Hey, Is This Really Real?
There's a very popular magazine on the shelves of all the cooking sections I've seen lately. You've no doubt heard of it, given that they also produce a tv cooking show. The magazine is called Real Simple. There are, I have to say, great recipes within the pages of this mag. It's the cover that gets to me. Well, the name of the magazine (and show) actually. Real Simple. What in the name of all things grammatical are they trying to say? Do they mean that the recipes within those pages are real (as in not fake) and simple? If so, the title should read: Real, Simple. Do they mean that the recipes therein are easy to pull together (as in Really Simple)? Am I over thinking this? Probably. But, the magazine's name does point toward a very common grammatical error. When do we use real vs really or bad vs badly? Continue reading → Hey, Is This Really Real?


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The population density in West Haven is 690% higher than Connecticut.
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Posts Tagged 'Algonquin Books'
Shop Talk | May 30, 2018
Stories We Love: "The Bobcat," by Rebecca Lee
by Christina Ward-Niven
"And a bobcat may somehow be involved. How can we not read on?": Christina Ward-Niven takes a close look at the control of tension in Rebecca Lee's "Bobcat."
Algonquin Books, bobcat and other stories, christina ward-niven, rebecca lee, short story month, Stories we love
Interviews | September 30, 2015
Architectures like Underground Cities: Part III of an Interview with Julianna Baggott
In Part III of Sebastian Matthews's five-part interview with Julianna Baggott (who also writes as Bridget Asher and N.E. Bode), the two discuss the anxiety of influence, voice, and collaboration.
Algonquin Books, Bridget Asher, Hachette, julianna Baggott, N.E. Bode, novel, sebastian matthews, Steve Almond, The Anybodies, Which Brings Me to You, YA-lit, Young Adult Lit
Interviews | April 08, 2015
Reclaiming Our Homes: An Interview with Aline Ohanesian
"I knew I wanted the book to have one foot in the past and one in the present. It was the only way to really explore the themes that interested me, namely how much impact does the past have upon our present? "
Algonquin Books, Aline Ohanesian, armenia, debut novel, Melissa Scholes-Young, Orhan's Inheritance
Reviews | November 13, 2014
Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel, by Sara Farizan
Lara Zielin calls Sara Farizan's new novel Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel "more than just a successful young-adult novel. It's an intersection where a work of art meets a cultural shift at exactly the right moment."
#weneeddiversebooks, Algonquin Books, Lara Zielin, Sara Farizan, Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel, We Need Diverse Books, YA-lit, Young Adult Lit
Reviews | January 16, 2014
Kids These Days, by Drew Perry
Lots of novels that call themselves funny turn out to be playful or witty or perhaps casually clever in a quiet way. But Drew Perry's Kids These Days (Algonquin) is a genuinely funny book. One that will make you guffaw into your gingerbread latte until a stranger at the next table asks, "What's so funny?" At which point you might—as I did—end up reading pages aloud and making a scene at Starbucks. If you want a novel that serves up its humor in a venti-sized cup, this one's for you. Part of what's funny is the premise: Walter and Alice […]
Algonquin Books, comic novels, Drew Perry, Sharon Harrigan
Reviews | April 26, 2013
The Third Son, by Julie Wu
Julie Wu's debut novel, The Third Son (Algonquin), depicts the struggles of a Taiwanese boy, Saburo Tong, to escape his impoverished, cruel background and to establish a meaningful adult life for himself, a journey that takes him from poverty and oppression in Taiwan to the opportunity and relative freedom of 1950s America.
Algonquin Books, international fiction, international lit, Julie Wu, Taiwan, The Third Son
Shop Talk | December 18, 2012
Book-of-the-Week Winners: The Beach at Galle Road
Our most recent feature was Joanna Luloff's debut collection The Beach at Galle Road, and we're pleased to announce the winners: Abraham Hidalgo (@Abraham_Hidalgo) emmjae (@emmjaepenniman) KellyMHart (@KellyMHart) Congrats! To claim your free copy, please email us at the following address: winners [at] fictionwritersreview.com If you'd like to be eligible for future giveaways, please visit our Twitter Page and "follow" us! Thanks to all of you who are fans. We appreciate your support. Let us know your favorite new books out there!
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Book of the Week: The Beach at Galle Road, by Joanna Luloff
Our new feature is Joanna Luloff's debut collection, The Beach at Galle Road, which was published this fall by Algonquin Books. Luloff received her MFA from Emerson College and her PhD from the University of Missouri. Prior to graduate school, she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Baddegama, Sri Lanka. Her short stories have appeared in The Missouri Review, Confrontation, Memorious, and New South. She is an Assistant Professor of English at SUNY Potsdam. In Tyler McMahon's recent review of Luloff's collection, the stories of which take place in Sri Lanka, he writes: The author lived and worked in […]
Algonquin Books, Book of the Week, debut story collection, Joanna Luloff, The Beach at Galle Road
Reviews | October 21, 2009
Secret Son, by Laila Lalami
Few places are more evocative of mystery and the exotic than Casablanca. And anyone who has ever imagined its fragrances or color will recognize the setting of Laila Lalami's second novel. But those who imagine Casablanca merely as a city of romance and North African charm may find themselves at a loss to reconcile the spices of their imagination with the brutal realities of poverty and the political and religious corruption Lalami portrays in Secret Son (Algonquin Books, April 2009).
Algonquin Books, craft, international lit, Jessica Belle Smith, laila lalami, lit and identity, lit and politics, point of view, Review, Secret Son
An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England, by Brock Clarke
I don't actually want to tell you anything about this novel. I want you to go read it and then meet me at Sweetwaters in Ann Arbor, so we can talk about our favorite parts while sipping mocha lattes and nibbling cranberry scones. This type of behavior—informally discussing books in settings seemingly created for the informal discussion of books—is something that Clarke makes fun of in the novel, but then again, he makes fun of pretty much anyone who likes books, or talks about books, or thinks they are at all important. A significant feat, considering the fact that Clarke obviously reads tons of books, and loves them, and thinks they're at least important enough to spend a few years writing a pretty good one.
Algonquin Books, An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England, Brian Short, Brock Clarke, humor, novel, now in paperback, Review


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I've found the issue during the investigation of #15395, but I don't know it is related or not.
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I'm never ill, but last month I contracted the first serious upper respiratory tract infection (URTI) I've had in years. With perfect timing, my symptoms started two days into my one-week water sports holiday. The "bug" was most likely contracted the on the flight to my holiday destination, but that's what you get if you spend three hours sealed in a metal tube with 200 kids! My plans to continue my half marathon training were completely scuppered by long (embarrassing) coughing fits and an inability to do anything more energetic than potter about in a dinghy. My lungs felt tight and tender, and I couldn't even take a deep breath without coughing.
My first challenge upon returning home was attending and speaking at a conference. The day before my presentation I had to rush out of the auditorium five times because of coughing fits – things weren't looking good for my "big prezo" the next day. However, dosed-up with cough suppressant, I managed a slightly croaky lecture without coughing, and was mighty relieved to get to the end with hardly a splutter.
Here's what I did to regain my "pumping power". I did IMT every day, but only once; every other day, I did my IMT after an aerobic workout. I always use the manual load setting on the POWERbreathe® K5, and I increased the training load 2-3 cmH2O each day; however, I also allowed myself to decrease the load during a session if it got too "heavy", and compromised the quality of the session (i.e., impaired power, flow or breath volume). I found that my "stats" recovered fairly quickly on the days when I did the IMT "fresh", but on the days were I did an aerobic workout beforehand, the stats took much longer to recover. This indicated that my aerobic workouts had become more fatiguing for my inspiratory muscles (find out why that's bad news?). In fact, 12 days into my "rehab", I'm still not quite able to achieve my pre-URTI performance, but I'm getting closer by the day. As for my aerobic training, at first, my pace was slower, and I was more aware of my breathing than I'd been in years, and it's not a nice feeling! But 12 days on, my pace has recovered, and I'd say I'm back to normal in terms of breathing effort perception – it's negligible most of the time.
Was the demise of my "pumping power" worse because it was caused by a URTI? Possibly, because the URTI caused ANY increase in flow or volume to induce coughing. However, in my view, any situation that causes a decrease in the activity of the respiratory pump will lead the muscles to detrain. If the cause of this decrease is a musculoskeletal injury, then respiratory pump deterioration can be prevented by maintaining IMT throughout the "lay off". In fact, if you can do any amount of IMT during a period of illness or injury, you should, because depending upon the duration of the "lay off", it could take you a couple of weeks to get your breathing back on track.
My experience was salutary for a number of reasons, not least because it gave me a small insight into how much of a "knock back" a respiratory infection can be for a patient with chronic lung disease (and I didn't even have a lower respiratory tract infection). It also confirmed what is known about detraining of inspiratory muscles from patients who need to be mechanically ventilated – in their case, the inspiratory muscles are essentially switched off, and a pump forces air into their lungs – in my case, my inspiratory muscles experienced a dramatic decrease in their physical activity. In both cases, inspiratory muscle function appears to fall off a cliff!
What else have I learnt? It's staggering how quickly "you lose it" when "you don't use it". In my case, my inspiratory muscles had virtually no exercise AT ALL for 10 days – no aerobic-related work, and no IMT (my expiratory muscles were kept in fine fettle by my coughing fits!). The good news is that I've been able to recover almost all of my lost function in the 12 days that followed the URTI. The keys to this were: doing IMT every day; allowing myself to decrease my normal training load to maintain "reps" and training quality; being aware that my IMT would be more affected than usual in a pre-fatigued state (i.e., after an aerobic workout) and adjusting my load accordingly; increasing the training load slowly, but surely each day.
When it comes to the inspiratory muscles, the "use it or lose it" phenomenon appears to be particularly potent. This probably reflects the fact that, under normal conditions, the inspiratory muscles are active from our first to our last breath. This seems to make them extremely sensitive to changes in the demands that are placed upon them – wasting away quickly when demand decreases. However, the reverse is also true, and with the right training stimulus, it's possible to increase function quickly and substantially.


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4VAC25-31-120
4VAC25-31-120. Permit fee and bond.
A. The following permit fees shall be submitted upon receipt of a billing notice from the director and before the permit is issued:
1. A fee of $31 per acre for the total permitted acres shall be submitted for the initial permit application.
2. A fee of $16 per acre for the land permitted by the total operation shall be paid to transfer the permit when one operator succeeds another on an uncompleted operation. Permit fees for the initial permit application and permit renewal shall be submitted upon receipt of a billing notice from the director and before the permit is issued or renewed. Fees shall be paid in accordance with § 45.1-181 of the Code of Virginia.
B. Permit fees for the transfer of a mine permit shall be submitted upon receipt of a billing notice from the director and before the transferred permit is issued. Fees shall be paid in accordance with § 45.1-184.2 of the Code of Virginia.
C. All fees shall be in the form of cash, check, money order, or other form of payment acceptable to the director.
C. D. A bond is required as set forth in Part III of this regulation. Bonding shall be provided once the permit application is deemed complete.
4VAC25-31-130. Mineral mining plans.
Mineral mining plans shall be attached to the application and consist of the following:
1. The operation plan shall include a description of the proposed method of mining and processing; the location of top soil storage areas; overburden, refuse, and waste disposal areas; stockpiles, equipment storage, and maintenance areas; cut and fill slopes; and roadways. The operation plan shall address plans for the storage and disposal of scrap metal, scrap tires, used lubricants, coolants, and other equipment service products, batteries, process chemicals, trash, debris, and other hazardous materials. The operation plan shall also include all related design and construction data. The method of operation shall provide for the conducting of reclamation simultaneously where practicable with the mining operation. For the impoundments that meet the criteria of § 45.1-225.1 A of the Code of Virginia, plans shall be provided as required under 4VAC-25-31-180 and 4VAC25-31-500.
2. The drainage plan shall consist of a description of the drainage system to be constructed before, during, and after mining,; a map or overlay showing the natural drainage system,; and all sediment and drainage control structures to be installed along with all related design and construction data.
3. The reclamation plan shall include a statement of the planned land use to which the disturbed land will be returned through reclamation, the proposed actions to assure suitable reclamation, and a time schedule for reclamation. The method of grading,; removal of metal, lumber, and debris, including processing equipment,; buildings,; and other equipment relative to the mining operation and revegetation of the disturbed area shall be specified. Reclamation plans for underground mines shall include plans for closing or securing all entrances to underground workings.
4. Adequate maps, plans and cross sections, and construction specifications shall be submitted to demonstrate compliance with the performance standards of Part IV (4VAC25-31-330 et seq.) of this chapter and Chapter 16 (§ 45.1-180 et seq.) of Title 45.1 of the Code of Virginia. Designs, unless otherwise specified, shall be prepared by a qualified person, using accepted engineering design standards and specifications.
5. A copy of the Virginia Department of Transportation land use permit for roads that connect to public roads.
6. If mining below the water table is to take place, the following conditions apply:
a. The application shall contain an assessment of the potential for impact on the overall hydrologic balance from the proposed operations to be conducted within the permitted area for review and approval.
b. A plan for the minimization of adverse effects on water quality or quantity shall be prepared based on the assessment in subdivision 6 a of this section and included in the application.
c. Permanent lakes or ponds created by mining shall be equal to or greater than four feet deep or otherwise constructed in a manner acceptable to the director.
4VAC25-31-170. Permit application notifications.
A. The applicant shall notify the following shall be made with parties of a new permit application via certified mail:
1. Notification to property Property owners within 1,000 feet of the permit boundary by certified mail. A record shall be kept of:
a. The names and addresses of those notified, and
b. The certified mail return receipts used for the notification.
2. A statement as required by § 45.1-184.1 of the Code of Virginia to property owners that requires land owners within 1,000 feet of the permit boundary to be notified that the operator is seeking a surface mining and reclamation permit from the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy. The statement shall also include:
a. Company name;
b. Date;
c. Location;
d. Distance and direction of nearest town or other easily identified landmark;
e. City or county;
f. Tax map identification number; and
g. Requirements for (i) regrading; (ii) revegetation; and (iii) erosion controls of mineral mine sites.
h. A notice that informs property owners that they have 10 days from receipt of the permit notification to specify written objections or request a hearing. This request shall be in writing and shall be sent to the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, Division of Mineral Mining. The Chief Administrative Official of the local political subdivision where the prospective mining operation would take place.
3. All public utilities on or within 500 feet of permit boundary.
B. Applicants will provide a copy of the permit notification to the division at the time they are mailed to the neighboring landowners. All notifications shall contain:
1. The name of the permit applicant issuing notice and the date of notification;
2. The permit applicant's address, phone number, and other contact information as available;
3. The name and address of the property owner, chief administrative official, or utility receiving the notification;
4. A statement as required by § 45.1-184.1 of the Code of Virginia to property owners that requires land owners within 1,000 feet of the permit boundary to be notified that the operator is seeking a mining and reclamation permit from the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy. The statement shall also note that the mining permit must address department requirements for regrading, revegetation, and erosion controls of mineral mine sites;
5. The location of the proposed mine, the city or county in which it is located, the distance of the nearest town or other easily identified landmark, and the tax map identification number of the parcels to be permitted; and
6. A notice that informs property owners within 1,000 feet of the permit boundary that they have 10 days from receipt of the permit notification to specify written objections or request a hearing. This request shall be in writing and shall be sent to the division. The current address for the division shall be provided on the notification.
C. A statement, with certified mail receipt, certifying that the chief administrative official of the local political subdivision has been notified.
D. Notification shall be made to any public utilities on or within 500 feet of the permitted area. The notification shall consist of the following:
1. The name of the party issuing the notice;
2. The applicant name, address, and phone number; and
3. The name and address of the party receiving the notice and the information noted in subdivision A 2 of this section.
E. C. No permit will be issued until at least 15 days after receipt of the application by the division. If all persons required to receive notice have issued a statement of no objection, the permit may be issued in less than 15 days.
F. D. Copies of all permit notifications and statements required in subsections A through D of this section shall be supplied submitted to the division with the application at the time they are mailed to the parties identified in subsection A of this section.
E. Documentation of certified mail receipts of the notifications described in this section shall be included with the permit application.
4VAC25-31-240. Bond amount.
A. The amount of bond shall be $1,000 per acre of disturbed land Bond shall be set in accordance with § 45.1-183 of the Code of Virginia.
B. The minimum bond for a mineral mining permit shall be $1,000 $3,000, except for restricted permits and Minerals Reclamation Fund participants.
4VAC25-31-360. Operation and reclamation.
A. Mining operations shall be conducted to minimize adverse effects on the environment and facilitate integration of reclamation with mining operations according to the special requirements of individual mineral types and the approved operation, drainage, and reclamation plans. Mining shall be conducted to minimize the acreage that is disturbed, and reclamation shall be conducted simultaneously with mining to the extent feasible.
B. Open pit mining of unconsolidated material shall be performed in such a way that extraction and reclamation are conducted simultaneously.
C. Mining activities shall be conducted so that the impact on water quality and quantity are minimized. Mining below the water table shall be done in accordance with the mining plan under 4VAC25-31-130.
D. Permanent lakes or ponds created by mining shall be equal to or greater than four feet deep, or otherwise constructed in a manner acceptable to the director.
E. Excavation shall be done in such a manner as to keep storm drainage flowing toward sediment control structures. Diversions shall be used to minimize storm run-off runoff over disturbed areas.
F. The mining operation shall be planned to enhance the appearance to the public during mining and to achieve simultaneous and final reclamation.
G. At the completion of mining, all entrances to underground mines shall be closed or secured and the surface area reclaimed in accordance with the mineral mining plan.
H. Reclamation shall be completed to allow the post-mining land use to be implemented. After reclamation, the post mining land use shall be achievable and compatible with surrounding land use. All necessary permits and approvals for the post-mining land use shall be obtained prior to implementation.
4VAC25-31-405. Disposal of waste.
On-site generated mine waste shall not be disposed of within the permitted mine area without prior approval. On-site generated inert materials are mine waste is approved for use as fill on the mining site provided they are capped with a minimum of four feet of soil an adequate cover and seeding is established per the approved reclamation plan. Off-site generated inert waste shall not be brought onto the mine permitted area or disposed of on the mine permitted area without prior approval.
4VAC25-31-410. Storage of top soil.
A. Top soil required for reclamation shall be stored with a maximum slope of 2:1 and in such a manner as to remain available for reclamation. The operator shall retain a minimum quantity sufficient to cover all disturbed areas to be reclaimed with six inches of top soil or as specified in an approved operations plan. Top soil will be needed for future reclamation and shall not be removed from the permitted area unless authorized by the division.
B. The stockpiled top soil shall be seeded with quick growing grasses or legumes for stabilization until used in final reclamation.
C. The provisions of this section shall not apply to sand and gravel operations in the Coastal Plain physiographic province.
4VAC25-31-420. Screening.
A. Screening shall be provided for sound absorption and to improve the appearance of the mining site from public roads, public buildings, recreation areas, and occupied dwellings.
B. If screening is to be undisturbed forest, a distance of 100 feet must be left undisturbed within the permit boundary. Less than 100 feet may be approved if the natural vegetation provides the needed screening benefits between the mining operation and the adjacent property. Planted earth berms, tree plantings, natural topography, or appropriately designed fences or walls may be used if approved in the mineral mining plan.
C. On permanent berms for screening, the spoils (waste materials) shall be initially placed on the proposed berm area, and top soil (where available) shall be spread over the spoil areas berm, not less than six inches in thickness, and if possible, 12 inches in thickness. The remaining top soil shall be placed in a designated area for future spreading on other areas which that need top dressing. The top soil screening berm shall be seeded or planted in accordance with the approved reclamation plan.
4VAC25-31-430. Completion of active mining.
A. Except as provided in subsection B of this section and with the director's approval, a mining operation, where no mineral has been removed or overburden removed or regraded, or where no substantial mine-related activity has been conducted for a period of 12 consecutive months, shall be declared complete, and total reclamation shall begin.
B. At the option of the operator and with the director's concurrence approval, an operation may remain under permit for an indefinite period during which no mineral or overburden is removed if the following conditions are met to the director's satisfaction:
1. All disturbed areas are reclaimed to prevent erosion and sedimentation or adequately stabilized, or all erosion and sediment control systems are maintained in accordance with mining plans and proper engineering practices.
2. All drainage structures such as culverts and ditches are constructed and maintained in accordance with mining plans and proper engineering practices.
3. All vegetation is maintained, including reseeding if necessary.
4. All improvements on site, including machinery and equipment, are maintained in a state of good repair and condition.
If the above conditions listed in this subsection are not met, the permit may be revoked by the director in accordance with § 45.1-186.1 of the Code of Virginia.
4VAC25-31-440. Drainage and sediment control.
All mining operations shall have adequate drainage, erosion, and sediment control measures installed and maintained in accordance with the approved drainage plan or as acceptable to the division. Drainage from disturbed areas shall be directed into a sediment control structure before it is discharged from the permitted area. If adequate drainage, erosion, and sediment control measures cannot be provided, the permit for the affected portion or the entire mine may be denied.
4VAC25-31-450. Sediment basins.
Drainage from disturbed areas shall be directed into a sediment basin before it is discharged from the permit area. Sediment basins shall be located as close to the disturbed area as possible. Sediment basins shall not be located in perennial streams. Sediment control measures shall be installed prior to land disturbing activities within the drainage area controlled by the sediment basin. Each primary sediment basin shall provide at least 0.125 acre feet of storage capacity for each acre of disturbed land draining to it. Storage basins shall be cleaned as necessary to ensure proper functioning before they reach 60% capacity. Alternate sediment control measures that are as effective as sediment basins may be approved. The measures may include reduced basin storage capacity for small short-term disturbances, sediment channels, check dams, or mining methods that incorporate sediment control.
4VAC25-40-670. Fire extinguishers.
A. Whenever a fire or its effects could impede escape from self-propelled equipment, a fire extinguisher shall be on the equipment.
B. Whenever a fire or its effects would not impede escape from the equipment but could affect the escape of other persons in the area, a fire extinguisher shall be on the equipment or within 100 feet of the equipment.
C. All fire extinguishers required by this chapter shall meet the current standards established by the National Fire Prevention Association.
4VAC25-40-9999
DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE (4VAC25-40)
1996 Threshold Limit Values and Biological Exposure Indices published by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists
American Table of Distances, 1991 edition, published by the Institute of Makers of Explosives
National Electrical Code, 2008 edition, published by the National Fire Protection Association
National Fire Protection Association 10: Standard for Portable Fire Extinguishers, 2013 edition
Bureau of Mines Instruction Guide 19, Mine Emergency Training, U.S. Department of Labor, 1972 edition
Blasting Guidance Manual, U.S. Department of Interior, Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, 1987 edition
The American National Standard for Wire Rope for Miners, M11.11980, published by the American National Standards Institute


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International arms trade
The Malaysian Scorpene Submarine Affair
May 5, 2017 December 11, 2018 Xiaodon L. Liang 624 Views 10 Comments agents, bribery, DCNS, France, Malaysia, murder, Spain, submarines, Thales
The EUR 1.2 billion sale of French 'Scorpène' submarines to Malaysia in 2002, and the dubious commissions which accompanied the sale, might have gone unnoticed were it not for the kidnap and murder of a young translator in 2006. The victim, who had worked for a key agent on the deal, was targeted when she attempted to get her share of the commissions. The subsequent murder trial implicated members of the domestic police's special intelligence branch, who may have served the defense minister and future prime minister Najib Razak as bodyguards.
With investigations in Malaysia stymied by the political implications, momentum shifted to France. DCNS, the French shipbuilding company, was raided in 2010, and it eventually became clear that the company was under scrutiny for operating a chain of intermediaries to bribe Razak and the agent, Abdul Razak Baginda, in violation of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Convention on Bribery and its corresponding law in France.
Buyer country: Malaysia
Selling Countries and Firms:
DCNS (France)
Thales (France)
Navantia (Spain)
Year of Procurement Decision: 2002
The Equipment Sold: 2 Scorpene submarines, 1 Agosta submarine, second-hand
Initial Price: EUR 1.2 billion
Sum involved in corruption allegations: EUR 146.5 million
Najib Razak — Malaysia's defence minister (1999-2008) when the deal was signed, later prime minister (2009-2018).
Abdul Razak Baginda escorted into a courtroom by police in Shah Alam, Malaysia, on October 31, 2008. Getty Images/AFP, Saeed Khan.
Abdul Razak Baginda — former director of the Malaysian Strategic Research Center; suspected Malaysian agent for DCNS and controller of companies used to funnel commissions.
Altantuya Shaaribuu — Mongolian translator, formerly in a relationship with Baginda; assisted with the deal and was murdered in 2006.
Azilah Hadridan and Sirul Azhar Omar — Malaysian police Special Action Unit officers, bodyguards to Najib Razak; convicted in 2008 of the murder of Altantuya Shaaribuu. An appeals court overturned the verdict and freed them in 2014, whereupon Sirul Azhar Omar fled to Australia. The appeals court's judgment was itself overturned in 2015 by the Federal Court, leading to reinstatement of the death penalty against both.
Bernard Baiocco — former president of the Asian division of Thales (which owned a 50% share of prime contractor Armaris and now an indirect share through a stake in DCNS); suspected by French magistrates of paying bribes in relation to the deal.
Dominique Castellan — former president of the international branch of DCNS; suspected by French magistrates of paying bribes in relation to the deal.
The Arms Deal
Beginning in the 1990s, Malaysia opened tenders for a number of major military acquisition programs, including tanks, jets, and naval systems. In 2002, Malaysia agreed to purchase for EUR 1 billion two Scorpène submarines from Direction des Constructions Navales (DCN, now renamed Naval Group) of France and Navantia of Spain. Armaris, a joint-venture between DCN and Thales, would be the prime contractor for this sale while Navantia would serve as a design and industrial contracting partner. In 2007, Thales swapped its direct investment in the Armaris joint venture for a stake in DCN itself; since 2011, the French shipbuilder has been 35% owned by Thales. One of the Malaysian Scorpène submarines was produced in France, the other in Spain. A second-hand Agosta submarine was also included in the deal.
Corruption Allegations
The Scorpène-class "Tun Razak," destined for the Malaysian Navy, at the shipyard of Navantia-Cartagena, Spain, in October 2009. Wikimedia/Creative Commons, Outisnn.
Corruption allegations center on the role of a key agent for the deal, businessman Abdul Razak Baginda, a close associate of Malaysia's defence minister at the time, Najib Razak. Razak is now Malaysia's prime minister. The biggest suspicious payment was of EUR 114 million to Perimekar, a Malaysian company of which Baginda's wife was the primary shareholder. The payment was for "support and coordination services" in relation to the deal, but the company was only set up in 2001, a few months before the deal was signed, and had no relevant experience or expertise in managing this type of project. Further payments of EUR 30 million were subsequently made to Baginda. A further payment of EUR 2.5 million was subsequently made to an unnamed recipient. These commission payments were allegedly used to bribe Razak and other Malaysian officials.
Investigations and Outcomes
Mongolian translator Altantuya Shaaribuu, in a photograph handed out by Malaysian authorities.
Allegations of corruption relating to the deal emerged following the 2006 murder of 28-year old Mongolian interpreter Altantuya Shaaribuu by two officers of the Malaysian Special Branch, Azilah Hadridan and Sirul Azhar Omar, also previously bodyguards to Najib Razak. Shaaribuu had been Baginda's girlfriend, having met him in 2004, and had assisted in translating documents relating to details of the contract. A private detective hired to investigate her alleged that she had previously been the mistress of Najib Razak, but subsequently withdrew this claim.
When Shaaribuu heard that EUR 114 million had been paid to Perimekar, a company controlled by Baginda, she travelled to Kuala Lumpur to pressure Baginda into paying her USD 500,000 which she claimed was owed for her work in relation to the deal. She repeatedly appeared outside his house harassing him, possibly in an attempt to blackmail him.
A trial later found that on October 19, 2006, she was kidnapped and shot dead by the two Special Branch Officers, Azilah Hadridan and Sirul Azhar Omar, who subsequently destroyed her body with military-grade C-4 explosives that could only have been obtained with the defense ministry's permission. The two executioners were caught because her taxi driver, annoyed at not being paid, had noted down the registration number of the kidnappers' car.
The officers were convicted of her murder in 2008 and sentenced to death. The verdict was subsequently overturned on appeal in 2014, then reinstated by a higher court in early 2015. Azilah remains imprisoned in Malaysia, while Sirul Azhar fled to Australia, which will not hand him over without guarantees against eventual execution. Baginda was charged with abetting the murder, but acquitted.
The case, however, led to investigations into potential bribery in relation to the Scorpène deal. The French newspaper Libération published detailed allegations in 2009 of illegal commissions and of Baginda's involvement in the murder. The article revealed details of documents that the Malaysian court had refused to admit as evidence, supporting some of the claims.
Prime Minister Najib Razak of Malaysia speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 25, 2013. Flickr/Creative Commons, World Economic Forum/Michael Wuertenberg.
The Malaysian civil society group Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM) pursued investigations, and launched a complaint with the French courts in 2010 regarding bribery of Malaysian officials. A raid on DCNS' offices in 2010 led to the seizure of numerous documents, 133 of which were subsequently obtained and uploaded to the internet by the Asian Sentinel newspaper in 2012. The documents supported claims of illegal payments, established a possible link between the murder of Shaaribuu and the commissions, and outlined the use of a network of intermediary companies (including Perimekar) to circumvent the OECD Convention on bribery, which France had signed in 2000. The documents also claimed that DCNS was aware that the final benefactor of the commissions was to be the Malaysian ruling party, the United Malays National Organisation.
In March 2012, French authorities appointed a pair of examining magistrates to investigate the case. In 2016, Razak and Baginda were named by the magistrates as likely bribe recipients and the focus of the investigation. Baginda was placed under formal investigation in August 2017. Former Thales International Asia head Bernard Baiocco and former president of DCNS International Dominique Castellan are also under formal investigation for paying out the bribes.
The Malaysian government denies that there was any corruption associated with the deal. Baginda admits receiving the EUR 30 million, but maintains they were for his lobbying services and that no monies were paid to government officials.
Update (November 19, 2018): In November 2018, Malaysian online newspaper The Star reported that investigators had re-opened the corruption case against Najib Razak, six months after he was removed from office in an upset election. Najib was reported to have visited the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission headquarters at the request of investigators.
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John Berthelsen, "Deep and Dirty: Malaysia's Submarine Scandal," Malaysia Sentinel (online), June 25, 2012, http://www.asiasentinel.com/politics/deep-and-dirty-malaysias-submarine-scandal/.
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The Asian Sentinel documents are available at: https://www.scribd.com/collections/3678742/The-French-Malaysian-Submarine-Scandal-the-Documents
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E.S. Shankar
You might want to refer to my 2017 ebook 'Murdered In Malaysia:The Altantuya Story' which is the A-Z of the entire sordid affair, including details of the Scorpene submarines contract with DCNS France and numerous deaths associated with DCNS and Scorpene subs deals. Refer https://store.bookbaby.com/book/Murdered-in-Malaysia-The-Altantuya-Story.
I am also on Facebook. Please feel free to contact me if you want a complimentary copy of the ebook.
Here is a link to an unsolicited review of my ebook 'Murdered In Malaysia:The Altantuya Story' – https://readersfavorite.com/book-review/murdered-in-malaysia
Hakimi Abdul Jabar
Dr. Samuel Perlo-Freeman
and The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Formal Request For Joint-Collaboration Into Indepth and Detailed Exposé On The Malaysia Scorpene Submarine Affair
Pertaining to the aforementioned subject, I am a practising international/human rights/Fintech lawyer in Malaysia who has written and published books pertaining to the sordid subject :
https://www.amazon.com/High-Level-Corruption-Disappearance-Altantuya-Bodyguards-ebook/dp/B01GQGVMX0/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
http://www.malaysianbar.org.my/legaldirectory/mlawyerdetail.php?lid=H%2F562
http://www.kmtlegal.com/hakimi.html
https://21.co/hakimiabduljabar/
2. I have read your excellent piece on the above subject and had informed my friends of the possibility of extending gratis our joint-collaboration to further the cause of the World Peace Foundation & Tufts University in surgically exposing corrupt practices and practitioners in relation to this matter.
https://sites.tufts.edu/corruptarmsdeals/2017/05/05/the-malaysia-scorpene-submarine-affair/
3. E.S. Sankar is a trained Malaysian chartered accountant who is a fulltime published investigative author and authoritative blogger who has written and published an authoritative book on the subject-matter :
https://store.bookbaby.com/book/Murdered-in-Malaysia-The-Altantuya-Story
https://esshankar.com/about/
4. Hussein Abdul Hamid is a retired businessman and fulltime authoritative investigative blogger who has been publishing narratives and acclaimed commentaries on the subject-matter his very popular blog that has attracted more than 16 million views so far :
http://steadyaku-steadyaku-husseinhamid.blogspot.my/
5. Thus, we wish to jointly-collaborate with World Peace Foundation & Tufts University in surgically exposing corrupt practices and practitioners in relation to this matter and provide the latest developments pertaining to the subject-matter.
6. Kindly give our proposition for joint-collaboration the utmost consideration and we hope to hear from your goodself soonest possible.
Yours truthfully,
Hakimi bin Abdul Jabar
Advocate & Solicitor
High Court of Malaya
Your article is interesting. May I share this article?
Sam Perlo-Freeman
Of course! Sharing is very much encouraged. 🙂
Now that Malaysia is being run by a whole new government that has so far shown a willingness to tackle corruption, let's hope that an in-depth investigation into this Scorpene scandal is started immediately and #JusticeforAltantuya can be achieved.
Paramjeet Singh
Thank you so much for sharing this fantastic post! This is an interesting post.
I heard this news in a newspaper. The EUR 1.3 billion sales of French 'Scorpène' submarines to Malaysia in 1 Jan 2002. I also heard the Malaysian government denies that there was any corruption associated with the deal
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Clifford D. Conner, The Tragedy of American Science: From Truman to Trump, Haymarket Books, 2020, 300 pages
American1 science has aspired, for a long time, to present itself as exceptional.2 In 1966, the historian Hunter Dupre invited his colleagues to celebrate, in his view, this long-neglected exceptionalism. More than half-a-century on, Clifford Conner takes on and upends Dupre's grand thesis. With this mournful but marvelous survey, Conner challenges dominant narratives on the status, objectivity, and integrity of American science, revealing the role played by money, military, and politics in producing its apparent superiority in the aftermath of World War II.
A historian of science himself, Conner is fully cognizant of the accomplishments of American science and technology. In an earlier book, A People's History of Science: Miners, Midwives and "Low Mechanicks" (2005), he demonstrated the contributions of ordinary citizens to science, but he also warned of the corruptive potential of corporate money and military power. The Tragedy of American Science is a meaningful sequel to that story, which follows the downhill trajectory of the sciences, as potential triumphs gave way to mere byproducts of war technology. To show this, Conner diligently traces the course of developments in the physical, biological, and social sciences, naming the institutions, think tanks, networks, and individual scientists who, for more than seven decades, have advanced imperialist objectives and corporate agendas, all in the name of scientific inquiry. The diversity that Conner reveals about these actors with respect to background, discipline, reputation, and affiliation is impressive.
Conner goes about this immense task in four sections, first examining corporatization of science, then militarization of science, then asking "how we got into this mess," and finally explaining "the only way out." He begins the first section with the "big fat lie" of nutrition scientists dredging data to formulate government dietary guidelines under the aegis of government agencies, but with funding from major corporations such as Coca-Cola; the resulting nutritional "science" in fact threatens the health of the American population. Likewise, in agriculture, the aggressive development of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) has put global food supplies under the monopolistic control of American multinationals such as DuPont and Dow, exacerbating global inequalities in access to food. These developments have been facilitated by reputable organizations such as the National Academy of Sciences, whose members are tainted by corrupting payments (in the form of research grants and consultant fees) from big pharma, big oil, and the "charitable" foundations of the Koch brothers and their ilk.
The second part of the book provides an equally informative account of the dominance of the military in the funding of science, which has reached new levels under the Trump Administration with the willing cooperation of scientists. Conner explains this within the frame of "weaponized Keynesianism" (which seeks to mitigate the recurring cycles of capitalist crisis through military spending) and the related principle of "deliberate waste" (economic output that, in Conner's words, "will not house, feed, clothe, or otherwise benefit anybody in any way"). What might count as deliberate waste in the U.S. domestic economy, however, serves a very different purpose abroad—namely, the projection of American imperial power around the globe. In emphasizing the domestic function of weaponized Keynesianism, therefore, Conner might have given its imperial function short shrift. Nonetheless, he superbly chronicles the role of the social sciences in advancing the cause of militarists, showing how physical and biological scientists serve as the designers and architects of the weapon systems, while a whole army of economists, psychologists, behavioral scientists, and social scientists are mobilized to maintain the myth of the superiority, legitimacy, and righteousness of American militarized science.
So how did we get here, then? The third part of the book takes up this question and gives an "origin" story of these pernicious developments, starting with the Manhattan Project and the myth of "atoms for peace" that continues to sustain the unclean, unsafe, and uneconomical nuclear energy industry. The cast of characters that has staged this twisted drama is large, but its stars include DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Project Agency), U.S. appropriation of Japanese wartime medical experimentation, and the RAND Corporation (which Alex Abella has dubbed "the think tank that controls America"). The most damning act in the drama, however, is the blanket recruitment of Nazi scientists in all major branches of American science. From rocket and space science (call it hell science) to medicine (call it concentration camp science) and psychology (call it torture science), former Nazi criminals were brought in one after the other and assigned to prominent scientific positions in the US. And with what justification? To borrow from Tom Lehrer's parody of Wernher von Braun, the Nazi-criminal-christened-the-father-of-American-space-science: "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?" The sentiment here might be expressed:
So long as a scientist is willing to do the dirty work, who cares where they're from?
Given everything the book documents, does this history ultimately qualify as a tragedy? As Conner indicates early on, in framing the history of American science in this fashion, he is inspired by William Appleman Williams's The Tragedy of American Diplomacy. Williams took inspiration from Karl Jasper who found "genuine tragedy…only in that destruction which does not prematurely cut short development and success, but which, instead, grows out of success itself."3 How else can we understand the history that Conner lays out so vividly in front of us? And in what other terms than "tragic" can we make sense of the fatal failures of American science against the backdrop of its alluring success? While individual "war-time" scientists have instigated very real material harm, the bigger tragedy is in the political, economic, and social system that has turned science into an instrument of exploitation, violence, destruction, and murder. As Conner points out, "the tragedy of contemporary science is less about science than about economics, politics, and public relations." The COVID-19 crisis has lifted this veil, highlighting the "need to replace the global economic system that serves private interests with one that serves the public interest."
It is in that spirit that Conner goes beyond revelatory expositions, using the final section of the book to provide "a way out." As a self-proclaimed "science-and-technology junkie" with a "sunny disposition," he outlines some of the ingredients of a science for human needs. Taking as an example the Cuban health system— with its expansive medical internationalism and the highest doctor-to-patient ratio in the world—the ingredients include a list of action items that would put science "under genuinely democratic control in the context of a global planned economy." The history that Conner has laid bare impels all of us, as citizens or working scientists, to avoid the Faustian bargain of American exceptionalism.
Hamid Ekbia is Professor of Informatics, International Studies, and Cognitive Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he also directs the Center for Research on Mediated Interaction. He is interested in the political economy of computing, in the future of work, and in how technologies mediate socio-economic, cultural, and geo-political relations of modern societies. His most recent co-authored book Heteromation and Other Stories of Computing and Capitalism (MIT Press, 2017) examines computer-mediated modes of value extraction in capitalist economies, and his earlier book Artificial Dreams: The Quest for Non-Biological Intelligence (Cambridge University Press, 2008) is a critical-technical analysis of Artificial Intelligence.
Editor's note: In this article, the author employs the term "American" to mean "the United States," as is consistent with Conner's usage and reflective of U.S. imperialism. However, we recognize that America is composed of thirty five countries (as well as overseas territories, departments and colonies) on unceded and contested land of indigenous peoples; Furthermore, Conner explains that his focus on United States science derives from its primary responsibility for the worldwide tragedy of contemporary science.
A. Hunter Dupre, "The History of American Science—A Field Finds Itself," The American Historical Review 71, no. 3 (1966): 865.
Karl Jasper, Tragedy Is Not Enough (Boston: Beacon Press, 1952), 95-96.
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[2] This modern presidency recognized the informal leadership powers of the president and argued that these powers overshadowed the formal constitutional powers of the traditional presidency, and that they were especially necessary for effective government. Neustadt's book also displaced Edward S. Corwin's The President: Offices and Powers as the dominant work in presidential scholarship. Corwin describes his work as "primarily a study in American public law," and its central theme as "the development and contemporary status of presidential power and of the presidential office under the
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Well, that's what I was thinking, AJ, sort of defeats the purpose a bit if everywhere is all lit up, then the only real change would be that the cars are a little bit quicker due to being slighty cooler.
So basically it is no point to see hte cars go 5km/hr faster and have the race in the night, then it is better in daylight. unless...........
they do what i say and have different lighting with respect to track, on turns brightest light and straights low light...
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I guess they would have to do something different, for sure, but I can't say the idea particularly appeals to me, to be honest.
Mind you, a joker phase to the race whereby the race director turns all the lights out at various points during the race, completely random of course, may spice things up a bit
That would result in a few accidents if they don't have headlights, but would definatly spice things up if there was a electricity failur on the circuit
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Think the night race idea sounds great. Would be something different to the norm and I'm always up for something new. Bring it on I say.
a night race with a torrential downpour would make interesting viewing, but i'm still not a fan of the idea.
what surprises me is that Ecclestone says he's doing this for the benefit of European viewers so that we can watch races at convenient times, yet at the same time he's getting more and more races in the middle and far east, meaning races are going to be on at inconvenient times! unless they're all going to be night races, which of course is unlikely.
Leave it as is I say, F1 has been in daylight for 57 years and we still love it
Melbourne considers night race
Australian Grand Prix organisers are exploring the possibility of turning the event into a night race next year.
Ron Walker, chairman of the Australian Grand Prix Corporation, has already discussed the idea with F1 impresario Bernie Ecclestone and the pair are set to have further talks at this weekend
I think i speak for most people in the Asia-Pacific region and the Middle East when i say p**s OFF BERNIE. Europe already has atleast 13 races which are on at a convenient time for them and now they are trying to change the inconvenient races so the poor Europeans can get their beauty sleep. GET STUFFED EUROPE.
hey hold your horses one moment, this is not europeans' fault, and there's no need to make an offensive comment like that.
I dont like the idea of the opening race being held at night, its just weird, anyway we've been used to it since 96 and everyone praises melbourne and the australian GP so I wish Bernie would ditch this idea. F1 fans accept that some races will be on at different times, and as I said in a different thread, if Bernie cares so much about what time us Europeans watch F1 then why is he doing all he can to get races in far-east countries?
His reason is 'facilities'. My reaction is the fans dont give a s##t about facilities we care about what we watch on TV, and silverstone provides great races! am i going off topic here?
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Its not the European's fault, its bernie's fault. Slagging us off isn't going to change the way the sport is ran. Most of the commercial interests of F1 are European, and they are catering for that
Your close to border of it...
But i think some races(2 max 3) should be night. the rest should be in sun...
i think 1 annual night race would be more than enough.
if this really is just to please sponsors who are all saying "hey our european customers arent watching our logo's cos they're on at night" then that really annoys me!
Yup if it for that reason it would annoy me as well.
taken from th FIA thursday press conference:-
Q: (Ottavio Daviddi - Tuttosport) There are many rumours about the possibility of racing under artificial lights. I would like to know your opinions on that?
FA: I did a demonstration in Valencia when we launched the car there in January and it was at night and it was extremely difficult to see anything, to see the road. For me, it is hard to believe they will have strong enough lights to see perfectly ok and to have a race, a Grand Prix, but sometimes Formula One surprises you! From a drivers point of view it would be better not to say anything until we are not driving
So only Wurz And Davidson like the night race
Alonso and Massa sounded like they even thought the idea of a night race could be dangerous.
I would happen to agree, its a pretty pointless venture
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Personally I think that it isn't a great idea, I was reading that Alonso said he had poor visibility at the night time launch of his car.
I think that it could be dangerous as the lights aren't strong enough, but if the lights become stronger it might work.
But if the lights become stronger(i don't know how strong they were at that time) wouldn't it defeat the purpose of having a night race?
BLOODY STUPID IDEA, LEAVE NIGHT RACES ALONE, BAN ALL DRIVER AIDS, GIVE SILVERSTONE A 50-YEAR CONTRACT, AND F1 IS FINE!!!
Singapore denies Australian GP steal
The head of a visiting Grand Prix delegation from Singapore on Saturday denied that the Asian island-state is trying to steal the Australian Grand Prix from Melbourne.
"We're not trying to come here or anywhere else with a hatchet to knock out somebody else's race," Michael Roche said at Albert Park. "We've come to learn because of the brilliant job that Melbourne's done. We'd rather be complementary than be an adversary."
It is rumoured, however, that a possible Singapore threat has led Australian promoter Ron Walker to seriously consider Bernie Ecclestone's request for a night-race - the first of which could be seen in 2008.
Ecclestone, also in Melbourne to investigate the logistical possibility of lighting up Albert Park, said: "We lose a large proportion of our TV audience in Europe because of the time (difference). They should think about it."
http://www.f1-live.com/f1/en/headlines/new...317084215.shtml
So basically Bernie is saying to the Australian GP organisers that if they dont do a night race next year then Australia will loose its place in the calendar. I hate Bernie as he is using bulling tactics to get what he wants
Yes but would you want to see things happen, eg serious crashes that could result in serious harm due to insuffiecent light?
Someone needs to loosen Bernie's grip on F1 he doesn't care about the fans and he is runining the sport.
As i said earlier in the thread have strong lights on turns and softer light on straughts, so it is safe where needed yet dark in some places
Bernie said to Martin Brundle on the grid that it is definately going to happen, and he wants it to happen in 'ALL of the asian races'. He also said he was doing it 'for you guys back in england' but my view is that he's doing it because the sponsors are unhappy that no-one watches the race in europe because of the time its on, and so their logo's arent being seen!
You cant even begin to imagine how angry i am at the idea of night races for all Asian races. I think it is incredible unfair that European viewers have priority over people in the Asia-Pacific region. Also its not like we can refuse as Bernie has made it clear that if the Australian organisers dont agree to his proposal then other countries will and we will loose our Grand Prix. I dont think ive hated Bernie Ecclestone more than i do at the moment
yes it does seem unfair on asian and australasian viewers.
dont worry i dont think Bernie gives a monkeys anus about european viewers, its always about money so thats why i think its because of pressure from sponsors
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Let's concentrate here merely on this shell function, asigned Bitbake task is out of scope.
I wonder how to undefine this shell function in .bbappend file (other layer).
unset -f <shell-function-name>

is not working
ERROR: ParseError at .......-image.bbappend:89: unparsed line: 'unset -f do_thisandthat'

Does it need be said Bitbake explicitely "unset -f < shell-function-name>" is a shell script?
Me consulted for this question Bitbake Manual and Yocto Project Reference Manual with outcome of zero findings.

A: There is no direct API for it however you can do something like:
python () {
    d.delVar("shell function name")
}

which will delete the shell function since functions are simply variables.
Just deleting a function may well cause other problems but that does answer your specific question.
This is an 'anonymous python' fragment and will be executed by bitbake at the end of parsing a recipe (or bbappend to a recipe).

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Q: C# Selenium Headless Chrome Access Browser Log For non-headless Chrome, when running an NUnit test with the debugger attached, this works fine.
For headless Chrome (without a debugger attached), it doesn't - there's nothing in driver.Manage().Logs.GetLog(LogType.Browser);.
My test setup is as follows:
ChromeOptions chromeOptions = new();
chromeOptions.AddArguments("headless");
IWebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(chromeOptions);

// Set a window size (possibly not relevant but including it here just in case)
var size = driver.Manage().Window.Size;
size.Width = 1366;
size.Height = 768;
driver.Manage().Window.Size = size;

// Do the test which should cause a browser error
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("invalid url");
ILogs logs = driver.Manage().Logs;
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Assert.That(errors.Count, Is.EqualTo(1));

As I mentioned above, this works in non-headless mode. In headless mode, there are no logs available at all.
A few things I've tried to make it work headlessly, to no avail yet:
chromeOptions.AddArguments("--log-level=ALL");
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Government and Media
The Manipur media's largely adversarial role in the governance process has often been read as a basic anti-establishment characteristic. This is naive for this kind of challenges ultimately has the best interest of the establishment as intent. It is, to use a cliche, a demonstration of the mechanics of a free society's unwritten laws of checks and balances. Hence, the government and the media may not stand on the same side of the debate but let there be no quarrel over the fact that they seek in their own ways to see the established moral and temporal orders strengthened. It may also come about that the media is hijacked by vested interests, including excessive commercialization and commodification. At such times, it would be in the fitness of things for the media to also be reminded through institutionalized democratic channels where it has going astray. In Manipur's scenario, where the media organisations are predominantly family businesses, it is often difficult to segregate owner interests from media duties. Partly because of poor revenue of the business, it is not at all uncommon to find editors, proprietors and other journalists using the influence and clout of their organisations to corner lucrative government contract works and favours. The image battering the media in general receives from such acts is imaginable, and it is a pity that even the All Manipur Working Journalist Union, AMWJU, would be powerless to do anything about it. In Manipur's provincial reality, there is very little that employees can do to challenge their employers, and the very structure of the AMWJU has preordained such an unhappy equation. Even in very recent times, its decisions have been shot down unceremoniously, and the apex body of working journalists in the state has had but to swallow its pride in silent helplessness. This was saddening and a loss for all in the long run. But this is a matter of another debate, one which is urgently called for amongst the journalist fraternity.
What of the media's relationship with the government. While the media's role as the watchdog of the governance process is unambiguous, and must remain undiluted, what of the government's attitude towards the media. Must it reciprocate and also treat the media as its adversary. We think not. The government must rise above itself. It must be prepared to engage the media in a manner befitting of the responsibility vested in it. It must not think in terms of co-option either. Instead it must encourage the media to be independent and assist it to become robust intellectually. It would be a kind of an enlightened self-interest on its part to actually go ahead and make and institution which is most of the time its adversary, stronger and fitter without depriving it of its autonomy. Towards this end, it must be acknowledged that the government has been organising an annual training programme for young media aspirants for the last two decades, although the programme went into a long hiatus and has only been revived a few years ago. Let it also know that many from the earlier classes are today young working journalists trying to cut a career in the profession. Things have changed considerably and there is today even a media department in the Manipur University. Despite this, the DIPR programme is different, for while the university course will not be teaching job skills, and would be oriented towards an academic outlook to journalism. It is therefore encouraging that the DIPR thought the programme worthy to be revived not only to train young aspirants but to provide refresher courses for those already in the profession. These classes would have young professionals already with basic groundings of journalistic skills, so the kind of training imparted will have to be a little different. As for instance, they can benefit tremendously from a closer understanding of how the government and its various institutions work – the methods and decorum of Assembly proceedings; the hierarchy of the judiciary and their powers; the various commissions; the making of the financial bill; the equation between the legislature, executive and judiciary etc.
The government must also do its bit to make the economy of the media viable. Rather that seek co-option through selective awards of favours and contract jobs to editors and owners, it must come out with a general policy on the matter, such as tax rebates, easy credit facilities and periodic revision of government advertisement rates, just as for instance the Central government does annually. Incidentally Manipur government's system of rotational, automatic and equal distribution of advertisements to empanelled newspapers is far more foolproof to corruption by brokers than say the Central government's Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity, DAVP, where underhand commissions and kickbacks to a great extent determine where the best advertisements land. After it has ensured revenue channels are adequate, it can also enforce minimum wage standards for journalists and other staff of the media business. The Central government has such standards, but these were fixed not with the provincial media in mind, so they remain unrealistic and out of bound of a majority of the media organizations in the entire northeast, and for that matter much of subaltern India. In the northeast, except for one newspaper in Assam, no other has ever adopted any of the wage board recommendations. We urge the government to look beyond the immediate and acknowledge that a healthy media is essential for the health of the society at large.
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Functional versatility of a series of Zr metal-organic frameworks probed by solid-state photoluminescence spectroscopy
Marshall, R. J., Kalinovskyy, Y., Griffin, S. L., Wilson, C. , Blight, B. A. and Forgan, R. S. (2017) Functional versatility of a series of Zr metal-organic frameworks probed by solid-state photoluminescence spectroscopy. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 139(17), pp. 6253-6260. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.7b02184) (PMID:28385019)
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Many of the desirable properties of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) can be tuned by chemical functionalization of the organic ligands that connect their metal clusters into multidimensional network solids. When these linker molecules are intrinsically fluorescent, they can pass on this property to the resultant MOF, potentially generating solid-state sensors, as analytes can be bound within their porous interiors. Herein, we report the synthesis of a series of 14 interpenetrated Zr and Hf MOFs linked by functionalized 4,4ʹ-[1,4-phenylene-bis(ethyne-2,1-diyl)]-dibenzoate (peb2-) ligands, and analyse the effect of functional group incorporation on their structures and properties. Addition of methyl, fluoro, naphthyl and benzothiadiazolyl units does not affect the underlying topology, but induces subtle structural changes, such as ligand rotation, and mediates host-guest interactions. Further, we demonstrate that solid-state photoluminescence spectroscopy can be used to probe these effects. For instance, introduction of naphthyl and benzothiadiazolyl units yields MOFs that can act as stable fluorescent water sensors, a dimethyl modified MOF exhibits a temperature dependent phase change controlled by steric clashes between interpenetrated nets, and a tetrafluorinated analogue is found to be superhydrophobic despite only partial fluorination of its organic backbone. These subtle changes in ligand structure coupled with the consistent framework topology give rise to a series of MOFs with a remarkable range of physical properties that are not observed with the ligands alone.
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Partner Craig Barbarosh Quoted in The New York Times on Detroit's Financial Crisis
Craig Barbarosh, a partner in the Insolvency and Restructuring practice, spoke with The New York Times regarding Detroit's plan to eliminate debt. In the nation's largest-ever municipal bankruptcy, Judge Steven W. Rhodes must decide whether the plan is equitable, feasible and in the best interests of creditors. Leaders of other cities are expected to watch the outcome closely, as the ruling may determine whether a city may shelter municipal retirees even as it imposes harsher losses on financial creditors; whether it can use bankruptcy to repudiate some capital-markets debts entirely; and whether a city in bankruptcy may avoid selling off valuable assets to raise money for its creditors. As Craig—who represents some of Detroit's creditors—said, "This is a unique situation when you think about it. It's not like a company, where the judge can say, 'O.K., I'm going to liquidate the city.'" ("One Judge to Decide the Future of Detroit," August 31, 2014)
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Feb 23, 2016, 10:44AM
It Takes a Villain
Todd Seavey
Even Hillary's fans must fear her.
Donald Trump is expected to coast to victory in the Nevada presidential primary today, and some portion of the left is secretly pleased because a loudmouth like Trump confirms all their worst suspicions about the Republican Party. Yet plenty of intelligent Democrats also acknowledge their own increasingly inevitable-seeming frontrunner, Hillary Clinton, is a chronic liar, a probable criminal, a more calculating flip-flopper than her rival Bernie Sanders, and the creator of a massive de facto international bribe-taking machine called the Clinton Foundation.
Just bad luck on both parties' parts? No.
The whole presidential election process makes more sense if seen as a contest to reward the most evil person available. It's not just that a few bad eggs inexplicably ruin an otherwise good system. The system rewards whomever says he or she will be most vigorous in bossing other people around with jail threats and taking their stuff. Those aren't things good people do. Of course monsters are winning. They almost always do.
Now, I'm not the sort of anarchist who denies you your right to vote defensively. Try to get the least-dangerous person elected if you think you can. I have no quarrel with that (in November, I'll likely vote for Gary Johnson or whoever else wins the Libertarian nomination, and in the interim I'll keep wishing more Republicans would drop out so that one of them has a chance of beating Trump, but the other Republicans may by now have made the cynical calculation that whoever comes in second gets to be Trump's veep and that it's therefore best to hold on to the very end, party and nation be damned).
Don't pretend that trying to vote in the least-dangerous person usually works, though. Mencken called democratic elections—even perfectly smooth-running ones—an "advance auction sale of stolen goods." Your fellow citizens are looking for the most effective criminal available for the gig. Just like the evil globalist elites caricatured on last night's X-Files finale, citizens assume that someone has to be in charge and that it may as well be someone callous and sadistic enough to relish the role: a Trump, a Putin, a Clinton, a Peron. (I was a guest on Lucy Steigerwald's podcast discussing Trump and fascist tendencies last month and, for those nerds interested, was on discussing Star Wars the month before that.)
Ask people to pick a ruler, that's what they'll pick. The only real victory comes when we stop asking them to do that.
—Todd Seavey can be found on Twitter, Blogger, and Facebook, daily on Splice Today, and soon on bookshelves with the volume Libertarianism for Beginners.
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