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slaapliedje Wow, the performance is absolutely terrible. I play Rise of the Tomb Raider with no issues at 2560x1440, but this game just chokes at that resolution, even as far as the menus are slow to react when you mouse over the items.
Wut? There's pretty much definitely something wrong with your OS. Looking at your rig, it should be an absolute breeze to run as it runs perfectly fine on both my desktop and laptop.
If there aren't any logs to go by, maybe open a ticket in steam forums regarding the performance? The devs might be able to track it down.
... btw, are you using proprietary nvidia drivers? My testing was ran on 396.24 prop drivers where it performed excellent.
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I loved this game back in the day but never managed to finish it - well, now's the perfect time!
The developer behind DXVK probably has a ton of great job offers in his mailbox already I imagine.
evergreen can somebody tell me if dxvk is good enough for buying far cry 5 and playing with it?
I don't have FarCry5 myself to test, but from what I heard from Xpander, it runs really well under DXVK at the moment. I'll link him here so he could provide more info.
I don't usually dig these types of games, however the setting looks too good to pass up. I'll be waiting.
"I love DRM free games!" - Just putting it out there... you know.
zeb Has anyone tried to run the Vulkan version of Doom 2016? It starts, but at the very beginning, during the Bethesda logo video, image stutters and freezes. I am using Arch, 64-bit, with a 64-bit wine prefix.
Doom has pretty much been working via Wine since its release. As it supports Vulkan API by default, there is no need for DXVK or similar as Linux GPU drivers natively support Vulkan anyway. Haven't tested it with wine3.x though, but I doubt they have broken it.
The last I tried it was with wine2.3-staging and it worked right out of the box with a fresh wineprefix - if the new one gives you trouble, you could try it with this older wine version.
Looks like something up my alley - will definitely give this one a go.
Witcher3 performance as per my testing seems to be around 1fps worse in comparisson with wine3.4... but that's, yeah, nothing to talk about.
CSMT pulls the performance down by 5-8fps for me, so just a clean wineprefix only with dxvk seems to have the best performance.
Also, some items in the game are missing still - like Kikimore eggs, they're invisible... it's fun trying to burn invisible items with Igni.


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A Torture Report To Spell Big Trouble For Bush Lawyers
February 14, 2009 in Government Accountability/Ethics, Protecting Democracy | Leave a comment
An internal Justice Department report on the conduct of senior lawyers who approved waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics is causing anxiety among former Bush administration officials. H. Marshall Jarrett, chief of the department's ethics watchdog unit, the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), confirmed last year he was investigating whether the legal advice in crucial interrogation memos "was consistent with the professional standards that apply to Department of Justice attorneys." According to two knowledgeable sources who asked not to be identified discussing sensitive matters, a draft of the report was submitted in the final weeks of the Bush administration. It sharply criticized the legal work of two former top officials—Jay Bybee and John Yoo—as well as that of Steven Bradbury, who was chief of the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) at the time the report was submitted, the sources said. (Bybee, Yoo and Bradbury did not respond to multiple requests for comment.)
But then–Attorney General Michael Mukasey and his deputy, Mark Filip, strongly objected to the draft, according to the sources. Filip wanted the report to include responses from all three principals, said one of the sources, a former top Bush administration lawyer. (Mukasey could not be reached; his former chief of staff did not respond to requests for comment. Filip also did not return a phone message.) OPR is now seeking to include the responses before a final version is presented to Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. "The matter is under review," said Justice spokesman Matthew Miller.
Senior U.S. Officers Investigated for Iraq Corruption
February 14, 2009 in Corporate Accountability/Ethics, Economy/Your Money, Government Accountability/Ethics, Military/Veteran's Care, Protecting Democracy | Leave a comment
Federal authorities examining the early, chaotic days of the $125 billion American-led effort to rebuild Iraq have significantly broadened their inquiry to include senior American military officers who oversaw the program, according to interviews with senior government officials and court documents.
Court records show that last month investigators subpoenaed the personal bank records of Col. Anthony B. Bell, who is now retired from the Army but who was in charge of reconstruction contracting in Iraq in 2003 and 2004 when the small operation grew into a frenzied attempt to remake the country's broken infrastructure. In addition, investigators are examining the activities of Lt. Col. Ronald W. Hirtle of the Air Force, who was a senior contracting officer in Baghdad in 2004, according to two federal officials involved in the inquiry.
It is not clear what specific evidence exists against the two men, and both said they had nothing to hide from investigators. Yet officials say that several criminal cases over the past few years point to widespread corruption in the operation the men helped to run. As part of the inquiry, the authorities are taking a fresh look at information given to them by Dale C. Stoffel, an American arms dealer and contractor who was killed in Iraq in late 2004.
Typical republican greed, Cheney must be envious
Call to Hold the Bush Admin Accountable
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Rumsfeld Knew His Guys Were Torturing People to Death
Steven Pizzo-During the Bush years Americans the boogeyman used to keep Americans cowed was the real or imagined threat of imminent terrorist attack.
Now we have a new president – and we have a new boogeyman – the economic meltdown. .
Now don't get me wrong. Anyone who's read this column over the past few years knows I've been Chicken Littling about the financial house of cards for a long time. And, now that it's finally collapsed, it's even worse than I predicted, and getting worse by the day.
Which is why Obama and his team are on the tube night and day talking about nothing else — as if Americans are concerned about nothing, which isn't true.
71% of Americans want to see Bush administration investigated
71% of Americans are in favor of an investigation into the possible misuse of the Department of Justice by the Bush administration according to a Gallup poll released yesterday.
That's a pretty startling number, even for those of us who've been arguing for investigations for some time now. After all, Obama didn't get 71% of the vote, which means that a lot of folks who voted for McCain also want equal justice applied equally.
One reason for this surprisingly robust groundswell for investigations may be that each day, formerly secret Bush-era documents surface that truly shock the conscience.
Just yesterday the ACLU got it's hands on a truly smoking gun memo written for then Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld. This document informed Rumsfeld that those he'd tasked with beating information out of suspected terrorists had not just tortured them, but tortured some of them, to death. In other words, they murdered them.
No, I'm not kidding. Here read the original document yourself.
Tim Geithner, Tell Us Why You're Rescuing the Very Private Interests that Led Us to Ruin
February 13, 2009 in Corporate Accountability/Ethics, Economy/Your Money, Government Accountability/Ethics | Leave a comment
William Greider–
The look and tone of the Treasury Secretary reminds me of the third grade. The smartest kid in the class, the one teachers loved, was the boy who always raised his hand and waved it impatiently while some other student fumbled for an answer. If the teacher stepped out of the room for a moment, bedlam usually followed and this kid would try to restore order. "Be quiet or I will tell." Kids threw things and tormented him until the teacher returned.
Timothy Geithner reminded me of that type as he lectured the country on how the Obama administration intends to save the financial system. The country is apparently responding in kind — hurling blistering comments at him and the "best and brightest" who are now in high office. How could these smart people be so dumb about things everyone else already understands? Americans do not need to be told, as Geithner did, that they have "lost faith." The remark is condescending and infuriates further.
What people wanted to hear, in plain English, were hard answers and an honest acknowledgment of the extreme irregularity of events — government is rushing to rescue the very private interests that led us to sorrow. Instead, Geithner told us he has a "plan." He will share the details at some later date. Be calm. Stay tuned.
25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis
February 12, 2009 in Corporate Accountability/Ethics, Economy/Your Money, Government Accountability/Ethics | 1 comment
Funny how so few of them are Democrats……….
Obama stalls Bush drilling plans
February 11, 2009 in Environmental, Government Accountability/Ethics, Local, Social Responsibility | Leave a comment
The new administration has moved quickly to reverse or delay Bush policy on drilling and pollution.
Less than a month into his administration, President Obama is making good on campaign promises to move toward a comprehensive approach to US energy and to broaden environmental protections. The administration has moved over the past few weeks to undo many of Bush's last-minute drilling and environmental decisions, including putting the brakes Tuesday on a plan to open up vast new areas off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to offshore drilling.
In swift succession, the Obama administration has:
• Ordered the Environmental Protection Authority to reconsider its decision to deny California permission to set standards controlling greenhouse-gas emissions from motor vehicles – if permitted, this would allow 13 more states to follow suit.
• Abandoned a Bush administration legal appeal in a major air pollution case – signaling it will allow tougher rules to cut mercury emissions from power plants.
• Canceled 77 Bush-era oil and gas leases over 100,000 acres of public land near national parks in Utah.
• Announced an intent to develop an offshore energy plan that includes renewable resources, giving states and the federal government more time to study and assess the future of offshore energy planning.
Its about time……..
Doctor of poor: Wall Street can 'burn in hell'
CNN) — Luis Caplan served the poor of the South Bronx for decades out of a small medical office. His leg was amputated after a bout with cancer in 1990, yet he continued to work for another five years.
Now, his savings has nearly been wiped out because of the economic crisis. At the age of 71, he faces losing his apartment if things don't change soon. The government bailed out the big institutions, but "what happens to the little people," he asks.
"What happens to the real middle class? What happens to me?" he says, choking back tears. "It's awful. It's really awful."
With Congress working to pass the $800 billion stimulus bill, millions of Americans — especially those with homes they're trying to sell or about to be foreclosed on — are asking the same thing: What's in it for me?
GOP Opposes Pay Limits On Bailed-Out Bankers
February 8, 2009 in Corporate Accountability/Ethics, Economy/Your Money, Government Accountability/Ethics | Leave a comment
Typical GOP disregard for for the rest of us…..
Wall Street bankers, with their $18 billion in bonuses, private jets and gaudy conferences, are causing headaches for the GOP.
President Obama has proposed capping compensation for executives at banks that take taxpayer bailout money at $500,000. Republicans hate the idea — a position puts them uncomfortably on the side of people currently about as popular as child-porn producers and subprime mortgage brokers.
Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-AZ) blamed the "tone deaf" bankers for creating the political environment that allows Obama…
Want to know what was cut from the Stimulus Package?
February 8, 2009 in Economy/Your Money, Environmental, Government Accountability/Ethics, Local, Political, Science, Social Responsibility | Leave a comment
Partially cut:
• $3.5 billion for energy-efficient federal buildings (original bill $7 billion)
• $75 million from Smithsonian (original bill $150 million)
• $200 million from Environmental Protection Agency Superfund (original bill $800 million)
• $100 million from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (original bill $427 million)
• $100 million from law enforcement wireless (original bill $200 million)
• $300 million from federal fleet of hybrid vehicles (original bill $600 million)
• $100 million from FBI construction (original bill $400 million)
Fully eliminated
• $55 million for historic preservation
• $122 million for Coast Guard polar icebreaker/cutters
• $100 million for Farm Service Agency modernization
• $50 million for Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service
• $65 million for watershed rehabilitation
• $100 million for distance learning
• $98 million for school nutrition
• $50 million for aquaculture
• $2 billion for broadband
• $100 million for National Institute of Standards and Technology
• $50 million for detention trustee
• $25 million for Marshalls Construction
• $300 million for federal prisons
• $300 million for BYRNE Formula grant program
• $140 million for BYRNE Competitive grant program
• $10 million state and local law enforcement
• $50 million for NASA
• $50 million for aeronautics
• $50 million for exploration
• $50 million for Cross Agency Support
• $200 million for National Science Foundation
• $100 million for science
• $1 billion for Energy Loan Guarantees
• $4.5 billion for General Services Administration
• $89 million General Services Administration operations
• $50 million from Department of Homeland Security
• $200 million Transportation Security Administration
• $122 million for Coast Guard Cutters, modifies use
• $25 million for Fish and Wildlife
• $20 million for working capital fund
• $165 million for Forest Service capital improvement
• $90 million for State and Private Wildlife Fire Management
• $1 billion for Head Start/Early Start
• $5.8 billion for Health Prevention Activity
• $2 billion for Health Information Technology Grants
• $600 million for Title I (No Child Left Behind)
• $16 billion for school construction
• $3.5 billion for higher education construction
• $1.25 billion for project based rental
• $2.25 billion for Neighborhood Stabilization
• $1.2 billion for retrofitting Project 8 housing
• $40 billion for state fiscal stabilization (includes $7.5 billion of state incentive grants)
New RNC chairman under investigation
February 7, 2009 in Government Accountability/Ethics, Political, Protecting Democracy | Leave a comment
WASHINGTON – Michael S. Steele, the newly elected chairman of the Republican National Committee, arranged for his 2006 Senate campaign to pay a defunct company run by his sister for services that were never performed, his finance chairman from that campaign has told federal prosecutors.
Federal agents in recent days contacted Steele's sister, a spokesman for Steele said yesterday.
The claim about the payment, one of several allegations by Alan B. Fabian, is outlined in a confidential court document. Fabian offered the information last March as he was seeking leniency for himself during plea negotiations on unrelated fraud charges. It is unclear how extensively his claims have been pursued. Prosecutors gave him no credit for cooperation when he was sentenced in October.
America threatened to withhold intelligence from Britain if it released documents related to torture of a Guantanamo detainee
February 7, 2009 in Government Accountability/Ethics, Protecting Democracy | Leave a comment
A FLURRY of letters between the British Foreign Office and the US State Department has revealed that Washington did threaten to withdraw intelligence-sharing with Britain if documents related to the alleged torture of a British terrorism detainee in Guantanamo Bay were made public.
The High Court in London said on Wednesday the Foreign Office had refused to allow the torture documents to be revealed because of a "threat" from Washington to stop sharing intelligence with Britain.
The US warning, related to the case of British detainee Binyam Mohamed, was promptly denied by British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who insisted that there had been no threat from the US to "break off intelligence co-operation".
But on Thursday night British broadcaster Channel 4 revealed that a letter dated August 21, 2008, from the US State Department, stated the consequences if a British court published American documents on the capture and interrogation of Mohamed.
Alaska Senate: Palin's husband, staff in contempt
February 7, 2009 in Government Accountability/Ethics, Political | Leave a comment
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Senate on Friday found Gov. Sarah Palin's husband and nine state employees, including some of her top aides, in contempt for ignoring subpoenas to testify in the Legislature's Troopergate investigation.
The Senate said it would seek no punishment for the witnesses' failure to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee last fall in an investigation into the governor's firing of her public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan.
"During the Monegan investigation, we were reminded that the legislative branch's power of subpoena is an important one, and must be respected by the executive branch," said Sen. Hollis French, D-Anchorage. "With this resolution, the Senate is making it clear that we are a coequal branch of state government."
When are people going to understand that Palin is just another self-promoting, lying republican who thinks that they are above the law. She is good for one thing and one thing only, and its not politics. She fulfills the sexual fantasy of the sexually oppressed republican male, nothing more. This is the one thing that the McCain camp got right in selecting her.
The Whole World Is Rioting as the Economic Crisis Worsens — Why Aren't We?
Explosive anger is spilling out onto the streets of Europe. The meltdown of the global economy is igniting massive social unrest in a region that has long been a symbol of political stability and social cohesion.
It's not a new trend: A wave of upheaval is spreading from the poorer countries on the periphery of the global economy to the prosperous core.
Over the past few years, a series of riots spread across what is patronizingly known as the Third World. Furious mobs have raged against skyrocketing food and energy prices, stagnating wages and unemployment in India, Senegal, Yemen, Indonesia, Morocco, Cameroon, Brazil, Panama, the Philippines, Egypt, Mexico and elsewhere.
For the most part, those living in wealthier countries took little notice. But now, with the global economy crashing down around us, people in even the wealthiest nations are mad as hell and reacting violently to what they view as an inadequate response to their tumbling economies.
The Telegraph (UK) warned last month that protests over governments' handling of the crisis "are widespread and gathering pace," and "may spark a new revolution":
Happy Birthday Ronald Reagan (Thanks for Ruining America)
February 7, 2009 in Corporate Accountability/Ethics, Economy/Your Money, Government Accountability/Ethics, Political, Protecting Democracy | Leave a comment
Ronald Reagan's 98th birthday is being celebrated today at a time that should be a cause for soul searching among his admirers. The conservative revolution that Reagan unleashed upon the nation and much of the world lay in ashes, and Washington is embarking on a new epoch of government intervention to eradicate the excesses of free-market purism. One would expect liberals to be out in the streets looking for statues of the Gipper to topple from their pedestals.
But nothing of the kind is happening. While George W. Bush is now the bane even of many conservatives, a Marine Corps contingent will lay a wreath at Reagan's gravesite safe in the knowledge that much of the nation holds his memory in a warm embrace.
Historians may one day view this as an odd historical conundrum, since Reagan's legacy is so clearly imprinted on the myriad of forces that have vitiated the American dream for millions of working people and brought wreckage to the world economy.
The continuing fallout from Reagan's policies – the meltdown of the financial sector, widening income inequality, the emergence of lockdown America, the obscene inflation of CEO compensation, the end of locally owned media, market crashes, blackouts, drug-company scandals, rampant greed and materialism — is all around us. As D.H. Lawrence once wrote in another context, "The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins."
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Trouble in paradise? The AML failings of the Paradise Papers leak
[fa icon="calendar"] 16-Nov-2017 16:35:36 / by Stephen Stewart
If you've been following the news over the past week or so you'll no doubt be aware of the latest dossier on leaked information – titled the Paradise Papers – from the International Consortium of International Journalists (ICIJ).
The ICIJ (a global network of more than 200 investigative journalists in 70 countries who collaborate on in-depth investigative stories) leads the global investigation into offshore financial centres (OFCs), and is primarily responsible for once again shining a light on the discreet dealings found across the world of offshore finance.
While the media has focused mostly on the litany of tax avoidance schemes run through OFCs, the 13 million document leak has also highlighted some alleged key deficiencies in the anti-money laundering (AML) controls of the firm from which the documents originate, Appleby.
In this blog, then, we'll have a look at some of the key issues relating to Appleby and the lessons that can be learnt by other businesses subject to anti-money laundering obligations.
The AML risk of international business companies (IBCs)
International business companies (IBCs) are a core component of most OFCs. These are entities that have been incorporated in the jurisdiction, but who are legally forbidden from trading in that jurisdiction and are perfectly suited to be used as legitimate tax vehicles. However, at the same time, IBCs are systemically vulnerable to abuse by money launderers and to exposure to the proceeds of money laundering and corruption. OFCs are typically identified as being vulnerable to money laundering for the following reasons.
OFCs rarely offer a publicly available company register and thus offer a higher level of secrecy for beneficial owners, as it is difficult to identify an entity or its key personnel. This is further exacerbated by the use of formation agents, or corporate directors, as company directors, trustsand by nominee shareholders(which allow the true controller/beneficial owner to be one step removed from the entity). All of the above make it particularly difficult for Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) to identify the assets that a criminal might be holding in an OFC.
Less stringent controls
At a national governmental level, OFCs typically employ less stringent AML controls, or are at least considered to be at the looser end of the implementation of the FATF recommendations. This can be reflected in the companies that choose to operate in these regions (who might have a lesser focus on AML and compliance in general), as highlighted by the named firm's failings noted below.
Low taxes/high set up and servicing costs
The cost of setting up and operating in an OFC can be high, but the premium is offset by the low tax rates, especially when combined with the other 'benefits' mentioned above.
In the traditional AML model of placement, layering and integration, the IBC can thus be used to layer transactions, or hold assets, to create distance between the origin of the illegitimate funds.
Ultimately, while IBC entities are legal – and there are legitimate reasons for utilising such vehicles (particularly for UK non-domiciles or non-resident individuals with UK assets) – they naturally pose an increased risk of money laundering.
Knowing your clients is essential
A standout fact of the 1.4Tb Paradise Papers leak is that Appleby appears to have failed to sufficiently understand their customers, their source of funds and their overall client profile.
It seems that Appleby repeatedly failed to adequately identify the beneficiaries and the controllers of trusts, to identify politically exposed persons (PEPs) (including those previously associated with corruption) and, in one case, appears to have failed to recognise that the ultimate beneficial owner (UBO) of a client was the brother of a particularly high ranking Iraqi PEP who was politically active during the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, and that the client themselves may have been sanctioned.
This was apparently compounded by inadequate checks on client source of funds and a failure to follow up on an audit determination that the firm had accepted a number of suspicious payments without asking questions, including payments related to a fraudulent Canadian tax scheme.
While there may sometimes be circumstances where you might not be 100% satisfied you understand a client relationship or profile, you must, nevertheless, be fully satisfied you have identified any high risk indicators present in the relationship.
As a firm are you confident you know your client base? Can you be reasonably satisfied their client profile is up to date and you understand their source of funds? Are you confident that you understand an entity's structure and identified its controllers?
Documentation, documentation, documentation!
Alongside a failure to understand their clients, the Paradise Papers show Appleby's failure to collect and maintain the correct customer due diligence documentation for all their clients. UBOs were not correctly identified beyond nominee shareholders, for example and it appears that at one point, the firm had approximately 600 active clients with insufficient verification documents and they did not have the contact details necessary to rectify the issue.
Does your firm hold and maintain the correct documentation for your clients? Are clients regularly reviewed to ensure that the correct documentation is held?
Focus on client risk assessments
The Paradise Papers illustrates that the firm failed to identify higher risk clients and deal with these clients in an adequate manner.
This raises three questions.
Does yourrisk assessmentgive sufficient weighting to factors such as the involvement of offshore firms, IBCs and convoluted structures that appear to have no material purpose?
How much reliance are you willing to place on a regulated firm and/or a corporate director that provides you information when dealing with a company based in an OFC?
If you are content to deal with IBCs, corporate directors and nominee shareholders that are based in an OFC, what extra checks are in place to mitigate these risks?
Culture of compliance
The leaked information paints a picture of a firm with little or no ingrained culture of compliance but also shows that the compliance staff continually faced an uphill battle to act appropriately. Reports of training material that constantly focused in on compliance failures and the firm's over-exposure to AML risk, does much to highlight that serious concerns were raised.
This is corroborated by reports of internal and external audit results that flagged serious issues that appeared to go unaddressed, including a finding from an external audit by a large national supervisory authority that approximately half of the client files held at one office failed to meet even the basic requirements expected per the firm's stated processes and procedures. The audit also concluded that there was "no evidence" that the firm identified risks of money laundering and terrorism financing. Yet more serious is the staggering fact that individuals in the firm held discussions over whether they should move a PEP client to an office in a different country to avoid the requirements set by the national supervisory authority.
However, the leak does show that, at least in later years, an increased focus on compliance and controls had started to identify clients at the initial stage. This was a positive step insofar as a Russian real estate mogul indicted for fraud, as well as an Azeri businessman identified as a potential front for the proceeds of Azeri government corruption, which were both declined as clients.
How engaged is your senior management and board in compliance matters? Is the management information sufficiently detailed and robust and are those responsible for directing and managing your business sufficiently aware of their individual and corporate liability that they lead from the top in establishing a culture of compliance?
By highlighting the risks that firms can take without suitable financial crime controls or a basic understanding of who their customer is, the Paradise Papers put more than just tax avoidance back on the map.
If you think your risk assessment could use a readjustment, or you need help to ensure you have an appropriate customer profile for all clients, please contact me or one of my colleagues to discuss how we can help.
Thanks to the ICIJ for their tremendous effort in investigating this leak and bringing this information to light.
This post contains a general summary of advice and is not a complete or definitive statement of the law. Specific advice should be obtained where appropriate.
Topics: AML Audit, fincrime
Written by Stephen Stewart
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sailor, Italian patriot, and soldier
Died aged 74
Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi ( GARR-ib-AWL-dee, Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe ɡariˈbaldi] (); 4 July 1807 – 2 June 1882) was an Italian general, patriot, and republican. He contributed to the Italian unification and the creation of the Kingdom of Italy.He is considered to be one of the greatest generals of modern times and one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland", along with Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Victor Emmanuel II of Italy and Giuseppe Mazzini. Garibaldi is also known as the "Hero of the Two Worlds" because of his military enterprises in South America and Europe. Garibaldi was a follower of the Italian nationalist Mazzini, and embraced the republican nationalism of the Young Italy movement. He became a supporter of Italian unification under a democratic Republican government. After participating in an uprising in Piedmont, he was sentenced to death, but escaped by sailing to South America; he spent 14 years in exile, taking part in several wars and learning the art of guerrilla warfare.In 1835, in Brazil, he took up the cause of the Riograndense Republic in its attempt to proclaim another republic within Santa Catarina, joining the rebels known as the Farrapos. Garibaldi also became involved in the Uruguayan Civil War, raising an Italian force known as Redshirts, and is still celebrated as an important contributor to Uruguayan independence. In 1848, Garibaldi returned to Italy and commanded and fought in military campaigns that eventually led to Italian unification. The provisional government of Milan made him a general, and in 1849, the Minister of War promoted him to General of the Roman Republic. When the war of independence broke out in April 1859, he led his Hunters of the Alps in the capture of Varese and Como and reached the frontier of South Tyrol; the war ended with the acquisition of Lombardy. The following year, he led the Expedition of the Thousand on behalf of and with the consent of Victor Emmanuel II. The expedition was a success and concluded with the annexation of Sicily, Southern Italy, Marche and Umbria to the Kingdom of Sardinia, before the creation of a unified Kingdom of Italy on 17 March 1861. His last military campaign took place during the Franco-Prussian War, as commander of the Army of the Vosges. Garibaldi became an international figurehead for national independence and republican ideals. He was showered with admiration and praises by many intellectuals and political figures, such as Abraham Lincoln, William Brown, Francesco de Sanctis, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, George Sand, Charles Dickens, Friedrich Engels, and Che Guevara. Historian A. J. P. Taylor called him "the only wholly admirable figure in modern history". In the popular telling of his story, he is associated with the red shirts that his volunteers, the Garibaldini, wore in lieu of a uniform.
Commemorated on 5 plaques
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Tynemouth, United Kingdom
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Bellagio, Italy
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Sailor / soldier Giuseppe Garibaldi 19th century Italian patriot stayed in this house in 1854 while visiting Tynemouth to brief local political and industrial leaders on his plans for a unified Italy. He was hailed throughout Europe as true idealist and honest politician. He was born in Nice on 4th Feb 1807 and died aged 75 in Caprerra on 2nd June 1882.
9 Huntingdon Place, Tynemouth, United Kingdom where they was
IX. Giuseppe Garibaldi dittatore proclamando proprieta nazionale il Museo e gli scavi questi dotava di piu largo assegnamento perche procedesse non interrotta e spedita la scoperta di Pompei ordinava si Riaprissero le Ribadite porte delle sale riservate salvando da inevitabile rovina monumenti preziosi di pittura e di plastica
Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Napoli, Italy where they proclaimed national property the museum and excavations
Nel primo centenario della nascita Giuseppe Garibaldi Bellagio Scolpisce da l'eroe rivolte alla societa di M. S. fra operai e contadini che altera lo ebbe suo Presidente Onorario Alla societa mutua Bellagio Grazie per il gentile vostro telegramma del 23 e per il saluto che vi Ricambio di cuore sempre vostro G. Garibaldi Caprera 21-7-76
English translation: In the first centenary of his birth Giuseppe Garibaldi Bellagio Sculpts from the uprisings hero the company of M. S. between workers and peasants that alters it had Its Honorary President The mutual society Bellagio Thank you for your kind telegram 23 and for the greeting you to your heart always Replacement G. Garibaldi Caprera 07/21/76
Municipio - Via Giuseppe Garibaldi, Bellagio, Italy where they is commemorated
Questa casa ospito Giuseppe Garibaldi Quando nel Giugno MDCCCLXVI Raccolse e agguerri I militi volontari che poi condusse alla Vittoria die Monte Suello e di Bezzecca auspici Le cittadine associazioni a perpetua ricordanza del fatto questa lapide fu posta il IX Luglio MDCCCLXXXII
English translation: It hosts this house Giuseppe Garibaldi When in June 1866 The soldiers picked up and agguerri volunteers which then led to Victory day Monte Suello and Bezzecca auspices The citizens' associations a perpetual memorial of the fact this inscription It was laid on 9th July 1882
Museo Garibaldi - Piazza Medaglie d'Oro Comasche, Como, Italy where they stayed (1866)
To commemorate visits to this city and to a book shop in this house by Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1854, Louis Kossuth in 1856, W. Lloyd Garrison in 1876
Nelson Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom where they was


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WASHINGTON D.C. – Republican members of the Senate Budget Committee sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar today on his agency's plan to address the $89 billion of improper payments made within the Medicare and Medicaid programs each year. Budget Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) led fellow committee members Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Ron Johnson (R-WI), Bob Corker (R-TN), David Perdue (R-GA), John Boozman (R-AR), John Kennedy (R-LA), Cory Gardner (R-CO), Pat Toomey (R-PA), and Tom Cotton (R-AR) in pushing HHS to reduce these improper payments and ensure proper stewardship of taxpayer dollars.
Taking immediate steps to assess and improve data available for Medicaid program oversight.
"Acting on the outstanding GAO recommendations is essential to reducing the amount of improper payments in these programs and could extend the life of Medicare's Hospital Insurance trust fund. As members of the Senate Budget Committee, we believe that a high priority must be placed on reducing improper payments and ensuring proper stewardship of taxpayer dollars," wrote the senators.


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I think I cañ, I think I cañ, I think I cañ… The little law that could?
Walking about this weekend, I noticed this Banksy -esque form of self expression that I just couldn't resist dwelling on. A quick Google search led me to this 2011 campaign advocating having the NYC subway "N" line turned into the "Ñ" line during Hispanic Heritage Month every year.
As a recent transplant to "The City", anything reminiscent of my heritage is bound to evoke excitement and curiosity in me, but it also got me thinking about how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and other public health policies power on like trains if you are ready for them or not. It is no secret that catching a ride on the healthcare system train is disproportionately harder for members of different ethnic and racial groups on the United States. Although it has been touted as a great equalizer – "the law will address inequities and increase access to quality, affordable health coverage, invest in prevention and wellness, and give individuals and families more control over their care"– this law, just like trains, has a set time and skip-stop schedule that can leave passengers stranded. We already know that undocumented immigrants will not be able to participate, leaving 2.6 million individuals standing on the side lines; No papers, No ticket.
With 15.5 million uninsured Latinos/Hispanics as of 2011 I just have to question how will the healthcare system address the influx of those new enrollees? How accessible will bilingual doctors and specialists be? Up to 8.5 million of those Latinos qualifying for ACA will do so thru Medicaid, an already saturated system… How will it handle them?
As of now, the route from the yards to the first stop of the ACA train has been bumpy at best, but who knows, maybe this will be the little law that could?
What do you think? How are you seeing the law implemented in your state? Does the Latino/Hispanic community know about their options? Do they have options?
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Take Me to Your Latino Leader: Where are the Political MVPs?


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When an injury occurs, a Hockey Canada Injury Report Form must be submitted to the BC Hockey office within 90 days of the injury. The form can be found on the forms page of the BC Hockey website. Invoices can be submitted for up to 52 weeks after the injury date.
The claim form must be completed in full. The form has portions that must be completed by the member, a team official and doctor or dentist.
If reimbursement is requested and an incomplete claim has been filed, it will be returned to the member for completion before any further processing.
If page 2 is submitted separately from page 1, the member's name must be written on the page. It should also include the member's association and injury date.
Invoices can be submitted for up to 365 days after the injury date.
Once an individual's primary insurance has made payment on treatment, the original statement of coverage from the primary insurer as well as copies of the receipts / invoices should be sent to the BC Hockey office. All documents must clearly list the injured member's name and should also include the member's association and injury date.
If the member has NO other insurance (apart from provincial) – Original receipts / invoices should be submitted to the BC Hockey office. All documents must clearly list the injured member's name and should also include the member's association and injury date.
Because processing a claim can take several weeks, it is recommended that the member pay the medical / dental bill and then be reimbursed.
The Hockey Canada National Insurance Program has specific coverage limits. Details regarding coverage can be found in the Safety Requires Teamwork booklet.
As with other insurance plans, coverage limits can vary depending on the type of treatment received.
The injury report must be submitted within 90 days of the injury; receipts can be submitted for treatment within 52 weeks of the injury.
To receive reimbursement for physiotherapy, you must submit a referral from a qualified physician or surgeon.
Coverage may be offered for leg braces, etc. only if it is required for day-to-day activity. A prescription from a qualified physician or surgeon will need to be submitted.
Because the Hockey Canada Insurance Program is a supplementary provider, any athlete from out of Canada playing on a registered BC Hockey team must obtain separate basic medical insurance in order to receive assistance under the Hockey Canada Insurance Program.
The Hockey Canada Insurance Program is unable to provide pre-authorizations for dental procedures.


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Letter From the Editor on Issue 3
Inverted Syntax Issue 3 | November 2020 Cover Art "Earth-like" by Violet Mitchell
We hope you are staying safe and finding ways to replenish your spirits. Here at Inverted Syntax we have been busy in continuing to work towards addressing our publishing practices. We wanted to send a progress report in September but we got caught up preparing our print Issue 3 for you, which by the way is now available for preorder.
Before we get to our practices, here's a quick peek into Issue 3. In this print issue, we bring to you, dear reader, the embodied and disembodied, the self and absence of self: self as a place, as a thing, as the missing, as a life, as the dead. When we were accepting pieces for publication we must have been connecting with those themes because we found ourselves shocked by the number of narratives that centered around grief, self, and language. It was clear that we wanted to bring them together because we wanted to be whole, because all the topics, from grief, to sex, to language were the disembodied self seeking a way to make itself whole again. We saw ourselves, the editorial team, in these pieces, and we leaned into each, bringing with us our own sadness and joys, despair and hopes.
It almost feels as though we created Issue 3 as therapy; as a community space to find solace in our shared joys and suffering; to be a space for readers to find comfort in the shared grieving, in the experience of losing ourselves, or being robbed of our selves. As in past issues, Issue 3 speaks to our deepest subconscious desires about our mortality. We ask you to embrace this issue as a story you wrote — enter it and discover art as a map to the subconscious at work in your life. You'll find that it is already in conversation with you, before you even open its pages, it connects you to an alternate space, where you will discover that you are not only reading this book, you are also in it — your voice, too, has been woven in and become the text and art.
I have said before that putting an issue together is about building a language for our readers — a way in which we seek to be understood, and it starts with the narrative. In my work as an editor of Inverted Syntax I know we are telling a story through the words, works, and people we choose to publish, and we here at Inverted Syntax have been actively seeking ways to revise and create a more inclusive narrative, reflective of many diverse voices and reflective of who we are as a literary magazine. Inverted Syntax's editorial board discovered that in 2020 we looked for submissions that were about more than just resisting conformity and complacency in style or form. More than anything, this year we sought work that turned us inside out and revealed something profound and often menacing about our shared human experience.
The murders and continued lynching of Black and Brown bodies have left us in revolt, feeling angered, raw, and at times, helpless and at a loss. In response, we decided this summer to begin bringing forth the change we wish to see in public by reviewing our own private actions, habits, and practices, and we shared with you our goals for improving our publishing practices in particular.
Our primary goal at the start of this summer was to do our part to actively tear at the vestiges of racism that permeates all aspects of society and end up seeping into our veins to become our implicit biases. As editor, I saw it as my role to begin an open discussion with the editorial team to find new ways to better attract writers from diverse backgrounds. I am conscious of my responsibility in this role — along with the editorial team and advisory board, and our writers, readers, and publishers — to take action in dismantling the systems of oppression by addressing the ways in which we have held implicit biases, and as a result, been complicit in these systems of oppression.
I put forth an examination of our publishing practices so all facets of our literary magazine mirror not only our humanity, but also our values as those who vehemently oppose racism and desire racial equity, and as those who seek to actively support ways to eradicate all traces of discrimination that persist and suppress human beings. I have been regularly asking my team questions about our publishing practices so as to hold ourselves accountable in the role we have played and in the spaces we have made and not made for Black, Indigenous, and all artists and writers of color.
We have since taken actionable steps to help us reform our publishing practices:
We surveyed our past submitters to help us learn the demographics of who sends us work, and to solicit feedback to help us improve both how we attract submitters and how we can continue to read blind, with a lens not predisposed to filter out racially diverse texts or writers.
We discovered that one of our publishing practices that affects who we publish was related to marketing: we had not been effective in reaching racially diverse communities. By engaging in more thoughtful and intentionally inclusive marketing, we have already successfully begun to build a racially diverse group of readers and submitters.We extended our Sublingua Prize for thirty more days, eliminated fees, and made it available only to those able to identify as BIPoC.
Through our contacts, we initiated discussions for partnerships with VONA, HBUCs, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and other organizations, inviting their writers and artists to apply to be readers, interns, and to submit work.
All Inverted Syntax editors and readers were asked to improve their understanding of the African-American experience and to that end, take a certificated COURSERA course through the University of Chicago that we hope helps us become better readers of multiracial texts. https://www.coursera.org/learn/race-cultural-diversity-american-life
Explore some of the resources I reviewed in my examination of institutionalized racism in publishing industry http://www.invertedsyntax.com/blog-full-site/resources-addressing-institutionalized-racism-in-publishing-practices
Currently, the publishing industry does not publish enough positive stories for young people about people of color by people of color. As a trained educator, I am aware that in early learning years, people can only continue to select and teach and introduce what the publishing industry continues to offer them: a limited shelf of books, all of which are of a single story. At Inverted Syntax, we want to take steps towards rectifying that. We have contemplated pursuing new ventures, like publishing chapbooks starting in 2022; however, we feel that if we want to do our part in effecting change in the publishing industry, we must target the specific places in which that change needs to happen. We will continue to report on our efforts.
With that, we are eager to present to you Inverted Syntax print Issue 3. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did reading, curating, editing, and assembling it. We hope it means as much to you as it does to us.
Stay safe and take care of yourselves.
Until next time, with love,
Special thanks to Editors, Yesica Mirambeaux and Jesica Davis for their help in editing this letter.


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Women's Aid welcomes Labour Party pre-election spending commitment
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Susie Marwood, 4th May 2015 19th December 2019 , Press releases, General Election 2015, Labour party, Legal Aid
Women's Aid welcomes Labour Party pre-election spending commitment to increase access to legal aid
Monday 4th May 2015
Women's Aid welcomes today's Labour Party pre-election spending commitment to increase access to vital and much needed legal aid for survivors of domestic violence.
Polly Neate, Chief Executive of Women's Aid, said:
"A shocking 40% of women who have experienced violence are not able to get the evidence they need to get legal aid because the types of evidence required are too limited. Some women don't have the evidence they need because they have been too scared to go to the police, or because the evidence they have is more than two years old.
"Women's Aid especially welcomes the commitment to abolish fees charged by officials, including GPs, for writing letters to be used as evidence that a victim has suffered abuse. We know that some women have been forced to pay up to £80 for these letters which is completely unacceptable.
"Women's Aid will continue to work with all political parties to help women access justice. We call on the new government to make access to legal aid for survivors of domestic violence a priority."
Women's Aid welcomes political party commitments to domestic violence
Susie Marwood, 10th April 2015 19th December 2019 , Press releases, Domestic violence, General Election 2015, Labour party
Women's Aid welcomes political party commitments to domestic violence Friday 10th April 2015 Chief Executive of Women's Aid Polly...
Women's Aid welcomes Labour Party manifesto commitments
Susie Marwood, 13th April 2015 19th December 2019 , Press releases, General Election 2015, Labour party
Women's Aid welcomes Labour Party manifesto commitments to survivors of domestic violence Monday 13th April 2015 Women's Aid welcomes...
Women's Aid welcomes the Green and Conservative Party's manifesto commitments
Susie Marwood, 14th April 2015 19th December 2019 , Press releases, Conservative Party, Domestic violence, General Election 2015, Green Party
Women's Aid welcomes the Green and Conservative Party's manifesto commitments to survivors of domestic violence Tuesday 14th Apr 2015...
Women's Aid welcomes the Liberal Democrat's manifesto commitments
Susie Marwood, 15th April 2015 19th December 2019 , Press releases, Domestic violence, General Election 2015, Liberal Democrats
Women's Aid welcomes the Liberal Democrat's manifesto commitments to survivors of domestic violence Wednesday 15th April 2015 Women's Aid...
Women's Aid applauds work of IKWRO
Susie Marwood, 1st May 2015 19th December 2019 , Press releases, Black and Minority Ethnic Women, Refuge, SOS campaign, Specialist service
Women's Aid applauds work of IKWRO as first specialist women's refuge Middle Eastern and North African women opens today...
Women's Aid welcomes Labour Party pre-election spending commitment to increase access to legal aid Monday 4th May 2015 Women's...
Women's Aid responds to UN report
Susie Marwood, 14th June 2015 19th December 2019 , Press releases, Refuges, Report, SOS campaign, UN, Violence Against Women and Girls
Women's Aid responds to UN report on Violence Against Women and Girls Sunday 14th June 2015 Polly Neate, Chief...
Women's Aid welcomes new fund for refuges
Susie Marwood, 7th July 2015 19th December 2019 , Press releases, Domestic violence, Funding, Give Me Shelter campaign, Refuges, The Sun
Women's Aid welcomes new fund for refuges in response to Give Me Shelter campaign but calls for commitment to...
Women's Aid applauds work of IKWROWomen's Aid responds to UN report


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	ViewerParamater GetViewerParamater();

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Hadhramaut
Title: Hadhramaut
Subject: History of Yemen, Mandi (food), South Arabia, Ancient history of Yemen, Bin Laden family
Collection: Geography of Yemen, Gulf of Aden, Historical Regions, History of Yemen, World Digital Library Related
The Arabian peninsula in 1914.
Kingdom of Hadhramaut (violet) in the 3rd century CE during the Sabaean - Himyarite war, it was eventually annexed by the Himyarite Kingdom
Hadhramaut, Hadhramout, Hadramawt or Ḥaḍramūt (Arabic: حضرموت Ḥaḍramawt) is the name of the region currently retained in Hadhramaut Governorate of the Republic of Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula. The people of Hadhramaut are called Hadhramis and speak Hadhrami Arabic.
Hadhrami diaspora 3
Modern history of the Wadi Hadhramaut 4
External links 8
The origin of the name is not exactly known. It already had this name in the Old South Arabian period: Ḥaḑramautic ḥḑrmt; Sabaean and Qatabānian also had the form: ḥḑrmwt. The name appears in Greek as Άδρραμύτα.[1] There are various folk etymologies. One is that the region is named after a nickname of 'Amar ibn Qaḥṭān, meaning "death has come", from /ḥaḍara/ (Arabic for "has come") and /mawt/ ("death"), the reason being that whenever he entered a battle, there were always many people who died. Another theory is that after the destruction of Thamūd, the Islamic prophet Ṣāliḥ relocated himself and about 4,000 of his followers to the area known as Haḑramawt and it was here where he died and thus, the region was called "death has come".
Flag of the Quaiti Sultanate with three forts representing the principal cities Al Mukalla, Shibam and Ash Shihr.
Another folk etymology is that it is related to Hazarmawet in Genesis 10:26[2] and 1 Chronicles 1:20[3] in the Bible (meaning "court of death", according to various Bible dictionaries). There, Hazarmawet is the name of a son of Joktan, one of the sons of Shem in the table of the Sons of Noah[4] in Genesis 10—i.e., the founders of nearby nations including Sheba, also a son of Joktan. As Southern Arabia was and is one of the homelands of the South Semitic language subfamily, a Semitic origin for the name is highly likely. If the name did reflect a biblical- or pre-biblical-era naming convention in the Near East, this would make it ancient indeed, pre-dating both Islam and Greco-Roman civilization.
The name most likely derives from the Greek ὕδρευματα, or enclosed (and often fortified) watering stations at wadis. A hydreuma (singular) is a manned and fortified watering hole or way station along a caravan route. Juris Zarins, rediscoverer of the city claimed to be the ancient Incense Route trade capital Ubar in Oman, described that site in a Nova interview:[5]
The site that we uncovered at Shisur was a kind of fortress/administration center set up to protect the water supply from raiding Bedouin tribes. Surrounding the site, as far as six miles away, were smaller villages, which served as small-scale encampments for the caravans. An interesting parallel to this are the fortified water holes in the Eastern Desert of Egypt from Roman times. There, they were called hydreumata.
Region close to Seiyun in the Hadhramaut Valley
An ancient sculpture of a griffin, from the royal palace at Shabwa, the capital city of Hadhramaut
Narrowly, Hadhramaut refers to the historical Qu'aiti and Kathiri sultanates , which were in the Aden Protectorate overseen by the British Resident at Aden until their abolition upon the independence of South Yemen in 1967. The current governorate of Hadhramaut roughly incorporates the former territory of the two sultanates It consists of a narrow, arid coastal plain bounded by the steep escarpment of a broad plateau (al-Jawl, averaging 1,370 m (4,490 ft)), with a very sparse network of deeply sunk wadis (seasonal watercourses). The undefined northern edge of Hadhramaut slopes down to the desert Empty Quarter.
In a wider sense, Hadhramaut includes the territory of Mahra to the east all the way to the contemporary border with Oman.[6] This encompasses the current governorates of Hadramaut and Mahra in their entirety as well as parts of the Shabwah Governorate.
The Hadhramis live in densely built towns centered on traditional watering stations along the wadis. Hadhramis harvest crops of wheat and millet, tend date palm and coconut groves, and grow some coffee. On the plateau, Bedouins tend sheep and goats. Society is still highly tribal, with the old Seyyid aristocracy, descended from the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, traditionally educated and strict in their Islamic observance and highly respected in religious and secular affairs.
Hadhrami diaspora
Since the early 19th century, large-scale Hadhramaut migration has established sizable Hadhrami minorities all around the Indian Ocean,[7] in South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Africa including Hyderabad,[8][9] Bhatkal, Gangolli, Malabar, Sylhet, Java, Sumatra, Malacca, Sri Lanka, southern Philippines and Singapore. In the southern Philippines,the Hadramis families of Abubakar from Maimbung Sulu and Sheik Usman bin Husaifan from Panamao Sulu. In Palawan,Philippines Mayor Abraham Mohammad Ibba is grandson of Usman bin Husaifan from Hadramaut.[10][11]
In Hyderabad, the community is known as Chaush and resides mostly in the neighborhood of Barkas.
In Gujarat, the Surrati people reign from Hadhramaut.
Several Indonesian ministers, including former Foreign Minister Ali Alatas and former Finance Minister Mari'e Muhammad are of Hadhrami descent, as is the former Prime Minister of East Timor, Mari Alkatiri.[12](2006).
Hadhramis have also settled in large numbers along the East African coast,[13] and two former ministers in Kenya, Shariff Nasser and Najib Balala, are of Hadhrami descent. Genetic evidence has linked the Lemba people, an African Jewish community of Zimbabwe and South Africa, to the people of the Hadramaut region.[14] Among the Hadramaut region there has been a historical Jewish population, suggesting both religious and ethnic continuity between Hadhramis and the Lemba.[15]
Modern history of the Wadi Hadhramaut
The Qu'aiti sultans ruled the vast majority of Hadramaut, under a loose British protectorate, the Aden Protectorate, from 1882 to 1967, when the Hadhramaut was annexed by South Yemen.
The Qu'aiti dynasty was founded by 'Umar bin Awadh al-Qu'aiti, a Yafa'i tribesman whose wealth and influence as hereditary Jemadar of the Nizam of Hyderabad's armed forces enabled him to establish the Qu'aiti dynasty in the latter half of the 19th century, winning British recognition of his paramount status in the region, in 1882. The British Government and the traditional and scholarly sultan Ali bin Salah signed a treaty in 1937 appointing the British government as "advisors" in Hadhramaut. The British exiled him to Aden in 1945, but the Protectorate lasted until 1967.
In 1967, the former British Colony of Aden and the former Aden Protectorate including Hadramaut became an independent Communist state, the People's Republic of South Yemen, later the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. South Yemen was united with North Yemen in 1990 as the Republic of Yemen. See History of Yemen for recent history.
The capital and largest city of Hadhramaut is the port Al Mukalla. Al Mukalla had a 1994 population of 122,400 and a 2003 population of 174,700, while the port city of Ash Shihr has grown from 48,600 to 69,400 in the same time. One of the more historically important cities in the region is Tarim. An important locus of Islamic learning, it is estimated to contain the highest concentration of descendants of the Prophet Muhammad anywhere in the world.[16]
Historically, Hadhramaut was known for being a major producer of frankincense. They were mainly exporting it to Mumbai in the early 20th century.[17] The region has also produced senna and coconut.[18]
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^ Theophrastus: Historia Plantarum. 9,4.
^ Genesis 10:26
^ 1 Chronicles 1:20
^ Genesis 10:1-10:32
^ Richard N. Schofield, Gerald Henry Blake, Arabian Boundaries: Primary Documents, 1853–1957 Volume 22, Archive Editions, 1988, ISBN 1-85207-130-3, pg 220 ...should be made along the coast to the west as far as the DHOFAR-HADHRAMAUT frontier...
^ Engseng Ho, The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean, University of California Press, 2006
^ Omar Khalidi, The Arabs of Hadramawt in Hyderabad in Mediaeval Deccan History, eds Kulkarni, Naeem and de Souza, Popular Prakashan, Bombay, 1996
^ Leif Manger, Hadramis in Hyderabad: From Winners to Losers, Asian Journal of Social Science, Volume 35, Numbers 4-5, 2007, pp. 405-433(29)
^ Natalie Mobini-Kesheh, The Hadrami Awakening: Community and Identity in the Netherlands East Indies, 1900-1942, SEAP Publications, 1999
^ http://www.sailanmuslim.com/news/wp-content/uploads/the-origins-and-affinities-of-the-sri-lankan-moors.pdf
^ Agence France-Presse
^ Anne K. Bang, Sufis and Scholars of the Sea: Family Networks in East Africa, 1860-1925, Routledge, 2003
^ Alexandroni, S. No Room at the Inn. New Statesman, October 2007
Architecture of Mud: documentary Film about the rapidly disappearing mud brick architecture in the Hadhramaut region.
hydreuma special on Ubar, illustrating a Nova
Book review of a biography of Qu'aiti sultan Alin din Salah
Hadhrami migration in the 19th and 20th centuries
Ba`alawi.com Ba'alawi.com | The Definitive Resource for Islam and the Alawiyyen Ancestry.
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Geography of Yemen
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March 19, 2020 by Robert Elessar
The aged man that coffers up his gold is blogged with cramps and gouts and painful fits
Hello, all. Good morning and welcome to Thursday again. It's time for another of my weekly blog posts.
Of course, the major news in the human world—such as it is—is the ongoing international tour de force of the COVID-19 virus. I've expressed (elsewhere) my frustration with the irrationality with which people are responding to this pandemic*, including the hoarding of toilet paper, which makes little to no sense, and believing sub-moronic videos that say, for instance, that you can cure the virus or prevent its spread by aiming a hot blow-dryer into your nose and mouth. These are such things as make me wish—only semi-facetiously—that people needed a license to reproduce. Don't even get me started on the various absurd prophecies and conspiracy theories many embrace and share about this and other global events. It's bizarre that people can simultaneously think so highly and so poorly of human nature, in such unjustifiable ways.
Behaviors such as these tend to exacerbate my baseline melancholy, and have in the past led me to, among other things, write a song about depression. The song, in this case, was Breaking Me Down, of which I shared the "final release" earlier this week on Iterations of Zero and on YouTube. When I originally wrote it, I wasn't thinking explicitly about depression, but I was going through a pretty bad exacerbation, so when I wrote a poem/song about my thoughts and feelings, that was what came out.
I have recorded and released earlier versions of the song, but they suffered partly from my inexperience with mixing and production, and from initially being too low (the final product is up two full steps from how I initially wrote it), and too slow. The original vocals were not so great, either, both in recording/mixing quality and in the singing. However, as with most things, practice makes better, though it's unlikely that it ever makes "perfect"**. So, now, the song is in a higher key and at a quicker tempo, such that I playfully refer to it as a song about depression that you can dance to if you feel like it. I think that's a pretty cool accomplishment, though you may or may not agree that I've succeeded.
After fixing this song up, I realized that if I remaster my first, sort of jokey song, Schrodinger's Head, I'll have enough for about half an album(!). That's five original songs, running a total of roughly twenty-five minutes. Of course, being the lunatic that I am, that thought immediately led me to go back and start tweaking Schrodinger's Head, including re-recording vocals and doing some harmony. That's not so hard—the good thing about singing is, one always has one's instrument. And the actual remixing/remastering process, though time-consuming, is weirdly entertaining and satisfying.
The real issue is that once this is done, I will no doubt feel the urge, or the drive, or the compulsion, to make more songs for the other side of an album***. I do have here and there the beginnings of other songs, and even have a longer portion of something I mean to write about a manga character, but I just know that this is going to consume a lot of time. Of course, if I were in one of those industries that's been forced to take a hiatus in response to COVID-19, writing and recording songs might be a good use of my extra hours. Unfortunately—well, fortunately, really…let's be fair and positive, if that's possible for me—my job is going strong, and I continue to be in the office five to six days a week. Thus, this little musical hobby tends to eat into my real work, which is writing.
That being said, though, Unanimity is coming along well. I'm nearly done with the latest run-through, and it's getting closer and closer to publishable form. It certainly is a long story, but at least I don't find it boring. Whether anyone else will share my assessment only time can tell, but at least liking it myself is a good starting point.
That's pretty nearly it for this week. I hope you all do your best to stay well…but don't do crazy and stupid things, okay? For my part, I've always frequently washed my hands and coughed and sneezed into the hollow of my elbow, but then, I am an MD. As for social distancing, well, that's something I haven't ever had to think about much. It seems to be a task at which I'm particularly gifted, and I've only gotten better, if that's the correct term, over the years. Remember what I said about practice?
Ironically enough, I—someone very far from being attached to existence—am relatively protected compared to all the many people who want so desperately to cling to their lives. I wouldn't call it cosmic irony—that would probably have to involve quasars, galaxies, black holes, dark energy, and the like—but it is certainly irony at a high level.
*I know the root words are different, but I can't help imagining that the word "pandemic" should somehow mean "bread for the people," or maybe "bread made out of people," such as Jack and the Beanstalk's giant might enjoy.
**In most cases, the term "perfect" isn't defined, and is probably undefinable. Unless one has a clearly delineated set of criteria by which to judge something, declaring perfection is mere wordplay. I'm a fan of wordplay, of course, but in this case, people seem to think they mean something, formally, when they use the term. It leads to much confusion. It also leads many people to drive themselves to distraction, often to despair, and occasionally to destruction in the dreadful pursuit of "perfection", a hallucinatory goal that never comes nearer than the horizon. By all means, strive always to improve yourself. But sincerely trying to achieve perfection can lead to a life of frustration and self-loathing.
***Don't ask me what I mean to do with such a collection once I make it, assuming that I do. It's not as though I have any experience in making or releasing albums. I would, however, almost certainly call it "Iterations of Zero". Consistency is good.
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Caledonia salutes local investors
Epiroc and DDE proudly don their partnership HATs for another five years!
CALEDONIA Mining Corporation, the parent company for Blanket Mine,is set to issue more shares in respect of its VFEX listing in order to raise more funds than originally anticipated following an extremely positive Zimbabwe investor response.
The VFEX is a subsidiary of the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE), launched late last year as part of efforts to attract global capital, while also helping restore foreign investor confidence in Zimbabwe's capital markets.
Caledonia which will be the third listing on the VFEX, joining SeedCo International and Padenga Holdings will list by way of introduction of Depository Receipts as Caledonia's shares cannot be directly traded in Zimbabwe, due to some limitations on the New York Stock Exchange where they are also listed.
Curtis, Caledonia's chief executive said at the offer price of US$12,64 per depositary receipt, Caledonia expects to issue up to approximately 630,000 new shares, raising approximately $7,96million (before expenses) and the proceeds of the offer will be used for general corporate purposes in Zimbabwe.
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"The support from Zimbabwe investors has been extremely encouraging and reinforces our belief that this listing is an important milestone, welcoming new shareholders, with a mutual desire for investment in Zimbabwe and who have not, until now, been able to participate in Caledonia's growth journey.
"The VFEX listing will also enable Caledonia to progress with its next phase of development.
The access to 100 percent USD revenue for incremental gold sales will assist Blanket, and any other new mine Caledonia develops and will attract investors who are confident that Zimbabwe is a competitive investment environment capable of delivering attractive returns.
"The anticipated listing highlights our continued commitment to Zimbabwe. We are excited about this next stage, and I would like to thank everybody for their continued support," he said in a statement.
According to the company, one of the benefits of a listing of depositary receipts representing the Company's shares on the Victoria Falls Stock Exchange ("VFEX") in Zimbabwe is an improvement in the proportion of the revenues received in US dollars for gold produced at the Company's majority-owned Blanket Mine and the Company looks
forward to benefiting from the development going forward.
Curtis noted that Caledonia will announce the exact number of new shares, and depositary receipts, to be issued once subscription monies have been deposited and formalities have been completed in the next few days.
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He added that once the securities are issued, the Company's depositary in Zimbabwe will liaise with the VFEX to have the depositary receipts admitted to electronic trading in Zimbabwe and dealings will commence.
"The listing and dealings are expected to occur on or about December 2, 2021," said Curtis
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