JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA--(Marketwire - February 17, 2010) - AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE: AU) posts record fourth quarter profit, boosts dividend.
AngloGold Ashanti said it would increase its final dividend after fourth-quarter adjusted headline earnings rose to a record $228m on a higher gold price and increased production from Continental Africa and South America.
"There's a strong level of confidence in our ability to generate cash over the long term as we continue to make improvements to the operational side of our business," Chief Executive Officer Mark Cutifani said. "The increased dividend is a sign of that growing confidence."
The final dividend of 70 South African cents a share is 17% more than the interim dividend of 2009 and the total dividend declaration of 130 South African cents, a 30% improvement on 2008's final declaration. Adjusted headline earnings rose to $228m, or 62 US cents a share for the three months to December 31, compared with $162m, or 45 US cents in the previous quarter. The figure for the third quarter excludes the cost of buying back hedge contracts.
AngloGold Ashanti has over the past year reduced net debt by a third to $868m and cut its hedge commitments by more than two thirds to 3.9 million ounces in order to increase exposure to the gold price. Now, with the financial platform in place, the company is implementing its Project ONE business improvement initiative to lower costs and increase production in coming years.
"The hedge book is now less than a year's production and about 5% of reserves," Cutifani said. "We've taken the rump of the hedge out and will continue to look for the right opportunities to increase our exposure to the gold price."
After accounting for the depletion in 2009 and the sale of Boddington, AngloGold Ashanti's reserves increased by 5% to 71.4 million ounces. This includes a 2.3 million ounce contribution from Tropicana and 4.2 million ounces from the Kibali gold project in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The company improved its safety performance in key areas during the fourth quarter. The lost time injury frequency rate improved by 7% to 6.54 per million hours worked during the quarter. Regrettably, two of the company's employees were fatally injured in separate incidents in Guinea and South Africa.
Production of 1.182Moz during the quarter was ahead of guidance of 1.16Moz. Total cash costs of $598/oz were marginally above guidance of $590/oz because of stronger-than-expected operating currencies in South Africa, Australia and Brazil and non-cash deferred stripping charges.
The South American division, with mines in Argentina and Brazil, increased production by 8% from the previous quarter to 170,000 ounces at a total cash cost of $386/oz. Production from the Continental Africa division increased by 3% to 401,000 ounces at a cost of $665/oz.
AngloGold Ashanti's South African mines were affected by safety-related stoppages, with production declining 7% to 448,000 ounces and costs rising 10% to $575/oz. The two-month stoppage at TauTona to complete a shaft inspection and associated infrastructure repairs was concluded on schedule at the end of December and the mine restarted as expected in early January.
In order to accelerate the improvements from the South African operating division Robbie Lazare, formerly the executive vice president in charge of human resources, has been appointed executive vice president of South Africa after completing the design and rollout of AngloGold Ashanti's human resources model. Lazare will assume his new responsibilities immediately and has already begun work on developing strategies to mitigate cost inflation at the South African division, which faces the effects of higher power tariffs and a strong currency.
"There are a number of quick wins we can get in South Africa in the short term while we work to address a sustainable long-term future," Cutifani said. "We'll provide an update on Robbie's progress in May, when we release our first quarter results."
Richard Duffy will continue to oversee the growing portfolio in Continental Africa, which includes the Kibali and Mongbwalu projects in the DRC, the Sadiola Deeps project in Mali and continued improvements sought in Ghana and Tanzania.
Production in 2010 is anticipated to be between 4.5Moz and 4.7Moz at a total cash cost of $590/oz - $615/oz. These figures account for the sale of Tau Lekoa, the ongoing leach-pad issues at CC&V and safety stoppages in South Africa. They also assume an exchange rate of R7.70/$.
Certain statements made in this communication, including, without limitation, those concerning AngloGold Ashanti's strategy to reduce its gold hedging position including the extent and effects of the reduction, the economic outlook for the gold mining industry, expectations regarding gold prices, production, cash costs and other operating results, growth prospects and outlook of AngloGold Ashanti's operations, individually or in the aggregate, including the completion and commencement of commercial operations of certain of AngloGold Ashanti's exploration and production projects and completion of acquisitions and dispositions, AngloGold Ashanti's liquidity and capital resources, and expenditure and the outcome and consequences of any pending litigation proceedings, contain certain forward-looking statements regarding AngloGold Ashanti's operations, economic performance and financial condition. Although AngloGold Ashanti believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, no assurance can be given that such expectations will prove to have been correct. Accordingly, results could differ materially from those set out in the forward-looking statements as a result of, among other factors, changes in economic and market conditions, success of business and operating initiatives, changes in the regulatory environment and other government actions, fluctuations in gold prices and exchange rates, and business and operational risk management. For a discussion of such factors, refer to AngloGold Ashanti's annual report for the year ended 31 December 2008, which was distributed to shareholders on 27 March 2009 and the company's annual report on Form 20-F, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the United States on May 5, 2009 as amended on May 6, 2009. AngloGold Ashanti undertakes no obligation to update publicly or release any revisions to these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after today's date or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. All subsequent written or oral forward-looking statements attributable to AngloGold Ashanti or any person acting on its behalf are qualified by the cautionary statements herein.
AngloGold Ashanti posts information that is important to investors on the main page of its website at www.anglogoldashanti.com and under the "Investors" tab on the main page. This information is updated regularly. Investors should visit this website to obtain important information about AngloGold Ashanti.


HONOLULU—In its second quarter 2015 Statistical and Economic Report, the Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism (DBEDT) projects that Hawaii's economy will continue its stable growth in 2015 and beyond but at a slower pace than previously projected.
During the first quarter of 2015, U.S. economy grew by only 0.2 percent. Harsh weather, low energy prices, a strong dollar, and the labor dispute at West Coast ports were among the factors causing the slow growth. These factors were also reflected in visitor spending in Hawaii during the first quarter of 2015. Daily visitor spending decreased in all the markets except the Canadians, resulting in a decrease of 1.3 percent in total visitor spending during the first quarter of 2015.
For the current economic projection, DBEDT adjusted Hawaii's economic growth (growth in real gross domestic product) to 2.5 percent for 2015, down from the 3.1 percent projected three months ago. Compared with the average economic growth rate of 1.2 percent during the past 20 years (1994 – 2014), Hawaii's current economic growth rate is still very healthy.
Non-agriculture payroll jobs increased by 0.8 percent in first quarter this year, lower than expected. DBEDT now projects that the non-agriculture payroll job count will increase by 1.1 percent in 2015, lower than the 1.5 percent projected in the first quarter of this year.
Hawaii's employment reached 646,750 during the first quarter of 2015, the highest level of employment in Hawaii's history. The non-agriculture job count was 628,500 during the first quarter of 2015, a record level for a first quarter job count.
The unemployment rate of 4.1 percent (not seasonally adjusted) in Hawaii during the first quarter of 2015 ranked the 4th lowest in the nation.
Initial unemployment claims declined 17.3 percent during the first four months of 2015. On a typical week during the first four months of 2014, 1,800 people filed applications for unemployment benefit, and that number dropped to 1,500 during the first four months of 2015.
The value of private building permits granted during the first quarter of 2015 increased by 71.1 percent as compared with the same period a year ago. Leading the increase was the value of commercial and industrial construction permits with 304.3 percent increase, followed by residential permits with a 220.3 percent increase. The value of permits for additions and alterations declined by 15.9 percent during the first quarter of 2015, but that area shows signs of improvement during the most recent months.
Visitor arrivals are expected to reach 8.5 million in 2015, a growth of 2.5 percent from last year. This growth rate is higher than the 2.1 percent projected in February of this year. However, visitor spending is adjusted to a lower growth rate of 2.0 percent from 3.4 percent projected last quarter. The main reason for lowering the visitor spending projection is the strong U.S. dollar and the shifting between international and domestic visitors.
DBEDT expects healthy economic growth to continue into the future, as seen by real GDP growth projected to be at 2.4 percent in 2016 and 2.2 percent in 2017. Though lower than previously expected, the economic growth is well above the average growth rate experienced during the last 20 years. The current economic expansion is expected to last beyond 2017.
The DBEDT Quarterly Statistical and Economic Report contains more than 100 tables of the most recent quarterly data on Hawaii's economy as well as narrative explanations of the trends in these data. The full report is available at here.
2/ Using personal income deflator developed by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
3/ 2014 and later years are estimated by DBEDT, data for earlier years from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
4/ Absolute change from previous year.
Source: Hawaii State Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism, May 7, 2015.


Firms competing against unregistered firms > % of firms: Firms competing against unregistered firms (% of firms). Firms competing against unregistered firms are the percentage of firms competing against unregistered or informal firms.
Firms using banks to finance investment > % of firms: Firms using banks to finance investment (% of firms). Firms using banks to finance investment are the percentage of firms using banks to finance investments.
Gender equality > Ratio of female to male labor participation rate > %: Ratio of female to male labor participation rate (%). Labor force participation rate is the proportion of the population ages 15 and older that is economically active: all people who supply labor for the production of goods and services during a specified period.
Logistics performance index: Frequency with which shipments reach consignee within scheduled or expected time > 1=low to 5=high: Logistics performance index: Frequency with which shipments reach consignee within scheduled or expected time (1=low to 5=high). Data are from Logistics Performance Index surveys conducted by the World Bank in partnership with academic and international institutions and private companies and individuals engaged in international logistics. 2009 round of surveys covered more than 5,000 country assessments by nearly 1,000 international freight forwarders. Respondents evaluate eight markets on six core dimensions on a scale from 1 (worst) to 5 (best). The markets are chosen based on the most important export and import markets of the respondent's country, random selection, and, for landlocked countries, neighboring countries that connect them with international markets. Details of the survey methodology are in Arvis and others' Connecting to Compete 2010: Trade Logistics in the Global Economy (2010). Respondents assessed how often the shipments to assessed markets reach the consignee within the scheduled or expected delivery time, on a rating ranging from 1 (hardly ever) to 5 (nearly always). Scores are averaged across all respondents.
Stock market > Business extent of disclosure index > 0=less disclosure to 10=more disclosure: Business extent of disclosure index (0=less disclosure to 10=more disclosure). Disclosure index measures the extent to which investors are protected through disclosure of ownership and financial information. The index ranges from 0 to 10, with higher values indicating more disclosure.
Trademark applications, Madrid per 1000: Trademark applications, Madrid. Trademark applications filed are applications to register a trademark with a national or regional Intellectual Property (IP) office. A trademark is a distinctive sign which identifies certain goods or services as those produced or provided by a specific person or enterprise. A trademark provides protection to the owner of the mark by ensuring the exclusive right to use it to identify goods or services, or to authorize another to use it in return for payment. The period of protection varies, but a trademark can be renewed indefinitely beyond the time limit on payment of additional fees. Madrid trademark applications are those received by the national or regional IP office as a result of an international application filed via the WIPO-administered Madrid System. Figures expressed per thousand population for the same year.
Trademark applications, direct nonresident per million: Trademark applications, direct nonresident. Trademark applications filed are applications to register a trademark with a national or regional Intellectual Property (IP) office. A trademark is a distinctive sign which identifies certain goods or services as those produced or provided by a specific person or enterprise. A trademark provides protection to the owner of the mark by ensuring the exclusive right to use it to identify goods or services, or to authorize another to use it in return for payment. The period of protection varies, but a trademark can be renewed indefinitely beyond the time limit on payment of additional fees. Direct nonresident trademark applications are those filed by applicants from abroad directly at a given national IP office. Figures expressed per million population for the same year.
Trademark applications, direct resident per million: Trademark applications, direct resident. Trademark applications filed are applications to register a trademark with a national or regional Intellectual Property (IP) office. A trademark is a distinctive sign which identifies certain goods or services as those produced or provided by a specific person or enterprise. A trademark provides protection to the owner of the mark by ensuring the exclusive right to use it to identify goods or services, or to authorize another to use it in return for payment. The period of protection varies, but a trademark can be renewed indefinitely beyond the time limit on payment of additional fees. Direct resident trademark applications are those filed by domestic applicants directly at a given national IP office. Figures expressed per million population for the same year.
SOURCES: World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/).; World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/). Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; World Bank, Enterprise Surveys; International Labour Organization, Key Indicators of the Labour Market database.; World Bank and Turku School of Economics, Logistic Performance Index Surveys. Data are available online at : http://www.worldbank.org/lpi. Summary results are published in Arvis and others' Connecting to Compete: Trade Logistics in the Global Economy, The Logistics Performance Index and Its Indicators report.; World Bank's Entrepreneurship Survey and database (http://econ.worldbank.org/research/entrepreneurship).; World Bank's Entrepreneurship Survey and database (http://econ.worldbank.org/research/entrepreneurship). Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; World Bank, Enterprise Surveys. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), World Intellectual Property Indicators and www.wipo.int/econ_stat. The International Bureau of WIPO assumes no responsibility with respect to the transformation of these data. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.
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Freezing temperatures to greet polar plungers this weekend
By Thomas O'Neil-White • Dec 6, 2019
This weekend Woodlawn Beach in Hamburg is hosting the 13th annual Polar Plunge, an event that raises money for local Special Olympic athletes.
WBFO's Thomas O'Neil-White reports
Local law enforcement teams check for debris at Woodlawn Beach
Credit Thomas O'Neil-White
It is estimated 1,100 people will brave freezing temperatures Saturday, with a high temperature of 30 degrees in the forecast.
On Thursday morning dive teams from the Erie County Sheriff's Department, New York State Troopers and the Town of Hamburg Police Department cleared debris from the beachhead.
New this year is Friday's Super Plunge. Erica Raepple, the Development Director for Special Olympics New York, said the Super Plungers will plunge for 24 consecutive hours.
"Two crazy gentlemen that love Special Olympics are coming," she said. "And they're going to be jumping every hour."
Despite Saturday's temperature expected to be below freezing, Raepple said the cause is first and foremost on the minds of the participants.
Erica Raepple
"We don't charge our athletes to train or compete," she said. "So it costs approximately $500 dollars to sponsor an athlete for an entire year."
The money helps pay for expenses related to uniforms, sports equipment and travel. Raepple said they are hoping to sponsor 400 athletes in 2020.
Special Olympics New York
Thousands ready to take the plunge
By Chris Jamele • Dec 3, 2016
WBFO File Photo / WBFO News
It's that time for people to brave the elements and jump into frigid lake water.
New York athletes competing at the Special Olympics World Games
Of the 7,500 athletes beginning competition today in Abu Dhabi at the Special Olympics World Games, six are from New York State. "Special Olympics is all about inclusion," said Stacey Hengsterman, President and CEO of Special Olympics New York. ESPN's coverage of the event from Abu Dhabi, Hengsterman believes, "really sends a message to the world."
Stacey Hengsterman, President and CEO of Special Olympics New York, talks with WBFO about the Special Olympics World Games starting today in Abu Dhabi.
Special Olympics NY seeing $50,000 less in funding from state budget
By Ryan Zunner • Apr 2, 2019
Special Olympics New York will see $50,000 less in funds from New York State's budget this fiscal year.

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Jeremy Kyle producer who took her life had booked tragic Steve Dymond on ITV show
Natasha Reddican, who was found dead at her home nine months after The Jeremy Kyle Show was axed, reportedly felt guilty over putting Steve Dymond on the show and that also, as a result, everyone on the ITV show lost their jobs
Producer Natasha Reddican tragically took her life just nine months after The Jeremy Kyle Show was axed
Jeremy Kyle producer Natasha Reddican, who tragically took her own life nine months after the show was axed, booked Steve Dymond to appear on the ITV programme.
According to colleagues – who speak anonymously in a new Channel 4 documentary – Natasha struggled with feelings of guilt.
Steve's suicide in May 2019 ultimately led to the downfall of the controversial ITV talk show.
His episode never aired on TV, though the goings on behind the scenes came under public scrutiny, with guests coming forward to expose the emotional turmoil they faced after agreeing to appear on the show.
Opening up about what it had been like for staff who had been made redundant following the axing on the show, an anonymous whistleblower says: "When The Jeremy Kyle Show was axed, I lost everything… I couldn't stop crying. Properly falling to pieces.
"I had a chat to a mate that someone's going to kill themselves… I walked away thinking it would be Tash."
Jeremy Kyle and Graham Stanier on the ITV show
Other staff in the documentary describe Natasha as "brilliant, amazing" but "vulnerable".
"Tash was in charge of the team that made the episode," a staff member explains.
While another adds: "She felt guilty not only for the fact she put the guy on the show. And as a direct consequence of that she and all the team lost their jobs. Of course she wasn't the same after that.
"Natasha was just left with a guilty conscience when she'd already been through so much."
One anonymous whistleblower says: "It scarred me for life with two and a half years on and I still can't get over it. I still get help now. I know that a lot of people do."
Steve Dymond tragically took his own life after appearing on the show in 2019
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The 31-year-old's loved ones said at her inquest in December 2020 that she had suffered with depression before her death.
Natasha had spent months applying for other jobs without success, Manchester Evening News reports.
Despite having a job interview arranged on February 27 2020, she was tragically found dead in her home in Pendleton, Salford later that day.
Coroner Timothy Brennand had called it "a tragic and harrowing case".
Natasha had struggled to get a job after the show was axed
ITV said in a statement to Channel 4: "The Jeremy Kyle Show was broadcast for 14 years. In that time, more than 20,000 people took part in the show seeking help to resolve relationship issues, or to address drug or alcohol related problems. The central purpose of the show was conflict resolution, and the show achieved many positive outcomes where people were able to resolve personal problems.
"The Jeremy Kyle Show had extensive and detailed duty of care processes in place for contributors built up over 14 years. It had a dedicated guest welfare team of mental healthcare professionals with decades of experience in NHS mental healthcare, who were focused on the welfare of guests throughout the production process. Guests were supported by the programme and welfare teams prior to filming, throughout filming and after filming. Should they require ongoing help then appropriate solutions were found for them, which could include residential rehabilitation, counselling, anger management, family mediation, child access mediation or couples counselling.
"Due to the gravity of events in May 2019, namely the death of a guest a few days after taking part in the show, ITV decided to end production of the show. It would not be appropriate for ITV to comment further on that in advance of the inquest to be held later this month.
"ITV does not accept the central allegation of this programme of a "bad culture" within the production team. We note that the programme includes anonymous former production members claiming wrongdoing by themselves and others, without supporting evidence. ITV would never condone any of its production staff misleading or lying to guests. All guests on the Jeremy Kyle Show were aware of the nature of the show and the presenter's style before taking part in recording. Most of those who applied to appear watched the show themselves. All guests gave their informed consent, in writing, to take part.
"Since 2018 ITV has taken significant steps in relation to its duty of care of participants. ITV issued detailed new guidance to all its producers on protecting participants in October 2019, which represents industry-leading good practice and now reflects the changes to the Broadcasting Code made by industry regulator Ofcom in 2021. ITV also ensures greater management oversight of participant welfare through a Duty of Care Board, and has created a Mental Health Advisory group involving mental health charities to advise ITV on its policies for staff and programme guests."
*The Jeremy Kyle Show: Death on Daytime airs Sunday and Monday at 9pm on Channel 4
If you're struggling and need help and support, the Samaritans operate a free helpline open 24/7 on 116 123. Alternatively, you can email [email protected] if you'd prefer to write down how you feel.
For information about eating disorders, UK charity BEAT can help.
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What? When? How? Who?: Is it legal with katana (samurai sword) in Norway and is the age limit?
Is it legal with katana (samurai sword) in Norway and is the age limit?
After Firearms Regulations is that, in addition to firearms, "forbidden to acquire, own or possess stun guns, pepper spray and other self defense products with equivalent effect, switchblade knives, batangakniver, stilettos, knuckles, batons, karate sticks, throwing stars, blowpipes for launching arrows or other objects , slingshots or other similar particularly dangerous objects without honorable purpose and appearing as violence products. "
When it comes to other types of weapons they may be legal to own. How I have understood that they are samuraisverdene sold in Norway exhibition sword which must only be used for decoration / hanging on the wall. They are therefore legitimate. As long samurai sword used for what it is supposed, that hang on the wall, there should be no consequences to own one like swords. But it is for example not allowed to carry in public places.
You are under 18 years old are anyway not allowed to possess such weapons and such a weapon in your possession will be indratt by police if they become familiar with it. After Firearms Act § 29 , it is forbidden to transfer arms to person under 18 years. This also applies knifes having blade length of 25 cm. You will probably learn that most online stores will also operate with a limit of 18 years in the sale of such swords and knives.


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II. The NO-Camp: "UK First" Social-Imperialism
The three main left-wing organizations in Britain – the Stalinist CPB, the SPEW (the leading section of Peter Taffee's CWI), and the SWP (affiliated with the IST led by Alex Callinicos) – all call for voting for Britain's exit from the European Union. They claim that this would in one way or another benefit the working class. Let us deal here with their arguments.
II.1. The Stalinist CPB: The Openly Patriotic "Communists"
The British Stalinists – the Communist Party of Britain (CPB) – and their daily newspaper, the Morning Star, asserts that the austerity attacks on the working class are the result of Britain's membership in the EU. According to them, it is the European monopolies which strive to slash the wages and social benefits but not the British monopolies. For Stalinism, the devil resides abroad. If Britain would leave the EU, things would be much better – so goes the perpetual canon of these "UK First" socialists. For them the devil resides abroad. This is why the CPB's paper calls in an editorial for a capitalist Britain which is not a member of the EU: "the alternative is a federal Britain, outside the EU and Nato, in which we can fight for parliaments and governments free to enact progressive domestic and foreign policies." [1]
Obviously, the Stalinists speculate that the working class suffers from a collective Alzheimer disease and forgets its history. Britain had been outside of the EU for much longer than it has been a member of it. There have been plenty of opportunities to have "parliaments and governments free to enact progressive domestic and foreign policies." However, inexplicable for these "communists" without memory, the British working class was never able to get the parliaments and governments to enact progressive domestic and foreign policies.
The reason for this is very simple. The British state and its monarchy have never been and can never be an instrument of working class policy. It was always and could only have been an instrument of the ruling class. This huge centuries-old apparatus was built by the ruling class during the course of hundreds of years and is closely linked with the big capital groups. In addition, it includes a parasitic monarchy as a kind of Bonaparte in reserve. Hence, the British state has always served to keep the working class under control (which includes massive bribery and integration of its bureaucracy and upper strata) while keeping the oppressed people down (first as part of the Empire and later as part of indirect domination of the semi-colonial world via the imperialist powers).
The Marxist Classics versus the CPB
In fact, it is the Stalinists who have lost their memory and forgot what Marx and Lenin taught socialists. As early as the Manifesto of the Communist Party, Marx and Engels stated:
"The executive of the modern State is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie." [2]
Lenin made clear that there exists an abyss between authentic Marxists and those centrists and left-reformists who hope to gain a majority in parliament thereby enabling them to utilize the bourgeois state machinery for the interests of the working class:
"Marx teaches us (…) to act with supreme boldness in destroying the entire old state machine, and at the same time he teaches us to put the question concretely: the Commune was able in the space of a few weeks to start building a new, proletarian state machine by introducing such-and-such measures to provide wider democracy and to uproot bureaucracy. Let us learn revolutionary boldness from the Communards; let us see in their practical measures the outline of really urgent and immediately possible measures, and then, following this road, we shall achieve the complete destruction of bureaucracy.
The possibility of this destruction is guaranteed by the fact that socialism will shorten the working day, will raise the people to a new life, will create such conditions for the majority of the population as will enable everybody, without exception, to perform "state functions", and this will lead to the complete withering away of every form of state in general.
"Its object [the object of the mass strike]," Kautsky continues, "cannot be to destroy the state power; its only object can be to make the government compliant on some specific question, or to replace a government hostile to the proletariat by one willing to meet it half-way ... But never, under no circumstances can it [that is, the proletarian victory over a hostile government] lead to the destruction of the state power; it can lead only to a certain shifting of the balance of forces within the state power.... The aim of our political struggle remains, as in the past, the conquest of state power by winning a majority in parliament and by raising parliament to the ranks of master of the government."
This is nothing but the purest and most vulgar opportunism: repudiating revolution in deeds, while accepting it in words. Kautsky's thoughts go no further than a "government... willing to meet the proletariat half-way"—a step backward to philistinism compared with 1847, when the Communist Manifesto proclaimed "the organization of the proletariat as the ruling class".
Kautsky will have to achieve his beloved "unity" with the Scheidmanns, Plekhanovs, and Vanderveldes, all of whom agree to fight for a government "willing to meet the proletariat half-way".
We, however, shall break with these traitors to socialism, and we shall fight for the complete destruction of the old state machine, in order that the armed proletariat itself may become the government. These are two vastly different things.
Kautsky will have to enjoy the pleasant company of the Legiens and Davids, Plekhanovs, Potresovs, Tseretelis, and Chernovs, who are quite willing to work for the "shifting of the balance of forces within the state power", for "winning a majority in parliament", and "raising parliament to the ranks of master of the government". A most worthy object, which is wholly acceptable to the opportunists and which keeps everything within the bounds of the bourgeois parliamentary republic.
We, however, shall break with the opportunists; and the entire class-conscious proletariat will be with us in the fight—not to "shift the balance of forces", but to overthrow the bourgeoisie, to destroy bourgeois parliamentarism, for a democratic republic after the type of the Commune, or a republic of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, for the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat." [3]
Hence, in contrast to the Stalinists, Lenin was fully aware that the capitalist state machinery cannot be reformed but has to be smashed:
"The proletarian revolution is impossible without the forcible destruction of the bourgeois state machine and the substitution for it of a new one which, in the words of Engels, is "no longer a state in the proper sense of the word. But Kautsky finds it necessary to befog and belie all this -- his renegade position demands it." [4]
Therefore, Lenin and the Bolsheviks resolutely refuted the reformist idea that the transformation to socialism could proceed peacefully. They insisted that this is only possible via a revolution, an armed insurrection:
"Of course, if it were a case of capitalist society in peacetime, peacefully developing into socialism, there would be no more urgent task before us than that of increasing output. But the little word "if" makes all the difference. If only socialism had come into being peacefully, in the way the capitalist gentlemen did not want to see it born. But there was a slight hitch. Even if there had been no war, the capitalist gentlemen would have done all in their power to prevent such a peaceful evolution. Great revolutions, even when they commence peacefully, as was the case with the great French Revolution, end in furious wars which are instigated by the counter-revolutionary bourgeoisie. Nor can it be otherwise, if we look at it from the point of view of the class struggle and not from the point of view of philistine phrase-mongering about liberty, equality, labour democracy and the will of the majority, of all the dullwitted, philistine phrase-mongering to which the Mensheviks, Socialist-Revolutionaries and all these "democrats" treat us. There can be no peaceful evolution towards socialism." [5]
Likewise, Lenin stated categorically in his famous book State and Revolution:
"The supersession of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without a violent revolution." [6]
A Referendum on Austerity, Free Trade and Democracy?
The British Stalinists also raise the present secret negotiations between the US and the EU about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Pact (TTIP) free trade agreement as an example illustrating the reactionary character of the EU.
"The EU and its basic treaties and institutions such as the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the anti-labour European Court of Justice were designed to serve big business and minimise the potential for democratic intervention by national governments or parliaments in favour of the people against profits. That's why the EU drives forward the austerity and privatisation agenda hammering the people of Greece today. That's why it negotiates a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Pact (TTIP) with the US and Canada in secret while pretending to take on board people's concerns about the corporate threat TTIP poses to public services and national self-government." [7]
Again, it is beyond doubt that the EU is a reactionary imperialist institution and that socialists must fight against the dangerous TTIP. However, why on earth would Britain as an "independent" capitalist nation-state outside of the EU, not participate in these secret negotiations?! The promoters of the campaign against the EU are arch-reactionary capitalists who are fanatic supporters of the "free market." Furthermore, except for the EU, all participants in the negotiations of the TTIP or the Trans-Pacific Partnership (the Asian equivalent to the TTIP) are capitalist nation-states!
Likewise writes Doug Nicholls, the Stalinist chairman of Trade Unionists against the European Union:
"The EU Parliament is toothless. The EU's politics and economics are entirely determined by the banks and large corporations. It is a superstate with no real electorate, it acts entirely in the interests of capital." [8]
But how is this different from Britain?! Aren't British politics and economics not "entirely determined by the banks and large corporations"?! And does the British state not "act entirely in the interests of capital"?!
How on earth have the British monopolies succeeded in convincing the Stalinists that it was not their desire, but that of the EU, to so viciously attack the miners and the entire British working class since the early 1980s?! How did BP and Shell create the impression that it is not their own profit greed which is destroying the climate as well as the living conditions of the people in South but rather the pressure from Brussels?! How could the CPB leadership get the impression that the Tories imposed the anti-union laws not because of the British capitalists' class-hatred but because of the EU-bureaucrats?!
Well, the more likely explanation is that the CPB leaders wish to believe this because they are looking for excuses to adapt opportunistically to the (non-existent) "patriotic" sector of the British bourgeoisie. This is what Lenin called "social-imperialists".
There is no doubt that the EU is an undemocratic institution having a parliament with little power. However, the British Stalinists are such deep-seated patriots that they have "forgotten" that they themselves are living in a pretty undemocratic country which is still a monarchy! We are not aware of a case in which a British Queen (or King) has ever been democratically elected by the people! Neither are we aware of elections having been held for the House of (mostly senile, corrupt and perverse) Lords!
The CPB would be doing the British working class a much bigger favor if it would seriously campaign to abolish the monarchy instead of for the country's exit from the EU!
Amusingly, the CPB leadership calls workers to vote for Britain's exit from the EU because the referendum supposedly is a vote for or against austerity:
"A resounding No to continued membership of the EU should be coming from the working-class socialist movement. That is why campaigners have formed Trade Unionists Against the European Union (TUAEU). The inhuman punishment of Greece should not be duplicated anywhere ever again. The EU has never worked in our interests, either here or throughout Europe and the world. The opportunity of the referendum on continuing EU membership offers a real opportunity to say no to austerity and the domination of the banks and to escape the clutches of the most anti-democratic superstate in the world. It is a major opportunity to express our internationalism and belief that another world is possible. (…)"[T]he opportunity of a referendum on the EU provides the people with a unique chance to upset the whole austerity apple cart and end our relationship with its strongest European advocate." [9]
These are the words of people with a world view of a village idiot! Clearly they have never heard of austerity programs' having been implemented by the capitalist classes in many countries outside of the EU. Just ask the US, Japanese or Australian workers, to say nothing of their Russian and Chinese brothers and sisters! Or at least, if the patriotic CPB leaders cannot bring themselves to leave their beloved island, they could at least attempt to read some newspapers with reports from these countries, or maybe check the internet.
The Stalinists' deep-seated affiliation to Britain, one of the oldest and most reactionary imperialist powers, also becomes obvious in the following statements. Brian Denny, a Stalinist spokesman of the No2EU campaign, calls for British imperialism to defend the pound as its currency and to stay out of the Eurozone:
"Cameron has no intention of fundamentally changing Britain's relationship with the EU, mainly because finance capital does not want it altered. There is no sign that he will end the supremacy of EU law over British law or even that he will keep Britain out of the eurozone in the long run." [10]
Likewise Doug Nicholls states:
"Trade unionists and socialists led the campaigns against joining the European single currency. Imagine where we would be now if Britain had joined the euro. Voting Yes in the referendum will lead to renewed calls to join this single currency club and worsen our situation." [11]
These words reflect unabashed support for British imperialism! The Pound has been the traditional currency of British financial capital. It served and serves as a tool for currency speculation and as a financial weapon against the economically weaker countries of the South. How on earth can it be in the interest of the working class, except those who are deeply corrupted by white chauvinism, to support the currency of the British financial oligarchy?!
Leaving this aside, such an argument is also empirically wrong. In general the British economy has not fared better before its entry in the EU than the EU itself. Let us compare the dynamics of capital accumulation in Britain and the EU. (See Table 5)
Table 5: Capital Accumulation in UK and EU-15 [12]
Growth of Gross fixed capital formation at 2010 prices;
total economy (percent per annum)
UK EU-15
1961-1970 +5.3% +6.0%
2001-2010 -0.3% +0.4%
Similarly, we cannot confirm better performance of the British economy as a result of its sticking with the pound after the introduction of the Eurozone in January 2002. This can clearly be seen in the comparison between the respective capital accumulations of the UK and the EU-15 in the bottom line of Table 5 (for the decade 2001-2010). This is also made manifest when we examine the comparative development of industrial production and public debt for the UK and the EU-15 (see Tables 6 and 7). Public debt has increased much faster in Britain than in the Eurozone since 2002 and industrial production has also fared worse in UK than the Eurozone during that period.
Table 6: Growth Rate of Industrial Production in UK and Eurozone [13]
Growth rate of industrial production (percent per annum)
UK Eurozone
2001-2010 -1.2% -0.1%
2011 -0.8% +2.6%
2012 -2.7% -2.7%
2014 +1.5% -0.4%
Table 7: General government consolidated gross debt; in UK and Eurozone [14]
As Percentage of GDP at market prices
2002 35.9% 67.2%
Neither can we assess a more favorable development of wages for British workers when compared with those of their Eurozone colleagues since 2002 (See Table 8). While the wage share in the UK is traditionally higher than in Europe (because of the smaller proportion of small farmers), the UK wage share decreased slightly in the period 2002-2014 while it slightly increased in the Eurozone.
Table 8: Adjusted Wage Share; Total Economy; in UK and Eurozone [15]
As Percentage of GDP at Current Factor Cost
The British Stalinists mourn that Britain's "real economy" has never been as weak as it is now.
"The break-up of a strong manufacturing economy with flourishing publicly owned services and infrastructure has been the very purpose of the EU and has severely weakened our country. Britain's real economy has never been weaker than it is today." [16]
This is certainly true. But this has nothing to do with membership in the EU since this is true for nearly all imperialist countries. As we have shown in our book The Great Robbery of the South this is a world-wide process reflecting the decline of the old imperialist powers and the shift of capitalist value-production to the South. (See Table 9)
Table 9: Share of Output by Sector in Developed and Developing Countries 1990–2005 (in %) [17]
Developed Countries Developing Countries
Agriculture Industry Service Agriculture Industry Service
1990 2.7% 31.8% 65.4% 14.9% 35.9% 49.2%
The very same process is also reflected in the ever-increasing relative importance of the proletariat in the semi-colonial part of the world which today constitutes the vast majority of the global working class. Conversely, the share of the global working class living in the old imperialist countries, like Britain, is progressively declining (see Table 10 and 11).
Table 10: Distribution of Wage Laborers in different Regions, 1995 and 2008/09 [18]
Wage earners (in percent)
1995 2008/09
World 100% 100%
Countries with low and middle income 65.9% 72.4%
Countries with high income 34.1% 27.6%
Countries with high income
(without semi-colonial EU-States) - 25%
Countries with low and middle income
(including semi-colonial EU-States) - 75%
Table 11: Distribution of Labor Force in Industry in different Regions, 2008/09 [19]
Labor force Distribution of
in Industry (in Millions) industrial Labor force
World 666.4 100%
Developed economies 109.8 16.5%
Eastern Europe & ex-USSR 39.5 5.9%
East Asia 226.0 33.9%
South-East Asia 49.9 7.5%
South Asia 122.2 18.3%
Latin America 56.1 8.4%
North Africa 14.9 2.2%
Middle East 16.4 2.4%
Sub-Saharan Africa 31.7 4.8%
Furthermore, the social-imperialist line of the CPB is only reiterated by the laments of its leaders who jingoistically complain that "we," i.e., the British state and its ruling class, have to pay too much money to the foreigners, i.e. the EU.
"EU membership has cost a great deal in hard cash. The EU is legendary for its internal fraud and waste, yet Britain's net annual payments into it are £10 billion a year. It is said: "But we get a lot back." We don't. It is said that our payments help the European poor, but they don't." [20]
This is a propaganda socialists should be quite familiar with, since they are exposed to it all the time in the bourgeois media and particularly in the agitation of the yellow press and right-wing populists from the richest, most parasitic imperialist countries like Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands.
In their patriotic enthusiasm the Little England Stalinists even go so far as to suggest Britain might constitute a kind of "colony" of the EU and leaving it would lead to "self-rule"!
"The EU is fundamentally unreformable. It was designed to be that way. To those who say we can't survive outside the EU, we should be pointing out that this is a colonial mentality and, in the end, what on Earth is wrong with self-rule?" [21]
The very analogy by the CPB is the product of servile decrepitude! It demonstrates once again how thoroughly social-imperialists these Stalinists have become; how pathetic it is for so-called Trotskyists like Peter Taaffee's SPEW to join the CPB in the No2EU campaign! In fact, British monopoly capitalists are among the richest, most rapacious, and most parasitic sectors of the ruling class in Europe. Britain is not a colony of the EU but one of its leading states. A capitalist Britain outside of the EU would certainly not constitute "self-rule" for the working class and the oppressed. Such a scenario (probably led by right-wing Tories and UKIP) would instead only further entrench the rule of the British imperialist ruling class in its vicious, unrelenting attack against the working class and migrants, acting in collusion as a junior partner of US imperialism.
Another bizarre and truly social-imperialist argument of the CPB is that the EU has supposedly caused migration which the Stalinists consider as something bad "for Britain."
"The EU's four founding principles are the freedom of movement of labour, capital, goods and services. These cannot be reformed away from within. The EU and European Courts of Justice exist only to promote these "freedoms." The mass forced migration it has caused has led to a tragic and nomadic life for millions." [22]
This argument certainly says a lot about the CPB. According to these Stalinists it is the EU and its Court which has caused "mass forced migration." How naïve we Trotskyists must be to assume, as we do, that migration is caused by the miserable lives led by people in the semi-colonial countries of Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere! How ignorant we must be to actually believe that those responsible for this misery are the imperialist monopolies (including those of the British!) and the great powers (including the UK!) which exploit these countries and wage or at least instigate wars against them!
Another argument of the Stalinists love to make is that a victory for NO in Cameron's referendum will weaken the government or even split the Tory party: "By voting No we also have an opportunity to drive a significant split in the Tories and wound the government. If we do not take this opportunity, we are stuck with them for five years." [23]
While this argument is certainly true, it is extremely short-sighted. The Tories have already been weakened by the emergence of Nigel Farage's right-wing anti-EU UKIP party. However this development has hardly been advantageous to the working class! Rather, a victory for NO will further strengthen the right wing among the Tories and fortify the most reactionary forces inside and to the right of the Conservative party. Such a "weakening" of the Tories will hardly be beneficial to the working class struggle! The only idiots who might object to this analysis are those Stalinists who viewed the rise of the fascists and semi-fascists as a harbinger of the future communist victory – as the Stalinist Comintern did when faced with the rise of Hitler in the early 1930s!
In short, the CPB's position regarding the referendum offers the working class no internationalist perspective but is rather a reactionary and utopian conception of an "independent" imperialist Britain which would somehow be "fair" to workers.
[1] Morning Star: Left reasons to ditch EU, 8 June 2015, Editorial, https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-3bf9-Left-reasons-to-ditch-EU#.VboNxvm3rLE
[2] Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels: Manifesto of the Communist Party (1847); in: MECW Vol. 6, p. 486
[3] V. I. Lenin: The State and Revolution. The Marxist Teaching on the State and the Tasks of the Proletariat in the Revolution (1917), in: LCW Vol. 25, pp. 493-495
[4] V. I. Lenin: The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky, in: LCW Vol. 25, p. 237
[5] V. I. Lenin: Deception of the People with Slogans of Freedom and Equality (First All-Russia Congress on Adult Education, 19 May 1919); in: LCW Vol. 29, p. 363
[6] V. I. Lenin: The State and Revolution. The Marxist Teaching on the State and the Tasks of the Proletariat in the Revolution (1917), in: LCW Vol. 25, p. 405
[7] Morning Star: Left reasons to ditch EU, 8 June 2015, https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-3bf9-Left-reasons-to-ditch-EU#.VboNxvm3rLE
[8] Doug Nicholls: The Only Good Vote is a No Vote, 23 July 2015, Morning Star, https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-e0d8-The-Only-Good-Vote-is-a-No-Vote#.VboNX_m3rLE
[9] Doug Nicholls: The Only Good Vote is a No Vote
[10] Brian Denny: EU referendum: Vote to get out, 24 June 2015, Morning Star, https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-7e3d-EU-referendum-Vote-to-get-out#.VboNi_m3rLE
[11] Doug Nicholls: The Only Good Vote is a No Vote
[12] European Commission: Statistical Annex of European Economy Spring 2015, p.49
[13] European Commission: Statistical Annex of European Economy Spring 2015, pp.32-33. For reason of comparability we use the figures only for the original 12 members of the Eurozone (which includes Greece as it joined in January 2001 before the Euro was officially launched on 1 January 2002.
[14] European Commission: Statistical Annex of European Economy Spring 2015, pp.163-164
[15] European Commission: Statistical Annex of European Economy Spring 2015, pp.72-73
[17] Bill Dunn: Global Political Economy - A Marxist Critique, London 2009, p. 229
[18] World Bank: World Development Report 1995, p. 9, International Labour Office: Global Employment Trends 2011, p. 68; Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission: Labour market and wage developments in 2009; in: EUROPEAN ECONOMY Nr. 5/2010, pp. 188-190 and our own calculations. The category "Developed economies" excludes Eastern and South-Eastern European states and Malta and Cyprus.
[19] Sources: International Labour Office: Global Employment Trends 2011, p. 68 and our own calculations
[21] Brian Denny: EU referendum: Vote to get out
[22] Doug Nicholls: The Only Good Vote is a No Vote, 23 July 2015, Morning Star, https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-e0d8-The-Only-Good-Vote-is-a-No-Vote#.VboNX_m3rLE


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Acacia deanei (Deane's wattle, green wattle; syn. Acacia paucijuga Wakef. [= Acacia deanei subsp. paucijuga], Racosperma deanei (R.T.Baker) Pedley) is a tree native to Australia, which is useful for controlling soil erosion. There are two subspecies: Acacia deanei subsp. deanei and Acacia deanei subsp. paucijuga.

Description
The shrub or tree has a spreading to erect habit and typically grows to height of  and has smooth grey-brown to green coloured bark. It has angled to terete ridged branchlets with tiny yellow to whitish hairs. The pinnate leaves have ten to twelve pairs of pinnae that are  in length with 7 to 45 pairs of pinnules that have an oblong to linear shape and have a length of  and a width of . It blooms throughout the year producing inflorescences situated in the terminal and axillary racemes and panicles. the spherical flower-heads have a diameter of  and contain 15 to 30 cream-coloured to pale yellow or occasionally yellow flowers. The seed pods that form after flowering are flat and straight to curved and constricted between seeds. The leathery pods are  in length and  in width .

Taxonomy
The species was first formally described in 1932 in the Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales. It was reclassified as Racosperma deanei in 1986 by Leslie Pedley then transferred back to genus Acacia in 2001. The only other synonym is Acacia decurrens var. deanei.

The specific epithet honours Henry Deane, who was a railway engineer and amateur botanist, who collected the type specimen.
A. deanei is similar in appearance and often mistaken for Acacia mearnsii and Acacia parramattensis.

There are two subspecies:
 Acacia deanei (R.T.Baker) M.B.Welch, Coombs & McGlynn subsp. deanei known as Deane's wattle
 Acacia deanei subsp. paucijuga (F.Muell. ex N.A.Wakef.) Tindale.

Distribution
The plant is endemic to eastern Australia through Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. It is found in a variety of habitat often as a part of sclerophyll forest communities growing in a range of different soil types. It is common through inland parts of southern Queensland, and central arts of both New south Wales and Victoria.

See also
 List of Acacia species

References

External links
FAO: Acacia deanei

deanei
Trees of Australia
Fabales of Australia
Flora of Victoria (Australia)
Plants described in 1932

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La tombe de Clytemnestre ou tombe dite de Clytemnestre, est un monument funéraire situé sur le site de Mycènes dans le Péloponnèse en Grèce.

Désignation
La tombe a été nommée d'après Clytemnestre, épouse d'Agamemnon, et reine de Mycènes. Avec son amant Égisthe, elle assassine son mari de retour de la guerre de Troie. Mais comme pour la tombe d'Égisthe, située à proximité, il n'y a pas d'indication permettant de vérifier que Clytemnestre ait été enterrée dans cette tombe.

Description
La tombe est située à l'extérieur de l'enceinte de la forteresse de Mycènes à proximité de la tombe dite d'Égisthe. Elle est constituée d'une salle enterrée ou tholos, avec un couloir d'accès, le dromos.

Le dromos a une longueur de 37 m et une largeur de 6 m.

Le tholos enterré a un diamètre de 13,5 m et son dôme de pierre effondré avait une hauteur de 13,5 m.

Quelques vues du monument

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes

 Trésor d'Atrée
 Tombe d'Égisthe
 Tombe des Lions (Mycènes)
 Civilisation mycénienne

Liens externes

Mycènes
Civilisation mycénienne
Clytemnestre


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This diner in Plainview, Indiana is home away from home for Odette, Clarice, and Barbara Jean. Dubbed "The Supremes" by high school pals in the tumultuous 1960s, they've weathered life's storms for over four decades and counseled one another through marriage and children, happiness and the blues.
Now, however, they're about to face their most challenging year yet. Proud, talented Clarice is struggling to keep up appearances as she deals with her husband's humiliating infidelities; beautiful Barbara Jean is rocked by the tragic reverberations of a youthful love affair; and fearless Odette is about to embark on the most terrifying battle of her life. With wit, style and sublime talent, Edward Kelsey Moore brings together three devoted allies in a warmhearted novel that celebrates female friendship and second chances.


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Bystander shoots at man allegedly attacking deputy outside gas station
VIDEO: Bystander Shoots at Man Allegedly Attacking Police Officer
By WSBTV.com
A bystander shot at a man who was attacking an officer outside a gas station, according to the Sheriff's Office in Dawson County, Georgia.
Officials said a deputy was giving the man a ride to a Chevron gas station. The deputy was about to give the man money when the man began to beat the deputy in the face and head with his fist, authorities say.
An innocent bystander saw what was happening and shot at the man, who ran across the street to a McDonald's. Deputies said the man then assaulted a woman at the McDonald's.
Deputies arrested the man at the restaurant.
The injured officer, the woman and the man were taken to area hospitals.
The deputy was identified as Sgt. Randy Harkness, 52. He is a 24-year veteran of the Sheriff's Office. He has been treated and released from the hospital.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is assisting with the investigation.
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New York based Stone Ridge Asset Management, provider of mutual fund investments in alternative risk exposures including reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS), has passed the $2 billion mark between its three ILS funds for the first time.
The latest SEC filings from Stone Ridge Asset Management show that the investment manager has continued to grow the value and funds under management within its range of ILS and reinsurance linked investments.
Stone Ridge, which launched its first ILS funds in late 2012, has seen strong growth of its ILS assets having grown them from around $350m at launch, to $766m by July 2013, to $1.4 billion by January 2014 with the help of its newest Interval fund and then again to $1.8 billion by the end of April.
Now, Stone Ridge reports the total net assets of its three insurance-linked investment funds as just over $2.03 billion at July 31st 2014, with the majority of the growth being within its Stone Ridge Reinsurance Risk Premium Interval Fund. All three of the firms ILS funds invest in catastrophe bonds, ILS, industry-loss warranties (ILW's), quota shares, longevity bonds, mortality bonds and other types of reinsurance securities, but the strategies differ in terms of risk, return and liquidity.
The Stone Ridge Reinsurance Risk Premium Fund, its lowest risk vanilla mutual fund strategy, had total net assets of $611.4m at the end of the first-quarter, which then increased to $722.4m by the end of April 2014. This fund has increased in size to $763m by the end of July of this year, a small increase and partly due to appreciation on the ILS assets held in the portfolio.
The Stone Ridge High Yield Reinsurance Risk Premium Fund, which has a higher risk and return target, had assets totaling $242.9m at the end of the first-quarter, which then increased by 28% to just over $311.1m at April 30th. This fund reached $319.5m by 31st July, which we'd imagine is purely appreciation on the invested assets rather than any new funds.
The Stone Ridge Reinsurance Risk Premium Interval Fund, its newest strategy which follows the interval fund approach of offering staggered liquidity opportunities to investors enabling it to invest in less liquid assets is now by far the largest of the three funds.
The Interval Fund had total net assets of just over $606m at the end of Q1 2014 and subsequently grew by 26% to have total net assets of $761.5m at the end of April. The Interval fund has grown strongly again, by another 25%, to reach total net assets of $948.8m under management in this strategy at 31st July 2014. That can't be appreciation alone and shows that Stone Ridge has continued to take inflows into this fund through the start of the summer.
The Interval fund remains invested across a broad range of quota shares, sidecars and private ILS or collateralized reinsurance transactions in protected cells, showing the illiquid nature of an ILS strategy such as this.
The fact that the Interval Fund has grown so strongly suggests that the mutual fund investors that Stone Ridge targets through registered investment advisors and intermediaries are attracted to the interval fund approach. That news should please other investment managers looking at the interval structure for a mutual fund as a viable approach to raising new capital.
With total ILS and reinsurance-linked assets under management of just over $2.03 billion at July 31st 2014, Stone Ridge Asset Management remains firmly within the top ten ILS fund managers by size in our Insurance Linked Securities Investment Managers & Funds Directory.


Vanguard Wellesley Income Inv Fund seeks to provide long-term growth of income and a high and sustainable level of current income, along with moderate long-term capital appreciation. Vanguard Wellesley Income Inv Fund invests approximately 60% to 65% of assets in investment-grade corporate, U.S. Treasury, and government agency bonds, as well as mortgage-backed securities. The remaining 35% to 40% of fund assets are invested in common stocks of companies that have a history of above-average dividends or expectations of increasing dividends.


as it never seems to work for me.
no one will pay me for this stuff.
I've never understood the point of it.
I hide from his face every night.
my brain does that for you.
What's the point in life when I feel empty?
Not meaning to scare any of you, I'm perfectly ok and just incase your worried I have Therapy later today. I feel that its important to write about these feelings when they come up, and suicidal feelings should be shared. My old neighbour committed suicide recently, it got me thinking about how selfish I've been in the past, and I've been putting myself down about it ever since.
I think it's important to know that when I tried a long time ago I didn't really want to die, all I wanted to do was shut those thoughts inside my head that plague me up, and I thought it was the only way to help. I feel that it's important to talk about suicide, because not talking about it isn't helping, and I really think we shouldn't shy away from the topic.


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Q: How to catch a signal in Rust without memory leaks I noticed memory leaks in my program and tracked it down to the signal handling. Seems crazy that there isn't a leak-free way to do this. I'm not worried about the "still reachable" bytes reported by Valgrind - I'm worried about the "possibly lost" bytes.
minimal reproducible example:
use tokio::signal;
use tokio::time::{sleep, Duration};

async fn sleep1() {
    loop {
        sleep(Duration::from_secs(1)).await;
        println!("sleep1");
    }
}

async fn sleep2() {
    loop {
        sleep(Duration::from_secs(2)).await;
        println!("sleep2");
    }
}

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    let s1 = Box::pin(sleep1());
    let s2 = Box::pin(sleep2());
    let sig = Box::pin(signal::ctrl_c());
    tokio::select! {
        _ = s1 => {},
        _ = s2 => {},
        _ = sig => {},
    };
    println!("shutting down");
    Ok(())
}

excerpt from Cargo.toml file:
edition = "2021"
tokio = { version = "1", features = ["full"] }

valgrind output:
==1366460== Command: target/debug/simulation
==1366460==
sleep1
sleep2
sleep1
sleep1
^Cshutting down
==1366460==
==1366460== HEAP SUMMARY:
==1366460==     in use at exit: 25,884 bytes in 82 blocks
==1366460==   total heap usage: 617 allocs, 535 frees, 145,635 bytes allocated
==1366460==
==1366460== LEAK SUMMARY:
==1366460==    definitely lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==1366460==    indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==1366460==      possibly lost: 1,188 bytes in 3 blocks
==1366460==    still reachable: 24,696 bytes in 79 blocks
==1366460==         suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==1366460== Rerun with --leak-check=full to see details of leaked memory
==1366460==
==1366460== For lists of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -s
==1366460== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)

A: according to the tokio developers, this is a false positive resulting from the use of global variables. see here.
also, I found that if one really wishes to get rid of the valgrind error, it's possible to implement the signal handler in C and call it from rust. The rust program would spawn a blocking thread (something like tokio::task::spawn_blocking) that waits for the C code to catch a signal and terminate.

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Is your website selling your business?
If you are reading this I have to assume that you are an intelligent, salient being that already understands the value of having a strong online presence.
Whether you run your own business or occupy a management role in another, you know that the socially and digitally connected world we live in demands your 'shop' is easily found in the online space.
You also (should) know that the days of merely plonking down your flag on the digital landscape is not good enough – certainly not in terms of converting online traffic into sales – which is the ultimate point of having a website is it not?
First things first. Your website is a company asset. It is your building, your office, your store – it is where people go to do business with you. The building (development) of that store is an investment; it is not a marketing cost from which you can expect return.
The activities that drive traffic to your 'shop' and aid in converting that traffic into leads (and sales) are, however, marketing-related and there you must certainly expect return from.
Your website is an asset and just like stores of brick and mortar where location, location, location was, and still is, a critical element of success, your website needs to be positioned and created in such a way that it maximises the number (and value) of feet that walk through your doors.
It is difficult enough to get the right kind of traffic to your website in the first place, the last thing you want to do is confuse potential customers with muddied messaging.
Everything, from your logo and company slogan, to your positioning statement and images used – all need to clearly convey what it is your company does. Take a look at this example below from FreshBooks.
What you see here is everything that's visible on their website above the fold – meaning everything you can see before you have to scroll down.
A clear logo with a slogan that already tells you what the company does. This is then followed by a positioning statement that reiterates the core function of the business, followed by an expansion on that by saying "Join over 5 million people using FreshBooks to make billing painless".
Right there you have a quantified statement of 5 million+ who trust the product, along with what the product does, AKA, "makes billing" (accounting) painless.
You'd have to be few briquettes short of a braai not to understand what is being offered to you.
Cleverly they then position three features of the product just above the fold you so can see their solution is 'easy to use', that you can 'work from anywhere' and that you can 'save time'. They then follow that up with clear calls to action to try the 30 day trial or take a tour.
Contact details are also clearly displayed, providing a pretty good example of what your website home page should look like in terms of messaging.
Don't confuse the goal (ever).
The FreshBooks example could be improved on even further, perhaps with a quick view video and other tweaks but the basic principle is 100% correct and those principles should then be followed throughout your website's sub-pages.
Use language that resonates with your target audience and make sure the content is laid out in a way that it's easy to scan through, and just as easy to delve deeper into if required.
The main difference between a website and a physical building (bar the obvious) is that your website is never, ever, done.
You can always improve, you can always optimise and evolve, and you must always test the efficacy of those changes to ensure you get the very best results from your investment.
Before I close off I'd like to briefly touch on four key elements.
Your website must be optimised for mobile devices. Responsive design plays a key role here where your site adapts to suit whichever device it is accessed from.
A website that is not geared towards meeting the demands of a mobile consumer-base is a website knocking on death's door.
Yes it's a science and it's all about how a user (site visitor) interacts with your website.
Knowing how a user's eyes would naturally scan a webpage and then catering for those natural movements, choosing the right colours and images, and visually being able to guide someone effortlessly towards goals is what it's all about . . . and, no, your brother's friend's son (who is good with computers) cannot do it for you.
Users are impatient and increasingly so. The fewer hoops they have to jump through, the more intuitive your design and flow of your website, the more conversions you will have.
Friction is the devil – great UX and common sense reduces this greatly.
Make sure that each page, or section, has clear calls-to-action. You are guiding someone through your store and you need to have appropriate, relevant, enticing catchment points where you can prompt the visitor to giving you their details, or perform another goal-orientated task.
Websites are data-driven animals. With analysis of your website traffic you will be able to pinpoint where visitors drop off (leave), where they come from, how they convert and a whole host of other indicators that can help you identify areas of your business that need work.
Without analytics you are flying blind and wasting money . . . Every. Single. Day.
Does your current website do that?
Hello, I found this information for you: "How To Make Your Website Sing". Here is the website link: https://www.entrepreneurmag.co.za/advice/marketing/online-marketing/how-to-make-your-website-sing/. Thank you.


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Human rights in Syria; Pelosi's silence - Daily News Egypt
Politics Human rights in Syria; Pelosi's silence
Human rights in Syria; Pelosi's silence
US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's visit to Damascus this week caused quite a stir. Before she even landed in Syria, the White House was calling her decision a "really bad idea. Pelosi's spokesman was quick to defend the visit by saying that the speaker intended to use her trip "to discuss a wide …
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US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's visit to Damascus this week caused quite a stir. Before she even landed in Syria, the White House was calling her decision a "really bad idea. Pelosi's spokesman was quick to defend the visit by saying that the speaker intended to use her trip "to discuss a wide range of security issues affecting the United States and the Middle East. No one doubts that security is essential in the region. But Pelosi appears to have committed the same mistake as other recent visitors to Damascus, who decided not to raise the issue of Syria's appalling human rights record. Pelosi is the most senior American public figure to visit Damascus since Colin Powell visited in 2003 as secretary of state, but she's coming on the heels of other high-profile visitors. Last weekend, three Republican congressmen, Frank Wolf, Joe Pitts and Robert Aderholt, traveled to Syria to meet with President Bashar Al-Assad. Last month, Javier Solana, the European Union foreign policy chief, also paid a visit. The message from these various visitors has generally been consistent: Syria needs to cooperate on Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, and Iraq. Pelosi's visit fits the mold. At a press conference in Damascus, Pelosi told reporters that the she had expressed to Assad her concern about Syria's support for Hezbollah and Hamas, and that they discussed the "issue of fighters slipping across the Syrian border into Iraq. Pelosi also reportedly passed a message from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert about Israel's readiness to engage in peace talks and she raised the issue of three Israeli soldiers abducted by Palestinian militants in Gaza and by Hezbollah in Lebanon. There is no indication, however, that she told Assad or other Syrian officials that Syria needed to improve its human rights record to truly become a positive player in the region. The Syrian government strictly limits freedom of expression, association, and assembly. Emergency powers, imposed in 1963, remains in effect, and the government bans hundreds of political and human rights activists from traveling. The authorities treat Kurds, Syria's largest non-Arab minority, as second-class citizens subject to systematic discrimination. Pelosi's visit took place at a time when several Syrian political and human rights activists are facing trial for exercising their right to freedom of expression. Former prisoner of conscience Kamal Al-Labwani is due back in court on April 10. He was arrested in November 2005, on his return to Syria after several months in Europe and the United States, where he met with officials to call for peaceful democratic reform inside Syria. He is charged with "encouraging foreign aggression against Syria. Prominent writer Michel Kilo and human rights lawyer Anwar Al-Bunni have been detained since May 2006, following their signature of the Beirut-Damascus, Damascus-Beirut Declaration, which called for improved relations between Syria and Lebanon. Many analysts fear that emphasizing human rights concerns will weaken the objective of getting Syria to change its regional behavior. Better not anger Damascus by asking for internal reforms, they argue. But these fears are misplaced. First, US foreign policy behavior has often addressed this "tension by reflecting both a concern for security cooperation and respect for human rights. Pelosi herself is a staunch advocate of human rights in China at a time when the US and China need to cooperate on many critical security issues, including the rise of North Korea as a nuclear player. Second, more democratic governance and rule of law in Syria will surely be a more positive influence in the Middle East. Journalists and commentators will use a lot of ink debating the merits of Pelosi's visit. But one thing is clear. She missed an opportunity to send a strong message to the Syrian authorities that Washington's desire to cooperate with Syria does not mean it will turn a blind eye to Syria's human rights violations. She also missed the opportunity to send a message to Syrians and other Arabs that the US still values respect for human rights. ………… Nadim Houry is Syria researcher at Human Rights Watch. Radwan Ziadeh is director of the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies. They wrote this commentary for THE DAILY STAR.
Topics: Wael Ghonim
https://dailyfeed.dailynewsegypt.com/2007/04/06/human-rights-in-syria-pelosis-silence/
April 6, 2007 Breaking News


MemorialCare Health System and it's new secure clinical communications solution has done more than streamline communications among physicians. It has helped decrease patient wait times and length of stay as well.
Physicians and care teams generate a high volume of communications across the United States' healthcare systems. A PerfectServe study of three hospitals, representing an aggregate of 774 beds and 54,000 annual admissions, found clinicians initiated more than 680,000 calls and messages to approximately 900 physicians annually. Multiply that by the American Hospital Association's estimates of 5,686 registered hospitals, 914,513 staffed beds, and 35.4 million annual admissions in the U.S., and the importance of managing this high volume of communications becomes evident.


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