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Category Archives: Shelby Singleton
"Hold It Baby": Swedish Soul
Just as "Boliver Shagnasty" conveys the comic sensibility of a more modern mindset, Sweden's Slam Creepers similarly seems like a band name of relatively recent vintage (e.g., 80s hardcore?) — and yet, their first release, fascinatingly enough, was a split single in 1965: a 7-inch flexi-disc in which shared Slam Creepers shared space with The Hollies and fellow Swedish band, Lucas!
Vinyl debut: Slam Creepers on … flexi-disc!
Four years and a handful of singles later, Slam Creepers would find themselves in another "shared" arrangement — a 12-inch "Shelby Singleton product" wherein the band would be rubbing shoulders on the same LP with Jeannie C. Riley, The Hep Stars, and Mister "Cincinnati Kid" himself, Prince Buster!
The Hep Stars would include future ABBA founder, Benny Anderson
Title of the Hep Stars' first album: 'WE AND OUR CADILLAC'
Worth considering how "radical" it was in 1969 to release a sampler album that co-mingled late 60s country (Riley), Jamaican rocksteady (Buster) & Swedish pop (Slam Creepers & The Hep Stars) – although this album was issued in the Spanish market.
From a typography standpoint, I am very intrigued that Slam Creepers utilized – as would their American musical colleagues, The Afro-Blues Quintet Plus One – the "Future Shock" typeface for the cover of their 1967 debut album:
Are there any earlier LPs with this same "Future Shock" typeface than these from 1967?
CONTEST OPEN TO ALL:
Who can find the earliest musical use of this 1960s typeface?
In 1968, Slam Creepers would issue two singles, and – in the noblest Beatles fashion – these four songs would not find release on the band's sophomore '68 LP Sweet Ruth.
Slam Creepers' 1968 B-side "Hold It Baby" reveals a refreshing American soul influence:
"Hold It Baby" Slam Creepers 1968
Wanna take a trip to Catchy Town? Check out 1968 sure-fire hit, "We Are Happy People".
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"You Shakin' Things Up": Southern Soul Supreme
Posted on June 6, 2014 by Zeroto180
Here's a tasty two-minute slice of southern soul from Robert ("Barefootin'") Parker:
1969's "You Shakin' Things Up" is the first of two singles for Shelby Singleton's Silver Fox and SSS International labels.
Written by Robert Parker
(Produced By Bob Robin For Shelby Singleton Productions)
Great complementary piece from Home of the Groove in which we learn that the two Robert Parker singles were produced by Bob Robin in Muscle Shoals and leased to Shelby Singleton:
"I previously assumed, as had some others, that Parker recorded this single ['You See Me'], issued by Shelby Shingleton's Nashville-based Silver Fox label, in New Orleans through Allen Toussaint and Marshall Sehorn's Tou-Sea/Sansu Productions and that it ended up on the label through a deal made via DJ and fellow record label owner, Bob Robin. What threw me off was the fact that Toussaint wrote 'You See Me' and the arrangement sounded like one of his. But things went down differently.
"It turns out that Robin, as the record label so states, actually did produce this single himself along with another ['The Hiccup'] by Parker. The sessions were done in Muscle Shoals rather than Nola, as I found out from Neil Pellegrin's highly informative notes to the Soul-tay-Shus/Tuff City CD compilation, The Best of International City, which features tracks produced by Robin, who owned the International City and River City labels in New Orleans.
"The Parker sides did not appear first on either of Robin's labels, but were leased directly to Singleton, who issued 'You See Me' / 'You Shakin' Things Up' on Silver Fox and 'The Hiccup' / 'Rockin' Pneumonia' on SSS International (#819) …
"Parker had not recorded for several years, since his previous label, Nola Records, went bust as part of the Dover Records distributorship collapse that pretty much closed down the recording scene in New Orleans for several years, wiping out numerous small local labels. Neither of his Singleton-released singles gained any traction, and the singer would not record again until the mid-1970s when he did sign with Sansu and recorded three funky singles issued by Island."
Robert Parker (left) & Lonnie Bolden – Club Tijuana, New Orleans – 1950's
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"A Woman's World": Feminist or Traditionalist?
Teresa Brewer – whose duet with Mickey Mantle, "I Love Mickey," reached #87 in 1956 – would later record ever so briefly for Shelby Singleton. June 1968's "A Woman's World" was the first of but two singles Brewer recorded for SSS International:
The song initially gives the impression of threatening to challenge the status quo regarding gender roles and division of responsibilities, as the singer sobs over the plight of a homemaker's isolation and lack of fulfillment. "The woman's born to make the man a home," begins the second verse, "You cook and clean and sew all the time he's gone." But somehow, just the sight of him entering their domicile after a long day's work is enough to make her forget all about the deep structural inequities of their relationship.
Who wrote this song, I wonder – and was it a man? I am hoping to obtain the answer to that question without leaving my seat, but alas, the Internet has let me down. So I go fetch the record, half expecting to see the name "Tom T. Hall" when, lo and behold, it turns out to be Teresa Brewer herself! Or wait – is it? According to the songwriting credit on the 1969 Plantation compilation album, Country Gold Volume 1, Brewer is the song's composer. But according to the 45 image that I just now retrieved and attached to this blog piece, the tune's creator is Ben Peters (a man – just as I had suspected). The truth?
"A Woman's World" was paired with "Ride-a-Roo," a large rubber ball toy that kids bounce upon (also known worldwide as a space hopper, moon hopper, skippyball & hoppity hop).
(Also known as a kangaroo jockey ball)
Commercially speaking, "A Woman's World" did not do well, unfortunately — according to 45Cat, "this record did not chart." As one YouTube contributor astutely observes, this song finds Teresa Brewer very much in the Sandy Posey mold. How interesting to consider that just five years hence we will find Teresa in London embracing the hard rock sound of Oily Rags.
The liner notes for the 2-disc anthology of Shelby Singleton's Plantation and SSS labels, Plantation Gold, confirm Ben Peters as the tune's author.
Teresa Brewer with Miss Piggy & Kermit – July 1977
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"From the Bottom of My Heart": Wilbert Harrison in New Orleans
A fun bit of rockin' blues with a slight go-go groove, "From the Bottom of My Heart" by Wilbert Harrison – singer of 1959's #1 hit, "Kansas City" – was recorded in New Orleans in 1966 and later included on 1971 album Anything You Want, issued by Wet Soul, a Huey Meaux-affiliated label that was distributed by Shelby Singleton Productions
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April 11, 2022 | for Concussions, General TeachAids
USA Rugby and TeachAids Partner to Promote Evidence-Based Concussion Education
TeachAids officially announces a partnership with USA Rugby to further understanding of the invisible injury of concussions. Founded in 1975, USA Rugby is the national governing body (NGB) for the sport of rugby in America, and a Full Sport Member of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) and World Rugby. With over 100,000…
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Director of Stanford Rugby Josh Sutcliffe Joins the CrashCourse Advisory Board
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Rugby Coach and TeachAids Advisor Jack Clark Leads Cal Bears to Collegiate Rugby Championship Game
On June 1st, TeachAids advisor Jack Clark will once again leads the Cal Bears to the NCAA Championship game for Men's Rugby. Clark got his start in rugby when he transferred to UC Berkeley, where he played on the varsity football team and played rugby in the offseason. He found his passion for rugby after…

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English FA probes Beardsley over claims of bullying, racism at Newcastle United
Former England forward Peter Beardsley is being investigated by the Football Association (FA) in England over accusations of bullying and racism while working as the under-23 coach at Newcastle United.
The 58-year-old has been on leave from Newcastle United since a club investigation began last year and left his job on Wednesday.
Beardsley has denied the claims, which include one of bullying by midfielder Yasin Ben El-Mhanni.
"We can confirm that the FA is investigating the allegations made against Peter Beardsley during his time at Newcastle United," an FA spokesman said on Tuesday.
Beardsley was the subject of an investigation in 2003 when he and Kenny Wharton, the then academy director, were accused of bullying.
The case was dismissed.
Beardsley is a popular figure with fans at Newcastle United, for whom he made 273 appearances in two spells at the club.
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Rasa in Ayurveda means the particular sense object, which is perceived by the tongue, is called rasa, which can be perceived by the rasanendriya, is called rasa. The word rasa means taste, but it also have other meanings also like rasa dhatu, parada (mercury) etc.
Rasa are basically divided into six type based on its perception that is- Madhura rasa, amla rasa, lavana rasa, katu rasa, tikta rasa, kasaya rasa.
Regarding composition of amla and lavana rasas there is difference of opinion between Charaka and Surshruta, the composition given in above table proposed by Charaka. According to Sushruta amla is composed of jala and tejas and lavana is of prithvi and tejas.
Even though rasa is having above mentioned mahabhootas predominantly the other mahabhootas are also possible to see in little extent.
The action of rasas on doshas is essential because rasa is one which has gunas (Ayurvedic properties) in it and which are favorable or unfavorable for the dosha and it will be mainly applicable in the treatment aspect because in Ayurveda we are treating only on basis of doshas by using different recipes.
In these order rasas are used in treatment.
According to Indian Darshana shashtra knowledge rasa can be acquired through three Pramanas i.e., Pratyaksha, Anumana and Aptopadesha.
Rasas can be known through all these three modes of knowledge yet, direct demonstrable knowledge is more widely used. If the dravya comes in contact with the tongue then only the direct perception of rasa is possible. This is rasana pratyaksha.
Some rasa can perceivable by Anumana only like, madhura rasa of Swarna, Rajata and Naga (sweetness of gold, silver and lead), & tikta rasa of Lauha (bitter taste of iron) have all been ascertained through inference after carefully observing the effects of these dravyas on the body.
Similarly avyakta rasa or anurasa has to be specially understood through Aptopadesha. And this knowledge is endorsed through anumana pramana.
According to some, a general knowledge of rasa is obtained through Pratyaksha, Anumana provides specific knowledge, where Aptopadesha provides experimental knowledge.
The rasa of any dravya is never permanent, it always keeps on changing subtler proportions.
Patra:- the dravya keeping on long time in specific Patra (vessel), it changes its rasa.
Kala:- long keeping of dravya leads to change of rasa.
Samyoga:- combination of 2 different dravyas leads to change of rasa.
Paka:- on ripening of some dravyas like fruits changes its rasas.
Surya:- due to sunlight rasa will be changed.
Bhavana:- by trituration the rasas will change.
Desha:- environmental factors also leads to change of rasa.
Kalapaka:- by allowing some time interval.
Upasarga:- by decaying of dravya.
Vikriya: by some special procedures.
The action of rasa is brought in accordance with samanya vishesha siddhantha. Similar dravya-guna-karma increase similar dravya-guna-karma and dosha-dhathu-mala. Whereas dissimilar dravya, guna, karma bring about decrease. The action described as the action are in fact the actions of gunas belonging the dravyas having the particular rasa.
The one which is directly perceived is called rasa, whereas some rasas which are not perceptible at first but it will found at the last, are called as anurasa.
Anurasa is either unmanifested or is manifested in small proportion.
Anurasa doesn't remain in dravya inits dry state. For eg. The sweet anurasa of dry pippali will not persists.
Is manifested Either is non manifested or is manifested.
Remains intact even after dravya is dried Doesn't remain intact after drying.
Rasa panchaka is a term which includes five factors of dravya i.e., rasa, guna,Veerya, vipaka. These five are always the factors of dravya and these are having inseparable relation with dravya.


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Note: Now I ask if it is 3 or 4 character sets. Rather than 5 or 6. 3 or 4 is enough usually; or you can always get 2 messages and combine them into one also.
And then the manager transferred to Long Beach. Ha ha ha ha ha.
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U.S. supermarket chain
This company is one of the most popular supermarket chains in the Midwest. The familyowned grocery company has grown to include about 100 stores in five U.S. states.
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As one of the largest privately owned supermarket chains in the U.S., this company does a lot of printing at its stores—everything from pharmacy information and labels to colorful signage promoting the latest specials.
"In recent years, however, the grocer noted a steady rise in the age and operating cost of its output fleet, especially at its busy pharmacy departments, prompting executives to seek ways to reverse the trend. Part of the problem: The 571 printers in operation throughout the stores were getting old and breaking down more often. Inconsistent management of replacement supplies, including toner, imaging units and maintenance kits was also raising costs. Stores built up stockpiles of these supplies, tying up capital in inventory.
"Pharmacists and store managers like having extra parts and toner on hand— but the cost of toner is significant," said the supervisor, field services. The company also hoped to standardize on just a few types of printers from one vendor and glean savings through consolidation, less-costly warranties and simpler maintenance.
With Lexmark, the grocer assessed the needs of its stores and determined that three printers were needed in each store: Two in the pharmacy (for printing prescription labels and educational materials) and a third for general use throughout the store. Through the assessment, Lexmark determined that the grocer could reduce its total number of devices from about 571 to just 319, a 44 percent reduction.
With the help of the company's own staff of engineers and technicians, the company replaced its entire fleet of devices with new Lexmark printers at every store. Each supermarket switched to a pair of Lexmark MS811 laser printers in the pharmacy and one MS711 laser printer to handle printing needs for the rest of the store. The new MS711 comes in handy for printing signs, and for office materials, such as work schedules.
The grocer is also implementing Lexmark MX410de MFPs in its customer service areas and CX410de MFPs for managers. These MFPs are consolidating 2-3 devices into one depending on the store set up. The CX410de is increasing functionality for store managers and saving about $124,000 in equipment and toner costs versus the previous set up.
As part of this investment, the company engaged in a managed print services program with Lexmark, relieving store managers of day-to-day device monitoring and maintenance responsibilities. Now, Lexmark technicians remotely monitor the printers over the network and perform proactive maintenance—as well as onsite fixes—as needed. The grocer also opted for proactive consumables management services from Lexmark.
When toner starts running low, the networked printers automatically trigger an order for a new cartridge, which arrives at the store just in time. The same process is used for the printers' imaging units and maintenance kits. At first, employees were skeptical of the automatic ordering process, but they soon experienced the benefits.
The biggest savings we're seeing so far, especially in our pharmacy department, is coming from the proactive consumables management program.
Supervisor of U.S. Supermarket Chain
"Our associates were used to worrying every time the printer displayed a 'low toner' alert," the supervisor said. "But that mindset quickly changed when the toner consistently arrived. The accuracy of the ordering has been fantastic."
The company estimates that it is saving in the neighborhood of tens of thousands of dollars in consumables per year through more proactive management of toner supplies. A comparison of consumables costs in Q2 2013 versus Q2 2014 showed a cost reduction of more than $25,000, year over year. "The biggest savings we're seeing so far, especially in our pharmacy department, is coming from the proactive consumables management program," the supervisor said.
We're now able to see how our fleet is actually deployed and used ... We didn't have this information before, so we really couldn't act on it.
Beyond this, the company is gaining a lot more visibility into the operation and performance of its output fleet, thanks to the wealth of data collected over the network about each and every networked printer.
The company has also used the data and suggestions to swap devices quarterly in the pharmacies so that they can balance the load across all devices and increase the life and use of the fleet. Previously, the average delta between the main printer and other 2 to 3 printers was 7,000 – 15,000 pages per month.
"We're now able to see how our fleet is actually deployed and used," the supervisor said. "Based on the usage data, we may decide to move a printer from one location in a store to another and in some locations we maybe decide that only one printer is needed. We didn't have this information before, so we really couldn't act on it."


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Meghan Markle Is Allegedly Taking Archie To The U.S. So Be Ready To Teach Him How To Be American
By Jen McGuire
Ever since Meghan Markle and Prince Harry welcomed their first baby together, little Archie, royal watchers on both sides of the ocean have had loads of questions. Is his full name Archibald or is he just plain old Master Archie for real? Is he a good sleeper? How are his parents coping with the big change in their lives? And perhaps most importantly for people living on this side of the pond, will Meghan Markle bring Archie to the United States? Because he does have American blood running through his veins, even if he is a member of the British monarchy. He needs to be introduced to delicious fast food and also pick-up trucks before he loses his American-ness forever.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex welcomed their first child, Master Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, on May 6 at Portland Hospital in London, close to his parents' new home Frogmore Cottage. His birth was arguably one of the most talked about events of the royal family in recent memory, with Queen Elizabeth, Prince Phillip, Prince Charles, and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge all dropping by to see their newest tiny royal, according to Marie Claire. And while it's obviously a pretty big deal that Archie is a member of the royal family, he's also a member of Meghan Markle's family. All of whom are very much American, a fact the former actress reportedly wants to make sure her son doesn't forget.
A source close to Markle told Us Weekly that both she and Prince Harry are determined to see their son have as normal a life as possible for a member of the royal family, which is one of the reasons they opted out of accepting a royal title like Prince when he was born. Another way they might be hoping to keep Archie as grounded as possible? Introduce him to his American roots by bringing him to Markle's hometown of Los Angeles, as the source told Us Weekly:
For Meghan, it's just as important for Archie to learn about her family history as it is for him to learn about his royal ancestors, so she plans to go on a trip to L.A. with him once she's comfortable taking him on a plane.
This makes so much sense of course. After all, Markle had a whole life and family and history of her own before she married Prince Harry last May. And let's not forget her mother, Doria Ragland, lives in Los Angeles. She was staying with the couple at Frogmore Cottage when Archie was born and was even on hand for the official picture of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip meeting the baby boy, according to Hello!. Which felt like a lovely way for Markle to honor her mother's important place in her grandson's life.
Meghan Markle is working hard to keep her own identity in a family steeped in hundreds of years of solemn tradition. I think it will help her as well to go back to the land of yoga and vegans, of sunshine and beaches and people who loved her before she was a duchess. It's not just important for her to reconnect with the person she was before Prince Harry, it's important for her son as well.
And the whole country awaits them with American flags a-waving.


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To all of which things you can answer: "It is not so." No man was more an American than Washington. He, first of all, saw the great future that was in store for the people he had made free, and the nation he had founded. He was cold only to those who tried to use him for selfish ends; stern only to those who proved themselves unworthy, cowardly, traitorous or disloyal; unloving to no one, not even his enemies. The man who, when a young Indian fighter, was so moved by the woes of the people on the frontier as to say : " I solemnly declare I could offer myself a willing victim to the butchering enemy, provided this would contribute to the people's ease;" who could love his mother, even like a little child, when he was both general and president; who, as we have seen, was a favorite with children and especially to little girls; who could make such young men as Hamilton and Lafayette cling to him in affection and admiration, and could kiss his officers good-bye when the war was over, and the day of parting came — this was surely not a cold, a stern nor an unloving man.
The man who has the care of a nation on his shoulders, who is naturally grave, silent and sober, does not go about
A PEN PORTRAIT OF PRESIDENT
poking fun at people, " cutting up," or being what is called a "hail fellow;" and yet we know that Washington enjoyed a good time, a hearty laugh and a pleasant company.
But these things, after all, are not for us to consider. As the years pass, the greatness of Washington grows on the world. His story is not yet at an end; and it will never end, while men and women honor nobility of character, while boys and girls love to hear the story of how a farmer's boy grew into a hero, and a simple gentleman into a great man. His story will never end, for the world will never cease to love, to honor and to reverence the name of George Washington.
And how his country has honored him! It holds him as, above all others, its mightiest man. The capital of the nation bears his name, and is built, a
beautiful city, upon the spot he selected, while, above its splendid streets and its magnificent buildings and its glorious white dome, towers the mighty
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shaft that has been reared as his monument and memorial. The home he loved so dearly at Mount Vernon is the most sacred spot in all the land, sought by pilgrims from all over the world, as one, in foreign lands, visits the shrines of saintly men. On the far Pacific coast a great and growing state bears his name, and, all over the land, towns and counties, streets and parks, schools and institutions and banks and all the things that people most prize and most work for, honor the memory of Washington by bearing his name.
And how grandly has the country which he helped to form and which he led to victory and a future, made his predictions come true! Its four millions of people who hailed him as president have grown to nearly seventy millions, its thirteen states to forty-five, its four cities to more than four hundred, any one of which is more populous than the most populous city of Washington's day. The American leads the world in enterprise, energy, invention, prosperity and patriotism; and, under the folds of the banner of the stars and stripes, schools and churches flourish as in no other land, homes are happier, men and women freer, boys and girls better, and the future more certain and more secure than in any other land upon the whole round earth.
And all this is because George Washington lived a hundred years ago; and that is why his story, as I have assured
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AMB Property Corporation® and Prologis Close Merger
SAN FRANCISCO, June, 3 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- AMB Property Corporation (NYSE: AMB) and ProLogis (NYSE: PLD) today announced the completion of their merger, forming a combined company named Prologis, Inc., a leading global owner, operator and developer of industrial real estate. The common stock of the combined company will trade under the symbol PLD on the New York Stock Exchange beginning today.
"This merger brings together two great organizations to form an even stronger global industrial real estate company," said Hamid R. Moghadam, chairman and co-CEO. "We are excited to move forward with a clear strategy to pursue growth opportunities around the world with our high-quality portfolio of logistics properties, proven private capital business, financial strength and our talented team."
"Prologis is poised for a bright future," said Walter C. Rakowich, co-CEO. "With an unmatched global network, an excellent board of directors and a strong management team, we are primed to deliver on the promise of great products and service for our customers, career opportunities for our people and sector-leading returns for our stockholders."
As a result of the merger, each former ProLogis common share has been converted into the right to receive 0.4464 of a newly issued share of the combined company's common stock. Each share of AMB common stock will remain as one share of the combined company's common stock. Former ProLogis common equity holders hold approximately 60 percent of the combined company's common stock, and former AMB common equity holders hold approximately 40 percent.
Accretion / Cost Savings
The transaction will create synergies and be immediately accretive, with the full expected annual gross savings of approximately $80 million in G&A to be realized by the end of 2012. The company anticipates it will have an improved cost of capital with greater financial flexibility and that its expanded footprint will generate increased revenue opportunities by allowing it to better serve the needs of its customers.
Moghadam, AMB's former CEO, and Rakowich, ProLogis' former CEO, will serve as co-CEOs of the combined company through December 31, 2012, at which time Rakowich will retire and Moghadam will become sole CEO. Until then, Moghadam will focus on shaping the company's vision, strategy and private capital franchise, and Rakowich will focus on operations, specifically the integration of the two platforms and the optimization of merger synergies. In addition, Moghadam will be chairman of the Board and Rakowich will serve as chairman of the Board's executive committee.
The company's corporate headquarters will be in San Francisco, and the company's operations headquarters will be in Denver. The combined company is structured as an UPREIT.
Besides Moghadam and Rakowich, the members of the Board of Directors include: Lydia H. Kennard, J. Michael Losh, Jeffrey L. Skelton and Carl B. Webb, former members of the board of directors of AMB; and George L. Fotiades, Christine N. Garvey, Irving F. Lyons III, D. Michael Steuert and William D. Zollars, former members of the board of trustees of ProLogis. Irving F. Lyons III will serve as lead independent director.
"Today's merger closing is a significant achievement, and I want to thank our colleagues around the world for their incredible efforts to get us to this point," Moghadam said. "The long-term success of any merger depends on the people. I continue to have confidence in the future of this company because we are fortunate to have the best team in the industry."
"We have moved swiftly and deliberately on integration planning, and I am very pleased with our progress," Rakowich said. "While there is still much work to be done to fully implement our plan, we have the people, systems and processes in place to begin executing as a combined company today."
Morgan Stanley acted as financial advisor to ProLogis, and Greenberg Traurig and Mayer Brown acted as legal advisors to ProLogis. J.P. Morgan Securities LLC acted as financial advisor to AMB, and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz acted as legal advisor to AMB.
About Prologis, Inc.
Prologis, Inc., is a leading owner, operator and developer of industrial real estate, focused on global and regional markets across the Americas, Europe and Asia. As of March 31, 2011, on a pro forma basis giving effect to the merger, Prologis owned or had investments in, on a consolidated basis or through unconsolidated joint ventures, properties and development projects expected to total more than 600 million square feet (55.7 million square meters) in 22 countries. The company leases modern distribution facilities to more than 4,500 customers, including manufacturers, retailers, transportation companies, third-party logistics providers and other enterprises.
Some of the information included in this press release contains forward-looking statements, such as future opportunities for the combined company, improved cost of capital, increased revenue opportunities, the pending retirement of any of the individual's mentioned and the approximate cost savings, which are made pursuant to the safe-harbor provisions of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. Because these forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, there are important factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, and you should not rely on the forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. The events or circumstances reflected in forward-looking statements might not occur. You can identify forward-looking statements by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "believes," "expects," "may," "will," "should," "seeks," "approximately," "intends," "plans," "pro forma," "estimates" or "anticipates" or the negative of these words and phrases or similar words or phrases. You can also identify forward-looking statements by discussions of strategy, plans or intentions. Forward-looking statements are necessarily dependent on assumptions, data or methods that may be incorrect or imprecise and we may not be able to realize them. We caution you not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which reflect our analysis only and speak only as of the date of this report or the dates indicated in the statements. We assume no obligation to update or supplement forward-looking statements. The following factors, among others, could cause actual results and future events to differ materially from those set forth or contemplated in the forward-looking statements: changes in general economic conditions in California, the U.S. or globally (including financial market fluctuations), global trade or in the real estate sector (including risks relating to decreasing real estate valuations and impairment charges); risks associated with using debt to fund the company's business activities, including refinancing and interest rate risks; the company's failure to obtain, renew, or extend necessary financing or access the debt or equity markets; the company's failure to maintain its current credit agency ratings or comply with its debt covenants; risks related to the merger with ProLogis, including litigation related to the merger, and the risk that the merger may not achieve its intended results, including that the expected synergies will not be realized, or will not be realized during the expected time period; the risks that the businesses will not be integrated successfully; disruption from the merger making it more difficult to maintain business and operational relationships; risks related to the company's obligations in the event of certain defaults under co-investment venture and other debt; defaults on or non-renewal of leases by customers, lease renewals at lower than expected rent or failure to lease properties at all or on favorable rents and terms; difficulties in identifying properties, portfolios of properties, or interests in real-estate related entities or platforms to acquire and in effecting acquisitions on advantageous terms and the failure of acquisitions to perform as the company expects; unknown liabilities acquired in connection with the acquired properties, portfolios of properties, or interests in real-estate related entities; the company's failure to successfully integrate acquired properties and operations; risks and uncertainties affecting property development, redevelopment and value-added conversion (including construction delays, cost overruns, the company's inability to obtain necessary permits and financing, the company's inability to lease properties at all or at favorable rents and terms, and public opposition to these activities); the company's failure to set up additional funds, attract additional investment in existing funds or to contribute properties to its co-investment ventures due to such factors as its inability to acquire, develop, or lease properties that meet the investment criteria of such ventures, or the co-investment ventures' inability to access debt and equity capital to pay for property contributions or their allocation of available capital to cover other capital requirements; risks and uncertainties relating to the disposition of properties to third parties and the company's ability to effect such transactions on advantageous terms and to timely reinvest proceeds from any such dispositions; risks of doing business internationally and global expansion, including unfamiliarity with the new markets and currency risks; risks of changing personnel and roles; losses in excess of the company's insurance coverage; changes in local, state and federal regulatory requirements, including changes in real estate and zoning laws; increases in real property tax rates; risks associated with the company's tax structuring; increases in interest rates and operating costs or greater than expected capital expenditures; environmental uncertainties and risks related to natural disasters; and our failure to qualify and maintain our status as a real estate investment trust. Our success also depends upon economic trends generally, various market conditions and fluctuations and those other risk factors discussed under the heading "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in our most recent annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2010 and our other public reports.
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Tommy Florez (Manizales, 2 de junio de 1980) es un presentador y locutor colombiano.

Trayectoria
Inició su vida laboral en la emisora Candela Stereo en la ciudad de Cartago (Valle del Cauca) en el año 1997. En Colombia hizo parte de las cadenas de Radiodifusión, RCN Radio y Caracol Radio.
Fue locutor en diferentes emisoras, entre las más importantes se encuentran: La Mega, Rumba Estéreo, La FM y como director y programador en Tropicana en el año 2011.
Como locutor comercial o voice-over identificó campañas publicitarias para: Movistar, Motorola, Terra Networks, Discovery en Español, entre otras.

Televisión
Como presentador hizo parte del programa Cool Play de la franja Play Tv del Canal 13 (Colombia). En 2015 inicia su experiencia internacional, en la ciudad de Denver, Colorado en el segmento Denver live para el noticiero local de Univision.

Actualidad
Trabaja como presentador para el canal nacional de entretenimiento, Xfinity Latino Entertainment Channel de Comcast, en donde destaca contenidos para la comunidad latina en Estados Unidos.

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Nacidos en Manizales
Presentadores de televisión de Colombia
Locutores de radio de Colombia
Periodistas de Colombia
Presentadores de programas de entretenimiento

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In the post-Sept. 11 era, criminal justice and homeland security professionals have been bombarded with a flood of studies on terrorism. Some of the best researchers in the field provide a practical session on evaluating terrorism studies. What should the inquisitive professional look for when presented with different methods? How can professionals publish what they see and engage experts in the field?


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Public Release: 12-Mar-2015
New evidence that increasing economic inequality rises out of political partisanship
Politicians' support of economic policies that benefit their supporters are a boon to those on higher end of economic spectrum
BUFFALO, N.Y. - Political scientists at the University at Buffalo and Pennsylvania State University have published new research investigating how partisan differences in macroeconomic policy have contributed to substantial and rising economic inequality in the United States.
The negative consequences of such policy decisions, researchers found, have a greater impact on people at the lower end of the economic spectrum, but are "significantly more muted" for those at the higher end of the spectrum.
The study, "Partisan Differences in the Distributional Effects of Economic Growth: Stock Market Performance, Unemployment, and Political Control of the Presidency," appeared in the Journal of Elections, Public Opinions and Parties on Feb. 15, 2015.
The authors are Harvey D. Palmer, PhD, associate professor of political science at UB, and Bryan J. Dettrey, a recent UB PhD graduate, now teaching at the School of Public Affairs at Penn State Harrisburg.
"All incumbents have the incentive to create economic growth in order to win re-election," Palmer says, "and they use a variety of policies to achieve this growth. Their policy choices - including those designed to manage the national economy - are usually in harmony with the demands of the core constituent groups of their party.
"We hypothesized that some groups benefit more and some less from the sets of policies chosen by the incumbent government to stimulate growth," he says.
"Our results support that proposition. They show that the economic policies of Republican presidents, for instance, have a stronger effect on stimulating stock market performance than reducing unemployment," says Palmer, "which is more likely to benefit Republicans than Democrats given that, on average, they have greater investment wealth.
"Economic growth under Democratic presidents, on the other hand, has a stronger effect on reducing unemployment," he says, "which tends to benefit Democratic constituencies more than Republican ones given that, on average, they face greater job insecurity."
"However, the risk of unemployment falls disproportionately toward the lower end of the income scale, further reducing the average relative wages of those in lower income brackets," Palmer says.
"Also, while the negative effects of unemployment can be long lasting, the negative effects of stock ownership are significantly more muted," Palmer says, "because even the leveling effects of more severe price corrections or downturns in the stock market do not compare to the long-term negative consequences of higher unemployment on income inequality."
As an initial test of their theoretical argument, Palmer and Dettrey investigated whether partisan differences exist in the statistical relationships between economic growth and stock market performance and unemployment. This statistical analysis is based on monthly economic data from January 1951 to December 2010 (start of the Eisenhower administration through the second year of the Obama administration).
Consistent with Palmer and Dettrey's argument, the positive relationship between economic growth and stock market performance was signficantly greater under Republican presidents, while the negative relationship between economic growth and unemployment was significantly stronger under Democratic presidents.
Moreover, both researchers say this finding holds regardless of what assumption is made about the time lag in the effect of a change in partisan control on the nature and implementation of macroeconomic policy.
Palmer and Dettrey also reveal evidence through the application of a rolling subperiod modeling approach, which indicates that the partisan differences in the distributional consequences of macroeconomic policy increased from 1951 to 2010, reflecting the rise in income inequality in the U.S. over the past 30 years.
Palmer is chair of the Department of Political Science at UB. His research largely focuses on elections, voting behavior, and public opinion from American and comparative perspectives. His work has been published in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, and various subfield journals and edited volumes.
Dettrey is a lecturer at Penn State Harrisburg, where he directs several academic programs in political science and public policy. His research is on mass political behavior, primarily in the American context, and he has published articles in the Journal of Politics, Electoral Studies, Politics and Policy, and Social Science Quarterly.
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there. And again, we can not have an intimate relationship with someone else's wife, but we are allowed to have another man's wife in the house. Sotoo with all things forbidden by the Torah. We may have them in our surroundings. But with bread on Passover, it is different. On the night before the holiday begins, we must go on a search and destroy mission. Why is this?
On the most basic level, bread may be eaten all year long, and therefore we might forget and accidentally eat it during the week of Passover. With pork this would not happen because we never eat this forbidden food. And so, we should remove bread from our homes. However, why must we go to the extreme of destroying every last breadcrumb?
To answer this question, we must discuss what bread represents in Jewish consciousness. Getting nourishment from flour and water requires mixing them together and baking the dough; this creates matza. The only difference between matza and bread is the leavening product; bread is simply a puffed up version of matza. We use yeast or some other leavening agent to modify the original dough. Therefore, leavening symbolizes an artificial modification of ourselves, usually by inflating our ego through arrogance. When we are egotistical, we experience a metaphysical leavening process because we're merely puffing ourselves up and therefore distancing ourselves from who we really are.
The very physical process that takes place during leavening symbolizes the metaphysical changes that a person can experience. A chemical agent reacts in the dough to produce gas that becomes trapped as bubbles, which ultimately become little holes in the bread. The only difference between matza and bread is hot air! Likewise, when a human being starts with his or her basic essence and adds a negative metaphysical agent such as arrogance, it's like the gas that creates bubbles. We can not be truly content while inflating ourselves with the "hot air" of arrogance. How do we loosen our spiritual shackles?
By delving into the deeper meanings of Passover whose theme is freedom. We rarely ask ourselves, "what would I have to do to be free?" though we all have an intrinsic sense of what it would take to make us happy. Some people strive to avoid excessive eating. Others hope to stop feeling the need to impress friends and coworkers. And others want to improve a damaging relationship. Whatever it is, each of us has issues that cause us to be something other than what we want to be. We become prisoners to these things. Anything physical or metaphysical that turns us into someone we know is not us, someone whom we don't like, is like the leavening agent that takes a basic dough, fills it with air bubbles, and creates a puffed up version of the original ingredients.
By ridding our homes of all traces of chometz, we send ourselves the powerful message that just as we remove physical leaven from our possession so too must we remove any spiritual leaven. Only then will we truly feel free and content. The great Chassidic master, Rebbe Pinchas of Koretz, advised his disciples in this way: when burning chometz on Erev Pesach (the morning preceding the Passover festival), we should think that just as the physical bread is being burned, the spiritual leaven should be eradicated as well.
With this new understanding, it no longer seems strange that the Torah requires us to rid ourselves of every last morsel of bread before Passover. The deeper message is that for one week we can live with just the basic ingredients, flour and water, and for one week we live with the basic person we are, with nothing that detaches us from our true essence. Leaven is something that modifies. Let's give ourselves the eight days of Passover to live without that modification in our stomachs, minds, and hearts.


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A003169 Number of 2-line arrays; or number of P-graphs with 2n edges.
%N Number of 2-line arrays; or number of P-graphs with 2n edges.
%H M. Bicknell and V. E. Hoggatt, Jr., Sequences of matrix inverses from Pascal, Catalan and related convolution arrays, Fib. Quart., 14 (1976), 224-232.
%H L. Carlitz, Enumeration of two-line arrays, Fib. Quart., Vol. 11 Number 2 (1973), 113-130.
%H R. C. Read, On the enumeration of a class of plane multigraphs, Aequat. Math. 31 (1986) no 1, 47-63.
%H Anssi Yli-Jyrä and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Generic Axiomatization of Families of Noncrossing Graphs in Dependency Parsing, arXiv:1706.03357 [cs.CL], 2017.
%F For formula see Read reference.
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dc.identifier.citation Cheng W, Pullin DI, Samtaney R, Zhang W, Gao W (2017) Large-eddy simulation of flow over a cylinder with from to : a skin-friction perspective. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 820: 121–158. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2017.172.
dc.description.abstract We present wall-resolved large-eddy simulations (LES) of flow over a smooth-wall circular cylinder up to , where is Reynolds number based on the cylinder diameter and the free-stream speed . The stretched-vortex subgrid-scale (SGS) model is used in the entire simulation domain. For the sub-critical regime, six cases are implemented with . Results are compared with experimental data for both the wall-pressure-coefficient distribution on the cylinder surface, which dominates the drag coefficient, and the skin-friction coefficient, which clearly correlates with the separation behaviour. In the super-critical regime, LES for three values of are carried out at different resolutions. The drag-crisis phenomenon is well captured. For lower resolution, numerical discretization fluctuations are sufficient to stimulate transition, while for higher resolution, an applied boundary-layer perturbation is found to be necessary to stimulate transition. Large-eddy simulation results at , with a mesh of , agree well with the classic experimental measurements of Achenbach (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 34, 1968, pp. 625-639) especially for the skin-friction coefficient, where a spike is produced by the laminar-turbulent transition on the top of a prior separation bubble. We document the properties of the attached-flow boundary layer on the cylinder surface as these vary with . Within the separated portion of the flow, mean-flow separation-reattachment bubbles are observed at some values of , with separation characteristics that are consistent with experimental observations. Time sequences of instantaneous surface portraits of vector skin-friction trajectory fields indicate that the unsteady counterpart of a mean-flow separation-reattachment bubble corresponds to the formation of local flow-reattachment cells, visible as coherent bundles of diverging surface streamlines.
dc.description.sponsorship W.C. and R.S. were supported by the KAUST Office of Competitive Research Funds (OCRF) under award no. URF/1/1394-01. D.I.P. was partially supported under KAUST OCRF award no. URF/1/1394-01 and partially by NSF award CBET 1235605. The Cray XC40, Shaheen, at KAUST was utilized for all of the reported LES.


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FCA fine inter-dealer broker for Libor manipulation
Published on May 22, 2014 in Financial Data Trends
The Financial Conduct Authority has fined Martin Brokers (UK) Ltd, an inter-dealer broker, £630,000 for misconduct relating to the calculation of JPY LIBOR. As justification for the fine, it cites breaches of Principle 3, – failing to take reasonable care to organise and control its affairs responsibly and effectively, and Principle 5, – failing to observe proper standards of market conduct.
The FCA States that the firm breached Principle 3 by failing to have adequate controls and risk management process in place to oversee its broking activity. Principle 5 was breached by brokers at the firm colluding with a trader at UBS as part of a coordinated attempt to influence JPY LIBOR submissions made by panel banks. The Brokers received £258,000 in illicit commissions for 'wash trades' during the period under investigation.
"The culture at Martins was that profit came first," said Tracey McDermott, head of enforcement and financial crime at the FCA. She continued: "Compliance was seen as a hindrance… In this environment, broker misconduct was almost inevitable. Similar cultural failings at other firms have caused havoc in the financial services industry."
Martins are the sixth firm overall to be fined by the FCA, who has now imposed penalties of £426.63 million on entities for manipulative conduct with respect to LIBOR submissions. The FCA said it would have fined Martins 3.6 million pounds, but it was reduced by 75% to £900,000 due to the financial circumstances of the firm, including the other regulatory liabilities the firm is facing globally with regards to LIBOR. The firm also qualified for an early settlement deduction of 30% reducing the fine further to £630,000 ($1.02m), and were given three years to pay the fine in instalments.
Additionally, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has also issued an Order that RP Martins Holdings Limited, and its subsidiary Martin Brokers (UK) Ltd, must pay $1.2 million USD as a civil monetary penalty in connection with JPY LIBOR manipulation.
Controversy still surrounds interest rate benchmarks globally. Most recently, lawmakers in Japan have questioned "unnatural movements" in TIBOR, the Tokyo rate which underpins trillions of Yen in loans. They are asking the Financial Services Agency to further scrutinise the rates and submission process for TIBOR. "We want to see whether the rate submissions by individual banks can be deemed appropriate," said the Japanese Bankers Association chairman Nobuyuki Hirano, in a March interview with the Financial Times.
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An international team led by researchers from Stanford University, the University of Vienna and Sapienza University of Rome is filling in the gaps with a genetic history that shows just how much the Eternal City's populace mirrored its sometimes tumultuous history.
The study, published Nov. 8 in Science, focuses on the ancient DNA of individuals from Rome and adjacent regions in Italy. Those genetic data reveal at least two major migrations into Rome, as well as several smaller but significant population shifts over just the last few thousand years, according to Jonathan Pritchard, a professor of genetics and biology and one of the paper's senior authors.
Notably, DNA analysis revealed that as the Roman Empire expanded around the Mediterranean Sea , immigrants from the Near East, Europe and North Africa pulled up their roots and moved to Rome. This significantly changed the face of one of the ancient world's first great cities, said Pritchard, who is also a member of Stanford Bio-X.
"This study shows how dynamic the past really is," said Hannah Moots, a graduate student in anthropology and co-lead author on the new study. "In Rome we're seeing people come from all over , in ways that correspond with historical political events ."
An analysis of some of the earliest samples more or less comports with what has been found around Europe – they represent an influx of farmers primarily descended from early agriculturalists from Turkey and Iran around 8,000 years ago, followed by a shift toward ancestry from the Ukrainian steppe somewhere between 5,000 and 3,000 years ago. By the founding of Rome , traditionally dated to 753 BC, the city's population had grown in diversity and resembled modern European and Mediterranean peoples.
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'Trust fund kid' uses parents' money to fuel AOC, transform Democrat Party
The architect of "the squad" and the move to swing the Democratic Party farther to the left than ever before is "a trust fund kid" who is "using his parents' money" to "fund all of these operations," radio host Rush Limbaugh noted.
"There is one guy behind these four Squad members, and his name is (Saikat) Chakrabarti," Limbaugh said. "He's the guy that's directing them. When you heard Pelosi say, 'I don't talk to staff, I don't,' it was him she was referring to."
Saikat Chakrabarti with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Chakrabarti, co-founder of the leftist Justice Democrats, is Democrat socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's chief of staff.
Chakrabarti has been "tweeting massive disrespect" about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi "in the attempt here to elevate 'the four whack jobs,' as John Kennedy from Louisiana has described them. So this Gang of Four (if you want to call them that) got their money from AOC's sugar daddy, her chief of staff. Chakrabarti is his name. He owns them. One of his front groups is called Brand New Congress. His plan is to replace everybody in Congress who's not an uber-radical with an uber-radical. That includes Pelosi."
Related: Who are the 'Justice Democrats'? AOC a principal in PAC that propelled her to power, March 5, 2019
Limbaugh continued: "This is the guy running these women. Not to say they don't have their own brains. Don't misunderstand. But he's the money behind it. He's the sugar daddy. He's a trust-fund kid in his thirties, and he's the energetic, inspirational leader behind Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and this other bunch of freshmen. He sets the policy for the Squad. He's the one that created the Green New Deal. He's the one that when he was talking to some climatistas about it, he admitted."
Chakrabart was quoted as saying "The Green New Deal? We didn't start that out as a climate thing. We started this as a means of reversing and overthrowing the economy. It's an economic idea."
With that comment, Limbaugh said, Chakrabarti admitted "what all of climate change is."
As for "the squad," Limbaugh said Chakrabarti "writes their speeches. They are his minions. He controls the money. By the way, she's (AOC's) gonna be primaried."
The official House Democratic Caucus Twitter account recently tore into Chakrabarti for criticizing Democratic Rep. Sharice Davids of Kansas for her votes on issues to do with the migrant crisis at the border.
"I don't think people have to be personally racist to enable a racist system. And the same could even be said of the Southern Democrats. I don't believe Sharice is a racist person, but her votes are showing her to enable a racist system," Chakrabarti tweeted.
The caucus then took aim, tweeting: "Who is this guy and why is he explicitly singling out a Native American woman of color? Her name is Congresswoman Davids, not Sharice. She is a phenomenal new member who flipped a red seat blue. Keep Her Name Out Of Your Mouth."
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) and Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) are also reportedly infuriated with Chakrabarti over the Justice Democrats backing primary challenges against their members.
Justice Democrats is backing primary challengers to eight-term Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas; 10-term Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay of Missouri; and Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries of New York, who is as a possible successor to Speaker Pelosi.
"It just seems strange that the social Democrats seem to be targeting members of the Congressional Black Caucus, individuals who have stood and fought to make sure that African Americans are included and part of this process," Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York, a senior CBC member, told The Hill.
"I don't know what that agenda is, but if they want to come after members of the Black Caucus, it's two ways," warned Meeks, the Queens Democratic Party boss who clashed with Justice Democrats in a local district attorney race last month.
CBC leaders are also reportedly irate that Justice Democrats may target other black lawmakers in the coming weeks and months, including Reps. Yvette Clarke of New York, Joyce Beatty of Ohio, Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri and Anthony Brown of Maryland.
Brown said Chakrabarti's group has been making calls in his district, actively trying to recruit a challenger to run against him — something that Justice Democrats denies.
In a statement, Justice Democrats' executive director, Alexandra Rojas, defended the group's strategy, noting that it has endorsed several candidates of color.
"Barack Obama first ran for Congress in a primary challenge to Rep. Bobby Rush, a CBC member," Rojas added. "This is a democracy and voters deserve choices."
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Попытка военного переворота в Габоне произошла 7 января 2019 года в результате вмешательства «Патриотического молодёжного движения военных и спецслужб Габона» из армии Габона.

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Предыстория
24 октября 2018 года президент Габона Али Бонго Ондимба перенёс инсульт. Он был госпитализирован в клинику Эр-Рияда. Во время переворота президент находился в Марокко, где проходил медицинское лечение.

31 декабря 2018 года президент обратился к народу в новогоднем телеобращении, в котором сообщил, что чувствует себя хорошо и продолжает работать.

2 января 2019 года по приказу президента США Дональда Трампа, в Габон были направлены 80 военнослужащих для обеспечения безопасности американских граждан, которые находятся в Демократической республике Конго в момент обострения ситуации после прошедших всеобщих выборов.

Переворот
7 января 2019 года около 4:00 по местному времени, десять военных-заговорщиков из состава Республиканской гвардии Габона (фактически составляет гарнизон столицы), вооруженные стрелковым оружием, на нескольких военных джипах прибыли в офис государственной радиовещательной станции Габона в Либревиле. Они заблокировали все подходы к зданию с помощью военной техники и получили доступ в прямой эфир. Коммюнике от имени армии в прямом эфире зачитал 26-летний лейтенант Ондо Обианг Келли, сообщивший, что в ближайшие часы будет создан Национальный совет реставрации для «восстановления демократии». Новогоднее обращение президента, который не мог двигать правой рукой и с трудом выговаривал слова, военный назвал «жалким зрелищем» и «бесконечной попыткой зацепиться за власть». В своём заявлении лейтенант также обозначил, что переворот направлен против того, «кто трусливо убил юных патриотов» в августе 2016 года. Также он призвал население Габона поддержать путчистов зачитав в прямом эфире воззвание:

Наступил долгожданный день, когда армия решила встать на сторону народа, чтобы защитить Габон от наступающего хаоса. Если вы едете остановитесь, если вы едите остановитесь, если вы пьете остановитесь, если вы спите проснитесь! Разбудите соседей и возьмите под контроль улицы!

Пресс-секретарь президента заявил, что Али Бонго Ондимба вскоре выступит с обращением к нации.
Около 300 человек откликнувшись на призыв путчистов вышли на улицы города собрав стихийный митинг у здания государственной радиовещательной станции, однако вскоре они были разогнаны верными правительству частями и полицией с применением слезоточивого газа.

Согласно источнику радио RFI в вооружённых силах страны, не все в армии поддержали путчистов. В это же время в Либревиле около 10:00 — 10:30 утра была слышна интенсивная стрельба, — как стало известно позже, это полицейские подразделения, верные правительству, штурмовали захваченную путчистами радиовещательную станцию, в которой также (по словам правительства) удерживались заложники. Кроме того, в городе был отключён интернет, а в некоторых районах не было электричества.

Позднее, около 11:00 утра, министр по делам коммуникаций Ги-Бертран Мапонга заявил, что четверо из пяти главных путчистов были арестованы, а ещё один объявлен в розыск и что ситуация в столице полностью под контролем правительства.. Позже стало известно, что при штурме радиовещательной станции в перестрелке с органами правопорядка были убиты 2 путчиста, ещё 7, включая лидера мятежа лейтенанта Ондо Обианга Келли, были арестованы, один сумел скрыться и был объявлен в розыск, но в тот же вечер задержан при попытке покинуть столицу. Правительственные силы потеряли при штурме захваченной радиовещательной станции трех человек ранеными.

Международная реакция
7 января 2019 года Африканский союз выступил с осуждением мятежников. «Африканский союз жестко осуждает попытку путча этим утром в Габоне. Я подтверждаю полную неприемлемость для Африканского союза любой формы неконституционной смены власти», — написал на своей странице в Twitter председатель Комиссии союза Муса Факи Махамат. МИД Франции также раскритиковало действия путчистов. «Стабильность Габона может быть обеспечена только в строгом соответствии с положениями конституции», заявил пресс-секретарь министерства. Такую же позицию заняли официальные представители ЮАР, Египта, Турции, Нигерии и Чада.

Суд и приговор
После задержания все заговорщики содержались в центральной тюрьме Либревиля. 18 июня 2021 года над ними начался судебный процесс, который уже 1 июля 2021 года признал лейтенанта Ондо Обианга Келли, прапорщиков Димитрия Нзе Мекома и Бидима Манонго главными идейными вдохновителями и лидерами неудавшегося путча, назначив им в качестве наказания по 15 лет лишения свободы каждому. Также они были с позором исключены из состава вооруженных сил Габона и обязаны выплатить компенсацию государству размером в 31 млн Центральноафриканских франков. Остальные участники путча были оправданы и освобождены из под стражи прямо в зале суда.

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2019 год в политике
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Bleak trade scenarios as Trump wins in the USA
The Republican victory could have potentially serious implications for trade-focused economies such as Australia.
Published on the 09 Nov 2016
"A victory for Donald Trump in this week's long-awaited US presidential election may result a global trade war, thanks to Trump's protectionist trade policies," says UNSW Business School's Tim Harcourt. "Just look at the sell-off in share-markets around the world."
Tim Harcourt is the JW Nevile Fellow of Economics UNSW Business School. He says the Republican victory would also have potentially serious implications for trade-focused economies such as Australia. "It's a funny election when Wall Street wants the Democrat to win and the Russians want the Republican to win. That was my immediate thought on Election Day as the world was glued to CNN Fox or their TV network of choice," he says.
With Trump now the winner, he asks what this means for the world economy "There are jitters in the markers mainly because Trump has no political track record. He's never been a governor nor even a mayor. And that means even republican supporters in the financial markets thought the calm and experienced Hillary Clinton was a better bet.
Donald Trump's unorthodox populist fashion has confounded pundits. "Donald Trump is the most isolationist political candidate since the 1920s when the Great Depression caused America and most nations to put up tariffs thinking that would stave off unemployment," says Tim Harcourt.
There are questions now as to whether Trump will set off a trade war. "It is unlikely he will withdraw defence protection from South Korea and Japan, however the rhetoric and tone of the administration will be 'America first', and that's a worry for Australia and the Asia pacific."
But there may be another surprise left from Donald Trump. "He may in office be quite different to what he has said in a 'cut through' campaign against Washington conventional politics. And as The Monty Python Boys say 'always look on the bright side of life'. Despite the shock, the world keeps on spinning," says Tim Harcourt.
For further comment call Tim Harcourt on 02 9385 3816, 0408 485 479, or Email tim.harcourt@unsw.edu.au.
Media contact: Julian Lorkin: 02 9385 9887


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Nick Carroll: The Breakwall Dilemma
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A surfer shoots by the rocks at the Swansea Channel during a 2013 cyclone swell. Waves on the other side of the breakwall at Blacksmiths beach are disappearing. Photo: Uploaded by CW User Sprucey
COASTALWATCH | NICK CARROLL
Erosion on central NSW beaches poses the question: Are our happy accidents turning bad on us?
Back in the early 1960s, a NSW public works program helped create some of Australia's best happy-accident waves.
Training walls on rivermouths from Duranbah to the far south coast, designed to give better access for fishing vessels, quickly re-formed beaches and sandflows in ways nobody had imagined. Where once there was crap, now there were wedges, peaks and walls for days.
Whole mini-surf-cultures sprang up around these spots. Great surfers have fed off them for generations.
But what if some of 'em are turning on us?
Surfers at Blacksmiths Beach south of Newcastle have watched as in the past 18 months, 50 metres of sand has eroded from the foreshore, exposing the remnant dune to future wave action.
Along with the sand, according to local surfer and surf school proprietor Miles Niddrie, 17 separately named spots colonised by surfers since the late 1960s have disappeared, leaving nothing but a flat-lining shoredump. It's now on the Surfrider Foundation's endangered list.
Miles and others suspect the culprit may be altered sandflows from the Swansea Channel, due to dredging and changes in the channel's training walls. Swansea Channel's main wall frames the south end of Blacksmiths, which not so long ago hosted super fun surf: peaks and running wedges typical of NSW breakwalls. "My kids learned to surf there," he says. "I learned there."
Now there's just a hole. Even the mildly fabled right sandbar outside the wall has deteriorated.
"What's happening now is there's more sand (being held) on the inside of the wall, in the channel," says Miles. "So there'll actually be more waves breaking in there than on the open beach."
It hasn't attracted nearly as much attention as the erosion at Stockton Beach north of Newcastle — perhaps because unlike at Stockton, there aren't any buildings currently threatened. But the effect on the surf is the same. Miles worked at Stockton when he started his surf school 15 years ago, but he had to quit the beach four years ago. Now he wonders if he'll have to do the same at Blacksmiths.
Like Blacksmiths, Stockton's erosion is thought to be a result of altered sandflows thanks to training walls, this time on the Newcastle harbour mouth.
Stockton locals have made the politicians sit up and take notice. At Blacksmiths, they've been able to work with Swansea's MP Yasmin Catley, who Miles says has "been really going into bat for us." As a result, a trial was done last year with some of the dredged sand from inside the channel, which was dumped near the breakwall. For a while the surf was back and they were stoked. But not for long.
Meanwhile, things are changing along this coast. Sea levels will rise, storms will strike from unusual angles. Will there be more Stocktons and Blacksmiths to come? And if so, can we rely on nature to fix it, or is the future one of constant intervention — less accidental this time, and maybe less happy?
Miles for one suspects the latter. "This (erosion) could be a natural cycle. But the area has been modified (in the past) by human hands," he says.
He would like to see a bypass, pulling sand out of the Swansea Channel on a semi-permanent basis and dropping it on the beach side of the Blacksmiths wall. Like a small version of the Tweed bypass that created the Superbank.
"The Gold Coast is 15 years ahead of us," he says. "They've done the bypass, they're making artificial reefs, all of it. We don't need to re-invent the wheel here."
The state of the beach at Blacksmiths today.


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100s of musicians sought for mass 'Seven Nation Army' on Belle Isle
The White Stripes classic will get a big workout in Detroit on July 3, filmed for a U.S. television network
100s of musicians sought for mass 'Seven Nation Army' on Belle Isle The White Stripes classic will get a big workout in Detroit on July 3, filmed for a U.S. television network Check out this story on Freep.com: https://on.freep.com/2yGwJoB
Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press Published 5:18 p.m. ET June 25, 2018 | Updated 6:25 p.m. ET June 25, 2018
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A Detroit rock classic will get a big-time workout July 3 at Belle Isle.
Local musicians and singers are being solicited to take part in a mass performance of the White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army," the 2003 song that bears one of the most familiar riffs in 21st Century rock.
The event is being staged by the Italian-based organization Rockin' 1000, which launched in 2015 when 1,000 musicians assembled to play the Foo Fighters' "Learn to Fly." The Belle Isle performance will be filmed for "a TV show on a major U.S. television network," the group says.
While Rockin' 1000 declares that "the only requirement is passion," singers, guitarists, bassists and drummers who'd like to participate in "Seven Nation Army" are asked to first submit a video displaying their music skills. Full info is at the Rockin' 1000 website.
Once accepted, musicians will be provided details on the exact Belle Isle location. Rehearsals will start onsite at 2:30 p.m. July 3; filming will start at 6 p.m. and run for an hour.
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Franks to Seek National Nomination
From the NZ Herald
Former Act MP Stephen Franks is seeking to run for the National Party in the affluent seat of Wellington Central at the next election.
Mr Franks, who was ejected from Parliament in 2005 when Act got enough votes for only two MPs, told the Weekend Herald he had been wooed by National before but felt the time was right to put his name forward for selection.
While I'm disappointed that Stephen won't be standing on the ACT banner, I'm stoked that he wants to go back to Parliament.
Stephen could do very nicely by staying with the law, but he has unfinished business that can only be addressed in the public sphere.
Stephen is one of the finest legal minds that Parliament has seen in decades.
I wish him well and sincerely hope he makes it back in.
New Zealand will be better off if he does.
posted by Trevor Loudon at 12/01/2007 11:40:00 AM
just another lawyer parasite looking to get his nose back into the public feed bin.
Why don't you tell us all about Stephen's leanings towards communism and his time in China in the late 70s, Trev?
Trevor Loudon said...
You obviously don't know Stephen anon.
For a start his law practice would probably pay him several times an MPs salary.
I'm sure it would cost him huge money to go back to Parliament.
Stephen franks is an idealist who wants to make a difference.
I hope he gets the opportunity.
Anon-Stephen was part of the leftist Wellington student scene of the '70s. He went to China and he met Rewi Alley. Later he was active in the Labour Party.
Stephen still has the same idealism that took him to the far left.
Thankfully he has managed to maintain his good intentions and combine them with much better ideas.
Stephen is one reason I am a little indulgement of the youthful left.
Like Stephen, many will be on our side one day, when they realise that freedom and capitalism are tools of human liberation.
Most young people join the left out of idealism. If they can maintain that idealism and couple it with wisdom they can be great allies.
I too hope he makes it. With he and Finlayson as Minister Of Justice and Attorney General the Nats will have a legal team that labout cannot even dream about matching.
Amen to that pdm.
Where he is best suited I guess...not really a fan of freedom but conservative 'permission" on his terms....sad.
"Stephen is one reason I am a little indulgement of the youthful left."
Since when was Stephen Franks a youth Trev? Hello? I don't think so... are you older than him Trev?
Huhana
P.S. I know you won't respond to me Trev 'cos I'm an old lady! See ya
This won't do ACT's chances of winning Wellington Central any good.
Trevor says "Stephen is one reason I am a little indulgement of the youthful left."
This reminds me of the following quote. I don't know it's origin.
"If you are not a socialist as a youth you don't have a heart.
If you are not a capitalist as a adult you don't have a brain."
And here is a quote for all those agitating for a Maori Bantustan in NZ.
"The empires of the future are empires of the mind."
"This won't do ACT's chances of winning Wellington Central any good"
Stephen hasn't won the nomination yet.
Clearly a chance at the front bench has allowed him to put principles aside.
Its sad because act needs to consolidate its position on the right and let national and labour fight over the shift with the wind middle.
Did Stephen spit the dummy because Heather was selected as ACT's 2008 Wellington Central candidate?
No anon. Stephen has been going to Nat meetings for some time. No secrets. He made his intentions clear some time ago.
not a good look quoting winston churchill who advocated geneocide against 'savage' tribes and 'lesser' people.
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Why Virginia doctors say it's crucial to get a flu shot this season
A graph from the Virginia Department of Health compared this season to last showed a higher rate of flu cases circulating in the state than at the same time last year.
By: Shannon Lilly
Posted at 10:19 PM, Dec 01, 2021
RICHMOND, Va. -- With a winter COVID surge likely on the way and the first omicron variant case now detected in the U.S., Virginia health officials are also keeping a close eye on another virus.
"We should absolutely be expecting to see more of a flu season this year," said Dr. Melissa Viray, Deputy Director for the Richmond and Henrico Health Districts.
Dr. Viray said that was because last year there was virtually no flu activity. Even so far this season, cases were still relatively low and considered 'sporadic' in the state.
But despite that, Dr. Viray said this year in particular, people should consider getting a flu shot.
"There are some who speculate that because we kind of skipped the flu season that we just haven't. Our bodies, our communities, haven't had the same sort of exposure to flu that we normally see every year," Dr. Viray said.
She said doctors didn't know if the lack of flu season last year might predispose the community to more severe illness this year.
"We don't know that yet. But we might," said Dr. Viray.
She said another concern was the combination of the flu virus and the likely surge in COVID cases during the winter months.
"COVID has complicated everything right?" Dr. Viray said. "I can't tell you what it's going to look like to have flu and COVID at the same time or flu then COVID. You know, if that's going to mean that your body may not respond as well, if you may have a more severe disease. I think we may know more than we want to know about that after this season."
Dr. Viray said locally, and across the country, there had been an uptick in the H3N2 flu strain, particularly in children and young adults. She said that was something families should think about as their kids came home from college and school for the holidays.
"It's even more important that you take all, as many steps as possible, not just for COVID, but also for influenza, to keep everybody safe," Dr. Viray said.
Dr. Richard Wenzel, Infectious Disease Epidemiologist at VCU said with the omicron variant now in the U.S., and a potential uptick in COVID and flu cases amid the winter months, the goal was to keep from overwhelming hospitals.
"Hospitals already in the upper Midwest, where it's cold, and some parts of New England are already overwhelmed. They're packed already," said Dr. Wenzel. "It doesn't take much to push the system really to an exhaustive category."
Dr. Wenzel said the best way to prevent that from happening was through vaccines. Although he said at this point, doctors were not certain how effective the COVID vaccines are against the Omicron variant.
"There's a whole lot of mutations, including right at the spike," said Dr. Wenzel. "With the vaccine, we're making antibodies to the spike. But if the spike changes, those antibodies that we had for yesterday's spike, are not going to be effective for tomorrow's spike. So that's the concern."
However, Dr. Wenzel said it was likely that COVID vaccines would at least offer some protection against the Omicron Variant.
"I don't like to predict, but based on what we've seen so far, that we'll at least get some protection and maybe a fair amount of protection against severe disease, but maybe less so for mild or moderate. So again, getting the COVID vaccine can't be emphasized enough," said Dr. Wenzel.
Dr. Viray said it was safe to get both the flu shot and a COVID vaccine at the same time.
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