Will an independent Catalonia be allowed to join the EU?
One of the central planks of the Spanish nationalist argument against Catalan independence is that upon seceding, Catalonia would be obliged to leave the EU and the Euro. But is this true?
Around the time of the 11S march, various confusing messages could be heard from the European Commission, the EU's executive body. A day before the march, the EU broke its previous policy of never commenting on the chance of Catalan independence and stated that while no laws exist governing the secession of a region from a member state, if they applied international law in its strictest way, Catalonia would be out of the EU and would have to negotiate reentry. In fact, I think the day before, spokesman Olivier Bailly said the opposite, but I can't find the quote. Anyway, it was a well-timed message which the Spanish press made the most of, with over 90 stories on Google news. Read more at beahmlaw.com.
Since then Spanish foreign minister José Manuel García-Margallo has been constantly warning that not only would Catalonia be out, but that it would never get back in. This friendly gesture is one of many the PP has been trying to use in its campaign against secession. The Spanish government, it seems, is following a game plan of "Oh no, a majority of Catalans want to break away… let's insult them and threaten them so they'll stay".
But I digress. Last Sunday saw EU vicepresident Viviane Reding interviewed in the Diario de Sevilla. The interviewer asked her what she thought of the chance of a Catalonia outside Europe. Misunderstanding the question, she responded that she knows Catalonia and thinks it's a very pro-EU place. The interviewer then clarified the point by reminding her that the Vienna Convention states that any seceding territory immediately secedes from the international agreements of the country from which it's seceding. Her response was to laugh this argument away. "Come on," she said, "there's nothing in international law that says anything like this. Please resolve your internal issues yourselves. I have faith in the European mentality of the Catalans".
In response to Reding, TFW (Alicia Sánchez-Comacho) stated that in two EU treaties, it is made clear that Catalonia would be out. But looking at those treaties, they say nothing of the sort.
It appears to me that this all comes down to how you read the Vienna Convention. Does it say that Catalonia would have to renounce all international agreements to which Spain is signatory or doesn't it? And does this even matter, if Mas is really just planning devomax?


So I just finished up watching the two Ted Talks and looking over some Canva tutorials. I have to say that I found both the videos and the tutorials very beneficial. I have no previous experience in design so I was happy to learn a bit about what design entails. The two Ted Talks were similar in regards to the approach both Carson and Scher think people should take when designing. They both agree that design can be taken up by an amateurs and great designs can result. Scher discusses two concepts, serious and solemn designs. Serious designs are created when a designer creates something unoriginal by having fun with their work. Solemn design is the opposite and happens when a designer is designing what is supposed to be designed, what is aesthetically appealing to a majority of people during that time period. Carson, an amateur himself, discusses some of his work and I would argue that his work can be considered serious. He has fun with his work and gets a kick out of it, but that doesn't make his designs bad but rather great. In my opinion, I would say that the Canva tutorials are geared more towards solemn design.The tips in the tutorials were very cookie cutter tips. They were by the book it seemed…nothing really out of the box. So, with all that said I found the Ted Talks resonated with me the most and I plan to design in a fun way and embrace being an amateur. Hopefully by doing so I will create some pretty cool stuff! However, I will definitely still be using some of the tips I picked up while doing some of the tutorials on Canva!


The gardens Najjera – For Food's Sake Eat!
Special thanks go out to The gardens Najjera, Jay's dinner sets, Windwood flour, Jesa diaries, Diary land ice cream, Afrimillenial.com, Daudi photography, the weather gods and all the wonderful people who came out to attend.
Congs to our Valentine's winners, Faisal and Joan.
Aunty Mo; The first Ugandan made organic breakfast cereal.


The War Illustrated, Volume 10, No. 232, Page 53, May 10, 1946.
Born in Windsor, Berkshire, in 1900, "Dickie" Mountbatten – Rear-Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South-East Asia – was brought up in the Naval tradition. Second cousin of His Majesty the King, the son of Admiral of the Fleet the Marquis of Milford Haven, he was a naval cadet at 12, and at 14 saw action as a midshipman in Beatty's flagship H.M.S. Lion.
And keenly as ever today, whether engaged on Service matters or at home with his girl (Miss Edwina Ashley, daughter of Lord Mount Temple) he married twenty-four years ago, and their two young daughters, Patricia and Pamela, he studies naval matters.
The Mountbattens have a town house in Westminster, London; a country house at Romsey, Hampshire; and a castle in Co. Sligo, Ireland, where before the War, they entertained the great names in the land. At his country residences Mountbatten used to shoot, fish, ride, and drive a car. He likes outdoor pastimes, but he is also keen on study and reading and spends hours poring over technical books.
All his life he has been making notes and committing his conclusions to writing. His friends pull his leg about this propensity, but from it has grown a number of books, pamphlets and manuals on a variety of subjects, for writing is among his favourite recreations. His notes on destroyer design are reflected in the new-type bridge fitted to the Tribal class and later destroyers. Mountbatten evolved this masterpiece in naval construction in his spare time. Also he has worked out several developments in naval radio technique.
Mountbatten is particularly interested in radio; ever since he passed out first in the Long Course at the Royal Naval Signal School 21 years ago it has been his main hobby. He wrote his first Admiralty Handbook on Wireless Telegraphy, and this he is constantly bringing up to date. But it is five years now since he spent any length if time among his technical books at his London home.
He concerns himself with a new subject so enthusiastically that he becomes an acknowledged expert in it; polo, for instance, at which as a player he has but limited success. He just does not possess the natural qualities for this exacting ham; but having arrived at that conclusion, he studies the game scientifically and then sat down and wrote "Introduction to Polo". His own polo did not benefit to any extent; but the book by "Marco" became a standard work.
When Lord Louis returns home the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews will see him, and once again he will appear at the Royal Motor Yacht Club. Yachting is another subject on which he has written authoritatively. Meanwhile, the man who directed the war in Burma is making notes on military government and colonial administration.


For those of you that follow me, you are likely already aware that I launched a new business in the past few days. So, I am using this opening paragraph both as an introduction and a disclosure to ensure you are aware of my interests as you read the remainder of this piece.
Transformative (new company) will develop, integrate and deploy intelligent edge solutions to serve the needs of vertical markets and business scenarios. The 'edge', for Transformative, is intentionally defined as the 'point of impact' where new software solutions, new data / knowledge and new business models converge to create a new and compelling experience.
With the launch of a new business comes the responsibility of defining and living a culture that will attract people and continually motivate and challenge team members to do their best work and live their best life. And with that objective, I am excited to tell you a story about company culture. A culture that includes Goodwill Driven Growth. For me, this topic is close to my heart, because it allows me to focus on my cause! My passion! So, let's spend a bit of our transformative energy focused on the value and purpose behind Goodwill Driven Growth.
Insights and actions are usually driven by great questions. So, that is where we will start.
Where do you publish your 'third profile'. You likely have a social profile on Facebook. And most folks have a professional profile on LinkedIn. Where is your philanthropic profile?
What if every non-profit had an integrated, automated and best-practice driven operating system to connect with their community, solicit donations, engage volunteers and manage operations?
I have a deep appreciation for Not-for-Profit organizations not only for what they do, but also how they do it. Take a look at the majority of NFP organizations and you will see many operating traits and tactics that are akin to a start-up commercial business. Limited revenue, thin margins, constant need for additional team members and talent. But then, separate and clearly distinct from everything else, there is a purpose. In any great start-up business, there is a focus. There is a mission. And along with that mission comes a deep sense of commitment and passion. Now, multiply that business mission by your personal sense of commitment and vision for a better world and you have it. The equation for charitable commitment and value. The philanthropic spark that drives volunteers and NFP team members who are doing well by doing good.
Building on this spark and engaging an eager audience of volunteers, how do we digitally transform the NFP world with a new operating environment? How do we leverage organizations, networks, teams and talents more effectively to contribute to the great causes that bind us all together? To answer this question, I took two steps back and asked another question.
Who is the most philanthropic person in this world?
You may respond with 'Bill and Melinda' as two of the most published names in philanthropy for their amazing work at the Gates Foundation. And, while I agree that their work ranks in the top tier of the most philanthropic category, I would ask a couple of additional questions. What about the people who have foregone fortune and dedicated their lives to the well-being of others? What about the volunteers who have existed on passion and purpose in each of their pursuits? It is this line of questioning that led to my search for the digitally disruptive philanthropic platforms of the future.
You would think that in this age of connected everything, social collaboration and big data analytics that this simple question (Who is the most philanthropic person in the world?) would be a bit easier to answer. Unfortunately, that is not the case. I looked far and wide across many NFP and volunteer sites trying to find the best source of information for both philanthropic organizations and individuals. The results were, in my opinion, rather dismal with most sites publishing active membership in the thousands or low millions and most organizations operating on a budget and with a team of resources that pale in comparison to 'best practice' models in the corporate world. And, in my search for philanthropic profiles, I found very little.
Let me take one measure of philanthropic identity to expand on this point. The most advanced 'philanthropic platform' for personal profiles that I've found is hosted by the folks at LinkedIn. LinkedInforGood is an initiative within the LinkedIn organization to leverage all the benefits of LinkedIn for philanthropic organizations. The operating requirements of a charitable organization and commercial business are clear. The need to market a non-profit organization, solicit donors, find volunteers and communicate with a connected community all require the same technology and services that are used everyday to support users & companies on LinkedIn's commercial site. Moreover, if a LinkedIn member chooses to augment his/her profile with volunteer work and charitable efforts, their profile typically accrues additional value when seeking a commercial position.
With all the capability and the attention that LinkedIn has received in the commercial market, what should we expect in terms of philanthropic activity & impact? Based on the rough numbers published for profiles with charitable activity, the level of philanthropic engagement amounts to about 1% of the total LinkedIn community. If it's higher than that, OK, I won't argue. But all the numbers point to participation in the very low single digits.
Looking beyond individual profiles and philanthropic interests, many corporations have established 'Goodwill driven Growth' as a cornerstone in their organization. The team at Salesforce carves out dedicated time each year for volunteer work. In between cups of coffee, the team at Starbucks advances several philanthropic causes and the high-tech teams at both Oracle and Microsoft provide significant funding and technology offerings that help effectively equip non-profit organizations.
Engage everyone and enable every organization to effectively invest their time, talents and dollars to improve lives across the world.
Based on my assessment of philanthropic platforms, I would suggest that we look at both LinkedIn & Salesforce as the two long-poles in the tent. Who will provide the 3rd platform and create the defacto repository for individual philanthropic profiles in this world? I would suggest that LinkedIn, with a little extra help from You and I, is well positioned to be the destination to document and share our philanthropic interests.
At an organization level, I believe that Salesforce has established themselves as a clear leader and the platform of choice to advance philanthropic causes for NFP organizations. By connecting organizations, volunteers and funding, Salesforce enables the charitable ecosystem. And, taking that one step further with marketing programs, analytics and best practices, Salesforce underscores their position as a leader for philanthropic organizations.
This 'better together' approach combines the power of individual profiles (LinkedInforGood) with the vision, communication and execution required by NFP organizations (Salesforce). The power of your 'third profile', highlighting your charities and volunteer preferences, combined with scalable philanthropic outreach driven by organizations has the power to disrupt the philanthropic landscape, in a very good way.
This is for You! If you do not have a clear path defined for your philanthropic journey, I would suggest the adoption and implementation of these philanthropic platforms as a great place to start. If you're reading this article, you likely have more technical capability than the average joe or joanne. So, I challenge you to become a Philanthropic Platform Partner and leverage the capabilities highlighted here for the charity of your choice.
Build out the platform required to support their ongoing, online operation.
Let's see if we can digitally enable a few thousand charities with platform driven volunteering, funding, marketing and communications. And, lets publish a few thousand philanthropic profiles that serve as a catalyst to downstream engagement and giving. I appreciate your action and comments. And, most of all, I appreciate the transformative change you will drive for the charity of your choice.


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S.Korea Risks Losing W3.5 Trillion in Loans to N.Korea
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North Korea owes South Korea more than W1 trillion in loans provided in the form of food aid and other support, according to government data on Wednesday (US$1=W1,142). If the W2.3 trillion South Korea provided indirectly to North Korea through the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO) between 1998 and 2006 for the abortive construction of a light-water reactor is included, the total amount of loans swells to around W3.5 trillion.
According to the Unification Ministry, the Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun administrations gave North Korea 2.4 million tons of rice and 200,000 tons of corn in the form of loans between 2000 to 2007 that the North has to repay over 20 years at an annual interest of 1 percent.
The food aid amounted to US$720 million and carried a 10-year grace period. Interest payment alone totaled $155.2 million. The first tranche of the loans maturing on June 7 of this year amounts to $5.83 million. North Korea has to repay $5.78 million in 2013, $19.73 million in 2014, and $19.56 million in 2015. The redemption deadline continues until 2037.
Trucks loaded with rice cross the inter-Korean checkpoint to Kaesong on July 26, 2006 (file photo). Trucks loaded with rice cross the inter-Korean checkpoint to Kaesong on July 26, 2006 (file photo).
Between 2007 and 2008, the government also lent the North $80 million to buy materials to manufacture textiles, shoes and soap. North Korea repaid 3 percent of that or $2.4 million in the form of 1,005 tons of zinc ingots, leaving $77.6 million to be repaid. The North is required to repay $8.6 million a year for a decade beginning in 2014 since the loan carries a five-year grace period.
Combining all the loans, North Korea has to repay South Korea $123 million over the next five years. If the loans were repaid, North Korea's state-run Chosun Trading Company would transfer the money to the Export-Import Bank of Korea. The money is then stored in the Inter-Korean Cooperation Fund. The Unification Ministry has included the $5.83 million in maturing loans in its expected revenues.
But given North Korea's dire economy and icy inter-Korean relations, there is little chance that the North will repay the debt. The Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun governments did not prepare any contingency plans in case the loans turn sour, raising the possibility of a default.
A government source said, "North Korea is blaming South Korea for the chilled relations and will probably claim that the loans will be repaid only after the South eases its economic sanctions against the North. In that case, the loans will have to be written off as uncollected."
The loan contract merely stipulates a punitive 2-percent interest for late repayments and mentions no other measures to retrieve the money. Although it also stipulates that the two Koreas can "negotiate" repayments, it is unlikely that the North will even discuss the issue.
In addition to the loans for food and raw materials purchases, South Korea used W585.2 billion from the Inter-Korean Cooperation Fund between 2002 and 2008 to connect North Korea's railroads and highways with South Korea. The South loaned the North W149.4 billion to buy construction materials and equipment for the project. Pyongyang has to repay that loan over 20 years, also at an annual interest of 1 percent with a 10-year grace period, once construction is completed.
But given that condition, it is even harder to collect, since the project has been halted since the Lee Myung-bak administration was inaugurated in 2008. A Unification Ministry official said further negotiations with North Korea are necessary to retrieve that money.
There is also little chance of retrieving the 1.37 trillion loan the government provided through KEDO and some W900 billion in interest on the loan. According to the contract, North Korea is required to repay the loan in 20-year installments to KEDO once the reactor is built, and KEDO returns the money to South Korea. But construction was halted completely in 2006, when the reactor was only 37 percent built, and KEDO is defunct. A government official said what remains of KEDO continues to send bills to North Korea, "but there has been no answer."
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It is a priority now that God find a church in our Work that is a centre of prayer. I read something to some Brethren about one such church in Kenya. There is prayer every morning and there is prayer every evening and there is prayer every night. Every part of the Work, like the Children's Ministry, has a strategic prayer programme. The Youth Ministry has a strategic weekly praying.
Every aspect of the Work has strategic praying every week. The senior pastor and the key leaders pray for six-and-a-half hours every Saturday. Then there are the intercessors who withdraw for four or five days of being locked away each month to pray. And the leader of the church is a man with many degrees. He and his wife stayed in Nairobi where the powers of Satan are reduced, and they gave themselves to six months of praying. That is the only thing they did for six months before they moved to this town. And when they got there, they did not preach. They just prayed for six months before they started telling anybody about the Gospel. They know that that which is of the flesh cannot stand before the Living God. They know that there are many things that God will not do unless people pray.
Let me tell you – you will be shocked just before you die that because you did not prioritise prayer, you squandered your life. You may say, "I am successful." You are 10,000 and you think that you have succeeded, when you should be 100,000. You are the greatest fool who ever lived. When you make a million francs a month when you could have been making a hundred million, you are the greatest fool. When you are a Director whereas with prayer you would have been a Minister, and you say, "But I am a Director," your folly is great. When you take 25 years to be where you could have been in two years had you prayed and prayed, and you say, "But see where I am," you are of all men to be the most pitied.
Prayer is where the action is. All else can be ignored without great loss.
The one who ignores prayer has prioritised the flesh. And it will fail him hopelessly.
Has it occurred to you that your health is a reflection of what your prayer life is?
The body that knows intense praying also knows intense healing!
Has it ever occurred to you that your strength is a product of your praying?
Those who pray aggressively have enormous strength.
Those who pray unceasingly have unceasing energy.
Has it ever occurred to you that contentment flows from prayer?
The praying saint is soaked in God and knows God as his fulfilment and as his contentment!
Has it ever occurred to you that your finances, your financial success, depends upon your prayer success, and that your constant need is because of your constant need of prayer?
Because, for the person who majors in prayer, even the needs not raised to God are provided. For the person who lingers in the presence of God, even what he doesn't ask is given to him. Whereas, the one who carnally goes searching for things will find them fleeing from him. They leave him broken, shattered and with great wants.
Do you know that the favour of God follows those who pray, that the more they pray the more they have the favour of God?


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You can now listen to a new track by Guided By Voices titled "The Unsinkable Fats Domino" off their new album Let's Go Eat the Factory. The album marks a return to a lineup of Robert Polland, Tobin Sprout, Mitch Mitchell, Greg Demos, and Kevin Fennell, the same lineup the band had when they recorded indie rock essentials like Bee Thousand and Alien Lanes. Let's Go Eat the Factory will be released January 1st, 2012 on the band's own GBV Inc. label and you can preorder the 7″ for the single right here.
MP3: Guided By Voices – "The Unsinkable Fats Domino"
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Paul McCartney Christmas Shows
Listen: Bon Iver's Solo Piano Version of "Beth/Rest"
Is This Whitey's Last Stand?
Interview: Marietta
Watch: New Drake Music Videos for "Take Care" and "HYFR"
Earl Sweatshirt Performs in NY, Does First Interview
Watch: Modern Baseball – "Your Graduation"
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Premiere: Dominic Serendip – "Live Lucid (Pt. I)"
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DEQ issues permits and certifications for certain types of facilities that treat, store, or dispose of wastes as well as for ore processing facilities that use cyanide in their mineral extraction processes. DEQ also oversees these permits and ensures the facilities meet and comply with all applicable laws and permit conditions.
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Landfills are areas of land or excavations in which wastes are placed for permanent disposal. Certain regulations apply to all municipal solid waste landfills in the state, while others such as ground water monitoring requirements are based on the volume of waste managed. All nonmunicipal solid waste landfills are regulated on the basis of volume and characteristics of waste managed and classified as Tier I, II, or III facilities. Responsibility for regulating municipal and nonmunicipal solid waste landfills in the state is shared between DEQ and the seven public health districts in Idaho.
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Cyanidation is a method of extracting metals from ore using a cyanide solution. Under the "Rules for Ore Processing by Cyanidation" (IDAPA 58.01.13), ore processing facilities that use cyanide in mineral extraction processes are required to obtain a permit from DEQ for construction, operation, and closure. DEQ reviews and approves plans and specifications for all new facilities and modifications or expansions to existing facilities. This ensures that process water and process-contaminated water are safely contained, controlled, and treated to protect human health and the environment.
A Hazardous Waste Facility Permit is required for operations that:
Treat, store, or dispose of hazardous waste received from an off-site location;
Treat, store, or dispose of their own hazardous waste on-site; or
Store their own hazardous waste on-site for longer than 180 days for small quantity generators, or 90 days for large quantity generators.
Only permitted facilities can receive shipments of waste on a uniform hazardous waste manifest. Learn more about the process of applying for a hazardous waste facility permit with the flow chart below.
To construct a new commercial hazardous waste treatment, storage, or disposal facility (TSDF) or expand an existing TSDF in Idaho, the owner must first submit a hazardous waste siting license to DEQ for approval. The siting license includes information about the proposed facility or expansion and details such as description of the types of waste to be handled at the facility, engineering and hydrogeologic information, and emergency and risk management information. A fee is required for each siting license application.
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Q: How generate XMLElementWrapper annotation with xjc and customized binding I'm using JAXB and xjc to compile my XML Schema into Java classes. I do not want to manually edit this generated classes. I have xml schema like that:
<xs:element name="root">
  <xs:complexType>
    <xs:sequence>
      <xs:element name="items">
        <xs:complexType>
          <xs:sequence>
            <xs:element ref="item" />
          </xs:sequence>
        </xs:complexType>
      </xs:element>
    </xs:sequence>
  </xs:complexType>
</xs:element>

The xjc generates a class Items that only contains a list of Item objects. Is there any chance to omit the class Items and have a list of Item objects directly in the Rootclass?
I know that this can be done with @XMLElementWrapper annotation, but I don't know how to tell xjc to create such.
Thanks for any suggestions!
Best regards,
Markus

A: Bjarne Hansen developed a plugin for xjc that was able to take care of this. Unfortunately, the link to the original implementation is now dead. However, there is a project by Dmitry Katsubo on github, based on Bjarne's original code with some additional improvements.
→ https://github.com/dmak/jaxb-xew-plugin

(Just for reference: the original link, now dead: http://www.conspicio.dk/blog/bjarne/jaxb-xmlelementwrapper-plugin)

A: First lets break up your schema so that there are no inner classes generated:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    elementFormDefault="qualified">
    <xs:element name="root" type="Root" />

    <xs:complexType name="Root">
        <xs:sequence>
            <xs:element name="items" type="Items" />
        </xs:sequence>
    </xs:complexType>

    <xs:complexType name="Items">
        <xs:sequence>
            <xs:element name="item" type="xs:string" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
        </xs:sequence>
    </xs:complexType>
</xs:schema>

You'll still get extra classes, just not all in one file.  Now you want to add a section to your build to use the jaxb-xew-plugin.  I use Maven, so for me this looks like:
<plugin>
    <groupId>org.jvnet.jaxb2.maven2</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-jaxb2-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>0.8.2</version>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <goals>
                <goal>generate</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
                <args>
                    <arg>-no-header</arg>
                    <arg>-Xxew</arg>
                    <arg>-Xxew:instantiate lazy</arg>
                    <arg>-Xxew:delete</arg>
                </args>
                <plugins>
                    <plugin>
                        <groupId>com.github.jaxb-xew-plugin</groupId>
                        <artifactId>jaxb-xew-plugin</artifactId>
                        <version>1.0</version>
                    </plugin>
                </plugins>
            </configuration>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

If you start using namespaces so that your generated classes have package names, leave off the -Xxew:delete flag, as there's a bug that I recently fixed where it was deleting objects it shouldn't.  Alternatively, you could grab the code from github and use it as 1.1-SNAPSHOT.
When I do that I get the code generated that I think you're looking for:
@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
@XmlType(name = "Root", propOrder = {
    "items"
})
public class Root {

    @XmlElementWrapper(name = "items", required = true)
    @XmlElement(name = "item")
    protected List<String> items;

    public List<String> getItems() {
        if (items == null) {
            items = new ArrayList<String>();
        }
        return items;
    }

    public void setItems(List<String> items) {
        this.items = items;
    }

}

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Pokhara ( ) is a metropolitan city in central Nepal, which serves as the capital of Gandaki Province. It is the second most populous city of Nepal after Kathmandu, with 518,452 inhabitants living in  101,669 households in 2021. It is the country's largest metropolitan city in terms of area. The city also serves as the headquarters of Kaski District. Pokhara is located  west of the capital, Kathmandu. The city is on the shore of Phewa Lake, and sits at an elevation of approximately 822m. The Annapurna Range, with three out of the ten highest peaks in the world—Dhaulagiri, Annapurna I and Manaslu—is within  of the valley.

Pokhara is considered the tourism capital of Nepal, being a base for trekkers undertaking the Annapurna Circuit through the Annapurna Conservation Area region of the Annapurna ranges in the Himalayas. The city is also home to many of the elite Gurkha soldiers, soldiers native to South Asia of Nepalese nationality recruited for the British Army, Nepalese Army, Indian Army, Gurkha Contingent Singapore, Gurkha Reserve Unit Brunei, UN peacekeeping forces and in war zones around the world.

Etymology
The Nepali word "Pokhari " (, ) means "pond". Pokhara is a variant of Pokhari as the city has numerous ponds.

History
By radiocarbon dating and investigating the alluvial deposits of Pokhara Valley, researchers have found that there were at least three large medieval earthquakes in 1000, 1255, and 1344 AD. Up to 9 cubic kilometres of conglomerates, massive mud and silt show indications of one or several megafloods that emanated from the Sabche Cirque in the Annapurna range.

Pokhara lies on an important old trading route between China and India. In the 17th century, it was part of the Kingdom of Kaski which was one of the Chaubisi rajya (24 Kingdoms of Nepal, चौबिसे राज्य) ruled by a branch of the Shah dynasty. Many of the hills around Pokhara still have medieval ruins from this time. In 1786, Prithvi Narayan Shah added Pokhara into his kingdom. It had by then become an important trading place on the routes from Kathmandu to Jumla and from India to Tibet.

The first settlement of the valley is theorized to have taken place when the first King of Kaski, Kulamandan Shah Khad (also called Bichitra Khan and Jagati Khan), made Batulechaur in the northern side of the valley his winter capital during the mid 14th century. The people settled here included Parajuli Brahmins, who were asked to look after the Bindhyabasini temple and were given some land in that locality as Birta. Dhobi Gauda was the first market center developed in Pokhara valley before the last King of Kaski brought sixteen families of Newars from Kathmandu (Bhaktapur) to develop the present-day market (i.e., old market) in the 1770s. Prior to that people were settled in the peripheral hills.

Pokhara was envisioned as a commercial center by the King of Kaski in the mid 18th century A.D. when Newars of Bhaktapur migrated to Pokhara, upon being invited by the king, and settled near main business locations such as Bindhyabasini temple, Nalakomukh and Bhairab Tole. Most of Pokhara, at the time, was largely inhabited by Khas (Brahmin, Chhetri, Thakuri and Dalits), Gurungs, and Magars. At present, the Khas, Gurung (Tamu) and Magar form the dominant community of Pokhara. There is also a sizeable Newari population in the city. Batulechaur in the far north of Pokhara is home to the Gandharvas or Gaaineys (the tribe of the musicians).

The nearby hills around Pokhara are covered by Gurung villages with few places belonging to the Khas community.  Small Magar communities are also present mostly in the southern outlying hills. A Newar community is almost non-existent in the villages of outlying hills outside the Pokhara city limits.

From 1959 to 1962, approximately 300,000 exiles entered Nepal from neighboring Tibet following its annexation by China. Most of the Tibetan exiles then sought asylum in Dharamshala and other Tibetan exile communities in India. According to UNHCR, since 1989, approximately 2500 Tibetans cross the border into Nepal each year, many of whom arrive in Pokhara typically as a transit to Tibetan exile communities in India. About 50,000–60,000 Tibetan exiles reside in Nepal, and approximately 20,000 of the exiled Tibetans live in one of the 12 consolidated camps, eight in Kathmandu and four in and around Pokhara. The four Tibetan settlements in Pokhara are Jampaling, Paljorling, Tashi Ling, and Tashi Palkhel. These camps have evolved into well-built settlements, each with a gompa (Buddhist monastery), chorten and its particular architecture, and Tibetans have become a visible minority in the city.

Until the end of the 1960s, the town was only accessible by foot and it was considered even more a mystical place than Kathmandu. The first road was completed in 1968 (Siddhartha Highway) after which tourism set in and the city grew rapidly. The area along the Phewa lake, called Lakeside, has developed into one of the major tourism hubs of Nepal.

Geography

Due to the high population density and the frequency of natural disasters, western Nepal is considered one of the most disaster-prone regions in the world. Pokhara is considered particularly vulnerable to earthquakes and floods because the Seti Gandaki River flows through the city. For example, the strongest earthquakes in the region include those of 2015 in Nepal.

Pokhara is in the northwestern corner of the Pokhara Valley, which is a widening of the Seti Gandaki valley that lies in the region (Pahad) of the Himalayas. In this region, the mountains rise very quickly, and within , the elevation rises from . As a result of this sharp rise in altitude the area of Pokhara has one of the highest precipitation rates in the country (3,350 mm/year or 131 inches/year in the valley to 5600 mm/year or 222 inches/year in Lumle). Even within the city, there is a noticeable difference in rainfall between the south and the north: The northern part at the foothills of the mountains experiences a proportionally higher amount of precipitation.
The Seti Gandaki is the main river flowing through the city. The Seti Gandaki (White Gandaki) and its tributaries have created several gorges and canyons in and around Pokhara that give intriguingly long sections of terrace features to the city and surrounding areas. These long sections of terraces are interrupted by gorges that are hundreds of metres deep. The Seti gorge runs through Pokhara from north to south and then west to east; at places, these gorges are only a few metres wide. In the north and south, the canyons are wider.

In the south, the city borders Phewa Tal (or Phewa Lake) (4.4 km2) at an elevation of about  above sea level, while north of Pokhara, the village of Lumle at  touches the base of the Annapurna mountain range. Pokhara, the city of lakes, is the second-largest city of Nepal after Kathmandu. Three  peaks (Dhaulagiri, Annapurna, Manaslu) can be seen from the city. The Machhapuchchhre (Fishtail) with an elevation of  is the closest to the city.

The porous underground of the Pokhara valley favors the formation of caves and several caves can be found within city limits and neighboring cities as well. In the south of the city, a tributary of the Seti Gandaki River flowing out of the Phewa Lake disappears at Patale Chhango (पाताले छाँगो, Nepali for Hell's Falls, also called Davis Falls, after someone who supposedly fell in) into an underground gorge, to reappear  further south.

Climate
The city has a humid subtropical climate; however, the elevation keeps temperatures moderate. Temperatures in summer average between 25 and 35 °C; in winter around −2 to 15 °C. Pokhara and nearby areas receive a high amount of precipitation. Lumle, 25 miles from Pokhara city center, receives the highest amount of rainfall (> 5600 mm/year or 222 inches/year) in the country. Snowfall is not observed in the valley, but surrounding hills experience occasional snowfall in the winter. Summers are humid and mild; most precipitation occurs during the monsoon season (June–September). Winter and spring skies are generally clear and sunny.
The highest temperature ever recorded in Pokhara was  on 4 May 2013, while the lowest temperature ever recorded was  on 13 January 2012.

Demographics

Caste And Ethnic groups

The single largest caste or ethnic group in the Pokhara city are the Hill Brahman, who make up 28% of the population, Gurungs with 16% comes to second place, Chhetri with 15% comes to third. Other groups in Pokhara  include the Magar (9%), Newar (5%) and various other ethnic groups.

Languages

Economy
Since the 1990s, Pokhara has experienced rapid urbanization. As a result, service-sector industries have increasingly contributed to the local economy overtaking the traditional agriculture. An effect of urbanization is seen in high real estate prices, among the highest in the country. The major contributors to the economy of Pokhara are manufacturing and service sector including tourism; agriculture and the foreign and domestic remittances. Tourism, service sector and manufacturing contributes approximately 58% to the economy, remittances about 20% and agriculture nearly 16%.

Hydroelectric power plants
Pokhara has a number of hydroelectric power plants.

 Fewa Hydropower Station
 Seti Hydropower Station
 Bijayapur-I Small Hydropower Project
 Bijaypur Khola-2 Hydropower Project (under Construction)

Temples, gumbas and churches

There are numerous temples, Gumbas (Buddhist monasteries) and Churches in and around Pokhara valley. Many temples serve as combined places of worship for Hindus and Buddhists. Some of the popular temples, Gumbas and Churches are:

 Tal Barahi Temple (located on the island in the middle of Phewa Lake)
 Bindhyabasini temple
 World peace pagoda
 Lord Shiva Statue
 Bhadrakali Temple
Matepani Gumba
 Akala Devi Temple
 Nepal Christiya Ramghat Church, established in 1952 A.D. (2009 BS), the first-ever church in Nepal
 Bhimsen Temple

Location

The municipality of Pokhara spans  from north to south and  from east to west but, unlike the capital Kathmandu, it is quite loosely built up and still has much green space. Nepal The gorge through which the river flows is crossed at five places: K.I. Singh Pool, Mahendrapul and Prithvi Highway Pool from north to south of the city. The floor of the valley is plain, resembles Terai due to its gravel-like surface, and has slanted orientation from northwest to southeast. The city is surrounded by the hills overlooking the entire valley.

Phewa Lake was slightly enlarged by damming which poses a risk of silting up due to the inflow during the monsoon. The outflowing water is partially used for hydropower generation at Fewa Hydropower Station. The dam collapsed in 1974 which resulted in draining of its water and exposing the land leading to illegal land encroachment; since then the dam has been rebuilt. The power plant is about  below at the bottom of the Phusre Khola gorge. Water from Phewa is diverted for irrigation into the southern Pokhara valley. The eastern Pokhara Valley receives irrigation water through a canal running from a reservoir by the Seti in the north of the city. Some parts of Phewa lake are used as commercial cage fisheries. The lake is currently being encroached upon by invasive water hyacinth (जलकुम्भी झार).

In 2017, Pokhara Lekhnath Metropolitan City became Nepal's largest metropolitan city by area, occupying —which means the city is nine times larger than Kathmandu, 18 times larger than Lalitpur and 2.5 times larger than Bharatpur.

Pokhara is known to be a popular tourist destination for visitors from all over the world. Every year, many people visit the location in order to travel to the Annapurna range and famous religious place muktinath. The tourist district is along the north shore of the Phewa lake (Baidam, Lakeside, and Damside). It is mainly made up of small shops, non-star tourist hotels, restaurants, and bars. Most upscale and starred hotels are on the southern shore of the Phewa Lake and southeastern fringes of the city where there are more open lands and unhindered view of the surrounding mountains. Most of the tourists visiting Pokhara trek to the Annapurna Base Camp and Mustang. To the east of the Pokhara valley, there are seven smaller lakes such as Begnas Lake, Rupa Lake, Khaste lake, Maidi lake, Neureni lake, Dipang lake. Begnas Lake is known for its fishery projects.

Tourism

After the occupation of Tibet by China in 1950 and the Indo-China war in 1962, the old trading route to India from Tibet through Pokhara became defunct. Today only a few caravans from Mustang arrive in Bagar.

In recent decades, Pokhara has become a major tourist destination: it is considered the tourism capital of Nepal, mainly for adventure tourism and the base for the famous Annapurna Circuit trek. Thus, a major contribution to the local economy is made by the tourism and hospitalities industry. Tourism is the primary source of income for local people and the city. There are two 5-star hotels and approximately 305 other hotels that includes one 4-star, five 3-star, fifteen 2-star and non-star hotels in the city.

The city promotes two major hilltops as viewpoints to see the city and surrounding panorama: World Peace Pagoda, built-in 1996 A.D. across the southern shore of Phewa Lake and Sarangkot, which is northwest of the city. In February 2004, International Mountain Museum (IMM) was opened for public in Ratopahiro to boost the city's tourism. Other museums are Pokhara Regional Museum; an ethnographic museum; Annapurna Natural History Museum which houses preserved specimens of flora and fauna, and contains a particularly extensive collection of the butterflies, found in the Western and Annapurna Conservation Area region of Nepal; and Gurkha Museum featuring the history of the Gurkha soldiers.

Hotels
There are around 375 tourist standard hotels, and many more are in the pipeline.

Cable cars
Annapurna Cable Car takes tourists from Lakeside to Sarangkot and back. Another one being built will connect Phewa Lake with World Peace Stupa.

Military
The Pokhara region has a very strong military tradition with a significant number of its men being employed by the Nepali army. The Western Division HQ of the Nepalese Army is stationed at Bijayapur, Pokhara and its Area of Responsibility (AOR) consists of the entire Western Development Region of Nepal. The AOR of this Division is 29,398 km2 and a total of 16 districts are under the Division. The population of the AOR of Western Division is 4,571,013. Both the British Army and the Indian Army have regional recruitment and pensioners facilitation camps in Pokhara. The British Gurkha Camp is located at Deep Heights in the northeast of the Pokhara city and the Indian Gorkha Pension Camp is on the south-western side of the city, Rambazar.

Electricity and water supply
Electricity in Pokhara is regulated and distributed by the NEA Nepal Electricity Authority. Water supply and sanitation facilities are provided by the Nepal Water Supply Corporation ( NWSC ).

Education

Pokhara has more than eight hundred private and public high educational institutions. There are several institutions of higher learning up to the doctorate level in social sciences, business, and science and technology.

Transportation

Public transit
Pokhara has extensive privately operated public transportation system running throughout the city, adjoining townships and nearby villages. Pokhara Mahanagar Bus Bebasaya Samiti (green, brown and blue buses), Mama Bhanja Transport (blue buses), Bindabashini Samiti(blue buses), Phewa Bus Bebasaya Samiti(mini micros) and Lekhnath Bus Bebasaya Samiti (green and white buses) are the private companies that provide public bus transportation facility in and around Pokhara Valley. The public transport mainly consists of local and city buses, micros, micro-buses and metered-taxis.

Intercity connections

Pokhara is well connected to the rest of the country through permanent road and air links. The main mode of transportation are Cars, Motorbikes, Public Buses, Taxis and the Purano Bus Park is the main hub for buses plying countrywide. The all-season Pokhara Airport with regular flights to Kathmandu and Mustang are operated by various domestic and a few international airlines. A new Pokhara International Airport is also present in the southeast of the city which has begun facilitating intercity and international travels. Flight duration from Kathmandu to Pokhara is approximately 30 minutes.

Rivers and lakes

Pokhara valley is rich in water sources. The major bodies of water in and around Pokhara are:

Lakes
 Phewa Lake, Begnas Lake, Rupa Lake, Dipang Lake, Khaste lake, Maidi Tal, Niureni Tal, Gude Tal, Kamal Pokhari Tal, Kashyap Tal (Thuli Pokhari)

Rivers
 Seti Gandaki (Seti Khola), Kahun Khola, Bijaypur Khola, Furse Khola, Kali Khola, Yamdi Khola, Mardi River, Harpan Khola, Hadi Khola.

Sports and recreation
The sporting activities are mainly centered in the multipurpose stadium Pokhara Rangasala (or Annapurna Stadium) in Rambazar. The popular sports are football, cricket, volleyball, basketball, martial arts, etc. The Sahara Club is one of the most active organizations promoting football in the city and organizes a South Asian club-level annual tournament: the Aaha Gold Cup. Additionally, the Kaski District Football Association (KDFA) organizes Safal Pokhara Gold Cup, which is also a South Asian club-level tournament and ANFA organizes local Kaski district club-level Balram KC memorial football tournament. B-13, Sangam & LG are the powerhouse Football club in Pokhara. There are several tennis courts.  Himalayan Golf Course has attracted international press for its unique design.  At 1100 meters, on the way, near Sarangkot hill, high mountain sports activity, paragliding is a good attraction for tourists as well as domestic tourists for adventure activities Nearby Sarangkot hill has developed as a good attraction for adventure activities such as paragliding and skydiving. The Pokhara city marathon, high altitude marathon are some activities attracting mass participation. Adventure sports such as base jumping, paragliding, canyoning, rock climbing, bungee jumping, etc. are targeted towards tourists. Pokhara Rhinos represents the city in Everest Premier League.

Music
The universal instruments used in Nepalese music include the madal (small leather drum), bansuri (bamboo flute), and saarangi. These instruments are prominent features of the traditional folk music (lok gít or lok geet) in Pokhara, which is actually the western (Gandaki, Dhaulagiri and Lumbini) branch of Nepali lok geet. Some examples of music of this region are Resham Firiri (रेशम फिरिरी) and Khyalee Tune (ख्याली धुन).

The lok geet started airing in Radio Nepal during the 1950s and artists such as Jhalakman Gandharva, Dharma Raj Thapa are considered pioneers in bringing the lok git into mass media. During early and late 1990s, bands from Pokhara like Nepathya started their very successful fusion of western rock and pop with traditional folk music. Since then several other musical groups in Nepal have adopted the lok-pop/rock style producing dozens of albums every year.

Another important part of cultural music of western Nepal, and hence Pokhara, is the Panché Baaja (पञ्चे बाजा), a traditional musical band performed generally during marriage ceremonies by the damaai musicians.

The musical culture in Pokhara is quite dynamic and in recent years, Western rock and roll, pop, rap and hip-hop are becoming increasingly popular with frequently held musical concerts; however, the traditional lok and modern (semi-classical) Nepali music are predominantly favored by the general population. More musical concerts are held in Pokhara than in any other city in the country.

Media and communications
Media and communication were quite limited until the 1990s. However, in the following decade there has been a proliferation of private media in print, radio and television. There are 19 privately owned local FM stations in the Pokhara valley. An additional 4 FM stations from Kathmandu have their relay broadcast stations in Pokhara. There are six community radio stations and five television stations.

Approximately 14 national daily newspapers in Nepali are published in the city, along with several other weekly and monthly news magazines. All major national newspapers published in Kathmandu have distributions in Pokhara. A number of online news portals are also updated from Pokhara, as well as some entertainment-based websites. Popular technology based web-magazine TechSansar also started in Pokhara.

Pokhara has got 4G network of Nepal Telecom, Smart Cell and Ncell. The majority of the people in the city access internet through mobiles, numerous cyber cafes, and local wireless ISPs. Most tourist restaurants and hotels also provide WiFi services. Wi-Fi hotspots by Nepal Telecom using Wi-MAX technology were launched in Feb. 2014, and are accessible in most parts of the city for a fee. Subscriber based internet is provided by several private ISP providers.

Notable people from Pokhara

People who live or have lived in Pokhara City are known as Pokhareli. In demographic terms, the Gurung people are the dominant ethnic group, hailing from the hills around Pokhara such as Sikles, Armala, Ghalel gaun, Ghandruk, Lumle etc., with Brahmin from Syangja, Newar and Magar making up the rest of Pokhara's population. Pokhara also has the highest number of Gurkha soldiers, the majority of them belonging to Gurung and Magar ethnic groups, who were categorized as martial race by the British Army.

See also
 Pumdikot
 2022 Pokhara municipal election

References

External links

Cities in Nepal
Gandaki Province
Hill stations in Nepal
Kaski District
Metropolitan cities in Nepal
Nepal municipalities established in 1962
Populated places in Kaski District
Tourism in Nepal
Tourist attractions in Nepal
Nepalese capital cities

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Q: Python Beginner: While Loop so long as item is in list I am trying to make a Hangman game and implement a while loop with the condition below.  When I run it through Thonny the while loop comes back as false even though the variable display has that character in the list.
display = []
for _ in range(word_length):
    display += "_"

while "_" in display == True:
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    for position in range(word_length):
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print(display)

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A: in and == are both comparison operators, subject to comparison chaining. As a result, your unnecessary comparison to True makes this equivalent to
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You could parenthesize it explicitly to disable chaining
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Q: How to include nodejs package into the script I have faced a very simple problem. I want to use a pakcage named Rbush in my javascript script in nodejs.
I have installed it using npm install rbush command and when I try to use it It raises this error
ReferenceError: RBush is not defined

here is my code
const t=require('rbush');

 const tree = new RBush();
const item = {
  minX: 20,
  minY: 40,
  maxX: 30,
  maxY: 50,
  foo: 'bar'
};
tree.insert(item);

I know that I have to include it into my script and I have done that using require function but it seems that it does not add the library there.I also tried the following method but it still does not work.
const tree=require('rbush');
const item = {
  minX: 20,
  minY: 40,
  maxX: 30,
  maxY: 50,
  foo: 'bar'
};
tree.insert(item);

A: Node modules export different types, so it's important to check the docs and see what you 'get' when you require the module. The usage docs for rbush are not great in this respect, but it exports a class, so your first example is almost correct.
The variable you assign the module to is how you need to reference it in your code. So instead of assigning require('rbush') to t, you probably want to assign it to RBush. (You can name it whatever you want, but if you're going to call new RBush(), then you need to use that name when you require it, const RBush = require('rbush');
const RBush = require('rbush');

const tree = new RBush();
const item = {
  minX: 20,
  minY: 40,
  maxX: 30,
  maxY: 50,
  foo: 'bar'
};
tree.insert(item);


My entry was way way late. I was supposed to post this yesterday but the blogger won't allow me to upload photos. Then this morning I was busy with nothing heheh. I even too lazy to upload photos I took this weekend. Basically, our Saturday was another boring one but it was good that we stayed home all day doing nothing but sit, eat, watch TV, and sit in front of the computer.
Well, same old same old, not doing anything just watching my dragons fight. Mr. dragon was very bossy and he kept dragging Miss dragon anywhere else even if the later doesn't want to play along. Then when Mr. dragon get carried away he pushed Ms. dragon and big mouth of waaaa the next thing happened.
We planned to go to SR to see their cousins, but the weather was really bad. So, we just called and stayed home all day. Mr. dragon did not come with his Dada to work because of the bad weather and busy work as well.
Got busy with my blogging opportunity from different DA's ohh I love it. I also created new blog for my sister.
I got two packages arrived one from CSN Stores and one was the price I won from the blog giveaway.
A man knocked on my door, and I knew it was the toys I ordered from CSN Stores. See, the snow in our porch? Well, that's how thick the snow we got last week from snowstorm. Still not as bad as last year's snowstorm. We just get 6 inches of snow last week though.
The snow wasn't that bad when I got up in the morning. It was already snowing Sunday night and we even see car wrecked along the road. The road was really bad last Sunday and that car wrecked have killed two lives.
I also received the package from one of Tomoson.com advertiser. It was a pack of juice and sweet treats from Buddy Fruity.
Well, the weather was fine and we went to Slippery Rock to visit MIL and SIL with the kids who came to visit for a week.
I just can't imagine what it must be like to be snow bound! But I guess it gives the opportunity to be very creative!
I love getting packages at my front door!!!
Hopefully your weather will warm up some in the coming weeks!
pagka daghan sa boxes ni abot...ehehehe!
Great pictures! I hope your weather improves.


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We make sure we give our recipients a well balanced diet and special requirements are catered for. We now offer a more varied choice of meals, which we serve to our members for lunch at The Nicky Alliance Day Centre.
A typical Meals on Wheels recipient may be physically unable to prepare a meal due to general frailty or a specific physical disability. They may lack motivation to prepare or even eat meals because of either physical or mental health problems. Sometimes they have to be encouraged to continue our meals to ensure they get a reasonable standard of nutrition. On the other hand, some people may simply need meals to tide them over for a short period of ill health or after a stay in hospital.
For many carers our meals give them a brief break from their caring responsibilites. We often receive referrals for Meals on Wheels which come through the local authorities, The Manchester Jewish Federation, and hospitals discharging people. Also, we receive requests from individuals themselves, or concerned members of the family. If further assessment is necessary, we involve the expertise of our resident social worker.
We are very fortunate to have a rota of dedicated volunteer drivers who play an important role by going out in all weathers to deliver nutritious meals to members of the community. Our recipients look forward to seeing them at their homes each week, giving them an opportunity to have a friendly chat.


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Wizz Air expands, Ryanair fights back: war in Italy
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The European low-cost carrier Wizz Air set an unprecedented precedent throughout the aviation industry. When other airlines were taking a step back, limiting their capacity and any expansion plans, the purple-colored airline announced 10 new bases. But seemingly, its tenth step was too far. Ryanair immediately responded to Wizz Air expansion plans – now, the two low-cost carriers dug out their trenches for a war of attrition in Italy.
On September 8, 2020, Wizz Air announced its tenth new base of 2020 in Catania, Italy. The second-largest city in Sicily will host two Airbus A321 aircraft from October 2020. From here, the carrier will offer flights to over 20 destinations available, five of which will be on newly-introduced routes. Catania Airport (CTA) would become Wizz Air's second Italian base, as its first one is located in Milan Malpensa Airport (MXP).
Wizz Air will also introduce flights from Sicily to London Luton Airport (LTN) and Memmingen Airport (FMM) in Bavaria, Germany.
"The opening of a base at CTA by Wizz Air didn't surprise me at all for two reasons," argued Enzo Zangrilli, a senior aviation consultant at 1Aviation. Firstly, Catania is Sicily's portal for leisure and business travelers.
"Secondly, Wizz Air has clearly shifted their strategy in the last six months by investing in an area (Western Europe) which previously wasn't an explicit target, as showcased by its new bases in Cyprus, Milan Malpensa, and Tirana," Zangrilli observed.
But judging by the response, it seemed like the Hungary-registered airline overstepped Ryanair's boundaries.
The Irish response
Ryanair was very quick to react to Wizz Air's impromptu move into CTA. Three days later, on September 11, 2020, the Irish low-cost carrier issued two press releases. Both of them had the same keywords in their titles ‒ Ryanair "responds to high demand by increasing flights […]". At the forefront of the plans are domestic flights, as the Irish airline will increase the frequency of flights from Milan Malpensa Airport (MXP) to Bari Karol Wojtyła Airport (BRI) from three to nine per week. Meanwhile, Catania Airport (CTA) will see Ryanair's presence grow by 28 additional weekly flights to Bologna, Milan, Rome, and Venice airports.
Both airlines are set to fly the new frequencies starting October 2020. With the exception of Ryanair increasing weekly frequencies from CTA to MXP, the two companies' announcements are identical in terms of the increased capacity on Italy's domestic flight network.
The Irish low-cost carrier increasing its capacity in the airport is no doubt a response to Wizz Air, noted Zangrilli. While it will benefit the consumer with lower ticket prices, "you can certainly argue that this situation is not sustainable and it only aims at ultimately making the other airlines bleed cash and withdraw from these routes."
Ryanair is a very dominant force in Italy. The low-cost carrier is the largest airline in the country by a postcode. According to the Ente Nazionale per l'Aviazione Civile (ENAC), the civil aviation authority of Italy, the low-cost carrier welcomed 40 million passengers on its aircraft to and from the country. Alitalia, the second-largest airline in terms of passenger numbers, carried only 21.7 million travelers in 2019.
Filling opening gaps
Within the previous year, two gaps have opened over the skies of Italy. In December 2019, Ernest Airlines, a small Italian low-cost carrier with a fleet of four Airbus A320 family aircraft, was publicly threatened by ENAC. The authority requested the company to provide documents regarding its financial situation if it wanted to retain its operating license. The authority gave Ernest Airlines two weeks to resolve the issue.
Resolve the issue it did not – on January 13, 2020, the airline switched off its engines for the last time. Despite being hopeful to resolve the issue and restart operations, based on an issued statement, an aircraft bearing Ernest Airlines' livery has not yet taken off since then.
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The second victim was Air Italy, which abruptly stopped its operations in February 2020. Alleged differences between the two shareholding parties, namely Alisarda and Qatar Airways, was the final nail in Air Italy's controversial coffin. The latter shareholder was accused of using the Italian company to violate the Qatar-United States Open Skies agreement, whereupon the two countries agreed that Qatar would not instate fifth-freedom flights and only operate direct flights between the two.
Despite what appeared like a traditional Italian fashion of running airlines at a loss, the Boeing 737 MAX crisis affected Air Italy heavily as its expansion plans were dependent on the MAX. By 2022, half of its fleet was supposed to be the still-grounded narrow-body. Combined with the alleged investors' conflict, its days were numbered.
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Throughout 2019, Air Italy and Ernest Airlines carried 2.1 million and 0.9 million passengers, respectively, leaving a sizable gap in the market. After Ernest Airlines' collapse, Wizz Air immediately pounced on the opportunity to fill the void and introduced flights from Albania's capital Tirana to five Italian cities. The collapsed Italian carrier operated more than 40% of the total capacity between Italy and Albania, while Air Italy left room to wiggle in extra flights.
Furthermore, the struggling Alitalia is also looking to downsize as it is restructuring under its newly-established company, the "new" Alitalia. Local media reported on September 14, 2020, that the national flag carrier was withdrawing from Milan-Malpensa and instead focusing on the other airport in the city, Linate (LIN). This move would free up crucial space in MXP, where slot assignment is mandatory, according to Assoclearance, Italy's airport slot coordinator.
In 2019, Wizz Air was the sixth-largest airline in Italy in terms of passenger numbers. However, the Italian domestic market was non-existent in the carrier's network: out of the total 5.1 million travelers to and from Italy on the airline's aircraft, 100% of those travelers landed or departed outside of the country. Ryanair, in terms of domestic traffic, was the second-largest airline in Italy, trailing behind the restructuring and ailing Alitalia.
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There is no doubt that the two have the capability and the need to fight a war of attrition in the Southern European country.
Crucial market
Entering the crisis and throughout it, both Ryanair and Wizz Air have emphasized the fact that they have cash for days. The Irish carrier ended June 2020 with a net cash balance of €3.9 billion ($4.6 billion) and debt-free 333 Boeing 737 aircraft, valued at €7 billion ($8.2 billion), according to the company's latest financial update. Wizz Air, meanwhile, ended the same period with €1.6 billion ($1.8 billion) of cash. The Hungarian airline, smaller in scale than Ryanair, had a fleet of 123 aircraft. In total, the Irish company owned 470 aircraft.
The two have largely avoided taking in state-aid while other airlines throughout the continent turned to their respective governments to weather the current crisis. But as loud as Ryanair was in criticizing others regarding governments giving out cash to airlines, the low-cost carrier applied for the United Kingdom's COVID Corporate Financing Facility (CCFF) and received £600 million ($779 million). Wizz Air received £300 million ($389 million) from the same financing facility, bolstering its liquidity going forward.
At the start of the crisis, both companies' chief executives were again, loud and clear regarding their cash balance. On March 20, Ryanair's Michael O'Leary stated that the company had enough cash to not fly for 12 months and still come out unscathed, as reported by Reuters. On March 16, Wizz Air's József Váradi told the Hungarian media that the airline could finance itself for three years without flying a single flight.
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Italy's flight activity has been on a steady rise, according to EUROCONTROL, the coordinator of Air Traffic Control above Europe's skies. In March 2020, Italy's monthly traffic dropped by 65.9%, by far the worst result in the continent – with the same trend continuing throughout April and May. By June, however, the market has started to recover – if in April flight activity in Italy was 92.1% lower than in the same month in 2019, by August 2020, the number recovered to 49.1%. EUROCONTROL data points out that the average number of flights during the same month in Europe was 51.5% lower.
Where two are fighting, a third one wins. At least the old expression will be tested in Catania, as easyJet also announced its plans to increase flights from MXP to CTA and BRI, two airports where both Ryanair and Wizz Air have increased their frequencies.
"Italy is the European country with the highest low-cost carrier penetration, due to a structurally weak national carrier but also because Italy is Italy, a market good for both Business and, of course, leisure," commented on the market situation Zangrilli. Domestic and intra-European will undoubtedly recover first, and "positioning yourself as the strongest LCC domestically and on short-haul routes will help pay the bill in the next 24 to 36 months," concluded Zangrilli.
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Questions »SUICIDE PREVENTION
by The Hon. John Dawkins MLC
The Hon. J.S.L. DAWKINS(14:43:25): I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking the Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation in his capacity representing the Minister for Mental Health and Substance abuse, a question about suicide prevention questions.
Leave granted.
The Hon. J.S.L. DAWKINS: On 4 June, 18 June and 19 June this year I asked questions of the minister representing the Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse regarding various aspects of the government's Suicide Prevention Strategy. The minister, other members of the government and many other MPs have encouraged me in my work on suicide prevention as an important issue that has been and should remain beyond party politics. I also recognise that the delay in answering questions in this council can quite often result from inaction in the office of a minister in another place. My questions are:
1.Firstly, why is it that relatively straightforward questions on the suicide prevention strategy asked four months ago remain unanswered?
2.Given the strong community support for action within and alongside the government's suicide prevention strategy, including the development of more suicide prevention networks across the state, will the minister seek a prompt response to these questions from the minister in another place?
The Hon. I.K. HUNTER(Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation, Minister for Water and the River Murray, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation)(14:45:04): I thank the honourable member for his most important question. I would like to recognise and say how much I admire his ongoing commitment to this area of public policy. I commend him for it, and I can advise him that I have recently signed off on answers to those questions and should be presenting them to the house very shortly.
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There are a number of motives for building green including environmental, economic, and social benefits.
Kitchen sustainability initiatives similarly call for integrated and synergistic "design" ideas...only they correspond to new menu items and the "retrofitting" of existing recipes as opposed to raw land and existing structures.
This "green" approach extends an ingredient's life-cycle in each creative new use employed with the purpose of finding a synergy between children's changing demands and the desire to get the most out of every product in the pantry.
Sustainable meal preparation brings together a vast array of practices, techniques, and vision (most often that of a child's... as the Green Pancakes and S'mores Waffles pictured above) to reduce and ultimately eliminate the impacts of cooking on the bank account. It often emphasizes taking advantage of older resources (all the way in the back of the pantry) in fun new ways.


Could Chargers fan boycott cripple hotel magnates?
"More than a stadium" is a rallying cry of the multimillion-dollar campaign to get a proposed $1.8 billion combined Chargers and convention venue on the ballot for November.
Now, note observers of San Diego's peculiar take-no-prisoners brand of city politics, the slogan may also apply to the campaign itself, in ways that could portend an uncomfortable financial future for a trio of the city's most powerful hotel moguls.
As reported by the Union-Tribune May 16, two groups, led by Chargers fans said not to be associated with the team, have declared a boycott against hotels belonging to Bill Evans, Richard Bartell, and Terry Brown, who control a bevy of the city's major lodging properties, most on taxpayer-owned land.
"Jason Riggs, founder and chairman of the stadium coalition, said the three hotel companies were singled out because research pointed to them as 'more powerful and the most influential' in the local industry," reported the U-T.
Added the story, "Johnny Abundez, co-founder of Save Our Bolts, said his group is using social media and emails to contact NFL fan groups around the country to encourage their members to choose other hotels to patronize when traveling to San Diego."
Others note that the three hotel magnates targeted for the boycott have been waging a nasty legal war, accompanied by public TV news coverage over control of millions of dollars in hotel taxes collected by the city — cash that the Chargers now want for their downtown stadium.
As previously reported here, Brown — son of San Diego hotel pioneer Charlie Brown and a onetime associate of Richard Nixon's friend and fallen financier C. Arnholt Smith — formerly chaired the city's Tourism Marketing District board, at the center of the extended legal battle.
Evans is the current chairman of the board, and Bartell is a boardmember, as is Brown.
So far the three financial pillars of the local Republican establishment have been laying low on the putative Chargers deal but are seen as a likely source of big-money opposition if the measure qualifies for the November ballot as widely expected.
Through the San Diego Lodging Association's political action committee, the three men have been major donors to the GOP Lincoln Club, currently bankrolling an anti-stadium campaign on behalf of La Jolla Republican city-council candidate Ray Ellis.
If the hotel magnates' anti-Chargers money machine is damaged by a boycott, the team might find it easier to get their project approved by voters.
A wealthy Republican himself, Chargers owner Dean Spanos has not been reluctant to take on the local GOP, as evidenced by last year's hit on mayor Kevin Faulconer and his longtime political aide Jason Roe over Roe's lobbying activities on behalf of Delaware North, which was given a lucrative food and beverage contract for Qualcomm Stadium by Faulconer's administration.
"What legal and ethical issues are raised by Mr. Roe's dual role as an apparent de facto [Stadium] Task Force member and as a registered lobbyist for the Delaware North company, which is bidding to become the new concessionaire at Qualcomm Stadium and, potentially, at any new stadium in San Diego?" wrote Chargers special counsel Mark Fabiani to Faulconer on February 17, 2015.
"Putting the legal and ethical issues aside for a moment, what sense does it make to have someone who is your chief advisor on political matters, and who advises a potential stadium vendor on business matters, play any sort of role with the 'independent' Task Force?"
Though Roe denied having any conflicts of interest, he subsequently left the lobbying business amid complaints by other bidders who suggested the selection process had been unfair at best.
Besides their controversial closed-door role in divvying up the city's hotel taxes for their favored uses, Evans and Bartell may also be vulnerable to longstanding charges of getting sweetheart deals regarding the leases of city and port district land on which their hotels stand.
In addition, Evans has a partnership with SeaWorld regarding hotel development on Mission Bay frontage owned by the city, another potential font of controversy.
"SeaWorld's resort initiatives are already underway in San Diego, where the company has formed a formal partnership with Evans Hotels to explore a SeaWorld-branded resort hotel on Mission Bay that would connect guests to the park," the U-T reported last November.
Whether the city leaves more taxpayer money on the table in that transaction could furnish further ammunition for critics of San Diego's traditionally less-than-arms-length relationships with its big-money tenants.
Under the Copley Press, and later developer Douglas Manchester, the lost-opportunity costs to the public of the trio's favorable hotel leases were rarely if ever questioned by the Union-Tribune.
But with the paper now in the hands of Chicago-based Tribune Publishing, and possibly soon to be owned by national news giant Gannett, Chargers backers may have an expanded forum for their complaints.
According to city political disclosure filings, the team has already spent $1,822,694 on its campaign to hike the hotel tax and is expected to lay out millions more for advertising, legal fees, and political consultants before the stadium battle is over.
aardvark May 17, 2016 @ 2:52 p.m.
Interesting, as some people who have been proponents of a new stadium make outrageous claims, stating that fans of visiting teams numbering into the thousands come and stay in local hotels when their favorite teams play in SD. And since the Chargers "plan" is to have TOT revenue pay for a large portion of their convadium, you would think this could backfire on these Chargers stadium proponents.
I can't wait to see how this turns out.
AlexClarke May 18, 2016 @ 6:19 a.m.
Sad that these two groups, led by Chargers fans said not to be associated with the team, have declared a boycott against certain hotel owners over something as stupid as a ball park for millionaires and billionaires. Everyone should be boycotting these hotels for two reasons. 1. They pay their employees low wages with no benefits while shifting the burden of healthcare and housing to the taxpayers and 2. The hotels are on taxpayer owned land. But "fans" don't care that these hoteliers are padding their profits with taxpayer money.
tpowell619 May 21, 2016 @ 2:07 a.m.
tpowell619 May 21, 2016 @ 2:11 a.m.
Ponzi May 18, 2016 @ 9:10 a.m.
The stadium saga doesn't seem to be as much about football as it is a competition between "fans" and "non-fans." The fans want so desperately to win to validate their spectator sport is still relevant in a world of vastly more entertaining options.
By the way, these two "groups" pulled off an admirable publicity stunt for a pair that can't rub two nickles together. I recall the "coalition" claims "non-profit" status and in 6 months has raised a whooping $1,000.
dwbat May 19, 2016 @ 11:18 a.m.
Ponzi May 19, 2016 @ 9:12 a.m.
tpowell619 May 21, 2016 @ 2:22 a.m.


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Une fumerolle ou fumerole est un petit panache de vapeur sortant de terre, généralement près d'un volcan ou sur une zone volcanique. Les fumerolles contiennent éventuellement quelques particules, des acides (acide sulfurique), des éléments minéraux d'origine magmatique, des traces de métaux à l'état de vapeur comme du mercure.

Au Moyen Âge, on prenait les fumerolles de l'Etna, ou des champs Phlégréens comme marque des portes de l'enfer. Dans la mythologie japonaise, les fumerolles du mont Fuji étaient apparentées à la combustion du contenu d'un flacon contenant une potion d'immortalité, lancé dans le cratère par un ancien empereur japonais.

Géologie
Le terme de fumerolle recouvre tout phénomène paravolcanique actif d'où s'échappent des gaz ou des vapeurs.

Plusieurs phénomènes différents sont nommés fumerolles,
 les solfatares : il s'agit d'une fumerolle d'où s'échappe du soufre, formant des dépôts solides. Dans certains cas, ces dépôts cristallins s'accumulant réduisent petit à petit l'ouverture de la solfatare. Elles doivent leur nom au cratère de la Solfatare en Italie ;
 la vapeur de certaines sources chaudes ;
 la combustion des gaz carbonés issus des éruptions volcaniques ;
 Autrefois, « mofette » était synonyme de « fumerolle » ; on considère aujourd'hui les mofettes des fumerolles de moins de , émettant essentiellement du gaz carbonique ;
 sous la mer, on désigne parfois les panaches de fumeurs noirs de « fumerolle sous-marines ».

Caractéristiques physiques
La température des fumerolles va de  à plus de . Plus le volcan est actif, plus la température de ses fumerolles augmente, ainsi que leur acidité et leurs émissions de composés soufrés.

Géographie
Les fumerolles se trouvent dans presque toutes les zones de volcanisme actif.

Aux États-Unis, on en trouve dans le parc national de Yellowstone, dans le Parc national de Lassen Volcanic, à Steamboat springs en Californie, dans toute la zone volcanique de l'Alaska, à Hawaï

La Kamtchatka, en Russie en est aussi riche.

La ceinture de feu du Pacifique présente des fumerolles avec les geysers del Tatio au Chili, dans le nord du Japon, dans la région Yangmingshan à Taïwan, dans la plupart des volcans actifs de l'Amérique centrale (Poás, Irazú, El Chichón, etc), en Argentine et en Bolivie, dans la caldeira de Kamojang, à Sumatra, en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.

L'océan Atlantique en connait en Islande, sur l'île de Sainte-Lucie, aux Furnas aux Açores.

Dans les zones volcaniques de la vallée du Grand Rift, on en trouve au lac Turkana et à l'Erta Ale.

Autour de la Méditerranée, on trouve des fumerolles en Italie, aux champs Phlégréens et en Sicile, en Turquie et en Grèce.

En Antarctique près du mont Erebus. Au fond du cratère du volcan Mahawu, en Sulawesi, où ils sont accompagnés par des mares de boues, des petits geyser et un lac acide.

Composition

La plupart du temps, les fumerolles sont composées de soufre et de ses dérivés, dont l'anhydride sulfureux, l'acide sulfurique et le dioxyde de soufre. On y trouve notamment des gaz carboniques, en particulier le dioxyde de carbone. Des quantités importantes de vapeur d'eau entrent aussi dans la composition.

D'autres éléments géologiques interviennent lors de la formation d'une fumerolle : chlorure de magnésium, fluor, oxyde de fer…

Prédiction volcanologique

Les fumerolles et les solfatares jouent un rôle important dans le recensement de l'activité d'un volcan. Lorsqu'un volcan entre dans une phase d'activité accrue, le nombre, la température et l'acidité des fumerolles augmentent autour de celui-ci. La remontée de la lave ardente dans la chambre magmatique provoque d'importants dégazages qui forment les  fumerolles.
Lors de recensements d'activité de certains volcans, les volcanologues échantillonnent les dépôts des fumerolles et utilisent des thermocouples pour mesurer leur température. La quantité de soufre déversée par la fumerolle indique aussi l'activité du volcan, un volcan rejetant plus de soufre augmente son activité. Le papier pH est aussi utilisé pour mesurer l'acidité d'une fumerolle.

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Articles connexes
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 Volcan
 Solfatare (fumerolle)
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 Source chaude
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 Mofette
 Sublimé (volcanologie)

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