal best (1:06:19) and a course record at the Prague Half Marathon. She used her track speed to take silver in 1,500m at the 2011 All-Africa Games.
Emily Chebet
Of note: Emily earned bronze, finishing less than two seconds behind Chepkirui, in a hotly contested 10,000m at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glascow. She was the runner up at the 2012 TD Beach to Beacon (31:52) by .6 of a second. A two-time winner of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, she earned bronze at 2012 African Cross Country Championships. Her 31:18 in late 2011 was one of fastest 10K's of year – she set her PR 31:13 in 2010. She is the wife of two-time TD Beach to Beacon 10K champ Ed Muge.
Of note: America's top distance runner and a bronze medal winner at 10,000m in the 2008 Olympics, Shalane is returning to the TD Beach to Beacon for the first time since high school in Marblehead, Mass. She is coming off a win in the half marathon (1:09:45) at the Rock 'n' Roll Running Festival in Chicago – her time is the second fastest half-marathon by an American woman so far in 2014. In April, with the world watching, Shalane charged to the lead at the 2014 B.A.A. Boston Marathon and held on for 19 miles, ultimately finishing seventh in a personal record 2:22:02 – the fastest time ever recorded by an American woman in Boston's 118-year history. She is now the third fastest female American marathoner ever, after Deena Kastor and Olympic champion Joan Benoit Samuelson, founder of the TD Beach to Beacon. Her career includes setting American records in the 3000m (indoor), 5000m (indoor), 10,000m and 15K road race, finishing second at the 2010 New York Marathon and winning the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials. She is presently training for the fall marathon season, with her stated goal to run a sub 2:20.
Tadelech Bekele
Of note: The young Ethiopian distance runner, part of the silver medal team at the 2014 African Cross Country Championships, finished just a few steps behind record-setter Chepkirui at the Berlin 10K last fall in a personal best 30:38.
Aselefech Mergia
Of note: Aselefech is one of the top all-time marathoners with a personal best 2:19:31, a former Ethiopian record. She won bronze in the marathon at the 2009 IAAF World Championships. Aselefech is a two-time winner of the Dubai Marathon and has finished in the top three at the Paris and London marathons.
Gemma Steel
Country: Great Britain
Of note: Gemma recorded a personal best 31:26 to finish second in her TD Beach to Beacon debut in 201. She duplicated that second-place performance at the Falmouth Road Race a week later. She also won bronze at the European Cross Country Championships in 2011.
Desiree Linden
Of note: One of the America's top marathoners, Desiree finished 10th at the 2014 B.A.A. Boston Marathon (2:23:54), the second fastest American behind Shalane Flanagan. In 2011, she placed second at Boston with a personal best time of 2:22:38, then the fastest time ever run by an American woman in that event. Desiree represented the U.S. at the 2012 Olympics, but did not finish the marathon due to injury. Her resume also includes a fourth at the Chicago Marathon (2010) and fifth at the Berlin Marathon (2013).
Jordan Hasay
Of note: A high school phenom from California turned 16-time All-American at Oregon, Jordan ran a personal best 10,000m (31:39.67) at the Payton Jordan Invitational in May – the 5th fastest in the world in 2014. In June, she placed second in the 10,000m at the 2014 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, duplicating her 2013 finish. Jordan started running in elementary school, and she quickly gained acclaim around the nation as the fast young girl with the long blond ponytail. She started by rewriting the Junior Olympic record books and quickly moved on to winning USA Junior championships and making international teams for youth and juniors. In 2008, Hasay ran in the 1500m finals of the Olympic Trials as a high school junior, and in 2009 she graduated as one of the most decorated high school distance runners of all-time. She became only the ninth high school athlete ever (and third woman) to grace the cover of Track and Field News magazine, on its March 2009 issue. While at Oregon, Jordan recorded nine top-three finishes at the NCAA track & field championships. After graduating, she joined Alberto Salazar's Oregon Project and qualified for her first senior world team in the 10,000m.
Of note: A five-time All American at Dartmouth and Oregon, Alexi made her professional road racing debut at the TD Beach to Beacon last year, finishing 10th in a personal best 32:55. A member of the Oregon Track Club, she is known as well for her eclectic fashion sense and personal style. She told Women's Running, "I want to contribute to the sport as a personality, not just a set of legs. Leaving running sassier and better than I found it is a definite goal."
Blake Russell
Of note: After finishing third at the 2008 U.S. Olympic trials, she was the lone American woman to finish the marathon at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, finishing 27th. An All-American middle-distance runner at North Carolina, she actually began her marathon career on a whim and surprisingly won the Twin Cities Marathon in 2003 in 2:30:41, the 3rd fastest debut by an American at the time and qualifing her for the 2004 Olympic Trials, where she just missed a spot on the Olympic team.
Megan Hogan
Of note: Megan was the top American finisher (15:50) at the Freihofer's Run for Women in June, placing sixth overall. She won the Jones Group 10 Miler in February. A two-time All American at George Washington University, she finished eighth at the 2010 NCAA Cross Country Championships and sixth at 10,000m at the 2010 USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships (32:34.95).
Diane Nukuri-Johnson
Country: Burundi
Of note: Diane won Bay to Breakers in May. She is a two-time Olympian who finished fourth at the 2011 TD Beach to Beacon and eighth in 2013 (32:36). After competing for Burundi in the 2000 Sydney Olympics as a 15-year-old, Diane fled the country a year later to escape civil war. She learned English and eventually received a scholarship to Iowa St., where her athletic career continued to flourish. Diane also competed in the 2012 London Olympics, representing Burundi.
Hanae Tanaka
Of note: Hanae recorded a personal best 32:21.29 at 10,000m on June 25 in Fukagawa. She finished third at 2013 Rock n Rock Half Marathon in Philadelphia.
Kaho Tanaka
Of note: Kaho clocked a personal best 32:24.73 at 10,000m on June 25 in Fukagawa.
Frances Koons
Of note: A 10-time All-American at Villanova, Frances finished second at the 2009 NCAA Indoor Track 5000m race and third at the 2009 NCAA Outdoor Track 5000m.
Jennifer Rhines
Of note: A three-time Olympian, Jennifer's 32:21 at the 2003 TD Beach to Beacon is the third-fastest ever for an American woman in the event. One of the nation's most versatile distance runners, she came into her own on the elite track scene when she placed second in the 10,000m at the 2000 Olympic Trials. Jennifer has won national titles on both the track and the roads and represented the USA at 5,000m, 10,000m and the marathon in the Olympic Games.
Katie Matthews
Of note: Katie is a five-time All-American at Boston University.
* Primary sources for information on athletes from Wikipedia and IAAF website.


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"""Tests for package_index.py."""

import gzip
import hashlib
import json
import os
import shutil
import tempfile
import unittest

import test_env  # pylint: disable=W0403,W0611

from slave.chromium import package_index

TEST_CC_FILE_CONTENT = '#include "test.h"\nint main() {\nreturn 0;\n}\n'
TEST_H_FILE_CONTENT = ('#ifndef TEST_H\n#define TEST_H\n#include <stdio.h>\n'
    '#endif\n')
COMPILE_ARGUMENTS = 'clang++ -fsyntax-only -std=c++11 -c test.cc -o test.o'
INCLUDE_PATH = '/usr/include'

class PackageIndexTest(unittest.TestCase):

  def setUp(self):
    # Create the test.cc and test.h files (not necessarily named like that).
    with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(
        suffix='.cc', prefix='test', delete=False) as self.test_cc_file:
      self.test_cc_file.write(TEST_CC_FILE_CONTENT)
    with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(
        suffix='.h', prefix='test', delete=False) as self.test_h_file:
      self.test_h_file.write(TEST_H_FILE_CONTENT)
    compdb_dictionary = {
        'directory': '.',
        'command': COMPILE_ARGUMENTS,
        'file': self.test_cc_file.name,
    }
    # Write a compilation database to a file.
    with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(
        suffix='.json', delete=False) as self.compdb_file:
      self.compdb_file.write(json.dumps([compdb_dictionary]))

    # Create the test.cc.filepaths file referenced through the compilation
    # database
    with open(self.test_cc_file.name + '.filepaths', 'wb') as filepaths_file:
      filepaths_file.write('\n'.join([self.test_cc_file.name,
                                      self.test_h_file.name,
                                      '%s//stdio.h' % INCLUDE_PATH]))

    self.index_pack = package_index.IndexPack(
        os.path.realpath(self.compdb_file.name))
    self.assertTrue(os.path.exists(self.index_pack.index_directory))
    self.assertTrue(os.path.exists(
        os.path.join(self.index_pack.index_directory, 'files')))
    self.assertTrue(os.path.exists(
        os.path.join(self.index_pack.index_directory, 'units')))

  def tearDown(self):
    if os.path.exists(self.index_pack.index_directory):
      shutil.rmtree(self.index_pack.index_directory)
    os.remove(self.compdb_file.name)
    os.remove(self.test_cc_file.name)
    os.remove(self.test_h_file.name)
    os.remove(self.test_cc_file.name + '.filepaths')

  def _CheckDataFile(self, filename, content):
    filepath = os.path.join(self.index_pack.index_directory, 'files', filename)
    self.assertTrue(os.path.exists(filepath))
    with gzip.open(filepath, 'rb') as data_file:
      actual_content = data_file.read()
    self.assertEquals(content, actual_content)

  def _CheckRequiredInput(self, required_input, filename, content):
    self.assertEquals(required_input['digest'],
                      hashlib.sha256(content).hexdigest())
    self.assertEquals(required_input['size'], len(content))
    self.assertEquals(required_input['path'], filename)

  def testGenerateDataFiles(self):
    self.index_pack._GenerateDataFiles()
    test_cc_file = hashlib.sha256(TEST_CC_FILE_CONTENT).hexdigest() + '.data'
    test_h_file = hashlib.sha256(TEST_H_FILE_CONTENT).hexdigest() + '.data'
    self._CheckDataFile(test_cc_file, TEST_CC_FILE_CONTENT)
    self._CheckDataFile(test_h_file, TEST_H_FILE_CONTENT)

  def testGenerateUnitFiles(self):
    # Setup some dictionaries which are usually filled by _GenerateDataFiles()
    test_cc_file_fullpath = os.path.join('.', self.test_cc_file.name)
    test_h_file_fullpath = os.path.join('.', self.test_h_file.name)
    stdio_fullpath = '%s/stdio.h' % INCLUDE_PATH
    self.index_pack.filehashes = {
        test_cc_file_fullpath: hashlib.sha256(TEST_CC_FILE_CONTENT).hexdigest(),
        test_h_file_fullpath: hashlib.sha256(TEST_H_FILE_CONTENT).hexdigest(),
        stdio_fullpath: hashlib.sha256('').hexdigest()
    }
    self.index_pack.filesizes = {
        test_cc_file_fullpath: len(TEST_CC_FILE_CONTENT),
        test_h_file_fullpath: len(TEST_H_FILE_CONTENT),
        stdio_fullpath: 0
    }
    # Now _GenerateUnitFiles() can be called.
    self.index_pack._GenerateUnitFiles()

    # Because we only called _GenerateUnitFiles(), the index pack directory
    # should only contain the one unit file for the one compilation unit in our
    # test compilation database.
    for root, _, files in os.walk(self.index_pack.index_directory):
      for unit_file_name in files:
        with gzip.open(os.path.join(root, unit_file_name), 'rb') as unit_file:
          unit_file_content = unit_file.read()

        # Assert that the name of the unit file is correct.
        unit_file_hash = hashlib.sha256(unit_file_content).hexdigest()
        self.assertEquals(unit_file_name, unit_file_hash + '.unit')

        # Assert that the json content encodes valid dictionaries.
        compilation_unit_wrapper = json.loads(unit_file_content)
        self.assertEquals(compilation_unit_wrapper['format'], 'grok')
        compilation_unit_dictionary = compilation_unit_wrapper['content']
        self.assertEquals(compilation_unit_dictionary['analysis_target'],
                          self.test_cc_file.name)
        self.assertEquals(compilation_unit_dictionary['cxx_arguments'], {})
        self.assertEquals(compilation_unit_dictionary['output_path'], 'test.o')

        self.assertEquals(len(compilation_unit_dictionary['required_input']),
                          len(self.index_pack.filesizes))
        self._CheckRequiredInput(
            compilation_unit_dictionary['required_input'][0],
            self.test_cc_file.name, TEST_CC_FILE_CONTENT)
        self._CheckRequiredInput(
            compilation_unit_dictionary['required_input'][1],
            self.test_h_file.name, TEST_H_FILE_CONTENT)

        real_compile_arguments = COMPILE_ARGUMENTS.split()[1:]
        self.assertEquals(
            compilation_unit_dictionary['argument'],
            (
                ['-isystem%s' % INCLUDE_PATH] + real_compile_arguments +
                ['-w', '-nostdinc++']
            ))

if __name__ == '__main__':
  unittest.main()

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


At the Joining a host of incredible performers and teachers form Senegal, Congo, Burkina Faso, Guinea and Brazil, SambaDá will be performing in the evening following a beautiful community fundraiser. Presented by Da African Village, an organization that promotes cultural understanding between Africa and the world through music, dance and cultural exchange, as well as supporting educational programs and artists in the U.S. and in Senegal.
Please join us for this very special Day of Africa!
The 418 Project has been creating a space for global dance traditions and other arts in Santa Cruz for more than 30 years.


A food kiosk business in mall can offer fantastic business opportunities. More and more vendors choose to start mall kiosk business. For starters, Whether you rent or buy a mall food concession business, you should start with a smaller, Such as a mobile vending cart or food carts then grow to a big step. When business is good you can start a permanent food kiosk.
Whatever food & beverage business ideas you choose, make sure that your location is in a high-traffic area and has adequate space. Nowadays, fast food and snack food are a very hot and popular business to start, For example, ice cream, coffee, crepes rolls, and Waffles, etc. As for beverage concession. You can start a bubble tea kiosk or fresh juice bar. Here below is a unique food kiosk design for multi-propose usage.
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The material used for this food hut: Fire-resistant plywood, Solid cherry wood veneer, Solid stone surface.
The Corner of the kiosk is decorated with fake grass which makes the kiosk in a fresh and natural style. So, this kiosk can be used to sell natural food and beverage concessions. The wood stripe on the sides of the wall is just perfect to define a fresh idea. upscale tempered glass will divide the customer from touch the food.
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Édouard Gagnon (né le  à Port-Daniel, en Gaspésie et mort le  à Montréal), est un sulpicien québécois, devenu évêque, puis cardinal, président du Conseil pontifical pour la famille de 1974 à 1990.

Biographie

Prêtre
Ordonné prêtre pour la Compagnie de Saint-Sulpice le , Édouard Gagnon est professeur de théologie de 1945 à 1954. Il est ensuite nommé provincial des sulpiciens en Amérique latine et au Japon.

Évêque
Nommé évêque de Saint-Paul en Alberta le , il est consacré le  suivant.

Il quitte ce diocèse pour Rome en 1972, et y devient recteur du Collège pontifical canadien, charge qu'il conserve jusqu'en 1985.

Le , il est nommé vice-président de la Commission pontificale pour la famille. En 1981, Jean- institue le Conseil pontifical pour la famille. Il en devient membre et en est nommé président en 1983 à la mort du cardinal James Robert Knox.

Sous , il écrit un rapport sur les troubles internes de la curie romaine.

Dans les années 1980, il est nommé médiateur entre Marcel Lefebvre et le Vatican. Il est alors réputé pour son orthodoxie doctrinale et pour son intérêt pour la tradition ecclésiale. Il soutient la fraternité Saint-Pierre au moment de sa création.  devient le premier Canadien à accéder à un si haut rang dans la hiérarchie catholique. Il est aussi postulateur de la cause en canonisation de Marguerite Bourgeoys.

Le , il est nommé président du comité pontifical pour les congrès eucharistiques internationaux. Il exercera cette fonction pendant plus de dix ans, prenant sa retraite à , en .

En 2004, il convainc le pape Jean- de tenir le congrès eucharistique de 2008 à Québec. En 2005, il participe à un congrès doctrinal appelant à définir un nouveau dogme sur La Vierge Marie, médiatrice des grâces, corédemptrice de l'humanité, avec Jésus-Christ comme seul et unique médiateur.

Cardinal
Il est créé cardinal avec le titre de cardinal-diacre de Sant'Elena fuori Porta Prenestina par Jean- lors du consistoire du .
Il sera élevé au rang de cardinal-prêtre de San Marcello le .

À l'occasion de sa mort, un hommage lui est rendu par le pape  et par la ministre québécoise Monique Gagnon-Tremblay. Le cardinal Marc Ouellet prononce l'homélie lors de ses funérailles à la basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal.

Publications
 Liste de publications de worldcat.org

Compléments

Références

Liens externes

 Cardinal Gagnon
 Catholic World News, Aug. 27, 2007 - Canadian Cardinal Gagnon dead at 89

Officier de l'Ordre du Canada
Évêque catholique au Québec
Cardinal canadien créé au XXe siècle
Cardinal créé par Jean-Paul II
Professeur québécois
Naissance en janvier 1918
Décès en août 2007
Décès à 89 ans
Décès à Montréal
Étudiant de l'Université Laval
Prêtre sulpicien


Remade: New weapon firing and explosion sounds.
Remade: New grenade and throwing knife impact sounds.
Added: Players can now drop multiple weapons on death, as specified by ge_weapondroplimit. By default they drop their active & strongest unused weapon.
Modified: Damage code redone, along with explosion blast code so that both are much more consistent.
Modified: Weapon autoswitch will now avoid coming into effect if players are currently firing their weapon or have an explosive out.
Modified: No more autoswitch to timed mines.
Modified: Weapon spread now follows a gaussian destribution, with values that can be changed per-weapon. Shots tend towards the center of the crosshair and accuracy degregredation is sensible.
Modified: Weapon penetration special rules: Can no longer shoot through the entirety of maps. Door penetration unchanged.
Modified: Pushforce from weapons redone. High damage hits push players further and low damage hits have no effect at all.
Added: Added weapon help popout, which is accessed with F. Displays all the relevant stats of the current weapon.
Added: Added map manager, a system which uses script files to determine what weight maps should have during selection and what gamemodes can be played on them.
Modified: introduced more mapcycle functionality. Rotation will now avoid picking recently played maps, gamemodes, and weaponsets. How far back it looks is adjustable with convars.
Added: Added func_ge_door, a door that can accelerate and change direction mid-motion.
Added: Added prop_ge_dynamic, a dynamic prop that can assign itself random skins on round start. Supports custom collision grouping.
Modified: ge_gameplayinfo can now change the floor height of a map, which is used by the spawning system and radar.


Download "d a b c j e f g p h k s"
Keyword- Geographically Routing Protocol, MANET Routing Protocol, Wireless Sensor Network, Position Based Routing Protocol..
Figure 1: Ad-Hoc routing protocols.
Performance Comparison of Ad Hoc Routing Protocols over IEEE 82.11 DCF and TDMA MAC Layer Protocols Govind. P. Gupta Computer Science Department R.K.G.I.T, Ghaziabad (India) er_gpgupta@yahoo.com A. K.
Author manuscript, published in "ITCom 6 - next generation and sensor networks, Boston : United States (26)" DOI :.7/2.68625 Performance evaluation of reactive and proactive routing protocol in IEEE 82.
UCS-805 MOBILE COMPUTING Jan-May,2011 TOPIC 8. ALAK ROY. Assistant Professor Dept. of CSE NIT Agartala.
Overhead Analysis of Query Localization Optimization and Routing Wenzheng Xu School of Inform. Sci. and Tech. Sun Yat-Sen University Guangzhou, China phmble@gmail.com Yongmin Zhang School of Inform. Sci.
Example of TORA operations. From last time, this was the DAG that was built. A was the source and X was the destination.


While a number of retiring politicians are looking forward to saying "e noho rā" to Parliament, a new crop are hoping to say "kia ora".
The Green Party's Teanau Tuiono is standing in Manurewa, the Labour Party's Kiritapu Allen is contesting the East Coast, Māori Party candidate Mei Reedy Taare is running in Te Tai Tonga and National's Harete Hipango is standing in Whanganui.
The four joined Mihingarangi Forbes to discuss a range of issues including the priority issues in their electorates, Metiria Turei and the treatment of beneficiaries, water ownership and quality and legalising marijuana.
Watch The Hui's full interview.


Bob Bellairs aimed some tough words at organizations that fund non-profits. He said they should do a better job of policing the organizations they fund to make sure money is being spent properly and not wasted.
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I have listened to everything that has been said and I have a hefty set of answers to give, but let me put everything in context by starting with what I hope we can all agree on. In between the doom and gloom that swept across the Chamber from Opposition Members, they seemed to agree that the benefits system needs to be changed, and this Government are bringing about the fundamental reform that is needed. The biggest reform in 60 years will ensure that we reward work, support aspiration, encourage responsibility and help those who need it most. As my hon. Friend David Mowat said, this piece of work is of national importance. We cannot run away from making the significant changes that are so necessary; it is because they are so imperative that we are making them.


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Q: PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Failed to load , The system cannot find the file specified. PHP 7.4 Windows Before marking this as a duplicate, hear me out :)
I have some years experience working with PHP on windows, and have even created a portable (for Windows) distribution of an AMP stack: https://thejaka.com/tzwamp/ which I named "WAMP Zero" or TZWAMP. I've used this WAMP distro extensively, and people I know are using it as well. The last (previous) distribution works fine, but when I tried to update the distro to the latest builds of the applications/components from the vendor/distributor sites, I hit a snag. The PHP extensions aren't loading anymore on the new distro. It seems one or more dependencies are not locatable but I don't know what or where from. I tried viewing php_mbstring.dll in a dependency viewer, but couldn't figure out what was the matter. There were a few missing dependencies, but most seemed to be from CRT and I've installed the latest. I'm guessing the missing dependencies can be resolved from PATH environment variable. The following are not loading:

php_mbstring.dll php_mysqli.dll php_openssl.dll php_pdo_mysql.dll
  php_mbstring.dll php_mysqli.dll php_openssl.dll php_pdo_mysql.dll

The error messages are like: PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Failed to load ......\php\ext\php_mbstring.dll, The system cannot find the file specified.
Before you start complaining about the relative path, note that on 7.3 it worked fine.
The path to the ext dir is specified relatively, but the path seems to be correct. The same path worked fine in the previous distro of TZWAMP, and when I change the path, the error messages also change leading me to believe the path is correct. Note also that I tried adding php path to PATH environment variable as well.
The successfully working PHP version is 7.3.10.
The problematic PHP version is 7.4.2.
Apache version is 2.4.41
Is anyone aware of any relevant change from 7.3.* to 7.4.*, or else can anyone help me debug the issue and resolve it?
EDIT: I've checked and an absolute path seems to work. However, in order to make this portable, a relative path is required. Relative paths worked with 7.3 and I believe prior major versions. Any ideas?

A: I've solved this for now to my requirements by using an Environment Variable substitution.
extension_dir = "${P}\php\ext"
However, a relative path solution would also be welcome.

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Kumarcilar Han (Gambler's Inn) is a caravansarai located in North Nicosia, Northern Cyprus. It is unknown when exactly it was built, however it is thought to be built around the end of the 17th century, is much smaller and modest when compared with Büyük Han (Great Inn). Similar to all caravansarai, the entrance leads to an open-air courtyard, which is surrounded by a two-storey building, originally containing 56 rooms. Those on the upper story were used by the travelers, while those on the ground floor were used for their animals and belongings. Since then, the Kumarcilar Han has entered into a state of disrepair, is in danger of collapse. Efforts to restore the building have been hampered, due to lack of funds.

As at January 2018, the Kumarcilar Han has been fully restored, and is used as a cafe/restaurant, as well as small shops selling local items.

According to Haşmet Muzaffer Gürkan, the door of the caravenserai "indubitably" used to belong to a Latin building. A hypothesis about its name states that it was originally called "Kumbaracılar Hanı", after a subdivision of the Ottoman army, "kumbaracılar". It was recorded with different names at different times, in 1881, it was called "Kuchuk Khan" ("Small Inn") in a map and Rupert Gunnis wrote in 1936 that it was called the "Khan of Itinerant Musicians".

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A Dose Of Quinine
ILLUSTRATED BY STEVEN SPURRIER
Published in The Windsor Magazine, Vol. XLV, May 1917, pp 731-736
GORDON HARLEY was thinking it over. He sat there alone outside the camp, on the high ground overlooking the fever-stricken valley, where that distinguished patriot Don Miguel del Carados was constructing the railway which was eventually to make the State of Tigua prominent amongst nations. But that was a long way off yet—as far off as was the civilisation that the soul of Gordon Harley coveted. Just at that moment—in fact, at any moment during the last month or two—he was fed up with the man who had lured him away from Western joys to this, the most beautiful and at the same time the most monotonous spot on the continent of South America.
And that fat and oily Spaniard had been so plausible about the whole thing, too. He had painted Tigua as a sporting paradise—just the very place for a man of means who was looking for things to kill; just the sort of thing for a man who had recently come into a lot of money, and who had turned his back joyfully on the medical profession, and who hoped never to handle a stethoscope or study the colour scheme of a human tongue again. This had all taken place one starry night in the patio of a Charlestown hotel, where Del Carados was taking in stores for his pet railway. And, besides, he wanted a doctor badly. There were fifteea hundred workmen of sorts on the railway, mostly natives, with a few Europeans gathered without testimonials from various quarters of the globe, and if there was one drawback to that earthly paradise in question, it was an occasional outbreak of malaria in the rainy season.
"You come, along with me, my friend," the Spaniard had said. "You come and stay just as long as you like—a week, a month. I will put you up, and you shall be my honoured guest. The valley is a sporting paradise."
And Harley, having nothing else to do, and in the first flush of his new fortune, had gladly consented. He had come there by sea, of course, and up a yellow river flowing through a swampy country to the valley where the few miles of rails were under construction. It was a tedious journey, and a somewhat intricate one, but Harley had not worried himself much about that at the time, for his mind was full of jaguars and crocodiles, and such wild game, and, indeed, for the time being, he had all the sport he needed.
And then gradually the truth began to dawn upon him. Those fifteen hundred or so of men who toiled and sweated in that mango swamp, where the miasma rose at evening, and the whole universe reeked with the smell of rotting vegetation, were no more than so many prisoners. They were well fed, it was true, they had strong things to drink and pungent tobacco to smoke, and, as to the few Europeans, they were perfectly happy in the knowledge that they were well outside the long arm of the law. But without money it was impossible to get away. Even if they had possessed the necessary funds, it would have been equally difficult, because nobody but Del Carados and one or two of his trusted Mexicans knew the secret of the way down the river, for the Rava had many tributaries, and all but one of them led to the mud swamps, which meant desolation and death and the feasting of the vultures that abounded there.
But all this had come to Harley gradually. There was nothing brutal about the Spaniard, nothing of the slave-driver, for he was inclined to be fat and scant of breath, and, moreover, possessed a fine fund of humour of his own. He was candid, too. The scheme was to complete the railway up there into the mountains, and bring the copper ore down to the coast to be smelted. Once this was down, then the copper proposition was placed on a paying basis. This represented considerable wealth to the little tin Repubhc of Tigua, and in time much kudos for Del Carados, who began to see his way to the presidency of that delectable Republic, For Del Carados was a politician more than a statesman, which comes to much the same thing, and is a better paying proposition in the long run. And Del Carados had no ambitions. He did not want statuea in his honour, he did not hanker to become permanent President of the Republic—six months' manipulation of the national treasury funds filled up the measure of his ambition. In fine, he was a cheery, fairly good-natured rascal, who loved but two things in the world—his own comfort and a particularly fiery brand of Scotch whisky which was known in violent circles as the Clan MacTavish.
It was impossible, therefore, for anyone to leave the valley of the Rava River and the work on the railway save at the Spaniard's good-will and pleasure. He was essentially monarch of all that he surveyed, and before very long, it became quite plain to Harley that he might, unless some extraordinary piece of luck came his way, regard his appointment as medical officer to the forces as a permanent one. In other words, he was as much a prisoner as the humblest labourer who wielded a pick or a spade.
So far, there had been no outbreak of hostilities between the two men, though they perfectly understood one another, and Del Carados would smile his most genial smile when Harley crept back into the camp after three days' absence, a mere mass of skin and bone. Despite his weakness, and the fact that he had been looking death in the face for the last twenty-four hours, he had spoken his mind quite freely to Del Carados as they sat in the latter's hacienda over the evening meal. A bottle of the Clan MacTavish stood hospitably on the table, but Harley had waved it aside contemptuously.
"Now, listen to me," he said. "I have had about enough of this. I came here for two or three weeks as your guest, and to do a bit of shooting, also to act generally as a doctor until you could get someone to replace me."
"I could never do that," the Spaniard said genially. There was a menace in his tone at the same time.
"Oh, that's what you mean, is it?" Harley said between his teeth. "Well, it's just as well we should understand one another. I am a prisoner here. You know I can't get away without your consent, and I suppose I can stay here and rot, for all you care. I am not concerned with your native workmen, because they are happy enough, and as to your European scum I hold no brief. But you're a blackguard, Del Carados, and you know it. If you have no sort of sympathy with me, you might, at any rate, send those Americans down to the coast."
"And do without my evening's entertainment," Del Carados said, with a pained expression. "They came here cheerfully enough. I found them at Charlestown, stranded high and dry, with not a dollar between them. And am I not paying them fifty dollars a week? What more would you have?"
"Well, you are promising them fifty dollars a week, but Mrs. Vansittart tells me that neither she nor her husband have ever seen the colour of your money. Send them off, at any rate."
Del Carados smiled as he rolled himself a fresh cigarette. The humour of the situation evidently appealed to him. The Americans in question were two vaudeville artistes who had found themselves stranded owing to the backsliding of a manager and the subsequent disappearance of the treasury. They had been literally starving in Charlestown when the genial Spaniard had found them, and were only too glad to avail themselves of his glowing offer, which, it must be confessed, had been painted in alluring colours by one who was an artist in words. They sang and danced and played the Spaniard's jangling piano for his amusement night after night, what time he sat listening, soaked in his beloved Clan MacTavish, and applauded with large-hearted generosity and fine discrimination. The engagement of these people had been a stroke of genius on Del Carados's part, and he was not anxious to see the last of them.
"No, no, my friend," he said. "They are quite happy here; they have been happy here for nearly a year. What more could they have? They are well paid and well fed, and they have only to amuse me for an hour or so after dinner. And look you, Senor Harley, don't you go too far. We have been good friends up to now, but—"
And so for the moment Harley gave it up as a bad job. He was sitting out there, in the afternoon, under the shade of a big palm tree, chewing the cud of sweet and bitter reflection. He was contrasting himself, in his soiled and ragged linen suit, with the happy man who had set out, a year ago, to see the world, rich in health and pocket. And here he was, just as much a prisoner as if he had been legally sentenced to a long term of imprisonment. And there was no escape; he had tried that once, and he had no stomach to repeat the operation, for the horrors of that eight-and-forty hours in the mango swamps, with the snakes and the mud and the dull speculation in the eyes of the crocodiles, was still upon him. It was no wonder, therefore, that Del Carados was prepared to take risks, for he was safe enough, and far beyond the reach of any pro-consul.
Harley took a photograph of himself from his pocket and gazed at it with the sentimental eye of one who regards the features of some beloved dead-and-gone departed.
"And so that's me!" he murmured. "Good Heavens, impossible!"
"I was just asking myself much the same question," a voice broke in, as a woman came down the slope and seated herself by Harley's side. "I don't think my friends in New York would recognise me, Mr. Harley."
It was the vaudeville artiste who called herself Muriel Vansittart who spoke. She was slight and pretty enough, light-hearted and vivacious in the ordinary way, but pale and thin now, though there was a certain gleam of courage in her eyes that Harley had learnt to admire.
"Yes, it's pretty rotten, isn't it?" he said. "But what can we do? Try and escape? I have had some, thank you. I prefer to stay where I am."
"Yes, I know," the woman said. "Bill and myself—that is, my husband, Vivian Vansittart—have had over a year of it. Mr. Harley, I am going out of my mind. I can't put up with this much longer. You don't know what it's like when the rainy season comes on. The weather breaks up suddenly, the glass drops about twenty degrees in five minutes, and half the camp is down with ague. They would have been all dead long before now if it wasn't for the quinine. Why, I've seen them swallow as much as would stand on a dollar! I haven't had it, and Bill hasn't had it, because we are both absolutely T.T. But it's dreadful, and I can't stand another rainy season here."
"Pretty close now, isn't it?" Harley asked.
"Yes, the rains may come at any time. Now, Mr. Harley, listen to me. I have got an idea. You're a doctor, and know all about drugs. You have the run of the store, and you do pretty well what you like. Oh, I have worked the whole thing out; I have been lying awake at night, thinking it over for a week. Now, supposing one of these early nights, when that fat old scoundrel is enjoying himself and is full of whisky, you drop a few grains of something soothing in his glass."
"What good would that do?" Harley. asked.
"Oh, I am coming to that presently. Now, I've been making inquiries, asking artless questions, and I have discovered that Del Carados has only got two cases of whisky left. In about a week he will be sending down to the coast for another supply."
"You mean we might try—"
"Oh, no, I don't mean anything of the kind," the actress said impatiently. "Now, whisper!"
For a minute or two Mrs. Vansittart murmured eagerly into Harley's sympathetic ear. Gradually a smile that was cousin to a grin creased his lean, brown features.
"Well; it's worth trying," he said at length. "It's risky, but Del Carados would do anything rather than go short of the Clan MacTavish. We'll try it the very first day that the weather shows signs of breaking up."
That night, as they say on the cinematograph picture screens, the thermometer dropped nearly a score of points, and for a space Harley was busy in handing out doses of quinine to the shivering natives who clamoured about his hut. Then he crossed over to the hacienda and dined more or less riotously with his genial host and the two American artistes. It was nearly midnight before the Clan MacTavish had got in its genial work, aided by a few drops from a bottle in Harley's drug store, and the Spaniard slept peacefully in his chair. A few moments later the carefully-guarded key of the storeroom was abstracted from his pocket, and for the next hour or two Harley and his companions were exceedingly busy. Then they went off to their respective quarters, hoping for the best.
It was well towards midday before the Spaniard burst into Harley's hut. He was wild and unshaven, untrussed as to his points, and generally bearing about him the unmistakable signs of what is graphically described as "the morning after the night before." The illuminating metaphor can go no further.
"What you've done?"he foamed. "You've robbed me, you've swindled me! You break into my storeroom, you steal all my Clan MacTavish, you evaporate every grain of quinine! Is it a joke? Because it is like to be expensive. You dog, you tell me where those go, or I shoot you!"
The Spaniard's careful English had disappeared in the stress of his emotion. He was truculent enough, but at the same time there was an imploring gleam in his eye that was not distasteful to his prisoner.
"Oh, so you've found out, have you?" he said coolly. "Well, now, listen to me. You can shoot me, if you like, you yellow dog, and you can murder that plucky little American woman and her husband, but it won't bring your whisky back again, and you can't live without it. You'll be dead in three days without your diurnal bottle of Clan MacTavish. And that's not the worst of it, my cheerful old sport. You let those peons know that you've run out of quinine just at the beginning of the rainy season, and they'll tear you in little bits. Now, take my advice and look at the thing in a rational light. You lured me here under false pretences, and made a prisoner of me, just as you did those two American artistes. You haven't the least intention that any of us shall see the coast again until this railway of yours is finished."
"You will never see the coast again!" the Spaniard hissed " You will all be shot in an hour!"
"Oh, I don't think so, dear old thing. You daren't do it. Just think of having to live without your beloved whisky for a whole fortnight! No more long amber-coloured drinks dashed with soda and cooled with chunks of ice, no more happy evenings when you are beautifully fuddled with that comfortable Charles Dickens sort of feeling under that big yellow waistcoat of yours! My dear chap, you really couldn't do it. Now, don't check that natural humour of yours, but try and recognise the funny side of the situation. No drinks and no quinine, and a big riot amongst the peons the first time the glass goes down! Look here, I'll make a bargain with you. I've worked the whole thing out, and it's just like this. You send us down the river this morning as far as the Great Mango Delta. Give us a canoe and some provisions and one of your paddlers to put us on the right way. When we get down to the delta, we shall be all right. Now, if you'll do that, I'll promise on my word of honour to send you back word where the quinine and whisky are to be found. If you like to refuse, and you think you can do without your beloved Clan MacTavish for a fortnight, and you don't mind running the risk of being torn to pieces by the peons, well and good. It's for you to say."
Del Carados swore and threatened, he wept and cursed, and called down the vengeance of all the saints in his calendar on Harley's head, but the latter merely smiled. Then the Spaniard went away with a final threat of instant dissolution, only to return in an hour or two, looking more haggard and dejected than before, and prepared to make terms. He came with the Americans, possibly in the shape of hostages, but they were both as determined as was Harley himself. And so another hour or two passed in fruitless negotiation, till lunch-time arrived, finding Harley still master of the situation.
"It's no use," he said. "We've had this over half a dozen times already. And my friends here are just as determined as I am. Now, sit down, like a sensible man and the born humorist that you are, and talk the matter over. Have some lunch; help yourself to some of that chicken."
"I could not eat a mouthful," Del Carados said, in hollow tones. "I have eaten nothing to-day. My mouth, he is parched, and my tongue, he is dry as a piece of leather. Now, come, my dear friend, this joke has been carried far enough. Tell me where that whisky is, and where you've hidden the quinine, and all shall be forgiven."
"It is forgiven now," Harley said drily. "Even your bitterest enemy would be sorry for you if he caught sight of that face of yours at the present moment. But it's no good, Del Carados. We can't die more than once. Neither can you, but your death promises to be a lingering one."
Del Carados collapsed into a chair and openly bewailed the day that he was born. He tore his hair, he lapsed into strange tongues in a vocabulary that suggested the past master in the art of profanity, but all to no avail,
"If I could do that," Vansittart drawled, "guess I could command a record salary in one of the New York theatres. Say, Don, what's your figure for a course of lessons?"
Del Carados sat up suddenly. There was a certain air of dignity about him now as he spoke.
"I am beaten," he said., "Other great men have been beaten before me, but few of them know how to recognise it. Ladies and gentlemen, you have got the best of the future President of the State of Tigua. Behold, I capitulate—it shall be just as you desire. But before I accompany you myself as far as the Great Mango Delta, in the name of Heaven, I implore yon to find me one little drink, a ghost of a one "
"Not a drop," Harley said firmly. "No, the sheen of Clan MacTavish shall not shine for you until you have earned it. Now go off and get everything ready."
It was barely an hour later before a properly equipped and provisioned canoe dropped down the river, past the alligator swamps, in the direction of the delta. At the prow two stalwart paddlers were being urged on by the dejected Spaniard, whose melancholy, however, did not seem to interfere with his flow of expletives, so that it wanted still an hour to sundown when at length the Mango Delta was reached. From this point the Spaniard and his peons would make their way back on foot, and Harley calculated with grim amusement that Del Carados would have earned the cherished Clan MacTavish before he got it.
"We shall be quite all right now, Don, thank you," he said. "The way is clear enough. Now, you and your men had better get out, and we will tell you where to find that which is lost. You tell him, Mrs. Vansittart."
There was a pleasant smile on the little actress's face and a sparkle of amusement in her eyes as she leant forward and addressed the man standing on the bank.
"You won't have very far to look," she said sweetly. "You'll find your two cases of whisky hidden away in the storeroom behind other empty cases; and, as to the quinine, it is packed up in blue paper parcels and mixed with your sugar rations. You'll know it by the taste easily enough. You see, we hadn't any time to hide the stuff anywhere else, and we knew perfectly well that the storeroom was the last place where you would look for it. Good-bye, Don Miguel del Carados, good-bye, and, if we ever meet again, then I'll probably stand in the witness-box and give evidence against you. You don't look particularly happy now, and you'll look less happy still when an American gunboat comes nosing up the river, asking awkward questions."
Del Carados, from the bank, made a profound bow in his best Spanish manner, but the smile on his face was a sickly one, and the language that he used under his breath is, perhaps, best left to the imagination.


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IEA in Paris announced this morning a release of 60 million barrels from OECD inventories. The implications of this extraordinary action are not positive. Let's first take a look at the most recent global production data, which shows the large downward move of supply coming into March 2011, from the loss of Libyan oil. IEA is pointing to this loss of supply as the prima causa for its decision. | see: Global Crude Oil Production in mbpd (million barrels per day) 2004-2011.
* By knocking price down, the IEA is threatening the vast quantity of marginal supply that has come on stream the past two years. Much of this oil is broken free from shale, drilled at great depths in oceans, or converted from oily dirt (tar sands). To the extent that price is knocked down by such actions, this will affect the future development plans of those Oil and Gas producers who've been engaged in bringing the world its new, high-priced supply. I target the $80.00 level as the price point not where supply is taken offline, but where future marginal supply of any substantial note is at risk. Again, the oil market is going to do this math and it will not take long to run the calculations.
Today's release of inventory is confirmation that the era of permanently constrained supply is now very much with us. Because industrial economies are simply machines that convert energy inputs into useful work and services, today's action is also a reminder that the dream of higher growth in conjunction with lower oil prices is now a backward looking view, a nostaglia for a past that's no longer possible.