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Is Davos just an excuse for the 1% to have a bonding session?
Posted by Kit in Economics, Finance, international economic crisis on Monday, 26 January 2015
Larry Elliott
Thomas Piketty wasn't there but they were talking about his ideas: they're committed to progress as long as nothing changes
Committed to improving the state of the world. That's the motto of the World Economic Forum, which wraps up in Davos tomorrow with the rich and powerful pondering whether to listen to Mark Carney's views about the global economy or head for the ski slopes.
Many will opt for the latter, not because they have anything against the governor of the Bank of England. On the contrary, the former Goldman Sachs banker picked by George Osborne to run Threadneedle Street is very much part of the Davos family. It is simply that one of the reasons the WEF is held in Davos and not in Atlantic City or Blackpool is that it has plenty of black runs available for those who, after four days, have had enough of hearing Christine Lagarde warn about the risks of rising inequality.
All of which raises a couple of obvious questions: is Davos simply an excuse for the 1% to have a big bonding session in which they convince themselves that we are all in it together? And does it actually do any good? Read the rest of this entry »
Global Economic Crisis: The Largest Economy In The World Is Imploding
Posted by Kit in international economic crisis on Wednesday, 10 October 2012
ETF Daily News
A devastating economic depression is rapidly spreading across the largest economy in the world. Unemployment is skyrocketing, money is being pulled out of the banks at an astounding rate, bad debts are everywhere and economic activity is slowing down month after month. So who am I talking about?
Not the United States – the economy that I am talking about has a GDP that is more than two trillion dollars larger. It is not China either – the economy that I am talking about is more than twice the size of China.
You have probably guessed it by now – the largest economy in the world is the EU economy. Things in Europe continue to get even worse. Greece and Spain are already experiencing full-blown economic depressions that continue to deepen, and Italy and France are headed down the exact same path that Greece and Spain have gone.
Headlines about violent protests and economic despair dominate European newspapers day after day after day. European leaders hold summit meeting after summit meeting, but all of the "solutions" that get announced never seem to fix anything. In fact, the largest economy on the planet continues to implode right in front of our eyes, and the economic shockwave from this implosion is going to be felt to the four corners of the earth. Read the rest of this entry »
IMF warns of fresh global crisis unless eurozone finds a fix
Posted by Kit in international economic crisis on Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Phillip Inman in Tokyo
World economic outlook warns of fresh downturn as European ministers asked to try and promote growth
The International Monetary Fund has urged Eurozone leaders to act swiftly in response to the debt crisis in Greece and Spain, or risk dragging down the global economy with another financial crisis.
The IMF warned that the situation was grave and could escalate into a wider downturn unless national leaders ended their disputes with a long-lasting deal. As eurozone finance ministers met in Luxembourg for crisis talks and the launch of the euro's permanent rescue fund, the IMF urged Europe and the US to promote growth to help major developing economies like China, Brazil and India .
The Washington-based lender said at the start of its annual meeting, in Tokyo, that the "downside risks are judged to be more elevated than in the April 2012 or September 2011 world economic outlook reports". The annual assessment of the global economic situation said it was not clear whether the situation was another bump in the road to recovery or a worsening of the situation. "The answer depends on whether European and US policymakers deal proactively with their major short term economic problems," it said. Read the rest of this entry »
China's Growing Economic Crisis
Posted by Kit in China, international economic crisis on Saturday, 1 September 2012
By William Pesek
Policy makers around the world have long envied China's ability to get big things done. A huge 4 trillion-yuan ($630 billion) stimulus plan as the global economy cratered in 2008? No problem. Marshaling banks to lend trillions more? Check. Enacting sweeping regulatory changes at a moment's notice? You bet.
Ahhh, the good old days. Now, a once-in-a-decade leadership shift is getting in the way of the stimulus-happy policies to which investors became accustomed. The nimbleness that helped China steer around the worst of the global crisis is confronting political paralysis of the kind more often seen in Japan, Europe and the U.S. The upshot is that China's 7.6 percent growth rate may fall more in the next 12 months than anyone expects. Read the rest of this entry »
Greece set to agree to bailout as Germany demands action
Posted by Kit in international economic crisis on Sunday, 12 February 2012
By Harry Papachristou and Matt Robinson
Sun Feb 12, 2012
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek lawmakers looked set to agree to a deeply unpopular bailout deal on Sunday to avert what Prime Minister Lucas Papademos warned would be "economic chaos," and Germany demanded Athens dramatically change its ways to stay in the euro.
The austerity bill sets out 3.3 billion euros ($4.35 billion) in wage, pension and job cuts as the price of a 130-billion-euro rescue package from the European Union and International Monetary Fund – Greece's second since 2010.
Greece needs the funds before March 20 to meet debt repayments of 14.5 billion euros and the bill has stirred anger on the streets and turmoil within the coalition government.
Addressing the nation late on Saturday, Papademos warned that failure to back the bill would mean a disorderly default and "set the country on a disastrous adventure."
"It would create conditions of uncontrolled economic chaos and social explosion," he said.
"The country would be drawn into a vortex of recession, instability, unemployment and protracted misery and this would sooner or later lead the country out of the euro." Read the rest of this entry »
Is Greece facing disorderly default?
Posted by Kit in General, international economic crisis on Sunday, 12 February 2012
By Barry Neild and Irene Chapple, CNN
Greece is in negotiations over its latest bailout deal, but needs to meet harsh new terms
The country is implementing austerity measures but faces protests and deteriorating finances
The default of a eurozone member is politically and economically charged
London (CNN) — Will Greece default?
Greece is negotiating to repay some creditors less than what it owes in order to avoid a disorderly default. If Greece is unable to repay its bills at all on the day they fall due, this would trigger a sudden default which would send shockwaves through the market. Greece faces its next large bond redemption, of €14.5 billion, in March, and is in negotiations over its latest bailout deal as the deadline to this payment approaches.
However, it needs to meet harsh new terms laid out by Europe's leaders. Jean-Claude Juncker, the prime minister of Luxembourg and head of the Eurogroup, has said three elements must be nailed down in order for the country to access the funds.
The sweeping reform package agreed to by Greece and the so-called troika, made up of the European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund, must be approved by parliament this weekend.
Secondly, Greece's political leaders must pledge that they will continue to implement the measures after elections in April. Finally, Greece must also find a further €325 million in "structural expenditure" cuts for 2012.
Greece has been implementing harsh austerity measures to try to balance its books, but has faced protests on the streets, and finances that are worse than expected. Its economy is deteriorating, and it cannot raise money with investors due to the high premiums they demand — leaving it dependent on the bailout funds. Read the rest of this entry »
At World Economic Forum, Fear of Global Contagion Dominates
Posted by Kit in international economic crisis on Sunday, 29 January 2012
by Peter S. Goodman
Business Editor
DAVOS, Switzerland — They came, they feasted on smoked sturgeon and black truffle risotto, drank liquor paid for by global banks, endured dozens of security checks, and tried not to fall down in the snow. They talked about the perilous state of the global economy and the future of capitalism. Then, they headed back to their home countries — many in chauffeured limousines, some by private jet.
But as the people who run much of the planet wrapped up the annual festival of influence known as the World Economic Forum on Saturday, any sense of achievement was hard to discern. The participants arrived amid elevated unemployment in many economies, worries about government budget deficits, and fears that contagion from a financial crisis in Europe could infect the rest of the world. They went home with all of these worries intact, and perhaps reinforced.
Nouriel Roubini, the economist who — not for nothing — is known as "Doctor Doom," noted that world leaders are divided on a great array of crucial issues, from arguments over trade imbalances and currency valuations to the threats posed by Iran and North Korea and the challenge of climate change.
"On all these issues that require international coordination, there is no agreement," he said during a Saturday morning panel. "It's a world of chaos that can lead to potential conflicts." Read the rest of this entry »
Saudi: no cash from emerging economies until given more clout
Posted by Kit in Finance, international economic crisis on Tuesday, 24 January 2012
By Andrew Torchia
Mon, Jan 23 2012
RIYADH (Reuters) – Big emerging economies such as China, India and Saudi Arabia will not aid the West in its financial crisis unless they are given more influence in running the global economy, a senior figure from Saudi Arabia's ruling establishment said on Monday.
"The financial crisis and great recession were born in the West, developed in the West yet hit hard throughout the world," former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal said in a speech to a business conference in Riyadh.
He said this showed the need to give emerging economies more representation and more authority in global bodies such as the Group of 20 nations, a forum of the world's major industrialized countries, and the Financial Stability Board (FSB), which discusses regulation of banks and financial markets.
So far, however, organizations such as the FSB "have yet to take these new realities into consideration," while the G20 is making little headway in coordinating economic policymaking around the world, he said.
Big emerging economies' lack of influence in international bodies reduces their willingness to contribute money to fight the global crisis, the prince warned.
The International Monetary Fund is seeking to more than double its war chest by raising $600 billion in new resources to help countries deal with the fallout of the euro zone's sovereign debt crisis. Read the rest of this entry »
No country safe from euro crisis, says IMF
Posted by Kit in international economic crisis on Friday, 16 December 2011
The Malaysian Insider/Reuters
WASHINGTON, Dec 16 — No country is immune from an "escalating" euro zone crisis and each one must act to head off the risk of a global depression, the head of the International Monetary Fund said yesterday.
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde, speaking at the U.S. State Department, said the outlook for the world economy is "quite gloomy" and warned that failure to act collectively could lead to protectionism and isolation reminiscent of the 1930s depression.
"There is no economy in the world, whether low-income countries, emerging markets, middle-income countries or super-advanced economies that will be immune to the crisis that we see not only unfolding but escalating," Lagarde cautioned.
"It is not a crisis that will be resolved by one group of countries taking action. It is going to be hopefully resolved by all countries, all regions, all categories of countries actually taking action."
The IMF has warned that it is likely to cut its 2012 growth projections, with the economy struggling with a worsening two-year euro zone debt crisis and sluggish US growth. There are also signs from falling Chinese factory output that manufacturers are struggling with waning global demand and tighter credit conditions. Read the rest of this entry »
Malaysia among most vulnerable to euro crisis, says Nomura
Posted by Kit in Economics, Finance, international economic crisis on Wednesday, 7 December 2011
By Lee Wei Lian
The Malaysian Insider
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 7 — Malaysia will be hit harder than its Asian peers by the economic crisis in Europe due to its relatively weak public finances and dependence on commodities, said Nomura International today.
Its chief economist for Asia ex-Japan, Robert Subbaraman, said that unlike most countries in Asia, Malaysia will be negatively affected by an expected drop off in commodity prices while the government will also find it difficult to keep up stimulus policies.
"Malaysia is one of the economies that will weaken the most; it is in the weaker group of economies," said Subbaraman at a media briefing here today.
Nomura economist for Southeast Asia Euben Paracuelles said Malaysia's growth in the first three quarters of this year was largely led by government spending, but as public finances were relatively weak, he doubted that it would be sustainable.
Subbaraman also noted that Malaysia ranked third in Asia ex-Japan in terms of exposure to European bank claims, after Hong Kong and Singapore, which could mean a drying up of liquidity should European banks start to cut their exposure to the region. Read the rest of this entry »
Time Runs Short for Europe to Resolve Debt Crisis
Posted by Kit in international economic crisis on Monday, 28 November 2011
By LANDON THOMAS Jr.
November 27, 2011 | The New York Times
LONDON — Eighteen months into a sovereign debt crisis — and after many futile efforts to resolve it — the endgame appears to be fast approaching for Europe.
While its leaders may well hold to the current path of offering piecemeal solutions, nervous investors are fleeing European countries and banks.
Two main options exist: either the euro zone splits apart or it binds closer together.
Each of these paths — Greece, and possibly others, dropping the euro or the emergence of a deeper political union in which a federal Europe takes control of national budgets — would lead to serious political, legal and financial consequences.
But with financial panic now threatening to move beyond Italy and Spain to Belgium, France and Germany, the euro zone's paymaster, the pressure to arrive at a solution is at a new level of intensity. Read the rest of this entry »
Banks brace for eurozone defection
Posted by Kit in international economic crisis on Sunday, 27 November 2011
UPI.com
BRUSSELS, Nov. 26 (UPI) — Banks in Europe say they are bracing themselves against the eurozone possibly losing one more member because of the ongoing sovereign debt crisis.
"We cannot be, and are not, complacent on this front. We must not ignore the prospect of a disorderly departure of some countries from the eurozone," said Andrew Bailey, a regulator at Britain's Financial Services Authority, The New York Times reported Saturday.
Analysts in a research note at Nomura bank said, "The eurozone financial crisis has entered a far more dangerous phase — a euro(zone) breakup now appears probable, rather than possible." Read the rest of this entry »
Spain struggles to find lenders, despite high interest rates
Posted by Kit in international economic crisis on Saturday, 19 November 2011
By Michael Birnbaum,
MADRID — As Europe's debt crisis escalates, investor fears are also rising, making it increasingly difficult for some countries to raise money to pay their bills. That dying demand, despite the record-high interest rates they are being forced to pay, is raising concern that those nations could face a credit freeze similar to the one that brought the world's economy to its knees in 2008.
Spain is the latest country to try to borrow, only to find few takers. In an auction of its bonds on Thursday, Spain fell $600 million short of its goal. Demand was the lowest since the depths of the 2008 recession — even though the nation's bonds are paying the highest interest rates since it joined the euro more than a decade ago. An earlier auction this week also raised less money than the nation had hoped.
The situation in Spain raised new alarms about the European debt crisis and helped drive U.S. stocks lower Thursday. By mid-afternoon, the Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index were down nearly 2 percent, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq was off more than 2.2 percent.
The lack of willing lenders could send countries into bankruptcy faster than the high interest rates alone, analysts say, because countries can typically withstand a temporary spike in borrowing costs. But if they can't find anyone to lend to them at any price, that's a sign of more dire straits, because unlike most countries that can print money in an emergency, they have no lender of last resort. Read the rest of this entry »
Obama Says Europe Making Progress as APEC Nations Fear Worst
By Shamim Adam and Michael Forsythe
Bloombert Businessweek
Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) — U.S. President Barack Obama said formation of new governments in Greece and Italy may help calm world markets roiled by the European debt crisis, which is having a "dampening effect" on the global economy.
"We're not going to see massive growth out of Europe until the problem's resolved," Obama told corporate chief executive officers gathered in Honolulu today as part of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum. The president said he was "cautiously optimistic" of getting through the current crisis.
Europe's sovereign-debt crisis was a frequent topic at the summit aimed at improving economic ties in the Asia-Pacific region as officials said they are bracing for a worsening of the situation in Europe that may push the global economy into a recession and increase volatility in financial markets. Investors this week pushed Italian bond yields passed the 7 percent level that drove Greece, Ireland and Portugal to seek bailouts, ahead of the resignation today of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
"You can't talk about Asia without talking about Europe right now," Jerry Webman, chief economist at OppenheimerFunds Inc. in New York, told Bloomberg News in Honolulu yesterday. "Having a prolonged economic slump in Europe is really threatening to the export-oriented Asian economies." Read the rest of this entry »
Wrap-Up: Italy braces for new govt, IMF warns Asia on euro fallout
Fri Nov 11, 2011 11:16pm EST
By Barry Moody and George Georgiopoulos
Italy lower house set to vote on cuts, new govt seen by Sunday
ROME/ATHENS, Nov 12 (Reuters) – Italy's parliament was set to approve austerity measures on Saturday, triggering the formation of an emergency government to replace that of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, and meeting European Union demands to avert a euro zone meltdown.
After months of dither and delay, Rome appears to have got the message as bond markets pushed it to the brink of needing a bailout that the euro zone cannot afford.
President Giorgio Napolitano and Italian lawmakers have put the process on a fast track: the Chamber of Deputies was due to start debating at 1130 GMT and final approval of the cuts by the lower house marks the Berlusconi government's final act.
Berlusconi was expected to hold a last cabinet meeting and then hand his resignation to Napolitano at the Quirinale Palace.
A largely technocratic government headed by former European Commissioner Mario Monti was seen in place by Sunday night or Monday morning. Read the rest of this entry »
Now Italy – What's Next
by Alex Lee
After seeing his parliamentary majority decline further in a routine vote earlier today, Italian PM Berlusconi offered to resign once Parliament approves new austerity measures, possibly towards the end of next week. We see three possible outcomes at this delicate stage, with different implications for the BTP market and Italian risk premium more broadly:
*Most likely scenario: In the coming weeks, the current centre-right coalition of the Northern League and PdL moves to rally round another candidate who can gain wider acceptance domestically and internationally. In order to broaden its support, the new government may reach out to smaller centrist parties which can advance their own political agenda.
A centre-right executive backed by a broader coalition and committed to implementing the 'troika's' economic platform could eventually stabilize markets. But the newly appointed Cabinet would need to prove itself first, and the protracted uncertainty would weigh on economic growth. Furthermore, reforming the pension system could meet resistance from the Northern League. Still, it would be hard for the ECB and Italy's EMU peers not to stand by a new Italian government genuinely trying to pursue reforms. Under this scenario, thanks to the ECB's interventions, we would expect BTPs to remain capped at around current levels (400-450bp) over the average of Germany, France and the Netherlands until measures are gradually approved. Read the rest of this entry »
First Greece, Now Italy, Who's Next?: Analyzing The Sovereign Debt Default Chain
by: Nicholas Pardini
Starting in May of 2011, the extent of the global sovereign debt crisis began to hit the equity markets. Greece was first, then Portugal, then Ireland, and now Italy has become the focus of the financial markets and a source of macroeconomic weakness.
However, these countries are simply the first dominoes in a chain of fiscal crises that will either result in a series of defaults in the developed economies' bond markets or high inflation generated by central bank intervention. The question now is who's next? Countries with high debt/GDP ratios, high unemployment and lack high economic growth to sustain deficit spending are all about to face the consequences of reckless fiscal policies. Below I list the countries I believe to the most likely to enter sovereign debt crises of their own after Italy. Read the rest of this entry »
Has Italy passed the point of no return?
By Nick Thompson
(CNN) — Europe's financial crisis claimed its second scalp in three days when Italy's Silvio Berlusconi announced he will step down after parliament approves new austerity measures in an effort to stave off economic collapse.
The scandal-plagued prime minister will follow his Greek counterpart George Papandreou into early retirement as fears grow that Italy, the eurozone's third largest economy, may default on its debt.
Italy has failed to implement austerity measures designed to reduce its mammoth €1.9 trillion debt load — nearly six times that of Greece — and the cost to the country of borrowing more money to pay off that debt is spiraling out of control.
While no one knows yet whether Italy will default, analysts say that the country is vastly too big to bail out — and that the consequences for the world economy of a default would be a disaster. Read the rest of this entry »
Chaotic catharsis
Posted by Kit in international economic crisis on Tuesday, 8 November 2011
by Hugo Dixon
Chaos, drama and crisis are all Greek words. So is catharsis. Europe is perched between chaos and catharsis, as the political dramas in Athens and Rome reach crisis point. One path leads to destruction; the other rebirth. Though there are signs of hope, a few more missteps will lead down into the chasm.
The dramas in the two cradles of European civilization are similar and, in bizarre ways, linked. Last week's decision by George Papandreou to call a referendum on whether the Greeks were in favor of the country's latest bailout program set off a chain reaction that is bringing down not only his government but probably that of Silvio Berlusconi too.
The mad referendum plan, which has now been rescinded, shocked Germany's Angela Merkel and France's Nicolas Sarkozy so much that they threatened to cut off funding to Greece unless it got its act together — a move that would drive it out of the euro. But this is probably an empty threat, at least in the short term, because of the way that Athens is roped to Rome. If Greece is pushed over the edge, Italy could be dragged over too and then the whole single currency would collapse. So, ironically, Athens is being saved from the immediate consequences of its delinquency by the fear of a much bigger disaster across the Ionian Sea.
Italian bond yields, which were already uncomfortably high, shot up after the Greek referendum fiasco. Read the rest of this entry »
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Two Years Ago — Former MI6 Chief: "Electronic Voting Presents Serious Hacking Risk."
Posted on January 4, 2019 by L
"Bizarrely the stubby pencil and piece of paper that you put your cross on in the ballot box is actually much more secure than anything which is electronic."
Former MI6 Chief Sir John Sawers
"We need to return to election systems that are secure from manipulation. This means voting machines with voter-verified paper audit trails, and no Internet voting. I know it's slower and less convenient to stick to the old-fashioned way, but the security risks are simply too great."
Bruce Schneier — Security technologist and a lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
January 4 2017 — Sir John Sawers, former chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service [MI6], has said that any move towards electronic voting in the UK would leave major elections at risk of being targeted by cybercriminals and hackers. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today
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UPDATE (January 4 2019) — So, what exactly has been done over the last two years? Short answer: nothing.
In Belgium, the "I Committee" — which monitors the activities of the two national intelligence agencies, both civilian and military — has called this week for stronger vigilance on the question of election interference, as people will vote in May 2019 to elect their regional and federal governments, as well as the European Parliament.
The "I Committee" warns that there is a danger the elections could be manipulated by foreign powers.
According to Serge Lypszyc, chair of the committee, there is no clear evidence Russians or anyone else would be involved in interfering in Belgian elections.
However, he warned, "We would not wish to be confronted with circumstances such as those experienced in the US".
"We will be looking into how the laws in this regard can be adapted," he said. ( Brussels Times )
Neither the Russians nor anyone else could possibly make things worse than what they are in Belgium. The next election will turn into a major crisis, not because of foreign political interference, but because Belgium is a failed state. — END of UPDATE
Sir John Sawers recommends traditional 'pencil and paper' approaches to voting because they are "actually much more secure".
"The more things that go online, the more susceptible you are to cyberattacks," Sawers said on Tuesday (3 January 2017) on the BBC's The New World: Axis of Power.
Sir John Sawers was head of MI6 between 2009 and 2014, when he was succeeded by Alex Younger.
In light of the current uncertainty over US election hacking, Sawers warned that the UK need to have systems which are robust.
"The only trouble is, the younger generation of people expect to be able to do things remotely and through electronic devices.
Bizarrely, the stubby pencil and piece of paper that you put your cross on in the ballot box is actually much more secure than anything which is electronic."
The Risk
Sir John Sawers is — of course — very political and some will suspect his intervention is in support of the alleged claim — all expert agree that the FBI does not contain a real proof — that Russia hacked the US election.
(By the way, former CIA Director James Woolsey just said a few hours ago that those who believe that Russia, and Russia alone, was behind the hacking will likely be proven mistaken.)
Nevertheless, experts generally agree that the risk posed by these electronic voting devices is very real.
Bruce Schneier is a security technologist and a lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Here is what he wrote in late July 2016:
"But while computer security experts like me have sounded the alarm for many years, states have largely ignored the threat, and the machine manufacturers have thrown up enough obfuscating babble that election officials are largely mollified.
We no longer have time for that. We must ignore the machine manufacturers' spurious claims of security, create tiger teams to test the machines' and systems' resistance to attack, drastically increase their cyber-defenses and take them offline if we can't guarantee their security online.
Longer term, we need to return to election systems that are secure from manipulation. This means voting machines with voter-verified paper audit trails, and no Internet voting.
I know it's slower and less convenient to stick to the old-fashioned way, but the security risks are simply too great."
"One of the big problems we face with cyber is that it hasn't really been discussed internationally about what is the acceptable use of cyber-powers, where the red lines are and what happens when those red lines are crossed," Sir John Sawers stated.
Toni Gidwani, a former Department of Defense (DoD) analyst who now heads up operations research at cyber-security firm ThreatConnect, agrees:
"The rules here are not as clean in terms of what's allowable and what the consequences are."
According to the US Department of State, cyber activities would constitute a use of force if they were to cause direct physical injury and property damage such as (1) operations that trigger a nuclear plant meltdown; (2) operations that open a dam above a populated area causing destruction; or (3) operations that disable air traffic control resulting in airplane crashes.
The US has — of course — never suggested that hacking a foreign government was an 'Act of War'. And whether or not, 'hacking an election' — whatever this exactly means — is an 'Act of War' under the Law of Armed Conflict is certainly debatable at this point in time.
This probably explains why Andrew Fletcher recently wrote:
"Now the very foundation of the American democratic process, free and fair elections, are potentially vulnerable to foreign interference.
Likewise, Russia could, in the future, become the victim of cyber-attacks in vulnerable areas within its own political or economic system.
To help protect against cyber intrusion, countries should establish international law on the matter and work assiduously to maintain the law's integrity."
Obama's Warning to Putin
Allegations by US government agencies, including the CIA, that Russian hackers intervened in the 2016 presidential election were not related to the counting of votes.
Instead, it is alleged that hackers obtained and released sensitive information, including emails from the Democratic National Committee, to help Donald Trump.
However, contrary to a widely held belief and numerous reports by US media, Obama's warning message to Moscow was not about the hacking of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) or of its chairman John Podesta's emails.
In a message delivered to Moscow over the Red Phone on 31 October 2016, Obama warned Putin that:
"International law, including the law for armed conflict, applies to actions in cyberspace. We will hold Russia to those standards."
It seems urgent to establish an international law on the matter and to work assiduously to maintain the integrity of such law. The sooner, the better.
Online voting could leave British elections vulnerable to hacking, former MI6 head warns – Independent
By November, Russian hackers could target voting machines
Russian Hacking and the U.S. Election: Against International Law?
International Law in Cyberspace — US Department of State
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'The War Won't Be Over Soon': Ukraine's Long Fight Against Russia for Freedom
Nolan Peterson	/ @nolanwpeterson / August 22, 2016
Ukrainian soldiers on the front lines outside Mariupol at the height of the war in September 2014. (Photo: Nolan Peterson/The Daily Signal)
MARIUPOL, Ukraine— For more than two years, Ukraine's military has been fighting a ground war against a combined force of pro-Russian separatists and Russian regulars in the Donbas, Ukraine's embattled southeastern territory.
As Ukraine prepares for the 25th anniversary of its independence from the Soviet Union this Wednesday, the ongoing war in the Donbas highlights how the post-Soviet country is still fighting to establish its freedom from Russian vassalage.
"The dream of Ukrainian independence existed in the USSR, but we couldn't talk about it," Kovbel Vasyl Vasyliyovych, a 62-year-old Ukrainian soldier, told The Daily Signal. "The environment was one in which you only tried to survive. You didn't express yourself. I feel like now I can finally express sentiments that I've had bottled up inside me my whole life."
A Ukrainian flag tops a Soviet-era war memorial in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. (Photos: Nolan Peterson/The Daily Signal)
The war in Ukraine is a bizarre, paradoxical fusion of antiquated fighting methods with modern technology. It is a trench warfare battle, where heavy artillery is fired every day and drones orbit overhead. Small units engage each other in no man's land, but there are no serious attempts to take new ground. The war is static, governed in its intensity by the terms of the Minsk II cease-fire. It's like two boxers sparring at half speed, sparing themselves for the main event.
It has been nearly 100 years since the Russian Civil War began, sparking events that led to the consolidation of Ukraine into the Soviet Union—a loss of independence that lasted until Aug. 24, 1991. Today, many Ukrainian soldiers say they are still fighting for Ukraine's independence from Moscow.
"The separatists are the weapons of the Russians," Borys Antonovich Melnyk, a 75-year-old Ukrainian volunteer soldier and Red Army veteran, said in an interview.
"They were turned by Russian propaganda against Ukraine," Melnyk said. "They are Russia's weapons. They are the weapons, not the reasons. This is not only a war against the separatists, this is a war against Russia."
Ukrainian soldier Borys Antonovich Melnyk, 75, a Red Army veteran.
It has also been about 100 years since combat airpower made its debut over the trenches in World War I. Today, Ukraine's air force now sits on the ground while its soldiers dodge artillery and tank shots.
And despite the front lines ending on the Sea of Azov, there is no naval component to the war, either.
The last major offensive in the war was in February 2015. In the days after the signing of the second cease-fire, known as Minsk II, combined Russian-separatist forces sacked the strategic rail hub town of Debaltseve, seizing it from Ukrainian government control.
Since the Debaltseve battle, periodic upticks in violence predictably spur flurries of media speculation about whether a major Russian offensive is looming. Yet, the war has not changed in any meaningful way in more than a year and a half. No significant territory has changed hands, and the opposing camps have made scant progress toward achieving a diplomatic solution to the conflict.
And periodic spats between Kyiv and Moscow, such as the Aug. 10 border skirmishes in Crimea, underscore how the conflict retains the potential to quickly spiral into something much worse.
>>>After Crimea 'Incursions,' Russia and Ukraine Step Back From All-Out War
Today, U.S. and Ukrainian intelligence sources estimate the combined Russian-separatist army has about 45,000 troops inside Ukrainian territory, with about 45,000 more Russian soldiers staged in Russia along the western border with Ukraine. Russia also has about 45,000 military personnel stationed inside occupied Crimea. Ukraine has deployed about 100,000 soldiers to its eastern territories.
"The Russian people are not the enemy," Vasyliyovych said. "Half of my relatives and friends live in Russia. It's a political war. The Soviet propaganda is still there. And [Russian President Vladimir] Putin still uses it the same way as they did in the USSR."
Ad Hoc War
The Ukrainian army's 92nd Brigade is hunkered down in trenches and in the basements of abandoned homes scattered throughout the artillery-blasted ruins of the village of Pisky, on the outskirts of the separatist-controlled Donetsk airport in eastern Ukraine.
Squads of Ukrainian soldiers on patrol carry at least one radio among them. The radio, usually an off-the-shelf Motorola, is their advance warning system for incoming artillery.
Spotters posted in front-line trenches continuously peer across no man's land through binoculars and telescopes. When they observe artillery fired in the Ukrainians' direction, they have a few precious instants to radio a warning—the word "hole"—on a common frequency. That's the cue for all who hear it to take cover or to lay down flat on the ground if caught in the open.
The radios the Ukrainian soldiers use are not encrypted. Therefore, they share the airwaves with their enemies. Due to the lack of encrypted radios and how frequently Ukrainians change their positions, which precludes setting up hardline communications, the Ukrainians sometimes use runners to carry handwritten messages scribbled on sheets of torn paper among various front-line posts.
In calm periods of bemusement, the Ukrainian troops listen to radio chatter transmitted from the opposite side of no man's land; they pick out Russian accents from Moscow, or St. Petersburg. The Ukrainians often chime in on the radio, employing the full breadth of the Russian language's copious lexicon of curse words to taunt and mock their enemies.
At night, the dark sky is cut by the streaking red lights of tracer fire. And there is the frequent whirring sound from the motors of Russian drones orbiting overhead. The Ukrainian soldiers call them "sputniks."
"The dream of Ukrainian independence existed in the USSR, but we couldn't talk about it," 62-year-old Ukrainian soldier Kovbel Vasyl Vasyliyovych said.
During downtime, the soldiers scroll through their Facebook pages on their smartphones. They listen to music or watch movies on their laptops. They try not to cluster together when on their cellphones, however, due to reports of Russian signals technology that can pick out clusters of cell signals as a way to target artillery.
The soldiers use an app, loaded onto a tablet and developed by university students in Kyiv, for plotting enemy artillery positions on a Google Earth map of the battlespace.
Without the possibility of airborne medevac, ground evacuation is the only hope for survival if a soldier is wounded. Understanding the long odds against survival if wounded severely, many Ukrainian soldiers carry a grenade under their body armor as a means to commit suicide if they are ever mortally wounded.
During the day, tanks on both sides periodically come out from their camouflaged hiding spots to lob a few artillery rounds across no man's land. Snipers take frequent potshots, and other weapons like automatic grenade launchers are often used.
In 2012, Ukraine was the world's fourth largest arms exporter, selling more than $1.344 billion worth of conventional arms, according to a report from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
Kovbel Vasyl Vasyliyovych hugs a civilian volunteer goodbye at a base near the front lines in eastern Ukraine.
Yet, apart from weapons and ammunition, almost all of the Ukrainian soldiers' kits, food, and clothing are brought to the front lines by civilian volunteers. Many Ukrainian soldiers have used their own money to buy uniforms and body armor off the internet. One soldier said his wife gave him a body armor vest for his birthday.
Civilian volunteer groups raise money from internet campaigns to purchase items like individual first aid kits, sleeping bags, boots, and food for soldiers deployed to the front lines. Volunteers, usually with no military training, deliver these supplies, exposing themselves to the same risks of artillery and sniper fire as the soldiers they are supporting.
One Dimensional Fight
The southern terminus of the front lines is in the seaside town of Shyrokyne, on the Sea of Azov.
In the industrial city of Mariupol, about 20 minutes by car west of the front, the beaches are lined with troop barricades, barbed wire, and mines. It is a scene reminiscent of fortifications in Normandy during World War II.
Separatist territory comprises about 20 miles of shoreline on the Sea of Azov (running from Shyrokyne to the Russian border), but there is currently no naval dimension to the conflict.
Soviet-era monuments, like this engraving of Vladimir Lenin, are increasingly rare in Ukraine.
Air power is also almost nonexistent. The Ukrainian air force was grounded as a condition of the first cease-fire signed in September 2014. The Donbas is now among the most heavily defended airspaces on Earth. The area is replete with modern Russian surface-to-air missile systems, posing a grave threat to Ukraine's Cold War-era warplanes.
The July 17, 2014, downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over separatist-held territory by a Russian BUK surface-to-air missile, killing all 288 people aboard, highlighted the threat to aircraft in the region.
Three days prior to the downing of MH17, a Ukrainian An-26 transport plane flying at more than 21,000 feet over eastern Ukraine was brought down by a surface-to-air missile—the crew survived. A month earlier, on June 14, 2014, a Ukrainian IL-76 transport plane was shot down near the Luhansk airport in separatist-controlled territory, killing 49 soldiers and crew.
A pro-Ukraine rally in Mariupol in September 2014, as a tank battle raged outside the city.
According to news reports, combined Russian-separatist forces shot down seven Ukrainian fighter and attack aircraft, three transport aircraft, and at least nine helicopters over eastern Ukraine prior to the first cease-fire.
Ukraine has not lost any aircraft to enemy fire after September 2014 due to the halt in air operations. Yet, according to the Ukrainian military, Russian air defense forces are still moving into eastern Ukraine.
On Saturday, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate reported that Russia had deployed a mobile air defense division to the Donbas, comprising 12 TOR-M2U short-range air defense missile systems and 170 personnel.
Additionally, combined Russian-separatist forces in eastern Ukraine currently have more tanks than the arsenals of France and the United Kingdom put together, according to Ukrainian defense officials.
In Ukraine's capital of Kyiv one would hardly know there was a land war going on within a day's drive from the city's bustling cafés and restaurants. There are new art spaces popping up across town, live music in the bars, festivals in the streets. It feels like a carefree summer in any European capital.
Kyiv's main thoroughfare, Khreshchatyk, will be closed for a military parade on Wednesday as part of Independence Day celebrations.
Ukraine's Independence Square—the Maidan.
Many Ukrainian soldiers admit they don't want civilian life to grind to a halt because of the war. They say it is a testament to their military service and the promise of the 2014 revolution that normal life carries on despite the war.
Kyiv's ubiquitous hipsters, the new coffee shops, the packed arena concerts featuring bands like the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Muse make it feel like the revolution's promise of a more Western European way of life is inching toward reality. Ukrainian millennials wishfully describe Kyiv as the "New Berlin."
Yet, beneath the surface, life is harder in Ukraine than it was prior to the 2014 revolution. The country's economy is struggling. Wages have remained stagnant despite the fact that the hryvnia, Ukraine's national currency, has plummeted to less than a third of its pre-revolution value against the dollar.
Corruption is still rampant, from government halls to the minutia of daily life, like getting in to see a doctor. And the war is no closer to a long-term solution today than when the second cease-fire was signed on Feb. 12, 2015, more than a year and a half ago.
In the eastern Ukrainian town of Slavyansk, life goes on despite the war.
The conflict is quarantined to the Donbas region, which comprises less than 15 percent of Ukraine's total landmass. And for many Ukrainians, the day-to-day hardships of the economic downturn trump concerns about the conflict, which has little tangible impact on daily life outside of the war zone. News reports from the front lines have consequently faded from Ukraine's domestic headlines.
Waning public attention to the war has left many returning veterans feeling isolated and frustrated when they return home. There is a feeling among many veterans and active-duty soldiers that they are fighting in a forgotten war. Not only forgotten by the world's media, but by Ukrainians themselves.
"The war won't be over soon," Melnyk, the 75-year-old Ukrainian soldier, said. "I don't know when. Maybe Putin knows. Maybe [Ukrainian President Petro] Poroshenko knows. But I don't think it will be over soon."
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Nolan Peterson
Nolan Peterson, a former special operations pilot and a combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, is The Daily Signal's foreign correspondent based in Ukraine. Send an email to Nolan.


Following on from my new handles post, yesterday the 2nd step of the kitchen refresh was done - painting of the tiles and sealed edges. I also did a very big scrub of the stove top. It was blurgh and can you believe a nurse used to rent my house!! Now it' s clean, amazing what bi-carb soda and vinegar can get off!
Don't mind the old oven, it's not going to be used no matter how much elbow grease I use!
What a difference!! It's looking fantastic, well on the way to superb! One question though, where'd Alma go?!
Thanks, it's not too bad until I can get the new one in. Windows being looked after this week too!


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Amsterdam/Scherfede, 15 February 2022 – dnata, a leading global air and travel service provider, has contracted Lödige Industries, the world's leading provider of cargo terminal solutions, to supply their new cargo terminal at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. Due to construction measures at Schiphol to improve airport infrastructure, it is necessary for dnata to move into a new terminal building, which is scheduled to become operational in 2024. The new building, developed by Schiphol Commercial | Real Estate and designed by the architectural firm DP6, will be equipped by Lödige Industries with a fully automated system to secure future growth of dnata's customers at Schiphol.
Two separate automatic storage and retrieval systems (ASRS) with twelve stacker cranes are used in the terminal for import and export. 2,500 pallets can be stored here. An additional storage for up to 700 ULDs is served by four elevating transport vehicles (ETVs). To ensure flexible and scalable ULD transport within the terminal, dnata will also deploy seven intelligent automated guided vehicles (AGV) - a product innovation developed by Lödige Industries - that is being used here for the first time on a large scale.
Smart gates, which automatically record the volume and weight of all incoming shipments through 3D scans and thus significantly speed up handling, are another special feature. This will once again substantially improve service quality. A comprehensive high-performance warehouse management system integrating all elements will enable dnata to further expand its operations and service at Schiphol. The high level of automation saves space and time, increases safety and frees up staff for higher-value tasks
Jan van Anrooy, Managing Director of dnata The Netherlands, said: "We are delighted to enhance our operations with a major investment at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. Equipped with latest technologies, our new terminal enables us to significantly expand our offering and meet the increased demand for our services. It will also help us consistently provide service excellence to our customers, ensuring the highest level of safety and quality at every stage of the handling process. We look forward to cooperating with Lödige Industries, a strong partner who shares our passion for innovation."
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Where can I watch Detainment and what Oscar was it nominated for?
A controversial short film based on the murder of James Bulger has been nominated for an Oscar despite a well-backed online petition for it to be rescinded.
Detainment, directed by Vincent Lambe, is a live-action remake of the notorious murder of the toddler which has been widely criticised owing to the upset it caused his parents.
Despite the controversy, the film remains on the shortlist for Best Short Film (Live Action) at this year's Academy Awards.
The 30-minute film uses real-life police interview transcripts with the two suspects, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, to recreate the twisted events that unfolded in 1993.
There is an online petition urging the Academy to revoke their nomination which has, at the time of writing, over 250,000 signatures.
Last month, Lisa Young, who started the petition, voiced her frustration on the Change.org page.
She said: 'I'm truly heartbroken that The Academy have not listened at all to the outrage and completely ignored this petition.
38-year-old Lambe has apologised for not speaking to the Bulgers before creating the film.
What Oscar was Detainment nominated for?
Detainment joins Fauve, Marguerite, Mother and Skin in the running for Best Short Film (Live Action).
Where can I watch Detainment?
Detainment is showing at Curzon Bloomsbury in London on 25 and 28 February, together with the other nominated shorts.
It's also screening at Dublin International Film Festival on 27 February.
The film is not yet available to stream online, but keep an eye on the official Detainment website for any updates.
How many Oscar nominations does A Star is Born have?


My edition: Paperback, published on 26 March 2015 by Harper, 448 pages.
Description: When the residents of the Cornish seaside town of Trevay discover that their ramshackle but much-loved theatre is about to be taken over by a global coffee chain, Cafe au Lait, they are up in arms. It is up to Penny Leighton to come up with a plan to save it.
Trevay soon finds itself at the centre of the universe when A-listers arrive to take part in a charity season at the theatre.
With its beautiful summery cover, this novel announced the season of sweltering hot beach reads to me. Though the weather in the UK was not quite up to scratch yet while I was reading it, but that didn't hamper my enjoyment of being transported to a relaxing holiday destination. I may have been slugging away at the office, but it felt like I was vacationing on those precious hours on my commute, which I spent with the villagers of Trevay.
The focus on the Cornish village reminded me somewhat of a novel I reviewed last year; A Fete to Remember. Both are set in a small town and focus on the real community spirit which emanates from the pages of the novels, but where Julia Stagg's fell flat to me as I never truly connected to the characters and their struggles, Fern Britton's wonderfully descriptive writing style managed to transport me to Cornwall, and I felt a real part of that amazing feeling of solidarity among the villagers that rippled through the story.
A Seaside Affair centres on, as previously mentioned, the Cornish town of Trevay. And in particularly the villagers' battle against a big coffee chain wanting to take over The Pavillions, which houses their historic theatre. The problem is that The Pavillions don't look like they used to; run down and neglected it needs some serious money injected into it, which the coffee chain can provide and so the council is pretty set on signing the paperwork as soon as possible, and by doing so getting rid of the eye sore that is the current theatre.
Armed with a passion for their community and some handy contacts in the worlds of television and theatre, the towns people put their heads together to come up with a plan to save The Pavillions without the need to sell out to the coffee chain. They soon manage to rope in an array of celebrities to put Trevay and The Pavillions on the map before the start of a new theatre season, which includes an exclusive event around television series Downtown Abbey and a play which stars a famous model turned actress, who has her own reasons for taking on the job in the small village. All the money made from the events will go to the helping to save The Pavillions, but will it be enough? And will the drama that plays out behind-the-scenes not get in the way of the ultimate goal?
I do love Cornwall and Fern Britton describes her lovely fictional village in such a way that it sounds like the perfect holiday destination. I wish it was real so I could go there on my next trip! It is no surprise that the townspeople feel passionate about the place and I really enjoyed reading that feeling of solidarity that was created by the mutual goal of saving the theatre and fighting their Goliath; the coffee chain.
Unfortunately I did think that there were too many characters the novel tried to focus on, which meant that none of them really received the page time they deserved or needed for me to be able to truly care for any of them. There was a lot of focus on the actors' various spouses which didn't really serve the story at all, only added unnecessary dramatics that actually made the characters get on my nerves after a while.
And that is a shame, because there is a lot to enjoy within A Seaside Affair too, I particularly loved the core plot of saving the theatre. And if you're looking for a real holiday read this summer, A Seaside Affair ticks all the right boxes. Don't expect amazing character developments or a highly imaginative plot, but if you love romantics novels with a heavy dose of drama, then this is just the book for you.


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Friday Food Porn: some 3 star sushi, Sushi Saito
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My beautiful foodie wife S's all-time favourite food is sushi. It's what she craves when she's feeling crappy. It's what she wants to eat when we're celebrating and it's what she would like to eat – if we could afford it – on an almost daily basis.
Quality and skill are important things when deciding where to enjoy one's sushi. The fish has to be of the freshest quality and the chef has to have the chops to do the fish justice. The best chefs can elevate simple slices of raw fish and lumps of seasoned rice into something somewhat sublime. And once you've had truly extraordinary sushi, you simply can't go back to eating all that supermarket or conveyer belt stuff.
When S was expecting our first (and only) child T, she fastidiously stayed away from sushi – which, for her, must have been torture. She did, though, allow herself one sushi meal during the entire 9 month term. And that was because we were in Tokyo and had been able to get a reservation at the three Michelin starred Sushi Saito. Chef Takashi Saito is a wonderfully charming man. And a true culinary artist. Having been told ahead of time (thank you American Express concierge services!) that S was pregnant, he served her only fish that was low in Mercury, plus a few cooked items. And even though she couldn't indulge in anything and everything she wanted to, S still declared this tiny, almost hidden restaurant one of her favourite sushi joints in the world (and still in her top four I believe).
The only sad moment for S came when Chef Saito started serving me toro (fatty tuna), which is a huge no-no for pregnant mommies. While placing the toro in front of me, he was looking directly at S, apologising in an oh-so-Japanese way for not being able to serve her this delicacy, which judging from the look on her face, she so obviously wanted to devour.
Unfortunately, over the last few years, Saito has become super popular and super famous. With just 6 seats, it's become almost impossible to score a reservation. And while lunch is usually easier to get reservations for in Japan, the word is out that Saito's lunch prices, for what you get, especially compared to other three-starred joints, are unbelievably reasonable. Our biggest disappointment when we went to Tokyo for S's birthday in March earlier this year was that we couldn't get a reservation. I guess she'll have to wait just a bit longer to try Chef Saito's toro.
Sushi Saito
1-9-15 Akasaka, Minato-ku
noon-2 p.m. and 5 p.m.-11 p.m.
Closed on Sundays and some national holidays
#Japanese #Restaurants
Ile de Ré: a slice of paradise and a recipe for bar en croûte de sel
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Best yakiniku…ever!


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Le canton de Saint-Agnant est une ancienne division administrative française située dans le département de la Charente-Maritime et la région Poitou-Charentes.

Géographie
Ce canton était organisé autour de Saint-Agnant dans l'arrondissement de Rochefort. Son altitude variait de 0 m (Échillais) à 40 m (Champagne) pour une altitude moyenne de 14 m.

Histoire

Conseillers d'arrondissement (de 1833 à 1940)

Conseillers généraux de 1833 à 2015
 De 1833 à 1848, les cantons de Marennes et de Saint-Agnant avaient le même conseiller général. Le nombre de conseillers généraux était limité à 30 par département.

Composition
Le canton de Saint-Agnant regroupait onze communes et comptait  habitants (recensement de 2006).

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| Beaugeay || align="right" | 542 || align="right" | 17620 || align="right" | 17036
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| Champagne || align="right" | 596 || align="right" | 17620 || align="right" | 17083
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| Échillais || align="right" | 2 894 || align="right" | 17620 || align="right" | 17146
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| La Gripperie-Saint-Symphorien || align="right" | 446 || align="right" | 17620 || align="right" | 17184
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| Moëze || align="right" | 518 || align="right" | 17780 || align="right" | 17237
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| Saint-Agnant || align="right" | 2 285 || align="right" | 17620 || align="right" | 17308
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| Saint-Froult || align="right" | 262 || align="right" | 17780 || align="right" | 17329
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| Saint-Jean-d'Angle || align="right" | 534 || align="right" | 17620 || align="right" | 17348
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| Saint-Nazaire-sur-Charente || align="right" |1 023 || align="right" | 17780 || align="right" | 17375
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| Soubise || align="right" | 2 744 || align="right" | 17780 || align="right" | 17429
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| Port-des-Barques || align="right" | 1 805 || align="right" | 17730 || align="right" | 17484
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Démographie

Voir aussi
 Charente-Maritime
 Arrondissements de la Charente-Maritime
 Cantons de la Charente-Maritime
 Communes de la Charente-Maritime
 Liste des conseillers généraux de la Charente-Maritime

Liens externes
 Le canton de Saint-Agnant sur le site de l'Insee
 plan du canton de Saint-Agnant sur Mapquest
 Localisation du canton de Saint-Agnant sur une carte de France

Notes et références

Saint-Agnant

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He qualified at Cambridge and Oxford Universities (first class honours) and was appointed to his present post in 1987. He has published over 1000 peer-review papers on asthma, COPD and related topics and has edited over 40 books (h-index = 153). He is also amongst the top 50 most highly cited researchers in the world and has been the most highly cited clinical scientist in the UK and the most highly cited respiratory researcher in the world over the last 20 years. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2007, the first respiratory researcher for over 150 years. He has been a member of the Scientific Committee of global guidelines on asthma (GINA) and COPD (GOLD). He also serves on the Editorial Board of over 30 journals and is currently an Associate Editor of Chest, Journal of COPD Foundation, Respiratory Editor of PLoS Medicine and Editor in Chief of Up-to-Date Pulmonary Diseases. He has given several prestigious lectures, including the Amberson Lecture at the American Thoracic Society, the Sadoul Lecture at the European Respiratory Society and the Croonian Lecture at the Royal College of Physicians. He has received honorary MD degrees from the Universities of Ferrara (Italy), Athens (Greece), Tampere (Finland) and Leuven (Belgium). He is an Emeritus NIHR Senior Investigator,a Master Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians and a member of the Academia Europaea. He was President of the European Respiratory Society 2013/14. He co-founded an Imperial spin-out company RespiVert, which was acquired by Johnson & Johnson and has developed novel inhaled treatments for COPD and severe asthma.
His research is focused on cellular and molecular mechanisms of asthma and COPD, understanding and developing therapies and research into biomarkers for these diseases. He is involved in multidisciplinary translational research which integrates basic science with clinical studies, thereby providing novel insights into common airway diseases.
COPD research at Imperial
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Pavord ID, Barnes PJ, Lemière C, et al.Pavord ID, Barnes PJ, Lemière C, Gibson PG close, 2023, Diagnosis and Assessment of the Asthmas., J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract, Vol:11, Pages:1-8
Bafadhel M, Faner R, Taillé C, et al.Bafadhel M, Faner R, Taillé C, Russell REK, Welte T, Barnes PJ, Agustí A close, 2022, Inhaled corticosteroids for the treatment of COVID-19., Eur Respir Rev, Vol:31
Casale TB, Barnes PJ, 2022, Smoke and the Lungs., J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract, Vol:10, Pages:2852-2853
Havaki S, Evangelou K, Paschalaki K, et al.Havaki S, Evangelou K, Paschalaki K, Petty R, Barnes PJ, Gorgoulis VG close, 2022, Reply: Identification of coronavirus particles by electron microscopy: a complementary tool for deciphering COVID-19, European Respiratory Journal, Vol:60, ISSN:0903-1936
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Giant moa bird (Dinornis robustus, literally meaning 'robust strange bird') may not have actually had robust bones, according to new research conducted at The University of Manchester.
Moa convex hulls (a) Dinornis robustus (S.34088/89) reconstruction of convex hulls; (b) Pachyornis australis (S.27896) (a and b are to the same scale); (c) and (d) show different positions of the sternum in D. robustus. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0082668.g003
The leg bones of one of the tallest birds that ever existed were actually rather like those of its modern (but distant) relatives, such as ostrich, emu and rhea, the study published in journal PLOS One shows.
The study, led by biomechanics researcher Charlotte Brassey, in collaboration with palaeobiologist Professor Richard Holdaway at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, has found that the largest of the moa species had leg bones similar to those of modern flightless birds that can run fast, whereas a much smaller species of moa – from a different family - had an extremely robust skeleton.
Ms Brassey said:"Our research suggests that this group of birds came up with several different solutions to deal with the problem of supporting the large body necessary to process a diet of coarse vegetation.
"We know that these species of moa were living together in the same locations, at the same time. So we don't think the differences we're seeing in leg robustness are adaptations to a particular habitat type.
"Instead it seems they were perhaps engaging in different behaviours, although both could deal with extremely rough terrain."
The project was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council. It involved academics from the School of Earth Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences and Faculty Life Sciences at Manchester, together with Biological Sciences at Canterbury.
To find out whether the leg bones were overly thick and strong, the researchers first had to work out how heavy the birds were in life. Scientists have done this in the past by working from how thick or round the leg bones themselves are, then scaling up according to the size of bones of living birds The problem comes when the leg bones have unusual proportions.
Ms Brassey, from the Computational and Evolutionary Biology Research Group, Faculty of Life Sciences, said: "If we'd wanted to estimate the weight of a saber-toothed cat, no-one would have suggested measuring canine tooth length and then scaling up the tooth size of your standard tabby.
"That's because we know that the saber-toothed cat had unusually oversized canines compared to house cats. It wouldn't be a fair comparison, and you'd end up with a ludicrously high estimate of the body weight of the saber-toothed cat.
"The same was true for moa. We already knew that moa had disproportionately wide leg bones, yet previous estimates of their body mass had been based on those same bones which probably resulted in overestimates."
To get around this, the authors scanned whole skeletons, and, as predicted, the new estimates were considerably lower. Nonetheless, the largest moa still weighed in at a hefty 200kg, or 30 family-sized Christmas turkeys: if you wanted roast moa on Christmas day, you would have to start cooking on December 23.
Dr William Sellers, co-author on the study, said:: "If you don't get the body mass right, the rest of your analysis will just spit out the wrong numbers. By using the whole skeleton rather than just a single bone we get much better mass estimates, and we can even calculate how good this estimate actually is."
The researchers then applied an engineering technique know as Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to estimate how robust the moa really were. FEA is a way of 'virtually crash-testing' an object using computer simulations, and is commonly used in civil engineering to estimate the strength of bridges, or model the behaviour of Formula One cars. The FEA technique and new estimates for body mass revealed that different groups of moa had solved the engineering problems of supporting their huge bodies in different ways. Such fundamental differences in structure suggest that the nine species of moa had long histories of independent evolution.
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Gilbert Burns blames state of Florida for positive COVID-19 test
By John Eric Poli 7 months ago
Gilbert Burns just had the toughest break of his career.
A few days ago, Burns (18-1) was removed from Saturday's UFC 251 main event against Kamaru Usman (12-3) after testing positive for COVID-19. Now Jorge Masvidal will get the chance to fight for UFC gold instead of Burns.
The 33-year-old is now speaking out against his home state of Florida. "Durinho" told ESPN that in attributes the positive test on "The Sunshine State" reopening and people not wearing masks' within the state.
Gilbert Burns celebrating a victory. Burns was removed was this weekends main event after testing positive for coronavirus.
"The thing is that Florida opened up, that was the thing," Burns told ESPN. "In Florida, people are not wearing masks, people are everywhere walking. So I think that's how we got it. I think the first person that got it was Kenny, a Brazilian coach. After that we got Aung La Nsang – ONE championship champion. And then, a couple of heavyweights, and then it was me. And another guy just texted me; he's out of an LFA fight because he tested positive, too.
"I just think it's a Florida thing. We're not safe anywhere. We have to stay home. I believe the training is going to close … we have to close the gym a second time, wait, and get everyone tested, and then open again. I think it's not a gym thing, I think it's a Florida thing, because here it's all over. The numbers are getting up, and we end up getting caught."
Last week, Burns arrived in Las Vegas to take the coronavirus test, which he needed to pass in order to fly to "Fight Island" in Abu Dhabi. Burns said he took the test and following it he went to his room with a headache. The next morning he learned that he failed the test.
"The next day I woke up to a call from Hunter Campbell from the UFC," Burns said. "He's the one that gave me the news, 'Hey, you tested positive. We're going to run another test and after the second results we'll go from there.' Then I was waiting, and Khabib's dad passed away, so we were caught up in the situation while we waited for results.
"Then I called Ali (Abdelaziz, his manager), and it was hard to get in touch with him because everything with Khabib's dad. And when we finally talked, he was like, 'Bro, a lot of people called me. What's going on?' And I said, 'Bro, I tested positive. We're waiting for the second test.'
"Then later the second test came and confirmed I had test positive, and at the same time coach Jones gets his results and test positive, too. So me, Vagner Rocha and coach Jones tested positive. My brother, who was in the middle of us (on the plane to Vegas), tested negative."
Following the positive test, the UFC rented Burns and his team a truck to drive back to Florida in since they couldn't fly while contagious. Burns is now back in Florida and says he is feeling good with no symptoms. He will remain in quarantine for two weeks.
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Elementary students should learn about fingerprinting.
Learning forensic subjects in elementary school gives students a basic idea how DNA, fingerprints or analysis may lead to the police capturing a suspect after committing a crime. Since the students are young, it is important to find age-appropriate lessons to teach. Hands-on forensic activities are not only entertaining but also provide students with a deeper understanding of how certain analysis methods work.
One important aspect of a crime scene is recovering possible fingerprints left by a suspect. Students can use simple materials to illustrate how a suspect leaves behind fingerprints, and then gather them for further identification. You will need a medium to large paintbrush, clear packing tape, charcoal briquette and an index card for each student. Provide each student with an approximately 2-inch piece of masking tape, as well as a blank index card. Use the paintbrush on the briquette, until you have a light coat on the brush from the charcoal dust and paint a students index finger. Next, the student may press her index finger to any non-paper surface in the classroom, though it should preferably be glass or her desk to avoid dirtying up the walls. Have the student press the packing tape to the print in order to lift it from the surface, and then tape it to the index card in order to see it better.
Understanding splatter patterns is important.
Blood splatter or other material splatter is important to a crime scene because it illustrates where the victim and suspect were standing during the crime. Recreate a splatter for analysis by using two small water balloons outside. Have the students fill two of the balloons, and gather the class to an area outside such as the blacktop or sidewalk. Have one student throw the balloon directly onto the ground, and have the second student throw the balloon at an angle, about a foot away from himself. Next, have the students analyze what they see—for example, the direction of the splatter, why the two are different and why the size of the splashes can indicate what direction the balloons were thrown in.
Each person has different teeth impressions.
Understanding how teeth play a part in solving a crime is important, and studying the impressions may help identify a victim. A hands-on activity for students to participate is by making her own teeth impression. Cut plastic foam plates into six wedges, giving each student two wedges. Use one plate for three students, so the amount of plates you need depends on the class size. Place two wedges, one on top of the either, and have the student place them into the mouth with the widest part at the teeth. Instruct them to bite down firmly but not through the plate. Next, the students will take the plate wedges from the mouth and label them accordingly as "Top" or "Bottom" to indicate which jaw the impressions came from. Have the students analyze what they notice about the impressions, such as characteristics, missing teeth or gaps between teeth.
Leiva, Laura. "Forensics Activities for Elementary Students." Synonym, https://classroom.synonym.com/forensics-activities-elementary-students-6400065.html. Accessed 18 April 2019.


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How 'The Adventure Zone' Went From 'D&D' Podcast to Graphic Novel
Griffin and Justin McElroy are bringing 'Dungeons & Dragons' podcast 'The Adventure Zone' to the page.
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Since 2014, brothers Justin, Travis and Griffin McElroy have been playing Dungeons & Dragons with their father, Clint, not merely for the fun of the game; they've been sharing their exploits with the internet via fan-favorite podcast The Adventure Zone.
As of July 17, however, The Adventure Zone won't merely be a bi-weekly audio adventure; the McElroys have teamed up with artist Carey Pietsch and First Second Books for The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins, a graphic novel based on the first story arc from the podcast. Heat Vision spoke to Justin and Griffin McElroy, as well as Pietsch, about translating the story between media, and how the podcast became a comic book in the first place.
Justin and Griffin, you've been doing The Adventure Zone as a podcast for almost four years by this point. What's behind the decision to turn it into a graphic novel?
Griffin: That's a good question. I think part of it is, is that we really grew up on comics. Our dad was not just a huge fan of comics, he actually wrote comics as a freelancer when we were kids. He ghostwrote the adaptation of Universal Soldier and Freejack.
Justin: That's a trade secret! Don't go sharing that our dad ghostwrote the adaptation of Freejack!
Griffin: He wrote a lot of comic books, so we grew up on comics. I think when we started having the conversation about the graphic novel, we also hit a point very late in the first campaign that we did [on the podcast] that we played over the course of about two-and-a-half years, that we were all very in love with the story and how the story had turned out. We jumped at the opportunity to do a version of it that would be pretty different from just listening to it in an audio medium; a version of it that is, I think, objectively more accessible for somebody to enjoy. The idea of a graphic novel made a lot of sense in that regard.
Justin: Also, the movie people didn't ask. [Laughs]
Comparing the podcast to the graphic novel, it's interesting to see what you kept, what you changed, what you compressed. How did you even start the process of adapting the story into a comic book script?
Justin: Dad started with transcripts. He took the lead, he did the brunt of the work. There's a lot of stuff in the first arc that could go pretty quickly. There's a lot that just isn't germane to telling the story. It started out as an improvisational comedy podcast, and there were a lot of times that we'd compromise the story because we didn't care about moving the story forward, and we didn't have any idea about what the podcast would become. There was a lot of stuff that was funny in the moment, and off the top of our heads, but it didn't really serve the characters, and that's the stuff that he just removed to make it jibe with where the characters had to go.
Griffin: I would say that we did a few passes. There was a pass where we figured out the mechanical stuff, what happened where and tried to find our feet. There was a pass where we figured out which jokes worked because it was the four of us saying them — there were a lot of jokes that relied on actually hearing them, because it was us as the players saying something through our character voice, which is impossible to translate into the book, so we had to try and work out how to maintain the tone of the show.
A pass we did later on was to reconcile what we knew about the story of the whole campaign and the emotional beats that became a focus of the show later on, but were almost entirely absent from the show when we first recorded it, and work out how to add some emotional weight to Here There Be Gerblins, and get more character development pointing towards what they turn into later in the campaign. That's the stuff that makes me most proud of this first book: How we included a lot of those beats that became really important to jumpstart the Adventure Zone fanbase that, if you go back and listen to that first arc, it's mostly just nonstop cursing and just cutting gerblins in half.
Carey: I just want to say, there are still gerblins cut in half. I know, I had to draw them being fully bisected. What Griffin and Justin said about preserving the balance of the arc as a unit, as a whole story, was really important to the whole team, even just adapting this first arc. How we could bring about those emotional beats, that intensity, that balance so well with the charm and humor of the podcast.
Carey, you've worked on Lumberjanes and Adventure Time before this; how did you get involved with this project?
Carey: I started listening to [the podcast] a couple of years ago and was immediately taken by how strong the visuals were even in podcast format — maybe that's because I work in comics so I'm used to thinking in terms of visuals when I'm reading textbooks or listening to audio books, it's just the way I process things. There's such a strong sense of that in the podcast through the combination of cadence and tone and how the characters talk to each other, which gives you a lot of information about how the characters behave. And then, even more extensively, I think Griffin does a really good job of getting Justin and Travis to say, not just "Okay, you killed a monster," but tell me what that looks like, tell me how you did that. The music adds a whole separate layer of emotion. So even when I was listening in, like, 2016, I was drawing a lot of fan art and joking/not joking, "Hey, this would be a really good comic, this would be a dream project if that ever happened."
So, I drew fan art for awhile, I co-organized The Adventure Zine with Megan Raley, and did a live show poster design for one of the live shows and got to talk to the McElroys a little bit that way. The literary agent Charlie Olsen brought us all together a little over two years ago at this point to say, if we were to work together to develop The Adventure Zone Podcast: The Graphic Novel, what would that look like, and how could we make it actually happen?
I'm curious. Was there ever a discussion about creating an all-new story for the comic? Why did you decide to adapt the campaign as played on the podcast, and not come up with something new?
Griffin: I don't think we ever really talked about doing something original. To go back to what I said earlier, we were just really enamored about the way the story turned out. Which, I know, it sounds really egotistical, but it wasn't just one of us sitting down and writing stuff out. The fact that it turned out like it did was the result of the stuff that I as the DM had prepared and the decisions that Justin and Travis and Dad had made, mixed in with, you know, the random element of how the dice got rolled. All of that coming together made a story that we were really, really proud of. It made something that we wanted to have a lifespan beyond when we wrapped up the campaign, which we did last August. We wanted it to take on new forms and reach out to new audiences. I think it was always going to be an adaptation instead of taking on something new.
Carey, as someone who listened to the podcast, are there things that you wanted to be in the book that didn't end up making the cut?
Carey: I think where there aren't things in the book that were in the podcast, I think it's like Justin and Griffin said; we want to preserve the flavor and tone of the podcast, but that sometimes means that you have to lose something that worked on the podcast that doesn't work in a visual medium because they are different mediums, you do lose things like tone of voice; like Griffin has talked about before, you can't a celebrity impression across as easily on the page.
I do miss the scene where Magnus goes off on his own into the wolf cavern for the first time, but I think the scene that we ended up using instead is really funny and good, and a good example of bringing in stuff about a character we didn't learn until later in the podcast and seeded it earlier on in the book.
Justin or Griffin, what about either of you? Is there anything you found that you missed, for whatever reason…?
Justin: No! The tone of the show was a lot more… puerile when we started. Like, there's a whole scene where we're fighting a jelly monster in the cave which, in the podcast, was about ten straight minutes of jerk off goof. I was happy to see that one go. [Laughs] Ten minutes was just a lot. The original script had a lot of that still in, and reading that was very sobering. I was like, 'Okay. We don't need ten minutes of jerk off goofs.' We can settle for one or two lines. We've been working on this for so long that we feel pretty confident about what ended up on the cutting room, and what stayed. For me, what's important about the first arc is the core world lore that builds itself up towards the bigger narrative of the campaign. We added in a lot more than what we cut out.
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A Storm, a 1922 pastel painting by Georgia O'Keeffe, shows lightning over a lake and the reflection of the moon, while alluding to a feminine body shape. The medium is pastel on paper, mounted on illustration board.

The painting is part of a collection of work depicting sea- and landscapes of Maine or Lake George, and were created by O'Keeffe between 1921 and 1922. The technique and style of A Storm reflects O'Keeffe's earlier preference for charcoal as a medium. It was donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by a private collector in 1981.

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