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PV Sindhu is the first Indian woman to win an Olympic silver medal after a heartbreakingly close badminton final
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Fight like a woman.
By Maria Thomas
Writer at Quartz India
Published August 19, 2016 This article is more than 2 years old.
Pusarla Venkata Sindhu fought with tenacity, lost the finals, and became the first Indian woman to win an Olympic silver medal.
The 21-year-old from Hyderabad lost to Spain's Carolina Marin, world no. 1 in the sport, in an intensely close match at Riocentro Pavilion 4 on Aug. 19. Sindhu currently ranks tenth in the world and played an impressive game, closing in on Marin's lead often throughout the match after winning the first game.
Along with wrestler Sakshi Malik, who won a bronze on Aug. 18, Sindhu is so far one of the only two medalists in this year's Indian Olympic contingent, the largest the country has ever sent to the games. She's also the youngest Indian to ever win an Olympic medal.
Her epic performance in Rio comes after years of training under 2001 All England Open Badminton champion Pullela Gopichand. Sindhu, who comes from a family of volleyball players, began playing badminton at the age of eight after discovering the sport by chance. Since then, she's spent almost all her time training at Gopichand's academy in Hyderabad. Over the years, she's won medals at several domestic and international competitions, including a bronze at the 2013 World Badminton Championships in Guangzhou, China.
Until now, world no. 5 Saina Nehwal, also from Hyderabad, was the only Indian player to win an Olympic medal in badminton with her bronze from the 2012 London Olympics. With Sindhu's performance in these games, India now has another badminton star.


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Seeing the Signs, Discerning the Times
We live in an intricately interwoven and interconnected civilization. Yet we are sailing in uncharted seas. Like the early explorers who traveled the globe, we have ample reason to believe that we will not literally sail over the edge; but within our human-created infrastructure there are new edges, borders and tipping points. Where is it all leading, and how can we find comfort and peace in a world that rides the knife edge of collapse?
Across history, mariners on the high seas used telltale signs to predict stormy weather beyond their line of sight. Observing a "red sky in the morning" was a sign of turbulence and possible danger, an indicator of storm fronts, gales and treacherous seas. The wise captain took the warning seriously and brought all of his collective experience to the task of preparing for events that he suspected lay ahead.
Even Jesus referred to this sign when speaking to the people of His day: "When it is evening you say, 'It will be fair weather, for the sky is red'; and in the morning, 'It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening'" (Matthew 16:2–3a).
The Gospel writer Luke records a similar analysis: "Whenever you see a cloud rising out of the west, immediately you say, 'A shower is coming'; and so it is. And when you see the south wind blow, you say, 'There will be hot weather'; and there is" (Luke 12:54–55).
Those were simpler times, of course. Today we live under a constant barrage of data; life is much more complicated—not just complex, but complexified as layer upon layer piles up and vies for attention. We are drowning in a wash of information, warnings, advisories, advertisements and pronouncements. As we work to chart our course, it is very easy to get lost. Can we spot trouble ahead? Can we even discern sky from ground, vertical from horizontal? What is important? What is not?
Carefully designed attention-getting, consciousness-hogging images and rhetoric fill our minds. In ever-increasing quantities, we absorb them 24-7 through an earpiece or a large or small screen. It's no wonder that we feel a kind of information overload. German-born economist E.F. Schumacher claimed that the modern world "tumbles from crisis to crisis." But because so many events are packaged as crises, we end up deferring everything, paying true attention to nothing. Eventually the constant stimulation numbs us and deflects our focus away from truly important matters. And here we are, apparently safe because we have not gone over the edge. Neglect therefore becomes a way of life; doing nothing becomes habitual, even normal.
"We have grown so numerous and so dominant that laissez-faire isn't going to work. We don't yet know whether, after going through the peak [population] of 9 billion, we can survive as a civilization that we would care for."
Paul Ehrlich, Vision interview (Winter 2009)
We have historically unprecedented access, but are we benefiting from it? Jesus' conclusion remains a relevant warning to us today. "You know how to discern the face of the sky," He remarked, "but you cannot discern the signs of the times" (Matthew 16:3b).
Troubled Times
According to mariner lore, cloud patterns are a key predictor of the day's weather. "Mares tails and mackerel scales," rows of slowly merging clouds, foretell storms so that "tall ships take in their sails."
Today there is no doubt that we live in troubled times. Every age has had its problems, and history is always cautionary. In a sense, the sky has always been filled with storm clouds, though the potential effect of our mistakes (and those of others) has ratcheted far upward over time.
A century ago, for example, teachers could be removed for getting married and students for chewing gum; today parents worry about pedophiles in the classroom. Mustard gas in that age killed thousands on the battlefields of Europe; now we fear that millions at a time may be wiped out by the unleashing of a dirty bomb in a metropolitan center, or by the indiscriminate fallout of a nuclear accident. From school, to travel, to life in a major city, we are exposed to dangers that in the past were very rare, very distant, or simply nonexistent. Yet, while we seem to be both physically and mentally closer to trouble all the time, we trim our sails for greater speed.
Medical doctor Richard Swenson has carefully examined the contraction of our safety net. In its tightening, which he describes as the unintended product of human progress, we find ourselves more closely packed and thus more ill at ease on all levels: personal, societal and cultural. Appropriately titled Margin, his book explains how a lack of margin or space in our lives is debilitating. Fear of the "out there" can be problem enough, but Swenson also notes that poor choices in our personal sphere—career, finances, relationships, spirituality—strip away any margin for error as well. We live life without a buffer.
A Web of Problems
In the past, writes physician Richard Swenson in Margin, our problems could be examined and solved in a piecemeal fashion. Because there was a distance between them, what he terms "a margin," applying the reductionist principle of finding the one key pivot point to any one particular problem could lead to its resolution. Now, he argues, that margin has disappeared; one problem blends in to the next, making the solution to any one problem contingent on solving the others as well. As the overlap grows and the problems become integrated, it is not merely the list that haunts us; it is the totality of human failure embodied in the whole that bodes a systemic unraveling: "Whether we like it or not," Swenson writes, "history will steamroll us with the whole, not with particles."
He explains: "When we integrate our criminal activity, urban war zones, street gangs, drug addiction, skyrocketing prison population, national debt, foreign trade deficit, corporate and consumer debt, savings and loan and banking crises, record closing of hospitals, soaring costs of health care and college education, deteriorating education, sexually transmitted diseases, hundreds of thousands of AIDS cases, alcoholism, family breakdown, divorce, teenage pregnancy, single parenting, child abuse, collapse of our child-protection system, increasing stress, complexity, overload, anxiety, depression, suicide, pollution, litigation, crumbling infrastructure, 'death-oriented hopelessness' of the contemporary arts, and the vanishing of both tradition and community, we find that the specifics, the dimensions, and the threat are all very different today than ever before" (emphasis added).
"One would have hoped that the process of progress would have been kind to our emotional life," Swenson writes, "making it ever easier to replenish our reserves. It might have seemed reasonable to speculate that as our society improved in the areas of education, affluence, and entertainment, we would see a commensurate improvement in overall emotional well-being. Yet such has not been the case."
On the national and international fronts we can perceive that same lack of margin. We see it in leadership transitions around the world, and we feel it in the streets. "Yes, we are living in a world where there are no easy answers to the most difficult challenges we face beyond our borders," writes Harry Blaney, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy (CIP). "These include Syria, North Korea, Iran, the continued unrest in the Middle East not least including dealing with Egypt's turmoil, the Israeli-Arab peace negotiations, and the whole Arab Spring. Not least also is the pernicious impact of the gap between the very rich and those living in poverty around the world."
People everywhere want change, something different that will solve the problems they recognize intellectually and feel emotionally, but they have few resources to bring to the table. Many look to a new government or better leadership to provide solutions for the countless problems we all encounter ever closer at hand. But effective leadership seems as lacking today as when John Gardner wrote decades ago. "We are faced," he said, "with immensely threatening problems—terrorism, AIDS, drugs, depletion of the ozone layer, the threat of nuclear conflict, toxic waste, the real possibility of economic disaster. Even moderately informed citizens could extend the list. Yet on none of the items listed does our response acknowledge the manifest urgency of the problem. We give every appearance of sleepwalking through a dangerous passage of history."
On the environmental front, continuing studies show that climate change, with its effects on global rainfall, ocean levels and living conditions for all forms of life, will continue regardless of what we do. The hand-wringing will continue, but if the physics is to be believed, we seem to have front-loaded the system for instability, and global carbon dioxide emissions are only slated to rise. Although new technologies that promise greater energy efficiency and lower carbon footprints have great appeal and are fantastic in their ingenuity, their appearance seems to fall behind the curve of exponential change.
"Progress has given us unprecedented affluence, education, technology, and entertainment. We have comforts and conveniences other eras could only dream about. Yet somehow, we are not flourishing under the gifts of modernity as one would expect."
Richard A. Swenson, M.D., Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Our Overloaded Lives
As Swenson notes, it is the integrated nature of our problems that is of the greatest concern. Population, employment, social equity, economic growth and energy use are all interconnected. One cannot simply address carbon dioxide without dealing with the others: "Seeing everything together and connected gives us a more accurate assessment of the immensity that confronts us. It is this [integrated] perspective that is so troubling about our modern-day situation."
Sadly, Swenson contends, "breakdown on a large scale is now within our reach."
Global Sea Change
The signs of the times are indeed grim, and "severe storms" are in the forecast. As it was in Noah's day, however, human society as a whole continues apace, oblivious to its precarious place in time (Matthew 24:37–39). Although CIP's Blaney in no way equates our situation today as relevant to the return of Christ, he does recognize the disconnect in our perception of our place in historical time: "One of the reasons we have not been as good at understanding change as we might have been is that we are taught about a past world as if it were still existing; we are preparing ourselves for a world we no longer face. Even now our schools teach about the world of past decades and largely ignore the present let alone the future" (Global Challenges: A World at Risk).
The past world Blaney refers to is the one of disconnected events, a time when our choices did not have global ramifications. It is that world of independent events that no longer exists. The far more interesting conclusion, however, given the scope of human history outlined in the Bible, is that the world today is ever more like the pre-Flood world of Noah. Then as now, it was a world of violence and was for the most part disconnected from its Creator. Humanity was preserved by the barest of margins (Genesis 6:5–8), with the rainbow signaling continuing preservation (Genesis 8:21–22; 9:12–17).
"Never again will I let floodwaters destroy all life. When I see the rainbow in the sky, I will always remember the promise that I have made to every living creature. The rainbow will be the sign of that solemn promise."
Genesis 9:15b–17, Contemporary English Version
At the core of the ongoing disconnect between man and God is sovereignty over our actions. The problems facing society today—whether political, economic, educational, military or social—are not the cause of our woes; they are only effects of a deeper spiritual problem: from the outset, under the disruptive advice of our adversary (Genesis 3), we have arrogantly rejected our Creator, His purpose and His way of life. And so we suffer the consequences.
Swenson aptly describes the nature of the problem: In our fallible state we have gone in quest of "progress," and in so doing "we have magnified nearly every human flaw. We have put armaments in the hands of our hostility, litigation in the hands of our cynicism, affluence in the hands of our greed, the media in the hands of our decadence, advertisements in the hands of our discontent, pornography in the hands of our lust, and education in the hands of our pride."
Hostility, cynicism, greed, decadence, discontent, lust and pride: these negative human characteristics are at the heart of the host of woes our society faces. These are not simply human rights gone wrong.
The Green Flash
While the rainbow reminds us of God's intervention in history, another phenomenon also occurs through the interaction of the sun and the atmosphere. It is a rare event called the green flash, which can appear at sunset at the ocean's horizon as rays of sunlight are refracted at just the right angle through air of just the right quality. Like a moment of truth, the flash lasts just a second or so. Jules Verne considered its brilliance otherworldly, symbolic of hope.
Similarly, discerning the core of our problems and the reality of God's true hope may occur in a simple flash of insight: without a connection to God, we cannot truly know what is right, nor can we know real hope (Colossians 1:27). What is good for us is not within us to determine. Our physical senses cannot assure us that the Ten Commandments are valid, that the Bible is wholly credible, or that God cares for us individually. To believe that adherence to God's laws is in our best interest—and that it is our human destiny to eventually embrace them—is a matter of faith, not of science, psychology or history.
God seeks to restore a connection with us and promises to do so. But because human knowledge alone lacks godly insight and the power to change itself, unaided we will never be adequate to the task of restoration. The prophets warned of a time when our collective efforts to rule ourselves would collapse, and it doesn't take an expert to recognize the telltale signs of that storm on the horizon. Yet they also gave the assurance that both rescue and redemption are on the other side of these tumultuous times (Jeremiah 31:33–34; Joel 2:28–29). As the apostle Peter assured us, this plan is ongoing (Acts 2:38–39).
Our Creator's ultimate plan is not human ruin. But as parents often discover with recalcitrant children, some lessons are best learned through hard times. The signs of these coming times have been with us for millennia, but today we are privy to their exponential growth. They affect us and hurt us in ways that are often beyond comprehension. Even so, God offers respite and peace of mind to those who are drawn to His way of life in the present age before the ultimate calamity occurs.
This is not an easy path in a world that operates from contrary principles. To understand that there must be a right spiritual foundation for true success and satisfaction in life, a foundation that inspires happiness and contentment within us through our right relationships with fellow man and God, is rare enough. To act on it is rarer still.
Even so, that flash of insight still occurs—insight into the times in which we live and the only course to a safe harbor. If you experience it, how will you set your heading?
The Church of God, an International Community, publisher of Vision, has members in many locations around the world. If you would like to know more, please contact us.
Referencias Seleccionadas
Harry C. Blaney III, "There Are No Easy Answers to Today's Global Challenges!" Rethinking National Security (October 22, 2013).
Harry C. Blaney III, Global Challenges: A World at Risk (1979).
John W. Gardner, On Leadership (1990, 1993).
E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (1973, 1989).
Richard A. Swenson, M.D., Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Our Overloaded Lives (1992).
Scripture quotations are from the New King James Version (©1988 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.) unless otherwise noted. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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Decision-Making Considerations in Support to Resistance by Will Irwin with Foreword by Lieutenant General Kenneth E. Tovo
The intent of this monograph is to reveal to Special Operations Forces (SOF) leaders and planners the variety of considerations facing decision makers, the approaches used in strategic- and operational-level decision making, and how they can better inform and influence that process with regard to special warfare. This monograph is a companion volume to two earlier works: Support to Resistance: Strategic Purpose and Effectiveness, and How Civil Resistance Works (And Why It Matters To SOF). This third volume describes some of the factors that decision makers have faced when considering support to resistance (STR) as a foreign policy option. This monograph should shed some light on how national security officials in the past have arrived at certain conclusions or why, in some cases, presidents have directed actions that were especially risky or controversial.
Decision-Making Considerations in Support to Resistance
Structural Violence and Relative Deprivation: Precursors to Collective Political Violence in Sierra Leone by Earl Conteh-Morgan
In this new occasional paper, Dr. Conteh-Morgan examines how the combination of structural violence and relative deprivation are associated with, and were predictors of, civil strife in Sierra Leone between 1991 and 2002. He focuses his analysis on one key question: In what ways did structural violence deepen insecurities and intensify relative deprivation in Sierra Leone and contribute to civil war? The author provides an in-depth explanation of the concept of structural violence and how it underscores the realities of human misery associated with inequality and disability. He then describes how the negative effects of structural violence of state institutions in many developing countries can lead to feelings of relative deprivation in individuals and groups in society. Dr. Conteh-Morgan then argues that Sierra Leone was plagued by structural violence and it was this condition that then contributed to a sense of relative deprivation among the population which in turn sparked the civil war that lasted from 1991 to 2002. This study provides the SOF practitioner with an in-depth analysis of how internal and external structural problems intensified political grievances, increased deprivations and widespread misery, and eventually led to the implosion of Sierra Leone into full scale civil war.
Structural Violence and Relative Deprivation: Precursors to Collective Political Violence in Sierra Leone
Resistance Views Seminar Essays
Resistance Views: Tartu Resistance Seminar Essays on Unconventional Warfare and Small State Resistance, Edited by Kevin D. Stringer and Glennis F. Napier
This volume is based upon the discourse, dialogue, and outcomes of the 2nd Senior Unconventional Warfare (UW) and Resistance Seminar, hosted by the Joint Special Operations University (JSOU); Baltic Defence College (BALTDEFCOL); U.S. Special Operations Command Europe (USSOCEUR); Estonian Special Operations Forces; and the Centre for Applied Studies, Estonian National Defence College. From 4–6 November 2014, a multinational and interagency group of academics and practitioners gathered at the Baltic Defence College in Tartu, Estonia to discuss and debate the study and practice of UW and resistance. This book's aim is to spark intensive discussion on both UW and counter-UW approaches, doctrine, and capabilities.
USSOCEUR Commander Foreword
Introduction Seminar Opening Remarks
Chapter 1. Asymmetry in Russian New Generation Warfare
Chapter 2. Societal Resilience: A Basis for Whole-of-Society Approach to National Security
Chapter 3. Small State UW Doctrine: Feasibility and Application for National Defense
Chapter 4. NATO Special Operations Contribution to a Comprehensive Approach
Chapter 5. Lessons from the U.S. Experience in Unconventional Warfare
Chapter 6. Nonviolent Civil Resistance Movements: Theory and Practice
Chapter 7. Winning the Peace by Living the Way We Fight
Chapter 8. Conclusion
Resistance Views: Tartu Resistance Seminar Essays on Unconventional Warfare and Small State Resistance
Countering the Islamist Insurgency by Jonathan Carroll
In this paper the author, a retired special forces colonel, discusses political violence, radicalization, terrorism, and insurgency--some of the greatest security challenges the United States and its allies face today. Despite the fact that the United States Government (USG) has developed an exceptional counterterrorism (CT) capability to find and neutralize terrorists, the threat continues to exist. In fact, the problems only seem to be getting worse, with more and more attacks happening in the United States and Western Europe, and groups like the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and al-Qaeda recruiting thousands across the globe. The author discusses several reasons the United States isn't more successful in its CT efforts. First, most policymakers fail to truly appreciate the nature of the problem. Second, in many cases the contemporary USG CT approach is flawed. Finally, the USG must continue to rethink Special Operations Forces employment to maximize their effectiveness against irregular threats.
Countering the Islamist Insurgency
Countering Violent Extremism in Mali by Mark Moyar
Dr. Moyar analyzes U.S. and international efforts to counter Mali's panoply of extremist organizations. Violent opposition to Mali's government has deep roots, which include historic tensions between the Tuaregs and other ethnic groups, as well as the emergence of Salafist extremist groups in Algeria. Extremist attacks on Mali's democratic government in late 2011 and early 2012 culminated in a military coup that allowed rebels to take control of northern Mali. Because Mali had received extensive military and nonmilitary assistance from the United States and other foreign countries in the preceding years, these disasters led to the questioning of aid practices, including those of United States Special Operations Forces (USSOF). This study adds to a growing body of knowledge on special operations and counterterrorism in Africa. It also contributes to the general understanding of the troubling events in Mali, where the government continues to confront violent extremism and other forms of rebellion. Perhaps most significantly for USSOF, the monograph offers insights into the building of partner capacity.
Countering Violent Extremism in Mali
Counterinsurgency in Somalia: Lessons Learned from the African Union Mission in Somalia, 2007-2013 by Bronwyn E. Bruton and Paul D. Williams
Ms. Bronwyn Bruton and Dr. Paul Williams bring their expertise ingovernance, conflict mitigation, and Africa, to this analysis of Somalia's attempts to establish security and build state institutions while facing the Harakat al-Shabaab insurgency. By every measure of state effectiveness-income generation and distribution, execution of the rule of law, and ability to provide basic human security-Somalia has little or no capability. The authors address the roots of Somalia's long-running conflict and examine the often conflicting motivations of the large range of actors: local, national, regional, and international. This context is essential for understanding the evolution and sustainment of Harakat al-Shabaab. With its links to al-Qaeda, Harakat al-Shabaab remains a security challenge for the entire Horn of Africa. While AMISOM's goal was to protect Somalia's weak transitional national government and stabilize the security environment, its mission went well beyond traditional peacekeeping to include warfighting, counterinsurgency operations, and humanitarian assistance. The AMISOM approach may come to characterize future operations in this region.
Counterinsurgency in Somalia: Lessons Learned from the African Union Mission in Somalia, 2007-2013
Countering the al-Shabaab Insurgency in Somalia: Lessons for U.S. Special Operations Forces by Graham Turbiville, Josh Meservey, and James Forest
In this report, the authors argue that al-Shabaab's current prospects have probably never been so low.This work provides a meaningful context to al-Shabaab and the Somali milieu. Al Shabaab has been pushed from all of its major strongholds by a robust international effort, and its violent Salafism has alienated many Somalis. But it still has teeth. It continues to harass coalition forces, as well as ordinary Somalis, with improvised explosive devices, suicide bombings, and assassinations. Its tactics reflect a strategic decision made by its leadership to fight a guerrilla war, a familiar role for a group that thrived by waging an anti-Ethiopian insurgency in the mid-2000s. This monograph is a useful resource for anyone who wishes to know more about the conflict in the Horn of Africa.
Countering the al-Shabaab in Somalia
Irregular Warfare: The Maoist Challenge to India's Internal Security by Prakash Singh
Mr. Prakash Singh's monograph on the Maoist Movement in India benefits from his unique perspective as a distinguished police officer in some of the country's most turbulent regions. He provides a detailed history of insurgency in India, including the history of uprisings starting from the Telengana insurrection of the mid-to-late 1940s to the Communist move¬ment, sponsored by Mao Zedong's China. Mr. Singh traces the transition of the peasant-led Naxalite movement, with its roots in a single village in West Bengal, to the Communist Party of India (Maoist) Movement, which has spread to some 20 of India's 28 states. India's prime minister has declared more than once that the Maoist challenge is the biggest threat to the internal security of the country. How India accommodates its tribal minorities and reaches an accommodation with insurgents is a critical element for long-term regional stability.
Irregular Warfare: The Maoist Challenge to India's Internal Security
Afghanistan, Counterinsurgency, and the Indirect Approach by Thomas H. Henriksen
In exploring Counterinsurgency and the Indirect Approach, Dr. Thomas Henriksen assesses several cases where the United States has employed an Indirect Approach toward achieving strategic objectives, and he suggests where this concept has landed short of expectations. In the cases of Vietnam, Somalia, the Philippines, and other countries, he demonstrates that it is often difficult to fit the Indirect Approach doctrine into such a wide variety of strategic and operational environments.
Afghanistan, Counterinsurgency, and the Indirect Approach
Pakistan's Security Paradox: Countering and Fomenting Insurgencies by Haider A. H. Mullick
Mr. Mullick's discussion of the strategic setting in Southwest Asia is particularly timely as the U.S. is diverting strategic resources from the Iraqi theater of war to the effort in Afghanistan. Concurrently, the new administration of President Obama is refocusing the national security strategy away from notions of a global war on terrorism to a security policy of a "broader engagement" with the countries of the world and particularly the Muslim world. As one part of this strategic vision, a particular effort will be made to dismantle or destroy Al Qaeda and its associates.
Pakistan's Security Paradox: Countering and Fomenting Insurgencies
What Really Happened in Northern Ireland's Counterinsurgency : Revision and Revelation by Thomas H. Henriksen
Dr. Henriksen's selection of Northern Ireland provides a rich case study of a hotly contested space that represents an ethnic and religious conflict set in Western Europe. He provides an excellent, short, historical background to frame his analysis. Understanding the historical antecedents of an insurgency is a critical element in any case study because insurgencies are local, not global events. International issues may influence what occurs in an insurgency, but locals rise up in rebellion for their personal grievances or desires.
What Really Happened in Northern Ireland's Counterinsurgency: Revision and Revelation
India's Northeast: The Frontier in Ferment by Prakash Singh
Prakash Singh's monograph on the threat that insurgencies in northeast India present to the national government provides an excellent insight into a significant security challenge to the Indian state. The troubles in the eight northeastern states highlighted in Mr. Singh's work are frequently overlooked in the West when people look at India's security concerns, which often focus on other more widely known security challenges, both internal and external.
India's Northeast: The Frontier in Ferment
Hunting Leadership Targets in Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism Operations by Graham H. Turbiville, Jr.
This monograph reviews selected foreign experience in targeting insurgent and terrorist leadership. The intent is to provide a limited illustration of many efforts in various countries to locate and neutralize key combatant leaders or support cadres whose capture or death was judged contributive to eliminating a guerrilla or terrorist threat. As a dimension accompanying other counterinsurgency (COIN) measures or more developed COIN and counterterrorist strategies, the emphasis placed on leadership targeting has ranged from central to peripheral.
Hunting Leadership Targets in Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorist Operations: Selected Perspectives and Experience
The War on Terrorism: Countering Global Insurgency in the 21st Century by James A. Bates
This paper adds to the growing debate concerning the challenges of the United States strategic engagement strategy and recommends options for the emerging 21st Century. This author envisions a national interagency structure to integrate every instrument of national power. This structure will focus, collaborate and coordinate at four strategic levels: global, multi-regional, regional and national, and will implement three regional engagement strategy options. These are Conflict/Unilateral Operations, Support to Insurgencies and Security Assistance (SA) utilizing the principles of Foreign Internal Defense (FID) that will effectively facilitate the execution of the global war on terrorism (GWOT).
The War on Terrorism: Countering Global Insurgency in the 21st Century
Logistic Support and Insurgency: Guerrilla Sustainment and Applied Lessons of Soviet Insurgent Warfare: Why It Should Still Be Studied by Graham H. Turbiville, Jr.
This is a pertinent and timely study of a critical issue facing the United States military today: how do insurgents logistically sustain and expand their operations? Graham H. Turbiville, Jr. appropriately mentions Martin Van Creveld's excellent treatise, Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton but argues persuasively that a similar study on the role of logistics in unconventional or "small" wars is sorely needed. Dr Turbiville's essay discusses logistics and sustainment of guerillas operating in the Soviet Union behind German lines during World War II. The paper is a significant step in addressing the research shortfall on insurgency logistics.
Logistic Support and Insurgency: Guerrilla Sustainment and Applied Lessons of Soviet Insurgent Warfare: Why It Should Still Be Studied
Operationalizing COIN by Joseph D. Celeski
In this paper, Colonel Joseph D. Celeski, U.S. Army, Retired, provides his thoughts on how we might think about, plan and conduct operations in the new threat environment of "Terro-Insurgency." In this environment insurgents are joined by various terrorists, drug traffickers and other criminals to create what he calls the "Gray Stew" mix that confronts us today in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Based on his understanding of the new environment, Colonel Celeski posits a theory of counterinsurgency (COIN) and suggests techniques for developing the COIN plan and executing it employing special operations forces. He reinforces his concepts concerning COIN with a review of the war in Afghanistan. This paper is important because it reflects the experiences and thoughts of a recent special operations commander who dealt with the exigencies of COIN combat every day on the battlefield. Through a former 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) commander and two-time commander of the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Afghanistan (CJSOTF-A), the reader, too, can gain a sense of urgency for improving our COIN strategy and doctrine and enhancing our abilities for "Operationalizing COIN."
Operationalizing COIN
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JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr. 2010 Jan-Feb;34(1):70-8. doi: 10.1177/0148607109349061. Epub 2009 Oct 29.
Role of vitamin D in adults requiring nutrition support.
Pittas AG1, Laskowski U, Kos L, Saltzman E.
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.
The major and most well-known function of vitamin D is to maintain calcium and phosphorus homeostasis and promote bone mineralization. However, recent evidence suggests that vitamin D may be important for a variety of nonskeletal outcomes. The review synthesizes the available evidence for the role of vitamin D in skeletal health as well as its novel roles in medical conditions such as muscle function, falls, immunity, glucose homeostasis, and cardiovascular diseases. The article reviews methods for assessing vitamin D status and suggests strategies to restore vitamin D status in patients requiring enteral or parenteral nutrition who are at particularly high risk of hypovitaminosis D. Screening for hypovitaminosis D with plasma total 25-hydroxyvitamin D should be a routine part of the care of the patient requiring enteral or parenteral nutrition. Restoration of optimal vitamin D status with high-dose supplemental vitamin D is required in most cases, whereas exposure to sunlight or an ultraviolet B radiation-emitting device is most effective in patients with severe malabsorption or those requiring long-term parenteral therapy. Given the emerging role of vitamin D for a variety of acute and chronic conditions, the optimal vitamin D status in acutely ill patients as well as in patients requiring long-term nutrition therapy warrants further investigation.


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Most Inspirational Sports Quotes from Athletes and Coaches
Here is a list of sports quotes that would inspire you to exercise more and do better at any sport you choose.
Great sport people are made not born. To excel in any field of sports requires time, effort and training, ambition and discipline.
Sport is something everyone should do. It does not matter what kind of sport you follow, swimming, running, football, tennis, bodybuilding or just walking. Exercising the body is important, since it keeps the body fit and healthy.
We have collected for you a list of sports quotes, from famous sport men and women, coaches, and other people who have excelled in their field.
We hope that these quotes will inspire and motivate you. Even if you are not a fan of sports, you will find these quotes enlightening and helpful.
One of the most motivational sports quote:
"Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion." – Michael Jordan
Inspirational Sports Quotes that Motivate
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. –Vince Lombardi
"An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head." – Emil Zatopek
"Number one is just to gain a passion for running. To love the morning, to love the trail, to love the pace on the track. And if some kid gets really good at it, that's cool too." –Pat Tyson
"Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts." –Dan Gable
"Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face." –Dave Barry
"Never give up, never give in, and when the upper hand is ours, may we have the ability to handle the win with the dignity that we absorbed the loss." –Doug Williams
"Sports are a microcosm of society." –Billie Jean King
"Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion." –Michael Jordan
"When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge." –Terry Bradshaw
Inspiring Sports Quotes
"When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important." –Bill Shoemaker
"Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength." –Phil Jackson
"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even." –Muhammad Ali
"The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning." –Pele
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"The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work." –Charles Barkley
"What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose." –Andre Agassi
"The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves." –Mike Ditka
"Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period." –Lou Holtz
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More Inspirational Sports Quotes
"The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics." –Percy Cerutty
"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination." –Tommy Lasorda
"In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are." –Althea Gibson
"Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement." –Matt Biondi
"If you surround yourself with quality people and great friends, the sky's the limit." –Wayne Gretzky
"Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable." –John Wooden
"If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion." –Mia Hamm
"There may be people that have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do." –Derek Jeter
"It's not the will to win that matters, everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters." –Paul Bryant
"One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it." –Knute Rockne
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"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime." –Babe Ruth
Motivational from Athletes and Coaches
Motivational quotes on sports to encourage you to take part in sports.
"Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe." –Gail Devers
"If you fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail." –Mark Spitz
"To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them." –Picabo Street
"You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get." –Michael Phelps
"The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit." –Ken Doherty
"I just want people to see me as a hard-working footballer and someone who is passionate about the game." –David Beckham
"Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday." –Wilma Rudolph
"When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less." –Paul Brown
"Imagination has a great deal to do with winning." –Mike Krzyzewski
"It took me 20 years of hard training to get the physique I have today. What you need is what I had – belief in yourself!" –Branch Warren
"Once you can squat with 180 kilograms, your arms and shoulders will come along much more receptively. If you want big arms and shoulders, your first priority is to be sure that your leg/hip/back structure is growing and becoming powerful." –Stuart McRobert
"I hated every minute of training, but I said, don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion." –Muhammed Ali
Sports Quotes for Athletes and Everyone Else
"With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination." –Michael Phelps
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." –Michael Jordan
"No matter the circumstances you may be going through, just push through it." –Ray Lewis
"You cannot make progress with excuses." –Cam Newton
"You can't win unless you learn how to lose." –Kareem Abdul Jabbar
"I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it." –Sandy Koufax
"If you want to be the best, you have to do the things that other people aren't willing to do." –Michael Phelps
"Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement." –Swimmer Matt Biondi
"Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result." –Joe Torre
"What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110 percent all the time." –Don Zimmer
"You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours." –Herb Brooks
"If you have everything under control, you're not moving fast enough." –Mario Andretti
"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent." –Arnold Schwarzenegger
"The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before." –Steve Young
We hope you enjoyed reading these inspirational sports quotes. This is just the first step. The second step is start taking part in sports activities. You do not need to compete with others or win medals. It is for your health and the improvement of your life.
If you wish to excel in sports, you need more willpower and self discipline.
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O Sambódromo Passarela do Samba "Dráuzio da Cruz", também conhecido como Sambódromo de Santos ou "Estradão", é o palco dos maiores eventos culturais da região da Baixada Santista, em especial do Desfile das Escolas de Samba do Carnaval da Baixada Santista.

O conjunto arquitetônico é instalado ao redor da Avenida Afonso Schmidt, no bairro do Castelo, na zona noroeste da cidade de Santos, possui capacidade para 10 mil espectadores e abriga o Centro Cultural da Zona Noroeste.

A Passarela onde ocorrem os desfiles possui extensão de 450 metros e largura de 16 metros, conta ainda com um recuo de bateria com 32 metros de largura e 17 metros de profundidade.

História
Durante muito tempo os desfiles das escolas de Samba de Santos/SP foram itinerantes, sendo realizados em diversos pontos da popular orla da praia, porém com o passar dos anos se fez necessário criar um palco fixo para estas manifestações populares, foi então que 23 de Fevereiro de 2006 sob a administração do então prefeito João Paulo Tavares Papa foi criado um espaço cultural na Zona Noroeste que abrigaria o desfile de escolas de Samba denominado "Sambódromo Dráuzio da Cruz", levando o nome de um dos principais Sambista da história da região, que foi fundador da pioneira Império do Samba, rei momo do carnaval Paulistano e 5 vezes campeão do Carnaval estadual.

O local dos desfiles foi construído em uma via que cortava o terreno do "Estradão", com 560 metros de extensão e 20 de largura, sendo 16 para a faixa de rolamento e 4 para às calçadas Já a pista de desfile ficou com 450 metros de extensão.

O custo da construção do Sambódromo ficou orçado em aproximadamente R$ 1,9 milhões e no projeto original não havia a edificação do Centro Cultural da Zona Noroeste, este foi incorporado ao Sambódromo somente em 2013.

Eventos
Além de abrigar os desfiles das escolas de Samba da região, o complexo também recebe:

 Desfiles Cívicos;
 Shows Comemorativos;
 Eventos Públicos;
 Shows de Grande Expressão.

Outros Espaços
Alguns espaços específicos do Sambódromo foram batizados em homenagem à grandes sambistas da Baixada Santista, em especial, os boxes de bateria da concentração e dispersão e o recuo da passarela, que levam os nomes de três grandes mestres de bateria da Região:

Box de Concentração
Leva o nome de José Paulo Fernandes da Silva, o "Mestre Paulinho" (conhecido também como Mestre Paulão) da GRCES Brasil.

Box de Dispersão
Leva o nome de Luiz José de Souza, o "Mestre Alemão" da GRCES X-9 Pioneira.

Recuo de Bateria
Leva o nome de Rubens dos Santos, o "Mestre Rubens" da GRCES X-9 Pioneira.

Cabines de Transmissão
Leva o nome de "Cabines de Transmissão Jorge dos Santos", no passado abrigou a antiga TV Litoral e hoje abriga as equipes de transmissão da Santa Cecília TV e da TV Tribuna afiliada da Rede Globo de Televisão.

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UnitedHealthcare (UHC) is a global healthcare provider, and also a new member of the Satell Institute. Dan Tropeano is CEO of UHC in Pennsylvania & Delaware and approaches corporate social responsibility (CSR) with somewhat of a business mindset – except instead of a financial return, he expects results on issues in the community. We spoke with Dan about civic responsibility, why he was motivated to join the Satell Institute and why the work of CSR is often its own reward.
You're an active member of the philanthropic community and have established a good deal of relationships, what drew you to the Satell Institute? Why was it advantageous to become a member?
While I was certainly aware of the Satell Institute, it wasn't until I attended their CEO Conference as a guest that I was truly blown away by the caliber of the CEOs involved. I signed up on the spot. I have a decent amount of years ahead of me in my career, and I feel like it's important to never stop learning. I also believe that in order to do big things, you have to partner together to have a greater impact. That's the real value of the Satell Institute – it's a collective force that can really create change. At UHC, we're accustomed to longer-term engagements with our nonprofits, so the multi-year commitment required for Satell Institute members felt natural. And while we tend to have national partnerships, we know that all things happen at a local level.
Let's talk a bit about those partnerships, and the overall for-profit/nonprofit dynamic. Does your company culture play a role in the type of CSR work you choose to take on?
We have a deep and entrenched culture here at UHC, built around our five pillars – integrity, compassion, relationships, innovation and performance. Our pillar of compassion especially drives our civic engagement, and it is our proud responsibility to support the communities that support us. That is our driving mantra, and we reinforce that through our commitment to helping people live healthier lives. While healthcare initiatives are a natural fit for our CSR efforts, we also find it's important to have a core focus within a multi-issue industry such as healthcare, like our support of fighting childhood cancer for instance. That way you can drill down your investment and really make a measurable impact.
Is it a challenge to measure CSR impact?
One of the biggest challenges in CSR is figuring out whom to say yes and no to, as there are just so many deserving causes. But we've developed a rigorous vetting process similar to the way we evaluate our business interests – we want a return on our investment. With things like mandatory multi-year funding, the Satell Institute model helps deliver on expectations. They are the linchpin; the one holding everyone responsible so it's a win-win for all parties.
The UHC brand carries a lot of weight and is able to commit a significant amount of money/resources to CSR efforts. What insight would you have for CEOs of other companies that are not as large or might be just starting out with their CSR program? What can they expect?
My advice to anyone interested in getting involved with CSR is to get in touch with someone who is already involved – just pick up the phone and reach out. I've always received a tremendous amount of support and guidance from people in the CSR community. There are a lot of people in high-level corporate positions who might be tough to get a business meeting with, but you'd be surprised how those doors open when you're discussing charitable efforts. Often I find CSR work itself is its own reward. Outside of all the other pressures and commitments of everyday business, at the end of the day when I reflect on our efforts to help the community, I feel pretty darn good.


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We sat down and played the game, so we could bring you the facts in our slot game report now. So, if you're looking for answers and info, this is the place to find it.
Developer details to start us off
This is the ideal place to begin, and we can do so with confirmation that the game sits within the vast collection that comes from Realtime Gaming (RTG).
We get the chance to play in practice mode first
This is common with many software developers, and we are glad to say you can always count on RTG to supply practice versions of their games, as they've done here.
Can you figure out the theme?
Treasure was always going to show up in this game, as the title tells us as much. However, were you expecting to take a trip to the Orient at the same time? That's where we find ourselves for this game.
Does Plentiful Treasure have plenty of positive design elements?
It's all happening on the reels of the game… but not so much in the background. However, it doesn't much matter here, as the reels look sensational. We'll come to the appearance of some of the symbols shortly.
Let's play Plentiful Treasure: Features to note
We've got a classic format in action here, with five reels and three symbols per reel in play. If you like progressive jackpot slot games, you're going to love this one, as there are four of them in action.
There are multiple items in action elsewhere too. Take the wilds for instance – two
of them, with one appearing as a treasure wild on reels two, three, and four. There isn't a multiplier for that wild, but there is for the second one. That is the pearl wild, landing only on reel three, but delivering a 5x multiplier whenever it helps you net a prize.
We're not done yet either because there is a scatter in play that looks like a tripod. More about that one in a bit…
Paylines don't feature in Plentiful Treasure
No need to fret though, because the developer has gone for all the possibilities on the reel set instead. This means you could find prizes in 243 different ways.
Place those bets…
When you play with ways to win instead of paylines, there is always a multiplier you need to apply to your chosen coin. In this game, we're using an 88x multiplier. It means the cheapest spin wager is 88 cents, so be sure that fits your pocket before you bet for real.
Always check the paytable before you play
You need only do this the first time you play, of course, but it tells you everything you should know prior to spinning the reels for real.
There is a bonus but don't expect to trigger it…
We say this for good reason, even though it sounds like an odd thing to share. You see, the bonus round is called the Gold Coin feature, and this is where those progressive jackpots are waiting. If you trigger it, it looks like you'll walk away with one of them.
As you'd expect, if you do reach it, you see some gold coins on the screen. There are 12 of these, and behind each one there is a god. Pick coins until you find three of the same god images and you will receive the progressive jackpot connected to that character.
Free spins triggered by the tripod
That's the scatter, remember, and you need three dropping into view anywhere to secure eight free spins. There's that number eight again… considered to bring good fortune in the Orient. These are no ordinary spins though – they do not begin until the game has removed all the cheaper icons from the reels. This means fewer symbols appear and there are better chances to find excellent prizes.
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"...Argosy also reduced the number of table games, which have a lower margin of profit, and replaced them with the more profitable slot machines, and it has implemented a $5 admission charge in Joliet..."


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The Truth About My Casual Hookup
September 7, 2015 // by Kayla Zacharias// Leave a Comment
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By senior year, most of us have mistaken a rude dude for one of the good guys. Maybe that's because of a natural human desire to see the good in people, or the fact that both people often feel responsible when things don't work out. Either way, we usually don't see that person clearly until long after we've distanced ourselves from them, and by then it's too late.
On a cold January night during my freshman year at UW-Madison, I went to a party with a classmate and some of her high school friends. She'd known most of these people her entire life, so when I pointed out one of the guys and told her I was interested, she immediately gave up all the dirty deetz on him. She said he was smart, sweet and—most importantly—one of the fabled "good guys."
He returned my interest when I approached him, and we hit it off. There weren't many people at the party, but it was one of Wisconsin's more brutal winter nights, and it was too cold to go anywhere else. So, we did what Badgers do—we drank and laughed the night away. The party was at his apartment and, rationalizing that the weather was a perfect excuse to spend the night, I did.
Despite the fact that we hooked up the first night we met, my freshman-self didn't see it as a one-night stand. It wasn't awkward at all in the morning, and he even texted me shortly after I returned home. We met up again the following weekend when my roommate was out of town, which, of course, led to the inevitable sequel.
He knew that I liked him, and it seemed like he liked me, too. He just didn't want to date me. It seemed like the night we met was the only time he was truly interested in me. The second time we met up, he told me that he wanted the next girl he dates to be his wife. "Not that I'm saying that couldn't be you," he said, but I knew what he meant.
That couldn't be right though, could it? My friend told me what a nice guy he was… He surely wasn't the type to hit it and quit it. Plus, he wanted to see me again after the first time, which meant something. Didn't it?
The unfortunate answer: no. But, I was young and naïve, and for months I convinced myself otherwise. No matter how many times he said "we" weren't a good idea, I told myself he didn't mean it. I was sure that he just needed time to see my quirks and learn to love them, like the way I lean my head back like a dog when someone scratches my head and how excited I get about new kitchen appliances. Then, he'd realize he really liked me and that I was worth more than just a hookup.
What made this situation different from most is that he was honest with me. He stopped texting me shortly after our second hookup, but we ran into each other at parties frequently after that. Every time, I practically threw myself at him. And every time, he let me down easy. He made it clear that I shouldn't expect a relationship with him and that he didn't want to hurt me. Unfortunately for my dignity, that only contributed to the "good guy" image that I was painting of him.
After months of no contact with him other than short conversations at parties, I gave up. I couldn't understand why he didn't like me, but I finally accepted it. I needed something to distract me from him and in my desperation, I threw myself at someone else.
Unfortunately, that someone else wasn't my Prince Charming either. I handled the situation the worst way possible—I lowered my standards and rebounded with another one-night stand who turned out to be a total dead-beat.
I'm now two years older, wiser and more confident. I just got out of a year-long relationship and although it didn't work out, I can honestly say he always treated me the way every girl deserves to be treated. College doesn't have to be all about hookups – being in a meaningful relationship with someone you can call your best friend is just as rewarding. But the next time I do stumble upon a casual hookup, I'll ditch the fantasy version of our relationship in my head and quit while I'm ahead. I learned first-hand that if a guy wants to see me, he does; and if he tells me he isn't looking for a relationship, I'll believe him.
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Senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying journalism and environmental studies. Like the Lorax, I speak for the trees. Goals include owning a French Bulldog and living in Seattle.
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The Confirmation Present
An excerpt from Rakas rouva K ('Dear Mrs K.', 1979). Introduction and interview by Auli Viikari
Lahtinen read through what he had written so far, and it pleased him, especially the quotation from Clausewitz. "It could be said," he went on, "that the victories of the French Revolution during those two decades were due in most cases to the mistaken policies of its opponents, even though the actual coup that shook the world took place within the framework of war." His article was about the British attitude to Germany's expansionist policies. There would not be another Munich, he felt sure: the House of Commons had cheered Chamberlain for the last time. Where, he asked himself, would England eventually abandon the role of passive onlooker? At Danzig, surely. It would not be like Poland to give something for nothing. She would set a world war in motion, of that he had no doubt. And he could see Poland dissolving into ruin before his very eyes.
"About Marjukka's confirmation present," his wife's voice broke in, as she removed the ashtray from the desk and took it out into the hall, cleared the newspapers from various chairs and made a dump of them by the door. "All right, all right, I'll take them away later," she said, noticing Lahtinen's expression. Her blue check apron hung loosely from the tapes tied at the back of her neck: under it she was wearing a dressing-gown, with the belt undone.
"I don't approve of confirmation presents." Lahtinen did not feel inclined to explain his reasons. He was tired of these everlasting conversations with his wife about questions of principle. He ran his hand through his hair, caught the faint whiff of hair tonic, tonight he would have a bath, heat up the water in the big copper tub, after the others had gone to bed. "She must feel it, you know, she sees what the other girls are wearing, they're all so nicely dressed," and there followed a catalogue of the various school friends who called for Marjukka from time to time, standing in the dimly lit hall, curtseying politely when Lahtinen walked past. "And you talk about self-control! What do you mean, self-control? You can't demand that of a little girl."
Lahtinen placed his elbows on the table and his head in his hands. His eyes were tired, they were smarting and he couldn't easily adjust to a new focus. A sign of advancing age. Forty-seven, and his wife the same age.
His wife's name was Aino. It made him think of Gallen's painting, the Aino in the picture, no more than a child really, slipping from the rock into the water. Drowning herself. Aino, like a wraith, escaping from the aged Väinämöinen, the amorous hands reaching out after her. In the picture she looks about sixteen, or even younger, the clear skin, the delicate limbs, the forest reddened by the evening sun. When the sun sets the red glow will vanish, and it will be night. His wife was standing in sunlight, the light was like a transparent garment, a veil. A compassionate light, Lahtinen thought. It shimmered, there was movement in it. The branches swaying outside the window, that would be it. His wife's mop of red hair, bunched into a knot, blazed like a beacon on the top of her head.
"I just can't afford that kind of present."
"So you say. But I can." There was a note of defiance in her voice. Been to see her mother, Lahtinen thought. He decided not to lose his temper, and lost it at once. His wife's mother, widow of a station booking-clerk, small pension, meagre savings, and a daughter always trying to cadge them from her. Aino went to see her every so often, the two women sat facing each other across the kitchen table, the mother wary, with pursed lips, sourly eying the daughter. She knew Aino only too well, was not fooled by her talk. Aino had her own softening-up technique: it seldom bore fruit, and Lahtinen found it intensely irritating. She began by enquiring about her mother's health, how was the knee today, the ankle, the back, the fingers. At first there were no answers, merely grunts and murmurs from behind closed lips, but after a while the old lady stretched out her hand, fumbled for a phial on the bureau behind her, set it on the table and told Aino to look at the label and read out the instructions. "What does it say? Read me the subscription." A woman with a school education, and she called it a subscription – Lahtinen could recall occasions when he had completely misunderstood her meaning. Aino read it out, her mother nodded, repeated the instructions, reached out and took a second bottle, put it beside the other, listened as Aino read out the prescription, then produced a jar of tablets. "And then there's my heart drops as well, but they're in the drawer of the bedside table," she went on in the querulous tones of old age, her fingers still fussing and fiddling with the little bottles and tubes. "Aspirin goes all fizzy in my stomach" – at once Aino was all anxiety, how is the tummy, do you go regularly? The answers came slowly, confidentially, like important secrets. "Oy, hoy" – a deep sigh – "I can't get about, my legs won't carry me, and even if I could there's all these different medicines, three times a day, four times, five times a day, how on earth can I remember? I set the alarm clock, when it goes off I take my medicine re-set the clock, wait till it rings again, take more medicine, wind it up and set it again so as not to sleep through and miss the proper time. And then having to remember each time, which one I have to take." She threw Aino a reproachful look. "Nobody ever comes to see me, I could be dying for all some people care." "Oh but I come, don't I?" said Aino, patting her mother's hand. "When it suits you," the old lady replied, moving her hand out of reach.
It was like an operatic duet. Lahtinen had forbidden Aino to talk about money, but when enough time had elapsed she began, without looking in his direction, to talk in a melancholy tone about how hard up they were, "what with debts, promissory notes …" "What, has he still got debts?" the old lady asked, as though Lahtinen were miles away. "Hasn't he paid them off yet?" "No, I haven't," Lahtinen remembered saying, and his mother-in-law had looked at him, shaking her head. "I still have debts, but you needn't be afraid that I'll call upon you to pay them." "What I think is what I think," the old lady snapped, and Aino glared angrily at her husband. His mother-in-law gave him a searching look. "You and your comings and your goings, I know you: come or go, it's always the same, it's my money you're after." Lahtinen took his coat and hat, paused for a second in the doorway and looked at the two women. He had always thought that Aino took after her father, but now that she was older it was her mother's features that were more noticeable, the expression in the eyes, the mouth. He turned and went out into the hall, closing the door behind him. Through the door he could hear their raised voices.
After that Aino had gone alone to see her mother, except at Christmas and the New Year, and on the old lady's birthday and name-day. On these occasions the whole family sat at the round table in the sitting-room: if it was her name-day, the old lady's friends were there too, two widows and the man from across the road with his wife. Aino and Marjukka made the coffee, the old lady sat at the head of the table, handing out the cups, passing round dishes of little cakes and biscuits. On each such occasion the furniture had been rearranged since their last visit, the table moved from one end of the room to the other, the sofa shifted to the opposite wall, shelves, chairs and flower-stands all in new places, as though some kind of stately round-dance had been in progress. "However do you manage it?" moaned the widows, and Lahtinen could tell that his mother-in-law was enjoying herself. "I have to manage, don't I?" she said. "There's no one here to help me." The friends exchanged glances, and carefully did not look at Aino or her husband, which made it clear to him that she had been talking about them, complaining of their lack of concern for her. Lahtinen took a careful look at her: had they really been neglecting her, he wondered? As he stared he shook his head slowly, causing his mother-in-law to gaze back at him in bewilderment, her coffee-cup poised in mid-air. Aino was forty-seven, her mother seventy-two. At that age some people really did need help, but mother-in-law preferred to run things herself, she had a little garden-plot out in the yard, and got really annoyed if anyone tried to help. When she moved the furniture she would put a rag rug under the legs and drag it across from one wall to the other, it was surprising how easily it could be moved that way. Lahtinen remembered how he had once taken part in this operation; first everything was moved into the middle, so that it looked as if the removal men had just brought it in, and then the things were dragged one by one into their new positions. At least five different arrangements had to be tried before the old lady was satisfied.
Lahtinen recalled how he had once spent a long time repairing the floor in the hall, and on another occasion he had installed a shower for her, in what had been the clothes cupboard. He was no handyman, his fingers were all thumbs, and the floor, by the time he had finished with it, was a shambles. His efforts to patch up the rotten floorboards with pieces of plywood were completely unsuccessful, and in the end they had had to call in the man who owned the house across the road, who took up the floor and repaired it properly. His mother-in-law had been none too pleased. It was much the same with the shower. He had started to line the cupboard walls with cardboard, which he then intended to cover with waterproof paint. But the cardboard refused to lie flat, sags and bulges developed everywhere, and around the new shower and wash-basin the result was truly hideous. Once again the same neighbour had to be brought in: he surveyed the scene with a smile and said, as if to himself, that it was a pity all that cardboard had been wasted. The old lady heard this, as of course she was meant to, and went on and on about all the good money she had spent on the sheets of cardboard, which her neighbour was now ripping from the walls. Lahtinen knew that the women always talked about him, there wasn't much else they had in common to talk about. He could exactly imagine his mother-in-law's gesture, fist thrust into palm, as she gloated. "There you are, didn't I know it all along, didn't I say so right at the start, when he came to ask your father? But no, you had to get married, whatever the cost." And Lahtinen knew, too, that inevitably his mother-in-law would start talking about that other young fellow, the carpentry teacher, who had kept company with Aino before he and she had met. This man had taught at the local folk-school, but later he had applied for an instructorship at the Turku County Jail. "Went to prison, he did, after you turned him down." And she never forgot to add what a hard-working fellow he had been, so good with his hands. "He made me this little bookcase," she would say, stroking its grained sides, "it was meant for you, of course, but he gave it to me, because he knew you would have it one day, and the table and the chair and that lovely sewing-box, they were all meant for you, too."
The table and the chair were kept in the bedroom, the box was on a shelf under the table. It was quite large, and had all kinds of drawers and compartments. On the lid, in poker-work, were Aino's initials and a flower design. The whole thing was lacquered in yellow, and Lahtinen thought it looked hideous. The old lady had shown him the man's photograph in an album, he had blonde hair and pale eyes, the face was long and he had a pale moustache, badly trimmed. "He was a good man," his mother-in-law had repeated. "Was he?" Lahtinen had asked, turning to Aino. "Yes," she had said.
Lahtinen sighed. Things were going from bad to worse. If I told her the paper was on the rocks, she'd go out of her mind. For two years now he had been looking for the right moment to tell her that he would soon be out of a job. The paper was dying, the work had been cut down, the staff had shrunk, part of the office premises had been let off. The editor-in chief, and some of the junior editors, had got out in time, but he, like an old stick-in-the-mud, was still there, and, he supposed, would be there till the bitter end. He looked at his wife, who, for her part, was staring out of the window. Why can't she understand, he thought, can she really be so blind that she sees nothing? Perhaps she doesn't want to see anything, doesn't ask because she doesn't want to be told. Even her back had an obstinate look about it. And now what was all this nonsense about expensive confirmation presents? For weeks Aino had been talking about Marjukka's confirmation, how many people shall we invite, what shall we give them to eat, what do we buy her for a present? "What sort of thing do we have to buy?" Lahtinen had wearily asked. "Something special," his wife had replied, "something she's never had before and never even dreamt of having." "Why?" he had asked. What on earth was all this about? Why all this fuss and ceremony just because somebody was getting confirmed? "It's only the once," Aino had gone on in a plaintive, tearful voice. At the time of this conversation they had been in bed together. Lahtinen had sighed, turned his back, and pulled the blanket over his head, but Aino had pulled it down again. "Oh, shut up," in the end he had said in a rage, and had got out of bed and stormed out of the room with his pillow under his arm. He had spent the rest of the night on the sitting-room sofa. The sun was still shining. Lahtinen looked at his wife's back. Getting a bit broad in the beam, he thought. The frayed dressing-gown was hunched up in folds across her back, the hem dangling loosely round her calves. Suddenly she turned, went into the hall, and came back carrying a grey squirrel fur coat. "I've bought it already," she said, holding it over her shoulders and displaying it, with much twisting and turning, like a salesgirl in a fashion shop. "Isn't it lovely?"
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Russian steel pipe manufacturer TMK has finalized a deal to sell its U.S. subsidiary IPSCO Tubulars to global producer Tenaris, Kommersant reports.
"The final amount paid in cash, following contractual adjustments, was US$1,067 million (including approximately $220 million in working capital)," Luxembourg-based giant Tenaris said in a statement.
Under the deal, starting from January 2, 2020 Tenaris will be the exclusive distributor of TMK's OCTG and line pipe products in the United States and Canada for six years.
The transaction on sale of IPSCO Tubulars to Tenaris for $1.2 billion was announced in March last year. The companies hoped to close the deal by the end of 2019, but the U.S. Department of Justice did not clear the acquisition until late December.
IPSCO Tubulars has pipe production facilities in the U.S. and Canada. After closing the deal, TMK's management plans to revise its dividend policy stipulating that the company pays at least 25% out of consolidated net profit according to the International Financial Reporting Standards. This decision is aimed at making it "more stable and predictable."
TMK is a major Russian manufacturer and supplier of steel pipes for oil and gas industry, which is ranked among top three global leaders in this sector. Dmitry Pumpyanskiy, Chairman of TMK, owns 65.05% of the company through TMK Steel Holding Ltd.
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September 10, 2016 (Updated: September 11, 2016)
What worked: This is at times a gut-wrenching, emotional tale of a teen who is found after being abducted. It's a story that could be taken from recent headlines or from an episode of Law & Order SVU. Only here, Kensie goes beyond the sensationalism and shows us what happens once a child is reunited with her family.
For the past four years, Charlotte has lived in a cage in an attic with the man who abducted her. When he has a stroke, his sister calls police to check his house. That's when they find Charlotte. I loved that Kensie didn't make this a 'happily ever after' tale but showed the struggles and other emotions all family members go through. I can't even imagine losing a child this way. Kensie shows how each of Charlotte's family members has changed. Some of them, like her twin, have rebelled. Others, like her father, have moved on.
There's darkness and also a ray of hope in this story. This makes this book stand out among the others out there. Charlotte's journey is shown through the good moments-finally being reunited; to the not so good one-finding out how dramatically her family has changed in her absence; and the ugly-painful glimpses into her time with the Keeper, Kuddos for not going over the top on the graphic images of the abuse. It's enough for readers to feel the terror and horror of those dark days she spent with the Keeper.
Another thing I really loved about this novel is that Charlotte goes from being a victim of horrific abuse to a survivor. The ending chapter is perfect.
Gut-wrenching tale of an abducted teen reunited with her family. Readers go on an at times dark journey with Charlotte as she confronts her demons and emerges as a survivor. Mostly though this is a story of hope and the power of love.
1. Law & Order Special Victims Unit meets YA
2. Gut-wrenching
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