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Roman remains discovered at Newcastle housing site
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-41073983?intlink_from_url=http://www.bbc.com/news/topics/1b508152-6d1f-46d4-80b2-a2d670e5f660/archaeology
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Image caption Detailed excavation of the site is being carried out by experts
Roman remain of potential "national significance" have been unearthed on a housing site in Newcastle.
Evidence of the civilian settlement was found in the Benwell area of the city, close to where a Roman fort once stood.
The remnants of several open-fronted buildings, cobbled surfaces and water channels are among the discoveries.
Unlike other remains previously found in the city, archaeologists say the buildings at the site were made of stone rather than timber.
One is thought to have been a two-storey warehouse - the first of its kind found in the city.
Coins and pottery believed to date from the second or third century have also been uncovered; among them an almost complete amphora, which would have been used to transport liquids such as wine and olive oil.
Image caption An amphora, similar to this one, was found at the Newcastle site
Councillor Kim McGuinness said the authority had thought it likely the site might contain Roman artefacts but it had not anticipated their importance.
"We believe these finds could be of national significance," she said.
"We are working closely with the developers and archaeologists so the remains can be carefully examined and analysed."
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I absolutely love this story. What a great response to ignorant passengers.
That's a great story. Hope the driver isn't disciplined for his action.
Paris has made considerable progress in terms of accessibility - 30 years ago it was horrible; of course the métro was built long before anyone thought of anyone but "able-bodied workers" using it. The new tramline ringing Paris is a great help. But the indifference to others typical of the largest cities remains an obstacle.
If buses in Paris are anything like in Toronto (and it sounds like they are) then there are semi-dedicated seats (same on streetcars and the subway) that flip up to make room for a wheelchair or scooter, with necessary straps and such for stability. Anyone sitting on such a seat is, of course, expected to vacate it if a person using a mobility device needs it.
It's not clear, though, why the guy sitting in a seat at the back, or the woman sitting next to him, had to get off the bus; it's not like they could give their seat to the man using a wheelchair. Yes, yes, I know they can always catch the next bus, but it really doesn't make any sense.
..i believe it was a refex on the part of the driver to kick the passengers off. not something well thought out. i've experienced things like this several times thoughout my life.
I think the driver was just pissed off at the lack of solidarity displayed by (presumably) able-bodied passengers (remember, some disabilities are invisible).
The Paris métro is very old, and while newer stations (and at least the newest line) are accessible, most are not. Many require long walks, including flights of stairs) for transfers. Paris is working on this, but it is a huge challenge.
Here in Montréal, our much newer métro system has relatively few accessible stations. They were doing renovations at the Beaubien station (0range line) a few years ago, and did NOT introduce lifts to make it accessible, saying the Jean-Talon station (just north) was already accessible, and the Rosemont station (just south) would be soon. The problem is, there are two large social housing buildings for seniors very close to Beaubien and many of the residents have severe disabilities. Indeed, those buildings accommodate people who are not yet seniors who have severe disabilities and use wheelchairs, disability scooters or other mobility aids.
They were doing renovations at the Beaubien station (0range line) a few years ago, and did NOT introduce lifts to make it accessible, saying the Jean-Talon station (just north) was already accessible, and the Rosemont station (just south) would be soon.
The STM really needs a disabled person on the board to make the point of how ludicrous those decisions are in the eyes of someone who has difficulty getting around. "Don't worry, you only have to go twice as far as someone who's not disabled!"
I don't think the driver could have kicked passengers off selectively. The able-bodied can endure a delay and discomfort once in order for a wheelchair bound person to feel like a first class citizen. In the moment I might not have been happy about it but I would have understood.
Last summer we had a community picnic but the handicapped transport never showed up for one of my neighbours. She waited 2 hours even though it was a scheduled pick-up.
Is she too disabled to use the STM taxi service for disabled people? My next-door neighbour is disabled and finds that service far better than the mini-bus. But not all disabled people can use it; I see the mini-bus all the time outside one of the seniors' HLMs by Beaubien métro.
Jean-Talon has a lift now, as does Rosemont, but only the orange line is accessible so far, not the blue line. They are starting to roll out lifts for the blue and green lines, but it is painfully slow.
My neighbour is moving to a new co-op building Coop du Mile-End, on de Gaspé a bit north of Laurier, as soon as it is ready; there are almost 50 units, some for disabled people, some with up to three bedrooms for families. Unfortunately no lift at Laurier station - one is being built at Mont-Royal. In that case the two stations are very close, but obviously have different connecting buses.
Richard Bergeron, the founder and former leader of Projet Montréal was a jerk in many ways, but I agree with him that Mont-Royal (the street) needs a tram line with a high frequency and dedicated lane. Mont-Royal is relatively narrow for such a busy street and it always congested; it is faster to walk than to take the bus, drive or cycle (I take a parallel street, usually Gilford just north of Mt-Royal), but not everybody can walk from Iberville to St-Denis, and it isn't pleasant for anyone on an icy, freezing day. All the trams in Amsterdam (just as an example) have been changed and the new ones are fully accessible to people with motor, visual or hearing disabilities - this also makes travel much easier for parents pushing strollers or people with large packages.
"In order to permit us to deliver your very positive message to the driver, could you please provide me with the number of the line, the time, which stop, which direction, and confirm that the date was Oct. 20? Thanks in advance."
"I understand your concern, but a driver doesn't get fired for acting in the interest of passengers."
It's all over here (in French).
This driver deserves an award for bringing attention to a real problem in the attitude some people have.
Even thought what the driver did may have been technically wrong (ordering passengers at the back to get off who may not have made a difference, I am very sympathetic.
It is hard to determined who could have made a difference since it is not only those up front who did not move but also the ones who saw and did not speak up.
The inconvenience to the passengers who did nothing is frankly trivial compared to what a person with limitations from something like MS has to advocate for themselves.
Having had a family member with MS, this also has particular impact on me.
meanwhile in China a passenger gets into a fight with the bus driver and the bus plunges off a bridge into the Yangtze and 15 people are dead with 2 missing.
I don't think the driver could have kicked passengers off selectively.
Why? Are you saying that if two people on the bus started fighting, the driver would similarly need to ask everyone to get off the bus??
Shouldn't it be the driver's job to speak up? Why is that the responsibility of 60 random passengers?
Yes, yes. But does that make it make sense though? Unless Pondering is correct, and drivers are required to either eject everyone or no one, it seems a bit unnecessary.
If some able-bodied asshat parks in a "handicapped" spot and gets towed, that makes sense. If all the other cars in the parking lot get towed at the same time, does that also make sense? Does the fact that having your car towed is less of an inconvenience than having a debilitating disease make it make sense?
I didn't know about the taxi service. I am not sure if she would be able to use it but I will look into it. Another neighbour needs a scooter and didn't know she could get a prescription from her doctor. She did get one but the waiting list is terribly long. She has been fully accessed and approved but the waiting list for one is long. It's been over a year. Her cleaning lady had been stealing from her so I got her in touch with an interventionist at Projet Changement who did intervene.
Back to the bus situation, yes there were other things the driver could have done. Drivers in Montreal must get really fed-up of asking people to move to the rear. People at the rear also have to move back but invariably there are people "holding their ground" we have to maneuver around.
We weren't there. We don't know who was on the bus or how difficult it would have been for them to make room. It seems the driver was exasperated. I wouldn't want drivers to make a habit of it but this one time it has brought the topic to the forefront which is a good thing. Drivers kicking all the passengers off a bus is unlikely to become habitual. If it does that is soon enough to deal with it as a problem. Currently the problem is insufficient respect for the mobility impaired not an excess of concern to the detriment of other passengers.
As a regular user of public transit I have been delayed countless times. Buses don't show up on time or refuse to wait when they can see you running. The event as described was a one off.
I can't imagine if every single event of unfair treatment of people who are challenged in one way or another were so publicized. So yes, if was unfair to all the people who had nothing to do with the incident and were just minding their own business in the back of the bus.
I didn't say that drivers are required to eject everyone or no one. I said it is more difficult for the driver to eject specific passengers. Usually a diver will notify police rather than confront some passengers. By saying "everyone off, route terminated" he avoided a confrontation with specific passengers who may have argued with him. I don't know if that was any part of his reasoning but it certainly does seem easier to just say "everyone off".
He could also have let everyone back on after the passenger was settled in. The point is not that his action was the only response possible or the right response but rather that in the grand scheme of things it's one small incident in which a few able-bodied people were inconvenienced. In so doing attention was brought to bear on the unnecessary challenges faced by people on public transit.
I am so grateful to live where I do. I almost always walk to the Mont Royal metro but I am very happy to hear it and Angrignon on on the list for elevators. It's ridiculous that these stations weren't built with elevators or at least with the foresight that they might be installed at some future date.
I agree that a tram on Mont Royal would be great.
There simply wasn't the awareness of the rights and needs of disabled people in the early 1960s when the métro was being planned. A lot of disabled activism started out from pissed off Vietnam veterans, in the US, and spread to other countries.
That said, there was no excuse for failing to retrofit métro stations with lifts and other needs of disabled people, including a better announcement system for visual and hearing-impaired people.
I know that it is major work, but they are taking their sweet time. Vendôme should have been equipped along with the opening of the MUHC, and note that Berri-UQAM also serves a "super-hospital".
http://www.stm.info/fr/infos/etat-du-service/travaux/ascenseurs-venir-da... (click on English if desired).
Nothing for Longueuil, while all Laval stations are equipped.


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Q: How can I return two components within the same function in react? I am working on a react native, and I want to know if there is a way to return two components that belong to the same function. I have the following code:
import React, { useState } from "react";
import { Text, View } from "react-native";

const SaveMessage = ({ FirstMassege }) =>{
return(
   <Text>{FirstMassege}</Text>
)
}

export const StateContext = React.createContext(null);

const concatMessage = ({ children }) =>{
const [colorless, Setaddcolor] = React.useState([])

statecolor = {
   color : [colorless, Setaddcolor]
}

return (
    <View>
       <SaveMessage title='primera parte del mensaje'/>
    </View>
    <StateContext.Provider value={statecolor}>{children}</StateContext.Provider>
);
}

As you can see, the first component that returns with the message is fine, however, when I want to include the StateContext in the return, it throws me a syntax error. I already tried adding a comma after the View tag. However this causes the component with the message to be replaced by the Context. How can i fix this?

A: You'd want to use a fragment for this. This can be done by using <React.Fragment> or <>.
return (
  <>
    <View>
       <SaveMessage title='primera parte del mensaje'/>
    </View>
    <StateContext.Provider value={statecolor}>{children}</StateContext.Provider>
  </>
)

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San Francisco Nurse Shares Photos After Eight Weeks In Hospital With COVID-19
43-year-old registered nurse Mike Schultz was one of thousands of gay men who attended the Winter Party in Miami in the first week in March. It was the last circuit party on the global circuit of events that attract fit, shirtless men year round that was not cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic — and it ended on March 10, just a week before lockdowns began in California.
Schultz tells BuzzFeed that partygoers were aware of the virus threat, but at that point in March it didn't feel too serious. "There were no real restrictions in place... No lockdowns. We just thought, Well, we gotta wash our hands more and be wary of touching our face."
With no underlying conditions, Schultz thought that his age and fitness level would save him if he became infected. But now, after being intubated for four weeks and just out of the hospital last week after 57 days, he's been wanting to get the word out that no one should feel safe from this virus.
"I wanted to show everyone how badly being sedated for 6 weeks on a ventilator or intubated can be," he wrote on Instagram. "Amongst other things, covid19 reduced my lung capacity with pneumonia." He tells BuzzFeed it exhausted him just to stand up to take the picture below.
I wanted to show everyone how badly being sedated for 6 weeks on a ventilator or intubated can be. Amongst other things, covid19 reduced my lung capacity with pneumonia. Over 8 weeks I've been away from family and friends Getting stronger everyday and working to increase my lung capacity. I'll get back to where I was in healthier ways this time....maybe even do cardio 😱. #covid19 #caronavirus #recovery #godblessmynurses
A post shared by Mike (@thebearded_nurse) on May 11, 2020 at 7:56am PDT
Schultz was one of 38 gay men to likely have become infected at the Winter Party — though it's possible he became infected in subsequent days, reportedly flying from Miami to San Francisco and then to Boston, to visit his boyfriend, where he began experiencing symptoms and was then hospitalized on March 16. Three party attendees have since died.
Had a great first Winter Party! Met so many amazing people. I look forward to seeing everyone soon! #winterparty #newfriends #vacation
A post shared by Mike (@thebearded_nurse) on Mar 10, 2020 at 4:48pm PDT
Media attention to the White Party story, and this subsequent Advocate story about Schultz being hospitalized, garnered a lot of unwanted negative attention, Schultz says — with some commenters saying he and other attendees deserved to get sick. (Echoes of the early days of AIDS, no?)
"The negative stuff bothers me," he admits to BuzzFeed, "but it doesn't bother me that much, because I've gotten so much positive feedback."
And last week, in Boston, he was able to leave the hospital and go have a first post-hospital meal: A McDonald's burger, fries, and a strawberry shake.
"There aren't enough words to describe how thankful I am for his help, for the support from my family, and for the thoughts and prayers of so many of you," he writes. "I still have months of recovery ahead of me. So happy I get to spend it with Josh."
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After 57 days in the hospital not able to see any visitors, battling covid induced pneumonia, I'm finally going home! Had to make a stop at McDonald's with my guardian angel, my best friend, and my boyfriend, @dj_jwarren . There aren't enough words to describe how thankful I am for his help, for the support from my family, and for the thoughts and prayers of so many of you. I appreciate all of your kind words. I still have months of recovery ahead of me. So happy I get to spend it with Josh. 🐺❤🐻 #survivor #covid19 #coronavirus
A post shared by Mike (@thebearded_nurse) on May 13, 2020 at 5:55pm PDT
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Q: Get all actions of the last-three users for each post In a last Question, i asked about geting all actions of the last three users from a history table that stores all actions done by users on deferments posts, now what i want is to get the same thing but for each post.
all actions of donne by the last-three users for each posts
history table
     id     | post_id | action    |  user_id
     1      |  5      | 1         |  3
     1      |  23     | 2         |  1
     2      |  24     | 2         |  6
     3      |  34     | 1         |  7
     4      |  35     | 1         |  1
     5      |  36     | 1         |  1
     6      |  23     | 2         |  3
     7      |  24     | 2         |  1
     8      |  23     | 1         |  4
     9      |  24     | 1         |  5
     10     |  24     | 1         |  1
     11     |  23     | 1         |  2
     12     |  23     | 4         |  1

thanks and sorry if it seem to be a duplicate post

A: I think this will work:
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WHERE b.rn <= 3
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And the Fiddle.

A: Coudl this be what you are looking for?

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| USER_ID | GROUP_CONCAT(A.POST_ID) | GROUP_CONCAT(A.ACTION) |
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|       2 |                       7 |                      3 |
|       3 |                   5,5,4 |                  1,2,5 |
|       6 |                       7 |                      2 |


Josh formed Basilysk and released their first album Seasons Of Misanthropy in 2012 with a different line up. A period of inactivity followed, until Josh joined up with drummer Mike in the cult death metal band Deform. By chance, Jimmy V attended what would be the last Deform show in 2015, and was impressed by Mike's frenetic drumming ability and Josh's harsh vocals. Soon after, Josh recruited Luke Gary to jam on the new Basilysk material with Mike on drums, and Jimmy joined up in fall 2016. Our first Basilysk show was in January 2017 with Book Of Wyrms.
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We also enjoy classic rock like Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, Black Sabbath of course. You can hear all those influences shine through parts of our new record Emergence, but we also pride ourselves on having a sound that is unique to Basilysk.
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Metal heads and the media both dig our new album. We certainly busted our asses to record everything just right and obsessed over the mixing and master with our producer Phil Zeo.
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We're humbled to receive praise after our hard work, and we're still hungry to tour to promote the new album, keep writing sick jams.
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Kathy Griffin, 62, Back in Surgery To Alleviate Effects of Lung Cancer Treatment Jokingly Asks Fans For Their Pity
Abigail Seaberg
Life After Lung Cancer Treatment
Kathy Griffin revealed her stage 1 lung cancer diagnosis via social media in Aug. 2021. For treatment, she underwent a left lung resection for her lung cancer treatment. Lung resection is an operation to remove part or all of a damaged or diseased lung. Sadly, her vocal cords were damaged in the process.
According to an article published in the National Library of Medicine that studied vocal cord dysfunction (VCD) after left lung resection for cancer, researchers concluded that "VCD is a frequent event that can lead to dramatic pulmonary complications."
Lung cancer is the second most common type of cancer and it can develop in both smokers and non-smokers, but people who smoke cigarettes are 15 to 30 times more likely to get lung cancer or die from lung cancer than people who don't smoke.
Still, he CDC reports that about 10 to 20 percent of lung cancers in the United States, or 20,000 to 40,000 lung cancers each year, happen in people who've never smoked like Kathy Griffin.
Kathy Griffin, 62, never fails to bring levity to a serious subject. And now the lung cancer survivor is joking about how she wants our pity as she tries to heal her vocal cords.
In her most recent Instagram post, the comedian shared a video explaining why she was "feeling sorry for [herself]."
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"I'm feeling sorry for myself and I'll tell you why," she said. "Because I'm on my way to the hospital again, because I have to go into general to get another procedure on my vocal cords.
"So, the good news is I get to come home today. But last time I got this done, it hurt for like seven days. But I'm just being a baby. But I want to get my voice back, you know, I'll do anything."
Griffin underwent a left lung resection for her lung cancer treatment. Lung resection is an operation to remove part or all of a damaged or diseased lung. According to an article published in the National Library of Medicine that studied vocal cord dysfunction (VCD) after left lung resection for cancer, researchers concluded that "VCD is a frequent event that can lead to dramatic pulmonary complications."
But despite all she's gone through, Griffin always still manages to have a laugh.
"Also I wanted to tell you guys, I want your pity," she quipped. "Right, you know in movies, when they're like, "I don't want your pity, don't feel sorry for me!
"Hell yeah, I'll take it, I'll take your pity. I'll take your feelings of sorry… I love it. Bring it."
Kathy Griffin's Lung Cancer Journey
Kathy Griffin revealed her stage 1 lung cancer diagnosis via social media in Aug. 2021. Thankfully, the cancer seemed to be contained to one part of her lung, so she underwent surgery to have half of her left lung removed shortly after sharing the news.
RELATED: Comedian Kathy Griffin, 61, Celebrates Six Months of 'Clean' Scans After Lung Cancer Treatment
She then revealed she was cancer-free in December 2021, but she still had a lot of recovering to do. After the surgery, her voice was altered by an intubation tube giving her a "Minnie Mouse meets Marilyn Monroe" type of voice.
She later revealed that her 6-month check up scans were clear in February, and surprised fans with a video showcasing the return of her voice in June – though we know her voice has, sadly, still has a ways to go.
Though she's doing better today, she did lose confidence in the doctor who performed her surgery. In another social media post, she called him a "hack Dr."
"He ruined my vocal chords & my arytenoids permanently!" she previously wrote. "My voice is my living. It's discouraging 2 me that people are sticking up 4 a surgeon who has caused me so many difficulties. I had stage 1. I sure wish I had gotten chemo/radiation instead of surgery with this hack Dr."
Thankfully, she's since been seen by a doctor who made her feel heard.
And in an update from October, she said she "may have kind of maxed out about how much my vocal apparatus can recover from the damage that was done during the lung cancer surgery." She then shared some of her options, but it's unclear exactly which option she chose based on her latest update.
Understanding Lung Cancer
Lung cancer, the second most common type of cancer, is the leading cause of cancer deaths for men and women in the United States. Diagnosis and treatment of the disease can be tricky since symptoms often don't appear until the cancer has spread.
An initial symptom, for example, could be as serious as a seizure if the lung cancer has already spread to the brain. But other symptoms can include increased coughing, chest pain, unexplained weight loss, shortness of breath, wheezing, losing your voice or persistent infections like bronchitis or pneumonia.
The two main types of lung cancer are non-small cell, which makes up 85 percent of cases, and small-cell. These types act differently and, accordingly, require different types of treatment.
Dr. Patrick Forde, a thoracic oncologist at Johns Hopkins Medicine, tells SurvivorNet about how distinguishing between the two types – and their subtypes – can be very beneficial.
What Happens When You've Been Newly Diagnosed With Lung Cancer
"Within that non-small cell category, there's a subtype called non-squamous adenocarcinoma, and that's the group of patients for whom genetic testing is very important on the tumor," he explains. "Genetic testing is looking for mutations in the DNA, in the tumor, which are not present in your normal DNA."
Lung Cancer for Non-Smokers like Kathy Griffin
Declining smoking rates have lead to an improved outlook for lung cancer since cigarette smoking is the number one risk factor for the disease. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention states that cigarette smoking is linked to about 80 to 90 percent of lung cancer deaths, and people who smoke cigarettes are 15 to 30 times more likely to get lung cancer or die from lung cancer than people who don't smoke.
It's important to remember, however, that even people who've never smoked before – like Kathy Griffin – can still get lung cancer. The CDC reports that, in the United States, about 10 to 20 percent of lung cancers, or 20,000 to 40,000 lung cancers each year, happen in people who've never smoked.
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"Some lung cancers are from unknown exposure to air pollution, radon, or asbestos," Dr. Raja Flores told SurvivorNet in a previous interview. "We also see more never-smokers with lung cancer who have a family history of it."
Radon is the second-leading cause of lung cancer. It's responsible for anywhere from 3 to 16 percent of cancer cases depending on the levels present in a given area, according to the World Health Organization, but smokers are still 25 times more at risk from radon than non-smokers.
Another possibility for the cause of lung cancer in a non-smoker can be second-hand smoke. The American Cancer Society estimates that about 7,000 adults die of lung cancer annually from breathing secondhand smoke.
Air pollution, family history, HIV or AIDs can also all impact the chances of a non-smoker getting lung cancer. No matter what, it's important to not rule out the disease just because you don't smoke – a fact that Donna Hunting knows all too well.
If You Have Lungs, You Can Get Lung Cancer — Survivor Donna Hunting Shares Her Story
Just like Saundra Moore, Hunting was a non-smoker when she was diagnosed with lung cancer. But the active 54-year-old's cancer had progressed further given that she had stage four non-small cell lung cancer.
"That day was shattering to my family and to me," she previously told SurvivorNet. "It's not a smokers' disease. If you have lungs, you can get lung cancer."
Fortunately for Hunting, testing revealed that her tumors had a mutation in a specific gene called EGFR. This meant that doctors were able to give her a pill to block those mutations and effectively rid her body of the disease.
"After 50 days, miraculously, my PET scan showed no evidence of disease," she said.
Hunting took the drug for over a year, until it stopped working as well. Now she's on a different daily medication, but – thanks to advancements in treatment – she's able to live with the disease.
"Cancer is a part of my life now, but it isn't my whole life. I'm not letting cancer define me," Hunting said.
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Fast Facts: Lung Cancer
Lung cancer is the second most common form of cancer, and the leading cause of cancer deaths in both men and women in the United States. Smoking is, of course, the primary cause of lung cancer, but non-smokers can, and do, develop this disease. The good news is that if you quit smoking, your risk for lung cancer decreases. There are several surgeries for lung cancer, and the decision about which is best is based on the location of your cancer, its size and whether it has spread.
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use Inventory\Domain\Event\Transaction\GI\WhTransferLocationPosted;
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use Inventory\Domain\Transaction\Contracts\GoodsIssueInterface;
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Who is Mr. Flynn? For Putin, he became a recruited agent who could be and will be used – Felshtinsky
Ukraine–Russia Relations Exclusive «G»
Michael Flynn, former national security advisor for the president of the USA Donald Trump, has received $530,000 from Russia via Turkish businessman Ekim Alptekin as a middleman. Yuri Felshtinsky, a Russian-American historian, author of "Blowing up Russia" and "The Corporation: Russia and KGB in the Age of President Putin" wrote about this in an exclusive material GORDON. Не claims that Trump's ex-advisor was on the payroll of the president of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.
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Michael Flynn is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who was the eighteenth director of the Defense Intelligence Agency
Фото: EPA
While he was giving a speech at Republican national convention on July 20, 2016 Flynn joined public chanting "Lock her up" and accused Hillary Clinton of jeopardizing US national security. Among other things he said "If I, a guy who knows this business, if I did a tenth of what she did I would be in jail today".
The famous "Lock-Her-Up" General may go to jail for treason. Let me tell you why: in 2015-2016 he has received approximately $600,000 in Russian money. Let me tell you how: a major portion of it came from the Russian bank Sviaz-bank when in December of 2007 Sviaz-bank issued a $150 million loan to the Turkish businessman Ekim Alptekin and his Dutch and Russian partners. This loan was never paid back, and in 2016, a minor portion of it, around $530,000, was paid by Alptekin to Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn. It never had anything to do with Turkey or lobbying Turkish interests. This was just the cover. It had everything to do with Russia and Putin.
Ekim Alptekin worked with Flynn until November 16, 2016. Photo: Kamil Ekim Alptekin / Facebook
That is exactly why Flynn has registered himself as a lobbyist for Turkey only in March 2017 after massive payments to him became known to US law enforcement agencies and information about payments was leaked to the media. On March 7, 2017, Flynn filed with National Security Division under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) statement disclosing that his company – Flynn Intel Group Inc. – was paid $ 530,000 in September-November 2016 for the work on behalf of a small Dutch company Inovo BV, owned by a Turkish businessman Ekim Alptekin (who also owned other companies including Inovo Turkije). BV – in Dutch means "Besloten Vennootschap" – a private company. Flynn's contract with Inovo BV was signed on August 9, 2016, according to one source, or on September 2016, according to the other.
The total amount was $600,000 for the three months of work. The last transfer of $145,000 was received by Flynn on November 14, 2016, when Trump was already elected as the President. Flynn's "work" for Alptekin was now finished and he filed a termination report for the contract with Inovo BV indicating November 16, 2016, as a day of contract termination. The next day, November 17, 2016, he was named the National Security Advisor for the President-elect of the United States of America.
However, the paperwork on contract termination was submitted to the Senate only the next day after Justice Department had started showing signs of interest in Flynn's interactions with Inovo BV. In addition, that paperwork showed that there was only $5,000 received by Flynn Intel Group Inc. for its services. That was a blunt lie. On March 10, 2017, The New York Times wrote: "that presumably indicates that he did not define most of the services he would provide Mr. Alptekin as lobbying under the law". Well, $5,000 was earned for a lobbying work for Turkey. And the rest, $525,000, for something other than that? What could it be?
"I disagree with the filing", – said Alptekin on the telephone from Istanbul in reply to the reporter's question about Flynn's registered as foreign agent working for Turkey. – "It would be different if I was working for the government of Turkey, but I am not taking directions from anyone in the [Turkish] government". Indeed, Alptekin does not work for Turkish government and never did. His small Dutch company Inovo BV only showed losses in its financial reports, and was unable to pay $530,000 to Flynn unless it had previously received this money from elsewhere.
It all started in April 2014 when Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, lost his job after less than two years in office. He somehow survived for the next year. In October 2014 he started his own consulting firm. "The business was opaque, making little public, not even an address. When a reporter went looking for it last fall, he tracked it down to an Alexandria, Va., office building operating out of the nondescript headquarters of another firm, called the White Canvas Group. In the interview in October, Mr. Flynn offered only a vague description of the firm. He said he had clients in Japan and the Middle East and that he worked on cyber training, aviation operations and energy business," – as The New York Times described Flynn's business.
Then, a new employer came to help: the State of Russia. Since August 2015, Lt. Gen. Flynn started earning a salary of $11,250 per month. But his employer had to be creative.
For example, in August 2015, the $11,250 was received from a Russian charter cargo airline Volga-Dnepr Airlines. It continued in September 2015 with the payment of $11,250 from Kaspersky Government Security Solutions Inc., a U.S. subsidiary of Kaspersky Lab, a Russian-based cybersecurity firm. Well, you may ask any Russian, and he/she will tell you that Kaspersky's firm is affiliated with the FSB of Russia. But Flynn is not a Russian. He is а US General. He probably did not know. The same pattern continued with the monthly payments of $11,250 for October 2015, November 2015, December 2015 (for a total of $33,750 for three months). Nominally Flynn received this money for traveling to Moscow for a few days in December 2015. It was a fee for an interview for Russian propaganda TV channel 'Russia Today' (RT). During his stay in Moscow he took part in a celebration of RT's 10th anniversary. At the ceremony he was seated at the same table with Vladimir Putin, what was widely covered by media worldwide.
Putin and Flynn at RT news channel's 10th anniversary, December 10, 2015. Photo: EPA
Let us not speculate from a moral high ground whether it is appropriate for US Lieutenant General to attend an event hosted by the Russian propaganda TV channel that in the course of 10 years devotedly occupied itself with anti-American propaganda. Moreover, the TV channel that just recently ran an extremely aggressive anti-Ukrainian campaign, which was used as a media cover-up for Russian military invasion in Ukraine in 2014 and for an occupation of certain territories of Ukraine, whose territorial integrity had been assured by Russia and USA by The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances of 1994.
Well, if one considers it acceptable to take $11,250 from Kaspersky Lab in September, it was only logical to receive salary from RT in October through December. In January 2016 the salary issuance was passed to Leading Authorities agency, a nominal organizer of Flynn's Moscow appearance. But it is worth mentioning that two sets of business-class tickets to Moscow were provided for free to Flynn and his son, as well as their stay in Metropole Hotel and other little things, like guided tours and theatre tickets.
At the time, the media were very excited about Flynn being paid by the US strategic competitor as much as $56,250, or even $67,500, depending on a calculation method. With this background, even bigger sensation has arrived. It was discovered that Flynn was acting as a foreign agent for the Turkish government and that in 2016 he had been paid $530,000 for his lobbying work.
There is a spy-thriller film called The Fourth Protocol that tells a story of a British Secret Service official who was acting out of the best intentions when he handed over to a colleague from the South Africa some secret documentation. Little did he know, the colleague in fact was working for the USSR.
I have no idea if it would be a surprise, or maybe even a shocking surprise for Lt. Gen. Flynn to discover that after all, it was not the Turkish money he had accepted from Ekim Alptekin for the lobbying. Actually, it was the Russian money paid to Flynn in advance, so that he could be used later as an agent of influence holding the position of National Security Advisor for US President Donald Trump and promoting pro-Russia policy. The alleged work for the Turkish government was no more than a cover-up story, a disguise meant to distract American people and law enforcement from his shady or even criminal activities.
An agent has to be paid. He could be paid small amounts disguised as lecturer fees
There is no considerable doubt regarding Putin's point of view as an FSB colonel who became Russian president in 2000: for him, an American officer on Russian payroll is a Russian agent. It doesn't matter what the officer thinks himself. He may consider himself a successful businessman or a media star. For Putin, the money accepted seals the deal, and now Flynn is a recruited agent who could be and will be used.
An agent has to be paid. He could be paid small amounts disguised as lecturer fees. Or he could be called to Moscow and paid $45,000 ($33,750) for an interview. But the real problem is how you pay big time, hundreds of thousands, to a soon-to-be National Security Advisor for the President of the United States for his service as an agent in the future? And how you shield him from suspicion while doing it?
In search for an answer to these questions, we should get back to the first official transfer of $11,250 to Lt. Gen. Flynn's account and then step further in the past, as far as 1990, when Russian Ulyanovsk Aviation Industrial Complex (now called CJSC Aviastar-SP or just Aviastar) has founded Volga-Dnepr Airlines that operates the cargo aircrafts An-124 called Ruslan. That was the very same company that was registered in USA as Volga Dnepr Unique AirCargo, and that was incorporated in Volga-Dnepr Group. And that was this company that had paid Flynn the first $11,250 for his participation in a Washington conference on Logistics and National Security in the Middle East and Africa.
11 years earlier, in 2004, Roland "Roel" Pieper from The Netherlands and Daniil Kazhdan from Russia established European Technology and Investment Research Centers (in abbreviated form: ETIRC) in Europe. Pieper was the president of all of the ETIRCs outside Russia.
Roel Piper is an entrepreneur and an investor from the Netherlands. Photo: ЕРА
Meanwhile in Russia Kazhdan founded company ETIRK Holding Rus (Individual Tax Number 7729512144) with Kazhdan himself being the founder, the owner and the president of the company. Kazhdan's ETIRK Holding Rus still exists in Russia, but somehow it has a different tax number – 7709669235. The original company filed for bankruptcy in 2013. It appears that Kazhdan was more widely known under the name Daniel Bolotin, a person who was frequently mentioned by the Russian and foreign media as an entrepreneur and an inventor.
This is how Bloomberg agency has officially described the company registered in Holland: "ETIRC BV offers outsourced technology solutions, and support and helpdesk services through a network of designers and programmers in Russia. The company provides services in the areas of software, outsourcing, telecom, aerospace, energy and utilities, patenting, mechanical engineering, and life sciences. It also offers services that range from developing capitalization structures, restructuring and recapitalization plans, and mergers and acquisition to initial public offerings to Russian, Turkish, and Eastern European governments; corporations; and financial institutions. In addition, the company offers sourcing and development of business alliances, joint ventures, privatization, and rest..."
Apart from The Netherlands, ETIRCs were registered in Belgium and Luxembourg. In addition to this, in 2005, ETIRK Holding Rus (i.e., Daniil Kazhdan) and Daniil Kazhdan as a private person established Joint Stock Company "STK Razvitie" ("Development"). This company still exists and runs business. Here are the examples of some of its customers: Gazprom, Transneft, Bank of Moscow, Alfa-bank, Rostelecom, Russian Railways, Mosenergo, Rosneft. It is easier to name a Russian company, which is not a client of enterprising Mr. Kazhdan.
In 2004, Kazhdan registered yet another company, ETIRK Aviation Rus. Just like in all other cases, he was the company's sole founder. In 2012, Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation accused this company of being a part of collusion between meat suppliers for Russian army, and in 2016, the company was liquidated. Simultaneously, Pieper and Kazhdan founded aircraft company ETIRC Aviation in Luxembourg. The companies' titles suggested that both of them would specialize in aircraft construction.
At this point, it is necessary to make the next digression. In 1998, ex-Microsoft manager, who once had been hired as Microsoft's eighteenth employee, Vern Raburn, established Eclipse Aviation, a company that, according to Wikipedia, had Bill Gates as its majority shareholder. The business was not so great but the company managed to produce jets in New Mexico under the label Eclipse-500 until 2008 when it was bankrupted by Alptekin, Pieper and Kazhdan. It should be mentioned that Pieper and Kazhdan used to the fullest their alleged connection to Bill Gates who, as a matter of fact, had no ties to their project: in Russia the jets were advertised as the 'Bill Gates jets'. Here is what journalist Natalia Polat has written:
"The jets once engineered by Bill Gates will be assembled in Russia. Gates' former colleague, director of European Technology and Investment Research Center (ETIRC) Roel Pieper has an intention to start an assembly line at Aviastar factory in Ulyanovsk. Last Saturday an ETIRC representative general director of Eclipse Europe Daniil Kazhdan visited Lenin's hometown. He visited Aviastar to examine its production facilities set for construction of new aircraft named Eclipse-500. Eclipse-500 has drawn public attention in America even before the first machine left the factory. It is only explainable since Bill Gates, famous Microsoft founder, was one of the main authors of the plane project. This six-seater jet is designed for charter transfers on 500 – 1000 km, and the prices are going to be comparable to those for regular pre-scheduled flights. Maximum speed is 700 km per hour. The price of a plane is approximately $1,3m. There is the only one factory in America that produces these jets. And now Gates' colleague Roel Pieper stakes on Russia. [...]
One month ago Pieper has gotten acquainted with Ulyanovsk governor Sergey Morozov at Russian economic forum in London. And Morozov has gotten interested in the Eclipse project. [...] ETIRC representative Daniil Kazhdan arrived in Ulyanovsk accompanied by Accounts Chamber's auditor Sergey Ryabuhin. [...] The parties have already signed a protocol of cooperation. A re-equipment process will start at Aviastar this September. Roel Pieper is going to arrive on his private jet especially for the occasion".
Financial Izvestia, July 15, 2015
The reader of this article naturally would get an impression that Bill Gates is actively involved in his so-called "colleague" Pieper's business. In fact, Gates and Pieper never really were "colleagues".
On March 3, 2005, it was reported that Vnesheconombank (VEB) had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Eclipse Aviation Eastern Europe (Luxembourg) and Eclipse Aviation Rus (Russia). According to the MoU, VEB intended to invest in production in Russia of the Eclipse-500 jet designed by Eclipse Aviation Eastern Europe. Specific figures of planned financing were disclosed only in 2008. Pieper has estimated the project's worth at $300m but only asked for one third of it from VEB. VEB has expressed willingness to loan $330m.
Important detail: the MoU subscription was a fraud. It appears that Eclipse Aviation Eastern Europe represented by Pieper and Eclipse Aviation Rus represented by Kazhdan simply did not exist. Kazhdan and Pieper did not produce any airplanes at that time. Eclipse-500 jets were manufactured in USA by US Company Eclipse Aviation that had no connection to Kazhdan and Pieper. They only acted as these jets dealers for Eastern Europe. Nevertheless, after getting the MoU with VEB signed, Pieper, acting as ETIRC's president, made an announcement of intention to start Esclipse-500 production in Ulyanovsk on Aviastar aircraft factory. Notably, this was the very same factory that was a partner of Volga-Dnepr, from whom Lt. Gen. Flynn had received his first $11,250. In June 2005, Kazhdan arrived in Ulyanovsk for negotiations.
There was a detailed report on Ulyanovsk governor's website:
"On June 11 "Aviastar-SP" was visited by Accounts Chamber's auditor Sergey Ryabuhin and European Technology and Investment Research Center (ETIRC) representative Daniil Kazhdan (Belgium). The purpose of this visit was to examine productive capacity of Ulyanovsk aircraft factory. ETIRC's management plans to install at Aviastar an assembly line for a modern light-weight jet Eclipse-500. [...] After getting acquainted with Aviastars unique facilities, members of the delegation and region's higher officials have signed a protocol of intentions and in this way have reached preliminary agreement. [...] This September the president of Belgic company will arrive to Ulyanovsk region to discuss more specifically cooperation between ETIRC and Aviastar".
Kazhdan had promised to invest no less than $80m. But the re-equipment of Aviastar that, according to the signed agreement, was scheduled to start in September 2005, has never commenced.
"Aviastar" specializes in production of transport aircraft IL-76MD-90A, passenger and cargo aircraft of the Tu-204 family, service maintenance of AN-124 Ruslan transport aircraft. Photo: aviastar-sp.ru
On November 1, 2005, RBC Daily announced that Pieper and Kazhdan had decided to make planes not in Ulyanovsk but in Voronezh, through Voronezh joint-stock aircraft society. Tri-partite agreement between Eclipse Aviation Eastern Europe, Voronezh region state administration and VEB was planned to be signed on October 31. However, "at the request of the Luxembourg party," the signing was "postponed until mid-November". At the same time, VEB's press-office reported that they had no information about the date of the contract signing. Bank has also refused to disclose any financial data related to the project. The journalists did not succeed in getting any official comments from Russian representatives of Eclipse Aviation Eastern Europe, which is not surprising since neither the company itself nor its representatives apparently existed.
On May 9, 2006, Turkish newspaper Bigpara.hurriyet reported that ETIRC was owned by Turkish businessman Ekim Alptekin, the same person who would pay $530,000 to General Flynn in 2016. In a conversation with Isaac Arnsdorf, the author of "Flynn's Turkish lobbying linked to Russia" published in Politico on April 25, 2017, Alptekin stated that 'he hired Flynn with his own money and did not coordinate any lobbying for the Turkish government'. Alptekin also said to Arnsdorf that 'as a partner in an investment group called ETIRC as early as 2006, [he] bought a stake in a New Mexico jet manufacturer called Eclipse Aviation.' As it will be demonstrated below, the stake in Eclipse Aviation was purchased significantly later, after Alptekin and his partners obtained a $150m loan from Russian Sviaz-bank.
After Alptekin had joined Pieper-Kazhdan's business ETIRC, some really fantastic things started to happen with Eclipse-500 jet project. In December 2007, Russian Sviaz-bank lent $150m to ETRIC Aviation, Pieper-Kazhdan's company, incorporated in investment group ETIRC that was now co-owned by Alptekin. According to the Russian Accounts Chamber's opinion it was Kazhdan (Bolotin)'s responsibility to arrange Sviaz-bank's loan: "In a way Bolotin was managing Pieper's business in Russia," – speculated Russian governmental agency.
On January14, 2008, US company Eclipse Aviation made an official statement that
"it will expand its partnership with European Technology and Investment Research Center (ETIRC) Aviation. The agreement between the two companies includes an equity investment by ETIRC in Eclipse that is substantially in excess of $100 million. […] Upon completion of the equity investment, ETIRC will be the single largest shareholder of Eclipse Aviation. ETIRC CEO Roel Pieper has been elected non-executive Chairman of Eclipse Aviation. ETIRC is currently the exclusive provider of sales, customer service, maintenance support and flight training for the Eclipse-500 in the countries of Eastern Europe, the Russian Federation, the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Republic of Turkey.
Under the new arrangement, ETIRC will add Western Europe and the United Kingdom to its distribution and services area. As a result, ETIRC will be the exclusive partner for Eclipse in more than 60 countries. As part of its expanded partnership with Eclipse, ETIRC has the right to establish local assembly of the Eclipse-500 within its expanded region, helping Eclipse Aviation reach its global volume production goals. ETIRC is in advanced stages of discussions for the location of the assembly facility. The City of Ulyanovsk in Russia is the leading candidate at the moment. [...] ETIRC Aviation is headquartered in Luxembourg and has offices in Moscow, Istanbul and Cyprus".
On January 17, 2008, Russian newspaper Vedomosti reported with a reference to Financial Times that Luxembourg-based ETIRC headed by Roel Pieper had purchased large share in American aircraft manufacturer Eclipse Aviation, and now had plans to partly relocate production to Russia, most likely to Ulyanovsk. It was assumed that assembly works would start in Russia by the end of year 2009.
Here is how it was described by Russian Accounts Chamber:
"In January 2008, amidst US financial crisis, Eclipse Aviation that was experiencing financial difficulties has received a lucrative offer from [...] ETIRC Aviation to purchase its share for more than $100m. [...] Right after the deal was done with a financial assistance from Sviaz-bank, the prospect of relocation production to Ulyanovsk became real."
In February 2008 in Ulyanovsk a ceremony of laying the first stone of the new Eclipse-500 enterprise was held. Vern Raburn, who was announced as ETIRC Aviation president, took part in the ceremony, as well as Sergey Stepashin and other officials (Regnum, February 20, 2008). Stepashin promised to take the project under "personal control." "This is the modern innovative project! This is the know-how made by the Bill Gates' colleagues – our actual American and Dutch partners", – said Stepashin according to Industrial Weekly.
And now a few words about Sergey Stepashin, at the time, the Head of Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation. According to newspaper Vedomosti (December 27, 2010), Stepashin was the person who promoted Kazhdan-Pieper-Alptekin's project in Russia. Prior to this, some years ago, Stepashin was "might-have-been" Putin. He was the Head of FSB in 1994-1995, while Putin was the Head of FSB in 1998-1999. Stepashin started first Chechen war in 1994-1995, while Putin started second Chechen war in 1999. Stepashin served as Russian prime-minister right before Putin and was replaced by Putin in August 1999. All in all, he was expected to succeed Yeltsin as the President of Russia but under the influence of circumstances, Putin got the post.
Sergei Stepashin and Boris Yeltsin in July 1999, a month before Putin's appointment as the prime minister. Photo: ЕРА
In June 2008, Interdepartmental tender committee, using Stepashin's support, sanctioned creation in Ulyanovsk of a special economic zone. Volga-Dnepr Airlines, Aviastar and ETIRC indicated willingness to participate in the special zone. In June 2008, Pieper announced that overall costs of the aircraft project will come to $300m, $100m of which ETIRC Aviation was going to borrow from VEB (RBC Daily, June 4, 2008). This is in addition to the loan it already had received from Sviaz-bank. In September 2008, VEB stated that they were ready to invest $330m in manufacturing and after-sales service facility for Eclipse-500 jets in Ulyanovsk (Vedomosti, September 16, 2008). However, a global financial crisis which erupted in September 2008 caused VEB to quit the deal.
In July 2008, Founder and CEO of Eclipse Aviation, Vern Raburn, has been discharged and Pieper took his place as the Chairman of the Board of Directors and the President. In August 2008, Eclipse Aviation's clients who had paid in advance filed lawsuits after facing severe delivery delays and inability to get refunds. That autumn, Pieper and partners filed for bankruptcy on behalf of Eclipse Aviation. In January 2009, the bankruptcy court allowed company's assets to be sold. That same year, group of investors, including Ekim Alptekin, used assets bought from Eclipse Aviation to create Turkish company EA Aerospace. Ekim Alptekin passed for its owner. Notably, on his Linkedin page, Alptekin identified himself as the company president since 2008.
Legal issues were resolved by the end of 2010. In December 2010, Turkish media Hurriyet reported than Ekim Alptekin and two of his business associates who had earlier acquired failed American aircraft company had intention to relocate production to Turkey. "Now Turkey has the highest chance to host the production," – said Alptekin in an interview for Turkish press. "We bought a company whose investing value comes to $1.5bn for just $100m. Our next step is making Turkey a main base for aircraft construction."
Elementary calculations show that if $100m was paid for Eclipse Aviation after receiving $150m loan, the $50m, plus the assets of the American company, was left in the pockets of those who were involved. It appears that their gain was even larger. On June 15, 2005, Financial Izvestia published Kazhdan's interview where he said: "As for now, we have received orders for 100 Eclipses from prominent businessmen. And what's important, they pay in advance." If advertised price for a jet was $1.3m, the total amount of prepayments had to be $130m, which means that Eclipse Aviation acquisition could be financed by the prepayments alone. Hence, it is possible that the $150m in borrowed funds remained intact.
Eclipse 500 – lightweight jet, capable of carrying up to four passengers. Photo: eahavacilik.com
At the time, there were two experienced bankers in charge of Sviaz-bank that had lent the $150m in question: Andrey Kazmin and Alla Aleshkina. Until 2007, they had administered Sberbank, the largest state-owned bank of Russia. It seems impossible that they did not realize that lending $150m to Alptekin-Pieper-Kazhdan without proper securitization was a reckless move that would put the bank in harm's way. Nevertheless, the loan was issued. Afterwards, the unsecured loan has been investigated.
According to Aleksandr Baryaev, investigation officer with the Central Investigation Department (GSU), there was a criminal case (Art. 201"Abuse of authority") filed by GSU on October 15, 2008. It was based on Central bank examination of Sviaz-bank that had revealed unpaid debt of $150m lent to ETIRC for Eclipse deal. But as Baryaev recalled, there was no one suspected in that case. And the loan itself was written off the bank's balance sheet (Vedomosti, July 8 & December 27, 2010).
Alptekin, Kazhdan and Pieper successfully solicited numerous orders and then used them to borrow from banks with no intention to pay back
To those who are familiar with the state of affairs in modern Russia, it would be clear that such a fraud would have a chance to remain undetected and unpunished only if the government itself was standing behind it. Boris Rybak, General Director of Infomost, a consulting company, gave a rather critical appraisal to Eclipse Aviation project: "It was a brilliant innovative shady deal." Eclipse-500 was advertised as the first affordable private jet for $1m (the real price was $2.5m). Advertising a $1m price, Alptekin, Kazhdan and Pieper successfully solicited numerous orders and then used them to borrow from banks with no intention to pay back.
"Eclipse Aviation, USA, has got bankrupted and as a result, shareholders lost their shares" – Pieper said in one of his interviews, – "So ETIRC Aviation does not own anything anymore. [...] Neither ETIRC Aviation nor any of the shareholders are involved in any aircraft projects anywhere in the world. ETIRC Aviation has ceased to operate and currently, it is about to be liquidated".
But after they bankrupted Eclipse Aviation and ETIRC Aviation the partners switch their attention to other, still operating companies. On March 2, 2009, Ukrainian government's web site published information concerning Pieper's and Kazhdan-Bolotin's intention to obtain a $50m loan in Ukraine in order to produce there… Eclipse-500 jets. Here is the relevant announcement:
"The First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Olexandr Turchynov held a meeting with Head and President of the European Technology and Investment Research Centre (ETIRC) Roland Pieper and Daniel Bolotin. [...] The interlocutors discussed a possibility to introduce by ETIRC a project in creating a Ukrainian air-taxi operator with the use of Eclipse 500 jets. The project envisages creating a network of service Eclipse-500 centres and a broad system of air-taxis. Also the parties considered an opportunity to manufacture the aircraft on the territory of Ukraine in the future. At the first stage of realization of the project, the expected amount of investments equals around 50 million dollars".
Given that, by tradition, an aircraft industry is highly classified in Russia, we can surmise that from the very beginning – i.e., since in 2004 when numerous ETIRCs started to pop up – it was all a part a complicated FSB operation conducted right in front of us, which involved Eclipse Aviation acquisition and subsequent chain of bankruptcies. As a result, there were dozens of millions of dollars laundered and transferred outside Russia in order to be used at discretion of Russian government – for example, to pay a reward to future (and former) Trump's National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. Flynn.
Let us keep in mind that it were Alptekin's actions that have drawn attention to $530,000 payments for Flynn's benefit. It is also remarkable that Alptekin had never mentioned in his professional internet profile any of the episodes described in this article. He totally omitted ETIRC stories, as well as Eclipse Aviation bankruptcy and his relationship with Pieper-Kazhdan. More than that, Alptekin also has never explained how he managed to avoid any claims from Russian government after he, an ordinary Turkish businessman, had failed to return $150m to Russian Sviaz-bank.
Anyway, one thing is obvious. In conversation with Isaac Arnsdorf, who wrote a much-discussed article in Politico, Alptekin "acknowledged ETIRC's negotiations with the bank [VEB] chaired by Putin, but said he never interacted with any Russian officials. There are no Russians involved in the new company", he said. Well, this is questionable. What happened to Kazhdan-Bolotin? He was in his old company, the one that borrowed $150m. Furthermore, Alptekin lied when he told Arnsdorf he never met any Russian officials. At least once, in July 2009, Alptekin visited Russia.
On June 24, 2009, Ulyanovsk city newspaper UleyGrad published a short story titled "Ulyanovsk strengthens business ties with Turkey and Israel". Among other things, it reported:
"Ulyanovsk region governor Sergey Morozov had a meeting in Moscow with Ekim Alptekin who represents the government of Turkey. During negotiations the parties expressed interest in development of cooperation between Ulyanovsk region and Turkey. The parties agreed to discuss the proposed cooperation in greater detail during the course of Ekim Alptekin's visit to Ulyanovsk. According to Sergey Morozov, the first steps in cooperation would take place in high technology manufacturing, construction and real estate inducstries".
One can only wonder what other ties to Russia and Russian officials are hushed up by Ekim Alptekin who "represents the government of Turkey".
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Has anyone noticed that if you stare at one specific thing, something that's a little more interesting than the rest of a dark room (a little red light, for example), that if you just keep staring the room around you gets darker? There's an enormous urge to readjust your focus, but it breaks the spell if you do. I spent last night trying to ride it out and see if I fell asleep, but I couldn't. However, during my best tries, it seemed as though the entire room was pitch black, and all i could see was my little red light. It felt like the "vibrations" after a good half hour of WILD tries, but after only a couple seconds.
My question is if anyone has kept staring at it and fallen asleep because of it.
I don't think many people can sleep with their eyes open.
Ohhhh. The fatal flaw. Well, maybe he means just naturally drifted off to sleep whilst staring at it....like almost not even realizing you closed your eyes.
haha. yeah, i had that problem as I was trying it. I was just wondering if anyone else had actually gone through and gone somewhere with it. Anyway, your body would probably close your eyes for you once you started dreaming.
Yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about, by saying that the rest of the room darkens as you stare at one bright-ish object in the room. Your eyes want to twitch or shake or move, it seems like they'll do anything to re-focus. I don't know why it looks like everything around it is getting darker, but it gets to the point where a dim room suddenly appears pitch-black until you move your eyes. It's a weird feeling...but it probably requires too much effort to fall asleep and lucid dream with, though I'm not sure, and I've never tried.
I could do this a lot when I was younger, but my vision always turned white. If I were to do it nowadays, it would turn black.
Also, you should probably rename this thread since it's not a true induction method and it might confuse noobs.
When the room became dark it just meant that you about to go into trance...just like the magician hypnotize people by having them concentrate on a wristwatch. Anyway, what you could do when you get to this point is to close your eye. You should see the after image of the red light in your mind eyes. Continue to concentrate on this image and see how long you can keep it there. When you loose it open your eye again and look at the light. keep doing this and eventually at some point went you close your physical eye to look at the inner image...there will be a "click" and you will switch over to the dream world.
haha, when I was a kid I heard that some people could fall asleep with their eyes open. So I would try to do this in church so my Dad wouldn't get pissed at me cus it would look like I was still paying attention.... I don't think I ever actually managed to do it, but everything would become black at times.
Actually I remember when I first joined (march 08) there were threads like this pertaining to WILD floating around. The ones on reverse blinking and etc., they had concepts like this in them. May want to search around.
It's nothing about your age. If you try it in a bright room, it gets white, and if you try it in a dark room, it gets black. I think the cutoff point for each is whether you're using night vision or color vision.
Oh yeah, how do you rename threads?
That remids me of a test a group of scientist did along time ago.
They took someone and made it so they numbed there eye muscels so they couldent look away and after an hour of looking at the same exact thing they eventualy couldent see any thing.
heres an exampe of what your eyes are doing just star at the picture lond enough and the colors will go away.
Holy crap that color thing is AMAZING!
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Q: Unable to Decrypt a file using Key in Python I have a video file which I am trying decrypt . The key is stored in a file. For some reasons it's not working and giving me this error "TypeError: Object type <class 'str'> cannot be passed to C code"
DecryptFile function I wrote takes 3 parameters

*

*input file name ("input.ts")

*output file name ("output.ts")

*key for decryption ("k.kjs").

What I want it to do is decrypt the file with the key provided and save it with output name I gave . I am using Python 3.7.1
from Crypto.Cipher import AES
import os

def DecryptFile(infile,outfile,keyfile):
    data = open(infile,"rb").read()
    key = open(keyfile,"rb").read()
    print(type(data))
    iv = '\x00'*15 + chr(1)
    aes_crypter = AES.new(key,  AES.MODE_CBC,  iv)
    a = aes_crypter.decrypt(data)
    with open(outfile, 'wb') as out_file:
        out_file.write(a)

DecryptFile("input.ts","output.ts","k.kjs")

A: According to [ReadTheDocs.PyCryptodome]: AES - Crypto.Cipher.AES.new(key, mode, *args, **kwargs), iv should be:

*

*Of type bytes

*A kwarg
To get past this error, modify 2 lines of your code:
# ...
iv = b'\x00' * 15 + b'\x01'
aes_crypter = AES.new(key, AES.MODE_CBC, iv=iv)
# ...


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Robert Eugene Collins Sr., 89, of Grandview, MO, passed away on March 3, 2019. He was devoted to his family and he confessed with his mouth and believed in his heart that Jesus Christ was Lord and his personal Savior.
Bob was born to John Edward and Nina Lorraine (Halbert) Collins Sr. in Kansas City, MO on February 19, 1930. He served 8 years in the US Naval Reserves and loved his country - flying the US flag everyday at his home.
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Bob married Alice Audrey Taylor on July 13, 1957 in Jonesboro, AR, and he wooed her every day thereafter. They were founding members of White Ridge Baptist Church (now Longview), and then attended First Baptist Church Grandview. Bob showed his love for his wife, children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren with his time, his efforts, and his active interest in what was important to them. He was an artisan and craftsman in leatherwork, acrylic paint, and charcoal. He also loved listening to his grandchildren play their instruments; and, of course, everything Irish.
He marveled at God's creation and His creatures, often taking his family camping at the spur of the moment. He enjoyed hunting with his recurve bow and muzzleloader. His entire adult life he supported a school in Montana for the Crow and Northern Cheyenne tribes.
Bob is survived by his wife, Alice; his cousin Bob J. (Betty); his children Bob Jr. (Rosa), Daniel (Teri), and John; his 7 grandchildren; and 5 great-grandchildren. He is preceded in death by his brother, John Edward Jr., and his parents.
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A criminal complaint was unsealed in Alexandria, Virginia, Friday charging a Russian national for her alleged role in a Russian conspiracy to interfere in the U.S. political system, including the 2018 midterm election. Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger of the Eastern District of Virginia, and FBI Director Christopher Wray made the announcement after the charges were unsealed.
According to allegations in the criminal complaint, Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova, 44, of St. Petersburg, Russia, served as the chief accountant of "Project Lakhta," a Russian umbrella effort funded by Russian oligarch Yevgeniy Viktorovich Prigozhin and two companies he controls, Concord Management and Consulting LLC, and Concord Catering. Project Lakhta includes multiple components, some involving domestic audiences within the Russian Federation and others targeting foreign audiences in the United States, members of the European Union, and Ukraine, among others.
Khusyaynova allegedly managed the financing of Project Lakhta operations, including foreign influence activities directed at the United States. The financial documents she controlled include detailed expenses for activities in the United States, such as expenditures for activists, advertisements on social media platforms, registration of domain names, the purchase of proxy servers, and "promoting news postings on social networks." Between January 2016 and June 2018, Project Lakhta's proposed operating budget totaled more than $35 million, although only a portion of these funds were directed at the United States. Between January and June 2018 alone, Project Lakhta's proposed operating budget totaled more than $10 million.
The alleged conspiracy, in which Khusyaynova is alleged to have played a central financial management role, sought to conduct what it called internally "information warfare against the United States." This effort was not only designed to spread distrust towards candidates for U.S. political office and the U.S. political system in general, but also to defraud the United States by impeding the lawful functions of government agencies in administering relevant federal requirements.
The conspirators allegedly took extraordinary steps to make it appear that they were ordinary American political activists. This included the use of virtual private networks and other means to disguise their activities and to obfuscate their Russian origin. They used social media platforms to create thousands of social media and email accounts that appeared to be operated by U.S. persons, and used them to create and amplify divisive social and political content targeting U.S. audiences. These accounts also were used to advocate for the election or electoral defeat of particular candidates in the 2016 and 2018 U.S. elections. Some social media accounts posted tens of thousands of messages, and had tens of thousands of followers.
The conspiracy allegedly used social media and other internet platforms to address a wide variety of topics, including immigration, gun control and the Second Amendment, the Confederate flag, race relations, LGBT issues, the Women's March, and the NFL national anthem debate. Members of the conspiracy took advantage of specific events in the United States to anchor their themes, including the shootings of church members in Charleston, South Carolina, and concert attendees in Las Vegas; the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally and associated violence; police shootings of African-American men; as well as the personnel and policy decisions of the current U.S. presidential administration.
The criminal complaint does not include any allegation that Khusyaynova or the broader conspiracy had any effect on the outcome of an election. The complaint also does not allege that any American knowingly participated in the Project Lakhta operation.
The investigative team received exceptional cooperation from private sector companies, such as Facebook and Twitter.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jay V. Prabhu and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Alex Iftimie are prosecuting the case, with assistance of Trial Attorneys Matthew Y. Chang and Patrick T. Murphy of the National Security Division's Counterintelligence and Export Control Section.


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Q: How to make ffmpeg run from laravel cron I have a laravel command that generates summary jpeg file (contact sheet) from a video file, using exec('ffmpeg ...').
When I call it from command-line (like this: php artisan file:generate or su - nginx -s /bin/sh -c 'php artisan file:generate') it works, but if I have it in the crontab, it doesn't work.
Any ideas?


UK's Kangaroo VOD Service Killed By Regulators; An Opportunity For Hulu?
The UK's proposed big "Kangaroo" VOD JV, stuck in regulatory limbo since announcing its intention to launch in 2007, has now been killed for good by a ruling from Britain's antitrust agency that says it "would be too much of a threat to competition in this developing market and has to be stopped".
A little like Hulu, BBC Worldwide, ITV (LSE: ITV) and Channel 4 wanted to pool their archive TV shows on a single consumer platform, making money from sales of ads against free, streamed shows and from download-to-own income. But, after after a 10-month antitrust scrutiny, the commission concluded the trio, which already controls the majority of UK public service TV, would have too much power to hike wholesale prices for their own shows to rival VOD services like Joost and BT's Vision IPTV platform. Curiously, it even rejected the trio's offer to wholesale shows to rivals – a remedy it had proposed in order to win clearance.
This ruling will go down like a ton of bricks in Britain with everyone except rival VOD operators. The Kangaroo JV issued a statement: "The real losers from this decision are British consumers. This is a disproportionate remedy and a missed opportunity in the further development of British broadcasting." The venture has 50 staff, a central London office, has been in development largely throughout this process, in anticipation of winning the green light, and last month appointed Publicis' Fallon agency to sell ads on its site.
Wow. Unbelievably stupid move by the Competition commission if you ask me.


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import angular from "angular";
import {registerComponents, registerStores} from "../common/module-utils";
import entityStatisticStore from "./services/entity-statistic-store";
import entityStatisticSection from "./components/section/entity-statistic-section";
import entityStatisticSummarySection from "./components/entity-statistic-summary-section";
import Routes from './routes';
import EntityStatisticsUtilities from './services/entity-statistics-utilities';
import EntityStatisticBooleanRenderer from './directives/entity-statistic-boolean-renderer';
import EntityStatisticPercentageRenderer from './directives/entity-statistic-percentage-renderer';
import EntityStatisticNumericRenderer from './directives/entity-statistic-numeric-renderer';
import DurationSelector from './components/duration-selector';
import EntityStatisticDetailTable from './components/entity-statistic-detail-table';
import EntityStatisticDetailPanel from './components/entity-statistic-detail-panel';
import EntityStatisticSummaryCard from './components/entity-statistic-summary-card';
import EntityStatisticHistoryChart from './components/history-chart/entity-statistic-history-chart';
import EntityStatisticHistoryPanel from './components/history-panel/entity-statistic-history-panel';
import EntityStatisticTree from './components/entity-statistic-tree';
import EntityStatisticsSummaries from './components/related-entity-statistics-summaries';

export default () => {

    const module = angular.module('waltz.entity.statistics', []);

    module
        .config(Routes);

    registerStores(module, [
        entityStatisticStore
    ]);

    module
        .service('EntityStatisticUtilities', EntityStatisticsUtilities);

    module
        .directive('waltzEntityStatisticBooleanRenderer', EntityStatisticBooleanRenderer)
        .directive('waltzEntityStatisticPercentageRenderer', EntityStatisticPercentageRenderer)
        .directive('waltzEntityStatisticNumericRenderer', EntityStatisticNumericRenderer);

    registerComponents(module, [
        entityStatisticSection,
        entityStatisticSummarySection
    ]);

    module
        .component('waltzDurationSelector', DurationSelector)
        .component('waltzEntityStatisticDetailTable', EntityStatisticDetailTable)
        .component('waltzEntityStatisticDetailPanel', EntityStatisticDetailPanel)
        .component('waltzEntityStatisticSummaryCard', EntityStatisticSummaryCard)
        .component('waltzEntityStatisticHistoryChart', EntityStatisticHistoryChart)
        .component('waltzEntityStatisticHistoryPanel', EntityStatisticHistoryPanel)
        .component('waltzEntityStatisticTree', EntityStatisticTree)
        .component('waltzRelatedEntityStatisticsSummaries', EntityStatisticsSummaries);

    return module.name;
};


CafeLit: Will he or won't he be on time?
'Hello it's me. Is anyone out there listening to me?
Of course you're not. You never do unless I do something to attract your attention. Perhaps I'll stick a foot out to kick you, that might make you take notice of me.
Oh no not again, they are at it again, it is all they talk about these days. Hey Chaps, what about me? I'm the key player around here. Without me nothing is going to happen.
I'll tell you what; it's certainly getting a bit cramped in here. I need to shuffle round to get comfortable. Whoops she felt that one, sorry Mummy. That's better, now where was I?
I don't think they realise that I can hear what they are saying. If they had read the books properly they would have known, but oh no, all they do is talk about needing to get me out of here early. What do they think I am, a bar of chocolate in one of those machines, put the money in, push a button and out I pop.
Serves them right if I mess up their plans. I can do it you know, I'm the one in charge of when it happens, not her. If I don't want to come out I won't. They have even had the cheek to discuss how to get me out if I don't appear in time. There is no chance I'm going to let that happen.
'Hello are you still there? Oh good, do you want to know what this is all about? It's about money, yes that's right money. Not about me.
Grandmamma, Lady Elizabeth Saunders is the one who is to blame for all of this trouble. Yes her, the posh one with the loud voice. Apparently she made a grand announcement on New Year's Day 2016. They were all there, her three daughters and their partners. She announced that whichever one of her children produced a boy before midnight on the 31st December 2017 would inherit the Saunders family pile. If not she was leaving it to a Cats Home. Cats indeed, that's rubbish, she's nearly as allergic to cats as she is to her family.
Obviously I've never seen her, but I've heard her. Oh boy have I heard her! When she comes into the room everything goes quiet. Everyone is waiting for her to speak, even I'm quiet just waiting to hear what she's got to say this time. This morning when she visited she said that she hoped that all the money she was paying for this private hospital was going to be worth it. She keeps reminding my Mummy that she has to give birth before midnight or everything goes to the Cat's Home. What a cheek, who does she think she is?
When I am born I will be the first boy in the Saunders family for four generations. Ok I know that I have to pop out in time if I am to save the family fortune. Don't get me wrong I want a life of luxury as much as the next baby, but I don't like being told what to do so early on in my life, after all I'm not even born yet. If she is like this now, what is she going to be like all though my life?
I'm very happy in here. It's warm and it's safe. I'm not ready to be poked and prodded and have stupid noises made to my face. I'm not a pigeon, I won't respond to coo, coo, coo. I know I am gorgeous; I don't need to be woken up every time I want to sleep with someone telling me how gorgeous I am. I bet you are wondering how I know about all these things.
You think us babies don't talk to each other, well you are wrong. All those posh antenatal classes we went to weren't just for you. You don't really think that we just sat around in here while you did that yoga and floated around in that hydro thingy. Of course we didn't, we babies had a chance to talk to each other. You would be amazed at what we discussed. I told them about Grandmamma Lady Elizabeth and her diabolical announcement. They were horrified, all apart from that silly baby that your best friend is having. She thought it was a fun idea and that she wished that it was her instead of me. It took me ages to explain that the whole thing was about there had not been a boy born into the Saunders family for 4 generations and that I was a boy. I then explained to her yet again that I had to be born by midnight on the 31st December 2014 if my Mummy and Daddy were going to inherit all the Saunders estate and money from Grandmamma. If I was born later than midnight, she would leave it all the Cats Home. The silly little girl thought that was a fun idea as well. I tell you how stupid, I hope I don't have any sisters if they are like her.
Anyway as I was saying, we all agreed that it wasn't right to make me pop out at a certain time. I should be allowed to do it when I want. They also didn't think it was right that Daddy should be trying to persuade Mummy to hurry thing up. I mean to say, he even gave her some orange juice and castor oil to drink the other day to make things happen quicker. I didn't think she should drink it, but she did. I really had to hold on tight that time. Things were getting a bit serious.
Like I was saying the other babies didn't think that I should give in, even if it did mean not having a big house to live in, nice gardens to be pushed round in a comfortable pram. Lots of toys to play with and a pony when I got a little bigger. We all agreed that I wouldn't do it, but at times it has been a struggle for me to stay where I am.
It's like when her waters broke, oh boy that was no fun. Panic stations all round. Phone calls to the hospital. Rushing outside to the car and then that manic race to the hospital. I had to remind them , excuse me don't forget that I'm in here and I'm holding on as tight as I can, there is no way that I am having the indignity of being born in the back seat of this car.
All that panic for nothing, I am still in here. Wow that was a close thing, I nearly had to give in, but I managed to stay where I was. I'll make them wait for a bit longer.
Hang on, is that my Mummy speaking? I do wish she would speak up, doesn't she realise that I've only got tiny ears. What's she saying? Oh do stop crying, I can't understand what you are saying. Wait a moment, did I hear that right. She doesn't care about the inheritance any more, she just wants me to be born safe and well. That I mean more to her than all the money in the world and she knows that I will come when I am ready, not when they want me to. It doesn't matter that it is five to midnight and I still haven't been born as long as I am healthy when I do arrive.
What a time to tell me this. This changes everything. I've got to get a move on, push Mummy, push. Where is that orange juice and castor oil when you really need it?
Will you please stop telling her to breathe slowly, we haven't got time for that. Just push Mummy I'm doing my bit, I'm almost there.
Oh my goodness, is this the outside world, it's cold out here. Hey will you stop rubbing and patting my back, I'm not a pet dog you know. I've had enough of this, perhaps if I start crying you might leave me alone. Oh hello Mummy so that what you look like, well I think it's you. You're a bit fuzzy, ah that better I can see you now. I suppose you must be Daddy. Why are you crying? I'm the one who should be doing that.
Oh my goodness I know that voice, it's the scary one Grandmamma Lady Elizabeth. I don't think I like the look of her. No don't come any closer and don't you dare kiss me, I'm not ready for all that yet.
Hello it's me again. As you know I'm out. Mind you it was a bit close on time, I nearly left it too late. Mummy is very happy I'm here, Daddy is very happy I'm here but I think that he is even happier now we've inherited the family fortune.
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Registration is now open for the BAA's Summer Double Bill of meetings at Warwick University on Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th July 2018.
This is an unusual event in that there will be two meetings running concurrently on Saturday, the BAA Summer Meeting and the first day of a two day joint meeting of the BAA Variable Star Section and the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO).
There will be a full programme of talks for both meetings and a conference dinner for all participants on Saturday evening. Accommodation is available in single en-suite rooms on the Warwick campus.
Information about the meeting and how to book can be found at https://britastro.org/summer2018.
We expect heavy demand for this event so book early to ensure your place.
The full programme of talks at the BAA/AAVSO joint meeting on variable stars at Warwick University in July is now available at https://britastro.org/summer2018.
There is still an opportunity to present a poster at the meeting by contacting Roger Pickard at roger.pickard@sky.com.
Good spot Robin. I've edited the link so the full stop is not part of it. I'm sure David won't mind.
Thanks Andy. Good call Robin.


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