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Cloud SQL Admin API . backupRuns

Instance Methods

  close()

Close httplib2 connections.

  delete(project, instance, id, x__xgafv=None)

Deletes the backup taken by a backup run.

  get(project, instance, id, x__xgafv=None)

Retrieves a resource containing information about a backup run.

  insert(project, instance, body=None, x__xgafv=None)

Creates a new backup run on demand.

  list(project, instance, maxResults=None, pageToken=None, x__xgafv=None)

Lists all backup runs associated with the project or a given instance and configuration in the reverse chronological order of the backup initiation time.

  list_next()

Retrieves the next page of results.

Method Details

    close()

Close httplib2 connections.

    delete(project, instance, id, x__xgafv=None)

Deletes the backup taken by a backup run.

Args:
  project: string, Project ID of the project that contains the instance. (required)
  instance: string, Cloud SQL instance ID. This does not include the project ID. (required)
  id: string, The ID of the backup run to delete. To find a backup run ID, use the [list](https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/mysql/admin-api/rest/v1beta4/backupRuns/list) method. (required)
  x__xgafv: string, V1 error format.
    Allowed values
      1 - v1 error format
      2 - v2 error format

Returns:
  An object of the form:

    { # An Operation resource. For successful operations that return an Operation resource, only the fields relevant to the operation are populated in the resource.
  "backupContext": { # Backup context. # The context for backup operation, if applicable.
    "backupId": "A String", # The identifier of the backup.
    "kind": "A String", # This is always `sql#backupContext`.
  },
  "endTime": "A String", # The time this operation finished in UTC timezone in [RFC 3339](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339) format, for example `2012-11-15T16:19:00.094Z`.
  "error": { # Database instance operation errors list wrapper. # If errors occurred during processing of this operation, this field will be populated.
    "errors": [ # The list of errors encountered while processing this operation.
      { # Database instance operation error.
        "code": "A String", # Identifies the specific error that occurred.
        "kind": "A String", # This is always `sql#operationError`.
        "message": "A String", # Additional information about the error encountered.
      },
    ],
    "kind": "A String", # This is always `sql#operationErrors`.
  },
  "exportContext": { # Database instance export context. # The context for export operation, if applicable.
    "csvExportOptions": { # Options for exporting data as CSV. `MySQL` and `PostgreSQL` instances only.
      "escapeCharacter": "A String", # Specifies the character that should appear before a data character that needs to be escaped.
      "fieldsTerminatedBy": "A String", # Specifies the character that separates columns within each row (line) of the file.
      "linesTerminatedBy": "A String", # This is used to separate lines. If a line does not contain all fields, the rest of the columns are set to their default values.
      "quoteCharacter": "A String", # Specifies the quoting character to be used when a data value is quoted.
      "selectQuery": "A String", # The select query used to extract the data.
    },
    "databases": [ # Databases to be exported. `MySQL instances:` If `fileType` is `SQL` and no database is specified, all databases are exported, except for the `mysql` system database. If `fileType` is `CSV`, you can specify one database, either by using this property or by using the `csvExportOptions.selectQuery` property, which takes precedence over this property. `PostgreSQL instances:` You must specify one database to be exported. If `fileType` is `CSV`, this database must match the one specified in the `csvExportOptions.selectQuery` property. `SQL Server instances:` You must specify one database to be exported, and the `fileType` must be `BAK`.
      "A String",
    ],
    "fileType": "A String", # The file type for the specified uri.
    "kind": "A String", # This is always `sql#exportContext`.
    "offload": True or False, # Option for export offload.
    "sqlExportOptions": { # Options for exporting data as SQL statements.
      "mysqlExportOptions": { # Options for exporting from MySQL.
        "masterData": 42, # Option to include SQL statement required to set up replication. If set to `1`, the dump file includes a CHANGE MASTER TO statement with the binary log coordinates, and --set-gtid-purged is set to ON. If set to `2`, the CHANGE MASTER TO statement is written as a SQL comment and has no effect. If set to any value other than `1`, --set-gtid-purged is set to OFF.
      },
      "schemaOnly": True or False, # Export only schemas.
      "tables": [ # Tables to export, or that were exported, from the specified database. If you specify tables, specify one and only one database. For PostgreSQL instances, you can specify only one table.
        "A String",
      ],
    },
    "uri": "A String", # The path to the file in Google Cloud Storage where the export will be stored. The URI is in the form `gs://bucketName/fileName`. If the file already exists, the request succeeds, but the operation fails. If `fileType` is `SQL` and the filename ends with .gz, the contents are compressed.
  },
  "importContext": { # Database instance import context. # The context for import operation, if applicable.
    "bakImportOptions": { # Import parameters specific to SQL Server .BAK files
      "encryptionOptions": {
        "certPath": "A String", # Path to the Certificate (.cer) in Cloud Storage, in the form `gs://bucketName/fileName`. The instance must have write permissions to the bucket and read access to the file.
        "pvkPassword": "A String", # Password that encrypts the private key
        "pvkPath": "A String", # Path to the Certificate Private Key (.pvk) in Cloud Storage, in the form `gs://bucketName/fileName`. The instance must have write permissions to the bucket and read access to the file.
      },
    },
    "csvImportOptions": { # Options for importing data as CSV.
      "columns": [ # The columns to which CSV data is imported. If not specified, all columns of the database table are loaded with CSV data.
        "A String",
      ],
      "escapeCharacter": "A String", # Specifies the character that should appear before a data character that needs to be escaped.
      "fieldsTerminatedBy": "A String", # Specifies the character that separates columns within each row (line) of the file.
      "linesTerminatedBy": "A String", # This is used to separate lines. If a line does not contain all fields, the rest of the columns are set to their default values.
      "quoteCharacter": "A String", # Specifies the quoting character to be used when a data value is quoted.
      "table": "A String", # The table to which CSV data is imported.
    },
    "database": "A String", # The target database for the import. If `fileType` is `SQL`, this field is required only if the import file does not specify a database, and is overridden by any database specification in the import file. If `fileType` is `CSV`, one database must be specified.
    "fileType": "A String", # The file type for the specified uri. * `SQL`: The file contains SQL statements. * `CSV`: The file contains CSV data. * `BAK`: The file contains backup data for a SQL Server instance.
    "importUser": "A String", # The PostgreSQL user for this import operation. PostgreSQL instances only.
    "kind": "A String", # This is always `sql#importContext`.
    "uri": "A String", # Path to the import file in Cloud Storage, in the form `gs://bucketName/fileName`. Compressed gzip files (.gz) are supported when `fileType` is `SQL`. The instance must have write permissions to the bucket and read access to the file.
  },
  "insertTime": "A String", # The time this operation was enqueued in UTC timezone in [RFC 3339](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339) format, for example `2012-11-15T16:19:00.094Z`.
  "kind": "A String", # This is always `sql#operation`.
  "name": "A String", # An identifier that uniquely identifies the operation. You can use this identifier to retrieve the Operations resource that has information about the operation.
  "operationType": "A String", # The type of the operation. Valid values are: * `CREATE` * `DELETE` * `UPDATE` * `RESTART` * `IMPORT` * `EXPORT` * `BACKUP_VOLUME` * `RESTORE_VOLUME` * `CREATE_USER` * `DELETE_USER` * `CREATE_DATABASE` * `DELETE_DATABASE`
  "selfLink": "A String", # The URI of this resource.
  "startTime": "A String", # The time this operation actually started in UTC timezone in [RFC 3339](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339) format, for example `2012-11-15T16:19:00.094Z`.
  "status": "A String", # The status of an operation.
  "targetId": "A String", # Name of the database instance related to this operation.
  "targetLink": "A String",
  "targetProject": "A String", # The project ID of the target instance related to this operation.
  "user": "A String", # The email address of the user who initiated this operation.
}

    get(project, instance, id, x__xgafv=None)

Retrieves a resource containing information about a backup run.

Args:
  project: string, Project ID of the project that contains the instance. (required)
  instance: string, Cloud SQL instance ID. This does not include the project ID. (required)
  id: string, The ID of this backup run. (required)
  x__xgafv: string, V1 error format.
    Allowed values
      1 - v1 error format
      2 - v2 error format

Returns:
  An object of the form:

    { # A BackupRun resource.
  "backupKind": "A String", # Specifies the kind of backup, PHYSICAL or DEFAULT_SNAPSHOT.
  "description": "A String", # The description of this run, only applicable to on-demand backups.
  "diskEncryptionConfiguration": { # Disk encryption configuration for an instance. # Encryption configuration specific to a backup.
    "kind": "A String", # This is always `sql#diskEncryptionConfiguration`.
    "kmsKeyName": "A String", # Resource name of KMS key for disk encryption
  },
  "diskEncryptionStatus": { # Disk encryption status for an instance. # Encryption status specific to a backup.
    "kind": "A String", # This is always `sql#diskEncryptionStatus`.
    "kmsKeyVersionName": "A String", # KMS key version used to encrypt the Cloud SQL instance resource
  },
  "endTime": "A String", # The time the backup operation completed in UTC timezone in [RFC 3339](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339) format, for example `2012-11-15T16:19:00.094Z`.
  "enqueuedTime": "A String", # The time the run was enqueued in UTC timezone in [RFC 3339](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339) format, for example `2012-11-15T16:19:00.094Z`.
  "error": { # Database instance operation error. # Information about why the backup operation failed. This is only present if the run has the FAILED status.
    "code": "A String", # Identifies the specific error that occurred.
    "kind": "A String", # This is always `sql#operationError`.
    "message": "A String", # Additional information about the error encountered.
  },
  "id": "A String", # The identifier for this backup run. Unique only for a specific Cloud SQL instance.
  "instance": "A String", # Name of the database instance.
  "kind": "A String", # This is always `sql#backupRun`.
  "location": "A String", # Location of the backups.
  "selfLink": "A String", # The URI of this resource.
  "startTime": "A String", # The time the backup operation actually started in UTC timezone in [RFC 3339](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339) format, for example `2012-11-15T16:19:00.094Z`.
  "status": "A String", # The status of this run.
  "timeZone": "A String", # Backup time zone to prevent restores to an instance with a different time zone. Now relevant only for SQL Server.
  "type": "A String", # The type of this run; can be either "AUTOMATED" or "ON_DEMAND" or "FINAL". This field defaults to "ON_DEMAND" and is ignored, when specified for insert requests.
  "windowStartTime": "A String", # The start time of the backup window during which this the backup was attempted in [RFC 3339](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339) format, for example `2012-11-15T16:19:00.094Z`.
}

    insert(project, instance, body=None, x__xgafv=None)

Creates a new backup run on demand.

Args:
  project: string, Project ID of the project that contains the instance. (required)
  instance: string, Cloud SQL instance ID. This does not include the project ID. (required)
  body: object, The request body.
    The object takes the form of:

{ # A BackupRun resource.
  "backupKind": "A String", # Specifies the kind of backup, PHYSICAL or DEFAULT_SNAPSHOT.
  "description": "A String", # The description of this run, only applicable to on-demand backups.
  "diskEncryptionConfiguration": { # Disk encryption configuration for an instance. # Encryption configuration specific to a backup.
    "kind": "A String", # This is always `sql#diskEncryptionConfiguration`.
    "kmsKeyName": "A String", # Resource name of KMS key for disk encryption
  },
  "diskEncryptionStatus": { # Disk encryption status for an instance. # Encryption status specific to a backup.
    "kind": "A String", # This is always `sql#diskEncryptionStatus`.
    "kmsKeyVersionName": "A String", # KMS key version used to encrypt the Cloud SQL instance resource
  },
  "endTime": "A String", # The time the backup operation completed in UTC timezone in [RFC 3339](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339) format, for example `2012-11-15T16:19:00.094Z`.
  "enqueuedTime": "A String", # The time the run was enqueued in UTC timezone in [RFC 3339](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339) format, for example `2012-11-15T16:19:00.094Z`.
  "error": { # Database instance operation error. # Information about why the backup operation failed. This is only present if the run has the FAILED status.
    "code": "A String", # Identifies the specific error that occurred.
    "kind": "A String", # This is always `sql#operationError`.
    "message": "A String", # Additional information about the error encountered.
  },
  "id": "A String", # The identifier for this backup run. Unique only for a specific Cloud SQL instance.
  "instance": "A String", # Name of the database instance.
  "kind": "A String", # This is always `sql#backupRun`.
  "location": "A String", # Location of the backups.
  "selfLink": "A String", # The URI of this resource.
  "startTime": "A String", # The time the backup operation actually started in UTC timezone in [RFC 3339](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339) format, for example `2012-11-15T16:19:00.094Z`.
  "status": "A String", # The status of this run.
  "timeZone": "A String", # Backup time zone to prevent restores to an instance with a different time zone. Now relevant only for SQL Server.
  "type": "A String", # The type of this run; can be either "AUTOMATED" or "ON_DEMAND" or "FINAL". This field defaults to "ON_DEMAND" and is ignored, when specified for insert requests.
  "windowStartTime": "A String", # The start time of the backup window during which this the backup was attempted in [RFC 3339](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339) format, for example `2012-11-15T16:19:00.094Z`.
}

  x__xgafv: string, V1 error format.
    Allowed values
      1 - v1 error format
      2 - v2 error format

Returns:
  An object of the form:

    { # An Operation resource. For successful operations that return an Operation resource, only the fields relevant to the operation are populated in the resource.
  "backupContext": { # Backup context. # The context for backup operation, if applicable.
    "backupId": "A String", # The identifier of the backup.
    "kind": "A String", # This is always `sql#backupContext`.
  },
  "endTime": "A String", # The time this operation finished in UTC timezone in [RFC 3339](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339) format, for example `2012-11-15T16:19:00.094Z`.
  "error": { # Database instance operation errors list wrapper. # If errors occurred during processing of this operation, this field will be populated.
    "errors": [ # The list of errors encountered while processing this operation.
      { # Database instance operation error.
        "code": "A String", # Identifies the specific error that occurred.
        "kind": "A String", # This is always `sql#operationError`.
        "message": "A String", # Additional information about the error encountered.
      },
    ],
    "kind": "A String", # This is always `sql#operationErrors`.
  },
  "exportContext": { # Database instance export context. # The context for export operation, if applicable.
    "csvExportOptions": { # Options for exporting data as CSV. `MySQL` and `PostgreSQL` instances only.
      "escapeCharacter": "A String", # Specifies the character that should appear before a data character that needs to be escaped.
      "fieldsTerminatedBy": "A String", # Specifies the character that separates columns within each row (line) of the file.
      "linesTerminatedBy": "A String", # This is used to separate lines. If a line does not contain all fields, the rest of the columns are set to their default values.
      "quoteCharacter": "A String", # Specifies the quoting character to be used when a data value is quoted.
      "selectQuery": "A String", # The select query used to extract the data.
    },
    "databases": [ # Databases to be exported. `MySQL instances:` If `fileType` is `SQL` and no database is specified, all databases are exported, except for the `mysql` system database. If `fileType` is `CSV`, you can specify one database, either by using this property or by using the `csvExportOptions.selectQuery` property, which takes precedence over this property. `PostgreSQL instances:` You must specify one database to be exported. If `fileType` is `CSV`, this database must match the one specified in the `csvExportOptions.selectQuery` property. `SQL Server instances:` You must specify one database to be exported, and the `fileType` must be `BAK`.
      "A String",
    ],
    "fileType": "A String", # The file type for the specified uri.
    "kind": "A String", # This is always `sql#exportContext`.
    "offload": True or False, # Option for export offload.
    "sqlExportOptions": { # Options for exporting data as SQL statements.
      "mysqlExportOptions": { # Options for exporting from MySQL.
        "masterData": 42, # Option to include SQL statement required to set up replication. If set to `1`, the dump file includes a CHANGE MASTER TO statement with the binary log coordinates, and --set-gtid-purged is set to ON. If set to `2`, the CHANGE MASTER TO statement is written as a SQL comment and has no effect. If set to any value other than `1`, --set-gtid-purged is set to OFF.
      },
      "schemaOnly": True or False, # Export only schemas.
      "tables": [ # Tables to export, or that were exported, from the specified database. If you specify tables, specify one and only one database. For PostgreSQL instances, you can specify only one table.
        "A String",
      ],
    },
    "uri": "A String", # The path to the file in Google Cloud Storage where the export will be stored. The URI is in the form `gs://bucketName/fileName`. If the file already exists, the request succeeds, but the operation fails. If `fileType` is `SQL` and the filename ends with .gz, the contents are compressed.
  },
  "importContext": { # Database instance import context. # The context for import operation, if applicable.
    "bakImportOptions": { # Import parameters specific to SQL Server .BAK files
      "encryptionOptions": {
        "certPath": "A String", # Path to the Certificate (.cer) in Cloud Storage, in the form `gs://bucketName/fileName`. The instance must have write permissions to the bucket and read access to the file.
        "pvkPassword": "A String", # Password that encrypts the private key
        "pvkPath": "A String", # Path to the Certificate Private Key (.pvk) in Cloud Storage, in the form `gs://bucketName/fileName`. The instance must have write permissions to the bucket and read access to the file.
      },
    },
    "csvImportOptions": { # Options for importing data as CSV.
      "columns": [ # The columns to which CSV data is imported. If not specified, all columns of the database table are loaded with CSV data.
        "A String",
      ],
      "escapeCharacter": "A String", # Specifies the character that should appear before a data character that needs to be escaped.
      "fieldsTerminatedBy": "A String", # Specifies the character that separates columns within each row (line) of the file.
      "linesTerminatedBy": "A String", # This is used to separate lines. If a line does not contain all fields, the rest of the columns are set to their default values.
      "quoteCharacter": "A String", # Specifies the quoting character to be used when a data value is quoted.
      "table": "A String", # The table to which CSV data is imported.
    },
    "database": "A String", # The target database for the import. If `fileType` is `SQL`, this field is required only if the import file does not specify a database, and is overridden by any database specification in the import file. If `fileType` is `CSV`, one database must be specified.
    "fileType": "A String", # The file type for the specified uri. * `SQL`: The file contains SQL statements. * `CSV`: The file contains CSV data. * `BAK`: The file contains backup data for a SQL Server instance.
    "importUser": "A String", # The PostgreSQL user for this import operation. PostgreSQL instances only.
    "kind": "A String", # This is always `sql#importContext`.
    "uri": "A String", # Path to the import file in Cloud Storage, in the form `gs://bucketName/fileName`. Compressed gzip files (.gz) are supported when `fileType` is `SQL`. The instance must have write permissions to the bucket and read access to the file.
  },
  "insertTime": "A String", # The time this operation was enqueued in UTC timezone in [RFC 3339](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339) format, for example `2012-11-15T16:19:00.094Z`.
  "kind": "A String", # This is always `sql#operation`.
  "name": "A String", # An identifier that uniquely identifies the operation. You can use this identifier to retrieve the Operations resource that has information about the operation.
  "operationType": "A String", # The type of the operation. Valid values are: * `CREATE` * `DELETE` * `UPDATE` * `RESTART` * `IMPORT` * `EXPORT` * `BACKUP_VOLUME` * `RESTORE_VOLUME` * `CREATE_USER` * `DELETE_USER` * `CREATE_DATABASE` * `DELETE_DATABASE`
  "selfLink": "A String", # The URI of this resource.
  "startTime": "A String", # The time this operation actually started in UTC timezone in [RFC 3339](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339) format, for example `2012-11-15T16:19:00.094Z`.
  "status": "A String", # The status of an operation.
  "targetId": "A String", # Name of the database instance related to this operation.
  "targetLink": "A String",
  "targetProject": "A String", # The project ID of the target instance related to this operation.
  "user": "A String", # The email address of the user who initiated this operation.
}

    list(project, instance, maxResults=None, pageToken=None, x__xgafv=None)

Lists all backup runs associated with the project or a given instance and configuration in the reverse chronological order of the backup initiation time.

Args:
  project: string, Project ID of the project that contains the instance. (required)
  instance: string, Cloud SQL instance ID, or "-" for all instances. This does not include the project ID. (required)
  maxResults: integer, Maximum number of backup runs per response.
  pageToken: string, A previously-returned page token representing part of the larger set of results to view.
  x__xgafv: string, V1 error format.
    Allowed values
      1 - v1 error format
      2 - v2 error format

Returns:
  An object of the form:

    { # Backup run list results.
  "items": [ # A list of backup runs in reverse chronological order of the enqueued time.
    { # A BackupRun resource.
      "backupKind": "A String", # Specifies the kind of backup, PHYSICAL or DEFAULT_SNAPSHOT.
      "description": "A String", # The description of this run, only applicable to on-demand backups.
      "diskEncryptionConfiguration": { # Disk encryption configuration for an instance. # Encryption configuration specific to a backup.
        "kind": "A String", # This is always `sql#diskEncryptionConfiguration`.
        "kmsKeyName": "A String", # Resource name of KMS key for disk encryption
      },
      "diskEncryptionStatus": { # Disk encryption status for an instance. # Encryption status specific to a backup.
        "kind": "A String", # This is always `sql#diskEncryptionStatus`.
        "kmsKeyVersionName": "A String", # KMS key version used to encrypt the Cloud SQL instance resource
      },
      "endTime": "A String", # The time the backup operation completed in UTC timezone in [RFC 3339](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339) format, for example `2012-11-15T16:19:00.094Z`.
      "enqueuedTime": "A String", # The time the run was enqueued in UTC timezone in [RFC 3339](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339) format, for example `2012-11-15T16:19:00.094Z`.
      "error": { # Database instance operation error. # Information about why the backup operation failed. This is only present if the run has the FAILED status.
        "code": "A String", # Identifies the specific error that occurred.
        "kind": "A String", # This is always `sql#operationError`.
        "message": "A String", # Additional information about the error encountered.
      },
      "id": "A String", # The identifier for this backup run. Unique only for a specific Cloud SQL instance.
      "instance": "A String", # Name of the database instance.
      "kind": "A String", # This is always `sql#backupRun`.
      "location": "A String", # Location of the backups.
      "selfLink": "A String", # The URI of this resource.
      "startTime": "A String", # The time the backup operation actually started in UTC timezone in [RFC 3339](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339) format, for example `2012-11-15T16:19:00.094Z`.
      "status": "A String", # The status of this run.
      "timeZone": "A String", # Backup time zone to prevent restores to an instance with a different time zone. Now relevant only for SQL Server.
      "type": "A String", # The type of this run; can be either "AUTOMATED" or "ON_DEMAND" or "FINAL". This field defaults to "ON_DEMAND" and is ignored, when specified for insert requests.
      "windowStartTime": "A String", # The start time of the backup window during which this the backup was attempted in [RFC 3339](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339) format, for example `2012-11-15T16:19:00.094Z`.
    },
  ],
  "kind": "A String", # This is always `sql#backupRunsList`.
  "nextPageToken": "A String", # The continuation token, used to page through large result sets. Provide this value in a subsequent request to return the next page of results.
}

    list_next()

Retrieves the next page of results.

        Args:
          previous_request: The request for the previous page. (required)
          previous_response: The response from the request for the previous page. (required)

        Returns:
          A request object that you can call 'execute()' on to request the next
          page. Returns None if there are no more items in the collection.

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That is funny but I believe they have cross checked other models and have singled out the diesels as the only offenders.
I average around 19-21mpg during a normal week. I keep track using the GasTracker app on my phone.
I drive the car and I do love it but I'm not a gear head so maybe someone can explain to me why this is. I may be comparing apples and oranges here but if you stack it up next to something like a 2010 Audi S4 you're getting about 100+ hp out of the Audi V6 while still retaining AWD. I'm having a hard time finding weight numbers for the Ralliart but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that there isn't a 700lb weight difference between it and the Audi. However, at the end of it the EPA estimates are better for the S4. I wouldn't expect Toyota Camry hybrid fuel numbers back from the Ralliart but the numbers I'm getting seem higher than they should be. Always looking to become more educated so any info would be greatly appreciated.
I am averaging about 19 mpg combined. I keep it in Sport mode and shift between 2500 and 3200.
Yeah I manage about 400kms (250 miles) per tank. I love the car but I dislike that other cars in the price range can pull off similar power figures with much better fuel numbers.
You are posting in the wrong forum.
The best mpg I've gotten was 27mpg on a highway trip with pretty much no slowing down. If I take my little driving excursions on the weekends I get anywhere between 19mpg to 24mpg, depending on traffic and any open roads to let the car unwind.
Most days or at least work days, I get around 18 to 21mpg give or take, depending on traffic.
That sounds right given you are at a lower elevation. 25 mpg is my best on the highway.
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Gauteng, South Africa, Uncategorized
Prayer power making impact in Eldorado drug battle
Written by Patsy Fulton on June 6, 2013
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Gospel giant Israel Mosehla remembered as true worshiper who practiced what he preached January 15, 2021
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Eldorado Park anti drugs campaigner Pastor Mello du Plessis (left) and the Gauteng MEC of Social Development, Nande Mayathula-Khoza, at a victory prayer rally against drugs and substance abuse. The MEC signed a partnership agreement with the community at the Eldos Stadium.
Zuma visit was turning point
Prayer power is producing results in a battle to take a Gauteng town back from ruthless druglords, says a pastor at the frontline of the struggle.
A turning point in the battle for Eldorado Park, south of Johannesburg was reached when President Jacob Zuma visited the town after reading a letter from a grandmother who appealed to him to close down drug dens ('lolli lounges') which were destroying the lives of local children. It was most certainly 'because of the power of prayer' that the letter reached Zuma's desk, said Pastor Mello du Plessis of the Pentecostal Protestant Church (PPC) in Eldorado Park.
Premier Nomvula Mokonyane. (PHOTO: Beeld via News24.
Since Zuma's visit to the town on May 14, the MEC for Social Development, Nande Mayathula-Khoza, attended a stadium prayer rally on May 25, where she signed a partnership agreement with the community. A week later, on June 2, Gauteng Premier, Nomvula Mokonyane, participated in a prayer walk in the town, where she proclaimed: "We will defeat this demon" and announced that police had closed down 26 'lolli lounges' and apprehended 41 vehicles used for transporting drugs.
The Eldorado prayer war against the grip of the drug lords whose reign has resulted in children becoming drug addicts and prostitutes, was precipitated by a vision which Du Plessis had 10 months ago in which he realised that unless he took action there would be no change.
On February 21 the battle to 'take back Eldos' began in earnest when the PPC church was packed with local pastors and Christian leaders who agreed to organise prayer walks based on logistics and spiritual mapping of the town.
A combined worship team, made up of members from each church's worship teams, at the Eldos Stadium prayer rally.
"Our real problem was to deal with spiritual strongholds affecting the area," said Du Plessis. The battle plan involved exact steps and processes aimed at achieving a physical presence of God's people as warriors against the real enemy, he said.
On April 27 churches in the area joined in a prayer walk in which they marched against territorial spirits and made war against the spiritual strong man in the vicinity of each church.
"On the first walk we agreed to move in an anti-clockwise direction to represent the reversal of curses over the area," Du Plessis explained.
During the second walk, on May 11, each church took back ownership of its immediate location as a step of faith for real change.
Eldorado Park Christians "taking back the streets".
"When they walked out that second time, the route wound clockwise as the people of God spoke truth and life and pronounced what should happen," said Du Plessis.
On Saturday, May 25, 5 000 people made history through the grace of God by congregating at Eldos Stadium for a united prayer meeting against drugs and substance abuse, said an emotional Du Plessis. When the Christian community of Eldorado Park "took back their town" and marched down the main road, people ran out of their houses to join them, he said.
In the latest event, on Sunday, June 2, about 200 Christians set out from the stadium, led by Premier Mokonyane, who thanked them for their stand against drugs.
Iol news reports that scores of community members as well as four MECs joined Mokonyane in a march around the area. The marchers prayed at drug hotspots and outside the Eldorado Park Police Station.
Mokonyane said it was important for the community to pray for the police and she spoke out against corrupt police officials. She also warned drug dealers in the area that their days were over. At the end of the prayer march, at the Eldorado Sports Centre, she spoke about police successes in the area since Zuma's visit.
prayer warfare
Patsy Fulton
Gateway News reporter.
Jannie de Beer
Our God is AWESOME.Praise God for what he did for Eldoradopark.Let us also pray for our political leaders,may God bless them and give them Spiritual wisdom to make the right decisions regarding our country and it's people.

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New York Times: Yemen Asks U.S. for Help to Curb Smuggling of Looted Ancient Artifacts
This week, in a New York Times exclusive, award-winning journalist Tom Mashberg exposed how cultural racketeering is financing crime, armed conflict, and violent extremism in the Yemeni Civil War, exacerbating the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
The report coincided with the visit of H.E. Marwan Dammaj, Minister of Culture from the Republic of Yemen, who was in Washington and New York to raise awareness of the illicit trade in his nation's conflict antiquities, and urge the international community to take immediate action against it. It also featured Yemen and the Antiquities Coalition's recent release of information on 1,631 objects plundered from the country's museums during fighting with Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and the Houthi militias. According to Deborah Lehr, the AC's Chair and Founder, whom Mashberg interviewed for the article, these missing artifacts "are 'blood antiquities' in every sense of the name, and they may have already been sold to unsuspecting buyers overseas.'"
The Times piece began with a firsthand account of looting in Yemen:
Yemen's deputy culture minister, Abdulhadi Al-Azazi, remembers standing mute and teary-eyed two years ago amid the rubble of a national museum in his war-torn hometown, Taiz.
Objects he had admired as a youngster — ancient limestone carvings, gilded Torah scrolls, bejeweled Islamic daggers, a spindly 2,500-year-old mummy — were missing amid the charred debris and shattered display cases.
"The museum was wrecked and everything was stolen," he said in a telephone interview. "Everywhere in our country we see the same thing happening now."
Some four years into a civil war in which members of a faction known as Houthis have fought Yemen's Saudi-backed government to a bloody stalemate, the extent of the human suffering has drawn global attention. Less noticed have been the cultural institutions and archaeological relics lost or ravaged during the conflict, including thousands of antiquities taken from Yemen's museums…
To learn more about threats facing Yemen's cultural heritage from cultural racketeering, as well as how Yemen is working to close foreign markets to their conflict antiquities, read the full Times article here.
Again, this week the Antiquities Coalition and Yemen also released information on over a thousand artifacts looted during the war with al-Qaeda and insurgents, which is available here.


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20 Reasons Why People Hate Liberalism
Liberalism is…
1) …a dork calling you a fascist right before he gets together with a large group of his mask-wearing friends to smash windows and violently attack random strangers 30-to-1 in an effort to silence and intimidate everyone he disagrees with.
2) …someone who chants "2, 4, 6, 8… America was never great!" at a protest on July 4th and then gets offended when they're call unpatriotic.
3) …a tech monopoly censoring you because they disagree with your beliefs while lying about why they're doing it and turning a blind eye to liberals actually doing what they're accusing you of doing,
4) …denying that you promote pedophilia while excusing pedophiles, pushing drag queen story hours for kids, and encouraging children to dress in drag so they can perform in gay bars.
5) …screaming at people for wearing a MAGA hat or trying to run them out of restaurants while you criticize OTHER PEOPLE for their intolerance.
6) …lying incessantly to the public to get Obamacare passed, ignoring all the criticisms of the plan (which all turned out to be right), laughing at the people who suffered because of your mistake, and then demanding to be put in charge of implementing Medicare for all, which will be even worse than your original plan.
7) …accusing some poor, laid-off factory worker with a high school education of being a racist with white privilege while pretending that Barrack Obama, Kamala Harris, and Al Sharpton aren't some of the most privileged people in America.
8) …treating a dumb, trollish 29-year-old bartender who gets elected to Congress like a hero because she talks about redesigning the world's most successful economy from top-to-bottom to make it more like socialistic economies that lead to people eating zoo animals to survive.
9) …a person who ignores whatever argument you make and reflexively takes the opposite position because of imaginary evil motives they accuse you of having that make no logical sense.
10) …someone who thinks being personally offended, unfairly accused or disrespected is an obvious outrage that shouldn't be allowed but doing the exact same things to you is just how the world is supposed to work.
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Q: Did I use correct tenses in this sentence? Regarding my competence in speaking about this topic, I could say that:

I learned German at school, or I was learning German at School.

I studied German, or I was studying German.

A: You could say either.  Changing the word, or changing the tense will change the meaning.
"Study" is what you do, and "Learn" is the consequence.
If you say "I learned German at school".  That would mean that by the time you finished school you knew German.

I learned German at school, so it was easy for me to pick up Dutch when I moved to The Netherlands for work.

If you say "I was learning German." I am expecting to hear what interuppted your learning.  It suggests the learning was in progress and incomplete when it ended. Or "I was learning German" could be a reference to what was happening at a certain time in your schooldays.

I was at school, learning German when the Headteacher came and told us that we all had to assemble in the hall, because the space shuttle had exploded.

If you say I studied that is a simple past tense.  I doesn't always mean you learned anything (I studied Art at school, but learned very little). Again, if you say "I was studying" it sounds as if something interrupted your studies.
Normally you would say "I studied German" since few people could learn everything about a language while at school.

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The Tragedy of Syria and the Middle East at Large
Interview – with the Kayhan Institute, Teheran, Iran
Par Peter Koenig et Amin Abadi
Mondialisation.ca, 05 juin 2016
Région : Middle East & North Africa
Thème: Global Economy, Terrorism, US NATO War Agenda
Analyses: SYRIA
Amin Abadi of the Kayhan Institute, Teheran interviews renowned economist and geopolitical analyst Peter Koenig.
The interview entitled "The Tragedy of Syria and the Middle East at Large" was published in Farsi in Kayhan (Cosmos), one of Iran's most prominent newspapers. Below is the original English version of the interview.
Amin Abadi: What is the major reason for Syrian crisis in your point of view, the crisis that includes massacre of thousands of people and homelessness of too many
Peter Koenig
By 2011 the 'opposition' was ready to launch a civil war on behalf of Washington against the Government of Bashar al-Assad, the democratically elected President of Syria, elected with a vast majority; and after five-years of foreign imposed war on the people of Syria, his approval rating is still above 70%. The 'opposition' – al-Nusra, al-Qaeda and whatever other names the 'western friendly' opposition was given to confuse the public at large by western media, was trained, fed and armed by the CIA, Mossad, Saudi Arabia – and of course, Vassal-Europe's / NATO secret services.
Backtracking – soon after WWII a few Zionist-headed US so-called 'think tanks', like the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation, National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) – and others, concocted a plan for the United States to take over the world. They called it 'Pax Americana' after the Roman Empire's 'Pax Romana' which were arguably the 300 to 400 bloodiest years of the Roman Empire.
This is an ongoing plan, modified and adjusted according to new circumstances, but never deviating from the final objective – Full Spectrum Dominance. In the early nineties, under neoliberal banking deregulator Clinton, the plan's name was changed to 'Plan for a New American Century' – PNAC. 'Pax Americana' may have been too obvious a give-away for a country that propagates democracy around the world, while spreading dictatorships to achieve a One or New World Order. Mind you, the Chosen People, are masterminding the New World Order – which includes the take-over of the Middle East.
Within PNAC, the Middle East's destruction and chaos was planned for a long time, according to the motto – divide to reign. It's part of the take-over of the world and its resources. The Middle East's major natural resources are hydrocarbons – and "who controls energy controls the Continents; who controls food, controls the people; and who controls money – controls the world" – the infamous words spoken by war criminal Henry Kissinger already in the early seventies. It remains the motto on which the PNAC is built.
This is a long introduction to get to the point: The PNAC singles out in particular a number of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries that have to fall – regardless. Period. They include, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Lebanon, Sudan, Somalia – not necessarily in this order, but their destruction and subordination, or to use the term that emerged after Clinton's destruction of peaceful and prosperous Yugoslavia – Balkanization – was planned. Yugoslavia was divided into chaos, to be controlled by the US / NATO forces – and to advance NATO bases ever closer to Russia.
The 'balkanization' of Syria is particularly 'necessary' for the Empire, as it is strategically located on the Mediterranean Sea and a potential thoroughfare for oil pipelines from the Gulf countries to serve the vast European markets and become a fierce competition for hydrocarbons from Russia.
At present about 35% of the world's seaborne traded oil (and about 20% of all oil worldwide) passes through the Strait of Hurmuz, one of the world's most important oil chokepoints, which is largely controlled by Iran; and, by the way, is a key factor in the US-Iran tensions – which in fact have nothing to do with an alleged Iranian 'nuclear threat'. This is nothing but a public opinion manipulating farce propagated by western media.
Of course, Washington needs to dominate and cannot deal with democratically elected socialist leaders like Iran's Hassan Rouhani, or Syria's Bashar al-Assad. In Syria, Mr. Assad has full popular support as recently demonstrated by Syria's Parliamentarian elections. He is leading a secular socialist government with equal rights and free social services like health and education – all of which does not fit Washington's neoliberal fascist concept of privatizing-everything in the New World Order under their reign. So – for Washington there is not even a question of 'peace' as long as President Assad is the head of Syria. For Washington and its European vassal allies, there is only one way: "regime change".
By now it is no longer a secret, not even in the western media, who created, funded, trained and armed ISIS or the Islamic State (IS) terrorism – the United States of America, by recruiting remnants of Saddam Hussein's elite defense forces after his murder. Now maintenance of the Islamic State is shared largely between the US, the Saudis, Qatar and other Gulf states – and Turkey, President Erdogan being the number one US puppet, leading a crucially strategically located NATO country, who can be ordered to do anything that Washington demands – like shooting down a Russian fighter jet.
Fortunately, there is Russia and President Putin. He has put a monkey wrench in the wheels of aggression of the western forces who were pretending vis-à-vis the western public that they were fighting ISIS (or IS), but in fact were supporting them, by bombing mostly Syrian civilian populations and supplying IS with arms, letting them smuggling stolen petrol into Turkey for sale to such illustrious 'enemies' like Israel and others in Europe. In a few months Mr. Putin put an end to IS dominance in Syria and western aggressions, liberating most of IS-occupied territory, and putting the Syrian army back in charge.
This left Washington and its European vassals up in arms – what to do? Despite the self-inflicted or 'false flag' terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels, which were to justify more NATO bombing of Syria – Russia's air force and strategy prevailed in bringing back, at least in part, Syria's sovereignty. – Therefore Washington had to gain time – for NATO and IS to regroup and to rethink (sic). Hence, the so-called Geneva Peace Talks were called. As we know now, they are unlikely to lead anywhere – as long as Washington and its European NATO stooges insist on 'regime change'.
Be sure, while Washington keeps breathing, they will never relent; they will never make any serious concession which deviates from their plan – other than agreements they break by deceit, as we already see with the Iranian Nuclear Agreement. That is their firm strategy. Never get detracted from your goal – à la Roman Empire – which eventually collapsed through internal forces.
AA: Do you believe that big powers across the world including America has fulfilled their humanitarian responsibilities and moral obligations toward Syrian people?
PK: Of course not. To the contrary, they are responsible for the humanitarian disaster, for over 4 million of displaced people, for more than half a million killed by a 'civil war', entirely instigated and funded by foreign forces. They are responsible for uncountable human tragedies, for the flood of refugees into Europe via Turkey. Mind you this flood of refugees from Syria and other western devastated MENA countries was also planned, as a 'weapon' to destabilize Europe.
The US and Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States funded refugee camps in Turkey at the tune of 6 billion dollars – camps that can hold more than 4 million refugees. Erdogan was told by his transatlantic masters – keep them in Turkey until we tell you to open the flood-gates. That's exactly what he did. Last fall came the order – let them go. And he did let them go – into a European wet and cold fall and winter season, difficult to give shelter to sudden multitudes of refugees. In masses they crossed the Aegean Sea to the Greek islands or the Mediterranean to Italy and southern France. Many of the refugees were told to go to Germany, that's where the future is – many of them were actually given 'road maps' to Germany, Austria and some other northern European countries.
Germany in 2015 absorbed at least a million refugees from MENA and African countries and is expected to take in at least as many in 2016. Yet, as these lines are written, Madame Merkel is negotiating with Mr. Erdogan a six-billion euro-plus deal to keep the refugees in Turkey. The blackmail specialist, Erdogan is getting paid from both sides. He must keep his fraudulently acquired money in safer places than Panama.
A new, little spoken about but horrendous tragedy is lately emerging from Europol – possibly as many as 10,000 refugee children, mostly orphans, have disappeared. Have they fallen into the hands of child traders, using and selling them for slave labor and the girls into sex trade?
All is possible in our western world where all sense of ethics has disappeared in the last 30 years or more; but at least since the ascent of neoliberal – everything-goes-for-profit – fascism. After all, Europe's records on ethics is historically abysmal – having raped, plundered and killed hundreds of millions of Africans, Asians and South Americans in their hundreds of years of colonies around the world. One would have hoped after two world wars they would come to reason. But no. There is something fundamentally wrong with this 'Chosen People'-dominated western world.
Yet, there was another strategy in place – to destroy Greece completely. She is already being slaughtered, humiliated and – I dare say – assassinated by the troika – European Commission (EC), European Central Bank (ECB – which is not really a central bank) and the infamous IMF, the long-arm instrument of the US Federal Reserve (FED) and of Wall Street. History shows that Greece is a country of enormous human resources and resilience. This resilience has to be broken and annihilated. After all, Greece, together with Turkey and Germany, is host to one of the most important strategic NATO base. Greece cannot remain an autonomous, sovereign state and god forbid – with a socialist government. Never.
So, the northern European countries closed their borders to Greece; and Greece could not return the refugees to Turkey, mostly because of humanitarian reasons. What would happen to them back in Turkey – under Erdogan's fist – and thousands of refugees have already lost their lives attempting to cross the seas to safer havens. Ironically, these safer havens are the very European nations that helped destroy their homes, livelihoods, tear their families apart – kill literally millions of them during the past 15 years. Go and seek help from your executioner! – What a fate! – Greece, with not enough resources to feed its own people, had to look after and protect the lives of hundreds of thousands of refugees, who were not allowed by her northern neighbors to move on.
Talk about solidarity – there is none. The European Union is a sham; an unsustainable fraud.:
AA: You have mentioned in your article The Children of Syria published by Global Research that Obama is the biggest misuser of human rights in the world of the century, would you explain us more about that.
PK: Sure. For one thing, Mr. Obama has started more wars than his predecessor; he is today involved in seven wars, as he boasts himself. And this for a Peace Nobel Prize winner – a prize given to him at the beginning of his tenure, in hope that he would bring peace to the world. But no. He was given a different agenda by his masters. The secret masters at the top of this opaque triangle, the elite of the elite, some call them 'Illuminati' others, the secret Masters of the Free Masons.
The known semi-secretive organizations, like the Bilderbergers, the Trilaterals, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the British Chatham House, the World Economic Forum (WEF) – and others – are all instruments used subjugate the world by the top of the evasive triangle. The 'leaders' below, Obama, Hollande, Merkel, Cameron and Co. are all puppets, put in place by above and executing orders from above. The elusive above is led by 'The Chosen People'. – Sounds like conspiracy theory? – Think again and look at who is heading the FED, Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street giants, the media and communications industry, the military industrial complex – and so on.
Back to the question on human rights – Obama is also abusing human rights by his drone killings. He has openly admitted, if not boasted about approving every drone killing himself. Mostly on Tuesdays, he looks at lists of alleged terrorists around the world, and he decides who must be eliminated, no accusation, no trial, no investigation. He is god, deciding over life and death, giving the job to actually pull the drone trigger to some young soldiers who love 'play stations' – killing unknown people thousands of kilometers away, mostly aiming at people's gatherings like weddings, funerals or other family events, in which, maybe, the target is present. They kill hundreds of people who have nothing to do with the alleged 'terrorist' – they become 'bug-splats', military jargon for remotely killed unknown people. On Obama's orders; who fulfills a world agenda of the above.
Other than the two world wars, there is hardly anybody on this planet who is responsible for killing more people in the last hundred years than Obama. He is a puppet alright, but even puppets have a conscience – don't they, or shouldn't they?
AA: You have mentioned in your article that tens of thousands people have been killed during the last 15 years because of the drone attacks conducted by France, America and United Kingdom and more than 90 percent of the victims were civilians. Why have the international communities responsible for human rights such as United Nations kept silence against these crimes?
PK: There is no international community that is not in the claws of the United States of America. In the last 20-30 years they have all become lackeys for the Empire. It's sad to say, but the United Nations, born in October 1945 from the League of Nation, created after WWI to assure peace around the world, has become but a tool for Washington to manipulate the world. Every UN Secretary General has to be approved, if not selected by Washington. All the UN Special Agencies, like WHO, UNESCO, UNCTAD, UNICEF, World Bank, IMF and more – are under direct orders from Washington. If anyone misbehaves, as has happened at times, with WHO and UNESCO among other, the US simply withholds its share of funding and pressures other countries to do likewise – until the respective agency falls back in track. So simple.
The worst is the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. From a court you would expect neutrality and justice. How come all the 'criminals' accused and condemned are enemies of the Empire? But the real criminals and war criminals, like the US Presidents of the last 60 years and their aids, are not even accused, let alone tried and brought to justice. In a just world they all would deserve a judgement Nuremberg style.
That's why all these agencies, the international community, keeps silent about these crimes – the drone killings, the 'illegal' wars (all wars are illegal and crimes against humanity), proxy-instigated and fed conflicts, go without judgement. People are afraid of sanctions, of Washington's sledgehammer.
Fear is the key instrument used by any empire to manipulate people. Just organize somewhere an act of terror – and people are afraid, screaming for help – please more police, more military protection – they even ask that their civil rights be abrogated for 'protection'. That's how President Hollande was able to extent the state of emergency (Martial Law) in France. He is still working on perpetuating it into the French Constitution.
AA: As you mentioned in your last article, millions of people in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Palestine, Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Sudan are living in a very low standards of life, they are suffering from poverty and that misery is only because of the greed and dominance ambitions of super powers. What is the solution to enhance their level of life?
PK: The simple and in the end only answer is peace and social justice. How to achieve that is a different question. It needs a shift in paradigm. It requires a different human consciousness, one not driven by greed and power, but by a sense of human solidarity, by a desire to live together in harmony and in harmony with nature – a society that is not just thriving on consumerism, on absurd annual growth of consumption – a society that is aware of its surroundings, of Mother Earth, her entire ecosystem, animals, plants, natural unrenewable resources – a society that takes care of and protects its 'neighborhood' which is precisely that – the globe's precious ecosystem. It is generously giving us everything we need for life, for a decent life that is – without having to kill and destroy.
This consciousness is inherent in human beings. We are all born with it. But it is imminently destroyed as we enter this greed-driven society. Yet, there is in every human brain, call it spirit or soul, a spark that glows up ever-so-often and tells us, there is something wrong with what's going on around us. We only have to grasp this glow, this warm little light in the back of our minds, and follow it, look where it leads us. It will lead us to the truth. Maybe we have to look for it in alternative media, or just by opening our eyes. It may disturb our comfort zone. That's the major hindrance for most people who ignore this little warm spark. In fact, crossing that threshold of abandoning our comfort zone, brings a richness of mind from which you never want to return. – That would be the solution.
AA: America has always been exposing as a state that pay close attention to peace and has a great emphasis on maintenance of democracy all over the world. But, yet the US itself has been one of the countries, having big shares on Syrian destruction. How do you see this Paradox?
PK: The 'paying close attention to peace and democracy' is just a propaganda farce Washington applies again and again. Ever fewer people fall for it. They see the real United States of Chaos, Greed and Power. But the paradox is, that even if nations and leaders of nations see the truth, see the lie behind the propaganda, they do not dare countering it. They are afraid of the emperor without cloths. He might dish out sanctions, economic sanctions, his atrocious military forces may invade their country, he may bring about 'regime change' – he may just simply kill to get what he wants. Just see what's happening in Syria, in the Ukraine, before in Iraq, Libya – you name it. The list of leaders of unaligned nations killed by the empire in the last 70 years is long, very long.
Yes, the US has not only a big share in the Syrian disaster, it is the main instigator of the war and misery. The reason being, as explained before, full dominance of, first, the energy rich and strategic Middle East and North Africa, then of the world. And there it may falter. There is Russia and China, allied countries that will not allow a Zionist-Anglo-Saxon take-over. They have not only created an alliance among themselves, but also with the remaining BRICS (Brazil, India and South Africa), as well as with the countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU).
This alliance is foremost an economic and political alliance, but also one of defense. Together these countries make up about half of the world population and at least one third of the globes total economic output. They are also about to launch their independent monetary system, completely delinked form the fraudulent western fiat dollar-based casino system (for more on this, see http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-collapse-of-the-western-fiat-monetary-system-may-have-begun-china-russia-and-the-reemergence-of-gold-backed-currencies/5521107 ).
There is hope. Although do not expect a drastic overnight change. Sea changes do happen. But they are slow.
AA: According to the received reports more than ten thousand refugees including kids have been disappeared in European countries. There is a
big probabilities that they have been kidnapped by human trafficking Bands. Such a news coming from Europe seems not to hurt anyone seriously in West. What do you see the reason?
PK: Indeed, as mentioned before, according to Europol, at least 10,000 refugee children disappeared. They could have easily fallen into bands of human trafficking – an utterly miserable perspective for these defenseless children, slavery, sex-exploitation, abuse all the way to death. Nobody knows about their fate. And as you said, the western media doesn't particularly seem to care about their fate. This occurrence is almost silenced.
More important seem to be the semi-secret talks between Madame Merkel and Mr. Erdogan about the six-billion-euro deal, and the ongoing ultra-secret, behind closed-doors 'negotiations' of the infamous TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership), the most nefarious trade agreement of recent centuries that risks to totally enslave Europe to transnational corporations, most of them US corporations
(For details see PK's article my article entitled EU to Become a "U.S. Colony"? The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) would Abolish Europe's Sovereignty. (24 April 2016).
Human life is cheap, especially human lives in poverty and destitution is expendable, in our world of greed and without ethics.
As a last word – let me again appeal to this little warm spark in the back of your mind that we tend to ignore, as it may impinge on our comfort. Please do not ignore it. Let it glow brighter and follow it to the truth. It will warm your heart and help bring about the needed sea change.
Peter Koenig is an economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a former World Bank staff and worked extensively around the world in the fields of environment and water resources. He writes regularly for Global Research, ICH, RT, Sputnik, PressTV, CounterPunch, TeleSur, The Vineyard of The Saker Blog, and other internet sites. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed – fiction based on facts and on 30 years of World Bank experience around the globe. He is also a co-author of The World Order and Revolution! – Essays from the Resistance.
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Q. I have a question that my colleague and I can't find a definitive answer to, and that is whether less or fewer is used with countable, but singular, nouns. For example, "one less/fewer group," "one less/fewer number," and so on.
A. If the countable noun is plural, choose fewer; if it's singular, choose less. (When CMOS says to reserve fewer for countable things, it's talking about plural countable things. When it says to reserve less for mass nouns, it means singular mass nouns.) One is always singular: there is one less food group in the new pyramid; there is one less number in this column. Two (or more) is plural: there are two fewer food groups in the new pyramid; there are three fewer numbers in this column.


NATIONAL Security Minister Marvin Dames yesterday defended his role in the bribery and extortion trial against former PLP Senator Frank Smith, telling The Tribune he did not play political games.
Mr Dames and Health Minister Dr Duane Sands are both facing calls from the opposition for their resignations, after the two were criticised by Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt for the "egregious" way in which they interacted with chief prosecution witness in the case, Barbara Hanna.
The government has indicated it will appeal her ruling.
Dr Sands declined comment on the matter yesterday.
While making clear he did not wish to comment on the chief magistrate's ruling, Mr Dames took exception to opposition calls for his resignation.
He stressed Mr Smith's case - for his part - did not have any special political significance over the scores of other matters under his ministerial remit, and pledged to continue his mandate against corruption.
"As far as I was concerned," Mr Dames said, "I was called to give evidence, I gave to the best of my ability. I will not speak to that case, I don't want it to even be perceived that one case to me is more important than the others because it isn't.
On Friday, the chief magistrate acquitted and discharged Mr Smith of all 15 criminal charges after finding fault with numerous "inconsistencies" and "discrepancies" in the Crown's case, which she further said was "undermined" by its own witnesses.
Mr Dames continued: "I've never met Mrs Hanna. I don't know Mrs Hanna, never met her before she came to me. As I said before I referred her to the police, that was the extent of my interaction. So it's clear that now that a ruling has been made. The opposition wants to play politics with it, that's not my business, that's not my concern.
Mr Dames further criticised what he felt to be the Progressive Liberal Party's capitalisation on the recent ruling for political expediency, which he termed a "sad indictment".
Attorney General Carl Bethel confirmed the government intends to appeal the judge's decision to throw out bribery and extortion charges against Mr Smith.
Mr Bethel declined further comment on the matter, telling The Tribune the ruling would be canvassed in the context of the government's appeal as had been indicated by the Director of Public Prosecutions Garvin Gaskin.
However, the attorney general did address opposition calls for a review into his ethical conduct.
At a press conference on Sunday, PLP Leader Philip Davis insisted the matter should have been dropped long before it reached the "no-case submission" stage.
To this, Mr Bethel said: "As a senior lawyer and parliamentarian, (Mr Davis) he should be in the best position to remember that he himself participated in vote of Parliament which legislated the only person lawfully entitled to discontinue a criminal matter is the director of public prosecutions.


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Tamil Nadu Physical Education And Sports University invited Applications for the post of Temporary Guest Lecturer
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TAMIL NADU PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORTS UNIVERSITY – FACULTY RECRUITMENT 2020
The Tamil Nadu Physical Education and Sports University established by an Act of the Government of Tamil Nadu in 2004, is unique and the first of its kind in India as an affiliatory University, exclusively for Physical Education and Sports. After obtaining the accent from his Excellency the president of India on 5th August 2005, the said act came into force with effect from 15th September 2005.It is a rare coincidence that the University has started functioning from December 2005, declared by the United Nations as International year for Sport and Physical Education. At present the University has three Faculties, five Departments and ten affiliated Colleges. Further the University now offers select Physical Education and Allied Courses, through collaborative programme and Distance Education stream also.
Applications are invited from the eligible candidates for the post of Temporary Guest Lecturer (English) is mentioned below:
Temporary Guest Lecturer
A I. A Master's degree with 55% marks (or an equivalent grade in a point scale wherever the grading system is followed) in a concerned/relevant/allied subject from an Indian University, or an equivalent degree from the accredited Foreign University
II. Besides fulfilling the above qualification, the candidate must have cleared the National Eligibility test (NET) conducted by the UGC or the CSIR or a similar test accredited by UGC like SLET/SET or who are or have been awarded a Ph.D., degree in accordance with the UGC(Minimum Standards and Procedure for Award of M.Phil/Ph.D Degree)Regulations 2009, or 2016 and their amendments from time to time as the case may be exempted from NET/SLET/SET.
Provided the candidates registered for the Ph.D programme prior to July 2009 shall be governed by the provisions of the then existing Ordinances/Bye-laws/Regulations of the Institution awarding the Degree and such Ph.D., candidates shall be exempted from the requirement of NET/SLET/SET for recruitment and appointment of Assistant Professor or equivalent positions in Universities/Colleges. /Institutions subject to fulfillment of the following conditions.
a) The Ph.D Degree of the candidate has been awarded in a regular mode
b) The Ph.D thesis has been evaluated by at least two external Examiners.
c) An open Ph.D Viva voce of the candidate has been conducted.
d) The candidate has published two research papers from his/her Ph.D work out of which at least one in a refereed journal.
e) The candidate has presented at least two papers based on his/her Ph.D work in conferences/seminars sponsored/funded/supported by the UGC/ICSSR/CSIR or any similar agency.
The fulfillment of these conditions is to be certified by the Registrar or the Dean (Academic affairs) of the University concerned.
NET/SLET/SET shall also not be required for such Master Programmes in disciplines for which NET/SLET/SET is not conducted by the UGC/CSIR or similar test accredited by the UGC like SLET/SET
B The Ph.D degree has been obtained from a Foreign University / institution with a ranking among top 500 in the World University ranking (at any time) by any one of the following (i) Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) (ii). The Times Higher Education (THE) (iii) the Academic ranking in World Universities (ARWU) of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Shanghai)
Note: The Academic Score as specified in Appendix II (Table3A) for Universities and Appendix II (Table 3B) for Colleges shall be considered for short listing of candidates for interview only, and the selections shall be based only on the performance in the interview.
₹ The Appointment will be purely on temporary basis for a period of 10 months on a consolidated salary of Rs.25,000/- per month.
The Cost of Application Form Rs. 250/- for SC/ST (should produce copy of community certificate) and for Differently Abled Person (appropriate certificate should be attached) and Rs. 500/- for Other Community. The Demand Draft shall be drawn in favour of "The Registrar, Tamil Nadu Physical Education and Sports University", payable at Chennai of any Nationalized Bank. The application shall be downloaded from the University Website -www.tnpesu.org.
Only such of those applications which are satisfying the eligibility criteria alone will be considered.
The candidate selected for the Guest Lecturer post should work under the supervision of the Registrar of Tamil Nadu Physical Education and Sports University.
The candidate selected for the Guest Lecturer post should work as per the work allotted by the concerned Head of the Department, Tamil Nadu Physical Education and Sports University.
The Candidate selected for the Guest Lecturer should work during the working days and working hours of the concerned Department and University.
Last Date for receipt of the filled-in application is 30.12.2020 before 5.00 p m.
The filled-in Application should be sent to "The Registrar, Tamil Nadu Physical Education and Sports University, Melakottaiyur(Po), Chennai – 600 127".
The eligibility criteria, qualifications and other details are enclosed in the application.
The last date for submission of filled-in application form: 30.12.2020
The Interview will be conducted on 04.01.2021 at 02.30 p.m. in the TNPESU Campus.
The envelope containing the filled-in application should be superscripted with "Application for the post of Guest Lecturer in the ENGLISH"
NOTE: 1. Eligible candidates applied for the above post are requested to attend the Interview on 04.01.2021 at 02.30 p.m.
Separate call letter for the interview will not be sent to the candidate. No TA/DA will be given to attend the interview.
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In search of the ninth planet
Contact: Morgan Sherburne morganls@umich.edu
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Artist's concept of the "Planet Nine". Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Robert Hurt
ANN ARBOR—A University of Michigan doctoral student has logged two pieces of evidence that may support the existence of a planet that could be part of our solar system, beyond Neptune.
Some astronomers think this alleged planet, called Planet Nine, exists because of the way some objects in space, called "Trans-Neptunian Objects," or TNOs, behave. These TNOs are rocky objects smaller than Pluto that orbit the sun at a greater average distance than Neptune. But the orbits of the most distant of these TNOs—those whose average distance from the sun is more than 250 times as far as Earth's distance—seem to point in the same direction. This observation first led astronomers to predict the existence of Planet Nine.
For these TNOs to be aligned in the orbits they currently occupy because of Planet Nine's influence, astronomers say, they would have been in the solar system for longer than a billion years. However, some astronomers think in that amount of time, some of these objects should have either smashed into another planet, been thrown into the sun, or ricocheted off into space by other planets' gravitational force.
The U-M research, led by Juliette Becker, a graduate student in the Department of Astronomy, consisted of a large set of computer simulations, which uncovered two findings about these TNOs. First, the researchers established a version of Planet Nine that would most likely cause our solar system to look the way it currently does, by preventing the TNOs from being destroyed or thrown out of the solar system. Second, the simulations predict that there is a process that they call "resonance hopping" by which a TNO jumps between stable orbits. This process can prevent the TNOs from being ejected from the solar system.
In each individual simulation, the researchers tested different versions of Planet Nine to see whether that version of the planet, with its gravitational forces, resulted in the same version of the solar system we see today.
"From that set of simulations, we found out that there are preferred versions of Planet Nine that make the TNO stay stable for longer, so it basically increases the probability that our solar system exists the way it does," Becker said. "Through these computer simulations, we were able to determine which realization of Planet Nine creates our solar system—the whole caveat here being, if Planet Nine is real."
The group, which includes U-M physics professors David Gerdes and Fred Adams as well as graduate student Stephanie Hamilton and undergraduate Tali Khain, also examined the resonance of these TNOs with Planet Nine. An orbital resonance occurs when objects in a system periodically exert gravitational forces upon each other that cause the objects to line up in a pattern.
In this case, the researchers found that occasionally, Neptune will bump a TNO out of its orbital resonance, but instead of sending that TNO skittering into the sun, out of the solar system or into another planet, something catches that TNO and confines it into a different resonance.
"The ultimate goal would be to directly see Planet Nine—to take a telescope, point it at the sky, and see reflected light from the sun bouncing off of Planet Nine," Becker said. "Since we haven't yet been able to find it, despite many people looking, we're stuck with these kinds of indirect methods."
Astronomers also have another newly discovered TNO to include in their indirect methods of detecting Planet Nine. The Dark Energy Survey collaboration, a large group of scientists including several U-M scientists, has discovered another TNO that has a high orbital inclination compared to the plane of the solar system: it is tilted about 54 degrees relative to the solar system's plane.
In an analysis of this new object, Becker and her team have found that this object experiences resonance hopping as well in the presence of Planet Nine, showing that this phenomenon extends to even more unusual orbits.
This work was supported by National Science Foundation. Becker and Hamilton are also supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Grant.
Study (PDF): Evaluating the Dynamical Stability of Outer Solar System Objects in the Presence of Planet Nine
Juliette Becker
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Funding for the DES Projects has been provided by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Ministry of Science and Education of Spain, the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom, the Higher Education Funding Council for England, ETH Zurich for Switzerland, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, the Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics at the Ohio State University, the Mitchell Institude for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M University, Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos, Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico and the Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the collaborating institutions in the Dark Energy Survey, the list of which can be found at darkenergysurvey.org/collaboration.
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Ike Davis & David Robertson to co-host Superstorm Sandy benefit golf tournament on Bethpage Black
Former Major Leaguers Bobby Bonilla, Aaron Boone, Ron Darling, Ken Griffey, Jr., Al Leiter & Jeff Nelson among early list of players scheduled to tee off on world famous course to raise funds for Sandy recovery and rebuilding efforts
New York, NY, Monday, May 20, 2013 – New York Mets first baseman Ike Davis and New York Yankees relief pitcher David Robertson are representing their peers and going to bat for Superstorm Sandy victims, when they co-host a Players Trust all-star golf tournament on Bethpage Black in Farmingdale, Long Island on Wednesday, July 17.
Golfers and baseball fans alike will be able to combine two of America's greatest passions during an unforgettable day on one of the country's most famous golf courses – Bethpage Black – while helping Major Leaguers and the Players Trust raise funds to support Superstorm Sandy recovery and rebuilding efforts. Already scheduled to join Ike and David in their efforts to help Sandy victims are former big leaguers Bobby Bonilla, Aaron Boone, Ron Darling, Ken Griffey Jr., Al Leiter and Jeff Nelson. Additional players joining the cause will be announced on an ongoing basis.
"I'm looking forward to teaming up with David Robertson, the Players Trust, and members of the fraternity of Major League baseball players, to help raise funds and awareness for Superstorm Sandy victims," stated Ike. "This July, New York will become the center of the baseball universe, and it's only fitting that the baseball-playing community use this as an opportunity to assist the thousands of people in the area impacted by the storm who support our great game on a daily basis."
"As Major League baseball players we're given a stage to help raise awareness for victims of natural disasters long after the immediate attention subsides," said David, who, along with his wife, Erin, created the High Socks for Hope foundation to lend support to those suffering in the wake of natural disasters, including Sandy. "I'm looking forward to joining forces with Ike Davis and a who's-who list of former big leaguers to do our part to help communities still suffering from the effects of such a devastating storm."
The Players Trust all-star golf tournament on Bethpage Black is part of the non-profit's Disaster Relief programming efforts. In addition to what many players have done individually, Major Leaguers have committed up to $500,000 in aid from the Players Trust to non-profit organizations helping victims of Sandy recover from the destruction. To date, the Players Trust has directly contributed more than $175,000 to various organizations providing needed assistance to storm victims. Among those receiving funds are Red Hook Initiative (Brooklyn); Project Hospitality (Staten Island); Rockaway Reach (Rockaway, NY); NJ 2-1-1 (New Jersey); Pitch In for Baseball and Points of Light's Long Island Recovery Volunteer Center. A separate $100,000 contribution from the Players Trust to New York State's Natural Heritage Trust will go toward the removal of hundreds of downed trees and improvements to damaged turf on public golf courses.
On November 2, 2012, Major Leaguers joined forces with the Commissioner's Office in contributing a combined $1 million to the American Red Cross, the Salvation Army and Feeding America to assist emergency relief efforts in the most devastated areas along the East Coast affected by Sandy. On May 9, the MLBPA and MLB-operated Baseball Tomorrow Fund joined with the New York Mets Foundation to contribute up to $1 million through a relief grant program for youth baseball and softball organizations that were directly affected by the storm.
Golf tournament participation levels begin with the $8,000 Single, which includes one foursome with a celebrity pairing, a unique, gift-filled SWAG bag and photo for each golfer, and four tickets to the post-event dinner, to be held at luxurious Carlyle on the Green. Double, Triple and Home Run sponsorship levels are also available, and each includes tickets to the Trust's exclusive 2013 Major League Baseball All-Star Game viewing party to be held the night before the golf tournament at the St. Giles Hotel and attended by many of the celebrity golfers. Portions of the costs are tax deductible.
Since hurricanes struck the U.S. Gulf Coast in 2005, the Players Trust has contributed more than $3 million in the wake of natural disasters in the U.S., Haiti and Japan, long after the spotlight faded. These funds have been used by non-profit organizations to provide and/or sustain services and aid such as senior housing, mobile medical units and after school programs in the Gulf Coast; improved drinking water, medical supplies, prosthetics and training in Haiti; mobile community cafes, organic agriculture, mental health clinics and volunteer centers in Japan and new homes for families in tornado-ravaged Tuscaloosa, AL and Joplin, MO.
For more information, please visit MLBPlayers.com (http://www.mlb.com/pa/trust/allstar_golf.jsp), call 888-714-0755 or send an e-mail to PlayersTrust@mlbpa.org.
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Top Gear Series 24 Episode 1 review: SO much better than last year
Another reason to pretend 2016 never happened.
By Tom Eames
We're pretty smug with ourselves right now. Last summer, we listed a few things that Top Gear needed to do to improve things after series 23's misfire. And judging from series 24's opener, they've listened (probably not to us, but still).
The weak link of 2016 has gone in the shape of Chris Evans, and the best three presenters have been elevated to an equal status: Chris Harris, Rory Reid and Matt LeBlanc. And it's worked wonders.
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Top Gear made too many changes last year. Features like 'Star in a Rallycross Car' have been removed, and elements of old have returned. The previous race track is back (even down to 'Gambon'), and the studio looks more like familiar ground even as it's been given a fresh and modern makeover (that weird catwalk thing has also gone).
The series was always going to struggle following the Clarkson-Hammond-May era, and it was understandable that they wanted to mix things up. But thankfully, they've realised the reasons that we loved the show so much in the first place: three guys who get on even while they bicker and doing fun things.
It's clear that Reid, Harris and LeBlanc are having a right grand ole time. And because of that, shock horror, we actually laughed. Yes! We maybe laughed once or twice in the whole of series 23. Here, we were laughing regularly. Whether it was Harris smashing into LeBlanc's Volvo, or LeBlanc singing Hasselhoff or Reid gleefully winning a race in his little black cab.
While it's a similar format to the days of CH&M, it works without feeling like a safe copy because these three have an entirely different style of humour. They're not three middle aged blokes bickering and being rather un-PC.
Without Evans taking over like last year, it has allowed all three of them to shine in ways they couldn't last year. LeBlanc will always have a certain deadpan side to him, but he seemed much more at ease this time around. Reid and Harris were weirdly used as sort of backup hosts last year, whereas here they're front and centre.
And of all of them, it's Harris that has become the unofficial lead star. His geeky-yet-authoritative attitude towards everything makes him someone who you want to learn from, yet find funny at the same time. And getting him to teach the celebrities how to drive instead of The Stig is a potential masterstroke, as we don't normally get to see this.
The celebrity segment is much slicker. Instead of just one host interviewing them, all three are there in a sort of Graham Norton-style process, and first guest James McAvoy seemed to fit in quite nicely as opposed to last year's downright odd two-guests-who-introduce-each-other thing. It no longer feels like The One Show and we were never bored.
And of course, they've brought back the adventure segment which made Top Gear so essential, and has made The Grand Tour so epic. We had a few of these last year, but their trip to Kazakhstan is already more interesting than anything they did in 2016.
There are still a few quibbles that need to be ironed out in time. Mainly, the studio segments still feel a little forced. LeBlanc in particular still doesn't look too comfortable and ironically he comes across like a bad actor compared to the other two. But by having all three 'host', it's nowhere near as awkward as last year.
Judging from one episode of series 24, we're hopeful that Top Gear is back on track. It'll be interesting to see what happens when the likes of Eddie Jordan and The Stig make their returns, and whether they can keep it up for six episodes. But this was MUCH more fun than last year.
There will still no doubt be those who long for the CH&M era and will find this new era laughable or boring in comparison. But we'd like to think of it like this: we now have TWO exciting and fun car shows to enjoy each year. What a time to be alive.
Best line: "There's acres and acres of nothing. It's like Stoke." (Rory Reid)
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*This item is a unique, one-of-a-kind vintage piece. Please read item description and measurements carefully prior to purchasing. Due to the nature of vintage garments, there may be slight wear due to age. Any major flaws will be noted in the description.


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