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The future's bright, the future's open
Written by James Middleton
Open source specialist, consultant and Harvard fellow David "Doc" Searls writes about why he believes openness has to be the future for mobile.
We have to take the long view. Things are changing so fast that there's not much choice—not if we want to get a useful perspective. Of course the long view is also an uncertain one. It's easier to be clear about what's going on now, even if it's wild and crazy. Fortunately, it's not hard to connect the dots and see where they point. Start with this one: Less than a year and a half ago, the iPhone application market didn't exist. Nor did the Android app market. (Nor did an Android phone.) Now add some stats from CommScore, all for a period ending October last year (figures are for the "EU5"—France, Germany Italy, Spain and the UK):
Data plans are growing at 31.1 per cent per year.
3G plans are growing at 40.9 per cent.
Mobile media users are growing at 44.7 per cent.
The average length of handset ownership is 18.7 months.
The percentage of mobile media users with a device six months old or less is 37 per cent.
One third of social networking users access social media exclusively on mobile devices.
Says CommScore: "The internet took off when people moved from dial-up to broadband. A similar change is happening to mobile." That change is beyond profound, because it requires a shift in supporting infrastructure. Broadband is internet, and internet is data—not telephony. The wild frontier for smartphones is all in the first syllable. Handhelds will become data devices that do telephony, not telephony devices that do data.
At this moment in history, the iPhone points the way. It does this not by being a better phone (at that it's unexceptional), but by being a handheld data device that also does telephony. At last count, telephony was one among 70,000+ other applications on the iPhone.
Just as significant is Apple's unlimited data deal with AT&T in the US. By taking fear of data over-use out of the customer's mind, Apple and AT&T opened the development gates to thousands of new data-intensive applications. (In fact I helped with one of them: a player app that streams radio stations and programs on demand. I'm not sure that app would have been developed in the absence of an unlimited data usage plan.)
Apple, however, has taken a closed approach to market development. One developer I know describes Apple's basic strategy as, "finding a market where progress is log-jammed, and building a whole new vertical stovepipe around a piece of gotta-have-it hardware. They did this in the MP3 market with the iPod, and did it again in the cell phone market with the iPhone."
The problem with this strategy is that the internet is horizontal. So are all the open development methods that produced the net and the million-plus open source development projects that have grown there. To maximise development in mobile's broadband future, open platforms and development environments are required.
Linux has had these for the duration, but Linux has also suffered from "plethorisation"—forking and branching its way to countless different versions and implementations. Google brought a degree of order to the OEM side of that market with Android. The LiMo Foundation brought together the operator side of that market with a core suite of middleware. And now Symbian is on its way to becoming a fully open platform as well. Once that happens (it's on track for early next year, along with Qt—a cross-platform application and UI framework), the frontier opens to include Symbian's enormous standing market share. (Android's is still small, but is bound to grow as well.)
What happens next is outlined in Paul Budde's Global Mobile Broadband Statistics and Trends report, from April of this year. Some take-aways:
Expect to see LTE (Long Term Evolution, or 4G) develop into a mass market between 2012 and 2015. The LTE spec calls for downstream peak rates of 100 Mbps or more, uplink peak rates 50 Mbps or more, and local wireless round trip times of under 10ms. This is faster than most existing FttH (fiber to the home) deployments.
LBS (Location Based Search) is set to explode as GPS capabilities grow.
3G mobile broadband is rapidly outgrowing DSL and other wireless broadband services in Africa.
Mobile games will be cheap, and revenue from them will grow. Worldwide revenues are estimated at $4.9bn (US) in 2009 and 7.0bn (US) in 2013.
It is essential not to see this market as one that exists in the zone of partnerships between OEMs and operators. The internet (read: the PC market) doesn't work that way and neither will the mobile market, in the long run. In the past OEM-operator arrangements limited what could be done on mobile devices. For example, Nokia's E62 in the US was nearly identical to the E61 sold in Europe and elsewhere in the world, but without wi-fi and 3G—obviously because Nokia's US operators didn't want those features.
There are several ways out of this old and obsolete logjam in the middle of the mobile marketplace. One is for the operators to wake up and smell the opportunity. (The handset OEMs are already there.) Another is for new non-mass open handset marketplaces to open up (possibly starting with verticals such as college students, retirees and law enforcement groups). Yet another is for wireless data access to bypass mobile phone networks. Name your strategy; it has to be done.
There is plenty of money to be made in the open mobile future. Less of it, however, will be made the old way (by charging for minutes, and roaming, for example); and more of it will be made in new ways (by charging for apps and updates, charging for services, and advertising that goes both ways—with demand advertising its needs, rather than just supply advertising its goods).
In the long run, freedom wins. Openness wins. And the internet wins; because it was built with both, and supports both.
Doc Searls is a fellow with both the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and the Center for Information Technology and Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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"Lama Karta is a recognized and acknowledged emblematic figure in Belgium. He has lived among us since 1987. Venerable Lama Karta is difficult to overlook, his presence has and impact on all those who speak with him. He gives courses in Buddhism in several European countries and he has written a number of books on Buddhism, including Introduction to Buddhism, which deserves to beread by all families, at least by the students who are particularly intrigued by the Buddha. One also encounters Lama Karta in churches,including Eglise des Minimes in Brussels, for concerts of mystic songs.His CD Buddhist Meditation Songs has been distributed worldwide."
"May joy accompany you in everything you undertake to do."


NTCIC is thrilled to announce the successful financial closing to provide capital for the adaptive reuse of the historic Hoen Lithograph buildings located in East Baltimore, Maryland. Vacant for over 30 years, the buildings will be transformed into a community-serving resource for workforce development, education, and entrepreneurship.
With its sources of funding successfully in place, the project will be able to continue the year-long renovation process to bring the former lithography printing facility back to life. When construction is complete in 2020, the Hoen buildings will become the Center for Neighborhood Innovation–a new model for community transformation. It will co-locate and grow workforce development programs, educational training, neighborhood revitalization advocates, and nonprofits committed to strengthening the local neighborhood.
The 85,000-SF Hoen & Co. Complex, initially constructed in 1885 in Baltimore, MD, is the last remaining site of the oldest continuously operating lithographer in the United States. Known for their precision and high-quality work that elevated the medium, the Hoen & Co. lithographers specialized in cartographic, scientific, and pictorial illustration, producing maps that were influential in the settlement of the west and setting national boundaries. Their maps were used in the National Geographic Society's first bound atlas and comprised the full collection of insert maps in the National Geographic magazine.
They also frequently partnered with the Johns Hopkins University Department of Art as Applied to Science in the creation of extraordinarily detailed medical illustrations. At its peak, the Hoen buildings supported thousands of jobs, many of which were filled by residents of the surrounding blue-collar neighborhood of Collington Square. However, by the time the company succumbed to bankruptcy in 1981, the area was in sharp decline.
The buildings sat vacant and underutilized for nearly four decades until the project team envisioned a new future for the complex. The $28.3 million revitalization of the Hoen Lithograph buildings joins other highly impactful neighborhood development efforts, including the nonprofit headquarters for Humanim located in the former American Brewery building, a 2009 NTCIC investment.
The Hoen Lithograph buildings will be a game changer for workforce development initiatives and the lives of many in Baltimore. It will bring together mission-aligned nonprofit organizations and trade associations with successful track records of supporting the growth and prosperity of the local community. The buildings will be anchored by Strong City Baltimore, a nonprofit partner in the overall development effort, which will take space within the largest historic building in the complex. This organization provides a wealth of community-centric programming such as literacy training, early childhood education, is the largest local sponsor of the AmeriCorps VISTA program, and provides fiscal sponsorship for over 100 local nonprofits. The Hoen Lithograph buildings will be the location for their new headquarters, allowing them to continue their work across this city, scale up their support of area nonprofits, and provide additional focus to the residents of East Baltimore.
Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC), a national construction industry trade association providing workforce training, will also serve as an anchor tenant. Founded in 1950, the company provides training to over 476,000 individuals annually and connects program participants with career-track positions in the industry. Their move to the Hoen Lithograph building represents a consolidation of their area apprenticeship programs, allowing them to create a more effective and streamlined pathway for community residents to enter the building trades. They will also create a School for Construction Entrepreneurship, which will provide resources for neighborhood-based WBE and MBE contractors.
It will also include a workforce incubator program operated by City Life Community Builders, one of the nonprofit partners in the project. The program will provide the necessary training for individuals to obtain career-track employment within the construction trades. Students will receive hands-on training as they work to rebuild and restore vacant and blighted homes within their own communities, starting with vacant housing surrounding the Hoen Lithograph buildings.
Future tenants within the remaining spaces will transform this city-block-wide complex into a lively hub of new activity in a neighborhood that has struggled with years of disinvestment. The complimentary nature of the project's anchor tenants will ensure that program participants receive the most thorough and high-quality education possible. This synergy will facilitate greater connectivity between new developments in the Collington Square neighborhood and the existing revitalization efforts in the East Baltimore Development Initiative (EBDI) to the south.
The revitalization of the Hoen Lithograph buildings would not have been possible without community development financing incentives provided by NTCIC, such as the Historic Tax Credit and the New Markets Tax Credit.
$4.04 and $24.25 million in HTCs and NMTCs made it possible for the project sponsors to provide the nonprofit tenants with below-market rents, allowing them to continue providing extensive quality service to the local community. NTCIC recognized the community impact the project will have on the city of Baltimore for years to come and is honored to have been a part in making it possible.
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The Myth of the Lone Wolf NZ Terrorist
March 21, 2019 Juergensmeyer
Was the New Zealand terrorist attack committed by a "lone wolf? "The recent attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand by a 28-year old white extremist, Brenton Tarrant, killing fifty innocent worshipers in the midst of their weekly prayers, raises the question of how to describe it. Was it a hate crime or an act of terrorism, or both? And if it was terrorism, was it part of an organized conspiracy or was it simply the act of a crazed individual—the so-called "lone wolf" terrorist?
Much of the news media and many politicians have quickly asserted that if it was terrorism, it was of the "lone wolf" type since Tarrant apparently acted alone with no connection with or active support from any organized group. This implies that we need not trouble ourselves with looking at the wider background, for this was simply a crazy act that could happen anywhere at any time for any reason. It also implies that there was no larger movement or audience to whom the killer was related, and for whom the act was intended to impress.
Yet this description is woefully inadequate to describe the New Zealand massacre, which was clearly meant to intimidate people—the basic definition of terrorism—and the racist apartheid patches on Tarrant's jacket in his Facebook photo indicates that he identified with and wanted to impress other right-wing racists around the world, so he is hardly a lone wolf. Nor does the "lone wolf" characterization fit many of the other individual terrorist attacks in recent years.
In 2018 the vicious assault on a Jewish synagogue in Pittsburgh by Robert Gregory Bowers was characterized as an act of "lone wolf" terrorism. So was the 2015 massacre in a Charleston church by 21-year old white supremacist Dylann Roof and earlier that year the assault on the headquarters of a satirical magazine in Paris, Charlie Hebdo, by two Algerian brothers, Said and Cherif Kouachi. Before that, there was the 2013 Tsarnaev brothers' attack on the Boston marathon, the deadly assault on a Norwegian youth camp by Christian extremist Anders Breivik in 2011, the August 2012 attack on the Milwaukee Sikh Gurdwara by Wade Michael Page, the 2010 Times Square bombing attempt by Faisal Shahzad, and even earlier, the 1996 Atlanta Olympic park by Eric Robert Rudolph and the 1995 Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing by Timothy McVeigh.
Some of these were committed by Christians, some by Muslims, and some by those with no particular religious affiliation at all. Some had racist ideologies in mind, others were simply raging against society. In almost all cases, though, these have been instances where alienated individuals have struck back at a society that they thought had abandoned them. And they perpetrated their attacks in a way meant to impress a specific audience.
This is the most basic definition of terrorism, a public act of violence meant to be intimidating. What makes the terrorism of recent decades so striking is that they are seldom undertaken for strategic purposes—to gain territory or make demands—but are rather done for symbolic reasons. They are acts of violent meant to give the illusion of power, to intimidate one group of people and impress another.
Hence terrorist acts can be described as "performance violence." A performance is done for an audience, or multiple audiences, to intimidate and impress. It makes no difference if someone like Tarrant or Breivik was a member of an organized extremist network or not; they were clearly trying to impress their imagined community of support, their White nationalist kinfolk, and to intimidate multiculturalists and Muslims into compliance with the idea of a society dominated by white Christians.
The comparison between Tarrant and the Norwegian terrorist Andres Breivik is relevant for a number of reasons. Like Breivik, Tarrant was part of a wider subculture of hatred. He likely thought of himself not as a terrorist but as a soldier in a great and hidden war, carrying out a mission on behalf of an imagined constituency of supporters. Like Breivik, he dressed up in military garb with militant patches—in Tarrant's case he wore the symbol of a far-right nationalist group in Ukraine. As in the computer war games that are popular in his generation, Tarrant thought of himself as a warrior in a secret war. He even credited the computer game, Fortnite, for training him how to kill. One of Tarrant's friends said that Tarrant had told him prior to the killings that he wanted to start a race war. This sense of mission would help to explain why Tarrant, like Breivik, thought of himself on a secret mission in an act of what he regarded as virtuous warfare and what we see as hideous terrorism. Like Breivik, Tarrant never showed remorse for conducting what he thought was a soldier's duty in a grand, invisible cosmic war.
Then there is the matter of the message, one implicitly transmitted in the terrorist act itself, the other explicitly conveyed through a manifesto. Like Breivik, whom Tarrant openly acknowledged as a role model, Tarrant published on the Internet his own eighty-page written defense of his horrible deeds. Written in a question and answer format as if he was of sufficient importance to be interviewed by the news media, Tarrant's manifesto winds through a twisted rambling set of comments and memes expressing Islamophobia, hatred of immigrants, and a strident right-wing nationalism. Impervious to irony, the Australian Tarrant –himself a foreigner writing in New Zealand—demands that outsiders be forcibly removed. He shows admiration for the nationalist stance of US President Donald Trump and like Breivik expects that his right-wing comrades will take a cue from his actions and his stance and rise up against Muslim and other non-white immigrants in their countries.
So it makes no difference whether or not Tarrant or Breivik were card-carrying members of racist organizations. They thought that they were part of a great social struggle in which their acts would receive approval and their roles respected as if they had been triumphant warriors. The white racist subculture of neo-nationalism around the world from the US and Europe through the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand have provided just such a social context. Despite the acceptance of multiculturalism by most people as a normal and interesting way of living in the wake of the dramatic demographic shifts in this era of globalization—or perhaps in an ugly reaction to the multiculturalism of global societies–racism and right-wing nationalism around the world are flourishing.
These communities of extreme nationalism that are punctuated with strident voices of hatred have given context and support for Tarrant's act. Far from being a "lone wolf," therefore, the perpetrator of the New Zealand massacre was not isolated. This terrible event was part of a sad, established pattern of xenophobic nationalism and white Christian terrorism that is as global as it is destructive.
This essay includes observations that I have made in other essays about a variety of acts of supposedly "lone wolf" terrorism in recent years.
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Howard Goodall & Melvyn Bragg's musical The Hired Man is playing at the Landor Theatre Tuesday 2nd August - Saturday 27th August 2011.
The Hired Man is an emotional love triangle taking place in the run up to the first world war. It's the moving story of a young married couple and their struggles to earn a living off the land and to survive working in the coal-mines.
The score by Howard Goodall is inspired by the music of Kurt Weill, with English choral & folk music and a band of five musicians.
John Tallentire will be played by Joe Maxwell and Emily Tallentire will be played by Catherine Mort. Joining them are Martin Neely, Sean-Paul Jenkinson, Mark Fredrick, Abigail Matthews, Ben McMath, Ian Daniels, Garry Mannion, Matthew Gent, Kimberly Powell, Jamie Birkitt, James Parks, Matthew McLoughlin, Ruri James, Emily Barlow and Alistair Baron.
The Hired Man will be directed by Andrew Keates (Bent, Just So, Conjugal Rites), with additional orchestrations and musicals supervision by Niall Bailey and choreography by Cressida Carre, design by Freya Groves and lighting design by Howard Hudson, sound design by Sarah Weltman and fight direction by Andrew Ashenden.


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Finding IPO Alley
By Caixin staff reporter Lu Yuan
China's IPO action has been locked in ice since October by China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) officials intent on boosting investor confidence and improving scrutiny of stock market hopefuls.
Yet the heat is on for aspiring executives at more than 800 companies who, despite the freeze, have continued lobbying CSRC for permission to launch initial public offerings on the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges.
No one knows when CSRC might thaw the market for new listings. So executives have been busy door-knocking deep inside the commission at its dual "public offering departments"—one that reviews IPO applications for the Shenzhen Stock Exchange's ChiNext growth board, the other for the Shanghai Stock Exchange A-share market.
They've also been busy wining, dining, and warming up to members of CSRC's elite Public Offering Review Committee (PORC), which ultimately decides the fate of every IPO application that's survives the commission's lengthy company review process.
In pursuit of warm relations, Caixin has learned, some IPO-hungry company executives have played along with rent-seeking CSRC officials. They've also paid intermediaries who charge enormous fees for access to key CSRC officials. Tens of millions of yuan may have traded hands in recent years.
Since taking office in October 2011, CSRC Chairman Guo Shuqing has tried to clean up the agency via a large-scale personnel shuffle. As part of the change, many public offering department and PORC officials have traded their positions with other CSRC staffers. But problems persist.
Unique among the world's securities market regulators, CSRC strictly controls new listings by thoroughly investigating financial conditions for each IPO applicant. But IPO approval power is concentrated inside the public offering departments, each of which assigns only two review staffers and two directors per application, and the PORC.
Ten application process steps and "eleven key people can decide life or death for a public offering," said an executive at a private company that's applied for an IPO. The executive, like most sources for this story, spoke with Caixin on condition of anonymity.
Buying Votes
C'est La Vie is an upscale restaurant near CSRC's headquarters on Beijing's west side that serves shark's fin soup, abalone, and other delicacies. A single tab can run up to 1,000 yuan per diner.
Even pricier than the meals, however, are the deals negotiated around the restaurant's tables when executives from IPO-applicant companies get a chance to treat one or more CSRC officials.
A separate expense for an applicant is what's paid to an intermediary agent whose job is to arrange get-togethers at C'est La Vie and similar venues. An agent in charge of a single night's meal can pocket more than 100,000 yuan.
On top of that, sources said, a single CSRC official who plays a role in an application review can demand an illegal payoff in the 300,000-to-500,000-yuan range per IPO hopeful.
Company executives, intermediaries, and executives working for the underwriters of proposed IPOs confirmed for Caixin the secretive process through which a company can basically buy CSRC's approval for an IPO.
Among those at the receiving end of the money train are members of PORC, which assigns seven of its sixty members to a single case. Members review public offering department reports and ultimately judge an IPO plan worthy of the market or not.
Most PORC staffers work full-time for CSRC, while the rest are hired from law and accounting firms to review applications as needed. At times, CSRC officials draft lawyers and/or accountants to serve on a PORC. Law and accounting firms are happy to accommodate because typically a link to PORC is a boon to their business.
In a normal year, a single PORC member can review up to fifty companies, said a source close to the process, adding that about 80 percent of the applications are approved.
Simple math points to the considerable financial advantages available to those PORC members who accept payoffs. The source said a single corrupt CSRC official can make about 10 million yuan a year.
"Of course, not every member accepts money," the source said. "Those who do [accept] don't take money from every company" because "security is the No. 1 concern."
A source at a securities firm's underwriting office said "all kinds of measures are used to give favors to" a rent-seeking PORC member who is tapped to vote on an IPO application. "It's an open secret."
Caixin contacted several PORC members. None would discuss these allegations of malfeasance.
The Big Eleven
It's been argued that the groundwork for graft was laid when CSRC instituted a lengthy, generally opaque IPO application process in 1999 and strengthened it with a 2006 amendment to the Securities Law that made preliminary reviews of IPOs mandatory.
The process usually starts at the narrow front-door security checkpoint at CSRC's headquarters at the Fukai Office Tower in Beijing. That's where anxious representatives from securities firms daily line up with heavy boxes filled with IPO application documents.
Some documents eventually reach the ChiNext public offering department on the sixth floor or the Shanghai exchange department on the eleventh floor.
Some light was shed on the murky process of reviewing and deciding the fate of IPO applications in May 2006, when CSRC outlined procedures for review committees. But details of the procedures were kept out of the light of public scrutiny until last year.
CSRC established a step-by-step process that every aspiring company must follow. Two public offering department staff members give each application a preliminary review, with one official focusing on legal issues and the other accounting.
A preliminary review staff can quickly sift through documents and decide whether an applicant is eligible for further review. If the light is green, the public offering department's directors meet with a pair of preliminary review staff members to discuss qualifications and compile a list of follow-up questions for company representatives.
Company executives and their underwriters soon thereafter may be summoned to meet these CSRC officials and give a ten-minute presentation. They are then allowed a short discussion with the review staffers and directors.
CSRC's follow-up questions are later sent to the company and underwriters. Additional materials and explanations may be requested, and answers must be received within thirty days.
Since ChiNext was formed, CSRC records show the commission voided applications from thirty-seven companies seeking a trading slot because they failed the question-and-answer test.
A company that answers all questions to satisfaction and on time is rewarded with a preliminary announcement of its stock market intentions on the CSRC website. Public scrutiny is then invited.
Under the Securities Law, CSRC bears the responsibility to investigate any report of fraudulent activities involving an applicant. An entire service sector has grown up around this rule.
And the sector has a dark side. For example, as Caixin reported in June 2012, a number of public relations companies, media organizations, and law firms have profited by sniffing out problems at IPO hopefuls and using this information for extortion schemes centered around threats of negative media coverage.
A CSRC official who spoke with Caixin insisted negative publicity about a company would never color an IPO decision. "We make our own, objective judgments," the official said. "Reports from a company's competitors are usually more to the point and useful" than media reports in helping officials identify problems.
After public notification comes the sixth step toward an IPO approval: A preliminary hearing that functions as the key to the whole decision-making process because it's attended not only by the original application review staffers and the public offering office directors, but also by all seven members sitting on the assigned PORC.
At the hearing, PORC members read the public offering department's staff report on the legality and financial accountability of an applicant. Then, each member can comment. All remarks are on the record.
Hearings for main board and ChiNext applicants are unalike, a CSRC official said, in that the latter usually determines a company's fate but the former does not.
After the hearing, all relevant documents, including records of PORC members' comments, are sealed and closed to public access. At this point, an application may be rejected. Companies that survive, though, are invited to a forty-five-minute hearing that makes up the procedure's ninth step.
Five days before the formal hearing, another CSRC announcement on its website names the company and members of the IPO application review committee.
After the hearing a so-called "significant events report" mechanism begins. In this way, legal and financial intermediaries are obliged to tell CSRC—and have their input included in the company's prospectus—any information they have on major lawsuits or any other "important events" involving the applicant.
This step holds underwriters accountable for an application's truthfulness. Any honesty gaps that come to light later can have serious consequences.
For instance, CSRC chastised the securities firm Guotai Junan last year after its underwriting client, a Shenzhen-based manufacturer of solar batteries called Jiawei Corp., reported financial trouble a few months after listing on ChiNext. The company posted a 94 percent decline in net profit, undermining the credibility of its prospectus. CSRC banned the Guotai Junan office handling Jiawei from underwriting for three months.
The underwriters "knew about the profit slump for the first quarter but didn't disclose it," a CSRC source said. "All of the accountants and lawyers signed [the prospectus] without reading the files."
If all goes well, and a company wins PORC's blessing, it's technically ready for an IPO. But in fact, the full public offering department controls the green light and can flip the switch, or wait, as it sees fit based on market conditions and other factors.
CSRC's campaign to boost investor confidence before allowing more IPOs has forced the department to keep its finger off the switch for scores of pending IPOs.
More than ninety of the 800-plus companies seeking a public listing have passed each of the first nine steps of the process. As of early February, each was awaiting a go signal to proceed to the tenth step: formal permission and a launch.
Transparency Calls
The significance of a meal at C'est La Vie and subsequent under-the-table deals is clear in light of the long, thinly transparent CSRC procedure that puts what is arguably too much power in the hands of just eleven people—the preliminary review staffers, the public offering department directors, and the seven-member PORC.
In addition to Guo's personnel changes, efforts are underway to make the whole IPO review process less opaque.
The shift to more transparency began in 2010, before Guo took office, when CSRC officials decided that any company whose IPO application was rejected during a review process must be told the reasons within a month.
Moreover, CSRC in April 2012 promised to make public more information about the entire review process, release the names of each PORC member, and issue a monthly status update on companies under review.
Rules that require PORC members to participate in preliminary hearings came into force in 2012, helping them better understand each applicant-company and its needs.
Nevertheless, specific information about exactly how CSRC officials go about deciding whether to approve or reject an application is still carefully guarded. And no one at the agency will talk about the allegations of vote-buying and shark's fin soup.
Industry sources and scholars have said more transparency should be injected into the IPO review process. They also want application review meetings and PORC voting records to be made public. One advocate is Guo Li, a law professor at Peking University.
"Based on the power CSRC enjoys," he said, "it should meet the highest standards of transparency."
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The lethal injection landscape has been fraught with issues since 2011, when Hospira, the only American manufacturer of a key lethal injection drug, stopped its production in the midst of an international campaign by capital punishment opponents. The company's decision set off a scramble to find another supplier and ultimately another drug, reported ProPublica.
In late 2013, Florida became the first state to execute an individual using midazolam, but it wasn't until April 2014 that concerns about midazolam became widespread. That month, Oklahoma botched the execution of prisoner Clayton Lockett. Despite receiving an injection of midazolam, Lockett groaned and writhed on the gurney for about 40 minutes until his death, witnesses reported.
"I think the Supreme Court would prefer not to have to get involved in the details of executions, but felt compelled to because of what happened last year," said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center. "Something went really wrong, and somebody's got to monitor this thing or states will keep repeating it."
The Supreme Court is expected to hear the case of a group of Oklahoma prisoners in April and make a final ruling by July. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, midazolam was used for at least 11 of 35 executions in 2014.
It's possible that midazolam would no longer be used. Other drugs might take its place or Oklahoma might decide to use a single-drug protocol in place of the current three-drug cocktail.
"I don't think that the death penalty is going anywhere," said Michael Rushford, president of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation.
Even if the court limits the use of lethal injection and states continue to face difficulty getting approved drugs, there are other methods that prisons could employ. Virginia lawmakers have already discussed bringing back the electric chair when the approved drugs are not readily available. Wyoming lawmakers have proposed allowing firing squads.
Death penalty experts doubt that such methods would become the primary protocol for execution. "States changed from hanging to electric chair because it was a modern, supposedly painless method of execution," said Dieter of the Death Penalty Information Center. "There has been a continuous attempt to make executions appear more palatable, humane, and modern."
The rate of executions across the United States has decreased markedly over the past decade. Ten years ago 60 inmates were executed. In 2014, there were 35. Among the 32 states that allow the death penalty, only seven had executions in the past year.


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Jacqueline Hicks recently graduated from Western University with a Honours Specialization Degree in International Relations. During her undergraduate degree, Jacqueline spent a semester abroad in Singapore studying global affairs and public policy. Her research interests include gender issues, women in security, globalization, and the history of the Middle East. Jacqueline volunteers at the legal aid clinic Justice for Children and Youth, as well as helps to create the social media content for War Child Canada. In the future, Jacqueline hopes to pursue a law degree, with a focus in human rights and social justice law. You can contact Jacqueline at jacquelinehicks17@gmail.com.
Two years after China's one-child policy was replaced in favour of a two-child policy, Jacqueline Hicks examines what improvements have been made and the lasting effects of the widely criticized population control method.


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Q: using the extra space on a gpt hard drive Win7 64 bit.
I have a computer with a 3TB drive. This is the first time I've ever used one that big and didn't know about the gpt format. The disk management app shows 100MB Sytem Reserve, 2047.9GB C: partition, and 746.52GB unallocated. Right clicking this unallocated space does not give me the option to create a new volume. I understand that the Windows installer will not format to a GPT drive. Is there any way to use this extra space?

A: You can right click disk C: and choose 'Extend volume'. Note that each partition can hold only 2**64 clusters, so if your volume cluster size is very small you can't enlarge your partition further. I guess you should try Partition Magic or PartEd Magic.

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Non-partisan trends and commentary for critical thinkers.
YYC Ward 7 Councillor Dru Farrell: We are reaching a fiscal cliff with the cost of growth
Contained in a video exclusive by Global News which centers around backroom deals to control the Calgary City counsel. Perhaps more important though than the backroom deals we all know happen already but choose to ignore are some comments made by Calgary Councillor Dru Farrell starting at the 3:20 mark:
"[The] old way of doing things simply won't work any longer. We are reaching, if we haven't already reached a fiscal cliff with the cost of growth."
A pretty good summary of what I've been trying to raise the alarm about since before even my Hellberta blog.
Canadian Trends: Alberta's Biggest Challenge Yet
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Posted by Richard at 19:11 No comments:
Alberta's biggest challenge yet
Alberta faces a significant and unrecognized challenge, one not of the environment or financials but of disbelief and if we're to fix the problems in this province then the people of Alberta are going to have to drop a number of preconceptions they have about our situation.
Alison Redford has noted a significant loss of support for the Progressive Conservatives since the revealing of the 2013 budget.
Some may simply chop this up to the repeated cases of wasteful spending by the PCs, and if you look at most comments that is where the criticism stops. In general, based on the commentary surrounding this situation I would have to say the basic perception is that Alberta is more or less stable if the government wasn't wasting all the money.
However, our situation runs much deeper and I forecast that even if the PCs lose the next election whatever government that comes in will simply discover the situation isn't nearly as rosy as we've all been lead to believe over these years.
This really is the primary challenge that any person or party or whatever is going to come up against if we try to change anything in Alberta to adapt to our current situation, that Albertans have been lied to for so long about how rich they are that it's gone to their heads.
This all comes back to the concept of 'oilsands prosperity being a lie'. Note that despite that the temporary bitumen bubble has disappeared the financial issues remain. This is to be expected as the bitumen bubble was never really the problem but rather the bi-directional price of oil as a whole over these last few years.
What needs to be understood by everyone, all parties, all Albertans, is that the incredible profit we were seeing prior to the collapse of 2008 was due to the exponentially rising oil price. It was not the significance of the actual oil price that mattered but rather the velocity and direction in which it moved. This has all been explained countless times on this blog.
The current need for spending derives from the massive infrastructure requirements needed to facilitate these projects and unless the oil price velocity and direction resume what they were doing previous to 2008 (which they won't) we will never see the sort of profits we were making again.
Alberta's biggest mistake, which can not be reversed, is that it wasted all of the profits it got on stupid gimmicks instead of investing it in the future. On this I will not argue, but the fact is it's done, that money was spent, and it's never coming back.
If you're going to be upset about anything, don't be upset about the spending happening today but rather be upset about the lies of prosperity that were told in the first place. Be upset that the government by over-hyping the "total recoverable reserves" and downplaying the "daily production" has convinced some Albertans that we are of the same energy production capacity as Saudi Arabia.
Maybe this is why support is dropping so fast for the PCs after this budget, because for the longest time Albertans have been told of how superior their debt-free status is and of how prosperous their oilsands industry makes them. There is a lot of programming that needs to be undone. Convincing Albertans that the tasks at hand need to be done may be harder than actually pushing through the tasks.
Any incoming government will either have to address or cover-up this issue of such a low energy return on energy invested with the oilsands. It's getting harder and harder to cover the gap in revenue vs. the need for infrastructure. Question is, will anyone believe them?
Posted by Richard at 18:08 2 comments:
The foiled terror plot - initial thoughts
I've decided to end my CISPA blackout early in light of the "foiled" terrorist plot here in Canada. The purpose of this post specifically is to clear up some of the initial information and arguments that are already brewing.
First, the 'timing' conspiracy. I do not believe this was timed to coincide with the #S7 debate. Quite frankly, if it was then it has failed miserably as A) The fact the plot was foiled would seem to indicate to me that we don't need S7 to capture terrorists and B) the impact on public opinion has been negligible, almost joke-like. If there is a conspiracy to the timing, I would have to say that it's more likely an attempt to distract from how quickly the Boston mess is being pulled apart. Aka, law enforcement needed a "win" which shows the anti-terror system works (Boston showed it to be a failure).
Another statement which has become popular is that Al-Qaeda can't possibly be involved because they are at religious odds with Iran. This is true they are at religious odds with Iran which is why the fact the RCMP said it's not "state-sponsored" is extremely important.
I'm not saying don't question the events by the way, what I am saying is make sure you fully understand what's being reported before spreading misinformation.
Strange bedfellows -- Iran and al Qaeda
The Iranian regime likely saw the al Qaeda operatives as useful bargaining chips with the United States in the event of some kind of peace negotiations with the Americans. That peace deal, of course, never happened.
Of course, for Iran the adage, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" may have also come into play, although there doesn't seem to be evidence that Iran and al Qaeda have ever cooperated on a specific operation.
That said, the 9/11 Commission found that of the 19 hijackers, "8 to 10 of the 14 Saudi "muscle" operatives traveled into or out of Iran between October 2000 and February 2001." Whether this was with any degree of Iranian complicity is still an open question.
The fact that leading members of al Qaeda were based in Iran from 2002 on was known to the U.S. government at the time. (In fact, in early 2003 counterterrorism officials briefed me about this development).
There is something of an irony here. This was during the same time period in which senior administration officials under President George W. Bush were citing the alleged presence of al Qaeda members in Baghdad and a supposedly burgeoning alliance between al Qaeda and Iraq's leader Saddam Hussein as a key reason to go to war against Saddam, Iran's bitter enemy.
Iran, al-Qaeda relationship is showing cracks, U.S. officials and analysts say
At the same time, Western intelligence agencies see steps by Iran to preserve ties with al-Qaeda by allowing the group to use Iranian territory as a transit route to and from Afghanistan, U.S. officials and analysts say.
"We believe that Iran continues to allow al-Qaeda to operate a network that moves al-Qaeda money and fighters through Iran to support al-Qaeda activities in South Asia," David S. Cohen, the Treasury Department's undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said in an interview.
Highlighting the sometimes contradictory nature of the relationship, Cohen said the same transit networks send "funding and fighters to Syria," where militant Islamists linked to al-Qaeda are battling pro-government forces supported by Iran. A group of fighters from the militant al-Nusra Front, which the State Department has said is linked to al-Qaeda in Iraq, is regarded as one of the most powerful anti-government forces in Syria.
Now, here is where it gets really interesting. It's widely reported that Iran is essentially a transport conduit for funds, equipment and soldiers with Iran essentially turning a blind eye. Again, remember the RCMP: "this is not state-sponsored", so who did sponsor it? Well one might have to assume that if funds can travel into Syria, they can probably travel out too, right?
Militant rebels in Syria announce merger with al-Qaeda
US approves additional $123m aid to Syria
It is however very plausible to believe that somehow, directly or indirectly, the U.S. sponsored the attack. As more information comes out we'll review this situation.
Posted by Richard at 16:21 1 comment:
UPDATE-3: Dangerous Precedents
It's always difficult for me to decide whether to comment on tragedies such as Boston or not. I am not one to publicize my grief, if I choose to comment it's because I feel a comment is necessary. I've had to think particularly hard on this Boston event, I pride myself on providing accurate information and I don't like to jump to conclusions. Throughout these last 5 days a continuous theme of confusion and misinformation has been on display for all to see and I do not wish to take part in that and as such only now do I feel confident to say at least something about it.
This whole thing stinks. There, I said it, call me a conspiracy theorist if you want but there are way more questions than there are answers and from the start the important questions have seemed to be ignored. In fact, before the media themselves begun questioning events they had already begun criticizing those who were questioning events. Now, just because this stinks doesn't automatically mean I think this is an inside job however, a lot of information is still coming out but based on information currently available there are just a few things one has to wonder. I've seen three predominant and sourced theories about the attack.
Inside Job - Before It's News has put together several pieces on what they find interesting:
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2013/04/boston-bombing-did-you-notice-this-video-2450272.html
http://beforeitsnews.com/war-on-terror/2013/04/contractors-at-boston-marathon-stood-near-bomb-left-before-detonation-2443518.html
Double-Agents - DEBKAfile's analysis has lead them to believe that the brothers were CIA assets turned double-agent.
Iran - Reza Kahlili (not his real name), a former CIA spy in the Iranian regime believes Iran hired these attackers.
For this post I'm going to focus primarily on events before and after the attack, and not on the actual bombing itself as I find the surrounding events even more puzzling and crucial to question.
Why are local news reports of bomb sniffing dogs and spotters on rooftops for an apparent "drill" not being followed up with? The reports coming from NBC for god's sake, this is a reputable news agency. Why is this being ignored? Until the U.S. government can at least declare a motive, no evidence should be discarded and people should remain ever vigilant. Let's all remember this is a "suspect" and not a convicted felon, right? Is there even a difference anymore?
Back in December I caught a piece put out by Russia Today which described a complete lockdown of a small American town. I titled that article "Lockdown in U.S. appears imminent" and here we are just 4 months later and already a metropolis has been locked down. Sure, it was only for a day. Sure, there were "extreme circumstances". But it seems if anything over the last decade of the "war on terror" and "economic crisis" that extreme circumstances can quickly become the normal. It's the normalacy of abnormal.
This lockdown didn't just come out of the blue, this is happening already in smaller American towns and it's now built up to a major metropolis. What I find the most interesting about Friday's "lockdown" is that it didn't work, they didn't find the guy until "just minutes" after the lockdown order ended. The lockdown order ended when the police had completed their sweep 100%. What I'm getting at here is that if this were, say, a "dry run" as it's called then completing the search 100% would be paramount to the "mission". Before I continue, I just need you all to visualize the search process:
They're in backyards, houses, seems pretty thorough, right? Yet the suspect that they failed to find during their search and was found "just minutes" after the search was completed by a civilian was found here under a tarp in a boat that can be seen clearly from the road? It's been widely reported he was there the whole time "weakened by blood loss", how was a guy under a tarp missed by what was literally an entire army? Their helicopters have infrared, which was defeated by a tarp?
It causes me to wonder if finding the suspect was job #1, or if completing the "dry run" sweep was job #1.
I just want to leave you with one closing thought here. Now that this precedent has been set for a manhunt, what's next? Will it now go for all murders? Where do we draw the line of "this calls for a complete shutdown of everything"? Is it reactionary, or precautionary? If we expect trouble, do we shut it down now preemptively just as we arrest organizational leaders before major events (like the G20 in Toronto). All of this feels wrong, and unfortunately I think this is only a glimpse of events to come.
Update-1
While I was sleeping it occurred to me that there is another interesting piece of information one can gather from the available photos of the "search". What iconic manhunt police tool is missing?
Dogs. Where are the dogs? They had personal items from these people it seems to me that a dog would have easily detected the suspect in the boat. Where are the dogs? Again, it seems that the "manhunt" portion was secondary.
If you have pictures from the search Friday showing any dogs please submit them to ct-tips@openintellect.ca.
There is what I believe is a police dog in this video, this video also shows how "thorough" they're being. Yet somehow, they missed him, seems they got just about everybody else though, doesn't it.
"They didn't search the boat, not once" - 10:08
#yegarena: Borrowing more on borrowed time
Edmonton city council's "Plan B" to fund the arena is well basically this:
These 3 bullet points present so many problems I don't know where to begin. Let's start with point 2 "Assume MSI is to be on-going". Assume? based on.. what? The province's MSI initiative is part of the "capital plan" and not the "operational plan" which means that to begin with the MSI money we're getting has been borrowed and the reason why? To help prepare for the influx of population we expect to be getting. So this assumption is based on the assumption that Alberta's economic situation can only get better, not worse, or if it does get worse that it will continue to borrow at the same or what will more likely be required greater rates than they are now.
Edmonton is then going to get a loan of it's own of $45mil (seems we're still missing $55mil, but what-ev) which will be repaid with what we can only assume will be ongoing MSI funding levels (don't worry no cuts are coming in the future as sustainability fund runs dry). Attached to both of these loans is interest, so you are paying interest on the provinces loan and you will now also be paying interest on the city's loan which is to be serviced by a portion of the province's loan. Next year we can only assume the province will have to borrow more unless "things turn around" and the influx of population is apparently needed to do that.
Quite frankly, the province is borrowing for the "capital plan" for a reason and we should be using it for that reason before it's no longer available. This is just the beginning of a long downward trend, do you think Alberta is going to continue being so liberal with it's borrowing in 5 years? 10?
UPDATE-1: The poor farm
It appears RBC has blown the lid off the TFW can of worms to the public's discontent. The predictable reactionary responses have of course followed, such as "Boycott RBC" with the faint cheers for Trudeau 2015 "hope is change" in the background. Yes, we're all shocked here at the fact it was discovered that RBC was taking advantage of a slanted economic stage we're all well aware exists. It's shocking we discovered it, it's not shocking really that it exists in the first place or were we all really so naive as to believe that it wasn't happening? Here's a better question, what's a supposed fundamentally free market government doing interfering in wage competition? Oh sure there is "rules" against replacing Canadians, because those are a great balance against the possible millions saved breaking them.
It seems pretty simple to me that if the goal with the temporary foreign worker program is to have a Canadians First policy then removing any incentive to break that policy is the solution, if the problem the temporary foreign worker program is to solve is an apparent "labour shortage" then why are two tiered wages needed? Do free market fundamentals not dictate that the increased demand and competition for labour should result in increasing wages? Yet our policy is completely counter intuitive to this goal, not only do we allow companies access to larger pools of workers but they are also cheaper. Why did we even set the stage to allow for this situation in the first place?
This line of thinking inevitably leads to even more questions such as 'why have we been so hasty in allowing them but so slow in addressing the issues they bring?'. Probes and studies are needed to prove it's a program that's prone to abuse which allows employers to sideline labour rights yet no study or probe is done to prove that introducing multiple wage tiers and levels of worker rights won't harm anything. Basically, if you support the TFW program you support direct state intervention in the wage market to allow for employers to not have to respect wage competition which has resulted in a job market where despite constant rhetoric about labour shortages which under normal conditions should be pushing wages up is instead either pushing wages down or keeping them "frozen".
Result here actually isn't correct, the TFWs are themselves a result of margins being squeezed by energy prices and the requirements of infinite growth. If the economy was a living organic being then right now it'd be digesting it's own fat tissue as a result of starvation. The economy is no longer a vehicle to propel real production or innovation but rather to destroy and dismantle what little we have left. Markets recently hit all time highs with economic chaos and suffering at it's grandest. Some say that this is because the market has lost touch with reality, I say the market is trying to show you reality but you're either not listening to it or not believing in it. Believe every time you see the DOW go up real production and the subsequent jobs has been lost. Our society has nothing left to eat but itself now to grow.
Canadian Trends: Two Tier Wage Scales
The reality is now that our infinite growth ponzi-conomy is broken and allowing TFWs papers over this critical flaw and allows it to maintain the appearance of something sort of functional. If you still see the illusion of a "strong stable Canada", or "a recovery", or any of that other nonsense that's only because the portion of the economy you rely on hasn't been devoured yet. Yet.
I was going to do another post today on balancing "private property" with "social responsibility" which was to center around this news article, but it also serves well as an example here of the insane measures of economic cannibalism the human race is currently subjecting itself to, unnecessarily.
Richmond County sheriff's officers were called Tuesday to fend off crowds outside an Augusta grocery store hoping to make off with merchandise that had been set out during an eviction.
Officials said onlookers became angry when they learned they would not be allowed to take away food and other sundries that were piled outside the grocery as "abandoned property."
The crowd dissipated after a swarm of deputies arrived, along with Sheriff Richard Roundtree, to assist the three marshals who had been initailly assigned to the eviction.
"There is the potential to have people fighting and causing problems," said Lt. Calvin Chew. "That's not something we want."
Serles was watching with several friends while workers scooped up the food and other merchandise in trash cans which were in turn, dumped into two waiting garbage bins that officials said were destined for the Richmond County Landfill.
On top of the TFW situation, consider also that a whole lot of you have already been slated for the chopping block due to the 3D printer.
Here's something for you to ponder, Cyprus' "unique resolution" of a "bail-in" happened after our budget was revealed and yet our budget contains this same "bail-in" language. Sure, there are many that are saying that "bail-in's" are what should have been happening in the first place and maybe they should have been but the fact they are happening now is a little suspicious isn't it? After banks have been getting taxpayer money they will now start getting the depositor money instead (too?). A second chance, not to mention double the profit. This tax haven leak and it's timing is interesting too especially since offshore havens would be the sort of places people might try to use to avoid taxes on their deposits, eh? Sure we cheer because they're rich and "we don't like that" but consider that if all of the ways out are closed for them, they'll be closed for you, too. You do know all of the elites had their money hidden long ago, right?
Coming back to two tiered wage scales, you all need to realize this all ties into a much larger picture: All of the bridges to prosperity are being nuked to hell and despite Trudeau's rhetoric (or anyone else's for that matter) about the middle class and the future and crap as we speak all of the avenues out are being closed off. The real criminals ran off with the tax dollars long ago all of this is to nail you to the wall and send you to the poor farm.
The message at this point is loud and clear 'we don't need you'. Does anyone hear it?
List of 'accelerated' TFW approvals reveals widespread abuse of program
Ottawa admits it approved request for foreign workers to replace RBC employees
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Ouch the sun hurts! Moodscope blog.
Does anyone else find sunny days hard? I do. I do adore a sunny day, the heat of a holiday abroad...my healthiest times. Skin out, vitamin D pouring in, mood lifting. A cold sunny day at home, yes. A hot sunny day at home, no.
The pressure to unfurl my 11 month a year winter body (including feet) is daunting. The pressure to squint through the sun, to smile, to join long queues for ice cream, or to barbeque, jeez I hate barbeques! Paddling pools? Ours is always pulled out covered in dust and with a hole or two. Inadequate feelings abound for not have the advert perfect lawn and the water slide picture-perfect between the barbeque and the lush borders.
So I am prepared. I have called upon my childhood. I have saved a few washing up liquid bottles and washed them out. I make good egg mayo. When the day comes, I will make egg mayo sandwiches and wrap them in foil. Tomatoes. Any packet of biscuits. And water fights with cleaned out washing up liquid bottles filled with water...warm water if we feel like being kind to ourselves! Being a grump I will watch from a cushion on the step. If I can stretch to it, maybe a little smile or even a little spray.
Our job in life is not to have it all and be TV perfection. It is to find some sort of balance and be content with the middle road. I'm going to be a middle road! See you there?


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A Michigan doctor charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the Flint water crisis was handed a prestigious award on Wednesday.
Dr. Eden Wells, also accused of obstruction of justice and lying to police, was given the Roy R. Manty Distinguished Service Award during a ceremony in Bay City.
The award is believed to be the highest individual honor given by Michigan's public health community.
"Dr. Wells consistently provides local public health departments and practioners timely (usually immediate), intelligent, expert, reliable, and compassionate support for the entire array of expected and unexpected community health issues that arise daily in our State," said Dr. Annette Mercatante, president of the Michigan Association for Local Public Health, which handed out the award.
A press release notes that Wells was selected for this honor by two committees "due their high regard for her achievements, passion, and commitment of excellence in the field of public health."
Prosecutors believe that she did not show much regard for Flint citizens, claiming she should have done more to inform the public about the Legionnaire's disease outbreak that killed at least 12 people in the area in 2014 and 2015.
Wells has denied the allegations, and a Genesee District Court judge will decide whether she will stand trial for one of the deaths.
Prosecutors have charged five others with involuntary manslaughter, claiming the public was not told about the outbreak until January of 2016.


Parachutes are a great way to learn about gravity and air resistance. They are also a great way to pass the time, especially once you begin to experiment with different weights and sizes. If you already know how to make a simple parachute, why not try a larger, more advanced one instead?
Get a napkin or cut a square out of a plastic bag. If you are going to use a napkin, choose a large, dinner-sized one. A paper towel could also work.
Cover each corner with a piece of tape. Flip the napkin over, and cover the back of each corner as well. This will make the corners nice and strong for the next step.
Punch a hole into each corner with a hole puncher. Make sure that you are only punching through the taped area, otherwise the napkin will rip.
If you don't have a hole puncher, cut a small slit into each corner instead.
Cut four pieces of string. Each piece needs to be the same length as your square. For example, if your square was 8 inches (20 centimeters) on each side, then your strings should be 8 inches (20 centimeters) long.
Thread and tie the strings through the holes. Take your first string and poke the end up through a hole. Bring the end down, and tie it to the rest of the string. Do this for the other strings and corners.
Thread the strings through a button. Find a button that has four holes in it. Feed the other end of each string through each hole. Tie the strings together into one big knot under the button.
You can also tie the strings to a paperclip, a charm, or a small washer.
If you have a small toy, like a Lego or plastic soldier, tie two strings together on each side to make loops.
Toss the parachute. Hold the parachute by the button, then toss it upwards. If you are allowed to, climb up onto a table or chair, and try again! This will give the parachute even more time to float down!
If you made loops for a small toy, slip the loops under the toy's arms first.
Cut a large square out of a plastic bag. Make the square at least 8 inches (20 centimeters) on each side.
This parachute will only work on small toys, about 1 to 2 inches (2.5 to 5 centimeters) tall. Great toys include toy soldiers and Lego men. It won't work on dolls and bears.
Tie a knot into each corner of the square. This will help keep the strings on. Set the square aside when you are done.
Cut two long pieces of string. Each piece of string needs to be twice the length of you square. For example, if your square was 8 inches (20 centimeters) on each side, then the strings should be 16 inches (40 centimeters) long.
You can use yarn, fishing line, embroidery floss, or even thread!
Tie the end of each string to each corner of the square. Take your first string, and tie each end to a corner on the top of the square. Take your second string, and tie each end to the corners on the bottom.
Make sure that you are tying the strings behind the knots so that they don't slide off.
Slip a small toy through the loops. Find a small, plastic figure, like a toy soldier or Lego man. Slip the left loop under the left arm, and the right loop under the right arm. If the strings won't stay on, stick a piece of tape over them.
The toy should be 1 to 2 inches (2.5 to 5 centimeters) tall. If it's too big or heavy, the parachute won't work.
Toss the parachute. Hold the parachute by the toy, toss it upwards, and watch it float down! If you are allowed to, get onto a chair or staircase, and try again. This will give the parachute more time to fall down.
Cut a 24-inch (61-centimeter) square out of a cheap, plastic tablecloth. Make sure it is the thin kind; the kind that have the felt coating on the back will be too thick for this project. If you can't find any cheap, plastic tablecloths, use a large trash bag instead.
This parachute will work on action figures that are 3 to 4 inches (7.6 to 10 centimeters) tall, like Star Wars action figures.
Cut a 5-inch (13-centimeter) square out of each corner. Fold the square in half to make a rectangle, then fold it in half again to make a square. Draw a 5-inch (13-centimeter) square on the corner where all four corners are loose (not joined). Cut the square out, going through all four layers, then unfold the square. You will have something that looks like a plus sign.
Tape together the cut corners along the bottom point. Go to the first corner you cut the 5-inch (13-centimeter) square from. Push the edges together to close the square. Place a 2-inch (5-centimeter) piece of tape halfway over the bottom edge. Leave the bottom half of the tape hanging over the edge of the tablecloth.
Flip the tablecloth over and fold the pieces of tape onto the back. Flip the tablecloth cove. You should still see the pieces of tape sticking out from underneath it. Fold each piece of tape over the edge of the table cloth. Now the corners are taped on both sides.
You will have something that looks like a bag or basket with a slit in each corner. Do not tape these slits up!
Cut two long pieces of string, and make a mark at each end. Find some thin cording, such as crochet string, thin yarn, or kite string. Cut two 30-inch (76-centimeter) pieces. Use a marker to make a dot on each string, 1 inch (2.5 centimeters) away from each end.
You will need two dots on each string, one fo each end. These will be your guides for the next step.
Tape the end of your first string to one of the taped corners. Take your first string, and place the end over one of the corners you taped up. Align the mark with the edge of the tablecloth, then place a strip of tape over it. You will have about ½ inch (1 centimeter) of string peeking out over the top of the tape.
Keep the tape horizontal; don't let it hang over the edge of the parachute.
Tape the end of the string down. Fold the loose end of the string over the tape, towards the edge of the tablecloth. Place another piece of tape over it to secure it.
Tape the other end of the string to the next corner. Use the same technique as before. When you are done, tape the other string in the same way. When you are done, you'll have two loops hanging from your parachute.
Tie a knot into the middle of each loop. Hook your finger through the first loop and tug it away from the parachute to find the middle. Tie a knot in the loop right above your finger. The loop should have equal amounts of string on both sides of the knot.
Repeat this step for the other loop.
Leave some space between the knot and the middle of the string. You want to be able to feed elastic through it.
Slip the mini loops over the arms of an action figure. If the loops are too small, you can link mini rubber bands together to make a harness for the figure. You can also lay a strip of tape across the figure and the string to hold everything together.
What should I do if my parachute will not float?
Try using a lighter object to attach to the parachute. Or, you could use a larger canopy.
What determines the rate of descent on the parachute?
There are two main variables to make the parachute fall at different speeds: 1) The mass of the object that you are attaching to the parachute (more mass=more gravitational force acting on the object) makes the parachute fall at different speeds. 2) The size of the canopy can make a huge difference to the speed of the fall for example a larger canopy traps air resistance making the parachute fall more slowly and making it more effective.
From how high up can I release the parachute?
Holding you hand above your head should be enough. If you can drop it off of a second-story balcony, the parachute will float further. Just make sure that there's no one standing beneath the balcony and that you can get to the parachute again.
How do I stop my toy parachute from turning upside down?
You should cut a circle in the middle of the parachute so that the air resistance doesn't accumulate inside and flip it over.
Will this parchute be a good idea for an egg drop project?
The egg may be too heavy for the parachute. Try making a larger one and experiment. The parachute may not save the egg, but it may slow it down.
Can I attach a toy car to it?
You can try, but it may not work. Most toy cars will be too heavy for such a parachute. YOu could experiment with making a larger parachute, however.
What can I do if I don't have a plastic bag?
You can use a napkin or a tissue. This would work, but be warned, they are not very durable. Plastic bags are easy to come by. Your local grocery or bodega will likely give you one for free.
How do I tie a yarn doll to the parachute?
Could you simply knot a length of yarn or string around the doll's waist?
What should I do if the toy parachute is too light and falls in, even though it has weight?
My advice is to make your parachute a bit larger; also, try to drop your parachute from a higher space.
Can I make a toy parachute out of paper?
Yes, I believe you could make any of these examples using printer paper. Cardstock may be a bit too firm, and may not bend to get maximum air resistance.
Can the table cloth parachute go in the water?
How do I make a canopy for an egg drop challenge?
Can I make a toy parachute for a science experiment?
Can I make a toy parachute with a box?
How much does a small toy parachute weigh?
Make sure that the parachute doesn't have any rips or tears in it.
Color or camouflage the parachute to match your cargo!
Experiment with dropping the parachute from different heights.
The higher you are when you drop, the better the parachute will work. Drop it slowly; don't throw it downward.
You can cut your parachute into other shapes, like octagons or pentagons, but you will need more strings (one for each corner).
If the parachute won't fall straight, poke a small hole in the middle. This will cause the air to pass through it rather than off to the side.
If the parachute fell too fast, the item was probably too heavy. Try using something smaller. If you can't find a smaller item, make a bigger parachute.
Always make sure that there isn't anyone standing in the landing zone underneath the parachute.
To make a toy parachute, start by finding a napkin or cutting a square out of a plastic bag. Next, cover each corner with tape to make them more sturdy. After you've finished all 4 corners, cut a small slit in each taped corner. Then, cut 4 pieces of string to the same length as the sides of your square, and poke a piece of string up through each hole and secure it in a knot. Finally, thread the other ends of the string through a button with 4 holes or paper clip and tie them in a knot. To learn how to attach your parachute to a toy soldier or how to make a larger parachute, read on!
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UK to repatriate 16,000 people on 4th day of Thomas Cook collapse
By Reuters News Service September 26, 2019 0407
Britain's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said over 70 flights are scheduled for Thursday to bring back 16,000 people to the country following the collapse of Thomas Cook.
The authority also said over 150 Thomas Cook crew and 30% of the total number of passengers, in the first three days of the operation, had already been flown back.
CAA said its flying programme would continue until Oct 6, with more than 1,000 flights planned in total. The aviation regulator launched the largest peacetime repatriation on Monday.
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"Convert to Islam or be killed": Tamil Hindu family lives in fear in Sri Lanka
TOPICS:Forced ConversionHindu Human RightsIslamismPersecution of HindusSri LankaTamil GenocideTamil Hindus
Author: HinduPost Staff October 26, 2018
Tamil Hindus living in Ampara district of Eastern Province of Sri Lanka are being threatened to convert to Islam by Muslim radicals, reports IBC Tamil news outlet.
Ampara is the southern district of Eastern Province of Sri Lanka. The Indo-Sri Lanka agreement of 1987 describes Ampara and the Eastern Province as the land of historical habitation of Tamils.
The Tamil Hindu family of Jyothinathan Chandrasekhar, a poor Hindu auto-rickshaw driver, lives in Islamiapuram – a new housing colony for tsunami victims, in the village of Walathappatti in Ampara district. They have been residents in the area for thousands of years through many generations as staunch Hindus.
On 31 August 2018, during the wee hours of the morning, an unidentified group of men arrived at Chandrasekhar's house. They burnt his home to ashes. The three-wheeler (auto-rickshaw), the bread-winner vehicle of the family, was burnt down completely to its metallic frame.
Fortunately, the arrival sounds of the intruders alerted the family. They woke up to escape with their three month old child, and watched their property go up in flames. They would not have survived had they remained asleep.
Jyothinathan Chandrasekhar and his family were attacked by Islamic radicals
Background of the attack
Chandrasekhar has family connections in the village Karadiyanaaru in Batticaloa District. Along with his wife Vinojini and their three-month-old child, he moved from Karadiyanaru to Walathappatti about five years ago.
Muslims colonised Walathappatti after the tsunami and renamed their section as Islamiapuram. Jyothinathan Chandrasekhar and few others were the original Tamil Hindu families who continued to live in the village, which is now dominated by recently arrived Muslims.
Muslims have approached these original Tamil Hindu families and threatened them to convert to Islam. But these traditional Tamil Hindu families resisted. There were violent clashes all through between the jihadis and the Tamil Hindus. Police complaints were registered several times.
"If you live in this village, you have to become Muslims or else you have to leave the area" were the repeated threats by the jihadis.
Here is a video testimony of the terrorised yet defiant Tamil Hindu family with their 3-month old baby, narrating their ordeal at the hand of Muslim radicals, and stating that they will NOT convert to Islam despite all threats –
9 Hindus converted to Islam
9 relatives of Vinojini have been forcibly converted to Islam during this harrowing period. Vinojini and her kith and kin are from Nellikkadu in Batticaloa district.
An Islamic medical practitioner in the area took the initiative to convert these 9 Hindus to Islam. This medical practitioner is from Sammanthurai in Ampara District. He had threatened them by saying, 'convert to Islam or leave Islamiapuram,' and lured those who went for employment in Islamiapuram with clothes, money and provisions, to convert them to Islam.
Inaction by police
Complaints have been made to Sammanthurai police several times. But there was inaction by the police.
When Chandrasekhar and Vinojini went to the police to complain about the burning of their house and the three-wheeler, the police ignored them. The police reluctantly recorded it as a civil dispute even though it was a blatant criminal act.
Request for security
Chandrasekhar and Vinojini stated that Jihadi groups in Islamiapuram are hell bent on converting them to Islam. Their resistance was met with threats. Subsequently these jihadi groups burnt their property.
Chandrasekhar has now moved to stay with his relatives in Karadiyanaaru in Batticaloa district. They carried with them their sacred Hindu murtis and pictures of Hindu Gods, praying all the way for protection.
They fear that the Jihadi hands could extend to their temporary dwelling in Karadiyanru. Having been terrorized once, they are now living in a state of fear.
Ampara district, Eastern Province, Sri Lanka
The poor Saiva Tamil Hindu villagers in the entire Eastern Province continue to be targeted for conversions by radical Tamil-speaking Muslims, who have been heavily funded and armed by Pakistan and Wahhabi Arab countries.
200 Saiva Hindu war widows have been forcibly converted to Islam by their Muslim employer, and have been married off to Muslim men in neighbouring Batticaloa district of Eastern Province.
(Translation of IBC Tamil article done by Ravi and news shared by Kumarathasan Rasingam, a Hindu activist in Canada)
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Gandhi will be my inspiration, says Brown
· 'Relaxed' chancellor in cheerful mood in India
· Focus on terrorism fight as past leaders are praised
Larry Elliott in New Delhi
Thu 18 Jan 2007 19.00 EST
Gordon Brown said last night that Mahatma Gandhi would inspire him as prime minister after publicly admitting for the first time that he would be the successor to Tony Blair.
During a day in which he announced a full-scale shakeup of Britain's fight against terrorism, the chancellor said the cheerful mood evident on his three-day visit to India was the result of him being free to talk about matters outside his Treasury remit. Laying a wreath at the Gandhi memorial in Delhi, he praised the courage shown by the leader of the fight for India's independence, and Margaret Thatcher's struggle against communism.
"I could never compare myself to Gandhi or those other heroes of mine but I do take inspiration from the way that they dealt with the challenges they faced when I think about how I will deal with the challenges the country and the world faces, including the security challenge," he said. "That means especially having the strength of belief and willpower to do what is difficult and right for the long-term, even when there are easier short-term options on offer."
In a separate interview, to be broadcast tonight, Mr Brown was asked whether his trip to India was a taste of things to come. He replied: "For 10 years it has been a discipline talking about the big economic issues, but I feel more relaxed talking about other issues as well."
Asked what had happened to "Grumpy Gordon" Mr Brown joked that his mood had improved by not having to think about the balance of payments.
His comments came as he announced plans for greater parliamentary scrutiny in the fight against terrorism, warning that public support for identity cards and longer detention periods could only be won with tougher safeguards for the "liberty of the constitution".
He gave a strong hint that as prime minister he would introduce a US-style annual national security statement that would report to the Commons on the domestic and international fight against what he called "jihadist extremism".
Mr Brown said he was looking closely at the case for broadening the remit of the government's hand-picked intelligence and security committee. "There is a case for looking at the ISC to ensure it has the fullest parliamentary scrutiny," he said.
At present the ISC is appointed by the government, cannot summon witnesses and has its reports censored by the Cabinet Office before publication. With pressure mounting for greater accountability and transparency following the blunders ahead of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, Mr Brown urged an enhanced role for parliament to ensure "proper accountability."
He added: "Most people recognise the need for greater security and understand the need for greater vigilance. What people worry about is any arbitrariness. We have got to have greater accountability to parliament. That is the essential liberty of the British constitution." Mr Brown signalled that extra spending on security would be announced in the comprehensive spending review later this year. The budget had already doubled from £1bn to £2bn since the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the spending review would "reflect the priority we give to security".
Increased spending on fighting terrorism may be channelled through a single budget rather than being dispersed through separate departments.
"We are looking at a single security budget to bring together the national and international effort," he said. "The case for a single security budget is part of the spending review. The US has a national security strategy that brings together a national and international effort."
Mr Brown said Britain had to learn the lessons of the cold war in order to fight terrorism. "We have got to deal with this at all levels," he said, saying that the government would not shirk from the security, military and intelligence decisions deemed necessary. But the battle also has to be fought at the cultural level."
He said there was a case for "an annual document that is the national security strategy of your country and an annual appraisal of your security system." Aides said later that the review would be the basis for a full parliamentary debate.
Asked whether he was calling for the approach Margaret Thatcher took to the Soviet Union in the 1980s, Mr Brown praised the tough line taken in the whole postwar period. It was a question of what has happened since the 1940s and not just in the 1980s. It was a long process to win the battle of hearts and minds first in western Europe and then in eastern Europe. It didn't start in 1979.
"The lessons are not just from Thatcher and Reagan but what happened in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s."
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West Shore Sail Club presents the 2019 Double-handed Race & Sailboat Get-together held on Saturday, August 24, 2019. The race starts on Saturday and is open to all Double-handed Racers in the Jib and Main, Spinnaker, and Cruising classes. The race starts at 10:00 am from WSSC WNATR North Buoy and finishes at Toledo Beach Marina.
After the race, West Shore Sail Club invites all racers, skipper, crews, and friends to an afterglow following the race at Toledo Beach Marina.
The sailboat get-together -- meeting at Toledo Beach Marina (August 24th and 25th) is open to all that wish to attend and does not require a sign-up for race!
Beverages are on a BYOB basis.